Okay, so what I want my program to do it open a file, a music file in
specific, and for this we will say it is an .mp3. Well, I am using the
system() command from the os class. The problem I am running into is that
when I send the path of the file to the system() command, which for those of
you
Gerhard Häring wrote:
Alexnb wrote:
Okay, so what I want my program to do it open a file, a music file in
specific, and for this we will say it is an .mp3. Well, I am using the
system() command from the os class. [...]
system(\C:\Documents and Settings\Alex\My Documents\My
Music
Hey thanks!, both the raw and the double backslashes worked. You are a
gentleman and a scholar.
Mike Driscoll wrote:
On Jun 10, 11:45 am, Alexnb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gerhard Häring wrote:
Alexnb wrote:
Okay, so what I want my program to do it open a file, a music file in
specific
or better yet, how to take a regular string that is given and make every
single \ into a double \\?
Mike Driscoll wrote:
On Jun 10, 11:45 am, Alexnb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gerhard Häring wrote:
Alexnb wrote:
Okay, so what I want my program to do it open a file, a music file in
specific
\\Bryanbros\\Jason Mraz\\I\'m Yours (Single)\x01 - I\'m
Yours.wma'
Thomas Morton wrote:
maybe try string substitution... not sure if that's really the BEST way to
do it but it should work
startfile(r%s%variable)
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' %
username)
or
os.startfile(r'C:\Program Files\%s' % myApp)
Hopefully this is what you are talking about. If you were referring to
passing in arguments, than you'll want to use the subprocess module
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to the backslash \ in the file path. I am looking for a way to make it
work with a variable, I can make it work when I physically type it in, but
not with a variable that holds the path.
Mike Driscoll wrote:
On Jun 10, 1:57 pm, Alexnb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That would work
\ into a
\\ then it would also work.
Did I clarify?
Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2008-06-11, Alexnb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am using GUI, Tkinter to be exact. But regardless of how the
path gets there, it needs to opened correctly. The problem I
am running into is that the program receives a path
I don't think you understand it doesn't matter how the variable gets there,
the same code is run regardless, I have no problem with the GUI, but you
asked, and so I told you. the code os.startfile( is run if there is a
GUI or it is a console app.
Carsten Haese-2 wrote:
Alexnb wrote
Okay, so as a response to all of you, I will be using the Entry() widget in
Tkinter to get this path. and the repr() function just makes all my
backslashes 4 instead of just 1, and it still screwes it up with the numbers
and parenthesis is has been since the first post. Oh and I know all about
)
this is very simplified, but that is the idea, and basically exactly what
will happen, just if the path has some of those characters that conflict
with the \.
Carsten Haese-2 wrote:
Alexnb wrote:
Okay, so as a response to all of you, I will be using the Entry() widget
in
Tkinter to get
it, I'll
write some code of what it should work like, because I probably should have
done that; but you don't have to act like I am retarded... that solves
nothing.
Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2008-06-11, Alexnb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Okay, so as a response to all of you, I will be using the Entry
(root)
root.mainloop()
[code]
Alexnb wrote:
I don't get why yall are being so rude about this. My problem is this; the
path, as a variable conflicts with other characters in the path, creating
escape characters I don't want, so I need a way to send the string to the
os.startfile() in raw
to
each other. Everyone seems like there is some huge thing that I am
missing... and I don't know what it is, because when I run that code, with
that path I was talking about, I get an error, and it shows me that it is
because of the \0.
Jerry Hill wrote:
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Alexnb
Haha, okay well sorry that I was being so stupid, but I get it now and I
apoligize for causing you all the frustration. But I did get it to work
finally.
Carsten Haese-2 wrote:
Alexnb wrote:
I don't get why yall are being so rude about this.
We're frustrated with your apparent inability
I am wondering what is the best way to create a timer, like an alarm, once it
reaches a time, it triggers an event. I have a way of doing this but it
seems like it isn't good at all. If it helps at all I am using a Tkinter,
but that probably doesn't mean much. The way I was doing it was using a
So i have a mac and pc, and just found out that os.startfile() doesn't work
on a mac. So is there anything like that besides os.system()?
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I have never used the urllib or the urllib2. I really have looked online for
help on this issue, and mailing lists, but I can't figure out my problem
because people haven't been helping me, which is why I am here! :]. Okay, so
basically I want to be able to submit a word to dictionary.com and
Okay, I tried to follow that, and it is kinda hard. But since you obviously
know what you are doing, where did you learn this? Or where can I learn
this?
Maric Michaud wrote:
Le Friday 27 June 2008 10:43:06 Alexnb, vous avez écrit :
I have never used the urllib or the urllib2. I really have
it a few times. Some of the class naming and whatnot
takes a bit of getting used to (I found that to be the most confusing
bit).
On Jun 27, 1:41 pm, Alexnb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Okay, I tried to follow that, and it is kinda hard. But since you
obviously
know what you are doing, where did you
of the class naming and whatnot
takes a bit of getting used to (I found that to be the most confusing
bit).
