Re: how to remove multiple occurrences of a string within a list?

2007-04-04 Thread Maël Benjamin Mettler
How about: list(frozenset(['0024', 'haha', '0024'])) [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > On Apr 4, 2:20 am, "bahoo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a list like ['0024', 'haha', '0024'] >> and as output I want ['haha'] >> >> If I >> myList.remove('0024') >> >> then only the first instance

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 3000 PEP: Postfix type declarations

2007-04-01 Thread Maël Benjamin Mettler
> Is this supposed to be a joke? First of April? Likely. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to delete PyGTK ComboBox entries?

2007-02-26 Thread Maël Benjamin Mettler
Hej! > > > > model = combo_box.get_model() > > combo_box.set_model(None) > > model.clear() > > for entry in desired_entries: > > model.append([entry]) > > combo_box.set_model(model) > > > > model.append is essentially the same as combo_box.append_text. Setting > > the model to None before makin

How to delete PyGTK ComboBox entries?

2007-02-26 Thread Maël Benjamin Mettler
Hello list! I need to repopulate PyGTK ComboBox on a regular basis. In order to do so I have to remove all the entries and then add the new ones. I tried to remove all entries like that: def clear_comboboxes(boxreference): try: while True: boxreference.remove_text(0) e

Re: c++ for python programmers

2007-02-12 Thread Maël Benjamin Mettler
SAMS "Teach yourself C in 21 days" by Bradley L. Jones and Peter Aitken Learning C++ is not worth is in my opinion, since you can get the OOP power from Python and use C if you need speed... Thomas Nelson schrieb: > I realize I'm approaching this backwards from the direction most > people go, but

Re: How to find all the same words in a text?

2007-02-11 Thread Maël Benjamin Mettler
In order to find all the words in a text, you need to tokenize it first. The rest is a matter of calling the count method on the list of tokenized words. For tokenization look here: http://nltk.sourceforge.net/lite/doc/en/words.html A little bit of warning: depending on what exactly you need to do,

Re: How to access an absolute address through Python?

2007-02-11 Thread Maël Benjamin Mettler
volcano schrieb: > Can it be done, and if yes - how? > Define address. Are you talking about URLs? File paths? Postal addresses? Memory addresses? Whatever addresses? I'm afraid the people on this list can't read your thoughts... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: postgres backup script and popen2

2007-02-08 Thread Maël Benjamin Mettler
Use pexpect: http://pexpect.sourceforge.net/ flupke schrieb: > Hi, > > i made a backup script to backup my postgres database. > Problem is that it prompts for a password. It thought i > could solve this by using popen2. > I tested popen2 with dir (i'm on windows 2000, python 2.4.3) > and it works

Re: Best Free and Open Source Python IDE

2007-02-08 Thread Maël Benjamin Mettler
Srikanth schrieb: > Yes, > > All I need is a good IDE, I can't find something like Eclipse (JDT). > Eclipse has a Python IDE plug-in but it's not that great. Please > recommend. > > Thanks, > Srikanth > http://www.serpia.org/spe http://www.die-offenbachs.de/detlev/eric.html -- http://mail.pyth

Re: (n)curses or tcl/tk?

2007-02-07 Thread Maël Benjamin Mettler
As far as I know Windows does not support ncurses natively (using CygWin probably changes that). So go with Tkinter. Looks crappy but at least it should run on all major platforms... > Hi All, > > Just learning Python - my first new language for about 18 years (I'm > not a programmer ...). I'm writ

Built-in datatypes speed

2007-02-07 Thread Maël Benjamin Mettler
Hello Python-List I hope somebody can help me with this. I spent some time googling for an answer, but due to the nature of the problem lots of unrelevant stuff shows up. Anyway, I reimplemented parts of TigerSearch ( http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/projekte/TIGER/TIGERSearch/ ) in Python. I am c