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Hi, i want to run a python script from another python sript as a new process. i have tried with spawn functions of os module but it didnt work. i guess these functions work on only Linux. how to create a new process on windows platform..

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Could someone please point me to a good example of user forms and how to get data out of them for Python 2.3?

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I am trying to use binascii to convert this: [code=python] town1 = """ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +-------------------------------------------------------------+ +----------H-----------H----------H---------H--------------+ +----------&---------------&---------------------------------+ +------------------------------------------------------------>+ +----------------@-------------------------------------------+ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ """ [/code] into the type of graphics used in PyMike's PixelMan 3, found at pygame.org. I looked at the document on python.org telling about binascii and a little bit about …

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I would like to use pickle() to save the stats, progress, and location of a player in my text adventure. I know that pickle() write an object to a text file, and that file can be later recalled to load the information. My curiosity is, would I be able to …

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Hi For one of my programs i want to be able to graph the performance of things in a graph. The thing is that this graph constantly made a little bit longer with every second that passes. So i was wondering what paintDC to use. And how to use it. …

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Hi All, I am new to programming world, i wanted to make a script which will create folder when counting of files breaks. for Example- 1) I have 1000 no of jpg files in a single folder.(but ) 2) but these files has a number break in between. (like it …

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Python 2.3.7 has the following functions as number converters: float(num), int(num), long(num). But what happened to double(num)? If my number is a=3.33333 and do round(_,2), the output I get is 3.3300000000000001. I was expecting to see 3.33. What’s happening to here? Thank you. liliya

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This is probably a newbie question but I've figured out how to connect and query a microsoft access database via ado, but I can't figure out how to export the tables......need to export them to dbf???? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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hi guys i have a small problem. the cars in my program collide against each other. it works when i don't have any class car. but now there's some confusion with the speed of the car. ive worked for hours on this but no solution found. i hope u guys …

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can somebody give example python script that execute debian package when button is clicked. here is the example picture (i`ve created the glade files with Glade Interface Designer): Thanks for any attention.A little help would be usefull, since this program is to help those who tottally offline. [ATTACH]9031[/ATTACH]

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Hi, I am trying to create a simple roguelike-like, a game with graphics similar to roguelikes, with a few extra twists. I am trying to create a dungeon using a list, here is the code... [code=python] background = ['#', '#', '#', '#', '#', '#', '#', '#', '#' /n/ '#', '.', …

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Hello all. I'm working with pygame and are trying to implement some type of server.

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I have been working with bass.dll from [url]www.un4seen.com[/url] as audio library and I can say that it is great. But I have reached a place where I hitted the wall and it will take time for me to move. Can anyone suggest for me a dll library for playing audio …

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Hi, I'm new, so please bear with me. I'm working on a memory card game in wxpython, using gui bitmap buttons. I need to change the bitmap from the "face down" bitmap to another bitmap when the button is pressed. (and to wait for a second button to be pressed, …

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how do you manipulate text files.. [CODE=Python] import urllib2 dload = urllib2.Request('http://tvnz.co.nz/content/tv2_listings_data/portable_listings_skin') text_file = urllib2.urlopen(dload) text_file_read = text_file.read() print text_file_read f = open ('site.txt', 'w' f.write(text_file_read) f.close()[/CODE] This returns the page and saves it as text file, but how would i do the following things.. -delete lines of texts, for …

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Hello, I am programming in Python for quite some time now but I am struck in a simple problem. I want to change icon of folders programatically. Any idea how to do this?

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I am new to Python programming, I want to create a command line application that which can be used for backing up the data on a server and restoring it back when needed. Please help me starting this.. Thanks

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Hey i was wondering if there was any way to convert a 24 bit Bitmap into a 256 colour bitmap using PIL or something simillar. I found something like: [code=python] image = image.convert("P",color = Image.ADAPTIVE) [/code] But i couldn't work out how to make that work. So yeah any way …

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How can I install pygame against the 64 bit version of python for windows? I tried the regular win32 package but imports don't work.

