Re: CSV(???)

2007-02-24 Thread David C.Ullrich
On 23 Feb 2007 07:31:35 -0800, "John Machin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Feb 23, 10:11 pm, David C. Ullrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: >> Is there a csvlib out there somewhere? > >I can make available the following which should be capable of running >on 1.5.2 -- unless they've suffered bitrot

Re: CSV(???)

2007-02-24 Thread David C.Ullrich
On 23 Feb 2007 19:13:10 +0100, Neil Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 2007-02-23, David C Ullrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is there a csvlib out there somewhere? >> >> And/or does anyone see any problems with >> the code below? >> >> [...] >> >> (Um: Believe it or not I'm _still_ using

Re: CSV(???)

2007-02-24 Thread David C.Ullrich
On 23 Feb 2007 11:51:57 GMT, nmp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Op Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:45:54 +, schreef nmp: > >> Op Fri, 23 Feb 2007 05:11:26 -0600, schreef David C. Ullrich: >> >>> Is there a csvlib out there somewhere? >> >> Hey, cool! I am just beginning with Python but I may already be abl

Re: CSV(???)

2007-02-24 Thread David C.Ullrich
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:43:24 + (UTC), Philipp Pagel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >David C. Ullrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is there a csvlib out there somewhere? > >How about csv in the standard library? > >> (Um: Believe it or not I'm _still_ using >> python 1.5.7. > >I have no idea if cs

CSV(???)

2007-02-23 Thread David C.Ullrich
Is there a csvlib out there somewhere? And/or does anyone see any problems with the code below? What csvline does is straightforward: fields is a list of strings. csvline(fields) returns the strings concatenated into one string separated by commas. Except that if a field contains a comma or a dou

Re: shuffling elements of a list

2006-06-02 Thread David C.Ullrich
On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 03:25:23 -0700, Erik Max Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >David C. Ullrich wrote: > >> Good example, because we know that EMF is not dumb. I've seen >> the same algorithm many times - the best example is ... > >Man, an error made _six years ago_ and people are still bringing

Re: shuffling elements of a list

2006-06-01 Thread David C.Ullrich
On Wed, 31 May 2006 23:05:14 +0200, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Roger Miller wrote: > >> DSU seems like a lot of trouble to go through in order to use an O(n >> log n) sorting algorithm to do what can be done in O(N) with a few >> lines of code. The core code of random.shuffle() sho

Re: shuffling elements of a list

2006-05-31 Thread David C.Ullrich
On Wed, 31 May 2006 12:17:11 +0200, Sybren Stuvel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >David C Ullrich enlightened us with: >> I thought that the fact that you could use the same trick for >> _shuffling_ a list was my idea, gonna make me rich and famous. I >> guess I'm not the only one who thought of it.

Re: shuffling elements of a list

2006-05-31 Thread David C.Ullrich
On 30 May 2006 21:53:32 -0700, "greenflame" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Thank you all for all of your help. Also I got the shuffle function to >work. Do not worry I will be back soon with more shuffling! However, I >do not quite understand this DSU that you mention, although it looks >useful. I d

Re: dynamic type changing

2006-05-28 Thread David C.Ullrich
On 28 May 2006 01:07:16 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> I'm working on a "TempFile" class that stores the data in memory until >>> it gets larger than a specified threshold (as per PEP 42). Whilst >>> trying to implement it, I've come across some strange behaviour. Can >>> anyone explain thi

Re: Multiple Version Install?

2006-05-24 Thread David C.Ullrich
On Fri, 05 May 2006 07:44:45 -0500, David C. Ullrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] >Just curious: How does pythonxx.dll determine things >like where to find the standard library? That's the >sort of thing I'd feared might cause confusion... Ok, it was a stupid question, cuz right there in the r

Re: A critic of Guido's blog on Python's lambda

2006-05-10 Thread David C.Ullrich
On Tue, 09 May 2006 05:35:47 -0500, David C. Ullrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, 08 May 2006 18:46:57 -0400, Ken Tilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: >[...] > >If you, um, look at the code you see that "cells.a = 42" triggers >cells.__setattr__, which fires a's callback; the callback then >r

Re: A critic of Guido's blog on Python's lambda

2006-05-09 Thread David C.Ullrich
On Mon, 08 May 2006 18:46:57 -0400, Ken Tilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >David C. Ullrich wrote: >> On 08 May 2006 12:53:09 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas >> F. Burdick) wrote: >> >> >>>Ken Tilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> >>> No, you do not want on-change handlers propagating

Re: A critic of Guido's blog on Python's lambda

2006-05-08 Thread David C.Ullrich
On 08 May 2006 12:53:09 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas F. Burdick) wrote: >Ken Tilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> No, you do not want on-change handlers propagating data to other >> slots, though that is a sound albeit primitive way of improving >> self-consistency of data in big apps. The

Re: A critic of Guido's blog on Python's lambda

2006-05-08 Thread David C.Ullrich
On Mon, 08 May 2006 08:05:38 -0500, David C. Ullrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[...] > >def acall(cell, value): > cell.owner.slots['b'].value = value + 1 Needing to say that sort of thing every time you define a callback isn't very nice. New and improved version: """PyCells.py""" class Cell:

Re: A critic of Guido's blog on Python's lambda

2006-05-08 Thread David C.Ullrich
On Sun, 07 May 2006 10:36:00 -0400, Ken Tilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[...] > >Your spreadsheet does not have slots ruled by functions, it has one slot >for a dictionary where you store names and values/formulas. > >Go back to your example and arrange it so a and b are actual slots (data >m

Re: Multiple Version Install?

2006-05-05 Thread David C.Ullrich
On Thu, 4 May 2006 13:19:46 -0400, "Tim Peters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[David C.Ullrich] >> Would there be issues (registry settings, environment >> variables, whatever) if a person tried to install >> versions 1.x and 2.x simultaneously on one Windows

Re: Multiple Version Install?

2006-05-04 Thread David C.Ullrich
On Thu, 4 May 2006 16:17:57 +0200, "Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >David C.Ullrich wrote: > >> Would there be issues (registry settings, environment >> variables, whatever) if a person tried to install >> versions 1.x and 2.x simultaneously on

Multiple Version Install?

2006-05-04 Thread David C.Ullrich
Would there be issues (registry settings, environment variables, whatever) if a person tried to install versions 1.x and 2.x simultaneously on one Windows system? Windows 98, if it matters. (I can handle the file associations with no problem.) Thanks. ** If anyone feels