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On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Robert Kern wrote:
> On 2010-04-04 17:44 , geremy condra wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Robert Kern wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2010-04-03 20:21 , Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
In message<4baf3ac4$0$22903$e4fe5...@news.xs4all.nl>, Irmen de Jong
wrot
On 4/3/10 12:09 PM, mcanjo wrote:
I have an executable (I don't have access to the source code) that
processes some data. I double click on the icon and a Command prompt
window pops up. The program asks me for the input file, I hit enter,
and then it asks me for and output filename, I hit enter a
Hello- was hoping someone could give me a hand in permanently setting
my TCL_LIBRARY and TK_LIBRARY.
I downloaded Python2.6 to a ThinkPad that came installed with
Python2.2, and I can not run IDLE as something automatically sets
TCL_LIBRARY and TK_LIBRARY to C:\IBMTools\Python22\ each time i open
On 2010-04-04 14:50:54 -0700, Paul Rubin said:
Alain Ketterlin writes:
d[r] = [r for r in [4,5,6]]
THe problem is that the "r" in d[r] somehow captures the value of the
"r" in the list comprehension, and somehow kills the loop interator.
Yes, this is a well known design error in Python 2.x.
On 2010-04-04 17:01:20 -0700, Steven D'Aprano said:
On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 05:50:01 -0700, Ethan Furman wrote:
Yes, this has been fixed in later revisions, but I'm curious to know
what led you to believe that a list comprehension created a new scope.
I don't that was ever promised.
Common sens
On 2010-04-04 17:44 , geremy condra wrote:
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Robert Kern wrote:
On 2010-04-03 20:21 , Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
In message<4baf3ac4$0$22903$e4fe5...@news.xs4all.nl>, Irmen de Jong wrote:
On 28-3-2010 12:08, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
Don’t use MD5.
Also, m
On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 12:08:31 +1200, Gregory Ewing wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
>> Not according to the PEP. No fewer than 16 alternatives were put to a
>> vote, and with no clear winner (but many obvious losers) Guido made the
>> final decision.
>
> As I remember, the decision made on the b
On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 14:50:54 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Alain Ketterlin writes:
>> d[r] = [r for r in [4,5,6]]
>> THe problem is that the "r" in d[r] somehow captures the value of the
>> "r" in the list comprehension, and somehow kills the loop interator.
>
> Yes, this is a well known design
On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 05:50:01 -0700, Ethan Furman wrote:
>>>Yes, this has been fixed in later revisions, but I'm curious to know
>>>what led you to believe that a list comprehension created a new scope.
>>>I don't that was ever promised.
>>
>>
>> Common sense about how programming languages shou
On 4/4/2010 7:46 PM, monkeys paw wrote:
Why does the following fail with the Traceback?
def add(x,y): return x+y
for rrr in range(1,20):
I presume that this was 'for r...'
reduce(add, range(1, r))
and that this was indented.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 2, in
TypeErr
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Not according to the PEP. No fewer than 16 alternatives were put to a
vote, and with no clear winner (but many obvious losers) Guido made the
final decision.
As I remember, the decision made on the basis of the vote
was *not* to add a conditional expression at all, beca
On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 19:06:18 +0200, Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
> * Patrick Maupin:
>> On Apr 4, 11:14 am, "Alf P. Steinbach" wrote:
>>> "He walks among you, and you don't recognize him" - Old jungle proverb
>>>
>>> Hm, interesting Google results for that phrase.
>>
>> Interesting self-promotion :-)
On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 08:00:41 -0700, rantingrick wrote:
> A while back i had wondered why Guido never posts to c.l.py anymore. Was
> it because he thinks himself better than us, no, it's because of the
> "low-brow-infantile-Jerry-Springer-ish-nature" that this list has
> imploded into. *puke*
Comp
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 7:46 PM, monkeys paw wrote:
> Why does the following fail with the Traceback?