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Hello. I have a question and I need it's naswer. I am new begginer with Phyton, and I would like to know how I get from table that located in DB (Oracle), a specific value into my Phyon varaiable. Say I need to get from table in DB named "W_Keys" …

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So I was going through the Projects for the Beginner thread. I settled on this: "For $2 you get to throw four dice. If the sum of the faces is less than 9, you win $12, otherwise you lose your investment. Should you play this game?" Simple enough: [code=python] def …

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I’m building a tagger that searches through a corpus of IM data and tags any instances of words that occur on a wordlist. I've run into a problem and was hoping to find help. I'd like to try and understand exactly why it's not working, so I've laid out everything …

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hi again i have been assigned a project to create a web crawler in python but i have no idea where to start so all help will be welcome.

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Hi, I want to read a line in the file and check the content in the line, for example if the line starts with the text "sample test ..." i want to check wether the line starts with sample, but my code always return no result even thou the file …

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Hi, I am trying to write a connect four program in python, which I am not very experienced at. This is what I have so far: [Code] row7 = [' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' '] row6 = [' ', ' ', ' …

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I have no idea how to get started -Prompt user for an integer -If the number is even, divide it in half - If the number is odd, multiply it by 3 then add 1 - If the number reaches 1, stop; otherwise go to step 1 -Use while loop. …

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G'day I'm currently using socketserver to build a simple XMLSocket (an XML based protocol used for communication between flash and the outside world) server. I've got flash establishing a connection, sending a request and my python server responding. However at this point socketserver terminates the connection. Which is bad, since …

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Having trouble understanding using wxPython....:?: [CODE=Python] import wx class MainFrame(wx.Frame): def __init__(self): wx.Frame.__init__(self,None,wx.ID_ANY, title='Hello wolrd') self.buthello = wx.Button(self, wx.ID_ANY, label ='helo') self.buthello.Bind(wx.EVT_LEFT_DOWN, self.helloevent) self.Show() def helloevent(self, event): msg = 'hello' msgbox = wx.MessageDialog (self, message = msg, style = wx.OK) if msgbox.ShowModal() == wx.ID_OK: msgbox.Destroy() app = wx.App(redirect = False …

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I am trying to print out some database resutls as follows [CODE] cursor.execute("SELECT * FROM User") numrows_user = int(cursor.rowcount) i_user = int(0) Results_user = cursor.fetchall() while i_user < numrows_user: print Results_user[i_user]["ID"] [/code] Put i am getting nothing i know i_user is working and i know there is information in the …

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Looking for some help catching flash as3 POST command with python. Anyone done this? below is my AS3 Code:(I have on pretty good authority that this part is right) [code] function savedata(event:MouseEvent):void { trace ("i've been clicked"); var myData:URLRequest = new URLRequest("user_info.py") myData.method = URLRequestMethod.POST var variables:URLVariables = new URLVariables() …

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Dear all, I downloaded a google API interface from [url]http://blackcodeseo.com/google-search-api-for-python/[/url] pretty nice. I was sad to hear that google wasn't giving out access keys anymore for their API, but this one seems to work well despite that - I don' t really know all the details, I just plugged-n-played. The …

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I noticed a weird thing happening when i use this function. If the page i open is in latin-1 encoding, the bytes returned by this function would have some weird junk characters inserted in various places. However, if i use urlretrieve to fetch the page to disk, there is no …

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Hi! I want to get information from a sports web site (ex:[url]https://www.bwin.com/pt/futebol)[/url], and I already tried htmllib and some other stuff.... the problem is that I can get the page's source code but not the same information that I can see in my browser. Particularly, I'm interested in the teams …

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Hello, I'm writing my code into the 'vizard python editor' and sometimes it feels a bit bugged or something, now I get an error message that my class has no attribute. I feel it has to do something with editing in vizard because in other editors I don't think i …

