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On Jan 22, 3:20 am, Alan Isaac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to generate sequential pairs from a list. > Here is a way:: > >     from itertools import izip, islice >     for x12 in izip(islice(x,0,None,2),islice(x,1,None,2)): >         print x12 > > (Of course the print statement is just illu

Re: pairs from a list

On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:34:28 -0800, George Sakkis wrote: > I believe the "what is the fastest way" question for such small well- > defined tasks is worth asking on its own, regardless of whether it makes > a difference in the application (or even if there is no application to > begin with). Just b

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Gabriel Genellina 写道: > En Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:03:10 -0200, Paul Rubin > <"http://phr.cx"@NOSPAM.invalid> escribió: > >> "J. Peng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> print line, >> Do you really want all the lines crunched together like that? If not, >> leave off the comma. > > Remember t

Re: pairs from a list

On Jan 22, 12:15 am, Paddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 22, 3:20 am, Alan Isaac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> I want to generate > sequential pairs from a list. > <> > > What is the fastest way? (Ignore the import time.) > > 1) How fast is the method you have? > 2) How much faster does it nee

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Re: read files

En Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:03:10 -0200, Paul Rubin <"http://phr.cx"@NOSPAM.invalid> escribió: > "J. Peng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> print line, > > Do you really want all the lines crunched together like that? If not, > leave off the comma. Remember that Python *keeps* the end-of-line

Re: pairs from a list

On Jan 22, 3:20 am, Alan Isaac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to generate sequential pairs from a list. <> > What is the fastest way? (Ignore the import time.) 1) How fast is the method you have? 2) How much faster does it need to be for your application? 3) Are their any other bottlenecks in

Re: pairs from a list

On Jan 21, 10:20 pm, Alan Isaac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to generate sequential pairs from a list. > Here is a way:: > > from itertools import izip, islice > for x12 in izip(islice(x,0,None,2),islice(x,1,None,2)): > print x12 > > (Of course the print statement is just ill

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Re: How to solve "TypeError: list indices must be integers".

On 1月22日, 上午3時05分, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 22, 3:15 am, "顏灝" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This is more details about my problem, which I running my py script > > for my project. Programming in pythoncard that we can develop a GUI > > based application easily. > > > I was

Re: read files

Thank you. That gave so much solutions. And thanks all. Steven D'Aprano 写道: > On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:00:53 +0800, J. Peng wrote: > >> first I know this is the correct method to read and print a file: >> >> fd = open("/etc/sysctl.conf") >> done=0 >> while not done: >> line = fd.readline() >>

Re: read files

"J. Peng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > print line, Do you really want all the lines crunched together like that? If not, leave off the comma. > I dont like that flag of "done",then I tried to re-write it as: > > fd = open("/etc/sysctl.conf") > while line = fd.readline(): > print li

Re: read files

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:00:53 +0800, J. Peng wrote: > first I know this is the correct method to read and print a file: > > fd = open("/etc/sysctl.conf") > done=0 > while not done: > line = fd.readline() > if line == '': > done = 1 > else: > print line, > > fd.close()

Re: pairs from a list

Alan Isaac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (Of course the print statement is just illustrative.) > What is the fastest way? (Ignore the import time.) You have to try a bunch of different ways and time them. One idea (untested): def pairs(seq): while True: yield (seq.next(), s

pairs from a list

I want to generate sequential pairs from a list. Here is a way:: from itertools import izip, islice for x12 in izip(islice(x,0,None,2),islice(x,1,None,2)): print x12 (Of course the print statement is just illustrative.) What is the fastest way? (Ignore the import time.) Thanks, A

Re: read files

On Jan 21, 9:08 pm, Mel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > J. Peng wrote: > > first I know this is the correct method to read and print a file: > > > fd = open("/etc/sysctl.conf") > > done=0 > > while not done: > > line = fd.readline() > > if line == '': > > done = 1 > > else: > >

