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Using Python for programming algorithms
by Vicent Giner June 2, 2008

June 2, 2008

Hello. I am new to Python. It seems a very interesting language to me. Its simplicity is very attractive. However, it is usually said that Python is not a compiled but interpreted programming language —I mean, it is not like C, in that sense. I am working on my PhD Thesis, which is about Operations Research, heuristic algorithms, etc., and I am considering the possibility of programming all my algorithms in Python. The usual alternative is C, but I like Python more. The main drawbacks I see to using Python are these: * As far as I understand, the fact that Python is not a compiled language makes it slower than C, when performing huge amounts of computations within an algorithm or program. * I don't know how likely it is to find libraries in Python related to my research field. * I know Python is a "serious" and mature programming language, of course. But I do not know if it is seen as "just funny" in a research context. Is Python considered as a good programming language for implementing Operations Research algorithms, such as heuristics and other soft-computing algorithms? Maybe this is not the right forum, but maybe you can give me some hints or tips... Thank you in advance.

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Better performance
by Franck Y June 2, 2008

June 2, 2008

Hello Folks, I am facing a problem where i need to parse around 200 files, i have a bit of knowledge in PHP/Perl/Python (the magic P :-P) Which one would you suggest me since i have to generate a web interface ? And each one has his area of 'work' Thanks for your help !

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[Business apps for Windows] Good grid + calendar, etc.?
by Gilles Ganault June 2, 2008

June 2, 2008

Hello Since Python is such a productive language, I'd really like to be able to use it to write GUI apps for Windows, but business apps require rich widgets like (DB)grids, calendars, etc. The ones available in wxWidgets looked a bit too basic compared to what's available for eg. Delphi or .Net, and don't seem to be under active development (lots of "1.0", "Last updated 2005", etc.) For instance, here's wxGrid and DevExpress' grid for Delphi: http://www.simpol.com/guiimages/wxgrid.jpg http://community.devexpress.com/blogs/thinking/PrintingXtraPivotGridForm.png Is it hopeless, or did I overlook things? Are there other solutions I should look at (FLTK, etc.)? For those of you writing business apps in Python for Windows, how do things go as far as GUI widgets are concerned? Thank you.

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*** How the "RASCAL" President Woodrow Wilson was blackmailed like PUPPET by the AGGRESIVE, MANIPULATIVE KHAZAR Zionists ***
by lemnitzer＠india.com June 1, 2008

