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Re: Rookie question about data types (hashtables)
by Axel Mittendorf Jan. 29, 2004

Jan. 29, 2004

"Steve D. Perkins" <dontwritesteve(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > Hello all - Hi > when you type the letter "a" the box will contain all English words > starting with the letter "a". When you then type "n", the box will > narrow further and contain all words starting with "an", etc... until Maybe you could use a normal python dictionary (you call it hashtable). Look at this script (You would need one dictionary for each direction.): #!/usr/bin/python # generate dictionaries (AKA hashtables). # direction: English --> German EN2DE = {} # direction: German --> English DE2EN = {} # inserts a word and its translation into the dict d def insertWord( d, key, val): # does the key exist if d.has_key( key): # yes d[ key].append( val) else: # no d[ key] = [val] # returns a list words that begin with s def getBeginWith( d, s): l = s.__len__() res = [] keys = d.keys() for k in keys: if k.__len__()>=l and k[:l] == s: # use "k[:l].lower() == s.lower()" to ignore case res.append( k) return res # insert some entries insertWord( EN2DE, "someword", "meaning 1") insertWord( EN2DE, "someword", "meaning 2") insertWord( EN2DE, "my_codingstyle", "evil") insertWord( EN2DE, "son", "Sohn") insertWord( EN2DE, "sunday", "Sonntag") insertWord( EN2DE, "wednesday", "Mittwoch") insertWord( EN2DE, "Weapon of mass destruction", "George Walker Bush") insertWord( EN2DE, "sold", "verkauft") # show that it works print "all keys that begin with 'so': ", getBeginWith( EN2DE, "so") print "translations for 'someword': ", EN2DE['someword'] Instead of doing this you could maybe subclass UserList from the standard library. > Steve HTH, Axel

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Norton AntiVirus detected and quarantined a virus in a message you sent.
by Anti Virus Administrator Jan. 29, 2004

Jan. 29, 2004

Recipient of the infected attachment: SRV003, First Storage Group\Mailbox Store (SRV003), Neha Manchanda/Inbox/resume Subject of the message: ERROR One or more attachments were quarantined. Attachment lvfpu.zip was Quarantined for the following reasons: Virus W32.Novarg.A@mm was found. Virus W32.Novarg.A@mm was found in lvfpu.doc .exe.

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Norton AntiVirus detected and quarantined a virus in a message you sent.
by Anti Virus Administrator Jan. 29, 2004

Jan. 29, 2004

Recipient of the infected attachment: SRV003, First Storage Group\Mailbox Store (SRV003), Dennis Lacar/Inbox/Employment Subject of the message: ERROR One or more attachments were quarantined. Attachment lvfpu.zip was Quarantined for the following reasons: Virus W32.Novarg.A@mm was found. Virus W32.Novarg.A@mm was found in lvfpu.doc .exe.

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Compiled Python binaries
by Wolfgang Malgadey Jan. 29, 2004

Jan. 29, 2004

Hello! i am searching for a resource of compiled python binaries. I am working on a spezial linux version (no compiler onboard). It must be linked to glibc5. Maybe you can help? greets from cologne, germany Wolfgang Malgadey

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Re: names proposals => Searching a name for a new program
by Rodrigo Benenson Jan. 29, 2004

Jan. 29, 2004

(repeated the message with the hope it get out my local ISP news server) Hi, I'm finishing an open source crossplatform pure python collaborative text edition software, similar to SubEthaEdit. Essencially it is a stripped down version of LeoN (take a look at http://ryalias.freezope.org/souvenirs/leon) Actually I'm searching a names for such software. I would like to have a descriptive name, not things like 'yasu' (yet another sofware unamed), etc... My first idea was MultiEdit, but that name was already took. So now I have in my list: PluriPen Chalks Quills PluriQuills PluriChalk 'Chalks' is my favourite, but I think it can be done better. Any sugestion ? RodrigoB.

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How to detect that a key is being pressed, not HAS been pressed earlier!??
by runed＠stud.cs.uit.no Jan. 29, 2004

Jan. 29, 2004

Hey I'm trying to build a gui application and need to know if the user is actually holding down the shift or ctrl key. That is, if the user currently is holding down the shift key. In pseudo code this will boil down to something like this: def test: if user presses shift: return SHIFT_IS_PRESSED elif user presses ctrl: return CTRL_IS_PRESSED else return false It's important to notice here that I'm not interested if the user has already pressed shift or ctrl. I'm only interested in knowing if he is currently holding down one of these keys. (I have looked into msvcrt and the like but have found no answer..) The function should also work in both windows and Linux. Any help is appriciated :)

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Virus Alert
by virusmaster＠kaptech.com Jan. 29, 2004

Jan. 29, 2004

L'email (contenant le fichier : message.exe) que vous avez envoye le 01/29/2004 11:25:34 a jean-claude.messmer(a)cg67.fr contient le virus WORM_MIMAIL.R et a ete traite par l'action quarantined. Pour toutes questions, adressez-vous a votre administrateur reseau. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The email (with attached file: message.exe) you sent on 01/29/2004 11:25:34 to jean-claude.messmer(a)cg67.fr contains the virus WORM_MIMAIL.R and the action quarantined had been done. If you have questions, please contact your LAN administrator. Cet email a ete genere automatiquement par un serveur anti-virus. Merci de ne pas repondre a ce message. This email has been automatically generated by an antivirus server. Please do not reply to this message.

