Re: ANN: Sydebar 1.0 - A browser sidebar generator for Python documentation

2008-06-04 Thread Max M
This looks great. I have been missing my chm based docs since moving to Python. This goes a long way. -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Handling some isolated iso-8859-1 characters

2008-06-04 Thread Max M
t.com/2008/03/python-unicode-lessons-from-school-of.html -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: New chairman

2008-05-27 Thread Max M
/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Literate programs in Python

2008-05-13 Thread Max M
xample.html -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Mathematics in Python are not correct

2008-05-11 Thread Max M
ut Python being broken. You will probably get better responses if you just state that there are things you do not understand, and ask why it works that way. -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Am I missing something with Python not having interfaces?

2008-05-06 Thread Max M
ace. Just use: "easy_install zope.interface" And you have interfaces. -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python MIDI in 2008

2008-05-06 Thread Max M
it on Windows and I found it to be a bore to get real time midi working. It would probably be easier now that I am on Linux. Well I just thought I would mention that it is not dead. Merely middle aged. -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science -- http://ma

Re: Real Time Midi File Playback - Reading and Writing midi at the same time

2008-05-04 Thread Max M
Perhaps csound can help with this. It has a lot of midi, realtime and python stuff. -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: tool to calculate color combination

2008-05-01 Thread Max M
0, 0, 0, 33, 249, 4, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 44, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 2, 2, 68, 1, 0, 59] if not transparent: template[13:16] = self.bytes() # set rgb values template[22] = 0 # remove transparency return ''.join(map(chr, template)) if __name__==&#

Re: Given a string - execute a function by the same name

2008-04-29 Thread Max M
note: What you will be doing is a variation of the factory pattern. So this search might give you some new ideas: http://www.google.dk/search?hl=en&q=python+factory+pattern -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Given a string - execute a function by the same name

2008-04-28 Thread Max M
e dict of functions is a bit safer. You don't risk calling a built in method on your object . Which you risk doing with something like: getattr(obj, 'join') -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Little novice program written in Python

2008-04-25 Thread Max M
e c family of languages where there is a lot more algorithms due to the low level coding. Memory handling, list, dicts etc. qickly becomes more like math algorithms than in Python. -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Little novice program written in Python

2008-04-25 Thread Max M
a feel for the language. -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-22 Thread Max M
mply gone quiet. -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: expanding a variable to a dict

2008-04-09 Thread Max M
John Machin skrev: > On Apr 4, 9:44 am, Max M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ummm ... excessive apostrophes plus bonus gross syntax error, dood. > Did you try running any of these snippets??? No I just wanted to quickly show different ways to do it. The dicts in the original

Re: expanding a variable to a dict

2008-04-03 Thread Max M
/usr/src' for a in ['dictFoo','dictBar','dictFrotz']: if not 'srcdir' in a: a['srcdir'] = '/usr/src' for a in ['dictFoo','dictBar','dictFrotz']: a.setdefault('srcdir') = '/usr/src' -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: speeding things up with C++

2007-06-01 Thread Max M
oured with python and had > better develop an arsenal of tricks for the rare times when it's just > not fast enough. A dash of c combined integrated via ctypes is probably the easiest solution? -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science -- http:/

Re: Xml parser

2007-05-25 Thread Max M
ashish skrev: > Hi All, > > I want to know weather is there any api available in python for parsing > xml(XML parser) I have had very good succes with lxml -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Basic question

2007-05-14 Thread Max M
ns: [53.0, 20.0, 4.0, 2.0] The lambda is not needed there, as float is a callable. map(float, str.split(',')) -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Cgi File Upload without Form

2007-04-28 Thread Max M
lieve that would be more difficult than necessary. The client > program I have to use does not support FTP. Try out urllib2 -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Parsing HTML/XML documents

2007-04-26 Thread Max M
at all. Just inefficient xpath expressions. That is pretty good in my book. -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Email attachments

2007-01-24 Thread Max M
sages just because the sentbox isn't set correctly pass # # returns a portal status message if REQUEST: if success: message = 'Succes! The message was sent ' else: message = 'Error! The message could not be sent' REQUEST.RESPONSE.redirect(self.absolute_url() + '/mxmImapClient_compose?portal_status_message=%s' % message) -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Is there a way to push data into Ical from Python ?

2006-12-18 Thread Max M
ttp://www.google.dk/search?q=python+icalendar -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Ensure a variable is divisible by 4

2006-12-05 Thread Max M
; >>> x = 111 >>> x = (x /4) * 4 X *= 4 ;-) -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Email headers and non-ASCII characters

2006-11-24 Thread Max M
Christoph Haas skrev: > On Thursday 23 November 2006 16:31, Max M wrote: >> Christoph Haas skrev: >>> Hello, everyone... >>> >>> I'm trying to send an email to people with non-ASCII characters in >>> their names. A recpient's address

Re: Email headers and non-ASCII characters

2006-11-23 Thread Max M
irst string Why offcourse? But it seems that you are passing the Header object a utf-8 encoded string, not a latin-1 encoded. You are telling the header the encoding. Not asking it to encode. -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: OT: Sarcasm and irony

2006-10-10 Thread Max M
as such and not as sarcasm. -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: OT: Sarcasm and irony

2006-10-10 Thread Max M
"yes, that's what it means" Are you an american? Irony does mean that one says the opposite of what one really means. If you do it for humor its irony, if you do it for mocking it is sarcasm. So now I see... americans really *do* understand irony. -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Memory Management in python 2.5

2006-10-09 Thread Max M
could reuse it again later. From 2.5 onwards it should release most of the unused memory. However it doesn't use less memory. The peak memory usage should be the same as before. So for one-off programs that starts up and runs once, there should not be much gain. -- hilsen/re

Re: Making posts to an ASP.NET webform.

2006-10-02 Thread Max M
Bernard skrev: > Has anyone tried what I'm doing? and if you tried how have you > succeeded getting the data back after the post action? Most likely you get assigned a cookie that you then need to return. Try the cookielib which automates all this for you. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/list

Re: builtin regular expressions?

2006-10-01 Thread Max M
rrently /underrated/ in the Python community. Or, > I suspect, everybody disrespects them in public but secretly use them when > they're hacking ;-) When I used to program in Perl I used regex' for lots of stuff. In python I probably use them once every half year.

Re: A critique of cgi.escape

2006-09-26 Thread Max M
Lawrence D'Oliveiro skrev: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gabriel G > wrote: > >> At Monday 25/9/2006 11:08, Jon Ribbens wrote: >> > What precisely do you think it would "break"? existing code, and existing tests. >>> I'm sorry, that's not good enough. How, precisely, would it break >>

Re: does anybody earn a living programming in python?

2006-09-25 Thread Max M
walterbyrd skrev: > If so, I doubt there are many. > > I wonder why that is? Because you are ignorant? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: A critique of cgi.escape

2006-09-25 Thread Max M
content = f.read() f.close() return '"%s"' % someword in content: You might think that it is stupid code that should be changed to take escaped quotes into account. But that is really not your bussines to decide if the other behaviour is documented and correct.

Re: A critique of cgi.escape

2006-09-25 Thread Max M
stuff. If you cannot think of other examples for yourself where your change would introduce breakage, you are certainly not an experienced enough programmer to suggest changes in the standard lib! Max M -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: A critique of cgi.escape

2006-09-25 Thread Max M
pper and use that instead. my_escape = lambda st: cgi.escape(st, 1) So. Lawrence is happy, and the escape works as expected. Several man years has been saved. Max M -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Problems with email.Generator.Generator

2006-09-12 Thread Max M
Chris Withers wrote: > Max M wrote: >> From the docs: >> >> """ >> The payload is either a string in the case of simple message objects >> or a list of Message objects for MIME container documents (e.g. >> multipart/* and message/rfc822) &g

Re: Problems with email.Generator.Generator

2006-09-12 Thread Max M
possible to use a unicode string as a message. The charset passed in set_payload(pl ,charset) is the charset the the string *is* encoded in. Not the charset it *should* be encoded in. -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science Phone: +45 66 11 84 94 Mobile: +45 29 93 42 96 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: sending emails using python

2006-09-07 Thread Max M
can lead you into so many traps. Especially if you are using international characters in you messages. -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science Phone: +45 66 11 84 94 Mobile: +45 29 93 42 96 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: The lib email parse problem...

