Re: Counting Threads

Sorry Denis - but could you give me an example. I can't for the life of me see how the syntax for that would go. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: a Haskell a Day

"steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Stupid newbi wants $1 if you spend more than 30 minutes on his webshite, > looking at it you would be hard pressed to spend 30 seconds. > Anyway at least we know where to find him. > > Broadcasting his antics in Las Vegas

Re: Jpg

Tuvas wrote: > I am building a GUI interface at the moment, and would like to have > support for displaying a jpg file, and a FITS file if possible. Is > there any way to do this? My interface has been written in Tkinter at > the moment, especially because of it's great portability, I wouldn't > ha

Re: MSH (shell)

Thanks, I'm enjoying reading the article. So far I noticed how their select functionality is similar to our comprehensions, but can also take a statement block. ( no wars please ;-). I liked the tabular output format for lists of similar items, with the automatic headings being displayed, e.g: msh

Spambayes modifications with web services

In the last few months many personal website owners (such as myself) have found that spammers have been using their domain names to masquerade as valid users to send spam, normally in the form of: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This new tactic has an annoying problem, which is that the bounced emails end up b

Re: Microsoft Hatred FAQ

David Schwartz wrote: > "Eike Preuss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >>>Right, except that's utterly absurd. If every vendor takes their tiny >>>cut of the 95%, a huge cut of the 5% is starting to look *REALLY* good. > > >>Sure, that would be true if the

Re: xml.dom.minidom - parseString - How to avoid ExpatError?

Hi Greg, Not really an answer to your question but I've found 4Suite ( http://4suite.org/index.xhtml ) quite useful for my XML work and the articles linked to from there authored by Uche Ogbuji to be quite informative. Best, Paul Gregory Piñero wrote: > Thanks, John. That was all very hel

Re: Microsoft Hatred FAQ

David Schwartz wrote: > Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen wrote: > > >>David Schwartz wrote: > > >>>Burger King won't let you sell Whoppers or buy their burger >>>patties wholesale no matter what you want to call your store unless >>>you take the whole franchise deal. It's an all-or-nothing package.

Re: Suggestion for (re)try statement

Sori Schwimmer wrote: > Hi, > > I think that would be useful to have an improved > version of the "try" statement, as follows: > > try(retrys=0,timeout=0): > sleep(timeout) At the very least, "timeout" is the wrong wording, "delay" would be more appropriate. A timeout is usually associa

Tk

When I run the following code, script kept running and I have to force it to stop. Could you check the code to give suggestions how to improve it? Thanks a lot! from Tkinter import * from Tkinter import _cnfmerge class Dialog(Widget): def __init__(self, master=None, cnf={}, **kw): cnf =

Re: creating/altering the OpenOffice spredsheet docs

Andy Leszczynski wrote: > Any idea how to do that the way ActiveX would be used on M$? > Fortunately, NO. You know http://udk.openoffice.org/python/python-bridge.html ?? yepp -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Would there be support for a more general cmp/__cmp__

Op 2005-10-26, Ron Adam schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Adding complexity to cmp may not break code, but it could probably slow > down sorting in general. So I would think what ever improvements or > alternatives needs to be careful not to slow down existing sorting cases. As a result of Bengt

Re: how to associate files with application

Ashok wrote: > hi, > i want to know how to make a specific type of file open in an > application i developed in python when the user clicks on the file.(in > windows) for eg. a .txt file when clicked opens in notepad, a .doc file > when clicked opens in MS-word. In the same way i want to make a .xy

Re: How to replace all None values with the string "Null" in a dictionary

dcrespo wrote: > Hi all, > > How can I replace all None values with the string 'Null' in a > dictionary? > > For example: > convert this: > a = {'item1': 45, 'item2': None} > > into this: > a = {'item1': 45, 'item2': 'Null'} > I think it would be time for you to read the Fine Manual... for ke

Re: db.DB_CREATE|db.DB_INIT_MPOOL|db.DB_THREAD|db.DB_INIT_CDB

On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 12:30 -0400, Jean-Paul Calderone wrote: > On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 00:17:54 +0800, "Neville C. Dempsey" at 3ttechnology.com> wrote: > >import bsddb # twiceopen.py > >Maybe the solution needs one of: > > db.DB_CREATE|db.DB_INIT_MPOOL|db.DB_THREAD|db.DB_INIT_CDB > Except I don't

problem with gnuplot in XP

Hi all, I made 2 arrays, which are i and uzuy (both are float). And I want to plot the graph between those arrays. I followed from the manual == from Gnuplot import Gnuplot, Data g=Gnuplot() results=Data(i,uzuy) g.plot(results) = here I got the message

