Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications

2016-02-19 Thread Larry Hudson via Python-list
On 02/19/2016 10:14 AM, wrong.addres...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] This is precisely reading one character at a time. If not exactly reading one character, it is effectively looking at each character to assemble the number. Not a good sign. I guess there might be libraries which will help read nu

Re: How the heck does async/await work in Python 3.5

2016-02-19 Thread Ian Kelly
On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 10:24 PM, Rustom Mody wrote: > Less snarkily looks like a series of bolt-ons after bolt-ons > > IMHO Guido's (otherwise) uncannily sound intuitions have been wrong right from > 2001 when he overloaded def for generators. > And after that its been slippery-slope down: reusin

[newbie] Problem with matplotlib

2016-02-19 Thread jenswaelkens
When I use either of the following commands I get an error for which I don't have a solution, could someone here help me further? These are the commands: import matplotlib.pyplot as plt or from matplotlib.pyplot import pyplot as plt This is the error I get: Traceback (most recent call last):

Re: asyncio - run coroutine in the background

2016-02-19 Thread Paul Rubin
Marko Rauhamaa writes: > "Frank Millman" : >> I would love to drive the database asynchronously, but of the three >> databases I use, only psycopg2 seems to have asyncio support. > Yes, asyncio is at its infancy. There needs to be a moratorium on > blocking I/O. Unfortunately there appears to be

Re: How the heck does async/await work in Python 3.5

2016-02-19 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 20.02.16 um 03:36 schrieb Steven D'Aprano: On Thu, 18 Feb 2016 09:08 am, Mark Lawrence wrote: Seeing there is a lot of interest in asyncio recently I figured people might be interested in this http://www.snarky.ca/how-the-heck-does-async-await-work-in-python-3-5 Thanks for the link, but I

Re: How the heck does async/await work in Python 3.5

2016-02-19 Thread Paul Rubin
Rustom Mody writes: > Forgot the probably most important: Not merging stackless into CPython I thought there was some serious technical obstacle to that. Where can I find Greg Ewing's suggestions about Python coroutines? The async/await stuff seems ok on the surface. I liked the Lua paper abou

Re: How the heck does async/await work in Python 3.5

2016-02-19 Thread Rustom Mody
On Saturday, February 20, 2016 at 10:55:02 AM UTC+5:30, Rustom Mody wrote: > On Saturday, February 20, 2016 at 8:07:03 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Feb 2016 09:08 am, Mark Lawrence wrote: > > > > > Seeing there is a lot of interest in asyncio recently I figured people > > > m

Re: How the heck does async/await work in Python 3.5

2016-02-19 Thread Rustom Mody
On Saturday, February 20, 2016 at 8:07:03 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Thu, 18 Feb 2016 09:08 am, Mark Lawrence wrote: > > > Seeing there is a lot of interest in asyncio recently I figured people > > might be interested in this > > http://www.snarky.ca/how-the-heck-does-async-await-wor

Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications

2016-02-19 Thread Denis Akhiyarov
On Wednesday, February 17, 2016 at 1:49:44 PM UTC-6, wrong.a...@gmail.com wrote: > I am mostly getting positive feedback for Python. > > It seems Python is used more for web based applications. Is it equally fine > for creating stand-alone *.exe's? Can the same code be compiled to run on > Linux

Re: [STORY-TIME] THE BDFL AND HIS PYTHON PETTING ZOO

2016-02-19 Thread Terry Reedy
On 2/18/2016 9:22 PM, Ethan Furman wrote: Anyone know one for deleting all responses to a troll post? Thunderbird has 'ignore thread' on its context menu. -- Terry Jan Reedy -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications

2016-02-19 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Feb 19, 2016, at 8:13 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > On Sat, 20 Feb 2016 12:27 am, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > > >> Then the best suggestion I have would be to take a weekend and just >> read the language reference manual (it used to be about an 80-page PDF >> file, but has no doubt grown

