A sad day for the scientific Python community. John Hunter, creator of matplotlib: 1968-2012.

2012-08-29 Thread Fernando Perez
Dear friends and colleagues, I am terribly saddened to report that yesterday, August 28 2012 at 10am, John D. Hunter died from complications arising from cancer treatment at the University of Chicago hospital, after a brief but intense battle with this terrible illness. John is survived by his w

[ANN] IPython 0.13 is officially out!

2012-06-30 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi all, on behalf of the IPython development team, and just in time for the imminent Debian freeze and SciPy 2012, I'm thrilled to announce, after an intense 6 months of work, the official release of IPython 0.13. This version contains several major new features, as well as a large amount of bug

Re: Python education survey

2011-12-20 Thread Fernando Perez
On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:51:00 -0800, Raymond Hettinger wrote: > Do you use IDLE when teaching Python? If not, what is the tool of > choice? I'm obviously biased (I started IPython years ago), but I've done a lot of teaching and I still do like the combination of IPython plus an editor. Sometime

Re: IPython 0.12 is out!

2011-12-19 Thread Fernando Perez
On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 20:00:03 -0800, alex23 wrote: > You read the installation instructions and did a 'python setup.py > install' as it states, yes? > > Installed that way for Python 2.7.2 under Win64 with no issues > whatsoever. Glad to hear that. Obviously since I announced it here I'll try to

[ANN] IPython 0.12 is out!

2011-12-19 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi all, on behalf of the IPython development team, I'm thrilled to announce, after an intense 4 1/2 months of work, the official release of IPython 0.12. This is a very important release for IPython, for several reasons. First and foremost, we have a major new feature, our interactive web-based

[ANN] IPython 0.11 is officially out

2011-07-31 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi all, on behalf of the IPython development team, I'm thrilled to announce, after more than two years of development work, the official release of IPython 0.11. This release brings a long list of improvements and new features (along with hopefully few new bugs). We have completely refactored IP

Re: Strange behavior of __get__ in a descriptor in IPython

2007-11-07 Thread Fernando Perez
Jakub Hegenbart wrote: > Hi, > > I'm studying the descriptor protocol and its usage from the following > document: > > http://users.rcn.com/python/download/Descriptor.htm > > There is some sample code: > > http://users.rcn.com/python/download/Descriptor.htm#descriptor-example > > that behaves

Re: Confused about closures and scoping rules

2007-11-06 Thread Fernando Perez
Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > It's a FAQ. The reason is that the created closures don't capture the > _value_, but the _name_. Plus of course the locals()-dictionary outside > the function a to perform the lookup of that name. Which has the value > bound to it in the last iteration. > > Common cure

Confused about closures and scoping rules

2007-11-06 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi all, consider the following small example: """ Small test to try to understand a strange subtlety with closures """ def outer(nmax): aa = [] for n in range(nmax): def a(y): return (y,n) print 'Closure and cell id:',id(a.func_closure),\ id(a.

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-12 Thread Fernando Perez
Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > happy to hear that. > you may want take a loot at http://mdp.cti.depaul.edu/vqcd > It is mostly python stuff and will post the code soon. Ah, memories :) I'm not working on QCD anymore, but I did write a bunch of code a while back to script Mayavi (the old one, not the

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-12 Thread Fernando Perez
Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > P.S. Michele Simionato. I have heard your name before? Is it possible > we have met in Pisa in 1990-1996? I am also a Quantum Field Theorist > and there is not many of us. More than you think, it seems. Some of us were even using python to process Lattice QCD computati

Re: Any syntactic cleanup likely for Py3? And what about doc standards?

2007-09-10 Thread Fernando Perez
Ferenczi Viktor wrote: > Properties are very useful, since ordinary attribute access can be > transparently replaced with properties if the developer needs to add code > when it's set or needs to calculate it's value whenever it is read. > > As an additional benefit this could allow developers t

Re: Bug in execfile?

2007-08-02 Thread Fernando Perez
Ian Clark wrote: > Fernando Perez wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> (snip) >> >> I'm really, really puzzled by this. From reading the execfile() docs, I had >> the hunch to change the call to: >> >> execfile(fname,{}) >> >> and

Bug in execfile?

2007-08-02 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi all, I'm finding the following behavior truly puzzling, but before I post a bug report on the site, I'd rather be corrected if I'm just missing somethin obvious. Consider the following trivial script: # Simple script that imports something from the stdlib from math import sin, pi wav = lambd

Re: Plotting Images

2007-07-31 Thread Fernando Perez
Pei-Yu CHAO wrote: > Hi ALL: > > I have only been switched from matlab to python few > months ago. I having trouble of plotting images from a > matrix size of 8x1 (unfortunately that is the size > of my data.) > > for example, > x = rand(8,1) > inshow(x) > Read the docstrings, they

[ANN] IPython 0.8.0 is out

2007-04-10 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi all, The IPython team is happy to release version 0.8.0, with a lot of new enhancements, as well as many bug fixes. We hope you all enjoy it, and please report any problems as usual. WHAT is IPython? 1. An interactive shell superior to Python's default. IPython has many fea

Re: ipython env

2007-04-05 Thread Fernando Perez
Larry Bates wrote: > Greg Donald wrote: >> Anyone know what's up with environment variables when using ipython? [...] > In Cpython you get this with: > > import os > os.environ['EDITOR'] Yup, same in ipython :) Just to clarify, env is just a convenience function in ipython that simply does thi

Re: Rational numbers

2007-02-28 Thread Fernando Perez
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Feb 25, 3:09 pm, Fernando Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Alex, have you had a look at SAGE? >> >> http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ >> >> it uses GMP extensively, so they've had to patch it to work aroun

Re: Rational numbers

2007-02-25 Thread Fernando Perez
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > gmpy itself is or should be pretty trivial to build on any platform > (and I'll always happily accept any fixes that make it better on any > specific platform, since it's easy to make them conditional so they'll > apply to that platform only), but the underlying GMP is

Re: pylab, integral of sinc function

2007-02-22 Thread Fernando Perez
Schüle Daniel wrote: > Hello, > > In [19]: def simple_integral(func,a,b,dx = 0.001): > : return sum(map(lambda x:dx*x, func(arange(a,b,dx > : > > In [20]: simple_integral(sin, 0, 2*pi) > Out[20]: -7.5484213527594133e-08 > > ok, can be thought as zero > > In [21]: simple

Re: Maybe a little bug of ipython 0.7.3 ?

2007-01-08 Thread Fernando Perez
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm new to ipython, and i found it a very cool product. Glad you like it, though in the future I recommend you post on the ipython list. I very rarely scan c.l.py these days, unfortunately. > $ ipython > Python 2.5 (r25:51908, Sep 19 2006, 09:52:17) [MSC v.1310 32 bit

Re: Exploiting Dual Core's with Py_NewInterpreter's separated GIL ?

2006-11-08 Thread Fernando Perez
sturlamolden wrote: > Following up on my previous post, there is a simple Python MPI wrapper > that can be used to exploit multiple processors for scientific > computing. It only works for Numeric, but an adaptaion to NumPy should > be easy (there is only one small C file in the source): > > http

Re: switching to numpy and failing, a user story

2006-10-07 Thread Fernando Perez
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > After using numeric for almost ten years, I decided to attempt to > switch a large codebase (python and C++) to using numpy. Here's are > some comments about how that went. > > - The code to automatically switch python stuff over just kind of > works. But it was a 90% s

Re: Interact with system command prompt

2006-09-20 Thread Fernando Perez
billie wrote: > Uhm... It seems that IPython got some problems: > http://ipython.scipy.org/doc/manual/node12.html > > In details: > >>Note that this does not make IPython a full-fledged system shell. In >>particular, it has >no job control, so if you type Ctrl-Z (under Unix), >>you'll suspend py

Re: Scientific computing and data visualization.

