Re: Do any of you recommend Python as a first programming language?

John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What a mess. That's some professor inventing his very own variation on > predicate calculus and writing a book using his own notation and terminology. I thought it was all pretty standard. It's the same notation I see in other PL stuff. > There's no

Re: Do any of you recommend Python as a first programming language?

Paul Rubin wrote: > Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I've been learning a fair amount about functional programming >> recently, mostly because compile-time C++ turns out to be a pure >> functional programming language. Where should I go for a solid >> grounding in lambda-calculus? > > F

Re: finding items that occur more than once in a list

Arnaud Delobelle wrote: > Bryan Olson wrote: >> We mean that the party supplying the keys deliberately chose >> them to make the hash table inefficient. In this thread the goal >> is efficiency; a party working toward an opposing goal is an >> adversary. > > There are situations where this can hap

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At the PyCon core python sprint I suggested this game and it got some laughs. So I put together a webpage for the game of: German, American, or Other? There is a list of about 30 core devs' last names. Highlight the white text on white background for the [mostly correct] answers. http://jackd

Re: Pyparsing help

On Mar 22, 6:30 pm, Paul McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oof, I see that you have multiple "Layer" entries, with different > qualifying labels.  Since the dicts use "Layer" as the key, you only > get the last "Layer" value, with qualifier "PRBOUNDARY", and lose the > "Layer" for "METAL2".  To

Re: List question

On Mar 22, 8:40�pm, Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:55:39 -0700 (PDT), Zentrader > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > > > is funny and not mean. �In the words of whoever it was in "Gone With > > The Wind", frankly I don't give a

Re: Do any of you recommend Python as a first programming language?

On Mar 22, 11:29�pm, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED] cybersource.com.au> wrote: > On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:11:51 -0700, sturlamolden wrote: > > On 22 Mar, 23:42, 7stud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Beginning programmers in grades 9-12 are not going to understand issues > >> like that, and it w

Re: Do any of you recommend Python as a first programming language?

Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been learning a fair amount about functional programming > recently, mostly because compile-time C++ turns out to be a pure > functional programming language. Where should I go for a solid > grounding in lambda-calculus? For PL theory in general, try

Re: Do any of you recommend Python as a first programming language?

jmDesktop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For students 9th - 12th grade, with at least Algebra I. Do you think > Python is a good first programming language for someone with zero > programming experience? Using Linux and Python for first exposure to > programming languages and principles. I guess

Re: Do any of you recommend Python as a first programming language?

On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:11:51 -0700, sturlamolden wrote: > On 22 Mar, 23:42, 7stud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Beginning programmers in grades 9-12 are not going to understand issues >> like that, and it would be a mistake to try and introduce them. >> Beginning programmers should be concentr

Re: Do any of you recommend Python as a first programming language?

On 22 Mar, 23:42, 7stud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Beginning programmers in grades 9-12 are not going to understand > issues like that, and it would be a mistake to try and introduce > them. Beginning programmers should be concentrating their efforts on > learning the syntax of a language and b

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sturlamolden wrote, On 3/20/2008 9:41 AM: > I just discovered wxFormBuilder. After having tried several GUI > builders for wx (including DialogBlocks, wxGlade, XRCed, Boa > constructor), this is the first one I can actually use. > > To use it wxFormBuilder with wxPython, I generated an xrc resourc

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sturlamolden wrote, On 3/20/2008 9:41 AM: > I just discovered wxFormBuilder. After having tried several GUI > builders for wx (including DialogBlocks, wxGlade, XRCed, Boa > constructor), this is the first one I can actually use. > > To use it wxFormBuilder with wxPython, I generated an xrc resourc

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sturlamolden wrote, On 3/20/2008 9:41 AM: > I just discovered wxFormBuilder. After having tried several GUI > builders for wx (including DialogBlocks, wxGlade, XRCed, Boa > constructor), this is the first one I can actually use. > > To use it wxFormBuilder with wxPython, I generated an xrc resourc

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On Mar 22, 10:03 pm, Tim Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Godzilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Just found out that win32api.GetTickCount() returns a tick count in > >milli-second since XP started. Not sure whether that is reliable. > >Anyone uses that for calculating elapsed time? > > What

Re: Need help calling a proprietary C DLL from Python

On Mar 22, 9:40 pm, Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:12:47 -0700 (PDT), Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > > > > > > > Anyway, I have the following for "types": > > LPBSTR = POINTER(c_void_p) > > HANDLE = POINTER(POINTER(c

Re: Anomaly in time.clock()

Godzilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Just found out that win32api.GetTickCount() returns a tick count in >milli-second since XP started. Not sure whether that is reliable. >Anyone uses that for calculating elapsed time? What do you mean by "reliable"? The tick count is updated as part of schedu

Re: Do any of you recommend Python as a first programming language?

