Re: OT: excellent book on information theory

Terry Hancock wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:28:15 + > Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Grant Edwards wrote: >> >>>Very interesting. And rather sad that editors think the >>>average Amermican reader too dim-witted to figure out >>>(in context, even) that a "car park" is a "parking

Re: Arithmetic sequences in Python

Op 2006-01-17, Steven Bethard schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Antoon Pardon wrote: >> Why don't we give slices more functionality and use them. >> These are a number of ideas I had. (These are python3k ideas) >> >> 1) Make slices iterables. (No more need for (x)range) >> >> 2) Use a bottom and sto

Re: New Python.org website ?

Steve Holden wrote: > http://beta.python.org Hm. Am I the only one not particularly impressed? Sure the front page is 'slick' but a few clicks reveal a fairly shallow facade of marketing material, with no real content. In general gives the impression of 'phony' company trying to make a big impr

Re: magical expanding hash

Steven Bethard wrote: > Steve Holden wrote: > >>Steven Bethard wrote: >> >>>Agreed. I really hope that Python 3.0 applies Raymond Hettinger's >>>suggestion "Improved default value logic for Dictionaries" from >>> http://wiki.python.org/moin/Python3%2e0Suggestions >>> >>>This would allow you

Re: The Python cross? Was New Python.org website

Obaid R. wrote: > Bugs wrote: > >>I thought I read here that a new website design was in the works for >>python.org in time for the new year? Is that still true and of so, >>anyone know what is it's status? >>Thanks! > > > > I googled around and found no background on how the new Python logo >

Re: The Python cross? Was New Python.org website

Obaid R. wrote: > Bugs wrote: > >>I thought I read here that a new website design was in the works for >>python.org in time for the new year? Is that still true and of so, >>anyone know what is it's status? >>Thanks! > > > > I googled around and found no background on how the new Python logo >

Re: Arithmetic sequences in Python

Op 2006-01-17, Gregory Petrosyan schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hey guys, this proposal has already been rejected (it is the PEP 204). > No it isn't. In my proposal [1, 2:8, 8] would be equivallent to [1, slice(2,8), 8]. If someone would want the list [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8] with this notation, I would

Re: 10060, 'Operation timed out'

Sumit Acharya wrote: > I am using following script to connect to the server and i try the > connection for 1000 times. Some times it succeeds for all the 1000 > times,but some times it fails with error:- > 10060, 'Operation timed out'. When it fails with the abover error, it > seems timed out time

Re: New Python.org website ?

Shalabh, You've managed very well to express the same things I feel about the new Python website. What I especially dislike about the new website are the flashy pictures on the front-page with no content and no purpose -- purely boasting but nothing to back up your claims. (I wouldn't mind some

Re: Arithmetic sequences in Python

Op 2006-01-18, Tom Anderson schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Antoon Pardon wrote: > >> Op 2006-01-16, Alex Martelli schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> Paul Rubin wrote: >>> Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For finite sequences, your

Re: XML Writer in wxPython

i have to put the XML in a string. Is there a module with the XML writing funcion? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: The Python cross? Was New Python.org website

Steve Holden: > The history of this choice is lost in the mists of time. Many other > proposals were made and discussed at around the same time, to the extent > that it became clear no one choice could win universal approval. The two snakes have just been arguing (over decorator syntax, the

Re: New Python.org website ?

[Shalabh Chaturvedi] | Hm. Am I the only one not particularly impressed? Sure the | front page is | 'slick' but a few clicks reveal a fairly shallow facade of marketing | material, with no real content. In general gives the impression of | 'phony' company trying to make a big impression. Most good

Re: search multiple dictionaries efficiently?

George Sakkis wrote: > It's not the *most* efficient way because value is looked up twice if > it is contained in the dictionary; if you absolutely need it to be as > efficient as possible and can't figure it out on your own, ask again > and someone will help you out. > How do you *know* it is no

Re: 10060, 'Operation timed out'

can u please modify the script that i have posted with your suggestion, it will help me to a certain extent. Thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: New Python.org website ?

Tim N. van der Leeuw wrote: > Shalabh, > > You've managed very well to express the same things I feel about the > new Python website. > > What I especially dislike about the new website are the flashy pictures > on the front-page with no content and no purpose -- purely boasting but > nothing to

Re: search multiple dictionaries efficiently?

