python connect to db2

2005-01-14 Thread yuzx
hi,all i am python newbie,i try to connect to db2 use python,i find it on python-db2 doc: $ python >>> import DB2 >>> conn = DB2.connect(dsn='sample', uid='db2inst1', pwd='ibmdb2') >>> curs = conn.cursor() but i don't know about dsn, i think a way like py

Re: lambda

2005-01-14 Thread Antoon Pardon
Op 2005-01-13, hanz schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Antoon Pardon wrote: >> So if I have a call with an expression that takes more than >> one line, I should assign the expression to a variable and >> use the variable in the call? > > Yes, that's sometimes a good practice and can clarify > the cal

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

2005-01-14 Thread Fredrik Lundh
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. > > Come on, that is vacuous. Th

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

2005-01-14 Thread Antoon Pardon
Op 2005-01-13, Terry Reedy schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > "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 clearl

Re: dynamically inserting function into an object

2005-01-14 Thread michael . bierenfeld
*damn* it :-) python rocks. thx michael .oO (resetting c/c++/java crap collected over the years) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Unclear On Class Variables

2005-01-14 Thread Pierre Barbier de Reuille
Pierre Barbier de Reuille a écrit : Antoon Pardon a écrit : Well I find this a confusing behaviour on python's part. The fact that instance.field can mean something different, depending on where in a statement you find it, makes the behaviour inconsistent. I know people in general here are against

Re: cxOracle for python 2.4

2005-01-14 Thread Volker Helm
Thanks a lot! :-) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does anybody knows where I can get the DB interface cx_Oracle for Python 2.4 with win32. > http://starship.python.net/crew/atuining/cx_Oracle/ Link is saved for some time. Volker -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python connect to db2

2005-01-14 Thread Michael Ströder
yuzx wrote: i try to connect to db2 use python,i find it on python-db2 doc: $ python >>> import DB2 >>> conn = DB2.connect(dsn='sample', uid='db2inst1', pwd='ibmdb2') >>> curs = conn.cursor() but i don't know about dsn, It's the host name. In a former project (using

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

2005-01-14 Thread Neil Benn
Jeff Shannon wrote: 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 th

Re: distutils linux script installation broken? Sorted

2005-01-14 Thread Cory Davis
Problem solved. I was actually using scipy_distutils and not distutils, without good reason. Changing setup.py to use distutils made the problem go away. Cory. Cory Davis wrote: Hi all, I have been successfully deploying my own python package with distutils for some time now, but lately, with

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

2005-01-14 Thread Amand Tihon
rbt wrote: > Nick Craig-Wood wrote: > >> Alex Stapleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Whenever I run python I get >>> >>> "Warning! you are running an untested version of Python." >>> >>> prepended to the start of any output on stdout. >>> >>> This is with Debian and python 2.3 (running t

Re: import problems *newbie*

2005-01-14 Thread F. Petitjean
Le 13 Jan 2005 21:58:36 -0800, mike kreiner a écrit : > I am having trouble importing a module I created. I'm running PythonWin > on Windows XP if that helps. I saved my module in a folder called > my_scripts in the site-packages directory. I edited the python path to > include the my_scripts folde

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

2005-01-14 Thread Michael Maibaum
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 04:41:45PM -0800, Robert Kern wrote: 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 (

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

2005-01-14 Thread Antoon Pardon
Op 2005-01-14, Fredrik Lundh schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 expr

oddities in the datetime module

2005-01-14 Thread Max M
# -*- coding: latin-1 -*- """ I am currently using the datetime package, but I find that the design is oddly asymmetric. I would like to know why. Or perhaps I have misunderstood how it should be used? I can make a datetime easily enough >>> datetime(2005, 1, 1) datetime.datetime(2005, 1, 1, 0,

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

2005-01-14 Thread Nick Coghlan
Antoon Pardon wrote: No I am applying set logic. Any string that is in the set of valid expressions is also in the set of valid statements. According to Python's grammar, this is not the case. It requires a NEWLINE or ";" token on the end to turn the expression into a statement. Actually appending

Re: Octal notation: severe deprecation

2005-01-14 Thread Simon Brunning
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 16:50:56 -0500, Leif K-Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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) > > > > > >

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

2005-01-14 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Antoon Pardon wrote: >> no, expressions CAN BE USED as statements. that doesn't mean >> that they ARE statements, unless you're applying belgian logic. > > No I am applying set logic. Any string that is in the set of > valid expressions is also in the set of valid statements. since you're arguin

Threading Or Other Suggestions?!?

