How to iterate a sequence, with skipping the first item?

2008-08-11 Thread ray
A container object provides a method that returns an iterator object. I need to iterate the sequence with that iterator, but need to skip the first item. I can only iterate the whole sequence with: for x in container.iterChildren(): How to skip the first item? It seems that it's a simple question.

Re: File reading across network (windows)

2008-08-11 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Prof. William Battersea schrieb: Hello, Suppose I have a Vista machine called VISTA and an XP machine called XP in a workgroup named WORKGROUP. Physically they're connected to a router and I can see lists of public and shared files on each of them. How do I address these for IO? A search sugges

ANN: pyglet 1.1

2008-08-11 Thread Alex Holkner
pyglet 1.1 has been released, with many new features since pyglet 1.0 (scroll down for details). http://www.pyglet.org --- pyglet provides an object-oriented programming interface for developing games and other visually-rich applications for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Some of the features of p

Re: Wouldn't it be nice if this worked?

2008-08-11 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:21:13 -0300, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi�: Calvin Spealman wrote: dont quote me but i do think this check is being removed. No, the check hasn't been removed - technically speaking. In Python 3.0 the behavior of the method descriptor has been change

ANN: papyros 0.2

2008-08-11 Thread George Sakkis
I am pleased to announce papyros-0.2, the second alpha release of papyros: http://code.google.com/p/papyros/. Compared to the initial release 14 months ago, only the basic goal has remained the same; both the API and the internals have been thoroughly revamped. Some of the highlights are: - As sim

Re: WinCvs Macros

2008-08-11 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:22:31 -0300, Ren ChunYi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi�: Does anyone here have some doc like WinCVS API? I'm reading WinCvs integrated Macros, but someplace make me puzzle. Better ask those questions in the WinCVS mailing list (or Yahoo group: http://tech.groups.yahoo.

Re: tkinter, askopenfilename, initial directory

2008-08-11 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:08:56 -0300, Lisa Frauens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi�: I see there is an initial directory option in askopenfilename. However, I want the initial directory to be the last directory used in a prior execution of my script. Is there a way to force the askopenfilename

Re: internet searching program

2008-08-11 Thread alex23
On Aug 12, 12:03 am, "Support Desk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Google does'nt allow use of their API's anymore, I belive Yahoo has one Are you sure? "Google Custom Search enables you to search over a website or a collection of websites. You can harness the power of Google to create a search eng

Re: string to type object (C)

2008-08-11 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Wed, 06 Aug 2008 01:55:10 -0300, castironpi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi�: Do you know if uncooperative (not necc'ly malicious) code could interfere: __builtin__.int= None __builtin__.int __builtin__.int= type( 0 ) __builtin__.int ? Or would PyImport_Import(s) create a namespace that h

Re: dynamically creating html code with python...

2008-08-11 Thread Stefan Behnel
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > how can I combine some dynamically generated html code (using python) with > the output of a urllib.openurl() call? Why reinvent the wheel? Try one of the existing web frameworks. There may be a learning curve for most of them, but you may also end up doing things t

Re: Starting seperate programs

2008-08-11 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:03:59 -0300, David Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi�: Is there a way for a python program start another python program, and then continue, without waiting for the second program to finish? os.startfile() seems to be what I want on windows, but I need it to work on lin

Re: Building python-svn from source

2008-08-11 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> ./Parser/asdl_c.py -h ./Include ./Parser/Python.asdl > Must specify exactly one output file > make: *** [Include/Python-ast.h] Error 1 > > Am I doing something wrong? If not, how do I work around this error? For some reason, the getopt module in your host's python cannot process the command li

Re: list question... unique values in all possible unique spots

2008-08-11 Thread ToshiBoy
Thank you for all your responses. I've tried the permutations road (thank you to all those of you who have suggested it) and it takes %*& %^ long :-) As expected. I've solved it a different way, which runs through the 26 spots by just adding one at a time if available. Still takes a long time, but

