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Forum: Python 8 Days Ago
Replies: 4
Views: 2,511
Posted By jlm699
Those are forward slashes, which do not need to be escaped (the escape character is \, which is backslash)
Forum: Python 19 Days Ago
Replies: 1
Views: 205
Posted By jlm699
The method os.getcwd() can only ever return a single string. There's ever only one current working directory, so when you're saying for d in os.getcwd(), you're actually iterating over the string...
Forum: Python 21 Days Ago
Replies: 14
Views: 538
Posted By jlm699
Okay... how about this:
>>> data_dict = {
... '1234': ['Matt', '2.5', 'CS'],
... '1000': ['John', '4.0', 'Music'],
... '1023': ['Aaron', '3.1', 'PreMed'],
... '1001': ['Paul', '3.9',...
Forum: Python 21 Days Ago
Replies: 8
Views: 273
Posted By jlm699
Why, yes! This case would be a good one to use the dictionary's get method, which will allow you to determine if the key is already in the dictionary or not, and act accordingly.
def...
Forum: Python 25 Days Ago
Replies: 6
Views: 299
Posted By jlm699
Here's some examples of converting between strings, lists, lists of strings, and ints using list, str and int:
>>> usr_inp = '123456'
>>> usr_inp2 = '1,2,3,4,5,6'
>>> list(usr_inp)
['1', '2',...
Forum: Python 26 Days Ago
Replies: 2
Views: 166
Posted By jlm699
def main():
print "This program illustrates a chaotic function."
print "Please enter two numbers between 0 and 1."
x = input ("Enter first number: ")
y = input ("Enter second...
Forum: Python 26 Days Ago
Replies: 8
Views: 253
Posted By jlm699
Why not use one that does then?

I use Notepad++, but I know that even python-specific IDEs like PyScripter have parenthesis highlighting, etc. In fact, PyScripter will have a red underline on any...
Forum: Python Oct 26th, 2009
Replies: 17
Views: 476
Posted By jlm699
So if getpos() is a function for a class object, then you forgot the most important detail. The parameter self!

Your function should be defined as such:
def getpos(self):
r1 = x,y =...
Forum: Python Oct 24th, 2009
Replies: 2
Views: 174
Posted By jlm699
In the if statement you are using w[i+5].

This means that you need to make sure the maximum i plus 5 does not go out of bounds for the string. Let me demonstrate:

>>> w = 'aabbccdd'
>>> print...
Forum: Python Oct 24th, 2009
Replies: 1
Views: 455
Posted By jlm699
This (http://docs.python.org/library/cgi.html#installing-your-cgi-script-on-a-unix-system) should help. Don't ever underestimate the power of documentation.
Forum: Python Oct 23rd, 2009
Replies: 10
Views: 416
Posted By jlm699
Unless you run your script on a compatible platform, you will not be able to experience the joy of curses, no. If you're on windows you can either download and burn a linux live CD to boot from...
Forum: Python Oct 23rd, 2009
Replies: 10
Views: 416
Posted By jlm699
The platform can be simplified to mean your operating system. If you load up a python interpreter try the following exercise:

>>> import sys
>>> sys.platform
'win32'
>>> import curses...
Forum: Python Oct 22nd, 2009
Replies: 4
Views: 502
Posted By jlm699
Gribouillis

I'm not sure if this has been fixed or not (perhaps you're using a newer version of Python where this bug has been eliminated) but when I use your path.join this is what I get:

>>>...
Forum: Python Oct 22nd, 2009
Replies: 8
Views: 340
Posted By jlm699
Actually, it is printing the current value of name. The employee.name is always a space (' '), because you never change it. In your get_details function, you have created a new variable called name...
Forum: Python Oct 20th, 2009
Replies: 6
Views: 371
Posted By jlm699
In that case you'll want this:

c.execute("INSERT INTO a (Category, Value) VALUES (%s, %s)", tuple(row[0].split()))

Basically this takes the element [0], which represents that string 'test...
Forum: Python Oct 14th, 2009
Replies: 7
Views: 552
Posted By jlm699
Eval is what you're looking for:
>>> sports = [1,23,4]
>>> eval( 'sports' )
[1, 23, 4]
>>>
Forum: Python Oct 13th, 2009
Replies: 4
Views: 191
Posted By jlm699
When you open your file you should be opening it in append mode using the 'a' flag (right now you're opening it in write mode, 'w').
Forum: Python Oct 13th, 2009
Replies: 7
Views: 552
Posted By jlm699
This is a very hacked solution but:

