Anthony Papillion wrote:
> I'm creating an archive of a directory using shutil.make_archive and need
> to skip a single file if it is present in that directory. Is there a way
> to do this or should I be looking to ZipFile to meet this need?
I should not post this, especially on a tutor list, but
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Alan Gauld
wrote:
>
> That's the problem right there. You should never kick of an event handler
> that takes a long time to run. Either:
> 1) Kick of a separate thread to do the back end processing
> 2) break the function into short chunks and use a timer
> (after
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 06:28:09PM -0700, Clayton Kirkwood wrote:
> try:
> fp = open( user_preferences )
> except( PermissionError ):
> else:
> with open(user_preferences ) as f:
try:
fp = open(user_preferences)
except (IOError, OSError) as e:
handle_error()
else:
with fp as f
On 15/08/2015 02:28, Clayton Kirkwood wrote:
try:
fp = open( user_preferences )
except( PermissionError ):
You need a pass statement here if you don't intend doing anything with
the error, but see my comments at the bottom.
else:
with open(user_preferences ) as f:
I originally on
On 14Aug2015 18:28, Clayton Kirkwood wrote:
try:
fp = open( user_preferences )
except( PermissionError ):
else:
with open(user_preferences ) as f:
I originally only had the bottom open statement. Ran but file didn't exist,
and my run failed with file doesn't exist. I figured I'd check to
try:
fp = open( user_preferences )
except( PermissionError ):
else:
with open(user_preferences ) as f:
I originally only had the bottom open statement. Ran but file didn't exist,
and my run failed with file doesn't exist. I figured I'd check to see if the
file existed. This is one of those
On 14Aug2015 13:40, boB Stepp wrote:
I was just looking at the sqlite3 docs at
https://docs.python.org/3/library/sqlite3.html?highlight=sqlite#module-sqlite3
and found the following cheery news:
"Usually your SQL operations will need to use values from Python
variables. You shouldn’t assemble y
Many thanks Ben! That is exactly what I was looking for and it's super
easy. Thanks again!
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 5:36 PM, Ben Finney
wrote:
> Anthony Papillion writes:
>
> > I'm creating an archive of a directory using shutil.make_archive and
> > need to skip a single file if it is present in
Anthony Papillion writes:
> I'm creating an archive of a directory using shutil.make_archive and
> need to skip a single file if it is present in that directory. Is
> there a way to do this or should I be looking to ZipFile to meet this
> need?
You can create a hierarchy of files the way you wan
Hello Everyone,
I'm creating an archive of a directory using shutil.make_archive and need
to skip a single file if it is present in that directory. Is there a way to
do this or should I be looking to ZipFile to meet this need?
Thanks
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On 8/14/2015 11:40 AM, boB Stepp wrote:
I was just looking at the sqlite3 docs at
https://docs.python.org/3/library/sqlite3.html?highlight=sqlite#module-sqlite3
and found the following cheery news:
"Usually your SQL operations will need to use values from Python
variables. You shouldn’t assemb
On 14/08/15 17:50, Alex Kleider wrote:
Might it be possible to insert the code that posts the 'label' into the
beginning of the function's code block?
That doesn't work because the GUI won't redraw itself until
the event handler finishes and returns control to the Tkinter
event loop. That's wh
On 14/08/15 17:32, Bill Allen wrote:
I am working in Tkinter. The scenario is that I click a button that
starts a function running. No problem there. However, the function may
take some time to run
That's the problem right there. You should never kick of an event
handler that takes a lon
On 14/08/15 19:40, boB Stepp wrote:
"Instead, use the DB-API’s parameter substitution. Put ? as a
placeholder wherever you want to use a value, and then provide a tuple
of values as the second argument to the cursor’s execute() method..."
This is not a Sqlite issue its true of any database.
I was just looking at the sqlite3 docs at
https://docs.python.org/3/library/sqlite3.html?highlight=sqlite#module-sqlite3
and found the following cheery news:
"Usually your SQL operations will need to use values from Python
variables. You shouldn’t assemble your query using Python’s string
operat
In a message of Fri, 14 Aug 2015 11:32:59 -0500, Bill Allen writes:
>I am working in Tkinter. The scenario is that I click a button that
>starts a function running. No problem there. However, the function may
>take some time to run and I do not want the user to be worried. I am
>wanting to
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Bill Allen wrote:
>
> I am working in Tkinter. The scenario is that I click a button that
> starts a function running. No problem there. However, the function may
> take some time to run and I do not want the user to be worried. I am
> wanting to immediate
On 2015-08-14 09:32, Bill Allen wrote:
I am working in Tkinter. The scenario is that I click a button that
starts a function running. No problem there. However, the function
may
take some time to run and I do not want the user to be worried. I am
wanting to immediately set a label when
I am working in Tkinter. The scenario is that I click a button that
starts a function running. No problem there. However, the function may
take some time to run and I do not want the user to be worried. I am
wanting to immediately set a label when the function starts to say "Please
Wait".
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 2:50 AM, Alan Gauld wrote:
>
> So, unless the book explains why this is bad practice and
> goes on to show a good example, I must conclude its a very
> bad example.
I found the errata pages for the book
(http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/errata.csp?isbn=0636920028659) and a
J
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 4:49 AM, Laura Creighton wrote:
> You've found the 'variety of parents' problem. Listing the parents'
> names will only let your wife know she has the correct student if she
> habitually thinks of the parent names when she thinks of the student.
This came to mind because
On 14/08/15 05:07, Jason Brown wrote:
for file_list in filenames:
with open(file_list) as files:
for items in vals:
for line in files:
Others have commented on your choice of names.
I'll add one small general point.
Try to match the plurality of your names to the
nat
In a message of Thu, 13 Aug 2015 23:42:33 -0500, boB Stepp writes:
>Many of my wife's students do have their own email accounts, but,
>alas, not all of them. I have not totally thought this through yet,
>but the student data will include their parents' names and some of
>their data. But it will b
Jason Brown wrote:
> (accidentally replied directly to Cameron)
>
> Thanks, Cameron. It looks like that value_file.close() tab was
> accidentally tabbed when I pasted the code here. Thanks for the
> suggestion
> for using 'with' though! That's will be handy.
>
> To test, I tried manually spec
On 14/08/15 03:16, boB Stepp wrote:
Yes, that's a standard problem in any HR type application. Names suck as
database keys. But names are how humans interact.
HR = Human Resources?
Sorry, yes. Anything involving people.
the case of students with duplicate names, she might forget to enter
o
On 14/08/15 05:31, boB Stepp wrote:
I was looking at an example illustrating composition from the book,
"Introducing Python" by Bill Lubanovic on p. 140:
class Bill:
def __init__(self, description):
self.description = description
class Tail:
def __init__(self,
(accidentally replied directly to Cameron)
Thanks, Cameron. It looks like that value_file.close() tab was
accidentally tabbed when I pasted the code here. Thanks for the suggestion
for using 'with' though! That's will be handy.
To test, I tried manually specifying the list:
vals = [ 'value1',
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