Re: [Tutor] Help needed

2016-02-04 Thread Alan Gauld
On 04/02/16 23:26, Tom Brodle wrote: > While true: > Turn LED on > sleep 5 seconds > Turn LED off > sleep .5 seconds > # Coming from the world of Basic I did/do not understand what made the > program loop > # back to while True: line of c

Re: [Tutor] Help needed

2016-02-04 Thread Joel Goldstick
On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 6:26 PM, Tom Brodle wrote: > I am very new to Python. I am just practicing code using a simple plug > board. The code is working as I want it to but the last message and the > original looping makes me have questions. Because the main code works I > will just abbreviate

[Tutor] Help needed

2016-02-04 Thread Tom Brodle
I am very new to Python. I am just practicing code using a simple plug board. The code is working as I want it to but the last message and the original looping makes me have questions. Because the main code works I will just abbreviate it. import GPIO import time Gpio setmode (BCM) led_pin

Re: [Tutor] Help needed

2014-04-26 Thread C Smith
As others have pointed out, a mapping/dictionary or just a list of lists seems like how you would want to organize the data for input. I think your problem is insistence on using sets. I am no Python guru, but I think this list is more for exploratory learning of Python. I think people are trying t

Re: [Tutor] Help needed

2014-04-26 Thread Suhana Vidyarthi
Thanks for the response Smith, I was thinking make be I have done something incorrect and if there is some other function that can be used to display the output in desired order but don't see it possible thats why was wondering if any of you Python gurus have any inputs for me :-) On Sat, Apr 26

Re: [Tutor] Help needed

2014-04-26 Thread C Smith
err, set also is unordered. I can see you are using set for a reason, but has no concept of order. On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 3:20 PM, C Smith wrote: > Just glancing at your work, I see you have curly braces around what looks > like it should be a list. If you are concerned with the order of your >

Re: [Tutor] Help needed

2014-04-26 Thread C Smith
Just glancing at your work, I see you have curly braces around what looks like it should be a list. If you are concerned with the order of your output, dictionaries do not have a concept of order. On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Suhana Vidyarthi wrote: > Hi Danny, > > Let me give you a high le

Re: [Tutor] Help needed

2014-04-26 Thread Suhana Vidyarthi
Hi Danny, Let me give you a high level brief of what I am doing: I am working on doing "disaster aware routing" considering the 24-node US network where I will be setting up connection between two any two nodes (I will select the source and destination nodes randomly). Also I have some links whose

Re: [Tutor] Help needed

2014-04-26 Thread Danny Yoo
>>> I want to create two arrays using the above file (Links array and Prob >>> array) that should give following output: >>> >>> *Links *= { [3,5] [5,4] [5,8] [7,8] [14,10] [14,13] [17,13] [14,18] >>> [10,13] [14,13] [17,13] [12,13] [11,6] [11,9][11,12] [11,19] [19,20] >>> [15,20] [21,20] [20,21] [

Re: [Tutor] Help needed

2014-04-26 Thread Suhana Vidyarthi
Thanks for the response Alan. my clarifications are below: On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 1:41 AM, Alan Gauld wrote: > On 26/04/14 01:46, Suhana Vidyarthi wrote: > > I have this file: >> >> 1,3,5,0.03 >> >> 2,3,5,5,4,0.11 >> >> 3,3,5,5,4,5,8,0.04 >> > > >> And each line is interpreted as: >> >>

Re: [Tutor] Help needed

2014-04-26 Thread Suhana Vidyarthi
Hi, The reason I opened a link is because there are changes in the code. Does it make sense? Else I can definitely go back to the thread. On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 9:05 AM, Danny Yoo wrote: > Hi Suhana, > > Also note that you asked this question just a few days ago. > > https://mail.pytho

Re: [Tutor] Help needed

2014-04-26 Thread Danny Yoo
Hi Suhana, Also note that you asked this question just a few days ago. https://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/2014-April/101019.html We're not robots. We don't like repetition unless there's a reason for it, and in this case, you got responses to the earlier question. For example: htt