2006-09-06 Thread Fernando Perez
Matteo wrote: > One hurdle to overcome is transferring array data from Numeric/Numpy > into VTK. I have a sort of ad-hoc method to do that (mainly for volume > data). If anyone knows of any elegant solution, or a module to ease the > pain, I'd like to hear about it. https://svn.enthought.com/enth

Re: unit testing failure makes no sense

2006-09-05 Thread Fernando Perez
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have some unit testing code in one of my modules that appears to > run without an error, but the unit test fails anyhow. Have a look at > the output below -- the TestResult seems to have no errors and no > failures, yet I get a system exit. unittest.main() ALWAYS rais

Re: Matplotlib eps export

2006-07-04 Thread Fernando Perez
Martin Manns wrote: > Hi, > > When I use matplotlib for a scatter plot with both dots and connecting > lines, the exported eps file is huge, if the distances between many points > are small. I think of this as a bug, since no preview tiff is included in > the generated eps and a variety of text p

IPython 0.7.2 is out.

2006-06-06 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi all, The IPython team is happy to release version 0.7.2, with a lot of new enhancements, as well as many bug fixes. We hope you all enjoy it, and please report any problems as usual. WHAT is IPython? 1. An interactive shell superior to Python's default. IPython has many fea

Re: Start a python interactive shell from python.

2006-01-26 Thread Fernando Perez
Bo Peng wrote: > > I think I find what I need: > > http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/355319 That's a nice, lightweight one. Note that if you want to have all the bells and whistles of ipython (and you have ipython already), then a simple if __name__ == '__namin__': f

[ANN] IPython 0.7.1 is out.

2006-01-23 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi all, I have released IPython 0.7.1, which is mainly a bugfix release over 0.7.0. As expected in that release, given the large changes made, some problems inevitably appeared. I believe all regressions and known bugs have been fixed, along with some useful new features. This release marks the

Re: OpenGL

2006-01-23 Thread Fernando Perez
Mike C. Fletcher wrote: > OpenGL-ctypes is designed with a fairly well abstracted array-handling > API. Basically any array type can be registered with handlers that let > you tell the system how to do basic operations; get an array's size, > shape, data-type, convert to a given data-format, bui

Re: how do "real" python programmers work?

2006-01-18 Thread Fernando Perez
bblais wrote: > Hello, > > Let me start by saying that I am coming from a background using Matlab > (or Octave), and C++. I am going to outline the basic nuts-and-bolts > of how I work in these languages, and ask for some help to find out how > the same thing is done in Python. I am not sure wh

Re: Getting better traceback info on exec and execfile - introspection?

2006-01-15 Thread Fernando Perez
R. Bernstein wrote: > Fernando Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> R. Bernstein wrote: > ... >> > However the frame information for exec or execfile looks like this: >> > File "", line 1, in ? >> >> That comes from how the code

Re: Getting better traceback info on exec and execfile - introspection?

2006-01-14 Thread Fernando Perez
R. Bernstein wrote: > In doing the extension to the python debugger which I have here: > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=61395&package_id=175827 > I came across one little thing that it would be nice to get done better. > > I notice on stack traces and tracebacks, an exec

Re: New Python.org website ?

2006-01-14 Thread Fernando Perez
Tim Chase wrote: >> http://beta.python.org > > In both Mozilla-suite (1.7) and FireFox (1.5), the links on the > left (the grey-backgrounded all-caps with the ">>" at the right) > all intrude into the body text. They're all the same length: Just as an FYI, I see the same problem under Linux, us

[ANN] IPython 0.7.0

2006-01-10 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi all, After a long hiatus (0.6.15 was out in June of 2005), I'm glad to announce the release of IPython 0.7.0, with lots of new features. WHAT is IPython? 1. An interactive shell superior to Python's default. IPython has many features for object introspection, system shell ac

Re: pdb.py - why is this debugger different from all other debuggers?

2006-01-09 Thread Fernando Perez
R. Bernstein wrote: > Fernando Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> suggests: >> You may want to try out ipython (the current release candidate from >> http://ipython.scipy.org/dist/testing/, which has many improvements on this >> front). The %pdb magic will trigger automat

Re: pdb.py - why is this debugger different from all other debuggers?