Duncan Booth wrote: > Test with the 'in' operator and then retrieving the value is the fastest > solution when the value isn't in the dictionary (it only does a single > lookup then), and is still fast when it is. [0.36/0.2] > > Using the get method of the dictionary with a default value to be retr

Re: Arithmetic sequences in Python

Op 2006-01-16, Gregory Petrosyan schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Please visit http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0204.html first. > > As you can see, PEP 204 was rejected, mostly because of not-so-obvious > syntax. But IMO the idea behind this pep is very nice. So, maybe > there's a reason to adopt slig

Re: New Python.org website ?

Shalabh Chaturvedi wrote: > Hm. Am I the only one not particularly impressed? no. the design is alright (if a bit too "bland business"), but the little I've seen of the information architecture and the backend infrastructure feels like 1998 (which, I suppose, was when the project started...) o

Re: Find and slice problem

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi guys, been going around in circles with this so I hope you can help! > > My current situation is I'm using Grinder and Jython to test pages, but > the log on process is giving me some headaches. After entering the > correct username and password, you then need to ente

Re: 10060, 'Operation timed out'

Sumit Acharya wrote: > can u please modify the script that i have posted with your suggestion, > it will help me to a certain extent. > > Thanks > from ftplib import FTP import time import sys import socket socket.setdefaulttimeout(60) host = sys.argv[1] port = sys.argv[2] for x in range(1000):

Re: New Python.org website ?

Tim Golden wrote: [...] > You might argue that the beta shouldn't have been unveiled > without suitable text etc. But I would say: well done to > the people who've made the effort and put the beta > together. It's been mentioned that the whole thing is > downloadable and open to contributions, so m

Re: New Python.org website ?

> Checkins to subversion cause an automated update in the site content. Good :) What's the subversion URL where I can fetch the site? ;) regards, --Tim -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: New Python.org website ?

Tim N. van der Leeuw wrote: >>Checkins to subversion cause an automated update in the site content. > > > Good :) What's the subversion URL where I can fetch the site? ;) > The URL is https://svn.python.org/www/trunk/beta.python.org but I don't know whether anonymous access is enabled. Mayb

Re: New Python.org website ?

[Steve Holden] | https://svn.python.org/www/trunk/beta.python.org | but I don't know whether anonymous access is enabled. Maybe you can let |me know ... Doesn't look like it. Asking me for authentication. TJG -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: New Python.org website ?

Steve, My apologies if this apppeared to be 'slagging'. I was trying to give some feedback but I do realize that I don't have anything better to offer yet to replace the pictures I dislike. Perhaps I should have withheld my criticisms until I could offer an alternative. (Still thinking about what

Re: New Python.org website ?

Tim N. van der Leeuw wrote: > Steve, > > My apologies if this apppeared to be 'slagging'. I was trying to give > some feedback but I do realize that I don't have anything better to > offer yet to replace the pictures I dislike. > That's absolutely fine, the redevelopment of the site is intended t

Re: New Python.org website ?

Tim Golden wrote: > [Steve Holden] > > | https://svn.python.org/www/trunk/beta.python.org > > | but I don't know whether anonymous access is enabled. Maybe you can > let > |me know ... > > Doesn't look like it. Asking me for authentication. > Rats, thanks for letting me know. As a first step

Re: New Python.org website ?

I need to supply a username/password before I can look at the SVN repository in my webbrowser; I tried username/pwd 'anonymous' but that don't work. cheers, --Tim -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: magical expanding hash

On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:00:00 -0700, Steven Bethard wrote: > Steve Holden wrote: >> Steven Bethard wrote: >>> Agreed. I really hope that Python 3.0 applies Raymond Hettinger's >>> suggestion "Improved default value logic for Dictionaries" from >>> http://wiki.python.org/moin/Python3%2e0Sugge

Re: New Python.org website ?

