Re: Nice way to cast a homogeneous tuple

2010-07-28 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:45:19 -0700, John Nagle wrote: [...] >> if you have an instance of class A, you can do this: >> >> a = A() # make an instance of class A >> a.__class__ = B # tell it that it's now class B >> >> and hope that it won't explode when you try to use it :/ [...] > The main u

Re: Performance ordered dictionary vs normal dictionary

2010-07-28 Thread Navkirat Singh
On 29-Jul-2010, at 11:41 AM, Chris Rebert wrote: > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Navkirat Singh wrote: >> Sorry, I might have been a bit vague: >> (Also, I am new to pythong) >> I am trying to do construct my own web session tracking algorithm for a web >> server (which also I have constructe

Re: Performance ordered dictionary vs normal dictionary

2010-07-28 Thread Chris Rebert
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Navkirat Singh wrote: > Sorry, I might have been a bit vague: > (Also, I am new to pythong) > I am trying to do construct my own web session tracking algorithm for a web > server (which also I have constructed). The book keeping is for the session > information I t

Re: Performance ordered dictionary vs normal dictionary

2010-07-28 Thread Chris Rebert
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 9:06 PM, sturlamolden wrote: > On 29 Jul, 03:47, Navkirat Singh wrote: >> I was wondering what would be better to do some medium to heavy book keeping >> in memory - Ordered Dictionary or a plain simple Dictionary object?? > > It depends on the problem. A dictionary is a

Re: Nice way to cast a homogeneous tuple

2010-07-28 Thread John Nagle
On 7/28/2010 7:32 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:35:52 -0400, wheres pythonmonks wrote: Thanks ... I thought int was a type-cast (like in C++) so I assumed I couldn't reference it. Python doesn't have type-casts in the sense of "tell the compiler to treat object of type A a

Re: Newbie question regarding SSL and certificate verification

2010-07-28 Thread geremy condra
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:08 PM, John Nagle wrote: > On 7/28/2010 6:26 PM, geremy condra wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Jeffrey >> Gaynor  wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am making a first large project in python and am having quite a >>> bit of difficulty unscrambling various python

Re: Newbie question regarding SSL and certificate verification

2010-07-28 Thread John Nagle
On 7/28/2010 6:26 PM, geremy condra wrote: On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Jeffrey Gaynor wrote: Hi, I am making a first large project in python and am having quite a bit of difficulty unscrambling various python versions and what they can/cannot do. To wit, I must communicate with certain se

Re: Performance ordered dictionary vs normal dictionary

2010-07-28 Thread Navkirat Singh
On 29-Jul-2010, at 9:36 AM, sturlamolden wrote: > On 29 Jul, 03:47, Navkirat Singh wrote: > >> I was wondering what would be better to do some medium to heavy book keeping >> in memory - Ordered Dictionary or a plain simple Dictionary object?? > > It depends on the problem. A dictionary is a

Re: Performance ordered dictionary vs normal dictionary

2010-07-28 Thread sturlamolden
On 29 Jul, 03:47, Navkirat Singh wrote: > I was wondering what would be better to do some medium to heavy book keeping > in memory - Ordered Dictionary or a plain simple Dictionary object?? It depends on the problem. A dictionary is a hash table. An ordered dictionary is a binary search tree (B

Re: Ascii to Unicode.

2010-07-28 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:58:01 -0700, Joe Goldthwaite wrote: > This still seems odd to me. I would have thought that the unicode > function would return a properly encoded byte stream that could then > simply be written to disk. Instead it seems like you have to re-encode > the byte stream to some

Re: Function parameter scope

2010-07-28 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:30:34 +0530, Navkirat Singh wrote: > Hi, > > I had another question: > > What is the scope of a parameter passed to a function? I know its a > very basic question, but I am just sharpening my basics :) > > def func_something(x) > return print(x+1); > > Does x beco

Re: Nice way to cast a homogeneous tuple

2010-07-28 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:47:52 -0700, Carl Banks wrote: > On Jul 28, 7:32 am, Steven D'Aprano cybersource.com.au> wrote: >> On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:35:52 -0400, wheres pythonmonks wrote: >> > Thanks ... I thought int was a type-cast (like in C++) so I assumed I >> > couldn't reference it. >> >> Pyth

