Any way to use a range as a key in a dictionary?

2009-03-26 Thread Mudcat
I would like to use a dictionary to store byte table information to decode some binary data. The actual number of entries won't be that large, at most 10. That leaves the other 65525 entries as 'reserved' or 'other' but still need to be somehow accounted for when referenced. So there are a couple

Re: How to interface with C# without IronPython

2009-03-17 Thread Mudcat
On Mar 17, 6:39 am, Kay Schluehr kay.schlu...@gmx.net wrote: On 16 Mrz., 23:06, Mudcat mnati...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 13, 8:37 pm, Christian Heimes li...@cheimes.de wrote: Chris Rebert wrote: Haven't used it, butPythonfor .NET sounds like it might be what you want:http

Re: How to interface with C# without IronPython

2009-03-16 Thread Mudcat
On Mar 13, 8:37 pm, Christian Heimes li...@cheimes.de wrote: Chris Rebert wrote: Haven't used it, butPythonfor .NET sounds like it might be what you want:http://pythonnet.sourceforge.net/ I've done some development for and with PythonDotNET. It's definitely the right thing. It works with

How to interface with C# without IronPython

2009-03-13 Thread Mudcat
All the topics I seem to find on this topic lead me in the direction of IronPython, but I'm not interested right now in a reimplementation of Python in .Net environment. There are wrappers and methods available for integrating with Java, C, and a bevy of other languages. I don't know much about

Re: Importing modules

2009-01-21 Thread Mudcat
This is something I've wondered about for a while. I know that theoretically Python is supposed to auto-recognize duplicate imports; however I've run into problems in the past if I didn't arrange the imports in a certain way across multiple files. As a result, I worry about conflicts that arise

Re: Importing modules

2009-01-21 Thread Mudcat
I think you've probably had issues with circular imports (i.e. mutual dependencies), unless you can precisely remember what you were doing and what went wrong. That's possible, but circular imports become more of a hazard if you have to import in several locations. Unify that to one file, and

Re: Importing modules

2009-01-21 Thread Mudcat
On Jan 21, 11:29 am, alex23 wuwe...@gmail.com wrote: Well, you can always stick those imports into a 'common.py' and do 'from common import *' in each file that uses them. But doing so can be a pain to maintain and debug for anything more than the most simple of applications. Being able to

Re: PyQt: Pulling Abstract Item Data from Mime Data using Drag and Drop.

2008-12-13 Thread Mudcat
On Dec 12, 6:17 pm, David Boddie da...@boddie.org.uk wrote: That's correct, retrieveData() is a protected function in C++ and the QMimeData object was created by the framework, not you, in this case. Ah, well that explains it. Figured as much but was hoping maybe I was trying to access it

PyQt: Pulling Abstract Item Data from Mime Data using Drag and Drop.

2008-12-11 Thread Mudcat
I'm trying to drag/drop info from a TreeWidget into a TextBox. I have been able to modify the TextEdit box to override the dragEnterEvent like this: class TextEdit(QtGui.QTextEdit): def __init__(self, title, parent): QtGui.QTextEdit.__init__(self, title, parent)

Re: Tkinter: How to get Label wraplength functionality in Text Box

2008-10-30 Thread Mudcat
I'm not sure why my tkinter would not be compiled against 8.5 since I have the latest version. I assumed that Python 2.6 would have it without requiring me to do an extra compile. However I was able to get it working using the code you gave me. Thanks for that. The only problem is that it seems

Re: Tkinter: How to get Label wraplength functionality in Text Box

2008-10-30 Thread Mudcat
textBoxResize(self, event): widget = event.widget dispLines = widget.count(1.0, end, displaylines) widget.config(height=dispLines) Thanks for the help! On Oct 30, 9:19 am, Guilherme Polo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/30/08, Mudcat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure

Re: Tkinter: How to get Label wraplength functionality in Text Box

2008-10-29 Thread Mudcat
Sounds like that would work really well. Problem is I can't get it to work. ... AttributeError: Text instance has no attribute 'count' ... I think my usage is correct. I don't have any params at the moment, but I was just checking the functionality. numlines = widget.count() According to the

Tkinter: How to get Label wraplength functionality in Text Box

2008-10-28 Thread Mudcat
I've tried quite a few things to get this correct but have hit a couple of sticking points that I can't figure out. I need to ge the Text box to function like the 'wraplength' option in a Label. I've been able to adjust the height of the text by calculating the number of lines needed to display

Re: Python test case management system?

