locals_dict = locals()
for i in range(1, 10):
var_name = "POS" + str(i)
if i == POS:
locals_dict[var_name] = "->"
else:
locals_dict[var_name] = " "


discalimer:...

If you a using a GUI/event-driven framework, then yes, it's possible. If you are using console python, then no.

bytes, as they exist in Python 3.1 are conceptually new to Python (starting with version 3). This isn't to say that 8-bit strings didn't exist before in the form of regular text strings. Note the...

I happen to think this behavior is consistent (with indexing and slicing rules).

Here's why it makes sense:

bytes and str are not the same. They aren't even conceptually the same.

A bytes...

You actually think that is more exotic? Wow.

No. b'\x01\x02' Is a byte string in python. The expression bs[x] means that you want the byte at position x in the bytestring x, while bs[a:b] means that you want the part of the byte string from a...

Sigh.

No, python doesn't have clear screen.

(emphasis mine)

No, they won't. You see, there's no good reason anybody would want to do that. I guarantee you that anybody wanting to do this has a totally different underlying problem to which...

Python.org supposedly loves spam anyway, so long as you include some eggs.

Look, not to be harsh or anything, but given you previous posts I think you would be better off reading a book or a wiki or even just a tutorial on Python OOP and maybe Python in general. Really.

Okay, I will, but first give me one reasonable use for this technique.

Well they actually really are dlls. It's just that the routines inside are built on the python C API.

To use them, just import them like any other module.

What vegaseat said.

And if you're trying to optimise your program by using the most "efficient" of these, you have issues.

No, please don't do that.

That is okay if the page you are reading is encoded in ascii or utf-8. But if it is encoded in latin-1 (a fairly common encoding in its own right), you can run into...

1. You control the way your Car class prints by adding an __str__ method to it. Here is an example:
def __str__(self):
s = self.brand, self.name +": $", self.price #eg: Dodge Viper: $80000
...

I'm not even going to lecture you about why that is just horrible UX. If you want to put your users through that kind of torture, it's your call. The principle of what you're trying to achieve is the...

Well, I'm not Dan, but here's a little hack adapted from http://www.dotnetspider.com/resources/15834-eject-close-cd-tray.aspx for Python. It's only two lines of code!
To open:

import ctypes...

This method is probably a bit less efficient than other suggestions you'll get, but it's just one line:


new_list = [item[:1] for item in old_list]


Question. Why don't you use tuples instead...

Is everything okay now?

Line four didn't get you anything? You should've gotten an IO error; you're not supposed to read from files you open for writing. If even you had opened the file as w+, you still should've gotten...

Linux is by a good extent a "python OS". Okay that's misleading because the kernel itself isn't written in Python, but most distros would break if you remove it.

That's not a real key logger and you know it. Fail to the OP for accepting it as a solution without the most obvious test. Goes to show just how lazy he is.

Hey jlm699, how come you called random.seed()?

Sure.. Whatever actually works is probably fine. You can always optimize from there.

You're going to have to post the code for do_stuff_with_var. Otherwise we'd just be guessing.

What you need to do is read one word at a time from the file and check that word for capitalization. Here's an example:


word = ""
char = fobj.read(1)
while char:
if char == " ":
...

Except I don't think he meant i there, but rather 1 (the number one). I can never be sure though.

Of course, just about anything can (and it has nothing to do with python)!

Just in case you don't fine wxGlade or BoaConstructor to be quite what you need (or if you just can't get past how ugly they are), you can try QtDesigner for pyQT (comes with the pyQT package).

Of all the dumb, shallow requests I've seen on this site, this has to be the dumbest and shallowest.

Try:


import urllib
import os
import time

open_file=open('html.html','r')
file=open_file.read()

Not sure what you mean...

import urllib
import string

open_site=urllib.urlopen('http://www.sravan953.blogspot.com')
read_site=open_site.read()

value=str(read_site)

IDLE is perfect for newbies. The only thing to bear in mind; when you start learning GUIs you shouldn't run them in IDLE as they make it unstable, but for now IDLE is good.

Not exactly.

The easiest way is to start IDLE (Python GUI). On the file menu, click open to load your script, and then press F5 to run it.

If you want to write new scripts with it, start the...

If you've written the script with IDLE, the best (and easiest) way to run it is by pressing F5 inside IDLE (once you've got the file open).

If you've written it with some other editor, then you...

If you want to just find out if one string is contained inside another:
strvalue1 in strvalue2

If you want to find out how many occurrences of one string there are in another:
num =...

I don't really agree that spaces are the proper way and tabs aren't. I would agree that which ever you choose, you should use it consistently. There are some cases where tabs can be convenient (being...

Yeah:


print " ".join(hints.hint())


Which should combine the list into a string, separated by a space. But you knew that before, didn't you?

Most likely issue is a firewall.

After that there's routers (port forwarding stuff) and proxies. Are you trying to connect over the internet, or on the same subnet?

return " ".join(hint) creates a string by joining strings in the list, separated by a space. For example, if you have the following list you strings:

["black", "white", "black"]

then you would...