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alright, I'm new to this community and I have been reading the beginners posts, and I am still having trouble. I need to design a function for a class. It needs to convert decimal numbers to base 16. So for example if the input is 705083, then the function should …

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Hello beautiful people..! i need a way to run a python program from another one... does anyone know what is the best way to call a process which runs another program in python, and when running that child process, causing the parent process to continue without waiting for the child …

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I want to make a small backup script to copy files to cdr. Are there any python modules that can accomplish this?

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Hello, I've been experimenting with different Python IDEs since I started to learn Python. I must say that WingIDE is the best I tried, but unfortunately it's not free and that 10 minutes use is killing me. So I decide to write my Python programs in DrPython which was recommended …

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Hello, I'm trying to execute this simple code: [code] class Person: population = 0 def __init__(self, name): print 'Creating % s peron' % name self.name = name Person.population += 1 def __del__(self): print 'Destroying %s person' % self.name Person.population -= 1 prvi = Person('Asimi') drugi = Person('Mici') [/code] I'm using …

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Hi, I've been trying to make a really simple word unscrambler, that takes a scrambled word, and then compares it to a txt file filled with words. The problem I'm getting, is that I'm trying to only read the first word of each line, and if it finds the word, …

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Here's a cute little encipher/decipher program with a Tkinter GUI I wrote a while back. It's an implementation of a derivative of the Vigenere algorithm; the algorithm is taken from Laurence Smith's [U]Cryptography: The Science of Secret Writing[/U], Amazon link [URL=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/048620247X/qid=1125004078/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/102-6170856-3267319?v=glance&s=books&n=507846]here[/URL]. It's a dated book (and the technique itself is …

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Hello, I am new to Python and I am just starting to figure things out but this one has me stumped. I need to capture the exit code of my processes in order to track them in a database. I have all the other components working except this. In DOS …

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Hello, I've downloaded PythonWin as a better IDE for writing Python code. I came across an interesting issue (as vegaseat pointed out) When I try to write this sentence in my native language "Ja sam

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I want to read everything from a file using python. the one problem i am having (note: EVERYTHING from a file) is that python is returning an EOFError when i know that it's not the end of the file, is there any way to just read the damn thing till …

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I'm completely new to python and really need help with this. I have written this basic cash fund program that allows a person to withdraw, deposit, and receive a balance from it. But now I need to now add email capabilities, by setting up a database (or list) of account …

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Hey there, i have a simple question about getting a script to do two things at once. like this. for i in range(100): print i time.sleep(.2) if i == 15: os.system('python /home/me/ipupdate.py') print 'done' when i run this, it stops at 15 and runs the script called out in the …

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Hai Friends This is my first post to this forum. I am new to Python but I find its quite interesting. I have a problem with the folowing code... ########################## import telnetlib import sys HOST = "192.168.10.5" USER = "somename" PASSWORD = "somepassword" telnet = telnetlib.Telnet(HOST) telnet.read_until("login: ") telnet.write(USER + …

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i have an interesting project at work going on. here is the challenge. i am using the serial module to read data from a serial input. it comes in as a hex. i need to make it a binary and compare it bit by bit to another byte. They have …

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Hello! I need some help... I parsed an xml file using the minidom.parse method, but when i printed the document object to the screen (using toxml() function), i noticed that the parser automatically replaced my " (inverted commas) chars into ' chars. for example : <Father_Tag> <Son_Tag title=' "Son" '> …

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Hi, I wonder if you can give me any advice how to learn Python. My plan is to read python tutorial in documentation from begining to the end, and then to get some book (learning Python, or Python in a nutshell). How long it will take (in average) to get …

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Hello, I've just started to learn Python. I have two questions: 1. Is there any way to set up default folder for Python files (that Atest from introductionary example)? 2. can you suggest any good Python IDE (existing is OK, but I have a fealing that I'm working in ordinary …

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I have a script that is called by a batch file. Whether or not the script completes successfully the batch file continues. I need to know the results of the script. Is there a way to open an IE session, and call a CF page that I can pass an …

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I would like to write good code, it is so east to start writing crap. Is the following bad. lets say I have the following code [code] testvar = 5 def test(testvar): print testvar test(testvar)[/code] is it a bad practice to use the name of a variable or function in …

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hi I have this source [code] env = {} env['SERVER_SOFTWARE'] = ''+self.version_string() env['SERVER_NAME'] = self.server.server_name env['GATEWAY_INTERFACE'] = 'CGI/1.1' env['SERVER_PROTOCOL'] = self.protocol_version env['SERVER_PORT'] = str(self.server.server_port) env['REQUEST_METHOD'] = self.command uqrest = urllib.unquote(rest) env['PATH_INFO'] = uqrest env['PATH_TRANSLATED'] = self.translate_path(uqrest) env['SCRIPT_NAME'] = scriptname [/code] how I can print arrays in this format [code] [HTTP_GET_VARS] …

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hi I have a problem with this source code [code] #fi, fo = os.popen2('c:/python24/python.exe C:/AppServ/webserver/www/index.pyw') #fi, fo = os.popen2('c:/Perl/bin/perl.exe C:/AppServ/webserver/www/wwwp.pl') fi, fo = os.popen2('c:/appserv/php/php.exe C:/AppServ/webserver/www/wphp.php') data = self.rfile.read(nbytes) fi.write(data) fi.close() shutil.copyfileobj(fo, self.wfile) sts = fo.close() [/code] when I try with python or perl it works but with php not. first …

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hi :) i have problem with opening ".py" files in my web server this is the source code: [code] import string,cgi,time from os import curdir, sep from BaseHTTPServer import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, HTTPServer class MyHandler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler): def do_GET(self): try: if self.path.endswith(".html"): f = open(curdir + sep + self.path) #self.path /index.html self.send_response(200) self.send_header('Content-type', 'text/html') …

