Getting the Appdata Directory with Python and PEP?

2013-11-25 Thread Eamonn Rea
I've heard that there is a library that allows you to get the appdata directory for a given OS, but I'd like to do it myself, as a learning experience. Is there a built in way to get a users Appdata Directory? For example on OS X it's in '~/Library//Application Support/'. I can get the OS just f

Re: Getting the Appdata Directory with Python and PEP?

2013-11-26 Thread Eamonn Rea
Thanks for the help on PEP, but I can't find a way to get the application support (appdata on Windows, no idea on Linux). If I do: print os.environ['HOME'] I get: '/Users/eamonn', as that is my home directory. But when I do: print os.environ['APPDATA'] I get an error. But when I do: print os.

Re: Getting the Appdata Directory with Python and PEP?

2013-11-26 Thread Eamonn Rea
On Tuesday, November 26, 2013 7:40:50 PM UTC, Irmen de Jong wrote: > On 26-11-2013 19:09, Eamonn Rea wrote: > > > Thanks for the help on PEP, but I can't find a way to get the application > > support (appdata on Windows, no idea on Linux). If I do: > > >

Re: Getting the Appdata Directory with Python and PEP?

2013-11-28 Thread Eamonn Rea
Oh, sorry, I'm new to how Google Groups works. I wonder why it lays it out like that. Can it not just show quotes like the way that PHPbb does? I never thought of reading the source code, thanks! :-) Oh, and the last message is just spam :P -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-lis

Jython - Can't access enumerations?

2013-11-28 Thread Eamonn Rea
Hello! I'm using Jython to write a game with Python/Jython/LibGDX. I wasn't having any trouble, and everything was going well, but sadly I can't access items in enumerations. If you know about the LibGDX library and have used it, you'll probably know about the BodyType enumeration for Box2D. I

Re: Jython - Can't access enumerations?

2013-11-29 Thread Eamonn Rea
Ok, here's the code: body_def = BodyDef() # Imports the BodyDef class fine. body_def.type = BodyDef.DynamicBody # Says it can't find a module from LibGDX called BodyDef. All my code: from com.badlogic.gdx import Game, Gdx, Screen from com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl import LwjglApplicationConf

Change a file type in Python?

2013-11-30 Thread Eamonn Rea
When opening a file, you'd say whether you want to read or write to a file. This is fine, but say for example later on in the program I change my mind and I want to write to a file instead of reading it. Yes, I could just say 'r+w' when opening the file, but what if I don't know if I'm going to

Re: Change a file type in Python?

2013-11-30 Thread Eamonn Rea
Thanks for the help! Ok, I'll look into the mailing list. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list