Re: [Tutor] Help needed

2014-04-26 Thread Alan Gauld
On 26/04/14 01:46, Suhana Vidyarthi wrote: I have this file: 1,3,5,0.03 2,3,5,5,4,0.11 3,3,5,5,4,5,8,0.04 And each line is interpreted as: * 1,3,5,0.03-> This line means 1 link can be down i.e. between 3—5 with a probability of failure *0.03* * 2,3,5,5,4,0.11 -> This line mean

[Tutor] Help needed

2014-04-25 Thread Suhana Vidyarthi
Hi, I need help with coding for the problem below. I am new in this area, so needed help. If anyone can help me program the below scenario, I will be thankful. I have this file: 1,3,5,0.03 2,3,5,5,4,0.11 3,3,5,5,4,5,8,0.04 2,5,8,7,8,0.04 3,14,10,14,13,17,13,0.04 1,14,18,0.06 4,10,13,

Re: [Tutor] Help needed with Python programming

2014-04-22 Thread Danny Yoo
Unfortunately, we can't give too much specific help on your particular problem because it's homework. You should use the knowledge you learned in your introductory programming class about designing programs. In particular, give a name to the function or functions your are designing. Be rigorous

Re: [Tutor] Help needed with Python programming

2014-04-22 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 22/04/2014 12:41, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 06:16:20PM -0700, Suhana Vidyarthi wrote: [...] # on Windows either of these will be okay filename = "C:/path/to/file.txt" filename = "C:\\path\\to\\file.txt" Or a raw string r'C:\path\to\file.txt' -- My fellow Pythonis

Re: [Tutor] Help needed with Python programming

2014-04-22 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 06:16:20PM -0700, Suhana Vidyarthi wrote: [...] > I have a python code that shows a set of shortest paths between nodes A and > B. Now I have to select the least risky path among them. To do that I have > to consider the risk values of each link. I know how to calculate the

Re: [Tutor] Help needed with Python programming

2014-04-22 Thread Alan Gauld
On 22/04/14 02:16, Suhana Vidyarthi wrote: I have a python code that shows a set of shortest paths between nodes A and B. It would help if you showed us this code. Otherwise we are just making wild guesses about how you are modelling this. Also knowing which Python version you are using would

[Tutor] Help needed with Python programming

2014-04-22 Thread Suhana Vidyarthi
My knowledge of coding is fairly limited and I am having a hard time writing a Python code which might be pretty simple for you :-) Here is what I am doing and I need help with: I have a python code that shows a set of shortest paths between nodes A and B. Now I have to select the least risky pat

[Tutor] Help needed!!

2013-05-15 Thread Linsey Raaijmakers
Hello, I have a file with actions and time points at which they occur. I want to find how many times an action occurs, and how many times it occurs in combination with an other action at the same time point (overlapping between onset and apex) Below is the input file. in this file, action 50 occu

Re: [Tutor] Help needed

2011-04-08 Thread Christian Witts
On 08/04/2011 03:57, Aaron Brown wrote: I am in an online python class and am failing badly. I am not sure where the problem is here but any insight would be great. def main(): while (True): allowed = int(input("Please enter minutes allowed between 100 and 700: ")) used =

Re: [Tutor] Help needed

2011-04-08 Thread Alan Gauld
"Aaron Brown" wrote I am in an online python class and am failing badly. I am not sure where the problem is here but any insight would be great. When posting always include the full error text since it usually helps locate the precise location more clearly than a verbal description or summ

Re: [Tutor] Help needed

2011-04-08 Thread Andre Engels
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 3:57 AM, Aaron Brown wrote: > I am in an online python class and am failing badly.  I am not sure where > the problem is here but any insight would be great. > > def main(): >     while (True): >     allowed = int(input("Please enter minutes allowed between 100 and > 700

[Tutor] Help needed

2011-04-07 Thread Aaron Brown
I am in an online python class and am failing badly. I am not sure where the problem is here but any insight would be great. def main(): while (True): allowed = int(input("Please enter minutes allowed between 100 and 700: ")) used = int(input("How many minutes were used: "))

Re: [Tutor] Help Needed

2009-06-16 Thread Elisha Rosensweig
> Also is there a way to say reverse the string in a way so the reversed > string would result to "this take" if you use my example? And is there a way > to stop the loop without the use of break? Thanks for the help! > Sure. First take your string S and use S.split() to get a list of the individu

