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Re: python _binary_ code

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 10:41 PM, sanju ps wrote: > Hi > >  Can anyone give me solution to create a python binary file (bytecode) other > than pyc file .So my source code be secure.. I am working on ubuntu 9.04 > with python2.6.. I PyInstaller (http://www.pyinstaller.org/) will generate a self-con

Re: explode()

On 2009-07-14, Fred Atkinson wrote: > The one thing I really dislike about Python over PHP is that > Python can usually only appear in the cgi directory (unless other > arragements are made with your hosting provider or if you reconfigure > Apache on your own server if you have your own). W

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Hi Can anyone give me solution to create a python binary file (bytecode) other than pyc file .So my source code be secure.. I am working on ubuntu 9.04 with python2.6.. I Regards Sanju -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: explode()

On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:32:55 -0700, Chris Rebert wrote: >On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Fred Atkinson wrote: >> On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:50:28 -0700, Chris Rebert >> wrote: >> >>>On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Fred Atkinson wrote:        What is the Python equivalent of the PHP explode()

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On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Fred Atkinson wrote: > On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:50:28 -0700, Chris Rebert > wrote: > >>On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Fred Atkinson wrote: >>>        What is the Python equivalent of the PHP explode() function? >> >>some_string.split("separator") >> >>Cheers, >>Ch

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On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:50:28 -0700, Chris Rebert wrote: >On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Fred Atkinson wrote: >>        What is the Python equivalent of the PHP explode() function? > >some_string.split("separator") > >Cheers, >Chris What would the equivalent of the PHP function implode be?

Re: How to check if any item from a list of strings is in a big string?

En Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:11:09 -0300, denis escribió: Matt, how many words are you looking for, in how long a string ? Were you able to time any( substr in long_string ) against re.compile ( "|".join( list_items )) ? There is a known algorithm to solve specifically this problem (Aho-Corasic

Re: Memory error due to big input file

On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:20:13 -0700, Aaron Scott wrote: >> BTW, you should derive all your classes from something.  If nothing >> else, use object. >>   class textfile(object): > > Just out of curiousity... why is that? I've been coding in Python for a > long time, and I never derive my base class

Re: The meaning of "=" (Was: tough-to-explain Python)

On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:22:36 +1200, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: [stupidity omitted] > Nope, still doesn't work... Are we supposed to interpret that post as Dumb Insolence or just Dumb? -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Best Way to Handle All Exceptions

On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:09:06 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Instead of catching *all* exceptions at a specific point in your code, > and then having nothing to do but end the program (possibly after some > pre-exit action like logging), I think you would be better served by > installing a custom top-l

Re: Best Way to Handle All Exceptions

On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:49:23 -0700, Carl Banks wrote: > On Jul 13, 12:31 pm, Piet van Oostrum wrote: >> > seldan24 (s) wrote: >> >s> Hello, >> >s> I'm fairly new at Python so hopefully this question won't be too s> >> >awful.  I am writing some code that will FTP to a host, and want to s> >>

Re: Best Way to Handle All Exceptions

On Jul 13, 12:31 pm, Piet van Oostrum wrote: > > seldan24 (s) wrote: > >s> Hello, > >s> I'm fairly new at Python so hopefully this question won't be too > >s> awful.  I am writing some code that will FTP to a host, and want to > >s> catch any exception that may occur, take that and print it o

Re: Best Way to Handle All Exceptions

seldan24 writes: > I'm fairly new at Python so hopefully this question won't be too > awful. I am writing some code that will FTP to a host, and want to > catch any exception that may occur, take that and print it out > (eventually put it into a log file and perform some alerting action). You h

Re: multiprocessing and dictionaries

On Monday 13 July 2009 13:12:18 Piet van Oostrum wrote: > > Bjorn Meyer (BM) wrote: > > > >BM> Here is what I have been using as a test. > >BM> This pretty much mimics what I am trying to do. > >BM> I put both threading and multiprocessing in the example which shows > >BM> the output that I

Re: PDF: finding a blank image

Perhaps your blank pages have a characteristic size. Or perhaps if you trim them with `convert' (ImageMagick) there is nothing left. On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 3:44 PM, DrLeif wrote: > I have about 6000 PDF files which have been produced using a scanner > with more being produced each day. The PDF

Re: PDF: finding a blank image

DrLeif wrote: I have about 6000 PDF files which have been produced using a scanner with more being produced each day. The PDF files contain old paper records which have been taking up space. The scanner is set to detect when there is information on the backside of the page (duplex scan). The

Re: PDF: finding a blank image

DrLeif writes: > What I would like to do is have python detect a "blank" pages in a PDF > file and remove it. Any suggestions? The odds are good that even a blank page is being "rendered" within the PDF as having some small bits of data due to scanner resolution, imperfections on the page, etc.

