Re: Completion of The Python Papers Volume 4 Issue 1

Papers Monograph. These codes are refereed for > originality, accuracy, completeness, and lasting value. TPPSC will > act as a developers codebook of high-quality, peer-reviewed codes. > TPPSC is an annual publication using the same fast publication scheme. > > We thank all our

Re: Re; finding euclidean distance,better code?

Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > On Saturday 29 March 2008 03:09:46 Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:59:59 +0100, Robert Bossy wrote: >>> Gabriel Genellina wrote: That's what I said in another paragraph. "sum of coordinates" is using a different distance definition; it's the wa

Re: Multiple Submits in HTML Forms - Cherrypy

Carsten Haese wrote: > On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 07:14 +0000, Maurice LING wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Assuming that I have this code for Cherrypy 3 >> >> class Welcome: >> def index(self): >> return """ >> >>

Multiple Submits in HTML Forms - Cherrypy

Hi, Assuming that I have this code for Cherrypy 3 class Welcome: def index(self): return """ """ index.exposed = True How should I write "btn_handler" so that it will perform different actions when different b

The Python Papers is looking for additional Associate Editors

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The Python Papers is looking for additional Associate Editors

ny queries to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you Maurice Ling Associate Editor, The Python Papers -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Joining open source python projects

Giampaolo Rodola' wrote: > Hi there, > I don't know if such a thing has been already discussed, in which case > I'm sorry. > I was wondering if there's a place for python open source projects > that need help. > It thought it would be very nice having a place where developers could > submit "help r

Re: SOAPpy port reuse

Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > Maurice LING schrieb: >> Hi, >> >> I have a problem: >> >> 1. Assuming that my application is a SOAP server that uses SOAPpy, >> 2. I am given port 35021 for use. >> >> What I normally do (simply) is: >> >> f

Re: Book: Python Power!: The Comprehensive Guide

John Salerno wrote: > Anyone know anything about this book? I've read a few intro Python books > already, but I'm always interested in reading more to reinforce the > language. No reviews on Amazon yet so I'm not sure if it's good or not. > > Thanks. A cursory glance while standing in the book

SOAPpy port reuse

Hi, I have a problem: 1. Assuming that my application is a SOAP server that uses SOAPpy, 2. I am given port 35021 for use. What I normally do (simply) is: functionlist = [] import SOAPpy server = SOAPpy.SOAPServer((, 35021)) for func in functionlist: server.registerFunction(func) server.serve_f

The Python Papers Monograph Series (TPPM): Call for Proposals

The editorial committee of The Python Papers (ISSN 1834-3147) calls for proposals for The Python Papers Monograph Series. Potential authors should contact the editors at [EMAIL PROTECTED] at an early stage of preparation. We await your indications of interests. Regards Maurice Ling Associate

The Python Papers Monograph Series (TPPM): Call for Proposals

The editorial committee of The Python Papers (ISSN 1834-3147) calls for proposals for The Python Papers Monograph Series. Potential authors should contact the editors at [EMAIL PROTECTED] at an early stage of preparation. We await your indications of interests. Regards Maurice Ling Associate

[ANN] The Python Papers volume 2 issue 3

yphant - A Python Framework for Modelling Reusable Information Processing TasksPages 28-43 We will like to thank the community for their contributions and support. Regards Maurice Ling Associate Editor -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: why should I learn python

windandwaves wrote: > Can someone tell me why I should learn python? I am a webdeveloper, > but I often see Python mentioned and I am curious to find out what I > am missing out on. > > Thank you > > Nicolaas > The last edition of The Python Papers (volume 2 issue 2, http://archive.pythonpape

Re: Database intensive application

Rohit wrote: > I am a novice. I want to know whether Python can be used to develop > client/server database and web applications like .NET. Which is the > best book/source to learn Python? > There are database access libraries for almost every RDBMS. Web applications using Django, CherryPy, Turbo

