Re: Python presentations

2012-09-13 Thread William R. Wing (Bill Wing)
On Sep 13, 2012, at 12:00 PM, andrea crotti wrote: > I have to give a couple of Python presentations in the next weeks, and > I'm still thinking what is the best approach. > > In one presentation for example I will present decorators and context > managers, and my biggest doubt is how much I sho

Re: Newbie: where's the new python gone?

2012-09-11 Thread William R. Wing (Bill Wing)
On Sep 11, 2012, at 9:12 AM, Bob Aalsma wrote: > Hmm, this feels embarrassing but the good news is that, on seeing the errors, > I remember using a "sudo" with the make install and only later finding out > that I shouldn't have. > > Last login: Tue Sep 11 09:46:11 on ttys000 > macpro1:~ debaas

Re: Newbie: where's the new python gone?

2012-09-11 Thread William R. Wing (Bill Wing)
On Sep 11, 2012, at 3:52 AM, Bob Aalsma wrote: > > Op 10 Sep 2012, om 22:53 heeft William R. Wing (Bill Wing) het volgende > geschreven: > >> On Sep 10, 2012, at 11:17 AM, Bob Aalsma wrote: >> >>> Well, Bill, better late than never - thanks for stepping i

Re: Newbie: where's the new python gone?

2012-09-10 Thread William R. Wing (Bill Wing)
On Sep 10, 2012, at 11:17 AM, Bob Aalsma wrote: > Well, Bill, better late than never - thanks for stepping in. > You are right, my problems are not yet solved ;) As Hans pointed out, you are looking for python, not Python (the frameworks are named Python, the executable is python). Sorry about

Re: Newbie: where's the new python gone?

2012-09-10 Thread William R. Wing (Bill Wing)
On Sep 9, 2012, at 10:28 AM, BobAalsma wrote: > I think I've installed Python 2.7.3 according to the instructions in the > README, and now want to use that version. > However, when typing "python" in Terminal, I get "Python 2.6.4 (r264:75821M, > Oct 27 2009, 19:48:32) ". > So: > (1) I can't se

Re: python docs search for 'print'

2012-09-04 Thread William R. Wing (Bill Wing)
On Sep 4, 2012, at 1:58 PM, David Hoese wrote: > A friend made me aware of this: > When a python beginner (2.x) quick searches for "print" on docs.python.org, > the print function doesn't even come up in the top 20 results. The print > statement isn't even listed as far as I can tell. Is ther

Re: writelines puzzle

2012-08-22 Thread William R. Wing (Bill Wing)
On Aug 22, 2012, at 1:28 PM, Jerry Hill wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:38 AM, William R. Wing (Bill Wing) > wrote: >> Much to my surprise, when I looked at the output file, it only contained 160 >> characters. Catting produces: >> >> StraylightPro:Logs wr

Re: writelines puzzle

2012-08-22 Thread William R. Wing (Bill Wing)
"i" in this instance is 2354, so the file should (I thought) have contained the value of "i" followed by 2 x 2354 values of the data. > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 8:38 AM, William R. Wing (Bill Wing) > wrote: >> In the middle of a longer program that reads and plot

writelines puzzle

2012-08-22 Thread William R. Wing (Bill Wing)
In the middle of a longer program that reads and plots data from a log file, I have added the following five lines (rtt_data is fully qualified file name): wd = open(rtt_data, 'w') stat = wd.write(str(i)) stat = wd.writelines(str(x_dates[:i])) stat = wd.writelines(str(y_rtt[:i])) wd.close() The

Re: [ANNC] pybotwar-0.8

2012-08-16 Thread William R. Wing (Bill Wing)
On Aug 16, 2012, at 11:40 AM, Ramchandra Apte wrote: > Look you are the only person complaining about top-posting. > GMail uses top-posting by default. > MANY of us find it irritating... and it only takes a second to move your cursor down and play nice. -Bill -- http://mail.python.org/mailma

Re: Python and OSX 10.8

2012-08-09 Thread William R. Wing (Bill Wing)
On Aug 9, 2012, at 10:38 AM, David Thomas wrote: > Im looking to upgrade my Mac to 10.8 and I'm worried if Python and IDLE may > not run on it. > When I try to run this command in Terminal: python -m idlelib.idle > I can not launch IDLE which comes bundled on Mac. On Lion it's been fine but >

Re: Intermediate Python user needed help

2012-08-05 Thread William R. Wing
On Aug 5, 2012, at 5:14 PM, John Mordecai Dildy wrote: > Im using Textwrangler and thats the only text editor that im using just > saying for everyone > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list (With apologies, I initially sent this privately to John, and not to the list.) As

Re: trouble with pyplot in os x

2012-08-04 Thread William R. Wing (Bill Wing)
On Aug 3, 2012, at 11:12 PM, Eric wrote: > I'm just starting to futz around with matplotlib and I tried to run this > example from the matplotlib doc page (it's the imshow() example): > > import numpy as np > import matplotlib.cm as cm > import matplotlib.mlab as mlab > import matplotlib.pyplot

