directory listing

2005-01-27 Thread Atul Kamat
hi how do i get a full listing of permissions for files and directories in linux? Something like rwx-r--r-- i have managed to get it using the os.access modes as of now but it gives me the permissions of the current user. regards Atul Kamat Visionael Labs Bangalore -- http://mail.python.

Re: Classical FP problem in python : Hamming problem

2005-01-27 Thread Michael Spencer
Paul Rubin wrote: Francis Girard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Thank you Nick and Steven for the idea of a more generic imerge. If you want to get fancy, the merge should use a priority queue (like in the heapsort algorithm) instead of a linear scan through the incoming iters, to find the next item

Re: Hello

2005-01-27 Thread Swaroop C H
> Most ISPs provide > news servers, often at 'news.ispname.net' if the ISP is 'ispname.net'. > You need to get the correct details of which news server to use from > your ISP and configure your newsreader to use that. Once your newsread > is talking correctly to your ISP's news server, *then* you c

Re: Hello

2005-01-27 Thread Craig Ringer
On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 19:39 -0500, g_xo wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am a python beginner and look forward to learning the language and > working on some interesting projects using it. > > I was wondering if anybody may help me get access to the news group > comp.lang.python I am trying to acce

Re: Classical FP problem in python : Hamming problem

2005-01-27 Thread Paul Rubin
Francis Girard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thank you Nick and Steven for the idea of a more generic imerge. If you want to get fancy, the merge should use a priority queue (like in the heapsort algorithm) instead of a linear scan through the incoming iters, to find the next item to output. That

Re: Point of Sale

2005-01-27 Thread Andreas Pauley
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Evan Simpson wrote: You may want to check out the Spread Toolkit, at www.spread.org, whose Python wrapper lives at http://www.python.org/other/spread/doc.html. It's used by the Zope Replication Service, for example. Cheers, Evan @ 4-am Thanks a lot, I need components like t

Re: Why do look-ahead and look-behind have to be fixed-width patterns?

2005-01-27 Thread Steven Bethard
John Machin wrote: To grab the text after the 2nd colon (if indeed there are two or more), it's much simpler to do this: import re q = re.compile(r'.*?:.*?:(.*)').search def grab(s): ...m = q(s) ...if m: ... print m.group(1) ...else: ... print 'not found!' ... grab('') not f

Re: PythonWin (build 203) for Python 2.3 causes Windows 2000 to grind to a halt?

2005-01-27 Thread Roger Upole
These look like symptoms of sf bug #1017504 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1017504&group_id=78018&atid=551954 What version of Pywin32 are you running ? There's a (semi) fix for this in the latest build. hth Roger "Chris P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message

Re: threading and internet explorer com

2005-01-27 Thread Roger Upole
You'll need to call pythoncom.CoInitialize() in each thread. Roger "James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > hi, > > i'm using python 2.4 with pywin32... > I've tried to use internet explorer control with a class. > it was fine until i decided to inherit thread

Re: python under java

2005-01-27 Thread Grig Gheorghiu
At a command prompt, do "which python" to see where the python binary lives. Then specify the full path to python in your exec() call, instead of just "python". What probably happens is that you don't have the python binary in your PATH when you run exec() from your Java code. Grig -- http://mail

LinearAlgebra incredibly slow for eigenvalue problems

2005-01-27 Thread drife
Hello, I need to calculate the eigenvectors and eigenvalues for a 3600 X 3600 covariance matrix. The LinearAlgebra package in Python is incredibly slow to perform the above calculations (about 1.5 hours). This in spite of the fact that I have installed Numeric with the full ATLAS and LAPACK libra

Re: win32com/makepy question

2005-01-27 Thread Robert Kaplan
Hi, I've been looking at the client side com stuff in __init__.py in the client subdirectory under win32com, and some of the routines do exactly that. Certainly DispatchWithEvents tries to generate that, and I thought Dispatch does before returning a late binding object. Hope this helps, Bob T

Re: What's so funny? WAS Re: rotor replacement

2005-01-27 Thread Paul Rubin
"Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I don't see why you can't make up your mind enough to issue simple > > statements like "the Python lib should have a module that does > > so-and-so > > I can say that assuming I know what so-and-so is. For the specific > case of AES, I would say "I

