Re: Proposal: an unchanging URL for Python documentation

2005-04-20 Thread Simon Brunning
's not all unchanging. Take, for example, <http://www.python.org/doc/current/tut/node16.html>. I have wanted to steer people towards that page a number of times, and that node number keeps changing. -- Cheers, Simon B, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/ -- h

Re: goto statement

2005-04-20 Thread Simon Brunning
On 4/20/05, praba kar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >In Python what is equivalent to goto statement http://docs.python.org/tut/node6.html See, it's those dratted node numbers again. ;-) -- Cheers, Simon B, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/ -- http://m

Re: goto statement

2005-04-20 Thread Simon Brunning
On 4/20/05, Maurice Caret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > other equivalents are in > > http://docs.python.org/tut/node10.html I also missed <http://docs.python.org/tut/node5.html#SECTION00520>, for the while statement. Those URLs just keeg getting better

Re: goto statement

2005-04-20 Thread Simon Brunning
On 4/20/05, Maxim Kasimov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it would be quite useful for debuging porposes How does goto help you to remove bugs? I can certainly see how it helps you put them in in the first place... -- Cheers, Simon B, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.brunningonline.net/s

Re: goto statement

2005-04-20 Thread Simon Brunning
On 4/20/05, Maxim Kasimov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > WOW, just greate! ... but i'd like to relax at some more interesting way than > to comment each of rows Get a decent text editor. -- Cheers, Simon B, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/ -- http:

Re: building a small calculator

2005-04-20 Thread Simon Brunning
oes python have to stop a program? I tried > end but that did not work. sys.exit() Welcome to Python! -- Cheers, Simon B, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: building a small calculator

2005-04-20 Thread Simon Brunning
nd it here - <http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor>. -- Cheers, Simon B, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: building a small calculator

2005-04-20 Thread Simon Brunning
in menu. Funny you should mention that... http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/832906c6122dc137/f4cca2f994881220#f4cca2f994881220 -- Cheers, Simon B, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: goto statement

2005-04-20 Thread Simon Brunning
On 4/20/05, Maxim Kasimov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Or, if you really like the spirit of goto, > > use "if 0:". > > ... and add tabs to each string Get a decent text editor. What are you using? Notepad? -- Cheers, Simon B, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http:/

Re: goto statement

2005-04-20 Thread Simon Brunning
nce Guido to introduce a 'goto' statement than it would be to learn vi. I'm really not sure if I'm joking or not. -- Cheers, Simon B, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Using Jython in Ant Build Process

2005-04-21 Thread Simon Brunning
can I set up Ant to do this? Sorry, I'm no expert with Ant. http://www.pycs.net/users/177/stories/11.html -- Cheers, Simon B, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Dictionary question.

2005-04-21 Thread Simon Brunning
his. Is a dictionary what I should be > using? Thanks for any help. Hope this makes sense, its getting very > late here. Sounds like homework, so I'll just say that yes, a dictionary would be ideal for what you are trying to do. -- Cheers, Simon B, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.brunning

Re: XML parsing per record

2005-04-21 Thread Simon Brunning
m>. -- Cheers, Simon B, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: recording data between [ and ]

2005-04-21 Thread Simon Brunning
exe] .. ''' print between(foo, '[', ']') -- Cheers, Simon B, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Run Unix shell command $ parse command line arguments in python

2005-04-22 Thread Simon Brunning
alke's "Wrapping command-line programs" series might come in handy: http://www.dalkescientific.com/writings/diary/archive/2005/04/12/wrapping_command_line_programs.html -- Cheers, Simon B, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Noobie Question: Using strings and paths in mkdir (os.mkdir("/test/"a))

2005-04-22 Thread Simon Brunning
t; > books, but i want this directory as a subdirectory of test. > http://docs.python.org/ref/string-catenation.html For this job, os.path.join() might be better. See <http://docs.python.org/lib/module-os.path.html>. -- Cheers, Simon B, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Run Unix shell command $ parse command line arguments in python

2005-04-22 Thread Simon Brunning
nds.getstatusoutput('ls /bin/ls') You'll certainly need to import *something*. Have you looked at the subprocess module? -- Cheers, Simon B, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python or PHP?

