On 2017-01-09 14:33, Deborah Swanson wrote:
> Ok, here is the crux of this thread's communication problem. I
> didn't ask, or particularly care for all these lectures on the
> technology of terminal emulators. I asked how to code Python to
> make clickable links.
The crux of the problem is that wo
On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 8:33 PM, Michael Torrie wrote:
> On 01/09/2017 06:02 PM, Deborah Swanson wrote:
>> Fair enough. I only suggested that they could have started their own
>> thread, but mainly just to point out that they would have been off-topic
>> if they did. I didn't demand that they do so
On 01/09/2017 06:02 PM, Deborah Swanson wrote:
> Fair enough. I only suggested that they could have started their own
> thread, but mainly just to point out that they would have been off-topic
> if they did. I didn't demand that they do so, I just wanted them to
> think about it.
I don't see how i
Larry Martell wrote, on January 09, 2017 4:11 PM
>
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 5:33 PM, Deborah Swanson
> wrote:
> > Ok, here is the crux of this thread's communication problem. I
didn't
> > ask, or particularly care for all these lectures on the technology
of
> > terminal emulators. I asked how
On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 5:33 PM, Deborah Swanson
wrote:
> Ok, here is the crux of this thread's communication problem. I didn't
> ask, or particularly care for all these lectures on the technology of
> terminal emulators. I asked how to code Python to make clickable links.
>
> Since all of you are
Tim Chase wrote, on January 09, 2017 5:53 AM
>
> On 2017-01-09 05:00, Deborah Swanson wrote:
> > Code does in fact have the power to control what happens
> > in the console. How do you think Linux does it on their terminals
with
> > clickable links? Granted, the code may have to specify parameter
word, console, Tkinter could be used to
create a console of your own that displays the output from other
processes and implements clickable hyperlinks, but Tkinter itself does
not display using standard out, and thus cannot cause a terminal
emulator or Windows console to display hyperlinks in a
On 01/09/2017 06:00 AM, Deborah Swanson wrote:
> Rhodri James wrote, on January 09, 2017 4:28 AM
>>
>> Nope. PyCharm outputs text to the console that the console
>> chooses to
>> interpret as a link and makes clickable. As Stephen pointed
>> out right
>> back at the beginning of this thread,
On 09/01/17 13:53, Tim Chase wrote:
On 2017-01-09 05:00, Deborah Swanson wrote:
The console is a dead thing, it has no mind or soul to choose
anything. Surely an educated person would know that.
Pretty much every quality system administrator I know uses the
terminal. Just about all of the bes
On 2017-01-09 05:00, Deborah Swanson wrote:
> Code does in fact have the power to control what happens
> in the console. How do you think Linux does it on their terminals
> with clickable links? Granted, the code may have to specify
> parameters for a particular console, but I certainly wasn't aski
Rhodri James wrote, on January 09, 2017 4:28 AM
>
> Nope. PyCharm outputs text to the console that the console
> chooses to
> interpret as a link and makes clickable. As Stephen pointed
> out right
> back at the beginning of this thread, printing the textual
> string that
> is a URL could
On 05/01/17 02:53, Deborah Swanson (Deborah Swanson) wrote:
Rhodri James wrote, on January 05, 2017 3:53 AM
On 05/01/17 04:52, Deborah Swanson wrote:
My original question was in fact whether there was a way to make
clickable hyperlinks in a console. I was persuaded after about 10
replies that
Rhodri James wrote, on January 05, 2017 3:53 AM
>
> On 05/01/17 04:52, Deborah Swanson wrote:
> > My original question was in fact whether there was a way to make
> > clickable hyperlinks in a console. I was persuaded after about 10
> > replies that the answer was no,
>
Terry Reedy wrote, on January 04, 2017 10:18 PM
>
> On 1/5/2017 12:11 AM, Deborah Swanson wrote:
> > Terry Reedy wrote, on January 04, 2017 3:58 PM
>
> >> To have a string interpreted as a clickable link, you send the
string to
> >> software capable of creating a clickable link, plus the informatio
On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 3:19 PM, Deborah Swanson
wrote:
> I downloaded the code from the Package Index, but there really wasn't
> much in it. This is the entire .py file:
Ehh, wrong file. Try the one in the standard library:
https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Lib/antigravity.py
https:/
On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 2:24 PM, D'Arcy Cain wrote:
> Think of it this way. You drop a ring down a drain. You can ask two
> questions, "How do I remove a drain trap?" or "How do I recover a ring that
> I dropped down the drain?" If you ask the first question you will get lots
> of advice on tool
On 2017-01-04 07:07 PM, Deborah Swanson wrote:
> D'Arcy Cain wrote, on Wednesday, January 04, 2017 5:03 AM
>> In all the messages in this thread I still don't understand what this
>> "teensy advantage" is supposed to be. Do you want to be able
>> to do this:
>>
>>make_web_link(http://...)
