Re: [Tutor] how i can change two lists into one directory

2010-07-22 Thread Luke Paireepinart
Hey quit spamming the list please. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 22, 2010, at 7:08 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > On 7/22/10, ANKUR AGGARWAL wrote: >> hey i have just started making a app using python and just gt a problem.. >> >> i have two list >> a=["x","z"] >> b=[1,2] >> >> i want to make a direct

Re: [Tutor] position of an element in list:

2010-07-23 Thread Luke Paireepinart
You can do it with any iterator Astr.index('o') I'm not sure what happens when there are multiple instances of 'o' though, check the docs on index. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 23, 2010, at 8:22 AM, Vineeth Rakesh wrote: > Hello all, > > How to return the position of a character in a strin

Re: [Tutor] problem with simple script

2010-07-28 Thread Luke Paireepinart
Just do a split of the input from the user on space or comma. If Len() of the split data is 1, do your [1, ...] interval, otherwise do the other interval. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 28, 2010, at 6:51 AM, "Richard D. Moores" wrote: > I have a practical need for a script that will give me a rand

Re: [Tutor] Making a sound

2010-07-31 Thread Luke Paireepinart
You can generate the sound data in a buffer either in native python or using numpy, then play it back by loading the buffer into a sound object with pygame. It depends how much control you want on the sounds. You might want to use csound or supercollider or something if you want to programmatica

Re: [Tutor] Simple Python Program

2010-07-31 Thread Luke Paireepinart
I think I agree more with bob on this one - he wasn't saying functions weren't important, just that they weren't important to this case. Sure polymorphism and inheritance and properties and generators and list comprehensions are awesome and useful, but I wouldn't suggest they are necessary for e

Re: [Tutor] Menu not working properly

2010-08-02 Thread Luke Paireepinart
. You are not being helpful. If you were kidding, make it more clear next time. > > there are more people who can and will help you. Unless I've missed a > response to a previous post of yours where people disrecommended your > postings, but that shouldn

Re: [Tutor] Fwd: Need mentor

2010-08-09 Thread Luke Paireepinart
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 1:32 AM, Ranjith Kumar wrote: > Hi all, > > I have described the theme of my project here, > Cheers > Ranjith, > This sounds kind of like homework. Is it homework? If not, where did you get this spec from? Thanks, -Luke ___

Re: [Tutor] Question about strings

2010-08-09 Thread Luke Paireepinart
ge. Range(1,100) returns 1,2,,99. Hope that helps -luke Sent from my iPhone On Aug 9, 2010, at 11:02 AM, Daniel <.aste...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, I'm trying to solve an exercise, a beginners one but I have a question. > So the exercise sounds like this: > > Define

Re: [Tutor] problem loading and array from an external file

2010-08-11 Thread Luke Paireepinart
Don't pass none. It's an optional parameter. It's accepted practice to not pass optional parameters. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 11, 2010, at 6:46 PM, Bill Allen wrote: > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Hugo Arts wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 9:59 AM, bob gailer wrote: >>> On 8/10/2010

Re: [Tutor] my Python learning exercise

2010-08-16 Thread Luke Paireepinart
; with other programming languages.  It is a simple text based game that > simply lets a user explore a maze of rooms. Anyone who finds this interesting may also want to look into http://inventwithpython.com/ , I hear it's a good book but I haven't personally

Re: [Tutor] Moving from Python 2.5.4 to 2.5.2?

2010-08-16 Thread Luke Paireepinart
2.5.2? Why don't you all just upgrade to 2.5.4? -Luke ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Moving from Python 2.5.4 to 2.5.2?

2010-08-16 Thread Luke Paireepinart
2010 at 3:57 PM, Wayne Watson wrote: > The question is would going back likely cause problems? I'm dealing with > neophytes. He's messed up before. > > On 8/16/2010 8:58 AM, Luke Paireepinart wrote: >> >> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Wayne Watson >>  

Re: [Tutor] Adding to a CSV file?

