Re: Shed Skin Python-to-C++ Compiler 0.0.21, Help needed

2007-04-01 Thread mark . dufour
> You still dream of this, isn't it? Type inference in dynamic languages > doesn't scale. It didn't scale in twenty years of research on > SmallTalk and it doesn't in Python. However there is no no-go theorem type inference sure is difficult business, and I won't deny there are scalability issues

Re: reverse engineering Excel spreadsheet

2007-04-01 Thread Paddy
On Apr 1, 4:59 pm, Duncan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I am currently implementing (mainly in Python) 'models' that come > to me as Excel spreadsheets, with little additional information. I am > expected to use these models in a web application. Some contain many > worksheets

Re: Sorting a multidimensional array by multiple keys

2007-04-01 Thread Thomas Krüger
Alex Martelli schrieb: > Thomas Krüger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> def sorter(a, b): >> return cmp(a.id, b.id) >> >> obj_lst.sort(sorter) > > A MUCH better way to obtain exactly the same semantics would be: > > def getid(a): > return a.id > > obj_list.sort(key=getid) Frankly speaking

Re: socket read timeout

2007-04-01 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
"Bryan Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Holden wrote: > > Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > >> Are sockets full duplex? > >> > > Yes. But you have to use non-blocking calls in your application to use > > them as full-duplex in your code. > > Hmmm... I'm missing something. Suppose I have one

vim python: substitute 'spaces' indent to 'tabs'?

2007-04-01 Thread Rocky Zhou
I am accustomed to vi my pthon scripts with 'tab' indent. But when I copy some code to my script, the indent may be 'spaces'. So I wanna a way to substitute those 'spaces' to be 'tabs' conveniently. For example, I: expand -t4 test.py >/tmp/test2.py vi /tmp/test2.py Then in vim, the indents should

Re: Sorting a multidimensional array by multiple keys

2007-04-01 Thread Alex Martelli
Thomas Krüger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rehceb Rotkiv schrieb: > > can I sort a multidimensional array in Python by multiple sort keys? A > > litte code sample would be nice! > > You can pass a function as argument to the sort method of a list. > The function should take two arguments and retu

Re: can a method access/set another's variables?

2007-04-01 Thread Alex Martelli
asdf1234234 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My code is: > -a.py- > import b > > class A: > def __init__(self): > pass Incidentally, these last two lines are totally, utterly useless. Do NOT define special methods like this -- just omit the whole def statement and you'll have identic

python unzip: os.popen3("unzip ...") or import zipfile?

2007-04-01 Thread Rocky Zhou
python unzip At first, I tried to use 'os.popen3("unzip ...") like this: fin, fout, ferr = os.popen3("unzip -o -d %s %s" % (dest, zipfile)) strerr = ferr.read() # This makes the program hanging up if strerr: print >> sys.stderr, strerr outlog.error(strerr) I want to know is this caused by

Re: Question about using urllib2 to load a url

2007-04-01 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On Apr 2, 2:52 am, "ken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > i have the following code to load a url. > My question is what if I try to load an invalide url > ("http://www.heise.de/";), will I get an IOException? or it will wait > forever? > Depends on why the URL is invalid. If the URL refers t

Re: can a method access/set another's variables?

2007-04-01 Thread 7stud
On Apr 1, 7:56 pm, "wswilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am parsing a document which contains some lines with code I want to > eval or exec. However, due to the complexity of the parsing, I am > splitting it among different methods. So, if I eval something in one > method, it won't be there if

Re: reverse engineering Excel spreadsheet

2007-04-01 Thread Duncan Smith
John Machin wrote: > On Apr 2, 1:59 am, Duncan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Hello, >> I am currently implementing (mainly in Python) 'models' that come >>to me as Excel spreadsheets, with little additional information. I am >>expected to use these models in a web application. Some co

Re: can a method access/set another's variables?

2007-04-01 Thread 7stud
On Apr 1, 9:24 pm, "7stud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 1, 7:43 pm, Michael Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > asdf1234234 wrote: > > > -a.py- > > > import b > > > > class A: > > > def __init__(self): > > > pass > > > def my_method(self): > > > var = 1

Re: can a method access/set another's variables?