2005-01-14 Thread andrea . gavana
Hello NG, I have a wxPython application that does a lot of things. One of them, in particular, I have doubts on how to implement it. Essentially, this part of my application calls an external executable (an oil reservoir simulator). What I would like to do, is to give the user the possibilit

[perl-python] 20050113 looking up syntax

2005-01-14 Thread Xah Lee
while programing in Python, one can lookup syntax or info for keywords or modules within Python. In the command line, type python to get into the python interactive program. then type help() >From there one can type any keyword or module name to find out the syntax or info. Everything is self-co

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

2005-01-14 Thread Antoon Pardon
Op 2005-01-14, Nick Coghlan schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Antoon Pardon wrote: >> No I am applying set logic. Any string that is in the set of >> valid expressions is also in the set of valid statements. > > According to Python's grammar, this is not the case. It requires a NEWLINE or > ";" token

Re: file uploading via urllib2 (multipart/form-data)

2005-01-14 Thread Fuzzyman
Clark C. Evans wrote: > Hello. I was wondering if anyone has built a module that works with > urllib2 to upload file content via POST multipart/form-data. I'm > aware of ASPN 146306, however, I need to use urllib2 beacuse I'm > using HTTP Digest over SSL. > > Cheers, > > Clark There is an exampl

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

2005-01-14 Thread Skip Montanaro
Fredrik> no, expressions CAN BE USED as statements. that doesn't mean Fredrik> that they ARE statements, unless you're applying belgian logic. Hmmm... I'd never heard the term "belgian logic" before. Googling provided a few uses, but no formal definition (maybe it's a European phrase s

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

2005-01-14 Thread Antoon Pardon
Op 2005-01-14, Fredrik Lundh schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Antoon Pardon wrote: > >>> no, expressions CAN BE USED as statements. that doesn't mean >>> that they ARE statements, unless you're applying belgian logic. >> >> No I am applying set logic. Any string that is in the set of >> valid expres

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

2005-01-14 Thread Bengt Richter
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

huygens lands on titan

2005-01-14 Thread John Thingstad
-- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: query python env

2005-01-14 Thread Michael Hoffman
David Bear wrote: How does one query the python environment, ie pythonhome sys.prefix > pythonpath sys.path etc. sys.etc also, are there any HOWTO's on keeping multiple versions of python happy? I think it is sufficiently trivial that none is needed. Just make sure the distributions are installed

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

2005-01-14 Thread Carl Banks
Skip Montanaro wrote: > Fredrik> no, expressions CAN BE USED as statements. that doesn't mean > Fredrik> that they ARE statements, unless you're applying belgian logic. > > Hmmm... I'd never heard the term "belgian logic" before. Googling provided > a few uses, but no formal definition (may

Re: (objects as) mutable dictionary keys

2005-01-14 Thread Peter Maas
I have summarized the discussion about the usability of lists (and and other mutable types) as dictionary keys and put it into the Python wiki.URL: http://www.python.org/moin/DictionaryKeys. This summary might be used as a reference should the 'mutable dictionary keys' issue come up again in c.l.py

Using Sqlite with Python under Windows

2005-01-14 Thread Michael Goettsche
Hello guys, I succeeded in convincing my CS teacher to use Python and Sqlite instead of Microsoft Access to get started with databases. We are working on a windows terminal server to which I have no admin access, so I'd like to ask you which module is best suited to use Sqlite with Python under

Re: Python.org, Website of Satan

2005-01-14 Thread Michael Hoffman
Peter Renzland wrote: What is the simplest/fastest Python program to determine how many IP addresses sum up to 666? The simplest/fastest enumerator? The simplest/fastest that determines which ones of them are home pages? This seems to work although it could be made more efficient or elegant. Also,

