Re: Newbie Question: CSV to XML

"ProvoWallis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Hi, > > I'm learning more and more about Python all the time but I'm still a > real newbie. I wrote this little script to convert CSV to XML and I was > hoping to get some feedback on it if anyone was willing to comment. > >

Re: Application architecture (long post - sorry)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > All these web technologies I don't know where to start, have you got > any suggestions for getting started in the world of web development, > books maybe ? Sorry, but I can't recommend books on this. I learned it before the books existed, so what I learned it from won't

Re: Python based Compiler tools

Doru-Catalin Togea wrote: > Hi! > > I have some experience with PLY. What other alternatives are there, and > which is the "best" (that is most feature rich, easiest to use, ...)? Here is a list: http://www.nedbatchelder.com/text/python-parsers.html pyparsing is easy to use IMO. Kent -- http:

Newbie Question: CSV to XML

Hi, I'm learning more and more about Python all the time but I'm still a real newbie. I wrote this little script to convert CSV to XML and I was hoping to get some feedback on it if anyone was willing to comment. It works but I was wondering if there was anything I could do better. E.g., incorpor

bug in Tkinter (FIX)

It's my first time posting to the list so I hope I don't sound like an idiot! The other day I was looking for a way to keep track of whether a user had changed the contents of a Tk text widget. After a little bit of searching I found edit_modified. This should let me get/set the modified flag o

Re: Does Python allow access to some of the implementation details?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I don't know of a way to directly access the internal structure of a > long, but you can speed up your example. > > First, is the order of the commands > > >> i=i>>1 >> lstBitsBitwiseAnd.append(i&0x01) > > > what you intend? The first low order bit is discarded bec

Help Please: 'module' object has no attribute 'compile'

my log... INFO urllib.urlopen('http://192.168.1.11/hact/kitchen.asp', urllib.urlencode({'Action': 'hs.ExecX10ByName+Kitchen+Lights%2C+On %2C+100&x=4&y=6'})) INFO INFO File "Q:\python\python23.zlib\urllib.py", line 78, in urlopen INFO File "Q:\python\python23.zlib\urllib.py", line 159, in op

Re: nesting for statements?

this seems you are finding tough time to solve a rather easy prob, just use the following idea: L=3 a=1 while a                b=1         while b                                c=1                 while c                                                name = chr(ord('a') + c)                    

Re: Help Please: 'module' object has no attribute 'compile'

livin wrote: > my log... > > INFO urllib.urlopen('http://192.168.1.11/hact/kitchen.asp', > urllib.urlencode({'Action': 'hs.ExecX10ByName+Kitchen+Lights%2C+On > %2C+100&x=4&y=6'})) > INFO > INFO File "Q:\python\python23.zlib\urllib.py", line 78, in urlopen > INFO File "Q:\python\python23.zli

Re: MVC programming with python (newbie) - please help

bwaha wrote: > > At some level this seems to me like the class ListDataModel above. I just > need to make a MyTreeControl class. However here GS(et) routines are > implemented in the ProjectFileDecoder class (data model?) whereas in the > earlier advice they are in class MyCoolListControl. So I'm

question about mutex.py

Hi, I was looking at the code in the standard lib's mutex.py, which is used for queuing function calls. Here is how it lets you acquire a lock: def testandset(self): """Atomic test-and-set -- grab the lock if it is not set, return True if it succeeded.""" if not self.l

libpython2.4.so

what is /usr/lib/libpython2.4.so used for? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: question about mutex.py

On 6 Jan 2006 14:44:39 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi, I was looking at the code in the standard lib's mutex.py, which is >used for queuing function calls. Here is how it lets you acquire a >lock: Did you read the module docstring? Of course, no multi-threading is implied -- hence the fu

Re: MVC programming with python (newbie) - please help

bwaha wrote: > I'd appreciate some experience from the gurus out there to help me > understand how to implement MVC design in python code. > Model class Study(object): def __init__(self, name, file): self.name = name self.file = file class Project(object):

Calling foreign functions from Python? ctypes?

