[Tutor] OT: list as newsgroup (was: Please submit to tutor list: dictionary update prob)

2005-01-20 Thread Wolfram Kraus
Jacob S. wrote: Hi everyone, sent this on to the list as told to. cc to eri to verify my sending to list... ;-) Jacob dear jacob, sorry to send this to you but if you may, kindly send to tutor list as im no longer subscribed. my problem is in the update dict portion: it just doesnt update regardle

Re: [Tutor] Clash of the Titans and Mundane Matters

2005-01-20 Thread Sean Perry
Michael Powe wrote: Clash of the Titans snip constructor discussions Pilgrim is pedantically correct but Alan's comment matches how most of us think about it. Mundane Matters I'm having a hard time with classes in python, but it's coming slowly. One thing that I think is general

Re: [Tutor] Clash of the Titans and Mundane Matters

2005-01-20 Thread John Fouhy
Michael Powe wrote: Here's an example: in Java, I wrote an application to track my travelling expenses (I'm a consultant; this tracking of expenses is the itch I am constantly scratching. ;-) I've also written this application in a perl/CGI web application as well.) It's easy to see the outline

[Tutor] Re: Fw: Please submit to tutor list: dictionary update prob

2005-01-20 Thread Eri Mendz
Kent Johnson tds.net> writes: > > Jacob S. wrote: > >> sorry to send this to you but if you may, kindly send to tutor list as im > >> no longer subscribed. my problem is in the update dict portion: it just > >> doesnt update regardless how many contacts i add. kindly advise where > >> my mistak

Re: [Tutor] Re: Fw: Please submit to tutor list: dictionary update prob

2005-01-20 Thread Kent Johnson
Eri Mendz wrote: Kent Johnson tds.net> writes: Jacob S. wrote: sorry to send this to you but if you may, kindly send to tutor list as im no longer subscribed. my problem is in the update dict portion: it just doesnt update regardless how many contacts i add. kindly advise where my mistake is or

[Tutor] counting no of words

2005-01-20 Thread Gopinath V, ASDC Chennai
Title: counting no of words hi all,     Is it possible to write a program in python to calculate the number of words in a MS-Word document Page Regards gopi ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Clash of the Titans and Mundane Matters

2005-01-20 Thread Gonçalo Rodrigues
Michael Powe wrote: Clash of the Titans From "Dive into Python": __init__ is called immediately after an instance of the class is created. It would be tempting but incorrect to call this the constructor of the class. It's tempting, because it looks like a constructor (by convention, __init__ is the

Re: [Tutor] counting no of words

2005-01-20 Thread Bill Mill
Sure, What you need are the win32 extensions for python (http://starship.python.net/crew/mhammond/win32/Downloads.html), which contain win32com. Through com, you can access almost anything in windows. Check out http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePython/2.2/PyWin32/html/com/win32com/HTML/Q

Re: [Tutor] style question: when to "hide" variable, modules

2005-01-20 Thread Kent Johnson
Kent Johnson wrote: The reason that is given for using accessors is that it gives you a layer of flexibility; if you want to change the representation of the data, or make it a computed attribute, you can do that without impacting clients. Python, instead, lets you change what attribute access

[Tutor] need help planning website updates

2005-01-20 Thread Jay Loden
I have a sort of simple CMS system on my website made from a conglomeration of scripts. On the left column, I want to add a feature that shows the last five items updated (only html & exe files in the /var/www/html/ for example) directory that I have updated, with each item as a link to the pag

Re: [Tutor] need help planning website updates

2005-01-20 Thread Kent Johnson
It seems to me that if you want the five most recent changes, you don't have to keep a list of modified dates. Just get the modified date for all the files of interest and sort by date, then pick the top five. You could do this as part of your process to build the web site maybe? Kent Jay Loden

Re: [Tutor] need help planning website updates

2005-01-20 Thread Jay Loden
Adding it into the PHP that creates the html would create too much overhead since it loads each page individually upon request, and that would mean running the modified time check on every page load.   But I was thinking about this after I sent the mail, and I think you have a point with just o

