[Q] Is there a way to minimize a Tkinter application to the system tray?

Hello folks, I already found some answers on the net, which said that the Tk library that Tkinter wraps does not offer functionality to minimize an application to the system tray. But I hope there are some wizards in here that might tell me that how it (possibly) could be done. Thomas -- ht

Re: os.path.basename() - only Windows OR *nix?

Bruno Desthuilliers schrieb: > > Let me guess : your cgi script is running on *n*x ?-) > Pretty hard to get this one, heh? :-D > > Probably. Good that you decided I was worth the information. > >>> fnames = "C:\\dir\\data.ext", "/dir/data.txt", "dir:data" > >>> import ntpath, posixpath, ma

Re: os.path.basename() - only Windows OR *nix?

Steve Holden schrieb: > Clearly if form['uploadfile'] is returning the client's path information > you do have to remove that somehow before further processing, which also > means you need to deduce what the client architecture is to correctly > remove path data. Of course this also leaves open

os.path.basename() - only Windows OR *nix?

Hello, I have a cgi script that handles fileuploads from windows and *nix machines. i need os.path.basename(filename) to get the pure filename. For *nix, thats not a problem, but for windows, it always returns the full path: #/usr/bin/env python import cgi, os import cgitb; cgitb.enable() fo

Re: Device Drivers in python(kernel modules)

rishi pathak schrieb: > I am not much of a kernel programmer , I have a requirement to shift a > python code to work as a kernel module. > So I was just wondering whether we can write a kernel module in python. > A thought is that if we can somehow convert python code into a C object > code then it

Which Object Database would you recommend for cross platform application?

Hello folks, I am currently developing an open source Event Managment software (events in real-life, like concerts, exhibitions etc. :-) ) using wx for the GUI, and I need an Object database. Since this is the first time I actually need doing this, I wondered if anybody here could recommend on

Re: Rational Numbers

Simon Brunning schrieb: > On 12 Jan 2007 15:55:39 GMT, Nick Maclaren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >> Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> |> but there are more use >> |> cases for Decimal than for Rational. >> >> That is dubious, but let's not start that one

Re: Question: Best Practice? (module 'shelve')

Thomas Ploch schrieb: > Hello fellows, > > I just wanted to know, if there is any best practice concerning > following code: > > import re, shelve > > class TextMatcher: > def __init__(self, patterns, email=False, dbName='textmatch.db'):

Question: Best Practice? (module 'shelve')

Hello fellows, I just wanted to know, if there is any best practice concerning following code: import re, shelve class TextMatcher: def __init__(self, patterns, email=False, dbName='textmatch.db'): self._initPatterns(patterns) self.email = email self.dbName = dbName

Re: How to write temporary data to file?

Thomas Ploch schrieb: > Laszlo Nagy schrieb: >> Thomas Ploch írta: >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> I have a data structure that looks like this: >>> >>> d = { >>> 'url1': { >>> 'emails

Re: How to write temporary data to file?

Laszlo Nagy schrieb: > Thomas Ploch írta: >> Hi folks, >> >> I have a data structure that looks like this: >> >> d = { >> 'url1': { >> 'emails': ['a', 'b', 'c',...], >> '

Re: How to write temporary data to file?

Ravi Teja schrieb: > Thomas Ploch wrote: >> Ravi Teja schrieb: >>> Thomas Ploch wrote: >>>> Hi folks, >>>> >>>> I have a data structure that looks like this: >>>> >>>> d = { >>>>'u

Re: How to write temporary data to file?

Ravi Teja schrieb: > Thomas Ploch wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> I have a data structure that looks like this: >> >> d = { >> 'url1': { >> 'emails': ['a', 'b', 'c',...], >>

Re: private variables

belinda thom schrieb: > Hello, > > In what version of python were private variables added? > > Thanks, > > --b > With this question you stepped into a bee hive. :-) Read the 'Why less emphasis on private data?' thread. But I can't tell you, when this so called 'private variables' were added.

How to write temporary data to file?

