Re: Implementing class methods in C

2005-08-18 Thread Adriaan Renting
I think you'd need to write a C++ class that has the methods you want to implement in C++, then wrap that with SWIG, then inherit from that, though multiple inheritance if you also need functions from a base Python class. The PyQt people use SIP I think, instead of SWIG, might be useful to look i

Re: while c = f.read(1)

2005-08-18 Thread John Machin
Bengt Richter wrote: > On 18 Aug 2005 22:21:53 -0700, "Greg McIntyre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>I have a Python snippet: >> >> f = open("blah.txt", "r") >> while True: >> c = f.read(1) >> if c == '': break # EOF >> # ... work on c >> >>Is some way to make this code more compact

Re: while c = f.read(1)

2005-08-18 Thread John Machin
Greg McIntyre wrote: > I have a Python snippet: > > f = open("blah.txt", "r") > while True: > c = f.read(1) > if c == '': break # EOF That could read like this if not c: break # EOF # see below for comments on what is true/false > # ... work on c > > Is some way to make th

Re: while c = f.read(1)

2005-08-18 Thread Donn Cave
Quoth "Greg McIntyre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | I have a Python snippet: | | f = open("blah.txt", "r") | while True: | c = f.read(1) | if c == '': break # EOF | # ... work on c | | Is some way to make this code more compact and simple? It's a bit | spaghetti. Actually I'd make i

Re: certificate-based authentication (Martin v. L?wis)

2005-08-18 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> I'm using Python version 2.2 - the SafeTransport class in it's xmlrpclib > doesn't have a 'get_host_info' method. Which version were you referring > to? I was looking at the HEAD revision in CVS. That feature was apparently released with Python 2.3. Still, httplib supports client certificates

Re: while c = f.read(1)

2005-08-18 Thread Robert Kern
Greg McIntyre wrote: > I have a Python snippet: > > f = open("blah.txt", "r") > while True: > c = f.read(1) > if c == '': break # EOF > # ... work on c > > Is some way to make this code more compact and simple? It's a bit > spaghetti. That's not spaghetti. Not even close.

Re: while c = f.read(1)

2005-08-18 Thread Bengt Richter
On 18 Aug 2005 22:21:53 -0700, "Greg McIntyre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have a Python snippet: > > f = open("blah.txt", "r") > while True: > c = f.read(1) > if c == '': break # EOF > # ... work on c > >Is some way to make this code more compact and simple? It's a bit >spaghet

while c = f.read(1)

2005-08-18 Thread Greg McIntyre
I have a Python snippet: f = open("blah.txt", "r") while True: c = f.read(1) if c == '': break # EOF # ... work on c Is some way to make this code more compact and simple? It's a bit spaghetti. This is what I would ideally like: f = open("blah.txt", "r") while c = f.re

Re: time.clock() problem under linux (precision=0.01s)

2005-08-18 Thread ncf
Woa, if you don't mind my asking, why do you do a time-cache on your messages? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: dict duplicity

2005-08-18 Thread Randy Bush
> Firstly, to remove one possible source of confusion, change the name of > your dictionary ... "mydict" or "fred" ... anything but "dict" > > Next, after you have created the dictionary and added items to it, do this: > print len(fred) > print len(fred.items()) > nitems = 0 > for k, v in fred.it

Re: how do i add a new path into sys.path?

2005-08-18 Thread James Sungjin Kim
Steve Holden wrote: > sys.path.append(r"C:\Temp") In this case, do I need to save the refined path, i.e, the original paths + the new path (r"C:\Temp"), by using some command in order to use it permanently. if yes, it would be greatly appreciated to noitce the correspoding command and the usage

Re: python html

2005-08-18 Thread Mike Meyer
Steve Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, I am looking for something where I can go through > a html page and make change the url's for all the > links, images, href's, etc... easily. If anyone knows > of something, please let me know. Thanks. I've been doing a lot of that today. But the tool

