Re: Split a string based on change of character

--- "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Using itertools: > > import itertools > > s = 'ABBBCC' > print [''.join(grp) for key, grp in itertools.groupby(s)] Nice. > Using re: > > import re > > pat = re.compile(r'((\w)\2*)') > print [t[0] for t in re.findall(pat, s)] Also nice. Esp

Re: Events: The Python Way

On 2007-07-29, at 02:34, David Wilson wrote: > Hi there, > > Python has no built-in way of doing this. You may consider writing > your own class if you like this pattern (I personally do): > > class Event(object): > def __init__(self): > self.subscribers = set() ... > def __isub

Re: Split a string based on change of character

On Jul 28, 9:46 pm, Andrew Savige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Python beginner here. > > For a string 'ABBBCC', I want to produce a list ['A', 'BBB', 'CC']. > That is, break the string into pieces based on change of character. > What's the best way to do this in Python? > > Using Python 2.5.1, I tr

Re: Why no maintained wrapper to Win32?

>> Why does it mean that? The Win32 APIs for GUI are up-to-date; they >> don't need further development. Win32 itself stopped years ago. >> You can write GUI applications with PyWin32 just fine. > > Besides the total lack of documentation, you mean that nothing was > added to the Win32 API since P

Re: Compiling 2.5.1 on OpenBSD 4.1

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Split a string based on change of character

Python beginner here. For a string 'ABBBCC', I want to produce a list ['A', 'BBB', 'CC']. That is, break the string into pieces based on change of character. What's the best way to do this in Python? Using Python 2.5.1, I tried: import re s = re.split(r'(?<=(.))(?!\1)', 'ABBBCC') for e in s: pri

Re: Pythonic way for missing dict keys

On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 11:52:48 +, Alex Popescu wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John J. Lee) wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >> Alex Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> Zentrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in >>> news:1185041243.323915.161230 @x40g2000prg.googlegroups.com: >>> On Jul

Re: replacement for execfile

On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 15:17:56 +, Alex Popescu wrote: > Hi all! > > From another thread (and the pointed PEP) I have found that execfile > will not be present in Py3k. So, I am wondering what will be its > replacement? Considering that most probably Py3k will keep eval and > exec, this will sti

Re: OOP in Python book?

At 01:27 PM 7/28/2007, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: >On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:27:57 -0700, Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > > > > Well, the publisher is Prentice Hall, "The world's leading > > educational publisher". Textbooks are typically expensive. > > >

Re: How to stop print printing spaces?

Roel Schroeven wrote: > CC schreef: >> ln = '\x00\x01\xFF 456789abcdef' >> # This works: >> import sys >> for i in range(0,15): >> sys.stdout.write( '%.2X' % ord(ln[i]) ) >> print >> Is that the best way, to work directly on the stdout stream? > > It's not a bad idea: print is mostly designed

Re: this must be a stupid question ...

Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > but I can;t find the answer ;-) It's not a stupid question, but it is a stupid Subject field. That's easy to fix though: in future, please write a Subject field that actually tells us what the message is about. > If I try to use [the $ symbol] in names,

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Compiling 2.5.1 on OpenBSD 4.1

Hi all, In my prev post, I indicated I was using 2.5.1 on one box and 2.5p3 on the OpenBSD box. I'm trying to build 2.5.1 on OpenBSD and I get this: Modules/posixmodule.c:5701: error: `lstat' undeclared (first use in this function) I browsed the source and don't understand why I'm getting it.

Memory utilization (linux v. openbsd)

Hi all, I have an app that runs on multiple boxes. On my slackware box, running Python 2.5.1, top shows this: Mem: 1002736k total, 453268k used, 549468k free,31392k buffers Swap: 2097136k total,0k used, 2097136k free, 136876k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR

Re: Any reason why cStringIO in 2.5 behaves different from 2.4?

Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stefan Scholl wrote: >> Don't let the subject line fool you. I'm OK with cStringIO. The >> thread is now about xml.sax's parseString(). > > Giving you the benefit of the doubt here, despite the fact that Stefan > Behnel has state this over and over aga

Test-driven design (was: Comparing Dictionaries)

"Martin P. Hellwig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But the funny thing that I have seen in the development scene is > that writing tests first and code later is a lot easier when you > have a technical specification to base it on. A technical > specification is of course based on a functional desig

Re: Any reason why cStringIO in 2.5 behaves different from 2.4?

Stefan Scholl wrote: > Don't let the subject line fool you. I'm OK with cStringIO. The > thread is now about xml.sax's parseString(). Giving you the benefit of the doubt here, despite the fact that Stefan Behnel has state this over and over again and you just haven't listened. xml.sax's use of pa

Re: Events: The Python Way

Hi there, Python has no built-in way of doing this. You may consider writing your own class if you like this pattern (I personally do): class Event(object): def __init__(self): self.subscribers = set() def __iadd__(self, subscriber): self.subscribers.add(subscriber)

Re: Why no maintained wrapper to Win32?

