setting cookies in quixote

2006-06-17 Thread jiguorui
# I write a quixote demo like this: equest = get_request() request.response.set_cookie('usr_name', 'Jim', path='/') request.response.set_cookie('usr_id', '1', path='/') #but only usr_name can be setted successfully, and usr_id is none. Why ? Help me ! Thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/l

Re: Detecting key presses

2006-06-17 Thread Fan Zhang
On 2006-06-18 13:20:06, tylertacky write: >Ok, I'm pretty new to python, so this might be a stupid question. I'm >trying to write a simple text-based pong clone, and I can't figure out >how to read key presses to move the paddles. I just need something that >does the same thing as getch() and kbhit

Re: any subway experiences

2006-06-17 Thread Alex Martelli
a <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thanks for reading Yah, I got a sandwich there once, it was very large but not all that good... Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: how can get the module global symbol table from a function or method which it is called?

2006-06-17 Thread Alex Martelli
ygao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > when a function or method is called,how can get the module global > symbol table from which > it is called,not the module where it is defined(this is easy). > thanks! You can play with module inspect, or sys._getframe, but they're meant essentially for *debuggin

Re: Easy question on minidom

2006-06-17 Thread Alex Martelli
Dean Card <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am using minidom to parse a 20,000 line XML file. I have a few instances > where the number of child nodes of a particular node can be variable in > number. To access them I am doing something like the following... > > xmldoc = minidom.parseString(r) > r

Detecting key presses

2006-06-17 Thread tylertacky
Ok, I'm pretty new to python, so this might be a stupid question. I'm trying to write a simple text-based pong clone, and I can't figure out how to read key presses to move the paddles. I just need something that does the same thing as getch() and kbhit(). I can't use those because their windows on

Re: code is data

2006-06-17 Thread Ravi Teja
BJörn Lindqvist wrote: > > Personally, I would like to see macros in Python (actually Logix > > succeeding is good enough). But I am no language designer and the > > community has no interest in it. When I absolutely need macros, I will > > go elsewhere. > > One must wonder, when is that? When do

Re: add elements to indexed list locations

2006-06-17 Thread Steven Bethard
levent wrote: > Thanks for the answers. Enumerating in reverse is indeed quite a smart > idea. > > The fact is though, I overly simplified the task in the super-hero > example. In the real case, the dictionary keys are not necessarily the > indices for inserts; that is to say, the inserts do not n

Re: wxPython question

2006-06-17 Thread Tim Roberts
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >I tried to follow wxPython Demo examples to understand it better. I >used wxGlade to generate my code from the GUI builder. > >When I try to see the code for Menu and Menubar I see a little mismatch >in the way functions are being used. > >For example, wxGlade produces c

Re: how can get the module global symbol table from a function or method which it is called?

2006-06-17 Thread ygao
I mean the way not passing parameter to the fonction or the method. ygao wrote: > when a function or method is called,how can get the module global > symbol table from which > it is called,not the module where it is defined(this is easy). > thanks! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyt

Re: statically linked python

2006-06-17 Thread Ralph Butler
Serge Orlov wrote: > Ralph Butler wrote: >> Hi: >> >> I have searched the docs and google but have not totally figured >> out how to accomplish my task: On a linux box, I want to compile >> and link python so that it uses no shared libraries, but does support >> import of some "extra" modules. I

how can get the module global symbol table from a function or method which it is called?

2006-06-17 Thread ygao
when a function or method is called,how can get the module global symbol table from which it is called,not the module where it is defined(this is easy). thanks! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Easy question on minidom

2006-06-17 Thread Dean Card
I am using minidom to parse a 20,000 line XML file. I have a few instances where the number of child nodes of a particular node can be variable in number. To access them I am doing something like the following... xmldoc = minidom.parseString(r) results = xmldoc.childNodes[0] for myNode in res

Re: code is data

2006-06-17 Thread BJörn Lindqvist
> Personally, I would like to see macros in Python (actually Logix > succeeding is good enough). But I am no language designer and the > community has no interest in it. When I absolutely need macros, I will > go elsewhere. One must wonder, when is that? When do you absolutely need macros? -- mv

Re: python texts?

