Re: Beginner question: Converting Single-Element tuples to list

2005-06-29 Thread Paul McGuire
Steve - Good catch - in v1.3, I added some Unicode support for pyparsing, although I have not gotten much feedback that anyone is using it, or how well it works. So it is preferable to test against basestring instead of str. -- Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: I need help figuring out how to fix this code.

2005-06-29 Thread Brian
Hi Nathan, Please see my comments listed below. Nathan Pinno wrote: > print "Program Author: Nathan Pinno" > print "ID# 2413448" > print > print "Program 3 - Loops and IF Conditions" > print > password = raw_input("Type in the password, please: ") > while password != "hello": >

importing packages from a zip file

2005-06-29 Thread Peter Tillotson
Hi all, I was wondering if this is possible. In python v2.3 the import systems was extended via PEP302 to cope with packages. *.py files in a directory hierarchy can be imported as modules each level in the directory hierarchy needs to contain at least an empty __init__.py file. eg. With the file

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

2005-06-29 Thread Alan Kennedy
[Mike Holmans] > Some of those sonorous slow talkers from the South, and majestic bass > African-Americans like James Earl Jones or Morgan Freeman, have far > more gravitas than any English accent can: to us, such people sound > monumental. On a related note, have you ever seen any of the original

Re: Modules for inclusion in standard library?

2005-06-29 Thread Paul Rubin
Gregory Piñero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like to see some database API's to the most common databases > included. Yes, certainly, this is a serious deficiency with Python. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: importing packages from a zip file

2005-06-29 Thread Scott David Daniels
Peter Tillotson wrote: > ... With the file system > > base/ > __init__.py > branch1/ > __init__.py > myModule.py > > At the same time its possible to store modules in a flat zip-file and > import modules with the following. > > from myZip.zip import myModule.py Does this work for yo

Re: importing packages from a zip file

2005-06-29 Thread Peter Tillotson
solution: have to add the zip archives to the PYTHONPATH, can be done in the env but also as below import sys, os.path zipPackages=['base.zip'] for package in zipPackages: sys.path.insert(0,os.path.join(sys.path[0],package)) import base.branch1.myModule Peter Tillotson wrote: > Hi all, > >

Graphs/statistics using wxPython

2005-06-29 Thread Jan Danielsson
Hello all, I wanted to plot some statistics, so I wrote a simple wxPython class to do it. Then I realized that I would like to draw bar graphs, so I added that too. Since I'm a complete Python newbie, I haven't done much of it the "Python way", I suspect. So, I'm wondering if someone would

Re: importing packages from a zip file

2005-06-29 Thread Peter Tillotson
cheers Scott should have been from myZip.zip import base.branch1.myModule.py and no it didn't work, anyone know a reason why this syntax is not preferred ?? sorry posted the soln again, it works but feels nasty Scott David Daniels wrote: > Peter Tillotson wrote: > >> ... With the file system >

Re: Graphs/statistics using wxPython

2005-06-29 Thread Robert Kern
Jan Danielsson wrote: > Hello all, > >I wanted to plot some statistics, so I wrote a simple wxPython class > to do it. Then I realized that I would like to draw bar graphs, so I > added that too. > >Since I'm a complete Python newbie, I haven't done much of it the > "Python way", I suspec

Re: importing packages from a zip file

2005-06-29 Thread Jp Calderone
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 18:49:10 +, Peter Tillotson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >cheers Scott > >should have been >from myZip.zip import base.branch1.myModule.py > >and no it didn't work, anyone know a reason why this syntax is not >preferred ?? > >sorry posted the soln again, it works but feels nas

Re: Modules for inclusion in standard library?

