Cameron Laird wrote:
.
.
Part of the trick is that it demands deep understanding
to detect the antisynergies that arise from the interac-
tions of the DLL, registry, and filesystem schemes. I
know it was only this year that I realized the whole
installation-requires-reb
Hi Lucas,
> On a dual Xeon 3.0 Ghz:
[...]
> Which shows a decrease in performance. Could this have anything to do with the
> fact that is is a dual processor box?
Maybe. But my 3Gh P4/HT is also detected as a dual processor machine
(Kernel 2.6), so it might be a general problem with the Xeon?
Here are my suggestions:
1. A "larch" (nice play on early Java)
2. Shoebox in middle o' road! (totally meaningless)
3. A Python sitting in a comfy chair (indicating ease-of-use)
4. A "larch"
All very Pythonic and non-controversial (unless you're a member of the
"Prevention of Cruelty to Shoeboxes
Will Stuyvesant wrote:
data = [['foo','bar','baz'],['my','your'],['holy','grail']]
sum(data, [])
['foo', 'bar', 'baz', 'my', 'your', 'holy', 'grail']
The second parameter passed to sum is just to overrride default
initial value "zero".
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>> Writting this script was harder than I initially thought due to
>> a lack of documentation for win32all. And I still don't know what
>> that bizzare_int value stands for (an error/status code?).
[Fredrik Lundh]
> if I'm not mistaken, the corresponding Win32 function is called
> PdhGetFormattedC
Luis M. Gonzalez wrote:
Martijn Faassen wrote:
Unfortunately this is currently not near production use, and whether
Microsoft is funding IronPython development is up in the air:
It's true that he Ironpython's mailing list is a little bit innactive,
but this is just because there's only one person
Dimitri Tcaciuc wrote:
Yup, I was aware of the fact of Monty Python roots of the language name.
However, you will probably agree that a snake is more associative.
Plus, if to use some characteristic MP feature like a giant foot, I'm
not positive that it won't trigger any copyright issues.
I pref
Keith Dart wrote:
> Aye...
>
> the dict.keys() line creates a temporary list, and then the 'in' does a
> linear search of the list. Better would be:
>
> try:
> dict[a].append(b)
> except KeyError:
> dict[a] = [b]
>
> since you expect the key to be there most of the time, this method i
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just wrote:
>
>
> >> as for the rest of your arguments, I have to assume that you were joking.
> >> (or
> >> that you have no experience whatsoever of distribution of Python programs
> >> in
> >> Unix and Windows envi
Hello!
I have to convert an HTML document to rtf with python, was just googling
for an hour and did find nothing ;-(
Has anybody an Idea how to convert (under Linux) an HTML or Pdf Document
to Rtf?
Thanks, AXEL
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Another tuple/list question.
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> http://www.python.org/doc/faq/general.html#why-are-there-separate-tuple-and-list-data-types
Apart from historical, compatibility reasons, why is
"foo %s bar %s" % [2, 4]
illegal?
I could imagine that anything accepting numerical values fo
Hello projecktzero,
> A co-worker considers himself "old school" in that he hasn't seen the
> light of OOP.(It might be because he's in love with Perl...but that's
> another story.) He thinks that OOP has more overhead and is slower than
> programs written the procedural way. I poked around google
HI
Hope this is the right place for this, I am new. I have a spec to
create
a (dual screen) framework application that
1 displays mp3, flash, jpegs etc. on top screen
2: displays buttons on bottom screen which alter image when a key is
pressed.
The hardware is a dell pc basically, no mouse and t
I have a monster jpg (128 mb) that comprises a handful of colors
(20 or so, max). It should never have been compressed with jpeg
compression, as I understand it. It should have been a png or gif, since
they are made to handle blocks of a few colors.
I used PIL to convert it to png and to gi
Dan Perl wrote:
> Yeah, you're right. I got it all twisted in my mind. It's late and
I must
> be getting tired.
