Re: Chained Comparisons

"Sathyaish" wrote: > I) What does the following expression evaluate to? > > a < b == c > > 1) (a < b) and (b == c) > 2) (a < b) or (b == c) http://docs.python.org/ref/comparisons.html Formally, if a, b, c, ..., y, z are expressions and opa, opb, ..., opy are comparison operators, the

Re: C-API: A beginner's problem

Fabian Steiner wrote: > Georg Brandl wrote: >> Fabian Steiner wrote: >>> [...] >>> for (i = 0; i <= seqlen; i++) { >> >> That is one iteration too much. Use >> >> for (i = 0; i < seglen; i++) >> >>> item = PySequence_Fast_GET_ITEM(seq, i); >> >> Now item is a PyObject*.

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

"Xah Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language >Xah Lee, 200502, 200603. >In languages human or computer, there's a notion of expressiveness. >English for example, is very expressive in manifestation, witness all >the poetry

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Re: String comparison question

Alex Martelli wrote: > Michael Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Here, str.translate deletes the characters in its optional second argument. >> Note that this does not work with unicode strings. > > With unicode, you could do something strictly equivalent, as follows: > > nowhite = dict.f

C API: Testing my reference counting

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Re: Have you ever considered of mousing ambidextrously?

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Re: ** Operator

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Re: ** Operator

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Chained Comparisons

I) What does the following expression evaluate to? a < b == c 1) (a < b) and (b == c) 2) (a < b) or (b == c) II) How many operands can be chained for comparison in a single expression? For e.g, is the under-stated expression a valid comparison chain? a < b == c > d -- http://mail.python.org/

Re: whats your favourite object relational mapper?

Serge Orlov wrote: > Flavio wrote: > > With so many object relational mappers out there, I wonder which one is > > the preferred tool among the Pythonists... is there a favourite? > > > > Sqlobject, PyDO, SQLAlchemy, dejavu, etc... > > Google results: > Sqlobject ORM: about 17,100 > PyDO ORM: 469 >

Re: ** Operator

Sathyaish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried it on the interpreter and it looks like it is the "to the power > of" operator symbol/function. Can you please point me to the formal > definition of this operator in the docs? http://docs.python.org/ref/power.html Alex -- http://mail.python.org/m

Re: Python 2.5 Schedule

"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For more details about the plan for Python 2.5, see: > http://www.python.org/doc/peps/pep-0356/ Thanks for bringing attention to this. > - ASCII is the default coding Er? How did this happen? To be specific, what about all the movement

Re: ** Operator

I tried it on the interpreter and it looks like it is the "to the power of" operator symbol/function. Can you please point me to the formal definition of this operator in the docs? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

** Operator

In the example below from the python docs (http://docs.python.org/tut/node7.html#SECTION00714), I am not able to understand the ** operator in the following expression: >>> [(x, x**2) for x in vec] I understand the list comprehension as a whole but have forgotten the ** operator's

Re: C-API: A beginner's problem

Georg Brandl wrote: > Fabian Steiner wrote: >> [...] >> for (i = 0; i <= seqlen; i++) { > > That is one iteration too much. Use > > for (i = 0; i < seglen; i++) > >> item = PySequence_Fast_GET_ITEM(seq, i); > > Now item is a PyObject*. You'll have to convert it to an i

Re: Is there such an idiom?

Ron Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > From what I recently read here (not sure where) in another thread, in > python 2.3 sets were implemented as a python module using dictionaries, > and in 2.4 it was written in C code based on the dictionary C code. ...and in 2.5 they're due to be furthe

Re: String comparison question

Michael Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Olivier Langlois wrote: > > > I would like to make a string comparison that would return true without > > regards of the number of spaces and new lines chars between the words > > > > > like 'A B\nC' = 'A\nBC' > > > > import string > NULL = s

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Re: String comparison question

Michael Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Olivier Langlois wrote: > > Hi Michael! > > > > Your suggestion is fantastic and is doing exactly what I was looking > > for! Thank you very much. > > There is something that I'm wondering though. Why is the solution you > > proposed wouldn't work with

Re: Is there such an idiom?

