Christophe enlightened us with:
> I don't think it's a good idea because when you place a try catch
> block around a function call, you'll catch any exception thrown by
> the function itself and not only the "cannot be called" exception.
That depends on the exception you're catching, doesn't it?
elderic enlightened us with:
> are there other ways than the ones below to check for 'function'> in a python script?
First of all, why would you want to? If you want to call the object
as a function, just do so. Handle the exception that is raised when
it's raised.
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John Salerno enlightened us with:
> Hmm, looks like this doesn't work anyway if open() doesn't work,
> because then f.close() raises an UnboundLocalError for obvious
> reasons.
Neither work 100% correct, actually. If the file can be located and
opened, but not read, the message
Could not loca
alf enlightened us with:
> I have a command line program which also does some interaction with the
> user using stdin and stdout.
>
> My requirement is to print prompt so the user can answer in the same
> line. Unfortunately:
>
> print 'enter command:',
>
>
> does not really work as the comma i
Paolo Pantaleo enlightened us with:
> is thre something like py2exe for Linux? I don't need to build a
> standalone executable (most Linuxes have python instaled), but at
> least I need to provide all the needed libraries togheter with my
> source code, so users just need to download one file, and
Fulvio enlightened us with:
> I was thinking about use md5 check to se if a file had changes since
> last check. Am I correct?
You can do that, but a check on the mtime (os.stat) would be a lot
easier.
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Kjell Magne Fauske enlightened us with:
> I recommend taking a look at Django [1]. It is not a CMS right out
> of the box, but writing one using the Django framework is not that
> difficult.
Django is my favourite as well. It's very easy to start building a
dynamic website.
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Kamilche enlightened us with:
> DetectUnusedModules.py - Detect modules that were imported but not
> used in a file. When run directly, this class will check all files
> in the current directory.
Nice as it is, but why not use pylint to check this and many other
coding style issues?
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ArdPy enlightened us with:
> Is it possible to hack through the code written by Guido van Rossum
> that makes the python interpreter.
Yes it is.
> If yes please let me know how to begin. If its not then pardon me.
Download the source, start hacking.
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Setash enlightened us with:
>> class1.py:
>>
>> class Class1(object):
>> pass
>>
>> class2.py:
>> import class1
This line imports class1.py and places its contents under the name
"class1".
> classes.py:
>
> class Class1
> pass
>
> class Class2(Class1)
> pass
That's co
Setash enlightened us with:
> 1) Classes. How do you extend classes?
>
> I know its as easy as:
>
> class classname(a)
>do stuff
>
>
> But where does the parent class need to lie? In the same file? Can
> it lie in another .py file in the root directory?
It doesn't matter at all, as long as 'a'
Dave enlightened us with:
> How can I translate this:
>
> gi
>
> to this:
>
> "gi"
>
> I've tried urllib.unencode and it doesn't work.
As you put so nicely in the subject: it is HTML encoding, not URL
encoding. Those are two very different things! Try a HTML decoder,
you'll have more luck with tha
JW enlightened us with:
> Thanks to Michael and Nick, I can now cross-compile my Pyrex
> extensions for bog-standard Python 2.5 [...] I can now use Linux to
> cross-build my extension for Windows, and my preliminary testing
> (under WINE -- See the original post. I must adhere to my
> employment c
[EMAIL PROTECTED] enlightened us with:
> is it possible in python (with/without matplotlib, numpy etc) to
> store a whole class with its data into a file
Check out the pickle module.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] enlightened us with:
> Yes, I want to find a way to send email without an external smtp server.
You can't. Use a DNS server to find the MX record of the destination
domain, connect to that SMTP server, then deliver the mail.
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à°¶à±à°°à±à°¨à°¿à°µà°¾à°¸ enlightened us with:
> Can any one tell me how can i remove a character from a unocode
> text. à°à°²à±<200c>&హార is a Telugu word in Unicode. Here i want to
> remove '&' but not replace with a zero width char. And one more
> thing, if any whitespaces are there b
Russell Warren enlightened us with:
> On first pass I would think that both of those calls are single step
> operations (removing/changing an entry in the FAT, or FAT-like
> thing, on the HDD) and wouldn't result in an intermediate,
> null-populated, step, but the evidence seems to indicate I'm
> w
[EMAIL PROTECTED] enlightened us with:
> is it possible to convert MSword docs into PDF format?
