Re: [Tutor] iterating in the same line

Sorry Jonas, I don't understand what you are trying to do at all. The subject line and your code snippets don't seem to match up. > Subject: [Tutor] iterating in the same line >I would check 3 words at the starting of a line > > s=['foo','bar','qwe'] > > if ln.startswith(s): (this is bad)

Re: [Tutor] Invoking bash from within a python program

> Also, if you have a recent version of Python (Python 2.4), the > 'subprocess' module might be worth a look: > >http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-subprocess.html > Is it just me or does anyone else think the new subprocess module is making something fairly easy into something fairly comp

Re: [Tutor] Sorting a list of lists aka nested lists

>Quant.append( [ db_ticker, stock_close, MTD, 0, QTD, 0, YTD, 0, > 0, 0 ] ) > > After Quant is created, I want to sort it by MTD. If I use a simple > Quant.sort(), I assume its going to sort by 'db_ticker' which is not > what I want. you need to write your own comparison function. Basicall

Re: [Tutor] iterating in the same line

I'm trying match the lines that starting with someone variable in 's' These sentences: if max(map(ln.startswith,s)): reduce(lambda m,n:m or n, map(ln.startswith, s)): were said me in #python for this proposal. Alan G wrote: > Sorry Jonas, > > I don't understand what you are trying to do at all

Re: [Tutor] iterating in the same line

> I'm trying match the lines that starting with someone variable in > 's' In that case this is the simplest approach: >> for st in s: >> if line.startswith(st): do something That means that if you are reading the lines from a file you'd need a neted loop: for line in someFile: for subst

Re: [Tutor] Invoking bash from within a python program

Danny Yoo wrote: > > On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Vinay Reddy wrote: > > >>>Anyway, how do I call bash to run a program - e.g. slocate - from >>>within a python program. I believe that I have to import the OS first >>>(or do I?) and I was thinking something like: >>> >>>... >>>sh slocate file_name > pyt

Re: [Tutor] re and more ... read on

At 06:17 PM 8/13/2005, Jesse Lands wrote: >I am trying to create a simple GUI that will track a network connection >using ping. It's a starter project for me so I am sure there are other >easier ways of doing it, but I am learning, so bare with me. Are we taking our clothes off? Reminds me of t

Re: [Tutor] re

> import os > ping = os.popen('ping -c 4 10.0.8.200') > ping_result = ping.read() > > > I assume I have to use Regular Expression to read the results, You shouldn't need to. If I call ping I get somethjing like: $ ping www.google.com PING www.l.google.com (66.102.7.147): 56 data bytes 64 bytes

[Tutor] Regexp with multiple patterns in Python

Hello,   I am working on a way to parse a file and wondered if there is a way to check for multiple patterns. The reason I wonder this is because it would make everything a lot easier regarding calculations on what words to use and so on.   What I want to do is to check for two patterns

Re: [Tutor] Sorting a list of lists aka nested lists

Quoting Alan G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Quant.append( [ db_ticker, stock_close, MTD, 0, QTD, 0, YTD, 0, > > 0, 0 ] ) > > After Quant is created, I want to sort it by MTD. If I use a simple > > Quant.sort(), I assume its going to sort by 'db_ticker' which is not > > what I want. > you need to wr

Re: [Tutor] Invoking bash from within a python program

> The basic idea I was toying around with is to create a delete/uninstall > program that would take the output of slocate and iterate through that > deleting all of the files associated with the program I wanted to > uninstall without having to do so manually. Using tar balled source code > does no

[Tutor] parsing through an output stream

Hi, I tried running mplayer from a python program using the popen2 command and read the returned output stream in non-blocking mode. But, I did not getting any of the status messages given out by mplayer (I did get the initial dump by mplayer). I am using the following to read the output: try: # g

[Tutor] UTf-8 to Entity

Hey guys,   Hope you can help me on this.   I want to make a python program which opens an XML (UTF-8 encoding) and do a search & replace. It will search the Unicode and replace them with their equivalent entity name. The program will read a look-up table (a tab delimited text file) whi

[Tutor] Is it possible to...

Is it possible to create a def that not only deals cards, but also assigns a value to each rank, except that the Jacks, Queens, and Kings all are the same value as the 10s?   If this is possible, how should I go about doing this?   Sorry if I'm asking what for most people is a basic question,

[Tutor] How can I make this run right?

The following code is supposed to take in a number, and print number!: n = int(raw_input("Number: "))x = n-1while 1:    t = n*x    while x > 1:    x -= 1    else:    breakprint t Why isn't it working, and how can I make it print out the correct output?   Thanks in advance, Nathan --