2005-06-29 Thread Rocco Moretti
Paul Rubin wrote: > Gregory Piñero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>I'd like to see some database API's to the most common databases >>included. > > Yes, certainly, this is a serious deficiency with Python. Except that (please correct me if I'm wrong) there is somewhat of a policy for not inclu

Re: Graphs/statistics using wxPython

2005-06-29 Thread Jan Danielsson
Robert Kern wrote: >>I wanted to plot some statistics, so I wrote a simple wxPython class >> to do it. Then I realized that I would like to draw bar graphs, so I >> added that too. >> >>Since I'm a complete Python newbie, I haven't done much of it the >> "Python way", I suspect. So, I'm won

Re: PIL question: keeping metadata

2005-06-29 Thread Will McCutchen
> Is there any way of keeping this info in PIL? I don't think so... when I investigated in the past, I think I discovered that the PIL can't write EXIF data (I might be wrong, though, or my information might be outdated). > Alternatively, is there a simple image > processing package that does it?

Re: Graphs/statistics using wxPython

2005-06-29 Thread Robert Kern
Jan Danielsson wrote: > Robert Kern wrote: >>Trick #1: >> >>import matplotlib > > Oh. :-) > > That's a pretty neat trick -- now can you make my embarrassment go away? > >I did do a quick search to see if anyone had done anything similar; > but I guess I wasn't using the right keywords. > >

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

2005-06-29 Thread Ian Osgood
Forth clarifications below... Rocco Moretti wrote: > > So for Math you'd do something like: > > y = b + mx + cx^2 > > IIRC, for Forth it would be something like (please excuse the mistakes > in operator notation): > > x 2 ^ c * m x * + b + 'y' setvar Assuming these are all VALUEs: x DUP * c *

urllib2, https, and proxies

2005-06-29 Thread Fuzzyman
Hello all (well, some of you I guess), Is it true that you can't configure a proxy handler for urllib2 to fetch https URLs through a proxy ? I know that you pass a dictionary, keyed by protocol, to the proxy handler - but when we get an exception when we fetch an https URL. Fetching the same URL

Inheriting from object

2005-06-29 Thread Fuzzyman
Hello, To create a classic (old style) class, I write : class foo: pass To do the equivalent as a new style class, I write : class foo(object): pass *Should* I in fact write : class foo(object): def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): object.__init__(self) ? Also, can anyon

Re: Modules for inclusion in standard library?

2005-06-29 Thread Gregory Piñero
While that policy does make sense, I think a database program falls somewhere in between an OS and an everyday third party program. For web developers, the database might as well be the OS. I use the database to store everything in my web app. That way I can just worry about 1 place to access in

Re: Modules for inclusion in standard library?

2005-06-29 Thread Gregory Piñero
And 1 more argument for adding DB support, a large part of PHP's success as a web langauge is being easily interoperable with MySQL (out of the box I think? I haven't used it.) But I think it's tight integration with MySQL really helped it find its niche. I think "batteries included" means Pyth

Re: Inheriting from object

2005-06-29 Thread Robert Kern
Fuzzyman wrote: > Hello, > > To create a classic (old style) class, I write : > > class foo: > pass > > To do the equivalent as a new style class, I write : > > class foo(object): > pass > > *Should* I in fact write : > > class foo(object): > def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): >

Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jun 29)

2005-06-29 Thread Simon Brunning
QOTW: "And what defines a 'python activist' anyway? Blowing up Perl installations worldwide?" - Ivan Van Laningham "Floating point is about nothing if not being usefully wrong." - Robert Kern Sibylle Koczian needs to sort part of a list. His first attempt made the natural mistake - sort

Re: COM problem .py versus .exe

2005-06-29 Thread Tim G
Greg Miller wrote: > I tried the code snippet using win32api.GetFileVersionInfo(), what I > get now is the following when running on the executable machine: > > . . . FileFlagsMask => 63 > FileType => 2 > FileVersionMS => 65536 > FileVersionLS => 1 > Signature => -17890115 > FileSubtype => 0 > File

Re: Modules for inclusion in standard library?

2005-06-29 Thread Noah
unzip() -- Not really a module, but a standard library function. Why isn't it in the standard library? It seems like I'm always adding it to my code. I think I once heard an argument against it, but I forget what it was. And yet I still find myself wanting unzip. def unzip(list): if len(list)

Re: Modules for inclusion in standard library?

