[Tutor] Q regarding external program calling

2016-11-05 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
Looked all over, but haven't found the answer. If I have a (windows) program which I wish to start, even shell scripts, and possibly capture the output from, how do I do that? Thanks, C PS, also, please me to where I can find more. My searches were rather useless. _

[Tutor] regarding checksum

2016-10-25 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
Small problem: Import zlib For file in files: checksum = zlib.adler32(file) traceback checksum = zlib.adler32(file) TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str' Obvious question, how do I make a bytes-like object. I've read through the documentation and didn't find a way to do th

Re: [Tutor] variable existence q

2015-08-15 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
> -Original Message- > From: Tutor [mailto:tutor-bounces+crk=godblessthe...@python.org] On > Behalf Of Mark Lawrence > Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2015 4:05 PM > To: tutor@python.org > Subject: Re: [Tutor] variable existence q > > On 15/08/2015 23:38

Re: [Tutor] variable existence q

2015-08-15 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
top_directory = "/users/Clayton/Pictures" target_directory = top_directory #directory we are checking filetypes = ('jpg', 'png', 'avi', 'mp4', 'mov', 'bmp') imports... def override_defaults(): with open( user_preferences ) as f: for line in f.readline(): llist = line.

Re: [Tutor] try and file existence

2015-08-15 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
> -Original Message- > From: Tutor [mailto:tutor-bounces+crk=godblessthe...@python.org] On > Behalf Of Laura Creighton > Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2015 2:49 PM > To: boB Stepp > Cc: l...@openend.se; tutor > Subject: Re: [Tutor] try and file existence > > In a message of Sat, 15 Aug 20

[Tutor] variable existence q

2015-08-15 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
10 top_directory = "/users/Clayton/Pictures" def override_defaults(): 56 return( top_directory, filetypes, target_directory ) 80 top_directory, filetypes, target_directory = override_defaults() File "C:/Users/Clayton/python/find picture duplicates/find picture duplicates", line 8

[Tutor] try and file existence

2015-08-14 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
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

Re: [Tutor] a few question about my evolving program

2015-08-12 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
e, Aug 11, 2015 at 08:23:00PM -0700, Clayton Kirkwood wrote: > > > Question 2: > > My current code: > > See "Look here" below. > > > There's an art to picking good variable names, neither too short nor too long, > just descriptive enough withou

Re: [Tutor] a few question about my evolving program

2015-08-12 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
> -Original Message- > From: Tutor [mailto:tutor-bounces+crk=godblessthe...@python.org] On > Behalf Of Alan Gauld > Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 2:41 AM > To: tutor@python.org > Subject: Re: [Tutor] a few question about my evolving program > > On 12/08/15

Re: [Tutor] a few question about my evolving program

2015-08-12 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
> -Original Message- > From: Tutor [mailto:tutor-bounces+crk=godblessthe...@python.org] On > Behalf Of Peter Otten > Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 2:22 AM > To: tutor@python.org > Subject: Re: [Tutor] a few question about my evolving program > > Clayton Kirkwo

Re: [Tutor] a few question about my evolving program

2015-08-11 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
> -Original Message- > From: Cameron Simpson [mailto:c...@zip.com.au] > Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2015 8:46 PM > To: Clayton Kirkwood > Cc: tutor@python.org > Subject: Re: [Tutor] a few question about my evolving program > > On 11Aug2015 20:23, Clayton Kirkwo

[Tutor] a few question about my evolving program

2015-08-11 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
Program to find duplicated pictures in my picture directory #Presumably, if the file exists in a subdirectory I can remove if from the parent picture directory # #Clayton Kirkwood #01Aug15 import os from os.path import join, getsize, splitext target_directory = "/users/Clayton/Pictures" #

Re: [Tutor] Dictionary Issue

2015-08-05 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
> -Original Message- > From: Tutor [mailto:tutor-bounces+crk=godblessthe...@python.org] On > Behalf Of Mark Lawrence > Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2015 3:23 PM > To: tutor@python.org > Subject: Re: [Tutor] Dictionary Issue > > On 05/08/2015 15:15, Ltc Hotspot wrote: > > Hi everyone: > >

Re: [Tutor] scratching my head - still

2015-08-04 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
As seen below (closely), some filenames are not being removed while others are, such as in the first stanza, some pdfs are removed, some aren't. In the second stanza, Thumbs.db makes it through, but was caught in the first stanza. (Thanks for those who have proffered solutions to date!) I see no lo

