breaking from loop

Hi, Following is the code: def walk_tree_copy(sRepository, sFile, sSourceDir, bFound = None): try: if sRepository is not None: for name in os.listdir(sRepository): path = os.path.join(sRepository, name) if os.path.isdir(path):

Re: Question about idioms for clearing a list

Bryan Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > > I agree that emptying is logically the same thing for all of these > > types. Beyond that, they don't seem to have a lot in common. It's ... > > Do you really have a usecase for this? It seems to me that your > > argument is pretty hollow. > > S

Re: Parsing XML scheme (xsd) to python objects

You don't just want to parse the XSD data because there lots of XML parsers for Python. You want to validate documents against the schema, right? I haven't yet seen a good XML schema validator for Python. libxml2 has good bindings for validating XML against RelaxNG schemas. - C Bizarro-02 wr

Re: representing physical units

Russ schrieb: > I know that python packages are available for representing physical > units, but I am getting frustrated trying to find them and determine > which is the best. > > Rather than just using conventional dimensionless numbers with implicit > units, I would like to have a way to explici

Re: Simple Tkinter app works in Linux, not in Windows

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>I'm inclined to think that its your python installation. It worked for >>me with both the cygwin python (both in the console and in an xterm) and >>it also worked for me with idle using enthought python. I haven't tried >>the active state python. > > > Thanks for giving

Re: Fuzzy Lookups

Gregory Piñero ha scritto: > Wow, that looks excellent. I'll definately try it out. I'm assuming > this is an existing project, e.g. you didn't write it after reading > this thread? Yes it is an existing projects of course ;) Right now I've no time to improve it. I hope that later this summer I

Re: Simple Tkinter app works in Linux, not in Windows

> I'm inclined to think that its your python installation. It worked for > me with both the cygwin python (both in the console and in an xterm) and > it also worked for me with idle using enthought python. I haven't tried > the active state python. Thanks for giving it a shot. I just checked the

Re: Is Python good for web crawlers?

John J. Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > I wonder if that little outfit has considered open-sourcing any of > their web client code? What they've open-sourced so far is listed at -- of these, the only crawl/spider is Könguló, so far. Alex -- http://

Re: super(...).__init__() vs Base.__init__(self)

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jan Niklas Fingerle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ...Super is a good tool to use, when dealing with > diamond shape inheritance. In any other case I would use the direct > calls to the base classes. In fact, i've yet to find a non-textbook-case > where I really need

Re: random playing soundfiles according to rating.

I've been looking at some of the suggested approaches and looked a little at Michael's bit which works well bisect is a module i always struggle with (hee hee) I am intrigued by Ben's solution and Ben's distilled my problem quite nicely, but, welli don't understand what "point" is doing wi

Re: Hi reliability files, writing,reading,maintaining

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Pote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . . . >The motivation to look at http: is the widespread avaiability of internet >connections and standard servers able to run CGI scripts. In particular the

Re: super(...).__init__() vs Base.__init__(self)

Jan Niklas Fingerle wrote: > Steven Bethard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Personally, I'd call the lack of the super calls in threading.Thread and >> Base bugs. > > It can't be a bug since it wasn't a bug before super was introduced and > you don't wan't to break working Python-2.x-code. Just

Re: read-only attributes

On 2/10/06, john peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > while reading the lib manual, i came across mentions of read-only > attributes. > for example, a method has a read-only attribute (called _im_self ?) for > binding > a class instance to the method. is such a facility available to custom > applic

Re: Newbie Q: dynamically assigning object attribute

No problem. There are, in fact, ugly class-based methods of doing this. You could assign to an instance's __dict__ dictionary, or -- if the class is a new-style class -- you can call the __setattr__(self, name, value) method. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Simple Tkinter app works in Linux, not in Windows

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > I'm a newbie to Python (literally, within the last two weeks), and I am > playing around with Tkinter to build some simple GUIs. I am attempting > to build a simple class that displays a GIF. Here is the code: > > #start of code > from Tkinter import * > > cl

Re: Newbie Q: dynamically assigning object attribute

That's it. I should spend more time R-ingTFM. I kept looking for some class-based solution and there was a built in. Perfectly logical. Thanks, Ben -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Newbie Q: dynamically assigning object attribute

Take a look at the built-in function setattr: http://ftp.python.org/doc/lib/built-in-funcs.html#l2h-64 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Newbie Q: dynamically assigning object attribute

