How to test wxPython by unittest

2006-03-20 Thread sillyemperor
I was a new guy of Python,when i want to test my wxPython app by unittest,it couldn`t work.I fund a stubmaker.py but it only for wxDialog but all widgets.Can someone can tell me how test wxPython by unittest?Thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Design mini-lanugage for data input

2006-03-20 Thread Paddy
Hmm, Do you know about JSON and YAML? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAML They have the advantage of being maintained by a group of people and being available for a number of languages. (as well as NOT being XML :-) - Cheers, Paddy. -- http://paddy3118.blogspot

Re: New-style Python icons

2006-03-20 Thread Fredrik Lundh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've taken the opportunity to knock up some icons using it, finally > banishing the poor old standard-VGA-palette snake from my desktop. If > you like, you can grab them from: > > http://www.doxdesk.com/img/software/py/icons.zip > > in .ICO format for Windows - contain

Re: datetime iso8601 string input

2006-03-20 Thread Sybren Stuvel
aurora enlightened us with: > I agree. I just keep rewriting the parse method again and again. I just use the parser from mx.DateTime. Works like a charm, and can even guess the used format. Sybren -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for st

Re: Programming challenge: wildcard exclusion in cartesian products

2006-03-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
After the basic fact of generating the exclusion - a considerable achievement - the program should be interactive. What if the target set has thousands or millions of elements? There should be a loop-like way ('do' in Haskell, for example) to peel off the elements one-by-one and then terminate. -

Re: Pycrypto - active ??

2006-03-20 Thread Frank Millman
Paul Rubin wrote: > "Frank Millman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > TLSLite is so far not really a complete SSL implementation by itself. > > > It doesn't know how to properly check the signatures on certificate > > > chains. It has to use an external module like m2crypto for that. > > > > When

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

2006-03-20 Thread Tim Roberts
Roedy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 02:08:11 GMT, Tim Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, >quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : > >>Try pressing Ctrl-R when his message is visible. I'm also using Agent, and >>that toggles his extended characters from quoted-printa

Re: datetime iso8601 string input

2006-03-20 Thread aurora
I agree. I just keep rewriting the parse method again and again. wy def parse_iso8601_date(s): """ Parse date in iso8601 format e.g. 2003-09-15T10:34:54 and returns a datetime object. """ y=m=d=hh=mm=ss=0 if len(s) not in [10,19,20]: raise ValueError('Invalid

Re: Do anyone already have code to copy nested files to a flat directory?

2006-03-20 Thread Podi
Thanks for all the suggestions. Now the wheel comes with bells and whistles ;) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Pycrypto - active ??

2006-03-20 Thread Paul Rubin
"Frank Millman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > TLSLite is so far not really a complete SSL implementation by itself. > > It doesn't know how to properly check the signatures on certificate > > chains. It has to use an external module like m2crypto for that. > > When you say "It has to ...", do y

Design mini-lanugage for data input

2006-03-20 Thread aurora
This is an entry I just added to ASPN. It is a somewhat novel technique I have employed quite successfully in my code. I repost it here for more explosure and discussions. http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/475158 wy -

Re: Pycrypto - active ??

2006-03-20 Thread Frank Millman
Paul Rubin wrote: > > TLSLite's main causes of slowness are: 1) time needed compiling and > loading all the modules, especially the first time you run it in a new > installation; 2) very slow speed of the symmetric ciphers implemented > in Python. You need m2crypto, cryptlib, or pycrypto to speed

Code convertion from JSP to Python

2006-03-20 Thread - C Saha -
Hi Python Veterans I need to convert a code from JSP (Java Tags are also there inside JSP) to PYTHON. I have OK kind of knowledge in PYTHON, but dont have a muck knowledge in JAVA/JSP. Any idea how to approach?Thanks in advance to allC SahaThanks a lot to all in advance Thanks

Re: Pycrypto - active ??

