Re: url filtering

Am Sun, 17 Dec 2006 20:14:32 +0100 schrieb vertigo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello > > I want to do some text analysis based on html documents grabbed from > internet. > Is there any library which could allow me easily getting text from > html documents > (cutting javascript, html tags and other n

Re: sha, PyCrypto, SHA-256

Am 16 Dec 2006 11:17:19 -0800 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Operating system: Win XP > Vsn of Python: 2.4 > > Situation is this: Required to calcluate a message digest. The > process for calcluating the digest must use an SHA-256 algorithm. > > Questions: > 1) Is it correct that the sha module c

Re: automatically grading small programming assignments

Am Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:27:07 -0500 schrieb Brian Blais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > > I have a couple of classes where I teach introductory programming > using Python. What I would love to have is for the students to go > through a lot of very small programs, to learn the basic programming >

Re: How to check for instances of a class

On 14 Nov 2006 11:00:53 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Traversing a list of variables, I need to check wheter an element in > the list is an instance of a (user defined) class. What cind of > comparison operator can I use? Can't seem to find this in the > documentation. I anyone have an example

Re: item access time: sets v. lists

e(1)):pass","") > >>> t2=timeit.Timer("for i in list(xrange(1)):pass","") > [...] You're measuring the time for creating the xrange and the set/list too. Create them before you call Timer() and repeat your timing. Dennis Benzinger -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

strftime replacement which supports Unicode format strings?

Is there a library with a strftime replacement which supports Unicode format strings? Bye, Dennis -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Newbie help - test for data type

Jonathan Bowlas wrote: > Hi Listers, > > I have a requirement to test for a data type could someone tell me if this > is possible in python? > > Basically I have a ZPT in Zope that users can select checkboxes in a form > which pass arguments for a python function, however if there is only one > c

Re: Client/Server Question

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is os.system() going to be deprecated in future ?.I read somewhere. > [...] Sometime in the future it will. But that won't happen soon. Read the second paragraph of "Backwards Compatibility" in the subprocess PEP . Dennis

Re: Client/Server Question

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My server.py looks like this > > -CODE-- > #!/usr/bin/env python > import socket > import sys > import os > > s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) > host = '' > port = 2000 > >

Re: Finding Return Code From GPG

Nomen Nescio wrote: > I'm running gpg in python to verify a signature. I can see that it is > working, because gpg is displaying the results. > > But I need a way to let the python script know this. According to the gpg > manual there is a return code from gpg of 0 if the verify is good and 1 if >

Re: change the size of front

aliassaf wrote: > hi, > I want to change the size of the front in a legend, i wrote this small > program and it got to me this message error!!! > > from pylab import * > plot([1,2,3],'r') > legend('this',prop = FontProperties('smaller') ) Try legend('this',prop = matplotlib.font_manager.FontPro

Re: Problem with sets and Unicode strings

Robert Kern wrote: > Dennis Benzinger wrote: >> Ok, I understand. >> But isn't it a (minor) problem that using a set like this: >> >> # -*- coding: UTF-8 -*- >> >> FIELDS_SET = set(("Fächer", )) >> >> print u"Fächer"

Re: Problem with sets and Unicode strings

Diez B. Roggisch wrote: >> But I'd say that it's not intuitive that for sets x in y can be false >> (without raising an exception!) while the doing the same with a tuple >> raises an exception. Where is this difference documented? > > 2.3.7 Set Types -- set, frozenset > > ... > > Set elements ar

Re: Problem with sets and Unicode strings

Robert Kern wrote: > Dennis Benzinger wrote: >> Serge Orlov wrote: >>> On 6/27/06, Dennis Benzinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> Hi! >>>> >>>> The following program in an UTF-8 encoded file: >>>> >>>> >>

Re: Problem with sets and Unicode strings

Serge Orlov wrote: > On 6/27/06, Dennis Benzinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Serge Orlov wrote: >> > On 6/27/06, Dennis Benzinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hi! >> >> >> >> The following program in an UTF-8 encoded

