wxPython: Terminal Output -> Scrollable Panel?

First, I'm very new to gui programming, so please go lightly on me :) Ok, so far I've settled on wxPython, and what I'd like to do as a first leap is *convert* a text program into a gui program. It would have a few buttons as function controls and one main scrollable panel that acts like a termina

Re: pexpect question....

> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" == [EMAIL PROTECTED] com <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > I am using pexpect to spawn an interactive program and wait for > particular string in its output. It works fine but once I get this > required information, I really don't care about the child process > anymore.

Re: It seems that ZipFile().write() can only write files, how can empty directories be put into it?

Thank you. On 7/1/05, Jeff Epler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This has been discussed before. One thread I found was > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2003-June/170526.html > The advice in that message might work for you. > > Jeff > > > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: shelve in a ZipFile?

Am Freitag, den 01.07.2005, 10:53 -0700 schrieb Scott David Daniels: > Terry Hancock wrote: > > I only just recently had a look at the shelve module > > That would be handy if, for example, I wanted to couple > > (and compress into the bargain) by putting my two > > shelf files into a single zi

Re: No Subject

Am Freitag, den 01.07.2005, 18:55 +0200 schrieb Harry George: > Tom Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Adriaan Renting wrote: > > > > > I'm not a very experienced Python programmer yet, so I might be > > > mistaken, but there are a few things that would make me prefer

What are the other options against Zope?

Hi all, I wanna thank Martin for helping out with my ignorance concerning execution of stored procedure with python. Now i have decided to write a web app that googles into my companies proprietary database. I need to know whether zope is good for that job. But even the introduction to zope i

Proposal: reducing self.x=x; self.y=y; self.z=z boilerplate code

** This posting is also available in HTML format: http://cci.lbl.gov/~rwgk/python/adopt_init_args_2005_07_02.html ** Hi fellow Python coders, I

Re: map/filter/reduce/lambda opinions and background unscientificmini-survey

"Robert Kern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > map and filter are being removed *because of* list comprehensions. Did you > even read Guido's articles about this issue? Your understanding of why > these changes are planned is incorrect; consequently your projectio

Re: Accepted Summer of Code proposals

A.M. Kuchling wrote: > For anyone who's interested: the Python wiki now contains a list of the > PSF-mentored proposals that were accepted for Google's Summer of Code: > http://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode Is it right that two Wax proposals were accepted? Reinhold -- http://mail.pytho

Re: Python, mysql, floating point values question

Hi Christopher, if you have to make calculations or comparing operations, the only "safe" method is to save and use only integer values. Of course there must be a preventive agreement on the precision you want to have (2, 3 4 ... decimals). The sw part is straigthforward: - to save in the database

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

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 12:58:21 -0700, rumours say that Dave Benjamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> might have written: >BORT wrote: >> 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." Af

Re: Boss wants me to program

On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 07:11:43 -0500, rumours say that phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> might have written: >I wonder what percentage of the tools you refer to are >Eclipse and not Java per se. ?? I don't know. >The really big bucks of IBM sent Eclipse through the roof. The project name is pretty offensi

Re: Accepted Summer of Code proposals

Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote: > A.M. Kuchling wrote: > >>For anyone who's interested: the Python wiki now contains a list of the >>PSF-mentored proposals that were accepted for Google's Summer of Code: >> http://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode > > > Is it right that two Wax proposals were ac

Re: Proposal: reducing self.x=x; self.y=y; self.z=z boilerplate code

On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 03:04:09AM -0700, Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve wrote: [...] > Minimal proposal > > > My minimal proposal is to add an enhanced version of ``adopt_init_args()`` > as a standard Python built-in function (actual name secondary!):: > > class grouping: > >

Re: wxPython: Terminal Output -> Scrollable Panel?

flamesrock wrote: > I want to make it so that clicking on a button that performs an > operation will output it to the scrollable wxpython terminal panel, and > (if possible) save that output as text (or maybe into a logfile). The example code includes something called "PyCrust" which does pretty

Re: What are the other options against Zope?

godwin wrote: > I wanna thank Martin for helping out with my ignorance concerning > execution of stored procedure with python. Now i have decided to write > a web app that googles into my companies proprietary database. Just checking... do you really mean "googles", or is that in your mind

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

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes >T can be silent in England too .. > >frui' >cricke' Both of those words (fruit and cricket) have the letter T sounded. Stephen (Nationality: English). -- Stephen Kellett Object Media Limitedhttp://www.objmedia.demon.co.uk/software.ht

Re: Bad Math

On 7/2/05, Brian van den Broek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Patrick Rutkowski said unto the world upon 02/07/2005 00:12: > > That's... annoying, to say the least. And my number 4/5 was a rational > > number too; I can understand how when doing 1/3 things can get funky. > > Really though... 4/5 = 0.