I would like to dynamically assign object attributes: dict = { a : 1, b : 2, } for key,val in dict : obj.key = val To get: print obj.a 1 I've googled to no effect, or maybe I'm needing to be hit with the appropriately sized clue-by-four. Any assistance would be appreciated. Regards, Ben

read-only attributes

while reading the lib manual, i came across mentions of read-only attributes. for example, a method has a read-only attribute (called _im_self ?) for binding a class instance to the method. is such a facility available to custom application code? if so, what do i have to do if i want my applicat

Re: pythonic exec* spawn*

Daniel Nogradi: >> os.fork() does that (on Mac and Unix). > >Okay, but how? Sorry, fork() is implemented strictly on a 'need to know' basis :-) >It seems to me that if the process which issued os.fork() ends, then >the forked process also ends. No, no, they're not a quantum mechanic photon pair

Re: Pulling all n-sized combinations from a list

Jack Diederich wrote: > liberally snipped out parts > On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 03:25:18PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Jack Diederich wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 12:50:19PM -0800, Swroteb wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > I've got a reasonably sized list of objects that I'd like to

Re: Question about idioms for clearing a list

Magnus Lycka wrote: > Bryan Olson wrote: > >> The original question was about idioms and understanding, but >> there's more to the case for list.clear. Python is "duck typed". >> Consistency is the key to polymorphism: type X will work as an >> actual parameter if and only if X has the required me

Re: random playing soundfiles according to rating.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > But i am stuck on how to do a random chooser that works according to my > idea of choosing according to rating system. It seems to me to be a bit > different that just choosing a weighted choice like so: ... > And i am not sure i want to have to go through what will be

Re: python spawn new process, rout stdin/out

Sounds like the popen2 module should suffice. Take a look at the documentation for the module here: http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-popen2.html -Farshid -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: spell check code

>> What is the most common way to spell check comments in code? Are >> there any idle plugins or modules that do this? Jason> In Emacs you can use "flyspell-prog-mode" to check strings and Jason> comments automagically. They also both have spell-check menu items that allow you to

Re: Pulling all n-sized combinations from a list

liberally snipped out parts On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 03:25:18PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Jack Diederich wrote: > > > > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 12:50:19PM -0800, Swroteb wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I've got a reasonably sized list of objects that I'd like to pull out > > > > > all combination

Re: What editor shall I use?

You might want to have a look at the Python Wiki - it has lots of good information. One topic of interest is on what editors you can use with Python http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonEditors Otherwise asking a question like "what editor should I use" will invariably generate a response based on wh

Re: pythonic exec* spawn*

> >I would like to pass the whole object at once to the second python > >program which should start doing its thing with it while the original > >program should keep running. > > os.fork() does that (on Mac and Unix). > Okay, but how? It seems to me that if the process which issued os.fork() ends,

Simple Tkinter app works in Linux, not in Windows

Hello, I'm a newbie to Python (literally, within the last two weeks), and I am playing around with Tkinter to build some simple GUIs. I am attempting to build a simple class that displays a GIF. Here is the code: #start of code from Tkinter import * class DisplayPict(Frame): def __init__(s

Re: Determining an operating system's default browser

Larry Bates wrote: > You don't have to determine it. Just os.startfile('page1.html') > and let the OS figure it out. Note that this only works on Windows. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Determining an operating system's default browser

On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 17:53 -0600, Larry Bates wrote: > You don't have to determine it. Just os.startfile('page1.html') > and let the OS figure it out. Works great for Windows - not available on Unix though. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, an

Re: spell check code

rtilley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the most common way to spell check comments in code? Are > there any idle plugins or modules that do this? In Emacs you can use "flyspell-prog-mode" to check strings and comments automagically. Just a bit of editor elitism... Jason -- http://mail.p

Re: re.match versus re.findall

JerryB wrote: > I have a string like this: > > invalidStr = "192.168.*.1" > > I want to be sure I don't get a * followed by a number, i.e. I want > invalidStr to be invalid. So I do: > > numberAfterStar = re.compile(r'\*.*\d') > > Now, here's the fun: > > If I run: > if numberAfterStar.findall

Re: Determining an operating system's default browser

You don't have to determine it. Just os.startfile('page1.html') and let the OS figure it out. -Larry Bates John McMonagle wrote: > Is there a python module which can determine an operating system's > default web browser application. > > I would like to use it in the following context: I have