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

2005-01-14 Thread Nick Coghlan
Nick Coghlan wrote: as equivalent to: def __use_stmt(): def _in_clause(): return return _in_clause() __use_stmt_args = {} = __use_stmt() del __use_stmt The more I think about this return-based approach, the less I like it. It could probably be made to work, but it just feels like

Re: how to stop google from messing Python code

2005-01-14 Thread Fuzzyman
Xah Lee wrote: > gmane is great! its renaming of newsgroups is quite a headache. > i found that comp.lang.python corresponds to gmane.comp.python.general. > do you know which one corresponds to comp.lang.perl.misc? > there's no .misc or .general... > > -- > i thought there a strick like preceding

Re: huygens lands on titan

2005-01-14 Thread Fuzzyman
John Thingstad wrote: > -- > huygens lands on titan > Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ I bet it didn't... Regards, Fuzzy http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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

2005-01-14 Thread Peter Maas
Craig Ringer schrieb: And then we have iteration (generator expressions, list comprehensions, for loops, ...?) over (sequences, iterators, generators) Just sequences and iterators. Generators are functions which return iterators. Sequences and iterators provide two ways to build containers. My

Re: [perl-python] 20050113 looking up syntax

2005-01-14 Thread Peter Hansen
Xah Lee wrote: [snip] Note: this post is from the Perl-Python a-day mailing list at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/perl-python/ to subscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] So why duplicate the posts by posting them to the newsgroups? Now that you've advertised the mailing list (and thank you, I

Static executable with shared modules

2005-01-14 Thread Rickard Lind
Is there any way to build the python executable statically and still be able to load modules built as shared libraries? I'm trying to run python scripts on a stripped down FreeBSD (4.9) machine which has no shared system libraries so I want to link it statically against libc et al, but it would be

Re: porting C code

2005-01-14 Thread Lucas Raab
Peter Hansen wrote: Lucas Raab wrote: I have the statement: "typedef unsigned long int word32" and later on: "word32 b[3]" referencing the third bit of the integer. If that's really exactly what you have, then you actually have something defining an array of three unsigned long integers named

Re: porting C code

2005-01-14 Thread Duncan Booth
Lucas Raab wrote: > Sorry, the third "byte" is what I meant. As for code samples, I hope the > following will work: > > typedef unsigned long int word32 ; > void mu(word32 *a) > { > int i ; > word32 b[3] ; > > b[0] = b[1] = b[2] = 0 ; > for( i=0 ; i<32 ; i++ ) > { > b[0] <<= 1 ; b[1]

Re: Using Sqlite with Python under Windows

2005-01-14 Thread Kartic
Michael Goettsche wrote: > I succeeded in convincing my CS teacher to use Python and Sqlite instead of > Microsoft Access to get started with databases. > We are working on a windows terminal server to which I have no admin access, > so I'd like to ask you which module is best suited to use Sqlit

Re: newbie q

2005-01-14 Thread TZOTZIOY
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 00:08:09 GMT, rumours say that [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bengt Richter) might have written: >As I'm sure you know, with 2.4's generator expressions you >don't have to build the temporary list. >Which could be important if 'something' >is (or generates) a huge sequence. > > for i

Re: Pickled text file causing ValueError (dos/unix issue)

2005-01-14 Thread Tim Peters
[Aki Niimura] > I started to use pickle to store the latest user settings for the tool > I wrote. It writes out a pickled text file when it terminates and it > restores the settings when it starts. ... > I guess DOS text format is creating this problem. Yes. > My question is "Is there any elegant

Re: Python.org, Website of Satan

2005-01-14 Thread Roy Smith
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter Renzland wrote: > > What is the simplest/fastest Python program to determine how many > > IP addresses sum up to 666? > > > > The simplest/fastest enumerator? > > > > The simplest/fastest that determines which on

Re: Unicode conversion in 'print'

2005-01-14 Thread Serge Orlov
Ricardo Bugalho wrote: > Hi, > thanks for the information. But what I was really looking for was > informaion on when and why Python started doing it (previously, it > always used sys.getdefaultencoding())) I don't have access to any other version except 2.2 at the moment but I believe it happene

Re: Class initialization from a dictionary, how best?

