Re: A 'Python like' language

On Tuesday, March 30, 2004 6:01:01 AM UTC-7, Gerrit wrote: > > > --Dict should inherit from Set. > > > > Also cool (I feel like the credits of Holy Grail saying Also wik). > > I have read (in c.l.py) that in Smalltalk, a Dict is a Set of Associates > or something similar. I don't know Smalltalk,

Re: A 'Python like' language

dreamingforw...@gmail.com writes: >> hanging out on the Prothon list now and then, at least until we get >> the core language sorted out? > > Haha, a little late, but consider this a restart. It wasn't til I saw the word "Prothon" that I scrolled back and saw you were responding to a thread from 2

Re: A 'Python like' language

On Tuesday, March 30, 2004 12:31:35 AM UTC-7, Mark Hahn wrote: > > --Take advantage of iterators early on for return values to avoid > > things like having both dict.items() and dict.iteritems(). > > Interestiong idea. Generators are fully supported so I could do this now. > So gens would have to

Re: How do you use the widgets in tkinter.ttk if you want to "import tkinter as tk"?

> I suppose the 'advantage' of this is that it will replace tk widgets > with equivalent ttk widgets, if they exist and have the same name. I > believe one has to program them differently, however, so the replacement > cannot be transparent and one mush know anyway what gets replaced and > what

Re: Udacity CS 101

On Monday, February 27, 2012 6:37:25 PM UTC-8, Ray Clark wrote: > > You have to remember that this course assumes no prior computer > programming knowledge. > > I agree, it is starting out very basic. Give it some more time. > These guys have PhDs from MIT and/or have taught at Stanford. They >

Re: How do you use the widgets in tkinter.ttk if you want to "import tkinter as tk"?

Terry Reedy writes: > On 3/2/2012 8:48 PM, John Salerno wrote: > > from tkinter import * > > from tkinter.ttk import * > > I suppose the 'advantage' of this is that it will replace tk widgets > with equivalent ttk widgets, if they exist and have the same name. I > believe one has to program them

Re: Unable to install xmldiff package on WIndows7

On Jan 3, 11:47 am, hisan wrote: > Hi All > > i have downloaded "xmldiff-0.6.10" from their official site > (http://www.logilab.org/859). > I have tried installing the same on my 32 bit Windows 7 OS using the > command "setup.py install" but below exceptions are thrown in the > console. > please

Re: How do you use the widgets in tkinter.ttk if you want to "import tkinter as tk"?

On 3/2/2012 8:48 PM, John Salerno wrote: According to the Python docs, the way to use tkinter.ttk is this: from tkinter import * from tkinter.ttk import * I suppose the 'advantage' of this is that it will replace tk widgets with equivalent ttk widgets, if they exist and have the same name. I

How do you use the widgets in tkinter.ttk if you want to "import tkinter as tk"?

According to the Python docs, the way to use tkinter.ttk is this: from tkinter import * from tkinter.ttk import * But what if I don't like this import method and prefer to do: import tkinter as tk How then do I utilize tkinter.ttk using the same name? Or is that not possible? Will I have to us

Re: A possible change to decimal.Decimal?

Jeff Beardsley wrote: HISTORY: In using python 2.7.2 for awhile on a web project (apache/wsgi web.py), I discovered a problem in using decimal.Decimal. A short search revealed that many other people have been having the problem as well, in their own apache/wsgi implementations (django, mos

Re: A possible change to decimal.Decimal?

The problem with that though is: I am not the one calling reload(). That is actually being called for me by web.py (or django, or some other framework, take your pick). More than that, I believe it's called (or caused, anyway) by something happening in WSGI under apache. (And I don't really want

A possible change to decimal.Decimal?

HISTORY: In using python 2.7.2 for awhile on a web project (apache/wsgi web.py), I discovered a problem in using decimal.Decimal. A short search revealed that many other people have been having the problem as well, in their own apache/wsgi implementations (django, mostly), but I found no rea

Re: Is it necessary to call Tk() when writing a GUI app with Tkinter?

