Re: [ActivePython] Upgrading fails

On 8/6/2013 6:12 PM, Gilles wrote: Hello, I already posted in their forum, but got no reply and figured some people here might have experienced this too. I'm currently running ActivePython 2.5.1.1 on my XP Pro host. After downloading and running the installer to 2.7.2.5, I get the following er

Re: ActivePython: multiple versions on OSX?

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Robert wrote: > Is it possible to install the 2 and 3 series side by side? > Yup. Moreover, ActivePython includes a tool called `pythonselect` that can be used to set the "current" version of Python, https://github.com/ActiveState/pythonselect#readme For OSX, th

Re: ActivePython: multiple versions on OSX?

Why not use Virtualenv ? http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Robert wrote: > Is it possible to install the 2 and 3 series side by side? > > -- > Robert > > > -- > http://mail.python.org/**mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ActivePython: multiple versions on OSX?

In article , Melton Low wrote: [...] > On Mac OS X, a link is automatically installed in /usr/local/bin for each > version of the Python executables, ie python2.7 for the 2.7.x and python3.2 > for 3.2.x. Just invoke your script with the appropriate Python version. > eg. python3.2 yourscript t

Re: ActivePython: multiple versions on OSX?

It's definitely possible. I've done it myself. On Jul 25, 2011 8:21 PM, "Robert" wrote: > Is it possible to install the 2 and 3 series side by side? > > -- > Robert > > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ActivePython: multiple versions on OSX?

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 2:33 AM, Melton Low wrote: > It's probably impractical.  You would need a pair for each version of Python > installed, ie. (PYTHON26PATH,PYTHON26HOME) for 2.6.x, > (PYTHON27PATH,PYTHON27HOME) for 2.7.x, for 3.1.x, for 3.2.x, etc). You could set up a script for each ve

Re: ActivePython: multiple versions on OSX?

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Web Dreamer wrote: > John Roth a écrit ce mardi 26 juillet 2011 14:00 dans <75342033- > abbb-4d59-9654-96d5031dc...@r28g2000prb.googlegroups.com> : > > > On Jul 25, 8:18 pm, Ned Deily wrote: > >> In article , Robert > >> wrote: > >> > >> > Is it possible to inst

Re: ActivePython: multiple versions on OSX?

On Jul 25, 8:18 pm, Ned Deily wrote: > In article , Robert > wrote: > > > Is it possible to install the 2 and 3 series side by side? > > Probably.  On Mac OS X, t's certainly possible to install any python.org > versions side by side, even multiple versions of 2 and 3.  That's one of > the advant

Re: ActivePython: multiple versions on OSX?

In article , Robert wrote: > Is it possible to install the 2 and 3 series side by side? Probably. On Mac OS X, t's certainly possible to install any python.org versions side by side, even multiple versions of 2 and 3. That's one of the advantages of the Python framework build layout on OS X

Re: ActivePython - how to configure portable framework?

Copy all the files in the ZIP to your USB stick and run INSTALLDIR\python.exe -srid On 5/7/2010 3:24 AM, balzer wrote: I downloaded ActivePython-2.6.5.12-win32-x86.zip, it contains two folders and 3 files: SystemFolder INSTALLDIR sh2.py install.bat _install.py Anyone know how to configure t

Re: ActivePython 3.1.1.2 vs Python 3.1.1 for OSX?

PyPM is now released! http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/e9efdedf264a3b8a On Oct 1, 4:42 am, flebber wrote: > On Oct 1, 11:28 am, srid wrote: > > > > > > > On Sep 30, 4:51 pm, Robert Hicks wrote: > > > > I am just curious which I should use. I am going to s

Re: ActivePython 3.1.1.2 vs Python 3.1.1 for OSX?

On Oct 1, 11:28 am, srid wrote: > On Sep 30, 4:51 pm, Robert Hicks wrote: > > > I am just curious which I should use. I am going to start learning > > Python soon. Are they comparable and I just do a "eenie meenie minie > > moe"? > > ActivePython is essentially same as the installers from python.

Re: ActivePython 3.1.1.2 vs Python 3.1.1 for OSX?

