Re: using Pyro for network games

Michael Rybak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, everyone. > In topic "2-player game, client and server at localhost", I've asked > about subj, and Peter Hansen suggested to switch to Twisted, Pyro or > the like. > > I've tried using Pyro. > > I've written a very very simple test-game, in which you

Re: doctest bug with nested triple quotes

Michele Simionato wrote: > I am getting trouble with nested triple quoted strings in doctest. > For instance > > $ cat x.py > """ dummy = ''' > something > here > ''' > """ > import doctest; doctest.testmod() > > $ python x.py > > ***

Re: Is this Pythonic?

phil hunt wrote: > That's a clever trick, but it's obvious from the code that the class > is intended to be abstract, so if people are stupid enough to shoot > themselves in the foot by creating an instance, I don't feel like > adding extra code to protect themselves from their stupidity. Righ

Re: Is this Pythonic?

On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 14:07:46 -0700, Erik Max Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Yes, but raise NotImplementedError instead of Exception. Another trick >you can use is to prevent people from instantiating the abstract class: > > class Foo: > def __init__(self): > i

Re: Is this Pythonic?

On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 22:01:06 +0200, Caleb Hattingh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Peter > >To my mind, this kind of setup (interface class, or abstact class) is more >usually used in static languages to benefit polymorphism - but python is >dynamically typed, so in which situations would this setu

Script for generating WSDL

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Re: Standards not standard

Dark Cowherd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Being able to write a usable GUI is key task for all programmers today No, it isn't. I'm a programmer. I never get paid to write usable GUIs. Most of my programs don't have a GUI at all. For those that do, I get paid to write a functional GUI. Clients tha

Re: Wheel-reinvention with Python

Mike Meyer wrote: > Paul McNett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>On Windows and Mac, you download the package and run through the wizard. > > Which package? I'm looking at the sourceforge download site, and don't > see any packages for Python 2.4 on OS X 10.4. In fact, I don't see any > packages f

Re: Wheel-reinvention with Python

Paul McNett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Windows and Mac, you download the package and run through the wizard. Which package? I'm looking at the sourceforge download site, and don't see any packages for Python 2.4 on OS X 10.4. In fact, I don't see any packages for 10.4 at all. IIRC, they did

Re: doctest bug with nested triple quotes

I can't reproduce the error. Freebsd,python 2.4 runs it. > cat x.py """ dummy = ''' something here ''' """ import doctest; doctest.testmod() > python x.py > maybe the file is different. > python -c "print open('x.py').read().encode('base64')" IiIiCmR1bW15ID0gJycnCgpzb21ldGhpbmcKaGVyZQonJycKI

startfile problems

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Re: Newer than a Newbe

Look at Karrigell. Its a web framework for Python http://karrigell.sourceforge.net -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Wheel-reinvention with Python

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (phil hunt) writes: > In practise any Python GUI is going to contain code from otyher > languages since if it was coded all the way down in python it would > be too slow. Not necessarily. My window manger is Python all the way down - it uses the Python Xlib implementation - and

doctest bug with nested triple quotes

I am getting trouble with nested triple quoted strings in doctest. For instance $ cat x.py """ >>> dummy = ''' something here ''' """ import doctest; doctest.testmod() $ python x.py ** File "x.py", line 2, in __main__ Failed exa

Re: Wheel-reinvention with Python

Mike Meyer wrote: > Exactly what problem are you trying to solve? If it's the one about > not having a standard GUI, I don't think it's a problem. Me neither. You pointed out that having a standard distribution made by some company would solve the non-standard GUI problem. I believe we share th

Re: Wheel-reinvention with Python

On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 00:18 -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: > Or maybe you could switch to Jython, and just use swing? Man, c.l.py is getting *mean* ;) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.develix.com :: Web applications and hosting :: Linux, PostgreSQL and Python specialists :: -- http://mail.python.

Re: Wheel-reinvention with Python

On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 23:56 -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: > I think you have me confused with someone else. I was responding to > someone who was claiming that the lack of a standard enterprise > strength GUI toolkit was a serious problem for Python - I disagree. I > won't recap the thread, but other l

Re: Path as a dictionary tree key? (was Re: PEP on path module for standard library)

Here's an example of how path objects could possibly be used to store and retrieve data from tree_dictionary class. I used lists here in place of path objects, but I think path objects would be better. I think paths used this way creates a consistant way to access data stored in both interna

Re: Wheel-reinvention with Python

On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 23:49 -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: > Cliff Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 14:58 -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: > >> And what do I use to bundle my application for Unix? Most of the > >> things I build get installed on Unix servers. > > You install GUI app

Re: Wheel-reinvention with Python

Torsten Bronger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hallöchen! > Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Torsten Bronger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> [...] >>> >>> None of us has talked about changing syntax. However, the >>> standard library is part of the language unless you're really >>> very p

Re: Wheel-reinvention with Python

Jorge Godoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mike Meyer wrote: > >> We already have multiple distributions of Python: CPython, IronPython, >> and Jython (and there's at least one more). We even have multiple >> distributions of CPython, what with Active State doing their own and >> the MacPython dist

Re: Wheel-reinvention with Python

Cliff Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 14:58 -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: >> And what do I use to bundle my application for Unix? Most of the >> things I build get installed on Unix servers. > You install GUI apps on Unix *servers*? Yup. Thanks to the wonders of X, I can ru

Re: Dabo in 30 seconds?

Ed Leafe wrote: > Should we have defensive code for every possible broken installation? We use > a lot of the Python standard library modules, many dbapi-compliant modules, > and, of course, wxPython. If someone mis-installs one of the pre-requisites, > do you expect Dabo to catch that and pres

Re: Python IDE's

On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 18:21:08 -0400 Benji York wrote: > Jon Hewer wrote: > > But, if i use Vi, then whenever i want to test some code i have to > > open up python, import the necessary modules and run it - I like the > > idea of developing python in an IDE and just hitting a run button. > > map :

Re: Why Tcl/Tk?

On 27/07/05 William Park said: > Old habits die hard. Soon, these folks will die off, and we'll be left > with GTK+ or wxWidgets. Not to mention dependency hell. Until wxPython is bundled with Python, it's a PITA to set it up on multiple boxes of different architectures and get all of the versio

Re: Application Error (referenced error)

David Blomstrom wrote: > This is my first post on this list, and I'm new to > Python. Oh, and I forgot to mention: welcome to Python and our community! -- Brian Beck Adventurer of the First Order -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Application Error (referenced error)

David Blomstrom wrote: > I downloaded a content management system called Plone > and get the following error message when I try to > start it: Plone isn't a stand-alone application, it's a skin and collection of products for the Zope application server. You'll have to get Zope up and running be

Application Error (referenced error)

This is my first post on this list, and I'm new to Python. I downloaded a content management system called Plone and get the following error message when I try to start it: Plone Controller - [Plone Status]: pythonw.exe - Application Error The instruction at "0x009d3f09" referenced memory at "0x0

JOB: Python/web developer/network contract

Neosynapse Inc is seeking an experienced Python developer for a short- term engagement with a new Neosynapse government customer. The task will require 5-7 years of overall programming experience; at least two years of Python experience; experience writing web applications; and a good basic

Re: Tkinter, Menu(bar) font size

Tk tries to use the "native" menu control on Windows (and, I think, MacOS). One result seems to be that for the application's menu bar you can't change the font. Of course, Windows provides a way for users to select a uniform font for menu bars in all applications, in the Display control panel. J

Re: How to execute code when a module is imported ?

Depending what you mean, it may be dirt simple: -- foo.py -- print "bar" -- end of foo.py -- When a module is first imported, all the statements in it are executed. "def" statements define functions, and "class" statements define clasess. But you can have any type of statement you like at the to

Re: How to execute code when a module is imported ?

I tried >>>foo.codetoexecwhenloaded() and it worked --- Arthas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How I do it? > > I wanna execute some code when a module is imported: > > -- foo.py -- > #!/usr/bin/env python > > def codetoexecwhenloaded(): > print "bar" > -- end of foo.py -- > > -- in console -- >

Tkinter, Menu(bar) font size

Option adding "Menu*font" changes the font size of the _commands, _radiobuttons, etc., but not the "File", "Edit", etc. labels on the menubar itself. What is the name for those labels? If I go Top.add_cascade(Label = "File", menu = Fi, font = "Courier 20") they change, but I can't figure o

Re: namespaces

re-read page 74 of the nutshell about "." and __dict__. this bit about philosophical differences in dictionary lookups vs. sending a message to an object might help http://onestepback.org/index.cgi/Tech/Ruby/PythonAndRuby.rdoc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Using gnu readline in my own python program?

sboyle55 wrote: > raw_input is an excellent suggestion, and almost exactly what I want. > > But, I want to give the user a string to edit, not have them start from > scratch inputting a string. Take a look at the fancy_input function. -- Thoma

Re: Using gnu readline in my own python program?

raw_input is an excellent suggestion, and almost exactly what I want. But, I want to give the user a string to edit, not have them start from scratch inputting a string. Any other ideas? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: calling functions

Without a 'global' statement, all variables which are assigned in the body of a function are local to that function. Here is an example showing that f() does not create a module-level variable, but g() does. >>> def f(): ... z = 3 ... >>> def g(): ... global z ... z = 3 ... >>> z Tr

How to execute code when a module is imported ?

How I do it? I wanna execute some code when a module is imported: -- foo.py -- #!/usr/bin/env python def codetoexecwhenloaded():     print "bar" -- end of foo.py -- -- in console -- import foo ^ and then it should print "bar" Thanks, Arthas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyt

Re: Python IDE's

(instead of saying "google is your bud", & because this ? isn't readily FAQ-able) i suggest Google Advanced Searching c.l.py for "python IDE intellisense" or "code completion" or "regex debugger" or "contextual help" or "whatever_feature" (each feature has about 15 codenames, keep at it), maybe th

Re: Using gnu readline in my own python program?

sboyle55 wrote: > Hi...I'm a newbie to python, and very confused. I'm writing a simple > program and want the user to be able to edit a line that I display using > the full gnu readline capabilitites. (For example, control+a to go to the > beginning of the line.) > > Then I want to be able to r

calling functions

This is the first time I have tried out functions (is that the main way of making subroutines in Python?) Anyway, my function, mutate, below #make a child string by randomly changing one character of the parent Def mutate(): newnum=random.randrange(27) if newnum==0:

Using gnu readline in my own python program?

Hi...I'm a newbie to python, and very confused. I'm writing a simple program and want the user to be able to edit a line that I display using the full gnu readline capabilitites. (For example, control+a to go to the beginning of the line.) Then I want to be able to read the line after it's been

RE: rfc822 module bug?

[rfc822 module bug] >> Date: Tue,26 Jul 2005 13:14:27 GMT +0200 >> >> It seems to be correct¹, but parsedate_tz is not able to >> decode it, it is confused by the absence of a space after >> the ",". [...] > I think I'll submit this bug on the Python web-site. Please don't. The rfc822 module is

RE: Is this Pythonic?

Peter Hansen wrote: > Change those to "raise NotImplementedError('blah')" instead and you'll > be taking the more idiomatic approach. One thing I've noticed, which I may raise on python-dev ... NotImplementedError does *not* play well with super() ... class A (object): def test (self):

Re: Path as a dictionary tree key? (was Re: PEP on path module for standard library)

Brian Beck wrote: > Ron Adam wrote: > >> This give a more general purpose for path objects. Working out ways >> to retrieve path objects from a dictionary_tree also would be useful I >> think. I think a Tree class would also be a useful addition as well. >> >> Any thoughts on this? > > > I d

Re: namespaces

Paolino wrote: > Now this is the non polluting version : > > class translate: >import string >all=string.maketrans('','') >badcars=all.translate(all,string.letters+string.digits) >@staticmethod >def __call__(text,table=string.maketrans(badcars,'_'*len(badcars))): > retur

Re: Dabo in 30 seconds?

Daniel Dittmar wrote: > Jorge Godoy wrote: >> We can find several problems, almost all of them can be solved with the >> admin's creativity. > > You must distinguish between solving technical problems once a course > has ben set and choosing such a course in the first place. > > The latter has t

Re: Python IDE's

Jon Hewer wrote: > But, if i use Vi, then whenever i want to test some code i have to > open up python, import the necessary modules and run it - I like the > idea of developing python in an IDE and just hitting a run button. map :w:!python % -- Benji York -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/list

Re: Wheel-reinvention with Python

On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 17:54 -0400, Mark Roseman wrote: > > I'll point out that this has been done (in fact, many times). For > example: > http://tkhtml.hwaci.com > > (Integrating Gecko in has also been done, as a side note). Interesting. Your later point about hard to find is certainly

Re: namespaces

Paul Rubin wrote: > Paolino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>What I'm needing as a global (in globals() or at the module level or >>in the module namespace) is 'translate'.The rest of bindings >>(all,badcars and table) is something which is 'polluting' the module >>namespace. > > > do you want >

Re: Path as a dictionary tree key? (was Re: PEP on path module for standard library)

Ron Adam wrote: > This give a more general purpose for path objects. Working out ways to > retrieve path objects from a dictionary_tree also would be useful I > think. I think a Tree class would also be a useful addition as well. > > Any thoughts on this? I don't think this would be as useful

Re: namespaces

George Sakkis wrote: > Paolino wrote: > > Even worse I get with methods and function namespaces. >>> >>>What is "even worse" about them? >>> >> >>For my thinking, worse is to understand how they derive their pattern >>from generic namespaces. >>Methods seems not to have a writeble one,while f

Re: Python IDE's

I do use Vim a lot. I am currently using it for some PHP development i'm doing. I'm been using it so much recently that i keep pressing ESC and typing vi commands out of vi. But, if i use Vi, then whenever i want to test some code i have to open up python, import the necessary modules and run it

Re: Wheel-reinvention with Python

Paul Rubin wrote: > Cliff Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Still, that leaves Linux and Mac out in the cold. But I'll admit you > > met my challenge. Most likely you can actually do most of the things > > with Tk you can with Wx, it's simply a matter of how much e

Re: namespaces

Bengt Richter wrote: > Ok, to make the statement execute, execute function: > > >>> function() > >>> a=function.foo > >>> a > 'something' > >>> vars(function) > {'foo': 'something'} > Yep too stupid I've been :) Thanks __

Re: Wheel-reinvention with Python

On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 14:16 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote: > Cliff Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It was quite clear that by saying "most people" he was not referring to > > the set of "most Python users", but rather the set of "most people who > > have tried wxPython". > > That wasn't clear to m

Re: Is this Pythonic?

On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 12:52:02 -0400, Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >phil hunt wrote: >> Suppose I'm writing an abstract superclass which will have some >> concrete subclasses. I want to signal in my code that the subclasses >> will implement certan methods. Is this a Pythonic way of doin

Re: inheriting from datetime

gah, yeah that was strange. but i got it now. thanks. > side question: what is the point of accepting invalid dates? thats a long story. but it would be nice to have invalid dates at least just stored. so i want to try to put a class together that does it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listi

Re: Wheel-reinvention with Python

On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 14:13 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote: > Cliff Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Still, that leaves Linux and Mac out in the cold. But I'll admit you > > met my challenge. Most likely you can actually do most of the things > > with Tk you can with Wx, it's simply a matter of how

Path as a dictionary tree key? (was Re: PEP on path module for standard library)

I'm wondering if a class that acts as a interface to a tree data structure stored in a dictionary could also be useful as a base class for accessing filesystems, urls, and zip (or rar) files. Then a path object could then be used as a dictionary_tree key. This idea seems much more useful to m

Re: Newer than a Newbe

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Newer than a Newbe

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Re: Wheel-reinvention with Python

Cliff Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It was quite clear that by saying "most people" he was not referring to > the set of "most Python users", but rather the set of "most people who > have tried wxPython". That wasn't clear to me. If that's what he meant, he should have said so. -- http://m

Re: inheriting from datetime

Rob Conner wrote: > So this is simple, why can't I run the following code? I've tried many > variances of this, but simply cannot inherit from datetime or > datetime.datetime. I get this on line 3. > TypeError: function takes at most 2 arguments (3 given) line 3 of the following code or line 3 of

Re: Wheel-reinvention with Python

Cliff Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Still, that leaves Linux and Mac out in the cold. But I'll admit you > met my challenge. Most likely you can actually do most of the things > with Tk you can with Wx, it's simply a matter of how much effort is > going to be (for instance, it's certainly q

Re: Standard Threads vs Weightless Threads

Christopher Subich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > the primary benefit (on uniprocessor systems) that if one thread > executes a blocking task (like IO writes) another thread will receive > CPU attention. On multiprocessor systems, of course, the benefit is that threads can run on separate CPUs. Th

Re: Wheel-reinvention with Python

Kay Schluehr wrote: > Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote: > >> > In practise any Python GUI is going to contain code from otyher >> > languages since if it was coded all the way down in python it would >> > be too slow. >> >> Oh, I could imagine that a MFC-like wrapper around win32gui, or another >> one ar

Re: inheriting from datetime

On 2005-08-01, Rob Conner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So this is simple, why can't I run the following code? I've tried many > variances of this, but simply cannot inherit from datetime or > datetime.datetime. I get this on line 3. > TypeError: function takes at most 2 arguments (3 given) > >

Re: inheriting from datetime

On 2005-08-01, Rob Conner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So this is simple, why can't I run the following code? I've tried many > variances of this, but simply cannot inherit from datetime or > datetime.datetime. I get this on line 3. > TypeError: function takes at most 2 arguments (3 given) I thin

Distutils Question - Creating an "installer" for python users?

Hey guys, I wrote a fairly simple program that has 3 python files, and needs a couple directories created to run. It also uses PythonCard. I would like make it easily distributable to users who already have Python installed. Would anyone mind explaining this in easy to follow steps or pointing

Re: python SMTP server

Cliff Wells wrote: > On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 12:28 +0200, Benjamin Niemann wrote: >> Cliff Wells wrote: > >[snip] > >> > By using a local SMTP server to proxy, your app can >> > queue up a large amount of mail in a much shorter period. It won't >> > necessarily go out any faster, but at least you

Re: Is this Pythonic?

phil hunt wrote: > Suppose I'm writing an abstract superclass which will have some > concrete subclasses. I want to signal in my code that the subclasses > will implement certan methods. Is this a Pythonic way of doing what > I have in mind: > > class Foo: # abstract superclass >def bar(se

Re: Wheel-reinvention with Python

On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 13:38 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote: > Peter Decker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > We were discussing your 'enormous pain' installing wxPython. I find it > > interesting that you selectively quoted part of one line of my post, > > Yes, the one line I quoted was the one that said m

inheriting from datetime

So this is simple, why can't I run the following code? I've tried many variances of this, but simply cannot inherit from datetime or datetime.datetime. I get this on line 3. TypeError: function takes at most 2 arguments (3 given) import datetime _datetime = datetim

Re: Wheel-reinvention with Python

On 01 Aug 2005 13:38:21 -0700, Paul Rubin <"http://phr.cx"@nospam.invalid> wrote: > Peter Decker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > We were discussing your 'enormous pain' installing wxPython. I find it > > interesting that you selectively quoted part of one line of my post, > > Yes, the one line I

Re: Wheel-reinvention with Python

On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 15:26 -0400, Mark Roseman wrote: > > How can I embed a browser in Tk (I mean a real browser, like Mozilla, > > Safari, or even Exploder)? At all? On any platform? This has always > > been the tradeoff for Tk. > > Try this as one example: > http://wiki.tcl.tk/4094

Re: MySQL help

I wasn't aware of the replace command I'll take a look at that tomorrow and see if it helps. Thanks >quick tip: are you aware of the mysql's REPLACE command? > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Wheel-reinvention with Python

Peter Decker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We were discussing your 'enormous pain' installing wxPython. I find it > interesting that you selectively quoted part of one line of my post, Yes, the one line I quoted was the one that said most people have wxPython installed, which is a preposterous cla

Re: Dabo in 30 seconds?

On 01 Aug 2005 12:50:56 -0700, Paul Rubin <"http://phr.cx"@nospam.invalid> wrote: > I seem to be in a minority here Wow, you finally said something that I agree with! > but I vote for avoiding such dependencies as much as possible. This isn't a contest here. Do what you like, and don't expec

Terminate a thread that doesn't check for events

Hi all,   I am aware that similar and probably same questions have been posted many times, but I was unable to find a solution after reading a dozen threads in the archive. So here it goes again.   I have a thread that does some heavy task (hash calculation, for instance). I need a mech

Re: Using win32com for web automation

ina wrote: > Look up pamie it should do all the work you need. If it dosn't I can > send you ishyBrowser but pamie has more comunity support. FYI #Imports from win32com.client import Dispatch from time import sleep # Create a new browser object ie = Dispatch('InternetExplorer.App­lication') #

Re: need for speed

Michael Rybak a écrit : (snip) > > Is there a way of profiling other than manual (debug output with > measurements and all)? Some tools? http://docs.python.org/lib/profile.html HTH -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Short term project

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Re: Wheel-reinvention with Python

On 01 Aug 2005 12:58:57 -0700, Paul Rubin <"http://phr.cx"@nospam.invalid> wrote: > > Geez, can you whine some more? Most people are running wxPython just > > fine, > > Most people? What percentage of actual Python users do you think have > wxPython installed? If you're really claiming it's ove

Re: Is this Pythonic?

