On Fri, 5 Nov 2010, Terry Carroll wrote:
Aha, this looks like it will work; I was starting to think along these lines;
I was thinking of reading the output of df, but this is cleaner.
Just to close this out, here's what's working for me. It will need to be
prettied up, and the "/media/" para
On 6 November 2010 16:20, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Luke Paireepinart wrote:
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>> You don't get your own e-mails back.
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> I do.
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> Perhaps it's an option when you sign up?
For any list (like this one) hosted by mailman, the default is set by
list administrator, but every user can customise this
Danyelle Davis wrote:
Hi all,
Any suggestions for a newbie to program while learning python? I am new to
programming and python.
Here's a few suggestions:
Write a program that asks the user to enter a word, then counts how many
vowels and consonants are in the word.
Write a program that
Danyelle Davis wrote:
Hi all,
Any suggestions for a newbie to program while learning python? I am new to
programming and python.
What are you interested in?
Interested in maths? Write a program to generate prime numbers, or to
search for amicable numbers. Look at Project Euler, although (i
Luke Paireepinart wrote:
You don't get your own e-mails back.
I do.
Perhaps it's an option when you sign up?
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Hi Alan -
I tried using ImageTk from the PIL library to display jpegs (and hopefully any
picture type) instead of just gif as you suggested below. I read online that
these these types of programs should
be run from executables not in the interpreter but it crashes and I can't read
the error
You don't get your own e-mails back.
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Danyelle Davis wrote:
> im wondering if im able to mail this list. I sent an email asking for good
> newbie projects but never saw it post. All i got was the welcome/ info
> email.
> LN
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im wondering if im able to mail this list. I sent an email asking for good
newbie projects but never saw it post. All i got was the welcome/ info
email.
LN
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This is more of a Linux question, but here is some advice:
All files under /dev are more or less raw representations of the
devices, meaning that /dev/cdrom or /dev/sr0 files represent the CDROM
devices, however this is for raw access to the device data, now really
for normal use, the sistem may "
On Sat, 6 Nov 2010, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Terry Carroll wrote:
I have a program that traverses the directory of a CDROM using os.walk. I
do most of my work on Windows, but some on (Ubuntu) Linux, and I'd like
this to work in both environments.
On Windows, I do something along the lines of t
Hi all,
Any suggestions for a newbie to program while learning python? I am new to
programming and python.
Thanks,
LN
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One final suggestion to add to the others: Install and use both pylint, and
pychecker. That will help ensure you don't make silly errors or omissions
and follow a consistent coding style that matches the generally accepted
format well.
PyLint: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pylint
PyChecker: http://
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
But if you might have an external hard drive plugged in, or a USB key,
or similar, then you need to find out what the volume name of the
mounted CD drive is. That's a good question and I don't have an answer
right now. Let me think about it and get back to you.
Well th
Terry Carroll wrote:
I have a program that traverses the directory of a CDROM using os.walk.
I do most of my work on Windows, but some on (Ubuntu) Linux, and I'd
like this to work in both environments.
On Windows, I do something along the lines of this:
startpoint="D:/"
What if the user h
On Sat, 6 Nov 2010, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Anyway, more modern Linux systems automatically mount CDs and DVDs. By
convention, /mnt/... is used for manually mounts, and /media/... for
automatic mounts of media.
I am seeing my volume in /media ; however, I won't know the volume name
when my pr
Hi everyone,
I'm just about to begin to learn python and have bookmarked a number of
sites to learn from
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ is the main one but after reading this
""On Nov 4, 2010, at 3:10 PM, Glen Clark wrote:
Hello,
I have completed my first python script. This is after watching a video
Alan Gauld wrote:
I don't use Ubuntu so don;t know the standard anmswer there but it will
depend on where the CD is mounterd.
I usually mount cdroms on /dev/cdrom
Surely that's where you mount cdroms *from*? I can't think that using
/dev/cdrom as the mount point would be a good idea!
Anyw
Alan Gauld wrote:
I don't use Ubuntu so don;t know the standard anmswer
there but it will depend on where the CD is mounterd.
