Re: [Tutor] Verifying My Troublesome Linkage Claim between Python and Win7

2010-02-28 Thread Alan Gauld
Wayne Watson sierra_mtnv...@sbcglobal.net wrote incoherency. For what it's worth, and that's about zero, I'm working with my old XP and W7 machine's keyboards, mice and monitors side-by-side. I have several times found my self using the wrong device. In that situation I find it useful to

Re: [Tutor] Verifying My Troublesome Linkage Claim between Python and Win7

2010-02-28 Thread Dave Angel
Wayne Watson wrote: snip You tell us to try this and give a folder structure: Folder1 track1.py data1.txt data2.txt data3.txt Folder2 track1.py dset1.txt dset2.txt ... dset8.txt snip Maybe one simple test at a time will get better responses.

Re: [Tutor] Verifying My Troublesome Linkage Claim between Python and Win7

2010-02-27 Thread Wayne Watson
Ok, I'm back after a three day trip. You are correct about the use of pronouns and a few misplaced words. I should have reread what I wrote. I had described this in better detail elsewhere, and followed that description with the request here probably thinking back to it. I think I was getting

Re: [Tutor] Verifying My Troublesome Linkage Claim between Python and Win7

2010-02-27 Thread Wayne Watson
I just referenced Alan to my response to you, and included this statement. Once you've both read the first reply to you and this, then you should both be in synch with where I'm at. To Alan=== Oh, I also changed the name of folder1 in the reply to Dave to see what

Re: [Tutor] Verifying My Troublesome Linkage Claim between Python and Win7

2010-02-27 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:30:49 am Wayne Watson wrote: Ok, I'm back after a three day trip. You are correct about the use of pronouns and a few misplaced words. I should have reread what I wrote. I had described this in better detail elsewhere, and followed that description with the request here

Re: [Tutor] Verifying My Troublesome Linkage Claim between Python and Win7

2010-02-27 Thread Wayne Watson
See below. On 2/27/2010 10:58 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:30:49 am Wayne Watson wrote: Ok, I'm back after a three day trip. You are correct about the use of pronouns and a few misplaced words. I should have reread what I wrote. I had described this in better detail

Re: [Tutor] Verifying My Troublesome Linkage Claim between Python and Win7

2010-02-27 Thread Wayne Watson
On 2/27/2010 5:24 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Hello Wayne, I sympathise with your problem, but please understand you are not making it easy for us when you give us incoherent information. I hope the coherency has improved recently. :-) I think if you saw the cramped quarters I'm in that

Re: [Tutor] Verifying My Troublesome Linkage Claim between Python and Win7

2010-02-27 Thread Wayne Watson
Hang in there. My story about HP tech support took me a bit off course. I think I can provide a meaningful description from the stand point of the properties of each py file. I want to look at this carefully. -- There is nothing so annoying as to have two people

[Tutor] Verifying My Troublesome Linkage Claim between Python and Win7

2010-02-23 Thread Wayne Watson
A few days ago I posted a message titled Two Card Monty. The problem I mentioned looks legitimate, and remains puzzling. I've probed this in a newsgroup, and no one has an explanation that fits. My claim is that if one creates a program in a folder that reads a file in the folder it and then

Re: [Tutor] Verifying My Troublesome Linkage Claim between Python and Win7

2010-02-23 Thread Dave Angel
Wayne Watson wrote: A few days ago I posted a message titled Two Card Monty. The problem I mentioned looks legitimate, and remains puzzling. I've probed this in a newsgroup, and no one has an explanation that fits. My claim is that if one creates a program in a folder that reads a file in