2005-04-23 Thread Simon John
I've been a PHP and Perl programmer (amongst others) for 10 years or more now, and a Python coder for 3 or so. I have come to hate PHP now, it's pseudo-OOP is awful, it's dog slow at handling XML, it's so easy to use that most of the programmers I've had contact with are very sloppy and do things

Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Apr 25)

2005-04-25 Thread Simon Brunning
QOTW: "Sure, but what about the case where his program is on paper tape and all he has for an editor is an ice pick?" - Grant Edwards "And in this case, you get improved usability *and* improved speed at the same time. That's the way it should be." - Fredrik Lundh The Simplest Possible Metac

Re: Changing a line in a text file

2005-04-26 Thread Simon Brunning
ing I learned from bitter experience when I tried to be smart > and make script-based edits over entire directories of html files. See http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/56037 -- Cheers, Simon B, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/ -- http://ma

Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Apr 25)

2005-04-26 Thread Simon Brunning
QOTW: "Sure, but what about the case where his program is on paper tape and all he has for an editor is an ice pick?" - Grant Edwards "And in this case, you get improved usability *and* improved speed at the same time. That's the way it should be." - Fredrik Lundh The Simplest Possible Metac

Re: How do I parse this ? regexp ? [slighly OT]

2005-04-28 Thread Simon Dahlbacka
> >>> safetyChecker = re.compile(r"^[-\[\]0-9,. ]*$") ..doesn't the dot (.) in your character class mean that you are allowing EVERYTHING (except newline?) (you would probably want \. instead) /Simon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

logging problems

2005-04-28 Thread Simon Dahlbacka
ot; I'm running out of ideas what to try next, so suggestions/ideas appreciated! /Simon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Can .py be complied?

2005-04-29 Thread Simon Brunning
is missing a vital battery. It indicates to *me* that people aren't reading the FAQ. ;-) -- Cheers, Simon B, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to round trip python and sqlite dates

2013-11-16 Thread Paul Simon
"Mark Lawrence" wrote in message news:mailman.2752.1384654581.18130.python-l...@python.org... > All the references regarding the subject that I can find, e.g. > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1829872/read-datetime-back-from-sqlite-as-a-datetime-in-python, > > talk about creating a table in

Re: How can i return more than one value from a function to more than one variable

2013-12-23 Thread Simon Hayward
> basically what I wanna do is this : > > x = 4 > y = 7 > def switch (z,w): > ***this will switch z to w and vice verca*** > c= z > z=w > w=c > print 'Now x =', w, 'and y = ' , z > return w > x = switch(x,y) > > How am I supposed to do so I can return also a value to th

Re: Continuing indentation

2016-03-04 Thread Simon Ward
ld aim more for consistency (the hobgoblin that may be), which is what makes code easier to grok. Stop arguing, start thinking about others who will have to read your code. What is better in your subjective opinion means very little. Having commonly understandable style is what matters, and wha

Re: numpy arrays

2016-03-23 Thread Simon Ward
[4,4,4,4]] Use the transpose() method: http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy-1.10.0/reference/generated/numpy.ndarray.transpose.html Simon -- Sent from Kaiten Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: setuptools + data_files = 2

2014-10-23 Thread Simon Kennedy
On Wednesday, 22 October 2014 19:43:25 UTC+1, luc2 wrote: > hello, would you know how to make data_files work in setuptools ? > i can't figure out how to put datas in the generated .tar.gz If you're creating an sdist then you'll need to create a MANIFEST.in file in the same folder as setup.py wi

Truthiness

2014-10-23 Thread Simon Kennedy
Just out of academic interest, is there somewhere in the Python docs where the following is explained? >>> 3 == True False >>> if 3: print("It's Twue") It's Twue i.e. in the if statement 3 is True but not in the first -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Truthiness

2014-10-23 Thread Simon Kennedy
Thanks everyone. That's a thorough enough explanation for me. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: OS X Menubar in Tkinter

2014-10-28 Thread Simon Kennedy
On Thursday, 23 October 2014 20:02:43 UTC+1, Chris Angelico wrote: > I don't think it's possible to auto-solve the Google Groups formatting > issues at the mailing list level, as the fundamental problem is that > information isn't being transmitted. (Forcing everything to be wrapped > and forcing

Installing Parsers/Tree Builders to, and accessing these packages from Python2.7

2014-11-01 Thread Simon Evans
orXML/lxml but best to cross that bridge when gotten to, as they say. Thank you for reading.I look forward to hearing from you. Yours Simon Evans -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Installing Parsers/Tree Builders to, and accessing these packages from Python2.7

