Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

2010-07-02 Thread bob gailer
On 7/2/2010 5:56 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote: [snip] Visual FoxPro ... is very similar to Access I differ. Access and FoxPro are very different. Yes they both use tables, relationships, indexes and SQL. Yes they both have visual designers for forms and reports. Yes they both are programmable.

Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

2010-07-02 Thread David Hutto
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:10 PM, David Hutto wrote: > On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:07 PM, David Hutto wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:01 PM, David Hutto wrote: >>> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote: On 07/02/2010 06:51 PM, David Hutto wrote: > > In the end, there

Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

2010-07-02 Thread David Hutto
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:07 PM, David Hutto wrote: > On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:01 PM, David Hutto wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote: >>> On 07/02/2010 06:51 PM, David Hutto wrote: In the end, there might be so many packages, I might not be able to handl

Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

2010-07-02 Thread David Hutto
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:01 PM, David Hutto wrote: > On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote: >> On 07/02/2010 06:51 PM, David Hutto wrote: >>> >>> In the end, there might be so many packages, I might not be able to >>> handle it all(for my own uses). But, I would think, you would agr

Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

2010-07-02 Thread David Hutto
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote: > On 07/02/2010 06:51 PM, David Hutto wrote: >> >> In the end, there might be so many packages, I might not be able to >> handle it all(for my own uses). But, I would think, you would agree >> that a simple account balance app, would be no more t

Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

2010-07-02 Thread Jeff Johnson
On 07/02/2010 06:51 PM, David Hutto wrote: In the end, there might be so many packages, I might not be able to handle it all(for my own uses). But, I would think, you would agree that a simple account balance app, would be no more than tkinter with a few functions to write and retrieve data from

Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

2010-07-02 Thread David Hutto
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:44 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote: > On 07/02/2010 06:32 PM, David Hutto wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:31 PM, David Hutto  wrote: >> >>> >>> Well, it was mainly that he said he was a beginner and was only using >>> this for a single banking project, I do believe. >>> >>> N

Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

2010-07-02 Thread David Hutto
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:31 PM, David Hutto wrote: > On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote: >> On 07/02/2010 06:14 PM, David Hutto wrote: >>> >>> Stick to the main python libraries(python with sqllite, and for the >>> standalone exe know it's somewhere, and I've seen it in the past f

Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

2010-07-02 Thread David Hutto
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote: > On 07/02/2010 06:14 PM, David Hutto wrote: >> >> Stick to the main python libraries(python with sqllite, and for the >> standalone exe know it's somewhere, and I've seen it in the past few >> days, but didn't pay attention because it wasn't imp

Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

2010-07-02 Thread Jeff Johnson
On 07/02/2010 06:14 PM, David Hutto wrote: Stick to the main python libraries(python with sqllite, and for the standalone exe know it's somewhere, and I've seen it in the past few days, but didn't pay attention because it wasn't important to what I was doing at the time) going anywhere else is t

Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

2010-07-02 Thread David Hutto
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote: > On 07/02/2010 05:35 PM, Chris C. wrote: > > Hi Jeff, thank for your reply!  I’m aware of Dabo and was pretty much sold > on using it until the last couple of days.  I was trying to install it so I > could start connecting to my tables when I ra

Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

2010-07-02 Thread Jeff Johnson
On 07/02/2010 05:35 PM, Chris C. wrote: Hi Jeff, thank for your reply! I'm aware of Dabo and was pretty much sold on using it until the last couple of days. I was trying to install it so I could start connecting to my tables when I ran into a problem with the instructions for installing Rep

Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

2010-07-02 Thread Alan Gauld
"Chris C." wrote rewrite one of my Access dbs (one that does our finances) into a stand-alone Python database program using SQLite. I know I'll be learning as I go, but that'll work, I'm not in a big hurry and I'll work on it in my spare time. If its a database focused app I'd take a look

Re: [Tutor] (no subject)

2010-07-02 Thread Richard D. Moores
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 05:01, Malcolm Greene wrote: > Hi Richard, > > I've used Activestate's Python setups in the past with success. > > But I recently had a problem with their setups running under Windows 7 > (64-bit). I can't remember the specific problem, but after much head > scratching and f

Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

2010-07-02 Thread Jeff Johnson
On 07/02/2010 11:40 AM, Chris C. wrote: I'm writing this question because I want, for my own satisfaction, to rewrite one of my Access dbs (one that does our finances) into a stand-alone Python database program using SQLite. I know I'll be learning as I go, but that'll work, I'm not in a big h

[Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

2010-07-02 Thread Chris C.
Hi, I'm not a programmer, but I have been exposed to some programming basics. I've written small parts of console-based C++ programs in an OOP class I took last year (but nothing outside of the classroom setting), and on my own I've written some semi-simple multi-form multi-report databases in Acc

Re: [Tutor] Reading a file

2010-07-02 Thread Alan Gauld
"David Hutto" wrote In the code below, I'm trying to read from a file, and print out the lines. Steven addressed that but... def increment(): for number in range(1, 500): print number ++1 This function if called will print out all of the numbers at once, it won't return an

Re: [Tutor] Reading a file

2010-07-02 Thread David Hutto
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 11:16:02 pm David Hutto wrote: >> In the code below, I'm trying to read from a file, and print out the >> lines. > > f = open("filename.txt") > for line in f: >    print line > f.close() > > is all you need, and even the

Re: [Tutor] Tutor Digest, Vol 77, Issue 3

2010-07-02 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 3 Jul 2010 01:44:26 am Jacob Bender wrote: > Instead of using "find" you could use a for loop. Explore what I mean > in the attachment. If you have IDLE you can look at the programming > in it. Jacob, please trim your replies, *especially* when replying to a digest. There is absolutely no

Re: [Tutor] Tutor Digest, Vol 77, Issue 3

2010-07-02 Thread Jacob Bender
Instead of using "find" you could use a for loop. Explore what I mean in the attachment. If you have IDLE you can look at the programming in it. On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 11:58 PM, wrote: > Send Tutor mailing list submissions to >tutor@python.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the Worl

Re: [Tutor] Reading a file

2010-07-02 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 11:16:02 pm David Hutto wrote: > In the code below, I'm trying to read from a file, and print out the > lines. f = open("filename.txt") for line in f: print line f.close() is all you need, and even the close at the end is optional (but recommended). > I know I've seen t

Re: [Tutor] S.find()

2010-07-02 Thread Corey Richardson
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[Tutor] Reading a file

2010-07-02 Thread David Hutto
In the code below, I'm trying to read from a file, and print out the lines. I know I've seen the exact function I'm looking for here, but it seems like the below 'should' work. The second function(rdfil) works, if just the line number is placed there, and th first(increment) works for printing a n

Re: [Tutor] (no subject)

2010-07-02 Thread Alan Gauld
"Richard D. Moores" wrote Yes, and I would recommend you get yours from the Activestate.com web site rather than python.org since the Activestate version is much more Windows friendly. Alan, I'm interested. Could you tell us more about how it's more Windows friendly? It comes with the Wi