[ANNC] pybotwar-0.9 : now using pybox2d-2.3b0

2014-05-03 Thread Lee Harr
pybotwar is a fun and educational game where players write computer programs to control simulated robots. http://pybotwar.googlecode.com/ The focus of this release is updating to use the latest available pybox2d version: 2.3b0 pybotwar uses pybox2d for the physical simulation. It can be run in

Re: Function and turtle help

2014-03-07 Thread Lee Harr
I am completely new to programming so thanks for any help! Not sure it will help, and hopefully I am not self-promoting too much, but this may be of interest to you: http://pynguin.googlecode.com/ http://code.google.com/p/pynguin/wiki/StartProgramming I am interested in feedback from new

Re: Using PyQT with QT Designer

2013-08-23 Thread Lee Harr
That's the problem though. It is exactly how I want it in designer. It's perfect as it is in designer when I preview it. Here is a screenshot of the preview: http://i.imgur.com/ULRolq8.png That's not a preview. That's just the regular design view. (you can tell by the little dots in the

Re: Has anyone gotten Pyglet to work

2013-07-29 Thread Lee Harr
$ ./pyglet.py Traceback (most recent call last):    File ./pyglet.py, line 2, in module      import pyglet    File /home/collier/pyglet.py, line 3, in module      song = pyglet.media.load('./boot.ogg') AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'media' Name your program something

[ANNC] pynguin-0.15 python turtle graphics application

2013-06-13 Thread Lee Harr
Pynguin is a python-based turtle graphics application.     It combines an editor, interactive interpreter, and     graphics display area. It is meant to be an easy environment for introducing     some programming concepts to beginning programmers. http://pynguin.googlecode.com/ This release

Re: [ANNC] pynguin-0.14 python turtle graphics application

2013-05-03 Thread Lee Harr
Pynguin is a python-based turtle graphics application. http://pynguin.googlecode.com/ I wonder why Pynguin does not get more traction in the teaching sector. Looks ideal for teaching kids. I suggest that it's because Pynguin is not yet fully operational. I don't know where to report

[ANNC] pynguin-0.14 python turtle graphics application

2013-04-13 Thread Lee Harr
Pynguin is a python-based turtle graphics application.     It combines an editor, interactive interpreter, and     graphics display area. It is meant to be an easy environment for introducing     some programming concepts to beginning programmers. http://pynguin.googlecode.com/ This release

Re: pynguin-0.13 python turtle graphics application now uses python 3

2013-03-17 Thread Lee Harr
Pynguin is a python-based turtle graphics application.     It combines an editor, interactive interpreter, and     graphics display area. What does pynguin have that the builtin python turtle does not? It is meant to be easier to get started with. You start the application and it is all

[ANNC] pynguin-0.13 python turtle graphics application now uses python 3

2013-03-16 Thread Lee Harr
Pynguin is a python-based turtle graphics application.     It combines an editor, interactive interpreter, and     graphics display area. It is meant to be an easy environment for introducing     some programming concepts to beginning programmers. http://pynguin.googlecode.com/ This release

Re: Ubuntu Python -dbg packages

2013-01-07 Thread Lee Harr
Ok, so now I tried python3.3-dbg but I don't think the pyqt modules are compiled for 3.3 and that may be preventing the import there. Those extension modules would need to be compiled for an exactly matching python interpreter, right? For Windows visual C compiler, that is true. I do not

Ubuntu Python -dbg packages

2013-01-06 Thread Lee Harr
I am using: Ubuntu 12.10 Python 3.2.3 Qt 4.8.2 PyQt 4.9.3 I also have the ubuntu -dbg packages: python3-dbg python3-pyqt4-dbg I don't understand why python3-dbg cannot import the PyQt4 modules... $ python3 Python 3.2.3 (default, Oct 19 2012, 19:53:57) [GCC 4.7.2] on linux2 Type help,

Re: Ubuntu Python -dbg packages

2013-01-06 Thread Lee Harr
On 1/6/2013 8:42 AM, Lee Harr wrote: I am using: Ubuntu 12.10 Python 3.2.3 import has been considerably redone, and hopefully upgraded, in 3.3. Ok, so now I tried python3.3-dbg but I don't think the pyqt modules are compiled for 3.3 and that may be preventing the import there. Those

python wiki gone?

