Re: [Tutor] sqrt?

From: bob gailer bgai...@gmail.com To: tutor@python.org Sent: Sun, April 25, 2010 12:52:10 PM Subject: Re: [Tutor] sqrt? On 4/24/2010 11:00 PM, Kirk Z Bailey wrote: ok gang, My desktop runs 2.5, and for my college algebra I needed to do som quadratic

Re: [Tutor] Challenge

Ali, I am new at this but here is my interpretation. 1) flip coin 100 times, and print out the number of heads and number of tails. from random import Random score = [0,0]# first position will be heads and second position will be tails count=0#counter to find out how many times we have flipped. a

Re: [Tutor] help

From: jonathan wallis mindboggle...@gmail.com To: tutor@python.org Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 12:54:16 PM Subject: [Tutor] help i have a duel loop that looks like thiswhile y 0 and x 0: i cant figure out if there is a way to make so if one loop ends it says something

[Tutor] Python Grammer

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Re: [Tutor] Python Grammer

Ok, I found the responses, sorry.. I have been reading the book Text Processing in PYTHON by David Mertz. I have some text that I have to parse. I want to use grammers. I can't seem to understand how the syntax works. something like: hello :=some regex Thanks in Advance Eric

[Tutor] grammer

Hello, I have been reading about python grammers for processing text files. Does anyone have any simple examples? Thanks Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

[Tutor] system call

Hello, I am trying to run a timing script but I need the python program to stop and wait for the executable to finish. Does anyone have any examples of doing this? Thanks Python Newbie __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best

Re: [Tutor] system call

disregard this one. I found the answer. I was using spawn instead of os.system. Thanks. - Original Message From: Eric Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: tutor@python.org Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 9:55:05 AM Subject: [Tutor] system call Hello, I am trying to run a timing script

Re: [Tutor] system call

program. What do you think? python newbie... - Original Message From: Alan Gauld [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: tutor@python.org Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 4:09:35 PM Subject: Re: [Tutor] system call Eric Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote I am trying to run a timing script but I need

Re: [Tutor] CGI File Woes

The best way to debug cgi is to tail the server log when you don't get commandline output. This will give you a clue to what is happening.. shoulld be something like /var/log/apache or something like that... Eric wormwood_3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I am working on a very

Re: [Tutor] home_finance.py

I think you need to check to see if the remaining amount is less than the payment amount. Eric... Christopher Spears [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm working on a problem in Chapter 5 of Core Python Programming(2nd Edition). I am supposed to write a script that take an opening balance and a

Re: [Tutor] xls file

Alan Gauld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kirk Bailey wrote Ii want to read a xls file and use the data in part of it. What module would help make sense of one? If the data is straighforward you might find it easier to save it as a csv file first. But otherwise there is a module called

Re: [Tutor] Need to convert 1,987,087,234,456 to an int

I am a newbie but think its for variable input. Allows you to enter any number with commas in it and still work properly. Since it thinks the number is a tuple, then depending on the number your tuple could vary in length. Eric Walker Dick Moores [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 06:58 PM 8/15/2007

Re: [Tutor] Decoding

newbie here, I just tried playing around with the dec function and I get errors. Correct me if I am wrong. After getting the input, the string.split will parse the string across whitespace chars so in other words you get a list of each word entered. Then when it does the eval(x) part it dies. I

Re: [Tutor] Decoding

' numeric values. Nothing fancy. What does this 'coded' message decode to, using the dec function? a = 72 101 108 108 111 32 69 114 105 99 33 Happy Programming! -- bhaaluu at gmail dot com On 8/12/07, Eric Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: newbie here, I just tried playing around

Re: [Tutor] Float and decimal spaces

--- Kent Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Toon Pieton wrote: Hey all! My memory seem to have a horrible leak. How does one limit the amount of decimal spaces for a float? I used to know that... Example: not 5.398042156, but 5.4 (if I decide to have only one place). For

Re: [Tutor] Tutor FAQ?

Kent Johnson wrote: Mike Hansen wrote: I'd like to send a big Thank You to Danny, Alan, Kent and others(whos names escape me) for being such an asset to the Python community by relentlessly answering questions on the tutor list.(Do these guys sleep? They must work in shifts.) This list is

Re: [Tutor] functions in Python

Payal Rathod wrote: On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 05:42:05PM +0100, Steve Nelson wrote: When you define a function, you are writing a block of code which you can ask to perform a task. The task may be simple, and not require any additional information, or it may be more complex and need

[Tutor] GUI

All, I want to create a GUI, and I downloaded the pyQT stuff. Ok, now that I am reading my but off trying to figure out how to use this thing and learn python at the same time, I read some stuff about having to purchase licenses. For commercial development, who do I need to contact for

Re: [Tutor] GUI

Alan Gauld wrote: I want to create a GUI, and I downloaded the pyQT stuff. Any reason why you must use PyQt? Not that it's a bad toolkit but there is less expertise in using it so unless you already use it from another language - like C++ - its going to be a lot harder to learn than

[Tutor] file permissions

Looking for easiest way to get a files permissions in linux. Thanks ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] file permissions

the futile post. On Wednesday 07 December 2005 01:42 pm, Gabriel Farrell wrote: On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 11:52:20AM -0800, Danny Yoo wrote: On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Eric Walker wrote: Looking for easiest way to get a files permissions in linux. Hi Eric, What have you looked at so far

Re: [Tutor] Weird situation in using .split() function

The first few are out of range. Only have one \t so you only get col[0] and col[1] ['STAG2\tmiR-101', 'SMARCA1\tmiR-101','RAP2C\tmiR-101', 'DDX3Y\tmiR-101', Srinivas Iyyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello group:I have a list t and the elements are tab limited. there are 2

