Re: JEP and JPype in a single process

2005-06-28 Thread skn
Thanks for your prompt reply, Steve. Just one suggestion, may be the startJVM method's implementation can itself be changed to check for already existing JVM. Of course this will also mean a change in shutdownJVM() semantics. If JVM has been started earlier(not using startJVM()), shutdownJVM() shou

Re: How to compress a folder and all of its sub directories and files into a zip file?

2005-06-28 Thread could ildg
Thank you, it works~~ On 6/29/05, Peter Szinek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > What about this: > > import os,zipfile > from os.path import join > > > zip = zipfile.ZipFile("myzipfile.zip", 'w') > for root, dirs, files in os.walk('.'): > for fileName in files: > zip.write(jo

Newbie: Help Figger Out My Problem

2005-06-28 Thread ChuckDubya
##Coin Flip: randomly flips 100 "coins" and prints results ##Original draft: june 27, 2005 ##Chuck import random heads = 0 tails = 0 flips = 0 while flips < 99: coin = random.randrange(0, 2) if coin == 0: heads = heads + 1 else: tails = tails + 1

Re: How to compress a folder and all of its sub directories and files into a zip file?

2005-06-28 Thread could ildg
but the file is just stored, and not compressed. On 6/28/05, could ildg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you, > it works~~ > > On 6/29/05, Peter Szinek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > What about this: > > > > import os,zipfile > > from os.path import join > > > > > > zip = zipfile.Zi

Re: Newbie: Help Figger Out My Problem

2005-06-28 Thread Paul Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > When I save and run this "program", I get a DOS window that flashes at > me and disappears. What's wrong with it? You can't just click the file.py icon and expect a program like that to do something reasonable. There are two ways to deal with it: 1) start a DOS box a

Re: Newbie: Help Figger Out My Problem

2005-06-28 Thread db
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 00:23:30 -0700, ChuckDubya wrote: > ##Coin Flip: randomly flips 100 "coins" and prints results > ##Original draft: june 27, 2005 > ##Chuck > > import random > heads = 0 > tails = 0 > flips = 0 > while flips < 99: > coin = random.randrange(0, 2) > if coin == 0:

Re: How to compress a folder and all of its sub directories and files into a zip file?

2005-06-28 Thread Brian van den Broek
could ildg said unto the world upon 28/06/2005 03:29: > but the file is just stored, > and not compressed. > > On 6/28/05, could ildg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Thank you, >>it works~~ >> >>On 6/29/05, Peter Szinek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>Hi, >>> >>>What about this: >>> >>>import os,

Re: Which kid's beginners programming - Python or Forth?

2005-06-28 Thread gatti
Ivan Van Laningham wrote: [...] > > Seriously, PostScript is a lot more fun to learn than Forth, and more > directly useful. Since the rewards are so immediate, a kid's attention > could be gained and kept pretty easily. PostScript is easy, but I'm afraid some technical details could get in the

Re: How to compress a folder and all of its sub directories and files into a zip file?

2005-06-28 Thread could ildg
Thanks to Brian van den Broek , I've just reached the doc, too. I'm now very clear. On 6/28/05, Brian van den Broek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > could ildg said unto the world upon 28/06/2005 03:29: > > but the file is just stored, > > and not compressed. > > > > On 6/28/05, could ildg <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Boss wants me to program

2005-06-28 Thread Peter Maas
Brian schrieb: > Microsoft Visual Basic (.NET) would be your best bet for this type of > software development. It allows you to create GUI apps that can work > with a variety of database options, such as Access or MS SQL Server. Maybe you're right with .net, but I'd go for C# when doing .net. B

Re: Boss wants me to program

2005-06-28 Thread Cyril BAZIN
Hello, If you have enough money to buy a licence, Visual Basic seem a very good option. (But you should learn how to use design patterns.) Without knowing this language I was able to perform a graphical user interface to interact with an automat, a mySQL database and many analogical sensors in le

Re: FlashMX and Py2exe doesn't fly...

