Re: Debian says "Warning! you are running an untested version of Python." on 2.3

Gerhard Haering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ROFL. Are you using testing, sid or experimental? I expect overzealous > patching from Debian developers, but this is the worst I've heard > of. I would have thought that is unlikely given the way packages move (unmodified) from unstable -> testing

Re: from __future__ import decorators

Skip Montanaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jacek> Crazy idea ... would it be possible to shadow 2.3's parser with > Jacek> one stolen from 2.4 ? > > If you're willing to go to that much trouble, why not just upgrade to 2.4? *I* upgraded to 2.4 sometime when it was in alpha. -- http://

RE: module on files & directories

Sara Fwd wrote: > > Can anybody help me find a module or a function that > > looks in a directory and defines whether the objects > > in there are files or directories? and Simon Brunning replied: > See os.path.isfile() and os.path.isdir() - > . I s

Tix.FileSelectDialog wait for user?

Hi, I have a question concerning the Tix file select mechanisms. Unfortunately, I have very little experience with neither tk, Tkinter nor Tix. Somewhere in my GUI I have a save button. What I want is that pressing the button opens a file requester. The user can either select a filename or cancel

Re: dynamically inserting function into an object

# class Cell(object): # def __init__(self, initialvalue = 0): #self._func = lambda x: x #self.__value = initialvalue # # def setvalue (self, newvalue): # self.__value = self._func(newvalue) # # def getvalue (self): # return self.__value # # def delval

Re: why are people still using classic classes?

Simon Wittber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've noticed that a few ASPN cookbook recipes, which are recent > additions, use classic classes. > > I've also noticed classic classes are used in many places in the > standard library. > > I've been using new-style classes since Python 2.2, and am supr

Re: Refactoring; arbitrary expression in lists

Despite the regexp alternatives, I refuse to post a pyparsing solution to this! :) -- Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python 2.3.4 for windows: float("NaN") throws exception

Tim Peters wrote: >Neither -- all Python behavior in the presence of float NaNs, infinities, or signed zeroes is a platform-dependent accident. C99 and Fortran 2003 have IEEE arithmetic. If CPython could be compiled with a C99 compiler, would it also have IEEE arithmetic? Do Python number-cruncher

Re: Statement local namespaces summary (was Re: python3: 'where' keyword)

Nick Coghlan wrote: def f(): a = 1 b = 2 print 1, locals() print 3, locals() using: a = 2 c = 3 print 2, locals() print 4, locals() I think the least suprising result would be: 1 {'a': 1, 'b': 2} # Outer scope 2 {'a': 2, 'c': 3} # Inner sc

Re: reference or pointer to some object?

Antoon Pardon wrote: Op 2005-01-12, Jeff Shannon schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: It's also rather less necessary to use references in Python than it is in C et. al. You use nothing but references in Python, that is the reason why if you assign a mutable to a new name and modify the object through eit

Re: Free python server.

Thank you very much. Arbornet.org seems to be ok Unforutnately I was convinced that I only have to only copy my *.py file to /public_hml directory and everything will be all right. As you expect I was wrong. R. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: reference or pointer to some object?

Jeff Shannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Because Python uses a fundamentally different concept for variable > names than C/C++/Java (and most other static languages). In those > languages, variables can be passed by value or by reference; neither > term really applies in Python. (Or, if you

Re: Free python server.

Kartic wrote: > And yes, they have python installed... Python 2.1! Reinhold -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Refactoring; arbitrary expression in lists

Stephen Thorne wrote: As for the overall efficiency concerns, I feel that talking about any of this is premature optimisation. I disagree -- using REs is adding unnecessary complication and dependency. Premature optimization is a matter of using a conceptually more-complicated method when a sim

Re: What strategy for random accession of records in massive FASTA file?

