Chris Rebert writes:
> get_popular_name would have the type: IO () -> IO String
I don't know if it makes the explanation any clearer, but I think that
isn't quite right. The Python version would have type
String -> IO String. The parameterless Haskell version would just be an
I/O action, with
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:43:56 -0800, alex23 wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> You're using that term wrong. It looks to me that you don't actually
>> know what a straw man argument is. A straw man argument is when
>> somebody responds to a deliberately weakened or invalid argument as if
>> it had
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:22:36 -0800, Paul Rubin wrote:
>> Terry Reedy writes:
>>> Three of you gave essentially identical answers, but I still do not see
>>> how given something like
>>>
>>> def f(): return 1
>>>
>>> I differentiate betwee
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> You're using that term wrong. It looks to me that you don't actually know
> what a straw man argument is. A straw man argument is when somebody
> responds to a deliberately weakened or invalid argument as if it had been
> made by their opponent.
Jeez, Steve, you're beginn
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:30:15 -0600, John Bokma wrote:
> While braces might be considered redundant they are not when for one
> reason or another formatting is lost or done incorrectly.
I've heard this argument before, and I don't buy it. Why should we
expect the editor to co
Steven D'Aprano writes:
> How would Haskell coders write it? Something like this?
>
> def get_popular_name(url):
> data = fetch url
> names = parse data
> name = choose name 1
> return name
The syntax and types would be different, but ok, something like that.
> name = get_popular
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:53:16 -0600, John Bokma wrote:
> You don't have to buy my argument, I am not selling it.
It's a figure of speech. You are making an argument others have made
before, and I don't accept the validity of the argument.
--
Steven
--
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/p
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:58:50 -0800, keakon wrote:
> I've found strange performance issue when using default value, the test
> code is list below:
>
> from timeit import Timer
>
> def f(x):
> y = x
> y.append(1)
> return y
>
> def g(x=[]):
> y = []
> y.append(1)
> return y
>
> def h
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:22:36 -0800, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Terry Reedy writes:
>> Three of you gave essentially identical answers, but I still do not see
>> how given something like
>>
>> def f(): return 1
>>
>> I differentiate between 'function object at address xxx' and 'int 1'
>> objects.
>
> In
keakon wrote:
> The default value is mutable, and can be reused by all each call.
> So each call it will append 1 to the default value, that's very
> different than C++.
Being different from C++ is one of the many reasons some of us choose
Python ;)
This tends to bite most newcomers, so it's men
On 2月1日, 下午1时20分, alex23 wrote:
> alex23 wrote:
> > keakon wrote:
> > > def h2(x=[]):
> > > y = x
> > > y.append(1)
> > > return y + []
>
> > Are you aware that 'y = x' _doesn't_ make a copy of [], that it
> > actually points to the same list as x?
>
> Sorry, I meant to suggest trying the
alex23 wrote:
> keakon wrote:
> > def h2(x=[]):
> > y = x
> > y.append(1)
> > return y + []
>
> Are you aware that 'y = x' _doesn't_ make a copy of [], that it
> actually points to the same list as x?
Sorry, I meant to suggest trying the following instead:
def h2(x=None):
if x is None:
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 8:58 PM, keakon wrote:
> I've found strange performance issue when using default value, the
> test code is list below:
>
> from timeit import Timer
>
> def f(x):
> y = x
> y.append(1)
> return y
>
> def g(x=[]):
> y = []
> y.append(1)
> return y
>
> def h(x=[]):
> y
keakon wrote:
> def h2(x=[]):
> y = x
> y.append(1)
> return y + []
> h2() is about 42 times slower than h2([]), but h() is a litter faster
> than h([]).
Are you aware that 'y = x' _doesn't_ make a copy of [], that it
actually points to the same list as x?
My guess is that the slowdown yo
I've found strange performance issue when using default value, the
test code is list below:
from timeit import Timer
def f(x):
y = x
y.append(1)
return y
def g(x=[]):
y = []
y.append(1)
return y
def h(x=[]):
y = x
y.append(1)
return y
def f2(x):
y = x
y.append(1)
return
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Vern Ceder wrote:
> kirby urner wrote:
>>
>> I don't see where you've defined a Turtle class to instantiate sir.
>
> The Turtle class is part of the turtle library, so that's not an issue.
>
Hey, good point Vern, not firing on all cylinders over here.
So I just c
* John Posner:
> I'm on Python 2.5, but using the updated turtle.py Version 1.0.1 -
24. 9. 2009.