[Tutor] Windows "feature" I don't understand

2015-08-02 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
In a former life, I played the part of a system manager in a number of Unix environments, which I really liked. Now, I am stuck using Windows and don't get into the innards much. I ran into a problem in my program, which we have been discussing, which is windows-caused. I originally set my director

Re: [Tutor] scratching my head

2015-08-02 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
> -Original Message- > From: Tutor [mailto:tutor-bounces+crk=godblessthe...@python.org] On > Behalf Of Steven D'Aprano > Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2015 5:49 PM > To: tutor@python.org > Subject: Re: [Tutor] scratching my head > > On Sun, Aug 02, 2015 at 02:44

Re: [Tutor] scratching my head

2015-08-02 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
> -Original Message- > From: Tutor [mailto:tutor-bounces+crk=godblessthe...@python.org] On > Behalf Of Cameron Simpson > Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2015 6:03 PM > To: tutor@python.org > Subject: Re: [Tutor] scratching my head > > On 02Aug2015 16:15, Clayton Kirkwoo

Re: [Tutor] scratching my head

2015-08-02 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
te: > >On 02/08/15 22:44, Clayton Kirkwood wrote: > >>for dir_path, directories, files in os.walk(main_dir): > >> for file in files: > >>#print( " file = ", file) > >># if( ("(\.jpg|\.png|\.avi|\.mp4)$") not in file.lowe

Re: [Tutor] scratching my head

2015-08-02 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
> -Original Message- > From: Tutor [mailto:tutor-bounces+crk=godblessthe...@python.org] On > Behalf Of Alan Gauld > Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2015 3:01 PM > To: tutor@python.org > Subject: Re: [Tutor] scratching my head > > On 02/08/15 22:44, Clayton Kirkwood wr

[Tutor] scratching my head

2015-08-02 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
ayton #Program to find duplicated pictures in my picture directory tree #Presumably, if the file exists in a subdirectory I can remove if from the parent picture directory # #Clayton Kirkwood #01Aug15 import os from os.path import join, getsize main_dir = "/users/Clayton/Pictures" dire

[Tutor] ran into a problem with pip install

2014-11-24 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
I was trying to pip install beautifulsoup and ran into the following error. It appears to be 2.x because of the print. I am installing to a python 3.4.2. What do I need to do? I tried to log a bug report to PyPI Bug Reports but that apparently isn't the cool thing to do. I can't perceive why the te

Re: [Tutor] yes, I am being lazy...

2014-11-23 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
>-Original Message- >From: Tutor [mailto:tutor-bounces+crk=godblessthe...@python.org] On >Behalf Of Steven D'Aprano >Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2014 4:16 PM >To: tutor@python.org >Subject: Re: [Tutor] yes, I am being lazy... > >On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 03:37

Re: [Tutor] yes, I am being lazy...

2014-11-23 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
>-Original Message- >From: Tutor [mailto:tutor-bounces+crk=godblessthe...@python.org] On >Behalf Of Walter Prins >Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2014 2:25 PM >Cc: python mail list >Subject: Re: [Tutor] yes, I am being lazy... > >Hi, > >On 23 November 2014 at 2

Re: [Tutor] yes, I am being lazy...

2014-11-23 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
>-Original Message- >From: Tutor [mailto:tutor-bounces+crk=godblessthe...@python.org] On >Behalf Of Steven D'Aprano >Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2014 4:32 AM >To: tutor@python.org >Subject: Re: [Tutor] yes, I am being lazy... > >On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 08:28

[Tutor] yes, I am being lazy...

