Creating a Simple User Interface for a Function

[CTSB01]

On Thursday, July 25, 2013 3:19:27 PM UTC-4, Dave Angel wrote:
> On 07/25/2013 12:03 PM, CTSB01 wrote:
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> > I have the following code that runs perfectly:
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> >       def psi_j(x, j):
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> >            rtn = []
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> >            for n2 in range(0, len(x) * j - 2):
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> >              n = n2 / j
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> >              r = n2 - n * j
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> >              rtn.append(j * x[n] + r * (x[n + 1] - x[n]))
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> >              print 'n2 =', n2, ': n =', n, ' r =' , r, ' rtn =', rtn
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> >            return rtn
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> No it doesn't run perfectly.  It'll get a syntax error on the print 
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> function call.  That's assuming you're still using Python 3.3.  You 
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> really need to start by specifying your environment, without making us 
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> look back through previous threads from you.
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> > This code takes a string x = [0,1,1,1,2] for example
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> That's not a string.  A string would be like
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>     xx = psi_j("0abcd1234")
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> Perhaps you mean list?  And is it a list of integers, or of arbitrary 
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> numbers?  Are there any constraints on the sizes or signs of those numbers?
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> > (it must always begin with 0) and a parameter j, say 2, and outputs a string (x = [0, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3] in this example).
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> > It does this in two steps: First it decomposes some number m into a multiple of j and a remainder.
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> Only if you replace the / with //.  Or just use the function divmod():
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>        n, r = divmod(n2, m)
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> >  Then it runs this decomposition through a function on the rtn.append line.
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> > Notice that this has cj - 1 terms where c is the number of terms in the input string and j is the parameter.  Normally, we would like it to be able to calculate cj terms.
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> > This is an issue with the function that I am more than happy to put aside for the moment.
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> > My key interest is to be able to make this program
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> So far you have a function, not a program.  If you put it in a text file 
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> and run it from python, it'll do nothing but display a syntax error 
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> message.  And when you fix that, it'll just run without doing anything.
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>   usable for someone who has no knowledge of programming.  In 
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> particular, I need some kind of user interface that prompts
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> > the user to input a string (ideally just by putting in numbers in the form 011123334 for example) and a parameter,
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> > and then displays the output sequence.  This is essentially what the program already does but the idea is to make it usable
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> > for even the most technologically disinclined.  Ideally it would do this without needing to run Python at all.
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> Then why are you asking on the Python forum?  Or perhaps you mean 
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> without him knowing he's running Python?  In that case, use a shebang 
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> line at the beginning, which will tell Linux to automatically invoke the 
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> specified program (or programming language in this case).
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> >  If anyone is able to make this happen in Python I would be eternally grateful.
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> If we assume you're running Python 3.3 on Linux, and the user is willing 
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> to us the terminal, then how about parsing the string from the command 
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> line he types?  You can access it as011123334 a string from sys.argv, 
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> and convert it to separate numbers.  Of course as it stands now, you 
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> cannot tell whether the user wanted
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>    0,1,1,1,2,3,3,3,4
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> or
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>    0, 111, 23, 3, 3, 4
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> or something else.
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> DaveA

Sorry Dave, to answer each part of your response:

1) I decided to use Python 2.7, and I will be sure to specify this in all future threads.
2) It is a list of positive integers.  In fact, it is always going to be a list of positive increasing integers.
3) You're right.  What I meant was that if after running that bit of code I enter
>>> x = [0,1,2,3,4,5]
>>> psi_j(x,2) 
I will get output that matches my requirements.
4) Yes, sorry that's what I meant (if I understood correctly).  I was told elsewhere that I might want to try using tkinter.  Essentially I'm trying to create a user interface that allows the user to just type in a string 01112345 for example, and choose a parameter (say j=2) and then click a button to run the function.  I'd like to be able to run send a .exe file that the user can just open up and use with no further setup.  

So on top of the user interface I would also it looks like need to determine how to make Python change a string 01112345 into a list so that it does that automatically when the user clicks 'run'.  

Would a shebang still be the right way to go?  

Thanks again Dave, apologies for the ambiguity.