You might like the book "Mindstorms", by Seymour Papert. The intro
is here:
http://www.papert.org/articles/GearsOfMyChildhood.html
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On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 21:12:18 + David Harris wrote:
DH> int
DH> main(int argc, char *argv[])
DH> {
DH> PyObject *pName, *s, *pModule, *pDict, *pFunc;
DH> PyObject *pArgs, *pValue;
DH> int i;
DH>
DH> if (argc < 3) {
DH> fprintf(stderr,"Usage: call pythonfile funcname [ar
"Kay Schluehr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> To make my intention clear for another time, also for George who
> mistrusts these exercises alltogether. I want to derive a syntax and
> semantics for anonymus functions ( called "tuple-actions" ) that are
> generalizations of rules that are already use
Op 2005-03-24, Paul L. Du Bois schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Has anyone written a Queue.Queue replacement that avoids busy-waiting?
> It doesn't matter if it uses os-specific APIs (eg
> WaitForMultipleObjects). I did some googling around and haven't found
> anything so far.
I started once, using
What do you guys think about Python's grouping of code via indentation?
Is it good - perhaps because it saves space and eliminates keypresses?
Or is it bad - perhaps because it makes program flow dependent on
invisible, and unpronouncable characters - and results in more
manual alignment issues
Tim Tyler wrote:
> What do you guys think about Python's grouping of code via indentation?
This is a Python newsgroup. Assume that we all have been brainwashed.
> How would you have dealt with the issue of how to group statements?
Off the top of my head I can think of one other way: associate a
Xah Lee wrote:
> The Python doc is relatively lousy, from content organization to the
> tech writing quality.
So write your own or fork the current one. I doubt if that's a problem.
Did you read Dive into Python?
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Martin Ambuhl wrote:
> Apologies to these various newsgroups, but I have no idea which one Xah
> Lee actually reads or posts from. F'ups set.
Probably none, since they are all crowded with crazy linux zealots :-D.
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Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I started once, using the Timer class in the Threading Module to
> break the lock. However the Timer class uses the same kind of
> sleep-polling loop, to delay the exection and allow an intermediate
> cancel, as the loop that is used in Queue.Queue, so th
Dave Brueck wrote:
> Jiri Barton wrote:
[snip..]
Hello Dave,
>
> Protecting code in any language is pretty tough and/or futile, but
you can
> Google the archives if you're interested in reading more on that.
>
It's certainly something lot's of people are interested in. I guess it
depends who yo
Op 2005-03-25, Paul Rubin schreef :
> Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I started once, using the Timer class in the Threading Module to
>> break the lock. However the Timer class uses the same kind of
>> sleep-polling loop, to delay the exection and allow an intermediate
>> cancel, as t
> wierd. does:
http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.2/ext/pure-embedding.html work
> for you ?
Yes. It does.
> ./test_String script1.py multiply 4 5
Don't run it with the ".py" suffix. The argv[1] is a module name, not a
filename..
Even if you do, it may not find the module. Depending of what you ha
Hi all,
I'm trying to submit some data using a POST request to a HTTP server with
BASIC authentication with python, but I can't get it to work. Since it's
driving me completely nuts, so here's my cry for help.
The server is an elog logbook server (http://midas.psi.ch/elog/). It is
protected with
In comp.lang.perl.misc Xah Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The Python doc is relatively lousy, from content organization to the
> tech writing quality.
Which has precisely what to do with most of the groups to which you
cross-posted?
> Problem: They all have the same priority (which is higher th
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 11:09:35 +0300, Denis S. Otkidach wrote:
> DH> Calling the program gives an error;
> DH> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/source/python> ./test_String script1.py multiply 4
> DH> 5 import went bang...
> DH> ImportError: No module named script1.py"
> DH> script1.py exists and it is in the
Michael Spencer wrote:
An Abridged Python Tutorial
(snip fine piece of art)
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Hello,
I'm trying to use smtplib.login() to authenticate against a SMTP
server...
server = smtplib.SMTP( 'localhost', 10025 )
server.set_debuglevel(1)
server.login( 'user', 'password' )
send: 'ehlo host.local\r\n'
reply: '250-host.local Hello localhost\r\n'
reply: '250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN\r\n'
reply
Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I've never checked this code but it wouldn't have occurred to me that
> > Queue uses any kind of timeout loop. Can't it work the obvious way
> > with a semaphore?
