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Hi there. I am trying write a module that can be executed at the command line and for some reason it's not working. Does anyone know why? [CODE]import sys def fibonacci(N): a,b =0,1 while b < N: a,b = b, a+b print b N=sys.argv[1][/CODE] Does it matter that I'm running …

Dear All I am working with a tab-delimeted files - first two columns are pairs of identifiers and third column is floating point number (0-1) denoting interaction strength between colmn1 and 2. sample file is also attached. eg- column1 column2 column3 john steve 0.67588 john matt 1.00 red blue 0.90 …

could anyone help me regarding calling different python scripts from within a main script.How can this be acheived? Thanks in advance

for: [CODE]import random keys='abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ' random.choice(keys)[/CODE] How would I count how many times it takes random.choices(keys) to generate "m"?

Here's a weird one: I have a Tkinter.Text widget that I import data from with inputText.get(1.0,END) However, later in the program I have the text in an array, but the array has values like: 'u\x00s\x00e\x00r\x00' Is there a way to decode this weird string to a normal string? I think …

I have this code: def rollBox(length, numDivisions, count): Angle = 90/numDivisions if count == 0: return elif numDivisions == 0: rollBox(length, numDivisions, count - 1) else: square(length) turtle.right(Angle) rollBox(length, numDivisions - 1, count) Is there any way to still decrease the 'numDivisions' parameter to zero while still keeping its original …

Hi how can i read one line from string ??? i have string like this : [QUOTE]hello ; boy ; sun welcome;google;pink[/QUOTE] how can i read first line only ? thanks

could anyone please help me regarding how to add a newline character to the log file created using logging module. All the output is dumped onto a single line, which makes it unreadable. I s there any way to make the log file legible?

Hi all. I'm writing a simple GUI to display some text and update the text as I receive data from a multicast address. What I have is a Frame, and then a wxScrolledWindow that is using the Frame as its parent window. The scrolled window contains a vertical box sizer …

Hi Everyone, I have a code that permutes Strings, it rather swaps them but I wanted the code to substitute strings, using permutiotions not swap them around... Here is the sample code: import java.util.*; public class PermutationExample { public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception { Scanner input = new …

I'd like to implement a functionality in an app of mine, but I don't know how to go about it. What I want is this: I have a model class that uses imagekit to save its images, and I'd like to have the users being able to update the images …

Hi all, I want to know the last event in log ; in other words , when I use this code below : [code] telephone.incoming_call() # waits for an incoming call telephone.call_state(handle_call) [/code] it calls the handle_call function when there is (Answering - Missed - Dialing - Ringing) events , …

[B]hello sir.. I am not being able to make a program that accepts any number and displays it in words.... for example: when user enter 3456 then output should be three thousand four hundred fifty six.... 12 then print twelve.....9 then print nine...and so on....[/B]

I am new to python n developing scripts as a part of my project.I need help regarding HOW THE OUTPUT OF THE SCRIPT CAN BE REDIRECTED TO A TEXT FILE(FOR MAINTAINING ERROR LOG), WHILE ALSO PRINTING IT ON CONSOLE?? Thanks for all the help in advance and I am looking …

Hi, I have a UI built in Tkinter. The user can type in some inputs and hit "Run" When the "Run" occurs, a program executes that could take 30 seconds or more! The problem is that this blocks the graphics updating. At the beginning, I set a Label to "Running …

[CODE]import math import random choices=[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36,\ 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, …

helo! can anyone help me in automatically saving files with fixed filename in python? the OUTPUT would be like this: FILE- A01.txt FILE- A02.txt FILE- B01.txt File- B02.txt i was hoping that i could save a file automatically after making some changes in the older version. Thank you, Gene

I need to write a mortgage calculator program that will find the amount of a monthly mortgage payment for a loan. [CODE] # Get information from user print 'CALCULATOR FOR MORTGAGE LOANS' loan_str = raw_input ("Amount of loan:") loan = eval(loan_str) years_str = raw_input("Number of years:") years = eval(years_str) rate_str …

