subpackage import problem

2005-08-21 Thread Eric Huss
I'm having a problem with packages within packages. Here's an example: foo/ foo/__init__.py: empty file foo/sub/__init__.py: from foo.sub.B import B foo/sub/A.py: class A: pass foo/sub/B.py import foo.sub.A class B(foo.sub.A): pass

passing arguments from scale widget to function

2005-08-21 Thread m7b52000
Some time ago I wrote a little program in Tcl/Tk that took the values from 3 sliders and performed a calculation using these values. The calculation was of course automatically repeated each time a slider was moved. It is proving most difficult in Python. How do I pass the .get() values to my

Re: pythonXX.dll size: please split CJK codecs out

2005-08-21 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Giovanni Bajo wrote: > I don't think I fully understand the reason why additional .pyd modules were > built into the .dll. OTOH, this does not help anyone, since: The reason is simple: a single DLL is easier to maintain. You only need to add the new files to the VC project, edit config.c, and be d

Re: subpackage import problem

2005-08-21 Thread Robert Kern
Eric Huss wrote: > I'm having a problem with packages within packages. Here's an example: > > foo/ > foo/__init__.py: empty file > foo/sub/__init__.py: > from foo.sub.B import B > foo/sub/A.py: > class A: > pass > foo/sub/B.py > import foo.sub.A > class B(foo

Re: >time.strftime %T missing in 2.3

2005-08-21 Thread Jorgen Grahn
On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 01:02:48 -0500, Andy Leszczynski wrote: > Robert Kern wrote: >> Andy Leszczynski wrote: >> >>> Python 2.2/Unix >>> >>> >>time.strftime("%T") >>> '22:12:15' >>> >>time.strftime("%X") >>> '22:12:17' >>> >>> Python 2.3/Windows >>> >>> >>time.strftime("%X") >>> '22:12:47' >>>

Re: pythonXX.dll size: please split CJK codecs out

2005-08-21 Thread Giovanni Bajo
Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> I don't think I fully understand the reason why additional .pyd >> modules were built into the .dll. OTOH, this does not help anyone, >> since: > > The reason is simple: a single DLL is easier to maintain. You only > need > to add the new files to the VC project, edit con

Re: Bug in slice type

2005-08-21 Thread Kay Schluehr
Steven Bethard wrote: > "The slice of s from i to j with step k is defined as the sequence of > items with index x = i + n*k such that 0 <= n < (j-i)/k." > > This seems to contradict list behavior though. > range(10)[9:-1:-2] == [] No, both is correct. But we don't have to interpret the seco

Re: __del__ pattern?

2005-08-21 Thread Jorgen Grahn
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 08:03:58 -0400, Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom Anderson wrote: >> On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Peter Hansen wrote: >>> Using '' instead of 'localhost' means bind to *all* interfaces, not >>> just the loopback one. >> >> Doesn't '' mean 'bind to the *default* interface'?

Re: Proposed PEP: New style indexing, was Re: Bug in slice type

2005-08-21 Thread Kay Schluehr
Bryan Olson wrote: > Steven Bethard wrote: > > Well, I couldn't find where the general semantics of a negative stride > > index are defined, but for sequences at least[1]: > > > > "The slice of s from i to j with step k is defined as the sequence of > > items with index x = i + n*k such that 0

Re: Binary Trees in Python

2005-08-21 Thread Jorgen Grahn
On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 15:19:55 -0400, Roy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [diegueus9] Diego Andrés Sanabria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hello!!! >> >> I want know if python have binary trees and more? > > Python does not come with a tree data structure. The

Re: Traceback Questions

2005-08-21 Thread ncf
Thanks man, I'll definately take a look into this and hopefully port it over and publish it. Have a GREAT day -Wes -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Module Name Conflicts

2005-08-21 Thread ncf
Heh, so long as it works. Sorry for the delay, I've been away for a bit ;P Hope it's all owrking out -Wes -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: pythonXX.dll size: please split CJK codecs out

2005-08-21 Thread Michael Hoffman
Giovanni Bajo wrote: > > FWIW, this just highlights how ineffecient your build system is. Everything > you > currently do by hand could be automated, including MSI generation. I'm sure Martin would be happy to consider a patch to make the build system more efficient. :) > I'm willing to write

