Re: C interpreter in Lisp/scheme/python

2010-07-14 Thread Ian Kelly
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 11:17 PM, bolega wrote: > This makes some sense. He replied on the newsgroup in a lengthy post > that there are sufficient resources out there giving hint that no one > need help me out. I have no record of such a post. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-li

Re: C interpreter in Lisp/scheme/python

2010-07-14 Thread geremy condra
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 10:17 PM, bolega wrote: > On Jul 13, 11:18 pm, geremy condra wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:01 PM, bolega wrote: >> > On Jun 20, 9:31 pm, Richard Fateman wrote: >> >> Define Macro wrote: >> >> > On Jun 13, 7:07 pm, bolega wrote: >> >> >> I am trying to compare LIS

Re: C interpreter in Lisp/scheme/python

2010-07-14 Thread bolega
On Jul 13, 11:35 pm, Paul Rubin wrote: > bolega writes: > > I am trying to compare LISP/Scheme/Python for their expressiveness... > > Are there already answers anywhere ? > > How would a gury approach such a project ? > > These two articles > >    http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/~prechelt/Biblio/jccp

Re: C interpreter in Lisp/scheme/python

2010-07-14 Thread bolega
On Jul 13, 11:18 pm, geremy condra wrote: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:01 PM, bolega wrote: > > On Jun 20, 9:31 pm, Richard Fateman wrote: > >> Define Macro wrote: > >> > On Jun 13, 7:07 pm, bolega wrote: > >> >> I am trying to compare LISP/Scheme/Python for their expressiveness. > > >> >> For

Re: M2Crypto-0.20.2, SWIG-2.0.0, and OpenSSL-1.0.0a build problem

2010-07-14 Thread Adam Mercer
Anyone have any ideas about this? Cheers Adam On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 16:18, Adam Mercer wrote: > Hi > > I'm trying to build M2Crypto on Mac OS X 10.6.4 against python2.5 > (python2.6 fails in the same way), with SWIG 2.0.0 and OpenSSL 1.0.0a > and it is failing with the following: > > 105    

Re: Issue with logging.config

2010-07-14 Thread Joe Hughes
Hi Vinay, I think I figured out what you are talking about after reading RFC 5424. I think this means that this code syslog.info("Status - " + mcu_dict[pinged.ip] + " is " + status[pinged.status]) needs to become something like this BOM = 0xEFBBBF msg = str(BOM) + "Status - " + mcu_di

Re: Identify the Color of an Image

2010-07-14 Thread Gary Herron
On 07/14/2010 05:37 AM, Monyl wrote: Hi, 1. How can I find the color of an image present the webpage? 2. How to identify the font type of the selected text present in the content of the web page It would be much helpfull, if anyone responds to it ASAP Thanks Mohmyda Please be clearer

Re: Easy questions from a python beginner

2010-07-14 Thread r
On Jul 14, 1:24 pm, Grant Edwards wrote: > As of a few minutes ago, this thread had 48 postings on my news > server. > > To paraphrase somebody famous: > >     There are no such things as easy questions.  There are, however, >     easy answers.  And they're wrong.         Ha! This is the very re

Re: Splitting numeric litterals

2010-07-14 Thread candide
MRAB a écrit : want to split them over several lines. It is somewhat unusual to have a _numeric_ literal that's very very long! I agree. But consider RSA-155 for instance ... ;) For an integer literal you could use a string literal and convert it to an integer: >>> int("1000\ 000\ 000")

Re: Splitting numeric litterals

2010-07-14 Thread MRAB
candide wrote: The escape sequence \ENTER allows to split a string over 2 consecutive lines. On the other hand, it seems impossible to split a numeric litteral across multiple lines, compare : >>> "1000\ ... 000\ ... 000" '10' >>> 1000\ ... 000\ File "", line 2 000\ ^ Syn

Re: Splitting numeric litterals

2010-07-14 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:30:24 +0200, candide wrote: > The escape sequence \ENTER allows to split a string over 2 consecutive > lines. On the other hand, it seems impossible to split a numeric > litteral across multiple lines [...] > Is this the general behaviour ? Yes. You can't put any whitespac

Splitting numeric litterals

2010-07-14 Thread candide
The escape sequence \ENTER allows to split a string over 2 consecutive lines. On the other hand, it seems impossible to split a numeric litteral across multiple lines, compare : >>> "1000\ ... 000\ ... 000" '10' >>> 1000\ ... 000\ File "", line 2 000\ ^ SyntaxError:

