Re: Regular Expression

2004-12-14 Thread Timothy Grant
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 23:16:43 -0700, Michael McGarry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am horrible with Regular Expressions, can anyone recommend a book on it? > > Also I am trying to parse the following string to extract the number > after load average. > > " load average: 0.04, 0.02, 0

Re: effbot ElementTree question

2004-12-14 Thread Fredrik Lundh
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is anyone here familiar with ElementTree by effbot? > > With hello how is "hello" stored in the > element tree? Which node is it under? Similarly, with: > foo blah bar, how is bar stored? Which node is > it in? reposting the reply I just posted to the discussion boa

Re: Regular Expression

2004-12-14 Thread Steven Bethard
Michael McGarry wrote: Also I am trying to parse the following string to extract the number after load average. " load average: 0.04, 0.02, 0.01" In Python 2.4: >>> uptime='12:12:05 up 21 days, 16:31, 10 users, load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.04' >>> _, avg_str = uptime.rsplit(':', 1) >>> avg_

Regular Expression

2004-12-14 Thread Michael McGarry
Hi, I am horrible with Regular Expressions, can anyone recommend a book on it? Also I am trying to parse the following string to extract the number after load average. " load average: 0.04, 0.02, 0.01" how can I extract this number with RE or otherwise? Michael -- http://mail.python.org/mailm

Re: Regular Expression

2004-12-14 Thread Michael McGarry
Binu K S wrote: You can do this without regular expressions if you like uptime='12:12:05 up 21 days, 16:31, 10 users, load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.04' load = uptime[uptime.find('load average:'):] load 'load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.04' load = load.split(':') load ['load average', ' 0.01, 0.02, 0.04

Re: Regular Expression

2004-12-14 Thread Keith Dart
Michael McGarry wrote: Hi, I am horrible with Regular Expressions, can anyone recommend a book on it? Also I am trying to parse the following string to extract the number after load average. " load average: 0.04, 0.02, 0.01" how can I extract this number with RE or otherwise? This particular

Re: Regular Expression

2004-12-14 Thread Binu K S
You can do this without regular expressions if you like >>> uptime='12:12:05 up 21 days, 16:31, 10 users, load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.04' >>> load = uptime[uptime.find('load average:'):] >>> load 'load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.04' >>> load = load.split(':') >>> load ['load average', ' 0.01, 0.02,

Re: gather information from various files efficiently

2004-12-14 Thread Mike Meyer
Simon Brunning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 10:40:56 -0500, Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Keith Dart wrote: >> > Sigh, this reminds me of a discussion I had at my work once... It seems >> > to write optimal Python code one must understand various probabilites of >

logging in omniORB for python

2004-12-14 Thread Birgit Rahm
Hello newsgroup, I work with omniORB for python and I what to log the calls, does anyone in this group know how I can do this? I use the command to initialize the ORB ORB = CORBA.ORB_init(sys.argv + ["-ORBtraceLevel", "40"], CORBA.ORB_ID) but I dont get a log file or a message in pythonwin output

Re: lies about OOP

2004-12-14 Thread Mike Meyer
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Instead of copy and paste, I use functions for code reuse. I didn't see > the light of OOP, yet. I use Python but never did anything with OOP. I > just can't see what can be done with OOP taht can't be done with > standart procedural programing.

Re: Performance (pystone) of python 2.4 lower then python 2.3 ???

2004-12-14 Thread Dan
Lucas Hofman wrote: A 7% speed DECREASE??? According to the documentation it should be a 5% increase? I also see an 8-10% speed decrease in 2.4 (I built) from 2.3.3 (shipped w/Fedora2) in the program I'm writing (best of 3 trials each). Memory use seems to be about the same. 2.4: real2m44

effbot ElementTree question

2004-12-14 Thread dayzman
Hi, Is anyone here familiar with ElementTree by effbot? With hello how is "hello" stored in the element tree? Which node is it under? Similarly, with: foo blah bar, how is bar stored? Which node is it in? Cheers, Ming -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: New versions breaking extensions, etc.

