Re: [Tutor] Changing the interpreter prompt symbol from ">>>" to ???

2016-03-12 Thread eryk sun
On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 12:46 AM, boB Stepp wrote: > I did with the non-printing control character, but not with '\u25ba' ! > So I had to go through some contortions after some research to get my > Win7 cmd.exe and PowerShell to display the desired prompt using The console is hosted by another p

Re: [Tutor] OT: (Continuous) integration testing: Can a solo developer with very limited resources truly do this?

2016-03-12 Thread wolfrage8...@gmail.com
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Re: [Tutor] Pmw/Tkinter question

2016-03-12 Thread boB Stepp
On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 2:17 AM, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote: > Hello, > > Below is a slightly modified example about Pmw/Tkinter from > http://pmw.sourceforge.net/doc/howtouse.html. > I changed the geometry manager from 'pack' to 'grid', because I use that in > all other parts of my program. > The

Re: [Tutor] Pmw/Tkinter question

2016-03-12 Thread boB Stepp
On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 2:17 AM, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote: > Below is a slightly modified example about Pmw/Tkinter from > http://pmw.sourceforge.net/doc/howtouse.html. > I changed the geometry manager from 'pack' to 'grid', because I use that in > all other parts of my program. > The problem is

Re: [Tutor] OT: (Continuous) integration testing: Can a solo developer with very limited resources truly do this?

2016-03-12 Thread Danny Yoo
On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 10:10 AM, boB Stepp wrote: > From "Practices of an Agile Developer" by Venkat Subramaniam and Andy > Hunt, c. 2006, page 90: > > > You're already writing unit tests to exercise your code. Whenever you > modify or refactor your code, you exercise your test cases before you

Re: [Tutor] OT: (Continuous) integration testing: Can a solo developer with very limited resources truly do this?

2016-03-12 Thread boB Stepp
On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 2:02 PM, Alan Gauld wrote: > On 12/03/16 18:10, boB Stepp wrote: > Virtual machines, eg VirtualBox. > You can install all of the required OS on a single physical machine > (assuming the same hardware of course). For example, on my > Linux Mint box I have 2 versions of Win

Re: [Tutor] OT: (Continuous) integration testing: Can a solo developer with very limited resources truly do this?

2016-03-12 Thread wolfrage8...@gmail.com
> You're already writing unit tests to exercise your code. Whenever you > modify or refactor your code, you exercise your test cases before you > check in the code. All you have to do now is exercise your test cases > on each supported platform or environment. > > If your application is expected

Re: [Tutor] OT: (Continuous) integration testing: Can a solo developer with very limited resources truly do this?

2016-03-12 Thread Alan Gauld
On 12/03/16 18:10, boB Stepp wrote: > > You're already writing unit tests to exercise your code. Whenever you > modify or refactor your code, you exercise your test cases before you > check in the code. All you have to do now is exercise your test cases > on each supported platform or environme

[Tutor] OT: (Continuous) integration testing: Can a solo developer with very limited resources truly do this?

2016-03-12 Thread boB Stepp
>From "Practices of an Agile Developer" by Venkat Subramaniam and Andy Hunt, c. 2006, page 90: You're already writing unit tests to exercise your code. Whenever you modify or refactor your code, you exercise your test cases before you check in the code. All you have to do now is exercise your t

Re: [Tutor] Changing the interpreter prompt symbol from ">>>" to ???

2016-03-12 Thread boB Stepp
On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 2:14 AM, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 12Mar2016 00:46, boB Stepp wrote: >> Additionally, one must set the font for cmd.exe and PowerShell to >> "Lucida Console" or the above will not work. > > > You may find some other fonts also work if you don't like that one. On my Wi

Re: [Tutor] Changing the interpreter prompt symbol from ">>>" to ???

2016-03-12 Thread David Rock
* boB Stepp [2016-03-12 00:46]: > > So let's see if this copies and pastes into a plain text Gmail and is > visible to "many environments": > > Python 3.5.1 (v3.5.1:37a07cee5969, Dec 6 2015, 01:54:25) [MSC v.1900 > 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for

Re: [Tutor] How do I access and manipulate files?