2013-01-05 Thread Lee Harr
Have I just happened across wiki.python.org at a bad time, or is the wiki gone? When I go to wiki.python.org I get redirected to http://wiki.python.org/moin/ which is 404 Not Found. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: QThread.terminate in Python 3

2012-09-28 Thread Lee Harr
I understand that use of QThread.terminate is discouraged, but it has worked well previously and I would like to continue this use if possible.       And now you've encountered the reason it is discouraged. Ok. Point taken. What I hear you saying is that once I use .terminate anything

QThread.terminate in Python 3

2012-09-23 Thread Lee Harr
Hi; I have asked this on the PyQt list, but have not seen any response yet. Hoping someone will be able to test this on their system to see if they see the same problem. The problem I am seeing is that terminating a QThread running certain code will freeze the program, requiring it to be

[ANNC] pybotwar-0.8

2012-08-15 Thread Lee Harr
pybotwar is a fun and educational game where players write computer programs to control simulated robots. http://pybotwar.googlecode.com/ The focus of this release is making all functionality available from the PyQt interface and making PyQt the default interface. pybotwar uses pybox2d for

[ANNC] vbot-0.3

2012-06-17 Thread Lee Harr
vBot is a visual programming game.     Use a small set of command tiles to build a program.     The program must control the vBot and make it activate     every target using the limited command set. It is meant to be an easy environment for introducing     some programming concepts to beginning

RE: Need Windows user / developer to help with Pynguin

2011-10-30 Thread Lee Harr
Py2exe I considered that, but I agree that licensing issues would make it problematic. What licensing issues concern you? The py2exe license shouldn't be a problem and py2exe or something like it is good advice. I think PyQt 4 would be the biggest issue. It is GPL 2 / 3. I think if this

Re: Need Windows user / developer to help with Pynguin

2011-10-29 Thread Lee Harr
Thanks to all those who tested and replied! For Windows users who want to just run Pyguin (not modify or tinker with the source code), it would be best to bundle Pynguin up with Py2exe I considered that, but I agree that licensing issues would make it problematic. the Python installer

Re: Need Windows user / developer to help with Pynguin

2011-10-28 Thread Lee Harr
I started a wiki page here:  http://code.google.com/p/pynguin/wiki/InstallingPynguinOnWindows but I can't even test if it actually

Need Windows user / developer to help with Pynguin

2011-10-27 Thread Lee Harr
I develop the free python-based turtle graphics application pynguin. http://pynguin.googlecode.com/ Lately I have been getting a lot of positive comments from people who use the program, but I am also getting a lot of feedback from people on Windows (mostly beginners) who are having trouble

[ANNC] pynguin-0.12 (fixes problems running on Windows)

2011-09-21 Thread Lee Harr
Pynguin is a python-based turtle graphics application.     It combines an editor, interactive interpreter, and     graphics display area. It is meant to be an easy environment for introducing     some programming concepts to beginning programmers. http://pynguin.googlecode.com/ This release

os independent rename

2011-09-17 Thread Lee Harr
I just got a bug report the heart of which is the difference between unix and windows in using os.rename (ie, On Windows, if dst already exists, OSError will be raised) Hmm, I thought, maybe I'm supposed to use shutil here. That is the high-level operations. Unfortunately, shutil.move says it

Re: os independent rename

2011-09-17 Thread Lee Harr
shutil.move works for me, at least in Python 2.7. The docstring doesn't seem to match the code Thanks for checking that. Looks like there is a closed report about the misleading docs:http://bugs.python.org/issue12577 Closed a couple of months ago, but the docs have not madeit to the web