Re: [Tutor] Help needed

2009-06-16 Thread Wayne
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 8:59 PM, ayyaz wrote: > The following works also. > > msg = raw_input("\nPlease enter a message to print backwards: ") > x = range(0,len(msg)) > x.reverse() > for i in x: print msg[i], or even simpler, allow range to generate the reverse: range(len(msg)-1, -1, -1) Some

Re: [Tutor] Help needed

2009-06-16 Thread ayyaz
Raj Medhekar wrote: So I figured out the solution to the missing letter and I will post my code here. But I still need help figuring out the other stuff (please see my original message included in this email)! Thanks for putting up with me. Python is slowly but surely coming to me! I am psyched

Re: [Tutor] Help needed

2009-06-16 Thread Alan Gauld
wrote mystring="Mary had a little lamb." mystring.split() ['Mary', 'had', 'a', 'little', 'lamb.'] And then you can use slicing to reverse the created list the same way you did with the full string. Or use the reverse() method of the list... Alan G __

Re: [Tutor] Help Needed

2009-06-16 Thread Alan Gauld
"Raj Medhekar" wrote ... I came up with the code I have included in this email. Wy to complicated! message = raw_input("Enter your message: ") print message high = len(message) low = -len(message) begin=None while begin != "": begin = int(high) if begin: end = int(low)

Re: [Tutor] Help needed

2009-06-16 Thread christopher . henk
> My Original message: > > I had previously emailed y'all regarding inverting a message input by the user of the program backwards. After much > contemplation on your earlier replies I came up with the code I have included in this email. The problem I am having > with this code is that the the

Re: [Tutor] Help needed

2009-06-16 Thread Lie Ryan
Raj Medhekar wrote: > So I figured out the solution to the missing letter and I will post my > code here. But I still need help figuring out the other stuff (please > see my original message included in this email)! Thanks for putting up > with me. Python is slowly but surely coming to me! I am psy

Re: [Tutor] Help needed

2009-06-16 Thread Raj Medhekar
So I figured out the solution to the missing letter and I will post my code here. But I still need help figuring out the other stuff (please see my original message included in this email)! Thanks for putting up with me. Python is slowly but surely coming to me! I am psyched since this is the fi

Re: [Tutor] Help Needed

2009-06-16 Thread Robert Berman
You are putting far too much work into the solution. Look up slicing on the python web page. Then, as an example, In [1]: s1 = 'hello world' In [2]: s1[::-1] Out[2]: 'dlrow olleh' Hope this helps, Robert On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 14:25 -0700, Raj Medhekar wrote: > I had previously emailed y'all r

Re: [Tutor] Help Needed

2009-06-16 Thread Raj Medhekar
I had previously emailed y'all regarding inverting a message input by the user of the program backwards. After much contemplation on your earlier replies I came up with the code I have included in this email. The problem I am having with this code is that the the first character of the message t

Re: [Tutor] Help Needed

2009-06-16 Thread Albert-jan Roskam
Hi, This is how I would do it, although there might be more readable solutions: s = raw_input("Enter a message: ") print "".join([s[-letter] for letter in range(len(s)+1)]) Cheers!! Albert-Jan --- On Tue, 6/16/09, Alan Gauld wrote: > From: Alan Gauld > Subject: Re

Re: [Tutor] Help Needed

2009-06-16 Thread Gil Cosson
print s dlrow olleh >>> --- Gil Cosson Bremerton, Washington 360 620 0431 --- On Mon, 6/15/09, Wayne wrote: From: Wayne Subject: Re: [Tutor] Help Needed To: "Raj Medhekar" Cc: "Python Tutor" Date: Monday, June 15, 2009, 5:28 PM On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 3:00 PM,

Re: [Tutor] Help Needed

2009-06-15 Thread Alan Gauld
"Raj Medhekar" wrote I am looking to build a program that gets a message from the user and then prints it backward. I 've been at it for hours now but I can't seem to figure it out. So tell us what you re thinking? How would you solve it manually? I've been having trouble trying to inde

Re: [Tutor] Help Needed

2009-06-15 Thread Wayne
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Raj Medhekar wrote: > I am looking to build a program that gets a message from the user and then > prints it backward. I 've been at it for hours now but I can't seem to > figure it out. I've been having trouble trying to index the message so I can > print it out b