RE vs. SRE

2005-08-21 Thread Yoav
What is the difference between the two? Which on is better to use and why? Thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: RE vs. SRE

2005-08-21 Thread Michael Hoffman
Yoav wrote: > What is the difference between the two? Which on is better to use and why? In Python 2.4, this is what's in re.py: ''' """Minimal "re" compatibility wrapper. See "sre" for documentation.""" engine = "sre" # Some apps might use this undocumented variable from sre import * from sre

Re: Proposed PEP: New style indexing, was Re: Bug in slice type

2005-08-21 Thread Paul Rubin
Bryan Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > seq[3 : -4] > > we write: > > seq[3 ; $ - 4] +1 > When square-brackets appear within other square-brackets, the > inner-most bracket-pair determines which sequence '$' describes. > (Perhaps '$$' should be the length of the next containing > br

Re: while c = f.read(1)

2005-08-21 Thread Reinhold Birkenfeld
John Machin wrote: > ... AND it's about time that list is updated to include False explicitly > -- save nitpicking arguments about whether False is covered by > "numeric zero of all types" :-) Done. >> If I try: >> >> f = open("blah.txt", "r") >> while (c = f.read(1)) != '': >> #

Re: while c = f.read(1)

2005-08-21 Thread Paul Rubin
Reinhold Birkenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Don't forget > > for line in f: > for c in line: > # do stuff As mentioned before, that's careless programming, since it can read the whole file into memory if the file contains no newlines. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: Python Light Revisted?

2005-08-21 Thread Max
Steve M wrote: > I agree with you in part and disagree in part. > > I don't see the point to making the distribution any smaller. 10MB for > the installer from python.org, 16MB for ActiveState .exe installer. How > is 5MB "lightweight" while 10MB isn't? The Windows XP version of Java > at java.com

Embedding threaded Python in C

2005-08-21 Thread Richard
I've tried embedding Python in a C app so that Threading is done in the Python side. In the simple example below, unless I uncomment the ALLOW_THREADS macros, the Python thread does nothing until the C for-loop finishes. My real-world example is a large C/Motif application - apart from scatterin

Re: [newbie]search string in tuples

2005-08-21 Thread Viper Jack
Thanks to all for the help. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: while c = f.read(1)

2005-08-21 Thread John Machin
Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote: > John Machin wrote: > > >>... AND it's about time that list is updated to include False explicitly >> -- save nitpicking arguments about whether False is covered by >>"numeric zero of all types" :-) > > > Done. Thanks -- those of us who actually read manuals salu

Revamping Python build system (Was: pythonXX.dll size: please split CJK codecs out)

2005-08-21 Thread Giovanni Bajo
Michael Hoffman wrote: >> FWIW, this just highlights how ineffecient your build system is. >> Everything you currently do by hand could be automated, including >> MSI generation. > > I'm sure Martin would be happy to consider a patch to make the build > system more efficient. :) Out of curiosity

Automatic documentation options

2005-08-21 Thread Terry Hancock
I've been trying to use "happydoc" to document a source tree that I'm working on. It does pretty much what I want, except: Version 2.1: Creates a weird directory structure for the HTML pages it generates -- they embed the full path to the working copy of the sources, which

Reading my own stdout

2005-08-21 Thread Miki Tebeka
Hello All, I have a windows app (wxPython) that uses a C DLL (via SWIG). The C DLL emits a lot of information using "printf" and I'd like to catch this output and show it in the GUI. How can I do this? (OS is winXP). (The only option I see now is to do a "-Dprintf=my_log_function" which I don't

import __main__ where can i find a module called "__main__.py"?

2005-08-21 Thread wen
and, in which case, the following case will happen: if __name__!='__main__': do_sth() any help would be appreciated. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Binary Trees in Python

2005-08-21 Thread François Pinard
[Jorgen Grahn] > Neither C++ nor Python has tree structures in their standard > libraries. I assume that's because there is no single interface that > is proven to suit everybody's needs. It is already easy writing "tree constants" using recursive tuples or lists. To process simple trees in Pyt

Re: Reading my own stdout

2005-08-21 Thread Robert Kern
Miki Tebeka wrote: > Hello All, > > I have a windows app (wxPython) that uses a C DLL (via SWIG). > The C DLL emits a lot of information using "printf" and I'd like to catch > this output and show it in the GUI. > > How can I do this? (OS is winXP). > > (The only option I see now is to do a "-Dp

Re: last line chopped from input file

2005-08-21 Thread phil hunt
On 20 Aug 2005 22:53:42 -0700, Eric Lavigne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Here is a shell command (MS-DOS): > debug\curve-fit output.txt > >And here is a Python script that *should* do the same thing (and almost >does): > > import os > > inputfilename = 'input.txt' > outputfilename = 'output.txt'

Re: import __main__ where can i find a module called "__main__.py"?