2010-08-30 Thread Luke Paireepinart
em(word) here's your problem. MyWord is the value that is changing in each iteration of the loop, not word. Change your lines to word2=wnl.lemmatize(MyWord) word3=proter.stem(MyWord) and it should work fine. You should've gotten an undefined variable exception

Re: [Tutor] recursive problem

2010-09-09 Thread Luke Paireepinart
Shouldn't there be a way to do this without type checking? Duck typing! Sent from my iPhone On Sep 9, 2010, at 7:33 AM, Joel Goldstick wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Shashwat Anand > wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Roelof Wobben wrote: > > > From: anand.shas

Re: [Tutor] recursive problem

2010-09-09 Thread Luke Paireepinart
n Fri, 10 Sep 2010 01:05:22 am Joel Goldstick wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Luke Paireepinart > > > > wrote: > > > Shouldn't there be a way to do this without type checking? Duck > > > typing! > > > > > > Your post got me thi

Re: [Tutor] hashlib problems

2010-09-10 Thread Luke Paireepinart
In general, you shouldn't even hint at the possibility of there being a bug in the code unless you have test cases and a patch handy. Especially something as widely used as hashlib. It gives An air of arrogance about your post, whether you intend it or not. I think your issue got resolved alrea

Re: [Tutor] changing list index start

2010-09-10 Thread Luke Paireepinart
Yeah, just add 1 to it. When printing just do index+1 and when inputting the user's choice, subtract 1 and use it as the array index. Sent from my iPhone On Sep 10, 2010, at 4:36 PM, Rance Hall wrote: > I'm using the following function style I found on the net to create > menus for a command

Re: [Tutor] exceptions problem

2010-09-10 Thread Luke Paireepinart
o the e-mail client to render the text. Yes, I could turn off HTML on my end, but that is a pain and breaks messages that I legitimately want to be HTML. Thanks, -Luke On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 6:56 PM, bob gailer wrote: > On 9/10/2010 2:48 PM, Roelof Wobben wrote: > > > Date: Fri, 10

Re: [Tutor] recursive problem

2010-09-11 Thread Luke Paireepinart
On Sep 11, 2010, at 12:40 PM, Roelof Wobben wrote: > > > > >> From: st...@pearwood.info >> To: tutor@python.org >> Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 03:27:42 +1000 >> Subject: Re: [Tutor] recursive problem >> >> On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 03:18:19 am Steven D'Aprano wr

Re: [Tutor] forcing hashlib to has string variables

2010-09-12 Thread Luke Paireepinart
This is how I use it (untested) Import hashlib Print hashlib.md5("somestr").hexdigest() Works fine without using binary string. On Sep 12, 2010, at 1:19 PM, Rance Hall wrote: > Everybody knows you don't store plain text passwords in a database, > you store hashes instead > > consider: > > us

Re: [Tutor] forcing hashlib to has string variables

2010-09-12 Thread Luke Paireepinart
with a bad e-mail client. - On Sep 12, 2010, at 1:54 PM, Rance Hall wrote: > Luke: > > On python3.1 I get the following error using your (untested) two line snippet: > > TypeError: Unicode-objects must be encoded before hashing > > If I add th

Re: [Tutor] py-postgressql v1.0.1 question

2010-09-12 Thread Luke Paireepinart
> > Thanks for the tip. I'll do some more research but this sounds promising. > > Rance > Just be aware that some methods of list building will iterate over the list and evaluate it. So if you only want to retrieve the first 10 results but you do something like Results = [I.fetch() for I in c

Re: [Tutor] functions: use return or exceptions?

2010-09-23 Thread Luke Paireepinart
You should do both. Raise an exception in the exceptional case. My general pattern is to return None if no results exist, return the results if they do exist, and raise an exception if I couldn't perform the function. Eg. If I have a function that creates a list of users with a first name of bob

Re: [Tutor] (no subject)

2010-10-28 Thread Luke Paireepinart
This code shouldn't even actually execute, you should get an indexerror exception. Close your IDE and try it again. Should make the issue more clear. - Sent from a mobile device with a bad e-mail client. - On Oct 27, 2010, at 1:04 PM, "Terr

Re: [Tutor] (no subject)

2010-10-28 Thread Luke Paireepinart
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 8:11 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> postPos=words[3] > > This like will fail with NameError, because words is not defined anywhere. > > This is not the code you are running. We can't tell what is wrong with the > code you run when you show us something completely different

Re: [Tutor] Looking for a tutor to review my code and provide constructive feedback.

