On Jul 10, 4:40 am, Roy Smith wrote:
> In article ,
> Christian Heimes wrote:
>
> > Am 09.07.2012 23:22, schrieb Peter:
> > > One of my favourite questions when interviewing - and it was 100% reliable
> > > :-) - "what are your hobbies?"
>
> > > If the answer included programming then they were
cheetah wrote:
>
>I don't need it.
It's not worth worrying about. You're talking about way less than a
megabyte of disk space, and there is no performance penalty unless you're
using it.
In general, the parts of the Python standard library are not individually
selectable.
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Tim Roberts, t...@
I agree with Christian, a developer should have hobbies other than computer
stuffs. Versatile environment give more
Ability to think differently.
I like playing guitar :-)
Be enthu, run foolishly and learn intelligently.
-Shambhu
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From: Christian Heimes [mailto:li...
Hi,
I am a newbie in python, I need to fetch names of side filters and save in csv
[PFA screen shot].
Following is snippet from code:
soup = BeautifulStoneSoup(html)
#for e in soup.findAll('div'):
# for c in e.findAll('h3'):
#for d in
On Jul 10, 6:24 am, John Nagle wrote:
> That's because you're using the wrong approach. See how to use
> ReplaceFile under Win32:
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365512%28VS.85%29.aspx
I'm not convinced ReplaceFile is atomic:
"The ReplaceFile function combines several steps within
On 10/07/2012 00:33, Christian Heimes wrote:
Am 09.07.2012 23:22, schrieb Peter:
One of my favourite questions when interviewing - and it was 100% reliable :-) -
"what are your hobbies?"
If the answer included programming then they were hired, if not, then they went to the
"B" list.
on the
On 07/09/12 19:27, Roy Smith wrote:
>> prefer folks that know which features to check availability for
>> deployment.
>
> Heh. Tell me, when did strings get methods? :-)
IIRC, ~2.0? I'm cognizant of the shift happening from the string
module to string methods, but I wouldn't expect deep history
In article ,
Tim Chase wrote:
> As mentioned in another branch of this thread, I don't require
> python historians, but do prefer folks that know which features to
> check availability for deployment.
Heh. Tell me, when did strings get methods? :-)
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On 07/09/12 19:01, dnca...@gmail.com wrote:
> The set of questions I'm not sure I understand is the 'What
> version did ... appear?' questions. This, to me, doesn't seem to
> indicate any programming experience or expertise. A question
> asking 'Do you understand different versions?' and 'How wou
Tim,
I've read your list and with one exception it all looks very reasonable. (As
an hobbiest, I'm amazed at just how much I have picked up.)
The set of questions I'm not sure I understand is the 'What version did ...
appear?' questions. This, to me, doesn't seem to indicate any programming
Am 10.07.2012 01:40, schrieb Roy Smith:
> Do you really want to make hire/no-hire decisions based on somebody's
> ability to second-guess what you probably wanted to hear when you asked
> a pointless question?
I don't want her/him to second-guess at all. I expect a straight and
honest answer. Se
On 7/9/2012 2:22 PM Peter said...
One of my favourite questions when interviewing - and it was 100% reliable :-) -
"what are your hobbies?"
If the answer included programming then they were hired, if not, then they went to the
"B" list.
In my experience, anybody who is really interested in pr
In article ,
Christian Heimes wrote:
> Am 09.07.2012 23:22, schrieb Peter:
> > One of my favourite questions when interviewing - and it was 100% reliable
> > :-) - "what are your hobbies?"
> >
> > If the answer included programming then they were hired, if not, then they
> > went to the "B" l
On 07/09/12 18:12, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 09Jul2012 18:53, Devin Jeanpierre wrote:
> | On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Peter wrote:
> | > One of my favourite questions when interviewing - and it was 100%
> reliable :-) - "what are your hobbies?"
> | > If the answer included programming then
Am 09.07.2012 22:24, schrieb John Nagle:
> Rename on some file system types (particularly NFS) may not be atomic.
The actual operation is always atomic but the NFS server may not notify
you about success or failure atomically.
See http://linux.die.net/man/2/rename, section BUGS.
> That's b
On 07/09/12 17:53, Devin Jeanpierre wrote:
>> One of my favourite questions when interviewing - and it was
>> 100% reliable :-) - "what are your hobbies?" If the answer
>> included programming then they were hired, if not, then they
>> went to the "B" list.
>
> Woe is the poor college grad, who wa
Am 09.07.2012 23:22, schrieb Peter:
> One of my favourite questions when interviewing - and it was 100% reliable
> :-) - "what are your hobbies?"
