Re: [Tutor] [OT] triangulation

2005-11-09 Thread Gregor Lingl
Ismael Garrido schrieb: > John Fouhy wrote: ... > > I believe there was a version of Qbasic translated to French or Spanish. > By "translated" I mean that the keywords (reserved words) were, for > instance, "para" instead of "for", that is, their French/Spanish > counterpart. > I know that

Re: [Tutor] [OT] triangulation

2005-11-09 Thread Ismael Garrido
John Fouhy wrote: >On 10/11/05, Gregor Lingl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>but Shi Mu didn't ask for a program in English ;-) >> >> > >This is pretty off-topic, but --- > >Is it possible to be a programmer and not speak English? Are there any >languages out there where the reserved words,

Re: [Tutor] [OT] triangulation

2005-11-09 Thread Danny Yoo
> Is it possible to be a programmer and not speak English? Are there any > languages out there where the reserved words, library functions, etc. > are in (say) German? Hi John, If you're asking about if it's possible, as in technically feasible, then yes. As an example of this, see Damian Conw

Re: [Tutor] [Fwd: Re: Spanish text in BS problem]

2005-11-09 Thread Ismael Garrido
Found the problem myself. (look down) Ismael Garrido wrote: > This is the script: > > import BeautifulSoup > import os > > a = open("zona.htm") > text = a.readlines() > a.close() > > BS = BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup(str(text)) Apparently, str(text) is the cause of the problem. If instead I do:

Re: [Tutor] [OT] triangulation

2005-11-09 Thread Liam Clarke-Hutchinson
Perl seems to be written in a foreign language. ;) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Fouhy Sent: Thursday, 10 November 2005 2:04 p.m. To: Tutor Subject: Re: [Tutor] [OT] triangulation On 10/11/05, Gregor Lingl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

Re: [Tutor] [OT] triangulation

2005-11-09 Thread John Fouhy
On 10/11/05, Gregor Lingl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > but Shi Mu didn't ask for a program in English ;-) This is pretty off-topic, but --- Is it possible to be a programmer and not speak English? Are there any languages out there where the reserved words, library functions, etc. are in (say) Ger

Re: [Tutor] [OT] triangulation

2005-11-09 Thread Gregor Lingl
Liam Clarke-Hutchinson schrieb: > German is an awesome language, I love the compound words (if that's what > they are). What does 'Gegenuhrzeigersinn' mean in English? > counterclockwise but Shi Mu didn't ask for a program in English ;-) Gregor > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL

Re: [Tutor] any code to draw parabola or curve?

2005-11-09 Thread Gregor Lingl
Both! See attachment Regards, Gregor Shi Mu schrieb: any code to draw parabola or curve? ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor -- Gregor Lingl Reisnerstrasse 3/19 A-1030 Wien Telefon: +43 1 713 33 9

Re: [Tutor] triangulation

2005-11-09 Thread Gregor Lingl
Alex Hunsley schrieb: Shi Mu wrote: is there any sample code of triangulation? many thanks! Yes, probably. Indeed, there is. See attachment regards Gregor ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/t

Re: [Tutor] Testing for gui

2005-11-09 Thread Danny Yoo
> I haven't written any code yet, but I was thinking I would like to test > for either a windows environment (Is an X-Server running) or is this a > strictly console (no X-server) environment and then do the appropriate > thing for each environment. I am not sure that is any clearer, but I > hope i

Re: [Tutor] Testing for gui

2005-11-09 Thread Ken Stevens
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 10:00:49PM -, Alan Gauld wrote: > >How does one test for a running gui in python? > > > > Can you be more specific? A GUI is a feature of a program. > The GUI is part of the program - although a few programs > can run in either GUI or Text mode, but they are the except

Re: [Tutor] triangulation

2005-11-09 Thread Liam Clarke-Hutchinson
Eek. -Original Message- From: Alan Gauld [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 10 November 2005 12:07 p.m. To: Liam Clarke-Hutchinson; 'Shi Mu' Cc: tutor@python.org Subject: Re: [Tutor] triangulation > As in Pythagoras? > Or as in triangulation on a 2D surface, navigation etc.?