Chris Lasher wrote: Given that the information content is 2 bits per character that is taking up 8 bits of storage, there must be a good reason for storing and/or transmitting them this way? I.e., it it easy to think up a count-prefixed compressed format packing 4:1 in subsequent data bytes (except

Re: [perl-python] 20050112 while statement

Steven Bethard wrote: Xah Lee wrote: [some Python code] Because you're posting this to newsgroups, it would be advisable to use only spaces for indentation -- tabs are removed by a lot of newsreaders, which means your Python readers are going to complain about IndentationErrors. Unfortunately, t

Re: Re Wide Unicode build for Windows available somewhere?

Hi ! See inconvcodec wrapper, at : http://cjkpython.berlios.de/ (not for Python 2.4) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Creating text on images

Yes, something like that. I was a bit confused when it came to using truetype fonts, but that was straightforward enough (just pass font objects to the text method). :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [perl-python] 20050112 while statement

Xah Lee wrote: # here's a while statement in python. a,b = 0,1 while b < 20: print b a,b = b,a+b --- # here's the same code in perl ($a,$b)=(0,1); while ($b<20) { print $b, "\n"; ($a,$b)= ($b, $a+$b); } Because you're posting this to newsgroups, it would be advisable to use only spaces

Re: sorted (WAS: lambda)

Steven Bethard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Note that sorted is a builtin function, not a method of a list > object. Oh, same difference. I thought it was a method because I'm not using 2.4 yet. The result is the same, other than that having it as a function instead of a method is another incon

sorted (WAS: lambda)

Paul Rubin wrote: That completely depends on the objects in question. Compare temp = all_posters[:] temp.sort() top_five_posters = temp[-5:] to: top_five_posters = all_posters.sorted()[-5:] which became possible only when .sorted() was added to Python 2.4. I believe you mean "when sort

Re: python 2.3.4 for windows: float("NaN") throws exception

[EMAIL PROTECTED] > C99 and Fortran 2003 have IEEE arithmetic. Not that simple (e.g., C99 doesn't *require* it; but it has a pile of specified IEEE behaviors a conforming C99 compiler can choose to support (or not), along with a preprocessor symbol those that do so choose can #define to advertise

Re: Python.org, Website of Satan

Jane wrote: "Lucas Raab" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Jane wrote: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] python.org = 194.109.137.226 194 + 109 + 137 + 226 = 666 What is this website with such a demonic name and IP address? What ev

Re: Refactoring; arbitrary expression in lists

> # do other non-extension-related tests here > if basename.find( "Makefile" ) != -1: > return "text/x-makefile" I believe this can be nicelier written as: if "Makefile" in basename: -- mvh Björn -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: sorted (WAS: lambda)

Paul Rubin wrote: >> Note that sorted is a builtin function, not a method of a list >> object. > > Oh, same difference. I thought it was a method because I'm not using > 2.4 yet. The result is the same nope. sorted works on any kind of sequence, including forward-only iterators. sorted(open(f

Re: python and macros (again) [Was: python3: 'where' keyword]

On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 08:39 +, Antoon Pardon wrote: > > At best it would offer new paradigms for existing constructs (violating > > the "there should be one obvious way to do it" zen); at worst it would > > obfuscate the whole language. > > That zen is already broken. Look at the number of

Re: sorted (WAS: lambda)

"Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Oh, same difference. I thought it was a method because I'm not using > > 2.4 yet. The result is the same > > nope. sorted works on any kind of sequence, including forward-only > iterators. sorted(open(filename)) works just fine, for example. Oh

Re: Refactoring; arbitrary expression in lists

BJörn Lindqvist wrote: # do other non-extension-related tests here if basename.find( "Makefile" ) != -1: return "text/x-makefile" I believe this can be nicelier written as: if "Makefile" in basename: +1 for "nicelier" as VOTW (Vocabulation of the week) =) Steve -- http://mail.python.o