I need to call some Windows APIs. Is the only way to download ctypes or the win32 interfaces? Is there any plan to get ctypes batteries into the standard Python build? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: config errors on Freebsd and python 2.3

David Bear wrote: > I don't plan on using curses -- so I'd like to ignore this. But, I'm just > wondering if there is an 'easy' fix... Not really, no. It's safe to ignore. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: libpython2.4.so

Levi Campbell wrote: > what is /usr/lib/libpython2.4.so used for? Nothing, usually. Things embedding python might use it, such as vim. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Spelling mistakes!

On 6 Jan 2006 07:30:41 -0800 "KraftDiner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've spent hours trying to find a bug that was a simple > spelling mistake. You're not the first. ;-) > in an init method I declare a variable self.someLongName > > later in a different method of the class I use > self.sumLo

Re: question about mutex.py

yes, I read it, and I even know about threading's existence. I just thought that if something claims to be atomic, it better should be. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Calling foreign functions from Python? ctypes?

Paul Watson wrote: > I need to call some Windows APIs. Is the only way to download ctypes or > the win32 interfaces? That depends on the specific win32 interface you want to call. Typically, the answer is "yes". > Is there any plan to get ctypes batteries into the standard Python build? I don't

Re: Calling foreign functions from Python? ctypes?

Paul Watson: > Is there any plan to get ctypes batteries into > the standard Python build? It is unlikely that ctypes will be included in the standard Python build as it allows unsafe memory access making it much easier to crash Python. Neil -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/list

Re: Calling foreign functions from Python? ctypes?

"Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > To my knowledge, ctypes has never been contributed to Python, > either, so its author apparently has no plan, either. Has anyone from Python.org asked him or her? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: JINI service -- Python client

On 6 Jan 2006 11:17:58 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : >does anybody knows how to use JINI service from Python? IF you use it from JPython, it is almost identical to using it from Java. See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jini.html http://mindprod.com/j

Re: Encoding sniffer?

Ralf Muschall: > Diez B. Roggisch wrote: >>AFAIK iso-8859-1 has all codepoints taken - so you won't go beyond that >>in your example. > IIRC the range 128-159 (i.e. control codes with the high bit set) > are unused. ISO 8859-1 and ISO-8859-1 (extra hyphen) differ in that ISO-8859-1 inclu

Re: Does Python allow access to some of the implementation details?

Claudio Grondi wrote: > The question is if Python allows somehow access to the bytes of the > representation of a long integer or integer in computers memory? Not sure what you mean by "Python", and "allows" here. I allow you :-) To do so, write a C file that is a Python module, and accesses the

Re: Calling foreign functions from Python? ctypes?

Paul Rubin wrote: >>To my knowledge, ctypes has never been contributed to Python, >>either, so its author apparently has no plan, either. > > > Has anyone from Python.org asked him or her? I can't answer that question. I haven't (and I personally share Neil Hodgson's reservation wrt. to the poss

Re: libpython2.4.so

"Martin v. Löwis" wrote: >> what is /usr/lib/libpython2.4.so used for? > Nothing, usually. Things embedding python might use it, such as vim. At least the interpreter uses it on systems where it's enabled... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ldd /usr/bin/python2.4 libpython2.4.so.1.0 => /usr/lib/libp

Re: python speed

On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 00:41:58 +0100, Andreas Kostyrka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [on research supposedly proving that Python is faster than C, Java and Fortran and assembly] > Well, it's easy enough to "prove". > > Take one aspect of Python: Automatic memory management via reference > counting. >

Re: libpython2.4.so

Levi Campbell wrote: > what is /usr/lib/libpython2.4.so used for? > On many systems, it is the core of Python, and /usr/bin/python2.4 is a small wrapper around it. Here's what I see on my box: [EMAIL PROTECTED] usr]$ ls -l bin/python2.4 lib/libpython2.4.so.1.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root4072 O

Re: Calling foreign functions from Python? ctypes?

