Re: [Tutor] use the data None

2012-06-03 Thread Corey Richardson
Python for a bit, one of the other tutors might correct me with better practice things, I'm rusty!) -- Corey Richardson ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Connecting to MySQLdb

2012-06-01 Thread Corey Richardson
want with pip, without having to worry about mucking up the system, versions of things, etc. Assuming Windows: Good luck! -- Corey Richardson ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org

Re: [Tutor] iPython check if user running script is root user (Linux)

2012-05-31 Thread Corey Richardson
if [ $(id -u) != 0 ];then echo This script must be run as root. exit 1 fi import os if os.environ['USER'] != 'root': print('This script must be run as root.') exit(1) -- Corey Richardson

Re: [Tutor] Break Help

2012-05-29 Thread Corey Richardson
On Tue, 29 May 2012 17:50:37 -0700 (PDT) PhantomsCore thomas...@wsdstudent.net thomas...@wsdstudent.net wrote: if gameIsDone: if playAgain(): missedLetters = '' correctLetters = '' gameIsDone = False secretWord =

Re: [Tutor] About the Mailing List

2011-07-29 Thread Corey Richardson
thunderbird's do it, if that's the sort of thing you're into. Thread view makes things bucketloads easier. -- Corey Richardson Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves -- Abraham Lincoln signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [Tutor] Question related to Tkinker

2011-07-24 Thread Corey Richardson
to just adjust the word (I used labels) When working with tkinter, http://effbot.org/tkinterbook/ will likely be your best friend. Specifically, you're going to want your_label1.config(text=New word!) your_label2.config(text=Another!) -- Corey Richardson Those who deny freedom to others

Re: [Tutor] Python editor for Ipad

2011-07-21 Thread Corey Richardson
. -- Corey Richardson Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves -- Abraham Lincoln signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http

Re: [Tutor] Python editor for Ipad

2011-07-21 Thread Corey Richardson
Excerpts from Tahir Hafiz's message of Thu Jul 21 16:24:22 -0400 2011: Cloud9 seems interesting as a browser based IDE. Do you know if there is a way to run Python code as well create/edit it? Not as far as I know. -- Corey Richardson Those who deny freedom to others, deserve

Re: [Tutor] Python editor for Ipad

2011-07-21 Thread Corey Richardson
button and its configuration, but it looks like it wants a JS file and args? Or...maybe not? -- Corey Richardson Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves -- Abraham Lincoln signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Tutor

Re: [Tutor] Python editor for Ipad

2011-07-21 Thread Corey Richardson
Excerpts from bob gailer's message of Thu Jul 21 17:21:01 -0400 2011: On 7/21/2011 12:30 PM, Corey Richardson wrote: If you have a browser, Cloud9 IDE might be able to do it. I just tried Cloud9 and gave up in frustration. Unintuitive interfacre. No help. Finally edited a program. Tried

Re: [Tutor] problem reading script

2011-07-01 Thread Corey Richardson
and '' and and between ' and ` etc. I use and love inconsolata[0], it's a great font for programming, and looks great as well (both on screen and off). [0] - http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html -- Corey Richardson Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves

Re: [Tutor] Need script help with concept

2011-06-17 Thread Corey Richardson
there is a port for Python 3 somewhere too. http://excess.org/urwid/ (Apologies if email is HTML, using a web client) -- Corey Richardson ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org

Re: [Tutor] Lists

2011-06-10 Thread Corey Richardson
in this list: the notions you believe in as well as the ones that you believe are false? Could be applied to government too. -- Corey Richardson ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org

Re: [Tutor] Syntax for Simplest Way to Execute One Python Program Over 1000's of Datasets

2011-06-09 Thread Corey Richardson
close things. Hope it helped, -- Corey Richardson ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] python glue

2011-06-05 Thread Corey Richardson
way you'll get Python is if you whip together a C(++) program that statically links to it. - -- Corey Richardson -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJN67V8AAoJEAFAbo/KNFvpv/MH/088lDJQqNlOHk/vKrzTjafQ Mn0ybNrk3sKozkL5GE/UdX+ESTxmAnYUnDBM2VFNEV

