Re: [Tutor] Unable to open .py files directly

2012-03-21 Thread Surya K
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:11:18 -0400 From: bgai...@gmail.com To: sur...@live.com CC: tutor@python.org Subject: Re: [Tutor] Unable to open .py files directly On 3/19/2012 10:30 AM, Surya K wrote: Hi there, I am facing a

Re: [Tutor] Unable to open .py files directly

2012-03-21 Thread Bod Soutar
On Mar 21, 2012 1:03 PM, Surya K sur...@live.com wrote: Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:11:18 -0400 From: bgai...@gmail.com To: sur...@live.com CC: tutor@python.org Subject: Re: [Tutor] Unable to open .py files directly On 3/19/2012 10:30 AM, Surya K wrote:

Re: [Tutor] Unable to open .py files directly

2012-03-21 Thread Surya K
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:29:17 + Subject: Re: [Tutor] Unable to open .py files directly From: bod...@googlemail.com To: sur...@live.com CC: tutor@python.org; bgai...@gmail.com On Mar 21, 2012 1:03 PM, Surya K sur...@live.com wrote: Date: Mon,

Re: [Tutor] Unable to open .py files directly

2012-03-21 Thread bob gailer
On 3/21/2012 9:00 AM, Surya K wrote: I was double clicking.. and I want to open IDLE. Great. Better explanation. To make it even better I will now assume you want the file to be opened by IDLE in a script (edit) window. So an even better explanation is when I double-click the file I want it

Re: [Tutor] Unable to open .py files directly

2012-03-21 Thread bob gailer
On 3/21/2012 10:42 AM, Surya K wrote: In that case, you need to change the file association of .py files to IDLE Bodsda Yeah, I tried that. The worst part is we don't have any exe file specifically for IDLE. I mean windows has to choose whether to edit or compile. In my case, the file

[Tutor] feedback on writing pipelines in python

2012-03-21 Thread Abhishek Pratap
Hi Guys I am in the process of perl to python transition for good. I wanted to get some feedback or may be best practice for the following. 1. stitch pipelines : I want python to act as a glue allowing me to run various linux shell based programs. If needed wait for a program to finish and

Re: [Tutor] feedback on writing pipelines in python

2012-03-21 Thread Abhishek Pratap
Hi Steve I agree Steve perl is perfectly fine for the stuff I described but I am also interested trying alternatives. I am seeing quite interesting data handling stuff coming up in Python and I would like to try and sometimes as a programmer I dont like so many ways of doing the same things but

Re: [Tutor] Unable to open .py files directly

2012-03-21 Thread Alan Gauld
On 21/03/12 13:00, Surya K wrote: open is ambiguous. What do you want to happen? Edit or execute? I was double clicking.. and I want to open IDLE. That's not usually the behavior you want for .py files. Once you gain experience you will likely have a lot of programs written in python, all

Re: [Tutor] feedback on writing pipelines in python

2012-03-21 Thread Steve Willoughby
On 21-Mar-12 11:03, Abhishek Pratap wrote: Hi Guys I am in the process of perl to python transition for good. I wanted to Why? Perl is still a perfectly good tool. Just not, IMHO, good for exactly the same things Python is good for. 1. stitch pipelines : I want python to act as a glue

Re: [Tutor] feedback on writing pipelines in python

2012-03-21 Thread Alan Gauld
On 21/03/12 18:03, Abhishek Pratap wrote: 1. stitch pipelines : I want python to act as a glue allowing me to run various linux shell based programs. If needed wait for a program to finish and then move on, logs if required Python by default reads/writes to stdin/stdout so you can do stuff

[Tutor] opening a Qt .py file from within another python app.

2012-03-21 Thread ken brockman
Evening all; I am trying to import a Python QT file, that had been generated from a ui file into another python app. I have imported it, without generating an error, but the Qt window isn't opening. I have spent the afternoon googling the issue, have found numerous articles, but none that have