Re: creating/modifying sparse files on linux

2005-08-18 Thread Mike Meyer
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My goal is very simple. Have a mechanism to create sparse files and > modify them by writing arbitratry ranges of bytes at arbitrary offsets. > I did get the information I want (xrange instead of range, and a simple > way to generate 1Mb string in

Re: time.clock() problem under linux (precision=0.01s)

2005-08-18 Thread Mike Meyer
"Szabolcs Nagy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > time.time seems much better solution, but python manual sais: "not all > systems provide time with a better precision than 1 second" > > Should i use time.clock or time.time to be more crossplatform? > Is time.time ok for windows? (time()-time() != 0.0

Re: Module Name Conflicts

2005-08-18 Thread Bengt Richter
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 16:46:42 -0700, Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Dan Sommers wrote: > >> Assuming you can fiddle with sys.path at the right times, you can call >> an imported module anything you want: >> >> fix_sys_path_to_find_java_cmd_first() >> import cmd as java_cmd >>

Re: Really virtual properties

2005-08-18 Thread Steven Bethard
Ben Finney wrote: > Not using the built-in property type. Here is a recipe for a > LateBindingProperty that does what you ask: > > Steven Bethard: > "This recipe provides a LateBindingProperty callable which allows > the getter and setter methods associated with the property to be >

Re: Confused newbie needs help with "__init__() takes exactly 11 arguments (1 given)"

2005-08-18 Thread John Machin
googleboy wrote: > I've written a little script to parse a csv file then use seach/replace > over a template to create a file for each line in the file. It pikes > out when I call the function that parses the csv (read_revs). If I > have inadvertantly left an extra comma or two in the comma field

Re: Module Name Conflicts

2005-08-18 Thread Robert Kern
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Robert Kern wrote: > >>Why not copy cmd.py into your package under a different name? > > It offends my sense of modularity. For the record, I'm trying to use > pdb, the debugger, which in turn uses cmd. So it would be a matter of > taking pdb.py and hacking it to import

Re: dict duplicity

2005-08-18 Thread Steven Bethard
Randy Bush wrote: >for pKey, pVal in dict.iteritems(): > print \ > pKey[0], hash(pKey[0]), \ > pKey[1], hash(pKey[1]), \ > pKey[2], hash(pKey[2]), \ > "hash=", hash(pKey), \ > pVal[0], hash(pVal[0]), \ > pVal[1], hash(pVal[1]) > > whe

Re: question about binary and serial info

2005-08-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2005-08-19, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The OP is reading raw output from a serial port. He's already said he's > getting "funny ASCII characters". One gets the impression he thinks he > needs to do bit-twiddling on *each* byte. Looks like he needs ord(), or > (better) struct.un

Re: Python jobs (was Re: Python for Webscripting (like PHP))

2005-08-18 Thread Erik Max Francis
Peter Decker wrote: > Then start looking for telecommuting people. There are lots of us who > can use work and have excellent telecommuting references, but who > don't happen to live in a major metro area! And then there's some in the Bay Area who wouldn't mind telecommuting, either ... :-) --

Re: question about binary and serial info

2005-08-18 Thread John Machin
Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2005-08-18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>i have an ascii string comming in the serial port and i need to convert >>it to something else, like an integer, or binary, or even a hex so i >>can use the bitwise comparison on it. Nephish, *WHY* do want t

Re: Python jobs (was Re: Python for Webscripting (like PHP))

2005-08-18 Thread Peter Decker
On 18 Aug 2005 10:58:46 -0700, Aahz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OTOH, the big sucking sound from Google and Yahoo (plus other places > like Ironport) is making it more difficult to hire Python programmers in > the Bay Area... Then start looking for telecommuting people. There are lots of us who

Re: Module Name Conflicts

2005-08-18 Thread Dan Sommers
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 16:46:42 -0700, Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Sommers wrote: [ something that obviously doesn't work ] > That doesn't work. The first module is recorded as 'cmd' in > sys.modules and gets reused on the second import. Yes, you're right. I apologize. Regards,

Re: Really virtual properties

2005-08-18 Thread Bengt Richter
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 23:36:58 +0200, Torsten Bronger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hallöchen! > >When I use properties in new style classes, I usually pass get/set >methods to property(), like this: > >x = property(get_x) > >If I overwrite get_x in a derived class, any access to x still calls >t

Re: Module Name Conflicts

2005-08-18 Thread torched_smurf
ncf wrote: > Maybe what you're looking for is __import__()? Okay, actually this does work, but only in one direction. That is, I can import the python package first, and then the java package, but not the other way around. -- Importing t

Re: Module Name Conflicts

2005-08-18 Thread ncf
I'm honestly not too sure how __import__ works, but I know you can provide a full path to it. Oh well, that was my best guess. I wish I could've been of more help. -Wes -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: up to date books?

2005-08-18 Thread Tomasz Rola
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, John Salerno wrote: > hi all. are there any recommendations for an intro book to python that > is up-to-date for the latest version? > > would reading a book from a year or two ago cause me to miss much? Well, well - and nobody

Re: Module Name Conflicts

2005-08-18 Thread Peter Hansen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Robert Kern wrote: >>That doesn't work. The first module is recorded as 'cmd' in sys.modules >>and gets reused on the second import. > > Exactly. And clearing sys.modules doesn't fix the problem. Once it's > imported something from the first cmd package, it can no longer

Re: question about binary and serial info

2005-08-18 Thread nephish
thanks for your time. i have started just doing a type(a) from idle a lot just so i can make sure of what i am dealing with ( i do this a lot) before i build the .py file. got tired of 'cannot concatonate str and init' stuff all the time. this has been a wild project. nothing like getting in way ov

Re: dict duplicity

2005-08-18 Thread John Machin
Randy Bush wrote: > a dict written as > >pKey = (prefix, pLen, origin) > >val = dict.get(pKey) >if val == None: > dict[pKey] = (timeB, timeB) >else: > if val[0] > timeB: val[0] = timeB > if val[1] < timeB: val[1] = timeB > dict[pKey] = val > > and read b

Re: Module Name Conflicts

2005-08-18 Thread torched_smurf
Robert Kern wrote: > Why not copy cmd.py into your package under a different name? > It offends my sense of modularity. For the record, I'm trying to use pdb, the debugger, which in turn uses cmd. So it would be a matter of taking pdb.py and hacking it to import a renamed version of cmd... kind of

Re: Module Name Conflicts

2005-08-18 Thread torched_smurf
ncf wrote: > Maybe what you're looking for is __import__()? > > >>> help(__import__) > Help on built-in function __import__ in module __builtin__: > > __import__(...) > __import__(name, globals, locals, fromlist) -> module > > Import a module. The globals are only used to determine the > c

Re: Module Name Conflicts

2005-08-18 Thread Robert Kern
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a java program in a package called 'cmd'. This of course > conflicts with the builtin python package of the same name. The thing > is, I need to be able to import from both of these packages in the same > script. I can import either one first, but any future attemp

Re: Bitwise operations in Python?

2005-08-18 Thread John Machin
Carl wrote: > Dear friends, > > I am currently porting a fortran program to Python but am stuck on the > intrinsic IBITS function. > > Does anyone know about a replacement function for IBITS in Python? > > Yours, Carl > > IBITS(I, POS, LEN) > > Extracts a sequence of bits. > > I > must b

Re: Really virtual properties

2005-08-18 Thread Ben Finney
Torsten Bronger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallöchen! > > When I use properties in new style classes, I usually pass get/set > methods to property(), like this: > > x = property(get_x) Better is to make it clear that 'get_x' is not intended to be called directly. You can do this through th

Re: Module Name Conflicts

2005-08-18 Thread torched_smurf
Robert Kern wrote: > Dan Sommers wrote: > > > Assuming you can fiddle with sys.path at the right times, you can call > > an imported module anything you want: > > > > fix_sys_path_to_find_java_cmd_first() > > import cmd as java_cmd > > fix_sys_path_to_find_python_cmd_first() > > imp

Traceback Questions

2005-08-18 Thread ncf
I'm just beginning with tracebacks, building off of what I see in asyncore's compact_traceback code, in order to hopefully store all the values from the location in which the exception occured. I'm actually trying to make this into a python bug report system for my current project, and am seeking

Re: Module Name Conflicts

2005-08-18 Thread Robert Kern
Dan Sommers wrote: > Assuming you can fiddle with sys.path at the right times, you can call > an imported module anything you want: > > fix_sys_path_to_find_java_cmd_first() > import cmd as java_cmd > fix_sys_path_to_find_python_cmd_first() > import cmd as python_cmd > > Obviousl

Re: Module Name Conflicts

2005-08-18 Thread Dan Sommers
On 18 Aug 2005 16:06:46 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a java program in a package called 'cmd'. This of course > conflicts with the builtin python package of the same name. The thing > is, I need to be able to import from both of these packages in the same > script. I can import either

Re: Module Name Conflicts

2005-08-18 Thread ncf
Maybe what you're looking for is __import__()? >>> help(__import__) Help on built-in function __import__ in module __builtin__: __import__(...) __import__(name, globals, locals, fromlist) -> module Import a module. The globals are only used to determine the context; they are not mod

Re: question about binary and serial info

2005-08-18 Thread Bengt Richter
On 18 Aug 2005 10:42:32 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: import serial ser =3D serial.Serial('/dev/ttyS0', 2400, timeout=3D 10, bytesize=3D8, = >stopbits=3D1) a =3D ser.read(1) print a >^ In general, print a is not a good way to investigate what a is, because print uses st

Re: how do i add a new path into sys.path?

2005-08-18 Thread John Machin
wen wrote: > on my system(win2k server, python 2.3.5), > import sys print sys.path > > ['C:\\', 'C:\\WINNT\\system32\\python23.zip', > 'C:\\Python23\\lib\\site-packages\\Pythonwin', > 'C:\\Python23\\lib\\site-packages\\win32', > 'C:\\Python23\\lib\\site-packages\\win32\\lib', > 'C:\\Pytho

Module Name Conflicts

2005-08-18 Thread torched_smurf
I have a java program in a package called 'cmd'. This of course conflicts with the builtin python package of the same name. The thing is, I need to be able to import from both of these packages in the same script. I can import either one first, but any future attempt to import from cmd.* will look

Re: up to date books?

2005-08-18 Thread Matt Darby
John Salerno wrote: >Also, are Python and Ruby similar languages? Which would be better to learn? > > Knowing both, they are very similar. Python seems to be more mature and has better support. Threading is easier in Ruby, while Python is more intuitive across the board. I really like both,

Re: up to date books?

2005-08-18 Thread John Machin
Alessandro Bottoni wrote: > > > Python did not changed too much since rel. 1.5. I presume by "too much" you mean "very much" rather than "inordinately" or "excessively". IMHO the addition of [list off the top of my head] string methods, Unicode, new-style classes, generators, list comprehensi

Re: up to date books?

2005-08-18 Thread John Salerno
Thank you very much for that response! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > John Salerno wrote: >... > >>Just one more quick question: I'm basically learning programming for >>fun, and I'm concentrating on C# right now. Python seems interesting, >>but I was wondering if I should even bother. Would it s

Re: Python for Webscripting (like PHP)

2005-08-18 Thread Terry Reedy
"Peter Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Alessandro Bottoni wrote: >> (Python has even been told to be used by Yahoo! and Google, among >> others, >> but nobody was able to demonstrate this, so far) > > Nobody, except Google's founders? > > http://www-db.stanf

Re: Really virtual properties

2005-08-18 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
I don't think so - the reason is that property() is evaluated in the baseclass, and stores a callable, not a name. the only thing you could do is either - create a level of indirection, using lambda, to force the lookup: x = property(lamda self: self.get_x()) - use a metaclass, that tries to

Re: Really virtual properties

2005-08-18 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
I don't think so - the reason is that property() is evaluated in the baseclass, and stores a callable, not a name. the only thing you could do is either - create a level of indirection, using lambda, to force the lookup: x = property(lamda self: self.get_x()) - use a metaclass, that tries to

Re: up to date books?

