Re: How to create a unix shell account with Python?

2006-02-06 Thread Sebastjan Trepca
Ok, thanks :) On 5 Feb 2006 13:01:23 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > os.system("useradd ...") > > Its not pretty, but it gets it done. > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Python V2.4.2 source code

2006-02-06 Thread John Dean
Hi Does anybody know from where I can get a copy of the source for Python V2.4.2. I downloaded what is reckoned to be the source code from www.python.org, but is turns out to be the MacXOS version with the core modules missing. The reason I am looking for the source code is so I can make a debug b

Re: Numeric and matlab

2006-02-06 Thread Bas
Hi, I am also considering a switch from Matlab to NumPy/SciPy at some point. Note that in the last version of Matlab (7?) you don't have to use 'find', but you now can 'conditional arrays' as an index, so instead of idx=find(a>5); a(idx)=6; you can do: cond=a>5; a(cond) = 6; or even shor

Re: Python V2.4.2 source code

2006-02-06 Thread Fredrik Lundh
John Dean wrote: > Does anybody know from where I can get a copy of the source for Python > V2.4.2. I downloaded what is reckoned to be the source code from > www.python.org, but is turns out to be the MacXOS version with the core > modules missing. the source archives available here seem to be c

Re: [wxPython-users] Problem in threading

2006-02-06 Thread Sbaush
oops...I tried it but i got a bad segmentation fault!!Is really a good threading implementation?2006/2/2, Josiah Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >:My response is at the end.Sbaush < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> Hi all.> I've a problem with thread in python.> My applications has a GUI that has some button.

Re: Strange behavior with os call in cgi script

2006-02-06 Thread Duncan Booth
Steve Holden wrote: >> Add logging to your program: >> http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.5/lib/module-logging.html >> > Probably oiverkill, particularly for a beginner (is it only me that > thinks the logging module is either way over-complicated or way > under-documented?). No, I would agree with

Re: Best way of finding terminal width/height?

2006-02-06 Thread Joel Hedlund
Thank you for a very quick, informative and concise response. > BTW: don't forget to attach a handler to the window-size-change > signal (SIGWINCH) so that you know when your terminal changes sizes Do you mean something like this? import signal, os # terminal_info contains the example from my fi

Daemon terminates unexpected

2006-02-06 Thread Stefan Neumann
I have written a daemon which should run endlessly. The structure looks like this: - start-stop-daemon forks my python program then: if __name__=="__main__": try: main() except Exception,e def main(): # I need a starter to use the program also from the unittests

Re: Python V2.4.2 source code

2006-02-06 Thread Patrick M. Rutkowski
John Dean wrote: > Hi > > Does anybody know from where I can get a copy of the source for Python > V2.4.2. I downloaded what is reckoned to be the source code from > www.python.org, but is turns out to be the MacXOS version with the core > modules missing. The reason I am looking for the source c

Re: Daemon terminates unexpected

2006-02-06 Thread Fredrik Lundh
so does your subject line. Stefan Neumann wrote: >try: >main() >except Exception,e > note that "except Exception" doesn't, in today's Python, catch all possible exceptions. >>> class MyException: ... pass ... >>> try: ... raise MyException ... except Exception: .

Re: OO conventions

2006-02-06 Thread Nicola Musatti
I V wrote: > Nicola Musatti wrote: [...] > > Factory functions (or classes) are there to solve this problem and > > still allow a clean separation of concerns. Although instances of Klass > > are created uninitialized, they only live in this state within their > > factory and only reach trhe outsi

subsrcibe

2006-02-06 Thread Bishu Kumar Naik
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Re: Webmail with Python

2006-02-06 Thread Max M
Thomas Guettler wrote: > Hi, > > Is there an application like Squirrelmail[1] written in python? > > I want to access IMAP folder with a web-browser. > > Google shows me some dead projects. Most webmail applications > seem to be written in PHP. Is there a useable webmailer written > in python?