June 1, 2008

Google is Khazar owned and controlled company. The Khazars plan to electronify and accumulate the whole intellectual property on earth, esp US, Europe and Australia thru google and already have accumulated all the mint items in google Israel. This they must do before launching their ARMAGEDDON. Since they have ALREADY accumulated them, the copyright laws is like cutting our own feet with our own hand. If I were the president and loyal to the USA, I would immediately send federal troups to confiscate the whole operation of google and all that they have must be made public property since no one can go into the Israel and stop them from sharing wholesale. http://iamthewitness.com/audio/Benjamin.H.Freedman/1974.Washington.D.C.spee… <----- The KEY LINK Steamy Excerpt: So, we had a President in Washington, Mr. Taft, Mr. Jacob Schiff, of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., the bankers in New York who are the arm in the United States of the Rothschild International world wide plutocracy - Mr. Schiff, with two young men, went down to see Mr. Taft, and he said, "Mr. Taft, . . . (I am not telling you this out of my memory. I almost know this by heart, because the books are here, in the Congressional Library. The people who were in the room with President Taft, at that time, and President Taft were told by Jacob H. Schiff) . . . "We want you to cancel the Most Favored Nation Treaty with Czarist Russia, and we want you to recall our Ambassador." The President told them, "Mr. Schiff, things are not what you represent them to be. My ambassador tells me differently." So, Mr. Schiff told him, in so many words, "Is you is, or is you ain't - going to do it?" When the President said that he would not do it, Mr. Schiff said "We will put a political party and a president in Washington, to whom we can dictate what they should do." ..... They ganged up in New York, to get rid of Taft. I was a protégé of Mr. Bernard Baruch - a name that I think you are all familiar with. His father was a doctor, Dr. Simon Baruch, who had brought me into the world, and Bernard Baruch was a visitor at our home all the time. He courted my sister; one of my sisters. So the stage was set to get rid of the Republican Party and the Republican President and put in their own party and their own President. But it was very difficult, because, after the Cleveland depression (President Cleveland was a Democrat, we had Free Trade) we had the worst depression ever seen anywhere. And that swept the Republican Party into power, because they advocated tariff, protective tariff to protect the working man against the cheap labor of Europe and to protect the infant industries, in the United States against foreign competition. ..... They got Woodrow Wilson, the man who had more ego than any man I have ever read about, they got him to head the Democratic Party. And they got into difficulties! Because the Democrats only got the Electoral votes in the South; where the people in agriculture wanted cheap goods from Europe. But the North wanted the Republicans. They found out they could not elect a President in the United States. So, I handled the money; I was the leg man, the errand boy (I was only a boy then.) They trotted Theodore Roosevelt out of the political "moth-balls" (He was then an editor of a magazine). They told him, "You are the indispensable man. You are the only man who can save the United States." And with his ego they formed the "Bull Moose Party" and Mr. Jacob H. Schiff and the Jews throughout the world - they got plenty of money from England - they formed the Bull Moose Party. And in that way they split the Republican vote between Roosevelt and Taft, and Mr. Wilson walked in with a minority of the popular vote - the lowest man, (and I knew the inside of his private life, which I don't want to go into here). But never was a lower rascal in the White House, and I've known plenty of them since that time! Now, Mr. Wilson really didn't know enough to come in out of the rain! I cannot understand how he ever got there, except that in shuffling the cards, they had the goods on him, You find in politics, every time they pick a candidate, and put him out in front, they have the goods on him. You know he had been sleeping with the wife of the professor who lived next door to him at Princeton, whose name was Peck. And they used to call Wilson, at Princeton, "Peck's bad boy." When she got a divorce and moved to Washington, she married a man who had a son. And that son borrowed $40,000 from the bank, without asking them. He didn't know how to pay it back, and the pressure on him was getting very, very hot. So this woman heard of Samuel Untermeyer (of the big firm, Googenheim, Untermeyer and Marshall) a prominent Democrat; and supplied much money to the party. She went to him with a big package of letters which I read (Wilson was a great letter writer. He knew the language; there's no doubt about it, Wilson knew his vocabulary, when it came to making love, anyway). So, they cooked this up and she got the idea of blackmailing him. She got Samuel Untermeyer to go to see him, as a lawyer. He was a big contributor to the Party and he knew Wilson, and he went there. To make a long story short, Wilson didn't have the money; Untermeyer provided it, and the boy paid the money back. Now, Mr. Untermeyer told President Wilson, "I'll advance that money if you will do one favor for me. The next opening on the Supreme Court, I want to name the man." He said, "We've never had a Jew on the Supreme Court I think there ought to be a Jew on the Supreme Court.'' So Wilson said, ''It's a deal!" and they paid the $40,000. When a vacancy appeared on the Supreme Court, Mr. Untermeyer recommended Mr. Brandeis. Mr. Brandeis was the number one Zionist in the United States; the head of them all, and he became very friendly with Wilson. And when the war with Germany broke out, the war between England, France, Russia, and Germany and Austria, the United States had nothing to do with it. They all thought England, France and Russia would crush Germany in 60 days. Big headlines in all the papers. I was very active then, in politics, "Boys home by Christmas, Boys