2006-03-20 Thread Paul Rubin
"Frank Millman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have revisited what I did a week ago, and I now recall that I *did* > successfully install GMPY, but it made no difference to the speed of > TLSLite. I could try to dig deeper by examining the source code of > TLSLite, but it is low priority for me at

Re: Spidering Hacks for Python, not Perl

2006-03-20 Thread Enigma Curry
I've been looking for similar stuff recently. I haven't found much, but this is the list of links I've come across so far: Harvest Man - http://harvestman.freezope.org/ Mechanize - http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/ Beautiful Soup - http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/ (Neither B

Re: Python equivalent of Perl-ISAPI?

2006-03-20 Thread rurpy
Atanas Banov wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Steve Holden wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > Pure cgi is too slow. "Active Scripting" means ASP, yes? > > > > I need something that will do cgi scripts (a lot of which I already > > > > have > > > > and can modify but don't want

Re: Python equivalent of Perl-ISAPI?

2006-03-20 Thread rurpy
Atanas Banov wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Steve Holden wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > Pure cgi is too slow. "Active Scripting" means ASP, yes? > > > > I need something that will do cgi scripts (a lot of which I already > > > > have > > > > and can modify but don't want

Re: Pycrypto - active ??

2006-03-20 Thread Frank Millman
Alex Martelli wrote: > Frank Millman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >... > > The docs say that if you have any of m2crypto, cryptlib, pycrypto, or > > GMPY installed, it will be used for fast cryptographic operations. I >... > > However, I have not found an MSW binary for Python 2.4 for any of

How to recgonize an USB device in FreeBSD?

2006-03-20 Thread Geoffery
I want to use Python to develop a software.Now, I have a question. How to recgonize USB device in FreeBSD? And , Is there any module that I can use? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Error sending message [1142594190671.2752.rpppl] from [randpoly.com]

2006-03-20 Thread randpoly.com PostMaster
[<00>] V-POP3bounce: [EMAIL PROTECTED];Error=[The maximum number of delivery attempts has been reached] [<01>] Error sending message [1142594190671.2752.rpppl] from [randpoly.com]. ID: Mail From: Rcpt To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Server: [209.120.245.170] [<02>] The reason of the de

Re: Remote teamwork anecdotes

2006-03-20 Thread Roy Smith
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote: > And even if I'm wrong, and a Joe Supercoder I've never met > works best with 3 days a week of solo effort, 3 days of solo coding plus > 2 of strong in-person interaction is NOT the same thing as, say, 3 > _weeks_ of solo c

Re: Python 2.5 Schedule

2006-03-20 Thread Terry Reedy
"Tim Peters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For more details about the plan for Python 2.5, see: >> >> http://www.python.org/doc/peps/pep-0356/ > > Looks like links to PEPs are completely hosed at the moment. For > example, the link above displays an empty dir

Re: Remote teamwork anecdotes

2006-03-20 Thread Alex Martelli
Dan Sommers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Design meetings and similar almost have to be face to face. Agreed. > OTOH, once the design is set, leave me alone and let me > simulate it or code it, and maybe even get it past the first > round of testing and tweaking/fixing. The last thing I w

Re: can't rebind magic methods

2006-03-20 Thread Alex Martelli
Michael Tobis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Still a bit confused actually. Any explanation of the following? I believe the problem you're having is with WHEN a name is looked up -- which tends to be 'as late as possible, but no later'. > def getf(method,name): > def f(self, *a, **k): return m

Re: Do anyone already have code to copy nested files to a flat directory?

2006-03-20 Thread Peter Hansen
Podi wrote: > OK, please don't bother. Here is my wheel :-) > > import os > import shutil > > def CopyFlat(source, target): > count = 0 > for root, dirs, files in os.walk(source): > for file in files: > count += 1 > name = root + '\\' + file A small improv

Re: Do anyone already have code to copy nested files to a flat directory?

