Re: [Tutor] droplet like behaviour in Python

On 2009-08-08 19:34:44 -0400, "Alan Gauld" said: "pedro" wrote is one thing I am not really sure how to do. I want to be able to drop a file onto a python script (or app I guess) and have the python script use the path to the file that was dropped on it as sys.argv[1] I may be wrong but

Re: [Tutor] hi everyone!

"malathi selvaraj" wrote i am new one to this programming language. Hello and welcome. what i do to learn python in proper manner. First of all make sure you download Python v2.6 rather than v3. v3 is not ideal for learning just yet it is still rather new. Do you know any other progra

Re: [Tutor] Configuaration files and paths?

Allen Fowler wrote: >>> FWIW: >>> >>> When using relative paths I got extra ../../ terms, so I changed >> join_relative() to: >>> def join_relative(base, path): >>> return os.path.normpath(os.path.join(script_dir(base), path)) >>> >>> >>> Seems to work... >> >> Yeah, good catch ... looks grea

Re: [Tutor] this module

Alan Gauld wrote: "Mark Young" wrote Thanks everybody, I didn't know modules ran code when you imported them, I just thought they defined the functions, etc. in them. They do that too. But in Python a function definition is created by running the code! So you write def foo(): return

[Tutor] hi everyone!

i am new one to this programming language. i like to learn python,what i do? what i do to learn python in proper manner. -- Regards, S.Malathi. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] this module

"Mark Young" wrote Thanks everybody, I didn't know modules ran code when you imported them, I just thought they defined the functions, etc. in them. They do that too. But in Python a function definition is created by running the code! So you write def foo(): return 42 To define foo y