[Tutor] Installing numpy on Ubuntu

2014-02-27 Thread Pierre Dagenais
I've installed numpy on Ubuntu 12.04 with sudo apt-get install python3-numpy. Everything seems to go OK, yet when I try to use it I get this error: Python 3.3.3 (default, Dec 9 2013, 08:33:48) [GCC 4.6.3] on linux Type help, copyright, credits or license for more information. import

Re: [Tutor] Installing numpy on Ubuntu

2014-02-27 Thread Pierre Dagenais
On 14-02-27 05:40 PM, eryksun wrote: On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 5:11 PM, Danny Yoo d...@hashcollision.org wrote: You mentioned you're using Ubuntu 12.04. But the version of Python 3 in that Ubuntu is Python 3.1: http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/python/python3 12.04 (precise), not 10.04

Re: [Tutor] Recommendation For A Complete Noob

2014-02-10 Thread Pierre Dagenais
On 14-02-09 05:37 PM, Altrius wrote: Hi, I’m completely new to programming in general and everything I have read so far has pointed me to Python. I’ll put this another way: All I know is that a programming language is a medium for a human to tell a computer what to do. After that I’m

Re: [Tutor] Python .decode issue

2014-02-10 Thread Pierre Dagenais
On 14-02-08 12:55 AM, james campbell wrote: header_bin = header_hex.decode('hex') AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode' What I understand is that you are trying to decode 'hex', which is a string. The interpreter is telling you that strings cannot be decoded. I do not know

Re: [Tutor] most useful ide

2014-02-02 Thread Pierre Dagenais
On 14-02-02 01:16 PM, Kodiak Firesmith wrote: Pycharm is nice for bigger projects (since tou can collapse any section); but it's crazy resource intensive. For Linux Gedit can be made very nice I prefer Geany as it will run my code with a click of the mouse. for python, and of course vim in

Re: [Tutor] Best version for novice

2014-02-02 Thread Pierre Dagenais
On 14-02-01 08:20 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Sat, Feb 01, 2014 at 06:41:10PM +, Ian D wrote: Hi Is it better to use python 3 as a newcomer who isn't really going to be writing any software as such just using it for learning? Yes, you should use Python 3, with one proviso: many

Re: [Tutor] ValueError: could not convert string to float: '13,2'

2014-01-20 Thread Pierre Dagenais
Not very elegant, but it'll work. I don't suppose there is a function for determining the number of digits after the decimal, is it? It looks like you are trying to avoid rounding errors in decimal arithmetic. You might be interested in Python's decimal.Decimal type then. That's right, I

[Tutor] Naming variables

2014-01-18 Thread Pierre Dagenais
Hello, I wish to fill a list called years[] with a hundred lists called year1900[], year1901[], year1902[], ..., year1999[]. That is too much typing of course. Any way of doing this in a loop? I've tried stuff like (year + str(1900)) = [0,0] but nothing works. Any solution? Thank you, PierreD.

Re: [Tutor] ValueError: could not convert string to float: '13,2'

2014-01-18 Thread Pierre Dagenais
On 13-12-31 04:09 PM, Keith Winston wrote: Hi PierreD, I think if you iterate over your strings with something like this, it will do what you want, if I understand correctly (snum is your string number, like 123,321): fnum = float(snum.replace(,, .) keith: rank beginner, take everything

[Tutor] ValueError: could not convert string to float: '13,2'

2013-12-31 Thread Pierre Dagenais
Hi, I'm trying to convert a list of strings to float. Unfortunately the numbers are written with a decimal comma instead of a decimal point. What is the best way to replace these commas with decimal points? Do I need to write a function that will iterate over every alphanumeric, replace the comma

Re: [Tutor] menu-libre broken? :p:

2013-12-20 Thread Pierre Dagenais
On 13-12-20 05:59 AM, Paradox wrote: On 12/19/2013 10:46 PM, Keith Winston wrote: I did this sequence of commands: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:menulibre-dev/devel sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install menulibre But at the end of the update I got: W: Failed to fetch

Re: [Tutor] No module named '_tkinter'

2013-12-09 Thread pierre dagenais
On 13-12-08 10:57 PM, Reuben wrote: Can you try importing the module '_tkinter' On 09-Dec-2013 6:43 AM, pierre dagenais eq...@ncf.ca wrote: Hi, I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 and I've installed python 3.3.3 from the tarball at http://python.org/ftp/python/3.3.3/Python-3.3.3.tar.xz Here

Re: [Tutor] No module named '_tkinter' ***solved***

2013-12-09 Thread pierre dagenais
On 13-12-09 03:14 AM, eryksun wrote: On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 2:36 PM, pierre dagenais eq...@ncf.ca wrote: I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 and I've installed python 3.3.3 from the tarball at http://python.org/ftp/python/3.3.3/Python-3.3.3.tar.xz Here is the error I get when trying to run tkinter

[Tutor] No module named '_tkinter'

2013-12-08 Thread pierre dagenais
Hi, I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 and I've installed python 3.3.3 from the tarball at http://python.org/ftp/python/3.3.3/Python-3.3.3.tar.xz Here is the error I get when trying to run tkinter. pierre@Sprint:~$ python3.3 Python 3.3.3 (default, Dec 2 2013, 11:10:53) [GCC 4.6.3] on linux Type help,

[Tutor] Test - please ignore

2011-12-15 Thread pierre dagenais
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[Tutor] httplib2.RelativeURIError: Only absolute URIs are allowed. uri

2011-10-16 Thread pierre dagenais
Hi, I'm running python 3.2 on Ubuntu 11.04 and have a problem with httplib2. I'm not sure if it's my ignorance or a bug in the code. This code works: #! /usr/bin/python3.2 import urllib.request sock = urllib.request.urlopen(file:///home/pierre/bookmarks.html) htmlSource = sock.read()