Tim N. van der Leeuw schreef: > Shalabh, > > You've managed very well to express the same things I feel about the > new Python website. FWIW, I don't like the new site at all. It tries to look slick (but fails to do so in my opinion), and buries the useful information in all kinds of misplaced

Being unjust

I'd be interested in what people think about bundling one of the diverse Python webframeworks with the Python distribution which will be "just there" as like Tcl/Tk+Tkinter for GUI-programming. Its not that I don't trust people to make qualified decisions on their own or that I actually believe in

Re: check to see if value can be an integer instead of string

On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:02:52 -0800, nephish wrote: > Hello there, > i need a way to check to see if a certain value can be an integer. I > have looked at is int(), but what is comming out is a string that may > be an integer. Not in Python it isn't. int(value) returns an int, not a string. > i

Re: Being unjust

Kay Schluehr wrote: > I'd be interested in what people think about bundling one of the > diverse Python webframeworks with the Python distribution which will be > "just there" as like Tcl/Tk+Tkinter for GUI-programming. if you can find one that's relatively stable, simple enough to enable beginne

Re: On Numbers

On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 23:34:40 +, Tom Anderson wrote: ... >>> So I don't really know what point you are making. What solution(s) for >>> 1**0.5 were you expecting? >> >> He's probably getting at the fact that if you're dealing with complex >> numbers, square root get a lot more complicated: >

Re: Being unjust

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 03:27:56 -0800, Kay Schluehr wrote: > I'd be interested in what people think about bundling one of the > diverse Python webframeworks with the Python distribution which will be > "just there" as like Tcl/Tk+Tkinter for GUI-programming. Its not that I > don't trust people to mak

Re: On Numbers

Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Perhaps you meant to write (-1)**0.5, in which case Python developers have > a decision to make: should it assume real-valued maths unless explicitly > told differently, and hence raise an exception, or coerce the result to > complex? > > In this case, Python raises an ex

Re: Being unjust

Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Kay Schluehr wrote: > > > I'd be interested in what people think about bundling one of the > > diverse Python webframeworks with the Python distribution which will be > > "just there" as like Tcl/Tk+Tkinter for GUI-programming. > > if you can find one that's relatively stabl

making objects unassignable "read-only" (especially when extending)

Hi, can I make an object read-only, so that x = new_value fails (and x keeps it's orginal value)? This would be especially of interest for me for an object created by a c extension. -- Johannes -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Newcomer question wrt variable scope/namespaces

Florian Daniel Otel wrote: > Do I understand it correctly > that actually the rule has to be refined as pertaining to the (so > called) "immutable" types (like e.g. integers, tuples/strings) > whereas lists and dictionaries are "mutable" types and the said > scoping rule does not apply ? No! The

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extending python: which python code calls the c iterator methods?

Hello, when extending python there are type methods tp_iter and tp_iternext. Which python code calls the c iterator methods? -- Johannes -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

[OT] Nit: please don't user "it's" unless you can substitute "it is" without changing your inteded meaning.

Typos happen to all of us, but in case you hadn't realized what "it's" is a contraction for ("it is"), now you do, and you can save yourself further embarrassment (assuming you care ;-). If your friends won't tell you, who will ;-) Write the contraction "it's" only when you want its meaning to be

Can a simple a==b 'hang' in and endless loop?

In the process of learning about some deeper details of Python I am curious if it is possible to write a 'prefix' code assigning to a and b something special, so, that Python gets trapped in an endless loop in a line with: if a==b: print 'OK' I mean, it would be of much help to me on my way t

Re: making objects unassignable "read-only" (especially when extending)

On 18 Jan 2006 11:59:23 GMT, Johannes Zellner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > can I make an object read-only, so that > > x = new_value > > fails (and x keeps it's orginal value)? This works for me: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/2b1785397358ff90 -- Cheers, Simon B,

Re: chi-squared tests in python?

On 17 Jan 2006, at 20:32, Rob Cowie wrote: >>> Matthew >>> ps: given the "batteries included" philosphy, there's a >>> remarkable dearth >>> of stats in python... > >> I think Chi^2 tests fall distinctly in the "third-party library" >> category, >myself. > > I don't know... I've often thought

Re: Can a simple a==b 'hang' in and endless loop?

Claudio Grondi wrote: > In the process of learning about some deeper details of Python I am > curious if it is possible to write a 'prefix' code assigning to a and b > something special, so, that Python gets trapped in an endless loop in a > line with: > > if a==b: print 'OK' > > I mean, it would

Re: Nit: please don't user "it's" unless you can substitute "it is" without changing your inteded meaning.