On Sep 30, 9:28 pm, srid wrote: > On Sep 30, 4:51 pm, Robert Hicks wrote: > > > I am just curious which I should use. I am going to start learning > > Python soon. Are they comparable and I just do a "eenie meenie minie > > moe"? > > ActivePython is essentially same as the installers from python.

Re: ActivePython 3.1.1.2 vs Python 3.1.1 for OSX?

On Sep 30, 4:51 pm, Robert Hicks wrote: > I am just curious which I should use. I am going to start learning > Python soon. Are they comparable and I just do a "eenie meenie minie > moe"? ActivePython is essentially same as the installers from python.org - but it also comes with additional docume

Re: ActivePython 3.1.1.2 vs Python 3.1.1 for OSX?

On Sep 30, 9:07 pm, Jon Clements wrote: > On 1 Oct, 00:51, Robert Hicks wrote: > > > I am just curious which I should use. I am going to start learning > > Python soon. Are they comparable and I just do a "eenie meenie minie > > moe"? > > > Bob > > First off, a great choice of language to begin t

Re: ActivePython 3.1.1.2 vs Python 3.1.1 for OSX?

On 1 Oct, 00:51, Robert Hicks wrote: > I am just curious which I should use. I am going to start learning > Python soon. Are they comparable and I just do a "eenie meenie minie > moe"? > > Bob First off, a great choice of language to begin trying! Is it your first language (I'm guessing not), or

Re: [ActivePython 2.5.1.1] Why does Python not return first line?

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: Teletypes, OTOH, really did use one character to advance the platen by a line, and a second to move the print-head to the left. (and may have needed "rub-out" characters to act as timing delays while the print-head moved) I remember writing a printer driver for a

Re: [ActivePython 2.5.1.1] Why does Python not return first line?

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Gilles Ganault wrote: > Hello > > I'm stuck at why Python doesn't return the first line in this simple > regex: > > === > response = "Address :\r\t\t\r\t\t\t3 Abbey Road, > St Johns Wood \r\t\t\tLondon, NW8 9AY\t\t" > > re_address = re.compile('Address > :

Re: [ActivePython 2.5.1.1] Why does Python not return first line?

On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 01:14:00 +0100, Gilles Ganault wrote: >I'm stuck at why Python doesn't return the first line in this simple >regex Found it: Python does extract the token, but displaying it requires removing hidden chars: = response = "Address :\r\t\t\r\t\t\t3 Abbey Road, St Johns Wood \

Re: ActivePython or Python from Python.org

Rey Bango wrote: Hi everyone. I noticed that ActiveState has their own variation of Python and was curious if there's a benefit to choosing their version over the version offered via Python.org. Could someone lend some insight? Here is some reasoning I wrote a while back: http://mail.python.o

Re: ActivePython 2.6.1.1 and 3.0.0.0 released!

Kay Schluehr wrote: On 13 Dez., 00:16, Trent Mick wrote: Note that currently PyWin32 is not included in ActivePython 3.0. Is there any activity in this direction? The PyWin32 CVS tree is getting checkins from Mark Hammond and Roger Upole with a py3k tag. I'm not sure how close they are cu

Re: ActivePython 2.6.1.1 and 3.0.0.0 released!

Hi! M. Hammond said (wrote) said that the work is enormous, because modifications of the C architecture of Python 3 was largely modified. (sorry for my bad english) -- Michel Claveau -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ActivePython 2.6.1.1 and 3.0.0.0 released!

On 13 Dez., 00:16, Trent Mick wrote: > Note that currently PyWin32 is not included in ActivePython 3.0. Is there any activity in this direction? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ActivePython

Trent Mick wrote: > Frank Swarbrick wrote: [...] > Steve Holden wrote: > > ...the last time I looked the ActivePython distribution > > doesn't allow redistribution at all (i.e. it's not technically open > > source). > > Steve is correct that ActivePython isn't open source. It is free (as in >

Re: ActivePython

Frank Swarbrick wrote: > Why might one choose to use ActivePython instead of using the free CPython? Expanding on what Alex already said, there are a few reasons: 1. On Windows, ActivePython also includes the PyWin32 [1] extensions which otherwise you'd have to install separately over a python.o

