Re: Drawing glyphs based on their index (NOT their character code)

"Christian Stapfer" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:b7256$4bf516e1$544ba447$20...@news.hispeed.ch... Here's an interesting little problem: I am given a master.ttf font file and a subset file subset.ttf of that font, and I am asked to map indices of all the glyphs in subset.ttf to th

Drawing glyphs based on their index (NOT their character code)

Here's an interesting little problem: I am given a master.ttf font file and a subset file subset.ttf of that font, and I am asked to map indices of all the glyphs in subset.ttf to the corresponding indices in master.ttf. The subset font file is the result of a pipeline of 3 tools (pdflatex, Adob

Re: can't find a way to display and print pdf through python.

krishnakant Mane wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On 11/02/07, Vishal Bhargava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Use Report Lab... > I mentioned in my first email that I am already using reportlab. > but I can only generate pdf out of that. > I want to display it on screen and I also will be

'LoadFile' not found when invoking Acrobat via wx.lib.pdfwin

Hi, I get the following traceback when trying to have wx.lib.pdfwin.PDFWindow open a PDF file: E:\Tutoring\Teacher\Flashcards>python pdfwin1.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "pdfwin1.py", line 50, in OnOpenButton self.pdf.LoadFile(dlg.GetPath()) File "C:\Python24\lib\site-pack

Re: algorithm for sorting functional expressions

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >I am trying to write some code that will take a list of functional > expressions, and order them so that those with primitive terms appear > at the beginning of the list and those that are defined by other terms > appear last. > > eg: >

Re: Problem loading true-type font with PIL - "solved"

Robert Kern wrote: > Fredrik Lundh wrote: >> Christian Stapfer wrote: >> >>> Problem "solved" by rudely installing PIL 1.1.5 for Windows and >>> Python 2.4 from http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/ >>> right on top of my existing "Pyth

Re: Problem loading true-type font with PIL - "solved"

Christian Stapfer wrote: > After switching from Python 2.3 to 2.4 (Enought), > PIL throws an exception that did not occur formerly > (under Python 2.3) when executing > >ImageFont.truetype(font, size) > A module seems to be missing: do I have to install something >

Re: Problem loading true-type font with PIL

Christian Stapfer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > After switching from Python 2.3 to 2.4 (Enought), ^ I mean: Python Enthought Edition--Python 2.4.3 for Windows, sorry for that. I see in the documentatio

Problem loading true-type font with PIL

to PIL in order to be able to load true-type fonts? Could someone (more knowledgeable than myself as regards PIL and this true-type font loading business) please point me in the right direction? Many thanks in advance, Christian Stapfer -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: dynamic drawing in web page

Paul Boddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > barbaros wrote: >> >> I need to put some dynamic drawings on my web page. More precisely, I >> need to draw a number of geometric figures (circles, rectangles) which >> evolve into a graphics windows according to some law (a

Re: strange math?

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hello everyone, I'm experimenting with python and i'm following this > tutorial: > http://docs.python.org/tut/node6.html#SECTION00640 I'm > in section 4.7.5 Lambda Forms. In this section I was working along and > I no

Re: add an asynchronous exception class

"Paul Rubin" <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Christian Stapfer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I guess it means the following: >> >> "Terminating exceptions" are exceptions that >> t

Re: add an asynchronous exception class

"Paul Rubin" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> PEP 348 addresses this by moving special exceptions out of the >> Exception hierarchy: >> >> http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0348.html > > I see that suggestion was r

Re: Floating numbers and str

"Tuvas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >I would like to limit a floating variable to 4 signifigant digits, when > running thorugh a str command. Ei, > > > x=.13241414515 > y=str(x)+" something here" > > But somehow limiting that to 4 sign. digits. I know that if you us

Re: Comparing lists

"Alex Martelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Christian Stapfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> "Alex Martelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > Christian Stapfer &l

Re: Comparing lists

"Alex Martelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Christian Stapfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> This is why we would like to have a way of (roughly) >> estimating the reasonableness of the outlines of a >> program

Re: Comparing lists

"Steven D'Aprano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 19:42:11 +0200, Christian Stapfer wrote: > >> Pauli's prediction of >> the existence of the neutrino is another. It took >> experimentalists a gre

Re: Comparing lists - somewhat OT, but still ...

"Steven D'Aprano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 15:16:39 +0200, Christian Stapfer wrote: > >> Come to think of an experience that I shared >> with a student who was one of those highly >> creative exp

Re: Comparing lists

"Ron Adam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Christian Stapfer wrote: >> "Ron Adam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >>>Christian Stapfer wrote: >>> >>>

Re: Comparing lists

"Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Christian Stapfer wrote: > >> As to the value of complexity theory for creativity >> in programming (even though you seem to believe that >> a theoretical bent of mind can only s

Re: Comparing lists - somewhat OT, but still ...

"Ron Adam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Christian Stapfer wrote: > >> This discussion begins to sound like the recurring >> arguments one hears between theoretical and >> experimental physicists. Experimentalists tend >&

Re: Comparing lists

"Ron Adam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Christian Stapfer wrote: > >> This discussion begins to sound like the recurring >> arguments one hears between theoretical and >> experimental physicists. Experimentalists tend >&

Re: Comparing lists

"Steven D'Aprano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 18:17:36 +0200, Christian Stapfer wrote: > >>>> I'd prefer a (however) rough characterization >>>> of computational complexity in terms of B

Re: Comparing lists

"Steven D'Aprano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 06:31:53 +0200, Christian Stapfer wrote: > >> "jon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>>

Re: Comparing lists

"jon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To take the heat out of the discussion: > > sets are blazingly fast. I'd prefer a (however) rough characterization of computational complexity in terms of Big-Oh (or Big-whatever) *anytime* to marketing-type characterizations l

Re: Yes, this is a python question, and a serious one at that (moving to Win XP)

"John J. Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Kenneth McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] >> absolutely preventing me from making the switch. Number one is the >> lack of a decent command line and command-line environment, and I'm >> wondering (hoping) if per

Re: Comparing lists

"Scott David Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Christian Stapfer wrote: >> "Steve Holden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >>>Christian Stapfer wrote: >>> &

Re: Comparing lists

"Steve Holden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Christian Stapfer wrote: >> "George Sakkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >>>"Christian Stapfer" <[EMAIL

Re: Comparing lists

"George Sakkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Christian Stapfer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > try to use set. >> >> Sorting the two lists and then extract

Re: Comparing lists

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > try to use set. >L1 = [1,1,2,3,4] >L2 = [1,3, 99] >A = set(L1) >B = set(L2) > >X = A-B >print X > >Y = B-A >print Y > >Z = A | B >print Z But how "efficient" is this? Could you be a bit more expl

Re: reading files with error

%% %6d:%02d %6.1fMB/s\r" >> % (i, f, i-f, i * 100. / total, rm, rs, spd)) >>sys.stderr.write("\n") >> >> > Sorry but what are SEEK_END and SEEK_SET? The Python 2.3 documentation seems to specify the *numeric* values of these constants only. But since Python's file objects are "implemented using C's stdio package", you can read http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/lseek.html Regards, Christian Stapfer -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Removing duplicates from a list

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >I do this: > > def unique(keys): >unique = [] >for i in keys: >if i not in unique:unique.append(i) >return unique > > I don't know what is faster at the moment. This is quadratic, O(n^2), in the length n of the list

Re: Help! Python either hangs or core dumps when calling C malloc

"Lil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >I already double checked my C code. It runs perfectly fine in C without > any errors. So in my python program, I added a pdb.set_trace() > and step through the program and it did not dump. But when i took out > the tracing, the cor