Re: How can I make a dictionary that marks itself when it's modified?

Thanks to everyone who posted comments or put some thought into this problem. I should have been more specific with what I want to do, from your comments the general case of this problem, while I hate to say impossible, is way more trouble than it's worth. By modified I meant that the dictionary

Re: - E04 - Leadership! Google, Guido van Rossum, PSF

Dave Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > >Google also has technical offices in the New York area. > > City? . I moved out of the 'burbs of Minneapolis about 6 > years ago, not because of the weather, but because it was getting too > crowded for me. Yep, city -- specifically on Broadway,

Re: How to remove subset from a file efficiently?

AJL wrote: > How fast does this run? > > a = set(file('PSP320.dat')) > b = set(file('CBR319.dat')) > file('PSP-CBR.dat', 'w').writelines(a.difference(b)) Turning PSP into a set takes extra time, consumes unnecessary memory, eliminates duplicates (possibly a bad thing), and loses the origin

Re: More than you ever wanted to know about objects [was: Is everything a refrence or isn't it]

On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 03:12:00 +, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] >Note to nitpickers >-- >Please note that I *am* oversimplifying here, and the nitpickers will >undoubtedly find many threadsworth of valuable material here. The point >is to develop an understanding

Re: HP open source printer drivers are in Python

Andy Leszczynski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a specific question, anybody is familiar? Only the omniscient, prescient or telepathic can be familiar with your question before you ask it. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html> -- \ "One of the most important thing

Re: ajax python module??

Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > Mark Engstrom wrote: > > >>Does anyone have a recommendation on the best AJAX python module? > > > If it is the best is obviously an arguable assertion - but I very much like > MochiKit from Bob Ippolito. > > http://www.mochikit.org/ I heartily second the recommendat

Re: How can I make a dictionary that marks itself when it's modified?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] > It's important that I can read the contents of the dict without > flagging it as modified, but I want it to set the flag the moment I add > a new element or alter an existing one (the values in the dict are > mutable), this is what makes it difficult. Because the values are > mu

Re: Real-world use cases for map's None fill-in feature?

[Paul Rubin] > ISTR there's also a plan to eliminate map in Python 3.0 in favor of > list comprehensions. That would get rid of the possibility of using > map(None...) instead of izip_longest. This needs to be thought through. Not to fear. If map() eventually loses its built-in status, it will

Re: another docs problem - imp

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > "Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> from the find_module documentation: find_module( name[, path]) [...] > > Reading more carefully is always useful. But that does

HP open source printer drivers are in Python

I have a specific question, anybody is familiar? A. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: flatten a level one list

Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sion Arrowsmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > sum(...) > > sum(sequence, start=0) -> value > > > > If you're using sum() as a 1-level flatten you need to give it > > start=[]. > > Except if you are trying to sum arrays of strings... > > >>

Creating shortcuts?

Hi Folks, Is it possible to create a shortcut to a file in Python? I need to do this in both win32 and OSX. I've already got it covered in Linux by system(ln...). Thanks, Ron Griswold Character TD R!OT Pictures [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: time.strftime() NOT producing RFC2822-compliant Date strings?

richard wrote: > I'm just dealing with a Roundup bug report in which it's pointed out that > time.strftime() doesn't produce RFC2822-compliant date strings when in a > locale other than "C". While it doesn't fix strftime() (though a change to the docs might do that ), using email.Utils.formatdate

Re: Remote Function Call

Mike wrote: > Hi, > > I have two machines. A python program on machine 1 needs to make a > python call to a method in machine 2. What is the most efficient / fast > / programmer friendly way to do it? > > - XML-RPC? > - Http Call? use Pyro http://pyro.sourceforge.net --Irmen -- http://mail.pyt

Re: Why is there no post-pre increment operator in python

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Anyone has any idea on why is there no post/pre increment operators in > python ? For lots of good reasons. > Although the statement: > ++j > works but does nothing So does --j. They both parse as a value with two unary operators applied to it in succession: +(+(j)

Re: flatten a level one list

David Murmann wrote: > Robin Becker schrieb: > > # New attempts: > > from itertools import imap > > def flatten4(x, y): > > '''D Murman''' > > l = [] > > list(imap(l.extend, izip(x, y))) > > return l > > > > > > from Tkinter import _flatten > > def flatten5(x, y): > > '''D Murm

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

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The reason is that I am still trying to figure out > what a value is myself. Do all objects have values? Yes. > If > not which do and which don't? What's the value of int(1)? > An object? Some otherwise unreachable thing that > represents the abstract concept of the

Re: atexit + threads = bug?

David> atExitFunc is called when the main thread terminates, rather than David> when the process exits. The atexit documentation contains David> several warnings, but nothing about this. Is this a bug? This might be a bug, but I can't see how it can be in atexit. Atexit just regist

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