Re: Suggestion for converting PDF files to HTML/txt files

2008-08-11 Thread alex23
srinivasan srinivas wrote: > Could someone suggest me ways to convert PDF files to HTML files?? > Does Python have any modules to do that job?? PDFMiner is a set of CLI tools written in Python, one of which converts PDF to text, HTML and more: http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/python/pdfminer/index.h

Re: Problems returning data from embedded Python

2008-08-11 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:58:00 -0300, Cromulent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi�: Okay I'm having a few issues with this and I can't seem to get it sorted out (most likely due to my inexperience with Python). Here is my Python code: def fileInput(): data = [] s = raw_input("Please ent

Re: list question... unique values in all possible unique spots

2008-08-11 Thread Mensanator
On Aug 11, 7:34 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Mensanator: > > > Ever tried to iterate 403 septillion times? > > The OP is talking about formulas, like: > X + Y * Z = W > Where X, Y, Z, W distinct and in [1, 26], so you have C(26, 4) > combinations that's way less than 26! > > >>> binomial(26, 4) >

Re: module import search path strangeness

2008-08-11 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:19:19 -0300, tow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi�: I have a python script (part of a django application, if it makes any difference) which is exhibiting the following behaviour: import my_module # succeeds imp.find_module("my_module") # fails, raising ImportError which is

File reading across network (windows)

2008-08-11 Thread Prof. William Battersea
Hello, Suppose I have a Vista machine called VISTA and an XP machine called XP in a workgroup named WORKGROUP. Physically they're connected to a router and I can see lists of public and shared files on each of them. How do I address these for IO? A search suggested that the form open(r"\\server\f

Re: Editing a file by substitution

2008-08-11 Thread Brad
alex23 wrote: On Aug 12, 12:03 pm, Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So let's say I want to edit this file and change Volume from 940 to 950. Personally, I'd recommend avoiding re and sticking with the standard string functions. Something like this should be pretty effective: open('outfile','

Re: dynamically creating html code with python...

2008-08-11 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:47:53 -0300, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi�: BTW, you are right about me not having a clue about http. It's the first time I try to do something with it. May be you could point me out to some good links where I can learn. This topic was discussed some time ago - perhaps

a podcast for music algo-comped with python

2008-08-11 Thread '2+
well maybe am over-advertising .. excuse me ... am new to python but my "algo-comping cs.sco with python" thang kinda got lauched after all so decided to move from java to python to do these thangs completly platform independently oh .. am just curious who are the guys over here composing weird

Re: os.system question

2008-08-11 Thread Asun Friere
On Aug 8, 6:07 am, Mike Driscoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 6, 8:07 pm, Kevin Walzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>> import os > > >>> foo = os.system('whoami') > > kevin > > >>> print foo > > 0 > > >>> > > > The standard output of the system command 'whoami' is my login name. Yet

Re: Editing a file by substitution

2008-08-11 Thread alex23
On Aug 12, 12:03 pm, Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So let's say I want to edit this file and change Volume from 940 to 950. Personally, I'd recommend avoiding re and sticking with the standard string functions. Something like this should be pretty effective: >>> open('outfile','w').writeline

Re: updating dictionaries from/to dictionaries

2008-08-11 Thread Brandon
John: > "append"? Don't you mean "add"??? Yes, that is what I meant, my apologies. > What you need to do is practice translating from your > requirements into Python, and it's not all that hard: > > "run a loop through foo" -> for key in foo: > "match any of its keys that also exist in bar" -> i

Building python-svn from source

2008-08-11 Thread The Pythonista
First of all, I apologize if this would be more appropriate for python- dev, but I don't normally subscribe to that list, and felt it would also be of general use, so I'm having problems building the latest Python 2.6 and 3.0 from subversion, and I'm not sure how to resolve the problem. In

