ANN: Image Processing with Python Kickstarter

2021-01-04 Thread Mike Driscoll
Hi! I've been busily working on a new book on image processing with Python that uses the Pillow package. Pillow is the friendly fork of the Python Imaging Library and is one of the most popular Python image processing tools. If you'd like to learn more, you can check out my Kickstarter:

Python 101 2nd Edition book

2020-02-18 Thread Mike Driscoll
Hi, Years ago I posted about my first book, Python 101 on here and people really enjoyed it. I am working on a complete rewrite of the book and thought there might be people here who would enjoy knowing about it. You can read more here:

[issue38587] __set_name__ missing from descriptor howto documentation

2019-10-24 Thread Mike Driscoll
New submission from Mike Driscoll : I noticed that __set_name__ is not mentioned in https://docs.python.org/3/howto/descriptor.html even though it was added in https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0487/ and mentioned here https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.6.html#pep-487-descriptor-protocol

ANN: Creating GUI Applications with wxPython

2019-01-14 Thread Mike Driscoll
Hi, I just thought I would let you all know that I am working on my 2nd wxPython book, "Creating GUI Applications with wxPython". This one will be about actually creating small runnable applications instead of just recipes like my Cookbook did. I hope to have 8-10 working applications included

ANN: ReportLab Book Kickstarter

2018-01-31 Thread Mike Driscoll
I have recently started my 4th self-published book, ReportLab: PDF Processing with Python. This is the first book on ReportLab, a great package for creating reports in the PDF format. You can read more about it here:

Where are the moderators?

2018-01-18 Thread Mike Driscoll
Hi, What happened to the moderators? I have always liked this forum, but there's so much spam now. Is there a way to become a moderator so this can be cleaned up? Thanks, Mike -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

ANN: wxPython Cookbook

2016-08-26 Thread Mike Driscoll
Hi, Several years ago, the readers of my popular Python blog asked me to take some of my articles and turn them into a cookbook on wxPython. I have finally decided to do just that. I am including over 50 recipes that I am currently editing to make them more

Re: Wanted Python programmer to join team

2016-05-20 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Tuesday, May 17, 2016 at 12:20:53 AM UTC-5, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tuesday 17 May 2016 12:56, Chris Angelico wrote: > > > On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 12:37 PM, Steven D'Aprano <> > > wrote: > >> On Tue, 17 May 2016 09:07 am, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> > >>> I'm not overly bothered by the use

Re: Resources/pointers for writing maintable, testable Python

2016-05-19 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Thursday, May 19, 2016 at 11:23:53 AM UTC-5, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 5/19/2016 11:33 AM, Mike Driscoll wrote: > > On Wednesday, May 18, 2016 at 4:48:28 PM UTC-5, Andrew Farrell wrote: > >> Hi Jacob, > >> > >> You are probably looking for the book Test-Drive

Re: Python 3.5.1

2016-05-19 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Thursday, May 19, 2016 at 12:21:52 PM UTC-5, kbell...@aol.com wrote: > Thisis my first encountering with Python. I have successfully downloaded > Python3.5.1 for Windows but see only a black window with command prompt. I do > not see IDLE under PYthon on Windows Start Menu. > > > Downloaded

Re: Resources/pointers for writing maintable, testable Python

2016-05-19 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Wednesday, May 18, 2016 at 4:48:28 PM UTC-5, Andrew Farrell wrote: > Hi Jacob, > > You are probably looking for the book Test-Driven Development with Python > . > You'll also want to look at py.test >

Strange urlopen error

2016-04-12 Thread Mike Driscoll
Hi, I have recently run into an issue at work where we are having intermittent problems with an internal website not loading due to an interrupted system call. We are using urllib2 to access the website. I can't share the exact code, but here is basically how we do it: payload = {'userName':

Re: ANN: Python 201 - Intermediate Python book

2016-03-30 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Wednesday, March 30, 2016 at 2:21:08 PM UTC-5, Ethan Furman wrote: > On 03/30/2016 11:41 AM, justin walters wrote: > > > That absolutely answers my questions. I'll keep an eye out for your book > > when it is realeased. It seems like it will cover some topics that could be > > useful in

