Re: Import Doesn't Import

2014-10-16 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 16/10/2014 01:44, ryguy7272 wrote: If you carry on using this approach and you continue using the buggy google groups interface you're unlikely to make many friends. May I suggest that before posting you spend a few minutes doing some research as Python has been in use for 22 years so your

Re: Question About Running Python code

2014-10-16 Thread Andrew Jaffe
On 15/10/2014 23:50, ryguy7272 wrote: The error that I get is this. 'invalid syntax' The second single quote in this line is highlighted pink. print 'Downloading data from Yahoo for %s sector' % sector This is a script written for Python 2.*, but you say you are using Python 3.4. In Python 3,

Re: what is the easiest way to install multiple Python versions?

2014-10-16 Thread Albert-Jan Roskam
- Original Message - > From: Rustom Mody > To: python-list@python.org > Cc: > Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 10:00 AM > Subject: Re: what is the easiest way to install multiple Python versions? > > On Monday, October 13, 2014 1:24:27 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: >> On Mon, Oct

Re: what is the easiest way to install multiple Python versions?

2014-10-16 Thread Albert-Jan Roskam
- Original Message - > From: Chris Angelico > To: > Cc: Python > Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2014 4:20 PM > Subject: Re: what is the easiest way to install multiple Python versions? > > On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 12:33 AM, Albert-Jan Roskam > > wrote: >> *) Make altinstall >> sudo apt

Re: what is the easiest way to install multiple Python versions?

2014-10-16 Thread Albert-Jan Roskam
- Original Message - > From: Gayathri J > To: Albert-Jan Roskam > Cc: Python > Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2014 6:15 PM > Subject: Re: what is the easiest way to install multiple Python versions? > > I have been using Anaconda's (Continnum) conda installation for system > installation

Re: what is the easiest way to install multiple Python versions?

2014-10-16 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 7:42 PM, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote: > >> From: Chris Angelico >> Generally, this is the method I would recommend. For a start, run this: >> >> sudo apt-get build-dep python > > Aha, useful tip. But won't this (re)build the dependencies of the default > python version? > Or

Re: what is the easiest way to install multiple Python versions?

2014-10-16 Thread Albert-Jan Roskam
- Original Message - > From: Terry Reedy > To: python-list@python.org > Cc: > Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 2:54 AM > Subject: Re: what is the easiest way to install multiple Python versions? > > On 10/12/2014 9:33 AM, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote: > > >> A few days ago I needed to ch

Re: Creating a counter

2014-10-16 Thread Shiva
> > Python3: >print(counter, end='\r') > > Gary Herron > > Thanks, that is what I was looking up - \r carriage return without linefeed. Thanks again! Shiva -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: what is the easiest way to install multiple Python versions?

2014-10-16 Thread Albert-Jan Roskam
- Original Message - > From: Chris Angelico > To: > Cc: Python > Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2014 10:48 AM > Subject: Re: what is the easiest way to install multiple Python versions? > > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 7:42 PM, Albert-Jan Roskam > The differences between 2.6 and 2.7 are

python3 on mac-mavericks (was trying idle)

2014-10-16 Thread Rustom Mody
On Thursday, October 9, 2014 2:56:56 PM UTC+5:30, Terry Reedy wrote: > One may have to install activestate tkc/tk on mac, depending on osx > version. This page has details: > https://www.python.org/download/mac/tcltk Ok Ive some more information: The people in the audience using macs are usin

Re: Creating a counter

2014-10-16 Thread Simon Kennedy
On Wednesday, 15 October 2014 19:39:43 UTC+1, Shiva wrote: > I am trying to search a string through files in a directory - however while > Python script works on it and writes a log - I want to present the user with > count of number of strings found. So it should increment for each string > foun

Re: python3 on mac-mavericks (was trying idle)

2014-10-16 Thread MRAB
On 2014-10-16 14:29, Rustom Mody wrote: On Thursday, October 9, 2014 2:56:56 PM UTC+5:30, Terry Reedy wrote: One may have to install activestate tkc/tk on mac, depending on osx version. This page has details: https://www.python.org/download/mac/tcltk Ok Ive some more information: The peopl