Re: How the heck does async/await work in Python 3.5

2016-02-19 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 18 Feb 2016 09:08 am, Mark Lawrence wrote: > Seeing there is a lot of interest in asyncio recently I figured people > might be interested in this > http://www.snarky.ca/how-the-heck-does-async-await-work-in-python-3-5 Thanks for the link, but I'm now no wiser than I was before :-( Can s

Re: Guido on python3 for beginners

2016-02-19 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 19 Feb 2016 02:39 pm, Rustom Mody wrote: > Consider as hypothesis > L1: Needs 4 weeks to master A language that only takes 4 weeks to master, starting from zero programming experience, clearly doesn't include much in the way of features. > L2: Needs 4 years to manage (if you want to mak

Re: How to properly override the default factory of defaultdict?

2016-02-19 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 11:24 AM, Ian Kelly wrote: >> Look like inheriting from defaultdict is easier. I don't even have to >> override the constructor as suggested by Chris Angelico above. Thanks. > > True, although there's a faint code smell as this technically violates > the Liskov Substitutio

Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications

2016-02-19 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 20 Feb 2016 12:27 am, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > Then the best suggestion I have would be to take a weekend and just > read the language reference manual (it used to be about an 80-page PDF > file, but has no doubt grown into some less handy dynamically linked > HTML/"help" file). Then ad

Re: downloading a CSV

2016-02-19 Thread Tim Chase
On 2016-02-19 10:46, noydb wrote: > I want to be able to download this CSV file and save to disk > >> http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/summary/all_month.csv from urllib.request import urlopen data = urlopen("http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/summary/all_month.c

Re: How to properly override the default factory of defaultdict?

2016-02-19 Thread Ian Kelly
On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 10:41 AM, Herman wrote: > From: Ben Finney >> >> you are using the inheritance hierarchy but thwarting it by not using >> ‘super’. Instead:: >> >> super().__init__(self, default_factory, *a, **kw) >> >> and:: >> >> super().__getitem__(self, key) >> -- >> \ "

Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications

2016-02-19 Thread BartC
On 19/02/2016 18:14, wrong.addres...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, 19 February 2016 16:08:46 UTC+2, Tim Chase wrote: All this I could do with one Read or Input statement in Fortran and Basic. I agree with you completely. This stuff is far more complicated than it need be. And the fact that t

Re: downloading a CSV

2016-02-19 Thread Joel Goldstick
On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 3:05 PM, noydb wrote: > Thanks! That was pretty easy. > > import urllib.request > url = ' > http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/summary/all_month.csv' > urllib.request.urlretrieve(url, csv_file) > csv_file = r"C:\Temp\earthquakeAll_last30days.csv" > urllib.re

Re: downloading a CSV

2016-02-19 Thread noydb
Thanks! That was pretty easy. import urllib.request url = 'http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/summary/all_month.csv' urllib.request.urlretrieve(url, csv_file) csv_file = r"C:\Temp\earthquakeAll_last30days.csv" urllib.request.urlretrieve(url, csv_file) I do want to use python -- the

Re: Weird python 2.7 import thing

2016-02-19 Thread Dan Stromberg
On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Dan Stromberg wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 5:40 PM, Dan Stromberg wrote: > >> >> BTW, this is not a package I pip installed from pypi - it's an >> internal-only project. > > I need to correct this: It's not installed from pypi.python.org, but > it probably is

Re: downloading a CSV

2016-02-19 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-02-19, noydb wrote: > Greetings All, > > Python v 3.4, windows > > I want to be able to download this CSV file and save to disk >>> http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/summary/all_month.csv Unless you really want to write a Python program, "wget" is a good solution: htt

Re: downloading a CSV

2016-02-19 Thread MRAB
On 2016-02-19 18:46, noydb wrote: Greetings All, Python v 3.4, windows I want to be able to download this CSV file and save to disk http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/summary/all_month.csv This (interacting with the web using python) is very new to me, so can anyone provide di

downloading a CSV

2016-02-19 Thread noydb
Greetings All, Python v 3.4, windows I want to be able to download this CSV file and save to disk >> http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/summary/all_month.csv This (interacting with the web using python) is very new to me, so can anyone provide direction on how to go about doing t

Re: extending PATH on Windows?