Re: OO conventions

2006-02-06 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Nicola Musatti wrote: > > def factory(info): > > k = Klass() > > data = get_initial_data(info) > > k.set_data(data) > > return k > > > > to: > > > > def factory(info): > > data = get_initial_data(info) > > return Klass(data) > > > > What would be the value of doing the init

Re: Thread imbalance

2006-02-06 Thread Neil Hodgson
Ivan Voras: > I mentioned it because, as far as I know the Lua's intepreter doesn't do > implicit locking on its own, and if I want to run several threads of > pure Lua code, it's possible if I take care of data sharing and > synchronization myself. Lua's interpreter will perform synchroni

Re: Python V2.4.2 source code

2006-02-06 Thread John Dean
Hi That particular file doesn't include the implementation files for the core modules. The platform specific directories only include two or three files. Only the Mac directory contains any C code files -- Best Regards John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python V2.4.2 source code

2006-02-06 Thread Richie Hindle
[John] > That particular file doesn't include the implementation files for the core > modules. *Which* particular file? Give us a URL. The source tarball at http://www.python.org/2.4.2/ (full URL http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.4.2/Python-2.4.2.tgz) contains the full source. -- Richie Hind

Re: Python V2.4.2 source code

2006-02-06 Thread John Dean
Hi I downloaded what I thought was the source code from http://www.python.org/2.4.2/python-2.4.2.tgz -- Best Regards John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: rexec in jython??

2006-02-06 Thread Kent Johnson
Mark Fink wrote: > one minor issue is still left: > correct me if I am wrong: result of 2/-3 is 0 (at least this is how it > is defined in the testcase) > In Jython 2.1.3: > 2/-3 > > -1 CPython gives the same result and the language reference says, "Plain or long integer division yields an

Re: would it be feasable to write python DJing software

2006-02-06 Thread Fuzzyman
Ivan Voras wrote: > Ivan Voras wrote: > > > Because "bar and aba happen to be parts of extension library" :) > > To end this disussion: I meant "doing it in C" as a colloquial > expression, not a technical one. The expression holds true for every > case where a function/class/module/etc is impleme

Re: Python V2.4.2 source code

2006-02-06 Thread Fredrik Lundh
John Dean wrote: > I downloaded what I thought was the source code from > http://www.python.org/2.4.2/python-2.4.2.tgz that's an error page: Error 404: File Not Found -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python V2.4.2 source code

2006-02-06 Thread Fredrik Lundh
John Dean wrote: > That particular file doesn't include the implementation files for the core > modules. The platform specific directories only include two or three files. > Only the Mac directory contains any C code files $ date -u Mon Feb 6 11:14:15 UTC 2006 $ wget http://www.python.org/ftp/py

UTF16, BOM, and Windows Line endings

2006-02-06 Thread Fuzzyman
Hello all, I'm handling some text files where I don't (necessarily) know the encoding beforehand. Because I use regular expressions to parse the text I *must* decode UTF16 encoded text (otherwise the regexes split on byte boundaries). I can recognise UTF8 and BOM and remove (but not necessarily d

Re: Numeric and matlab

2006-02-06 Thread Brian Blais
Robert Kern wrote: > A better place to ask would be [EMAIL PROTECTED] . By the > way, Numeric has undergone a rewrite and is now known as numpy. > thanks for the pointer! it is a bit confusing with all of the different numerical modules (Numeric, numpy, scipy, ScientificPython, numarray, etc...

Re: numeric expression from string?

2006-02-06 Thread Brian Blais
Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > It is good to be cautious. Big thumbs up. But what exactly are you worried > about? Do you think your users might enter something Evil and break their > own system? I'd suggest that's not your problem, and besides, it is hard > to think of anything they could do with eva

Re: Python V2.4.2 source code

2006-02-06 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 12:12:43 +0100, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > John Dean wrote: > >> I downloaded what I thought was the source code from >> http://www.python.org/2.4.2/python-2.4.2.tgz > > that's an error page: > > Error 404: File Not Found Ah, that explains why it wouldn't compile... *wink*

Scientific Computing with NumPy

2006-02-06 Thread mclaugb
Has anyone recompiled the Scientific Computing package using NumPy instead of Numeric? I need a least squares algorithm and a Newton Rhaphson algorithm which is contained in Numeric but all the documentation out there says that Numeric is crap and all code should be using NumPy. Thanks, Bryan

Re: Scientific Computing with NumPy

2006-02-06 Thread linda.s
On 2/6/06, mclaugb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone recompiled the Scientific Computing package using NumPy instead > of Numeric? > I need a least squares algorithm and a Newton Rhaphson algorithm which is > contained in Numeric but all the documentation out there says that Numeric > is crap

Re: Strange behavior with os call in cgi script

2006-02-06 Thread Rene Pijlman
Steve Holden: >Rene Pijlman: >> Add logging to your program: >> http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.5/lib/module-logging.html >> >Probably oiverkill, particularly for a beginner (is it only me that >thinks the logging module is either way over-complicated or way >under-documented?). It struck me as s

How to I write DBASE files without ODBC

2006-02-06 Thread Durumdara
Hi ! I have a text processor code and I want to put the results to standard files. HTML, XML, SQLite - they are ok. But I want to put these datas to DBF too, because when records are many, does not fit in Excel table (load from HTML). XML and SQLite need some development to get datas. I need

Re: Scientific Computing with NumPy

2006-02-06 Thread mclaugb
This page documents the differences. It seems that NumPy is supported and more recent. http://numeric.scipy.org/ "linda.s" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 2/6/06, mclaugb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone recompiled the Scientific Computing package using Nu

Re: Newbie Help!

2006-02-06 Thread bwaha
> 3. Any good ebooks or links to start with. (according to the web this is the > best place to start.) If you get the point of wantig to buy a book, I can recommend Python Visual Quickstart Guide by Chris Fhris Fehily as a very good text for beginners. I has helped me a lot. -- http://mail.py

Re: fairly large webapp: from Java to Python. experiences?

2006-02-06 Thread Fabio Zadrozny
I agree that python code is usually smaller... but what you did is too unfair (the code below would be more suitable for the comparrison). python: print "%10.2f" % 10 java: System.out.println(String.format("%10.2f", 10.0)); -- altough for me it would be the same, as I have defined a print meth

Re: Strange behavior with os call in cgi script

2006-02-06 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Rene Pijlman wrote: > But I do think that adding logging to a cgi script is a sensible thing to > do for a beginner. Getting that to run in a debugger is probably way more > complicated. on the other hand, adding if 1: # set to 0 when deploying print "" print cgi.escape(repr(

Re: Python, GUI, and GTK+

2006-02-06 Thread Dave Cook
On 2006-02-05, Piotr Husiatynski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm new at GUI programming. I've heard about Gazpacho but I couldn't find > any tutorial about it on Internet (even on the gazpacho page). Becouse of > that fact, I've installed Glaze, but there's probably no tutorials for > python too

Re: Scientific Computing with NumPy

2006-02-06 Thread Brendan
As of version 0.4.x, Scipy exclusively uses the newer NumPy module instead of the older Numeric module. The confusion is inevitable in this time of transition, but their intent is to standardize on one array package. Brendan -- Brendan Simons mclaugb wrote: > This page documents the difference

Python and Flash

2006-02-06 Thread rodmc
Can anyone provide me with advice on how easy (or otherwise) it is to drive a Flash animation (stored locally but displaed in a browser) with a Python application. Basically information is getting streamed to a Python client and this is expected to update the Flash animation. It sounds odd, but it

Re: triple quoted strings as comments

2006-02-06 Thread Volker Grabsch
Jorgen Grahn wrote: >>> [...] developer had >>> commented out about 50 lines of C++ code by just putting a /* at the top >>> and a */ at the bottom. [...] > ("#if 0" in C and C++ are better choices, but only marginally. Best is to > remove the code unless you are sure it's needed again soon. Work

Re: psycopg2 rounds unix time [solved]

2006-02-06 Thread Luis P. Mendes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 |> example: |> unix time inserted at first row: 1138839839.64456 |> unix time as retrieved in psql: 1.13884e+09 |> unix time retrieved by psycopg2: 113884.0 | Note: When timestamp values are stored as double precision | floating-point numbers (cu

Re: Question about idioms for clearing a list

2006-02-06 Thread Will McGugan
Steven Watanabe wrote: > I know that the standard idioms for clearing a list are: > > (1) mylist[:] = [] > (2) del mylist[:] > > I guess I'm not in the "slicing frame of mind", as someone put it, but > can someone explain what the difference is between these and: > > (3) mylist = [] > > Why a

Re: fairly large webapp: from Java to Python. experiences?

2006-02-06 Thread Kent Johnson
Fabio Zadrozny wrote: > I agree that python code is usually smaller... but what you did is too > unfair (the code below would be more suitable for the comparrison). > > python: > print "%10.2f" % 10 > > java: > System.out.println(String.format("%10.2f", 10.0)); Though String.format() is new in

Re: Learning Python

2006-02-06 Thread Kent Johnson
Byte wrote: > Yes, sorry, didnt realise diffrence between int and input. Since i'm > such an idiot at this, any links to sites for people who need an > unessicerily gentle learning curve? The Python tutor mailing list is for newbies: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor Many beginners' t

Re: Numeric and matlab

2006-02-06 Thread Brian Blais
Bas wrote: > I am also considering a switch from Matlab to NumPy/SciPy at some > point. > > Note that in the last version of Matlab (7?) you don't have to use > 'find', but you now can 'conditional arrays' as an index, so instead > of > idx=find(a>5); > a(idx)=6; > you can do: > cond=a>5; >

critique my code, please

2006-02-06 Thread Brian Blais
Hello, I am including at the end of this document (is it better as an attachment?) some code for a small gui dialog. Since I am quite new to this, if anyone has any suggestions for improvements to the code, bad coding practices, poor gui design, etc... I'd love to hear it. This list has been

Re: Question about idioms for clearing a list

2006-02-06 Thread Steve Holden
Will McGugan wrote: > Steven Watanabe wrote: > >>I know that the standard idioms for clearing a list are: >> >> (1) mylist[:] = [] >> (2) del mylist[:] >> >>I guess I'm not in the "slicing frame of mind", as someone put it, but >>can someone explain what the difference is between these and: >> >

Re: win32com, BSTR, and null terminated strings

2006-02-06 Thread Steve Holden
John Bauman wrote: > "Matt Helm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>However, what is the proper way to recover the actual string? I have >>been using: >> >> r.split("\0", 1)[0] >> > > I'd prefer to use > r[:-1] > to strip off the last character of the string. >

Re: ActiveGrid and Python Frameworks.

2006-02-06 Thread Robert Boyd
On 5 Feb 2006 01:19:43 -0800, Ravi Teja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why is no one talking about ActiveGrid, which at least on the surface > seems to be the most polished way to build web applications in Python > so far. They have a sound financial backing, $10 million when I last > heard, made n

Booksigning Party at PyCon This Year -- UPDATE

2006-02-06 Thread Jeff Rush
DO NOT BRING YOUR OWN BOOKS For inventory security reasons, please do NOT bring your own books to the bookstore to be signed. Mixing attendee books with store books in a party atmosphere would be difficult to manage and we need to be considerate of the store. I mispoke in the original announc

Re: Literal Escaped Octets

2006-02-06 Thread Steve Holden
Chason Hayes wrote: > I am trying to convert raw binary data to data with escaped octets in > order to store it in a bytea field on postgresql server. I could do this > easily in c/c++ but I need to do it in python. I am not sure how to read > and evaluate the binary value of a byte in a long strin

