Re: Overuse of try/except/else?

2011-05-10 Thread Paul Probert
for my uses, its handy to let things raise exceptions willy nilly in the lower level functions, and do the catching in the higher level function. Paul Probert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: wxPython gurus, please help

2009-05-24 Thread Paul Probert
Jive Dadson wrote: >I have an application that opens an image file of the user's choice. > I have an exception handler for the case that the user selected a bad > or unsupported image file. My code is catching the exception, but > unfortunately for me, after I exit the except-clause, wxPytho

Re: Python arrays and sting formatting options

2008-10-01 Thread Paul Probert
gt; If not full-up scipy (which provides all sorts of scientific > and numerical-analysis stuff), then at least numpy (which > provides the basic array/matrix operations: > > http://numpy.scipy.org/ > > Though the software is free, the documentation isn't. You've > got to buy the book if you want something to read. IMO, it's > definitely worth it, and a good way to support the project even > if you don't really need something to keep your bookends apart. clip ... The book is free now, as of Aug 21, 08. http://www.tramy.us/guidetoscipy.html Paul Probert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: wxPython problem

2008-09-08 Thread Paul Probert
n a program running under Tk, such as IDLE. Something about competing GUI's. If you want a replacement, you can try pycrust or one of its brethren, which ship with wxpython. Paul Probert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Problem solved: Re: time.sleep(1) sometimes runs for 200 seconds under windows

2006-02-24 Thread Paul Probert
quot;about" 200 seconds but always within 199 to 202 seconds. Very strange, but it is good to have the problem gone. Enjoy the weekend! Paul Probert University of Wisconsin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: time.sleep(1) sometimes runs for 200 seconds under windows

2006-02-24 Thread Paul Probert
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: >On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:56:09 -0600, Paul Probert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > > > > >> Thanks for the reply. I should have mentioned, this happens to just >>about every machine in our collect

Re: time.sleep(1) sometimes runs for 200 seconds under windows

2006-02-24 Thread Paul Probert
Grant Edwards wrote: >Time to dowload a linux CD then, eh? > > > We are looking at that very seriously. The big hurdle is that we run a lot of laboratory hardware that has no support under linux. A world where there is no more Kazaa or sasser seems like it would be wonderful, t

Re: time.sleep(1) sometimes runs for 200 seconds under windows

2006-02-23 Thread Paul Probert
) dt=newtime-oldtime if dt > 2: print 'dt=',dt,' time=',time.strftime('%Y_%m_%d_%Hh_%Mm_%Ss') Its happening roughly 4 times a day total on our 20 machines, ie about once every 5 days on a given machine. Paul Probert University of Wisconsin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: time.sleep(1) sometimes runs for 200 seconds under windows

2006-02-23 Thread Paul Probert
Benji York wrote: >Paul Probert wrote: > > Hi, My app runs in a loop looking for changes in a database, and like > > a good boy I call time.sleep(1) inside the loop. Unfortunately this > > sometimes runs for 200 seconds or so, presumably while my OS is > > calling Bill

Re: time.sleep(1) sometimes runs for 200 seconds under windows

2006-02-23 Thread Paul Probert
verheating? > >Claudio > > Claudio, Thanks for the reply. I should have mentioned, this happens to just about every machine in our collection of about 20 machines. Each is of a different age, and the hardware is completely diverse. Each has either of NT4, win2k, or XP instal

time.sleep(1) sometimes runs for 200 seconds under windows

2006-02-23 Thread Paul Probert
nd XP. What do people do to fix this? Thanks! Paul Probert University of Wisconsin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: calculating on matrix indices

2006-02-17 Thread Paul Probert
the same though. Using nonzero, put, and take, I can do what you want like this: import Numeric as num t=num.arange(0,20,.1) x=num.zeros(len(t),'f') idx=num.nonzero(t>5) tau=5. num.put(x,idx,num.exp(-num.take(t,idx)/tau)) Kinda messy compared to Matlab. Do you know about Octave