Re: Is their an expression to create a class?

2009-03-17 Thread Donald 'Paddy'; McCarthy
Chris Rebert wrote: On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Robert Kern wrote: On 2009-03-17 16:13, Paddy wrote: We the def statement and the lambda expression. We have the class statement, but is their an expression to create a class? Or: def F(): pass type(F) # Is to: F2 = lambda : none type(

Re: Question: How do I format printing in python

2008-06-25 Thread Donald 'Paddy'; McCarthy
Lie wrote: On Jun 24, 12:12 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, How do I format printed data in python? I could not find this in the Python Reference Manual:http://docs.python.org/ref/print.html Nor could I find it in Matloff's great tutorial:http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/Python/Pyt

Re: Python 2.5 adoption

2008-04-19 Thread Donald 'Paddy'; McCarthy
Joseph Turian wrote: > Basically, we're planning on releasing it as open-source, and don't > want to alienate a large percentage of potential users. Then develop for 2.5 with an eye on what is to come this year in 2.6 with regard to already planned deprecations. - Paddy. -- http://mail.python.o

pprint module and newer standard types

2008-04-17 Thread Donald 'Paddy'; McCarthy
Hi, When I try and use pprint on standard types I get varying 'quality of output'. Lists will wrap nicely to multiple lines as will dicts, but sets and defaultdicts give one long unreadable line. Is their a chance to get this changed so that more built-in types look pretty when printed with pprin

Re: alternating string replace: Extended input (Long).

2008-01-09 Thread Donald 'Paddy'; McCarthy
cesco wrote: I created some more test strings and ran posters solutions against them. results attached. - Paddy. # alternating_replacements.py tests = " 1 2_ 3_4 5_6_ 7_8_9 10_11_12_ 13_14_15_16 17_18_19_20_" \ " _ _21 _22_ _23_24 _25_26_ _27_28_29 _30_31_32_ _33_34_35_36" \ " __ _

Re: Is Python really a scripting language?

2007-12-12 Thread Donald 'Paddy'; McCarthy
Doug Morse wrote: > although perhaps not a part of the definition of scripting languages per se, > one aspect of them is that they are often used to "glue" a wide variety of > other components together. perl's initial and continued success is in no > small part to all the wrappers and interfaces i

Re: EuroPython vs PyconUK

2007-04-26 Thread Donald 'Paddy'; McCarthy
EuGeNe Van den Bulke wrote: > I do realize that the UK is not really part of Europe (no polemic :P) > but I am nevertheless curious about the logic behind creating another > major Python event in Europe. Wasn't EuroPython enough? > > Like many I am sure, I probably won't be able to attend both (

Re: Where did my post go?

2007-04-25 Thread Donald 'Paddy'; McCarthy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I posted to this newsgroup earlier about my annoyances with python and > now I can't find the post. What did you do with it? > I notice a gmail address. Google groups was not updated for over a day and is still 'behind'. Try another news reader. - Paddy -- http://mai

Re: Python not giving free memory back to the os get's me in real problems ...

2007-04-25 Thread Donald 'Paddy'; McCarthy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So I read quite a few things about this phenomenon in Python 2.4.x but > I can hardly believe that there is really no solution to my problem. > > We use a commercial tool that has a macro functionality. These macros > are written in python. So far nothing extraordinary.