2014-11-02 Thread Simon Evans
Dear Terry Reedy I am using operating system Windows 7. I put the HTML TreeBuilder / htm5 library into the Python2.7 folder. I read that the LXML Treebuilder /lmxl installs itself automatically to the Python2.7 installation, so that is why I am not having difficulty with that installation. I

Re: Installing Parsers/Tree Builders to, and accessing these packages from Python2.7

2014-11-02 Thread Simon Evans
I have proceeded to click on the 'setup.py' in the html5-0.999 lib and got a python console for a few seconds, this may have been the installation of the HTML5 parser/ treebuilder - I will have to put the code that did not work to it previously to it again, hopefully it will. -- https://mail.

Re: Installing Parsers/Tree Builders to, and accessing these packages from Python2.7

2014-11-02 Thread Simon Evans
Dear Mark Lawrence, I have tried inputting the code in the first link, re: >>> import lxml >>> import lxml.etree >>> import bs4.builder.htmlparser Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ImportError: No module named htmlparser >>> import bs4.builder._lxml >>> import bs4.builder.h

Re: Installing Parsers/Tree Builders to, and accessing these packages from Python2.7

2014-11-02 Thread Simon Evans
I have got the html5lib-0.999.tar.gz and the HTMLParser-0.0.2.tar.gz files in my Downloads the problem is how I install them to Python2.7. The lxml-3.3.3.win32-py2.7 is an exe file, which upon clicking will install but obviously the html and the html5 installations are not so straightforwa

Re: Installing Parsers/Tree Builders to, and accessing these packages from Python2.7

2014-11-02 Thread Simon Evans
Oh I don't mind quoting console output, I just thought I'd be sparing you unnecessary detail. output was going nicely as I input text from my 'Getting Started with Beautiful Soup' even when the author reckoned things would go wrong - due to lxml not being installed, things went right, becau

Re: Installing Parsers/Tree Builders to, and accessing these packages from Python2.7

2014-11-02 Thread Simon Evans
What I meant to say was I can't get the html5 or the html parsers to install, I have got their downloads in their respective directories in the downloads directory. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Installing Parsers/Tree Builders to, and accessing these packages from Python2.7

2014-11-03 Thread Simon Evans
I input 'pip install html5lib' to the Python 2.7 console and got : >>> pip install html5lib File "", line 1 pip install html5lib ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax >>> I am not sure what you mean about 'single line paragraphs'. I put my text into double line spacing in my last mi

Re: Installing Parsers/Tree Builders to, and accessing these packages from Python2.7

2014-11-03 Thread Simon Evans
I input to the cmd console 'pip install html5lib' but again got an error return. I thought one of the participants was unhappy about single line spacing (re: single line paragraphs') Okay I will go back to single line spacing, I don't think it is all that important, really. Anyway this is my co

How do you download and install HTML5TreeBuilder ?

2014-11-18 Thread Simon Evans
hen please decline to respond, seeing as far as I'm concerned such trivialities are besides the point, and are of no help, so vent your ire elsewhere. YOurs Simon Evans. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How do you download and install HTML5TreeBuilder ?

2014-11-18 Thread Simon Evans
re: Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601] Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Users\Intel Atom>pip install html5lib Downloading/unpacking html5lib Running setup.py (path:c:\users\intela~1\appdata\local\temp\pip_build_Intel At om\html5lib\setup.py) egg_info for pac

Tag objects in Beautiful Soup

2014-11-20 Thread Simon Evans
urns at the first line re:- >>> atag = soup_atag.a Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in NameError: name 'soup_atag' is not defined >>> ---- Can anyone tell me where I am going wrong or where the text is wrong ? So far the given code has run okay, I have put to the console everything the text tells you to. Thank you for reading. Simon Evans -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python 2.7 and unicode (one more time)

2014-12-02 Thread Simon Evans
7;>Home</a> <a href=" http=""> >>> atag.name = 'p' >>> print(soup) Test html a tag example http://www.packtpub.com'>Home</a> <a href=" http=""> >>> atag.name = 'a' >>> print(soup) Test html a tag example http://www.packtpub.com'>Home</a> <a href=" http=""> >>> soup_atag = soup >>> atag = soup_atag.a >>> print (atag['href']) http://www.packtpub.com'>Home >> Thank you. Yours Simon. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Tabs for indentation & Spaces for alignment in Python 3?