Re: Problem with sets and Unicode strings

Serge Orlov wrote: > On 6/27/06, Dennis Benzinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi! >> >> The following program in an UTF-8 encoded file: >> >> >> # -*- coding: UTF-8 -*- >> >> FIELDS = ("Fächer", ) >> FROZEN_FIELDS

Re: Python UTF-8 and codecs

Mike Currie wrote: > I'm trying to write out files that have utf-8 characters 0x85 and 0x08 in > them. Every configuration I try I get a UnicodeError: ascii codec can't > decode byte 0x85 in position 255: oridinal not in range(128) > > I've tried using the codecs.open('foo.txt', 'rU', 'utf-8',

Problem with sets and Unicode strings

Hi! The following program in an UTF-8 encoded file: # -*- coding: UTF-8 -*- FIELDS = ("Fächer", ) FROZEN_FIELDS = frozenset(FIELDS) FIELDS_SET = set(FIELDS) print u"Fächer" in FROZEN_FIELDS print u"Fächer" in FIELDS_SET print u"Fächer" in FIELDS gives this output False False Traceback (mos

Re: Python with Eclipse

Philippe Martin wrote: > Dennis Benzinger wrote: > >> Stan Cook wrote: >>> I've been trying to use Eclipse with Python on Linux for a while and >>> have noticed something odd. After running the code or debugging a few >>> times, its responsiveness ge

Re: Python with Eclipse

Stan Cook wrote: > I've been trying to use Eclipse with Python on Linux for a while and > have noticed something odd. After running the code or debugging a few > times, its responsiveness gets really bad. Upon checking the equivalent > of the task manager, I find several instances of Python ru

Re: tracking dependencies

Michele Simionato wrote: > I have a big framework (not written by me) with lots of internal > dependencies and I am > looking for a tool to see the dependency tree. I.e. given a module x, > it should show me all the modules imported by x, and the modules > imported > by them recursively. Standard l

Re: creating and naming objects

Brian wrote: > [...] > For example, lets say that I have a class that creates a student > object. > > Class Student: > def setName(self, name) > self.name = name > def setId(self, id) > self.id = id > > Then I instantiate that object in a method: > > def createStudent():

Re: How do I automatically redirect stdout and stderr when using os.popen2?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How do I automatically redirect stdout and stderr when using os.popen2 > to start a long running process. If the process prints a lot of stuff > to stdout it will eventually stop because it runs out of buffer space. > Once I start reading the stdout file returned by os.p

Re: in python , could I accomplish the purpose that "a=Console.read()" used in C?

python wrote: > in python , could I accomplish the purpose that "a=Console.read()" used > in C? > when program is running, I wanna add a statement like > "a=Console.read()" in C language,it will wait for user's input, after > user's typing a character , and click "enter" key, the program will go >

Re: Using pysqlite2

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is it possible to use this for sending triggers to a sqlite db?Could > someone provide me with an example of how to do this please? > Thanks Do you want to implement a trigger for a SQLite database in Python? That won't work. Triggers in SQLite can only contain UPDATE,

Re: Class probkem - getting msg that self not defined

wes weston schrieb: > Andrew Robert wrote: > >> wes weston wrote: >> >>> Andrew Robert wrote: >>> Hi Everyone, I am having a problem with a class and hope you can help. When I try to use the class listed below, I get the statement that self is not defined.

