Re: [Tutor] Scrolling through output in shell

2008-11-17 Thread Shawn Milochik
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Mike Hoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm writing a small program that writes to a text file. I want to be able to view the contents of the text file inside of shell. But the file is too large for a small shell window. Is there a way for the user to 'scroll'

Re: [Tutor] Running a script from another folder

2008-11-12 Thread Shawn Milochik
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:58 PM, greg whittier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it looks like you're on linux - so at the beginning of your script put #!/usr/bin/env python (I believe) and then chmod +x myscript.py then you can call it from the command line. You'll also need to make sure ~myID/bin

Re: [Tutor] Building RSS reader with Python

2008-11-05 Thread Shawn Milochik
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I'm new to programming and am building a very basic rss reader for my first major project with python and GUI. As it is, I have it set up so that if I input an exact rss feed address (ex http://news.google.com/?output=rss)

Re: [Tutor] fast list traversal

2008-10-30 Thread Shawn Milochik
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 2:40 PM, bob gailer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dinesh B Vadhia wrote: I need to process a large number ( 20,000) of long and variable length lists ( 5,000 elements) ie. for element in long_list: do something with element# the result of this operation is not

Re: [Tutor] fast list traversal

2008-10-30 Thread Shawn Milochik
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Kent Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Shawn Milochik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might try using dictionaries instead. I've had phenomenal speed gains by switching lists to dictionaries before, although that may have had more

Re: [Tutor] fast list traversal

2008-10-30 Thread Shawn Milochik
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 6:06 PM, wesley chun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: based on the all the performance questions, i would say agree that dictionary access is faster than lists (hashes exist cuz they're fast) but they use up more memory, as shown in shawn's numbers. also, one of the reasons why

Re: [Tutor] How to compare the first line from multiple files

2008-01-31 Thread Shawn Milochik
-Original Message- From: Sorghum Crow [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: tutor@python.org Subject: [Tutor] How to compare the first line from multiple files Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:19:55 -0500 How to compare the first line from multiple files Greetings, I'm new on the forum and relatively new to