Re: [Tutor] Non programmer wanting to become programmer

2011-05-26 Thread Corey Richardson
, and then picking up a bit of C. - -- Corey Richardson -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJN3rF9AAoJEAFAbo/KNFvp0nYH/jUAx53mZD/jmKw5YbGbKXFq lkSW/nWSftAle7oKtuBDOMjpK32/K/bYWXfPkJrrZicqt57mbT6xyeIFQmbplwrf jpjEpNtbI/jSjrm9Na4mjuzRUIkJRUk4PgTT1Mk376eQKWfZo5OejWRiSF

Re: [Tutor] Program

2011-05-18 Thread Corey Richardson
): make prompt string; get name; while name in names_gotten: get name; add name to names_gotten; print names_gotten; (P.S., PEP 8 says functions should be lowercase_with_underscore, not CamelCase) - -- Corey Richardson -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17

Re: [Tutor] Program

2011-05-18 Thread Corey Richardson
/tutorial/datastructures.html#more-on-lists words = [ word = raw_input(Name #1: ) words.append(word) Keep in mind the rest of the email I sent, that part was one of the least important (albeit fundamental). - -- Corey Richardson -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux

Re: [Tutor] ValueError

2011-05-03 Thread Corey Richardson
/stdtypes.html#typesnumeric For future questions, it's best to include what your program /is/ doing that you think it shouldn't be, as well as any errors (tracebacks, copy the whole thing!) you get. - -- Corey Richardson -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) Comment

Re: [Tutor] Filtering out unique list elements

2011-05-03 Thread Corey Richardson
occurrence per element: [cat, dog, tree, bird, woods] Any help much appreciated! The set type enforces uniqueness: http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#set You would use list(set(l)) to get the list from l where everything is unique. - -- Corey Richardson -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [Tutor] Compound if statement question.

2011-05-01 Thread Corey Richardson
the if after the first one, because '1' != '4'. The parentheses there are useless. You might look at [1] to see if there is anything that will count how many times something appears in a list... [1] -- http://docs.python.org/tutorial/datastructures.html#more-on-lists - -- Corey Richardson -BEGIN PGP

Re: [Tutor] GUI IDLE for UBUNTU 10

2011-04-06 Thread Corey Richardson
install idle. When you need software, search in Synaptic (Package Manager) or google first, it's usually very accessible! -- Corey Richardson ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org

Re: [Tutor] String formatting question.

2011-03-29 Thread Corey Richardson
as I know. Maybe Python 2.7 has that formatting, I'm not sure. -- Corey Richardson ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Replying

2011-03-28 Thread Corey Richardson
On 03/28/2011 01:04 PM, markri...@gsoftcon.com wrote: When replying to the mailing list, does everyone just hit the reply button in your email program. Because that sends the email directly to your email. Also everyone is cc'ng the mailing list; is that the exceptable way to reply so

Re: [Tutor] Replying

2011-03-28 Thread Corey Richardson
On 03/28/2011 06:17 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Corey Richardson wrote: Thunderbird has a reply list button that I use. It does? What version are you using? 3.1.8 I don't know how it knows what a mailing list is and isn't, but it does. After inspecting the headers of emails from a few

Re: [Tutor] Difference

2011-03-20 Thread Corey Richardson
-Original Message- From: ANKUR AGGARWAL coolankur2...@gmail.com To: tutor tutor@python.org Sent: Sun, Mar 20, 2011 1:49 pm Subject: [Tutor] Difference Hey want to know whats the difference between the pygame.display.update() and pygame.display.flip() An explanation with the example

Re: [Tutor] what is it mean--- File stdin, line 1

2011-03-20 Thread Corey Richardson
interpreter before trying to run that command (exit, or Ctrl-D). -- Corey Richardson (Forgive the horrible formatting and HTML, on the road using a web client) ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http

Re: [Tutor] how to compress a folder in python

2011-03-16 Thread Corey Richardson
On 03/16/2011 09:15 AM, bhavanasi sarath wrote: i want to learn how to compress a folder which is having some text filesbut compress that from another directory.. http://docs.python.org/library/zipfile.html (Sorry for the HTML email, getting things set up on new workstation)

Re: [Tutor] Efficiency of while versus (x)range

2011-03-16 Thread Corey Richardson
is to check! http://docs.python.org/library/timeit.html -- Corey Richardson ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] multiple if and or statement

2011-03-14 Thread Corey Richardson
, but in reality it should only print true once correct? You are missing something. Before, you're simply testing the existence of 'test2'. And since 'test2' is an immediate value (so to speak), it always exists. -- Corey Richardson ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor

[Tutor] Homework Problem Flaming (was: Help!)

