On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 10:45:25 -0800 (PST) Richard Szopa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am playing around w/ Python's object system and decorators and I
> decided to write (as an exercise) a decorator that (if applied to a
> method) would call the superclass' method of the same name
On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:13:08 +0100 "Jorgen Bodde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Normally you'd split up the bulk of the code into a module which gets
> > installed into site-packages and a piece of stand-alone front-end code which
> > imports the module and executes whatever you need to do and get
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:55:07 -0800 (PST) George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Jan 11, 5:24 pm, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:05:11 -0800 (PST) George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> > > I mainta
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:11:41 -0500 "Faber J. Fedor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 10/01/08 22:53 -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > Personally, I think it would be more pythonic to not try and use two
> > different APIs to walk the list of jobs (... One Way To Do
On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:47:26 +1100 Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Paul Sijben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I know that I can not stop a dedicated hacker deconstructing my code.
> A direct consequence of this is that you can not stop *anyone* from
> deconstructing your code if it's in t
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:18:22 GMT Neil Hodgson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Marty:
> > I recently faced a similar issue doing something like this:
> > data_out = []
> > for i in range(len(data_in)):
> > data_out.append([])
>
> Another way to write this is
> data_out = [[]] * le
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:05:11 -0800 (PST) George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I maintain a few configuration files in Python syntax (mainly nested
> dicts of ints and strings) and use execfile() to read them back to
> Python. This has been working great; it combines the convenience of
> pic
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:12:48 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have a C program that works very well. However, being C it has no
> GUI.
What does C have to do with it not having a GUI? I've written more C
programs with a GUI than Python ones - and the C experience was
generally better. Of c
On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:17:28 -0800 (PST) Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am using a simple python webserver (see code below) to serve up
> python scripts located in my cgi-bin directory.
>
> import BaseHTTPServer
> import CGIHTTPServer
> class Handler(CGIHTTPServer.CGIHTTPRequestHandler):
>
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:44:19 +0530 "suyash jape" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all
> i want to access a web page through python script, fillup the necessary
> fields,
> and press submit button (which does POST call) and retrieve the result page
> and retrieve some values from it.
>
> Here is th
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:29:18 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm part of a small team writing a Python package for a scientific
> computing project. The idea is to make it easy to use for relatively
> inexperienced programmers. As part of that aim, we're using what we're
> call
On 11 Jan 2008 03:50:53 -0800 Paul Rubin <"http://phr.cx"@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote:
> rent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > keys = freq.keys()
> > keys.sort(key = freq.get, reverse = True)
> > for k in keys:
> > print "%-10s: %d" % (k, freq[k])
>
> I prefer (untested):
>
> def snd((x,y)): ret
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:48:43 -0500 Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mike Meyer wrote:
> >> This caused me to wonder why Python does not have a "foreach" statement
> >> (and
> >> also why has it not come up in this thread)? I realize the topic ha
On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:36:56 -0500 Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I recently faced a similar issue doing something like this:
>
> data_out = []
> for i in range(len(data_in)):
> data_out.append([])
More succinctly:
data_out = []
for _ in data_in:
data_out.append([])
Or, a
On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:32:06 -0500 "Faber J. Fedor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm in the process of learning Python by writing a job queue program.
> Nothing fancy, mind you, just read from a table, shell out to a program,
> write back to the table.
>
> I'm working off of the tuto
On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:37:59 -0800 (PST) Devraj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> My Python program needs reliably detect which Operating System its
> being run on, infact it even needs to know which distribution of say
> Linux its running on. The reason being its a GTK application th
On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:32:50 +0100 Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Yes. For sure. I though XSLT was something like XML not other
> > "language" and that Python will have any library that uses XSLT to do
> > transformation...
> XSLT is definitely a language (it's turing complete, after
On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:42:16 +0100 Hrvoje Niksic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > It sounds to me like your counter variable actually has meaning,
> It depends how the code is written. In the example such as:
>
> for
On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:59:23 +0100 Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mike Meyer wrote:
> >> What does "y=y" and "c=c" mean in the lambda function?
