> > Using Python 2.7 for it, it seems to work fine, except that I can't > see how the GUI helps. It opens only when I use the g option to find > an entry already made. Useful for editing an entry, though. >
Well the idea would be to build the app as a full-blown GUI. The GUI search and edit functionality was just a proof-of-concept to show how that may work. I was just having some fun and seeing what I could do in less than an hour. Turning this into a full blown app is not what I had in mind, though if you want to build on it to learn I would be willing to help. > > As for the non-GUI script, I get this error no matter which choice I > make. I'm too dumb, and have forgotten too much of Python 2.x to > debug: > > ============================== > What's next: > (q) Quit > (a) Add new Entry > (v) View all Entries > (s) General Search > (si) Search by Initials > (sn) Search by Name > > > q > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "c:\P32Working\Pickles\nicks_simple_phone_book_app.py", line > 171, in <module> > main_loop() > File "c:\P32Working\Pickles\nicks_simple_phone_book_app.py", line > 94, in main_loop > > """) > File "<string>", line 1, in <module> > NameError: name 'q' is not defined > Process terminated with an exit code of 1 > ============================ > My guess is that this has something to do with Python 3.x not having raw_input. Try changing the raw_input calls to input. I don't get that error with 2.7. > > > If you're talking about re-entering all your data from your file, you > would > > write a script to do that. > > Ha! I would? > > Well, yeah. A line in the file always begins with a name, with at > least one phone number, then if a company, the hours they are > reachable by phone, possibly their web address, maybe an email > address, my contact there plus maybe her secretary. If a physician, > there might very well be his specialty, his nurse's name, mention of > who recommended him to me, etc. Like I said, I'd have to see the file to comment more, but it sounds like it may be too irregular to make writing a script an easy process. Though I can't be sure without seeing it. You could always enter these things by hand... I should probably ask; what is your goal for this app? Is it to learn some Python while making a usable app? Or are you looking for a robust address book for quick lookups of information? If it's the latter, I'd recommend you look around for something that's already made. It will save you a lot of trouble in the long run. If you're looking for a good learning experience this kind of app is a great starting place. However expect to run into problems along the way, up to and possibly beyond possibly hosing all the data you have entered into the app. Make regular backups of the data and keep your original around. > It seems that the format of info for > your way is set rigidly in advance, or am I wrong? > > Not really. Key/value pairs can be entered in arbitrary order. I used = to seperate key/values because that's what you used in your app and | to seperate k/v pairs to allow spaces without quoting strings. You could easily replace these tokens (= or |) with whatever you want. If you have another format that differs by more than those characters you would need to write a different parser. However there does have to be some consistency to the format of your data to make parsing easier. The less rigid your data the more work you will have to do to parse it. Since you said earlier that you will probably have less than 100 entries in your phone book, you may want to think about restructuring your data by hand to make it easier to parse before writing your parser. -- Nick Zarczynski Pointless Programming Blog <http://pointlessprogramming.wordpress.com>
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