Shift Confusion

2005-02-23 Thread Kamilche
I'm trying to pack two characters into a single byte, and the shifting in Python has me confused. Essentially, it should be possible to use a 'packed string' format in Python, where as long as the characters you're sending are in the ASCII range 0 to 127, two will fit in a byte. Here's the code.

Re: Like overloading __init__(), but how?

2005-02-23 Thread John M. Gabriele
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 21:32:52 -0700, Steven Bethard wrote: > [snip] > Another possibility is to play around with *args: > > class Vector3d(object): > def __init__(self, *args): > if not args: > # constructor with no arguments > elif len(args) == 6: >

Re: Pythoncard - Mistake in walkthrough?

2005-02-23 Thread Deltones
> As stated in the on-line WalkThrough, the information there was written for > an older version of the program. > Hi, I understand, but the walkthrough I'm doing comes from the doc folder of the latest windows package. I thought that the walkthrough were updated to fit the newest version. Than

Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Feb 24)

2005-02-23 Thread Cameron Laird
QOTW: "Who's 'Guido'?" -- Ilias Lazaridis "I know this document. It has no relevance to me." -- Ilias Lazaridis, on http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > "Nobody asked them to do this (AFAIK), it's more that nobody could _stop_ them from doing it." -- timbot, on the work of Jason

Re: rounding problem

2005-02-23 Thread Dan Bishop
tom wrote: > On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:04:47 -0600, Andy Leszczynski wrote: > > > It is on Windows, Linux, Python 2.3: > > > > [GCC 3.3.2 (Mandrake Linux 10.0 3.3.2-6mdk)] on linux2 Type "help", > > "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > > >>> a=1.1 > > >>> a > > 1.1

Re: Source Encoding GBK/GB2312

2005-02-23 Thread Kent Johnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I specify an source encoding such as: # -*- coding: GBK -*- or # -*- coding: GB2312 -*- as the first line of source, I got the following error: SyntaxError: 'unknown encoding: GBK' Does this mean Python does not support GBK/GB2312? What do I do? GB2312 is supported in

Re: Source Encoding GBK/GB2312

2005-02-23 Thread limodou
2.4 support gb2312, gbk, gb18030 and cjk codec. you can also move these things to 2.3. On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:34:02 -0600, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > When I specify an source encoding such as: > > > > # -*- coding: GBK -*- > > or > > # -*- coding: GB

Re: Like overloading __init__(), but how?

2005-02-23 Thread Kent Johnson
John M. Gabriele wrote: I know that Python doesn't do method overloading like C++ and Java do, but how am I supposed to do something like this: This was just discussed. See http://tinyurl.com/6zo3g Kent - incorrect #!/usr/bin/python class Point3d:

Re: Like overloading __init__(), but how?

2005-02-23 Thread djw
This was discussed only days ago: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/41a6c0e1e260cd72/fc1c924746532316?q=multiple+constructors+python&_done=%2Fgroups%3Fq%3Dmultiple+constructors+python%26&_doneTitle=Back+to+Search&&d#fc1c924746532316 -Don John M. Gabriele wrot

Re: Like overloading __init__(), but how?

2005-02-23 Thread Steven Bethard
John M. Gabriele wrote: class Vector3d: def __init__(self): ... def __init__(self, x_from, y_from, z_from, x_to, y_to, z_to): ... def __init__(self, point_from, point_to): ... def __init__(self, same_as_this_vec): ... My prefer

Re: Source Encoding GBK/GB2312

2005-02-23 Thread Steve Holden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I specify an source encoding such as: # -*- coding: GBK -*- or # -*- coding: GB2312 -*- as the first line of source, I got the following error: SyntaxError: 'unknown encoding: GBK' Does this mean Python does not support GBK/GB2312? What do I do? Well, *your* Python mi

Re: On eval and its substitution of globals

2005-02-23 Thread Kent Johnson
Paddy wrote: I do in fact have the case you mention. I am writing a module that will manipulate functions of global variables where the functions are defined in another module. Would it be possible to have your functions take arguments instead of globals? That would seem to be a better design. Ke

Re: How Do I get Know What Attributes/Functions In A Class?

2005-02-23 Thread Dan Eloff
Use the dir() function dir(myClass) returns a list of strings -Dan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Source Encoding GBK/GB2312

2005-02-23 Thread steven
When I specify an source encoding such as: # -*- coding: GBK -*- or # -*- coding: GB2312 -*- as the first line of source, I got the following error: SyntaxError: 'unknown encoding: GBK' Does this mean Python does not support GBK/GB2312? What do I do? - narke -- http://mail.python.org/mailm

Re: Dynamically pass a function arguments from a dict

2005-02-23 Thread Dan Eloff
Awesome, wrapping that into a function: def getargs(func): numArgs = func.func_code.co_argcount names = func.func_code.co_varnames return names[:numArgs] short, concise, and it works :) variables declared inside the function body are also in co_varnames but after the arguments only it s

Re: How Do I get Know What Attributes/Functions In A Class?

2005-02-23 Thread steven
Thank you All ! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Canonical way of dealing with null-separated lines?

2005-02-23 Thread Douglas Alan
Is there a canonical way of iterating over the lines of a file that are null-separated rather than newline-separated? Sure, I can implement my own iterator using read() and split(), etc., but considering that using "find -print0" is so common, it seems like there should be a more cannonical way.

Re: rounding problem

2005-02-23 Thread tom
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:04:47 -0600, Andy Leszczynski wrote: > It is on Windows, Linux, Python 2.3: > > [GCC 3.3.2 (Mandrake Linux 10.0 3.3.2-6mdk)] on linux2 Type "help", > "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>> a=1.1 > >>> a > 1.1001 > >>> > >>> > >>> >

Re: rounding problem

2005-02-23 Thread Michael Hartl
> Is it normal? Yes. The interpreter prints back the repr of a, which reflects the imprecision inherent in floats. If you want '1.1', use the string returned by the str function. >>> a = 1.1 >>> a 1.1001 >>> repr(a) '1.1001' >>> str(a) '1.1' Michael -- Michael D. Hartl

Like overloading __init__(), but how?

2005-02-23 Thread John M. Gabriele
I know that Python doesn't do method overloading like C++ and Java do, but how am I supposed to do something like this: - incorrect #!/usr/bin/python class Point3d: pass class Vector3d: """A vector in three-dimensional cartesian space."""

Re: python tutorial/projects

2005-02-23 Thread Cameron Laird
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Leif B. Kristensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Danny skrev: > >> Does anyone know of a good python tutorial? >> I was also looking for some non-trivial projects to do in python. > >There's a lot of projects on Sourceforge that are written in Python, >where you're fr

Re: reading only new messages in imaplib

2005-02-23 Thread Raghul
Thanks ya.It helped me a lot -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Question about logfiles in Python

2005-02-23 Thread Harlin Seritt
I'm not familiar with Exchange log files but this can be done rather easily assuming the log file is a flat text file (which usually these are not-- like NT event logs). search_str = "words and phrases" data = open(LogFile, 'r').read() if search_str in data: flag = 1 If they are binary files,

Re: How to write a ping client

2005-02-23 Thread Harlin Seritt
? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: rounding problem

2005-02-23 Thread Kristian M Zoerhoff
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andy Leszczynski wrote: > >>> a=1.1 > >>> a > 1.1001 > >>> > > > Is it normal? Yes, for floating-point numbers. This is due to inherent imprecision in how floats are represented in hardware. If you can live with being a touch off that many decimal plac

Re: [EVALUATION] - E02 - Support for MinGW Open Source Compiler

2005-02-23 Thread Markus Wankus
Nick Vargish wrote: Ilias Lazaridis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Guido is the one, who should care by time about the status of the python-community. That one crashed my parser. Sounds like a new Ministry song - "Guido Crashed my Parser". Could be the sequel to "Jesus Built My Hot Rod". -- http:/

Re: Attaching to a Python Interpreter a la Tcl

2005-02-23 Thread Stephen Thorne
On 23 Feb 2005 02:37:48 -0800, DE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Some long time ago, I used to use Tcl/Tk. I had an tcl embedded into my > app. > > The coolest thing was however, I was able to attach to the interpreter > (built in to my app) via a tcl shell in which I could type in regul

Re: Style guide for subclassing built-in types?

2005-02-23 Thread janeaustine50
Michael Spencer wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Kent Johnson wrote: > > > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > >>>p.s. the reason I'm not sticking to reversed or even reverse : > > > > suppose > > > >>>the size of the list is huge. > >> > >>reversed() returns an iterator so list size shouldn't b

Re: Dynamically pass a function arguments from a dict

2005-02-23 Thread Mark McEahern
Dan Eloff wrote: How can you determine that func2 will only accept bar and zoo, but not foo and call the function with bar as an argument? Let Python answer the question for you: >>> def func2(bar='a', zoo='b'): ... pass ... >>> for name in dir(func2): ... print '%s: %s' % (name, getattr(func2, na

Re: Communication between JAVA and python

2005-02-23 Thread Steve Menard
Jacques Daussy wrote: Hello How can I transfert information between a JAVA application and a python script application. I can't use jython because, I must use python interpreter.I think to socket or semaphore, but can I use it on Windows plateform ? thanks a lot jack Well, it all depends on

Re: rounding problem

2005-02-23 Thread Aahz
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andy Leszczynski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It is on Windows, Linux, Python 2.3: > >[GCC 3.3.2 (Mandrake Linux 10.0 3.3.2-6mdk)] on linux2 >Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>> a=1.1 > >>> a >1.1001 > >>> > > >Is

Re: Attaching to a Python Interpreter a la Tcl

2005-02-23 Thread Cameron Laird
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >DE wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Some long time ago, I used to use Tcl/Tk. I had an tcl embedded into my >> app. >> >> The coolest thing was however, I was able to attach to the interpreter >> (built in to my app) via a tcl shell

Re: kill a process in XP

2005-02-23 Thread Cameron Laird
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dave Brueck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Tor Erik Sønvisen wrote: >>>From my Python-program I spawn a new process. When using P_NOWAIT spawnl >> returns the pid but in windows it returns a process handle. >> Later I want to kill this process. How can I do this when

rounding problem

2005-02-23 Thread Andy Leszczynski
It is on Windows, Linux, Python 2.3: [GCC 3.3.2 (Mandrake Linux 10.0 3.3.2-6mdk)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> a=1.1 >>> a 1.1001 >>> Is it normal? Andy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: On eval and its substitution of globals

2005-02-23 Thread Paddy
Leif wrote: " If globals were deeply substituted when using eval, the program would presumably print "42\n24", which would be far from intuitive. If you limit the deep substitution to functions in the same module, you're creating a confusing special case. " I guess I need outside opinions on what

Question about logfiles in Python

2005-02-23 Thread Courtis Joannis
Hello readers, my name is Joannis Courtis and I study computer science in Frankfurt/Germany. I hope you can help me, because I try to find a script that helps me to filter logfiles which I received from the Microsoft Exchange Server. Can you help me, where I can find a script in Python. Regards J

Re: unicode(obj, errors='foo') raises TypeError - bug?

2005-02-23 Thread "Martin v. LÃwis"
Kent Johnson wrote: Could this be handled with a try / except in unicode()? Something like this: Perhaps. However, this would cause a significant performance hit, and possbibly undesired side effects. So due process would require that the interface of __unicode__ first, and then change the actual

Dynamically pass a function arguments from a dict

2005-02-23 Thread Dan Eloff
You can take a dictionary of key/value pairs and pass it to a function as keyword arguments: def func(foo,bar): print foo, bar args = {'foo':1, 'bar':2} func(**args) will print "1 2" But what if you try passing those arguments to a function def func2(bar,zoo=''): print bar, zoo H

Re: Communication between JAVA and python

2005-02-23 Thread Kent Johnson
Jacques Daussy wrote: Hello How can I transfert information between a JAVA application and a python script application. I can't use jython because, I must use python interpreter.I think to socket or semaphore, but can I use it on Windows plateform ? Jython has an interpreter and Windows has sock

Re: Problem with the sort() function

2005-02-23 Thread clementine
Thanks everyone!!:-) Nicks solution coupled with John's modifications worked great for 2.2!! Yipeee...!!:):) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

RE: reading only new messages in imaplib

2005-02-23 Thread Tony Meyer
[Raghul] >>> Is it posssible to read only the new messages or unread >>> messages using imaplib in python? If it is possible pls >>> specify the module or give a sample code. [Tony Meyer] >> This will print out the first 20 chars of each undeleted message. >> You should be able to figure out how

Re: LC_ALL and os.listdir()

2005-02-23 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 10:07:19PM +0100, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > So we have three options: > 1. skip this string, only return the ones that can be >converted to Unicode. Give the user the impression >the file does not exist. > 2. return the string as a byte string > 3. refuse to listdir

Re: Dealing with config files what's the options

2005-02-23 Thread Tom Willis
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 20:15:47 +, Phil Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom Willis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > How are the expert pythoneers dealing with config files? > > You could use the cPickle module if you don't mind your config files > being unreadable by humans. There is also

Re: select + ssl

2005-02-23 Thread Donn Cave
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ktm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't have the same behaviour with two codes who are quite the same, > one using SSL, the other not. I tested the programs with stunnel and > telnet , respectively. [... program source ...] > The server blocks on recv here. SSL

Re: Python and "Ajax technology collaboration"

2005-02-23 Thread Valentino Volonghi aka Dialtone
aurora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It was discussed in the last Bay Area Python Interest Group meeting. > > Thursday, February 10, 2005 > Agenda: Developing Responsive GUI Applications Using HTML and HTTP > Speakers: Donovan Preston > http://www.baypiggies.net/ > > The author has a component Li

Re: unicode(obj, errors='foo') raises TypeError - bug?

2005-02-23 Thread Kent Johnson
Martin v. LÃwis wrote: Steven Bethard wrote: Yeah, I agree it's weird. I suspect if someone supplied a patch for this behavior it would be accepted -- I don't think this should break backwards compatibility (much). Notice that the "right" thing to do would be to pass encoding and errors to __un

Re: Python and "Ajax technology collaboration"

2005-02-23 Thread Dave Brueck
John Willems wrote: Interesting GUI developments, it seems. Anyone developed a "Ajax" application using Python? Very curious thx (Ajax stands for: XHTML and CSS; dynamic display and interaction using the Document Object Model; data interchange and manipulation using XML and XSLT; asynchronous d

Re: [EVALUATION] - E02 - Support for MinGW Open Source Compiler

2005-02-23 Thread Stephen Kellett
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ilias Lazaridis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Stephen Kellett wrote: [...] Who's Guido? Guido is the one, who should care by time about the status of the python-community. Who is care by time? -- Stephen Kellett Object Media Limitedhttp://www.objmedia.demon.co.uk

Re: Python and "Ajax technology collaboration"

2005-02-23 Thread aurora
It was discussed in the last Bay Area Python Interest Group meeting. Thursday, February 10, 2005 Agenda: Developing Responsive GUI Applications Using HTML and HTTP Speakers: Donovan Preston http://www.baypiggies.net/ The author has a component LivePage for this. You may find it from http://nevow.