Help with os.spawnv

I've had to migrate back to Python 2.1 and am now trying to use os.spawnv to get around a memory leak (either in Python or ArcGIS or both) in a geoprocessing script. This script (Second Script) gets each Ascii file in the workspace, converts it to a raster, sets the spatial reference, and hillshad

Re: Hi reliability files, writing,reading,maintaining

Thanks for all the replies, > > Also, the whole idea of basing reliability on HTTP uploads of 50 bytes > at a time sounds to me a bit ... strained. There *must* be simpler > ways--and simpler goes a long way in the direction of trustworthy. > The motivation to look at http: is the widespread av

Determining an operating system's default browser

Is there a python module which can determine an operating system's default web browser application. I would like to use it in the following context: I have a GUI application where all the documentation is written as html pages. I wish to have these html help pages open in the default browser whe

Re: Pulling all n-sized combinations from a list

Jack Diederich wrote: > On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 10:23:12AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Jack Diederich wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 12:50:19PM -0800, Swroteb wrote: > > > > Hi there, > > > > > > > > I've got a reasonably sized list of objects that I'd like to pull out > > > > all co

Re: Pulling all n-sized combinations from a list

Magnus Lycka wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Fredrik Lundh wrote: > >>Windows don't support C ? that was a new one. > > > > > > Windows comes with a C compiler? That's news to me. > > It doesn't come with Python either. Both Python and > the compiler etc that you need can be freely download

Re: Tkinter, X-windows and ebay

Bob Greschke wrote: > When you post something on eBay (and other places) you can use a 'browse' > button on a web page to send a picture file from your hard drive to them for > inclusion in your listing. Can the same kind of thing (not the same exact > thing, of course) be done with a Python/Tk

Re: pythonic exec* spawn*

Daniel Nogradi: >I would like to pass the whole object at once to the second python >program which should start doing its thing with it while the original >program should keep running. os.fork() does that (on Mac and Unix). -- René Pijlman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: representing physical units

Russ wrote: > I know that python packages are available for representing physical > units, but I am getting frustrated trying to find them and determine > which is the best. > Where can I find a good package that does this? Thanks. Unum is a special package just for this purpose: http://home.tisc

Re: pythonic exec* spawn*

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You could possibly pickle an object and send it, but that could be a > bit messy... > pickle it (or shelve?) and then pass the pickle/shleve filename to the other process as a command line parameter? Not sure if this would work or not, but that's where I would start.

Re: Natural Language Date Processing.

On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 09:47 +0100, Michael Amrhein wrote: > Andrew Gwozdziewycz schrieb: > >> You may take a look at http://labix.org/python-dateutil > >> Have fun > >> Michael > >> > > > > Looks like it does a good job parsing dates, but doesn't seem to do > > english dates. I found a javascript

re.match versus re.findall

Hi, I have a string like this: invalidStr = "192.168.*.1" I want to be sure I don't get a * followed by a number, i.e. I want invalidStr to be invalid. So I do: numberAfterStar = re.compile(r'\*.*\d') Now, here's the fun: If I run: if numberAfterStar.findall(invalidStr): print "Found it wi

Re: creat a DOM from an html document

Mark Harrison wrote: > I thought I saw a package that would create a DOM from html, with > allowances that it would do a "best effort" job to parse > non-perfectly formed html. > > Now I can't seem to find this... does anybody have a recommendation > as to a good package to look at? > > Many TIA!

python spawn new process, rout stdin/out

Hi, I'm trying to make a program that acts as an intermediate between the user and another executable. When my python program is executed, I would like another .exe to be spawned within the python program, and the stdin/stdout to be routed from the user to the program. So if my program is booted i

Re: pythonic exec* spawn*

you can use the threads commands -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: jump into the interpreter in a script

Carl Friedrich Bolz wrote: > Yes. The "code" module of the stdlib is what you want. put > > import code > code.interact(local=locals()) > > into a point where you would like to have an interpreter prompt. or, as a reusable function: http://effbot.org/librarybook/code.htm (see the third exam

Re: Tkinter, X-windows and ebay

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bob Greschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >When you post something on eBay (and other places) you can use a 'browse' >button on a web page to send a picture file from your hard drive to them for >inclusion in your listing. Can the same kind of thing (not the same ex

Re: get output of cmd-line command under MS windows

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bernard Lebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >You should give a go to os.popen( ). Article >6.1.2 and 6.1.3 in the Python Library doc. > >I recently wrote a program that would create a pipe using the popen() >method, and would enter a while loop. At each iteration, it

Re: Hi reliability files, writing,reading,maintaining

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Martin P. Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >John Pote wrote: > >> So my request: >> 1. Are there any python modules 'out there' that might help in securely >> writing such files. >> 2. Can anyone suggest a book or two on this kind of file management. (These >> kind

Re: pythonic exec* spawn*

You could possibly pickle an object and send it, but that could be a bit messy... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: jump into the interpreter in a script

Brian Blais wrote: > I was wondering if there is a way to, within a script, jump into the > interpreter. > What I mean is something like the "keyboard" command in Matlab, where the > script > pauses and you get an interpreter prompt, where you can look at variables, > change > their values, etc.

