last line chopped from input file

2005-08-20 Thread Eric Lavigne
Here is a shell command (MS-DOS): debug\curve-fit output.txt And here is a Python script that *should* do the same thing (and almost does): import os inputfilename = 'input.txt' outputfilename = 'output.txt' inputfile = open(inputfilename,'r') outputfile = open(outputfilename,'w')

Related To Threads

2005-08-20 Thread Sidd
Hello, I want to write a thread in python which can be invoked for say 5 sec, within that the threads function would be to take input,is it possible because i tried it and found that raw_input() is blocking threads. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: urllib leaves sockets open?

2005-08-20 Thread Paul Rubin
"Chris Tavares" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is this normal behavior for urllib? Is there a way to force that initial > socket closed earlier? Is there something else I need to do? I'd say open a sourceforge bug. There may be a way around it with the fancy opener methods of urllib2, but it's a b

urllib leaves sockets open?

2005-08-20 Thread Chris Tavares
Hi all. I'm currently tracking down a problem in a little script[1] I have, and I was hoping that those more experienced than myself could weigh in. The script's job is to grab the status page off a DLink home router. This is a really simple job: I just use urllib.urlopen() to grab the status page

Re: global interpreter lock

2005-08-20 Thread Donn Cave
Quoth Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [... wandering from the nominal topic ...] | *) The most difficult task was writing horizontal microcode, which | also had serious concurrency issues in the form of device settling | times. I dealt with that by inventing a programming model that hid | most of

Re: Parallel port programming on windows XP / 2000

2005-08-20 Thread ex
Thank you... I finally got around to installing a proper newsreader, so that not every single one of my posts is a new thread. I know what I did wrong now. First, the line in the requirements about ""Java Communications" (JavaComm) extension for Java/Jython" seriously threw me off. Second, I som

Re: Well, another try Re: while c = f.read(1)

2005-08-20 Thread Paul Rubin
James Sungjin Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now I realized that Command 'lambda' is a similar to Command 'inline' > in C++. In addition, Command 'iter' is something new but not much new > to c engineers, since it is related to 'for loops', e.g., Actually not related at all. Nothing like lambd

Re: Well, another try Re: while c = f.read(1)

2005-08-20 Thread James Sungjin Kim
Robert Kern 쓴 글: > > Now go read the documentation. > Thanks to your comments, I read the corresponding helps searched by Google. (Sorry to say a specific search engine here, but I must say that it is really convinient.) Now I realized that Command 'lambda' is a similar to Command 'inline' in

Re: global interpreter lock

2005-08-20 Thread Paul Rubin
Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Even simpler to program in is the model used by Erlang. It's more CSP > than threading, though, as it doesn't have shared memory as part of > the model. But if you can use the simpler model to solve your problem > - you probably should. Well, ok, the Python

incorect version

2005-08-20 Thread Einstein, Daniel R
Hello, I am working with a code that has python embedded in it. The embedded python points to my local python. Outside of the embedding application, I can import a third part module (wrapped ITK). When, I attempt to import the same module from within the embedding application, it fails with th

Re: global interpreter lock

2005-08-20 Thread Mike Meyer
Bryan Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mike Meyer wrote: > > The real problem is that the concurrency models available in currently > > popular languages are still at the "goto" stage of language > > development. Better models exist, have existed for decades, and are > > available in a vari

Re: global interpreter lock

2005-08-20 Thread Mike Meyer
"Donn Cave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Quoth Paul Rubin : > | Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > |> The real problem is that the concurrency models available in currently > |> popular languages are still at the "goto" stage of language > |> development. Better m

Update: Python Game Programming Challenge

2005-08-20 Thread richard
The Python Game Programming Challenge (otherwise known as PyWeek) is only a week away from starting! Theme voting has started! http://www.mechanicalcat.net/tech/PyWeek/1 Richard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Well, another try Re: while c = f.read(1)

2005-08-20 Thread Bengt Richter
On 19 Aug 2005 23:13:44 -0700, "James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> for data in iter(lambda:f.read(1024), ''): >> for c in data: > >What are the meanings of Commands 'iter' and 'lambda', respectively? I >do not want you to indicate merely the related help pages. Just your >ituitive and short

Re: Sandboxes

2005-08-20 Thread 42
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says... > 42 wrote: > > I was wondering if it would be effective to pre-parse incoming scripts > > and reject those containing "import"? > > getattr(__builtins__, '__imp' + 'ort__')('dangerousmodule') > See that's sort of thing I'm talking abou

Re: Proposed PEP: New style indexing, was Re: Bug in slice type

2005-08-20 Thread Steven Bethard
Bryan Olson wrote: > Steven Bethard wrote: > > Well, I couldn't find where the general semantics of a negative stride > > index are defined, but for sequences at least[1]: > > > > "The slice of s from i to j with step k is defined as the sequence of > > items with index x = i + n*k such that 0

Re: Python Light Revisted?

2005-08-20 Thread Ramza Brown
Steve M wrote: > I agree with you in part and disagree in part. > > I don't see the point to making the distribution any smaller. 10MB for > the installer from python.org, 16MB for ActiveState .exe installer. How > is 5MB "lightweight" while 10MB isn't? The Windows XP version of Java > at java.com

Re: Python Light Revisted?

2005-08-20 Thread Ramza Brown
Steve M wrote: > I agree with you in part and disagree in part. > > I don't see the point to making the distribution any smaller. 10MB for > the installer from python.org, 16MB for ActiveState .exe installer. How > is 5MB "lightweight" while 10MB isn't? The Windows XP version of Java > at java.com

Re: Please Criticize My Code

2005-08-20 Thread Jeff Schwab
Christoph Rackwitz wrote: > i guess, it is pythonchallenge.com level 10? > if so, i used this thing: > > import re > def enc(s): > return ''.join('%s%s' % (len(a[0]),a[0][0]) for a in > re.findall('((.)\\2*)', s)) > Don't do that! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: stdin -> stdout

2005-08-20 Thread Jeff Schwab
max(01)* wrote: > i was wondering, what's the simplest way to echo the standard input to > the standard output, with no modification. ... > ps: in perl you ca do this: > > ... > while ($line = ) > { > print STDOUT ("$line"); > } > ... I guess you could, but there wouldn't be much point.

Re: Well, another try Re: while c = f.read(1)

2005-08-20 Thread Robert Kern
Paul Rubin wrote: > Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html >>> >>>Is it a *smart* way or *necessary* way? >> >>It's the polite way. And probably the only way you're going to get >>your questions actually answered. > > I wonder if there's a

Re: Python Light Revisted?

2005-08-20 Thread Steve M
I agree with you in part and disagree in part. I don't see the point to making the distribution any smaller. 10MB for the installer from python.org, 16MB for ActiveState .exe installer. How is 5MB "lightweight" while 10MB isn't? The Windows XP version of Java at java.com is 16+ MB, and the .NET fr

Re: Well, another try Re: while c = f.read(1)

2005-08-20 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2005-08-20, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> for data in iter(lambda:f.read(1024), ''): >> for c in data: > > What are the meanings of Commands 'iter' and 'lambda', respectively? I > do not want you to indicate merely the related help pages. Rude much? If somebody is kind enough to poin

Re: Database of non standard library modules...

2005-08-20 Thread Terry Reedy
"Steve Holden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi >> To be fair, it's really the "Python Package Index", it just happens to >> be >> stored on a machine called cheeseshop. >> >> > You are being more that fair! The page in question re

Re: can I delete one of *.py *.pyc *.pyo in /usr/lib/python2.3 ?

2005-08-20 Thread Terry Reedy
"Miernik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On my Debian GNU/Linux system I have Python 2.3 installed in > /usr/lib/python2.3/ where most Python system files like > > /usr/lib/python2.3/gzip.py > /usr/lib/python2.3/gzip.pyc > /usr/lib/python2.3/gzip.pyo > > live, besid

Re: Binary Trees in Python

2005-08-20 Thread Steve M
[diegueus9] Diego Andrés Sanabria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello!!! > > I want know if python have binary trees and more? You might be interested that ZODB comes with some B-tree implementations. They can be used alone or you can persist them in the ZODB quite easily. http://www.zope.org/Wi

pythonXX.dll size: please split CJK codecs out

2005-08-20 Thread Giovanni Bajo
Hello, python24.dll is much bigger than python23.dll. This was discussed already on the newsgroup, see the thread starting here: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-July/229096.html I don't think I fully understand the reason why additional .pyd modules were built into the .dll. OTO