2005-08-21 Thread gene tani
http://www.python.org/doc/faq/programming.html#how-do-i-find-the-current-module-name -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: import __main__ where can i find a module called "__main__.py"?

2005-08-21 Thread John Machin
wen wrote: > and, in which case, the following case will happen: > if __name__!='__main__': > do_sth() > > any help would be appreciated. > > Sorry, but your question is rather difficult to interpret. For a start, you don't need/want to import __main__. On import, __name__ is set to the na

Re: pythonXX.dll size: please split CJK codecs out

2005-08-21 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Giovanni Bajo wrote: > FWIW, this just highlights how ineffecient your build system is. Everything > you > currently do by hand could be automated, including MSI generation. Also, you > describe the Windows procedure, which I suppose it does not take into account > what needs to be done for other

Re: Revamping Python build system (Was: pythonXX.dll size: please split CJK codecs out)

2005-08-21 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Giovanni Bajo wrote: >>I'm sure Martin would be happy to consider a patch to make the build >>system more efficient. :) > > Out of curiosity, was this ever discussed among Python developers? Would > something like scons qualify for this? OTOH, scons opens nasty > self-bootstrapping issues (being w

Re: Automatic documentation options

2005-08-21 Thread Terry Hancock
On Sunday 21 August 2005 07:37 am, Terry Hancock wrote: > I've been trying to use "happydoc" to document a source > tree that I'm working on. > [...] > Any suggestions on getting pydoc, happydoc, or yet another > documentation generator to do this, would be greatly appreciated. Ah, well, it looks

Re: Revamping Python build system (Was: pythonXX.dll size: please split CJK codecs out)

2005-08-21 Thread Giovanni Bajo
Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> Out of curiosity, was this ever discussed among Python developers? >> Would something like scons qualify for this? OTOH, scons opens nasty >> self-bootstrapping issues (being written itself in Python). > > No. The Windows build system must be integrated with Visual Studio

network programming

2005-08-21 Thread John Walton
Hello, everyone. I just began school, and they already assigned us science fair. Since I'm in 8th grade, I get to do demonstrations for our projects. I'm probably going to demonstrate Python's networking capabilities by writing a simple instant messenger program. I only have a few problems: 1.

Is mymodule.myvariable a 'global'? (What is proper definition of 'global variable'?)

2005-08-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Python lets me access module level variables from *anywhere*. All I have to do is add module name in front. e.g. mymodule.myvariable Is this considered a 'global'? Or, does a 'global variable' have to be accessible anywhere *without* a namespace in front? (I'm not sure what proper academic de

Best way to 'touch' a file?

2005-08-21 Thread Kenneth McDonald
I could've sworn python had such a command, but now I can't find it... I'm looking for an easy way to perform a UNIX-style "touch", to update the modification time of a file without actually modifying it. I could do something (I imagine) like opening the file for appending and then immediate

Re: Best way to 'touch' a file?

2005-08-21 Thread jepler
On Unix, 'touch' is basically a wrapper around utime(2), available in python as os.utime. Jeff pgpZb4MBupMDt.pgp Description: PGP signature -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: last line chopped from input file

2005-08-21 Thread Eric Lavigne
>A shorter python program would be: > > os.command("debug\\curve-fit output.txt") I tried this program: import os os.command("debug\\curve-fit output.txt") My error message is: AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'command' I also could not find os.command in the help files.

X-Platform method of remote execution of Windows programs

2005-08-21 Thread utabintarbo
How can I execute a program in windows on a remote pc, from both linux and windows, using python (more-or-less) alone? Any help would be GREATLY appreciated! Bob -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: last line chopped from input file

2005-08-21 Thread Alan Kemp
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 13:41:14 -0400, Eric Lavigne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> A shorter python program would be: >> >> os.command("debug\\curve-fit output.txt") > > I tried this program: > import os > os.command("debug\\curve-fit output.txt") > > My error message is: > AttributeError: '

Re: tkinter text widget question

2005-08-21 Thread William Gill
rafi wrote: > William Gill wrote: > >> The tkinter text widget uses indexes to identify row:column offsets >> within the text, but it seems counter intuitive to have to convert row >> and column integers to a string like "0.1'. It's great that index can >> take a string, but what about loopi

Re: pythonXX.dll size: please split CJK codecs out

2005-08-21 Thread Ron Adam
Martin v. Löwis wrote: >>Can we at least undo this unfortunate move in time for 2.5? I would be >>grateful >>if *at least* the CJK codecs (which are like 1Mb big) are splitted out of >>python25.dll. IMHO, I would prefer having *more* granularity, rather than >>*less*. > > If somebody would formu

tkinter text widget question

2005-08-21 Thread William Gill
The tkinter text widget uses indexes to identify row:column offsets within the text, but it seems counter intuitive to have to convert row and column integers to a string like "0.1'. It's great that index can take a string, but what about looping through rows and columns? Am I missing a way t

Re: last line chopped from input file

2005-08-21 Thread Eric Lavigne
> > import os > > os.command("debug\\curve-fit output.txt") > > > > I imagine thats was a typo for: > > >>> os.system("debug\\curve-fit output.txt") > > Alan That fixes it. Thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: TKinter

2005-08-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It's pretty hard to know what the problem is with the vague description you've provided. Why not post your problem code or, if there's a lot of it, create a small sample that has the problematic behaviour. Better yet, post your message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] cheers S -- http://mail.python.org/ma

Re: last line chopped from input file

2005-08-21 Thread gene tani
or: (for long-running Win32 processes) os.startfile(r'/relative/path/to/app') http://docs.python.org/lib/os-process.html under linux/BSD/solaris, i've run into situations where PATH and other environmental var s aren't what you expect (they're from the /etc/profile system defaults, not from your

Re: network programming

2005-08-21 Thread gene tani
If i had started in 8th grade, I'd be Guido MartelliPeters by now! Anyway, these people claim to have 125 tutorials, it'll take at least a couple hours to work thru http://www.awaretek.com/tutorials.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Gimp-Python

2005-08-21 Thread danilo
Salve, qualcuno sa se è ancora in fase di sviluppo e qual'è il sito di riferimento? Grazie Danilo -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: tkinter text widget question

2005-08-21 Thread rafi
William Gill wrote: > The tkinter text widget uses indexes to identify row:column offsets > within the text, but it seems counter intuitive to have to convert row > and column integers to a string like "0.1'. It's great that index can > take a string, but what about looping through rows and col

Further questions on dictionaries, namespaces, etc.

2005-08-21 Thread Talin
Thanks to everyone for pointing out my bone-headed errors :) I don't *usually* make that sort of mistake... What I'm attempting to do is create an implentation of the unification algorithm. Now, its fairly straightforward to do unification on my own custom types, all I have to do is define a un

Re: last line chopped from input file

2005-08-21 Thread Jeff Schwab
Eric Lavigne wrote: > Here is a shell command (MS-DOS): > debug\curve-fit output.txt > > And here is a Python script that *should* do the same thing (and almost > does): Python equivalent is roughly: import os import subprocess subprocess.Popen([os.path.join("debug", "

Re: Gimp-Python

2005-08-21 Thread Jeff Schwab
danilo wrote: > > Salve, > > qualcuno sa se è ancora in fase di sviluppo e qual'è il sito di > riferimento? > > Grazie > Danilo Gesundheit. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Binary Trees in Python

2005-08-21 Thread Jeff Schwab
Jorgen Grahn wrote: > On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 15:19:55 -0400, Roy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >> [diegueus9] Diego Andrés Sanabria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>>Hello!!! >>> >>>I want know if python have binary trees and more? >> >>Python does not come wi

Re: Revamping Python build system (Was: pythonXX.dll size: please split CJK codecs out)

2005-08-21 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Giovanni Bajo wrote: > You seem to ignore the fact that scons can easily generate VS.NET projects. I'm not ignoring it - I'm not aware of it. And also, I don't quite believe it until I see it. > But there is no technical reason why it has to be so. I work on several > portable projects, and they