[ANNC] pynguin-0.11 python turtle graphics application

2011-08-10 Thread Lee Harr
Pynguin is a python-based turtle graphics application.     It combines an editor, interactive interpreter, and     graphics display area. It is meant to be an easy environment for introducing     some programming concepts to beginning programmers. http://pynguin.googlecode.com/ This release

parsing function parameters

2011-08-03 Thread Lee Harr
I am trying to get some information about a function before (and without) calling it. Here is what I have so far. I chose to go with a regular expression, so now I have 2 problems :o) def pdict(f, pstr):     '''given a function object and a string with the function parameters,     return a

RE: parsing function parameters

2011-08-03 Thread Lee Harr
I am trying to get some information about a function before (and without) calling it. how about def pdict(f):     parameter_defaults = {}     defaults = f.func_defaults     defaultcount = len(defaults)     argcount = f.func_code.co_argcount     for i in

RE: parsing function parameters

2011-08-03 Thread Lee Harr
Needed to make one change... for functions with no default args: def pdict(f):     parameter_defaults = {}     defaults = f.func_defaults     if defaults is not None:     defaultcount = len(defaults)     else:     defaultcount = 0     argcount = f.func_code.co_argcount     for i in

Re: turtles slowing down

2011-07-21 Thread Lee Harr
  there was a steady slowing down of turtles as time goes The problem is that when the turtle draws it does not just put marks on the canvas, it actually creates new canvas items. Canvas items aren't just pixels on the canvas, they are full-fledged objects which (if you wanted to) you could

Re: Python threading/multiprocessing issue.

2011-07-15 Thread Lee Harr
I'm working on a tool that runs a number of process is separate thread. I've, up to this point, been using threading.Thread, but from what I read multiprocess will allow multiple processors to be used   From the python docs on multiprocessing. Due to this, the multiprocessing module allows the

[ANNC] pynguin-0.10 python turtle graphics application

2011-06-25 Thread Lee Harr
Pynguin is a python-based turtle graphics application.     It combines an editor, interactive interpreter, and     graphics display area. It is meant to be an easy environment for introducing     some programming concepts to beginning programmers. http://pynguin.googlecode.com/ This release

force --install-layout=deb on systems where that makes sense?

2011-04-19 Thread Lee Harr
Is there a way to make distutils use --install-layout=deb but only on systems where that makes sense? I just noticed that if someone installs without that switch, my app will not be able to find its data files, because sys.prefix = /usr  but the installation is actually in to /usr/local I

[ANNC] TZMud 0.9 : A Python MUD server

2010-10-17 Thread Lee Harr
TZMud is a Python MUD server. http://tzmud.googlecode.com/ A MUD is a text-based virtual environment accessed via telnet, or with a specialised MUD client. TZMud development is still in early stages, focusing on API and server stability. TZMud uses several high-quality Python libraries to

pyqt on portable python?

2010-09-23 Thread Lee Harr
Is it possible / easy to use PyQt with portable python? I've done some googling and found one message that said this is coming in the next version, but I can't find anything on portablepython.com that mentions it. Has anyone done this before? Have any better information on how to set it up, or

Re: segfault with small pyqt script

2010-08-12 Thread Lee Harr
I'm desperate. I'm having a real application, which fails rather often when finishing it. I'm not sure, whether any serious problem could be hidden behind it The script is a pyqt script, which segfaults most of the time on my ubuntu 10.4 linux 64 bit and I'm having trouble to understand

[ANNC] pynguin-0.9 (python turtle graphics application)

2010-07-15 Thread Lee Harr
Pynguin is a python-based turtle graphics application.     It combines an editor, interactive interpreter, and     graphics display area. It is meant to be an easy environment for introducing     some programming concepts to beginning programmers. http://pynguin.googlecode.com/ This release

[ANNC] pynguin-0.8 python turtle graphics application

2010-06-08 Thread Lee Harr
Pynguin is a python-based turtle graphics application.     It combines an editor, interactive interpreter, and     graphics display area. It is meant to be an easy environment for introducing     some programming concepts to beginning programmers. http://pynguin.googlecode.com/ This release

[ANNC] pynguin-0.7 (python turtle graphics application)

2010-04-11 Thread Lee Harr
Pynguin is a python-based turtle graphics application.     It combines an editor, interactive interpreter, and     graphics display area. It is meant to be an easy environment for introducing     some programming concepts to beginning programmers. http://pynguin.googlecode.com/ This release

Re: C-style static variables in Python?