Re: Function parameter scope

2010-07-28 Thread Chris Rebert
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Navkirat Singh wrote: > Hi, > > I had another question: > > What is the scope of  a parameter passed to a function? I know its a very > basic question, but I am just sharpening my basics :) > > def func_something(x) > >        return print(x+1); > > Does x become

Re: Performance ordered dictionary vs normal dictionary

2010-07-28 Thread Chris Rebert
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Navkirat Singh wrote: > Hi guys, > > I was wondering what would be better to do some medium to heavy book keeping > in memory - Ordered Dictionary or a plain simple Dictionary object?? Your question is rather vague. Define "book keeping". Why do you feel an Order

Function parameter scope

2010-07-28 Thread Navkirat Singh
Hi, I had another question: What is the scope of a parameter passed to a function? I know its a very basic question, but I am just sharpening my basics :) def func_something(x) return print(x+1); Does x become a local variable or does it stay as a module scoped variable? Though I th

Performance ordered dictionary vs normal dictionary

2010-07-28 Thread Navkirat Singh
Hi guys, I was wondering what would be better to do some medium to heavy book keeping in memory - Ordered Dictionary or a plain simple Dictionary object?? Regards, N4v -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Newbie question regarding SSL and certificate verification

2010-07-28 Thread geremy condra
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Jeffrey Gaynor wrote: > Hi, > > I am making a first large project in python and am having quite a bit of > difficulty unscrambling various python versions and what they can/cannot do. > To wit, I must communicate with certain services via https and am required to

Newbie question regarding SSL and certificate verification

2010-07-28 Thread Jeffrey Gaynor
Hi, I am making a first large project in python and am having quite a bit of difficulty unscrambling various python versions and what they can/cannot do. To wit, I must communicate with certain services via https and am required to perform certificate verification on them. The problem is that

RE: Ascii to Unicode.

2010-07-28 Thread Joe Goldthwaite
> Hello hello ... you are running on Windows; the likelihood that you > actually have data encoded in latin1 is very very small. Follow MRAB's > answer but replace "latin1" by "cp1252". I think you're right. The database I'm working with is a US zip code database. It gets updated monthly. The p

Ascii to Unicode.

2010-07-28 Thread Joe Goldthwaite
Thanks to all of you who responded. I guess I was working from the wrong premise. I was thinking that a file could write any kind of data and that once I had my Unicode string, I could just write it out with a standard file.write() operation. What is actually happening is the file.write() operati

Re: python terminology on classes

2010-07-28 Thread Terry Reedy
On 7/27/2010 1:28 PM, John Nagle wrote: Python 2.6 has a recently added "with" clause, borrowed from LISP, for associating actions with scopes. This is supported for files and locks, but setting your own object up for "with" requires adding special methods to the object. "with" is less convenien

Tabular Package: importing file

2010-07-28 Thread Robert Faryabi
Hi there; I'm using Tabular Package for manipulating tab-delimited data. There is a small problem that I cannot get my head around it. When I construct my tabarray from file, the black fields are replaced by "nan". Does any one knows how to just keep them as empty string (ie. ' ')? Thanks, -R --

Re: urllib timeout

2010-07-28 Thread kBob
On Jul 28, 12:44 pm, John Nagle wrote: > On 7/27/2010 2:36 PM, kBob wrote: > > > > > > > > >   I created a script to access weather satellite imagery fron NOAA's > > ADDS. > > >   It worked fine until recently with Python 2.6. > > >   The company changed the Internet LAN connections to "Accept Aut

Re: Ascii to Unicode.