Re: tkinter: Can You Underline More Than 1 Char In A Menu Title

2005-01-27 Thread Tim Daneliuk
Jeff Epler wrote: On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 06:38:22AM -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote: Is it possible to underline more than a single character as I am doing with the 'underline=0' above. I tried 'underline=(0,2)' but that didn't work. No. Jeff I love a clear answer ;) thanks... -- --

Re: Talking to the wind

2005-01-27 Thread Dan Perl
"Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hey all, I have seen no evidence that XL even reads the responses that > have been directed thereto. The above is like > > /dev/null, > Why don't you ever answer the messages I keep sending to you? > > Terry J. Reedy

Re: parsing WSDL

2005-01-27 Thread Uche Ogbuji
Just for completeness I wanted to mention that yes, you can use 4Suite to parse WSDL and get method signature information, but I do agree that it's better to do this at a higher level, if you can. WHy reinvent that wheel? SOAPpy has a decent WSDL class. -- Uche Ogbuji

Re: 4suite XSLT thread safe ?

2005-01-27 Thread Uche Ogbuji
Sorry I'm late to the whole thread. Diez B. Roggisch is pretty much right on the money in all his comments. 4XSLT *is* thread safe, but each individual processor instance is not thread safe. Yes, this is typical OO style: you encapsulate state in an instance so that as long as each thread has it

Re: tkinter: Can You Underline More Than 1 Char In A Menu Title

2005-01-27 Thread Jeff Epler
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 06:38:22AM -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > Is it possible to underline more than a single character as I am doing > with the 'underline=0' above. I tried 'underline=(0,2)' but that didn't > work. No. Jeff pgpFCNSGSpXA9.pgp Description: PGP signature -- http://mail.python.o

Re: Why do look-ahead and look-behind have to be fixed-width patterns?

2005-01-27 Thread John Machin
inhahe wrote: > Hi i'm a newbie at this and probably always will be, so don't be surprised > if I don't know what i'm talking about. > > but I don't understand why regex look-behinds (and look-aheads) have to be > fixed-width patterns. > > i'm getting the impression that it's supposed to make sear

Talking to the wind

2005-01-27 Thread Terry Reedy
"The Flow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Xah Lee, > > Do you want to be taken seriously? > First, stop posting. > Second, learn perl. > Third, learn python. Hey all, I have seen no evidence that XL even reads the responses that have been directed thereto. The ab

Re: Clarification on XML parsing & namespaces (xml.dom.minidom)

2005-01-27 Thread Uche Ogbuji
Greg Wogan-Browne wrote: > I am having some trouble figuring out what is going on here - is this a > bug, or correct behaviour? Basically, when I create an XML document with > a namespace using xml.dom.minidom.parse() or parseString(), the > namespace exists as an xmlns attribute in the DOM (fair e

Re: [perl-python] 20050127 traverse a dir

2005-01-27 Thread Jürgen Exner
Xah Lee wrote: [...] > [long rant about Perl modules snipped] > > # And because the way it is > # written, Yeah, indeed, you correctly identified the root of the problems. If you would have written your Perl program in a normal way instead of in your cryptic wretched style then you would not have

IPython Article on O'Reilly's ONLamp site

2005-01-27 Thread Jeremy Jones
I've written an article on IPython which is now live on O'Reilly's ONLamp site at http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2005/01/27/ipython.html. All feedback is welcome. Regardless of what you may think of the article, I hope it encourages everyone to at least try out IPython. IPython has beco

Why do look-ahead and look-behind have to be fixed-width patterns?

2005-01-27 Thread inhahe
Hi i'm a newbie at this and probably always will be, so don't be surprised if I don't know what i'm talking about. but I don't understand why regex look-behinds (and look-aheads) have to be fixed-width patterns. i'm getting the impression that it's supposed to make searching exponentially slower

win32com/makepy question

2005-01-27 Thread Tom Willis
Just a general question. It seems in COM late binding is something that should be avoided if possible. Because python seems to be really good at doing thing dynamically I'm wondering why no one has figured out how to make the functionality in makepy fire automagically when you need it. For exam

Greetings and win32 com events question

2005-01-27 Thread Robert Kaplan
Hi, I'm new to the group, so greetings all! I'm working on an application try to respond to events in Microsoft Access using Python and win32com. However, I'm having trouble in setting up the event handlers. I can think of 2 approaches both of which yield win32com errors. First is the approac

Re: inherit without calling parent class constructor?

2005-01-27 Thread Christian Dieterich
On Déardaoin, Ean 27, 2005, at 19:25 America/Chicago, Jeff Shannon wrote: Okay, so size (and the B object) is effectively a class attribute, rather than an instance attribute. You can do this explicitly -- Ah, now I'm getting there. That does the trick. Probably not worth the trouble in this pa

python under java

2005-01-27 Thread motokoit
For some reason i need to start a python script from inside a java code. The technique is standard Process proc = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("python myscript.py") and so worked for months since yestarday the same instruction does not work but the line is correct because from the terminal pro

Re: Who should security issues be reported to?

2005-01-27 Thread Aahz
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Who are the appropriate people to report security problems to in >respect of a module included with the Python distribution? I don't >feel it appropriate to be reporting it on general mailing lists. There is no generally appropriate n

Re: [perl-python] 20050127 traverse a dir

2005-01-27 Thread The Flow
Sorry about that... (I forgot what he was trying to teach) Thanks for the clarification -- The Flow -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [perl-python] 20050127 traverse a dir

2005-01-27 Thread Timo Virkkala
The Flow wrote: Do you want to be taken seriously? First, stop posting. Second, learn perl. Third, learn python. No. Second, learn Python. Third, learn Perl (optional). :) But we do agree on the first. -- Timo Virkkala -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Question about 'None'

2005-01-27 Thread Jeff Shannon
flamesrock wrote: I should also mention that I'm using version 2.0.1 (schools retro solaris machines :( ) At home (version 2.3.4) it prints out 'True' for the above code block. That would explain it -- as /F mentioned previously, the special case for None was added in 2.1. Jeff Shannon Technician

Re: [perl-python] 20050127 traverse a dir

2005-01-27 Thread The Flow
Xah Lee, Do you want to be taken seriously? First, stop posting. Second, learn perl. Third, learn python. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Tkinter vs wxPython

2005-01-27 Thread Ed Leafe
On Jan 27, 2005, at 12:17 PM, Gabriel Cosentino de Barros wrote: Now going back on topic: A think that neighter Tk nor wxWindow is a good choice for python. They both suck much of it when it came to abstraction. They're still better than glade or gtk. But could improve a lot. wxWindow has simple

Re: inherit without calling parent class constructor?

2005-01-27 Thread Jeff Shannon
Christian Dieterich wrote: On Déardaoin, Ean 27, 2005, at 14:05 America/Chicago, Jeff Shannon wrote: the descriptor approach does. In either case, the calculation happens as soon as someone requests D.size ... Agreed. The calculation happens as soon as someone requests D.size. So far so good.

ANN: IPython 0.6.10 is out.

2005-01-27 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi all, I'm glad to announce the release of IPython 0.6.10. IPython's homepage is at: http://ipython.scipy.org and downloads are at: http://ipython.scipy.org/dist I've provided RPMs (for Python 2.3, built under Fedora Core 3), plus source downloads (.tar.gz). We now also have a native win32

Re: Question about 'None'

2005-01-27 Thread flamesrock
Wow! Thanks for all the replies. I'll have to reread everything to absorb it. The test code is pretty simple: if 2 > None: print 'true' else: print 'false' It prints false every time. I should also mention that I'm using version 2.0.1 (schools retro solaris machines :( ) At home (version 2.3.4) i

Re: Missing _bssd in Python 2.4

2005-01-27 Thread jalil
I actually installed BerkeleyBD4.0 and commented out some sections of Modules/Setup that I found related to this. I got the _bsddb.o in the build environment but I still get the same error from bsddb/__init.py__ that it cannot import _bsddb. Anything I am missing? Where should this _bsddb go exac