2014-12-06 Thread Simon Ward
d) style guides (or rather policies) exist. Maybe we should sack such programmers regardless of their other abilities instead of forcing all, including the conscientious, programmers to adhere to strict style policies? While I like the idea, I think that a slap on the wrist and a bit of re-indentation/re-alignment is all that is necessary (although I have worked with people who consider pure style changes to be a sin too). Simon -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Text Code(from 'Getting Started in Beautiful Soup' re: cd Soup , returns 'Syntax Error, invalid syntax'

2014-12-11 Thread Simon Evans
SC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win 32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> cd Soup File "", line 1 cd Soup ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax >>> --

Re: Text Code(from 'Getting Started in Beautiful Soup' re: cd Soup , returns 'Syntax Error, invalid syntax'

2014-12-14 Thread Simon Evans
ow if its related to the above or not. Yours Simon. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Python console rejects an object reference, having made an object with that reference as its name in previous line

2014-12-14 Thread Simon Evans
given (according to the book) the output: --- plants Maybe that is getting a bit far ahead, but I can't quite see where I have gone wrong - 'soup' has been defined as an object made of file 'EcologicalPyramid.html I hope you can help me on this point. Yours Simon -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python console rejects an object reference, having made an object with that reference as its name in previous line

2014-12-14 Thread Simon Evans
ne which comes after, again I get an error return, my only point is that with the above input, console return does not seem to infer that soup has not been defined. You recommend that I put all the code into a file then run it - how do I do that ? I am new to Python, as you might have gathered. Thank you for your help. Yours Simon -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python console rejects an object reference, having made an object with that reference as its name in previous line

2014-12-14 Thread Simon Evans
Dear Jussi, and Billy I have changed the input in accordance with your advice, re: -- Python 2.7.6 (default, Nov 10 2013, 19:24:18) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win 32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for

Re: Python console rejects an object reference, having made an object with that reference as its name in previous line

2014-12-18 Thread Simon Evans
@Steven D'Aprano, I input the following to Python 2.7, which got the following:- >>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup >>> with open("ecologicalpyramid.html","r") as ecological_pyramid: ... soup= next(ecological_pyramid,

Re: Python console rejects an object reference, having made an object with that reference as its name in previous line

2015-01-04 Thread Simon Evans
rompt to that folder (re: cd Soup)as instructed on page 30, and put a duplicate file of 'EcologicalPyramid.html' in the python 2.8 directory. I therefore am wondering where I ought put this html file where the Python console will recognize it ? Thank you for your attent

A curious bit of code...

2014-02-13 Thread forman . simon
I ran across this and I thought there must be a better way of doing it, but then after further consideration I wasn't so sure. if key[:1] + key[-1:] == '<>': ... Some possibilities that occurred to me: if key.startswith('<') and key.endswith('>'): ... and: if (key[:1], key[-1:]) == ('<

Re: A curious bit of code...

2014-02-13 Thread forman . simon
For the record I wasn't worried about the performance. ;-) It was for Tkinter event strings not markup tags. I'm glad this was the time winner! "key and key[0] == '<' and key[-1] == '>'" Cheers to the folks who did the timings (and saved me from the trouble!) Last but not least... s[::len(s

Re: A curious bit of code...

2014-02-14 Thread forman . simon
of readability and, uh, unsurprising-ness, and so I was pleased to learn that that was also the fastest. (FWIW, it seems to me that whoever wrote that line was influenced by shell programming. It's a shell sort of a trick to my eye.) When writing Python code I *do* value "clarity, fle

Re: A curious bit of code...

2014-02-14 Thread Simon Forman
nd how it's not Google Groups.) I really hope I can be of use with IDLE. I've been using it for years now. :) Warm regards, ~Simon -- http://phoenixbureau.org/ http://phoenixbureau.org/blog.html http://twitter.com/SimonForman "The history of mankind for the last four centuries

A curious bit of code...

2014-02-14 Thread Simon Forman
trying to explain to a friend about Usenet and how it's not Google Groups.) I really hope I can be of use with IDLE. I've been using it for years now. :) Warm regards, ~Simon -- http://phoenixbureau.org/ http://phoenixbureau.org/blog.html http://twitter.com/SimonForman &q

How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.