Re: read files

J. Peng wrote: > first I know this is the correct method to read and print a file: > > fd = open("/etc/sysctl.conf") > done=0 > while not done: > line = fd.readline() > if line == '': > done = 1 > else: > print line, > > fd.close() > > > I dont like that flag of "don

Re: read files

You might could do one of these two methods: fd.readlines() or: for line in fd: print line These are both from the Python tutorial found here: http://docs.python.org/tut/node9.html#SECTION00921 /alex On Jan 21, 2008 9:00 PM, J. Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > first I kno

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Thanks to all for the ideas. I am familiar with external sorting. Hadn't considered it though. Will definitely be giving that a go, and then merging. Again, thanks all. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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Re: Max Long

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Re: Trouble writing to database: RSS-reader

On Jan 21, 9:15 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Arne a écrit : > > > On 21 Jan, 19:15, Bruno Desthuilliers > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> This should not prevent you from learning how to properly parse XML > >> (hint: with an XML parser). XML is *not* a line-oriented forma

Re: Max Long

On Jan 21, 5:36 pm, Gary Herron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > How can I figure out the largest long available?  I was hoping for > > something like sys.maxint, but I didn't see it.  Also, can someone > > point me to where I can (concisely) read about size of such types >

Re: Max Long

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How can I figure out the largest long available? I was hoping for > something like sys.maxint, but I didn't see it. Also, can someone > point me to where I can (concisely) read about size of such types > (int, float, long). > There is no explicit (defined) limit. Th

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5 days ago I looked at it and didn't take a notice. thnx, this helped On Jan 22, 12:10 am, TeroV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > azrael wrote: > > lets supose i have a object > > class a: >   __init__(self,b): >        self.b=b > > object=a(2) > > > how can I bind the object wit

Re: Max Long

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How can I figure out the largest long available? Why would you? AFAIK, longs are only limited by available memory. > I was hoping for something like sys.maxint, but I didn't see it. > Also, can someone point me to where I can (concisely) read about > size of such types

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Re: Transforming ascii file (pseduo database) into proper database

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Re: Transforming ascii file (pseduo database) into proper database

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Re: Prioritization function needed (recursive help!)

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Re: Transforming ascii file (pseduo database) into proper database

On Jan 21, 4:45 pm, Paul Rubin wrote: > "p." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 1. Has anyone done anything like this before, and if so, do you have > > any advice? > > Sort all the files with an external sort utility (e.g. unix sort), so > that records with the same key are

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Re: Trouble writing to database: RSS-reader

En Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:38:48 -0200, Arne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi�: > On 21 Jan, 19:15, Bruno Desthuilliers [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> This should not prevent you from learning how to properly parse XML >> (hint: with an XML parser). XML is *not* a line-oriented format, so you >> just can'

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On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:00:05 +, Pete Forman wrote: > If NaNs in your data are important then you must take care in explicit > and implicit comparisons to consider unordered results. And even if they're not important, beware of bugs from failing to consider unordered results due to unexpected

Re: Trouble writing to database: RSS-reader

Arne a écrit : > On 21 Jan, 19:15, Bruno Desthuilliers [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> This should not prevent you from learning how to properly parse XML >> (hint: with an XML parser). XML is *not* a line-oriented format, so you >> just can't get nowhere trying to parse it this way. >> >> HTH >

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On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:38:10 -0200, Gabriel Genellina wrote: > En Mon, 21 Jan 2008 05:59:38 -0200, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi�: > >> Is there no way of adding a possible warning message (that obviously >> could be turned off) to warn users of possible problems linked to using >> mutable types as

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Re: index of min element of sequence

On Jan 22, 7:56 am, Paul Rubin wrote: > John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > s/[1]/[0]/ or more generally: > > Oops, got two spellings confused. Originally was going to use > > from itertools import count, izip > min(izip(seq, count()))[1] > > but did it with en

Re: Transforming ascii file (pseduo database) into proper database

"p." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. Has anyone done anything like this before, and if so, do you have > any advice? Sort all the files with an external sort utility (e.g. unix sort), so that records with the same key are all brought together. Then you can process the files sequentially. -- htt

