Re: Correct syntax for pathological re.search()

2024-10-08 Thread Pieter van Oostrum via Python-list
r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes: > "Michael F. Stemper" wrote or quoted: > > path = r'C:\Windows\example' + '\\' > You could even omit the '+'. Then the concatenation is done at parsing time instead of run time. -- Pieter van

Re: From JoyceUlysses.txt -- words occurring exactly once

2024-05-31 Thread Pieter van Oostrum via Python-list
unit. > That is a famous Unix task : (Sorry, no Python) grep -o '\w*' JoyceUlysses.txt | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -- Pieter van Oostrum www: http://pieter.vanoostrum.org/ PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: A technique from a chatbot

2024-04-03 Thread Pieter van Oostrum via Python-list
ly: print("something_to_be_done_at_the_end_of_this_function()") -- Pieter van Oostrum www: http://pieter.vanoostrum.org/ PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Are Floating Point Numbers still a Can of Worms?

2022-10-23 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
cigar. (%i10) bfloat(2.718281828459045b0) - bfloat(%e); (%o10) - 2.35360287471352802147785151603b-16 Fricas: (1) -> 2.718281828459045^0.8618974796837966 (1) 2.367648_98319 (2) -> exp(0.8618974796837966) (2) 2.367649_00086 -- Pieter van Oostrum www: http://pieter.vanoostrum.org/ PGP

Re: jupyter console vs. ipython in Emacs

2021-12-20 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
Pieter van Oostrum writes: > My Python development environment is Emacs. I used to use 'jupyter > console --simple-prompt' (driven by Emacs comint) to do interactive > work, but it has the disadvantage that it doesn't work properly with > multiline input, inclu

jupyter console vs. ipython in Emacs

2021-12-19 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
--simple-prompt' in Emacs does work with multiline statements. No idea why jupyter console doesn't. Is there any advantage in using jupyter console over ipython? -- Pieter van Oostrum www: http://pieter.vanoostrum.org/ PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: HTML extraction

2021-12-08 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
rc/lxml/parser.pxi", line 615, in lxml.etree._ParserContext._handleParseResultDoc File "src/lxml/parser.pxi", line 725, in lxml.etree._handleParseResult File "src/lxml/parser.pxi", line 654, in lxml.etree._raiseParseError File "", line 1 XMLSyntaxError: Premature end of data in tag hr line 1, line 1, column 13 -- Pieter van Oostrum www: http://pieter.vanoostrum.org/ PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Negative subscripts

2021-11-26 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
est, or is the only > alternative to use if...then...else to cater for y = 0? If you put it in a function with x and y as parameters, then both x and y are just a simple identifier inside the function. And then you can then even eliminate the if with for item in x[:len(x)-y]: -- Pieter van O

Re: Recursion on list

2021-11-04 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
ast writes: >> li = [] >> li.append(li) >> li > [[...]] > >>li[0][0][0][0] > [[...]] > > That's funny > You made a list whose only element is itself. In [1]: li = [] In [3]: li.append(li) In [4]: li[0] is li Out[4]: True -- Pieter van Oost

Re: Python 2.7 and 3.9

2021-02-18 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
ottom of your posts. > White space aids readability and readability counts. :) The separator line should be '-- ' (without quotes), i.e. with a trailing space. -- Pieter van Oostrum www: http://pieter.vanoostrum.org/ PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Jupyter notebooks to A4 (again)

2021-01-31 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
However, due to a bug this won't work unless you patch the nbconvert export code. This is a simple one-line patch. See https://github.com/jupyter/nbconvert/pull/1496/commits/a61a2241a87912005720d3412ccd7ef7b5fce6dd -- Pieter van Oostrum www: http://pieter.vanoostrum.org/ PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Jupyter notebooks to A4 (again)

2021-01-28 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
Martin Schöön writes: > Hello all, > > Some years ago I asked about exporting notebooks to pdf in > A4 rather than US Letter. I got help, rather detailed > instructions from you in general and Piet von Oostrum in Who now calls himself Pieter van Oostrum, just like hi

Re: news.bbs.nz is spewing duplicates to comp.lang.python

2020-04-22 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
;head" ("Injection-Info: news.bbs.nz" -1002 nil s)) i.e. each message that contains "news.bbs.nz" in the "Injection-Info" header will be made invisible. This solved the problem for me. -- Pieter van Oostrum www: http://pieter.vanoostrum.org/ PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Why is a generator expression called a expression?