Re: Python V2.4.2 source code

2006-02-06 Thread John Dean
Hi Thank you very much. It seems the version tar that is embedded in WinRAR is broken. It gets as far as the Mac directory and then bombs out. The version of tar that is bundled with CygWin worked just fine -- Best Regards John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Question about idioms for clearing a list

2006-02-06 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 13:35:10 +, Steve Holden wrote: >> I'm wondering why there is no 'clear' for lists. It feels like a common >> operation for mutable containers. :-/ >> > Because it's just as easy to create and assign a new empty list (and > have the old unused one garbage collected). > >

Re: Python and Flash

2006-02-06 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
rodmc wrote: > Can anyone provide me with advice on how easy (or otherwise) it is to > drive a Flash animation (stored locally but displaed in a browser) with > a Python application. Basically information is getting streamed to a > Python client and this is expected to update the Flash animation.

Re: win32com, BSTR, and null terminated strings

2006-02-06 Thread Matt Helm
> It's perfectly good Python, though, so just forget about it or wrap it > in a "cstring(s)" function do you don't have to look at it! Thanks for the sanity check. I just wanted to make sure I was correct as well as right. Matt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: win32com, BSTR, and null terminated strings

2006-02-06 Thread Matt Helm
"John Bauman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Matt Helm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> However, what is the proper way to recover the actual string? I have >> been using: >> >>r.split("\0", 1)[0] >> > I'd prefer to use > r[:-1] > to strip off the last charact

Re: fairly large webapp: from Java to Python. experiences?

2006-02-06 Thread Fabio Zadrozny
Kent Johnson wrote: >Fabio Zadrozny wrote: > > >>I agree that python code is usually smaller... but what you did is too >>unfair (the code below would be more suitable for the comparrison). >> >>python: >>print "%10.2f" % 10 >> >>java: >>System.out.println(String.format("%10.2f", 10.0)); >>

Detecting line endings

2006-02-06 Thread Fuzzyman
Hello all, I'm trying to detect line endings used in text files. I *might* be decoding the files into unicode first (which may be encoded using multi-byte encodings) - which is why I'm not letting Python handle the line endings. Is the following safe and sane : text = open('test.txt', 'rb').read

Re: Question about idioms for clearing a list

2006-02-06 Thread Dan Sommers
On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 01:01:43 +1100, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 13:35:10 +, Steve Holden wrote: >>> I'm wondering why there is no 'clear' for lists. It feels like a common >>> operation for mutable containers. :-/ >>> >> Because it's just as easy to create

Re: Python and Flash

2006-02-06 Thread Ravi Teja
You have not stated where the Python code needs to reside. On the server, you can use XML-RPC or SOAP. Flash either supports them natively or has libraries for those. Your web service servers can be written in Python. This is the perhaps the best approach. On the client, Python can be installed a

Re: Scientific Computing with NumPy

2006-02-06 Thread mclaugb
Is Scipy the same thing as ScientificPython? I am confused if SciPy is just the new version. they appear to be separate things. Bryan "Brendan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > As of version 0.4.x, Scipy exclusively uses the newer NumPy module > instead of the older

Re: Best way of finding terminal width/height?

2006-02-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2006-02-06, Joel Hedlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you for a very quick, informative and concise response. > >> BTW: don't forget to attach a handler to the window-size-change >> signal (SIGWINCH) so that you know when your terminal changes sizes > > Do you mean something like this? > >

Re: Detecting line endings

2006-02-06 Thread Sybren Stuvel
Fuzzyman enlightened us with: > My worry is that if '\n' *doesn't* signify a line break on the Mac, > then it may exist in the body of the text - and trigger ``ending = > '\n'`` prematurely ? I'd count the number of occurences of '\r\n', '\n' without a preceding '\r' and '\r' without following '\n

