Top and Bottom Values [PEP: 326]

I know this PEP is rejected. However I have a problem that would benefit from having extreme values and the sample implementation that is given in the PEP is unsatifactory for my purpose. I had written my own module, which works similarly but is somewhat extended. Here is an example of how it can

Re: MySQLdb and mod_python issue

Alvin Delagon wrote: > I have a mod_python script that is always crash while connecting to > mysql server. Here's a dump of the apache error log: > > [Wed Sep 27 13:27:42 2006] [notice] mod_python: (Re)importing module > 'test' with path set to '['/var/www/html/XBox2']' > [Wed Sep 27 13:27:42 20

Re: Makin search on the other site and getting data and writing in xml

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve > Holden wrote: > > >>The fact remains that Google can chop your searching ability off at the >>knees ... > > > No they can't. They can only chop off your ability to use Google. > [sigh]. Right, Lawrence, sorry I wasn't quite e

Re: Is there a regular expression for finding email address ?

"Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Lad schrieb: >> Did anyone try to find out a regular expression for finding an email >> address in a text? >> Thank you for the reply > >Entering your subject line into google as it is, using the first result >found, you can get one. The OP should be

Contender for QOTW - Was : Re: AN Intorduction to Tkinter

"John Machin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In that case, don't burn bandwith by banal banter, post the examples! +1 here - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: a different question: can you earn a living with *just* python?

Roy Smith wrote: > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you're really trying to become a well-rounded computer professional > > I'd recommend reasonable exposure to at least: > > > > * C > > * A static functional language (ML, Haskell, etc) > > * Lisp or scheme Scheme > > * A stati

Re: Computer Language Popularity Trend

Xah Lee wrote: > Computer Language Popularity Trend > > This page gives a visual report of computer languages's popularity, as > indicated by their traffic level in newsgroups. This is not a > comprehensive or fair survey, but does give some indications of > popularity trends. > > http://xahlee.or

MySQLdb and mod_python issue

I have a mod_python script that is always crash while connecting to mysql server. Here's a dump of the apache error log:[Wed Sep 27 13:27:42 2006] [notice] mod_python: (Re)importing module 'test' with path set to '['/var/www/html/XBox2']' [Wed Sep 27 13:27:42 2006] [notice] child pid 27793 exit sig

Re: re.compile().split(): why it produces empty string as a first element of the list

Fredrik Lundh wrote: > alf wrote: > >> Let's run following: >> >> >>> re.compile('(\[.*?\])').split('[aa]bb[11]22') >> ['', '[aa]', 'bb', '[11]', '22'] >> >> Why does it return '' as a first element of the list? > > > because the string starts with a separator. > > > so is it safe to say tha

Re: re.compile().split(): why it produces empty string as a first element of the list

alf wrote: > Let's run following: > > >>> re.compile('(\[.*?\])').split('[aa]bb[11]22') > ['', '[aa]', 'bb', '[11]', '22'] > > Why does it return '' as a first element of the list? because the string starts with a separator. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What's up with site.Quitter?

James Stroud wrote: > Yes, but I was speaking more consistency than convenience (see above for > what I mean by consistency). why would having access to a type object for exit/quit help you do proper syntax coloring, btw? if you want to generate a syntax table, wouldn't it be better to use th

re.compile().split(): why it produces empty string as a first element of the list

Hi, Let's run following: >>> re.compile('(\[.*?\])').split('[aa]bb[11]22') ['', '[aa]', 'bb', '[11]', '22'] Why does it return '' as a first element of the list? Any insight? -- alf -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What's up with site.Quitter?

Fredrik Lundh wrote: > James Stroud wrote: > >> It seems I can find a reference to just about every type except those >> for "exit" and "quit" in the standard library somewhere. E.g.: >> >> py> type(__builtins__.Ellipsis) is types.EllipsisType >> True >> >> However, in an appearant break with con

Re: What's up with site.Quitter?

