Re: Decimating Excel files

2007-02-03 Thread Phil Schmidt
gonzlobo wrote: > We have a data acquisition program that saves its output to Excel's > .xls format. Unfortunately, the programmer was too stupid to write > files the average user can read. > > I'd like some advice on how to go about: > 1. Reading a large Excel file and chop it into many Excel fil

Re: OT : Bug/Issue tracking systems

2006-12-17 Thread Phil Schmidt
Steven, I have worked with Trac a bit, only to demo it in my company. We ended up not going with it (for reasons not related to Trac), but I found it easy to set up and configure. I seems to be a very nice tool. I especially like the wiki integration, as it makes it really easy to link tickets wit

Re: About alternatives to Matlab

2006-11-25 Thread Phil Schmidt
sturlamolden wrote: > Using Python just for the sake of using Python is silly. Well, that kind of gets right to my point. Does the "added" effort with Python to interface with data acquisition hardware really result in less productivity? I am very familiar with Matlab, Labview, and Python, and fr

Re: About alternatives to Matlab

2006-11-23 Thread Phil Schmidt
Brian Blais wrote: > So my recommendation for a (nearly) complete Matlab replacement would be: > python > numpy > scipy > matplotlib > pyrex > Brian, Thanks for that list. I'm currently in the process of getting quotes for a bunch of Matlab tools for hardware-in-th

Re: How to change menu text with Tkinter?

2006-09-27 Thread Phil Schmidt
Eric Brunel wrote: > > But Marc's answer still applies: it's a lot of work for something that > will usually be configured once. So requiring to restart the tool when the > UI language changes should be acceptable. > Thanks for the example, that helps. I agree with you and Marc regarding the l

How to change menu text with Tkinter?

2006-09-27 Thread Phil Schmidt
I am making a little Tkinter GUI app that needs to be in several languages (english, french, etc.), adjustable at runtime via a menu pick to select the language. The only way I can see to change text in the menus entries is to destroy them and recreate them usiing different labels. This seems very

sqlobject for Python 2.5

2006-07-17 Thread Phil Schmidt
I'd like to get sqlobject for Python 2.5, but it appears it's not available. Can I use sqlobject for Python 2.4 and use it on 2.5? If so, how? I have no experience using setuptools, but it appears that unless there's a specific .egg file for 2.5, then I'm outta luck. True? Thanks, Phil -- http:

os.access() problem

2006-07-11 Thread Phil Schmidt
I just got a new PC with Windows XP, and I want to run Leo on it. Leo uses the os.access() function to check for read-only files. For some reason, os.access(, os.W_OK) always returns false. I wrote a 2-liner Python script to just test os.access on any file. I have tried this with Python 2.4 and 2.

Re: Linguistic challenge: name this program

2004-12-05 Thread Phil Schmidt
> A few years ago, a first implementation of "Karel the Robot" in Python > was created and called PyKarel. A second, newer implementation is > called Guido van Robot (GvR for short), and is available at > gvr.sourceforge.net. Work is currently underway by the developpers of > GvR to produce a new-a