sorting list by multiple criteria and grouping alphabetically in python

2015-04-18 Thread Ahamed Farook
I have a list named "lsNearCities" which contains "states" and "cities" in it. And I write the values in the list to csv where the column will be in the order of city and state. And also I did sorting based on the state first and cities second. Now I want the csv to be printed as shown below. How c

Re: EuroPython 2015: Django Girls Workshop

2015-04-18 Thread Rustom Mody
On Sunday, April 19, 2015 at 9:05:54 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 06:44 am, Larry Martell wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 4:31 PM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > >> beliavsky: > >> > >>> If your target audience is women, I think you should have termed it > >>> the Djang

Re: Huh? No way to markup announcements here?

2015-04-18 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 08:24 pm, edream...@gmail.com wrote: > Many google groups support markdown or other markup. > > I see no mention of markup here: > https://www.python.org/community/clpya-guidelines.txt/ > > Is there any way to format announcements? If so, how. If not, why not? If your anno

Re: EuroPython 2015: Django Girls Workshop

2015-04-18 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 06:44 am, Larry Martell wrote: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 4:31 PM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >> beliav...@aol.com: >> >>> If your target audience is women, I think you should have termed it >>> the Django Womens Workshop rather than the Django Girls Workshop. >>> Referring to adult

Re: Custom format a la datetime

2015-04-18 Thread Santiago Basulto
On Saturday, April 18, 2015 at 5:29:23 PM UTC-3, Peter Otten wrote: > santiago.basu...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Hello everybody. I'm writing a CLI program to do some search. It's an > > internal tool. I'd like to provide the option to my user to format the > > results as he/she'd like. Something sim

Re: Importing/migrating Mailman mbox files into Google Groups?

2015-04-18 Thread Skip Montanaro
On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 6:42 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: > I think I understood that there was an existing archive. My caveat was more > something to consider before choosing GGroups (too late, and in any case > hardly a deal breaker, especially since Google finally cleaned up a lot of > their HTML

Re: Importing/migrating Mailman mbox files into Google Groups?

2015-04-18 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 18Apr2015 07:50, Skip Montanaro wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 7:33 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: However, before you get very excited see if people can get messages back out of the archive. A major annoyance for me with GGroups versus mailman is that if I join a group I cannot download the hi

Re: HELP! How to return the returned value from a threaded function

2015-04-18 Thread Dave Angel
On 04/18/2015 01:07 PM, D. Xenakis wrote: Maybe this is pretty simple but seems I am stuck... def message_function(): return "HelloWorld!" def thread_maker(): """ call message_function() using a new thread and return it's "HelloWorld!" """ pass Could someon

Re: HELP! How to return the returned value from a threaded function

2015-04-18 Thread MRAB
On 2015-04-18 18:50, D. Xenakis wrote: This sounds like homework... what have you tried, and what happened? heheh naaah no cheating here. I just provided the example this way to make as clear as possible what I want to do. Return the returned value from a threaded function. apparently this d

Re: Custom format a la datetime

2015-04-18 Thread Peter Otten
santiago.basu...@gmail.com wrote: > Hello everybody. I'm writing a CLI program to do some search. It's an > internal tool. I'd like to provide the option to my user to format the > results as he/she'd like. Something similar to strftime on the datetime > module. > > Example: > > from datetim

Re: HELP! How to return the returned value from a threaded function

2015-04-18 Thread Paul Rubin
"D. Xenakis" writes: >> Have you looked at the docs of the threading module? > Lost in there You should probably read a book about operating systems to get a sense of how the stuff in there works. The software docs assume you're familiar with the basic principles that you would get from a book o

Custom format a la datetime

2015-04-18 Thread santiago . basulto
Hello everybody. I'm writing a CLI program to do some search. It's an internal tool. I'd like to provide the option to my user to format the results as he/she'd like. Something similar to strftime on the datetime module. Example: from datetime import datetime d = datetime.utcnow() d

Re: generator/coroutine terminology

2015-04-18 Thread CHIN Dihedral
On Friday, March 13, 2015 at 5:36:35 PM UTC+8, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Rustom Mody : > > > Nice demo of the same confusing terminology we are talking about. > > Why don't you just stick with the terminology of the language > specification? I think your students are going to be more confused if >

Re: Best search algorithm to find condition within a range

2015-04-18 Thread Albert van der Horst
In article , wrote: >Den tisdag 7 april 2015 kl. 16:30:15 UTC+2 skrev Denis McMahon: >> On Tue, 07 Apr 2015 09:29:59 -0400, Dave Angel wrote: >> >> > On 04/07/2015 05:44 AM, jonas.thornv...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> >> I want todo faster baseconversion for very big bases like base 1 000 >> >> 000, s

