Re: [Tutor] how to read from a txt file

2005-03-29 Thread jrlen balane
am getting desperate on this, please help me, I just can't figure out how to read those tabs please help me! On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 22:16:11 -0800, jrlen balane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need the string representation of the data read so that i can put it > on a wxGrid > while i am goin to nee

Re: [Tutor] how to read from a txt file

2005-03-29 Thread jrlen balane
I need the string representation of the data read so that i can put it on a wxGrid while i am goin to need the integer representation of the data so that i can plot it. anybody, please help!!! On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 20:56:16 -0800, jrlen balane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > how should i modify this

Re: [Tutor] how to read from a txt file

2005-03-29 Thread jrlen balane
how should i modify this data reader: (assumes that there is only one entry per line followed by '\n') data_file = open(os.path.normpath(self.TextFile.GetValue()), 'r') data = data_file.readlines() self.irradianceStrings = map(str, data) self.irradianceIntegers = map(int, data) self.IrradianceExe

[Tutor] RE: Using IDLE on Mac OS X?

2005-03-29 Thread Lee Cullens
This is not a great way to start on this list, but I am having trouble with an annoyance that I have not been able to solve and have not found an answer to elsewhere. (Dual 2.5 Mac G5; 10.3.8; Python 2.3; retired software engineer getting started with Python) I don't like using Python via the

Re: [Tutor] updating Oracle tables via python

2005-03-29 Thread Liam Clarke
>From what little SQL I know, try using your quotation marks differently, see if it helps. strUpdate = 'UPDATE table SET firstname = "JOSEPH" WHERE lastname = "SMITH" ' Good luck, Liam Clarke On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 15:35:24 -0800, Williams, Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have placed seve

Re: [Tutor] updating Oracle tables via python

2005-03-29 Thread Liam Clarke
Is that all the code? It's not going to be giving you any feedback. Chuck a few print commands in it. i.e. connection = cx_Oracle.connect("db/[EMAIL PROTECTED]") cursor = connection.cursor() print "Cursor created" strUpdate = " UPDATE table SET firstname = 'JOSEPH' WHERE lastname = 'SMITH' "

[Tutor] updating Oracle tables via python

2005-03-29 Thread Williams, Thomas
Greetings, I am attempting to update an Oracle table using python.  When I execute the code, the python script appears to hang, in that nothing else happens.   As always, any assistance you can provide will be appreciated.   Code:   connection = cx_Oracle.connect("db/[EMAIL PROTECTED

Fwd: [Tutor] Text and Tkinter

2005-03-29 Thread Liam Clarke
Oops, to list also. -- Forwarded message -- From: Liam Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 11:01:36 +1200 Subject: Re: [Tutor] Text and Tkinter To: Igor Riabtchuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Yes I suppose. I don't use Tkinter overly much, so this may not be correct, b

Re: [Tutor] A very simple socket server question

2005-03-29 Thread Kent Johnson
Kevin wrote: I figured out how to create a very simple socket server. Though this socket server does exactly nothing special. I can however get it to send only one line of data back to the telnet client. You need two nested loops - an outer loop to accept the connection and an inner loop to proces

[Tutor] Text and Tkinter

2005-03-29 Thread Igor Riabtchuk
Hi,   As I am sure you know, the text widget in Tkinter by default prints keyboard output left-to-right. Is there a way to make it print right-to-left?   Igor ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] A Newbie Printing Question

2005-03-29 Thread John Fouhy
Richard Lyons wrote: I have little experience with programming. I have Python installed on a Windows XP system. What code do I need to use to send output from a Python script to a local printer attached to my workstation? to a network printer? The win32print module (in Matt Hammond's windows

[Tutor] A very simple socket server question

2005-03-29 Thread Kevin
I figured out how to create a very simple socket server. Though this socket server does exactly nothing special. I can however get it to send only one line of data back to the telnet client. import socket ## HOST = "" PORT = 4000 ## s = socket.socket(socket

Re: [Tutor] A Newbie Printing Question

2005-03-29 Thread Alan Gauld
> I have little experience with programming. I have Python installed on a > Windows XP system. What code do I need to use to send output from a > Python script to a local printer attached to my workstation? to a > network printer? Printing in windows is inordinately difficult although there a

Re: [Tutor] commands with multiple things to do?

2005-03-29 Thread Alan Gauld
> Is it possible for me to make a command do multiple things instead of 1? Yes, its called writing a function or method. > self.submit_bttn = Button(self, text = "Tries: 0", command = self.reveal, self.update_count) > I have tried putting the code as 2 commands on separate lines, Try putting th

Re: [Tutor] If elif not working in comparison

2005-03-29 Thread Sean Perry
Smith, Jeff wrote: Which is just what you'd expect. It's absolutey absurd to tell someone to have *NO* faith in floating numbers. It's like anything else in programming: you have to understand what you are doing. Unless a float that has been through a round function I do not trus it. That is what

RE: [Tutor] If elif not working in comparison

2005-03-29 Thread Smith, Jeff
Brian van den Broek wrote: > Sean Perry said unto the world upon 2005-03-29 03:48: > >> Kent Johnson wrote: >> Not without using round. Have *NO* faith in floating points. This is especially true when you are creating the decimals via division and the like. >>> >>> Can you be