Re: LC_ALL and os.listdir()

2005-02-23 Thread "Martin v. Löwis"
Serge Orlov wrote: Shouldn't os.path.join do that? If you pass a unicode string and a byte string it currently tries to convert bytes to characters but it makes more sense to convert the unicode string to bytes and return two byte strings concatenated. Sounds reasonable. OTOH, this would be the onl

msnp group chats

2005-02-23 Thread sparda713
I'm currently using the msnp.py module in a project. We are trying to implement a group chats feature. Has anyone had any success in doing this or know how to do this? We have it doing single chats, but we can't figure out how MSN is adding the multiple invites. Any help would be greatly apprec

Re: LC_ALL and os.listdir()

2005-02-23 Thread Serge Orlov
"Martin v. Löwis" wrote: >> My goal is to build generalized code that consistently works with all >> kinds of filenames. > > Then it is best to drop the notion that file names are > character strings (because some file names aren't). You > do so by converting your path variable into a byte > string

Python and "Ajax technology collaboration"

2005-02-23 Thread John Willems
Interesting GUI developments, it seems. Anyone developed a "Ajax" application using Python? Very curious thx (Ajax stands for: XHTML and CSS; dynamic display and interaction using the Document Object Model; data interchange and manipulation using XML and XSLT; asynchronous data retrieval usi

Re: LC_ALL and os.listdir()

2005-02-23 Thread "Martin v. Löwis"
Kenneth Pronovici wrote: 1) Why LC_ALL has any effect on the os.listdir() result? The operating system (POSIX) does not have the inherent notion that file names are character strings. Instead, in POSIX, file names are primarily byte strings. There are some bytes which are interpreted as charact

Re: LC_ALL and os.listdir()

2005-02-23 Thread "Martin v. Löwis"
Kenneth Pronovici wrote: I think that I can solve my problem by just converting any unicode strings from configuration into utf-8 simple strings using encode(). Using this solution, all of my existing regression tests still pass, and my code seems to make it past the unusual directory. See my other

Re: unicode(obj, errors='foo') raises TypeError - bug?

2005-02-23 Thread "Martin v. LÃwis"
Steven Bethard wrote: Yeah, I agree it's weird. I suspect if someone supplied a patch for this behavior it would be accepted -- I don't think this should break backwards compatibility (much). Notice that the "right" thing to do would be to pass encoding and errors to __unicode__. If the string o

Re: On eval and its substitution of globals

2005-02-23 Thread Leif K-Brooks
Paddy wrote: I had to do as you suggest but I was thinking either it was a kludge, and there should be a 'deep' substitution of globals, or that there was a good reason for it to work as it does and some magician would tell me. If there was deep substitution of globals, how would functions importe

Yahoo! Auto Response

2005-02-23 Thread ben-fuzzybear
Hi - This is the "vacation" program; I'm working for my owner, Ben. The account to which you have sent your mail is going to be discontinued at at the end of July (Yahoo's mail service has deteriorated well past "abysmal" into "nightmarishly bad", and the trend shows no sign of stopping). Pleas

Re: Pythoncard - Mistake in walkthrough?

2005-02-23 Thread It's me
As stated in the on-line WalkThrough, the information there was written for an older version of the program. "Deltones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi all, > > I'm just getting into Python/wxPython/Pythoncard and I'm trying the > tutorial from this page: > http:/

Re: Problem with minidom and special chars in HTML

2005-02-23 Thread Jarek Zgoda
Horst Gutmann napisał(a): Don't use minidom or convert HTML4 to XHTML and change declaration of doctype. This was just a bad example :-) I get the same problem with XHTML in the doctype. The funny thing here IMO is, that the special chars are simply removed. No warning, no nothing :-( As Fredri

Communication between JAVA and python

2005-02-23 Thread Jacques Daussy
Hello How can I transfert information between a JAVA application and a python script application. I can't use jython because, I must use python interpreter.I think to socket or semaphore, but can I use it on Windows plateform ? thanks a lot jack -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/p

Re: Dealing with config files what's the options

2005-02-23 Thread Phil Jackson
Tom Willis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How are the expert pythoneers dealing with config files? You could use the cPickle module if you don't mind your config files being unreadable by humans. There is also the shlex module for more powerful config file needs: http://docs.python.org/lib/module

Re: assert 0, "foo" vs. assert(0, "foo")

2005-02-23 Thread Carl Banks
Thomas Guettler wrote: > Is it possible to change future python versions, that > assert accept parenthesis? It's possible, but extremely unlikely that it will ever happen. assert is not a function, but a statement (like print). Statements don't use parentheses; when you use parentheses, it con

