Re: [Tutor] Question about language code

2012-10-11 Thread eryksun
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 12:37 AM, eryksun wrote: > > For example (untested): > > >>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'German_Germany.1252') I got around to testing the above, and it works. Also, the Python docs say "if [locale is] an iterable, it’s converted to a locale name using the locale

Re: [Tutor] Question about language code

2012-10-11 Thread eryksun
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Dae James wrote: > import locale loc = locale.getlocale() # get current locale > # use German locale; name might vary with platform locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'de_DE') This depends on the C runtime. For Windows, see MSDN: setlocale http://msd

[Tutor] Question about language code

2012-10-11 Thread Dae James
Here is a example in "Python v2.7.2 document": >>> import locale >>> loc = locale.getlocale() # get current locale # use German locale; name might vary with platform >>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'de_DE') However, the result of executing on my computer is: >>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL

Re: [Tutor] need an explanation

2012-10-11 Thread Prasad, Ramit
Matthew Ngaha wrote: [snip] > @ DAVE.. you said > sys is a module (presumably you have an import > somewhere above this line). In the module, there's a list argv. > > the import statements are: > > import sys > import os > import shutil > import zipfile > > so im guessing [sys, os, shutil, zipf

Re: [Tutor] need an explanation

2012-10-11 Thread Dave Angel
On 10/11/2012 04:48 PM, Matthew Ngaha wrote: >> >> Obviously a Monty Python fan as I see 3 methods :) >> > lol i dont know what i was looking at.. yes its 3 methods sorry:( > > >>> def __init__(self): >>> self.zipping_directory = "unzipped-{}".format(filename) >>> >> Where did filename appear

Re: [Tutor] need an explanation

2012-10-11 Thread Matthew Ngaha
> > > Obviously a Monty Python fan as I see 3 methods :) > lol i dont know what i was looking at.. yes its 3 methods sorry:( > >> def __init__(self): >> self.zipping_directory = "unzipped-{}".format(filename) >> > > Where did filename appear from above? > > > sorry i didnt write everything.

Re: [Tutor] need an explanation

2012-10-11 Thread Emile van Sebille
Matthew Ngaha wrote: i need help on 2 topics. 1) can someone please tell me what sys is doing, and why its using weird indexing? if __name__ == "__main__": A_Class(*sys.argv[1:4]).A_Class_Method() sys is doing nothing -- argv in sys holds the command line arguments passed into python

Re: [Tutor] need an explanation

2012-10-11 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 11/10/2012 20:24, Matthew Ngaha wrote: i need help on 2 topics. 1) can someone please tell me what sys is doing, and why its using weird indexing? sys isn't doing anything and the weird indexing is called slicing. if __name__ == "__main__": A_Class(*sys.argv[1:4]).A_Class_Method()

Re: [Tutor] need an explanation

2012-10-11 Thread Dave Angel
On 10/11/2012 03:24 PM, Matthew Ngaha wrote: > i need help on 2 topics. > > 1) can someone please tell me what sys is doing, and why its using weird > indexing? > > if __name__ == "__main__": > A_Class(*sys.argv[1:4]).A_Class_Method() sys isn't being indexed. sys is a module (presumably you h

Re: [Tutor] need an explanation

2012-10-11 Thread Prasad, Ramit
Matthew Ngaha wrote: > i need help on 2 topics. > > 1) can someone please tell me what sys is doing, and why its using weird > indexing? > > if __name__ == "__main__": >     A_Class(*sys.argv[1:4]).A_Class_Method() > > is sys able to call methods? if so why does it need indexing if it uses * .

[Tutor] need an explanation

2012-10-11 Thread Matthew Ngaha
i need help on 2 topics. 1) can someone please tell me what sys is doing, and why its using weird indexing? if __name__ == "__main__": A_Class(*sys.argv[1:4]).A_Class_Method() is sys able to call methods? if so why does it need indexing if it uses * . --

Re: [Tutor] Python Editor/IDE was Why difference between printing string & typing its object reference at the prompt?