2005-01-14 Thread Bengt Richter
On 13 Jan 2005 20:36:19 -0800, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ># ># My problem is that I want to create a ># class, but the variables aren't known ># all at once. So, I use a dictionary to ># store the values in temporarily. Why? ># Then when I have a complete set, I want to ># ini

[Fwd: Re: Embedding Multiplr Python interpreter in C++]

2005-01-14 Thread Steve Holden
Yogesh Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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++ progr

Re: Python.org, Website of Satan

2005-01-14 Thread Denis S. Otkidach
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 11:16:59 + Michael Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > from socket import gethostbyaddr, herror > > for a in xrange(256): > if a < 666-255*3: > continue > for b in xrange(256): > if a+b < 666-255*2: > continue > for c in x

How to list the global functions from a C program

2005-01-14 Thread Francesco Montorsi
Hi all, I'm a Python newbie and I'm trying to add to my C++ program a limited support for scripts written in python. In particular, I'd like to load user scripts written in python, list all the functions he defined in the script file and then call them. To begin I wrote into my C++ program (co

Re: Using Sqlite with Python under Windows

2005-01-14 Thread Michael Goettsche
On Friday 14 January 2005 14:56, Kartic wrote: > > I posted this morning but I don't know what happened to my post! > > In any case, PySqlite is the distribution I have used and is available > at pysqlite.org. > > I believe there is another module called APSW (Another Python Sqlite > Wrapper) avail

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

2005-01-14 Thread Tim Jarman
Skip Montanaro wrote: > > Fredrik> no, expressions CAN BE USED as statements. that doesn't mean > Fredrik> that they ARE statements, unless you're applying belgian > logic. > > Hmmm... I'd never heard the term "belgian logic" before. Googling > provided a few uses, but no formal d

Re: Class initialization from a dictionary, how best?

2005-01-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yes, my examle here is a tiny part of a larger more complex issue. My application is an DOM XML parser that is reading attributes one at a time. My class that I am creating is used elsewhere and must have certain arguments for those uses to continue working. So, I seem to be left with creating an i

Integration with java

2005-01-14 Thread Joachim Boomberschloss
Hello, I am working on a project in Python, and I"m currently looking into the possibiliy of writing some of the project"s modules in Java. Given that a large part of the code is already written in Python, using the standard libraries and several extension modules, I am trying to gauge the

Re: (objects as) mutable dictionary keys

2005-01-14 Thread Antoon Pardon
Op 2005-01-14, Peter Maas schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have summarized the discussion about the usability of lists (and > and other mutable types) as dictionary keys and put it into the > Python wiki.URL: http://www.python.org/moin/DictionaryKeys. > > This summary might be used as a reference s

Re: XPath and XQuery in Python?

2005-01-14 Thread Nelson Minar
Nelson Minar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could someone help me get started using XPath or XQuery in Python? I figured this out. Thanks for the help, John! Examples below. I used this exercise as an opportunity to get something off my chest about XML and Python - it's kind of a mess! More here:

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

2005-01-14 Thread Carl Banks
Tim Jarman wrote: > IANA French person, but I believe that Belgians are traditionally > regarded as stupid in French culture, so "Belgian logic" would be > similar to "Irish logic" for an English person. (Feel free to insert > your own cultural stereotypes as required. :) Ok. http://www.urbandic

Re: How to list the global functions from a C program

2005-01-14 Thread Jack Diederich
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 04:01:13PM +0100, Francesco Montorsi wrote: > PyObject *list = PyObject_Dir(m_pGlobals); > if (!list || PyList_Check(list) == FALSE) > return; > > for (int i=0,max=PyList_Size(list); i > PyObject *elem = PyList_GetItem(list, i); > if (PyCallable_Check(elem) !=

Re: import problems *newbie*

2005-01-14 Thread Steve Holden
F. Petitjean wrote: Le 13 Jan 2005 21:58:36 -0800, mike kreiner a écrit : I am having trouble importing a module I created. I'm running PythonWin on Windows XP if that helps. I saved my module in a folder called my_scripts in the site-packages directory. I edited the python path to include the my_s

Re: Integration with java

2005-01-14 Thread Istvan Albert
Joachim Boomberschloss wrote: the code is already written in Python, using the standard libraries and several extension modules One thing to keep in mind is that Jython does not integrate CPython, instead it "understands" python code directly. So if you have a C extension that works with python i

