Re: python logo

2005-09-05 Thread Joal Heagney
:) Joal Heagney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Experience regarding Python tutorials?

2005-08-27 Thread Joal Heagney
Steve wrote: Python is an excellent place to start. Avoid Perl at all costs. There is a new beginners book on Python that looks interesting. It is from WROX (the red cover folks) and called Beginning Python.

Re: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jun 7)

2005-06-09 Thread Joal Heagney
Ville Vainio wrote: Fred == Fred Pacquier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Fred Same here : thanks for letting us get away with being Fred lazy(er) ! :-) Ditto. As someone who's done a couple of p-url's, I can say it's quite a bit of work to find the interesting tidbits from the depths

Re: Two questions

2005-06-02 Thread Joal Heagney
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've developed in several other languages and have recently found Python and I'm trying to use it in the shape of the PythonCard application development tool. My two questions: 1. What is the easiest way to create a for loop in the style I'm used to from

Re: Python Polymorphism

2005-05-22 Thread Joal Heagney
, for the sake of the community, DON'T! You're not that necessary. Joal Heagney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Is Python suitable for a huge, enterprise size app?

2005-05-22 Thread Joal Heagney
, it would be harder for a reverse-engineer to say But I was JUST looking at it!. Especially when the lawyers are involved. Joal Heagney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Mandrake 10.1 and Python 2.3.4

2005-05-16 Thread Joal Heagney
that other Mandrake Users aren't getting this. Joal Heagney John Ridley wrote: Joal Heagney wrote: Hi everyone. I've been getting this error message in python, and it's really driving me up the wall. [EMAIL PROTECTED] joal]$ python 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback Python 2.3.4

Re: Reusing object methods?

2005-05-01 Thread Joal Heagney
Axel Straschil wrote: Hello! Why not: class A: def a_lengthy_method(self, params): # do some work depending only on data in self and params class B(A): pass ? Lg, AXEL. As a rough guess, I think the original poster was wondering how to include *one* specific method from class A

Re: Name of IDLE on Linux

2005-04-02 Thread Joal Heagney
Edward Diener wrote: Thomas Rast wrote: Edward Diener [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It is a pity the Python Linux binary installations do not create folders on the desktop or in the Gnome menu system with links to the Python to the documentation and a readme telling me what executables were

Re: New to programming question

2005-04-01 Thread Joal Heagney
Bengt Richter wrote: On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 07:46:41 GMT, Joal Heagney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh goddammmni. I seem to be doing this a lot today. Look below for the extra addition to the code I posted. Joal Heagney wrote: Here's my contribution anycase: count = 0 # Get first input name

Re: New to programming question

2005-04-01 Thread Joal Heagney
Steve Holden wrote: Joal Heagney wrote: Bengt Richter wrote: On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 07:46:41 GMT, Joal Heagney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh goddammmni. I seem to be doing this a lot today. Look below for the extra addition to the code I posted. Joal Heagney wrote: Here's my contribution

Re: New to programming question

2005-04-01 Thread Joal Heagney
Joal Heagney wrote: Steve Holden wrote: I suppose this would be far too easy to understand, then: pr =['Guess my name', 'Wrong, try again', 'Last chance'] for p in pr: name = raw_input(p+: ) if name == Ben: print You're right! break else: print Loser: no more tries for you regards

Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH - how to set?

2005-03-31 Thread Joal Heagney
Roman Yakovenko wrote: Thanks for help. But it is not exactly solution I am looking for. I would like to do it from python script. For example update_env() #- this function will change LD_LIBRARY_PATH import extension_that_depends_on_shared_library Roman On Mar 31, 2005 9:35 AM, John Abel [EMAIL

Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH - how to set?

2005-03-31 Thread Joal Heagney
Joal Heagney wrote: Roman Yakovenko wrote: Thanks for help. But it is not exactly solution I am looking for. I would like to do it from python script. For example update_env() #- this function will change LD_LIBRARY_PATH import extension_that_depends_on_shared_library Roman On Mar 31, 2005 9:35 AM

Re: math - need divisors algorithm

2005-03-31 Thread Joal Heagney
Ed Suominen wrote: Philp Smith wrote: Hi Does anyone have suggested code for a compact, efficient, elegant, most of all pythonic routine to produce a list of all the proper divisors of an integer (given a list of prime factors/powers) Is this compact enough? :-) def properDivisors(N): return

Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH - how to set?

2005-03-31 Thread Joal Heagney
Antoon Pardon wrote: Op 2005-03-31, Joal Heagney schreef [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Joal Heagney wrote: Roman Yakovenko wrote: Thanks for help. But it is not exactly solution I am looking for. I would like to do it from python script. For example update_env() #- this function will change LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Re: pySerial- need help.