Neil Hodgson wrote: >Paul Watson: > >> Is there any plan to get ctypes batteries into the standard Python build? > > >It is unlikely that ctypes will be included in the standard Python > build as it allows unsafe memory access making it much easier to crash > Python. Does extending Py

Re: Calling foreign functions from Python? ctypes?

Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Paul Watson wrote: > >>I need to call some Windows APIs. Is the only way to download ctypes or >>the win32 interfaces? > > > That depends on the specific win32 interface you want to call. > Typically, the answer is "yes". I have used _winreg and I see winsound in the d

Re: Calling foreign functions from Python? ctypes?

Paul Watson: > Neil Hodgson wrote: >>It is unlikely that ctypes will be included in the standard Python >> build as it allows unsafe memory access making it much easier to crash >> Python. > Does extending Python with any C/C++ function not do the same thing? No. It is the responsibilit

Re: Translate this to python?

On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 17:28:22 +0100, Xavier Morel wrote: > Heiko Wundram wrote: >> Xavier Morel wrote: >>> I think that xrange is also soon-to-be deprecated (xrange eats a little >>> less memory and is slightly faster to _create_, but much slower to >>> _iterate over_ than range) >> >> It might be

Re: Calling foreign functions from Python? ctypes?

Neil Hodgson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No. It is the responsibility of the extension author to ensure > that there is no possibility of crashing Python. With ctypes, you have > a generic mechanism that enables Python code to cause a crash. http://docs.python.org/lib/module-dl.html would se

Re: Spelling mistakes!

On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 17:23:27 -0600, Terry Hancock wrote: > I once misspelled a name in a set of API methods, which was > very embarrassing (I spelled "fovea" as "fovia"). So then I > had to go through and change it, and report it in as an API > change so that a "patch" became a "minor version upg

Re: Spelling mistakes!

Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Duh. Next time I use a dictionary before freezing an API! > Can you please explain what you mean by that? Use a dictionary how? Use a dictionary by looking up words in it to check the spelling. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Does Python allow access to some of the implementation details?

Martin v. Löwis wrote: > You can get somewhat faster in Python than your code if you avoid > producing new long objects all the time, and do the task in chunks of 30 > bits. It would be nice if you could explain why you consider chunks of 30 bits to be superior e.g. to chunks of 32 bits? > write

Re: Spelling mistakes!

>> > Duh. Next time I use a dictionary before freezing an API! >> Can you please explain what you mean by that? Use a dictionary how? Paul> Use a dictionary by looking up words in it to check the spelling. I think the most widely spread API misspelling must be "referer", as in the H

Re: Calling foreign functions from Python? ctypes?

Paul Watson wrote: > I need to call GetVersionInfo() and handle VERSIONINFO information. I > thought that distutils might have something, but I do not see it yet. > Any suggestions? You could write this specific API in VB, and then run cscript.exe in a pipe; or you could write a wrapper module ju

Re: libpython2.4.so

Heiko Wundram wrote: >>>what is /usr/lib/libpython2.4.so used for? >> >>Nothing, usually. Things embedding python might use it, such as vim. > > > At least the interpreter uses it on systems where it's enabled... That depends on the system: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /usr/lib/libpython2.4.so lr

Re: Calling foreign functions from Python? ctypes?

Paul Rubin wrote: > http://docs.python.org/lib/module-dl.html > would seem to also do that. That's correct. It has the same (unhealable) flaw. No surprise, though: it provides the same functionality. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Converting milliseconds to human time

Thanks Dan, that would be perfect or close enough I should say. :-) Regards, Harlin Seritt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Calling foreign functions from Python? ctypes?

On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 00:55:45 GMT, Neil Hodgson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Paul Watson: > >> Neil Hodgson wrote: >>>It is unlikely that ctypes will be included in the standard Python >>> build as it allows unsafe memory access making it much easier to crash >>> Python. >> Does extending Python

Re: Does Python allow access to some of the implementation details?

