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| | I am trying to write a program that shows the longest word from an input . This is what I have so far, I am not sure what to set x equal to, or if that is even right: [CODE]sent=raw_input('Enter sentence:') splicedsent=sent.split(" ") longestword=splicedsent[0] if x in len(splicedsent[1:])>splicedsent[0]: longestword=x else: … |
| | Hi, I have been learning Python and have a quick dictionary question. I am trying to make a "vocabulary test" to help myself study, and am trying to do it with a dictionary. So far I have this: [code=python]testwords = {"uno":"one","dos":"two","tres":"three","cuatro":"four",\ "cinco":"five"} def vocabtest(): for value in testwords: print "What … |
| | I am a freshman in highschool and have just started learning Python. This week I have an assignment on while...for...and lists. I have tried this problem and this is what I got so far, I'm not sure if it is correct at all: start=float(raw_input("Enter the starting value:")) end=float(raw_input("Enter the ending … |
| | I have some code for a routing algorithm in python programming language but i don't understand the code at all. I am only a beginner and i was wondering if anyone could explain it for me in plain text. Could you please go through and explain each part. Cheers. Here's … |
 | The debug process never connected back to WINGIDE: Aborting debug session I have tried repair python, no success. Also tried run IDLE same story |
| | Ok i can send this soap request in PHP no problem. But i need to do something similar with python. The authentication happens in the SOAP headers. How can i construct a soap header with python, i am using the module SOAPpy. Any help is appreciated. |
| | hi guys im trying to make the words that have capital letters in small caps, then count the numbers of times a certain words appears in the text. i managed to count the number of times a word appears but now im having trouble converting upperletters to caps on all … |
| | I'm trying to get reflection to work in Python. I'm used to it in java but am having trouble getting it to work in python. Here is basically the code I have. [CODE] c = myObject.__class__ # get the class of the object newC = c.__new__(c) #create a new instance …  |
| | How do you assign a random int to a variable more then once say i use this code [code] import random x = 1 while x == 1: random = random.randint(1,100) print random raw_input ("Push <enter> to print another random number") [/code] It will print out the first random number … |
| | Hey, I have to do a script for class in which a user inputs a phone number like the ones you see on TV. 555-buy-this I need to make a script that will change the alphabetic characters to numbers. I asked my teacher and he said we had to do … |
| | Hey all, What does it mean when you get an error that says ImportError: no module named main. I wasn't aware I was trying to import a module named main. I don't even have a module named main. I'm using Jython and I'm reflecting on an instance of a python … |
| | Hi guys, I was making a program yesterday that would send an email using the email modules of python as well as the smtp module. My problem is when i put it into an exe using py2exe and vega's code snippet setup i get some problems. This is the error … |
 | Hi all! Im making a mario clone, and i was wondering how to write the jump function in the Mario class, any help would be good, im using PyGame by the way. heres my code so far: [code=python] #usr/bin/env python import sys import os import pygame from pygame.locals import * … |
| | Im testing out blit() and i ran into this error: [code=python] Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/tom/Desktop/pygame/test/main.py", line 15, in <module> screen.blit('image.jpg', (10,10)) TypeError: argument 1 must be pygame.Surface, not str this is my code: import pygame pygame.init() running = 1 while running == 1: screen = pygame.display.set_mode((800, 600)) … |
| | Hi guys, I have a program that lets the user play a sound but i was wanting to know how i could make it so the user could vary the speed in which the sound plays so the sound can play slowly and quickly and normaly as well. Is this … |
| | i have just been learning python(tuple) at school. And this is my first assignment. I can't seem to figure it out. The assignment is on this website: [url]http://schools.tdsb.on.ca/danforthcti/python/main.html[/url] Go to lesson 8>scroll down>its called programming Assignment 9. Can someone help me out? It's simple enough right? thank you!  |
| | I have a small image with a black background and red lines in it and I need to count the red pixels. I know I need PIL, but I'm not sure which method to use. Then once I have the counts I need to equate them to a character, so … |
| | can somebody help an old man? I started to study Python and I'm OK with IDLE. But I cannot understand how to use it as a server language with my local server Xitami (that I use very well with PHP). Please help me: I need very clear instructions Thank you, … |
| | Hello all. I want to craete a empty double dimensional array. Later i will get the row and column length. But row length varies each time program. But i will be having the lenght of the row. So hoe to write a generic code for creating a empty 2D array … |
| | I am connecting to Active Directory using python-ldap to query some information. I am also using getpass to get my password used to bind via ldap. This works just fine. What I am trying to do is to use my currently logged on username/password to bind to active directory so … |
| | Hi all. I have a very simple app, but I don't know how to get position of the circles. Here's the code: [CODE] from Tkinter import * master = Tk() global w def dotToDot1(event): global w circles = 0 x = event.x y = event.y c1 = w.create_oval(x, y, x+10, … |
| | Greetings! I just downloaded Python 2.6 from Python.org . It came with IDLE Gui. Poking around the internet, I see a bunch of other pthon related names like: IDLE, wxPython, Tkinter, Widget toolkit, PyGTK, PyQT, Tk GUI . I am not really sure what all I have, and what else … |
| | This is probably an easy problem to solve but I'm having a bit of difficulty. The error is UnboundLocalError: local: "switch" and that's all the error says. The line refers to the line switch = - switch in the following code: [CODE] boundary = game.getBoundary() game.setBackground(java.awt.Color.black) level = 1 maxX … |
| | Hello everyone. I've just signed up to 1 years hosting with Uk based Fasthosts. They provide support for Python scripting and a free 150MB MySQL database on their Linux package. My problem is that they don't seem to have the MySQLdb module installed. Is there any way I can get … |
| | Hello, I have a group of regular expressions <Element Generation at d66238> <Element Vitals at d662b0> <Element Network at d66670> <Element Hardware at d66eb8> <Element Memory at d6ac88> <Element Swap at d6e0a8> <Element Swapdevices at d6e238> <Element FileSystem at d6e5d0> <Element Vitals at d662b0> i need to get the word …  |
| | If you wanted to run bash shell commands inside of a script (python), how would you do it; beginner here :) Thanks for the input, RHCE |
 | I am working on a problem and trying to read a data and creating a chart the problem is when ever I read any thing from file it add \n or \r in with it but I change the type of digital data but I dont know what to do … |
| | i made a game called chimp and when i start it it just freezes the game window, idle and the python shell, any ideas? heres the code" [code=python] import os, sys import pygame from pygame.locals import * if not pygame.font: print 'Warning, fonts disabled' if not pygame.mixer: print 'Warning, sound … |
| | Hi guys I am making a program that uses a text control to move messages from one place to another. My program needs to be able to, once the message has been moved, delete what is in the textCtrl. I can go: [code=python] self.textCtrl.SetValue('') [/code] but that leaves me with … |
| | Greetings everyone. I just jumped into Python for the first time this weekend and I'm finding it to be a very easy and enjoyable learning process. This forum has been particularly useful for finding code snippets and answers to questions that I ran into and others had posted about. So … |
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