James Stroud wrote: > It seems I can find a reference to just about every type except those > for "exit" and "quit" in the standard library somewhere. E.g.: > > py> type(__builtins__.Ellipsis) is types.EllipsisType > True > > However, in an appearant break with consistency, this can not be done

Re: IDLE - Customizing output format

Ilias Lazaridis wrote: > James Stroud wrote: >>Ilias Lazaridis wrote: >>>I am wondering that other users are not annoyed by this reduced >>>readability. >> >>I'm sure its quite unpopular to agree with you, but I do. I am >>tremendously annoyed the format of the interactive interpreter. Lovely >>wou

Re: does anybody earn a living programming in python?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, OKB (not okblacke) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is interesting to me in that all these jobs also involve C. >I'm not the original poster, but I'd be interested to hear about people >who make a living programming Python WITHOUT knowing C. In more th

Re: optparse

rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > usage: DelimTOFixedWidth.py [options] That's not the command-line argument style that optparse models. It should be: command_name [options] In other words, the options (optionally) appear before the non-option arguments. This is the convention followed

Starting Win32 Service

Hi all, Using Tim Golden's wmi module you can get the service names import wmi c = wmi.WMI () stopped_services = c.Win32_Service (StartMode="Auto", State="Stopped") if stopped_services: for s in stopped_services: print s.Caption, "service is not running" else: print "No auto services stop

optparse

Consider the following piece of code: parser = optparse.OptionParser(usage="usage: %prog [options]", add_help_option=False) parser.add_option("-d", type="string", action="store", dest="DELIM", default="|", help="single character delimiter in quotes (default: |)") (options, args) = parser.parse

Re: Makin search on the other site and getting data and writing in xml

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Holden wrote: > The fact remains that Google can chop your searching ability off at the > knees ... No they can't. They can only chop off your ability to use Google. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Making search on the other site and getting data and writing in xml

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > If Google wants to write legal > contracts that won't stand up in court (speaking as somebody who isn't a > lawyer and whose legal advice is worthless), they can. What they define as their terms of service doesn't have to stand up in court.

Re: problem moving from char to integer

I'm trying to calculate the checksum of a website so that I can get its PageRank. I'm modifying the code that I found here: http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2004_06_27_index.html#108834386239051706 I apologize for being secretive, but I didn't mean to be. I'm trying to take characters and push

What's up with site.Quitter?

Hello All, Still jubilantly configuring my work environment for python 2.5, I came accross a curiosity when writing an automatic vim syntax file creator (so I can automatically update my syntax coloring with future python releases). It seems I can find a reference to just about every type exce

Re: does anybody earn a living programming in python?

wesley chun wrote: > since 1997, i've been pretty much working full-time in Python: > - at yahoo, we developed yahoo!mail in python (and some C++) > - at synarc, i wrote software for doctors in python (and some C) > - at ironport, most everything is in python (and some C, PyRex). we > have a milli

Re: preserving color ouput of a shell command via os.popen()

At Tuesday 26/9/2006 23:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to get the output of a shell process on Linux (eg, "ls --color=auto") run via os.popen(), filter it and then output parts of it while preserving any original coloring added by that process. Yes, just omit the =auto (or use --col

Re: A critique of cgi.escape

> I would really rather this were a discussion than an argument. You will > now no doubt reply telling me I wouldn't. > > My posting was issued as a response to the irritation engendered by your > argumentative style of debate. Your latest response simply proves that > there is indeed no remark, ho

How to apply text changes to HTML, keeping it intact if inside "a" tags

Hello, I have HTML input to which I apply some changes. Feature 1: === I want to tranform all the text, but if the text is inside an "a href" tag, I want to leave the text as it is. The HTML is not necessarily well-formed, so I would like to do that using BeautifulSoup (or maybe another tole

Re: Survival of the fittest

James Stroud wrote: > Out of curiosity, what are these features that ruby has that python > lacks. I've always wondered whether I should look at ruby--whether, as a > language, it has anything to teach me that say python, C, and Java don't > (LISP/Scheme is on my short-list to learn.) Just a guess