Per wrote: > Thanks Ron, > surely set is the simplest way to understand the question, to see > whether there is a non-empty intersection. But I did the following > thing in a silly way, still not sure whether it is going to be linear > time. > def foo(): > l = [...] > s = [...] > dic =

Re: Python 2.5 Schedule

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Re: whats your favourite object relational mapper?

Jean-Paul Calderone wrote: > On 19 Mar 2006 17:52:19 -0800, Serge Orlov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Flavio wrote: > >> With so many object relational mappers out there, I wonder which one is > >> the preferred tool among the Pythonists... is there a favourite? > >> > >> Sqlobject, PyDO, SQLAlchem

Re: String comparison question

Olivier Langlois wrote: > Hi Michael! > > Your suggestion is fantastic and is doing exactly what I was looking > for! Thank you very much. > There is something that I'm wondering though. Why is the solution you > proposed wouldn't work with Unicode strings? > Simply, that str.translate with two a

Re: whats your favourite object relational mapper?

On 19 Mar 2006 17:52:19 -0800, Serge Orlov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Flavio wrote: >> With so many object relational mappers out there, I wonder which one is >> the preferred tool among the Pythonists... is there a favourite? >> >> Sqlobject, PyDO, SQLAlchemy, dejavu, etc... > >Google results: >S

Re: whats your favourite object relational mapper?

Flavio wrote: > With so many object relational mappers out there, I wonder which one is > the preferred tool among the Pythonists... is there a favourite? > > Sqlobject, PyDO, SQLAlchemy, dejavu, etc... Google results: Sqlobject ORM: about 17,100 PyDO ORM: 469 SQLAlchemy ORM: 571 dejavu ORM: 659

Re: Is there such an idiom?

Per wrote: > Thanks Ron, > surely set is the simplest way to understand the question, to see > whether there is a non-empty intersection. But I did the following > thing in a silly way, still not sure whether it is going to be linear > time. > def foo(): > l = [...] > s = [...] > dic =

RE: String comparison question

Hi Michael! Your suggestion is fantastic and is doing exactly what I was looking for! Thank you very much. There is something that I'm wondering though. Why is the solution you proposed wouldn't work with Unicode strings? Olivier Langlois http://www.quazal.com > > import string > NULL = string.m

Re: String comparison question

Olivier Langlois wrote: > I would like to make a string comparison that would return true without > regards of the number of spaces and new lines chars between the words > > like 'A B\nC' = 'A\nBC' > import string NULL = string.maketrans("","") WHITE = string.whitespace def compare(a,b)

Re: System Information

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > in the online-documentation for this and had no luck. I imagine it is > quite easy and may even be as simple as a boolean variable...? In general it's not so simple, since a computer can have many power sources. > All I want to be able to tell is whether or not my compu

Re: System Information

Oops -- just asked a buddy, osx doesn't have /proc But you could look into sysctl I'll boot up my laptop and check out if there is anything regarding the battery, but I suspect you should investigate sysctl -a | grep acpi -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Is there such an idiom?

Thanks Ron, surely set is the simplest way to understand the question, to see whether there is a non-empty intersection. But I did the following thing in a silly way, still not sure whether it is going to be linear time. def foo(): l = [...] s = [...] dic = {} for i in l: d

Re: System Information

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Thanks, however, I forgot to mention that I'm using windows, and from what I've tried, the setdefaulttimeout function doesn't work on my machine. Again, thanks for your help! Brandon McGinty > -Original Message- > From: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > rg] On Behalf Of

Re: Python 2.5 Schedule

Scott David Daniels wrote: > I think there will be no compiler switching for a while. The previous > switch from VC 6 was in part because there was no longer any legal way > to get a VC 6.0 compiler. This round at least is sticking with the same > compiler as Python 2.4 (VC 7.0). > Scott: Adm

Re: Is there such an idiom?