2006-03-20 Thread Felipe Almeida Lessa
Em Seg, 2006-03-20 às 18:05 -0800, Podi escreveu: > OK, please don't bother. Here is my wheel :-) Please, please! Remove all the... x + "\\" + y ...and put some... os.path.join(x, y) ... Please? Even if you're planning to use it only on Windows, please use standard methods. Just my 2 cents, t

Re: Do anyone already have code to copy nested files to a flat directory?

2006-03-20 Thread Podi
OK, please don't bother. Here is my wheel :-) import os import shutil def CopyFlat(source, target): count = 0 for root, dirs, files in os.walk(source): for file in files: count += 1 name = root + '\\' + file print '%04d Copying' % count, name,

Re: Remote teamwork anecdotes (was: Where can we find top-notch python developers?)

2006-03-20 Thread Dan Sommers
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 00:08:02 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron Laird) wrote: > Briefly, remote collaboration works for me. I work on > customer premises part of the year, and, while there are > multipliers, my estimate is that they're far closer to > one than four. Sometimes they're less than one-

Re: New-style Python icons

2006-03-20 Thread Carl Banks
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Personally, I *like* the new website look, and I'm glad to see Python > having a proper logo at last! > > I've taken the opportunity to knock up some icons using it, finally > banishing the poor old standard-VGA-palette snake from my desktop. If > you like, you can grab

Re: Function params with **? what do these mean?

2006-03-20 Thread Carl Banks
Aahz wrote: > Personally, I think it's a Good Idea to stick with the semi-standard > names of *args and **kwargs to make searching easier... I usually do stick to these names (since the I usually only use them when forwarding arguments to another function, where such names are a pretty good descri

Do anyone already have code to copy nested files to a flat directory?

2006-03-20 Thread Podi
Hi, I am trying to copy all files under a directory tree to a single directory (in Windows). I can well write the script myself, but was wonder if anyone has done it so I won't be reinventing the wheel. Thanks in advance. Requirement: # Source file set source\file1.txt source\file2.doc source\d

Re: New-style Python icons

2006-03-20 Thread Michael Tobis
OK, but Python IS clever, so its logo ought to be too. Since you are acknowledging they are tadpoles, I guess you've heard my gripes... mt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python 2.5 Schedule

2006-03-20 Thread Tim Peters
> For more details about the plan for Python 2.5, see: > > http://www.python.org/doc/peps/pep-0356/ Looks like links to PEPs are completely hosed at the moment. For example, the link above displays an empty directory, and http://www.python.org/doc/peps displays a directory full of empty

Re: what's the general way of separating classes?

2006-03-20 Thread Ben Cartwright
John Salerno wrote: > bruno at modulix wrote: > > >> It seems like this can > >> get out of hand, since modules are separate from one another and not > >> compiled together. You'd end up with a lot of import statements. > > > > Sorry, but I don't see the correlation between compilation and import >

Re: New-style Python icons

2006-03-20 Thread and-google
Michael Tobis wrote: > Besides the pleasant colors what do you like about it? I like that whilst being a solid and easily-recognisable, it isn't clever-clever. I had personally been idly doodling some kind of swooshy thing before, with a snake's head forming a P and its forked tongue a Y coming

Re: Function params with **? what do these mean?

2006-03-20 Thread Dave Benjamin
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Ben Cartwright wrote: > Dave Hansen wrote: >> On 20 Mar 2006 15:45:36 -0800 in comp.lang.python, >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aahz) wrote: >>> Personally, I think it's a Good Idea to stick with the semi-standard >>> names of *args and **kwargs to make searching easier... >> >> Agreed

Re: Function params with **? what do these mean?