Re: [EVALUATION] - E02 - Support for MinGW Open Source Compiler

2005-02-23 Thread Nick Vargish
Ilias Lazaridis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Guido is the one, who should care by time about the status of the > python-community. That one crashed my parser. > Thank's for every bit of contribution, which has made this thread an > worthfull insight into the python-community. To really get a s

Re: On eval and its substitution of globals

2005-02-23 Thread Paddy
Thanks Kent for your reply. I had to do as you suggest but I was thinking either it was a kludge, and there should be a 'deep' substitution of globals, or that there was a good reason for it to work as it does and some magician would tell me. Oh, the third reason could be that it was first implimen

select + ssl

2005-02-23 Thread Ktm
Hello, I don't have the same behaviour with two codes who are quite the same, one using SSL, the other not. I tested the programs with stunnel and telnet , respectively. Here are the first code : ---

Re: user interface for python

2005-02-23 Thread Mike Meyer
Scott David Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thomas Guettler wrote: > You can write portable programs (if you test across platforms). The > only truly portable programs in any language are abstract. Once you > start dealing with I/O and the real world, you inevitably have to face > issues

Re: Don't understand global variables between modules

2005-02-23 Thread Bart van Deenen
Hi thanks for the answer. Coming from C and C++ this behaviour wasn't really obvious to me. I still love Python though :-) Most elegant language I've ever seen. Bart -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Don't understand global variables between modules

2005-02-23 Thread Bart van Deenen
Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > because running a script isn't the same thing as importing it. try adding > "print __name__" lines before your other print statements so you can see > who's printing what. > > > Is there more than one global space? > > in this case, there are more modu

Re: PyEphem on Win32 -- 2nd try

2005-02-23 Thread John Roth
A quick look at the site, and following the link to the XEphem site reveals that the Windows port of XEphem uses Cygwin. AFAIK, that's not compatible with the usual CPython implementation. Again, AFAIK, you'll either have to use a Python port compiled under Cygwin, or you'll have to find a Windows

Re: reading only new messages in imaplib

2005-02-23 Thread Kartic
Raghul said the following on 2/22/2005 11:24 PM: Is it posssible to read only the new messages or unread messages using imaplib in python? If it is possible pls specify the module or give a sample code. Thanks in advance import imaplib, sys conn = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(host='mail.example.com') # or co

Re: running a shell command from a python program

2005-02-23 Thread aurora
In Python 2.4, use the new subprocess module for this. It subsume the popen* methods. Hi, I'm a newbie, so please be gentle :-) How would I run a shell command in Python? Here is what I want to do: I want to run a shell command that outputs some stuff, save it into a list and do stuff with th

Re: PyQt and Python 2.4 - also WinXP LnF?

2005-02-23 Thread Eric Jardim
Simon John - Feb 13, 4:24 pm: > After building with MSVC6 (Python 2.3.5 and 2.4 versions) I've noticed > that the ToolTips don't seem to work in the GPL version. Free (GPL) Qt3 port to Windows is not complete. They indeed need help to conclude their job. And as Trolltech is not going to release

Re: Style guide for subclassing built-in types?

2005-02-23 Thread Michael Spencer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kent Johnson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: p.s. the reason I'm not sticking to reversed or even reverse : suppose the size of the list is huge. reversed() returns an iterator so list size shouldn't be an issue. What problem are you actually trying to solve? Kent Oh, you

Re: PyQt and Python 2.4 - also WinXP LnF?

