Re: [Tutor] Python 3.5 32-bit installer not creating standard registry key

2015-09-14 Thread Pete
t. However, if you recommend that I post in both places now then I'll do that. Pete On 2015-09-14 18:10, Laura Creighton wrote: In a message of Mon, 14 Sep 2015 15:53:16 +0100, Pete writes: Sorry, I've just realised that my previous message was wrong - please delete it. I now

Re: [Tutor] Python 3.5 32-bit installer not creating standard registry key

2015-09-14 Thread Pete
.5 32-bit keys. I'll have to find some way of contacting the Python for Windows Extensions developers to ask them which key the installer is looking for, and then try to determine why I don't have it. Pete Subject: Python 3.5 32-bit installer not creating standard registry key Date: 2

Re: [Tutor] Connecting Py 2.7 with visa

2015-05-19 Thread Wilson, Pete
Pip-for-windows worked great! Bob's your uncle! Case closed. Pete > -Original Message- > From: Tutor [mailto:tutor-bounces+pete.wilson=atmel@python.org] On > Behalf Of Mark Lawrence > Sent: Friday, May 15, 2015 7:15 PM > To: tutor@python.org > Subject: Re: [T

[Tutor] Connecting Py 2.7 with visa

2015-05-15 Thread Wilson, Pete
Greetings I am trying to write a test executive program using python 2.7 on a windows 7 computer. I want to connect to a Keithley 2100 voltmeter using National Instruments VISA. I am having trouble installing pyvisa. All the documentation refers to using 'pip' and a command line "$ pip install

Re: [Tutor] Passing Data to .DLL

2014-10-23 Thread Wilson, Pete
No worries, if I could spell I would have been a Lawyer. Pete > -Original Message- > From: eryksun [mailto:eryk...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 5:36 PM > To: Wilson, Pete > Cc: tutor@python.org > Subject: Re: [Tutor] Passing Data to .DLL > > On W

Re: [Tutor] Passing Data to .DLL

2014-10-23 Thread Wilson, Pete
sun [mailto:eryk...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 4:16 AM > To: Wilson, Pete > Cc: tutor@python.org > Subject: Re: [Tutor] Passing Data to .DLL > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 7:04 PM, Wilson, Pete > wrote: > > > > ProcessIncomingSerialData_t

[Tutor] Passing Data to .DLL

2014-10-22 Thread Wilson, Pete
I am having problems passing a pointer and uint8 to a .DLL. I have been successful registering call -backs with this .DLL. So it is all 32-bit and ctypes are working. Everything is working up to the line #set-up ProcessingIncomingSerialData. I tried the direct approach and then morphing the cal

Re: [Tutor] Registering callbacks and .DLL

2014-10-21 Thread Wilson, Pete
This worked. Yeah! Thank you so much. Pete > -Original Message- > From: eryksun [mailto:eryk...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, October 17, 2014 8:53 PM > To: Wilson, Pete > Cc: tutor@python.org > Subject: Re: [Tutor] Registering callbacks and .DLL > > On Thu, Oct 16,

Re: [Tutor] Registering callbacks and .DLL

2014-10-17 Thread Wilson, Pete
ut success. Thanks for your advice. Pete #* ''' bat_read_15_17_1_17 this program is attempting ot register a call back function the ProductionTest.dll using the techniques outlined in section 15.1

[Tutor] How to load python code only after program startup?

2012-11-19 Thread Pete O'Connell
tup, but rather only after I invoke a "loadMyCustomModules.py" module. Help please:)! Pete ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] reducing a list evenly when deleting elements by index

2012-09-18 Thread Pete O'Connell
Thanks Stephen. That looks like nice clean code too! Cheers Pete On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Stephen Haywood < step...@averagesecurityguy.info> wrote: > Someone has already tried. https://github.com/sebleier/RDP > > > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Pete O'Connell

Re: [Tutor] reducing a list evenly when deleting elements by index

2012-09-17 Thread Pete O'Connell
m to improve the accuracy of my curve simplification: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramer%E2%80%93Douglas%E2%80%93Peucker_algorithm Thanks Pete ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] reducing a list evenly when deleting elements by index

2012-09-16 Thread Pete O'Connell
Ah of course. Thanks very much Oscar! Pete On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Oscar Benjamin wrote: > On 17 September 2012 02:15, Pete O'Connell wrote: > >> Hi, I have a bezier line with 20 points on it and I am trying to reduce >> this to a line with 4 points, keeping th

[Tutor] reducing a list evenly when deleting elements by index

2012-09-16 Thread Pete O'Connell
counter+=1 aPointIndex = aPointIndex-(counter) print aPointIndex aShape.remove(aPointIndex) Any advice would be

