Re: trying to create simple py script

2012-08-09 Thread Lutz Horn
Hi Smaran, Am Do, 9. Aug 2012, um 23:52, schrieb Smaran Harihar: > I am trying to create a simple cgi-script to receive a Ajax > call, manipulate the string received and send it back as JSON. I can recommend bottle. The following example manipulates a JSON request body and returns it. That is *mu

Re: save dictionary to a file without brackets.

2012-08-09 Thread 88888 Dihedral
Andrew Cooper於 2012年8月10日星期五UTC+8上午6時03分26秒寫道: > On 09/08/2012 22:34, Roman Vashkevich wrote: > > > Actually, they are different. > > > Put a dict.{iter}items() in an O(k^N) algorithm and make it a hundred > > thousand entries, and you will feel the difference. > > > Dict uses hashing to get a

Re: save dictionary to a file without brackets.

2012-08-09 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Tim Chase wrote: > We apologise for the off-topicness in the thread. Those responsible > have been sacked... So if you take every mapping variable in your program and name them "dFoo", "dBar", "dQuux", etc, for "dict"... would that be a dirty Hungarian dictionar

Re: save dictionary to a file without brackets.

2012-08-09 Thread Dave Angel
On 08/09/2012 08:16 PM, Tim Chase wrote: > On 08/09/12 18:33, Mark Lawrence wrote: >> On 10/08/2012 00:24, Roy Smith wrote: ... you mean, Python lets you make a hash of it? >>> Only if you order it with spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, and spam. >> Now now gentlemen we're getting slightly o

Re: save dictionary to a file without brackets.

2012-08-09 Thread Tim Chase
On 08/09/12 18:33, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 10/08/2012 00:24, Roy Smith wrote: >>> ... you mean, Python lets you make a hash of it? >> >> Only if you order it with spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, and spam. > > Now now gentlemen we're getting slightly off topic here and wouldn't > want to ups

Re: save dictionary to a file without brackets.

2012-08-09 Thread Oscar Benjamin
On Aug 10, 2012 12:34 AM, "Giuseppe Amatulli" wrote: > > Ciao, > is 12 minutes for 5000x5000 pixel image. half of the time is for > reading the arrays. > and the other half for making the loop. > I will try again to incorporate the mask action in the loop > and > read the image line by line. > Tha

Re: save dictionary to a file without brackets.

2012-08-09 Thread Dave Angel
On 08/09/2012 06:53 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Dave Angel wrote: >> On 08/09/2012 06:03 PM, Andrew Cooper wrote: >>> O(n) for all other entries in the dict which suffer a hash collision >>> with the searched entry. >>> >>> True, a sensible choice of hash function

Re: save dictionary to a file without brackets.

2012-08-09 Thread Dave Angel
On 08/09/2012 06:54 PM, Andrew Cooper wrote: > On 09/08/2012 23:26, Dave Angel wrote: >> On 08/09/2012 06:03 PM, Andrew Cooper wrote: >>> On 09/08/2012 22:34, Roman Vashkevich wrote: Actually, they are different. Put a dict.{iter}items() in an O(k^N) algorithm and make it a hundred

Re: save dictionary to a file without brackets.

2012-08-09 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 10/08/2012 00:24, Roy Smith wrote: In article , Chris Angelico wrote: On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Roy Smith wrote: Python assumes you are a consenting adult. If you wish to engage in activities which are hazardous to your health, so be it. ... you mean, Python lets you make a ha

Re: save dictionary to a file without brackets.

2012-08-09 Thread Roy Smith
In article , Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Roy Smith wrote: > > Python assumes you are a consenting adult. If you wish to engage in > > activities which are hazardous to your health, so be it. > > ... you mean, Python lets you make a hash of it? > Only if you orde

Re: save dictionary to a file without brackets.

2012-08-09 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Roy Smith wrote: > Python assumes you are a consenting adult. If you wish to engage in > activities which are hazardous to your health, so be it. ... you mean, Python lets you make a hash of it? *ducks for cover* ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listin

Re: save dictionary to a file without brackets.