2020-04-21 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
list [","] | comprehension] ")" comprehension ::= expression comp_for The last part is the inner part (i.e. without the parentheses) of generator_expression. -- Pieter van Oostrum www: http://pieter.vanoostrum.org/ PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Floating point problem

2020-04-21 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
2 + 11 + 1 == 64. > Yep, floating point is fun. > > That assumed top 1 bit is always there, except when it isn't. Because > denormal numbers are a thing. They don't have that implied 1 bit. Yes, for subnormal numbers the implicit bit *is* stored. They are characterized by

Re: Floating point problem

2020-04-19 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
the 0.4 followed by 6 more digits. > Anything further is, in effect, up for grabs. > Most Python implementations use 64-bit doubles (53 bits of precision). See https://docs.python.org/3.8/tutorial/floatingpoint.html -- Pieter van Oostrum www: http://pieter.vanoostrum.org/ PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Helping Windows first time users

2020-04-19 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
L page describing the first steps to start using Python. It could mention the command line (py) to be used with a text editor (some recommendations) and IDLE. And how not to double click .py files :) -- Pieter van Oostrum www: http://pieter.vanoostrum.org/ PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python launcher

2020-04-15 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
rably something that is displayed immediately after installation of in some other way is prominently displayed. I am not on Windows myself, so I am afraid I will not be of much help in this respect. -- Pieter van Oostrum www: http://pieter.vanoostrum.org/ PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Is it possible to inheret a metaclass.

2020-04-11 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
Pieter van Oostrum writes: > Your Pardon is not a class, it is a function. Class A is created by > type(cls, *args), so 'type' is the metaclass of A, and therefore also of > B. > Creation of B does not call Pardon. With a class it *does* work: In [74]: class Pardon(t

Re: Is it possible to inheret a metaclass.

2020-04-10 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
t you can give a function as metaclass. But that seems to be part of the specification. The function result is what the 'class' becomes. You can even have it return something else. Then the 'class' wouldn't really be a class. In [65]: def meta(cls, *args): return 1 In [66]: class A(metaclass=meta): pass In [67]: A Out[67]: 1 -- Pieter van Oostrum www: http://pieter.vanoostrum.org/ PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python script to give a list of prime no.

2020-04-05 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
break if is_prime: print(a) a = a + 2 Further optimizations are possible, for example use range(2,a/2) or even range (2, sqrt(a)). -- Pieter van Oostrum www: http://pieter.vanoostrum.org/ PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: dynamic import of dynamically created modules failes

2020-03-31 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
Pieter van Oostrum writes: > > The first import creates a file __pycache__ in the directory p1. That should be 'a directory __pycache__' > To remove it use rmtree(path.join(P1,'__pycache__')) > Then the second import will succeed. > -- > Pieter van Oostr

Re: dynamic import of dynamically created modules failes

2020-03-31 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
file __pycache__ in the directory p1. To remove it use rmtree(path.join(P1,'__pycache__')) Then the second import will succeed. -- Pieter van Oostrum www: http://pieter.vanoostrum.org/ PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: 0x80070643 python download error

2020-03-30 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
rror appears. -- Pieter van Oostrum www: http://pieter.vanoostrum.org/ PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PEP Idea: Multi-get for lists/tuples and dictionaries (inspired in NumPy)

2020-03-19 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
... 'last_name': 'Allen', ... 'email': 'fal...@ibm.com' ... }) In [37]: d Out[37]: {'first_name': 'Frances', 'last_name': 'Allen', 'email': 'fal...@ibm.com'} In [3

Re: Why is the program not printing three lines?

2020-03-19 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
this so? 'From first' is the result of the class definition. 'from second' is the result of first.second(). And first() doesn't produce any output. Your problem is probably that you think that the call first() executes all the statements in the class definition. It doesn

Re: Why is the program not printing three lines?

2020-03-19 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
x27;t print anything, because the print statement is not part of the class __init__ code. In [28]: first.second() >From second That's expected. In [29]: first.second() >From second Again. -- Pieter van Oostrum www: http://pieter.vanoostrum.org/ PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Can you help me solve this?

2020-03-16 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
Pieter van Oostrum writes: > Joseph Nail writes: > >> Hello, >> I have one problem. Somehow in my function when I wrote y=x, they are the >> same variable and then it also changes age or height (which were x) in the >> main program. See more in attached file.

Re: Can you help me solve this?