2007-04-01 Thread 7stud
On Apr 1, 7:43 pm, Michael Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > asdf1234234 wrote: > > -a.py- > > import b > > > class A: > > def __init__(self): > > pass > > def my_method(self): > > var = 1 > > self.var = 2 > > b.set_var(self) > > print

win32con.client.constants error

2007-04-01 Thread Barry Newberger
I am working on a Outlook COM project. For some reason win32com.client.constants quit working between runs of one of my test scripts. It's supposed to acquire attributes for all constants defined in loaded COM servers through its __dicts__ attribute,and did for awhile Now it is throwing an At

Re: can a method access/set another's variables?

2007-04-01 Thread 7stud
On Apr 1, 7:56 pm, "wswilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 1, 9:43 pm, Michael Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > asdf1234234 wrote: > > > -a.py- > > > import b > > > > class A: > > > def __init__(self): > > > pass > > > def my_method(self): > > > var

Re: How can i compare a string which is non null and empty

2007-04-01 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-04-02, Shane Geiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> how can i compare a string which is non null and empty? >>> >> [...] >> >>> In java,I do this: >>> if (str != null) && (!str.equals("")) >>> >>> how can i do that in python? >> >> If you want to litterally do that, it's >> >>

Re: can a method access/set another's variables?

2007-04-01 Thread 7stud
On Apr 1, 7:56 pm, "wswilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 1, 9:43 pm, Michael Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > asdf1234234 wrote: > > > -a.py- > > > import b > > > > class A: > > > def __init__(self): > > > pass > > > def my_method(self): > > > var

Re: How can i compare a string which is non null and empty

2007-04-01 Thread Shane Geiger
It is probably worth noting that the example is not executable code: str() is a function. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ python Python 2.4.4c0 (#2, Jul 30 2006, 15:43:58) [GCC 4.1.2 20060715 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-9)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >

Re: reverse engineering Excel spreadsheet

2007-04-01 Thread John Machin
On Apr 2, 1:59 am, Duncan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I am currently implementing (mainly in Python) 'models' that come > to me as Excel spreadsheets, with little additional information. I am > expected to use these models in a web application. Some contain many > worksheets

Re: How can i compare a string which is non null and empty

2007-04-01 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-04-01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > how can i compare a string which is non null and empty? [...] > In java,I do this: > if (str != null) && (!str.equals("")) > > how can i do that in python? If you want to litterally do that, it's if (str != None) and (str != ""

Re: Sorting a multidimensional array by multiple keys

2007-04-01 Thread Paulo da Silva
Rehceb Rotkiv escreveu: > Hello everyone, > > can I sort a multidimensional array in Python by multiple sort keys? A > litte code sample would be nice! class MyList(list): # This is the index of the element to be compared CmpIndex=0 # Comparision methods @staticm

Re: can a method access/set another's variables?

2007-04-01 Thread wswilson
On Apr 1, 9:43 pm, Michael Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > asdf1234234 wrote: > > -a.py- > > import b > > > class A: > > def __init__(self): > > pass > > def my_method(self): > > var = 1 > > self.var = 2 > > b.set_var(self) > > print

Re: can a method access/set another's variables?

2007-04-01 Thread Michael Hoffman
asdf1234234 wrote: > -a.py- > import b > > class A: > def __init__(self): > pass > def my_method(self): > var = 1 > self.var = 2 > b.set_var(self) > print var > print self.var > > my_a = A() > my_a.my_method() > > -b.py- > de

can a method access/set another's variables?

2007-04-01 Thread asdf1234234
My code is: -a.py- import b class A: def __init__(self): pass def my_method(self): var = 1 self.var = 2 b.set_var(self) print var print self.var my_a = A() my_a.my_method() -b.py- def set_var(self): var = 2 self.var

Re: capturing system exit status

2007-04-01 Thread Michael Hoffman
oscartheduck wrote: > in a program I'm writing I have several commands I pass to the unix OS > underneath the code. > > I want to perform error checking to make sure that the OS commands' > exit gracefully, but I'm not seeing a simple python module to do this. If you're using Python 2.5, you can

Re: How can i compare a string which is non null and empty

2007-04-01 Thread tac-tics
str != "" returns true if str is NOT the empty string. str is not None returns true if str is null (or None as it's called in python). To check to make sure a string is nonnull and nonempty, do: str is not None and str != "" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Overlapping matches

2007-04-01 Thread Rehceb Rotkiv
Both methods work well, thank you! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: manually implementing staticmethod()?