> The following script draws 5 circles, which it is supposed to, but then
> doesn't draw the second turtle which is supposed to simply move forward.
> Any ideas?
Try commenting out this stateme
Terry Reedy writes:
> Three of you gave essentially identical answers, but I still do not
> see how given something like
>
> def f(): return 1
>
> I differentiate between 'function object at address xxx' and 'int 1'
> objects.
In the languages they are talking about, there is no such thing as a
f
> I'm on Python 2.5, but using the updated turtle.py Version 1.0.1 -
24. 9. 2009.
> The following script draws 5 circles, which it is supposed to, but then
> doesn't draw the second turtle which is supposed to simply move forward.
> Any ideas?
Try commenting out this statement:
self.turtle.t
On 1/31/2010 7:25 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:40:36 -0800, Chris Rebert wrote:
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:28:41 -0800, Ed Keith wrote:
In most functional languages you just name a function to access it and
you do it A
Steven D'Aprano writes:
> On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:47:42 -0600, John Bokma wrote:
>
>> Steven D'Aprano writes:
>>
>>> On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:47:08 -0600, John Bokma wrote:
>>>
An editor can correct the indenting of the braces example but can't
with this one.
if x:
On 1/31/2010 4:17 PM, _wolf wrote:
but why does ``__builtins__`` change its meaning depending on whether
this is the scope of the ‘script’ (i.e. the module whose name was
present, when calling ``python foobar.py``) or whether this is the
scope of a secondary module (imported or executed, directl
On Feb 1, 2:59 am, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've made a similar post on the Cython mailing list, however I think
> this is more python-specific. I'm having trouble setting up distutils
> to use MinGW instead of Visual Studio when building a module. Even tho
> I've just uninstalled VS, and
> In Python 2.6 I can't socket.recv_into(a byte array instance). I get a
> TypeError which complains about a "pinned buffer". I have only an
> inkling of what that means.
A pinned buffer is one that cannot move in memory, even if another
thread tries to behind your back. Typically, resizable conta
Hi,
I've made a similar post on the Cython mailing list, however I think
this is more python-specific. I'm having trouble setting up distutils
to use MinGW instead of Visual Studio when building a module. Even tho
I've just uninstalled VS, and cleared out any leftover VS environment
variables, dis
I don't see where you've defined a Turtle class to instantiate sir.
Perhaps rename Circle to Turtle and rewrite the circle-drawing expression as:
> c=Turtle(randint(-350,350),randint(-250,250),10,"red")
You are making progress with a wrapper class for the Standard Library turtle.
That's a w
On Feb 1, 1:04 am, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> The problem is that socket.recv_into() in 2.6 doesn't recognize the new
> buffer API which is needed to accept bytearray objects.
> (it does in 3.1, because the old buffer API doesn't exist anymore there)
That's about what I thought it was, but I don't k
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:47:42 -0600, John Bokma wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano writes:
>
>> On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:47:08 -0600, John Bokma wrote:
>>
>>> An editor can correct the indenting of the braces example but can't
>>> with this one.
>>>
>>> if x:
>>> if y:
>>> foo()
>>> else:
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:50:50 -0800, Chris Rebert wrote:
> How do you call a function of no arguments?
It's not really a function in that case, it's just a named constant.
(Recall that functions don't/can't have side-effec
--- On Sun, 1/31/10, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> From: Steven D'Aprano
> Subject: Re: Python and Ruby
> To: python-list@python.org
> Date: Sunday, January 31, 2010, 8:22 PM
> On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:50:50 -0800,
> Chris Rebert wrote:
>
> How do you call a function of no
> arguments?
> >>>
> >
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:50:50 -0800, Chris Rebert wrote:
How do you call a function of no arguments?
>>>
>>> It's not really a function in that case, it's just a named constant.
>>> (Recall that functions don't/can't have side-effects.)
>>
>>
> time.time(), random.random()
>> (1264983502.7
On Jan 31, 4:01 pm, gazza wrote:
> On Jan 31, 3:27 pm, gazza wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I am trying to discover how to obtain the correct time of say CST/
> > America and EST/America in python?
>
> > Any help on this would be appreciated.
>
> > Thanks,
> > Garyc
>
> I found some information. Someone
Steven D'Aprano writes:
> On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:47:08 -0600, John Bokma wrote:
>
>> An editor can correct the indenting of the braces example but can't with
>> this one.
>>
>> if x:
>> if y:
>> foo()
>> else:
>> bar()
>>
>> While braces might be considered redundant th
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Tracubik wrote:
> Il Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:46:16 +0100, Günther Dietrich ha
> scritto:
>
>> Maybe you might solve this if you decode your string to unicode.