out of the trenches by Christmas," but when Christmas came, the war was getting hot! The Germans had brought out the submarines, and the Irish gave them two bases on the coast of Ireland, and they were sinking everything that brought food and ammunition to England, which under International Law is correct. Now, when they saw that Great Britain was going to lose the war, the Jews were very much excited, because, up to that time, Germany was their best friend. In 1822, Germany passed the Emancipation Edict which gave everybody in Germany equal rights; no religious discrimination. Up to that time, every country in Europe had quotas: l%, 2%, 3% to become a doctor, a dentist, a lawyer, a banker, a schoolteacher, anything. Germany, in 1822 passed that Emancipation Edict and all the Jews across Europe rushed to Germany, because they could get an education. They could become doctors, lawyers, dentists, druggists. So, when I was in Germany, 50% of the pupils in German schools were Jews from all over Europe. They all ran to Germany. And they worshiped the Germans Baline, a Jew, was the head of the Hamburg-American, North German- Lloyd lines. Even the private bankers, the Hohenzollerns, were Jews. The head of the German General Electric Company was a Jew. The biggest companies, - there was no discrimination at all, in Germany. And the Jews had a picnic there, but they were not the Khazars! They were so- called Jews that came into Western Europe with the Roman armies; that came from Judea when the Romans occupied Western Europe, and there were two houses of worship, one in Speyer, one in Lyons, little stone houses, in the second century, which was 600 years before the Khazars were converted. So the German Jews were just as much apart as the Arabs and the Khazars, today, in fact, there was a saying, I don't know if I can say it in this company, but when I lived in Germany, the Germans said about the Pollocks - (they called them "the Pollocks," the Eastern European Jews), "Where a Pollock pisses, grass will never grow." They hated them! They could never allow their children to marry. So, when Germany was winning the war, the Jews were very happy, because they didn't want Russia to come out the winner, with France and England, because they thought it would be tougher for the Jews in Russia. So, they were all pro-German. What happened? When the Germans trotted out the submarines, - England in August or September, I don't remember just which week, but General Haig, in London, warned the English, "We have less than two week's food supply for the whole nation of 55,000,000 people." The food and ammunition boats were sunk so quickly, they couldn't get food or ammunition. So, England was offered a Peace Treaty by Germany. They were offered a Peace Treaty twice! It was on the desk of the British War Cabinet, ready to be signed. It needed only one signature. What happened? The Khazar Jews in New York, Washington, led by Brandeis, made this promise through Fleischman & Sockloff in London. They went to the British War Cabinet and they said, "You don't have to make peace - which is tantamount to surrender. We can show you how you can win the war, if, when you defeat Germany, and carve up the Ottoman Empire (or Turkey) you will give us Palestine. And they made that deal. It was all written. I don't say so; Other people don't say so. The Zionists, in the books that they have written, tell this whole story. How they got the promise of Palestine, by promising to use their influence to get U.S. into the war. That's how they are going to turn against the United States; the same way they turned against Germany; after everything Germany did for them, since 1822. They made the deal to bring the United States into the war, which meant certain defeat for Germany; which was triumphant, then; offering a peace that was tantamount to surrender. So, when that offer was made, the Zionists in London went to the British War Cabinet, according to their own books, their own record, in the British Museum. I circulated thousands of copies of this 12 page memorandum by the man who negotiated it. When they were bombing London in 1945, he thought he'd die. And he typed this out, this true story, and gave it to the British Museum for posterity. That's available. Anyone can have a copy of it. I sent out thousands, - maybe ten thousands of them. Now, the United States got into World War I. How did they get in? They didn't know how to get us in, because the Germans leaned backwards. They said, "We are going to do nothing on land, on the sea, or in the air, to provoke or justify a declaration of war by the United States, because we'll be licked! Now, we've won the war!" Which they had. The Russian armies were in retreat; in France, the army had revolted, and wouldn't fight. There was no more fight left in the allies. So, what happened? They went to Great Britain; made this offer; Great Britain accepted it. Then the question came, How to get U.S. into the war? They couldn't get us in if the Germans didn't give us provocation or justification. So, what did they do? A message was sent to Washington, that the S.S. Sussex, a ferry from Dover to Calais, had been torpedoed in the Channel and 38 Americans lost their lives! I'm not going to string this out, because I've got a lot of other things to tell you! On the basis of the torpedoing, and the loss of 38 lives of our citizens, Congress declared war against Germany. Now, after the 4,000,000 men that General Pershing had been drilling, were on their way over, some of them fighting in Europe - (a lot of you, here, went over, were fighting while this fighting was going on) a member of Parliament and others, who couldn't stand it any longer, they came out with the secret that the Sussex was not sunk and no Americans lives were lost. And we were in the war! Now that is how the Jews got us into World War I, and that started everything because Wilson was elected. We had a national debt of one billion dollars. And since then it has gone up - I think it's now 465 billion, after the wars we've been having, so that's how the Jews got us into World War I. I knew Judge Samuel Rosen who was Mr. Roosevelt's mentor. They used to