Re: [Tutor] Help with python-gnupg

2011-03-11 Thread David Hutto
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 2:07 AM, David Hutto wrote: > As a matter of fact, looking at them with know *no* knowledge of the > module, it says it's a typeerror, and that it expects string or > buffer, but gets file. If this is the same error in both instances, > then it's that output needs to be a

Re: [Tutor] Help with python-gnupg

2011-03-11 Thread David Hutto
As a matter of fact, looking at them with know knowledge of the module, it says it's a typeerror, and that it expects string or buffer, but gets file. If this is the same error in both instances, then it's that output needs to be a string or buffer, so just string either the datae variable, or the

Re: [Tutor] Help with python-gnupg

2011-03-11 Thread David Hutto
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 1:39 AM, Becky Mcquilling wrote: > If anyone is familiar with python-gnupg, I am having some difficulty with > the syntax.  I've tried the following: > f = open('c:/test/filename.txt', 'r') > datae = gpg.encrypt_file(f.read(), 'ladym...@gmail.com', > output=open('c:/gpg_tes

Re: [Tutor] Help with python-gnupg

2011-03-11 Thread David Hutto
Show the entire code, and error for both usages. The usages and a single error message for them both may be enough for someone not to try them out, and who can help you, if they knew more about the problem. Not everyone here will be an expert, but we do read direct code vs direct error, if we've b

[Tutor] Help with python-gnupg

2011-03-11 Thread Becky Mcquilling
If anyone is familiar with python-gnupg, I am having some difficulty with the syntax. I've tried the following: f = open('c:/test/filename.txt', 'r') datae = gpg.encrypt_file(f.read(), 'ladym...@gmail.com', output=open('c:/gpg_test/data.gpg2', 'w')) or file_to_encrypt = open('c:/gpg_test/data.gp

Re: [Tutor] Resources

2011-03-11 Thread Robert Berman
On 03/11/2011 09:19 PM, s s wrote: Hello, I was wondering where I should go to improve my python skills. I have finished the official tutorial and the tutorials on the official python website. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or ch

[Tutor] Resources

2011-03-11 Thread s s
Hello, I was wondering where I should go to improve my python skills. I have finished the official tutorial and the tutorials on the official python website. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mai

Re: [Tutor] Sorting multiple sequences

2011-03-11 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Dinesh B Vadhia wrote: I want to sort two sequences with different data types but both with an equal number of elements eg. f = [0.21, 0.68, 0.44, ..., 0.23] i = [6, 18, 3, ..., 45] The obvious solution is to use zip ie. pairs = zip(f,i) followed by pairs.sort(). This is fine It doesn't so

Re: [Tutor] Sorting multiple sequences

2011-03-11 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 3/11/2011 3:39 PM Dinesh B Vadhia said... I want to sort two sequences with different data types but both with an equal number of elements eg. f = [0.21, 0.68, 0.44, ..., 0.23] i = [6, 18, 3, ..., 45] The obvious solution is to use zip ie. pairs = zip(f,i) followed by pairs.sort(). This is fin

[Tutor] Sorting multiple sequences

2011-03-11 Thread Dinesh B Vadhia
I want to sort two sequences with different data types but both with an equal number of elements eg. f = [0.21, 0.68, 0.44, ..., 0.23] i = [6, 18, 3, ..., 45] The obvious solution is to use zip ie. pairs = zip(f,i) followed by pairs.sort(). This is fine but my sequences contain 10,000+ element

Re: [Tutor] New person greets you all!

2011-03-11 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 3/11/2011 2:44 PM Yaşar Arabacı said... I see all of you guys suggest that starting with 3.x. I was wondering what is setback of starting with 2.7 since my linux distro (openSUSE 11.4) comes with it and it would be pretty painfull for me to update to 3.x because lots of my applications in my c

Re: [Tutor] New person greets you all!

2011-03-11 Thread Yaşar Arabacı
I see all of you guys suggest that starting with 3.x. I was wondering what is setback of starting with 2.7 since my linux distro (openSUSE 11.4) comes with it and it would be pretty painfull for me to update to 3.x because lots of my applications in my computer depends on it. So is it worth the

Re: [Tutor] New person greets you all!