>>
>
On 2017-01-04 05:58 PM, Deborah Swanson wrote:
>> the user to go and authenticate, you can simply
>> webbrowser.open("http://.../";) and it'll DTRT.
>
> Thank you, thank you! Finally, at least one person on this list knows
> about something (anything) in the python world that is internet aware.
On Wed, 4 Jan 2017 14:58:42 -0800, "Deborah Swanson"
declaimed the following:
>Thank you, thank you! Finally, at least one person on this list knows
>about something (anything) in the python world that is internet aware.
>It's also occurred to me that Beautifulsoup downloads data from a url,
>so
must have access to some kind of an internet engine too.
Except that you never mentioned anything about this in your posts before. It
seemed to me you were asking about printing out clickable hyperlinks with
python. Calling the OS to launch a browser to view a url is a different beast
wh
Chris Angelico wrote, on January 04, 2017 4:16 AM
>
> Yeah, there's no simple answer; however, you'll find that
> Python on many platforms is entirely capable of popping a URL
> up in the user's default browser. Check this out:
>
> >>> import antigravity
I downloaded the code from the Package Inde
This thread does lead to the question: Is the Url type in python less
first-class than it could be?
In scheme I could point to something like this
https://docs.racket-lang.org/net/url.html
Is there something equivalent in python?
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On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 9:58 AM, Deborah Swanson
wrote:
> Chris Angelico wrote, on January 04, 2017 4:16 AM
>> This uses the 'webbrowser' module, which knows about a number
>> of different ways to open a browser, and will attempt them
>> all. So if you can figure out the UI part of things, actually
On 1/4/2017 4:32 AM, Deborah Swanson wrote:
> My original question was whether python had anything to provide this
> functionality, and the answer appears to be a resounding NO!!!
I would say 'Yes, but with user effort'.
To have a string interpreted as a clickable link, you send the string to
s
On 2017-01-04, Michael Torrie wrote:
> On my Linux machine, the terminal emulators I've used all make a regular
> url printed out into a clickable link (or at least a right-clickable
> link). This is just something they try to do with all things that look
> like urls. Sometimes it's helpful, of
On 2017-01-03, Deborah Swanson wrote:
> Grant Edwards wrote, on January 03, 2017 3:13 PM
>>
>> On 2017-01-03, Deborah Swanson wrote:
>>
>> > I'm sorry, I should have said a GUI console because I
>> wouldn't expect
>> > a text-based console to produce clickable links.
>>
>> What's a "GUI console"?
Chris Angelico wrote, on January 04, 2017 4:16 AM
>
> On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 10:43 PM, Deborah Swanson
> wrote:
> > I'm quite well aware by now that there is no one-sentence
> answer to my
> > original question, if there's any coherent answer at all.
> Them's the
> > breaks. Live with it or live w
Deborah - please trim your quoted text.
On 2017-01-04 04:32 AM, Deborah Swanson wrote:
> Thanks, Steven. Yes, of course if you want to print strings you must
> enclose them in quotes. I think you learn that in Week 1 of any
> introductory course on Python.