Re: Transforming ascii file (pseduo database) into proper database

On Jan 22, 7:51 am, "p." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to take a series of ascii files and transform the data > contained therein so that it can be inserted into an existing > database. The ascii files are just a series of lines, each line > containing fields separated by '|' character. Relat

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Re: problem deriving form type long

En Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:33:10 -0200, Frederic Rentsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi�: > Hi, here's something that puzzles me: > > >>> class Fix_Point (long): > def __init__ (self, l): >long.__init__ (self, l * 0x1): > > >>> fp = Fix_Point (99) > >>> fp > 99 You have

Re: Transforming ascii file (pseduo database) into proper database

> I need to take a series of ascii files and transform the data > contained therein so that it can be inserted into an existing > database. [snip] > I need to transform the data from the files before inserting > into the database. Now, this would all be relatively simple if > not for the followin

Re: is it possible to set namespace to an object.

On Jan 21, 2:52 pm, glomde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 21 Jan, 20:16, George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Jan 21, 1:56 pm, glomde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 21 Jan, 18:59, Wildemar Wildenburger > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > glomde wrote: > > > > > Hi, >

problem deriving form type long

Hi, here's something that puzzles me: >>> class Fix_Point (long): def __init__ (self, l): long.__init__ (self, l * 0x1): >>> fp = Fix_Point (99) >>> fp 99 With prints: >>> class Fix_Point (long): def __init__ (self, l): print l l_ = l *

Re: index of min element of sequence

John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > s/[1]/[0]/ or more generally: Oops, got two spellings confused. Originally was going to use from itertools import count, izip min(izip(seq, count()))[1] but did it with enumerate instead. I don't know which is actually faster. > minindex, minvalue =

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Re: Trouble writing to database: RSS-reader

On 21 Jan, 19:15, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > This should not prevent you from learning how to properly parse XML > (hint: with an XML parser). XML is *not* a line-oriented format, so you > just can't get nowhere trying to parse it this way. > > HTH Do you think i should use xml.dom.minidom for

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En Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:36:29 -0200, Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi�: > Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:08:46 -0200, Gabriel Genellina wrote: >> >>> The future statement is another example, even worse: >>> >>> if 0: >>> from __future_

Re: index of min element of sequence

Roger Miller wrote: > On Jan 21, 8:48 am, Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Neal Becker wrote: >> > What's a good/fast way to find the index of the minimum element of a >> > sequence? > ... > >> >>> min(xrange(len(items)), key=items.__getitem__) > ... > > Or just >items.index(min(

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Re: index of min element of sequence

On Jan 22, 6:38 am, Paul Rubin wrote: > Neal Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What's a good/fast way to find the index of the minimum element of a > > sequence? (I'm fairly sure sorting the sequence is not the fastest > > approach) > > Python 2.5 (untested): > >

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Re: is it possible to set namespace to an object.

On 21 Jan, 20:16, George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 21, 1:56 pm, glomde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On 21 Jan, 18:59, Wildemar Wildenburger > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > glomde wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > is it somehow possible to set the current namespace so that

Re: index of min element of sequence

On Jan 21, 8:48 am, Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Neal Becker wrote: > > What's a good/fast way to find the index of the minimum element of a > > sequence? ... > >>> min(xrange(len(items)), key=items.__getitem__) ... Or just items.index(min(items)) I found this to be significantly

Re: index of min element of sequence

Neal Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What's a good/fast way to find the index of the minimum element of a > sequence? (I'm fairly sure sorting the sequence is not the fastest > approach) Python 2.5 (untested): from operator import itemgetter minindex = min(enumerate(seq), key=itemgett

Re: problem with 'global'

Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:08:46 -0200, Gabriel Genellina wrote: > >> The future statement is another example, even worse: >> >> if 0: >> from __future__ import with_statement >> >> with open("xxx") as f: >> print f > > In Python >=2.

Re: Bug in __init__?