2006-06-17 Thread BartlebyScrivener
>> I'd say P.E.R. is terser, going for >> density and brevity, while the Nutshell is a bit more elaborative >> on what it covers. The choice between Martelli and Beazley is, I >> suspect, one of your learning style. Yes, sometimes Beazley is too terse if you're reading about something for the fir

Re: Extracting values from text file

2006-06-17 Thread Mirco Wahab
Thus spoke Preben Randhol (on 2006-06-17 23:25): > The code is a very good starting point for me! I already > managed to change it and I see I need to make it a bit more robust. I think, the only thing you have to look at - is the congruence of the regex-based filter rule and the text. suppose

Re: Tkinter question.

2006-06-17 Thread ak
Update: I found a way to do what I want with RadioButton with option indicatoron=0 which creates a bunch of what looks like regular buttons except that when one is pressed the other one is depressed and the value of the same variable is changed. Thanks dear me. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, I'd

Tkinter question.

2006-06-17 Thread ak
Hi, I'd like to create buttons on the fly that will call the same function, and the function in question has to know what was the name of the button that called it. Unless there is a preferred way for doing this.. Perhaps creating a new function on the fly along with the new button? Please help.. t

Re: File read and writing in binary mode...

2006-06-17 Thread hdante
Hi, I'm sorry, but you have a conceptual error there. Text files differ from binary files because they are not considered raw. When you say that this or that file is a text file, python and/or the operating system takes the liberty to insert and or remove semantics from the file, according to so

Re: Which compiler will Python 2.5 / Windows (Intel) be built with?

2006-06-17 Thread Scott David Daniels
Roel Schroeven wrote: > ... But what I meant was not related to interface compatibilities, but to > the performance of the generated code: many people say that the code > generated by gcc is not as well optimized as code generated by > Microsoft's compilers. Yet I never hear complaints about tha

Re: statically linked python

2006-06-17 Thread Serge Orlov
Ralph Butler wrote: > Hi: > > I have searched the docs and google but have not totally figured > out how to accomplish my task: On a linux box, I want to compile > and link python so that it uses no shared libraries, but does support > import of some "extra" modules. I have made a few attempts bu

Re: Standard Yes / No Windows Dialog box creation

2006-06-17 Thread Ravi Teja
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I found a way to create "Open File" or "Open Folder" windows dialog > boxes, but not to create an easier Yes / No dialog box... > Maybe someone has a solution for this? Assuming you are on MS Windows. import win32api, win32con win32api.MessageBox(0, "Question", "Title",

Re: Standard Yes / No Windows Dialog box creation

2006-06-17 Thread SuperHik
Claudio Grondi wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I found a way to create "Open File" or "Open Folder" windows dialog >> boxes, but not to create an easier Yes / No dialog box... >> Maybe someone has a solution for this? I've never seen "easier" way to do it, but my solution for you if you want

statically linked python

2006-06-17 Thread Ralph Butler
Hi: I have searched the docs and google but have not totally figured out how to accomplish my task: On a linux box, I want to compile and link python so that it uses no shared libraries, but does support import of some "extra" modules. I have made a few attempts but with limited success. In par

Re: Standard Yes / No Windows Dialog box creation

2006-06-17 Thread Claudio Grondi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I found a way to create "Open File" or "Open Folder" windows dialog > boxes, but not to create an easier Yes / No dialog box... > Maybe someone has a solution for this? > Do it just the same way as you did it with the "Open File" or "Open Folder" windows dialog. What is

Standard Yes / No Windows Dialog box creation

2006-06-17 Thread flaus . a
I found a way to create "Open File" or "Open Folder" windows dialog boxes, but not to create an easier Yes / No dialog box... Maybe someone has a solution for this? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Cycles between package imports

2006-06-17 Thread Martin Blais
Hi I'm a tad confused over a problem involving cycles between packages. Assume the following sets of files:: driver.py a/__init__.py a/alice.py b/__init__.py b/bob.py Basically, two packages a and b. Driver simply imports one of the two. This is the file that gets run:: , (driv

Re: Extracting values from text file

2006-06-17 Thread Preben Randhol
On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 14:20:44 +0200 Mirco Wahab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thus spoke Mirco Wahab (on 2006-06-16 21:21): > > > I used your example just to try that in python > > (i have to improve my python skills), but waved > > the white flag after realizing that there's no > > easy string/var

Re: Python is fun (useless social thread) ;-)