2004-12-14 Thread Jive
"Robin Becker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cameron Laird wrote: > There was no rational reason > for me to upgrade to VC 7.x, but now I'm forced to by my preferred language. > -- > Robin Becker That's the way I feel about it too. Actually, I'm getting pushed to

Re: python gui

2004-12-14 Thread Peter Hansen
Jeff Shannon wrote: zhao wrote: python 2.4 is released, but the gui package wxpython now is only for 2.3, how long can it can released for 2.4? This has been asked numerous times on the wxPython list in recent weeks. :) Robin Dunn is reportedly working now on updating his build environment and

I DECLARE THIS THREAD FINISHED

2004-12-14 Thread Jive
Everyone keep moving. There is nothing to see here. Move along. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Dynamically passing variables to unittest

2004-12-14 Thread Mark McEahern
Tom Haddon wrote: Hi Folks, Newbie question here. I'm trying to set up some unit testing for a database abstraction class, and the first thing I want to test is the connection parameters. So, my question is, how do I dynamically pass the variables from a list, for example to the unittest module so

Dynamically passing variables to unittest

2004-12-14 Thread Tom Haddon
Hi Folks, Newbie question here. I'm trying to set up some unit testing for a database abstraction class, and the first thing I want to test is the connection parameters. So, my question is, how do I dynamically pass the variables from a list, for example to the unittest module so I can maintain

Re: lies about OOP

2004-12-14 Thread Carl Banks
projecktzero wrote: > He thinks that OOP has more overhead I think he's just confusing programming with marriage. -- CARL BANKS -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: lies about OOP

2004-12-14 Thread Jive
"Paul McGuire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I was just reacting mostly to the OP's statement that "by '86 the Joy of OOP > was widely known". I (Jive Dadson) said that. I guess I figured that if I knew about it, it was widely known. But in retrospect, I had an i

Re: lies about OOP

2004-12-14 Thread Mike Meyer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > If OOP is so beneficial for large projects, why are the Linux kernel, > the interpreters for Perl and Python, and most compilers I know written > in C rather than C++? Because C++ combines the worst features of C and OO programming. It also makes some defaults go the w

Re: lies about OOP

2004-12-14 Thread Paul McGuire
"Martijn Faassen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Paul McGuire wrote: > [snip] > > I would characterize the 80's as the transitional decade from structured > > programming (which really started to hit its stride when Djikstra published > > "Use of GOTO Considered Harmf

Re: Automate Python-2.4 Installs on Windows

2004-12-14 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> which might be great if you know how things work, but is bloody confusing >> if you don't. most importantly, how do you set properties? > > How do you know they are called properties?-) I would have thought that > "Additional parameters can be passed at the end of this c

Re: lies about OOP

2004-12-14 Thread Paul McGuire
"Roy Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I think the real reason Python is a better teaching language for > teaching OO concepts is because it just gives you the real core of OO: > inheritence, encapsulation, and association of functions with the data > they act on.

Re: How do I convert characters into integers?

2004-12-14 Thread Kent Johnson
Markus Zeindl wrote: I have got a string from the user, for example "Hi!". Now I get every character with a loop: buffer = "" for i in range(len(message)): ch = message[i-1:i] for ch in message: ... is simpler and more idiomatic. Kent -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: lies about OOP

2004-12-14 Thread Martijn Faassen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A paper finding that OOP can lead to more buggy software is at http://www.leshatton.org/IEEE_Soft_98a.html [snip description of paper that compares C++ versus Pascal or C] What papers have scientific evidence for OOP? That's of course a good question. I'm sure also that com

Re: lies about OOP

2004-12-14 Thread Martijn Faassen
Paul McGuire wrote: [snip] I would characterize the 80's as the transitional decade from structured programming (which really started to hit its stride when Djikstra published "Use of GOTO Considered Harmful") to OOP, and that OOP wasn't really "joyful" until the early-to-mid 90's. IMMEDIATE NOTICE