2006-01-05 Thread Fernando Perez
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I hope some of the other problems with it get > addressed some day: > - There is no way (I know of) to start a python script > from the command line with the debugger active; > I always have to modify the source to insert a > pdb.set_trace(). I would like somethi

Re: PYTHONDOCS

2005-12-31 Thread Fernando Perez
J. D. Leach wrote: > OK, I'm stupid. I have been unable to discern (even Googled) a way to set > the PYTHONDOCS variable to point to where the HTML files are. What to do? I > need to know the process and where theses variables are stored. It's an environment variable. In my case: PYTHONDOCS=/us

Re: Question about the 'code' module

2005-12-29 Thread Fernando Perez
Thomas Heller wrote: > I'm using the code module to implement an interactive interpreter > console in a GUI application, the interpreter running in a separate > thread. To provide clean shutdown of the application, I have to make > sure that objects used in the interpreter thread are deleted when

Re: need an example of Python numarray to C++ and back again, Boost / SWIG?

2005-11-10 Thread Fernando Perez
PL wrote: > I looked at Stefan's post - but he remarks that "Unfortunately, Blitz > jealously guards its data (restricted pointers), so that it is not so > easy to do the conversion in the other direction. If anyone knows an > answer to this problem, I'd be glad to hear it" > > I've previously l

Re: exceptions, internals (introspection?)

2005-11-10 Thread Fernando Perez
ej wrote: > I have often wondered how to get at other internals, such as the name of > the current function, file, line number I am in? The arguments to the > current function, etc. I browsed through the table of contents of both the > Library Reference & Language Reference. I see section 18

Re: Command-line tool able to take multiple commands at one time?

2005-11-10 Thread Fernando Perez
Peter A.Schott wrote: > Per subject - I realize I can copy/paste a line at a time into an interactive > session when I'm trying to debug, but was wondering if there is any tool out > there that allows me to copy sections of working Python scripts to paste into > my interactive console and let thos

Re: need an example of Python numarray to C++ and back again, Boost / SWIG?

2005-11-09 Thread Fernando Perez
PL wrote: > I want to pass a 2D array from Python to C++, manipulate it in C++ (for > example, add 1 to each element) and pass it back to Python. > > With these building blocks I will be able to figure out all the rest of > what I need to do for my project. I am very familiar with Python, but >

Re: Yes, this is a python question, and a serious one at that (moving to Win XP)

2005-10-14 Thread Fernando Perez
> Kenneth McDonald a écrit : >> For unfortunate reasons, I'm considering switching back to Win XP (from >> OS X) as my "main" system. Windows has so many annoyances that I can >> only compare it to driving in the Bay Area at rush hour (OS X is like >> driving in Portland at rush hour--not as bad

Re: array subset could be improved? -repost ;)

2005-10-14 Thread Fernando Perez
Jim O'D wrote: > Hi all > > I have an array a=array([2,3,-1]). > > I want to extract an array with all the elements of a that are less than 0. Numeric is currently changing into the new scipy core. If you are willing to play with beta code, get it here: http://numeric.scipy.org if not, wait

Re: working with VERY large 'float' and 'complex' types

2005-09-14 Thread Fernando Perez
Todd Steury wrote: > Greetings Python'ers: > > I'm just an amature who occasionally uses Python for complex mathematical > models. The current model I'm working with occasionally generates really > large numbers that are either "float" or "complex" types. These numbers are > so large that I eithe

Re: Detailed traceback

2005-09-13 Thread Fernando Perez
Echo wrote: > I have been working on handling unhanded exceptions and making a > detailed print out of the traceback after the exception. I found that > traceback.extract_tb worked nice and was quite simple. > > During my searching around I found out that it might be possible to > get the variabl

Re: Creating BibTex files with XdkBibTeX

2005-09-12 Thread Fernando Perez
Rob Cowie wrote: > I'm looking for a module that is able to create valid BibTex documents. > I'm currently using string substitution to create the content, but it > is not validated in any way. > > The only BibTex creation module available in Python (that I can find) > is XdkBibTeX > (http://arti

Re: job scheduling framework?

2005-09-08 Thread Fernando Perez
Larry Bates wrote: > Google turned up these links that might be of interest: > > http://www.foretec.com/python/workshops/1998-11/demosession/hoegl/ > http://www.webwareforpython.org/Webware/TaskKit/Docs/QuickStart.html > http://www.slac.stanford.edu/BFROOT/www/Computing/Distributed/Bookkeeping/SJ

Re: Precise timings ?

2005-08-30 Thread Fernando Perez
Madhusudan Singh wrote: > Madhusudan Singh wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I am using time.clock() to get the current time of the processor in >> seconds. For my application, I need really high resolution but currently >> seem to be limited to 0.01 second. Is there a way to specify the >> resolution (say 1

Re: Traceback Questions

2005-08-19 Thread Fernando Perez
ncf wrote: > I'm just beginning with tracebacks, building off of what I see in > asyncore's compact_traceback code, in order to hopefully store all the > values from the location in which the exception occured. > > I'm actually trying to make this into a python bug report system for my > current

Re: interpreter frame

2005-08-11 Thread Fernando Perez
Peter Hansen wrote: > Leo wrote: >> Good try, but that doesn't seem to work either. Maybe I should have >> emphasized that what I really want is the line of code, as opposed to >> the entire frame. > > Ah, it wasn't clear from your first post that you were specifically > interested in a line you

Re: Dabo in 30 seconds?

2005-08-03 Thread Fernando Perez
Paul McNett wrote: > I've done things like this in the past, in my own Visual Foxpro > framework. In that situation, I had enough control over the deployment > to also ship a small smtp client, and automatically email the error > without requiring any interaction at all. Clients were impressed whe

Re: Dabo in 30 seconds?

2005-08-02 Thread Fernando Perez
Paul McNett wrote: > Fernando Perez wrote: >> If you are interested, just get ipython and grab the files for this, it's >> all >> BSD licensed. You can also browse the SVN repo here if you want to look at >> the code: >> >> http://ipython.scipy.org/s

Re: Dabo in 30 seconds?

2005-08-02 Thread Fernando Perez
* Oops, IPython crashed. We do our best to make it stable, but... A crash report was automatically generated with the following information: - A verbatim copy of the traceback above this text. - A copy of your input history during this session. - Data on your current IPython configuration.

Re: A Module on Time & Date

2005-07-27 Thread Fernando Perez
Robert Maas, see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t wrote: >> From: Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> As you can see in the datetime documentation, the module was introduced >> in Python 2.3. I recommend updating your Python installation. > > What do you mean "your"?? I don't have any Python installation o

Re: PEP on path module for standard library

2005-07-21 Thread Fernando Perez
Peter Hansen wrote: > Michael Hoffman wrote: >> For the PEP, do any of you have arguments for or against including path? >> Code samples that are much easier or more difficult with this class >> would also be most helpful. > > I believe the strongest argument for "path" can be made for how it > i

Re: goto

2005-07-19 Thread Fernando Perez
Steven Bethard wrote: > Fernando Perez wrote: >> Steven Bethard wrote: >> >>>Download the goto module: >>> http://www.entrian.com/goto/ >>>And you can use goto to your heart's content. And to the horror of all >>>your friends/cowork

Re: goto

2005-07-18 Thread Fernando Perez
Steven Bethard wrote: > Hayri ERDENER wrote: >> what is the equivalent of C languages' goto statement in python? > > Download the goto module: > http://www.entrian.com/goto/ > And you can use goto to your heart's content. And to the horror of all > your friends/coworkers. ;) > > STeVe Tha

Re: PyX, matplotlib, 3D & LaTeX

2005-07-08 Thread Fernando Perez
Francisco Borges wrote: > I like PyX, use it a lot and would suggest it as a beter plotting > library than the ones at Scipy (for as long as you don't need on-screen > plotting). FWIW, the plotting support in scipy is essentially unmaintained and abandoned, since the advent of matplotlib. It has

Re: question about introspection using inspect module

2005-07-07 Thread Fernando Perez
Benjamin Rutt wrote: > Fernando Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I certainly don't want to discourage you from learning about python >> introspection, it's one of the most fun aspects of the language. But just >> as an FYI, the pydoc system alread

Re: question about introspection using inspect module

2005-07-07 Thread Fernando Perez
Benjamin Rutt wrote: > I'm trying to learn about introspection in Python. my ultimate goal > is to be able to build a module "text database" of all modules that > are in the sys.path, by discovering all candidate modules (I've > already done that), importing all of them, and then introspecting on

Re: whos -- a function listing objects

2005-06-17 Thread Fernando Perez
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > That is nice. I didn't know iPython can do whos. Will try it. > > iPython seems to infinitely configurable. Hope it will not suck too > much of my time into it. It is. It probably will. It did to me :) At least, I hope it will have been time well spent. Best, f

Re: whos -- a function listing objects

2005-06-17 Thread Fernando Perez
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have been a long time Matlab user. I Python, I miss Matlab's whos > command. you might want to look at ipython. whos, and a bit more come for free: planck[~]> ipython -pylab Python 2.3.4 (#1, Feb 2 2005, 12:11:53) Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more

Re: [Python-Dev] A bug in pyconfig.h under Linux?