>
> And how is this semaphore going to be released if the timeout is
> reached?
I meant
Ron wrote:
> It's interesting that there is a whole is_"type"_() group of functions
> in the inspect module, but not a is_defined(). Maybe I just haven't
> found it yet.
I've never found any need for an is_defined function. If in doubt I just
make sure and initialise all variables to a suitable
Op 2005-03-25, Paul Rubin schreef :
> Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > I've never checked this code but it wouldn't have occurred to me that
>> > Queue uses any kind of timeout loop. Can't it work the obvious way
>> > with a semaphore?
>>
>> And how is this semaphore going to be rel
>
Do you actually think anybody will reply to your mail if you keep reposting at
this frequency? It'll rather make most people here kill-file you.
One post is enough; we've seen your problem, and it seems as though nobody
here has a better solution than what Dennis Lee Bieber has already offer
Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I meant a semaphore to synchronize the queue when adding or removing
> > objects.
>
> Last I looked there was a lock used for that.
OK, that amounts to the same thing.
> The loop is only for when you cant remove or add an element immediatly
> and th
On Mar 25, 2005, at 11:04, PA wrote:
What am I doing wrong? Why is the user name being encoded twice?
Ok... turns out that this is/was a bug in the python smtplib as
recently as Dec 6 2004:
Patch #1075928: AUTH PLAIN in smtplib.
"smtplib can not log in to some server using command AUTH PLAIN, it
I am trying to restrict some of the methods available by RPC to whether
the user is connected through a ssh-tunnel eg. connecting from localhost.
class UserRPC:
'''Methods available to users'''
pass
class AdminRPC(UserRPC):
'''Methods available only when connecting from localhost'''
Experimenting with the gnuplot package under Debian Linux,
I've found that the -reverse option when used to start
gnuplot from the command-line will produce plots
that are color-reversed and render with white text
on a black background
However, I'm too dense to see how to easily achieve
the
Op 2005-03-25, Paul Rubin schreef :
> Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > I meant a semaphore to synchronize the queue when adding or removing
>> > objects.
>>
>> Last I looked there was a lock used for that.
>
> OK, that amounts to the same thing.
>
>> The loop is only for when you c
I am working on a Find Text dialog box. Once you find a string in a
Text widget, how do you at least move the cursor to that index
(position)? Even better how can one 'select' the string one finds?
---code---
def searchText():
while 1:
pos = self.mainEdit.search(findStr
I'm trying to get pySimplex working in Python 2.4, but I find that
kjbucketsmodule.c makes reference to rename2.h which doesn't seem to be
present in Python 2.4.
I suppose that kjbucketsmodule.c needs to be brought up to date. It
occurs to me that someone may have already done this so is there
This is something I've recently thought about; perhaps you wouldn't
mind some points?
1) I've been running 'file' via os.popen, and I've had trouble with it
incorrectly spotting file types (Fedora Core 1). I can name a specific
example where it thinks a plain text README file is HTML (despite tha
Robin Becker wrote:
I'm trying to get pySimplex working in Python 2.4, but I find that
kjbucketsmodule.c makes reference to rename2.h which doesn't seem to be
present in Python 2.4.
I suppose that kjbucketsmodule.c needs to be brought up to date. It
occurs to me that someone may have already do
Harlin Seritt wrote:
>I am working on a Find Text dialog box. Once you find a string in a
> Text widget, how do you at least move the cursor to that index
> (position)?
widget.mark_set(INSERT, pos)
> Even better how can one 'select' the string one finds?
widget.tag_add(SEL, pos, endpos)
Hello,
How can I select on wich interface a socket will connect to?
Say I have a pc with one network card and a 56K modem, how can I select
on wich interface will the socket connect?
Thank you
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>> What do you guys think about Python's grouping of code via
>> indentation?
Peter> This is a Python newsgroup. Assume that we all have been
Peter> brainwashed.
+1 QOTW.
Skip
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Frederik,
Thanks! Just looking at your site (effbot and pythonware). I don't know
what I'd do without it!
Cheers,
Harlin
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Op 2005-03-25, Tim Tyler schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> What do you guys think about Python's grouping of code via indentation?
>
> Is it good - perhaps because it saves space and eliminates keypresses?
I think it was a mistake, but I'm probably in the minority here.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> How can I select on wich interface a socket will connect to?
> Say I have a pc with one network card and a 56K modem, how can I select
> on wich interface will the socket connect?
you need to specify the ip address that interface has been assigned to in
the
Esben> What i don't know is how to the client ip. I would think I should
Esben> override the _marshalled_dispatch method but I can't quite grasp
Esben> it all.
First, from my reading of SimpleXMLRPCServer, I don't think _dispatch()
belongs at that level. It belongs in the request han
Actually its not a server. I dont do any binding call, just a connect.
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"Antoon Pardon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Op 2005-03-25, Tim Tyler schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
What do you guys think about Python's grouping of code via indentation?
Is it good - perhaps because it saves space and eliminates keypresses?
I think it was a mistake,
Hello,
Here is an example of Multithreaded Pipe Server and Client using the
excellent ctypes library (Windows).
Reference - MSDN:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/ipc/base/multithreaded_pipe_server.asp
and
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 15:03:13 +0100, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \
wrote:
> Bob Parnes wrote:
>
>> I must be missing something, so perhaps someone can explain
>> the benefit of a paramstyle over the usual Python formatting
>> style and maybe suggest a test to show it. Thanks.
>
> set the par
Tim Tyler wrote:
What do you guys think about Python's grouping of code via indentation?
Is it good - perhaps because it saves space and eliminates keypresses?
Or is it bad - perhaps because it makes program flow dependent on
invisible, and unpronouncable characters - and results in more
manual al
Leif B. Kristensen wrote:
R.Meijer wrote:
Jot nad.com> writes:
If she's really gifted i hope she dumps that obsolete monolithic
kernel as soon as she realizes that such beautiful language as python
shouldn't be used on top of ugly, badly designed software.
Did somebody say off-topic?
I'd say it
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Actually its not a server. I dont do any binding call, just a connect.
Then where is your problem? The two interfaces have been assigned distinct
IPs, so connect to the appropriate one.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Actually its not a server. I dont do any binding call, just a
connect.
Bind is not only for server sockets. Googling for "bind client socket"
reveals an example: http://woozle.org/~neale/papers/sockets.html
Serge.
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Op 2005-03-25, John Roth schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> "Antoon Pardon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Op 2005-03-25, Tim Tyler schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>> What do you guys think about Python's grouping of code via indentation?
>>>
>>> Is it good - perhaps
Tim Tyler wrote:
> What do you guys think about Python's grouping of code via
indentation?
>
> Is it good - perhaps because it saves space and eliminates
keypresses?
>
> Or is it bad - perhaps because it makes program flow dependent on
> invisible, and unpronouncable characters - and results in mor
[Reposting to the general list too]
Lloyd Kvam wrote:
> Sockets deal with packetized data. The network protocols do not guarantee
> keeping the data in line oriented chunks - even if the data starts out
> that way.
>
> You need to deal with extracting lines from chunks. So long as the
> connecti
Well, I've never used it, but sockets do have the makefile method. That
would seem to fit what you're trying to do.
Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
> [Reposting to the general list too]
>
> Lloyd Kvam wrote:
>
>> Sockets deal with packetized data. The network protocols do not
>> guarantee
>> keeping
Op 2005-03-25, Carl Banks schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Tim Tyler wrote:
>> What do you guys think about Python's grouping of code via
> indentation?
>>
>> Is it good - perhaps because it saves space and eliminates
> keypresses?
>
> It's good, but this is only a minor reason.
>
> The reason this
Tim Tyler wrote:
> What do you guys think about Python's grouping of code via
indentation?
>
> Is it good - perhaps because it saves space and eliminates
keypresses?
It's good, but this is only a minor reason.
The reason this is good is because it exactly reflects the way human
beings mentally g
Better:
there is a Python, pithy
mighty, lissome, and tabby
algorithms it puffs
conundrums it snuffs
and cherished by those savvy
there is a camel, kooky
ugly, petty, ungainly
hacking it supports
TIMTOWTDI it sports
and transports DWIM-wit's fancy
Xah
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
â http://xahlee.org/Pag
PA wrote:
On Mar 25, 2005, at 11:04, PA wrote:
What am I doing wrong? Why is the user name being encoded twice?
Ok... turns out that this is/was a bug in the python smtplib as
recently as Dec 6 2004:
Patch #1075928: AUTH PLAIN in smtplib.
"smtplib can not log in to some server using command AUT
> Structure/Disciplined programming is a burden in general. I have
> never found putting braces or what ever delimiter such a problem.
> I don't see people argueing that putting the right number of parenthesis
> and or brackets is an extra burden.
Oh, not the right number. But I have seen wars wag
Op 2005-03-25, Diez B. Roggisch schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> Structure/Disciplined programming is a burden in general. I have
>> never found putting braces or what ever delimiter such a problem.
>> I don't see people argueing that putting the right number of parenthesis
>> and or brackets is an
> Normally one is the project leader. He decides.
Whishful thinking.
Another problem I have with code that is _not_ layouted the way I'm used to
it is that the perception of what very code does gets more difficult to me.
You seem to have the same troubles, I take that from your desire to reflect
Is there a function for comparing version numbers?
E.g.
0.1.0 < 0.1.2
1.876b < 1.876c
3.2.2 < 3.4
Keith
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On 25 Mar 2005 07:34:38 -0800, rumours say that "Keith"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> might have written:
>Is there a function for comparing version numbers?
>
>E.g.
>
>0.1.0 < 0.1.2
>1.876b < 1.876c
>3.2.2 < 3.4
>
>Keith
Convert your version numbers into tuples:
(0, 1, 0) < (0, 1, 2)
(1, 876, 'b') < (1,
On 25 Mar 2005 07:34:38 -0800, Keith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there a function for comparing version numbers?
>
> E.g.
>
> 0.1.0 < 0.1.2
> 1.876b < 1.876c
> 3.2.2 < 3.4
>
Not by default AFAIK. How about something like (untested):
def test_version(v1, v2):
v1, v2 = v1.split('.'), v2.
"Keith" wrote:
> Is there a function for comparing version numbers?
>
> E.g.
>
> 0.1.0 < 0.1.2
> 1.876b < 1.876c
> 3.2.2 < 3.4
the following works for many common cases:
import re
def cmpver(a, b):
def fixup(i):
try:
return int(i)
except ValueError:
r
First, a disclaimer. I am a second year Maths and Computer Science
undergraduate, and this is my first time ever on Usenet (I guess I'm
part of the http generation). On top of that, I have been using Python
for a grand total of about a fortnight now. Hence, I apologise if what
follows is a stupid s
Sorry about the mangled formatting... like i said, first time on Usenet
Suggestions, comments, replies, etc most welcome.
This definitely includes replies of the form: "This is stupid,
because..."
provided it isnt followed with "youre a jerk who knows nothing.
Period."
Heres a follow up rant in
Python's way of grouping is VERY good. Over the last
30+ years I've seen a lot of code (good and bad) in
many languages. IMHO good code (independent of language)
always uses indentation, even when other block constructs
(like braces) is available. Python developers thought that
this was redundant
"Jordan Rastrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> def combineIntoRecord(): # This is an acceptor function
> optionalline = None # We may not get given a value for this line
> accept firstline
> accept secondline
> if condition(secondline):
>
I can't assume there are the same number of '.'s or there are the same
number of digits per version.
I don't know how the tuple comparison works offhand. But that seems
like it would work if you split it.
The suggestion with the "re" module seems generic enough and looks like
it will work as is.
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X-Nntp
Jordan Rastrick wrote:
[CHOP]
Behold:
# An Acceptor/Generator!!!
def combineIntoRecords():
optionalline = None # We may not get given a value for this line
accept firstline
accept secondline
if condition(secondline):
accept optionalline
accept lastline
On 25 Mar 2005 07:34:38 -0800,
"Keith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there a function for comparing version numbers?
> E.g.
> 0.1.0 < 0.1.2
> 1.876b < 1.876c
> 3.2.2 < 3.4
How about a simple string comparison?