Per wrote: > how to find the number of common items between two list in linear-time? > Not really sure about linear-time, but you could try the following: >>> a=[1,2,3,4] >>> b=[3,4,5,6] >>> set(a) & set(b) set([3, 4]) --Irmen -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Is there such an idiom?

Per wrote: > http://jaynes.colorado.edu/PythonIdioms.html > > """Use dictionaries for searching, not lists. To find items in common > between two lists, make the first into a dictionary and then look for > items in the second in it. Searching a list for an item is linear-time, > while searching a

System Information

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Re: Keeping a function from taking to long--threads?

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >Just wondering if anyone knows of a way to keep a function, >E.g. socket.gethostbyaddr("12.34.56.78"), >>From taking to long-if it's run for more than 1 second, the function >gethostbyaddr will be terminated? import socket socket.setdefaulttimeout(1) -- René Pijlman Wat wi

Re: Is there such an idiom?

Per: >how to find whether there is/are common item(s) between two list >in linear-time? To find items in common between two lists, make the first into a dictionary and then look for items in the second in it. -- René Pijlman Wat wil jij leren? http://www.leren.nl -- http://mail.python.org/mai

Keeping a function from taking to long--threads?

Hi All, Just wondering if anyone knows of a way to keep a function, E.g. socket.gethostbyaddr("12.34.56.78"), >From taking to long-if it's run for more than 1 second, the function gethostbyaddr will be terminated? I was thinking about using threads, but I can't seem to get the hang of them. I've tr

Is there such an idiom?

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Re: Xah's Edu Corner: The Concepts and Confusions of Pre-fix, In-fix, Post-fix and Fully Functional Notations

On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 11:22:06 +0100, Timo Stamm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Xah's posting was properly encoded and will display fine in every decent >newsreader. Well mine killfiled it straight off, which I think is entirely proper rendering for one of Xah Lee's kookery lessons. -- http://mail.p

Re: cmp() on integers - is there guarantee of returning only +-1 or 0?

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > def sign(n): > return n and n/abs(n) or 0 > > Whoops... Make that > > def sign(n): > return n and n/abs(n) or 1 Uh? I thought part of the specs was that sign(0) is 0... Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: cmp() on integers - is there guarantee of returning only +-1 or 0?

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dmitry> doc says that it must be > 0, or < 0, but it seems that it > Dmitry> returns +1 or -1. Can it be reliably used to get the sign of x: > Dmitry> cmp(x, 0) like pascal Sign() function does? > > Why not > > def sign(n): > return n and n/ab

Re: Unpythonic? Impossible??

Paul Rubin wrote: > I remember having a similar problem involving multiple base classes > and deciding that factory functions couldn't do quite what I wanted. > Here's a thread about it, with a recipe using metaclasses by Roeland > Rengelink: > >http://tinyurl.com/rz6ne > > Unfortunately, th

String comparison question

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Re: Unpythonic? Impossible??

Erik Max Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You can, but a class factory is going to be much clearer and probably > more maintainable. From the user's perspective, there's no difference > from calling a class A to instantiate it, and calling a factory > function called A that selects the approp

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Re: cmp() on integers - is there guarantee of returning only +-1 or 0?

def sign(n): return n and n/abs(n) or 0 Whoops... Make that def sign(n): return n and n/abs(n) or 1 Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: cmp() on integers - is there guarantee of returning only +-1 or 0?

Dmitry> doc says that it must be > 0, or < 0, but it seems that it Dmitry> returns +1 or -1. Can it be reliably used to get the sign of x: Dmitry> cmp(x, 0) like pascal Sign() function does? Why not def sign(n): return n and n/abs(n) or 0 Skip -- http://mail.python.org/

RE: Counting nested loop iterations

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Re: C-API: A beginner's problem

Fabian Steiner wrote: > I recently started learning C since I want to be able to write Python > extension modules. In fact, there is no need for it, but I simply want > to try something new ... > > I tried to implement the bubblesort algorithm in C and to use it in > python; bubblesort.c compil

Re: Unpythonic? Impossible??

