Re: [Tutor] OOP clarification needed

2010-06-02 Thread Jim Byrnes
Steve Willoughby wrote: On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 03:19:17PM -0500, Jim Byrnes wrote: def viewer(imgdir, kind=Toplevel, cols=None): win = kind() What is the relationship between kind=Toplevel in the first line and win=kind() further down. Isn't "kind" a variable and "kind()" a method? kin

Re: [Tutor] OOP clarification needed

2010-06-02 Thread Jim Byrnes
Alan Gauld wrote: "Jim Byrnes" wrote Whenever I teach myself a new language I have great difficulty understanding the nuts and bolts of it's OO implementation. Do you understand the OO concepts OK? Is it only the language semantics you struggle with or the underlying OO concepts? I believe

Re: [Tutor] OOP clarification needed

2010-06-02 Thread Jim Byrnes
Steven D'Aprano wrote: Case in point is this code snippet from a chapter on Tkinter. def viewer(imgdir, kind=Toplevel, cols=None): """ make thumb links window for an image directory: one thumb button per image; use kind=Tk to show in main app window, or Frame container

Re: [Tutor] parse text file

2010-06-02 Thread bob gailer
Please always reply-all so a copy goes to the list. On 6/1/2010 6:49 PM, Colin Talbert wrote: Bob thanks for your response, The file is about 9.3 gig and no I don't want read the whole thing at once. I want to read it in line by line. Still it will read in to the same point (90

Re: [Tutor] parse text file

2010-06-02 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Hi Colin, I'm taking the liberty of replying to your message back to the list, as others hopefully may be able to make constructive comments. When replying, please ensure that you reply to the tutor mailing list rather than then individual. On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 12:20:10 am Colin Talbert wrote: