Re: what is your opinion of zope?

2005-06-28 Thread Avery Warren
The real problem is that the version of wiki we currently use doesn't support any concept of workflow. That is fine for the company now but as it matures in its processes, a more mature solution will become more and more compelling. Various solutions include... 1. The current wiki implementati

Re: Newbie: Help Figger Out My Problem

2005-06-28 Thread ChuckDubya
Thanks to all who replied. I did not ask for other iterations of my program. I asked what was wrong with it. To those who did just that, explained what was wrong, thank you for answering my question. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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

2005-06-28 Thread Terry Hancock
On Tuesday 28 June 2005 10:22 pm, Mike Meyer wrote: > Ivan Van Laningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 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. None of this fancy-s

Re: When someone from Britain speaks, Americans hear a "British accent"...

2005-06-28 Thread Peter Hansen
Jarek Zgoda wrote: > Grant Edwards napisał(a): > >>> To be blunt, I have no idea what this has to do with Python. >> >> >> Monty Python was mostly Brits? > > > Wasn't they all Brits? I think one was a lumberjack (but he's okay), which would make him a Canadian, eh? -- http://mail.python.org/ma

Re: How to find Windows "Application data" directory??

2005-06-28 Thread Rune Strand
You have the environment variable APPDATA. You can access it with os.environ(). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Set/Get attribute syntatic sugar

2005-06-28 Thread Peter Hansen
Elmo Mäntynen wrote: > > Peter Hansen wrote: >>Заур Шибзухов wrote: >>>Anybody thought about this issue? >> >>Perhaps not, but now that you've pointed it out they've taken the time >>machine back and fixed the problem before it arose: > > Maybe funny, but a bit too cocky for my taste. Robert kern

Re: How to find Windows "Application data" directory??

2005-06-28 Thread Paul Rubin
"Rune Strand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You have the environment variable APPDATA. You can access it with > os.environ(). Thanks!! Wow, I'd been hacking away at much messier approaches than that. It's actually os.environ['APPDATA'] ;-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-l

Re: OO refactoring trial ??

2005-06-28 Thread Paul McGuire
Lee - Bruce Eckel's observation: "the above scaffolding of Obstacle, Player and GameElementFactory (which was translated from the Java version of this example) is unnecessary - it's only required for languages that have static type checking. As long as the concrete Python classes follow the form

Re: OO refactoring trial ??

2005-06-28 Thread Chinook
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 23:23:43 -0400, Kamilche wrote (in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>): > ''' > You might find this interesting. Note that the object creation in > main() below could easily be read in from a text file instead, > thus meeting your requirement of not knowing an item's class > until run

Re: OO refactoring trial ??

2005-06-28 Thread Chinook
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 00:18:24 -0400, Paul McGuire wrote (in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>): > Lee - > > Bruce Eckel's observation: > > "the above scaffolding of Obstacle, Player and GameElementFactory > (which was translated from the Java version of this example) is > unnecessary - it's only requir

Re: tkinter radiobutton

2005-06-28 Thread Peter Otten
William Gill wrote: > Also, does 'row == var.get() for var in self.variables' perform the > comparison row == var.get() for each item in self.variables?  I would > have had to write: > > for var in self.variables: > return row == var.get() Or rather result = [] for var in self.variables:

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

2005-06-28 Thread BORT
All, The Forth-Python pull was heading to a conclusion just like "Tastes Great" vs. "Less Filling" or Ford-Chevy. However, friendly folks at comp.lang.forth pointed me to Amazon.com and _Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas_ by Seymour Papert. The book is by Logo's inventor and, a

Re: Boss wants me to program

2005-06-28 Thread fuzzylollipop
you need to find another place to work -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: what is your opinion of zope?

2005-06-28 Thread Terry Hancock
On Tuesday 28 June 2005 08:35 pm, Avery Warren wrote: > On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 23:14:48 -0500, Terry Hancock wrote: > > > However, I'm not sure why you want this information. If you are > > trying to import data into Zope, you are more likely going to be > > using Zope, not accessing ZODB directly. >

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

2005-06-28 Thread Erik Max Francis
BORT wrote: > In my earlier browsing, I eliminated Logo early on, thinking we would > hit its capability ceiling too quickly and then backtrack in order to > make a transition to a "REAL" language. > > uh... I've been browsing on Logo tonight and, even without the Lego > robots, I may go that rou

Re: ANN: PyDev 0.9.5 released

2005-06-28 Thread Dave Cook
On 2005-06-28, Fabio Zadrozny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PyDev - Python IDE (Python Development Enviroment for Eclipse) version > 0.9.5 has just been released. Does it work with the newly released Eclipse 3.1? Dave COok -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Is there something similar to ?: operator (C/C++) in Python?

2005-06-28 Thread Andrew Durdin
On 6/29/05, Scott David Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > result = [(lambda: expr0), lambda: expr1][cond]() Which still has an error, as evidenced by the following: >>> cond = "" >>> result = [(lambda: expr0), lambda: expr1][cond]() Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in

Re: whois like functionality on Windows?

2005-06-28 Thread Gerrit Muller
Peter, Thomas, thanks for your suggestion. I did indeed look broader than whois, and reverse DNS maybe a better description. Unfortunately I did try the socket.gethostbyaddr("194.109.137.226"), but the result was a disappointing "host not found", both at home on an XP machine as well as at wor

Converting TeX tokens into characters

2005-06-28 Thread Jonathan Fine
I'm sort of wishing to convert TeX tokens into characters. We can assume the standard (i.e. plain) category codes. And that the characters are to be written to a file. This proceess to take place outside of TeX. Say in a Python program. Think of a pretty-printer. * Read the TeX in as tokens. * W

Re: Better console for Windows?

2005-06-28 Thread Richie Hindle
[Christos, on widening the Windows Command Prompt] > Hm... right-click the cmd.exe window's title bar (or click on the > top-left icon, or press Alt-Space), go to Properties, Layout tab, Window > Size, Width. Just to take this thread *completely* off-topic: does anyone know of a way to scroll a C

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