Re: Pickling classes -- disappearing lists?

> Your class definition isn't right. It makes 'value' and 'journal' > class variables (Java lingo: "static variables") as opposed to the > instance variables they should be. Here's a corrected version: > Woah, thanks. I can't believe I made such a stupid mistake. It's not like I'm a newcomer to Py

Re: Memory error due to big input file

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Vilya Harvey wrote: > 2009/7/13 Aaron Scott : >>> BTW, you should derive all your classes from something.  If nothing >>> else, use object. >>>   class textfile(object): >> >> Just out of curiousity... why is that? I've been coding in Python for >> a long time, and

Re: Memory error due to big input file

2009/7/13 Aaron Scott : >> BTW, you should derive all your classes from something.  If nothing >> else, use object. >>   class textfile(object): > > Just out of curiousity... why is that? I've been coding in Python for > a long time, and I never derive my base classes. What's the advantage > to der

Re: Pickling classes -- disappearing lists?

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Aaron Scott wrote: > I'm trying to pickle an instance of a class. It mostly works just fine > -- I can save the pickle to a file, restore it from that file, and > it's mostly okay. The problem is, some lists seem to disappear. For > example (snipped and crunched fro

PDF: finding a blank image

I have about 6000 PDF files which have been produced using a scanner with more being produced each day. The PDF files contain old paper records which have been taking up space. The scanner is set to detect when there is information on the backside of the page (duplex scan). The problem of cours

Re: Memory error due to big input file

> BTW, you should derive all your classes from something.  If nothing > else, use object. >   class textfile(object): Just out of curiousity... why is that? I've been coding in Python for a long time, and I never derive my base classes. What's the advantage to deriving them? -- http://mail.python

Pickling classes -- disappearing lists?

I'm trying to pickle an instance of a class. It mostly works just fine -- I can save the pickle to a file, restore it from that file, and it's mostly okay. The problem is, some lists seem to disappear. For example (snipped and crunched from the code giving me trouble): --- class InitGame:

Re: Memory error due to big input file

sityee kong wrote: Hi All, I have a similar problem that many new python users might encounter. I would really appreciate if you could help me fix the error. I have a big text file with size more than 2GB. It turned out memory error when reading in this file. Here is my python script, the error

Re: Efficient binary search tree stored in a flat array?

On Jul 13, 3:57 pm, a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote: > Still, unless your list is large (more than thousands of elements), > that's the way you should go.  See the bisect module.  Thing is, the > speed difference between C and Python means the constant for insertion > and deletion is very very s

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Re: Best Way to Handle All Exceptions

Diez B. Roggisch wrote: The latter is - unfortunately - the better. This comes from python allowing all kinds of objects being thrown as exceptions, not only those extending from a common ancestor like Exception. Fixed in Python 3. exceptions, without exceptions, are instances of BaseExceptio

Re: Efficient binary search tree stored in a flat array?

In article , Douglas Alan wrote: > >I couldn't find a good algorithms forum on the Internet, so I guess >I'll ask this question here instead: Is it possible to efficiently >maintain a binary search tree in a flat array (i.e., without using >pointers), as is typically done for a binary heap? > >It

Re: Best Way to Handle All Exceptions

> seldan24 (s) wrote: >s> Hello, >s> I'm fairly new at Python so hopefully this question won't be too >s> awful. I am writing some code that will FTP to a host, and want to >s> catch any exception that may occur, take that and print it out >s> (eventually put it into a log file and perform s

Re: multiprocessing and dictionaries

> Bjorn Meyer (BM) wrote: >BM> Here is what I have been using as a test. >BM> This pretty much mimics what I am trying to do. >BM> I put both threading and multiprocessing in the example which shows >BM> the output that I am looking for. >BM> #!/usr/bin/env python >BM> import threading >BM>

Re: Efficient binary search tree stored in a flat array?

Douglas Alan writes: > It would also clearly be > possible to store a balanced binary tree in a flat array, storing the > children of the node at index i at indices 2*i and 2*i + 1, just as > one does for a binary heap. But if you do that, I don't know if you > could then do insertions and deletio

Re: Threading.Condition problem

> Gabriel Rossetti (GR) wrote: >GR> Piet van Oostrum wrote: ... >GR> I wrote a small example that listens for xmpp msgs in a thread. The main >GR> program calls a function that blocks (using Condition.wait) until a msg >GR> has been received and then returns the msg. When a msg arrives, it is

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> Bryan (B) wrote: >B> On Jul 10, 12:03 pm, mgi...@motorola.com (Gary Duzan) wrote: >>> In article >>> <3af970b1-b454-4d56-a33f-889ecfaca...@l28g2000vba.googlegroups.com>, >>> >>> Bryan   wrote: >>> >>> >rsyncExec = '/usr/bin/ssh' >>> >source = 'r...@10.0.45.67:/home/bry/jquery.lookup' >>>

Efficient binary search tree stored in a flat array?

