15,406 Topics

Member Avatar for
Member Avatar for Tech B

I want to improve my programming skill and decided to build python wrappers over other library's. I've done this with the face recognition and think it would be real world code for me to work on. I want to code as a career and I want to code stuff programmers …

Member Avatar for woooee
0
130
Member Avatar for Elthalion

Hi, i'm new to Python and i'm currently following the "How to Think like a Computer Scientist" tutorials. I'm at Chapter 4: Conditionals and doing the last exercise where i need to create six colored houses on a black background. I've successfully created the house at the bottom left, but …

Member Avatar for Elthalion
0
189
Member Avatar for lsmurfl

Alright i need help computing random dates and i have to use lists. this is what the program should do program must print out the following output: 1. The complete list of birthdays that you generated. 2. The birthday that was generated twice (printed separately from the list). 3. The …

Member Avatar for vegaseat
0
108
Member Avatar for MaxVK

Hi. I have a wxRichtextCtrl (although plain text is fine if I can find a way to do this), and I would like to return the last word typed while the user carries on. You know that way MS Word and OpenOffice etc, highlight a wrongly spelled word as soon …

Member Avatar for MaxVK
0
166
Member Avatar for dbphydb

Hi, The below code extracts the branch number and the test environment to deploy that particular branches build on from a txt file (branch_dest.txt). Then it parses HTML pages to reach a webpage which contains some checkboxes. I want to check the "Select/Deselect All" checkbox and then click the "Deploy" …

Member Avatar for Tech B
0
2K
Member Avatar for alakaboom1

So, I'm not sure if this is possible, but I'm in a situation where I need to do such or something similar. I'm designing a multi-level game, where the game goes on to level 2 once the player comes into contact with the door at the end of level 1. …

Member Avatar for TrustyTony
0
137
Member Avatar for Tech B

I'm revisiting an old IR tracking project, and want to use it in a blender game. I would like to know if anyone could help optimize the parsing algorithm or tell me an easier way to track multiple points with code. "im" is an instance of an image I captured …

Member Avatar for TrustyTony
0
234
Member Avatar for lsmurfl

Ok if anyone knows how to do python programming please help, this is my last assignment and i cant figure out how i should start this here are the directions... You are to write a Python program that randomly generates birthdays – considering only the month and day. For example, …

Member Avatar for griswolf
0
256
Member Avatar for hondros

I have created a program, and wanted some critique on it. There is a website that I go to in order to download roms, and I do not like clicking a ton of links and waiting 15 seconds to download it, so I created a program to fetch it for …

Member Avatar for hondros
0
130
Member Avatar for SoulMazer

Okay, I am writing a script that might be impossible to fully explain in words. Therefore, I am going to come up with an example that shows the same problem, so please do not tell me to simply combine the scripts or anything, as I am unable to. Anyways, I …

Member Avatar for SoulMazer
0
125
Member Avatar for sravan953

Hey All, I have 'Py-mailer' here.... here's how it is so far: [code='python'] import smtplib import wx window=wx.App() class pymailer(wx.Frame): def __init__(self): wx.Frame.__init__(self,None,-1,"Py-mailer",size=(900,700)) self.panel=wx.Panel(self,-1) menubar=wx.MenuBar() filem=wx.Menu() filem.Append(201,"Quit") self.Bind(wx.EVT_MENU,self.Quit,id=201) viewm=wx.Menu() viewm.Append(202,"About") self.Bind(wx.EVT_MENU,self.About,id=202) menubar.Append(filem,"File") menubar.Append(viewm,"Help") self.SetMenuBar(menubar) wx.StaticText(self.panel, -1, "Login ID:", pos=(10,10)) wx.StaticText(self.panel, -1, "Password:", pos=(10,40)) self.username=wx.TextCtrl(self.panel,101,"Login ID",pos=(100,10)) self.password=wx.TextCtrl(self.panel,102,"Password",style=(wx.TE_PASSWORD),pos=(100,40)) wx.StaticText(self.panel, -1, "@gmail.com", pos=(220,10)) …

