[Tutor] compiling python

2008-06-18 Thread Sean Novak
Hello Python Guru's and Newbies alike. I've been able to write a bit of Python for a web app that works wonderfully on my dev machine. However, I have limited access to the machine that will actually host this app. Will compiling a Python program eliminate library dependency requirements

[Tutor] for loop

2008-06-10 Thread Sean Novak
I know I'm going to feel stupid on this one.. I would normally write this in PHP like this: for($i=1; i< count($someArray); $i++) { print $someArray[i] } essentially,, I want to loop through an array skipping "someArray[0]" but in python the for syntax is more like foreach in PHP.. I'

Re: [Tutor] IDE

2008-06-10 Thread Sean Novak
Sweet Jesus!! Thank you! Thus far,, I know only the basic VIM functionality ie. navigating the document.. search/replace, etc. Still need to learn regular expressions also. This filter stuff rocks.. thanks! Sean On Jun 10, 2008, at 1:21 PM, Alan Gauld wrote: "Sean Novak&quo

Re: [Tutor] IDE

2008-06-10 Thread Sean Novak
Wow.. thanks everyone!! I am on a mac,, currently. But, I often bounce from one computer to the next.. often Linux. So, I like the VIM option as it comes pre installed on either OS. One thing that I like about EMACS, however, is the ability to run the current buffer interactively to a

[Tutor] IDE

2008-06-10 Thread Sean Novak
I'm looking for the perfect IDE, preferably open source. I've installed Bluefish, which I find to be a little buggy still. I'm just starting to dive into emacs, which I feel is a little daunting. If someone has tried a few different IDEs and found the one that they love.. I'd be interes

Re: [Tutor] Grabbing data from changing website

2008-06-06 Thread Sean Novak
I've recently been writing a web app with libxml2dom ( http://www.boddie.org.uk/python/libxml2dom.html ). I had a look at BeautifulSoup and found the two very similar. I ended up sticking with libxml2dom because of a quote from its website.. "Performance is fairly respectable since lib

[Tutor] turbo gears

2008-06-04 Thread Sean Novak
I was curious as to what the you pythonistas thought about Turbo Gears. I've been moving through a pretty good book on the subject. But, I thought I would get some opinions before really committing a lot of time to learning their workflow. I am writing web apps, which is what drew me to