2014-05-10 Thread Simon Evans
I am new to Python, but my main interest is to use it to Webscrape. I have downloaded Beautiful Soup, and have followed the instruction in the 'Getting Started with Beautiful Soup' book, but my Python installations keep returning errors, so I can't get started. I have unzipped Beautiful Soup to

Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.

2014-05-11 Thread Simon Evans
Thank you everyone who replied, for your help. Using the command prompt console, it accepts the first line of code, but doesn't seem to accept the second line. I have altered it a little, but it is not having any of it, I quote my console input and output here, as it can probably explain things

Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.

2014-05-11 Thread Simon Evans
Dear Chris Angelico, Yes, you are right, I did install Python 3.4 as well as 2.7. I have removed Python 3.4, and input the code you suggested and it looks like it has installed properly, returning the following code:- --

Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.

2014-05-11 Thread Simon Evans
I have downloaded Beautiful Soup 3, I am using Python 2.7. I understand from your message that I ought to use Python 2.6 or Python 3.4 with Beautiful Soup 4, the book I am using 'Getting Started with Beautiful Soup' is for Beautiful Soup 4. Therefore I gather I must re-download Beautiful Soup an

Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.

2014-05-11 Thread Simon Evans
Yeah well at no point does the book say to start inputting the code mentioned in Python command prompt rather than the Windows command prompt, but thank you for your guidance anyway. I have downloaded the latest version of Beautiful Soup 4, but am again facing problems with the second line of c

Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.

2014-05-11 Thread Simon Evans
On Monday, May 12, 2014 12:19:24 AM UTC+1, Simon Evans wrote: > Yeah well at no point does the book say to start inputting the code mentioned > in Python command prompt rather than the Windows command prompt, but thank > you for your guidance anyway. > > I have downloaded the la

Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.

2014-05-11 Thread Simon Evans
- but wait a moment 'BeautifulSoup4 works with 2.6+ and 3.x'(Terry Reedy) - doesn't 2.6 + = 2.7, which is what I'm using with BeautifulSoup4. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.

2014-05-12 Thread Simon Evans
Hi Ian, thank you for your help. Yes that is the book by Vineeth J Nair. At the top of page 12, at step 1 it says : 1.Download the latest tarball from https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/b/beautifulsoup4/. So yes, the version the book is dealing with is beautiful soup 4. I am using Pyhon 2

Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.

2014-05-12 Thread Simon Evans
The version of Python the book seems to be referring to is 2.7, re: bottom of page 10- 'Pick the Path variable and add the following section to the Path variable: ;C:\PythonXY for example C:\Python 27' The version of Beautiful Soup seems to be Beautiful Soup 4 as at the top of page 12 it states

Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.

2014-05-12 Thread Simon Evans
Thank you for your advice. I did buy a book on Python, 'Hello Python' but the code in it wouldn't run, so I returned it to the shop for a refund. I am going to visit the local library to see if they have any books on Python. I am familiar with Java and Pascal, and looking at a few You tubes on t

Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.

2014-05-12 Thread Simon Evans
Dear Ian, The book does recommend to use Python 2.7 (see bottom line of page 10). The book also recommends to use Beautiful Soup 4. You are right that in that I have placed the unzipped BS4 folder within a folder, and I therefore removed the contents of the inner folder and transferred them to

Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.

2014-05-12 Thread Simon Evans
I did download the latest version of Beautiful Soup 4 from the download site, as the book suggested. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.

2014-05-13 Thread Simon Evans
I have removed the original Beautiful Soup 4 download, that I had unzipped to my Beautiful Soup directory on the C drive. I downloaded the latest version of Beautiful Soup 4 from the Crummy site. I unzipped it, and removed the contents of the unzipped directory and placed contents in my Beautif

Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.

2014-05-13 Thread Simon Evans
Dear Ian, and other programmers, thank you for your advice. I am resending the last message because this twattish cut and paste facility on my computer has a knack of chopping off ones original message, I will try to convey the right message this time : I have removed the original Beautiful

Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.

2014-05-14 Thread Simon Evans
I downloaded the get-pip.py file. I installed it to the same folder on my C drive as the Beautiful Soup one in which the Beautiful Soup 4 downloads was unzipped to. I changed directory to the folder on the Command Prompt, as you instructed in step 2. I input the code to the console you gave on s

Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.

