Re: Python and Tkinter by John E Grayson

2012-05-17 Thread Bill Felton
On May 17, 2012, at 9:07 AM, Kevin Walzer wrote: On 5/16/12 11:55 PM, Mark R Rivet wrote: I have a copy of this book and was wondering how relevant the content is considering the publish date is 2000. Are people still using this information? Anyone have any experience with this book? I

Distribute app without source?

2012-04-07 Thread Bill Felton
Thanks in advance for any insights! My partner and I have developed an application primarily intended for internal use within our company. However, we face the need to expose the app to certain non-employees. We would like to do so without exposing our source code. Our targets include users

Re: Distribute app without source?

2012-04-07 Thread Bill Felton
On Apr 7, 2012, at 1:22 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: On 4/7/2012 9:07 AM, Bill Felton wrote: Thanks in advance for any insights! My partner and I have developed an application primarily intended for internal use within our company. However, we face the need to expose the app to certain non

Re: Class or Dictionary?

2011-02-11 Thread Bill Felton
From an old-time Smalltalker / object guy, take this for whatever it's worth. The *primary* reason for going with a class over a dictionary is if there is specific behavior that goes along with these attributes. If there isn't, if this is just an 'object store', there's no reason not to use a

[Announce] Python Lansing (MI) User Group first meeting Feb. 24 2011

2011-02-02 Thread Bill Felton
This is to announce the first meeting of the newly formed Python Lansing User Group in Lansing Michigan. The group has been organized on Meetup.com. The meeting will be held at Second Gear Coworking, 1134 N. Washington Lansing, MI at 6PM. Please join us on meetup and at the kick-off meeting.

Re: use class factory to set required class variables?

2011-01-27 Thread Bill Felton
On Jan 27, 2011, at 4:03 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:37:20 -0800, Alan wrote: I have a class ``A`` that is intentionally incomplete: it has methods that refer to class variables that do not exist. For the record, in Python it is usual to refer to attributes rather

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-20 Thread Bill Felton
On Jan 19, 2011, at 10:20 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: On 01/19/2011 05:01 PM, geremy condra wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:04 PM, rantingrick rantingr...@gmail.com wrote: And you've also lost all connection with the people. I am desperately trying to to snap you out of this psychosis before

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-20 Thread Bill Felton
On Jan 20, 2011, at 10:11 AM, rantingrick wrote: On Jan 20, 6:30 am, Bill Felton subscripti...@cagttraining.com wrote: With some hesitation, I feel a need to jump in here. I'm a complete newbie to Python. I'm still learning the language. And you know what? I've ignored Tkinter. Well

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-20 Thread Bill Felton
On Jan 20, 2011, at 12:13 PM, MRAB wrote: On 20/01/2011 15:11, rantingrick wrote: On Jan 20, 6:30 am, Bill Feltonsubscripti...@cagttraining.com wrote: [snip] As one of 'the people' who is presumably the focus of rantingrick's concern, let me assure him Tkinter is a non-issue. MIchael is

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-20 Thread Bill Felton
On Jan 20, 2011, at 8:26 AM, Octavian Rasnita wrote: From: Bill Felton subscripti...@cagttraining.com I'm a complete newbie to Python. To Python, or to programming in general? (Because it is important) Not to rantingrick's point as I understand it. But since you ask, new to Python

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-20 Thread Bill Felton
On Jan 20, 2011, at 1:15 PM, Nick Stinemates wrote: So you're going to lead the peasants (your word) whether they like it or not, and any who don't want to follow are clearly being selfish and ignorant? If you could read Bill's words and not find them to be overly selfish and

Can I have both Python 2.7 and Python 3.1 at the same time on the Mac?

2011-01-06 Thread Bill Felton
Hi All, I'm new to python, trying to learn it from a variety of resources, including references posted recently to this list. I'm going through /www.openbookproject.net/thinkCSpy/ and find it makes use of gasp, which apparently is not compatible with 3.1. I've also seen various resources

Re: Can I have both Python 2.7 and Python 3.1 at the same time on the Mac?

2011-01-06 Thread Bill Felton
On Jan 6, 2011, at 3:46 PM, Ned Deily wrote: In article 775a9d45-25b5-4a16-9fe5-6217fd67f...@cagttraining.com, Bill Felton subscripti...@cagttraining.com wrote: I'm new to python, trying to learn it from a variety of resources, including references posted recently to this list. I'm going