2005-06-14 Thread Fernando Perez
Jeff Epler wrote: > [sent to python-list and poster] > > Did you follow the direction that Python.h be included before any system > header? > > This is mentioned at least in > http://docs.python.org/ext/simpleExample.html OK, I'll try to make it work this way. It's not totally trivial, b/c

Re: Writing func_closure?

2005-06-08 Thread Fernando Perez
Greg Ewing wrote: > As far as I know, there is currently no supported way > of directly creating or modifying cell objects from Python; > it can only be done by some obscure trickery. So the docs > are telling the truth here, in a way. :-) In a twisted, convoluted way :) But thanks for the clari

Re: computer algebra packages

2005-06-08 Thread Fernando Perez
Bill Mill wrote: > On 6/8/05, Fernando Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Rahul wrote: >> >> > >> > Hi. >> > The reason is simple enough. I plan to do some academic research >> > related to computer algebra for which i need some package

Re: Writing func_closure?

2005-06-08 Thread Fernando Perez
Michael Hoffman wrote: > Fernando Perez wrote: > > > I am trying to do a run-time modification of a function's closure, > > where I want to modify the value of one of the variables in the closure. > > Out of curiosity, why? Oh, I was just trying to play a lit

Re: computer algebra packages

2005-06-08 Thread Fernando Perez
Rahul wrote: > > Hi. > The reason is simple enough. I plan to do some academic research > related to computer algebra for which i need some package which i can > call as a library. Since i am not going to use the package > myself..(rather my program will)..it will be helpful to have a python > pa

Writing func_closure?

2005-06-08 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi all, by reading through the docs, the func_closure attribute of function objects is listed as writable. Yet, nowhere does it say _how_ to write to it. I am trying to do a run-time modification of a function's closure, where I want to modify the value of one of the variables in the closure. B

Re: PYSH? (was:Re: calling ksh script from python)

2005-06-02 Thread Fernando Perez
Paul McNett wrote: > Cameron Laird wrote: >> Infidel. While I sure feel that way about csh(1), it >> surprises me you'd criticize ksh(1) so. 'Fact, 'mong >> all the *sh-s, I *recommend* ksh for programming. May- >> be the two of us see things differently. > > I keep wondering how difficult it

Re: plotting with Python

2005-06-01 Thread Fernando Perez
Rolf Wester wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Python console application that is intended to be used > interactively and I have to add plotting capabilities (multiple XY plots > and if possible 2D-surface plots). I'm loocking for a reasonably fast > plotting library (not GPL'ed, needs not be for free) th

Re: Unhappy with numarray docs

2005-06-01 Thread Fernando Perez
Matt Feinstein wrote: > On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 08:11:36 -0700, Scott David Daniels > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Propose some fixes to the documents that will make this easier for >>the next one in line. You don't even need to get it exactly right; >>the person after you can fix the mistakes you

[ANN] IPython 0.6.14.

2005-05-30 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi all, I've just made the 0.6.14 release of IPython, mostly to fix the inevitable bugs reported after the .13 one (though one big improvement sneaked by). IPython's homepage is at: http://ipython.scipy.org and downloads are at: http://ipython.scipy.org/dist I've provided RPMs (for Python 2.3

Re: Python Graphing Utilities.

2005-05-11 Thread Fernando Perez
Torsten Bronger wrote: > HallÃchen! > > Fernando Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> [...] >> >> Well, it's true that the latex-type (called mathtext) support in >> matplotlib is not really up to par with true latex (kerning is off >> in p

Re: Python Graphing Utilities.

