Thanks to all for the answers. Sounds like exceptions are most
definitely the way to go, and I will definitely put them in. In fact,
this should make the wrapper a bit cleaner since I am not constantly
checking for errors in variables and returning empty objects. Besides,
I wouldn't want my soul st
Alan Gauld wrote:
"C.Y. Ruhulessin" wrote
When I load up Civilization IV, a Firaxis game, the loading screen
tells me
"Loading Python".
However, I can't seem to find out where it installs python
It probably doesn't actually install Python it is simply loading
the interpreter into memory.
Alex Hall wrote:
Hi all,
I am wondering what the best way to do the following would be: throw
an exception, or always return an object but set an error flag if
something goes wrong?
Raise an exception. Error flags are an anti-pattern -- a software idiom
that you should not follow.
The probl
On 2011-02-03 19:14:40 -0500, Alan Gauld said:
"Tino Dai" wrote
Finally you should check out Alan Gauld's page:
http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld/
That site has been locked for over 2 years. The new
site has a lot of updates and, of course, a whole new
rewrite of the tutor for v3!
Hello,
Thanks for the input so far. Alan I saw a Message about your website
right after I sent away my question and it definetly looks like a good
place to start... especially the sections from Advanced Topics onwards.
It says v3 is Under Construction, how long do you expect it to be like
this.
Karim wrote:
*Indeed what's the matter with RE module!?*
You should really fix the problem with your email program first;
Thunderbird issue with bold type (appears as stars) but I don't know how
to fix it yet.
A man when to a doctor and said, "Doctor, every time I do this, it
hurts. What sh
On 2/3/2011 4:41 PM Alex Hall said...
Hi all,
I am wondering what the best way to do the following would be: throw
an exception, or always return an object but set an error flag if
something goes wrong? Here is an example:
class c:
def __init__(self):
self.error=False
def func(self, val):
Doug Marvel wrote:
[...]
I am hoping for a link to a somewhat comprehensive online resource
that explains from the beginning in English, plain English, as this is
the only language I speak. Something to get my foot in the door would
be awesome.
Another very important resource to use is the Pyth
Hi all,
I am wondering what the best way to do the following would be: throw
an exception, or always return an object but set an error flag if
something goes wrong? Here is an example:
class c:
def __init__(self):
self.error=False
def func(self, val):
if val!=10: self.error=True
someObj=c()
"Tino Dai" wrote
Finally you should check out Alan Gauld's page:
http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld/
That site has been locked for over 2 years. The new
site has a lot of updates and, of course, a whole new
rewrite of the tutor for v3! :-)
See the sig...
--
Alan Gauld
Author
"David Goering" wrote
1) Does anyone have ideas for small - mid ranged projects where I
could quickly pick up on the pitfalls of Python but that is also
useful in some way ?
Check the recent archives we had a very similar thread a week
or two back. (And fairly regularly over the years!)
I h
"C.Y. Ruhulessin" wrote
When I load up Civilization IV, a Firaxis game, the loading screen
tells me
"Loading Python".
However, I can't seem to find out where it installs python
It probably doesn't actually install Python it is simply loading
the interpreter into memory.
It probably uses P
Hello Eric!
On Thursday 03.02.2011 08:05:13 Eric Lofgren wrote:
> def eq_system(PopIn,x):
> '''Defining SIR System of Equations'''
> #Creating an array of equations
> Eqs= np.zeros((3))
> Eqs[0]= -beta * PopIn[0]*PopIn[1]
> Eqs[1]= beta * PopIn[0]*PopIn[1] - gamma*PopIn[1]
>
"Karim" wrote
Because expression = *' "" '* is in fact fact expression = ' "" '.
The bold appear as stars I don't know why.
Because in the days when email was always sent in plain
ASCII text the way to show "bold" was to put asterisks around
it. Underlining used _underscores_ like so...
On 02/03/2011 07:47 PM, Karim wrote:
On 02/03/2011 02:15 PM, Peter Otten wrote:
Karim wrote:
I am trying to subsitute a '""' pattern in '\"\"' namely escape 2
consecutives double quotes:
* *In Python interpreter:*
$ python
Python 2.7.1rc1 (r271rc1:86455, Nov 16 2010, 21:53:40)
[GCC 4.4.
On 02/03/2011 11:20 PM, Dave Angel wrote:
On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Karim wrote:
On 02/03/2011 02:15 PM, Peter Otten wrote:
Karim wrote:
(snip>
*Indeed what's the matter with RE module!?*
You should really fix the problem with your email program first;
Thunderbird issue with bold type (ap
On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Karim wrote:
On 02/03/2011 02:15 PM, Peter Otten wrote:
Karim wrote:
(snip>
*Indeed what's the matter with RE module!?*
You should really fix the problem with your email program first;
Thunderbird issue with bold type (appears as stars) but I don't know how
to fix
* Tim Johnson [110203 10:34]:
> # OR (project config file)
> kws = load.config("myconfig","tmpl_kws")
> kws.update({"prj":"myproject","templatepath":"views"})
#Grr! The following line is wrong ..
> kws = {"prj":"myproject","templatepath":"views"}
Should be
#content = LoadView(**kws)
sorry
--
Tim
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:24 PM, David Goering wrote:
> Hello,
> this is my first message here... and come to think of it my first Message
> in a Mailing List what so ever. So a moment of epic historical importance :)
> Anyway I decided I wanted to learn Python as I didn't really know any
> script
FYI: Python 2.6.5 on Linux.
FYI: I am a web programmer of 24 years experience programming, 9
with python, but have never had the advantage of working with a
senior programmer as a mentor. I am investigating the best practices
of instantiating an object with a large amount of options. I would
also r
Hello,
this is my first message here... and come to think of it my first
Message in a Mailing List what so ever. So a moment of epic historical
importance :)
Anyway I decided I wanted to learn Python as I didn't really know any
scripting language yet and I have heard great things about Python.