Re: Detecting line endings

2006-02-06 Thread Fuzzyman
Sybren Stuvel wrote: > Fuzzyman enlightened us with: > > My worry is that if '\n' *doesn't* signify a line break on the Mac, > > then it may exist in the body of the text - and trigger ``ending = > > '\n'`` prematurely ? > > I'd count the number of occurences of '\r\n', '\n' without a preceding >

Re: How to I write DBASE files without ODBC

2006-02-06 Thread Max Erickson
Durumdara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Can anybody known about DBASE handler module for Python ? http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/362715 max -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Webmail with Python

2006-02-06 Thread Thomas Guettler
Am Mon, 06 Feb 2006 11:36:37 +0100 schrieb Max M: > Thomas Guettler wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Is there an application like Squirrelmail[1] written in python? >> >> I want to access IMAP folder with a web-browser. >> >> Google shows me some dead projects. Most webmail applications >> seem to be writte

Re: OO conventions

2006-02-06 Thread Daniel Nogradi
> > So after all, what is a 'factory' or 'factory function'? > > A brief explanation in Python terms is at > http://www.aleax.it/ep03_pydp.pdf -- "pages" (slides) 37-44 (the rest of > the presentation is about an even more fundamental design pattern, > "template method"). A far more extensive essa

Re: Regular expression query

2006-02-06 Thread bruno at modulix
Giovanni Bajo wrote: > Martin Biddiscombe wrote: > > >>"parameter=12ab" >>"parameter=12ab foo bar" >>"parameter='12ab'" >>"parameter='12ab' biz boz" >>"parameter="12ab"" >>"parameter="12ab" junk" > > import shlex def extract(s): > > ... s = s.split("=")[1] > ... s = shlex.split

read file problem

2006-02-06 Thread Ernesto
I'm just want to read in the contents of a (text) file. The text file is filled with semiColon delimited floating point strings... 0.456;1.265;99.742;... For some reason, I can't get the contents back when I call file.read() Here's my code. filePath = "C:\\folder\\myFile.txt fileHandle = open(

Re: read file problem

2006-02-06 Thread Fuzzyman
Ernesto wrote: > I'm just want to read in the contents of a (text) file. The text file > is filled with semiColon delimited floating point strings... > > 0.456;1.265;99.742;... > > For some reason, I can't get the contents back when I call file.read() > Here's my code. > > filePath = "C:\\folder

Re: read file problem

2006-02-06 Thread Rene Pijlman
Ernesto: >fileHandle = open(filePath, 'r').read(); Remove this: open() returns the filehandle, open().read() returns the data read from the filehandle. -- René Pijlman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Learning Python

2006-02-06 Thread Ron Rogers Jr.
Byte wrote: > Yes, sorry, didnt realise diffrence between int and input. Since i'm > such an idiot at this, any links to sites for people who need an > unessicerily gentle learning curve? > I'm new to Python too, here's a few I've found useful: http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/ http://w

Re: read file problem

2006-02-06 Thread Schüle Daniel
if you want the numbers you can combine it into one-liner nums = file(r"C:\folder\myFile.txt").read().split(";") the numbers are in string representation in the list you can no do nums = [float(num) for num in nums] Regards, Daniel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: OO conventions

2006-02-06 Thread Scott David Daniels
Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Nicola Musatti wrote: >> What is important to me is to keep your get_initial_data() function >> outside Klass if it's task is non trivial, e.g. it has to interact with >> the OS or a DB. > > why ? In order to simplify testing. --Scott David Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ht

Size of list

2006-02-06 Thread Ernesto
for line in PM_File_Handle.readlines(): PM_fields = line.split(';') # Is there a way to get the size of PM_Fields here ? # Something like size = PM_fields.size( ) # I could not find this attribute in the python docs. Thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Size of list

2006-02-06 Thread limodou
6 Feb 2006 08:32:18 -0800, Ernesto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > for line in PM_File_Handle.readlines(): > PM_fields = line.split(';') > > # Is there a way to get the size of PM_Fields here ? > # Something like > > size = PM_fields.size( ) > > # I could not find this attribute in the python docs.