Yes, it is. check out http://www.stuvel.eu/ooo-python#header3. It's
about converting Excel to PDF, but it equally applies to MSWord.
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Theerasak Photha enlightened us with:
>> > 3. Using IIS [...]
>>
>> Why would you want to use that monstrosity?
>
> Two words: "contractual obligation"
That doesn't answer the question. It only makes me ask it to someone
else, namely the parties involved in creating the contract.
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Gregory Piñero enlightened us with:
> So I keep hearing more and more about this WSGI stuff, and honestly I
> still don't understand what it is exactly
AFAIK it's a standard for web frameworks. In such a framework, you
receive a 'request' object, and return a 'response' object. If I'm
correct, the
Tim Chase enlightened us with:
> With the caveat of the "=" mentioned in the subject-line (being
> different from "==")...I haven't found any way to override
> assignment in the general case.
Why would you want to do that?
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SpreadTooThin enlightened us with:
> Can these operators be overloaded?
Yes.
> If so. How?
Implement __add__, __sub__ etc. in the class that you want to be able
to add, subtract, etc.
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aum enlightened us with:
> I've built a module called SimpleJSONRPCServer, which is essentially
> the same as the familiar python library module SimpleXMLRPCServer,
> except that it uses the JSON-RPC protocol.
Thanks a lot! I've used XML-RPC on a low-speed device, and it was way
too slow.
Sybren
Jia,Lu enlightened us with:
> I want to deal keyboard event in Linux console.
> Example: I Create a deamon at background and when I press F1 key
> then print Hello at Console.
Type "who" and see which PTY you're connected to:
sybren pts/02006-10-04 07:55 (klappie.stuvel.eu)
So I'm conn
Bill Williams enlightened us with:
> I don't know enough about Python internals, but the suggested
> solutions all seem to involve scanning bigList. Can this presumably
> linear operation be avoided by using dict or similar to find all
> occurrences of smallist items in biglist and then deleting th
Simon Willison enlightened us with:
> try:
> do_something()
> except HttpError:
> # An HTTP error occurred
> except ApplicationError:
> # An application error occurred
> else:
> # It worked!
>
> This does the job fine, but has a couple of problems.
> I anticipate that most people using my
John Machin enlightened us with:
> Many thanks for all that, olive; I made the minimal hacks to make it
> open an XLS ffile, and it worked!
> I'll try to see why that worked and my previous experiment crashed
> inside a DLL.
Thanks, keep us posted!
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John Machin enlightened us with:
> Hi, Sybren. I tried folloing your recipe on Windows with OOo 2.0 ...
>
> Minor problem: the executable is called soffice, not ooffice.
>
> Major problem: it crashed right at the start, somewhere in the maze
> of dlls.
That's not nice.
> Has anyone managed to get
Kay Schluehr enlightened us with:
> Usually I struggle a short while with \ and either succeed or give up.
> Today I'm in a different mood and don't give up. So here is my
> question:
>
> You have an unknown character string c such as '\n' , '\a' , '\7' etc.
>
> How do you echo them using print?
>
Antoine De Groote enlightened us with:
> Can anybody tell me the reason(s) why regular expressions are not built
> into Python like it is the case with Ruby and I believe Perl?
They _are_ built into Python. Python ships with the 're' module.
> Python Culture says: 'Explicit is better than implic
Paul Rubin enlightened us with:
>> height = 0
>> for block in stack:
>> if block.is_marked():
>> print "Lowest marked block is at height", height
>> break
>> height += block.height
>> else:
>> raise SomeError("No marked block")
>
> all_heights = [block.height for blo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] enlightened us with:
> Are then any currently active and reasonably mature Python plugins/
> apis/whatever for programming/scripting OpenOffice? The page I've
> found is http://udk.openoffice.org/python/python-bridge.html, but it
> was last updated more than a year ago.
