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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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I have been reading through the "python library reference" with no luck finding the module needed to copy a file. Any help would be appreciated.

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I need root privledges to do some stuff in my python script. I am currently using this technique [php] current_user = os.geteuid() if current_user != 0: print "you need to be root to run this script" sys.exit()[/php] this will at least polietly end the script so i am able to …

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Hello Everyone! My question is simple, where are any half decent tutorials out there? I mean, all of the ones I've tried have only skimmed the surface(print, name = raw_input yah know things like that)- or were way to complicated. I've only been doing this for something like a week

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Hello, I am relatively new with Python and Pygame, however, I am an experienced PHPer, so programming isn't something new to me. My problem is this: I got Python 2.4 installed and Pygame 1.6 for Python 2.4 installed. I know Pygame works because I can make calls to the Pygame …

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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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