2010-04-05 Thread Lee Harr
Another approach would be to stuff the static values in the function's __dict__. That's how I did it when I wanted something similar. I created this decorator: def static(**kw):     '''     Used to create a decorator function that will add an     attribute to a function and initialize it.  

[ANNC] pynguin-0.4 (python turtle graphics application)

2010-03-14 Thread Lee Harr
Pynguin is a python-based turtle graphics application.     It combines an editor, interactive interpreter, and     graphics display area. It is meant to be an easy environment for introducing     some programming concepts to beginning programmers. http://pynguin.googlecode.com/ This release

Some PyCon videos won't play

2010-03-13 Thread Lee Harr
I am having a great time watching videos from PyCon. Thanks to everyone who presented, and to those who did such a great job putting the videos up at: http://pycon.blip.tv/ My trouble is that, although most of the videos play perfectly, there are a few that refuse to play at all. Like: Python

[ANNC] pynguin-0.2 (python turtle graphics application)

2010-03-07 Thread Lee Harr
Pynguin is a python-based turtle graphics application.     It combines an editor, interactive interpreter, and     graphics display area. It is meant to be an easy environment for introducing     some programming concepts to beginning programmers. http://pynguin.googlecode.com/ This release

[ANNC] pynguin-0.1 (python-based turtle graphics application)

2010-02-28 Thread Lee Harr
pynguin is a python-based turtle graphics application.     It combines an editor, interactive interpreter, and     graphics display area. It is meant to be an easy environment for introducing     some programming concepts to beginning programmers. http://pynguin.googlecode.com/ This is the

Re: some turtle questions

2010-01-27 Thread Lee Harr
I am trying to think of things to do with the turtle module 1) is there a way to determine the current screen pixel color? This would not use the included turtle module, but you could use the turtle module from the pygsear collection: http://www.nongnu.org/pygsear/ It requires pygame, but

Re: interactive terminal in Ubuntu Linux : libreadline5-dev works only in Python 2.6 not 3.1

2010-01-13 Thread Lee Harr
When you first had this problem, was python3 installed from source, or was it from the Ubuntu repository? Over a month ago I downloaded the tarball Python-3.1.1 from the python website.  Then the Synaptic Package Manager did not contain this ( latest ) version. There is already python 2.x

Re: interactive terminal in Ubuntu Linux : libreadline5-dev works only in Python 2.6 not 3.1

2010-01-12 Thread Lee Harr
And my original problem still there : fouled up keys in interactive terminal. When you first had this problem, was python3 installed from source, or was it from the Ubuntu repository? (ie, did you install using apt-get or synaptic or did you just start out building from source?) I have

[ANNC] pybotwar-0.7

2009-11-29 Thread Lee Harr
pybotwar is a fun and educational game where players write computer programs to control simulated robots. http://pybotwar.googlecode.com/ pybotwar uses pybox2d for the physical simulation. It can be run in text-only mode -- useful for longer tournaments -- or use pyqt or pygame for a graphical

[ANNC] acromania-0.5

2009-11-15 Thread Lee Harr
Acromania is a word game of acronyms. This program is a computer moderator for networked games of acromania. It can connect to a channel on IRC, or start a standalone server which can be accessed much like a MUD. http://acromania.googlecode.com/ Acromania uses Twisted and SQLite. Optionally,

[ANNC] pybotwar-0.5

2009-08-09 Thread Lee Harr
pybotwar is a fun and educational game where players create computer programs to control simulated robots to compete in a battle arena. http://pybotwar.googlecode.com/ pybotwar uses pybox2d for the physical simulation, and uses pygame and pygsear for the visualization. pybotwar is released