Re: preserving color ouput of a shell command via os.popen()

On 26 Sep 2006 19:07:54 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi everyone > >I would like to get the output of a shell process on Linux (eg, "ls >--color=auto") run via os.popen(), filter it and then output parts of >it while preserving any original coloring added by that process. > >Doing > >child = os

Re: Survival of the fittest

On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 01:51:43 +0200, baalbek wrote: > Now, six years later, I use Python for about 70-80% of all my work (the > remainder being Ruby and C/C++). > > I'm now having the policy: "If it's doable in Python, I'll use Python". Okay. How did your stated "policy" leave you still wasti

Re: A critique of cgi.escape

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve > Holden wrote: > > >>Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> >>>In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Georg Brandl wrote: >>> >>> >>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Georg Brandl wrote: > > >

Re: preserving color ouput of a shell command via os.popen()

> See the difference? :) Brett, not only do I see the difference but I actually see it in color, too! : ) Thanks for your help, Juerg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Computer Language Popularity Trend

Computer Language Popularity Trend This page gives a visual report of computer languages's popularity, as indicated by their traffic level in newsgroups. This is not a comprehensive or fair survey, but does give some indications of popularity trends. http://xahlee.org/lang_traf/index.html Xah

Re: preserving color ouput of a shell command via os.popen()

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > child = os.popen("ls --color=auto") > output = child.read() > > results in an output string which is free of the escape sequences > generated by ls. Don't use --color=auto, from the 'ls' man page: With --color=auto, color codes are output only if standard output is co

Re: releasing memory to malloc

Is there any way to get Python to release memory back to the C allocator? I'm currently running a script that goes through the following steps: 1) Creates a very large number of Python objects to produce a relatively small data structure that sits in a C extension. The Pyth

Re: A critique of cgi.escape

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, George > Sakkis wrote: > > > Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > > > >> Fredrik Lundh wrote: > >> > you're not the designer... > >> > >> I don't have to be. Whoever the designer was, they had not properly > >> thought through the uses of this f

preserving color ouput of a shell command via os.popen()

Hi everyone I would like to get the output of a shell process on Linux (eg, "ls --color=auto") run via os.popen(), filter it and then output parts of it while preserving any original coloring added by that process. Doing child = os.popen("ls --color=auto") output = child.read() results in an ou

Re: releasing memory to malloc

I happen to have the code for the C library in question, but I don't think this is the way to go in general. If there's a way to get Python to give memory back to the C allocator I can avoid touching the library at all. Regards, Iker John Machin wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I can, but t

Re: releasing memory to malloc

At Tuesday 26/9/2006 22:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can, but the extension is only a thin wrapper around a general purpose C library which is also used independently of Python. If you can recompile a specific version for using with Python, you can play with a few macros like #ifdef USE_P

Re: A critique of cgi.escape

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > most HTML attributes cannot even contain things that would need > to be escaped ... sys.stdout.write \ ( "Email: \n" % QuoteHTML(WhateverTheUserPreviouslyTyped) ) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Makin search on the other site and getting data and writing in xml

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I dont mean google > i dont mean onelook.com > > these are only examples > > i hop eyou understand what i mean Apparently, *you* don't understand what they're trying to tell you. It roughly boils down to the following: - All (except perhaps the most trivial small) site

Re: releasing memory to malloc

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I can, but the extension is only a thin wrapper around a general > purpose C library which is also used independently of Python. > So change the library to use xmalloc etc and add something like this to the .h file: #ifdef PYMEM #define xmalloc PyMem_Malloc etc #else #

Re: Survival of the fittest

baalbek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This unassuming scripting language has beaten heavy-weights like > Java, C++, etc, and this without any serious marketing machine > behind it. > > Why? The language is just so well designed (I miss some of Ruby's > features, but then, nothing is perfect), robu

