Re: Nested structures question

2011-01-12 Thread DevPlayer
looping = True while looping: guess = int(raw_input("Take a guess: ")) tries += 1 if guess > the_number: print "Lower..." elif guess < the_number: print "Higher..." else: print "You guessed it! The number was", the_number print "And it only took y

Re: Parsing string for " "

2011-01-12 Thread Daniel da Silva
MRAB, I will check it out. Thanks! Daniel On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:23 PM, MRAB wrote: > On 12/01/2011 01:50, Daniel da Silva wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have come across a task where I would like to scan a short 20-80 >> character line of text for instances of " ". Ideally >> could be of any

The problem of 324 (net::ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE)

2011-01-12 Thread shengli zhang
This is something I've been fighting for a couple of days. Let me try to describe it as I can. I use "python2.5 + django1.0 + mod_python + apache2" to develop a website. the website has run for two years. But the problem happend these days. when I log in my system, the first browser's sessin will

Re: order of importing modules

2011-01-12 Thread Ben Finney
(Please don't top-post replies. Instead, reply in-line with the quoted material, removing irrelevant material. An example is this message.) Catherine Moroney writes: > I've looked at my sys.path variable and I see that it has a whole > bunch of site-package directories, followed by the contents

Re: order of importing modules

2011-01-12 Thread Dan Stromberg
I don't know where the site-packages directories are coming from - maybe a site.py or sitecustomize.py? Sometimes you can strace with a very large -s to see where something like this is coming from. -o is your friend for saving the output to a file in, EG, /tmp. What I usually do is to put speci

Re: Which coding style is better? public API or private method inside class definition

2011-01-12 Thread DevPlayer
On Jan 4, 11:46 pm, Inyeol wrote: > Which coding style do you prefer? I'm more toward public API way, > since it requires less code change if I refactor private data > structure later. > Plz give pros and cons of these. Great question. It gets at the heart of Python style. It's a tricky question

Re: cipher encoding

2011-01-12 Thread MRAB
On 13/01/2011 00:49, Corey Richardson wrote: On 01/12/2011 07:39 PM, Corey Richardson wrote: On 01/12/2011 07:35 PM, Cathy James wrote: Dear all, I hope someone out there can help me. The output string of my code is close to what i need, but i need it 1)printed on one line and 2) reversed

Re: cipher encoding

2011-01-12 Thread Nick Stinemates
Try print s[::-1] Nick On Wednesday, January 12, 2011, Cathy James wrote: > Dear all, > > I hope someone out there can help me. > >  The output string of my code is close to what i need, but i need it > 1)printed on one line and > > 2) reversed > > > #mycode: > s= input("Enter message: ") > key

Re: cipher encoding

2011-01-12 Thread Corey Richardson
On 01/12/2011 07:39 PM, Corey Richardson wrote: > On 01/12/2011 07:35 PM, Cathy James wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> I hope someone out there can help me. >> >> The output string of my code is close to what i need, but i need it >> 1)printed on one line and >> 2) reversed >> >> #mycode: >> s= inp

Re: cipher encoding

2011-01-12 Thread Corey Richardson
On 01/12/2011 07:35 PM, Cathy James wrote: > Dear all, > > I hope someone out there can help me. > > The output string of my code is close to what i need, but i need it > 1)printed on one line and > 2) reversed > > #mycode: > s= input("Enter message: ") > key=1 > for letter in s: > num=(

cipher encoding

2011-01-12 Thread Cathy James
Dear all, I hope someone out there can help me. The output string of my code is close to what i need, but i need it 1)printed on one line and 2) reversed #mycode: s= input("Enter message: ") key=1 for letter in s: num=(chr(ord(letter)+1)) print(num) #or is there a better way to rewrite

Re: Python use growing fast

2011-01-12 Thread Roy Smith
In article , Alice Bevan­McGregor wrote: > On 2011-01-10 19:49:47 -0800, Roy Smith said: > > > One of the surprising (to me, anyway) uses of JavaScript is as the > > scripting language for MongoDB (http://www.mongodb.org/). > > I just wish they'd drop spidermonkey and go with V8 or another, f

Re: How to Buffer Serialized Objects to Disk

2011-01-12 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 17:29 -0500, Scott McCarty wrote: > Been digging ever since I posted this. I suspected that the response > might be use a database. I use shelve extensively; there are many use-cases where it makes sense. And there are many where a database makes sense. Basically, if I just

Re: How to Buffer Serialized Objects to Disk

2011-01-12 Thread Peter Otten
Scott McCarty wrote: > Been digging ever since I posted this. I suspected that the response might > be use a database. I am worried I am trying to reinvent the wheel. The > problem is I don't want any dependencies and I also don't need persistence > program runs. I don't think sqlite3 counts as

Re: How can I find the remainder when dividing 2 integers

2011-01-12 Thread Rohan Pai
Try using dividend % divisor, this will return the remainder Rohan Pai -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to Buffer Serialized Objects to Disk

2011-01-12 Thread Scott McCarty
Been digging ever since I posted this. I suspected that the response might be use a database. I am worried I am trying to reinvent the wheel. The problem is I don't want any dependencies and I also don't need persistence program runs. I kind of wanted to keep the use of petit very similar to cat, h