Re: lies about OOP

2004-12-14 Thread Roy Smith
Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did not really 'get' OOP until after learning Python. The > relatively simple but powerful user class model made more sense to > me than C++. So introducing someone to Python, where OOP is a > choice, not a mandate, is how *I* would introduce a procedura

Re: Python IDE

2004-12-14 Thread dimitri pater
Hi, Try WingIDE if you have some money (about 35 E/$ for the personal version) to spend, it's worth every (euro)cent. But please try SPE first, maybe that's enough for you. Dimitri On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 11:36:34 -0500, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What IDE's do y'all recommend for Python? I

Re: New versions breaking extensions, etc.

2004-12-14 Thread "Martin v. Löwis"
Cameron Laird wrote: Part of the trick is that it demands deep understanding to detect the antisynergies that arise from the interac- tions of the DLL, registry, and filesystem schemes. I know it was only this year that I realized the whole installation-requires-reboot absurdity is a consequence o

Re: New versions breaking extensions, etc.

2004-12-14 Thread "Martin v. Löwis"
Jive wrote: But it makes no difference, no? The problem is that both Python.exe and the extensions are *compiled* to link with a *particular* crt. No, that is not (really) the case. They are compiled to link with msvcrt.lib, which could, at link time, then become msvcrt.dll, msvcrt40.dll, or msvc

Re: How do I convert characters into integers?

2004-12-14 Thread Paul Rubin
Markus Zeindl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now I get every character with a loop: > > buffer = "" > for i in range(len(message)): >ch = message[i-1:i] You mean ch = message[i] what you have does the wrong thing when i = 0. > Here is the problem. I got a string with one character and I >

Re: Automate Python-2.4 Installs on Windows

2004-12-14 Thread "Martin v. Löwis"
Fredrik Lundh wrote: http://www.python.org/2.4/msi.html which might be great if you know how things work, but is bloody confusing if you don't. most importantly, how do you set properties? How do you know they are called properties?-) I would have thought that "Additional parameters can be passe

Re: How do I convert characters into integers?

2004-12-14 Thread Markus Zeindl
Grant Edwards wrote: On 2004-12-14, Markus Zeindl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I want to write a simple encrypter, but I've got a problem: How can I convert characters into integers? $ python Python 2.3.4 (#2, Aug 19 2004, 15:49:40) [GCC 3.4.1 (Mandrakelinux (Alpha 3.4.1-3mdk)] on linux2 Type "hel

Re: lies about OOP

2004-12-14 Thread Terry Reedy
I did not really 'get' OOP until after learning Python. The relatively simple but powerful user class model made more sense to me than C++. So introducing someone to Python, where OOP is a choice, not a mandate, is how *I* would introduce a procedural programmer to the subject. YMMV. Terry

Re: How do I convert characters into integers?

2004-12-14 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2004-12-14, Markus Zeindl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to write a simple encrypter, but I've got a problem: > How can I convert characters into integers? $ python Python 2.3.4 (#2, Aug 19 2004, 15:49:40) [GCC 3.4.1 (Mandrakelinux (Alpha 3.4.1-3mdk)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright",

Re: Archiving directory without external tools?

2004-12-14 Thread Fredrik Lundh
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does Python have any internal facility for creating recursive archives > of a directory? I'd like to avoid reliance on extenal tools > (winzip,tar,etc). import os, sys, zipfile directory = sys.argv[1] zip = zipfile. ZipFile(directory + ".zip", "w") for path, dirs,

Re: Python IDE

2004-12-14 Thread Tomas
"Fuzzyman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you're willing to pay for one, Komodo is very good. Especially for > projects. I would recomend Wing IDE over Komodo. My experience is that Wing IDE has far better code completion. And the Source Assistant feature of the

Re: lies about OOP

2004-12-14 Thread Tomas Christiansen
projecktzero wrote: > A co-worker considers himself "old school" in that he hasn't seen the > light of OOP ... He thinks that OOP has more overhead and is slower > than programs written the procedural way. He may be right, but consider the alternatives. Think of an integer. An integer is an objec

How do I convert characters into integers?