Editing a file by substitution

2008-08-11 Thread Brad
Hi, what I'd like to do is edit an input file for a calculation with Python. Let's say that I have an input file like the following -->> BLAH BLAH BLAH Other inputs, Volume 940 m^3, maybe some more stuff STUFF STUFF -->> So let's say I

Re: os.system question

2008-08-11 Thread Brad
Kevin Walzer wrote: >>> import os >>> foo = os.system('whoami') kevin >>> print foo 0 >>> The standard output of the system command 'whoami' is my login name. Yet the value of the 'foo' object is '0,' not 'kevin.' How can I get the value of 'kevin' associated with foo? Hi Kevin, check

Re: Broken examples

2008-08-11 Thread Tim Roberts
norseman wrote: Tim; Finally got a chance to test your snippet. Thank you for it! I took the liberty of flushing it out a bit. #!/--- # import os import win32com.client excel = win32com.client.Dispatch( 'Excel.Application' ) excel.Visible=1# shows the spread

Re: Broken examples

2008-08-11 Thread John Machin
On Aug 12, 10:36 am, norseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tim; > Finally got a chance to test your snippet. Thank you for it! > > I took the liberty of flushing it out a bit. > > #!/--- > # > import os > import win32com.client > > excel = win32com.client.Dispatch( 'Excel.A

Re: Inheritance crossover packages

2008-08-11 Thread Carl Banks
On Aug 11, 2:41 pm, Johannes Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello group, > > I'm having a seemingly simple problem. I want to generate a hierarchy of > modules, like this one: > > GenerationScripts/ > GenerationScripts/dhcp > GenerationScripts/bind9 > > And the files: > > GenerationScripts/dhcp

Re: Broken examples

2008-08-11 Thread norseman
Tim; Finally got a chance to test your snippet. Thank you for it! I took the liberty of flushing it out a bit. #!/--- # import os import win32com.client excel = win32com.client.Dispatch( 'Excel.Application' ) excel.Visible=1# shows the spreadsheet (can be

Re: list question... unique values in all possible unique spots

2008-08-11 Thread bearophileHUGS
Mensanator: > Ever tried to iterate 403 septillion times? The OP is talking about formulas, like: X + Y * Z = W Where X, Y, Z, W distinct and in [1, 26], so you have C(26, 4) combinations that's way less than 26! >>> binomial(26, 4) 14950 So this can be solved with a xcombinations() generator.

Re: updating dictionaries from/to dictionaries

2008-08-11 Thread John Machin
On Aug 12, 9:14 am, Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wasn't sure about the update method either, since AFAICT (not far) > the values would in fact update, not append as I needed them to. "append"? Don't you mean "add"??? > But > the iteritems and get combo definitely worked for me. Under s

Re: list question... unique values in all possible unique spots

2008-08-11 Thread Mensanator
On Aug 11, 3:53 pm, Tobiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:46:10 -0700, Tobiah wrote: > > On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 08:07:26 -0700, Mensanator wrote: > > >> 40329146112660563558400 > > > I think it's only 4 septillion. > > I meant to say 403. Whatever. Ever tried to iterate 403

Re: updating dictionaries from/to dictionaries

2008-08-11 Thread Brandon
I wasn't sure about the update method either, since AFAICT (not far) the values would in fact update, not append as I needed them to. But the iteritems and get combo definitely worked for me. Thank you for the suggested link. I'm familiar with that page, but my skill level isn't so far along yet

Re: updating dictionaries from/to dictionaries

2008-08-11 Thread John Machin
On Aug 12, 2:52 am, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED] cybersource.com.au> wrote: > On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:27:46 -0700, Brandon wrote: > > This should be pretty simple: I have two dictionaries, foo and bar. I > > am certain that all keys in bar belong to foo as well, but I also know > > that not a

Re: SSH utility

2008-08-11 Thread Sean DiZazzo
On Aug 11, 5:17 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > for similar tasks, I use pexpecthttp://pypi.python.org/pypi/pexpect. > > spawning bash process and simulate an interactive session. Here sending ls > command, retrieving results and exiting. In the spawned process ssh or any > other command, is just

Re: updating dictionaries from/to dictionaries

2008-08-11 Thread Brandon
"Harder to say what you want to do than to just do it." The truly terrible thing is when you know that's the case even as you're saying it. Thanks for the help, all! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: dynamically creating html code with python...