>> Example:
>>
>> |>>> euro = "€"
>> |>>> len(euro)
>> |3
>> |>>> u_euro = euro.decode('utf_8')
>> |>>> len(u_
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:40:36 -0800, Chris Rebert wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Steven D'Aprano
>> wrote:
>>> On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:28:41 -0800, Ed Keith wrote:
In most functional languages you just name a function to acc
Steven D'Aprano writes:
> On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:47:08 -0600, John Bokma wrote:
>
>> An editor can correct the indenting of the braces example but can't with
>> this one.
>>
>> if x:
>> if y:
>> foo()
>> else:
>> bar()
>>
>> While braces might be considered redundant th
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:40:36 -0800, Chris Rebert wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Steven D'Aprano
> wrote:
>> On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:28:41 -0800, Ed Keith wrote:
>>> In most functional languages you just name a function to access it and
>>> you do it ALL the time.
>>>
>>> for example, in
I'm on Python 2.5, but using the updated turtle.py Version 1.0.1 -
24. 9. 2009. The following script draws 5 circles, which it is
supposed to, but then doesn't draw the second turtle which is
supposed to simply move forward. Any ideas?
from turtle import *
from numpy.random import randint
--- On Sun, 1/31/10, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> From: Steven D'Aprano
> Subject: Re: Python and Ruby
> To: python-list@python.org
> Date: Sunday, January 31, 2010, 5:36 PM
> On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:28:41 -0800,
> Ed Keith wrote:
>
> > In most functional languages you just name a function
> to acc
On Jan 31, 2:44 pm, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote:
> Kyp wrote:
> > I have a dir with a large # of files that I need to perform operations
> > on, but only needing to access a subset of the files, i.e. the first
> > 100 files.
>
> > Using glob is very slow, so I ran across iglob, which retur
On Jan 31, 1:06 pm, John Bokma wrote:
> Kyp writes:
> > Is there a way to get the first X # of files from a dir with lots of
> > files, that does not take a long time to run?
>
> Assuming Linux: what does time
>
> ls thedir | head
>
> give?
>
> with thedir the name of the actual dir
about 3 seco
Steven D'Aprano writes:
> On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:28:41 -0800, Ed Keith wrote:
>
>> In most functional languages you just name a function to access it and
>> you do it ALL the time.
>>
>> for example, in if you have a function 'f' which takes two parameters to
>> call the function and get the res
Hello Andrew,
> I don't even know what a "pinned buffer" means, and searching python.org
> isn't helpful.
>
> Using a bytearray in Python 3.1.1 *does* work:
> [...]
Agreed, the error message is cryptic.
The problem is that socket.recv_into() in 2.6 doesn't recognize the new
buffer API which is
On Jan 31, 3:27 pm, gazza wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to discover how to obtain the correct time of say CST/
> America and EST/America in python?
>
> Any help on this would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Garyc
I found some information. Someone suggested I use the pytz library?
Cheers,
Garyc
--
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:28:41 -0800, Ed Keith wrote:
>> In most functional languages you just name a function to access it and
>> you do it ALL the time.
>>
>> for example, in if you have a function 'f' which takes two parameters to
>> call
On Feb 1, 12:19 am, Chris Rebert wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Mik0b0 wrote:
> > Good day/night/etc.
> > I am rather a newb in Python (learning Python 3). I am trying to
> > create a small script for FTP file uploads on my home network. The
> > script looks like this:
>
> > from ftpl
Tracubik wrote:
Il Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:46:16 +0100, Günther Dietrich ha
scritto:
Maybe you might solve this if you decode your string to unicode.
Example:
|>>> euro = "€"
|>>> len(euro)
|3
|>>> u_euro = euro.decode('utf_8')
|>>> len(u_euro)
|1
Adapt the encoding ('utf_8' in my example) to wha
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:10:34 -0800, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 11:51:46 +, "Mr.SpOOn"
> declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
>
>> 2010/1/29 Gabriel Genellina :
>> >
>> > That's strange. If you're using Linux, make sure you have the
>> > readline package i
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:10:34 -0800, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> Ugh... That would mean that for an application using, say 20
> files,
> one now has 20 subdirectories for what, in a lot of cases, will contain
> just one file each (and since I doubt older Python's will be modified to
> support
marc magrans de abril wrote:
Hi!
