Re: Handy utilities = Friday Filosofical Finking

2019-03-29 Thread Neil Cerutti
on paper, ... If the former, how do you > access/import them from the various applications/systems? > (Python's import rules and restrictions, change control/version > control) I have a lib directory in my PYTHONPATH to dump 'em. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Feature suggestions: "Using declarations" i.e. context managers ("with" blocks) tied to scope/lifetime of the variable rather than to nesting

2019-02-19 Thread Neil Cerutti
hat > logfile.write() > > This becomes more ugly if multiple withs get nested. You don't have to nest them. Check out contextlib.ExitStack. ExitStack is designed to handle situations where you don't always want to enter some context, or you are entering a large number of them. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to replace space in a string with \n

2019-01-31 Thread Neil Cerutti
' ') in text: > space=\n > > rightText = text-space > > print(rightText) Your code resembles Python code, but it isn't close enough for me to offer reasonable help. You should figure out how to solve your problem *before* you start to write code. A paper an

Re: Python read text file columnwise

2019-01-15 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2019-01-15, Juris __ wrote: > Hi! > > On 15/01/2019 17:04, Neil Cerutti wrote: >> On 2019-01-11, shibashib...@gmail.com wrote: >>> Hello >>>> >>>> I'm very new in python. I have a file in the format: >>>> >>>>

Re: Python read text file columnwise

2019-01-15 Thread Neil Cerutti
i = 0 for width in (30, 8, 7, 5): # approximations item = line[i:i+width] record.append(item) i += width records.append(record) This leaves them all strings, which in my experience is more convenient in practice. You can convert as you go if you want,though it won't look nice and simple any longer. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Are all items in list the same?

2019-01-08 Thread Neil Cerutti
#x27;all' will return True anyway. Neat! I expected that a[0] would be executed in that case, but it is not. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ESR "Waning of Python" post

2018-10-12 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2018-10-12, Peter J. Holzer wrote: > Neil Cerutti said: >> I imagine that if I stuck with Go long enough I'd develop a >> new coding style that didn't inolve creating useful data >> types. > > I haven't used Go for any real project yet (that may change

Re: Overwhelmed by the Simplicity of Python. Any Recommendation?

2018-10-12 Thread Neil Cerutti
on code, but it still works and I can still maintain it with little trouble. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ESR "Waning of Python" post

2018-10-11 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2018-10-10, Paul Rubin wrote: > Neil Cerutti writes: >> As Stephen said, it's sort of silly not to be aware of those >> issues going in. > > If you're saying ESR messed up by using Python in the first > place for that program, that's not a great advert f

Re: ESR "Waning of Python" post

2018-10-10 Thread Neil Cerutti
;t agree with, but I think > it is worth reading. It is around 300 lines, followed by > several pages of reader comments. > > http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8161 Thanks for sharing it. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Creating dice game : NEED HELP ON CHECKING ELEMENTS IN A LIST

2018-10-10 Thread Neil Cerutti
roll in result): > # - THIS LINE IS WHERE I NEED HELP # ( if 2, 3, 4, 6 in list: ) > print("you can roll again") > else: > print("you have all 1's and 5's in your result") Ha! Didn't think I'd get to apply DeMorgan's Law so soon. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Any SML coders able to translate this to Python?

2018-09-07 Thread Neil Cerutti
functional languages to introduce new names for things. You'd consider it wherever you'd consider assigning something to a new name in Python. In this case, it was probably just to avoid writing out that square root calculation twice. Though you could use lambda calculus directly instead,

Re: Python shuts down when I try to run a module

2018-07-23 Thread Neil Cerutti
h unfortunately it doesn't help when an error occurs, requiring you to put it in a finally block to ensure it happens. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: For next loops

2018-07-23 Thread Neil Cerutti
g like this is possible. "x", "y" and "result" can be unecessary. for ply in range(5): for com in range(5): print(ply, com, end='') if ply == com: print(" Tie") else: print() -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: doubling the number of tests, but not taking twice as long