Re: [Tutor] list comprehension, testing for multiple conditions

2012-08-23 Thread Pete O'Connell
ude the modulud test within the original list comprehension but I am not sure how to access the index of "line": #something like this is a sketch of what I mean (I know it's wrong) theGoodLines = [line.strip("\n") for line in lines if "v " == line[0:2]

Re: [Tutor] list comprehension, testing for multiple conditions

2012-08-22 Thread Pete O'Connell
Ok thanks for the advice everyone. Cheers Pete On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Jerry Hill wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Pete O'Connell > wrote: >> OK maybe I am wrong about it being slow (I thought for loops were >> slower than lis comprehensions). But I

Re: [Tutor] list comprehension, testing for multiple conditions

2012-08-22 Thread Pete O'Connell
if "vt" not in x > if x!= ""] > > It's slightly more verbose but it makes the rules more explicit, IMHO. I agree, it seems easier to read when written on multiple lines. I'll do it that way, Thanks Pete ___

Re: [Tutor] list comprehension, testing for multiple conditions

2012-08-22 Thread Pete O'Connell
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 2:53 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On 22/08/12 20:28, Pete O'Connell wrote: >> >> Hi. The next step for me to parse the file as I want to is to change >> lines that look like this: >> f 21/21/21 22/22/22 24/24/23 23/23/24 >> into

Re: [Tutor] list comprehension, testing for multiple conditions

2012-08-22 Thread Pete O'Connell
Thanks eryksun, that is a very clear example. Cheers pete On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:16 PM, eryksun wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:06 AM, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: >> >> wanted = [line.strip("\n") for line in lines >> if

Re: [Tutor] list comprehension, testing for multiple conditions

2012-08-22 Thread Pete O'Connell
t;)[-1] + " " + aGoodLineAsList[2].split("/")[-1] + " " + aGoodLineAsList[3].split("/")[-1] + " " + aGoodLineAsList[4].split("/")[-1] for anItem in theGoodLines: print anItem #

Re: [Tutor] list comprehension, testing for multiple conditions

2012-08-22 Thread Pete O'Connell
erator in a situation where the if statements were more numerous and complex. I am sure that will come in handy. Thanks On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > Pete O'Connell wrote: > >> Hi I am trying to parse a text file and create a lis

Re: [Tutor] list comprehension, testing for multiple conditions

2012-08-22 Thread Pete O'Connell
""] It works but what I don't understand about this line is why the ands are nor ors ("or" doesn't work even though I would have expected it to) I am sure I will have a few more questions over the next couple days as I work my way through the responses. Thanks Pete On We

[Tutor] list comprehension, testing for multiple conditions

2012-08-21 Thread Pete O'Connell
try. The last 3 lines of the code below have three list comprehensions that I would like to combine into 1 but I am not sure how to do that. Any tips would be greatly appreciated pete #start fileName = '/usr/home/poconnell/Desk

Re: [Tutor] commands.getoutput equivalent in subprocess

2012-03-19 Thread Pete O'Connell
Ok thanks a lot. Pete On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:01 PM, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: >> Pete O'Connell wrote: > >> Hi, I am using Python 2.6 I can't use Python 3 in this particular > situation. > > [Please reply to the list, not in pr

[Tutor] commands.getoutput equivalent in subprocess

2012-03-18 Thread Pete O'Connell
module)? It sounds like the commands module will be phased out soonish. I am using Python 2.6 Here is the kind of thing I would like to do in subprocess import commands output = commands.getoutput("echo Hello World!") print output Thanks Pete ___

[Tutor] return, why do I need it?

2011-12-11 Thread Pete O'Connell
function error", so I will change the word "return" to "print" and in many cases that's the way I leave it. Anyone have any thoughts on this? Thanks Pete ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change

[Tutor] how to temporarily disable a function

2011-07-27 Thread Pete O'Connell
another compositors script in the gui. I have a python script editor in Nuke in which I can run code if need be to run code on the fly. Help -- Pete ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http

[Tutor] getting the last file in a folder (reliably)

2011-03-21 Thread Pete O'Connell
openNewestCompCommandLine() for aFile in theFilesInTheFolder: print aFile Pete ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

[Tutor] open linux file browser from nuke python script

2011-01-31 Thread Pete O'Connell
ke import subprocess def showFolder(): subprocess.Popen(['kde-open', 'path/to/the/sequence']) showFolder() ### I must to run it from a specific interpreter (Nuke, the compositing software) Anyone have any idea what I migh

[Tutor] syntax error that i cant spot!