2006-08-29 Thread Max M
叮叮当当 wrote: > this is not enough. > > when a part is mulitpart/alternative, i must find out which sub part i > need, not all the subparts. so i must know when the alternative is > ended. Have you tried the email module at all? -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.m

Re: Two Classes In Two Files

2006-08-09 Thread Max M
__name__ == "__main__": > x = Two() > x.methodA() > x.methodB() > > When I run the Two.py file, I get the expected output but I'd like to > eliminate the from line in two.py. > -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science Phone: +45 66 11 84 94 Mobile: +45 29 93 42 96 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: A game idea.

2006-06-27 Thread Max M
ill have to do it yourself. I am not trying to be negative, but I will bet you that every competent programmer on the list has 1+ project that she would love to do, if she just had the time. -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science Phone: +45 66 11 84 94 M

Re: Python is fun (useless social thread) ;-)

2006-06-20 Thread Max M
bruno at modulix wrote: > Max M wrote: >> bruno at modulix wrote: >> >>>> Or did you just like what you saw and decided to learn it for fun? >>> >>> Well, I haven't be really impressed the first time - note that it was at >>> the very e

Re: Python is fun (useless social thread) ;-)

2006-06-19 Thread Max M
ifferent in use than current version. -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science Phone: +45 66 11 84 94 Mobile: +45 29 93 42 96 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Variable name has a typo, but code still works. Why?

2006-05-31 Thread Max M
spelled > in the singular (session). > > Is there some type of name resolution of local variables where Python > makes assumptions? No. You are probably running your script in an ide that keeps an old variable hanging around. Try it from a command promt. -- hilsen/regards Max M,

Re: Best Python Editor

2006-05-31 Thread Max M
Manoj Kumar P wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone tell me a good python editor/IDE? > It would be great if you can provide the download link also. pydev on top of eclipse is a nice tool. -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science Phone: +45 66 11 84 94

Re: John Bokma harassment

2006-05-30 Thread Max M
ke you should be spending time on MySpace OMG!. I assume that the single l in alright is the courteous misspelling that should allways be in a posting, when correcting other peoples speling? -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science Phone: +45 66 11 84 94 Mo

Re: send an email with picture/rich text format in the body

2006-05-29 Thread Max M
Scott David Daniels wrote: > Max M wrote: > >> 90% of users are non-technical users who use standard email readers, >> that can easily read html messages. >> >> In my experience the kind of user that receives emails with html and >> pictures often prefer i

Re: send an email with picture/rich text format in the body

2006-05-29 Thread Max M
y read html messages. In my experience the kind of user that receives emails with html and pictures often prefer it that way. So why bother with the lecture? I cannot remember when I have last received a relevant email that I could not read in text mode. -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://w

Re: datetime: the date of the day one month ago...how?

2006-04-12 Thread Max M
lly don't want to calculate it by myself :-)) It is application specific. So how *do* you want one-month-ago(31.mar.2006) or one-month-ago(28.feb.2006) to work? No one can know but you. -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science Phone: +45 66 11 84 94 Mobile: +45 29 93 42 96 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Difference between 'is' and '=='

2006-03-29 Thread Max M
unction: def somefunc(val=None): if val is None: val = [] do_stuff(val) Or if None is a possible parameter you can use your own object as a marker:: _marker = [] def somefunc(val=_marker): if val is marker: val = [] do_stuff(val) -- hilsen/regards M

Re: Difference between 'is' and '=='

2006-03-27 Thread Max M
t;> 100+1 is 101 False They don't have the same id. (Think of id as memory adresses.) -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science Phone: +45 66 11 84 94 Mobile: +45 29 93 42 96 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: doctest, unittest, or if __name__='__main__'