2005-05-11 Thread Fernando Perez
Torsten Bronger wrote: > HallÃchen! > > Fernando Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> [...] >> >> And I'd also second the matplotlib suggestion, to which I've by >> now fully switched after years of faithful gnuplot usage. >> Matplot

Re: Python Graphing Utilities.

2005-05-10 Thread Fernando Perez
Bill Mill wrote: > On 5/10/05, Kenneth Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello All, >> >> I am new to Python and i was wondering what graphing utlities would be >> available to me. I have already tried BLT and after weeks of unsuccesful >> installs i'd like to find something else. Anything

Re: Listing of declared variables and functions

2005-05-10 Thread Fernando Perez
ohms377 wrote: > Dear python users, > > In interactive mode, I was wondering if there is a way to list all > declared variables and functions (and from global workspace). In [1]: def foo(): pass ...: In [2]: x=1 In [3]: a='hello' In [4]: import re In [5]: whos Variable TypeData/

[ANN] IPython 0.6.13 is out.

2005-04-14 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi all, I'm glad to announce the release of IPython 0.6.13. IPython's homepage is at: http://ipython.scipy.org and downloads are at: http://ipython.scipy.org/dist I've provided RPMs (for Python 2.3 and 2.4, built under Fedora Core 3), plus source downloads (.tar.gz). Fedora users should note

Re: IPython - problem with using US international keyboard input scheme on W2K

2005-04-12 Thread Fernando Perez
Michele Simionato wrote: > Me too :-( > I have already submitted my issues with the Italian keyboard > on WinXP with no great success. It works on Linux, but this > is not of a big help since my plan was to use ipython -p pysh on > Windows as a replacement of the shell :-( Bummer. I wonder, if t

Re: IPython - problem with using US international keyboard input scheme on W2K

2005-04-12 Thread Fernando Perez
Claudio Grondi wrote: > Considering what I found in the ipython mailing archives > and the fact, that after the fix with displaying colors on > bright backgrounds Gary had no time yet to get in touch > with me about the code I have sent him, I suppose, that > there will be no new releases addressi

Re: Gnuplot.py and, _by far_, the weirdest thing I've ever seen on my computer

2005-04-05 Thread Fernando Perez
syd wrote: > Thanks for all the help, guys! > Fernando, that's a creative solution, I'll try it as well... > while 1: > if os.path.isfile(your_plot_filename): > break > time.sleep(1) More like a desperate brute force one, but it gets the job done :) You mentioned having ipython, so you

Re: Gnuplot.py and, _by far_, the weirdest thing I've ever seen on my computer

2005-04-05 Thread Fernando Perez
syd wrote: > I don't even know where to begin. This is just bizarre. I just picked > up the Gnuplot.py module (a light interface to gnuplot commands) and > was messing around with it today. > > I've got a tiny script, but it only works from the command line about > half the time! In the python

Re: computing a weighted sum

2005-03-16 Thread Fernando Perez
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Suppose I have a list of n floats x and a list of n floats w and I want > to compute x[0]*w[0] + .. + x[n-1]*w[n-1]. > > Is there some elegant expression (perhaps using lambda) to have it done > in one statement ? As in : > y = lambda x,w : ... > > I ask because t

[ANN] IPython 0.6.12 is out.

2005-03-02 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi all, I'm glad to announce the release of IPython 0.6.12. This is mainly a bugfix release. IPython's homepage is at: http://ipython.scipy.org and downloads are at: http://ipython.scipy.org/dist I've provided RPMs (for Python 2.3 and 2.4, built under Fedora Core 3), plus source downloads (.

Re: recommended way of generating HTML from Python

2005-02-20 Thread Fernando Perez
Michele Simionato wrote: > What is the recommended way of generating HTML from Python? I know of > HTMLGen and of > few recipes in the Cookbook, but is there something which is more or > less standard? I'm also an htmlgen user, but it's getting a bit long in the tooth, and the installation is not

Re: huge help for interactive python

2005-02-16 Thread Fernando Perez
David S. wrote: > If you are using ipython on Windows then you will > have made sure you have Gary Bishop's readline > library as instructed in the ipython install > directions found at: > http://ipython.scipy.org/ [...] Thanks, very handy. I just reposted your message to the ipyhton-users list

Re: [ANN] IPython 0.6.11 is out.