say that he didn't go to the water closet without consulting Judge Rosen. I was very friendly (here's somebody who will bear me out) - Now, when it came to World War II, we couldn't get into the war because the Germans said, "When the Americans came into World War I, look what happened to us!" So there was war in Europe again, Germany and European countries, and there was no way to get us into the war. And the pressure of the Jews here, in New York City, Washington, to get into that war was terrific! They didn't know how to do it. So, as Mr. Tanzell wrote in his "Back Door to War," (he was at Georgetown University, a professor of history) - I saw, in the Yale Library, the papers of the Secretary of Defense at that time - we were pushed into World War II by Mr. Roosevelt, through the back door! Germany would give us no justification or provocation. But the Jews, here, were putting pressure on Roosevelt, "We've got to get into that war! We can't let him do that to us!" We had to make up our minds what to do, so the United States sent to Japan, and they said, "We can't sell you any more scrap steel or oil." Japan was fighting a war with China; Without scrap steel or oil, which they got altogether from the United States, they would have to withdraw from the war. So they sent nine different Ambassador here, trying to change Mr. Roosevelt's mind. Ile said, "No, we can't sell you any more, at all." So, at that time, Germany and Japan had a treaty; Any country that declared war on either one was instantly at war with both! So, Mr. Roosevelt figured, "We'll provoke a war with Japan." That's why he threatened them to cut off steel and oil. So they sent nine ambassadors here, and, finally, they couldn't take it much longer, so you know what happened at Pearl Harbor! Now, Mr. Roosevelt figured, and it's in Mr. Stimson's diary, in his own handwriting, which is in the room at Yale Library containing all Mr. Henry L. Stimson's papers - he was the Secretary of Defense. He wrote in his diary important things that went on (in his own handwriting) and under November 25th, two weeks before Pearl Harbor, he wrote, "The President sent for us to come to the White House. I thought it was to discuss the war in Europe, but he told us that we had to be at war with Japan but he didn't want it to look as if we fired the first shot!" That is almost verbatim. Henry Stimson, the Secretary of Defense wrote that in his diary. That is how we got into the World War, because Roosevelt said, "We want to be at war with Japan, but we don't want it to look as though we fired the first shot"! So we got the first shot, alright, at Pearl Harbor! But, the only way we could be at war with Germany was to be at war with Japan. Then automatically, under their treaty, we were at war with Germany. That's how we got into World War II. We are now on our way to World War III. The chances are it will be a nuclear war. There is that chance, and I've been fighting, (some time and money) so that the conditions would not be set for that. Now, what happened. The Chairman of Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Mr. Fulbright, stated on Sunday morning television program, which according to the advertising services has 28 million listeners; he said, in answer to a question about the Middle East, he said, "You cannot do anything about the Middle East!" He said, "The Senate is controlled by the Jews; 90% of them have subverted the United States Senate, and you cannot do anything" - or words to that affect. Now, the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the United States, throws in the sponge, says that 90% of the Senate are controlled by the Jews, meaning the Zionists. So, you may now expect the worst! The only way it can be averted, if it can be avoided, is to alert yourself to these facts. All these lies that you've been told, "That it's your Christian duty to help repatriate "God's Chosen People" to their "Promised Land," is a lot of hog wash. And we are going to be in another war unless you people and others like you wake up the 200,000,000 Christians in this country who have been so brainwashed that they don't know whether they are coming or going! They are running around in circles All you hear is "Jesus was a Jew!" I've told you now that the word didn't exist when Dr. Johnson wrote the dictionary, and I've done all the research on it. It never existed! And then, again, there is the Father here, who will bear witness. Pontius Pilate wrote on the crucifix on which our Lord and Savior was to be crucified, "Jesu Nasarenus Rex Iudoreum" which, translated, anybody that has had one year of Latin, knows that means "Jesus, the Nazarene, the Leader of the Judeans." "Leader of the Judeans," the genitive plural and "Rex" comes from "Rego" - "To lead." "Now, they were trying to "frame" our Lord and Savior, claiming that he was influencing the people not to pay taxes so that gold couldn't be shipped to Caesar. And that constituted rebellion. That's why the trial was held, and that's why Pontius Pilate put that up on the crucifix, "Leader of the Judeans" who were revolting against Rome. Now we all know everyone of you heard, hundreds of times, that at this trial, Jesus said, "Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's, and unto God that which is God's." He was not advising the people to withhold taxes paid to Rome. So, you see, you, as representatives, and high representatives of the 200,000,000 Christians in the United States, have got to learn the facts. As I was talking, here, to one of your erudite members, it's alright to be interested in baseball and basketball and football and golf, cross-word puzzles - I don't know how many hundreds of millions of hours a year was wasted by women doing crossword puzzles! It satisfies their ego to say, "Oh, Minnie, I got all but two words, yesterday!" And they compete with one another. They spend hours, buy dictionaries, and they don't know the first thing about the correct facts of existence. Now, we didn't ask to come into the world; neither did our children, but we owe them a debt. We owe a debt to these men who sacrificed their lives to save this country, so let's see what we can do.