2006-06-17 Thread Mirco Wahab
Thus spoke Sybren Stuvel (on 2006-06-17 22:01): > Rune Strand enlightened us with: >> But back on university, I met a very, very pretty C++ girl who said >> many favourable things about Python. > > Rr a very, very pretty girl that likes C++ and Python. > Does it get better? It does: http://

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-17 Thread 63q2o4i02
> > Cream is a package built on top of vim that presents a more "Windows > friendly" face to the vim/gvim editor. Cool thanks, I'll check it out. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [OT] Python Argentina T-shirt to exchange

2006-06-17 Thread M�ta-MCI
Hi! You can post your message on fr.comp.lang.python Bon voyage en France ! @-salutations -- Michel Claveau sites : http://mclaveau.com http://bergoiata.org http://ponx.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Popen3 on Windows

2006-06-17 Thread SuperHik
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 11:46:29 -0600, Jeffrey Barish > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > >> I start. Is there a way to do this on Windows? > > There is no safe, easy, way to reliably kill a program on Windows... > > Hmmm, there's o

Re: Which compiler will Python 2.5 / Windows (Intel) be built with?

2006-06-17 Thread Martin v. Löwis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Bottom Line: As I said before, I don't have a problem using VC2003 or > anything. It's by far the cheapest and easiest way just to buy VC2003 > and be done with it, than to fiddle around with GCC or anything. I just > think that Python should use the best technology avail

Re: code is data

2006-06-17 Thread Ravi Teja
Anton Vredegoor wrote: > With the inclusion of ElementTree (an XML-parser) in Python25 and recent > developments concerning JSON (a very Pythonesque but somewhat limited > XML notation scheme, let's call it statically typed XML) Python seems to > have reached a stage where it now seems to be possi

Re: Python is fun (useless social thread) ;-)

2006-06-17 Thread Rune Strand
In 2002, I was in need of a multi-platform language. My choice became Python, in spite of friends fiercly defending Perl and some interesting Slashdot-articles on Ruby. But back on university, I met a very, very pretty C++ girl who said many favourable things about Python. She never became mine, bu

Re: code is data

2006-06-17 Thread Ravi Teja
Paddy wrote: > Anton Vredegoor wrote: > > With the inclusion of ElementTree (an XML-parser) in Python25 and recent > > developments concerning JSON (a very Pythonesque but somewhat limited > > XML notation scheme, let's call it statically typed XML) > > > > Your thoughts please. > > > > Anton > >

Re: PyObject_SetItem(..) *always* requires a Py_INCREF or not?

2006-06-17 Thread K.S.Sreeram
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > int > set_all(PyObject *target, PyObject *item) > { > int i, n; > > n = PyObject_Length(target); > if (n < 0) > return -1; > for (i = 0; i < n; i++) { > if (PyObject_SetItem(target, i, item) < 0) > return -1; > } > retu

Re: PyObject_SetItem(..) *always* requires a Py_INCREF or not?

2006-06-17 Thread Tim Peters
[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I would think everytime you add an item to a list you must increase > reference count of that item. _Someone_ needs to. When the function called to add the item does the incref itself, then it would be wrong for the caller to also incref the item. > http://docs.python.org/api

PyObject_SetItem(..) *always* requires a Py_INCREF or not?

2006-06-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I would think everytime you add an item to a list you must increase reference count of that item. http://docs.python.org/api/refcountDetails.html has an example that seems to contradict that int set_all(PyObject *target, PyObject *item) { int i, n; n = PyObject_Length(target); if

Re: Which compiler will Python 2.5 / Windows (Intel) be built with?

2006-06-17 Thread Roel Schroeven
Scott David Daniels schreef: > Roel Schroeven wrote: >> Isn't Python for other platforms built with GCC? Seems to me that if it >> GCC is good enough for other platforms, it's good enough for Windows. > > You clearly misunderstand the interface to the Windows OS & GUI system. Very well possible.

Re: Which compiler will Python 2.5 / Windows (Intel) be built with?

2006-06-17 Thread Scott David Daniels
Roel Schroeven wrote: > Isn't Python for other platforms built with GCC? Seems to me that if it > GCC is good enough for other platforms, it's good enough for Windows. You clearly misunderstand the interface to the Windows OS & GUI system. Microsoft provides that interface through its language sy

Re: code is data

2006-06-17 Thread Paddy
Anton Vredegoor wrote: > With the inclusion of ElementTree (an XML-parser) in Python25 and recent > developments concerning JSON (a very Pythonesque but somewhat limited > XML notation scheme, let's call it statically typed XML) > Your thoughts please. > > Anton Hi Anton. If you mean this JSON: h

Re: File read and writing in binary mode...

