Re: Controlling kwrite by dcop

2005-05-08 Thread R. C. James Harlow
On Sunday 08 May 2005 13:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As you can see you can interact with kwrite from dcop. > Unfortunately I don't have this module in my Python (2.3) nor I have > been able to find it. It's normally installed seperately from the main kde libraries - on gentoo it's a package c

Re: large dictionary creation takes a LOT of time.

2005-04-29 Thread R. C. James Harlow
On Friday 29 April 2005 11:53, Ville Vainio wrote: > > "Kent" == Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Kent> if frequency.has_key(word): > Kent> frequency[word] += 1 > Kent> else: > Kent> frequency[word] = 1 > > This is a good place to use 'get' method of dict: > > freque

Re: Do I need a nested lambda to do this?

2005-04-25 Thread R. C. James Harlow
On Tuesday 26 April 2005 00:34, raoul wrote: > I can't figure this one out. Trying to be unnecessarily functional I > suspect. With list comprehensions: Python 2.3.4 (#1, Mar 26 2005, 20:54:10) [GCC 3.3.4 20040623 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.4-r1, ssp-3.3.2-2, pie-8.7.6)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright"

Re: Multiple tuples for one for statement

2005-04-25 Thread R. C. James Harlow
On Monday 25 April 2005 14:34, Ivan Van Laningham wrote: > Hi All-- > > "R. C. James Harlow" wrote: > > or just: > > > > for a,b,c in (tup1, tup2, tup3): > > print a > > print b > > print c > > And this works in Python v

Re: Multiple tuples for one for statement

2005-04-25 Thread R. C. James Harlow
On Monday 25 April 2005 04:20, James Stroud wrote: > for a,b,c in zip(tup1, tup2, tup3): >print a >print b >print c or just: for a,b,c in (tup1, tup2, tup3): print a print b print c pgpJ0RNTnCUA3.pgp Description: PGP signature -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: Parsing data from URL

2005-04-24 Thread R. C. James Harlow
On Monday 25 April 2005 01:24, Harlin Seritt wrote: > dat = urllib.urlopen(url, 'r').read() Drop the 'r' - urlopen is posting the 'r' to the server, instead of doing what you mean, opening the file read-only. pgpmZ2zcMs1bO.pgp Description: PGP signature -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listi

Re: Variables

2005-04-24 Thread R. C. James Harlow
On Sunday 24 April 2005 03:20, Richard Blackwood wrote: > To All: > > Folks, I need your help. I have a friend who claims that if I write: > > foo = 5 > > then foo is NOT a variable, necessarily. This is a really amusingly recursive discussion. Your friend has a piece of knowledge, "what a

Re: goto statement

2005-04-21 Thread R. C. James Harlow
On Thursday 21 April 2005 17:42, Maxim Kasimov wrote: > > Have you tried the triple quote comment technique? > how do use this here: Simple. > sql = ''' > some long query > ''' Change this to: sql = """ some long query """ since you shouldn't be using multiple quoting styles in one module, an

Re: Piping data into script under Win32

2005-04-15 Thread R. C. James Harlow
On Saturday 16 April 2005 03:43, runes wrote: > type countlines.py | python countlines.py = Success > type countlines.py | countlines.py = Failure > > Why doesn't the latter work? Don't quote me on this, but I think it's because invoking countlines.py involves running some sort of wrapper that d

Re: Piping data into script under Win32

2005-04-15 Thread R. C. James Harlow
On Saturday 16 April 2005 03:11, runes wrote: > I trying to figure out a way to make a python script accept data output > from another process under Windows XP, but I fail miserably. I have a > vague memory having read this is not possible with Python under > Windows... > > C:\> type countlines.py

Re: Supercomputer and encryption and compression @ rate of 96%

2005-04-15 Thread R. C. James Harlow
On Thursday 14 April 2005 10:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Supercomputer and encryption and compression @ rate of 96% Dear Sir or Madam, I have received notification that you posted a compression algorithm on the newsgroup comp.lang.python on or about 10:27:26 on the 04/14/2005. I am writ

Re: Supercomputer and encryption and compression @ rate of 96%

2005-04-14 Thread R. C. James Harlow
On Thursday 14 April 2005 22:21, R. C. James Harlow wrote: > You have to do that before Fredrick's script works... Damn - 'Fredrik's' - I accidentally decompressed his name. pgpbUXNRRyNvA.pgp Description: PGP signature -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Supercomputer and encryption and compression @ rate of 96%

2005-04-14 Thread R. C. James Harlow
On Thursday 14 April 2005 22:18, Tiziano Bettio wrote: > Actually your script doesn't work on my python distribution... Works fine here - did you decompress the first bit of the python executable? You have to do that before Fredrick's script works... pgpYFHzjRTUoB.pgp Description: PGP signatur

Re: Python license (2.3)

2005-04-12 Thread R. C. James Harlow
On Tuesday 12 April 2005 09:51, Antoon Pardon wrote: > It seems I have to include the following in > my code: > > "Copyright (c) 2001, 2002 Python Software Foundation; >All Rights Reserved" > > Do I understand correctly? You are of course allowed to *add* your own copyright statement: "Copy

Re: database in python ?

2005-04-11 Thread R. C. James Harlow
On Monday 11 April 2005 11:01, Pierre-Frédéric Caillaud wrote: > psycopg ... has a dictfetchall() method which is worth its weight in > donuts ! It's very simple to write one for MySQLdb: def dictfetchall(cursor): '''Takes a MySQLdb cursor and returns the rows as dictionaries.''' col_nam