Re: Python usage numbers

2012-02-12 Thread Nick Dokos
rusi wrote: > On Feb 12, 10:51 am, Steven D'Aprano +comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > > On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:38:37 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > > > Everything that displays text to a human needs to translate bytes into > > > glyphs, and the usual way to do this conceptually is to go v

Re: Help writelines

2012-02-03 Thread Nick Dokos
Anatoli Hristov wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I`m totaly new in python and trying to figure out - how to write a list to a > file with a newline at the end of each object. > I tried alot of combinations :) like: > users = ['toli','didi'] > fob=open('c:/Python27/Toli/username','w') > fob.writelines(

Re: TypeError

2012-02-01 Thread Nick Dokos
Clark, Kathleen wrote: > TypeError: sequence item 1: expected string, NoneType found > > The error message is referencing line 86 of my code: > > ws.cell(row=row, column=1).value = ','.join([str(ino), fn, ln, sdob]) > > If I’m understanding this correctly, the code is expecting a string, but

Re: Determining version of OpenSSL linked against python?

2012-01-25 Thread Nick Dokos
Adam Mercer wrote: > On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 14:04, Terry Reedy wrote: > > > If you are not willing to tell Debian Squeeze users to install 2.7, or that > > they cannot run your program, ask the bug reporter to tell you what version > > of OpenSSL the system comes with and code it into your pro

Re: Libxml2 Python Manual

2012-01-24 Thread Nick Dokos
Mauricio Martinez Garcia wrote: >   For libxml2, are there any manual. For this library?, i searched on > google and just find the following URL xmlsoft.org Wich can not find > any API manual. > Did you check under "Reference Manual" at http://xmlsoft.org? That's the second entry in the Main Me

Re: Parsing a serial stream too slowly

2012-01-23 Thread Nick Dokos
M.Pekala wrote: > On Jan 23, 5:00 pm, Jon Clements wrote: > > On Jan 23, 9:48 pm, "M.Pekala" wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hello, I am having some trouble with a serial stream on a project I am > > > working on. I have an external board that is attached to a set of > > > sens

Re: Explanation about for

2012-01-10 Thread Nick Dokos
Νικόλαος Κούρας wrote: > On 10 Ιαν, 03:11, Ian Kelly wrote: > > 2012/1/9 Íéêüëáïò Êïýñáò : > > > > > if the MySQL query was: > > > > > cursor.execute( '''SELECT host, hits, agent, date FROM visitors WHERE pin > > > = > > > %s ORDER BY date DESC''', pin ) > > > > > can you help me imagine how th

Re: socket.gethostbyaddr( os.environ['REMOTE_ADDR'] error

2012-01-09 Thread Nick Dokos
Chris Angelico wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Dominic Binks wrote: > > The address database can have multiple names for the same IP address so > > gethostbyaddr returns a list - [0] being the first item in the list (and > > usually considered the canonical name) > > Point to note: Th

Re: Text Processing

2011-12-20 Thread Nick Dokos
Jérôme wrote: > Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:17:15 -0800 (PST) > Yigit Turgut a écrit: > > > Hi all, > > > > I have a text file containing such data ; > > > > ABC > > --- > > -2.0100e-018.000e-028.000e-0

Re: Need help with really elementary pexpect fragment

2011-12-19 Thread Nick Dokos
Saqib Ali wrote: > > I want to write a pexpect script that simply cd's into a directory ("~/ > install") and then runs a command from there. It should be so easy. > But even my cd command is failing. Can't figure out what the problem > is. The command line prompt is "[my machine name here] % " >

Re: Verbose and flexible args and kwargs syntax

2011-12-12 Thread Nick Dokos
gene heskett wrote: > On Monday, December 12, 2011 12:44:27 PM Chris Angelico did opine: > > > On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 2:55 AM, Nick Dokos > wrote: > > > Terry Reedy wrote: > > >> calculations are helped by the fact that (a+b) % c == a%c + b%c, so > &

Re: Verbose and flexible args and kwargs syntax

2011-12-12 Thread Nick Dokos
Jussi Piitulainen wrote: > Terry Reedy writes: > > On 12/12/2011 5:59 AM, Jussi Piitulainen wrote: > > > > > Past experience in mathematics newsgroups tells me > > > that some mathematicians do not accept the existence of any remainder > > > operator at all. > > > > Even though they carry hour/

Re: Verbose and flexible args and kwargs syntax

2011-12-12 Thread Nick Dokos
Terry Reedy wrote: > calculations are helped by the fact that (a+b) % c == a%c + b%c, so As long as we understand that == here does not mean "equal", only "congruent modulo c", e.g try a = 13, b = 12, c = 7. Nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [OT] Book authoring

2011-12-09 Thread Nick Dokos
Nick Dokos wrote: > There is also orgmode, which has been used for a few books > (http://orgmode.org ). I know it does HTML and PDF (the latter through > latex), but I'm not sure about ePub: ISTR somebody actually did ePub for > his book but I don't remember details. A

Re: [OT] Book authoring

2011-12-09 Thread Nick Dokos
Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2011-12-09, Miki Tebeka wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > Any recommendations for a book authoring system that supports the following: > > 1. Code examples (with syntax highlighting and line numbers) > > 2. Output HTML, PDF, ePub ... > > 3. Automatic TOC and index > > 4. Se

Re: Disable readline

2011-12-01 Thread Nick Dokos
Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:52 -0500, Roy Smith wrote: > > > Another possibility is setting your TERM environment variable to > > something that readline can't support: > > > > ~$ TERM=asr33 > > ~$ python > > Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Jun 24 2010, 21:47:49) [GCC 4.2.1 (Ap

Re: String splitting by spaces question

2011-11-23 Thread Nick Dokos
Alemu Tadesse wrote: > Can we use rsplit function on an array or vector of strings ? it works > for one not for vector > ... > > I have to parse a string and splitting it by spaces. The problem is > that the string can include substrings comprises by quotations which > must mantain the spaces.

Re: Data acquisition

2011-10-25 Thread Nick Dokos
spintronic wrote: > Dear friends, > > I have a trouble with understanding the following. I have a very short > script (shown below) which works fine if I "run" step by step (or line > by line) in Python shell (type the first line/command -> press Enter, > etc.). I can get all numbers (actually,

Re: How to use shell return value like $? In python?

2011-10-23 Thread Nick Dokos
David Riley wrote: > On Oct 23, 2011, at 10:44 PM, aaabb...@hotmail.com wrote: > > > exp: > > os.system('ls -al') > > #I like to catch return value after this command. 0 or 1,2,3 > > does python support to get "$?"? > > then I can use something like: > > If $?==0: > > > > ..