2006-03-20 Thread Ben Cartwright
Dave Hansen wrote: > On 20 Mar 2006 15:45:36 -0800 in comp.lang.python, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aahz) wrote: > >Personally, I think it's a Good Idea to stick with the semi-standard > >names of *args and **kwargs to make searching easier... > > Agreed (though "kwargs" kinda makes my skin crawl). Coinc

Spidering Hacks for Python, not Perl

2006-03-20 Thread dananrg
O'Reilly's Spidering Hacks books terrific. One problem. All the code samples are in Perl. Nothing Pythonic. Is there a book out there for Python which covers spidering / crawling in depth? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: New-style Python icons

2006-03-20 Thread Michael Tobis
I think this is great work but imagine what you could do with a real logo! Besides the pleasant colors what do you like about it? I have in mind something with a coil motif but I can't execute it worth a damn. mt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Remote teamwork anecdotes (was: Where can we find top-notch python developers?)

2006-03-20 Thread Cameron Laird
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alex Martelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . . . >Unfortunately, I entirely understand _why_ most software development >firms prefer face-to-face employees: when I found myself, back when I >was a

Re: Function params with **? what do these mean?

2006-03-20 Thread Dave Hansen
On 20 Mar 2006 15:45:36 -0800 in comp.lang.python, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aahz) wrote: >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >Dave Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] >>It's harder to explain than understand. Try playing with the >>following function in the python interpreter: >> >> def test(a,b='b

win32com on Windows CE

2006-03-20 Thread solid . snake . 84
Hi, I was able to build both python and its win32 extensions on windows ce. Unfortunately, I haven't had much success with the win32com module. Does anyone have experience building the win32com module on CE or know where I can find a makefile? Thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/p

Re: why isn't Unicode the default encoding?

2006-03-20 Thread Martin v. Löwis
John Salerno wrote: > Interesting. So then the read() method, if given a numeric argument for > bytes to read, would act differently depending on if you were using > Unicode or not? The read method currently returns a byte string, not a Unicode string. It's not clear to me how the numeric argume

Re: can't rebind magic methods

2006-03-20 Thread Michael Tobis
Still a bit confused actually. Any explanation of the following? mt def getf(method,name): def f(self, *a, **k): return method(self.val, *a, **k) f.func_name = name return f class myint(object): def __init__(self, val): self.val = int(val) for spec in 'str repr has

Re: Function params with **? what do these mean?

2006-03-20 Thread Aahz
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dave Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 20 Mar 2006 12:46:43 -0800 in comp.lang.python, "J Rice" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>I'm sorry for such a basic question, but I haven't been able to phrase >>a search that gets me an answer and my books are totally sil

Re: New-style Python icons

2006-03-20 Thread dimitri pater
wow,good work!thanks,DimitriOn 20 Mar 2006 08:56:59 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Personally, I *like* the new website look, and I'm glad to see Python having a proper logo at last!I've taken the opportunity to knock up some icons using it, finallybanishing the poor old standa

Re: anonymous memory mapping

2006-03-20 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
Fabiano Sidler wrote: > 2006/3/14, Fabiano Sidler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>Ok, sorry! I wanted to do this: >> >>--- snip --- >>from mmap import mmap, MAP_ANONYMOUS >>mm = mmap(-1, 1024, MAP_ANONYMOUS) >>--- snap --- >> >>But I got an EnvironmentError, "[Errno 22] Invalid argument" (on >>Linux2.6, btw

Re: user-supplied locals dict for function execution?

2006-03-20 Thread Lonnie Princehouse
> Beautiful is better than ugly. > Explicit is better than implicit. >> Err... I see no contradiction nor conflict here. What to do when explicit is ugly and implicit is beautiful? Aye, there's the rub. ;-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

win32com on Windows CE

2006-03-20 Thread solid . snake . 84
Hi, I was able to build both python and its win32 extensions on windows ce. Unfortunately, I haven't had much success with the win32com module. Does anyone have experience building the win32com module on CE or know where I can find a makefile? Thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/p

Re: Python equivalent of Perl-ISAPI?

