Re: wxStyledTextCtrl problem ?

2004-11-28 Thread Josiah Carlson
Paul Robson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a wierd thing with a little editor app I'm writing. > > I'm using wxStyledTextCtrl ; the wrapper for Scintilla. When I create the > frame in wxPython, I use self.Editor.SetFocus() to put the focus initially > on the editor. > > This works fine.

Re: The use of :

2004-11-28 Thread Paul Robson
On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 01:12:16 -0500, Jeremy Bowers wrote: > The only punctuation you *need* is whitespace. See Forth (I don't know > if this is perfect but I'd bet the transform is simple), : Announce ." Forth has a fair bit of punctuation" ; -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Standalone email package 3.0 final

2004-11-28 Thread Barry Warsaw
Python 2.4 final will probably be released in a few hours so this seems like a good time to release the standalone email package, version 3.0 final. Unless there's some last second snafu, this will be identical to the version released with Python 2.4. email 3.0 is compatible with Python 2.3 and 2

Re: Decimal printing without the exponent

2004-11-28 Thread Raymond Hettinger
"Bryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > is there a way to make the Decimal class not print the exponent version of the > decimal? > > > >>> str(Decimal('1010')) > '1010' > >>> str(Decimal((0, (1, 0, 1), 1))) > '1.01E+3' > >>> > > how do you make the 2nd example pri

Building web graphics with Python

2004-11-28 Thread Steven Feil
I am wondering if there is a light weight Python library for producing web graphics on-the-fly. There is a C-language library called gd that can be used in a CGI program to produce gif images. The Library can be used to produce graphics images that are dynamically generated. I was wondering if th

how to drop all thread ??

2004-11-28 Thread Leon
if class A( use threading,thread module ) to produce 100 thread,how to drop its (100 thread) when its running -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: network programming without goto

2004-11-28 Thread Josiah Carlson
kent sin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But that will make too many uncessary connection: > >one connection can do a number of search before it > got timeout, so I want to do as many search as > possible before it got timeout. I think the connection > cost is high here, and it also got some

Re: graphics

2004-11-28 Thread Yet Another Mike
You'll need wxPython. Once you get that, look in the samples for pySketch. This is a very straightforward program that helped me learn a lot about GUI with wxPython. Pretty easy to do. Once you get a hang for the basics, then you might be interested in wxGlade, an interactive GUI designer. wxGl

Help on creating a HTML by python

2004-11-28 Thread sepgy
Can anyone help me to use a python to create an HTML photo gallery generator. When it's finished, it will be able find all the picture files (i.e. .jpg, .gif. .png files) in any given folder on the computer, automatically create smaller thumbnails for each image, and then generate a complete HTML f

Re: The use of :

2004-11-28 Thread Jeremy Bowers
A two-fer. On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 10:28:42 +0800, Isaac To wrote: >> "Greg" == Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> The only punctuation you *need* is whitespace. See Forth > > Greg> You don't even need that... see FORTRAN. :-) Well, I for one don't like reading large program

Re: The use of :

2004-11-28 Thread Isaac To
> "Greg" == Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The only punctuation you *need* is whitespace. See Forth Greg> You don't even need that... see FORTRAN. :-) And you don't need everything else either... see this. http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/whitespace/ :-) Regard

Re: The use of :

2004-11-28 Thread Greg Ewing
Jeremy Bowers wrote: The only punctuation you *need* is whitespace. See Forth You don't even need that... see FORTRAN. :-) DOI=1TO10-ly, -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg -- http://mail.python.org/

Re: Closing files

2004-11-28 Thread Jerry Sievers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Henrik Holm) writes: [+] > I have recently started playing around with Python. Some of the things > I have done have involved reading files. The way I do this is along the > lines of > > f = file('file.txt') > lines = f.readlines() > f.close() Verbose and readable. A

Re: Closing files

2004-11-28 Thread Jp Calderone
On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 18:59:31 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Henrik Holm) wrote: >I have recently started playing around with Python. Some of the things > I have done have involved reading files. The way I do this is along the > lines of > > [snip] http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Amail.python.

Closing files

2004-11-28 Thread Henrik Holm
I have recently started playing around with Python. Some of the things I have done have involved reading files. The way I do this is along the lines of f = file('file.txt') lines = f.readlines() f.close() I have noticed that it is possible to do this in one line: lines = file('file.txt

Re: protocols, inheritance and polymorphism

2004-11-28 Thread Alex Martelli
Christophe Cavalaria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If your programs need that much dynamic_cast to work, then your programs are > bad. Wrong. Look at the absolute mess that the Visitor design pattern is, and how Robert Martin made it much less horrible by turning it into Dynamic Visitor -- which

Re: Is there a consensus on how to check a polymorphic instance?

2004-11-28 Thread Alex Martelli
Dan Perl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a question here, as we are discussing now protocol interfaces vs. > inheritance. Is using a class that implements a protocol without inheriting > from a base class still "polymorphism"? ``still'' is inappropriate here. It is _fully_ polymorphism, of

Re: Is there a consensus on how to check a polymorphic instance?

2004-11-28 Thread Alex Martelli
Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But the problem is still there: how do you know what > > it looks like before you treat it as a cat? isinstance(), , as Steve > > state, is too rigid. > > The argument is that you probably don't really need to know > what it looks like *before* you try

Re: The use of :

2004-11-28 Thread Michael Sparks
On Sun, 28 Nov 2004, [ISO-8859-1] BJörn Lindqvist wrote: > In the faq, > http://www.python.org/doc/faq/general.html#why-are-colons-required-for-the-if-while-def-class-statements, > it is stated that the colon is there "primarily to enhance readability > (one of the results of the experimental ABC

Re: Replacing words from strings except 'and' / 'or' / 'and not'

2004-11-28 Thread Jp Calderone
On 28 Nov 2004 15:33:13 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Machin) wrote: >Skip Montanaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > > >> > Is there a reason to use sets here? I think lists will do as well. > > >> > > >> Sets are implemented using dictionaries, so the "

Re: passing a socket to a spawned process.

2004-11-28 Thread Dave Cole
Martin C.Atkins wrote: I have (finally!) put a package up on our website that provides a Python module for sending file descriptors down Unix-domain sockets, on Linux. See the first item under: http://www.mca-ltd.com/index.php?PAGE=resources/home.php Please let me know of any problems, obvi

Michel MARTIN/GAUMONT est absent.

2004-11-28 Thread mmartin
Je serai absent(e) du 28/06/2004 au 31/12/2004. A compter du 28/06/04 nouvelle adresse e mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Replacing words from strings except 'and' / 'or' / 'and not'

2004-11-28 Thread John Machin
Skip Montanaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > >> > Is there a reason to use sets here? I think lists will do as well. > >> > >> Sets are implemented using dictionaries, so the "if w in KEYWORDS" > >> part would be O(1) instead of O(n) as with lists..

Re: A lock that times out but doesn't poll

2004-11-28 Thread Jive
Dang. I forgot the line-wrap again. Sorry about that. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: A lock that times out but doesn't poll

2004-11-28 Thread Jive
"Peter Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Python, of course, is unsuitable for many hard realtime systems, > and if you're using Windows you are probably on the wrong platform > in the first place. Well, there is that. The platform I'm using is a realtime opera