2004-12-14 Thread Markus Zeindl
Hello, I want to write a simple encrypter, but I've got a problem: How can I convert characters into integers? I have got a string from the user, for example "Hi!". Now I get every character with a loop: buffer = "" for i in range(len(message)): ch = message[i-1:i] ... The character is saved

Archiving directory without external tools?

2004-12-14 Thread iamlevis3
Does Python have any internal facility for creating recursive archives of a directory? I'd like to avoid reliance on extenal tools (winzip,tar,etc). Thanks! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

RE: need some help quickly

2004-12-14 Thread Delaney, Timothy C (Timothy)
Allan Irvine wrote: > Hope you can help - any thoughts welcome Here is the best place you can get help for your problem: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Tim Delaney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PEP 338: Executing modules inside packages with '-m'

2004-12-14 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Martin Bless wrote: > On my Windows machine this command line switch really makes my life so > much easier. if you use windows, chances are that what you really want is exemaker... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PythonWin Not Updating

2004-12-14 Thread It's me
It works fine here. -- It's me "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I'm working on a program in PythonWin. The problem I'm running into is > that after I make a code change, PythonWin doesn't always see it. Has > anyone else had this problem? > > Chris -- htt

Re: lies about OOP

2004-12-14 Thread Jarek Zgoda
projecktzero wrote: A co-worker considers himself "old school" in that he hasn't seen the light of OOP.(It might be because he's in love with Perl...but that's another story.) He thinks that OOP has more overhead and is slower than programs written the procedural way. I poked around google, but I d

Re: PythonWin Not Updating

2004-12-14 Thread Greg Krohn
Robert Brewer wrote: Chris wrote: I'm working on a program in PythonWin. The problem I'm running into is that after I make a code change, PythonWin doesn't always see it. Has anyone else had this problem? "See it" in the interactive session? Use reload(): http://docs.python.org/lib/built-in-fun

RE: PythonWin Not Updating

2004-12-14 Thread Robert Brewer
Chris wrote: > I'm working on a program in PythonWin. The problem I'm > running into is that after I make a code change, > PythonWin doesn't always see it. Has anyone else > had this problem? "See it" in the interactive session? Use reload(): http://docs.python.org/lib/built-in-funcs.html Oth

Re: Looking for a coder to do some work

2004-12-14 Thread Brad Clements
Sounds like a generic html based information kiosk. Anyone can do this pretty easily using embedded IE or Mozilla ActiveX control wrapped up in Venster. Just run an internal http server in another thread.. I've done this for desktop apps. Though, full-screen windows I haven't tried, but should be

Re: PEP 338: Executing modules inside packages with '-m'

2004-12-14 Thread Martin Bless
[Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] >Python 2.4's -m command line switch only works for modules directly on >sys.path. On my Windows machine this command line switch really makes my life so much easier. I appreciate -m very much. Going further as proposed in PEP 338 sounds good to me. One thing

Re: save an opengl canvas (wxPython)

2004-12-14 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
There's sample code in PyOpenGL and OpenGLContext for saving canvases to PNG or JPEG formats using PIL. Saving to Postscript requires considerably more work (if you're implying saving as triangles, lines and the like). There is a GPL library which lets you do this, and I have an old SWIG wrap

Re: Python IDE

2004-12-14 Thread Jarek Zgoda
Chris wrote: What IDE's do y'all recommend for Python? I'm using PythonWin atm, but I'd like something with more functionality. On Linux, Eric3 is really worth recommending. On Windows, if you don't mind spending some $$$, buy Komodo. These programs "have it all" (Eric3 "has more", though). --