Re: finding/replacing a long binary pattern in a .bin file

Bengt Richter wrote: BTW, I'm sure you could write a generator that would take a file name and oldbinstring and newbinstring as arguments, and read and yield nice os-file-system-friendly disk-sector-multiple chunks, so you could write fout = open('mynewbinfile', 'wb') for buf in updated_fil

Re: Statement local namespaces summary (was Re: python3: 'where' keyword)

Nick Coghlan wrote: Nick Coghlan wrote: Semantics - The code:: with: translates to:: def unique_name(): unique_name() I've come to the conclusion that these semantics aren't what I would expect from the construct. Exactly what I would expect can't really be expressed in cur

Re: python 2.3.4 for windows: float("NaN") throws exception

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi my python 2.3.4 for windows refuse to execute line float("NaN"). It says: float("NaN") Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ? ValueError: invalid literal for float(): NaN The same line works as expected on Linux and S

Re: counting items

On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 20:10 +0100, Bernhard Herzog wrote: > "It's me" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > May be flatten should be build into the language somehow > > That shouldn't be necessary as it can easily be written in a single list > comprehension: > > a = [[1,2,4],4,5,[2,3]] > flat_a

Re: why are people still using classic classes?

Paul Rubin wrote: Is there a reason NOT to use them? If a classic class works fine, what incentive is there to switch to new style classes? Perhaps classic classes will eventually disappear? It just means that the formerly "classic" syntax will define a new-style class. Try to write code that w

Embedding Multiplr Python interpreter in C++

Hi, I have following setup: OS Linux Fedora Core 3 Python 2.3.4 How can I embed two python interpreters in one C++ program ? Thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: lambda

"Egor Bolonev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > why functions created with lambda forms cannot contain statements? Because lambda was only ever intended to be an inline abbreviation of simple one-use functions whose body consists of 'return '. It is clear to me th

directory bug on linux; workaround?

I stumbled across a really strange bug involving directories on linux. os.path.exists(path) can return 0 even after os.path.mkdir(path) succeeds (well after; this isn't a timing issue). For the first file, the directory did not exist, so my code created the directory (successfully) using os.pa

RE: site.here on python 2.4

> can we assume that, on all platforms, the old site.here is > the same as: > > >>> os.path.join(sys.prefix, 'lib', 'python%s' % sys.version[:3]) > '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ > python2.3' > > or is it better to use, as you suggest, > > >>> import os > >>> os.

Re: how to stop google from messing Python code

"Xah Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > i'm using groups-beta.google.com to post python code. > > Is there a way to stop google from messing with my format? it seems to > have eaten the spaces in my python code. > thanks. 1. don't post, or 2. don't use google to p

Re: Free python server.

On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 19:07 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thank you very much. > Arbornet.org seems to be ok > Unforutnately I was convinced that I only have to only copy my *.py file to > /public_hml directory and everything will be all right. Your file probably need to (a) be in the cgi-bin

Re: Refactoring; arbitrary expression in lists

Steven Bethard schrieb: BJörn Lindqvist wrote: [...] I believe this can be nicelier written as: if "Makefile" in basename: +1 for "nicelier" as VOTW (Vocabulation of the week) =) Me too, because nicelier is nicer than more nicely. :) -- --

Re: reference or pointer to some object?

Hi, > Could you give us a more concrete use case? My suspicion is that > anything complicated enough to be passed to a method to be modified will > probably be more than a simple int, float, str or tuple... In which > case, it will probably have methods to allow you to update it... yes, to be m

News Reader

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Re: Octal notation: severe deprecation

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 09:56:15 -0500, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I remember using a langauge (Icon?) in which arbitrary bases up to 36 > could be used with numeric literals. IIRC, the literals had to begin > with the base in decimnal, folowed by a "b" followed by the digits of > the v

Re: News Reader

Daniel Bowett wrote: Is anyone reading this list through thunderbird as news? If so - how did you set it up? I subscribed to comp.lang.python under my USENET news server account. -- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] "In the fields of hell where the grass grows high Are the graves of dreams allowed to

