A better approach might be to create a package installer (such as a .deb or .rpm) which lists python as a dependency.

If you plan to support more linux variants than just RedHat and Debian and...

The answer is no.

Not even Tcl is installed by default on all flavors of linux. About the only thing you can guarantee is that either /usr/bin/sh or /bin/sh is available. (And on most linuxes it...

The only GUI toolkit built-in to Python is Tk. (And Tcl/Tk most definitely does work on the iPod!)

I know next to nothing about the iPod. Is it an embedded OS?

In any case, it is certainly...

Or, if you happen to be running Windows, you'll need to google the RunOnce registry value or stick either your program or a link to it in the Startup folder of the start menu.

What you are trying...

I think what you are looking for is the overrideredirect flag. This tells the wm to buzz-off.

It is generally used for pop-up windows (like balloon pop-ups, menus, etc.).
It is generally a Bad...

Sorry again... :$

Nice catch on the type of input.

Vegaseat, you really ought to try to give people an idea instead of just writing code for them. People learn better when they can solve the problem themselves. A little direction --a nudge this way...

I feel like a total geek. I always use python straight from the command-line.

I don't have Vista, so I can't exactly identify what part of the OS is giving you the problem.

IDLE uses a feedback loop socket. This is a weird thing to do, so antivirus and internet access...

There is no button in graphics.py. How exactly are you trying to create one?

See here (http://effbot.org/zone/python-compile.htm) for links.

Hope this helps.

Yes. And so do you.

Remember, get out the crayons and construction paper and draw what you are trying to do at each step.

Ah, yes, my mistake. You are using graphics.py. The type of thing matters. A point is an object, not a tuple.

So, you need to create a point using the appropriate constructor:
p8 = Point(...

What you want isn't technically "security related issues" but "copy protection (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy_protection)" issues. The link lists various copy restriction schemes.

You can...

You're doing well; you've just made a simple mistake.

p8 is the upper-left corner of the door
p7 should be the lower-right corner of the door

the mistake is when you say
p7=(p8,

p8 is a...

Yes, it can be done, but I've never done it...

The toplevel window needs to have the -container flag and -use for the window ID of the SDL window.

However, PyGame wasn't really designed to...

That's actually a tough question. Most of the window managers I am familiar with (which isn't many) will properly execute a text file beginning with the magic words:
#! /usr/bin/python
or
#!...

Gnome shouldn't have any trouble executing py files by double-click.

1. Make sure you have the proper header in the file (as per my last post).

2. Failing that, make sure that python is...

I am presuming you are on Linux.

Try

#! /usr/bin/env python

print "Success!"


Hope this helps.

If you have two points:
(10, -7)
(3, 12)
then how do you find the distances between them?

The distances are:
- distance between the x values (what you are looking for)
- distance between the...

I always tend to stick the main program one directory above all the other modules. My directory tree will look something like this:

Gork/
gork.py
README
...
images/
title.tga
...

Unfortunately, the "Julian Day Number" is one of those terms I mentioned (or rather, it is often abused to mean "the day of the year").

Fortunately it looks like that link uses the JDN correctly!...

Python deals only with the Gregorian calendar. Certain terms (like "Julian") can be properly applied to specific things withing the Gregorian system, but the Julian calendar it is not.

Usually the...

You can't do that without very carefully doing some really bad things first.

Even in the same program, each loop is a separate entity. There is no reason why a loop in one program file should...

Alas, it looks like I was mistaken about python... None of the python interfaces to CreateProcess report back changes to the enviornment dictionary...

It looks like printing to stdout and using...

I haven't used python to do this, but in Windows it is possible to specify the environment table the child is to use. Thus, if the child modifies its environment, it is modifying something that the...

The problem is you aren't thinking it through: you are trying to use things before they exist.

To best help, you need to work on how to convert abstract stuff like "draw a door of a specific...

Er, you misunderstand. We think it is the GIF that is faulty, not your code.

Float types are just the hardware's floating point data type. Usually this is an IEEE single (4-bytes), double (8-bytes), or extended (10-bytes).

The problem with these is that they approximate...

No, you had that correct. The return tuple is (child's output, child's input).

I don't know what's wrong...


[EDIT]
I just had a thought. Is your C program compiling correctly or is it...

On linux? Or windows?

It sounds to me like your child process is misbehaving. May I ask which command you are executing?

I think I see what you are doing.
Your angle is too small (and in the wrong units).

Consider, if you want a 5-pointed star: 360 /5 = 72, so each point is 72 degrees apart.
BUT you want to draw a...

Ah, well, I would suggest googling "XRC editor" and checking out SourceForge. There are a number of open source XRC editors available.

You should be aware, though, that XML isn't a picture file...

No, he is using a package called graphics.py. It is designed for beginners, so it is fairly convenient and simple to use. The getMouse() function waits for you to click and returns the coordinates....

Use the ord function.

print ord('A')

Prints the number 65 to the console.

Hope this helps.

I know this sounds funny, but you need to get out a piece of construction paper and some crayons and draw yourself a house.

Then, using your finger, 'click' on the picture where the instructions...

I'm not sure what exactly it is that you want.

XRC is a file format used by wxWidgets programs to store the layout and arrangement of buttons and other widgets on a form. A program that uses...