Re: [Tutor] Opening .py files in firefox

2006-03-19 Thread Andre Roberge
On 3/19/06, Alan Gauld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > computer) using firefox, it gives me two options: running the script > > with the default Python app, or saving the file. What I would like is > > to display the file as text in the browser. > > Open Tools->Folder Options in Windows explorer >

Re: [Tutor] Alternative to nested loops

2006-03-19 Thread Steve Nelson
On 3/19/06, Alan Gauld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > interesting. I've never done any functional programming at all, so it > > all seems a little foreign! > > > > Can you recommend another gentle introduction? > > Try the functional programming topic in the Advanced section of my tutor. > It cov

Re: [Tutor] Alternative to nested loops

2006-03-19 Thread Alan Gauld
> interesting. I've never done any functional programming at all, so it > all seems a little foreign! > > Can you recommend another gentle introduction? Try the functional programming topic in the Advanced section of my tutor. It covers the concepts and how to do it in Python at the basic leve

Re: [Tutor] Opening .py files in firefox

2006-03-19 Thread Alan Gauld
> computer) using firefox, it gives me two options: running the script > with the default Python app, or saving the file. What I would like is > to display the file as text in the browser. Open Tools->Folder Options in Windows explorer Go to File Types tab Scroll down to find .py (and .pyw)

Re: [Tutor] what tools will i need to start my project ?

2006-03-19 Thread Alan Gauld
Hi John, > i'm new to programming and decided to go with python as my first language. Normally I'd say that was a good choice, but it really depends on what you want to do. > my goal is to create an excel macros that will grab information from an > html file and import it into my worksheet. Th

Re: [Tutor] Alternative to nested loops

2006-03-19 Thread Steve Nelson
On 3/19/06, John Fouhy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What you're doing is called "flattening" a list. You can do it with a > list comprehension: > > >>> foo = [[1,2,3], [4,5,6], [7,8,9]] > >>> [x for y in foo for x in y] > [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] Ah yes, that was the sort of thing I was think

Re: [Tutor] Alternative to nested loops

2006-03-19 Thread Steve Nelson
On 3/19/06, Karl Pflästerer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> reduce(lambda s, L: s + sum(L), foo, 0) Ah ok - well that looks pretty cryptic to me, as I've never used either lambda or reduce(). However, this looks to be a 'functional' way of doing what I was doing procedurally, which is, I suppose,

Re: [Tutor] Alternative to nested loops

2006-03-19 Thread John Fouhy
On 20/03/06, Steve Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I had a feeling I could do this: > > >>> foo > [[1, 2, 3], [1, 2, 3], [1, 2, 3]] > >>> for c in foo: > ... for b in c: > ... print b What you're doing is called "flattening" a list. You can do it with a list compre

Re: [Tutor] Alternative to nested loops

2006-03-19 Thread Karl Pflästerer
On 19 Mrz 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I had a feeling I could do this: > foo > [[1, 2, 3], [1, 2, 3], [1, 2, 3]] for c in foo: > ... for b in c: > ... print b > ... > 1 > 2 > 3 > 1 > 2 > 3 > 1 > 2 > 3 > > Using a list comprehension, as it seemed to me like I was sayi

Re: [Tutor] Opening .py files in firefox

2006-03-19 Thread Brian Gustin
server needs to be set up with a handler to tell it what to do with the file , otherwise it will look at local host to determine what to do with it , via the extension, and if no extension is found, then it will simply offer to download the file to your computer . if you want it to display as t

[Tutor] Opening .py files in firefox

2006-03-19 Thread Andre Roberge
Hi everyone- This is not strictly speaking a Python question but it's probably something that other pythonistas have encountered and, hopefully solved :-) When I click on a link to a ".py" file (either remotely or on my computer) using firefox, it gives me two options: running the script with the

[Tutor] Alternative to nested loops

2006-03-19 Thread Steve Nelson
Hi All, I had a feeling I could do this: >>> foo [[1, 2, 3], [1, 2, 3], [1, 2, 3]] >>> for c in foo: ... for b in c: ... print b ... 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 Using a list comprehension, as it seemed to me like I was saying: b for c in foo, but I can't see how to do this. Ultimately I w

Re: [Tutor] Tutor Digest, Vol 25, Issue 47

2006-03-19 Thread David Holland
Message: 8Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 14:26:15 -0500From: Kent Johnson Subject: Re: [Tutor] Fill in a web formCc: tutor python Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowedDavid Holland wrote:> Is there a way in python to automatically put values in a web pag

[Tutor] what tools will i need to start my project ?

2006-03-19 Thread John
i'm new to programming and decided to go with python as my first language. my goal is to create an excel macros that will grab information from an html file and import it into my worksheet. I figure i should first start apart from excel then work on making it work with it (if it is even pos

Re: [Tutor] Mysql BLOB strangeness?

2006-03-19 Thread Brian Gustin
OK so I guess you know what you need to do now :) something like this perhaaps : (modified your original code) reportlist = query(reportquery) mystring = '' for row in reportlist: id = row[0] title = row[1] content = row[2] published = row[3] mystring = m

Re: [Tutor] Mysql BLOB strangeness?

2006-03-19 Thread Adam Cripps
On 3/18/06, Brian Gustin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh. just found the original question.. :) > > OK perhaps this would be more helpful if you were to manually query > mysql on command line and paste the results it outputs here. > > what I am betting is your method to get the data out of teh quer