Re: ANN: Python 201 - Intermediate Python book

2016-03-30 Thread Mike Driscoll
Hi Justin, > > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > Can you go over a couple of the topics you are going to cover? > > Are you going to cover any of the most popular packages such as Django and > scrapy? Sure! I'm planning on covering several of the more popular

ANN: Python 201 - Intermediate Python book

2016-03-30 Thread Mike Driscoll
. It is also written with Python 3 in mind. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks, Mike Driscoll -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

ANN: Python 201 Book Kickstarter Campaign

2016-03-09 Thread Mike Driscoll
- httplib / urllib (client / server) - web scraping - Basics of Unicode (encoding and codecs) - Timing code (benchmarking) - Testing (unit tests, doc tests, mock, coverage) - Mike Driscoll Blog: http://blog.pythonlibrary.org Book: https://gumroad.com/l/bppWr -- https

Re: What is considered an advanced topic in Python?

2015-05-29 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Friday, May 29, 2015 at 11:08:19 AM UTC-5, Joel Goldstick wrote: Maybe itertools or generators Yeah, I was thinking along those lines. I was also thinking about some of the cool stuff in the collections and contextlib modules. Mike -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What is considered an advanced topic in Python?

2015-05-29 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Friday, May 29, 2015 at 11:40:11 AM UTC-5, Skip Montanaro wrote: On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Mike Driscoll kyos...@gmail.com wrote: ... I was wondering what the community considers to be intermediate or advanced. Just about any topic on which Dave Beazley has given a keynote talk

What is considered an advanced topic in Python?

2015-05-29 Thread Mike Driscoll
Hi, I've been asked on several occasions to write about intermediate or advanced topics in Python and I was wondering what the community considers to be intermediate or advanced. I realize we're all growing in our abilities with the language, so this is going to be very subjective, but I am

Re: What is considered an advanced topic in Python?

2015-05-29 Thread Mike Driscoll
Good fun! A few ideas: How to write decorators, particularly those that take parameters. Yes, this one always seems to trip people up. The differences between the various number types (int, float, complex, Fraction, Decimal) and when you'd want each one. I hadn't considered this

Re: What is considered an advanced topic in Python?

2015-05-29 Thread Mike Driscoll
Hi Steven, On Friday, May 29, 2015 at 12:55:48 PM UTC-5, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Sat, 30 May 2015 02:01 am, Mike Driscoll wrote: Hi, I've been asked on several occasions to write about intermediate or advanced topics in Python and I was wondering what the community considers

ANN: The Python 101 Screencast Series

2015-04-06 Thread Mike Driscoll
I am currently running a Kickstarter campaign for turning my book, Python 101, into a screencast series. The Kickstarter can be found here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/34257246/the-python-101-screencast Thanks, Mike - Mike Driscoll Blog: http

Python 101 - the book kickstarter

2014-03-05 Thread Mike Driscoll
I am writing a beginner / intermediate book for Python and would like to announce the Kickstarter project in support of the book: http://kck.st/1kX98BB Thanks! Mike -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation:

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-24 Thread Mike Driscoll
. --- Mike Driscoll Blog: http://blog.pythonlibrary.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.

2011-01-24 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Jan 24, 9:02 am, rantingrick rantingr...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 24, 8:49 am, Mike Driscoll kyoso...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 24, 7:24 am, Bryan bryan.oak...@gmail.com wrote: In my experience, segfaults with wxPython aren't daily, but they are pretty much weekly. There are weeks

The PSF Blog Gets a Transfusion!

2010-09-07 Thread Mike Driscoll
The Python Software Foundation’s Blog staff has been recently expanded by a new set of top-notch bloggers to bring you the latest in PSF news, ranging from the scintillating projects that the PSF has its fingers in to the mundane, but necessary board minutes. Don’t despair if you hate reading

The PSF Blog Gets a Transfusion!