2005-06-28 Thread Richie Hindle
[Jim] > They did it with Gush: (I think) >http://2entwine.com/ > > It's a py program that embeds Flash very nice. Very nice indeed! Does anyone know any details about the technology they used for this? It appears to be closed source, and I couldn't see anything on their site about the

Re: Which kid's beginners programming - Python or Forth?

2005-06-28 Thread Daniel Dittmar
BORT wrote: > I told my son, who wants to learn how to compute probabilities, that we > have to start with some boring stuff so we can learn how to do the cool > stuff. Adding and subtracting aren't really fun, but figuring odds on > rolling dice IS fun. Learning to program will be kind of like t

Re: Which kid's beginners programming - Python or Forth?

2005-06-28 Thread Daniel Dittmar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > List comprehensions, however, *are* the basic control flow; loops are > much more verbose and they should be used only when necessary. List comprehensions are probably a bad idea for entry level programmers: - for and while loops are much easier to debug as you can inser

Re: Boss wants me to program

2005-06-28 Thread Adriaan Renting
Visual Basic is a good option for small programs on Windows. It does cost a lot of money depending on your needs. It's not a good choice for large programs (or at least used to be). The older versions of VC++ are very hard and difficult, the newer versions seem to be o.k. I used to prefer Borland C

Re: Reading files in /var/spool/rwho/whod.*

2005-06-28 Thread Fredrik Normann
Fredrik Normann wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to read the binary files under /var/spool/rwho/ so I'm > wondering if anyone has done that before or could give me some clues on > how to read those files. I've tried to use the binascii module without > any luck. A friend of mine made this C-prog

Re: Thoughts on Guido's ITC audio interview

2005-06-28 Thread Simon Brunning
On 6/26/05, John Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's being ignored is that type information is useful for other things > than compile type checking. The major case in point is the way IDEs > such as IntelliJ and Eclipse use type information to do refactoring, code > completion and eventually n

Re: Thoughts on Guido's ITC audio interview

2005-06-28 Thread Simon Brunning
On 6/27/05, Sakesun Roykiattisak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. Automatic refactoring never solve the readability issue. Eclipse's refactorings are a great boon, I find. Refectoring is never *fully* automatic, of course, but the ability to, for example, select a chunk of code and have it extracte

Re: Non-blocking raw_input

2005-06-28 Thread Jorge Louis de Castro
Thanks very much for you reply. I have indeed tried the msvcrt module but none of the examples given works as described on a XP+SP2 box. I have also looked at the twisted module but some functions there do not work on windows too, and I was told by one of the devs that it would stay that way fo

Re: DParser binaries on Win32 with Python 2.4?

2005-06-28 Thread woodsplitter
Christopher Subich wrote: > Compling the source on cygwin (with -mno-cygwin) succeeds in > compilation, but then attempting to install results in: > > \Python24\python.exe setup.py install > running install > running build > running build_py > creating build > creating build\lib.win32-2.4 > copying

Re: Newbie: Help Figger Out My Problem

2005-06-28 Thread qwweeeit
Hi, About the error, you already got the answer from the "experts". Beeing almost a newbie, I tried instead an elaboration of your example, using lists. Furthermore I timed the two methods and to my surprise the "list method" takes longer: # Head_Tail.py import random, time nStart= time.time() #

Re: Boss wants me to program

2005-06-28 Thread Jordan Rastrick
The problem with all posts that say "Use Visual Basic, its easy for small programs" is that small programs, seemingly inevitably, become bigger programs (unless they become dead, unmaintained programs). If your users - you, your boss, coworkers, whoever - find your software useful, and you start to

Re: Which kid's beginners programming - Python or Forth?

2005-06-28 Thread Roy Smith
Ivan Van Laningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In which case, you should start with PostScript;-) I learned it by > plugging a glass tty into the serial port on one of the very first > AppleWriters and typing away. Same here. I had the RedBook and remember reading it and not quite believing it

Re: Which kid's beginners programming - Python or Forth?

2005-06-28 Thread Adriaan Renting
In addition, for and while loops are pretty universally found in all program languages. It is therefore an essential part of material supposed to teach programming. Adriaan Renting| Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ASTRON | Phone: +31 521 595 217 P.O. Box 2 | GSM: +31

Re: OO refactoring trial ??