On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 18:05:34 +0200, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Why does it mean that? The Win32 APIs for GUI are up-to-date; they >don't need further development. Win32 itself stopped years ago. >You can write GUI applications with PyWin32 just fine. Besides the total lack of do

Events: The Python Way

Hi, i'm a .net programmer and i'm learnig python, so this question can be very stupid or easy for python programmers. I've a doubt about events here is what: in c# for example i can write a delegate and an event in this way... public delegate SomethingChangedHandler(string message); public ev

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Re: this must be a stupid question ...

Stef Mientki wrote: > but I can;t find the answer ;-) > > As searching for the '$' sign doesn't work well in the help files, > I can not find out, where is the '$' sign used for. > > If I try to use it in names, > I get a compiler error, > so it probably has some special meaning. > > thanks, > Stef

Re: How to stop print printing spaces?

CC schreef: > Hi: > > I've conjured up the idea of building a hex line editor as a first real > Python programming exercise. > > To begin figuring out how to display a line of data as two-digit hex > bytes, I created a hunk of data then printed it: > > ln = '\x00\x01\xFF 456789abcdef' > for i

Re: this must be a stupid question ...

On 28/07/07, Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > but I can;t find the answer ;-) > > As searching for the '$' sign doesn't work well in the help files, > I can not find out, where is the '$' sign used for. > > If I try to use it in names, > I get a compiler error, > so it probably has some sp

Re: Installing mod_python on mac os 10.4.7

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Re: Installing mod_python on mac os 10.4.7

I'm using Apache 2.2.4 whose root is /Library/Apache2. My installation of python 2.4 is here: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/ /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/ "Current" is a link to the 2.4 directory: $ ls -al /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Ver

Re: Installing mod_python on mac os 10.4.7

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How to stop print printing spaces?

Hi: I've conjured up the idea of building a hex line editor as a first real Python programming exercise. To begin figuring out how to display a line of data as two-digit hex bytes, I created a hunk of data then printed it: ln = '\x00\x01\xFF 456789abcdef' for i in range(0,15): print '%.2X

Re: Any reason why cStringIO in 2.5 behaves different from 2.4?

Stefan Scholl wrote: > Chris Mellon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 7/28/07, Stefan Scholl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Just checked on a system without PyXML: xml/sax/__init__.py >>> defines parseString() and uses cStringIO (when available). >>> >>> Python 2.5.1 >>> >> Yes, thats the fixed bug.

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Re: this must be a stupid question ...

On 2007-07-28, Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > but I can;t find the answer ;-) > > As searching for the '$' sign doesn't work well in the help > files, I can not find out, where is the '$' sign used for. > > If I try to use it in names, I get a compiler error, so it > probably has some sp

Re: Installing mod_python on mac os 10.4.7

On Jul 14, 8:34 pm, Graham Dumpleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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

this must be a stupid question ...

but I can;t find the answer ;-) As searching for the '$' sign doesn't work well in the help files, I can not find out, where is the '$' sign used for. If I try to use it in names, I get a compiler error, so it probably has some special meaning. thanks, Stef Mientki -- http://mail.python.org/mai

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Re: Any reason why cStringIO in 2.5 behaves different from 2.4?

Chris Mellon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/28/07, Stefan Scholl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Just checked on a system without PyXML: xml/sax/__init__.py >> defines parseString() and uses cStringIO (when available). >> >> Python 2.5.1 >> > > Yes, thats the fixed bug. After all this you still d

Re: Tkinter -- Show Data in an Excel like Read-Only Grid

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Re: a simple string question

On 28 srp, 14:15, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 28 srp, 07:05, Zentrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > NEW TEXT : "Hello world;\nHello:\n\t\t\n\n\n\n\n\nHello2" > >> If you are doing all of this to format the output i

Re: Where do they tech Python officialy ?

Omari Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just curious--what language would you recommend as most > beginner-friendly? I'm not sure what to suggest, I don't pay much attention to this area. Maybe Logo? > > With some reasonable experience in Scheme or > > Mozart or Haskell, plus a Python manual,

Re: Any reason why cStringIO in 2.5 behaves different from 2.4?

On 7/28/07, Stefan Scholl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stefan Behnel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Stefan Scholl wrote: > >> But the style of the answers makes me wonder if I should report > >> the bug in xml.sax (or its documentation) or just ignore it. > > > > Note that PyXML is no longer active

Re: How to write a warning to my log file?

