[newbie] starting geany from within idle does not work

2014-01-12 Thread Jean Dupont
I'm using the latest Raspbian on a Raspberry Pi and I'd like to start IDLE so that it uses Geany instead of Leafpad. This seems at first sight a trivial task: Perform a rightmouse click on the IDLE-icon--Open with: Geany (in stead of the default Leafpad)--OK LXTerminal--lxpanelctl restart

[newbie] advice and comment wanted on first tkinter program

2014-01-17 Thread Jean Dupont
Dear all, I made a simple gui with tkinter. I can imagine there are things which I did which are not optimal. So what I ask is to comment on my code preferable with snippets of code which show how to do improve my code. #!/usr/bin/env python import Tkinter import time import RPi.GPIO as GPIO

Re: [newbie] advice and comment wanted on first tkinter program

2014-01-18 Thread Jean Dupont
Op vrijdag 17 januari 2014 22:40:42 UTC+1 schreef Terry Reedy: On 1/17/2014 8:20 AM, Jean Dupont wrote: Dear all, I made a simple gui with tkinter. I can imagine there are things which I did which are not optimal. So what I ask is to comment on my code preferable with snippets

Re: [newbie] advice and comment wanted on first tkinter program

2014-01-19 Thread Jean Dupont
Op zaterdag 18 januari 2014 16:12:41 UTC+1 schreef Oscar Benjamin: On 18 January 2014 14:52, Jean Dupont jeandupont...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Peter and Terry Jan for the useful suggestions. One thing which I find a bit weird: when asking for Python-help concerning raspberry pi code

Re: [newbie] advice and comment wanted on first tkinter program

2014-01-21 Thread Jean Dupont
Op maandag 20 januari 2014 07:24:31 UTC+1 schreef Chris Angelico: On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Jean Dupont jeandupont...@gmail.com wrote: I started a thread [newbie] starting geany from within idle does not work both here and in the raspberry pi forum. I just wondered why I never got

Re: [newbie] advice and comment wanted on first tkinter program

2014-01-22 Thread Jean Dupont
Op maandag 20 januari 2014 10:17:15 UTC+1 schreef Alister: On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 20:04:05 -0800, Jean Dupont wrote: Op zaterdag 18 januari 2014 16:12:41 UTC+1 schreef Oscar Benjamin: On 18 January 2014 14:52, Jean Dupont jeandupont...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Peter and Terry Jan

Re: [newbie] advice and comment wanted on first tkinter program

2014-01-27 Thread Jean Dupont
Op woensdag 22 januari 2014 16:43:21 UTC+1 schreef Alister: On Wed, 22 Jan 2014 06:45:53 -0800, Jean Dupont wrote: Op maandag 20 januari 2014 10:17:15 UTC+1 schreef Alister: On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 20:04:05 -0800, Jean Dupont wrote: Op zaterdag 18 januari 2014 16:12:41 UTC+1 schreef Oscar

Re: [newbie] advice and comment wanted on first tkinter program

2014-01-27 Thread Jean Dupont
Op woensdag 22 januari 2014 15:45:53 UTC+1 schreef Jean Dupont: Op maandag 20 januari 2014 10:17:15 UTC+1 schreef Alister: On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 20:04:05 -0800, Jean Dupont wrote: Op zaterdag 18 januari 2014 16:12:41 UTC+1 schreef Oscar Benjamin: On 18 January 2014 14:52, Jean Dupont

[newbie] making rows of table with discrete values for different number systems

2014-02-02 Thread Jean Dupont
I'm looking for an efficient method to produce rows of tables like this: for base 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 . . . 1 1 1 1 for base 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 . . 2 2 2 2 2 2 As you can see the rows are always twice the size of the

Re: [newbie] making rows of table with discrete values for different number systems

2014-02-02 Thread Jean Dupont
Op zondag 2 februari 2014 19:10:32 UTC+1 schreef Peter Otten: Jean Dupont wrote: I'm looking for an efficient method to produce rows of tables like this: for base 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 . . . 1 1 1 1 for base 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0

Re: [newbie] making rows of table with discrete values for different number systems

2014-02-03 Thread Jean Dupont
Op maandag 3 februari 2014 02:56:43 UTC+1 schreef Asaf Las: On Sunday, February 2, 2014 10:51:15 PM UTC+2, Jean Dupont wrote: Op zondag 2 februari 2014 19:10:32 UTC+1 schreef Peter Otten: I'm looking for an efficient method to produce rows of tables like this: jean you can also try

Re: [newbie] making rows of table with discrete values for different number systems

2014-02-03 Thread Jean Dupont
Op zondag 2 februari 2014 19:07:38 UTC+1 schreef Roy Smith: In article 515e582f-ed17-4d4e-9872-f07f1fda6...@googlegroups.com, Jean Dupont jeandupont...@gmail.com wrote: I'm looking for an efficient method to produce rows of tables like this: for base 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0

[newbie] troubles with tuples

2014-02-03 Thread Jean Dupont
I'm looking at the way to address tuples e.g. tup2 = (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 ); As I found out indices start with 0 in Python, so tup2[0] gives me 1, the first element in the tuple as expected tup2[1] gives me 2, the second element in the tuple as expected now here comes what surprises me:

Re: [newbie] troubles with tuples

2014-02-03 Thread Jean Dupont
Op maandag 3 februari 2014 18:06:46 UTC+1 schreef Rustom Mody: On Monday, February 3, 2014 10:20:31 PM UTC+5:30, Jean Dupont wrote: I'm looking at the way to address tuples e.g. tup2 = (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 ); As I found out indices start with 0 in Python, so tup2[0] gives me 1