Re: escapes in regular expressions

James Thiele schrieb: > I was helping a guy at work with regular expressions and found > something I didn't expect: > > re.match('\d', '7').group() > > '7' '\d' is not recognized as a escape sequence by Python and therefore it is left unchanged in t

Re: File encoding strategy question

Andrew Robert schrieb: > Hi everyone, > > I am in the process of creating a file transmit/receiver program using > MQSeries. > > The way it works is through creation of an XML message. > > Elements within the XML message contain things such as file name, size, > and the file contents. > > The f

Update Demo/ and Tools/ directories

Hi! I'd like to help with updating the Demo/ and Tools/ directories as it is suggested in the Python Wiki . How exactly should the directories be updated? Should it just be made sure that the demos and examples are working or should they be updated to us

Outdated Python Info on www.unicode.org

ort in Python update this information? Thanks, Dennis Benzinger -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: apache mod_python problem

Ido Yehieli schrieb: > [...] > Anyone has any idea as to what went wrong? > [...] If you compiled mod_python as a Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) you have to tell Apache to load that module. For example like this: LoadModule python_module libexec/mod_python.so See the mod_python documentation, espe

Re: Most prominent Tkinter applications?

Kevin Walzer schrieb: > I'm looking for examples of "best practices" in Tkinter/Python > programming. What are the most prominent Python applications out there > that use Tkinter as the GUI toolkit? These can be commercial or > open-source, but are preferably multi-platform. > > I know IDLE is wri

Re: Strange behavior with os call in cgi script

sophie_newbie schrieb: > I have written a cgi script that seems to run perfectly from the > command line when I simulate some cgi input using > os.environ['QUERY_STRING']. > > The thing is that when I run it from the browser, one of my os.system > calls, which gets excecuted fine when running the

Re: Python and XML Schema

Trond wrote: > I have a need to, given a XML document with XML Schema defined, to get the > type of each element in the XML file based on the XML Schema URI given. IE, > the element is of simple datatype string. Is there any existing > Python libraries were I can parse the XML file, and for a g

Re: how to test for a dependency

Darren Dale schrieb: > Hello, > > I would like to test that latex is installed on a windows, mac or linux > machine. What is the best way to do this? This should work: > > if os.system('latex -v'): > print 'please install latex' > > but I dont actually want the latex version information to p

Re: How to get the type of an object?

Licheng Fang schrieb: > I wrote a function with a list as its parameter. And the function has > to perform different operations based on the datatypes of the elements. > How can I decide whether an object is, say, a list or a string? > > Thanks. > To check if an object is of a particular type us

Re: Which package to choose?

ankit schrieb: > Hi pupil, please let me know which package to choose for xml processing > in python . > Here are my requirements > > "I want a package which provides me schema support along with minidom > support. > According to my findings, "libxml2" provides schema support but it > needs either

SVG rendering with Python

Hi! Does anybody know of a SVG rendering library for Python? Bye, Dennis -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: to write set of values to a file from python

[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > [...] > its printing each character in a seperate row where as > i wanteach string in a seperate column? > > so how can i do that?? Any help for this. > [...] Could you post your code here? Or explain what you did exactly. Bye, Dennis -- http://mail.python.o

Re: set & random.choice question

[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > I want to do something like this: > > from random import choice > x = set(("jenny", "jacqui", "claire", "chris", "tracy")) > somebody = random.choice(x) > > but I bet a "TypeError: unindexable object" error. Any suggestions for > an elegant workaround? > > I'm

Re: Python newbie needs help

Ron Hudson schrieb: > [...] > I have a .py file with some def scripts(?) in it. def is the begining of a function definition. > [...] > I am using "Import" to read it after I start an interactive python. > What I need > right now is I seem to have some sort of scoping problems with the > wor

Re: to write set of values to a file from python

[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > hi everybody > > i want to write a set of values to a file from python. > For ex:: the fields name will "comp name", "ip addr", "mac addr" etc. > And below all these fields i ll have the values for these fields. > > it should look some what like this. > > comp name

Re: Newbie needs help with regex strings

Christopher Subich schrieb: > Paul McGuire wrote: > > [...] > For the example listed, pyparsing is even overkill; the OP should > probably use the csv module. But the OP wants to parse lines with key=value pairs, not simply lines with comma separated values. Using the csv module will just separa

Re: Newbie needs help with regex strings

Catalina Scott A Contr AFCA/EVEO schrieb: > I have a file with lines in the following format. > > pie=apple,quantity=1,cooked=yes,ingredients='sugar and cinnamon' > Pie=peach,quantity=2,ingredients='peaches,powdered sugar' > Pie=cherry,quantity=3,cooked=no,price=5,ingredients='cherries and sugar'

Re: How To Read Excel Files In Python?