I couldn't find a good algorithms forum on the Internet, so I guess I'll ask this question here instead: Is it possible to efficiently maintain a binary search tree in a flat array (i.e., without using pointers), as is typically done for a binary heap? It *is* possible, of course, to keep an order

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> Or on systems with list comps try: > V='abc' ['%s%s'%(ii,jj) for ii in V for jj in V] > ['aa', 'ab', 'ac', 'ba', 'bb', 'bc', 'ca', 'cb', 'cc'] Yeah, except that the length here is hard-coded. There's no way (as far as I can tell, at least), to make this generic with respect to lis

Re: Best Way to Handle All Exceptions

2009/7/13 seldan24 : > Thank you both for your input.  I want to make sure I get started on > the right track.  For this particular script, I should have included > that I would take the exception contents, and pass those to the > logging module.  For this particular script, all exceptions are fata

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Re: list of all possible values

On 7/13/2009 9:33 AM Tim Chase said... For example: if my values are ['a', 'b', 'c'], then all possible lists of length 2 would be: aa, ab, ac, ba, bb, bc, ca, cb, cc. I created a recursive program to do it, but I was wondering if there was a better way of doing it (possibly with list comprehens

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Piet van Oostrum wrote: Gabriel Rossetti (GR) wrote: GR> Sorry if this appears twice, I sent it once with an attachment and it never GR> arrived so maybe the attachment is posing problems. I inlined the code this GR> time (at the bottom), thank you, GR> Gabriel

Re: Memory error due to big input file

phoebe> I have a big text file with size more than 2GB. It turned out phoebe> memory error when reading in this file. Here is my python phoebe> script, the error occurred at line -- self.fh.readlines(). phoebe> import math phoebe> import time phoebe> class textfile: p

Re: Memory error due to big input file

sityee kong wrote: Hi All, I have a similar problem that many new python users might encounter. I would really appreciate if you could help me fix the error. I have a big text file with size more than 2GB. It turned out memory error when reading in this file. Here is my python script, the erro

Memory error due to big input file

Hi All, I have a similar problem that many new python users might encounter. I would really appreciate if you could help me fix the error. I have a big text file with size more than 2GB. It turned out memory error when reading in this file. Here is my python script, the error occurred at line -- s

Re: Blocking XMPP API?

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: In message , Gabriel Rossetti wrote: I am looking for blocking XMPP API. I'm wanting to make a webservice that uses XMPP, but all the XMPP libs I find are non-blocking (i.e. w/ callbacks). So why not have the caller sleep or something until the callback is

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Re: multiprocessing and dictionaries

On Monday 13 July 2009 01:56:08 Piet van Oostrum wrote: > > Bjorn Meyer (BM) wrote: > > > >BM> I am trying to convert a piece of code that I am using the thread > > module with BM> to the multiprocessing module. > > > >BM> The way that I have it set up is a chunk of code reads a text file an

Re: list of all possible values

David Gibb: > For example: if my values are ['a', 'b', 'c'], then all possible lists > of length 2 would be: aa, ab, ac, ba, bb, bc, ca, cb, cc. >>> from itertools import product >>> list(product("abc", repeat=2)) [('a', 'a'), ('a', 'b'), ('a', 'c'), ('b', 'a'), ('b', 'b'), ('b', 'c'), ('c', 'a'),

Re: Passing python list from C to python

On Jul 14, 1:47 am, hartley wrote: > I'm very new at wrapping Python/C, and I have run into some problems. > > I have one python module that provides me with a list (provideBuffer > in provideBuff.py): > >  Py_Initialize(); >         pName = PyString_FromString("provideBuff"); >         pModule =

Re: list of all possible values

For example: if my values are ['a', 'b', 'c'], then all possible lists of length 2 would be: aa, ab, ac, ba, bb, bc, ca, cb, cc. I created a recursive program to do it, but I was wondering if there was a better way of doing it (possibly with list comprehensions). Here's my recursive version: va

list of all possible values

Hi guys. I was thinking about a problem I had: suppose I have a list of possible values. I want to to have a list of all possible lists of length n whose values are in that original list. For example: if my values are ['a', 'b', 'c'], then all possible lists of length 2 would be: aa, ab, ac, ba,