Re: [newbie] making rows of table with discrete values for different number systems

2014-02-03 Thread Jean Dupont
Op maandag 3 februari 2014 16:34:18 UTC+1 schreef Asaf Las: On Monday, February 3, 2014 5:05:40 PM UTC+2, Jean Dupont wrote: Op maandag 3 februari 2014 02:56:43 UTC+1 schreef Asaf Las: On Sunday, February 2, 2014 10:51:15 PM UTC+2, Jean Dupont wrote: Op zondag 2 februari 2014 19:10:32

[newbie] copying identical list for a function argument

2014-02-03 Thread Jean Dupont
I have a list like this: [1,2,3] The argument of my function should be a repeated version e.g. [1,2,3],[1,2,3],[1,2,3],[1,2,3] (could be a different number of times repeated also) what is the prefered method to realize this in Python? any help would be really appreciated kind regards, jean

Re: [newbie] copying identical list for a function argument

2014-02-04 Thread Jean Dupont
Op maandag 3 februari 2014 23:19:39 UTC+1 schreef Steven D'Aprano: On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 13:36:24 -0800, Jean Dupont wrote: I have a list like this: [1,2,3] The argument of my function should be a repeated version e.g. [1,2,3],[1,2,3],[1,2,3],[1,2,3] (could be a different number of times

Re: [newbie] making rows of table with discrete values for different number systems

2014-02-04 Thread Jean Dupont
Op maandag 3 februari 2014 20:50:04 UTC+1 schreef Asaf Las: On Monday, February 3, 2014 9:37:36 PM UTC+2, Jean Dupont wrote: Op maandag 3 februari 2014 16:34:18 UTC+1 schreef Asaf Las: Of course you don't have to, but I'm curious and learn well by examples :-( Hi Jean Don't get me

[newbie] problem with data (different behaviour between batch and interactive use)

2012-06-27 Thread Jean Dupont
I have some data which is presented in the following format to me: +3.874693E-01,+9.999889E-03,+9.91E+37,+1.876595E+04,+3.994000E+04 I'm only interested in the first two fields i.e. +3.874693E-01,+9.999889E-03 If I start python interactively I can separate the fields as follows:

convert perl-script for voltcraft voltmeter to python [newbie]

2012-02-06 Thread Jean Dupont
I'd like to read in the output of a voltcraft vc960 voltmeter connected to a usb-port. I found the perl-script below but I'd like to accomplish the same with python: I guess I have to use the module serial but I don't know how I should set the serial parameters so they are the same as in the

Re: convert perl-script for voltcraft voltmeter to python [newbie]

2012-02-06 Thread Jean Dupont
, 8, serial.PARITY_NONE, 1, timeout=15) print rs-232 parameters of Voltcraft: , ser2 print Opening + ser2.portstr received=ser2.readline() print received print Goodbye, data logged in file: print filename ser2.close() # Close file voltdata.close() On 2 feb, 21:57, Jean Dupont jeandupont

pySerial question, setting certain serial parameters [newbie]

2012-02-06 Thread Jean Dupont
I need to set the following options I found in a Perl-script in Python for serial communication with a device (a voltmeter): $port-handshake(none); $port-rts_active(0); $port-dtr_active(1); I have thus far the following statements but I think it does not set the above parameters correctly:

how to read serial stream of data [newbie]

2012-02-06 Thread Jean Dupont
I'd like to read in a stream of data which looks like this: the device sends out a byte-string of 11 bytes roughly every second: B0B0B0B0B03131B0B50D8A B0B0B0B0B03131B0B50D8A B0B0B031B63131B0310D8A B0B034B3323432B3310D8A B0B03237B53432B3310D8A . . . As you see every string is

Re: how to read serial stream of data [newbie]

2012-02-07 Thread Jean Dupont
On 7 feb, 06:07, Roy Smith r...@panix.com wrote: In article e84f3af4-da6d-4ae9-8974-54354ec16...@b18g2000vbz.googlegroups.com,  Jean Dupont jeandupont...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to read in a stream of data which looks like this: the device sends out a byte-string of 11 bytes roughly

Re: how to read serial stream of data [newbie]

2012-02-07 Thread Jean Dupont
On 7 feb, 15:04, Heiko Wundram modeln...@modelnine.org wrote: Am 07.02.2012 14:48, schrieb Antti J Ylikoski: On 7.2.2012 14:13, Jean Dupont wrote: ser2 = serial.Serial(voltport, 2400, 8, serial.PARITY_NONE, 1, rtscts=0, dsrdtr=0, timeout=15) In Python, if you want to continue the source

Re: convert perl-script for voltcraft voltmeter to python [newbie]

2012-02-07 Thread Jean Dupont
On 7 feb, 05:21, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote: On 2/2/2012 3:57 PM, Jean Dupont wrote: I'd like to read in the output of a voltcraft vc960 voltmeter connected to a usb-port. I found the perl-script below but I'd like to accomplish the same with python: The script below

Re: convert perl-script for voltcraft voltmeter to python [newbie]

2012-02-08 Thread Jean Dupont
On 8 feb, 01:26, Dietmar Schwertberger n...@schwertberger.de wrote: Am 03.02.2012 14:11, schrieb Jean Dupont: As my request might have been too much asked, I have started doing some coding myself. I'm in doubt about the readline statement -which doesn't show anything received