Anand schrieb: > Hello, > > Can I get some help on how to read the excel files using python? > [...] Besides using the Excel component you could use the pyExcelerator module. You even don't need Windows for it. Bye, Dennis -- http://mail.python.

Python web publishing framework like Cocoon?

Hi! Is there a Python web publishing framework like Cocoon? I found Maki but it was last updated in 2003 and its author says that he doesn't want to make another release... Bye, Dennis -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: newbie question concerning formatted output

Thomas Liesner schrieb: > [...] > i am having some hard time to format the output of my small script. I am > opening a file which containes just a very long string of hexdata > seperated by spaces. Using split() i can split this string into single > words and print them on stdout. So far so good. B

Re: XMLSchema Parsing

km schrieb: > Hi all, > i'd like to know if there are any good XMLSchema (.xsd files) parsing modules > in python. > regards, > KM > Try lxml a pythonic binding for the libxml2 and libxslt libraries. Bye, Dennis -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-

Re: the first element in the list of list

Ben Bush schrieb: > I have a lis: > [[1,3],[3,4],[5,6],[8,9],[14,0],[15,8]] > I want a code to test when the difference between the first element in > the list of list is equal to or larger than 6, then move the previous > lists to the end of the list. that is: > [[14,0],[15,8],[1,3],[3,4],[5,6],[8

Re: searching for files on Windows with Python

Shane schrieb: > I've been giving Google a good workout with no luck. I would like to be able > to search a Windows filesystem for filenames, returning a list off absolute > paths to the found files, something like: > > def findFiles(filename, pathToSearch): > ... > ... > return f

Re: path module / class

[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > [...] > What is the status of the path module/class PEP? Did somebody start > writing one, or did it die? I didn't find one at the PEP index , so I assume that nobody wrote or submitted one. > I would really like to see something like > Ja

Re: parse data

py schrieb: > I have some data (in a string) such as > > person number 1 > > Name: bob > Age: 50 > > > person number 2 > > Name: jim > Age: 39 > > ...all that is stored in a string. I need to pull out the names of the > different people and put them in a list or something. Any > suggest

Re: any python module to calculate sin, cos, arctan?

Shi Mu schrieb: > any python module to calculate sin, cos, arctan? Yes. Use the math module or the cmath module if you need mathematical functions for complex numbers. Bye, Dennis -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Math markup in code documentation?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > Done any one have a way (and examples) of how to do math markups in the > docstrings of function and class definitions such that the equations > get typeset in the generated html documentation? I'll take any markup > system that'll do the job... MathML or LaTeX possibl

Documentation for iteration in mappings

Hi! I must be blind because I didn't find anything in the documentation which says iterating over an dictionary iterates over its keys. For example a_dictionary = {0: "zero", 1: "one"} for x in a: print x gives you 0 1 Where is this information hidden? :) Bye, Dennis -- http://mail.py

Re: command line argument passing

Hayri ERDENER schrieb: > hi to all, > is it possible in python to pass arguments by using command prompt in > windows 2000 and XP ? > for example: > sourceCode.py factorial 4 > gives me the factorial of 4 namely 24. > best regards import sys print sys.argv Or use the optparse module. Docs:

Re: Self-modifying Code

[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > [...] > Also Python can (writing and running a module, in-line): > > fNew =open("newModule.py",'w') > lNew=['print 123\n','print 454\n','print 789\n'] > fNew.writelines(lNew) > fNew.close() > from newModule import * > [...] You don't even need a file for this. Try: e

Re: RE Engine error with sub()

Maurice LING schrieb: Hi, I have the following codes: from __future__ import nested_scopes > [...] Are you still using Python 2.1? In every later version you don't need the "from __future__ import nested_scopes" line. So, if you are using Python 2.1 I strongly recommend upgrading to Python 2.4.1. [

