Re: Pythonic cross-platform GUI desingers à la Interface Builder (Re: what gui designer is everyone using)

2012-06-14 Thread Colin Higwell
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:55:38 +0200, Dietmar Schwertberger wrote: > As long as there's no GUI > builder for Python, most people will stick to Excel / VBA / VB. No GUI builder for Python? There are plenty. I use wxGlade with wxPython and it works beautifully. It writes the code for the GUI elemen

Re: usenet reading

2012-06-06 Thread Colin Higwell
On Sun, 03 Jun 2012 16:25:53 +0200, Matej Cepl wrote: > Yes, Pan is better, but it used to have some rough edges > (e.g., it's offline qualities were a bit elusive) I wouldn't know about that. My connection is always-on. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: what gui designer is everyone using

2012-06-06 Thread Colin Higwell
On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 10:10:17 -0400, Mark R Rivet wrote: > I want a gui designer that writes the gui code for me. I don't want to > write gui code. what is the gui designer that is most popular? > I tried boa-constructor, and it works, but I am concerned about how > dated it seems to be with no upd

Re: usenet reading

2012-06-03 Thread Colin Higwell
On Fri, 25 May 2012 15:38:55 -0700, Jon Clements wrote: > > Is there a server out there where I can get my news groups? I use to be > with an ISP that hosted usenet servers, but alas, it's no longer > around... > I use Albasani.net (free and very reliable), as well as gmane.org. Google Groups i

Re: Just curious: why is /usr/bin/python not a symlink?

2012-02-23 Thread Colin Higwell
On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:11:16 +, HoneyMonster wrote: (reformatted (I hope) > $ cd /usr/bin > $ ls -l python* > -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 9496 Oct 27 02:42 python > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Oct 29 19:34 python2 -> python > -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 9496 Oct 27 02:42 python2.7 > $ diff -s python pyt

Re: Total newbie question: Best practice

2011-11-29 Thread Colin Higwell
On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:57:18 -0500, Dave Angel wrote: > On 11/29/2011 03:06 PM, Colin Higwell wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am just starting to learn Python (I have been at it only a few >> hours), so please bear with me. I have a few very small scripts (do you >> call

Total newbie question: Best practice

2011-11-29 Thread Colin Higwell
Hi, I am just starting to learn Python (I have been at it only a few hours), so please bear with me. I have a few very small scripts (do you call them scripts or programs?) which work properly, and produce the results intended. However, they are monolithic in nature; i.e. they begin at the beg

Re: Using the Python Interpreter as a Reference

2011-11-27 Thread Colin Higwell
On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 14:21:01 -0800, Travis Parks wrote: > On Nov 26, 1:53 pm, Rick Johnson wrote: >> On Nov 20, 6:46 pm, Travis Parks wrote: >> >> > Hello: >> >> > I am currently working on designing a new programming language. It is >> > a compiled language, but I still want to use Python as a