2018-07-17 Thread Neil Cerutti
isplay and PatternFov? In other words, since you're already using the giant, Swiss Army sledgehammer of the re module, go ahead and use enough features to cover your use case. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python for beginners or not? [was Re: syntax difference]

2018-06-27 Thread Neil Cerutti
d look-ahead or similar inspection of more than the current item. An alternative is a custom generator or iterator that provides the window you need. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Finding set difference between ranges

2018-04-18 Thread Neil Cerutti
they can be sorted. Are you converting to set and then calling difference? It may still be more efficient than writing your own loop to take advantage of the sorted status of the original objects. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Style Q: Instance variables defined outside of __init__

2018-03-20 Thread Neil Cerutti
t;on high", we are simply required to > follow them. > > IOWs, "Do as they _say_, not as logic dictates" The Introduction to Computer Science class I'm taking divided program design into two categories: Top Down Design, and Object Oriented Design. It's good, be

Re: csv module and NULL data byte

2018-03-01 Thread Neil Cerutti
mendation, but in 10+ years of using > the csv module, I've not found any issues in using text/ascii mode > that were solved by switching to using binary mode. Binary mode was recommended for Python 2, but not 3, where you open in text mode but use newline=''. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Problem with assignment. Python error or mine?

2017-12-21 Thread Neil Cerutti
import numpy as np > > X=np.arange(1, 1, 1) #root variable np.arange creates an object. The assignment makes X refer to that object. > x1=X X refers to the previous object, and then the assignment makes x1 refer to that same object. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: csv.DictReader line skipping should be considered a bug?

2017-12-11 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2017-12-11, Neil Cerutti wrote: > On 2017-12-05, Steve D'Aprano wrote: >> On Wed, 6 Dec 2017 04:20 am, Jason wrote: >>> while iterating over two files, which are line-by-line >>> corresponding. The DictReader skipped ahead many lines >>> breaking

Re: csv.DictReader line skipping should be considered a bug?

2017-12-11 Thread Neil Cerutti
mber of fields is broken in the data. In my opinion, it should do a thing that makes it the simplest to handle the situation for the programmer. This is in fact usually what happens. When there are more records than define in the header, you can choose what happens by setting extrasaction. When some records are missing--it sets them to None. Except, when all the records are missing, it silently hides the error with no ability provided to recover it. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to use a regexp here

2017-12-08 Thread Neil Cerutti
ce 'in' would >> still be true no matter where the desired string is placed. It would be >> useful to see some sample data of the old data, and the new data > > There is now also a line that starts with: > PCH_CPU_TEMP: > > And I do not want that one. You'll probably want to include the ':' in the startswith check, in case someday they also add CPU_TEMP_SOMETHING:. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: csv.DictReader line skipping should be considered a bug?

2017-12-05 Thread Neil Cerutti
anyone agree, or am I crazy? I've used csv.DictReader for years and never come across this oddity. Very interesting! I am with you. Silently discarding blank records hides information--the current design is unusable if blank records are of interest. Moreover, what's wrong with a dict ful

Re: How to use a regexp here

2017-12-04 Thread Neil Cerutti
ce 'in' would >> still be true no matter where the desired string is placed. It would be >> useful to see some sample data of the old data, and the new data > > There is now also a line that starts with: > PCH_CPU_TEMP: > > And I do not want that one. You'll probably want to include the ':' in the startswith check, in case someday they also add CPU_TEMP_SOMETHING:. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Code Snippets

2017-11-01 Thread Neil Cerutti
o much better! You can import wherever you like--only good style requires you to put them at the top of your file. Moreover, snippets could be a library, with each snippet a function, with the import inside the function. That would keep the module name out of your global namespace. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to join elements at the beginning and end of the list

2017-10-31 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2017-10-31, Stefan Ram wrote: > Neil Cerutti writes: >>You can use the % operator instead of +, and a generator >>expression instead of map. It's a pretty small improvement, >>though. > > "Improvement" in what sense? > > C:\>python -m time