2010-09-06 Thread Mike Driscoll
The Python Software Foundation’s Blog staff has been recently expanded by a new set of top-notch bloggers to bring you the latest in PSF news, ranging from the scintillating projects that the PSF has its fingers in to the mundane, but necessary board minutes. Don’t despair if you hate reading

Re: packaging multiple python scripts as Windows exe file

2010-04-13 Thread Mike Driscoll
threads on this topic that claim that since Python distributes it, there is an implied permission that you can as well. Since I'm not a lawyer, I can't say for sure, but the articles I've seen are pretty convincing. --- Mike Driscoll Blog: http://blog.pythonlibrary.org -- http

Pyowa Meeting Next Monday

2010-01-27 Thread Mike Driscoll
used to put it all together. We'll probably have plenty of free time to chat and you can show off anything neat that you've been doing too. I hope to see you there! - Mike Driscoll Website: www.pyowa.org Twitter: www.twitter.com/pyowa -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: WxPython upgrade trouble on Ubuntu 8.04

2010-01-25 Thread Mike Driscoll
to the wxPython mailing list. Someone there will know what the next step is. --- Mike Driscoll Blog: http://blog.pythonlibrary.org PyCon 2010 Atlanta Feb 19-21 http://us.pycon.org/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: looking for Python live code reloading IDEs

2010-01-22 Thread Mike Driscoll
generation). Currently I do this directly in my editor (for game development), but I'm curious if there are other options. Maybe you could get an idea from TurboGears or Django. They seem to reload their environments when a file is saved. --- Mike Driscoll Blog: http

Re: simple pub/sub

2010-01-22 Thread Mike Driscoll
at the pubsub module at all? See http://pubsub.sourceforge.net/ for more information. I use it a lot in my wxPython programs. --- Mike Driscoll Blog: http://blog.pythonlibrary.org PyCon 2010 Atlanta Feb 19-21 http://us.pycon.org/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: python gui ide under linux..like visual studio ;) ?

2010-01-18 Thread Mike Driscoll
, but I can't recall the name at the moment. --- Mike Driscoll Blog: http://blog.pythonlibrary.org PyCon 2010 Atlanta Feb 19-21 http://us.pycon.org/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Simple distributed example for learning purposes?

2010-01-14 Thread Mike Driscoll
find this useful for your project: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/AsynCluster/0.3 For reasons I don't understand, the home page listed in that link is blocked here. --- Mike Driscoll Blog: http://blog.pythonlibrary.org PyCon 2010 Atlanta Feb 19-21 http://us.pycon.org/ -- http

Re: Help getting profile information programmatically

2009-12-31 Thread Mike Driscoll
what I can see, it looks like cProfile can log to a file and you use the pstats module to review the data generated. That link also links to the hotshot profiler, which looks like it's even simpler to use. You might also want to check out the logging module. --- Mike Driscoll Blog

Re: whoops: create a splash window in python

2009-12-31 Thread Mike Driscoll
me know. Good luck! --- Mike Driscoll Blog: http://blog.pythonlibrary.org PyCon 2010 Atlanta Feb 19-21 http://us.pycon.org/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Problem with win32ui

2009-12-22 Thread Mike Driscoll
://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc738370(WS.10).aspx Once you know which DLL is missing, add it to your setup.py -- Gabriel Genellina Also make sure that you can legally distribute the dll. --- Mike Driscoll Blog: http://blog.pythonlibrary.org PyCon 2010 Atlanta Feb 19-21 http

Re: Connecting to the users preferred email client

2009-12-04 Thread Mike Driscoll
.? Tuomas Vesterinen Check this thread out: http://www.megasolutions.net/python/invoke-users-standard-mail-client-64348.aspx Basically, the idea is to pass the mailto url to webbrowser. --- Mike Driscoll Blog: http://blog.pythonlibrary.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: subprocess kill

2009-12-04 Thread Mike Driscoll
-a-subprocess --- Mike Driscoll Blog: http://blog.pythonlibrary.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: confusing thread behavior