Re: ANN: YahooQuote 0.1.0

Hi David, I can't download from your link http://www.freenet.org.nz/python/yahooquote/YahooQuote-0.1.tar.gz Cheers maurice DavidM wrote: > Hi, > > After a 3-year break from working with it, I've just released version 0.1.0 > (the first formally packaged release) of YahooQuote. As the name impl

Re: Who uses Python?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i use it for text mining, processing large text corpora for scientific > purposes. i'm also working on some neat data mining tools written in > python (called orange, in case someone's interested) > Hi, I am very interested with your use of Python. I am into text minin

Re: Who uses Python?

walterbyrd wrote: > I mean other than sysadmins, programmers, and web-site developers? > > I have heard of some DBAs who use a lot of python. > > I suppose some scientists. I think python is used in bioinformatics. I > think some math and physics people use python. > > I suppose some people use

[ANN] The Python Papers Volume 2 Issue 2

at the Open Source Developer's Conference 2006 (Melbourne, Australia). Thank you everyone for all your support. Cheers Maurice Ling (Associate Editor) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: db.commit() to take effect

John Machin wrote: > progman wrote: > >>I was testing the python+mysql >> >>here are my sample codes: >> >>import MySQLdb >>from pprint import pprint >>db = MySQLdb.connect(host="localhost", user="root", passwd="password", >>db="database") >>cursor = db.cursor() >>cursor.ex

Re: The Python Papers Edition One

Jerry Hill wrote: > On 11/25/06, Jerry Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 23 Nov 2006 15:09:11 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Yes, it's true that you can't resell copies of The Python Papers for >> > personal profits, but you may derive from it, reproduce and prop

Re: Will GPL Java eat into Python marketshare?

Paul Boddie wrote: > Maurice LING wrote: > >>Say given cytoscape.jar, I'll like to be able to do this: >> >> >>> from cytoscape javaimport cytoscape >> >>> c = cytoscape() >> >>And the tighest way I see that this can be done i

Re: Will GPL Java eat into Python marketshare?

Stephen Eilert wrote: > Maurice LING escreveu: > > >>>I once wrote a partial JVM in Modula-3 (strictly a researchware >>>effort), so I can imagine it being done technically. But why? >>> >>>The big problem with Java-and-Python is not the VMs undern

Re: Will GPL Java eat into Python marketshare?

> > I once wrote a partial JVM in Modula-3 (strictly a researchware > effort), so I can imagine it being done technically. But why? > > The big problem with Java-and-Python is not the VMs underneath. It is > the fact that Java has layers upon layers upon layers of idiosyncratic > libraries and

Re: Will GPL Java eat into Python marketshare?

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:41:19 GMT, Maurice LING <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > > >>I'm hoping for a more optimistic outcome that this may open a >>possibility for tigher interoperabili

Re: Python deployment options.

Cameron Laird wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Richard Charts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > . > . > . > >>Well on a Win machine, probably. >>Almost every Linux machine you come across will have (most likely a >>fairly rece

Re: Will GPL Java eat into Python marketshare?

walterbyrd wrote: > Some think it will. > > Up untill now, Java has never been standard across different versions > of Linux and Unix. Some think that is one reason that some developers > have avoided Java in favor of Python. Now that Java has been GPL'd that > might change. > > IMO: it won't mak

Re: Easy to use distributed system?

Jim Jones wrote: > I am looking for a system in Python that will easily allow me to distribute > processes across multiple systems?So, if I have a function 'foo', I'd > like to be able to call something along the lines of > > distribute(foo(x)) > > And have the system figure out which node

Re: state of SOAP and python?

Hi, I've been using SOAPpy for a number of my work. Looks good. maurice Mark Harrison wrote: > So I'm investigating doing some SOAP work... Any concensus on > what the best python libraries are for doing this? > > Too bad, xmlrpc is choking on our long longs. :-( > > Many TIA, > Mark > -- htt

Re: When Python *Eggs* better than Python *distutils*?? What's Eggs?