Hi folks, I have a data structure that looks like this: d = { 'url1': { 'emails': ['a', 'b', 'c',...], 'matches': ['d', 'e', 'f',...] }, 'url2': {... } This dictionary will get _very_ big, so I want to write it somehow to a file after it ha

Re: how to find the longst element list of lists

Michael M. schrieb: >> Err... this makes three distinct lists, not a list of lists. >> > > Sure. Logically spoken. Not in Python code. Or a number of lists. > Sure not [[ bla... ] [bla.]] etc. ??? Thomas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: how to find the longst element list of lists

Michael M. schrieb: > How to find the longst element list of lists? > > I think, there should be an easier way then this: > >s1 = ["q", "e", "d"] >s2 = ["a", "b"] >s3 = ["a", "b", "c", "d"] > >if len(s1) >= len(s2) and len(s1) >= len(s3): > sx1=s1 ## s1 ist längster >

Re: Python re expr from Perl to Python

Florian Diesch schrieb: > "Michael M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> In Perl, it was: >> >> >> ## Example: "Abc | def | ghi | jkl" >> ## -> "Abc ghi jkl" >> ## Take only the text betewwn the 2nd pipe (=cut the text in the 1st >> pipe). >> $na =~ s/\ \|(.*?)\ \|(.*?)\ \|/$2/g; >> >>

Re: Why less emphasis on private data?

Sebastian 'lunar' Wiesner schrieb: > > Those people deserve to fail for being just extraordinary stupid... > Yes, but there are a lot of them around... Thomas P.S.: I don't mean they are around here. :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Why less emphasis on private data?

sturlamolden schrieb: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Coming from a C++ / C# background, the lack of emphasis on private data >> seems weird to me. I've often found wrapping private data useful to >> prevent bugs and enforce error checking.. >> >> It appears to me (perhaps wrongly) that Python prefer

Re: Just Getting Started with Python on MS XP Pro

W. Watson schrieb: > As I understand it, there are two files I'm after: 1. python interpreter, > and 2. a python editor. It's #2 that I'm having trouble downloading. The > link is broken. This is the python interpreter for windows: http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.5/python-2.5.msi Here you

Re: Why less emphasis on private data?

Paul Rubin schrieb: > Thomas Ploch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Me neither, although I have to say that the '__' prefix comes pretty >> close to being 'private' already. It depends on the definition of >> private. For me, private means &

Re: Why less emphasis on private data?

Jorgen Grahn schrieb: > On 06 Jan 2007 17:38:06 -0800, Paul Rubin wrote: >> "BJörn Lindqvist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> It is given that emphasizing private data (encapsulation) leads to >>> more internal complexity and more lines of code because you have to >>> write getters and setters and

Re: I want to learn

[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > Hi, > > I have been "programming" in the .net environment and ide for a few > years and I am looking to make the switch over to python. I have > absolutely no python experience whatsoever. I am looking for a python > guru who has instant messenger or gtalk or whatever

Re: Why less emphasis on private data?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > Coming from a C++ / C# background, the lack of emphasis on private data > seems weird to me. I've often found wrapping private data useful to > prevent bugs and enforce error checking.. > It appears to me (perhaps wrongly) that Python prefers to leave class > data publi

Re: Dividing integers...Convert to float first?

Beliavsky schrieb: > If the C or Fortran committees tried to change > the meaning of int/int, they would be shot. Or hanged... > If you want to be confident that your code will run, unchanged, 10 > years from now on the hardware and OS that will then be common, Python > 2.x is not the language to

Re: Just Getting Started with Python on MS XP Pro

W. Watson schrieb: > The wiki site lead to a link to download pythonwin, but the download is > broken. Googling invariably leads back to that link. I found > , which has > two files listed: oadist.exe and win32dbg.exe. Do I need bo

Re: PyGreSQL Install

goodepic schrieb: > I successfully installed postgresql and pygresql from source on my > MacBook 2ghz Intel core duo running os x 10.4.8. However, pygresql > installed under the defualt python 2.3 installation, while I've been > upgrading and working in 2.5, and have invested too much time to go >

Re: Dividing integers...Convert to float first?

Grant Edwards schrieb: > On 2007-01-05, Jonathan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > from __future__ import division > 1/2 >> 0.5 > >$ python >Python 2.4.3 (#1, Dec 10 2006, 22:09:09) >[GCC 3.4.6 (Gentoo 3.4.6-r1, ssp-3.4.5-1.0, pie-8.7.9)] on linux2 >Type "help", "copyr

Re: Dividing integers...Convert to float first?

