Re: Python advice

2014-09-23 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 12:48 AM, Ian Kelly wrote: > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: >> Lua is a much simpler language than ECMAScript, incredibly >> light-weight, and easily sandboxed. It doesn't work with Unicode (I >> think its string type is eight-bit, so you have to wo

Re: Python advice

2014-09-23 Thread Ian Kelly
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > Lua is a much simpler language than ECMAScript, incredibly > light-weight, and easily sandboxed. It doesn't work with Unicode (I > think its string type is eight-bit, so you have to work with encoded > bytes), which is a serious downside in

Re: Python advice

2014-09-22 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 5:00 AM, Chris Kaynor wrote: > As a rule-of-thumb I'd recommend sticking to one or two high-level languages > until you are reasonably comfortable with them, then possibly branching to > other languages. As you've already started with Python, I'd continue on it > for a whil

Re: Python advice

2014-09-22 Thread Chris Kaynor
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Ian Kelly wrote: > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Chris Kaynor > wrote: > > Python is pretty good base-line language. It is really good as a glue > > language to piece together other components, or for IO-bound or > user-bound > > code, but will not preform we

Re: Python advice

2014-09-22 Thread Ian Kelly
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Chris Kaynor wrote: > Python is pretty good base-line language. It is really good as a glue > language to piece together other components, or for IO-bound or user-bound > code, but will not preform well enough for many other applications such as > games. It is good

Re: Python advice

2014-09-22 Thread Chris Kaynor
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Dave Angel wrote: > > I need a way forward on what more free ebooks i can get mt hands on so i > can accomplish my goals. > > > > I need some advice. should i go on to learn other languages like java or > c++ cos i want to be able to using all these knowledge for

Re: Python advice

2014-09-22 Thread vek . m1234
1. Python Essential Reference, Python Standard Library by Example/Dive into Python 2. C (K.N.King), C++(Eckel), Python, Make, GCC, Lex/Yacc/Bison, Some HTML/CSS/XML/Javascript/XLTS+Python 3. I don't like Java much - never tried it. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python advice

2014-09-22 Thread ngangsia akumbo
PRESENTLY I AM READING A BOOK MASTERING PYTHON ALGORITHMS. IT MAKES MUCH SENSE -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Python advice

2014-09-22 Thread ngangsia akumbo
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Re: Installing ssdeep on Portable Python /advice

2014-03-22 Thread laguna-mc
Re: Installing ssdeep on Portable Python /advice > > On 3/21/14 9:51 PM, Mark H Harris wrote: > > On 3/20/14 7:16 PM, laguna...@mail.com wrote: > > >> $ tar -zxvf ssdeep-2.10.tar.gz > >> $ cd ssdeep-2.10&& ./configure&& make&& sudo make inst

Re: Installing ssdeep on Portable Python /advice

2014-03-21 Thread Mark H Harris
On 3/21/14 9:51 PM, Mark H Harris wrote: On 3/20/14 7:16 PM, laguna...@mail.com wrote: $ tar -zxvf ssdeep-2.10.tar.gz $ cd ssdeep-2.10&& ./configure&& make&& sudo make install I need install it on PortablePython for Windows, so it's not clear how to make this: where should be placed ssdeep

Re: Installing ssdeep on Portable Python /advice

2014-03-21 Thread Mark H Harris
On 3/20/14 7:16 PM, laguna...@mail.com wrote: $ tar -zxvf ssdeep-2.10.tar.gz $ cd ssdeep-2.10&& ./configure&& make&& sudo make install I need install it on PortablePython for Windows, so it's not clear how to make this: where should be placed ssdeep Windows binary files, that Pyt

Re: Installing ssdeep on Portable Python /advice

2014-03-20 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 21/03/2014 00:16, laguna...@mail.com wrote: Portable Python 2.7 for Windows, the Python application have dependency on ssdeep-2.10, which is a binary exe. The ssdeep (libfuzzy) installation example was shown for Linux platform only: a) libfuzzy can be installed via apt-get: $ sudo

Installing ssdeep on Portable Python /advice

2014-03-20 Thread laguna-mc
Portable Python 2.7 for Windows, the Python application have dependency on ssdeep-2.10, which is a binary exe. The ssdeep (libfuzzy) installation example was shown for Linux platform only: a) libfuzzy can be installed via apt-get:    $ sudo apt-get install libfuzzy2 b) to install libfuzzy

Re: Making a time series analysis package in python - advice or assistance sought

2006-07-07 Thread Cameron Laird
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Ray Tomes wrote: >> Hi Folks >> >> I am an old codger who has much experience with computers >> in the distant past before all this object oriented stuff. >> Also I have loads of software in such languages as FORTRAN >> and BASIC, QBASIC

Re: Making a time series analysis package in python - advice or assistance sought

2006-07-07 Thread beliavsky
Ray Tomes wrote: > Hi Folks > > I am an old codger who has much experience with computers > in the distant past before all this object oriented stuff. > Also I have loads of software in such languages as FORTRAN > and BASIC, QBASIC etc that is very useful except that it > really doesn't like to run

Re: Making a time series analysis package in python - advice or assistance sought

2006-07-07 Thread bearophileHUGS
Ray Tomes: > My package will have the following capabilities: > 1. Able to read time series data in a variety of formats. > 2. Able to create, manipulate and save time series files. > 3. Able to do vector arithmetic on time series, including > dozens of functions. > 4. Loop and macro facilities to

Re: Making a time series analysis package in python - advice or assistancesought

2006-07-06 Thread Terry Reedy
"Ray Tomes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > My package will have the following capabilities: > 1. Able to read time series data in a variety of formats. > 2. Able to create, manipulate and save time series files. > 3. Able to do vector arithmetic on time series, incl

Re: Making a time series analysis package in python - advice or assistance sought

2006-07-06 Thread Tim Leslie
Hi Ray, As a first step you might want to look at numpy/scipy/matplotlib numpy (numpy.scipy.org) provides the underlying data structures (array and matrices among other things) you require. This will handle all your vector stuff, reading/writing to and from files, "loop macros", etc. scipy (www.

Making a time series analysis package in python - advice or assistance sought

2006-07-06 Thread Ray Tomes
Hi Folks I am an old codger who has much experience with computers in the distant past before all this object oriented stuff. Also I have loads of software in such languages as FORTRAN and BASIC, QBASIC etc that is very useful except that it really doesn't like to run on modern operating systems a