2011-03-11 Thread Alan Gauld
"Knacktus" wrote The official Python tutorial is a good start. You get familiar with the Python documentation as well. http://docs.python.org/py3k/ (Find the link to the tutorial on this page.) If you can already program thats the best starting point. For many folks its all they need. A cl

Re: [Tutor] CSV to Excel

2011-03-11 Thread Joel Goldstick
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Susana Iraiis Delgado Rodriguez < susana.delgad...@utzmg.edu.mx> wrote: > Hello list!! > > I'm trying to write a CSV file to work it with Excel. My python script is > working, the issue is: when I import the file from excel the data comes with > quotes at the begin

Re: [Tutor] CSV to Excel

2011-03-11 Thread Tim Golden
On 11/03/2011 8:59 PM, Susana Iraiis Delgado Rodriguez wrote: Hello list!! I'm trying to write a CSV file to work it with Excel. My python script is working, the issue is: when I import the file from excel the data comes with quotes at the beginnig and ending of the row. I don't want to have the

[Tutor] CSV to Excel

2011-03-11 Thread Susana Iraiis Delgado Rodriguez
Hello list!! I'm trying to write a CSV file to work it with Excel. My python script is working, the issue is: when I import the file from excel the data comes with quotes at the beginnig and ending of the row. I don't want to have these quotes. What is wrong with my code? import os, csv from osge

Re: [Tutor] Using the console module.

2011-03-11 Thread Alan Gauld
"DistortGiygas" wrote Python users, what's the best option for someone trying to emulate or use the curses module on the Windows platform? Write a GUI? Unlike Unix you know that you can run a GUI on windows so why not just write one. Its probably easier than using curses! But for the life

Re: [Tutor] Help on reading a plain file of names

2011-03-11 Thread Alan Gauld
"Tiago Cunha" wrote I would suggest to use the NLTK package. Try methods like nltk.endswith() or nltk.startswith() NLTK is probably overkill. The standard string methods startswith() and endswith() are probably adequate for this case. Alan G.

Re: [Tutor] Need help with dates in Python

2011-03-11 Thread nookasree ponamala
Thanks for your help Francesco. This works. Sree. --- On Fri, 3/11/11, Francesco Loffredo wrote: > From: Francesco Loffredo > Subject: Re: [Tutor] Need help with dates in Python > To: tutor@python.org > Date: Friday, March 11, 2011, 1:05 AM > On 09/03/2011 9.21, nookasree > ponamala wrote: > >

Re: [Tutor] New person greets you all!

2011-03-11 Thread Tiago Cunha
Hello, I am not a computer major, either. I am a Linguistics doctorate Student. I worked with the basics of programming (C, prolog...). And now using Python for Natural Language Processing. My interests are probably very different from yours, but I got intimate by Wesley Chun's Core Python Program

Re: [Tutor] New person greets you all!

2011-03-11 Thread Wayne Werner
2011/3/11 Yaşar Arabacı > Hi, > > First of all, I want to greet you all since this is the first time I will > be using this mail groups. > Welcome! > I consider myself being familiar with programming logic, structures in > general. I do/did lots of PHP programming. I know python and PHP is pre

Re: [Tutor] Help on reading a plain file of names

2011-03-11 Thread Tiago Cunha
I would suggest to use the NLTK package. Try methods like nltk.endswith() or nltk.startswith() On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 5:36 AM, Alan Gauld wrote: > "apple owner" wrote > > > I am new to python and I am trying to open a plain >> text file of names and to see the number of names >> that start

Re: [Tutor] New person greets you all!

2011-03-11 Thread Knacktus
Am 11.03.2011 17:12, schrieb Yaşar Arabacı: Hi, First of all, I want to greet you all since this is the first time I will be using this mail groups. I consider myself being familiar with programming logic, structures in general. I do/did lots of PHP programming. I know python and PHP is pretty

[Tutor] New person greets you all!

2011-03-11 Thread Yaşar Arabacı
Hi, First of all, I want to greet you all since this is the first time I will be using this mail groups. I consider myself being familiar with programming logic, structures in general. I do/did lots of PHP programming. I know python and PHP is pretty much different things, I am saying this j

Re: [Tutor] Code structure help

2011-03-11 Thread mdekauwe
(...snip...) I think your question is appropriate for both lists, it just wasn't sexy enough for anyone on c.l.py to answer ;) what is not sexy about modelling plant carbon uptake ;P Random remarks: > pg = PlantGrowth(self.control, self.params, self.state, >

Re: [Tutor] very odd math problem

2011-03-11 Thread Dave Angel
On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Alan Gauld wrote: Why would you use a loop when the final value is just the final multiplication. Since you know the final value in advance (you need it to create the loop!) why not just do the final multiplication directly: x = 10*0.1 I think