Jonathan Smith schrieb: > Thomas Ploch wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: >>> I'm still pretty new to Python. I'm writing a function that accepts >>> thre integers as arguments. I need to divide the first integer by te >>> second integer, and get a

Re: Dividing integers...Convert to float first?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > I'm still pretty new to Python. I'm writing a function that accepts > thre integers as arguments. I need to divide the first integer by te > second integer, and get a float as a result. I don't want the caller of > the function to have to pass floats instead of integers

Re: program deployment

Grant Edwards schrieb: > On 2007-01-05, king kikapu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Python code is normally deployed as straight source code. >> But isn't this a problem of its own? I mean, many people do not feel >> good if the know that their source code is lying around on other >> machines...

Re: What is proper way to require a method to be overridden?

Grant Edwards schrieb: > On 2007-01-05, Thomas Ploch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>> I am writing a class that is intended to be subclassed. What >>>> is the proper way to indicate that a sub class must override a >>>> method? >

Re: What is proper way to require a method to be overridden?

Gabriel Genellina schrieb: > At Thursday 4/1/2007 23:52, jeremito wrote: > >> I am writing a class that is intended to be subclassed. What is the >> proper way to indicate that a sub class must override a method? > > If any subclass *must* override a method, raise NotImplementedError in > the ba

Re: What is proper way to require a method to be overridden?

jeremito schrieb: > I am writing a class that is intended to be subclassed. What is the > proper way to indicate that a sub class must override a method? > > Thanks, > Jeremy > What do you mean by 'indicate'? Writing it to the docstring of the class/method? Writing a comment? class Foo:

Best way to implement a timed queue?

Hello folks, I am having troubles with implementing a timed queue. I am using the 'Queue' module to manage several queues. But I want a timed access, i.e. only 2 fetches per second max. I am horribly stuck on even how I actually could write it. Has somebody done that before? And when yes, how is t

Re: static object

meelab schrieb: > Dear All, > > I am looking for a way to create a "static object" or a "static class" - > terms might be inappropriate - having for instance: > > class StaticClass: > . > . > > and then > staticObject1 = StaticClass() > staticObject2 = StaticClass() > > so that staticOb

Re: C/C++, Perl, etc. to Python converter

Matimus schrieb: > I don't know of a converter, one may exist. I have seen similar > requests though and will give you a similar response to what I have > seen. A converter, if it exists, may be able to produce working code > but _not_ readable code. Python is a language whose strength comes > from

Re: Question concerning this list [WebCrawler]

John Nagle schrieb: > > Very true. HTML is LALR(0), that is, you can parse it without > looking ahead. Parsers for LALR(0) languages are easy, and > work by repeatedly getting the next character and using that to > drive a single state machine. The first character-level parser > yields toke

Re: WebCrawler (was: 'Question concerning this list')

Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch schrieb: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas Ploch > wrote: > >> This is how my regexes look like: >> >> import re >> >> class Tags: >> def __init__(self, sourceText): >> self.source = sourceText

Re: Question concerning this list [WebCrawler]

Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch schrieb: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas Ploch > wrote: > >> Alright, my prof said '... to process documents written in structural >> markup languages using regular expressions is a no-no.' (Because of >> nested El

Re: Question concerning this list

Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 02:03:34 +0100, Thomas Ploch wrote: > >> Hello fellow pythonists, >> >> I have a question concerning posting code on this list. >> >> I want to post source code of a module, which is a homework for >&

Question concerning this list

Hello fellow pythonists, I have a question concerning posting code on this list. I want to post source code of a module, which is a homework for university (yes yes, I know, please read on...). It is a web crawler (which I will *never* let out into the wide world) which uses regular expressions

Merry Christmas and a happy new year!