2008-08-11 Thread Carsten Haese
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [CODE] f = StringIO.StringIO() pylab.savefig(f) return 'data:image/png,' + urllib.quote(f.getvalue()) [/CODE] This works fine in Firefox, but not in IE7. Any ideas why? Yes. Internet Explorer doesn't support the "data:" URI scheme. -- Carsten Haese http:/

Re: ANN: yolk 0.4.1

2008-08-11 Thread Dog Walker
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Rob Cakebread <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > yolk 0.4.1 has been released. This is mainly a bugfix release. > > Changes: > > * Added HTTP proxy support for XML-RPC > * -f is now case-insensitive > * -S does not return the entire PyPI index if a package doesn't e

Re: eval or execute, is this the (most) correct way ?

2008-08-11 Thread Martin v. Löwis
>> You should be using compile with the "single" start symbol, and then >> use eval on the resulting code option. >> >> > thanks Martin, > but when I read the doc (of one of the many) "compile" functions, > I see 2 problems: > - I still have to provide "kind" as exec or eval No, you can also us

module import search path strangeness

2008-08-11 Thread tow
I have a python script (part of a django application, if it makes any difference) which is exhibiting the following behaviour: import my_module # succeeds imp.find_module("my_module") # fails, raising ImportError which is completely baffling me. According to sys.path, both should fail; the direct

Re: dynamically creating html code with python...

2008-08-11 Thread anartz
btw, credits for the code shown below also for: http://bitworking.org/news/Sparklines_in_data_URIs_in_Python [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : > This makes sense. Thanks! > > I managed to get what I wanted with something similar to what you suggested: > > [CODE] > print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n" >

Re: eval or execute, is this the (most) correct way ?

2008-08-11 Thread Terry Reedy
Stef Mientki wrote: Steven D'Aprano wrote: The best solution is not to re-invent the wheel: "import code" is the way to emulate Python's interactive interpreter. sorry, but that confuses me even more, "The code module provides facilities to implement read-eval-print loops in Python. Two cl

Re: eval or execute, is this the (most) correct way ?

2008-08-11 Thread Stef Mientki
Martin v. Löwis wrote: So AFAIK, sometimes I've to use eval and sometimes I need exec, so I use the following code (global / local dictionary parameters are left out in this example): Is this the (most) correct / elegant way, or are there better solutions ? You should be using compile wi

Re: dynamically creating html code with python...

2008-08-11 Thread anartz
This makes sense. Thanks! I managed to get what I wanted with something similar to what you suggested: [CODE] print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n" html=""" data analysis site This is a test After image text """ print html

Re: Custom PyQt4 Slots

2008-08-11 Thread ff
On Aug 11, 9:56 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Diez B. Roggisch schrieb: > > > > > ff schrieb: > >> Is it possible to create custom PyQt4 Slots, i have searched high and > >> low to no avail; > > >> I have an application that can set animation speed to different > >> levels, i

Re: dict.update() useful or not?

2008-08-11 Thread Martin v. Löwis
>> def create_request(url, headers): >> headers.update(DEFAULT_HEADERS) >> req = urllib2.Request(url, None, headers) >> # ... >> return req >> >> but of course this second example does the Wrong Thing, replacing >> explicit headers with default values. > > There's a second code s

Re: eval or execute, is this the (most) correct way ?