Re: [Tutor] triangulation

2005-11-09 Thread Alan Gauld
> As in Pythagoras? > Or as in triangulation on a 2D surface, navigation etc.? > Or, do you mean radio triangulation by directional signal propagation > Or, do you mean drawing a triangle in Tkinter? Or even triangulation of currency from EU currency to EU currency via the euro? See: http://

Re: [Tutor] image

2005-11-09 Thread Liam Clarke-Hutchinson
Oh dear, I missed that query. Nevermind google, try docs.python.org... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Hunsley Sent: Thursday, 10 November 2005 12:08 p.m. To: Shi Mu Cc: tutor@python.org Subject: Re: [Tutor] image Shi Mu wrote: >any

Re: [Tutor] image

2005-11-09 Thread Alex Hunsley
Shi Mu wrote: >any python module to calculate sin, cos, arctan? > > STFW. Have you heard of this site called "Google"? ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

[Tutor] Fwd: Comments, bug report and/or feature requests for my program please.

2005-11-09 Thread Adam
ACS is a program to verify checksums of files (sha1 and md5) from the command line. It allows you to check for the sum in local and remote files via ftp or http. Any comments on the code would be good along with anything in the subject. Cheers. Adam err woops this might be useful link ___

[Tutor] Comments, bug report and/or feature requests for my program please.

2005-11-09 Thread Adam
ACS is a program to verify checksums of files (sha1 and md5) from the command line. It allows you to check for the sum in local and remote files via ftp or http. Any comments on the code would be good along with anything in the subject. Cheers. Adam ___

Re: [Tutor] Python persistent webserver?

2005-11-09 Thread Brian Lamb
Title: Re: [Tutor] Python persistent webserver? Hi Howard, It sounds like you want to integrate Python to handle CGI requests from Apache. So, don't look down the road of building your own web server with the HTTPServer stuff in Python but rather investigate how to hook Python up to *proce

Re: [Tutor] Testing for gui

2005-11-09 Thread Alan Gauld
From: Ken Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yes. Under Linux no x-server running? I guess it really wouldn't be > applicable under a windows enviroment, OK, I see what you wanted now, ignore my previous message . Note that X windows is a protocol and not a GUI. There are several GUI environme

Re: [Tutor] triangulation

2005-11-09 Thread Danny Yoo
> ...Not that I know if that will work or not. I'm just going on some > outdated Tkinter tutorials; I daresay the syntax of passing co-ordinates > has changed (I'd hope so.) > > Can you be more specific? Hi Liam, Many of the questions that Shi Mu has been asking: http://mail.python.org/pipe

Re: [Tutor] Testing for gui

2005-11-09 Thread Alan Gauld
> How does one test for a running gui in python? > Can you be more specific? A GUI is a feature of a program. The GUI is part of the program - although a few programs can run in either GUI or Text mode, but they are the exception. Can you give an example of what you want to test for? Alan G __

Re: [Tutor] How to launch executable from a Python script??

2005-11-09 Thread Alan Gauld
> sure how to do it on a windows box since the file is an executeable. > os.chdir('spacinVaders-0.1') #switch to the game's directory > os.spawnlp(os.P_NOWAIT, 'pythonw', 'pythonw', 'play.py') > > and it would launch fine can someone help me with this?? You should be able to use os.syste

Re: [Tutor] triangulation

2005-11-09 Thread Liam Clarke-Hutchinson
As in Pythagoras? from math import * c = sqrt(a^2 + b^2) Or as in triangulation on a 2D surface, navigation etc.? from math import * o = tan(theta) * a o = sin(theta) * h h = o/sin(theta) Noting of course that theta defaults to radians. Or, do you mean radio triangulation by directional sign

Re: [Tutor] unicode characters from integers?

2005-11-09 Thread Kent Johnson
Chris or Leslie Smith wrote: > I know that chr() can be used to convert an integer into an ASCII > character, but I am having a hard time trying to generate unicode > characters from numbers. e.g. say I want to generate u'\u0950' from > the integer 950, does anyone know if/how this can be done? u

[Tutor] unicode characters from integers?

2005-11-09 Thread Chris or Leslie Smith
I know that chr() can be used to convert an integer into an ASCII character, but I am having a hard time trying to generate unicode characters from numbers. e.g. say I want to generate u'\u0950' from the integer 950, does anyone know if/how this can be done? Here are some failures: ### >>> uni

Re: [Tutor] triangulation

2005-11-09 Thread Danny Yoo
On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Shi Mu wrote: > is there any sample code of triangulation? many thanks! Hi Shi Mu, I know people have already asked you to read "How to Ask Questions the Smart Way". http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Please really look at it. Frankly, you're asking q

Re: [Tutor] lists strings and files

2005-11-09 Thread Kent Johnson
Michael Haft wrote: > Hello, > thanks for all the help with lists and strings, the list I have has > nested sublists in it though. How do I remove these or is there a way > to convert from lists to strings without removing them? > > The code looks something like: > > result = [] > data = [fi

Re: [Tutor] Python persistent webserver?

