Re: Python Beginner

2013-11-20 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 20/11/2013 19:33, ngangsia akumbo wrote: On Wednesday, November 20, 2013 8:21:44 PM UTC+1, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 20/11/2013 19:04, ngangsia akumbo wrote: Yes a lot, i come from a third world country. It will be a big opportunity for me and my community to study and being able to c

Re: Python Beginner

2013-11-20 Thread ngangsia akumbo
On Wednesday, November 20, 2013 8:21:44 PM UTC+1, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 20/11/2013 19:04, ngangsia akumbo wrote: > > > Yes a lot, i come from a third world country. > > > > > > It will be a big opportunity for me and my community to study and being > > able to create programs, web apps etc

Re: Python Beginner

2013-11-20 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 20/11/2013 19:04, ngangsia akumbo wrote: Yes a lot, i come from a third world country. It will be a big opportunity for me and my community to study and being able to create programs, web apps etc which can solve a lot of problems in my country and around. Each day i go out i see at least o

Re: Python Beginner

2013-11-20 Thread Joel Goldstick
o: python-list@python.org > Subject: Re: Python Beginner > > can someone really help to give me a more details answer please. > > what can i do with python? > > > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list you can cook dinner with python... really.. this

Re: Python Beginner

2013-11-20 Thread ngangsia akumbo
Yes a lot, i come from a third world country. It will be a big opportunity for me and my community to study and being able to create programs, web apps etc which can solve a lot of problems in my country and around. Each day i go out i see at least one problem that technology can solve. -- ht

RE: Python Beginner

2013-11-20 Thread Hector Chapa
you are trying to accomplish by coming into programming? -Original Message- From: ngangsia akumbo [mailto:ngang...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 12:35 PM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Python Beginner can someone really help to give me a more details answer

Re: Python Beginner

2013-11-20 Thread ngangsia akumbo
can someone really help to give me a more details answer please. what can i do with python? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Beginner

2013-11-18 Thread Gregory Ewing
On Monday, November 18, 2013 5:42:22 AM UTC+1, Terry Reedy wrote: On 11/17/2013 11:02 PM, ngangsia akumbo wrote: We don't even have a University that offer a full flesh computer science course The phrase you are looking for is 'full-fledged'. He might have meant "fully fleshed-out", i.e.

Re: Python Beginner

2013-11-18 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 18/11/2013 10:18, ngangsia akumbo wrote: On Saturday, November 16, 2013 11:41:31 PM UTC+1, Chris Angelico wrote: On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 9:25 AM, ngangsia akumbo wrote: I am called Richard m from western Africa, Cameroon. It was a pleasure for me to join this group. Hi! Welcome! s

Re: Python Beginner

2013-11-18 Thread ngangsia akumbo
On Saturday, November 16, 2013 11:41:31 PM UTC+1, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 9:25 AM, ngangsia akumbo wrote: > > > I am called Richard m from western Africa, Cameroon. It was a pleasure for > > me to join this group. > > > > Hi! Welcome! > > > > > secondly, i wihs to s

Re: Python Beginner

2013-11-18 Thread ngangsia akumbo
On Monday, November 18, 2013 5:42:22 AM UTC+1, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 11/17/2013 11:02 PM, ngangsia akumbo wrote: > > > > > Cameroon is a third world country, the IT skills of the people here > > > is far from attaining any legitimacy. > > > > > > Many people are doing business here just lik

Re: Python Beginner

2013-11-17 Thread Terry Reedy
On 11/17/2013 11:02 PM, ngangsia akumbo wrote: Cameroon is a third world country, the IT skills of the people here is far from attaining any legitimacy. Many people are doing business here just like in the days of the Roman empire when computers had not been invented. We have many companies ne

Re: Python Beginner

2013-11-17 Thread ngangsia akumbo
Thank you guys for the replies Cameroon is a third world country, the IT skills of the people here is far from attaining any legitimacy. Many people are doing business here just like in the days of the Roman empire when computers had not been invented. We have many companies needing skills pro