2006-06-17 Thread nicolasg
> > Solution: only use binary files, and do the newline-translation yourself > if needed. > > Diez The probelm is if I can't use only binary files... How can I do the newline-translation myself ? if check the text and found the diferrence between binary and text is the '\r' instead of '\'n' . I ca

Popen3 on Windows

2006-06-17 Thread Jeffrey Barish
I have an application that has been working fine on Linux, but now I need to port it to Windows XP. The program uses Popen3 to run another program. I use Popen3 so that I can access the pid attribute, which I use to kill the auxiliary program when necessary. Popen3 does not exist on Windows. I

Re: any subway experiences

2006-06-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2006-06-17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > a wrote: >> thanks for reading > > Their bread is awful. At least they actually slice it now. Around here they used to just cut a shallow V-shaped notch in the top. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! ... th

Re: Python is fun (useless social thread) ;-)

2006-06-17 Thread bruno at modulix
John Salerno wrote: (snip) > So out of curiosity, I'm just wondering how everyone else came to learn > it. If you feel like responding, I'll ask my questions for easy quoting: > > Did you have to learn it for a job? It has never been an official requirement for any of the jobs I got since I'm a

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-17 Thread Paddy
Hi 63q2o4i02 :-) Cream is a package built on top of vim that presents a more "Windows friendly" face to the vim/gvim editor. It is avaiable for Windows and Linux and might give you a single editor that you can use on more platforms, but maybe you might like the interface better. It does syntax hi

Re: any subway experiences

2006-06-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
a wrote: > thanks for reading Their bread is awful. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Legitimate use of the "is" comparison operator?

2006-06-17 Thread bruno at modulix
Mike Duffy wrote: > I just recently realized that the comparison operator "is" actually > works for comparing numeric values. It's only an implementation detail of CPython (and is only true for small integers - you'll find the limit in the CPython source code), not part of the language specificati

Re: any subway experiences

2006-06-17 Thread bruno at modulix
a wrote: > thanks for reading > Too long experience with Paris (France) subway... Left Paris, feel better now !-) -- bruno desthuilliers python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for p in '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.split('@')])" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyt

Re: code is data

2006-06-17 Thread John Roth
Anton Vredegoor wrote: > With the inclusion of ElementTree (an XML-parser) in Python25 and recent > developments concerning JSON (a very Pythonesque but somewhat limited > XML notation scheme, let's call it statically typed XML) Python seems to > have reached a stage where it now seems to be possib

Re: any subway experiences

2006-06-17 Thread gene tani
a wrote: > thanks for reading Yah, the mass transit systems are, um, challenging but workable in many US cities. Canada's much better BUT the Subway framework that's not developed anymore had a dev mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/subway-devel Google for "subway web framework". An

Re: Which compiler will Python 2.5 / Windows (Intel) be built with?

2006-06-17 Thread meyer
Martin, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > > * In a professional environment, it opens up another can of potential > > problems, where one would rather like to stay with one single > > compiler/build system. > That's a theoretic argument to me: Can you name four or five problems > out of that can? In bigge

Re: wxpython: how do i write this without the id parameter?

2006-06-17 Thread Frank Niessink
Scott David Daniels: > John Salerno wrote: >> I was reading in the wxPython wiki that most of the time you don't have >> to include the id parameter at all, and you can just use keyword >> arguments for other parameters. But I'm having trouble converting this >> code into that method (i.e., with

Re: Pycrypto

2006-06-17 Thread K.S.Sreeram
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ValueError: Input strings must be a multiple of 16 in length As James Stroud noted, a CBC mode cipher is still a block cipher, and the input *must* be a multiple of the block size. OpenSSL provides a standard padding mechanism so that there are no input size limitations

Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

2006-06-17 Thread Raffael Cavallaro
On 2006-06-17 07:03:19 -0400, Joachim Durchholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I don't see static checking and explorative programming as opposites. > Of course, in practice, environments that combine these don't seem to > exist (except maybe in experimental or little-known state). Right. Unfortuna

[OT] code is data

2006-06-17 Thread Anton Vredegoor
With the inclusion of ElementTree (an XML-parser) in Python25 and recent developments concerning JSON (a very Pythonesque but somewhat limited XML notation scheme, let's call it statically typed XML) Python seems to have reached a stage where it now seems to be possible to completely swallow le