2007-04-01 Thread Alex Martelli
7stud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > I'm using python 2.3.5. > > On Mar 29, 9:34 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote: > > Simplest way: > > > > class smethod(object): > > def __init__(self, f): self.f=f > > def __call__(self, *a, **k): return self.f(*a, **k) > > > > Alex > > Inte

capturing system exit status

2007-04-01 Thread oscartheduck
Hi folks, in a program I'm writing I have several commands I pass to the unix OS underneath the code. I want to perform error checking to make sure that the OS commands' exit gracefully, but I'm not seeing a simple python module to do this. The closest I can see is system(), as detailed here: htt

Re: In beloved Iraq, blood flows between brothers in the shadow of illegitimate foreign occupation Re: +++ Russia Watched 9/11 In REAL TIME on SATELLITE +++

2007-04-01 Thread nguser3552
You posting in the wrong group, I'm sure to don't give a rats ass and that's why no one will ever, in your life, take you seriously. I have my own feelings on President Bush but I spend the time to get the facts (months and sometimes years) and find a publisher. Get an education, quit shouting a

Re: Measureing memory used by a subprocess

2007-04-01 Thread Shane Geiger
Getting the pid: http://timgolden.me.uk/python/wmi_cookbook.html List all running processes import wmi c = wmi.WMI () for process in c.Win32_Process (): print process.ProcessId, process.Name List all running notepad processes import wmi c = wmi.WMI () for process in c.Win32_Process (name=

Measureing memory used by a subprocess

2007-04-01 Thread Andrew McLean
I want to script the benchmarking of some compression algorithms on a Windows box. The algorithms are all embodied in command line executables, such as gzip and bzip2. I would like to measure three things: 1. size of compressed file 2. elapsed time (clock or preferably CPU) 3. memory used The f

Re: Pygame Q (linux) beginner

2007-04-01 Thread enquiring mind
hlubenow wrote: > > enquiring mind wrote: > > > Running 2.4.1 Python (learning) > > Running SUSE Linux 10 > > > > At Chapter 5 is where the Pygame module is > > introduced so I have a little time before I have to figure out what I > > have to download and install. > > Are you asking for advice h

Re: How can i compare a string which is non null and empty

2007-04-01 Thread eC
On Apr 2, 12:22 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > how can i compare a string which is non null and empty? > > i look thru the string methods here, but cant find one which does it? > > http://docs.python.org/lib/string-methods.html#string-methods > > In java,I do this: > i

Re: Pygame Q (linux) beginner

2007-04-01 Thread enquiring mind
Gabriel Genellina wrote: > > En Sat, 31 Mar 2007 23:37:16 -0300, enquiring mind <"enquiring > mind"@braindead.com> escribió: > > > Running 2.4.1 Python (learning) > > Running SUSE Linux 10 > > > > Am learning from a new books that mostly deals with windows python and > > Pygames called "Game Prog

Re: How can i compare a string which is non null and empty

2007-04-01 Thread Georg Brandl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > Hi, > > how can i compare a string which is non null and empty? > > > i look thru the string methods here, but cant find one which does it? > > http://docs.python.org/lib/string-methods.html#string-methods > > In java,I do this: > if (str != null) && (!str.equals("

Re: How can i compare a string which is non null and empty

2007-04-01 Thread hlubenow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > how can i compare a string which is non null and empty? > > > i look thru the string methods here, but cant find one which does it? > > http://docs.python.org/lib/string-methods.html#string-methods > > In java,I do this: > if (str != null) && (!str.equals

How can i compare a string which is non null and empty

2007-04-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, how can i compare a string which is non null and empty? i look thru the string methods here, but cant find one which does it? http://docs.python.org/lib/string-methods.html#string-methods In java,I do this: if (str != null) && (!str.equals("")) how can i do that in python? -- http

Re: Launch script on Linux using Putty

2007-04-01 Thread Michael Hoffman
Ulysse wrote: > Hello, > > I have a python script which runs all the time (using of library > threading). I would like this scipt to run on a remote linux Os using > Putty. The problem is, when I close Putty command line window running > on my Win PC, the python script stops to run too. > > I tri

Is this a wxPython 2.8.0 bug with GetItemText method of wxTreeCtrl?