2016-03-12 Thread Alan Gauld
On 12/03/16 08:51, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 12/03/2016 01:03, Justin Hayes wrote: > > Would you please read this > http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html and then try again, To be fair to Justin his original post did include a paragraph of text providing some context. But somewhere

Re: [Tutor] How do I access and manipulate files?

2016-03-12 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 12/03/2016 01:03, Justin Hayes wrote: Would you please read this http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html and then try again, thanks. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence _

Re: [Tutor] Pmw/Tkinter question

2016-03-12 Thread Albert-Jan Roskam
> To: tutor@python.org > From: __pete...@web.de > Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 10:28:36 +0100 > Subject: Re: [Tutor] Pmw/Tkinter question > > Albert-Jan Roskam wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Below is a slightly modified example about Pmw/Tkinter from > > http://pmw.sourceforge.net/doc/howtouse.html. I ch

Re: [Tutor] Pmw/Tkinter question

2016-03-12 Thread Peter Otten
Albert-Jan Roskam wrote: > Hello, > > Below is a slightly modified example about Pmw/Tkinter from > http://pmw.sourceforge.net/doc/howtouse.html. I changed the geometry > manager from 'pack' to 'grid', because I use that in all other parts of my > program. The problem is, 'broccoli' won't display

Re: [Tutor] Program Arcade Games Help

2016-03-12 Thread Alan Gauld
On 12/03/16 05:15, DiliupG wrote: > All the help and guidance you need are in the pages here. > > http://programarcadegames.com/ > > if you follow the book slowly from the start you shouldn't have a problem. > If you do, stackoverflow is a good place to ask. As is the tutor list of course. :-)

Re: [Tutor] Pmw/Tkinter question

2016-03-12 Thread Alan Gauld
On 12/03/16 08:17, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote: > Hello, > > Below is a slightly modified example about Pmw/Tkinter from > http://pmw.sourceforge.net/doc/howtouse.html. > I changed the geometry manager from 'pack' to 'grid', because I use that in > all other parts of my program. > The problem is, 'b

Re: [Tutor] How do I access and manipulate files?

2016-03-12 Thread wolfrage8...@gmail.com
On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 8:03 PM, Justin Hayes wrote: > Access: https://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#open Basic Manipulation: http://stackoverflow.com/posts/9283052/revisions Please try some code and ask some more specific questions. The Python documentation is pretty good and there is

Re: [Tutor] Changing the interpreter prompt symbol from ">>>" to ???

2016-03-12 Thread wolfrage8...@gmail.com
On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 1:53 AM, boB Stepp wrote: > > Thanks for the feedback. I tried out your link, codeanywhere.com . I > have to confess my experience was not a good one. Firstly, the > environment supplied would not accept my space bar characters! So I > could not type any import stateme

Re: [Tutor] Changing the interpreter prompt symbol from ">>>" to ???

2016-03-12 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 12Mar2016 00:46, boB Stepp wrote: On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 11:02 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: 0x25ba BLACK RIGHT-POINTING POINTER So it seems that your environment has chosen to transcribe your chr(26) and chr(16) into some glyphs for display, and matched those glyphs with suitable Unicode c

[Tutor] How do I access and manipulate files?

2016-03-12 Thread Justin Hayes
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Re: [Tutor] Program Arcade Games Help

2016-03-12 Thread DiliupG
All the help and guidance you need are in the pages here. http://programarcadegames.com/ if you follow the book slowly from the start you shouldn't have a problem. If you do, stackoverflow is a good place to ask. When ever you ask a question try to give as much details as possible so that who eve

Re: [Tutor] Changing the interpreter prompt symbol from ">>>" to ???

2016-03-12 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 12Mar2016 00:53, boB Stepp wrote: On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 10:08 PM, wolfrage8...@gmail.com wrote: On a web based terminal via codeanywhere.com setting sys.ps1 = chr(16) results in no character being displayed. It is literally just a new line. So something to think about. I set it back to s

[Tutor] Pmw/Tkinter question

2016-03-12 Thread Albert-Jan Roskam
Hello, Below is a slightly modified example about Pmw/Tkinter from http://pmw.sourceforge.net/doc/howtouse.html. I changed the geometry manager from 'pack' to 'grid', because I use that in all other parts of my program. The problem is, 'broccoli' won't display nicely under vege_menu. I want it t