Re: pyparsing and 'keywords'

2004-12-14 Thread Paul McGuire
"Berteun Damman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 18:39:19 GMT, Paul McGuire > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> If I try however to parse the String "if test; testagain; fi;", it does > >> not work, because the fi is interpreted as an expr, not as the

Re: Automate Python-2.4 Installs on Windows

2004-12-14 Thread Michel Claveau - abstraction méta-galactique non triviale en fuite perpétuelle.
+1 Michel Claveau -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python 3.0

2004-12-14 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Edward C. Jones wrote: > You are not dumb. Many search phrases are obvious if and only if you have > already seen them. or typed them, in this case (did you read the subject before posting? ;-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python 3.0

2004-12-14 Thread Edward C. Jones
Chris wrote: Okay, color me stupid, but what is everyone referencing when they mention Python 3.0? I didn't see any mention of it on the Python site. http://www.python.org/peps/pep-3000.html (which happens to be the first hit if you search for "python 3.0" in the search box on python.org...) Oka

Re: PyQt on MAC OS X

2004-12-14 Thread whamoo
dMichael McGarry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You must use pythonw for graphics application =) > > So launch the script with pythonw instead of python ;-) > > > Thanks using pythonw did the trick. > > I appreciate everyone's help. ;-) Happy programming with your mac and python -- Whamoo ww

Re: Python 3.0

2004-12-14 Thread Doug Holton
Chris wrote: Okay, color me stupid, but what is everyone referencing when they mention Python 3.0? I didn't see any mention of it on the Python site. http://www.python.org/moin/Python3.0 has more information than the PEP 3000, plus you can contribute to the page. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: lies about OOP

2004-12-14 Thread Steve Holden
Paul McGuire wrote: "Steve Holden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [some stuff] Good points all. And yes, I recall the BYTE article on Smalltalk. I guess I was just reacting mostly to the OP's statement that "by '86 the Joy of OOP was widely known". He didn't say "OO

Re: lies about OOP

2004-12-14 Thread Steve Holden
Paul McGuire wrote: "Steve Holden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [some stuff] Good points all. And yes, I recall the BYTE article on Smalltalk. I guess I was just reacting mostly to the OP's statement that "by '86 the Joy of OOP was widely known". He didn't say "OO

Re: pyparsing and 'keywords'

2004-12-14 Thread Paul McGuire
"Berteun Damman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hello, > > I'm having some problems with pyparsing, I could not find how to tell > it to view certain words as keywords, i.e. not as a possible variable > name (in an elegant way), > for example, I have this little gramm

Re: pyparsing and 'keywords'

2004-12-14 Thread Berteun Damman
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 18:39:19 GMT, Paul McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If I try however to parse the String "if test; testagain; fi;", it does >> not work, because the fi is interpreted as an expr, not as the end of >> the if statement, and of course, adding another fi doesn't solve this >> e

Re: gather information from various files efficiently

2004-12-14 Thread Jeff Shannon
Klaus Neuner wrote: Yet, I have got 43 such files. Together they are 4,1M large. In the future, they will probably become much larger. At the moment, the process takes several hours. As it is a process that I have to run very often, I would like it to be faster. Others have shown how you can m

Re: Suggestion for "syntax error": ++i, --i

2004-12-14 Thread Doug Holton
Petr Prikryl wrote: Hi, Summary: In my opinion, the C-like prefix increment and decrement operators (++i and --i) should be marked as "syntax error". We have a patch for increment and decrement operators in boo ( http://boo.codehaus.org/ ), along with an operator overloading syntax like below. S

Re: Python 3.0

2004-12-14 Thread Fredrik Lundh
"Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, color me stupid, but what is everyone referencing when they mention > Python 3.0? I didn't > see any mention of it on the Python site. http://www.python.org/peps/pep-3000.html (which happens to be the first hit if you search for "python 3.0" in the s