Re: creat a DOM from an html document

John J. Lee wrote: > Mark Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Ahh, it's BeautifulSoup... > > Strictly that's not THE DOM, just A document object model. The DOM > proper is a standardised interface, which BeautifulSoup does not > implement. You could build a DOM using BeautifulSoup, though.

Re: Threads and Interpreter death

Rene Pijlman wrote: > Carl J. Van Arsdall: > >>I've been toying with threads a lot lately and I've noticed that if a >>scripting error occurs in a thread the thread dies, but not the process >>that spawned the thread. >> >>Is python supposed to behave this way or is this type of behavior >>acci

Re: ftp: get list of files

Lawrence Oluyede wrote: > "eels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>With yyy = ftp.retrlines('LIST') I get this listing at stdout, but I >>need this information at variable yyy. >>How can I resolve this problem? > > > As written in the doc retrlines has an optional parameter (a callback > funct

pythonic exec* spawn*

Is it possible to pass a python object to a python program as argument? In my program I would like to start executing an other python program and don't wait until that finishes, only launch it and keep running the original program. The obvious way I can think of it is using the exec* or spawn* fun

Re: CLI

mwt wrote: > I want to do programmatic terminal commands on unix with python - i.e. > I want my program to issue commands to start and stop scripts, other > programs, etc. I'm sure this must be fairly straightforward, but > haven't been able to find a reference for it. Any help? > Try: pexpect.s

Mental Abuse

My abuser has been using the medical device to harass me the last 4-5 years. I have no idea what type of a device is being used on me. I believe the device is only available to licensed pharmacist(s). I am not very familiar with the intend usage of the device. As I understand, the device can be use

Re: New editions of several Python books.

On Feb 9, 2006, at 3:59 PM, James Stroud wrote: > Magnus Lycka wrote: >> Programming Python, 3rd edition >> by Mark Lutz (Paperback - July 2006) >> >> Never a favourite of mine really, but a popular book... > > This one is like broccoli. Its good for you but it doesn't have > much flavor. > --

Mental Abuse

My abuser has been using the medical device to harass me the last 4-5 years. I have no idea what type of a device is being used on me. I believe the device is only available to licensed pharmacist(s). I am not very familiar with the intend usage of the device. As I understand, the device can be use

Re: Fuzzy Lookups

Wow, that looks excellent. I'll definately try it out. I'm assuming this is an existing project, e.g. you didn't write it after reading this thread? -Greg On 2/9/06, name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gregory Piñero ha scritto: > : > > If anyone would be kind enough to improve it I'd love to ha

Re: Threads and Interpreter death

Carl J. Van Arsdall: >I've been toying with threads a lot lately and I've noticed that if a >scripting error occurs in a thread the thread dies, but not the process >that spawned the thread. > >Is python supposed to behave this way or is this type of behavior >accidental? "start_new_thread(func

Re: New editions of several Python books.

Magnus Lycka wrote: > Programming Python, 3rd edition > by Mark Lutz (Paperback - July 2006) > > Never a favourite of mine really, but a popular book... This one is like broccoli. Its good for you but it doesn't have much flavor. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

representing physical units

I know that python packages are available for representing physical units, but I am getting frustrated trying to find them and determine which is the best. Rather than just using conventional dimensionless numbers with implicit units, I would like to have a way to explicitly represent the units. I

Re: Too Many if Statements?