Re: How to join elements at the beginning and end of the list

2017-10-31 Thread Neil Cerutti
of the list > using '+' operator any other solution, this is not looking > neater > > I am a Linux user using python 2.7 You can use the % operator instead of +, and a generator expression instead of map. It's a pretty small improvement, though. values = '||%s||'

Re: Compression of random binary data

2017-10-23 Thread Neil Cerutti
as well. >> >> http://inform-fiction.org/zmachine/standards/z1point0/sect03.html > > not sure how 16 characters can be represented by either ascii > or zscii in only 8 bytes Oops! I hastily counted completely wrong. It's 10 bytes in ZSCII version 2, using a shift-lock.

Re: Compression of random binary data

2017-10-23 Thread Neil Cerutti
>> an inefficient coding > > I suspect he is using ASCII and storing one value in each byte. There's also ZSCII, which stores roughly 3 characters every 2 bytes. Since all the digits are in A2, this sequence would take up 7 bytes in ZSCII as well. http://inform-fiction.org/zmachine/standards/z1point0/sect03.html -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Lies in education [was Re: The "loop and a half"]

2017-10-13 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2017-10-13, Steve D'Aprano wrote: > On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 11:54 pm, Gregory Ewing wrote: > >> Neil Cerutti wrote: >>> I can tell at a glance if a parameter is expected to be >>> modifiable just by looking at the function signature. >> >> The que

Re: Lies in education [was Re: The "loop and a half"]

2017-10-12 Thread Neil Cerutti
to a function >> having prototype void f(char *s); > > That *ought* to be prevented. That's the whole point. I'm far less experienced in C, but I threw up my hands and stopped bothering with const qualifiers in C due to such headaches. When in Rome, program without const qualifiers in C. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Lies in education [was Re: The "loop and a half"]

2017-10-12 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2017-10-11, Gregory Ewing wrote: > Neil Cerutti wrote: >> I dig const qualifiers, even though I'm comletely fine with >> their absence from Python. > > Out of curiosity, do you have any insights into why you like > them in C++, if you don't miss them in Py

Re: Lies in education [was Re: The "loop and a half"]

2017-10-11 Thread Neil Cerutti
+ is easy to overcomplicate with the multiple inheritance feature. Alternatives are almost always preferable. Some people also appreciate C++'s improvements upon C's type sytem enough to compile all their C programs with C++. I dig const qualifiers, even though I'm comletely fine wit

Re: Pedagogical style [was Re: The "loop and a half"]

2017-10-06 Thread Neil Cerutti
thinking about and asking questions about Python has been of great interest to me, and provided entertainment and enlightenment. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Easier way to do this?

2017-10-05 Thread Neil Cerutti
job using a pivot table in Excel. Office manager, learn thy Excel! On the other hand, I think Python's csv module is a killer app, so I do recommend taking the opportunity to learn csv.DictReader and csv.DictWriter for your own enjoyment. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: The "loop and a half"

2017-10-04 Thread Neil Cerutti
insist they understand the iterator protocol and exception handling first they're bound to think iteration is a hovercraft full of eels. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Beginners and experts (Batchelder blog post)

2017-09-28 Thread Neil Cerutti
of them are good at explaining what they know in a comprehensible and entertaining way. I believe you will benefit from and even enjoy some of the literature. Here's a recent favorite: "The Pragmatic Programmer", Andrew Hunt and David Thomas. ISBN-13: 978-0201616224 -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

OT: Drain specialist Was: Beginners and experts

2017-09-28 Thread Neil Cerutti
o configure your email server--it isn't that he or she *can't* do it... -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python scripting as side job

2017-09-26 Thread Neil Cerutti
east on one side of the pipeline. Some experience in the industry you want to script for will really be required, even in such simple cases. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Call by binding [was Re: [Tutor] beginning to code]

