Re:Command prompt not shown when running Python script with subprocess on Windows

2014-05-27 Thread Dave Angel
ps16thypresenceisfullnessof...@gmail.com Wrote in message: > I have written a Python script with a wxPython GUI that uses subprocess.Popen > to open a list of files that the user provides. One of my users would like to > be able to run a Python script with my application. The Python script he is

Re: Command prompt not shown when running Python script with subprocess on Windows

2014-05-27 Thread Stephen Hansen
You need to call python.exe path-to-script.py, I think, not just path-to-script.py. See sys.executable (though that depends on if you're a frozen app or not). I can't be sure though because there's no code. Show code when asking questions, it helps frame the discussion and get a better answer ;)

Python box (home-use smart router)

2014-05-27 Thread animalize81
Home-use smart router is more and more popular. If embeds Python into such router, and develops a framework that has the following features: 1, allow power-down at any time 2, dynamic domain name 3, local storage support (SD cards or Hard Disk) 4, telnet server etc. Then we can create micro

Check to see if the script has been previously used?

2014-05-27 Thread KC Sparks
Hi, I was wondering if there was an extension or way that would allow me to print instructions if it is the first the the user has used the script. Thanks, KC -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Check to see if the script has been previously used?

2014-05-27 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 5:45 PM, KC Sparks wrote: > I was wondering if there was an extension or way that would allow me to > print instructions if it is the first the the user has used the script. The trickiest part is defining the 'user'. Generally, this sort of thing is done by creating a file

Regular Expression for the special character "|" pipe

2014-05-27 Thread Aman Kashyap
I would like to create a regular expression in which i can match the "|" special character too. e.g. start=|ID=ter54rt543d|SID=ter54rt543d|end=| I want to only |ID=ter54rt543d| from the above string but i am unable to write the pattern match containing "|" pipe too. By default python treat "

Re: Check to see if the script has been previously used?

2014-05-27 Thread Dave Angel
Chris Angelico Wrote in message: > On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 5:45 PM, KC Sparks wrote: >> I was wondering if there was an extension or way that would allow me to >> print instructions if it is the first the the user has used the script. > > The trickiest part is defining the 'user'. Generally, thi

Re: Check to see if the script has been previously used?

2014-05-27 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 9:05 PM, Dave Angel wrote: > Preferred approach is usually to respond to one of the > conventional argv switches. And let the user decide. Yes, this is a technique I've used when doing up important (and dangerous) MUD commands. The command will be something like "unload

Re: Regular Expression for the special character "|" pipe

2014-05-27 Thread Vlastimil Brom
2014-05-27 12:59 GMT+02:00 Aman Kashyap : > I would like to create a regular expression in which i can match the "|" > special character too. > > e.g. > > start=|ID=ter54rt543d|SID=ter54rt543d|end=| > > I want to only |ID=ter54rt543d| from the above string but i am unable to > write the pattern

Re: Regular Expression for the special character "|" pipe

2014-05-27 Thread Aman Kashyap
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 16:39:19 UTC+5:30, Vlastimil Brom wrote: > 2014-05-27 12:59 GMT+02:00 Aman Kashyap : > > > I would like to create a regular expression in which i can match the "|" > > special character too. > > > > > > e.g. > > > > > > start=|ID=ter54rt543d|SID=ter54rt543d|end=| > >

Re: Regular Expression for the special character "|" pipe

2014-05-27 Thread Daniel
What about skipping the re and try this: 'start=|ID=ter54rt543d|SID=ter54rt543d|end=|'.split('|')[1][3:] On 27.05.2014 14:09, Vlastimil Brom wrote: 2014-05-27 12:59 GMT+02:00 Aman Kashyap : I would like to create a regular expression in which i can match the "|" special character too. e.g.