Re: [Tutor] An attribute error problem

2005-03-29 Thread Kevin
Well I think I am going to learn how to create small little server the will just send and recive a message from a client. I just want to know is it easier to use twistedmatrix or just plain socket to create servers? Thanks Kevin On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 06:11:46 -0500, Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Tutor] A Newbie Printing Question

2005-03-29 Thread Richard Lyons
I have little experience with programming. I have Python installed on a Windows XP system. What code do I need to use to send output from a Python script to a local printer attached to my workstation? to a network printer? Any help would be appreciated. _

Re: [Tutor] HTML form post to Python script, without server

2005-03-29 Thread Kent Johnson
Bill Kranec wrote: Hello, This might be slightly OT, but I hope I can get a few pointers. Is it possible to have an HTML form pass values to a Python script on a local computer, and execute that script? (I'm running Win XP, if that matters.) You have to have a server process running. It can be on

[Tutor] HTML form post to Python script, without server

2005-03-29 Thread Bill Kranec
Hello, This might be slightly OT, but I hope I can get a few pointers. Is it possible to have an HTML form pass values to a Python script on a local computer, and execute that script? (I'm running Win XP, if that matters.) I would like to set up such a form to do some data entry. I understand th

Re: [Tutor] If elif not working in comparison

2005-03-29 Thread Kent Johnson
Brian van den Broek wrote: Sean Perry said unto the world upon 2005-03-29 03:48: Kent Johnson wrote: Not without using round. Have *NO* faith in floating points. This is especially true when you are creating the decimals via division and the like. Can you be more specific about what kinds of prob

Re: [Tutor] An attribute error problem

2005-03-29 Thread Kent Johnson
Kevin wrote: Well I just noticed somthing about the entire sServer.py file. All the code under each def is not indented sServer.py mixes tabs and spaces for indentation. If you view it in an editor that indents 8 spaces for a tab it is fine. You might be interested in the reindent.py and untabify

Re: [Tutor] Math Question

2005-03-29 Thread C Smith
On Tuesday, Mar 22, 2005, at 15:34 America/Chicago, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I adjust coumadin doses I normal have to use whole or half pills of the medicien the patient already has. Fer Instance, if a pt takes 5mg of coumadin a day, that's 35mg of coumadin week and suppose I do a test that

[Tutor] Re: If elif not working in comparison

2005-03-29 Thread C Smith
> gerardo arnaez wrote: > >> On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 09:27:11 -0500, orbitz >> wrote: >> >>> Floats are inherintly inprecise. So if thigns arn't working like you >>> expect don't be surprised if 0.15, 0.12, and 0.1 are closer to the same >>> number than you think. >> >> >> >> Are you telling me tha

Re: [Tutor] If elif not working in comparison

2005-03-29 Thread Brian van den Broek
Sean Perry said unto the world upon 2005-03-29 03:48: Kent Johnson wrote: Not without using round. Have *NO* faith in floating points. This is especially true when you are creating the decimals via division and the like. What?!?! OK, floats don't necessarily have the exact values you expect (the

Re: hash issues [WAS] Re: [Tutor] hash()ing a list

2005-03-29 Thread Brian van den Broek
Danny Yoo said unto the world upon 2005-03-29 03:37: *Almost* all ints are fixed points for the hashing function in the sense that hash(some_int) == some_int. Almost all as: >>> hash(-1) -2 Any idea why -1 is the sole exception? [warning: beginners, skip this. Completely inconsequential CPython d

Re: hash issues [WAS] Re: [Tutor] hash()ing a list

2005-03-29 Thread Brian van den Broek
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said unto the world upon 2005-03-29 03:14: Quoting Brian van den Broek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I had thought lookup was by hash value, and thus expected the access to some_dict to cause troubles. Yet it worked. Is it that lookup is by hash value, and then equality if need be so as

Re: [Tutor] Float precision untrustworthy~~~

2005-03-29 Thread C Smith
On Monday, Mar 28, 2005, at 22:11 America/Chicago, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [cut] the mere fact that floats are difficult to check with equality has bitten me more than anything I've met yet in python. [cut] I understand what you are talking about, but I tend toward just making it one of the thin

Re: [Tutor] If elif not working in comparison

2005-03-29 Thread Sean Perry
Kent Johnson wrote: Not without using round. Have *NO* faith in floating points. This is especially true when you are creating the decimals via division and the like. What?!?! OK, floats don't necessarily have the exact values you expect (they may have errors after many decimal places), and com

Re: hash issues [WAS] Re: [Tutor] hash()ing a list

2005-03-29 Thread Danny Yoo
> *Almost* all ints are fixed points for the hashing function in the > sense that hash(some_int) == some_int. Almost all as: > > >>> hash(-1) > -2 > > Any idea why -1 is the sole exception? [warning: beginners, skip this. Completely inconsequential CPython detail ahead.] Hi Brian, Yeah, I reme

Re: [Tutor] commands with multiple things to do?

2005-03-29 Thread Danny Yoo
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Diana Hawksworth wrote: > Is it possible for me to make a command do multiple things instead of 1? > For instance, I have a button that allows me to "submit" some user input > (that is, show it in a window), but I also want it to count the number > of times that submit button

Re: hash issues [WAS] Re: [Tutor] hash()ing a list

2005-03-29 Thread jfouhy
Quoting Brian van den Broek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I had thought lookup was by hash value, and thus expected the access > to some_dict to cause troubles. Yet it worked. Is it that lookup is by > hash value, and then equality if need be so as to settle ambiguity, or > have I completely misunders