2006-03-20 Thread Atanas Banov
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Steve Holden wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Pure cgi is too slow. "Active Scripting" means ASP, yes? > > > I need something that will do cgi scripts (a lot of which I already > > > have > > > and can modify but don't want to rewrite extensively, partly beca

prevent memory leak in C+Python

2006-03-20 Thread Uwe Mayer
Hi, I am wrapping a C function returning large amount of binary data back to Python using SWIG. I have the data malloc()ed or new()ed on the heap and buffer objects seem a good way to wrap it in python (http://docs.python.org/api/bufferObjects.html) >From the documentation it seems PyBuffer_Fro

Re: what's the general way of separating classes?

2006-03-20 Thread Ido Yehieli
or you can write the (slightly dangerous) following: import os for file in os.listdir("/path/to/modules"): if file.endswith(".py"): exec("from "+file[:-3]+" import *") -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: why isn't Unicode the default encoding?

2006-03-20 Thread Matt Goodall
John Salerno wrote: > Martin v. Löwis wrote: > >> The real problem is that the Python string type is used to represent >> two very different concepts: bytes, and characters. You can't just drop >> the current Python string type, and use the Unicode type instead - then >> you would have no good way

Re: user-supplied locals dict for function execution?

2006-03-20 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Lonnie Princehouse a écrit : > Occaisionally, the first two lines of The Zen of Python conflict with > one another. """ Beautiful is better than ugly. Explicit is better than implicit. """ Err... I see no contradiction nor conflict here. > An API I'm working on involves a custom namespace implem

Re: why isn't Unicode the default encoding?

2006-03-20 Thread and-google
John Salerno wrote: > So as it turns out, Unicode and UTF-8 are not the same thing? Well yes. UTF-8 is one scheme in which the whole Unicode character repertoire can be represented as bytes. Confusion arises because Windows uses the name 'Unicode' in character encoding lists, to mean UTF-16_LE,

Re: anonymous memory mapping

2006-03-20 Thread Fabiano Sidler
2006/3/14, Fabiano Sidler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2006/3/14, Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > (As for me, I have no idea what the question is about, so this is the > > most help I can give.) > > Ok, sorry! I wanted to do this: > > --- snip --- > from mmap import mmap, MAP_ANONYMOUS > mm = mmap(

Re: why isn't Unicode the default encoding?

2006-03-20 Thread John Salerno
Martin v. Löwis wrote: > The real problem is that the Python string type is used to represent > two very different concepts: bytes, and characters. You can't just drop > the current Python string type, and use the Unicode type instead - then > you would have no good way to represent sequences of b

Re: Win32 ActiveX with COM support

2006-03-20 Thread danbrwn
Thanks to Michel and Larry, very interesting. How about database access. Can I create a Python component that will run in my browser and be able to use the ADO (active data objects) activeX interfaces. I am right now using the ADO activex with javascript but javascript and vbscript can not subscrib

Re: why isn't Unicode the default encoding?

2006-03-20 Thread John Salerno
Martin v. Löwis wrote: > John Salerno wrote: >> Robert Kern wrote: >> >>> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html >> >> That was fascinating. Thank you. So as it turns out, Unicode and UTF-8 >> are not the same thing? Am I right to say that UTF-8 stores the first >> 128 Unicode code

Re: why isn't Unicode the default encoding?

2006-03-20 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> I figured this might have something to do with it, but then again I > thought that Unicode was created as a subset of ASCII and Latin-1 so > that they would be compatible...but I guess it's never that easy. :) The real problem is that the Python string type is used to represent two very differ

Re: Multifile EOF error

2006-03-20 Thread Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I had error in my script like "sudden EOF in MultiFile readline()" > Why such error occur Because there's something wrong. Sorry but you have to give a little more detail about your script and the exact error you see. Try to trim down your scri

Re: why isn't Unicode the default encoding?