2008-08-11 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> So AFAIK, sometimes I've to use eval and sometimes I need exec, > so I use the following code (global / local dictionary parameters are > left out in this example): > > > Is this the (most) correct / elegant way, or are there better solutions ? You should be using compile with the "single" sta

Re: Digitally sign PDF files

2008-08-11 Thread haxier
On 11 ago, 22:29, Hartmut Goebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm developing an application with some reports and we're looking for > > advice. This reports should be openoffice.org .odf files, pdf files, > > and perhaps microsoft word files (.doc, .docx?) and must be digitally > > signed. Is ou

Re: Custom PyQt4 Slots

2008-08-11 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Diez B. Roggisch schrieb: ff schrieb: Is it possible to create custom PyQt4 Slots, i have searched high and low to no avail; I have an application that can set animation speed to different levels, i want the user to alter this, now quite clearly i can write a single function to control setting

Re: list question... unique values in all possible unique spots

2008-08-11 Thread Tobiah
On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:46:10 -0700, Tobiah wrote: > On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 08:07:26 -0700, Mensanator wrote: > >> 40329146112660563558400 > > I think it's only 4 septillion. I meant to say 403. ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com ** -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: list question... unique values in all possible unique spots

2008-08-11 Thread Tobiah
On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:46:10 -0700, Tobiah wrote: > On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 08:07:26 -0700, Mensanator wrote: > >> 40329146112660563558400 > > I think it's only 4 septillion. I meant 403. ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com ** -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Custom PyQt4 Slots

2008-08-11 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
ff schrieb: Is it possible to create custom PyQt4 Slots, i have searched high and low to no avail; I have an application that can set animation speed to different levels, i want the user to alter this, now quite clearly i can write a single function to control setting any speed with something li

Re: list question... unique values in all possible unique spots

2008-08-11 Thread Tobiah
On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 08:07:26 -0700, Mensanator wrote: > 40329146112660563558400 I think it's only 4 septillion. Perfectly manageable. ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com ** -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Custom PyQt4 Slots

2008-08-11 Thread ff
Is it possible to create custom PyQt4 Slots, i have searched high and low to no avail; I have an application that can set animation speed to different levels, i want the user to alter this, now quite clearly i can write a single function to control setting any speed with something like: def setSp

Re: A Question about ctypes and a function f(void **)

2008-08-11 Thread Nick Craig-Wood
sapsi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a C function f(void**,int *), in which it writes some > information (it is a RGB32 image). > > Here is what i do > rowlength=c_int() > data=c_void_p() > d=pointer(data) > f(d,byref(rowlength) > The call works (no segmentation fault), now how do i a

Full Time Python developer position in Dallas TX

2008-08-11 Thread Bhavani
please respond with resume. Candidates must be in the USA. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Digitally sign PDF files

2008-08-11 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Hi, I'm developing an application with some reports and we're looking for advice. This reports should be openoffice.org .odf files, pdf files, and perhaps microsoft word files (.doc, .docx?) and must be digitally signed. Is out there some kind of libraries to ease this tasks? For signing you c

Re: dynamically creating html code with python...

2008-08-11 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Sorry, my fault... I am trying to build a web application for data analysis. Basically some data will be read from a database and passed to a python script (myLibs.py) to build an image as follows. [CODE] f=urllib.urlopen("http://localhost/path2Libs/myLibs.py",urlli

Re: Python for Blackberry mobile phones

2008-08-11 Thread James Matthews
It would be also nice to see python on an iPhone On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 8:29 AM, Timothy Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 9:54 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm looking for a version of Python for Blackberry mobile phones - has > > anyone heard of such a thing? I'v

Re: Inheritance crossover packages

2008-08-11 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Johannes Bauer a écrit : Hello group, I'm having a seemingly simple problem. I want to generate a hierarchy of modules, like this one: GenerationScripts/ GenerationScripts/dhcp GenerationScripts/bind9 And the files: GenerationScripts/dhcp/__init__.py GenerationScripts/bind9/generator.py Gen

RE: SSH utility

2008-08-11 Thread Support Desk
What about pexpect? http://www.noah.org/wiki/Pexpect -Original Message- From: Alan Franzoni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 5:41 AM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: SSH utility James Brady was kind enough to say: > Hi all, > I'm looking for a python lib

Re: for x,y in word1, word2 ?

