Re: [Tutor] Newbie question: programs not printing

2016-03-10 Thread Alan Gauld
On 10/03/16 13:33, Patrick Craine wrote: > I downloaded Python 2.7.11 but for some reason it seems that it's not > responding the way it¹s supposed to. I haven¹t been able to figure out the > problem. I¹m on Mac OSX 10.11.3. You probably didn't need to download Python because it is installed by d

Re: [Tutor] Newbie question: programs not printing

2016-03-10 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 5:33 AM, Patrick Craine wrote: > >>> x = int(raw_input('Enter an integer: ')) > if x%2 == 0: > print 'Even' > else: > print 'Odd' > if x%3 != 0: > print 'And not divisible by 3' > Enter an integer: 3 > >>> > > It could be your email program that's messing with your indenta

[Tutor] Newbie question: programs not printing

2016-03-10 Thread Patrick Craine
Hey guys, I¹m at the very beginning of learning programming. I started using Khan Academy and now am watching the intro course on MIT OpenCourseWare. I downloaded Python 2.7.11 but for some reason it seems that it's not responding the way it¹s supposed to. I haven¹t been able to figure out the pr

Re: [Tutor] newbie in programming

2016-03-09 Thread Ben Finney
Mark Lawrence writes: > I have found it very helpful to follow conversations if people don't > top post, but that seems once again to have been completely lost on > this list. Is it simply too difficult? Not too difficult, nor lost. By the nature of this forum, many people have only joined recen

Re: [Tutor] newbie in programming

2016-03-09 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 09/03/2016 14:19, Bookbag wrote: Also I found it helpful to learn python 2.7 first. Since you will need it to analyze old code. Original Message From: Alan Gauld Sent: March 9, 2016 3:33:10 AM EST To: tutor@python.org Subject: Re: [Tutor] newbie in programming On 09/03

Re: [Tutor] newbie in programming

2016-03-09 Thread Bookbag
Also I found it helpful to learn python 2.7 first. Since you will need it to analyze old code. Original Message From: Alan Gauld Sent: March 9, 2016 3:33:10 AM EST To: tutor@python.org Subject: Re: [Tutor] newbie in programming On 09/03/16 06:31, alireza sadeh seighalan

Re: [Tutor] newbie in programming

2016-03-09 Thread Bookbag
3:33:10 AM EST To: tutor@python.org Subject: Re: [Tutor] newbie in programming On 09/03/16 06:31, alireza sadeh seighalan wrote: > i am very newbie in programming. i want to start with Python. would you > guide me ? please introduce me some good python tutorial for a newbie . > thanks in

Re: [Tutor] newbie in programming

2016-03-09 Thread Lisa Hasler Waters
Alan, Thanks for pointing us to your extensive, extremely useful website! So much good stuff in their! Many thanks, Lisa On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 3:33 AM, Alan Gauld wrote: > On 09/03/16 06:31, alireza sadeh seighalan wrote: > > > i am very newbie in programming. i want to start with Python. wou

Re: [Tutor] newbie in programming

2016-03-09 Thread Alan Gauld
On 09/03/16 06:31, alireza sadeh seighalan wrote: > i am very newbie in programming. i want to start with Python. would you > guide me ? please introduce me some good python tutorial for a newbie . > thanks in advance You could try my tutorial (see below) or there is a list of non-programmers t

[Tutor] newbie in programming

2016-03-09 Thread alireza sadeh seighalan
hi everyone i am very newbie in programming. i want to start with Python. would you guide me ? please introduce me some good python tutorial for a newbie . thanks in advance ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Re: [Tutor] Newbie Question

2015-11-11 Thread Alan Gauld
On 11/11/15 20:12, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 11/11/2015 19:38, George Henry wrote: How do I find a site to download Python for Windows that includes a Toolbar? So IDLE is not good enough for you? I'll let you find it as it's part of the standard library, i.e. you've all ready downloaded it.

Re: [Tutor] Newbie Question

2015-11-11 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 11/11/2015 19:38, George Henry wrote: How do I find a site to download Python for Windows that includes a Toolbar? I'm using Windows 8.1 Have tried installing Python 3.4.2 but notice that the Python shell does not include a tool bar (i.e. File, Edit, Shell, Debug, etc.). Help please. Thank

Re: [Tutor] Newbie Question

2015-11-11 Thread Albert-Jan Roskam
d, 11 Nov 2015 11:38:47 -0800 > Subject: [Tutor] Newbie Question > > How do I find a site to download Python for Windows that includes a Toolbar? > > I'm using Windows 8.1 Have tried installing Python 3.4.2 but notice that > the Python shell does not include a tool bar (i.e.