> >
> > Older versions of python didn't make variables in an outer scope
> > vi
On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:25:27 -0800 (PST) "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm reading this page:
> http://www.ps.uni-sb.de/~duchier/python/continuations.html
> and I've found a strange usage of lambda:
>
>
> Now, CPS would transform the baz function above in
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 18:49:36 -0800 (PST) erik gartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The loop performs some actions with web services. The particular
> iteration I'm on isn't important to me. It is only important that I
> attempt the web services that number of times. If I succeed I
> obviously break ou
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 15:45:41 -0800 (PST) "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Okay I profiled the code and here is the output:
>
> http://heightened.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/output.txt
>
> It seems that the function it spends the longest on is the red_points
> function that he use
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 14:34:26 -0600 "Reedick, Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > -Original Message-
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:python-
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Machin
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 3:02 PM
> > To: python-list@python.org
> > Subject: Re: pro
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 13:47:30 -0500 (EST) "Steven W. Orr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> So sorry because I know I'm doing something wrong.
>
> 574 > cat c2.py
> #! /usr/local/bin/python2.4
>
> def inc(jj):
> def dummy():
> jj = jj + 1
> return jj
> return dummy
>
> h =
In 2.5.1 (and 2.[45], but not 2.3):
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Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.
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In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> In 2.5.1 (and 2.[45], but not 2.3):
Sigh. Sorry 'bout that. Since I started it, the breakage is:
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, May 15 2007, 15:31:37)
[GCC 3.4.6 [FreeBSD] 20060305] on freebsd6
Type "help&qu
Bryan Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Mike Meyer wrote:
>> Bryan Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>Mike Meyer wrote:
>>>>Bryan Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>>>Mike Meyer wrote:
>>>>>>Bryan Olson wr
Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 03:11:27 -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
>> Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 23:26:40 -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
>>>>> I have no problem with that. So
Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 23:26:40 -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
>>> I have no problem with that. Some objects are mutable and can change
>>> their value
>> If the object *is* the value, how can it change to be a different
Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 23:21:14 -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
>> So those properties of object() are all identical because they're
>> really properties of object. If you define an object() by those
>> properties, you have
Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I just wish Mike Meyer and Steven D'Aprano were close enough that you
> could bang their heads together.
We might be. But the results would probably be catastrophic for the
surrounding area.
http://www.m
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) writes:
> Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>...
>> > 3. If two objects are equal with "==", does that
>> > mean their values are the same?
>> Almost universally, yes, although if you know enough about how the
>> interpreter works "under the hood" you
Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 18:26:41 -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
>> If two objects ARE the same value, then they should be the same
>> object.
> You are assuming that values are unique, and that therefore is X "is" (in
&g
Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Likewise instances of object() have a rich, object-oriented structure --
> dir(object()) returns a list with twelve items -- but every instance is
> identical.
That's because all the things in dir(object()) are also in dir(object):
>>> dir(object) ==
Bryan Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Mike Meyer wrote:
>> Bryan Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>Mike Meyer wrote:
>>>>Bryan Olson writes:
>>>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>>>>>The reason is that I am still try
Noam Raphael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Mike Meyer wrote:
>> Noam Raphael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>>>Also note that using the current behaviour, you can't easily
>>>>>treat objects that do define a meaningful value comparison, by
&g
Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
distance_in_feet = 5
weight_in_milligrams = 5
distance_in_feet == weight_in_milligrams
> True
> Since when is a distance comparable to a weight, let alone equal?
The latest (and most impressive to date) to fix this is frink:
http://futureb
Martin Maney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> http://beta.python.org
>> In particular, creating a good-looking design that remains readable in
>> all possible browser configurations is impossible. Getting one that i
Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> object instances are like electrons (note for pedants: in classical
> physics, not QED): they are all exactly the same, distinguishable only by
> their position in time and space (or memory location).
Except all electrons aren't exactly the same - beca
Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 14:14:01 +, Antoon Pardon wrote:
>> On 2006-01-14, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 16:11:53 -0800, rurpy wrote:
It would help if you or someone would answer these
five questions (with
Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > Whether the '==' operation conforms to your idea of what equality
>> > means is unclear.
>> Care to say what it does mean, then?
> I'd say a==b doesn
In the discussion of equality, the issue that decimal('3.0') == 3.0 is
False came up as a reason for changing the behavior of ==. The problem
with this is that the proposed change doesn't really fix anything, it
just gives different wrong behavior. The correct fix would seem to be
fixing python's h
"Donn Cave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> |> 3. If two objects are equal with "==", does that
> |> mean their values are the same?
