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Hello i just started learning about python and am beginning a hangman program. I'm trying to read the word from the document then output _ for each letter in it. so far it runs but outputs nothing I'm not sure if I'm formatting it incorrectly or am forgetting something any …

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hello there, well im back;) with a few more questions that i would like clarification with. I have completed up to data structures in python and my next topic is 'object oriented programming':| . Just wanted to clear up some things first:) [CODE]guess=int (input ('enter a number:')) [/CODE] Q1. in …

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python script reading config file and then zipping files after X days from directories. dir contains dynamic files. i have specified the extension and the "startswith" in the config. problem i have is it [B]zips up everything[/B]. (if i can get this work will add a delete too). i also …

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Hi there. Nice forum you got here. I am coding strictly as a hobist since 1988. But I more keen on studying computer languages. I have studied, GWBASIC, DBASE, CLIPPER,C,C++,ASSEMBLY,DELPHI,C#,JAVA. Imade some decent programs with C++ and Delphi. Now I am more interested in making programms . 3d graphics and …

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I've written some code that will download a web page and extract all the links from that page into a list. Then I want to make a second pass down the list and repeat the process for each on the links found on the first page. But for some reason, …

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This code from Vegasseat worked when I made my own bitmap image to count red pixels. I now want to count green pixels so I changed the code. Again, when I make my own bitmap it will count the green pixels but why won't it count them in an image …

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Hi, I'm new to this forum. I need a python test script to open 100 client connections for a web server, say "www.example.com/test/test" without invoking browser. I am trying out this for load testing to create 100 virtual connections to a web server. I have tried with urllib.urlopen(). It fetches …

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This is a basic Mash program assignment I have to do but I have a few problems, and I don't know how to edit it. It is suppose to look like this: [url]http://i43.tinypic.com/inv0gj.jpg[/url] but mine look slightly different: (copy and paste the code to ur python to check if you …

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My problem is that I do not see cookies being captured with this forum submission that I have setup. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong? Any help is appreciated, thanks. [CODE]def main(): # Request post page dev_null = StringIO.StringIO() pycurlConnect = pycurl.Curl() pycurlConnect.setopt(pycurl.USERAGENT, USER_AGENT) pycurlConnect.setopt(pycurl.URL, LOGIN_URL) pycurlConnect.setopt(pycurl.REFERER, REFERER) …

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Hi From using java and BlueJ i have found it quite easy to make your own api using inbuilt things in BlueJ. So i was wondering if there was anything in python that would take a python program and find all of the definitions and make an API from that, …

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Hello all, I've written a piece of code that lets me generate or read a grid where all cells have a value. The grid stands for a simple 2d visualisation of an area where types of housing are to be build. The values of a cell stand for some different …

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Hello, I have a text-based program (non-GUI) that would run solely inside the workspace terminal. Within this program there are hundreds of "print statements" showing really long texts. e.g. print "This is a really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really …

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I've been writing a script that will check google for pages that meet certain criteria at my web site. For example, excel spreadsheets that contain data that should not be on the web. So far, so good. When we find something and take it down, it can take a while …

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Ok, I am writing a program to find the root of f(x)= x - cos(x) using Newton-Raphson method. I implemented a loop and have calculated the root with no problems. However I want to break the loop when the difference between iterations = 10^-8. how exactly can I do this. …

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Hi all, I have a file which have ip's of three servers say servers.txt. I am opening the file for every request. Instead I want to load the file for the first request and from the next time onwards. I have to avoid file I/O. How can I achieve this …

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Hello Dev, I have good news which lasts some hours to come. There are these guys called giveawayoftheday. I enjoy their giving away of commercial software for free with limited valid download time. WHY I WRITE HERE? Not to promote them, but to tell you that today's giveaway is Edraw …

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Question about gathering search results for a phrase with Python. I wrote a simple script for my personal SEO purposes that would go out and collect the top 30 search results on Google and then return a list of those URL's. The trouble is everytime I try to run my …

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I think I have several questions before I post my code. [LIST=1] [*]How do I change the attributes? Everything looks the same and I was basically looking at one of the examples in my book for this problem. The book always has the arguments and attributes as being the same …

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First post so thanks in advance for any help. I am looking to pull the anchor text from a series of links in some html. I am doing this with find() and rfind(): linkend=users.find("</a>:") linkstart=users.rfind(">",0,linkend) My question is that once I have found the first link, how do I then …

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I've been programming on and off as a hobby for some time, but I've never done anything with networking, and since I can't get the docs to work with Ubuntu I've been rather stumped. Could someone offer an example of a program that would send a package of data (say …

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Hello all, I was looking for simple application to keep my record. I have explored many app on net but are too complex, and have decided o make my own. However, I don't know if I should use wxGrid or just text controls in displaying data. If suggesting wxgrid, where …

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hello there, i started learning python yesterday and im having quite a bit of difficulty following tutorials... I was following this[URL="http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Python_Programming/Variables_and_Strings"] tutorial [/URL] but most of what i wrote did not work. How do i make the code compatible with python 3.0?. for instance it says [CODE]lucky=7 print lucky [/CODE] …

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How does [URL="http://www.swaroopch.com/notes/Python_en:Basics#Indentation"]indentation[/URL] work exactly?. Could someone expand on the explantion given on that page please. -regards.