Re: Proposal: reducing self.x=x; self.y=y; self.z=z boilerplate code

"Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > class grouping: > > def __init__(self, .keep_this, .and_this, but_not_this, > .but_this_again): > # real code right here I'm really torn about this. On the one hand, my first thought was "you shouldn't be writing constru

Re: MD5 problem

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 14:00:33 +0200, rumours say that fargo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> might have written: >If I use the md5 module with .txt files, it'ok. > >The Problem comes from the .msg files. I get the same signature for >every .msg file I try to hash with the md5 algorithm. I think some >characte

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

On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 23:45:57 +1000, rumours say that John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> might have written: >Simon Brunning wrote: >> On 7/1/05, Peter Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>Simon Brunning schrieb: >>> Sibylle Koczian needs to sort part of a list. His first attempt made

Re: Python choice of database

On 20 Jun 2005 11:43:28 -0700, rumours say that "Oren Tirosh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> might have written: >For very short keys and record (e.g. email addresses) you can use >symbolic links instead of files. The advantage is that you have a >single system call (readlink) to retrieve the contents of a l

Re: Python choice of database

On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 17:00:17 +0300, rumours say that Konstantin Veretennicov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> might have written: >On 6/21/05, Charles Krug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Related question: >> >> What if I need to create/modify MS-Access or SQL Server dbs? > >You could use ADO + adodbapi for

Re: Python choice of database

On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 23:42:21 -0800, rumours say that "EP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> might have written: >I tried this for one application under the Windows OS and it worked fine... > >until my records (text - maybe 50KB average) unexpectedly blossomed into the >10,000-1,000,000 ranges. If I or someone

Re: Better console for Windows?

On Sat, 02 Jul 2005 03:55:43 GMT, rumours say that [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bengt Richter) might have written: >Alt-spacebar, e, l, (uparrow/downarrow)*, Esc > (lower case L)--^ ^--does the scrolling. Esc ends the > scrolling mode. Damn! it says Scroll in there in the system menu, do

Re: Boss wants me to program

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 12:57:36 -0700, xeys_00 wrote: > The other alternative > is to install console mode linux on it and hope that the ncurses library > can be used by python. Hi, for curses module and linux, I made a library which give you various widgets (combobox, buttons,checkbox,menubar,...)

Re: Proposal: reducing self.x=x; self.y=y; self.z=z boilerplate code

"Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >class grouping: > >def __init__(self, .x, .y, .z): ># real code right here > Emulation using existing syntax:: >def __init__(self, x, y, z): >self.x = x >

Re: web programming with mod_python

At 7:17 PM -0300 7/1/05, Rodrigo Dominguez wrote: >My question is: is there some kind of framework that works with mod_python? You could take a look at Myghty: -- Raymond Cote Appropriate Solutions, Inc. PO Box 458 ~ Peterborough, NH 03458-0458 Phone: 603.924.6

Re: Modules for inclusion in standard library?

Steven Bethard wrote: > Fredrik Johansson wrote: > >> On 6/27/05, Reinhold Birkenfeld >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> 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 >>>

Re: Re:

On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Andreas Kostyrka wrote: > Am Freitag, den 01.07.2005, 08:25 -0700 schrieb George Sakkis: > >>> Again, how? Is there a way to force that an external user of my lib can >>> not use my internal data/methods/classes, unless he uses odd compiler >>> hacks? >> >> I never understood h

Re: map/filter/reduce/lambda opinions and background unscientificmini-survey

On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Ivan Van Laningham wrote: > Personally, I find that Lisp & its derivatives put your head in a very > weird place. Even weirder than PostScript/Forth/RPN, when you come > right down to it. +1 QOTW! tom -- REMOVE AND DESTROY -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyth

Re: map vs. list-comprehension

On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Sion Arrowsmith wrote: > Tom Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Roy Smith wrote: >> >>> Even some of the relatively recent library enhancements have been kind >>> of complicated. The logging module, for example, seems way over the >>> top. >> >> Exa

Re: Modules for inclusion in standard library?

On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Scott David Daniels wrote: > Daniel Dittmar wrote: >> Rocco Moretti wrote: >> > 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.

Re: Modules for inclusion in standard library?