Re: python and macros (again) [Was: python3: 'where' keyword]

"Antoon Pardon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Op 2005-01-13, Fredrik Lundh schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Antoon Pardon wrote: >> >>> Well, it seems that Guido is wrong then. The documentation clearly >>> states that an expression is a statement. >> >> no, it says

Re: Statement local namespaces summary (was Re: python3: 'where' keyword)

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 22:41:54 +0300, Andrey Tatarinov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Nick Coghlan wrote: >> Nick Coghlan wrote: >> >>> Semantics >>> - >>> The code:: >>> >>> with: >>> >>> >>> translates to:: >>> >>> def unique_name(): >>> >>> >>> unique_name() >> I've come to t

Re: News Reader

Robert Kern wrote: Daniel Bowett wrote: Is anyone reading this list through thunderbird as news? If so - how did you set it up? I subscribed to comp.lang.python under my USENET news server account. I guess I should add that that's all I did. There's nothing special to set up. -- Robert Kern [EM

Re: sorted (WAS: lambda)

"Paul Rubin" <"http://phr.cx"@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Steven Bethard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Note that sorted is a builtin function, not a method of a list >> object. > > Oh, same difference. I thought it was a method because I'm not using > 2.4 yet. The

Re: Newbie: Pythonwin

Thanks guys! That helps a lot. Brent -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: why not datetime.strptime() ?

On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 08:06:56AM -0600, Skip Montanaro wrote: > > Skip> I just checked in your changes. Thanks for the effort. > > Jeez Skip... That reads poorly. How about "Thanks for your contribution"? > In any case, thanks. My pleasure. Thanks for helping me to help. And I liked the

Re: python and macros (again) [Was: python3: 'where' keyword]

"Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> Well, it seems that Guido is wrong then. The documentation clearly > >>> states that an expression is a statement. > >> > >> no, it says that an expression statement is a statement. if you don't > >> understand the difference, please *plonk* yourself

Re: reference or pointer to some object?

Torsten Mohr wrote: But i think my understanding was wrong (though it is not yet clear). If i hand over a large string to a function and the function had the possibility to change it, wouldn't that mean that it is necessary to hand over a _copy_ of the string? Else, how could it be immutable? Anyt

Re: How to install pyparallel

The ppdev module is loaded and the lp module is unloaded, but I still have the error message. I used 'lsmod | grep ppdev' to check it. Is it necessary to plug the parallel cable ? Peter Hansen a écrit : Michel LE VAN KIEM wrote: I'm trying to install the pyparallel module for my Python 2.3.4 (run

how to control the mouse pointer with python?

Hi. Anybody know a way to control the mouse pointer (move it around and click on things) using python? Thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: pyPgSQL giving error!

> I am using Redhat 9.0/python2.3. I installed pyPgSQL-2.4.tar.gz and it > was successfull. Now when I am trying to import that module, I got: > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. from pyPgSQL import PgSQL > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "", li

Re: What strategy for random accession of records in massive FASTA file?

>And besides, for long-term archiving purposes, I'd expect that zip et >al on a character-stream would provide significantly better >compression than a 4:1 packed format, and that zipping the packed >format wouldn't be all that much more efficient than zipping the >character stream. This 105MB FAS

Dabo Windows Runtime 0.3 Available

For all of you who have been curious about Dabo, but who don't want to go through the work of installing Python, wxPython, MySQLdb, etc., on your machines, I'm pleased to announce the release of the Dabo Runtime for Windows v. 0.3. The Dabo Runtime comes in the form of a standard Windows Inst

win32net help

Hi all, I'm new to the python language and I'm having trouble. I'm writing a basic chat script...real basic. It's client-server based and I'm wanting the roles to change -- client becomes server and vice versa. The problem is when I do this, the server switches to the client no problem. How

Re: How to install pyparallel

The complete error message is : >>> import parallel /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/parallel/parallelppdev.py:32: FutureWarning: x< /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/parallel/parallelppdev.py:33: FutureWarning: x< >>> p=parallel.Parallel() File "", line 1, in ? File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-pack

Re: reference or pointer to some object?