2010-07-28 Thread John Machin
On Jul 29, 4:32 am, "Joe Goldthwaite" wrote: > Hi, > > I've got an Ascii file with some latin characters. Specifically \xe1 and > \xfc.  I'm trying to import it into a Postgresql database that's running in > Unicode mode. The Unicode converter chokes on those two characters. > > I could just manua

Re: newb

2010-07-28 Thread geremy condra
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 5:50 AM, whitey wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:19:59 -0700, Mithrandir wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 07/27/2010 04:07 AM, whitey wrote: >>> hi all. am totally new to python and was wondering if there are any >>> newsgroups that are t

Re: Why is there no platform independent way of clearing a terminal?

2010-07-28 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:01:38 -0700, Jonathan Hartley wrote: > Also, is it crazy to imagine that if colorama was pushed through to > completion (ie. to support a majority of the relevant ANSI codes) then > Python's stdlib curses module, unmodified, would suddenly just work on > Windows? (after a ca

Re: Why is there no platform independent way of clearing a terminal?

2010-07-28 Thread Tim Harig
On 2010-07-28, Thomas Jollans wrote: > It might be possible to write a curses-compatible library that works > with cmd.exe. Maybe. But, even if it's possible, I don't think it's > easy, and I especially don't think it would be particularly rewarding. http://pdcurses.sourceforge.net/ It would be

Re: Ascii to Unicode.

2010-07-28 Thread Thomas Jollans
On 07/28/2010 09:29 PM, John Nagle wrote: > for rawline in input : > unicodeline = unicode(line,'latin1')# Latin-1 to Unicode > output.write(unicodeline.encode('utf-8')) # Unicode to as UTF-8 you got your blocks wrong. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Ascii to Unicode.

2010-07-28 Thread John Nagle
On 7/28/2010 11:32 AM, Joe Goldthwaite wrote: Hi, I've got an Ascii file with some latin characters. Specifically \xe1 and \xfc. I'm trying to import it into a Postgresql database that's running in Unicode mode. The Unicode converter chokes on those two characters. I could just manually replac

Re: Ascii to Unicode.

2010-07-28 Thread Thomas Jollans
On 07/28/2010 08:32 PM, Joe Goldthwaite wrote: > Hi, > > I've got an Ascii file with some latin characters. Specifically \xe1 and > \xfc. I'm trying to import it into a Postgresql database that's running in > Unicode mode. The Unicode converter chokes on those two characters. > > I could just ma

Re: Ascii to Unicode.

2010-07-28 Thread MRAB
Joe Goldthwaite wrote: Hi, I've got an Ascii file with some latin characters. Specifically \xe1 and \xfc. I'm trying to import it into a Postgresql database that's running in Unicode mode. The Unicode converter chokes on those two characters. I could just manually replace those to character

Ascii to Unicode.

2010-07-28 Thread Joe Goldthwaite
Hi, I've got an Ascii file with some latin characters. Specifically \xe1 and \xfc. I'm trying to import it into a Postgresql database that's running in Unicode mode. The Unicode converter chokes on those two characters. I could just manually replace those to characters with something valid but i

Re: urllib timeout

2010-07-28 Thread John Nagle
On 7/27/2010 2:36 PM, kBob wrote: I created a script to access weather satellite imagery fron NOAA's ADDS. It worked fine until recently with Python 2.6. The company changed the Internet LAN connections to "Accept Automatic settings" and "Use automatic configuration script" How do yo

Re: Why is there no platform independent way of clearing a terminal?

2010-07-28 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2010-07-28, Jonathan Hartley wrote: > And Neil Cerutti, I think I'll just email the whole source tree > to myself, and have a script that scans my inbox, unzips source > trees and runs their tests. Much nicer. :-) Don't forget to clear the screen, though. That ties the whole program together.

Re: urllib timeout

2010-07-28 Thread Chris Rebert
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 9:30 AM, kBob wrote: > On Jul 28, 9:11 am, kBob wrote: >> The connection problem has to do with the proxy settings. >> >>  In order for me to use Internet Explorer, the LAN's Automatic >> configuration must be turned on and use a script found on the >> company's proxy ser

Re: Linear nterpolation in 3D

2010-07-28 Thread Chris Rebert
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 9:57 AM, hardi wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to interpolate a 3D data (from the pic attached) with the > interp2d command. What I have, are three vectors f, z, A (x, y, z > respectively, A is the percentage data given on the isolines). I first put > the f and z in a meshgrid

Re: Why is there no platform independent way of clearing a terminal?

