Re: [Tutor] "#!/usr/bin/env python" vs "#!/usr/local/bin/python"

at you have to either A) make sure the environment is initialized, or B) initialize the environment manually before executing the script. If you, for example, want to use a python script at boot time, before the environment is initialized, i strongly recommend using an absolute path. -Sc

Re: [Tutor] A replacement for a "for" loop

quot;for" loop causes the >> dictionary keys to be read in a certain order. How could I take away the >> first "for" loop and replace it with something else to do the same general >> function? >> > > for key in keys: > print 'Attribute %s has

Re: [Tutor] A replacement for a "for" loop

Terry Carroll wrote: > On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Scott Oertel wrote: > > >> Why even have the keys variable at all.. >> >> for key in attrs: >> print 'Attribute %s has value %s' % (key, attrs[key]) >> > > In a prior email thread, th

[Tutor] Formatting output into columns

Someone asked me this question the other day, and I couldn't think of any easy way of printing the output besides what I came up with pasted below. So what you have is a file with words in it as such: apple john bean joke ample python nice and you want to sort and output the text into columns as

Re: [Tutor] Formatting output into columns

Alan Gauld wrote: > "Scott Oertel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > >> and you want to sort and output the text into columns as such: >> >> a p j b n >> apple python john bean

Re: [Tutor] Formatting output into columns

Luke Paireepinart wrote: > Scott Oertel wrote: >> Someone asked me this question the other day, and I couldn't think of >> any easy way of printing the output besides what I came up with pasted >> below. >> >> So what you have is a file with words in it as suc

[Tutor] Counting help

s my first post to this list, I hope I included enough information. -Scott Oertel ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Counting help

or the snipplet, it's perfect for what I'm doing, I wasn't aware of the has_key() or get(), this is very usefull. -Scott Oertel ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Counting help

Scott Oertel wrote: Byron wrote: Luis N wrote: Ideally, you would put your names into a list or dictionary to make working with them easier. If all you're trying to do is count them (and your list of names is long), you might consider a dictionary which you

Re: [Tutor] Counting help

Scott Oertel wrote: Byron wrote: Luis N wrote: Ideally, you would put your names into a list or dictionary to make working with them easier. If all you're trying to do is count them (and your list of names is long), you might consider a dictionary which you

Re: [Tutor] Counting help

Kent Johnson wrote: Scott Oertel wrote: The next problem I have though is creating the dict, i have a loop, but i can't figure out how to compile the dict, it is returning this: ('Joey Gale', ('Scott Joe', 'This is lame' ))) listofnames = []

[Tutor] Working with files

How do I use the built in file objects to insert text into a file at a certain location? i.e. something, 2, chance, weee nothing, happened, crap, nice need to search for "something" and insert, "what," before it thanks for the feedback you guys are great :)

Re: [Tutor] Working with files

//mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor Thanks again, I figured it out with the index function of the file objects, I didn't know that you could search for a word and find the exact pos of it, that was the tiny bit of information I was looking for. -Scott Oertel ___

Re: [Tutor] Working with files

Bob Gailer wrote: > At 02:55 PM 8/24/2005, Scott Oertel wrote: > >> How do I use the built in file objects to insert text into a file at a >> certain location? >> >> i.e. >> >> something, 2, chance, weee >> nothing, happened, crap, nice >> &g

[Tutor] mod_python.publisher

x27;m running Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) mod_python/2.7.11 Python/2.2.3 -Scott Oertel ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] mod_python.publisher

Scott Oertel wrote: I'm having an issue with mod_python.publisher, supposedly i should be able to just place this code def index():    return "This is only a test." into test.py and when placed into my browser it should run the index function by default, bu

Re: [Tutor] CREATING A PR.EXE FROM A PR.PY

stribution. http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/py2exe/ -Scott Oertel ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

[Tutor] Opening files, finding their location

I have a small problem with one of my scripts currently, I'm using the config parser to open a config.ini file, but this program is going to be designed to be used as a cron job, currently i made a work around.. ./program.py config.ini is how you run it from the command line I'm looking for an

Re: [Tutor] Opening files, finding their location

Christopher Arndt wrote: Scott Oertel schrieb: I'm looking for an easy way to find the current directory location of my program so I can include the config.ini file correctly without having to pass command line args. So, do you want to find out, where your scri

Re: [Tutor] code improvement for beginner ?

lmac wrote: > --- > >The problem with downloading the images is this: > >- >http://images.nfl.com/images/globalnav-shadow-gray.gif >Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/home/internet/bin/nflgrab.py", line 167, in ? >urllib.urlretrieve(img,img[f:]) > File "/usr/

Re: [Tutor] Can anyone teach me...?

d I  can go back to using wxPython instead. Boa constructor always crashes on me in linux, on windows it's nice, but I make one small change in the code and boaconstructor will freak out and not be able to read anything. that's just my experience. -- scott oertel gawr.com :) ___