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 | I am trying to get character matching when comparing two strings. The result would display the two words side by side with the matching (and non-matching) characters displayed. This would be similar to mastermind. Example: (test word) - HALE (sample word) - HELP This would be displayed as: H?L? HELP … |
| | Hi. I am not exactly new to python but I have never done anything related to time and I don't know how. I want to make a count down timer that starts when I start a program and then either closes when I close the program or when it counts …  |
| | What's a good book to learn C if you already know Python and are comfortable with computer science terminology? I'd like a book that is downloadable as a .pdf free of charge but an html book viewable online free of charge would be fine. Also, is there an advantage to … |
 | Hey guys, I have a quick question here, I have Python 2 installed on my machine and I read a book on Python and Vega's great threads. However, my next book that I am about to read states that I need Python 3 to compile the code on their examples, … |
| | I copied this code from page 11 of http://personal.denison.edu/~krone/cs173/files/PythontoC++.pdf and assigned it to a Python string. Alas there are still line numbers. How could I use Python to remove these? Help, I have a mental block. s = ''' 1 #include <iostream> 2 using namespace std; 3 4 int gcd(int …  |
| | I am learning Python and one thing I thought I could work on was a program to scan an IP range and then compare the results with previous - alerting me to any new IP addresses that respond to ping. Can I get some feedback on my code? Is there … |
 | What I'm trying to do is figure out a legit way of updating or downdating my program from my GitHub repository. I'm rather lost as the the approach on this and don't know what to consider. I want to notify a user if a new major update is available, and … |
| | Hello everyone, I am working on Linux PC and want to make a program to get data from RaspberryPi(another Linux machine). Both machines are connected together by CAT5 cable directly without any Switch or Hub. Linux PC hostname is mike and IP is 192.168.93.12 Raspberry hostname is pi and IP … |
| | Good morning everyone. I have a question, please if you do not mind. In this file E_vs_cutoff1.pdf, i represent the energy vs radial cutoff. And in the python script, i specified the limits of Y-axis as: pl.ylim(-5524.0,-5522.5). I am using python 2.7, pylab. And the script i wrote is simple … |
| | Hi guys, I'm creating the width size for the buttons when I'm getting a list of arrays so I can store the buttons size in a database. The types of arrays that I stored for the buttons and the buttons width size is a list. I have stored a list …  |
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 | I was working on my raspberry pi creating a game called raspberrysnake from code out of a book. I entered the code exactly as shown... I had a few errors which turned out to be missing characters or mistyped characters. Finally, after catching these, I ran it through the command … |
| | Hi guys, I'm trying to write the code to allowed me to store each data in a database from the arrays, but it give me the error. [b]Error: InterfaceError: Error binding parameter 0 - probably unsupported type.[/b] Code: #generating the program button ids for generate_ids in range(3002, 3485): program_id.append(generate_ids) #create …  |
| | Once you are on the internet, you have to come up with passwords. After a while it will be difficult to remember those passwords. You could write them down somewhere, but the wrong person could find them. Why not have Python help you to come up with a logical password … |
 | Hi How to merge two binary files into one in python and make them both execute. For example 1.exe+2.exe = OutPut3.exe when you run 3.exe both 1 and 2 execute def Main(): File_1 = raw_input("Location path of 1.exe:") File_2 = raw_input(" Location path of 2.exe:") |
| | I want this to keep track of each players turn including the AI. Not the numer of rolls but for each turn till the game ends. For example your turn ends when a 1 is rolled on either dice or both. import sys from random import randint def game(): playercount … |
| | Hi guys I need a bit of your help. I've created the variables that I want to store a list of arrays outside the for loop. I have got a problem with the code that I currently using. When I try this: import xbmc import xbmcgui import xbmcaddon class ProgramControls(object): … |
