Re: "More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3"

2014-01-08 Thread rdsteph
I'm so sorry for the mess in my post above, I apologize to all, I accidentally hit return ... I just meant to say that internet programming using ASCII urls is so common and important that it hurts that Python 3 makes it so much harder. It sure would be great if Python 3 could be improved to al

Re: "More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3"

2014-01-08 Thread rdsteph
Chris A wrote: I'm not sure that there is an "easy way". See, here's the deal. If all your data is ASCII, you can shut your eyes to the difference between bytes and text and Python 2 will work perfectly for you. Then some day you'll get a non-ASCII character come up (or maybe you'll get all of

Re: hello everyone! i'm a new member from China

2012-07-02 Thread rdsteph
On Jul 2, 12:50 am, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > levi nie wrote: > > i love python very much.it's powerful,easy and useful. > > i got it from Openstack.And i'm a new guy on python. > > Welcome! > > > Can i ask some stupid questions in days? haha... > > Sure, but we cannot guarantee that

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

2012-06-13 Thread rdsteph
> I think this is the wave of the furture for deploying simple programs > to many users. It is almost 100% cross platform (can be used on > desktop, smartphone, tablet, windows, linux, mac etc) and is very easy > to do, even for casual "non-programmers" who do a little programming > (such as many e

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

2012-06-12 Thread rdsteph
On Jun 10, 12:37 pm, Dietmar Schwertberger wrote: > Personally, I prefer Python with console, wx or Qt for local > applications and Python/HTTP/HTML/Javascript for multi-user > database applications. > > Regards, > > Dietmar +1 I think this is the wave of the furture for deploying simple program

Re: what gui designer is everyone using

2012-06-05 Thread rdsteph
On Jun 5, 7:10 am, 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 updates in over six

Re: Pushing for Pythoncard 1.0

2011-05-08 Thread rdsteph
On May 3, 12:15 pm, rnd wrote: > On May 2, 10:48 pm, John Henry wrote: > > > Attempt to push Pythoncard to a 1.0 status is now underway.  A > > temporary website has been created at: > > >http://code.google.com/p/pythoncard-1-0/ > > > The official website continues to behttp://pythoncard.sourcefo

Re: python GUIs comparison (want)

2006-10-25 Thread rdsteph
Paul Boddie wrote: """The figures behind the scenes are quite enlightening for that particular page. If you (or community experiences) don't agree with the rankings (wxPython apparently even easier to learn than PythonCard and Tinder, a bunch of Gtk-based toolkits having more or less "full" Linux

Re: Leave the putdowns in the Perl community, the Python world does not need them

2006-09-25 Thread rdsteph
Metaperl, Steve makes a good point. Fredrik is one of the most important contributors of Python code, tools, etc and as far as I am concerned, that is so important that it gives him the right to be cranky from tiem to time. If somebody like me were to get cranky and negative, on the other hand, t

Re: Talking to marketing people about Python

2006-09-25 Thread rdsteph
Fredrik Lundh wrote: > I think the use of "applications" here implies "new applications", not > "applications > still in use somewhere". Good point, Fredrik. I do recall that, a few years ago, I graphed the *growth rate* of new Sourceforge projects written in Python vs. the same for Perl, and i

Introduction to Threading with Python, a podcast

2006-09-25 Thread rdsteph
Chris Hefele has done an excellent talk about programming with threads using Python, including a fair amount of detail and a look at various related tools and topics. Chris did a lot of research and put a lot of effort into producing this podcast. I find it to be a particularly clear and lucid expl

Re: Talking to marketing people about Python

2006-09-25 Thread rdsteph
Roy Smith wrote: > > Can anybody suggest some good material I can give to him which will help > explain what Python is and why it's a good thing, in a way that a > marketing/product management person will understand? As a sometimes marketing droid on my day job (please don't tell anyone!) I think

Re: suggestions between these two books

2005-10-26 Thread rdsteph
Both of these books are great. Youc an't go wrong with either one. The Beginning Python has an itroduction to the language and then also some projects. Learning Python doens't have projects but is a great introduction to the language. Ron John Salerno wrote: > Hi all. I'm fairly new to programmin

TurboGears the Podcast

2005-10-23 Thread rdsteph
Can be found at http://www.awaretek.com/python/index.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Creating Palm OS programs with python?

2005-08-11 Thread rdsteph
Hello Peter, There are some links to Python on Palm web resources at my http://www.awaretek.com/pymo.html";>Python for Mobile Devices page. The only mobile device I have personnally run Python on is the Zaurus, which works great. I will try to post links to just the Python on Palm resources below

Re: Python Newbie

2005-07-14 Thread rdsteph
You might want to take a look at my page listing over 200 pythonic tutorials by category. http://www.awaretek.com/tutorials.html linuxfreak wrote: > Hi all, >I came accross this article by Eric Raymond in which he has sung > peans about the python language. Well that has whetted my appetite..

Re: a new Python Podcast series (and the use of Python in creating podcasting tools)

2005-07-12 Thread rdsteph
I'd love to get some guest "lectures" from advanced folks, and interviews with prominent Pythonista people etc. Ron -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

a new Python Podcast series (and the use of Python in creating podcasting tools)

2005-07-11 Thread rdsteph
Python411 is a series of podcasts about Python, aimed at hobbyists and others who are learning Python. Each episode focuses on one aspect of learning Python, or one kind of Python programming, and points to online tools and tutorials. Python related news and events will also be reported upon. This

Re: Looking for Image, Audio and Internet/Web HOTWO's or tutorials

2005-06-02 Thread rdsteph
try looking at http://www.awaretek.com/tutorials.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Can you introduce some book about python?

2005-05-21 Thread rdsteph
You m,igth try my page of Python Book reviews at http://www.awaretek.com/book.html Ron Stephens fdsl ysnh wrote: > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > Send Python-list mailing list submissions to > > python-list@python.org > > > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, > > visit > >

Re: Python Cookbook

2005-04-03 Thread rdsteph
I want to just second this comment by Heike. I received my copy of the 2nd Edition from O'Reilly on Friday. I am still working my way slowly through the first chapter on Text, and I am nearing the end of that chapter. I intend to work my way through sequentially, because I can't think of a better

Re: Python Cookbook, 2'nd. Edition is published

2005-03-28 Thread rdsteph
Hello Larry, I don't have my copy yet. Can you give any guidance on how the 2'nd edition compares to the 1'st edition? At 844 pages, it seems to be 250+ pages bigger than the 1'st Ed. How much of the book is new, and does it use the same chapter headings? Ron Stephens Someone else asked a similar

133+ Tutorials and counting...

2005-03-27 Thread rdsteph
..and there are more seemingly every day... Table of Contents Beginners (12) Database (6) Extending and Embedding (4) General and Advanced (15) Grimoire (1) GUI Programming: General and Miscellaneous (6) GUI Programming: Tkinter (4) GUI Programming: wxPython and PythonCard (7) GUI Programming: pyG

Python Cookbook, 2'nd. Edition is published

2005-03-27 Thread rdsteph
See http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythoncook2/index.html I don't see it on Amazon yet, but you can order it from O'Reilly. Ron Stephens www.awaretek.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

pyGoogle is fun and easy to use, and thinks Python is the best programming language

2005-02-21 Thread rdsteph
I am having a lot of fun using the pyGoogle module ( http://pygoogle.sourceforge.net/ ) that uses the Google API. It is about as easy to use as I can imagine, and it is a lot nicer than using my old HTMl screen scraping habits. My online CGI program Ask Merlin at www.awaretek.com/askmerlin.html i