Re: Getting values out of a CSV

2007-07-14 Thread Alex Popescu
On Jul 14, 5:55 am, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, as always, one should measure in each specific case if optimization is > worth the pain [...]. > I hope I am somehow misreading the above sentence :-). IMO synonim language contructs should result in the same performance

zipfile 2GB problems?

2007-07-14 Thread xamdam
Hi fellas, I am experiencing problems reading a 2GB zipfile consisting of multiple zipped files. I found a thread http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-April/053027.html that mentions a problem on the writing side, does such a problem exist on a reading side? I am using 2.4.1, perhaps th

Re: CSV without first line?

2007-07-14 Thread John Machin
On Jul 15, 1:30 pm, "Sebastian Bassi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > In my CSV file, the first line has the name of the variables. So the > data I want to parse resides from line 2 up to the end. Here is what I > do: > > import csv > lines=csv.reader(open("MYFILE")) > lines.next() #this is ju

Re: Marshalling big objects

2007-07-14 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Sat, 14 Jul 2007 20:04:21 -0300, Orlando Döhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > I want to marshal objects: > > - http://docs.python.org/lib/module-marshal.html > where I have problems with a bigger objects, e.g. Any specific reason you use this module? As a general purpose serializer, use

Re: Can a low-level programmer learn OOP?

2007-07-14 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On 7/13/07, Simon Hibbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > place. At the end of it you'll have a good idea how OOP works, and how > Python works. Learning OOp this way is easy and painless, and what you ... But this tutorial states "I assume you know how object-oriented programming works" -- Sebastián

Re: Circular import problem

2007-07-14 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Sat, 14 Jul 2007 14:44:05 -0300, bvdp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: >> > But, I still don't understand how python can access a function in a >> > file I have NOT included. In this case, to get things to work, I DO >> > NOT "import MMA.grooves" but later in the module I access a function >> > wi

Re: Can a low-level programmer learn OOP?

2007-07-14 Thread Ben Finney
Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Though I should have added that, in Python, the toolset tends to > be... just an editor... Much more than that. The common toolset I see used is: * A customisable, flexible, programmer's text editor * The online documentation in a web bro

Re: defaultdicts pickling

2007-07-14 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Sat, 14 Jul 2007 13:03:01 -0300, Yoav Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > I need to have a dictionary of dictionaries of numbers, and I would like > the > dictionaries to be defaultdicts, because it makes the code much nicer > (I want to be able to do: d['foo']['bar']+=1 ). > > So nat

CSV without first line?

2007-07-14 Thread Sebastian Bassi
Hi, In my CSV file, the first line has the name of the variables. So the data I want to parse resides from line 2 up to the end. Here is what I do: import csv lines=csv.reader(open("MYFILE")) lines.next() #this is just to avoid the first line for line in lines: DATA PARSING This works fine.

Re: Fastest way to convert a byte of integer into a list

2007-07-14 Thread jigloo
On 7 13 , 6 34 , Godzilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to find a way to convert an integer (8-bits long for > starters) and converting them to a list, e.g.: > > num = 255 > numList = [1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1] > > with the first element of the list being the least significant, so > t

Re: Installing mod_python on mac os 10.4.7

2007-07-14 Thread Graham Dumpleton
On Jul 15, 10:06 am, Graham Dumpleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 15, 2:47 am, 7stud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Themod_pythonmanual says this under section 2.1 Prerequisites: > > > -- > > In order to compilemod_pythonyou will need to have the include files > > for both Apache

Re: Fastest way to convert a byte of integer into a list

2007-07-14 Thread John Machin
On Jul 15, 11:12 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 14, 5:49?pm, Paul McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Jul 13, 3:46 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Jul 13, 5:17 am, Paul McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Jul 12, 5:3

Re: Circular import problem

2007-07-14 Thread greg
bvdp wrote: > before I moved other > imports around I was able to do the following: > > 1. NOT include MMA.gooves, > 2. call the function MMA.grooves.somefunc() > > and have it work. The import doesn't necessarily have to be in the same module where the attribute is used. The first time *any*

Re: Fastest way to convert a byte of integer into a list

2007-07-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Jul 14, 5:49?pm, Paul McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 13, 3:46 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > On Jul 13, 5:17 am, Paul McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Jul 12, 5:34 pm, Godzilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > I'm t