2017-09-25 Thread Neil Cerutti
ython's argument passing for non-Python programmers strikes me as a sincere effort to to simplify something that just isn't simple. If calling it, "pass by assignment," is admitting defeat, then so be it. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Code for addition

2017-08-07 Thread Neil Cerutti
33) / 2 You could also calculate it with a combination of sum and range builtins, as others have hinted, and if it's homework that's probably a good idea. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Grapheme clusters, a.k.a.real characters

2017-07-14 Thread Neil Cerutti
s separate API's that allow you to regard those bytes as either plain old bytes, or as a sequence of runes (not-necessarily normalized codepoints). If your bytes strings aren't in UTF-8, then Go Away. https://blog.golang.org/strings -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Best way to ensure user calls methods in correct order?

2017-06-23 Thread Neil Cerutti
ect that has the methods that should only be > called for active connections. That way it's not possible to do > things out of sequence. It's like a bidirectional iterator in C++, except in reverse it's random access. An iterator that can't easily be modeled with a generato

Re: Namedtuple problem #32.11.d

2017-06-07 Thread Neil Cerutti
nd illuminate dark corners of both my own skill and Python's features. An Excel spreadsheet that represents a table of data is fairly simple to map onto a Python dict. One nearly codeless way is to export it from Excel as a csv file and then read it with csv.DictReader. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Namedtuple problem #32.11.d

2017-06-06 Thread Neil Cerutti
this point, after only one bad experience trying to work around my choice of container. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python DB API - commit() v. execute("commit transaction")?

2017-06-02 Thread Neil Cerutti
at the > module, connection and cursor levels. You get autocommit with sqlite3 by setting isolation_level=None on the connection object. https://docs.python.org/2/library/sqlite3.html#sqlite3-controlling-transactions -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python DB API - commit() v. execute("commit transaction")?

2017-06-02 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2017-06-02, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > > A bit of a long free-association rambling... > > On Fri, 2 Jun 2017 12:07:45 + (UTC), Neil Cerutti > declaimed the following: >>You're probably not expected to interleave transaction control >>commands from

Re: Python DB API - commit() v. execute("commit transaction")?

2017-06-02 Thread Neil Cerutti
ands from different levels of abstraction, e.g., only call 'commit' directly if you called 'begin' directly. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [OT] How to improve my programming skills?

2017-06-01 Thread Neil Cerutti
that concentrates on functional programming with immutable state if you haven't done it before. The book that worked for me was Simply Scheme https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/ss-toc2.html, but that's sorta ancient history now and I'm sure there's lots more options out there. --

Re: "pandas" pronunciation

2017-04-05 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2017-04-03, Jay Braun wrote: > I hear people say it like the plural of "panda", and others as > "panduss". Is there a correct way? I think it is pronounced like the regular word. The second a is schwa in both the singular and plural. -- Neil Cerutti -- https

Re: Manual parameter substitution in sqlite3

2017-02-28 Thread Neil Cerutti
mn-names portion of an INSERT statement. quoted_val, = c.execute("SELECT quote(?);", (val,)).fetchone() -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to store properties

2017-02-08 Thread Neil Cerutti
>> used. > > I use it a lot ;-) Me too. I wrote a script once to convert all my .cfg files to JSON at one point while trying out a switch from Python to Go, but never made the changeover. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Using query parameters subtitution outside of execute()

2014-03-28 Thread Neil Cerutti
ry less manageable that the ones I > used in Python ... C could provide more friendly general purpose containers in its library, but doesn't. There are some good free ones: glib, for example. Cython provides a really nice in-between level. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: golang OO removal, benefits. over python?