Re: lies about OOP

2004-12-14 Thread Paul McGuire
"Steve Holden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Paul McGuire wrote: > > > "Jive" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > >>But by '86, the Joy of OOP was widely known. > >> > > > > > > "Widely known"? Errr? In 1986, "object-orien

Re: python gui

2004-12-14 Thread Jeff Shannon
zhao wrote: python 2.4 is released, but the gui package wxpython now is only for 2.3, how long can it can released for 2.4? This has been asked numerous times on the wxPython list in recent weeks. :) Robin Dunn is reportedly working now on updating his build environment and scripts to use VS

Re: RegEx: find all occurances of a single character in a string

2004-12-14 Thread P
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: import re s='abcdatraataza' r=re.compile('(? Oops, tested this time: import re def index_letters(s,l): regexp='(? print index_letters('abcdatraataza','a') Just comparing Fredrik Lundh's method: r=re.compile("a+") [m.

Re: gather information from various files efficiently

2004-12-14 Thread Steven Bethard
Klaus Neuner wrote: The straightforward way to solve this problem is to create a dictionary. Like so: [...] a, b = get_information(line) if a in dict.keys(): dict[a].append(b) else: dict[a] = [b] So I timed the three suggestions with a few different datasets: > cat builddict.py def askpermi

Re: subprocess vs. proctools

2004-12-14 Thread Keith Dart
Donn Cave wrote: Keith Dart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |>> if exitstatus: |>> print "good result (errorlevel of zero)" |>> else: |>> print exitstatus # prints message with exit value This is indeed how the shell works, though the actual failure value is rarely of any interest. It's also

Re: lies about OOP

2004-12-14 Thread beliavsky
A paper finding that OOP can lead to more buggy software is at http://www.leshatton.org/IEEE_Soft_98a.html Les Hatton "Does OO sync with the way we think?", IEEE Software, 15(3), p.46-54 "This paper argues from real data that OO based systems written in C++ appear to increase the cost of fixing de

Re: while 1 vs while True

2004-12-14 Thread Steven Bethard
Steve Holden wrote: # Pre 2.2.1 compat. try: True, False except NameError: True = 1==1; False = 1==0 I believe this should work for all versions up to 2.4, and would also work with a 2.5 that made True and False constants. But if anyone can prove me wrong it would be you ... :-) Seems like it mig

Re: do you master list comprehensions?

2004-12-14 Thread Steven Bethard
Timothy Babytch wrote: Will Stuyvesant wrote: data = [['foo','bar','baz'],['my','your'],['holy','grail']] sum(data, []) ['foo', 'bar', 'baz', 'my', 'your', 'holy', 'grail'] The second parameter passed to sum is just to overrride default initial value "zero". It's worth keeping in mind that this so

Re: Emailing in Python

2004-12-14 Thread Larry Bates
Great class for making this very easy located here: http://motion.sourceforge.net/related/send_jpg.py And is supports list of binary attachments that is pretty tricky by hand. Larry Bates Syscon, Inc. Philippe Reynolds wrote: Hi, I'm learning python...one of my tasks is to send out emails... I can

Re: do you master list comprehensions?

2004-12-14 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Steven Bethard wrote: > > python -m timeit -s "data = [range(10) for _ in range(1000)]" > "sum(data, [])" > 10 loops, best of 3: 54.2 msec per loop > > > python -m timeit -s "data = [range(10) for _ in range(1000)]" "[w for > d in data for w in d]" > 100 loops, best of 3: 1.75 msec per loop > > Th

Re: Python IDE

2004-12-14 Thread Alex Stapleton
Why didn't you like Eclipse? Was it that the Python modules were bad, or just Eclipse in general? I use it for my Java developement and haven't had any problems with it. Just the python stuff really, I've used it for some java stuff and know plenty of people that do every day and they all love

Re: RegEx: find all occurances of a single character in a string

2004-12-14 Thread P
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: import re s='abcdatraataza' r=re.compile('(? Oops, tested this time: import re def index_letters(s,l): regexp='(? print index_letters('abcdatraataza','a') -- Pádraig Brady - http://www.pixelbeat.org -- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listi