Re: Issue with logging.config

2010-07-14 Thread Vinay Sajip
On Jul 14, 7:08 pm, Joe Hughes wrote: > This is why I did what I did, because I couldn't figure it out either.  I did > find issue 5421 at python.org which is where I got the idea for the code > change. Perhaps you should read the messages for issue 7077, linked to by Peter above. You'll see th

Re: Please Help

2010-07-14 Thread Gary Herron
On 07/14/2010 01:51 PM, Hayathms wrote: PLease anyone help me ,, program not running from tkinter import ttk from tkinter import * class Hami(ttk.Frame): def __init__(self,master=None):

Re: floatref

2010-07-14 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Am 13.07.2010 19:26, schrieb Roald de Vries: > Hi all, > > I have two objects that should both be able to alter a shared float. > So i need something like a mutable float object, or a float reference > object. Does anybody know if something like that exists? I know it's > not hard to build, but

Re: Getting started with python on macintosh snow leopard with mysql - need help

2010-07-14 Thread Ned Deily
In article , Benjamin Kaplan wrote: > On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 1:18 PM, dk wrote: [...] > > when i try to compile mysql-python-1.2.3 i get the following error > > returned from python setup.py build - > > > > building '_mysql' extension > > gcc-4.0 -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk

Re: Check if a command is valid

2010-07-14 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-07-14, Steven W. Orr wrote: > On 07/12/10 21:29, quoth Kenny Meyer: > >> I have to figure out if a string is callable on a Linux system. I'm >> actually doing this: >> >> def is_valid_command(command): >> retcode = 100 # initialize >> if command: >> retcode

Please Help

2010-07-14 Thread Hayathms
PLease anyone help me ,, program not running from tkinter import ttk from tkinter import * class Hami(ttk.Frame): def __init__(self,master=None): ttk.Frame.__init__(self,master,borderwidt

Re: grailbrowser now running under python 2.5 (probably above too)

2010-07-14 Thread lkcl
On Jul 11, 10:39 pm, "Martin P. Hellwig" wrote: > On 07/11/10 04:59, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:> source at: > >http://github.com/lkcl/grailbrowser > > > $ python grail.py (note the lack of "python1.5" or "python2.4") > > > conversion of the 80 or so regex's to re has been carried out. > >

Re: grailbrowser now running under python 2.5 (probably above too)

2010-07-14 Thread lkcl
On Jul 11, 5:44 am, rantingrick wrote: > On Jul 10, 10:59 pm, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton > > wrote: > > source at:http://github.com/lkcl/grailbrowser > > > $ python grail.py (note the lack of "python1.5" or "python2.4") > > > conversion of the 80 or so regex's to re has been carried out. > > en

Re: Check if a command is valid

2010-07-14 Thread Steven W. Orr
On 07/12/10 21:29, quoth Kenny Meyer: > Hello, > > I have to figure out if a string is callable on a Linux system. I'm > actually doing this: > > def is_valid_command(command): > retcode = 100 # initialize > if command: > retcode = subprocess.call(command, shell=Tr

Re: Is Python portable/Can I install it on an USB Stick?

2010-07-14 Thread Christian Heimes
> Is Python portable? > > Can I install it on an USB Stick? > > Or is Python installing (at least on WinXP) services or register some DLLs or > write something into Registry? Yes, a single user installation of Python is portable. An installation for every user is not portable since it installs

Re: Is Python portable/Can I install it on an USB Stick?

2010-07-14 Thread Philip Semanchuk
On Jul 14, 2010, at 3:28 PM, Thomas Tundor wrote: Is Python portable? Can I install it on an USB Stick? Or is Python installing (at least on WinXP) services or register some DLLs or write something into Registry? http://www.portablepython.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/

Is Python portable/Can I install it on an USB Stick?