Torsten Mohr wrote: > Hi, > >> Could you give us a more concrete use case? My suspicion is that >> anything complicated enough to be passed to a method to be modified will >> probably be more than a simple int, float, str or tuple... In which >> case, it will probably have methods to allow you t

Re: News Reader

Robert Kern wrote: Robert Kern wrote: Daniel Bowett wrote: Is anyone reading this list through thunderbird as news? If so - how did you set it up? I subscribed to comp.lang.python under my USENET news server account. I guess I should add that that's all I did. There's nothing special to set up. H

Re: Octal notation: severe deprecation

Tim Roberts wrote: Stephen Thorne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I would actually like to see pychecker pick up conceptual errors like this: import datetime datetime.datetime(2005, 04,04) Why is that a conceptual error? Syntactically, this could be a valid call to a function. Even if you have parsed

Pygtk: How to remove title bar from a window

Hi all, I am writing an application using pyGTK that has several pop-up dialogs that show and hide in succession. I would like to prevent the user from closing the dialog and if possible I'd like to use a "title bar-less" window with a normal border so the X is not even available to click. Is

Re: how to control the mouse pointer with python?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody know a way to control the mouse pointer (move it around and click on things) using python? It depends on your operating system. For Windows, you'll want to use a Python module to access the Win32 API. The relevant API function is documented at http://tinyurl.com/j

Re: News Reader

OK, ask a stupid question I wasn't aware I needed a Usenet account. It's simple when you know how. Peter Hansen wrote: Robert Kern wrote: Robert Kern wrote: Daniel Bowett wrote: Is anyone reading this list through thunderbird as news? If so - how did you set it up? I subscribed to comp.lang

Re: how to control the mouse pointer with python?

Sorry, I should have mentioned it's linux (debian). Thanks. > It depends on your operating system. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

RE: sorted (WAS: lambda)

Terry Reedy wrote: > No, not same difference. A list method would only operate on lists, > as is true of all list methods. Being a function lets it work for > any iterable, as is true of any function of iterable. Big > difference. And consistent. One could argue though that it should > have be

Re: Statement local namespaces summary (was Re: python3: 'where' keyword)

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 01:48:48 +1000, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Nick Coghlan wrote: >> Semantics >> - >> The code:: >> >> with: >> >> >> translates to:: >> >> def unique_name(): >> >> >> unique_name() > >I've come to the conclusion that these semantics aren't

Re: how to control the mouse pointer with python?

On 2005-01-13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry, I should have mentioned it's linux (debian). > Thanks. What environment? Console? X11? MGR? ??? -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! My ELBOW is a remote at

Re: Unicode conversion in 'print'

Ricardo Bugalho wrote: > Hello, > I'm using Python 2.3.4 and I noticed that, when stdout is a terminal, > the 'print' statement converts Unicode strings into the encoding > defined by the locales instead of the one returned by > sys.getdefaultencoding(). Sure. It uses the encoding of you console.

Re: News Reader

Daniel Bowett wrote: OK, ask a stupid question I wasn't aware I needed a Usenet account. ...and if you don't have one, like me, there's always GMane (http://www.gmane.org/, nntp://news.gmane.org/). Cheers, Evan @ 4-am -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python and macros (again) [Was: python3: 'where' keyword]

Paul Rubin wrote: > Huh? Expressions are not statements except when they're "expression > statements"? What kind of expression is not an expression statement? any expression that is used in a content that is not an expression statement, of course. reading the python language reference should h