2009-12-03 Thread Mike Driscoll
://wiki.wxpython.org/LongRunningTasks There's a section called More Tips where Queues are discussed. Robin Dunn (creator of wxPython) seems to recommend using wx.CallAfter there rather than PostEvent. --- Mike Driscoll Blog: http://blog.pythonlibrary.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: Help in wxpython

2009-12-03 Thread Mike Driscoll
with pygtk related problems. The wxPython mailing list has very fast responses to questions as well (most of the time) --- Mike Driscoll Blog: http://blog.pythonlibrary.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Help in wxpython

2009-12-03 Thread Mike Driscoll
then stick in the official wxPython wiki if I think the article is good enough. --- Mike Driscoll Blog: http://blog.pythonlibrary.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Freezing python files into executables

2009-11-03 Thread Mike Driscoll
with a whole slew of freezing modules: http://code.google.com/p/gui2exe/ I've been using it to make executables on Windows through it's py2exe implementation. --- Mike Driscoll Blog: http://blog.pythonlibrary.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

AES decrypting in Python

2009-10-07 Thread Mike Driscoll
Hi, I am working on a project where I need to decrypt some data that has been encrypted with AES. It looks like M2Crypto is the module of choice for these sorts of things, but I cannot figure out how to do this stuff from the docs. I have the following PHP code that needs to be translated into

Re: AES decrypting in Python

2009-10-07 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Oct 7, 10:04 am, M.-A. Lemburg m...@egenix.com wrote: Mike Driscoll wrote: Hi, I am working on a project where I need to decrypt some data that has been encrypted with AES. It looks like M2Crypto is the module of choice for these sorts of things, but I cannot figure out how to do

Re: subprocess woes

2009-09-15 Thread Mike Driscoll
for your subject line), you can set stderr to stdout: http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html You can use cStringIO to create a file-like object in memory: http://docs.python.org/library/stringio.html --- Mike Driscoll Blog: http://blog.pythonlibrary.org -- http

Re: IDE for Python

2009-08-31 Thread Mike Driscoll
the Python wiki: http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonEditors --- Mike Driscoll Blog: http://blog.pythonlibrary.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: win32ui DLL Load Failed

2009-08-31 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Aug 31, 2:43 pm, MikeC mcrav...@att.net wrote: I have a python executable that's failing to load on a user's machine running Windows XP. My developer machine is also running Windows XP. I have determined that it is failing when it attempts to load win32ui. I have Python 2.6 on my developer

Pyowa Meeting Tomorrow (8/6)

2009-08-06 Thread Mike Driscoll
there! Mike Driscoll www.pyowa.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations/

Re: Bug in IEHtmlWindow?

2009-07-30 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Jul 30, 2:54 am, Massi massi_...@msn.com wrote: Hi everyone, I'm trying to use IEHtmlWindow in my application (python 2.5, wxpython 2.8 on win xp). Everything is ok, but I encountered a problem which also affects the demo. If I make a research on google a strange message appears, saying

Pyowa is this Monday!

2009-07-05 Thread Mike Driscoll
language. Be prepared to share! We may have another presentation in our Standard Library series as well. Let me know if you think you'll be there. Pop water will be provided. We hope to see you there! -- Mike Driscoll http://www.pyowa.org http://pyowa.blip.tv/ http

Pyowa is this Monday!

2009-07-04 Thread Mike Driscoll
language. Be prepared to share! We may have another presentation in our Standard Library series as well or just something random. Let me know if you think you'll be there. Pop water will be provided. We hope to see you there! -- Mike Driscoll http://www.pyowa.org http

Re: Tutorial on working with Excel files in Python (without COM and cross platform!) at EuroPython 2009

2009-06-18 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Jun 18, 10:38 am, Chris Withers ch...@simplistix.co.uk wrote: Hi All, Too many people in the Python community *still* think the only way to work with Excel files in Python is using COM on Windows. To try and correct this, I'm giving a tutorial at this year's EuroPython conference in

Re: Once again, comparison wxpython with PyQt

2009-06-18 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Jun 18, 8:35 am, Hans Müller heint...@web.de wrote: Here we have to select between wxPython and PyQt for a medium size project. In this project several hundred dialogs are to be created. This work will be done by a program generator which has to re-written. The question now is which

Re: simple GUI for my application?

