Re: Date Comparison

2009-02-03 Thread Bill McClain
On 2009-02-03, mohana2...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, > I need to compare two dates and find the number of days between those > two dates.This can be done with datetime module in python as below, > but this is not supported in Jython. There are julian day routines in this astronomy package: http

Re: Drawing and Displaying an Image with PIL

2009-01-28 Thread Bill McClain
On 2009-01-28, W. eWatson wrote: > Yes, that's true, but the big question is how to "see" the final image? > Either one employees another module or writes the file into a folder, then > displays it with a paint program? Does im.show() not work? -Bill -- Sattre Press

Re: StringIO in 2.6 and beyond

2008-12-10 Thread Bill McClain
On 2008-12-10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think this combination might do the trick (I don't have 2.6 to test > it right now): > from __future__ import print_function > from __future__ import unicode_literals > from functools import partial > import io > print = partial(prin

Re: StringIO in 2.6 and beyond

2008-12-10 Thread Bill McClain
On 2008-12-10, ajaksu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 9, 5:24 pm, Bill McClain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On 2008-12-09, MRAB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > In Python 2.x unmarked string literals are bytestrings. In Python 3.x > &

Re: StringIO in 2.6 and beyond

2008-12-09 Thread Bill McClain
On 2008-12-09, MRAB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In Python 2.x unmarked string literals are bytestrings. In Python 3.x > they're Unicode. The intention is to make the transition from 2.x to 3.x > easier by adding some features of 3.x to 2.x, but without breaking > backwards compatibility (not e

Re: StringIO in 2.6 and beyond

2008-12-09 Thread Bill McClain
On 2008-12-09, Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> out = io.StringIO() > >>> print(u"hello", file=out, end=u"\n") > >>> out.getvalue() > u'hello\n' That has the benefit of working. Thank you! That can't be the intended behavior of print(), can it? Insering non-unicode spaces and line te

Re: StringIO in 2.6 and beyond

2008-12-09 Thread Bill McClain
On 2008-12-09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This puzzles me too. According to the documentation StringIO accepts > both byte strings and unicode strings. Try to replace >output.write('First line.\n') > with >output.write(unicode('First line.\n')) > or >output.write(st

Re: StringIO in 2.6 and beyond

2008-12-09 Thread Bill McClain
On 2008-12-08, Bill McClain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-12-08, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In this context 'str' means Python 3.0's str type, which is unicode in > > 2.x. Please report the misleading error message. > So t

Re: StringIO in 2.6 and beyond

2008-12-08 Thread Bill McClain
On 2008-12-08, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In this context 'str' means Python 3.0's str type, which is unicode in > 2.x. Please report the misleading error message. So this is an encoding problem? Can you give me a hint on how to correct in my example? I see that io.StringIO()

StringIO in 2.6 and beyond

2008-12-08 Thread Bill McClain
I've just installed 2.6, had been using 2.4. This was working for me: #! /usr/bin/env python import StringIO out = StringIO.StringIO() print >> out, 'hello' I used 2to3, and added import from future to get: #! /usr/bin/env python from __future__ import print_function

Re: Windows DOS box redirection

2008-10-31 Thread Bill McClain
On 2008-10-31, Bill McClain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, trying that...works, but the window doesn't stay open, so we can't see the > results. Any way to do that? Sorry for the Windows-101 tutorial. I received an email solution: prepend the shortcut command with &qu

Re: Windows DOS box redirection

2008-10-31 Thread Bill McClain
On 2008-10-31, Shawn Milochik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Easy. Make a desktop shortcut which includes the parameters, etc. > People do that all the time, including for GUI apps such as Internet > Explorer which have some optional command-line shortcuts. > The only thing you have to do is make su

Re: Windows DOS box redirection

2008-10-31 Thread Bill McClain
On 2008-10-31, Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well I don't know any Windows users that still use DOS-boxes ;-) > cheers, What do they do when they want to run a cross-platform command-line script with parameters and redirection? I suppose they could install cygwin and run bash, but tha

Re: Windows DOS box redirection

2008-10-31 Thread Bill McClain
On 2008-10-31, Tim Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You've got a few options. Ok, thanks! It is a small hobbyist community. I'll just document it and tell them "life is hard for Windows users." -Bill -- Sattre PressThe King in Yellow http://sattre-press.com/

Windows DOS box redirection (was: Code not work - DESPERATE HELP)

2008-10-31 Thread Bill McClain
On 2008-10-31, Glenn Linderman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem with stdin/stdout is on Windows 2000 (and maybe the earlier > NT?). But not on XP or AFAIK Vista. > It only occurs when a program is executed indirectly using the file > associations instead of directly via the command lin

Re: Code not work - DESPERATE HELP :(

2008-10-30 Thread Bill McClain
On 2008-10-30, fx5900 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I just went to go and get a coffee when i noticed a email, thought it was > just usual spam. Read your message, and it worked. it was because i did not > put they 'python' keyword infront. How did u figure it out? It is some problem with the D

Re: Code not work - DESPERATE HELP :(

2008-10-30 Thread Bill McClain
On 2008-10-30, fx5900 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, >i am trying to convert an .osm (openstreetmap) file into gml format and > finally to shapefile given this wiki info > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/GML. I'm using windows and when i > entered the following commands osm2gml.py

Re: Video information

2008-08-09 Thread Bill McClain
On 2008-08-09, dusans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a py module, which would get me information of a movie file: > - resolution > - fps I don't know of one. I use the transcode utilities for this and parse their output. -Bill -- Sattre PressIn the Quar

Re: Freetype bindings, finally?

2007-09-20 Thread Bill McClain
On 2007-09-19, Jason Yamada-Hanff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > I'm working on a project that would benefit very much from Python > Freetype2 bindings (the Fonty Python project). I don't want to > duplicate efforts and wrap the library again if we don't have to. > Interestingly, it seems

Re: Back to the future - python to C++ advice wanted

2005-06-17 Thread Bill McClain
On 2005-06-17, George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, I wonder what have others who have gone the same path done and > learned in similar situations. How one can avoid the frustration of > having to work with a low level language once he has seen the Light ? This project: http://ast

freetype2 bindings?

2004-12-03 Thread Bill McClain
I have googled for Python bindings for freetype2 and have not found any recent projects. The freetype page references this at Sourceforge: http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/pyft2 ...but it is "nonexistent". Nothing else at Sourceforge for python + freetype. I will wrap the api myself (my fi

Re: Help With Hiring Python Developers

2004-12-01 Thread Bill McClain
On 2004-12-01, fuego <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My company (http://primedia.com/divisions/businessinformation/) has > two job openings that we're having a heckuva time filling. Allow offsite workers and you'll have all the candidates you want. -Bill -- Sattre Press