Re: Python Programming expert - adding user

2012-07-19 Thread William R. Wing (Bill Wing)
On Jul 17, 2012, at 9:58 PM, Maria Hanna Carmela Dionisio wrote: > Im just a student :) > > Our prof gave as a task that we need to make a program using python (for > redhat) and c++(for windows) > > Our objective is to make a program file and we will said it remotely to > another computer via

Re: Compare 2 times

2012-06-06 Thread William R. Wing (Bill Wing)
On Jun 6, 2012, at 9:45 AM, William R. Wing (Bill Wing) wrote: > On Jun 6, 2012, at 9:29 AM, Alain Ketterlin wrote: > >> loial writes: >> >>> I have a requirement to test the creation time of a file with the >>> current time and raise a message if the f

Re: Compare 2 times

2012-06-06 Thread William R. Wing (Bill Wing)
On Jun 6, 2012, at 9:29 AM, Alain Ketterlin wrote: > loial writes: > >> I have a requirement to test the creation time of a file with the >> current time and raise a message if the file is more than 15 minutes >> old. >> Platform is Unix. >> I have looked at using os.path.getctime for the file

Re: ./configure

2012-06-03 Thread William R. Wing (Bill Wing)
On Jun 3, 2012, at 8:31 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sun, 03 Jun 2012 15:01:07 -0700, Janet Heath wrote: > >> Thanks Alain. I should have a compiler on my Mac OS X Lion. I am >> thinking that it isn't set in my $PATH variable. I don't know where the >> $PATH is set at. I will check to see

Re: Python Book for a C Programmer?

2012-05-24 Thread William R. Wing (Bill Wing)
On May 23, 2012, at 7:45 PM, hsa...@gmail.com wrote: > I am trying to join an online class that uses python. I need to brush up on > the language quickly. Is there a good book or resource that covers it well > but does not have to explain what an if..then..else statement is? > > Thanks. > -- >

Re: tee-like behavior in Python

2012-05-09 Thread William R. Wing (Bill Wing)
On May 9, 2012, at 11:35 AM, Florian Lindner wrote: > Hello, > > how can I achieve a behavior like tee in Python? > > * execute an application > * leave the output to stdout and stderr untouched > * but capture both and save it to a file (resp. file-like object) > > I have this code > > proc =

Re: Retrieving result from embedded execution

2012-05-08 Thread William R. Wing (Bill Wing)
On May 8, 2012, at 3:07 PM, F L wrote: > Hello everyone, > > We are trying to implement our own interactive interpreter in our application > using an embedded Python interpreter. > > I was wondering what would be the best way to retreive as text the result of > executing Python code. The text

Re: key/value store optimized for disk storage

2012-05-02 Thread William R. Wing (Bill Wing)
On May 2, 2012, at 10:14 PM, Steve Howell wrote: > This is slightly off topic, but I'm hoping folks can point me in the > right direction. > > I'm looking for a fairly lightweight key/value store that works for > this type of problem: > > ideally plays nice with the Python ecosystem > the data

Re: Frustration debugging serial code

2010-05-07 Thread William R. Wing (Bill Wing)
On May 7, 2010, at 10:18 PM, MRAB wrote: > William R. Wing (Bill Wing) wrote: >> See comments in-line. >> On May 7, 2010, at 3:23 PM, MRAB wrote: >>> William R. Wing (Bill Wing) wrote: >>>> On May 7, 2010, at 2:08 PM, MRAB wrote: [byte -byte- byte] &

Re: Frustration debugging serial code

2010-05-07 Thread William R. Wing (Bill Wing)
On May 7, 2010, at 4:12 PM, J. Cliff Dyer wrote: > On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 15:36 -0400, William R. Wing wrote: > >> >> Maybe I should have been more explicit. The first line in the Python >> file is: >> >> >> #!/usr/bin/env Python (alternatively #!/u

Re: Frustration debugging serial code

2010-05-07 Thread William R. Wing (Bill Wing)
See comments in-line. On May 7, 2010, at 3:23 PM, MRAB wrote: > William R. Wing (Bill Wing) wrote: >> On May 7, 2010, at 2:08 PM, MRAB wrote: >>> William R. Wing (Bill Wing) wrote: >>>> Hello World - >>>> I'm new to both Python and this list, but

Re: Frustration debugging serial code

2010-05-07 Thread William R. Wing
On May 7, 2010, at 2:08 PM, MRAB wrote: > William R. Wing (Bill Wing) wrote: >> Hello World - >> I'm new to both Python and this list, but here's hoping someone can spot my >> problem. >> System: Mac OS-X, 10.6.3 (Intel dual quad processor) >> Usi

Frustration debugging serial code

2010-05-07 Thread William R. Wing (Bill Wing)
Hello World - I'm new to both Python and this list, but here's hoping someone can spot my problem. System: Mac OS-X, 10.6.3 (Intel dual quad processor) Using Python 2.6.1, and pyserial-2.5_rc2-py2.6 The following snippet of code is designed to open a port via a KeySpan USB-to-serial converter