How to translate python into C

Hi, First, I want to know whether the python interpreter translate the code directly into machine code, or translate it into C then into machine code? Second, if the codes are translated directly into machine codes, how can I translate the codes into C COMPLETELY the same? if the codes are tr

Re: XML Tree Discovery (script, tool, __?)

"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: > Hi all, > > Finally diving into XML programmatically. Does anyone have a best > practice recommendation for programmatically discovering the structure > of an arbitrary XML document via Python? > > It seems like it is a common wheel I'd be re-inventing. > > Thanks and

Re: Would there be support for a more general cmp/__cmp__

Op 2005-10-28, Antoon Pardon schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Op 2005-10-26, Ron Adam schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > > These are the results. > >: 1000 repeats, 1000 long, 10.061425 secs >: 1000 repeats, 1000 long, 9.544035 secs >: 1000 repeats, 1000 long, 10.450864 secs >: 1000 repeats, 1000 lon

Re: Spambayes modifications with web services

benmorganpowell: > So, as a web programmer and someone who specialises in getting good > results on Google, I realised that I could simply post every spammer > website on a Google optimized page, which if searched for on Google > would return something like: > > "WARNING: DO NOT BUY FROM THIS WEB

Re: How to translate python into C

python creates bytecode (like java classes) you cannot translate python directly to c or machine code, but there are some projects you probably want to look into Pypy is a python implemetation in python and it can be used to translate a python scrip to c or llvm code. (large project, work in pr

Re: Spambayes modifications with web services

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In the last few months many personal website owners (such as myself) > have found that spammers have been using their domain names to > masquerade as valid users to send spam, normally in the form of: > So, as a web programmer and someone who specialises in getting good

Re: How to translate python into C

Szabolcs Nagy wrote: > python creates bytecode (like java classes) > > > you cannot translate python directly to c or machine code, but there > are some projects you probably want to look into > > > Pypy is a python implemetation in python and it can be used to > translate a python scrip to c or l

Re: How to translate python into C

Johnny Lee wrote: > Hi, >First, I want to know whether the python interpreter translate the > code directly into machine code, or translate it into C then into > machine code? Neither this nor that. The interpreter first compiles the code into python 'byte code' - something similar to machine

Re: Microsoft Hatred FAQ

http://www.idpz.net/wolfgang/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to translate python into C

Thanks for your tips Niemann:) Regards, Johnny -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Scanning a file

I want to scan a file byte for byte for occurences of the the four byte pattern 0x0100. I've tried with this: # start import sys numChars = 0 startCode = 0 count = 0 inputFile = sys.stdin while True: ch = inputFile.read(1) numChars += 1 if len(ch) < 1: break startCode = ((

Re: Scanning a file

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I want to scan a file byte for byte [...] > while True: > ch = inputFile.read(1) > [...] But it is very slow. What is the fastest way to do this? Using some > native call? Using a buffer? Using whatever? Read in blocks, not byte for byte. I had good experiences with

Re: Microsoft Hatred FAQ

> Part of their behavior really escape me. The whole thing about > browser wars confuses me. Web browsers represent a zero billion > dollar a year market. Why would you risk anything to own it? Wonder why MSN.com is one of the most visited sites, I speculate that it is largely because it is the

Re: Scanning a file

Okay, how do I do this? Also, if you look at the code, I build a 32-bit unsigned integer from the bytes I read. And the 32-bit pattern I am looking for can start on _any_ byte boundary in the file. It would be nice if I could somehow just scan for that pattern explicitly, without having to build a

Re: Scanning a file

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I want to scan a file byte for byte for occurences of the the four byte > pattern 0x0100. I've tried with this: use re.search or string.find. The simplest way is just read the whole file into memory first. If the file is too big, you have to read it in chunks and

x-plat gui development question Mac OS X

Hello everybody, I have recently started tinkering about with Python. If there are any Macintosh-based Python developers reading this newsgroup I would like to ask them one Macintosh-specific question: If you want to write GUI scripts on the Mac, say with Tkinter, you need to invoke "pythonw"