2010-07-14 Thread Thomas Tundor
Is Python portable? Can I install it on an USB Stick? Or is Python installing (at least on WinXP) services or register some DLLs or write something into Registry? Thomas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: adodb.NewADOConnection('postgres') returns None

2010-07-14 Thread Mladen Gogala
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 05:14:08 -0700, micayael wrote: > Thanks Thomas. > :-( then adodb today dosn't work with postgres (at least on ubuntu) > right? No, ADOdb doesn't work with the newer versions of Postgres. ADOdb doesn't work with Psycopg2 and the guy who maintains it did not reply to my email

Re: adodb.NewADOConnection('postgres') returns None

2010-07-14 Thread Mladen Gogala
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:04:59 +0200, Thomas Jollans wrote: > It certainly looks that way. It may be possible to install an old > psycopg module by hand - I'd expect that to work as well. Not on Ubuntu 9.10: checking PostgreSQL type catalog... /usr/include/postgresql/catalog/ pg_type.h checking

Re: Errno 9] Bad file descriptor

2010-07-14 Thread Thomas Jollans
On 07/14/2010 01:21 PM, joblack wrote: >> | >> | Starting point: >> | ... >> | self.status['text'] = 'Processing ...' >> | try: >> | cli_main(argv) >> | except Exception, e: >> | self.status['text'] = 'Error: ' + str(e) >> | return >> | ..

Re: Easy questions from a python beginner

2010-07-14 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-07-11, wheres pythonmonks wrote: > I have some easy issues (Python 2.6) As of a few minutes ago, this thread had 48 postings on my news server. To paraphrase somebody famous: There are no such things as easy questions. There are, however, easy answers. And they're wrong. --

Re: list.insert

2010-07-14 Thread Chris Rebert
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Eric J. Van der Velden wrote: > Hi, > > I understand this: > l=[1,2,3] l[1:2]=[8,9] l > [1,8,9,3] > > But how do you do this with list.insert? You can't clobber existing items in the list using just .insert(), so the closest you could get is somethi

Re: High Performance solutions are needed to do things like urlretrieve

2010-07-14 Thread MRAB
David wrote: urlretrieve works fine. However, when file size get very large. It goes on forever, and even fails. For instance, one of download .zip file is of 363,096KB. Particularly, when trying to get, with urlretrieve, a zipped folder of a very large size, it could take up to 20 to 30 minu

Re: Issue with logging.config

2010-07-14 Thread Joe Hughes
This is why I did what I did, because I couldn't figure it out either. I did find issue 5421 at python.org which is where I got the idea for the code change. Joe On Jul 14, 2010, at 12:35 PM, Peter Otten wrote: > Vinay Sajip wrote: > >> On Jul 14, 3:21 pm, Joe Hughes wrote: >>> Thanks for th

Re: adodb.NewADOConnection('postgres') returns None

2010-07-14 Thread Thomas Jollans
On 07/14/2010 02:14 PM, micayael wrote: > On Jul 13, 5:35 pm, Thomas Jollans wrote: >> On 07/13/2010 09:55 PM, micayael wrote: >> >>> Hi. >> >>> I'm trying to use adodb for postgres. I had instaled in ubuntu 9.10 >>> the adodb and psycopg2 module (sudo apt-get install python-adodb >>> python-psyco

Re: High Performance solutions are needed to do things like urlretrieve

2010-07-14 Thread Thomas Jollans
On 07/14/2010 07:49 PM, David wrote: > > urlretrieve works fine. However, when file size get very large. It > goes on forever, and even fails. > > For instance, one of download .zip file is of 363,096KB. > > Particularly, when trying to get, with urlretrieve, a zipped folder of > a very large

High Performance solutions are needed to do things like urlretrieve

2010-07-14 Thread David
urlretrieve works fine. However, when file size get very large. It goes on forever, and even fails. For instance, one of download .zip file is of 363,096KB. Particularly, when trying to get, with urlretrieve, a zipped folder of a very large size, it could take up to 20 to 30 minutes. Often it

Re: Easy questions from a python beginner

2010-07-14 Thread John Posner
On 7/14/2010 12:06 PM, Ethan Furman wrote: ... Have you tried this? --> def foo(): ... print locals() ... blah = 'interesting' ... print locals() ... --> foo() {} {'blah': 'interesting'} As can be clearly seen, blah does not exist before the assignment -- the *name* blah has not been *bound* t

Re: death of newsgroups (Microsoft closing their newsgroups)

2010-07-14 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
On 14/07/2010 12:19 p.m., Kenneth Tilton wrote: Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:24:12 -0400, Kenneth Tilton wrote: The moral? If you look for the spam, you'll find it. And if you *don't* look for spam, you can be sure that some goose will reply to it and get it past your filte