...I have found a good enough solution, although it only works if the
number of patterns (clusters) is not very big:
def classify(f):
THERESHOLD=0.1
patterns={}
for l in enumerate(f):
found = False
for p,c in patterns.items():
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:47:08 -0600, John Bokma wrote:
> An editor can correct the indenting of the braces example but can't with
> this one.
>
> if x:
> if y:
> foo()
> else:
> bar()
>
> While braces might be considered redundant they are not when for one
> reason or ano
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:06:18 -0600, John Bokma wrote:
> Based on the magic numbers I've seen so far it looks like that not an
> option. They increment with every minor change.
They increment with every *incompatible* change to the marshal format,
not every change to the compiler.
> So to me, a
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:28:41 -0800, Ed Keith wrote:
> In most functional languages you just name a function to access it and
> you do it ALL the time.
>
> for example, in if you have a function 'f' which takes two parameters to
> call the function and get the result you use:
>
> f 2 3
>
> If y
Richard Thomas wrote:
> On Jan 31, 6:15 pm, tinn...@isbd.co.uk wrote:
> > I'm trying to read some data from standard input, what I'm actually
> > trying to do is process some date pasted in using the mouse cut and
> > paste on a Linux box (xubuntu 9.10) in a terminal window.
> >
> > First attempts
In Python 2.6 I can't socket.recv_into(a byte array instance). I get a
TypeError which complains about a "pinned buffer". I have only an
inkling of what that means. Since an array.array("b") works there, and
since it works in Python 3.1.1, and since I thought the point of a
bytearray was to make th
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Mik0b0 wrote:
> Good day/night/etc.
> I am rather a newb in Python (learning Python 3). I am trying to
> create a small script for FTP file uploads on my home network. The
> script looks like this:
>
> from ftplib import FTP
> ftp=FTP('10.0.0.1')
> ftp.login('mike
Il Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:46:16 +0100, Günther Dietrich ha
scritto:
> Maybe you might solve this if you decode your string to unicode.
> Example:
>
> |>>> euro = "€"
> |>>> len(euro)
> |3
> |>>> u_euro = euro.decode('utf_8')
> |>>> len(u_euro)
> |1
>
> Adapt the encoding ('utf_8' in my example) to
Good day/night/etc.
I am rather a newb in Python (learning Python 3). I am trying to
create a small script for FTP file uploads on my home network. The
script looks like this:
from ftplib import FTP
ftp=FTP('10.0.0.1')
ftp.login('mike','*')
directory='/var/www/blabla/'
ftp.cwd(directory)
ftp.
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:41:55 -0600, Tim Chase wrote:
> The previous absolute-path fails in cmd.exe for a variety of apps because
> the "/" is treated as a parameter/switch to the various programs.
> Fortunately, the Python path-handling sub-system is smart enough to do the
> right thing, even whe
Sean DiZazzo gmail.com> writes:
> Does "magic" really need to be used? Why not just use the revision
> number?
Because magic is easier and otherwise CPython developers would have to rebuild
their pycs everytime their working copy was updated.
--
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-
Kyp stsci.edu> writes:
> So the iglob was faster, but accessing the first file took about the
> same time as glob.glob.
That would be because glob is implemented in terms of iglob.
--
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 13:15 -0800, Victor Subervi wrote:
> Hi;
> I need to record my IM conversations. I'm using Gmal's IM client and I
> can't figure out how to do it, nor do I find any help googling it. Is
> it possible with Gmail? If so, how? If not, is there a good IM client
> that will allow m
dear pythoneers,
i would be very gladly accept any commentaries about what this
sentence, gleaned from
http://celabs.com/python-3.1/reference/executionmodel.html,
is meant to mean, or why gods have decided this is the way to go. i
anticipate this guy named Kay Schluehr will have a say on that, or
Hi;
I need to record my IM conversations. I'm using Gmal's IM client and I can't
figure out how to do it, nor do I find any help googling it. Is it possible
with Gmail? If so, how? If not, is there a good IM client that will allow me
to do this?
TIA,
beno
--
The Logos has come to bear
http://logo
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:28:47 -0800, KB wrote:
>> > I have a service I subscribe to that uses javascript to stream news.