>
> def add(x,y): return x+y
> for rrr in range(1,20):
> reduce(add, range(1, r))
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "", line 2, in
> TypeError: reduce() of empty sequence with
Why does the following fail with the Traceback?
def add(x,y): return x+y
for rrr in range(1,20):
reduce(add, range(1, r))
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 2, in
TypeError: reduce() of empty sequence with no initial value
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"vlad_fig" wrote:
> file.writeStuff(2,a1,a2)
> file.writeStuff(3,a1,a2,a3)
>
> file.writeStuff(n,a1,a2,...an)
> ---
> so i want a method i can call based on the number of parameters
> n , and that allows me to add these extra parameters based on n
It's not necessary to have to specify the nu
On Apr 2, 1:25 pm, "vlad_fig" wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I would like some help with setting up a method that would allow me to change
> its number of parameters. For example:
>
> #-
> class createfile(object):
>
> def __init__(self,
> modelName = None,
> someLines = None):
>
> s
On Apr 4, 11:14 am, "Alf P. Steinbach" wrote:
>
> Perhaps Guido provides subtle guidance under some unrecognized nick?
> "He walks among you, and you don't recognize him" - Old jungle proverb
Ah yes i have often wondered who could it be? I have a few good
suspects who could be Guido's sock-puppet
What you need is var-args:
def func(*args):
for arg in args: print arg
func(1,2,3,4)
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 8:25 AM, vlad_fig wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I would like some help with setting up a method that would allow me to
> change its number of parameters. For example:
>
> #
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Robert Kern wrote:
> On 2010-04-03 20:21 , Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>> In message<4baf3ac4$0$22903$e4fe5...@news.xs4all.nl>, Irmen de Jong wrote:
>>
>>> On 28-3-2010 12:08, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>
Don’t use MD5.
>>>
>>> Also, md5 is not an encryptio
On 04/02/2010 04:01 PM, Dan McLeran wrote:
> which is why my OP stated the solution was for windows:
>
> "for windows parse
> p.stdout.read():"
Gotcha. Definitely missed that!
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Hello all,
I would like some help with setting up a method that would allow me to change
its number of parameters. For example:
#-
class createfile(object):
def __init__(self,
modelName = None,
someLines = None):
self.modelName = modelName
if someLines is None:
self.someL
* Stephen Hansen:
On 2010-04-04 15:22:48 -0700, Alf P. Steinbach said:
* johngilbrough:
I cannot make sense of what's happening here ... I'm getting the
following error:
(1)
At least in Py3 you can declare the variable as 'global', like this:
global lastModifiedTime
within the function
On 2010-04-04 15:22:48 -0700, Alf P. Steinbach said:
* johngilbrough:
I cannot make sense of what's happening here ... I'm getting the
following error:
(1)
At least in Py3 you can declare the variable as 'global', like this:
global lastModifiedTime
within the function.
Actually, what
* johngilbrough:
I cannot make sense of what's happening here ... I'm getting the
following error:
initializing last modified time
/home/john/Dropbox/Projects/python/scripts/src 29
referencing last modified time
/home/john/Dropbox/Projects/python/scripts/src 29
referencing last modified time
Tr
On 4 abr, 06:17, Francesco Bochicchio wrote:
> On 3 Apr, 19:20, mcanjo wrote:
> > On Apr 3, 11:15 am, Patrick Maupin wrote:
> > > On Apr 3, 11:09 am, mcanjo wrote:
>
> > > > I have an executable (I don't have access to the source code) that
> > > > processes some data. I double click on the ico
I cannot make sense of what's happening here ... I'm getting the
following error:
initializing last modified time
/home/john/Dropbox/Projects/python/scripts/src 29
referencing last modified time
/home/john/Dropbox/Projects/python/scripts/src 29
referencing last modified time
Traceback (most recen
Alain Ketterlin writes:
> d[r] = [r for r in [4,5,6]]
> THe problem is that the "r" in d[r] somehow captures the value of the
> "r" in the list comprehension, and somehow kills the loop interator.