Caleb Hattingh a écrit : > Peter > > To my mind, this kind of setup (interface class, or abstact class are two different things. >) is > more usually used in static languages True. >to benefit polymorphism This is a good reason to use an interface in Java. C++ has no notion of 'interfac

Re: MySQL help

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So i'm writing this program to check if a row exists in a table. If it > doesn't it inserts it if it does it will update that row with the > current info. (...) quick tip: are you aware of the mysql's REPLACE command?

Re: Python IDE's

You know, for several years I was one of those people who simply ignored posts like this about Vi/Vim because I happened to come across it once on a sparc machine and thought it was ridiculous that I couldn't figure out how to type a simple note. I thought that Vi (Vim) was some kind of w

Re: Wheel-reinvention with Python

On Monday 01 August 2005 15:21, Mark Roseman wrote: > FWIW, some people may find this page interesting, which gives you an > idea what "standard" Tk looks like on OS X, and then with adopting the > "tile" extension to Tk and a few other tweaks, which is on its way to > becoming a standard part of

Re: Dabo in 30 seconds?

Jorge Godoy wrote: > We can find several problems, almost all of them can be solved with the > admin's creativity. You must distinguish between solving technical problems once a course has ben set and choosing such a course in the first place. The latter has to deal also with the risks of the

Re: [path-PEP] Path inherits from basestring again

Ivan Van Laningham wrote: >>People can subclass Path and add it if they really want it. They can use >>Jason's original module. My position is that the PEP without this use of >>__div__ is (a) better as a standard module, and (b) improves the chance of >>the PEP being accepted. >> > > > I dis

Re: Wheel-reinvention with Python

Peter Decker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Geez, can you whine some more? Most people are running wxPython just > fine, Most people? What percentage of actual Python users do you think have wxPython installed? If you're really claiming it's over 50%, you're out of your mind. -- http://mail.pyth

Re: Is this Pythonic?

Peter To my mind, this kind of setup (interface class, or abstact class) is more usually used in static languages to benefit polymorphism - but python is dynamically typed, so in which situations would this setup be useful in a python program? You see, I expected your post to say that it wo

Re: Dabo in 30 seconds?

Ed Leafe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > a lot of the Python standard library modules, many dbapi-compliant modules, > and, of course, wxPython. If someone mis-installs one of the pre-requisites, > do you expect Dabo to catch that and present you with a diagnostic message? > I'm serious here: I wa

Re: Dabo in 30 seconds?

It is usually referred to as STC. This is from my BUILD.txt instructions for "unix" builds: 2. To build and install wxWidgets you could just use the "make" command but there are other libraries besides the main wxWidgets libs that also need to be built so again I make a script to do it a

Re: Dabo in 30 seconds?

On Monday 01 August 2005 12:17 pm, Ed Leafe wrote: > So in a way, I *do* expect someone > who has foregone the binary route and chosen the source route to at least > read the build instructions. There is no mention of stylized text controls in either the wxPython build or install pages of the www

Re: Wheel-reinvention with Python

> How can I embed a browser in Tk (I mean a real browser, like Mozilla, > Safari, or even Exploder)? At all? On any platform? This has always > been the tradeoff for Tk. Try this as one example: http://wiki.tcl.tk/4094 > Tk is great for learning, easy to write small, basic interfaces,

Re: Wheel-reinvention with Python

Ed Leafe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 31 July 2005 12:03, Paul Rubin wrote: >> > How on earth did you decide that, since tkinter actually runs out of > > the box when you install Python on most platforms, and wxPython doesn't? > > Because Tkinter looked like crap on OS X. Sorry, but it

Re: Dabo in 30 seconds?

On Monday 01 August 2005 15:00, James Stroud wrote: > Perhaps some of us are writing software with non-developer end-users in > mind, and we kind of keep that mentality when evaluating modules our code > uses. Do your end-users really want to figure out that the need to and how > to install styliz

Re: On fighting fire with fire...

[EMAIL PROTECTED] napisał(a): > Twice today I responded to rude messages (once here, once on the SpamBayes > list) whose authors didn't deserve the benefit of my time. In both cases, > other people rightfully responded with some small amount of return venom > (but provided useful responses noneth

Re: Dabo in 30 seconds?

On Monday 01 August 2005 05:59 am, Cliff Wells wrote: > But then I'm willing to > actually work a little to get what I want.  For other it seems they > won't be happy unless you drive to their house and install it for them > (which only seems fair, cause if you hadn't volunteered to write such > cr

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