Member Avatar for baki100
1
1K
Member Avatar for Syphilis

What's Up? OK, So I have a working python script that sends and receives text to and from the client and server python files, However if the Server and Client are on different computers, And therefore we need to connect over the internet, How would we do that? New to …

Member Avatar for SoulMazer
0
100
Member Avatar for QueryPoser546

I've read in data from a file using a GET request through a browser data= open(path) data2= file.read() return data2 and returned it to the console just fine. how do I post this same data to the browser I used as a client for the GET request? socket.send(<htmlcode here>)? what …

0
25
Member Avatar for keshav magge

I am trying to catalog mysql database items in a plone site using python. The function that catalogs the SQL query results takes 2 arguments. First is the item returned by the query (for example Select * from books would return many book objects) and second argument is the string …

Member Avatar for vegaseat
0
1K
Member Avatar for hodna1

Python functions. 1. Given a list of words, return an array which indicates the frequency that each letter occurs. For example, in the list ["apple", "bob"], [ 'a' -> 1, 'b'->2, 'e'->1, 'l'->1, 'o'->, 'p'->2] . The order of the array does not matter and a Frequency class will be …

Member Avatar for jwenting
-1
99
Member Avatar for nezbo

Hello there, i've been searching the web and a few books for the last days with this (simple?) problem and only ended up fairly confused. the scenario: me and my friends are learning python while/by writing a little game together. My current problem is conserning getting the items (from classes) …

Member Avatar for nezbo
0
198
Member Avatar for hittmann

using graphics in python how am I able to contain a movable object within set bounds eg a ball with obstacles that it will not pass through. I can produce the ball and obstacles but the ball passes right through the obstacles :(

Member Avatar for vegaseat
0
28
Member Avatar for larsen182

Hi guys:-) I have no experience in programming, and i realise that asking for someone to write an entire programme for me might be a stretch, but unfortunately i havent got any mates that are good at programming. I think the program i need is fairly simple once you know …

Member Avatar for larsen182
0
219
Member Avatar for helios0684

Alright, let's try this again. I've started over from scratch and we have got the basic functions working. Everything so far has checked out, but I am still trying to get it to pull the right credentials. I can get it to pull one of the rows out of the …

Member Avatar for woooee
0
297
Member Avatar for toadzky

I am writing a script to rename and reorganize the mp3 on my iPod. For those who don't know, if you drag and drop your music from the iPod to a computer, there is a crazy F## folder structure and all the names are 4 random characters. I want to …

Member Avatar for TrustyTony
0
185
Member Avatar for mesuge6666

I have some random text like: [CODE]>>>text= \ """import sys n = int(sys.argv[1]) ;;print "blbalbalbalabllalbaa" replace me i in range(1,n) {print "numbers:";;replace me j in range(1,3) {print j} ;;print i ;;replace me k in range(1,3) {print k} ;;print "end!"} replace me n < 5 {print n ;;print "youragenious"} """[/CODE] i'd …

Member Avatar for griswolf
0
121
Member Avatar for gsmoura

I really need help in some parts of my minesweeper code using Tkinter. I don´t have much experience in python and I am facing two major problems that I just can´t solve. The first one is that, as I generate buttons dynamically, they all have the same name and receive …

Member Avatar for strider1066
0
150
Member Avatar for morgadao

Hello .. I'm new in python and I have a problem in a project that I have to deliver later this week (the dashboard of a car). Whenever I do a refresh of the frame to update data pointers account revolutions speedometer .. he paints everything again including background image …

Member Avatar for strider1066
0
62
Member Avatar for helios0684

Hey, I need help with setting up an authentication code. I am currently working on a project to build a blog server in python for an intro level python course. We are using the PESTO and POSTGRESQL wsgi and sql clients respectively. I am trying to authenticate against a user …