Re: [Tutor] counting no of words

2005-01-20 Thread Roger Merchberger
Rumor has it that Bill Mill may have mentioned these words: [snip] Once you're connected to a word document, you'll have to figure out what the command to count the words in the document is, but that's just a matter of recording a macro in word where you count the words, then repeating it in python

Re: [Tutor] counting no of words

2005-01-20 Thread Liam Clarke
I'd take the easy way out and use winPython's COM objects to open the doc in word, and save it as .txt and then - f=file("doc.txt",'r') j=f.read() j=j.split(" ") print len(j) On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:59:16 -0500, Roger Merchberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rumor has it that Bill Mill may have

[Tutor] How to print on screen and to a file, meanwhile?

2005-01-20 Thread 沈洁元
Hi, I'm now writing a simulation program in Python. Indeed, it's a time-wasting program, a complete simulation will last several days. Of course, the simulation result is easily stored in files, through file class of Python. Now, my partners require the simulation result to be printed on scr

[Tutor] Syntactical question / OT Lisp

2005-01-20 Thread Liam Clarke
Hi all, (side note - the net is not a luxury when attempting to learn to code) Just pondering my coding efforts, and just wanted to clarify something. I've got a module called foo.py foo.py - import parrot class Bar(model.Background): def __initialize__(self, event): #Ju

[Tutor] Ooer, OT Lisp

2005-01-20 Thread Liam Clarke
Oops, and OT ~ Has anyone used Lisp? I've been reading Paul Graham's essays on how great Lisp is, and how Python is near to implementing features Lisp had in the 60's. Also found the concept of macros interesting. Queries - 1) Anyone here familiar with both? 2) If so, which would you rate as m

Re: [Tutor] Syntactical question / OT Lisp

2005-01-20 Thread Kent Johnson
Liam Clarke wrote: Hi all, I've got a module called foo.py foo.py - import parrot class Bar(model.Background): def __initialize__(self, event): #Just a pythoncard variant on init self.config=self.loadCfg() def loadCfg(): #get some cfg stuff, return as di

Re: [Tutor] How to print on screen and to a file, meanwhile?

2005-01-20 Thread Kent Johnson
The logging module is good for this. You can set it up to log to the screen and a file. You have to do some setup and change your print statements to call a logger. See this section of the docs and the one following for examples. http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel/lib/minimal-example.html It's e

Re: [Tutor] Ooer, OT Lisp

2005-01-20 Thread Brian van den Broek
Liam Clarke said unto the world upon 2005-01-20 21:46: Oops, and OT ~ Has anyone used Lisp? I've been reading Paul Graham's essays on how great Lisp is, and how Python is near to implementing features Lisp had in the 60's. Also found the concept of macros interesting. Regards, Liam Clarke Hi Li

Re: [Tutor] sockets, files, threads

2005-01-20 Thread Marilyn Davis
Danny! I couldn't resist trying threading again, now that the mysterious single-threading behavior is gone. I didn't put any locks anywhere. And it runs like a champ. Like a super champ. Either I had to put back threading or I had to make a family of socket-readers, or lose some functionality

Re: [Tutor] Ooer, OT Lisp

2005-01-20 Thread Bill Mill
Liam, On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 15:46:19 +1300, Liam Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oops, > > and OT ~ Has anyone used Lisp? I've been reading Paul Graham's essays > on how great Lisp is, and how Python is near to implementing features > Lisp had in the 60's. Also found the concept of macros inter

Re: [Tutor] How to print on screen and to a file, meanwhile?

2005-01-20 Thread ææå
Thank you, Kent In fact, I followed the page you posted, but it seems not working at all, maybe due to version or so. But good hints, and I find it in Python Documentation 2.3.4. http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.4/lib/node301.html After some trials, I find the minimal ways to meet my need. Just