Posts by woooee which have been Voted Up

You write one ('HBHB', 0xcafe, *ssd) and multiple ('HH', chunk) and then read one ('HBHB', 0xcafe, *ssd) and only one ('HH', chunk), then one ('HBHB', 0xcafe, *ssd) and one ('HH', chunk), etc. In addition to ('HBHB', 0xcafe, *ssd) write the number of items (length) written so you know how many to read.

You have not declared log_size or log1_size anywhere and it appears the indentation is off under the while True, which is an infinite loop since you don't ever exit it. There is no reason from the code you posted to append to "packed" and then write each value from packed instead of just writing to the file directly. Other than that the error message is self explanatory and we of course don't know what the values of the variables are so there is no further way to help.

Tkinter does not have a Circle class; you use create_oval with circle dimensions. Note that you call the function once and have it call itself recursively for as many times as you want.

try:
    import Tkinter as tk
except:
    import tkinter as tk

class TestAfter():
    def __init__(self):
        self.root=tk.Tk()
        self.ctr = 3
        self.canvas = tk.Canvas(self.root, width=500, height=500)
        self.canvas.grid()
        self.root.after(750, self.update)

        self.root.mainloop()

    def update(self):
        colors = ["black", "red", "green", "blue"]

        if self.ctr > 0:
            start = 50*self.ctr  ## use same values for x & y
            end = start+50
            self.canvas.create_oval(start, start, end, end,
                               fill=colors[self.ctr], width=2)
            self.ctr -= 1
            self.root.after(750, self.update)

TA=TestAfter()

GUI's have their own "sleep" type methods that should be used. However each GUI uses a different function name so it depends on the GUI toolkit you are using.

I agree that you are doing it the hard way. Note that dollars is multiplied by two after the print and the addition to total

#get the ending limit
days = int(raw_input('How manys days were worked? '))
total = 0
dollars = 0.02
#print table headings
print('\nDays\tDollars')
print('------------------------------')


#print the days and the amount of money that was earned that day
for today in range(days):
    total += dollars  ## 0.02 on first pass
    print(today+1, '\t', '$',format(dollars,',.2f'))
    dollars *=  2  ## set for next pass
print('the total amount of money you earned is: $',format(total,',.2f'))

Does the file have more than one taxon? In the example you posted there is only one so all of the solutions are for one only. Try this as a hint, although there are other ways to do it.

handle = open(fname, "r")
all_data = handle.read()
print all_data.split("taxon")

Once you get the value it is a normal variable and you can do anything with it that you can do to a normal variable. I would suggest that you consider putting everything under one class instead of here's a function, there's a class, here's another function, etc.

try:
    import Tkinter as tk     ## Python 2.x
except ImportError:
    import tkinter as tk     ## Python 3.x

def another_function(input_var):
    print "another function", input_var

class TestClass():
    def __init__(self):
        root1 = tk.Tk()
        root1.title("Vreme")
        naziv = "Vreme"
        L1 = tk.Label(root1, text="Zadržavanje: ")
        L1.place(x=10, y=30)
        self.E1 = tk.Entry(root1, bd = 2)
        self.E1.insert(0, "Test string")
        self.E1.place(x=100, y=30)
        root1.geometry("300x100+300+200")
##    tk.Button(root1, text="OK", command = lambda: izmeni(E1.get(),root1,vreme1,naziv), width=10).place(x=130, y=65)
        tk.Button(root1, text="OK", command = self.izmeni, width=10).place(x=130, y=65)
        root1.mainloop()

    def izmeni(self):
        value = self.E1.get()
        print "izmeni -->", value
        another_function(value)
        self.function_in_class(value)

    def function_in_class(self, input_var):
        print "functionin_class -->", input_var

TC=TestClass()

I would suggest that you use a button instead of a label, which can execute a funtion when it is clicked. Also, the name "list" is already used by Python so you should not override it, although you never use the variable "list" in the code posted so the "list" code can just be deleted.

There is a typo in get_average that you should be able to run down from the error messages, or at least begin to learn how. Using descriptive variable names would help you with this, as well as help us understand the program. Print the return from get_average and see if it can be summed. Note that get_average returns a kind of sum of averages, not the average. Also, you should loop through containers like a dictionary so your funtion can handle containers that have any number of items instead of

return average(p[1]) + average(p[2]) + average(p[3])

Usually we test programs with known values that should produce known results to tell if the program is calculating correctly or not, so what are the results supposed to be?.

First, remove punctuation (? , . etc). Next all words should be lower() case as an upper case word is different to the computer than a lower case word. To print use the dictionary's key as below, although this code does not do any of the other above suggestions

data="""I love the python programming
 How love the python programming?
 We love the python programming
 Do you like python for kids?
 I like Hello World Computer Programming for Kids and Other Beginners."""

count = {}
for word in data.split():
    if word not in count:
        count[word] = 0
    count[word] += 1

## access the dictionary by key
for word in count:
    print "The word", word, "was found", count[word], "times"

print "\nThere are %d unique words (if Upper and lower case," % (len(count))
print "and words with punctuation, are different words)"

You do not test for the password for the user so if any user's password is found it will return True. This works for me but again will accept any user's password (and note the added print statements to see what is happening).

import crypt

line="victim: HX9LLTdc/jiDE: 503:100:Iama Victim:/home/victim:/bin/sh"
cryptPass = line.split(':')[1].strip(' ')
salt = cryptPass[0:2]
print "cryptPass",  cryptPass, salt

test_file="""apple
orange
egg
lemon
grapes
secret
strawberry
password"""

dictFile = test_file.split("\n")  
for word in dictFile:
    cryptWord = crypt.crypt(word, salt)
    print "     ", cryptWord, cryptPass,
    if cryptWord == cryptPass:
        print "FOUND",
    print

That is a little complicated because I get an error on the first test lookup at

e = self.shelve[key]

because the keys are not correct. If it works for you then there is possibly a difference because of the Python version being used. If it does not work for you, take another look at Doug Hellmann's page as to how he adds data to a shelve object. Deleting is just del self.shelve[key], but you also have to set writeback=True for the changes to take place in the db. Also, Python is already using "string" and "list" and so using them in your program "redefines" them so you can not convert something to a list for example because "list" no longer points to a function. Finally, "b" will never equal 4 because it is set to one on the previous line

    def phonemenu(b):
        b = 1
        if b != 4:

You don't ever print tempStr.

For future reference, the error was eliminated because you added the plus signs. Also, include the entire error message in the future.

print('Ok,'chara,
print('Ok, '+ chara +

May already be answered, Duplicate (cross-posted) at
http://bytes.com/topic/python/answers/947596-how-can-i-find-top-words-frequencies-combined-files#post3743844
and http://forums.devshed.com/python-programming-11/return-common-words-in-two-files-941286.html

A hint

from string import ascii_lowercase as letters
print letters[-1:]
print letters[-2:]

print
location=25
print letters[location:]
location -= 1
print letters[location:]

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