RE: Python IDE

2004-12-14 Thread Batista, Facundo
Title: RE: Python IDE [Chris] #- -chuckle-  Hopefully I don't start off a full fledged war.-grin- Too late, :p #- Why didn't you like Eclipse?  Was it that the Python modules #- were bad, #- or just Eclipse in general?  I use it for my Java developement and #- haven't had any problem

Re: RegEx: find all occurances of a single character in a string

2004-12-14 Thread Steven Bethard
Franz Steinhaeusler wrote: given a string: st="abcdatraataza" ^ ^ ^ ^ (these should be found) I want to get the positions of all single 'a' characters. (Without another 'a' neighbour) You could also try negative lookahead/lookbehind assertions: >>> st="abcdatraataza" >>> for m in re.findi

PythonWin Not Updating

2004-12-14 Thread Chris
I'm working on a program in PythonWin. The problem I'm running into is that after I make a code change, PythonWin doesn't always see it. Has anyone else had this problem? Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: RegEx: find all occurances of a single character in a string

2004-12-14 Thread P
Franz Steinhaeusler wrote: given a string: st="abcdatraataza" ^ ^ ^ ^ (these should be found) I want to get the positions of all single 'a' characters. (Without another 'a' neighbour) So I tried: r=re.compile('[^a]a([^a]') but this applies only for the a's, which has neighbours. So I

Re: while 1 vs while True

2004-12-14 Thread Steven Bethard
Steve Holden wrote: Interestingly the same error occurs even when attempting sideways access: Python 2.4 (#60, Nov 30 2004, 11:49:19) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import __builtin__ >>> __builtin__.None = "Rhubarb

Python IDE

2004-12-14 Thread Chris
What IDE's do y'all recommend for Python? I'm using PythonWin atm, but I'd like something with more functionality. Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: how do I "peek" into the next line?

2004-12-14 Thread fuzzylollipop
read the orginal poster's SPECIFIC question he make only reference to a FILE or STDIN which can't be destructively read, either way he don't not requre the look-ahead to do what he wants. So my advice is still valid. Think about it in a different way. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/py

Re: Html or Pdf to Rtf (Linux) with Python

2004-12-14 Thread Cameron Laird
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Axel Straschil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello! > >Sorry Cameron, I was replying, now my folloup ;-): > >> Are you trying to convert one document in particular, or automate the >> process of conveting arbitrary HTML documents? > >I have an small CMS System where t

Re: while 1 vs while True

2004-12-14 Thread Steve Holden
Peter Otten wrote: Fredrik Lundh wrote: Steve Holden wrote: It was unfortunate that so many people chose to use that for compatibility, when if they'd used the same code that the win32all extensions did they could have retained backward compatibility even across a change to constants: try: Tru

ANN: Python Test Environment

2004-12-14 Thread Fuzzyman
Well sort of... More a request for comments really - to see if anyone is interested in this. http://www.voidspace.org.uk/atlantibots/pythonutils.html#testenv I've created a script that will build a 'test environment'. Windoze(tm) only as it uses py2exe. It scans your Python\Lib folder and b

pyparsing and 'keywords'

2004-12-14 Thread Berteun Damman
Hello, I'm having some problems with pyparsing, I could not find how to tell it to view certain words as keywords, i.e. not as a possible variable name (in an elegant way), for example, I have this little grammar: terminator = Literal(";") expr = Word(alphas) body = Forward(); ifstat = "if" + bod

Re: Python 3.0

2004-12-14 Thread Chris
Okay, color me stupid, but what is everyone referencing when they mention Python 3.0? I didn't see any mention of it on the Python site. http://www.python.org/peps/pep-3000.html (which happens to be the first hit if you search for "python 3.0" in the search box on python.org...) Okay, I feel dumb