Passing python list from C to python

I'm very new at wrapping Python/C, and I have run into some problems. I have one python module that provides me with a list (provideBuffer in provideBuff.py): Py_Initialize(); pName = PyString_FromString("provideBuff"); pModule = PyImport_Import(pName); pFunc = PyObject_

Re: Best Way to Handle All Exceptions

On Jul 13, 2:26 pm, seldan24 wrote: > The first example: > > from ftplib import FTP > try: >     ftp = FTP(ftp_host) >     ftp.login(ftp_user, ftp_pass) > except Exception, err: >     print err *If* you really do want to catch *all* exceptions (as mentioned already it is usually better to catch s

Re: Best Way to Handle All Exceptions

On Jul 13, 10:33 am, MRAB wrote: > seldan24 wrote: > > Hello, > > > I'm fairly new at Python so hopefully this question won't be too > > awful.  I am writing some code that will FTP to a host, and want to > > catch any exception that may occur, take that and print it out > > (eventually put it int

Re: Automate rsync w/ authentication

On Jul 10, 12:03 pm, mgi...@motorola.com (Gary Duzan) wrote: > In article > <3af970b1-b454-4d56-a33f-889ecfaca...@l28g2000vba.googlegroups.com>, > > Bryan   wrote: > > >rsyncExec = '/usr/bin/ssh' > >source = 'r...@10.0.45.67:/home/bry/jquery.lookup' > >dest = '/home/bry/tmp' > >rshArg = '-e "/usr/

Re: Best Way to Handle All Exceptions

seldan24 wrote: Hello, I'm fairly new at Python so hopefully this question won't be too awful. I am writing some code that will FTP to a host, and want to catch any exception that may occur, take that and print it out (eventually put it into a log file and perform some alerting action). I've fi

Re: python make dies :libtk8.5.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

On Jul 13, 10:09 am, Christian Heimes wrote: > Tony Lay wrote: > > # cd /usr/local/lib > > > # ls -la | grep libtk8.5.so > > > -r-xr-xr-x   1 root root  1112606 Jul 10 13:28 libtk8.5.so > > > Am I missing something, it’s there? > > Is /usr/local/lib in your library search path? It looks like it is

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On 2009-07-12, Rhodri James wrote: >> The poorly punctuated paragraph sounds, to me, as if they mean >> they want (Windows assumed) EXE files that can be dropped onto >> remote/laptop machines without performing a full installation >> of Python... >> >> But yes... "assembly programs" does, to me,

Re: Problem with two instances of PySerial

> On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 08:40:18 -0500, Shine Jose wrote: > I achieve this by creating a separate worker thread to poll > the serial port for arrival of data and then updating the > required widget in main thread of program. For polling the > serial port, I create a separate instance of pySerial ob

Re: Best Way to Handle All Exceptions

seldan24 wrote: > Hello, > > I'm fairly new at Python so hopefully this question won't be too > awful. I am writing some code that will FTP to a host, and want to > catch any exception that may occur, take that and print it out > (eventually put it into a log file and perform some alerting actio

Re: python make dies :libtk8.5.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Tony Lay wrote: > # cd /usr/local/lib > > # ls -la | grep libtk8.5.so > > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1112606 Jul 10 13:28 libtk8.5.so > > Am I missing something, it’s there? Is /usr/local/lib in your library search path? It looks like it isn't. Check /etc/ld.so.conf and /etc/ld.so.conf.d/. Chri

python make dies :libtk8.5.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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Re: Is it possible to use keyword arguments from C?

On Jul 13, 9:38 am, Darren Dale wrote: > I am learning about the python C-api in order to contribute a feature > to numpy. I see a discussion (http://docs.python.org/extending/ > extending.html#keyword-parameters-for-extension-functions) on how to > create a function or method  in C that accepts k

Is it possible to use keyword arguments from C?

I am learning about the python C-api in order to contribute a feature to numpy. I see a discussion (http://docs.python.org/extending/ extending.html#keyword-parameters-for-extension-functions) on how to create a function or method in C that accepts kwargs, but is it possible to call such a method

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Re: How to check if any item from a list of strings is in a big string?