>
> If the answer included programming then they were hired, if not, then they
> went to the "B" list.
on the contrary! When a potential candidate ha
On 09Jul2012 18:53, Devin Jeanpierre wrote:
| On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Peter wrote:
| > One of my favourite questions when interviewing - and it was 100% reliable
:-) - "what are your hobbies?"
| > If the answer included programming then they were hired, if not, then they
went to the "B"
In article ,
Peter wrote:
> One of my favourite questions when interviewing - and it was 100% reliable
> :-) - "what are your hobbies?"
"My hobby happens to be gardening, for which I don't expect to be paid."
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On 09Jul2012 11:44, Rick Johnson wrote:
| On Jul 9, 12:40 pm, Tim Chase wrote:
| > The second[or higher]-order
| > ignorance of not knowing what pdb is (or, if you need more powerful
| > debugging, how to do it) is sign the person hasn't been programming
| > in Python much.
|
| So guru knowledge
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Peter wrote:
> One of my favourite questions when interviewing - and it was 100% reliable
> :-) - "what are your hobbies?"
> If the answer included programming then they were hired, if not, then they
> went to the "B" list.
Woe is the poor college grad, who wants
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 3:49 AM, Rick Johnson
wrote:
> ALL event handlers should marked as *event
> handlers* using a prefix. I like to use the prefix "evt". Some people
> prefer other prefixes. In any case, just remember to be consistent.
> Also, event handler names should reflect WHAT event they
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 8:24 PM, John Nagle wrote:
> On 7/8/2012 2:52 PM, Christian Heimes wrote:
>
>> You are contradicting yourself. Either the OS is providing a fully
>> atomic rename or it doesn't. All POSIX compatible OS provide an atomic
>> rename functionality that renames the file atomical
One of my favourite questions when interviewing - and it was 100% reliable :-)
- "what are your hobbies?"
If the answer included programming then they were hired, if not, then they went
to the "B" list.
In my experience, anybody who is really interested in programming will have it
as a hobby (
Please consider batching this data and doing larger writes. Thrashing
the hard drive is not a good plan for performance or hardware
longevity. For example, crawl an entire FQDN and then write out the
results in one operation. If your job fails in the middle and you
have to start that FQDN over,
On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 10:49 -0700, Rick Johnson wrote:
> On Jul 9, 12:58 am, Terry Reedy wrote:
> > When posting problem code, you should post a minimal, self-contained
> > example that people can try on other systems and versions. Can you
> > create the problem with one record, which you could gi
On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 01:58 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 7/8/2012 5:19 PM, Frederic Rentsch wrote:
> > Hi widget wizards,
> >
> > The manual describes the "event" attribute "widget" as "The widget
> > which generated this event. This is a valid Tkinter widget instance, not
> > a name. This at
On 7/8/2012 2:52 PM, Christian Heimes wrote:
You are contradicting yourself. Either the OS is providing a fully
atomic rename or it doesn't. All POSIX compatible OS provide an atomic
rename functionality that renames the file atomically or fails without
loosing the target side. On POSIX OS it doe
On Monday, 9 July 2012 10:40:59 UTC-7, Tim Chase wrote:
> On 07/09/12 08:25, Roy Smith wrote:
> >> On Tuesday, 30 October 2007 21:24:04 UTC+2, Tim Chase wrote:
> >
> >>> - more detailed questions about the std. libraries (such as
> >>>datetime/email/csv/zipfile/networking/optparse/unittest)
On 7/9/2012 1:49 PM, Rick Johnson wrote:
On Jul 9, 12:58 am, Terry Reedy wrote:
When posting problem code, you should post a minimal, self-contained
example that people can try on other systems and versions. Can you
create the problem with one record, which you could give, and one
binding? Do y
On Jul 9, 12:40 pm, Tim Chase wrote:
> The second[or higher]-order
> ignorance of not knowing what pdb is (or, if you need more powerful
> debugging, how to do it) is sign the person hasn't been programming
> in Python much.
So guru knowledge of pdb is prerequisite to being accepted as a
Pythonis
On Jul 9, 12:58 am, Terry Reedy wrote:
> When posting problem code, you should post a minimal, self-contained
> example that people can try on other systems and versions. Can you
> create the problem with one record, which you could give, and one
> binding? Do you need 4 fields, or would 1 'work'?
On 07/09/12 08:25, Roy Smith wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 30 October 2007 21:24:04 UTC+2, Tim Chase wrote:
>
>>> - more detailed questions about the std. libraries (such as
>>>datetime/email/csv/zipfile/networking/optparse/unittest)
>
> You need to be careful when you ask questions like this. I wo
On 30.06.12 18:25, Paul Rubin wrote:
Christian Tismer writes:
Tiffany stands for any tiff. The tiny module solves a large set of
problems, has no dependencies and just works wherever Python works.
Tiffany was developed in the course of the *DiDoCa* project and will
always appear on PyPi.
This
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 10:24 PM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> But it does depend on context. Sometimes you need more detail than just
> "Python looks". You need to know precisely *how* Python looks, and how it
> decides whether it has found or not.
