Re: Python Newbie

2013-02-24 Thread Michael Torrie
On 02/24/2013 06:04 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Variables do not have types in Python. > > Reset your thinking. Python is a dynamic language with name bindings and > strongly-typed objects, not a static language with strongly-typed > variables. If you don't understand the difference, ask. But s

Re: Python Newbie

2013-02-24 Thread Oscar Benjamin
On 25 February 2013 01:24, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Oscar Benjamin > wrote: >> On 25 February 2013 00:08, wrote: >> Chris Angelico wrote: For example (I believe it's already been mentioned) "declaring" intX with some integer value does *nothing* to ma

Re: Python Newbie

2013-02-24 Thread Michael Torrie
On 02/24/2013 03:43 PM, piterrr.dolin...@gmail.com wrote: > I wanted Python to register what type of variable I'm after. So I > init my vars accordingly, int might be 0, float 0.0 and string with > null, err... None. As several people on the list have pointed out, there are no variables in Python.

Re: Python Newbie

2013-02-24 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Oscar Benjamin wrote: > On 25 February 2013 01:24, Chris Angelico wrote: >> Once again, Ethan gets the short end of the citations stick... >> 'twarn't me wrote that, he did. Not that it's at all contrary to my >> views, and I might well have said it if he hadn't,

Re: Python Newbie

2013-02-24 Thread J.R.
On 21/02/2013 19:40, piterrr.dolin...@gmail.com wrote: I am nervous about using variables "out of the blue", without having to declare them. For example, when I write "i = 0" it is perfectly OK to Python without 'i' being declared earlier. How do I know that I haven't used this variable earlie

Re: Python Newbie

2013-02-24 Thread Roy Smith
In article , "J.R." wrote: > PS.: JavaScript is a trademark, and the actual language name is > specified as ECMAScript. The decision whether to call it JavaScript or ECMAScript really comes down to, "Do you want to be correct, or do you want people to know what you're talking about?" -- htt

Re: Python Newbie

2013-02-24 Thread MRAB
On 2013-02-25 01:53, Chris Angelico wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Oscar Benjamin wrote: On 25 February 2013 01:24, Chris Angelico wrote: Once again, Ethan gets the short end of the citations stick... 'twarn't me wrote that, he did. Not that it's at all contrary to my views, and I m

Re: webbrowser.open("./documentation/help.html")-- No Go in Windows

2013-02-24 Thread llanitedave
On Sunday, February 24, 2013 3:51:09 PM UTC-8, Demian Brecht wrote: > For the record, I completely misread and misunderstood the question. I > > should stop posting that late at night :P > > > > On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 1:25 AM, Demian Brecht wrote: > > > Rather than using a relative path, try

Re: Python Newbie

2013-02-24 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Roy Smith wrote: > In article , > "J.R." wrote: > >> PS.: JavaScript is a trademark, and the actual language name is >> specified as ECMAScript. > > The decision whether to call it JavaScript or ECMAScript really comes > down to, "Do you want to be correct, or do

Re: Python Newbie

2013-02-24 Thread J.R.
On 24/02/2013 23:03, Roy Smith wrote: In article , "J.R." wrote: PS.: JavaScript is a trademark, and the actual language name is specified as ECMAScript. The decision whether to call it JavaScript or ECMAScript really comes down to, "Do you want to be correct, or do you want people to know

Re: Python Newbie

2013-02-24 Thread Joshua Landau
On 25 February 2013 02:08, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 21:58:36 +, Joshua Landau > declaimed the following in > gmane.comp.python.general: > > > > > > condition1 = long_condition_expression_1 > > condition2 = long_condition_expression_2 > > condition3 = long_condition_expr

Re: Python Newbie

2013-02-24 Thread Ethan Furman
On 02/24/2013 05:53 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Oscar Benjamin wrote: On 25 February 2013 01:24, Chris Angelico wrote: Once again, Ethan gets the short end of the citations stick... 'twarn't me wrote that, he did. Not that it's at all contrary to my views, and

Re: webbrowser.open("./documentation/help.html")-- No Go in Windows

2013-02-24 Thread llanitedave
Well, we can mark this one as solved. Simple enough, actually -- thanks to Chris and Demian for leading me to water. The following code works on both Linux and Windows 7: def OnDocs(self, event): """Opens the User's Guide in the default web browser""" fullpath = os.path.abspath('

Re: tkinter / gui

2013-02-24 Thread Rick Johnson
On Saturday, February 23, 2013 4:50:43 PM UTC-6, Rex Macey wrote: > Here is one general and one specific question about > creating GUIs using tkinter from a newbie. I have created > a class in which to hold some data. I want to create a > GUI to get the data from the user and store it in the > ob

Re: Basic Listview Example

2013-02-24 Thread Rick Johnson
On Friday, February 22, 2013 12:03:30 PM UTC-6, Xx7 wrote: > Hi, could somebody possibly provide a basic listview example? thanks! Depends on your definition of a "listview". We NOW know you want examples of GUI widgets; but /which/ GUI library do you plan on using? If you are not sure which l

protect logger from shutdown syslogd

2013-02-24 Thread Mathias Kőrber
Hi I have a script which calls getLogger to set up a logging service. The standard logger description used both the consoleHandler and the syslogHandler. It seems that if syslogd is shut down, getLogger fails, and the script won't be able to log at all. is there a way to make it immune against t

Re: webbrowser.open("./documentation/help.html")-- No Go in Windows

2013-02-24 Thread Terry Reedy
On 2/24/2013 4:35 AM, Chris Rebert wrote: Sounds like this might be your problem: http://bugs.python.org/issue8936 I just closed that issue an invalid. Here is most of what I wrote. ''' After reading the doc and the code, I am convinced that current behavior is close to the implied wanted beh

Re: webbrowser.open("./documentation/help.html")-- No Go in Windows

2013-02-24 Thread Terry Reedy
On 2/24/2013 3:28 PM, llanitedave wrote: http://bugs.python.org/issue8936 Holy Toledo! That's a two-year-old bug spanning two versions of the language! We need more volunteers who will do the kind of careful review of report, doc, and code I just did. Feel free to help. -- Terry Jan Ree

Re: PyQT app accessible over network?

2013-02-24 Thread Frank Millman
On 24/02/2013 16:58, Chris Angelico wrote: [...] MySQL has a philosophical structure of "user logs in to app, but app logs in to database as superuser regardless of user login". Out of curiosity, is there anything wrong with that approach? The project I am developing is a business/accountin

Re: webbrowser.open("./documentation/help.html")-- No Go in Windows

2013-02-24 Thread llanitedave
On Sunday, February 24, 2013 9:35:17 PM UTC-8, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 2/24/2013 4:35 AM, Chris Rebert wrote: > > > > > Sounds like this might be your problem: > > > http://bugs.python.org/issue8936 > > > > I just closed that issue an invalid. Here is most of what I wrote. > > ''' > > Afte

Re: PyQT app accessible over network?

2013-02-24 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Frank Millman wrote: > On 24/02/2013 16:58, Chris Angelico wrote: >> MySQL has a philosophical structure of "user logs in to app, >> but app logs in to database as superuser regardless of user login". > > Out of curiosity, is there anything wrong with that approach

Re: webbrowser.open("./documentation/help.html")-- No Go in Windows

2013-02-24 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 5:26 PM, llanitedave wrote: > On the other hand, it *is* a bit frustrating that Linux recognizes an > html-style relative path, while Windows insists on the entire absolute path. > Maybe we can call it a Windows bug, but a workaround would be nice to have. That is, unfo

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