2016-02-19 Thread eryk sun
On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 8:18 AM, Gisle Vanem wrote: > Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > How can one search for files with DOS? >>> >>> dir /s /b \*add2path.* >>> >>> ChrisA >> >> Or move to PowerShell... >> >> Windows PowerShell >> Copyright (C) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Re: Processing multiple forms in a cgi script

2016-02-19 Thread Jeremy Leonard
On Friday, February 19, 2016 at 1:18:41 PM UTC-5, Jon Ribbens wrote: > On 2016-02-19, Jeremy Leonard wrote: > > I have a quick question regarding processing multiple forms. Most of > > my experience has been where there is just one form so the logic was > > pretty straight forward for me. My questi

Re: Weird python 2.7 import thing

2016-02-19 Thread Dan Stromberg
On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 5:40 PM, Dan Stromberg wrote: > > BTW, this is not a package I pip installed from pypi - it's an > internal-only project. I need to correct this: It's not installed from pypi.python.org, but it probably is installed from our internal pypi server. Thanks! -- https://mail

Re: Passing data across callbacks in ThreadPoolExecutor

2016-02-19 Thread Ian Kelly
On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 10:18 AM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> It's still not clear to me specifically what you're trying to do. It >> would really help if you would describe the problem in more detail. >> Here's what I think you're trying to do: >> >> 1) Submit a task to a ThreadPoolExecutor and ge

Re: Processing multiple forms in a cgi script

2016-02-19 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-02-19, Jon Ribbens wrote: > On 2016-02-19, Jeremy Leonard wrote: > >> I have a quick question regarding processing multiple forms. Most >> of my experience has been where there is just one form so the logic >> was pretty straight forward for me. My question revolves around how >> to handl

Re: Processing multiple forms in a cgi script

2016-02-19 Thread Jon Ribbens
On 2016-02-19, Jeremy Leonard wrote: > I have a quick question regarding processing multiple forms. Most of > my experience has been where there is just one form so the logic was > pretty straight forward for me. My question revolves around how to > handle multiple forms. I've seen that you can ha

Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications

2016-02-19 Thread wrong . address . 1
On Friday, 19 February 2016 16:08:46 UTC+2, Tim Chase wrote: > On 2016-02-19 02:47, wrong.addres...@gmail.com wrote: > > 2 12.657823 0.1823467E-04 114 0 > > 3 4 5 9 11 > > "Lower" > > 278.15 > > > > Is it straightforward to read this, or does one have to read one > > character at a time and then

Processing multiple forms in a cgi script

2016-02-19 Thread Jeremy Leonard
I have a quick question regarding processing multiple forms. Most of my experience has been where there is just one form so the logic was pretty straight forward for me. My question revolves around how to handle multiple forms. I've seen that you can have an id for each form, but I'm unsure how

Re: Exception handling for socket.error in Python 3.5/RStudio

2016-02-19 Thread shaunak . bangale
On Monday, February 8, 2016 at 1:05:08 AM UTC-7, shaunak...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sunday, February 7, 2016 at 1:23:32 AM UTC-7, dieter wrote: > > Shaunak Bangale writes: > > > ... > > > while (count > 0): > > > try : > > > # read line from file: > > > print(file.readline()) > >

Re: extending PATH on Windows?

2016-02-19 Thread eryk sun
On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 10:55 AM, Ulli Horlacher wrote: > Ulli Horlacher wrote: > >> > but simpler still and more reliable to just call QueryValueEx. >> >> I find it more complicated. > > I have now (after long studying docs and examples):: > > def get_winreg(key,subkey): > try: > rkey = wi

Re: extending PATH on Windows?