2010-07-28 Thread Thomas Jollans
On 07/28/2010 07:02 PM, Jonathan Hartley wrote: > On Jul 28, 5:47 pm, Thomas Jollans wrote: >> On 07/28/2010 06:01 PM, Jonathan Hartley wrote: >> >> >> >>> Oh, plus, while we're on this subject: >> >>> Am I right that curses in Python stdlib doesn't work on Windows, and >>> there is currently no s

Re: hasattr + __getattr__: I think this is Python bug

2010-07-28 Thread Ethan Furman
Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: Ethan Furman a écrit : Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: Bruno Desthuilliers a écrit : Ethan Furman a écrit : Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: Duncan Booth a écrit : (snip) Or you could create the default as a class attribute from the OP: """ I have a class (FuncDesigner o

Re: Why is there no platform independent way of clearing a terminal?

2010-07-28 Thread Jonathan Hartley
On Jul 28, 5:47 pm, Thomas Jollans wrote: > On 07/28/2010 06:01 PM, Jonathan Hartley wrote: > > > > > Oh, plus, while we're on this subject: > > > Am I right that curses in Python stdlib doesn't work on Windows, and > > there is currently no simple way to fix this? > > > Also, is it crazy to imagi

Linear nterpolation in 3D

2010-07-28 Thread hardi
Hi, I'm trying to interpolate a 3D data (from the pic attached) with the interp2d command. What I have, are three vectors f, z, A (x, y, z respectively, A is the percentage data given on the isolines). I first put the f and z in a meshgrid and afterwards in the griddata to get a 3D-grid then sta

Re: Why is there no platform independent way of clearing a terminal?

2010-07-28 Thread Thomas Jollans
On 07/28/2010 06:01 PM, Jonathan Hartley wrote: > > Oh, plus, while we're on this subject: > > Am I right that curses in Python stdlib doesn't work on Windows, and > there is currently no simple way to fix this? > > Also, is it crazy to imagine that if colorama was pushed through to > completion

Re: urllib timeout

2010-07-28 Thread kBob
On Jul 28, 9:11 am, kBob wrote: > On Jul 27, 4:56 pm, MRAB wrote: > > > > > > > kBob wrote: > > > On Jul 27, 4:23 pm, MRAB wrote: > > >> kBob wrote: > > > >>>  I created a script to access weather satellite imagery fron NOAA's > > >>> ADDS. > > >>>  It worked fine until recently with Python 2.6.

Re: Why is there no platform independent way of clearing a terminal?

2010-07-28 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2010-07-28, Jonathan Hartley wrote: > I want to write a quick script which, notices whenever I save > my source code, and re-runs the unit tests, displaying the > output. I think I'd like it to clear the terminal before each > re-run of the tests, so that it's immediately obvious what is > outp

Re: Why is there no platform independent way of clearing a terminal?

2010-07-28 Thread Jonathan Hartley
On Jul 28, 4:45 pm, Jonathan Hartley wrote: > On Jul 28, 8:08 am, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: > > > > > Daniel Fetchinson wrote: > > > After getting the technicalities out of the way, maybe I should have > > > asked: > > > > Is it only me or others would find a platform independent python API > > > to

Re: Nice way to cast a homogeneous tuple

2010-07-28 Thread Carl Banks
On Jul 28, 7:32 am, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:35:52 -0400, wheres pythonmonks wrote: > > Thanks ... I thought int was a type-cast (like in C++) so I assumed I > > couldn't reference it. > > Python doesn't have type-casts in the sense of "tell the compiler to > treat object of

Re: Why is there no platform independent way of clearing a terminal?

2010-07-28 Thread Jonathan Hartley
On Jul 28, 8:08 am, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: > Daniel Fetchinson wrote: > > After getting the technicalities out of the way, maybe I should have > > asked: > > > Is it only me or others would find a platform independent python API > > to clear the terminal useful? > > There are two kinds of programs

Re: Why is there no platform independent way of clearing a terminal?

