Re: [Tutor] Tutorial indicating different output

"Eric Morey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello everyone, I have no prior experience with programing. I've just started with the Python tutorial at http://www.dickbaldwin.com/tocpyth.htm. On the section that describes decimal division on this page: http://www.d

Re: [Tutor] animations and movies

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote hey just wondering if any one can point me in the right direction for coding animations and playing movies ISTR a tool called blender that could do this. It was scripted in Python. Alan G ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor

Re: [Tutor] regex newbie question

Dick Moores wrote: At 04:32 PM 5/8/2008, Steve Willoughby wrote: On Thu, May 8, 2008 14:40, Dick Moores wrote: > At 01:30 PM 5/8/2008, Steve Willoughby wrote: >>On Thu, May 8, 2008 12:40, Dick Moores wrote: >> > But here's a chance to ask: What regex would match 2-digit strings >> > and 4-digit

[Tutor] animations and movies

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Re: [Tutor] regex newbie question

At 04:32 PM 5/8/2008, Steve Willoughby wrote: On Thu, May 8, 2008 14:40, Dick Moores wrote: > At 01:30 PM 5/8/2008, Steve Willoughby wrote: >>On Thu, May 8, 2008 12:40, Dick Moores wrote: >> > But here's a chance to ask: What regex would match 2-digit strings >> > and 4-digit strings only? >> >>^

[Tutor] How to catch this exception?

< http://py77.python.pastebin.com/f7191854a> is my addDaysToDate.py . As an exercise I'm trying to handle every kind of exception that can result from user entry. One I can't figure out is this. The program asks for a date, then a number of days or weeks. A new date is calculated--the date enter

Re: [Tutor] regex newbie question

On Thu, May 8, 2008 16:32, Steve Willoughby wrote: > On Thu, May 8, 2008 14:40, Dick Moores wrote: >> At 01:30 PM 5/8/2008, Steve Willoughby wrote: >>>On Thu, May 8, 2008 12:40, Dick Moores wrote: >>> > But here's a chance to ask: What regex would match 2-digit strings >>> > and 4-digit strings onl

Re: [Tutor] regex newbie question

On Thu, May 8, 2008 14:40, Dick Moores wrote: > At 01:30 PM 5/8/2008, Steve Willoughby wrote: >>On Thu, May 8, 2008 12:40, Dick Moores wrote: >> > But here's a chance to ask: What regex would match 2-digit strings >> > and 4-digit strings only? >> >>^\d\d(\d\d)?$ > > Ah. And so ^\d\d(\d\d)?(\d\d)?$

Re: [Tutor] Tutorial indicating different output

"Eric Morey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >>> 2.0/5 # get decimal quotient 0.4 >>> 2/5.0 # do it again 0.4 >>>  http://www.dickbaldwin.com/python/Pyth0004-fig10.htm Howerver, using the python shell in my terminal, I get: >>> 2.0/5 # get decimal quotien

Re: [Tutor] regex newbie question

At 01:30 PM 5/8/2008, Steve Willoughby wrote: On Thu, May 8, 2008 12:40, Dick Moores wrote: > But here's a chance to ask: What regex would match 2-digit strings > and 4-digit strings only? ^\d\d(\d\d)?$ Ah. And so ^\d\d(\d\d)?(\d\d)?$ matches all and only 2-, 4-, and 6-digit strings. Which m

[Tutor] Tutorial indicating different output

Hello everyone, I have no prior experience with programing. I've just started with the Python tutorial at http://www.dickbaldwin.com/tocpyth.htm. On the section that describes decimal division on this page: http://www.dickbaldwin.com/python/Pyth0004.htm Figure 10 shows: >>> 2.0/5 # ge

Re: [Tutor] regex newbie question

On Thu, May 8, 2008 12:40, Dick Moores wrote: > At 11:46 AM 5/8/2008, Steve Willoughby wrote: >>Be aware that \d{2,4} matches 2, 3 or 4 digits, which may be >>different than what you're looking for, since 1/12/234 would >>match > > Yes, I wanted to permit that. In my script, mxDateTime turns 1/12/2