[ANNC] pybotwar-0.4

2009-08-04 Thread Lee Harr
pybotwar is a fun and educational game where players create computer programs to control simulated robots to compete in a battle arena. http://pybotwar.googlecode.com/ pybotwar uses pybox2d for the physical simulation, and uses pygame and pygsear for the visualization. pybotwar is released

[ANNC] pybotwar-0.3

2009-08-03 Thread Lee Harr
pybotwar is a fun and educational game where players create computer programs to control simulated robots to compete in a battle arena. http://pybotwar.googlecode.com/ pybotwar uses pybox2d for the physical simulation, and uses pygame and pygsear for the visualization. pybotwar is released

[ANNC] acromania-0.4

2009-07-01 Thread Lee Harr
Acromania is a word game of acronyms. This program is a computer moderator for networked games of acromania. It can connect to a channel on IRC, or start a standalone server which can be accessed much like a MUD. http://acromania.googlecode.com/ Acromania uses Twisted and SQLite. Optionally,

[ANN] TZMud 0.8

2009-01-04 Thread Lee Harr
TZMud is a Python MUD server. http://tzmud.googlecode.com/ A MUD is a text-based virtual environment accessed via telnet, or with a specialised MUD client. TZMud development is still in early stages, focusing on API and server stability. TZMud uses several high-quality Python libraries to

RE: error on windows with commands.getstatusoutput

2008-12-31 Thread Lee Harr
Anyhow, I've replaced it with this: from subprocess import Popen, PIPE, STDOUT p = Popen(cmd, shell=True, stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE, stderr=STDOUT, close_fds=True) output, unused = p.communicate() status = p.returncode Does that look more

error on windows with commands.getstatusoutput

2008-12-28 Thread Lee Harr
My application is trying to start twistd in a cross-platform way. Unfortunately, it works fine on my linux system, but I do not have windows, and I am trying to debug this remotely on a system I never use :o( Anyhow, here is the error I am getting: cmd = '%s -y %s -l %s' % (conf.twistd,

RE: error on windows with commands.getstatusoutput

2008-12-28 Thread Lee Harr
cmd = '%s -y %s -l %s' % (conf.twistd, conf.tztac, conf.twistdlog) status, output = commands.getstatusoutput(cmd) The commands module is Unix only. See its documentation : http://docs.python.org/library/commands.html Ah. Doh! I was going back and forth between all of the different ways to

[ANN] TZMud 0.7

2008-11-15 Thread Lee Harr
TZMud is a Python MUD server. http://tzmud.googlecode.com/ A MUD is a text-based virtual environment accessed via telnet, or with a specialised MUD client. TZMud development is still in early stages, focusing on API and server stability. TZMud uses several high-quality Python libraries to

decorator and API

2008-09-17 Thread Lee Harr
I have a class with certain methods from which I want to select one at random, with weighting. The way I have done it is this import random def weight(value): def set_weight(method): method.weight = value return method return set_weight class A(object): def

ANN: TZMud-0.5, a Python MUD server

2008-08-25 Thread Lee Harr
TZMud is a Python MUD server. http://tzmud.googlecode.com/ A MUD is a text-based virtual environment accessed via telnet, or with a specialized MUD client. TZMud development is still in early stages, focusing on API and server stability. TZMud uses several high-quality Python libraries to

Pythonic way to add method alias in subclass

2007-12-15 Thread Lee Harr
I thought of several ways to add another name for a method in a subclass ... #alias.py class Foo(object): def nod(self): print nodding class Bar(Foo): def __init__(self): self.agree = self.nod class Bar2(Foo): agree = Foo.nod class Bar3(Foo): def agree(self):

Re: Modul (%) in python not like in C?