It appears it may not be a 'if' statment limitation at all. This is because I added another 800 element array in which to store the various error messages generated when a configuration file error is deteceted based on their severity level. The simple addition of the array caused the same symptom

Re: Fuzzy Lookups

Gregory Piñero ha scritto: : > If anyone would be kind enough to improve it I'd love to have these > features but I'm swamped this week! > > - MD5 checking for find exact matches regardless of name > - Put each set of duplicates in its own subfolder. Done? http://pyfdupes.sourceforge.net/ Bye, l

RE: Too Many if Statements?

slogging_away wrote: > Delaney, Timothy (Tim) wrote: > >> I'm pretty sure the OP has hit the python script line limit (32767?). > > The script is 4903 lines long. Well blow that idea out of the water. I was then going to suggest looping over tests, but noticed someone else already had. > Sligh

Re: CLI

mwt: >I want to do programmatic terminal commands on unix with python - i.e. >I want my program to issue commands to start and stop scripts, other >programs, etc. I'm sure this must be fairly straightforward, but >haven't been able to find a reference for it. Any help? http://www.python.org/doc/2.

Re: super(...).__init__() vs Base.__init__(self)

Steven Bethard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Personally, I'd call the lack of the super calls in threading.Thread and > Base bugs. It can't be a bug since it wasn't a bug before super was introduced and you don't wan't to break working Python-2.x-code. > But __init__() is definitely a tricky c

Re: What editor shall I use?

Lad wrote: > What editor shall I use if my Python script must contain utf-8 > characters? > I use XP > Thank you for reply > l.b. > I like PyScripter, although it's much more than an editor. http://mmm-experts.com/Products.aspx?ProductId=4 Colin W -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/p

Re: What editor shall I use?

Lad schrieb: > What editor shall I use if my Python script must contain utf-8 > characters? > I use XP An extremely capable, easy to use and small editor is Neil Hodgson's SciTE. It's my favorite editor on Windows and Linux. There is a Windows installer at http://users.hfx.eastlink.ca/~gisdev/sci

RE: by reference

Rene Pijlman wrote: > dirvine: >> I would like to create a dictionary based on a variable [...] > > And what seems to be the problem? He forgot to read http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html. And *you* forgot to point him to it ;) Tim Delaney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/list

Re: Is Python good for web crawlers?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) writes: > Magnus Lycka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >... > > I dunno, but there are these two guys, Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, > > who wrote a web crawler in Python. As far as I understood, they were > > fairly successful with it. I think they called their s

Re: creat a DOM from an html document

Mark Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mark Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Now I can't seem to find this... does anybody have a recommendation > > as to a good package to look at? > > Ahh, it's BeautifulSoup... Strictly that's not THE DOM, just A document object model. The DOM pro

Re: New editions of several Python books.

Aahz wrote: > If you can have _Borland C++ for Dummies_, _Python for Dummies_ makes a > lot more sense. :-/ Well, I guess Borland C++ for Dummies has a genuine purpose, but it could be a very short book. One page where is says: "Don't!" ;^) I guess it's a seal of mainstream approval to get a Dum

Re: Pulling all n-sized combinations from a list

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Fredrik Lundh wrote: >>Windows don't support C ? that was a new one. > > > Windows comes with a C compiler? That's news to me. It doesn't come with Python either. Both Python and the compiler etc that you need can be freely downloaded from the internet. I suggest you

Re: Pulling all n-sized combinations from a list

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Fredrik Lundh wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > It is a C extension that does permutations & combinations and is > > > > about 10x faster than doing it in pure python [I'm the author]. > > > > It is also the 3rd result for "python combination" and 5th for >

Re: sys.path and unicode folder names

Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Nir Aides wrote: >> If few people use file names not in their respective CP_ACP as you say, >> why did Microsoft bother to make Windows XP a unicode OS? > > Because it simplifies their implementation, in the long run. > >> It is because of this situation that people in no

Re: cursesw+setlocale fixes it!

Martin v. Löwis wrote: > That's very easy. Contribute a working patch. That patch should support > all possible situations (e.g. curses is ncurses, and ncursesw is > available, curses is ncurses, and ncursesw is not available, curses > is not ncurses), and submit that patch to sf.net/projects/pytho

Re: Pulling all n-sized combinations from a list

Fredrik Lundh wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > It is a C extension that does permutations & combinations and is > > > about 10x faster than doing it in pure python [I'm the author]. > > > It is also the 3rd result for "python combination" and 5th for > > > "python permutaiton" but every m

Re: New editions of several Python books.