2012-08-09 Thread Oscar Benjamin
> What do you think? is there a way to speed up the process? > Thanks > Giuseppe Which part is slow? How slow is it? A simple test to find the slow part of your code is to print messages between the commands so that you can see how long it takes between each message. Oscar. -- http://mail.pytho

Re: save dictionary to a file without brackets.

2012-08-09 Thread Roy Smith
In article , Andrew Cooper wrote: > As for poor implementations, > > class Foo(object): > def __hash__(self): > return 0 > > I seriously found that in some older code I had the misfortune of > reading. Python assumes you are a consenting adult. If you wish to engage in activitie

Re: save dictionary to a file without brackets.

2012-08-09 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Tim Chase wrote: > On 08/09/12 17:26, Dave Angel wrote: >> On 08/09/2012 06:03 PM, Andrew Cooper wrote: >> I'm glad you're wrong for CPython's dictionaries. The only time the >> lookup would degenerate to O[n] would be if the hash table had only one >> slot. CPyt

Re: save dictionary to a file without brackets.

2012-08-09 Thread Andrew Cooper
On 09/08/2012 23:26, Dave Angel wrote: > On 08/09/2012 06:03 PM, Andrew Cooper wrote: >> On 09/08/2012 22:34, Roman Vashkevich wrote: >>> Actually, they are different. >>> Put a dict.{iter}items() in an O(k^N) algorithm and make it a hundred >>> thousand entries, and you will feel the difference.

Re: save dictionary to a file without brackets.

2012-08-09 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Dave Angel wrote: > On 08/09/2012 06:03 PM, Andrew Cooper wrote: >> O(n) for all other entries in the dict which suffer a hash collision >> with the searched entry. >> >> True, a sensible choice of hash function will reduce n to 1 in common >> cases, but it becomes

Re: save dictionary to a file without brackets.

2012-08-09 Thread Chris Kaynor
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Dave Angel wrote: > On 08/09/2012 06:03 PM, Andrew Cooper wrote: >> On 09/08/2012 22:34, Roman Vashkevich wrote: >>> Actually, they are different. >>> Put a dict.{iter}items() in an O(k^N) algorithm and make it a hundred >>> thousand entries, and you will feel the

Re: save dictionary to a file without brackets.

2012-08-09 Thread Tim Chase
On 08/09/12 17:26, Dave Angel wrote: > On 08/09/2012 06:03 PM, Andrew Cooper wrote: > I'm glad you're wrong for CPython's dictionaries. The only time the > lookup would degenerate to O[n] would be if the hash table had only one > slot. CPython sensibly increases the hash table size when it become

Re: save dictionary to a file without brackets.

2012-08-09 Thread Dave Angel
On 08/09/2012 06:03 PM, Andrew Cooper wrote: > On 09/08/2012 22:34, Roman Vashkevich wrote: >> Actually, they are different. >> Put a dict.{iter}items() in an O(k^N) algorithm and make it a hundred >> thousand entries, and you will feel the difference. >> Dict uses hashing to get a value from the

Re: save dictionary to a file without brackets.

2012-08-09 Thread Andrew Cooper
On 09/08/2012 22:34, Roman Vashkevich wrote: > Actually, they are different. > Put a dict.{iter}items() in an O(k^N) algorithm and make it a hundred > thousand entries, and you will feel the difference. > Dict uses hashing to get a value from the dict and this is why it's O(1). > Sligtly off top

Re: save dictionary to a file without brackets.

2012-08-09 Thread Roman Vashkevich
10.08.2012, в 1:47, Dave Angel написал(а): > On 08/09/2012 05:34 PM, Roman Vashkevich wrote: >> Actually, they are different. >> Put a dict.{iter}items() in an O(k^N) algorithm and make it a hundred >> thousand entries, and you will feel the difference. >> Dict uses hashing to get a value from th

Re: save dictionary to a file without brackets.

2012-08-09 Thread Giuseppe Amatulli
Thanks a lot for the clarification. Actually my problem is giving to raster dataset in geo-tif format find out unique pair combination, count the number of observation unique combination in rast1, count the number of observation unique combination in rast2, count the number of observation I try di

trying to create simple py script

2012-08-09 Thread Smaran Harihar
Hi Guys, I am trying to create a simple cgi-script to receive a Ajax call, manipulate the string received and send it back as JSON. Most of the people I have spoken to, seemed to be against using the cgi script, but most of the documentation and tutorials seem to point to cgi for AJAX calls. They

Re: save dictionary to a file without brackets.