Gregory Piñero wrote: > 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 wo

Re: Modules for inclusion in standard library?

Rocco Moretti wrote: > Paul Rubin wrote: > >> 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

Re: map/filter/reduce/lambda opinions and background unscientificmini-survey

John Roth wrote: > "Robert Kern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>map and filter are being removed *because of* list comprehensions. Did you >>even read Guido's articles about this issue? Your understanding of why >>these changes are planned is incorrect; conseq

Re: Proposal: reducing self.x=x; self.y=y; self.z=z boilerplate code

"Andrew Koenig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In Python, unlike many other languages, the names of formal parameters are > part of a function's interface. For example: > > def f(x, y): > return x-y > > Now f(3, 4) is -1 and f(y=3,x=4) is 1. > > The names of instance variables are gen

Re: What are the other options against Zope?

Peter Hansen wrote: > godwin wrote: >> I wanna thank Martin for helping out with my ignorance concerning >> execution of stored procedure with python. Now i have decided to write >> a web app that googles into my companies proprietary database. > > Just checking... do you really mean "googl

Re: map/filter/reduce/lambda opinions and background unscientific mini-survey

Tom Anderson wrote: > So, if you're a pythonista who loves map and lambda, and disagrees with > Guido, what's your background? Functional or not? I have no functional language background. Until recently, I had no use for programming "expression to be evaluated later" or "deferred expressions"

Re: Re:

Am Samstag, den 02.07.2005, 15:11 +0100 schrieb Tom Anderson: > On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Andreas Kostyrka wrote: > > > Am Freitag, den 01.07.2005, 08:25 -0700 schrieb George Sakkis: > > > >>> Again, how? Is there a way to force that an external user of my lib can > >>> not use my internal data/methods/

Re: What are the other options against Zope?

Peter Hansen wrote: > godwin wrote: > >> I wanna thank Martin for helping out with my ignorance concerning >>execution of stored procedure with python. Now i have decided to write >>a web app that googles into my companies proprietary database. >> > > Just checking... do you really mean "g

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

Scanning quickly through the various response, I noticed that at least one person suggested rur-ple (rur-ple.sf.net), hence Python. I would second that ;-) ... but then, I am biased as the author of rur-ple! rur-ple is intended to be a complete learning environment for learning programming and P

Re: map/filter/reduce/lambda opinions and background unscientific mini-survey

Jamey Cribbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Code blocks allow you to wrap up any Ruby code and pass it to a method > and have it executed within that method. It is more powerful than > lambda, because you can have multiple statements in the code block and > you can do assignment within the code blo

Re: Splitting string into dictionary

Robert Kern wrote: > David Pratt wrote: > >> I have string text with language text records that looks like this: >> >> 'en' | 'the brown cow' | 'fr' | 'la vache brun' > translations = [x.strip(" '") for x in line.split('|')] > d = dict(zip(translations[::2], translations[1::2])) One caevat is th

email link and foreign accent

Hi, I have one problem ( I am a python beginner) in a cgi: print"""mailto:%s";>""" %(campovalore.encode('iso-8859-1')) print campovalore.encode('iso-8859-1') print "" campovalore is an email address with special (italian) characters. >From IE6 everything is fine and the link launches my p

What's wrong with this code?

Hi all, What's wrong with the following code? It says there is name error, that random is not defined. How do I fix it? # Plays the guessing game higher or lower. # Originally written by Josh Cogliati, improved first by Quique, then by Nathan Pinno. print "Higher or Lower" print nu

Re: What's wrong with this code?

Nathan Pinno a écrit : > Hi all, > > What's wrong with the following code? It says there is name error, that > random is not defined. How do I fix it? Add "import random" at the top of your file Cheers, SB > # Plays the guessing game higher or lower. > # Originally written by Josh Cogli

Re: What's wrong with this code?

Nathan Pinno wrote: > Hi all, > > What's wrong with the following code? It says there is name error, that > random is not defined. How do I fix it? You need to import random. -- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] "In the fields of hell where the grass grows high Are the graves of dreams allow

A brief question.

Hi all,   Brief question for anyone who knows the answer, because I don't. Is there anyway to make Python calculate square roots?   Thanks, Nathan Pinnohttp://www.npinnowebsite.ca/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Favorite non-python language trick?

