[Tutor] New Issues with REGEX Greediness: (gpo)

psst, there is NO standardized reg-ex. you've been living in a perl bubble. undoubtedly other people will have better advice. "Life can only be understood backwards; But it must be lived forwards" --S.K. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.or

Re: [Tutor] Tutor Digest, Vol 41, Issue 7

hi steve, I have summer class for next three monday and wednesday evenings. we'll catch up someday. sorry, ron Luggage? GPS? Comic books? Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search

Re: [Tutor] How can I escape a pound symbol in my script?

in the US, # is a symbol for weight, not currency. How do you write out, with a quick symbol, "I'm going to buy 3# of potatoes? Of course now you're metric, but did you also use 'pounds' for weight before that? _

[Tutor] loop example from 'Learning to Program'

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[Tutor] loop example from 'Learning to Program'

myList)): myList[index] += 1 print myList File "", line 3 print myList ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax can someone tell me what the syntax error is, and how to correct it? my thanks, ron

Re: [Tutor] loop example from 'Learning to Program'

near unexpected token `(' ./foreach.py: line 4: `for index in range(len(myList)):' I think I liked the first result better! thanks again, ron Park yourself in front of a world of choices in alter

Re: [Tutor] loop example from 'Learning to Program'

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Re: [Tutor] Python install on Linux

A simple way to migrate to Linux and get a recent version of Python by default would be to download a copy of Ubuntu Linux. You can burn it onto a CD, then pop it ino the cd drive and boot it on your Windows machine. It runs in a virtual machine, so you are assured that your Windows installation wi

[Tutor] a question about symbol

When I run this program using your code on Ubuntu Linux, I get: ~$ ./c2f.py 44 44\uF = 7\uC Please notice that the code you have posted has indentation block errors. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protec

Re: [Tutor] Not Really Questions

I think we should say that the number set is zero through nine (not 1-10 as we were taught in school), making "zero" the first number in the set; thus the offset by one. Of course zero is not a number, but a placeholder for a number. Thankfully this concept was invented a few centuries ago in India

[Tutor] [Off topic] Is Zero Positive (was: Not Really Questions)

It seems that the confusion is exacerbated by the fact that we're using the theoretical number set to reference the common one. I suppose this is a carry-over from binary, since in binary if you don't have a zero, you also won't have a bunch of other numbers like 2, 4 and so forth. __

[Tutor] Graphics coordinates

-code, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel if there are existing modules that do almost (or even better, exactly) what I need.   I work on WinXp, Linux, and WindowsCE. WindowsCE has a fairly plain-vanilla Python build, so it's better if I stick to the core modules as far as possible.

[Tutor] Re: [ANN] RUR: a Python Learning Environment (alpha)

HIT_WALL_IMAGE = wxImage('ouch2.png').ConvertToBitmap()  File "C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\wx\_core.py", line 2282, in ConvertToBitmap    return _core_.Image_ConvertToBitmap(*args, **kwargs)wx._core.PyNoAppError: The wx.App object must be created first!   Ron

[Tutor] Re: PDF and Python

I just happened across an answer yesterday. PIL writes PDF s.   http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/   Ron ___ Tutor maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

[Tutor] Graphics coordinates (bump?)

sCE. WindowsCE has a fairly plain-vanilla Python build, so it's better if I stick to the core modules as far as possible.   Ron Phillips ___ Tutor maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

[Tutor] Re: [ANN] RUR: a Python Learning Environment (alpha)

thought maybe WorldDisplay.py, or RURmain.py?   Anyway, I really like the concept, and the screenshots look intriguing. You have a nice writing style in English, by the way -- I think kids will pick right up on the "fix the robot" metaphor.   Which program do I st

[Tutor] Re:OT

products (Python, LISP, VBA), and to support IT, I needed languages for Linux servers (Python, C, etc.) and Windows servers and desktops (Python, VB, C#, etc.) and WindowsCE(Python, VBCE).   What option did I really have, then? Besides, it's just so COOL.

