Question about python 3.2 distutils

2012-03-16 Thread Collin Day
Hi all, I have a question about python 3.2 distutils on a Gentoo amd64 system. When I open an ipython session and import distutils.unixcompiler and then check the shared library extension with UnixCCompiler.shared)lib_extension, it returns '.so', as I would expect. When I run a setup.py in

PIL for py3k not picking up external libraries

2012-03-16 Thread Collin Day
Hi all, I am using python 3.2 on an amd64 Gentoo system. I was trying to compile an unofficial version of PIL to work in 3.2 that I found here: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs Anyway, when I run the setup.py to compile the source, it doesn't pick up tkinter, zlib, or freetype. Wh

Re: Command parsing... best module to use?

2009-11-03 Thread Collin D
Thanks for the replies. Pyparsing looks just like what I need. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Command parsing... best module to use?

2009-11-02 Thread Collin D
Hey everyone. I am writing a game in python, and it includes a text console somewhat like the one in WoW and Runescape. I want to be able to include "/" commands, like IRC, and was wondering what the best module would be to parse these. Thanks a lot, Collin D -- http://mail.python.o

How do I count the distance between strings in a list?

2009-02-23 Thread collin
For example, if I were to have the code randomlist = ["1", "2", "3", "4"] And I want to count the distance between strings "1" and "4" which is 3, what command can I use to do this? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Tkinter - problem closing window

2009-01-05 Thread Collin D
On Jan 5, 9:21 am, Roger wrote: > On Jan 5, 11:52 am, Collin D wrote: > > > > > On Jan 5, 6:25 am, "Djames Suhanko" wrote: > > > > Hello! > > > I'm sorry my terrible english (my native language is portuguese). > > > I has

Re: Tkinter - problem closing window

2009-01-05 Thread Collin D
On Jan 5, 6:25 am, "Djames Suhanko" wrote: > Hello! > I'm sorry my terrible english (my native language is portuguese). > I has a litle program that open another window. When I close de root > window in quit button, I need clicking 2 times to close. is where the > problem? > > The source: >   1 #!

Re: Factoring Polynomials

2008-12-18 Thread Collin D
On Dec 18, 6:41 pm, "Russ P." wrote: > On Dec 18, 6:31 pm, Collin D wrote: > > > > > > > On Dec 18, 6:27 pm, Collin D wrote: > > > > On Dec 18, 6:23 pm, "Russ P." wrote: > > > > > On Dec 18, 6:17 pm, Collin D wrote: >

Re: Factoring Polynomials

2008-12-18 Thread Collin D
On Dec 18, 6:27 pm, Collin D wrote: > On Dec 18, 6:23 pm, "Russ P." wrote: > > > > > > > On Dec 18, 6:17 pm, Collin D wrote: > > > > On Dec 18, 6:12 pm, Collin D wrote: > > > > > On Dec 18, 11:37 am, collin.da...@gmail.com wrote: &g

Re: Factoring Polynomials

2008-12-18 Thread Collin D
On Dec 18, 6:23 pm, "Russ P." wrote: > On Dec 18, 6:17 pm, Collin D wrote: > > > > > > > On Dec 18, 6:12 pm, Collin D wrote: > > > > On Dec 18, 11:37 am, collin.da...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > > I am trying to write a simple applicat

Re: Factoring Polynomials

2008-12-18 Thread Collin D
On Dec 18, 6:12 pm, Collin D wrote: > On Dec 18, 11:37 am, collin.da...@gmail.com wrote: > > > I am trying to write a simple application to factor polynomials. I > > wrote (simple) raw_input lines to collect the a, b, and c values from > > the user, but I dont know how to

Re: Factoring Polynomials

2008-12-18 Thread Collin D
On Dec 18, 11:37 am, collin.da...@gmail.com wrote: > I am trying to write a simple application to factor polynomials. I > wrote (simple) raw_input lines to collect the a, b, and c values from > the user, but I dont know how to implement the quadratic equation > > x = (-b +or- (b^2 - 4ac)^1/2) / 2a

Re: Factoring Polynomials

2008-12-18 Thread Collin D
On Dec 18, 5:10 pm, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:37:35 -0800, collin.day.0 wrote: > > I am trying to write a simple application to factor polynomials. I wrote > > (simple) raw_input lines to collect the a, b, and c values from the > > user, but I dont know how to implement the q