Scott David Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Rocco Moretti wrote: >> Joseph Garvin wrote: >> >> I'm not aware of a language that allows it, but recently I've found >> myself wanting the ability to transparently replace objects >> I mainly look for it in the "object replaces self" form, bu

Re: Proposal: reducing self.x=x; self.y=y; self.z=z boilerplate code

Why not just update the local dictionary? class Grouping: def __init__(self,x,y,z): self.__dict__.update(locals()) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: A brief question.

Nathan Pinno wrote: > > Hi all, > > Brief question for anyone who knows the answer, because I don't. Is > there anyway to make Python calculate square roots? http://docs.python.org/ There is a search facility. -- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] "In the fields of hell where the

Re: email link and foreign accent

Vittorio wrote: > print"""mailto:%s";>""" %(campovalore.encode('iso-8859-1')) > print campovalore.encode('iso-8859-1') > print "" > > campovalore is an email address with special (italian) characters. > [snip] > Any suggestion is welcome, It might help if you showed us the output of "repr(x)

Re: Inheriting from object

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 08:54:31 -0700, Scott David Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Sion Arrowsmith wrote: >> ... And if you were to do so, surely: >> class foo(object): >> def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): >> super(foo, self).__init__(self) >> >> would be the preferred way to go? >>

Re: What are the other options against Zope?

Florian Lindner wrote: > Peter Hansen wrote: >>[Zope] doesn't include >>database interfaces other than to its own ZODB. > > That's not correct. Zope2 includes DB interfaces to MySQL, PostGre, ODBC and > many others. It actually *includes* them? I thought those were all add-in modules, not one

Re: Inheriting from object

Bengt Richter wrote: > BTW, there's something about referring to type(self) by its not > always dependably bound (though usually global) name that bothers me. > > I wonder if the above common use of super could be implemented as a property > of object, > so you'd normally inherit it and be able t

Re: Proposal: reducing self.x=x; self.y=y; self.z=z boilerplate code

Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve wrote: > class grouping: > > def __init__(self, .x, .y, .z): > # real code right here The way this would work seems a bit inconsistent to me. Args normally create local variables that receive references to the objects passed to them. In this c

Re: Proposal: reducing self.x=x; self.y=y; self.z=z boilerplate code

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Walter Brunswick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why not just update the local dictionary? > > class Grouping: > def __init__(self,x,y,z): > self.__dict__.update(locals()) That's pretty clever. The only minor annoyance is that it creates a self.self

Re: Bad Math

Patrick Rutkowski said unto the world upon 02/07/2005 09:25: > On 7/2/05, Brian van den Broek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Patrick Rutkowski said unto the world upon 02/07/2005 00:12: >> >>>That's... annoying, to say the least. And my number 4/5 was a rational >>>number too; I can understand how

Re: Inheriting from object

Bengt Richter wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 08:54:31 -0700, Scott David Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >>Or, perhaps: >>class foo(object): >>def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): >>super(foo, self).__init__(self, *args, **kwargs) >>... >> > > Doesn't super(

Re: Modules for inclusion in standard library?

"Colin J. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Isn't this where the discussion should start? There should be some >general policy guiding the types of modules which should be in the >standard library. A couple of times, Guido has given his general policy as gen

Re: A brief question.

"Nathan Pinno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Brief question for anyone who knows the answer, because I don't. > Is there anyway to make Python calculate square roots? Python can calculate any calculable function of the objects it has to work with. So the answer

Re: wxPython: Terminal Output -> Scrollable Panel?

Thanks much for your response. I looked at PyCrust, and while its given me a few cool ideas, I may have described the problem incorrectly. What I really need is not something that takes input, but merely redirects the 'print' statements to something like a terminal window. Is this even possible

Re: Proposal: reducing self.x=x; self.y=y; self.z=z boilerplate code

Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve wrote: > A shorter alternative (my personal favorite since minimally redundant):: > > class grouping: > > def __init__(self, .keep_this, .and_this, but_not_this, > .but_this_again): > # real code right here There is also the variant which I proposed on p

Re: wxPython: Terminal Output -> Scrollable Panel?

flamesrock wrote: > I looked at PyCrust, and while its given me a few cool ideas, I may > have described the problem incorrectly. What I really need is not > something that takes input, but merely redirects the 'print' statements > to something like a terminal window. > > Is this even possible wi

Determining actual elapsed (wall-clock) time

I would like to determine the "actual" elapsed time of an operation which could take place during a time change, in a platform-independent manner (at least across Linux/Windows machines). Using time.time() doesn't appear to be suitable, since time might jump forwards or backwards at the user's

Re: Determining actual elapsed (wall-clock) time

Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to determine the "actual" elapsed time of an operation > which could take place during a time change, in a platform-independent > manner (at least across Linux/Windows machines). > > Using time.time() doesn't appear to be suitable, since tim

Re: wxPython: Terminal Output -> Scrollable Panel?