Aside fro
Tim Williams enlightened us with:
> def check_lock():
> import os, sys
> try:
> os.remove({filename})
> except:
> if "Permission denied" in sys.exc_info()[1]:
> print 'This program is already running'
> sys.exit()
> f_lock = open({filename},'w
Antoine De Groote enlightened us with:
> I hope I don't upset anybody by comparing Python to Ruby (again). Is
> there something like Ruby's retry keyword in Python?
Please don't assume that everybody knows Ruby through and through...
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Erik Johnson enlightened us with:
> # Ah! Yes, that works! Thank you! ;)
You're welcome!
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Erik Johnson enlightened us with:
> When I run this and view the email I receive in MS Outlook Express,
> what I see is the HTML rendered in the body of the message, my body
> is not seen anywhere and there is no attachment.
If the HTML document should really be attached, give it a
Content-Dis
Steve Holden enlightened us with:
> And you guarantee that the contents of the smartcard is only used by
> one user at a time by building a licensing system for the
> smartcards?
We can never, ever make a 100% guarantee that people won't copy what
you supply them. The only way to do that is to tho
Mike Playle enlightened us with:
> Imagine you're an IT manager for a medium-to-large company who wants
> to use some expensive piece of software. You talk to the vendor and
> buy a licence to use the software on up to 5 machines at once, but
> you don't know who in the company will want to use it,
Steve Holden enlightened us with:
> Otherwise you might as well say that any costs associated with using
> a piece of software (including purchase pricing) are "hostile to the
> wants of the user".
It's true. People pay because they have to, but they'd rather not.
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Fredrik Lundh enlightened us with:
> and now we're waiting for the "['%s']*len(t)" vs. "'%s' for i in t"
> benchmarks (and the "consistency is more important than efficiency"
> and "creating extra objects is conceptually wrong" followups, and
> the "it depends on what you mean by" followups to the
Tim Chase enlightened us with:
> >>> cur.execute("select * from people where last_name in (%s)" %
> ','.join('%s' for i in xrange(len(t))),
> t)
But since the value of 'i' isn't used at all, it can be abbreviated
to:
>>> cur.execute("select * from people where last_name in (%s)" %
walterbyrd enlightened us with:
> If so, I doubt there are many.
>
> I wonder why that is?
www.uwklantprofiel.nl and www.uwpensioenanalyse.nl, both systems are
written in Python, although the website of the former is still in PHP.
It'll be Python soon, too. I've created both systems.
Sybren
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro enlightened us with:
> Because quoting the wildcards introduces backslash specials before
> each wildcard. Quoting non-wildcards then causes those backslashes
> to be doubled, which means they escape themselves instead of the
> wildcards.
I don't know about other DBMSes, but in
Lawrence D'Oliveiro enlightened us with:
> You're proposing two separate functions:
>
> 1) quoting of non-wildcard specials
> 2) quoting of wildcard specials
I'm suggesting functions based on the role of the string they need to
escape, not the characters in that string.
1) Quoting of
codefire enlightened us with:
> I'm using the isinstance built-in function. I've found the docs for
> it, but there are no docs on the supported types.
All types/classes are supported.
> For example isinstance(a, int) works fine but isinstance(s, string)
> doesn't - because 'string is not known'.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] enlightened us with:
> hi
> what is the python way to concat 2 lines eg
concated = line1 + line2
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro enlightened us with:
> The trouble with this is that, instead of offering extra functionality, it
> leaves the door open to making two stupid mistakes:
>
> 2) quoting of wildcards BEFORE quoting of non-wildcards
Why is this a "stupid" mistake in your view? Please explain th
abcd enlightened us with:
> Any suggestions on how to find out? I did try adding to MyFile
>
> def __call__(self, *args):
> print "calling:", args
> return file.__call__(self, *args)
>
> but I never see that either.
I don't know the answer to your problem, but I can explain why this
d
Aahz enlightened us with:
> Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>well, if you're only watching mtv, it's easy to think that there's
>>obviously not much demand for country singers, blues musicians,
>>British hard rock bands, or melodic death metal acts.
>
> Any other votes for this being
Paddy enlightened us with:
> All this keyboarding has finally caught up with me and I'm getting
> aches in my fingers.
Use more force with your fingers, and take regular typing breaks.
Often RSI is caused by subtle movements without applying a lot of
force.