2005-06-29 Thread Paul Rubin
Rocco Moretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Except that (please correct me if I'm wrong) there is somewhat of a > policy for not including interface code for third party programs which > are not part of the operating system. (I.e. the modules in the > standard libary should all be usable for anyone

Re: Graphs/statistics using wxPython

2005-06-29 Thread Jan Danielsson
Robert Kern wrote: [---] > It's okay. Just about every Pythonista in the sciences has, at one time > or another, started a plotting library. It's a rite of passage. Welcome > to the club. :-) Question: I need to install SciPy in order to use matplotlib, but on the download page I see that ther

Re: Graphs/statistics using wxPython

2005-06-29 Thread Robert Kern
Jan Danielsson wrote: > Robert Kern wrote: > [---] > >>It's okay. Just about every Pythonista in the sciences has, at one time >>or another, started a plotting library. It's a rite of passage. Welcome >>to the club. :-) > >Question: I need to install SciPy in order to use matplotlib, No you

Re: map vs. list-comprehension

2005-06-29 Thread Terry Reedy
"F. Petitjean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >res = [ bb+ii*dd for bb,ii,dd in zip(b,i,d) ] > Hoping that zip will not be deprecated. Cease worrying. Zip was added to replace the zipping behavior of map and the idiom map(None, a, b, ...). It simultaneously alter

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Re: strange __call__

2005-06-29 Thread Steven Bethard
Rahul wrote: > def wrapper(obj): >g = obj.__call__ >def f(*args,**kwargs): > for arg in args:print arg > return g(*args,**kwargs) >obj.__call__=f > but it seems this will not work for functions :( def wrap(obj): def f(*args, **kwargs): for arg in args:

Re: Modules for inclusion in standard library?

2005-06-29 Thread Steven Bethard
Noah wrote: > def unzip(list): > if len(list) == 0: return () > l = [] > for t in range(len(list[0])): > l.append(map( lambda x,t=t: x[t], list )) > return tuple(l) The simplest solution to this problem that I know of: def unzip(iterable): return zip(*iterabl

Re: strange __call__

2005-06-29 Thread Rahul
If you do C = wrap(C) C no longer remains a class..it becomes a function. Steven Bethard wrote: > Rahul wrote: > > def wrapper(obj): > >g = obj.__call__ > >def f(*args,**kwargs): > > for arg in args:print arg > > return g(*args,**kwargs) > >obj.__call__=f > > but it seems thi

Re: Graphs/statistics using wxPython

2005-06-29 Thread Jan Danielsson
Robert Kern wrote: >> [---] >> >>> It's okay. Just about every Pythonista in the sciences has, at one time >>> or another, started a plotting library. It's a rite of passage. Welcome >>> to the club. :-) >> >> >>Question: I need to install SciPy in order to use matplotlib, > > No you don't.

Re: Boss wants me to program

2005-06-29 Thread Peter Hansen
Harry George wrote: > "Adriaan Renting" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>Both VB and Python are easier to learn as the more powerful >>languages, the price is that they lack features that make it easier to >>manage large and complex projects. > > What is a large project, and what is Python missing th

Re: Boss wants me to program

2005-06-29 Thread Thomas Bartkus
"phil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > About teaching in the exact sciences: I think we need a more hands-on > > applied approach, to some extent this holds for the entire school > > system. > > YES! As a geometry(& trig) teacher, I am going to have them build a >

Re: strange __call__

2005-06-29 Thread Reinhold Birkenfeld
Rahul wrote: > If you do C = wrap(C) C no longer remains a class..it becomes a > function. Does that matter? Reinhold -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Inheriting from object

2005-06-29 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Fuzzyman a écrit : > Hello, > > To create a classic (old style) class, I write : > > class foo: > pass > > To do the equivalent as a new style class, I write : > > class foo(object): > pass > > *Should* I in fact write : > > class foo(object): > def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs)

Re: strange __call__

2005-06-29 Thread Steven Bethard
Steven Bethard wrote: > > def wrap(obj): > def f(*args, **kwargs): > for arg in args: > print arg > return obj(*args, **kwargs) > return f > > @wrap > def func(a, b, c): > ... > > class C(object): > ... > C = wrap(C) Rahul top-posted: > If you