2005-06-28 Thread Chinook
[[ This message was both posted and mailed: see the 'To' and 'Newsgroups' headers for details. ]] Clarifications: 1) Truth test simplified after a %) by Peter Otten - thanks. In reality the "testit" methods will all be quite different as you might imagine (as will the "doit" methods). 2) A

Re: Which kid's beginners programming - Python or Forth?

2005-06-28 Thread Roy Smith
"Adriaan Renting" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In addition, for and while loops are pretty universally found in all > program languages. It is therefore an essential part of material > supposed to teach programming. And, even if they're not called "for" or "while" (they might be "do", "foreach",

Re: OO refactoring trial ??

2005-06-28 Thread Chinook
Clarifications: 1) Truth test simplified after a %) by Peter Otten - thanks. In reality the "testit" methods will all be quite different as you might imagine (as will the "doit" methods). 2) A final subclass will always return True, so there will always be a valid result.

Re: Newbie: Help Figger Out My Problem

2005-06-28 Thread bruno modulix
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ##Coin Flip: randomly flips 100 "coins" and prints results > ##Original draft: june 27, 2005 > ##Chuck > > import random > heads = 0 > tails = 0 > flips = 0 > while flips < 99: > coin = random.randrange(0, 2) > if coin == 0: > heads = heads +

Re: OO refactoring trial ??

2005-06-28 Thread Chinook
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 07:31:43 -0400, Chinook wrote (in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>): > [[ This message was both posted and mailed: see >the 'To' and 'Newsgroups' headers for details. ]] > Sorry for the duplication. I'm trying Hogwasher on OS X and it seems I better look around some more.

pyqt, windows xp and systray applications.. possible?

2005-06-28 Thread bastian . salmela
hi, I've been searching long, and found some information, but still not enough for me to actually make it happen. so, I ask here. is it possible, in windows, to make PyQT application hide itself into systray area? I read,that you might have to use winEventFilter(), and do some magic with WM_ mes

Re: How to compress a folder and all of its sub directories and filesinto a zip file?

2005-06-28 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Brian van den Broek wrote: > So, it would appear that compression requires a 3rd party module, not > included in Python (and not present on my Windows box). where did you get your Windows Python? afaik, the zlib module has been included in all major Python binary distributions since 1.5.2 or so.

Re: pyqt, windows xp and systray applications.. possible?

2005-06-28 Thread Lee Harr
On 2005-06-28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > > I've been searching long, and found some information, but still not > enough for me to actually make it happen. so, I ask here. > > is it possible, in windows, to make PyQT application hide itself into > systray area? > > I read,

Re: Which kid's beginners programming - Python or Forth?

2005-06-28 Thread Matt Feinstein
On 27 Jun 2005 20:16:12 -0700, "BORT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Please forgive me if this is TOO newbie-ish. > >I am toying with the idea of teaching my ten year old a little about >programming. I started my search with something like "best FREE >programming language for kids." After MUCH clic

Python/IDLE - text in different colours

2005-06-28 Thread Bill Davy
To make life easier for my users, I'd like to colour my prompt string (as handed to raw_input()) a different colour to that produced by print. I'm using Python 2.4.1 and IDLE 1.1.1 on Windows XP. Is it possible, and if so, how? tia, Bill -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pytho

Re: Which kid's beginners programming - Python or Forth?

2005-06-28 Thread Edvard Majakari
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Ivan Van Laningham wrote: > [...] >> >> Seriously, PostScript is a lot more fun to learn than Forth, and more >> directly useful. Since the rewards are so immediate, a kid's attention >> could be gained and kept pretty easily. > > PostScript is easy, but I'm afraid som

Re: Python 2.1 / 2.3: xreadlines not working with codecs.open

2005-06-28 Thread Eric Brunel
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 14:23:34 +0200, Eric Brunel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I just found a problem in the xreadlines method/module when used with > codecs.open: the codec specified in the open does not seem to be taken into > account by xreadlines which also returns byte-strings ins

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2005-06-28 Thread Mhaxx
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Re: What is different with Python ?

