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    Thread: Passing by reference or value
Post: RE: Passing by reference or value

Thanks, I'll look into those alternative methods. These are custom classes, so I suppose if I wanted something more elegant, I could code something myself. Good to know there are alternatives.
CanadaGuy General Coding Help 4 2,984 Nov-12-2018, 08:44 PM
    Thread: Passing by reference or value
Post: RE: Passing by reference or value

(Nov-12-2018, 08:36 PM)Gribouillis Wrote: You could use new_list = [copy.copy(x) for x in (a, b, a, b, a)] Thanks. That is definitely cleaner so +1 for that. Is the copy module the only way to achie...
CanadaGuy General Coding Help 4 2,984 Nov-12-2018, 08:39 PM
    Thread: Passing by reference or value
Post: Passing by reference or value

Being new to Python, I figured I was bound to run into something like this. I'm used to programming where values are passed around, and I had to go to great lengths to operate on references. Now in Py...
CanadaGuy General Coding Help 4 2,984 Nov-12-2018, 07:57 PM
    Thread: Dynamically Sized Widget
Post: RE: Dynamically Sized Widget

(Nov-12-2018, 12:42 AM)Larz60+ Wrote: Read about sizers: https://wxpython.org/Phoenix/docs/html/s...rview.html Is there a particular section you had in mind? I'm using sizers for layout (i.e. no abs...
CanadaGuy GUI 3 3,913 Nov-12-2018, 12:47 AM
    Thread: Dynamically Sized Widget
Post: Dynamically Sized Widget

I have a wx.Dialog box. In that dialog, I have widgetA. WidgetA contains widgetB. WidgetB can change its size at runtime in response to user selections. When widgetB gets larger, then widgetA, and th...
CanadaGuy GUI 3 3,913 Nov-11-2018, 10:48 PM
    Thread: How to customize x axis in matplotlib.pyplot for a scatter plot?
Post: RE: How to customize x axis in matplotlib.pyplot f...

Your first step would probably be to convert your date list from the current format, to a Python supported date format. Once you have that, then plotting the date list should look like the link I post...
CanadaGuy Homework 9 8,218 Nov-09-2018, 08:02 PM
    Thread: How to customize x axis in matplotlib.pyplot for a scatter plot?
Post: RE: How to customize x axis in matplotlib.pyplot f...

Can't promise anything, but you could post a truncated version of your data (maybe 10 points or so) so we can see exactly what it looks like.
CanadaGuy Homework 9 8,218 Nov-09-2018, 07:36 PM
    Thread: How to customize x axis in matplotlib.pyplot for a scatter plot?
Post: RE: How to customize x axis in matplotlib.pyplot f...

Or this, which I think directly addresses setting an axis to a date range: https://matplotlib.org/gallery/text_labe.../date.html
CanadaGuy Homework 9 8,218 Nov-09-2018, 07:03 PM
    Thread: Responsibility in MVP Pattern
Post: RE: Responsibility in MVP Pattern

(Nov-08-2018, 10:09 PM)Larz60+ Wrote: I've worked 'under the covers' all my programming life (since 1968), always avoiding the middle man, so probably not one to contribute here. Hope I haven't mess...
CanadaGuy GUI 10 5,323 Nov-09-2018, 12:54 AM
    Thread: Responsibility in MVP Pattern
Post: RE: Responsibility in MVP Pattern

Maybe I can narrow down my question to make it a little more general. After studying a few concrete examples, I think I noticed a pattern to the patterns. Rather than one object (model, view, or pres...
CanadaGuy GUI 10 5,323 Nov-08-2018, 08:52 PM
    Thread: Responsibility in MVP Pattern
Post: RE: Responsibility in MVP Pattern

(Nov-08-2018, 03:18 PM)Larz60+ Wrote: It doesn't, my confusion with Advanced User Interface (AUI) ( https://wxpython.org/Phoenix/docs/html/w...index.html ). Sorry, you may still be interested in the...
CanadaGuy GUI 10 5,323 Nov-08-2018, 03:20 PM
    Thread: Responsibility in MVP Pattern
Post: RE: Responsibility in MVP Pattern

(Nov-08-2018, 03:56 AM)Larz60+ Wrote: Quote: I thought I was on the Phoenix code base, but I'll check tomorrow (I'm python 3.7) you may be, if you installed with pip using: pip install wxpythonyou p...
CanadaGuy GUI 10 5,323 Nov-08-2018, 02:11 PM
    Thread: Responsibility in MVP Pattern
Post: RE: Responsibility in MVP Pattern

(Nov-08-2018, 02:08 AM)Larz60+ Wrote: you must be running the old wxpython. What about my post suggests I'm running old wxpython? I thought I was on the Phoenix code base, but I'll check tomorrow (I...
CanadaGuy GUI 10 5,323 Nov-08-2018, 02:13 AM
    Thread: Responsibility in MVP Pattern
Post: Responsibility in MVP Pattern

I'm new to the concept of enforcing some kind of design pattern in the application (using wxPython) I'm trying to write according to MVP (model-view-presenter) principles. I'm having some difficulty i...
CanadaGuy GUI 10 5,323 Nov-08-2018, 12:48 AM
    Thread: Nested Imports
Post: RE: Nested Imports

(Nov-08-2018, 12:19 AM)Larz60+ Wrote: 'if' statements will not stop error events from crashing system, try/except will True. That gives me something to think about.
CanadaGuy General Coding Help 4 2,770 Nov-08-2018, 12:20 AM
    Thread: Nested Imports
Post: RE: Nested Imports

Thanks for the reply. Is try/except a better approach than using an if statement? In this case, I know exactly what statement will work under each condition so try except seems a little less direct.
CanadaGuy General Coding Help 4 2,770 Nov-07-2018, 10:48 PM
    Thread: Nested Imports
Post: Nested Imports

I'm trying to create modules for my application that are themselves testable on their own. I would like to have the following directory structure: \application.py \support\module1.py \support\module2...
CanadaGuy General Coding Help 4 2,770 Nov-07-2018, 06:44 PM
    Thread: Messenger Library for MVC-like Patterns
Post: RE: Messenger Library for MVC-like Patterns

(Nov-05-2018, 04:34 PM)nilamo Wrote: I'm not sure you need a library for it. The model/view/controller are just classes. *snip* Is there something you currently use in another language that you'r...
CanadaGuy General Coding Help 2 2,417 Nov-05-2018, 04:46 PM
    Thread: Messenger Library for MVC-like Patterns
Post: Messenger Library for MVC-like Patterns

I'm new to Python, and while I've done a fair bit of programming in general, the bulk has been highly unstructured and almost entirely for my own purposes. I'm doing a small application that has a few...
CanadaGuy General Coding Help 2 2,417 Nov-05-2018, 04:00 PM
    Thread: Python Attributes
Post: RE: Python Attributes

(Nov-02-2018, 02:57 PM)Gribouillis Wrote: From the point of view of OOP design, I'd say that there is a design problem if a class has too many attributes. It means that some of these attributes coul...
CanadaGuy General Coding Help 4 3,006 Nov-02-2018, 03:05 PM

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