2014-03-11 Thread Neil Cerutti
mbined with duck typing and simple distribution of applications is a draw. Go's tools are pretty awesome, and are scheduled for improvements. If you can get by with its built in types (or simple aggregates of them) it feels quite expressive. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Closure/method definition question for Python 2.7

2014-03-11 Thread Neil Cerutti
gt; NameError: global name 'x' is not defined. > > In the snippet, x is neither local to __init__() nor global to > the module. It is in the class scope. You can refer to it in > one of two ways: > >Test.x > > or: > >self.x The latter will work only to

Re: How security holes happen

2014-03-05 Thread Neil Cerutti
let you, gulp, add more. Well, that or lisp's designers severely underestimated how much we like to use our programming languages as non-RPN calculators. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: References, and avoiding use of ???variable??? (was: Can global variable be passed into Python function?)

2014-02-28 Thread Neil Cerutti
riables in the local symbol table of the called function. Am I oversimplifying? -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Can global variable be passed into Python function?

2014-02-28 Thread Neil Cerutti
enough features to bother with its implemention. Check out Go's switch statement for an example of what it might look like in Python. Except you'd get it without labeled break or the fallthrough statement. Would you still want to use it? -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Can one use Python to learn and even apply Functional Programming?

2014-02-18 Thread Neil Cerutti
a followup to that mind-bending experience. http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/ss-toc2.html I wouldn't recommend trying to learn anything at the same time as learning Haskell. ;) -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: A curious bit of code...

2014-02-13 Thread Neil Cerutti
<' and key[-1] == '>'" > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "P:\Python34\lib\timeit.py", line 292, in main > x = t.timeit(number) > File "P:\Python34\lib\timeit.py", line 178, in timeit > timing = self.inner(it, self.timer) > File "", line 6, in inner > key[0] == '<' and key[-1] == '>' > IndexError: string index out of range The corrected version key and key[0] == '<' and key[-1] == '>' probably still wins the Pretty Unimportant Olympics. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: A curious bit of code...

2014-02-13 Thread Neil Cerutti
ll catch that with your unit tests ;) It's easy to forget exactly why startswith and endswith even exist. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: A curious bit of code...

2014-02-13 Thread Neil Cerutti
the fastest after all? I think the following would occur to someone first: if key[0] == '<' and key[-1] == '>': ... It is wrong to avoid the obvious. Needlessly ornate or clever code will only irritate the person who has to read it later; most likely yourself. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: A curious bit of code...

2014-02-13 Thread Neil Cerutti
. There will be an exception only if it is zero-length. But good point! That's a pretty sneaky way to avoid checking for a zero-length string. Is it a popular idiom? -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python programming

2014-02-13 Thread Neil Cerutti
ust the beginning, but it's a pretty good place. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: pip3.x error using LIST instead of list

2014-02-12 Thread Neil Cerutti
DOS, Windows, and Linux > computers for years: > > disable the caps-lock key I really liked rebinding it to Left-CTRL. I only stopped doing that because it screwed up my work flow when not at a keyboard I could remap. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Finding size of Variable

2014-02-11 Thread Neil Cerutti
is few controversial opinions brought into other topics. Tim's post was responding to a specific, well-presented criticism of Python's string implementation. Left unchallenged, it might linger unhappily in the air, like a symphony ended on a dominant 7th chord. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: parse a csv file into a text file

2014-02-06 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2014-02-06, Tim Chase wrote: > On 2014-02-06 17:40, Mark Lawrence wrote: >> On 06/02/2014 14:02, Neil Cerutti wrote: >> > >> > You must open the file in binary mode, as that is what the csv >> > module expects in Python 2.7. newline handling can be enscrewe

Re: parse a csv file into a text file

2014-02-06 Thread Neil Cerutti
in Python 2.7. newline handling can be enscrewed if you forget. file = open('raw.csv', 'b') -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Help with some python homework...

2014-01-31 Thread Neil Cerutti
answer to test your program's answer with. 2. A general idea of how to solve the problem. It's often a mistake to start writing code. Eventually you'll be able to go directly from problem to code more often, but it will take practice. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Another surprise from the datetime module

2014-01-30 Thread Neil Cerutti
case was wanting to print a timedelta without > the fractions of seconds. The most straight-forward is: > > print td.replace(microseconds=0) That would be nice. In the meantime, this works for your use case: td -= td % timedelta(seconds=1) -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: buggy python interpretter or am I missing something here?