2005-06-28 Thread TZOTZIOY
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:27:46 -0400, rumours say that Roy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> might have written: >Andrea Griffini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hehehe... a large python string is a nice idea for modelling >> memory. >Actually, a Python string is only good for modelling ROM. If you want to

Re: What is different with Python ? (OT I guess)

2005-06-28 Thread TZOTZIOY
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:29:49 +0100, rumours say that Tom Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> might have written: >At one point, a friend and i founded a university to give our recreational >random hackery a bit more credibility (well, we called ourself a >university, anyway; it was mostly a joke). We c

Open running processes

2005-06-28 Thread DeRRudi
Hi all, I have a programm. In this program i've made the restriction that only one instance can run at the time. (done with mutex). Now i'd like it to open the running (make visible) instance when someone want's to open it a second time. Does anybody know how to do this? I hope you all understand

CAB files manipulation API (again).

2005-06-28 Thread Isaac Rodriguez
Hi, I am sorry to post this question again, but when I did it the other day, my news reader got stucked downloading new messages, and it has been that way for a few days. It still gets stucked if I try to download old messages. Anyway, does anyone know of a Python module, API, etc. that allows

RE: Open running processes

2005-06-28 Thread Tim Golden
[DeRRudi] | I have a programm. In this program i've made the restriction that only | one instance can run at the time. (done with mutex). | Now i'd like it to open the running (make visible) instance when | someone want's to open it a second time. | Does anybody know how to do this? I hope you all

Re: Plain text email?

2005-06-28 Thread TZOTZIOY
On 27 Jun 2005 18:56:27 -0700, rumours say that "Inkiniteo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> might have written: >I see. So... what about sending HTML email? If i send HTML tagged text, >the client will be able to read it as HTML? I agree with the others that HTML is part of the web, not of the e-mail system.

Re: CAB files manipulation API (again).

2005-06-28 Thread Robert Kern
Isaac Rodriguez wrote: > Hi, > > I am sorry to post this question again, but when I did it the other day, my > news reader got stucked downloading new messages, and it has been that way > for a few days. It still gets stucked if I try to download old messages. Google is your friend. http://gro

Re: Better console for Windows?

2005-06-28 Thread TZOTZIOY
On 27 Jun 2005 20:13:41 -0700, rumours say that "Brett Hoerner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> might have written: >Christ, thanks. When you install Windows it should pop up first thing >and ask if you want to be annoyed, Y/N. When you agree to the EULA of Windows, you implicitly say yes to "do you want to

Re: windows/distutils question

2005-06-28 Thread pyguy2
If the environment variable: os.environ['APPDATA'] is present on non-English Windows, you may be able to use that to get what you need. john -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python 2.1 / 2.3: xreadlines not working with codecs.open

2005-06-28 Thread Peter Otten
Eric Brunel wrote: > I just found a problem in the xreadlines method/module when used with > codecs.open: the codec specified in the open does not seem to be taken > into account by xreadlines which also returns byte-strings instead of > unicode strings. > So f.xreadlines does not work, but xread

benchmarking with threading module

2005-06-28 Thread Matteo Memelli
Hi, I'd like to know if it is possible to use the threading module to benchmark a web server. I'd like to write a python script which connect to a web server asking for a page (like a php page querying a mysql db). The script should launch many different queries to the web page at the same time. Th

Re: Getting binary data out of a postgre database

2005-06-28 Thread projecktzero
whew! tempFile.write(str(rec[0])) works! printing rec[0].__class__ puts out pyPgSQL.PgSQL.PgBytea Thanks for the help! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Better console for Windows?

2005-06-28 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Brett Hoerner (2005-06-28 03:44 +0100) > Is there a different shell I can use (other than cmd.com) to run Python > in [...] Holy snake, are you running command.com?! Throw away your Windows 3.11 computer and start using cmd.exe. > Another problem with cmd.com is when I run IPython, if I have a

re:Open running processes

2005-06-28 Thread DeRRudi
It is a wxWindow app. It is a kind of datamanager. it is possible to minimize it to the systray. hmm.. i've thought of an solution using memorymapping. see if it works.. don't know if it is the 'best' or 'safest' way.. but ok. Greetz. ps. I'm always willing to learn! :D -- http://mail.python.o