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Magnus Lycka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >There is also a "Python for Dummies" on its way at last. (I'm not >sure Python *is* for dummies though. Despite being so easy to learn >and use, it mainly seems to attract smart and experienced people, why >else would Pytho

Re: Pulling all n-sized combinations from a list

On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 10:23:12AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Jack Diederich wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 12:50:19PM -0800, Swroteb wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > > > I've got a reasonably sized list of objects that I'd like to pull out > > > all combinations of five elements from. Ri

Re: Inserting record with Microsoft Access

"jeffhg582003" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > fields. I am trying to capture the number generated from the insert but > I am not exactly sure how to do that after an insert. Other folks have pointed you to "select @@identity" but I thought I should mention that if you u

Re: Best way of finding terminal width/height?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2) It also says that it makes sense to continue to read a tty > after you get an EOF. That's not true. Once you get an > EOF on a tty, there's no point in reading it any more: > you'll continue to get an EOF

Re: CLI

mwt enlightened us with: > I want to do programmatic terminal commands on unix with python If you want to use a real terminal, search for pty. If you just want to start and stop scripts, check the popen2 module. Sybren -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a cap

Re: Pulling all n-sized combinations from a list

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > It is a C extension that does permutations & combinations and is > > about 10x faster than doing it in pure python [I'm the author]. > > It is also the 3rd result for "python combination" and 5th for > > "python permutaiton" but every month someone posts to c.l.py aski

Re: Pulling all n-sized combinations from a list

Jack Diederich wrote: > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 12:50:19PM -0800, Swroteb wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I've got a reasonably sized list of objects that I'd like to pull out > > all combinations of five elements from. Right now I have a way to do > > this that's quite slow, but manageable. I know

Re: Test indexers...how do they work?

Raja Raman Sundararajan wrote: > I wanted to know how the algorithm of indexers look like. I have heard > people talking about B-Trees. But this info. is simply know enough. I > would like to know exactly each part of the indexing flow and the > algorightm behind it work. Get the book "Managing Gi

Re: Form1.show()

errmaker schrieb: > hi ! iam newbie on python. > how i can make form1 visible ? form just crated by pyqt > > > > class Form1(QMainWindow): > def __init__(self,parent = None,name = None,fl = 0): > QMainWindow.__init__(self,parent,name,fl) > self.statusBar() > >...

Re: Finding the public callables of self

Ha! I didn't realize that was getmembers' implementation. What a hack ;-) In fact, your way is faster, since getmembers is taking the time to sort its results (presumably so that repeated calls to the same object will yield the same list; I don't think dir has a guaranteed ordering) -- http://

CLI

I want to do programmatic terminal commands on unix with python - i.e. I want my program to issue commands to start and stop scripts, other programs, etc. I'm sure this must be fairly straightforward, but haven't been able to find a reference for it. Any help? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/li

Re: Finding the public callables of self

> import inspect > myCallables = [name for name, value in inspect.getmembers(self) if not > name.startswith('_') and callable(value)] Thanks. I forgot about the inspect module. Interestingly, you've also answered my question more than I suspect you know! Check out the code for inspect.getmember

Threads and Interpreter death

I've been toying with threads a lot lately and I've noticed that if a scripting error occurs in a thread the thread dies, but not the process that spawned the thread. Is python supposed to behave this way or is this type of behavior accidental? Thanks, Carl -- Carl J. Van Arsdall [EMAIL P

Re: 450 Pound Library Program

BTW - I can't find any code examples of how to interrupt a beast like this. A regular ctrl-c doesn't work, since the separate threads just keep executing. Is this a case where you need to iterate through all threads and stop each one individually? How would that look? -- http://mail.python.org/ma

Re: Finding the public callables of self

Sion Arrowsmith wrote: > Russell Warren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (snip) > At first I thought self.__dict__ would do it, but callable methods >>seem to be excluded so I had to resort to dir, and deal with the >>strings it gives me. > > This last sentence suggests to me something like: > > a

Re: super(...).__init__() vs Base.__init__(self)

Kent Johnson wrote: > Are there any best practice guidelines for when to use > super(Class, self).__init__() > vs > Base.__init__(self) > to call a base class __init__()? > [snip] > > 3. A third fix might be to change both Base and threading.Thread() to > call super(...).__init__(). This mig

Form1.show()

hi ! iam newbie on python. how i can make form1 visible ? form just crated by pyqt class Form1(QMainWindow): def __init__(self,parent = None,name = None,fl = 0): QMainWindow.__init__(self,parent,name,fl) self.statusBar() if self.MenuBar.findItem(

Re: newbie needs serious help

On 2/9/06, Hunsberger, Joy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK. Never used python. I need it to install the Google Sitemap program on > our WindowsServer2003(SE) server. > > I downloaded the Python 2.4.2 msi file, and installed it. > > All went well. Now, I have no idea what to do. > And I tried to

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