FW: [Tutor] walking directories

2005-01-09 Thread Nick Lunt
Hello, I sent this reply a few days ago, but it doesn't seem to have appeared on the list, so Im resending it. Many thanks Nick . -Original Message- From: Nick Lunt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 January 2005 19:44 To: 'python tutor' Subject: RE: [Tutor] walking directories >>From

Re: [Tutor] Input to python executable code and design question

2005-01-09 Thread Jacob S.
I have grown to like VPython as the curve attribute really seems to do the trick. If you get it working on a Tkinter canvas, I would like to see the code as I haven't quite found a way to plot points on to one of those. A simple graph function in VPython... (it isn't the whole thing, believe me...

Re: [Tutor] Input to python executable code and design question

2005-01-09 Thread Ismael Garrido
Jacob S. wrote: eval() is good and it can be done using it. I wrote a -- IMHO -- really great functiongraphing program using vpython. If you would like to see it, just reply and say so. Out of curiosity, I would like to see your program. There's always something to learn (and even more so for m

Re: [Tutor] Slightly OT - Python/Java

2005-01-09 Thread Liam Clarke
> > > Personally, I should've learnt Java first (although my success at that > > without my Python experiences would've been limited.) > > I don;t know why you think that would help? > Or do you mean Java before Jython? If so it depends > what you intend using Jython for! I meant learning Java p

[Tutor] Hi. Is there another mailing list like this one?

2005-01-09 Thread Jacob S.
The subject line says it all... Okay I'll add some. I'm am bored and people are not asking enough questions/answering them to keep my mind busy. Is there any other mailing list that I can subscribe to like this one that lets anyone ask and answer questions? Thanks in advance, Jacob Schmidt _

Re: [Tutor] Input to python executable code and design question

2005-01-09 Thread Jacob S.
I wondered when someone would ask something like this. eval() is good and it can be done using it. I wrote a -- IMHO -- really great functiongraphing program using vpython. If you would like to see it, just reply and say so. Pros and cons of calculating all first: pro - easier to read code con -

Re: [Tutor] XP and python 2.4, some progress

2005-01-09 Thread Isr Gish
I was having the same problem. I tried Dannys idea it didnt help. It seemed to me that something was wrong with the actual shortcut. So I went to the directory with the idle.pyw (C:\Program Files\Python24\Lib\idlelib\) and made a shortcut and now it wroks fine. All the best, Isr -Original

Re: [Tutor] Slightly OT - Python/Java

2005-01-09 Thread David Rock
* Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-09 20:27]: > Liam Clarke wrote: > >Hi all, > > > >I've been forcing myself to learn Java, and I was wondering if > >anyone's used Jython. For anyone in the Chicago, IL area, the Chicago Python Users Group, ChiPy, is going to have a speaker on Jython this

Re: [Tutor] (no subject)

2005-01-09 Thread Jacob S.
>Hello I can't seem to get the IDLE to start up in my windows XP by clicking on the desktop icon. To start it I have to >drop a .py file on the icon. Any ideas? Danny just answered that, I believe... so next! >Also I can't seem to get xp to recognize .py files belonging to python. Right now the

Re: [Tutor] Slightly OT - Python/Java

2005-01-09 Thread Alan Gauld
> I've been forcing myself to learn Java, and I was wondering if > anyone's used Jython. > To clarify - Jython generates Java bytecode? I'm learning its vagaries as a way of testing objects being written by my develoment teams in Java. > Personally, I should've learnt Java first (although my succ

Re: [Tutor] Input to python executable code and design question

2005-01-09 Thread Kent Johnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Ismael Garrido <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: (Newbie looking scared) That's kind of hard for me... Parsing it myself is too complex for me. Also, I hoped Python's math would do the job for me, so I wouldn't have to make what's already done in Python. Writing (and understa

Re: [Tutor] Slightly OT - Python/Java

2005-01-09 Thread Kent Johnson
Liam Clarke wrote: Hi all, I've been forcing myself to learn Java, and I was wondering if anyone's used Jython. Yes, quite a bit. To clarify - Jython generates Java bytecode? Yes. Jython is a Python compiler and runtime written in Java. It integrates very well with Java libraries. Personally, I s

