That pretty much proves that if you tell a lie often enough, it becomes the truth.

Q: "How many lawyer jokes are there?"
A: "Only three. The rest are true stories."

I didn't know they took a video of me buying beer! :)

My favorite ...
8. I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

Compared to all the unused brain space, this is nothing!

Lord Aberdeen was quite touched when I told him
I was so attached to the dear, dear Highlands and
missed the fine hills so much. There is a great
peculiarity about the Highlands and Highlanders;...

Hmm, sounds good, just add a beet to wash it down.:)

I am little under the weather, so it's hot Blackberry Tea sweetened with a spoonful of Blue Agave syrup.

My suggestion is to look at a nice Python console TicTacToe game like:
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/post135044.html#post135044

This is the common 3x3 game, all you need to do is to go to a 4x4...

So the next question is:
Is it you against the computer, or you against another human?

For programs like this, recursion is not a very good idea. Calling a function, even itself, is one of the slower things in programming because of the stack control. You will find that in the faster...

The more common approach would be to use append() ...
for line in f:
columns = line.split(",")
letters = columns[ 0 ]
list1.append(letters)
I think it is less mistake prone. I also...

Looks like you have made nice progress with coding pygame. The pygame module has something called sprites that, as far as I remember, are more suitable for what you have in mind.

Let's hope this is not homework and the OP had a chance to learn something.

In a true palindrome test you also need to remove everything but the case adjusted letters.
"Madam in Eden I'm Adam" is...

I noticed before that if you work in the shell with some IDEs, then you seem to retain old variables. Check the global dictionary in the shell. I would say avoid the shell with any programs larger...

Thanks for letting the rest of us know!
Most folks use protocol=-1 as the highest possible protocol.

If
remove('an', 'banana') --> 'bana'
then this should be
remove('iss', 'Mississippi') --> 'Missippi'
So you can use ...
def remove(sub, s):
# replace first sub with empty string
return...

We will all be watching with you!

China has 720 million cellular subscribers, that is more than that of the US and Europe combined. They are rolling out 3G mobile services nationwide, which should give their Government Internet...

Blackberry Tea

Actually, if you temporarily flip to Reply with quote in the OP post you find out the request was for:

H e l l o W o r l d

That is 2 spaces between 'o' and 'W', DaniWeb swallowed up the extra...

The culprit is
screen.blit(background, (0,0))
I moved it out of the event loop, and rewrote your program just a little to reflect Python coding convention better ...
import pygame as pg

def...

In your second problem in function even_list the for loop should iterate through the list you are giving the function. If you find an item in that list that is even, then you have to append it to...

A young Irish woman went to the doctor to deliver her first baby. Upon her arrival the doctor asked her into the examining room and told her to remove her pants. Well, she would have none of that,...

A toasted bagel with a heap of cinnamon and sugar on it, and cup of Bailey's coffee.

Are you running this from the Python shell?

This Tinter GUI toolkit program draws a rather ugly stick man ...
# exploring Tkinter's canvas drawing surface
# draw lines and ovals to form a stick man
# info at...

Simply posting the same question with another meaningless title again is in rather poor taste. People have given you advice, so apply it and go from there. We will not do homework for you, since...

I agree with snippsat, don't tie yourself down with an outdated book and outdated custom modules.

Pygame has come out for Python3, and will be around for hopefully more than just a few years. If...

I suggest you simply use the module pygame directly, tell us what you want to do and show some effort, the rest of us will help. Many of us are familiar with pygame, but not with the old somewhat...

I hope you are not stuck with an outdated module like graphics, which is a wrapper for Tkinter, written by some guy to sell his book. You are much better off using the Tkinter GUI toolkit directly...

LiveWires is a pretty well dated Python course that uses a module called games as a wrapper for PyGame. It is supposed to make the use of PyGame easier for the beginner.

Looking over the module...

In simple terms:
Input Data --> Process Data --> Output Processed Data

So the next questions is:
What operating system are you using?

It can be as simple as this ...
import os
import time

# pick a file you have in the working directory
filename = "beachball.jpg"

# show file creation time
print(...

First toggle the DaniWeb code field to plain text. Right click and select all, then right click and copy to your editor. From the editor save the code as let's say 'TicTacToe2.py'. If you have an...

Actually. your raw data file is tab delimited and easily converted into a list of lists. Once that is done you can simply access your specific data by index and looping through the list.

The only...

from xml.sax.saxutils import XMLGenerator

I have no experience with the XMLGenerator, but I know it is used to create xml files.

The closest Python module that I can think of is visual Python (VPython), a free download from http://vpython.org.

Also take a look at some examples at:...

If the OP has not even given an example of what has been tried, I would prod them to at least give an idea of how they would approach the solution. Then you can give hints how to proceed.

Another...

What is your problem with the code you have?

Take a look at:
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/post1032475.html#post1032475