Re: Please Criticize My Code

2005-08-21 Thread Christoph Rackwitz
Why not? Because the regex isn't compiled? Don't tell me not to do something, tell me why i should'nt do it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: pythonXX.dll size: please split CJK codecs out

2005-08-21 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Ron Adam wrote: > I would put the starting minimum boundary as: > >1. "The minimum required to start the python interpreter with no > additional required files." > > Currently python 2.4 (on windows) does not yet meet that guideline, so > it seems some modules still need to be added while oth

Problem with wxPython 2.6.1

2005-08-21 Thread Mario Lacunza
Hello! Im newbie in Linux, I have instaled Ubuntu 5.04, but I couldt install the wxPython 2.6.1, anybody help me?? For this reason I dont do my Job , because I use SpeIde and Boa Constructor, and both dont run with the old v wxPython 2.5.3 Thanks in advance!! -- Saludos / Best regards Mario L

Re: Is mymodule.myvariable a 'global'? (What is proper definition of 'global variable'?)

2005-08-21 Thread Michael Ekstrand
On 21 Aug 2005 09:45:26 -0700 "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Python lets me access module level variables from *anywhere*. All I > have > to do is add module name in front. > > e.g. > > mymodule.myvariable > > Is this considered a 'global'? Or, does a 'global variable' have t

Re: question about binary and serial info

2005-08-21 Thread nephish
Sorry i am late getting back on this. ord() is finally what is giving me what i wanted. the vendor told me that what was comming in was an ascii string representing hex characters. So i expected when i used the serial module that what i would be getting was something along the lines of 4A, 3D, etc.

Re: Further questions on dictionaries, namespaces, etc.

2005-08-21 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Talin a écrit : (snip) > 2) Is there an easy way to determine if a given object has a callable > method named "unify"? if callable(getattr(obj, 'unify', None)): # obj.unify exists and is callable Br -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Light Revisted?

2005-08-21 Thread Steve Holden
Steve M wrote: > I agree with you in part and disagree in part. > > I don't see the point to making the distribution any smaller. 10MB for > the installer from python.org, 16MB for ActiveState .exe installer. How > is 5MB "lightweight" while 10MB isn't? The Windows XP version of Java > at java.com

Re: while c = f.read(1)

2005-08-21 Thread Steve Holden
Paul Rubin wrote: > Reinhold Birkenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>Don't forget >> >>for line in f: >>for c in line: >># do stuff > > > As mentioned before, that's careless programming, since it can read > the whole file into memory if the file contains no newlines. I agree tha

Re: Related To Threads

2005-08-21 Thread Steve Holden
Sidd wrote: > Hello, > I want to write a thread in python which can be invoked for say 5 > sec, within that the threads function would be to take input,is it > possible because i tried it and found that raw_input() is blocking > threads. > There isn't really a convenient solution to this pro

Re: Moinmoin config

2005-08-21 Thread skip
Mark> I have another question, and as of yet, have not found another Mark> discussion group for moinmoin, so sorry, but here goes: Have you tried the mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you are determined to read it via Usenet, try gmane: http://dir.gmane.org/search.php?match=moin Sk

Re: urllib leaves sockets open?

2005-08-21 Thread Chris Tavares
"Paul Rubin" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Chris Tavares" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Is this normal behavior for urllib? Is there a way to force that initial > > socket closed earlier? Is there something else I need to do? > > I'd say open a sourceforge

Re: urllib leaves sockets open?

2005-08-21 Thread Paul Rubin
"Chris Tavares" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a way to do HTTP 1.1 with urllib? The docs say 0.9 and 1.0 only. I'm not sure. Try urllib2, but I'm still not sure. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: network programming

2005-08-21 Thread Steve Holden
John Walton wrote: > Hello, everyone. I just began school, and they > already assigned us science fair. Since I'm in 8th > grade, I get to do demonstrations for our projects. > I'm probably going to demonstrate Python's networking > capabilities by writing a simple instant messenger > program.

Re: pythonXX.dll size: please split CJK codecs out

2005-08-21 Thread Ron Adam
Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Ron Adam wrote: > >>I would put the starting minimum boundary as: >> >> 1. "The minimum required to start the python interpreter with no >>additional required files." >> >>Currently python 2.4 (on windows) does not yet meet that guideline, so >>it seems some modules stil

Re: Python Light Revisted?

