[Tutor] Tkinter, how to retrieve information about an object on canvas

2012-11-14 Thread Matheus Soares da Silva
Hello, I would like to be able to get information from a Tkinter canvas object. (color, width, tags, root points, etc), I wrote the following function that, with a canvas bind, returns me the widget that has been clicked on, the widget is returned as a tuple by the find_overlapping method. # det

Re: [Tutor] data analysis with python

2012-11-14 Thread David Martins
Thanks again for all the useful tips. I settled with R for now. As Oscar said, the dataset is not massive so I could have done it using a dictionary. However some of the more frequent requests will include to find data during certain times during certain days, for specific months or weekdays vs.

Re: [Tutor] unicode help

2012-11-14 Thread Sander Sweers
Marilyn Davis schreef op wo 14-11-2012 om 13:23 [-0800]: > I found this site: > http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20100713130450549 > > and that fixes it. Short answer: It is not a fix but a workaround. Try: print symbol.encode('utf-8') Longer answer: It is not really a fix, it is a wo

Re: [Tutor] unicode help

2012-11-14 Thread Dave Angel
On 11/14/2012 04:07 PM, Marilyn Davis wrote: > > > Goodness! I didn't expect it to be a Mac thing. > > So, on a Windows machine, running Python 2.6.6, sys.stdout.encoding is > 'cp1252', yet the code runs fine. > > On Ubuntu with 2.7, it's 'UTF-8' and it runs just fine. > > I find this most myste

Re: [Tutor] unicode help

2012-11-14 Thread Marilyn Davis
On Wed, November 14, 2012 1:07 pm, Marilyn Davis wrote: > Thank you, Dave, for looking at my problem, and for correcting me on my > top posting. > > See below: > > > On Wed, November 14, 2012 12:34 pm, Dave Angel wrote: > > >> On 11/14/2012 03:10 PM, Marilyn Davis wrote: >> >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> >>>

Re: [Tutor] unicode help

2012-11-14 Thread Marilyn Davis
Thank you, Dave, for looking at my problem, and for correcting me on my top posting. See below: On Wed, November 14, 2012 12:34 pm, Dave Angel wrote: > On 11/14/2012 03:10 PM, Marilyn Davis wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> >> Last year, I was helped so that this ran nicely on my 2.6: >> >> >> #! /usr/bin/e

Re: [Tutor] unicode help

2012-11-14 Thread Dave Angel
On 11/14/2012 03:10 PM, Marilyn Davis wrote: > Hi, > > Last year, I was helped so that this ran nicely on my 2.6: > > #! /usr/bin/env python > # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- > # necessary for python not to complain about "¥" > > symbol = unichr(165) > print unicode(symbol) > > --- end of code --- > > But,

Re: [Tutor] unicode help

2012-11-14 Thread Marilyn Davis
Hi, Last year, I was helped so that this ran nicely on my 2.6: #! /usr/bin/env python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- # necessary for python not to complain about "¥" symbol = unichr(165) print unicode(symbol) --- end of code --- But, now on my 2.7, and on 2.6 when I tried reinstalling it, I get: bas

Re: [Tutor] LCM

2012-11-14 Thread eryksun
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Selby Rowley Cannon wrote: > > I've been trying to write a function to find the Lowest Common Multiple > of two numbers, but it isn't working and I've kinda hit a dead end on the > thought-process end of things. Since the LCM is the smallest multiple of both

Re: [Tutor] LCM

2012-11-14 Thread Dave Angel
On 11/14/2012 01:34 PM, Selby Rowley Cannon wrote: > On 14/11/12 18:27, Dave Angel wrote: >> On 11/14/2012 12:52 PM, Selby Rowley Cannon wrote: >>> Hey, >>> Tell us what version of Python you're targeting. I'm going to assume 2.x, since you have print without parens. >>> I've been trying to

Re: [Tutor] LCM

2012-11-14 Thread Selby Rowley Cannon
On 14/11/12 18:27, Dave Angel wrote: On 11/14/2012 12:52 PM, Selby Rowley Cannon wrote: Hey, I've been trying to write a function to find the Lowest Common Multiple of two numbers, but it isn't working and I've kinda hit a dead end on the thought-process end of things. Anyone mind looking

Re: [Tutor] LCM

2012-11-14 Thread Dave Angel
On 11/14/2012 12:52 PM, Selby Rowley Cannon wrote: > Hey, > > I've been trying to write a function to find the Lowest Common > Multiple of two numbers, but it isn't working and I've kinda hit a > dead end on the thought-process end of things. Anyone mind looking at > it, and tell me what's wron

[Tutor] LCM

2012-11-14 Thread Selby Rowley Cannon
Hey, I've been trying to write a function to find the Lowest Common Multiple of two numbers, but it isn't working and I've kinda hit a dead end on the thought-process end of things. Anyone mind looking at it, and tell me what's wrong? (I hop you don't think it's too long to put in an emai

Re: [Tutor] data analysis with python

2012-11-14 Thread Oscar Benjamin
On 14 November 2012 03:17, David Martins wrote: > Hi All > > I'm trying to use python for analysing data from building energy simulations > and was wondering whether there is way to do this without using anything sql > like. There are many ways to do this. > > The simulations are typically run f

Re: [Tutor] data analysis with python

2012-11-14 Thread Bjorn Madsen
Hi David, I have found happiness with http://ipython.org/ which can do stuff like this: [image: _images/ipy_0.13.png] SQLite is embedded in python's database API, and gives an easy data import and handling. The syntax is extremely well described here: http://www.sqlite.org/lang.html and I've bee

Re: [Tutor] data analysis with python

2012-11-14 Thread Alan Gauld
On 14/11/12 08:13, David Martins wrote: I remember having looked at R a while ago but did never pick it up. I found a nice tutorial and will give it a go. There is an interface to R from Python too. So you can combine the two.. However, given your stated aims SQL does look like the most natur

Re: [Tutor] data analysis with python

2012-11-14 Thread David Martins
Thanks Andre and Ryan At first glance Pytables looks certainly a lot better than sql... I also found vitables which seems to be a nice GUI interface and will play around with both tomorrow. I remember having looked at R a while ago but did never pick it up. I found a nice tutorial and will giv