Re: Factoring Polynomials

2008-12-18 Thread Collin D
On Dec 18, 5:30 pm, "James Mills" wrote: > UPDATE: > > jmi...@atomant:~/tmp$ cat polycalc.py > #!/usr/bin/env python > > from math import sqrt > > def f(a, b, c): >     if (b**2 - (4 * a * c)) < 0: >         return None, None # Can't solve >     x1 = -b - (sqrt(b**2 - (4 * a * c)) / (2 * a)) >    

Re: Factoring Polynomials

2008-12-18 Thread Collin D
On Dec 18, 4:41 pm, "James Mills" wrote: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Gabriel Genellina > > wrote: > > En Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:37:35 -0200, escribió: > > >> I am trying to write a simple application to factor polynomials. I > >> wrote (simple) raw_input lines to collect the a, b, and c val

Re: Factoring Polynomials

2008-12-18 Thread Collin D
On Dec 18, 1:09 pm, Mark Dickinson wrote: > On Dec 18, 8:47 pm, Scott David Daniels wrote: > > >      else: # a single result (discriminant is zero) > >          return (-b / (2 * a),) > > Maybe make that (-b / (2. * a)) to avoid getting funny results > when a and b are integers.  (Or do a from _

Re: Factoring Polynomials

2008-12-18 Thread Collin D
On Dec 18, 11:52 am, eric wrote: > On Dec 18, 8:37 pm, collin.da...@gmail.com wrote: > > > I am trying to write a simple application to factor polynomials. I > > wrote (simple) raw_input lines to collect the a, b, and c values from > > the user, but I dont know how to implement the quadratic equat

Factoring Polynomials

2008-12-18 Thread collin . day . 0
I am trying to write a simple application to factor polynomials. I wrote (simple) raw_input lines to collect the a, b, and c values from the user, but I dont know how to implement the quadratic equation x = (-b +or- (b^2 - 4ac)^1/2) / 2a into python. Any ideas? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/l

Re: مقطع فيديو [الولاده ا لقيصريه] يمنع دخول ضعاف ال قلوب

2008-06-11 Thread Collin
George Sakkis wrote: On Jun 12, 12:29 am, Collin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: a7labnt wrote: Is this arabic spam? Why, are you curious how V1agr@ or [EMAIL PROTECTED] are spelled in arabic ? No, it's just I've never seen something like it. Quite funny, tbh. -- http://mail.py

Re: مقطع فيديو [الو لاده القيصريه] يمنع دخول ضعاف القلوب

2008-06-11 Thread Collin
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Re: Python and Flaming Thunder

2008-05-21 Thread Collin
Dave Parker wrote: On May 20, 7:05 pm, Collin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Personally, FT is a bit meh to me. The way you issue your statements I always think something is wrong, mainly because when I want to define, say, x, in python I'd go: x = "whatever" Instantly no

Re: Python and Flaming Thunder

2008-05-20 Thread Collin
Dave Parker wrote: I've read that one of the design goals of Python was to create an easy- to-use English-like language. That's also one of the design goals of Flaming Thunder at http://www.flamingthunder.com/ , which has proven easy enough for even elementary school students, even though it is

Re: Accepting text input

2008-05-14 Thread Collin
Kam-Hung Soh wrote: On Wed, 14 May 2008 11:02:36 +1000, Collin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Gabriel Genellina wrote: En Mon, 12 May 2008 01:54:28 -0300, Collin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: Collin wrote: I'm pretty new to Python, but this has really bugged me. I can't

Re: Accepting text input

2008-05-13 Thread Collin
Gabriel Genellina wrote: En Mon, 12 May 2008 01:54:28 -0300, Collin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: Collin wrote: I'm pretty new to Python, but this has really bugged me. I can't find a way around it. The problem is that, when I use raw_input("sajfasjdf") whatever, o

Re: Accepting text input

2008-05-11 Thread Collin
Collin wrote: I'm pretty new to Python, but this has really bugged me. I can't find a way around it. The problem is that, when I use raw_input("sajfasjdf") whatever, or input("dsjfadsjfa"), you can only have numerical values as answers. Any help would be appr