Program 1 [CODE]import math class Vectory2(object): def __init__(self, x = 0.0, y = 0.0): self.x = x self.y = y def __str__(self): return "(%s, %s)" % (self.x, self.y) @classmethod def from_points(cls, P1, P2): return cls( P2[0] - P1[0], P2[1] - P1[1] ) def get_magnitude(self): return math.sqrt(self.x**2 + self.y**2) def normalize(self): …

Hi, I am coding a program to make a rolling box function using turtle graphics. The box is supposed to appear to be rolling across a floor to the right like this: [url]http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/2944/rollingbox.png[/url] There are supposed to be three function parameters: length for the length of a side, numDivisions for …

This might be dumb... but I'm having problems raising e to a negative number and I can't figure out what is going on. [CODE]>>> math.exp(((-23*(23-1))/730)) 0.36787944117144233 >>> math.exp(-506/730) 0.36787944117144233 >>> math.exp(-.69) 0.5015760690660556 >>> math.exp(-(506/730)) 1.0[/CODE] For some reason I keep getting different answers when they should all be the same... …

[CODE]import math class Vector2(object): def __init__(self, x = 0.0, y = 0.0): self.x = x self.y = y def __str__(self): return "(%s, %s)" % (self.x, self.y) @classmethod def from_points(P1, P2): return Vector2(P2[0] - P1[0], P2[1] - P1[1]) def get_magnitude(self): return math.sqrt(self.x**2 + self.y**2) def normalize(self): magnitude = self.get_magnitude() self.x /= …

I wrote this program for a class, the only problem is that it returns the anwser for assessmentValue twice. I can't figure out what to do to fix it...please help!! [code=php] def main(): #Get the actual value for the property. actualValue = input ("Enter the actual value of the property:$") …

Write a program that lets the user enter loan amount and loan period in numbers of years and display the monthly and total payments for each interest rate starting from 5% to 8%,with an increment of 1/8. Your program should have at least [b]2 methods[/b],method for calculation and method to …

Hello. I was wondering if there was a way to use python to convert a video to flash and add controls online. Like youtube, a user uploads a video and it gets converted and controls get added. I have looked online and everyone says "Use this extension blah blah blah" …

Hi every one I am facing a problem in deleting items from a list <<< Could any help me !!! [CODE]b=['a', 'b', 'r', 'g'] for c in b: b.remove(c) [/CODE] but when I check b the result is ['b', 'g'] how can I delet all items using for loop thanks

Hi, I want to convert a string to numbers ... i tried a lot of codes.. iam a beginner... Kindly help... Ex: a=1 b=2 c=3 d=4 e=5 f=6 g=7 h=8 i=9 j=10 input value -->abc output value --> 123 input value -->abcj output value -->12310 I mean i want to …

Ahoy Sailors! So I'm making a Python built application with the Twisted engine, Where size is a slight issue, Currently compiled under Python26 using Py2Exe, The file stands at 1.8MB (With trimmings), Now my script should work using Python 2.4 which also should decrease the file size considerably, However the …

Maybe this is more of a "how do you report progress" topic. I have a progress bar on a form. The same form launches 2 separate threads. I would like each thread to report to the same progress bar. Instead of cluttering my code up with a bunch of stuff …

How can my program search for strings that has " " enclosing it and compare it to another string? Thanks for helping me!

