Re: [Tutor] Open a Url in new tab and tab switching in IE using python and selenium

2015-05-05 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 01:38:59PM +0530, shweta kaushik wrote: Hi All, I am trying to open a new tab in IE10 and selenium 2.45. This list is for beginners learning the Python language, and unfortunately selenium is a little too advanced for most of the people here. I myself have never used

Re: [Tutor] key detection

2015-05-05 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 04:47:24PM -0700, Jim Mooney Py3.4.3winXP wrote: An ancillary question. I found a readchar that purports to install in py2 and 3 but fails in 3. The errors (something from the encodings module) won't copy from the console, so I thought I could redirect them like so:

Re: [Tutor] key detection

2015-05-05 Thread Jim Mooney Py3.4.3winXP
On 5 May 2015 at 15:36, Alan Gauld alan.ga...@btinternet.com wrote: Can python detect a keypress? That sounds simple but is actually quite tricky since it's terminal dependent. An ancillary question. I found a readchar that purports to install in py2 and 3 but fails in 3. The errors

Re: [Tutor] Open a Url in new tab and tab switching in IE using python and selenium

2015-05-05 Thread shweta kaushik
Thanks Steve for the information. I searched but was not able to find suitable forum to shoot this question. So posted here if anyone can help out. Regards, Shweta On May 5, 2015 6:21 PM, Steven D'Aprano st...@pearwood.info wrote: On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 01:38:59PM +0530, shweta kaushik wrote:

Re: [Tutor] Integrating TDD into my current project work-flows

2015-05-05 Thread WolfRage
I find myself in the same mind set as this individual: http://stackoverflow.com/a/64453/4285911 It is hard to write a proper test with out me initially outlining where I am going. Perhaps I need to better understand planning and drafting a programming project before I can hope to emulate TDD.

Re: [Tutor] key detection

2015-05-05 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 02:30:41PM -0700, Jim Mooney Py3.4.3winXP wrote: Can python detect a keypress? I've looked all over and can't find it. I don't mean input('blah') and have to press Enter - just detect it directly like Javascript does. All I find are references using msvcrt, which is

Re: [Tutor] Integrating TDD into my current project work-flows :p:

2015-05-05 Thread Thomas C. Hicks
On 05/06/2015 07:18 AM, WolfRage wrote: I find myself in the same mind set as this individual: http://stackoverflow.com/a/64453/4285911 It is hard to write a proper test with out me initially outlining where I am going. Perhaps I need to better understand planning and drafting a programming

Re: [Tutor] key detection

2015-05-05 Thread Jim Mooney Py3.4.3winXP
On 5 May 2015 at 18:35, Steven D'Aprano st...@pearwood.info wrote: Is this under Linux or another Unix? If so, only redirects stdout, not stderr, so you need: python3 setup.py 2 errors.txt to capture the errors. I have no idea if Windows works the same way. Damn, that actually worked

Re: [Tutor] Integrating TDD into my current project work-flows

2015-05-05 Thread WolfRage
On 05/05/2015 06:49 PM, Alan Gauld wrote: SNIP Not better, just necessary. The two concepts are complementary. You need both. The developer primarily needs unit testing, the integrator*(who may of course be the developer in a different role) needs integration testing and the client/project

Re: [Tutor] Open a Url in new tab and tab switching in IE using python and selenium

2015-05-05 Thread Alan Gauld
On 05/05/15 19:22, shweta kaushik wrote: Thanks Steve for the information. I searched but was not able to find suitable forum to shoot this question. So posted here if anyone can help out. As Steve suggested the main python list is probably your best bet. -- Alan G Author of the Learn to

Re: [Tutor] Integrating TDD into my current project work-flows

2015-05-05 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 06/05/2015 00:16, WolfRage wrote: On 05/05/2015 06:49 PM, Alan Gauld wrote: SNIP Not better, just necessary. The two concepts are complementary. You need both. The developer primarily needs unit testing, the integrator*(who may of course be the developer in a different role) needs

Re: [Tutor] key detection

2015-05-05 Thread Jim Mooney Py3.4.3winXP
On 5 May 2015 at 16:47, Jim Mooney Py3.4.3winXP cybervigila...@gmail.com wrote: But that didn't work. How can I get a printout of setup errors so I can post them? I remembered how to copy the DOS console. Here is the error. Error wasn't in setup.py so that wouldn't have worked anyway.

Re: [Tutor] key detection

2015-05-05 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 06/05/2015 05:30, Jim Mooney Py3.4.3winXP wrote: On 5 May 2015 at 18:32, Steven D'Aprano st...@pearwood.info wrote: https://code.activestate.com/recipes/577977-get-single-keypress/ That only has a stub for Linux, but I found one that does both. Although, alas, no IOS version:

Re: [Tutor] key detection

2015-05-05 Thread Jim Mooney Py3.4.3winXP
On 5 May 2015 at 18:32, Steven D'Aprano st...@pearwood.info wrote: https://code.activestate.com/recipes/577977-get-single-keypress/ That only has a stub for Linux, but I found one that does both. Although, alas, no IOS version:

Re: [Tutor] key detection

2015-05-05 Thread Alex Kleider
On 2015-05-05 15:36, Alan Gauld wrote: On 05/05/15 22:30, Jim Mooney Py3.4.3winXP wrote: Can python detect a keypress? The following works for my (on my Ubuntu platform) system although probably won't be of much use on a Redmond OS. #!/usr/bin/env python3 # file: 'readchar.py' Provides