>
Perl & Twisted in the same thread, that should fool the search engines
:D
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Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Until this code:
>
> .>>> import pdb
> .>>> pdb.True = 0
> .>>> pdb.x = "Darn writeable module dictionaries"
> .>>> from pdb import True
> .>>> True
> 0
> .>>> from pdb import x
> .>>> x
> 'Darn writeable module dictionaries'
If Python really does behave
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just can't see what can be done with OOP taht can't be done with
standart procedural programing.
Well, there's absolutely nothing you can do with OOP that
can't be done with "standard procedural programming" (SPP).
But that's hardly the point. After all, anything you ca
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Here are my suggestions:
...
> 4. A "larch"
>
...
> Anybody know what a larch looks like?
>
Right! Well, some rather good pictures of the Larch on this website (my,
stunning, the larch looks, eh?!)
http://www.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/PEOPLE/bolder/monty
Ron Phillips wrote:
>I have a monster jpg (128 mb) that comprises a handful of colors (20 or
> so, max). It should never have been compressed with jpeg compression, as
> I understand it. It should have been a png or gif, since they are made
> to handle blocks of a few colors.
if you compress an i
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Alexander Straschil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello!
>
>I have to convert an HTML document to rtf with python, was just googling
>for an hour and did find nothing ;-(
>Has anybody an Idea how to convert (under Linux) an HTML or Pdf Document
>to Rtf?
>
>Thanks, AX
Ola> If some keys has the same value as the item this will cause
Ola> problems because keys in your result dictionary can be
Ola> overwritten.
That's why I said, "assuming your dictionary defines a one-to-one
mapping...".
Skip
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On 14 Dec 2004 05:11:07 -0800, rumours say that
[EMAIL PROTECTED] might have written:
>Dan Perl wrote:
>> Yeah, you're right. I got it all twisted in my mind. It's late and
>>I must be getting tired.
>Perl & Twisted in the same thread, that should fool the search engines
>:D
Now, if only Sam R
Hi,
I'm learning python...one of my tasks is to send out emails...
I can send emails to one person at a time but not as groups
Do you think you can help.
Cheers
Philippe Reynolds
Here is the section of code:
# me == the sender's email address
me = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
# you == the recipient's em
Hello!
Sorry Cameron, I was replying, now my folloup ;-):
> Are you trying to convert one document in particular, or automate the
> process of conveting arbitrary HTML documents?
I have an small CMS System where the customer has the posibility to view
certain Html-Pages as Pdf, the CMS ist Pytho
Okay, color me stupid, but what is everyone referencing when they
mention Python 3.0? I didn't see any mention of it on the Python site.
Chris
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Keith Dart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|>> Oh, I forgot to mention that it also has a more user- and
|>> programmer-friendly ExitStatus object that processess can return. This
|>> is directly testable in Python:
|>>
|>> proc = proctools.spawn("somecommand")
|>> exitstatus = proc.wait()
|>>
|>> if
If you want to spend the $35 I can recommend WingIDE.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Chris
Sent: 14 December 2004 16:37
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Python IDE
What IDE's do y'all recommend for Python? I'm using PythonWin atm, but
I'
Hello,
I'm having some problems with pyparsing, I could not find how to tell
it to view certain words as keywords, i.e. not as a possible variable
name (in an elegant way),
for example, I have this little grammar:
terminator = Literal(";")
expr = Word(alphas)
body = Forward();
ifstat = "if" + bod
Well sort of...
More a request for comments really - to see if anyone is interested in
this.
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/atlantibots/pythonutils.html#testenv
I've created a script that will build a 'test environment'. Windoze(tm)
only as it uses py2exe.
It scans your Python\Lib folder and b
Peter Otten wrote:
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
Steve Holden wrote:
It was unfortunate that so many people chose to use that for
compatibility, when if they'd used the same code that the win32all
extensions did they could have retained backward compatibility even
across a change to constants:
try:
Tru
read the orginal poster's SPECIFIC question he make only reference to a
FILE or STDIN which can't be destructively read, either way he don't
not requre the look-ahead to do what he wants. So my advice is still
valid. Think about it in a different way.
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I'm working on a program in PythonWin. The problem I'm running into is
that after I make a code change, PythonWin doesn't always see it. Has
anyone else had this problem?
Chris
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Franz Steinhaeusler wrote:
given a string:
st="abcdatraataza"
^ ^ ^ ^ (these should be found)
I want to get the positions of all single 'a' characters.
(Without another 'a' neighbour)
You could also try negative lookahead/lookbehind assertions:
>>> st="abcdatraataza"
>>> for m in re.findi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
import re
s='abcdatraataza'
r=re.compile('(?
Oops, tested this time:
import re
def index_letters(s,l):
regexp='(?
print index_letters('abcdatraataza','a')
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Title: RE: Python IDE
[Chris]
#- -chuckle- Hopefully I don't start off a full fledged war.-grin-
Too late, :p
#- Why didn't you like Eclipse? Was it that the Python modules
#- were bad,
#- or just Eclipse in general? I use it for my Java developement and
#- haven't had any problem
Great class for making this very easy located here:
http://motion.sourceforge.net/related/send_jpg.py
And is supports list of binary attachments that is
pretty tricky by hand.
Larry Bates
Syscon, Inc.
Philippe Reynolds wrote:
Hi,
I'm learning python...one of my tasks is to send out emails...
I can
Steve Holden wrote:
# Pre 2.2.1 compat.
try: True, False
except NameError: True = 1==1; False = 1==0
I believe this should work for all versions up to 2.4, and would also
work with a 2.5 that made True and False constants. But if anyone can
prove me wrong it would be you ... :-)
Seems like it mig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
import re
s='abcdatraataza'
r=re.compile('(?
Oops, tested this time:
import re
def index_letters(s,l):
regexp='(?
print index_letters('abcdatraataza','a')
Just comparing Fredrik Lundh's method:
r=re.compile("a+")
[m.
Petr Prikryl wrote:
Hi,
Summary: In my opinion, the C-like prefix
increment and decrement operators (++i and --i)
should be marked as "syntax error".
We have a patch for increment and decrement operators in boo (
http://boo.codehaus.org/ ), along with an operator overloading syntax
like below. S
Klaus Neuner wrote:
Yet, I have got 43 such files. Together they are 4,1M
large. In the future, they will probably become much larger.
At the moment, the process takes several hours. As it is a process
that I have to run very often, I would like it to be faster.
Others have shown how you can m
Chris wrote:
Okay, color me stupid, but what is everyone referencing when they
mention Python 3.0? I didn't see any mention of it on the Python site.
http://www.python.org/moin/Python3.0
has more information than the PEP 3000, plus you can contribute to the page.
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"Berteun Damman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 18:39:19 GMT, Paul McGuire
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> If I try however to parse the String "if test; testagain; fi;", it does
> >> not work, because the fi is interpreted as an expr, not as the
Chris wrote:
What IDE's do y'all recommend for Python? I'm using PythonWin atm, but
I'd like something with more functionality.
On Linux, Eric3 is really worth recommending. On Windows, if you don't
mind spending some $$$, buy Komodo. These programs "have it all" (Eric3
"has more", though).
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There's sample code in PyOpenGL and OpenGLContext for saving canvases to
PNG or JPEG formats using PIL. Saving to Postscript requires
considerably more work (if you're implying saving as triangles, lines
and the like). There is a GPL library which lets you do this, and I
have an old SWIG wrap
Robert Brewer wrote:
Chris wrote:
I'm working on a program in PythonWin. The problem I'm
running into is that after I make a code change,
PythonWin doesn't always see it. Has anyone else
had this problem?
"See it" in the interactive session? Use reload():
http://docs.python.org/lib/built-in-fun
projecktzero wrote:
A co-worker considers himself "old school" in that he hasn't seen the
light of OOP.(It might be because he's in love with Perl...but that's
another story.) He thinks that OOP has more overhead and is slower than
programs written the procedural way. I poked around google, but I d
Martin Bless wrote:
> On my Windows machine this command line switch really makes my life so
> much easier.
if you use windows, chances are that what you really want is exemaker...