[Tutor] try here for tkinter lessons

I've had problems getting started with tkinter, but since reading these lessons everything is beginning to make sense. If anyone is interested this is the link. http://bembry.org/tech/python/index.php Ron A ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org

[Tutor] print out lines that start with a word

Can anyone tell me what I've done wrong in this script. I'm trying to get only the lines that start with "This" for a text file. Here's what I wrote: >>> import re >>> f = open('c:/lines.txt').readlines() >>> for line in f: match = re.search('^This',f) if line == match:

[Tutor] error message

I'm dping something very simple in RE. Lets say I'm trying to match an American Phone number I write the code this way and try to match it: import re string = 'My phone is 410-995-1155' pattern = r'\d{3}-\d{3}-\d{4}' re.match(pattern,string).group() but I get this error message Traceback (most r

[Tutor] writing list to new file

How would I save a list to a new file for example: If line.startswith('XXX'): save list to new file But I get errors saying only stings can be saved this way. __ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://

[Tutor] Value Error message

Trying to scrape some headlines off a newspaper with this code: import urllib, re pattern = re.compile("""(.*)""", re.DOTALL) page = urllib.urlopen("http://www.startribune.com";).read() for (headline, code, description) in pattern.findall(page): print (headline, code, description) I'm gett

[Tutor] Value Error solved. Another question

Ignore my first posting. Here's what I'm trying to do. I want to extract headlines from a newspaper's website using this code. It works, but I want to match the second group in (.*) and print that out. Sugguestions import urllib, re pattern = re.compile("""(.*)""", re.DOTALL) page = urllib.urlope

Re: [Tutor] Negative IF conditions

And now for something only slightly different: education research shows that people process "positives" far more quickly and accurately than "negatives", so for readability I often code like:   if os.path.exists('filename')     #no-operation else     #operation

[Tutor] count words

I know that you can do this to get a count of home many times a word appears in a file f = open('text.txt').read() print f.count('word') Other than using a several print statments to look for seperate words like this, is there a way to do it so that I get a individual count of each word: word1

RE: [Tutor] count words

Thanks to everyone who replied to my post. All of your suggestions seem to work. My thanks Ron --- Ryan Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You could use split() to split the contents of the > file into a list of strings. > > ### > >>> x = 'asdf foo bar f

[Tutor] RE help

Trying to scrape a newspaper site for articles using this code whic ws done with help from the list: import urllib, re pattern = re.compile("""(.*).""", re.DOTALL) page =urllib.urlopen("http://www.startribune.com";).read() for headline, body in pattern.findall(page): print body It should g

Re: [Tutor] RE help

> pattern = re.compile(""" href="/(.*?)">(.*?)\.""", re.DOTALL) > > Kent > > Ron Nixon wrote: > > Trying to scrape a newspaper site for articles > using > > this code whic ws done with help from the list: >

[Tutor] Better Search and replace method

he vaules in a list and doing the replace, but came up short. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance Ron __ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/ ___

[Tutor] re help

The following program takes text data like this: Jimi Hendrix 2100 South Ave Seattle, WA 55408 and changes it to this Jimi Hendrix, 2100 South Ave,Seattle,WA,55488 and writes it to a file. The problem I'm running into is that it only writes this first address to a file and there are several oth

[Tutor] re.findall vs. re.search and re.match

Thanks to all who replied to my post earlier on re's. I'm still preplexed by why re.search and re.match works in the code below, but not re.findall. re.findall is suppose to return all non-voerlapping occurances of the pattern that matches in this example, but it returns errors. Looking through th

Re: [Tutor] re.findall vs. re.search and re.match

% (name, address, citystate,zipcd)) o.close() print("%s,%s,%s,%s\n" % (name, address, citystate,zipcd)) --- Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ron Nixon wrote: > > Thanks to all who replied to my post earlier on > re's. > > I'm still preplexed by why

[Tutor] Opinions about this GIS script

'shareable' python. Everything else I've done so far is either a quick-and-dirty for my own use, or a simple illustration for instructional purposes.   The script produces expected results, but if anyone is so inclined, I'd appreciate review/evaluation/critique of the 'python

Re: [Tutor] Opinions about this GIS script

Thank you, Andrei, that's just what I was hoping for -- I wondered about some of those issues, but was a little unsure how to approach a solution.   Ron     ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

