Re: [Tutor] absolute beginner

2008-09-10 Thread J. Van Brimmer
John Fouhy wrote: 2008/9/11 J. Van Brimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: This should be enough to get you started. You'll just have to jump in and read, read, and read. :-) I would say: jump in and code, code, and code. Reading's easy, but if you're anything like me, you'll learn more through

Re: [Tutor] absolute beginner

2008-09-10 Thread John Fouhy
2008/9/11 J. Van Brimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This should be enough to get you started. You'll just have to jump in and > read, read, and read. :-) I would say: jump in and code, code, and code. Reading's easy, but if you're anything like me, you'll learn more through doing. The best thing a t

Re: [Tutor] absolute beginner

2008-09-10 Thread J. Van Brimmer
Johnny wrote: Anyone have any advice for an all out beginner? Advice as in... The best book?...best tutor web page? I am wanting so badly to learn Python. I have went to this site... http://www.awaretek.com/tutorials.html This gave me lots of info,, but with so many books to choose from, I can

Re: [Tutor] absolute beginner

2008-09-10 Thread bhaaluu
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 11:29 PM, Johnny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone have any advice for an all out beginner? > Advice as in... The best book?...best tutor web page? > I am wanting so badly to learn Python. > > I have went to this site... > http://www.awaretek.com/tutorials.html > > This ga

[Tutor] absolute beginner

2008-09-10 Thread Johnny
Anyone have any advice for an all out beginner? Advice as in... The best book?...best tutor web page? I am wanting so badly to learn Python. I have went to this site... http://www.awaretek.com/tutorials.html This gave me lots of info,, but with so many books to choose from, I can't seem to fi

Re: [Tutor] Dealing with Microseconds

2008-09-10 Thread Wayne Watson
Title: Signature.html My concern is probably not as great as I originally thought. Losing 1 second because of truncation of seconds is probably not all that bad. If I'm losing 1 second after 10 days or 1 day, that's not all that bad. The program is not to be a cure all for clock drift. I gues

Re: [Tutor] Dealing with Microseconds

2008-09-10 Thread Kent Johnson
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Wayne Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to allow a user to enter a drift rate in seconds per day into a > program along with the date and time, a base, to begin calculation of > subsequent recorded date and times. datetime seems to only allow hours, > mi

[Tutor] Dealing with Microseconds

2008-09-10 Thread Wayne Watson
Title: Signature.html I'd like to allow a user to enter a drift rate in seconds per day into a program along with the date and time, a base, to begin calculation of subsequent recorded date and times. datetime seems to only allow  hours, minutes and seconds in its formats.  For example, 2.74 mi

Re: [Tutor] NetBeans IDE

2008-09-10 Thread Alan Gauld
"Hansen, Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote Being an editor/IDE junkie, I'm curious about the NetBeans IDE. Is anyone using it? If so, how is it? I used it briefly in one of my several attempts to like Java. About 3 years ago I think? I preferred it to Eclipse at the time, but I've now moved t

Re: [Tutor] Email and MIME

2008-09-10 Thread Kent Johnson
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 4:06 PM, grishma govani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Everybody, > > I have been trying to extract the body of all the email messages from an > mbox file. How are you doing this? Have you seen the mailbox module and this recipe: http://docs.python.org/lib/mailbox-mbox.

[Tutor] NetBeans IDE

2008-09-10 Thread Hansen, Mike
Being an editor/IDE junkie, I'm curious about the NetBeans IDE. Is anyone using it? If so, how is it? I believe it has a add-on for python.(NBPython) Mike ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

[Tutor] Email and MIME

2008-09-10 Thread grishma govani
Hello Everybody, I have been trying to extract the body of all the email messages from an mbox file. I have manages to separate the headers and get a string out that looks like 1) and 2) I would like to just extract the message and if there is only jibberish as in the case of 1), I would ex

[Tutor] How to revise script to call my non-default browser?

2008-09-10 Thread Dick Moores
Please see This was working fine until I made Google Chrome my default browser (on Win XP). I'm having a lot of trouble with getting Chrome to play video and audio linked to on a web page. Actually, I don't need the script to call a browser at all. I

Re: [Tutor] ways to sync databases with Python and SQLite?

2008-09-10 Thread Alan Gauld
"Che M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote I get the sense that Alan's idea of a log file to tell each DB how to change to keep current would work. What are the "very hard" aspects of that? The main issues are around conflicting edits. If both are just adding records its OK but if one deletes a re

Re: [Tutor] ways to sync databases with Python and SQLite?

2008-09-10 Thread Che M
> One way to work around this and still use SQLight is to put the database on a > shared drive. SQLight does table locking, or is it file locking. > Anyways conflicts will be very minimal to non-existant with only two clients > as most operations will complete in microseconds. The SQLight

Re: [Tutor] ways to sync databases with Python and SQLite?

2008-09-10 Thread Chad Crabtree
One way to work around this and still use SQLight is to put the database on a shared drive. SQLight does table locking, or is it file locking. Anyways conflicts will be very minimal to non-existant with only two clients as most operations will complete in microseconds. The SQLight website even s

Re: [Tutor] ways to sync databases with Python and SQLite?

2008-09-10 Thread Che M
> "Che M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > > I'd like to get ideas about how I could extend the application so > > that the > > databases on each computer could be kept "synchronized" > > How do you intend to get the two computers to talk? > Basically for any kind of synch both com,put

Re: [Tutor] ways to sync databases with Python and SQLite?

2008-09-10 Thread Che M
> > I'd like to get ideas about how I could extend the application so that the > > databases on each computer could be kept "synchronized" (not sure that is > > the right term here); that is, each new change on either computer would > > be updated on the other computer(s), given a bit of help fr

Re: [Tutor] ways to sync databases with Python and SQLite?

2008-09-10 Thread Chad Crabtree
One way to work around this and still use SQLight is to put the database on a shared drive. SQLight does table locking, or is it file locking. Anyways conflicts will be very minimal to non-existant with only two clients as most operations will complete in microseconds. The SQLight website even s