Re: Python Macros's Not the Power in OOo they should be ?

2010-09-22 Thread Tim Harig
On 2010-09-23, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message ><4d76a2ad-bf85-472e-8c63-ef16f320a...@t11g2000vbc.googlegroups.com>, flebber > wrote: > >> Has anyone had much success with python macro's. Or developing powerful >> macro's in an language? > > I did an application for my own use recently, i

Re: creating python daemon ?

2010-09-22 Thread vineet daniel
On Sep 22, 2:20 pm, de...@web.de (Diez B. Roggisch) wrote: > vineet daniel writes: > > On Sep 21, 9:47 pm, de...@web.de (Diez B. Roggisch) wrote: > >> vineet daniel writes: > >> > Hi > > >> > I have succesfully created daemon with python script and as next step > >> > I am trying to give input to

Re: lists and list item matches (ghost wodgame)

2010-09-22 Thread cbr...@cbrownsystems.com
On Sep 22, 3:39 pm, Baba wrote: > On Sep 22, 9:18 pm, Baba wrote: > > > > > On Sep 22, 3:38 pm, nn wrote: > > > > On Sep 21, 6:39 pm, Baba wrote: > > > > > Hi > > > > > query level: beginner > > > > > as part of a learning exercise i have written code that: > > > wordlist = ['hello', 'bye']

Re: Too much code - slicing

2010-09-22 Thread Seebs
On 2010-09-23, John Bokma wrote: > Seebs writes: >> I dunno. I like the "next if /^$/" idiom, > I don't (as a Perl programmer), I prefer: Huh, those are actually nicer. I didn't know that was possible; it wouldn't have occurred to me to try to put "next" (which I think of as a statement) into

Re: Too much code - slicing

2010-09-22 Thread John Bokma
Seebs writes: > I dunno. I like the "next if /^$/" idiom, I don't (as a Perl programmer), I prefer: $line =~ /^$/ and next; Or: $line ne '' or next; which I read as: line must not be empty -- John Bokma j3b Blog: http://johnbo

Re: Too much code - slicing

2010-09-22 Thread Seebs
On 2010-09-23, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 01:49:44 +, Seebs wrote: >> But I do think it's unfair to dismiss it as purely a matter of baby duck >> syndrome. Consistency in ordering of corresponding idioms seems a >> reasonable goal. > I don't see anyone bitching about: > fo

Re: Too much code - slicing

2010-09-22 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 01:49:44 +, Seebs wrote: > But I do think it's unfair to dismiss it as purely a matter of baby duck > syndrome. Consistency in ordering of corresponding idioms seems a > reasonable goal. I don't see anyone bitching about: for x in seq: if x: f(x) vs [f(x)

Re: Python Macros's Not the Power in OOo they should be ?

2010-09-22 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message <4d76a2ad-bf85-472e-8c63-ef16f320a...@t11g2000vbc.googlegroups.com>, flebber wrote: > Has anyone had much success with python macro's. Or developing powerful > macro's in an language? I did an application for my own use recently, involving automatically generating invoices in editabl

Re: Error installing cx_Oracle

2010-09-22 Thread James Mills
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:35 PM, AMC wrote: > Hi, > > >From last months I am using Python for making small but useful tools > for my team members. I am doing my development in windows machine and > running the program in Solaris machine where Python 2.6.2 is > installed. > > In one of my program f

Re: Too much code - slicing

2010-09-22 Thread Seebs
On 2010-09-23, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Yes, it certainly is. Describing it as "an ugly format" is also a matter > of taste -- taste which in my opinion simply isn't justified by anything > other than familiarity. It may not be convincing to other people, but the logical inversion strikes me as

Re: Too much code - slicing

2010-09-22 Thread John Bokma
Steven D'Aprano writes: For completeness sake: code = side == 'l' ? dir[int(num):] : dir[:-1*int(num)] > code = if side == 'l' then dir[int(num):] else dir[:-1*int(num)] > code = side == 'l' if dir[int(num):] else dir[:-1*int(num)] > code = dir[int(num):] if side == 'l' else dir[:-1*int(num)]

Re: Down with tinyurl!