Re: newbie ?s

"Venkat B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm looking build a CGI-capable SSL-enabled web-server around Python 2.4 on > Linux. > It is to handle ~25 hits possibly arriving "at once". Content is non-static > and built by the execution of py cgi-scripts talking to a few backend > processes. > > 1) I

Pyrex-0.9.3: definition mismatch with distutils of Python24

Now that I've got my extension building machine using the VC++ Toolkit 2003 up and running I'm keen on using Pyrex (Pyrex-0.9.3, Python-2.4.0). But the definition of the swig_sources() method seems to have changed. When I try to build the examples from Pyrex I get a TypeError: c:\Pyrex-0.9.3\De

Re: python and macros (again) [Was: python3: 'where' keyword]

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 09:29:49 -0500, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Fredrik Lundh wrote: > >> Antoon Pardon wrote: >> >> >>>Well, it seems that Guido is wrong then. The documentation clearly >>>states that an expression is a statement. >> >> >> no, it says that an expression statement

Re: how to control the mouse pointer with python?

>What environment? It's X. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Embedding Multiplr Python interpreter in C++

one more question to add: Is there a way to have 2 local copies of python interpreter ? Yogesh Sharma wrote: Hi, I have following setup: OS Linux Fedora Core 3 Python 2.3.4 How can I embed two python interpreters in one C++ program ? Thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Octal notation: severe deprecation

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 08:18:25 -0500, Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> In Mythical Future Python I would like to be able to use any base in >> integer literals, which would be better. Example random syntax: >> >> flags= 2x00011010101001 >> umask= 8x664 >> answer=

Re: newbie ?s

Venkat B wrote: Hi folks, I'm looking build a CGI-capable SSL-enabled web-server around Python 2.4 on Linux. It is to handle ~25 hits possibly arriving "at once". Content is non-static and built by the execution of py cgi-scripts talking to a few backend processes. Twisted? I'm not sure what, if a

Re: newbie ?s

> > 1) I was wondering if anyone has opinions on the ability of CGIHTTPServer (a > > forking variant) to be able to handle this. > > Why not use apache? Wanted something with less footprint. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python.org, Website of Satan

Arich Chanachai wrote: Jane wrote: "Lucas Raab" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Jane wrote: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] python.org = 194.109.137.226 194 + 109 + 137 + 226 = 666 What is this website with such a demonic name and

Re: python and macros (again) [Was: python3: 'where' keyword]

Bengt Richter wrote: > Hm, that makes me wonder, is there an intermediate "returning of value" in >x = y = z = 123 > ? no. that statement evaluates the expression (123 in this case), and assigns the result (the integer object 123) to each target (x, y, z), in order. or to quote the languag

newbie ?s

Hi folks, I'm looking build a CGI-capable SSL-enabled web-server around Python 2.4 on Linux. It is to handle ~25 hits possibly arriving "at once". Content is non-static and built by the execution of py cgi-scripts talking to a few backend processes. 1) I was wondering if anyone has opinions on th

Re: XPath and XQuery in Python?

On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 12:09:58AM +, Nelson Minar wrote: > Could someone help me get started using XPath or XQuery in Python? I'm > overwhelmed by all the various options and am lacking guidance on what > the simplest way to go is. What library do I need to enable three line > Python programs

Re: [perl-python] 20050112 while statement

Xah Lee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on CLIII September MCMXCIII in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: .. # here's a while statement in python. .. .. a,b = 0,1 .. while b < 20: .. print b IndentationError: expected an indented block .. a,b = b,a+b You have already proven you don't know Perl, but

Re: Octal notation: severe deprecation

On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 11:04:21PM +, Bengt Richter wrote: > One way to do it consistently is to have a sign digit as the first > digit after the x, which is either 0 or base-1 -- e.g., +3 and -3 would be > > 2x011 2x101 > 8x03 8x75 > 16x03 16xfd > 10x03 10x97 ... so that 0x8

Re: python and macros (again) [Was: python3: 'where' keyword]

"Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Huh? Expressions are not statements except when they're "expression > > statements"? What kind of expression is not an expression statement? > > any expression that is used in a content that is not an expression statement, > of course. Come on, th

Re: Pygtk: How to remove title bar from a window

Nick Atkins wrote: > Hi all, > > I am writing an application using pyGTK that has several pop-up dialogs > that show and hide in succession. I would like to prevent the user > from closing the dialog and if possible I'd like to use a "title > bar-less" window with a normal border so the X is n

Re: directory bug on linux; workaround?