Hello

2005-01-27 Thread g_xo
Hello everyone, I am a python beginner and look forward to learning the language and working on some interesting projects using it. I was wondering if anybody may help me get access to the news group comp.lang.python I am trying to access it using KNode but I get an "unable to resolve host name"

Re: gnuplot on Canvas widget

2005-01-27 Thread Fernando Perez
Jonathan Ellis wrote: > Blues wrote: >> I have used two great models - Tkinter and Gnuplot.py - for a while. > I >> can display an image on a Canvas widget using Tkinter and I can also >> generate a gnuplot from Python on the fly in a separate window. Does >> anyone know how to display such a gn

threading and internet explorer com

2005-01-27 Thread James
hi, i'm using python 2.4 with pywin32... I've tried to use internet explorer control with a class. it was fine until i decided to inherit thread for the class... class domain01(threading.Thread): def __init__(self): #blabla threading.Thread.__init__(self) de

Re: Question: "load"ing a shared object in python

2005-01-27 Thread Mark Rowe
On Jan 28, 2005, at 6:48 AM, Rick L. Ratzel wrote: Pro Grammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hello, all, I am not sure if this is the right place to ask, but could you kindly tell me how to "load" a shared object (like libx.so) into python, so that the methods in the .so can be used? That too, gi

Re: tkinter socket client ?

2005-01-27 Thread Pedro Werneck
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 13:44:32 + Martin Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > thanks for this info - I had to abandon the createfilehandler() method > > as it is not supported in windows and the GUI "might" be used there at > > some time ... Take a look here: http://www.pythonbrasil.com.br/m

Re: inherit without calling parent class constructor?

2005-01-27 Thread Christian Dieterich
On Déardaoin, Ean 27, 2005, at 14:05 America/Chicago, Jeff Shannon wrote: True, in the sense that B is instantiated as soon as a message is sent to D that requires B's assistance to answer. If the "decision" is a case of "only calculate this if we actually want to use it", then this lazy-cont

Re: String Fomat Conversion

2005-01-27 Thread Steven Bethard
enigma wrote: Do you really need to use the iter function here? As far as I can tell, a file object is already an iterator. The file object documentation says that, "[a] file object is its own iterator, for example iter(f) returns f (unless f is closed)." It doesn't look like it makes a differen

Re: Missing _bssd in Python 2.4

2005-01-27 Thread "Martin v. Löwis"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I compiled and installed python 2.4 on Redhat Linux using default options but don't seem to be getting _bsddb. I get an error message that _bssd cannot be imported. Does anybody know why this might happen? Do I need to do any special customization or install any other softw

Re: MSI Difficulties

2005-01-27 Thread "Martin v. Löwis"
brolewis wrote: However both of these commands fail to update the Windows path to include C:\Python24 and as such creates problems for me when trying to actually use Python. Not surprisingly so. The Python installation makes no attempt to update the PATH, and never did so, in any recent release. Ho

Re: What's so funny? WAS Re: rotor replacement

2005-01-27 Thread "Martin v. Löwis"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't see why you can't make up your mind enough to issue simple statements like "the Python lib should have a module that does so-and-so I can say that assuming I know what so-and-so is. For the specific case of AES, I would say "I don't think the Python lib necessarily

Re: gnuplot on Canvas widget

2005-01-27 Thread Blues
Thanks, Jonathan. Can you please give a little more information here? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: building Python: up arrow broken on SuSE Linux 8.2

2005-01-27 Thread Erik Johnson
"Peter Otten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote... > Have you ensured (with yast) that readline-devel is actually installed? I had not previously, but (not surprisingly) version 4.3 is installed. :) Good idea - I thought maybe I would be able to do an online update (YOU) to it, but it is taking fore

Re: Transparent (redirecting) proxy with BaseHTTPServer

2005-01-27 Thread paul koelle
Thanks, aurora ;), aurora wrote: If you actually want the IP, resolve the host header would give you that. I' m only interested in the hostname. The second form of HTTP request without the host part is for compatability of pre-HTTP/1.1 standard. All modern web browser should send the Host heade

Re: ANN: Tao Scripting Language 0.8.5 beta released!

