Re: installing 2.6 on vista64

2009-07-23 Thread Jaime Fernandez del Rio
I have installed the 32 bit 2.6 and the 64 bit 3.1 on my machine running Vista 64 without any issues. Which of course has nothing to do with your problem On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 7:06 PM, DwBear75 wrote: > I just downloaded and attempted to install python 2.6.2.  The > installer proceeds to do

Re: Help with dictionaries and multidimensial lists

2009-06-23 Thread Jaime Fernandez del Rio
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Cameron Pulsford wrote: > Hey all, I have a dictionary that looks like this (small example version) > {(1, 2): 0} named a > > so I can do a[1,2] which returns 0. What I also have is a list of > coordinates into a 2 dimensional array that might look like this b = > [

Re: Measuring Fractal Dimension ?

2009-06-17 Thread Jaime Fernandez del Rio
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Mark Dickinson wrote: > Maybe James is thinking of the standard theorem > that says that if a sequence of continuous functions > on an interval converges uniformly then its limit > is continuous? Jaime was simply plain wrong... The example that always comes to mind

Re: Measuring Fractal Dimension ?

2009-06-16 Thread Jaime Fernandez del Rio
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 4:50 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message <7x63ew3uo9@ruckus.brouhaha.com>,  wrote: > >> Lawrence D'Oliveiro writes: >> >>> I don't think any countable set, even a countably-infinite set, can have >>> a fractal dimension. It's got to be uncountably infinite, and

Re: persistent composites

2009-06-14 Thread Jaime Fernandez del Rio
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Aaron Brady wrote: > > Before I go and flesh out the entire interfaces for the provided > types, does anyone have a use for it? A real-world application of persistent data structures can be found here: http://stevekrenzel.com/persistent-list Jaime -- (\__/) ( O

Re: List comprehension and string conversion with formatting

2009-06-09 Thread Jaime Fernandez del Rio
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 5:38 PM, stephen_b wrote: > I'd like to convert a list of floats to a list of strings constrained > to one .1f format. These don't work. Is there a better way? > > [".1f" % i for i in l] > or > [(".1f" % i) for i in l] There's a missing %, this does work... ["%.1f" % i for

Re: How do I sample randomly based on some probability(wightage)?

2009-05-26 Thread Jaime Fernandez del Rio
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Sumitava Mukherjee wrote: > On May 26, 11:39 pm, Sumitava Mukherjee wrote: > > [Oh, I forgot to mention. I am looking for sampling without replacement.] That means that, you'll have to code something that updates the sums of probabilities after each extractio

exec statement with/without prior compile...

2009-05-25 Thread Jaime Fernandez del Rio
These weekend I've been tearing down to pieces Michele Simionato's decorator module, that builds signature preserving decorators. At the heart of it all there is a dynamically generated function, which works something similar to this... ... src = """def function(a,b,c) :\nreturn _caller_(a

Re: Regarding sort()

2009-05-25 Thread Jaime Fernandez del Rio
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Chris Rebert wrote: > Erm, using a compare function rather than a key function slows down > sorting /significantly/. In fact, the `cmp` parameter to list.sort() > has been *removed* in Python 3.0 because of this. Makes a lot of sense, as you only have to run the

Re: Regarding sort()

2009-05-25 Thread Jaime Fernandez del Rio
Hi Dhananjay, Sort has several optional arguments, the function's signature is as follows: s.sort([cmp[, key[, reverse]]]) If you store your data as a list of lists, to sort by the third column you could do something like: data.sort(None, lambda x : x[2]) For more complex sortings, as the one

Re: Representing a Tree in Python

2009-05-15 Thread Jaime Fernandez del Rio
h... Jaime On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:49 AM, godshorse wrote: > On May 13, 3:19 pm, Jaime Fernandez del Rio > wrote: >> Dijkstra's algorithm computes shortest paths between a node and _ALL_ >> other nodes in the graph. It is usually stopped once computing the >> s

Re: Just wondering

2009-05-15 Thread Jaime Fernandez del Rio
> (1) building another throwaway list and > (2) function call overhead for calling doit() > > You can avoid (1) by using filter() instead of map() Are you sure of this? My python returns, when asked for help(filter) : Help on built-in function filter in module __builtin__: filter(...) filter

Re: Just wondering

2009-05-15 Thread Jaime Fernandez del Rio
map is creating a new list of 10,000,000 items, not modifying the values inside list a. That's probably where your time difference comes from... Jaime On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Gediminas Kregzde wrote: > Hello, > > I'm Vilnius college II degree student and last semester our teacher > intr

Re: Representing a Tree in Python

2009-05-13 Thread Jaime Fernandez del Rio
Dijkstra's algorithm computes shortest paths between a node and _ALL_ other nodes in the graph. It is usually stopped once computing the shortest path to the target node is done, but that's simply for efficiency, not a limitation of the algorithm. So you should be able to tweak the code you are usi

Re: putting date strings in order

2009-05-12 Thread Jaime Fernandez del Rio
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 5:02 PM, MRAB wrote: > John Machin wrote: >> >> MRAB mrabarnett.plus.com> writes: >>> >>> Sort the list, passing a function as the 'key' argument. The function >>> should return an integer for the month, eg 0 for 'jan', 1 for 'feb'. If >>> you want to have a different star

Re: putting date strings in order

2009-05-12 Thread Jaime Fernandez del Rio
If you simply want to generate an ordered list of months, start with it in order: dates = ["x_jan",...,"x_dec"] and if the desired starting month is start = 6 # i.e. x_jun dates = dates[start - 1:] + dates[:start - 1] If you have to sort the list itself, I would use an intermediate

Re: Sorting a dictionary

2009-05-12 Thread Jaime Fernandez del Rio
This one I think I know... Try with: for k in sorted(word_count) : print k,"=",word_count[k] You need to do the sorting before iterating over the keys... Jaime On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Ronn Ross wrote: > I'm attempting to sort for the results of a dictionary. I would like to > shor