2007-04-01 Thread eC
I use a tree control in my application and was hoping to use use the GetItemText method to read the new label of the tree item after the user has edited it. So in the EVT_TREE_END_LABEL_EDIT event handler, i call this method but the old label (previous value before the edti) is returned. Is there s

Launch script on Linux using Putty

2007-04-01 Thread Ulysse
Hello, I have a python script which runs all the time (using of library threading). I would like this scipt to run on a remote linux Os using Putty. The problem is, when I close Putty command line window running on my Win PC, the python script stops to run too. I tried to use cron tables instead.

Re: Overlapping matches

2007-04-01 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Apr 1, 1:38 pm, Rehceb Rotkiv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the re documentation, it says that the matching functions return "non- > overlapping" matches only, but I also need overlapping ones. Does anyone > know how this can be done? Perhaps lookahead assertions are what you're looking for?

Re: shutil.copy Problem

2007-04-01 Thread Leo Kislov
On Mar 28, 7:01 am, David Nicolson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi John, > > That was an excellent idea and it was the cause problem. Whether this > is a bug inshutilI'm not sure. > > Here is the traceback, Python 2.4.3 on Windows XP: > > > > > > > C:\Documents and Settings\Güstav>C:\python243\py

Re: Character set woes with binary data

2007-04-01 Thread Lenard Lindstrom
John Nagle wrote: > Michael B. Trausch wrote: >> In short: How do I create a string that contains raw binary content >> without Python caring? Is that possible? > >Given where we're now at with strings in Python, Python should > really have a "byte" type and a way to deal with arrays of byt

Re: Using Simple MAPI with MS Outlook 2007

2007-04-01 Thread Lenard Lindstrom
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi there, > > I'd like to send emails from a Python program using Simple MAPI. I've > tried this code: > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-December/298066.html > and it works well with Outlook Express 6 and Thunderbird 1.5, but it > doens't work at all w

Question about using urllib2 to load a url

2007-04-01 Thread ken
Hi, i have the following code to load a url. My question is what if I try to load an invalide url ("http:// www.heise.de/"), will I get an IOException? or it will wait forever? Thanks for any help. opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(cj)) urllib2.install_opener(opener)

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 3000 PEP: Postfix type declarations

2007-04-01 Thread Shane Geiger
OMG, I was starting to reconsider Ruby. Maël Benjamin Mettler wrote: Is this supposed to be a joke? First of April? Likely. -- Shane Geiger IT Director National Council on Economic Education [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 402-438-8958 | http://www.ncee.net Leading the Campaign for Econ

Re: ISO programming projects

2007-04-01 Thread Sherm Pendley
kj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm looking for a collection of useful programming projects, at > the "hobbyist" level. > > My online search did turn up a few collections (isolated projects > are less useful to me at the moment), but these projects are either > more difficult than what I'm lookin

Clean "Durty" strings

2007-04-01 Thread Ulysse
Hello, I need to clean the string like this : string = """ bonne mentalité mec!:) \nbon pour info moi je suis un serial posteur arceleur dictateur ^^* \nmais pour avoir des resultats probant il faut pas faire les mariolles, comme le "fondateur" de b

Re: I18n issue with optik

2007-04-01 Thread Leo Kislov
On Apr 1, 8:47 am, Thorsten Kampe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guess the culprit is this snippet from optparse.py: > > # used by test suite > def _get_encoding(self, file): > encoding = getattr(file, "encoding", None) > if not encoding: > encoding = sys.getdefaultencoding() >