2020-03-16 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
you write y = x, then they are not the same variable, but they point to (the proper Python language is they are bound to) the same object. Now if you say x.age = 20, then y.age will also be 20 (it's the same object). -- Pieter van Oostrum www: http://pieter.vanoostrum.org/ PGP key: [8DAE142

Re: using classes

2020-03-13 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
not something you provide yourself. Your arguments are bez, ge, ins. class PKW(Fahrzeug):     def __init__(self, bez, ge, ins): -- Pieter van Oostrum www: http://pieter.vanoostrum.org/ PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: using classes

2020-03-12 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
econd way can be used in Python 3. -- Pieter van Oostrum www: http://pieter.vanoostrum.org/ PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: iterate through an irregular nested list in Python

2020-03-07 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
' else: yield from reclist(item) else: yield item for i in reclist(aList): print(i, end=',') This gives you an extra comma at the end, unfortunately. But it is the pattern for other types of processing. Or use it like this: print (','.join(str(i) for i in reclist(aList))) -- Pieter van Oostrum www: http://pieter.vanoostrum.org/ PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: iterate through an irregular nested list in Python

2020-03-06 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
' else: yield from reclist(item) else: yield item for i in reclist(aList): print(i, end=',') This gives you an extra comma at the end, unfortunately. But it is the pattern for other types of processing. Or use it like this: print (','.join(str(i) for i in reclist(aList))) -- Pieter van Oostrum www: http://pieter.vanoostrum.org/ PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ÿ in Unicode

2020-03-06 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
t;Is there something about the output that puzzles you? >> No >> >>>Did you have a question? >> No, only a comment >> >> This buggy language is very amusing. > > What's the bug, or source of amusement? The bug is in the mental world of the OP. -- Pieter van Oostrum www: http://pieter.vanoostrum.org/ PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ÿ in Unicode

2020-03-06 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
'Ä¿'.encode('utf-16-le') >>> > b'\xff\x00' >>> >>>> 'Ä¿'.encode('utf-32-le') >>> > b'\xff\x00\x00\x00' >> >>> That all looks as expected. >> Yes >> >>>Is there some

Re: iterate through an irregular nested list in Python

2020-03-06 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
' else: yield from reclist(item) else: yield item for i in reclist(aList): print(i, end=',') This gives you an extra comma at the end, unfortunately. But it is the pattern for other types of processing. Or use it like this: print (','.join(str(i) for i in reclist(aList))) -- Pieter van Oostrum www: http://pieter.vanoostrum.org/ PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: iterate through an irregular nested list in Python

2020-03-06 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
' else: yield from reclist(item) else: yield item for i in reclist(aList): print(i, end=',') This gives you an extra comma at the end, unfortunately. But it is the pattern for other types of processing. Or use it like this: print (','.join(str(i) for i in reclist(aList))) -- Pieter van Oostrum www: http://pieter.vanoostrum.org/ PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ÿ in Unicode

2020-03-06 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
t; 'ÿ'.encode('utf-16-le') >>> > b'\xff\x00' >>> >>>> 'ÿ'.encode('utf-32-le') >>> > b'\xff\x00\x00\x00' >> >>> That all looks as expected. >> Yes >> >>>Is there somet

Re: How to compare in python an input value with an hashed value in mysql table?

2020-01-16 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
er file name with open(secretfile, 'rb') as fd: secret = fd.read() key = 'goldQ3T8-1QRD-5QBI-9F22' bkey = key.encode('ascii') h = hmac.new(secret, bkey, hashlib.sha256) print('hd (hex): ', h.hexdigest()) -- Pieter van Oostrum www: http://piet

Re: Help

2020-01-16 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
kiran chawan writes: > Whenever Iam trying to run this 'New latest version python software 3.8.4 > python ' but it doesn't show any install option and it say ' modify set up > ' So tell what to do sir plz help me out. There is no Python 3.8.4

Re: How to compare in python an input value with an hashed value in mysql table?

2020-01-14 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
n the database. Of course this only works if that stored hash has been calculated in the same way from the same key. On Python 2 (which you shouldn't use) you can leave out the "key = bytes(key, 'ascii')" part. You can of course make it more sophisticated, for example by

Re: Relative import cannot find .so submodule?

2020-01-13 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
the import system. Are you running python 3.6? I tried this on python 3.7 and it worked, but the file is called _rtmidi.cpython-37m-darwin.so there (37 for python3.7, and the d is missing, I don't know what that indicates). -- Pieter van Oostrum www: http://pieter.vanoostrum.org/ PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: I need to create .odt or .rtf documents in Python3. what is the best tool to do this....

