Programming, computers, etc. [Serious]

[Dreams]

Gl, my friend.
And Computer language is a forign language! It's so freaking hard to learn!

[Anonymously Famous]

By "now," I meant after going to run some errands with my wife.

And I decided to increase my knowledge, so I made the Python sorter a GUI (graphical user interface). The GUI required a little research, since I haven't used Tkinter (Python's default GUI library) much at all. Luckily, Python (and most programming languages) has a built-in sorting function, so it made it relatively easy.

Here's the code. If you click "select all" and paste it somewhere, I believe it will put an extra space or tab in there. That will break the Python code, so you'll have to get rid of the first space in each line. Don't worry, it's not that long.

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import Tkinter

root = Tkinter.Tk()
root.title("Text sorter")

myText = Tkinter.Text(root)
myText.pack()

# e is the standard event information that gets sent to event functions. I don't really need it here, but it's going to get passed anyway.
def sortText(e):
    textToSort = myText.get(1.0,Tkinter.END).strip()
    lines = textToSort.split("\n")
    lines = sorted(lines, key = unicode.lower)
    myText.delete(1.0,Tkinter.END)
    myText.insert(1.0,'\n'.join(lines))

myButton = Tkinter.Button(root, text="Sort the Text!")
myButton.pack()
myButton.bind("<Button-1>",sortText)

root.mainloop()

Edit: Including the blank lines, that's 20 lines of code. Not bad, eh?

Also, here's a screenshot:

Yay!

Text Sorter.jpg (17.34 KiB) Viewed 11864 times

Note that it handles both upper and lower case strings.

[Dreams]

Great! Now just make it ignore words in front such as the, a, and an.

[Anonymously Famous]

Why would I want to do that?

[Dreams]

Cuz, the a and an are supposed to be ignored when alphabetizing.
That's why in the library, you see books like: Two towers, the.

[Anonymously Famous]

Would you want me to display it like that, such as:

bit of text, A

[Dreams]

Nah, just ignore the a when you alphabetize.
Do you have an iPod?

[Anonymously Famous]

Nope. I don't.

Here's the modified code:

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import Tkinter

root = Tkinter.Tk()
root.title("Text sorter")

myText = Tkinter.Text(root)
myText.pack()

def ignorer(someString):
    toIgnore = set([u'the',u'a',u'an'])
    comparer = someString.lower().split(u' ')
    if comparer[0] in toIgnore:
        #return all of the text except the first word for comparison's sake
        return u' '.join(comparer[1:])
    return u' '.join(comparer)
    

def sortText(e):
    textToSort = myText.get(1.0,Tkinter.END).strip()
    lines = textToSort.split(u"\n")
    lines = sorted(lines, key = ignorer)
    myText.delete(1.0,Tkinter.END)
    myText.insert(1.0,u'\n'.join(lines))

myButton = Tkinter.Button(root, text="Sort the Text!")
myButton.pack()
myButton.bind("<Button-1>",sortText)

root.mainloop()

I used the 'u' to indicate that they're Python Unicode strings instead of regular strings, simply because that's what the Text widget in the GUI uses. I could have left it out and it would have worked just fine.

[Dreams]

Awesome. Good job! Now I don't have to alphabetize boring stuff. Thanks so much
Also, where can I find a good android tutorial?

[Anonymously Famous]

The Android Developer Page might be a good place to start.

[Dreams]

I looked
It doesnt HLEP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don't worry. I'll find a good tutorial I like.

[Anonymously Famous]

I haven't looked at it too in-depth, but it seems to be pretty good.

You might want to look in your library for Android books. One that I kind of liked is "Hello Android"

[Dreams]

lol you mean library as in at school?

[Anonymously Famous]

As in the city library, probably, unless your school carries books like that.

[Dreams]

K. I'll make a journey to the main public library tomorrow or next week and get a android book.

[Dreams]

Omg my first python program

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chucker=raw_input ('How much wood does a woodchuck chuck? ')
print chucker, 'is not the right answer. You suck.'
end=raw_input ('Press enter to continue')

[Anonymously Famous]

Today I learned more about the Python modules Tkinter and os.

Yay! Now I can do even cooler stuff at work with my scripts!

[Dreams]

grats. what's os?

[Anonymously Famous]

os stands for "operating system" and lets you interact more closely with your operating system. It can be powerful but confusing.

[Dreams]

confusing=not good for someone just starting python for 3 hrs.
powerful=MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!