Re: PIL cutting off letters

2007-06-19 Thread Mitja Trampus
Matt Haggard wrote: > I'm using PIL (Python Imaging Library) to generate button images. > They consist of a left end image, a middle, repeating image and a > right side image anyway, that's not important > > I'm using a TTF font for the text of the button (Verdana.TTF) and it > keeps cutting t

Re: Correct behavior?

2007-04-27 Thread Mitja Trampus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Apr 26, 8:34 pm, asker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> But:>>> print "%15.2f" % a+b >> >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "", line 1, in >> TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'float' objects >> >> Is this correct for Python to issue this error? > > Th

Re: Inconsistency in dictionary behaviour: dict(dict) not calling __setitem__

2006-12-12 Thread Mitja Trampus
Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Almad wrote: > >> However, when constructing dictionary with dictionary in constructor >> like d = RegisterMap({'k':'v'}), __setitem__ is not called > > why should it do that? dict() is a concrete implementation, not a > template class for the creation of dict-like object

Re: best way to align words?

2006-11-30 Thread Mitja Trampus
Robert R. wrote: > Hello, > > i would like to write a piece of code to help me to align some sequence > of words and suggest me the ordered common subwords of them > > a trouble i have if when having many different strings my results tend > to be nothing while i still would like to have one of th

Re: Really closing stdout (was: "fork and exit" needed?)

2006-11-28 Thread Mitja Trampus
Nick Craig-Wood wrote: >>> open STDOUT, '>/dev/null'; >> sys.stdout = open(os.devnull, 'w') > $ ls -l /proc/32004/fd > total 4 > lrwx-- 1 ncw ncw 64 Nov 28 09:55 0 -> /dev/pts/17 > lrwx-- 1 ncw ncw 64 Nov 28 09:55 1 -> /dev/pts/17 > lrwx-- 1 ncw ncw 64 Nov 28 09:55 2 -> /dev/pts/17

Re: Random image text generation?

2006-11-12 Thread Mitja Trampus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there a module out there that will generate an image with a random text > string such as the confirmation images you see on various websites? They're called captcha images or captchas for short. Googling for "python captcha" returns several hits; see what you like...

Confusion with resource.setrlimit() and subprocesses

2006-07-05 Thread Mitja Trampus
I am trying to run a subprocess within given time and memory restrictions. The resource module kind of works for me, but I do not understand why and am seeking an explanation. Also, the signal module is not behaving as I'd expect it to. Demo code with questions: == import subprocess as

Re: Reuseable iterators - which is better?

2006-06-23 Thread Mitja Trampus
zefciu wrote: > In the tutorial there is an example iterator class that revesrses the > string given to the constructor. The problem is that this class works > only once, unlike built-in types like string. How to modify it that it > could work several times? I have tried two approaches. They bo

Re: Python in HTML

2006-06-23 Thread Mitja Trampus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone know of a way to embed python scripts into html, much like > you would javascript or php? Two very different things, JS and PHP... First make sure you know what you're after. If you want PHP-like embedding of code, google for "python server pages". Several

Re: a string problem

2006-06-13 Thread Mitja Trampus
John Salerno wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> hi >> >> if i have a some lines like this >> a ) "here is first string" >> b ) "here is string2" >> c ) "here is string3" >> >> When i specify i only want to print the lines that contains "string" ie > ... > And I'm actually ashamed to admit that I

Re: Sampling a population

2006-06-02 Thread Mitja Trampus
Brian Quinlan wrote: > The fastest algorithm that I have been able to devise for doing so is: > O(n * log(len(lst))). Can anyone think or a solution with a better time > complexity? If not, is there an obviously better way to do this > (assuming n is big and the list size is small). If list is

Re: object references

2006-03-26 Thread Mitja Trampus
DrConti wrote: > class ObjectClass: > """ Test primary Key assignment """ > > if __name__ == "__main__": > ObjectClassInstantiated=ObjectClass() > ObjectClassInstantiated.AnAttribute='First PK Elem' > ObjectClassInstantiated.AnotherOne='Second PK Elem' > ObjectClassIn

Re: "For" loop and list comprehension similarity

2006-03-26 Thread Mitja Trampus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On more than one occasion, I found myself wanting to use a "conditional > loop" like this (with "Invalid syntax" error, of course): > > for i in c if : > print i*2 Maybe there's been a PEP, don't really know... Currently, the only sensible alternati

Re: maximum() efficency

2006-03-26 Thread Mitja Trampus
Steve R. Hastings wrote: > I was looking at a Python function to find the maximum from a list. > The original was more complicated; I simplified it. The built-in max() > function can replace the simplified example, but not the original. But you forgot to shuw us the original... [snip several im

Re: help in converting perl re to python re

2006-03-03 Thread Mitja Trampus
>> i have some regular exp code in perl that i want to convert to python. >> if $line =~ m#<(tag1)>(.*)# >>{ >> $variable = $2; >> } > regexp = re.compile(r"<(tag1)>(.*)") > line = "sometext" > match = regexp.search(line) > if match: >variable = match.group(2) Or, if you pre

Re: Shortest prime number program

2006-02-11 Thread Mitja Trampus
swisscheese wrote: > I figured someone out there must have written a minimal code size prime > number generator. I did not find one after a bit of searching around. > For primes up to 100 the best I could do was 70 characters (including > spaces): > > r=range(2,99) > m=[x*y for x in r for y in r]

Re: tricky regular expressions

2006-02-07 Thread Mitja Trampus
[hint: posting the same question in newsgroups generally does not help to get responses any quicker] Ernesto wrote: > The string I'm getting data from looks like this: > [USELESS DATA] > Request : Play > [USELESS DATA] > Title: Beethoven's 5th > [USELESS DATA] > Request : next > [USELESS

Re: Trying to find regex for any script in an html source

2005-12-21 Thread Mitja Trampus
28tommy wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to find scripts in html source of a page retrieved from the > web. > I'm trying to use the following rule: > > match = re.compile('') > > I'm testing it on a page that includes the following source: > >