Xavier Morel wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> So basically Python Eggs precompiles and compresses >> binaries for you so you just have to load it to run >> your app? >> > > Nah, Eggs is a packaging system, what you don't have to do is > compile/configure, because the packaging does that f

Re: Visual Python, really "Visual"?

Tolga wrote: > After a very rapid entrance into the Python, I have immediately looked > for a good IDE. Komodo and Wing IDE look very good and I think they are > enough. But now, I am searching for a Pyhton environment which should > look like Delphi / Kylix, Borland's C++ builder or Allegro Common

Re: Is there anything that pickle + copy_reg cannot serialize?

>>> Since copy_reg lets you specify arbitrary code to serialize arbitrary >>> objects, you shouldn't run into any single object that you cannot >>> serialize to a pickle. >> >> >> [snip - example of pickling code objects] >> >> >> I cannot understand 2 things, which I seek assistance for: >> 1. Is

Re: Is there anything that pickle + copy_reg cannot serialize?

> Since copy_reg lets you specify arbitrary code to serialize arbitrary > objects, you shouldn't run into any single object that you cannot > serialize to a pickle. In http://www.effbot.org/librarybook/pickle.htm, it specifically mentions that code objects cannot be pickled and require the use

Is there anything that pickle + copy_reg cannot serialize?

Hi, I need to look into serialization for python objects, including codes, recursive types etc etc. Currently, I have no idea exactly what needs to be serialized, so my scope is to be as wide as possible. I understand that marshal is extended by pickle to serialize class instances, shared elem

Re: New Python book

I had the opportunity to glance through the book in Borders yesterday. On the whole, I think it is well covered and is very readable. Perhaps I was looking for a specific aspect, and I find that threads did not get enough attention. Looking at the index pages, the topics on threads (about 4-5 p

Re: Do thread die?

Frithiof Andreas Jensen wrote: > "Maurice LING" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >>I do have another dumb question which is OT here. Say aFunc method >>instantiates a SOAP server that serves forever, will it prevent b

Re: plateform info.

Mikael Olofsson wrote: > Monu Agrawal wrote: > >> Hi I want to know whether the program is being run on windows or on >> Xnix. Is there any variable or method which tells me that it's windows? > > > Will this help? > > >>> import sys > >>> sys.platform > 'win32' > > There is also the platfo

Re: Do thread die?

Frithiof Andreas Jensen wrote: > "Maurice LING" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >>I do have another dumb question which is OT here. Say aFunc method >>instantiates a SOAP server that serves forever, will it prevent b

Re: plateform info.

Mikael Olofsson wrote: > Monu Agrawal wrote: > >> Hi I want to know whether the program is being run on windows or on >> Xnix. Is there any variable or method which tells me that it's windows? > > > Will this help? > > >>> import sys > >>> sys.platform > 'win32' > > There is also the platfor

Re: reading files with error

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have written a program to do something similar. My strategy is: * use os.read() to read 512 bytes at a time * when os.read fails, seek to the next multiple of 512 bytes and write '\0' * 512 to the output I notice this code doesn't deal properly with short reads, but

reading files with error

Hi, I'm trying to read some files (video files) that seems to have some errors in it. Basically, I cannot copy it out of discs as that gives me an error message but I can still play the file using a media player like VLC or QuickTime. I understand that copying a file will also invoke checking

Re: Do thread die?

> >> My current implementation may be ugly. I have a class >> >> class myThread(threading.Thread): >> def __init__(self, func): >> self.func = func >> threading.Thread.__init__(self) >> def run(self): >> print '%s function running' % self.func >> self.func(

Do thread die?