2008-09-05 Thread Mudcat
What would the behaviour of such a system be? In other words, what is a test case management system in terms of the things that it does? The feature set for one tends to vary. In short it's a front end app which is tied to a db that stores and organizes test cases. The system will allow you to

Python test case management system?

2008-09-04 Thread Mudcat
I had originally planned on writing my own software for managing test cases; however new boss = new directive. This will make it more difficult to get the functionality I need for test cases that are automated and executed using python. I've searched for alternatives but so far haven't come up

Writing Unicode to database using ODBC

2008-09-03 Thread Mudcat
In short what I'm trying to do is read a document using an xml parser and then upload that data back into a database. I've got the code more or less completed using xml.etree.ElementTree for the parser and dbi/ odbc for my db connection. To fix problems with unicode I built a work-around by

Re: Tkinter updates - Easiest way to install/use Tile?

2008-08-15 Thread Mudcat
Thanks for all the input! I was able to install 2.6 with the wrapper file and get up and running quickly. I like this. I can pass the style object to a separate stylesheet file where I can create all the definitions. That cleans up a lot of clutter around the gui widgets. In the past there just

Tkinter updates - Easiest way to install/use Tile?

2008-08-13 Thread Mudcat
So I haven't programmed much in Python the past couple of years and have been catching up the last few days by reading the boards. I'll be making commercial Python applications again and wanted to see what's new in the Gui department. I started using Tkinter several years ago and have a lot of

Outbound HTML Authentication

2007-11-29 Thread Mudcat
Hi, I was trying to do a simple web scraping tool, but the network they use at work does some type of internal authentication before it lets the request out of the network. As a result I'm getting the '401 - Authentication Error' from the application. I know when I use a web browser or other

Re: Python stock market analysis tools?

2007-03-05 Thread Mudcat
What kind of tool do you want? Getting quotes is the easy part: import urllib symbols = 'ibm jpm msft nok'.split() quotes = urllib.urlopen( 'http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s='+ '+'.join(symbols) + 'f=l1e=.csv').read().split() print dict(zip(symbols, quotes)) The hard

Re: Python stock market analysis tools?

2007-03-05 Thread Mudcat
On Mar 5, 7:55 am, Beliavsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, and a discussion of investment approaches would be off-topic. Unfortunately, newsgroups such as misc.invest.stocks are dominated by spam -- the moderated newsgroup misc.invest.financial-plan is better. Some research says that mean

Python stock market analysis tools?

2007-03-04 Thread Mudcat
I have done a bit of searching and can't seem to find a stock market tool written in Python that is active. Anybody know of any? I'm trying not to re-create the wheel here. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Getting started with Crystal Reports...little help in the far court.

2007-01-08 Thread Mudcat
I am not that familiar with Crystal Reports, but having read some other posts I know that the way to integrate the API with Python is through the COM interface provide by win32all. However, I have been unable to find any other information on how to get started. I've used the COM interface before

Re: Tkinter: Strange behavior using place() and changing cursors

2006-11-14 Thread Mudcat
Wojciech Mula wrote: Mudcat wrote: [...] You have to set cursor once, Tk change it automatically: def buildFrame(self): self.f = Frame(self.master, height=32, width=32, relief=RIDGE, borderwidth=2) self.f.place(relx=.5,rely=.5) #self.f.bind

Tkinter: Strange behavior using place() and changing cursors

2006-11-13 Thread Mudcat
I was trying to design a widget that I could drag and drop anywhere in a frame and then resize by pulling at the edges with the mouse. I have fiddled with several different approaches and came across this behavior when using the combination of place() and configure(cursor = ...) This problem

Re: Tkinter: How do I change the actual width of a widget?