[Tutor] Newbie Question

2015-11-11 Thread George Henry
How do I find a site to download Python for Windows that includes a Toolbar? I'm using Windows 8.1 Have tried installing Python 3.4.2 but notice that the Python shell does not include a tool bar (i.e. File, Edit, Shell, Debug, etc.). Help please. Thanks! _

Re: [Tutor] [newbie] import error after restart (virtualenv)

2015-09-19 Thread Danny Yoo
On Sep 19, 2015 6:22 PM, "David" wrote: > > Hello Peter, > > this was indeed the problem -- I didn't go through manage.py! Weird I > didn't have that on the radar anymore. > > Putting lists/ onto the Python path did not solve the problem. > You probably want to put the *parent* of lists/ onto the

Re: [Tutor] [newbie] import error after restart (virtualenv)

2015-09-19 Thread David
Hello Peter, this was indeed the problem -- I didn't go through manage.py! Weird I didn't have that on the radar anymore. Putting lists/ onto the Python path did not solve the problem. Thanks for your help! David On 19/09/15 16:07, Peter Otten wrote: > David wrote: > >> Dear Tutors, >> >> I

Re: [Tutor] [newbie] import error after restart (virtualenv)

2015-09-19 Thread Peter Otten
David wrote: > Dear Tutors, > > I am reading through Harry Percival's "Test-Driven Development with > Python". > > As I finished chapter 3 yesterday, I was fully on track, perfectly > aligned with the book. > > Today I restarted my computer, activated the virtualenv in question -- > and get an

[Tutor] [newbie] import error after restart (virtualenv)

2015-09-19 Thread David
Dear Tutors, I am reading through Harry Percival's "Test-Driven Development with Python". As I finished chapter 3 yesterday, I was fully on track, perfectly aligned with the book. Today I restarted my computer, activated the virtualenv in question -- and get an error message that was not there b

Re: [Tutor] Newbie to Python: enumerate XML tags (keys that will become headers) along with text (values) and write to CSV in one row (as opposed to "stacked" values with one header)

2015-06-26 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 02:42:16PM -0400, Saran Ahluwalia wrote: > My question can be found here: > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31058100/enumerate-column-headers-in-csv-that-belong-to-the-same-tag-key-in-python You might think you are saving time in not typing the question twice, but y

Re: [Tutor] Newbie to Python: enumerate XML tags (keys that will become headers) along with text (values) and write to CSV in one row (as opposed to "stacked" values with one header)

2015-06-25 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 25/06/2015 23:51, Alan Gauld wrote: On 25/06/15 19:42, Saran Ahluwalia wrote: My question can be found here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31058100/enumerate-column-headers-in-csv-that-belong-to-the-same-tag-key-in-python It would have been helpful to post the question here rather th

Re: [Tutor] Newbie to Python: enumerate XML tags (keys that will become headers) along with text (values) and write to CSV in one row (as opposed to "stacked" values with one header)

2015-06-25 Thread Alan Gauld
On 25/06/15 19:42, Saran Ahluwalia wrote: My question can be found here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31058100/enumerate-column-headers-in-csv-that-belong-to-the-same-tag-key-in-python It would have been helpful to post the question here rather than just a link. However, having read i

[Tutor] Newbie to Python: enumerate XML tags (keys that will become headers) along with text (values) and write to CSV in one row (as opposed to "stacked" values with one header)

2015-06-25 Thread Saran Ahluwalia
My question can be found here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31058100/enumerate-column-headers-in-csv-that-belong-to-the-same-tag-key-in-python Here is an additional sample sample of the XML that I am working with: 0 0 0 0

Re: [Tutor] Newbie problems

2015-05-02 Thread Sibylle Koczian
Am 02.05.2015 um 09:58 schrieb Alan Gauld: I made no mention of green because it is not a tuple. Can you see why 'in' is not the right test for green. Can you see why the interpreter is complaining? *This is what I programmed:* number = int(input('Enter a number between 0 and 36: ')) green_nu

Re: [Tutor] Newbie problems

2015-05-02 Thread Dave Angel
1) Please reply-list, or if your email program doesn't support that, do a reply-all. The idea is to make sure tutor@python.org is in your To: field. Otherwise you're just leaving private messages, and that's not what a public forum like this is about. 2) Please use text email, not html. As

