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I know how to write to an existing txt file via Py function, but can you create the file itself from the function, or MUST the txt file already exist?

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Hi all, I'm not a Python expert (I've only dabbled a little). A user has asked me to help with a short webcrawling script they have written. They are making use of Dale Hunscher's UrlNet library in the script. They basically want to have the script ignore overly repetitive URLS …

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Hi guys, trying to write a function that reads a text file and counts the periods in it and prints the answer. I keep getting an error saying that UnboundLocalError: local variable 'periods' referenced before assignment. I am not sure how to fix this. We must use a function to …

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Hey guys. I'm having some trouble with this error. [CODE] class App(): i = 0 def updateCount(self): i = i +1 app = App() app.updateCount() input('Enter') [/CODE] I have tried global i but get an error 'global name i is not defined'. Can someone clue me in? Cheers :D

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I'm new to python and I'm trying to count punctuation in a string input by user, and I"ve been able to do it w/ out a loop, but would like to emply a more efficiant method. I've been able to loop through and grabb the characters, but they are'nt being …

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Hey guys, hope I'm in the right section here, I presume Pygame falls under python. I'm trying to make a circle move left,right,up or down depending on the users input (e.g if the user presses the "a" key then the circle will move left by itself, rebound off the edge …

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Hey there, everyone. My friend and I are looking into writing a very simple game in Python. We're gonna use PyGame for it as well. It's a top-down view 2D game where you play as a guy with an ax who kills zombies. There are not different levels; it's all …

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ok well this is my first thread that im asking 2 questions, im new here, these are from my high school college computer science class, one is newer and one is older, i went back to the older one because I still want to finish it and try and extend …

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So im making a anagram detector that reads all the words in a string. I already have the anagram funktion working (returning true if it is a anagram, and false otherwise) But i am having trouble making a loop that reads all the words in the string, and returning the …

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I am supposed to have a while loop that asks for a number until the number is a negative. Then I am supposed to get a total of all of the numbers EXCEPT the negative number. As of right now my program adds up the absolute value of all the …

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Here is class that can be fed directly from split stream like one number per line file (or [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/python/code/321725"]generator producing 'words'[/URL] from multiple numbers per line).

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Hello All, I'm working on my first Python plot in my programming class this week. My assignment is to write a program to plot data contained in a csv format. Here is the data: "Bowl number", "Date", "Bowl location", "Winner", "Number wings eaten" "I", "1/29/1993", "Wyndham Franklin Plaza Hotel", "Carmen …

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Hi, I'm new here... Please help me fix it, if I posted at the wrong section, this is about Python but also game development... So I'm not sure? :) anyway: I need some guide lines to the way of coding? or the use of things within the code... Here I …

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There isn't a whole lot here about security related stuff, so I figured I would post some work in progress. It is pretty well commented so following it should be pretty simple. The full story and reasons for doing what I did, and not another way can be found on …

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I compiled with py2exe and added the setup.py script because a few people have been having trouble with email.MEME.Text working with py2exe. The .PNG's are attached below save them to your c:/python26/ there isn't much security (passwords are temp stored in a .dat file) ________________________________________________ to: [email]john@email.com[/email] sendcount = 100 …

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hi everyone. hi have a template with a form and many inputs that pass some data trough a POST request to a view, that process them and send the result to another template. in the final template, if i use the browser back button to jump to the first view, …

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I am relatively new to python and am having a hard time with an assignment. We just started using dictionaries and I can't quite grasp what is going on. I am just having trouble figuring out where to even start exactly. This is the code my teacher gave me and …

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the question is a year is a leap if it is divisible by 4, unless it is a century year that is not devisible by 400. write a program that calculates whether a year is a leap or not [CODE][/CODE] def main(): year = eval(input("Enter a year")) if year/4 and …

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I need to write censor program that 1-reads in the text from a file 2-creates a new file where all the four-letter words have been replaced by “****”. can you help? this what I have so far [CODE]import string def main(): filename = raw_input("File: ") text = open(filename,'r').read() text = …

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I'm a beginner at python programming and now I want to try to write a function consisting of my already written programs. The goal is to get all probabilities when I'm calling on the function in the main program. My already separately written programs looks something likes this and the …

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Hey guys, This is a quick formatting question that I'm having trouble with. I'm trying to create columns of numbers, but I want the columns to only be as large as the largest number in that column. I was trying to use format() width, but that is creating a width …

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Hi guys, first off just wanted to say that this website has been immensely helpful to me for my programming class. I asked a question to help with a lab a couple of weeks ago and was able to figure out the issue with the forums help, so thank you. …

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Hey, I'm on the rookie side, to Python, and Pygame and new to this community, and I'm confused if this could be possible; I want to change the data type of a list, in Python, from strings to integer (they have to be integer, because I need to sort them …

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[code] # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- #diretorios de imagens alldir = ("C:\\Users\juridico.anoreg\Desktop\OFICIOS-ANOREG\imagem\\") # from tkinter import * from tkinter.filedialog import * import sys import tkinter import time import math import datetime import os import subprocess import tkinter.messagebox import calendar as cd from tkinter import * import webbrowser import tkinter.font class …

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I have a sort of csv file which looks likes given below i want to count number of digits in each line like number of 0's ,1 s in each line and print them this way for each line i want to print information in csv file . 0 0 …

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I want to write a simple program for burning calories, but I haven't used python in so long I could use some aid. The basic formula is this =0.0201*EXP(0.107*G3)*71*(F3*24*60) Where: 71 is my weight in kg G3 is speed in MPH F3 is time in days I'm not sure if …

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I just recently started using Python and I was wondering if there was a way to increase a value in a list.

