Re: Python 3 and easygui problem

2009-02-24 Thread blogger
Thanks to all for helping Peter on this. Just a bit of an update... The solution offered in this thread to Peter's original problem is the same as the once I arrived at. There is a bit of discussion about it here: http://pythonconquerstheuniverse.blogspot.com/2009/01/moving-to-python-30-part1.ht

Re: Python 3 and easygui problem

2009-02-22 Thread John Machin
On Feb 23, 11:55 am, Peter Anderson wrote: > John Machin said:* > > *"... the knowledge that you had attempted to contact Steve Ferg and > have not yet had a response was not available on c.l.py and in any case > is not a justification for incitement to hijack." > > John, I resent the implication

Re: Python 3 and easygui problem

2009-02-22 Thread Peter Anderson
John Machin said:* *"... the knowledge that you had attempted to contact Steve Ferg and have not yet had a response was not available on c.l.py and in any case is not a justification for incitement to hijack." John, I resent the implication that I am trying to hijack Steve's project. This wa

Re: Python 3 and easygui problem

2009-02-22 Thread John Machin
On Feb 23, 9:17 am, Peter Anderson wrote: > John Machin said: > > Has the OP tried to contact the author/maintainer of easygui [the > usually-recommended approach to problems with not-widely-used third- > party modules]? > > Don't you think the author/maintainer might like to be consulted > before

Re: Python 3 and easygui problem

2009-02-22 Thread Peter Anderson
Terry, I have not used PyPI before and feel a little uneasy about putting this modified script into such a public place. I have previously contacted Steve Ferg (the original developer of EasyGui) but have not had a reply. Clearly the bulk of the work is his still where as the modifications are

Re: Python 3 and easygui problem

2009-02-22 Thread Peter Anderson
John Machin said: Has the OP tried to contact the author/maintainer of easygui [the usually-recommended approach to problems with not-widely-used third- party modules]? Don't you think the author/maintainer might like to be consulted before you incite an OP to claim-jump his package name on PyPI

Re: Python 3 and easygui problem

2009-02-22 Thread John Machin
On Feb 23, 8:18 am, Terry Reedy wrote: > Peter Anderson wrote: > > Gabriel Genellina said: > > > That's very short-lived; cmp is gone in 3.0.1 (should not have existed > > in 3.0 in the first place). > > Try with: > > choices.sort(key=str.lower) > > > Gabriel, > > > That's worked fine - thank you.

Re: Python 3 and easygui problem

2009-02-22 Thread Chris Rebert
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: > Chris Rebert wrote: >> >> On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Peter Anderson >> wrote: >>> >>> I have just installed Python 3. I have been using Tkinter and easygui >>> (with >>> Python 2.5.4) for any GUI needs. I have just started to port some o

Re: Python 3 and easygui problem

2009-02-22 Thread Terry Reedy
Chris Rebert wrote: On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Peter Anderson wrote: I have just installed Python 3. I have been using Tkinter and easygui (with Python 2.5.4) for any GUI needs. I have just started to port some of my existing scripts to Python 3 and discovered problems with easygui. I wa

Re: Python 3 and easygui problem

2009-02-22 Thread Terry Reedy
Peter Anderson wrote: Gabriel Genellina said: That's very short-lived; cmp is gone in 3.0.1 (should not have existed in 3.0 in the first place). Try with: choices.sort(key=str.lower) Gabriel, That's worked fine - thank you. I think I now have a version of easygui.py that works with Python

Re: Python 3 and easygui problem

2009-02-22 Thread Peter Anderson
Gabriel Genellina said: That's very short-lived; cmp is gone in 3.0.1 (should not have existed in 3.0 in the first place). Try with: choices.sort(key=str.lower) Gabriel, That's worked fine - thank you. I think I now have a version of easygui.py that works with Python 3, probably needs a bit

Re: Python 3 and easygui problem

2009-02-21 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Sun, 22 Feb 2009 03:05:51 -0200, Chris Rebert escribió: On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Peter Anderson wrote: I have just installed Python 3. I have been using Tkinter and easygui (with Python 2.5.4) for any GUI needs. I have just started to port some of my existing scripts to Python

Re: Python 3 and easygui problem

2009-02-21 Thread Chris Rebert
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Peter Anderson wrote: > I have just installed Python 3. I have been using Tkinter and easygui (with > Python 2.5.4) for any GUI needs. I have just started to port some of my > existing scripts to Python 3 and discovered problems with easygui. > > I was using the fo

Python 3 and easygui problem

2009-02-21 Thread Peter Anderson
I have just installed Python 3. I have been using Tkinter and easygui (with Python 2.5.4) for any GUI needs. I have just started to port some of my existing scripts to Python 3 and discovered problems with easygui. I was using the following script for testing: from easygui import * import sys