2014-11-22 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
I have had my first experience in downloading and trying to lay-in several new modules. I downloaded requests and urllib3, unpacked them (on a windows system) and extracted them from the zip. I don't understand how setup.py and .cfg are supposed to implant them into the python hierarchy. The insta

Re: [Tutor] urllib confusion

2014-11-21 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
>-Original Message- >From: Joel Goldstick [mailto:joel.goldst...@gmail.com] >Sent: Friday, November 21, 2014 2:39 PM >To: Clayton Kirkwood >Cc: tutor@python.org >Subject: Re: [Tutor] urllib confusion > >On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Clayton Kirkwood >wrote:

[Tutor] urllib confusion

2014-11-21 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
Hi all. Got a general problem with url work. I've struggled through a lot of code which uses urllib.[parse,request]* and urllib2. First q: I read someplace in urllib documentation which makes it sound like either urllib or urllib2 modules are being deprecated in 3.5. Don't know if it's only par

Re: [Tutor] “has a value of True” versus “evaluates true”

2014-11-11 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
%2bpyt...@benfinney.id.au> > wrote: "Clayton Kirkwood" writes: > So, there is a difference between None and False, is that the issue? Yes. Those two values are different and not equal; but both evaluate false in a boolean context. Just to note; not all programming langu

Re: [Tutor] “has a value of True” versus “evaluates true” (was: don't understand iteration)

2014-11-11 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
>Sent: Monday, November 10, 2014 3:24 PM >To: tutor@python.org >Subject: [Tutor] “has a value of True” versus “evaluates true” (was: >don't understand iteration) > >"Clayton Kirkwood" writes: > >> Also of confusion, the library reference says: >> &

Re: [Tutor] http question

2014-11-10 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
>-Original Message- >From: Tutor [mailto:tutor-bounces+crk=godblessthe...@python.org] On >Behalf Of Steven D'Aprano >Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2014 3:04 AM >To: tutor@python.org >Subject: Re: [Tutor] http question > >On Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 09:53:33PM

Re: [Tutor] don't understand iteration

2014-11-10 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
>-Original Message- >From: Tutor [mailto:tutor-bounces+crk=godblessthe...@python.org] On >Behalf Of Alan Gauld >Sent: Monday, November 10, 2014 5:07 PM >To: tutor@python.org >Subject: Re: [Tutor] don't understand iteration > >On 11/11/14 00:28, Clayton Kirk

Re: [Tutor] don't understand iteration

2014-11-10 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
>-Original Message- >From: Tutor [mailto:tutor-bounces+crk=godblessthe...@python.org] On >Behalf Of Ben Finney >Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2014 8:25 PM >To: tutor@python.org >Subject: Re: [Tutor] don't understand iteration > >"Clayton Kirkwood&quo

Re: [Tutor] “has a value of True” versus “evaluates true” (was: don't understand iteration)

2014-11-10 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
Subject: [Tutor] “has a value of True” versus “evaluates true” (was: >don't understand iteration) > >"Clayton Kirkwood" writes: > >> Also of confusion, the library reference says: >> >> Match objects always have a boolean value of True. Since match(

Re: [Tutor] don't understand iteration

2014-11-10 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
>-Original Message- >From: Tutor [mailto:tutor-bounces+crk=godblessthe...@python.org] On >Behalf Of Alan Gauld >Sent: Monday, November 10, 2014 3:59 PM >To: tutor@python.org >Subject: Re: [Tutor] don't understand iteration > >On 10/11/14 23:08, Clayton Kirk

Re: [Tutor] don't understand iteration

2014-11-10 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
>-Original Message- >From: Tutor [mailto:tutor-bounces+crk=godblessthe...@python.org] On >Behalf Of Ben Finney >Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2014 8:25 PM >To: tutor@python.org >Subject: Re: [Tutor] don't understand iteration > >"Clayton Kirkwood&quo

Re: [Tutor] don't understand iteration

2014-11-10 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
>-Original Message- >From: Tutor [mailto:tutor-bounces+crk=godblessthe...@python.org] On >Behalf Of Alan Gauld >Sent: Monday, November 10, 2014 4:20 AM >To: tutor@python.org >Subject: Re: [Tutor] don't understand iteration > >On 10/11/14 00:34, Clayton Kirk

Re: [Tutor] don't understand iteration

2014-11-09 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
>-Original Message- >From: Tutor [mailto:tutor-bounces+crk=godblessthe...@python.org] On >Behalf Of Peter Otten >Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2014 5:47 PM >To: tutor@python.org >Subject: Re: [Tutor] don't understand iteration > >Clayton Kirkwood wrote: &

Re: [Tutor] don't understand iteration

2014-11-09 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
thon version. I'll assume 3.4 > >"Clayton Kirkwood" Wrote in message: >> I have the following code: import urllib.request,re,stringmonths = >['Jan.', 'Feb.', 'Mar.', 'Apr.', 'May.', 'Jun.', 'Jul.', &

