Re: fast pythonic algorithm question

2006-08-01 Thread David Reed
On Aug 1, 2006, at 11:13 AM, Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > Guyon Morée wrote: > >> Memory is no problem. It just needs to be as fast as possible, if >> that's what this is, fine. >> >> If not, I'd like to find out what is :) > > I'd say it is as fast as it can get - using hashing for lookups is O >

OT Re: getaddrinfo not found on SCO OpenServer 5.0.5

2006-07-21 Thread David Reed
On Jul 21, 2006, at 4:20 PM, Steve M wrote: > In case you haven't heard Microsoft is suing SCO for stealing his > Internet concepts and letters and numbers, so you should probably just > ditch OpenServer and get Debian like all the smart people have done. > > I guess the quality of SCO software h

Re: Python taught in schools?

2006-06-25 Thread David Reed
> > MilkmanDan wrote: >> I'll be a college freshman this fall, attending Florida Institute of >> Tech studying electrical engineering. >> >> I was considering taking some classes in programming and computer >> science, and I happened to notice that everything taught is using C >> ++. >> After furt

Re: Threads

2006-05-11 Thread David Reed
On May 11, 2006, at 8:02 PM, placid wrote: > > Carl J. Van Arsdall wrote: >> placid wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> In Python, Threads cannot be paused, i remember reading this >>> somewhere, >>> so is there a way around this ? >>> >> >> When you say paused do you mean paused by an external source o

Re: hyperthreading locks up sleeping threads

2006-05-10 Thread David Reed
On May 10, 2006, at 5:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Grant > >> You might want to run some memory tests. > > We have multiple identical boxes and they all have the same problem. > > Olaf They might all have flaky memory - I would follow the other poster's advice and run memtest86 on them.

Re: GladeGen and initializing widgets at startup

2006-05-07 Thread David Reed
On May 7, 2006, at 4:24 AM, Aengys wrote: > Thank you for your reply! > > I finally managed to do what I wanted. Maybe a little side-remark > here. > In the article you have said that all changes to the init-method are > lost once you regenerate the file. I have tried it, and indeed all my > ch

Re: GladeGen and initializing widgets at startup

2006-05-06 Thread David Reed
On May 6, 2006, at 4:39 PM, Aengys wrote: > Hi all, > > Being struck by article 7421 of the linux journal > (http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7421), I'll tried to give it a > go. > Mainly because I have done some experiments with Glade and found that > it is really easy to create good lookin

Re: ping

2006-04-14 Thread David Reed
On Apr 14, 2006, at 8:04 PM, david brochu jr wrote: > Thanks, > > Unfortunately substituting os.system with os.popen results in the > output being: > > ', mode 'r' at 0x009C4650> > ', mode 'r' at 0x009C4650> > ', mode 'r' at 0x009C4650> > ', mode 'r' at 0x009C4650> > > instead of giving me

Re: ping

2006-04-14 Thread David Reed
On Apr 14, 2006, at 6:30 PM, david brochu jr wrote: > I am trying to ping websites and output the results to a txt file: > > import os > > file = open("c:\python24\scripts\ip.txt") > redirect = open("c:\python24\scripts\log.txt","a") > > for x in file: > ping = "ping " + x > print >> redirect,

Re: how relevant is C today?

2006-04-08 Thread David Reed
On Apr 8, 2006, at 6:35 PM, Jorge Godoy wrote: > Mirco Wahab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> "The Dice" (find tech jobs) has offerings >> (last 7 days, U.S. + unrestricted) for: >> *SQL 14,322 >> C/C++11,968 >> Java 10,143 >> ... >> Perl 3,332 >> PHP 730 >>

Re: New editions of several Python books.

2006-02-09 Thread David Reed
On Feb 9, 2006, at 3:59 PM, James Stroud wrote: > Magnus Lycka wrote: >> Programming Python, 3rd edition >> by Mark Lutz (Paperback - July 2006) >> >> Never a favourite of mine really, but a popular book... > > This one is like broccoli. Its good for you but it doesn't have > much flavor. > --

pipe related question

2005-11-21 Thread David Reed
Is there any way to have one program run another arbitrary program with input from stdin and display the output as if you had run it in a shell (i.e., you'd see some of the output followed by the input they typed in and then a newline because they pressed return followed by subsequent outp