Re: Python Beginner

2013-11-16 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Hello Richard and welcome! On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 09:41:31 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 9:25 AM, ngangsia akumbo > wrote: >> I am called Richard m from western Africa, Cameroon. It was a pleasure >> for me to join this group. [...] >> i Need some advise on how, and what p

Re: Python Beginner

2013-11-16 Thread William Ray Wing
On Nov 16, 2013, at 5:25 PM, ngangsia akumbo wrote: > I am called Richard m from western Africa, Cameroon. It was a pleasure for me > to join this group. > > I have been learning python for about 4 months now and i have already > mastered alot as far as the language is concern. > > I am learn

Re: Python Beginner

2013-11-16 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 10:22 AM, ngangsia akumbo wrote: > I am experience in running a business. Please i will like to know how python > can make things easier as you said. Well, anything you can describe in terms of rules and procedures can be automated. But this is the art of programming; it'

Re: Python Beginner

2013-11-16 Thread ngangsia akumbo
On Saturday, November 16, 2013 11:41:31 PM UTC+1, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 9:25 AM, ngangsia akumbo wrote: > > > I am called Richard m from western Africa, Cameroon. It was a pleasure for > > me to join this group. > > > > Hi! Welcome! > > > > > secondly, i wihs to s

Re: Python Beginner

2013-11-16 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 9:25 AM, ngangsia akumbo wrote: > I am called Richard m from western Africa, Cameroon. It was a pleasure for me > to join this group. Hi! Welcome! > secondly, i wihs to start a small company after learning how to code > > I am learning python very broadly, meaning i am n

Re: Python beginner, unicode encode/decode Q

2008-07-14 Thread MRAB
On Jul 14, 1:51 pm, anonymous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1 Objective to write little programs to help me learn German.  See code > after numbered comments. //Thanks in advance for any direction or > suggestions. > > tk > > 2  Want keyboard answer input, for example:   > > answer_str  = raw_input(

Re: python beginner

2008-07-07 Thread Ken Starks
cna wrote: Hi all and one, how may i learn python. is there any other website except python.org For several video series, follow the link from python.org to the ShowMeDo site. http://www.python.org/doc/av/5minutes/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python beginner

2008-07-07 Thread A.T.Hofkamp
On 2008-07-07, cna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all and one, > how may i learn python. is there any other website except python.org Yes, there are several millions web-sites, all across the world. They cover every possible topic you may and may not imagine. If you mean a website that tries to

Re: Python Beginner needs help with for loop

2008-02-10 Thread John Machin
On Feb 10, 8:26 pm, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 10, 8:06 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > Hi, I'm trying to write a for loop in place of the string > > method .replace() to replace a character within a string if it's > > found. > > > So far, I've got > >

Re: Python Beginner needs help with for loop

2008-02-10 Thread Chris
On Feb 10, 8:06 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I'm trying to write a for loop in place of the string > method .replace() to replace a character within a string if it's > found. > > So far, I've got > > s = raw_input("please enter a string: ") > c = raw_input("please enter

Re: Python Beginner needs help with for loop

2008-02-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm replacing all occurrences of the character in the string with '!', which in turn is the new string, s2. I'm also not allowed to use rfind or rindex or replace() because we are supposed to be learning about for loops. Thanks for the advices so far, I will try some more on my own. -- http://ma

Re: Python Beginner needs help with for loop

2008-02-09 Thread Paul Rubin
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, I'm trying to write a for loop in place of the string > method .replace() to replace a character within a string if it's > found. I think you mean you want to replace the last occurrence of the character in the string, but leave other occurrenc

Re: Python Beginner needs help with for loop

2008-02-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Feb 10, 12:06 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I'm trying to write a for loop in place of the string > method .replace() to replace a character within a string if it's > found. > > So far, I've got > > s = raw_input("please enter a string: ") > c = raw_input("please enter

Re: Python Beginner needs help with for loop

2008-02-09 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Sun, 10 Feb 2008 04:06:54 -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi�: > I need to replace s2 = s.replace(c,"!") with a for loop function > somehow. > > I don't really see how a for loop would iterate through the string and > replace the character, and would like to see an example i

Re: python beginner problem(?)