Re: [Tutor] Newbie problems

2015-05-02 Thread Alan Gauld
Please use ReplyAll to include everyone on the the list. On 02/05/15 03:26, Jag Sherrington wrote: Hi Alan Thanks for your help. I followed your instruction and get the following message: Enter a number between 0 and 36: 9 Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Python34\Tests\Roulette_w

Re: [Tutor] Newbie problems

2015-04-30 Thread Alan Gauld
On 30/04/15 04:58, Jag Sherrington wrote: Can anyone please tell me what I am doing wrong?As this code I have for the Roulette Wheel colours exercise, won't work. number = int(input('Enter a number between 0 and 36: '))green_number = (0) red_number = (1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 12, 14, 16, 18, 19, 21, 23,

Re: [Tutor] Newbie problems

2015-04-30 Thread Dave Angel
On 04/29/2015 11:58 PM, Jag Sherrington wrote: Can anyone please tell me what I am doing wrong?As this code I have for the Roulette Wheel colours exercise, won't work. number = int(input('Enter a number between 0 and 36: '))green_number = (0) red_number = (1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 12, 14, 16, 18, 19, 21

[Tutor] Newbie problems

2015-04-30 Thread Jag Sherrington
Can anyone please tell me what I am doing wrong?As this code I have for the Roulette Wheel colours exercise, won't work. number = int(input('Enter a number between 0 and 36: '))green_number = (0) red_number = (1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 12, 14, 16, 18, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 30, 32, 34, 36) black_number = (2,

Re: [Tutor] Newbie Trouble Processing SRT Strings In Text File

2014-11-03 Thread Dave Angel
Please evaluate your email program. Some of your newline s are being lost in the paste into your email. Matt Varner Wrote in message: > TL:DR - Skip to "My Script: "subtrans.py" > > > > Optional Links to (perhaps) Helpful Images: > 1. The SRT download button: > http://i70.photobucket.com/alb

Re: [Tutor] Newbie Trouble Processing SRT Strings In Text

2014-11-01 Thread Peter Otten
Matt Varner wrote: > This result works perfectly (REMs removed): > > f = open('tmp.txt', 'r') > o = open('result.txt', 'w') > lns = f.readlines() > f.close() > for line in lns: > if ".\n" in line: > a = line.replace('.\n','. ') > o.write(a) > else: > a = line.stri

Re: [Tutor] Newbie Trouble Processing SRT Strings In Text

2014-11-01 Thread Matt Varner
Alan G wrote: "This is a bad idea. Instead, write your strings directly to o o.write(s) Print adds newlines automatically(unless you explicitly suppress them). But printing to a file is messy compared to writing directly to the file. (And also means you cant print debug messages while developing

Re: [Tutor] Newbie Trouble Processing SRT Strings In Text File

2014-10-31 Thread Danny Yoo
[code cut] Hi Matt, It looks like you're trying to write your own srt parser as part of this problem. If you're in a hurry, you may want to look at existing parsers that people have written. For example: https://github.com/byroot/pysrt But, even though it successfully kills these additi

Re: [Tutor] Newbie Trouble Processing SRT Strings In Text File

2014-10-31 Thread Alan Gauld
On 31/10/14 11:07, Matt Varner wrote: # Import sys to get at stdout (standard output) - "print" results will be written to file import sys This is a bad idea. Instead, write your strings directly to o o.write(s) Print adds newlines automatically(unless you explicitly suppress them). But prin

[Tutor] Newbie Trouble Processing SRT Strings In Text File

2014-10-31 Thread Matt Varner
TL:DR - Skip to "My Script: "subtrans.py" Optional Links to (perhaps) Helpful Images: 1. The SRT download button: http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i82/RavingNoah/Python%20Help/tutor1_zps080f20f7.png 2. A visual comparison of my current problem (see 'Desire Versus Reality' below): http://i70.ph

Re: [Tutor] Newbie question. Is it possible to run/call a python2.7 program and reference results from/in python3.3?

2013-09-13 Thread Alan Gauld
On 13/09/13 15:59, Paul Smith wrote: So there are many tools out there but mechanize and scrapy 3rd party modules seem to produce the best results; however nothing like these exist for Python3. I get close but cannot produce the clean simple url results in python3 Yes that's the biggest barrie

[Tutor] Newbie question. Is it possible to run/call a python2.7 program and reference results from/in python3.3?

