Posts by sneekula

err why dont you use just use a bit of simple logic and search it on google??if you dont believe me theres nothing i can do...its just your stupidity

Google is just a search engine, it does not verify its collection of data. So there is a huge amount of hogwash you can find there.

Of course that is true -- In the USA they are called senators, congressmen, and lobbyists.

Nope, they are called moneybag bankers.

Higher food prices will cure obesity.

Higher petrol prices will cure obesity.

Fuse, very nice code ad explanation!
Python has a few string functions that make your code even easier. Simply use line.rstrip(). The default removes any trailing whitespace characters like '\n':

line = '0.00\t2.869e-12\t7.715e-08\t0.000e+00\t0.000e+00\n'
# remove any trailing whitspace characters (default)
line = line.rstrip()
line_list = line.split('\t')
print line_list  # ['0.00', '2.869e-12', '7.715e-08', '0.000e+00', '0.000e+00']

sadly all of them are Jehovah's witnesses :)

I think you are right! Oops, there is a knock at the door, got to go!

I believe that the end of the world will come when people believing in different beliefs start to kill each other on a massive scale.

Something like my God is better than your God. Most likely, my God told me to kill all nonbelievers with this divine arsenal of nuclear weapons.

The difference between the short tax form and long tax form is simple:

If you use the short form, the government gets your money.

If you use the long form, the accountant gets your money.

One of the ways to do this would be:

s = "WordOneWordTwo"

new_s = ""
for ix, c in enumerate(s):
    # skip start of string s
    if c.isupper() and ix != 0:
        new_s += " "
    new_s += c
    
print new_s  # Word One Word Two

Tkinter only displays gif and ppm images, to show the more popular jpg and png images you have to incorporate the Python image Library (PIL). Here is an example:

# load and display an image with Tkinter
# Tkinter only reads gif and ppm images
# use Python Image Library (PIL) for other image formats
# give Tkinter a namespace to avoid conflicts with PIL
# (they both have class Image) PIL is free from:
# http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/index.htm

import Tkinter as tk
from PIL import Image, ImageTk

root = tk.Tk()
cv1 = tk.Canvas(root, width=500, height=500)
cv1.pack(fill='both', expand='yes')

# open a jpeg file into an image object
# image should be in the source folder or give full path name
image1 = Image.open("flowers.jpg")
# convert image object to Tkinter PhotoImage object
tkimage1 = ImageTk.PhotoImage(image1)

# tk.NW anchors upper left corner of image
# at canvas coordinates x=10, y=20
cv1.create_image(10, 20, image=tkimage1, anchor=tk.NW)

root.mainloop()

We all know, but we don't do your homework! Read the DaniWeb rules.

Simple debugging using the Python debug module pdb:

# test the built-in Python Debugger (Pdb in the Python reference)
# at the debugger's '(Pdb)' prompt you can type  h  for help or
# more specifically use   h step  or   h next

import pdb

#help('pdb')

# once the '(Pdb)' prompt shows, you are in the debugger
# and you can trace through by entering:
#
# next (or n) which goes line by line and does not get
# into functions or into every iteration of a loop
#
# step (or s) which is more detailed and for instance
# loops through an entire range()
#
# so use next to get where you want to be and then use step,
# once you have all the details you need, use next again

pdb.set_trace()

# now you can test the following code ...

def hasCap(s):
    """returns True if the string s contains a capital letter"""
    for num in range(65, 91):
        capLetter = chr(num)
        if capLetter in s:
            return True
    return False

str1 = 'Only pick up strings without Capital letters!'
str2 = 'only pick up strings without capital letters!'

# test the function hasCap()
if hasCap(str1):
    print "str1 has a capital letter"
else:
    print "str1 has no capital letter"

if hasCap(str2):
    print "str2 has a capital letter"
else:
    print "str2 has no capital letter"

You need to play with this a little to get familiar with the pdb debugger.

I have found some bugs just using the Python debugger module pdb:

# test the built-in Python Debugger (Pdb in the Python reference)
# at the debugger's '(Pdb)' prompt you can type  h  for help or
# more specifically use   h step  or   h next

import pdb

#help('pdb')

# once the '(Pdb)' prompt shows, you are in the debugger
# and you can trace through by entering:
#
# next (or n) which goes line by line and does not get
# into functions or into every iteration of a loop
#
# step (or s) which is more detailed and for instance
# loops through an entire range()
#
# so use next to get where you want to be and then use step,
# once you have all the details you need, use next again

pdb.set_trace()

# now you can test the following code

def hasCap(s):
    """returns True if the string s contains a capital letter"""
    for num in range(65, 91):
        capLetter = chr(num)
        if capLetter in s:
            return True
    return False

str1 = 'Only pick up strings without Capital letters!'
str2 = 'only pick up strings without capital letters!'