Yes, this is a well known design error in Python 2.x. The 3.x series
fixes this error but intro
On 2010-04-03 20:21 , Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
In message<4baf3ac4$0$22903$e4fe5...@news.xs4all.nl>, Irmen de Jong wrote:
On 28-3-2010 12:08, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
Don’t use MD5.
Also, md5 is not an encryption algorithm at all, it is a secure hashing
function.
You can use hash func
On Apr 4, 1:57 pm, John Nagle wrote:
> If you want functions with state, use an object. That's what they're
> for. Don't muck with the internal representation of functions.
>
While "Don't muck with the internal representation of functions" is
excellent advice over 99% of the time, it is also
On 4/4/2010 9:14 AM Alf P. Steinbach said...
* ratingrick:
A while back i had wondered why Guido never posts to c.l.py anymore.
As I recall, about the time of the 1.6/2.0 schism (2000?) the primary
developers split off as python had grown to the point where there was
enough new user support
Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
* ratingrick:
A while back i had wondered why Guido never posts to c.l.py anymore.
Was it because he thinks himself better than us, no, it's because of
the "low-brow-infantile-Jerry-Springer-ish-nature" that this list has
imploded into.
Maybe Google is making him do
kj wrote:
When coding C I have often found static local variables useful for
doing once-only run-time initializations.
If you want functions with state, use an object. That's what they're
for. Don't muck with the internal representation of functions.
John N
On 04/04/10 13:01, Patrick Maupin wrote:
> On Apr 3, 9:24 pm, Steven D'Aprano cybersource.com.au> wrote:
>> To put it another way, even though there are an infinite number of
>> rationals, they are vanishingly rare compared to the irrationals. If you
>> could choose a random number from the real n
Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
* Patrick Maupin:
On Apr 4, 11:14 am, "Alf P. Steinbach" wrote:
"He walks among you, and you don't recognize him" - Old jungle proverb
Hm, interesting Google results for that phrase.
Interesting self-promotion :-)
No, I'm not Guido.
That's exactly what the true G
* Patrick Maupin:
On Apr 4, 11:14 am, "Alf P. Steinbach" wrote:
"He walks among you, and you don't recognize him" - Old jungle proverb
Hm, interesting Google results for that phrase.
Interesting self-promotion :-)
No, I'm not Guido.
Cheers,
- Alf
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On Apr 4, 11:14 am, "Alf P. Steinbach" wrote:
> "He walks among you, and you don't recognize him" - Old jungle proverb
>
> Hm, interesting Google results for that phrase.
Interesting self-promotion :-)
http://www.google.com/#q=%22He+walks+among+you,+and+you+don%27t+recognize+him%22&hl=en&safe=of
On Apr 4, 10:00 am, rantingrick wrote:
> This is amazing, how can such an off topic post based completely on
> lunacy exist so long here? 54 posts and counting. I think i had this
> very argument in grade school. We have SD'A, Tim Chase, MSRB, and yes
> even Steve Holden again participating in th
* ratingrick:
A while back i had wondered why Guido never posts to c.l.py anymore.
Was it because he thinks himself better than us, no, it's because of
the "low-brow-infantile-Jerry-Springer-ish-nature" that this list has
imploded into.
Perhaps Guido provides subtle guidance under some unreco
On Apr 4, 10:41 am, Patrick Maupin wrote:
> The primary differences between this structure and just haphazardly
> wiring up random objects into a directed graph are that (1) there may
> be some performance differences (but when the garbage collector has to
> figure out how to break cycles, these
On Apr 4, 9:06 am, Duncan Booth wrote:
> Do you have any carniverous apes? If so it's a directed acyclic graph.
Well, since he has a root node, he's really only described the *use*
of this data structure implementation for a rooted tree.
As you point out, the implementation itself is more genera
rantingrick ha scritto:
On Apr 1, 3:44 pm, superpollo wrote:
how much is one half times one half?
