Re: [Tutor] Help!

2013-01-28 Thread Mark K. Zanfardino
-code into an algorithm using Python. Cheers! Mark K. Zanfardino On 01/28/2013 01:22 PM, Ghadir Ghasemi wrote: Hi guys I wanted to make a program called Binary/decimal converter. But I want to do it the hard way e.g. not using built in python functions. Can you give me an idea about how I can

Re: [Tutor] Help with pexpect

2009-10-16 Thread Mark K. Zanfardino
Nathan, Depending upon how much control you have over the calling machine you can eliminate the pesky password prompt from ssh altogether by creating a private/public key pair for the client machine and copy the public key to the host machine. This way when you ssh to the host you will be authent

Re: [Tutor] First line of a python program

2009-10-12 Thread Mark K. Zanfardino
>From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang_(Unix): In computing, a shebang (also called a hashbang, hashpling, pound bang, or crunchbang) refers to the characters "#!" when they are the first two characters in a text file. In a Unix-like operating system, the program loader takes the presence of

Re: [Tutor] What is Curses and why do they call it that.

2009-10-12 Thread Mark K. Zanfardino
Curses is a pun on the term "cursor optimization". It is a library of functions that manage an application's display on character-cell terminals (e.g., VT100). On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 17:13 -0500, Luke Paireepinart wrote: > Not sure what curses means but that module only works on Unix. It does > do