Closer to minute one. When I investigat
On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 10:43 PM, Deborah Swanson
wrote:
> I'm quite well aware by now that there is no one-sentence answer to my
> original question, if there's any coherent answer at all. Them's the
> breaks. Live with it or live without it, it doesn't care.
Yeah, there's no simple answer; howev
D'Arcy Cain wrote, on Wednesday, January 04, 2017 5:03 AM
>
> Deborah - please trim your quoted text.
Yes, I will. Some lists want to have it all to review in one message, some want
it trimmed to just the lines you are responding to. I was just waiting to see
what this list wants.
> On 2017-01-
Steve D'Aprano wrote, on January 04, 2017 2:39 AM
>
> On Wed, 4 Jan 2017 08:32 pm, Deborah Swanson wrote:
>
> > Thanks, Steven. Yes, of course if you want to print strings
> you must
> > enclose them in quotes. I think you learn that in Week 1 of any
> > introductory course on Python.
> >
> > But w
On Tue, 03 Jan 2017 11:46:16 -0800, Deborah Swanson wrote:
> Does python have an equivalent function? Probably the most common use
> for it would be output to the console, similar to a print statement, but
> clickable.
Write it as HTML code save to temp file and call the browser which loads the
write GUI applications. Then it becomes
> *your* responsibility to create the window, populate it with
> any buttons or text or scroll bars you want, and you can
> choose to interpret text any way you like -- including as
> clickable Hyperlinks.
>
> The bottom line is, there is no &
the mercy of whatever console or
terminal application it is running in.
However, you can use Python to write GUI applications. Then it becomes
*your* responsibility to create the window, populate it with any buttons or
text or scroll bars you want, and you can choose to interpret text any way you
t so much that people start a new topic and change the
subject, but that sometimes the topic just naturally evolves to the point that
a change in subject is sensible. Take this thread for example: the topic has
drifted from "Clickable hyperlinks" to talking about email threading. I shoul
On Wed, 4 Jan 2017 08:32 pm, Deborah Swanson wrote:
> Thanks, Steven. Yes, of course if you want to print strings you must
> enclose them in quotes. I think you learn that in Week 1 of any
> introductory course on Python.
>
> But we aren't trying to print strings here, the point is to produce
> cl
Steven D'Aprano wrote, on January 03, 2017 9:40 PM
>
> On Wednesday 04 January 2017 15:46, Deborah Swanson wrote:
>
> > Steven D'Aprano wrote, on January 03, 2017 8:04 PM
> [...]
> >> Of course you have to put quotes around them to enter them in your
> >> source code. We don't expect this to work:
On 2017-01-04 08:44 AM, Rodrigo Bistolfi wrote:
> 2017-01-04 7:39 GMT-03:00 Steve D'Aprano :
>> Aside: you've actually raised a fascinating question. I wonder whether
>> there
>> are any programming languages that understand URLs as native data types, so
>> that *source code* starting with http://
Steven D'Aprano wrote, on January 03, 2017 8:04 PM
>
> On Wednesday 04 January 2017 14:04, Deborah Swanson wrote:
>
> > Steve D'Aprano wrote, on January 03, 2017 4:56 PM
> [...]
> >> Python can't force the console to treat something as a clickable
> >> link, if the console has no capacity for click
2017-01-04 7:39 GMT-03:00 Steve D'Aprano :
> On Wed, 4 Jan 2017 08:32 pm, Deborah Swanson wrote:
>
> Aside: you've actually raised a fascinating question. I wonder whether
> there
> are any programming languages that understand URLs as native data types, so
> that *source code* starting with http:
re's a discussion by Jamie Zawinski, who wrote Netscape
> Navigator, before it became Mozila and Firefox, so he knows
> what he's talking about:
>
https://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html
The concept here is not so much that people start a new topic and change the
subject, but that som
On Wednesday 04 January 2017 14:04, Deborah Swanson wrote:
> Steve D'Aprano wrote, on January 03, 2017 4:56 PM
[...]