Re: How to replace all None values with the string "Null" in a dictionary

> I think it would be time for you to read the Fine Manual... hi, thanks for your answer... I really did it the same way you suggested, but I forgot to tell you that I wanted to get a better way for doing it. By the way, knowing your wisdom, what do I have to install to get the following code wor

Re: Microsoft Hatred FAQ

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/25/2005 at 09:56 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >Yes, I know, they can do whatever they want, it's not a crime, Actually, it is a crime and they've been convicted. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Unsolicited bulk E-mail

xml-rpc - adodb - None type - DateTime type

Hi to all, I have functions defined in an xml-rpc server. Some functions query to a Postgres database (using adodb) and return its recordset. So, if some xml-rpc client runs the mentioned function, it will retrieve the recordset. The problem is that if a retrieved field has the Null value or the D

Re: How to replace all None values with the string "Null" in a dictionary

Thanks... I did it right that way, but asked it without telling how I did it just to see what are the occurences of others. I thing there's no better/faster solution. Many thanks Daniel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Scanning a file

I'm now down to: f = open("filename", "rb") s = f.read() sub = "\x00\x00\x01\x00" count = s.count(sub) print count Which is quite fast. The only problems is that the file might be huge. I really have no need for reading the entire file into a string as I am doing here. All I want is to count occu

Re: Scanning a file

"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > f = open("filename", "rb") > s = f.read() > sub = "\x00\x00\x01\x00" > count = s.count(sub) > print count That's a lot of lines. This is a bit off topic, but I just can't stand unnecessary local variables. print file("filename", "rb").read().coun

Re: Scanning a file

"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Which is quite fast. The only problems is that the file might be huge. > I really have no need for reading the entire file into a string as I am > doing here. All I want is to count occurences this substring. Can I > somehow count occurences in a f

Re: Scanning a file

Jorge Godoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How about iterating through the file? You can read it line by line, two lines > at a time. Pseudocode follows: > > line1 = read_line > while line2 = read_line: > line_to_check = ''.join([line1, line2]) > check_for_desired_string > line1

Re: how to associate files with application

Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen wrote: > Ashok wrote: > >> hi, >> i want to know how to make a specific type of file open in an >> application i developed in python when the user clicks on the file.(in >> windows) for eg. a .txt file when clicked opens in notepad, a .doc file >> when clicked opens in MS-w

Re: Scanning a file

First of all, this isn't a text file, it is a binary file. Secondly, substrings can overlap. In the sequence 0010010 the substring 0010 occurs twice. /David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Typing tutor help script needed, please

G'day everyone! I would like to design typing tutor exercises for Afrikaans (and other languages possibly). This is for a GPL project. For this, I need a script that can extract words from a long list of words, based on which letters those words contain, and write then write output to a file. D

Re: Scanning a file

On 2005-10-28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm now down to: > > f = open("filename", "rb") > s = f.read() > sub = "\x00\x00\x01\x00" > count = s.count(sub) > print count > > Which is quite fast. The only problems is that the file might be huge. > I really have no need for reading

OEM character set issue

On my hungarian Win2k, some of the accented characters of the file names appear incorrectly when Python is driven from the command line. However, they appear okay when the same script is running within an IDE. The same problem holds in the case of text files edited by GUI editors. Is there any solu

Re: Scanning a file

Gerhard Häring wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I want to scan a file byte for byte [...] >> while True: >> ch = inputFile.read(1) >> [...] But it is very slow. What is the fastest way to do this? Using some >> native call? Using a buffer? Using whatever? > > Read in blocks, not byte for

Re: Suggestion for (re)try statement

Sori Schwimmer wrote: > Hi, > > I think that would be useful to have an improved > version of the "try" statement, as follows: > > try(retrys=0,timeout=0): > # things to try > except: > # what to do if failed > > and having the following semantic: > > for i in range(retrys): > try: >

Re: Would there be support for a more general cmp/__cmp__

Antoon Pardon wrote: > Op 2005-10-26, Ron Adam schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>Adding complexity to cmp may not break code, but it could probably slow >>down sorting in general. So I would think what ever improvements or >>alternatives needs to be careful not to slow down existing sorting ca