Re: [Tutor] Code structure help

2011-03-11 Thread Peter Otten
Martin De Kauwe wrote: > Note I have cross posted this as I have only just found this mailing list > and perhaps it is the more appropriate place (I am not sure)? I think your question is appropriate for both lists, it just wasn't sexy enough for anyone on c.l.py to answer ;) > I have been wor

Re: [Tutor] very odd math problem

2011-03-11 Thread ALAN GAULD
> >> The right way is to do it like this: > >> > >> >>> x = 0.0 > >> >>> for i in range(1, 11): > >> ... x = i*0.1 > > But this I don't understand. > > Why would you use a loop when the final value is just > > What you missed was the original context, where other work was being > done in

[Tutor] Python help on unicode needed....

2011-03-11 Thread cocron
Hello Danny, Can you perhaps help me on a python Unicode issue? I have an audio collection of many chinese titles on my music Database. I would like to rename all music titles in the directories and subdirectories to either their ascii values (preceeding with a certain character/s like “xx-

[Tutor] Code structure help

2011-03-11 Thread Martin De Kauwe
Hi, Note I have cross posted this as I have only just found this mailing list and perhaps it is the more appropriate place (I am not sure)? I have been working on re-writing a model in python. However I am not sure how easy on the eye my final structure is and would appreciate any constructive co

Re: [Tutor] very odd math problem

2011-03-11 Thread Tino Dai
> Some further resources: > > http://floating-point-gui.de/ > http://introcs.cs.princeton.edu/91float/ > > David Goldberg used to have a fantastic (although quite technical) > discussion of floating point issues, "What Every Computer Scientist Should > Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic": > > htt

Re: [Tutor] very odd math problem

2011-03-11 Thread Dave Angel
On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Alan Gauld wrote: "Steven D'Aprano" wrote The right way is to do it like this: >>> x = 0.0 >>> for i in range(1, 11): ... x = i*0.1 ... >>> x == 1.0 True But this I don't understand. Why would you use a loop when the final value is just the final multiplicati

Re: [Tutor] very odd math problem

2011-03-11 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Alan Gauld wrote: Why would you use a loop when the final value is just the final multiplication. Since you know the final value in advance (you need it to create the loop!) why not just do the final multiplication directly: x = 10*0.1 I think I'm missing something? The context was generatin

Re: [Tutor] Using the console module.

2011-03-11 Thread Tim Golden
On 11/03/2011 08:12, DistortGiygas wrote: Python users, what's the best option for someone trying to emulate or use the curses module on the Windows platform? I've been fooling around with the console module: effbot.org/zone/console-handbook.htm But for the life of me, I can't figure out how to

Re: [Tutor] Help on reading a plain file of names

2011-03-11 Thread Alan Gauld
"apple owner" wrote I am new to python and I am trying to open a plain text file of names and to see the number of names that start with specific letters and display them in a bar graph. OK, Lets break that down so that we can understand what exactly puzzles you: 1) Can you open a text file

Re: [Tutor] very odd math problem

2011-03-11 Thread Alan Gauld
"Steven D'Aprano" wrote Another problem: you calculate your values by repeated addition. This is the wrong way to do it, because each addition has a tiny little error, and repeating them just compounds error upon error. Here's an example: >>> x = 0.0 >>> for i in range(10): ... x += 0.

Re: [Tutor] fourier transform (fwd)

2011-03-11 Thread Alan Gauld
"Una Murphy" wrote Got your info off the web . Was wondering if you tutor people in FFT ? I am looking for someone in the SF bay area. We are a tutor group for teaching the Python programming language. You probably want a math tutor group. If however you want to implement a FFT solution

[Tutor] Using the console module.

2011-03-11 Thread DistortGiygas
Python users, what's the best option for someone trying to emulate or use the curses module on the Windows platform? I've been fooling around with the console module: effbot.org/zone/console-handbook.htm But for the life of me, I can't figure out how to detect a KeyRelease. Could anyone share some

[Tutor] Help on reading a plain file of names

2011-03-11 Thread apple owner
Hello there, I am new to python and I am trying to open a plain text file of names and to see the number of names that start with specific letters and display them in a bar graph. I have python version 3.2 and have the graphics.py package as well. If anybody out there knows how I could do this,

[Tutor] fourier transform (fwd)

2011-03-11 Thread Una Murphy
Hi Jeff Got your info off the web . Was wondering if you tutor people in FFT ? I am looking for someone in the SF bay area. Thank you Una ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/m