2005-11-09 Thread Hugo González Monteverde
Looks like CherryPy is a good candidate. Take a look at: www.cherrypy.org` it can be plugged into Apache, and if persistency is what you need, you'll get it. There are nice examples for getting started. Hugo Howard Kao wrote: > Hi all, > > I know the subject is confusing but I don't know how

Re: [Tutor] lists strings and files

2005-11-09 Thread Hugo González Monteverde
Have you tried pickling them? If you want it to be flattened, so that result is: [fields[1], fields[2], fields[3]] instead of [[fields[1], fields[2], fields[3]]] you should use the extend method instead of the append method. Hugo Michael Haft wrote: > Hello, > thanks for all the help wi

Re: [Tutor] Find multiple lines in a file

2005-11-09 Thread billburns
[Kent wrote] > > OK, none of my suggestions gets you closer to this...the simplest way is > > if you can read the whole file into memory. Then you can just replace > > the strings in place and write it out again. For example: > > > > oldPolicies = '''<< > > /Policies << > >/PageSize 3 > > >>

[Tutor] [Fwd: Re: Spanish text in BS problem]

2005-11-09 Thread Ismael Garrido
Forwarding... Forgot the list. --- Begin Message --- Kent Johnson wrote: Ismael Garrido wrote: Hello I'm using Beautiful Soup to scrape a site (that's in Spanish) I sometimes come across strings like: 'Ner\\xf3n como cantor' Which gets printed: Ner\xf3n como cantor When they should be: N

[Tutor] lists strings and files

2005-11-09 Thread Michael Haft
Hello, thanks for all the help with lists and strings, the list I have has nested sublists in it though. How do I remove these or is there a way to convert from lists to strings without removing them? The code looks something like: result = [] data = [fields[1] fields[3] fields[7]] result.ap

Re: [Tutor] draw lines

2005-11-09 Thread Alex Hunsley
Danny Yoo wrote: >On Sun, 6 Nov 2005, Shi Mu wrote: > > > >>I have a list of random points: [[x0,y0],[x1,y1],...,[xn,yn]] how can I >>use Tkinter to draw lines to connect them one by one based on the order >>in the list? >> >> > >Do you know how to draw a single line in Tkinter? Have you lo

Re: [Tutor] triangulation

2005-11-09 Thread Alex Hunsley
Shi Mu wrote: >is there any sample code of triangulation? many thanks! > > Yes, probably. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Spanish text in BS problem

2005-11-09 Thread Kent Johnson
Ismael Garrido wrote: > Hello > > I'm using Beautiful Soup to scrape a site (that's in Spanish) I > sometimes come across strings like: > 'Ner\\xf3n como cantor' > > Which gets printed: > Ner\xf3n como cantor > > When they should be: > Nerón como cantor > > I don't know if it is my fault (due

Re: [Tutor] Find multiple lines in a file

2005-11-09 Thread Bill Burns
>> I have a PostScript file which contains the following lines (the numbers >> are for reference only and are *not* in the file): >> >> 1 << >> 2 /Policies << >> 3 /PageSize 3 >> 4 >> >> 5 >> setpagedevice >> >> I want to open the the file and read it, find these five lines and then >> re

[Tutor] triangulation

2005-11-09 Thread Shi Mu
is there any sample code of triangulation? many thanks! ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Find multiple lines in a file

2005-11-09 Thread Kent Johnson
Bill Burns wrote: > I have a PostScript file which contains the following lines (the numbers > are for reference only and are *not* in the file): > > 1 << > 2 /Policies << > 3 /PageSize 3 > 4 >> > 5 >> setpagedevice > > I want to open the the file and read it, find these five lines and t

Re: [Tutor] Problem appending to a list using a property within a class

2005-11-09 Thread Kent Johnson
John Fouhy wrote: > On 09/11/05, Roy Bleasdale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I have created a List within a class. If I try and append to the list using >>the set function using the property value my variable stops being a list. > > Properties only work properly with new style classes. You get

Re: [Tutor] Python persistent webserver?

2005-11-09 Thread Howard Kao
Thanks everyone for the help. I'll look into them. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor