Re: itertools.izip brokeness

2006-01-05 Thread Paul Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > def izip4(*iterables, **kw): > """kw:fill. An element that will pad the shorter iterable > kw:infinite. Number of non-terminating iterators """ That's a really kludgy API. I'm not sure what to propose instead: maybe some way of distinguishing which iterabl

Re: Display of JPEG images from Python

2006-01-05 Thread M�ta-MCI
Hi! Example: import Image Image.open('Titi.jpg').show() @-salutations Michel Claveau -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: itertools.izip brokeness

2006-01-05 Thread rurpy
"Michael Spencer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Bengt Richter wrote: > ... > >> >>> from itertools import repeat, chain, izip > >> >>> it = iter(lambda z=izip(chain([3,5,8],repeat("Bye")), > >> chain([11,22],repeat("Bye"))):z.next(), ("Bye","Bye")) > >> >>>

Re: application and web app technologies

2006-01-05 Thread Juha Laiho
"ccc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >I *am* a Perl fan, but after having looked at scripts someone else >wrote (who is no longer with us) with a view toward updating them, I >have concluded that a quick and dirty scripting language in someone >else's idiom isn't a very good choice institutionally. Whic

Display of JPEG images from Python

2006-01-05 Thread David
I would like to display a JPEG image from Python on a Windows machine. I Googled 'python jpeg display' and have not found what I am looking for, which is code I can call directly and pass the image. I see the PIL library lets me do all sorts of image manipulation, but is there a convenient way

Re: pdb.py - why is this debugger different from all other debuggers?

2006-01-05 Thread Scott David Daniels
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > For me, it (pdb) is mostly useful for understanding flow of > control and how objects change as that happens. I > find it easier than constantly modifying the source code. Do take a look at Komodo, in that case. Idle does a bit of a job in this direction, and (for me)

Re: itertools.izip brokeness

2006-01-05 Thread Michael Spencer
Paul Rubin wrote: > Michael Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> for i in range(10): >> result = [] >> ... > > Do you mean "while True: ..."? > oops, yes! so, this should have been: from itertools import repeat def izip2(*iterables, **kw): """kw:fill. An element t

Re: pdb.py - why is this debugger different from all other debuggers?

2006-01-05 Thread rurpy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Mike> I don't use pdb a lot either - and I write a *lot* of Python. > > Ditto. I frequently just insert prints or enable cgitb. Sometimes I enable > line tracing for a specific function and the functions it calls using a > tracing decorator. There are lots of things t

Re: Microsoft IronPython?

2006-01-05 Thread rurpy
EP wrote: > Luis M. González wrote: > > >Will Microsoft hurt Python? > > > > > I think it is naive to ignore the fact that Microsoft could hurt Python, > though there may be nothing anyone can do. > > >How? > > > - create a more prevalent version of "Python" that is less Pythonic or > undermines s

Re: pdb.py - why is this debugger different from all other debuggers?

2006-01-05 Thread R. Bernstein
Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Actually, you're not talking about changing the paradigm. You're > talking about minor tweaks to the command set. I am sorry if this was a bit of an exaggeration. Whatever. > I don't use pdb a lot either - and I write a *lot* o

Re: Microsoft IronPython?

2006-01-05 Thread Luis M. González
EP wrote: > - create a more prevalent version of "Python" that is less Pythonic or > undermines some of the principles of the language, basically usurping > Python as we conceive it in the process... I understand all the concerns, the evil empire and all that.. But I think nothing of this will hap

Re: pdb.py - why is this debugger different from all other debuggers?

2006-01-05 Thread R. Bernstein
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I was disappointed not to see any replies to this. > I use pdb a lot because most of my debugging needs > are simple, and I don't need/want the overhead or > complications of a heavy duty gui debugger. > > I used ddd only little many many years ago, but > compatibility

Re: Is 'everything' a refrence or isn't it?

2006-01-05 Thread Terry Hancock
On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 12:01:09 +1100 "Steven D'Aprano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 22:51:03 -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > > >> And if you only ever passed immutable objects around, > >you would > think Python was call by value. > > > > You might. Then again, you might also unders

Re: pdb.py - why is this debugger different from all other debuggers?

2006-01-05 Thread skip
Mike> I don't use pdb a lot either - and I write a *lot* of Python. Ditto. I frequently just insert prints or enable cgitb. Sometimes I enable line tracing for a specific function and the functions it calls using a tracing decorator. There are lots of things that are easier than breaking

Re: itertools.izip brokeness

2006-01-05 Thread Paul Rubin
Michael Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > for i in range(10): > result = [] > ... Do you mean "while True: ..."? > def izip2(*iterables, **kw): > """kw:fill. An element that will pad the shorter iterable""" > fill = repeat(kw.get("fill")) Yet another attempt

Re: pdb.py - why is this debugger different from all other debuggers?

2006-01-05 Thread R. Bernstein
Fernando Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> suggests: > You may want to try out ipython (the current release candidate from > http://ipython.scipy.org/dist/testing/, which has many improvements on this > front). The %pdb magic will trigger automatic activation of pdb at any > uncaught exception, and '%run

Re: Microsoft IronPython?

2006-01-05 Thread EP
Luis M. González wrote: >Will Microsoft hurt Python? > > I think it is naive to ignore the fact that Microsoft could hurt Python, though there may be nothing anyone can do. >How? > - create a more prevalent version of "Python" that is less Pythonic or undermines some of the principles of the

Re: Apology Re: Is 'everything' a refrence or isn't it?

2006-01-05 Thread Mike Meyer
Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 11:17:44 -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: >> While telling them that "You can't do call by reference because Python >> is call by object" may be correct, > Good to see you finally concede it. I'm not conceeding anything, because I never sa

Re: itertools.izip brokeness

2006-01-05 Thread Michael Spencer
> Bengt Richter wrote: ... >> >>> from itertools import repeat, chain, izip >> >>> it = iter(lambda z=izip(chain([3,5,8],repeat("Bye")), >> chain([11,22],repeat("Bye"))):z.next(), ("Bye","Bye")) >> >>> for t in it: print t >> ... >> (3, 11) >> (5, 22) >> (8, 'Bye') >> >> (Feel free to gene

Re: Wingide is a beautiful application

2006-01-05 Thread Tony Nelson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tony Nelson wrote: > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > My goal is to make my conf files into a decent drop-in so you just put > > > them in your .vim directory and go, and post them next wee

Re: inline function call

2006-01-05 Thread Michael Spencer
Bengt Richter wrote: ... > > This could be achieved by a custom import function that would capture the AST > and e.g. recognize a declaration like __inline__ = foo, bar followed by defs > of foo and bar, and extracting that from the AST and modifying the rest of the > AST wherever foo and bar call

Re: How to Retrieve Data from an HTTPS://URL

2006-01-05 Thread Peter Hansen
Harlin Seritt wrote: > I am trying to pull data from a web page at https://localhost/wps. > While this would work if the url was http://localhost/wps, it doesn't > work with 'https.' > > I can do this: > > import urllib > data = urllib.urlopen('http://localhost/wps').read() > > But not with http

Re: Is 'everything' a refrence or isn't it?

2006-01-05 Thread Mike Meyer
Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thinking about Python's behaviour ("it always passes references to > objects") will invoke misleading frames in many programmers' minds. The > word "reference" is misleading and should be avoided, because what the > average non-Python programmer underst

Re: Apology Re: Is 'everything' a refrence or isn't it?

2006-01-05 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 11:17:44 -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > While telling them that "You can't do call by reference because Python > is call by object" may be correct, Good to see you finally concede it. > it leaves out the critical information. As does "call by reference" or "call by value". No t

Re: pdb.py - why is this debugger different from all other debuggers?

2006-01-05 Thread Mike Meyer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > "R. Bernstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> So what I am suggesting is that it would be helpful to just follow an >> existing debugger paradigm (or follow more closely) so folks don't >> have to learn yet another interface. Actually, you're not talking about changing t

Re: Threading for a newbie

2006-01-05 Thread Koncept
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott David Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You generally want to avoid mutation of anything in more than one > thread, and prefer to only share reading between threads. The only > time you can do more than that is when you _know_ the modification > is "atomic

Re: itertools.izip brokeness

2006-01-05 Thread Bengt Richter
On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 07:42:25 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bengt Richter) wrote: >On 4 Jan 2006 15:20:43 -0800, "Raymond Hettinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [ ... 5 options enumerated ... ] >> >> >6. Could modify izip so that one could write > >from itertools import izip >zipit = izip(*seqs)

Re: Is 'everything' a refrence or isn't it?

2006-01-05 Thread Donn Cave
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > We know that this will happen because it has happened time and time again > in the past. Are we incapable of learning from experience? Are we > intelligent sentient beings or do we just parrot what was said in the > p

config errors on Freebsd and python 2.3

2006-01-05 Thread David Bear
I need python 2.3. I have freebsd 4.10-releng. when configuring python I received the following: ./configure --prefix=/home/webenv > config-results configure: WARNING: curses.h: present but cannot be compiled configure: WARNING: curses.h: check for missing prerequisite headers? configure: WARN

Re: Is 'everything' a refrence or isn't it?

2006-01-05 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 22:51:03 -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: >> And if you only ever passed immutable objects around, you would >> think Python was call by value. > > You might. Then again, you might also understand the concepts well > enough to realize that there isn't any difference between CBR and CB

Re: Is 'everything' a refrence or isn't it?

2006-01-05 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 05:21:24 +, Bryan Olson wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> Mike Meyer wrote: > [...] >>> Correct. What's stored in a list is a reference. >> >> Nonsense. What is stored in the list is an object. > > According to the Python Language Reference: > > Some objects contai

Re: Preventing control characters from entering an XML file

2006-01-05 Thread Scott David Daniels
Frank Niessink wrote: > Scott David Daniels wrote: >> Frank Niessink wrote: >>> - What is the easiest/most pythonic (preferably build-in) way of >>> checking a unicode string for control characters and weeding those >>> characters out? >> drop_controls = [None] * 0x20 >> for c in '\t\r\

Re: Threading for a newbie

2006-01-05 Thread Scott David Daniels
Koncept wrote: > Hi. I am fairly new to Python programming and am having some trouble > wrapping my head around threading. Threading sounds simpler than it is. Here is a classic Pythonic solution related to yours: > What I would like to learn from this example is how to use threads to > call on o

Re: Encoding sniffer?

2006-01-05 Thread skip
Andreas> Does anyone know of a Python module that is able to sniff the Andreas> encoding of text? I have such a beast. Search here: http://orca.mojam.com/~skip/python/ for "decode". Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: pdb.py - why is this debugger different from all other debuggers?

2006-01-05 Thread Fernando Perez
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I hope some of the other problems with it get > addressed some day: > - There is no way (I know of) to start a python script > from the command line with the debugger active; > I always have to modify the source to insert a > pdb.set_trace(). I would like somethi

Re: [OT] How can I change Debian's default Python version?

2006-01-05 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Nick Craig-Wood schrieb: > Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> As of this time, the Debian wxPython packages are only provided for >> Python 2.3. I couldn't tell you why. Try looking at the bug list >> for python-wxgtk2.6. I'm sure there's a bug filed against it asking >> for a Python 2.4

Re: Python function with **kwargs Question

2006-01-05 Thread Christian Tismer
Hi Fletch, ... >>> How do I tell Python to treat '-' as a normal character but not part >>> of an expression? >>> >> >> By changing the parser :-) >> >> > Oh, you py-py guys, always thinking you have to re-implement Python ;) Well, in the given context, assuming keywords are supposed to be

Re: Threading for a newbie

2006-01-05 Thread Jean-Paul Calderone
On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 17:15:20 -0500, Koncept <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hi. I am fairly new to Python programming and am having some trouble >wrapping my head around threading. > It's pretty much the standard threading model. >This is a very basic example of what I am trying to do, and would >g

Re: build curiosities of svn head (on WinXP)

2006-01-05 Thread Paul Moore
On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 13:23:34 +0100, David Murmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >hi all! > >i just built revision 41809 under winxp using a rather uncommon >setup (at least i think so). since i have no visual studio here, >i only used freely available tools: cygwin to get the source, the >microsoft c

Re: pdb.py - why is this debugger different from all other debuggers?

2006-01-05 Thread rurpy
"R. Bernstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, a bit of an exaggeration. > > Recently, I've been using Python more seriously, and in using the > debugger I think one of the first things I noticed was that there is > no "restart" ("R" in perldb) or "run" (gdb) command. > > I was pleasantly pleas

Re: Python function with **kwargs Question

2006-01-05 Thread Khoa Nguyen
Thanks for your responses. I guess the foo(**{'x-y':3}) is ugly but will do the trick Cheers,Khoa On 1/5/06, Mike C. Fletcher < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Christian Tismer wrote:>Khoa Nguyen wrote: I would like to pass some keyword with special character to a>>foo(**kwargs) function, but it doesn

Re: itertools.izip brokeness

2006-01-05 Thread rurpy
Bengt Richter wrote: > On 5 Jan 2006 15:48:26 GMT, Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On 2006-01-04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> But here is my real question... > >>> Why isn't something like this in itertools, or why shouldn't > >>>

Threading for a newbie

2006-01-05 Thread Koncept
Hi. I am fairly new to Python programming and am having some trouble wrapping my head around threading. This is a very basic example of what I am trying to do, and would greatly appreciate having this code hacked to pieces so that I can learn from you folks with experience. What I would like to

Re: itertools.izip brokeness

2006-01-05 Thread Bengt Richter
On 5 Jan 2006 15:48:26 GMT, Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 2006-01-04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> But here is my real question... >>> Why isn't something like this in itertools, or why shouldn't >>> it go into itertools? >> >> >> 4

Re: Encoding sniffer?

2006-01-05 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > Diez B. Roggisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>print try_encodings(text, ['ascii', 'utf-8', 'iso8859_1', 'cp1252', >>>'macroman'] >> >>I've fallen into that trap before - it won't work after the iso8859_1. >>The reason is that an eight-bit encoding have all 256 cod

Re: Hypergeometric distribution

2006-01-05 Thread Bengt Richter
On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 09:47:02 -0600, Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Bengt Richter wrote: >> On 4 Jan 2006 12:46:47 -0800, "Raven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>The problem with Stirling's approximation is that I need to calculate >>>the hypergeometric hence the factorial for numbers with

Re: Preventing control characters from entering an XML file

2006-01-05 Thread Frank Niessink
Scott David Daniels wrote: > Frank Niessink wrote: > >>- What is the easiest/most pythonic (preferably build-in) way of >>checking a unicode string for control characters and weeding those >>characters out? > > > drop_controls = [None] * 0x20 > for c in '\t\r\n': > drop_cont

Re: converting from shell script to python

2006-01-05 Thread Stewart Midwinter
Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de) wrote: > Alternatively, you can substitute things from a > dictionary instead of a tuple: > >vars = {'ROOTDIR': '/usr/lib'} >CLASSPATH = \ > "%{ROOTDIR}s/a/a.jar:%{ROOTDIR}s/b/b.jar:%{ROOTDIR}s/c/c.jar" % vars Arriving late at the party (found this w

Re: multiple clients updating same file in ftp

2006-01-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
why, that's the nicest thing anyone's said about me today - and probably true, since I started coding on punch-cards... s -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: multiple clients updating same file in ftp

2006-01-05 Thread Mike Meyer
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > here's a simple-minded suggestion: have the first client create a text > file on the remote server, and delete it when it is finished updating. > The second client can check for existence of this file before trying to > update. That's an old hack,

Re: Python function with **kwargs Question

2006-01-05 Thread Christian Tismer
Khoa Nguyen wrote: > I would like to pass some keyword with special character to a > foo(**kwargs) function, but it doesn't work > > def foo(**kwargs): > print kwargs > > > This doesn't work: > > foo(a-special-keyword=5) > > How do I tell Python to treat '-' as a normal character but not pa

Re: Is 'everything' a refrence or isn't it?

2006-01-05 Thread Bengt Richter
On 4 Jan 2006 10:54:17 -0800, "KraftDiner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I was under the assumption that everything in python was a refrence... > >so if I code this: >lst = [1,2,3] >for i in lst: > if i==2: > i = 4 >print lst > >I though the contents of lst would be modified.. (After reading

Re: PyQt Variables

2006-01-05 Thread gregarican
Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > Looks (or better smells) like a design smell to me. In Qt,and especially > PyQt, you rarely subclass widgets, as that makes you lose the > possibility to use the fabulous designer. The only thing I subclass in > PyQt are the designer-generetaed top-level-classes. Can be

Re: Encoding sniffer?

2006-01-05 Thread garabik-news-2005-05
Diez B. Roggisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> print try_encodings(text, ['ascii', 'utf-8', 'iso8859_1', 'cp1252', >> 'macroman'] > > I've fallen into that trap before - it won't work after the iso8859_1. > The reason is that an eight-bit encoding have all 256 code-points > assigned (usually, t

Re: advice required re migrating php app to python and most likely zope

2006-01-05 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Ken Guest schrieb: > Hi, > I've two relatively small web applications that are currently implemented in > PHP and needed to be migrated to python and most likely zope afterwards as > we're getting a third-party Zope powered CMS later this year. > > There isn't an immediate need for them to be deve

Re: Encoding sniffer?

2006-01-05 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> print try_encodings(text, ['ascii', 'utf-8', 'iso8859_1', 'cp1252', > 'macroman'] I've fallen into that trap before - it won't work after the iso8859_1. The reason is that an eight-bit encoding have all 256 code-points assigned (usually, there are exceptions but you have to be lucky to have

A weird problem (adodb + mysql)

2006-01-05 Thread Daniel Crespo
Hi to all, I'm using adodb for accessing mysql and postgres. My problem relies on the mysql access. Sometimes, when I try to execute a query (using ExecTrans method below), I get this error: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'cursor' Maybe this error ocurrs not in my code, but in the mysql mod

Re: PyQt Variables

2006-01-05 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
gregarican schrieb: > I have an application I'm writing using PyQt. I'm trying to create the > various windows by subclassing Qt objects. I have a subclassed > QMainWindow as the parent, and then a series of subclassed QWidgets as > other child windows that get used. How can I pass variables back a

Re: multiple clients updating same file in ftp

2006-01-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
here's a simple-minded suggestion: have the first client create a text file on the remote server, and delete it when it is finished updating. The second client can check for existence of this file before trying to update. cheers, S -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: subprocess problem in cygwin with Tkinter

2006-01-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
that's it! Thanks, that sorted me out. The readme at the following location was very helpful: http://www.tishler.net/jason/software/rebase/rebase-2.2.README I couldn't get rebaseall to work until I installed all of the packages mentioned in the readme. Now I have a different problem, regarding

Pmw problem in cygwin with Tkinter

2006-01-05 Thread Stewart Midwinter
I have a Tkinter app running on cygwin. It includes a Test menu item that does nothing more than fetch a directory listing and display it in a Toplevel window (I'd use a tkMessageBox showinfo widget, but for some reason the text is invisible on cygwin). After I close the Toplevel widget, all of t

Re: Microsoft IronPython?

2006-01-05 Thread Luis M. González
Ray wrote: > But then again, once you start using .NET class you're tied to .NET > anyway so this is not a big problem, I think--although the more > perfectionist among us might like to isolate parts of Python code that > are .NET/IP specific to make porting easier if it ever comes to that... That

How to Retrieve Data from an HTTPS://URL

2006-01-05 Thread Harlin Seritt
I am trying to pull data from a web page at https://localhost/wps. While this would work if the url was http://localhost/wps, it doesn't work with 'https.' I can do this: import urllib data = urllib.urlopen('http://localhost/wps').read() But not with https. How can I pull data from a https url?

Re: Application architecture (long post - sorry)

2006-01-05 Thread Paul Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > All these web technologies I don't know where to start, have you got > any suggestions for getting started in the world of web development, > books maybe ? This is out of date but may help get started. http://philip.greenspun.com/panda/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailma

Re: Wingide is a beautiful application

2006-01-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tony Nelson wrote: > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My goal is to make my conf files into a decent drop-in so you just put > > them in your .vim directory and go, and post them next week. > > OK, thank you. > FYI, I am still working on this but some changes in vim 7 are requ

Python function with **kwargs Question

2006-01-05 Thread Khoa Nguyen
I would like to pass some keyword with special character to a foo(**kwargs) function, but it doesn't workdef foo(**kwargs):  print kwargsThis doesn't work:foo(a-special-keyword=5)How do I tell Python to treat '-' as a normal character but not part of an _expression_? Thanks,Khoa -- http://mail.py

Re: Marshaling unicode WDDX

2006-01-05 Thread Martin v. Löwis
isthar wrote: > WDDX is perfect for me for exchange between python and php application. > but maybe there is a better way to do it. It appears that Unicode objects where forgotten in the WDDX implementation. I suggest to define the following classes: class UWDDXMarshaller(xml.marshal.wddx.WDDXMar

Re: Occasional OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied on Windows

2006-01-05 Thread Patrick Maupin
Tim Peters wrote: > In that case, anything that burns some time and tries again > will work better. Replacing gc.collect() with time.sleep() is > an easy way to test that hypothesis; because gc.collect() > does an all-generations collection, it can consume measurable time. An slight enhancemen

Re: getting a KeyError:'href' any ideas?

2006-01-05 Thread Mike Meyer
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Please use less whitespace in your posts in the future. There's really no need to put two blank lines between sections. > i have an > href which looks like this: > > http://www.cnn.com";> > > here is my code > for incident in row('td',

Re: Try Python update

2006-01-05 Thread Mike Meyer
Steven Bethard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mike Meyer wrote: >> The url is http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/try_python/. Reports of >> problems would appreciated. > You're probably already aware of this, but the online help utility > doesn't work. It exits before you can type anything into it: Act

Re: inline function call

2006-01-05 Thread Bengt Richter
On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 08:47:37 +1100, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 13:18:32 +0100, Riko Wichmann wrote: > >> hi everyone, >> >> I'm googeling since some time, but can't find an answer - maybe because >> the answer is 'No!'. >> >> Can I call a function in python

multiple clients updating same file in ftp

2006-01-05 Thread muttu2244
hi all am updating the same file in ftp, through multiple clients, but am scared that two clients may open the same file at a time, and try updating, then the data updated by one data will be lost. So i have to provide some lock mechanism to that file in ftp, so how can i lock it, if one client op

getting a KeyError:'href' any ideas?

2006-01-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
i have an href which looks like this: http://www.cnn.com";> here is my code for incident in row('td', {'class':'all'}): n = incident.findNextSibling('a', {'class': 'btn'}) link = incident.findNextSibling['href'] + "','" and the full error is thi

Re: Occasional OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied on Windows

2006-01-05 Thread pyguy2
File attributes may be an issue to. Take look at the recipe at: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/303343 which ensures the file attributes are normal before you delete it. john -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What's wrong with this code snippet?

2006-01-05 Thread Karlo Lozovina
Dave Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > In your code, I would simply remove the rn.seed() call. Regards, And that's what I'm gonna do :). The random part is not that important to my application so I wont investigate into further detail... anyway, thank you. -- __

PyQt Variables

2006-01-05 Thread gregarican
I have an application I'm writing using PyQt. I'm trying to create the various windows by subclassing Qt objects. I have a subclassed QMainWindow as the parent, and then a series of subclassed QWidgets as other child windows that get used. How can I pass variables back and forth between the parent

Re: Map port to process

2006-01-05 Thread Mike Meyer
"py" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a way in python to figure out which process is running on > which port? I know in Windows XP you can run "netstat -o" and see the > process ID for each open portbut I am looking for something not > tied to windows particularly, hopefully something in

Re: Encoding sniffer?

2006-01-05 Thread garabik-news-2005-05
Andreas Jung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: us-ascii, 6 lines --] > > Does anyone know of a Python module that is able to sniff the encoding of > text? Please: I know that there is no reliable way to do this but I need > something that works for

Re: Anyone using SPE editor on Ubuntu?

2006-01-05 Thread SPE - Stani's Python Editor
So is Ubuntu your primary OS? Please email me privately at pythonide.stani.be_gmail.com News about new release you can follow here: http://pythonide.stani.be/blog -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Occasional OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied on Windows

2006-01-05 Thread Ernst Noch
Alec Wysoker wrote: >>>Using Python 2.3.5 on Windows XP, I occasionally get OSError: [Errno >>>13] Permission denied when calling os.remove(). This can occur with a >>>file that is not used by any other process on the machine, >> >>How do you know that? > > > Yeah, good point. I don't really kn

Re: Occasional OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied on Windows

2006-01-05 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2006-01-05, Alec Wysoker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Using Python 2.3.5 on Windows XP, I occasionally get OSError: [Errno >>> 13] Permission denied when calling os.remove(). This can occur with a >>> file that is not used by any other process on the machine, >> >> How do you know that? > > Y

Re: Anyone using SPE editor on Ubuntu?

2006-01-05 Thread Birdman
I use SPE and my editor on my primary OS and I'd be very interested in using SPE with Ubuntu. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [OT] How can I change Debian's default Python version?

2006-01-05 Thread Nick Craig-Wood
Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As of this time, the Debian wxPython packages are only provided for > Python 2.3. I couldn't tell you why. Try looking at the bug list > for python-wxgtk2.6. I'm sure there's a bug filed against it asking > for a Python 2.4 version. Perhaps the maintain

Re: Marshaling unicode WDDX

2006-01-05 Thread Tim Arnold
"isthar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi ! > i am trying to serialise object which contains some unicode objects > but looks like there is no way to do it. > hi, I'm sure you'll get better answers for the unicode part of your problem (I'd start with a look at th

Re: Filename case-insensitivity on OS X

2006-01-05 Thread Dan Lowe
On Jan 4, 2006, at 4:32 AM, Michael Anthony Maibaum wrote: > You can choose if HFS+ behaves in a case-preserving, case-insensitive > or case-sensitive manner. See man newfs_hfs. Case sensitive is not > supported on the 'System' volume, but I have several external disks > using it without a proble

Re: Quickest way to make py script Web accessible

2006-01-05 Thread jmdeschamps
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I apologize for my inital ambiguity. > > Say I have a .py script that gets email addresses from a database and > then sends messages to customers (this is not spam, these guys _want_ > to get the emails). Historically, IT has executed the script when > someone in Marketi

Marshaling unicode WDDX

2006-01-05 Thread isthar
Hi ! i am trying to serialise object which contains some unicode objects but looks like there is no way to do it. File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/site-packages/ _xmlplus/marshal/generic.py", line 92, in _marshal return getattr(self, meth)(value, dic

Re: Quickest way to make py script Web accessible

2006-01-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank you all for the advice and suggestions. I appreciate the time you took to help! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Occasional OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied on Windows

2006-01-05 Thread Alec Wysoker
>> Using Python 2.3.5 on Windows XP, I occasionally get OSError: [Errno >> 13] Permission denied when calling os.remove(). This can occur with a >> file that is not used by any other process on the machine, > > How do you know that? Yeah, good point. I don't really know. I should have said no p

Re: Quickest way to make py script Web accessible

2006-01-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This works well! Thanks for the advice. The docs for it should include something about adding content_type = 'text\plain' otherwise, the 'testing' section of the tutorial is broken It should look like this: from mod_python import apache def handler(req): req.content_type = 'text/plain' req

Re: Occasional OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied on Windows

2006-01-05 Thread Alec Wysoker
Interesting theory. I do have a virus scanner, and also Google Desktop Search. Sometimes I get this error when running a large suite of unit tests. Each unit test starts off by cleaning the test output directory, and failing if it can't do so. I will see many (hundreds?) tests fail because the

Re: [OT] How can I change Debian's default Python version?

2006-01-05 Thread Robert Kern
Franz GEIGER wrote: > Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > >>sudo apt-get install python-wxgtk2.6 >> >>Which depends on python2.4 > > No, sorry, at least not on all my Sarge boxes. I'm told "needs python2.3" > when I look at its properties from within Synaptic (Dependency Tab): Needs > python-wxversion, nee

Re: Is 'everything' a refrence or isn't it?

2006-01-05 Thread Dan Sommers
On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 14:28:51 +0100, David Murmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Sommers schrieb: >> int **_idx; >> for( _idx = lst; _idx < lst + NLST; ++_idx ) { >> int *i; >> i = *_idx; >> /* compare "the item to which i is bound" to "a constant" */ >> if( *i == *(&_i2) ) >> /* rebind i to _i4

Re: What's wrong with this code snippet?

2006-01-05 Thread Dave Hansen
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 01:14:43 + (UTC) in comp.lang.python, Karlo Lozovina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Dave Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in >news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >> I'm not sure what rn is, but it looks like a standard library >> random.Random object. If so, I don't think you want to s

Re: Apology Re: Is 'everything' a refrence or isn't it?

2006-01-05 Thread Mike Meyer
"Ben Sizer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But, if you separate the calling mechanism from the assignment > mechanism, then Python does behave like every other call by reference > language. The problem is that people expect to then be able to change > the value of the referred object with the assign

Anyone using SPE editor on Ubuntu?

2006-01-05 Thread SPE - Stani's Python Editor
Hi, I'm playing around with the latest (soon to be released) SPE on Ubuntu. This probably will increase the quality of SPE on Ubuntu and Linux/GTK in general. I already made some patches, but I would like to get in contact with SPE users on Ubuntu. The version of SPE which is now available on Ubun

Re: Occasional OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied on Windows

2006-01-05 Thread Patrick Maupin
Alec Wysoker wrote: > Using Python 2.3.5 on Windows XP, I occasionally get OSError: > [Errno 13] Permission denied when calling os.remove(). This can > occur with a file that is not used by any other process on the > machine, and is created by the python.exe invocation that is > trying to delete

Re: Occasional OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied on Windows

2006-01-05 Thread Tim Peters
[Alec Wysoker] > Using Python 2.3.5 on Windows XP, I occasionally get OSError: [Errno > 13] Permission denied when calling os.remove(). This can occur with a > file that is not used by any other process on the machine, How do you know that? > and is created by the python.exe invocation that is t

Re: Map port to process

2006-01-05 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
py wrote: > Is there a way in python to figure out which process is running on > which port? I know in Windows XP you can run "netstat -o" and see the > process ID for each open portbut I am looking for something not > tied to windows particularly, hopefully something in python. > > if not,

Re: [OT] How can I change Debian's default Python version?

2006-01-05 Thread Franz GEIGER
Diez B. Roggisch wrote: >> >> Agreed, so I took another Linux box to make sure to not make "custom >> version" mistakes. >> >> Same here. Yes, there are 2.4-packages of all kind. But there's also a >> dependency package "python" telling the whole box that Python is 2.3.5. >> And when I want to i

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