On Jun 27, 1:41 pm, Alexnb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Okay, I tried to follow that, and it is kinda hard. But since you
obviously
know what you are doing, where did you learn
of the sole of the foot of a horse or related
animal. ']
HTH,
Jeff
On Jun 27, 7:28 pm, Alexnb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have read that multiple times. It is hard to understand but it did help
a
little. But I found a bit of a work-around for now which is not what I
ultimately want. However, even
:
On Jun 27, 10:26 pm, Alexnb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Okay, so I copied your code(and just so you know I am on a mac right now
and
i am using pydev in eclipse), and I got these errors, any idea what is
up?
Traceback (most recent call last):
File
/Users/Alex/Documents/workspace/beautifulSoup
think it is the italics because one of the definitions that
worked had them in it in the same format. Any Ideas??!
Jeff McNeil-2 wrote:
On Jun 29, 12:50 pm, Alexnb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No I figured it out. I guess I never knew that you aren't supposed to
split a
url like http://www.goo
Actually after looking at this, the code is preactically the same, except the
definitions. So what COULD be going wrong here?
Alexnb wrote:
Okay, so i've hit a new snag and can't seem to figure out what is wrong.
What is happening is the first 4 definitions of the word simple don't
show up
'..etc. makes it a list. Do you think that has anything
to do with the problem?
Alexnb wrote:
Actually after looking at this, the code is preactically the same, except
the definitions. So what COULD be going wrong here?
Also, I ran the program and decided to print the whole list
I am not sure what is going on here. Here is the code that is being run:
def getWords(self):
self.n=0
for entry in self.listBuffer:
self.wordList[self.n] = entry.get()
self.n=self.n+1
print self.wordList
This is the listBuffer that you see:
well okay, so what can I do?
A.T.Hofkamp-3 wrote:
On 2008-07-02, Alexnb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have no idea what list assignment index out of range means?!?!
You are assigning a value to a non-existing list element, as in
x = [1]
x[2] = 4
Traceback (most recent call last
:
Alexnb wrote:
I am not sure what is going on here. Here is the code that is being run:
def getWords(self):
self.n=0
for entry in self.listBuffer:
self.wordList[self.n] = entry.get()
And what does self.wordList begin as? If {}, then the assignemt
Okay this is a simple question I just don't know how. If I have a list, say:
funList = []
and after a while something possible should have been appended to it, but
wasn't. How can I test if that list is empty.
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I am writing a program in which there is a textbox and in it the program auto
inputs a series of words, and definitions for each word. I want to make it
formatted nicely to where the word is indented, and the definitions indented
even more. I don't even know how to make the margins work. I have
Okay, I am not sure if there is a better way of doing this than findAll() but
that is how I am doing it right now. I am making an app that screen scapes
dictionary.com for definitions. However, I would like to have the type of
the word for each definition. For example if def1 and def2 are noun
Okay, heres the general idea of the html I have to work with:
div
noun
table class='luna'
table class='luna'
table class='luna'
table class='luna'
verb
table class='luna'
table class='luna'
table class='luna'
/div
Okay, I left off some stuff. But what I need to do is
Michiel Overtoom wrote:
Alex wrote...
Okay, heres the general idea of the html I have to work with:
div
noun
table class='luna'
table class='luna'
table class='luna'
table class='luna'
verb
table class='luna'
table class='luna'
table class='luna'
/div
Okay, I
Hi All
I am wondering what I can do to turn a python app (.py) into a mac OSX
applicaiton (.app). Just like py2exe does. But I am also wondering since in
your applications folder on macs it usually doesn't have an actual folder
for each app. Rather an icon. so for firefox, you just see the icon.
Python.Arno wrote:
On 13 jul 2008, at 00:39, Alexnb wrote:
Hi All
I am wondering what I can do to turn a python app (.py) into a mac OSX
applicaiton (.app). Just like py2exe does.
i use these:
http://undefined.org/python/py2app.html
http://effbot.org/pyfaq/how-do-i-create-a-pyc
Hello internet.
I am wondering, is there a simple way to test for Internet connection? If
not, what is the hard way :p
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Ben Finney-2 wrote:
Alexnb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am wondering, is there a simple way to test for Internet
connection? If not, what is the hard way :p
Refine the question: What do you mean by internet? It isn't a single
entity.
Do you mean some particular internet host
Troeger Thomas (Ext) wrote:
Alex Marandon wrote:
Alexnb wrote:
I am wondering, is there a simple way to test for Internet connection?
If
not, what is the hard way :p
Trying to fetch the homepage from a few major websites (Yahoo, Google,
etc.)? If all of them are failing, it's very
Okay, I already made this post, but it kinda got lost. So anyway I need to
figure out how to test if the user is able to connect to a specific website.