# test the function hasCap()
if hasCap(str1):
    print "str1 has a capital letter"
else:
    print "str1 has no capital letter"

if hasCap(str2):
    print "str2 has a capital letter"
else:
    print "str2 has no capital letter"

joshSCH
Presently a banned member. Has the language skills of an 18th century Thames river washer woman. His posts make even iamthwee's worst contributions look like message from heaven. You want to study an unhappy person, take a look.

iamthwee
Industrious Poster with a large number of reputating browny points. Very smart, but likes to egg folks on a little when he/she gets bored. May just be a perfect geek!

The Dude
A real genius, makes you think and even laugh when you actually don't feel like it. I don't think he/she has not one nasty bone in his/her body! Thanks Dude!

Herbert Hoover was in charge of a governmant wheat pice support program that lasted from 1915 to 1929. Any idiot that could scratch the soil eventually grew wheat and made a living. In 1929 the price support collapsed, and the price went down to $0.00 per bushel of wheat!

jwenting
Don't let his sometimes rough and conservative exterior fool you, deep down he has the deepest and best sense of humour in the forum. He is an excellent programmer and knows his languages, he is at home with Java. One word of caution, don't start to talk about photography with him, it will be tough to have him stop.

vmanes
Like his atavar suggests is a grandfatherly well meaning figure, always helpful and friendly. He helps folks a lot in the difficult C++ forum. I mainly know him from the lounge, but always enjoy his insights into life as it is!

Just an accumulation of foolish things said by important folks on the merits of war. I am quoting the Iraq war here, but it can be contributions to any war.

There is a lot of money to pay for the Iraq war that doesn't have to be US taxpayer money, and it starts with the assets of the Iraqi people. We are talking about a country that can really finance its own reconstruction and relatively soon."
~~~ Paul Wolfowitz, March 27, 2003

Iraq is a very wealthy country. Enormous oil reserves. They can finance, largely finance the reconstruction of their own country. I have no doubt that they will.
~~~ Richard Perle, July 11, 2002

When it comes to reconstruction, before we turn to the American taxpayer, we will first turn to the resource of the Iraqi government and the international community.
~~~ Donald Rumsfeld, also March 27, 2003

Mission accomplished!
~~~ George Bush, sometime in 2003

Some facts:
Official cost of the Iraq war to US tax payers as of March 2008: $523 billion

Median household income in Cleveland: $27000
Average income of an Army private in combat: $26000
Average income of military contractor CEOs: $9095756
Highest paid military contractor CEO: $24399747 (Robert Stevens of Lockheed Martin)

Here is the spiel:

a += b  Roughly equivalent to a = a + b 
a -= b  Roughly equivalent to a = a - b  
a *= b  Roughly equivalent to a = a * b  
a /= b  Roughly equivalent to a = a / b  
a //= b  Roughly equivalent to a = a // b 
a %= b  Roughly equivalent to a = a % b  
a **= b  Roughly equivalent to a = a ** b   
a &= b  Roughly equivalent to a = a & b  
a |= b  Roughly equivalent to a = a | b  
a ^= b  Roughly equivalent to a = a ^ b  
a >>= b  Roughly equivalent to a = a >> b  
a <<= b  Roughly equivalent to a = a << b

This modified Tkinter GUI code allows you to follow your character key strokes on the console display:

# KeyLogger.py
# show a character key when pressed without using Enter key
# hide the Tkinter GUI window, only console shows

import Tkinter as tk

def key(event):
    if event.keysym == 'Escape':
        root.destroy()
    print event.char

root = tk.Tk()
print "Press a key (Escape key to exit):"
root.bind_all('<Key>', key)
# don't show the tk window
root.withdraw()
root.mainloop()

You can use the Tkinter GUI toolkit too:

# KeyLogger.py
# show a character key when pressed without using Enter key
# hide the Tkinter GUI window, only console shows

import Tkinter as tk

def key(event):
    if event.keysym == 'Escape':
        root.destroy()
    print event.char

root = tk.Tk()
print "Press a key (Escape key to exit):"
root.bind_all('<Key>', key)
# don't show the tk window
root.withdraw()
root.mainloop()

You can use the local variable dictionary vars() to create new variables on the fly:

food = 'bread'
vars()[food] = 123
print bread  # --> 123

Print vars() after line 1 and 2 to follow what's happening.

Probably the easiest way to do this is to use the local variable dictionary vars() to create new variables on the fly:

food = 'bread'

vars()[food] = 123

print bread  # --> 123

You can print out vars() to see what's going on.

I am working on an expert system to replace our lying and cheating political leadership with a lying and cheating computer system. :)

Are you an astronomer? No? Then STFU.