> Yes.
> | >>> 3.0 == 3
> | True
> Evidently the value of 3.0 is the same as the value of 3.
And they do. They are two different representations of the same
value. M
Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 04:22:53 +, Donn Cave wrote:
>> |> 2. What is the value of object()?
>> [ I assume you mean, the object returned by object(). ]
>> It doesn't really have a value. I can't think of any kind of
>> computation that could use this o
Bryan Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Mike Meyer wrote:
>> Bryan Olson writes:
>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>>
>>>>The reason is that I am still trying to figure out
>>>>what a value is myself. Do all objects have values?
>>>Ye
Noam Raphael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>Also note that using the current behaviour, you can't easily
>>>treat objects that do define a meaningful value comparison, by
>>>identity.
>> Yes you can. Just use the "is" operator.
> Sorry, I wasn't clear enough. In "treating" I meant how containers
>
"Giovanni Bajo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Try...
> for i in bytes: print ord(i)
>> or
> len(bytes)
>> What you see isn't always what you have. Your database is capable of
>> storing \ x 0 0 characters, but your string contains a single byte of
>> value zero.
"gregarican" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am in the process of creating an app that runs on various PDA
> platforms. Currently I have it running on ARM Linux (Sharp Zaurus) and
> am starting to port it over to ARM Windows Mobile (Dell Axim). Using
> Python has made the task particularly easier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Mike Meyer:
>>Actually, I like the "len" model, which would be a new builtin that uses the
>>__freeze__ method.<
> Well, I presume this is a matter of personal tastes and consistency
> too. This time I appreciate the freeze() too, bu
Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> If you
>> want to argue that the builtin sets should do that, you can - but
>> that's unrelated to the question of how the comparison operators
>> behave for the rest of the bulitin types.
> What I argue is that there is no single order for a specific ty
Tom Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Mike Meyer wrote:
>> well, we need a term for development environment built out of Unix
>> tools
> Disintegrated development environment? Differentiated development
> environment? How about just a de
Roy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> we need a term for development environment built out of Unix tools
> We already have one. The term is "emacs".
So people using a development environment built aroun
"Sheldon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> So Mike if you can do better then do it then! There are many ways do
> solve a problem, perhaps you have not learned that yet. At first this
> guy didn't know what to do, so he had to begin somewhere. Now you can
> take him much further, I am sure but the jou
David Hirschfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm having trouble with the new descriptor-based mechanisms like
> super() and property() stemming, most likely, from my lack of
> knowledge about how they work.
>
> Here's an example that's giving me trouble, I know it won't work, but
> it illustrate
"bblais" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In Python, there seems to be a couple ways of doing things. I could
> write it in one window, and from a Unix shell call
>python myscript.py
> and be like C++, but then I lose the interactiveness which makes
> prototyping easier.
Bryan Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> The reason is that I am still trying to figure out
>> what a value is myself. Do all objects have values?
> Yes.
Can you justify this, other than by quoting the manual whose problems
caused this question to be raised in the fir
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Anyone has any idea on why is there no post/pre increment operators in
> python ?
For lots of good reasons.
> Although the statement:
> ++j
> works but does nothing
So does --j. They both parse as a value with two unary operators
applied to it in succession: +(+(j)
"Randall Parker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> if OperatorType == ">":
># then do a greater than compare here.
>BoolVal = TestVal > TargetVal
> elif OperatorType == ">=":
># then do a greater or equal to here.
>BoolVal = TestVal >= TargetVal
> and so on.
>
> It would seem a lot eas
"fynali" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I have two files:
Others have pointed out the Python solution - use a set instead of a
list for membership testing. I want to point out a better Unix
solution ('cause I probably wouldn't have written a Python program to
do this):
> Objective: to
Xavier Morel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Dicts and sets require immutable keys, like tuples or frozensets, but
>> to me they look like a duplication. So the idea is to remove tuples and
>> frozensets (and replace the few other uses of tuples with lists, like
>> the % in
"sri2097" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi all, I have written a Link list implementation in Python (Although
> it's not needed with Lists and Dictionaries present. I tried it just
> for the kicks !). Anyway here is the code -
Generally very nice.