> After that, you can nest as > many frames, toplevels, and blah widgets under that root window as you > so desire. Actually you don't even need a "frame", you can pack > widgets directly into a Toplevel or Tk widget. This is interesting. I completely understand your point about always calling (a

Re: decompilation

Le 02/03/2012 21:18, Arnaud Delobelle a écrit : On 2 March 2012 18:52, shikha panghal wrote: Hi Please decoplile the .pyc code ,as i have lost my .py code. Aha, a customer! I've written a module for this: unpyc3 (http://code.google.com/p/unpyc3/) Here it is in action: Python 3.2.1 (v3.2.1

RE: Python - CGI-BIN - Apache Timeout Problem

Hey All, So maybe this part is important (after doing some troubleshooting) hopefully not everyone has beers in hand already since its Friday :-) The way the code works if you want to send through the firewall (i.e. SERVER->FIREWALL->SERVER) I split the process into two threads. One is l

RE: Python - CGI-BIN - Apache Timeout Problem

Hey Chris, Thanks for your quick reply! I switched my code to-> proc = subprocess.Popen(['/usr/local/bin/python', 'tests.py'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE) out, err = proc.communicate() print out proc.stdout.close() It still dead locked. Interestingly enough When I did a #python tests.py on the c

Re: Is it necessary to call Tk() when writing a GUI app with Tkinter?

Terry Reedy wrote: > The problem was another subtle bug in the current example": > self.hi_there["text"] = "Hello", > > The spurious comma at the end makes the value of the 'text' attribute a > one-elememt tuple and not just a string. I presume tcl-based tk handles > that in the manner a

Re: Python - CGI-BIN - Apache Timeout Problem

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Sean Cavanaugh (scavanau) wrote: > THE PROBLEM: > > When I execute the scripts from the command line (#python main.py) it > generates it fine (albeit slowly), it prints all the html code out including > the script.  The ‘core’ part of the script dumbed down to the

Re: Is it necessary to call Tk() when writing a GUI app with Tkinter?

On 3/1/2012 10:43 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: Not sure what is happening on your end, but i don't see any braces. Are you saying that if you change "Hello_World\n(click_me)" to "Hello World\n(click me)", you see Hello World (click me) as I expected, instead of {Hellow World (click me)} as I do

Re: decompilation

On 2 March 2012 18:52, shikha panghal wrote: > Hi > > Please decoplile the .pyc code ,as i have lost my .py code. Aha, a customer! I've written a module for this: unpyc3 (http://code.google.com/p/unpyc3/) Here it is in action: Python 3.2.1 (v3.2.1:ac1f7e5c0510, Jul 9 2011, 01:03:53) [GCC 4.2

Re: decompilation

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 10:52 AM, shikha panghal wrote: > Hi > > Please decoplile the .pyc code ,as i have lost my .py code. Your best shot would be: http://www.crazy-compilers.com/decompyle/ Cheers, Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Python - CGI-BIN - Apache Timeout Problem

Hello List, Would appreciate some insight/help, ran out of ideas... BRIEF OVERVIEW: I am trying to create a simple webserver gui wrapper for a set of scripts I developed to test some of our firewalls here at Cisco. Being that the total amount of engineer that will ever probably use thi

decompilation

Hi Please decoplile the .pyc code ,as i have lost my .py code. Thanks, Shikha hangman322.pyc Description: Binary data -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: New Science Discovery: Perl Detractors Remain Idiots After A Decade!

On Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:53:30 -0500, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz wrote: > In , on 03/02/2012 >at 02:17 PM, Chiron said: > >>What always gets me is how so many people criticized Sokal for doing it, > > Google for Omerta. It's common for whistle blowers to be chastised or > even persecuted. I agr

Re: Is it necessary to call Tk() when writing a GUI app with Tkinter?