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??? The most EVIL MOTIVE force in HISTORY - The SCHEMING, MANIPULATING and AGGRESSIVE KHAZAR - now also ZIONIST ???
by lemnitzer＠india.com June 1, 2008

June 1, 2008

Full Article: http://iamthewitness.com/FreedmanFactsAreFacts.html <-------- KEY DOCUMENT Steamy Excerpts: Will you be patient with me while I review here as briefly as I can the history of that political emergence and disappearance of a nation from the pages of history? In the year 1948 in the Pentagon in Washington I addressed a large assembly of the highest ranking officers of the United States Army principally in the G2 branch of Military Intelligence on the highly explosive geopolitical situation in eastern Europe and the Middle East. Then as now that area of the world was a potential threat to the peace of the world and to the security of this nation I explained to them fully the origin of the Khazars and Khazar Kingdom. I felt then as I feel now that without a clear and comprehensive knowledge of that subject it is not possible to understand or to evaluate properly what has been taking place in the world since 1917, the year of the Bolshevik revolution in Russia. It is the "key" to that problem. Maybe you can explain to me, my dear Dr. Goldstein, the reason why and just how the origin and the history of the Khazars and Khazar Kingdom was so well concealed from the world for so many centuries? What secret mysterious power has been able for countless generations to keep the origin and the history of the Khazars and Khazar Kingdom out of history text-books and out of class-room courses in history throughout the world? The origin and history of the Khazars and Khazar Kingdom are certainly incontestable historical facts. These incontestable historic facts also establish beyond any question of doubt the origin and history of the so-called or self-styled "Jews" in eastern Europe. The origin and history of the Khazars and Khazar kingdom and their relationship to the origin and early history of the so-called or self-styled "Jews" in eastern Europe was one of history's best kept secrets until wide publicity was given in recent years to my research on this subject. Do you not think, my dear Dr. Goldstein, that it is time this whole subject was dragged out of its hiding place? In the year 1948 in the Pentagon in Washington I addressed a large assembly of the highest ranking officers of the United States Army principally in the G2 branch of Military Intelligence on the highly explosive geopolitical situation in eastern Europe and the Middle East. Then as now that area of the world was a potential threat to the peace of the world and to the security of this nation I explained to them fully the origin of the Khazars and Khazar Kingdom. I felt then as I feel now that without a clear and comprehensive knowledge of that subject it is not possible to understand or to evaluate properly what has been taking place in the world since 1917, the year of the Bolshevik revolution in Russia. It is the "key" to that problem. Upon the conclusion of my talk a very alert Lieutenant Colonel present at the meeting informed me that he was the head of the history department of one of the largest and highest scholastic rated institutions of higher education in the United States. He had taught history there for 16 years. He had recently been called back to Washington for further military service. To my astonishment he informed me that he had never in all his career as a history teachers or otherwise heard the word "khazar" before he heard me mention it there. That must give you some idea, my dear Dr. Goldstein, of how successful that mysterious secret power was with their plot to "block out" the origin and the history of the Khazars and Khazar Kingdom in order to conceal from the world and particularly Christians the true origin and the history of the so-called or self- styled "Jews" in eastern Europe.