On Mar 22, 11:40 am, jmDesktop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For students 9th - 12th grade, with at least Algebra I.  Do you think > Python is a good first programming language for someone with zero > programming experience?  Using Linux and Python for first exposure to > programming languages and p

Re: Pyparsing help

Oof, I see that you have multiple "Layer" entries, with different qualifying labels. Since the dicts use "Layer" as the key, you only get the last "Layer" value, with qualifier "PRBOUNDARY", and lose the "Layer" for "METAL2". To fix this, you'll have to move the optional alias term to the key, an

Re: Problem with complex numbers

"Christian Heimes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Well, the file is in the Demo folder. It's just a demo how to implement a naive complex type in Python. | Why do you think the power of a complex to a complex is not defined? I suspect because the naive implementa

Re: re.search (works)|(doesn't work) depending on for loop order

En Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:27:49 -0300, sgharvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi�: > ... and by works, I mean works like I expect it to. > > I'm writing my own cheesy config.ini parser because ConfigParser > doesn't preserve case or order of sections, or order of options w/in > sections. Take a look at

Re: Pyparsing help

On Mar 22, 4:11 pm, rh0dium <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am struggling with parsing the following data: > > As a side note:  Is this the right approach to using pyparsing.  Do we > start from the inside and work our way out or should I have started > with looking at the bigger pictur

Re: List question

On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:55:39 -0700, Zentrader wrote: >> No one meant to laugh at you. Your naivete was not obvious. FWIW, a >> sense of humor is a valuable possession in most Python-related >> conversations. > > Perhaps someone can explain how telling something like this to the OP, > who thinks

Re: List question

On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:16:03 -0700, bearophileHUGS wrote: > bearophile: >> A more computer-friendly (and Pythonic) syntax may be ('are' is a >> keyword): > > Sorry for causing confusion, I was just thinking aloud. English isn't my > first language, and sometimes I slip a bit. There is nothing w

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I found a solution to this problem: void handleMessage(void *message) { int size = getSize(message); PyObject *obj = PyBuffer_FromMemory( message, size ) ; boost::python::handle<> h(obj); PyGILState_STATE gstate = PyGILState_Ensure(); try { call(this->get_override("handleMessage").ptr()

Re: Prototype OO

On Mar 23, 12:32 am, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Machin schrieb: > > > On Mar 21, 11:48 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> [1] Just one example:http://docs.mootools.net/Class/Class.js > > > Mootools being something a coworker might use? > > I don't und

Re: List question

bearophile: > A more computer-friendly (and Pythonic) syntax may be ('are' is a keyword): Sorry for causing confusion, I was just thinking aloud. English isn't my first language, and sometimes I slip a bit. Replace that with: > A more computer-friendly (and Pythonic) syntax may be ('are' is meant

Re: re.search (works)|(doesn't work) depending on for loop order

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 sgharvey wrote: > ... and by works, I mean works like I expect it to. > > I'm writing my own cheesy config.ini parser because ConfigParser > doesn't preserve case or order of sections, or order of options w/in > sections. > > What's confusing me is t

Re: re.search (works)|(doesn't work) depending on for loop order

On Mar 23, 7:27 am, sgharvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... and by works, I mean works like I expect it to. You haven't told us what you expect it to do. In any case, your subject heading indicates that the problem is 99.999% likely to be in your logic -- the converse would require the result of

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Re: Subprocess and /usr/bin/dialog

Thanks Grant, that does it! I knew it had to be something simple like that and it was frustrating not to be able to find it. I do prefer the tuple. Thanks again. culley -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Do any of you recommend Python as a first programming language?