Re: Survival of the fittest

baalbek wrote: > Why? The language is just so well designed (I miss some of Ruby's > features, but then, nothing is perfect) Out of curiosity, what are these features that ruby has that python lacks. I've always wondered whether I should look at ruby--whether, as a language, it has anything to

Re: releasing memory to malloc

I can, but the extension is only a thin wrapper around a general purpose C library which is also used independently of Python. Iker Gabriel Genellina wrote: > Can you modify the C source? If you can, use the Python memory > allocation functions PyMem_Malloc/PyMem_Realloc/PyMem_Free. > > > > Gabr

Re: releasing memory to malloc

At Tuesday 26/9/2006 21:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to get Python to release memory back to the C allocator? I'm currently running a script that goes through the following steps: 1) Creates a very large number of Python objects to produce a relatively small data structure that

Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Sep 27)

QOTW: "It's not out of the kindness of our hearts that we help. Heck, I don't know what it is. Probably I just like reading my own drivel on the internet and occasionally helping others is a good excuse." - Neil Cerutti "Well, if you're only watching mtv, it's easy to think that there's obviou

Re: releasing memory to malloc

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there any way to get Python to release memory back to the > C allocator? I'm currently running a script that goes through > the following steps: > > 1) Creates a very large number of Python objects to produce > a relatively small data structure that sits in a C extens

Re: A critique of cgi.escape

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Bokma > wrote: [..] >> ... href="/search.cgi?query=3&results=10" > > You _do_ realize that the "&" should be escaped as "&", don't you? And what's "/search.cgi?query=3&results=10"? An attribute value. Exac

Re: A critique of cgi.escape

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, George Sakkis wrote: > Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > >> Fredrik Lundh wrote: >> > you're not the designer... >> >> I don't have to be. Whoever the designer was, they had not properly >> thought through the uses of this function. That's quite obvious already, >> to a

Re: A critique of cgi.escape

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gabriel G wrote: > At Tuesday 26/9/2006 04:16, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > >> >> >> What precisely do you think it would "break"? >> > FWIW, a *lot* of unit tests on *my* generated html code would break... >>Why did you write your code that way? > > Uhm, maybe be

Re: A critique of cgi.escape

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > >>> (cgi.escape(s, True) is slower than cgi.escape(s), for reasons that are >>> obvious for anyone who's looked at the code). >> >> What you're doing is adding to the reasons why the existing cgi.escape >> functio

Re: A critique of cgi.escape

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Holden wrote: > Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Georg Brandl wrote: >> >> >>>Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >>> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Georg Brandl wrote: >Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > >>In message

Re: A critique of cgi.escape

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Bokma wrote: > Brian Quinlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> o escaping attribute values is less common than escaping element >>text > > Again, you must be kidding... I don't think Brian Quinlan was seriously trying to claim that was true, only that was

releasing memory to malloc

Is there any way to get Python to release memory back to the C allocator? I'm currently running a script that goes through the following steps: 1) Creates a very large number of Python objects to produce a relatively small data structure that sits in a C extension. The Python objects consume quite

Re: A critique of cgi.escape

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Jon Ribbens wrote: > >> This has nothing to do with character encodings. > > it has *everything* to do with encoding of existing data into HTML so it > can be safely transported to, and recreated by, an HTML-aware client. > > does the word

Re: AN Intorduction to Tkinter

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Tis question was just asked on the py2exe mailing list. I predicted > > that if it was asked here, you would respond asking exactly which > > examples didn't work. :-p > > Right you were :-) > > Just want to learn what I already know as a great programming > interface(

Re: AN Intorduction to Tkinter

> Tis question was just asked on the py2exe mailing list. I predicted > that if it was asked here, you would respond asking exactly which > examples didn't work. :-p Right you were :-) Just want to learn what I already know as a great programming interface(?)/language... Tanner -- http://mail.

