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Tkinter's 'command=' accepts a function reference not a function call, so you have to use a callback arrangement to pass arguments: [code=python]# Tkinter example showing several ways for command to pass an argument import Tkinter as tk # use a closure def closure_callback(val): def closure(): root.title(val) return closure def change_title(val): …

A little black hole wouldn't be the end of the whole galaxy, just Earth or maybe our solar system. Remember our galaxy has already a rather large black hole near its center. Actually, the little black hole thing came up during a BBC interview of 7 year old school children.

A nice project! Welcome to the small group of DaniWeb Pythonoreans and Pythealots here.

--- Lazy, Useless & Apathetic --- I don't think so! Keep up the good works ~S.O.S~, and may the Almighty bless you!

[QUOTE=Lardmeister;686750]Mine have been answered too by the same organization. Great for doing homework. May the Superior Omnipresent Being bless them with all force![/QUOTE]Superior Omnipresent Being? SOB may be an unrighteous remark.

I have some guys in my science class that look a lot worse than those chimps!

Looks like a game of "he said she said"

[QUOTE=GrimJack;685141]Why do you guys keep posting the entire scam here - especially right after I pointed this thread to scambusters. Do think it gets more interesting after the 10,000th time we see it?[/QUOTE]This thread is more or less for people on DaniWeb that have been exposed to scams. Is there …

Just some errors you need to correct: [code=python]# put the prompt string inside the function's () choice = raw_input("Look around or go back to the field(look or field)") # don't forget the : to start the statement block if choice == "look": print "You find a fishing spear and some …

Will archaeologists date any old thing?

You may want to contact (PM) user evstevemd, who has a similar problem. See what he figured out so far.

Actually your problem was that you called loadImages() before assigning some meaningful value to the direction: [code] self.direction = "RIGHT" # "" self.loadImages() [/code]

[QUOTE=jonce;683146]hi im now startin a degree in computer science and i hav 2 complete a disatation... programming is not my strongest point so i have decided to do a research based project... can any help me with some idears on what to do???[/QUOTE]A few English courses would help. Then you …

Mixing tabs and spaces will give you very troublesome indentations. I recommend to stick with spaces only, since not everyone's tab settings are the same. Somewhere in your program you have to get a value for image_name before you call your function.

Nice find Dude! Keep 'em coming!

Looks like you might just have to laugh at some of the silly stuff the present Republican Administration is doing.

Time to put the death penalty on evil-minded hackers! In my mind they are nothing but terrorists, out there to do the most damage they can.

[QUOTE=Aia;544157]Wrong conclusion. I don't watch regular TV channels for a couple years in a row. My plasma TV is just for Xbox and Wii. If I am going to waste time, at least I want to do it in my own terms. ;)[/QUOTE]No wonder you are so smart! Watching regular …

Actually the module shelve works better with dictionaries: [code=python]# save and retrieve data via a shelve byte stream file # creates a 'persistent to file' dictionary import shelve phonebook = { 'Andrew Parson': 8806336, 'Emily Everett': 6784346, 'Peter Power': 7658344, 'Lewis Lame': 1122345 } # dictionary data will be in …

God bless you! You made the 1000 post milestone despite all the bad marks that jwenting gave you early on!

Don't forget Danieb's very own "Starting Python" at: [url]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread20774.html[/url] You can find some helpful talk, code samples and hints.

Just remember that py2exe brings in some Dynamic Link Libraries (DLL) that are unique to the Windows OS. You might be better off putting PortablePython onto a cheap USB flash drive.

[QUOTE=leegeorg07;677719]nothing against zetlins first reply but he did just copy that from the tutorial from [URL="http://www.sthurlow.com/python/"]here[/URL][/QUOTE]He should have given some credit to the original source. Reminds me of a quote from Albert Einstein: [QUOTE][B][COLOR="Green"]Plagiarism is stealing from one source. Research is stealing from many sources[/COLOR][/B].[/QUOTE]

I tried gpy2exe and it simply does not work with programs that use Tkinter or PIL.

I like to see people running and jumping.

I could go for the 'Walk On Water' which looks like utter joy!

Oh the pain of "gorilla arm", looks like the medical profession will rake in the money more than ever. Microsoft has to copy someone elses idea, this time it's the iPhone?