2013-09-13 Thread Paul Smith
Attempting a simple web crawler in python3, browse a url - collect/clean/produce valid url list from a url; random choice from valid url list; visit new url repeat process - collect/clean/produce valid url list from new url... So there are many tools out there but mechanize and scrapy 3rd party mo

Re: [Tutor] Newbie Here -- Averaging & Adding Madness Over a Given (x) Range?!?!

2013-02-15 Thread Michael J. McConachie
On 02/15/2013 04:03 PM, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote: > >> Eventually what I'll need to do is: >> 1. Index the file and/or count the lines, as to identify each line's >> positional relevance so that it can average any range of numbers that are >> sequential; one to one another. > In other words: you

Re: [Tutor] Newbie Here -- Averaging & Adding Madness Over a Given (x) Range?!?!

2013-02-15 Thread Albert-Jan Roskam
> Eventually what I'll need to do is: > > 1.  Index the file and/or count the lines, as to identify each line's > positional relevance so that it can average any range of numbers that are > sequential; one to one another. In other words: you would like to down-sample your data? For example, r

Re: [Tutor] Newbie Here -- Averaging & Adding Madness Over a Given (x) Range?!?!

2013-02-15 Thread Michael J. McConachie
@ Stephen, Thank you for the answers. I appreciate your understanding, and patience; I understand that it was confusing (unintentionally) and probably irritating to any of the seasoned tutor list members. Your examples helped greatly, and was the push I needed. Happy Friday, and thanks again,

Re: [Tutor] Newbie Here -- Averaging & Adding Madness Over a Given (x) Range?!?!

2013-02-15 Thread Michael J. McConachie
@Bob @David -- I gave you all the other parts to give you a background, and context as it relates to my 'problem'. My apologies if it seems obfuscated. I took an hour to write that email, and revised it several times in an attempt to provide good information. Please disregard my OP. On 02/14/

Re: [Tutor] Newbie Here -- Averaging & Adding Madness Over a Given (x) Range?!?!

2013-02-14 Thread bob gailer
On 2/14/2013 3:55 PM, Michael McConachie wrote: [snip] I agree with dave angel - the specification is far from clear. please clarify. perhaps a simple example that goes from input to desired output. -- Bob Gailer 919-636-4239 Chapel Hill NC ___ Tuto

Re: [Tutor] Newbie Here -- Averaging & Adding Madness Over a Given (x) Range?!?!

2013-02-14 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On 15/02/13 07:55, Michael McConachie wrote: Essentially: 1. I have a list of numbers that already exist in a file. I generate this file by parsing info from logs. 2. Each line contains an integer on it (corresponding to the number of milliseconds that it takes to complete a certain repeat

Re: [Tutor] Newbie Here -- Averaging & Adding Madness Over a Given (x) Range?!?!

2013-02-14 Thread Dave Angel
On 02/14/2013 03:55 PM, Michael McConachie wrote: Hello all, This is my first post here. I have tried to get answers from StackOverflow, but I realized quickly that I am too "green" for that environment. As such, I have purchased Beginning Python (2nd edition, Hetland) and also the $29.00 co

[Tutor] Newbie Here -- Averaging & Adding Madness Over a Given (x) Range?!?!

2013-02-14 Thread Michael McConachie
Hello all, This is my first post here. I have tried to get answers from StackOverflow, but I realized quickly that I am too "green" for that environment. As such, I have purchased Beginning Python (2nd edition, Hetland) and also the $29.00 course available from learnpythonthehardway(dot)com.

Re: [Tutor] Newbie help with .pyc

2012-10-05 Thread Alan Gauld
On 05/10/12 10:07, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 05/10/2012 04:23, ken brockman wrote: I wonder if they might be a way for some on this forum to dispense advice and help others without the totally snide and obnoxious attitude? I'm firmly with Steven here. If people cannot be bothered to do any rese

Re: [Tutor] Newbie help with .pyc

2012-10-05 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 05/10/2012 04:23, ken brockman wrote: I wonder if they might be a way for some on this forum to dispense advice and help others without the totally snide and obnoxious attitude? if it is so painfully annoying for you to deal with, why subject yourself to it? I suspect it is the sheer joy of

Re: [Tutor] Newbie help with .pyc

2012-10-04 Thread Ashfaq
Hey Ken, Steve has just made some innocent fun. He is eager to help the guy. Please don't be so harsh. Sincerely Ashfaq ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Newbie help with .pyc

2012-10-04 Thread ken brockman
. From: Steven D'Aprano To: tutor@python.org Sent: Thursday, October 4, 2012 1:39 PM Subject: Re: [Tutor] Newbie help with .pyc On 05/10/12 01:21, tfahey1 wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I am a Maya user, so I only come into contact with Python scripting on a > sur