2005-01-27 Thread PA
On Jan 27, 2005, at 23:42, Limin Fu wrote: at that time I didn't heard about Lua. I knew it about 2 or 3 months after I began to implement Tao. So, compared to Lua for example, what does Tao brings to the table that you found worthwhile? Cheers -- PA, Onnay Equitursay http://alt.textdrive.com/ --

Re: gnuplot on Canvas widget

2005-01-27 Thread Jonathan Ellis
Blues wrote: > I have used two great models - Tkinter and Gnuplot.py - for a while. I > can display an image on a Canvas widget using Tkinter and I can also > generate a gnuplot from Python on the fly in a separate window. Does > anyone know how to display such a gnuplot on the Canvas widget with

Re: String Fomat Conversion

2005-01-27 Thread enigma
Do you really need to use the iter function here? As far as I can tell, a file object is already an iterator. The file object documentation says that, "[a] file object is its own iterator, for example iter(f) returns f (unless f is closed)." It doesn't look like it makes a difference one way or

Re: ANN: Tao Scripting Language 0.8.5 beta released!

2005-01-27 Thread Limin Fu
I only looked at languages which are more often used in bioinformatics, at that time I didn't heard about Lua. I knew it about 2 or 3 months after I began to implement Tao. For Io, this is my first time to hear about it :) Cheers, Limin On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 23:02:45 +0100, PA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Startying with Python, need some pointers with manipulating strings

2005-01-27 Thread Kent Johnson
Benji99 wrote: I've managed to load the html source I want into an object called htmlsource using: import urllib sock = urllib.urlopen("URL Link") htmlSource = sock.read() sock.close() I'm assuming that htmlSource is a string with \n at the end of each line. NOTE: I've become very accustomed w

Profiling python 2.3

2005-01-27 Thread Kenneth Johansson
I wonder what would be a good way to profile a python program where the main thread starts two worker threads that do all the work. I get no infomation at all from the threads. I tried to use profile.run as the first thing in the new thread and the thread starts and works fine but when it exits

Missing _bssd in Python 2.4

2005-01-27 Thread jalil
I compiled and installed python 2.4 on Redhat Linux using default options but don't seem to be getting _bsddb. I get an error message that _bssd cannot be imported. Does anybody know why this might happen? Do I need to do any special customization or install any other software? Thanks, -Jalil -

Re: Configuring Python for Tk on Mac (continued)

2005-01-27 Thread Kevin Walzer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martyn Quick wrote: | From: Alex Martelli ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | |>No idea about any 10.2, sorry, but on 10.3 that's not the problem: Tk |>support is there alright, it's Tcl/Tk which _isn't_. Get MacPython, its |>PackageManager will explain where to get

WSDL parsing problem

2005-01-27 Thread Nick Caldwell
Y'all, Problem: Reading complex data types returned from WSDL I'll present this in 3 sections. 1. Output of WSDL parser on Google API 2. Output of WSDL parser on Custom API 3. WSDL parser code 1. Output of WSDL parser on Google API So far I have a very simple WSDL reader which gathers the comm

Re: ANN: Tao Scripting Language 0.8.5 beta released!

2005-01-27 Thread PA
On Jan 27, 2005, at 22:54, Limin Fu wrote: I found that, a language with simple syntax, convenient text processing functionality, powerful numeric computation capability, and simple C/C++ interfaces would be very useful You bet. Have you looked at Lua? http://www.lua.org/about.html Or perhaps Io? h

Who should security issues be reported to?

2005-01-27 Thread grahamd
Who are the appropriate people to report security problems to in respect of a module included with the Python distribution? I don't feel it appropriate to be reporting it on general mailing lists. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ANN: Tao Scripting Language 0.8.5 beta released!

