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So I did some research and learn that you use the sys module to set the path for 2.5: import sys sys.path.append('usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/') And that would set the path for 2.5 permanently, but if i do the samething for 2.6 or 3.0, it will not work the next time I open …

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I need to write a function which has 2 parameters height and width and outputs a rectangle of "#" ssmbol of the appropriate dimensions. so for 93, 4) should result in the output #### #### #### but i dnt unserstand how to use the loop in this. I have only …

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Hai guys, A very good morning to you.Currently i'm using python3 in linux. In windows tkinter is working fine but in mandriva linux spring 2009 it fails to import. Can you please tell me step-by-step on how to fix this issue? In python3.1 home page the description is not clear …

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Hello, I would like to know hot to pass address reference to ā€˜c’ function through python. I am using swig for ā€˜c’ anf python interfacing Interface file : stud.i *************************************************** %module stud %header%{ #include "stud.h" %} %include "stud.h" %array_functions(char *,charp ); %inline %{ extern int parse1(char *,char *,char **); %} …

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For whatever reason, Python on OS X sets the default file directory to the "~/Documents/ " folder. It's a bit annoying because it makes my documents folder massively cluttered with python files as well as files from my computer. I'd like to change it simply by adding a "Python" folder …

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Okay, the encryption algorithm idea was stupid. But I still made an encryption program. I got the absolute most possible frustrating situation. The program doesn't work in the console window. It spits out a giant error (probably recursion judging how many errors it got), but it DOES work in IDLE. …

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[code] #Credits: #Nevets04 #Fallen #Uber1337 #Farout import os List = [] z = int(raw_input("How many words in your list?: ")) os.system("clear") for x in xrange(z): List.append(raw_input("")) List.sort(),os.system("clear") print "\n".join(List) [/code]

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I want to be able to output the area of the circle and the cirumference of the circle to the user. so the output is to be "the area of the circle is... and the circumference of the circle is..." and it has to be to 2dp. the question says …

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I am totally new to programming and could use some help. I am trying to write a while loop in python that could execute this equation but in a while loop type function. the equation is n * (n + 1) / 2 any ideas?

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Ideally I'd like to do it with a list comprehension. Something like this [CODE]result = [(key, value)for key in dict.keys(), value in dict.values()][/CODE] but clearly that isn't the right format. Any suggestions? EDIT: This seems like what I want to do, but it doesn't work: [CODE]result = [(dict.keys[i], dict.values[i]) for …

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i am a beginner. i have no idea how i can make Tic Tac Toe game. please help me. Question #1 Extend program To use arrays For a 5*5 Tic Tac Toe game. (wins are 5 Horizontal, 5 Vertical, 5 Diagonal) Question #2 Extend to 4*4 array (But wins are …

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Hi, I am comparing 2000 files with one other file. I want the program to go through each line in both files and compare. If the line is present, then it has to write to another file. What I tried was to open both the files and use readlines() to …

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I am interested in learning python and picked up a friends textbook to try and work through it. I have no cs experience so am pretty clueless. I am having difficulty with one of the problems in the first chapter lol. i am trying to make the program spit out …

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Hi, I have stumbled on an interesting problem. I have thought 'n' thought, but haven't come up with any good ideas of how to handle this. I have a text file that contains many records, but without the records being seperated. I need to figure out how to seperate these …

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How would I limit mouse movement in python? For example I have a 480x480 grid where each block is 30. If I click on a block I would like to only be able to click in an area of one block around the block that I placed.

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Hello friends, I've tried to install wxwidgets in my mandriva 2009 spring for GUI interaction with python. In the installation instruction it said that i need gtk+ library. So i downloaded GTK+. When i configured GTK+ i got the message checking for BASE_DEPENDENCIES... configure: error: Package requirements (glib-2.0 >= 2.21.3 …

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Greetings! I am in need of some techincal assistance. My problem is as follows: In my Programming class, we are starting to use the graphics package in Python. We are using a module called graphics.py In order to use this module, we have to save it to the desktop and …

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Hey All, I have been asked to do a project on Java at school. We are still learning it at an elementary level... Many decided to do the project on things like ticket booking, banking and stuff... whereas I wanted to do something innovative and so decided that my topic …

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I'm having trouble with my lab for a computer class. The problem is as stated: Design a program that generates 100 random numbers, and keeps a count of how many of those random numbers are even and how many are odd. Can someone please help me out with this?