[Tutor] don't understand iteration

2014-11-09 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
I have the following code: import urllib.request,re,string months = ['Jan.', 'Feb.', 'Mar.', 'Apr.', 'May.', 'Jun.', 'Jul.', 'Aug.', 'Sep.', 'Oct.', 'Nov.', 'Dec.'] from urllib.request import urlopen for line in urlopen('http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/timer.pl'): line = line.decode(

Re: [Tutor] http question

2014-11-08 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
>-Original Message- >From: Tutor [mailto:tutor-bounces+crk=godblessthe...@python.org] On >Behalf Of Steven D'Aprano >Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2014 9:14 PM >To: tutor@python.org >Subject: Re: [Tutor] http question > >On Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 06:12:48PM

[Tutor] http question

2014-11-08 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
As I move through my learning process, I am wanting to do some http posts, etc. I know that there is a http class, but I also am aware of httplib2, but it still seems to be in eternal alpha. Which would be better? (However you want to define better) TIA, Clayton You can tell the caliber

Re: [Tutor] all right students, what do we learn

2014-11-02 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
>-Original Message- >From: Tutor [mailto:tutor-bounces+crk=godblessthe...@python.org] On >Behalf Of Dave Angel >Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2014 1:18 AM >To: tutor@python.org >Subject: Re: [Tutor] all right students, what do we learn > >On 11/02/2014 01:43 AM

Re: [Tutor] all right students, what do we learn

2014-11-02 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
>-Original Message- >From: Tutor [mailto:tutor-bounces+crk=godblessthe...@python.org] On >Behalf Of Alan Gauld >Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2014 1:04 AM >To: tutor@python.org >Subject: Re: [Tutor] all right students, what do we learn > >On 02/11/14 05:43, Clayton K

[Tutor] all right students, what do we learn

2014-11-01 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
To prove that a little knowledge is a little stupid or something to that effect: #for key in key_list: #print(key) #if key not in key_list0: #print("Error:", key, "not available, start again") #get_new_list = True #break #else: get_

Re: [Tutor] Would somebody kindly...

2014-10-29 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
>-Original Message- >From: Tutor [mailto:tutor-bounces+crk=godblessthe...@python.org] On >Behalf Of Dave Angel >Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2014 5:30 AM >To: tutor@python.org >Subject: Re: [Tutor] Would somebody kindly... > >"Clayton Kirkwood" Wrote i

Re: [Tutor] Would somebody kindly...

2014-10-28 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
!-Original Message- !From: Tutor [mailto:tutor-bounces+crk=godblessthe...@python.org] On !Behalf Of Dave Angel !Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2014 6:34 PM !To: tutor@python.org !Subject: Re: [Tutor] Would somebody kindly... ! ! !> ! Explain this double speak(>: !> [pair for pair in values i

Re: [Tutor] Would somebody kindly...

2014-10-28 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
!-Original Message- !From: Cameron Simpson [mailto:c...@zip.com.au] !Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2014 6:31 PM !To: Clayton Kirkwood !Cc: 'Danny Yoo'; 'Python Tutor Mailing List' !Subject: Re: [Tutor] Would somebody kindly... ! !On 28Oct2014 18:02, Clayton Kirkwood

Re: [Tutor] Would somebody kindly...

2014-10-28 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
...@hashcollision.org] !Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2014 4:23 PM !To: Clayton Kirkwood !Cc: Python Tutor Mailing List !Subject: Re: [Tutor] Would somebody kindly... ! !On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 4:13 PM, Clayton Kirkwood !wrote: !> Explain this double speak(>: !> !> [pair for pair in values if k

[Tutor] Would somebody kindly...

2014-10-28 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
Explain this double speak(>: [pair for pair in values if key == pair[0]] I understand the 'for pair in values'. I assume the first 'pair' creates the namespace (although I am not sure how Python knows it's a tuple yet). I think the outer [] make the line a comprehension ( If so, I don't seem t

Re: [Tutor] if you're interested in the code thus far...

2014-10-27 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
!-Original Message- !From: Tutor [mailto:tutor-bounces+crk=godblessthe...@python.org] On !Behalf Of Alan Gauld !Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2014 5:34 PM !To: tutor@python.org !Subject: Re: [Tutor] if you're interested in the code thus far... ! !On 26/10/14 22:12, Clayton Kirkwood

Re: [Tutor] if you're interested in the code thus far...