2005-08-18 Thread aleaxit
John Salerno wrote: ... > Just one more quick question: I'm basically learning programming for > fun, and I'm concentrating on C# right now. Python seems interesting, > but I was wondering if I should even bother. Would it supplement C# in > any way, or can C# do everything Python can? C# and P

Re: dict duplicity

2005-08-18 Thread Randy Bush
>> a dict written as >> >>pKey = (prefix, pLen, origin) >> >>val = dict.get(pKey) >>if val == None: >> dict[pKey] = (timeB, timeB) >>else: >> if val[0]> timeB: val[0] = timeB >> if val[1] < timeB: val[1] = timeB >> dict[pKey] = val >> >> and read back as

Really virtual properties

2005-08-18 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! When I use properties in new style classes, I usually pass get/set methods to property(), like this: x = property(get_x) If I overwrite get_x in a derived class, any access to x still calls the base get_x() method. Is there a way to get the child's get_x() method called instead?

Re: dict duplicity

2005-08-18 Thread Paolino
Randy Bush wrote: > a dict written as > >pKey = (prefix, pLen, origin) > >val = dict.get(pKey) >if val == None: > dict[pKey] = (timeB, timeB) >else: > if val[0] > timeB: val[0] = timeB > if val[1] < timeB: val[1] = timeB > dict[pKey] = val > > and read b

Re: Coin-operated kiosk written in python -- need some help...

2005-08-18 Thread Jon Monteleone
Thanks Fred, The OS I am using is linux distro fedora core 4 (RH, version 10 I think). The first question I have is exactly as you mention in 1. I need to have the gui running from machine bootup to shutdown. I wrote a bash daemon init script to turn my program into a daemon, but it doesnt se

dict duplicity

2005-08-18 Thread Randy Bush
a dict written as pKey = (prefix, pLen, origin) val = dict.get(pKey) if val == None: dict[pKey] = (timeB, timeB) else: if val[0] > timeB: val[0] = timeB if val[1] < timeB: val[1] = timeB dict[pKey] = val and read back as for pKey, pVal in dict.iteritems(

Re: Put a url in a browsers address bar

2005-08-18 Thread ina
Here is a start. http://www.ishpeck.net/?P=pytesting This is all stuff based on windos. Colin Gillespie wrote: > Dear All, > > I would like to place a url in my browsers address bar, then execute. > How can do this? > > e.g. > > def goToGoogle(): > url = "www.google.com" > b = openB

Re: Creating watermark with transparency on jpeg using PIL?

2005-08-18 Thread Terry Hancock
On Thursday 18 August 2005 10:07 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have been trying to add a watermark to a jpeg using PIL, but the > watermark has a black box around it. I looked at [...] > but I think these only refer to gif or png. I know jpegs really do not > support transparency, but is there

Re: up to date books?

2005-08-18 Thread John Salerno
Thanks. I understand that my question probably causes a lot of grief for some people. :) gene tani wrote: > well, it's not easy to find neutral comparisons of ruby and python, but > > > http://www.ruby-doc.org/RubyEyeForThePythonGuy.html > http://onestepback.org/index.cgi/Tech/Ruby/PythonAnd

Re: PyPE 2.1 run problem

2005-08-18 Thread jcarlson
> Once I done the replacement as suggested above, PyPE2.1 can run from > the source now. Thanks Josiah ! No problem. > > I have downloaded the PyPE2.1-win-unicode.zip, after unzip it with winzip > > into PyPE2.1-win-unicode dierctory on window XP. I try to run "pype.exe" > > by double > > click o

Re: determine variable type

2005-08-18 Thread Scott David Daniels
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > trying to determine a variable type, specifically that a variable is an > integer. > > i tried using type(var) but that only seemed to produce a response in the > command line. > > is there a built in python function to determine if a variable is an > integer?

Re: certificate-based authentication (Martin v. L?wis)

2005-08-18 Thread Dennis . Hoffman
>> I have been using XML-RPC to get information from one of our remote >> servers. To improve security, the server now has a certificate installed, >> and when I try to access it, I get an 'Unauthorized' exception. Is there >> an xmlrpclib module that supports (client-side) certificate-based >> a

Re: determine variable type

2005-08-18 Thread BranoZ
Paul Rubin wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > i tried using type(var) but that only seemed to produce a response in the > > command line. > > > > is there a built in python function to determine if a variable is an > > integer? > > type(var) returns the type. For example: > >if type(x) ==

Re: Moinmoin config

2005-08-18 Thread Andreas Schlapsi
> Hi, > > I have Moinmoin 1.3.4 installed and working on Linux RHEL3.0. However, > all screen elements are lined up on the left hand side. How can I get > it displayed like the wiki at: > > http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/HelpOnConfiguration > Hi Mark, It seems that your MoinMoin installatio

Re: up to date books?

2005-08-18 Thread gene tani
well, it's not easy to find neutral comparisons of ruby and python, but http://www.ruby-doc.org/RubyEyeForThePythonGuy.html http://onestepback.org/index.cgi/Tech/Ruby/PythonAndRuby.rdoc http://www.approximity.com/ruby/Comparison_rb_st_m_java.html http://reflectivesurface.com/weblog/2004/12/19/why

threadsafety in cherrypy with kid

2005-08-18 Thread infidel
I have just recently discovered CherryPy and Kid (many kudos to the respective developers!) and am tinkering with them to see what I can come up with. The application I eventually want to write will eventually require the python code to call stored procedures in a database which means I'll need to

Re: Bitwise operations in Python?

2005-08-18 Thread Carl
Incredible, Paul! Thanks a thousand times! /Carl -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: determine variable type

2005-08-18 Thread Paul Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > i tried using type(var) but that only seemed to produce a response in the > command line. > > is there a built in python function to determine if a variable is an > integer? type(var) returns the type. For example: if type(x) == type(3): print 'x is an int

Re: up to date books?

2005-08-18 Thread John Salerno
Also, are Python and Ruby similar languages? Which would be better to learn? John Salerno wrote: > Thanks for the great replies everyone! "Learning Python" was my first > choice, but it was also the reason I asked about older books, since it's > from 2003. But it seems that isn't an issue, and

Re: up to date books?

2005-08-18 Thread John Salerno
These all seem to be focused on Java though. gene tani wrote: > Start here: > > http://naeblis.cx/rtomayko/2004/12/15/the-static-method-thing > http://dirtsimple.org/2004/12/java-is-not-python-either.html > http://ischenko.blogspot.com/2005/02/java-may-not-be-that-bad-after-all.html > > and may

determine variable type

2005-08-18 Thread MCollins
trying to determine a variable type, specifically that a variable is an integer. i tried using type(var) but that only seemed to produce a response in the command line. is there a built in python function to determine if a variable is an integer? --Florida has a very broad Public Recor

Re: Windows message pump problems

2005-08-18 Thread Cantankerous Old Git
Neil Hodgson wrote: > Cantankerous Old Git: > >> Problem 1: >> If I have another thread call DestroyWindow after a delay, it gets an >> error "permission denied". I really can't see why. > > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winui/winui/windowsuserinterface/wind

Re: question about binary and serial info

2005-08-18 Thread nephish
all apologies, gentlemen, i feel like an idiot. the ord() is what is returning what i need. the manufacturer of the unit i am reading from told me that it puts out a "string that represents a hex" been thumping my head. sorry for the confusion, and thanks for your help shawn -- http://mail.pytho

Re: up to date books?

2005-08-18 Thread gene tani
Start here: http://naeblis.cx/rtomayko/2004/12/15/the-static-method-thing http://dirtsimple.org/2004/12/java-is-not-python-either.html http://ischenko.blogspot.com/2005/02/java-may-not-be-that-bad-after-all.html and maybe poke around ehre to learn about language design, how people define typing,

Re: certificate-based authentication

2005-08-18 Thread Martin v. Löwis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have been using XML-RPC to get information from one of our remote > servers. To improve security, the server now has a certificate installed, > and when I try to access it, I get an 'Unauthorized' exception. Is there > an xmlrpclib module that supports (client-side) c

python html

2005-08-18 Thread Steve Young
Hi, I am looking for something where I can go through a html page and make change the url's for all the links, images, href's, etc... easily. If anyone knows of something, please let me know. Thanks. -steve Start your day with

Re: question about binary and serial info

2005-08-18 Thread Peter Hansen
Peter Hansen wrote: > ASCII, however, they represent these three characters: "Foo". Your data > looks like chunk when treated as ASCII, so it's probably just bytes. Weird. I think I meant "junk" (not "chunk"), but obviously was writing verbally, not visually... -Peter -- http://mail.python.o

Re: up to date books?

2005-08-18 Thread John Salerno
Thanks for the great replies everyone! "Learning Python" was my first choice, but it was also the reason I asked about older books, since it's from 2003. But it seems that isn't an issue, and I think that would be a nice place to start. Just one more quick question: I'm basically learning progr

Re: question about binary and serial info

2005-08-18 Thread Peter Hansen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: import serial ser = serial.Serial('/dev/ttyS0', 2400, timeout= 10, bytesize=8, stopbits=1) a = ser.read(1) print a It sounds like you want to convert characters into their corresponding integer values. To do this, use the ord() builtin function. >>> ord

Re: question about binary and serial info

2005-08-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2005-08-18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: import serial ser = serial.Serial('/dev/ttyS0', 2400, timeout= 10, bytesize=8, stopbits=1) a = ser.read(1) print a > ^ That's not a hex number. Hex numbers are composed of '0-9A-F' 0F48A is a hex number. ^ is

certificate-based authentication

2005-08-18 Thread Dennis . Hoffman
I have been using XML-RPC to get information from one of our remote servers. To improve security, the server now has a certificate installed, and when I try to access it, I get an 'Unauthorized' exception. Is there an xmlrpclib module that supports (client-side) certificate-based authentication?

Python jobs (was Re: Python for Webscripting (like PHP))

2005-08-18 Thread Aahz
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >There's informal evidence that the Python secret is getting out. Sharpen >up your resumes, guys, you may not have to limit Python to home usage >soon :-) OTOH, the big sucking sound from Google and Yahoo (plus other plac

Re: extending: new type instance

2005-08-18 Thread BranoZ
Michael Hudson wrote: > PyObject_New is the usual way, although there are others -- Thanks for an answer ! > MyType.tp_new, PyObject_Call ... Does this mean, that I can call my newly defined MyType_new, MyType_init directly ?? I was afraid that Python might do some pretty important housekeeping

Re: up to date books?

2005-08-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I would suggest Alex Martelli's "Python in a Nutshell" or the "Python Cookbook" as the best Python books from Oreilly. I also like M. Pilgrim's "Dive into Python". -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: question about binary and serial info

2005-08-18 Thread nephish
>>> import serial >>> ser = serial.Serial('/dev/ttyS0', 2400, timeout= 10, bytesize=8, stopbits=1) >>> a = ser.read(1) >>> print a ^ >>> ser.close() >>> type(a) >>> int(a, 16) Traceback (innermost last): File "", line 1, in ? ValueError: invalid literal for int(): ^ so i run it again the same

Confused newbie needs help with "__init__() takes exactly 11 arguments (1 given)"

2005-08-18 Thread googleboy
Mostly I posted to try to find out more about the arguments being passed to __init__, and why they'd be 13 one second and 1 the next. I also was hoping to get a little more background on what is happening under the hood of the csv function I've plagiarised. I haev read the online python doco on

Re: Bitwise operations in Python?

2005-08-18 Thread Paul Rubin
Carl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > IBITS(I, POS, LEN) > Extracts a sequence of bits. > The result has the value of the sequence of LEN bits in I beginning at bit > POS, right-adjusted and with all other bits zero. > > The bits are numbered from 0 to BIT_SIZE(I)-1, from right to left. > > Examples

Re: question about binary and serial info

2005-08-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2005-08-18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i have an ascii string comming in the serial port and i need to convert > it to something else, like an integer, or binary, or even a hex so i > can use the bitwise comparison on it. But what do you mean by "integer", "binary", and "he

Bitwise operations in Python?

2005-08-18 Thread Carl
Dear friends, I am currently porting a fortran program to Python but am stuck on the intrinsic IBITS function. Does anyone know about a replacement function for IBITS in Python? Yours, Carl IBITS(I, POS, LEN) Extracts a sequence of bits. I must be of type integer. PO

Re: Some questions

2005-08-18 Thread Thomas Ganss
Cameron Laird schrieb: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Alessandro Bottoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Titi Anggono wrote: >>>1. Can we use Tkinter for web application such as Java? ... > ... or, if you mean, "is Python an apt language for client-side > Web development in the way Java is, w

Re: question about binary and serial info

2005-08-18 Thread nephish
i have an ascii string comming in the serial port and i need to convert it to something else, like an integer, or binary, or even a hex so i can use the bitwise comparison on it. thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: List of string

2005-08-18 Thread bryanjugglercryptographer
BranoZ wrote: > "132443" is a 'subsubstring' "0134314244133" because: For the record, that's called a "subsequence". http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=subsequence -- --Bryan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Put a url in a browsers address bar

2005-08-18 Thread Steve Holden
Colin Gillespie wrote: >>>I would like to place a url in my browsers address bar, then execute. >>>How can do this? >>> >> >>def goToGoogle(): >>import webbrowser >>webbrowser.open("www.google.com"); >> > > > Thanks for the quick reply. Do you know what module I would use to fill > out a

Re: Python for Webscripting (like PHP)

2005-08-18 Thread Scott Kilpatrick
Alessandro Bottoni wrote: > (Python has even been told to be used by Yahoo! and Google, among others, > but nobody was able to demonstrate this, so far) If you use Yahoo! Maps, you will notice they use Python. Scott -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

RE: Coin-operated kiosk written in python -- need some help...

2005-08-18 Thread Sells, Fred
I've done a similar app, but it keeps a gui up awaiting a timeclock punch. You need to tackle this in phases: 1. what os and get the gui to start at bootup. 2. start a separate thread that reads/blocks on the coin. you need more specific questions to get better help -Original Message- Fro

Re: Put a url in a browsers address bar

2005-08-18 Thread Steve Holden
Colin Gillespie wrote: >>>I would like to place a url in my browsers address bar, then execute. >>>How can do this? >>> >> >>def goToGoogle(): >>import webbrowser >>webbrowser.open("www.google.com"); >> > > > Thanks for the quick reply. Do you know what module I would use to fill > out a

Re: Python for Webscripting (like PHP)

2005-08-18 Thread Steve Holden
Peter Hansen wrote: > Alessandro Bottoni wrote: > >>(Python has even been told to be used by Yahoo! and Google, among others, >>but nobody was able to demonstrate this, so far) > > > Nobody, except Google's founders? > > http://www-db.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html > > (Among many other ref

Re: (OT) Is there something that people can use instead of full blown Python to run Python programs?

2005-08-18 Thread Nathan Pinno
I was thinking something like Java's Runtime Environment, but that might also do.   Thanks, Nathan Pinno ---Early to bed,Early to rise,Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.--Benjamin Franklin

Re: question about binary and serial info

2005-08-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2005-08-18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i got the bitwise part, i just cant seem to convert the > incomming ascii into hex, binary, integer, or decimal. So you've got an ASCII string in one format and you want to convert into an ASCII string in a different format? For exa

Re: List of string

2005-08-18 Thread BranoZ
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 13:30:45 +0200, Mohammed Altaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > > > > Thanks , but , this work for an ordered substrings , just like what we > > had ['0132442\n', '13\n', '24\n'] , I would like to remove all > > su

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