2005-02-16 Thread Fernando Perez
Ville Vainio wrote: > Warning - if you are upgrading and have an old pysh.py dangling around > in $HOME/.ipython, be sure to delete it. The old version is > incompatible with the new ipython. Just to clarify: you need to delete ONLY the old pysh.py, not your entire $HOME/.ipython/ directory. Y

[ANN] IPython 0.6.11 is out.

2005-02-15 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi all, I'm glad to announce the release of IPython 0.6.11. IPython's homepage is at: http://ipython.scipy.org and downloads are at: http://ipython.scipy.org/dist I've provided RPMs (for Python 2.3 and 2.4, built under Fedora Core 3), plus source downloads (.tar.gz). We now also have a nativ

Re: graphing

2005-02-14 Thread Fernando Perez
Jan Rienyer Gadil wrote: > i'm currently using python 2.3(enthought edition) on win 2000/xp. > i'm using boa constructor on the GUI part and matplotlib 0.71 on > plotting the graph. You should post this on the matplotlib list directly, where your chances of a reply are much better. I use matplot

Re: Hack with os.walk()

2005-02-12 Thread Fernando Perez
Robert Kern wrote: > Fernando Perez wrote: > >> Perhaps this path.py could be considered for inclusion in the stdlib? I've >> only >> read the page linked above, so perhaps it can use some polishing. But it >> certainly looks like a big improvement over the

Re: Hack with os.walk()

2005-02-12 Thread Fernando Perez
Michael Spencer wrote: > The path module by Jorendorff: http://www.jorendorff.com/articles/python/path/ > > wraps various os functions into an interface that can make this sort of thing > cleaner Wow, many thanks for the pointer. This has to be one of the single most useful small python modules

Re: IDLE history, Python IDE, and Interactive Python with Vim

2005-02-07 Thread Fernando Perez
Ashot wrote: > Sorry, a few more things I forgot to mention having to do with editing > multiline entries in the console: > > Autotab setting doesn't seem to have any effect, I have to type "ctrl-o" > manually I've noticed it doesn't work under win32. It's fine under *nix. There's only so much

Re: IDLE history, Python IDE, and Interactive Python with Vim

2005-02-07 Thread Fernando Perez
Ashot wrote: > yup, this is why I've been using it, its (almost exactly :) what I was looking > for. I had tried it before, but was reluctant to use it because the windows > terminal is not very appealing. Some things I've noticed so far that I think > could be improved, some of which are minor b

Re: IPython colors in windows

2005-02-06 Thread Fernando Perez
Claudio Grondi wrote: > Hi, > > I have just updated previously announced > and uploaded to > http://people.freenet.de/AiTI-IT/Python/Console.py > version > of Console.py because I was not satisfied with > it (it didn't support arbitrary ANSI escape > sequences for setting text colors ...) I'd s

Re: empty classes as c structs?

2005-02-06 Thread Fernando Perez
Steven Bethard wrote: > The complications with attribute hiding is one of main reasons I've > tried to minimize the number of methods associated with Bunch... in order for bunches to be fully useful in general, open contexts, I think that number of methods should be exactly zero (at least without

Re: IPython colors in windows

2005-02-06 Thread Fernando Perez
Claudio Grondi wrote: > It works for me as it is now, so probably it is better to wait for the > next release of IPython with a cleaner implementation of color > schemes before further efforts towards support for choosing > of background colors for each colorized text output in IPython > via exten

Re: IDLE history, Python IDE, and Interactive Python with Vim

2005-02-05 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi, Ashot wrote: > This is sort of both Python and Vim related (which is why I've posted to > both newsgroups). [...] I know you've been using ipython recently (the readline color bugs), so perhaps my reply is a bit redundant. Forgive me if that's the case, I just want to give you some useful

Re: IPython colors in windows

2005-02-04 Thread Fernando Perez
Ashot wrote: > whoa, that was quick, looks like it works for me. Thanks a lot! > It would be nice to be able to set the colors in the prefs file, although > its possible to edit the pyColorize file as Claudio mentioned. Yes, I haven't implemented user-definable color schemes. Not impossible, bu

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