[Tutor] Trouble with sys.path.append

2010-08-08 Thread aug dawg
Hey all, Earlier today, I tried to add a folder to my PYTHONPATH. When I tried sys.path.app('location/of/folder'), the command successfully executed it, but then when I did sys.path to check to see if it was now in my PYTHONPATH, it was not there. Does anyone know what might be causing this? Than

Re: [Tutor] os.urandom()

2010-08-08 Thread Alan Gauld
"Richard D. Moores" wrote So if os.urandom() had been written so that it printed only hex, b'l\xbb\xae\xb7\x0ft' would have been b'\x6c\xbb\xae\xb7\x0f\x74' , right? Yes except that its not urandomthat is printing those values. urandom returns a string of bytes. Its the Python interpreter c

Re: [Tutor] Distributing Python Code for Commercial Porpoises?

2010-08-08 Thread Alan Gauld
"Wayne Watson" wrote I find it interesting that any Python book I've seen doesn't deal with distributing programs in some form or another. Yes thats a good point. Most books (including mine) focus on how to write code. Very few tell you how to distrubute it! And that's not just in Python,

Re: [Tutor] os.urandom()

2010-08-08 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 03:57:39 pm Richard D. Moores wrote: > So if os.urandom() had been written so that it printed only hex, > b'l\xbb\xae\xb7\x0ft' would have been os.urandom() doesn't *print* anything. It RETURNS a byte string. What you do with it is your business. In your case, you fail to sav

Re: [Tutor] Trouble with sys.path.append

2010-08-08 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 09:35:38 am aug dawg wrote: > Hey all, > > Earlier today, I tried to add a folder to my PYTHONPATH. When I tried > sys.path.app('location/of/folder'), the command successfully executed > it, but then when I did sys.path to check to see if it was now in my > PYTHONPATH, it was not

Re: [Tutor] Word to Sound

2010-08-08 Thread Lie Ryan
On Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:43:25 -0400, Chris King wrote: How do you convert a string into a sound object. Do you mean as in text-to-speech or playing byte string that contain sound data in a certain encoding to the speaker? ___ Tutor maillist -

Re: [Tutor] Trouble with sys.path.append

2010-08-08 Thread Lie Ryan
aug dawg gmail.com> writes: > > Earlier today, I tried to add a folder to my PYTHONPATH. When > I tried sys.path.app('location/of/folder'), the command successfully > executed it, but then when I did sys.path to check to see if it was > now in my PYTHONPATH, it was not there. Does anyone know wha

Re: [Tutor] os.urandom()

2010-08-08 Thread Richard D. Moores
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 01:05, Alan Gauld wrote: > > "Richard D. Moores" wrote > >> So if os.urandom() had been written so that it printed only hex, >> b'l\xbb\xae\xb7\x0ft' would have been >> >> b'\x6c\xbb\xae\xb7\x0f\x74' , right? > > Yes except that its not urandomthat is printing those values.

[Tutor] Reading every 5th line

2010-08-08 Thread nitin chandra
Hello Everyone, I am to make a small programme for a friend of mine where i am to start reading from 14th (string) from a file and then read every 5th row. ie. in 1st read it reads the 14 row in a File, write to an OUTPUT-1 file Next reads 19th row, write to the OUTPUT-1 file then 24th row,... s

Re: [Tutor] Reading every 5th line

2010-08-08 Thread davidheiserca
- Original Message - From: "nitin chandra" To: Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 5:04 AM Subject: [Tutor] Reading every 5th line Hello Everyone, I am to make a small programme for a friend of mine where i am to start reading from 14th (string) from a file and then read every 5th row.

Re: [Tutor] Reading every 5th line

2010-08-08 Thread davidheiserca
- Original Message - From: "nitin chandra" To: Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 7:29 AM Subject: Re: [Tutor] Reading every 5th line Thank you all. @Dave - Thank you for the tip. No this is not a class exercise, that is assured. Will let know how much progress i made. Truly, I am s

Re: [Tutor] os.urandom()

2010-08-08 Thread bob gailer
On 8/8/2010 1:57 AM, Richard D. Moores wrote: On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 17:00, Alan Gauld wrote: "Richard D. Moores" wrote Yes, the number of bytes seems to<= 6, or is it?: os.urandom(6) b'\xf1\x1c\x15\x83\x14\x0e' ok os.urandom(6)

Re: [Tutor] Reading every 5th line

2010-08-08 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 10:04:21 pm nitin chandra wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I am to make a small programme for a friend of mine > where i am to start reading from 14th (string) from a file and then > read every 5th row. There are many variations, here's one: Write a loop that executes 14 times. Ins

Re: [Tutor] Reading every 5th line

2010-08-08 Thread bob gailer
On 8/8/2010 8:04 AM, nitin chandra wrote: Hello Everyone, I am to make a small programme for a friend of mine where i am to start reading from 14th (string) from a file and then read every 5th row. ie. in 1st read it reads the 14 row in a File, write to an OUTPUT-1 file Next reads 19th row, wr

[Tutor] Questions regarding strings

2010-08-08 Thread Daniel
Hello everyone! I would like to ask you two questions regarding strings which I do not know. Excuse me in advance if the questions may seem a bit dumb. I'm a beginner. So let's get back to the point, this is my string: msg= 'Hello world' If I do, msg[:3] I get the following output, 'Hel' If I do,

Re: [Tutor] Questions regarding strings

2010-08-08 Thread Hugo Arts
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Daniel wrote: > Hello everyone! I would like to ask you two questions regarding strings > which I do not know. Excuse me in advance if the questions may seem a bit > dumb. I'm a beginner. So let's get back to the point, this is my string: > > msg= 'Hello world' > I

Re: [Tutor] Distributing Python Code for Commercial Porpoises?