> # Creating a class comprising of node in Link L
Tim Parkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Mike Meyer wrote:
>> Of course, this is typical on the web: "Works in IE" really means
>> "works in IE in the configurations we tested it for", and usually
>> means "works in our favorite configuration&qu
>> here's one attempt. (I'm no expert, so wait for better :-)
>> >>> class ModFlagDict(dict):
>> def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
>> super(ModFlagDict, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
>> self.modified = False
>> def __setitem__(self, key, value):
>>
Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Op 2006-01-11, Mike Meyer schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> Op 2006-01-11, Mike Meyer schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>>> Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Sheldon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> after you have read the file then split it like this:
> file = open('inputfile.txt', 'r').read()
> import string
> file = string.split(file,'\n')
You're doing things the hard way - at least if you have a modern
Python. The above can be done as:
file = open(
Tim Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It was pointed out to me that the shortest Python program which produces
> itself on stdout is:
> --
Which, oddly enough, is also the shortest shell program that produces
itself on stdout.
http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/
Independe
Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Mike Meyer wrote:
>> Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>By the way, note that neither basic auth nor digest auth provide any
>>>real security, and in fact with basic auth the userid and password are
&
Steven Bethard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Mike Meyer wrote:
>> Steven Bethard writes:
>>> Not to advocate one way or the other, but how often do you use
>>> heterogeneous containers?
>> Pretty much everything I do has heterogenous containers of some sor
Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> By the way, note that neither basic auth nor digest auth provide any
> real security, and in fact with basic auth the userid and password are
> sent *in cleartext*. For any serious production site these techniques
> should probably not be used without add
"BartlebyScrivener" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> New to Python and Programming. Trying to make scripts that will open
> sites and automatically log me on.
A common enough things to want to do.
> The following example is from the urllib2 module.
>
> What are "realm" and "host" in this example.
H
Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Op 2006-01-11, Mike Meyer schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> Op 2006-01-10, Mike Meyer schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>>>> Now you can take the practical
Stefan Rank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> on 11.01.2006 11:44 Steve Holden said the following:
>> http://beta.python.org
> Very nice!
> Just wanted to note that the content area and the menu area overlap
> (leaving some content unreadable)
> in Opera 8.51 / WinXP
Ditto for Opera 8.51 / OSX, and f
"py" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Say I have...
> x = "132.00"
> but I'd like to display it to be "132" ...dropping the trailing
> zeros...I currently try this
The two-strip solution is cleaner, but:
> if x.endswith("0"):
> x = x[:len(x)-1]
x = x[:-1]
or
del x[-1]
both improve t
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I'm trying to restart a process with the os.kill command. My Problem is
> that if the command gets executed, my python script stops working. I
> want to SIGHUP a process with the following command: os.kill(pid,
> signal.SIGHUP).
That looks right.
> Can anyone give me a
Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Op 2006-01-10, Mike Meyer schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>> Now you can take the practical option and decide that programmatically
>>> it make no sense to compare a specific couple of values and throw an
>>> exc
Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 06:57:06 +, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
>> I suppose most readers aren't old enough to remember the punch card
>> days, when you would hand your work in on coding sheets to t
Steven Bethard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Not to advocate one way or the other, but how often do you use
> heterogeneous containers?
Pretty much everything I do has heterogenous containers of some sort
or another. SQL queries made to DP API compliant modules return
homogenous lists of heterogen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> It seems to me that both Mike's and Fuzzyman's objections were that
> sometimes you want the current behaviour, of saying that two objects
> are equal if they are: 1. the same object or 2. have the same value
> (when it's meaningful). In both cases this can be accomplis
Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> There is no way in python now to throw an exception when you
>>> think comparing your object to some very different object
>>> is just meaningless and using such an object in a container
>>> that can be searched via the "in" operator.
>> I claim that co
Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Yes. Searching for items in heterogenous containers. With your change
>> in place, the "in" operator becomes pretty much worthless on
>> containers of heterogenous objects. Ditto for container methods that
>> do searches for "equal" members. Whenever you
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> My question is, what reasons are left for leaving the current default
> equality operator for Py3K, not counting backwards-compatibility?