2010-11-04 Thread Luke Paireepinart
Also for your confirm entries function, read about while loops - Sent from a mobile device with a bad e-mail client. - On Nov 4, 2010, at 3:10 PM, Glen Clark wrote: > Hello, > > I have completed my first python script. This is after watc

Re: [Tutor] Looking for a tutor to review my code and provide constructive feedback.

2010-11-04 Thread Luke Paireepinart
Also for your confirm entries read about sentinel values for while loops. It saves you repeating the conditional in the loop body. And you might want to .lower().strip()[0] the input choice so that they can use y, Y, yes, or whatever. Remember, users suck at generating accurate and correct input

Re: [Tutor] Looking for a tutor to review my code and provide constructive feedback.

2010-11-04 Thread Luke Paireepinart
Your code is not bad overall, pretty great for a beginner actually. I would say you should read guido's style guide though; some of your variable and function naming is nonstandard python. - Sent from a mobile device with a bad e-mail client. -

[Tutor] Hi

2010-11-05 Thread Luke Pettit
nguage Maxscript http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:MAXScript and since Autodesk now own all the competitors software and they all (except Max) use Python for their coding I thought it would be the way to go when learning a new language. Blender also uses Python btw. My 3d site http://

Re: [Tutor] test

2010-11-05 Thread Luke Paireepinart
You don't get your own e-mails back. On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Danyelle Davis wrote: > im wondering if im able to mail this list.  I sent an email asking for good > newbie projects but never saw it post.  All i got was the welcome/ info > email. > LN > _

Re: [Tutor] Hi

2010-11-06 Thread Luke Pettit
Thanks Alan I found those about an hour ago :) On 6 November 2010 20:11, Alan Gauld wrote: > > "Luke Pettit" wrote > > > I was interested in which video tutorials Glen was watching, and if anyone >> else could recommend some video tutorials to watch, >> &g

Re: [Tutor] Hi

2010-11-06 Thread Luke Pettit
r the > entire project: http://code.google.com/edu/ -- definitely worth checking > out. > > -trench > > On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Luke Pettit wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> I'm just about to begin to learn python and have bookmarked a number of >> sites

Re: [Tutor] Commercial or Famous Applicattions.?

2010-11-08 Thread Luke Paireepinart
just off the top of my head... NASA uses it. Lots of games use Python as their game logic/scripting language (how many use PHP? probably approaching 0. LUA is more popular than Python but Python is much more popular than PHP). The first ever bittorrent client (the official one) was written in P

Re: [Tutor] Columnar Transposition Cipher question

2010-11-08 Thread Luke Paireepinart
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Natalie Kristine T. Castillo wrote: > Hi, I need help on how exactly to solve this: That's nice. > > To send secret messages you and your partner have decided to use the > columnar function you have written to perform columnar transposition cipher > for this course

Re: [Tutor] Server

2010-11-08 Thread Luke Paireepinart
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Chris King wrote: >  On 11/5/2010 8:10 PM, Alan Gauld wrote: >> >> "Chris King" wrote >> If you are using Windows, turn off the built-in firewall. That's what fixed my problems. ~Corey >> >>> also, it is on the same network, so the server shouldn't b

Re: [Tutor] Columnar Transposition Cipher question

2010-11-08 Thread Luke Pettit
sition cipher. I've never > heard of it before, but I'm sure www.google.com and > http://en.wikipedia.org have plenty to say on the subject. > > HTH, > Wayne > > ___ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscr

Re: [Tutor] variables question.