2006-03-20 Thread Martin v. Löwis
John Salerno wrote: > Robert Kern wrote: > >> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html > > That was fascinating. Thank you. So as it turns out, Unicode and UTF-8 > are not the same thing? Am I right to say that UTF-8 stores the first > 128 Unicode code points in a single byte, and

Re: Win32 ActiveX with COM support

2006-03-20 Thread M�ta-MCI
Re! Make your COM server with PyWin32 (e.g. named PCOM) In your HTML, with JScript, you can : open : try{ var pserv = new ActiveXObject("PCOM");} catch(error){alert('Ne trouve pas PCOM');} call : var vret = pserv.youfunction( par1, par2) ; With PyWin32, all the remainder is a

Re: how to make script interact with another script

2006-03-20 Thread M�ta-MCI
Hi! Few ways : - use TCP/IP server+client (this can also run via a LAN or Internet) - use mmap (this can run Python<=>Python, Python<=>Ruby, etc.) - use a file (and win persistance) - use telepathy (Oups! Sorry, the module is not published yet) - etc. MCI -- http://mail.python.org/m

Re: New-style Python icons

2006-03-20 Thread and-google
Scott David Daniels wrote: > Maybe you could change the ink color to better distinguish > the pycon and pyc icons. Yeah, might do that... I'm thinking I might flip the pycon icon so that the Windows shortcut badge doesn't obscure the Python logo, too. Maybe. I'll let them stew on my desktop for

Re: System Information

2006-03-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Good news! I asked a buddy that runs osx, and he whipped up a script for you :) I understand it's not python, but it gets you close, you should be able to use popen or subprocess.call to complete this. function is_charger_plugged_in() { sleep 3; BATTINFO=`ioreg -l -w 0 | grep IO

Re: what's the general way of separating classes?

2006-03-20 Thread John Salerno
I V wrote: > Now, in your code you can do: > > import package > > c = package.C1() > > If you hadn't included the lines in __init__.py, you would have to > write: > > import package > > c = package.class1.C1() > Ah, this makes sense! Thanks! :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/py

Re: why isn't Unicode the default encoding?

2006-03-20 Thread John Salerno
Robert Kern wrote: > http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html That was fascinating. Thank you. So as it turns out, Unicode and UTF-8 are not the same thing? Am I right to say that UTF-8 stores the first 128 Unicode code points in a single byte, and then stores higher code points i

Re: Programming challenge: wildcard exclusion in cartesian products

2006-03-20 Thread Christophe Rhodes
[ note followups ] Mark Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like to propose a coding challenge of my own. The challenge is to > reproduce the TEA (Tiny Encryption Algorith): > http://www.simonshepherd.supanet.com/tea.htm > in your language of choice. Here's mine, in Common Lisp. (defmacro

Re: Function params with **? what do these mean?

2006-03-20 Thread J Rice
Wow, this is incredibly useful! I can understand why an introductory book wouldn't make use of them, but I am really glad to know about them. I can think of a bunch of ways to simply some code I have using this. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: A Frame-space syntax ? - Re: global, globals(), _global ?

2006-03-20 Thread Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, robert wrote: > Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote: >> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, robert wrote: >> >>>The fact is: >>>* Python has that big problem with unnecessary barriers for nested frame >>>access - especially painfull with callback functions where you want to >>>put back d

Re: Programming challenge: wildcard exclusion in cartesian products

2006-03-20 Thread Alexander Schmolck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > (defun >> (val num-bytes) > "Right-shift positive integer val by num-bytes" > (floor (/ val (expt 2 num-bytes or just (floor val (expt 2 num-bytes)) 'as -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: what's the general way of separating classes?

2006-03-20 Thread I V
John Salerno wrote: > How does the __init__ file help if you are still individually importing > class1 and class2 in each other module of your program? Felipe's example is a little confusing because he uses the same name for the module and the class. Here's another example: --- package/class1.py

Re: Function params with **? what do these mean?

