[Tutor] mlab and numeric

2006-12-07 Thread linda.s
can anyone tell me the relationship between MLab and Numeric? Especially MLab, there is very little information about it. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

[Tutor] function and module

2006-12-07 Thread linda.s
I am reading a sample code and want to figure out where a function (for instance, abc) is from. There are many lines such as from XXX import * Is there a way not going through all these imported modules to find where the abc is from (by the way, the abc function is not in the current module)? Tha

Re: [Tutor] OT GPL project finished, presentation looming

2006-12-07 Thread Alan Gauld
"Dave S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > They will be concerned about using my app because I am one person. > What if I > get hit by a bus ! what if I leave ? This is a common problem in big companies including my own. For years they wouldn't even use the GNU software because it was "unsupported". I

Re: [Tutor] Newbie question: random.sample illusion?

2006-12-07 Thread Moedeloos Overste
Dear Luke, Wow, thank you for all the input.You really made an effort .It's always nice when someone is willing to share his knowledge with you. You really opened my eyes on some things. I guess it's gonna be a long night for me. But I'm really enjoying myself though :-) Regards, Robert >Fro

Re: [Tutor] Newbie question: random.sample illusion?

2006-12-07 Thread Luke Paireepinart
Moedeloos Overste wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I'm in the process of learning Python and working my way through O'Reilly's > "Learning Python". As an excercise I wrote (some copy/paste as well) a small > lottery program just to learn how to work with lists and dictionarys etc. > > The user has to e

Re: [Tutor] Newbie question: random.sample illusion?

2006-12-07 Thread Luke Paireepinart
Moedeloos Overste wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I'm in the process of learning Python and working my way through O'Reilly's > "Learning Python". As an excercise I wrote (some copy/paste as well) a small > lottery program just to learn how to work with lists and dictionarys etc. > > The user has to e

Re: [Tutor] OT GPL project finished, presentation looming

2006-12-07 Thread Dave S
On Thursday 07 December 2006 17:54, Luke Paireepinart wrote: > Dave S wrote: > > [snip explanation of program] > > Sounds really cool! Its a bit niche - but cool > > > Sometime in January I have to give a presentation and I know one of the > > questions will be. "Its what we want but you are not

Re: [Tutor] OT GPL project finished, presentation looming

2006-12-07 Thread Luke Paireepinart
Dave S wrote: > [snip explanation of program] Sounds really cool! > > Sometime in January I have to give a presentation and I know one of the > questions will be. "Its what we want but you are not a company, what if you > leave ?" I need an answer,.. > My understanding is that if it's GPL'ed,

Re: [Tutor] ***SPAM*** List to dictionary

2006-12-07 Thread Python
On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 08:22 -0700, Mike Hansen wrote: > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Luke Paireepinart > > Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 10:54 PM > > To: tutor@python.org > > Subject: Re: [Tutor] ***SPAM*** List to dic

[Tutor] Newbie question: random.sample illusion?

2006-12-07 Thread Moedeloos Overste
Hi everybody, I'm in the process of learning Python and working my way through O'Reilly's "Learning Python". As an excercise I wrote (some copy/paste as well) a small lottery program just to learn how to work with lists and dictionarys etc. The user has to enter 6 numbers from a range(1-45). Th

[Tutor] OT GPL project finished, presentation looming

2006-12-07 Thread Dave S
OK this is an OT question I have just finished a Python QT project for work, written in my own free time over the last several months (and with a lot of help from you guys :). Its 5500 lines of python over several modules (for me that huge) and a CSV 'rules' file of 500 lines, all GPL'd We us

Re: [Tutor] subprocess & pyw conflict ?

2006-12-07 Thread Dave S
On Thursday 07 December 2006 10:25, Dave S wrote: > On Thursday 07 December 2006 00:31, Luke Paireepinart wrote: > > Dave S wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I thought I had my solution with subprocess ... my test code ... > > > > > > > > > > > > #!/usr/bin/env python > > > # -*- coding: iso8859_1 -

Re: [Tutor] __init__.py for running a file from commandline?

2006-12-07 Thread Marcus Goldfish
On 11/27/06, Michael P. Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When you type something from the command-line, you are at the whims of the WinXP command shell. You have to follow its rules, not Python's. It would need to have "python" in %PATH%, and then it would need to have to run "python C:\path\

Re: [Tutor] ***SPAM*** List to dictionary

2006-12-07 Thread Mike Hansen
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Luke Paireepinart > Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 10:54 PM > To: tutor@python.org > Subject: Re: [Tutor] ***SPAM*** List to dictionary > > Also, why is there now a **SPAM* in the subjec

[Tutor] How to center teh window using Tkinter

2006-12-07 Thread Asrarahmed Kadri
Hi folks, I want to center the window. I am using Tkinter and want to center the window as per the screen size. The size of the window is not fixed, I mean the height is not fixed, so I cannot use fixed parameters that can be passed to geometry() method. IF the height is more, the window shoul

Re: [Tutor] Is there any good turtorial about numeric python for beginners?

2006-12-07 Thread Kent Johnson
Dave Kuhlman wrote: > On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 05:49:22PM -0800, linda.s wrote: >> Is there any good tutorial about numeric python for beginners? >> I have googled around and many of them are either too old or aims at >> experienced users... > > Look here: > > http://new.scipy.org/Wiki/Documen

Re: [Tutor] List to dictionary

2006-12-07 Thread Kent Johnson
Luke Paireepinart wrote: > How about this :D > > # Remove duplicates from a list: L = [1,2,2,3,3,3] [x for x in L if x not in locals()['_[1]'].__self__] > [1,2,3] > > [accessed at > http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/204297 ] The problems with this are, it is not

Re: [Tutor] ***SPAM*** List to dictionary

2006-12-07 Thread Kent Johnson
Bill Campbell wrote: > The way I usually do this is something like: > > outDict = dict(map(lambda x: (x, 1), inList)) > names = outDict.keys() > names.sort() This is a really old approach. Since Python 2.3 you can say outDict = dict.fromkeys(inList) or dict.fromkeys(inList, 1) if you cared about

Re: [Tutor] subprocess & pyw conflict ?

2006-12-07 Thread Dave S
On Thursday 07 December 2006 00:31, Luke Paireepinart wrote: > Dave S wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I thought I had my solution with subprocess ... my test code ... > > > > > > > > #!/usr/bin/env python > > # -*- coding: iso8859_1 -*- > > > > import subprocess > > > > a = subprocess.Popen('tasklist.ex

Re: [Tutor] List to dictionary

2006-12-07 Thread Luke Paireepinart
Dick Moores wrote: > At 09:53 PM 12/6/2006, Luke Paireepinart wrote: >> # Remove duplicates from a list: >> >>> L = [1,2,2,3,3,3] >> >>> [x for x in L if x not in locals()['_[1]'].__self__] >> [1,2,3] > > Why not > >>> L = [1,2,2,3,3,3] > >>> list(set(L)) > [1, 2, 3] Because the other methods (via