Re: execfile in global scope

2005-08-24 Thread Bengt Richter
On 24 Aug 2005 01:50:25 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I need to execfile() from a function in order to set value for a global >variable from inside the executed file. I know there are "globals" and >"locals" optional arguments for execfile, but I just can't figure out >how to use them correctly

Re: Inline::Python, pyperl, etc.

2005-08-24 Thread Eli Stevens (WG.c)
Sybren Stuvel wrote: > Eli Stevens (WG.c) enlightened us with: > >>I've bumped into some snags with pyperl (can't import perl2.so? But >>it's right there in site-packages/ !), and I'm wondering if it's bitrot >>or a config error on my end. > > > If the .so file is as old as you described, it'

Re: FileIO problem

2005-08-24 Thread bruno modulix
Laszlo Zsolt Nagy wrote: > Try this: > > gclas = raw_input("What is the class:") > def Princlas(): >count = 0 >while count != 1000: >count = count + 1 >return "Admin forceclass %s %s " % ( count , gclas ) have you tried your code ? Obviously, no, else you would have seen t

Re: Externally-defined properties?

2005-08-24 Thread Scott David Daniels
Terry Hancock wrote: > Frankly, I was surprised this worked at all, but I tried > creating a property outside of a class (i.e. at the module > level), and it seems to behave as a property: Not so surprising. Making a class begins by making a little namespace, then using it to build the class. If

Re: pipes like perl

2005-08-24 Thread Donn Cave
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "max(01)*" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > in perl i can do this: ... > but i do not know how to do it in python, because "if *command*:" gives > syntax error. > > moreover, if i use ... > it doesn't work, since "*do_something*" and *do_something_more* are > always

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

2005-08-24 Thread Robert Kern
Bryan Olson wrote: > Paul Rubin wrote: > > Bryan Olson writes: > > > >> seq[3 : -4] > >> > >>we write: > >> > >> seq[3 ; $ - 4] > > > > +1 > > I think you're wrong about the "+1". I defined '$' to stand for > the length of the sequence (not the address of the last > element). By

Re: Revised PEP 349: Allow str() to return unicode strings

2005-08-24 Thread Dieter Maurer
Neil Schemenauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on Mon, 22 Aug 2005 15:31:42 -0600: > ... > Some code may require that str() returns a str instance. In the > standard library, only one such case has been found so far. The > function email.header_decode() requires a str instance and the >

Exploring outlook using python

2005-08-24 Thread Subir
Hi, I am new to this group. I am trying to build an application to see all the contents of the outlook accounts (USING MAPI). Does anyone has any information regarding this ? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: use SciPy with Python 2.4.1?

2005-08-24 Thread Robert Kern
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is SciPy usable with Python 2.4.1? At http://www.scipy.org/download/ it > says that 2.3.3 is recommended, and I don't see a binary for 2.4.1. It is usable with Python 2.4.1 on Linux and OS X at least. IIRC, mingw-compiled extensions don't work with the standard Python 2.

Re: Email client in Pyhton

2005-08-24 Thread Nemesis
Mentre io pensavo ad una intro simpatica "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" scriveva: > now i am planning to write a bear minimum email client in > pyhton. i found the smtp module of python could serve my > pupose. I can send message using mails using the smtp lib. > Now i'm looking for some modules which can he

Re: Should I move to Amsterdam?

2005-08-24 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
Wade wrote: > http://www.slate.com/id/2124561/entry/2124562/ > > Nice little series by Seth Stevenson for Americans daydreaming about > emigration. Somewhere, anywhere ... maybe Amsterdam? > > I've never been to the Netherlands myself, but it sounds very > civilized. > > Extra Python connection,

Earn 12% daily of your investment!!!

2005-08-24 Thread Make12
I'm going to tell you about a TOP RATED AUTOSURF program that takes 5 mins of your day and then instantly credits your account 12% of what you put in. Its that easy and everyone is going crazy about it. I have personally done this and been paid. This is how it works. You have to have/get you

Re: setlocale() in a module/extension library

2005-08-24 Thread Damien Elmes
"Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > IOW: feel free to invoke setlocale in your library. It will likely > work in many cases, but may break in some. So you should atleast > document that this is what your library does. Thanks for the advice. I ended up implementing it in the library, w

PuLP and Mac OS X

2005-08-24 Thread njkirsch
Hello, I am working on a project that invovles the use of linear programming. The framework for the project has been written in Python. I recently came across PuLP http://www.jeannot.org/~js/code/index.en.html#PuLP , which creates output files to use with LP solvers. I was wondering if anyone ha

Re: pipes like perl

2005-08-24 Thread infidel
> but... i see it doesn't work for some commands, like "man python" (it > gets stuck on the "if" line)... .readlines() won't return until it hits end-of-file, but the "man" command waits for user input to scroll the content, like the "more" or "less" commands let you view "pages" of information on

SocketServer and a Java applet listener

2005-08-24 Thread google
Dear newsgroup, I give up, I must be overseeing something terribly trivial, but I can't get a simple (Java) applet to react to incoming (python) SocketServer messages. Without boring you with the details of my code (on request available, though), here is what I do : I have a TCPServer and BaseRe

Re: Warning when doubly linked list is defined gloablly

2005-08-24 Thread Terry Reedy
"chand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi., > > In my api.py file 'g_opt_list' is defined globally > g_opt_list =[[],[],[],[],[],[],[]] > > I am using this global list in the fucntion > > def function (): >gloabl g_opt_list > > when I run the py file, I am getti

Re: use SciPy with Python 2.4.1?