Re: Literal Escaped Octets

2006-02-06 Thread Chason Hayes
On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 13:39:17 +, Steve Holden wrote: > Chason Hayes wrote: >> I am trying to convert raw binary data to data with escaped octets in >> order to store it in a bytea field on postgresql server. I could do this >> easily in c/c++ but I need to do it in python. I am not sure how to

Re: Literal Escaped Octets

2006-02-06 Thread Chason Hayes
On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 21:07:23 -0800, Alex Martelli wrote: > Chason Hayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >... >> easily in c/c++ but I need to do it in python. I am not sure how to read >> and evaluate the binary value of a byte in a long string when it is a non >> printable ascii value in python. >

Re: Size of list

2006-02-06 Thread Ernesto
Thanks ! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: OO conventions

2006-02-06 Thread Nicola Musatti
Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Nicola Musatti wrote: [...] > > What is important to me is to keep your get_initial_data() function > > outside Klass if it's task is non trivial, e.g. it has to interact with > > the OS or a DB. > > why ? Separating the internal logic of an application from its interaction

Re: read file problem

2006-02-06 Thread Ernesto
Thanks to all. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

in over my head ascii

2006-02-06 Thread nephish
Hello there, i need to write a script that can transfer info back and forth with a data server at so-and-so ip. i have Programming Python, which covers socket programming. So thats cool. But what i need to know how to do is make a message in ascii that is what the server is looking for. for examp

* 'struct-like' list *

2006-02-06 Thread Ernesto
I'm still fairly new to python, so I need some guidance here... I have a text file with lots of data. I only need some of the data. I want to put the useful data into an [array of] struct-like mechanism(s). The text file looks something like this: [BUNCH OF NOT-USEFUL DATA] Name: David A

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

2006-02-06 Thread nephish
Thanks guys, No, i did not know about isdigit ? very helpful. Thanks. esp liked the "overloaded doohicky' bit. thanks again. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Feb 6)

2006-02-06 Thread Magnus Lycka
QOTW: "Excessive cleverness can lead to unmaintainable code. So can excessive stupidity." -- Alan Morgan "Also Python code is pretty bare-metal, so that file.write or socket.write go to the syscall immediately. Try that in Java and you'll find 30 layers of complex abstractions for doubtful benef

threads and memory

2006-02-06 Thread Lee Leahu
Hi List, I am trying to write a simple threaded application which will simulate 1000 connections to a remote service in order to "stress test" that the remote service can handle that many connections. However, I have encountered the following error after I have started my 381st thread: --

Re: Size of list

2006-02-06 Thread Schüle Daniel
>>> lst = [1,2,3] >>> len(lst) 3 >>> lst.__len__() 3 in genereal all objects which implements __len__ can be passed to built-in function len >>> len just to give one example how this can be used >>> class X(object): ... def __len__(self): ... print "this instance has __len_

Re: * 'struct-like' list *

2006-02-06 Thread Rene Pijlman
Ernesto: >1. How to search for the keywords "Name:", "Age:", etc. in the file... You could use regular expression matching: http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-re.html Or plain string searches: http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel/lib/string-methods.html >2. How to implement some organized "li

Re: Thread imbalance

2006-02-06 Thread Bryan Olson
Tuvas wrote: > The stuff that it runs aren't heavily processor intensive, but rather > consistant. It's looking to read incoming data. For some reason when it > does this, it won't execute other threads until it's done. Hmmm. > Perhaps I'll just have to work on a custom read function that doesn't >

Re: threads and memory

2006-02-06 Thread Rene Pijlman
Lee Leahu: >I am trying to write a simple threaded application which will simulate 1000 >connections to a remote service in order to "stress test" that the remote >service can handle that many connections. [...] >Is there a way to accomplish what I am trying to do, perhaps in a more >memory-frie

