Reasonable people of good will can disagree on such matters, but it is pretty well recognized that parameters and return values are superior to global variables. I'd take out the global sock and pass...

You'd put the bt_connect() before you put up the app menu, so the user first sees a list of bt devices and chooses one. You connect to that, carefully checking that the connect() succeeded. I think...

Some people might look at that and think opportunity! Google Summer of Code is coming up. Can daniweb.com be a mentoring organization?

return count is indented too far.

I noticed you have defined receive()twice. This means the first definition is discarded and only the second one counts.

Do you need receive()at all? It depends on what you're doing. Normally you'd...

Does it really just hang, or perhaps return the wrong error code?

Usually when I run into this kind of problem I telnet to port 21 and type in the USER and PASS commands manually. Try this; you...

... and thank sb3700 for closing the loop here. Six months from now somebody else will have the identical problem and with a bit of googling will see the solution, thus reducing global aggravation.

... you should not use random as your variable name. Pick something different, say rand or rnum or whatever. Otherwise you overwrite your imported random module the first time you assign something to...

I don't know the answer but suggest two things to consider:

Sending all four lines in one write() may burst data faster than the receiver can actually handle.
You might check on the newlines in...

Thanks for the example, VE. I have a .tar.bz2 file I need to read within Python and was able to take your code and use it. I've put together a little .tar.bz2 extraction example in case others follow...

The datetime object takes a series of integers, not a single string:>>> t1 = datetime.datetime(2009,12,22,22,22)
>>> t2 = datetime.datetime(2009,12,22,20,22)
>>> (t1-t2).days
0
>>>...

The jargon for this is "transpose a matrix".

I did this interactively (pay careful attention to the brackets):>>> import numpy
>>> M = numpy.matrix([['A', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8',...

...
p = choice(array) #CHOOSE A PARTICLE,P, AT RANDOM FROM THE ARRAY
pnewx=p.x + 0.05*(random() -0.5) #GENERATE A STEP IN X
pnewy=p.y + 0.05*(random() -0.5) #GENERATE A STEP IN Y
...

Good explanation, Jeff.

I don't really have a good handle on Python's type() function, but you can use it as ff:>>> str(type(56))
"<type 'int'>"
>>> str(type('ABC'))
"<type 'str'>"
>>>...

Possibly not the easiest to explain, but a completely different approach would be "".join([ [letr.lower(),letr.upper()][letr in 'aeiou'] for letr in list("whatever was input") ])

For even more fun, learn some SQL. There's even Python code to access SQL databases, but I would suggest first some interactive basics with (free) mySQL. (You quickly learn why there's a software...

The statement if win_loss_code == 'W' or 'w': doesn't parse the way you want. Try if win_loss_code == 'W' or win_loss_code == 'w': and do the corresponding for Ll.

The way it is currently written...

if i1==True: is exactly the same as if i1:, just as if i1==False:is identical to if not i1:

So if you want to test elif i1 and i2 == False: you should write elif not i1 and not i2: or equivalently...

No, things don't group the way your code expects. In particular, elif i1 and i2== False: parses as elif (is==True) and (i2==False):. You would need parentheses to change the grouping from the...

Doesn't the 'f' come second in the numpy.array() call?

For spacing, try print ' ' * 15 + 'CRAPS'. Also, the word is "lose" not "loose". Where you say while roll == roll: you probably should just say while True: since that is the canonical way of setting...

I use 'T' instead of '10', but you can change this as neededimport random
rank = random.choice( ('A','2','3','4','5','6','7','8','9','T','J','Q','K') )
suit = random.choice( ('c','d','h','s') )...

Because a and b have no value when you go to calculate pythag.

The statement pythag=(a**2+b**2)**0.5 is, after all, just a bunch of arithmetic operations resulting in a value that is stored in...

Not to be a blanket-wetter, but I noticed you have pythag=(a**2+b**2)**0.5 before the statements that give values to a and b. The program as presented will not run without minor edits.

Still, it...

Use a tuple of the two words as dictionary index. Piece of cake.

Of course you have to figure out how to separate the words from the HTML, but there's plenty of libraries out there.

Definitely the first one (directly after the writing loop). Wise of you to ask.

One more thing: you probably need to add code.stdout.close() after you are done with the subprocess output. In this case, probably right after the for loop that writes out the lines. That file was...

file.write(code)is wrong. Replace with:
for line in code.stdout: # code.stdout is handle to subprocess output
file.write(line)This should get you closer.

I don't know what that "it" is you are trying to write to the file. You seem to want to write the output of the program being run, but I don't think you can do that with .call() which just returns...

I don't see how this can work, since dashes is initially undefined: while y != g:
dashes += " _"
y += 1
Perhaps replace that code with the simpler dashes = g * " _"?

This will get you started, but there are many things you need to consider beyond the core function.def password_input(prompt, pw):
while True: # Forever
data = raw_input(prompt)
...

I don't think this is true! Since the list is 0-based, child1 is the child of root, but child2 is the child of child1. (You know, 2/2 is 1, not 0 :-). This skews things right from the start.

One...

Using the secret ... tags, we get:
def main():
def Parent(i):
return i/2
def Left(i):
return 2*i
def Right(i):
return 2*i+1

def Heapify(A, parent,...

Doesn't look like a Python problem -- looks like a network problem. Are you sure your new server's network configuration is set up like the old one's? (Both hardware connections and software...

Probably only Guido knows for sure. This topic has come up a lot in the past. An if/elif chain is as concise as switch/case and allows for tests other than equality, so in some sense is more...

As I understand it, the 2.x print statement syntax is illegal in 2.6 when the new print function is desired, and always illegal syntax in 3.0. (I think that's what #1 meant when he said "breaks old...

Nice code. Almost there. Here's a hint: evolved_array[iy,ix]==1 does NOT assign any value to evolved_array[iy,ix]. But you seem to be trying to do that. Blame it on your editor...

Problem is you're naming your output variable random. Use another name!

After you do your import random you've defined an object named random that basically contains a bunch of procedures such as...

I too suggest the use of % to check for zero remainder, avoiding floating point in this problem.

A nit on operators: when you want integer-style division, discarding any remainder, the proper...

That doesn't square with what you said in the original post ... you know ... the part that reads "I can't seem to figure it out." For all I know, English isn't your native language. Just wanted to...