Re: Regular Expression for the special character "|" pipe

2014-05-27 Thread Aman Kashyap
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 16:59:38 UTC+5:30, Daniel wrote: > What about skipping the re and try this: > > > > 'start=|ID=ter54rt543d|SID=ter54rt543d|end=|'.split('|')[1][3:] > > > > On 27.05.2014 14:09, Vlastimil Brom wrote: > > > 2014-05-27 12:59 GMT+02:00 Aman Kashyap : > > >> I would like

Re: Regular Expression for the special character "|" pipe

2014-05-27 Thread Wolfgang Maier
On 27.05.2014 13:39, Aman Kashyap wrote: On 27.05.2014 14:09, Vlastimil Brom wrote: you can just escpape the pipe with backlash like any other metacharacter: r"start=\|ID=ter54rt543d" be sure to use the raw string notation r"...", or you can double all backslashes in the string. Thanks

Re: How keep Python 3 moving forward

2014-05-27 Thread wxjmfauth
Le lundi 26 mai 2014 01:09:31 UTC+2, Mark Lawrence a écrit : > On 25/05/2014 23:22, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > > > On Sun, 25 May 2014 11:34:59 -0700, Ethan Furman > > > declaimed the following: > > > > > >> On 05/25/2014 10:38 AM, Rustom Mody wrote: > > >>> > > >>> Your unicode is mojibaked

Re: Regular Expression for the special character "|" pipe

2014-05-27 Thread Roy Smith
In article , Wolfgang Maier wrote: > On 27.05.2014 13:39, Aman Kashyap wrote: > >> On 27.05.2014 14:09, Vlastimil Brom wrote: > >> > >>> you can just escpape the pipe with backlash like any other metacharacter: > >>> > >>> r"start=\|ID=ter54rt543d" > >>> > >>> be sure to use the raw string notat

Re: Regular Expression for the special character "|" pipe

2014-05-27 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 27/05/2014 12:39, Aman Kashyap wrote: On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 16:59:38 UTC+5:30, Daniel wrote: What about skipping the re and try this: 'start=|ID=ter54rt543d|SID=ter54rt543d|end=|'.split('|')[1][3:] On 27.05.2014 14:09, Vlastimil Brom wrote: 2014-05-27 12:59 GMT+02:00 Aman Kashyap :

Re: is there a list/group for beginners?

2014-05-27 Thread John Ladasky
Hi, Deb. Ten years ago (or eleven?), I was completely new to Python. I could not begin to understand over 90 percent of what I was reading here in comp.lang.python. Still, I asked my newbie questions here. For the most part, I got excellent responses. I think you're in the right place. --

Re: Python is horribly slow compared to bash!!

2014-05-27 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2014-05-26, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Mon, 26 May 2014 19:00:11 +0200, Johannes Bauer > declaimed the following: > >> >>Now let's all code Itanium assembler, yes? > > Naw... Let's beg Intel to bring back the iAPX-432, and beg AdaCore to > port GNAT to it. When the '432 datasheets came out

Re: hashing strings to integers

2014-05-27 Thread Adam Funk
On 2014-05-23, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Adam Funk wrote: >> I've also used hashes of strings for other things involving >> deduplication or fast lookups (because integer equality is faster than >> string equality). I guess if it's just for deduplication, though, a

Re: hashing strings to integers

2014-05-27 Thread Adam Funk
On 2014-05-23, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 5/23/2014 6:27 AM, Adam Funk wrote: > >> that. The only thing that really bugs me in Python 3 is that execfile >> has been removed (I find it useful for testing things interactively). > > The spelling has been changed to exec(open(...).read(), ... . It you u

python

2014-05-27 Thread himanshulkce
Need of python in embedded systems??? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: hashing strings to integers

2014-05-27 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, 27 May 2014 16:13:46 +0100, Adam Funk wrote: > On 2014-05-23, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Adam Funk >> wrote: >>> I've also used hashes of strings for other things involving >>> deduplication or fast lookups (because integer equality is faster than >>> str

Re: hashing strings to integers

2014-05-27 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 3:02 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > But I know that Python is a high-level language with > lots of high-level data structures like dicts which trade-off time and > memory for programmer convenience, and that I'd want to see some real > benchmarks proving that my application w

help with memory leak

2014-05-27 Thread Neal Becker
I'm trying to track down a memory leak in a fairly large code. It uses a lot of numpy, and a bit of c++-wrapped code. I don't yet know if the leak is purely python or is caused by the c++ modules. At each iteration of the main loop, I call gc.collect() If I then look at gc.garbage, it is empt

Re: Hello and sorry for disturbing !