2007-09-09 Thread Lee Harr
Python will always yield a number x = m%n such that 0 = x n, but Turbo C will always yield a number such that if x = m%n -x = -m%n. That is, since 111 % 10 = 1, -111 % 10 = -1. The two values will always differ by n (as used above). Maybe it is an order-of-operations thing -111 %

Re: curses/urwid simple menu

2007-07-27 Thread Lee Harr
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Re: Class decorators do not inherit properly

2007-07-13 Thread Lee Harr
I think the term class decorator is going to eventually mean something other than what you are doing here. I'd avoid the term for now. When you decorate a class method, the function you use needs to be defined before the method definition. FWIW, the term class method has a definite

Re: newbie question on def, passing param's help

2007-07-13 Thread Lee Harr
I have a def that I have been using but I realized that sometimes I need a LIST with 5 or 6 brands instead of 4 so I want to put LIST outside of the def but I can't wrap my head around a way to get LIST outside the def while still passing the same 4 parameters in the function. I'm sure

Re: How to create new files?

2007-07-12 Thread Lee Harr
So far, I've found that unlike with the C++ version of fopen(), the Python 'open()' call does not create the file for you when opened using the mode 'w'. I get an exception saying that the file doesn't exist. Works for me... :~$ mkdir foo :~$ cd foo :foo$ ls :foo$ python Python 2.4.4 (#2,

Re: Class decorators do not inherit properly

2007-07-12 Thread Lee Harr
Traceback (most recent call last): File /Users/chris/Projects/CMR/closed.py, line 132, in module class M0(MetropolisHastings): File /Users/chris/Projects/CMR/closed.py, line 173, in M0 @_add_to_post NameError: name '_add_to_post' is not defined yet, when I look at the dict of

Re: How can I import functions from another python file

2007-04-09 Thread Lee Harr
On 2007-04-09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, i have 2 python files in *different directory* , how can I import python functions from 1 python file to another? i get this error: import task ImportError: No module named task/ The directory that module is in must by on your

Re: pdf to text

2007-01-25 Thread Lee Harr
Perhaps I'm just using pdftotext wrong? Here's how I was using it: sout = os.popen('pdftotext %s - ' %f) If you are having trouble with popen (not unlikely) how about just writing to a temporary file and reading the text from there? I've used pdftotext several times in the past few

Re: Persistent variables in python

2006-12-26 Thread Lee Harr
Found out a quite fun way to store persistent variables in functions in python. Is this concidered bad coding practice since I guess persistent variables in functions are not meant to be? I am using is in one of my recent projects. I was thinking of it sort of like static variables in C.

Re: pexpect with apache

2006-10-18 Thread Lee Harr
Well, first i don't think it is a good idea to have the python script tu su to root, but for it to work, i think (Totally unsure about that) www has to be in group wheel to be able to su. Maybe sudo can help here. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

creating many similar properties

2006-10-17 Thread Lee Harr
I understand how to create a property like this: class RC(object): def _set_pwm(self, v): self._pwm01 = v % 256 def _get_pwm(self): return self._pwm01 pwm01 = property(_get_pwm, _set_pwm) But what if I have a whole bunch of these pwm properties? I made this: class

Re: plpython and pickle

2006-08-18 Thread Lee Harr
On 2006-08-17, Gerardo Herzig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, sory if this is kind of [OT], but cannot find the answer for this behaviour Might try on a postgres mailing list. I'd say it is more on topic there... You are now connected to database sessions. sessions=# select *

Re: drawingarea problem

2006-08-17 Thread Lee Harr
On 2006-08-16, Rafa³ Janas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is somebody try to paint filled boxes in drawingarea? I don't know how to paint line or someting like this. Maybe somebody have tutorial or samples? Your question could use a few more details (like what you have tried, what drawingarea is

Re: Pygame Help

2006-07-29 Thread Lee Harr
I was curious how you would program the seperate images to fall together and not break apart, because pygame and livewires uses images as collision detection, so therefore you can't make most of the shapes a single image because they will have transparent spaces as part of the image, which

Re: Cross-site scripting (XSS) defense

2006-06-16 Thread Lee Harr
On 2006-06-16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a module (or, better yet, sample code) that scrubs user-entered text to remove cross-site scripting attacks, while also allowing a small subset of HTML through? Contemplated application: a message board that allows people to

Re: import datetime

2006-02-01 Thread Lee Harr
I did look at the sys.path but the issue is that I dont see a module name datetime anywhere. Only datetime thing that is there is in include directory and it is datetime.h, which I think is for C interface. I have a python installed on my Windows desktop and it is working fine there. Where is

Re: load module named datetime and change the directory of output file?