Re: Need Help comparing dates

2006-06-17 Thread Tim Chase
> I will try to work through Tim's response. I tried using it > yesterday but I was really confused on what I was doing. I'll put my plug in for entering the code directly at the shell prompt while you're trying to grok new code or toy with an idea. It makes it much easier to see what is going

Re: Extracting values from text file

2006-06-17 Thread Mirco Wahab
Thus spoke Mirco Wahab (on 2006-06-16 21:21): > I used your example just to try that in python > (i have to improve my python skills), but waved > the white flag after realizing that there's no > easy string/var-into-string interpolation. I did another try on it, using all my Python resources ava

Re: any subway experiences

2006-06-17 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
The berlin subway is great - especially during the worldcup the sheer amount of people from all over the world makes things interesting. HTH, Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: msvcr71.dll necessary? - Re: Which compiler will Python 2.5 / Windows (Intel) be built with?

2006-06-17 Thread Martin v. Löwis
robert wrote: > hmm, yet msvcrt4 is obviously preinstalled on each Windows - and its in > Windows Update Process. Its tagged: "4.20 - OS use only. DO NOT > DISTRIBUTE") > Think, in principle its possible to compile against that with > VS2003/2005... ? > ( think msvcrt4 is not delivered extra even

Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

2006-06-17 Thread Joachim Durchholz
Raffael Cavallaro schrieb: > On 2006-06-16 17:59:07 -0400, Joachim Durchholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> I think it's easier to start with a good (!) statically-typed language >> and relax the checking, than to start with a dynamically-typed one and >> add static checks. > > This is purely a

Re: python texts?

2006-06-17 Thread Scott David Daniels
Dave Cook wrote: > On 2006-06-17, nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> reading Learning Python 2nd edition by O'Reilly. I am enjoying it at the > I'd get the Python Cookbook, next. There's a jump. The Cookbook is quite advanced. I'd write code next. Then, I'd read through the docs for all the pr

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-17 Thread H J van Rooyen
Tim Chase wrote: | > No need to argue. I started with vim, and finally switched to | > emacs less than one year later. | | Both are very-much-so good editors. I made the opposite switch | from emacs to vim in less than a year. Both are good^Wgreat | editors, so one's decision to use one over the

Re: Which compiler will Python 2.5 / Windows (Intel) be built with?

2006-06-17 Thread Roel Schroeven
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: > * The code created by the Windows GCC is not as good as the one created > by the Microsoft compiler Isn't Python for other platforms built with GCC? Seems to me that if it GCC is good enough for other platforms, it's good enough for Windows. -- If I have been able t

Iterating generator from C

2006-06-17 Thread sven . suursoho
Does messing with signal handlers and longjmp affect Python interpreter? I'm trying to find solution for problem, described in http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/98cbae94ca4beefb/9d4d96fd0dd9fbc3 and came up with test application. It works well but i'm not sure it

Re: Legitimate use of the "is" comparison operator?

2006-06-17 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Mike Duffy wrote: > Ahh, thank you. That explains why Fredrick's and Jean-Paul's example > did not work, but mine did (I was using *small* integers). "small integers" is what the phrase "small integers" in the "small integers" and "small integers" parts of my reply referred too, of course. --

Re: a good programming text editor (not IDE)

2006-06-17 Thread 63q2o4i02
Istvan Albert wrote: > Scott David Daniels wrote: > > > To paraphrase someone else (their identity lost in my mental fog) about > > learning VI: > > "The two weeks you'll spend hating vi (or vim) as you learn it will > > be repaid in another month, ad the rest is pure profit." > > Time

any subway experiences

2006-06-17 Thread a
thanks for reading -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Legitimate use of the "is" comparison operator?

