Re: Python and Tkinter by John E Grayson

2012-05-17 Thread Bill Felton
On May 17, 2012, at 9:07 AM, Kevin Walzer wrote: > On 5/16/12 11:55 PM, Mark R Rivet wrote: >> I have a copy of this book and was wondering how relevant the content >> is considering the publish date is 2000. Are people still using this >> information? Anyone have any experience with this book?

Re: Distribute app without source?

2012-04-07 Thread Bill Felton
On Apr 7, 2012, at 1:22 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 4/7/2012 9:07 AM, Bill Felton wrote: >> Thanks in advance for any insights! >> >> My partner and I have developed an application primarily > > intended for internal use within our company. However, we face the >

Distribute app without source?

2012-04-07 Thread Bill Felton
Thanks in advance for any insights! My partner and I have developed an application primarily intended for internal use within our company. However, we face the need to expose the app to certain non-employees. We would like to do so without exposing our source code. Our targets include users of

Re: Class or Dictionary?

2011-02-11 Thread Bill Felton
>From an old-time Smalltalker / object guy, take this for whatever it's worth. The *primary* reason for going with a class over a dictionary is if there is specific behavior that goes along with these attributes. If there isn't, if this is "just" an 'object store', there's no reason not to use a

[Announce] Python Lansing (MI) User Group first meeting Feb. 24 2011

2011-02-02 Thread Bill Felton
This is to announce the first meeting of the newly formed Python Lansing User Group in Lansing Michigan. The group has been organized on Meetup.com. The meeting will be held at Second Gear Coworking, 1134 N. Washington Lansing, MI at 6PM. Please join us on meetup and at the kick-off meeting. Loo

Re: use class factory to set required class variables?

2011-01-27 Thread Bill Felton
On Jan 27, 2011, at 4:03 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:37:20 -0800, Alan wrote: > >> I have a class ``A`` that is intentionally incomplete: it has methods >> that refer to class variables that do not exist. > > For the record, in Python it is usual to refer to "attributes

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-20 Thread Bill Felton
On Jan 20, 2011, at 1:15 PM, Nick Stinemates wrote: > > > So you're going to lead the "peasants" (your word) whether they like it > > or not, and any who don't want to follow are clearly being selfish and > > ignorant? > > If you could read Bill's words and not find them to be overly selfish >

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-20 Thread Bill Felton
On Jan 20, 2011, at 8:26 AM, Octavian Rasnita wrote: > From: "Bill Felton" >> I'm a complete newbie to Python. > > > To Python, or to programming in general? (Because it is important) Not to rantingrick's point as I understand it. But since you ask, new t

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-20 Thread Bill Felton
On Jan 20, 2011, at 12:13 PM, MRAB wrote: > On 20/01/2011 15:11, rantingrick wrote: >> On Jan 20, 6:30 am, Bill Felton >> wrote: >> > [snip] >>> As one of 'the people' who is presumably the focus of rantingrick's >>> concern, let me

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-20 Thread Bill Felton
On Jan 20, 2011, at 10:11 AM, rantingrick wrote: > On Jan 20, 6:30 am, Bill Felton > wrote: > >> With some hesitation, I feel a need to jump in here. I'm a complete >> newbie to Python. I'm still learning the language. And you know >> what? I've ign

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-20 Thread Bill Felton
On Jan 19, 2011, at 10:20 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 01/19/2011 05:01 PM, geremy condra wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:04 PM, rantingrick wrote: >>> And you've also lost all >>> connection with the people. I am desperately trying to to snap you out >>> of this psychosis before it is too

Re: Can I have both Python 2.7 and Python 3.1 at the same time on the Mac?

2011-01-06 Thread Bill Felton
On Jan 6, 2011, at 3:46 PM, Ned Deily wrote: > In article <775a9d45-25b5-4a16-9fe5-6217fd67f...@cagttraining.com>, > Bill Felton wrote: >> I'm new to python, trying to learn it from a variety of resources, including >> references posted recently to th

Can I have both Python 2.7 and Python 3.1 at the same time on the Mac?

2011-01-06 Thread Bill Felton
Hi All, I'm new to python, trying to learn it from a variety of resources, including references posted recently to this list. I'm going through /www.openbookproject.net/thinkCSpy/ and find it makes use of gasp, which apparently is not compatible with 3.1. I've also seen various resources indicate