Re: strange __call__

2005-06-29 Thread Rahul
Hi. I understood your point. thanks... rahul Steven Bethard wrote: > Steven Bethard wrote: > > > > def wrap(obj): > > def f(*args, **kwargs): > > for arg in args: > > print arg > > return obj(*args, **kwargs) > > return f > > > > @wrap > > def func(a, b, c):

Re: Inheriting from object

2005-06-29 Thread Benji York
Fuzzyman wrote: > Also, can anyone explain any tangible benefit of inheriting from > object, when not explicitly using any features of new style classes ? One reason is that properties won't work correctly. -- Benji York -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Programmers Contest: Fit pictures on a page

2005-06-29 Thread Chung Leong
Isn't that an NP-complete problem or am I crazy? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Inheriting from object

2005-06-29 Thread Fuzzyman
So theres no actual advantage that you know of ;-) Surely when they are removed : class foo: pass won't become invalid syntax, it will just automatically inherit from object ? That's what I assumed, anyway Regards, Fuzz http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python -- http://mail.python.org/ma

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

2005-06-29 Thread Michael Hoffman
Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Herb starts with H, not E. It isn't "ouse" or "ospital" or "istory". It > isn't "erb" either. You just sound like tossers when you try to pronounce > herb in the original French. And the same with homage. Strangely enough there are Brits who pronounce "hotel" without an H

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

2005-06-29 Thread Tim Churches
muldoon wrote: > Americans consider having a "British accent" a sign of sophistication > and high intelligence. Many companies hire salespersons from Britain to > represent their products,etc. Question: When the British hear an > "American accent," does it sound unsophisticated and dumb? > > Be bl

Re: python broadcast socket

2005-06-29 Thread Irmen de Jong
Grant Edwards wrote: > Under Linux, you need to be root to send a broadcase packet. I don't think this is true. --Irmen -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python broadcast socket

2005-06-29 Thread Jp Calderone
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 00:13:45 +0200, Irmen de Jong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Grant Edwards wrote: > >> Under Linux, you need to be root to send a broadcase packet. > >I don't think this is true. > I think you're right. I believe you just need to set the broadcast SOL_SOCKET option. >>> import

Re: Graphs/statistics using wxPython

2005-06-29 Thread Robert Kern
Jan Danielsson wrote: >So, for future reference: I should *never* mix x and y versions in > verion: x.y.z. I've wondered why there are versions of libraries for > different versions of Python.. For packages with extension modules at least. Python maintains binary compatibility between micro-

Re: Programmers Contest: Fit pictures on a page

2005-06-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Chung Leong wrote: > Isn't that an NP-complete problem or am I crazy? That makes it a more realistic challange, doesn't it? Suppose it was something simple, like calculating a minimal spanning tree. Every program would produce the same output. What kind of contest would that be? -- http://mai

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

2005-06-29 Thread Luis M. Gonzalez
Grant Edwards wrote: > That depends on the accent. I believe that's probably true for > the educated south of England, BBC, received pronunciation. I > don't think that's true for some of the other dialects from > northern areas (e.g. Liverpool) or the "cockney" accent. What's exactly the "cockn

Re: Modules for inclusion in standard library?

2005-06-29 Thread Christopher Arndt
Reinhold Birkenfeld schrieb: > Do you have any other good and valued Python modules that you would think are > bug-free, mature (that includes a long release distance) and useful enough to > be granted a place in the stdlib? Hmmm, let's look into /site-packackes, That's what I always have install

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

2005-06-29 Thread Brian
Steven, Very well written... I enjoyed reading your post! Brian --- Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 11:27:40 -0700, muldoon wrote: > > >>Americans consider having a "British accent" a sign of sophistication >>and high intelligence. Many companies hire salespersons from Britain t

Re: Boss wants me to program

2005-06-29 Thread phil
> Wow! How about a sextant? > Simple device really. And a great practical demonstration of trigonometry. > Excellent idea, even found a few how to sites. We'll do it. Any others? I think I am going to have them build a shed because they need to get their hands on SOMETHING. But the geometry/tim