Re: Suggestion for (re)try statement

On 2005-10-27, Sori Schwimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I think that would be useful to have an improved > version of the "try" statement, as follows: > > try(retrys=0,timeout=0): > # things to try > except: > # what to do if failed > > and having the following semantic: > > for i in

Re: How to translate python into C

python script crashed and you want to debug it? if no trace back provided with the line number where the exception raised, then the crash caused by an extension module (most likely written in C), i don't know howto debug it, but at least you can find the place where the crash occures by adding lot

Re: Would there be support for a more general cmp/__cmp__

Antoon Pardon wrote: > If you are concerned about sorting times, I think you should > be more concerned about Guido's idea of doing away with __cmp__. > Sure __lt__ is faster. But in a number of cases writing __cmp__ > is of the same complexity as writing __lt__. So if you then > need a __lt__, __l

Re: Microsoft Hatred FAQ

Okay, I admit I'm wasting time answering this stupid thread, but what the hey, what's usenet without a flame war now and then. ;-) Into the fray ... On Thursday 27 October 2005 05:17 pm, David Schwartz wrote: > No. I have never received a dime from Microsoft, either directly or > indirectly.

Opaque documentation

Once in a while you come acros aline of documentation that you have to, or that invites you to, read it again. This is what I found in PyGTK: The set_screen method sets the 'screen" property to the gtk.gdk.Screen specified by screen. The "screen" property contains the screen that the

Re: Microsoft Hatred FAQ

"Everytime someone compares MS's behavior with some less controversial criminal behavior, you act like they accused MS of holding people up at gunpoint." Screwing literally millions of consumers and taxpayers and holding entire schools hostage is far worse than holding up an individual at gunpoint

Is bytecode machine (in)dependent?

I'm trying to understand bytecodes generated on different machines. I understand that the bytecodes can change between version. But since I'm told that .pyc files are version dependent but not machine dependent, I'm wondering why the bytecodes are machine dependent. my friend and I created this s

Re: Opaque documentation

egbert wrote: > Once in a while you come acros aline of documentation > that you have to, or that invites you to, read it again. > This is what I found in PyGTK: > > The set_screen method sets the 'screen" property to > the gtk.gdk.Screen specified by screen. The "screen" property > co

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Re: Scanning a file

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >I want to scan a file byte for byte for occurences of the the four byte > pattern 0x0100. I've tried with this: > > # start > import sys > > numChars = 0 > startCode = 0 > count = 0 > > inputFile = sys.stdin > > while True: >ch =

Re: Is bytecode machine (in)dependent?

[Robert McLay] > I'm trying to understand bytecodes generated on different machines. > I understand that the bytecodes can change between version. But since > I'm told that .pyc files are version dependent but not machine > dependent, I'm wondering why the bytecodes are machine dependent. They ar

Re: replace words

Peter Otten wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>What is the way for replacing in a string from . to . the sentence? >>for example: >>"been .taken. it may be .left. there, >>even if the .live coals were not. cleared" >>I want to do this-> replace(\.(.*)\.,\.start (1) end\.) >>result: >>"been

SNMP

>From what I have seen Python does not come with an snmp module built in, can anyone suggest some other SNMP module (preferably one you have used/experienced)..I have googled and seen yapsnmp and pysnmp (which seem to be the two most active SNMP modules). Thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: SNMP

...also I am looking to work with windows, as well as linux. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: xml-rpc - adodb - None type - DateTime type

> I can replace all None values with the string 'Null', there's no > problem, but I can't detect the DateTime type object I retrieve from > the database. > > I have something like this: > def xmlrpc_function(): > conn = adodb.NewADOConnection('postgres') > conn.Connect(host,user,password,da

Re: syntax question - if 1:print 'a';else:print 'b'

Steve Holden wrote: >> On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 14:00, Gregory Piñero wrote: >> >>> Not quite because if something(3) fails, I still want something(4) to >>> run. > Then the obvious extension: > > for i in range(20): >... > > but I get the idea that Gregory was thinking of different statement

tkinter blues (greens, reds, ...)

hi all i recently wrote a script that implements a puzzle. the interface mostly consists of a bunch of colored disks on a tkinter canvas. the problem is that the disks change their colors in ways other than the way they're supposed to. it certainly isn't just a bug in my script, since i can someti

popen2

I start a process in my application with popen2.popen3('MyOtherProcess'). That's ok, but what can I do if the other process is running ? Can I fetch some information and start with that ? gerd -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to translate python into C

