Python on Pesches Schlauch

El Niño Drawing

Fri, 10 Dec 2004 13:08:31 +0100

Every year after christmas the El Niño Cup takes place. It is a tournament where the result is less important than exercising and having fun. There is a team day, where every team plays Volleyball, Basketball and Unihockey, and a single day, where the disciplines are Badminton, Table Tennis and Archery.

Last year I wrote a program to ease the drawing. It is a fairly complex problem:

Every participant must have six matches, two for every discipline, against members of its category (men, women, mixed...)
There should be not two matches against the same adversary (except if the category has less than 7 players)
Between two matches there should be a break of at least the duration of one match

This year I enhanced the program some more. The amount of tweaking the program output by hand is now almost zero. Just some games remained to be exchanged to satisfy the at-least-one-break condition.

Python für Kids auf dem Macintosh

Tue, 05 Oct 2004 20:08:13 +0200

Im Gegensatz zu PCs ist bei OS X Python bereits vorinstalliert. Leider fehlt jedoch ausgerechnet IDLE, so dass trotzdem noch etwas zu tun bleibt.

Installationsanleitung für IDLE (von PythonMac FAQ abgekupfert)

Tcl/Tk Aqua herunterladen und installieren
MacPython herunterladen und installieren (für OS X 10.3 sind das die MacPython Panther Addons)
Das Programm PackageManager im Ordner /Programme/MacPython-2.3 starten
Im PackageManager _tkinter installieren

"Neue" Division

Damit IDLE sich so benimmt wie im Buch beschrieben (vgl. Anhang D im Buch), muss noch eine Datei leicht verändert werden.

Python IDLE with "new" division on OS X

Tue, 05 Oct 2004 20:08:13 +0200

(Deutscher Text siehe separater Artikel)

K got the book Python für Kids. To enable him to use the book on OS X, I wanted to setup the Python environment on the Mac as on the PC: Install IDLE and, to hide the differences between integer and floating point math, configure to use the new division.

Installing IDLE on OS X 10.3 is easy with MacPython. IDLE comes as bundle, ready to be launched with the mouse from the Finder. But for using the new division without the need for from __future__ import division, IDLE must be started with options. How to embed these options in the IDLE.app bundle?