Re: Graphs/statistics using wxPython

2005-06-29 Thread Will McGugan
Jan Danielsson wrote: Hello all, I wanted to plot some statistics, so I wrote a simple wxPython class to do it. Then I realized that I would like to draw bar graphs, so I added that too. Since I'm a complete Python newbie, I haven't done much of it the "Python way", I suspect. So, I'm won

Re: Boss wants me to program

2005-06-29 Thread John Machin
Thomas Bartkus wrote: > "phil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>About teaching in the exact sciences: I think we need a more hands-on >>>applied approach, to some extent this holds for the entire school >>>system. >> >>YES! As a geometry(& trig) teacher, I am goin

Re: Boss wants me to program

2005-06-29 Thread Paul Rubin
phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Wow! How about a sextant? > > Simple device really. And a great practical demonstration of trigonometry. > > > > Excellent idea, even found a few how to sites. We'll do it. > Any others? Sextants are difficult to build precisely (compared with quadrants) and t

Re: Programmers Contest: Fit pictures on a page

2005-06-29 Thread Don
Chung Leong wrote: > Isn't that an NP-complete problem or am I crazy? It is NP complete. Its known as the "cutting stock problem" (aka "Knapsack problem"). Here's a Wikipedia page that describes it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutting_stock_problem There are commerical applications available t

Re: Programmers Contest: Fit pictures on a page

2005-06-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Don wrote: > Chung Leong wrote: > > > Isn't that an NP-complete problem or am I crazy? > > It is NP complete. Its known as the "cutting stock problem" (aka "Knapsack > problem"). Here's a Wikipedia page that describes it: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutting_stock_problem > > There are commer

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

2005-06-29 Thread Renato Ramonda
Trent Mick ha scritto: > Note that the APPDATA environment variable is only there on *some* of > the Windows flavours. It is there on Win2k and WinXP. It is not there on > WinME. Dunno about Win95, Win98, WinNT... but you may not care about > those old guys. That's (I guess) because the DOS spawn

Re: Debugger Confusion

2005-06-29 Thread Christopher Arndt
Rex Eastbourne schrieb: > Also, when I try running pdb in my Emacs shell, I get very weird > behavior: for instance, I'll hit 'h' and enter twenty times with no > output. Then, all of a sudden, twenty output messages will pop up. That may be due to output buffering. Try running your script with "p

Re: Programmers Contest: Fit pictures on a page

2005-06-29 Thread Roy Smith
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Don <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chung Leong wrote: > > > Isn't that an NP-complete problem or am I crazy? > > It is NP complete. Its known as the "cutting stock problem" (aka "Knapsack > problem"). Here's a Wikipedia page that describes it: > > http://en.wikipe

Re: Inheriting from object

2005-06-29 Thread Steven Bethard
Fuzzyman wrote: > Surely when they are removed : > > class foo: > pass > > won't become invalid syntax, it will just automatically inherit from > object ? Well, Guido views this particular syntax as an "oopsie"[1]. It should actually look like: class C(): pass Guido also su

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

2005-06-29 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2005-06-29, Luis M. Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: >> That depends on the accent. I believe that's probably true for >> the educated south of England, BBC, received pronunciation. I >> don't think that's true for some of the other dialects from >> northern areas (e.

Re: python broadcast socket

2005-06-29 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2005-06-29, Jp Calderone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 00:13:45 +0200, Irmen de Jong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Grant Edwards wrote: >> >>> Under Linux, you need to be root to send a broadcase packet. >> >>I don't think this is true. >> > > I think you're right. I believe y

Re: Thoughts on Guido's ITC audio interview

2005-06-29 Thread Markus Wankus
Stephen Kellett wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Markus Wankus > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > >> Have you ever tried anything that provides real, usable refactoring >> like Eclipse does with Java? I guarantee if you used it more than a >> few times your view would most likely change. >

aligning text with space-normalized text

2005-06-29 Thread Steven Bethard
I have a string with a bunch of whitespace in it, and a series of chunks of that string whose indices I need to find. However, the chunks have been whitespace-normalized, so that multiple spaces and newlines have been converted to single spaces as if by ' '.join(chunk.split()). Some example d