2006-03-20 Thread Larry Bates
J Rice wrote: > I'm sorry for such a basic question, but I haven't been able to phrase > a search that gets me an answer and my books are totally silent on > this. I have seen a number of python function defs that take > parameters of the form (**param1). Looks like a pointer... but my > books on

Re: epydoc: links to other methods/classes with reStructuredText

2006-03-20 Thread Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Max Kubierschky wrote: > I try to use epydoc with reStructuredText. > It works fine, my only problem is that I couldn't figure out > the syntax for links to other methods or classes. Any hints? IIRC it's `OtherClass`, `module.OtherClass`, `other_method` and so on. Ciao,

ANN: pywinauto 0.3.0 released - now localization proof

2006-03-20 Thread mark . m . mcmahon
ANN: pywinauto 0.3.0 released - now localization proof Hi, The 0.3.0 release of pywinauto is now available. pywinauto is a set of open-source (LGPL) modules for using Python as a GUI automation 'driver' for Windows NT based Operating Systems (NT/W2K/XP). SourceForge project page: http://sourcef

Re: Function params with **? what do these mean?

2006-03-20 Thread Jordan Greenberg
in the parameter list, **param gets a dict of arguments that dont correspond to somthing in the formal parameter list. More & examples in the python docs: http://docs.python.org/tut/node6.html#SECTION00672 -- Jordan T. Greenberg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python

Re: Function params with **? what do these mean?

2006-03-20 Thread Dave Hansen
On 20 Mar 2006 12:46:43 -0800 in comp.lang.python, "J Rice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm sorry for such a basic question, but I haven't been able to phrase >a search that gets me an answer and my books are totally silent on >this. I have seen a number of python function defs that take >paramet

Re: why isn't Unicode the default encoding?

2006-03-20 Thread John Salerno
Robert Kern wrote: >> I figured this might have something to do with it, but then again I >> thought that Unicode was created as a subset of ASCII and Latin-1 so >> that they would be compatible...but I guess it's never that easy. :) > > No, it isn't. You seem to be somewhat confused about Unic

Re: Win32 ActiveX with COM support

2006-03-20 Thread Larry Bates
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am creating a web application where I access a database on a SQL > server machine from local networked PC's via Javascript and HTML. > Unfortunately, Microsoft does not allow the ado intervace to fire > events back using Javascript or VBScript. I am trying to figure out

Re: user-supplied locals dict for function execution?

2006-03-20 Thread Lonnie Princehouse
Very clever! This looks like exactly what I wanted. Thanks =) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Win32 ActiveX with COM support

2006-03-20 Thread danbrwn
How would the controls run within a web browser. Would the python interpreter automatically run after loaded into a browser? Also, the python controls would be text files? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Function params with **? what do these mean?

2006-03-20 Thread J Rice
I'm sorry for such a basic question, but I haven't been able to phrase a search that gets me an answer and my books are totally silent on this. I have seen a number of python function defs that take parameters of the form (**param1). Looks like a pointer... but my books on python (basic as they a

Re: user-supplied locals dict for function execution?

2006-03-20 Thread Lonnie Princehouse
Occaisionally, the first two lines of The Zen of Python conflict with one another. An API I'm working on involves a custom namespace implementation using dictionaries, and I want a pretty syntax for initializing the custom namespaces. The fact that these namespaces are implemented as dictionaries

Re: ** Operator

2006-03-20 Thread Ron Adam
Christoph Zwerschke wrote: > Alex Martelli wrote: >> Sathyaish 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/

Re: why isn't Unicode the default encoding?

2006-03-20 Thread Jan Niklas Fingerle
Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I see UTF-8 a lot, but this particular book also mentions that UTF-16 is > > the most common. Is that true? > > I think it unlikely, but I have no numbers to give. And I'll bet that that > book > doesn't either. I haven't got any numbers, but my guess

Re: can't rebind magic methods

2006-03-20 Thread Michael Tobis
Thanks! Only a minor correction: the last line should be _setdelegate(myint, int,'__%s__' % spec) The business with f.func_name struck me as unnecessary, but I was quite wrong. This was an interesting exercise for me. Thanks. Michael -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: user-supplied locals dict for function execution?

