Re: [Tutor] help with arrays

2007-05-18 Thread Alan Gauld
"Stephen Adler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > I'm quite new to python and come from a c++/old school > math/computing/physics background. Thats OK, many of us came from there too. Its not permanently damaging! :-) > is that I can't for the life of me figure out how to allocate a 1meg > buffer. (or

[Tutor] (no subject)

2007-05-18 Thread Teresa Stanton
Hi all: Remember when I was having problems moving my .gif around my Tkinter maze? Well, I was going about it all wrong (as some pointed out). What REALLY works is a graph. I used a dictionary, the keys are main coordinates that are a path that the .gif follows using a greedy algorithm that find

[Tutor] (no subject)

2007-05-18 Thread Richard Henderson
Hello, I am a rank beginner, as I'm sure my question will show. After I enter and save a script using Notepad, it is not recognized by DOS and will not run. What might I be doing wrong. I am using PythonWin and Windows XP. Thanks, Richard

Re: [Tutor] (no subject)

2007-05-18 Thread Tim Golden
Richard Henderson wrote: > Hello, > I am a rank beginner, as I'm sure my question will show. After I enter > and save a script using Notepad, it is not recognized by DOS and will > not run. What might I be doing wrong. I am using PythonWin and Windows XP. Often the case that Notepad will (sile

Re: [Tutor] (no subject)

2007-05-18 Thread Paulo Nuin
Hi Richard Have you try running it with Python in front of the script name? Such as: python my_script.py Usually on Windows command prompt, if Python is not on your path you have to enter the whole path to it, something like C:\Python25\python. HTH Paulo Richard Henderson wrote: > Hello, > I

Re: [Tutor] urllib.urlencode and unicode strings

2007-05-18 Thread Jon Crump
Kent, Thanks so much. It's easy when you know how. Now that I know, I only need the encode('utf-8') step since geopy does the urlencode step. On Thu, 17 May 2007, Kent Johnson wrote: > It's two steps. First convert to utf-8, then urlencode: c = u'\xe2' c > u'\xe2' c.encode('utf-8

Re: [Tutor] (no subject)

2007-05-18 Thread Luke Paireepinart
Richard Henderson wrote: > Hello, > I am a rank beginner, as I'm sure my question will show. After I enter > and save a script using Notepad, it is not recognized by DOS and will > not run. What might I be doing wrong. I am using PythonWin and > Windows XP. > Thanks, > Richard Please never aga

Re: [Tutor] (no subject)

2007-05-18 Thread Rikard Bosnjakovic
On 5/18/07, Teresa Stanton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Remember when I was having problems moving my .gif around my Tkinter maze? No, but we will all hereby remember you forever for posting a new thread without a proper subject on this list. Perhaps at the same time as our eyes will start peerin

[Tutor] Help with excetion handing and making my code more efficient needed please

2007-05-18 Thread Matt Smith
Hi, I am trying to write a simple program to display Conway's Game Of Life. I have the bones of the program together but I'm struggling with the function that tests for and applies the rules of the game (the important bit). I have the current state of the game stored in a 2d matrix with each cell

Re: [Tutor] Help with excetion handing and making my code more efficient needed please

2007-05-18 Thread Rikard Bosnjakovic
On 5/18/07, Matt Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am not sure > how to suppress or avoid this error so that neighbour_count is not > incremented for indexes outside the matrix. Something like this: try: the_index_outside_matrix_test() except IndexError: suppress_the_error() > Is there

Re: [Tutor] Help with excetion handing and making my code more efficient needed please

2007-05-18 Thread Matt Smith
On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 23:49 +0200, Rikard Bosnjakovic wrote: > Something like this: > > try: >the_index_outside_matrix_test() > except IndexError: > suppress_the_error() Thanks Rikard, I'm not sure how I would go about actually suppressing the error - what would suppress_the_error() actual

Re: [Tutor] Help with excetion handing and making my code more efficient needed please

2007-05-18 Thread Matt Smith
> > Is there a better way of doing this? > > Perhaps something like this: > > for n in (x, x+1, x-1): > for m in (y, y+1, y-1): > if matrix[n, m]: > neighbour_count = neighbour_count + 1 > I need to not text matrix[x][y] is there a simple way to exclude this from the possible combi

Re: [Tutor] Help with excetion handing and making my code more efficient needed please

2007-05-18 Thread Luke Paireepinart
Matt Smith wrote: > On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 23:49 +0200, Rikard Bosnjakovic wrote: > >> Something like this: >> >> try: >>the_index_outside_matrix_test() >> except IndexError: >> suppress_the_error() >> > > Thanks Rikard, > > I'm not sure how I would go about actually suppressing the er

Re: [Tutor] Help with excetion handing and making my code more efficient needed please

2007-05-18 Thread Luke Paireepinart
Matt Smith wrote: >>> Is there a better way of doing this? >>> >> Perhaps something like this: >> >> for n in (x, x+1, x-1): >> for m in (y, y+1, y-1): >> if matrix[n, m]: >> neighbour_count = neighbour_count + 1 >> >> > > I need to not text matrix[x][y] is there a simple wa

[Tutor] GRUMPY?