2016-02-19 Thread eryk sun
On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 4:48 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 9:42 PM, Ulli Horlacher > wrote: >> pyotr filipivich wrote: >> >>> > Windows (especially 7) search function is highly crippled. There is >>> >some command sequence that will open it up to looking at other file

Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications

2016-02-19 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-02-19, BartC wrote: > >> IOW, you're expected to do things correctly > > You mean pedantically. :) > In real life, names generally are not case sensitive. I can call > myself bart or Bart or BART or any of the remaining 13 combinations, > without anyone getting confused (but they might b

Re: Passing data across callbacks in ThreadPoolExecutor

2016-02-19 Thread Joseph L. Casale
> It's still not clear to me specifically what you're trying to do. It > would really help if you would describe the problem in more detail. > Here's what I think you're trying to do: > > 1) Submit a task to a ThreadPoolExecutor and get back a future. > > 2) When the task is complete, submit anot

Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications

2016-02-19 Thread Matt Wheeler
On 19 February 2016 at 14:58, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > Tim Chase wrote: >> [a long thing] > > Or just tell the parser what to expect: > > [another long thing] If you're sure all of the words on a line are going to be numbers then >>> [float(x) for x in '2 12.657823 0.1823467E-04 11

Re: extending PATH on Windows?

2016-02-19 Thread pyotr filipivich
Ulli Horlacher on Fri, 19 Feb 2016 10:42:52 + (UTC) typed in comp.lang.python the following: >pyotr filipivich wrote: > >> > Windows (especially 7) search function is highly crippled. There is >> >some command sequence that will open it up to looking at other file types >> >and locatio

Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications

2016-02-19 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 3:32 AM, BartC wrote: > In real life, names generally are not case sensitive. I can call myself bart > or Bart or BART or any of the remaining 13 combinations, without anyone > getting confused (but they might be puzzled as to why I'd choose to spell it > bArT). There are

Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications

2016-02-19 Thread BartC
On 19/02/2016 15:59, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2016-02-19, BartC wrote: On 17/02/2016 19:49, wrong.addres...@gmail.com wrote: Could someone kindly tell me advantages and disadvantages of Python? Something I don't think anyone has mentioned is that Python is case-sensitive. That's an _advant

Re: Weird and sparese cgi:error

2016-02-19 Thread Φώντας Λαδοπρακόπουλος
[root@nexus cgi-bin]# head -10 ./metrites.py #!/usr/bin/python3 # coding=utf-8 import cgitb; cgitb.enable() import cgi, re, os, sys, socket, time, datetime, locale, codecs, random, smtplib, subprocess, pymysql, geoip2.database from datetime import datetime, timedelta from http import cookies #

Re: Weird and sparese cgi:error

2016-02-19 Thread Φώντας Λαδοπρακόπουλος
#!/usr/bin/python3 # coding=utf-8 import cgitb; cgitb.enable() import cgi, re, os, sys, socket, time, datetime, locale, codecs, random, smtplib, subprocess, pymysql, geoip2.database from datetime import datetime, timedelta from http import cookies === [root@nexus cgi-bin]# /usr/b

Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications

2016-02-19 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-02-19, Chris Angelico wrote: > and of course you wouldn't expect that to collide with something > written in a completely different script. As far as the interpreter's > concerned, "P" and "p" are just as different as are "A", "Α", "А", and > [...] ...and a, ã, á, ä, â, à, ą, å, æ, etc.

Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications

2016-02-19 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-02-19, BartC wrote: > On 17/02/2016 19:49, wrong.addres...@gmail.com wrote: > >> Could someone kindly tell me advantages and disadvantages of Python? > > Something I don't think anyone has mentioned is that Python is > case-sensitive. That's an _advantage_ not a disadvantage. Anybody wh

Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications

2016-02-19 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 2:34 AM, BartC wrote: > On 17/02/2016 19:49, wrong.addres...@gmail.com wrote: > >> Could someone kindly tell me advantages and disadvantages of Python? > > > Something I don't think anyone has mentioned is that Python is > case-sensitive. > > So keywords, identifiers, libra

Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications

2016-02-19 Thread BartC
On 17/02/2016 19:49, wrong.addres...@gmail.com wrote: Could someone kindly tell me advantages and disadvantages of Python? Something I don't think anyone has mentioned is that Python is case-sensitive. So keywords, identifiers, library functions and so on have to be written just right. (Fo

Re: Guido on python3 for beginners

2016-02-19 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-02-19, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Pascal was easy to learn and powerful, but it made the mistake of not > standardising on a few critical functions that production languages need, > like strings. Nevertheless, for the first 10 or 15 years, Apple used a mix > of Pascal and assembly to write

Re: Ohnoes significant whitespace (was: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications)

2016-02-19 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-02-19, Ben Finney wrote: > So I am sympathetic to Python newcomers recoiling in horror from > significant whitespace, *before* they try it. And because of that, we > are burdened with forever needing to deal with that reaction and > soothing it. The first time I wrote Python (it was the

Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications

2016-02-19 Thread Peter Otten
Tim Chase wrote: > On 2016-02-19 02:47, wrong.addres...@gmail.com wrote: >> 2 12.657823 0.1823467E-04 114 0 >> 3 4 5 9 11 >> "Lower" >> 278.15 >> >> Is it straightforward to read this, or does one have to read one >> character at a time and then figure out what the numbers are? -- > > It's easy

Re: extending PATH on Windows?

2016-02-19 Thread Gisle Vanem
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: >>> How can one search for files with DOS? >> >> dir /s /b \*add2path.* >> >> ChrisA > > Or move to PowerShell... > > Windows PowerShell > Copyright (C) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. > > PS C:\Users\Wulfraed\Documents> Get-ChildItem -Path c:\ -Filt

Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications

2016-02-19 Thread Tim Chase
On 2016-02-19 02:47, wrong.addres...@gmail.com wrote: > 2 12.657823 0.1823467E-04 114 0 > 3 4 5 9 11 > "Lower" > 278.15 > > Is it straightforward to read this, or does one have to read one > character at a time and then figure out what the numbers are? -- It's easy to read. What you do with tha

Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications

2016-02-19 Thread wrong . address . 1
On Friday, 19 February 2016 13:24:46 UTC+2, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 19/02/2016 10:47, wrong.addres...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > 2 12.657823 0.1823467E-04 114 0 > > 3 4 5 9 11 > > "Lower" > > 278.15 > > > > Is it straightforward to read this, or does one have to read one character > > at a time a

ANN: eGenix PyRun - One file Python Runtime 2.1.2

2016-02-19 Thread eGenix Team: M.-A. Lemburg
ANNOUNCING eGenix PyRun - One file Python Runtime Version 2.1.2 An easy-to-use single file relocatable Python run-time - available for Linux, Mac OS X and U

Compilation of Python 3.5.1 fails on Solaris 8 sparc

2016-02-19 Thread bthk55
When I try to compile the python from source on Solaris 8. I getting the following error """ Modules/_localemodule.o: In function PyIntl_gettext': Modules/_localemodule.o(.text+0xb60): undefined reference to libintl_gettext' Modules/_localemodule.o: In function PyIntl_dgettext': Modules/_l

Compilation of Python 3.5.1 fails on Solaris 8 sparc

2016-02-19 Thread bthk55
When I try to compile the python from source on Solaris 8. I getting the following error """ Modules/_localemodule.o: In function PyIntl_gettext': Modules/_localemodule.o(.text+0xb60): undefined reference to libintl_gettext' Modules/_localemodule.o: In function PyIntl_dgettext': Modules/_loc

Re: Python keyword args can be any string

2016-02-19 Thread Rustom Mody
On Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 11:12:45 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Today I learned that **kwargs style keyword arguments can be any string: > > > py> def test(**kw): > ... print(kw) > ... > py> kwargs = {'abc-def': 42, '': 23, '---': 999, '123': 17} > py> test(**kwargs) > {'':

Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications

2016-02-19 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 19/02/16 11:23, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 19/02/2016 10:47, wrong.addres...@gmail.com wrote: 2 12.657823 0.1823467E-04 114 0 3 4 5 9 11 "Lower" 278.15 Is it straightforward to read this, or does one have to read one character at a time and then figure out what the numbers are? One characte

Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications

2016-02-19 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 19/02/2016 10:47, wrong.addres...@gmail.com wrote: 2 12.657823 0.1823467E-04 114 0 3 4 5 9 11 "Lower" 278.15 Is it straightforward to read this, or does one have to read one character at a time and then figure out what the numbers are? One character at a time in a high level language lik

Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications

2016-02-19 Thread wrong . address . 1
On Friday, 19 February 2016 03:06:58 UTC+2, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Fri, 19 Feb 2016 02:35 am, wrong.addres...@gmail.com wrote: > > > I am almost eager to do this but want to be sure that I know the pitfalls > > in using Python for my purposes. Thanks for your encouraging response. > > Hones

Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications

2016-02-19 Thread wrong . address . 1
On Thursday, 18 February 2016 21:31:20 UTC+2, Tim Chase wrote: > On 2016-02-18 07:33, wrong.addres...@gmail.com wrote: > > Another question I have is regarding reading numerical data from > > text files. Is it necessary to read one character at a time, or can > > one read like in Fortran and Basic

Re: extending PATH on Windows?

2016-02-19 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 9:42 PM, Ulli Horlacher wrote: > pyotr filipivich wrote: > >> > Windows (especially 7) search function is highly crippled. There is >> >some command sequence that will open it up to looking at other file types >> >and locations. >> > >> >http://answers.microsoft.com/

Re: extending PATH on Windows?

2016-02-19 Thread Ulli Horlacher
pyotr filipivich wrote: > > Windows (especially 7) search function is highly crippled. There is > >some command sequence that will open it up to looking at other file types > >and locations. > > > >http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-files/windows-7-search-does-not-fi

Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications

2016-02-19 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 19 Feb 2016 01:14 pm, BartC wrote: > On 19/02/2016 00:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: [...] >> "Then don't do that. What if you pass the source code through a system >> that strips out braces?" > > Python doesn't use braces, so that's not a problem! mydict = {23: 'twenty-three', 17: 'sevente

Re: [STORY-TIME] THE BDFL AND HIS PYTHON PETTING ZOO

2016-02-19 Thread Jon Ribbens
On 2016-02-19, Ethan Furman wrote: > On 02/02/2016 07:26 PM, Rick Johnson wrote: > > a bunch of garbage. > > *sigh* > > Time to update my procmail filters... > > Anyone know one for deleting all responses to a troll post? Well for this particular imbecile, just blocking posts without any lower-ca

Re: [TIP] testfixtures 4.8.0 Released!

2016-02-19 Thread Chris Withers
On 18/02/2016 22:35, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 18/02/2016 22:27, Chris Withers wrote: Hi All, I'm pleased to announce the release of testfixtures 4.9.0 featuring the following: 4.8.0 or 4.9.0, that is the question, or should it be just how good is your version control? :) Gah, I really need

Re: [STORY-TIME] THE BDFL AND HIS PYTHON PETTING ZOO

2016-02-19 Thread Ethan Furman
On 02/02/2016 07:26 PM, Rick Johnson wrote: a bunch of garbage. *sigh* Time to update my procmail filters... Anyone know one for deleting all responses to a troll post? -- ~Ethan~ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

benchmarking in general and using xheap

2016-02-19 Thread Sven R. Kunze
Hi everybody, I've finally had the time to do the benchmarks and here you go: http://srkunze.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-xheap-benchmark.html The benchmark compares heapq, Heap, OrderHeap, RemovalHeap and XHeap regarding their operation heapify, push and pop. As expected wrapping results in so