Re: [Tutor] converting all files in a directory with subprocess

Tim Michelsen wrote: Hello, I am working on a automatic documentation program to convert my txt2tags based documentations sources into HTMl files. I want to use txt2tags via command line. Here's my code: # #!/usr/bin/env python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- import os import subprocess import

[Tutor] converting all files in a directory with subprocess

Hello, I am working on a automatic documentation program to convert my txt2tags based documentations sources into HTMl files. I want to use txt2tags via command line. Here's my code: # #!/usr/bin/env python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- import os import subprocess import fnmatch documentation

Re: [Tutor] regex newbie question

At 11:46 AM 5/8/2008, Steve Willoughby wrote: Be aware that \d{2,4} matches 2, 3 or 4 digits, which may be different than what you're looking for, since 1/12/234 would match Yes, I wanted to permit that. In my script, mxDateTime turns 1/12/234 into 01/12/0234. So if a user wants to enter it, I

Re: [Tutor] regex newbie question

Be aware that \d{2,4} matches 2, 3 or 4 digits, which may be different than what you're looking for, since 1/12/234 would match On Thu, May 8, 2008 11:42, Dick Moores wrote: > > > At 11:14 AM 5/8/2008, Kent Johnson wrote: > On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 1:51 PM, > Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [Tutor] regex newbie question

At 11:14 AM 5/8/2008, Kent Johnson wrote: On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >  Could someone tell me what's wrong with this regex? > >  == >  lst = ["2/2/2", "3/3/45", "345/03/45", "4/4/2009", "4/4/12345", >   

Re: [Tutor] regex newbie question

On Thu, May 8, 2008 10:51, Dick Moores wrote: > > > Could someone tell me what's wrong with this regex? The main thing is that you're forgetting that a RE matches anywhere in the string. \b\d+/\d+/\d{2,4}\b matches 4/4/2009 12/12/555 \b\d{1,2}/\d{1,2}\b matches 4/4/2009 4/4/12345 12/12/555 1

Re: [Tutor] regex newbie question

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Could someone tell me what's wrong with this regex? > > == > lst = ["2/2/2", "3/3/45", "345/03/45", "4/4/2009", "4/4/12345", > "12/12/555", "12/12", "2/2", "2/12", "12/2

Re: [Tutor] Buffering in file.read()

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Dave Kuhlman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 09:10:29PM +0530, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: > Take a look at the optional "bufsize" argument to the "open" built-in > function: > > "The optional bufsize argument specifies the file's desired bu

[Tutor] regex newbie question

Could someone tell me what's wrong with this regex? == lst = ["2/2/2", "3/3/45", "345/03/45", "4/4/2009", "4/4/12345",    "12/12/555", "12/12", "2/2", "2/12", "12/2"] regex = r"\b\d+/\d+/\d{2,4}\b|\b\d{1,2}/\d{1,2}\b" lst2 = [] for date in lst:    

Re: [Tutor] Buffering in file.read()

On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 09:10:29PM +0530, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: > > Suppose I need to > write a program which needs to parse lots of binary files. This requires > multiple reads of small amounts of data. Obviously if I need to do this > very often, I need to do some kind of buffering to redu

[Tutor] Buffering in file.read()

Suppose I need to write a program which needs to parse lots of binary files. This requires multiple reads of small amounts of data. Obviously if I need to do this very often, I need to do some kind of buffering to reduce IO. My question is this - does Python have its own buffering while doing f

Re: [Tutor] Memory Leak?

> > >>You can always make a subclass of the classes you're thinking aren't > being > >>garbage collected and put a print statement in their __del__ functions to > >>show you when they are. That will show you if/which objects aren't being > >>deleted. > > Is this reliable or will this just confuse t

Re: [Tutor] Memory Leak?

On Thursday 08 May 2008 00:03, Keith Suda-Cederquist wrote: > So I started commenting things out until I isolated the problem. > For some reason when I plot some of the data using > pylab/matplotlib, then close the figure using pylab.close() the > memory doesn't get cleared. (I left this part out