[ANN] gg_scrapper -- scrapping of the Google Groups

2014-01-04 Thread Matej Cepl
Did you try to archive email list hosted on the Google Groups? Were you endlessly frustrated by the black hole which is Google Groups, conscpicious by its absence on the Data Liberation Front website? Yes, I was too_ So, I have created a script webscrapping a google group and created gg_scra

Re: Difference in RE between 3.2 and 3.3 (or Aaron Swartz memorial)

2013-03-06 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2013-02-26, 16:25 GMT, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 2/21/2013 4:22 PM, Matej Cepl wrote: >> as my method to commemorate Aaron Swartz, I have decided to port his >> html2text to work fully with the latest python 3.3. After some time >> dealing with various bugs, I have no

Re: IMAP4_SSL and OpenSSL compatibility

2013-03-02 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2013-02-26, 16:57 GMT, W. Martin Borgert wrote: > 1. Is there any plan to backport this Python >= 3.3 feature to > Python 2? No, development of Python 2 ceased to exist (only important bugfixes or security fix will happen, IIRC) If you need advanced use of SSL, use pyOpenSSL (it has be

Difference in RE between 3.2 and 3.3 (or Aaron Swartz memorial)

2013-02-26 Thread Matej Cepl
Hi, as my method to commemorate Aaron Swartz, I have decided to port his html2text to work fully with the latest python 3.3. After some time dealing with various bugs, I have now in my repo https://github.com/mcepl/html2text (branch python3) working solution which works all the way to python 3

Re: Small program ideas

2013-02-26 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2013-02-26, 03:48 GMT, eli m wrote: > On Friday, February 15, 2013 7:22:41 PM UTC-8, eli m wrote: >> Any small program ideas? I would prefer to stick to command line >> ones. Thanks. > > Thank you guys for the suggestions. Any more? 1) Clone git repository from https://github.com/mcepl/html2te

Re: Python Newbie

2013-02-26 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2013-02-23, 18:44 GMT, jmfauth wrote: > Very easy to explain: wrong, incorrect, naive unicode > handling. PLONK! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: webbrowser.open("./documentation/help.html")-- No Go in Windows

2013-02-26 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2013-02-25, 03:37 GMT, llanitedave wrote: > url_link = "file:///" + fullpath Isn't this too many slashes. On Linux I get URI file:usr/share/doc/whatever.html which is just too many slashes (it should be three, two for the protocol, one for the root directory). Matěj -- http://m

Re: Python Newbie

2013-02-26 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2013-02-23, 15:51 GMT, Chris Angelico wrote: > When you learn your first language, you think you're learning to > program, but that's not really accurate. Once you've learned half a > dozen, you begin to understand something of the art of coding as > distinct from any particular language; after

Re: "#!/usr/bin/env python" vs. "#!/usr/bin/python"?

2012-09-30 Thread Matej Cepl
On 28/09/12 12:57, Roy Smith wrote: > But, you might as well get into the habit of > using the /usr/bin/env flavor because it's more flexible. In the same manner as one's freedom-fighter is another's fundamentalist terrorist, what's flexible could be also dangerous. E.g., #!/usr/bin/env python

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread Matej Cepl
On 26/09/12 15:30, Kevin Walzer wrote: > Apart from IronPython, what constituency do these alternative and Jython ... that is widely used in the Java server world > implementations of Python have that would raise them above the level of > interesting experiments? Matěj -- http://mail.python.org/m

Re: Editing Inkscape SVG files with Python?

2012-09-23 Thread Matej Cepl
On 24/09/12 00:53, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Googling for "python inkscape" comes up with too many hits for Inkscape's plugin system to be much help to me. Aside from suggesting lxml, I would ask "So why not to follow the stream and create Inkscape plugin"? I have in similar situation created a

pyOpenSSL -> m2crypto conversion?

