Re: [Tutor] Standardizing on Unicode and utf8

2009-02-25 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Dinesh B Vadhia (Fri, 20 Feb 2009 02:52:27 -0800) > We want to standardize on unicode and utf8 Very good idea. > and would like to clarify and verify their use to minimize encode > ()/decode()'ing: > > 1. Python source files > Use the header: # -*- coding: utf8 -*- Good idea (although only

Re: [Tutor] Standardizing on Unicode and utf8

2009-02-25 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* spir (Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:02:59 +0100) > Le Fri, 20 Feb 2009 02:52:27 -0800, > "Dinesh B Vadhia" s'exprima ainsi: > > > We want to standardize on unicode and utf8 and would like to clarify and > > verify their use to minimize encode()/decode()'ing: > > > > 1. Python source files > > Use the

Re: [Tutor] Add readline capabilities to a Python build 2.6 on Ubuntu

2009-02-25 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Eric Dorsey (Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:24:07 -0700) > Still doesnt work.. I just get this when I hit the up arrow:>>> ^[[A > > Bah. It works in the 2.5 version that came packaged with it. Thanks for > trying :) There's a log for the ./configure. See if the configure script can find readline. Thorst

Re: [Tutor] html links

2007-05-25 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* max . (Mon, 14 May 2007 20:27:15 -0600) > does anyone know of a tutorial for finding links in a web site with python. import formatter, \ htmllib, \ urllib url = 'http://python.org' htmlp = htmllib.HTMLParser(formatter.NullFormatter()) htmlp.feed(urllib.urlopen(url).read()) htm

Re: [Tutor] trouble with "if"

2007-05-28 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* adam urbas (Sun, 27 May 2007 23:42:01 -0500) > You don't know what a Ti 83 is. Calculator. The most basic programming > available. It already has so many functions built into it that it is much > easier to tell it to do things. You don't have to do all this integer > conversion and such wh

Re: [Tutor] Creating a closed source application in Python?

2007-05-28 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Sophie Marston (Mon, 28 May 2007 09:56:45 +0100) > Is it possible to create a closed source project in Python? Like in C++ > or something, where they can't view your code? Google for "Python code obfuscation" (web and comp.lang.python) Thorsten ___

Re: [Tutor] trouble with "if"

2007-05-28 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Rikard Bosnjakovic (Mon, 28 May 2007 17:55:42 +0200) > On 5/28/07, Thorsten Kampe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Do you really think someone can or will read what you wrote? I've > > never seen something so horribly formatted like you emails - and I've > >

Re: [Tutor] installing maya/python on linux

2007-06-04 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Preecha Bundrikwong (Mon, 4 Jun 2007 16:07:49 +0700) > Can anybody please give me an easy instruction on installing maya/python > (pysource/sourcepy etc.) on a Linux machine. http://cgkit.sourceforge.net/mayadoc/install.html > I've already downloaded it but never succeeded installing. Aha. Why

Re: [Tutor] SSH using python

2007-06-04 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Chandrashekar (Mon, 4 Jun 2007 01:45:57 -0700 (PDT)) > Can anyone tell me how to do ssh to a machine using python and execute > programs on the remote machine? Thanks in advance. Paramiko ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.or

Re: [Tutor] installing maya/python on linux

2007-06-04 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Preecha Bundrikwong (Mon, 4 Jun 2007 17:30:03 +0700) > Thanks, but sorry again; how do you 'compile' the downloaded package? I'm > new to Linux :-( ./configure make make install ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/li

Re: [Tutor] lists - append - unique and sorted

2007-06-06 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* roberto (Wed, 6 Jun 2007 17:17:05 +0200) > can i append a item to a list using criterias: > > - UNIQUE - if there already exist don't append test whether it's already in the with "in" or use sets > and/or > > - SORTED - INSERT in the correct place using some criteria? insert and then sort a

Re: [Tutor] Multi-line comments?

2007-06-07 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Brad Tompkins (Wed, 6 Jun 2007 16:41:31 -0700) > Is there a way to make use of multi-line comments when programming using > python? Having to stick a # in front of every line gets pretty tedious when > I want to make a comment more detailed than I normally would. > > If there isn't a way, can s

Re: [Tutor] easygui question, again

2007-06-10 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Rafael Bejarano (Sun, 10 Jun 2007 02:24:56 -0500) > On Jun 9, 2007, at 5:26 AM, Kent Johnson wrote: > > You could try running the easygui demo - just type > > python easygui.py > > on the command line from the directory containing easygui. > > At your convenience, please explain the above statem

Re: [Tutor] easygui question, again

2007-06-10 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Rafael Bejarano (Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:35:32 -0500) > On Jun 10, 2007, at 5:00 PM, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > It would really make sense if you learn a bit of the basics before you > > start doing the advanced stuff like (Python) programming... > > What do you mean by "a

Re: [Tutor] easygui question, again

2007-06-11 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Rafael Bejarano (Sun, 10 Jun 2007 20:49:40 -0500) > As I understand it from the description of this list, that is exactly > its purpose--to help people who no relatively little python. That's correct. But your problem (or the solution to your problem) is more related to _Operating System_ bas

Re: [Tutor] Ipython and refreshing changed modules

2007-06-11 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Alan Gauld (Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:27:41 +0100) > "Andy Cheesman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > > I've written. After a code modification, is there an easy, quick way > > to > > refresh changed modules? > > Look at the reload() function. ...and the deep reload option (which is the primary functi

