Re: [Tutor] PyCountry currency formatting woes

2014-05-04 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Sithembewena Lloyd Dube wrote: > Thanks, i was actually getting the error information to update the post. > Apoligies to waste your time posting here - I could not find an appropriate > PyCountry discussion list and my next best bet seemed to be a Python users' > li

Re: [Tutor] substituting for time_series, Pandas, Anaconda. Practical Programming, intro Comp Sci, Gries text

2014-05-14 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Charles Agriesti wrote: > Is this Anaconda thing any part of being able to run the scripts from the > textbook with time_series? Is it a complete wild goose chase? > First off - I know nothing about using Python in a scientific setting. Second (before anyone el

Re: [Tutor] what is the cores?

2014-05-25 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Marino David wrote: > Hi all: > I am a newpie at python. > I read a python toolbox in which there is code line:import cores as co. I > wantta know what the cores is. > When I type "import cores as co", error occur as follows: > Traceback (most recent call last): >

Re: [Tutor] I am having difficulty grasping 'generators'

2014-05-27 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Degreat Yartey wrote: > I am studying python on my own (i.e. i am between the beginner and > intermediate level) and i haven't met any difficulty until i reached the > topic 'Generators and Iterators'. > I need an explanation so simple as using the expression 'pri

Re: [Tutor] Library for .ppt to .txt conversion

2014-05-30 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 2:41 AM, Aaron Misquith wrote: > Like pypdf is used to convert pdf to text; is there any library that is > used in converting .ppt files to .txt? Even some sample programs will be > helpful. > I suspect you'd need to use PowerPoint itself to do that cleanly; you can defin

Re: [Tutor] self keyword in recursive function

2014-05-30 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 10:16 PM, Ritwik Raghav wrote: > It has again given some error I do not understand. This time my code is: > > count = 0 > def getPersistence(self,n): > > product = 1 > if len(str(n)) == 1: > return self.count > else: > a = str(n) > for

Re: [Tutor] self keyword in recursive function

2014-05-30 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 11:06 PM, Ritwik Raghav wrote: > That's all the code I'm writing. > That can't be true - the 11 lines of code you posted doesn't include anything that would give you "Correct Return Value: No", let alone any reference to PersistentNumber. From the error message, it would

Re: [Tutor] Swampy: No module name World

2014-06-03 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 7:53 AM, Charles Agriesti wrote: > Thanks all. Problem apparently solved. Shortly after that last message it > quit working completely. Reinstall Python 2.7 + swampy -> no good; > uninstall both 2.7 and 3.4, manually remove the folders that remained > because of scripts tha

Re: [Tutor] Swampy: No module name World

2014-06-03 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote: pip-win (https://sites.google.com/site/pydatalog/python/pip-for-windows) > > > Never heard of it so thanks for the link. > > I don't know how long it's been around but I'll tell you this much for free: I wish I'd known about it when I first s

Re: [Tutor] Simple python help

2014-06-10 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 7:55 AM, Stephen Brazil wrote: > Hello! I am brand new to python and need to know how to make the attached > lines of code work. Should be pretty > You need quotes. Stephen (without quotes) is an object, which you haven't previously defined. 'Stephen' is a string, whic

Re: [Tutor] python sockets

2014-06-10 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Jon Engle wrote: > for port in range (startingPort, 65535): > thread.start_new_thread(setup, (port,)) > startingPort=startingPort+1 > #print startingPort > I think you just need this: for port in range (startingPort, 65535): > thread.start_new_thread(s

Re: [Tutor] python sockets

2014-06-10 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Jon Engle wrote: > Ok, so after making the changes the code does bind the startingPort > variable but that is the only port that gets bound. Also when connecting to > the startingPort I receive the following error: > > Please enter starting port: 65520 > >

Re: [Tutor] python sockets

2014-06-11 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Jon Engle wrote: > Ok, so when I run the code it immediately terminates and never 'listens' to > the ports in the loop. I have verified by running netstat -an | grep 65530 > and the startingPort is not binding. The problem is that all threads started by a program

Re: [Tutor] How to list/process files with identical character strings

2014-06-24 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 8:34 AM, mark murphy wrote: > What I hope to be able to do is scan the directory, and for each instance > where there are two files where the first 8 characters (TDDD) are > identical, run a process on those two files and place the output (named > TDDD) in a new

Re: [Tutor] How to list/process files with identical character strings

2014-06-24 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > Sorting is probably the approach that is easiest to understand, but an > alternative would be to put the files into a dict that maps the 8-char > prefix to a list of files with that prefix: > I was debating the virtues of th

Re: [Tutor] Why is Quick Search at docs.Python.org so useless?