2014-10-26 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
!-Original Message- !From: Tutor [mailto:tutor-bounces+crk=godblessthe...@python.org] On !Behalf Of Alan Gauld !Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2014 2:11 AM !To: tutor@python.org !Subject: Re: [Tutor] if you're interested in the code thus far... ! !On 25/10/14 23:46, Clayton Kirkwood

Re: [Tutor] if you're interested in the code thus far...

2014-10-26 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
Good eyes on the logic !-Original Message- !From: Tutor [mailto:tutor-bounces+crk=godblessthe...@python.org] On !Behalf Of Peter Otten !Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2014 3:53 AM !To: tutor@python.org !Subject: Re: [Tutor] if you're interested in the code thus far... ! !Clayton Kir

[Tutor] if you're interested in the code thus far...

2014-10-26 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
__author__ = 'SYSTEM' import string #PricingDividends raw_table = (''' a: Asky: Dividend Yield b: Bid d: Dividend per Share b2: Ask (Realtime) r1: Dividend Pay Date b3: Bid (Realtime)q: Ex-Dividend Date p: Previous Close o: Open Date c1: Chan

Re: [Tutor] solution for for loop?

2014-10-25 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
!-Original Message- !From: Tutor [mailto:tutor-bounces+crk=godblessthe...@python.org] On !Behalf Of Peter Otten !Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2014 4:41 AM !To: tutor@python.org !Subject: Re: [Tutor] solution for for loop? ! !Clayton Kirkwood wrote: ! !> description_string=code_str

[Tutor] solution for for loop?

2014-10-25 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
description_string=code_string='' description = code = 'a' for (description_position, code_position) in (description, code): print(description_position,code_position) I have tried variations on this for statement, and it doesn't work:<))) Both description and code have the same size arra

Re: [Tutor] yet another misunderstanding on my part

2014-10-23 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
-0700, Clayton Kirkwood wrote: ! !> col_position, code, description = 0, [], [] key_name = !> raw_table.replace('\t','\n') for each_line in key_name.splitlines(): !> if ':' in each_line: !>code[col_position], description.append() = !> each_l

Re: [Tutor] A couple of somewhat esoteric questions

2014-10-22 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
-0700, Clayton Kirkwood wrote: ! !> As I've contemplated the usage of dictionaries, I face the question of !> efficiency. Going back before most of you were probably born;<)) if I !> remember correctly dictionaries(assoc. arrays), having hashes, are !> efficient for storing spa

[Tutor] yet another misunderstanding on my part

2014-10-22 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
__author__ = 'SYSTEM' import string #PricingDividends raw_table = (''' a: Asky: Dividend Yield b: Bid d: Dividend per Share b2: Ask (Realtime) r1: Dividend Pay Date b3: Bid (Realtime)q: Ex-Dividend Date p: Previous Close o: Open import re,

[Tutor] A couple of somewhat esoteric questions

2014-10-22 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
As I've contemplated the usage of dictionaries, I face the question of efficiency. Going back before most of you were probably born;<)) if I remember correctly dictionaries(assoc. arrays), having hashes, are efficient for storing sparse arrays with the added benefit of hiding the traversal of the d

Re: [Tutor] what am I not understanding?

2014-10-21 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
!-Original Message- !From: Tutor [mailto:tutor-bounces+crk=godblessthe...@python.org] On !Behalf Of Dave Angel !Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 6:51 AM !To: tutor@python.org !Subject: Re: [Tutor] what am I not understanding? ! !"Clayton Kirkwood" Wrote in message: !> Thank

Re: [Tutor] what am I not understanding?

2014-10-21 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
Thanks all for the insight. I'm not sure I fully understand all of the code snippets, but in time... This is finally what I came up with: raw_table = (''' a: Ask y: Dividend Yield b: Bid d: Dividend per Share b2: Ask (Realtime) r1: Dividend Pay Date b3: Bid (Realtime) q: Ex-Dividend D

[Tutor] what am I not understanding?