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Hi. First, I'll explain my task: I have 4 text files. 3 of the files contain xml tags and content. The 4th is empty. I need to read the 3 files, and write them to the 4th file. The reason for having 3 files is that the first and the …

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Is there a method that, say, for example... you open a file, and usually the cursor would be at the end right? Is there a function or method that would set the cursor back to the beginning of the file? Thanks!

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Hi, Below is my output: FF 0 CMA: 0 IPMI port DE 15E0 TTA: 1 Generic Com port DD 15D0 TTB: 2 Generic Com port DC 15C0 SEA: 3 ACPI System Event FF 0 1 MFPCI DB 15B0 DQA: 2 CMD 649 IDE/ATA Controller DA 15A0 EIA: 3 Intel 82557 …

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Hi, I need to read input from 2 different files, take text from both, combine it, then print it to a third file. That part is easy. What I have a problem with is that some of the text I read in have special characters that need to be escaped. …

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I need to write a program that uses the following function [CODE]def pascnext( L ): currentrow = [] if len( L ) == 0: return [1] if len( L ) == 1 and L[ 0 ] == 1: return [ 1, 1 ] else: currentrow += [ 1 ] for …

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Hi I am ery new to Python. I've only started using it yesterday. Please keep that in mind, as the error might seem simple to you, but I can't understand it. I am trying to run the following piece of code: [code] import re foo = open("PREFIX.txt", "r+") text = …

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Hi I'm trying to write some functions. This first function is suppose to help shuffle two strings which are the same length into the correct word. So the output would be something like: After shuffling the first string som and the second string trs the word is storms. Here is …

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Here's my problem. I wx application that works great until I close it (leaving the idle editing session open) and then restart it. Then parts of the program see variables that should be things like 'wx.panel' as PyDeadObj .... Once I restart the idle session and re-run the program it …

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If I have a file that has a content of this kind: a,b c,d e,f g,h I need to make a list of the letters in the first column, i.e., [a, c, e, g]. I wrote some code which prints these letters but I don't know how to put them …

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I am writing a program in python where in the function I input a row in Pascals triangle and the function returns the NEXT row in the triangle. Below is what I have so far and am getting really frustrate...I'm new at this and bad at iterating things. Can you …

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Python beginner try to learn pygame. Here is a program I made for random color circles popping out. [CODE]import pygame, random pygame.init() X = 680 Y = 460 def main(): screen = pygame.display.set_mode((X,Y)) pygame.display.set_caption('circles') background = pygame.Surface(screen.get_size()) background = background.convert() background.fill(pygame.color.Color('white')) run = True clock = pygame.time.Clock() while run: clock.tick(30) …

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Hi, I have a problem because I did not realy get yet when do Py_INCREF or to Py_DECREF. I build a class type that covers a PyObject*-Array. Now I wrote a function like that: [CODE] static PyObject * get_first(MyObject *self) { PyObject *res = NULL; if (!self->size) return NULL; res …

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Can anybody help me out on creating the ceasar cipher. I am attempting to create the program with several functions, including a function for a password. I think that it adds a few more "bells and whistles" by adding this feature. When I run the script below, what is being …

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I'm reading in a file and sending the data (once encrypted) to a dictionary, with a hash of the data before and after encryption. I then pickle the dictionary but find the file size is massive compared to the source file size. If I write the encrypted data straight to …

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I am trying to remove a specific substring from a string... Here are the doctests. I'm just absolutely stumped. Can someone point me in the right direction on where to start? def remove(sub, s): """ >>> remove('an', 'banana') 'bana' >>> remove('cyc', 'bicycle') 'bile' >>> remove('iss', 'Mississippi') 'Mippi' """ def remove_all(sub, …

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f = \ ''' Product: DECNET Node: ALETHA Address(es): 1.1 Product: TCP/IP Node: aletha.ind.hp.com Address(es): 15.146.239.174 ''' lines = f.split('\n') i = 1 ###### To get the IP Address(es) adapter_config = True for line in lines: if adapter_config: # print line import re if (re.match("^Product:\s+",line)): line1=re.split("\s+",line) print line1[5] I want …