Bengt Richter wrote: > Typos happen to all of us, but in case you hadn't realized what "it's" > is a contraction for ("it is"), now you do, and you can save yourself further > embarrassment (assuming you care ;-). > If your friends won't tell you, who will ;-) > Making grammatical errors in the s

Re: check to see if value can be an integer instead of string

it isn't really that i will want to change it to an integer anyway. the script uses a table to reference a value to a key, if the key is a group of letters, that code tells the script to do something. if the value is a number, it means an equipment failure. The thing is, all the values come out as

Re: On Numbers

Erik Max Francis wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > >>Perhaps you meant to write (-1)**0.5, in which case Python developers have >>a decision to make: should it assume real-valued maths unless explicitly >>told differently, and hence raise an exception, or coerce the result to >>complex? >> >>In

Re: Nit: please don't user "it's" unless you can substitute "it is"without changing your inteded meaning.

Fuzzyman wrote: > Making grammatical errors in the subject of a post on gramamtical > errors must be embarrasing. ;-) http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/lexicon.html#moenslaw-corrections -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: extending python: which python code calls the c iterator methods?

Johannes Zellner wrote: > when extending python there are type methods tp_iter and tp_iternext. > Which python code calls the c iterator methods? iter(obj), for-in obj, etc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: New Python.org website ?

Shalabh Chaturvedi wrote: > Hm. Am I the only one not particularly impressed? Sure the front page is > 'slick' but a few clicks reveal a fairly shallow facade of marketing > material, with no real content. In general gives the impression of > 'phony' company trying to make a big impression. Most

Re: New Python.org website ?

Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Shalabh Chaturvedi wrote: > > >>Hm. Am I the only one not particularly impressed? > > > no. > > the design is alright (if a bit too "bland business"), but the little I've > seen of the > information architecture and the backend infrastructure feels like 1998 > (which,

Re: New Python.org website ?

Tim N. van der Leeuw wrote: > Shalabh, > > You've managed very well to express the same things I feel about the > new Python website. > > What I especially dislike about the new website are the flashy pictures > on the front-page with no content and no purpose -- purely boasting but > nothing to

Re: On Numbers

Steve Holden wrote: > >>> import cmath > >>> cmath.sqrt(-1) > 1j > >>> > > Indeed. But even exponentiation can come respectably close: > > >>> (-1+0j)**0.5 > (6.123233995736766e-17+1j) Oh, no doubt. I was just pointing out that cmath.sqrt is what you want if you really do want the com

Re: 10060, 'Operation timed out'

Hi Steve, It didnt help, i am getting same error. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: New Python.org website ?

Roel Schroeven wrote: > Tim N. van der Leeuw schreef: > >>Shalabh, >> >>You've managed very well to express the same things I feel about the >>new Python website. > > > FWIW, I don't like the new site at all. It tries to look slick (but > fails to do so in my opinion), and buries the useful inf

Python embeding error!!

I want run Python GUI program on MFC. So I coded this def start(): global Tkinter from Tkinter import * root = Tk() w = Label(root, text="Hello, world!") w.pack() but It returns error at rc = PyObject_CallObject(func, NULL); What is proble

Re: Nit: please don't user "it's" unless you can substitute "it is" without changing your inteded meaning.

Fuzzyman wrote: > Bengt Richter wrote: > >>Typos happen to all of us, but in case you hadn't realized what "it's" >>is a contraction for ("it is"), now you do, and you can save yourself further >>embarrassment (assuming you care ;-). >>If your friends won't tell you, who will ;-) >> > > > Making

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Re: Can a simple a==b 'hang' in and endless loop?

Claudio Grondi wrote: > In the process of learning about some deeper details of Python I am > curious if it is possible to write a 'prefix' code assigning to a and b > something special, so, that Python gets trapped in an endless loop in a > line with: > > if a==b: print 'OK' > > I mean, it wo

Re: Newcomer question wrt variable scope/namespaces

Mike, Gary, Magnus First of all, thanks to you all for the clarifications. On 1/14/06, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Python variables are just names. They refer to (are "bound" to) > objects. An assignment statement doesn't change a value. It rebinds > the variable (or lvalue) to the va

RE: New Python.org website ?

Hi Tim, -Original Message- From: Tim Parkin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: woensdag 18 januari 2006 13:45 > > That sounds fine.. I think having a link to a high profile user of > python would be very useful though. I agree the XP link is a bit shite. > Hopefully we'd get the photos and

Puzzled by py.test output

I'm seeing a strange difference between error reporting on local versus global variables, when using py.test. Upon error, the actual value of a local is reported, but not of a global. Does anyone know why? I'm using the latest development version of py.test (from subversion). Example code in file

Re: Nit: please don't user "it's" unless you can substitute "it is" without changing your inteded meaning.