Another good way to beat RSI is to lea
Lawrence D'Oliveiro enlightened us with:
>> An escaping function should be small and not do all kinds of
>> escaping for different situations at once.
>
> Even when the two situations are related?
Yup, even then. Different situations need different escaping
functions.
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Duncan Booth enlightened us with:
> I think his point was that any '%' characters inside name act like
> wildcards whereas his version looked for literal percents.
But of course.
> This could be an argument for having a utility function to escape
> the wildcards for this sort of situation, but ce
Lawrence D'Oliveiro enlightened us with:
>> Wouldn't this be a whole lot better?
>>
>> cursor.execute(
>> "select * from details where person_name like ?",
>> '%' + name + '%'
>> )
>
> No. Can you figure out why?
Ok, should have tested it better. This works fine on my machine,
though:
cu
Lawrence D'Oliveiro enlightened us with:
> "select * from details where person_name like"
> " concat(\"%%\", %s, \"%%\")" \
> % \
> QuoteSQL(name, True)
Wouldn't this be a whole lot better?
cursor.execute(
"select * from details where person_name like ?",
'%' +
Roy Smith enlightened us with:
> I'm working on a product which for a long time has had a Perl
> binding for our remote access API. A while ago, I wrote a Python
> binding on my own, chatted it up a bit internally, and recently had
> a (large) customer enquire about getting access to it.
>
> I ask
Lawrence D'Oliveiro enlightened us with:
> Yes, I have done blobs. Still need a quoting function for the
> specials, though.
Why? What makes your data so different from mine? I can store newlines
and the likes just fine in a regular text field.
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Connelly Barnes enlightened us with:
> I wrote the 'autoimp' module [1], which allows you to import lazy modules:
>
> The main point of autoimp is to make usage of the interactive Python
> prompt more productive by including "from autoimp import *" in the
> PYTHONSTARTUP file.
Sounds like a great
T enlightened us with:
> We all know that there are many softwares that require some license
> key or registration key to enable them. How does one implement
> something like this in python?
Why do you want to? I've never seen software successfully protected by
such schemes. If you really want to
Lawrence D'Oliveiro enlightened us with:
> Why doesn't MySQLdb provide a function like this:
Because generally you're able to pass newlines and the like just fine.
You can even store binary data into a BLOB column.
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Lex Hider enlightened us with:
> Any tips on the code quality and use of python would be appreciated.
> I've got a feeling the overall structure is up the creek.
I'll post some remarks about the code ;-)
> HOME = os.path.expanduser("~")
I wouldn't use this. Just use os.environ['HOME']. In most c
Kevin D Smith enlightened us with:
> I've written a simple Python extension for UNIX, but I need to get
> it working on Windows now. I'm having some difficulties figuring
> out how to do this.
I had to do the same, and I didn't get much result. My solution:
install Cygwin, use the Python that co
Tim Williams enlightened us with:
> Can you send email via it using outlook express or a similar
> POP3/IMAP mail client?
Wouldn't you use a SMTP client to send email?
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Steve Holden enlightened us with:
> This is untrue for the Python smtplib, though correct according to
> the RFCs. The SMTP.data() method uses a locally-declared function
> called quotedata() to ensure the correct line endings, so using "\n"
> will result in the same message as using "\r\n".
Ah, w
sridhar enlightened us with:
> iam having user account on an exchangeserver.
> with that can i send an email using python?
>
> if iam using the following code iam getting error
>
>
> fromAddress = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> toAddress = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> msg = "Subject: Hello\n\nThis is the body of t
olive enlightened us with:
> you did not understand Michel question because Ubuntu seems to be
> the only distribution coming with OpenOffice and Python 2.4 compiled
> together.
Ah, okay. I have no other distributions here, so I rely on others to
give me more information about them.
> Others plat
MC enlightened us with:
> Thanks!
You're welcome!
> - and Python 2.4.x?
I've used Python 2.4.3 to write the article.
> - I have Python 2.4 and then "embbed Python 2.3 of OOo" ; how
> install some things in this last Python? I dream to call Pywin32
> from OOo...
Please rephrase that qu
Jim Hugunin enlightened us with:
> I'm extremely happy to announce that we have released IronPython 1.0
> today! http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython
Congratulations!