2010-11-10 Thread Luke Paireepinart
It's pretty typical for scoping rules. If you define variables outside of your funcs you can access them inside the func. If you want to change the value in the function you need to declare the scope as global. If you make another variable with the same name inside of a function it will shadow t

Re: [Tutor] While Loops: Coin Flip Game :p:

2010-11-15 Thread Luke Pettit
t; > >> > Thanks, >> > S. Dawn Samson >> >> >From one beginner to another - it looks to me like you set the value of >> coin once then checked it 100 times. If you want to reset the value of >> coin maybe it (i.e. setting the value of coin, not just calling >> the value of coin) should be in the loop too? >> >> tom >> ___ >> Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org >> To unsubscribe or change subscription options: >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor >> > > > > ___ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > > -- Luke Pettit ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] While Loops: Coin Flip Game :p:

2010-11-16 Thread Luke Pettit
ails should add up to 100 >>> # not 173 or am I missing the point? >>> >>> >>> No, you're missing an indentation. If you check the code you're >> running, I think you'll find that you didn't unindent the line incrementing >> count. >> >> Of course, it's less error prone to simply use >> for count in xrange(100): >> >> instead of while count < 100: >> >> and you wouldn't need to increment count. >> >> DaveA >> >> > > > -- > With Regards, > Nithya S > > -- Luke Pettit ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Paython as a career

2009-03-17 Thread Luke Paireepinart
obligation to take my advice. I hope it helps you one way or the other. Good luck. -Luke On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:37 AM, Hussain Ali < hussainali.hussain...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all > > I want to start learning python but before going further I need answer to > my >

Re: [Tutor] (no subject)

2009-03-17 Thread Luke Paireepinart
As a policy we don't give answers to homework questions. However, if you have tried this and you are stuck, we'd be happy to help with any specific questions you have about your implementation. On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 6:00 AM, wrote: > Would anyone know how to Write an application that displays

Re: [Tutor] [Fwd: Re: What is this kind of loop called]

2009-06-07 Thread Luke Paireepinart
ause the function does not call itself repeatedly; rather, call_numbers is called once, and then it repeatedly calls a _different_ function. Savvy the difference? HTH, -Luke __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4136 (20090606) __ The message

Re: [Tutor] List Splicing

2009-06-17 Thread Luke Paireepinart
Robert Berman wrote: Emille, Thank you for the example of list splicing. Do you know if this is faster than a more conventional loop statement as in my code for primearray which is in my original post (reprinted here) As has been mentioned, you will want to profile your code to know what is

Re: [Tutor] Fast way to access items in a dictionary

2009-06-17 Thread Luke Paireepinart
Looks like a simple 'in' is faster both when it's there... >>> Timer("'D' in {'D':123}.keys()").timeit() 0.93669924584355613 >>> Timer("'D' in {'D':123}").timeit() 0.34678047105990117 ... and when it isn't... >>> Timer("'E' in {'D':123}.keys()").timeit() 0.99194670371434768 >>> Timer("'E'

Re: [Tutor] Apparent incosistency with Python interperter in IDLE

2009-06-17 Thread Luke Paireepinart
gt;> x 'hello' IDLE echoes the value of x. However, if you had the code x = "hello" x and you ran it (not in IDLE's interpreter) you would not get any output. What you should learn from this is 1- IDLE is weird in many ways 2 - that subprocess.call() is not mean

Re: [Tutor] Apparent incosistency with Python interperter in IDLE

2009-06-18 Thread Luke Paireepinart
Karen Palen wrote: WOW! Thanks for the detailed explanation! Sure thing, putting off doing homework so... This was about what I had expected so it is no surprise. My conclusion (so far) is that there is not much to gain from an IDE in this situation and a lot of complexity to deal with.

Re: [Tutor] puzzling for-loop behavior

2009-06-24 Thread Luke Paireepinart
ith both functions, the one with the "for" loop and the one with the "while" loop, and I'll try to explain why. It's not something inherent in while loops vs. for loops, it's something specific to your application, so we can't help you analyze it without actual code. HTH, -Luke ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Help with photo wall

2009-06-24 Thread Luke Paireepinart
bob gailer wrote: Please start a new thread with a relevant topic rather than adding to an existing thread. seconded hello all, I am currently making a birthday prezzie for someone (deadline is Thursday night). the basic idea is a wall of photos that you can move about to view different one

Re: [Tutor] Help with photo wall

2009-06-24 Thread Luke Paireepinart
Jacob Mansfield wrote: thank you Luke, It's a bit more complicated than that, all the images are in one massive jpg file similar to those in http://cdn.nhl.com/ducks/images/upload/2008/06/FanPhotos3.jpg So they're not lined up? they overlap? Do they have to be in one massive jpg