2011-03-03 Thread Corey Richardson
, instead of saying Hey, replace lines 42-48 with foo, saying Look into the bar module, it bazifies the proper value for you. Teaching people to learn better for themselves instead of hand-feeding them the answers. This list does a really good job with it, IMO. -- Corey Richardson

Re: [Tutor] Timer with exe command

2011-02-28 Thread Corey Richardson
/helpandsupport/learnmore/ballew_commandline.mspx (See Shut Down the System) http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/2.2.html?highlight=pyw (scroll down) http://www.tutorial5.com/content/view/157/47/ http://docs.python.org/tutorial/inputoutput.html#reading-and-writing-files Should be everything you need. -- Corey

Re: [Tutor] Timer with exe command

2011-02-28 Thread Corey Richardson
On 02/28/2011 03:30 PM, Corey Richardson wrote: On 02/27/2011 10:02 PM, Kaden McLaws wrote: I would like to set up the following using python: A timer that is activated when a user logs on to our computer, then shuts the computer down when the timer runs out (no matter what, ending all

Re: [Tutor] Generator expressions...

2011-02-27 Thread Corey Richardson
On 02/27/2011 04:34 PM, Modulok wrote: import hashlib fd = open('/dev/urandom', 'rb') gen = (hashlib.sha256(i).hexdigest() for i in fd.read(4096)) I think the problem is that you're only reading 4096 bits (bytes? No idea), and iterating through that. I could be wrong. -- Corey

Re: [Tutor] Cross-Module Interaction

2011-02-26 Thread Corey Richardson
On 02/26/2011 06:02 AM, Walter Prins wrote: On 26 February 2011 05:33, Corey Richardson kb1...@aim.com wrote: Aha, that explains why I didn't get any results. Each file got its own interpreter instance. Not wanting to nit pick, but no: It's not that each *file* does has its own

Re: [Tutor] Cross-Module Interaction

2011-02-26 Thread Corey Richardson
and now waste time dawdling. (And the full quote is We should forget about *small* efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. (emphasis added)) -- Corey Richardson ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org

Re: [Tutor] Running Existing Python

2011-02-26 Thread Corey Richardson
is currently working from? At the terminal, the command pwd , print working directory, should do the trick. If you cannot cd to the directory, that's generally a pretty big hint that the directory doesn't exist ;-) But yet you can see it in your file browser? That's most curious. -- Corey

Re: [Tutor] Running Existing Python

2011-02-26 Thread Corey Richardson
/tkinter/guido/hello.py $ cd /jwbonnell/bin/Python 2.7/Extras/Demo/tkinter/guido/hello.py Alas, you still do it wrong. You don't just replace the space with a backslash, you put a slash _before_ the space. Or like Steven (I think it was) suggested, put it in quotes. -- Corey Richardson

Re: [Tutor] python module to search a website

2011-02-26 Thread Corey Richardson
/library/urlparse.html http://docs.python.org/library/urllib2.html If that isn't what you're looking for, you'll need to be a bit more descriptive. If you are going to be parsing the HTML and then searching for specific elements you might look into BeautifulSoup. -- Corey Richardson

Re: [Tutor] comparing strings

2011-02-25 Thread Corey Richardson
http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/~nixon/links/asciiUnicode.html -- Corey Richardson ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] accessing another system's environment

2011-02-25 Thread Corey Richardson
for the sake of it-ly y'rs, And at that point, the all-encompassing etc. steps in ;-) -- Corey Richardson ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] scripts search

2011-02-25 Thread Corey Richardson
this: http://docs.python.org/tutorial/ -- Corey Richardson ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

[Tutor] Cross-Module Interaction

2011-02-25 Thread Corey Richardson
more comfortable with C/C++) -- Corey Richardson ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Cross-Module Interaction

2011-02-25 Thread Corey Richardson
to reading/writing to disk a lot when doing things like that, since if this thing ever needs to scale I want it to be able to do that. Thank you, Steven -- Corey Richardson ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Re: [Tutor] Dictionnaries in object

2011-02-24 Thread Corey Richardson
(and better ?) Thank you for reading, powerAll = {Flammes infernales: Embrase lenemi et le feu bruler, Froid devorant: Gele lenemi sur place} Have it implicit that the key is the name and the value is the description. That's how I would do it, at least. -- Corey Richardson