Last time I got pointed to the urllib2 page, but if I do urlopen() and and
am not connected, the program stops. So I don't know if that was what
Alexnb wrote:
Okay, I already made this post, but it kinda got lost. So anyway I need to
figure out how to test if the user is able to connect to a specific
website. Last time I got pointed to the urllib2 page, but if I do
urlopen() and and am not connected, the program stops. So I don't
Timothy Grant wrote:
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Alexnb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alexnb wrote:
Okay, I already made this post, but it kinda got lost. So anyway I need
to
figure out how to test if the user is able to connect to a specific
website. Last time I got pointed
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
Alexnb wrote:
e = ''
try:
...
except HTTPError, e:
print e.code
except URLError, e:
print e.reason
if e == '':
print good to go
footnote: here's a better way to test if an exception was raised or not:
try
Hello
I am sure most of you are familiar with py2exe. I am having a bit of a
problem. See the program has a few pictures involved and the .ico it uses
for the windows. However, the pictures are stored in the same directory as
the source, something like: C:\Docs and settings\me\My
Mike Driscoll wrote:
On Jul 16, 1:37 pm, Alexnb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello
I am sure most of you are familiar with py2exe. I am having a bit of a
problem. See the program has a few pictures involved and the .ico it uses
for the windows. However, the pictures are stored in the same
Alexnb wrote:
Mike Driscoll wrote:
On Jul 16, 1:37 pm, Alexnb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello
I am sure most of you are familiar with py2exe. I am having a bit of a
problem. See the program has a few pictures involved and the .ico it
uses
for the windows. However, the pictures
Okay, what I want to do with this code is to got to thesaurus.reference.com
and then search for a word and get the syns for it. Now, I can get the syns,
but they are still in html form and some are hyperlinks. But I can't get the
contents out. I am not that familiar with BeautifulSoup. So if
Hello
Lets say I have a string:
--a href=/browse/brick--brick--/a--
The -- needs to be replaced with or where applicable.
and I want the brick out of that string (the second brick that is). How
can I get just the brick out of that string?
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s = '--a href=/browse/brick--brick--/a--'
s
'--a href=/browse/brick--brick--/a--'
''.join('%s' % l if i % 2 == 1 else l for i, l in
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I'm sorry, I
Alexandr N Zamaraev wrote:
Alexnb wrote:
s = '--a href=/browse/brick--brick--/a--'
s
'--a href=/browse/brick--brick--/a--'
''.join('%s' % l if i % 2 == 1 else l for i, l in
enumerate(s.split('--')))
' /browse/brick brick '
I'm sorry, I don't think I was being clear. I replaced
bearophileHUGS wrote:
On Jul 17, 9:50 am, Alexnb:
how can I test to see if the first char of a string is ?
I suggest you to try the interactive shell:
hello[0]
'h'
hello[0] ==
False
hello[0] == h
True
hello.startswith(h)
True
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Lets say we have this list:
funlist = ['a', 'b', 'c']
and lets say I do this:
if funlist[4]:
print funlist[4]
I will get the exception list index out of range
How can I test if the list item is empty without getting that exception?
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Okay, I have a fix for this problem, but it is messy and I think there might
be a better way. Heres an example:
Lets say I have a string: My name is alex
and I have another string My name is alex, and I like pie.
I want to test to see if just the My name is alex part is there. I don't
care
Lets say I've got a stirng:
blah This is my string blah
I want to get rid of the blah's but keep the This is my string. I know you
can do this with a for loop, but that is messy and a pain. So does anyone
have any suggestions on how to do this?
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Okay, so lets say you have a list:
funList = [1,2,3,4,5]
and you do:
for x in funList:
print x
this will print 1-5
But I am wondering is there a way to something like this:
funString = string string string non-string non-string string
and
for string in funString:
print something
Ya just an example, to print the numbers 1-5
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
Alexnb wrote:
But I am wondering is there a way to something like this:
funString = string string string non-string non-string string
and
for string in funString:
print something
I know you can't do
Basically I want the code to be able to pick out how many strings there are
and then do something with each, or the number. When I say string I mean how
many strings are in the string string string string non-string string
Does that help?
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
Alexnb wrote:
Ya just
string.
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
Alexnb wrote:
Basically I want the code to be able to pick out how many strings there
are
and then do something with each, or the number. When I say string I mean
how
many strings are in the string string string string non-string string
Does that help
This is similar to my last post, but a little different. Here is what I would
like to do.
Lets say I have a text file. The contents look like this, only there is A
LOT of the same thing.
() A registry mark given by underwriters (as at Lloyd's) to ships in
first-class condition. Inferior grades
.
Also, on a side-note, does anyone know a very simple dictionary site, that
isn't dictionary.com or yourdictionary.com. Or, a free dictionary that I can
download to have an offline reference?
John Machin wrote:
On Aug 19, 6:40 am, Alexnb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is similar to my last post
Machin wrote:
On Aug 19, 8:34 am, Alexnb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The number is based on the word(s) they type into my program, and then it
fetches the number that word is in the list of words and then will search
the definitions document and go to the nth def. It probably won't work
Okay, I have used BeautifulSoup a lot lately, but I am wondering, how do you
open a local html file?
Usually I do something like this for a url
soup = BeautifulSoup(urllib.urlopen('http://www.website.com')
but the file extension doesn't work. So how do I open one?
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