Re: [Tutor] Newb Learning Question

2008-04-03 Thread Alan Gauld
"bob gailer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > 3rd alternative: if c > 'm': print c Wow! Amazingly I just assumed you couldn't directly compare characters with boolean tests. I don't know why I thought that since it must be possible for string comparisons, but I did. You learn something new every

[Tutor] a pyball python app

2008-04-03 Thread dean garrad
hi there.. im not sure if you can help or you would want to but i fort i may aswell give it a try. i am currently trying to edit a python app it is a normal green ball game that comes with python it uses nokia n95 accel to move around. i have been trying to make more than one ball on the

Re: [Tutor] a pyball python app

2008-04-03 Thread Kent Johnson
dean garrad wrote: > i am currently trying to edit a python app > > it is a normal green ball game that comes with python it uses nokia n95 > accel to move around. > > i have been trying to make more than one ball on the screen at the same > time . > > do you think it is possable ? The attac

Re: [Tutor] a pyball python app

2008-04-03 Thread Kent Johnson
dean garrad wrote: > this one is the working version of 1 ball that can move around the > screen im sorry the other one i sent was a test one ive been trying out.. > > i cant seam to find it as easy to get it to work with 2 balls on screen. > anything i try doesnt effect the script. What have

Re: [Tutor] a pyball python app

2008-04-03 Thread Kent Johnson
dean garrad wrote: > i kind of understood what you were saying but not sure how to go by this > i am still new to python script and learning it as much as i can. OK. Do you understand how the current script works? If not, what parts are confusing? Do you understand object-oriented programming a

Re: [Tutor] a pyball python app

2008-04-03 Thread dean garrad
i kind of understood what you were saying but not sure how to go by this i am still new to python script and learning it as much as i can. here is a video of the script in action http://youtube.com/watch?v=zqZeANFBmis i did not create the script only trying to modify it. i have permission f

Re: [Tutor] a pyball python app

2008-04-03 Thread dean garrad
this is the part im lil confused about to add the extra ball location=[img.size[0]/2,img.size[1]/2] speed=[0.,0.] blobsize=16 xs,ys=img.size[0]-blobsize,img.size[1]-blobsize acceleration=0.05 friction = 0.993 import time start_time=time.clock() n_frames=0 i tried copying but it did nothing do

Re: [Tutor] a pyball python app

2008-04-03 Thread Kent Johnson
dean garrad wrote: > > > this is the part im lil confused about to add the extra ball > > location=[img.size[0]/2,img.size[1]/2] > speed=[0.,0.] > i tried copying but it did nothing do i need to copy it and change > something so the python app dont read the same txt twice and jus do nothing?

[Tutor] socket / over network

2008-04-03 Thread Nathan McBride
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey guys, I'm pretty tired of the lame backup solution we have at work. Could anyone point me to a (more or less newbieish) example of how to have python open a socket on one box and get data from it, then have another box write to it over the network

Re: [Tutor] Newb Learning Question

2008-04-03 Thread Jeffrey Dates
> > > 3rd alternative: if c > 'm': print c > after futzing around with interpreting the problem, I ended up with a solution that utilizes the character comparison. "Write a program that prints the first letter of a string that comes after 'm' in the alphabet." s = "this is my string" for i in s:

[Tutor] Which Python Script Editor of Choice?

2008-04-03 Thread Jeffrey Dates
Hello, So as I'm starting to get into writing some scripts, I'm looking for recommendations for a nifty script editor. Ideally a freeware/shareware solution until I can justify a purchase of something more beefy. Currently I'm using PSPad, however it's pretty dumb and doesn't recognize Python co

Re: [Tutor] socket / over network

2008-04-03 Thread Alan Gauld
"Nathan McBride" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote Hi Nathan, Please don't reply to an existing message to start a new discussion. It messes up those of us using threaded mail/news readers and increases the likelihood that your message will be missed. > I'm pretty tired of the lame backup solution we ha

Re: [Tutor] Which Python Script Editor of Choice?

2008-04-03 Thread Alan Gauld
"Jeffrey Dates" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > So as I'm starting to get into writing some scripts, I'm looking for > recommendations for a nifty script editor. Ideally a > freeware/shareware > solution until I can justify a purchase of something more beefy. editor choice is a sensitive topic for

Re: [Tutor] Which Python Script Editor of Choice?

2008-04-03 Thread bob gailer
Jeffrey Dates wrote: > Hello, > > So as I'm starting to get into writing some scripts, I'm looking for > recommendations for a nifty script editor. Ideally a > freeware/shareware solution until I can justify a purchase of > something more beefy. I use Python for Windows and really like it. It

Re: [Tutor] Which Python Script Editor of Choice?

2008-04-03 Thread Bob Gailer
[snip] > I went to the PSPad site, but found no way to download the editor. Am > I missing something? Ignore that. Something on the home page did not display correctly. Refresh fixed that. -- Bob Gailer 919-636-4239 Chapel Hill, NC ___ Tutor maill

Re: [Tutor] Which Python Script Editor of Choice?