>
>> There's a Python interface to SpiderMonkey (Mozilla's JavaScript
>> interpreter):
>>
>> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-spidermonkey
>
> Thanks! I don't see a documenta
On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 15:25 -0500, Ray Holt wrote:
> Why am I getting the error that test is not defined. Thanks, Ray
> class SpecialFile:
> def __init__(self, fileName):
> self.__file = open(fileName, 'W')
> self.__file.write('* Start Special File *\n\n')
> def wri
Nobody writes:
> Configurable tab stops in a text editor is one of those "features" that
> differentiates a "coder" from a software engineer. A coder implements it
> because it's easy to implement, without giving a moment's thought to the
> wider context (such as: how to communicate the non-stand
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 03:01:51 -0800, rantingrick wrote:
>> That's also true for most functional languages, e.g. Haskell and ML, as
>> well as e.g. Tcl and most shells. Why require "f(x)" or "(f x)" if "f x"
>> will suffice?
>
> yuck! wrapping the arg list with parenthesis (python way) makes the mo
blist 1.1.1 is now available:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/blist/
What is blist?
--
The blist is a drop-in replacement for the Python list the provides
better performance when modifying large lists. Python's built-in list
is a dynamically-sized array; to insert or removal an
* Tim Chase:
Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
that you cannot write e.g. "c:\windows\system32", but must
write something like "c:\\windows\\system32" (try to print
that string), or, since Windows handles forward slashes as
well, you can write "c:/windows/system32" :-).
Forward slashes work for some rel
Why am I getting the error that test is not defined. Thanks, Ray
class SpecialFile:
def __init__(self, fileName):
self.__file = open(fileName, 'W')
self.__file.write('* Start Special File *\n\n')
def write(self, str):
self.__file.write(str)
def writeline
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:58:34 +, tanix wrote:
>>I'm not familiar with Ruby, but most languages are cleaner than Python
>>once you get beyond the "10-minute introduction" stage.
>
> I'd have to agree. The only ones that beat Python in that department are
> Javascript and PHP. Plus CSS and HTML
Hi!
...I have found a good enough solution, although it only works if the
number of patterns (clusters) is not very big:
def classify(f):
THERESHOLD=0.1
patterns={}
for l in enumerate(f):
found = False
for p,c in patterns.items():
if dist(l,p) < THERESHOLD:
> Here is a recent list of magic numbers:
>
> Python 2.6a0: 62151 (peephole optimizations and STORE_MAP opcode)
> Python 2.6a1: 62161 (WITH_CLEANUP optimization)
> Python 2.7a0: 62171 (optimize list comprehensions/change LIST_APPEND)
> Python 2.7a0: 62181 (optimize cond
W. eWatson wrote:
Steve Holden wrote:
You need to read up on string literals is all. "\\" is simply the
literal representation of a string containing a single backslash. This
comes about because string literals are allowed to contain special
"escape sequences" which are introduced by a backslas
I tried lxml, but after walking and making changes in the element
tree, I'm forced to do a full serialization of the whole document
(etree.tostring(tree)) - which destroys the "human edited" format
of the original HTML code.
makes it rather unreadable.
is there an existing HTML parser which su
W. eWatson wrote:
What am I missing here? Looks OK to me.
>>> abc.replace(r'\',r'z')
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
A raw string can't end in a single backslash (something that
occasionally annoys me, but I've learned to deal with it).
>>> s=r'\'
File "", line 1
s=r'\'
W. eWatson wrote:
> Steve Holden wrote:
>
>> You need to read up on string literals is all. "\\" is simply the
>> literal representation of a string containing a single backslash. This
>> comes about because string literals are allowed to contain special
>> "escape sequences" which are introduced
Kyp wrote:
> I have a dir with a large # of files that I need to perform operations
> on, but only needing to access a subset of the files, i.e. the first
> 100 files.
>
> Using glob is very slow, so I ran across iglob, which returns an
> iterator, which seemed just like what I wanted. I could it
Steve Holden wrote:
You need to read up on string literals is all. "\\" is simply the
literal representation of a string containing a single backslash. This
comes about because string literals are allowed to contain special
"escape sequences" which are introduced by a backslash; since this gives
Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
that you cannot write e.g. "c:\windows\system32", but must
write something like "c:\\windows\\system32" (try to print
that string), or, since Windows handles forward slashes as
well, you can write "c:/windows/system32" :-).
Forward slashes work for some relative paths fo
In <7slr5ife6...@mid.uni-berlin.de> "Diez B. Roggisch"
writes:
>Am 31.01.10 16:52, schrieb kj:
>> I want to pass Chinese characters as command-line arguments to a
>> Python script. My terminal has no problem displaying these
>> characters, and passing them to the script, but I can't get Python
On 2010-01-31, Steve Holden wrote:
> tinn...@isbd.co.uk wrote:
>> I'm trying to read some data from standard input, what I'm actually
>> trying to do is process some date pasted in using the mouse cut and
>> paste on a Linux box (xubuntu 9.10) in a terminal window.