Re: Python 2.1 / 2.3: xreadlines not working with codecs.open

2005-06-28 Thread Richard Brodie
"Eric Brunel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Replying to myself. One more funny thing: > > >>> import codecs, xreadlines > >>> f = codecs.open('foo.txt', 'r', 'utf-8', 'replace') > >>> [l for l in xreadlines.xreadlines(f)] > [u'\ufffd\ufffd'] You've specified utf-

[OT] Re: What is different with Python ? (OT I guess)

2005-06-28 Thread Peter Otten
Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou wrote: > and then, apart from t-shirts, the PSF could sell Python-branded > shampoos named "poetry in lotion" etc. Which will once and for all solve the dandruffs problem prevalent among the snake community these days. Not funny? know then that German has one term for

Re: [Twisted-Python] Limiting number of concurrent client connections

2005-06-28 Thread Jp Calderone
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 10:47:04 +0100, Toby Dickenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Im finding that Win32Reactor raises an exception on every iteration of the >main loop if I exceed the limit of 64 WaitForMultipleObjects. > >I would prefer to avoid this fairly obvious denial-of-service problem by >limit

Re: Non-blocking raw_input

2005-06-28 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Jorge Louis de Castro wrote: > I have indeed tried the msvcrt module but none of the examples given works > as described on a XP+SP2 box. what examples? how did you run the examples? (the keyboard interface functions in msvcrt only work if the program's attached to a Windows console. if you r

Re: Modules for inclusion in standard library?

2005-06-28 Thread projecktzero
I'll 2nd the vote for Pychecker. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: OO refactoring trial ??

2005-06-28 Thread Paul McGuire
Lee, Interesting idea, but I think the technique of "inherit from MF to automatically add class to the test chain" is a gimmick that wont scale. Here are some things to consider: - I'm not keen on the coupling of forcing your A,B,etc. classes to inherit from MF. Especially in a duck-typing lang

mod_python and Internal Server Error ...

2005-06-28 Thread Julien Cigar
Hello, I'm using mod_python 3.1.3 with Apache 2.0.54 on a Debian box with the publisher handler and the Clearsilver template engine, and from time to time apache returns an 500 error code (Internal Server Error). Apache errog.log file looks like : [Tue Jun 28 14:42:12 2005] [error] [client 164.x

whois like functionality on Windows?

2005-06-28 Thread Gerrit Muller
I am migrating a website from a UNIX based machine to an Windows machine. In the logfiles I got from the old machine I mostly got domain names and sometimes only IP addresses. The Windows machine seems to produce only IP addresses. Somehow I cannot find a windows solution to translate an IP add

Dictionary to tuple

2005-06-28 Thread Odd-R.
I have a dictionary, and I want to convert it to a tuple, that is, I want each key - value pair in the dictionary to be a tuple in a tuple. If this is the dictionary {1:'one',2:'two',3:'three'}, then I want this to be the resulting tuple: ((1,'one'),(2,'two'),(3,'three')). I have been trying for

Re: Dictionary to tuple

2005-06-28 Thread bruno modulix
Odd-R. wrote: > I have a dictionary, and I want to convert it to a tuple, > that is, I want each key - value pair in the dictionary > to be a tuple in a tuple. > > If this is the dictionary {1:'one',2:'two',3:'three'}, > then I want this to be the resulting tuple: > ((1,'one'),(2,'two'),(3,'three'

Re: Dictionary to tuple

2005-06-28 Thread Jeff Epler
It looks like you want tuple(d.iteritems()) >>> d = {1: 'one', 2: 'two', 3: 'three'} >>> tuple(d.iteritems()) ((1, 'one'), (2, 'two'), (3, 'three')) You could also use tuple(d.items()). The result is essentially the same. Only if the dictionary is extremely large does the difference matter. (or

Re: Dictionary to tuple

2005-06-28 Thread Tim Williams (gmail)
On 28 Jun 2005 14:45:19 GMT, Odd-R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a dictionary, and I want to convert it to a tuple, > that is, I want each key - value pair in the dictionary > to be a tuple in a tuple. > > If this is the dictionary {1:'one',2:'two',3:'three'}, > then I want this to be the r

Re: Modules for inclusion in standard library?