2014-05-27 Thread giacomo boffi
Rustom Mody writes: > For ubuntu you should need nothing for python. > In other words python should run on a basic ubuntu installation. > From the shell just type python and the interpreter should start. > > For more specialized work there are dozens (maybe hundreds?) of > packages in the apt rep

Re: Hello and sorry for disturbing !

2014-05-27 Thread maksufff
I recommend to install PyCharm -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Hello and sorry for disturbing !

2014-05-27 Thread maksufff
I recommend you to install PyCharm -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Hello and sorry for disturbing !

2014-05-27 Thread maksufff
I recommend you to install PyCharm -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Hello and sorry for disturbing !

2014-05-27 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 5:56 AM, giacomo boffi wrote: > Rustom Mody writes: > >> For ubuntu you should need nothing for python. >> In other words python should run on a basic ubuntu installation. >> From the shell just type python and the interpreter should start. >> >> For more specialized work

Re: help with memory leak

2014-05-27 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 5:56 AM, Neal Becker wrote: > I'm trying to track down a memory leak in a fairly large code. It uses a lot > of > numpy, and a bit of c++-wrapped code. I don't yet know if the leak is purely > python or is caused by the c++ modules. Something to try, which would separat

Re: Python box (home-use smart router)

2014-05-27 Thread Tim Chase
On 2014-05-27 15:33, animalize81 wrote: > Home-use smart router is more and more popular. > > If embeds Python into such router, and > develops a framework that has the following features: > > 1, allow power-down at any time > 2, dynamic domain name > 3, local storage support (SD cards or Hard

Re: Hello and sorry for disturbing !

2014-05-27 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 27/05/2014 21:02, maksu...@gmail.com wrote: I recommend to install PyCharm Three copies in three minutes of one line with no context, that's a record, congratulations :) -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawr

Re: python

2014-05-27 Thread Tim Chase
On 2014-05-27 08:43, himanshul...@gmail.com wrote: > Need of python in embedded systems??? Define "embedded". I've got a couple small low-powered devices here (a Digi ConnectPort, a Raspberry Pi, a low-end 32-bit system with 32MB of RAM) all of which run Python. It might be trickier if you're ta

Re: is there a list/group for beginners?

2014-05-27 Thread Deb Wyatt
> -Original Message- > From: john_lada...@sbcglobal.net > Sent: Tue, 27 May 2014 11:38:39 -0700 (PDT) > To: python-list@python.org > Subject: Re: is there a list/group for beginners? > > Hi, Deb. > > Ten years ago (or eleven?), I was completely new to Python. I could not > begin to und

Re: is there a list/group for beginners?

2014-05-27 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 7:38 AM, Deb Wyatt wrote: > thanks,John. I guess I was/am afraid to embarrass myself on this list, but > then I accidentally posted a question meant for the tutor list and ended up > getting more for my money than I expected :). I really appreciate that the > people on

Re: Command prompt not shown when running Python script with subprocess on Windows

2014-05-27 Thread ps16thypresenceisfullnessofjoy
Sorry for not being explicit enough. I am aware that this would work if I called python.exe path-to-script.py with shell=False. In my Python program, I parse an XML file like the one I have included below. Then I loop through the paths of the apps listed in it and run them by calling something

Re: hashing strings to integers

2014-05-27 Thread Dan Sommers
On Tue, 27 May 2014 17:02:50 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > - rather than "zillions" of them, there are few enough of them that > the chances of an MD5 collision is insignificant; > (Any MD5 collision is going to play havoc with your strategy of > using hashes as a proxy for the real string

Re: Command prompt not shown when running Python script with subprocess on Windows

2014-05-27 Thread Tim Golden
On 28/05/2014 00:01, ps16thypresenceisfullnessof...@gmail.com wrote: I want users to be able to enter paths in the XML file exactly the way they would be entered in a Windows shortcut. Since it is possible to make a Windows shortcut for path-to-script.py without the python.exe in front of it and