> On 06/17/2010 01:04 AM, Stephen Hansen wrote: > > On 6/16/10 10:40 PM, madhuri vio wrote: > >> if i want to create a button > >> which performs the transcription of dna to rna > >> using tkinter in a gui... > >> can u give me the method... > > > > You can not possibly be serious. > > Oh, it's not that bad.... > > ########[dna2rna.py]########## > import Tkinter as tk > > root = tk.Tk() > root.title("dna2rna") > > def translate(): > from tkMessageBox import showinfo > showinfo("Translate", > "Do some translating here.\n" > "Maybe in another thread so the GUI doesn't stall." > ) > # do your actual work here > > tk.Button( > root, > text="Translate!", > command=translate > ).pack() > root.mainloop() > ############################## > > Now all one needs to do is fill in the blanks in the Translate > call to do the actual work...an exercise left for the > professional in the field. ;-) I suspect the GUI may need to be > a bit more complex than that which might lead to wanting a more > object-oriented code-base, but I leave that too as an exercise > for the reader. > > -tkc
Seems like a simple problem... or am I missing something? def translate(): return "dna".replace("d", "r") Cheers, Drea -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list