2006-02-01 Thread Lee Harr
1. How can I add a standard module named datetime in Jython when the error happens :Traceback (innermost last): File C:\python\test.py, line 3, in ? ImportError: no module named datetime The line 3 is writen: from datetime import datetime, tzinfor The datetime module was added with

Re: import datetime

2006-01-31 Thread Lee Harr
I have just installed Python2.4.2 on our HP-UX system. But when I try to import datetime modlue I get the following error ~~~ from datetime import datetime Traceback (most recent call last): File stdin, line 1, in ? ImportError: No module named datetime

Re: using NamedTemporaryFile on windows

2005-12-29 Thread Lee Harr
On 2005-12-29, Peter Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lee Harr wrote: Is there any other reason to use a named tempfile other than to be able to open it again? As it says, if you *don't close* the file, you can open it again if you are on a platform which supports that. Ok. I just started

using NamedTemporaryFile on windows

2005-12-28 Thread Lee Harr
Is there any other reason to use a named tempfile other than to be able to open it again? I am trying to understand this section of the documentation regarding NamedTemporaryFile: Whether the name can be used to open the file a second time, while the named temporary file is still open,

Re: Indentation/whitespace

2005-12-24 Thread Lee Harr
On 2005-12-23, Gary Herron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You've got the visible/invisible aspect of things *exactly* backwards. The point on a line of text where things change from white space to non-white space is *highly* visible. The several pixels that represent a { or } are nearly

Re: Tabs bad (Was: ANN: Dao Language v.0.9.6-beta is release!)

2005-12-04 Thread Lee Harr
No matter what setting, the order of the indents is kept. This is not the case if tabs and spaces are intermixed, as some style guides suggest. I have never seen anyone suggest mixing tabs and spaces, and I have read a lot of tabs-vs-spaces flamewars in my time. Everyone agrees that mixing

Re: Is there a way to create a button in either pygame or livewires?

2005-11-19 Thread Lee Harr
Is there a way to create a button in either pygame or livewires, that is able to be clicked and when clicked sends a command to restart the program? You could try something like this using pygsear (http://www.nongnu.org/pygsear/) The button can call either start() which just makes a new

Re: Python, Linux, Desktop Environment

2005-11-16 Thread Lee Harr
On 2005-11-16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, I've written my first GUI app in python. I've turned it into a binary .exe and .app that runs on Windows and Mac respectively, but on my Linux box, where I wrote the thing, I still have to drop to the command line and

Re: 3-dimensional plot in Python?

2005-11-11 Thread Lee Harr
On 2005-11-11, questions? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to make a 3d plot. x is a vector(discrete), y is also a vector(discrete), for each pairwise x,y I have a value z(x,y)(it is not a function, just discrete values for each pair of x,y) I want to show them on a two dimensional plot by

Re: Curses Keypress

2005-11-11 Thread Lee Harr
On 2005-11-11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that I have gotoxy() down for moving the cursor around, I want that to be a result of keypresses (namely from the numpad -- 7 = NorthWest, 8 = North, 9 = NE, etc...). I have little clue how to do this. After searching google, I've

Re: odd behavior

2005-11-11 Thread Lee Harr
On 2005-11-11, Kristian Zoerhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11 Nov 2005 11:34:47 -0800, Greg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Forgive me, and be kind, as I am just a newby learning this language out of M.L. Hetland's book. The following behavior of 2.4.1 seems very strange x = ['aardvark',

Re: ? Pythoncard

2005-10-28 Thread Lee Harr
On 2005-10-28, LenS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Never mind I figured out my on stupid mistake How about posting a very simple explanation of what you did wrong and how you fixed it, instead of leaving the next person who has this problem with a dead end? Thanks. --

Re: command line path

2005-09-05 Thread Lee Harr
On 2005-09-05, mclaugb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to pass the name of several files to a python script as command line arguments. When i type in python ImportFiles_test.py C:\Program Files\National Instruments\LabVIEW 7.1\project\calibration\FREQUENCY_ 13.CSV The following

Re: simple question: $1, $2 in py ?