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convert binary to float
by Mason June 1, 2008

June 1, 2008

I have tried and tried... I'd like to read in a binary file, convert it's 4 byte values into floats, and then save as a .txt file. This works from the command line (import struct); In [1]: f = open("test2.pc0", "rb") In [2]: tagData = f.read(4) In [3]: tagData Out[3]: '\x00\x00\xc0@' I can then do the following in order to convert it to a float: In [4]: struct.unpack("f", "\x00\x00\xc0@") Out[4]: (6.0,) But when I run the same code from my .py file: f = open("test2.pc0", "rb") tagData = f.read(4) print tagData I get this (ASCII??): └@ I only know how to work with '\x00\x00\xc0@'. I don't understand why the output isn't the same. I need a solution that will allow me to convert my binary file into floats. Am I close? Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks, Mason

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Re: convert binary to float
by Mason June 1, 2008

June 1, 2008

On Jun 1, 6:41 pm, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...(a)ix.netcom.com> wrote: > On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 12:55:45 -0700 (PDT), Mason > <john.gerald.ma...(a)gmail.com> declaimed the following in > comp.lang.python: > > > I have tried and tried... > > > I'd like to read in a binary file, convert it's 4 byte values into > > floats, and then save as a .txt file. > > > This works from the command line (import struct); > > > In [1]: f = open("test2.pc0", "rb") > > In [2]: tagData = f.read(4) > > In [3]: tagData > > Interpreter display of raw object name uses repr() > > > Out[3]: '\x00\x00\xc0@' > > > I can then do the following in order to convert it to a float: > > > In [4]: struct.unpack("f", "\x00\x00\xc0@") > > Out[4]: (6.0,) > > > But when I run the same code from my .py file: > > > f = open("test2.pc0", "rb") > > tagData = f.read(4) > > print tagData > > Display from a print statement uses str() > > > I get this (ASCII??): > > „@ > > Probably not ASCII -- ASCII doesn't have that spanish (?) bottom row > quote... And a pair of null bytes don't take up screen space. > > > I only know how to work with '\x00\x00\xc0@'. > > > I don't understand why the output isn't the same. I need a solution > > that will allow me to convert my binary file into floats. Am I close? > > Can anyone point me in the right direction? > > Why do you have to /see/ the byte representation in the first > place... just feed the four bytes to the struct module directly. > > import struct > fin = open("test2.pc0", "rb") > tagFloat = struct.unpack("f", fin.read(4))[0] > print tagFloat > -- > Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber KD6MOG > wlfr...(a)ix.netcom.com wulfr...(a)bestiaria.com > HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/ > (Bestiaria Support Staff: web-a...(a)bestiaria.com) > HTTP://www.bestiaria.com/ Thanks Dennis, I'm OK now. I just sort of dropped the ball for a bit :). Mason