2010-07-28 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 7/28/2010 4:23 AM Daniel Fetchinson said... Okay, that makes perfect sense, thanks for the exaplanation! I'll just live with the platform.system( ) check for this particular problem then. If all else fails, repeating 24 (or 40,60?) lines feeds clears the screen cross platform. Emile -

Re: urllib timeout

2010-07-28 Thread kBob
On Jul 27, 4:56 pm, MRAB wrote: > kBob wrote: > > On Jul 27, 4:23 pm, MRAB wrote: > >> kBob wrote: > > >>>  I created a script to access weather satellite imagery fron NOAA's > >>> ADDS. > >>>  It worked fine until recently with Python 2.6. > >>>  The company changed the Internet LAN connections

Re: Nice way to cast a homogeneous tuple

2010-07-28 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:35:52 -0400, wheres pythonmonks wrote: > Thanks ... I thought int was a type-cast (like in C++) so I assumed I > couldn't reference it. Python doesn't have type-casts in the sense of "tell the compiler to treat object of type A as type B instead". The closest Python has to

Re: Nice way to cast a homogeneous tuple

2010-07-28 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
wheres pythonmonks a écrit : Thanks ... I thought int was a type-cast (like in C++) so I assumed I couldn't reference it. Python has no C/C++ like "type-cast". "int" is the builtin integer type, and instanciating an object in Python is done by calling it's type. Remember that in Python, every

Re: Nice way to cast a homogeneous tuple

2010-07-28 Thread Tim Chase
On 07/28/10 08:15, wheres pythonmonks wrote: f( *map(lambda x: int(x), struct.unpack('2s2s2s','123456'))) 102 1. There is a way using unpack to get out string-formatted ints? well, you can use >>> s = '123456' >>> [int(s[i:i+2]) for i in range(0, len(s), 2)] [12, 34, 56] >>> f(*_) 102 While

Re: Nice way to cast a homogeneous tuple

2010-07-28 Thread Ulrich Eckhardt
wheres pythonmonks wrote: > Thanks ... I thought int was a type-cast (like in C++) so I assumed I > couldn't reference it. Hopefully somebody correct me if I explain this badly, but I'll take a shot... Firstly, "int" is a class. Python doesn't make a distinction between builtin types and class t

Re: Nice way to cast a homogeneous tuple

2010-07-28 Thread Hexamorph
wheres pythonmonks wrote: A new python convert is now looking for a replacement for another perl idiom. In particular, since Perl is weakly typed, I used to be able to use unpack to unpack sequences from a string, that I could then use immediately as integers. In python, I find that when I use

Re: Nice way to cast a homogeneous tuple

2010-07-28 Thread wheres pythonmonks
Thanks ... I thought int was a type-cast (like in C++) so I assumed I couldn't reference it. On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Nick Raptis wrote: > Ep, that missing line should be: > > On 07/28/2010 04:27 PM, Nick Raptis wrote: >> >> On 07/28/2010 04:15 PM, wheres pythonmonks wrote: >>> >>> f( *

Re: Nice way to cast a homogeneous tuple

2010-07-28 Thread Duncan Booth
wheres pythonmonks wrote: > 2. There is something like map(lambda x: int(x) without all the > lambda function call overhead. (e.g., cast tuple)? Yes there is: "lambda x: int(x)" is just a roundabout way of writing "int" -- Duncan Booth http://kupuguy.blogspot.com -- http://mail.python.

Re: Nice way to cast a homogeneous tuple

2010-07-28 Thread Nick Raptis
Ep, that missing line should be: On 07/28/2010 04:27 PM, Nick Raptis wrote: On 07/28/2010 04:15 PM, wheres pythonmonks wrote: f( *map(lambda x: int(x), struct.unpack('2s2s2s','123456'))) 102 But this seems too complicated. Well, you don't need the lambda at all int ===lambda x: int(x

