Re: [Tutor] Searching for email id in MySQL giving wrong results

2006-01-23 Thread ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY
On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 14:00 -0500, Python wrote: The wrong_string line was lifted from the following code in the OP. entry = db.cursor() entry.execute(SELECT * FROM contact WHERE email_id = %s, (s_email,)) The execute method will handle the string substitution. This is

Re: [Tutor] Searching for email id in MySQL giving wrong results

2006-01-22 Thread ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY
On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 12:43 +, John Joseph wrote: Hi Hi John... Most of your problems in your code seems to be caused by a single mistake. Compare the following two strings and you should figure out what's wrong by yourself: email_id = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'

Re: [Tutor] PAMIE but for linux

2006-01-15 Thread ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY
On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 00:44 -0200, Ismael Garrido wrote: Hi Is there anything like PAMIE but for a linux browser? Even better if it works in windows and linux. PAMIE lets you control Internet Explorer programmatically. I've read about PyXPCOM (for mozilla) but I coudn't find any docs or

Re: [Tutor] Random in loop

2006-01-14 Thread ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY
On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 17:52 -0800, ryan luna wrote: Hello, Im kinda stuck on something in the book Python Programming. The Challenage is to make a progam that flips a coin 100 times and then tells you the number of heads and tails. here is what i have so far, Code: import random coin

Re: [Tutor] and-or precedence

2005-10-10 Thread ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY
On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 17:58 +0530, Krishna wrote: 1 or 2 and 3 1 Why does the above expression return 1? As per my understanding of boolean operations, this is what should have happaned: 1 or 2 = 1 and then 1 and 3 = 3 The library reference also suggests that 'or' has higher priority

Re: [Tutor] numbers from a name

2005-09-25 Thread ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY
On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 01:06 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How could I change the program to accept something like: John Bob Zelle Python or Kip Rada? If it works for you with one word, all you need to make it accepts more is to add the space character with a weight of zero to table.

Re: [Tutor] Exception handling - syntaxerror?!

2005-09-25 Thread ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY
On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 19:44 +0530, Krishna wrote: snip Think the mail system screwed up the formatting! But am fairly sure that I have indented it correctly in the console. Try and Except are in the column. Any other hints? Make sure you're not mixing tabs and spaces. A lot of editors uses

Re: [Tutor] numbers from a name

2005-09-24 Thread ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY
On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 23:50 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Hi Goofball... with the following program I would like it to be able to take a person's name and then assign values to each letter and come up with a sum of all the letters in the name. for example if I entered bob. i would

Re: [Tutor] reading excel and access files

2005-08-22 Thread ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY
On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 18:57 +0100, Alan G wrote: hello, can python read excel and access files? Yes If so where do I go to read about how this would work? thanks. You need to use COM to do it, Mark Hammonds book Python Programming on Win32 gives several examples. But basically COM

Re: [Tutor] Will someone please tell me how to read this?

2005-08-22 Thread ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY
On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 13:18 -0500, Lane, Frank L wrote: Hi List, I cut and pasted a dump from recvfrom below. I can’t read it and don’t where to look in the documentation to figure out how to read this. Is there a name for this type of number? I’m assuming the \x means it’s

Re: [Tutor] Linux app question

2005-08-18 Thread ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY
On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 18:10 +0100, Alan G wrote: It might be /usr/bin/env... It is /usr/bin/env. You could use /usr/bin/python instead under Linux (it might not work under other Unix like OSes). Yes, in fact you dont really need to rename the file, its just a nicety. All Unix scripts use

Re: [Tutor] LiveWires problems

2005-08-15 Thread ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY
On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 11:52 -0400, Michael Murphy wrote: Hi all I'm having problems with installing LiveWire for python for Linux (Linspire 5.0 to be exact) and I'm having trouble compiling setup.py. Heres the results: running install running build running build_py running install_lib

Re: [Tutor] Corrupt files (fwd)

2005-08-03 Thread ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY
On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 13:22 -0700, Danny Yoo wrote: -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 22:12:34 +0200 (CEST) From: [iso-8859-1] yvind [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Danny Yoo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Tutor] Corrupt files Hello and thank you. I don't really

Re: [Tutor] range()-like function to generate aa, ... az, ..., zz ?

2005-07-28 Thread ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY
On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 13:59 -0400, Chris Shenton wrote: I'm looking for a range()-like function which could generate a list of character-oriented tokens, like to iterate over all two-character sequences like: pseudorange('aa', 'zz') would generate: aa, ab, ..., az, ba, ..., za, ..., zz

Re: [Tutor] OT python Licences

2005-07-13 Thread ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY
Hi everyone... On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 22:08 +0530, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: snip 2. Gtk. Simple API. A great RAD GUI builder (Glade). Cons are that you have to have Pygtk installed on windows for your apps to run (I am not sure if py2exe will package them for you as a standalone). Another

Re: [Tutor] What's the invalid syntax?

2005-07-09 Thread ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY
On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 14:00 -0600, Nathan Pinno wrote: What's the invalid syntax? Here's the code (Part of my Guess the Numbers game): if a0 == x0 and a1 == x1 and a2 == x2 and a3 == x3: print Congratulations! Way to go? answer = raw input(Play again:

Re: [Tutor] Why is this error showing up? (Original Message: (Tutor) What's wrong with this code?) Ignore previous post.

2005-07-07 Thread ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY
On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 00:54 -0600, Nathan Pinno wrote: Hi all, Here's one of the messages that pops up: Traceback (most recent call last): File D:\password.py, line 77, in ? filename == raw_input(Filename to load: ) NameError: name 'filename' is not defined Why is it popping

Re: [Tutor] A newbie question about running python scripts

2005-06-16 Thread ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 08:08 -0700, typetext wrote: I get exactly the same error message as below. What could be going on here? To check that I am not misspelling the name, I also wrote a script that says print helloworld and saved it as hello.py. The same message comes up then, as well. Any

Re: [Tutor] A newbie question about running python scripts

2005-06-15 Thread ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 20:19 -0700, typetext wrote: I am trying to run my first python scripts from a windows XP command line, and using Ivan Langhan's book Teach yourself python in 24 hours. I have installed Active Python 2.4 and have had no trouble running the scripts in the IDE . Following

Re: [Tutor] Can't figure out syntax error

2005-06-09 Thread ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY
On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 18:16 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I'm in the process of learning Python, and need some help deciphering the reason why the following code doesn't work: snip int(num) = int(num) / 2 # this is integer division, so we truncate the decimal part Here's

Re: [Tutor] interactif or not

2005-06-03 Thread ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY
On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 18:45 +0100, Alan G wrote: If I invoke it in a shell.. then it can be verbose If it is launched from a crontab.. then it is less verbose. You need to check who the process owner is. That can be done on *Nix by reading the USER environment variable. Cron jobs

Re: [Tutor] scoping oddity

2005-05-07 Thread ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY
On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 12:56 -0400, Michael wrote: Tanja, Bob, Brian, Many thanks for your help. And perhaps the way in which I posed the question was misleading. In a process I am writing, I was actually trying not to use global variables, as I agree with Brian. However, I