Re: [Tutor] Help Needed

2009-06-15 Thread Serdar Tumgoren
Hi Raj, It might be easier if you create a simple test string inside the python interpreter and then tinker with it there. once you've found the solution, you can graft it onto the broader program that accepts user input. For example, you might create the following variable message = "This

[Tutor] Help Needed

2009-06-15 Thread Raj Medhekar
I am looking to build a program that gets a message from the user and then prints it backward. I 've been at it for hours now but I can't seem to figure it out. I've been having trouble trying to index the message so I can print it out backwards. I would've posted my code but I really haven't go

Re: [Tutor] help needed from python beginner

2008-12-23 Thread Alan Gauld
"moham ilias" wrote in message news:74b58e470812230730n4c3c5d1eg9f44a87b1bf9...@mail.gmail.com... can anybody help me to get the example codes for some existing python projects. pls help in this regard For simple examples try the Useless Python web site. In particular check out the link t

Re: [Tutor] help needed from python beginner

2008-12-23 Thread Kent Johnson
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 10:30 AM, moham ilias wrote: > can anybody help me to get the example codes for some existing python > projects. pls help in this regard I'm not sure I understand your question. Do you want examples to look at? Most of the Python standard library is written in Python so t

[Tutor] help needed from python beginner

2008-12-23 Thread moham ilias
can anybody help me to get the example codes for some existing python projects. pls help in this regard ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] [tutor]Help needed to read Ascii file in wxPython

2007-09-28 Thread Kent Johnson
Varsha Purohit wrote: > I am writing a program basically in python gui to open a file and > display its content. i know similar program in simple > python but wanna figure out how to do that in wxpython... See DocViewDemo.py in the wxPythohn demo package /Samples/samples/docview/DocViewDemo.py

Re: [Tutor] [tutor]Help needed to read Ascii file in wxPython

2007-09-27 Thread Michael Langford
While I would say wxPython in its fullblown glory is a little much for this mailing list, an easy to use toolkit and associated tutorials for it is not. I would suggest you use pythoncard, which is a toolkit that calls down to wxPython and is much faster to get going with: This will get you up and

Re: [Tutor] [tutor]Help needed to read Ascii file in wxPython

2007-09-27 Thread Varsha Purohit
Hi Kent, I am writing a program basically in python gui to open a file and display its content. File contains ascii data... here is an example of that. a text file having info like this ncols 4 nrows 4 xllcorner 392800 yllcorner 5376340 cellsize 55 NODATA_value -

Re: [Tutor] [tutor]Help needed to read Ascii file in wxPython

2007-09-27 Thread Kent Johnson
Varsha Purohit wrote: > Hello everyone, > I need a basic tutorial which can help me in reading or writing > ascii grid file What is an ascii grid file? Reading and writing text files should be covered in any Python tutorial, find one you like here: http://wiki.python.org/moin/Beginner

[Tutor] [tutor]Help needed to read Ascii file in wxPython

2007-09-27 Thread Varsha Purohit
Hello everyone, I need a basic tutorial which can help me in reading or writing ascii grid file thanks in advance, -- Varsha Purohit, Graduate Student, ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Help needed to install SOAPpy

2006-11-08 Thread Christopher Arndt
Asrarahmed Kadri schrieb: > I want to install the SOAPpy module on my windows box. I have python > 2.4.3 > > Can you help me with the steps and the URL from where can I get the > download..?? What have you tried so far? Did you google for "SOAPpy download"? Are you experiencing any problems? Chr

[Tutor] Help needed to install SOAPpy

2006-11-08 Thread Asrarahmed Kadri
Hi Folks,I want to install the SOAPpy module on my windows box. I have python2.4.3Can you help me with the steps and the URL from where can I get thedownload..??TIA. Regards,Asrarahmed      -- To HIM you shall return. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.