Re: Writing huge Sets() to disk

2005-01-14 Thread Martin MOKREJÅ
Tim Peters wrote: [Martin MOKREJÅ] ... I gave up the theoretical approach. Practically, I might need up to store maybe those 1E15 keys. We should work on our multiplication skills here . You don't have enough disk space to store 1E15 keys. If your keys were just one byte each, you would need to

Re: Writing huge Sets() to disk

2005-01-14 Thread Tim Peters
[Martin MOKREJÅ] > This comm(1) approach doesn't work for me. It somehow fails to > detect common entries when the offset is too big. > > file 1: > > A > F > G > I > K > M > N > R > V > AA > AI > FG > FR > GF > GI > GR > IG > IK > IN > IV > KI > MA > NG > RA > RI > VF > AIK > FGR > FRA > GFG > GIN

Re: [perl-python] 20050113 looking up syntax

2005-01-14 Thread Jürgen Exner
Xah Lee wrote: > - > > for perl syntax lookup, use perldoc in the command line. For example: > perldoc perl Wrong. That command will give you a high-level overview of Perl but tell you nothing about the syntax. To lookup the Perl syntax you would have to use perldoc perls

Re: Writing huge Sets() to disk

2005-01-14 Thread Martin MOKREJÅ
Tim Peters wrote: [Martin MOKREJÅ] This comm(1) approach doesn't work for me. It somehow fails to detect common entries when the offset is too big. [...] I'll repeat: As I mentioned before, if you store keys in sorted text files ... Those files aren't in sorted order, so of course `comm` can't do

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

2005-01-14 Thread Roel Schroeven
Skip Montanaro wrote: Fredrik> no, expressions CAN BE USED as statements. that doesn't mean Fredrik> that they ARE statements, unless you're applying belgian logic. Hmmm... I'd never heard the term "belgian logic" before. Googling provided a few uses, but no formal definition (maybe it's

Re: lambda

2005-01-14 Thread Steve Holden
Antoon Pardon wrote: Op 2005-01-13, hanz schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Antoon Pardon wrote: So if I have a call with an expression that takes more than one line, I should assign the expression to a variable and use the variable in the call? Yes, that's sometimes a good practice and can clarify the c

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

2005-01-14 Thread Roel Schroeven
Antoon Pardon wrote: IMO we have a: dogs are mamals kind of relationship in Python. I see what you mean, but I don't think it's true. Every expression can be used where a statement is expected. (And this can be worded as: every expression is a statement.) Not really. An expression statement is a st

Re: newbie ?s

2005-01-14 Thread Steve Holden
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. 1) I was wondering if anyone has

Re: import keyword behaviour - performance impact if used multiple times?

2005-01-14 Thread neophyte
Nick Coghlan wrote: > > Is > > this something to do with system modules being singletons? > > They aren't singletons in the GoF design pattern sense. However, Python's import > machinery operates in such a way that it takes effort to get multiple version of > the same module into memory at the sa

Re: newbie q

2005-01-14 Thread Steve Holden
Bengt Richter wrote: 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

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

2005-01-14 Thread Antoon Pardon
Op 2005-01-14, Roel Schroeven schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Antoon Pardon wrote: >> IMO we have a: dogs are mamals kind of relationship in Python. > > I see what you mean, but I don't think it's true. > >> Every expression can be used where a statement is expected. >> (And this can be worded as: e

Re: Free python server.

2005-01-14 Thread rootshell
> Your file probably need to (a) be in the cgi-bin, not public_html, (b) > be flagged executable ("chmod a+x file.py"), and (c) begin with the > line: '#!/usr/bin/env python' > > If the server doesn't provide you with CGI (or, strongly preferable, > SCGI or mod_python), you're probably out of luck.