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Hi guys, i'm doing a peice of coursework for uni where we are required to implement a Min-heap/priority queue for calculating the Minimum Spanning Tree. In a min heap, the parent's value needs to be smaller than that of its two children. I've tried to implement this,giving the following list …

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Standards: No ad hominem attacks No insults An argument is, to quote the Monty Python sketch, "a connected series of statements to establish a definite proposition." Please try to avoid the major logical [URL="http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/"]fallacies[/URL]. [B]Definition - Theory[/B]: In science a theory is a testable model of the manner of interaction …

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hello there, well i just started python, and well came to grinding halt. Why doesnt this work when i enter this... [CODE]print "hello world" [/CODE] it gives me [CODE] IDLE 3.0 >>> print "hello world" SyntaxError: invalid syntax (<pyshell#0>, line 1) >>> [/CODE] can anyone help me? -cheers

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First time I've asked for help so please bear with me... ***Brain Freeze*** OK Supposed to open a txt file. Assuming the txt file is formated properly. The file is a what I am assuming a list of names and ages. I created my own file... kick me 989 bodybody …

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Wow. Just wow. I'm working on a script that evaluates probably millions of trig functions in a given run (it's a geometric ray trace of an arbitrary surface, so the math gets nasty fast...). I've been wrapping the numpy sin, cos, etc to work with the functions I get from …

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Hi everyone Well, python 3.0 came out just about a week and a bit ago and i though, now people have had a chance to download it and play around with it a bit, what do you think of it? Is it better? What's the best new feature? Stuff like …

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Hi Everyone, I m trying to built a Web Vulnrebilty Scanner which will test CGI/RFI/XSS/ on a remote Web Server.Here are my baby steps for do this project. 1-Discover pages in remote site. (ex: [url]www.google.com[/url] , [url]www.google.com/x.html[/url] google.com/y.html ...) 2-Post some scripts to the link and test the response. 3-Read …

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I'd like to write up something that will generate random numbers that would plot into a triangle distribution. I know how to get a normal distribution, which is similar. [CODE=python] import random for i in range(200): print random.normalvariate(3,1) [/CODE] But there doesn't seem to be anything in the random module …

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Hi all.Am trying to extract a group of words from a text file.but i dont get the expected result using regular expression.Here are my codes: mytext.txt contains: [code] Group=1 Name=mattew Sex=male Age=25 Group=2 Name=John Sex=Male Age=19 [/code] When i try to get the group=1 i end up get everything below …

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I am currently storing a hypermatrix of not very many objects over a 4d hyperspace. I am working with a 100x100x100x100 hypermatrix that is VERY sparsely populated. Only about 500 cells actually contain anything. The problem is that this matrix takes up huge amounts of memory even when it's mostly …

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Hi, I'm trying to copy a file in python, I have imported the shutil module My problem is that I want to copy file in a directory beginning with a certain name. Example I have 5 file in the fodler but i want to copy all the one tat begin …

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Hi. I have tree control with a structure already in it. A function returns a string that matches one of the items in the tree control structure (They are all Unique), and I need to select that item in the tree. It doesn't matter if the code underlying a selection …

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Hey guys, I just want to know if there is any ways to add music to a python program (non-GUI, pure text program), and if there is, how? Thanks a lot!

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Hey guys, I'm in a bit of a loop here. What i'm trying to do is have a simple web page an that it will direct it's self to a FTP server on my network. Here is where the problem starts for me. I want to be able to upload …

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hi again after watching the numb3rs season 3 finale i wanted to try and make a program to encode or decode a paragraph i have attached a .txt file with the codings how should i start? all help welcomed. thanks in advance leegeorg07

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I'm just tarting with wxPythjon. I wrote this simple program to get some experience with panels.. It wants to open a frame and add a number of euivalent panels, each with an inactive button. And it does seem to do tht (the sizing is fixed because it's only a toy). …

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I was thinking of Separating functions from GUI. I want when have different classes of GUIs that share functions, then I will have one class full of function/methods on need. However I failed to separate them, for I could not make instance of Functions class in the gui class in …

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Hi I have been using classes for quite a while but there is still one concept yet that i havent ever quite understood and that is decorators. I have noticed Gribouillis uses them a lot so in some ways this question is directed at him. I would like to know …

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Hey guys, I'm new to Python and programming in general, and I've come across a problem that I can't quite figure out in my experimentation with the random module. So, basically, I want the following code to ask the user to input a word, and then randomly print a single …

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I'm working on text-based role playing game that uses a GUI for some of the functionality. After a bit of a learning curve I've got the GUI done and am in the process of figuring out how to implement some of the other features. One thing I have run into …

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Character creating program ie Dungeons and Dragons. Player has 30 points to spend on 4 attributes - strength, health, wisdom, and dexterity. Player should be able to spend points from the pool on any attribute and should be able to take points from an attribute and put them back into …

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here i have to Write small a program that asks the user to enter 20 numbers (stored in a list), between 1 and 10 and draws a simple of asterisks for the data in the list. For example: 10) * * * * * * * 09) * * * …

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I want to convert strings to bit-fields.Also,convert them to binary and then use. Need help with this..help me ..

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