Re: Ann: New Python curses book

2021-03-30 Thread William Ray Wing via Python-list
I’ve ordered the book (physical volume). It will fulfill a need I’ve had for some time. Unfortunately, it is only available in the UK store, so the shipping cost by far outweighs the book’s cost. Hope for other’s sake, it migrates to the other Amazon stores fairly quickly. Thanks, Bill > On

Re: How do you debug in Python? Coming from a Matlab and R user. I'm already aware of pdb.

2021-01-26 Thread William Ray Wing via Python-list
> On Jan 26, 2021, at 2:00 PM, C W wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I'm a long time Matlab and R user working on data science. How do you > troubleshooting/debugging in Python? > Another approach is to run the code in an IDE. I happen to use Wing, but that is a coincidence. But almost ANY

Re: questions re: calendar module

2020-08-01 Thread William Ray Wing via Python-list
> On Aug 1, 2020, at 10:35 AM, o1bigtenor wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 9:29 AM o1bigtenor wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 6:58 AM Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: >>> >>> o1bigtenor wrote: >>> >>> import calendar >>> print (calendar.calendar(2024,1,1,2,8)) >>> I

Re: [Tutor] Questions

2019-04-08 Thread William Ray Wing via Python-list
Diana, I’m answering you via the Tutor list - please, the accepted protocol is to send all questions and answers to the list so answers can be seen by (and possibly help) others. Having said that, I should have paid more attention to your original question, which is really going to require answ

Re: Levenberg-Marquardt non-linear least-squares fitting in Python [follow-on]

2019-03-28 Thread William Ray Wing via Python-list
Below I’ve included the code I ran, reasonably (I think) commented. Note the reference to the example. The data actually came from a pandas data frame that was in turn filled from a 100 MB data file that included lots of other data not needed for this, which was a curve fit to a calibration ru

Re: Levenberg-Marquardt non-linear least-squares fitting in Python

2019-03-28 Thread William Ray Wing via Python-list
> On Mar 28, 2019, at 7:54 AM, Madhavan Bomidi wrote: > > Hi, > > I have x and y variables data arrays. These two variables are assumed to be > related as y = A * exp(x/B). Now, I wanted to use Levenberg-Marquardt > non-linear least-squares fitting to find A and B for the best fit of the >

Re: the python name

2019-01-04 Thread William Ray Wing via Python-list
> On Jan 4, 2019, at 11:34 AM, Avi Gross wrote: > > [BYTE] > As I joked in an earlier message, I remember using a version of FORTRAN > called WATFOR. Yes, there was a WATFIV. > > Yah - WATFOR was Waterloo FORTRAN, an interpreted FORTRAN that was used a lot in intro classes. No matter w

Re: the python name

2019-01-04 Thread William Ray Wing via Python-list
On 3/01/19 2:03 PM, Avi Gross wrote: > Challenge: Can we name any computer language whose name really would suggest > it was a computer language? > I think the name is the least important aspect of a computer language. I’d like to propose that classic FORTRAN (FORmulaTRANslator) came/comes close.

Re: Creating Win .exe file from *.py on Linux

2018-10-02 Thread William Ray Wing via Python-list
> On Oct 2, 2018, at 3:03 PM, John Doe wrote: > > Hello World > > Is it possible to create on Linux win .exe file from *.py file? > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list As was pointed out here a day or so ago, the answer is yes, but it is a two step process. First step

Re: How to change '\\' to '\'

2018-10-01 Thread William Ray Wing via Python-list
> On Oct 1, 2018, at 10:17 PM, Jach Fong wrote: > > Thanks for your info about how Windows supports the forward slash. > > I don't quit sure what is the meaning of "top posting" in your mail. > If its meaning (forgive me if I was wrong) is where the reply was put > in mail, I have reason of st

Re: Matplotlib 3D limitations, please recommend alternative

2018-07-04 Thread William Ray Wing via Python-list
> On Jul 4, 2018, at 5:53 PM, John Ladasky wrote: > > I'm a regular Matplotlib user. Normally, I graph functions. I just > attempted to graph an icosahedral surface using the plot_trisurf() methods of > Matplotlib's Axes3D. I have discovered that Matplotlib is basically > hard-wired for gra