Re: ISO programming projects

2007-04-01 Thread Daniel Nogradi
> I'm looking for a collection of useful programming projects, at > the "hobbyist" level. > > My online search did turn up a few collections (isolated projects > are less useful to me at the moment), but these projects are either > more difficult than what I'm looking for (e.g. code a C compiler) >

Re: Overlapping matches

2007-04-01 Thread Ant
On Apr 1, 9:38 pm, Rehceb Rotkiv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the re documentation, it says that the matching functions return "non- > overlapping" matches only, but I also need overlapping ones. Does anyone > know how this can be done? Something like the following: import re s = "" p

Port Function crc_ccitt_update from C++

2007-04-01 Thread Py Thorneiro
Hi folks, Please, I don´t understand exactly what this function CRC CCITT UPDATE in C++ AVR can be ported to Python.. uint16_t crc_ccitt_update (uint16_t crc, uint8_t data) { data ˆ= lo8 (crc); data ˆ= data << 4; return uint16_t)data << 8) | hi8 (crc)) ˆ (uint8_t)(data >> 4) ˆ ((uin

Overlapping matches

2007-04-01 Thread Rehceb Rotkiv
In the re documentation, it says that the matching functions return "non- overlapping" matches only, but I also need overlapping ones. Does anyone know how this can be done? Regards, Rehceb Rotkiv -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Shed Skin Python-to-C++ Compiler 0.0.21, Help needed

2007-04-01 Thread John Nagle
Kay Schluehr wrote: > On Apr 1, 6:07 pm, John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Kay Schluehr wrote: >> >>>Indeed. The only serious problem from an acceptance point of view is >>>that Mark tried to solve the more difficult problem first and hung on >>>it. Instead of integrating a translator/comp

Re: socket read timeout

2007-04-01 Thread Bryan Olson
Steve Holden wrote: > Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: >> Are sockets full duplex? >> > Yes. But you have to use non-blocking calls in your application to use > them as full-duplex in your code. Hmmm... I'm missing something. Suppose I have one thread (or process) reading from a blocking-mode socket whi

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 3000 PEP: Postfix type declarations

2007-04-01 Thread Guido van Rossum
+18446744073709551616 from me too. This also fits nicely in with my plan to abandon the python-dev and python-3000 mailing lists. Mailing lists are so 20th century! I propose that from now on, all Python development should be carried out on blogs, so that readers can use customized RSS feeds to re

Re: I18n issue with optik

2007-04-01 Thread Jarek Zgoda
Thorsten Kampe napisał(a): >>> Under Windows I get " File "G:\program files\python\lib\encodings >>> \cp1252.py", line 12, in encode >>>return codecs.charmap_encode(input,errors,encoding_table)" >> I'm not very experienced with internationalization, but if you change:: >> >> gettext.insta

Re: Extract information from HTML table

2007-04-01 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 1 Apr 2007 07:56:04 -0700, Ulysse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have seen the Beautiful Soup online help and tried to apply that to > my problem. But it seems to be a little bit hard. I will rather try to > do this with regular expressions... > If you think that Beautiful Soup is difficult tha

Re: I18n issue with optik

2007-04-01 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Thorsten Kampe (Sun, 1 Apr 2007 20:22:51 +0100) > * Thorsten Kampe (Sun, 1 Apr 2007 20:08:39 +0100) > > * Thorsten Kampe (Sun, 1 Apr 2007 19:45:59 +0100) > > > Yes, I could do that but I'd rather know first if my code is wrong or > > > the optparse code. > > > > It might be the bug mentioned in

Re: Character set woes with binary data

2007-04-01 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-04-01, Ene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 1, 11:44 am, John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Michael B. Trausch wrote: >> > In short: How do I create a string that contains raw binary content >> > without Python caring? Is that possible? >> >> Given where we're now at with strings

Re: Shed Skin Python-to-C++ Compiler 0.0.21, Help needed

2007-04-01 Thread Kay Schluehr
On Apr 1, 6:07 pm, John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kay Schluehr wrote: > > Indeed. The only serious problem from an acceptance point of view is > > that Mark tried to solve the more difficult problem first and hung on > > it. Instead of integrating a translator/compiler early with CPython,

Which will come first: Perl 6 or Python 3000?