[Tutor] buttons, scrollbar, tkinter

side=RIGHT, fill=Y) listbox = Listbox(root, yscrollcommand=scrollbar.set) for i in range(55): listbox.insert(END, str(i)) listbox.pack(side=LEFT, fill=BOTH) scrollbar.config(command=listbox.yview) Ron A ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@pytho

[Tutor] buttons, scrollbar, tkinter

I was trying to put buttons in, but now I know why it wouldn't work. I'm going to take a look at PMW. Thanks. Ron A ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

[Tutor] Am I making this harder than it needs to be?

short version: I  need a way to get max and min E and N out of [(E0,N0),(E1,N1)...(En,Nn)] without reordering the list   long version:   I would like a list of geographic coordinates (Easting, Northing) to maintain a "bounding box" [(minEasting,minNorthing),(maxEasting,maxNorthing)] attribute.  

Re: [Tutor] Am I making this harder than it needs to be?

[i].N))    self.boundingBox=geoBox((min(Es),min(Ns)),(max(Es),max(Ns)))    return(self.boundingBox) which works fine, and I think will be pretty fast.   Ron>>> Pujo Aji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 5/25/2005 9:47 AM >>> try this code:    L = [(1,11),(2,22)]    print max(L)    print min(L)I don'

Re: [Tutor] Am I making this harder than it needs to be?

Ron Phillips wrote:>> short version: I  need a way to get max and min E and N out of >> [(E0,N0),(E1,N1)...(En,Nn)] without reordering the list>>> Kent Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]> 5/25/2005 10:19 AM >>>For Python < 2.4 you need another set of [ ] e.g. min([e

[Tutor] CPAN for python

Is there a site like Perl's CPAN for Python? I've seen the stuff at ActiveState. Anything else? Ron Nixon __ Discover Yahoo! Have fun online with music videos, cool games, IM and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/o

[Tutor] CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler doesn't actually work, does it?

whatsoever.   I am using Python 2.3, Windows XP. I have run other CGI scripts in the same directory, so I know that works.   Has anyone used this successfully? Can you share demo server and client scripts -- just an echo function or something?   Ron ___

Re: [Tutor] CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler doesn't actually work, does it?

rs -- thanks again for responding!) was about xmlrpclib on the client side, not CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler on the server side, I can now conclude that it is terribly difficult, and slink off to publish using SOAP.   Ron     On 6/23/05, Ron Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:>  > I believe I'

Re: [Tutor] CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler doesn't actually work, does it?

XMLRPC", which was what I really wanted to do.   Anyway, thank you -- if I can find them again, I'll respond to all those other posts with a link to yours in the archives.   Ron ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler doesn't actually work, does it?

some setting I need to change.   I wonder if that's the reason for all those unanswered posts -- it's not a Python problem, per se? Odd, though, that IIS is perfectly happy to run a Python script unless it has CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler in it.   Ron _

Re: [Tutor] CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler doesn't actually work, does it?

all, anyway. I think I'll put Apache on my local machine and use that.   Thanks, again   Ron   >>> Danny Yoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 6/24/2005 2:44:44 PM >>> > The example code in the python online documentation calls a non-existant> "div" function, so

[Tutor] tk entry focus

I've struggled... Now I'm asking... What's wrong with this code? Or more to the point, how do you set the focus to an Entry widget? Traceback (most recent call last): File "./run_dialogue.py", line 33, in ? app = Run_dialogue( root ) File "./run_dialogue.py", line 23, in __init__ sel

Re: [Tutor] Tkinter query?

> > tk = Tk() > > tk.config(background='pink') > > tk.geometry('400x400') > > # 320 = width # 150 = height # # Left and down are relative to the screens uppeer left # # 200 = position left (x) # 200 = position down (y) tk.geometry( "320x150+200+200") hth Ronald Weidner http://www.techport80.c

[Tutor] Tk -- which label clicked

This doesn't work. Not an error though. :) What I'm trying to do is get the text value of a label. def icon_click(self, event=None): print event.widget.option_get("text", event.widget) Or, more to the point... I need to dynamicaly create clickable labels, each using the same callback. When

Re: [Tutor] Tk -- which label clicked

--- geon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ron Weidner napsal(a): > > >This doesn't work. > >def icon_click(self, event=None): > > print event.widget.option_get("text", > event.widget) > > > > > > > maybe event.widget[