Re: Python CTypes translation of (pv != NULL)

At Tuesday 26/9/2006 16:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Q: The C idea of (pv != NULL) is said most directly in Python ctypes > >how? > > Perhaps reading the ctypes tutorial? (both in the 2.5 docs and in > ) Actually, no. I see three

Re: a different question: can you earn a living with *just* python?

"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you're really trying to become a well-rounded computer professional > I'd recommend reasonable exposure to at least: > > * C > * A static functional language (ML, Haskell, etc) > * Lisp or scheme Scheme > * A static class-oriented language (Java

Re: problem moving from char to integer

Melih Onvural wrote: > This is the error message that I'm having a tough time interpreting: > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "pagerank.py", line 101, in ? > main() > File "pagerank.py", line 96, in main > ch = strord(url) > File "pagerank.py", line 81, in strord > resu

Survival of the fittest

I first heard of Python (on a CD cover) back in 1995. I thought, "what is this? Python? Forget about it!" Back then, I was a huge fan of the Delphi (Object Pascal) language, and had immense respect for the C/C++ family. 1997 I got seriously into C++ programming, and thought, "could anything be

Re: Running Python script from C++ code(.NET)

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, volcano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . . . >But here is another question for gurus: sometimes my script fails, and >I cannot figure out why. OK, I can - especially since I terminate it >with "sys.e

Re: QuoteSQL

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve > Holden wrote: [...] >>Sadly your assertions alone fail to convince. Perhaps you could provide >>a concrete example? > > > Sorry, that turned out to be wrong. You do in fact need to escape the > escapes on wildcards. Thank you.

Re: Makin search on the other site and getting data and writing in xml

I dont mean google i dont mean onelook.com these are only examples i hop eyou understand what i mean -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: a different question: can you earn a living with *just* python?

John Salerno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But what if you are an expert Python program and have zero clue about > other languages? Can you still earn a living that way, or do most/all > companies require multiple language proficiency? Nobody likes a one-trick pony. -- http://mail.python.org/mai

Re: problem moving from char to integer

Melih Onvural wrote: > This is the error message that I'm having a tough time interpreting: > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "pagerank.py", line 101, in ? > main() > File "pagerank.py", line 96, in main > ch = strord(url) > File "pagerank.py", line 81, in strord > resul

Re: f2py on windows tutorials

Robert Kern wrote: > Flavio wrote: >> Thank you Robert, >> >> I was surprised that the setup.py was virtually identical to the one I >> use for Linux. However I was not at all surprised when it didn't work. >> ;-) >> >> It complains it can't find msvc: >> >> No module named msvccompiler in numpy.di

Re: IDLE - Customizing output format

At Tuesday 26/9/2006 15:29, Ilias Lazaridis wrote: > >>> def f(obj): > print '' + repr(obj) > > >>> sys.displayhook = f I've placed this code within /Lib/sitecustomize.py, but have one strange result: >>> from talker import * >>> t = Talker() >>> t.sayHello : > >>> t.sayHello() H

Re: f2py on windows tutorials

Flavio wrote: > Thank you Robert, > > I was surprised that the setup.py was virtually identical to the one I > use for Linux. However I was not at all surprised when it didn't work. > ;-) > > It complains it can't find msvc: > > No module named msvccompiler in numpy.distutils, trying from > dist

Re: IDLE - Customizing output format

At Tuesday 26/9/2006 15:31, Ilias Lazaridis wrote: > >Anyways, against my better judgement, I will tell you that you can > >customize the > >output by replacing sys.displayhook with your own function: > > > >http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-sys.html > > > > >>> import sys > > >

Re: problem moving from char to integer

This is the error message that I'm having a tough time interpreting: Traceback (most recent call last): File "pagerank.py", line 101, in ? main() File "pagerank.py", line 96, in main ch = strord(url) File "pagerank.py", line 81, in strord result[counter] = int(i); ValueError: inva

Re: problem moving from char to integer

Melih Onvural wrote: > Group, > > I'm trying to get a very basic cast from a string to an integer > working. Here is what I'm doing: > > for i in url: > result[counter] = int(i) > counter += 1; > > return result; > > anything that I'm doing drastically wrong? Mac OS 10.4, MacPython >