2007-04-01 Thread Fuzzyman
http://home.inklingmarkets.com/market/show/4018 (Interesting site by the way - although a bit heavily weighted towards US politics for my tastes). Anyway, I know which way my money is going :-) Fuzzyman http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles.shtml -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinf

Re: I18n issue with optik

2007-04-01 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Thorsten Kampe (Sun, 1 Apr 2007 20:08:39 +0100) > * Thorsten Kampe (Sun, 1 Apr 2007 19:45:59 +0100) > > Yes, I could do that but I'd rather know first if my code is wrong or > > the optparse code. > > It might be the bug mentioned in > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-May/06545

Re: Shed Skin Python-to-C++ Compiler 0.0.21, Help needed

2007-04-01 Thread Paul Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I don't see how that can be--we're talking about a GCC-based compiler, > > right? > > no, Shed Skin is a completely separate entity, I was referring to GNAT. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Character set woes with binary data

2007-04-01 Thread Ene
On Apr 1, 11:44 am, John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael B. Trausch wrote: > > In short: How do I create a string that contains raw binary content > > without Python caring? Is that possible? > > Given where we're now at with strings in Python, Python should > really have a "byte"

Re: Pygame Q (linux) beginner

2007-04-01 Thread hlubenow
enquiring mind wrote: > Running 2.4.1 Python (learning) > Running SUSE Linux 10 > > At Chapter 5 is where the Pygame module is > introduced so I have a little time before I have to figure out what I > have to download and install. Are you asking for advice how to install pygame on SuSE 10 ? Wel

Re: I18n issue with optik

2007-04-01 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Thorsten Kampe (Sun, 1 Apr 2007 19:45:59 +0100) > Yes, I could do that but I'd rather know first if my code is wrong or > the optparse code. It might be the bug mentioned in http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-May/065458.html The patch although doesn't work. From my unicode-chars

Re: I18n issue with optik

2007-04-01 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Steven Bethard (Sun, 01 Apr 2007 10:26:54 -0600) > Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > I guess the culprit is this snippet from optparse.py: > > > > # used by test suite > > def _get_encoding(self, file): > > encoding = getattr(file, "encoding", None) > > if not encoding: > > encoding = sy

Re: Character set woes with binary data

2007-04-01 Thread John Nagle
Michael B. Trausch wrote: > In short: How do I create a string that contains raw binary content > without Python caring? Is that possible? Given where we're now at with strings in Python, Python should really have a "byte" type and a way to deal with arrays of bytes, independent of the stri

capturing system exit status

2007-04-01 Thread James
Hi folks, in a program I'm writing I have several commands I pass to the unix OS underneath the code. I want to perform error checking to make sure that the OS commands' exit gracefully, but I'm not seeing a simple python module to do this. The closest I can see is system(), as detailed here: ht

Re: I18n issue with optik

2007-04-01 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Steven Bethard (Sun, 01 Apr 2007 10:21:40 -0600) > Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > * Steven Bethard (Sat, 31 Mar 2007 20:08:45 -0600) > >> Thorsten Kampe wrote: > >>> I've written a script which uses Optik/Optparse to display the > >>> options (which works fine). The text for the help message is local

Re: ISO programming projects

2007-04-01 Thread Terry Reedy
"kj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | I'm looking for a collection of useful programming projects, at | the "hobbyist" level. | | My online search did turn up a few collections (isolated projects | are less useful to me at the moment), but these projects are eit

Re: Character set woes with binary data

2007-04-01 Thread Terry Reedy
"Michael B. Trausch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | The protocol calls for binary data to be transmitted, and I cannot seem | to be able to do it, because I get this error: | UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0: | ordinal not in r

Re: Shed Skin Python-to-C++ Compiler 0.0.21, Help needed

2007-04-01 Thread mark . dufour
> I don't see how that can be--we're talking about a GCC-based compiler, > right? no, Shed Skin is a completely separate entity, that outputs C++ code. it's true I only use GCC to test the output, and I use some GCC- specific extensions (__gnu_cxx::hash_map/hash_set), but people have managed to c

