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Hi all, this is just an FYI in case anyone else has the same issue I just
ran into. If you use python 3.6 or 3.7 under Ubuntu with lxc, you may
discover that your site-packages aren't being imported correctly within the
container, but when you SSH in, everything works correctly. If that
ha
On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 1:11 PM, Rick Johnson
wrote:
> On Saturday, March 4, 2017 at 3:05:57 PM UTC-6, Peter Pearson wrote:
>> I suspect I'm not the only fossil here who gets kinda
>> misty contemplating NNTP's history.
>
> Yeah. Well... Python-list has developed quite a reputation
> within usenet
On Saturday, March 4, 2017 at 3:05:57 PM UTC-6, Peter Pearson wrote:
> I suspect I'm not the only fossil here who gets kinda
> misty contemplating NNTP's history.
Yeah. Well... Python-list has developed quite a reputation
within usenet antiquities circles for its highly coveted
collection of rare
On Sat, 4 Mar 2017 08:37:24 -0800 (PST), Wanderer wrote:
>
> I don't know what a netnews protocol is. I use Google Groups to look
> at usenet.
Just in case you're interested, the Network News Transfer Protocol, NNTP,
is used to distribute posts over Usenet, a worldwide system for passing
messages
On Saturday, March 4, 2017 at 9:37:35 AM UTC-7, Wanderer wrote:
> On Saturday, March 4, 2017 at 11:31:13 AM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 3:22 AM, Wanderer wrote:
> > > I mostly just lurk and view the post titles to see if something
> > > interesting is being discussed. T
On Saturday, March 4, 2017 at 11:31:13 AM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 3:22 AM, Wanderer wrote:
> > I mostly just lurk and view the post titles to see if something interesting
> > is being discussed. This code gets me a web page without the spam. You need
> > to compile i
On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 3:22 AM, Wanderer wrote:
> I mostly just lurk and view the post titles to see if something interesting
> is being discussed. This code gets me a web page without the spam. You need
> to compile it to a pyc file and create a bookmark. Probably not useful for
> most people
I mostly just lurk and view the post titles to see if something interesting is
being discussed. This code gets me a web page without the spam. You need to
compile it to a pyc file and create a bookmark. Probably not useful for most
people who don't use their browsers the way I do, but here it is
I guess the RPi has no ADC and has a fixed system architecture, not willing to
include a co-processor running as watchdog or ADC, which is mandatory for
industrial control. However if you run RESTful embedded controllers as limited
functionality end devices, the RPi may act as main controller, i
On 11/8/2014 2:41 PM, John Pinner wrote:
They are quite different devices:
* The Raspberry Pi is a low-power general purpose computer designed
specifically for education purposes. It just so happens that it's
ideal for geek experimentation as well...
* MicroPython is an optimised version of Py
On Thursday, 23 October 2014 22:12:10 UTC+1, sohca...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Thursday, October 23, 2014 10:07:26 AM UTC-7, jkn wrote:
> > Hi all
> > I haven't heard in mentioned here, but since I saw one of the boards
> > today thought I'd pass on the news:
> >
> > The Kickstarter 'MicroPytho
> On Oct 23, 2014, at 2:11 PM, sohcahto...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> On Thursday, October 23, 2014 10:07:26 AM UTC-7, jkn wrote:
>> Hi all
>>I haven't heard in mentioned here, but since I saw one of the boards
>> today thought I'd pass on the news:
>>
>> The Kickstarter 'MicroPython' project, wh
On Thursday, October 23, 2014 10:07:26 AM UTC-7, jkn wrote:
> Hi all
> I haven't heard in mentioned here, but since I saw one of the boards
> today thought I'd pass on the news:
>
> The Kickstarter 'MicroPython' project, which has a tiny 'pyboard' (only a
> couple of sq.inches in size) with
Hi all
I haven't heard in mentioned here, but since I saw one of the boards today
thought I'd pass on the news:
The Kickstarter 'MicroPython' project, which has a tiny 'pyboard' (only a
couple of sq.inches in size) with a processor running 'a complete re-write of
the Python (version 3.4) pr
On 22/02/2013 19:21, Ian Kelly wrote:
.
Indeed, it seems to me that this is basically Richard Dawkins' weasel
program, with the addition of a transformation step in the fitness
function that amounts to running the string through a Brainfuck
interpreter. There is a rather large gap betwe
On 22 February 2013 13:04, Andrew Robinson wrote:
>
> How would you get an interpreter thread to check for a shutdown request
> every N cycles?
> I've read about how to set a timeout based on time, but not on any kind of
> cycle (eg: instruction cycle?) count.