2012-10-11 Thread Alan Gauld
On 11/10/12 08:56, Mark Lawrence wrote: an awesome difference to my productivity. Quite why I was happy to slag off Eclipse maybe six months ago I don't know. Does a good sized portion of humble pie make amends? Eclipse is a heavyweight tool designed for heavyweight problems. For the averag

Re: [Tutor] Files Merging

2012-10-11 Thread Sunil Tech
Thanks all for your immediate responses :) On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Joel Goldstick wrote: > On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 8:30 AM, eryksun wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 7:13 AM, Sunil Tech > wrote: > >> > >> text1 contains > >> This is from Text1 --- 1st line > >> > >> > >> text2 co

Re: [Tutor] Files Merging

2012-10-11 Thread Joel Goldstick
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 8:30 AM, eryksun wrote: > On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 7:13 AM, Sunil Tech wrote: >> >> text1 contains >> This is from Text1 --- 1st line >> >> >> text2 contains >> This is from Text2 --- 1st line >> >> >> i want result in text3 like >> This is from Text1 --- 1st line

Re: [Tutor] Files Merging

2012-10-11 Thread eryksun
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 7:13 AM, Sunil Tech wrote: > > text1 contains > This is from Text1 --- 1st line > > > text2 contains > This is from Text2 --- 1st line > > > i want result in text3 like > This is from Text1 --- 1st line > This is from Text2 --- 1st line > > but condition is "

Re: [Tutor] Files Merging

2012-10-11 Thread Sunil Tech
i used zip(), but it gives me result in list of tuples format. But i don't get in a exact expect format (as mentioned) no loopings are allowed. On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Dave Angel wrote: > On 10/11/2012 07:13 AM, Sunil Tech wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Greetings to you... > > it been so he

Re: [Tutor] Files Merging

2012-10-11 Thread Dave Angel
On 10/11/2012 07:13 AM, Sunil Tech wrote: > Hi all, > > Greetings to you... > it been so helpful for me to go through your all mails & support & i wish > it still continues. > > I have two text files. > > text1 contains > > This is from Text1 --- 1st line > This is from Text1 --- 2nd line > This is

[Tutor] Files Merging

2012-10-11 Thread Sunil Tech
Hi all, Greetings to you... it been so helpful for me to go through your all mails & support & i wish it still continues. I have two text files. text1 contains This is from Text1 --- 1st line This is from Text1 --- 2nd line This is from Text1 --- 3rd line This is from Text1 --- 4th line This is

Re: [Tutor] Why difference between printing string & typing its object reference at the prompt?

2012-10-11 Thread Dave Angel
On 10/11/2012 05:21 AM, eryksun wrote: > On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 5:04 AM, Dave Angel wrote: >> >> Actually, the upper limit for a decoded utf-8 character is at least 6 >> bytes. I think it's 6, but it's no less than 6. > > Yes, but what would be the point? Unicode only has 17 planes, up to > cod

Re: [Tutor] Why difference between printing string & typing its object reference at the prompt?

2012-10-11 Thread eryksun
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 5:04 AM, Dave Angel wrote: > > Actually, the upper limit for a decoded utf-8 character is at least 6 > bytes. I think it's 6, but it's no less than 6. Yes, but what would be the point? Unicode only has 17 planes, up to code 0x10. It's limited by UTF-16. > 2) There ar

Re: [Tutor] Why difference between printing string & typing its object reference at the prompt?

2012-10-11 Thread Dave Angel
On 10/11/2012 04:40 AM, eryksun wrote: > On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 9:23 PM, boB Stepp wrote: > . >> What is the intended use of byte types? > > bytes objects are important for low-level data processing, such as > file and socket I/O. The fundamental addressable value in a computer > is a byte (at le

Re: [Tutor] Why difference between printing string & typing its object reference at the prompt?

2012-10-11 Thread eryksun
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 9:23 PM, boB Stepp wrote: > >> >>> aꘌꘌb = True >> >>> aꘌꘌb >> True >> >> >>> Ⅰ, Ⅱ, Ⅲ, Ⅳ, Ⅴ = range(1, 6) >> >>> Ⅰ, Ⅱ, Ⅲ, Ⅳ, Ⅴ >> (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) > > Is doing this considered good programming practice? The examples were meant to highlight the absurd

[Tutor] Python Editor/IDE was Why difference between printing string & typing its object reference at the prompt?

2012-10-11 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 03/10/2012 04:15, boB Stepp wrote: After much diddling around I have finally settled on a text to study (Programming in Python 3, 2nd edition, by Mark Summerfield) and have defaulted to using IDLE, deferring worrying about editors/IDEs until I feel comfortable in Python. I've been using Ecl

Re: [Tutor] Why difference between printing string & typing its object reference at the prompt?

2012-10-11 Thread Alan Gauld
On 11/10/12 02:23, boB Stepp wrote: bytes have string methods as a convenience, such as find, split, and partition. They also have the method decode(), which uses a specified encoding such as "utf-8" to create a string from an encoded bytes sequence. What is the intended use of byte types? O