2005-08-24 Thread John Hunter
> "Robert" == Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Robert> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Is SciPy usable with Python 2.4.1? At >> http://www.scipy.org/download/ it says that 2.3.3 is >> recommended, and I don't see a binary for 2.4.1. Robert> It is usable with Python 2.4.

Re: Decorator and Metaclasses Documentation

2005-08-24 Thread Chris Smith
> "Michele" == Michele Simionato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michele> There are also my lectures at Oxford: Michele> http://www.reportlab.org/~andy/accu2005/pyuk2005_simionato_wondersofpython.zip Michele>Michele Simionato You really need to get O'Reilly to publish your s

Re: Sorta noob question - file vs. open?

2005-08-24 Thread Peter A.Schott
I'll have to try this again. I obviously did something wrong in my code. I was getting errors about not being able to write a string because it wasn't supported. It was driving me nuts for a while until I just gave up and went back to open(). I'll do some more playing and if I continue to get e

Newbie question: Sub-interpreters for CAD program

2005-08-24 Thread sonicSpammersGoToHellSmooth
Hi all, I'm a newbie to Python, so I have a question about writing an application that also has a scripting ability. I'm thinking of Eric3 as an example. It's written in Python, but it also has an interpreter window. The user doesn't have access (I don't think...) to all the internal stuff that

Re: How to get a unique id for bound methods?

2005-08-24 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Russell E. Owen wrote: > >> Having looked at it again, it is familiar. I copied it when I wrote my >> own code. I avoided using at the time both because the initial >> underscore suggested it was a private method and beca

Re: Sorta noob question - file vs. open?

2005-08-24 Thread Peter Hansen
Peter A. Schott wrote: > Thanks to all who replied. If open is still preferred, I will > stick with that. FWIW, that's not an unqualified "preferred". To demonstrate by example, neither of the above is considered preferred, though they both work: outputFile = file('path.to.file') if i

Re: Sorta noob question - file vs. open?

2005-08-24 Thread Scott David Daniels
Peter A. Schott wrote: > I'll have to try this again. I obviously did something wrong in my code. I > was > getting errors about not being able to write a string because it wasn't > supported. It was driving me nuts for a while until I just gave up and went > back to open(). I expect somewhere

Re: The ONLY thing that prevents me from using Python

2005-08-24 Thread Paul Rubin
Richie Hindle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can't speak for linode.org, but I have a Xen VPS from rimuhosting.com > and it's early days but so far I've been very impressed. It's $19/mo > (normally $20 but they kindly gave me a 5% Open Source Developer discount) Do you get enough resources in th

Re: Exploring outlook using python

2005-08-24 Thread Peter Hansen
Subir wrote: > I am new to this group. I am trying to build an application to see > all the contents of the outlook accounts (USING MAPI). Does anyone has > any information regarding this ? Did you try checking the list archives yet? Go to Google Groups (groups.google.com) and search in the co

Re: The ONLY thing that prevents me from using Python

2005-08-24 Thread D H
Paul Rubin wrote: > Richie Hindle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>I can't speak for linode.org, but I have a Xen VPS from rimuhosting.com >>and it's early days but so far I've been very impressed. It's $19/mo >>(normally $20 but they kindly gave me a 5% Open Source Developer discount) > > > Do

Re: Exploring outlook using python

2005-08-24 Thread Larry Bates
You should download source for spambayes plug-in for Outlook (written in Python) located at: http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/windows.html You might finds LOTS of good information for your project. -Larry Bates Subir wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to this group. I am trying to build an applicatio

Re: use SciPy with Python 2.4.1?

2005-08-24 Thread Robert Kern
John Hunter wrote: >>"Robert" == Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Robert> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Is SciPy usable with Python 2.4.1? At > >> http://www.scipy.org/download/ it says that 2.3.3 is > >> recommended, and I don't see a binary for 2.4.1. > > R

Re: Unix diff command under Window.