2006-06-17 Thread Mike Duffy
Gary Herron wrote: > > >>> 100 is (99+1) > False > > >>> 2 is (1+1) > True > > >>> 100 is 100 > True > > This is highly implementation dependent. The current (C) implementation > of Python has a cache for small integers, so the attempt to compare > values with "is" works for some small integers, an

Re: add elements to indexed list locations

2006-06-17 Thread Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, levent wrote: > I think I was thinking more of a linked-list idea, where you do not > store the indices as integers to some random access array but rather as > pointers into list's nodes. Then the subsequent inserts would not hurt > previously stored pointers. For those who

[OT] Python Argentina T-shirt to exchange

2006-06-17 Thread Pablo Ziliani
Hi guys, sorry for this _very_ off-topic message. I'll be in Paris, France next week and I thought someone there might be interested to exchange this http://www.python.com.ar/moin/Remeras T-shirt (size M) with me? I'd really like to take home a py-french (or wherever) one instead. Thanks and s

Re: Legitimate use of the "is" comparison operator?

2006-06-17 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Mike Duffy wrote: >> writing broken code is never a good practice. >> > With all due respect, for some reason it seems to work on my machine. if you always work with 5-item sequences, you don't need the test at all. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python texts?

2006-06-17 Thread Dave Cook
On 2006-06-17, nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > reading Learning Python 2nd edition by O'Reilly. I am enjoying it at the I'd get the Python Cookbook, next. Dave Cook -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Legitimate use of the "is" comparison operator?

2006-06-17 Thread Mike Duffy
Fredrik Lundh wrote: > > except that it doesn't work. > > writing broken code is never a good practice. > With all due respect, for some reason it seems to work on my machine. Because I certainly agree with you about writing broken code. Python 2.4.2 (#1, Jan 17 2006, 16:52:02) [GCC 4.0.0 20041026

Re: add elements to indexed list locations

2006-06-17 Thread Peter Otten
levent wrote: > Thanks for the answers. Enumerating in reverse is indeed quite a smart > idea. > > The fact is though, I overly simplified the task in the super-hero > example. In the real case, the dictionary keys are not necessarily the > indices for inserts; that is to say, the inserts do not

Re: msvcr71.dll necessary? - Re: Which compiler will Python 2.5 / Windows (Intel) be built with?

2006-06-17 Thread robert
Martin v. Löwis wrote: > robert wrote: > > codecs are in python24.dll, mscvr71, mfc71 and all are not. > However, they are not in core - the operating system demand-pages code, > loading into core memory only what is being used. So if you don't use > the codecs, they are not loaded into core. >

Re: Legitimate use of the "is" comparison operator?

2006-06-17 Thread Gary Herron
Jean-Paul Calderone wrote: > On 17 Jun 2006 00:49:51 -0700, Mike Duffy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I just recently realized that the comparison operator "is" actually >> works for comparing numeric values. Now, I know that its intended use >> is for testing object identity, but I have used i

Re: Legitimate use of the "is" comparison operator?

2006-06-17 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Mike Duffy wrote: > I just recently realized that the comparison operator "is" actually > works for comparing numeric values. except that it doesn't work. > Now, I know that its intended use is for testing object identity, but > I have used it for a few other things, such as type checking, and

Re: Problem on win xp and run time error

2006-06-17 Thread Michele Petrazzo
Fredrik Lundh wrote: >> I see that the page says: """ This problem may occur when you use >> the /GR and the /MD compiler switches """ > > hint 1: the use of "may" in that sentence is intentional. This is the only, real, answer/solution that I found on internet, so I thought that was the problem

Re: Legitimate use of the "is" comparison operator?

2006-06-17 Thread Jean-Paul Calderone
On 17 Jun 2006 00:49:51 -0700, Mike Duffy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I just recently realized that the comparison operator "is" actually >works for comparing numeric values. Now, I know that its intended use >is for testing object identity, but I have used it for a few other >things, such as type

Legitimate use of the "is" comparison operator?

2006-06-17 Thread Mike Duffy
I just recently realized that the comparison operator "is" actually works for comparing numeric values. Now, I know that its intended use is for testing object identity, but I have used it for a few other things, such as type checking, and I was just wondering whether or not it is considered bad pr

Re: Problem on win xp and run time error

2006-06-17 Thread Michele Petrazzo
Chris Lambacher wrote: > On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 06:11:53PM +, Michele Petrazzo wrote: >> Hi list, just found in this moment that my applications stop to >> work with win xp and receive this error: >> >> """ This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in >> an unusual way. Pleas

Re: add elements to indexed list locations

2006-06-17 Thread levent
Thanks for the answers. Enumerating in reverse is indeed quite a smart idea. The fact is though, I overly simplified the task in the super-hero example. In the real case, the dictionary keys are not necessarily the indices for inserts; that is to say, the inserts do not necessarily take place in s