2005-06-28 Thread bruno modulix
George Sakkis wrote: > I'd love to see IPython replace the standard interpreter. I dont. -- bruno desthuilliers python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for p in '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.split('@')])" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: whois like functionality on Windows?

2005-06-28 Thread Thomas Heller
Gerrit Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am migrating a website from a UNIX based machine to an Windows > machine. In the logfiles I got from the old machine I mostly got > domain names and sometimes only IP addresses. The Windows machine > seems to produce only IP addresses. > > Somehow I ca

Re: Dictionary to tuple

2005-06-28 Thread bruno modulix
Tim Williams (gmail) wrote: (snip) d = {1:'one',2:'two',3:'three'} t = tuple([(k,v) for k,v in d.iteritems()]) Err... don't you spot any useless code here ?-) (tip: dict.items() already returns a list of (k,v) tuples...) -- bruno desthuilliers python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-

Re: noob question

2005-06-28 Thread Marco
Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Can anyone think of some good, easy to understand examples of where > Python's name/object model differs from the variable/value model? a = b = [ 1 ] a and b are _not_ two variables, each with [ 1 ] as value, but

Re: How to compress a folder and all of its sub directories and filesinto a zip file?

2005-06-28 Thread Brian van den Broek
Fredrik Lundh said unto the world upon 28/06/2005 08:04: > Brian van den Broek wrote: > > >>So, it would appear that compression requires a 3rd party module, not >>included in Python (and not present on my Windows box). > > > where did you get your Windows Python? afaik, the zlib module has be

Re: DParser binaries on Win32 with Python 2.4?

2005-06-28 Thread Christopher Subich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1) http://mingw.org > 2) python setup.py build --compiler=mingw32 > 3) python setup.py install Thank you very much, it looks like this worked perfectly; it even picked up on the cygwin-mingw32 libraries and compiled with the cygwin compiler and -mno-cygwin. -- http

Re: Dictionary to tuple

2005-06-28 Thread Erik Max Francis
bruno modulix wrote: > Err... don't you spot any useless code here ?-) > > (tip: dict.items() already returns a list of (k,v) tuples...) But it doesn't return a tuple of them. Which is what the tuple call there does. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San

building python 2.4.1

2005-06-28 Thread Andreas Heiss
Hi ! I am trying to build python 2.4.1 from source on a Linux system. Everything seems fine, but tkinter seems not to work. The file _tkinter.pyd is missing. How can tell configure to build all necessary components ? Thanks Andreas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: building python 2.4.1

2005-06-28 Thread John Abel
Andreas Heiss wrote: >Hi ! >I am trying to build python 2.4.1 from source on a Linux system. >Everything seems fine, but tkinter seems not to work. >The file _tkinter.pyd is missing. >How can tell configure to build all necessary components ? > >Thanks >Andreas > > It looks to like Tcl/Tk is no

Re: Dictionary to tuple

2005-06-28 Thread Robert Kern
Erik Max Francis wrote: > bruno modulix wrote: > >>Err... don't you spot any useless code here ?-) >> >>(tip: dict.items() already returns a list of (k,v) tuples...) > > But it doesn't return a tuple of them. Which is what the tuple call > there does. The useless code referred to was the list

Re: tkinter radiobutton

2005-06-28 Thread William Gill
> or use a custom subclass ... I had considered extending radiobutton to add whatever properties needed, but the net/net is the same, that property must be set using methods that trigger on the rb command procedure, or an external (to the rb) control variable value. The radiobutton widget kno

Re: building python 2.4.1

2005-06-28 Thread Andreas Heiss
John Abel wrote: > Andreas Heiss wrote: > >>Hi ! >>I am trying to build python 2.4.1 from source on a Linux system. >>Everything seems fine, but tkinter seems not to work. >>The file _tkinter.pyd is missing. >>How can tell configure to build all necessary components ? >> >>Thanks >>Andreas >>