Re: Creating a counter

2014-10-16 Thread Ian Kelly
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 7:44 AM, Simon Kennedy wrote: > When you looked through the other answers and found a solution you're happy > with that does not use the standard library you can look through the > documentation and find a stdlib > (https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/index.html) provide

Re: Is there an easy way to control indents in Python

2014-10-16 Thread Simon Kennedy
On Wednesday, 15 October 2014 20:31:15 UTC+1, Ian wrote: > I agree. I very rarely use blank lines inside functions. As I see it, > if you feel you need a blank line for separation within a function, > that's an indication your function is overly complex and should be > broken up. Whereas I feel t

Re: Creating a counter

2014-10-16 Thread Simon Kennedy
On Thursday, 16 October 2014 15:05:47 UTC+1, Ian wrote: > I would have suggested a Counter if I thought it fit the OP's use > case. If you're listing directory contents, you're not going to have > any repeated strings, so all the counts will be 1, and your Counter > might as well be a list, which

Re: what is the easiest way to install multiple Python versions?

2014-10-16 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 11:31 PM, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote: > Most things were indeed easy to solve. But this one surprised me. With Python > 2.6, I need to outcomment the 'lambda' line. The error is what I get in > Python 2.6. It does not matter if I do u"\n".join(het_logboek[i:]). I don't > us

Re: Is there an easy way to control indents in Python

2014-10-16 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 1:08 AM, Simon Kennedy wrote: > On Wednesday, 15 October 2014 20:31:15 UTC+1, Ian wrote: >> I agree. I very rarely use blank lines inside functions. As I see it, >> if you feel you need a blank line for separation within a function, >> that's an indication your function is

Re: python3 on mac-mavericks (was trying idle)

2014-10-16 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 1:04 AM, MRAB wrote: > In Macland it's called the terminal emulator: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_%28OS_X%29 To be strictly correct, the "shell" would be the thing you run that gives you a prompt, and the "terminal emulator" would be the thing you run that giv

Re: python3 on mac-mavericks (was trying idle)

2014-10-16 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2014-10-16, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 1:04 AM, MRAB wrote: >> In Macland it's called the terminal emulator: >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_%28OS_X%29 > > To be strictly correct, the "shell" would be the thing you run that > gives you a prompt, and the "termin

Re: python3 on mac-mavericks (was trying idle)

2014-10-16 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 3:23 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2014-10-16, Chris Angelico wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 1:04 AM, MRAB wrote: >>> In Macland it's called the terminal emulator: >>> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_%28OS_X%29 >> >> To be strictly correct, the "shell" would

Re: [Tutor] Convert Qstring to string in windows

2014-10-16 Thread Danny Yoo
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 8:21 AM, C@rlos wrote: > > I have been tryed to convert a Qstring text to string on python, in linux > that work fine but in windows when qstring contine á,é,í,ó,ú the converted > text is not correct, contine extranger characters, > this qstring text is an url from qdialogt

Permissions on files installed by pip?

2014-10-16 Thread Adam Funk
I've been using the python-nltk package on Ubuntu, but I need ntlk 3.0 now. I used 'sudo aptitude purge python-nltk' to get rid of my existing installation, & followed instructions on the nltk website [1] starting at step 4 (since I already have python-pip & python-numpy packages installed). $ su

Re: [Tutor] Convert Qstring to string in windows

2014-10-16 Thread Alan Gauld
On 16/10/14 19:14, Danny Yoo wrote: need more information. But I think you may get better help on a Qt-specific mailing list; I suspect very few of us here have Qt experience. There are at least 2 Python Qt mailing lists and also two for Side which is Nokia's public domain fork of Qt. That's

Re: [Tutor] Convert Qstring to string in windows

2014-10-16 Thread Albert-Jan Roskam
- On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 10:59 PM CEST Alan Gauld wrote: >On 16/10/14 19:14, Danny Yoo wrote: > >> need more information. But I think you may get better help on a >> Qt-specific mailing list; I suspect very few of us here have Qt >> experience. > >There are at least 2 P

Re: Import Doesn't Import

2014-10-16 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 10/15/2014 5:40 PM, ryguy7272 wrote: ImportError: No module named 'urllib2' I'm telling Python to import because it doesn't exist and it throws an error. I don't get it; I just don't get it. If I'm working with R, I can import thousands of libraries with no errors whatsoever. With Python,