2008-08-11 Thread Timothy Grant
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Dave Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, Timothy. I'm pretty sure that there is no such thing as a "beautiful" > implementation of double-metaphone but I would personally like to have a copy > of your python implementation. I have a fairly elegant versio

Professional Grant Proposal Writing Workshop (August 2008: Boston, Massachusetts - University of Phoenix Campus)

2008-08-11 Thread Anthony Jones
The Grant Institute: Certificate in Professional Program Development and Grant Communication will be held at the University of Phoenix - Burlington Campus, August 18 - 22, 2008.  Interested development professionals, researchers, faculty, and graduate students should register as soon as possible

Re: for x,y in word1, word2 ?

2008-08-11 Thread Dave Webster
Thanks, Timothy. I'm pretty sure that there is no such thing as a "beautiful" implementation of double-metaphone but I would personally like to have a copy of your python implementation. I have a fairly elegant version of the original metaphone algorithm I wrote myself (in PERL, many years ago) b

A Question about ctypes and a function f(void **)

2008-08-11 Thread sapsi
Hello, I have a C function f(void**,int *), in which it writes some information (it is a RGB32 image). Here is what i do rowlength=c_int() data=c_void_p() d=pointer(data) f(d,byref(rowlength) The call works (no segmentation fault), now how do i access the data in d? Because i need to pass it to a

Inheritance crossover packages

2008-08-11 Thread Johannes Bauer
Hello group, I'm having a seemingly simple problem. I want to generate a hierarchy of modules, like this one: GenerationScripts/ GenerationScripts/dhcp GenerationScripts/bind9 And the files: GenerationScripts/dhcp/__init__.py GenerationScripts/bind9/generator.py GenerationScripts/bind9/__ini

Re: Video information

2008-08-11 Thread Tobias Billep
2008/8/9 dusans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Is there a py module, which would get me information of a movie file: > - resolution > - fps > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > if you have linux installed you can use gstreamer and the bindings pygst -tobias -- http://mail.python.o

Re: dynamically creating html code with python...

2008-08-11 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for your patience. > > I got the text displayed in the web browser with the following code: > > [CODE] > f=StringIO.StringIO() > f.write('data analysis site') > f.write("This is a trial test") > f.write("") > > print "Content-type: text/html\n" > print

Re: Eclipse, Python, wxPython and code completion

2008-08-11 Thread Stef Mientki
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've installed Eclipse, Python 2.5 and wxPython on Ubuntu 8.04. The problem is that I can't get code completion for wx module. I don't know if it occurs the same with other libraries outside the python "core". If I compile/run my code containing the wx library, I

Re: for x,y in word1, word2 ?

2008-08-11 Thread Timothy Grant
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 8:44 AM, Casey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My first thought is that you should be looking at implementations of > Hamming Distance. If you are actually looking for something like > SOUNDEX you might also want to look at the double metaphor algorithm, > which is significant

Re: Video information

2008-08-11 Thread Peter Otten
dusans wrote: > Is there a py module, which would get me information of a movie file: > - resolution > - fps http://doc.freevo.org/2.0/Kaa#head-919960011a3523a465d1cacc57f2f8e7b0e8ad00 (I haven't used it myself) Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Missing exceptions in PEP 3107

2008-08-11 Thread Matimus
> Maybe the following syntax would be even more intuitive: > > def foo(a: "a info", b: "b info") return "ret info" raise "exc info": >         return "hello world" > > I don't know how determined the "->" syntax is already. That seems much more intuitive and extensible. The "->" syntax has always

Re: dynamically creating html code with python...

2008-08-11 Thread Timothy Grant
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 10:05 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for your patience. > > I got the text displayed in the web browser with the following code: > > [CODE] > f=StringIO.StringIO() > f.write('data analysis site') > f.write("This is a trial test") > f.write("") > > print "Co

Re: dict.update() useful or not?