2005-08-21 Thread skip
Ramza> The goal, build python(mainly for win32) so that the ENTIRE Ramza> install is maybe less than 5MBs and includes possibly a GUI Ramza> library, possibly TwistedMatrix, possibly install from just Ramza> unzipping an archive like applications such as Eclipse. ... Ramz

Re: question about binary and serial info

2005-08-21 Thread Steve Holden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sorry i am late getting back on this. > ord() is finally what is giving me what i wanted. > the vendor told me that what was comming in was an ascii string > representing hex characters. So i expected when i used the serial > module > that what i would be getting was some

Python dutch

2005-08-21 Thread Dragonfly
hi, Do you have a python lesson book in dutch version on your site? greetz erik =) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: network programming

2005-08-21 Thread Lucas Raab
John Walton wrote: > Hello, everyone. I just began school, and they > already assigned us science fair. Since I'm in 8th > grade, I get to do demonstrations for our projects. > I'm probably going to demonstrate Python's networking > capabilities by writing a simple instant messenger > program.

Re: Sandboxes

2005-08-21 Thread Peter Hansen
42 wrote: > Thoughts? Still gaping holes? Certainly. And rather than rehash them all here, I'm going to suggest you check the comp.lang.python archives for any of the many past discussions about this before you spend too much time thinking (repeatedly) that you've nailed that one last hole onl

Decorator and Metaclasses Documentation

2005-08-21 Thread sysfault
Does anyone know of any good documentation on these topics, doesn't look like the official python tutorial covers them. Thanks in advance. -- A wise man knows he knows nothing. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Best way to 'touch' a file?

2005-08-21 Thread Peter Hansen
Kenneth McDonald wrote: > I could've sworn python had such a command, but now I can't find it... > > I'm looking for an easy way to perform a UNIX-style "touch", to update > the modification time of a file without actually modifying it. I could > do something (I imagine) like opening the file

Re: Decorator and Metaclasses Documentation

2005-08-21 Thread Jeffrey E. Forcier
Amusingly, I was just perusing these links earlier today. Go go Firefox history search! http://www.python.org/2.2/descrintro.html http://users.rcn.com/python/download/Descriptor.htm -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Gimp-Python

2005-08-21 Thread David Trudgett
danilo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Salve, > > qualcuno sa se è ancora in fase di sviluppo e qual'è il sito di > riferimento? Beh, tutto e' sempre in fase di sviluppo, non e' vero? An Internet search turns up: http://www.jamesh.id.au/software/pygimp but the site was not responding when I t

Re: Python dutch

2005-08-21 Thread Terry Reedy
"Dragonfly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > hi, > Do you have a python lesson book in dutch version on your site? Did you try to look? Either by using the search bar at the top of each page or going to the documentation page http://www.python.org/doc/ where there

Re: Decorator and Metaclasses Documentation

2005-08-21 Thread sysfault
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 17:01:13 -0700, Jeffrey E. Forcier wrote: > Amusingly, I was just perusing these links earlier today. Go go Firefox > history search! > > http://www.python.org/2.2/descrintro.html > http://users.rcn.com/python/download/Descriptor.htm Are descriptors the same thing as decorat

Re: Decorator and Metaclasses Documentation

2005-08-21 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
sysfault wrote: >Does anyone know of any good documentation on these topics, doesn't look >like the official python tutorial covers them. Thanks in advance. > > PyCon 2005, PyCon 2004 and PyGTA November 2004 presentations here are all on these topics: http://www.vrplumber.com/programming/

Re: Decorator and Metaclasses Documentation

2005-08-21 Thread Steve Holden
sysfault wrote: > On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 17:01:13 -0700, Jeffrey E. Forcier wrote: > > >>Amusingly, I was just perusing these links earlier today. Go go Firefox >>history search! >> >>http://www.python.org/2.2/descrintro.html >>http://users.rcn.com/python/download/Descriptor.htm > > > > Are descr

Re: Please Criticize My Code

2005-08-21 Thread Ray
Christoph Rackwitz wrote: > Why not? Because the regex isn't compiled? > Don't tell me not to do something, tell me why i should'nt do it. No it's not the regex, it's because you just spoiled the challenge for everybody who hasn't solved level 10 yet... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Problem with wxPython 2.6.1