Python 2.3.3 (#1, Mar 9 2004, 14:21:31)
[GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. b
Hi All--
Larry Bates wrote:
>
> Secondly, Python "nudges" me into writing better
> (easier to maintain and clearer to understand) code by
> influencing me towards splitting my code into smaller
> functions/classes. If I find myself with more than 3-4
> levels of indentation, I probably need to
Thanks for the very fast feedback :)
I specifically set optionalline = None to deal with that bug you
mentioned, with the implicit assumption createRecord knows how to deal
with a None argument. If that guard got destroyed in the copy paste
process, my bad.
As for you solution, yes, you could do
Tim Hochberg wrote:
Jordan Rastrick wrote:
itertools.groupby enables you to do this, you just need to define a suitable
grouping function, that stores its state:
For example, if short lines should be appended to the previous line:
from itertools import groupby
linesource = """\
Here is a long lin
Fuzzyman wrote:
Dave Brueck wrote:
It's certainly something lot's of people are interested in. I guess it
depends who your audience is. If ytour code isn't for *mass*
distribution - the chances of people putting a lot of effort into
breaking it are greatly reduced. I don't htink it's necessarily f
Yes, granted.
This is basically the same as Andrew's reply, except with Iterators in
place of generators, so I'll let my answer to that stand. In fact, its
my solution, but with iter.next() in place of accept :)
This is probably something like how I wanted to solve the problem when
I first was lo
On 24 Mar 2005 22:16:10 -0800, "Kay Schluehr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>It's all developed during this discussion. Sometimes I'm a bit
>surprised were it goes.
I enjoy exploring ideas this way. Many times it leads to dead ends or
you just end up with a long way back to where you started, but
so
[Pardon the piggybacking. My news-server does not see the OP's message.]
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
"Keith" wrote:
Is there a function for comparing version numbers?
E.g.
0.1.0 < 0.1.2
1.876b < 1.876c
3.2.2 < 3.4
distutils has a set of version classes with comparisons.
In [1]:from distutils import versi
On Mar 26, 2005, at 3:34 AM, Keith wrote:
Is there a function for comparing version numbers?
E.g.
0.1.0 < 0.1.2
1.876b < 1.876c
3.2.2 < 3.4
FWIW,
>>> from distutils import version
>>> version_list = "3.4 3.2.2 1.867c 1.867b 0.1.2 0.1.0".split()
>>> version_list = map(version.LooseVersion, version_
distutils is one of the places I looked:
http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.5/lib/module-distutils.html
But I didn't see the functions documented. I am new to Python so I
didn't know where else to look.
Using distutils seems like it would be the most generic and supported
way to compare version numbe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Python doc, though relatively incompetent, but the author have
Really, how could those morons even dream of creating a language,
and even writing docs to accompany it??
tried the best. This is in contrast to documentations in unix related
things (unix tools, perl, apa
On 24 Mar 2005 19:49:38 -0800, brainsucker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> foo = 0
> for item1 in range(10) until foo == 2:
> for item2 in range(10) until foo == 2:
> foo = item1 + item2
> if foo == 2: print "Let's see"
> print foo
In this case, I'll use the following:
try:
for item1
Thanks effbot. I haven't had much use for XML comments so far and I
guess other people haven't either because it seems they are hardly ever
mentioned.
http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=xml+comment+python&qt_s=Search+Groups
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Antoon Pardon wrote:
I have problems with all languages
currently available, so I use those which rub me wrong the least.
... [I]t doesn't weight heavy enough
to go and use an other language, although I keeping looking at
the other languages.
I think the operational definition of a "zealot" is som
Ron_Adam wrote:
> What if you could:
>
> x = lambda{ x, y: x+y}
> Hmm comma creates a problem here. so...
>>> from __future__ import braces
SyntaxError: not a chance
>>>
Reinhold ;)
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On 25 Mar 2005 10:09:50 GMT, Duncan Booth
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've never found any need for an is_defined function. If in doubt I just
>make sure and initialise all variables to a suitable value before use.
>However, I'll assume you have a good use case.
I admit that that is the better
I recently saw this:
http://www.egenix.com/files/python/mxTools.html
mx.Tools.verscmp(a,b)
Compares two version strings and returns a cmp() function
compatible value (<,==,> 0). The function is useful for sorting lists
containing version strings.