2014-05-14 Thread Simon Evans
I have input the above code by copy and pasting to the Idle python console, as the python 2.7 command prompt is fussy about the indentation on the eleventh line down, if I then indent it, it replies that the indentation is unnecessary of unexpected, and if I don't it says an indentation is expec

Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.

2014-05-15 Thread Simon Evans
Dear Programmers, I downloaded Peazip, which doesn't remove file/ folder hierarchy. I unzipped it and input the same code to the console and it installed Beautiful Soup 4 okay re:- - Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.76

Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.

2014-05-15 Thread Simon Evans
Dear Programmers, As anticipated, it has not been to long before I have encountered further difficulty. At the top of page 16 of 'Getting Started with Beautiful Soup" it gives code to be input, whether to the Python or Windows command prompt I am not sure, but both seem to be resistant to

Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.

2014-05-15 Thread Simon Evans
Dear Programmers, I noticed a couple of typos in my previous message, so have now altered them thus :- Dear Programmers, As anticipated, it has not been to long before I have encountered further difficulty. At the top of page 16 of 'Getting Started with Beautiful Soup" it gives code to be in

Re: Retrieving possible list for use in a subsequent INSERT

2013-11-01 Thread Paul Simon
ger(5) not null default 1, > visits datetime not null, > downloads set('None Yet'), > > foreign key (counterID) references counters(ID), > unique index (visits) > )ENGINE = MYISAM; > > > Is the SET column type the way to do it? > i tried it but the error i'm receiving is: > > > pymysql.err.InternalError: (1241, 'Operand should contain 1 column(s)') > > Please help pick the necessary column type that will be able to store a a > list of values. > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list If you have a list of values of the same type, but different values, you need a new table with a foreign key to the table it relates to. This is a relational database question. You can read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_normalization#Normal_forms -- Joel Goldstick http://joelgoldstick.com He doesn't a many to many table, although that would put the schema into a classic normal form. Yes, there will be duplicated data. Sometimes de-normalizing a schema may make things simpler and easier to use for someone not used to database work. I would also use a many to many table being familiar with normal forms but it is not a neccessity. Paul Simon -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Retrieving possible list for use in a subsequent INSERT

2013-11-01 Thread Paul Simon
"Nick the Gr33k" wrote in message news:l50oo5$k05$1...@dont-email.me... > 1/11/2013 7:07 ??, ?/? Paul Simon ??: > >> If you have a list of values of the same type, but different values, >> you need a new table with a foreign key to the table it relates

Re: Python Worst Practices

2015-02-26 Thread Simon Ward
the ease of avoiding it makes the extra character a practical defensive technique. I agree it is not a worst case. Simon -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Worst Practices

2015-02-26 Thread Simon Ward
or level is higher than N. None of the above is a good reason to use error *or* success return values in Python--use exceptions!--but may be encountered when running other processes. Simon -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Worst Practices

2015-02-27 Thread Simon Ward
On 26 February 2015 21:23:34 GMT+00:00, Ben Finney wrote: >Simon Ward writes: >> 0 = success and non-zero = failure is the meme established, rather >> than 0 = true, non-zero = false. > >That is not the case: the commands ‘true’ (returns value 0) and ‘false’ >(r

Re: Python Worst Practices

2015-02-27 Thread Simon Ward
ruth and falseness are inverted. No programming language >other than that provided by system shells I have used evaluates 0 to >true. I hope the following examples from bash illustrate this: $ (( 0 )) && echo success $ (( 1 )) && echo success success $ (( 0 )) ; echo

Re: Python Worst Practices

2015-02-27 Thread Simon Ward
On 27 February 2015 20:06:25 GMT+00:00, Simon Ward wrote: > >I mentioned the true and false. OK, so it's a meme, but it's based on a >false (pun intended) understanding of exit status codes. That success >evaluates to true and failure evaluates to false does not mean th

Re: Query on Python 3.2 and supported OpenSSL Versions

2015-05-25 Thread Simon Ward
d 1.0.1 and it should build against any version in these branches. I also have pyOpenSSL built against these branches. Simon -- A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.—John Gall -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Python 3.5.0b3(64 bit) - idle refused to work on windows 7 desktop pc.

2015-07-11 Thread Simon Ball
Good morning, Everything else appeared to work though. Kept getting the windows 'donut' telling me it was doing something, but then the program did not appear. Windows 7 Home Premium Service Pack 1 intel 64 bit pc. Kind regards Simon Ball Luton Bedfordshire UK -- Using Opera

Why doesn't input code return 'plants' as in 'Getting Started with Beautiful Soup' text (on page 30) ?