2014-07-06 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Danny Yoo wrote: > 2. Direct feedback to the Python web site maintainers so that either they fix the problem or are at least aware that something is deficient. Google offers a per-site custom search; it's free for very basic functionality and not very expensive

Re: [Tutor] Using module Facebook

2014-07-18 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Chris wrote: > On 07/18/2014 09:44 AM, Alan Gauld wrote: > > Are you sure thats the version of Python you are running > > in the virtualenv? > > I've modified the first line to #!./bin/python (instead of > #!/usr/bin/python). > > Now, there's another error message

Re: [Tutor] (no subject)

2014-07-20 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 8:40 AM, LN A-go-go wrote: > > States OJ > AK 36 > AL 39 > AR 39 > AZ 45 > CA 61 > CO 54 > CT 61 > DC 93 > DE 62 > FL 51 > GA 47 > HI 72 > IA 54 > ID 36 > IL 62 > IN 50 > KS 41 > KY 41 > LA 40 > MA 62 > MD 62 > ME 58 > MI 57 > MN 54 > MO 49 > MS 43 > MT 47 > NC 50 > ND 45

Re: [Tutor] (no subject)

2014-07-20 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Alan Gauld wrote: > In fact in this case I suggested he use a for loop to iterate over > the file and use a dictionary to store the results... Ah. I missed that, as I've only noticed this newer thread. And I apologize for imputing motive (a liking for "while Tr

Re: [Tutor] (no subject)

2014-07-20 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: >> Ah. I missed that, as I've only noticed this newer thread. And I >> apologize for imputing motive (a liking for "while True"); I'd just >> noticed that you often advise it. I don't know who _does_ think this >> is a desirable pattern; I'

Re: [Tutor] Ending a loop with a condition not at the top

2014-07-20 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 8:10 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > Marc Tompkins writes: > >> Seriously, though, how is >> 1) Do {this} forever, until something happens that I'll tell you about >> later >> >> better than >> 2) Do {this} until this condition, wh

Re: [Tutor] Comparing two different text file

2014-07-29 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 4:13 PM, 이명교 wrote: > inf1 = open('first.txt') > for line in inf1.readlines(): > list1.append(line) So far, so good... > list1 = line[:-1].split('\n') ...but then you do this, which wipes out list1. > for a in list1: > if a not in list1: Even if you hadn't

Re: [Tutor] New to Python - print function - invalid syntax

2014-08-05 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 12:48 AM, Maxime Steisel wrote: > I think this is because on windows, *.py files are associated with py.exe > that choose the python version depending on the first line of your file. No. *ix operating systems (Unix, Linux, OS X, etc.) inspect the first line of a file to de

Re: [Tutor] New to Python - print function - invalid syntax

2014-08-05 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 8:23 AM, Zachary Ware wrote: > > which it should be if the most recently > installed Python was 3.3 or 3.4, installed with default options. > And there we have my problem with this glorious new "feature". YOU CAN'T RELY ON IT, because it depends on the most recent version

Re: [Tutor] Building Starships -- object of type 'int' has no len()

2014-08-15 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Terry--gmail wrote: (By the way - your indentation got flattened - cue the inevitable chorus of "DON'T POST TO THIS LIST IN HTML" - so this is my best-guess reconstruction.) > lens = [] > # pre-format the list called lens for maximum number of columns contained i

Re: [Tutor] Building Starships -- object of type 'int' has no len()

2014-08-17 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Terry--gmail wrote: > WOW! There is a lot of help on this mailing list! I want to thank everyone > for their valuable input! Thanks! (I am working my way through the > replies.) > > Sorry about the HTML. I think I have it turned off now in Thunderbirdy for > this

Re: [Tutor] Building Starships -- object of type 'int' has no len()

2014-08-17 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 9:40 PM, Terry--gmail wrote: > I found another place in Thunderbirdy to set 'plain text'. > > This is a test. > > Does the below code look correct now? > > --And did I reply correctly this time? (Reply-All and keep only > tutor@python.org address...) > > > for line_number,

Re: [Tutor] Building Starships -- object of type 'int' has no len()

2014-08-17 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 9:49 PM, Marc Tompkins wrote: > On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 9:40 PM, Terry--gmail > wrote: >> I found another place in Thunderbirdy to set 'plain text'. >> >> This is a test. >> >> Does the below code look correct now? >> &

Re: [Tutor] Building Starships -- object of type 'int' has no len()

2014-08-18 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 10:51 PM, Terry--gmail wrote: > I'm copy and pasting from Ninja-IDE, which I thought was created > specifically to do python programming... Specifically for programming, yes, and Python is among the supported languages - but according to their web page, they support many l

Re: [Tutor] Building Starships -- object of type 'int' has no len()