Re: [Tutor] comparing strings

2011-02-23 Thread Corey Richardson
This is their number in the ASCII system. You can also do this: chr(97) 'a' chr(51) '3' -- Corey Richardson ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] how to connect to Django's irc

2011-02-20 Thread Corey Richardson
luck with django-specific questions on the django mailing list. -- Corey Richardson I've never known any trouble which an hour's reading didn't assuage. -Charles De Secondat ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Re: [Tutor] Having Troubles with For Loops

2011-02-19 Thread Corey Richardson
the case, you don't need the ()'s around the text you are printing. I also suggest you look into lists and list indexing. You should go through the Python Tutorial [0] if you haven't before. [0] - http://docs.python.org/tutorial/ -- Corey Richardson I've never known any trouble which an hour's reading

Re: [Tutor] Backpropagation Learning in Python

2011-02-13 Thread Corey Richardson
+networking+in+python http://lmgtfy.com/?q=backpropagation+in+python -- Corey Richardson ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

[Tutor] Python + Sound

2011-02-11 Thread Corey Richardson
Hello Tutors, I'm working on a small script that compresses a file, sends it through the telephone, and then receives and decompresses the file on the other end. The compression is the easy part. The transmission is the hard part. If anyone has worked with sound before, what do you recommend?

Re: [Tutor] Python + Sound

2011-02-11 Thread Corey Richardson
On 02/12/2011 01:10 AM, David Hutto wrote: for some reason, if you're on linux, I wanna say use python's subprocess, and man pppd. also look into proc and a thread in the archives I did a while back. The point is to specifically transmit the data as sound, and then turn the sound back into the

Re: [Tutor] Python + Sound

2011-02-11 Thread Corey Richardson
On 02/12/2011 01:26 AM, David Hutto wrote: On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 1:24 AM, David Hutto smokefl...@gmail.com wrote: The point is to specifically transmit the data as sound, and then turn the sound back into the gzipped file. If I were doing this for anything other than my own entertainment and

Re: [Tutor] Python + Sound

2011-02-11 Thread Corey Richardson
On 02/12/2011 02:27 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Corey Richardson wrote: Hello Tutors, I'm working on a small script that compresses a file, sends it through the telephone, and then receives and decompresses the file on the other end. The compression is the easy part. The transmission

Re: [Tutor] python packaging systems

2011-02-10 Thread Corey Richardson
On 02/09/2011 11:17 PM, Bill Allen wrote: I have found there are a few systems available to package Python programs as standalone programs for distribution. Do the folks here have any recommendation or comment on any of these? Thanks, --Bill I found cx_Freeze to be the most useful,

[Tutor] P2PU Python Challenges

2011-02-05 Thread Corey Richardson
In my journeys across the face of the Internet, I found this: http://p2pu.org/general/python-challenges Not sure what it's really going to be, but any new programmers/people looking for something to do might be interested. I'm not quite sure how a class can be organised around a web riddle, but

Re: [Tutor] print Hello, World!

2011-02-02 Thread Corey Richardson
On 2/2/2011 9:00 PM, Doug Marvel wrote: [snip] I am hoping for a link to a somewhat comprehensive online resource that explains from the beginning in English, plain English, as this is the only language I speak. Something to get my foot in the door would be awesome. Cheers, Doug Marvel

Re: [Tutor] Composing lists from both items and other lists

2011-02-01 Thread Corey Richardson
On 02/01/2011 03:40 PM, John Simon wrote: I'm looking for a way to flatten lists inside a list literal, kind of like this: start = '(' end = ')' items = ['abc', '+', 'def'] [start, *items, end] ['(', 'abc', '+', 'def', ')'] Of course, the star doesn't work there. Is there any easy,

Re: [Tutor] Composing lists from both items and other lists

2011-02-01 Thread Corey Richardson
On 02/01/2011 06:23 PM, Andre Engels wrote: On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 9:40 PM, John Simon bigjohnexpr...@gmail.com wrote: I'm looking for a way to flatten lists inside a list literal, kind of like this: start = '(' end = ')' items = ['abc', '+', 'def'] [start, *items, end] ['(', 'abc', '+',