2008-04-03 Thread Andreas Kostyrka
Eric and SPE are also nice. The good thing here is that the majority of IDEs for Python are free. Andreas Am Donnerstag, den 03.04.2008, 16:57 +0100 schrieb Alan Gauld: > "Jeffrey Dates" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > > So as I'm starting to get into writing some scripts, I'm looking for > > rec

Re: [Tutor] Which Python Script Editor of Choice?

2008-04-03 Thread Jeffrey Dates
Ah thanks guy!! Yeah, I guess I didn't mean which is the 'best'... Just some options. Thanks, I'll check out the ones you listed! I'm on Windows btw. Jeffrey Dates www.kungfukoi.com ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailma

Re: [Tutor] Which Python Script Editor of Choice?

2008-04-03 Thread Anthony Baldwin
Andreas Kostyrka wrote: > Eric and SPE are also nice. > > The good thing here is that the majority of IDEs for Python are free. > > Andreas > > Am Donnerstag, den 03.04.2008, 16:57 +0100 schrieb Alan Gauld: > >> "Jeffrey Dates" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >> >> >>> So as I'm starting to get i

Re: [Tutor] socket / over network

2008-04-03 Thread linuxian iandsd
re-inventing the wheel ? http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_backuppc > > > On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Alan Gauld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > "Nathan McBride" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > > > Hi Nathan, > > > > Please don't reply to an existing message to start a new discussion. > > It m

Re: [Tutor] a pyball python app

2008-04-03 Thread dean garrad
hi i signed onto the site it asked me to. :). can i talk to ya now more ? im not sure if i am in wrong place to send e mail to you still i still ahving problems with the ball script this is the script at the moment how it stands with 1 ball working fine and i have been trying to add another

Re: [Tutor] Which Python Script Editor of Choice?

2008-04-03 Thread Scott Nelson
> > Komodo also often gets props from the "IDE People" I've known. To throw another one into the mix, ActiveState has a free/open source version of its Komodo IDE called "Komodo Edit". I downloaded it and played with it for a few minutes awhile ago. Seems pretty slick. Anyone have any first h

Re: [Tutor] Which Python Script Editor of Choice?

2008-04-03 Thread Michael Langford
Asking a programmer which editor to use is like asking which religion is best. I use VIM and IPython and shell scripts (I mostly program on windows, but sometimes on Linux as well). There are several options. I'm considering looking into PIDA, which is a "IDE you make from tools you already use"

Re: [Tutor] a pyball python app

2008-04-03 Thread Kent Johnson
dean garrad wrote: > i still ahving problems with the ball script this is the script at the > moment how it stands with 1 ball working fine and i have been trying to > add another ball to the script. > > i coppied the txt and added a location2 aswell as location. but it didnt > seam to work :S

Re: [Tutor] Newb Learning Question

2008-04-03 Thread Sander Sweers
Should be replying to the listSorry :( On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Sander Sweers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Jeffrey Dates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 3rd alternative: if c > 'm': print c > > > > > > "Write a program that prints the first letter

Re: [Tutor] Which Python Script Editor of Choice?

2008-04-03 Thread W W
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Michael Langford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Many people who go this way, program with or without one just fine. Those who > start right away always using IDE's can just plain die when they hit an > environment where they don't have one (due to time, money, locat

Re: [Tutor] Newb Learning Question

2008-04-03 Thread Jeffrey Dates
Exellent suggestion! thanks! On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Sander Sweers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Should be replying to the listSorry :( > > On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Sander Sweers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Jeffrey Dates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Tutor] a pyball python app

2008-04-03 Thread W W
Dean, Here's a tutorial/book that you should check out: http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/ How to Think Like a (Python) Programmer by Allen B. Downey He generously has a free PDF to download, and the book makes use of some code - swampy.py I think if you 1) Read the book and try the exam

Re: [Tutor] Which Python Script Editor of Choice?

2008-04-03 Thread Dave Kuhlman
On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 11:32:54AM -0400, Jeffrey Dates wrote: > Hello, > > So as I'm starting to get into writing some scripts, I'm looking for > recommendations for a nifty script editor. Ideally a freeware/shareware > solution until I can justify a purchase of something more beefy. > > Curren

Re: [Tutor] Which Python Script Editor of Choice?

2008-04-03 Thread Kent Johnson
Dave Kuhlman wrote: > If you are looking for text editors, this page will give you more > choices than you want: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_text_editors And this: http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonEditors When I worked on Windows I used TextPad, it's inexpensive but not

Re: [Tutor] Which Python Script Editor of Choice?

2008-04-03 Thread Michael Langford
When you have you use Visual Studio, I suggest using the beautiful and wonder ViEmu. Best $90 I ever spent: http://www.viemu.com/ On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 2:40 PM, W W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Michael Langford > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Many people who go