>> Python can't force the console to treat something as a
>> clickable link, if the console has no capacity for clickable
>> links. Nor can Python predict what format the console us
"Deborah Swanson" writes:
>
> I didn't try printing them before, but I just did. Got:
>
print([Example](http://www.example.com)
>
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax (arrow pointing at the colon)
>
With respect, if you typed that at python then it's probably a good idea to
take a step back and
On 01/03/2017 08:28 PM, Deborah Swanson wrote:
> I think you're making this too complicated. I meant a console in a GUI
> application.
Ahh. Well, a "console in a GUI application" is whatever you make it[1]. There's
no single "GUI console" hence my confusion and the confusion expressed by the
oth
tes the issue. This
> message, for example appears under a long thread that started
> out life as "mentor training python Romania with
> certification" and then changed to "Cleaning up conditionals"
> and then changed to "Clickable hyperlinks." All in one
>
On Tue, 3 Jan 2017 20:46:31 -0800, "Deborah Swanson"
declaimed the following:
>
>I didn't try printing them before, but I just did. Got:
>
print([Example](http://www.example.com)
>
>SyntaxError: invalid syntax (arrow pointing at the colon)
>
As I mentioned to someone else earlier..
On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 10:46 PM, Deborah Swanson
wrote:
>
>
> I didn't try printing them before, but I just did. Got:
>
> >>> print([Example](http://www.example.com)
>
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax (arrow pointing at the colon)
As Steve had said, you need to put everything inside quotes. Also,
On Wednesday 04 January 2017 15:46, Deborah Swanson wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano wrote, on January 03, 2017 8:04 PM
[...]
>> Of course you have to put quotes around them to enter them in
>> your source code.
>> We don't expect this to work:
>>
>> print(Hello World!)
>>
>>
>> you have to use a stri
On Wed, 04 Jan 2017 16:40:00 +1100, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 January 2017 15:46, Deborah Swanson wrote:
>
>> Steven D'Aprano wrote, on January 03, 2017 8:04 PM
> [...]
>>> Of course you have to put quotes around them to enter them in
>>> your source code.
>>> We don't expect this t
Steve D'Aprano wrote, on January 03, 2017 4:56 PM
> On Wed, 4 Jan 2017 10:32 am, Deborah Swanson wrote:
>
>
> > The GUI consoles I have are in Pycharm, the IDLE that comes with
> > Anaconda, and Spyder. PyCharm and IDLE both ask for internet access
> > when I open them, so they're capable of openi
rted out life as "mentor training python
Romania with certification" and then changed to "Cleaning up conditionals" and
then changed to "Clickable hyperlinks." All in one thread. My client doesn't
break them up because they all tie together via the message-id h
t.
> As can be seen here for example:
> https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python->
list/2017-January/thread.html
>
> Note how most threads start in the leftmost column and
> replies are indented. But this does not occur where you began
> the new subject: "Clickable hy
python-list/2017-January/thread.html
Note how most threads start in the leftmost column and replies are indented.
But this does not occur where you began the new subject: "Clickable
hyperlinks".
Thanks.
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On 01/03/2017 04:32 PM, Deborah Swanson wrote:
> The GUI consoles I have are in Pycharm, the IDLE that comes with
> Anaconda, and Spyder. PyCharm and IDLE both ask for internet access when
> I open them, so they're capable of opening links, but whether that means
> their output space is capable of
Erik wrote, on January 03, 2017 3:30 PM
> To: python-list@python.org
> Subject: Re: Clickable hyperlinks
>
> Hi.
>
> On 03/01/17 19:46, Deborah Swanson wrote:
> > Excel has a formula:
>
> When you start a new topic on the list, could you please write a new
> m
On Wed, 4 Jan 2017 10:32 am, Deborah Swanson wrote:
> The GUI consoles I have are in Pycharm, the IDLE that comes with
> Anaconda, and Spyder. PyCharm and IDLE both ask for internet access when
> I open them, so they're capable of opening links, but whether that means
> their output space is capa
On 2017-01-03 11:46, Deborah Swanson wrote:
> Excel has a formula:
>
> =HYPERLINK(url,description)
>
> that will put a clickable link into a cell.
