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
okay.. I'm getting the hang of python a little more. I'd like to try something a bit more complicated (for me). I would like to convert each word in a series of paragraphs to its first matching synonym in a thesaurus. I'm a bit stuck as how to start.. I think I understand how to split and parse the

Re: [Tutor] mac os x executable

2009-07-07 Thread Pete Froslie
like The Missing Manual > for Mac OS X or almost any other in depth Moc OS X > manual should explain what you need to know. > > But if you are taking the trouble to learn Python you > really should learn the OS fundamentals too > > Alan Gauld > Author of the Learn To Pro

Re: [Tutor] mac os x executable

2009-07-07 Thread Pete Froslie
7, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Alan Gauld wrote: > > "Pete Froslie" wrote > > 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

Re: [Tutor] mac os x executable

2009-07-07 Thread Pete Froslie
ce Hall, (c)2007,2001 > "Python Fundamentals", Prentice Hall, (c)2009 >http://corepython.com > > wesley.j.chun :: wescpy-at-gmail.com > python training and technical consulting > cyberweb.consulting : silicon valley, ca > http://cyberwebconsulting.com > -- Pete Froslie http://www.froslie.net ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

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