Hi, I just have a simple question about threads. My classes inherits from threading.Thread class. I am calling threading.Thread.run() method to spawn a few threads to parallel some parts of my program. No thread re-use, pooling, joining ... just plainly spawn a thread, run a routine. So, at th

Re: Calling ftp commands from python

Thierry Lam wrote: > Is it possible to run an ftp command to connect to some remote computer > on the network. > > For example, if I want to retrieve some data from > \\remcomputer\datafiles on the network and copy it to my local > computer, how do I do it in python on the Unix side? > > I don't

Re: Standalone applications ?

henne wrote: > > I should have added that my platform is Linux. > > http://davidf.sjsoft.com/mirrors/mcmillan-inc/install1.html > > Squeeze works on Linux too. It tells me that the installer files are not found. M -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Java RMI-like services in Python

Thank you Harald and Alan, Pyro seems to be used widely in this area but PyLinda is much cleaner and simpler to use. However, given that the object or class to be executed by execution machines are not known at development time, I wish to seek you advice on remote class loading. Can an object

Java RMI-like services in Python

Hi, I am wondering if Python has services or frameworks that does the same as Java RMI? What I am seeking is to do "pseudo-clustering". That is, a server will contains a program to control what is needed for execution. This will be pretty much like process management. Call this controller, He

Re: Connecting to Firebird database using Kinterbasdb+Python

Mathias Waack wrote: > Maurice LING wrote: > > >>I've been using FB1.5 and access the database using Kinterbasdb + >>Python. My connection is established using kinterbasdb.connect() method >>and the parameters host, dns, database, user, password are all defau

Connecting to Firebird database using Kinterbasdb+Python

Hi, I've been using FB1.5 and access the database using Kinterbasdb + Python. My connection is established using kinterbasdb.connect() method and the parameters host, dns, database, user, password are all defaulted to 'None'. On my own machine running Mac OSX 10.3, I can connect using the foll

Re: Migrating from Windows to OS X

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, fellow programmers! > > I am sitting in front of a nice new PowerBook portable which has OS > 10.4 installed. The Python.org web site says that Apple has shipped OS > 10.4 with Python 2.3.5 installed. How exactly do I access this? I > have searched through the

which ports to use for SOAP?

Hi, I'm writing something that specifies the use of SOAP. One requirement that fumbles me is the port number(s) to use. Is there any way to find out which ports are not used by the system? I've looked in the library reference and doesn't seems to get anything. Is there a problem with say 2 pro

Re: UML to Python/Java code generation

Thanks James. I've googled a few times and it is always tools that generates UML from Python codes that comes up in the top hits, which brings me to wonder if there is something that does the opposite. maurice James wrote: >>Is there any UML tools that is able to take UML and generate Python co

Re: Generating .pyo from .py

say your code is "test.py" and you usually run it as "python test.py", then the "-O" option will generate .pyo files. That is "python -O test.py" Cheers maurice skn wrote: > Hello., > > Does the python compiler provide an option to generate a .pyo(optimized byte > code file) from a .py (source

UML to Python/Java code generation

Hi, Is there any UML tools that is able to take UML and generate Python codes? Cheers Maurice -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

provide 3rd party lib or not... philosophical check

Hi, Just a philosophical check here. When a program is distributed, is it more appropriate to provide as much of the required 3rd party libraries, like SOAPpy, PLY etc etc, in the distribution itself or it is the installer's onus to get that part done? Cheers Maurice -- http://mail.python.org

Re: something like CPAN, PPMs?

deelan wrote: > Maurice LING wrote: > >> Hi Alex, >> >> I am actually working on something like that as an academic project. >> At this stage, at least for the purpose of my scope, it will not be as >> extensive as CPAN but a set of mechanisms for the same ef

Re: something like CPAN, PPMs?

Hi Alex, I am actually working on something like that as an academic project. At this stage, at least for the purpose of my scope, it will not be as extensive as CPAN but a set of mechanisms for the same effect for Python. maurice Alex Gittens wrote: > I'm new to Python from Perl, and loving i

Re: Melbourne (Australia) Python User Group

Hi Anthony, count me in... Cheers Maurice Anthony wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm interested in starting a Python user group in Melbourne, > Australia. So far there seems to have been a lot of interest from > various parties, but for whatever reasons it's fizzled out. So I've > decided that if there's

Re: Is Python suitable for a huge, enterprise size app?