Re: Nice way to cast a homogeneous tuple

2010-07-28 Thread Nick Raptis
On 07/28/2010 04:15 PM, wheres pythonmonks wrote: f( *map(lambda x: int(x), struct.unpack('2s2s2s','123456'))) 102 But this seems too complicated. Well, you don't need the lambda at all int ===lambda x: int(x) So just write It's like writing: def myint(x): return int(x) Nic

Nice way to cast a homogeneous tuple

2010-07-28 Thread wheres pythonmonks
A new python convert is now looking for a replacement for another perl idiom. In particular, since Perl is weakly typed, I used to be able to use unpack to unpack sequences from a string, that I could then use immediately as integers. In python, I find that when I use struct.unpack I tend to get

Re: newb

2010-07-28 Thread whitey
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Re: Why is there no platform independent way of clearing a terminal?

2010-07-28 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
>> > After getting the technicalities out of the way, maybe I should have >> > asked: >> >> > Is it only me or others would find a platform independent python API >> > to clear the terminal useful? > I don't know much, but just in case the following is useful to anyone: > > There is a Windows prog

Re: Why is there no platform independent way of clearing a terminal?

2010-07-28 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
>> After getting the technicalities out of the way, maybe I should have >> asked: >> >> Is it only me or others would find a platform independent python API >> to clear the terminal useful? > > There are two kinds of programs: > 1. Those that process input to output. If one of those suddenly starte

Re: Python parsing XML file problem with SAX

2010-07-28 Thread Stefan Behnel
jia li, 28.07.2010 12:10: I have an XML file with hundreds of elements. What's strange is only one of there elements could not be parsed correctly: REVERSE_INULL Dispose_ParameterList Dispose_ParameterList UNINSPECTED 146 1/146MMSLib_LinkedList.c I printed the data in "characters(self, data)

Python parsing XML file problem with SAX

2010-07-28 Thread jia li
I have an XML file with hundreds of elements. What's strange is only one of there elements could not be parsed correctly: REVERSE_INULL Dispose_ParameterList Dispose_ParameterList UNINSPECTED 146 1/146MMSLib_LinkedList.c I printed the data in "characters(self, data)" and after parsing. The res

Re: Why is there no platform independent way of clearing a terminal?

2010-07-28 Thread Jonathan Hartley
On Jul 28, 8:08 am, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: > Daniel Fetchinson wrote: > > After getting the technicalities out of the way, maybe I should have > > asked: > > > Is it only me or others would find a platform independent python API > > to clear the terminal useful? > > There are two kinds of programs

Which multiprocessing methods use shared memory?

2010-07-28 Thread Kevin Ar18
The multiprocessing module has 4 methods for sharing data between processes: Queues Pipes Shared Memory Map Server Process Which of these use shared memory? I understand that the 3rd (Shared Memory Map) does, but what about Queues? Thanks, Kevin __

Re: hasattr + __getattr__: I think this is Python bug

2010-07-28 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Ethan Furman a écrit : Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: Bruno Desthuilliers a écrit : Ethan Furman a écrit : Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: Duncan Booth a écrit : (snip) Or you could create the default as a class attribute from the OP: """ I have a class (FuncDesigner oofun) that has no attribute

Re: python styles: why Use spaces around arithmetic operators?

2010-07-28 Thread J.B. Brown
I personally prefer to be slightly excessive in the amount of spacing I used, especially when parentheses are involved. In no way do I assert that my code style is right for all situations, but here are a few examples of my personal style. --- myTuple = ( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 )# Comment about what th

Re: Where is the help page for re.MatchObject?

2010-07-28 Thread John Machin
On Jul 28, 1:26 pm, Peng Yu wrote: > I know the library reference webpage for re.MatchObject is > athttp://docs.python.org/library/re.html#re.MatchObject > > But I don't find such a help page in python help(). Does anybody know > how to get it in help()? Yes, but it doesn't tell you very much:

Re: Why is there no platform independent way of clearing a terminal?

2010-07-28 Thread Ulrich Eckhardt
Daniel Fetchinson wrote: > After getting the technicalities out of the way, maybe I should have > asked: > > Is it only me or others would find a platform independent python API > to clear the terminal useful? There are two kinds of programs: 1. Those that process input to output. If one of those