2006-11-11 Thread Mudcat
Fredrik Lundh wrote: look for pack_propagate on this page for one way to do it: http://effbot.org/tkinterbook/button.htm /F Thanks! I had actually seen this, but on the pythonware site where it looks like this: f = Frame(master, height=32, width=32) f.pack_propagate(0) # don't

Tkinter: How do I change the actual width of a widget?

2006-11-10 Thread Mudcat
I am trying to change the width of a widget based on pixel size and not on characters. I can't figure out how to do this. Normally to change to the size of a widget it looks like: widget.configure(width = x) However that is in characters, not in pixels. To retrieve the actual size of a widget,

Re: python GUIs comparison (want)

2006-11-05 Thread Mudcat
Paul Rubin wrote: No that would suck. Best to try to stay as close as possible to the native widgets on whatever the underlying platform is. If you want to depart from the native UI, then start from scratch and write a whole new window system with a complete app suite etc. Ok. But other

Re: python GUIs comparison (want)

2006-11-05 Thread Mudcat
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: IOWs, eyecandy with no functionality... Sounds like the same mindset that creates entire web sites using Flash animations such that one /can not/ access them using a simple fast-loading text modes. Not exactly. Look...when you're using freeware to compete with

Re: python GUIs comparison (want)

2006-11-04 Thread Mudcat
I have been using Tkinter for several years now. Recently I have been thinking about switching to something else that may have a sharper appearance. However I'm not sure what that may be, and if that something else is *that* much better than what I'm already using. Does everyone agree that

Re: python GUIs comparison (want)

2006-11-04 Thread Mudcat
is/is not possible. But I know that many applications draw their own windows, skins, and functionality widgets to provide a sharper appearance. It seems like it would be possible for someone to draw these widgets and provide an api to display them through Python. timmy wrote: Mudcat wrote: I

Re: Ctypes Error: Why can't it find the DLL.

2006-10-27 Thread Mudcat
That was it. Once I added the other DLLs then it was able to find and make the call. Thanks for all the help, Marc Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: Mudcat a écrit : Hi, I can't figure out why ctypes won't load the DLL I need to use. I've tried everything I can find (and the ctypes website

Ctypes Error: Why can't it find the DLL.

2006-10-24 Thread Mudcat
Hi, I can't figure out why ctypes won't load the DLL I need to use. I've tried everything I can find (and the ctypes website is down at the moment). Here's what I've seen so far. I've added the file arapi51.dll to the system32 directory. However when I tried to access it I see this: print

Re: Need design advice. What's my best approach for storing this data?

2006-03-18 Thread Mudcat
In doing a little research I ran across PyTables, which according to the documentation does this: PyTables is a hierarchical database package designed to efficiently manage very large amounts of data. It also deals with compression and various other handy things. Zope also seems to be designed to

Need design advice. What's my best approach for storing this data?

2006-03-17 Thread Mudcat
Hi, I am trying to build a tool that analyzes stock data. Therefore I am going to download and store quite a vast amount of it. Just for a general number - assuming there are about 7000 listed stocks on the two major markets plus some extras, 255 tradying days a year for 20 years, that is about

Re: Need design advice. What's my best approach for storing this data?

2006-03-17 Thread Mudcat
On a different tack, to avoid thinking about any db issues, consider subscribing to TC2000 (tc2000.com)... they already have all that data, in a database which takes about 900Mb when fully installed. That is an interesting option also. I had actually looked for ready made databases and didn't

Re: Using yacas within Python for symbolis computation

2006-03-17 Thread Mudcat
Out of curiosity, are you also Texas Longhorn JCDenton in another online life? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Need recs on the best graphing interface

2006-03-08 Thread Mudcat
Hi, I have looked through the previous suggestions on graphing modules and have been able to find some good suggestions. However I was wondering about something more specific. I am going to write a program that tracks stock prices and other financial related charts, so I need to use the classic

Why can't I from module import * except at module level?