Re: [Tutor] Newbie help with .pyc

2012-10-04 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On 05/10/12 01:21, tfahey1 wrote: Hey everyone, I am a Maya user, so I only come into contact with Python scripting on a surface level, but I downloaded a python script from a CG website that I would like to check out but I am getting an error when it is run. Would you like us to guess what e

[Tutor] Newbie help with .pyc

2012-10-04 Thread tfahey1
Hey everyone, I am a Maya user, so I only come into contact with Python scripting on a surface level, but I downloaded a python script from a CG website that I would like to check out but I am getting an error when it is run. The only file included was a .pyc file. I'm wondering if there should al

Re: [Tutor] newbie Questions

2012-07-16 Thread Vignesh Sathiamoorthy
Check out http://www.udacity.com/ Enroll in few courses - to begin with, check http://www.udacity.com/view#Course/cs101/CourseRev/apr2012/Unit/671001/Nugget/675002 On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 5:09 AM, Matthew Ngaha wrote: > Hi all. I'm new to Python and Programming in general. I've started out

Re: [Tutor] newbie Questions

2012-07-16 Thread Jordan
I would just like to add that I am a web developer and I left PHP for Python. I left PHP because it was not as powerful server side (Cron Jobs and Such) and I wanted to possibly create desktop applications, more recently Android Apps via SL4A and IPhone Apps via pyjamas. PHP is a limited language a

Re: [Tutor] newbie Questions

2012-07-16 Thread Matthew Ngaha
Thanks guys, i didnt think i would get so many kind and helpful responses. I am so grateful:x. I have read each and every reply and i am now very confident in the direction i need to take. Everything is a lot clearer now. Even though i'm new to programming, i am very intrigued by it and want to ded

Re: [Tutor] newbie Questions

2012-07-16 Thread Alexandre Zani
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 5:09 AM, Matthew Ngaha wrote: > Hi all. I'm new to Python and Programming in general. I've started out with > Python for beginners, and so far so good. My friend who i might add, is not > a programmer but has had experience in the world of programming (i dont know > how muc

Re: [Tutor] newbie Questions

2012-07-16 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Matthew Ngaha wrote: Hi all. I'm new to Python and Programming in general. I've started out with Python for beginners, and so far so good. My friend who i might add, is not a programmer but has had experience in the world of programming (i dont know how much but he claims a lot), has told me to f

Re: [Tutor] newbie Questions

2012-07-16 Thread Joel Goldstick
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Wayne Werner wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Jul 2012, Walter Prins wrote: > >> Hi again Matthew, >> >> I forgot to include the following link which I originally thought to >> include, which is one guy's set of (IMHO very cogent) criticisms >> against PHP as programming lang

Re: [Tutor] newbie Questions

2012-07-16 Thread Wayne Werner
On Mon, 16 Jul 2012, Walter Prins wrote: Hi again Matthew, I forgot to include the following link which I originally thought to include, which is one guy's set of (IMHO very cogent) criticisms against PHP as programming language: http://is.gd/z1POXC Hopefully it gives you something else to t

Re: [Tutor] newbie Questions

2012-07-16 Thread Monte Milanuk
Probably the single biggest 'problem' with Python for web development, in my opinion, is that while a lot of web hosts have all sorts of PHP templates or frameworks installed and ready for easy deployment... Python options seem to be a bit sparser. Individual hosts may vary, but thats the overall

Re: [Tutor] newbie Questions

2012-07-16 Thread Walter Prins
Hi again Matthew, I forgot to include the following link which I originally thought to include, which is one guy's set of (IMHO very cogent) criticisms against PHP as programming language: http://is.gd/z1POXC Hopefully it gives you something else to think about regarding the PHP vs Python questi

Re: [Tutor] newbie Questions

2012-07-16 Thread Walter Prins
Hi Matthew, On 16 July 2012 13:09, Matthew Ngaha wrote: > Hi all. I'm new to Python and Programming in general. I've started out with > Python for beginners, and so far so good. My friend who i might add, is not > a programmer but has had experience in the world of programming (i dont know > how

[Tutor] newbie Questions

2012-07-16 Thread Matthew Ngaha
Hi all. I'm new to Python and Programming in general. I've started out with Python for beginners, and so far so good. My friend who i might add, is not a programmer but has had experience in the world of programming (i dont know how much but he claims a lot), has told me to forget about Python and