>
> Does python have an equivalent function? Probably the most common
> use for it would be output to the console, similar to a print
> statement, but c
Grant Edwards wrote, on January 03, 2017 3:13 PM
>
> On 2017-01-03, Deborah Swanson wrote:
>
> > I'm sorry, I should have said a GUI console because I
> wouldn't expect
> > a text-based console to produce clickable links.
>
> What's a "GUI console"?
>
> --
> Grant Edwards grant.b.edw
Hi.
On 03/01/17 19:46, Deborah Swanson wrote:
> Excel has a formula:
When you start a new topic on the list, could you please write a new message
rather than replying to an existing message and changing the title/subject?
For those reading the list in a threaded email client, this message is sh
On 2017-01-03, Deborah Swanson wrote:
> I'm sorry, I should have said a GUI console because I wouldn't expect a
> text-based console to produce clickable links.
What's a "GUI console"?
--
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Devin Jeanpierre wrote, on January 03, 2017 12:57 PM
>Sadly, no. :( Consoles (and stdout) are just text, not hypertext. The
way to
>make an URL clickable is to use a terminal that makes URLs clickable,
and
>print the URL:
>
>
>print("%s: %s" % (description, url))
>
>
>
>
>-- Devin
I'm sorry, I s
-
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tever... I think I actually just sub-classed url.parse or something)
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Excel has a formula:
=HYPERLINK(url,description)
that will put a clickable link into a cell.
Does python have an equivalent function? Probably the most common use for it
would be output to the console, similar to a print statement, but clickable.
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Sadly, no. :( Consoles (and stdout) are just text, not hypertext. The way to
make an URL clickable is to use a terminal that makes URLs clickable, and print
the URL:
print("%s: %s" % (description, url))
-- Devin
On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 11:46 AM, Deborah Swanson
wrote:
> Excel has a formula:
Rhodri James wrote, on January 05, 2017 3:53 AM
>
> On 05/01/17 04:52, Deborah Swanson wrote:
> > My original question was in fact whether there was a way to make
> > clickable hyperlinks in a console. I was persuaded after about 10
> > replies that the answer wa
Terry Reedy wrote, on January 04, 2017 10:18 PM
>
> On 1/5/2017 12:11 AM, Deborah Swanson wrote:
> > Terry Reedy wrote, on January 04, 2017 3:58 PM
>
> >> To have a string interpreted as a clickable link, you send the
string to
> >> software capable of creating a clickable link, plus the informat
On 05/01/17 04:52, Deborah Swanson wrote:
My original question was in fact whether there was a way to make
clickable hyperlinks in a console. I was persuaded after about 10
replies that the answer was no,
Then you were persuaded wrong; the actual answer was "this isn't a
meaningfu
On 1/5/2017 12:11 AM, Deborah Swanson wrote:
Terry Reedy wrote, on January 04, 2017 3:58 PM
To have a string interpreted as a clickable link, you send the string
to
software capable of creating a clickable link, plus the information
'this is a clickable link'*. There are two ways to tag a s
On Thursday 05 January 2017 14:22, Rustom Mody wrote:
> This thread does lead to the question:
> Is the Url type in python less first-class than it could be?
>
> In scheme I could point to something like this
> https://docs.racket-lang.org/net/url.html
Those docs say:
"To access the text of a d
Terry Reedy wrote, on January 04, 2017 3:58 PM
>
> On 1/4/2017 4:32 AM, Deborah Swanson wrote:
>
> > My original question was whether python had anything to provide this
> > functionality, and the answer appears to be a resounding NO!!!
>
> I would say 'Yes, but with user effort'.