Exactly what I'm looking for! Thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Determining actual elapsed (wall-clock) time

Roy Smith wrote: > Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you get the UTC time, daylight savings time doesn't enter the equation. Of course... I didn't think of that approach. I don't actually care about absolute time, so this should work fine for at least the DST case. > If you care ab

Re: Proposal: reducing self.x=x; self.y=y; self.z=z boilerplate code

Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve wrote: ... >class grouping: > >def __init__(self, x, y, z): >self.x = x >self.y = y >self.z = z ># real code, finally > >This becomes a serious nuisance in complex applications with long >argument lists, especiall

Re: Python, mysql, floating point values question

On Friday 01 July 2005 11:13 pm, John Machin wrote: > x BETWEEN y AND z Ah, even better, thank you. >The python equivalent would be to write it out as: > > > > if a > b-epsilon and a < b+epsilon: > > print "a~=b" > > Try this: > > if b-epsilon < a < b+epsilon: This I knew, but I

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

On 28 Jun 2005 13:24:42 -0700, rumours say that "muldoon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> might have written: > Now, what forum would you recommend? Any help would be appreciated. alt.usage.english? alt.languages.english? alt.english.usage? uk.culture.language.english? -- TZOTZIOY, I speak England very be

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

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 18:29:56 +0100, rumours say that Tom Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> might have written: >On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Benji York wrote: > >> python-needs-more-duct-tape'ly yours, > >You're in luck: Python 3000 will replace duck typing with duct taping. I would bet that somewhere in the

Re: Python for everything?

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 20:55:20 -0400, rumours say that Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> might have written: >Actually, I was thinking of pre-K&R Unix compilers. There must be something I am missing here, cause I don't understand what you mean; what is the earliest K&R C compiler ("Unix" compiler) you

Re: What are the other options against Zope?

> either... It sits under... Well that's a relief, cause ...sits on top of was confusing. > A rather object-oriented system for managing and serving web > applications and data (using object inheritance for common behavior, > etc.) This makes Zope a toolkit, not an end application itself.

Re: shelve in a ZipFile?

On Friday 01 July 2005 04:40 pm, Andreas Kostyrka wrote: > It's even worse: shelve is basically a class that wraps a dictionary. It > provides a dictionary string -> pickable object based on a dictioary > string -> string. bsddb, gdbm etc. probably access files via lowlevel > calls that are not int

Re: Determining actual elapsed (wall-clock) time

Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guess as long as the NTP client is set up to ensure the time > adjustments are smaller than some value X, it would be acceptable. NTP is generally capable of keeping the various system clocks on a LAN within a few ms of each other, and within a few 10'

Re: Python for everything?

Christos "TZOTZIOY" Georgiou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Were there other Unix C compilers before K&R wrote one? Considering that K&R (along with T) invented both Unix and C, I would say that the answer to the above has to be "No". -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What are the other options against Zope?

On Saturday 02 July 2005 10:55 am, phil wrote: > Zope is like that to me. I ask what is it and the answer > sounds like "Oh, it's oierbv for the zxcvioupo of 7cvn^djh'. > > Now understand, I know what very well what Python, Apache, PhP, > MySQL, IE and javascript do. I just don't know what Zope

Re: What are the other options against Zope?

If you're looking for a leight weight web development enviroment acting as a front end for a database take a look at http://www.cherrypy.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Proposal: reducing self.x=x; self.y=y; self.z=z boilerplate code

On Saturday 02 July 2005 05:04 am, Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve wrote: > I often find myself writing:: > > class grouping: > > def __init__(self, x, y, z): > self.x = x > self.y = y > self.z = z > # real code, finally Fortunately, you don't

Re: Running Python interpreter in Emacs

Yes, I knew that copying it to my root was a kludge. But between that and not having it work, I chose the former. (As you might be able to tell from my posts, I tried multiple things and was frustrated.) I tried putting quotes around "c:\program files\python24". It still didn't work. I chose to in

Re: Python, mysql, floating point values question

Thanx all for responding. I've been doing the epsilon comparisons, i had just hoped that to be a temporary solution. anyway, thanx for the responses -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Determining actual elapsed (wall-clock) time

Roy Smith wrote: > Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>I'll have to look into how to set up Windows XP to prevent users from >>changing the time on their own, assuming that's possible. > > On a single-user system like Windows, you pretty much have to assume the > user can do anything. The

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

Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou wrote: > On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 23:45:57 +1000, rumours say that John Machin > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> might have written: > > >>Simon Brunning wrote: >> >>>On 7/1/05, Peter Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Simon Brunning schrieb: > Sibylle Koczian n

Re: What's wrong with this code?

