Re: [Tutor] Printing Problem python 3

2009-04-29 Thread Shantanoo Mahajan (शंत नू महा जन)
On 30-Apr-09, at 12:12 AM, Dave Crouse wrote: Trying to print something with a { in it. Probably extremely simple, but it's frustrating me. :( print ('The \"This is a test \" {') i get this error ValueError: Single '{' encountered in format string Worked perfectly for me. === $ python3.0

Re: [Tutor] Working with lines from file and printing to another keeping sequential order

2009-04-25 Thread Shantanoo Mahajan (शंत नू महा जन)
On 25-Apr-09, at 11:41 PM, Dan Liang wrote: Hi Bob and tutors, Thanks Bob for your response! currently I have the current code, but it does not work: ListLines= [] for line in open('test.txt'): line = line.rstrip() ListLines.append(line) for i in range(len(ListLines)): if Lis

Re: [Tutor] Extracting information from an EXCEL/Matlab file to use in Python

2009-02-11 Thread Shantanoo Mahajan (शंत नू महा जन)
On 12-Feb-09, at 1:31 AM, Andres Sanchez wrote: Fellows, I am trying to extract information from a spreadsheet to use it in Python. For instance, say I have the number 5.6 in cell A1 of Sheet1 in the file example.xls . Could anyone of you ladies and gentleman let me know what commands I n

Re: [Tutor] array and dictionary

2008-09-20 Thread Shantanoo Mahajan (शंत नू महा जन)
Straight forward method would be... >>> a=[[1],[2]] >>> b={} >>> for x in range(len(a)): ... b[x] = a[x] ... >>> a [[1], [2]] >>> b {0: [1], 1: [2]} >>> regards, shantanoo On 21-Sep-08, at 11:36 AM, Dinesh B Vadhia wrote: Hi! Say, I've got a numpy array/matrix of the form: [[1 6 1 2 3]

Re: [Tutor] Sort Output

2008-09-17 Thread Shantanoo Mahajan
Solution 1: >>> a=[2,3,1,4] >>> b=a[:] >>> a [2, 3, 1, 4] >>> b [2, 3, 1, 4] >>> a.sort() >>> a [1, 2, 3, 4] >>> b [2, 3, 1, 4] >>> Solution 2: >>> from copy import deepcopy >>> a=[2,1,3,4] >>> b=deepcopy(a) >>> a [2, 1, 3, 4] >>> b [2, 1, 3, 4] >>> a.sort() >>> a [1, 2, 3, 4] >>> b [2, 1, 3, 4]

Re: [Tutor] comparing dates

2007-11-23 Thread Shantanoo Mahajan
On 24-Nov-07, at 10:57 AM, Lawrence Shafer wrote: > How would I compare these two dates and extract the difference in > H:M:S?? > > 22 Nov 2007 18:54:07 > 23 Nov 2007 23:24:23 You can try, 'datetime' module. 'http://pleac.sourceforge.net/pleac_python/datesandtimes.html' may be useful. regar

Re: [Tutor] validation

2007-08-27 Thread Shantanoo Mahajan
On 27-Aug-07, at 2:20 PM, Michael wrote: > Hi > > I am fairly new to Python and I wish to validate input. Such as > wanting > to check and make sure that an integer is entered and the program not > crashing when a naughty user enters a character instead. I have been > trying to use the Type() f

Re: [Tutor] Puzzled by print lst.sort()

2006-09-30 Thread Shantanoo Mahajan
+++ Dick Moores [30-09-06 10:47 -0700]: | At 05:07 AM 9/30/2006, Liam Clarke wrote: | >Dick Moores wrote: | > > At 03:22 AM 9/30/2006, Liam Clarke wrote: | > >> Dick Moores wrote: | | > >> A Python list sort is destructive, as you can see - it has modified | > >> lst. So, to emphasise that it is d

Re: [Tutor] Better way to substitute text?

2006-09-30 Thread Shantanoo Mahajan
+++ William Allison [29-09-06 18:55 -0400]: | Hi, | Just learning Python, on chapter 6 of Learning Python 2nd Ed. So, on to | the question. Is there a better way to | implement the code below? It scans a saved html file and highlights | certain keywords is a bold, red font. It works, | but I

Re: [Tutor] getting 'pwd' for XP ?

2006-09-28 Thread Shantanoo Mahajan
+++ Shantanoo Mahajan [28-09-06 21:12 +0530]: | +++ Dave S [28-09-06 16:10 +0100]: | | I currently running XP (like a fish out of water :) and I need to know the dir | | that the python script is executed from. a linux 'pwd' How can I achieve | | this - I have looked in sys & os

Re: [Tutor] getting 'pwd' for XP ?

2006-09-28 Thread Shantanoo Mahajan
+++ Dave S [28-09-06 16:10 +0100]: | I currently running XP (like a fish out of water :) and I need to know the dir | that the python script is executed from. a linux 'pwd' How can I achieve | this - I have looked in sys & os & os.path but found nothing suitable Python 2.4.

Re: [Tutor] printing 00

2006-07-11 Thread Shantanoo Mahajan
+++ Christopher Spears [10-07-06 21:34 -0700]: | I'm working on a problem from "How To Think Like A | Computer Scientist". I created a Time class: | | class Time: | | def __init__(self, hours, minutes, seconds): | self.hours = hours | self.minutes = minut

Re: [Tutor] for loops over multiple lists of the same length

2006-06-22 Thread Shantanoo Mahajan
+++ Emily Fortuna [22-06-06 13:22 -0400]: | I feel like there should be a better way to do this process: | Can you please help? | (This is trivial example code I created off the top of my head, but the | same concept that I am trying to do elsewhere.) | | class Person(object): | def __init_

Re: [Tutor] lists and strings

2005-11-08 Thread Shantanoo Mahajan
+++ Hugo Gonz?lez Monteverde [08-11-05 13:13 -0600]: | Hi Mike, | | Converting an (almost)arbitrary object into a string is what the Pickle module does. CPickle is faster. Take | a look into into it in the docs. | Is there a way to dump the varialble in XML format and retrive it? e.g. a="this

Re: [Tutor] RSH?

2005-11-03 Thread Shantanoo Mahajan
+++ Bernard Lebel [03-11-05 14:16 -0500]: | I use plink | http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html | | Basically you send a system command (os.system) to the plink | executable. The actuall command will take this form: | | os.system( 'plink -pw %s -ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] %s'

Re: [Tutor] substituting empty line with stuff

2005-08-03 Thread Shantanoo Mahajan
+++ Srinivas Iyyer [02-08-05 14:54 -0700]: | Hello group: | | I have a file (3339203 lines) that looks like this: | | (col:1)(col:2) (col:3) | AD134KL | X X | X X | X X | | AD144KL | Y YYY

Re: [Tutor] single file .exe

2005-07-21 Thread Shantanoo Mahajan
+++ Jorge Louis De Castro [20-07-05 23:20 +0100]: | Hello, | | Is there a way of creating a Windows .exe from a .py file that does not involve unzipping several files onto a folder? | Does someone know of a program that wraps all the files needed into one single (non-installable) executable? |

[Tutor] Re: Opening and reading .cvs files in Python

2004-12-17 Thread Shantanoo Mahajan
+++ Johan Geldenhuys [14-12-04 15:18 +0200]: | Hi, | I want to find out how to open a .cvs file on a remote Windows machine | and get file to my local linux folder. .cvs file?? | | Any help would be appreciated. | -- |Johan | | -- | This E-Mail has been scanned. | Enjoy Your Day. |