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.
To colorize words you are asking too much of good old Tkinter. You most likely need to got with the wx.StyledTextCtrl() widget. This STC control wraps the Scintilla editor component so it will work with wxPython. Could be that something like this is available for Tlinter.
How about IDLE, that's written using the Tkinter GUI toolkit.
And everybody wants to be loved -- not everybody, but -- you run for office, I guess you do. You never heard anybody say, 'I want to be despised, I'm running for office.' (W. in Tipp City, OH 04/19/2007)
There's a lot of people who want me to get out of acting and want me to run for governor. I think it's mostly the movie critics. ~~~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.
Actually the module shelve works better with dictionaries:
# 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 a shelve byte stream file
shlv2 = shelve.open('phonebook.slv')
phonebook['Ginger Roger'] = 1234567
# this will save all current phonebook data
# access key will "phone_dict"
shlv2["phone_dict"] = phonebook
phonebook['Larry Lark'] = 9234568
# you can update again before you close
shlv2["phone_dict"] = phonebook
shlv2.close()
print '-'*50
# testing ...
# this could be a second program ...
# retrieve the saved data from the file
shlv3 = shelve.open('phonebook.slv')
#print shlv3.keys()
# use the access key "phone_dict"
# notice that this loads right into a dictionary
phonebook2 = shlv3["phone_dict"]
print phonebook2
print '-'*50
print phonebook2['Lewis Lame']
print phonebook2['Larry Lark']
print phonebook2['Ginger Roger']
shlv3.close()
Sorry Mister Moderator, I found this program on my hardrive (under yet unfinished projects). Now I know where it came from. I was thinking about refining it into a random story teller. Now that would be a worthwhile project.
Just saw this in the news: Denmark's parliament on Monday approved the construction of a 400 megawatt (MW) offshore wind turbine park. The park will generate enough electricty to power 400 000 Danish homes. Denmark is home to Vestas, the world's biggest supplier of wind turbines.
Probably more effective than drilling a bunch of holes offshore. I always thought Siemens of Germany was the largest producer of wind turbines. Too bad that one of our troubled car makers doesn't get into that business.
I was trying to create an alternative calculator using some of wxPython's input widgets like wx.Choice and wx.TextCtrl. This turned out to be a good example for the wx.GridBagSizer too. The basic workings are there, but as always there is room for improvement:
# do some simple math operations with
# wx.Choice(parent,id,pos,size,choices,style)
import wx
from math import *
class MyFrame(wx.Frame):
def __init__(self, parent, title, operation_list):
wx.Frame.__init__(self, parent, wx.ID_ANY, title, size=(350, 270))
self.SetBackgroundColour('green')
# create choice widget for the math operations
self.choice = wx.Choice(self, wx.ID_ANY, choices=operation_list)
# select item 0 (first item) in choices list to show
self.choice.SetSelection(0)
self.choice.SetToolTip(wx.ToolTip('select one math operation'))
# bind the checkbox events to action
self.choice.Bind(wx.EVT_CHOICE, self.onAction)
edit_label1 = wx.StaticText(self, wx.ID_ANY, 'enter x')
self.edit1 = wx.TextCtrl(self, wx.ID_ANY, value="1",
size=(200, 20))
edit_label2 = wx.StaticText(self, wx.ID_ANY, 'enter y')
self.edit2 = wx.TextCtrl(self, wx.ID_ANY, value="1",
size=(200, 20))
edit_label3 = wx.StaticText(self, wx.ID_ANY, 'result')
self.edit3 = wx.TextCtrl(self, wx.ID_ANY, value="",
size=(200, 20))
self.edit3.SetToolTip(wx.ToolTip('double click to move data to x'))
self.edit3.Bind(wx.EVT_LEFT_DCLICK, self.onDoubleClick)
self.button = wx.Button(self, wx.ID_ANY, label='Calculate')
# bind mouse event to action
self.button.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.onAction)
# hgap is between columns, vgap between rows
sizer = wx.GridBagSizer(vgap=0, hgap=0)
# pos=(row, column)
sizer.Add(edit_label1, pos=(0,0), flag=wx.ALL|wx.EXPAND, border=10)
sizer.Add(self.edit1, pos=(0,1), flag=wx.ALL|wx.EXPAND, border=10)
sizer.Add(edit_label2, pos=(1,0), flag=wx.ALL|wx.EXPAND, border=10)
sizer.Add(self.edit2, pos=(1,1), flag=wx.ALL|wx.EXPAND, border=10)
# span=(rowspan, columnspan)
sizer.Add(self.choice, pos=(2,0), span=(1, 2),
flag=wx.ALL|wx.EXPAND, border=10)
sizer.Add(self.button, pos=(3,0), span=(1, 2),
flag=wx.ALL|wx.EXPAND, border=10)
sizer.Add(edit_label3, pos=(4,0), flag=wx.ALL|wx.EXPAND, border=10)
sizer.Add(self.edit3, pos=(4,1), flag=wx.ALL|wx.EXPAND, border=10)
self.SetSizerAndFit(sizer)
def onAction(self, event):
op = self.choice.GetStringSelection()
x = float(self.edit1.GetValue())
y = float(self.edit2.GetValue())
if y == 0.0 and op == 'x / y' :
result …
See if you can refine this random sentence generator a little:
# goofy sentence generator
# add more parts to it as you please
import random
def make_sentence(part1, part2, part3, n=1):
"""return n random sentences"""
# convert to lists
p1 = part1.split('\n')
p2 = part2.split('\n')
p3 = part3.split('\n')
# shuffle the lists
random.shuffle(p1)
random.shuffle(p2)
random.shuffle(p3)
# concatinate the sentences
sentence = []
for k in range(n):
try:
s = p1[k] + ' ' + p2[k] + ' ' + p3[k]
s = s[0].upper() + s[1:] + '.'
sentence.append(s)
except IndexError:
break
return sentence
# break a typical sentence into 3 parts
# first part of a sentence (subject)
part1 = """\
a drunken sailor
a giggling goose
the yearning youth
the obese ostrich
the bare barrister
this mean mouse
the skinny sister
the aspiring FBI agent
my bald uncle
old aunt Jessy
the green giant
a timid trucker
the lawless lawyer"""
# middle part of a sentence (action)
part2 = """\
jumps over
flies over
crawls under
runs across
hops across
rapidly removes
openly ogles
carefully tastes
tightly hugs
flirts with
cries over
thinks a lot about
passionately kisses
looks for
ardently admires
takes a whiff of"""
# ending part of a sentence (object)
part3 = """\
a rusty fence
the laughing cow
the weedcovered backyard
my moldy malt
the rancid old cheese
the jolly green jelly
a tiny stick
a bottle of beer
a singing blue nun
a big lardy lump
the smelly salesman
a big mug of …
Trilithium resin is a by-product of exposing dilithium to a matter/antimatter reaction in a warp core. -- Scottie
Mr. Scott tells everyone, “I did some research while I was waiting onboard the Enterprise. The main city on this planet is Bloop. They’re going to start powering it by using trilithium crystals. Not suitable for use on starships, the way dilithium is. Much too hazardous. Very powerful though. One crystal can power the entire city. That must be why the Klingons want it.”
A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight. Just in case you are dying to know that, the 747 jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
" Your morning thoughts may determine your conduct for the day. Optimistic thoughts will make your day bright and productive, while pessimistic thinking will make it dull and wasteful. Face each day cheerfully, smilingly and courageously, and it will naturally follow that your work will be a real pleasure and progress will be a delightful accomplishment."
Oh sweet Jesus, if the world would only be that simple!