I usually mount cdroms on /dev/cdrom
That's what I figured; I now realize I didn't say so in my email, but it's
mounted at /dev/sr0, which is where I came up with tha
"Patty" wrote
I had a followup question for you all - and would like to know the
answer to Alan's question about print quality - below -
A Google search led me to this page which seems to offer a solution
using PIL anmd a module called ImageTk:
http://codeidol.com/python/python3/A-Tkinter-
"Terry Carroll" wrote
On Windows, I do something along the lines of this:
startpoint="D:/"
for (root, dirs, files) in os.walk(startpoint):
(stuff)
What would I use for startpoint in Linux?
I don't use Ubuntu so don;t know the standard anmswer
there but it will depend on where t
"Chris King" wrote
If you are using Windows, turn off the built-in firewall. That's
what fixed my problems.
~Corey
also, it is on the same network, so the server shouldn't be a
problem
I think Corey means the firewall on your PC if you have one. It could
be blocking outgoing traffic to u
I have a program that traverses the directory of a CDROM using os.walk.
I do most of my work on Windows, but some on (Ubuntu) Linux, and I'd like
this to work in both environments.
On Windows, I do something along the lines of this:
startpoint="D:/"
for (root, dirs, files) in os.walk(start
On 11/5/2010 3:18 PM, Chris King wrote:
On 11/4/2010 9:46 PM, Corey Richardson wrote:
On 11/4/2010 8:43 PM, Chris King wrote:
Dear Tutors,
May server and client programs aren't working. They basically
simplify socket and SocketServer. Run them directly to test them.
They do work loc
I just realized I did the same thing - must have hit reply to one instead of
reply to all :}
I had a followup question for you all - and would like to know the answer to
Alan's question about print quality - below -
Patty
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From: "Patty"
To: "Alan Gauld"
Sent:
On 11/4/2010 9:46 PM, Corey Richardson wrote:
On 11/4/2010 8:43 PM, Chris King wrote:
Dear Tutors,
May server and client programs aren't working. They basically
simplify socket and SocketServer. Run them directly to test them.
They do work locally. They don't work from one computer to
"Garry Willgoose" wrote
For a while now I have been using the command below in a python file
to determine the name of the python file that I use to launch an
application
sys.modules['__main__'].__dict__['__file__']
The usual way to do that would be via sys.argv[0]
Is there any reason why
"Glen Clark" wrote
Really useful feedback, I will note the points highlighted for my
next
mini-project. I feel it is important that I am writing proper code
before
moving onto learning modules and such.
I wouldn't sweat over it. Modules are at the heart of Python and
restricting
yourself t
Thank you very much for the feedback Luke. I have taken it onboard. I
especially like the .lower().strip()[0] method ^^
Regards,
G
On 4 November 2010 22:38, Luke Paireepinart wrote:
> Also for your confirm entries read about sentinel values for while loops.
> It saves you repeating the conditio
*#Your code is very readable...more so than some experienced people ;^)*
Thank you, that is very motivating that I am at least on the right track!
#A few suggestions (and assuming Python 3.X, since that's what it looks
like):
Yeah it is 3.1, forgot to mention that.
# * "list" shadows a built-in
On 05-Nov-2010, at 4:45 PM, Garry Willgoose wrote:
> For a while now I have been using the command below in a python file to
> determine the name of the python file that I use to launch an application
> (i.e.IF I go 'python junk.py' I want to get 'junk.py'). The command I have
> use that I cam
For a while now I have been using the command below in a python file to
determine the name of the python file that I use to launch an application
(i.e.IF I go 'python junk.py' I want to get 'junk.py'). The command I have use
that I came across somewhere some time ago was
sys.modules['__main__']
On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 01:11 +, Walter Prins wrote:
> You need to distinguish between what __dict__ *is*, and what it
> *contains*. dir() does introspection, it inspects what an object in
> Python *is*, e.g. displays all the methods and attributes of the
> object. It does not however know anyt
fowarding to group, please use reply-all when replying.
Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn To Program website
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/
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"Glen Clark" wrote in message
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Hello,
I have completed my first python script. This is after watching a video
guide on python and is my first attempt at writing code in python. While
the
code is not very useful I got the ide
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