2012-08-09 Thread Chris Kaynor
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Roman Vashkevich wrote: > > Actually, they are different. > Put a dict.{iter}items() in an O(k^N) algorithm and make it a hundred > thousand entries, and you will feel the difference. > Dict uses hashing to get a value from the dict and this is why it's O(1). > Us

Re: save dictionary to a file without brackets.

2012-08-09 Thread Chris Kaynor
I realized, I should have done 10, 100, 1000 rather than 1, 10, 100 for better results, so here are the results for 1000 items. It still maintains the same pattern: >>> timeit.timeit('for i in d: pass', 'd=dict.fromkeys(range(1000))') 10.166595947685153 >>> timeit.timeit('for i in d.iteritems(): p

Re: save dictionary to a file without brackets.

2012-08-09 Thread Dave Angel
On 08/09/2012 05:34 PM, Roman Vashkevich wrote: > Actually, they are different. > Put a dict.{iter}items() in an O(k^N) algorithm and make it a hundred > thousand entries, and you will feel the difference. > Dict uses hashing to get a value from the dict and this is why it's O(1). Sure, that's wh

Re: save dictionary to a file without brackets.

2012-08-09 Thread Terry Reedy
On 8/9/2012 5:21 PM, Tim Chase wrote: On 08/09/12 15:41, Roman Vashkevich wrote: 10.08.2012, в 0:35, Tim Chase написал(а): On 08/09/12 15:22, Roman Vashkevich wrote: {(4, 5): 1, (5, 4): 1, (4, 4): 2, (2, 3): 1, (4, 3): 2} and i want to print to a file without the brackets comas and semicolon i

Re: no data exclution and unique combination.

2012-08-09 Thread Terry Reedy
On 8/9/2012 4:06 PM, giuseppe.amatu...@gmail.com wrote: Terry and MRAB, thanks for yours suggestions, in the end i found this solution mask=( a != 0 ) & ( b != 0 ) a_mask=a[mask] b_mask=b[mask] array2D = np.array(zip(a_mask,b_mask)) unique=dict() for row in array2D : row = tuple(row)

Re: save dictionary to a file without brackets.

2012-08-09 Thread Roman Vashkevich
Actually, they are different. Put a dict.{iter}items() in an O(k^N) algorithm and make it a hundred thousand entries, and you will feel the difference. Dict uses hashing to get a value from the dict and this is why it's O(1). 10.08.2012, в 1:21, Tim Chase написал(а): > On 08/09/12 15:41, Roman V

Re: no data exclution and unique combination.

2012-08-09 Thread Dave Angel
On 08/09/2012 04:06 PM, giuseppe.amatu...@gmail.com wrote: > > > print unique > {(4, 5): 1, (5, 4): 1, (4, 4): 2, (2, 3): 1, (4, 3): 2} > > I choose this solution because i could not install "from collections import > Counter". Nothing to install, at least for Python 2.7. collections is in the

Re: save dictionary to a file without brackets.

2012-08-09 Thread Tim Chase
On 08/09/12 15:41, Roman Vashkevich wrote: > 10.08.2012, в 0:35, Tim Chase написал(а): >> On 08/09/12 15:22, Roman Vashkevich wrote: {(4, 5): 1, (5, 4): 1, (4, 4): 2, (2, 3): 1, (4, 3): 2} and i want to print to a file without the brackets comas and semicolon in order to obtain some

Re: save dictionary to a file without brackets.

2012-08-09 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 09/08/2012 21:41, Roman Vashkevich wrote: dict.items() is a list - linear access time whereas with 'for key in dict:' access time is constant: http://python.net/~goodger/projects/pycon/2007/idiomatic/handout.html#use-in-where-possible-1 10.08.2012, в 0:35, Tim Chase написал(а): On 08/09/1

Re: save dictionary to a file without brackets.