>
> To have
Chris Angelico wrote, on January 04, 2017 8:27 PM
>
> On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 3:19 PM, Deborah Swanson
> wrote:
> > I downloaded the code from the Package Index, but there really
wasn't
> > much in it. This is the entire .py file:
>
> Ehh, wrong file. Try the one in the standard library:
>
htt
commend checking out the third-party
> 'requests' module on PyPI.
My original question was in fact whether there was a way to make
clickable hyperlinks in a console. I was persuaded after about 10
replies that the answer was no, and I tried with little success to
change the question
On 01/04/2017 09:19 PM, Deborah Swanson wrote:
> Or, take a look at import's code and figure out how it opens a url in a
> browser. I imagine it's the 'webbrowser' module you mention. If it tries
> several methods, just pick one that will work for you.
webbrowser is part of the python standard lib
On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 3:19 PM, Deborah Swanson
wrote:
> I downloaded the code from the Package Index, but there really wasn't
> much in it. This is the entire .py file:
Ehh, wrong file. Try the one in the standard library:
https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Lib/antigravity.py
https:/
Chris Angelico wrote, on January 04, 2017 4:16 AM
>
> Yeah, there's no simple answer; however, you'll find that
> Python on many platforms is entirely capable of popping a URL
> up in the user's default browser. Check this out:
>
> >>> import antigravity
I downloaded the code from the Package
On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 2:24 PM, D'Arcy Cain wrote:
> Think of it this way. You drop a ring down a drain. You can ask two
> questions, "How do I remove a drain trap?" or "How do I recover a ring that
> I dropped down the drain?" If you ask the first question you will get lots
> of advice on tool
This thread does lead to the question:
Is the Url type in python less first-class than it could be?
In scheme I could point to something like this
https://docs.racket-lang.org/net/url.html
Is there something equivalent in python?
--
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On 2017-01-04 07:07 PM, Deborah Swanson wrote:
D'Arcy Cain wrote, on Wednesday, January 04, 2017 5:03 AM
In all the messages in this thread I still don't understand what this
"teensy advantage" is supposed to be. Do you want to be able
to do this:
make_web_link(http://...)
instead of:
On 2017-01-04 05:58 PM, Deborah Swanson wrote:
the user to go and authenticate, you can simply
webbrowser.open("http://.../";) and it'll DTRT.
Thank you, thank you! Finally, at least one person on this list knows
about something (anything) in the python world that is internet aware.
Lots
must have access to some kind of an internet engine too.
Except that you never mentioned anything about this in your posts
before. It seemed to me you were asking about printing out clickable
hyperlinks with python. Calling the OS to launch a browser to view a
url is a different beast which is why
D'Arcy Cain wrote, on Wednesday, January 04, 2017 5:03 AM
>
> Deborah - please trim your quoted text.
Yes, I will. Some lists want to have it all to review in one message,
some want it trimmed to just the lines you are responding to. I was just
waiting to see what this list wants.
> On 2017-01-
On 1/4/2017 4:32 AM, Deborah Swanson wrote:
My original question was whether python had anything to provide this
functionality, and the answer appears to be a resounding NO!!!
I would say 'Yes, but with user effort'.
To have a string interpreted as a clickable link, you send the string to
so
On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 9:58 AM, Deborah Swanson
wrote:
> Chris Angelico wrote, on January 04, 2017 4:16 AM
>> This uses the 'webbrowser' module, which knows about a number
>> of different ways to open a browser, and will attempt them
>> all. So if you can figure out the UI part of things, actually
Chris Angelico wrote, on January 04, 2017 4:16 AM
>
> On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 10:43 PM, Deborah Swanson
> wrote:
> > I'm quite well aware by now that there is no one-sentence
> answer to my
> > original question, if there's any coherent answer at all.