Re: [Tutor] The trap of the year

2011-01-25 Thread Corey Richardson
On 01/25/2011 04:28 PM, Karim wrote: Hello Bob, I know this fact for function but in this case this is not a function but a constructor method of a class. To be pedantic, a method _is_ a function, just under the umbrella of a class, with it's parent object being passed to it. ~Corey The

Re: [Tutor] placing widgets

2011-01-25 Thread Corey Richardson
On 01/25/2011 04:31 PM, W S wrote: hi, i have written some Tk/Python code to do a few simple tasks, and am having trouble with my combobox placement on the frame. is there a way to more explicitly place it other than: This method does not give a lot of control

Re: [Tutor] extracting text from word files (.doc, .docx) and pdf

2011-01-25 Thread Corey Richardson
On 01/25/2011 04:52 PM, Juan Jose Del Toro wrote: Dear List; I am looking for a way to extract parts of a text from word (.doc,.docx) files as well as pdf; the idea is to walk through the whole directory tree and populate a csv file with an excerpt from each file. For PDF I found PyPdf

Re: [Tutor] class question

2011-01-25 Thread Corey Richardson
On 01/25/2011 06:26 PM, Elwin Estle wrote: Is it better to have one large sort of do it all class, or break the larger class up into smaller classes? Seems to me like the one large class would be clearer in some ways. I have something I am trying to do that have somewhere in the

Re: [Tutor] class question

2011-01-25 Thread Corey Richardson
On 01/25/2011 08:50 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Corey Richardson wrote: On 01/25/2011 06:26 PM, Elwin Estle wrote: Is it better to have one large sort of do it all class, or break the larger class up into smaller classes? If you're just learning, go ahead and make a 'do it all' class. Don't

Re: [Tutor] The trap of the year

2011-01-25 Thread Corey Richardson
On 01/25/2011 06:49 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Corey Richardson wrote: To be pedantic, a method _is_ a function, just under the umbrella of a class, with it's parent object being passed to it. To be even more pedantic, a method object is a wrapper (technically, a descriptor) around

Re: [Tutor] Exercise suggestions

2011-01-22 Thread Corey Richardson
On 01/22/2011 11:56 AM, michael scott wrote: I am new to programming, I intend to get an entry level job programming next year (or a little bit longer). I am switching fields and not going to college, but kinda self teaching myself through various methods. I currently understand concepts in

Re: [Tutor] Exercise suggestions

2011-01-22 Thread Corey Richardson
On 01/22/2011 03:09 PM, David Hutto wrote: When I felt I was ready to start doing some work, I got involved in an open source project. It's definitely an experience! Try going through http://freshmeat.net/ Isn't that for those that aren't given real apprenticeship?:) Programming is my

Re: [Tutor] Is it possible to tell, from which class an method was inherited from

2011-01-19 Thread Corey Richardson
On 01/19/2011 03:55 AM, Jojo Mwebaze wrote: Is it possible to tell, from which class an method was inherited from. take an example below |class A: def foo(): pass class B(A): def boo(A): pass class C(B): def coo() pass class D(C): def doo()

Re: [Tutor] Anyone interested in making a Python Help hotline?

2011-01-15 Thread Corey Richardson
On 01/15/2011 05:45 PM, walter weston wrote: I thought creating a Python help hotline would help programmers exponential! I think they should make a help hotline for every programming language. and since I havent discovered something similar It would probably be lucretive!

Re: [Tutor] Anyone interested in making a Python Help hotline?

2011-01-15 Thread Corey Richardson
On 01/15/2011 05:45 PM, walter weston wrote: I thought creating a Python help hotline would help programmers exponential! I think they should make a help hotline for every programming language. and since I havent discovered something similar It would probably be lucretive!

Re: [Tutor] Anyone interested in making a Python Help hotline?

2011-01-15 Thread Corey Richardson
On 01/15/2011 06:30 PM, Corey Richardson wrote: On 01/15/2011 05:45 PM, walter weston wrote: I thought creating a Python help hotline would help programmers exponential! I think they should make a help hotline for every programming language. and since I havent discovered something similar

Re: [Tutor] color of print function

2011-01-14 Thread Corey Richardson
On 01/14/2011 07:48 PM, Bill DeBroglie wrote: Hello all, I don't have a problem per se, but have noticed something that I'd like to figure out... Sometimes the print function appears orange for me, sometimes it appears purple. Why does this happen and what's the difference anyway?