2009-06-16 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Jun 16, 9:20 am, Filipe Teixeira shuan...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm really struggling to find the best GUI to make a simple application. I'm doing a program to load all the ini files in the current folder, or the folder that the user chooses and list the specifics entries in it. So, the

Re: simple GUI for my application?

2009-06-16 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Jun 16, 1:24 pm, Tim Harig user...@ilthio.net wrote: On 2009-06-16, Mike Driscoll kyoso...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 16, 9:20 am, Filipe Teixeira shuan...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm really struggling to find the best GUI to make a simple application. [SNIP] Basically I will use a lot

Pyowa Meeting this Thursday

2009-06-03 Thread Mike Driscoll
: http://pyowa.blip.tv/ Please note that if you don't have a fast internet connection, then you will be disappointed as it will take eons to buffer. Let me know if you plan to come to the meeting. Thanks! Mike Driscoll Pyowa Coordinator Website: www.pyowa.org http://www.pyowa.org/ Upcoming: http

Re: AOPython Question

2009-05-28 Thread Mike Driscoll
On May 28, 1:43 pm, Roastie roasti...@gmail.com wrote: I installed the AOPython module:    % easy_install aopython That left an aopython-1.0.3-py2.6.egg at C:\mystuff\python\python_2.6.2\Lib\site-packages. I entered the interpreter: import aopython All is well. But I was

Re: AOPython Question

2009-05-28 Thread Mike Driscoll
On May 28, 3:10 pm, Mike Driscoll kyoso...@gmail.com wrote: On May 28, 1:43 pm, Roastie roasti...@gmail.com wrote: I installed the AOPython module:    % easy_install aopython That left an aopython-1.0.3-py2.6.egg at C:\mystuff\python\python_2.6.2\Lib\site-packages. I entered

Re: which database is suitable for small applications

2009-05-26 Thread Mike Driscoll
On May 26, 8:16 am, J Kenneth King ja...@agentultra.com wrote: Jean-Michel Pichavant jeanmic...@sequans.com writes: Kalyan Chakravarthy wrote: Hi All,           can any one suggest me which database I can use for my small application(to store user names ,passwords, very few other data..

Re: Advanced Python books?

2009-05-19 Thread Mike Driscoll
On May 18, 3:04 pm, kj so...@987jk.com.invalid wrote: I have read a couple of learn Python-type books, and now I'm looking for some more advanced books on Python, something analogous to Effective Java or High-Order Perl.  I've only been able to find Advanced Python 3 Programming Techniques,

Re: python

2009-05-15 Thread Mike Driscoll
On May 15, 8:58 am, anica_1...@hotmail.com wrote: hello, I´m a student of linguistic an I need do this exercises. Can anybody help me,please? Thanks ◑ Read in some text from a corpus, tokenize it, and print the list of all wh-word types that occur. (wh-words in English are used in

Re: Your Favorite Python Book

2009-05-15 Thread Mike Driscoll
On May 11, 4:45 pm, Chris Rebert c...@rebertia.com wrote: On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Sam Tregar s...@tregar.com wrote: Greetings.  I'm working on learning Python and I'm looking for good books to read.  I'm almost done with Dive into Python and I liked it a lot. I found Programming

Re: Parsing Strings in Enclosed in Curly Braces

2009-05-15 Thread Mike Driscoll
On May 15, 11:12 am, xama...@yahoo.com wrote: How do you parse a string enclosed in Curly Braces? For instance: x = {ABC EFG IJK LMN OPQ} I want to do x.split('{} ') and it does not work. Why does it not work and what are EXCEPTIONS to using the split method? That I want to split based

Re: ConfigParser and newlines

2009-05-15 Thread Mike Driscoll
On May 15, 1:09 pm, Minesh Patel min...@gmail.com wrote: I am using ConfigParser to parse a config file and I want to maintain the newlines, how is it possible. Example given below. BTW, is there an alternative to configParser, should I use 'exec' instead. Is there any support for yaml

Re: how to consume .NET webservice

2009-05-12 Thread Mike Driscoll
On May 12, 12:54 pm, namekuseijin namekusei...@gmail.com wrote: On May 12, 4:12 am, Diez B. Roggisch de...@nospam.web.de wrote: namekuseijin schrieb:   Diez B. Roggisch wrote:   namekuseijin schrieb:   bav escreveu:   question from a python newbie;       how can i consume in

Re: How to abort module evaluation?