Re: how to stop google from messing Python code

2005-01-14 Thread Terry Reedy
"Fuzzyman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Xah Lee wrote: >> gmane is great! > I guess that most people use google to post to newsgroups is that they > don't have nntp access. Anyone with a normal internet connection has nntp access. What some do not get from t

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

2005-01-14 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Antoon Pardon wrote: > Well IMO I have explained clearly that I understood this in a set > logical sense in my first response. what does "first" mean on your planet? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: (objects as) mutable dictionary keys

2005-01-14 Thread John Roth
"Peter Maas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I have summarized the discussion about the usability of lists (and and other mutable types) as dictionary keys and put it into the Python wiki.URL: http://www.python.org/moin/DictionaryKeys. This summary might be used as a re

Re: Integration with java

2005-01-14 Thread Christopher De Vries
It is possible, though possibly painful, to call java modules from CPython using JNI. This is more difficult than Jython integration, but probably required if you want to keep using your extension modules. The JNI tutorial is available at http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/native1.1/index.htm

Re: Unicode conversion in 'print'

2005-01-14 Thread "Martin v. LÃwis"
Ricardo Bugalho wrote: thanks for the information. But what I was really looking for was informaion on when and why Python started doing it (previously, it always used sys.getdefaultencoding())) and why it was done only for 'print' when stdout is a terminal instead of always. It does that since 2.

Re: Static executable with shared modules

2005-01-14 Thread "Martin v. Löwis"
Rickard Lind wrote: Is there any way to build the python executable statically and still be able to load modules built as shared libraries? I'm not what "build statically" means; if you talking about building a statically linked interpreter binary - then no, this is not possible. At a minimum, you

python to mssql

2005-01-14 Thread Brane
can someone please give me some info regarding subject please advice regards brane -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

RE: python to mssql

2005-01-14 Thread Robert Brewer
Brane wrote: > can someone please give me some info regarding subject http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python Ask a broad question... Robert Brewer MIS Amor Ministries [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Free python server.

2005-01-14 Thread Robin Becker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your file probably need to (a) be in the cgi-bin, not public_html, (b) be flagged executable ("chmod a+x file.py"), and (c) begin with the line: '#!/usr/bin/env python' If the server doesn't provide you with CGI (or, strongly preferable, SCGI or mod_python), you're probably

Why 'r' mode anyway? (was: Re: Pickled text file causing ValueError (dos/unix issue))

2005-01-14 Thread Irmen de Jong
Tim Peters wrote: Yes: regardless of platform, always open files used for pickles in binary mode. That is, pass "rb" to open() when reading a pickle file, and "wb" to open() when writing a pickle file. Then your pickle files will work unchanged on all platforms. The same is true of files contai

Re: Integration with java

2005-01-14 Thread andybak
How about this? http://jpype.sourceforge.net/ (I haven't used it myself) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Newbie: module structure and import question

2005-01-14 Thread Ziong
Thx Rob. yes i know it's related to search path, but i don't know how to set it in a practical way (beside hard coding). my concern is, if i want to create a custom module/library, i don't know what py file will import it and where the working directory should be. sometime like my example, even i

Re: Why 'r' mode anyway? (was: Re: Pickled text file causing ValueError (dos/unix issue))

2005-01-14 Thread Tim Peters
[Irmen de Jong] > I've been wondering why there even is the choice between binary mode > and text mode. Why can't we just do away with the 'text mode' ? > What does it do, anyways? At least, if it does something, I'm sure > that it isn't something that can be done in Python itself if > really requi

Re: how to stop google from messing Python code

2005-01-14 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Fuzzyman wrote: > I guess that most people use google to post to newsgroups is that they > don't have nntp access. Telling htem to use a newsreader is facetious > and unhelpful. if you have internet access, you have NNTP access. gmane.org provides access to more than 6,500 mailing lists via NNTP

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

2005-01-14 Thread Roel Schroeven
Antoon Pardon wrote: Op 2005-01-14, Roel Schroeven schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Antoon Pardon wrote: IMO we have a: dogs are mamals kind of relationship in Python. I see what you mean, but I don't think it's true. Every expression can be used where a statement is expected. (And this can be worded

Com port interrupts again

2005-01-14 Thread engsol
I didn't fully think through my application before posting my question. Async com port routines to handle com port interrups only work well if one has access to the low level operating system. In that case the receive buffer interrupt would cause a jump to an interrupt service routine.. I don't bel