2011-01-01 Thread pete
Hi, Please help just starting out and have come up with the following code to create a simple guessing game. on line 30 print good job etc i get a syntax error! sure it's simple but i've looked for ages and cant spot it! Regards Pete # guess the number game import random guesse

Re: [Tutor] Dict of function calls

2010-09-23 Thread Pete
standard order. Hm, someone maybe should update http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foobar ... as there is a python example listed there... - Pete ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

[Tutor] __import__()

2010-09-23 Thread Pete
x27;) Question: what is the equivalent of from spam import * ? thanks, Pete ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Dict of function calls

2010-09-22 Thread Pete
On 2010-09-22, at 5:50 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 06:07:21 am Pete wrote: >> For a plugin mechanism, I'm populating a dict with calls to the >> implemented plugins. > [...] >> Now I get that I need to instantiate foo and bar first before

[Tutor] Dict of function calls

2010-09-22 Thread Pete
static method but that seemed... wrong (also because it needs to access some variables from the instance). Any hints would be appreciated, Pete ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

[Tutor] How to numerically sort strings that start with numbers?

2010-09-13 Thread Pete O'Connell
] rather than ['134445', '21 trewuuioi', '3zxc']? Any help would be greatly appreciated Pete ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] List comprehension for dicts?

2010-08-19 Thread Pete
On 2010-08-19, at 5:25 PM, Emile van Sebille wrote: > On 8/19/2010 7:51 AM Pete said... >> Hi, >> >> I've been reading up on list comprehensions lately, all userful and powerful >> stuff - trying to wrap my brain around it :) >> >> As the examples

[Tutor] List comprehension for dicts?

2010-08-19 Thread Pete
over it, of course) I'm trying to convert all keys in a dict to uppercase, as in: INPUT: age_dict = { 'pete': 42, 'ann': 25, 'carl': 30, 'amanda': 64 } OUTPUT: age_dict = { 'PETE': 42, 'ANN': 25, 'CARL': 30, 'AMAND

Re: [Tutor] Callbacks and exception handling

2010-08-12 Thread Pete
void them. Doh! That is what I did :) Thanks Steve! -Pete ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

[Tutor] Callbacks and exception handling

2010-08-12 Thread Pete
de is not easily isolated, but can post if necessary. thanks again, Pete ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

[Tutor] import errors

2010-08-11 Thread Pete
rt? Thanks for all your time, btw - I'm learning a lot lurking on this list and greatly appreciate all the people offering help and advice. cheers, Pete ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] getattr()

2010-08-04 Thread Pete
Hey Huy, thanks. But what is the first parameter in this case? (Note there is nothing here I'm trying to accomplish except understand). In the original example, 'statsout' is the name of the module. In this case there is no module so why can you substitute 'output_text&

[Tutor] getattr()

2010-08-04 Thread Pete
obals()['__name__'], in various forms, to no avail. Any pointers would be appreciated. thanks, Pete ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

[Tutor] conventions for establishing and saving default values for variables

2010-06-15 Thread Pete O'Connell
hat is the best way to have that variable saved for all subsequent uses of the script by the same user. Pete ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

[Tutor] find and replace relative to an nearby search string in a file

2009-07-12 Thread Pete O'Connell
;, go back line by line until you find a line that begins with " file /Volumes/" and then assign a new variable to the path on that line". At the very bottom of this post I have included what I have so far (The script which works but breaks). Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Re: [Tutor] thesaurus

2009-07-12 Thread Pete Froslie
t learning pyhton as well being intended to take a different form in an artwork I'm working on. thanks. petef On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Dave Angel wrote: > Pete Froslie wrote: > >> so, I've been playing with the functions a bit-- took a little time to get >>

Re: [Tutor] thesaurus

2009-07-12 Thread Pete Froslie
response = re.split(r"[/|/,\n, , ,:\"\"\.?,)(\-\<>\[\]'\r']", > fin.read()) > thesaurus = API_URL + response[word_number] + '/' #API_URL is > established at the start of the code > return thesaurus > Pete F On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 4:00 AM

Re: [Tutor] thesaurus

2009-07-11 Thread Pete Froslie
llowing me to call 'hello' later when I need it. Does this also mean that I will be able to call those functions separately later when I import 'thesaurus.py' into a new code also? Pete F On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Dave Angel wrote: > Pete Froslie wrote: > >>

Re: [Tutor] thesaurus

2009-07-11 Thread Pete Froslie
ch I can't seem to get to work > > re.sub works on a text string it doesn't affect the file. > > read the content into a string, close the input file. > Use re.sub to make the changes (or even just the replace > method of strings) then write the changed string back o

Re: [Tutor] thesaurus

2009-07-11 Thread Pete Froslie
for past, > present, > > future. So they rely on other words to indicate which they might mean. > > > Chinese also has the problem of relying on intonation to distinguish > between > identically spelled words. We have the same in English - bow(on stage) v > bow >

Re: [Tutor] Fwd: thesaurus

2009-07-08 Thread Pete Froslie
gure out a natural language parser.. as it turns out, I don't mind it for this project--gibberish is fine. Though I am now pretty curious about NL parsers-- thanks for the example.. I will look at using the split method of strings.. On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 11:12 PM, Rich Lovely wrote: > 200