2006-01-13 Thread Mudcat
I have a directory structure that contains different modules that run depending on what the user selects. They are identical in name and structure, but what varies is the content of the functions. They will only need to be run once per execution. Example (directory level): Sys1: A B

Re: Why can't I from module import * except at module level?

2006-01-13 Thread Mudcat
Anyone? Is there any way to do this or am must I load all modules by function name only if it's after initialization? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

What's the best SNMP interface?

2005-10-11 Thread Mudcat
Hi, I don't know very much at all about SNMP, but I have an application where I need to use it. I won't be doing too much with it, just simple queries for metric values and capturing traps. I've searched on the net for information but haven't found anything that recent as to what is the best

Re: How to change deafult tab traversing (radiobuttons panel)

2005-06-06 Thread Mudcat
I just figured this out myself, but probably not the way you're asking. There are supposed to be ways to change the tab order using tk_focusNext() and tk_focusPrevious(), but I've never used it. What I've done is simply point one widget to the next one, basically creating a linked list of tabs. I

Re: py2exe problems with win32com [ EnsureDispatch('ADODB.Connection') ]

2005-05-26 Thread Mudcat
I'm not positive about this, but when using com you need to force it into the compile. In my applications where I use Excel I use this line: python setup.py py2exe --progid Excel.Application You may need to do something similar for the db application. --

Re: Design problem...need some ideas

2005-05-26 Thread Mudcat
bump Anyone? I don't need code. Just widgets and a compass for the right direction. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Design problem...need some ideas

2005-05-25 Thread Mudcat
Howdy, I'm trying to create a selection helper, just like in Google or other places where a drop-down menu appears below the text selection box when you enter some text. As you type, the choices are narrowed based on the characters entered. I have everything worked out but the actual menu which

Re: Confusing: Canvas image working in function but not in class

2005-04-23 Thread Mudcat
I will answer my own question in case anyone else ever has this problem. I knew the problem (although some say it's not) existed with the namespace of pictures, that if you didn't save the pictures in persistent memory they would disappear as soon as the function that called them was exited. So a

Re: Python Win32 Extensions and Excel 2003. OL 11.0 Supported?

2005-04-21 Thread Mudcat
Yeah, yall are right. I did the same thing and found it pulling different versions depending on which system I was on. However I was confused because I tried to use an older version of python win with Excel 2003 a couple of years ago, and it wouldn't work. Somehow it couldn't handle OL 11.0. So I

Confusing: Canvas image working in function but not in class

2005-04-21 Thread Mudcat
I have an image that displays on a canvas that works unless I put the same code in a class. I can't figure that out. Here's what works: def uts5100(self): self.screen = Toplevel( self.master ) self.screen.geometry(+100+50) self.screen.grab_set()

Python Win32 Extensions and Excel 2003. OL 11.0 Supported?

2005-04-20 Thread Mudcat
Howdy, I could have sworn I downloaded a version of python win that supported object library 11.0 at some point. However I just downloaded versions 204 and 203, and the highest version they have is OL 9.0. Does anyone know if this is a mistake or if Excel 2003 isn't yet supported with the

How do I enter/receive webpage information?

2005-02-04 Thread Mudcat
Hi, I'm wondering the best way to do the following. I would like to use a map webpage (like yahoo maps) to find the distance between two places that are pulled in from a text file. I want to accomplish this without displaying the browser. I am looking at several options right now, including

How do I delete the bound character which triggered callback?

2005-01-31 Thread Mudcat
Howdy, I have a simple combox that I have commands entered into which looks like this: This is a list with the commands to be run in rotisserie fasion. self.comList = Pmw.ComboBox(self.boxFrame, labelpos=W, label_text='Command List: ', entry_width=20, selectioncommand=self.temp )