Peter Hansen wrote: > Maurice LING wrote: > >> It makes big difference (legally) to if the codes are there and >> someone sees it, to if the codes are locked in some packaged or zipped >> form and someone reverse-engineer it. It is legally as different as if >>

Re: Is Python suitable for a huge, enterprise size app?

Peter Hansen wrote: > Maurice LING wrote: > >> It makes big difference (legally) to if the codes are there and >> someone sees it, to if the codes are locked in some packaged or zipped >> form and someone reverse-engineer it. It is legally as different as if >>

Re: Is Python suitable for a huge, enterprise size app?

> >> You can >>see Python going down the sewer pipes, right on their faces. Two, >>security. "This python sounds pretty interesting. Tell me about the >>security. How can we prevent people from stealing our source code, >>which we just spent millions developing? ... Hmm, trust the developer

Re: hard memory limits

Bengt Richter wrote: > On Sat, 07 May 2005 14:03:34 +1000, Maurice LING <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>John Machin wrote: >> >>>On Sat, 07 May 2005 02:29:48 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bengt Richter) wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>

Re: hard memory limits

John Machin wrote: > On Sat, 07 May 2005 02:29:48 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bengt Richter) wrote: > > >>On Sat, 07 May 2005 11:08:31 +1000, Maurice LING <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>It doesn't seems to help. I'm thinking that it might be a SOAPpy

Re: hard memory limits

James Stroud wrote: > Sorry Maurice, apparently in bash its "ulimit" (no n). I don't use bash, so I > don't know all of the differences offhand. Try that. > > James Thanks guys, It doesn't seems to help. I'm thinking that it might be a SOAPpy problem. The allocation fails when I grab a list o

Re: hard memory limits

Hi everyone, thanks for your help. Yes, I'm using Mac OSX 1.3 with 256MB Ram. Each element in the list is a float. The list is actually a retrieved results of document IDs from SOAP interface. And Mac OSX does not have 'unlimit' command as shown, Maurice-Lings-Computer:~ mauriceling$ unlimit -

hard memory limits

Hi, I think I've hit a system limit in python when I try to construct a list of 200,000 elements. My error is malloc: vm_allocate (size = 2400256) failed.. Just wondering is this specific to my system or what? Will adding more RAM helps in this case? Thanks and cheers Maurice -- http://m

Re: So many things that need to be decided....

Hi, It seems that you are just starting on Python, same as my situation a year ago. After almost going down the same route as you do, I tell myself just start on something. You can decide on everything but by the time you've decided, everything changes again. Initially, I started on Java t

"implementation" of PEP 262 as an academic project

Hi all, I reckoned that if I'm on this work, I might as well make it into an academic engineering-type project for my pass degree. Hence, I am sending this posting out to everyone to inform of my intentions. Despite the possible interests in this work, academic requires a 'personal' project wit

Re: Python site-packages and import

Peter Saffrey wrote: (apologies for starting a new thread - Google can't retrieve the other message for some reason) Yes, /usr/lib/python/site-packages is in sys.path. This series of commands should explain what I mean: I've put the Python ID3 module in a sub-directory of site-packages as an illust

Re: New Python website

lpe wrote: Hi maurice thanks for your interest, that surely looks interesting (and promising) I had no experience with any of the packages you mentioned, but it may well be usefull. Please email me with more details of what you had in mind. Hi, I've just read PEP 262 last night and finds that it do

Re: New Python website

Michael Soulier wrote: On 28 Apr 2005 17:45:02 -0700, lpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://www.pycode.com I was kinda suprised when I could not find any good sites with 3rd party modules (other than the Vaults of Parnassus, where you must host files elsewhere), so I decided to write one myself :)