Re: Easy questions from a python beginner

2010-07-14 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:06:34 -0700, Ethan Furman wrote: > Alf P. Steinbach /Usenet wrote: [...] >> Clearly when the exception is raised, referring to the variable, the >> variable exists. > > You are the only one spouting nonsense. Have you tried this? > > --> def foo(): > ... print locals()

Some success with the "Plot" problem :D

2010-07-14 Thread Ritchy lelis
Hello guys On Following the development of my ADC (Analog-to-Digital converter Residue function transference) i already got some progress with the plot problem and (much thanks to colleagues who help me in this forum and not only) i would like to show you all the progress that has already got and

Re: Issue with logging.config

2010-07-14 Thread Peter Otten
Vinay Sajip wrote: > On Jul 14, 3:21 pm, Joe Hughes wrote: >> Thanks for the information. I sent an email to the maintainer and got >> some information that helped me continue with this. My solution was to >> change line 785 of handlers.py to >> >> self.socket.sendto(bytes(msg, 'ascii'), self.a

Re: ctypes' c_longdouble: underflow error (bug?)

2010-07-14 Thread Thomas Jollans
On 07/14/2010 03:24 PM, kj wrote: > > > > I have a C library function hg that returns a long double, so when > I import it using C types I specify this return type like this: > > MYLIB.hg.restype = ctypes.c_longdouble > > But certain non-zero values returned by hg appear as zero Python-side. >

Re: python3: help with subprocess

2010-07-14 Thread Dave Angel
Alan wrote: Hi there, Module commands is gone in python3, so I am trying subprocess. So please I would appreciate if someone can tell me how to do this better: before I had: cmd = 'uname -a' out = commands.getoutput(cmd) 'Darwin amadeus.local 10.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.4.0: Fri Apr 23 18

Re: death of newsgroups (Microsoft closing their newsgroups)

2010-07-14 Thread John Bokma
Kenneth Tilton writes: fup2 poster > Let me see if I have this right. Your technique for reducing unwanted > traffic is to openly insult one of the participants? Heh, or just ploinking them (done). Or making them cry like a little baby: http://xahlee.org/Periodic_dosage_dir/t2/harassment.html

multiline input and readline

2010-07-14 Thread Michele Simionato
Googling for ways to use the readline library with multiline input I found out the following stackoverflow answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/161495/is-there-a-nice-way-of-handling-multi-line-input-with-gnu-readline The solution is to use the rl_bind_key function, but it does not look lik

Re: Identify the Color of an Image

2010-07-14 Thread John Nagle
On 7/14/2010 5:37 AM, Monyl wrote: Hi, 1. How can I find the color of an image present the webpage? 2. How to identify the font type of the selected text present in the content of the web page It would be much helpfull, if anyone responds to it ASAP Thanks Mohmyda "Selected text"? Sel

Re: python3: help with subprocess

2010-07-14 Thread Gary Herron
On 07/14/2010 08:38 AM, Alan wrote: Hi there, Module commands is gone in python3, so I am trying subprocess. So please I would appreciate if someone can tell me how to do this better: before I had: cmd = 'uname -a' out = commands.getoutput(cmd) 'Darwin amadeus.local 10.4.0 Darwin Kernel Ver

Re: python3: help with subprocess

2010-07-14 Thread Ben Kaplan
On Jul 14, 2010, at 8:38 AM, Alan wrote: > Hi there, > > Module commands is gone in python3, so I am trying subprocess. So please I > would appreciate if someone can tell me how to do this better: > > before I had: > > cmd = 'uname -a' > out = commands.getoutput(cmd) > > 'Darwin amadeus.loca

Re: Easy questions from a python beginner

2010-07-14 Thread Ethan Furman
Alf P. Steinbach /Usenet wrote: * MRAB, on 12.07.2010 00:37: Alf P. Steinbach /Usenet wrote: Of course there are variables, that's why the docs call them variables. In Java a variable is declared and exists even before the first assignment to it. In Python a 'variable' isn't declared and won

Re: python app development

2010-07-14 Thread mo reina
On Jul 3, 9:59 pm, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 7/3/2010 1:48 PM,mo reinawrote: > > > an anyone recommend a resource (book,tutorial,etc.) that focuses on > > application development in python? something similar to Practical > > Django Projects, but for stand alone applications instead of web apps > > (