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Hello, I've just read thread why I should lear python and I must admit that I'm very interestwed to learn oppython myself. i have experience with C and C++ programming language. If I understood corectly Python is an interpreted language. What is advantage of interepreted languages (if there are any)? …

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[FONT=Fixedsys]Hi it's me again, I want to know how to make a new directory containing my python script. Also, how do I make the new directory containing my python script into the current directory? Just for you to know, I installed the newest version of Python which is Python 2.4.1 …

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Hey I'm a new member here. I just need some help. I need help with setting the path for python. I must set a path in Windows to the directory where the Python.exe is located so that I can execute Python script. I need to get the directory containing the …

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As I said before im new to python and stink at math(great combination huh?) Well I've looked at Thinking in Tkinter but I still don't fully understand the concept of classes. Could you provide any help\tutorials on this subject? Help Appreciated :cheesy:

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Python Version: 2.1 Platform: HP Windows XP I am using Python scripts generated by ArcGIS/ModelBuilder in order to automate geoprocesses. Currently I am calling a series of scripts from a batch file that is called by the task scheduler. My problem is if there is an error the process stops, …

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I wrote simple python program that rips, encodes, and gets song data from the cddb. I would like to give the user the option of customizing it to there taste. So I want to make a config file that I can store in /etc(linux fiel location). for example it would …

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Ok new problem, I want to build off of a program I saw in a tutorial that has a "menu" and can calculate two different shapes. The two shapes are circle and rectangle. I've built it into a working order.(event bindings, buttons, area calculation programs) The program works all the …

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Ok I've gotten py2exe because I have friends that want to test my programs, but they don't want to download the python program. Well I have tried to run the compiler out of MS-DOS and the Python version of MS-DOS. But every time I wind up with an error. I …

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Hi all, Here's one that has me stumped. I'm trying to build a system shell with a Tkinter GUI in Python, and I can't figure out what to do with one of the widgets. Here's the program concept: I have two major widgets: a ScrolledText widget and an Entry widget. …

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Hey there, i have been writing python scripts for about 4 months now so i am still very new at programming. that said, i need to build a gui app to handle some data manipulation from a database, set points, etc... what i would like is the easiest to learn …

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Hey there, i have some python scripts that run with the cgi-module. all named whatever.py the thing is, firefox will open one that has a form on it, but not load the next one in line. it pops up a window that says what do you want me to do …

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I have been trying to make a class based on Tk(). My code is such a mess, I would be embaressed to show you what I came up with. Here is what I am trying to do [code] class Window(Tk): fill in the code here win = Window() win.mainloop() [/code] …

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Hi, I was wondering if anone here could help me out a bit with my Reflection problem. My problem is that when I try to find the methods inside a class, not only do I get its methods, but all of its inherited methods or something like that. So if …

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I have been messing around with some scripts, and would soon like to start making a few gui apps. I plan on using either tkinter, or possibly pygame, or pygtk. Are there modules already built that will allow you to browse graphically? for instance, choosing a file, or directory, using …

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I am having a tough time understanding what is going on in this following code [code=python] class Player(object): """ A player in a shooter game. """ def blast(self, enemy): print "The player blasts an enemy.\n" enemy.die() class Alien(object): """ An alien in a shooter game. """ def die(self): print "The …

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Is there a way to get the day of the week when supplied with a date? Like November 11, 1911 may be a Monday?

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Hello, I started coding a little app for exploring the mandelbrot fractal. Hopefully someone here is familiar with it, and perhaps tried coding it in python. My problem is, as you will see if you try running my code, is that the generated image is NOT the mandelbrot (although it …

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I was wondering if anyone knows if any Python books that are availible,and where I might be able to purchase them?

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I have looked through the forums for this and found several hits but none of them truly answered my question. How can I make a Python program an executable file that does not require my friends to have Python installed on their computers?

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Where's the forum topic for python web development? Every one knows it's better than php :D And now that django is comming out I think there needs to be one! :)

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Is there any place where you can find a complete list of python commands? I have googled and skimed through the tutorial and I can't find any place where I can find a complete list of python commands and examples on how to use them? If there isn't one I …

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Hello, I got my last issue resolved, working great thanks to you guys. I have a wide variety of date formats that I need to parse into this format: MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SS (a mysql DATETIME type value).. I have tried: [code]post_date = time.strftime("%Y-%m%d %H:%M:%S", i.issued)[/code] However, this gives me: [code] Traceback …

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Hello, This is my first python script, so I could use a little bit of help here. :) I'm using the 'Universal Feed Parser' ([url]http://feedparser.org/)[/url], and I have a list of feed URLs in a database which I would like to pull out and go through each of them. I …

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I have just started getting into python and so far it's all been very interesting and the help good to, but now i have ran into a problem. I'm sure it's very easy to solve but i just can't seem to figure it out or find anything on the web. …

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Hi, I'm writing a client program that downloads data from an HTTP server via urllib, like so: [CODE]ufile = urllib.urlopen(urlstring) text = ufile.read() # Do stuff with text[/CODE] Nice and simple. Unfortunately, the server only accepts requests with a session ID embedded inside - and I don't know how to …

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hi :) I need some help for this script I have -------------------- [CODE]cursor = conn.cursor() cursor.execute("select * from playlist limit 5") result = cursor.fetchall() # iterate through resultset playlist_txt = '' for record in result: mp3id = record[0] mp3_title = record[1] mp3_artist = record[2] playlist_txt += mp3id + mp3_title + …

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