2014-08-18 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 12:13 AM, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 17Aug2014 23:51, Terry--gmail wrote: >> >> I'm copy and pasting from Ninja-IDE, which I thought was created >> specifically to do python programming...so I never checked to see if it >> needs to have the tab set to enter 4 spaces, as i

Re: [Tutor] Building Starships -- object of type 'int' has no len()

2014-08-19 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 1:00 AM, Marc Tompkins wrote: > Also, looking at the Ninja-IDE website more closely I see that, > although they do mention compatibility with multiple languages, they > were designed by and for Python programmers - which makes the > tab/space issue less like

Re: [Tutor] Building Starships -- object of type 'int' has no len()

2014-08-19 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: > I'm not aware of any problem with Thunderbird or any (semi-)decent mail > client. The original poster uses NinjaIDE and Thunderbird, and his code was being persistently flattened when he copied/pasted. I believe I've just tracked it down to

Re: [Tutor] Building Starships -- object of type 'int' has no len()

2014-08-20 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Aug 20, 2014 12:07 PM, "Terry--gmail" wrote: > > Alan Gauld > > Hi! > We are not quite out of the woods on this last example you gave me. It now seems to be complaining > that it doesn't want to append an integer to the list or that this isn't the place to use '.append' -- I am probably interp

Re: [Tutor] Building Starships -- object of type 'int' has no len()

2014-08-20 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Terry--gmail wrote: > Marc, my understanding is, is that: > > lens[col].append(len(item)) > > -should be building a mirror image of my list of lists called catalog2, > which currently has 9 columns by x number of rows, and that we are plu

Re: [Tutor] Using unittest module for Test Driven Development

2014-08-25 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 12:04 AM, Alex Kleider wrote: > I appreciate your further elucidation, like your 'sledge hammer' metaphor and > thank you for the fragility warning. I expect within such a limited scope, > the dangers are not great. As someone who has been burned by this sort of thinkin

Re: [Tutor] Tutor Digest, Vol 127, Issue 12

2014-09-04 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Alan Gauld wrote: > On 04/09/14 21:37, Najam Qasim wrote: >> I downloaded notepad++. Can you please help me how to run python script in >> notepad++? > > I only played with notepad++ briefly but I seem to recall it had a menu with > commands to 'make' and 'run' a fi

Re: [Tutor] How to count vehicle? I'm trying but my code don't increasing..

2014-09-05 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 4:09 AM, Whees Northbee wrote: > I'm really sorry if my post doesn't appropriate to the forum rule.. I > already asked in other forums 2 months ago, but no answer or had voted down > and closed.. It's not that you've broken a rule. It's just that you're asking on a forum w

Re: [Tutor] Vol 127, Issue 15

2014-09-05 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Crush wrote: > Ok nevermind, I did not figure it out. My code... > > count = 0 > while count < 3: > count += 1 > Subprocess.Popen('command') > if count == 3: > sys.exit() > > This does not work as I want it to; it consecutively executes the command > t

Re: [Tutor] Auto-response for your message to the "Tutor" mailing list

2014-10-26 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Danny Yoo wrote: > > >> why is it I get this messages repeatedly despite having been reading > and writing on the list for over a year now? > > This has happened to me once in a while too. I conjecture that it might > be a bug with Mailman, but I'd have to dive i

Re: [Tutor] Would somebody kindly...

2014-10-30 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 10:39 PM, Clayton Kirkwood wrote: > When I run: > values = [ ('a', 1), ('b', 2), ('a', 5), ('c', 7)] > key = 'a' > pair=[] > You just created an empty list and called it "pair". > [pair for pair in values if key == pair[0]] > Two things to bear in mind here: - The stepper

Re: [Tutor] “has a value of True” versus “evaluates true”

2014-11-13 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > Danny Yoo writes: > > > >> To quote: "Let your statement be: 'Yes, yes', or "no, no': anything > > >> beyond these is of evil." > > > > > > "Have you stopped abusing small children yet?" > > > > :( > > > > I don't understand what your respons

Re: [Tutor] GUI

2015-02-02 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Alan Gauld wrote: > Don't expect a whole heap of support from the GUIs. A lot of the work will > have to come from you. > I suspect the standard GUI framework Tkinter is not going to be your best > bet. You might find that PyQt or PyGTK will offer better multi ling

Re: [Tutor] GUI

2015-02-02 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 02/02/2015 20:59, Marc Tompkins wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Alan Gauld >> wrote: >> >> Don't expect a whole heap of support from the GUIs. A lot of the work >>> will >>&

Re: [Tutor] Tutor Digest, Vol 157, Issue 39

2017-03-19 Thread Marc Sebek
Hi Rafael You are appending quit to the list, before checking to see if quit has been typed. You could move the "if Statement" up in the code and add an else statement, so Quit is not appended to the list first thing. while True: activity = input(prompt) if activity == "quit": pr

Re: [Tutor] How do we create a GUI to run a simple calculation program in Python?