Re: Issue with logging.config

2010-07-14 Thread Vinay Sajip
On Jul 14, 3:21 pm, Joe Hughes wrote: >         Thanks for the information.  I sent an email to the maintainer and > got some information that helped me continue with this.  My solution was to > change line 785 of handlers.py to > > self.socket.sendto(bytes(msg, 'ascii'), self.address) > > After

Re: list.insert

2010-07-14 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 7/14/2010 7:54 AM Eric J. Van der Velden said... Hi, I understand this: l=[1,2,3] l[1:2]=[8,9] l [1,8,9,3] But how do you do this with list.insert? >>> l = [1,2,3,4] >>> l[1:2]="" >>> dummy = [l.insert(1,x) for x in reversed([8,9])] Emile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

python3: help with subprocess

2010-07-14 Thread Alan
Hi there, Module commands is gone in python3, so I am trying subprocess. So please I would appreciate if someone can tell me how to do this better: before I had: cmd = 'uname -a' out = commands.getoutput(cmd) 'Darwin amadeus.local 10.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.4.0: Fri Apr 23 18:28:53 PDT 201

Re: death of newsgroups (Microsoft closing their newsgroups)

2010-07-14 Thread Kenneth Tilton
Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:24:12 -0400, Kenneth Tilton wrote: The moral? If you look for the spam, you'll find it. And if you *don't* look for spam, you can be sure that some goose will reply to it and get it past your filters. Thanks for that Kenneth, if that is your nam

list.insert

2010-07-14 Thread Eric J. Van der Velden
Hi, I understand this: >>> l=[1,2,3] >>> l[1:2]=[8,9] >>> l [1,8,9,3] But how do you do this with list.insert? Thanks, Eric J. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

stdiodemo (twisted-python) and enable command history

2010-07-14 Thread kak...@gmail.com
Hello again to all, While playing and extending stdiodemo.py, a came up with a thought of adding command line history. Is this possible? Any hints? Thanks Antonis K. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Issue with logging.config

2010-07-14 Thread Joe Hughes
Peter, Thanks for the information. I sent an email to the maintainer and got some information that helped me continue with this. My solution was to change line 785 of handlers.py to self.socket.sendto(bytes(msg, 'ascii'), self.address) After I made the change, I got exactly what I wa

Re: nicer way to remove prefix of a string if it exists

2010-07-14 Thread Paul McGuire
On Jul 13, 6:49 pm, News123 wrote: > I wondered about a potentially nicer way of removing a prefix of a > string if it exists. > Here is an iterator solution: from itertools import izip def trim_prefix(prefix, s): i1,i2 = iter(prefix),iter(s) if all(c1==c2 for c1,c2 in izip(i1,i2)):

ctypes' c_longdouble: underflow error (bug?)

2010-07-14 Thread kj
I have a C library function hg that returns a long double, so when I import it using C types I specify this return type like this: MYLIB.hg.restype = ctypes.c_longdouble But certain non-zero values returned by hg appear as zero Python-side. If I modify hg so that it prints out its value right

Re: Why doesn't python's list append() method return the list itself?

2010-07-14 Thread Nathan Rice
The better question is, do I ever use them? Thinking back over the code I've written in the last couple of years, I would say probably two or three times (mostly in unit tests). I've had to code around string's sequence behavior DOZENS of times. Is it nifty that strings can be sliced like that?

Re: Check if a command is valid

2010-07-14 Thread Kenny Meyer
On Jul 13, 4:14 pm, Hans Mulder wrote: > Chris Rebert wrote: > > `where` seems to be a zsh built-in: > > $ # I'm in UR bash > > $ nonexistent > > -bash: nonexistent: command not found > > $ where bash > > -bash: where: command not found > > > And not everyone has zsh installed, so... > > I don't s

Identify the Color of an Image

2010-07-14 Thread Monyl
Hi, 1. How can I find the color of an image present the webpage? 2. How to identify the font type of the selected text present in the content of the web page It would be much helpfull, if anyone responds to it ASAP Thanks Mohmyda -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: eGenix at EuroPython 2010

2010-07-14 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> EuroPython 2009 - Making 50 Mio. EUR per year using Python > http://www.egenix.com/go23/ This link returns a 404. Cheers, Daniel -- Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: adodb.NewADOConnection('postgres') returns None

2010-07-14 Thread micayael
On Jul 13, 5:35 pm, Thomas Jollans wrote: > On 07/13/2010 09:55 PM, micayael wrote: > > > Hi. > > > I'm trying to use adodb for postgres. I had instaled in ubuntu 9.10 > > the adodb and psycopg2 module (sudo apt-get install python-adodb > > python-psycopg2) but when I put this > > > import adodb >