2012-08-09 Thread Roman Vashkevich
dict.items() is a list - linear access time whereas with 'for key in dict:' access time is constant: http://python.net/~goodger/projects/pycon/2007/idiomatic/handout.html#use-in-where-possible-1 10.08.2012, в 0:35, Tim Chase написал(а): > On 08/09/12 15:22, Roman Vashkevich wrote: >>> {(4, 5):

Re: save dictionary to a file without brackets.

2012-08-09 Thread Gelonida N
On 08/09/2012 10:11 PM, giuseppe.amatu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a dict() unique like this {(4, 5): 1, (5, 4): 1, (4, 4): 2, (2, 3): 1, (4, 3): 2} and i want to print to a file without the brackets comas and semicolon in order to obtain something like this? 4 5 1 5 4 1 4 4 2 2 3 1 4 3 2 Any

Re: save dictionary to a file without brackets.

2012-08-09 Thread Giuseppe Amatulli
thanks for the fast replies my testing were very closed to yours but i did not know how to print the the number after the semicolon! thanks! On 9 August 2012 15:25, Oscar Benjamin wrote: > > On Aug 9, 2012 9:17 PM, wrote: >> >> Hi, >> I have a dict() unique >> like this >> {(4, 5): 1, (5, 4): 1

Re: save dictionary to a file without brackets.

2012-08-09 Thread Giuseppe Amatulli
thanks for the fast replies my testing were very closed to yours but i did not know how On 9 August 2012 15:25, Oscar Benjamin wrote: > > On Aug 9, 2012 9:17 PM, wrote: >> >> Hi, >> I have a dict() unique >> like this >> {(4, 5): 1, (5, 4): 1, (4, 4): 2, (2, 3): 1, (4, 3): 2} >> and i want to pr

Re: save dictionary to a file without brackets.

2012-08-09 Thread Tim Chase
On 08/09/12 15:22, Roman Vashkevich wrote: >> {(4, 5): 1, (5, 4): 1, (4, 4): 2, (2, 3): 1, (4, 3): 2} >> and i want to print to a file without the brackets comas and semicolon in >> order to obtain something like this? >> 4 5 1 >> 5 4 1 >> 4 4 2 >> 2 3 1 >> 4 3 2 > > for key in dict: > prin

Re: save dictionary to a file without brackets.

2012-08-09 Thread Oscar Benjamin
On Aug 9, 2012 9:17 PM, wrote: > > Hi, > I have a dict() unique > like this > {(4, 5): 1, (5, 4): 1, (4, 4): 2, (2, 3): 1, (4, 3): 2} > and i want to print to a file without the brackets comas and semicolon in order to obtain something like this? > 4 5 1 > 5 4 1 > 4 4 2 > 2 3 1 > 4 3 2 > Any ideas

Re: save dictionary to a file without brackets.

2012-08-09 Thread Roman Vashkevich
for key in dict: print key[0], key[1], dict[key] 10.08.2012, в 0:11, giuseppe.amatu...@gmail.com написал(а): > Hi, > I have a dict() unique > like this > {(4, 5): 1, (5, 4): 1, (4, 4): 2, (2, 3): 1, (4, 3): 2} > and i want to print to a file without the brackets comas and semicolon in > ord

save dictionary to a file without brackets.

2012-08-09 Thread giuseppe . amatulli
Hi, I have a dict() unique like this {(4, 5): 1, (5, 4): 1, (4, 4): 2, (2, 3): 1, (4, 3): 2} and i want to print to a file without the brackets comas and semicolon in order to obtain something like this? 4 5 1 5 4 1 4 4 2 2 3 1 4 3 2 Any ideas? Thanks in advance Giuseppe -- http://mail.python.o

Re: no data exclution and unique combination.