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Re: [ANN] ip2cc-0.3: now it works with Python 2.3
by rshaw2＠midsouth.rr.com Jan. 29, 2004

Jan. 29, 2004

I get an error when trying to use it... here's the problem below: C:\Tools>ip2cc.py www.google.com Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Tools\ip2cc.py", line 338, in ? db = CountryByIP(db_file) File "C:\Tools\ip2cc.py", line 14, in __init__ self.fp = open(filename, 'rb') IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'C:\\Tools\\ip2cc.db' Looks like the database file is not included with the download. Richard

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I have changed my e-mail address
by flemming＠bjerke.dk Jan. 29, 2004

Jan. 29, 2004

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ProtoCiv: porting Freeciv to Python
by Brandon J. Van Every Jan. 29, 2004

Jan. 29, 2004

I am - *TENTATIVELY* - (operative word) undertaking the project of porting the GPL open source game "Freeciv" to Python. Freeciv is, in essence, an almost straight clone of Sid Meier's Civilization II, albeit with better cross-platform and multiplayer support. www.freeciv.org I'm undertaking the project independent of the current Freeciv project managers. They are not a variable as to how the project will proceed. Our goals are too disparate for us to attempt to coordinate with each other. I'll consider offers of assistance, although first I must do a lot of work on my own. Still, if my goals strongly ring a chord with your own goals, let's talk. (And conversely, if you want something totally different, let's not waste the breath. ;-) Here are my goals: - the working title of the project is "ProtoCiv," but I'm amenable to better names. "Better," in my parlance, means more marketable and more likely to get people to play / develop / notice / care about / remember the project. - the primary language of ProtoCiv development will be Python. Freeciv is a C codebase, so a lot of migration work is needed. Python will "own" the app, I will be starting at main() and digging as far down as I can easily go. Once the digging is no longer easy, i.e. once I've hit "bad dirt," an initial Python extension interface will be established. Over time, with the help of others, the C code will be whittled away to bare performance essentials. - new coding in C will be actively discouraged. - no clones of commercial games such as Civ II will be supported. One of the first things I'll do in the ProtoCiv project is remove the current Civ II support, and change the game significantly so that it is no longer almost just like Civ II. I find straight or near-straight clones of commercial products to be an offense to the game industry. - "knockoffs" are ok. I define a "knockoff" as something very similar to another game, but still a distinctly different game. For instance, Call To Power II is a knockoff of Civ II, not a clone. - the main purpose of the ProtoCiv project is to encourage rapid prototyping by 4X TBS Game Designers. This is against the desires and energies of the current Freeciv project management, and is my primary reason for going my own way with this. - an \alpha, \beta, and \release directory infrastructure will be established in all distributions so that it's easy for Game Designers to add features and get them distributed for in-the-field testing. Users will voluntarily enable features. In ProtoCiv, there will be no Gatekeepers deciding what game designs may or may not be tried. Anyone will be able to submit \alpha features, although of course they'll be turned off by default and the game developer will have to jazz people up about turning them on. \beta and \release will be more stringently controlled for purposes of making sure the code works, not for purposes of evaluating whether a given game feature is good or not. - ProtoCiv emphasizes Game Designer flexibility, not techie flexibility / libido for its own sake. Gatekeepering to keep the system architecture working properly will be more "traditional." - I am a Windows-centric developer. Currently I'm working on the subgoal of eliminating Freeciv dependencies upon crufty Cygwin and/or MinGW tools. I will be maintaining Visual Studio .NET 2003 solution files. I am amenable to cross-platform support, given that Freeciv already has a lot of cross-platform client code, but Windows development will not be Cygwin or MinGW dependent. - I may integrate .NET support later on, using Python for .NET. - This is a 4X TBS genre project. It is not a RTS, RPG, FPS, or other kind of genre project. Project management will not become confused about the basic nature of 4X TBS. Creating an engine for any game is not a goal. Creating an easily modified 4X TBS engine, starting from a Civ-style codebase, is the goal. - If project components could in fact be used independently of genre, i.e. world map generators, their modularity will be considered. - I'm a commercial developer, not a hobbyist. Project participants are free to treat the project "as a hobby," but when hobbyist and commercial development cultures collide, commercial culture will win. For instance, Commercial developers don't think all tools have to be free, nor does all software have to be open source. Commercial developers do not say "let's wait a long time before trying X." Commercial developers don't badger people about giving away tons of work as some kind of moral virtue. Commercial developers consider time to be money, and assess risk before spending their money. - FWIW I'm a proponent of MIT / BSD style "do whatever you want with it" open source licenses, not GPL. I believe if you're going to give something away, you should give it away completely. And if you don't want to do that, don't give it away. I don't want GPL licenses interfering in my business decisions, what I choose to make open source or proprietary. However, Freeciv is a GPL codebase, so if I want to use it I'm stuck with it. I will be looking for ways to put independent project components under MIT / BSD license. - Because of the GPL license, no commercial gain of any kind is believed possible with this project. My main motives are: 1) get Game Designers to advance the Art and Science of 4X TBS game design 2) prototype game features that I might try in Ocean Mars someday 3) find out what level of 4X TBS modding is or isn't possible - to accomplish these purposes, the project will be actively marketed. i.e. Get articles about it on Gamasutra, Gamedev.net, gamer websites, etc. when it's at an appropriate stage. -- Cheers, www.indiegamedesign.com Brandon Van Every Seattle, WA Taking risk where others will not.

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