Re: [Tutor] Tkinter layout question

2017-04-19 Thread boB Stepp
I don't know (now) how to solve your challenges below. But if I were trying to figure this out, I would try to find more complex tkinter example applications that contain some of the issues I'd be interested in. Then I would dig into the code, find the relevant pieces, and then start playing with

[Tutor] Tkinter layout question

2017-04-19 Thread Phil
I'm looking for ideas here. A working solution for my sudoku solver is a 9 x 9 grid of entry boxes but it looks a bit basic. So I created a 9 x 9 grid on a canvas which looks much better. I can display digits in the centre of the squares but entering the digits from the keyboard seems to be bey

Re: [Tutor] Need help with code

2017-04-19 Thread Joel Goldstick
You most likely have no file named words.txt in the directory from which you are running your code. On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 10:12 PM, Tyler Seacrist wrote: > Hello, > > > How do I avoid this error message everytime I utilize wordlist = > open("words.text") ? > wordlist = open("words.txt") >

Re: [Tutor] Need help with code

2017-04-19 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 18/04/17 03:12, Tyler Seacrist wrote: > How do I avoid this error message everytime I utilize wordlist = > open("words.text") ? > wordlist = open("words.txt") > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "", line 1, in > wordlist = open("words.txt") > FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] N

[Tutor] Need help with code

2017-04-19 Thread Tyler Seacrist
Hello, How do I avoid this error message everytime I utilize wordlist = open("words.text") ? >>> wordlist = open("words.txt") Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in wordlist = open("words.txt") FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'words.txt' >>> def ca

Re: [Tutor] classproperty for Python 2.7 (read-only enough)

2017-04-19 Thread eryk sun
On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 10:19 AM, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> As I said, I haven't had a chance to try Peter's code, so it's possible >> that he's solved all these problems. I'm judging by previous > > No, my simple code only "works" for read-only properties

Re: [Tutor] Write Data to Multiple Files

2017-04-19 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 19/04/17 11:35, Mohanad Ismail via Tutor wrote: > Read data from serial and write to file 1 for 15 sec, > after the 15 seconds continue writing the data on to > file 2 for 15 seconds >... each file should write for 15 seconds and stop for 15 seconds > Code: > #!/usr/bin/env python > from date

Re: [Tutor] classproperty for Python 2.7 (read-only enough)

2017-04-19 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 19/04/17 08:43, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote: > Probably because it is such a rare use case and because > its not that hard to do yourself if you really need it. Having read Steven's post I'll retract the bit about it being not that hard! :-) But I still think its a fairly rare scenario. Until

[Tutor] Write Data to Multiple Files

2017-04-19 Thread Mohanad Ismail via Tutor
Hello, I have recently started using python and i have come to a halt while writing a code and i was hoping someone out there can help me. I am attempting to store a stream of data directly from a serial port onto multiple files in sequence after x amount of time is elapsed. for example : Read da

Re: [Tutor] classproperty for Python 2.7 (read-only enough)

2017-04-19 Thread Peter Otten
Steven D'Aprano wrote: > As I said, I haven't had a chance to try Peter's code, so it's possible > that he's solved all these problems. I'm judging by previous No, my simple code only "works" for read-only properties and only as long as you don't overwrite the property by assigning to the attrib

Re: [Tutor] classproperty for Python 2.7 (read-only enough)

2017-04-19 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 09:28:26AM +0200, Thomas Güttler wrote: [code for a classproperty] > Nice, if it is that simple. > > Is there a reason why this is not in the standard library? I haven't had a chance to test Peter's classproperty code yet, but I don't expect it to be that simple. People

Re: [Tutor] sqlite3 making a spurious duplicate?

2017-04-19 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 19/04/17 03:21, Marilyn Davis wrote: > connection.execute("SELECT * FROM BRIGHTEST") > > returns a , not a regular python > sequence. Pretty much everything inn SQL land uses cursor objects. It's why best practice creates an explicit cursor for executing statements rather than the impl8ici

Re: [Tutor] classproperty for Python 2.7 (read-only enough)

2017-04-19 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 19/04/17 08:28, Thomas Güttler wrote: > Nice, if it is that simple. > > Is there a reason why this is not in the standard library? Probably because it is such a rare use case and because its not that hard to do yourself if you really need it. But the standard library, like any open source pr

Re: [Tutor] sqlite3 making a spurious duplicate?

2017-04-19 Thread Marilyn Davis
Thank you Alan, Steven and Peter, So, this call: connection.execute("SELECT * FROM BRIGHTEST") returns a , not a regular python sequence. I did not know that. And, the connection must still be alive when you iterate it. That is a very important tidbit of info. The fix is to listify the Curso

Re: [Tutor] classproperty for Python 2.7 (read-only enough)

2017-04-19 Thread Thomas Güttler
Am 18.04.2017 um 13:17 schrieb Peter Otten: Thomas Güttler wrote: I would like to have read-only class properties in Python. I found this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/128573/using-property-on-classmethods But there are a lot of discussions of things which I don't understand. I want to b