BrJohan wrote: > I know how to use a class factory - and could work around using such a > mechanism. However I am interested to know if I could let the classes do the > work by themselves. You can, but a class factory is going to be much clearer and probably more maintainable. From the user's

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

On 19 Mar 2006 13:03:18 -0800, "Xah Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : >One thing commonly misunderstood in computing industry is the notion of >expressiveness. If a language has a vocabulary of (smile, laugh, grin, >giggle, chuckle, guffaw, cackle), E

Re: cmp() on integers - is there guarantee of returning only +-1 or 0?

It is depending on the classes you try to compare, and on how the comparison functions (see http://docs.python.org/ref/customization.html) are implemented in these, see example below: py> class wrong(object): ... def __init__(self, x): ... self.x = x ... def __cmp__(self, other): .

Re: Pycrypto - active ??

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Re: Have you ever considered of mousing ambidextrously?

Aahz wrote: > Heh. When possible, my work situation includes two computers, each with > their own keyboard and mouse. To put the keyboards as close together as > possible, the mice go on the outside. I prefer a similar setup with 2 duel monitor PCs (one Linux, one Windows), but use x2vnc to con

Re: How to check if a directory is exist in python?

Vincent Wehren wrote: > | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > | news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ||I check the documentation here, but it does not say how to check if a > || directory is exist in python? > || http://docs.python.org/lib/os-file-dir.html > | > | Look at the exist or isdir methods of the

Re: Getting .NET SDK to work with Python 2.4.2

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Re: How to check if a directory is exist in python?

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Pycrypto - active ??

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Re: How to check if a directory is exist in python?

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Re: How to check if a directory is exist in python?

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Re: cmp() on integers - is there guarantee of returning only +-1 or 0?

"Dmitry Anikin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > doc says that it must be > 0, or < 0, but it seems that > it returns +1 or -1. Can it be reliably used to get the sign of x: > cmp(x, 0) like pascal Sign() function does? The doc says (http://docs.python.org/lib/built-in-funcs.html): cmp(x,y)

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Re: Xah's Edu Corner: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

"John Bokma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Dag Sunde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> "Xah Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language >> >> PLONK. > > Don't post PLONK messages you idiot. P

How to check if a directory is exist in python?

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Re: Initializing a list of lists

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cmp() on integers - is there guarantee of returning only +-1 or 0?

doc says that it must be > 0, or < 0, but it seems that it returns +1 or -1. Can it be reliably used to get the sign of x: cmp(x, 0) like pascal Sign() function does? I mean, I'm pretty sure that it can be used, but is it mentioned somewhere in language spec, or it may be implementation defined? If

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

"Dag Sunde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Xah Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language > > PLONK. Don't post PLONK messages you idiot. PLONK in silence instead of adding to a lot of garbage in serveral groups. -- John

Re: python library for web discussions

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Re: Xah's Edu Corner: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

"Xah Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language PLONK. -- Dag. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language Xah Lee, 200502, 200603. In languages human or computer, there's a notion of expressiveness. English for example, is very expressive in manifestation, witness all the poetry and implications and allusions and connotations and dictions. There are a my

whats your favourite object relational mapper?

With so many object relational mappers out there, I wonder which one is the preferred tool among the Pythonists... is there a favourite? Sqlobject, PyDO, SQLAlchemy, dejavu, etc... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Counting number of each item in a list.

Justin Azoff a écrit : > Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > >> My solution seems to be faster than Paul's >>one (but slower than bearophile's), be it on small, medium or large lists. > > > Your version is only fast on lists with a very small number of unique > elements. > > changing mklist to have >

Re: Counting number of each item in a list.

Justin Azoff a écrit : > Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > >>And of course, I was right. My solution seems to be faster than Paul's >>one (but slower than bearophile's), be it on small, medium or large lists. > > > Your version is only fast on lists with a very small number of unique > elements. > >

Re: Counting number of each item in a list.