Re: ActivePython

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Jul 4, 2:03 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote: >> Frank Swarbrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Why might one choose to use ActivePython instead of using the free CPython? >> I believe ActivePython is also free, and it's packaged up differently >> (with more

Re: ActivePython

Hi! > Why might one choose to use ActivePython instead of using the free CPython? quiet installation? -- @-salutations Michel Claveau -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ActivePython

On Jul 4, 2:03 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote: > Frank Swarbrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why might one choose to use ActivePython instead of using the free CPython? > > I believe ActivePython is also free, and it's packaged up differently > (with more 3rd party modules accompany

Re: ActivePython

Frank Swarbrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why might one choose to use ActivePython instead of using the free CPython? I believe ActivePython is also free, and it's packaged up differently (with more 3rd party modules accompanying it than the standard Python distribution), which might make it a

Re: ActivePython 2.5.0.0 is now available

Bror Johansson wrote: > I did notice the download earlier today and I have installed it on five > Windows-machines (two WinXPPro and three Win2K) and have found one > consistent error. > > Whenever I try Help->Python Manuals from PythonWin I get this errormessage: > > "Internal error in hel

Re: ActivePython 2.5.0.0 is now available

"Trent Mick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev i meddelandet news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I'm happy to announce that ActivePython 2.5.0.0 is now available for > download > from: > http://www.activestate.com/products/activepython/ > > This is the first release of ActivePython for Python version 2.5. > A

Re: ActivePython & SSL

[Fuzzyman wrote] > Hello all, > > In the past I've used the ActivePython distribution for windows. > Particularly their chm help manual is excellent. > > I have heard that the ActivePython distribution *doesn't* include SSL > support compiled in for windows. > > Can anyone confirm or deny this r

Re: ActivePython and Amara

sigh... i keep telling you guys im not a newbie, its just that i had a question about that module... But, i understand i may sound like a noob because i was asking for detailed questions instead of the broad ones that you guys were giving me... but i would not like to be considered a noob around he

Re: ActivePython and Amara

Where I go to work, a quote stands etched in a very large font into the concrete prominently to remind us to be humble. The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. (Daniel J. Boorstin) You just have to trust us on this. We are not jumping to conclusions

Re: ActivePython and Amara

lol, u guys love picking on me... LOL, i didnt even realize it was creating a list, i know, dumb but true... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ActivePython and Amara

> i know much about python and i dont excactly need help > learning the basics of python because i know it, once again, its the > module i need help with... No, you _really_ don't. If you were python-capable, you would have been able to extrapolate from the example I gave above to answer your own

Re: ActivePython and Amara

BTW, i finished this tutorial long ago... http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCSpy/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ActivePython and Amara

i knew someone would snap on me... lol. Its not that i dibt ubderstand all of python, its just that i dont understand this specific module since i couldnt find any good tutorials on this specific module. its not the whole programming part, its just the module. I made my program jsut how i wanted it

Re: ActivePython and Amara

i knew someone would snap on me... lol. Its not that i dibt ubderstand all of python, its just that i dont understand this specific module since i couldnt find any good tutorials on this specific module. its not the whole programming part, its just the module. I made my program jsut how i wanted it

Re: ActivePython and Amara

Jay, You are practically asking the community to write your 4 line program for you. Read Alex's post (first one in this thread, 2nd and 3rd paragraphs) slowly and carefully again. If you understand the absolute basics of Python, you would not be asking this question, nor the previous one. You are

Re: ActivePython and Amara

that like displays all the items, i want to just get one two three and such. Can't i get just the first three and i also want them to display individually such as title1 = just the title of item 1 and descp = would be the descrp of item one, and so one... I dont need a list of all titles... Is ther

Re: ActivePython and Amara

Jay wrote: > [T]here are multiple items in channel, how do i tell it to > go to the next item and get that title?? channel = rssDigg.find('//channel') for item in channel.findall('item'): print item.find('title').text -alex23 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ActivePython and Amara

really quick question, if you look at the XML doc of digg.com then you will see that there are multiple items in channel, how do i tell it to go to the next item and get that title?? title2 = rssDigg.find("//channel/item//title").text Didnt work title2 = rssDigg.find("//channel/item[1]/title"