Il 2005-10-28, Johnny Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > Thanks, Szabolcs. In fact, I want to reproduce a crush on cygwin. I > used a session of python code to produce the crush, and want to > translate it into C and reproduce it. Is the tools provided by you help > with these issues? Of coz, I'

Re: Newbie question: string replace

Now it works: rex = re.compile(r'(^.*username *=[^"]*")([^"]*)(".*$)') for line in fileinput.input(FILE, inplace=1): m = rex.match(line) if m is not None: line = "%s%s%s\n" % (m.group(1), new_name, m.group(3)) print line But there is an extra line break after each line in F

Tkinter Frame Size

I'm tyring to set the size of the window that is opened when you open a Tkinter window, without much sucess. I have tried changing the heigth and width atributes, but it doesn't do anything. I tried using the grid_propagate command that I saw to use, but made the window even smaller... What can I d

Re: Tkinter Frame Size

On Friday 28 October 2005 10:38, Tuvas wrote: > I'm tyring to set the size of the window that is opened when you open a > Tkinter window, without much sucess. I have tried changing the heigth > and width atributes, but it doesn't do anything. I tried using the > grid_propagate command that I saw

Re: Scanning a file

On Friday 28 October 2005 06:29, Björn Lindström wrote: > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > f = open("filename", "rb") > > s = f.read() > > sub = "\x00\x00\x01\x00" > > count = s.count(sub) > > print count > > That's a lot of lines. This is a bit off topic, but I just can't stand

Why doesn't this work? :)

Jumping right into the code (which should speak for itself): # --- try: # this will fail and be caught # below, w import foobar except ImportError, error: class foobar: @staticmethod def __getattr

Re: Tkinter Frame Size

Okay. I have alot of items that are put on the basic frame already, using a grid method. Will this change anything? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: tkinter blues (greens, reds, ...)

Sean McIlroy wrote: > hi all > > i recently wrote a script that implements a puzzle. the interface > mostly consists of a bunch of colored disks on a tkinter canvas. the > problem is that the disks change their colors in ways other than the > way they're supposed to. it certainly isn't just a bug

Re: Newbie question: string replace

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Now it works: > rex = re.compile(r'(^.*username *=[^"]*")([^"]*)(".*$)') > for line in fileinput.input(FILE, inplace=1): > m = rex.match(line) > if m is not None: > line = "%s%s%s\n" % (m.group(1), new_name, m.group(3)) > print line > > But there

Re: Typing tutor help script needed, please

#---Input data #List of words; every word or sentence on one line #If from file: WORDS = open(fileName).readlines() WORDS = """\ Afrikaans Anna Bread red word bored python""".split('\n') #---Main program import re PATTERN = ['[^(%s)]+','[%s]+'] FILENAME= ['not_%s.txt','%s.txt']

Re: popen2

g.franzkowiak wrote: > I start a process in my application with popen2.popen3('MyOtherProcess'). > That's ok, but what can I do if the other process is running ? > Can I fetch some information and start with that ? > > gerd It's not clear what you're asking for. Could you please clarify? -- David

Re: SNMP

py wrote: >>From what I have seen Python does not come with an snmp module built > in, can anyone suggest some other SNMP module (preferably one you have > used/experienced)..I have googled and seen yapsnmp and pysnmp (which > seem to be the two most active SNMP modules). > > Thanks > Google tu

Re: Scanning a file

Andrew McCarthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2005-10-28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm now down to: >> >> f = open("filename", "rb") >> s = f.read() >> sub = "\x00\x00\x01\x00" >> count = s.count(sub) >> print count >> >> Which is quite fast. The only problems is that the

How do I sort these?

I have two lists. I want to sort by a value in the first list and have the second list sorted as well... Any suggestions on how I should/could do this? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: urllib2 problem

"Jeremy Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > website. I originally just used urllib.urlopen and everything worked > fine on my Windows PC at work. I tried the same script at home on my > Fedora COre 3 box using python 2.4, and whenever I try to connect to > the site I get the (110, Connec

Re: Why doesn't this work? :)

I think what you really want is: try: # this will fail and be caught # below, w import foobar except ImportError, error: class foobarclass: def __getattr__(*args, **kargs): return None foobar = foobarclass() print fo

Re: Typing tutor help script needed, please

"Throw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > G'day everyone! > > I would like to design typing tutor exercises for Afrikaans (and other > languages possibly). This is for a GPL project. For this, I need a > script that can extract words from a long list of words, based on which > letters those words co

Re: tkinter blues (greens, reds, ...)