Re: New Python website

lpe wrote: http://www.pycode.com I was kinda suprised when I could not find any good sites with 3rd party modules (other than the Vaults of Parnassus, where you must host files elsewhere), so I decided to write one myself :) It is brand new and might still be buggy, but hopefully it will be usefull

Re: Python site-packages and import

Peter Saffrey wrote: I'm trying to write a python service, with an executable in /usr/local/bin, but modules that are kept in a sub-directory of /usr/lib/python/site-packages. Using apt-proxy as my template, I've put the modules in /usr/lib/python/site-packages/mymodules and tried to import them wi

Re: Can .py be complied?

steve.leach wrote: python -o foo.exe foo.py at the command line, and get an executable, without any further effort. Hence making the resulting program useless to users of most operating systems. In close sourced development, which most corporates may prefer, yes, the resulting program is useless

bytecode non-backcompatibility

Martin v. Löwis wrote: Maurice LING wrote: I've emailed to catelog-sig mailing list and is still waiting to hear something. Currently, I have no idea of the structure of PyPI. I hope I can hear from them soon and generate some starting points... Posting questions is not the only way to

Re: bytecode non-backcompatibility

Martin v. Löwis wrote: [automatically install a set of packages] What do you think? That would certainly be possible. Contributions are welcome. Regards, Martin I've emailed to catelog-sig mailing list and is still waiting to hear something. Currently, I have no idea of the structure of PyPI. I h

Re: bytecode non-backcompatibility

Terry Reedy wrote: I doubt anyone disputes that upgrades are more hassle than we would like. My main point was that freezing CPython's technology is not the solution. Any other upgrade helper that you can contribute will be welcome. Terry J. Reedy So there is no way of releasing a close-source

Re: bytecode non-backcompatibility

Martin v. Löwis wrote: Maurice LING wrote: technicalities are wrong but situation remains unchanged. For C modules, it is very likely that new versions of Python will continue to break the ABI, by changing the layout of structures. The most straight-forward way to deal with it as a sysadmin or

Re: bytecode non-backcompatibility

Mike Meyer wrote: Maurice LING <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: The idea of having to release the program or library as source files does ring alarms in many executives in corporate world. Less freezing the modules (which renders it platform dependent) or using Jython (which is not possible

Re: bytecode non-backcompatibility

What can be done in PYAN is to encourage all 3rd party library developers to centralize their libraries in it, which I think all will gladly respond. All that is needed to be deposited in PYAN is a description file, like the simplest setup.py file. All that is needed in this description file is 1.

Re: bytecode non-backcompatibility

The same *can* be said for some decade-old .py files. Certainly, most everything written for 2.0 onward still works. The same will also be true for .pyc files as long as you run them with their corresponding binary and as long as the binary stills run. However, .pyc files are private, tempora

Re: Python internal design

Emre Turkay wrote: Hi Folks, I am designing a tool, in which there are dynamic types and variables with these types. In this respect, it is more like an interpreted language design. I wonder how these issues are implemented in Python are there any documents or articles about it, which I can read an

Re: Can .py be complied?

monkey wrote: Hi all, I am new to programming, already have a glace on introduction of c++, java and finally decided on python. But I found that the .py file is just like the source file, how can I make a program without revealing its source? (may be my question is a little bit stupid) It is gener

Re: bytecode non-backcompatibility

One difference between Java and Python is this: Java bytecodes are, as I understand it, part of the Java language definition. CPython bytecodes are intentionally not part of the language at all. Except maybe fore PyPy, other implementations do not use them. Jython translates Python source to

Re: bytecode non-backcompatibility

Terry Reedy wrote: "Maurice LING" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Now I understand that Python bytecodes are only dealing with pure python source codes. Then stop blaming (machine-independent) CPython 'bytecodes' for any problems you hav

Re: bytecode non-backcompatibility

2. The current compilation scheme (compiling to bytecode as and when it is needed) works well for scripting purposes but is less desirable in commercial settings. Less distribution happens when it is used purely for scripting purposes, such as system maintenance or tuning. The solution with the c