Re: Dictionary to tuple

2005-06-28 Thread Jeremy Sanders
Erik Max Francis wrote: > But it doesn't return a tuple of them. Which is what the tuple call > there does. Yes, but I think he meant: t = tuple(d.items()) -- Jeremy Sanders http://www.jeremysanders.net/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: building python 2.4.1

2005-06-28 Thread John Abel
Andreas Heiss wrote: >John Abel wrote: > > > >>Andreas Heiss wrote: >> >> >> >>>Hi ! >>>I am trying to build python 2.4.1 from source on a Linux system. >>>Everything seems fine, but tkinter seems not to work. >>>The file _tkinter.pyd is missing. >>>How can tell configure to build all neces

Re: building python 2.4.1

2005-06-28 Thread Peter Otten
Andreas Heiss wrote: > However, there are no tcl.h and tk.h header files. I haven't ssen those > files since Tcl/Tk8.0 You may also need to install the development packages (tk-devel and tcl-devel on Suse) Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Thoughts on Guido's ITC audio interview

2005-06-28 Thread Stephen Kellett
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Simon Brunning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Eclipse's refactorings are a great boon, I find. Refectoring is never >*fully* automatic, of course, but the ability to, for example, select >a chunk of code and have it extracted into a separate method with all >needed arg

Re: What is different with Python ? (OT I guess)

2005-06-28 Thread TZOTZIOY
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:46:01 +0300, rumours say that Christos "TZOTZIOY" Georgiou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> might have written: >(kudos to Steve Holden for >[EMAIL PROTECTED] where the term PIPO >(Poetry In, Poetry Out) could be born) oops! kudos to Michael Spencer (I never saw Michael's message on my

Re: [OT] Re: What is different with Python ? (OT I guess)

2005-06-28 Thread Scott David Daniels
Peter Otten wrote: > Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou wrote: > >>and then, apart from t-shirts, the PSF could sell Python-branded >>shampoos named "poetry in lotion" etc. > > Which will once and for all solve the dandruffs problem prevalent among the > snake community these days. And once again the P

Re: Text() tags and delete()

2005-06-28 Thread Bob Greschke
"Christopher Subich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Bob Greschke wrote: >> Does Text.delete(0.0, END) delete all of the tags too? Everything says >> it does not delete marks, but nothing about tags. > > Note to everyone else: this is a TKinter question. Oops. I m

ANN: PyDev 0.9.5 released

2005-06-28 Thread Fabio Zadrozny
Hi All, PyDev - Python IDE (Python Development Enviroment for Eclipse) version 0.9.5 has just been released. Check the homepage (http://pydev.sourceforge.net/) for more details. Release Highlights: - File encodings now follow the python convention - Overview ruler now works - Editor is synchro

Re: ANN: PyDev 0.9.5 released

2005-06-28 Thread Philippe C. Martin
Thanks Fabio, I take this opportunity to ask what I could be doing wrong with pylint: my PYTHONPATH is good (I think), my code compiles and passes pylint when I run it by hand. Yet pylint in pydev does not seem to think the modules I include and usually derive from exist. Any clue ? Regards, Ph

Re: Boss wants me to program

2005-06-28 Thread phil
> > Theres even a version of Python for .NET, called IronPython. The major > advantage of this is that you get to program in Python, which I can > tell you from experience is a lot more enjoyable and pain-free than C, > C++, Fortran, or Java (and, I would highly suspect, VB and C#). But > apparen

Re: tkinter radiobutton

2005-06-28 Thread Peter Otten
William Gill wrote: > The radiobutton widget knows if it is selected or unselected, or it > wouldn't be able to display correctly, but based on what I'm seeing, > that information is inaccessable to the app.  Instead the app must > evaluate an associated control variable.  That doesn't make sence 

Re: Which kid's beginners programming - Python or Forth?