>>> sports = ## Defined as above - snipped for length
>>> def build_html(chosenCategory):
... up_locals = sys._getframe(1).f_locals
... for each_var...
Forum: Python Oct 10th, 2009
Replies: 7
Views: 435
Posted By jlm699
Note that GetValue returns a string. In order to use sum you'll need to convert all elements of self.marks to integers or floating points. You could probably get away with using a try/except block...
Forum: Python Oct 9th, 2009
Replies: 1
Views: 295
Posted By jlm699
1) This program has no indentation. To preserve formatting on this forum you must wrap your code in #Code tags. However after looking closer at your post it appears that your code has no...
Forum: Python Oct 7th, 2009
Replies: 11
Solved: loan calculator
Views: 443
Posted By jlm699
Mensa: your code was very well structured and a nice example of reading user input then using it for calculation. Here's how I've modified your code:

def calc_payment(int_rate, num_pmnts,...
Forum: Python Sep 22nd, 2009
Replies: 12
Views: 424
Posted By jlm699
This process is pretty easy with Postgresql; just download and install from here (http://www.postgresql.org/). There's documentation and help resources there for you if you're a command line junkie....
Forum: Python Aug 14th, 2009
Replies: 4
Views: 447
Posted By jlm699
No. Here's the code I just used to check this:

>>> def a():
... print 'a'
... return False
...
>>> def b():
... print 'b'
... return True
...
Forum: Python Aug 8th, 2009
Replies: 7
Views: 534
Posted By jlm699
This is a great site to keep in mind when you're posed with this question in the future...

www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com
Forum: Python Aug 4th, 2009
Replies: 1
Views: 211
Posted By jlm699
sys.stdin is an "always open" file handle to the stdin and likewise sys.stdout. To use them, import sys.
Forum: Python Jun 30th, 2009
Replies: 2
Views: 217
Posted By jlm699
I think you'll probably need to make use of eval in this case:

>>> myLengths = [3, 8, 5]
>>> for eachLength in myLengths:
... print eval("'%0" + str(eachLength) + "d' % 2")
...
002...
Forum: Python Jun 26th, 2009
Replies: 7
Solved: Python import
Views: 353
Posted By jlm699
Try os.getcwd() at the beginning of your script to make sure you're actually in the TPP/engine directory.

Unless you're actually running the script from within the TPP/engine directory you'll need...
Forum: Python Jun 26th, 2009
Replies: 4
Solved: Need help
Views: 299
Posted By jlm699
And also diveintopython.org (http://diveintopython.org)
Forum: Python Jun 25th, 2009
Replies: 4
Views: 601
Posted By jlm699
Use os.makedirs() to make directories.

Use os.walk() or os.chdir() to move between directories.
Forum: Python Jun 23rd, 2009
Replies: 6
Views: 350
Posted By jlm699
Forum: Python Jun 16th, 2009
Replies: 3
Views: 263
Posted By jlm699
I provided an answer to the question that you asked, which was
Now it is up to you to take that principal and implement it in a simple loop to finish this task. We're not here to create custom...
Forum: Python Jun 10th, 2009
Replies: 2
Views: 205
Posted By jlm699
To take a series of lines in a text file that are separated by newline characters and mash them into a single line of text:

# Read from your input file using readlines(), then:
out_txt = '%s %s'...
Forum: Python Jun 9th, 2009
Replies: 3
Views: 183
Posted By jlm699
loadWords()

This is your problem. While the function actually returns the dictionary, you're never actually "catching" with anything. You should be doing something like this:

my_results =...
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jun 9th, 2009
Replies: 75
Views: 4,822
Posted By jlm699
Fight Club



Reminds us that material possessions mean nothing in the end. What legacy will you leave behind?
Forum: Python Jun 8th, 2009
Replies: 4
Views: 244
Posted By jlm699
import os
os.system( 'cat file.txt | grep "line2="' )

Sometimes the simplest solution is the best one.
Forum: Python May 22nd, 2009
Replies: 7
Views: 561
Posted By jlm699
Here's some clues to help you!


>>> ord('A')
65
>>> ord('a')
97
>>> ord('Z')
90
>>> ord('z')
Forum: Python May 19th, 2009
Replies: 50
Solved: wxPython help
Views: 2,367
Posted By jlm699
I suggest downloading the 'Docs and Demos' along with your wxPython install, as it gives you a great launch pad to start writing your own GUIs by giving you sample code of almost every single type of...
Forum: Python May 19th, 2009
Replies: 3
Views: 213
Posted By jlm699
Your problems all stem from the fact that you aren't recognizing the 'scope' of your variables. You shouldn't be using global variables at all in fact, and your code could use a more coherent...
Forum: Python May 15th, 2009
Replies: 3
Views: 262
Posted By jlm699
Holy crap no. Jython is the scourge of humanity, and in my opinion utter and complete garbage. I don't even know why it exists except to astound and bewilder. I used it once to make an application...
Forum: Python May 10th, 2009
Replies: 1
Views: 314
Posted By jlm699
No, you should never be declaring classes inside a function... Your class definitions should go out on the main level and then call them from within the functions...

Also, get rid of your calls...
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