This is amazing, how can such an off topic post based completely on
lunacy exist so long here? 54 posts and counting. I think i had this
very argument in grade school. We have SD'A, Tim Chase, MS
Steven D'Aprano, 04.04.2010 14:10:
I have a hierarchical structure something like a directory tree or a
nested tree structure:
Mammal
+-- Ape
: +-- Chimpanzee
: +-- Gorilla
: +-- Human
+-- Carnivore
: +-- Cat
: +-- Tiger
Reptile
+-- Lizard
+-- Snake
+-- Cobra
+-- Python
On Apr 4, 2:37 am, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> In any case, the *right* test would be:
>
> a = 1
> assert a == 1 and a*5==5 and str(a)=='1' and [None,a,None][a] is a
You're right. I was very tired when I wrote that, and forgot the last
3 assertions...
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On Apr 4, 4:58 am, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote:
> Personally, though, I prefer unit tests over assertions.
IMO, the primary use cases for assertions and unit tests are not the
same.
When I have a well-defined, clearly understood specification that I am
coding to and fully implementing w
On Apr 1, 3:44 pm, superpollo wrote:
> how much is one half times one half?
This is amazing, how can such an off topic post based completely on
lunacy exist so long here? 54 posts and counting. I think i had this
very argument in grade school. We have SD'A, Tim Chase, MSRB, and yes
even Steve Hol
On Apr 4, 2010, at 3:17 , Stephen Hansen wrote:
Where exactly does this common sense come from? A list
comprehension is
basically syntactic sugar over a for loop, and...
well, since I've been bitten by this particular wart, I was surprised
to see that the list comp didn't have it's own sco
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> I have a hierarchical structure something like a directory tree or a
> nested tree structure:
>
> Mammal
> +-- Ape
>: +-- Chimpanzee
>: +-- Gorilla
>: +-- Human
> +-- Carnivore
>: +-- Cat
>: +-- Tiger
> Reptile
> +-- Lizard
> +-- Snake
> +-- Cobra
>
On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 15:06:46 +0200
"Alf P. Steinbach" wrote:
> Common sense is applied first, as a heuristic. You really wouldn't want to
> drill
> down into the architect's drawings in order to get office 215 in a building.
> First you apply common sense.
Oh goodie, bad analogies. Can I play
* Ethan Furman:
Steve Howell wrote:
On Apr 3, 9:58 pm, Tim Roberts wrote:
Alain Ketterlin wrote:
I've just spent a few hours debugging code similar to this:
d = dict()
for r in [1,2,3]:
d[r] = [r for r in [4,5,6]]
print d
Yes, this has been fixed in later revisions, but I'm curious
Steve Howell wrote:
On Apr 3, 9:58 pm, Tim Roberts wrote:
Alain Ketterlin wrote:
I've just spent a few hours debugging code similar to this:
d = dict()
for r in [1,2,3]:
d[r] = [r for r in [4,5,6]]
print d
Yes, this has been fixed in later revisions, but I'm curious to know what
led
* Steven D'Aprano:
I have a hierarchical structure something like a directory tree or a
nested tree structure:
Mammal
+-- Ape
: +-- Chimpanzee
: +-- Gorilla
: +-- Human
+-- Carnivore
: +-- Cat
: +-- Tiger
Reptile
+-- Lizard
+-- Snake
+-- Cobra
+-- Python
This is a forest
I have a hierarchical structure something like a directory tree or a
nested tree structure:
Mammal
+-- Ape
: +-- Chimpanzee
: +-- Gorilla
: +-- Human
+-- Carnivore
: +-- Cat
: +-- Tiger
Reptile
+-- Lizard
+-- Snake
+-- Cobra
+-- Python
This is a forest because each top-leve
On 3 April 2010 18:20, mcanjo wrote:
> I tried doing the following code:
>
> from subprocess import Popen
> from subprocess import PIPE, STDOUT
> exefile = Popen('pmm.exe', stdout = PIPE, stdin = PIPE, stderr =
> STDOUT)
> exefile.communicate('MarchScreen.pmm\nMarchScreen.out')[0]
>
> and the Comm
On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 13:59:57 +0200 Andreas Waldenburger
wrote:
> Computers by themselves have as much a notion of Rationals as they
> have of Irrationals, or, for that matter, the cuteness puppies.