Re: [Tutor] Input to python executable code and design question

2005-01-09 Thread Kent Johnson
You can you the exec statement to execute Python code from a string. The string could be from user input. So for example a user could input 'x*x' and you could do >>> inp = 'x*x' >>> func='def f(x): return ' + inp >>> func 'def f(x): return x*x' >>> exec func >>> f(3) 9 Now you have f(x) def

Re: [Tutor] Input to python executable code and design question

2005-01-09 Thread jfouhy
Quoting Ismael Garrido <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > (Newbie looking scared) That's kind of hard for me... Parsing it myself > is too complex for me. Also, I hoped Python's math would do the job for > me, so I wouldn't have to make what's already done in Python. Writing (and understanding) grammar is p

Re: [Tutor] Input to python executable code and design question

2005-01-09 Thread Ismael Garrido
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Ismael Garrido <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I am trying to make a program that will plot functions. For that, I need to be able to get an input (the function to be plotted) and execute it. > > >So you want the user to be able to type something like "f(x) = sin(2*x)" and

[Tutor] Slightly OT - Python/Java

2005-01-09 Thread Liam Clarke
Hi all, I've been forcing myself to learn Java, and I was wondering if anyone's used Jython. To clarify - Jython generates Java bytecode? Personally, I should've learnt Java first (although my success at that without my Python experiences would've been limited.) I find it's real nasty forcing my

Re: [Tutor] Input to python executable code and design question

2005-01-09 Thread Liam Clarke
Eep. On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 13:04:33 +1300, Liam Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think you're looking for eval() - but that's a big security hole, > and wouldn't handle f(x) notation overly well, unless you parse like > John said. > > > On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 12:52:24 +1300 (NZDT), [EMAIL PROTE

[Tutor] Re: Tutor Digest, Vol 11, Issue 29

2005-01-09 Thread Jim Kelly
i had the same probblem with xp. on mac os x i can double click on the file and it will open. xp opens the python file and closes it immediately apon double click open the python file via the Start Menu in xp. Then hit f5 and the script will run jk nj --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Send T

[Tutor] Re: Tutor Digest, Vol 11, Issue 30

2005-01-09 Thread Jim Kelly
This script did not run properly jk nj --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Send Tutor mailing list submissions to > tutor@python.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, > visit > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > or, via email, send a message with subjec

Re: [Tutor] Input to python executable code and design question

2005-01-09 Thread jfouhy
Quoting Ismael Garrido <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am trying to make a program that will plot functions. For that, I need > to be able to get an input (the function to be plotted) and execute it. > So, my question is, how do I use the input? I have found no way to > convert the string to some kind o

[Tutor] Input to python executable code and design question

2005-01-09 Thread Ismael Garrido
Hello I am trying to make a program that will plot functions. For that, I need to be able to get an input (the function to be plotted) and execute it. So, my question is, how do I use the input? I have found no way to convert the string to some kind of executable code. I did research the proble

Re: [Tutor] Crossword program

2005-01-09 Thread Alan Gauld
Hi David, Its probably the kind of thing you could put on the Useless Python website. Useless is a collection of not-too-serious software written in Python which, despite the name, is actually quite useful for beginners to download and look at and learn. They can try improving it, or using the ide

[Tutor] Crossword program

2005-01-09 Thread David Holland
I wrote a program to create crosswords in python. It is not perfect but it works, is there any open source place I can put this for it to be used by anyone who wants it ? (Subject to the gpl licence). Here is the code in case anyone is interested. from Tkinter import * #Crossword program David Ho

Re: [Tutor] (no subject)

2005-01-09 Thread Alan Gauld
> Hello I can't seem to get the IDLE to start up in my windows XP by clicking > ... > Also I can't seem to get xp to recognize .py files belonging to python. This is all fixable but it suggests maybe other problems in the installation. Personally I'd recommend reinstalling Python and that should

Re: [Tutor] XP and python 2.4, some progress

2005-01-09 Thread Danny Yoo
On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, Jeffrey Thomas Peery wrote: > I wasn't able to get the IDLE started in windows XP. I had it working then I > upgraded to 2.4, then it didn't work so I switched back to 2.3, still didn't > work so I'm back to 2.4. I did some looking around and I was able to get > the IDLE sta