2009-05-12 Thread Mike Driscoll
On May 12, 1:33 pm, mrstevegross mrstevegr...@gmail.com wrote: I have a python script that is pretty simple: when executed, it imports a bunch of stuff and then runs some logic. When *imported*, it defines some variables and exits. Here's what it looks like: === foo.py === if __name__ !=

Re: OOP Abstract Classes

2009-05-11 Thread Mike Driscoll
On May 11, 9:53 am, Adam Gaskins agaskins...@kelleramerica.com wrote: Hi all, -- Non critical info-- I am a fairly seasoned PHP developer (don't shoot, I'm changing teams!:) who is admittedly behind the curve with OOP. Like most who learned PHP, I started doing web app backend stuff, but I

Re: Writing text to a Word Document

2009-05-11 Thread Mike Driscoll
On May 11, 11:27 am, gazath...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I am trying to write several attributes from a database table and using the code below I can write the values however it is only overwriting on the first line. I am new to the win32com bit and I would like to know what is the

Re: Using Pygame with Python

2009-05-11 Thread Mike Driscoll
On May 11, 2:54 pm, cripplem...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I would just like to know which of the versions of python and pygame would be best to download for use together. I am a windows xp user. Look at the pygame website to see what the newest version of Python it supports and go with that unless

Re: how to consume .NET webservice

2009-05-11 Thread Mike Driscoll
On May 11, 3:09 pm, bav baudewijn.verme...@skynet.be wrote: question from a python newbie;   how can i consume in python language, a .NET web service, passing   a string array as parameter in some easy steps? best regards You're being pretty vague here. Try using Google first...I got plenty

Re: desperately looking for a howto on running my wxPython app on Vista

2009-05-05 Thread Mike Driscoll
On May 5, 11:43 am, Paul Sijben paul.sij...@xs4all.nl wrote: Mike Driscoll wrote: On Apr 29, 4:17 am, Paul Sijben paul.sij...@xs4all.nl wrote: Is there any way to check which is the offending pyd/dll?  (normally Vista does not give out much data on what went wrong) Paul You might

Re: IDE for python 2.6 (auto complete)

2009-05-04 Thread Mike Driscoll
On May 4, 10:13 am, Soumen banerjee soume...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have just installed and run python 2.6.2 from the sources available on the website. I notice that SPE (the editor which i used with python 2.5) is not displaying some of the functions new in 2.6 as autocomplete options. Is

Re: wxPython having trouble with frame objects

2009-05-01 Thread Mike Driscoll
On May 1, 12:12 am, Soumen banerjee soume...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Im not adding any GUI elements from the changer thread. Im just attempting to change the value of a preexisting widget made in thread one. The point is that i need to display text generated in thread 2 in a GUI generated in

Re: wxPython having trouble with frame objects

2009-05-01 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Apr 30, 11:52 pm, Dave Angel da...@ieee.org wrote: Soumen banerjee wrote: Hello, you say that  frame_1 is an attribute of the main class. The main class here is guithread right? so any instance of guithread should also have an attribute called frame_1 isnt it? Excuse me if im getting

Pyowa Meeting Next Monday

2009-04-30 Thread Mike Driscoll
this is that there's a Django talk there and there may be a Python-related open space type thing too. You can check out the schedule here: http://iowacodecamp.com/. Iowa Code Camp is in Cedar Rapids. Go and support Python! Anyway, I hope to see you next Monday! Let me know if you have any questions. Mike

Re: don't understand namespaces...