 | hi guys , first of all merry Christmas and happy new year since there have been many discussions about favorite idle for python , al sweigart is trying to improve python's own idle and everyone is invited to help out and since this is the best python forum I thought … |
 | i hava question how i access to one pc in localy network and take screenshot in desktop and finally send picture to me. |
| | Hey,I wanted to know how to read a .txt file and the output should be in .xml format. I have the input file as input1.txt  My code: from lxml import etree import csv root = etree.Element('data') #f = open('input1.txt','rb') rdr = csv.reader(open("input1.txt",newline='\n')) header = next(rdr) for row in … |
| | Which class structure is better for what purposes. This one: class Text: def __init__(self, passage): self.s = passage def read_text(self): return self.s def grow(self, sentence): self.s = self.s + sentence.s class Sentence(Text): def __init__(self, sentence): Text.__init__(self, sentence) self.s = sentence def format(self): self.s = self.s[:1].title() + self.s[1:len(self.s)-1] + ". " … |
| | I'n trying to convert a dbf file to a csv file(or anything else really). I found this on the interwebs but I get an error import csv from dbfpy import dbf import sys dbf_fn = 'in.dbf' csv_fn = 'out.csv' in_db = dbf.Dbf(dbf_fn) out_csv = csv.writer(open(csv_fn, 'wb')) names = [] for … |
| | Hello Guys, its my first few months on progamming, love the course but things are abit confusing at the moment, i have this assignment below, pls i will appreciate if anyone can help me out. Write a program to accept a number of scores from a user. Use floating point … |
| | Hi guys, I'm working on my python script to get the list of elements in the arrays. I'm using the variable `position_x = elem.getX()` to get the list of pixel size for the elements. Here is the output: 18:32:12 T:4060 NOTICE: 375 18:32:12 T:4060 NOTICE: 724 18:32:12 T:4060 NOTICE: 1073 … |
 | I have a requirement to update a configuration file content at a specific lines location. How to do this in python. For example, I have a configuration file which is having below 5 lines now: define host{ name kiki-server; XXXX XXXX; XXXX XXXX; } I am interested have my python … |
| | Hi im new to python and am trying to make a simple tank game where I want the tank gun to follow the position of the mouse cursor. Im am having some trouble in doing this. Below is my code. Whenever I run I get an error. So far I … |
| | Hey guys, some of you might know me from other sub sections of Dani Web. I am about (just started) to learn Python. And not just learn but possibly make it my prefered language over all. So, I've read the thread from `vegaseat` for beginners and it has a link … |
 | Hi, I have created TY.py. The Ty.py file executes and runs successfully. I am trying to make its executable using py2exe and by creating setup.py. It is not able to include the requests. I think it is because 'requests' is not present in 'include' folder for python27. The path of … |
 | Similarity(X,Y): For i = 0,...,m: SIM[i,0] = i*g For j = 1,...,n: SIM[0,j] = j*g For i = 1,...,m: For j = 1,...,n: SIM[i,j] = max( SIM[i-1,j-1] + s(X[i],Y[j]), SIM[i-1,j]+g, SIM[i,j-1]+g ) EndFor EndFor Return SIM[m,n] |
| | As part of a study exercise I wrote a procedural script and would like to ask whether anyone has a more polished version. Your version can be procedural or object oriented. #! /usr/bin/env python3 # This script simulates a monkey on a typewriter trying to come up with one sentence … |
| | so I've reverse-engineered Tkinter's tkfiledialog functions askopenfilename and asksaveasfilename to figure out how they work: import Tkinter class Open: "Ask for a filename to open" def __init__(self, master=None, **options): self.master, self.options = master, options if not master and options.get('parent'): self.master = options['parent'] def _fixoptions(self): try: self.options["filetypes"] = tuple(self.options["filetypes"]) # make … |
| | I've been working on this in other places so it's a little ahead of it's time, but it still has a few minor issues... heh here's an example to get started: x = struct( 12, # struct size 'x,y,z', # variable order x = bf32, y = bf32, z = … |
| | This snippets shows how to have fun replacing multiple words in a text. The target words and the replacement words form key:value pairs in a dictionary. The search and replacement is done using Python's regular expression module re. The code also gives an example of a function within a function. |