Re: [Tutor] how to add python code to a webpage

rning programming python..so please help   I find CherryPy is easy and lightweight to get started. http://www.cherrypy.org   Ron Header Description: Binary data ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Send attachment

--- Jorge Louis De Castro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Any ideas how I can use Python and the Windows API > to open a PC's mail client and send an attachment? > The idea is saving some data onto a file and then > invoke the email client (OE or Outlook or whatever > is the default on

[Tutor] Linux sound control

It's simple, without any bells and whistles. Move the slider up and down to change the volume on your Linux system. Written in Python and Tkinter, this little program should work with any window manager. http://www.techport80.com/soundctrl/sound_ctrl.tgz -- Ronald Weidner http://www.techport80.

[Tutor] Stuck: unicode in regular expressions

e somewhat.    Anyway, given the string above, what regex will match the  ” and    ’ characters, please? I have tried \x02BC and \x92 and \x2019 for the ’ , but no result. I am sure it's simple; I am sure some other newbie has asked it, but I have Googled my brains out, and can&#

Re: [Tutor] [tutor]web development

Gears http://www.turbogears.org/, which Kevin Dangoor put together. He does a "Wiki in 20 minutes" tutorial that's pretty impressive.       Ron PhillipsProgrammer/AnalystCounty of Summit Engineer538 E. South St.Akron, OH 44311 ___ Tutor mail

[Tutor] Prevent "Coder's Remorse"?

hat forces all members to have the same keys? Is there an object structure that will let updates to one instance affect all instances? Am I even asking the right questions? I suspect there's an elegant solution, but it's beyond me right now. If not, fine; I'll happily go on w

[Tutor] Prevent "Coder's Remorse"?

tch and patch my code, it's usually because I am trying to do the wrong thing altogether. And I wasn't using Class attributes properly, either. Thanks so much! Sorry for the vague question, but I really think the class you made is close to what I needed. Ron

Re: [Tutor] Prevent "Coder's Remorse"?

field to a record without adding at least some default value to all the others.) I just thought about it, but a CSV file has kind of the same problem. Thanks, everyone; this will be a real education, however I go! Ron ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

[Tutor] Thanks, you prevented "Coder's Remorse"

n that table. I realize now that I might have been better off just to use a database; they know all about nulls, tables. types, defaults, etc. Still, I learned a LOT. So, no remorse! Thanks again, Ron #magicvaluetable.py ### # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- #may u

Re: [Tutor] Tainted characters and CGI

--- Tim Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello: > I need to tighten my handling of CGI transmissions. > I particular, I need to develop a strategy of safely > dealing with "tainted" characters. Ahh... tainted characters. If by "tainted" you mean not UTF-8, there is a c tool called "iconv"

Re: [Tutor] Favourite modules - Wiki Was Re: TurboGears - and some issues

or making xml more pythonic. Not to take anything away from ElementTree, it's a fine package; but I find Amara easier to use. Some others that seem 'missing': PIL and NumPy. I didn't try to put it on the wiki page because I wanted the tutors to have a chance to comment first. A

Re: [Tutor] Printing

is coming on strong as a full-featured, lightweight 'Pythonic" server.I like to use the browser for output because it does so much of the formatting for you and it's cross-platform, and I like using a framework because if you ever want to use your program over the web, you're nearly d

[Tutor] HD/DVD/CD

Hi, M-list, my name Ron Speerstra(the Netherlands) my question: howtoo read the HD/CD/DVD serial-numbers with Python. Volume-name, dir name, file name. no problem etc. Gr Ron$ _ Vind alles terug op je PC: MSN Search Toolbar http

Re: [Tutor] Tutor Digest, Vol 23, Issue 7

gt;> if serno < 0: >...serno_str = "%X" % (0x1+serno) >... else: >...serno_str = "%X" % serno >... > >>> serno_str >'8A73780D' > >>> > > Thanks Gr Ron Speerstr

[Tutor] Complete programming newbie requires tutorial. (Chris Andrew)

Two things. First, I've been watching this list for several weeks now. I wanted to respond to Chris Andrew's question regarding Python tutorials (Complete programming newbie requires tutorial. (Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Chris Andrew). Did I reply correctly? Second, I've found four Python tut