Member Avatar for helios0684
0
485
Member Avatar for cyon

What is the most efficient way to: [LIST=1] [*]Check if a list has duplicate items (return a boolean) [*]Get duplicate items in a list (return a list) [/LIST] I'm looking for something quick and concise, as my solutions are rather cumbersome: [CODE]def list_has_duplicate_items( L ): for item in L: if …

Member Avatar for TrustyTony
0
2K
Member Avatar for vlady

Hello, pls.can anybody help me? I try to solve a exercise where I need to involve random module. Here is a text: Exercise 2 In this example, ties are broken by comparing words, so words with the same length appear in alphabetical order. For other applications you might want to …

Member Avatar for vlady
0
147
Member Avatar for oaktrees

Is there a way to append the current date to an output file. My output statement looks like, [CODE]result=open('Results.csv','wb')[/CODE] If I run it today, I would like the file name to be something like Results20100528 (for May 28, 2010). If I run it tomorrow, I would like it to be …

Member Avatar for oaktrees
0
111
Member Avatar for toadzky

I use python for various personal projects and hobby stuff. I do mostly command line stuff, just cuz I don't need the gui for a lot of it. I would like to start moving on to GUIs, but I have run into a problem. I started with Python v3. All …

Member Avatar for vegaseat
0
216
Member Avatar for vello
Member Avatar for ivh90

hey guys... I have a simple question ... is it possible to write a python code (a function or a class) that would take coordinates as parameters (four angles of a rectangle), extract the image from google earth and then save it ? I ve been looking around but no …

Member Avatar for griswolf
0
97
Member Avatar for sarosh

if at the end of the code i write this o execute main, [code] if __name__ == '__main__': try: main() except KeyboardInterrupt: pass[/code] isnt thre anyyy other way to exit the interpretor except pressing ctrl -c ???? the interpretor halts even if code ends and then i have to press …

Member Avatar for vegaseat
0
128
Member Avatar for vegaseat

Starting with version 2.6 Python has introduced a new container called the named tuple. You can use it similar to a class based record structure, but it has the memory efficiency of a tuple.

1
2K
Member Avatar for qqabb

im a beginner of coding and using python. Im trying to code for a linear search but I don't know how to:(

Member Avatar for TrustyTony
0
1K
Member Avatar for shwick

I've been trying to match some incoming strings from a mud(text based rpg) and I'm having some trouble. I need a regex that will match the <mob> tag in these strings. You can have a separate regex per sentence to match the surrounding text. You would stomp <mob> into the …

Member Avatar for TrustyTony
0
110
Member Avatar for cyon

Given a coordinate string -- 'x, y' -- where x and y are 1-4 digits, separated by \D+: '34, 58' I want to able to get a tuple with each number as an integer: (34 , 58) [B]Method 1[/B]: I could find the numbers, convert the tuple groups() to a …

Member Avatar for ultimatebuster
0
7K
Member Avatar for blazahjazz

Hello, I'm a high school student and I just started learning Python. I'd really appreciate some help on some problems I've been assigned, and some tips that could help me out in the future with problems like these. >>> getLeaves ( jenny ) [5,3,0,9] >>> >>> getLeaves ( joshua ) …

Member Avatar for griswolf
0
157
Member Avatar for ktsangop

Hello everyone! I am using python 2.6 on cygwin environment and wondering how could i prevent two python processes from writing to a file at the same time. The file that is shared between the python processes is an ini file and is accessed through ConfigObj module. The first python …

Member Avatar for ktsangop
0
378
Member Avatar for ErlendHL
Member Avatar for vsagarmb

<code=python> >>>f = file("sendBuffer.dat","rb") >>> f.read() '\x81x\x00>\x00\x02\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00A .\x00\x10aG\xce\x00 \x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x01\xcd\xccL@\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x 00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00' >>> text = f.read() >>> print text </code> In the above code f.read() prints the data, but when i say print text or print length of text it returns NULL and zero respectively. Any Ideas?

