Re: [Tutor] Why is there no uninstall option for setup.py?

2009-07-11 Thread Ataulla S H
its a open source u need to delete the installed package or rename the package y have full flexibility On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 8:12 AM, wcyee wrote: > Hi,  When I am able to find and install a windows package distributed > as an exe file, I can just go to "Add & Remove Programs" in th

[Tutor] Why is there no uninstall option for setup.py?

2009-07-11 Thread wcyee
Hi, When I am able to find and install a windows package distributed as an exe file, I can just go to "Add & Remove Programs" in the "Control Panel" and uninstall it. But if I have to run "python setup.py install", this is not possible. I'm trying to understand why uninstall has not been provided

Re: [Tutor] thesaurus

2009-07-11 Thread Dave Angel
Pete Froslie wrote: the trailing comma is getting me much closer right away! -- will read about the other options you suggest (rstrip(); stdout: write()) I clearly have a few other issues I need to sort out now. i guess I've been assuming that print was a good way to trace what is happening rathe

Re: [Tutor] thesaurus

2009-07-11 Thread Pete Froslie
the trailing comma is getting me much closer right away! -- will read about the other options you suggest (rstrip(); stdout: write()) I clearly have a few other issues I need to sort out now. i guess I've been assuming that print was a good way to trace what is happening rather than thinking about

Re: [Tutor] thesaurus

2009-07-11 Thread Dave Angel
Pete Froslie wrote: thanks for the advice Alan.. I am wondering about the following: new_word = response3[2] old_word = response[word_number] #this works but adds carriage returns* for line in fileinput.FileInput("journey_test.txt",inplace=1): line = line.replace(old_word, new_word)

Re: [Tutor] thesaurus

2009-07-11 Thread Pete Froslie
thanks for the advice Alan.. I am wondering about the following: new_word = response3[2] old_word = response[word_number] #this works but adds carriage returns* for line in fileinput.FileInput("journey_test.txt",inplace=1): line = line.replace(old_word, new_word) print line It seem

Re: [Tutor] thesaurus

2009-07-11 Thread ALAN GAULD
> I am having trouble with probably the most simple part: > I cannot seem to go back into the 'txt' file and replace the word I just > searched with the new word! Its not a good idea to try to read and write to the same file at the same time. The normal approach is to weither ead the file into

Re: [Tutor] Trickier exercise: convert string to complex number

2009-07-11 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 7/10/2009 7:15 PM Angus Rodgers said... and such misdemeanours from string import whitespace def no_spaces(str): Generally, don't shadow builtins (ie, don't use vars with the same names as builtin functions -- str in this case) Emile ___

Re: [Tutor] thesaurus

2009-07-11 Thread Pete Froslie
So, I basically have this working so that it pulls a word from a 'txt' file; searches for the synonym in the thesaurus; returns the result... but then I am having trouble with probably the most simple part: I cannot seem to go back into the 'txt' file and replace the word I just searched with the n

Re: [Tutor] Trickier exercise: convert string to complex number

2009-07-11 Thread Angus Rodgers
>Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:33:58 +1000 >From: Lie Ryan >Message-ID: > >Err... what's the question? Are you asking for style checking or the >mentioned "bugs" in the comments? Mainly style checking (but more generally anything silly that I'm doing, that might leap to somebody's eye). Any time my

[Tutor] Free webinars: Scientific computing with Python

2009-07-11 Thread Kent Johnson
Enthought is conducting a series of free webinars on scientific computing with Python. They seem to be oriented to beginners. The next one is about Chaco, the plotting tool. http://blog.enthought.com/?p=125 Kent ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org ht

Re: [Tutor] Searching backwards from end of string

2009-07-11 Thread Luke Paireepinart
Angus,I don't think you're at fault but you must keep in mind that a lot of people that read this list get a lot of the same questions repeatedly, only worded slightly differently. I also didn't notice that you used slicing in your first message, and in your second message I just saw that you quote

Re: [Tutor] Searching backwards from end of string

2009-07-11 Thread Angus Rodgers
Robert Berman wrote: >A nifty 'notation like "[::-1]"' is an example of something called >slicing which you will find very well explained in 6.1 of CORE PYTHON >PROGRAMMING. I thought that you had reviewed this since it precedes the >questions in Chapter 6. It is a very handy tool for not only s

Re: [Tutor] Python Tutorials: How to create useful programs after learning the syntax?

2009-07-11 Thread wesley chun
luis, thanks for the kind words... i am glad that i am able to help you with developing your Python programming skills. you are indeed "taking it to the next level" by adding more to the problem without me asking you to. i think that's great! i am a software engineer by profession, which doesn't

Re: [Tutor] Python Tutorials: How to create useful programs after learning the syntax?

2009-07-11 Thread Luis Galvan
Mr. Chun, thank you so much for your plug! I had no idea such a prestiged author as yourself would respond to my question, but I'm glad you did! I checked out a copy of your book from my public library (I'll need to purchase a copy eventually though) and the exercises are definitely helping a TO