> Indeed. One of the things that motivated me to write the tutorial at > http://www.tkdocs.com is the rather poor state (in terms of being out of > date, incorrect, or demonstrating poor practices) of most Tkinter > documentation. > > Call it self-serving, but I think the Tkinter world would b

Re: Is this the proper way to use a class method?

> Oh, but it does get passed, just implicitly. `super()` basically grabs > `self` magically from its caller, and uses it to bind method calls on > the magical object returned by `super()`. Thanks again, now I understand :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: New Science Discovery: Perl Detractors Remain Idiots After A Decade!

In , on 03/02/2012 at 02:17 PM, Chiron said: >What always gets me is how so many people criticized Sokal for doing >it, Google for Omerta. It's common for whistle blowers to be chastised or even persecuted. I agree that the criticism of Prof Sokal was outrageous, but it was also predictable.

Re: Is it necessary to call Tk() when writing a GUI app with Tkinter?

Rick Johnson wrote: > Book authors and Doc authors are not always the most well informed; as > we have witnessed by this very thread! Obviously these tutorials are more > like: "What NOT to do when coding Tkinter GUIs!" No wonder everyone hates > Tkinter. :-) Indeed. One of the things that mo

Re: New Science Discovery: Perl Idiots Remain Idiots After A Decade!New Science Discovery: Perl Idiots Remain Idiots After A Decade!

On 3/2/2012 14:12, Xah Lee wrote: On Mar 1, 3:00 am, Kiuhnm wrote: They did not make up the terminology, if that is what you are saying. The concepts of left and right associativity are well-known and accepted in TCS (Theoretical CS). Aho, Sethi and Ullman explain it this way in "Compilers:

Re: New Science Discovery: Perl Idiots Remain Idiots After A Decade!New Science Discovery: Perl Idiots Remain Idiots Af

On Thu, 01 Mar 2012 10:13:11 -0500, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz wrote: > In , on 03/01/2012 >at 05:07 AM, Chiron said: > >>Hmm... maybe, instead of just ridiculing him, > > I'm treating him as he treats others. OK. > >>BTW, I happen to agree with you insofar as this poster not understanding

Re: New Science Discovery: Perl Idiots Remain Idiots After A Decade!New Science Discovery: Perl Idiots Remain Idiots After A Decade!

On Mar 1, 3:00 am, Kiuhnm wrote: > They did not make up the terminology, if that is what you are saying. > The concepts of left and right associativity are well-known and accepted > in TCS (Theoretical CS). > Aho, Sethi and Ullman explain it this way in "Compilers: Principles, > Techniques and T

Re: New Science Discovery: Perl Idiots Remain Idiots After A Decade!New Science Discovery: Perl Idiots Remain Idiots Af

In <87k4341j0l@sapphire.mobileactivedefense.com>, on 03/01/2012 at 02:40 PM, Rainer Weikusat said: >You obviously don't have any sense of humour. Certainly I do; I laugh at pretentious loons with delusions of adequacy. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT

Re: lang comparison: in-place algorithm for reversing a list in Perl,Python, Lisp

Xah Lee wrote: «… One easy way to measure it is whether a programer can read and understand a program without having to delve into its idiosyncrasies. …» Chris Angelico wrote: «Neither the behavior of ints nor the behavior of IEEE floating point is a "quirk" or an "idiosyncracy". …» they are com

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Re: Is this the proper way to use a class method?

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 11:16 PM, John Salerno wrote: >> That's just a coincidence. Your supercall is ought to be: super().move() >> In contrast, super().move(self) calls the superclass instance method >> `move` with 2 arguments, both `self`, which just happens to work given >> your move() method,

Re: Is this the proper way to use a class method?

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 12:16 AM, John Salerno wrote: >> That's just a coincidence. Your supercall is ought to be: super().move() >> In contrast, super().move(self) calls the superclass instance method >> `move` with 2 arguments, both `self`, which just happens to work given >> your move() method,