Re: [Tutor] newbie needs pypy setup tips

2011-07-30 Thread eire1130
usity. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Tom Roche Sender: tutor-bounces+eire1130=gmail@python.org Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 17:49:02 To: Reply-To: tutor@python.org, Tom Roche Subject: [Tutor] newbie needs pypy setup tips I need advice about config

[Tutor] newbie needs pypy setup tips

2011-07-30 Thread Tom Roche
I need advice about configuring pypy to run other python code. Why I ask: I'm running a model implemented in python. Unfortunately a run on "straight" python 2.6.x or 2.7.x requires - 130 min on my ubuntu laptop (on which working would be more convenient) - 55 min on a better build machine on w

[Tutor] Newbie Programming puzzles, etc.

2010-11-06 Thread Seekker
Unfortunately, most of them seem to be aimed at people who aren't newbies. I think the world needs a good set of programming puzzles for beginners. It would sure be helpful to have a library of newbie type projects ... I'm teaching myself with the "think like a computer scientist' books, and

Re: [Tutor] Newbie - regex question

2010-08-31 Thread Sam M
Thanks everyone for prompt response and explanation. Cheers! ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Newbie - regex question

2010-08-30 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Hugo Arts wrote: > To solve, we have the non-greedy patterns. They eat not as much > possible, but as little as possible. To make a qualifier non-greedy, > simply add an asterix at its end: > > r'WORD1-.*?' > > I would also like to offer one small correction: an a

Re: [Tutor] Newbie - regex question

2010-08-30 Thread Hugo Arts
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:02 AM, Serdar Tumgoren wrote: >  To make a qualifier non-greedy, >> >> simply add an asterix at its end: >> >> r'WORD1-.*?' >> > > Hugo explains this nicely, but I just wanted to make one minor correction >  -- the non-greedy qualifier is the question mark AFTER an the a

Re: [Tutor] Newbie - regex question

2010-08-30 Thread bob gailer
On 8/30/2010 4:52 PM, Sam M wrote: Hi Guys, I'd like remove contents between tags that matches pattern "WORD1" as follows: Change "stuff word1-emai...@domain.com more stuff word1-emai...@domain.com still more stuff word2-emai...@domain.com stuff after WORD2 word1-emai...@domain.com" To

Re: [Tutor] Newbie - regex question

2010-08-30 Thread Serdar Tumgoren
To make a qualifier non-greedy, > simply add an asterix at its end: > > r'WORD1-.*?' > > Hugo explains this nicely, but I just wanted to make one minor correction -- the non-greedy qualifier is the question mark AFTER an the asterisk (which is what Hugo's code shows but I believe he accidentally

Re: [Tutor] Newbie - regex question

2010-08-30 Thread Hugo Arts
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Sam M wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I'd like remove contents between tags that matches pattern "WORD1" > as follows: > > Change > "stuff word1-emai...@domain.com more stuff > word1-emai...@domain.com still more stuff > word2-emai...@domain.com stuff after WORD2 > word1-e

[Tutor] Newbie - regex question

2010-08-30 Thread Sam M
Hi Guys, I'd like remove contents between tags that matches pattern "WORD1" as follows: Change "stuff word1-emai...@domain.com more stuff word1-emai...@domain.com still more stuff word2-emai...@domain.com stuff after WORD2 word1-emai...@domain.com" To "stuff more stuff still more s

Re: [Tutor] Newbie question - syntax - BeautifulSoup

2010-07-29 Thread Tommy Kaas
Thanks for the explanation. It's clearer now. Tommy "Tommy Kaas" wrote > > > for row in soup('table', {'class' : 'spad'})[0].tbody('tr'): > > > >Do you understand the syntax from a Python point of view? > > No. That's the problem. OK, I'll assume you understand the basic for loop structure and

Re: [Tutor] Newbie question - syntax - BeautifulSoup

2010-07-28 Thread Alan Gauld
"Tommy Kaas" wrote > > for row in soup('table', {'class' : 'spad'})[0].tbody('tr'): > >Do you understand the syntax from a Python point of view? No. That's the problem. OK, I'll assume you understand the basic for loop structure and focus on the function call: soup('table', {'class' : 'spa

Re: [Tutor] Newbie question - syntax - BeautifulSoup

2010-07-28 Thread Tommy Kaas
-Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: tutor-bounces+tommy.kaas=kaasogmulvad...@python.org [mailto:tutor-bounces+tommy.kaas=kaasogmulvad...@python.org] På vegne af Alan Gauld Sendt: 28. juli 2010 20:00 Til: tutor@python.org Emne: Re: [Tutor] Newbie question - syntax - BeautifulSoup "Tommy

