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According to the many TV crime shows it doesn't pay to be a criminal.

When a fool is silent, he too is counted among the wise.

Baked chicken with corn bread, beans and mashers. Love those mashed potatoes! Too young to drink ethanol! O.J. will do.

What kind of places or situations to you find the people to be best friends with? Is there a good reason why one place works better than others? A small poll of suggestion is attached. I should have added Sports, the Internet and Travel to the poll.

I wonder if there are any comic characters left to make movies with.

[QUOTE=lukescp;1104415]I tried what you have above; it seems the vars() statement in line 3 requires quotes around 'food': [code] vars()['food'] = 123 [/code] Otherwise works perfect.[/QUOTE] That is fine if you want to do this: [code]vars()['food'] = 123 print food # --> 123 [/code]The original code wanted to print bread …

The GUI toolkit Pyside is a package and should be in folder side_packages. It is a "third party" package that needs to be installed by you.

Assuming you are using Python2, you could do it like this: [code=python]print("Enter zero for the value you are looking for:") s = d = t = 0 while True: s = input("Speed (miles/hour): ") d = input("Distance (miles): ") t = input("Time (hours): ") if s == 0: s = …

Over the past 20 years in Switzerland, health costs have grown 80 percent and insurance premiums 125 percent. However voters this Sunday overwhelmingly voted down a switch from private insurance to a mandatory government run insurance program. Swiss net salary is 4,950 Swiss francs (4,100 euros, $5,268), health premiums are …

gmorcan, using Python module timeit and a rather small prime number like 999979, your function is 2700 times slower than vegaseat's function.

I downloaded the encode picture from above and applied this little code: ''' PIL_HideText_decode.py get the hidden text back from an encoded image ''' from PIL import Image def decode_image(img): """ check the red portion of an image (r, g, b) tuple for hidden message characters (ASCII values) """ width, …

Vegaseat's code more elegant: ''' tk_button_toggle6.py using itertools.cycle() to create a Tkinter toggle button ''' import itertools try: # Python2 import Tkinter as tk except ImportError: # Python3 import tkinter as tk def toggle(icycle=itertools.cycle([False, True])): state = next(icycle) t_btn['text'] = str(state) root = tk.Tk() t_btn = tk.Button(text="True", width=12, command=toggle) t_btn.pack(pady=5) …

Have been looking for something like that, thanks! Clever application of base64 code.

To get this to go without the GUI freezing up in some loop you have to use threading. See: http://wiki.wxpython.org/LongRunningTasks?highlight=%28start%29|%28stop%29

Don't forget this great sticky: http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/python/threads/32007/projects-for-the-beginner

Why bother with a class? from datetime import datetime as dt # make this work with Python2 or Python3 try: input = raw_input except: pass # start the count start = dt.now() # test the counter with a key board response time # or put your own code you want …

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Sounds interesting, so i put it all together: [code]message = "just a simple test!" key = 11 coded_message = "" for ch in message: code_val = ord(ch) + key if ch.isalpha(): if code_val > ord('z'): code_val -= ord('z') - ord('a') coded_message = coded_message + chr(code_val) else: coded_message = coded_message + …

In the real world there are a lot of half true things. What do you do with those?

Generally: import wx class MyEvents(object): """separate events into this class""" def __init__(self, parent): self = parent def button1Click(self, event): self.label.SetLabel("Button1 left clicked") def button2Click(self, event): self.label.SetLabel("Button2 left clicked!!!") class MyFrame(wx.Frame, MyEvents): """MyFrame inherits wx.Frame and MyEvents""" def __init__(self, parent, mytitle, mysize): wx.Frame.__init__(self, parent, wx.ID_ANY, mytitle, size=mysize) # create buttons and …

`a=a+b-(a=b); //Swaping` works for floats

New York city is expecting up to 2 feet of snow on Monday. That's tough on a big city and all the commuters.

I think open source implies that Swift will be developed by and for the Linux community.

An interesting play with iterators and generators: [code]it = iter(range(9)) # note iterator it depletes within zip() mylist = list(zip(it, it, it)) print(mylist) '''my output --> [(0, 1, 2), (3, 4, 5), (6, 7, 8)] ''' [/code]I tested this with Python26.

If you are interested in mathematics, there is a large number of projects you can participate in at: [URL]http://www.projecteuler.net/[/URL] You can use any language, but Python seems to be popular. Girls, don't be scared, mathematics is not just for the guys!

Interesting this Python code. I highlighted the code and pasted it into IDLE editor and it runs fine. I am using Python 2.5.

The abbreviation "LOL" first appeared in print in 1973.

Some good project ideas are here: http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/python/threads/32007/projects-for-the-beginner

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Here is another example of IronPython that uses the Windows .NET library (or possibly Linux Mono library) as a GUI toolkit. [code]# IronPython GUI mortgage calculator # forms and components originally created with IronPythonStudio # then modified to run as a single program file # tested with IronPython 2.6 import …

I didn't know Windows had 10 new icons.

At the minimum 25 hours.

Englisch und Deutsch, etwas Schweizer Dialekt.

Very practical

Sounds interesting! Can the Raspberry produce sounds? Another good video on MOSFETs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te5YYVZiOKs

Never had a chance to do so.

The modern day circus extravagance called the "NFL Super Bowl XLIX" (XLIX is 49 for the many non Roman citizens) will be played on Sunday, February 1, 3:30 PM at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. Other than a spectacular halftime show two football teams, the "New England …

There is also wxPython and you can get the wxPython Builder.

A quick search of DaniWeb comes up with this: https://www.daniweb.com/software-development/python/threads/453249/setting-an-image-as-a-background#post1968311

If you want a job in the USA, English language skills used to be important.

Simply cover both Python2 and Python3: try: # Python2 import Tkinter as tk import ttk except ImportError: # Python3 import tkinter as tk import tkinter.ttk as ttk window = tk.Tk() button = ttk.Button(window, text='hi') button.pack() window.mainloop()

If you want the original text back, then `random` will give you a heartache. You have to look into encryption/decryption. For some basic ideas see: https://www.daniweb.com/software-development/python/threads/459789/coding-for-privacy

I like the one at: https://www.daniweb.com/software-development/python/code/490225/the-ultimate-caesar-cipher-python

If it would be that easy for the Earth to fall into the Sun it would have happened 1.267 billion years ago.

Let's hope your movie title does not have two words.

With jason `ValueError: Expecting property name enclosed in double quotes` is a royal pain, if you want to save string objects!

Oops, didn't see the flagrant silly repeats by umer 4!

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