Re: MaildirMessage

2007-07-14 Thread Ben Finney
Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What do you actually think > > for m in msg: > print m > > should do? Why do you believe that what you think it should do would > be a natural choice? I think it odd for a Message to support the mapping protocol. However, since

Re: Installing mod_python on mac os 10.4.7

2007-07-14 Thread Graham Dumpleton
On Jul 15, 2:47 am, 7stud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Themod_pythonmanual says this under section 2.1 Prerequisites: > > -- > In order to compilemod_pythonyou will need to have the include files > for both Apache and Python, as well as the Python library installed on > your system. If you inst

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Marshalling big objects

2007-07-14 Thread Orlando Döhring
Dear community, I want to marshal objects: - http://docs.python.org/lib/module-marshal.html where I have problems with a bigger objects, e.g. self.contiguousSurfaceResidues, see below. I was writing the object to file: fDump1 = open('dump_13PK_C.dat','wb') marshal.dump(self.contiguous

Re: Fastest way to convert a byte of integer into a list

2007-07-14 Thread Paul McGuire
On Jul 13, 3:46 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 13, 5:17 am, Paul McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > On Jul 12, 5:34 pm, Godzilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I'm trying to find a way to convert an integer (8-bits long for > > > starter

Creating Packages

2007-07-14 Thread Greg Lindstrom
Hello, All- I have written a class that allows me to create and manipulate data segments (the type one deals with when reading/writing text files); validating fields, serialization, etc. I would like to put this together as a module and release it to the community while I expand on the feature

Re: Screen Scraping Question

2007-07-14 Thread Yu-Xi Lim
jeffbg123 wrote: > The numbers are always rendered the same. So I don't know if OCR is a > necessary step. > > Also, what if I just got the data from the packets? Any disadvantages > to that? Any good python packet capturing libraries? > > Thanks > Packet capture is probably a bad idea for two

Re: PEP 3107 and stronger typing (note: probably a newbie question)

2007-07-14 Thread Lenard Lindstrom
Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > "Lenard Lindstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Pascal has no break, continue or return. Eiffel doesn't even have a >> goto. In such imperative languages boolean variables are used a lot. > > Thanks did not know this. > >> from StringIO import StringIO >> lin

Re: Can a low-level programmer learn OOP?

2007-07-14 Thread Wayne Brehaut
On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 11:49:48 -0600, darren kirby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >quoth the Wayne Brehaut: > >> (I started with Royal McBee LGP 30 machine language (hex input) in >> 1958, and their ACT IV assembler later! Then FORTRAN IV in 1965. By >> 1967 I too was using (Burroughs) Algol-60, and 10

Re: Can a low-level programmer learn OOP?

2007-07-14 Thread Wayne Brehaut
On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 19:18:05 +0530, "Rustom Mody" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 7/14/07, Alex Martelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> OOP can be abused (particularly with deep or intricate inheritance >> structures). But the base concept is simple and clear: you can bundle >> state and behavio

Re: getting text inside the HTML tag

2007-07-14 Thread Will Maier
On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 05:47:22PM +, Nikola Skoric wrote: > I'm using sgmllib.SGMLParser to parse HTML. I have successfuly > parsed start tags by implementing start_something method. But, now > I have to fetch the string inside the start tag and end tag too. I > have been reading through SGMLP

Re: getting text inside the HTML tag

2007-07-14 Thread kyosohma
On Jul 14, 12:47 pm, Nikola Skoric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using sgmllib.SGMLParser to parse HTML. I have successfuly parsed start > tags by implementing start_something method. But, now I have to fetch the > string inside the start tag and end tag too. I have been reading through > SGMLPa

Re: Can a low-level programmer learn OOP?

2007-07-14 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Wayne Brehaut: > (I started with Royal McBee LGP 30 machine language (hex input) in > 1958, and their ACT IV assembler later! Then FORTRAN IV in 1965. By > 1967 I too was using (Burroughs) Algol-60, and 10 years later upgraded > to (DEC-10) Simula-67.) > > Going---going--- Mel? Is that

getting text inside the HTML tag

2007-07-14 Thread Nikola Skoric
I'm using sgmllib.SGMLParser to parse HTML. I have successfuly parsed start tags by implementing start_something method. But, now I have to fetch the string inside the start tag and end tag too. I have been reading through SGMLParser documentation, but just can't figure that out... can somebody hel

Re: Circular import problem

2007-07-14 Thread bvdp
> > But, I still don't understand how python can access a function in a > > file I have NOT included. In this case, to get things to work, I DO > > NOT "import MMA.grooves" but later in the module I access a function > > with "xx=MMA.grooves.somefunc()" and it finds the function, and works > > jus

Re: Can a low-level programmer learn OOP?

