Re: Python Programming Contest
Are you aware of http://mathschallenge.net/index.php?section=project ? The "The focus will be on algorithms that require a bit of thought to design but not much code to implement." part seems common, although your problem domain probably is larger. /Simon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Documenting extension modules?
Re: assigning a PyStr object to __doc__, take a look at Py_InitModule3, which does that for you. Then you have the PyDoc_STRVAR macro in python.h that you might want to use (see definition below). But as Robert already told you, you'll need to provide the necessary information about i.e. parameters yourself in the docstrings. /* Define macros for inline documentation. */ #define PyDoc_VAR(name) static char name[] #define PyDoc_STRVAR(name,str) PyDoc_VAR(name) = PyDoc_STR(str) #ifdef WITH_DOC_STRINGS #define PyDoc_STR(str) str #else #define PyDoc_STR(str) "" #endif -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Efficiently Split A List of Tuples
Oooh.. you make my eyes bleed. IMO that proposal is butt ugly (and looks like the C++.NET perversions.) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Problem with threads
You cannot really do that*. Use a flag or something that the thread checks if it should shut down. /Simon * well actually you can, sort of by using int PyThreadState_SetAsyncExc( long id, PyObject *exc) from C API. However, if you do that you swap one problem for a sh*tload of others, because of the *async* part. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Image orientation and color information with PIL?
if you mean that you want to figure out which way the image is depending on the actual data in the image, then you'll most likely get to do the image processing yourself, on the other hand, if you are talking jpegs from a relatively new camera then I suppose that you should be able to get that info by looking at the EXIF information. AFAIK you can read exif with PIL, but not write. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Documentation bug: Python console behaviour changed
My console follows documentation: C:\tmp\GspRegTestApp>c:\Python24\python ActivePython 2.4.1 Build 245 (ActiveState Corp.) based on Python 2.4.1 (#65, Mar 30 2005, 09:33:37) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> ^Z C:\tmp\GspRegTestApp>c:\Python24\python ActivePython 2.4.1 Build 245 (ActiveState Corp.) based on Python 2.4.1 (#65, Mar 30 2005, 09:33:37) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> ^D File "", line 1 ♦ ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax >>> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How to send a query to the browser from time to time?
Short answer: Not using HTTP. However, you can use something like AJAX to just load new data from time to time and not the entire page. Or you might be able to keep the connection alive and occationally send stuff to the client using chunked transfer. I'd go for the ajax route if you don't need to support old browsers. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Printing a variable's name not its value
as you have been told, there is no way to get a variable's name, take a look at http://effbot.org/zone/python-objects.htm to find out why this is so. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: wxPython && wxGlade
basically, you can just stack an outer vertical box sizer with two items and in the upper "slot" you put a horizontal box sizer with your two buttons and in the bottom slot you put the big button hope this helps /Simon ps. as this is a wxpython related question, you might get better answers on the wxpython mailinglist (but afaik, this is the way this particular thing is done). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
spurious syntax error when updating to 2.4 ?
Hi,
I'm doing some preparation for a hopefully upcoming transition to
python 2.4 (from 2.3.4) on winxp platform
However, I'm getting SyntaxErrors in files that worked fine in 2.3, it
tells me that e.g.
newLanguage.language =
languageElement[0].firstChild.data.encode("ascii")
this line is broken
However, if I modify my file just for the heck of it and comment that
particular line, I still might get syntax error on that particular
line, or if I insert a line before that particular line I might get
away with it?
Has anyone seen anything similar, or even better knows what causes
this?
/Simon
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Re: spurious syntax error when updating to 2.4 ?
Replying to self, it seems to be related to https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1163244&group_id=5470&atid=105470 (Syntax error on large file with MBCS encoding) even though my files had # -*- coding: ascii -*- However, if I removed this explicit ascii encoding then I did not get any syntax error. /Simon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: functions without parentheses
If you actually want that kind of syntax, then why don't you use Visual Basic? ;) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: exceptions from logging on Windows
I ended up monkey-patching doRollover to do a number of retries before giving up. (In our case the failures is due to our log browser happening to read the latest changes when logging wants to rollover) (Actually, I implemented a simple QueueHandler and do all file operations from a different logging thread) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How do I parse this ? regexp ? [slighly OT]
> >>> safetyChecker = re.compile(r"^[-\[\]0-9,. ]*$") ..doesn't the dot (.) in your character class mean that you are allowing EVERYTHING (except newline?) (you would probably want \. instead) /Simon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
logging problems
Hi, I'm currently using python 2.3.4 and I'm having problem with the logging module. Occasionally when logging something with exc_info=True it just hangs, nothing is logged, and software cannot continue executing. By drilling down into logging package and adding rather many print statements into logging/__init__.py it seems like the "import traceback" in formatException(self, ei) fails. I.e. print sys.modules["traceback"] import traceback print "Hello World" sys.stdout.flush() just renders: in the console, and no "Hello World" I'm running out of ideas what to try next, so suggestions/ideas appreciated! /Simon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Using ElementTree to tidy up an XML string to my liking
..I hope that you are aware that xml is *case sensitive* -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