2005-02-23 Thread Eric Jardim
Simon John - Feb 10, 11:51 am: > I've just read the Qt4 GPL for Windows will only support gcc (and maybe > MinGW) anyway, not BCC or VisualC++ (or it's free equivalents), so it > looks like it would be a daunting task to actually build PyQt Why? I think that it is fair. Why a Free Software dev

Re: Selective HTML doc generation

2005-02-23 Thread Brian van den Broek
Graham said unto the world upon 2005-02-23 09:42: Hi. I'm looking for a documentation generation tool (such as pydoc, epydoc, happydoc, etc.) that will allow me to filter what it includes in it's output. I only want the reader to know about classes and methods in my package if if the classes have d

Re: LC_ALL and os.listdir()

2005-02-23 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 01:03:56AM -0600, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: [snip] > Today, I accidentally ran across a directory containing three "normal" > files (with ASCII filenames) and one file with a two-character unicode > filename. My code, which was doing something like this: > >for entry

Re: Comm. between Python and PHP

2005-02-23 Thread Nils Emil P.Larsen
Hello Sorry for not being too exact in my request! >If the data you want to pass is structured then you might consider >XML-RPC which is a cross platform way of passing structured data XML-RPC looks like something very suitable for my needs. It seems Python handles the remote procedure calls ver

Re: Comm. between Python and PHP

2005-02-23 Thread Nils Emil P.Larsen
Hello >Python is perfectly capable of generating HTML. You don't have to demean >yourself by working in PHP. Thanks for the tip about using Python instead of PHP to generate web pages. I may follow it. Nils Emil -- My reply-address is valid. www.bios-flash.dk Min svar-adresse er gyldi

Re: [EVALUATION] - E02 - Support for MinGW Open Source Compiler

2005-02-23 Thread Ilias Lazaridis
Stephen Kellett wrote: [...] Who's Guido? Guido is the one, who should care by time about the status of the python-community. - I've send an addition CC of this message to the python-foundation, which will hopefully take some steps to improve the build-system. [EVALUATION] - E02 - Support for

Arrow-keys bug.

2005-02-23 Thread Daniel Alexandre
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there. I'm making a talker's base in python and i'm with a serious bug in it. Everytime a client connects to the talker and presses for ex. the arrow key lets say twice, the following characters appears in it's screen: Ë[[AË[[A, if he presses enter

Re: [EVALUATION] - E02 - Support for MinGW Open Source Compiler

2005-02-23 Thread Stephen Kellett
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes "Ilias Lazaridis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Grant Edwards wrote: [...] > Um, you realize that nobody in this thread takes you the least > bit seriously and people are just poking you with a

PyEphem on Win32 -- 2nd try

2005-02-23 Thread Flory
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A second request for help... Has anyone run the PyEphem ephemeris application under WinXP? http://rhodesmill.org/brandon/projects/pyephem.html I have compiled it with Visual Studio 6 and it crashes Python with a simple >>> import ephem >>> ephem.

Re: kill a process in XP

2005-02-23 Thread Dave Brueck
Tor Erik Sønvisen wrote: From my Python-program I spawn a new process. When using P_NOWAIT spawnl returns the pid but in windows it returns a process handle. Later I want to kill this process. How can I do this when I only have the process handle? Try ctypes - if it's really a Windows handle, the

Re: [EVALUATION] - E02 - Support for MinGW Open Source Compiler

2005-02-23 Thread George Sakkis
"Ilias Lazaridis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Grant Edwards wrote: > [...] > > Um, you realize that nobody in this thread takes you the least > > bit seriously and people are just poking you with a stick to > > watch you jump? > > jump: > > [EVALUATION] - E02 - Sup

Pythoncard - Mistake in walkthrough?

2005-02-23 Thread Deltones
Hi all, I'm just getting into Python/wxPython/Pythoncard and I'm trying the tutorial from this page: http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/walkthrough1.html Is it me who's totally dense or there's some sort of confusion with this tutorial? Here's what is said in the tutorial: Open the file starter1

Re: [perl-python] exercise: partition a list by equivalence

2005-02-23 Thread Paul McGuire
Please consider my submission also (Python 2.3-compatible). -- Paul McGuire .import sets . .input = [[1, 2], [3, 4], [2, 3], [4, 5]] .input = [[1, 2], [3, 4], [4, 5]] .input = [[1, 2],[2,1], [3, 4], [4, 5],[2,2],[2,3],[6,6]] . .def merge(pairings): .ret = [] .f

Re: MatPlotLib.MatLab troubles (how to install/run matplotlib.PyLab?)