Re: Nested structures question

2011-01-12 Thread Tim Harig
In case you still need help: - # Set the initial values - the_number= random.randrange(100) + 1 - tries = 0 - guess = None - - # Guessing loop - while guess != the_number and tries < 7: - guess = int(raw_input("Take a guess: ")) - if guess > the_number: - print "Lower..." -

Re: Parsing string for " "

2011-01-12 Thread Aahz
In article <0d7143ca-45cf-44c3-9e8d-acb867c52...@f30g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>, Daniel da Silva wrote: > >I have come across a task where I would like to scan a short 20-80 >character line of text for instances of " ". Ideally > could be of any tense. In Soviet Russia, you! -- Aahz (a...@pyth

Re: Best way to automatically copy out attachments from an email

2011-01-12 Thread Chris Rebert
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Matty Sarro wrote: > As of now here is my situation: > I am working on a system to aggregate IT data and logs. A number of > important data are gathered by a third party system. The only > immediate way I have to access the data is to have their system > automatic

Re: How to Buffer Serialized Objects to Disk

2011-01-12 Thread Peter Otten
Scott McCarty wrote: > Sorry to ask this question. I have search the list archives and googled, > but I don't even know what words to find what I am looking for, I am just > looking for a little kick in the right direction. > > I have a Python based log analysis program called petit ( > http://cr

Re: How to Buffer Serialized Objects to Disk

2011-01-12 Thread Chris Rebert
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Scott McCarty wrote: > Sorry to ask this question. I have search the list archives and googled, but > I don't even know what words to find what I am looking for, I am just > looking for a little kick in the right direction. > I have a Python based log analysis prog

Re: How to Buffer Serialized Objects to Disk

2011-01-12 Thread MRAB
On 12/01/2011 21:05, Scott McCarty wrote: Sorry to ask this question. I have search the list archives and googled, but I don't even know what words to find what I am looking for, I am just looking for a little kick in the right direction. I have a Python based log analysis program called petit (

Re: order of importing modules

2011-01-12 Thread Chris Rebert
> Dan Stromberg wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Catherine Moroney >> wrote: >>> >>> In what order does python import modules on a Linux system?  I have a >>> package that is both installed in /usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages, >>> and a newer version of the same module in a working dir

Re: Python use growing fast

2011-01-12 Thread Alice Bevan–McGregor
On 2011-01-10 19:49:47 -0800, Roy Smith said: One of the surprising (to me, anyway) uses of JavaScript is as the scripting language for MongoDB (http://www.mongodb.org/). I just wish they'd drop spidermonkey and go with V8 or another, faster and more modern engine. :( - Alice. --

How to Buffer Serialized Objects to Disk

2011-01-12 Thread Scott McCarty
Sorry to ask this question. I have search the list archives and googled, but I don't even know what words to find what I am looking for, I am just looking for a little kick in the right direction. I have a Python based log analysis program called petit ( http://crunchtools.com/petit). I am trying

Re: How to populate all possible hierarchical clusterings from a set of elements?

2011-01-12 Thread Peter Otten
justin wrote: > The title sounds too complex, but my question is actually simple. > > Suppose I have [1,2,3,4,5], then there are many ways of making > clustering. > Among them, I want to pair up terminals until there is only one left > at the end. > For example, 1,2),3),4),5), (1,(2,(3,(4,5))

Re: Nested structures question

2011-01-12 Thread Tim Harig
On 2011-01-12, Jason Staudenmayer wrote: > Return False instead of break should work > > else: > print "You guessed it! The number was", the_number > print "And it only took you", tries, "tries!\n" > return False Since he isn't in a function, that isn't any good. He wo

Re: Nested structures question

2011-01-12 Thread Tim Harig
[wrapped lines to <80 characters per RFC 1855] On 2011-01-12, Physics Python wrote: > Is this an indentation problem then? That depends how you look at it. I was not clear from your code exactly where you wanted to handle things. > How do I update the sentinel within the secondary while loop. I

RE: Nested structures question

2011-01-12 Thread Jason Staudenmayer
Return False instead of break should work else: print "You guessed it! The number was", the_number print "And it only took you", tries, "tries!\n" return False Jason ..·><º> > -Original Message- > From: > python-list-bounces+jasons=adventureaquarium.

Re: order of importing modules

2011-01-12 Thread Catherine Moroney
I've looked at my sys.path variable and I see that it has a whole bunch of site-package directories, followed by the contents of my $PYTHONPATH variable, followed by a list of misc site-package variables (see below). I've verified that if I manually reverse the order of sys.path I can then import

Re: order of importing modules

2011-01-12 Thread Catherine Moroney
I've looked at my sys.path variable and I see that it has a whole bunch of site-package directories, followed by the contents of my $PYTHONPATH variable, followed by a list of misc site-package variables (see below). I've verified that if I manually reverse the order of sys.path I can then import

Re: Nested structures question

2011-01-12 Thread Physics Python
Thanks, Is this an indentation problem then? How do I update the sentinel within the secondary while loop. I am trying to avoid using breaks by the way, as I can program this example using breaks: --- start--- import random print "\tWelcome to 'Guess my number'!:" print "\nI'm thinking of a numb