>
> Do you have a python example?
wh
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 6:04 AM, Andrew Robinson
wrote:
> It's still surprising that even C# would allow a killing of threads.
>
> Resources can be allocated by a thread and tied up was one of the comments
> made on the site I linked; so those resources could be permanently tied up
> until process
On 02/22/2013 08:23 PM, Ian Kelly wrote:
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 5:09 AM, Andrew Robinson
wrote:
On 02/22/2013 07:21 PM, Ian Kelly wrote:
I am curious about how he deals with infinite loops in the generated
programs. Probably he just kills the threads after they pass some
time threshold?
I'm
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 5:09 AM, Andrew Robinson
wrote:
> On 02/22/2013 07:21 PM, Ian Kelly wrote:
>> I am curious about how he deals with infinite loops in the generated
>> programs. Probably he just kills the threads after they pass some
>> time threshold?
>
> I'm under the impression that Pyth
On 02/22/2013 07:21 PM, Ian Kelly wrote:
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 4:41 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
That's not artificial intelligence, though. It's artificial program
generation based on a known target output. The "Fitness" calculation
is based on a specific target string. This is fine for devisin
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 4:41 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> That's not artificial intelligence, though. It's artificial program
> generation based on a known target output. The "Fitness" calculation
> is based on a specific target string. This is fine for devising a
> program that will produce the en
On 2013-02-22, Gisle Vanem wrote:
> Disregarding the probability math in the above, the question
> IMHO boils down to whether "art can be produced by accident"
> (quote from above). I seems to recall elephant painting selling
> for lots of dollars some years ago. And long dull poems written
> by c
"Chris Angelico" wrote:
That's not artificial intelligence, though. It's artificial program
generation based on a known target output. The "Fitness" calculation
is based on a specific target string. This is fine for devising a
program that will produce the entire works of Shakespeare, since the
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 9:11 PM, Gisle Vanem wrote:
> Here is something interesting that you pythonistas might be
> interested in:
> http://www.primaryobjects.com/CMS/Article149.aspx
>
> """This article describes an experiment to produce an AI program, capable of
> developing its own programs, usi
Gisle Vanem wrote:
> Here is something interesting that you pythonistas might be
> interested in:
> http://www.primaryobjects.com/CMS/Article149.aspx
>
> """This article describes an experiment to produce an AI program,
> capable of
> developing its own programs, using a genetic algorithm
Here is something interesting that you pythonistas might be
interested in:
http://www.primaryobjects.com/CMS/Article149.aspx
"""This article describes an experiment to produce an AI program, capable of
developing its own programs, using a genetic algorithm implementation with
self-modifyi
On December 28th, an unknown attacker used a previously unknown remote
code exploit on http://wiki.python.org/. The attacker was able to get
shell access as the "moin" user, but no other services were affected.
Some time later, the attacker deleted all files owned by the "moin"
user, including all
http://blog.schose.net/index.php/archives/207 and it works now.
This is just FYI, for the case one of you would like to be able to do so
as well.
But be aware that it is not impossible that there are side effects.
Yours,
Thomas
--
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
http://scummos.blogspot.com/2011/09/kdev-python-argument-type-guessing.html
I'm not used to big ide/rad for python... but I think this work is
excellent!
Are there alternatives (pydev? others?) capable of this sort of thinks (I
mean "guessing the type" and method autocomplete)
--
By ZeD
--
Jonathan Fine wrote:...
A big thanks to Armin Ronacher and Raymond Hettinger for
PEP 372: Adding an ordered dictionary to collections
... I prototyped (in about an hour).
I then thought - maybe someone has been down this path before
So all that I want has been done already, and will be
Hi
A big thanks to Armin Ronacher and Raymond Hettinger for
PEP 372: Adding an ordered dictionary to collections
I'm using ConfigParser and I just assumed that the options in a section
were returned in the order they were given. In fact, I relied on this fact.
http://docs.python.org/li
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2006/12/pythons_were_the_oldest_gods.php
--
Doug Fort, Consulting Programmer
http://www.dougfort.com
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http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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
Sybren Stuvel wrote:
> 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
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
Sybren Stuvel wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Sometimes I have to feed data from an OpenOffice.org spreadsheet into
> some Python program. To make that really easy, I've written a small
> example program that connects to a running OpenOffice.org instance and
> reads the data from the currently opened spread
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
Sybren Stuvel wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Sometimes I have to feed data from an OpenOffice.org spreadsheet into
> some Python program. To make that really easy, I've written a small
> example program that connects to a running OpenOffice.org instance and
> reads the data from the currently opened sprea
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