2014-01-27 Thread Neil Cerutti
ely, just like the responsible adults that we are. Isn't that right, Mr... Poopy-Pants? -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Elementree and insert new element if it is not present - FIXED

2014-01-24 Thread Neil Cerutti
maybe I'm just naive. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Early retirement project?

2014-01-22 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2014-01-22, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: > In fact, Python just becomes the last tool I (would) > recommend, especially for non-ascii users. Have a care, jmf. People unfamiliar with your opinions might take that seriously. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: Can post a code but afraid of plagiarism

2014-01-22 Thread Neil Cerutti
m, how > can judge the OP's reaction to it? Obvious copying of another person's program, nearly verbatim, is most likely to be detected. Well, that and submitting one of the entrapment-purposed answers that are sometimes made availalbe here and elsewhere. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: regex multiple patterns in order

2014-01-20 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2014-01-20, Devin Jeanpierre wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 8:16 AM, Mark Lawrence > wrote: >> On 20/01/2014 16:04, Neil Cerutti wrote: >>> I use regular expressions regularly, for example, when >>> editing text with gvim. But when I want to use them in Python

Re: regex multiple patterns in order

2014-01-20 Thread Neil Cerutti
ssions regularly, for example, when editing text with gvim. But when I want to use them in Python I have to contend with the re module. I've never become comfortable with it. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python glob and raw string

2014-01-16 Thread Neil Cerutti
e a convenient place to hang the functions. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python glob and raw string

2014-01-16 Thread Neil Cerutti
n(path, '*')): if os.path.isdir(fname): self.descend(fname) else: self.process(fname) def process(self, path): # Do what I want done with an actual file path. # This is where I add to the data. In your case you m

Re: Experiences/guidance on teaching Python as a first programming language

2013-12-19 Thread Neil Cerutti
rain-damage, writing C code is no problem; in fact, it feels darn good. And another thing: How many other languages have their very own calling convention? -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Experiences/guidance on teaching Python as a first programming language

2013-12-18 Thread Neil Cerutti
wo ints being what Py3 does). Why > adorn pointer usage? Indeed. Golang allows . to do member lookup for both structs and pointers to structs. The -> syntax perhaps was needful in the days before function prototypes. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Experiences/guidance on teaching Python as a first programming language

2013-12-17 Thread Neil Cerutti
written in C. I can't think of a reference, but I to recall that bugs-per-line-of-code is nearly constant; it is not language dependent. So, unscientifically, the more work you can get done in a line of code, then the fewer bugs you'll have per amount of work done. -- Neil Cerutti

Re: Tree library - multiple children

2013-12-12 Thread Neil Cerutti
on makes it very easy to manipulate such a structure. It isn't clear that you need more than that yet. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Experiences/guidance on teaching Python as a first programming language

2013-12-11 Thread Neil Cerutti
make them use rocks to bang nails >>in, because it will make them better carpenters in the long >>run. > > NAILS > > Nails were verboten in my high school wood working class... > > We used dowels and glue; chisels to carve dove-tails; etc. ...

Re: One liners

2013-12-09 Thread Neil Cerutti
h a fish. A new Python programmer can generally just get her code working in a fairly comfortable way, then possibly rewrite it once her first few programs become horrifying years later. I haven't found time to rewrite all of mine yet. I still have a program I use almost every day with an

Re: Does Python optimize low-power functions?

2013-12-06 Thread Neil Cerutti
ization of the style I think your describing that I can see is it quickly returns zero when modulus is one. I'm not a skilled or experienced CPython source reader, though. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers?

2013-12-06 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2013-12-04, Piotr Dobrogost wrote: > On Wednesday, December 4, 2013 10:41:49 PM UTC+1, Neil Cerutti > wrote: >> not something to do commonly. Your proposed syntax leaves the >> distinction between valid and invalid identifiers a problem >> the programmer has to dea

Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers?