2012-08-09 Thread giuseppe . amatulli
Terry and MRAB, thanks for yours suggestions, in the end i found this solution mask=( a != 0 ) & ( b != 0 ) a_mask=a[mask] b_mask=b[mask] array2D = np.array(zip(a_mask,b_mask)) unique=dict() for row in array2D : row = tuple(row) if row in unique: unique[row] += 1 else:

Re: Is there a clever way to pass arguments

2012-08-09 Thread Terry Reedy
On 8/9/2012 5:50 AM, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote: Chris Angelico wrote: On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote: bruceg113...@gmail.com wrote: I cannot change the function definition. or better (imo) testData(z) and make testData handle a list (8 parameters, that's a lot

Re: Is there a clever way to pass arguments

2012-08-09 Thread GangGreene
Alister wrote: [putolin] > some people read these threads to learn general concepts & not to find > answers to a single explicit case. Some people (me) don't know the first thing about python and are in the learning/exploratory phase. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: socketserver.BaseRequestHandler and socketserver.StreamRequestServer docs

2012-08-09 Thread Terry Reedy
On 8/9/2012 1:39 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:15:33 +0100, lipska the kat declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: in the examples in this chapter we see usage examples for socketserver.BaseRequestHandler So far as I can tell, all RequestHandler

Re: socketserver.BaseRequestHandler and socketserver.StreamRequestServer docs

2012-08-09 Thread Dave Angel
On 08/09/2012 02:37 PM, lipska the kat wrote: > On 09/08/12 18:39, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: >> On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:15:33 +0100, lipska the kat >> declaimed the following in >> gmane.comp.python.general: >> >> >>> in the examples in this chapter we see usage examples for >>> socketserver.BaseRe

Re: socketserver.BaseRequestHandler and socketserver.StreamRequestServer docs

2012-08-09 Thread lipska the kat
On 09/08/12 20:07, Peter Otten wrote: lipska the kat wrote: If there isn't how does one go about contributing to the documentation. http://docs.python.org/dev/py3k/bugs.html A similar link should be right there in the footer of the socketserver documentation. It is indeed, thank you. lips

Re: looking for a neat solution to a nested loop problem

2012-08-09 Thread 88888 Dihedral
Nobody於 2012年8月7日星期二UTC+8下午11時32分55秒寫道: > On Mon, 06 Aug 2012 21:02:33 -0700, Larry Hudson wrote: > > > > >> for i in range(N,N+100): > > >> for j in range(M,M+100): > > >> do_something(i % 100 ,j % 100) > > >> > > >> Emile > > > > > > How about... > > > >

Re: socketserver.BaseRequestHandler and socketserver.StreamRequestServer docs

2012-08-09 Thread lipska the kat
On 09/08/12 19:55, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 09/08/2012 19:37, lipska the kat wrote: On 09/08/12 18:39, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:15:33 +0100, lipska the kat declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: in the examples in this chapter we see usage examples for s

Re: looking for a neat solution to a nested loop problem

2012-08-09 Thread 88888 Dihedral
Nobody於 2012年8月7日星期二UTC+8下午11時32分55秒寫道: > On Mon, 06 Aug 2012 21:02:33 -0700, Larry Hudson wrote: > > > > >> for i in range(N,N+100): > > >> for j in range(M,M+100): > > >> do_something(i % 100 ,j % 100) > > >> > > >> Emile > > > > > > How about... > > > >

Re: socketserver.BaseRequestHandler and socketserver.StreamRequestServer docs

2012-08-09 Thread Peter Otten
lipska the kat wrote: > If there isn't how does one go about > contributing to the documentation. http://docs.python.org/dev/py3k/bugs.html A similar link should be right there in the footer of the socketserver documentation. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: socketserver.BaseRequestHandler and socketserver.StreamRequestServer docs

2012-08-09 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 09/08/2012 19:37, lipska the kat wrote: On 09/08/12 18:39, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:15:33 +0100, lipska the kat declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: in the examples in this chapter we see usage examples for socketserver.BaseRequestHandler So

Re: socketserver.BaseRequestHandler and socketserver.StreamRequestServer docs

2012-08-09 Thread lipska the kat
On 09/08/12 18:39, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:15:33 +0100, lipska the kat declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: in the examples in this chapter we see usage examples for socketserver.BaseRequestHandler So far as I can tell, all RequestHandler ob

Re: socketserver.BaseRequestHandler and socketserver.StreamRequestServer docs

2012-08-09 Thread lipska the kat
On 09/08/12 18:39, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:15:33 +0100, lipska the kat declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: in the examples in this chapter we see usage examples for socketserver.BaseRequestHandler So far as I can tell, all RequestHandler ob

