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    Thread: What About SQL?
Post: What About SQL?

I am about to make another attempt to get into Python. And it seems to me the first hurdle is going to be SQL. The type of app I intend to write will certainly require writing data to some kind ...
abrogard General Coding Help 5 2,862 Apr-08-2021, 09:50 PM
    Thread: should I uninstall anaconda?
Post: should I uninstall anaconda?

I am trying to get going with Python. I did the Anaconda install and since then it's been nothing but difficulties. Now there's another one. I want to install a gui and found pysimplegui and tri...
abrogard News and Discussions 0 2,618 Oct-27-2020, 01:42 AM
    Thread: python compiling and sql?
Post: python compiling and sql?

I am just about to start using Python to learn some programming and before I start I just wonder about portability of anything I may write (which won't be much). Two things come to mind: . Will ...
abrogard News and Discussions 2 2,282 Oct-26-2020, 10:18 PM
    Thread: How To Get Python 32 bit?
Post: How To Get Python 32 bit?

I just managed to get mysql downloaded and half installed and then I ran into a hitch - it says Python 32 bit is not installed. I went looking for it and all I could fine was python 3.9 x86 amd64 ...
abrogard General Coding Help 3 2,092 Oct-22-2020, 10:24 AM
    Thread: Simplest/Quickest/Best Way to Get Started?
Post: RE: Simplest/Quickest/Best Way to Get Started?

Thanks very much for all those replies. I must have not set notifications because I didn't get any. Have to look into that. I will backpedal and uninstall everything and start back where a couple ...
abrogard General Coding Help 7 2,813 Oct-22-2020, 10:14 AM
    Thread: Simplest/Quickest/Best Way to Get Started?
Post: Simplest/Quickest/Best Way to Get Started?

I decided to use Python. Now into the third day and still not up and running. I have win10. Tried Anaconda because it was advised everywhere. Had hassles and reinstalls with it. Then tried s...
abrogard General Coding Help 7 2,813 Oct-22-2020, 08:44 AM
    Thread: Newbie Start with Text or Table?
Post: RE: Newbie Start with Text or Table?

It's a little game for my small son. So I do need a program. Essentially he wants to write in questions and get back random answers. Nonsense is fine. He found something like this on the web a...
abrogard General Coding Help 5 2,522 Oct-17-2020, 08:54 PM
    Thread: Newbie Start with Text or Table?
Post: Newbie Start with Text or Table?

I'm totally new. Going to write a little thing to keep one or two hundred strings maybe 250 chars long is all. Better to write them to a text file or better to get straight into tables in mysql or ...
abrogard General Coding Help 5 2,522 Oct-17-2020, 11:47 AM
    Thread: Python Error with youtube-dl - Any Help?
Post: RE: Python Error with youtube-dl - Any Help?

Thank you very much for that. I followed it to the letter and apparently I've got a viable python installation now. I did get an error at the end of the test download: ERROR: ffprobe/avprobe ...
abrogard General Coding Help 4 7,469 Sep-30-2019, 09:16 PM
    Thread: Python Error with youtube-dl - Any Help?
Post: Python Error with youtube-dl - Any Help?

This is a very new (two days) Win10 install on a clean disk. And a new install of the latest Python release. And an install of Python 2.7 because someone suggested that might help but it didn't. ...
abrogard General Coding Help 4 7,469 Sep-30-2019, 05:21 AM
    Thread: What Is Best/Easiest IDE To Install?
Post: RE: What Is Best/Easiest IDE To Install?

(Mar-23-2018, 01:48 AM)metulburr Wrote: Quote:PyVmMonitor, PyDev, Eric, Qt, PyQt, QScintilla, sip. And more... Mercurial for instance. Most of these are not even IDE's. here is a long list of poss...
abrogard Bar 12 6,322 Aug-14-2018, 08:46 PM
    Thread: Can I/Should I Install Python 2 AND 3?
Post: RE: Can I/Should I Install Python 2 AND 3?

Thanks for that. I've looked around. There's heaps of stuff I find more my style. I find myself constantly referring to the python software foundation and getting what i want there for instance.....
abrogard News and Discussions 6 3,906 Aug-14-2018, 08:31 PM
    Thread: Put Print Statement Wrong Somehow...
Post: RE: Put Print Statement Wrong Somehow...

thank you for that.
abrogard General Coding Help 6 3,347 Aug-14-2018, 08:24 PM
    Thread: Put Print Statement Wrong Somehow...
Post: RE: Put Print Statement Wrong Somehow...

Thanks for that. Thought so. Very simple problem, me being so new. Just indents. I hadn't know how critical the positioning on the page everything is. So now I've got something working much bet...
abrogard General Coding Help 6 3,347 Jul-30-2018, 12:05 AM
    Thread: Put Print Statement Wrong Somehow...
Post: RE: Put Print Statement Wrong Somehow...

Ah.. sorry about that. I was thinking I was showing it not as code, really, but just a representation of what I'd done. Thinking my error is probably so egregious it'll be totally obvious just fr...
abrogard General Coding Help 6 3,347 Jul-29-2018, 08:49 PM
    Thread: Put Print Statement Wrong Somehow...
Post: Put Print Statement Wrong Somehow...

I have my first ever bit of code going alright and then I put some print() statements in at the bottom and they don't print and the system doesn't tell me why, just does a restart in the Python shell....
abrogard General Coding Help 6 3,347 Jul-29-2018, 09:33 AM
    Thread: Can I/Should I Install Python 2 AND 3?
Post: RE: Can I/Should I Install Python 2 AND 3?

I've installed 2.7 so now I've got both. But from the command line I can only get 3.6 to run even though I've edited the path to put 2.7 in there. But I can run 2.7 from the start menu icon alrigh...
abrogard News and Discussions 6 3,906 Jul-28-2018, 08:32 AM
    Thread: Can I/Should I Install Python 2 AND 3?
Post: Can I/Should I Install Python 2 AND 3?

I'm just starting. Installed 3. Now following an online tutorial where he says use 2 and he's pretty convincing about it. Can I install 2 now alongside 3? Or it won't work, or it's a hassle? ...
abrogard News and Discussions 6 3,906 Jul-28-2018, 06:10 AM
    Thread: What Is Best/Easiest IDE To Install?
Post: What Is Best/Easiest IDE To Install?

I am completely new. I would like to know which is quickest and easiest IDE to install? My Python installation comes with IDLE but I'd like something a little better than that if possible. So f...
abrogard Bar 12 6,322 Mar-22-2018, 11:19 PM

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