2006-03-22 Thread Max M
ey combine two brilliant ideas that are hard to do in practice. "Testing" and "Literate Programming" In the process it even manages to make both a lot easier. -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science Phone: +45 66 11 84 94 Mobile: +45 29 93 42 96 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Markov process representation

2006-03-16 Thread Max M
2003, 00:49:11) >> >>generator comprehensions are new in 2.4. Try: >> >> self._all_states |= set([key[i] for key in probabilities]) > > > And sets aren't a builtin in 2.3 > > try: > set() > except NameError: > import sets > set = set

Re: MS word document generator

2006-03-15 Thread Max M
Raja Raman Sundararajan wrote: > I was wondering if there was any library as reportlab to generate word > documents. If you are on Windows, why dont you use word for it? You can call it from Python. -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science Phone: +

Re: Cheese Shop: some history for the new-comers

2006-03-13 Thread Max M
es are bad in programming, whay are they good in general communication. "Python Packages" is too obvious perhaps? When we start using eggs will it then be renamed to "Dairy Shop" or perhaps "Daisy" to make it obscure? Or the "Chickens Nest"? Please. If it is

Re: Hashtables in pyhton ...

2006-03-09 Thread Max M
;key2'] = 'value 2' >>> a_hash_is_a_dict['key'] 'value' -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science Phone: +45 66 11 84 94 Mobile: +45 29 93 42 96 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PyCon2006 - will the content be available for download?

2006-03-08 Thread Max M
John Salerno wrote: > Max M wrote: > >> abcd wrote: >> >>> well actually, the site looked promising...only problem is no talks >>> have audio, video or handouts available (at least right now). >>> >>> oh well. >>> >> >&

Re: PyCon2006 - will the content be available for download?

2006-03-08 Thread Max M
lkFlags - audio-yes): http://us.pycon.org/zope/talks/talksRoster?year%3Alist=&day%3Alist=&track%3Alist=&title=&authors=&abstract=&flags%3Alist=audio-yes&order=Sequence Then most presentations with audio has several audio formats you can download. -- hilsen/regards

Re: PyCon2006 - will the content be available for download?

2006-03-08 Thread Max M
udioVideoRecording/HomePage -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Simple questions on use of objects (probably faq)

2006-03-08 Thread Max M
ame I think. Testing should tell you which is faster in your case. -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Simple questions on use of objects (probably faq)

2006-03-08 Thread Max M
It is hard to tell what you are trying to do here. But here is a shot at parts of the code. class Foo: def __init__(self, x): self.x = x y = [Foo(10.0), Foo(110.0), Foo(60.0)] x_values = [o.x for o in y] y_max = max(x_values) y_min = min(x_values) Otherwise you could try and describ

Re: New python.org website

2006-03-08 Thread Max M
Comparing: http://www.python.org/ http://www.perl.org/ http://www.java.org/ http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ http://java.sun.com/ http://www.php.net/ It is pretty easy to see that http://www.python.org/ is both prettier than the rest, and has a far better structure. -- hilsen/regards Max M

Re: New python.org website

2006-03-08 Thread Max M
projecktzero wrote: > I think the new site is great. I really don't understand all the nit > picking that's going on from the armchair web designers. It's a nice site. It is not ugly, and its easy to navigate. *much* better than the old site, -- hilsen/regards

Re: groupwise send mail

2006-02-25 Thread Max M
thon to be called > oMail.send() > gwApp.quit() Otherwise you are just adressing the objects eg. this is perfectly ok: send = oMail.send send() or q = gwApp.quit q() -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Zope 3?? How do you start it on Windows?

2006-02-21 Thread Max M
py Make a Zope instance with Python24\Scripts\mkzopeinstance.bat Start that instance by running /bin/runzope.bat -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Webmail with Python

2006-02-06 Thread Max M
iler written > in python? This also requires Plone, so it might be a bit heavyweight for your needs: http://www.mxm.dk/products/public/mxmImapClient/ -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

python success story

2006-01-29 Thread Max M. Stalnaker
I urged a friend from Boeing to use python on a personal project. He liked it and repeatedly urged a Boeing developer to use it. Python is on the list of approved languages at Boeing. The developer wrote a thousand line enterprise level program in Python. He reports that it would have take t

Re: Microsoft IronPython?