Member Avatar for vsagarmb
0
89
Member Avatar for valorien

Hi Everyone :cool: What is the best way to represent, modify, and perform calculations with hexadecimal values (for instance, byte addresses) in Python? It seems every time I play with hex numbers, I'm always getting the result as a string or regular int type. case in point: Let's say I …

Member Avatar for Gribouillis
0
14K
Member Avatar for hadoque

Hi i'm totally new to python and I'm trying to make an easy GUI with tkinter that should take a name of a textfile in an entry widget, and when you click a button the text in the entry should be passed to a function handling the file. This is …

Member Avatar for hadoque
0
472
Member Avatar for ennoil

I have a csv file with 4 columns that I want to use to create menus. For example, the second column has values such as "TEST", "QA", "PROD" and a couple of others. I want to take all the values from the second column, weed out the duplicates, then create …

Member Avatar for sergb
0
2K
Member Avatar for pietromarchy

Hi guys, a not so complex question: [CODE] form xml.etree.ElementTree import * >>> tostring("<home><room>bedroom</room></home>") '<home><room>bedroom</room></home>' [/CODE] I would like to have the indentation in for the string. Something like: <home> [INDENT]<room>bedroom</room> [/INDENT] </home> Of course my document is a little complex. Is it possible to have it in an automatic …

Member Avatar for pietromarchy
0
674
Member Avatar for vello

[CODE]# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- p = [1, 2, 0, -1, 3, 4, 5] smaller = 0 bigger = 0 i = 0 while i < len(p): if p[i] >= p: bigger += 1 print bigger i += 1[/CODE] #bigger than -1 is (1, 2, 0, 3, 4, 5) #bigger …

Member Avatar for TrustyTony
-1
161
Member Avatar for bjoernh

Hi there. Day 2 of programming python. In this thread I posted my first attempt [url]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/post1231604.html#post1231604[/url] and growing from there it goes to slightly deeper water here. I have three .txt files: nvutf8.txt here new vocab items are stored esutf8.txt here example sentences are stored exoututf8.txt example sentences from esutf8.txt …

Member Avatar for bjoernh
0
173
Member Avatar for zalogarcia

i need to make a program that adds numbers, but asking first the user how many numbers he wants to add, and then adding them. any one knows how to do that

Member Avatar for snippsat
0
103
Member Avatar for ultimatebuster

I just used MonoDevelop 2.2 for Python under Ubuntu. IT'S AMAZING! Code hinting seems to not be working though... Anyone has any idea on when the python is gonna jump to windows?

Member Avatar for jcao219
0
198
Member Avatar for kedarm

Hi! I'm trying to use the opencv bindings of Python. I tried the following code: [CODE]from opencv.highgui import * from opencv.cv import * cam = 'cam' cvNamedWindow(cam) cap = cvCreateCameraCapture(0) while cvWaitKey(1) != 27: img=cvQueryFrame(cap) cvShowImage(cam,img)[/CODE] Although the window seems to open fine, I cannot see any image. I just …

Member Avatar for Ratzian
0
319
Member Avatar for oaktrees

I have code that opens a URL, whose page looks like this... "A",31.49,"5/26/2010","4:00pm",+0.25,31.51,32.25,31.37,3811721 The code parses this web page and writes it to a CSV file. Here is a snipet of the code, [CODE] def __req(stat): url = ... % (stat) return urllib.urlopen(url).read().strip().strip('"') #Manipulate data from web and write to …

Member Avatar for oaktrees
0
86
Member Avatar for cableguy31

I'm writing a script to scan Windows shares. Running the script from Windows, it works fine. But running it from Linux and it doesn't work. I don't get any errors, it just doesn't return anything. I'm guessing this is probably an authentication issue of some kind. On Windows, it automatically …

Member Avatar for Gribouillis
0
188

The End.