2020-01-12 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
anyone have any suggestions? > > chris https://github.com/eea/odfpy -- Pieter van Oostrum www: http://pieter.vanoostrum.org/ PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: looking for git with a solution - merge many pdfs to 1 pdf (no matter what language)

2020-01-08 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
alon.naj...@gmail.com writes: > hi > looking for git with a solution - merge many pdfs to 1 pdf (no matter what > language) There is a clone of pdftk on github: https://github.com/ericmason/pdftk Another possibility is mupdf: http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git -- Pieter van Oo

Re: name 'sys' is not defined

2019-12-30 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
he name sys is used in the imported module, that module has to import sys. Importing it in the calling code doesn't help. So I would say this is a bug in the module. You should report the bug to its author. In the meantime you can correct your own copy at ~/opt/miniconda3/envs/py3/

Re: urllib unqoute providing string mismatch between string found using os.walk (Python3)

2019-12-21 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
character, Unicode 0xF3, LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH ACUTE. In (a) it is composed of the letter o and the accent "́" (Unicode 0x301). So you would have to do Unicode normalisation before comparing. For example: In [16]: from unicodedata import normalize In [17]: a == b Out[17]: False

Re: hexdump module installation error

2019-12-19 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
> > user@USERnoMacBook-Air LibraBrowser % Could it be that your pip3 belongs to a different Python than the one above (for example a Python 3.8 or 3.6)? What is the output of 'pip3 --version' (without quotes)? -- Pieter van Oostrum www: http://pieter.vanoostrum.org/ PGP key: [8D

Re: INHERITANCE in python3

2019-12-19 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
p.family)``` Please next time, supply a properly indented Python source, with only normal ASCII spaces, not no-break spaces, i.e. exactly like in your Python source code. > > The Username class also needs to call super(). In general, super() is > intended to be used with all classes that

Re: os.system vs subrocess.call

2019-11-28 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
#x27;], shell=True) > > I get > > Test.py: 1: Test.py: ./: Permission denied > Why would you do that, splitting './Test.py' in two parts? That doesn't work. > Is there a simple way to use subprocess in this usecase? > subprocess.call(['./Test.py']) -- Pieter van Oostrum www: http://pieter.vanoostrum.org/ PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Global variable is undefined at the module level

2019-11-23 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
; testfunc() >>> globvar Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in NameError: name 'globvar' is not defined >>> def testfunc(): ... global globvar ... globvar = 1 ... >>> globvar Traceback (most recent call last): File

Re: revise "([^/]+)$" into '([^/]+)$' in a lot of files under a directory.

2019-11-18 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
Hongyi Zhao writes: > On Sun, 17 Nov 2019 20:28:55 +0100, Pieter van Oostrum wrote: > >> To be honest, I myself would use Emacs, with rgrep and wgrep to do this. > > Are these tools superior to grep? They are based on grep. But rgrep does a grep through a whole directory tre

Re: revise "([^/]+)$" into '([^/]+)$' in a lot of files under a directory.

2019-11-17 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
Pieter van Oostrum writes: > It isn't that difficult with sed, only you have to chose a different > character than / in the substitute command, one that is not present in > both texts, e.g instead of s/a/b/ use s=a=b=. > > And then the special characters " ' () [

Re: revise "([^/]+)$" into '([^/]+)$' in a lot of files under a directory.

2019-11-17 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
al characters " ' () [ and $ must be escaped for the shell, and [ and $ also for the regexp. Then it comes down to sed -e s=\"\(\\[^/]+\)\\$\"=\'\(\[^/]+\)\$\'= file -- Pieter van Oostrum WWW: http://pieter.vanoostrum.org/ PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: nonlocal fails ?

2019-11-15 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
t is called from Func2, it uses MyVar from Func2? If that is what you mean, that would be dynamic scope. -- Pieter van Oostrum WWW: http://pieter.vanoostrum.org/ PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Funny behavior of IDLE 3.7.0

2019-11-12 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
fication (:...). {i=} is not a correct expression. When you remove the »f«, it becomes a normal string, where the {} don't have a special meaning. -- Pieter van Oostrum WWW: http://pieter.vanoostrum.org/ PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: __instancecheck__ metaclasses, how do they work: why do I get True when I tuple, why doesn't print run?

2019-11-05 Thread Pieter van Oostrum
In [8]: class MA(type): ...: def __instancecheck__(cls, inst): ...: print ("MA", cls, inst) ...: ...: class AM(list, metaclass = MA): pass ...: class AM2(AM): pass ...: ...: am = AM2() In [9]: isinstance(am, AM) MA [] Out[9]: False -- Pieter van Oostrum WW