Re: [Tutor] Python Idle Crashing

2013-05-16 Thread Peter Otten
kyle seebohm wrote: > I recently created a program that searches through a computer's drive to > make a list of all the files in that drive. However, the drive I am > attempting to parse through is extremely large and when I run my program, > it runs for about 5 or 10 minutes then proceeds to not

Re: [Tutor] Pygraphics crashed

2013-05-16 Thread eryksun
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Jim Mooney wrote: > How do I install PIL with easy-install? I used that once but forget > how. I seem to recall reading it installs a version that is Py native > and doesn't choke on your OS. Or did I read that wrong? I recommend pip instead of easy_install becau

Re: [Tutor] Can't install latest PIL

2013-05-16 Thread eryksun
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Jim Mooney wrote: > I tried "import image from pil" and got the following error: > SyntaxError invalid syntax (python_init.py, line 1) If you see a syntax error, that means your code could not be compiled. Python's parser doesn't grok "import image from pil". In

Re: [Tutor] Word Jumble - Chpt4 (Explanation)

2013-05-16 Thread Alan Gauld
On 16/05/13 21:03, Arvind Virk wrote: This is my first post so go gentle. I'm just getting into Python programming and am having an issue understanding the Word Jumble Game. Welcome. First thing is we have no idea what Chapter 4 refers to so please tell us the source you are working from (als

Re: [Tutor] Python Idle Crashing

2013-05-16 Thread Alan Gauld
On 16/05/13 19:17, kyle seebohm wrote: I recently created a program that searches through a computer's drive to make a list of all the files in that drive. However, the drive I am attempting to parse through is extremely large and when I run my program, it runs for about 5 or 10 minutes then proc

Re: [Tutor] Can't install latest PIL

2013-05-16 Thread Jim Mooney
On 16 May 2013 16:11, James Reynolds wrote: > You may want to consider pillow. Oil hasn't been maintained in some time. Actually, I installed Pillow. But then I deleted everything and started over with 32 bit. I got greedy figuring I'd get the fastest Py with 64 bit, but there are too many kludge

Re: [Tutor] Word Jumble - Chpt4 (Explanation)

2013-05-16 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Arvind Virk wrote: import random > > WORDS = ('python','jumble','easy','difficult','lower','high') > word = random.choice(WORDS) > correct = word > jumble = "" > > while word: > position = random.randrange(len(word)) > jumble += word[position] > word =

Re: [Tutor] Can't install latest PIL

2013-05-16 Thread James Reynolds
You may want to consider pillow. Oil hasn't been maintained in some time. On May 16, 2013 6:12 PM, "Jim Mooney" wrote: > Make sure you have the correct architecture. The builds from > PythonWare are 32-bit. Christoph Gohlke has 64-bit builds here: > > http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#p

Re: [Tutor] Pygraphics crashed

2013-05-16 Thread Jim Mooney
> By the way, do you mind if I ask why you're using PyGraphics? It's > only meant to be used for education (and even there, AFAIK the only > users are the University of Toronto (and even there, I think they > stopped using it because they switched to Python 3 for Coursera and > didn't care enough t

Re: [Tutor] Pygraphics crashed

2013-05-16 Thread Devin Jeanpierre
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 2:06 AM, Jim Mooney wrote: > How do I uninstall modules? I installed Pygraphics, which worked fine, > along with some other mods, like numpy, but when I installed 64 bit py > 2.7 > I get the message "The _imaging C module is not installed" when > running a prog that worked

Re: [Tutor] Pygraphics crashed

2013-05-16 Thread Jim Mooney
How do I install PIL with easy-install? I used that once but forget how. I seem to recall reading it installs a version that is Py native and doesn't choke on your OS. Or did I read that wrong? Jim On 16 May 2013 02:44, eryksun wrote: > On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 2:06 AM, Jim Mooney wrote: >> >>

Re: [Tutor] Can't install latest PIL

2013-05-16 Thread Jim Mooney
Make sure you have the correct architecture. The builds from PythonWare are 32-bit. Christoph Gohlke has 64-bit builds here: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pil == Okay, I installed the 64 bit for Py 2.7, it installed, I see PIL directory in Site-Packages. (Actually, it's the Pillow f

Re: [Tutor] Word Jumble - Chpt4 (Explanation)

2013-05-16 Thread Prasad, Ramit
Arvind Virk wrote: > Hi guys! > > This is my first post so go gentle. I'm just getting into Python programming > and am having an issue > understanding the Word Jumble Game. > > import random > > WORDS = ('python','jumble','easy','difficult','lower','high') > word = random.choice(WORDS) > corre

Re: [Tutor] Python Idle Crashing

2013-05-16 Thread Prasad, Ramit
Dave Angel wrote: > On 05/16/2013 02:17 PM, kyle seebohm wrote: > > I recently created a program that searches through a computer's drive to > > make a list of all the > files in that drive. However, the drive I am attempting to parse through is > extremely large and when I > run my program, it r

[Tutor] Word Jumble - Chpt4 (Explanation)