2006-01-06 Thread Max M
lanuage and make an incompatible version that they could control. As far as I can see C## has that role for them. So I don't see how Python should be in any danger. -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Are there anybody using python as the script engine for ASP?

2006-01-05 Thread Max M
nPython would be worth trying out, though a bit premature. -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: MidiToText : EventDispatcher instance has no attribute 'sysex_events'

2006-01-01 Thread Max M
Try changing "def sysex_event(self, data):" in > ...\midi\EventDispatcher.py to "def sysex_events(self, data):" Or just do a search and replace on the whole package:: search: sysex_events( replace: sysex_event( Apparently I have been inconsistent in my naming. New version at: http://www.mxm.dk/products/public/pythonmidi/download -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Midi Package: writing events non-chronologically

2005-11-24 Thread Max M
structure is then is complete, you use the midi library to write it to disk. I have attached a simple example here. -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science # event classes. Only used internally by notes2midi class NoteOn: def __init__(self, time=0, pit

Re: append to non-existing list

2005-11-09 Thread Max M
guess that's normal as it's the way python works...?!? Well you could do something like this. (Untested and unrecommended) self.__dict__.setdefault('pkcolumns', []).append(row[0].strip()) Personally I find pkcolumns = [] pkcolumns .append(row[0].strip()) to be nicer ;-) -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Sending email in utf-8?

2005-11-08 Thread Max M
success = 0 try: cleaner = lambda adresses: [adress.strip() for adress in adresses.split(',') if adress.strip()] all_receivers = cleaner(to) + cleaner(cc) + cleaner(bcc) all_receivers = list(set(all_receivers)) if all_receivers: # only send if any recipients self._mailhost().send(str(msg), mto=all_receivers, mfrom=mfrom) success = 1 except: pass -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python vs Ruby

2005-10-23 Thread Max M
e program in > less time. In my experience the LOC count is *far* less significant than the levels of indirections. Eg. how many levels of abstraction do I have to understand to follow a traceback, or to understand what a method relly does in a complex system. -- hilsen/regards Max M

Re: How to do *args, **kwargs properly

2005-10-11 Thread Max M
Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen wrote: > Max M wrote: > So what you're saying is that instead of: > > def fn(*values, **options): > > I should use: > > def fn(values, cmp=cmp): > > in this specific case? > > and then instead of: > > fn(1, 2

Re: How to do *args, **kwargs properly

2005-10-11 Thread Max M
ptions): for key in options.keys(): if not key in FN_LEGAL_ARGS: raise TypeError, "'%s' is an invalid keyword argument for this function" % key -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Windows installer, different versions of Python on Windows

2005-10-10 Thread Max M
erent versions of Zope 3, and since it is installed under a specific python version, the simplest solution would be to install several Python versions, and install a different zope3 version under each python install. Have I misunderstood something here? -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.m

Re: Python reliability

2005-10-10 Thread Max M
ould have crashed your system. That should be an indicator: http://www.python.org/2.4.2/NEWS.html -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: New project coming up...stay with Python, or go with a dot net language??? Your thoughts please!

2005-10-04 Thread Max M
ot net > language? Hehe ... I can run my very first Python program right now in the current version of Python. I cannot even find a platform to run my .asp code from that same timeframe ... So much for 'safe'! -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad

Re: Where to find python c-sources

2005-09-29 Thread Max M
python.org. Are people really too lazy > to do elementary research on Google? Don't know, have you checked Google? -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Convert from unicode to int

2005-09-22 Thread Max M
Tor Erik Sønvisen wrote: > Hi > > Is there any simpler way to convert a unicode numeric to an int than: > > int(u'1024'.encode('ascii')) why doesn't: int(u'104') work for you? -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ I

Re: C#3.0 and lambdas

2005-09-19 Thread Max M
s it would normally look: def func(*arg) That should work just as well for those cases. -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: dictionary to file

2005-09-16 Thread Max M
and save that to a file. http://docs.python.org/lib/module-pickle.html -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: IDE, widget library

2005-09-16 Thread Max M
ob on pydev! -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: brain cramp: emulating cgi.FieldStorage

2005-09-15 Thread Max M
blank strings. The default false value indicates that blank values are to be ignored and treated as if they were not included. strict_parsing: flag indicating what to do with parsing errors. If false (the default), errors are silently ignored.