I wish everybody a merry Christmas and a happy new year. Have a good and beautiful new year. Thomas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Fall of Roman Empire

Delaney, Timothy (Tim) wrote: > Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > >> naaah - you don't have to worry - for real control He uses assembler. >> with jump statements. >> so the loops are closed. >> >> Unfortunately its not open source. Yet. > > People are working hard on reverse-engineering it though. I

Re: Generating all permutations from a regexp

Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Nick Craig-Wood wrote: > >> A regular expression matcher uses a state machine to match strings. > > unless it's the kind of regular expression matcher that doesn't use a > state machine, like the one in Python. > > > How is the matching engine implemented then? I thou

Re: Does any one know of any good folder/directory modules

[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > Hi > > Does any one know of any good folder/directory modules. I need to be > able to see what files and directories are in a folder, I also need to > be able to see the size of the directory content. > > Thanks > You should have a look here: http://docs.python.org

Re: perl better than python for users with disabilities?

Martin P. Hellwig schrieb: > Quite punny title though I assume you are really serious and mean people > with a physical disability, I won't comment any further on this subject > :-), if I already offended anyone, please excuse me, since I'm original > from Germany I'm not supposed to be funny.

Re: Fall of Roman Empire

Felix Benner schrieb: > Thomas Ploch schrieb: >>> Ben Finney schrieb: >>>> "John Machin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>> >>>>> Ben Finney wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> \ "...one of the main causes

Re: Fall of Roman Empire

> Ben Finney schrieb: >> "John Machin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> Ben Finney wrote: >>> \ "...one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was | `\that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful | _o__) termination of their C

Re: regexp

Mark Schoonover schrieb: > > You have to pay for this one, but I do like Komodo just for the regex > feature. I'm rather new to Python, coming over from 10 years of Perl, and > it's nice to have Komodo stay consistant. Can't wait for 4.0, so I can get > back to having VI key commands Back into

Re: Fall of Roman Empire

Ben Finney schrieb: > "John Machin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Ben Finney wrote: >> >>> \ "...one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was | >>> `\that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful | >>> _o__) termination of their C program

Re: regular expression

Asper Faner schrieb: > I seem to always have hard time understaing how this regular expression > works, especially how on earth do people bring it up as part of > computer programming language. Natural language processing seems not > enough to explain by the way. Why no eliminate it ? > Erm, I am

Re: A Call to Arms for Python Advocacy

Thomas Ploch schrieb: > Roy Smith schrieb: >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >> Jeff Rush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> As the Python Advocacy Coordinator, I've put up some wiki pages on the >>> Python >>> website f

Re: A Call to Arms for Python Advocacy

Roy Smith schrieb: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Jeff Rush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> As the Python Advocacy Coordinator, I've put up some wiki pages on the >> Python >> website for which I'm soliciting ideas, writing and graphics. Some of the >> material exists scattered about and

Re: About the 79 character line recommendation

Hello, for me the 80 (or 79) char border when writing code is a fundamental rule. Being at University and having to document each project on paper, it is a must do. i.e. I get code from fellow scolars, that have 160 chars per line, and to get that on paper is disgusting, especially in C/C++. So pl

Re: Why not just show the out-of-range index?

stdazi wrote: > Usually, when I make some coding mistake (index out of range - in this > case) I just care to fix the mistake and I usually don't mind to > inspect by how much the index was overflowed. It really seems like a > feature that should be embedded in some Python debugger than a feature >

[no subject]

Amir Michail schrieb: > krishnakant Mane wrote: >> just used the py dev plugin for eclipse. >> it is great. > > But isn't support for java better because the eclipse ide can take > advantage of explicit type declarations (e.g., for intellisense, > refactoring, etc.)? > > Amir Obviously, since e

Re: python vs java & eclipse

Thomas Ploch schrieb: > Amir Michail schrieb: >> Hi, >> >> It seems to me that measuring productivity in a programming language >> must take into account available tools and libraries. >> >> Eclipse for example provides such an amazing IDE for java that it

Open and closing files

Is it defined behaviour that all files get implicitly closed when not assigning them? Like: def writeFile(fName, foo): open(fName, 'w').write(process(foo)) compared to: def writeFile(fName, foo): fileobj = open(fName, 'w') fileobj.write(process(foo)) fileobj.clo

Re: best way to align words?

