Newbie suggestion: nice tutorial

2014-10-26 Thread Martin S
cancelled... So it was back to the internet - and this one seems pretty comprehensive and understandable: http://www.diveintopython3.net/ It doesn't cover the latest point version of Python (it's still Python 3), but I hope it doesn't matter much? Regards, Martin S -- https://

bottle app "crashes"

2015-07-06 Thread Martin S
to an idiot proof instruction on how to deploy a simple bottle application to a live server. /Martin S -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: bottle app "crashes"

2015-07-08 Thread Martin S
d by the application). > > Similar to other answers here, I do not know why your application > stops serving, but I have had success using waitress > (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/waitress) with bottle > (http://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/deployment.html#switching-the-server-backend).

Newbie coding question

2014-06-26 Thread Martin S
e: hi Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in person = input('Enter your name: ') File "", line 1, in NameError: name 'hi' is not defined >>> I have no idea what I am doing wrong with this - it look correct to me. I'm

Re: Newbie coding question

2014-06-26 Thread Martin S
Ah, that was actually correct. Thanks ... /Martin S 2014-06-26 20:58 GMT+02:00 alister : > On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 20:53:35 +0200, Martin S wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I've been following the tutorial here > > http://anh.cs.luc.edu/python/hands-on/3.1/handsonHtml/

Newbie coding question - format error

2014-06-29 Thread Martin S
/y,x%y) print(equations2) And obviously this works. But the question is: if I want to keep the results of {2} and {3} between the first instance (formatStr) and the second (formatStr2) how would I go about it? Apprently using {4} and {5} instead results in a index sequence error as in In

Re: Newbie coding question - format error

2014-06-29 Thread Martin S
Thanks for the input. The main thing was that On 29 Jun 2014, Terry Reedy wrote: >On 6/29/2014 3:06 AM, Martin S wrote: > >A couple of additional notes: > >> x=int(input('Enter an integer ')) >> y=int(input('Enter another integer ')) >> z

Re: Newbie coding question - format error

2014-06-29 Thread Martin S
Thanks for the input. The main thing was that the replacement fields were only valid for their local environment. /martin On 29 Jun 2014, Terry Reedy wrote: >On 6/29/2014 3:06 AM, Martin S wrote: > >A couple of additional notes: > >> x=int(input('Enter an integer &#

Newbie: unexpected indenting error

2014-07-13 Thread Martin S
diff >=500: for [do stuff] elif rdiff >=410: for ... <== unexpected indent [do other stuff] What the...? What am I doing wrong? (hopefully the indents translate; else def, if/elif, for and [dostuff] are indented) /Martin S --

Re: Newbie: unexpected indenting error

2014-07-13 Thread Martin S
Thanks, the problem was apparently a mix of way to indent the code. It's confused the H out of the editor. Using standard indentation solved the error. 2014-07-13 9:28 GMT+02:00 Gary Herron : > On 07/13/2014 12:01 AM, Martin S wrote: >> >> While coding a rating calculator I

Re: Python 3 is killing Python

2014-07-14 Thread Martin S
Yes, we all know that Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, school shootings and the lack of proper health care for all are the pinnacle of US culture. Or figments of the imagination of Baghdad Bob. Now, maybe return to Python? /martin On 15 Jul 2014, Rick Johnson wrote: >On Monday, July 14, 2014 9:11:4

Thanks for the help

2014-07-16 Thread Martin S
y CLI based. The tutorial I was following doesn't cover GUI or error correction so that will naturally be the next steps in completing the thing. Anyway, thanks for explaining the confusing points so far. Regards, Martin S -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Two more newbie questions

2014-07-18 Thread Martin S
quot;asdf" instead of a rating (like 2014) pretty much kills the little tool horribly. Again, pointers to relevant info appreciated. Maybe I've already seen it but didn't really understand the content ... =/ Regards, Martin S -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: OT: usenet reader software

2014-07-18 Thread Martin S
Is there a point to still use Usenet? Last time I checked noise overwhelmed signal by a factor of something close to 542. (Just curiou) /martin s On 18 Jul 2014, memilanuk wrote: >On 07/18/2014 02:45 PM, Sturla Molden wrote: >> memilanuk wrote: >> >>> Used leafnode

Re: OT: usenet reader software

2014-07-19 Thread Martin S
>From what I've seen so far it's more like your limited standard mail filtering >tool. IIRC when I used Usenet much gnus on Emacs had much more powerful capabilities. /martin s On 20 Jul 2014, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 19/07/2014 23:38, Sturla Molden wrote: < c...@isb

Re: OT: usenet reader software

2014-07-19 Thread Martin S
>From what I've seen so far it's more like your limited standard mail filtering >tool. IIRC when I used Usenet much gnus on Emacs had much more powerful capabilities. /martin s On 20 Jul 2014, Mark Lawrence wrote: >On 19/07/2014 23:38, Sturla Molden wrote: >> w

stripping (from item in list)

2014-07-20 Thread Martin S
hile all records in the remaining list now are valid, all also still have "\n" at the end. What did I miss here? Regards, Martin S -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: stripping (from item in list)