Paul Rubin a écrit : > Bruno Desthuilliers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>And of course, I was right. My solution seems to be faster than Paul's >>one (but slower than bearophile's), be it on small, medium or large >>lists. >> >>nb: A is mine, B is Paul's and C is bearophile's, and the number aft

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Re: remove a directory with special chars

andy wrote: > Is there a special reason you want to use Python to do this? The Linux > command shell would probably do exactly the same job (you can specify > backslash-escaped characters at the command-line)... > > anyway to do it in python: > > import os > os.remove("/path/to/the/file/.\17

Re: Counting number of each item in a list.

Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > And of course, I was right. My solution seems to be faster than Paul's > one (but slower than bearophile's), be it on small, medium or large lists. Your version is only fast on lists with a very small number of unique elements. changing mklist to have items = range(64

Re: Counting number of each item in a list.

Bruno Desthuilliers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And of course, I was right. My solution seems to be faster than Paul's > one (but slower than bearophile's), be it on small, medium or large > lists. > > nb: A is mine, B is Paul's and C is bearophile's, and the number after > is the size of the li

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Re: python cgi permision error

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Re: Relative paths in mod_python

Ivo van der Sangen a écrit : > I was wondering if I could use relative paths in a mod_python script. At > the moment I am defining a constant string > "/path/to/dir/where/script/resides". The problem with this is that when > I move the script including files I use to get metadata I have to change >

Re: Counting number of each item in a list.

Bruno Desthuilliers a écrit : > Kent Johnson a écrit : > >> sophie_newbie wrote: >> >>> Hey Bruno, >>> >>> I got an invalid syntax error when i tried using your "str_counts = >>> dict((s, str_list.count(s) for s in set(str_list))" bit of code? Maybe >>> there is a missing bracket or comma? Or mayb

Re: Writing web bots in python

On 2006-03-18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I hav a question..How do I write a webbot that logs onto some website, > fills text into a textbox and submit that form, Sorry I am a novice in > python, apparently I have to use urllib, but I hav a few queries on > this, What h

Re: Unpythonic? Impossible??

Felipe Almeida Lessa wrote: > Em Dom, 2006-03-19 às 08:54 -0800, Scott David Daniels escreveu: >> class A(object): >> def __new__(class_, *args, **kwargs): >> if class_ is A: >> if want_a_B1(*args, **kwargs): >> return B1(*args, **kwa

Re: Server applications - avoiding sleep

You can make it a service, which has an advantage, that it survives logouts. SOME PROGRAMMING IS REQIURED. If I need something running the "fast and dirty" way, I run a regular python application as window application (start pythonw.exe). As a way o communication (start, stop, pause) I use tray.

Re: Relative paths in mod_python

Ivo van der Sangen wrote: > I was wondering if I could use relative paths in a mod_python script. At > the moment I am defining a constant string > "/path/to/dir/where/script/resides". > [snip] You can use Python's built-in __file__ variable. It is set to the absolute location of your script. You

Re: Unpythonic? Impossible??

"Scott David Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev i meddelandet news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > BrJohan wrote: ... >> is it then possible to have this call: >> obj = A(data) >> return an instance of that particular class (e.g. class C3) in the >> hierarchy that - as decided by the __new__ functions

Re: Unpythonic? Impossible??

Em Dom, 2006-03-19 às 08:54 -0800, Scott David Daniels escreveu: > class A(object): > def __new__(class_, *args, **kwargs): > if class_ is A: > if want_a_B1(*args, **kwargs): > return B1(*args, **kwargs) > elif want_a

Re: Python equivalent of Perl-ISAPI?

What Roger says and also: http://pyisapie.sourceforge.net/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: C-API: A beginner's problem

Heikki Salo wrote: > Heikki Salo wrote: >> Fabian Steiner wrote: >>> What did I do wrong? As I am quite new to C, I probably made many >>> mistakes, so please feel free to correct me. >> >> The following line: >> >> > for (i = 0; i <= seqlen; i++) { >> >> Should be "for (i = 0; i < seqlen; i+

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