"The pronominal possessives hers, its, theirs, yours, and oneself have no apostrophe." Strunk & White, The Elements of Style. Section II.1 The Elements is a classic masterpiece of concision and lucidity, unlike Eats, Shoots, Sells Books, and Leaves. rpd -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listin

Re: New Python.org website ?

Tim N. van der Leeuw wrote: > Steve, > > My apologies if this apppeared to be 'slagging'. I was trying to give > some feedback but I do realize that I don't have anything better to > offer yet to replace the pictures I dislike. > > Perhaps I should have withheld my criticisms until I could offer

Re: New Python.org website ?

Leeuw van der, Tim wrote: >I think that in general, I don't like the fact that links to >high-profile users are featured so prominently. That row of pictures >there looks good to me 'as such' but linking there to 'success stories' >feels, dunno, perhaps a bit cheesy to me. (That might be just my d

Re: On Numbers

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 23:34:40 +, Tom Anderson wrote: > So I don't really know what point you are making. What solution(s) for 1**0.5 were you expecting? >>> >>> He's probably getting at the fact that if you're dealing with complex >>> numb

Re: Can a simple a==b 'hang' in and endless loop?

Steve Holden wrote: > Claudio Grondi wrote: > >> In the process of learning about some deeper details of Python I am >> curious if it is possible to write a 'prefix' code assigning to a and >> b something special, so, that Python gets trapped in an endless loop >> in a line with: >> >> if a==b:

Re: Nit: please don't user "it's" unless you can substitute "it is" without changing your inteded meaning.

BartlebyScrivener wrote: > "The pronominal possessives hers, its, theirs, yours, and oneself have > no apostrophe." > > Strunk & White, The Elements of Style. Section II.1 > > The Elements is a classic masterpiece of concision and lucidity, unlike > Eats, Shoots, Sells Books, and Leaves. > Which

ldap passwd need help

I've got the python-ldap version 2.0.11 with python 2.4 under Linux I've got the ldap stuff working for groups, but now I'm trying to use it to change a user password. I get a return of 2 and no error messages but it does not change ldap. I've tried it with uid = 'joeblow' and with oldpw=whateve

Re: 10060, 'Operation timed out'

Sumit Acharya wrote: > Hi Steve, > > It didnt help, i am getting same error. > After 20 seconds or 60? regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC www.holdenweb.com PyCon TX 2006 www.python.org/pycon/ -- http://ma

Re: Convert Active Directory Object to string

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Re: Can a simple a==b 'hang' in and endless loop?

Claudio Grondi wrote: [snip..] > Thanks for the quick reply. > > I see, that I have overseen, that as Fredrik also stated, one can > directly manipulate __eq__() as the easiest way to achieve what I > requested. > > To explain why I am not happy with it, I will try here to give some more > backgro

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Hmm, does anyone know if there is a way to uncompress Tiff files in python itself without having to make an os call. This is because the script is kind of supposed to run on windows also... Sophie. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [OT] Nit: please don't user "it's" unless you can substitute "it is" without changing your inteded meaning.

Bengt Richter wrote: > Typos happen to all of us, but in case you hadn't realized what "it's" > is a contraction for ("it is"), now you do, and you can save yourself further > embarrassment (assuming you care ;-). > If your friends won't tell you, who will ;-) Maybe we can also hold forth on "whic

Re: 10060, 'Operation timed out'

After 20 seconds only. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Can a simple a==b 'hang' in and endless loop?

Claudio Grondi wrote: > Steve Holden wrote: > >>Claudio Grondi wrote: >> >> >>>In the process of learning about some deeper details of Python I am >>>curious if it is possible to write a 'prefix' code assigning to a and >>>b something special, so, that Python gets trapped in an endless loop >>>

Is there a maximum length of a regular expression in python?

I have a regular expression that is approximately 100k bytes. (It is basically a list of all known norwegian postal numbers and the corresponding place with | in between. I know this is not the intended use for regular expressions, but it should nonetheless work. the pattern is ur'(N-|NO-)?(5259 H

Re: New Python.org website ?