Matt, how many words are you looking for, in how long a string ? Were you able to time any( substr in long_string ) against re.compile ( "|".join( list_items )) ? (REs are my method of choice, but different inputs of course give different times -- see google regex speed site:groups.google.com / sit

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Re: The meaning of "="

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro (LD) wrote: >LD> In message , Aahz wrote: >Aahz> class AttrDict: >Aahz> def __getitem__(self, key): >Aahz> return getattr(self, key) >LD> OK, let's try it: >LD> >>> c = {} >LD> >>> c["x"] = 3 >LD> >>> c.x = 4 >LD> Traceback (most recent call last): >LD> F

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In message , Gabriel Rossetti wrote: > I am looking for blocking XMPP API. I'm wanting to make a webservice > that uses XMPP, but all the XMPP libs I find are non-blocking (i.e. w/ > callbacks). So why not have the caller sleep or something until the callback is invoked? It's easier to turn an

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In message , MRAB wrote: > I wonder whether the problem with assignment in conditionals in C is due > to the assignment operator being "=". If it was ":=", would the error > still occur? One of the original C designers, Kernighan or Ritchie, admitted that he made the assignment operator "=" ins

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In message <4a538a71$0$30236$9b4e6...@newsspool1.arcor-online.net>, Stefan Behnel wrote: > Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> >> I wonder how many people have been tripped up by the fact that >> >> ++n >> >> and >> >> --n >> >> fail silently for numeric-valued n. > > I doubt that there ar

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In message <652cca82-44a3-473f-b640- c2336a9cf...@v15g2000prn.googlegroups.com>, Rajat wrote: > ... my whole idea is to close the wordpad / notepad application so that I > can delete the file and the directory where this file resides. Don't you think the user might have that application open for

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In message , Broken wrote: > I am new to Python, and I'm miserably failing to send specific keys to > (say) notepad. I don't understand why you need to automate a GUI front-end, meant for human use, to a function that can be directly performed without that front-end anyway. -- http://mail.pytho

Re: simple question about Dictionary type containing List objects

gganesh wrote: > I have a dict object like > emails={'mycontacts': [ 'x...@gmail.com, 'y...@gmail.com', > 'z...@gmail.com'], 'myname':['gganesh']} > I need to get the lenght of the list mycontacts ,like > mycontacts_numbers=3 mycontacts = emails['mycontacts'] mycontacts_number = len(mycontacts) A

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In message , Vincent Gulinao wrote: > Q1: is this a common OK practice? I'm worried infinite loops hogs memory. The problem is not that the loop is infinite, but that it busy-waits, hogging CPU. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: The meaning of "=" (Was: tough-to-explain Python)

In message , Aahz wrote: > In article , > Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >>In message , Aahz wrote: >>> >>> It helps to remember that names and namespaces are in many >>> ways syntactic sugar for dicts or lists. >> >>Interesting, though, that Python insists on maintaining a distinction >>between c["

Re: simple question about Dictionary type containing List objects

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 6:34 PM, gganesh wrote: > Hi group, > I have a dict object like > emails={'mycontacts': [ 'x...@gmail.com, 'y...@gmail.com', > 'z...@gmail.com'], 'myname':['gganesh']} > I need to get the lenght of the list mycontacts ,like > mycontacts_numbers=3

simple question about Dictionary type containing List objects

Hi group, I have a dict object like emails={'mycontacts': [ 'x...@gmail.com, 'y...@gmail.com', 'z...@gmail.com'], 'myname':['gganesh']} I need to get the lenght of the list mycontacts ,like mycontacts_numbers=3 help me to solve Thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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On Jul 13, 6:06 am, Vincent Gulinao wrote: > lst = list() > > (lst populated by async twisted deferred callbacks) > > while True: >         if len(lst) == SOME_NUMBER: >                 return lst > > Q1: is this a common OK practice? I'm worried infinite loops hogs memory. > Q2: operating on list

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> Vincent Gulinao (VG) wrote: >VG> lst = list() >VG> (lst populated by async twisted deferred callbacks) >VG> while True: >VG>if len(lst) == SOME_NUMBER: >VG>return lst >VG> Q1: is this a common OK practice? I'm worried infinite loops hogs memory. >VG> Q2: operating on list

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Thank you for your replies. I have factored out the dependency and everything is solved. Cheers, Ryan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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> Cameron Pulsford (CP) wrote: >CP> I read it on the haskell site in their sieves/prime wheel section, >CP> I guess I misunderstood something. (east to do over there...) I did >CP> verify it against established list of primes and other generators >CP> I've written that use more normal methods

Re: multiprocessing and dictionaries

> Bjorn Meyer (BM) wrote: >BM> I am trying to convert a piece of code that I am using the thread module >with >BM> to the multiprocessing module. >BM> The way that I have it set up is a chunk of code reads a text file and >assigns >BM> a dictionary key multiple values from the text file.