Re: * 'struct-like' list *

2006-02-06 Thread Schüle Daniel
> I would like to have an array of "structs." Each struct has > > struct Person{ > string Name; > int Age; > int Birhtday; > int SS; > } the easiest way would be class Person: pass john = Person() david = Person() john.name = "John Brown" john.age = 35 etc think of

Code Feedback

2006-02-06 Thread mwt
Hello - Last night I wrote my first code in Python -- a little producer/consumer toy to help me begin to understand things. The "Library" only has a few books. You can choose how many Readers are trying to check out the books. When no books are available, they have to wait until some other Reader r

problem in ElementTree SubElement

2006-02-06 Thread Sbaush
Hi all. I would get this element in xml:I have write this: date=ET.SubElement(idsreq,"date")        date.set("month",month)        date.set("day",day)but i get this: The attributes are not in my order!!how i can get the attributes in right order??? Thanks all.-- Sbaush -- http://mail.python.org/m

[ANN] PyDev 1.0 released

2006-02-06 Thread Fabio Zadrozny
Hi All, PyDev - Python IDE (Python Development Enviroment for Eclipse) version 1.0 has been released. Check the homepage (http://pydev.sourceforge.net/) for more details. Details for Release: 1.0 Yeap, that's right, Pydev has reached its 'adulthood', so... enjoy it! Major highlights:

Re: Scientific Computing with NumPy

2006-02-06 Thread Travis E. Oliphant
mclaugb wrote: > Is Scipy the same thing as ScientificPython? No. They are two separate projects. Scientific Python is still Numeric-only. SciPy 0.3.x is Numeric-based and SciPy 0.4.x is NumPy-based. The developers for NumPy are also the developers for SciPy (for the most part). There is a

Re: Scientific Computing with NumPy

2006-02-06 Thread Robert Kern
mclaugb wrote: > Is Scipy the same thing as ScientificPython? > I am confused if SciPy is just the new version. they appear to be separate > things. They are separate projects. -- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] "In the fields of hell where the grass grows high Are the graves of dreams allowed

[ANN] Pydev Extended: Pydev Extensions 1.0 release

2006-02-06 Thread Fabio Zadrozny
Hi All, Pydev Extensions 1.0 has been released Check the homepage (http://www.fabioz.com/pydev/) for more details. Pydev Extensions is a commercial product, and works with Eclipse and the Pydev "Open Source" version, and has features such as: * Code completion with auto-import * Code a

Re: Thread imbalance

2006-02-06 Thread Tuvas
The read function used actually is from a library in C, for use over a CAN interface. The same library appears to work perfectly find over C. I wrote an extention module for it. The function t_config is the threaded function that will call a function called config once per second. Note the time.tim

Re: Scientific Computing with NumPy

2006-02-06 Thread Tim Hochberg
mclaugb wrote: > Is Scipy the same thing as ScientificPython? > I am confused if SciPy is just the new version. they appear to be separate > things. > Bryan No, Scientific Python is "a collection of Python modules that are useful for scientific computing" written by Konrad Hinsen. I'm not a use

Re: Scientific Computing with NumPy

2006-02-06 Thread Robert Kern
mclaugb wrote: > Has anyone recompiled the Scientific Computing package using NumPy instead > of Numeric? What "Scientific Computing" package? I don't know of any package under that name. AFAIK, Konrad Hinsen has not yet ported his ScientificPython package to numpy, yet. scipy 0.4+ is ported to

Re: how to kill a python process?

2006-02-06 Thread Donn Cave
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "MackS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just read that on some systems perl allows you to rename the > process by assigning to $0: > > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=401299 > > Is there a way to do the same in python? My trouble is that

Re: problem in ElementTree SubElement

2006-02-06 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Sbaush wrote: > I would get this element in xml: > > > > I have write this: > > date=ET.SubElement(idsreq,"date") > date.set("month",month) > date.set("day",day) > > but i get this: > > > > The attributes are not in my order!! > how i can get the attributes in right order??? XML

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