Re: A critique of cgi.escape

Brian Quinlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A summary of this pointless argument: > > Why cgi.escape should be changed to escape double quote (and maybe > single quote) characters by default: > o escaping should be very aggressive by default to avoid subtle bugs > o over-escaping is not likely

problem moving from char to integer

Group, I'm trying to get a very basic cast from a string to an integer working. Here is what I'm doing: for i in url: result[counter] = int(i) counter += 1; return result; anything that I'm doing drastically wrong? Mac OS 10.4, MacPython upgraded to 2.4. Thanks for any help, Melih -

Re: shlex.split != shlex.shlex get_token til eof

Correspondingly, to the Faq Wiki I added: /// http://pyfaq.infogami.com/installed-index Q: Where is Python installed on my machine? A: Binaries in bin/, source in lib/, doc somewhere else. Read the module source when you find its doc incomplete. On Linux, ... On the Mac, straight from Apple: /

Re: a different question: can you earn a living with *just* python?

Richard Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John Salerno wrote: > > But what if you are an expert Python program and have zero clue > > about other languages? Can you still earn a living that way, or do > > most/all companies require multiple language proficiency? > > These are separate questions.

Re: A critique of cgi.escape

At Tuesday 26/9/2006 12:53, Jon Ribbens wrote: > BTW, I am curious about how you do unit testing. The example that I used > in my summary is a very common pattern but would break in cgi.escape > changed it's semantics. What do you do instead? To be honest I'm not sure what *sort* of code people

Re: does anybody earn a living programming in python?

walterbyrd wrote: > If so, I doubt there are many. I currently earn my living "programming in Python". This is particularly amusing given that it's a Java shop and I don't even know Python! I've only been using it for a few months as a replacement for the previous shell scripts and instead of

Re: shlex.split != shlex.shlex get_token til eof

Kindly offline the answer is: (a) Python installation usually includes source, and thus (b) UTSL: $ pwd C:\Python25\Lib\shlex.py $ ... $ pwd /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5 $ grep -A 5 "def split" shlex.py def split(s, comments=False): lex = shlex(s, posix=True

Re: a different question: can you earn a living with *just* python?

John Salerno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But what if you are an expert Python program and have zero clue > about other languages? Can you still earn a living that way, or do > most/all companies require multiple language proficiency? I certainly wouldn't hire someone, for any programming team I

Re: a different question: can you earn a living with *just* python?

John Salerno wrote: > It's a nice thought that a person can earn a living programming with > Python, which is fun enough to use just for its own sake. But for > someone like me (i.e. no programming experience) it's always a little > disheartening to see that most (if not all) job descriptions that

Re: for: else: - any practical uses for the else clause?

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > > A very old thread: > > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/2c5022e2b7f05525/1542d2041257c47e?lnk=gst&q=for+else&rnum=9#1542d2041257c47e > > > > discusses the optional "else:" clause of the for statement. >

Re: for: else: - any practical uses for the else clause?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > A very old thread: > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/2c5022e2b7f05525/1542d2041257c47e?lnk=gst&q=for+else&rnum=9#1542d2041257c47e > > discusses the optional "else:" clause of the for statement. > > I'm wondering if anyone has ever fo

Re: 2.5 updates for syntax file

Grzegorz Makarewicz wrote: > Andrea wrote: > >> Hi everyone. I'm updating my UltraEdit syntax file for Python 2.5 and > >> was wondering if anyone knew of other additions to make besides these. I > >> found all of these in the What's New document, but wasn't sure if there > >> were other important

Re: AN Intorduction to Tkinter

Fredrik Lundh wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I know that the most known tkinter intro guide at the time is "An > > Intorduction to Tkinter" by Frederick Lundh, but after trying some of > > the examples, I noticed that they did not work > > what examples are this ? are you sure it's not a

Re: a different question: can you earn a living with *just* python?