Re: [Tutor] Read Excel file without COM

yes, I found some stuff when I was playing around with win32. It does allow you to read from excell sheets... Eric ... On Tuesday 29 November 2005 01:13 pm, Liam Clarke-Hutchinson wrote: Actually, and I'm surprising myself here, but COM would be the easiest way to go about this if you're not

[Tutor] class attributes

Hello, If I have some like the following: markersExp = ['big','boss','two','three'] for mark in markersExp: print y.mark Now I have an list of class objects that are in an outerloop. y is how I access it. The attributes names of the class objects match whats in markersExp. Can I do that

Re: [Tutor] class attributes

? In which case the usual solution is a dictionary. Alan g. -- Eric Walker EDA/CAD Engineer Work: 208-368-2573 ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] class attributes

the names are names of attributes not names of classes? In that case I think you need to use setattr() Yes, they are names of the attributes, and yes I am using setattr and getattr now. thanks you all for your great advice -- Eric Walker EDA/CAD Engineer Work: 208-368-2573

[Tutor] dictionary question

All, I have a dictionary say: d = {'first':[]} I am going through another list and depending on whats going on, I want to add to the empty list. I have tried the following to noavail. d['first'] = d['first'].append(string) I would think this would result in the dictionary key first's empty list

Re: [Tutor] dictionary question

(string) Append acts on the list, so assignment is unnecessary. ds Eric Walker wrote: All, I have a dictionary say: d = {'first':[]} I am going through another list and depending on whats going on, I want to add to the empty list. I have tried the following to noavail. d['first'] = d

[Tutor] Video

I would like to do some testing of video streams from say a vcr tape. Possibly using the PVR type capture card. Maybe modules to control it.. or some info on how I can control it through C/C++ and link those functions into python. Are there any python user groups or modules that could help me

Re: [Tutor] Video

no takrs on this one? --- Eric Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to do some testing of video streams from say a vcr tape. Possibly using the PVR type capture card. Maybe modules to control it.. or some info on how I can control it through C/C++ and link those functions

[Tutor] construct

All, Whats the construct that allows to loop through a list and perform an action? you also can add a test at the end. something like myfile = [print name for name in yourlist, if ...] I need to look up how to use the test command and I forgot the name of the construct. Thanks..

Re: [Tutor] construct

Thanks all On Friday 04 November 2005 11:53 am, Kent Johnson wrote: Eric Walker wrote: All, Whats the construct that allows to loop through a list and perform an action? you also can add a test at the end. something like myfile = [print name for name in yourlist, if ...] It's called

Re: [Tutor] how to extract number of files from directory

I think os.system returns status of commands Try this: w = os.popen('ls -l | wc -l').readlines() Python Newbie... On Wednesday 12 October 2005 12:10 pm, Marc Buehler wrote: hi. i'm new to Python ... i would like to extract the number of JPG files from the current directory and use that

Re: [Tutor] Importing Modules Within Classes

That was me using the import within the class. I only did it due to my ignorance. I am not advanced enough to use it like that and know what I am doing, so as suggested I just moved all of my imports to the top. Python Newbie. On Thursday 06 October 2005 08:21 pm, Kent Johnson wrote:

Re: [Tutor] class and methods/functions

- Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor -- Eric Walker EDA/CAD Engineer Work: 208-368-2573 ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] class and methods/functions

DUH.. I found the answer mytest = [name for name in test] Thanks again.. The above four lines could be replaced with a single list comprehension if you like: baseObjectList = [ TPROJ(name) for name in baseList if nameCheck(name) ]

Re: [Tutor] Handling Objects

from the original files. Python Newbie On Wednesday 05 October 2005 04:29 pm, Kent Johnson wrote: Eric Walker wrote: New to Python and trying to do some class stuff with a simple task. Problem: 1) get a list of file names in a directory 2) create variables with the same name of each

Re: [Tutor] Python coding

/tutor -- Eric Walker EDA/CAD Engineer Work: 208-368-2573 ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Combining dictionaries

language theory (on my own) in 1972, maintained the APL interpreter in 1975 and devised and helped implement my first language in 1976. My BSEE from RPI predates any CS departments. Bob Gailer phone 510 978 4454 WOW!!, Nice to know we have some heavy hitters monitoring this list. -- Eric

[Tutor] win32 properties tab

Is there a way to pull the info listed on the properties tab , say of an image file from windows with python.. All the meta data...ie Title, Subject, Keywords, Comments, Author Any Ideas? -- Eric Walker EDA/CAD Engineer Work: 208-368-2573 ___ Tutor

Re: [Tutor] PYTHON????

Could be but the first time I get something hes going on the filter... E On Thursday 01 September 2005 07:56 am, Jan Eden wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 29.08.2005: Dear Python, How does a calculator multiply? I want to create a computer software that can multiply. How do I program

Re: [Tutor] MS Access......

Again... --- Kent Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Walker wrote: I want to know what modules are available to connect and talk with MSAccess databases... google 'python msaccess' You can talk to Access directly using ADO: http://www.ecp.cc/pyado.html or via DAO: http

Re: [Tutor] Hello

On Wednesday 24 August 2005 03:57 pm, Jesse Lands wrote: Yes, I think its well worth it. He's a great guy and you learn lots of python tips and stuff. I need to get something to do now... ... On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:49:17 -0700 (PDT) Eric Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: all, Hello... I

[Tutor] Hello

all, Hello... I just finished a class given by Mark Lutz and I love python. Now I need to find a project to hone my skills. I am sure I will be sending lots of questions to this list. I used to use perl but now Its gone. I am now a Python guy... Hail Guido