I'm attempting to write a game server and I need it to continue on with the code while listening for a connection. I know this is done with the threading module but I don't know how exactly to do this. Python documentation didn't work for me. [CODE] #[LISTENER] print "Initializing …

hi there! i'm have a biiig trouble. I've make a simple chatbot, as can learning. The problem is, that I can't insert data into the dictionary without a error. here is the code: [CODE] codes = {} def arraycompare(array1, array2): l = 0 for i in array1: for j in …

So I'm writing a bit of code for use in an IRC bot. I tried to use scheduler to get around the barbaric-ness of calling time.sleep() every time I want the bot to delay for a few seconds. In scheduler you can choose the delay function "for example time.sleep()"-- but …

I really must have a general misunderstanding of import and global. I'm trying to call a function in an imported file and reference a variable. file1.py [code] from file2 import * x = 6 file2Funct() [/code] file2.py [code] def file2Function(): print x [/code] executing file1 give the following error at …

I'm trying to make program using Google 5gram data to compare with one of English exam called TOEIC. There are 118 files for 4grams and each size of 4grams are approximately 300MB and each files has 10,000,000 lines. So, here is the point. It requires about 4 or 5 seconds …

The idea here is I want the initial hash to be run into the child function, have changes made, send the changes back to the parent. Then send the changed hash into the child for more changes to take place. I've been making a poker program to help me learn, …

Hi I have the following file : AH00010056445 AD20100428 0000250000000000 AD20100429 0000014521201000 AD20100501 0000000037600000 AD20100501 0000004892201000 AH00023603803 AD20100421 0000005000001000 AD20100512 0000002000001575 AD20100514 0000015000000800 AH00334945698 AD20100426 S0000039566700000 AD20100519 0000002892201350 AH denotes an account header (the number refers to a specific account) while AD refers to the detail of that specific AH. …

Basically, I'm working on a GIF animation creator, all is going well, I just don't know how to move items. For example: I select image 1 and move it to image 0's position, and when I drop it over image 0 it will move image 1 to image 0's position.

Hi all, How can we load contact thumbnail ?? I want to fetch it and preview it on canvas . thanks in advance.

Hi all, What tool can i use or what ways can i deploy to allow me to combine c# with python or vice-versa. Please let me know of any tools or way which you all had done it before because i had serch quite alot but i still cannot make …

Hi, I made a post about a similar subject quite a while ago, but I'm a little more serious about it now. I've created two games in C++ and one in Python, but I'd like to start making games for the web to let them be more visible and more …

can anyone provide with java code for performing text similarity calculation using cosine similarity. it is a part of my project.. the context is a pair of records P12 = {r1,r2} , where r1 and r2 can come from same or different data sources, as a similarity vector V12 = …

I unable to send or receive files from host can you tell me how to send files It is able to send files through C,Python pls help me

I'm stuck on the fifth stage of my assignment, the question is; 'Add in code to the key-press event handler so that the 'person' is constrained to move within the array and cant' walk through a wall.' I'm not sure how i'm supposed to update the curindex, i really need …

Hi! I've searching for python IDE's and I've not found anything like NetBeans for java. I downloaded Dr Python but was too simple, I tried to install PyDev on Eclipse but I got some errors. I saw some screenshots about SPE and I said whoa! that seems good, but I …

Alright, making a dice roller...because I need a dice roller. Anywho, in the process of testing it came across an exception that I can't figure out how to remedy. The exception gets thrown at line 33 below: Source code: [CODE]import random #PUT FAILSAFES IN THIS FUNCTION. #gets dice information def …

I've been using the Aspects module to trace and patch routines on the fly in my wxPython app. The problem I've run in to occurs when wx binds an event to a function. ie: an event is binded to function <function func at 0x03969A30> after aspects.with_wrap() func now becomes <function …

Hey I can program in C,little bit in Python and Pacal and I really want to learn assembly. I'm 18 and finishing high school, programming is my hobby because school work sure isn't much of a challenge. I've downloaded a few books on Assembly they are: The Art of Assembly,Assembly …

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I'm trying to program Tic-tac-toe. When I run my program, the X's and O's pop up in all sorts of strange locations, and they don't "settle" into their proper positions until the very last move of the game. Here is my code: [code]'''Tic-tac-toe. ''' from Tkinter import * SQU_SIZE = …