2009-04-30 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Apr 30, 9:11 am, Lawrence Hanser lhan...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Pythoners, I think I do not yet have a good understanding of namespaces.  Here is what I have in broad outline form: import Tkinter Class App(Frame)       define two frames, buttons in

Re: desperately looking for a howto on running my wxPython app on Vista

2009-04-29 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Apr 29, 4:17 am, Paul Sijben paul.sij...@xs4all.nl wrote: Gabriel Genellina wrote: I am currently stuck on the infamous R6034 error but I understand that after that there may be another issue with certain wxPython functions. That should be fixed in Python 2.6.2, I think. Are you

Re: What do you think of ShowMeDo

2009-04-28 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Apr 28, 10:43 am, tuxagb alessiogiovanni.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 Apr, 17:09, Astley Le Jasper astley.lejas...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've just stumbled over this (http://showmedo.com/) and being the very visual person I am, it seems like it could be a good way to learn about

Re: Third Party Modules

2009-04-28 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Apr 28, 12:15 pm, John Nagle na...@animats.com wrote: Brock wrote: Hi Everyone, I know this is most likely a basic question and you will roll your eyes, but I am just starting out with Python (hobbyist) and I see many tutorials on the web referring to the use of external modules.

Re: wxpython notebook oddness

2009-04-27 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Apr 27, 1:50 pm, Gabriel Genellina gagsl-...@yahoo.com.ar wrote: En Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:44:25 -0300, Lawson English lengli...@cox.net   escribió: Can anyone tell me why these two behave differfently? http://pastebin.com/m57bee079vs  http://pastebin.com/m3c044b29 The code is so

Re: Help with code! Gamepad?

2009-04-24 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Apr 24, 10:11 am, DC16 luster...@gmail.com wrote: On Apr 23, 4:03 pm, Mike Driscoll kyoso...@gmail.com wrote: On Apr 23, 6:46 am, DC16 luster...@gmail.com wrote: I am using pygame and OpenGL. How do I make a gamepad able to move the camera to a side of a cube on screen. Here

Re: WINXP vs. LINUX in threading.Thread

2009-04-23 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Apr 22, 2:57 pm, Kent kent.y...@gmail.com wrote: hello all, i want to add a new update notification feature to my wxPython appl. The codes below do the job. The logic is simple enough, I don't think it needs to be explained. since sometimes, under windows, proxy setting was a script. and

Re: Help with code! Gamepad?

2009-04-23 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Apr 23, 6:46 am, DC16 luster...@gmail.com wrote: I am using pygame and OpenGL. How do I make a gamepad able to move the camera to a side of a cube on screen. Here is the code for keyboard use: import pygame from pygame.locals import * import sys from OpenGLLibrary import *

Re: What is the best framework or module in Python for a small GUI based application development?

2009-04-22 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Apr 22, 8:11 am, srinivasan srinivas sri_anna...@yahoo.co.in wrote: Hi, Could you suggest me some modules in Python which can be used to develop GUI based applications? and tell me which could be the best(in terms of efficiency) one for a small GUI based application development? Thanks,

Re: What is the best framework or module in Python for a small GUI based application development?

2009-04-22 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Apr 22, 10:51 am, Tim Chase python.l...@tim.thechases.com wrote: My requirement is to write an application which is GUI based has to run on browsers. Could you tell me which one would be suitable for this? These are generally 2 different things:  either you're writing a local GUI

Re: using python logo at startup

2009-04-21 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Apr 21, 11:46 am, Dhruv dhruv.howud...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to display/flash python powered logo for like 2 seconds at startup of a helloworld application? Well actually I have an application that takes data from an excel file and generates a kml file and opens it up with google

Re: SqlAlchemy and mssqlserver

2009-04-21 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Apr 21, 11:22 am, Stefano stef...@vulcanos.it wrote: Using sqlalchemy with pyodbc and mssqlserver Why sa always generate identity ? many thanks here the sample tb = Table('prova',meta,Column('chiave', Integer, primary_key=True)) tb.create() CREATE TABLE prova (  chiave INTEGER NOT

