Re: [Tutor] Problem using lxml

2015-08-22 Thread Anthony Papillion
Many thanks, Martin! I had indeed skipped creating the tree object and a few other things you pointed out. Here is my finished simple code that actually works: from lxml import html import requests page = requests.get("http://joplin.craigslist.org/search/w4m";) tree = html.fromstring(page.text) t

[Tutor] Problem using lxml

2015-08-22 Thread Anthony Papillion
Hello Everyone, I'm pretty new to lxml but I pretty much thought I'd understood the basics. However, for some reason, my first attempt at using it is failing miserably. Here's the deal: I'm parsing specific page on Craigslist ( http://joplin.craigslist.org/search/rea) and trying to retreive the

Re: [Tutor] How to skip a single file when using shutil.make_archive()

2015-08-14 Thread Anthony Papillion
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

[Tutor] How to skip a single file when using shutil.make_archive()

2015-08-14 Thread Anthony Papillion
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 ___ Tutor maillist

Re: [Tutor] Checking if a GtkEntry is empty

2012-02-24 Thread Anthony Papillion
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > Are you aware that the database connection gets made, but not stored > anywhere? Once the Manager instance is created, the database connection is > thrown away. > > My guess is that you mean to use self.conn instead of conn in the above.

Re: [Tutor] Checking if a GtkEntry is empty

2012-02-24 Thread Anthony Papillion
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Prasad, Ramit wrote: > > How are you running this? I assume from an IDE because this should most > likely cause an error. I would recommend trying to run your python script > from the commandline which is much more likely to print an error. > > $python your_script.

Re: [Tutor] Checking if a GtkEntry is empty

2012-02-24 Thread Anthony Papillion
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Alan Gauld wrote: > > Add a trace to see if the method ever gets called The method is definitely getting called. If I remove the attempt to get the widgets text and replace it with print "btnSearch has been clicked" The method is called and the message is printe

Re: [Tutor] Checking if a GtkEntry is empty

2012-02-24 Thread Anthony Papillion
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Prasad, Ramit wrote: > > Please post a more significant code sample as I have no idea from this, > but at least one of those should have given you an error. Always include > the full error (including stacktrace) you get from Python. Use copy/paste > and do not try

[Tutor] Checking if a GtkEntry is empty

2012-02-24 Thread Anthony Papillion
Hi Everyone, I'm learning pyGtk and am developing my first application. I'm trying to check if a GtkEntry is empty and I'm using the following code: if txtSearch.get_text() == "": print "The entry is empty" This didn't work. So I thought, maybe I need to reference self and tried: if self.tx