Steve Holden wrote: > Sean McIlroy wrote: > >> hi all >> >> i recently wrote a script that implements a puzzle. the interface >> mostly consists of a bunch of colored disks on a tkinter canvas. the >> problem is that the disks change their colors in ways other than the >> way they're supposed t

Re: Scanning a file

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I want to scan a file byte for byte for occurences of the the four byte > pattern 0x0100. data = sys.stdin.read() print data.count('\x00\x00\x01\x00') Kent -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: OEM character set issue

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 15:55:56 +0200, "Ladvánszky Károly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > > >>On my hungarian Win2k, some of the accented characters of the file names >>appear incorrectly when Python is driven from the command line. Ho

Re: How do I sort these?

KraftDiner wrote: > I have two lists. > I want to sort by a value in the first list and have the second list > sorted as well... Any suggestions on how I should/could do this? > >>> first = [1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 2, 4, 6, 8] >>> second = ['one', 'three', 'five', 'seven', 'nine', 'two', 'four', 'six',

Re: How do I sort these?

KraftDiner wrote: > I have two lists. > I want to sort by a value in the first list and have the second list > sorted as well... Any suggestions on how I should/could do this? I guess you mean that you have two lists of same size where each index position pointing to corrsponding items - like two

Re: Opaque documentation

"Ben Sizer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Documentation is often a problem with Python and its libraries, sadly. > The same almost certainly goes for most open source projects. You over-specified the last clause. It should say "most software projects." http://www.mired.

Re: Newbie question: string replace

"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now it works: > rex = re.compile(r'(^.*username *=[^"]*")([^"]*)(".*$)') > for line in fileinput.input(FILE, inplace=1): > m = rex.match(line) > if m is not None: > line = "%s%s%s\n" % (m.group(1), new_name, m.group(3)) > pr

Re: Typing tutor help script needed, please

Throw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in comp.lang.perl.misc: > > G'day everyone! > > I would like to design typing tutor exercises for Afrikaans (and other > languages possibly). This is for a GPL project. For this, I need a > script that can extract words from a long list of words, based on which >

Re: Typing tutor help script needed, please

> Throw wrote: >> I must be able to extract words which contain only >> certain letters (they need not contain all of those letters, >> but they may not contain any other letters). SPE - Stani's Python Editor wrote: > #---Input data > > #List of words; every word or sentence on one line > #

Re: Why doesn't this work? :)

On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 14:50 -0400, Chris Lambacher wrote: > I think what you really want is: > > try: > # this will fail and be caught > # below, w > import foobar > > except ImportError, error: > class foobarclass: > def __getattr__(*args, **kargs): >

Re: Newbie question: string replace

hm...Is there a way to get rid of the newline in "print"? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Newbie question: string replace

Got it, thanks all! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Print to printer

I can't seem to figure out how to print with my printer using python. I'm using Mac OSX 10.4. I was thinking maybe something with applescript. Does anyone know? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Microsoft Hatred FAQ

"Mike Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > The quote about the mafia doesn't compare MS's actions to "actual use > of force". I'm sorry, that's just absurd. I won't speculate on what motivates you to engage in such crazy distortion. Of course the quote about

drag/move image from staticBitmap control?

Hi, all gurus,   I have an application to show bitmap image on one wx.staticBitmap control area, I can display part of the image, or the whole image(detail is unclear), But I would like to use mouse to drag/move the image inside thewx.staticBitmap control when only part image on the scre

Re: Microsoft Hatred FAQ

"Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Ok, let me just make my opinion very clear on this and then I'll just > leave this thread altogether. > > I think you are comparing apples and oranges so whatever conclusion you > manage to draw from that i

? Pythoncard

I have created a small gui stub as follows using Pythoncard: c:\myhome lmsgui.py lmsgui.rsrc.py When I try to run I get the following error: (Errno2) no such file or directory lmsqui.rsrc.py I understand why I am getting the error the question is how do I fix this so it looks in the p

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