Claudio Grondi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The question is if Python allows somehow access to the bytes of the > representation of a long integer or integer in computers memory? No it doesn't, and that's a good thing, since the internal representation is a little bit surprising (it stores 15 bit

Help Dialogue

How do I make a help dialogue, like the one seen in IDLE when you go to Help-IDLE Help? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python speed

It seems that Java JDK 1.4 (-server) HotSpot compiler sometimes (in this test, on this computer, etc.) can produce programs faster than C and Fortran ones in n-body simulations and similar stuff: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=nbody&lang=all http://shootout.alioth.debian.

Re: psexec and os.popen help

popen3 did the trick. Thanks Jeff Gercken -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Spelling mistakes!

On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 17:29:32 -0800, Paul Rubin wrote: > Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Duh. Next time I use a dictionary before freezing an API! >> Can you please explain what you mean by that? Use a dictionary how? > > Use a dictionary by looking up words in it to check the spe

writing to DBase III format

Hi,  I want ot create a dbf file, the file is created,it can be opened by Excel but it cannot be opened by Access. Where is the error in my script. My script is as follows: #!/opt/bin/python2.3  import struct, datetime,itertools,time def dbfwriter(f, fieldnames, fieldspecs, records):

BeautifulSoup fetch help

Hi, I'm using the BeautifulSoup module and having some trouble processing a file. It's not printing what I'm expecting. In the code below, I'm expecting cells with only "bgcolor" attributes to be printed, but I'm getting cells with other attributes and some without any attributes. Any help app

download full sites?

hi, does anyone know of any package that will download a full site for offline viewing? It will change all url to match local urls and follow a logical structure (the site's structure would be suffice).. Please tell me if you have heard of such a package.. thanks alot :D -- http://mail.python.org

Re: Does Python allow access to some of the implementation details?

[Claudio Grondi] > Let's consider a test source code given at the very end of this posting. > > The question is if Python allows somehow access to the bytes of the > representation of a long integer or integer in computers memory? CPython does not expose its internal representation of longs at the

Re: download full sites?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > hi, does anyone know of any package that will download a full site for > offline viewing? It will change all url to match local urls and follow > a logical structure (the site's structure would be suffice).. Please > tell me if you have heard of such a package.. thanks a

Re: BeautifulSoup fetch help

"ted" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm using the BeautifulSoup module and having some trouble processing a > file. It's not printing what I'm expecting. In the code below, I'm expecting > cells with only "bgcolor" attributes to be printed, but I'm getting cells > with other attributes and some

Re: Spelling mistakes!

On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 14:03:10 +1100 "Steven D'Aprano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 17:29:32 -0800, Paul Rubin wrote: > > > Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > Duh. Next time I use a dictionary before freezing an > >API! > Can you please explain what you mean by t

Which is the best GTK

Hi all,   I am a new one to python. I want which is the best gtk. Tkinter or Tix or etc., . Please suggest me some documentation.   Thanks, Satish. Team Spiderace, www.spiderace.com.  Send instant messages to your online friends http://in.messenger.yahoo.com -- http://mail.python.org/m

Re: Spelling mistakes!

On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 19:51:22 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > Duh. Next time I use a dictionary before freezing > >an API! > > >> Can you please explain what you mean by that? Use a > >dictionary how? > > Paul> Use a dictionary by looking up words in it to > check the

Re: Is 'everything' a refrence or isn't it?

On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 20:49:06 +1100 "Steven D'Aprano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 22:18:39 -0600, Terry Hancock wrote: > >> Consider this: > >> > >> def do_nothing(x): > >> pass > >> > >> huge_tuple = (None,) * 1**4 > >> do_nothing(huge_tuple) > >> > >> If Python made

Re: Spelling mistakes!