Strike that. Floats in computers are Rationals. So computers do know
them. However, they are still
On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 23:13:51 -0700 (PDT) Mensanator
wrote:
> On Apr 3, 9:03 pm, Steven D'Aprano cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> > On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 09:35:34 -0700, Mensanator wrote:
> > > On Apr 3, 10:17 am, Steven D'Aprano > > cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> > >> But you're not multiplying four num
In article ,
=?GB2312?B?zPC5zw==?= wrote:
>Well, Database is not proper because 1. the table is very big (~10^9
>rows) 2. we should support very fast *simple* query that is to get
>value corresponding to single key (~10^7 queries / second).
>
>Currently, I have implemented a specific algorithm to
On 4 Apr, 00:58, kj wrote:
> Suppose I have a function with the following signature:
>
> def spam(x, y, z):
> # etc.
>
> Is there a way to refer, within the function, to all its arguments
> as a single list? (I.e. I'm looking for Python's equivalent of
> Perl's @_ variable.)
>
> I'm aware of
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 11:17:36 +0200, Peter Otten wrote:
>
>>> That's certainly faster than a list comprehension (at least on long
>>> lists), but it might be a little obscure why the "if not s:" is needed,
>>
>> The function is small; with a test suite covering the corner
On 3 Apr, 19:20, mcanjo wrote:
> On Apr 3, 11:15 am, Patrick Maupin wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Apr 3, 11:09 am, mcanjo wrote:
>
> > > I have an executable (I don't have access to the source code) that
> > > processes some data. I double click on the icon and a Command prompt
> > > window pops up. The p
Ah, (bleep). Disregard both my responses.
Darn headache.
Cheers,
Chris
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> 2010/4/4 Chris Rebert
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 1:42 AM, catalinf...@gmail.com
>> wrote:
>> > Hi everyone .
>> > My questions is "why vars().has_key('b') is False ?'
>> > I expecting to see "True" because is a variable ...
>>
>> The built-in constants and functions aren't global variables, t
So is not possible to testing if a variable is defined with this functions
vars(), globals(), locals() ?
Or maybe i make confusion with another issue.
Please more specific ... Thank you
2010/4/4 Chris Rebert
> On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 1:42 AM, catalinf...@gmail.com
> wrote:
> > Hi everyone .
> >
On Apr 4, 3:42 am, "catalinf...@gmail.com"
wrote:
> Hi everyone .
> My questions is "why vars().has_key('b') is False ?'
> I expecting to see "True" because is a variable ...
> Thanks
Yes, 'b' is a var, but only within the scope of something(). See how
this is different:
>>> def sth():
... b
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 1:42 AM, catalinf...@gmail.com
wrote:
> Hi everyone .
> My questions is "why vars().has_key('b') is False ?'
> I expecting to see "True" because is a variable ...
The built-in constants and functions aren't global variables, they're
in the special __builtins__ dictionary/na
Hi everyone .
My questions is "why vars().has_key('b') is False ?'
I expecting to see "True" because is a variable ...
Thanks
Please see code bellow .
>>> x=11
>>> def something():
... b=25
...
>>> vars().has_key('x')
True
>>> vars().has_key('b')
False
>>> globals().has_key('x')
True
>>> global
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On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 20:10:20 -0700, Patrick Maupin wrote:
> On Apr 3, 10:00 pm, Steven D'Aprano cybersource.com.au> wrote:
>> Tests which you know can't fail are called assertions, pre-conditions
>> and post-conditions. We test them because if we don't, they will fail
>> :)
>
> Well, yes, but th
On 2010-04-03 23:30:32 -0700, Steve Howell said:
On Apr 3, 9:58 pm, Tim Roberts wrote:
Alain Ketterlin wrote:
I've just spent a few hours debugging code similar to this:
d = dict()
for r in [1,2,3]:
d[r] = [r for r in [4,5,6]]
print d
Yes, this has been fixed in later revisions, but
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