Re: [Tutor] Very basic Python question

2009-06-26 Thread Luke Paireepinart
Daniel Sato wrote: Hi, Let me preface this by saying that I purchased O'Reilly's "Learn Python" yesterday and have no programming experience (I am a photographer by trade) except for a semester of what I think was BASIC on some old apple back in elementary school (circa 1992). I am not sure

Re: [Tutor] intefaces in python

2009-06-29 Thread Luke Paireepinart
Amit Sethi wrote: I think ideally i want a compile Error just like java .. Why? For developers, so they'll know if their plugin meets the interface requirements? Have you considered just making a unit test that will call all interface functions with appropriate parameters? Then they can just

Re: [Tutor] newton's method for system of nonlinear equations

2009-06-30 Thread Luke Paireepinart
kgotlele...@galmail.co.za wrote: Hi can someone help me with my program demostrating Newton's method for system of nonlinear equations below. Line 45 gives an error saying return is outside the function That's because you have a return outside of a function. for k in range(n-1,-1,-1): b

Re: [Tutor] Need help with python game program

2009-06-30 Thread Luke Paireepinart
quotations from your e-mails unless you reference it. for example, the quoted text in your e-mail is at least 10x longer than the actual content.I believe mark already answered your question. Thanks, -Luke On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 7:38 PM, jonathan wallis wrote: > My problem is simple, is t

Re: [Tutor] reading variables in a data set?

2009-07-04 Thread Luke Paireepinart
interpreter. Sounds like you're not getting your data in. >>> x = ["hello", "world!", 42] >>> x ['hello', 'world!', 42] Hope that helps a litttle bit, good luck! -Luke ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] append question

2009-07-05 Thread Luke Paireepinart
Read your error message... It highlighted the first line of your for loop ansd said ints aren't iterable. len(list) returns an integer. You want a list of items... for i in range(len(list)): On 7/5/09, Steven Buck wrote: > Hi Python Tutors: > > I have a data structure that looks like: > test

Re: [Tutor] Python Tutorials: How to create useful programs after learning the syntax?

2009-07-06 Thread Luke Paireepinart
Luis Galvan wrote: Hello all, this is my first time using a mailing list, so I'm not sure if I'm doing this right! Everything's fine except perhaps your formatting - it's easier to read e-mails that are delineated into paragraphs rather than just a single block of text. That may be a problem o

Re: [Tutor] if: else: can not get else to work

2009-07-07 Thread Luke Paireepinart
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 8:36 PM, David wrote: > Hi Tutors, Hiya david. Cool e-mail address :) > My question is I tried to get it to print out when the directory was empty > like this; > > for file in fobj: >pathname = os.path.join(folder, file) >if os.path.exists(pathname): >pri

Re: [Tutor] if: else: can not get else to work

2009-07-07 Thread Luke Paireepinart
) if not path.isfile(target): print "skipping directory", f continue print "removing file", f remove(target) clean("/var/log/motion") Also, about the address - yes please! can you make it forward to my gmail? On Tue,

Re: [Tutor] if: else: can not get else to work

2009-07-07 Thread Luke Paireepinart
Oops, you should probably have a "return True" at the end of the function so the return value is meaningful. On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Luke Paireepinart wrote: > I typically abuse the fact that "return" will get you out of a function to > make my code indented

Re: [Tutor] Searching backwards from end of string

2009-07-11 Thread Luke Paireepinart
Angus,I don't think you're at fault but you must keep in mind that a lot of people that read this list get a lot of the same questions repeatedly, only worded slightly differently. I also didn't notice that you used slicing in your first message, and in your second message I just saw that you quote

Re: [Tutor] Pythonify this code!

