Re: which datastructure for fast sorted insert?

use a set to store them: >>> s=set() >>> s.add('a') >>> s.add('b') >>> s set(['a', 'b']) >>> s.add('a') >>> s set(['a', 'b']) >>> s.add('c') >>> s set(['a', 'c', 'b']) >>> it does remove duplicates, but is it not ordered. to order it you can use: >>> l=list(s) >>> l.sort() >>> l ['a', 'b', 'c']

Re: Unicode error handler

It does the job. Thanks a lot, Ray Peter Otten wrote: > Rares Vernica wrote: > >> Is there an encode/decode error handler that can replace all the >> not-ascii letters from iso-8859-1 with their closest ascii letter? > > A mapping, not an error handler, but it mig

Unicode error handler

Hi, Does anyone know of any Unicode encode/decode error handler that does a better replace job than the default replace error handler? For example I have an iso-8859-1 string that has an 'e' with an accent (you know, the French 'e's). When I use s.encode('ascii', 'replace') the 'e' will be rep

Re: remove a list from a list

This solution I think is pretty nice: source[:] = [x for x in source if x.lower() not in target] Thanks a lot for all the answers, Ray Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 12:00:46 -0800, Rares Vernica wrote: > >> Problem context: >> >> import os >&g

Re: remove a list from a list

The problem with skipping over them is that "walk" would still walk them and their content. If they have a lot of other dirs and files inside then this might end up being time consuming. Thanks, Ray Neil Cerutti wrote: > On 2006-11-17, Rares Vernica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

Re: remove a list from a list

Sorry for not being clear from the beginning and for not using clear variable names. Problem context: import os dirs_exclude = set(('a', 'b', 'e')) for root, dirs, files in os.walk('python/Lib/email'): # Task: # delete from "dirs" the directory names from "dirs_exclude" # case-ins

Re: remove a list from a list

Yeah, I ended up doing a similar kind of loop. That is pretty messy. Is there any other way? Thanks, Ray Tim Chase wrote: >> That is a nice solution. >> >> But, how about modifying the list in place? >> >> That is, l would become ['c', 'D']. >> >>> >>> e = ['a', 'b', 'e'] >>> >>> l = ['A', 'a'

Re: remove a list from a list

That is a nice solution. But, how about modifying the list in place? That is, l would become ['c', 'D']. Thanks a lot, Ray Tim Chase wrote: >> I have a list like >>e = ['a', 'b', 'e'] >> and another list like >>l = ['A', 'a', 'c', 'D', 'E'] >> I would like to remove from l all the eleme

remove a list from a list

Hi, I have the following problem: I have a list like e = ['a', 'b', 'e'] and another list like l = ['A', 'a', 'c', 'D', 'E'] I would like to remove from l all the elements that appear in e case-insensitive. That is, the result would be r = ['c', 'D'] What is a *nice* way of doing it?

Re: use of (a**b) (a*b)

Hi, Check out some examples: In [16]: 9./2 Out[16]: 4.5 In [17]: 9.//2 Out[17]: 4 In [18]: 2*3 Out[18]: 6 In [19]: 2**3 Out[19]: 8 Here is the documentation for these operations: http://docs.python.org/lib/typesnumeric.html Regards, Ray Santosh Chikkerur wrote: > Hi Friends, > Let me know th

Re: Physical constants

Hi, I am not sure how the constants are implemented in math, but here is how I would do it. The main idea is to declare the constants as globals in some file. Declare all the constants in a file: const.py --- pi = 3.14 Whenever you want to use pi from another file, just do: somecode.py --- fro

Re: unescape HTML entities

252 fc ý=(xfd) # 253 fd þ=(xfe)# 254 fe é=(xe9) ê=(xea) ë=(xeb) ì=(xec) í=(xed) î=(xee) ï=(xef) In [19]: Thanks, Ray Frederic Rentsch wrote: > Rares Vernica wrote: >> Hi, >> >> How can I unescape HTML entities like " "? >> >> I know ab

Re: unescape HTML entities

e "py". Thanks, Ray Frederic Rentsch wrote: > Rares Vernica wrote: >> Hi, >> >> How can I unescape HTML entities like " "? >> >> I know about xml.sax.saxutils.unescape() but it only deals with "&", >> "<", and ">

Re: unescape HTML entities

Hi, How does your code deal with ' like entities? Thanks, Ray Klaus Alexander Seistrup wrote: > Rares Vernica wrote: > >> How can I unescape HTML entities like " "? >> >> I know about xml.sax.saxutils.unescape() but it only deals with >>

Re: unescape HTML entities

Thanks a lot for all the answers! Ray Frederic Rentsch wrote: > Rares Vernica wrote: >> Hi, >> >> How can I unescape HTML entities like " "? >> >> I know about xml.sax.saxutils.unescape() but it only deals with "&", >> "<

unescape HTML entities

Hi, How can I unescape HTML entities like " "? I know about xml.sax.saxutils.unescape() but it only deals with "&", "<", and ">". Also, I know about htmlentitydefs.entitydefs, but not only this dictionary is the opposite of what I need, it does not have " ". It has to be in python 2.4. Thank

Re: locale, format monetary values

That's it. Thanks a lot! There is no example on the locale.format in the docs so I was confused. Regards, Ray deelan wrote: > Rares Vernica wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Can I use locale to format monetary values? If yes, how? If no, is >> there something I can use? &

locale, format monetary values

Hi, Can I use locale to format monetary values? If yes, how? If no, is there something I can use? E.g., I have 1 and I want to get "$10,000". Thanks, Ray -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

readline support

Hi, I am trying to get readline support in python. I am working on Linux and I have the latest version from svn. After I ./configure and make I can run python, but the readline support is not there. If I do: %./configure >& out.txt %grep readline out.txt checking for readline in -lreadline...

re.search

Hi, Isn't the following code supposed to return ('1994')? >>> re.search('(\d{4})?', '4 1994').groups() (None,) Thanks, Ray -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list