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Hello,
I want to write a simple encrypter, but I've got a problem:
How can I convert characters into integers?
I have got a string from the user, for example "Hi!".
Now I get every character with a loop:
buffer = ""
for i in range(len(message)):
ch = message[i-1:i]
...
The character is saved
I did not really 'get' OOP until after learning Python. The relatively
simple but powerful user class model made more sense to me than C++. So
introducing someone to Python, where OOP is a choice, not a mandate, is how
*I* would introduce a procedural programmer to the subject. YMMV.
Terry
Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2004-12-14, Markus Zeindl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I want to write a simple encrypter, but I've got a problem:
How can I convert characters into integers?
$ python
Python 2.3.4 (#2, Aug 19 2004, 15:49:40)
[GCC 3.4.1 (Mandrakelinux (Alpha 3.4.1-3mdk)] on linux2
Type "hel
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
http://www.python.org/2.4/msi.html
which might be great if you know how things work, but is bloody confusing
if you don't. most importantly, how do you set properties?
How do you know they are called properties?-) I would have thought that
"Additional parameters can be passe
Cameron Laird wrote:
Part of the trick is that it demands deep understanding
to detect the antisynergies that arise from the interac-
tions of the DLL, registry, and filesystem schemes. I
know it was only this year that I realized the whole
installation-requires-reboot absurdity is a consequence
o
Hi,
Try WingIDE if you have some money (about 35 E/$ for the personal
version) to spend, it's worth every (euro)cent. But please try SPE
first, maybe that's enough for you.
Dimitri
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 11:36:34 -0500, Chris
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What IDE's do y'all recommend for Python? I
Paul McGuire wrote:
[snip]
I would characterize the 80's as the transitional decade from structured
programming (which really started to hit its stride when Djikstra published
"Use of GOTO Considered Harmful") to OOP, and that OOP wasn't really
"joyful" until the early-to-mid 90's.
IMMEDIATE NOTICE
Markus Zeindl wrote:
I have got a string from the user, for example "Hi!".
Now I get every character with a loop:
buffer = ""
for i in range(len(message)):
ch = message[i-1:i]
for ch in message:
...
is simpler and more idiomatic.
Kent
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"Martijn Faassen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Paul McGuire wrote:
> [snip]
> > I would characterize the 80's as the transitional decade from structured
> > programming (which really started to hit its stride when Djikstra
published
> > "Use of GOTO Considered Harmf
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> If OOP is so beneficial for large projects, why are the Linux kernel,
> the interpreters for Perl and Python, and most compilers I know written
> in C rather than C++?
Because C++ combines the worst features of C and OO programming. It
also makes some defaults go the w
"Paul McGuire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I was just reacting mostly to the OP's statement that "by '86 the Joy of
OOP
> was widely known".
I (Jive Dadson) said that. I guess I figured that if I knew about it, it
was widely known. But in retrospect, I had an i
projecktzero wrote:
> He thinks that OOP has more overhead
I think he's just confusing programming with marriage.
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Hi Folks,
Newbie question here. I'm trying to set up some unit testing for a database
abstraction class, and the first thing I want to test is the connection
parameters. So, my question is, how do I dynamically pass the variables from a
list, for example to the unittest module so I can maintain
Tom Haddon wrote:
Hi Folks,
Newbie question here. I'm trying to set up some unit testing for a database abstraction class, and the first thing I want to test is the connection parameters. So, my question is, how do I dynamically pass the variables from a list, for example to the unittest module so
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Jeff Shannon wrote:
zhao wrote:
python 2.4 is released, but the gui package wxpython now is only for
2.3, how long can it can released for 2.4?
This has been asked numerous times on the wxPython list in recent
weeks. :) Robin Dunn is reportedly working now on updating his build
environment and
Simon Brunning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 10:40:56 -0500, Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Keith Dart wrote:
>> > Sigh, this reminds me of a discussion I had at my work once... It seems
>> > to write optimal Python code one must understand various probabilites of
>
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