Re: [Tutor] Help needed for etherealXML parsing

2006-09-12 Thread Kent Johnson
Akanksha Govil wrote: > Hi, > > I have downloaded an add on python script "etherealXML.py" for parsing > the ethereal captured packets. > > This script runs fine on python 2.3 but on python 2.4 it gives error.\ What is the error? > > Has any one tried porting this script? This might give a c

[Tutor] Help needed for etherealXML parsing

2006-09-12 Thread Akanksha Govil
Hi,I have downloaded an add on python script "etherealXML.py" for parsing the ethereal captured packets.This script runs fine on python 2.3 but on python 2.4 it gives error.Has any one tried porting this script?Also I found the SAX parser earlier used to return a call back function which is no long

Re: [Tutor] Help Needed

2005-10-05 Thread Kent Johnson
Steve Haley wrote: > When I am in Python Shell of the IDLE GUI, when I click Edit/Run Script, > I am getting a dialog box that is titled “Not saved” and states “The > buffer for Python shell is not saved. Please save it first.” With an > “OK” button that just takes me back to the Shell window.

Re: [Tutor] Help Needed

2005-10-05 Thread Pujo Aji
hi,   make sure in the option/general/Startup preferences/at startup/open edit windowoption/general/Startup preferences/autosave preferences/NoPrompt   run the program by clicking F5   Cheers, pujo  On 10/5/05, Steve Haley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello,   I am trying to learn Python which I a

[Tutor] Help Needed

2005-10-05 Thread Steve Haley
Hello,   I am trying to learn Python which I am brand new to.  I have run into a problem that I would appreciate help with.   When I am in Python Shell of the IDLE GUI, when I click Edit/Run Script, I am getting a dialog box that is titled “Not saved” and states “The buffer for Python s

Re: [Tutor] Help needed with script to batch-create shapefiles

2005-02-21 Thread Chris Bromley
Dear All, Just a quick follow up for those of you who are interested. The batching script is now working and is attached below. The intermediate step of saving the xy layer to a folder was unecessary and has been removed. The 'MakeXYEventLayer' command only creates "in memory" layers and not

Re: [Tutor] Help needed with script to batch-create shapefiles

2005-02-17 Thread Brian van den Broek
Chris Bromley said unto the world upon 2005-02-17 11:05: Prior to running the script I use the ‘check’ button in the PythonWin and the script’s syntax is fine. When I run the script though, the message ‘Script ‘C:\ dBase_File_To_Shapefile.py’ returned exit code 0’ appears in the status bar at the

[Tutor] Help needed with script to batch-create shapefiles

2005-02-17 Thread Chris Bromley
Hello again, First off, please accept my apologies for my last message, which was sorely lacking in the detail department. I'm such a beginner with programming that I assumed the error would be glaringly obvious to an experienced programmer and would jump of the page/screen right away. This was

Re: [Tutor] Help needed with script to batch-create shapefiles

2005-02-16 Thread Jeff Shannon
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 21:37:10 +, Chris Bromley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any help would be greatly appreciated! Others have already pointed out that we will have a hard time helping without a bit more information. But I've noticed something odd in your code -- it probably doesn't have anyt

Re: [Tutor] Help needed with script to batch-create shapefiles

2005-02-16 Thread Danny Yoo
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Bill Mill wrote: > > I have several thousand files in dBaseIV format that I need to convert > > to shapefiles for use in ArcGIS. I've written a script (see below) to > > automate this process but thus far have been unable to get it to work. > > I suspect that there's a simpl

Re: [Tutor] Help needed with script to batch-create shapefiles

2005-02-16 Thread Liam Clarke
What are you getting? What are you expecting? Are you getting an error? If so, what's it telling you? Can you email this stuff up? I suspect you want to find the pywin documentation and go through that. Cheers, Liam Clarke On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:47:26 -0500, Bill Mill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

Re: [Tutor] Help needed with script to batch-create shapefiles

2005-02-16 Thread Bill Mill
Chris, On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 21:37:10 +, Chris Bromley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I have several thousand files in dBaseIV format that I need to convert to > shapefiles for use in ArcGIS. I've written a script (see below) to automate > this process but thus far have been unab

[Tutor] Help needed with script to batch-create shapefiles

2005-02-16 Thread Chris Bromley
Dear all, I have several thousand files in dBaseIV format that I need to convert to shapefiles for use in ArcGIS. I've written a script (see below) to automate this process but thus far have been unable to get it to work. I suspect that there's a simple reason for this, but I'm a complete novi