Re: [Tutor] Python on Ubuntu 10.10?

2011-01-14 Thread Corey Richardson
On 01/14/2011 08:17 PM, Joel Knoll wrote: Hello, I am new to programming and to Python. I've been using Python with IDLE on Windows Vista for a few weeks now. (And I'm loving it!) However, I'm thinking about switching to Ubuntu 10.10. If I download Ubuntu, will I still be able to use

Re: [Tutor] errors in Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner??

2011-01-13 Thread Corey Richardson
On 01/13/2011 08:50 PM, Elwin Estle wrote: I am going through the book mentioned in the subject line, and I have found a couple of things that don't seem to work the way the author shows in the book. So, either I am doing something wrong, or what he is saying isn't quite right. I am

Re: [Tutor] errors in Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner??

2011-01-13 Thread Corey Richardson
On 01/13/2011 10:29 PM, Bill Allen wrote: That is correct about the difference between Python 2 and Python 3 syntax. However, I am surprised that with 2.7.1 these do not work. I have found that on my Ubuntu system with Python 2.6.5 these Python 3 syntax items do seem to work properly. I

[Tutor] Sorting a List

2011-01-12 Thread Corey Richardson
anything I could use. I tried just using [image for image in os.listdir(path) if image.endswith('.png')], but that doesn't appear to have any order. Thanks, Corey Richardson ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Re: [Tutor] Sorting a List

2011-01-12 Thread Corey Richardson
On 01/12/2011 09:42 PM, Luke Paireepinart wrote: Remember the sorted() method takes a key function, have this key function take in each filename and compare the numbers and you're all set! - Sent from a mobile device. Apologies for brevity and top-posting.

Re: [Tutor] __init__() - is it required?

2011-01-10 Thread Corey Richardson
On 01/09/2011 04:27 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Corey Richardson wrote: Do all classes need an __init__() method? I have classes that look much like this one starts out: class GenerateXML(object): Defines methods to be inherited for StaticXML and AnimationXML def __init__(self

[Tutor] __init__() - is it required?

2011-01-09 Thread Corey Richardson
Do all classes need an __init__() method? I have classes that look much like this one starts out: class GenerateXML(object): Defines methods to be inherited for StaticXML and AnimationXML def __init__(self): pass I would rather not do that. Code without it runs fine, but will

Re: [Tutor] Open a text file, read and print pattern matching

2011-01-08 Thread Corey Richardson
: print Lane + line[2] + PASS else: print Lane + line[2] + FAIL ~Corey Richardson ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Parse MPL files

2011-01-07 Thread Corey Richardson
On 01/07/2011 06:29 PM, PyProg PyProg wrote: 2011/1/7 Corey Richardson kb1...@aim.com: Hi, Thanks for your response. A google search yields no results for one. If you know the structure of the MPL file, you can write your own parser. Look through the file with a hex editor like Bless

Re: [Tutor] syntax error that i cant spot!

2011-01-02 Thread Corey Richardson
On 01/02/2011 09:40 AM, Brett Ritter wrote: On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Alan Gauld alan.ga...@btinternet.com wrote: Why avoidCamelCase? I actually prefer it to using_non_camel_case The readability is an often argued topic - I myself find the space of names_in_underscores to be more

Re: [Tutor] syntax error that i cant spot!

2011-01-01 Thread Corey Richardson
On 01/01/2011 02:28 PM, Ken Green wrote: I am caught off guard but what is the purpose of the plus sign? I don't recall seeing it used like that. Ken On 01/01/2011 12:11 PM, Abhijeet Rastogi wrote: You missed a + after myName on line 30. On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 10:32 PM, pete psmo...@live.com

Re: [Tutor] Tutor Digest, Vol 82, Issue 54

2010-12-12 Thread Corey Richardson
On 12/12/2010 11:43 PM, marupalli charan wrote: dont send me mails again. i want to unsubscript At the bottom of every single message from the list there are the following lines: To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor ~Corey Richardson

Re: [Tutor] Writing to the terminal?

2010-12-10 Thread Corey Richardson
On 12/10/2010 3:14 PM, Modulok wrote: List, Forgive me if I don't describe this well, I'm new to it: Assume I'm working in a command shell on a terminal. Something like tcsh on xterm, for example. I have a program which does *something*. Let's say it counts down from 10. How do I print a

Re: [Tutor] Writing to the terminal?