2007-07-14 Thread Wayne Brehaut
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:37:04 -0400, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Aahz wrote: >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >> Chris Carlen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>From what I've read of OOP, I don't get it. >> >> For that matter, even using OOP a bit with C++ and Perl, I didn't get it >

Installing mod_python on mac os 10.4.7

2007-07-14 Thread 7stud
The mod_python manual says this under section 2.1 Prerequisites: -- In order to compile mod_python you will need to have the include files for both Apache and Python, as well as the Python library installed on your system. If you installed Python and Apache from source, then you already have e

defaultdicts pickling

2007-07-14 Thread Yoav Goldberg
Hello, I need to have a dictionary of dictionaries of numbers, and I would like the dictionaries to be defaultdicts, because it makes the code much nicer (I want to be able to do: d['foo']['bar']+=1 ). So naturally, I used: d = defaultdict(lambda :defaultdict(int)) It works great, but now I c

Re: Can a low-level programmer learn OOP?

2007-07-14 Thread UrsusMaximus
The Tkinter tutorial refrrred to is at http://infohost.nmt.edu/tcc/help/pubs/tkinter// and it is a great starting point ... Ron Stephens On Jul 14, 3:01 am, "Hendrik van Rooyen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Chris Carlen" wrote: > > > Form 2: Use Python and PySerial and TkInter or wxWidgets.

Re: pattern match !

2007-07-14 Thread Jay Loden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> A slightly more generic match in case your package names turn out to be less >> consistent than given in the test cases: >> >> #!/usr/bin/python >> >> import re >> pattern = re.compile(r'(\w+?-(\d+[\.-])+\d+?)-\D+.*RPM') >> pkgnames = ["hpsmh-1.1.1.2-0-RHEL3-Linux.RPM",

Re: Access Denied while trying to delete file from python script

2007-07-14 Thread Jay Loden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Jul 14, 3:39 am, "Viewer T." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I am trying to write a script that deletes certain files based on >> certain criteria. >> >> What I am trying to do is to automate the process of deleting certain >> malware files that disguise themselves as sy

Re: Can a low-level programmer learn OOP?

2007-07-14 Thread Rustom Mody
On 7/14/07, Alex Martelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OOP can be abused (particularly with deep or intricate inheritance > structures). But the base concept is simple and clear: you can bundle > state and behavior into a stateful "black box" (of which you may make as > many instances, with inde

Re: Access Denied while trying to delete file from python script

2007-07-14 Thread kyosohma
On Jul 14, 3:39 am, "Viewer T." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to write a script that deletes certain files based on > certain criteria. > > What I am trying to do is to automate the process of deleting certain > malware files that disguise themselves as system files and hidden > files. W

Re: Client-side cookies on Python in Mac OSX

2007-07-14 Thread John J. Lee
Adrian Petrescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Oh, you're right! Silly me, I had always thought it was standard. > Thanks for pointing this out! I went and downloaded ClientCookie and > it works great on OS X. And since it is BSD-licensed, I can use it in > my app without any fear. Perfect. > > Tha

Re: Can a low-level programmer learn OOP?

2007-07-14 Thread John J. Lee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aahz) writes: [...] > Note very very carefully that Python does not require an OOP style of > programming, agree > but it will almost certainly be the case that you just > naturally start using OOP techniques as you learn Python. There's some truth to this. But stagnation is

Re: Can a low-level programmer learn OOP?

2007-07-14 Thread John J. Lee
[Chris Carlen] > From what I've read of OOP, I don't get it. I have also found some > articles profoundly critical of OOP. I tend to relate to these > articles. If you want to know the truth, and opt to neither trust a friend or colleague, nor spend the time to try it yourself, here's a third w

Re: MaildirMessage

2007-07-14 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Sat, 14 Jul 2007 06:26:43 -0300, Tzury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: >> What do you actually think >> >> ... for m in msg: >> ... print m >> >> should do? Why do you believe that what you think it should do would be >> a natural choice? > > I needed to know how to extract part

Re: Right tool and method to strip off html files (python, sed, awk?)

