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I am doing my major work for SDD and i am making checkers, i have searched and tried many differnt solutions but nothing has worked, i am trying to make the window size set to 800x800 and have "Checkers" as a title and 4 buttons down the bottom, i would …

I am new to python and I am trying to write a simple program that would cd from my home directory to another directory, run an ls command and then return to my home directory. The OS is Redhead linux 5.4. I am using python 2.4.3. I tried this first: …

EDIT: Hello, I need to figure out how I would download email from a Linux-based Postfix/Dovecot mail server. Is there a library that makes this relatively simple that good documentation/examples? Thanks in advance.

So, I'm still a beginner at python and OOP in general. But I had a question about the order of operations. Basically what I have is a module that contains a class that will reset all self variables for the object and give the object a card. The script I'm …

I have the problem that pygame.image.save won't save a transparency channel. With one .png image, it simply doesn't save the transparency channel. With plenty of other .png images, it gives me an error when I call pygame.surfarray.pixels_alpha(newSurface). It tells me: ValueError: unsupported colormasks for alpha reference array. Anyone have experience …

Hi All, Apologies for my naivity in advance, but I am very new to the Python programming world - with experience mainly in Basic and Matlab. I am studying my PhD and am currently trying to program using Python in the Vizard environment to create stimuli for experiments. The purpose …

Hi I have two python lists. list1 is a \n delimited web proxy log file. list2 is a list of domain names. I want to cycle through the list of domain names and for every log file entry check if the domain name exists anywhere in the log entry. If …

I need to code a program that input will be any random string and the the output will include processes, unprocessed string. EX: Input String : XYZZXXYYXYZZXYZ Unique Prefixes : ['', 'X', 'Y', 'Z', 'ZX', 'XY', 'YX', 'YZ', 'ZXY'] Encode List : [(0, 'X'), (0, 'Y'), (0, 'Z'), (3, 'X'), …

I've been working on facial recognition and have obtained a dll that can recognize faces in an image, and gives cordinates aswell. It came with an example program written in C++ and I'm trying to port it to python. Here is the C++ code [CODE] #include "windows.h" #include "loadbmp.h" // …

Hello, im currently working on my major work and im up to the stage where i want to implement a cascade menu into my window. i have differnt buttons on my window but i want the food options to pop down in a cascade menu and not a check menu, …

I need to check if a float number has decimals or not. This is what I've tried to do this far but it doesn't seem to work. What am i doing wrong, is there a better way? [CODE] n =[1.0,2.0,3.0,4.0,5.0,6.0,7.0,8.0,9.0,10.0] a = [1.5,2] b = a[0] for i in range(len(n)): …

Can someone give me an example using tkinter's canvas and bind fetures to make a circle that you can move by using either WASD or the arrow keys?

I have something like 5 lists all containing different data. I have the user input into a list like so: [CODE]for i in range (0,completed): print 'Class: ', course = raw_input() course = course.upper() allcourses.append(course)[/CODE] now the list cmsc has as many courses in it as the user defined before …

This snippet defines a class LebsegueSet which instances represent sets of real numbers, namely finite unions of intervals. Set theoretical, topological and measure theoretical operations are implemented in pure python. Use freely and enjoy !

I have read some documentation about python, but no examples on how could you can extract Keys from a double dictionary. To understand better here is an example: Let's say we have the following dictionary: {'AAA': {'KEY1':'text1', 'KEY2':'text2', 'KEY3:' 'text3', 'KEY4': 'text4'}, 'BBB': {'BBB1':{'KEY1':'text1', 'KEY2':'text2', 'KEY3:' 'text3', 'KEY4': 'text4'}, 'BBB2':{'KEY1':'text1', …

Hi, I am a little newbie with python, more use of C++ The goal is to search a specifed filename e trought multiple directories. After finding the file, search trough it's content some description on some strings and write out the description on a xml file. So far i manage …

Hi all, I am reading through the Non-Programmer's Tutorial and I would like to make a program with Python in which is similar to the one in the example. The difference with the program in this example is that you can only assign a number to a name, whereas in …

Hi, so I'm currently porting one of my applications (it's a media player) from Tkinter to wxPython and I am having some trouble as this is the first wx application I have attempted. I am trying to create something similar to [URL="http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z266/Capn_Soul/DesiredLook.jpg"]this[/URL]. However, I can't figure out the wxPython code …

hi guys i am a beginner to python. Just now completed a few sets of lessons and i'm trying out the exercises given at the end of each chapter. I have learned till the stage of basics in defining a function. But still i am confused. [code] ##This program runs …

is it possible, for example, to make the text that appears as output on the command line appear in a certain colour using python?

arrgh. I've been messing around with displaying a serial feed in PyGTK. For some reason whenever I thread the little bugger the GUI hangs. YES, I've read the PyGTK FAQ (most of my code came from it) Any help would be really appreciated! [CODE] import threading, thread import gobject, gtk, …

I have had python2.6 for a while and have un0installed and re-installed it several times. Now when I right click on some source code the option to open with the IDLE is gone. I have tried "open with" but that doesn't work either. I'm on Windows 7 Home.

I need help to compare letters between two words, the first word letters should be used to compare the letters in the second word... I have an idea that i could use the for loop but im not quite sure how. Please help!

[COLOR="Green"]#face1.py[/COLOR] [code] from face import Face from graphics import * from button import Button def main (): win = GraphWin ("Faces",500,500) win.setBackground ("yellow") f1= Face (win, Point (250,250), 70) #f2= f1.smile(win,Point(250,250), 70) #f3= f1.frown(win,Point(250,250), 70) rollButton = Button (win, Point (400, 250), 55, 30, "Grim") rollButton2 = Button (win, Point …

Is it possible to convert a python script into a compileble langguage. ?????

Hello people, I'm completely new to Python, and I mean new. I've had some experience with programming in Java and C++. Although, the truth remains that I haven't had any experiments with GUI. But that I will do.... Also, now the time for the doubts, 1.Is Python entirely OOP? 2.If, …

let's say i have a list of things, like: [bread, cookies, cake, chocolate, bread] how can I make loop that will, in each iteration, create a variable with the name of the item in the list? basically, i want to be able to count the times each item appears in …

Here is my code atm [CODE]room_num = raw_input("Enter your room number: ") text_file = open("c:/roombookings.txt", "r") whole_thing = text_file.readline() if room_num in whole_thing: print "Room number found here is the information:" else : print "Room number not found." single_line = whole_thing.split('\n') for single_line in text_file.readlines(): if room_num in single_line: print …

Please enter a integer for knick-knacking (pyhton question)? if the number is 1, with his thumb if the number is 2, with his shoe if the number is 3, with his knee if the number is 4, at his door this is what i have -_- [code] def main(): again …

Now...when done. the output should look like this: >>> main() Welcome to the game of BULLS and COWS. The objective in this game is for you to guess a 4-digit number The computer responds with how close your guess is to the target BULLS = # common digits with exact …