The logic used is as follows: the string
apache conf
SetHandler mod_python
PythonHandler mod_python.publisher
and this is in /python-publisher/index.py
__auth_realm__ = 'VIP'
def __auth__(req, user, passwd):
if user == 'noppa' and passwd == 'potti':
return True
else:
return False
def __access__(req, use
>
> I'll try to reduce my pages of ranting to a single question. In
> posting, i was wondering if the "syntactic sugar" (Acceptors) that i
> invented to implement the solution is of any general interest. So are
> there maybe examples less straightforward than this one, where
> Acceptors work bette
Would you like to suggest me any improvements for the following code?
I want to make my implementation as simple, as Python - native, as fine as
possible.
I've written simple code, which reads input text file and creates words'
ranking by number of appearence.
Code:
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Keith wrote:
distutils is one of the places I looked:
http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.5/lib/module-distutils.html
But I didn't see the functions documented. I am new to Python so I
didn't know where else to look.
The source! I don't think they're documented elsewhere.
Using distutils seems like it w
Wow, if I'm going to get replies (with implemented solutions!) this
quickly, I'll post here more often :-)
This is the most different to my solution, and also the shortest, and
therefore the most interesting, reply so far. Its also the last one
I'll reply to before I go to bed.
Its taken
>-- Your code
>foo = 0
>for item1 in range(10):
> for item2 in range(10):
>foo = item1 + item2
>if foo == 2:
> print "Let's see"
> break # let's go
> if (item1 + item2) == 2:
>break # one more time
>print foo
The outer loop never reaches 1, so we can get rid of it along wi
Jordan Rastrick wrote:
Wow, if I'm going to get replies (with implemented solutions!) this
quickly, I'll post here more often :-)
That is indeed typical of this most attentive group :-)
Its taken me a while to get a rough understanding of this code, but I
think I have some idea.
It is just an exam
"Antoon Pardon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> 1) It makes it hard to see how many levels are dedented at the end of
> a suite, and sometime makes it difficult to see where the end
> of a suite is. If e.g. you are looking at the code spread over
> two pieces of paper, it is sometime
"Tim Tyler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> What do you guys think about Python's grouping of code via indentation?
A major plus. I was fanatic about carefully indenting my C code.
> Is it good - perhaps because it saves space and eliminates keypresses?
It elimin
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 17:02:31 +0100, "Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"Keith" wrote:
>
>> Is there a function for comparing version numbers?
>>
>> E.g.
>>
>> 0.1.0 < 0.1.2
>> 1.876b < 1.876c
>> 3.2.2 < 3.4
>
>the following works for many common cases:
>
>import re
>
>def cmpver(a, b):
>
Michael Spencer wrote:
> > Still, this is fascinating going to have to spend some time
> > experimenting with groupby as soon as I get a chance
> >
> Experimenting is good. So is the the documentation:
> http://docs.python.org/tut/tut.html
Reading documentation is a good idea, but I think
Terminology: To me and some (most?) others posting here and, I believe,
both the docs and the common meaning of 'generator', a Python generator is
the particular kind of iterator that produces multiple values on request
and which is created by the generator function that you write.
Acceptors (c
On Friday 25 March 2005 08:39 am, Ivan Van Laningham wrote:
> As far as grouping by indentation goes, it's why I fell in love with
> Python in the first place. Braces and so on are just extraneous cruft
> as far as I'm concerned. It's the difference between Vietnamese verbs
> and Latin verbs;-)
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 08:46:12 -0800, Michael Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Tim Hochberg wrote:
>> Jordan Rastrick wrote:
>>
>
>itertools.groupby enables you to do this, you just need to define a suitable
>grouping function, that stores its state:
>
>For example, if short lines should be app
Michael Spencer wrote:
itertools.groupby enables you to do this, you just need to define a
suitable grouping function, that stores its state:
Michael, this would make a great Python Cookbook Recipe.
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James Stroud wrote:
On Friday 25 March 2005 08:39 am, Ivan Van Laningham wrote:
As far as grouping by indentation goes, it's why I fell in love with
Python in the first place. Braces and so on are just extraneous cruft
as far as I'm concerned. It's the difference between Vietnamese verbs
and Lati
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