Re: [Tutor] Design question: Web-based vs. desktop-based vs. desktop-based with data backed up to web server with a tablet thrown in for all cases?

2015-07-19 Thread boB Stepp
On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 8:23 PM, boB Stepp wrote: > Would it be off-putting later to ask specific questions about > implementing features of kivy on this list? I imagine that they would > tend to be basic questions that would probably apply to any GUI > development. But I'm sure there is a kivy

Re: [Tutor] Design question: Web-based vs. desktop-based vs. desktop-based with data backed up to web server with a tablet thrown in for all cases?

2015-07-19 Thread boB Stepp
On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 1:27 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 12:49:50AM -0500, boB Stepp wrote: > >> In this thread, I kept it very general on purpose. I was probing this >> community for their thoughts on two things: 1) Should I make the >> software web-based or desktop-ba

Re: [Tutor] Socket Module

2015-07-19 Thread Danny Yoo
> for name in domains: > socket.gethostbyaddr(name) > print(name) > > output: > 173.252.120.6 > 98.139.183.24 > > What am I missing? Thank in advance. > You have confused yourself a little because the variable names you've chosen are slightly misleading. Specifically, "name" is really an

Re: [Tutor] Socket Module

2015-07-19 Thread Nym City via Tutor
Thank you for your response. I gave it another try: As suggested, first I ran the concept just in the terminal, and it worked fine: >>> names =['173.252.120.6', '98.139.183.24'] >>> import socket >>> for name in names:     socket.gethostbyaddr(name)     print(name)   output:  ('edge-star-shv-12-f

Re: [Tutor] Design question: Web-based vs. desktop-based vs. desktop-based with data backed up to web server with a tablet thrown in for all cases?

2015-07-19 Thread Dave P
On Jul 19, 2015 5:43 AM, "Laura Creighton" wrote: > > In a message of Sun, 19 Jul 2015 16:27:13 +1000, "Steven D'Aprano" writes: > >I'm not sure if it runs on Macs, but it should work on Android, Windows, > >and Linux, and of course it is entire Python-based. > > Python 2.7 only on for MacOSX. Py

Re: [Tutor] Design question: Web-based vs. desktop-based vs. desktop-based with data backed up to web server with a tablet thrown in for all cases?

2015-07-19 Thread boB Stepp
On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 5:28 PM, Laura Creighton wrote: > In a message of Sun, 19 Jul 2015 18:11:36 -0400, Dave P writes: >>On Jul 19, 2015 5:43 AM, "Laura Creighton" wrote: >>> >>> In a message of Sun, 19 Jul 2015 16:27:13 +1000, "Steven D'Aprano" writes: >>> >I'm not sure if it runs on Macs, bu

Re: [Tutor] Design question: Web-based vs. desktop-based vs. desktop-based with data backed up to web server with a tablet thrown in for all cases?

2015-07-19 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Sun, 19 Jul 2015 18:11:36 -0400, Dave P writes: >On Jul 19, 2015 5:43 AM, "Laura Creighton" wrote: >> >> In a message of Sun, 19 Jul 2015 16:27:13 +1000, "Steven D'Aprano" writes: >> >I'm not sure if it runs on Macs, but it should work on Android, Windows, >> >and Linux, and of cou

Re: [Tutor] Design question: Web-based vs. desktop-based vs. desktop-based with data backed up to web server with a tablet thrown in for all cases?

2015-07-19 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Sun, 19 Jul 2015 16:27:13 +1000, "Steven D'Aprano" writes: >I'm not sure if it runs on Macs, but it should work on Android, Windows, >and Linux, and of course it is entire Python-based. Python 2.7 only on for MacOSX. Python 3 is coming very soon. Laura _

Re: [Tutor] Design question: Web-based vs. desktop-based vs. desktop-based with data backed up to web server with a tablet thrown in for all cases?

2015-07-19 Thread Alan Gauld
On 19/07/15 07:27, Steven D'Aprano wrote: If you use SQLite for the data storage, it should have a simple "dump" function that would let you export the database to a standard SQL dump format, and reconstruct the database from said dump if needed. Otherwise you would have to write your own export