Help please: How to assign an object name at runtime

2005-06-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Good day: Probably the answer to my question is staring me in the face, but the solution escapes me. The following is the input line of the file: SoftDict-.csv: ca1017,GRPHScriptSet,ADD/REM,Adobe Acrobat 4.0=2005/06/14 I expected an instance of Machine() to be created with a name ca1017. Inste

Re: Programmers Contest: Fit pictures on a page

2005-06-29 Thread Dan Sommers
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 19:43:33 -0400, Roy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not just plywood panels, but sheets of paper, bolts of cloth, sheet > metal, plate glass, etc. A slight complication is that some materials > have a preferred orientation (i.e. plywood has a grain, textiles have > warp vs.

Re: Help please: How to assign an object name at runtime

2005-06-29 Thread Dan Sommers
On 29 Jun 2005 17:55:44 -0700, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The following is the input line of the file: SoftDict-.csv: > ca1017,GRPHScriptSet,ADD/REM,Adobe Acrobat 4.0=2005/06/14 > I expected an instance of Machine() to be created with a name ca1017. > Instead, an object i

Re: Boss wants me to program

2005-06-29 Thread Mike Meyer
"Adriaan Renting" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I realy prefer a WYSIWYG UI design tool > to having to code BUTTON(120, 123, 123, 335, -1, NULL, doButton, "Push", > "push this button") With a modern GUI library, it's more like: buttonBox.addWidget(Button("&New", my, "new")) and your button

Re: Modules for inclusion in standard library?

2005-06-29 Thread Mike Meyer
Rocco Moretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Except that (please correct me if I'm wrong) there is somewhat of a > policy for not including interface code for third party programs which > are not part of the operating system. (I.e. the modules in the > standard libary should all be usable for anyon

Re: aligning text with space-normalized text

2005-06-29 Thread John Machin
Steven Bethard wrote: [snip] > And it appears to work: [snip] > But it seems somewhat inelegant. Can anyone see an easier/cleaner/more > Pythonic way[1] of writing this code? > > Thanks in advance, > > STeVe > > [1] Yes, I'm aware that these are subjective terms. I'm looking for > subjective

Re: Modules for inclusion in standard library?

2005-06-29 Thread Terry Hancock
On Wednesday 29 June 2005 04:55 am, Simon Brunning wrote: > On 6/28/05, John Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd definitely like to see ctypes. I can agree with the segfault > > issue, but I think that some design work would eliminate that. > > I'm not sure that it would. Ctypes allows you, as

Re: Help please: How to assign an object name at runtime

2005-06-29 Thread John Machin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Good day: > Probably the answer to my question is staring me in the face, but the > solution escapes me. > > The following is the input line of the file: SoftDict-.csv: > ca1017,GRPHScriptSet,ADD/REM,Adobe Acrobat 4.0=2005/06/14 > > I expected an instance of Machine()

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

2005-06-29 Thread Gafoor
Steven D'Aprano wrote: > But don't worry, there is one thing we all agree on throughout the > English-speaking world: you Americans don't speak English. > > There are a few things that you can do to help: > > Herb starts with H, not E. It isn't "ouse" or "ospital" or "istory". > It isn't "erb" eith

Re: Favorite non-python language trick?

2005-06-29 Thread Paddy
Joseph Garvin wrote: 'm curious -- what is everyone's favorite trick from a non-python language? And -- why isn't it in Python? I use constraints programming at work, Check out "System Verilog" or OZ/Mozart. It would be great if this style of programming could be added to Python. It is a de

__new__, __init__ and pickle

2005-06-29 Thread Edward C. Jones
Suppose I want to define the class MyClass so I can create an instance by MyClass(arg0, arg1, kwarg0=None, kwarg1=0, reuse=None, save=None) If reuse is not None, it is the name of a pickle file. Unpickle the file to get the instance. If save is not None, it is a file name. Pickle the instanc