> We were also able to release IronPython publicly from Microsoft with
> a BSD-style license. [...] Without the drive and input of
Hi folks!
The two small snippets I wrote two days ago were well received. With
the danger of being called a hero I proceded and wrote a proper
article about OpenOffice.org and Python.
It contains the following sections:
* Preparation
* Gaining access to a document
* Getting to the d
km enlightened us with:
> Is there any PEP to introduce true threading features into python's
> next version as in java? i mean without having GIL.
What is GIL? Except for the Dutch word for SCREAM that is...
> when compared to other languages, python is fun to code but i feel
> its is lacking be
Dennis Lee Bieber enlightened us with:
> The above is windows, I believe Linux uses instead of
>
That's correct. And so do all unix systems including MacOS X.
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John Machin enlightened us with:
> Firstly, let me say that you are highly commended for wading so far
> into the OOo docs and producing two pieces of code that actually do
> something. I've opened up the docs two or three times, said "Waaahht
> the " and closed them rapidly.
Thanks. I had the
John Machin enlightened us with:
> Suppose one has over a hundred spreadsheets (real-life example:
> budgets from an organisation's reporting centres) ... manually
> opening each in OOo Calc is less than appealing, and not very
> robust.
True. There are functions that can load files as well. Combi
Hi folks,
I just noticed I still had the "no archive" header on, which is rather
stupid. If I want to make life easier for people, the information I
posted in this thread should be archived! Here is a small summary:
Get data from an OpenOffice.org spreadsheet with a Python script. It
works on the
Erik Max Francis enlightened us with:
>> The other zilion persons who were not interested (other than the four I
>> mentioned above) silently and peacefully ignored the question on went
>> on with their happy lifes.
>
> That's because many of them have killfiled you.
I can say that I didn't killfi
jj_frap enlightened us with:
> When I try to print the "winner" (I've not coded for kicker strength
> and ties yet) via the max function, it returns the maximum value in
> the list rather than the index associated with that value.
>
> How do I return the index?
You can't even be sure it exists - t
Arthur Pemberton enlightened us with:
> What is the best way to do data source abtraction?
That depends on your data source. For files, file-like objects are an
abstraction. For databases there is PEP 249.
> I was thinking of almost having classA as my main class, and have
> classA dynamically "a
David C Ullrich enlightened us with:
> I thought that the fact that you could use the same trick for
> _shuffling_ a list was my idea, gonna make me rich and famous. I
> guess I'm not the only one who thought of it. Anyway, you can use
> DSU to _shuffle_ a list by decorating the list with random n
Manoj Kumar P enlightened us with:
> Can anyone tell me a good python editor/IDE?
> It would be great if you can provide the download link also.
VIM 7 is great, http://www.vim.org/
Sybren
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Bo Yang enlightened us with:
> I have writen a python program to slove a problem described as
> below:
Please post again, but then leaving indentation intact, since this is
unreadable.
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k.i.n.g. enlightened us with:
> Now I have to write a script to generate random password in the
> password field for each user. A simple algorithm is sufficient for
> passwords
Check out the source of pwsafe, it has a great password generator. It
can generate with different lengths, based on amoun
SamFeltus enlightened us with:
> 1. Loss of back button
> Isn't this really a myth?
No, it isn't a myth. Pressing the back button is the action second
most performed in a browser, clicking a link being the first. People
want to go back from where they came.
> A page with a time dimension, be it F
SamFeltus enlightened us with:
> I do find it interesting that Flash folks readily will acknowledge
> that Flash has shortcomings yet anti-Flash folks seem to have great
> difficulty acknowledging Flash's positive features over HTML.
I must say I've never seen a pro-Flash person acknowledging that
Dale Strickland-Clark enlightened us with:
> So it encodes the entity reference to ⬠(Euro sign).  I need it to
> remain as € so that the resulting HTML can render properly in
> a browser.
If you want proper display, why not use UTF-8?
Sybren
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] enlightened us with:
> None of you seem to know what you are talking about.
That's not a way to make friends. I very well know what I'm talking
about. None of the issues I've raised are negated by what you say, so
every single one still stands.