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Could someone lend me their brain? :D I thought I had most of it done, until I got an error saying that my 'calcAverage' definition was not defined.. x.x here is the prompt for the program: Write a program that asks the user how many pumpkin weights they have, and …

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[code]# Reading the .csv file energyFile = open("EnergySources.csv","r") stateDict = {} for line in energyFile: line = line.strip() fields = line.split(",") if fields[0] == "State" or fields[0] == "": continue state = fields[0] total = fields[-1] float(''.join(total)) coal = fields[1] float(''.join(coal)) naturalgas = fields[2] float(''.join(naturalgas)) petroleum = fields[3] float(''.join(petroleum)) nuclear …

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Hello, I begin in Python, and I have the following problem: I retrieve an excerpt of a HTML webpage from the web, and then want the result to be hold in a variable (before being processed by a reg-exp). The function do get the HTML source, but when I assign …

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Why are there so many people doing c++. I've heard even from c++ coders, that python is better. Is this maybe because c++ has been around longer? What do you think the future of python is? Do you think It will eventually beat out c++?

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Hi, I am new at Python..i have been asked to create a code for the following item. A user needs to input the 'room number' and 'date' to equal a answer. Room Number: R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 R1 = Dates: 1/01/2000, 01/02/2000, 01/03/2000 R2 = Dates: 01/01/2000, 01/03/2000 R3 …

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[CODE]import pygame pygame.init() def main(): screen = pygame.display.set_mode((640, 480)) pygame.display.set_caption('game') background = pygame.Surface(screen.get_size()) background = background.convert() background.fill(pygame.color.Color('yellow')) box = pygame.Surface((100,100)) box = box.convert() box.fill(pygame.color.Color('red')) t = True clock = pygame.time.Clock() while t: for event in pygame.event.get(): if event.type == pygame.QUIT: t = False elif event.type == pygame.MOUSEBUTTONDOWN: posi = pygame.mouse.get_pos() …

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here's what i currently got [code]# Reading the .csv file energyFile = open("EnergySources.csv","r") stateDict = {} for line in energyFile: line = line.strip() fields = line.split(",") if fields[0] == "State" or fields[0] == "": continue state = fields[0] total = fields[-1] float(''.join(total)) coal = fields[1] float(''.join(coal)) naturalgas = fields[2] float(''.join(naturalgas)) …

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Dear all, may be someone can help me to find a solution to the following problem: I have a list of patterns (len=5) that are presented as tuples in a list, e.g. patterns = [('w1','X1','w1','Y1','w1'), ('w2','w2','X2','w2','Y2'), ('w2','X2','w2','Y2','w2')] I want to go through all sentences in a text file (one sentence …

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At the easy risk of asking something already asked a hundred times... Curses doesn't work for me. I use 2.6 on a Vista It gives an error saying it can't call up a part of the module that came with the program. ... Uhm... help.. T_T ~Pixel

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If anyone is interested in helping with creating a mesh exporter I could really use the help. Willing to pay royalties that the exporter will receive when released for purchase. Please email for more information. seth at vandigital dot com Thanks, Seth Richardson

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hi, i have an assignment due after 4 hours i'm willng to pay money for solving the assignment here is the assignment link SNIP row data: SNIP i'm serious about paying money and here's my email: SNIP

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hi, i'm new in python programming i'm trying to write a simple program that processes a text file containing grades for a class, extracts the desired grades, count the number of grades in each grade segment and genrate a pie chart for grades,(A1) . [url]http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~zongpeng/CPSC231/assignments/A3/a3.pdf[/url] any help would be appreciated …

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Hello, I've read the python doc (C-API) and was wondering about the two reasons to extend python with C. The first reason is to implement new build-in object types and the second one is to call C-Library functions and system calls. Ok, I think i got the second one but …

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Hey All, I have some code here, the problem is in line 82-83: [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=(500,700)) try: self.s=smtplib.SMTP("smtp.gmail.com",587) self.s.starttls() except: wx.MessageBox("Error 001: Could not connect to the internet, please try again later.","Internet Connection Error") 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) …

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