2010-08-08 Thread Eike Welk
Hello Alan! On Sunday August 8 2010 10:10:20 Alan Gauld wrote: > Yes thats a good point. Most books (including mine) focus on how to > write code. Very few tell you how to distrubute it! And that's not > just > in Python, most programming books are the same. > > Interesting. > > Alan G. Yes, I

Re: [Tutor] Distributing Python Code for Commercial Porpoises?

2010-08-08 Thread David Hutto
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Eike Welk wrote: > Hello Alan! > > On Sunday August 8 2010 10:10:20 Alan Gauld wrote: >> Yes thats a good point. Most books (including mine) focus on how to >> write code. Very few tell you how to distrubute it! And that's not >> just >> in Python, most programming

Re: [Tutor] word_probles.py

2010-08-08 Thread Shurui Liu
Okay. I am using WinXP, Python 3.1 on my workstation. And this is the Python version information I got from putty.exe: Python 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Apr 13 2009, 18:09:11) [GCC 4.2.1 20070719 [FreeBSD]] on freebsd7 Thanks! ## Never had, never will. > From: hugo

Re: [Tutor] Reading every 5th line

2010-08-08 Thread Dave Angel
nitin chandra wrote: Hello Everyone, I am to make a small programme for a friend of mine where i am to start reading from 14th (string) from a file and then read every 5th row. ie. in 1st read it reads the 14 row in a File, write to an OUTPUT-1 file Next reads 19th row, write to the OUTPUT-1 f

Re: [Tutor] word_probles.py

2010-08-08 Thread Dave Angel
Shurui Liu wrote: Okay. I am using WinXP, Python 3.1 on my workstation. And this is the Python version information I got from putty.exe: Python 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Apr 13 2009, 18:09:11) [GCC 4.2.1 20070719 [FreeBSD]] on freebsd7 You cannot use the same python source on 2.5 as you do in 3.1

Re: [Tutor] word_probles.py

2010-08-08 Thread Walter Prins
Hi, On 08/08/10 20:01, Shurui Liu wrote: Okay. I am using WinXP, Python 3.1 on my workstation. And this is the Python version information I got from putty.exe: Python 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Apr 13 2009, 18:09:11) [GCC 4.2.1 20070719 [FreeBSD]] on freebsd7 To add a small comment to what Dave's alr

Re: [Tutor] Distributing Python Code for Commercial Porpoises?

2010-08-08 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 9 Aug 2010 04:44:37 am David Hutto wrote: > Four words... Software is python's propaganda. Four more words: please trim unnecessary quoting. -- Steven D'Aprano ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription opti

[Tutor] Need a mentor

2010-08-08 Thread Ranjith Kumar
Hi all, I`m doing a python based project, I need a mentor who can guide me and help me to complete the project. the idea is fully based upon application programming. What I want is just suggest me how to implement so that I write the code and send it back to you. And there you can check the cod

Re: [Tutor] os.urandom()

2010-08-08 Thread Richard D. Moores
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 08:11, bob gailer wrote: > On 8/8/2010 1:57 AM, Richard D. Moores wrote: >> How were we supposed to know that all the hexes have 2 digits? > > In version 2.6.5 Language Reference 2.4.1 - String literals: > \xhh Character with hex value hh But >>> os.urandom(6) b'\x13\xf1\x

Re: [Tutor] Idea for a 'Weekly Python Tips' mailing list

2010-08-08 Thread Richard D. Moores
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 10:51, Lie Ryan wrote: > In the main python list there is Python Weekly URL that summarizes the > week's most interesting posts in c.l.py The latest of these I have received is dated June 22. Summer vacation? Or discontinued? Dick Moores __

Re: [Tutor] Idea for a 'Weekly Python Tips' mailing list

2010-08-08 Thread Richard D. Moores
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 21:25, Richard D. Moores wrote: > On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 10:51, Lie Ryan wrote: > >> In the main python list there is Python Weekly URL that summarizes the >> week's most interesting posts in c.l.py > > The latest of these I have received is dated June 22. Summer vacation?

Re: [Tutor] Reading every 5th line

2010-08-08 Thread nitin chandra
Hello Dave, Thank you very much. This solution worked out very well. And I liked your style of coding ' In less DO more '. Thank You once again. Nitin PS :- I tried to use a file pointer with raw_input, but that did not work. > > This may help you get started. > > FileNames = ["FileName

[Tutor] Fwd: Need mentor

2010-08-08 Thread Ranjith Kumar
Hi all, I have described the theme of my project here, When the script is runned a configuring window has to be displayed where the user has to configure for there desired Web Browser, Audio Player, Video Player, Text Editor (Each Specified in separate SS Tab). Here the script should retrieve all

Re: [Tutor] Need a mentor

2010-08-08 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 9 Aug 2010 12:16:11 pm Ranjith Kumar wrote: > Hi all, > I`m doing a python based project, I need a mentor who can guide > me and help me to complete the project. Are you offering to pay for professional help for a commercial project, looking for volunteers to work on an open-source pr