2007-05-18 Thread Mike Hansen
> No, but we will all hereby remember you forever for posting a new > thread without a proper subject on this list. Perhaps at the same time > as our eyes will start peering. > I would imagine that the original poster didn't have any remnants of the previous thread. Yes, the poster should have pu

[Tutor] question re: executing exe files with arguments

2007-05-18 Thread Janani Krishnaswamy
Hi! I am having trouble executing an exe file with 3 arguments within a python script. Right now I have something like this: os.system(r'"1/2/3/program 1/2/3/argument1 1/2/3/argument2"') I was trying it with a raw string because of the /'s within it. I'm not sure of any other approaches. Any a

Re: [Tutor] (no subject)

2007-05-18 Thread Kent Johnson
Rikard Bosnjakovic wrote: > On 5/18/07, Teresa Stanton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Remember when I was having problems moving my .gif around my Tkinter maze? > > No, but we will all hereby remember you forever for posting a new > thread without a proper subject on this list. Perhaps at the sa

Re: [Tutor] question re: executing exe files with arguments

2007-05-18 Thread Luke Paireepinart
Janani Krishnaswamy wrote: > Hi! > I am having trouble executing an exe file with 3 arguments within a > python script. Right now I have something like this: > > os.system(r'"1/2/3/program 1/2/3/argument1 1/2/3/argument2"') > > I was trying it with a raw string because of the /'s within it. I'm n

Re: [Tutor] (no subject)

2007-05-18 Thread Tom Tucker
Very cool! Where is Inky, Blinky, Pinky, and Clyde? ;-) Maybe dog catchers would be better foes for Dusty. On 5/18/07, Teresa Stanton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all: Remember when I was having problems moving my .gif around my Tkinter maze? Well, I was going about it all wrong (as some poi

Re: [Tutor] subject changed to Tkinter arrow event

2007-05-18 Thread Teresa Stanton
Thanks. Eventually, one will be able to take a picture of oneself and that will be the gif that chases around the maze. I'm trying to avoid any 'copy write' infringement. I have a little alien that I am trying to incorporate into the maze that will try to find the gif. But as it stands, it's no

Re: [Tutor] Help with excetion handing and making my codemore efficient needed please

2007-05-18 Thread Alan Gauld
"Matt Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > Is there a better way of doing this? >> >> Perhaps something like this: >> >> for n in (x, x+1, x-1): >> for m in (y, y+1, y-1): >> if matrix[n, m]: >> neighbour_count = neighbour_count + 1 >> > > I need to

Re: [Tutor] (no subject)

2007-05-18 Thread Alan Gauld
"Luke Paireepinart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > Please never again write a message to this mailing list without a > subject. > For those of us who have threads turned on, it becomes quite > cumbersome. FWIW I have the same problem reading via gmane. It was telling me there were unread messages

Re: [Tutor] two input acceptions

2007-05-18 Thread Rolando Pereira
adam urbas escreveu: > Thanks for the help. I've made quite some progress since I first posted this > email. I have a question though, what did you mean when you were talking > about the raw_input( )? How can the regular input( ) be used evilly? If you > could explain in depth, I would be ve

[Tutor] Continue Matching after First Match

2007-05-18 Thread Tom Tucker
Please forgive the colors, just trying to help illustrate my question. The below code snipet works as designed, however the regex matches once and exits. I want it to continue matching and printing until EOF. Any suggestions? Why the cStringIO stuff? The input data shown below is collected fr

Re: [Tutor] Continue Matching after First Match

2007-05-18 Thread Tom Tucker
Disregard! Looks like part of my problem is the regex string. On 5/18/07, Tom Tucker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please forgive the colors, just trying to help illustrate my question. The below code snipet works as designed, however the regex matches once and exits. I want it to continue match

Re: [Tutor] two input acceptions

2007-05-18 Thread Luke Paireepinart
> [snip] > > PS: Now I know why I see all posts messed up. It's because you're > sending your emails as a HTML, and I deactivated that on my email > client. I don't know if Hotmail (I believe you send you emails from > there) as an option to turn off HTML. If it was please use it :D > (Besides

[Tutor] pywinauto for OS X and Linux?

2007-05-18 Thread John
I have been playing with pywinauto http://pywinauto.pbwiki.com/ for a few hours. Pywinauto allows you to use python to automate the GUI of Windows using Python in very intuitive ways. What are the closest analogs for this under OS X and Linux? John _

[Tutor] encryption for files/passwords

2007-05-18 Thread Rohan Deshpande
Hey all, I am writing a small python script to maintain some passwords and identity info. All the data is in an external file. what is the best way to encrypt/decrypt this file's data using a key? I am new to encryption methods let alone how to do it in python. I had a look at python-crypto, ez

Re: [Tutor] encryption for files/passwords

2007-05-18 Thread Ben Sherman
On 5/18/07, Rohan Deshpande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey all, I am writing a small python script to maintain some passwords and identity info. All the data is in an external file. what is the best way to encrypt/decrypt this file's data using a key? I am new to encryption methods let alone