2008-08-11 Thread Duncan Booth
Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dict1.update(dict2) is of course equivalent to this code: > > for key, value in dict2.iteritems(): > dict1[key] = value > > Note that it replaces values in dict1 with the value taken from dict2. I > don't know about other people, but I more often

Re: eval or execute, is this the (most) correct way ?

2008-08-11 Thread Stef Mientki
Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:26:56 +0200, Stef Mientki wrote: I'm trying to make an editor with an integrated Shell. ... Is this the (most) correct / elegant way, or are there better solutions ? The best solution is not to re-invent the wheel: "import code"

dict.update() useful or not?

2008-08-11 Thread Steven D'Aprano
dict1.update(dict2) is of course equivalent to this code: for key, value in dict2.iteritems(): dict1[key] = value Note that it replaces values in dict1 with the value taken from dict2. I don't know about other people, but I more often want to keep the values in dict1 regardless of what's in

Re: benchmark

2008-08-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
Peter Otten wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: Peter Otten wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 10, 10:10 pm, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: jlist wrote: I think what makes more sense is to compare the code one most typically writes. In my case, I always use range() and never use psyc

Re: New python module to simulate arbitrary fixed and infinite precision binary floating point

2008-08-11 Thread Rob Clewley
> > Is this related to minifloats? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minifloat > Strictly speaking, yes, although after a brief introduction to the general idea, the entry on that page focuses entirely on the interpretation of the values as integers. My code *only* represents the values in the same

Re: benchmark

2008-08-11 Thread bearophileHUGS
Peter Otten: > In general I think that if you want to promote a particular coding style you > should pick an example where you can demonstrate actual benefits. That good thing is that Python 3 has only xrange (named range), so this discussion will be mostly over ;-) Bye, bearophile -- http://mail

Re: dynamically creating html code with python...

2008-08-11 Thread anartz
Hi, Thanks for your patience. I got the text displayed in the web browser with the following code: [CODE] f=StringIO.StringIO() f.write('data analysis site') f.write("This is a trial test") f.write("") print "Content-type: text/html\n" print f.getvalue() f.close() [/CODE] Now I am trying to pu

Re: updating dictionaries from/to dictionaries

2008-08-11 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:27:46 -0700, Brandon wrote: > This should be pretty simple: I have two dictionaries, foo and bar. I > am certain that all keys in bar belong to foo as well, but I also know > that not all keys in foo exist in bar. All the keys in both foo and bar > are tuples (in the bigra

Re: benchmark

2008-08-11 Thread Peter Otten
Kris Kennaway wrote: > Peter Otten wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> On Aug 10, 10:10 pm, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: jlist wrote: > I think what makes more sense is to compare the code one most > typically writes. In my case, I always use range() and never use >

pympi and threading in python

2008-08-11 Thread Dina Ali
Hello there I am confused in the usage/differences of pympi and threading in python. What I want to do it to run multiple MCMC simulations by dividing the number of the chains I want to run on number of the processors available. Some methods need to be synchronized/locked until some addition opera

Re: dynamically creating html code with python...

2008-08-11 Thread Jerry Hill
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 12:26 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have tried calling a script containing the code below from a web browser > and it did not get the text. You quoted my post that answered this question, but did not implement either of the two solutions I suggested. I continue to s

Re: ANN: P4D 1.2

2008-08-11 Thread Kay Schluehr
On 11 Aug., 11:41, Gerhard Häring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kay Schluehr wrote: > > P4D = E4X style embedded DSL for Python but without E and X. > > The main feature of P4D 1.2 are *Bytelets*. While the primary purpose > > of P4D 1.1 was the support textual data which can be considered as > > is

Re: New python module to simulate arbitrary fixed and infinite precision binary floating point

2008-08-11 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:34:34 -0400, Rob Clewley wrote: > Dear Pythonistas, > > How many times have we seen posts recently along the lines of "why is it > that 0.1 appears as 0.10001 in python?" that lead to posters > being sent to the definition of the IEEE 754 standard and the decima

Re: eval or execute, is this the (most) correct way ?