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Hi there. For some reason I am struggling with this problem. The purpose of this problem is to take an existing .py file and change it so instead of writing to a screen, it has to be written to an output file. The output file will be a csv file. …

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HOW CAN I WRITE A PROGRAM THAT CALCULATES THE FIRST N NATURAL NUMBERS THAT USER ENTERS. I SHOULD USE FUNCTIONS. n = eval(input("Enter the value of n: ")) def sumN(n): for i in range(n): sum = n+i return sum sum = sumN(n) THIS IS WHAT I DID SO FAR. THANKSSS

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What is the best way to print columns within python. Each of the values that I will be printing will be anything from 1 to 8 characters long. I had found this but wondered if there was any other methods... [url]http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/python/threads/202023[/url] Thanks,

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Does anyone know how I can base my re condition based on it not finding a match. I have the following at the moment ..... [CODE]if re.search(r'123', os.uname()[1]):[/CODE]

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Hey everyone, I need help to figure out how to input while loop in here. I have this program where it converts from Fahrenheit to Celsius or Celsius to Fahrenheit. The purpose is to convert this program so that it repeats the calculation as long as the user wants. After …

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So I was running a simple python program in IDLE, and I got this subprocess error. I looked it up on Google, and found much information about it. None of it really got me anywhere. I think the error has to do with AVG blocking IP 127.0.0.1. (I am using …

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Hello all, I am a beginning python user and I am a bit perplexed by something that I am writing up. What I have to do is assign buttons to colors (Traffic lightesque). There is a red, a green and an auto. The tricky part is that the "auto" button …

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Hi all, I have been trying to parse the a log file to plot some of the data in it. The format is something like this: [CODE]PyrateBufferManager: 2011-10-24 15:42:47.709684: CurrentAquiredBuffers: 0 ReturnBufferCount: 11527 CurrentAquiredBytes: 0 SimDataCollectorMonitor-00A: 2011-10-24 15:42:47.709684: SNProfile: {'SNLoop': 6133}[/CODE] I was trying to use regex, but didnt get …

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pyTony i learned lots from this code you used in resoponce to thread [url]http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/python/threads/384191[/url] i first mixed up the input and was supprised at the result which only printed last occurence of the key in the dictionary list... i did work out how to sort it first and reproduce your …

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Hi folks, (Python 2.4.x - I cannot install any modules including dateutil) Here's what I have so far. [code] mydate=['20111025.00', '20111026.12'] start_time= time.strptime(mydate[0], "%Y%m%d.%H")[:5] end_time=time.strptime(mydate[1], "%Y%m%d.%H")[:5] for myhour in datespan(time.strptime(mydate[0], "%Y%m%d.%H")[:4], time.strptime(mydate[1], "%Y%m%d.%H")[:4], delta=datetime.timedelta(hours=1)): print myhour [/code] What I'm trying to do is take the two values in mydate list …

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This snippet composes functions of the form [icode]func(infile, outfile)[/icode] which read an input file and transform its content to write an output file. A function [icode]compose((f, g, h,...))[/icode] is defined which returns a new such file transformation function which successively applies f, g, h, using in-memory temporary files.

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How to create n number thread in python. i want iterate over the for loop and create a thread for iteration sample code for i in range(o,50): i want to create 50 thread here which call the same function. how start and stop each thread after completion .

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I am trying to complete an assignment for my beginner's computer science. I have to write a program that proves that every even number greater than four is the sum of two prime numbers. I prompt the user for the top end of the range (the lowest being four) and …

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Hello, Everyone I am a beginner with Python, I have to design a simple GUI page which should have a login form, Need Help. Thanks in Advance

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I've searched all over, but Have not been able to find exactly what I need help on. I am creating a program that takes user input of a word and determines if it is a Palindrome or not....the catcher is I need to use stacks. They are confusing to me. …

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Hello again, Can someone please help me learn some easy multiprocessing or threading :) I want to write a simple program that opens let say ~50-100 web page at a same time and write some HTML from those sites. What is better to use multiprocessing of threading? What different ? …

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Hi, Is there tutorial somewhereto use Python with EWS? I'm trying to develop a program that will interact with Microsoft Exchange Server without using managed services Thanks

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I'm trying to build the package for use in Maya. Maya comes with its own python installation so the .exe installer for this package doesn't work for me. the package is [URL="http://polygon.origo.ethz.ch/"]Polygon[/URL] I downloaded the zip. It contains: setup.py /src /Polygon and some other stuff In cygwin I run: ./mayapy.exe …

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Hi everyone, I really need help to make the below code calculate the numeric value for each name separately. for example: if i enter "Williams smith", it will calculate the first name and give its value alone and calculate the second name and give its value too. the code right …

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I am in desperate need of help with a python 2.7 project I am working on. I am really struggling in the class and they messed up my tutoring appointment for tonight so I have no one to help me. I am doing a project that reads a .csv file …

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Dear, kind python experts, I'm quite new to this program having only started 2 days ago, but the program I want appears to be relatively simple and I've managed to copy most of the important code from other examples. In a nutshell, I want to 1) Open a txt file …

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Im trying to change this modified blackjack game to where there is no computer. A choice of either two or three players is asked with three cards dealt instead. How can I i change this current code to 1) prompt user for either 2 or 3 players(no computer), 2) have …

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Im having a main function issue. My program is a text analyzer of more than several lines and then input 'END' to stop taking input. It analyzes input text based on the chosen options 1 through 2, relooping for invalid choice. Im having an issue having it properly work in …

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