2010-12-10 Thread Corey Richardson
On 12/10/2010 3:34 PM, Wayne Werner wrote: If you just want a single line you can use chr(13) which is a carriage return. If you want a more complex program you'll need a curses type library hth, wayne On 12/10/10, Modulokmodu...@gmail.com wrote: List, Forgive me if I don't describe this

Re: [Tutor] PHP

2010-12-04 Thread Corey Richardson
. Actually, you CAN do that with Python. Python Server Pages (PSP) and mod_python enable you to do this on an Apache server. ~Corey Richardson ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: [Tutor] floats

2010-12-03 Thread Corey Richardson
/mailman/listinfo/tutor float_b = float(float_b) That takes the string and makes it a float. ~Corey Richardson ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Temperature Scales

2010-11-28 Thread Corey Richardson
however. HTH, ~Corey Richardson ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] List Changing Order

2010-11-26 Thread Corey Richardson
Steven D'Aprano wrote: Corey Richardson wrote: Tutors, I recall that the keys of dictionaries have arbitrary order, and may change over time. Is this true of lists? I can't find the answer from a simple Google search. Thank you! Only if you re-arrange it yourself. list.sort

[Tutor] List Changing Order

2010-11-25 Thread Corey Richardson
Tutors, I recall that the keys of dictionaries have arbitrary order, and may change over time. Is this true of lists? I can't find the answer from a simple Google search. Thank you! ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: [Tutor] lists, arrays and saving data

2010-11-21 Thread Corey Richardson
On 11/21/2010 8:12 AM, Chris Begert wrote: Hi Gurus I just wrote my first little python program; so yes I'm very new to all this. The goal in the end is to have a program that shows how the sun moves from the point of view of a given location (i.e. solar paths added to some sort of

Re: [Tutor] File transfer

2010-10-31 Thread Corey Richardson
On 10/31/2010 12:06 PM, Chris King wrote: On 10/31/2010 12:03 PM, Corey Richardson wrote: On 10/31/2010 11:51 AM, Chris King wrote: On 10/30/2010 10:08 PM, Corey Richardson wrote: If you can send a list, have the list [name, data] where name is the file name and data is the raw binary

Re: [Tutor] File transfer

2010-10-30 Thread Corey Richardson
If you can send a list, have the list [name, data] where name is the file name and data is the raw binary of the file, contained in a string. On 10/30/2010 9:11 PM, Chris King wrote: Dear Tutors, How would I send a file from one computer to another. I have modules which can send simple

[Tutor] Plotting a Linear Equation

2010-09-23 Thread Corey Richardson
Hello tutors. Probably the wrong mailing list, but someone might know. I want to use matplotlib (or similar) to plot an equation in slope-intercept (y=mx+b) or standard form (Ax + By = C). As far as I've read and tested, you can only plot with a series of points. I could make two points out

[Tutor] Writing to Sound

2010-09-14 Thread Corey Richardson
Greetings tutors. First off, here is what I'm doing. I'm taking pi (3.141592 etc. etc. etc.), taking two values at a time, and then mapping the two values to pitch and length. I'm then using winsound.Beep to beep for x ms, at y frequency. What I want to do, is write that to file. Judging

Re: [Tutor] Scripting Blender

2010-08-11 Thread Corey Richardson
Yes. It's called the Python API, it comes with Blender ;) bpy and Blender are the top modules. There are submodules for everything. The reference is here: http://www.blender.org/documentation/249PythonDoc/index.html HTH, ~Corey Richardson aug dawg wrote: Are there any Python modules

[Tutor] Making String

2010-08-10 Thread Corey Richardson
you, ~Corey Richardson ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Making String

2010-08-10 Thread Corey Richardson
Joel and Hugo: Thanks a lot! That clears it right up. ~Corey Richardson ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] has it gone quiet or is it just me?

2010-07-21 Thread Corey Richardson
The SQLite Database locked problem was yesterday at 12:48 AM, I'm guessing you didn't count that? ;) Alan Gauld wrote: I haven't had any tutor messages in 2 days. Do I have a problem or are things just very quiet suddenly? The archive isn't showing anything either which makes me suspicious.

[Tutor] GUI Creation Aide

2010-07-14 Thread Corey Richardson
toolkit I use, wx/Tk/GTK, etc. Thanks, ~Corey Richardson ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

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