>> In fact, googling for "referer" and "referrer" reports a similar >> number of hits, unlike most misspellings. Terry> You know, I almost mentioned that myself. Drives me crazy. Me too. I'm one of those people who, for better or worse, is a good speller. Words just look right or w

Re: python speed

Quite honestly I've never heard of java being faster than.. well.. anything. Faster than Python? I really doubt it. Their are several libraries for game programming specifically as well as opengl, sdl, as well as several different audio systems/daemons.. I'd suggest browsing through the categories

Re: Which is the best GTK

On Sat, 7 Jan 2006 05:21:36 + (GMT) K Satish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am a new one to python. I want which is the best gtk. > Tkinter or Tix or etc., . Please suggest me some > documentation. The abbreviation you want (I think) is "GUI" not "GTK". GTK is *a* GUI. If you want to

Re: How to Retrieve Data from an HTTPS://URL

You might be using ActiveState python on Windows? If so, you most likely do not have the SSL layer that's required to process HTTPS protocol queries. You should install 'standard' Python from python.org to get the SSL handling functionality. I understand that ActiveState can not distribute the SSL

Re: getting a KeyError:'href' any ideas?

You wrote: > i have an > href which looks like this: > > http://www.cnn.com";> > > here is my code > for incident in row('td', {'class':'all'}): > n = incident.findNextSibling('a', {'class': 'btn'}) > link = incident.findNextSibling['href'] + "','" > an

Re: BeautifulSoup fetch help

Thanks Mike, works like a charm. -Ted "Mike Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "ted" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I'm using the BeautifulSoup module and having some trouble processing a >> file. It's not printing what I'm expecting. In the code below, I'm

Re: Spelling mistakes!

KraftDiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Frankly how are you ever to know if this type of error is occuring? . Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Does Python allow access to some of the implementation details?

Claudio Grondi wrote: > Martin v. Löwis wrote: > > You can get somewhat faster in Python than your code if you avoid > > producing new long objects all the time, and do the task in chunks of 30 > > bits. > It would be nice if you could explain why you consider chunks of 30 bits > to be superior e.g

Re: Is 'everything' a refrence or isn't it?

Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As far as I am concerned "call by object" which is what you > *did* propose implies "call by value" to anyone who is just > learning the language, and that is the audience we're > talking about. >From what I can tell, Liskov proposed *three* different na

Re: download full sites?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > hi, does anyone know of any package that will download a full site for > offline viewing? It will change all url to match local urls and follow > a logical structure (the site's structure would be suffice).. Please > tell me if you have heard of such a package.. thanks a

Re: CGI question

sophie, If you have the URL in a variable, it's easy to parse it into it's components (one of which is the query string) like so: >>> from urllib2.urlparse import urlparse >>> urlparse( \ "http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]:8080/mytext.php;hellothere?this=test+value&and=that+one#anchor") ('http', '[EMAIL

Re: is there a smaple to create syslog server on Windows.

WIndows has a syslog server. It's called the Windows Event Log. No need to build a whole new one. *grin* Now... if you just want an app that listens on a log port and sends it's message to the Event Log, then I can't help you but to suggest that a *nix knowledgable programmer may help you write on

Re: smtplib error('Connection reset by peer')

Do you actually run an SMTP server on your local machine and is it configured to accept mail on the localhost interface and does it allow mail forwarding such as you attempted? LL -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What's wrong with this code snippet?

For what it's worth, GenerateRandomColour does not access any instance variables and therefore needn't even be a member of the class Population. If you wanted it there for encapsulation purposes, consider making it a staticmethod like so: @staticmethod() def GenerateRandomColour():

PIL implementation

I wrote this snippet with the intention of -- capturing a section of the screen whenever it changes. It could be implemented to log any sort of messaging system ( by saving consecutive images eg. 1.png...etc). #code import Image import ImageGrab lastchatbound = (21, 504) + (

queries

hello,      i would like learn how to implement berkeley database in python    i kindly request you to provide help by describing what manuals to refer or other sources to get about that.         thanking you,     

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