2013-05-16 Thread Arvind Virk
Hi guys! This is my first post so go gentle. I'm just getting into Python programming and am having an issue understanding the Word Jumble Game. import random WORDS = ('python','jumble','easy','difficult','lower','high')word = random.choice(WORDS)correct = wordjumble = "" while word:position

Re: [Tutor] Issue with string method: str(variable ** n)

2013-05-16 Thread Rafael Knuth
Thank you - that makes perfectly sense. Also, I am new to the list, and I appreciate your suggestion. I will include error tracebacks in the future. All the best, Rafael On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 9:14 PM, Dave Angel wrote: > On 05/16/2013 02:58 PM, Rafael Knuth wrote: > >> Hej, >> >> I wrote a

Re: [Tutor] Python Idle Crashing

2013-05-16 Thread Dave Angel
On 05/16/2013 02:17 PM, kyle seebohm wrote: I recently created a program that searches through a computer's drive to make a list of all the files in that drive. However, the drive I am attempting to parse through is extremely large and when I run my program, it runs for about 5 or 10 minutes t

Re: [Tutor] Issue with string method: str(variable ** n)

2013-05-16 Thread Zachary Ware
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Rafael Knuth wrote: > Hej, Hi Rafael, > I wrote a tiny little program which I was hoping would take a number as > input, square and print it: > > square = input ("Enter a number. ") > print (str(square) + " squared is " + str(square ** 2)) > > It seems I can't wo

Re: [Tutor] Issue with string method: str(variable ** n)

2013-05-16 Thread Dave Angel
On 05/16/2013 02:58 PM, Rafael Knuth wrote: Hej, I wrote a tiny little program which I was hoping would take a number as input, square and print it: square = input ("Enter a number. ") print (str(square) + " squared is " + str(square ** 2)) It seems I can't work with variables within the str()

[Tutor] Issue with string method: str(variable ** n)

2013-05-16 Thread Rafael Knuth
Hej, I wrote a tiny little program which I was hoping would take a number as input, square and print it: square = input ("Enter a number. ") print (str(square) + " squared is " + str(square ** 2)) It seems I can't work with variables within the str() string method, and I was wondering if anyone

Re: [Tutor] Python Idle Crashing

2013-05-16 Thread frederico Batista
I don't think running this on Idle is the best. Did you try to run your program in the command line? ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

[Tutor] Python Idle Crashing

2013-05-16 Thread kyle seebohm
I recently created a program that searches through a computer's drive to make a list of all the files in that drive. However, the drive I am attempting to parse through is extremely large and when I run my program, it runs for about 5 or 10 minutes then proceeds to not respond and not finish par

Re: [Tutor] Making a Primary Number List generator

2013-05-16 Thread eryksun
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 1:42 AM, eryksun wrote: > On the other hand a BufferedWriter will buffer the remaining 3000 > bytes that can't be written. You won't find out until an exception is > raised when the file is closed: Actually it was buffering all 4000 bytes. I forgot about the fast path that

[Tutor] Web forms was: Re: (no subject)

2013-05-16 Thread Alan Gauld
Please use a meaningful subject when posting it makes it easier to find things in the archives and identify related posts. On 10/05/13 21:44, Krish Nagpal wrote: I have a quick question based on python 2.7. Do you know how to write a web server with a form. I have no idea what you mean. A web

Re: [Tutor] Looking for python 3 tutorial

2013-05-16 Thread Alan Gauld
On 08/05/13 03:30, Sky Flyinz wrote: Where can I find a web programming python tutorial online either book? How do you define web programming? Do you mean building web sites? Or scraping web sites? Or do you mean using web APIs? There is a web programming HowTo on the python web site that wil

Re: [Tutor] question already discussed with oscar benjamin

2013-05-16 Thread Oscar Benjamin
On 7 May 2013 21:10, Linsey Raaijmakers wrote: > Hi, > > Im trying to work with the help Oscar provided me, but I still get stuck :( For the benefit of everyone else here, this is referring to a question that was asked on python-list. The discussion there went off-list and I recommended that it t

Re: [Tutor] Pygraphics crashed

2013-05-16 Thread eryksun
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 2:06 AM, Jim Mooney wrote: > > And regardless of the answer to that I still want to know how to > uninstall modules. Do I just find and delete them? And are they all in > the same place? You should be able to uninstall msi or exe packages just like any other Windows progra

Re: [Tutor] Can't install latest PIL

2013-05-16 Thread Walter Prins
Hi, On 16 May 2013 07:12, Jim Mooney wrote: > Okay, I'm trying to install the latest PIL on win 7. It claims Python > 2.7 was not found in the registry, although it's installed, on a path, > and works fine. The install box lets you type in a directory but won't > accept typing. I'm stumped. A

Re: [Tutor] Can't install latest PIL

2013-05-16 Thread eryksun
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 2:12 AM, Jim Mooney wrote: > Okay, I'm trying to install the latest PIL on win 7. It claims Python > 2.7 was not found in the registry, although it's installed, on a path, > and works fine. The install box lets you type in a directory but won't > accept typing. I'm stumped.