John Salerno wrote: > But what if you are an expert Python program and have zero clue about > other languages? Can you still earn a living that way, or do most/all > companies require multiple language proficiency? These are separate questions. I know a dozen languages but I'm only required to kno

Re: Win32: Access to network resources w/o user login

"utabintarbo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Is there a way to (programmatically) access network resources from a > WinXP client without a user being logged in? I guess I need to know > where the fstab file is in Windows. :-P > > Some more background: I am trying to

Re: ruby %w equivalent

* Antoine De Groote (Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:06:38 +0200) >Thorsten Kampe wrote: >> * John Machin (24 Sep 2006 15:32:20 -0700) >>> Antoine De Groote wrote: is there a python equivalent for the ruby %w operator? %w{a b c} creates an array with strings "a", "b", and "c" in ruby... >>> | >>

Re: Surprise using the 'is' operator

> "Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > as a side note, the ints that are cached (for current versions of > > Python) are in range(-1, 100)... is this documented somewhere? > Not true for at least 2.4 and 2.5. The cached range has expanded oops, apologies to all... it really *is* subject t

Re: where are isinstance types documented?

Georg Brandl wrote: > Fredrik Lundh wrote: > > Sion Arrowsmith wrote: > >> > > > >>> based on http://docs.python.org/ref/types.html, here's a list of the > >>> most commonly used core types: > >>> [ ... ] > >>> Sequences: > >>> str > >>> unicode > >>> tuple > >>> list > >> > >> And

Re: Unexpected behaviour of csv module

Andrew McLean wrote: > John Machin wrote: > > You can fix that. The beauty of open source is that you can grab it > > (Windows: c:\python2?\lib\csv.py (typically)) and hack it about till it > > suits your needs. Go fer it! > > Unfortunately the bits I should change are in _csv.c We must be talking

Re: a different question: can you earn a living with *just* python?

John Salerno wrote: > It's a nice thought that a person can earn a living programming with > Python, which is fun enough to use just for its own sake. But for > someone like me (i.e. no programming experience) it's always a little > disheartening to see that most (if not all) job descriptions that

Re: A critique of cgi.escape

At Tuesday 26/9/2006 04:16, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> >> What precisely do you think it would "break"? > FWIW, a *lot* of unit tests on *my* generated html code would break... Why did you write your code that way? Uhm, maybe because I relied on the published documentation of a published s

Re: Reading a file using a UNC - help!

Thanks very much all for respondingI got it working. As you indicated, I just had mixed up my escapes (//) with my \n. When I got the correct amount of backslashes and removed the linefeeds it worked great. Thanks again. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Whither binary search?

Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Neil Cerutti wrote: > > >> bisect... > > > > That doesn't tell me if an item doesn't exist in the sequence > > though, does it? Maybe I'm being dense. > > I guess you could use something like > > import bisect > > def check(list, item): > try: > return list[bisec

Re: QuoteSQL

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Holden wrote: > Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Duncan Booth wrote: >> >>>In particular it currently turns newlines in backslash followed by n >>>which (since MySQL ignores the extra backslash escape) is equivalent to >>>turnin

Re: QuoteSQL

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Holden wrote: > Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve >> Holden wrote: >> >> >>>Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >>> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Holden wrote: >When you use the DB API correctly and

Re: QuoteSQL

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sybren Stuvel wrote: > Tim Chase enlightened us with: >> >>> cur.execute("select * from people where last_name in (%s)" % >> ','.join('%s' for i in xrange(len(t))), >> t) > > But since the value of 'i' isn't used at all, it can be abbreviated > to: > cur.exec

Re: for: else: - any practical uses for the else clause?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > A very old thread: > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/2c5022e2b7f05525/1542d2041257c47e?lnk=gst&q=for+else&rnum=9#1542d2041257c47e > > discusses the optional "else:" clause of the for statement. > > I'm wondering if anyone has ever fo

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