Tim Golden wrote: >[Shalabh Chaturvedi] > >| Hm. Am I the only one not particularly impressed? Sure the >| front page is >| 'slick' but a few clicks reveal a fairly shallow facade of marketing >| material, with no real content. In general gives the impression of >| 'phony' company trying to make a

Re: Can a simple a==b 'hang' in and endless loop?

Fuzzyman wrote: > Claudio Grondi wrote: > [snip..] > >>Thanks for the quick reply. >> >>I see, that I have overseen, that as Fredrik also stated, one can >>directly manipulate __eq__() as the easiest way to achieve what I >>requested. >> >>To explain why I am not happy with it, I will try here to

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Re: Is there a maximum length of a regular expression in python?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a regular expression that is approximately 100k bytes. (It is > basically a list of all known norwegian postal numbers and the > corresponding place with | in between. I know this is not the intended > use for regular expressions, but it should nonetheless work. >

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Re: New Python.org website ?

Well I think the new site is definitely a step in the right direction. The old site is definitely "utilitarian" and is quite functional, but not "sexy". And I think the whole point is to (hopefully) have a good first impression of the language and community by "impressing" (if you will) new us

Re: Is there a maximum length of a regular expression in python?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a regular expression that is approximately 100k bytes. (It is > basically a list of all known norwegian postal numbers and the > corresponding place with | in between. I know this is not the intended > use for regular expressions, but it should nonetheless work. >

Re: 10060, 'Operation timed out'

Sumit Acharya wrote: > After 20 seconds only. > Of course I now realise there's no default timeout on sockets anyway, so that likely wasn't the problem. Which statement is failing? You would actually get much more information without the try/except clauses, as they are stopping the traceback f

Re: Is there a maximum length of a regular expression in python?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a regular expression that is approximately 100k bytes. (It is > basically a list of all known norwegian postal numbers and the > corresponding place with | in between. I know this is not the intended > use for regular expressions,

Re: New Python.org website ?

> At any rate, opinions will always differ. You are always going to get > the people who want a cool flash-based animated site with 3D stereo > surround sound, and the other end of the spectrum where you will be > flamed if you do anything more than hand-code the html, on Unix machines > only,

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Re: Can a simple a==b 'hang' in and endless loop?

Steve Holden wrote: > Claudio Grondi wrote: > >> Steve Holden wrote: >> >>> Claudio Grondi wrote: >>> >>> In the process of learning about some deeper details of Python I am curious if it is possible to write a 'prefix' code assigning to a and b something special, so, that Python

Re: How to set a wx.textctrl can editable or readonly?

Hako wrote: > Hello All, > > > I have a function to set readonly or editable of a textctrl. I'd like > to make the textctrl initial set readonly and use other event funciton > to set editable of the textctrl but it always can editable. How to set > a textctrl can editable or readonly? > Here is

Re: How to set a wx.textctrl can editable or readonly?

Frank Millman wrote: > > def onGotFocus(self,evt): > if readonly: > self.Navigate() > Oops - I meant 'if self.readonly' ... Frank -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Can a simple a==b 'hang' in and endless loop?

Claudio Grondi wrote: [...] >> > Yes, I know about 'is', > > but I mean, that it is not possible to use 'is' as replacement for '==' > operator to achieve in Python same behaviour as it is the case in C and > Javascript when comparing values with '=='. > 'is' does the C, Javascript job when comp

Re: Retaining Unix EOL when reading/writing in windows

Nick Wain wrote: > Hello All, > > I'm relatively new to PYTHON, using PYTHON 2.4 on Windows XP. I'm having a > problem as below. I've asked some other people in my office who are more > experienced in PYTHON, but they can't help. > > I have a number of files created in UNIX that have the UNIX e

Re: How to set a wx.textctrl can editable or readonly?

> def onGotFocus(self,evt): > if readonly: > self.Navigate() > > This causes the control to react as if the user press 'tab'. By default > it always tabs forwards, but it takes an optional 'IsForward' argument > - set it to False to tab backwards. Just a pedantic query, no

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Re: New Python.org website ?

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 00:33:06 -0800, Tim N. van der Leeuw wrote: > What I especially dislike about the new website are the flashy pictures > on the front-page with no content and no purpose -- purely boasting but > nothing to back up your claims. > > (I wouldn't mind some sleek pictures there if t

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