Re: [Tutor] Working with IDLE in XP, Set Up for A New Program

2009-01-11 Thread W W
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Wayne Watson wrote: > I immediately answered my own question by clicking on a link that took me > to a web site with the pdf; however, it looks like I installed Python 2.6. > It'll be easy to uninstall, but I don't see 2.5 -- yet. > http://www.activestate.com/sto

[Tutor] indented grammar parsing

2009-01-11 Thread spir
Hello, this is a rather specific question about parsing an indented grammar. I have a working implementation (presented below) that may be worth a critic review -- if you like it. First issue is: is there a way to express an indented formatfing using a common grammar language such as BNF (or re

[Tutor] help

2009-01-11 Thread rev pacce
I have no expierence using python. I was following a tutorial and i kept getting a syntax error. it was   >>> print "hello world!"  hello world was not coming up underneath it.. i tried to run the module but that didnt work either. ___ Tutor mai

Re: [Tutor] help

2009-01-11 Thread jadrifter
On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 14:01 -0800, rev pacce wrote: > I have no expierence using python. I was following a tutorial and i > kept getting a syntax error. it was >>> print "hello world!" hello > world was not coming up underneath it.. i tried to run the module but > that didnt work either. > > __

Re: [Tutor] help

2009-01-11 Thread Alan Gauld
"rev pacce" wrote I have no expierence using python. I was following a tutorial and i kept getting a syntax error. it was >>> print "hello world!" hello world was not coming up OK, I guess that you tried typing the >>> howerver that bit should be produced by the Python interpreter. You n

[Tutor] Active State Python with IDLE Python 2.5

2009-01-11 Thread Wayne Watson
Title: Signature.html I installed "Python" 2.5 a few months ago, and decided I'd like to try windowpy from ActiveState. Is having both of these installed going to cause me trouble? -- Wayne Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA) (121.01 Deg. W, 39.26 Deg.

[Tutor] help

2009-01-11 Thread Brian Mathis
I'm also new to python, but I have another suggestion on what might be going on. If you downloaded the newly released python version 3.0, ' print "hello world" ' is a syntax error because in 3.0 the "print" command has changed into a function. The correct statement would now be: print("Hello W

[Tutor] 2to3 Help?

2009-01-11 Thread Marco Petersen
I have Python 3.0. I tried to use the 2to3 program included with the interpreter to convert some scripts for Python 2.5 to Python 3.0 ones. When I try to start it form the Python command line, it says it is a syntax error. This was the line of code: $ 2to3 testscript.py Any help would be appr