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I just want to say that I am very disappointed with Guido van Rossum's latest tutorial. I like to follow along typing in the examples and seeing how they run. I seem to catch on to things better that way. But this tutorial's examples haven't been throughly checked because some …

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I have been working on some python code with a friend and for some reason i keep getting this message when i try to run his code, if ar[2]!="client": IndexError: list index out of range I can't see whats wrong and i have never had this message come up before??

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Hello all! Ok here's my problem: I have a Hello World type program that I want to run in steps, and each step is in a new window. When a "next" button is pressed the old window terminates and a new one is created. Now I don't know much about …

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Ok, I've only been working with Python for something like 4 days now and I'm stuck trying to do a certain thing in Tkinter. Now, just to get you into the situation here. I've created a little program that has an entry bar and a go button. It says for …

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I have heard that it is possible to compile python so that people reciving the script don't need to worry about going to the python website and downloading it. One more thing if you tell me to run something from the prompt I can't for the life of me run …

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python -------------------------------------------------------------- [url]www.python302.tk[/url] [email]python302@gmail.com[/email] -------------------------------------------------------------- ALL FOR YOU SPIDY -------------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer: This paper is not to be copied, or used on any website without my permission, consequences will occur if it has been found on ANY website. Only time it is allowed to be used on a website is with …

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I am slowly absorbing these python class concepts(kinda) this fails with an error [php] class Critter(object): def __init__(self): print "I am born" def talk(self,name): self.test = name print self.test crit = Critter('ralph') crit.talk()[/php] this one works [php] class Critter(object): def __init__(self,name): print "I am born" self.test = name print self.test …

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Hey there all, i have a question about how to point my python install to my sql database. when i enter this:[CODE] db = MySQLdb.connect(user="user", passwd="pass", db="myDB")[/CODE] i get this: [CODE]Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#1>", line 1, in -toplevel- db = MySQLdb.connect(user="user", passwd="pass", db="MyDB") File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/MySQLdb/__init__.py", line 66, …

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I was wondering if there was any way to make a for loop go through a string word by word, rather then character by character. For example, [B]for letter in "Hello world"[/B] [B]print letter[/B] it would print out H e l l o etc. I was wondering if I could …

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Hello!! Does anybody know how to create a function that randomly changes elements in a string? And: does anybody know how to set the chances for the type of changes? I've tried to look it up in tutorials, but since I'm a beginner, most of the time creating random outputs, …

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Sorry, I know that this is probably the wrong section to post this question in, but I'm sort of confused as to which one would have been appropriate. Anyways, I've been using regular expressions to find specific information such as e-mail addresses and whatnot inside textfiles, but I can't get …

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I'm trying to finish up my first Python program. The program was built to help me maintain and add content to my webpage (it's nothing fancy...just pure html). Everything was smooth sailing (hey, python kicks some serious butt), until I ran into problems using retrbinary() to download files. The problem …

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I just finished my first program, other then a few test ones. it is tic-tac-toe. If you want to try it. here is the link [url]http://webpages.charter.net/lindbergfamily/game.py[/url] It is not very advanced, just mainly a bunch of if then and while statments. If any of you care to comment on my …

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Hey all, I am very new to python, but I hear that it can be used to handle web forms. Does anybody know of where I can find a good tutorial on how to create something that will handle form input? Thanks in advance. -Nick

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i have an html form with a drop-down list that lists a bunch of images. how can i get my cgi script to load the image ? i have imported cgi and os text entered from a form and read from a file do ok, but i cant seem to …

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hey there, i have written a script that gets my email messages, but i need to be able to strip off all of the stuff except the body of the message so i can write that to a text file. is there an easy way to do this ? Edit/Delete …

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I do not understand why the instructions are being printed off of the margin(about 5 spaces). I would think they would be directly on the margin. I am talking about this part in particular [quote] you first need to choose to go first or second. If you choose to go …

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I am getting really tired, so I am probably doing something dumb(disclaimer). below is a python function I am trying to test [php] # answer.py # # this function asks for a move and checks to see # if it is a legal place to choose. position = ['X','O',' ',' …

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Hello, Now that I have been instructed as to how to write unicode characters in Python, I would like to know if it is possible to get the unicode characters into a list, dictionary, etc. Here is my very simple code: [code]a = u'\u05e9\u05dc\u05d5\u05dd!' print a print print mylist = …

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Hi all, I am trying to learn unicode relative to Python, but to be honest, I'm floundering a whole lot. I have never had so much trouble with anything before, but to put it simply, I just don't get it. For example, I want to use Hebrew words in my …

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from my understanding, a list can do everything a tuple can do plus more. The big advantage of using a list is you can change elements, lists are mutable. Are their situations where a tuple is preferable to a list?

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I am trying to follow this code I am reading in a book. First I will show you the code as the book has it. This is for a word jumble program. This algorythm I am refering to jumbles a word [php] import random # create a sequence of words …

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Hi everyone. This is my first post in the python thread and I am very new to the language. A while ago, i wrote a program that find the least common denominator for an array of numbers in Java. I recently started to look at the python language and I …

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Hey there, i have a python cgi script that prints out html just fine in the Opera browser but doesnt print at all under FireFox. weird, eh? i am getting nothing in the apache logs about any error. perhaps its a firefox issue, but i doubt it. any suggestions. simple …

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here below is my code [code] #!/usr/bin/python #this is my third python script print \ """ this is a python program to figure out total sales price, including tax\n\n \t\t\tprogrammed by\n \t\t\tShane Lindberg\n\n """ base_price=int(raw_input("please enter the base price of the car:\n$")) under_coat=int(1000) stereo=int(200) air=int(750) tax=int(base_price*.07) print "the total price …

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Hey there. Here is the deal.... i have a script that is supposed to open a file based on criteria from a web form. i cant seem to get it to work though. here is the code: [CODE]form = cgi.FieldStorage() DataRecord = form['DataTime'].value Customer = form['CustName'].value # should be automatically …

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Hi, I am a Java programmer dabbling in Python for the first time. Mostly, the transition has been pretty smooth, but this week something stumped me. Please forgive me if the answer to this is completely obvious - I've read van Rossum's tutorial and can't figure it out. I am …

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Hey there, i am trying to write an online application using the cgi module. what i want to do is have an html form display a drop-down list and have the values of that list be the lines of text written in a file. this would be updated almost every …

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I am new to pragramming and also Python. I was reading the intro and basics for beginners in the sticky of this forum and tired it out. It was cool and all but after saving the files, I click F5 to run it and i get the error message : …

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