2010-09-22 Thread John Bokma
Steven D'Aprano writes: > You know, I'd give my right arm -- well, perhaps somebody else's right > arm -- for the opportunity to some day to be interviewing an ex-RIAA > executive, just so I can say: > > "I see from your CV that you took millions of customers and made them so > mad at you that

Re: Python Macros's Not the Power in OOo they should be ?

2010-09-22 Thread flebber
On Sep 23, 10:41 am, flebber wrote: > I have recently been looking at openoffice because I saw it had > support to use python Macro's. I thought this would provide OOo with a > great advantage a fully powerful high level language as compared to > VBA in Excel. > > I have found few docs on the > s

Python Macros's Not the Power in OOo they should be ?

2010-09-22 Thread flebber
I have recently been looking at openoffice because I saw it had support to use python Macro's. I thought this would provide OOo with a great advantage a fully powerful high level language as compared to VBA in Excel. I have found few docs on the subject. http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Py

Re: Too much code - slicing

2010-09-22 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 12:26:29 -0400, Andreas Waldenburger wrote: > On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 19:09:33 -0700 (PDT) Carl Banks > wrote: > >> On Sep 17, 1:01 pm, Andreas Waldenburger >> wrote: >> > On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:20:33 -0400 AK wrote: >> > >> > > I also like this construct that works, I think, s

Re: Subprocess does not return for longer-running process

2010-09-22 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message , Nobody wrote: > And I can't think of any reason why you should use os.waitpid() or > similar; use the .wait() method. I have used WNOHANG to poll for completion of a subprocess while providing progress updates to the user. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: data structure suggestion (native python datatypes or sqlite; compound select)

2010-09-22 Thread Vlastimil Brom
2010/9/19 Dennis Lee Bieber : > On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 23:00:25 +0200, Vlastimil Brom > declaimed the following in > gmane.comp.python.general: > >> Thank you very much for detailed hints, I see, I should have mention >> the specification with my initial post... >> It is true, that nested tags of the

Re: Too much code - slicing

2010-09-22 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:17:48 +0200, Antoon Pardon wrote: > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 12:07:07AM +, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:28:49 +0200, Antoon Pardon wrote: >> >> > Not necessarily. Some of us have the impression that Guido >> > deliberatly chose an ugly format for the

Re: Too much code - slicing

2010-09-22 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 08:17:00 +, Duncan Booth wrote: > I guess you have worked hard to forget the and-or hack. It was actually: > > condition and true-clause or false-clause > > so its not quite the same pattern. So I did. Oops. Thanks for the correction. -- Steven -- http://mail.pyt

Re: Down with tinyurl!

2010-09-22 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 23:17:54 -0700, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:12:01 -0500, John Bokma > declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: > > >> I never saw the point of the whole X-No-Archive: Yes thing. What >> happens if I quote such a message? It's archived, righ

Re: Down with tinyurl! (was Re: importing excel data into a pythonmatrix?)

2010-09-22 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:51:20 -0700, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On 21 Sep 2010 05:01:45 GMT, Steven D'Aprano > declaimed the following in > gmane.comp.python.general: > > >> Hey, that would be an *awesome* google bombing project... to get lmgtfy >> to come up as the first link for "self-righteou

Re: lists and list item matches (ghost wodgame)

2010-09-22 Thread Baba
On Sep 22, 9:18 pm, Baba wrote: > On Sep 22, 3:38 pm, nn wrote: > > > > > On Sep 21, 6:39 pm, Baba wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > query level: beginner > > > > as part of a learning exercise i have written code that: > > > > a) asks for a single letter input (assumption: only 1 letter wil be > > > en