Re: [Tutor] key detection

2015-05-05 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 06/05/2015 00:47, Jim Mooney Py3.4.3winXP wrote: On 5 May 2015 at 15:36, Alan Gauld alan.ga...@btinternet.com wrote: Can python detect a keypress? That sounds simple but is actually quite tricky since it's terminal dependent. An ancillary question. I found a readchar that purports to

Re: [Tutor] Integrating TDD into my current project work-flows

2015-05-05 Thread Oscar Benjamin
On 4 May 2015 at 20:04, WolfRage wolfrage8...@gmail.com wrote: I would like some help integrating TDD into my current projects. My chosen TDD framework is unittest from the standard library. My system details are: Linux Mint 17.1 64-bit, Python 3.4, bzr(for version control). My projects are

Re: [Tutor] key detection

2015-05-05 Thread Alan Gauld
On 05/05/15 22:30, Jim Mooney Py3.4.3winXP wrote: Can python detect a keypress? That sounds simple but is actually quite tricky since it's terminal dependent. like Javascript does. All I find are references using msvcrt, which is Msoft specific, or using tkinter - but I don't want a whacking

Re: [Tutor] Integrating TDD into my current project work-flows

2015-05-05 Thread Alan Gauld
On 05/05/15 22:24, WolfRage wrote: As I am reading about TDD and unittests and the likes. I am thinking that testing from a higher level is better as compared to the unit level testing. Not better, just necessary. The two concepts are complementary. You need both. The developer primarily

Re: [Tutor] Object references and garbage collection confusion

2015-05-05 Thread Dave Angel
On 05/05/2015 12:29 AM, Brandon D wrote: Hello tutors, I'm having trouble understanding, as well as visualizing, how object references work in the following situation. For demonstration purposes I will keep it at the most rudimentary level: x = 10 x = x ** x If my knowledge serves me

Re: [Tutor] Object references and garbage collection confusion

2015-05-05 Thread Albert-Jan Roskam via Tutor
- On Tue, May 5, 2015 8:00 PM CEST Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 12:29:59AM -0400, Brandon D wrote: Hello tutors, I'm having trouble understanding, as well as visualizing, how object references work in the following situation. For demonstration

Re: [Tutor] Tutor Digest, Vol 135, Issue 12

2015-05-05 Thread Siya 360
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[Tutor] Object references and garbage collection confusion

2015-05-05 Thread Brandon D
Hello tutors, I'm having trouble understanding, as well as visualizing, how object references work in the following situation. For demonstration purposes I will keep it at the most rudimentary level: x = 10 x = x ** x If my knowledge serves me correctly, Python destroys the value once

Re: [Tutor] Tutor Digest, Vol 135, Issue 12

2015-05-05 Thread Alan Gauld
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Re: [Tutor] Object references and garbage collection confusion

2015-05-05 Thread Alan Gauld
On 05/05/15 05:29, Brandon D wrote: Hello tutors, I'm having trouble understanding, as well as visualizing, how object references work in the following situation. For demonstration purposes I will keep it at the most rudimentary level: x = 10 x = x ** x Its good to use a simple example but

Re: [Tutor] Object references and garbage collection confusion

2015-05-05 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 12:29:59AM -0400, Brandon D wrote: Hello tutors, I'm having trouble understanding, as well as visualizing, how object references work in the following situation. For demonstration purposes I will keep it at the most rudimentary level: x = 10 x = x ** x In the

[Tutor] Open a Url in new tab and tab switching in IE using python and selenium

2015-05-05 Thread shweta kaushik
Hi All, I am trying to open a new tab in IE10 and selenium 2.45. It is able to open a new tab using pyrobot. But when i am trying to open url in new tab, it is getting opened in first tab. Focus is not set to second tab and hence it is not working and also switching of tab is not working. please

Re: [Tutor] Integrating TDD into my current project work-flows

2015-05-05 Thread WolfRage
On 05/05/2015 10:59 AM, Oscar Benjamin wrote: SNIP My projects are structured like: Project develop Project Project __main__.py tests__main__.py I want to be able to execute my Project from a cwd of: Project/develop/Project as: Python3 -m Project That

Re: [Tutor] Integrating TDD into my current project work-flows

2015-05-05 Thread WolfRage
On 05/04/2015 04:49 PM, Martin A. Brown wrote: Hi there, Yes, a bit ugly. Have you tried using nose? I have used a similar project development tree and use nose to run the tests. I had thought about it, but decided not too, since it was not part of the standard library. But then again, it

[Tutor] key detection

2015-05-05 Thread Jim Mooney Py3.4.3winXP
Can python detect a keypress? I've looked all over and can't find it. I don't mean input('blah') and have to press Enter - just detect it directly like Javascript does. All I find are references using msvcrt, which is Msoft specific, or using tkinter - but I don't want a whacking big GUI, just

Re: [Tutor] Integrating TDD into my current project work-flows

2015-05-05 Thread WolfRage
Update: My previous hack, has been changed. I now put: import os import sys sys.path.append(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '..')) in the __main__.py file located under the tests/ directory and it is only needed the one time in that one file. Not sure why I was thinking I would need