2006-03-20 Thread Steve Holden
bruno at modulix wrote: > Lonnie Princehouse wrote: > >>>What's your use case exactly ? >> >> >>I'm trying to use a function to implicitly update a dictionary. > > > I think this was pretty obvious. What I wonder is *why* you want/think > you need to do such a thing -I don't mean there can't be

Re: Programming challenge: wildcard exclusion in cartesian products

2006-03-20 Thread joswig
> I had a crack at it in Lisp. My version doesn't work - but of greater > concern to me is that it doesn't appear nearly as compact as the C > version. Anyway, here's my Lisp code (no prizes for guessing that I'm a > noob to Lisp): Lot's of things you can write more compact. But compact is not alw

Re: why isn't Unicode the default encoding?

2006-03-20 Thread Robert Kern
John Salerno wrote: > Robert Kern wrote: > >>Well, *I* use UTF-8, but that's neither here nor there. > > I see UTF-8 a lot, but this particular book also mentions that UTF-16 is > the most common. Is that true? I think it unlikely, but I have no numbers to give. And I'll bet that that book does

Re: Win32 ActiveX with COM support

2006-03-20 Thread M�ta-MCI
Hi! >>>Can I create a COM server / client component set with Python? Yes. Michel Claveau -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: New-style Python icons

2006-03-20 Thread GISDude
very sharp! i like 'em! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: why isn't Unicode the default encoding?

2006-03-20 Thread Jan Niklas Fingerle
John Salerno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > to convert back and forth. But why isn't Unicode considered a regular > string by now? Is it for historical reasons that we still use ASCII and > Latin-1? The point is, that, with a regular string, you don't know its encoding or whether it has an encodi

[ANN] lxml 0.9 is out!

2006-03-20 Thread Stefan Behnel
Hello everyone, after almost five months of hacking, lxml 0.9 has finally seen the light of night. :) http://codespeak.net/lxml/ http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/lxml/0.9 """ lxml is a Pythonic binding for the libxml2 and libxslt libraries. It provides safe and convenient access to these librar

Re: why isn't Unicode the default encoding?

2006-03-20 Thread John Salerno
Robert Kern wrote: > Well, *I* use UTF-8, but that's neither here nor there. I see UTF-8 a lot, but this particular book also mentions that UTF-16 is the most common. Is that true? >> Why can't Unicode replace them so we no longer need the 'u' >> prefix or the encoding tricks? > > It would br

Re: why isn't Unicode the default encoding?

2006-03-20 Thread Robert Kern
John Salerno wrote: > Forgive my newbieness, but I don't quite understand why Unicode is still > something that needs special treatment in Python (and perhaps > elsewhere). I'm reading Dive Into Python right now, and it constantly > refers to a 'regular string' versus a 'Unicode string' and how

Re: ** Operator

2006-03-20 Thread Christoph Zwerschke
Kent Johnson wrote: > The way to make this change happen is to submit a bug report with your > suggested change. See the link at the bottom of the above page to find > out how. I know, but I wanted to see at least one person assenting before doing so. Anyway, I took your words as assent and fil

Re: Python 2.5 Schedule

2006-03-20 Thread Ravi Teja
Only MS can answer those questions. Even though, Python on Windows is compiled with VC++, you can still use Mingw32 to compile extensions. There are some articles floating around on how to do this and I did try it successfully in the past. Please note that I am not advocating either compiler. Just

Re: Programming challenge: wildcard exclusion in cartesian products

2006-03-20 Thread Pascal Bourguignon
Mark Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like to propose a coding challenge of my own. The challenge is to > reproduce the TEA (Tiny Encryption Algorith): > http://www.simonshepherd.supanet.com/tea.htm > in your language of choice. > > Here's the code, just two simple functions: > > void enci

Re: how to make script interact with another script

2006-03-20 Thread bruno at modulix
Chason Hayes wrote: > How can I get a script to pipe data to another program, wait for a > response, then send more data etc. > > For example, from a script, I want to run smbclient then send it the > username, password, and then some commands. (I know there are better ways > to achieve this funct

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