2008-08-11 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:26:56 +0200, Stef Mientki wrote: > I'm trying to make an editor with an integrated Shell. ... > Is this the (most) correct / elegant way, or are there better solutions > ? The best solution is not to re-invent the wheel: "import code" is the way to emulate Python's intera

Re: dynamically creating html code with python...

2008-08-11 Thread anartz
I have tried calling a script containing the code below from a web browser and it did not get the text. [CODE] #!c:/Python25/python.exe -u import StringIO f=StringIO.StringIO() f.write('data analysis site') f.write("This is a trial test") f.write("") print "Content-type: text/html\n" print f.r

Re: Psycho question

2008-08-11 Thread David C. Ullrich
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > John Krukoff: > > One possibility for the performance difference, is that as I understand > > it the psyco developer has moved on to working on pypy, and probably > > isn't interested in keeping psyco updated and optimized for new python

Problems returning data from embedded Python

2008-08-11 Thread Cromulent
Okay I'm having a few issues with this and I can't seem to get it sorted out (most likely due to my inexperience with Python). Here is my Python code: def fileInput(): data = [] s = raw_input("Please enter the filename to process (enter full path if not in current directory): ")

Re: Eclipse, Python, wxPython and code completion

2008-08-11 Thread azrael
if you need a good python ide with great code completition, then why don't you try WingIde. On 11 kol, 10:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 11 ago, 04:34, "SPE - Stani's Python Editor" > > > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10 aug, 20:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I'

Re: for x,y in word1, word2 ?

2008-08-11 Thread Casey
My first thought is that you should be looking at implementations of Hamming Distance. If you are actually looking for something like SOUNDEX you might also want to look at the double metaphor algorithm, which is significantly harder to implement but provides better matching and is less susceptibl

Re: Wildcards for regexps?

2008-08-11 Thread Timothy Grant
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 9:10 PM, ssecorp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I have an expression like "bob marley" and I want to match > everything with one letter wrong, how would I do? > so "bob narely" and "vob marley" should match etc. At one point I needed something like this so did a straight p

Re: Python for Blackberry mobile phones

2008-08-11 Thread Timothy Grant
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 9:54 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking for a version of Python for Blackberry mobile phones - has > anyone heard of such a thing? I've been googling this topic without success. > > Thanks, > Malcolm My understanding is that the BB's run Java, so there *may* be s

Re: dynamically creating html code with python...

2008-08-11 Thread anartz
Sorry, my fault... I am trying to build a web application for data analysis. Basically some data will be read from a database and passed to a python script (myLibs.py) to build an image as follows. [CODE] f=urllib.urlopen("http://localhost/path2Libs/myLibs.py",urllib.urlencode(TheData)) print "

eval or execute, is this the (most) correct way ?

2008-08-11 Thread Stef Mientki
hello, I'm trying to make an editor with an integrated Shell. >>So when type: 2+5 >>I want the answer on the next line: 7 >>When I type: myvar = 55 myvar >>I want the value of myvar: 55 So AFAIK, sometimes I've to use eval and sometimes I need exec, so I use the following code (global / local

Re: at_most: search "dictionary" for less than or equal

2008-08-11 Thread Paul McGuire
On Aug 11, 9:18 am, slais-www <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Before I set out to reinvent the wheel. > > I want a dictionary-like structure for which most lookups will be on a > key that is not in the "dictionary"; in which case I want a key/value > returned which is the closest key that is less than

Re: How to execute commands in internal zones of solaris using python running from the global zone ?

2008-08-11 Thread Calvin Spealman
You might try subprocess, first of all. Use it to launch zlogin and then treat it like a shell and write 'zonename\n' to its stdin, to simulate running it as a user. This is a good bet, but I don't have either available to try it. The subprocess documentation covers invoking a process and writing t

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