2012-09-23 Thread Matej Cepl
Hi, gajim (http://gajim.org, Jabber/XMPP instatnt messenger written in PyGtk) uses for crypto mix of some functions from the standard library, pyOpenSSL for SSL communication, and python-crypto for E2E (encryption of the messages ... uses RSA and AES; see https://trac.gajim.org/ticket/5294 fo

Re: submit jobs on multi-core

2012-09-13 Thread Matej Cepl
On 13/09/12 03:59, Jason Friedman wrote: Or if Python 3.2 is an option, the concurrent.futures module would be very well suited for this task. Also available as an external download for Python 2.* ... http://pypi.python.org/pypi/futures/ Matěj -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pytho

Re: VPS For Python

2012-08-27 Thread Matej Cepl
On 26/08/12 09:41, coldfire wrote: I will really appreciate if someone type the address of any of the following for use with python If you can live just with PaaS (i.e., no shell account in the strict sense of the word, although you have ssh access) then my employer is introducing OpenShift

Re: ANN: dbf.py 0.94

2012-07-21 Thread Matej Cepl
On 21/07/12 05:26, Ethan Furman wrote: dbf (also known as python dbase) is a module for reading/writing dBase III, FP, VFP, and soon Clipper, .dbf database files. It's an ancient format that still finds lots of use. Other than the caring for the ancient legacy data, it is still widely used in

Re: jython lacks working xml processing modules?

2012-07-18 Thread Matej Cepl
On 18/07/12 05:12, gaodexiaozh...@gmail.com wrote: However,there is one project implemented by Python used PyXML and now my Jython project has to depend on it ,so I am afraid that if Jython doesn't support PyXML,then my jython project can not depend on the original Python project ,then my jython

Re: jython lacks working xml processing modules?

2012-07-17 Thread Matej Cepl
On 17/07/12 10:35, gaodexiaozh...@gmail.com wrote: > I'm trying to parse an xml file with jython (not through java parsers > like xerces). https://code.google.com/p/jython-elementtree/ ??? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [newbie] Equivalent to PHP?

2012-06-12 Thread Matej Cepl
On 12/06/12 11:39, Gilles wrote: I notice that Python-based solutions are usually built as long-running processes with their own web server (or can run in the back with eg. Nginx and be reached through eg. FastCGI/WSGI ) while PHP is simply a language to write scripts and requires a web server (s

Re: which one do you prefer? python with C# or java?

2012-06-11 Thread Matej Cepl
On 11/06/12 06:20, rusi wrote: Hi Matěj! If this question is politically incorrect please forgive me. Do you speak only one (natural) language -- English? And if this set is plural is your power of expression identical in each language? I have written about that later ... no, I am a native Czec

Re: which one do you prefer? python with C# or java?

2012-06-10 Thread Matej Cepl
On 10/06/12 22:40, Paul Rubin wrote: You might start with Abelson and Sussman's classic book: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp I know that, and it lies on my badtable for some time already, but I just never got enough excited about the idea yet. Python is just much more fun. Matěj -- http://

Re: which one do you prefer? python with C# or java?

2012-06-10 Thread Matej Cepl
On 10/06/12 18:32, Paul Rubin wrote: Really, that's only if the new language is pretty much the same as the old ones, in which case you haven't really learned much of anything. Languages that use interesting new concepts are challenges in their own right. Well, I could at least passively read m

Re: which one do you prefer? python with C# or java?

2012-06-10 Thread Matej Cepl
On 10/06/12 00:44, Yesterday Paid wrote: I'm planning to learn one more language with my python. Just my personal experience, but after passively learning many many languages, I came to the conclusion that I (and I suppose many others) am able to learn only one platform well. The point is tha

Re: usenet reading

2012-06-03 Thread Matej Cepl
On 03/06/12 13:59, Colin Higwell wrote: Google Groups is an abomination IMHO, and I find it much easier to read mailing lists via a newsreader. I highly recommend Pan, by the way. I am still surprised how good experience I have with reading news with Thunderbird. Yes, Pan is better, but it use

Re: ucs2 and ucs4 python

2012-05-16 Thread Matej Cepl
On 16.5.2012 10:36, zayatzz wrote: /opt/bin/python^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory Your script has CRLF end-of-lines. Change it to plain Unix LF. Matěj -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Whither paramiko?