2005-03-31 Thread Joal Heagney
kamarudin samsudin wrote: Hi all, I try to invoke python serial script via my browser using PHP (exec function). For the serial communication, i used pySerial module. It fine when it run it as root but when i try to run it from browser, i got this error in my httpd/error_log File weather1.py,

Re: pySerial- need help.

2005-03-31 Thread Joal Heagney
Joal Heagney wrote: kamarudin samsudin wrote: Hi all, I try to invoke python serial script via my browser using PHP (exec function). For the serial communication, i used pySerial module. It fine when it run it as root but when i try to run it from browser, i got this error in my httpd/error_log

Re: New to programming question

2005-03-31 Thread Joal Heagney
Ben wrote: This is an exercise from the Non-programmers tutorial for Python by Josh Cogliati. The exercise is: Write a program that has a user guess your name, but they only get 3 chances to do so until the program quits. Here is my script: -- count = 0 name =

Re: New to programming question

2005-03-31 Thread Joal Heagney
Oh goddammmni. I seem to be doing this a lot today. Look below for the extra addition to the code I posted. Joal Heagney wrote: Here's my contribution anycase: count = 0 # Get first input name = raw_input(Guess my name: ) # Give the sucker two extra goes while count 2: # Check the value

Re: Python for a 10-14 years old?

2005-03-29 Thread Joal Heagney
Joal Heagney wrote: Duncan Booth wrote: Joal Heagney wrote: Nice. I still have to download a version of pygame to try this out, but the fact that you can't hide the turtle in python.turtle was bugging me out with my version. (A fair bit of copy/paste in gimp, I can tell you!) What was wrong

Re: Python for a 10-14 years old?

2005-03-29 Thread Joal Heagney
Joal Heagney wrote: Joal Heagney wrote: Duncan Booth wrote: Joal Heagney wrote: Nice. I still have to download a version of pygame to try this out, but the fact that you can't hide the turtle in python.turtle was bugging me out with my version. (A fair bit of copy/paste in gimp, I can tell you

Re: Python for a 10-14 years old?

2005-03-29 Thread Joal Heagney
Duncan Booth wrote: Joal Heagney wrote: Nice. I still have to download a version of pygame to try this out, but the fact that you can't hide the turtle in python.turtle was bugging me out with my version. (A fair bit of copy/paste in gimp, I can tell you!) What was wrong with hiding the turtle

Re: Python for a 10-14 years old?

2005-03-28 Thread Joal Heagney
Lee Harr wrote: On 2005-03-27, Joal Heagney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Couldn't help myself. I had to write the Dragon Fractal in python.turtle :) That's nice. I ported it to use the pygsear Turtle class. http://www.nongnu.org/pygsear/ Nice. I still have to download a version of pygame to try

Re: Why tuple with one item is no tuple

2005-03-26 Thread Joal Heagney
Antoon Pardon wrote: snip So python choose a non-deterministic direction. To me (2,3) + (4,5) equals (6,8). I don't dispute that having an operator to combine (2,3) and (4,5) in (2,3,4,5) is usefull, but they should never have used the + for that. (alph, bravo) + (delta, max) -- (alphdelta,

Re: Python for a 10-14 years old?

2005-03-26 Thread Joal Heagney
Simon Brunning wrote: On 23 Mar 2005 21:03:04 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there something out there like Python for kids which would explain *basic* programming concepts in a way which is accessible and entertaining for kids aged 10-14 (that about where her brain is right

Re: Python for a 10-14 years old?

2005-03-25 Thread Joal Heagney
Simon Brunning wrote: On 23 Mar 2005 21:03:04 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there something out there like Python for kids which would explain *basic* programming concepts in a way which is accessible and entertaining for kids aged 10-14 (that about where her brain is right

Re: Constructor class problem

2005-03-22 Thread Joal Heagney
Diez B. Roggisch wrote: Wolfgang wrote: Hi, I am a newbie and have to modify some python moduls. I get the followin error: TypeError: __init__() takes exactly 3 arguments (2 given) Here the code snippet: class gXconv: def __init__(self, pathValue): self.pathValue=pathValue

Re: newbie: dictionary - howto get key value

2005-03-13 Thread Joal Heagney
Tim Roberts wrote: G. Völkl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use a dictionary: phone = {'mike':10,'sue':8,'john':3} phone['mike'] -- 10 I want to know who has number 3? 3 -- 'john' How to get it in the python way ? If you need to do this a lot, just keep two dictionaries, where the keys in each are