Re: [Tutor] Newbie question - syntax - BeautifulSoup

2010-07-28 Thread Alan Gauld
"Tommy Kaas" wrote for row in soup('table', {'class' : 'spad'})[0].tbody('tr'): The example works fine, and I can change it a bit and it still works. But I simply don't understand how I am supposed to the fourth line - after "for row in soup". I can clearly see it defines the area I want to

[Tutor] Newbie question - syntax - BeautifulSoup

2010-07-28 Thread Tommy Kaas
I have just begun a struggle learning Python. I have read most of "Beginning Python - from Novice to Professional" - and some of it I even understood J This is my first question to the list. And I'm sure not the last. I'm especially interested in learning web scraping techniques and here: http

Re: [Tutor] newbie to gui programming

2010-07-08 Thread Nick Raptis
Thanks a lot for the mails all of you. Someone commented that wxpython occassionally shows it C/C++ roots. Will that haunt me cos' I have zero knowledge of C/C++. That would be me, sorry about that, didn't mean to confuse you further. Well, think it this way, if you have zero knowledge of C,

Re: [Tutor] newbie to gui programming

2010-07-08 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Payal writes: [...] > Thanks a lot for the mails all of you. > Someone commented that wxpython occassionally shows it C/C++ roots. Will > that haunt me cos' I have zero knowledge of C/C++. > > What about py-gtk? Is it more pythonic to learn and hence easy? I've used wx and pygtk and don't reall

Re: [Tutor] newbie to gui programming

2010-07-08 Thread Payal
On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 07:48:53PM +0100, Alan Gauld wrote: > Nowadays they are all acceptable looking but wxPython would > be my recommendation, mainly for its support for printing, which > sounds easy but in Guis is surprisingly difficult. wxPython makes > it about as easy as it can be. > Thanks

Re: [Tutor] newbie to gui programming

2010-07-07 Thread Nick Raptis
Well, choice is a great thing! Except when you're new and all that choice seems overwhelming :) When I started out python a year ago, I knew just enough C to know that I didn't want C/C++ to be my first language that I learned. That's why I found the wxPython style a nuisance, because I was at t

Re: [Tutor] newbie to gui programming

2010-07-07 Thread Alan Gauld
"Nick Raptis" wrote Really good news is that on this very list on another thread, someone suggested Dabo http://dabodev.com/ It's a python library on top of wxPython and it's database-logic-GUI But its not a complete wrapper for wxPython so you still need to revert to wxPython at some stage

Re: [Tutor] newbie to gui programming

2010-07-06 Thread John
On Tuesday 06 July 2010 05:35:34 pm Nick Raptis wrote: > Please excuse if I'm jumping on the topic. Haven't done any GUI work so > this interests me too. > > wxPython always seemed a great choice as it works on all platforms, and > uses GTK+ for linux. > Well, what mainly bugs me about wxPython is

Re: [Tutor] newbie to gui programming

2010-07-06 Thread Nick Raptis
Please excuse if I'm jumping on the topic. Haven't done any GUI work so this interests me too. wxPython always seemed a great choice as it works on all platforms, and uses GTK+ for linux. Well, what mainly bugs me about wxPython is that most of it's API names come from the wx C library, you al

Re: [Tutor] newbie to gui programming

2010-07-06 Thread Eric Hamiter
If you decide to run with wxPython there is a pretty handy video series you could watch: http://showmedo.com/videotutorials/series?name=PythonWxPythonBeginnersSeries Eric On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Alan Gauld wrote: > "Payal" wrote > > gui programming? There seems to be many ways to do

Re: [Tutor] newbie to gui programming

2010-07-06 Thread Alan Gauld
"Payal" wrote gui programming? There seems to be many ways to do gui programming in Python namely wxpython, tkinter, gtk, qt etc. Which is the easiest There are many toolkits but these have as many similarities as differences. But none of them will be easy to learn if you have not done GUI

Re: [Tutor] newbie to gui programming

2010-07-06 Thread Adam Bark
On 6 July 2010 18:09, Payal wrote: > Hi all, > Some background before the actual query. > A friend of mine, an electronics engineer has a > small co. He had a computer engg. with him who used to design GUI > front-ends > for his products in Visual Basic. These apps used to take data from > serial

[Tutor] newbie to gui programming

2010-07-06 Thread Payal
Hi all, Some background before the actual query. A friend of mine, an electronics engineer has a small co. He had a computer engg. with him who used to design GUI front-ends for his products in Visual Basic. These apps used to take data from serial port, store it on disk put and show it in excel al

Re: [Tutor] Newbie & Unittest ...