2005-01-27 Thread Limin Fu
> Since you chose to announce it in this mailing list/newsgroup, may I > suggest that a comparison with Python is in order? > To make a reasonable comparison with Python, I need to spend more time to investigate into python, since so far I only know some basic things in Python :-). But I can ensu

Re: Startying with Python, need some pointers with manipulating strings

2005-01-27 Thread Paul McGuire
"Benji99" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Basically, I'm getting a htmlsource from a URL and need to > a.) find specific URLs > b.) find specific data > c.) with specific URLs, load new html pages and repeat. > > > Basically, I want to search through the whole strin

Re: Question about 'None'

2005-01-27 Thread Steven Bethard
Francis Girard wrote: a = "10" b = 10 a > b True b > a False id(a) 1077467584 id(b) 134536516 Just to thoroughly explain this example, the current CPython implementation says that numbers are smaller than everything but None. The reason you get such a small id for 'b' is that there is only one 10

Re: Transparent (redirecting) proxy with BaseHTTPServer

2005-01-27 Thread aurora
If you actually want the IP, resolve the host header would give you that. In the redirect case you should get a host header like Host: www.python.org From that you can reconstruct the original URL as http://www.python.org/ftp/python/contrib/. With that you can open it using urllib and proxy the

Re: Question about 'None'

2005-01-27 Thread Francis Girard
Very complete explanation. Thank you Francis Girard Le jeudi 27 Janvier 2005 22:15, Steven Bethard a écrit : > Francis Girard wrote: > > I see. There is some rule stating that all the strings are greater than > > ints and smaller than lists, etc. > > Yes, that rule being to compare objects of dif

Re: Problem with win32net on Windows 2K

2005-01-27 Thread Kartic
Thomas, I have a Win2K machine and win32net imports just fine. Here is what I did - started python shell with the -v switch and imported win32net. This is what it says: py>>> import win32net # c:\python24\lib\encodings\cp437.pyc matches c:\python24\lib\encodings\cp437.py import encodings.cp437 #

Startying with Python, need some pointers with manipulating strings

2005-01-27 Thread Benji99
Hi guys, I'm starting to learn Python and so far am very impressed with it's possibilities. I do however need some help with certain things I'm trying to do which as of yet haven't managed to find the answer by myself. Hopefully, someone will be able to give me some pointers :) First my backgr

Mac OS and MySQLdb

2005-01-27 Thread merman
Hi there, is there a MySQLdb-Version for the latest Mac OS (or can I use the Linux-tarball)? I'm a Mac-Newbie. Thanks. o-o Thomas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Help with web dashboard

2005-01-27 Thread Chris
I've written some python scripts to handle different tasks on my Windows network. I would like for them to be accessible via a single web page (kind of like a dashboard) but have the scripts run on the web server (also a Windows box). Can anyone recommend a way (web server / language / method)

Re: Question about 'None'

2005-01-27 Thread Steven Bethard
Francis Girard wrote: I see. There is some rule stating that all the strings are greater than ints and smaller than lists, etc. Yes, that rule being to compare objects of different types by their type names (falling back to the address of the type object if the type names are the same, I believe

Re: Question about 'None'

2005-01-27 Thread Francis Girard
Le jeudi 27 Janvier 2005 22:07, Steven Bethard a écrit : > Francis Girard wrote: > > Le jeudi 27 Janvier 2005 21:29, Steven Bethard a écrit : > >>So None being smaller than anything (except itself) is hard-coded into > >>Python's compare routine. My suspicion is that even if/when objects of > >>di

Re: Question about 'None'

2005-01-27 Thread Steven Bethard
Francis Girard wrote: Le jeudi 27 Janvier 2005 21:29, Steven Bethard a écrit : So None being smaller than anything (except itself) is hard-coded into Python's compare routine. My suspicion is that even if/when objects of different types are no longer comparable by default (as has been suggested fo

Re: Question about 'None'

2005-01-27 Thread Francis Girard
Le vendredi 28 Janvier 2005 07:49, jfj a écrit : > Francis Girard wrote: > > Wow ! What is it that are compared ? I think it's the references (i.e. > > the adresses) that are compared. The "None" reference may map to the > > physical 0x0 adress whereas 100 is internally interpreted as an object > >

Re: Question about 'None'

2005-01-27 Thread Francis Girard
Oops, I misunderstood what you said. I understood that it was now the case that objects of different types are not comparable by default whereas you meant it as a planned feature for version 3. I really hope that it will indeed be the case for version 3. Francis Girard Le jeudi 27 Janvier 2005