On Mar 22, 3:34 pm, bsoist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 22, 12:40 pm, jmDesktop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > For students 9th - 12th grade, with at least Algebra I.  Do you think > > Python is a good first programming language for someone with zero > > programming experience?  Using Linu

Re: Problem with complex numbers

Matthias Götz schrieb: > So can you tell me what's the purpose of Complex.py, > > and where can i find the semantic i'am looking for. Well, the file is in the Demo folder. It's just a demo how to implement a naive complex type in Python. Why do you think the power of a complex to a complex is no

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Re: Need help calling a proprietary C DLL from Python

On Mar 22, 3:13 pm, Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:21:48 -0700 (PDT), Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > > > Sorry, I wasn't trying to exclude any credit from Dennis, I just > > wasn't sure if he wanted to be listed. > >

Re: List question

If you can't laugh at your own stupidity, being a programmer will lead directly to insanity. =) 2008/3/22, Zentrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > No one meant to laugh at you. Your naivete was not obvious. FWIW, a > > sense of humor is a valuable possession in most Python-related > > conversations

Re: List question

> No one meant to laugh at you. Your naivete was not obvious. FWIW, a > sense of humor is a valuable possession in most Python-related > conversations. Perhaps someone can explain how telling something like this to the OP, who thinks this statement will work if 'one' and 'two' in f: is funny and

Re: re.search (works)|(doesn't work) depending on for loop order

On Mar 23, 8:21 am, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:27:49 -0700, sgharvey wrote: > > ... and by works, I mean works like I expect it to. > > > I'm writing my own cheesy config.ini parser because ConfigParser > > doesn't preserve case or order of sections

Re: Problem with complex numbers

Matthias Götz schrieb: > So if somebody can help me, it would be nice. Thanks. The complex type is implemented in C. It's totally unrelated to Complex.py. Christian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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Problem with complex numbers

Hello python fans, I have a small problem using python and complex math. The pow(complex,complex) function in the windows python version doesn't have the same semantic as the source version. (I have downloaded : - Python 2.5.2 compressed source tarball

Re: Do any of you recommend Python as a first programming language?

On Mar 22, 12:40 pm, jmDesktop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For students 9th - 12th grade, with at least Algebra I. Do you think > Python is a good first programming language for someone with zero > programming experience? Using Linux and Python for first exposure to > programming languages and p

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Re: re.search (works)|(doesn't work) depending on for loop order

On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:27:49 -0700, sgharvey wrote: > ... and by works, I mean works like I expect it to. > > I'm writing my own cheesy config.ini parser because ConfigParser > doesn't preserve case or order of sections, or order of options w/in > sections. > > What's confusing me is this: >

Re: Do any of you recommend Python as a first programming language?

Arnaud Delobelle wrote: > Anyway, here the conclusion that I draw: learn lambda-calculus and > Turing machines. The rest is syntactic sugar. How is the lambda-calculus fundamentally different from Turing machine-based implementations? I've been learning a fair amount about functional programmi

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Re: Do any of you recommend Python as a first programming language?

On Mar 22, 7:00 pm, Larry Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > jmDesktop wrote: > > For students 9th - 12th grade, with at least Algebra I.  Do you think > > Python is a good first programming language for someone with zero > > programming experience?  Using Linux and Python for first exposure to > >

re.search (works)|(doesn't work) depending on for loop order

... and by works, I mean works like I expect it to. I'm writing my own cheesy config.ini parser because ConfigParser doesn't preserve case or order of sections, or order of options w/in sections. What's confusing me is this: If I try matching every line to one pattern at a time, all the patter

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Re: function-class frustration

En Sat, 22 Mar 2008 07:07:18 -0300, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi�: > On Mar 22, 7:19 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> On the other hand, are you willing to make changes to the console? >> How big and what? I was thinking of __ to keep the second-to-last >> most recent command. > > A

Re: Do any of you recommend Python as a first programming language?

jmDesktop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For students 9th - 12th grade, with at least Algebra I. Do you think > Python is a good first programming language for someone with zero > programming experience? It's at least pretty good. It's not ideal, but nothing ever is. What I mean is: it's the bes

Re: finding items that occur more than once in a list

On Mar 22, 3:31 am, Bryan Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > John Machin wrote: > >> On Mar 22, 1:11 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> A collision sequence is not so rare. > >> [ hash( 2**i ) for i in range( 0, 256, 32 ) ] > >>> [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1] > >> Bryan

Re: Do any of you recommend Python as a first programming language?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeff Schwab wrote: > jmDesktop wrote: >> For students 9th - 12th grade, with at least Algebra I. Do you think >> Python is a good first programming language for someone with zero >> programming experience? Using Linux and Python for first exposure to

Re: Do any of you recommend Python as a first programming language?

On Mar 22, 3:48 pm, Arnaud Delobelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > jmDesktop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > For students 9th - 12th grade, with at least Algebra I. Do you think > > Python is a good first programming language for someone with zero > > programming experience? Using Linux and Python

Re: Do any of you recommend Python as a first programming language?

