Re: More List Comparison Help

2006-08-21 Thread Bucco
Nevermind. I found my own error. I referenced the input values instead of the class object self. That is what I get for staring at the code too long. Thanks:) SA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

More List Comparison Help

2006-08-21 Thread Bucco
I have taken into advice what was mentioned earlier, but I have run into a snag in which I am getting the wrong output from my class. > python matchlist.py ./test ./test/list.txt output: ['list.txt', 'test1.txt', 'test2.txt'] set(['test1']) ['', '/', 't', 'e', 's', 't'] The first line of output c

Re: List comparison help please

2006-08-20 Thread Bucco
Simon Forman wrote: > 1) Don't use "dir", "file", and "list" as variable names, those are > already python built in objects (the dir() function, list type, and > file type, respectively.) Thanks. My own stupidity on this one. > 2) 'r' is the default for open(), omit it. "self.flist = > open(

List comparison help please

2006-08-20 Thread Bucco
I am trying to compare a list of items to the list of files generated by os.listdir. I am having trouble getting this to work and think I may be going down the wrong path. Please let me know if hter is a better way to do this. THis is what I have for my class so far: import os, sys class Match

Re: having issues Installing Python 2.5b3 on Windows XP

2006-08-11 Thread Bucco
I'm getting closer now. I figured out that when I typed python in cmd.exe window it was trying to run the cygwin version of python. I removed that link and cmd.exe now finds the correct version. Therefore, this is not a bug. However, someone should add a caution in the installation instructions

Re: having issues Installing Python 2.5b3 on Windows XP

2006-08-11 Thread Bucco
The python 2.4 version msi did no better. Please help. I do not really want to go back to Active State Python. Thanks:) SA Bucco wrote: > I > am going to try to install python 2.4 with the msi installer and see if > I have the same issue with that version. If anyone else has

having issues Installing Python 2.5b3 on Windows XP

2006-08-11 Thread Bucco
I installed python 2.5b3 on my windows XP sp2 box without any issues. I can double click the python program, and idle comes up in the command line window. However when I run python from the command line program cmd.exe, I get a pop-up window with the following error: 16 bit Windows Subsystem