Re: Question about 'None'

2005-01-27 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Francis Girard wrote: > Wow ! What is it that are compared ? I think it's the references (i.e. the > adresses) that are compared. The "None" reference may map to the physical 0x0 > adress whereas 100 is internally interpreted as an object for which the > reference (i.e. address) exists and therefo

Problem with win32net on Windows 2K

2005-01-27 Thread Read Roberts
I am trying to use win32net on a Windows 2000 Japanese system, and discover that it won't import. I found a message describing the problem (see below) but can't find any response, and don't see a bug report on the SourceForge site for this. . Can anyone tell me if this has ben fixed? An early

Re: Question about 'None'

2005-01-27 Thread Francis Girard
Le jeudi 27 Janvier 2005 21:29, Steven Bethard a écrit : > Francis Girard wrote: > > Le jeudi 27 Janvier 2005 20:16, Steven Bethard a écrit : > >>flamesrock wrote: > >>>The statement (1 > None) is false (or any other value above 0). Why is > >>>this? > >> > >>What code are you executing? I don't g

Re: Question about 'None'

2005-01-27 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Steven Bethard wrote: > So None being smaller than anything (except itself) is hard-coded into > Python's compare routine. > My suspicion is that even if/when objects of different types are no longer > comparable by default > (as has been suggested for Python 3.0), None will still compare as s

Re: Question about 'None'

2005-01-27 Thread jfj
Francis Girard wrote: Wow ! What is it that are compared ? I think it's the references (i.e. the adresses) that are compared. The "None" reference may map to the physical 0x0 adress whereas 100 is internally interpreted as an object for which the reference (i.e. address) exists and therefore gre

Re: MySQLdb

2005-01-27 Thread fedor
Hi Daniel, You should probably take a look at the executemany method of the cursor. Your insert times might drop by a factor 20 . Here's an example. Cheers, Fedor import time import MySQLdb db=MySQLdb.Connect(user="me",passwd="my password",db="test") c=db.cursor() n=0 tic=time.time() for i in ran

Re: Question about 'None'

2005-01-27 Thread Steven Bethard
Francis Girard wrote: Le jeudi 27 Janvier 2005 20:16, Steven Bethard a écrit : flamesrock wrote: The statement (1 > None) is false (or any other value above 0). Why is this? What code are you executing? I don't get this behavior at all: py> 100 > None True py> 1 > None True py> 0 > None True py> -

Re: Question about 'None'

2005-01-27 Thread Francis Girard
Le jeudi 27 Janvier 2005 20:16, Steven Bethard a écrit : > flamesrock wrote: > > The statement (1 > None) is false (or any other value above 0). Why is > > this? > > What code are you executing? I don't get this behavior at all: > > py> 100 > None > True > py> 1 > None > True > py> 0 > None > True

Re: [perl-python] 20050127 traverse a dir

2005-01-27 Thread Chris Mattern
Xah Lee wrote: > > # the above showcases a quick hack. > # File::Find is one of the worst module > # there is in Perl. One cannot use it > # with a recursive (so-called) "filter" > # function. And because the way it is > # written, one cannot make the filter > # function purely functional. (it r

Re: inherit without calling parent class constructor?

2005-01-27 Thread Jeff Shannon
Christian Dieterich wrote: On Dé Céadaoin, Ean 26, 2005, at 17:09 America/Chicago, Jeff Shannon wrote: You could try making D a container for B instead of a subclass: Thank you for the solution. I'll need to have a closer look at it. However it seems like the decision whether to do "some expensiv

PythonWin (build 203) for Python 2.3 causes Windows 2000 to grind to a halt?