Ouch, very bad language here! Are you an astronomer, or simply got up on the wrong side of the bed?

"Feeling blue" comes from the Myan tradition to paint people blue before they were overed to their God in human sacrifice rituals.

Even if it is, why the hell not? The MSM & the left have been doing the same for decades.

You are of course correct! If we had lots of smart and well informed voters, I wouldn't worry about it.

28 percent of the value of gift cards and gift certificates is never redeemed.

It is much easier to be critical than correct.

Thanks to the 12th Amendment we won't have to put up with an ill conceived Hill and Bill, or Dick and Bush ticket.

The children had all been photographed, and the teacher was trying to persuade them each to buy a copy of the group picture. “Just think how nice it will be to look at it when you are all grown up and say, ‘There’s Jennifer, she’s a lawyer,’ or ‘That’s Michael, He’s a doctor.’

A small voice at the back of the room rang out, “And there’s the teacher, she’s dead.”

The phonemes for Professor Stephen Hawking's computerized voice were recorded by Michael Jacobs, who is now on trial for the murder of his wife. A spokesperson for Hawking says that he has no plans to alter his voice, even if Jacobs is convicted.

An attorney was sitting in his office late one night, when Satan
appeared before him. The Devil told the lawyer, "I have a
proposition for you. You can win every case you try, for the
rest of your life. Your clients will adore you, your colleagues
will stand in awe of you, and you will make embarrassing sums of
money. All I want in exchange is your soul, your wife's soul,
your children's souls, the souls of your parents, grandparents,
and parents-in-law, and the souls of all your friends and law
partners." The lawyer thought about this for a moment, then
asked, "So, what's the catch?"

There is something misanthropic about cars that run on food. I can just see some rich jerk running a car on steak and eggs.

Well, my dad is a very successful lawyer and has helped a lot of people in his life. Something he and I are proud off. Looks like this thread is more about envy, by folks who have an unsuccessful and poorly paying job.

Hey Lardmeister, the reason there are lawyer jokes is that the lawyers laugh at them the hardest!

Did you hear about the terrorists who took a whole courtroom full of lawyers hostage?

They threatened to release one every hour until their demands were met.

Did you know that one millionth of a mouthwash is a microscope?

The weight an evangelist carries with God is a billigram.

Ten rations are a decoration.

One million aches are a megahurtz.

The basic unit of laryngitis is a hoarsepower.

Q: What can a goose do, that a duck can't do, and a lawyer should do?

A: Stick his bill up his ass.

INSERT takes care of that, for example:

import Tkinter as tk

root = tk.Tk(className = " Text")

# text entry field, width=width chars, height=lines text
text1 = tk.Text(root, width=70, height=20)
text1.pack()

str1 = "First string"
str2 = "Second string"

text1.insert(tk.INSERT, str1)

text1.insert(tk.INSERT, str2)

root.mainloop()

To get the whole content of the Text widget and store it in a variable use:

# get the text from beginning to end
# line starts with 1 and column with 0
my_text = text1.get(1.0, tk.END)

I have a dictionary of chemical symbols and names, to look up the symbol and get the name is easy, but to find the symbol of a given chemical name seems to be more akward. Am I missing something here?

# small dictionary of chemical symbols
symbol_dic = {
'C': 'carbon',
'H': 'hydrogen',
'N': 'nitrogen',
'Li': 'lithium',
'Be': 'beryllium',
'B': 'boron'
}

# show the name of a symbol
symbol = 'N'
print symbol_dic[symbol]  # nitrogen

It's possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs.

James Doohan, who played Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott (Scotty) on Star Trek,
is missing the entire middle finger of his right hand.

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:

Spades --> King David
Clubs --> Alexander the Great
Hearts --> Charlemagne
Diamonds --> Julius Caesar

After reading all the mind numbing squabble in some of the more political threads, this thread is one of the more enlightening ones:

Warmed over asparagus and egg au gratin.

~~~ stupid idot ~~~

Do you mean ipod or IDOT (Illinois Department of Transportation)?

A mother and son were walking through a cemetery, and passed by a
headstone inscribed "Here lies a good lawyer and an honest man."
The little boy read the headstone, looked up at his mother, and
asked "Mommy, why did they bury two men there?"

Violence committed in the name of a religion. I have pretty well had it with this islamic crap.

Two pieces of Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Water is composed of two gins, Oxygin and Hydrogin. Oxygin is pure gin. Hydrogin is gin and water.

Oh my, still eating food and drinking water.

You live in India and drink the water, isn't that dangerous? I hope you boil it thoroughly first.

To all my friends who sent me best
wishes for 2007, they did nothing. For
2008, could you please send either
money, alcohol or petrol vouchers.
Cheers!