Re: [Tutor] while/if/elif/else loops

2005-11-01 Thread Zameer Manji
Ok after looking at everyones replies my program looks like this: #Coin Toss Game #Zameer Manji import random print "This game will simulate 100 coin tosses and then tell you the number of head's and tails" tosses = 0 heads = 0 tails = 0 while tosses<100: if tosses<100: coin = rando

[Tutor] Python and sock

2005-11-01 Thread ciclope
Hi, I have a question about the use of a sock server under python. I wanna a little program I'm writing to use a sock server, either version 4 or 5.  How can I make it communicating through a such SOCKS server under python, without using a SOCKScap like software, but easily using something like a

Re: [Tutor] Talking to UDPServer

2005-11-01 Thread Carroll, Barry
Kent, Johan: Thank you. These examples will be a great help. I also found some links via Google (I always forget that resource for some reason). I have enough to go forward, now. Barry > -Original Message- > From: Johan Geldenhuys [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November

[Tutor] Does a module for DirectFB exist?

2005-11-01 Thread Roger Merchberger
DirectFB is short for Direct Frame Buffer, and allows access to a graphical frame buffer system in *nix (and I think maybe MacOSX) from a text prompt without going through X. Anyone know of a module to access this through Python? I've googled for it, but didn't know if anyone here knew about so

Re: [Tutor] Talking to UDPServer

2005-11-01 Thread Johan Geldenhuys
I've done some network programming mostly with TCP and I don't think that the way the client connects to the server is a lot different (if any), The only difference is when you must decide the protcol family. "socket.SOCK_DGRAM" will be for UDP and "socket.SOCK_STREAM" will be for TCP. After th

Re: [Tutor] Talking to UDPServer

2005-11-01 Thread Kent Johnson
Carroll, Barry wrote: > Yes, that is exactly what I want. I need to write a program that > communicates with an existing server, using the UDP protocol. This is > my first time writing such a program, and I need help getting started. Here is an example from Python Network Programming, by John

Re: [Tutor] while/if/elif/else loops

2005-11-01 Thread Carroll, Barry
Greetings: I tried running first just the expression, then the statement. Here are the results: >>> tosses = 100<0 >>> tosses False >>> while tosses = 100<0: File "", line 1 while tosses = 100<0: ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax >>> Coming from the C/C++ world as I do, I wa

Re: [Tutor] Talking to UDPServer

2005-11-01 Thread Carroll, Barry
Johan, et al:   Yes, that is exactly what I want.  I need to write a program that communicates with an existing server, using the UDP protocol.  This is my first time writing such a program, and I need help getting started.    Thanks again.    Barry   From: Johan Geldenh

Re: [Tutor] Rename files with numbers

2005-11-01 Thread Ed Singleton
The best free app I've found for this is MusicBrainz [www.musicbrainz.com]. This has a huge database of obsessively correct details of albums which can be formatted in anyway you choose. It can automatically recognise which song an MP3 is! This is a similar script I wrote to renumber files in se

Re: [Tutor] Rename files with numbers

2005-11-01 Thread Ed Singleton
Sorry, wrong list. Many apologies. Ed On 01/11/05, Ed Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The best free app I've found for this is MusicBrainz [www.musicbrainz.com]. > > This has a huge database of obsessively correct details of albums > which can be formatted in anyway you choose. It can au

Re: [Tutor] Turning kwargs into scalars

2005-11-01 Thread bob
At 08:52 PM 10/31/2005, Steve Bergman wrote: >Say I have a function: >def f(self, **kwargs) : FWIW you don't have a function at this point. You have a def statement which must be followed by at least one indented statement, which in turn must be executed. Then you have a function. >and I want t

Re: [Tutor] Random Q on Python's internals?

2005-11-01 Thread Liam Clarke
Thanks Danny. On 11/1/05, Danny Yoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I was perusing the standard library, and was wondering if anyone knew > > how the internals of Python work, roughly or no. > > > > Basically, I assume os.pipe() resides in a DLL somewhere, yet when I > > open up Python24.DLL i

Re: [Tutor] while/if/elif/else loops

2005-11-01 Thread Norman Silverstone
> #Coin Toss Game > > print "This game will simulate 100 coin tosses and then tell you the > number of head's and tails" > > import random > > tosses = 0 > heads = 0 > tails = 0 > > while tosses = 100<0: >coin = randrange(1) >tosses +=1 >if coin == 0: > heads +=1 > prin