>>
>> First attempts failed so
Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
* W. eWatson:
I'm sure that \\ is used in some way for paths in Win Python, but I
have not found anything after quite a search. I even have a six page
pdf on a file tutorial. Nothing. Two books. Nothing. When I try to
open a file along do I need, for example,
"Events\\
tinn...@isbd.co.uk wrote:
> I'm trying to read some data from standard input, what I'm actually
> trying to do is process some date pasted in using the mouse cut and
> paste on a Linux box (xubuntu 9.10) in a terminal window.
>
> First attempts failed so I'm now trying the trivial:-
>
> impor
On Jan 31, 6:15 pm, tinn...@isbd.co.uk wrote:
> I'm trying to read some data from standard input, what I'm actually
> trying to do is process some date pasted in using the mouse cut and
> paste on a Linux box (xubuntu 9.10) in a terminal window.
>
> First attempts failed so I'm now trying the trivi
W. eWatson wrote:
> I'm sure that \\ is used in some way for paths in Win Python, but I have
> not found anything after quite a search. I even have a six page pdf on a
> file tutorial. Nothing. Two books. Nothing. When I try to open a file
> along do I need, for example, "Events\\record\\year\\toda
* W. eWatson:
I'm sure that \\ is used in some way for paths in Win Python, but I have
not found anything after quite a search. I even have a six page pdf on a
file tutorial. Nothing. Two books. Nothing. When I try to open a file
along do I need, for example, "Events\\record\\year\\today"? Are
I'm trying to read some data from standard input, what I'm actually
trying to do is process some date pasted in using the mouse cut and
paste on a Linux box (xubuntu 9.10) in a terminal window.
First attempts failed so I'm now trying the trivial:-
import sys
data = sys.stdin.readlines()
I'm sure that \\ is used in some way for paths in Win Python, but I have
not found anything after quite a search. I even have a six page pdf on a
file tutorial. Nothing. Two books. Nothing. When I try to open a file
along do I need, for example, "Events\\record\\year\\today"? Are paths
like, ".
Kyp writes:
> Is there a way to get the first X # of files from a dir with lots of
> files, that does not take a long time to run?
Assuming Linux: what does time
ls thedir | head
give?
with thedir the name of the actual dir
Also how many is many files?
--
John Bokma
> So the iglob was faster, but accessing the first file took about the
> same time as glob.glob.
I'll wager most of the time required to access the first file is due
to filesystem overhead, not any inherent limitation in Python.
Skip Montanaro
--
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-
> Would it hurt if you put in some extra information?
> http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/
In theory, no. At work we still use the ancient Rogue Wave C++
libraries in a number of applications. It has hard-coded timezone
info so when the US changed the start and end of da
Am 31.01.10 16:52, schrieb kj:
I want to pass Chinese characters as command-line arguments to a
Python script. My terminal has no problem displaying these
characters, and passing them to the script, but I can't get Python
to understand them properly.
E.g. if I pass one such character to the sim
Would it hurt if you put in some extra information?
http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/
HTH,
-Xav
P.S: You, sir, have an awesome first name.
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:57 AM, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> > Does pytz know about CDT and CST?
>
> Nope...
>
> Skip
>
>
> --
> htt
In <7slndhfno...@mid.uni-berlin.de> "Diez B. Roggisch"
writes:
>Am 31.01.10 16:38, schrieb kj:
>> It gets tedious to have to append .encode('utf-8') to all my unicode
>> strings when I print them, as in:
>>
>> print foobar.encode('utf-8')
>>
>> I want to tell python to apply this encoding a
I have a dir with a large # of files that I need to perform operations
on, but only needing to access a subset of the files, i.e. the first
100 files.
Using glob is very slow, so I ran across iglob, which returns an
iterator, which seemed just like what I wanted. I could iterate over
the files tha
> Does pytz know about CDT and CST?
Nope...
Skip
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http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Am 31.01.10 16:38, schrieb kj:
It gets tedious to have to append .encode('utf-8') to all my unicode
strings when I print them, as in:
print foobar.encode('utf-8')
I want to tell python to apply this encoding automatically to
anything argument passed to print.
How can I do this?
TIA!
K
I want to pass Chinese characters as command-line arguments to a
Python script. My terminal has no problem displaying these
characters, and passing them to the script, but I can't get Python
to understand them properly.
E.g. if I pass one such character to the simple script
import sys
print sy
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