2012-04-16 Thread Matej Cepl
On 15.4.2012 15:42, Bryan wrote: Paramiko is a Python library for SSH (Secure Shell). Over about the last year, I've grown dependent upon it. Its home page is still easy to search up, but the links to its mailing list and repository don't work. Paramiko depends on PyCrypto, and not so long ago t

ANN: bayeux 0.2 released

2012-04-04 Thread Matej Cepl
Bayeux 0.2 is now available at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/bayeux bayeux is a module for generating TAP (http://testanything.org/). Version 0.2 is an initial version registered in the Cheesshop. Release notes: -- * module tap.py for programatic writing of TAP stream * clone of un

ANN: bayeux 0.2 released

2012-04-03 Thread Matej Cepl
Bayeux 0.2 is now available at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/bayeux bayeux is a module for generating TAP (http://testanything.org/). Version 0.2 is an initial version registered in the Cheesshop. Release notes: -- * module tap.py for programatic writing of TAP stream * clone of un

ANN: yamlish 0.8 released

2012-04-03 Thread Matej Cepl
yamlish 0.8 is now available at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/yamlish yamlish is a module for generating (and parsing) YAMLish (http://testanything.org/wiki/index.php/YAMLish). Release notes: -- * Don't leak tempfiles * setup.py test actually runs tests * add requires to setup.py

Re: [semi OT]: Smartphones and Python?

2012-02-18 Thread Matej Cepl
On 16.2.2012 16:22, Michael Torrie wrote: Android simply isn't going to run the JVM anytime soon. In reality yes, but just technically speaking there is the project IcedRobot (http://www.icedrobot.org/), which is a fork of Android over OpenJDK. Best, Matěj -- http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: [OT]: Smartphones and Python?

2012-02-18 Thread Matej Cepl
For one I don't know of any sun-compatible JVM that has been ported to ARM. http://www.senecass.com/projects/OpenJDK-ARM/ "This work has been completed, and is now in OpenJDK HEAD. This page is now mostly for historical documentation." Also, http://openjdk.java.net/projects/zero/ (I know my c

Re: XSLT to Python script conversion?

2012-02-16 Thread Matej Cepl
On 15.2.2012 18:48, Tim Arnold wrote: Just a note to encourage you to stick with XSLT. I also use lxml for creating and postprocessing my DocBook documents and it is great. But I use the DocBook XSL stylesheets to convert to html; if you're like me, you got discouraged at the strangeness of the X

XSLT to Python script conversion?

2012-02-13 Thread Matej Cepl
Hi, I am getting more and more discouraged from using XSLT for a transformation from one XML scheme to another one. Does anybody could share any experience with porting moderately complicated XSLT stylesheet (https://gitorious.org/sword/czekms-csp_bible/blobs/master/CEP2OSIS.xsl) into a Pytho

Re: Python usage numbers

2012-02-12 Thread Matej Cepl
On 12.2.2012 09:14, Matej Cepl wrote: Obvious answers: - Try decoding with UTF8 or Latin1. Even if you don't get the right characters, you'll get *something*. - Use open(filename, encoding='ascii', errors='surrogateescape') (Or possibly errors='ignore'.

Re: Python usage numbers

2012-02-12 Thread Matej Cepl
On 12.2.2012 03:23, Steven D'Aprano wrote: The use-case given is: "I have a file containing text. I can open it in an editor and see it's nearly all ASCII text, except for a few weird and bizarre characters like £ © ± or ö. In Python 2, I can read that file fine. In Python 3 I get an error. What

Re: Python and TAP

2012-02-07 Thread Matej Cepl
On 7.2.2012 04:24, alex23 wrote: Experience? Are you seriously advocating something for which you've done nothing more than watch a podcast? No, I am not. If you reread my original post, you may find that I was asking exactly for experience and explanation why something which seems to me obv

Re: difference between random module in python 2.6 and 3.2?