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I have a third party sending me some infomaion. They say to use php $_post to recieve the information as follows [CODE]<?php //include the database handling class include("mysqlclass.php"); //Assign POSTED variables $destination = $_POST['gwNumber']; $originator = $_POST['originator']; $message = $_POST['message']; $smsTime = $_POST['smsTime']; $timeZone = $_POST['timeZone']; $network = $_POST['network']; $id …

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Hello, I have been using the python challenge to teach myself python as my first programming/scripting language outside of HTML. As I go along, I find that while I'm understanding the concepts rather well, I am not being as efficient as I could be. While the code I whip up …

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In my programming class, we need to write a program where the user is prompted for a value. Once that value is provided, the program is supposed to multiply its digits. For example: if the user typed 1234, it would multiply 1*2*3*4 and give the answer. I'm not sure how …

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does anyone know how to shutdown a computer on windows XP (using python of course ;) given the IP address and the computer name (probably don't need it, though)? I don't want to use os commands like os.system("shutdown -i"). Thanks in advanced!

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Does anyone know of any good urllib tutorials other than [url]http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/urllib2.shtml#introduction[/url] & [url]http://effbot.org/librarybook/urllib.htm[/url]. Something which a little beginner friendly:| with good explanations. -Thanks

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Dear all, I am trying to create x attributes in a class, to the effect of: class classic: def __init__(self,text): r=range(text.count('TI -')) for l in r: self.l=None Unfortunately I can't iterate through for some reason. I only get self.l, not, for instance self.1 to self.107 How do I do this? …

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Is there a gui library that has already been ported to python 3? I'm interested in using some of the new python 3 features in the back end for my project.

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Write a function which starts N processes in a ring, and sends a message M times around all the processes in the ring. After the messages have been sent the processes should terminate gracefully. How do we solve in in python please help me by giving the script or logic.

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I know of ww.portablepython.com/ Can anyone know how to do a combination of IDE and this python in stick. Also if anyone have ever tried to add other python modules to it like Vpython, wxpython, etc Thanks alot

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Attempting to scroll a simple background using pygame. This is proving to be near-impossible. It seems that once a surface is blitted anywhere, it WILL NOT blit into a new location. My two problem functions: [CODE] def loadMap(self): vid = _video._Video() self._bg = self._map.get_background().get_pyImage() self._fg = self._map.get_foreground().get_pyImage() vid.paint(self._bg,0,0) vid.paint(self._fg,0,0) def …

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Hey guys, [CODE]import sgmllib class MyParser(sgmllib.SGMLParser): def parse(self, s): "Parse the given string 's'." self.feed(s) self.close() def __init__(self, verbose=0): sgmllib.SGMLParser.__init__(self, verbose) self.hyperlinks = [] def start_a(self, attributes): for name, value in attributes: if name == "href": self.hyperlinks.append(value) self.newhyperlinks.append(name) def get_hyperlinks(self): return self.hyperlinks import urllib, sgmllib f = urllib.urlopen("http://www.python.org") s = …

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Can someone explain how to add a file to a dictionary. The file is simple. Maybe a word or a number on each line. Here is the code I have. Didn't know if i should use this post or the List and Dictionaries post so kind of posted twice... sorry …

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Hi I'm getting the error TypeError: argument of type 'int' is not iterable when i run my program and don't know where I'm going wrong. My code is: [ICODE] class loan: global loanlist loanlist = [] def loanbook(self, name, ISBN, author, title): self.name = name self.ISBN = ISBN self.author = …

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I am trying to set a cookie but when i check my browser cookies nothing is set. What am doing wrong [CODE] #!/usr/bin/python # e begoli, python connector for mysql # import MySQL module import MySQLdb import cgi import Cookie import time cookie = Cookie.SimpleCookie() cookie["ID"] = "" print "Content-type: …

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Hello, if you have seen any of my other posts you will know I am working on a script to make a "vocabulary test". I currently having it functioning nearly perfectly, except I get an error if I enter the wrong word. Code: [code=python]def vocabtest(): for r in words.values(): count …

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