> (assume that you have idset and iddict, so explicitness' cost is only
> two characters, in Guido's example)
Yes. Searching for ite
Tim Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> They're run in alphabetical order, sorting on the test methods' names.
> For that reason some people name test methods like 'test_001',
> 'test_002', ..., although unit tests really "shouldn't" case which
> order they get run in.
This seems sort of hard to
"Mr.Rech" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi all,
> I was writing a simple class when I get a strange error message that I
> can't
> understand. Hopefully someone could help me here.
>
> My class's init method takes a list of lists as input argument and I'd
> like to create
> several attributes each
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Terry> But not faster than use a dict server! Why not just use (e.g.)
> Terry> kdict?
>
> >> Maybe because not everybody has it?
>
> Sybren> Lame excuse. If you don't have something but you do want to use
> Sybren> it, you get it.
>
> I don't think
"Alex N" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Peter gave me a good clue here
> w.write(f.read().rstrip('\n') + '\n')
> However the 2nd \n puts that empty line at the end of the file so I
No, it doesn't. Well, maybe it doesn't, depending on how your
applications treats newlines. Normally, a newline termin
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Safeer Tabassum wrote:
>> why you are not installing it from ports?
> The port distribution doesn't build to support Tkinter.
Looks like they changed that recently - because it used to build it by
default. Tkinter is now installed by x11-toolkits/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) writes:
> Meanwhile, other JS/DOM experts have told me that there's NO way to set
> cursor position within a textarea according to w3c standards. In this
> case, what your site does now may be the "least bad" approach, and that
> fact might be noted in the "browse
"Alex Nordhus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am looking for a way to strip the blank line and the empty newline at
> the end of the text file. I can get the blank lines removed from the
> file but it always leaves the end line (which is blank) as a newline. My
> code is here and it works but leav
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) writes:
> I'm finding it hard to arrange my own experiments with Safari (I'm using
> a loaner machine since my normal one[s] are all having problems and
> under repair) but I'm told the solution for cursor positioning is to set
> the caretPos attribute of the texta
Jorgen Grahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 18:47:20 -0500, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ...
>> As far as I'm concerned, the definitive work in this area is Meyer's
>> "Object Oriented Software Construction". He
Jorgen Grahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 08:57:01 GMT, Tim Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>>How to execute bash scripts from python (other than using os.popen) and
>>>get the values that those bash scripts return.
>> Why would you eliminate os.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) writes:
> Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For some reason, I couldn't see the links at the end of the page; now I
> can, though they look sort of "ragged", but, OK.
Probably the fonts I chose. I'm in no way a good visu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> How to execute bash scripts from python (other than using os.popen) and
> get the values that those bash scripts return.
The easy way is to call it with subprocess.call.
http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/
Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix con
Claudio Grondi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Yes, I see your point, but even putting my personal preferences
> beside, for someone who just started to program, learning about the
> concept of classes and inheritance is probably not what helps to get
> immediate fun out of first steps in writing sma
Claudio Grondi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Edgar A. Rodriguez wrote:
>> Hi everybody,
>> Im newbie to Python (I found it three weeks ago) , in fact Im newbie
>> to
>> programming. I'm being reading and training with the language, but I
>> still wondering about what Classes are used to. Could you
Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 01:29:46 -0500
> Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> From what I can tell, Liskov proposed *three* different
>> names for
>> passing references to objects: call-by-sharing,
>> call-by-obj
"Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In ordinary CS, "call by reference" generally means that the function is
> handed a reference to the *variable* holding the *value*.
That's the strictest definition of "call-by-reference". It's got a
major problem in that it means doing (with C syntax)
Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 01:29:46 -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
>> Call by object is the worst choice among the three, because "object"
>> has such a vague meaning, so you never know what implications someone
>> will
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) writes:
> Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> And yes, I know about this. It's listed in "Known Problems". Anything
> What's the URL to "Known Problems"? There's a strange cursor-placement
> bug on Appl
"Thierry Lam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Let's say I have two linux machines with the following names:
> -linone
> -lintwo
>
> If I'm currently on linone and if I want to copy a bunch of files from
> lintwo into linone, how can that be done in a python script without
> using ftp?
Use scp.
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