Re: [BangPypers] UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte xxx

2011-04-18 Thread Sam's Lists
Perhaps a silly question, but what encoding is the page you are getting? You can check this by loading the page in FireFox, going to the view menu, and selecting "character encoding". That will tell you what FireFox thinks is the encoding. If it's not UTF-8, you'll probably have to convert it. -

Re: [BangPypers] mobile application development

2009-12-17 Thread Sam's Lists
I think whether you chose Symbian or Mameo comes down to whether you are betting on the future of cell phones being Linux or not, and what sort of time frame you are most concerned about. Many cell phones currently run Linux behind the scenes. The N900 (excluding one or two failed "open source" p

Re: [BangPypers] Reg Expression problem and Unicode...

2009-05-27 Thread Sam's Lists
Anand--- Thanks, that worked great. -Sam On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Anand Chitipothu wrote: > > text = "The Price £7" > > pattern = u"£\d" > > > > m = re.search(pattern, text, re.UNICODE) > > print m.group(0) > > Your text is in utf-8 encoding and pattern in unicode. > Make text unicode s

[BangPypers] Reg Expression problem and Unicode...

2009-05-26 Thread Sam's Lists
Hello everyone... I have a small problem...I'm trying to match a pound symbol in a document using Python. (Version 2.5.2, although I also ran this under 2.6 and it seemed to give the same result. But ultimately I need correct code for 2.5.2) Here's the code: #!/usr/bin/env python # -*- coding:

Re: [BangPypers] unladen-swallow

2009-04-02 Thread Sam's Lists
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai < abpil...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Shekhar wrote: > > Already slashdotted and many of us should already be knowing but could > > not resist posting. > > > http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/03/googl

Re: [BangPypers] combine Turbogears2 in Python Applications

2009-03-27 Thread Sam&#x27;s Lists
Sorry for the belated comment If you are not writing a web app from scratch, but just want to add a web interface to an already existing python application you will probably find CherryPy to be a much easier solution. TurboGears and Pylons have an awful lot of scaffolding. This can be usefu

Re: [BangPypers] Welcoming Sam Ockman

2009-02-06 Thread Sam&#x27;s Lists
Thank you! Anand and I have been discussing Python and web crawlers for the past few years. He's been incredibly helpful and he speaks very highly of this group. I look forward to the discussions. -Sam On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 5:58 AM, Amit k. Saha wrote: > On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Anand