Robert R. schrieb: > Hello, > > i would like to write a piece of code to help me to align some sequence > of words and suggest me the ordered common subwords of them > > s0 = "this is an example of a thing i would like to have".split() > s1 = "another example of something else i would like to hav

Re: Is there an easier way to express this list slicing?

John Henry schrieb: > Thomas Ploch wrote: > >> I had a little bit of fun while writing this: >> >> itemList = (a,b,c1,c2,c3,d1,d2,d3,d4,d5) and >> itemList2 = (a1,a2,a3,b,c,d1,d2,d3,d4,d5) the next time. >> > > Huh? What's a,b,....d5? > John H

Re: Is there an easier way to express this list slicing?

John Henry schrieb: > If I have a list of say, 10 elements and I need to slice it into > irregular size list, I would have to create a bunch of temporary > variables and then regroup them afterwords, like: > > # Just for illustration. Alist can be any existing 10 element list > a_list=("",)*10 > (

Re: Is there an easier way to express this list slicing?

John Henry schrieb: > If I have a list of say, 10 elements and I need to slice it into > irregular size list, I would have to create a bunch of temporary > variables and then regroup them afterwords, like: > > # Just for illustration. Alist can be any existing 10 element list > a_list=("",)*10 > (

Re: Automatic increment

Gheorghe Postelnicu schrieb: > Hi, > > I have a situation of the following type: > > for line in lineList: > for item in line.split() > myArray[counter, itemCounter] > itemCounter = itemCounter + 1 > counter = counter +1 > > Is there a way to get rid of the manual increme

Re: failure building python 2.5 on mac os x 10.3.9

Markus Rosenstihl schrieb: > On 2006-11-19 15:50:14 +0100, Thomas Ploch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> Hello, >> >> I followed the instructions in the Mac/README file. >> >> I ran ./configure --enable-framework >> >> But when I try

Re: Python Worship

Nick schrieb: > http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/11/061130081347.htm > > World's Oldest Ritual Discovered -- Worshipped The Python 70,000 Years > Ago > > Nick > That's really interesting since there is an indio tribe in the amazonas jungle which also worships python. That just tells m

Re: SPE refuses.

SPE - Stani's Python Editor schrieb: > On 30 nov, 10:50, egbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 03:15:45PM -0800, SPE - Stani's Python Editor >> wrote:> Do you have python-wxversion installed? >> >>> $sudo apt-get install python-wxversionThat helped. But why isn't it >>> inc

Re: working with files and directories

halex2000 schrieb: > Hi all, I'm new with Python, and I thought to use it to automatically rename > some files in a directory, but I don't know where should I search the > functions: to get all the files of a directory, to rename the files and so > on. > Thank you. > > Have you actually even

Re: synching with os.walk()

>> os.walk() is a nice generator for performing actions on all files in a >> directory and subdirectories. However, how can one use os.walk() for walking >> through two hierarchies at once? I want to synchronise two directories (just >> backup for now), but cannot see how I can traverse a second o

failure building python 2.5 on mac os x 10.3.9

Hello, I followed the instructions in the Mac/README file. I ran ./configure --enable-framework But when I try to build from source with gcc 4.0.2, following happens: [snip] libtool: can't locate file for: -lSystemStubs libtool: file: -lSystemStubs is not an object file (not allowed in a libra

Understanding Python Source Code - where to start?

Hello folks, I am thinking about reading and understanding the Source Code of Python, but where would it be best to start? Possibly someone can give me a little hint. I am getting into socketmodule.c a little bit at the moment, but thats not what I want. Greetz, Thomas -- Der GMX SmartSurfe

Re: Tkinter & Python 2.5 Problems on MAC OS 10.3.9

Kevin Walzer schrieb: > Thomas Ploch wrote: > > Hello folks, > > > > Since this is my first post on the list, a brief introduction of myself. > > > > My name is Thomas, I am 26 years old, I am a student of Computational > > Linguistics and I am a

Tkinter & Python 2.5 Problems on MAC OS 10.3.9

Hello folks, Since this is my first post on the list, a brief introduction of myself. My name is Thomas, I am 26 years old, I am a student of Computational Linguistics and I am a python user. :-) Now my problem: I have Tcl/Tk 8.4.4 installed: iPimpG4:~ profipimp$ tclsh % info patchlevel 8.4.