2008-02-07 Thread Alan Illeman
"Steve Holden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Alan Illeman wrote: > > > > Thanks Steve for both your replies. > > Was (or is) python a piggyback for MFC? > > > > > You are supposed to be able to access the MFC classes through PythonWin, > but I have never personally b

Re: python beginner problem(?)

2008-02-07 Thread Steve Holden
Alan Illeman wrote: > "Steve Holden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Steve Holden wrote: >>> Alan Illeman wrote: Win2k Pro - installed python: ok >> [...] = >>> C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\pythonwi

Re: python beginner problem(?)

2008-02-07 Thread Alan Illeman
"Steve Holden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Steve Holden wrote: > > Alan Illeman wrote: > >> Win2k Pro - installed python: ok > >> > [...] > >> = > > C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\mfc\object.py: > >

Re: python beginner problem(?)

2008-02-06 Thread Steve Holden
Steve Holden wrote: > Alan Illeman wrote: >> Win2k Pro - installed python: ok >> [...] >> = > C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\mfc\object.py: >> 23: DeprecationWarning: raising a string exception is deprecated >> raise win32ui.error

Re: python beginner problem(?)

2008-02-06 Thread Steve Holden
Alan Illeman wrote: > Win2k Pro - installed python: ok > > Example 2.1 from DiveIntoPython tutorial copied > and pasted into "Pythonwin - Python IDE and GUI > Framework for Windows." > -- > def buildConnectionString(params): > """Buil

Re: Python beginner!

2007-11-18 Thread Asun Friere
On Nov 17, 12:41 am, Wildemar Wildenburger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is true that I could have been way more polite. I don't see how. You said "please" read it. You didn't make fun of the poor spelling and said nothing rude. I can't agree that the response "reeks of arrogance." I've seen

Re: Python beginner!

2007-11-18 Thread John Salerno
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Nov 15, 2:38 pm, "SMALLp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Could someone please paste some program in wxPython that uses inharitance. I >> would be very thankfull. > > Most examples of wxPython use inheritance. I would recommend going to > their website and downloading t

Re: Python beginner!

2007-11-18 Thread Brandon Sandrowicz
On 11/16/07, Shawn Milochik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I completely support Wildemar. Lazy questions like that deserve absolutely > nothing. > > I agree that cushioning the reply with a brief explanation of why that > question sucks would have helped the original poster, but he doesn't deserve >

Re: Python beginner!

2007-11-16 Thread Shawn Milochik
I completely support Wildemar. Lazy questions like that deserve absolutely nothing. I agree that cushioning the reply with a brief explanation of why that question sucks would have helped the original poster, but he doesn't deserve any effort from any of us until he has shown evidence of his own e

Re: Python beginner!

2007-11-16 Thread Wildemar Wildenburger
Tony wrote: > On Nov 15, 8:57 pm, Wildemar Wildenburger > Give me back the old comp.lang.python, where anyone could ask anything > and be sure of a range of replies, instead of this sort of > pedanticism. Sorry, nothing personal, maybe Python users have become > too professional and geeky to rememb

Re: Python beginner!

2007-11-15 Thread kyosohma
On Nov 15, 2:38 pm, "SMALLp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could someone please paste some program in wxPython that uses inharitance. I > would be very thankfull. Most examples of wxPython use inheritance. I would recommend going to their website and downloading the demo as it has lots of code to l

Re: Python beginner!

2007-11-15 Thread Tony
On Nov 15, 8:38 pm, "SMALLp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could someone please paste some program in wxPython that uses inharitance. I > would be very thankfull. HI SMALLp: welcome to Python! Here is a link that shows some basics of inheritance in Wx, try other searches on Google:) http://www.ib

Re: Python beginner!

2007-11-15 Thread Tony
On Nov 15, 8:57 pm, Wildemar Wildenburger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please read this: > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html> > > Then ask again. > > /W Give me back the old comp.lang.python, where anyone could ask anything and be sure of a range of replies, instead of this sort

Re: Python beginner!

2007-11-15 Thread Wildemar Wildenburger
SMALLp wrote: > Could someone please paste some program in wxPython that uses inharitance. I > would be very thankfull. > Please read this: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html> Then ask again. /W -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list