[Tutor] Performance of classes

2006-06-17 Thread Ismael Garrido
Hello I'm writing a program to find an appropiate combination of resistances to obtain a desired value of resistance. The program takes into account how many resistances you have available and their resistance in ohms. A short review of physics: resistors can be arranged in series or in para

Re: [Tutor] I Give Up.

2006-06-17 Thread Ismael Garrido
Brian Gustin wrote: > I'll just go write it in Perl. Maybe some day when Python actually has > well structured documentation with *actual working code examples* > Indeed. I have always thought that the docs lacked working examples. I usually do a google search, hoping to find some script sho

Re: [Tutor] I Give Up.

2006-06-17 Thread Kent Johnson
Brian Gustin wrote: > I am thinking very seriously about building a new set of python > documentation with capability for user contributions and notes, etc, and > putting it online (with searchability to boot) .. maybe a project for > another day.. Maybe something like this: http://pyref.infoga

Re: [Tutor] I Give Up.

2006-06-17 Thread Brian Gustin
Thanks- I had to sit back and with the perl script running nicely, I took another shot at this to see if I could get it right.. so far so good, at least no more exceptions being raised.. The perl script runs on a cron, I am thinking I will write this in python and then wrap it up into a main f

Re: [Tutor] I Give Up.

2006-06-17 Thread Python
On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 16:44 -0400, Brian Gustin wrote: > Now can someone explan how exactly (preferrably with an actual real > world example) that I can read a configuration file in , say > /etc/local-config/myconfig.cfg into my python script running in > /usr/bin/localscripts , and able to act

Re: [Tutor] I Give Up.

2006-06-17 Thread Python
On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 16:44 -0400, Brian Gustin wrote: > I have had it. I give up. > > Python's documentation sucks beyond belief. A lot of it is excellent. The ConfigParser, that you are complaining about is woefully short on examples and does not make clear that you *must read* the other sectio

[Tutor] I Give Up.

2006-06-17 Thread Brian Gustin
I have had it. I give up. Python's documentation sucks beyond belief. all I want to do is parse a *SIMPLE* config file of name = value pairs and have python objects named by the name holding the value signified by value , and I want it to be able to work *WITHOUT* someone having to download an

Re: [Tutor] lambda and creating GUIs

2006-06-17 Thread Alan Gauld
>I understand this: >> >> def f(w): gtk.main_quit() >> button.connect("clicked", f) >> > > Now my question is what is "w"? What is being passed > to the function? That will be defined by GTk. The framework will define what each of its event hamdler callback functions looks like in terms of p