[Tutor] Posting to Numpy and Scipy

2008-06-16 Thread Bryan Fodness
Has anyone had a problem posting to either of these mailing lists. I am a member and have sent a few posts to each of them over the last couple months, but none of them show up in the list. I always receive a 'awaiting moderator approval' email. I have sent an email to the owner about this, but

[Tutor] Replace sequence in list - looking for direction

2008-06-16 Thread GTXY20
Hello all, Thanks in advance for any thoughts, direction, and guidance. Let's say I have a list like the following: a = ['a1','a2','a3','a4','a5','a6'] and then I have dictionary like the following: b = {'a1,a2,a3':'super'} I need some direction and thoughts on how I might seach the list for

[Tutor] Moving a window... on windows?

2008-06-16 Thread W W
I'm not even sure if this is possible... and so far a google search of "python move windows xp" has failed to yield any helpful looking results. I'm trying to create a script that will move a program window around on the desktop, and other than that search I'm not sure where to look. What we have

Re: [Tutor] Moving a window... on windows?

2008-06-16 Thread Tim Golden
W W wrote: I'm not even sure if this is possible... and so far a google search of "python move windows xp" has failed to yield any helpful looking results. I'm trying to create a script that will move a program window around on the desktop, and other than that search I'm not sure where to look.

Re: [Tutor] Replace sequence in list - looking for direction

2008-06-16 Thread W W
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 10:41 AM, GTXY20 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need some direction and thoughts on how I might seach the list for the > string (the key in dict b) sequence in list a and replace the occurance with > the value from dict b. At the end I would like to have list a represented >

Re: [Tutor] Replace sequence in list - looking for direction

2008-06-16 Thread Tiago Saboga
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 11:41:25AM -0400, GTXY20 wrote: > Hello all, > > Thanks in advance for any thoughts, direction, and guidance. > > Let's say I have a list like the following: > > a = ['a1','a2','a3','a4','a5','a6'] > > and then I have dictionary like the following: > > b = {'a1,a2,a3':'

Re: [Tutor] Moving a window... on windows?

2008-06-16 Thread Alan Gauld
"Tim Golden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote Currently I move it manually, but I want to automate the movement. If there's a way to move the program window by a specific X, Y value, I could make it work no problem. Does anyone have any experience with this sort of task? Or can someone point me towa

[Tutor] newbie Python Modules

2008-06-16 Thread Guess?!?
*Module Name eli.py* x = 0 y = [1, 2] print 'Running module "eli"' def whitney(): print 'whitney' def printValues(): print x , y *When I imported the Module* from eli import x, y, printValues printValues() y[0] = 'cat' x = 'dog' printValues() Output Running module "eli" 0 [1, 2] 0 [

Re: [Tutor] newbie Python Modules

2008-06-16 Thread Alan Gauld
"Guess?!?" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote *Module Name eli.py* x = 0 y = [1, 2] def whitney(): print 'whitney' def printValues(): print x , y *When I imported the Module* from eli import x, y, printValues Note that by doing this you are not really importing the module but the names fr

Re: [Tutor] newbie Python Modules

2008-06-16 Thread Kent Johnson
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Guess?!? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also once we reload the module every value reverts to its original > value .. Am I Right? Yes, but maybe not in the way you think. A new copy of the module will be loaded and bound to the name 'eli'. But the names x, y an

Re: [Tutor] newbie Python Modules

2008-06-16 Thread Guess?!?
Thanks Alan and Kent ...Its much clearer now. Any tutorial/reference you recommend to read about python modules? Thanks G On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Guess?!? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Also once we reload the

[Tutor] my own error code when no argument is sent

2008-06-16 Thread Bryan Fodness
when i execute my program without an argument i receive, infile = sys.argv[1] IndexError: list index out of range is there a way that i could suppress this and add my own error code ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: [Tutor] my own error code when no argument is sent

2008-06-16 Thread Danny Yoo
when i execute my program without an argument i receive, > > > infile = sys.argv[1] > > IndexError: list index out of range > > is there a way that i could suppress this and add my own error code The direct way to handle this is to check the length of sys.argv first. sys.argv is a list, so you

[Tutor] Using SAPI 5 Voices and Methods

2008-06-16 Thread FT
Hi! I am resending this SAPI examples for speech, I guess in some cases the email message gets messed up so I attached the SAPI 5 test for voices along with an HTML version using Java Script. It also has the methods and a voice by name assignment since the voices are an array list by eleme

[Tutor] Python Gotcha - List Question

2008-06-16 Thread Guess?!?
Exercise 17.6 Write a definition for a class named Kangaroo with the following methods: 1. An init method that initializes an attribute named pouch contents to an empty list. 2. A method named put in pouch that takes an object of any type and adds it to pouch contents. Test your code by creating tw

Re: [Tutor] Python Gotcha - List Question

2008-06-16 Thread Danny Yoo
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 12:14 AM, Guess?!? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Exercise 17.6 Write a definition for a class named Kangaroo with the > following methods: [cut] Be careful about asking for homework help. We're restricted from giving much help on homework questions. The error message you

[Tutor] Tkinter problem

2008-06-16 Thread Arden Hall
A followup on the message below. The source code has errors in it because I keyed it in rather than copying and pasting, as pointed out by Alan Gauld. Joe replied with corrected code and said it worked for him. I took his code and ran it on the Mac and had the same problem as before: everyt

Re: [Tutor] Python Gotcha - List Question

2008-06-16 Thread Guess?!?
Hello Danny, It isnt my homework. I am reading Think Python: An Introduction to Software Design . This is Exercise question of Chap 17 Thanks, G On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Danny Yoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 12:14 AM, Guess?!? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> E

Re: [Tutor] Python Gotcha - List Question

2008-06-16 Thread Guess?!?
Hello All, Just made a minor change . its fixed now :) class Kangaroo: def __init__(self, pouch_contents=None): if pouch_contents is None: self.pouch_contents = [] else: self.pouch_contents = pouch_contents def put_in_pouch(self,obj):

[Tutor] a question about iterators

2008-06-16 Thread Christopher Spears
I've been learning about how to implement an iterator in a class from Core Python Programming (2nd Edition). >>> class AnyIter(object): ... def __init__(self, data, safe=False): ... self.safe = safe ... self.iter = iter(data) ... ... def __iter__(self): ... return self