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

2007-06-14 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* (Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:14:13 +0300) > how to choose between "#!/usr/bin/env python" and > "#!/usr/local/bin/python" in the beginning of the script ? Just choose. Say "I want" to the script. Say "I want '#!/usr/bin/env python'" ___ Tutor maillist - T

Re: [Tutor] Power Shells [WAS:] optimization: faster than for

2007-07-02 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* elis aeris (Sun, 1 Jul 2007 22:27:11 -0700) > uh, can i ask about something very quickly? Don't hijack a completely unreleated thread. > how do i write a function to do > > a pop up window with designated window name, type (ok, cancel, those) and > message? Okay, a very quick answer: EasyGU

Re: [Tutor] pop up window

2007-07-02 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* elis aeris (Mon, 2 Jul 2007 02:32:07 -0700) > i won't do that again, i am a 2 day newbie (hello) > > uh, > > how about a less quick one that's built-in in python ? Are you replying to me? Please quote the parts you are referring to. Anyway, Python does not come with "built-in pop-up support".

Re: [Tutor] how long?

2007-07-03 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Ben Waldin (Tue, 3 Jul 2007 19:46:42 +1200) > How long will it take until I successfully create my own working program that > is useful? I have crated the address book ones in the tutors and just want to > know how long it takes before I start to create my own thought up programs > that will b

Re: [Tutor] os.path.exists(path) returns false when the pathactually exists!

2007-07-28 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Tiger12506 (Sat, 28 Jul 2007 10:33:36 -0500) > > So the better question is, does is this file a broken symbolic link or > > can os.stat() be executed on it? > > > > How do I find if it is a broken symbolic link in Windows 2000 ? > > > > os.stat(path) returns an OSError saying that there is no suc

Re: [Tutor] Shelve del not reducing file size

2007-07-28 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Kent Johnson (Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:06:33 -0400) > Barton David wrote: > > *sigh* I'm really going off Python. > > In what way is it Python's fault that the dbm database doesn't reclaim > disk space? It's actually how most databases work. Even a simple Outlook pst file (which is a database, too

Re: [Tutor] executing file properly

2007-08-07 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Vivian Tini (Tue, 7 Aug 2007 12:20:29 +0200) > The TestCases executable works properly when I run it from the shell prompt. > > Then I try to run it from the Python command prompt by the following script: > >>> import os > >>> os.system("home/.../.../.../TestCases") > > I used "..." to type i

Re: [Tutor] New to Python and Linux

2007-09-28 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Armand Nell (Wed, 26 Sep 2007 08:07:12 +0200) > I am new to python programming and also the linux enviroment most of my > skills are windows based and programming skills is visual basics. I decided > that it would be a great start and new direction for me to learn python and > at the same time li

Re: [Tutor] New to Python and Linux

2007-09-28 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Thorsten Kampe (Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:09:24 +0100) > It's exactly the same as with with Visual Basic [...] Guess I mixed that up with VBScript... ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] repeated times

2007-11-04 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* linda.s (Sun, 4 Nov 2007 01:39:46 -0800) > On Nov 2, 2007 1:03 AM, ALAN GAULD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >I want to run an .exe file and get the output many times. > > >> Given that I know that you know about loops I have to > > >> ask what you see as the problem? > > > > > >I want to run

[Tutor] Installing modules via setuptools in a script

2007-11-18 Thread Thorsten Kampe
Hi, can anyone give me a short code snippet how to install a missing module via setuptools (assuming setuptools is already installed)?! Something like this: try: import missing_module except import_error import setuptools setuptools.whatever.install(missing_module) Thorsten __

Re: [Tutor] ipython / readline problem

2007-12-14 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Tiago Saboga (Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:05:55 -0200) > On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 07:41:08AM -0500, Kent Johnson wrote: > > Tiago Saboga wrote: > >> : 'ascii' codec can't encode > >> character u'\xe7' in position 2: ordinal not in range(128) > >> > >> === > >> > >> What

Re: [Tutor] Python Versions

2007-12-15 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* earlylight publishing (Sat, 15 Dec 2007 09:21:45 -0800 (PST)) > No prob about the gender confusion. :-) That's why people put Firstname Lastname in the From field of their newsreader or mail reader. And please do a line break after about 70 characters. Your reply was one(!) big line. Thorste

Re: [Tutor] Python Versions

2007-12-15 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Tiger12506 (Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:23:00 -0500) > > Despite what your english teacher might have tried to make you > > believe, they were wrong about the lack of a neutral in english. > > Just like ending sentences with prepositions has always been done > > and always will be done, the use of "they"

Re: [Tutor] how to make python program as executable

2008-01-30 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Luke Paireepinart (Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:59:59 -0600) > I think he meant " i want to make the application [into an] > executable" I.E. he wants an .exe file on Windows. > In this case, you can use py2exe, and there's another alternative I > can't remember. The better alternative is "Pyinstaller"..

[Tutor] Generic dictionary

2016-11-20 Thread Thorsten Kampe
[Crossposted to tutor and general mailing list] Hi, I'd like to extend the dictionary class by creating a class that acts like a dictionary if the class is instantiated with a dictionary and acts like a "dictitem" ([(key1, value1), (key2, value2), ...]) if instantiated with a list (that is dic