Agreed. So, looking back at the original context: A
Richard Baron Penman wrote:
> Is there a better way? Or do I need to use a database?
Using a database would seem to meet a lot of your needs. Don't forget that
Python comes with a sqlite database engine included, so it shouldn't take
you more than a few lines of code to open the database once
Op maandag 9 juli 2012 14:54:03 UTC+2 schreef Jean-Michel Pichavant het
volgende:
> Kruptein wrote:
> > Op maandag 9 juli 2012 13:05:58 UTC+2 schreef Jean-Michel Pichavant het
> > volgende:
> >
> >> Kruptein wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hey I released a new version of my python-focused text-editor.
In article <3e0ef383-9615-4b4d-89c1-e55199711...@googlegroups.com>,
yeryomin.i...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Tuesday, 30 October 2007 21:24:04 UTC+2, Tim Chase wrote:
> > - more detailed questions about the std. libraries (such as
> >datetime/email/csv/zipfile/networking/optparse/unittest)
You
Kruptein wrote:
Op maandag 9 juli 2012 13:05:58 UTC+2 schreef Jean-Michel Pichavant het
volgende:
Kruptein wrote:
Hey I released a new version of my python-focused text-editor.
you can download it at http://launchpad.net/deditor
What is it?
Deditor is aimed to be a text-editor which c
PyGObject uses the standard autotools for the build infrastructure. To
build, it should be as simple as running:
$ ./configure --prefix=
my python2.7 is in /usr/lib/python2.7
will i write :
./configure --prefix=/usr/lib/python2.7
or
./configure --prefix=/usr/lib
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On Mon, 09 Jul 2012 18:41:28 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
> Does it really hurt to anthropomorphize
Don't anthropomorphise computers. They don't like it when you do.
> and say that "Python looks for
> modules in the directories in sys.path" instead of "Module lookup
> consists of iterating bla
I noticed that active state python Tk inter isnt compiled with
--enable-threads therefore I would like to recompile the module with a new
version of TCL/TK which is compiled with threads. How can I do this?
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Op maandag 9 juli 2012 13:05:58 UTC+2 schreef Jean-Michel Pichavant het
volgende:
> Kruptein wrote:
> > Hey I released a new version of my python-focused text-editor.
> > you can download it at http://launchpad.net/deditor
> >
> > What is it?
> > Deditor is aimed to be a text-editor which can be u
Kruptein wrote:
Hey I released a new version of my python-focused text-editor.
you can download it at http://launchpad.net/deditor
What is it?
Deditor is aimed to be a text-editor which can be used as a basic text-editor
as gedit or with the right plugins become a full-feature ide.
I focus on m
On 07/09/12 01:39, yeryomin.i...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Tuesday, 30 October 2007 21:24:04 UTC+2, Tim Chase wrote:
yes, yes I did, almost 5 years ago. :-)
You didn't include any questions/comments on my email, so it's a bit
hard to respond.
>> While I haven't interviewed precisely for Python, I'v
On 09/07/2012 10:37, Mark Devine wrote:
Hi
I have a large code base that was written in python 2.4. I want to migrate
to python 2.6. Are there any tools that will aid me in this migration?
Thanks
A
Check the what's new for python 2.6. If, and I doubt that there are,
any compatabilty issu
09.07.12 13:21, cheetah ?:
I don't need it.
thanks
In python's setup.py replace:
self.detect_tkinter(inc_dirs, lib_dirs)
of
def detect_modules(self):
This will ignore the compilation of _tkinter.c and tkappinit.c of
the python distribution.
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Hi
I have a large code base that was written in python 2.4. I want to migrate
to python 2.6. Are there any tools that will aid me in this migration?
Thanks
A
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On Sun, 08 Jul 2012 22:57:56 +0200, Laszlo Nagy wrote:
> Yes, this is much better. Almost perfect. Don't forget to consult your
> system documentation, and check if the rename operation is atomic or not.
> (Most probably it will only be atomic if the original and the renamed file
> are on the same
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> On Mon, 09 Jul 2012 07:54:47 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> It's like
>> the difference between reminder text on a Magic: The Gathering card and
>> the actual entries in the Comprehensive Rules. Perfect example is the
>> "Madness" abilit
Am 09.07.2012 07:50, schrieb Plumo:
>> Windows doesn't suppport atomic renames if the right side exists. I
>> suggest that you implement two code paths:
>
> Problem is if the process is stopped between unlink and rename there
> would no status file.
Yeah, you have to suffer all of Windows' design
I don't need it.
thanks
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On Tuesday, 30 October 2007 21:24:04 UTC+2, Tim Chase wrote:
> > I have used Python for a couple of projects last year and
> > I found it extremely useful. I could write two middle size
> > projects in 2-3 months (part time). Right now I am a bit
> > rusty and trying to catch up again with Pyth
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