Detecting user's installed Python/Tkinter packages during install of app

2014-10-16 Thread Noble Bell
I am thinking of writing a new mac and/or windows application using python 3.x and the tkinter gui toolkit. A question that I have is this.. If my application uses a version of python/tkinter that is not on the users computer will I be able to detect that during an install and automatically ins

Re: Detecting user's installed Python/Tkinter packages during install of app

2014-10-16 Thread Skip Montanaro
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Noble Bell wrote: > If my application uses a version of python/tkinter that is not on the users > computer will I be able to detect that during an install and automatically > install the proper files silently? You mean, like this? % python -c 'import _tkinter ;

Re: python3 on mac-mavericks (was trying idle)

2014-10-16 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 16Oct2014 06:29, rusi wrote: On Thursday, October 9, 2014 2:56:56 PM UTC+5:30, Terry Reedy wrote: One may have to install activestate tkc/tk on mac, depending on osx version. This page has details: https://www.python.org/download/mac/tcltk Ok Ive some more information: The people in the

Re: Import Doesn't Import

2014-10-16 Thread Joel Goldstick
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Emile van Sebille wrote: > On 10/15/2014 5:40 PM, ryguy7272 wrote: >> >> ImportError: No module named 'urllib2' >> I'm telling Python to import because it doesn't exist and it throws an >> error. I don't get it; I just don't get it. If I'm working with R, I can >

Re: Import Doesn't Import

2014-10-16 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 16/10/2014 23:28, Joel Goldstick wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Emile van Sebille wrote: On 10/15/2014 5:40 PM, ryguy7272 wrote: ImportError: No module named 'urllib2' I'm telling Python to import because it doesn't exist and it throws an error. I don't get it; I just don't get i

Re: python3 on mac-mavericks (was trying idle)

2014-10-16 Thread Rustom Mody
On Friday, October 17, 2014 3:48:20 AM UTC+5:30, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 16Oct2014 06:29, rusi wrote: > >On Thursday, October 9, 2014 2:56:56 PM UTC+5:30, Terry Reedy wrote: > >> One may have to install activestate tkc/tk on mac, depending on osx > >> version. This page has details: > >> ht

Re: Keepin constants, configuration values, etc. in Python - dedicated module or what?

2014-10-16 Thread Rustom Mody
On Tuesday, September 30, 2014 10:09:52 PM UTC+5:30, Rustom Mody wrote: > On Tuesday, September 30, 2014 8:48:15 PM UTC+5:30, c...@isbd.net wrote: > > Rustom Mody wrote: > > > On Tuesday, September 30, 2014 5:18:31 PM UTC+5:30, Chris wrote: > > > > I would actually > > > > quite like to keep the co

Re: Detecting user's installed Python/Tkinter packages during install of app

2014-10-16 Thread Noble Bell
On Thursday, October 16, 2014 5:14:44 PM UTC-5, Skip Montanaro wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Noble Bell wrote: > > > If my application uses a version of python/tkinter that is not on the users > > computer will I be able to detect that during an install and automatically > > install

Re: Is there an easy way to control indents in Python

2014-10-16 Thread Gregory Ewing
On 16/10/2014 12:32 AM, Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick wrote: Why? Because things like `print 'done'` usually have an empty line before it: Not in my code, they don't. I never put blank lines inside functions. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python3 on mac-mavericks (was trying idle)

2014-10-16 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 16Oct2014 18:08, rusi wrote: On Friday, October 17, 2014 3:48:20 AM UTC+5:30, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 16Oct2014 06:29, rusi wrote: >On Thursday, October 9, 2014 2:56:56 PM UTC+5:30, Terry Reedy wrote: >> One may have to install activestate tkc/tk on mac, depending on osx >> version. This

2d color-bar map plot

2014-10-16 Thread Dhananjay
Dear all, I am bit new to the python/pyplot. This might be simple, but I guess I am missing something here. I have data file as follows: 2.1576318858 -1.8651195165 4.2333428278 2.1681875208 -1.9229968780 4.1989176884 2.3387636157 -2.0376253255 2.4460899122 2.1696565965 -2.6186941271 4.4172007912 2