2005-09-05 Thread Lee Harr
On 2005-09-05, es_uomikim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have one small simple question, that I didn't found answer in google's. It's kind of begginers question because I'm a one. ; ) I wanned to ask how to use scripts with vars on input like this: $ echo something | ./my_script.py or:

Re: inheriting from datetime

2005-08-01 Thread Lee Harr
On 2005-08-01, Rob Conner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So this is simple, why can't I run the following code? I've tried many variances of this, but simply cannot inherit from datetime or datetime.datetime. I get this on line 3. TypeError: function takes at most 2 arguments (3 given)

Re: Query - Pexpect

2005-07-22 Thread Lee Harr
On 2005-07-22, Girish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi , I wanna do some automation work using pexpect. I have an application which must be invoked from the command line in linux environment,it consists of buttons,textboxes etc can i access those widgets using pexpect,say i wanna enter a value

Re: Ann: The first PyWeek Python Game Programming Competition

2005-07-08 Thread Lee Harr
See the competition timetable (including competition dates in various timezones), rules, sign-up (commencing 6th August) at: http://www.mechanicalcat.net/tech/PyWeek Sounds like fun. One thing. From the website ... Clip Art note: more links welcome How about:

Re: pyqt, windows xp and systray applications.. possible?

2005-06-28 Thread Lee Harr
On 2005-06-28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, I've been searching long, and found some information, but still not enough for me to actually make it happen. so, I ask here. is it possible, in windows, to make PyQT application hide itself into systray area? I read,that you

Re: Boss wants me to program

2005-06-28 Thread Lee Harr
make something that will work for him, am I correct? The other alternative is to install console mode linux on it and hope that the ncurses library can be used by python. The system could be as low as a 486 dx2 66 with maybe 16 megs of ram. Well, I just thought I'd give you people more info

Re: BaseHTTPServer and priviledge separation?

2005-06-25 Thread Lee Harr
to use a port below 1000 on a Unix system one needs root priviledges. But it's dangerous to execute all of a script under those priviledges. Therefore I'd like to drop the root priviledges as soon as possible. (How) is this possible? Are you sure you don't just want to use twisted?

Re: Favorite non-python language trick?

2005-06-25 Thread Lee Harr
Higher-order functions like map, filter and reduce. As of Python 3000, they're non-python tricks. Sigh - i guess it's time for me to get to know list comprehensions a bit better. Couldnt there just be a functional module ?... from functional import map, filter, reduce --

Re: 1980's Home Computer-style Package.

2005-06-16 Thread Lee Harr
On 2005-06-16, Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2005-06-16, Ralph Corderoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wild-ass guess, but you might try googling for turtle python. OK, I've done that but it didn't help; it wasn't tied in with Turtle graphics, with which I'm familiar. Googling for

Re: Show current ip on Linux

2005-06-13 Thread Lee Harr
On 2005-06-13, David Van Mosselbeen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Im a newbie in Python, and also in Fedora Core 3. (Yes, Linux is fine man :-) My question is : How can i rwite a script that show my current ip. If i have more than one network card, the script must then show all used ip.

Re: What's wrong with Zope 3 ?

2005-06-01 Thread Lee Harr
The current stable brance is Zope2.X If you want to incorporate some functionalty from X3 in Zope 2.X, do a search for Five No, I do not want to migrate components from a new major release backwards, as well as I do not want to migrate applications from WinXP to Win98. This seems to be the

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