2012-02-06 Thread Matej Cepl
On 6.2.2012 20:26, Tim Chase wrote: In an ideal world, the code wouldn't have broken backwards compat. However, given the conditions, if Matej is willing to forgo bug-fixes, it's a reasonable solution. The alternate might be to try moving the recent/fixed version into the old project and updating

Re: Python and TAP

2012-02-06 Thread Matej Cepl
On 6.2.2012 21:51, Terry Reedy wrote: The 'TAP standard' is what the Perl TAP module does. There is a pre-draft for an IETF standard. You could ask why Perl people don't care about joining the unittest 'standard'. I don't think it is fair: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_Anything_Protocol#Ex

Re: difference between random module in python 2.6 and 3.2?

2012-02-06 Thread Matej Cepl
On 6.2.2012 09:45, Matej Cepl wrote: Also, how could I write a re-implementation of random.choice which would work same on python 2.6 and python 3.2? It is not only matter of unit tests, but I would really welcome if the results on both versions produce the same results. Silly, of course, the

Re: difference between random module in python 2.6 and 3.2?

2012-02-06 Thread Matej Cepl
On 6.2.2012 09:05, Steven D'Aprano wrote: You have persuaded me that the doc should be more explicit that while the basic random.random sequence will be kept repeatable with seed set (except perhaps after a changeover of several releases), the convenience transformations can be changed if improve

difference between random module in python 2.6 and 3.2?

2012-02-05 Thread Matej Cepl
Hi, I have this working function: def as_xml(self): out = etree.Element("or") for k in sorted(self.keys()): out.append(etree.Element("hostname", attrib={'op': '=', 'value': random.choice(self[k])})) # ... return somehow string representing

Python and TAP

2012-02-05 Thread Matej Cepl
I have just finished listening to the FLOSS Weekly podcast #200 (http://twit.tv/show/floss-weekly/200) on autotest, where I've learned about the existence of TAP (http://testanything.org/). A standardization of testing seems to be so obviously The Right Thing™, that it is strange that I don't s

Re: SnakeScript? (CoffeeScript for Python)

2012-02-03 Thread Matej Cepl
On 3.2.2012 02:19, Ian Kelly wrote: Then how are you going to maintain the code? Maintain the compiled code or the source? As with all compiled software, you maintain the input, not the output. I don't think that's what was the question. CoffeeScript is a hopeless hack in the hopeless situat

Re: Reading Adobe PDF File

2012-01-30 Thread Matej Cepl
On 29.1.2012 06:52, Shrewd Investor wrote: Or do I need to find a way to convert a PDF file into a text file? If so how? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdftotext ? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PyPI - how do you pronounce it?

2012-01-28 Thread Matej Cepl
On 28.1.2012 17:06, Miki Tebeka wrote: cheeseshop :) +1 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Multilevel dicts/arrays v. tuples as keys? [Was: Re: Get keys from a dicionary]

2011-11-14 Thread Matej Cepl
Dne 11.11.2011 14:31, macm napsal(a): def Dicty( dict[k1][k2] ): When looking at this I returned to the question which currently rolls in my mind: What's difference/advantage-disadvantage betweeng doing multi-level dicts/arrays like this and using tuple as a key? I.e., is it more Pythonic

Re: getting command line in python

2011-11-09 Thread Matej Cepl
Dne 8.11.2011 23:36, MrSmile napsal(a): Thank you all, that was it that I was searching for you. Except that most likely it wasn't the right answer. Take a look at http://docs.python.org/library/argparse.html (or optparse, if you are on Python < 2.7). Best, Matěj -- http://mail.python.org/