2009-07-13 Thread Luke Paireepinart
> > > > I tried my hand at steganography >> > > Never heard of it before![snip] > > I didn't notice anything that would be v3 specific. Also I can't > comment on the algorithm since I don't really know what its > doing! > Alan, Steganography's really neat! You should look into it. Basically wha

Re: [Tutor] Fwd: The why

2009-07-16 Thread Luke Paireepinart
You need to read what dictionaries are. Essentially, any time you think "oh I need to keep separate variables for these values, but I won't know what their names are until runtime!" the correct answer is to not try to manipulate them into variables, but to use them as dictionary keys, or organize t

Re: [Tutor] hitting a wall (not a collision detection question :P)

2009-07-19 Thread Luke Paireepinart
aren't expected to grasp immediately. It's a progressive thing. Try writing some simple apps and if you come up with a problem that you can't solve with the tools you have already learned how to use (or can't solve easily - most things in Python should be easy), let us know

Re: [Tutor] mnemonics to better learn Python

2009-07-23 Thread Luke Paireepinart
I approach these things more along the lines of objects rather than looking at the raw source code to remember what I'm doing.For example, I see (x, y, z) and I think "ah, it's a little pre-packaged goodie of delicious variables" and when I see [x, y, z] I think "ah, it's a box with some candy at t

Re: [Tutor] how to get blank value

2009-07-24 Thread Luke Paireepinart
You will probably continue to get unsatisfactory responses if you continue to ask unsatisfactory questions.Python won't automatically parse this document in exactly the way you want it to. You're on the right track but you need to do as Alan said and actually read the regex articles to understand

Re: [Tutor] python telnet

2009-08-19 Thread Luke Paireepinart
How are you running it?This usually happens when you have an error in your connection, and then you try to re-run it, and the previous connection attempt has not released the port yet. Are you having an error between subsequent runs, or do you have an error the first time you run it after a fresh r

Re: [Tutor] Help on input error

2009-08-19 Thread Luke Paireepinart
Can you import other (Standard library) modules? or can you not import anything? On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 6:14 PM, David Shunick wrote: > I'm trying to learn Python, but keep running into the erroor message > ImportError: no module named area. > > I created a file area.py in IDLE. I'm using Pyt

Re: [Tutor] Help on input error

2009-08-19 Thread Luke Paireepinart
the issue, you are not putting your modules in the proper location. On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 9:22 PM, wrote: > Yes, I can import standard library modules. > > - Original Message - > From: "Luke Paireepinart" > To: "David Shunick" > Cc: tutor@python.or

Re: [Tutor] handling a textfile continued

2009-08-20 Thread Luke Paireepinart
What have you tried so far and why hasn't it worked? We prefer not to just give solutions. On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 1:06 AM, Olli Virta wrote: > Hi! > > Sorry. OK I admit I might have been confusing. Although I got some good > ideas from the messages. Thanks. > > Let me try again: > > So I got th

Re: [Tutor] how do we represent left arrow key in python programming.

2009-08-21 Thread Luke Paireepinart
you're gonna have to be a lot more specific than that if you want a decent answer. On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 4:45 AM, Ajith Gopinath wrote: > Hi Folks, > how do we represent left arrow key in a python program? > Can anybody help? > || a j i t || > > ___

Re: [Tutor] Callbacks in Python

2009-08-26 Thread Luke Paireepinart
Suppose you are writing a GUI application. You don't want to write it from scratch so you want to use TKInter or WXPython. However, you also want to process the user's mouse clicks. These clicks won't occur in a consistent manner; sometimes they may occur frequently (double-clicking), sometimes

Re: [Tutor] Callbacks in Python

2009-08-26 Thread Luke Paireepinart
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Luke Paireepinart wrote: > > So you write a program that does what you want on each mouse click. > I meant "function" rather than "program". ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mai

Re: [Tutor] Dealing with bitfields in Python

2009-08-30 Thread Luke Paireepinart
n't what you're asking, just clarify what you meant and I'll try to help. HTH, -Luke On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Skipper Seabold wrote: > Hello all, > > Fair warning, I didn't know what a bitfield was a few hours ago. > > I am working with a program via t

Re: [Tutor] Easy Problem

2009-08-31 Thread Luke Paireepinart
>>> txt = "Hi how are you?" >>> " ".join(txt.strip().split()) 'Hi how are you?' On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 3:43 AM, Ishan Puri wrote: > Hello, > I have 2 plain text documents that have uneven spacing. I need to make > these single spaced between lines and between words. Basically I need

Re: [Tutor] Please delete my mail address from that mail list. Thanks!