Re: Python IDE

2004-12-14 Thread Chris
What IDE's do y'all recommend for Python? I'm using PythonWin atm, but I'd like something with more functionality. Oh god we're all going to die. -chuckle- Hopefully I don't start off a full fledged war.-grin- But er, ActiveState Komodo is quite nice IIRC (can't use it anymore as all my coding

Re: Help need with converting Hex string to IEEE format float

2004-12-14 Thread Fredrik Lundh
># convert to byte string, via the array module >import array, struct >a = array.array("B", [int(c, 16) for c in x]) >v = struct.unpack("!f", ) eh? should be: # convert to byte string, via the array module import array, struct a = array.array("B", [int(c, 16) for c in

Re: Python IDE

2004-12-14 Thread Fuzzyman
If you're willing to pay for one, Komodo is very good. Especially for projects. Regards, Fuzzy http://www.voidspace.org.uk/atlantibots/pythonutils.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python IDE

2004-12-14 Thread Alex Stapleton
Chris wrote: What IDE's do y'all recommend for Python? I'm using PythonWin atm, but I'd like something with more functionality. Chris Oh god we're all going to die. But er, ActiveState Komodo is quite nice IIRC (can't use it anymore as all my coding is commercial and I don't need it enough to s

Re: gather information from various files efficiently

2004-12-14 Thread Simon Brunning
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 10:40:56 -0500, Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Keith Dart wrote: > > Sigh, this reminds me of a discussion I had at my work once... It seems > > to write optimal Python code one must understand various probabilites of > > your data, and code according to the likely sc

RE: Python IDE

2004-12-14 Thread Doran_Dermot
If you want to spend the $35 I can recommend WingIDE. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Sent: 14 December 2004 16:37 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Python IDE What IDE's do y'all recommend for Python? I'm using PythonWin atm, but I'

Re: subprocess vs. proctools

2004-12-14 Thread Donn Cave
Keith Dart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |>> Oh, I forgot to mention that it also has a more user- and |>> programmer-friendly ExitStatus object that processess can return. This |>> is directly testable in Python: |>> |>> proc = proctools.spawn("somecommand") |>> exitstatus = proc.wait() |>> |>> if

Python 3.0

2004-12-14 Thread Chris
Okay, color me stupid, but what is everyone referencing when they mention Python 3.0? I didn't see any mention of it on the Python site. Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Help need with converting Hex string to IEEE format float

2004-12-14 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Max M wrote: > Oh, programmers loves this kind stuff. You should get tons of answers. data = '80 00 00 00' import Image v = Image.fromstring("F", (1, 1), data, "hex", "F;32BF").getpixel((0, 0)) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Regexp problem, which pattern to use in split

2004-12-14 Thread Hans Almåsbakk
Hi, I have a problem which I believe is seen before: Finding the correct pattern to use, in order to split a line correctly, using the split function in the re module. I'm new to regexp, and it isn't always easy to comprehend for a newbie :) The lines I want to split are like this: (The followin

Re: Emailing in Python

2004-12-14 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Philippe Reynolds wrote: > I'm learning python...one of my tasks is to send out emails... > I can send emails to one person at a time but not as groups > > Do you think you can help. > > Cheers > Philippe Reynolds > > Here is the section of code: > # me == the sender's email address > me = '[E

Re: while 1 vs while True

2004-12-14 Thread Steve Holden
Fredrik Lundh wrote: Steve Holden wrote: It was unfortunate that so many people chose to use that for compatibility, when if they'd used the same code that the win32all extensions did they could have retained backward compatibility even across a change to constants: try: True except Attribut

Re: Help need with converting Hex string to IEEE format float

2004-12-14 Thread Max M
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Each of these numbers is a Hex byte making up a four byte (32 bit Big-Endian) IEEE float. I have read this data into Python using readlines and then line.split(). This gives me: ['80', '00', '00', '00'] Oh, programmers loves this kind stuff. You should get tons of answers.

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