2005-08-24 Thread Neil Hodgson
Thomas Heller: > Yes. There's a script in your Python distribution: > Tools/scripts/diff.py > > See also the docs for the 'difflib' standard library module. Is the opposite code, a Python equivalent to 'patch' available? I have endless trouble receiving patch files that assume one of Windo

Command Line arguments

2005-08-24 Thread michael
I have a question about Windows based python (2.4 and later). For example, if I make a script called test.py like so: import sys print sys.argv then run it: python test.py this is a test I see a list with ['test.py', 'this', 'is', 'a', 'test'] All is good! BUT... If i make .py extensions

Re: Newbie question: Sub-interpreters for CAD program

2005-08-24 Thread Terry Hancock
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 03:48 pm, sonicSpammersGoToHellSmooth wrote: > In my case I'd like to write a CAD program which allows the user to > write Python scripts, and to provide an API to do CAD stuff, manipulate > parameters, circuits, layouts, simulations, etc. The user should not > have acc

Re: while c = f.read(1)

2005-08-24 Thread Greg McIntyre
John Machin wrote: > Sigh indeed. If you need to read it a character at a time to parse it, > the design is f***ed. There is always the potential to do 2k buffered reads and once in memory pick the contents apart character-wise. I assume something similar would happen for tokenising XML and HTML

Re: while c = f.read(1)

2005-08-24 Thread Greg McIntyre
Robert Kern wrote: > > Robert> Please quote the message you are replying to. We have no > > Robert> idea what "the 2nd option" is. > > > > I think he means the second option you presented > > > > If you must read one character at a time, > > > > def reader(fileobj, blocksize=1): > >

Re: while c = f.read(1) [comment on news hosting]

2005-08-24 Thread Steve Holden
Greg McIntyre wrote: > Robert Kern wrote: > >>>Robert> Please quote the message you are replying to. We have no >>>Robert> idea what "the 2nd option" is. >>> >>>I think he means the second option you presented >>> >>> If you must read one character at a time, >>> >>> def reader(fileob

Re: while c = f.read(1) [comment on news hosting]

2005-08-24 Thread Robert Kern
Steve Holden wrote: > Well you could do worse than use the gmane.comp.python.general newsgroup > if you want to use an NNTP newsreader. I recently left the ISP who had > provided me with news services for years, and I am very happy with the > gmane service (though heaven only knows why they cho

Re: Newbie question: Sub-interpreters for CAD program

2005-08-24 Thread Peter Hansen
Terry Hancock wrote: >>I have a strong EE and hardware background (hence my need to write a >>CAD program that doesn't piss me off), but not a CS background. > > Cool. If you do write it and release it, I'd be interested in finding out > about it. > > You probably ought to consider starting with

Re: subpackage import problem

2005-08-24 Thread Eric Huss
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, Robert Kern wrote: > 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 > > f

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

2005-08-24 Thread Bryan Olson
Robert Kern wrote: > By "+1" he means, "I like it." He's not correcting you. Ah, O.K. Thanks. -- --Bryan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-08-24 Thread Mike Schilling
"Mike Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Mike Schilling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> "l v" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Xah Lee wrote: (circa 1996), and email should be text only (anti-MIME, circa 1995), >>> >>> I

Bug in string.find; was: Re: Proposed PEP: New style indexing, was Re: Bug in slice type

2005-08-24 Thread Bryan Olson
The doc for the find() method of string objects, which is essentially the same as the string.find() function, states: find(sub[, start[, end]]) Return the lowest index in the string where substring sub is found, such that sub is contained in the range [start, end). Optio

Re: Bug in string.find; was: Re: Proposed PEP: New style indexing, was Re: Bug in slice type

2005-08-24 Thread Steve Holden
Bryan Olson wrote: > The doc for the find() method of string objects, which is > essentially the same as the string.find() function, states: > > find(sub[, start[, end]]) >Return the lowest index in the string where substring sub >is found, such that sub is contained in the ra

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Re: global interpreter lock

2005-08-24 Thread Mike Meyer
Bryan Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mike Meyer wrote: > > Bryan Olson writes: > >>Mike Meyer wrote: > >> > The rule I follow in choosing my tools is "Use the least complex tool > >> > that will get the job done." > >>Even if a more complex tool could do the job better? > > In that case,

Re: Bug in string.find; was: Re: Proposed PEP: New style indexing, was Re: Bug in slice type

2005-08-24 Thread Casey Hawthorne
>contained in the range [start, end) Does range(start, end) generate negative integers in Python if start >= 0 and end >= start? -- Regards, Casey -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Fighting Spam with Python

2005-08-24 Thread David MacQuigg
Are you as mad about spam as I am? Are you frustrated with the pessimism and lack of progress these last two years? Do you have faith that an open-source project can do better than the big companies competing for a lock-in solution? If so, you might be interested in the Open-Mail project. I'm w

Re: Exploring outlook using python

2005-08-24 Thread Do Re Mi chel La Si Do
Hum... If it's Outlook, look for COM/Dispatch, with PyWin32 If it's Outlook-Express, search a MAPI module, like said Peter Hansen. @-salutations Michel Claveau -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Newbie question: Sub-interpreters for CAD program

2005-08-24 Thread Terry Hancock
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 09:12 pm, Peter Hansen wrote: > Terry Hancock wrote: > >>I have a strong EE and hardware background (hence my need to write a > >>CAD program that doesn't piss me off), but not a CS background. > > > > You probably ought to consider starting with something existing like

Re: Bug in string.find; was: Re: Proposed PEP: New style indexing,was Re: Bug in slice type

2005-08-24 Thread en.karpachov
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 00:05:18 -0400 Steve Holden wrote: > What on earth makes you call this a bug? And what are you proposing that > find() should return if the substring isn't found at all? please don't > suggest it should raise an exception, as index() exists to provide that > functionality.

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