Re: re.findall() hangs in python

2007-04-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Apr 1, 5:23 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Apr 1, 6:12 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But when 'data' does not contain pattern, it just hangs at > > 're.findall' > > > pattern = re.compile("(.*) > re.S) > > That pattern is just really slow to evaluate. What you wan

Re: Character set woes with binary data

2007-04-01 Thread Paul Boddie
Michael B. Trausch wrote: > > I never said it did. It just happens to be the context with which I am > working. I said I wanted to concatenate materials without regard for > the character set. I am mixing binary data with ASCII and Unicode, for > sure, but I should be able to do this. The probl

Re: Character set woes with binary data

2007-04-01 Thread Michael B. Trausch
On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 06:09 -0300, Gabriel Genellina wrote: > > When putting the MIME segments (listed line-by-line in a Python list) > > together to transmit them. The files are typically JPG or some other > > binary format, and as best as I understand the protocol, the binary data > > needs to

In beloved Iraq, blood flows between brothers in the shadow of illegitimate foreign occupation Re: +++ Russia Watched 9/11 In REAL TIME on SATELLITE +++

2007-04-01 Thread lemnitzer
On 911 Yank mother fuckers of IVY LEAGUE killed their own people and blamed on other people. The mother fucker, Thomas Eager of MIT Materials Science Department and welding lab, was the first to defend the lies of the government by an IDIOTIC pancake theory. Then we have the BASTARD of Harvard, Sam

Re: Python Based API

2007-04-01 Thread Laurent Pointal
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I work on a project that is built entirely using python and Tkinter. > We are at the point where we would like to give access to our > functionality to others via some sort of API. People who would use > our API develop in all kinds of languages from C/C++ to P

Re: reverse engineering Excel spreadsheet

2007-04-01 Thread Laurent Pointal
Duncan Smith wrote: > Hello, > I am currently implementing (mainly in Python) 'models' that come > to me as Excel spreadsheets, with little additional information. I am > expected to use these models in a web application. Some contain many > worksheets and various macros. > > What I'd like

Re: Pickling a class with a __getattr__

2007-04-01 Thread Peter Bengtsson
On Apr 1, 5:48 pm, Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter Bengtsson wrote: > > Hi, I'm trying to pickle an object instance of a class that is like a > > dict but with a __getattr__ and I'm getting pickling errors. > > This is what happens when I'm trying to be clever: > > import cPickl

Re: Pickling a class with a __getattr__

2007-04-01 Thread Peter Otten
Peter Bengtsson wrote: > Hi, I'm trying to pickle an object instance of a class that is like a > dict but with a __getattr__ and I'm getting pickling errors. > This is what happens when I'm trying to be clever: > import cPickle as pickle class Dict(dict): > ... def __getattr__(self

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 3000 PEP: Postfix type declarations

2007-04-01 Thread Collin Winter
On 4/1/07, Georg Brandl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip several pages of excellent ideas] > > The mapping between types and declarators is not static. It can be completely > customized by the programmer, but for convenience there are some predefined > mappings for some built-in types: > >

Pickling a class with a __getattr__

2007-04-01 Thread Peter Bengtsson
Hi, I'm trying to pickle an object instance of a class that is like a dict but with a __getattr__ and I'm getting pickling errors. This works but is not good enough. $ python2.4 >>> import cPickle as pickle >>> class Dict(dict): ... pass ... >>> >>> >>> friend = Dict(name='Zahid', age=40) >>>

Re: I18n issue with optik

2007-04-01 Thread Steven Bethard
Thorsten Kampe wrote: > I guess the culprit is this snippet from optparse.py: > > # used by test suite > def _get_encoding(self, file): > encoding = getattr(file, "encoding", None) > if not encoding: > encoding = sys.getdefaultencoding() > return encoding > > def print_help(se

Re: Does Numpy work on QNX 4.25 with Python 2.2?