Re: Python use growing fast

2011-01-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-01-12, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 1/12/2011 9:51 AM, Colin J. Williams wrote: > >>> It shows an example of Python code, which happens to have 2 syntax >>> errors! >> >> Why not correct the Wikipedia entry? > > As I reported early, the errors, if any, are in .png and .svg images of > text, wh

Re: Nested structures question

2011-01-12 Thread Tim Harig
On 2011-01-12, Physics Python wrote: > while guess != the_number: = > while tries > 7: > if guess > the_number: > print "Lower..." > else: > print "Higher..." > guess = int(raw_input("Take a guess:

Nested structures question

2011-01-12 Thread Physics Python
Hello, I am teaching myself python using the book: Python Programming for Absolute Beginners, 2nd edition by Michael Dawson. I am using python 2.7.1. In chapter 3 we are learning to use structures (while, if, elif) to write a program that has the user guess a number between 1 and 100. Here is

How to populate all possible hierarchical clusterings from a set of elements?

2011-01-12 Thread justin
The title sounds too complex, but my question is actually simple. Suppose I have [1,2,3,4,5], then there are many ways of making clustering. Among them, I want to pair up terminals until there is only one left at the end. For example, 1,2),3),4),5), (1,(2,(3,(4,5, or (((1,2),(3,4)), 5) wou

Best way to automatically copy out attachments from an email

2011-01-12 Thread Matty Sarro
As of now here is my situation: I am working on a system to aggregate IT data and logs. A number of important data are gathered by a third party system. The only immediate way I have to access the data is to have their system automatically email me updates in CSV format every hour. If I set up a ma

Re: Career path - where next?

2011-01-12 Thread Philip Semanchuk
On Jan 12, 2011, at 11:37 AM, Alan Harris-Reid wrote: > > Hi there, I wonder if any Python folk out there can help me. > > For many years I was a contractor developing desktop and web applications > using Visual Foxpro as my main language, with Foxpro, SQL-server and Oracle > as back-end data

Re: Career path - where next?

2011-01-12 Thread Jon Clements
On Jan 12, 4:37 pm, Alan Harris-Reid wrote: > Hi there, I wonder if any Python folk out there can help me. > > For many years I was a contractor developing desktop and web > applications using Visual Foxpro as my main language, with Foxpro, > SQL-server and Oracle as back-end databases.  Unfortuna

Re: Python use growing fast

2011-01-12 Thread Krzysztof Bieniasz
> As I reported early, the errors, if any, are in .png and .svg images of > text, which would have to be replaced, not corrected. Would be good > since the imaged snippet is a haphazard except from a much larger file > and inane out of context. I don't think it really is a big deal. I mean, this i

Re: Ideas for a module to process command line arguments

2011-01-12 Thread Alice Bevan–McGregor
On 2011-01-11 21:41:24 -0800, Michele Simionato said: Originally plac too was able to recognize flags automatically by looking at the default value (if the default value is a boolean then the option is a flag); however I removed that functionality because I wanted to be able to differentiate b

Re: Python use growing fast

2011-01-12 Thread Terry Reedy
On 1/12/2011 9:51 AM, Colin J. Williams wrote: It shows an example of Python code, which happens to have 2 syntax errors! Why not correct the Wikipedia entry? As I reported early, the errors, if any, are in .png and .svg images of text, which would have to be replaced, not corrected. Would

Re: Career path - where next?

2011-01-12 Thread Terry Reedy
On 1/12/2011 11:37 AM, Alan Harris-Reid wrote: ... updating my programming skills by learning Python (3) with SQLite, JavaScript, HTML and CSS to a level where I can create and deploy data-based web-sites. ... I would even consider doing small projects for nothing so that I can 'get my foot in

Career path - where next?

2011-01-12 Thread Alan Harris-Reid
Hi there, I wonder if any Python folk out there can help me. For many years I was a contractor developing desktop and web applications using Visual Foxpro as my main language, with Foxpro, SQL-server and Oracle as back-end databases. Unfortunately Foxpro was killed-off by Microsoft, hence my

Re: Python use growing fast

2011-01-12 Thread Colin J. Williams
On 10-Jan-11 16:02 PM, MRAB wrote: On 10/01/2011 20:29, Dan Stromberg wrote: I invite folks to check out Tiobe's Language Popularity Rankings: http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html The gist is: Python grew faster than any other programming language over the last year

read text color from image

2011-01-12 Thread prakash jp
Hi All, During automation of a test case the web interface throws failure and sucess text in RED and GREEN colors respectively. Is there a method to read the color of the Success(green) and Failure(red) from the screenshots of the webinterfaces collect for Failure and Success say : import Image

Re: Syntactic structure for 'until :' loop

2011-01-12 Thread Peter Otten
Ian Kelly wrote: > reader_iter = iter(self.reader) > headers = reader_iter.next() > # intermediate code > for line in reader_iter: > data.append(line) > return data If data is a list the for loop can be replaced with data.extend(reader_iter) or, if data is an empty list created within the