Re: aligning text with space-normalized text

2005-06-29 Thread Steven Bethard
John Machin wrote: > If "work" is meant to detect *all* possibilities of 'chunks' not having > been derived from 'text' in the described manner, then it doesn't work > -- all information about the positions of the whitespace is thrown away > by your code. > > For example, text = 'foo bar', chun

Re: Help please: How to assign an object name at runtime

2005-06-29 Thread Steven D'Aprano
John Machin wrote: > BTW, don't use "l". Excellent advice. But since the original poster appears to be rather a newbie, perhaps a little bit of explanation would be useful. Variables like l and I should be avoided like the plague, because in many fonts and typefaces they are indistinguishab

Weekly Python Patch/Bug Summary

2005-06-29 Thread Kurt B. Kaiser
Patch / Bug Summary ___ Patches : 344 open ( +6) / 2875 closed ( +9) / 3219 total (+15) Bugs: 897 open (-17) / 5094 closed (+34) / 5991 total (+17) RFE : 191 open ( +3) / 170 closed ( +0) / 361 total ( +3) New / Reopened Patches __ fileinput

Re: Favorite non-python language trick?

2005-06-29 Thread Terry Reedy
"Paddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > The OZ homepage has an example for solving the eight queens problem: Buried in the generator test module (something like lib/test/test_generators.py) are solutions for both 8Queens and Knight's Tour. You might find these of

how to shrink a numarray array?

2005-06-29 Thread Qiangning Hong
To draw a large array of data on a small panel, I need to shrink it to a given size. e.g: To draw numarray.arange(1) on a panel of width of 100, I only need to draw the points of (0, 100, 200, 300, ...) instead of (0, 1, 2, ...). So I need a method to shrink it to an 100-item array. x[::len

some trouble with MySQLdb

2005-06-29 Thread nephish
Hey there all, i have a question about how to point my python install to my sql database. when i enter this: db = MySQLdb.connect(user="user", passwd="pass", db="myDB") i get this: Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in -toplevel- db = MySQLdb.connect(user="user", passwd="p

need help with MySQLdb

2005-06-29 Thread nephish
Hey there all, i have a question about how to point my python install to my sql database. when i enter this: db = MySQLdb.connect(user="user", passwd="pass", db="myDB") i get this: Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in -toplevel- db = MySQLdb.connect(user="user", passwd="pa

Re: Inheriting from object

2005-06-29 Thread Dave Benjamin
Steven Bethard wrote: > Guido also suggests that the explicit: > > class C(object): > pass > > is "much preferred"[2] over: > > __metaclass__ = type > > class C: > pass Really? I have been toying with the idea of using the __metaclass__ trick, since it results in c

ANN: PyGaim released - Gaim Python plugin

2005-06-29 Thread Gerrit van Dyk
PyGaim has been released. Summary: Gaim Python plug-in. The product provides developers with the capability to develop python plugins for Gaim This release is just a get it out there release and a lot of polishing still needs to be done. However, it does enable a python developer to develop ga

multi regexp analyzer ? or how to do...

2005-06-29 Thread joh12005
Hello, here is a trouble that i had, i would like to resolve it with python, even if i still have no clue on how to do it. i had many small "text" files, so to speed up processes on them, i used to copy them inside a huge one adding some king of xml separator : [content] content is tab separa

Re: need help with MySQLdb

2005-06-29 Thread Wolfram Kraus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey there all, > i have a question about how to point my python install to my sql > database. > > when i enter this: db = MySQLdb.connect(user="user", passwd="pass", > db="myDB") > > i get this: > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "", line 1, in -toplevel- >

Re: Favorite non-python language trick?

2005-06-29 Thread Paddy
Sadly, its not a solution that I'm after, but a particular toolkit that can be used for solving that type of problem. - Pad. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: some trouble with MySQLdb

2005-06-29 Thread dimitri pater
try: db = MySQLdb.connect(host="localhost", user="user", passwd="pass", db="myDB") localhost can be a URL also (if MySQL is set up properly in the first place) regards, DimtiriOn 6/30/05, nephish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey there all,i have a question about how to point my python install to my s

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