Re: Is there a clever way to pass arguments

2012-08-09 Thread Alister
On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 19:13:31 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Jean-Michel Pichavant > wrote: >> bruceg113...@gmail.com wrote: >>> >>> I cannot change the function definition. >> >> or better (imo) >> testData(z) and make testData handle a list (8 parameters, that's a

Re: Python and OSX 10.8

2012-08-09 Thread William R. Wing (Bill Wing)
On Aug 9, 2012, at 10:38 AM, David Thomas wrote: > Im looking to upgrade my Mac to 10.8 and I'm worried if Python and IDLE may > not run on it. > When I try to run this command in Terminal: python -m idlelib.idle > I can not launch IDLE which comes bundled on Mac. On Lion it's been fine but >

socketserver.BaseRequestHandler and socketserver.StreamRequestServer docs

2012-08-09 Thread lipska the kat
First of all sincere apologies if this is blindingly obvious and I just missed it In the documentation at http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/socketserver.html mention is made more than once of a class socketserver.StreamRequestHandler in the examples in this chapter we see usage examples for

Python and OSX 10.8

2012-08-09 Thread David Thomas
Im looking to upgrade my Mac to 10.8 and I'm worried if Python and IDLE may not run on it. When I try to run this command in Terminal: python -m idlelib.idle I can not launch IDLE which comes bundled on Mac. On Lion it's been fine but I've tried it on my friend's copy of Mountain Lion and it wil

[ANN] PyInstaller 2.0

2012-08-09 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Hello, on behalf of the PyInstaller development team I'm happy to announce PyInstaller 2.0. http://www.pyinstaller.org Special thanks to Martin Zibricky who did most of the development work for this release. === What it is === PyInstaller is a program that converts (packages) Python progra

Re: Getting started with IDLE and Python - no highlighting and no execution

2012-08-09 Thread soloflyr
On Sunday, August 5, 2012 7:46:54 PM UTC-4, PeterSo wrote: > I am just starting to learn Python, and I like to use the editor > > instead of the interactive shell. So I wrote the following little > > program in IDLE > > > > # calculating the mean > > > > data1=[49, 66, 24, 98, 37, 64, 98, 2

pycups

2012-08-09 Thread loial
I am looking to monitor print jobs on linux via python. pycups looks a possibility, but I cannot find any useful tutorial, examples of how to use it. Can anyone help? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Is there a clever way to pass arguments

2012-08-09 Thread Jean-Michel Pichavant
Chris Angelico wrote: On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote: bruceg113...@gmail.com wrote: I cannot change the function definition. or better (imo) testData(z) and make testData handle a list (8 parameters, that's a lot of parameters). He can't chan

Re: Is there a clever way to pass arguments

2012-08-09 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote: > bruceg113...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> I cannot change the function definition. > > or better (imo) > testData(z) and make testData handle a list (8 parameters, that's a lot of > parameters). He can't change the function definition. Chr

Re: Is there a clever way to pass arguments

2012-08-09 Thread Jean-Michel Pichavant
bruceg113...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way in Python to pass arguments without listing each argument? For example, my program does the following: testData (z[0], z[1], z[2], z[3], z[4], z[5], z[6], z[7]) Is there a clever way to pass arguments in a single statement knowing that each argu

Re: Looking for a good introduction to object oriented programming with Python

2012-08-09 Thread lipska the kat
On 09/08/12 03:59, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 20:31:57 +0100, lipska the kat declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: [snip] If a "node" is a father or mother, and it takes one of each to produce a "leaf", your "tree" has just collapsed. This would

Re: Beautiful Soup Table Parsing

2012-08-09 Thread Andreas Perstinger
On 09.08.2012 01:58, Tom Russell wrote: For instance this code below: soup = BeautifulSoup(urlopen('http://online.wsj.com/mdc/public/page/2_3021-tradingdiary2.html?mod=mdc_pastcalendar')) table = soup.find("table",{"class": "mdcTable"}) for row in table.findAll("tr"): for cell in row.find