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Re: nicer way to remove prefix of a string if it exists

2010-07-14 Thread Tim Chase
On 07/13/2010 09:22 PM, Shashwat Anand wrote: You could write: rsl = f[len(prefix):] if f.startswith(prefix) else f Or you can just do split and join, "".join(f.split(prefix, 1)) will do. This suggestion breaks if the prefix occurs within the string rather than at the beginning: f

Re: Errno 9] Bad file descriptor

2010-07-14 Thread joblack
> | > | Starting point: > | ... > |         self.status['text'] = 'Processing ...' > |         try: > |             cli_main(argv) > |         except Exception, e: > |             self.status['text'] = 'Error: ' + str(e) > |             return > | ... > | cli_main: > | > |     keypath, inpath, outp

Re: Cpp + Python: static data dynamic initialization in *nix shared lib?

2010-07-14 Thread Alf P. Steinbach /Usenet
* Hrvoje Niksic, on 14.07.2010 10:17: "Alf P. Steinbach /Usenet" writes: Also, things like the 'owned' option is just asking for trouble. Isn't owned=true (or equivalent) a necessity when initializing from a PyObject* returned by a function declared to return a "new reference"? No, not qui

Re: any issues with long running python apps?

2010-07-14 Thread Maria R
I can second the stated opinion that Python per se is stable enough. We deliver production systems running 24/7 with uptimes counted in several months and from what I can see, compared to the OP's app, ours is vastly more complex. The only Python-related issue we have encountered so far, wrt to st

Re: ValueError: invalid literal for float(): -1.#IND (pickle.py)

2010-07-14 Thread Alexander Eisenhuth
Mark Dickinson schrieb: BTW: I'm tied to version 2.5 of python Have you tried using pickle protocol 1 or 2, instead of pickle protocol 0? That may well solve your problem. (Those protocols write out the binary form of a float directly, instead of reading and writing a string representatio

Re: floatref

2010-07-14 Thread Christian Heimes
> I know, I just wondered if there is a *standard* solution. Yeah, you have to reset your brain and switch to Python mode. *scnr* Seriously, your inquiry sounds like you are trying to code C in Python. I'm using Python for more than seven years and I've never felt the need for a mutable float ref

eGenix at EuroPython 2010

2010-07-14 Thread eGenix Team: M.-A. Lemburg
eGenix at EuroPython 2010 Meet up with eGenix at this year's EuroPython Conference in Birmingham, UK. The EuroPython Conference is the one of the p

Re: Cpp + Python: static data dynamic initialization in *nix shared lib?

2010-07-14 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
"Alf P. Steinbach /Usenet" writes: > Also, things like the 'owned' option is just asking for trouble. Isn't owned=true (or equivalent) a necessity when initializing from a PyObject* returned by a function declared to return a "new reference"? How does your API deal with the distinction between

Re: floatref

2010-07-14 Thread Roald de Vries
On Jul 14, 2010, at 3:53 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:26:34 +0200, Roald de Vries wrote: Hi all, I have two objects that should both be able to alter a shared float. So i need something like a mutable float object, or a float reference object. Does anybody know if somet

Re: tarfile and progress information

2010-07-14 Thread Lars Gustäbel
On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 11:23:22AM -0400, Nathan Huesken wrote: > I am packing large files with tarfile. Is there any way I can get > progress information while packing? There is no builtin way in tarfile, but there are several possible solutions: 1. Replace the tarfile.copyfileobj() function tha

Re: floatref

2010-07-14 Thread Roald de Vries
On Jul 14, 2010, at 3:53 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:26:34 +0200, Roald de Vries wrote: Hi all, I have two objects that should both be able to alter a shared float. So i need something like a mutable float object, or a float reference object. Does anybody know if somet

Re: floatref

2010-07-14 Thread Roald de Vries
On Jul 14, 2010, at 1:26 AM, Gary Herron wrote: On 07/13/2010 03:02 PM, Roald de Vries wrote: Hi Gary, On Jul 13, 2010, at 8:54 PM, Gary Herron wrote: On 07/13/2010 10:26 AM, Roald de Vries wrote: Hi all, I have two objects that should both be able to alter a shared float. So i need someth