Re: Is their an expression to create a class?

2009-03-17 Thread Donald 'Paddy'; McCarthy
Chris Rebert wrote: On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Robert Kern wrote: On 2009-03-17 16:13, Paddy wrote: We the def statement and the lambda expression. We have the class statement, but is their an expression to create a class? Or: def F(): pass type(F) # Is to: F2 = lambda : none type(

Re: Question: How do I format printing in python

2008-06-25 Thread Donald 'Paddy'; McCarthy
Lie wrote: On Jun 24, 12:12 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, How do I format printed data in python? I could not find this in the Python Reference Manual:http://docs.python.org/ref/print.html Nor could I find it in Matloff's great tutorial:http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/Python/Pyt

Re: Python 2.5 adoption

2008-04-19 Thread Donald 'Paddy'; McCarthy
Joseph Turian wrote: > Basically, we're planning on releasing it as open-source, and don't > want to alienate a large percentage of potential users. Then develop for 2.5 with an eye on what is to come this year in 2.6 with regard to already planned deprecations. - Paddy. -- http://mail.python.o

pprint module and newer standard types

2008-04-17 Thread Donald 'Paddy'; McCarthy
Hi, When I try and use pprint on standard types I get varying 'quality of output'. Lists will wrap nicely to multiple lines as will dicts, but sets and defaultdicts give one long unreadable line. Is their a chance to get this changed so that more built-in types look pretty when printed with pprin

Re: alternating string replace: Extended input (Long).

2008-01-09 Thread Donald 'Paddy'; McCarthy
cesco wrote: I created some more test strings and ran posters solutions against them. results attached. - Paddy. # alternating_replacements.py tests = " 1 2_ 3_4 5_6_ 7_8_9 10_11_12_ 13_14_15_16 17_18_19_20_" \ " _ _21 _22_ _23_24 _25_26_ _27_28_29 _30_31_32_ _33_34_35_36" \ " __ _

Re: Is Python really a scripting language?

2007-12-12 Thread Donald 'Paddy'; McCarthy
Doug Morse wrote: > although perhaps not a part of the definition of scripting languages per se, > one aspect of them is that they are often used to "glue" a wide variety of > other components together. perl's initial and continued success is in no > small part to all the wrappers and interfaces i

Re: EuroPython vs PyconUK

2007-04-26 Thread Donald 'Paddy'; McCarthy
EuGeNe Van den Bulke wrote: > I do realize that the UK is not really part of Europe (no polemic :P) > but I am nevertheless curious about the logic behind creating another > major Python event in Europe. Wasn't EuroPython enough? > > Like many I am sure, I probably won't be able to attend both (

Re: Where did my post go?

2007-04-25 Thread Donald 'Paddy'; McCarthy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I posted to this newsgroup earlier about my annoyances with python and > now I can't find the post. What did you do with it? > I notice a gmail address. Google groups was not updated for over a day and is still 'behind'. Try another news reader. - Paddy -- http://mai

Re: Python not giving free memory back to the os get's me in real problems ...

2007-04-25 Thread Donald 'Paddy'; McCarthy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So I read quite a few things about this phenomenon in Python 2.4.x but > I can hardly believe that there is really no solution to my problem. > > We use a commercial tool that has a macro functionality. These macros > are written in python. So far nothing extraordinary.

combining several lambda equations

2005-02-18 Thread Paddy McCarthy
Hi, I am trying to use eval as little as possible but solve this problem. #If given:two or more lambda equations x=lambda : A < B y=lambda : C+6 >= 7 ... How do I create another lambda expression Z equivalent to Z=lambda : (A=7) # i.e. the anding together of the originals, but without referenc

Re: Is Python as capable as Perl for sysadmin work?

2005-02-08 Thread Paddy McCarthy
Jeff Epler wrote: No. Unlike Perl, Python implements only a *finite turning machine* model of computation. An easy way to see this limitation is in the following code: >>> 1.0 / 10.0 0.10001 <> Jeff Nice, Made my evening :-) - Pad. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyt

Re: Choosing the right parser for parsing C headers

2005-02-08 Thread Paddy McCarthy
Jean de Largentaye wrote: Hi, I need to parse a subset of C (a header file), and generate some unit tests for the functions listed in it. I thus need to parse the code, then rewrite function calls with wrong parameters. What I call "shaking the broken tree" :) I chose to make my UT-generator in Pyt

Re: variable declaration

2005-02-03 Thread Paddy McCarthy
Alexander Zatvornitskiy wrote: Hello All! I'am novice in python, and I find one very bad thing (from my point of view) in language. There is no keyword or syntax to declare variable, like 'var' in Pascal, or special syntax in C. It can cause very ugly errors,like this: epsilon=0 S=0 while epsilon<1