En Mon, 21 Jan 2008 05:59:38 -0200, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi�: > Is there no way of adding a possible warning message (that obviously > could be turned off) to warn users of possible problems linked to > using mutable types as parameters? > > Seems to me this could save users a few minutes/hour

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On Jan 19, 6:02 pm, "David Tweet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Seems to me that setattrs sort of assumes that you want to have all your > initialization arguments set as attributes of the same name. I would think > you'd sometimes want to be able to process the extra arguments inside of

Re: problem with 'global'

On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:08:46 -0200, Gabriel Genellina wrote: > The future statement is another example, even worse: > > if 0: > from __future__ import with_statement > > with open("xxx") as f: > print f In Python >=2.5 it's a compile time error if that import is not the very first sta

Re: is it possible to set namespace to an object.

On Jan 21, 1:56 pm, glomde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 21 Jan, 18:59, Wildemar Wildenburger > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > glomde wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > is it somehow possible to set the current namespace so that is in an > > > object. > > > [snip] > > > set namespace testObj > > > Na

Re: How to solve "TypeError: list indices must be integers".

On Jan 22, 3:15 am, "" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is more details about my problem, which I running my py script > for my project. Programming in pythoncard that we can develop a GUI > based application easily. > > I was assigned dialog.colorDialog(self) return value to a result > object

Re: problem with 'global'

En Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:44:54 -0200, Mel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi�: > Duncan Booth wrote: >> >> The first sentence (which hasn't changed since 2.4) describing the >> global >> statement seems clear enough to me: "The global statement is a >> declaration >> which holds for the entire current

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On 21 Jan, 18:59, Wildemar Wildenburger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > glomde wrote: > > Hi, > > > is it somehow possible to set the current namespace so that is in an > > object. > > [snip] > > set namespace testObj > > Name = "Test" > > > Name would set testObj.Name to "Test". > > > [snip] > > > Is

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Neal Becker wrote: > What's a good/fast way to find the index of the minimum element of a > sequence? (I'm fairly sure sorting the sequence is not the fastest > approach) >>> items = "defbhkamnz" >>> min(xrange(len(items)), key=items.__getitem__) 6 >>> items[6] 'a' Peter -- http://mail.python.

Re: Trouble writing to database: RSS-reader

En Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:12:43 -0200, Arne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi�: > I try to make a rss-reader in python just for fun, and I'm almost > finished. I don't have any syntax-errors, but when i run my program, > nothing happends. > > This program is supposed to download a .xml-file, save the conte

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Re: Trouble writing to database: RSS-reader

Dennis Lee Bieber a écrit : > On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:12:43 -0800 (PST), Arne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > >> The problem is that i cant find the data in the database! If i watch >> my program while im running it, i can see that it sucsessfuly >> downloads th

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : >> Grab(argdict, key, default) is argdict.pop(key, default) > > "pop() raises a KeyError when no default value is given and the key is > not found." Then use it with a default value !-) >> def grab(kw, key, default=None): >>try: >> return kw.pop(key) >>ex

Re: Trouble writing to database: RSS-reader

Arne a écrit : > Hi! > > I try to make a rss-reader in python just for fun, and I'm almost > finished. Bad news : you're not. > I don't have any syntax-errors, but when i run my program, > nothing happends. > > This program is supposed to download a .xml-file, save the contents in > a buffer-fi

Re: When is min(a, b) != min(b, a)?

Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For applications I work on, it should be NaN. But I think the > result of comparing a Normal to a NaN is undefined, so the > above behavior is allowed by the IEEE spec. Comparison of two floating point datums results in exactly one of these being tr

Re: is it possible to set namespace to an object.

glomde wrote: > Hi, > > is it somehow possible to set the current namespace so that is in an > object. > [snip] > set namespace testObj > Name = "Test" > > Name would set testObj.Name to "Test". > > [snip] > > Is the above possible? > Don't know, sorry. But let me ask you this: Why do you want

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is it possible to set namespace to an object.

Hi, is it somehow possible to set the current namespace so that is in an object. Somthing like. class Test(): testObj = Test() set namespace testObj Name = "Test" Name would set testObj.Name to "Test". I was thinking this could be done with the with statement somehow (without using

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