MarkyMarc wrote: > Hi All, > > A small newbie Q. > > I have made a nice log function in me program. The program writes some > data to me mysql database. > When I write to the database I get som warnings back. > > Have do I write these to me log file? > I know I have to use the the warnings api.

Re: Any reason why cStringIO in 2.5 behaves different from 2.4?

Stefan Behnel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stefan Scholl wrote: >> But the style of the answers makes me wonder if I should report >> the bug in xml.sax (or its documentation) or just ignore it. > > Note that PyXML is no longer actively maintained, so it's unlikely that Too bad it can still be fo

Re: Any reason why cStringIO in 2.5 behaves different from 2.4?

Stefan Scholl wrote: > Chris Mellon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 7/26/07, Stefan Scholl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Chris Mellon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: XML is not a string. It's a specific type of bytestream. If you want to work with XML, then generate well-formed XML in the co

How to write a warning to my log file?

Hi All, A small newbie Q. I have made a nice log function in me program. The program writes some data to me mysql database. When I write to the database I get som warnings back. Have do I write these to me log file? I know I have to use the the warnings api. But I can not figure out how to use i

Re: Python 2.5.1 can't find win32file?

samwyse wrote: > Interestingly enough, this works: > > C:\Python25>path=%path%;C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\pywin32-210- > py2.5-win32.eg > g\pywin32_system32 > > C:\Python25>python > Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Apr 18 2007, 08:51:08) [MSC v.1310 32 bit > (Intel)] on win32 > Type "help", "copyrigh

Re: a simple string question

> >>> Short_Text="n=90; if n==90:print 'ok'" > >>> compound_lines = Short_Text.split(";") > >>> for line in compound_lines: > ... line = line.replace(":", ":\n") > ... print line > ... > n=90 > if n==90: > print 'ok' A variation of this will work if the input file isn't too compl

Re: Any reason why cStringIO in 2.5 behaves different from 2.4?

Chris Mellon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/26/07, Stefan Scholl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Chris Mellon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > XML is not a string. It's a specific type of bytestream. If you want >> > to work with XML, then generate well-formed XML in the correct >> > encoding. Ther

Re: Why no maintained wrapper to Win32?

> It looks like the development of the PyWin32 wrapper to the > Win32 API stopped years ago, which is too bad because it means that > writing GUI apps in Python even just for Windows means adding > megabytes when using eg. wxWidgets. Why does it mean that? The Win32 APIs for GUI are up-to-da

Re: 128 or 96 bit integer types?

On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 00:19:02 -0700, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >For example, how many ways can you put 492 marbles into >264 ordered bins such that each bin has at least 1 marble? > >The answer > >66189415264331559482776409694993032407028709677550 >59629130019289014193777349831

Why no maintained wrapper to Win32?

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replacement for execfile

Hi all! >From another thread (and the pointed PEP) I have found that execfile will not be present in Py3k. So, I am wondering what will be its replacement? Considering that most probably Py3k will keep eval and exec, this will still be possible (indeed requiring manual loading of the file strin

Re: Python 2.5.1 can't find win32file?

On Jul 28, 8:16 am, samwyse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just upgraded from 2.4.something to 2.5.1. I get the stuff below. > I tried easy-installing pywin32; same results. Anyone know what's > going on? > Interestingly enough, this works: C:\Python25>path=%path%;C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\

Re: 128 or 96 bit integer types?

On Jul 28, 2:28?am, Paul Rubin wrote: > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > has 146 digits. And that's just the begining. The above > > actually represents a polynomial with 264 terms, the > > exponents of which range from 0 to 492. One of those > > polyno

Re: How to programmatically insert pages into MDI.

On Jul 28, 7:46 am, fynali iladijas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 24, 4:36 pm, fynali iladijas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, this query is regarding automating page insertions in Microsoft > > Document Imaging. > [...] > > > All help and advice will be most appreciated. > > > Thank

Re: Comparing Dictionaries

Kenneth Love wrote: > That should teach me not to change working code at the same time I am > writing unit tests. Even so, I realize it won't be the last time I > do something so silly. Yes, I know about TDD's "write the test first", > but I'm not comfortable with the philosophy of these new fan

Re: Tkinter -- Show Data in an Excel like Read-Only Grid

On Jul 27, 4:56 pm, beginner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I am really new to Tk and Tkinter. I googled the web but it was not > mentioned how to build a data grid with Tkinter. > > Basically, I want to show an excel like data grid with fixed column > and row headers and sortable columns

Python 2.5.1 can't find win32file?

I just upgraded from 2.4.something to 2.5.1. I get the stuff below. I tried easy-installing pywin32; same results. Anyone know what's going on? Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Apr 18 2007, 08:51:08) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.