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Bring object 'out of' Class?
by dave June 1, 2008

June 1, 2008

Hello, I'm currently on the class section of my self-taught journey and have a question about classes: is it possible to bring a object created inside the class definitions outside the class so it can be accessed in the interpreter? For example, right now I'm working (within Allen Downey's Python Programmer book) with creating a 'hand' of cards. I want to be able to deal to 'x' amount of cards to 'x' amount of hands and then be able to manipulate those hands afterwards. I'm not sure if even what I'm asking is possible or if I'm getting ahead of myself. As always, thanks for all your help. My learning is greatly enhanced with everyone's input on this board. Please feel free to comment/critique the code... Here is the section of code that deals hands (but doesn't do anything past that): def deal_cards(self, num_of_hands, num): '''deals x amount of cards(num) to each hand''' for i in range(num_of_hands): handname = Hand('hand%d' % i) self.deal(handname, num) print '::::%s::::' % (handname.label), '\n', handname, '\n' and here is the all of the code: #!/usr/bin/env python import random class Card: """represents a playing card attributes: rank, suit""" def __init__(self, suit=0, rank=3): self.suit = suit self.rank = rank suit_names = ["Clubs", "Diamonds", "Hearts", "Spades"] rank_names = [None, "Ace", "Two", "Three", "Four", "Five", "Six", "Seven", "Eight", "Nine", "Ten", "Jack", "Queen", "King"] def __str__(self): #prints card in format: Rank 'of' Suit# return '%s of %s' % (Card.rank_names[self.rank], Card.suit_names[self.suit]) def __cmp__(self, other): #evaluates which card is ranked higher by suit/rank #arbitrary definition. depends on the card game card1 = self.suit, self.rank card2 = other.suit, other.rank return cmp(card1, card2) class Deck: """represents a deck of cards. 52 card, 4 suits, 13 cards/suit""" def __init__(self): self.cards = [] for suit in range(4): for rank in range(1, 14): card = Card(suit, rank) self.cards.append(card) def __str__(self): res = [] for card in self.cards: res.append(str(card)) return '\n'.join(res) def pop_card(self): '''removes a card and returns it to another object''' return self.cards.pop() def add_cards(self, card): #adds a card to an object return self.cards.append(card) def shuffle(self): '''must import random, shuffles the deck''' random.shuffle(self.cards) def sort_deck(self): self.cards.sort() def deal(self, hand, num): '''moves cards from one object to another''' for i in range(num): hand.add_cards(self.pop_card()) def deal_cards(self, num_of_hands, num): '''deals x amount of cards(num) to each hand''' for i in range(num_of_hands): handname = Hand('hand%d' % i) self.deal(handname, num) print '::::%s::::' % (handname.label), '\n', handname, '\n' class Hand(Deck): """child class of Deck. Represents a hand of cards""" def __init__(self, label=" "): self.cards = [] self.label = label

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Integrating a code generator into IDLE
by Sam Denton June 1, 2008

June 1, 2008

Code generators seem to be popular in Python. (http://www.google.com/search?q=python+code-generator) I have one that I'd like to integrate into IDLE. Ideally, I'd like to (1) have a new file type show up when I use the File/Open dialog, and (2) have a function key that lets me run my generator against the file, just like F5 lets me run my Python code; ideally, I'd like to re-purpose the F5 key to be file-type aware. I've got a simple extension written that uses the F6 key to "compile" my files, but two goals I've listed seem a bit beyond me. Does anyone have any advice/pointers? Or is one or both ideas impractical? Thanks!

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Question about files?
by corvettecraz92＠gmail.com June 1, 2008

June 1, 2008

I want to create a program where a user can type what ever they want to, have it saved to a file, and the be able to re-open it and read it. How would I do this? Thanks!

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