2010-05-07 Thread Damon Timm
Hello again everyone - and thanks for your responses. Adding the unittest method message was something I didn't realize I could do! On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > With respect to Lie, dynamically adding methods is an advanced technique > that is overkill for what you s

Re: [Tutor] Newbie & Unittest ...

2010-05-06 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 7 May 2010 03:53:08 am Damon Timm wrote: > Hi Lie - > > Thanks for that idea -- I tried it but am getting an error. I read a > little about the __dict__ feature but couldn't figure it. I am going > to keep searching around for how to dynamically add methods to a > class ... here is the er

Re: [Tutor] Newbie & Unittest ...

2010-05-06 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 6 May 2010 10:37:20 am Damon Timm wrote: > class TestFiles(unittest.TestCase): > > # this is the basic test > def test_values(self): > '''see if values from my object match what they should > match''' > for file in FILES: > for k, v in TAG_VA

Re: [Tutor] Newbie & Unittest ...

2010-05-06 Thread Vincent Davis
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Steve Willoughby wrote: > The unit test methods all take message arguments so if you just > want to customize the reported error, that's easily done. > > something like: > self.assertEqual(self.file.tags[k], v, "Failure with key "+k) > > That's easiest. If you re

Re: [Tutor] Newbie & Unittest ...

2010-05-06 Thread Steve Willoughby
The unit test methods all take message arguments so if you just want to customize the reported error, that's easily done. something like: self.assertEqual(self.file.tags[k], v, "Failure with key "+k) That's easiest. If you really want a separate test for each, you may want to create a factory

Re: [Tutor] Newbie & Unittest ...

2010-05-06 Thread Damon Timm
Sorry for the multiple posts ... I'll be quiet for a while until I find a real answer! What I wrote below doesn't actually work -- it appears to work because all the functions have different names but they all reference a single function ... I should have looked more closely at my initial output..

Re: [Tutor] Newbie & Unittest ...

2010-05-06 Thread Damon Timm
Ooh! Wait! I found another method that is similar in style and appears to work ... class TestFileTags(unittest.TestCase): pass for test_name, file, key, value in list_of_tests: def test_func(self): self.assertEqual(file.tags[key], value) setattr(TestFileTags, test_name, tes

Re: [Tutor] Newbie & Unittest ...

2010-05-06 Thread Damon Timm
Hi Lie - Thanks for that idea -- I tried it but am getting an error. I read a little about the __dict__ feature but couldn't figure it. I am going to keep searching around for how to dynamically add methods to a class ... here is the error and then the code. Thanks. # ERROR: $ python tests_ta

Re: [Tutor] Newbie & Unittest ...

2010-05-06 Thread Lie Ryan
On 05/06/10 10:37, Damon Timm wrote: > Hi - am trying to write some unit tests for my little python project - > I had been hard coding them when necessary here or there but I figured > it was time to try and learn how to do it properly. > > This test works, however, it only runs as *one* test (whi

Re: [Tutor] Newbie & Unittest ...

2010-05-06 Thread Damon Timm
Hi Vincent - Thanks for your input. Where would I put that string ? In the function's doctsring ? Or just as a print method ? I have been looking online some more and it appears there may be a way to create some sort of generator ... it's still a little confusing to me, though. I was hoping th

Re: [Tutor] Newbie & Unittest ...

2010-05-06 Thread Vincent Davis
By they way you shouldn't need to use str(file) as I did. Unlessit is not a string already. Bad habit. I am used to numbers vincet On Thursday, May 6, 2010, Vincent Davis wrote: > I can't think of a way to do what you ask, without defining a test for each. > ButI think what you might actually wa

Re: [Tutor] Newbie & Unittest ...

2010-05-06 Thread Vincent Davis
I can't think of a way to do what you ask, without defining a test for each. ButI think what you might actually want is the define the error message to report which one failed. ie, it's one test with a meaningful error message. 'Failed to load' + str(file)+' '+ str(k)+', '+str(v) I am not ecpert on

[Tutor] Newbie & Unittest ...

2010-05-05 Thread Damon Timm
Hi - am trying to write some unit tests for my little python project - I had been hard coding them when necessary here or there but I figured it was time to try and learn how to do it properly. I've read over Python's guide (http://docs.python.org/library/unittest.html) but I am having a hard time

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