Re: How to programmatically insert pages into MDI.

On Jul 24, 4:36 pm, fynali iladijas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, this query is regarding automating page insertions in Microsoft > Document Imaging. > > I have two sets of MDIs generated fortnightly: Invoices and their > corresponding Broadcast Certificates; about 150 of each. > > My billing ap

Re: Where do they tech Python officialy ?

On 2007-07-28, Omari Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 10:48:10PM -0700, Paul Rubin wrote: > >> If you're having trouble with Python because you're new at >> programming, I can sympathize--I don't think it's the most >> beginner-friendly of languages despite the efforts

Re: Pythonic way for missing dict keys

Alex Popescu wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John J. Lee) wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >> Alex Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> Zentrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in >>> news:1185041243.323915.161230 @x40g2000prg.googlegroups.com: >>> On Jul 21, 7:48 am, Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROT

Re: a simple string question

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 28 srp, 07:05, Zentrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > NEW TEXT : "Hello world;\nHello:\n\t\t\n\n\n\n\n\nHello2" >> If you are doing all of this to format the output into columns, >> Python's print() or write() will do this, and is eas

Re: Tkinter program with a usable interpreter console

On Jul 27, 6:17 pm, Ivan Johansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > beginner wrote: > > The problem is that the Tkinter program ends with a .mainloop() call > > and it is not going to give back control to the command prompt. I feel > > it is almost like I need to implement the python shell myself. Is >

Re: Process Control Help

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm attempting to start some process control using Python. I've have > quite a bit of literature on networking, and have made some tinkering > servers and clients for different protocols HTTP, FTP, etc... But now > it's time for the murky web of industrial prot

Re: Tkinter -- Show Data in an Excel like Read-Only Grid

On Jul 27, 11:08 pm, Zentrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 27, 2:56 pm, beginner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > I am really new to Tk and Tkinter. I googled the web but it was not > > mentioned how to build a data grid with Tkinter. > > > Basically, I want to show an excel l

Re: Relative-importing *

Paul Rubin writes: > Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I read "from module import *" as explicitly saying "clobber the > > current namespace with whatever names module exports". That's what > > from does: it imports names into the current namespace. It isn'

interpreter in the background

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Re: Where do they tech Python officialy ?

On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 10:48:10PM -0700, Paul Rubin wrote: > If you're having trouble with Python because you're new at > programming, I can sympathize--I don't think it's the most > beginner-friendly of languages despite the efforts in that direction > by the designers. Just curious--what la

Re: Pythonic way for missing dict keys

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John J. Lee) wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Alex Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Zentrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in >> news:1185041243.323915.161230 @x40g2000prg.googlegroups.com: >> >>> On Jul 21, 7:48 am, Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> [

Re: Pythonic way for missing dict keys

Alex Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Zentrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:1185041243.323915.161230 > @x40g2000prg.googlegroups.com: > >> On Jul 21, 7:48 am, Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> [snip...] >> >> >>>From the 2.6 PEP #361 (looks like dict.has_key is deprecated)

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Re: a simple string question

On 28 srp, 07:05, Zentrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > NEW TEXT : "Hello world;\nHello:\n\t\t\n\n\n\n\n\nHello2" > > If you are doing all of this to format the output into columns, > Python's print() or write() will do this, and is easier as well. Some > mor

Re: Compiling python2.5.1 results in 3.5MB python lib?

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Re: 128 or 96 bit integer types?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For example, how many ways can you put 492 marbles into > 264 ordered bins such that each bin has at least 1 marble? > The answer > 66189415264331559482776409694993032407028709677550 > 596291300192890141937773498314

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Re: Comparing Dictionaries

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Re: removing items from a dictionary ?

On Jul 28, 1:43 am, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:38:31 +0200, martyw wrote: > > Remoing elements from a dict is done with del, try this; > > >>> d = {'a' : 1,'b' : 2} > > >>> del d['a'] > > >>> print d > > {'b': 2} > > > maybe you can post a working snippet

Re: 128 or 96 bit integer types?

"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > has 146 digits. And that's just the begining. The above > actually represents a polynomial with 264 terms, the > exponents of which range from 0 to 492. One of those > polynomials can have over 5 decimal digits when > solved. You should use gmp

Re: 128 or 96 bit integer types?

On Jul 28, 12:30 am, Tim Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On Jul 27, 1:27 pm, Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Robert Dailey wrote: > >> > Is there build-in or third party support for large integer types, such > >> > as 96 or 128 bi

Re: Relative-importing *

Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I read "from module import *" as explicitly saying "clobber the current > namespace with whatever names module exports". That's what from does: it > imports names into the current namespace. It isn't some sort of easy to > miss side-effect. If a name al