Re: [Tutor] Fwd: thesaurus

2009-07-08 Thread Pete Froslie
e following: urllib.urlopen(' http://words.bighugelabs.com/api/2/e413f24801aa30b8d441ca43a64317be/moving/').read(SOMETHINGHERE) On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Rich Lovely wrote: > 2009/7/9 Pete Froslie : > > No problem, thanks for taking the time. > > > > I&#

Re: [Tutor] Fwd: thesaurus

2009-07-08 Thread Pete Froslie
the next word in the text file and then replaces it with the one that is looked up.. working on that now. Pete F On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Rich Lovely wrote: > 2009/7/9 Pete Froslie : > > Great Richard, thanks.. > > > > I'm getting an error as follows: > &

Re: [Tutor] Fwd: thesaurus

2009-07-08 Thread Pete Froslie
'with' cheers On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Rich Lovely wrote: > 2009/7/9 Pete Froslie : > > > > > > -- Forwarded message -- > > From: Pete Froslie > > Date: Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:53 PM > > Subject: Re: [Tutor] thesaurus >

[Tutor] Fwd: thesaurus

2009-07-08 Thread Pete Froslie
-- Forwarded message -- From: Pete Froslie Date: Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:53 PM Subject: Re: [Tutor] thesaurus To: Robert Berman Thanks Robert, I will try this out.. at the moment I'm playing with an API from ' http://words.bighugelabs.com/'. It works and pulls th

[Tutor] thesaurus

2009-07-08 Thread Pete Froslie
split and parse the original paragraphs, but the thesaurus is throwing me. I'm thinking maybe find a CSV thesaurus -or- a thesaurus online with an API.. I'm wondering if anyone has done something similar that may point me in the correct directi

Re: [Tutor] mac os x executable

2009-07-07 Thread Pete Froslie
ng further with the OS (as well as utilizing it in artworks) Cheers, Pete On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 7:12 PM, ALAN GAULD wrote: > > Yes, this makes sense to me.. but when treating a project as an artwork > > I can't ask people to go through an effort beyond a simple start of the &g

Re: [Tutor] mac os x executable

2009-07-07 Thread Pete Froslie
astic when being told over the phone how to re-launch the artwork-- it would be much easier to say, 'just double click the icon labeled artwork'. Same goes for an artwork I would like to distribute online to 'non-tech' viewers... Does this make sense? thank, Pete F On Tue, Jul

Re: [Tutor] mac os x executable

2009-07-07 Thread Pete Froslie
eating standalone > >> > executable > >> >files for mac os x.. I've been looking at 'py2app', [...] > > > pete, > > welcome to Python! in order for all to answer your question more > appropriately, you'll have to describe the problem in slightl

Re: [Tutor] mac os x executable

2009-07-07 Thread Pete Froslie
f. cheers On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Bill Campbell wrote: > On Tue, Jul 07, 2009, Pete Froslie wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I'm having trouble finding good tutorials on creating standalone > executable > >files for mac os x.. I've been looking at 'p

[Tutor] mac os x executable

2009-07-07 Thread Pete Froslie
Hi, I'm having trouble finding good tutorials on creating standalone executable files for mac os x.. I've been looking at 'py2app', but can't seem get a solid grasp. Any help would be greatly appreciated! cheers ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org h

Re: [Tutor] egg

2009-07-01 Thread Pete Froslie
2009 at 4:47 PM, Pete Froslie wrote: > Hi, I have a basic question concerning pythons eggs. I have setup easy > install and used it to install mechanize-- this was easy as I only needed to > type in 'Easy_Install Mechanize' in terminal. Now I need to install > 's

[Tutor] egg

2009-07-01 Thread Pete Froslie
pypi/simplejson Can anyone suggest the correct way to do this as it seems it is not as direct? I've read the EasyInstall documentation and believe I understand how, but am a little confused regarding my python paths. Using Mac OSX 10.5.7 Thanks so much, -- Pete Frosl

[Tutor] DOMForm

2009-06-26 Thread Pete Froslie
Hi, so I've been using Mechanize as suggested to me through tutor to access web forms and fill them out.. I've found some success though I wish there to be more documentation than docstrings.. as I am new to python and not incredibly experienced with code. I am able to fill forms and submit them i

Re: [Tutor] filling in web forms

2009-06-20 Thread Pete Froslie
Thank you so much.. I will start looking into twill and I just finished installing Mechanize. FYI: I use Netbeans as my IDE and encountered an error that took some time to resolve, as follows: A java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError exception has occurred the resolution can be found here if you run int

[Tutor] filling in web forms

2009-06-20 Thread Pete Froslie
I would to access web forms and fill them out. I am feeling that the 'ClientForm' module makes sense as a starting place, but am concerned that maybe it is dated and that there might be a better starting option.. can anyone help start me along the correct path as I am pretty new to python and not