Re: Auto size wx.StaticText

2010-09-22 Thread CM
On Sep 22, 2:38 pm, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2010-09-22, Dani Valverde wrote: > > > Is there a way to automatically set the size of a wx.StaticText to fit > > its content? > > According to the docs, it should do that by default: > >    http://xoomer.virgilio.it/infinity77/wxPython/Widgets/wx.Sta

Re: Expanding a vector by replicating elements individually

2010-09-22 Thread Robert Kern
On 9/21/10 10:03 PM, gburde...@gmail.com wrote: Given m=numpy.array([[1, 2, 3]]) I want to obtain array([[1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3]]) One way I've found to do this is: numpy.reshape(numpy.tile(m,(4,1)),(12,1),'f').T Another way is: numpy.reshape(numpy.tile(m,(4,1)).flatten(1),(1,

Re: lists and list item matches (ghost wodgame)

2010-09-22 Thread Baba
On Sep 22, 3:38 pm, nn wrote: > On Sep 21, 6:39 pm, Baba wrote: > > > > > Hi > > > query level: beginner > > > as part of a learning exercise i have written code that: > > > a) asks for a single letter input (assumption: only 1 letter wil be > > entered) > > b) adds that letter to list1 and then

ctypes

2010-09-22 Thread jay thompson
Hello, I posted in regard to this in the past but it didn't go very far, no ones fault, but I'm again atempting to make this work and could use some help. I would like to use libraw.dll (http://www.libraw.org/ version 0.10) from python and can access all the functions fine and produce images but

Playing sounds at time indexes

2010-09-22 Thread OKB (not okblacke)
I'm looking for an audio library for Python. I googled and found a few, but none of them seem to have a simple way to play a particular sound file from a particular start-time to an end-time. Like, I'd want to load a file and say "Play the section of this file from 10.25 seconds to 11

Re: weird error with python 2.7 installer under windows 7

2010-09-22 Thread Martin v. Loewis
> Any ideas? Try running the postinstall script by hand. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Auto size wx.StaticText

2010-09-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-09-22, Dani Valverde wrote: > Is there a way to automatically set the size of a wx.StaticText to fit > its content? According to the docs, it should do that by default: http://xoomer.virgilio.it/infinity77/wxPython/Widgets/wx.StaticText.html Window Styles Window Style D

Auto size wx.StaticText

2010-09-22 Thread Dani Valverde
Hello! Is there a way to automatically set the size of a wx.StaticText to fit its content? Cheers! Dani -- Daniel Valverde Saubí c/Joan Maragall 37 4 2 17002 Girona Spain Telèfon mòbil: +34651987662 e-mail: dani.valve...@gmail.com http://www.acrocephalus.net http://natupics.blogspot.com Si no

SetGridCursor not working?

2010-09-22 Thread Dani Valverde
Hello! I have a table with some rows and cells (code at the end), and created a function which searches for text inside the cells and returns the row number where the text is (to simplify the example, only English Name is working). Then, it should set the grid cursor focus to that row (I want

Re: Expanding a vector by replicating elements individually

2010-09-22 Thread Terry Reedy
On 9/21/2010 11:03 PM, gburde...@gmail.com wrote: Given m=numpy.array([[1, 2, 3]]) I want to obtain array([[1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3]]) One way I've found to do this is: numpy.reshape(numpy.tile(m,(4,1)),(12,1),'f').T Another way is: numpy.reshape(numpy.tile(m,(4,1)).flatten(1),(

Re: Grouping pairs - suggested tools

2010-09-22 Thread MRAB
On 20/09/2010 22:42, Astley Le Jasper wrote: I have a list of tuples that indicate a relationship, ie a is related to b, b is related to c etc etc. What I want to do is cluster these relationships into groups. An item will only be associated with a single cluster. Before I started, I wondered i

Re: Best way for rotating a matrix of data?