2009-08-31 Thread Luke Paireepinart
there are directions on how to remove yourself from the list at the bottom of every message that the list sends out. > > ___ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > > click. _

Re: [Tutor] Easy Problem

2009-09-01 Thread Luke Paireepinart
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Sander Sweers wrote: > 2009/9/1 Luke Paireepinart : > >>>> txt = "Hi how are you?" > >>>> " ".join(txt.strip().split()) > > 'Hi how are you?' > > txt.strip() only remove lead

Re: [Tutor] Help deciding between python and ruby

2009-09-04 Thread Luke Paireepinart
fort to figure it out yourself. That's really the best way to learn a language; we try to give you just enough help to get you on your way, without just solving everything for you. Good luck! -Luke On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 3:18 PM, dan06 wrote: > > I'd like to learn a prog

Re: [Tutor] Help deciding between python and ruby

2009-09-05 Thread Luke Paireepinart
> ruby on the other is more 'implicit,' used more in web-apps (via ROR), > emphasizes code-readability/beauty, and is more flexible (i.e. has more than > one way of doing something). You mean people actually like ruby's syntax? I think Python's the prettiest language I've worked with syntacticall

Re: [Tutor] Help deciding between python and ruby

2009-09-06 Thread Luke Paireepinart
e this second > doughnut, but you know what, i am gonna eat that *and* have a second cup of > coffee). So i'll resist the temptation to reply to Luke in detail, who i did > not realize was a moderator here. > For the record, I'm not a moderator. I'm sorry if it seemed li

Re: [Tutor] Tutor Digest, Vol 67, Issue 22

2009-09-06 Thread Luke Paireepinart
> > >> Ummm, whats a branch? Haha, I know loops, but not branches. > A branch changes the program flow based on a condition. Example: x = int(raw_input("Please enter a number!")) if x > 10: print "Your number was greater than 10!" else: print "Your number was less than or equal to 10!" ___

Re: [Tutor] Pyduino

2009-09-07 Thread Luke Paireepinart
man, here I am always complaining about people replying directly to me, and I go and do it to Joshua!meant to send this to the list. sorry! -- Forwarded message -- From: Luke Paireepinart Date: Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 3:53 AM Subject: Re: [Tutor] Pyduino To: Joshua Harper You

Re: [Tutor] Pyduino

2009-09-08 Thread Luke Paireepinart
Yes, this is true, but he was asking to use Python *instead* of the Arduino language. I really don't think it's too hard to learn the language, it's really straightforward. On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Michael Connors wrote: > >> >> You wouldn't want to run python on a 16 mhz processor, the

Re: [Tutor] breaking out of a function that takes too long

2009-09-15 Thread Luke Paireepinart
Most socket request libraries have timeouts on connection attempts, have you looked into that already? On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Serdar Tumgoren wrote: > Hey everyone, > Is there a way to break out of a function if it exceeds a certain time > limit for execution? > > There's a Website I'm

Re: [Tutor] module not found problem

2009-09-22 Thread Luke Paireepinart
It looks to me like your __init__.py is transparently mapping openid.extensions.pape to openid.extensions.pape5 but when you try to do a direct import from openid.extensions.pape it doesn't process the __init__.py. I've never seen something like this but from your example that's my first guess.Try

Re: [Tutor] module not found problem

2009-09-22 Thread Luke Paireepinart
that they would do it that way though. On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Parag Shah wrote: > Hi Luke, > > If I get into the Python prompt, the following line does succeed (so > it seems like __init__.py is being processed): > > >>> from openid.extensions import pape >

Re: [Tutor] Not workin!

2009-09-29 Thread Luke Paireepinart
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Corey Richardson wrote: > I got suggested to use this format for my code, as it was shorter and > prettier. But It dun work! > if wellness != ["Well","Fine","Good", "OK", "ok", "Ok", "Great", "Awesome", > "Epic"]: > print "Oh, I'm sorry you are not feeling well

Re: [Tutor] Images, and other things.

2009-09-29 Thread Luke Paireepinart
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Corey Richardson wrote: > I haven't looked into this, but could you make a real time image using > python? I think it would be most hard > I haven't looked into this, but perhaps your questions are too vague? I think that may be the case What do you mean

Re: [Tutor] Images, and other things.

