[Tutor] Release of Mapoteca-0.1

Dear List; Today we finally released our Python scripts for creating a catalog of geographic information, these scripts walk through directories looking for geographic information in the form of shp, tif, bil and img and using the GDAL bindings extracting its extent, geometry, number of elements,

[Tutor] extracting text from word files (.doc, .docx) and pdf

Dear List; I am looking for a way to extract parts of a text from word (.doc,.docx) files as well as pdf; the idea is to walk through the whole directory tree and populate a csv file with an excerpt from each file. For PDF I found PyPdf ave found nothing to read doc, doc

[Tutor] IDE for Python

Dear List; In your experience what is the best IDE for Python? I've used SPE and IDLE, I've also seen people using Eclipse but which one do you recommend? -- ¡Saludos! / Greetings! Juan José Del Toro M. jdeltoro1...@gmail.com Guadalajara, Jalisco MEXICO _

Re: [Tutor] Python a substitute/alternative for PhP?

2010/6/11 Alex Hall > Personally, I would learn Python. My college does not offer Python > either, so I had to learn what I know on my own(of course, by that I > mean constantly pestering this and other of the amazing Python email > lists). PHP is fine in itself, but, after using it, Java, and in

[Tutor] Sequences of letter

Dear List; I have embarked myself into learning Python, I have no programming background other than some Shell scripts and modifying some programs in Basic and PHP, but now I want to be able to program. I have been reading Alan Gauld's Tutor which has been very useful and I've also been watching