2017-04-04 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 9:55 AM, Lisa Hasler Waters wrote: > Hello Tutor, > > A middle school student of mine created a program to calculate simple and > compound interest. He built it in PyCharm EDU using a Mac running 10.11.6. > > He would like to create a GUI to run this program. Please, can yo

Re: [Tutor] Question to Phyton and XBee

2017-04-11 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 9:12 AM, Daniel Berger wrote: >Hello, > >I have installed the modules to control xbee with Python >https://pypi.python.org/pypi/XBee). Afterwards I have set the path >variable on C:\Python27\python-xbee-master and also the subdirectories. > To >check, i

Re: [Tutor] Count for loops

2017-04-11 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 9:48 AM, Rafael Knuth wrote: > I tested this approach, and I noticed one weird thing: > > Pi_Number = str(3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939) > Pi_Number = "3" + Pi_Number[2:] > print(Pi_Number) > > == RESTART: C:\Users\Rafael\Documents\01 - BIZ\CODING\Python >

[Tutor] Thread Object integration with GPIO

2017-04-29 Thread Marc Eymard
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[Tutor] Thread Object integration with GPIO

2017-04-30 Thread Marc Eymard
. Can a charitable soul advise whether my approach makes sense and whether I am using the right type of object for the task at hands? I am looking for guidance and willing try completely different approach/objects if necessary. Thanks in advance for sending me into the right direction. Marc

Re: [Tutor] dictionaries are same but returning false

2017-07-05 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 9:51 AM, Ashfaq wrote: > Hi Peter, > The way you find the issue is really cool! Very cool! :) > > I agree - that is very cool. But I have also made this sort of mistake a few times, and found it by using a very quick, low-tech method... "Unfold" the lines of the two dictio

Re: [Tutor] Am I missing something obvious about "FizzBuzz"?

2017-10-01 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Sun, Oct 1, 2017 at 12:48 PM, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote: > But to address another issue raised by Mats: > > Probably the best programming test there is look at code > > that's already been developed, > > Very true and in an ideal world what you would do, but... > > It is what we did with the

Re: [Tutor] confused about Pypi

2017-10-29 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 1:43 PM, Mark Anderson wrote: > Hello, I am currently doing an online course to learn Python. Generally > ive followed it well and am enjoying my first go at programming. However > the description of how to get modules from PyPi has left me confused. Ive > only recently do

Re: [Tutor] SSL Error

2018-07-31 Thread Marc Tompkins
This is a general Python tutor group; I'm not sure anybody here can help you with the OpenSSL package (I've definitely never used it myself.) We're all willing to help, but this might not be the right place to ask this question. More to the point, though, when you ask questions on this list it's

Re: [Tutor] SSL Error

2018-07-31 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 10:03 AM, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote: > On 31/07/18 03:52, Saket Mehrotra wrote: > > > error ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv23: OpenSSL.SSL.SSLv23_METHOD, > > AttributeError: module 'ssl' has no attribute 'PROTOCOL_SSLv23' > > Are you sure you spelled the attribute correctly? > > Have

Re: [Tutor] SSL Error

2018-08-01 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 1:13 AM, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote: > On 01/08/18 05:07, Saket Mehrotra wrote: > > Hi > > > > I am also not using any Open SSL package. > > I have just added " import requests" in py file. And when I run the > module > > I get the SSL package error ,not sure why. > > Th

Re: [Tutor] try, except syntax

2018-08-02 Thread Marc Tompkins
try... except is meant to catch errors: places where your program would otherwise crash. It does NOT work as a truth check. In your example: > try: > type(uvc) == float > except TypeError as e: > print(e, msg) > > "type(uvc)==float" resolves to a standalone True or False, not an exception

Re: [Tutor] "Python not recognized as a command"

2018-09-01 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 10:40 AM, Dana O'Connor wrote: > Hi, > I've been trying to download and use Python 3.7 for the past few days and > every time I try to open it it tells me I don't have "pip" which should be > impossible because this version of Python is supposed to automatically come > with

Re: [Tutor] Looking for some direction

2019-05-11 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 12:05 PM Cranky Frankie wrote: > 2) For wxPython I'm finding a lot of the documentation is outdated. I'm a fan of wxPython myself, for a number of reasons - it suits the way I think, and the applications it generates look native to the platform they're running on, as opp

[Tutor] Help me out please

2016-07-19 Thread Marc Sànchez Quibus
Hi, First of all I'm gonan introduce myself. My name is Marc and I'm a student and also a python's programmer begginer. I've been studying/learning python and now I need some help to finish my project. I have two scripts, one of them in python (the main script) and the other

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