Re: [Tutor] python2 vs python3 urllib

2011-04-25 Thread pierre dagenais
On 11-04-23 06:58 PM, pierre dagenais wrote: The following code works as expected with python version 2.6.5, but with version 3.1.2 I get the following error: pierre:/MyCode/mesProjets$ py3 test.py Traceback (most recent call last): File test.py, line 3, in module sock = urllib.urlopen(http

[Tutor] python2 vs python3 urllib

2011-04-23 Thread pierre dagenais
The following code works as expected with python version 2.6.5, but with version 3.1.2 I get the following error: pierre:/MyCode/mesProjets$ py3 test.py Traceback (most recent call last): File test.py, line 3, in module sock = urllib.urlopen(http://diveintopython.org/;) AttributeError:

Re: [Tutor] plotting pixels

2010-09-25 Thread pierre dagenais
On 10-09-18 07:39 PM, ALAN GAULD wrote: It appears that the Tk canvas widget does not support simply plotting a pixel. Correct, and I agree it seems odd, but in practice drawing either lines or ovals of one-pixel do the equivalent job - albeit a little more slowly. The primitive obviously

Re: [Tutor] Installation Problems

2008-10-10 Thread Pierre Dagenais
if that works. You might also have to modify the PATH and PYTHONPATH environments. If you wish to install python v2.5.2 maybe you need to uninstall v 2.6, just gessing. HTH Pierre --- On Thu, 10/9/08, Pierre Dagenais [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Pierre Dagenais [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Tutor

Re: [Tutor] Installation Problems

2008-10-09 Thread Pierre Dagenais
Matthew Hill wrote: I am a newly beginning aspiring programmer. I have been learning Blender 3D and I want to use python with it. I downloaded the newest version of python and I tried running it with Blender 2.47. Python would work alone but would not with Blender. I read on a forum that I

[Tutor] first call - newcomer

2008-10-07 Thread Pierre Dagenais
Anthony Smith wrote: This is my first post - I will be brief... One: I have programmed before - but it has been DECADES...so just a few simple queries: 1. A brief (but complete) description regarding the use of script editor (I will be using command prompt in Windows), as:

Re: [Tutor] (no subject)

2008-10-01 Thread Pierre Dagenais
Timothy Grant wrote: On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:20 PM, Pierre Dagenais [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: kayla bishop wrote: I can't figure out how to write a program where you flip a coin 100 times and it keeps track of how many heads and tails you flipped but it has to be random. Can you

Re: [Tutor] python: can't open file 'test.py' : [Errno 2] No such file or directory

2008-10-01 Thread Pierre Dagenais
Timothy Grant wrote: On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 9:01 PM, Pierre Dagenais [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Timothy Grant wrote: On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Pierre Dagenais [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The file test.py is in I:\Python25\MyCode, if I enter: C:\Python25\MyCode\python25

Re: [Tutor] python: can't open file 'test.py' : [Errno 2] No such file or directory

2008-10-01 Thread Pierre Dagenais
If you're right about having to give the full path, and I suspect you are, Then this means that python knows to search the currennt working directory for the file to execute, but nowhere else. Correct, just like every other program. If you run notepad foo.txt notepad will open a new foo.txt

Re: [Tutor] (no subject)

2008-10-01 Thread Pierre Dagenais
kayla bishop wrote: ok i imported the random module and set it up with a 2... i can't get it to loop correctly to where it keeps going until the total of heads and tails is 100 Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 00:18:51 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: tutor@python.org Subject: Re: [Tutor] (no subject)

[Tutor] python: can't open file 'test.py' : [Errno 2] No such file or directory

2008-09-30 Thread Pierre Dagenais
The file test.py is in I:\Python25\MyCode, if I enter: C:\Python25\MyCode\python25 test.py at the DOS prompt, everything works as I would expect. However when I enter the same command from any other directory I get this error: C:\python test.py python: can't open file 'test.py' :

Re: [Tutor] python: can't open file 'test.py' : [Errno 2] No such file or directory

2008-09-30 Thread Pierre Dagenais
W W wrote: On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Pierre Dagenais [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: The file test.py is in I:\Python25\MyCode, if I enter: C:\Python25\MyCode\python25 test.py at the DOS prompt, everything works as I would expect. However when I enter the same command from any other

Re: [Tutor] python: can't open file 'test.py' : [Errno 2] No such file or directory

2008-09-30 Thread Pierre Dagenais
Timothy Grant wrote: On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Pierre Dagenais [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The file test.py is in I:\Python25\MyCode, if I enter: C:\Python25\MyCode\python25 test.py at the DOS prompt, everything works as I would expect. However when I enter the same command from any

Re: [Tutor] (no subject)

2008-09-30 Thread Pierre Dagenais
kayla bishop wrote: I can't figure out how to write a program where you flip a coin 100 times and it keeps track of how many heads and tails you flipped but it has to be random. Can you please help _ Get more out of the Web. Learn

Re: [Tutor] (no subject)

2008-09-30 Thread Pierre Dagenais
kayla bishop wrote: I can't figure out how to write a program where you flip a coin 100 times and it keeps track of how many heads and tails you flipped but it has to be random. Can you please help _ Get more out of the Web. Learn

Re: [Tutor] newbie graphing question

2008-07-27 Thread Pierre Dagenais
Peter Petto wrote: I'm about to try some Python programming for drawing simple geometric pictures (for math classes I teach) and was hoping to get some advice that will send me off in the best direction. I want to write programs that can draw figures with commands akin to point(x,y) to draw