A program called Boa Constructor is wxDev-CPP's couterpart for Python programming. It uses wxPython and has a drag and drop frame builder. See the post at: [url]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/post400296-107.html[/url]

Add the line number1 = number2 = number3 = number4 = number5 = number6 = 0 right below the line counter = counter +1 This way your line 64 does not mix up the possible answers and Python knows about all the variables used in that line.

[QUOTE=~s.o.s~;667431]De-generated all the way. ;-)[/QUOTE]Generation D was not in the list.

Interesting problems, but you got to show us some code of your own attempts at this!

Spelling a string in reverse the old fashioned way is always a good exercise in any computer language. Here is an example in C language: [code=c]// spell a text string forward and backward #include <stdio.h> int main(void) { char text[80]; int k; strcpy(text, "Spell this string forward then backward"); printf("String …

[QUOTE=R0bb0b;666148]Speaking of taxes, check this out. [URL="http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2935937.html"]http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2935937.html[/URL][/QUOTE]Great idea! Hope the Holy Father (the Pope) is reading this! He sure could use the savings to do good and holy things.

I just finished my keesh! Dropped some of it on my hiking boots.

There is a code snippet that vegaseat left at: [url]http://www.daniweb.com/code/snippet452.html[/url] He talks a little bit about the history of Python's sort() algorithm and calls it an adaptive mergesort algorithm. Very highly optimized, very fast and very stable, it is part of the interpreter core written in C. You would have …

Hallelujah! I made it past the first 1000 posts! This calls for a celebration this evening.

[QUOTE=Lardmeister;666040]Depression is caused by an imbalance of brain chemicals, not by the environment. There are billions of people on this earth that live in much worse circumstances than you, and yet they are not depressed and don't think of suicide. Sometimes you can be treated with drugs to help you …

As quoted by Dennis Ritchie: "UNIX is simple. But It just needs a genius to understand its simplicity."

Something like this will do: [code=python]#! usr/bin/env python import pygame from pygame.locals import * pygame.font.init pygame.init() screen = pygame.display.set_mode((150, 150)) pygame.display.set_caption('Help') pygame.mouse.set_visible(0) pygame.display.init() lives = 3 def main(): global lives font = pygame.font.Font(None, 36) s = "Lives =" + str(lives) text = font.render(s, 1, (250, 250, 250)) screen.blit(text, (0, 0)) …

You can also simply visit [url]http://www.acne.org/[/url] and get tons of help.

Congratulations, looks pretty clever to me!

[QUOTE=Dave Sinkula;632010]There are [URL="http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/06/return_of_the_dupes_and_the_an.html"]other terms[/URL], but for simplicity (much like lumping me in with neocons or such) popular generalizations are sometimes used. And, opinions vary.[/QUOTE]Why do you always link to some outlandish blogger? Don't you have a mind of your own?

Most of the DOS commands you are familiar with are contained in these two modules: [code]import os os.chdir(path) change directory to the one in path os.curdir return current directory os.chmod(path, mode) change the mode of path to the new mode os.getcwd() return the current working directory os.mkdir(path[, mode]) create a …

Interesting project, but you have to give us a lot more information. Does the robot use Python internally, or does it just communicate via a data port? What does the data stream look like?

Wouldn't it be easier to use the Tkinter Text widget for output?

If you have Windows, download the MS installer version of pygame for Python24 from: [url]http://www.pygame.org/ftp/pygame-1.8.0.win32-py2.4.msi[/url]

Please learn how to use code tags around your code, nobody will read the ugly mess you are presenting otherwise.

Local variables are kept in the function's local dictionary which you can access with vars(). To access one function's local dictionary in another function, you have to pass it along: [code=python]def my_func(aaa, main_var): mvar = [key for key, val in main_var.items() if val==aaa][0] print aaa, main_var, mvar # 123 {'test_var': …

You can create a relatively safe numeric input with a function: [code=python]def get_num(prompt="Enter a number: "): """ the function will loop until a number has been entered, accepts int or float, returns a float """ while True: try: return float(raw_input(prompt)) except ValueError: print "Numeric value required!" print get_num() print get_num("Enter …

Looks like this particular example shows you that function variables are local to the function.