[Tutor] Adding network play to an open source game.

2008-02-08 Thread Timothy Sikes
Hi. First of all, I'm not an amazing programmer. But, I do have large goals, somtimes too large. There is an open source game, konquer, (it's on the ubuntu repos.) that I would like to extend with python to include a network based game. But, I only know how to do simple sockets Is this

Re: [Tutor] Adding network play to an open source game.

2008-02-08 Thread Timothy Sikes
Thanks for your advice. You're probably right, I do need to figure out sockets first... But it's a goal to work towards... I don't know if I would keep up computer programming if I didn't have a specific goal. A few things: I have the author's email of konquer (it was in the source). I

Re: [Tutor] Thought of some other things.

2008-02-07 Thread Timothy Sikes
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 00:05:54 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tutor@python.org Subject: Re: [Tutor] Thought of some other things. On Feb 6, 2008 11:38 PM, Timothy Sikes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First off, I was running my script from my flash drive-That could have

[Tutor] Pixelize ubuntu python script acting odd.

2008-02-06 Thread Timothy Sikes
so I recently installed ubuntu and started messing around with some of the programs. Pixelize takes a picture, then using a database of other pictures, makes a picture out of the database. The only way I know of to add pictures to the database is through the command 'make_db ' It doesn't

[Tutor] Thought of some other things.

2008-02-06 Thread Timothy Sikes
First off, I was running my script from my flash drive-That could have caused something. Next, I have possible found something IN the location where I ran the script, I found a pic_db.bat with stuff in it... It still doesn't explain why the program crashed, but it does explain why I

[Tutor] IronPython, the wii remote, and blender

2008-01-26 Thread Timothy Sikes
Well, I was playing my Wii the other day and then sat down to mess around on blender. Then I had an idea! What if the Wii remote could be used as an input device for blender? It would be great for 3d modeling, and you could always switch back to a mouse and keyboard for more precise control.

[Tutor] Dos and os.walk with Python

2008-01-24 Thread Timothy Sikes
Hi.I wrote a python script that goes through a specified directory and returns a list of all the files that haven't been modified since a certain date. I was hoping to be able to then continue with the program to bring up dos, and zip, then move the files (to my external hard drive). I

[Tutor] Forgot something...

2008-01-24 Thread Timothy Sikes
Sorry, but in my previous message, I realized that I hadn't changed the code from doesNotHave... It's supposed to be x.find(), not x.startswith..Oh, and I also am not worried about messing up any files too much, because I have them all backed up on another computer already

Re: [Tutor] Dos and os.walk with Python

2008-01-24 Thread Timothy Sikes
-- Message: 9 Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:11:00 - From: Alan Gauld [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Tutor] Dos and os.walk with Python To: tutor@python.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-1; reply-type=original Timothy Sikes

[Tutor] Windowss sidebar gadgets with Python?

2008-01-09 Thread Timothy Sikes
Hello all.I have been working with Python for a couple years off and on, and am currently enrolled in a java class. Python was my first language, and I think it's probably my favorite. But anyway, I was wondering about whether a Windows SideBar application could be built with Python. I'm not