Re: python connect to db2

2005-01-14 Thread Jacek
yuzx wrote: anyone can help me ? this might help: http://www6.software.ibm.com/reg/devworks/dw-db2pylnx-i?S_TACT=104AHW03&S_CMP=EDU jacek -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Integration with java

2005-01-14 Thread Cameron Laird
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Istvan Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Joachim Boomberschloss wrote: > >> the code is already written in Python, using the >> standard libraries and several extension modules > >One thing to keep in mind is that Jython does not >integrate CPython, instead it "u

Re: Octal notation: severe deprecation

2005-01-14 Thread Reinhold Birkenfeld
Simon Brunning wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 16:50:56 -0500, Leif K-Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Tim Roberts wrote: >> > Stephen Thorne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> >>I would actually like to see pychecker pick up conceptual errors like this: >> >> >> >>import datetime >> >>datetime.da

Re: Octal notation: severe deprecation

2005-01-14 Thread Reinhold Birkenfeld
Bengt Richter wrote: > 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= 2x00011010101

Re: [perl-python] 20050113 looking up syntax

2005-01-14 Thread Istvan Albert
Jürgen Exner wrote: Why don't you just stop posting this nonsense? He will, fairly soon. I'm suspecting that the original intent behind these posts was to stir up a perl vs python flamewar. That is unlikely to materialize since the poster does not seem to understand neither of these languages. I. -

Re: Why would I get a TypeEror?

2005-01-14 Thread Reinhold Birkenfeld
It's me wrote: > Sorry if my question was a little "lazy" and yes, I was asking about the > "lazy evaluation". :=) > > I am surprised about this (and this can be dangerous, I guess). > > If this is true, I would run into trouble real quick if I do a: > > (1/x,1.0e99)[x==0] > > and that's not g

Re: Why 'r' mode anyway? (was: Re: Pickled text file causing ValueError (dos/unix issue))

2005-01-14 Thread Serge Orlov
Irmen de Jong wrote: > Tim Peters wrote: > > > Yes: regardless of platform, always open files used for pickles in > > binary mode. That is, pass "rb" to open() when reading a pickle file, > > and "wb" to open() when writing a pickle file. Then your pickle files > > will work unchanged on all pla

Free NNTP (was Re: how to stop google from messing Python code)

2005-01-14 Thread Aahz
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Fuzzyman wrote: >> >> I guess that most people use google to post to newsgroups is that they >> don't have nntp access. Telling htem to use a newsreader is facetious >> and unhelpful. Most people use Gooja to post because th

Re: Octal notation: severe deprecation

2005-01-14 Thread JCM
[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= 10x42 > addr= 16x0E84 # 16x == 0x > gunk= 36x8H6Z9A0X I'd prefer using the

Re: Why 'r' mode anyway?

2005-01-14 Thread Irmen de Jong
Tim Peters wrote: That differences may exist is reflected in the C standard, and the rules for text-mode files are more restrictive than most people would believe. Apparently. Because I know only about the Unix <-> Windows difference (windows converts \r\n <--> \n when using 'r' mode, right). So it

Re: Com port interrupts again

2005-01-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A search on google gave me this library, I haven't tested it though: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python.announce/browse_frm/thread/6d3263250ed65816/291074d7bd94be63?q=com+port+python&_done=%2Fgroups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff%26q%3Dcom+port+python%26qt_s%3DSearch+Groups%26&_do

Re: python to mssql

2005-01-14 Thread Jarek Zgoda
Brane wrote: can someone please give me some info regarding subject From Windows machine: http://adodbapi.sourceforge.net/ From elsewhere: FreeTDS + unixODBC + mxODBC is one of possible solutions. -- Jarek Zgoda http://jpa.berlios.de/ | http://www.zgodowie.org/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/lis

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

2005-01-14 Thread Chris Lasher
Forgive my ignorance, but what does using mmap do for the script? My guess is that it improves performance, but I'm not sure how. I read the module documentation and the module appears to be a way to read out information from memory (RAM maybe?). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-

reusing Tkinter Canvases

2005-01-14 Thread Sean McIlroy
I'd like to save one Tkinter Canvas in order to use it on another Canvas later. The problem is that it gets saved as EPS but it needs to be GIF to be reuseable. How can I convert that format? Peace, STM -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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