[Tutor] Fwd: HELP-Regarding python

2013-01-30 Thread Walter Prins
Gayathri, On 30 January 2013 06:51, Gayathri S wrote: > Hi All! > I don't know how to read text file in python. If the data > values are stored in a text file format, for example(1,30,60,90,120...200) > means what i would do for reading it in python. could you just explain

Re: [Tutor] automate add-to-cart with python

2013-01-30 Thread Benjamin Fishbein
On Jan 29, 2013, at 11:49 PM, Marc Tompkins wrote: > > I'm pretty sure that's a typo. It should say: > python virtualenv.py > Woohoo!!! It works. You're right. It worked this way and I was able to install pip. And I got selenium to work. Apparently the problem is that selenium isn't compatible

Re: [Tutor] automate add-to-cart with python

2013-01-30 Thread Walter Prins
Hi, Now I just have to figure out how to write the code with the selenium > module. > > Install the Firefox extension/add-on "Selenium IDE" which will help with that too: http://seleniumhq.org/download/ http://seleniumhq.org/docs/02_selenium_ide.jsp# It's effectively a browser macro recorder w

[Tutor] changing unicode to ascii

2013-01-30 Thread Benjamin Fishbein
I was trying to write text to a file and got the following error: UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa0' in position 5495: ordinal not in range(128) I tried several things I found online, such as: text.encode("ascii", "ignore") which gave me the same error and text.rep

Re: [Tutor] changing unicode to ascii

2013-01-30 Thread Hugo Arts
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Benjamin Fishbein wrote: > I was trying to write text to a file and got the following error: > > UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa0' in > position 5495: ordinal not in range(128) > > I tried several things I found online, such as: > > t

Re: [Tutor] changing unicode to ascii

2013-01-30 Thread Peter Otten
Benjamin Fishbein wrote: > I was trying to write text to a file and got the following error: > > UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa0' in > position 5495: ordinal not in range(128) > > I tried several things I found online, such as: > text.encode("ascii", "ignore") > w

Re: [Tutor] changing unicode to ascii

2013-01-30 Thread Benjamin Fishbein
> Using text.encode("ascii", "ignore") should absolutely work. You could also > just write the file in UTF-8 if you don't absolutely need ascii by using > text.encode("utf-8"). > > Hugo You're right. It does work. I forgot to assign the result to a variable: text = text.encode("ascii", "ignore"

Re: [Tutor] HELP-Regarding python

2013-01-30 Thread bob gailer
On 1/30/2013 1:51 AM, Gayathri S wrote: I am sorry that you chose to ignore my request to start a new email with a relevant subject. Please next time do so. The easier you make it for us to help you the more likely we will want to help. -- Bob Gailer 919-636-4239 Chapel Hill NC __