2014-07-20 Thread Martin S
Craps should have guessed that was the problem. Must have misunderstood the examples. But thanks =) And yes, definately should be able to build a better parser ... I want it to work first. /Martin S 2014-07-20 11:57 GMT+02:00 Chris Angelico : > On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Martin S wr

Re: OT: usenet reader software

2014-07-20 Thread Martin S
I'm trying gnus again, and immediately see the beauty of it. Actually Usenet is fast and commercial free, and easier to secure from prying NSA etc al (?) so maybe it will receive a general revival eventually. /martin s On 21 Jul 2014, Paul Rudin wrote: >Sturla Molden writes: >

Re: PyWart(2.7.8) IDLE is more buggy than "Joe's apartment"!

2014-07-21 Thread Martin S
s bleed and/or >> eyes pop out. > > In the versions of IDLE that I have here (2.7.3 and 3.2.3), both > prevent me from repeating step #3 multiple times. Not on 2.7.6 and 3.4 on Linux Mint either -- Regards, Martin S -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: OT: usenet reader software

2014-07-22 Thread Martin S
Aye I found a couple of groups that are still active. Most of it seems to be a digital ghost town though. A bit sad, I was once actively involved in setting up the se. * hierarchy. /martin s On 22 Jul 2014, Anssi Saari wrote: >Marko Rauhamaa writes: > >> Martin S : >> &g

one to many (passing variables)

2014-07-24 Thread Martin S
this data is passed as needed? Or is it a symptom of bad code? (* it's too hot (30 C + all week, and also this: https://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/415x311q90/673/a9d1a5.jpg) -- Regards, Martin S -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: one to many (passing variables)

2014-07-24 Thread Martin S
Function A collects data and then calls function B with some, but also has data that should be passed to function C. But ofc if nested functions are allowed then that might solve the issue. I don't think I've seen nested functions mentioned in a tutorial I've been looking at.

Thanks

2014-07-24 Thread Martin S
basic and sometimes confused questions =). A long time ago, I did " a lot" of PHP hacking, working on a helpdesk system. (hmm, looking at the old project site now shows it has been forked -so apparently we did something right at one point) Anyway - thanks all so far! /Martin S -- Regards,

Re: .Net Like Gui Builder for Python?

2014-07-26 Thread Martin S
>From the newbie point of view, VS is the perfect tool to get people coding. >All the way back to Visual Basic, Microsoft has consistently pushed the ease >of creating applications for Windows as a point of adoption. Hence Borland Delphi, and the now abandoned Kylix. Pascal has the Lazarus pro

Re: .Net Like Gui Builder for Python?

2014-07-26 Thread Martin S
>From the newbie point of view, VS is the perfect tool to get people coding. >All the way back to Visual Basic, Microsoft has consistently pushed the ease >of creating applications for Windows as a point of adoption. Hence Borland Delphi, and the now abandoned Kylix. Pascal has the Lazarus pro

Re: .Net Like Gui Builder for Python?

2014-07-26 Thread Martin S
On 26 Jul 2014 12:16, "Dietmar Schwertberger" wrote: > > Am 26.07.2014 11:05, schrieb Chris Angelico: > >> IMO it's an attractive nuisance at best. Make it easy to build >> something simple and flawed, and people will build things that aren't >> simple but are still flawed. Microsoft has done this

complete brain fart, it doesn't loop

2014-07-27 Thread Martin S
if res == '1': verbalres='win' elif res== '=': verbalres='draw' else: verbalres='loss' return "Long line with games" counter=counter+1 -- Regards, Martin S -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: complete brain fart, it doesn't loop

2014-07-27 Thread Martin S
Ah, thanks. Explains it all :) /martin On 27 Jul 2014, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: >Chris Angelico wrote: > >> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 3:53 AM, Martin S >wrote: >>> I have this snippet in my web application. Question is why doesn't >the >

Re: complete brain fart, it doesn't loop

2014-07-27 Thread Martin S
I'm using Bottle as suggested earlier. And yes, I'm collecting results from a html table passed to the server for processing. /martin On 27 Jul 2014, Chris Angelico wrote: >On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 4:07 AM, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: >> By the way, Python has something similar to a

Re: complete brain fart, it doesn't loop

2014-07-28 Thread Martin S
That's neat. I was only aware of the return version. Anyway, got it working now, simplifying the code in the process. So all was not lost. /Martin S 2014-07-28 9:09 GMT+02:00 Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de>: > Chris Angelico wrote: > >> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 4:07

SQLAlchemy tutorial

2014-08-03 Thread Martin S
chemy tutorials I've been looking at all produce various errors when following them (and pretty early on). Anyone got a suggestion for SQLAlchemy and Python 3.4 they can recommend? /Martin S -- Regards, Martin S -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: 'is not' or '!='

2014-08-19 Thread Martin S
+ '@sd') is 'asd@sd' > False >>>> ('asd' + '@sd') == 'asd@sd' > True Now you have managed to confuse this newbie: What would a valid "is-example" look like? Regards, Martin S -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list