Posts by lewashby Page 13

I'M trying to learn php and I use Mint Linux as my OS. I don't know if php is installed or not. I went to synaptic package manager and input php, I got back a big list of php-xyz packages and I dont' know which one to get. Any suggestions?

Linux and Unix php

lewashby 56 Junior Poster

12 Years Ago

Re: open a text file

Thanks. I do have python3 installed. So how do I point Geany to python3 rather than python 2 which it is currently pointing to. I looked through preferences but couldn't find it.

Software Development python

lewashby 56 Junior Poster

12 Years Ago

open a text file

data = open('sketch.txt')

for each_line in data:
    try:
        (role, line_spoken) = each_line.split(':', 1)
        print(role, end='')
        print(' said: ', end='')
        print(line_spoken, end='')
    except:
        pass

data.close()

I'M gettin the following error when I run this code but it looks exactly like what I'M seeing in my Head First book.

File "sketch.py", line 6
    print(role, end='')
                   ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax


------------------
(program exited with code: 1)
Press return to continue

Software Development python

lewashby 56 Junior Poster

12 Years Ago

Re: simple module

Thanks. I'M not actually doing this on the LFS machine. That project was tough enuff on it's own.

Software Development python

lewashby 56 Junior Poster

12 Years Ago

Re: python3 linux directory

-rwxr-xr-x 3 root root 7149032 Aug 12 18:04 python3
-rwxr-xr-x 3 root root 7149032 Aug 12 18:04 python3.2

What's the difference between these two? I got the with ls -l /usr/local/bin

Linux and Unix python

lewashby 56 Junior Poster

12 Years Ago

simple module

  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/distutils/archive_util.py", line 52, in make_tarball
    tar = tarfile.open(archive_name, 'w|%s' % tar_compression[compress])
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/tarfile.py", line 1769, in open
    stream = _Stream(name, filemode, comptype, fileobj, bufsize)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/tarfile.py", line 421, in __init__
    raise CompressionError("zlib module is not available")
tarfile.CompressionError: zlib module is not available
garrett@toshiba-laptop ~/Desktop/nester $

I'M getting the above error while trying to build a small module with the command "python3 setup.py sdist

nester.py

"""This is the "nester.py" module and it provides one function called
print_lol() which prints lists that may or may not include nested lists."""

def print_lol(the_list):
    """This function takes a positional argument called "the_list", which is any
    Python list (of, possibly, nested lists). Each data itemin the provided list
    is (recursibely) printed to the screen on it's own line."""
    for each_item in the_list:
        if isinstance(each_item, list):
            print_lol(each_item)
        else:
            print(each_item)


movies = ["The Holy Grail", 1975, "Terry Jones & Terry Gilliam", 91,
["Graham Chapman",
["Michael Palin", "John Cleese", "Terry Gilliam", "Eric Idle", "Terry Jones"]]]

setup.py

from distutils.core import setup

setup(
    name        = 'nester',
    version     = '1.0.0',
    py_modules  = ['nester'],
    author      = 'hfpython',
    author_email    = 'hfpython@headfirstlabs.com',
    url     = 'http://www.headfirstlabs.com',
    description = 'A simple printer of nested lists',
)

Software Development python

lewashby 56 Junior Poster

12 Years Ago

python3 linux directory

I'M trying to find the python3 file that would be the counterpart to the python3.exe in Windows. I want to point Geany to pyton3 rather that 2.7 which it's pointing to now. I don't even know if I found the right directory or not but I've attached a screenshot from /usr/bin, there are 3 python3 files. It's going to take some getting use to in Linux, in Windows this was easy > Program Files > Python > python3.exe. Thanks for any help and advice on how this typically works in Linux

Screenshot_from_2012-09-17_17:32:55.png 225.66 KB

Linux and Unix python

lewashby 56 Junior Poster

12 Years Ago

simple list

movies = ["The Holy Grail", 1975, "Terry Jones & Terry Gilliam", 91,
["Graham Chapman",
["Michael Palin", "John Cleese", "Terry Gilliam", "Eric Idle", "Terry Jones"]]]

print(movies[4][1][3])

In the above code, how does [4][1][3] result in "Eric Idle"? It looks to me like the 4 selects Eric Idle becaue it's the 4th sting in that list, it also looks to me like the 3 selects that list because Eric Idle is in the 3rd list and I have no diea what the 1 might be going. And maybe I'M wrong all together.

Software Development python

lewashby 56 Junior Poster

12 Years Ago

alternative to audible.com

I've been using audible.com for my audio books for a while now. I play my audiobooks through iTunes and my iPod. I really want to get away from Windows as much as possible and audible.com doesn't have any Linux support for their audiobooks, Linux simply can not play audible's formats. Does anyone know of any good alternative audiobook stores? Thanks.