[Tutor] python mechanize examples

Anyone have or know where I can find working examples of python's mechanize modules. Try to reverse engineer a script to see how it works. Ron Yahoo! Autos. Looking for a sweet ride? Get pricing, reviews, & more on new and

Re: [Tutor] preliminary app design question

er if security is an issue. Python's pprint module will be a help if you go that route. I find it useful in development, so even if I am going to use some other storage, I'll leave any toJSON() and fromJSON() functions I write in place, anyway. Ron __

[Tutor] Use iterator to refer to an object's attribute?

no attribute 'shortmod' -- My code follows. If you jump down to the section marked "#---Logic---", you should be able to see the immediate culprit. I greatly appreciate any help that anybody on this list can provide! Thanks! Ron *

Re: [Tutor] Use iterator to refer to an object's attribute?

. It tells me "Database instance has no attribute >> 'getattr'". > > Its actually a special method so needs the underscores __getattr__ > and accessed via a function. I got my syntax muddled: > > getattr(db, shortmod) > > is how it should be written. That works! I knew there had to be a way! Thanks for the help! Ron ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Use iterator to refer to an object's attribute?

Alan Thanks for the thorough reply. > Hi Ron, I'm confused and may be missing something but it > sounds to me like a classic tree structure that you are trying > to build for each module. It seems like a tree to me. > I''m not sure why you put filling the database

Re: [Tutor] Brain In Vice: Why is this so fun to me?

Regex aside, just for a moment — the subject line gets my vote for "Most Succinct Description of Programmer Mindset", if there's a competition on.   Ron ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] web intefaces?

I like Karrigell ...http://www.karrigell.com/ for being flexible, complete, lightweight, and easy to learn. I don't know how it scales, but that's not really a consideration for the applications you describe.   Ron>>> "Chad Crabtree" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 5/8/20

Re: [Tutor] making a python program part of xhtml

Even if you don't choose karrigell for some reason, at least the documentation can help you sort out the variations on the python/xhtml theme! Ron ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

[Tutor] MySQLdb question.

he latest MySQLdb.py, too. Python 2.4.   I am using animal.py from http://www.kitebird.com/articles/pydbapi.html, but it's been the same thing with other scripts. Is it a setting, or a thinko, or what?   Ron ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] MySQLdb question.

That was it all right! Thanks, Kent! Ron___Ron Phillips wrote: > I am trying to write a script that adds data to a table using > MySQLdb.py. For some reason, "INSERT" seems to work temporarily. I > run a command to insert a row, and then do a select query, and it's > there. Aft

[Tutor] Update BLOB with odbc

_ the print newsql[:150] => "UPDATE sa2.outfalls SET photo_content = ÿØÿá*EExif . . . " and I get this error: TypeError: argument 1 must be string without null bytes, not str which sounds reasonable, but I don't know how to fix it. I

[Tutor] urlretrieve

Is there a way to get the urlretrive module to grab multiple files similar to wget? Ron Nixon Expecting? Get great news right away with email Auto-Check. Try the Yahoo! Mail Beta. http

[Tutor] learnpython.org - Free Interactive Python Tutorial

Hey. I've created a website for learning Python interactively online. Check it out, and I would really appreciate it if you can also contribute tutorials. Thanks! -- -- Ron ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscri

Re: [Tutor] learnpython.org - Free Interactive Python Tutorial

, Apr 20, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Ron Reiter wrote: > Hey. > > I've created a website for learning Python interactively online. Check it > out, and I would really appreciate it if you can also contribute tutorials. > > Thanks! >

[Tutor] Hello Python Tutor - help please!

lable. Best regards, Ron Painter ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

[Tutor] awk like functionality in python

Hello, this is my first post. I'm glad a place like this exists. I'm coming from primarily a shell scripting background and it was suggested I should learn python because the two are closely related. I've been studying python now for about a week and as of right now, I'm not really seeing many simi

[Tutor] legacy help

Help. We are upgrading our Win XP to Win7 (64bit) (intel) machines. We have a legacy Python program we need to still run. We were using ver 2.4 and we had a shortcut to C:\fileditor\main.py.I installed ver 2.7.9 "Windows x86-64 MSI installer". Is that what I wanted??? When I pick the shortcut, a