2005-01-27 Thread Chris P.
I've been having a problem with PythonWin that seemed to start completely spontaneously and I don't even know where to START to find the answer. The only thing I can think of that marks the point between "PythonWin works fine" and "PythonWin hardly every works fine" was that I changed the size of

[perl-python] 20050127 traverse a dir

2005-01-27 Thread Xah Lee
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- # Python suppose you want to walk into a directory, say, to apply a string replacement to all html files. The os.path.walk() rises for the occasion. © import os © mydir= '/Users/t/Documents/unix_cilre/python' © def myfun(s1, s2, s3): © print s2 # current dir © pr

Re: String Fomat Conversion

2005-01-27 Thread Jeff Shannon
Stephen Thorne wrote: On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 00:02:45 -0700, Steven Bethard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: By using the iterator instead of readlines, I read only one line from the file into memory at once, instead of all of them. This may or may not matter depending on the size of your files, but using

Re: Question about 'None'

2005-01-27 Thread Steven Bethard
flamesrock wrote: The statement (1 > None) is false (or any other value above 0). Why is this? What code are you executing? I don't get this behavior at all: py> 100 > None True py> 1 > None True py> 0 > None True py> -1 > None True py> -100 > None True (The reason I ask is sortof unrelated. I wan

Re: python memory blow out

2005-01-27 Thread Istvan Albert
Simon Wittber wrote: Does anyone have ideas on why this is occuring, or how I might otherwise prevent memory blow out? I don't know it this is a decent enough solution but if I were you I would try running the SQL service in a subshell. Within this subshell I would terminate then restart the prog

Re: subprocess.Popen() redirecting to TKinter or WXPython textwidget???

2005-01-27 Thread Jeff Shannon
Ivo Woltring wrote: The output of mencoder is not readable with readlines (i tried it) because after the initial informational lines You don't get lines anymore (you get a linefeed but no newline) The prints are all on the same line (like a status line) something like Pos: 3,1s 96f ( 0%) 42f

Re: limited python virtual machine (WAS: Another scripting language implemented into Python itself?)

2005-01-27 Thread Dieter Maurer
Steven Bethard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on Tue, 25 Jan 2005 12:22:13 -0700: > Fuzzyman wrote: > ... > > A better (and of course *vastly* more powerful but unfortunately only > > a dream ;-) is a similarly limited python virutal machine. I already wrote about the "RestrictedPython" which is

Re: Question about 'None'

2005-01-27 Thread Fredrik Lundh
"flamesrock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The statement (1 > None) is false (or any other value above 0). Why is > this? http://docs.python.org/ref/comparisons.html "The operators <, >, ==, >=, <=, and != compare the values of two objects. The objects need not have the same type. If both

gnuplot on Canvas widget

2005-01-27 Thread Blues
Hey, I have used two great models - Tkinter and Gnuplot.py - for a while. I can display an image on a Canvas widget using Tkinter and I can also generate a gnuplot from Python on the fly in a separate window. Does anyone know how to display such a gnuplot on the Canvas widget with an image in it

Question about 'None'

2005-01-27 Thread flamesrock
Well, after playing with python for a bit I came across something weird: The statement (1 > None) is false (or any other value above 0). Why is this? (The reason I ask is sortof unrelated. I wanted to use None as a variable for which any integer, including negative ones have a greater value so t

Re: python without OO

2005-01-27 Thread Joe Francia
Timo Virkkala wrote: This guy has got to be a troll. No other way to understand. -- Timo Virkkala Not a troll, just another case of premature optimization run amok. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: how to comment out a block of code

2005-01-27 Thread Jeff Shannon
Xah Lee wrote: is there a syntax to comment out a block of code? i.e. like html's or perhaps put a marker so that all lines from there on are ignored? thanks. Of course -- this feature is so important that all computer manufacturers worldwide have made a special button on the computer case just

Re: Classical FP problem in python : Hamming problem

2005-01-27 Thread Francis Girard
Le jeudi 27 Janvier 2005 10:30, Nick Craig-Wood a ÃcritÂ: > Francis Girard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thank you Nick and Steven for the idea of a more generic imerge. > > You are welcome :-) [It came to me while walking the children to school!] > Sometimes fresh air and children purity is al

Re: inherit without calling parent class constructor?

2005-01-27 Thread Christian Dieterich
On Dé Céadaoin, Ean 26, 2005, at 17:02 America/Chicago, Steven Bethard wrote: Just a note of clarification: The @deco syntax is called *decorator* syntax. Classes with a __get__ method are called *descriptors*. Okay, I think I get the idea. I didn't know about the @deco syntax, but it seems to b

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