Re: build flow? SCons? AAP? process creation?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: [...] So if I do wind up having to write this thing myself, I've been checking the docs on process creation, and have a couple questions if anyone can fill me in. It looks like the os.spawn* commands can start nonblocking sub-processes, but there doesn't seem to be a way

Re: Whats up with re module vs pre

pythonUser_07 wrote: > This is a very generic observation as I don't have a lot of specifics > with me right now. I have noticed over the past two years that the > python "re" module is somewhat unreliable. What do you mean with unreliable? Can you show an example where re does not work as expe

Re: Multiple initialization methods?

alex wrote: > Hi, > > it is possible to define multiple initialization methods so that the > method is used that fits? No, there is no overloading in Python. > I am thinking of something like this: > > def __init__(self, par1, par2): > self.init(par1, par2); > > def __init__(self, par1

Re: pyclbr

Fernando San MartÃn Woerner wrote: > Hi guys! > > i'm using pycblr to implement a class browser for my app, i got some > issues about it: > > i did: > > dict = pyclbr.readmodule(name, [dir] + sys.path) Don't use dict (or the name of any other built-in function) as an identifier! It shadows the

Downloadable python-dev archive February 2005 contains only one mail?

Hi! I just downloaded the archive of the python-dev mailing list for February 2005 from http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-February.txt.gz and there is only one mail in it. Did anyone have this problem, too? Bye, Dennis -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: MySQLdb - Tuples

Lajos Kuljo wrote: > Hallo, > ich bin voll neu im Python-Programming, deshalb ist mein Problem > wahrscheinlich trivial: > > Wenn ich die Script > #33 > #! /usr/bin/env python > import MySQLdb > db=MySQLdb.connect(host='localhost', db='photum_0_6_2', user='

Re: String Fomat Conversion

mcg wrote: > Investigating python day 1: > > Data in file: > x y > 1 2 > 3 4 > 5 6 > > > Want to read file into an array of pairs. > > in c: scanf("%d %d",&x,&y)---store x y in array, loop. > > How do I do this in python?? > In the actual application, the pairs are floating pt i.e. -1.

Re: string.atoi and string.atol broken?

Mike Moum wrote: > I think there may be a bug in string.atoi and string.atol. Here's some > output from idle. > > >>Python 2.3.4 (#2, Jan 5 2005, 08:24:51) >>[GCC 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-5)] on linux2 >>Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information. >> >>**

Re: module for 'po' files

Sara Fwd wrote: > Hi all > Is there a module for processing & handling '.po' > files in python? > [...] I don't know if there is a module for processing them, but Python comes with msgfmt.py (in Tools/i18n) which creates .mo files out of your .po files. So read the source and see if there's som

Re: Open Folder in Desktop

Kamilche wrote: > Is there a command you can execute in Python that will open a window on > the desktop, such as 'My Documents'? Kind of like 'system', but for > folder names, not just programs. I'm running on Windows 2000. > Here are some commands you can use (tested on WinXP, so YMMV): 1. The

Re: Newbie question - default values of a function

Bulba! wrote: > [...] > But why the following happens? > > def j(a,i=0): > > ... i=i+1 > ... return (a, i) > ... > j(2) > > (2, 1) > j(3) > > (3, 1) > j(5) > > (5, 1) > > > From Language Reference: > > http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.4/ref/function.html > > "Default

Re: pywhich script - where is that module?

Thomas Guettler wrote: > [...] > Nice, you could add it to the python cookbook. > [...] Just in the case the OP doesn't know where to find the cookbook: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: wxPython bug

Jive wrote: > [...] > What to do? Ask in comp.soft-sys.wxwindows -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: recombination variations

David Siedband wrote: > [...] > Is there a better way to do this? > [...] Take a look at Biopython: http://biopython.org/ Your problem may be solved there already. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list