2005-06-28 Thread Scott David Daniels
Philippe C. Martin wrote: > Hi, > > A couple links ... > > > http://www.summerland.uku.co.uk/ > http://pylogo.org/ > http://www.python.org/sigs/edu-sig/ > > > BORT wrote: > > >>Please forgive me if this is TOO newbie-ish. >> >>I am toying with the idea of teaching my ten year old a little ab

Re: COM problem .py versus .exe

2005-06-28 Thread Greg Miller
Hello again, I put the executable on the "virgin" PC today. I am using the wmi(b) that you gave me. The error that I am receiving now is: File "autoStart.pyc", line 241, in test File "wmib.pyc", line 157, in ? File "win32com\client\__init__.pyc", line 73, in GetObject File "win32com\client\__ini

Re: Newbie: Help Figger Out My Problem

2005-06-28 Thread Scott David Daniels
db wrote: > On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 00:23:30 -0700, ChuckDubya wrote: >>... if flips >= 99: >>print "Heads: " + heads >>print "Tails: " + tails >>print "Total: " + flips + "flips" >>raw_input("Press the enter key to exit.")... > > Your programm gives an error. You are trying to

Re: Modules for inclusion in standard library?

2005-06-28 Thread George Sakkis
> "bruno modulix" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > George Sakkis wrote: > > I'd love to see IPython replace the standard interpreter. > I dont. Care to say why ? George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Better console for Windows?

2005-06-28 Thread Brian
The alt-enter tip is handy, although I must say on multiple monitors it's not so helpful. It full screens all of them (cloned across screens), at least on my nVidia card. I'm sure you're all sympathizing with my multiple monitor problem ;-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Boss wants me to program

2005-06-28 Thread Max M
phil wrote: > You would be wise, if you choose Python to choose Tkinter or WxWindows > and learn the properties of a radio button and how to trigger events. > Writing simple GUIs is not that hard. Then after you know what is > going on behind the scenes, a BOA Constructor will not be as > mysteri

Re: Boss wants me to program

2005-06-28 Thread Thomas Bartkus
"phil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > Theres even a version of Python for .NET, called IronPython. The major > > advantage of this is that you get to program in Python, which I can > > tell you from experience is a lot more enjoyable and pain-free than C, > >

Re: OO refactoring trial ??

2005-06-28 Thread Chinook
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 10:22:59 -0400, Paul McGuire wrote (in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>): > Lee, > > Interesting idea, but I think the technique of "inherit from MF to > automatically add class to the test chain" is a gimmick that wont > scale. > > Here are some things to consider: > > - I'm not

Re: Better console for Windows?

2005-06-28 Thread Tom Anderson
On Tue, 27 Jun 2005, Brett Hoerner wrote: > Rune Strand wrote: > > Christ, thanks. When you install Windows it should pop up first thing > and ask if you want to be annoyed, Y/N. What, and not install if you say no? Perhaps your best way to get a proper shell on windows is just to install a p

Embedding python in C

2005-06-28 Thread Philippe C. Martin
Hi, Is there a program out there that would generate the C code to instantiate objects and call them: ex: miracle.exe -i mymodule.py -o module_internface.c ? I seem to recall a _yes_ to that but I got a memory overflow :-) Thanks, Philippe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-lis

regulars expressions ?

2005-06-28 Thread scott
hi people ! i got some trouble with regular expressions i need to split a string like this on the ',' character : mystring = ""\test1, test2\", test, 42" i wanna get something (a list) like this (3 elements) : "test1, test2" test 42 but the only thing i get is a list like this (4 elements) : "

Re: regulars expressions ?

2005-06-28 Thread Jaime Wyant
Maybe, you need the csv module: import csv mystring = "\"test1, test2\", test, 42" # The one argument to csv.reader is an iterable object # You could use a file here... csv_reader = csv.reader([mystring]) for line in csv_reader: print line ['test1, test2', ' test', ' 42'] hth, jw On 6

Re: regulars expressions ?

2005-06-28 Thread Jaime Wyant
Doh - please note that csv.reader takes more than one argument - the FIRST one is an iterable object. jw On 6/28/05, Jaime Wyant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe, you need the csv module: > > import csv > mystring = "\"test1, test2\", test, 42" > > # The one argument to csv.reader is an itera

Re: Boss wants me to program

2005-06-28 Thread phil
> > You are quite correct to point out how much better it is to know what is > going on behind the scenes. But heck, once you know how to extract square > roots - you need to let the computer do it! > > GUI interfaces should be the same deal! > Thomas Bartkus > I think I pretty much agree. I es

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