2005-08-21 Thread Trian Diarsa
can you explain about your problem ? > --- Mario Lacunza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> menulis: > > > Hello! > > > > Im newbie in Linux, I have instaled Ubuntu 5.04, > but > > I couldt install > > the wxPython 2.6.1, anybody help me?? > > > > For this reason I dont do my Job , because I use > > SpeIde

Re: SOAP and XMLRPC

2005-08-21 Thread Sybren Stuvel
phil hunt enlightened us with: > I thought it was the whole point of XMLRPC that the server can be > written in one language and the client in another. Am I wrong? It is, but not all SOAP libs really support the standard. Sybren -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should

Re: Python dutch

2005-08-21 Thread Sybren Stuvel
Dragonfly enlightened us with: > Do you have a python lesson book in dutch version on your site? I'd suggest learning English. The programming language is based on English anyway. Besides, everybody in The Netherlands learns English at school. Sybren -- The problem with the world is stupidity. N

Re: Decorator and Metaclasses Documentation

2005-08-21 Thread Jeffrey E. Forcier
Sorry about that, I misread the original question. However, the python.org link is still valid as it concerns metaclasses as well as a handful of other topics. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: global interpreter lock

2005-08-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
km wrote: > > is true parallelism possible in python ? or atleast in the coming versions ? > is global interpreter lock a bane in this context ? I've had absolutely zero problems implementing truly parallel programs in python. All of my parallel programs have been multiprocess architectures, thou

Re: As Simple As Possible?

2005-08-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jorgen Grahn wrote: > More importantly, I think: it's not polite for a programming language to > make it hard to communicate with the rest of your environment. > > Java pissed me off when I looked at it back in the 1990s, because I was on > Unix, and the language would barely give me access to the

Network Programming Information

2005-08-21 Thread John Walton
Hello. It's me again. Thanks for all the help with the Python Networking Resources, but does anyone know what I'll need to know to write a paper on Network Programming and Python. Like terminology and all that. Maybe I'll have a section on socketets, TCP, Clients (half of the stuff I don't even

Re: Sandboxes

2005-08-21 Thread 42
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says... > 42 wrote: > > Thoughts? Still gaping holes? > > Certainly. And rather than rehash them all here, I'm going to suggest > you check the comp.lang.python archives for any of the many past > discussions about this before you spend too muc

win32 - associate .pyw with a file extension...

2005-08-21 Thread knutsample
Hello! I'm trying to associate a file extension to my wxPython script so that all I have to do is double click on the file and my python script will load up with the path of that file. For instance, I've associated all .py files to be opened up with emacs.exe. If I double click on a .py file, em

Uploading images to imageshack.us with Python

2005-08-21 Thread Ricardo Sanchez
Hello, I'm trying to upload images to http://imageshac.us via a Python script. I have looked at the POST request with HTTPLiveHeaders Firefox extension when I upload an image, but I can't figure what's wrong. (if I disable the cookies in the browser, it still works, so it's not that). When I tr

Re: Uploading images to imageshack.us with Python

2005-08-21 Thread Ricardo Sanchez
I forgot to add that I'm behind a proxy, but I think that is irrelevant. If you are not behind a proxy replace this line: print post_multipart('proxy-a.mains.nitech.ac.jp', 8080, 'http://imageshack.us/index.php', params, files) with print post_multipart('imageshack.us', 80, '/index.php', params

Re: Sandboxes

2005-08-21 Thread Steve Jorgensen
Clearly, Pyton does not directly offer any kind of useful security sandbox capability, but since Java does, I suppose JPython is an option. I know there are a lot of downsides to JPython, but it should be a genuine solution to the sandbox problem. On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 10:21:06 GMT, 42 <[EMAIL PROT

Re: pythonXX.dll size: please split CJK codecs out

2005-08-21 Thread Thomas Heller
"Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ron Adam wrote: >> I would put the starting minimum boundary as: >> >>1. "The minimum required to start the python interpreter with no >> additional required files." >> >> Currently python 2.4 (on windows) does not yet meet that guideline, so >

Re: Decorator and Metaclasses Documentation

2005-08-21 Thread Michele Simionato
There are also my lectures at Oxford: http://www.reportlab.org/~andy/accu2005/pyuk2005_simionato_wondersofpython.zip Michele Simionato -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list