Accepting text input

2008-05-11 Thread Collin
I'm pretty new to Python, but this has really bugged me. I can't find a way around it. The problem is that, when I use raw_input("sajfasjdf") whatever, or input("dsjfadsjfa"), you can only have numerical values as answers. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mail

Re: [Python-Dev] annoying dictionary problem, non-existing keys

2008-04-25 Thread Collin Winter
portant for development of python, software > i am sory anyway hope will be helpful. Please consult the documentation first: http://docs.python.org/lib/typesmapping.html . You're looking for the get() method. This attribute of PHP is hardly considered a feature, and is not something

Re: Python Web Servers and Page Retrievers

2007-04-11 Thread Collin Stocks
I tried it, and when checking it using a proxy, saw that it didn't really work, at least in the version that I have (urllib v1.17 and urllib2 v2.5). It just added that header onto the end, therefore making there two User-Agent headers, each with different values. I might add that my script IS able

Re: Can we make a local variable in a function as global variable???

2007-04-05 Thread Collin Stocks
le more like classes. I suppose you wouldn't like me to post my own (somewhat buggy) module that allows you to import modules as new type classes? On 4/5/07, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Collin Stocks wrote: > As for me, I find this problem annoying, but easy to so

Re: way to extract only the message from pop3

2007-04-05 Thread Collin Stocks
I only put None there so that the colon would be more visible: in some browser fonts, [value:] looks the same as [value] On 4/5/07, Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: En Thu, 05 Apr 2007 15:09:18 -0300, Collin Stocks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > message=whole_mess

Re: Can we make a local variable in a function as global variable???

2007-04-05 Thread Collin Stocks
As for me, I find this problem annoying, but easy to solve. My solution is: this=__import__(__name__) To set global variable spam to 4, I say: this.spam=4 This always works, and is much more convenient than: global spam spam=4 and then worry about local variables also named spam. On

Re: Looping issues

2007-04-05 Thread Collin Stocks
That *shouldn't* be the problem, since files are iterable On 5 Apr 2007 11:18:50 -0700, anglozaxxon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Apr 5, 2:01 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What I am trying to do is compare two files to each other. > > If the 2nd file contains the same line the first file conta

Re: Looping issues

2007-04-05 Thread Collin Stocks
I don't know what is wrong with your code yet, but first you should clean it up. Either replace those backslashes with forward slashes, or put r before the first quote in the path string. This prevents special characters from being evaluated as such. Second, you should debug a little. Feel free t

Re: way to extract only the message from pop3

2007-04-05 Thread Collin Stocks
so get two strings: only headers, and the whole message. find the length of the headers, and chop that off the beginning of the whole message: message=whole_message[len(headers):None] You can omit the word None: it is just there for clarity purposes. On 3 Apr 2007 12:36:10 -0700, flit <[EMAIL

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 3000 PEP: Postfix type declarations

2007-04-01 Thread Collin Winter
ing list volume and documentation size.) In light of this PEP, PEP 3107's function annotations should be rejected. All that hippie feel-good crap about "user-defined annotations" and "open-ended semantics" and "no rules, man" was just going to get us into trouble. This PEP's more modern conception of type annotations give the language a power and expressiveness that my PEP could never hope to match. This is clearly a move in the right direction. +4 billion. Collin Winter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Direct memory access

2007-03-07 Thread Collin Stocks
One last thing. Does anyone know how to take a python object and measure how much space it is taking up in memory? I'm thinking probably not, but it's worth asking. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Direct memory access

2007-03-07 Thread Collin Stocks
Thanks. I didn't know about ctypes. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Direct memory access

2007-03-06 Thread Collin Stocks
Does anyone know how to directly handle memory using python? I want to be able, for example, to copy the actual contents of a memory address, or set the actual contents of a memory address. Here is an example of what I would like to be able to do: num=12 addr=id(num) contents=(hex(addr)).read(2)

Re: os.popen() not executing command on windows xp

2007-01-11 Thread Collin Stocks
I have no clue what is wrong. If all else fails, use os.system() instead of os.popen(). Pipes tend not to always work in windows. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