"Nathan Pinno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > What's wrong with the following code? It says there is name error, that >random is not defined. How do I fix it? > > # Plays the guessing game higher or lower. > # Originally written by Josh Cogliati, improved first by Quique, then by >N

Re: Determining actual elapsed (wall-clock) time

Roy Smith wrote: > Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Using time.time() doesn't appear to be suitable, since time might jump >>forwards or backwards at the user's whim, if the system clock is reset, >>or when a daylight savings time change occurs. > > If you get the UTC time, daylight sav

Re: Determining actual elapsed (wall-clock) time

[Peter Hansen] > Hmmm... not only that, but at least under XP the return value of > time.time() _is_ UTC. At least, it's entirely unaffected by the > daylight savings time change, or (apparently) by changes in time zone. On all platforms, time.time() returns the number of seconds "since the epoch

Re: A brief question.

On Saturday 02 July 2005 10:55, Nathan Pinno wrote: > Brief question for anyone who knows the answer, because I don't. Is > there anyway to make Python calculate square roots? from math import sqrt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What's wrong with this code?

Nathan Pinno wrote: > Hi all, > > What's wrong with the following code? It says there is name error, that > random is not defined. How do I fix it? Others have already answered that question. This posting is a pre-emptive strike to head off the next half-a-dozen questions. > > # Plays th

Re: A brief question.

On Sat, 2 Jul 2005, Tom Brown wrote: > On Saturday 02 July 2005 10:55, Nathan Pinno wrote: > >> Brief question for anyone who knows the answer, because I don't. Is >> there anyway to make Python calculate square roots? > > from math import sqrt That's one way. I'd do: root = value ** 0.5 Does

Re: Regular Expression for pattern substitution

You might want to be a little more explicit. Do you know that this = "this" that = "that" or do you mean this = `the part before the \D*` that = `the part after the \D*` If you mean the former, then the previously proposed py> import re py> line = 'see this man with that woman holding this do

Re: Determining actual elapsed (wall-clock) time

Roy Smith wrote: > Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I guess as long as the NTP client is set up to ensure the time >>adjustments are smaller than some value X, it would be acceptable. > > > NTP is generally capable of keeping the various system clocks on a LAN > within a few ms of e

Re: A brief question.

On 7/3/05, Tom Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's one way. I'd do: > > root = value ** 0.5 > > Does that mean we can expect Guido to drop math.sqrt in py3k? :) I'd rather like to see a well implemented math.nthroot. 64**(1/3.0) gives 3.9996, and this error could be avoided.

Re: What's wrong with this code?

John Machin wrote: > Nathan Pinno wrote: >> guess = input("Guess a number: ") > > > "guess" will refer to a string e.g. "42" which will *not* compare equal > to the integer 42. Also you should use raw_input, not input. > > so do this: > > guess = int(raw_input("Guess a number: ")) > A

Re: Inheriting from object

Bengt Richter wrote: > I wonder if the above common use of super could be implemented as a property > of object, > so you'd normally inherit it and be able to write > self.super.__init__(*args, **kwargs) # (maybe spell it > self.__super__.__init__(...) I suppose) > > I.e., self.__super__ wo

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

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 blu

Re: Favorite non-python language trick?

On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 12:24:44 -0700, Devan L wrote: > With the exception of reduce(lambda x,y:x*y, sequence), reduce can be > replaced with sum, and Guido wants to add a product function. How do you replace: reduce(lambda x,y: x*y-1/y, sequence) with sum? Inquiring minds want to know. -- S

Re: map/filter/reduce/lambda opinions and background unscientific mini-survey

On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 09:13:58 -0700, mcherm wrote: > Lambda serves a very specific purpose: declaring small, in-place > functions which are no bigger than a single expression. I do this often > enough that I DO want special syntax for it. But I'll admit that I > wish "lambda" were about 5 or 6 cha

Re: Assigning to None (was Re: Question about Python)

On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 12:59:20 -0400, François Pinard wrote: > [Peter Hansen] >> Mike Meyer wrote: >> > Yes. I once grabbed an old program that did assignments to None. But >> > that's always been a bad idea. > >> What was the use case!? > > People used to assign None to itself as a keyword argume

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