[Tutor] Algorithm

2009-08-23 Thread kreglet
have tried unsuccessfully to modify some of these to suit my purpose. Also on the web there are numerous sites where you can type in a word and it will give you a list of all the words that could be made from it. How would I go about this in python? thanx, kreglet -- View this message in cont

Re: [Tutor] Algorithm

2009-08-24 Thread kreglet
, ('t', 1)] countletters("bats") [('a', 1), ('b', 1), ('s', 1), ('t', 1)] bat is in batty. bats is not. I have a list of words in wordlist.txt. I can write a loop the do the letter counts for each word, but I can't figure out how

Re: [Tutor] Algorithm

2009-08-24 Thread kreglet
on't know why. Seems to me that any of the above should work. mainword = countletters('batty') cmpword = countletters('bat') myfunc(cmpword, mainword) Generates error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/kreglet/bin/test.py", line 23, in myfunc(

Re: [Tutor] Algorithm

2009-08-24 Thread kreglet
eft to guess. When I am finished this project, I plan to post it somewhere so that others can learn from it too. Peace, kreglet Mac Ryan wrote: > > > Of course doing things by yourself is more exciting and fun (and above > all you have the pleasure to learn something new), but if

Re: [Tutor] Algorithm

2009-08-24 Thread kreglet
uot; is Not in: " + lc.mainword Lol, it aint pretty, and it almost works. If you change the letters in lc.cmpword you'll see what I mean. There's got to be another way :) cheers, kreglet Wayne-68 wrote: > > > > That's correct - your function countletters returns

Re: [Tutor] Algorithm

2009-08-25 Thread kreglet
on the same level as the else statement: lc.mainword="batty" lc.cmpword="bat" [('a', 1), ('y', 1), ('b', 1), ('t', 2)] [('a', 1), ('b', 1), ('t', 1)] a 1 1 b 1 1 t 1 2 bat IS Not in: batty Neithe

Re: [Tutor] Algorithm

2009-08-25 Thread kreglet
opt hnopty o h No Match: o n No Match: o o Match: p p Match: t t Match: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/kreglet/bin/knt.py", line 45, in if cmpword[letter] > > Another way to do this: > - sort the letters in the target word; for example 'python' be

Re: [Tutor] Algorithm

2009-08-25 Thread kreglet
lot to learn. I really appreciate the time you took to help and teach me. Thanx, kreglet -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Algorithm-tp25107922p25145813.html Sent from the Python - tutor mailing list archive at Nabble.com

[Tutor] Wordscramble.py

2009-09-15 Thread kreglet
This is my first Python project. I am doing this to help me learn the language. I was wondering if someone could give me some advice as I have a lot of questions. 1. I would like to have someone look over the code and tell me how to improve it. I am sure that a lot of it can be done better t

[Tutor] NameError

2009-09-21 Thread kreglet
I keep getting the following error and don't uderstand why: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/kreglet/bin/test.py", line 15, in btnStatclick btnStat.set_label("Pressed") NameError: global name 'btnStat' is not defined #!/usr/bin/env p

[Tutor] Dialogs

2009-10-13 Thread kreglet
I am having a problem with GtkDialogs. Ref: http://faq.pygtk.org/index.py?req=show&file=faq10.011.htp http://faq.pygtk.org/index.py?req=show&file=faq10.011.htp I want to add a treeview to the dialog. The first time btnDialog is pressed the dialog shows with the treeview in it. If I press b