Re: How to undo a Python setuptools --prefix path blunder

2011-11-06 Thread Matej Cepl
Dne 6.11.2011 14:18, Kev napsal(a): Again the wrong path is being used to create the symbolic link to where virtualenv is installed: http://packages.python.org/distribute/easy_install.html#administrator-installation for list of additional configuration files which might go wrong (namely *.pth

Re: Presenting recursive dict (json_diff)

2011-10-27 Thread Matej Cepl
Dne 27.10.2011 21:49, Terry Reedy napsal(a): Use '_append', etc, much like namedtuple does, for the same reason. Right, done. What about the presentation issue? Any ideas? Best, Matěj -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: help

2011-10-23 Thread Matej Cepl
Dne 22.10.2011 17:02, Steven D'Aprano napsal(a): Rather than assume malice, we should give X1 the benefit of the doubt and assume he genuinely believed what he wrote but was merely mistaken. Sure, I didn't want to assume malice (sorry, English is my second language and sometimes it shows; woul

Re: help

2011-10-22 Thread Matej Cepl
On Oct 8, 2:51 pm, X1 wrote: easy_install does not exist on Fedora. That's a pure lie. mitmanek:~ $ sudo repoquery -qf /usr/bin/easy_install python-setuptools-0:0.6.10-3.el6.noarch mitmanek:~ $ Matěj -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Edit MP4 and/or WMV file metadata?

2008-03-04 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2008-03-04, 18:53 GMT, allen.fowler wrote: > 1) Is there a python module I can use to edit the metadata in > MP4 > files? I am not sure whether taglib supports MP4, but take a look at http://developer.kde.org/~wheeler/taglib.html and http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id

Re: sqlite3 adaptors mystery

2008-03-02 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2008-03-02, 08:16 GMT, Matej Cepl wrote: > Thanks for your help, but plain-text strings is not what > I wanted. The boolean variables was what I was after. See this > modified version of the script: OK, I got it -- I was missing detect_types parameter of the connect method. Matěj

Re: sqlite3 adaptors mystery

2008-03-02 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2008-03-01, 23:41 GMT, Mel wrote: > There's nothing much wrong. cur.fetchall is returning a list > of all the selected rows, and each row is a tuple of fields. > Each tuple is being converted for display by repr, so the > strings are shown as unicode, which is what they are > internally.

sqlite3 adaptors mystery

2008-03-01 Thread Matej Cepl
Hi, I am in the process of creating a small script for filling the sqlite3 database with data from rather large XML-RPC query (list of many bugs from the Red Hat Bugzilla) and I would love to use adaptors and converters for some data types which I am missing. I have this test script (made hope

Re: email modul with writing to mboxes (and locking) for python 2.4.*?

2007-05-26 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2007-05-25, 18:28 GMT, John J. Lee wrote: > Not sure whether you know this already, but module mailbox in > Python 2.5 supports writing mbox folders. If it's not 2.4 > compatible, it's fairly likely to be an easy backport. Cool! Thanks a lot. One more reason why to upgrade to Fedora Core 7

email modul with writing to mboxes (and locking) for python 2.4.*?

2007-05-24 Thread Matej Cepl
read-only, am I right? Thanks for any reply, Matej Cepl -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

unsynchronized text streams in OGG (lyrics)

2006-07-16 Thread matej . cepl
? Thanks, Matej Cepl -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

PyKDE inside vim-python

2005-04-26 Thread Matej Cepl
m). Of course I can do something like :let cat = system("categorySet.py") but I thought that running the script directly from vim (with Python scripting enabled) could make this script faster. Can anybody help me, whether it is possible to do something like this? Thanks,

Seekable output from ClientForm?

2005-02-09 Thread Matej Cepl
Hi, using python 2.3, ClientForm, and ClientCookie and I have this code: opener = ClientCookie.build_opener(ClientCookie.HTTPRefererProcessor, ClientCookie.HTTPRefreshProcessor, ClientCookie.SeekableProcessor) response = opene