Larry Bates wrote: > jmDesktop wrote: >> For students 9th - 12th grade, with at least Algebra I. Do you think >> Python is a good first programming language for someone with zero >> programming experience? Using Linux and Python for first exposure to >> programming languages and principles. >> >>

Re: Do any of you recommend Python as a first programming language?

jmDesktop wrote: > For students 9th - 12th grade, with at least Algebra I. Do you think > Python is a good first programming language for someone with zero > programming experience? Using Linux and Python for first exposure to > programming languages and principles. > > Thank you. ABSOLUTELY.

Re: Do any of you recommend Python as a first programming language?

jmDesktop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For students 9th - 12th grade, with at least Algebra I. Do you think > Python is a good first programming language for someone with zero > programming experience? Using Linux and Python for first exposure to > programming languages and principles. I'm not

Re: Do any of you recommend Python as a first programming language?

jmDesktop wrote: > For students 9th - 12th grade, with at least Algebra I. Do you think > Python is a good first programming language for someone with zero > programming experience? Using Linux and Python for first exposure to > programming languages and principles. Linux and Python are a nearly

Re: List question

Zentrader wrote: > On Mar 22, 10:07 am, Arnaud Delobelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mar 22, 4:38 pm, Zentrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> if ('one', 'two') are in f: ... >>> "are" gives me an error in Python 2.5 with a "from future import *" >>> statement included. What version and p

Re: List question

On Mar 22, 10:07 am, Arnaud Delobelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 22, 4:38 pm, Zentrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > if ('one', 'two') are in f: ... > > > "are" gives me an error in Python 2.5 with a "from future import *" > > statement included. What version and platform are you ru

Re: List question

On Mar 22, 4:38 pm, Zentrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > if ('one', 'two') are in f: ... > > "are" gives me an error in Python 2.5 with a "from future import *" > statement included.  What version and platform are you running.  Also, > the docs don't mention it.http://docs.python.org/ref/keywor

Re: Do any of you recommend Python as a first programming language?

On Mar 22, 1:40 pm, jmDesktop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For students 9th - 12th grade, with at least Algebra I. Do you think > Python is a good first programming language for someone with zero > programming experience? Using Linux and Python for first exposure to > programming languages and pr

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For students 9th - 12th grade, with at least Algebra I. Do you think Python is a good first programming language for someone with zero programming experience? Using Linux and Python for first exposure to programming languages and principles. Thank you. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: List question

> if ('one', 'two') are in f: ... "are" gives me an error in Python 2.5 with a "from future import *" statement included. What version and platform are you running. Also, the docs don't mention it. http://docs.python.org/ref/keywords.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: NameError: name 'guess' is not defined

On Mar 22, 10:44 am, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > > > > > I am very new to both programming and Pyhton and while trying to do > > some practice using A byte of python an Error pops up on the IDLE > > shell. I am using windows XP. PLease see below. > >

Re: NameError: name 'guess' is not defined

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am very new to both programming and Pyhton and while trying to do > some practice using A byte of python an Error pops up on the IDLE > shell. I am using windows XP. PLease see below. > while running: > guess = int(raw_input('Enter an integer : ')) > > if guess == numbe

Re: Subprocess and /usr/bin/dialog

On 2008-03-22, harrelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> proc = subprocess.Popen(command, shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, >>> stderr=subprocess.STDOUT) >>> stderr_value = proc.communicate()[0] >>> print stderr_value >> dialog displays the widget on stdout. You've connected stdout >> to a pip

Re: NameError: name 'guess' is not defined

[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > I am very new to both programming and Pyhton and while trying to do > some practice using A byte of python an Error pops up on the IDLE > shell. I am using windows XP. PLease see below. > while running: > guess = int(raw_input('Enter an integer : ')) > > if guess == nu

Re: Subprocess and /usr/bin/dialog

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I am very new to both programming and Pyhton and while trying to do some practice using A byte of python an Error pops up on the IDLE shell. I am using windows XP. PLease see below. while running: guess = int(raw_input('Enter an integer : ')) if guess == number: print 'Congratulations, you guessed

Re: How to implement command line tool integrating parsing engine

On 22 Mar, 14:48, llandre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - it must run both on linux and windows PC > - it must interact with an electronic device connected to the PC through > serial cable Python should be fine. > - initially the program must be written in the form of simple command > line tool t

