🌐 Mailman 3 March 2000 - Tutor - python.org

Windons Task tray
by rhicks＠rma.edu July 4, 2001

July 4, 2001

Is it possible to minimize a python program to the task tray area of the taskbar in Windows95/98? Bob pop3.rma.edu

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Help with looping...
by A. R. Goldman March 31, 2000

March 31, 2000

Greetings... I have been working on a simple number guessing game... and I would like to add the ability to keep playing games repeatedly. I suspect that this is done with the 'continue' command... but I am either wrong in that assumption... or can't get the syntax... I'm including my code as it stands... any help would be gratefully appreciated... Many Thanks Rick Goldman and here's the script: > lower = 1 > upper = 200 > while 1: > print "lower", lower, "upper", upper > if lower > upper: > print "cheetas never prosper" > break > guess = (lower + upper) /2 > print "Is it", guess, "?" > outcome = raw_input("Is the number higher, lower, or equal to my guess?") > if outcome == "lower": > upper = guess -1 > elif outcome == "higher": > lower = guess + 1 > elif outcome == "equal": > answer = raw_input("That was fun. Another?" )# I assume that I need something here... but what? > if answer == "no": > print "Thank you" > break > else: > print "lower, higher or yes, you Hoser" > >

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complete list of "special" methods
by Charlie Derr March 31, 2000

March 31, 2000

Hi all, I was wondering if anyone knows where i might find a full and complete list of any special methods that a python class (module?) is capable of having? Some of the more obvious are __init__, __or__, __repr__ but i'm wondering how many of these there are in total. A short description of what each one is would also be helpful (but not necessary). TMIA, ~c

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RE: [Tutor] IDLE - working in windows
by Gauld,AJ,Alan,NEL1A GAULDAJ R March 31, 2000

March 31, 2000

The old version of IDLE had several problems/bugs in my experience. The new 0.5 version works very well and I now use it constantly. Altho' I suspect its still not happy with Tkinter programs - but haven't tried yet. But at the end of the day running from a command line prompt is how the program will be executed ultimately so you still need to prove it works there. Also for long coding sessions a better editor than IDLE might be desirable - I use vim... but emacs or PFE etc all offer more advanced features than IDLE. Alan g. > -----Original Message----- > From: tutor-admin(a)python.org > [mailto:tutor-admin@python.org]On Behalf Of > David Kaye > Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 3:08 AM > To: tutor > Subject: [Tutor] IDLE - working in windows > > > Why do so many on-line tutorials constantly suggest working > in a DOS window > when working on Python? I'm just learning the basics now and > IDLE seems to > work fine; it allows me to create a new file and save it > while my Python > command line interface is running. Am I going to run into > trouble as I get > into different programs? > > >

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IDLE - working in windows
by David Kaye March 31, 2000

March 31, 2000

Why do so many on-line tutorials constantly suggest working in a DOS window when working on Python? I'm just learning the basics now and IDLE seems to work fine; it allows me to create a new file and save it while my Python command line interface is running. Am I going to run into trouble as I get into different programs?

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RE: [Tutor] what is foo bar?
by Gauld,AJ,Alan,NEL1A GAULDAJ R March 31, 2000

March 31, 2000

> Me neither. Besides, Python's namesake offers such a rich > source of metasyntactic variables, it's rather sorry we end > up using 'spam' all the time. Indeed. In my book I try to use others thus there are variables called 'petshop' and 'parrot' as well as a lumberjack function :-) > Why is it that nobody remembers > the name of Johann ..... I remember him all the time I just don't have the time to even use his initials!! :-) Alan G. PS One book reviewer did suggest that the publisher might need to get permission from the company who owns the Spam trademark if I used 'spam' too often.... :-(

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RE: [Tutor] what is foo bar?
by alan.gauld＠bt.com March 31, 2000

March 31, 2000

> > Goes back to the early days of the Tech Model Railroad Club > > at MIT (http://web.mit.edu/tmrc/www/). "Foo" seems to have > > come into use first, .....The acronym FUBAR made > > "bar" a natural compliment. > Fubar was in common use in the military (US anyway) during > WW2, so I doubt it originated at MIT. TC didn't say FUBAR originated at MIT rather that the use of FOO as a generic variable name originated there. Somebody at MIT then made the association with the existing FUBAR to come up with BAR as a secondary name... Thats the history of the terms I've seen in the past (all 3 terms!) - I wasn't there so its all 2nd hand news :-) Alan G.

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RE: [Tutor] HTML --> TXT?
by alan.gauld＠bt.com March 31, 2000

March 31, 2000

> If you have Linux, then 'lynx -dump ...' will do it. Or MS DOS. Lynx works there too... but of course it ain't Python which was the question :-) Alan g.

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RE: [Tutor] HTML --> TXT?
by Gauld,AJ,Alan,NEL1A GAULDAJ R March 31, 2000

March 31, 2000

> Is there a fairly simple Python-ish way to convert an HTML > file to text? There is an html parser around which might do it for you but a quick n' dirty solution is to use the re module and simply parse out everything between '<' and '>'. Make sure the regex you use covers line breaks etc tho'... Alan G.

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subscibe
by Lutz Steinborn March 31, 2000

March 31, 2000

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