2010-09-22 Thread Nobody
On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 19:38:06 -0700, Raphaël Plasson wrote: > Actually, I more precisely extract my 2D array from much higher > dimensions data (i.e. 10-20 fields of different data in 3 dimensions > of space+1 dimension of time), contained in a hdf5 file. I typically > would like to extract arbitra

HTML6 proposal (Re: sexp xml syntax transformation)

2010-09-22 Thread Xah Lee
cleaned up the previous post. • 〈HTML6, Your HTML/XML Simplified〉 http://xahlee.org/comp/html6.html plain text version follows -- HTML6, Your HTML/XML Simplified Xah Lee, 2010-09-21 Tired of the standard bodies telling us what to do and change the

Re: how to get partition information of a hard disk with python

2010-09-22 Thread Nobody
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 00:31:04 +0200, Hellmut Weber wrote: > I'm looking for a possibility to access the partiton inforamtion of a > hard disk of my computer from within a python program. Have you considered parsing /proc/partitions? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Subprocess does not return for longer-running process

2010-09-22 Thread Nobody
On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 23:54:04 -0700, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: >> As your Traceback clearly indicates, the Popen() call has already >> completed; it's *the os.waitpid() call* that's blocking, but that's >> entirely to be expected given its defined behavior. If you don't want >> to wait around for th

Re: lists and list item matches (ghost wodgame)

2010-09-22 Thread nn
On Sep 21, 6:39 pm, Baba wrote: > Hi > > query level: beginner > > as part of a learning exercise i have written code that: > > a) asks for a single letter input (assumption: only 1 letter wil be > entered) > b) adds that letter to list1 and then goes through list2 and checks: > >     1) if any it

Life

2010-09-22 Thread saruviel
Life By Daniel Daly A series of, perhaps random thoughts, or if you take the time to try and make some coherent sense of the whole, perhaps something deeper. But probably not. I was inspired to start this task by the book ‘By the Waters of Galilee’ by Fr Luke Fay of Catholic faith. I

Error installing cx_Oracle

2010-09-22 Thread AMC
Hi, >From last months I am using Python for making small but useful tools for my team members. I am doing my development in windows machine and running the program in Solaris machine where Python 2.6.2 is installed. In one of my program file I had to use the module "cx_Oracle".For that I have ins

Re: creating python daemon ?

2010-09-22 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
vineet daniel writes: > On Sep 21, 9:47 pm, de...@web.de (Diez B. Roggisch) wrote: >> vineet daniel writes: >> > Hi >> >> > I have succesfully created daemon with python script and as next step >> > I am trying to give input to that python script daemon from Apache >> > Logshere I have got s

Re: Grouping pairs - suggested tools

2010-09-22 Thread Arnaud Delobelle
On Sep 22, 8:30 am, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > Arnaud Delobelle wrote: > > I think I would go for the two-step approach of constructing the graph > > first and then recursively building connected components.  It sounds > > more complicated at first but when you implement it it turns ou

Re: utf-8 coding sometimes it works, most of the time it don't work.

2010-09-22 Thread Stef Mientki
hello Uli, thanks, I think you hit the nail on it's head, PyScripter indeed changes default encoding but .. On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: > Stef Mientki wrote: > > When running this python application from the command line ( or launched > > from another Python program),

Re: This Is International Don’t-Squawk-Like-A -Parrot Day

2010-09-22 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Lawrence D'Oliveiro a écrit : Next we need an International Surfin’ Bird day, a day to go around and tell everybody that the bird bird bird, the bird is the word. +1 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Grouping pairs - suggested tools

2010-09-22 Thread Peter Otten
Arnaud Delobelle wrote: > I think I would go for the two-step approach of constructing the graph > first and then recursively building connected components. It sounds > more complicated at first but when you implement it it turns out quite > simple: > > from collections import defaultdict > from

Re: utf-8 coding sometimes it works, most of the time it don't work.

2010-09-22 Thread Ulrich Eckhardt
Stef Mientki wrote: > When running this python application from the command line ( or launched > from another Python program), the wrong character encoding (probably > windows-1252) is used. Rule #1: If you know the correct encoding, set it yourself. This particularly applies to files you open you