I once wrote one :icon_wink: It's part of one of the greatest periodic table programs of the world *cough*. You can find it here (http://freshmeat.net/projects/pyperiod/).

Then there is pyparsing...

currentFunds = CurrentFunds()
currentFunds.getValue()

while currentFunds.getValue() > 0:
rouletteTable.bind("<Button-1>", click)
...

700 loc for a simple roulette game? I guess you could shorten it a bit :icon_wink:
if spin == 3 or spin == 4 or spin == 5 or spin == 6 or spin == 7 or spin == 8 \
or spin == 9 or spin == 10 or...

Nice and easy, vegaseat, but

:)

a = [4,5,6]
s = set(a)
Now s is a set :)
For further info have a look at the documentation (http://docs.python.org/lib/types-set.html).

>>> import sys
>>>
Hmm, it seems to work. What did you expect to happen? :)

writer = csv.writer(open(("beta_%i.%i.%i.csv" % (now.day, now.month, now.year)), "ab")

Hi!

print "\\".join((str1, str2))
or
print "%s\\%s" % (str1, str2)
If you want to make this os-independent, have a look at the os module (os.path.join might be your friend :))

Regards, mawe

Let's see how you e.g. call an Entry with these (from Tkinter alone won't work, I guess you mean import Tkinter):

1. from Tkinter import * -> entry = Entry()
2. import Tkinter as tk -> entry =...

str() is your friend.
FILE.writelines( str(b) )

def increase(num, b2, x):
if num%(b2**x) < num:
return increase(num, b2, x+1)
print x
return x

You don't need a begin in Python,:
(if (condition)
(begin
(do-something-1)
(do-something-2))
do-something-else)
if condition:
do_something_1
do_something_2
else:

We can help you better if you show us the code you use.

place seems to be a nice and easy way for positioning, but it's not often used. e.g. think of what happens if you want to make some little changes to the GUI. You have to change all coordinates of...

A little hint:
for i in range(1, 5):
print i

Hi,

here's one way (not very clever, but it works):
@numbers = (12, 12, 23, 123, 3, 234, 22333, 223, 3);

foreach $number (@numbers) {
# fill all numbers with whitespace to a length of 5
...

Sorry, forgot to mention it: there should be not space after the "[" in [code]

Hi,

please put your code in [ code=Python]...[/code], otherwise the indentation is lost :icon_wink:
if number != 4 and number != 5 and number != 6 and number != 8 and number != 9 and number !=...

Very good posts, jrcagle! I see that yours are much more useful than mine, and, much more polite :) I think I have to say sorry to fredzik.

PS: I _hate_ the new smilies!!! :@

I don't really understand what you want. You want to run this "game" from Idle _and_ have a Tk-GUI? What should be displayed in the GUI. And why run it from Idle? BTW, do you mean the editor "idle"?...

You enter a number (say 10), press Enter and the update() function does the following:
- it sets amount to 0
- reads the number from the Entry (10), adds it to amount (10), sets the label...

There is a widget called Text, which I think is what you want. An Entry is always one line high (per definition ;))

You are right, that's another way. It may be a matter of taste, but ... I don't like it :) I would rather do something like this:
In [1]: def valid( elem ): # very complicated function
...: ...

from random import randint

def roll( num ):
# this counts the "5 of a kind"
hit = 0
# we try this num times
for i in range(num):
# roll the dices
dices = [...

liz517, could you please explain what your code should do.

Hi,

your "error" is a very common source of confusion :)
Let's take a slightly simpler example:
In [1]: lst = ["a", "b", "b", "d"]

In [2]: for elem in lst:
....: print "before: ", lst ...

Hi!

The first one without any if-elif:
def search(l, key):
return key in l
For the second one, .index() is your friend ;)
def search(l, key):
if key in l: return l.index(key)
...

Is this from diveintopython? If so, then the first snippet on this page (http://www.diveintopython.org/power_of_introspection/index.html) is what you need ;)

This should do what you want:
print "%x" % 255

If my posts sound somewhat rude, I'm sorry for that. It's not meant this way.
Your questions are absolutely not stupid, and before you ask you try to find a solution by yourself. That's more than...

And you really don't know why?
words = string.split(s)
Ok, from your other post you know that words is a list. Fine.
ch = string.split(words)
What are you doing here? You want to split a list?...

Hi!

Well, you did it ... nearly :)
words = string.split(p)
Ok, words is now a list, and it's elements are the words in the sentence. You want to know how many words there are in the sentence ......

That's right. You read the data always as a string, so you have to convert it by hand to whatever you need.

Hi!

Python usually produces very useful error-messages, like here

Ok, you know what to do, right? Just convert your number to a string ;)
a = 123.44
f = open("data1.dat", "w")
f.write(...

...
for char in message:
# check if the character is alphabetic
if char.isalpha():
...

Regards, mawe

The name says it all, I think. You have a nested list, you want to flatten it (e.g. because you want to count the occurence of an element), this function is all you need ;)

As scru says, this is not an easy task if you have such a nested structure ;)

I once wrote a function which "flattens" these monsters :)
def flatten(lst):
for elem in lst:
if...

Congratulations for finding the solution by yourself!
def main():
import string
This is bad style. Imports should be the first lines in your script.
BTW, you don't need the string-module...

Hi!

This question is not dumb, in fact it's probably the most frequently asked one on the net :)
Maybe these lines will help you (btw, id() returns the memory address of an object):
>>> a =...

You are absolutely right, a search should always start in our snippets section :) But, searching for prime python via Google, I found a link to a snippet here (on the second page). You see, Google is...