[Tutor] Config file directory (was: File like object for Windows registry)

Hello again! Thanks a lot for the helpful hints! I was not aware that expanduser does also work on windows since I am on WinMe... My current approach is this: import platform, os.path def _detect_filepath(): op_sys= platform.system() op_rel= platform.release() if op_sys=="Windows":

[Tutor] File like object for Windows registry

Hello! My app should run on debian and windows platforms. For storing the configuration data, I use the ConfigParser module. What I find difficult is to determine a place for my configuration file. On debian, it is simply os.path.join(os.path.expanduser("~")),"myconfig") but what am I suppose

Re: [Tutor] [Linux] open a file in any home "~" ?

Hi, try f=file(os.path.join(os.path.expanduser("~")),"myfile"), "r") Kind regards, Karsten. -- Echte DSL-Flatrate dauerhaft für 0,- Euro*! "Feel free" mit GMX DSL! http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.pytho

Re: [Tutor] wxPython

> How can I avoid that the graphics freeze. > here is another example for doing this: http://uucode.com/texts/pylongopgui/pyguiapp.html It uses Tkinter, but it should work in wxPython, too. Kind regards, Karsten. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.

Re: [Tutor] Read Excel file without COM

Hello, you could try to access the excel file via ODBC if the only thing you need to do is reading. It worked for me when I was working with Excel 95 (no COM) and wanted to read in worksheets in python. Here are some infos on excel datasources: http://www.idude.net/excel/articles/using_excel_file_

[Tutor] Tkinter modal dialogs

Hello tutors! My file search dialog is working now! I attach a copy of the module. It would be nice, if someone could look over it and make suggestions to improve it. There are at least two points I find not very elegant in the program: 1. The dialog is ended by raising a SystemExit exception. (I

Re: [Tutor] Tkinter mainloop

Hello, Thanks a lot for the pointers, Kent, and the explanations, Michael! > There is an undocumented hook that lets you change this - the function > Tk.report_callback_exception() is called to actually report the error. > You can redefine this function to do what you want. Here are a couple

[Tutor] Tkinter mainloop (was Re: tkFileDialog.Directory)

Hello Michael, hello list, thanks for the info that pmw displays exceptions. What I don't understand is >> --- snip --- >> import Tix >> >> def raise_exception(): >> print 1/0 >> >> if __name__ == '__main__': >> root = Tix.Tk() >> root.title("Exception demo") >> >> Tix.Button

Re: [Tutor] tkFileDialog.Directory

Hello! Michael Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guess the tkFileDialog.Directory class isn't intended to be used directly. > Try tkFileDialog.askdirectory() instead. > If there are problems with the grab state, try passing "parent=self.top" to askdirectory(). That did it! Thanks a lot! I wou

[Tutor] tkFileDialog.Directory

Hello! I want to learn Tkinter and try to build a small File search dialog. Tkinter is nice, but here is a problem where I am stuck: I want to allow the dialog's user to pick a directory. The widget for this is tkFileDialog.Directory. But when I start the Directory-Window, it is possible move the