I think it maintains the traditional distinction between allocation and initialization. When you use structures in C for example, you must first use malloc to allocate a structure and then you...

You can get a drive letter from a path like this

import os
drive = os.path.splitdrive(mypath)[0]
print(drive)

Now for mypath, you could use either the current working dir os.getcwd() or your...

You can speed this up:

def sine(x):
term = float(x)
result = term # avoid 'sum' which is the name of a builtin function
u = - term * term # this is minus (x squared)
n = 0 #...

You probably still have the wrong indentation for the line
status = staticmethod(status).

I see. Note that handling errors by the means of a return status is not very pythonic. It's a C like way of thinking. A more pythonic approach would be to define a

class LibraryError(Exception):...

The indentation is bad. The code should read

# Classy Critter
# Demonstrates class attributes and static methods

class Critter(object):
"""A virtual pet"""
total = 0

Nice. Just one criticism, I don't like your

except:
return False

because you're just hiding errors, so that if something goes wrong, your program will never know. You should think about...

I prefer design 1. We don't know anything about the algorithms that you have in mind, so there is no obvious benefit for introducing the classes Search and Edit. With design 1, the Library object...

I modified your code so that it prints the file name and the destination name instead of renaming the file. Run it and modifiy it until it gives the correct values, then uncomment the 'rename' line....

You can write

from os.path import join as pjoin
targetfolder = raw_input('enter a target folder:\n').strip()
newname = raw_input('enter a new base name:\n')
newname = pjoin(targetfolder,...

Google found a patch for scapy.all..sniff, wich allows to stop the sniff function programmatically. You should try this http://trac.secdev.org/scapy/wiki/PatchSelectStopperTimeout

You can write

if colour in ("Green", "Blue", "Red"):
... # do something
else:
... # do something else

Note that in python 3, there are no 'old style class', so that your class is implicitely a subclass of object. Here is a small experiment with python 2.6 and python 3.1

Python 2.6.4 (r264:75706,...

Is this what you mean ?

class Agent:
def __init__(self):
exec "import random" in self.__dict__


ag = Agent()

print ag.random.randrange(100) # this works

It's true, suppose that mypackage contains __init__.py, foo.py, bar.py and baz.py. You could have this in __init__.py

import foo
import bar
import baz

then, if you simply write import...

I ran pylint (http://www.logilab.org/project/pylint) on this code. Here is the result (note that this depends on my personal configuration of pylint, it may give a different result on your system)
...

You can also use format

message = "z's value is {z:0{digits}n}".format(z=2, digits=3)
print(message)

Here is a script which should work for 1 .pdb file and many .pd files. It creates the new versions of the .pd files (with less lines) in a separate output directory. See the usage at the end of the...

When you open a file, the cursor is at the beginning of the file. However

myfile.seek(0)

goes to the beginning of the file. Finally, read this....

Did you read this in your assingment ?

Although it can be helpful to you to discuss your program with other people, and that is a reasonable thing to do
and a good way to learn, the work you hand...

In the applications menu of your desktop panel, you select install software (you need the root password for this). This opens the software manager, which has a search form. Put libtcl in the search...

There are small differences, for example in Pickle, there are Pickler and Unpickler classes which don't exist in cPickle. Often such double implementations exist because someone first wrote a python...

The standard library has examples of modules wich offer 2 implementations, a C and a pure python implementation. For example Pickle and cPickle and StringIO and cStringIO. For most problems, you can...

I think it's only the terminology of the python documentation. Usually the documentation opposes 'user defined types' implemented in python to 'built in types' implemented in C.

There are many examples of extensions written in C or C++. For example the numpy package implements classes written in C.
One of the main reasons to do this is that C or C++ run much faster than...

try

string2 = "Random Number is\n{value:^16}".format(value = string1)

Also, you can read this (http://www.daniweb.com/code/snippet232375.html) :)

I discovered a new python book today http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/programming_books/python_programming/index.html.

:) :) :) :) :) :) :)

This should work

value = min(x for x in temperature_sequence if x > 0)

Note: this raises ValueError if all temperatures are below 0.

The floating point precision can be passed as argument too

rabbits = {
"flopsy" : 1.0/3, "mopsy" : 576.0/7, "cotton tail": .76/5, "peter": 300000.0/37,
}

nwidth = 1 + max(len(name) for...

Same example with computed field's width:

rabbits = {
"flopsy" : 1.0/3, "mopsy" : 576.0/7, "cotton tail": .76/5, "peter": 300000.0/37,
}

nwidth = 1 + max(len(name) for name in rabbits)
...

The syntax of the str.format() method described in the python 2.6 documentation (http://docs.python.org/library/string.html#formatstrings) looks both powerful and complex. The idea of this thread is...

s='1234444432187667890000568984'
print("\n".join(("I found %d: %d" % (s.count(str(i)), i)) for i in range(10)))

I wrote a code snippet (http://www.daniweb.com/code/snippet217111.html) for this last year :)

Ok, you can change the text with

l.setText(str(300)) # the text now shows 300

note that the letter 'l' is a bad variable name. Good variable names have at least 3 characters (except for loop...

I think I understand your point now. There must be a limitation somewhere when n is large. However, note that the builtin shuffle function takes an optional argument 'random' which allows you to pass...

A shorter method

L1=[[1,2,3],[4,5,6],[7,8,9],[10,11,12]]
L2=[1,2,3,4,11]

set2 = set(L2)
L3 = [x for x in L1 if set2.intersection(x)]
print(L3)

you should use getattr(random, name)

@@pythonuser18 For reference, I got it working, with python 2.6 and this last line:

print DecToRom(int(raw_input("Decimal number: ")))

Objects are the result of years of programming practice by thousands of programmers. You need some time to see the benefit. The idea is that an object holds a certain quantity of data. The object's...