Re: Distributing Python Apps on Linux\BSD

PurpleServerMonkey schrieb: > On Mar 22, 2:26 am, Miki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Disclaimer: I'm not an expert on the subject. >> >>> Setuptools and friends seem to be focused on distributing modules, I'm >>> at the other end of the scale where I want to distribute an entire >>> ap

Re: Subprocess and /usr/bin/dialog

On Mar 21, 3:59 pm, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-03-21, harrelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am trying to get the below code to work and can't quite make things > > happen. This is with Python 2.5.1. Dialog is doing something odd... > > I have tinkered with different

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Re: finding items that occur more than once in a list

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Re: Prototype OO

John Machin schrieb: > On Mar 21, 11:48 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> [1] Just one example:http://docs.mootools.net/Class/Class.js > > Mootools being something a coworker might use? > I don't understand the question. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyt

Re: implementing tab completion using python

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Re: finding items that occur more than once in a list

On Mar 22, 9:58 pm, Arnaud Delobelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Lastly, if one deals with a totally ordered set of object but they are > not hashable (there isn't a good hash function), then Ninereeds' idea > of sorting first is still useful. ... and if not totally ordered, then ... I'll just

Re: function-class frustration

On Mar 22, 10:07 am, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 22, 7:19 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > On the other hand, are you willing to make changes to the console? > > How big and what?  I was thinking of __ to keep the second-to-last > > most recent command. > > Access to and e

Re: finding items that occur more than once in a list

On Mar 22, 8:31 am, Bryan Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > John Machin wrote: > >> On Mar 22, 1:11 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> A collision sequence is not so rare. > >> [ hash( 2**i ) for i in range( 0, 256, 32 ) ] > >>> [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1] > >> Bryan

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On Mar 22, 7:19 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On the other hand, are you willing to make changes to the console? > How big and what? I was thinking of __ to keep the second-to-last > most recent command. Access to and editing of previous input lines is already provided by the cooked mode of t

Re: Can I run a python program from within emacs?

On Mar 20, 3:09 pm, jmDesktop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I'm trying to learn Python. I using Aquamac an emac > implementation with mac os x. I have a program. If I go to the > command prompt and type pythong myprog.py, it works. Can the program > be run from within the editor or is that n

Re: Distributing Python Apps on Linux\BSD

On Mar 22, 2:26 am, Miki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Disclaimer: I'm not an expert on the subject. > > > Setuptools and friends seem to be focused on distributing modules, I'm > > at the other end of the scale where I want to distribute an entire > > application so that an Administrator

Re: finding items that occur more than once in a list

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > John Machin wrote: >> On Mar 22, 1:11 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> A collision sequence is not so rare. >> [ hash( 2**i ) for i in range( 0, 256, 32 ) ] >>> [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1] >> Bryan did qualify his remarks: "If we exclude the case where an >> adversary i

function-class frustration

>>> FunctionType.__eq__= 0 Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in TypeError: can't set attributes of built-in/extension type 'function' >>> type( 'F', ( FunctionType, ), { '__eq__': e } ) Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in TypeError: type 'function' is not

Re: Is this doable

On Mar 21, 12:48 pm, fkallgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. > > I have a little problem. I have a script that is in the scheduler > (win32). But every now and then I update this script and I dont want > to go to every computer and update it. So now I want the program to 1) > check for new versi

Re: finding items that occur more than once in a list

On Mar 21, 3:39 pm, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 22, 1:11 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > A collision sequence is not so rare. > > > >>> [ hash( 2**i ) for i in range( 0, 256, 32 ) ] > > > [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1] > > Bryan did qualify his remarks: "If we exclude the case where

Re: dividing tuple elements with an int or float

On Mar 21, 1:08 pm, Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sane programmers replace that crazyness with this code: > > tuple(x+1 for x in y) > > Sane programmers -like D'Aprano, Jerry Hill and me- replace that > crazyness with this code: > > tuple(x/2.5 for x in y) > > Sane programmers don'

Re: wxPython/wxWidgets ok for production use ?

On Mar 10, 3:27 pm, Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stefan Behnel wrote: > > Malcolm Greene wrote: > > >>> My personal experience with wxPython has its ups and downs. Specifically > >>> when it comes to crashes, I wouldn't bet my life on it. > > >> I'm new to Python and getting ready to b

Re: wxFormBuilder

On Mar 20, 9:41 am, sturlamolden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just discovered wxFormBuilder. After having tried several GUI > builders for wx (including DialogBlocks, wxGlade, XRCed,Boa > constructor), this is the first one I can actually use. Why can't you use Boa Constructor? I really enjoy u