Re: generator/coroutine terminology

2015-04-18 Thread Albert van der Horst
In article <551e2cfd$0$11123$c3e8...@news.astraweb.com>, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >On Wednesday 01 April 2015 00:18, Albert van der Horst wrote: > >> In article <55062bda$0$12998$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>, >> Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >>>The biggest difference is syntactic. Here's an ite

Re: HELP! How to return the returned value from a threaded function

2015-04-18 Thread D. Xenakis
> This sounds like homework... what have you tried, and what happened? heheh naaah no cheating here. I just provided the example this way to make as clear as possible what I want to do. Return the returned value from a threaded function. apparently this does not work as I hoped: return Thread(

Re: HELP! How to return the returned value from a threaded function

2015-04-18 Thread Paul Rubin
"D. Xenakis" writes: > Maybe this is pretty simple but seems I am stuck... thread_maker() == "HelloWorld!" This sounds like homework... what have you tried, and what happened? Have you looked at the docs of the threading module? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

HELP! How to return the returned value from a threaded function

2015-04-18 Thread D. Xenakis
Maybe this is pretty simple but seems I am stuck... def message_function(): return "HelloWorld!" def thread_maker(): """ call message_function() using a new thread and return it's "HelloWorld!" """ pass Could someone please complete above script so that: thread_mak

Re: Huh? No way to markup announcements here?

2015-04-18 Thread Peter Pearson
On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 11:36:34 +0100, Tim Golden wrote: > On 18/04/2015 11:24, edream...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] >> Is there any way to format announcements? If so, how. If not, why not? [snip] > Both of those services -- Usenet & Mailing list -- are traditionally > plain text. One could certainl

Calling back into Python from llvmlite-JITed code

2015-04-18 Thread Mark Lawrence
An article from Eli Bendersky that I found interesting, maybe the same applies to you. http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2015/calling-back-into-python-from-llvmlite-jited-code/ -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -

Re: Importing/migrating Mailman mbox files into Google Groups?

2015-04-18 Thread Skip Montanaro
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 7:33 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: > However, before you get very excited see if people can get messages back out > of the archive. A major annoyance for me with GGroups versus mailman is that > if I join a group I cannot download the historical archive. (This is a > standard

Re: Huh? No way to markup announcements here?

2015-04-18 Thread Jon Ribbens
On 2015-04-18, edream...@gmail.com wrote: > Many google groups support markdown or other markup. > > I see no mention of markup here: > https://www.python.org/community/clpya-guidelines.txt/ > > Is there any way to format announcements? If so, how. If not, why not? Because this is not a "google

Re: Huh? No way to markup announcements here?

2015-04-18 Thread Tim Golden
On 18/04/2015 11:24, edream...@gmail.com wrote: Many google groups support markdown or other markup. I see no mention of markup here: https://www.python.org/community/clpya-guidelines.txt/ Is there any way to format announcements? If so, how. If not, why not? Because this is not, primarily,

Huh? No way to markup announcements here?

2015-04-18 Thread edreamleo
Many google groups support markdown or other markup. I see no mention of markup here: https://www.python.org/community/clpya-guidelines.txt/ Is there any way to format announcements? If so, how. If not, why not? Edward -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Need opinions on P vs NP

2015-04-18 Thread Paddy
On Saturday, 18 April 2015 08:09:06 UTC+1, wxjm...@gmail.com wrote: > Le samedi 18 avril 2015 03:19:40 UTC+2, Paddy a écrit : > > Having just seen Raymond's talk on Beyond PEP-8 here: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf-BqAjZb8M, it reminded me of my own > > recent post where I am soliciting

Re: New to Python - block grouping (spaces)

2015-04-18 Thread Marko Rauhamaa
Rustom Mody : >> It would be possible to define a canonical AST storage format. Then, >> your editor could "incarnate" the AST in the syntax of your choosing. >> >> [...] > > Things like comments are a headache -- they have to be shoved into the > AST rather artificially I don't think comments w

Re: PEP 492, new coroutine syntax for Python

2015-04-18 Thread Marko Rauhamaa
Chris Angelico : > On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Paul Rubin wrote: >> I don't remember anyone mentioning this here yet, and it is mighty cool: >> >> https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0492/ > > [...] > > And yes, it IS cool. I think the current proposal has a lot of > duplication (it looks li

Re: New to Python - block grouping (spaces)

2015-04-18 Thread Rustom Mody
On Saturday, April 18, 2015 at 12:30:49 PM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Ben Finney : > > > If you only write programs that will only ever be read by you and > > no-one else, feel free to maintain a fork of Python (or any other > > language) that suits your personal preferences. > > It would

Re: New to Python - block grouping (spaces)

2015-04-18 Thread Marko Rauhamaa
Ben Finney : > If you only write programs that will only ever be read by you and > no-one else, feel free to maintain a fork of Python (or any other > language) that suits your personal preferences. It would be possible to define a canonical AST storage format. Then, your editor could "incarnate"