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Dear All, I am struggling to write my first "useful" python script, which is a backup tool. After hours and hours of trial and error, I finally got it to create two different lists. The first list is that of the files to be copied: [CODE]['C:\\Folder\\Foo.txt', 'C:\\Folder\\Folder1\\Foo1.txt', 'C:\\Folder\\Folder1\\Folder2\\Foo2.txt', 'C:\\FolderB\\FooB.txt', 'C:\\FolderB\\FolderB1\\FooB2.txt'][/CODE] …

Dear All, I am a total newbie to Python and programming in general. I know I'd find more materials for Python2, but Python3 was a reflected choice. That said, I have gone trough: [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread173960-2.html"]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread173960-2.html[/URL] and tried to assemble my spell checker, and ended up with the following code: [CODE]#!/usr/bin/python3 # …

Following the Python3 Tutorial for non-programmers I took on the exercise of creating "quit" and "lock/log out" options for a very simple program, as follows (comments in the code are pretty dumb and obvious, but they are notes for mydumbself): [CODE]#!/usr/bin/python3 # Filename: lockunlock.py password = str() logged = 2 …

Dear All, I am not only new to python, but completely new to programming in general. So please don't laugh (too much) of this certainly dumb question. I was going through the first pages of "A Byte of Python" and decided to change a bit one of the models and …