Re: ActivePython and Amara

OK! The story so far ... You wanted to parse an RSS feed and wanted a simple library. You tried Amara. The binary installer had a problem. Not sure what was the issue with installing the source via distutils. Since you have way too many options to do this, it is probably better to switch to anothe

Re: ActivePython and Amara

If you are having problems installing Amara, ElementTree is another option http://effbot.org/downloads/elementtree-1.2.6-20050316.win32.exe from elementtree import ElementTree as ET from urllib import urlopen rss = ET.parse(urlopen('index.xml')) title = rss.find('//channel/title').text articles

Re: ActivePython and Amara

Jay wrote: > Ok, ok, i over-reacted. When first reading it seemed as an attack and i > quickly put up a defense because i dont like being attacked for no > reason. I was actually quite obnoxious and i apoligize. > > And again, thx James for pointing that out. > Once again, i apoligize for my actio

Re: ActivePython and Amara

Ok, ok, i over-reacted. When first reading it seemed as an attack and i quickly put up a defense because i dont like being attacked for no reason. I was actually quite obnoxious and i apoligize. And again, thx James for pointing that out. Once again, i apoligize for my actions and words and i will

Re: ActivePython and Amara

Jay, Profanity is unwelcome in this newsgroup. Alex's advice is very well placed and you will realize that once you stop seeing it as a personal attack. Different newsgroups have different attitudes. comp.lang.python is not exactly a tech support group. Bug reports posters here are frequently adv

Re: ActivePython and Amara

Jay wrote: > Woah woah woah, calm your ass down a little. > > I didn't say that the "hijacker" made it go off topic. Did I? I just > said that the thread was going off topic from the dam title. We > weren't > talking about XML no more now were we. And who the hell are you talking > to thinking tha

Re: ActivePython and Amara

Jay wrote: > Woah woah woah, calm your ass down a little. > > I didn't say that the "hijacker" made it go off topic. Did I? I just > said that the thread was going off topic from the dam title. We > weren't talking about XML no more now were we. They were discussing _why_ the XML module you were t

Re: ActivePython and Amara

On that note... I would like to open up the floor again.. lol -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ActivePython and Amara

Woah woah woah, calm your ass down a little. I didn't say that the "hijacker" made it go off topic. Did I? I just said that the thread was going off topic from the dam title. We weren't talking about XML no more now were we. And who the hell are you talking to thinking that I haven't researched my

Re: ActivePython and Amara

The thread didn't go "off topic", the "hijacker" was reporting on errors with Amara's Windows installer that COULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PROBLEMS YOU ARE EXPERIENCING. If you had ANY understanding of Python, you would have realised this. Sometimes you really need to slow down and learn something

Re: ActivePython 2.3.5.236 and ActivePython 2.4.0.244 are available

Got it. Thanks.I'm just curious.:) "Trent Mick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > mep wrote: > > ActivePython-2.4.0-243-win32-ix86.msi : 29M > > ActivePython-2.4.0-244-win32-ix86.msi : 18M > > What make so much difference of the size of them, which distinct monir > >

Re: ActivePython 2.3.5.236 and ActivePython 2.4.0.244 are available

mep wrote: ActivePython-2.4.0-243-win32-ix86.msi : 29M ActivePython-2.4.0-244-win32-ix86.msi : 18M What make so much difference of the size of them, which distinct monir version number for 1 only. Any explaination? Yes, build 243 accidentally included some debug-build bits from the included PyWin

Re: ActivePython 2.3.5.236 and ActivePython 2.4.0.244 are available

ActivePython-2.4.0-243-win32-ix86.msi : 29M ActivePython-2.4.0-244-win32-ix86.msi : 18M What make so much difference of the size of them, which distinct monir version number for 1 only. Any explaination? -- Best Regards, Wang Kebo http://www.huihoo.org/~mep "Trent Mick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w