2014-10-19 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
raw_table = (''' a: Asky: Dividend Yield b: Bid d: Dividend per Share b2: Ask (Realtime) r1: Dividend Pay Date b3: Bid (Realtime)q: Ex-Dividend Date p: Previous Close o: Open''') key_name = raw_table.rstrip('\t') print(key_name) a: Asky: Dividend Yie

[Tutor] well I finally got finished with this part of my exercise

2014-10-15 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
No, it hasn't taken the whole time, but it did take longer than I wanted, but I did progress as seen below. 1st pass - get the idea down: #program to capture streaming quotes from yahoo import re out_file = open("output", mode='w') in_file = open('Yahoo!_Finance_Portfolios.htm', encoding= "

Re: [Tutor] search/match file position q

2014-10-07 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
!-Original Message- !From: Danny Yoo [mailto:d...@hashcollision.org] !Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2014 11:14 AM !To: Clayton Kirkwood !Cc: Python Tutor Mailing List !Subject: Re: [Tutor] search/match file position q ! !> So, what makes regex wrong for this job? question still rema

Re: [Tutor] search/match file position q

2014-10-07 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
!> !> So, what makes regex wrong for this job? ! !A regex doesn't understand the structure of an html document. For !example !you need to keep track of the nesting level manually to find the cells !of !the inner of two nested tables. ! !> question still remains: does the !> search start at the beg

Re: [Tutor] search/match file position q

2014-10-07 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
!-Original Message- !From: Tutor [mailto:tutor-bounces+crk=godblessthe...@python.org] On !Behalf Of Peter Otten !Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2014 3:50 AM !To: tutor@python.org !Subject: Re: [Tutor] search/match file position q ! !Clayton Kirkwood wrote: ! !> I was trying to keep

Re: [Tutor] search/match file position q

2014-10-07 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
I was trying to keep it generic. Wrapped data file: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=SWKS"; data-rapid_p="18">SWKS23.27', line_in) #scan to SWKS"> in data #line, stock sh

[Tutor] search/match file position q

2014-10-06 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
Howdy I haven't been able to find an definitive answer. I am looking through a file(stream:<), for several matching strings. Match definitively starts at the beginning of the stream. As I search, or match, do I start over at the beginning of the stream for each match or do I start at the end of th

[Tutor] grave confusion

2014-10-06 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
Here's my problem; my code snippet reads a file(presumably an _io.readline, I'll question this later), with the file.readline(). The output shows individual characters being read and printed out followed by the "here" being printed. Also, see below. Source data file: html class="yui3-js-e

Re: [Tutor] could somebody please explain...

2014-10-03 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
, 2014 at 09:43:29AM -0700, Clayton Kirkwood wrote: ! !> # program to test time and count options !> !> import datetime,operator, sys !> from datetime import time, date, datetime date = datetime.now() !> dayofweek = date.strftime("%a, %b") print("Today is", dayo

Re: [Tutor] could somebody please explain...

2014-10-01 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
!-Original Message- !From: Tutor [mailto:tutor-bounces+crk=godblessthe...@python.org] On !Behalf Of Steven D'Aprano !Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 6:38 PM !To: tutor@python.org !Subject: Re: [Tutor] could somebody please explain... ! !On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 03:54:42PM -0700, Cl

Re: [Tutor] could somebody please explain...

2014-10-01 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
actions.Fraction ! !etc. ! ! !(P.S. it is better to raise each independent question in a separate !email.) ! The part in question is the date components in the parentheses of the first datetime. Clayton Kirkwood ! ! !-- !Steven !___ !Tutor maillist - Tut

Re: [Tutor] could somebody please explain...

2014-10-01 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
!-Original Message- !From: Danny Yoo [mailto:d...@hashcollision.org] !Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2014 12:11 AM !To: Clayton Kirkwood !Cc: Python Tutor Mailing List !Subject: Re: [Tutor] could somebody please explain... ! !> Also, I found something that I can’t get my mind around. It

[Tutor] could somebody please explain...

2014-09-30 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
I don't understand the multiplicity of some tools. Namely, why is there a 'a+b', operator.add(a,b), operator.__add__(a,b), operator.iadd(a,b), operator.__iadd__(a,b) and their related operators? Also, I found something that I can't get my mind around. It is part of the time/date protocols. I've

[Tutor] question 1

2014-09-20 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
I'm ramping slowly unfortunately. How does one go about knowing which module to import to make certain functions work? I have a read() that fails because there is no definition for it. I am using the Wing IDE. I have traversed much of the developer's guide and can't find any certainty. Secondar