2015-07-11 Thread Simon Evans
Dear Programmers, Thank you for your advice regarding giving the console a current address in the code for it to access the html file. The console seems to accept the code to that extent, but when I input the two lines of code intended to access the location of a required word, the console re

Re: Why doesn't input code return 'plants' as in 'Getting Started with Beautiful Soup' text (on page 30) ?

2015-07-12 Thread Simon Evans
Dear Mark Lawrence, thank you for your advice. I take it that I use the input you suggest for the line : soup = BeautifulSoup("C:\Beautiful Soup\ecological_pyramid.html",lxml") seeing as I have to give the file's full address I therefore have to modify your : soup = BeautifulSoup(ecological_py

Re: Why doesn't input code return 'plants' as in 'Getting Started with Beautiful Soup' text (on page 30) ?

2015-07-12 Thread Simon Evans
Dear Peter Otten, thank you for your reply that I have not gone very far into the detail of which, as it seems Python console cannot recognise the name 'f' as given it, re output below : Python 2.7.6 (default, Nov 10 2013, 19:24:18) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win 32 Type "help", "copyright"

Re: Why doesn't input code return 'plants' as in 'Getting Started with Beautiful Soup' text (on page 30) ?

2015-07-12 Thread Simon Evans
Dear Peter Otten, Incidentally, you have discovered a fault in that there is an erroneous difference in my code of 'ecologicalpyramid.html' and that given in the text, in the first few lines re: plants 1000

Re: Why doesn't input code return 'plants' as in 'Getting Started with Beautiful Soup' text (on page 30) ?

2015-07-12 Thread Simon Evans
Dear Peter Otten, Yes, I have been copying and pasting, as it saves typing. I do get 'indented block' error responses as a small price to pay for the time and energy thus saved. Also Console seems to reject for 'indented block' reasons better known to itself, copy and pasted lines that it accep

Re: Why doesn't input code return 'plants' as in 'Getting Started with Beautiful Soup' text (on page 30) ?

2015-07-12 Thread Simon Evans
Dear Peter Otten, I typed in (and did not copy and paste) the code as you suggested just now (6.28 pm, Sunday 12th July 2015), this is the result I got: Python 2.7.6 (default, Nov 10 2013, 19:24:18) [MSC v.1500 32 bit

Re: Bug!

2015-08-22 Thread Simon Ward
On 23 August 2015 00:06:44 BST, Chris Angelico wrote: >Precisely. Every time you support multiple versions of some >dependency, you have to test your code on all of them, and in the >common case (new features added in newer versions), you have to target >the oldest and weakest version. Just don

Re: Python's re module and genealogy problem

2014-06-11 Thread Simon Ward
Regular_expression#Patterns_for_non-regular_languages [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_language Simon -- Sent from Kaiten Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces

2014-07-03 Thread Simon Ward
f spaces. If you don't use such an editor, and you really can't tolerate the different style, you can use another tool to reindent your code. Simon -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces

2014-07-04 Thread Simon Ward
to highlight tabs and trailing spaces. Simon -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Suitable Python code to scrape specific details from web pages.

2014-08-12 Thread Simon Evans
f you could tell me where I am going wrong. Yours faithfully Simon Evans. >>>import urllib >>>import re >>>htmlfile = urllib.urlopen("http://www.racingpost.com/horses2/cards/card.sd?

Re: Suitable Python code to scrape specific details from web pages.

2014-08-12 Thread Simon Evans
On Tuesday, August 12, 2014 9:00:30 PM UTC+1, Simon Evans wrote: > Dear Programmers, > > I have been looking at the You tube 'Web Scraping Tutorials' of Chris Reeves. > I have tried a few of his python programs in the Python27 command prompt, but > altered them from a

Code to Python 27 prompt to access a html file stored on C drive

2014-08-14 Thread Simon Evans
'RacingPost.com' 'SportingLife.com''Oddschecker.com' and 'Bestbetting.com' which is what I am interested in working on. Hope you can help. Yours Simon Evans. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Global indent

2014-08-22 Thread Simon Ward
selected text rather than replacing it with a tab character. Shift-tab probably out dented too. Simon -- Sent from Kaiten Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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