2013-12-04 Thread Neil Cerutti
ntifiers as attributes is generally a bad idea, not something to do commonly. Your proposed syntax leaves the distinction between valid and invalid identifiers a problem the programmer has to deal with. It doesn't unify access to attributes the way the getattr and setattr do. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Unicode handling wins again -- mostly

2013-12-04 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2013-12-04, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: > Yon intuitively pointed a very important feature of "unicode". > However, it is not necessary, this is exactly what unicode does > (when used properly). Unicode only provides character sets. It's not a natural language par

Re: [OT] Managing Google Groups headaches

2013-12-04 Thread Neil Cerutti
cost of switching isn't zero, but it's much easier than emmigrating from a police state. Moreover, I'll always feel that I deserve more than I actually do deserve. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: The input and output is as wanted, but why error?

2013-12-03 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2013-12-03, geezl...@gmail.com wrote: >> x = input() Your first problem is that input() returns text only up the a newline, and then stops. So you are reading the initial number line, but never reading the rest of the lines. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/li

Re: The input and output is as wanted, but why error?

2013-12-03 Thread Neil Cerutti
> else: > SystemExit > > The input and output is as wanted, but my answer keep rejected, > here is my source code http://txt.do/1smv No, your program outputs nothing. That's bound to fail. ;) How is your program supposed to work, in your own words? -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Unicode handling wins again -- mostly

2013-12-03 Thread Neil Cerutti
point sequence into one, and normalizing can lose or mangle information. There are good examples here: http://unicode.org/reports/tr15/ > Thanks for this excellent post. Agreed. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Managing Google Groups headaches

2013-12-02 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2013-12-02, Roy Smith wrote: > In article , > Neil Cerutti wrote: > >> On 2013-11-28, Roy Smith wrote: >> > In article , >> > Alister wrote: >> >> Perhaps the best option is for everybody to bombard Google >> >> with bug repor

Re: Managing Google Groups headaches

2013-12-02 Thread Neil Cerutti
lar, into a low opinion of Google. The crappy usenet portal is poor marketing. I wish they'd never bought dejanews. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python and PEP8 - Recommendations on breaking up long lines?

2013-11-27 Thread Neil Cerutti
e them. with contextlib.ExitStack() as stack: input = stack.enter_context(open(self.full_path, 'r')) writer = csv.writer(stack.enter_context(open(self.output_csv))) When working with a csv file I like how it removes the output temporary file object variable, though if you needed

Re: Wrapping around a list

2013-11-27 Thread Neil Cerutti
nations(s, i+1): print(comb) Output: ('L',) ('E',) ('Q',) ('N',) ('L', 'E') ('L', 'Q') ('L', 'N') ('E', 'Q') ('E', 'N') ('Q', 'N') ('L', 'E', 'Q') ('L', 'E', 'N') ('L', 'Q', 'N') ('E', 'Q', 'N') ('L', 'E', 'Q', 'N') For some reason I've got more 2-character combinations than you, though. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: parsing nested unbounded XML fields with ElementTree

2013-11-26 Thread Neil Cerutti
ef process(self, name): print("Node {} Nest {}".format(name, '/'.join(self.names))) # Do your stuff. def endElement(self, name): self.names.pop() print(sys.version_info) handler = NodeHandler() parser = sax.parse(io.StringIO(the_xml), handler) Output: sys.version_info

Re: Newbie - Trying to Help a Friend

2013-11-21 Thread Neil Cerutti
ies of British children's literature, The Wombles, and a British TV show, Steptoe and Son, but the characters work fine on their own. But even so, I agree that a footnote is a good idea. And I haven't always lived up to that ideal, myself. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Using try-catch to handle multiple possible file types?

2013-11-20 Thread Neil Cerutti
ases where entering context is optional, and so also works for this use case. with contextlib.ExitStack() as stack: try: f = gzip.open('blah.txt', 'rb') except IOError: f = open('blah.txt', 'rb') stack.enter_context(f) for line in

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