Re: bytecode non-backcompatibility

All you have to do is convince the developers to declare the set of bytecodes fixed, and they'd be stable. I don't think that will be easy, as it removes one of the methods used to improve the performance of Python. Since rebuilding the bytecode files is trivial (just invoke compileall.py in the l

Re: bytecode non-backcompatibility

It is a nuisance. It's more of a nuisance when third part modules with 'c' components are compiled for the new version of python (a windows specific problem). I did find that the last upgrade forced me to evaluate which extensions I actually used. The answer was 'a few less than I thought'. It beca

bytecode non-backcompatibility

Hi, I've been using Python for about 2 years now, for my honours project and now my postgrad project. I must say that I am loving it more and more now. From my knowledge, Python bytecodes are not back-compatible. I must say that my technical background isn't strong enough but is there any good

Re: python LEX

jozo wrote: I have to work on python lexical definition in Lex. I spent lots of my time to find regular expresions written for Lex of Python language but nothing. Can somebody help me? I nEED hELP Jython has a Python language lexer written using JavaCC. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Embedding & Extending Python &other scripting languages

Hi Tommy, After reading what you've written, it is still very vague for me. Is it a program that reads a specification and outputs the corresponding codes in the langauge you want? Cheers Maurice Tommy Nordgren wrote: I'm interested in doing a rather ambitious project concerning compiler constru

Using Jython in Ant Build Process

Hi, I am looking for a way to use Jython in Ant build process. I have some pure Python scripts (not using any C extensions) that I'll like to incorporate into Java using Jython. I heard that this can be done but you can I set up Ant to do this? Sorry, I'm no expert with Ant. By the way, I'm usi

Re: new to mac OS10

Robert Kern wrote: 3. Apple-installed Python's command line tools are symlinked from /usr/bin to /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework but the OSX installer for Python 2.4.1 places the commandline tools in /usr/local/bin and symlinked to /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework. So it seems t

Re: new to mac OS10

Hi Thomas, It seems that you've cleanly killed the Apple-installed Python, which isn't too bad a thing after all. What I can suggest you do is this... Copy the entire /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework directory from someone and drop it into your system (same place of course). I will n

Re: RE Engine error with sub()

your advices. Cheers Maurice Maurice LING wrote: Hi all, I think I might have a workaround to this problem but have no idea how to work it through. I hope that someone can kindly help me out because I do not quite understand the mechanics of the _make_regex() method in the original codes... My

Re: RE Engine error with sub()

match inputs My workaround is to change it to list of dictionaries, list of REs, list of RE matcher... iterative matching of inputs. Can someone kindly help me out here? Thanks in advance. Cheers, Maurice Maurice LING wrote: Hi, I have the following codes: from __future__ import nested_scopes import

Re: RE Engine error with sub()

Hi Dennis, Dennis Benzinger wrote: Maurice LING schrieb: Hi, I have the following codes: from __future__ import nested_scopes > [...] Are you still using Python 2.1? In every later version you don't need the "from __future__ import nested_scopes" line. So, if you are using Pyt

RE Engine error with sub()

Cookbook (http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/81330) and [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copyright: The methods _make_regex(), __call__() and substitute() were the work of Xavier Defrang, __init__() was the work of [EMAIL PROTECTED], all others were the work of Maurice Ling"""

Re: new to mac OS10

I was actually trying to update to the newest python version, and I had read something saying it would conflict with the old version, so I went through and deleted all the folders that had "python" in the name =]. clever of me, huh? now I can't make either the new or the old work. Once again,

Re: new to mac OS10

Thomas Nelson wrote: I'm on a mac OS X (10.3.8), and I seem to have accidentally destroyed the default python installation. How should I put it on? Do I need to use the unix version? any help would be greatly appreciated. THN Hi Thomas, I'm using OSX 10.3.8 as well. Just wondering, how did yo

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