2005-02-23 Thread John Hunter
> "Colombes" == Colombes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Colombes>Now I only need to figure out how to install the Colombes> correct "Numeric" module(s). I'm making progress, Colombes> almost have my home laptop fully capable with the Colombes> MatLab-like (PyLab) graphs, plo

Vexira ALERT [your mail: "Hi"]

2005-02-23 Thread VaMailArmor
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Re: unicode(obj, errors='foo') raises TypeError - bug?

2005-02-23 Thread Steven Bethard
Kent Johnson wrote: Steven Bethard wrote: No, this is documented behavior[1]: """ unicode([object[, encoding [, errors]]]) ... For objects which provide a __unicode__() method, it will call this method without arguments to create a Unicode string. For all other objects, the 8-bit string v

Re: Fonts and PIL

2005-02-23 Thread Ulf Göransson
Greg Lindstrom wrote: I'm running Python 2.3 on a windows box and would like to use PIL to superimpose text over an existing pgn image. I have no problem getting the text on the image but can not figure out how to manage fonts. How to set the font style and size. From reading the archives I s

Can somebody help compiling 'mssqldb.pyd' for Python24 [win]?

2005-02-23 Thread Martin Bless
I need to access a MSSQL database (MS-Sql, not MySQL!)and would very much like to use mssql-0.09.tar.gz which is available from http://www.object-craft.com.au/projects/mssql/download.html Unfortunately the binary for Python-2.4 isn't available yet and I'd hate to step back to a previous version.

Re: user interface for python

2005-02-23 Thread Fuzzyman
Yeah.. Tkinter is nice. Wzx is just as easy though, but scales better because it's built on wx. Regards, Fuzzy http://www.voidsapce.org.uk/python/index.shtml -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

print and str subclass with tab in value

2005-02-23 Thread David Bolen
I ran into this strange behavior when noticing some missing spaces in some debugging output. It seems that somewhere in the print processing, there is special handling for string contents that isn't affected by changing how a string is represented when printed (overriding __str__). For example, g

Re: running a shell command from a python program

2005-02-23 Thread Leif B. Kristensen
Sandman wrote: > How would I run a shell command in Python? > > Here is what I want to do: > I want to run a shell command that outputs some stuff, save it into a > list and do stuff with the contents of that list. There's a Python Cookbook example that should fit nicely with what you're trying

[OT] [Job] Open Python/Zope/Plone Positions in Ireland

2005-02-23 Thread Darragh Sherwin
Propylon is looking to recruit people with Python or Zope experience for several projects that we are involved in. We are seeking candidates with varying amount of experience in Python and all who are interested in learning in Python are encouraged to apply for the positions. Experience with Zope

Socks-4 Client Example in Twisted

2005-02-23 Thread Daniel Chandran
I am looking for examples on how to write a Socks-4 client example using the Twisted framework. Has anybody attempted this or aware of examples? Thanks, Daniel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: running a shell command from a python program

2005-02-23 Thread Sandman
Doh, use the search Luke: http://www.wellho.net/forum/Programming-in-Python-and-Ruby/Running-shell-commands-from-Python.html Seems like popen is the way to go. S -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: running a shell command from a python program

2005-02-23 Thread Thomas Guettler
Am Wed, 23 Feb 2005 07:00:31 -0800 schrieb Sandman: > Hi, >I'm a newbie, so please be gentle :-) > > How would I run a shell command in Python? [cut] > Is popen the answer? Also, where online would I get access to good > sample code that I could peruse? Yes, popen is the answer. I recommend

Re: [EVALUATION] - E02 - Support for MinGW Open Source Compiler

2005-02-23 Thread Ilias Lazaridis
Grant Edwards wrote: [...] Um, you realize that nobody in this thread takes you the least bit seriously and people are just poking you with a stick to watch you jump? jump: [EVALUATION] - E02 - Support for MinGW Open Source Compiler Essence: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/

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