2009-09-29 Thread Luke Paireepinart
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:29 AM, Corey Richardson wrote: > One of my friends was asking if you could make a game using python, but he > meant a Graphics, not text game. I was wondering if that was doable. > Yes, there are many libraries available for doing this. Pyglet is my favorite, but Pygam

Re: [Tutor] Not workin!

2009-09-29 Thread Luke Paireepinart
> if wellness.strip().lower() in ["well", "fine", "good", "whatever"]: > note if you strip & lowercase the list it is far more likely you'll match > your input. > > And by "lowercase the list" I meant "lowercase the string" of course :) ___ Tutor maillist

Re: [Tutor] Not workin!

2009-09-29 Thread Luke Paireepinart
Oops, thanks for catching that one Marty. I thought they both evaluated to false. On 9/29/09, Martin Walsh wrote: > Luke Paireepinart wrote: >> In this case you are saying "is their input equal to this list with many >> elements?" and the answer is always going to be No

Re: [Tutor] UnboundLocalError and Break

2009-10-01 Thread Luke Paireepinart
ess inclined to. On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Corey Richardson wrote: > Luke Paireepinart wrote: > > If your code's more than 10 lines long or so, put it on pastebin.com and > send us the link rather than inlining the whole thing. You could also send > it as an attachment. > Y

Re: [Tutor] UnboundLocalError and Break

2009-10-02 Thread Luke Paireepinart
If your code's more than 10 lines long or so, put it on pastebin.com and send us the link rather than inlining the whole thing. You could also send it as an attachment.Your formatting is all screwed up and I can't read the code at all, but I have an idea about your error. On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at

[Tutor] Fwd: UnboundLocalError and Break

2009-10-03 Thread Luke Paireepinart
Corey, please reply on list (use reply-all). I know it's annoying to have to remember that. -- Forwarded message -- From: Corey Richardson Date: Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 4:15 AM Subject: Re: [Tutor] UnboundLocalError and Break To: Luke Paireepinart Luke Paireepinart

Re: [Tutor] small program

2009-10-03 Thread Luke Paireepinart
s in the future. So there's at least one "adviser" who chooses not to explain to people who join their mailing list and act like rude jerks. Regards, -Luke On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Andrius wrote: > Ok ok, smarty! Don't be very cool! Nobody asks you a favor, nobody &g

Re: [Tutor] small program

2009-10-04 Thread Luke Paireepinart
aqs/smart-questions.html#not_losing Good luck, -Luke ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] if n == 0 vs if not n

2009-10-05 Thread Luke Paireepinart
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Sander Sweers wrote: > > Hi Tutors, > > I am going through someone's python script and I am seeing a lot of the > following boolean checks. > > if not s == "" > > if not n == 0 > > if b == True > > if not b == True > > etc.. > > All of these can be written without t

Re: [Tutor] Checking for Python version

2009-10-06 Thread Luke Paireepinart
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Wayne wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Steve Willoughby wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 09:42:04AM -0500, Wayne wrote: >> > On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Christian Witts > >wrote: >> > if sys.version < '2.4': >> >sys.exit("Need at least Python 2

Re: [Tutor] What language should I learn after Python?

2009-10-06 Thread Luke Paireepinart
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Mark Young wrote: > I'm now fairly familiar with Python, so I'm thinking about starting to > learn a second programming language. The problem is, I don't know which to > learn. I want a language that will be good for me to learn, but is not so > different from pyth

[Tutor] Bounces

2009-10-08 Thread Luke Paireepinart
I keep getting Mail Delivery Subsystem notices from tutor saying my mail is undeliverable. Is that just me or are other people getting this as well? I'm realizing now that a lot of my replies are not getting through. Anyone know why this may be? (even if you don't, someone please reply so I know

Re: [Tutor] if n == 0 vs if not n

2009-10-08 Thread Luke Paireepinart
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 2:40 AM, Vern Ceder wrote: > Dave Angel wrote: > > Now in this case where it is only used as boolean checks which would be the most pythonic way if writing these checks? >>> The shorter version may be preferable, but it doesn't generally give the >> same res

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