On 02/03/2011 02:15 PM, Peter Otten wrote:
Karim wrote:
I am trying to subsitute a '""' pattern in '\"\"' namely escape 2
consecutives double quotes:
* *In Python interpreter:*
$ python
Python 2.7.1rc1 (r271rc1:86455, Nov 16 2010, 21:53:40)
[GCC 4.4.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright",
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Patty wrote:
> Hello Folks - I have Python 2.6.6 on my Windows 7 system and installed
> Python 3.2. Now I want to be able to differentiate between the versions and
> the icon for each version of Python is the same. I figured I would change
> the the four applica
Hello Doug - My very first document I read - before I took an online
course - was "A Quick, Painless Tutorial on the Python Language" by Norman
Matloff from UC Davis. My copy is dated May 1, 2009 but I think he has
updated it -- looks like May 2010. Here is the link, you may also want to
quer
I haven't tried this on Windows 7 yet, but what I did on my Mac was to create
shortcuts and rename those. I generally launch from shortcuts, so this leaves
the app names alone but gives me the information I need to launch what I
intend. You should be able to do something similar on Windows.
r
Hello Folks - I have Python 2.6.6 on my Windows 7 system and installed Python
3.2. Now I want to be able to differentiate between the versions and the icon
for each version of Python is the same. I figured I would change the the four
application files in the C:\Python26 directory - python; pyt
Holy wow! I'm going to go through all of these and see what sort of
understanding I can absorb. I'm super excited that a helpful community
exists for this, but I'm more excited to start learning. So I'm going
to go do that now. I'm starting with Alan Gauld's tutorial, but like I
said, I'm going to
Hi Tom,
First, you sent this only to me -- be sure to reply all so that the
group can participate.
On 2/2/2011 10:25 AM Tom Brauch said...
> Thanks, Emile.
>
> If I replace the question marks in my script with break it throws out
> everything before the break (<) and gives me the header starti
Hi all,
I'm new in Python, so I'm reading 3.1 tutorial and now I've got a question
about locale.setlocale function. I've tryed in python idle this:
import locale
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'English_United States.1252')
and i got:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
Karim wrote:
> I am trying to subsitute a '""' pattern in '\"\"' namely escape 2
> consecutives double quotes:
>
> * *In Python interpreter:*
>
> $ python
> Python 2.7.1rc1 (r271rc1:86455, Nov 16 2010, 21:53:40)
> [GCC 4.4.3] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for m
Thanks, will check it out!
2011/2/3 Noah Hall
> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:11 AM, C.Y. Ruhulessin
> wrote:
> > For an application that I am designing, i'd like to achieve the same
> > functionality, so the end users don't have to bother installing Python
> > themselves.
> > Can anybody shed thei
I forget something. There is no issue with python and double quotes.
But I need to give it to TCL script but as TCL is shit string is only
delimited by double quotes.
Thus I need to escape it to not have syntax error whith nested double
quotes.
Regards
The poor tradesman
On 02/03/2011 12:45
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:11 AM, C.Y. Ruhulessin
wrote:
> For an application that I am designing, i'd like to achieve the same
> functionality, so the end users don't have to bother installing Python
> themselves.
> Can anybody shed their lights on how one would program this?
> kind regards,
The
Hello Steven,
I am perhaps a poor tradesman but I have to blame my thunderbird tool :-P .
Because expression = *' "" '* is in fact fact expression = ' "" '.
The bold appear as stars I don't know why. I need to have escapes for
passing it to another language (TCL interpreter).
So I will rewrit
Hi all,
When I load up Civilization IV, a Firaxis game, the loading screen tells me
"Loading Python".
However, I can't seem to find out where it installs python (and Python
wasn't installed before I installed it myself), so I *assume *that it
'installs' and loads Python at runtime.
For an applic
"michael scott" wrote
already been asked, learn from others who asked before you :) Oh
yea, I once
read that there are no intermediate tutorials in any programming
language,
because once you get past the basics, you only need to reference the
"documentation" that comes with the language.
Th
Bill Allen wrote:
I have found that there are a couple of ways to convert a byte array to a
string in Python. Is there any advantage or disadvantage to either method?
my_bytes = b'this is a test'
str(my_bytes,'utf-8') yields 'this is a test'
my_bytes.decode('utf-8';) yeilds 'this is a tes
Karim wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to subsitute a '""' pattern in '\"\"' namely escape 2
consecutives double quotes:
You don't have to escape quotes. Just use the other sort of quote:
>>> print '""'
""
* *In Python interpreter:*
$ python
Python 2.7.1rc1 (r271rc1:86455, Nov 16 2010, 21:5
Hello,
Any news on this topic?O:-)
Regards
Karim
On 02/02/2011 08:21 PM, Karim wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to subsitute a '""' pattern in '\"\"' namely escape 2
consecutives double quotes:
* *In Python interpreter:*
$ python
Python 2.7.1rc1 (r271rc1:86455, Nov 16 2010, 21:53:40)
[GCC
"Doug Marvel" wrote
- I have downloaded and installed Python 2.6.4. Successfully, I
think.
- I am running Windows XP SP3 (though I'm going to see if I can do
this on my laptop, which has Windows 7)
- I have toyed around with some tutorials, but all they really
taught
me is that I need a teac
I'd also recommend using
http://www.openbookproject.net/thinkcs/python/english2e/ . Currently I am
learning from it. Once u are through with it u can read the book called Dive
into Python. it's for experienced users. Google it.
Hope that helps.
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:20 PM, wrote:
>
> Seven y
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