Re: question about wxpython CtrlList event binder: wx.EVT_LIST_ITEM_RIGHT_CLICK

2009-04-21 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Apr 21, 3:35 pm, Kent kent.y...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, I wrote a desktop application with wxPython2.8. And got a problem. Hope here someone can give some hint. Thanks in advance. I recommend joining the wxPython mailing list and posting there. The guys there are great and can probably

Re: color propagation in tkinter

2009-04-20 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Apr 20, 12:35 pm, Alan G Isaac alan.is...@gmail.com wrote: I'm a tkinter novice. If I want to propagate changes to a font, I can just use a named font. What if I want to propagate color changes? (E.g., a change in background color for a number of widgets.) Thanks, Alan Isaac One way

Re: How to create an unclosed dialog in wxPython?

2009-04-19 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Apr 19, 4:36 am, liangguan...@gmail.com wrote: On 4月18日, 下午9时40分, 书虫 liangguan...@163.com wrote: In wxPython, after I create a wx.Frame, I want to create a modeless and unclosed dialog. Here is my step: app = wx.PySimpleApp() f = wx.Frame(None, -1, Test) d = wx.Dialog(f, -1, Test

Re: wxPython 2.8 for Python 2.6 on Linux

2009-04-19 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Apr 19, 8:30 am, David Robinow drobi...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 1:58 AM, Kenny x xarv...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I use Ubuntu 8.10 and the latest version of Python. I started programming wxPython on my Windows computer, but now I have access to my ubuntu box, and want

Re: IronPython newbie: not clear on imports and assemblies

2009-04-15 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Apr 15, 3:31 pm, Thomas Gagne tga...@wide-open-west.com wrote: OK--I also haven't programmed on .NET before. My goal is to play with the EssentialPDF libraries inside IronPython.   But I'm not clear on how to import (load?) Essential's .dll files.  Of course, all the samples files are in

Re: wxpython question

2009-04-14 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Apr 13, 9:12 pm, Clemens Anhuth blackw...@nexgo.de wrote: isam uraiqat wrote: I HATE VISTA!! it just needed to be installed on the site packages library, because it was installed by default on program files, hope this might help another poor vista user Hello. Can you explain?

Re: tkFileDialog - ImportError: No module named shell

2009-04-13 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Apr 13, 11:26 am, Alan G Isaac alan.is...@gmail.com wrote: Why do I get the ImportError below? What is the right way to do this? Thanks, Alan Isaac Python 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Dec 23 2008, 15:10:54) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type help, copyright, credits or license for more

Re: tkFileDialog - ImportError: No module named shell

2009-04-13 Thread Mike Driscoll
, in module    File tbzr.pyo, line 60, in get_all_com_classes    File contextmenu.pyo, line 9, in module ImportError: No module named shell Redirecting output to win32trace remote collector On 4/13/2009 2:28 PM Mike Driscoll apparently wrote: Well, if you have tortoisehg installed

Re: loop? maybe?

2009-04-10 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Apr 10, 7:42 am, heidi taynton heidihan...@mac.com wrote: Hey guys, Sorry for being such a noob with this stuff and the language is hard for me to read through with the online manuals...  i can do math speak, and science speak... not so much programming/code speak... so when you say

Re: Q: Best book for teaching

2009-04-07 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Apr 6, 9:37 am, grkunt...@gmail.com wrote: I am considering teaching an introduction to programming course for continuing education adults at a local  community college. These would people with no programming experience, but I will require a reasonable facility with computers. What would

Re: Any library to bind python with Yahoo mail service

2009-04-02 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Apr 2, 7:45 am, guptha gjango...@gmail.com wrote: Hi friends, I came across libgmail library that can be used to bind python with Google Gmail's service .Likewise is there any library available to access the service of Yahoo mail  from python code . I like to send sms from my application  

Pyowa Meeting 04-02-2009

2009-04-01 Thread Mike Driscoll
and it's fun! We even have a mailing list. See our website for more details. We hope to see you there! Mike Driscoll Pyowa Organizer www.pyowa.org __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3979 (20090331) __ The message was checked by ESET

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