Python is at the whim of the services the OS provides. Maybe you should ask in a linux-related newsgroup or mailing list, they might know more about the specifics of both detecting and working around "weird" filesystems like "fat". To find the type of a filesystem, Linux provides the statfs(2) fu

Re: [perl-python] 20050112 while statement

> "b" == brianr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: b> (As a matter of interest, is this sequence of posts intended to b> demonstrate ignorance of both languages, or just one?) Intentional fallacy -- there's no necessary correlation between what he *intends* to do and what he actually succee

Re: directory bug on linux; workaround?

On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 12:07:04PM -0800, Russell E. Owen wrote: > I stumbled across a really strange bug involving directories on linux. > > os.path.exists(path) can return 0 even after os.path.mkdir(path) > succeeds (well after; this isn't a timing issue). > > For the first file, the directory

Re: newbie q

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 09:16:40 -0500, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > >Any statement of the form > > for i in [x for x in something]: > >can be rewritten as > > for i in something: > >Note that this doesn't mean you never want to iterate over a list >comprehension. It's the e

Re: how to control the mouse pointer with python?

On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 01:07:18PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi. > Anybody know a way to control the mouse pointer > (move it around and click on things) using python? in X11, you could use Xlib to do so. In debian unstable, that's "apt-get install python-xlib{,-doc}", and start reading.

Re: how to control the mouse pointer with python?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13 Jan 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >What environment? > > It's X. So, for X under Debian, try: apt-get install xwit man xwit It's not python, but you can either use xwit command or read the source code and get knowlegde from it. (hint: -war

Re: What strategy for random accession of records in massive FASTA file?

Chris Lasher wrote: And besides, for long-term archiving purposes, I'd expect that zip et al on a character-stream would provide significantly better compression than a 4:1 packed format, and that zipping the packed format wouldn't be all that much more efficient than zipping the character stream.

Re: What strategy for random accession of records in massive FASTA file?

Jeff Shannon wrote: (Plus, if this format might be used for RNA sequences as well as DNA sequences, you've got at least a fifth base to represent, which means you need at least three bits per base, which means only two bases per byte (or else base-encodings split across byte-boundaries) That

Re: finding/replacing a long binary pattern in a .bin file

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 11:40:52 -0800, Jeff Shannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Bengt Richter wrote: > >> BTW, I'm sure you could write a generator that would take a file name >> and oldbinstring and newbinstring as arguments, and read and yield nice >> os-file-system-friendly disk-sector-multiple ch

Re: Pygtk: How to remove title bar from a window

Thanks for the reply Diez. I'm not sure I can draw a border on its own with pyGTK but admittedly I am not yet an expert. I have the following minimal test program which opens a window and I cannot get it to draw a window with no title bar, just a border: #!/usr/bin/env python import pygtk pygtk.

porting C code

I am currently in the process of porting some C code into Python and am stuck. I don't claim to be the greatest C/C++ programmer; in fact, my skills at C are rudimentary at best. My question is I have the statement: "typedef unsigned long int word32" and later on: "word32 b[3]" referencing t

Re: porting C code

Lucas Raab wrote: I am currently in the process of porting some C code into Python and am stuck. I don't claim to be the greatest C/C++ programmer; in fact, my skills at C are rudimentary at best. My question is I have the statement: "typedef unsigned long int word32" and later on: "word32 b

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