Re: ANN: PyDev 0.9.8 released

2005-08-30 Thread Max M
ojects (my current ambient has about 400 python modules, all > managed in pydev). Also, there are no current bug reports for any > instability in pydev. Ok. I am starting a new product for Plone tomorrow, that should take about a week to finish. I will try switching cold-turkey to pyd

Re: ANN: PyDev 0.9.8 released

2005-08-30 Thread Max M
ing to it, I just wondered what experiences other users might have when using it for production. Being that my text editing environment is my bread and butter. Is it stable/effective etc? Anybody cares to share? -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science --

Re: Unix diff command under Window.

2005-08-25 Thread Max M
TonyHa wrote: > Hello, > > Does any one have using Python to write a Unix "diff" command for > Window? I generally just us the diff built into tortoiseSVN. That way it's only a rightclick away. -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Sc

Re: mail sending using telnet in python

2005-07-08 Thread Max M
on but I cann't > get solution for it. Why not just use the smtp module? It's a tad easier. -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: f*cking re module

2005-07-04 Thread Max M
rom a reference! If you want to try out re interactively you could use: \Tools\Scripts\redemo.py -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What are the other options against Zope?

2005-07-04 Thread Max M
objects can then be called eg. from a web browser with different parameters. But you can also use other protocols than http like dav, ftp etc. This is a very effective way to build web applications, and does not need sql-object remapping as normal web apps does. -- hilsen/regards Max

Re: Modules for inclusion in standard library?

2005-07-01 Thread Max M
gestion to start with. ctypes certainly. Even though it can crash Python. People using ctypes would be aware of this. Another good bet is BeautifulSoup, which is absolutely great for scraping content from webpages. http://crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/index.html -- hilsen/regards

Re: Boss wants me to program

2005-06-28 Thread Max M
ll not be as > mysterious or dangerous. I agree. The language is more important than the gui. It is not very hard to make good applikations in eg. Tkinter, and you will understand evey part of it. -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science -- http://mail.python.

Re: \r\n or \n notepad editor end line ???

2005-06-08 Thread Max M
; > I get h : ['Helo\n', 'World'] > > I thought notepad use \r\n to to end the line. > > What's wrong with it? Python tries to be clever. Open it in binary mode to avoid it: FName = open(d:\myfile.txt,'rb') -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: how to export data from ZODB to text files

2005-06-08 Thread Max M
nt to export from, you only need to write an external method in Zope to export the data you want. Its pretty easy that way. -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: The need to put "self" in every method

2005-06-01 Thread Max M
Aahz wrote: > [posted & e-mailed] > Any objection to swiping this for the FAQ? (Probably with some minor > edits.) I think it is missing the most important reason, that functions can act as unbound methods. -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Ma

Re: The need to put "self" in every method

2005-06-01 Thread Max M
lf to a could have made it obvious: def __add__(self, b): a = self return Vector((a.x+b.x), (a.y+b.y), (a.z+b.z)) -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Markov chain with extras?

2005-05-19 Thread Max M
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to use it for music. So given list 1 (melody), list 2 (chords) could be generated by a Markov chain. Also, given the chords the melody could be generated again by a chain. I have this small module, that can be used for markov chains. -- hilsen/regards Max M

Re: Merging overlapping spans/ranges

2005-05-11 Thread Max M
with regards to size of "search window" and number of events. Bengts/Jims and Jordans solutions seems to be relatively similar. I will use one of those instead of my own code. Thanks! -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science -- http://mail.pyth

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