> Them's the
> > breaks. Live with it or
On 2017-01-04, Michael Torrie wrote:
> On my Linux machine, the terminal emulators I've used all make a regular
> url printed out into a clickable link (or at least a right-clickable
> link). This is just something they try to do with all things that look
> like urls. Sometimes it's helpful, of
On 2017-01-03, Deborah Swanson wrote:
> Grant Edwards wrote, on January 03, 2017 3:13 PM
>>
>> On 2017-01-03, Deborah Swanson wrote:
>>
>> > I'm sorry, I should have said a GUI console because I
>> wouldn't expect
>> > a text-based console to produce clickable links.
>>
>> What's a "GUI cons
On 2017-01-04 08:44 AM, Rodrigo Bistolfi wrote:
2017-01-04 7:39 GMT-03:00 Steve D'Aprano :
Aside: you've actually raised a fascinating question. I wonder whether
there
are any programming languages that understand URLs as native data types, so
that *source code* starting with http:// etc is unde
2017-01-04 7:39 GMT-03:00 Steve D'Aprano :
> On Wed, 4 Jan 2017 08:32 pm, Deborah Swanson wrote:
>
> Aside: you've actually raised a fascinating question. I wonder whether
> there
> are any programming languages that understand URLs as native data types, so
> that *source code* starting with http:
Deborah - please trim your quoted text.
On 2017-01-04 04:32 AM, Deborah Swanson wrote:
Thanks, Steven. Yes, of course if you want to print strings you must
enclose them in quotes. I think you learn that in Week 1 of any
introductory course on Python.
Closer to minute one. When I investigated
On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 10:43 PM, Deborah Swanson
wrote:
> I'm quite well aware by now that there is no one-sentence answer to my
> original question, if there's any coherent answer at all. Them's the
> breaks. Live with it or live without it, it doesn't care.
Yeah, there's no simple answer; howev
Steve D'Aprano wrote, on January 04, 2017 2:39 AM
>
> On Wed, 4 Jan 2017 08:32 pm, Deborah Swanson wrote:
>
> > Thanks, Steven. Yes, of course if you want to print strings
> you must
> > enclose them in quotes. I think you learn that in Week 1 of any
> > introductory course on Python.
> >
> >
u can use Python to write GUI applications. Then it becomes
> *your* responsibility to create the window, populate it with
> any buttons or text or scroll bars you want, and you can
> choose to interpret text any way you like -- including as
> clickable Hyperlinks.
>
> T
hange
the subject, but that sometimes the topic just naturally evolves to the
point that a change in subject is sensible. Take this thread for
example: the topic has drifted from "Clickable hyperlinks" to talking
about email threading. I should be able to change the subject without
br
On Wed, 4 Jan 2017 08:32 pm, Deborah Swanson wrote:
> Thanks, Steven. Yes, of course if you want to print strings you must
> enclose them in quotes. I think you learn that in Week 1 of any
> introductory course on Python.
>
> But we aren't trying to print strings here, the point is to produce
> c
the mercy of whatever console
or terminal application it is running in.
However, you can use Python to write GUI applications. Then it becomes
*your* responsibility to create the window, populate it with any buttons or
text or scroll bars you want, and you can choose to interpret text any way
you like
that people start a new topic and change the
subject, but that sometimes the topic just naturally evolves to the point
that a change in subject is sensible. Take this thread for example: the
topic has drifted from "Clickable hyperlinks" to talking about email
threading. I should be
Steven D'Aprano wrote, on January 03, 2017 9:40 PM
>
> On Wednesday 04 January 2017 15:46, Deborah Swanson wrote:
>
> > Steven D'Aprano wrote, on January 03, 2017 8:04 PM
> [...]
> >> Of course you have to put quotes around them to enter them in your
> >> source code. We don't expect this to wor
trates the issue. This
> message, for example appears under a long thread that started
> out life as "mentor training python Romania with
> certification" and then changed to "Cleaning up conditionals"
> and then changed to "Clickable hyperlinks."
"Deborah Swanson" writes:
>
> I didn't try printing them before, but I just did. Got:
>
print([Example](http://www.example.com)
>
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax (arrow pointing at the colon)
>
With respect, if you typed that at python then it's probably a good idea
to take a step b
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