2007-04-01 Thread John J. Lee
Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ZMY wrote: > > I am trying to convert some old Fortran code into Python program and > > get them work on a QNX 4.25 system. Since the program requires speed, > > I think using Numpy is really necessary. But I haven't found anything > > on web about using n

Re: I18n issue with optik

2007-04-01 Thread Steven Bethard
Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * Steven Bethard (Sat, 31 Mar 2007 20:08:45 -0600) >> Thorsten Kampe wrote: >>> I've written a script which uses Optik/Optparse to display the >>> options (which works fine). The text for the help message is localised >>> (with german umlauts) and when I execute the script

Re: reverse engineering Excel spreadsheet

2007-04-01 Thread irstas
On Apr 1, 6:59 pm, Duncan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I am currently implementing (mainly in Python) 'models' that come > to me as Excel spreadsheets, with little additional information. I am > expected to use these models in a web application. Some contain many > worksheets

Re: Shed Skin Python-to-C++ Compiler 0.0.21, Help needed

2007-04-01 Thread John Nagle
Kay Schluehr wrote: > Indeed. The only serious problem from an acceptance point of view is > that Mark tried to solve the more difficult problem first and hung on > it. Instead of integrating a translator/compiler early with CPython, > doing some factorization of Python module code into compilable

reverse engineering Excel spreadsheet

2007-04-01 Thread Duncan Smith
Hello, I am currently implementing (mainly in Python) 'models' that come to me as Excel spreadsheets, with little additional information. I am expected to use these models in a web application. Some contain many worksheets and various macros. What I'd like to do is extract the data and busi

Re: Opening Photoshop EPS with PIL?

2007-04-01 Thread M�ta-MCI
.eps ==> vector ; not bitmap -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Cheeseshop needs mirrors

2007-04-01 Thread John J. Lee
Richard Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > And of course I'll reiterate the same line I always do: the Cheese Shop was > set up by a volunteer, enhanced by some other volunteers and exactly > nothing more will get done unless more volunteers offer their time. PyPI has "just worked" for me,

Re: I18n issue with optik

2007-04-01 Thread Thorsten Kampe
I guess the culprit is this snippet from optparse.py: # used by test suite def _get_encoding(self, file): encoding = getattr(file, "encoding", None) if not encoding: encoding = sys.getdefaultencoding() return encoding def print_help(self, file=None): """print_help(file : f

zip files as nested modules?

2007-04-01 Thread tsuraan
Supposing that I have a directory tree like so: a/ __init__.py b/ __init__.py c.py and b.py has some method (let's call it d) within it. I can, from python, do: from a.b.c import d d() And, that works. Now, suppose I want to have a zipped module under a, called b.zip. Is there any

Re: saving Python process state for later debugging

2007-04-01 Thread yossi . kreinin
On Apr 1, 2:57 pm, "aspineux" wrote: > > A context in python is no more than 2 dictionaries ( globals() and > locals()). > You can easily serialize both to store them. I don't think it will work with objects defined by extension modules, except if they somehow support serialization, will it? I gue

Python Based API

2007-04-01 Thread Dean . Brotzel
Hi, I work on a project that is built entirely using python and Tkinter. We are at the point where we would like to give access to our functionality to others via some sort of API. People who would use our API develop in all kinds of languages from C/C++ to Pascal. Ideas that come to mind that a

Re: how to remove specified cookie in cookie jar?

2007-04-01 Thread John J. Lee
"ken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How to remove specified cookie (via a given name) in cookie jar? > > I have the following code, but how can I remove a specified cookie in > the cookie jar? > cj = cookielib.LWPCookieJar() > > if cj is not None: > if os.path.isfile(COOKIEFILE): >

ISO programming projects

2007-04-01 Thread kj
I'm looking for a collection of useful programming projects, at the "hobbyist" level. My online search did turn up a few collections (isolated projects are less useful to me at the moment), but these projects are either more difficult than what I'm looking for (e.g. code a C compiler) or not te

Re: socket read timeout

2007-04-01 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
"Steve Holden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> hg> My issue with that is the effect on write: I only want a timeout on > >> hg> read ... but anyway ... > >> > >> So set a long timeout when you want to write and short timeout w

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