This is interesting. Jim Bates, an expert witness for the defence in some of the Operation Ore cases we discussed, has been convicted of misrepresenting his qualifications. Specifically, the charges relate to whether or not he claimed to be an electronics engineer, despite not being one, and to his career in the Royal Air Force.…
Read More The PaybackThis interview with the architect of MySQL looks very cool indeed. Rather than just hoicking data out of files on a big hard drive, the latest version can use a Web site, or multiple Web sites, as a source of data on which database operations can be performed and the results served up to something…
Read More When the Web is your monster databaseOK, so we solved the last problem. But now I’ve got another. We’ve just created a window with a Tkinter frame within, and announced that a listbox will be there. Then, we have the following statement: self.selector = Listbox(frame)..Listbox.pack(side=TOP)…for item in [“lots”,”of”,”data”,”in”,”here”,”that”,”takes”,”up”,”four”,”lines”]:….Listbox.insert(Tk.END,item) Dots inserted to get the indenting right. Tk.END causes the interpreter to fart…
Read More Bonus Pathetic Python SundayWhat on earth is causing this class definition to throw a syntax error? The error occurs at the colon (yup, the one that has to be there according to docs.python.org) in the second line. class gui: def_init_(self, mainwindow): self.frame1 = Frame.mainwindow self.frame1.pack() Update: Thanks. Yes, the code is correctly indented elsewhere. Now, I’m getting a…
Read More Pathetic Python SundayOK, so I’m trying to create a dropdown menu with around 40 options using the Python lib Tkinter. I’ve just learned that you can’t just define a command – call it get – and pass in the option as a variable (i.e. def get(variable) and then, for option X, command=get(X)), which brings me the horrible…
Read More Bleggin’This has been knocking around the blogosphere for a while now, but I may as well engage with it. Apparently, David Brin thinks coming generations will miss out because computers don’t come with BASIC any more. I’m not so sure. I was a ZX Spectrum kid, and I used to spend a lot of time…
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