2007-07-14 Thread Stefan Behnel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1- Find all html files in the folders (sub-folders ...) > 2- Do some file I/O and feed Sed or Python or what else with the file. > 3- Apply recursively some regular expression on the file to do the > things a want. (delete when it encounters certain tags, certain > attrib

Re: help reading cookie values

2007-07-14 Thread John J. Lee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On Jul 13, 3:08 pm, Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I am trying to read a cookie I set but I am not sure if I really set >> it correctly or I am not reading it correctly. I was given the >> following instructions to set the cookie. It appears to be working >> becau

Re: Can a low-level programmer learn OOP?

2007-07-14 Thread Dave Baum
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chris Carlen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why would OOP be better? Different is not better. Popular is not > better. What the academics say is not better. Less lines of code might > be better, if the priority is ease of programming. Or, less machine > execu

Re: MaildirMessage

2007-07-14 Thread Tzury
> What do you actually think > > ... for m in msg: > ... print m > > should do? Why do you believe that what you think it should do would be > a natural choice? I needed to know how to extract particular parts of a message, such as the message 'body', 'subject', 'author', etc. I co

Re: how to install pygame package?

2007-07-14 Thread Daniel Nogradi
> There seems to be some problem. For the tar version, initial steps > execute OK, but after typing: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] pygame-1.7.1release]# ./configure > bash: ./configure: No such file or directory > > So i don't hav a configure file? What should i do now? Sorry, instead of ./configure do this

Access Denied while trying to delete file from python script

2007-07-14 Thread Viewer T.
I am trying to write a script that deletes certain files based on certain criteria. What I am trying to do is to automate the process of deleting certain malware files that disguise themselves as system files and hidden files. When I use os.remove() after importing the os module is raises a Window

Re: interactive graphical script builder

2007-07-14 Thread Stef Mientki
nik wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking for an interactive graphical script builder for python. > Basically, something like the os X automator. I have made a group of > methods that some non-programmers need to combine into a script. I > don't need a python IDE necessarially, but more of a sequence buil

Re: Can a low-level programmer learn OOP?

2007-07-14 Thread Michele Simionato
On Jul 14, 8:49 am, James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Any gui more complicated than a few entry fields and some checkbuttons > is going to lend itself to OOP--so if you want to do GUI, learn OOP. Yep, there is nothing to be added to that. Except maybe that if you don't care too much abou

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Re: PEP 3107 and stronger typing (note: probably a newbie question)

2007-07-14 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
"Lenard Lindstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pascal has no break, continue or return. Eiffel doesn't even have a > goto. In such imperative languages boolean variables are used a lot. Thanks did not know this. > > from StringIO import StringIO > lines = StringIO("one\ntwo\nthree\nfour\n"

Re: Can a low-level programmer learn OOP?

2007-07-14 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
"Aahz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Newbie. ;-) > > (I started with BASIC in 1976.) > *grinz @ Newbie* I was writing COBOL and NEAT/3 in 1968... - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Can a low-level programmer learn OOP?

2007-07-14 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
"Chris Carlen" wrote: > Form 2: Use Python and PySerial and TkInter or wxWidgets. > > Pro: Cross-platform goal will likely be achieved fully. Have a > programmer nearby with extensive experience who can help. > Con: Must learn new language and library. Must possibly learn a > completely

Re: Can a low-level programmer learn OOP?

2007-07-14 Thread James Stroud
Chris Carlen wrote: > Hi: > > From what I've read of OOP, I don't get it. I have also found some > articles profoundly critical of OOP. I've also found articles critical of Darwinism--but we can chalk that up to religious zealotry can't we? Any gui more complicated than a few entry fields an

Re: Can I change one line in a file without rewriting the whole thing?

2007-07-14 Thread greg
J. J. Ramsey wrote: > if I can avoid doing what amounts to reading the > whole file into memory, changing the copy in memory, and writing it > all out again. Except in very special circumstances, not really. If you do anything that makes a line longer or shorter, everything after that line in the

Re: PEP 3107 and stronger typing (note: probably a newbie question)

2007-07-14 Thread Paul Rubin
Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This seems to make the dangerous assumption that the programmer has > the correct program in mind, and needs only to transfer it correctly > to the computer. Well, I hope the programmer can at least state some clear specficiations that a correct program sho