I will be proposing this PEP

2007-01-05 Thread Collin Stocks
Attached is a PEP which I will be proposing soon. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, please email them to me with the subject "Adding Built-in Class Attributes PEP" PEP: XXX Title: Adding Built-in Class Attributes Version: $Revision$ Last-Modified: $Date$ Author: Col

Questions on unittest behaviour

2006-08-18 Thread Collin Winter
It is not documented which of these tests takes priority: is the classmethod "a test method within a test case class" or is it a callable? The same issue applies to staticmethods as well. Once I get answers to these questions, I can finish off the last few bits of the test suite and h

[ANNOUNCE] functional 0.7.0 released

2006-08-01 Thread Collin Winter
d in the C implementation. + The test suite has been enhanced to do reference count checking after each test, making it much easier to track down future errors in the C implementation. + The C implementation now supports Python 2.3, in addition to 2.4 and 2.5 As always, feedback welcome! Collin Winte

[ANNOUNCE]: typecheck 0.3.5 released

2006-05-27 Thread Collin Winter
SF #1495358; typeclasses can now actually be used. As always, feedback welcome! Collin Winter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

[ANNOUNCE]: functional 0.6 released

2006-04-27 Thread Collin Winter
functional 0.5. + Weakref support has been added to flip and compose objects in the C version. + Sundry performance improvements for the C implementation. As always, feedback welcome! Collin Winter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

[ANN] svnmock 0.3 released

2006-02-12 Thread Collin Winter
r.com/code/svnmock/. As always, feedback welcome! Collin Winter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: functional 0.5 released

2006-02-11 Thread Collin Winter
On 10 Feb 2006 19:57:48 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Collin Winter wrote: > > As always, feedback welcome! > > Any specific reason flip only flip the first 2 arguments rather than > the whole tuple ? > > That is, I would like to see: &g

Re: [ANN] functional 0.5 released

2006-02-11 Thread Collin Winter
ied installing the package in all sorts of ways and haven't been able to reproduce this problem. I'm guessing that somewhere in your setuptools configuration, however, that there's a config file passing --multi-version or --install-dir without your knowledge. Do you get this same message when installing other Python packages? Thanks, Collin Winter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

[ANN] functional 0.5 released

2006-02-10 Thread Collin Winter
the C implementation. Also, a number of functions were removed, as I had unknowingly duplicated a lot of functionality from the itertools module. As always, feedback welcome! Collin Winter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

equivalent to c++ "reference" or "pointers"

2006-01-27 Thread Collin Jones
Hello,Is there a Python equivalent to creating "reference" or "pointer"-type variables as in C++??  I'm trying to create a couple classes that have something like a container-and-iterator relationship; one class acts as a data resource (container-like) and can be queried by multiple control classes

Re: Dynamically adding and removing methods

2005-09-24 Thread Collin Winter
dding them directly to the instance doesn't get you a subscriptable object. This is because the interpreter looks at the methods defined by the class, rather than the instance's attributes. Just a word of caution. Collin Winter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Single type for __builtins__ in Py3.0

2005-09-23 Thread Collin Winter
elopment > process. ;-) I'm relatively new to the python-dev world, but I intend to do what I can to eliminate blemishes like __builtins__. Collin Winter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Single type for __builtins__ in Py3.0

2005-09-23 Thread Collin Winter
is indicates that, at the very least, users should be explicitly told -- up front, in the official documentation -- that they shouldn't ever touch __builtins__. Maybe __builtins__ could be removed entirely from Py3.0, thus bringing reality in to sync with policy. Collin Winter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Single type for __builtins__ in Py3.0

2005-09-23 Thread Collin Winter
tter issuing a deprecation warning for a while. My tests indicate that this is possible, with both module.attr and module['item'] forms available. Collin Winter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Single type for __builtins__ in Py3.0

2005-09-23 Thread Collin Winter
On 9/23/05, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Collin Winter wrote: > > > As it currently stands, the type of the global __builtins__ differs > > depending on whether you're in the __main__ namespace (__builtins__ is > > a module) or not (its a dict)

Single type for __builtins__ in Py3.0

2005-09-23 Thread Collin Winter
ould be easily fixable). If this gets a good response, I'll kick it up to python-dev. Thanks, Collin Winter [1] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-May/103613.html [2] http://www.python.org/doc/2.4.1/ref/naming.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list