Re: Binary Trees in Python

2005-08-20 Thread Ramza Brown
[diegueus9] Diego Andrés Sanabria wrote: > Hello!!! > > I want know if python have binary trees and more? Yea, binary trees are more data structures as opposed to libraries: Here is one approach ( remove the 'java.lang' stuff) http://www.newspiritcompany.com/BinaryTreePyNew.html -- Ramza from

Re: Well, another try Re: while c = f.read(1)

2005-08-20 Thread Paul Rubin
Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > > Is it a *smart* way or *necessary* way? > > It's the polite way. And probably the only way you're going to get > your questions actually answered. I wonder if there's a way to killfile posts that co

Proposed PEP: New style indexing, was Re: Bug in slice type

2005-08-20 Thread Bryan Olson
Steven Bethard wrote: > Well, I couldn't find where the general semantics of a negative stride > index are defined, but for sequences at least[1]: > > "The slice of s from i to j with step k is defined as the sequence of > items with index x = i + n*k such that 0 <= n < (j-i)/k." > > This se

Re: Sandboxes

2005-08-20 Thread Leif K-Brooks
42 wrote: > I was wondering if it would be effective to pre-parse incoming scripts > and reject those containing "import"? getattr(__builtins__, '__imp' + 'ort__')('dangerousmodule') -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Binary Trees in Python

2005-08-20 Thread Roy Smith
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [diegueus9] Diego Andrés Sanabria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello!!! > > I want know if python have binary trees and more? Python does not come with a tree data structure. The basic data structures in Python are lists, tuples, and dicts (hash tables). Peopl

Binary Trees in Python

2005-08-20 Thread [diegueus9] Diego Andrés Sanabria
Hello!!! I want know if python have binary trees and more? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Well, another try Re: while c = f.read(1)

2005-08-20 Thread Robert Kern
James Kim wrote: > Robert Kern wrote: > >>http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > > Is it a *smart* way or *necessary* way? It's the polite way. And probably the only way you're going to get your questions actually answered. Read the documentation. If you still don't understand so

Re: Sandboxes

2005-08-20 Thread Paul Rubin
42 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want the 'worst case' a malicious script to be able to accompish to be > a program crash or hang. You should not rely on Python to provide any kind of security from malicious users who can run Python scripts. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-

Re: Sandboxes

2005-08-20 Thread 42
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says... > > Would this sufficient? Are there any drawbacks or giant gaping holes? > > I'm anticipating that I'd also need to block 'exec' and 'eval' to > > prevent an import from being obfuscated past the pre-parse. > > > > Or is this a hopeless

How to devise run-time pluggable classes? (MRO problem)

2005-08-20 Thread François Pinard
Hi, everybody. I wish someone could advise me. I'm running in circles, trying to find an elegant way to devise run-time pluggable classes. It all goes around method resolution order, I guess. (We already use various solutions, but the maintenance burden is high.) We have a common module contain

unpacking TAR 1.14/ 1.15 archives on Windows (first step towards own static HTML version of Wikipedia)

2005-08-20 Thread Claudio Grondi
Thank you both (Martin and Diez) for your help. The 17 GByte TAR archive was unpacked without problems the way you suggested. Let's summarize: # Python tarfile module can't extract files from newer TAR archives (archived with tar 1.14 or later) # The core of my problems was, that I was not a

TKinter

2005-08-20 Thread SolaFide
I want to create the window and contents in a class, and then use a separate function to write text to the buttons. Then when it clicks a button, I want it to call a check() function to see if that was the right button and then write some new stuff to the buttons. So far it displays the window all

Re: Python Light Revisted?

2005-08-20 Thread Ramza Brown
Ramza Brown wrote: > This is kind of funny, I posted earlier about a small, light python > distro. The thing is, I did it in an hour or so, but amazingly, I got > responses from everywhere asking for support on how to do this. To be > honest, I don't have the time to investigate it more. My

Python Light Revisted?

2005-08-20 Thread Ramza Brown
This is kind of funny, I posted earlier about a small, light python distro. The thing is, I did it in an hour or so, but amazingly, I got responses from everywhere asking for support on how to do this. To be honest, I don't have the time to investigate it more. My point, there seems to be a

Re: global interpreter lock

2005-08-20 Thread Alan Kennedy
[Bryan Olson] >>I don't see much point in trying to convince programmers that >>they don't really want concurrent threads. They really do. Some >>don't know how to use them, but that's largely because they >>haven't had them. I doubt a language for thread-phobes has much >>of a future. [Mike Meyer

Re: [newbie]search string in tuples

2005-08-20 Thread Scott David Daniels
Viper Jack wrote: > Hi all, > i'm new to python programming so excuseme if the question is very stupid. > here the problem. > this code work > > list=["airplane"] > select=vars > while select != list[0]: > select=raw_input("Wich vehicle?") > > but i want check on several object inside the tuple

Re: global interpreter lock

2005-08-20 Thread Bryan Olson
Mike Meyer wrote: > The real problem is that the concurrency models available in currently > popular languages are still at the "goto" stage of language > development. Better models exist, have existed for decades, and are > available in a variety of languages. That's not "the real problem";

Re: can I delete one of *.py *.pyc *.pyo in /usr/lib/python2.3 ?

2005-08-20 Thread Scott David Daniels
Miernik wrote: > On my Debian GNU/Linux system I have Python 2.3 installed in > /usr/lib/python2.3/ where most Python system files like > > /usr/lib/python2.3/gzip.py > /usr/lib/python2.3/gzip.pyc > /usr/lib/python2.3/gzip.pyo > > live, besides of course /usr/bin/python2.3 > > I noticed that al

Re: Please Criticize My Code

2005-08-20 Thread Christoph Rackwitz
i guess, it is pythonchallenge.com level 10? if so, i used this thing: import re def enc(s): return ''.join('%s%s' % (len(a[0]),a[0][0]) for a in re.findall('((.)\\2*)', s)) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Sandboxes

2005-08-20 Thread Raymond Hettinger
> Googling for information on securing Python in a "sandbox" seems > indicate that there are some built in features, but they aren't really > trustworthy. Is that correct? > > For my purposes, I really just want to let users run in a sandbox, with > access to only the language, manipuate a few publ

Re: global interpreter lock

2005-08-20 Thread Donn Cave
Quoth Paul Rubin : | Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: |> The real problem is that the concurrency models available in currently |> popular languages are still at the "goto" stage of language |> development. Better models exist, have existed for decades, and are |>

Re: Version of TAR in tarfile module? TAR 1.14 or 1.15 port to Windows?

2005-08-20 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Claudio Grondi wrote: > remember. I work in a Windows command shell > (DOS-box) and mount says: > j: on /cygdrive/j , but I don't know how to write > the entire path > "j:\o\archives\images\dump.tar", > so that the file can be found by tar.exe and > unpacked to "i:\images" . > tar.exe --extract --d

Re: Version of TAR in tarfile module? TAR 1.14 or 1.15 port to Windows?

2005-08-20 Thread Claudio Grondi
Martin, thank you for your response. I see, that I have to test myself if the tarfile module can do what I need, so I did and I have evidence, that the Python tarfile module is not able to see all the files inside the TAR archives created on Linux with TAR 1.14 . The Python tarfile module stops to

Re: can I delete one of *.py *.pyc *.pyo in /usr/lib/python2.3 ?

2005-08-20 Thread Pierre Barbier de Reuille
Lucas Raab a écrit : > Miernik wrote: > [...] > > You can delete any two of the three and you shouldn't run into any > problems. However, the .py files are the source code and .pyc and .pyo > are compiled Python files. The .pyc and .pyo files will load faster > because they are compiled. Also, if

Re: can I delete one of *.py *.pyc *.pyo in /usr/lib/python2.3 ?

2005-08-20 Thread Pierre Barbier de Reuille
Miernik a écrit : > On my Debian GNU/Linux system I have Python 2.3 installed in [...] > > I noticed that all those files come in three "flavours": > *.py *.pyc *.pyo > > Is it possible that only one "flavour" of these files is needed, and I can > delete the remaining two, any my Python installat

Re: [newbie]search string in tuples

2005-08-20 Thread Cyril Bazin
Try the code below. #- list=["airplane","car","boat"] select = None while select not in list:   select=raw_input("Which vehicle?")#- Cyril On 8/20/05, Viper Jack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all,i'm

Re: [newbie]search string in tuples

2005-08-20 Thread Brian Victor
Viper Jack wrote: > but i want check on several object inside the tuple so i'm trying this: > > list=["airplane","car","boat"] Note that this is actually a list, not a tuple as your subject suggests. For the difference, take a look at this: http://www.python.org/doc/faq/general.html#why-are-there-

Re: python classes taught

2005-08-20 Thread jean-marc
Cegep du Vieux Montreal (technical college level), uses Python for CGI in web developement class. ...At least when I give this course ;-) Jean-Marc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: can I delete one of *.py *.pyc *.pyo in /usr/lib/python2.3 ?

2005-08-20 Thread Lucas Raab
Miernik wrote: > On my Debian GNU/Linux system I have Python 2.3 installed in > /usr/lib/python2.3/ where most Python system files like > > /usr/lib/python2.3/gzip.py > /usr/lib/python2.3/gzip.pyc > /usr/lib/python2.3/gzip.pyo > > live, besides of course /usr/bin/python2.3 > > I noticed that al

[newbie]search string in tuples

2005-08-20 Thread Viper Jack
Hi all, i'm new to python programming so excuseme if the question is very stupid. here the problem. this code work list=["airplane"] select=vars while select != list[0]: select=raw_input("Wich vehicle?") but i want check on several object inside the tuple so i'm trying this: list=["airplane",

can I delete one of *.py *.pyc *.pyo in /usr/lib/python2.3 ?

2005-08-20 Thread Miernik
On my Debian GNU/Linux system I have Python 2.3 installed in /usr/lib/python2.3/ where most Python system files like /usr/lib/python2.3/gzip.py /usr/lib/python2.3/gzip.pyc /usr/lib/python2.3/gzip.pyo live, besides of course /usr/bin/python2.3 I noticed that all those files come in three "flavou

Re: Creating watermark with transparency on jpeg using PIL?

2005-08-20 Thread Max Erickson
You need to pass a mask in when you paste in the watermark. see the documentation for the paste method at http://effbot.org/imagingbook/image.htm for more information This should at least get you started... >>> import Image >>> import ImageDraw >>> import ImageFont >>> import ImageEnhance >>> im

Re: global interpreter lock

2005-08-20 Thread Alan Kennedy
[km] > is true parallelism possible in python ? cpython:no. jython: yes. ironpython: yes. > or atleast in the coming versions ? cpython:unknown. pypy: don't have time to research. Anyone know? > is global interpreter lock a bane in this context ? beauty/bane-is-in-the-eye-

Class Library for Numbers

2005-08-20 Thread Raymond L. Buvel
I have just released a new module that interfaces the Class Library for Numbers (CLN) to Python. The CLN library is a C++ library that provides rational and arbitrary precision floating point numbers in real and complex form. The clnum module exposes these types to Python and also provides arbitr

Re: python html

2005-08-20 Thread DENG
try this http://miex.tigris.org i wrote this for checking bad html, correct them and optimize them -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Sandboxes

2005-08-20 Thread Paul Rubin
42 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Googling for information on securing Python in a "sandbox" seems > indicate that there are some built in features, but they aren't really > trustworthy. Is that correct? Yes. > For my purposes, I really just want to let users run in a sandbox, with > access to

Re: Well, another try Re: while c = f.read(1)

2005-08-20 Thread Jeremy Jones
James Kim wrote: >Robert Kern wrote: > > >>http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html >> >> > >Is it a *smart* way or *necessary* way? > > Of course it's not *necessary*. I mean, the world isn't going to come to an end if it doesn't happen. There is no logical contingency making

Re: Sandboxes

2005-08-20 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> Would this sufficient? Are there any drawbacks or giant gaping holes? > I'm anticipating that I'd also need to block 'exec' and 'eval' to > prevent an import from being obfuscated past the pre-parse. > > Or is this a hopeless cause? Yes. There have been numerous discussions about this, and t

Re: Some questions

2005-08-20 Thread Jorgen Grahn
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:53:56 GMT, Alessandro Bottoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Titi Anggono wrote: ... >> 2. I use gnuplot.py module for interfacing with >> gnuplot in linux. Can we make the plot result shown in >> web ? I tried using cgi, and it didn't work. > > The ability to display a image (

Re: python classes taught

2005-08-20 Thread bruno modulix
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > anyone know of any college/school that is teaching the python language? > Bordeaux University (France) uses Python in a "programming 101" course. -- bruno desthuilliers python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for p in '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.sp

Re: up to date books?

2005-08-20 Thread Jorgen Grahn
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 14:25:36 +0200, Magnus Lycka <[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

Re: Database of non standard library modules...

2005-08-20 Thread Steve Holden
Nigel Rowe wrote: > Steve Holden wrote: > > >>Robert Kern wrote: >> >>>Jon Hewer wrote: >>> >>> Is there an online database of non standard library modules for Python? >>> >>> >>>http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi >>> >> >>While cheeseshop might resonate with the Monty Python fans I have to sa

Re: Well, another try Re: while c = f.read(1)

2005-08-20 Thread James Kim
Robert Kern wrote: > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Is it a *smart* way or *necessary* way? Plus, my question was not for the detail description but for the intuitive guide leading the beginner's further study. I understand that too many repeated talks make cyberian tired. H

Re: Please Criticize My Code

2005-08-20 Thread Michael Hoffman
Ray wrote: > Well... I'm always paranoid that I'm, you know, writing Java in Python > :) The biggest mistakes I see are wrapping everything in a class unnecessarily, or using accessor methods instead of properties (ugh, ugh, ugh!). CamelCasingYourVariableNames is annoyingToMe but that's really

Sandboxes

2005-08-20 Thread 42
Hi, I'm extremely new to python, and am looking at using it as an embedded script engine in a dotnet project I'm working on. I'm currently playing with the "Python for Net" (http://www.zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet) stuff, and it seems to work well. Googling for information on securing Pyth

Re: up to date books?

2005-08-20 Thread Jorgen Grahn
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 11:58:23 +0200, Magnus Lycka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Salerno wrote: >> hi all. are there any recommendations for an intro book to python that >> is up-to-date for the latest version? > > It depends on what kind of books you like, and of course on your > previous exper

Re: As Simple As Possible?

2005-08-20 Thread Jorgen Grahn
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 15:05:02 +0100, Tom Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Jules Dubois wrote: > >> On Wednesday 17 August 2005 22:11, jitya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: ... >> Smalltalk is or would be my first choice if everything else were equal. >>

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

2005-08-20 Thread Juha-Matti Tapio
Jon Monteleone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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

Re: stdin -> stdout

2005-08-20 Thread Jorgen Grahn
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 15:26:27 GMT, max(01)* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi. > > i was wondering, what's the simplest way to echo the standard input to > the standard output, with no modification. > > i came up with: ... > but i guess there must be a simpler way. > > using bash i simply do 'cat', *

Re: Please Criticize My Code

2005-08-20 Thread Ray
Michael Hoffman wrote: > Ray wrote: > > > I just wrote a short script that generates look and say sequence. What > > do you Python guys think of it? Too "Java-ish"? > > Yes, but that's beside the point. :) Well... I'm always paranoid that I'm, you know, writing Java in Python :) Thanks for the

Re: Please Criticize My Code

2005-08-20 Thread Ray
Damn, those are cool, man. Thanks! This Python thing keeps expanding and expanding my brain... Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Please Criticize My Code

2005-08-20 Thread bearophileHUGS
Two versions of mine, one of the fastest (not using Psyco) and one of the shortest: . from itertools import groupby . . def audioactiveFast(n): . strl = {("1","1","1"): "31", ("1","1"): "21", ("1",): "11", . ("2","2","2"): "32", ("2","2"): "22", ("2",): "12", . ("3","3"

Re: Please Criticize My Code

2005-08-20 Thread Michael Hoffman
Ray wrote: > I just wrote a short script that generates look and say sequence. What > do you Python guys think of it? Too "Java-ish"? Yes, but that's beside the point. :) I think your basic design was sound enough for this application (presumably this isn't something that needs to run at high s

Re: global interpreter lock

2005-08-20 Thread Paul Rubin
Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I don't see much point in trying to convince programmers that > > they don't really want concurrent threads. They really do. Some > > don't know how to use them, but that's largely because they > > haven't had them. I doubt a language for thread-phobes has

Please Criticize My Code

2005-08-20 Thread Ray
Hello, I just wrote a short script that generates look and say sequence. What do you Python guys think of it? Too "Java-ish"? I can't shake off the feeling that somebody may have done this with 2-3 lines of Python magic. Heh. # generator for sequence def lookAndSaySequence(firstTerm, n): term

python-dev Summary for 2005-07-16 through 2005-07-31

2005-08-20 Thread Tony Meyer
[The HTML version of this Summary is available at http://www.python.org/dev/summary/2005-07-16_2005-07-31.html] = Announcements = - PyPy Sprint in Heidelberg 22nd - 29th August 2005 -