[Tutor] Help with setting path

2007-11-02 Thread sith .
Hi, Thanks for your input. I'm presently downloading enthought python - no asian mirror, so it'll take a really long time to download even on broadband at 10kbps) - but I don't think it's a distro problem. I'm probably not doing it right as I'm now using IDLE and still have the same problem.

[Tutor] Installation

2007-11-02 Thread Gman
Hello all,I will try to make this quick.Since the installation topic is open I have a question. Bear in mind "newbie alert" I have 2.5 on windows M.E. and all is well,but if I try to use a dos box I get bad command etc. but if I use the python dos everything works.Is this normal or do I need

Re: [Tutor] Help with setting path

2007-11-02 Thread Alan Gauld
"John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > How did you install Python? On Windoze I use the ActiveState version and then manually set the PATH and PYTHONPATH environment variables > Active state releases a good version as well... and thus, welcome, > to what > in my humble opinion (a newbie as well) is

Re: [Tutor] List comp question

2007-11-02 Thread Alan Gauld
"Kent Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > I would really like to turn this into a list comprehension: > > tree = [ (top, level2(top)) for top in tops if level2(top) ] > > but the call to level2() is expensive enough that I don't want to > repeat > it. Is there any way to do this or am I stuck w

Re: [Tutor] List comp question

2007-11-02 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Kent Johnson wrote: > I am building a list like this: > > tree = [] > for top in tops: > l2 = level2(top) > if l2: > tree.append((top, l2)) > > I would really like to turn this into a list comprehension: > > tree = [ (top, level2(top)) for top in tops if

Re: [Tutor] Help with setting path

2007-11-02 Thread John
How did you install Python? I've found that the Enthought distribution to be the simplest and quickest way to get up and running while having good functionality (i.e. scipy up and running). Active state releases a good version as well... and thus, welcome, to what in my humble opinion (a newbie as

[Tutor] subprocess stdout nohup question

2007-11-02 Thread John
When I run a python script with nohup, my print statements are not being written to nohup.out, why is that? Should nohup.out capture all stdout statements? -- Configuration `` Plone 2.5.3-final, CMF-1.6.4, Zope (Zope 2.9.7-final, python 2.4.4, linux2), Five 1.4.1, Python 2

Re: [Tutor] List comp question

2007-11-02 Thread Michael Langford
Decorate level2 with a decorator that caches: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/425445 --Michael On 11/1/07, Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am building a list like this: > > tree = [] > for top in tops: > l2 = level2(top) > if

[Tutor] List comp question

2007-11-02 Thread Kent Johnson
I am building a list like this: tree = [] for top in tops: l2 = level2(top) if l2: tree.append((top, l2)) I would really like to turn this into a list comprehension: tree = [ (top, level2(top)) for top in tops if level2(top) ] but the call to level2() is

Re: [Tutor] Help with setting path

2007-11-02 Thread Alan Gauld
"sith ." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > However, when I try to run the program, which is stored > in pthon25/work using IDLE, I get a traceback error. Cannyou send us the error, that helps a lot in trying to debug. Cut n paste the entire error text. > I can run the program in dos though and it

[Tutor] Help with setting path

2007-11-02 Thread sith .
hi, I'm a beginner. Can someone help me with the installation? I've read several tutorials, possess a couple of books, and have followed the instructions, but I stil face a problem. None of the online tutorials address this issue in depth maybe because it could be too simple. I'm having proble

Re: [Tutor] repeated times

2007-11-02 Thread ALAN GAULD
> > >I want to run an .exe file and get the output many times. >> Given that I know that you know about loops I have to >> ask what you see as the problem? > >I want to run it many times and export all the output to a text file. OK, Do you mean you want to run the program multiple times but put