[Tutor] binary, ascii, steganography

2011-03-18 Thread jaco erasmus
Hi there, list The other day I got bored at work and decided to give this programming thing a try, since Rick Romero said it's becoming all the rage these days. Eventually, I want to end up writing a steganography program, but for now I am still an idiot playing around with text files, substituting

Re: [Tutor] binary, ascii, steganography

2011-03-18 Thread Dave Angel
On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, jaco erasmus wrote: Hi there, list The other day I got bored at work and decided to give this programming thing a try, since Rick Romero said it's becoming all the rage these days. Eventually, I want to end up writing a steganography program, but for now I am still an i

Re: [Tutor] binary, ascii, steganography

2011-03-18 Thread Hugo Arts
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 8:33 AM, jaco erasmus wrote: > Hi there, list > The other day I got bored at work and decided to give this programming thing > a try, since Rick Romero said it's becoming all the rage these days. > Eventually, I want to end up writing a steganography program, but for now I

Re: [Tutor] binary, ascii, steganography

2011-03-18 Thread Steven D'Aprano
jaco erasmus wrote: Baby steps, first, though. For the moment, I just want to compare 2 text files, have similar letters give me 0 and different letters give me 1. I want to take those and turn them into letters. How would I do that? The basic algorithm is: 1 Read one file into text1 2 Rea

[Tutor] books Recommendation

2011-03-18 Thread ANKUR AGGARWAL
Any good ebooks or printed books to get started with the Django framework and web based python?? Ankur Aggarwal ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] books Recommendation

2011-03-18 Thread Joel Goldstick
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 9:56 AM, ANKUR AGGARWAL wrote: > Any good ebooks or printed books to get started with the Django framework > and web based python?? > Ankur Aggarwal > > ___ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscrip

[Tutor] python.py with no console

2011-03-18 Thread sihong lin
hi, Those days the idle couldn't open in windows 7. Today I found the type of file python.py(c:\Python27\lib\idlelib) is "no console". what is it means? that is why the idle couldn't open, right? thanks Sharon  ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@

Re: [Tutor] python.py with no console

2011-03-18 Thread Alan Gauld
"sihong lin" wrote Those days the idle couldn't open in windows 7. Today I found the type of file python.py(c:\Python27\lib\idlelib) is "no console". what is it means? that is why the idle couldn't open, right? No, that just means you don't get a black DOS window in the background. But since

Re: [Tutor] python.py with no console

2011-03-18 Thread Donald Bedsole
Hi folks, On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Alan Gauld wrote: > > "sihong lin" wrote >> >> Those days the idle couldn't open in windows 7. >> Today I found the type of file python.py(c:\Python27\lib\idlelib) is >> "no console". what is it means? that is why the idle couldn't >> open, right? > > N

Re: [Tutor] python.py with no console

2011-03-18 Thread Donald Bedsole
Hello, On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 12:46 PM, sihong lin wrote: > hi, > > Those days the idle couldn't open in windows 7. Today I found the type of > file python.py(c:\Python27\lib\idlelib) is "no console". what is it means? > that is why the idle couldn't open, right? > > thanks > > Sharon > Can you

[Tutor] New to programming

2011-03-18 Thread Savyn - OpenERP Mail
Dear Everyone I am new to programming (a passion mainly). I have no background in programming. The python.org beginner tutorial seems hard after a few chapters or not sure how to merge requirement with the tutorials. Where and how should I start programming with python for complete beginner?

Re: [Tutor] New to programming

2011-03-18 Thread Donald Bedsole
Hi, Welcome to the list: On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Savyn - OpenERP Mail wrote: > Dear Everyone > > I am new to programming (a passion mainly). I have no background in > programming.  The python.org beginner tutorial seems hard after a few > chapters or not sure how to merge requirement w

Re: [Tutor] New to programming

2011-03-18 Thread Ken G.
You may want to check out a short article entitled "Instant Hacking" by Magnus Lie Hetland. It is an introduction to programming using Python as an example. In the first paragraph thereby mentioned, there is a link to another easy article titled "Instant Python" written by the same author. H

Re: [Tutor] New to programming

2011-03-18 Thread Alan Gauld
"Savyn - OpenERP Mail" wrote I am new to programming (a passion mainly). I have no background in programming. Check out the Non Programmers section of the Python web site it has several tutorials designed for complete beginners. The official tutorioal is really for those who can already

Re: [Tutor] binary, ascii, steganography

2011-03-18 Thread jaco erasmus
Thank you for the help, everyone. Like I said, I got the basics for my text file comparison, but my problem is with how to get binary to text, so your suggestions are greatly appreciated. I'll get to it! (0001 = a, 0010 = b, ...) Cheers, and thanks again. Jakes

Re: [Tutor] binary, ascii, steganography

2011-03-18 Thread Steven D'Aprano
jaco erasmus wrote: Thank you for the help, everyone. Like I said, I got the basics for my text file comparison, but my problem is with how to get binary to text, so your suggestions are greatly appreciated. I'll get to it! (0001 = a, 0010 = b, ...) >>> int('01101110', 2) 110 >>> chr(1