| | I could use some assistance My final project in a python class is to calculate the distance between 2 lat/long points. My code is really just managing the input & output portions, while using existing code (properly credited) in a function to do the actual calculations. I've got it working … |
| | Hi. I am trying to make a script that will print out numbers in rapid succession after working a little with them. The script needs to write them in the console one after another (next line). The code works just fine when I do not utilize multi threading, but when … |
| | im a beginner with python, and I'm having trouble with some functions. I'm pretty sure it might be a syntax error or how i set up the code, since i am a beginner, however, i have no clue why this code works. Here is the code, its for a tic … |
| | Hello, When I'm using the 'open' function how should I specifiy the directory ? I'm getting an IOError and bit of confused! I'm not sure if my script is wrong or I've problems with specifying the directory. input = open('New.txt', 'r') text = input.read() wordlist = text.split() wordfreq = [wordlist.count(p) … |
| | Hello, I'm trying to script a Caesar cipher with the key, I find this exercise too much for me at this moment! I just can't come up with an algorith to get this done. Please advise. key = {'a':'n', 'b':'o', 'c':'p', 'd':'q', 'e':'r', 'f':'s', 'g':'t', 'h':'u', 'i':'v', 'j':'w', 'k':'x', 'l':'y', … |
| | python function that creates automatically a dropdown year selector (that is a "select" element poulated with all years starting from current and dating back to a given year)? I don't need day/month (otherwise i'd have used the datepicker), i just need the year! Thanks in advance |
| | An example how to use Tkinter's OptionMenu() as a combobox to allow one year to be selected from an option list of let's say the past 15 years. |
| | don't work this: bg_fon2 = PhotoImage(file='2.GIF') from tkinter import* import random root = Tk() root.geometry("896x626") canv = Canvas(root, height = 626, width = 896) bg_fon = PhotoImage(file='fon.GIF') canv.create_image(0,0,image=bg_fon,anchor='nw') class Fish: image = 0 coor = 0 direct = 0 real_img = 0 obj = 0 canv = 0 def fiish1(): … |
| | hii I have a list having m1 m2 m3........ m922 and in each there are a1 a2 a3 a4 are there like m1=a1 a2 a3 a4 a5 a6 m2=a1 a2 a3 a4 a5 a6 m3=a1 a3 a5 a7 a8 a2 etc and i want this as m1=a1 a2 a3 a4 … |
| | Is this considered good form when writing cross-platform code? #! /usr/bin/env python3 And how about this? if __name__ == "__main__": main() I've reviewed some recent sample snippets and not all of them use the shebang and the conditional main call, so I wasn't sure whether that is still considered good … |
| | Hi guys Just started to get into Python so this site seems liek a gtreat resource for hints and tips. Nice to meet you all. Ben |
| | I'm learning python (and programming in general) through Runestone Interactive. What do people think of that site as a place for beginners to learn python? Also, is there any harm in trying to learn perl and web design languages at the same time? I'm concerned about becoming confused. |
| | Hello again :) I'm trying to define a simple "spelling correction" function that takes a string and sees to it that 1) two or more occurrences of the space character is compressed into one, and 2) inserts an extra space after a period if the period is directly followed by … |
 | I am trying to get the following ENUM to work, but it's not working. Any help is appreciated. class Colour(Enum): WHITE = (255,255,255) BLACK = (0,0,0) RED = (215,45,45) BLUE = (45,87,214) YELLOW = (230,223,48) GREEN = (45,194,64) Using it: `Colour.BLACK` Error: /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python2.7 "/Users/blooop/main.py" Traceback (most recent call last): File … |
| | num = int(input("Enter a number: ")) if num==0 or num<0: continue else: if num > 1: if (num % i) == 0: print(num,"is not a prime number") print(i,"times",num//i,"is",num) break else: print(num,"is a prime number") |
| | I've to write a function that takes a list of English words and returns a list of Swedish words. For example, {"merry":"god", "christmas":"jul", "and":"och", "happy":gott", "new":"nytt", "year":"år"} used to translate English into Swedish. def translate(a): a = {"merry":"god", "christmas":"jul", "and":"och", "happy":"gott", "new":"nytt", "year":"år"} for k, v in a.iteritems(): print k,v …  |
| | I'm a beginner to Python and I decided to make a permutation finder program. Have fun and don't question the name. :) |
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