> Flash also behaves consistently
Dave Kuhlman enlightened us with:
> For those who are beginners to using Python to process XML, I've
> recently updated my Python XML FAQ (PyXMLFaq). It has a number of
> code samples that may help you get started.
You might want to include a list of things you assume the reader
already knows, in
Florian Diesch enlightened us with:
>> - Flash is a proprietary technology requiring a proprietary plugin.
>
> There seem to be at least two free implementations:
But the website of OP together with the websites of many other people
are incompatible with those, since they require the latest and
gr
Brian Blazer enlightened us with:
> I'm still not sure why it was grabbing the prompt string though.
Me neither. Try it in a standalone script instead of an interactive
session.
Sybren
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Harlin Seritt enlightened us with:
> I have some code here:
>
> groups = {'IRISH' : 'green', 'AMERICAN' : 'blue'}
>
> I want to add another key: 'ITALIAN' : 'orange'
>
> How do I append this to 'groups'?
groups['ITALIAN'] = 'orange'
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Brian Blazer enlightened us with:
> def getCurrentClasses():
> classes = []
> print 'Please enter the class name. When finished enter D.'
> while (c != "D"):
No need for the parentheses, and 'c' doesn't have a value yet. If you
add 'c=""' before the while-loop, it should
Ben Finney enlightened us with:
> Please don't spam here to ask for discussion on another forum, on a
> tangentially related topic.
Hey, it's at least better than asking for a discussion on a
tangentially related topic _here_ ;-)
Sybren
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Duncan Booth enlightened us with:
> Can you point at any significant body of publically visible Python
> code which uses tabs exclusively?
Everything Python at http://www.stuvel.eu/software
> Also, in the open source universe you are quite likely to pull in
> bits of code from other projects, and
Alex Pavluck enlightened us with:
> SPE is amazing with the intellisense but maybe there is a better
> choice out there.
Check VIM. The newly released VIM 7.0 has smart completion too
(intellisense is a trademark of Microsoft)
Sybren
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The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there s
SamFeltus enlightened us with:
> I guess there isn't much to understand. If you are satisfied with a
> text based, static image web, that is light on artistic
> possabilities, all that HTML stuff is acceptable.
You don't need Flash to be artistic.
> Perhaps the HTML/JS group will even get off th
SamFeltus enlightened us with:
> I am trying to figure out why so little web development in Python
> uses Flash as a display technology.
There are a couple of reasons:
- Flash is bad for websites that are 100% done inside the Flash
movie. In such a case the back-button doesn't work anym
Heiko Wundram enlightened us with:
> And: the web is a platform to offer _information_. Not to offer
> shiny graphics/sound [...]
Many would disagree...
Not me, but I know a lot of people that would.
Sybren
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capital punishm
Dave Hansen enlightened us with:
> Assume the code was written by someone using 4-space tabs. To them,
> the code is:
>
>def sqlcall():
>--->cursor.execute('select id, item, amount, field4,
>--->--->--->--->...'from table1 where amount>100')
>
> (where ---> represents an 4-space t
Alex Pavluck enlightened us with:
> Q: As an exercise, write a single string that:
> Procuces
>this
>output.
>
>
> A?
> print "produces",'\n',"\t","this","\n","\t","output."
Just nitpicking, since you already got your answer, but that's not a
s
Andy Sy enlightened us with:
> Like I said, you'll *NEVER* get that fancy shmancy 'semantic
> indentation' idea to work properly in the most basic utilities which
> have the 8-space tabs assumption hardcoded in them.
Fair enough. How much code is viewed with less and cat, and how much
is viewed us
Andy Sy enlightened us with:
> Now... if you say you SHOULDN'T mix tabs and spaces (indeed this is
> generally regarded as a BAD idea esp. in Python code)
I indeed say so.
> then WHAT THE HECK do you need to use tab characters in the source
> code for anyway (besides saving a measly few bytes) ??
achates enlightened us with:
> True! but normally if I'm editing someone else's code then I'm only
> making small changes and so can't be bothered to temporarily cripple my
> editor. If I'm merging my code with someone else's space-indented code
> then piping through sed 's/TAB/SPACES' does the tri
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