Python Module for Determining CPU Freq. and Memory?

2006-04-06 Thread efrat
Hello, I'd like to determine at runtime the computer's CPU frequency and memory. Is there a module for these types of queries? platform.platform returns the computer's CPU name and type, but not its frequency; nor does it report how much memory the computer has. In the python help(), I

Python CGI problem: correct result, but incorrect browser response.

2006-04-06 Thread Sullivan WxPyQtKinter
title:Python CGI problem: correct result, but incorrect browser response. In one of my CGI program,named 'login.py', the script return a HEADER to web browser: Set-Cookie: sessionID=LAABUQLUCZIQJTZDWTFE; Set-Cookie: username=testuser; Status:302 Location:edit.py (blank line) but the IE prompted

Re: efficiency of range() and xrange() in for loops

2006-04-06 Thread Paddy
I wondered at the tone of some of the replies, re-read the repliess and your original message. On first readings ithought that your original message was OK and that the replies were a bit 'strong' . On second reading I thought that the original could be interpreted a little less nicely, but I had t

RE: Python Module for Determining CPU Freq. and Memory?

2006-04-06 Thread Tim Golden
[efrat] |I'd like to determine at runtime the computer's CPU frequency and | memory. | | (Please note: I'm interested in hardware stuff, like how much | memory the | machine has; not how much free memory is available.) I don't know if there's a cross-platform solution for this. For Window

Handling IP addresses with SimpleXMLRPCServer.

2006-04-06 Thread Jose Carlos Balderas Alberico
Hello. I' m trying to use the client's IP address in a method defined inside the SimpleXMLRPCServer. Up till now I'm able to verify that the client's IP is an authorised one (I do this before calling the _dispatch method). I can redefine the _dispatch method extending the SimpleXMLRPCHandler class,

Re: Python Module for Determining CPU Freq. and Memory?

2006-04-06 Thread Ron Adam
efrat wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to determine at runtime the computer's CPU frequency and memory. > > Is there a module for these types of queries? platform.platform returns > the computer's CPU name and type, but not its frequency; nor does it > report how much memory the computer has. I

Re: Convertion of Unicode to ASCII NIGHTMARE

2006-04-06 Thread Serge Orlov
Roger Binns wrote: > "Serge Orlov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I have an impression that handling/production of byte order marks is > > pretty clear: they are produced/consumed only by two codecs: utf-16 and > > utf-8-sig. What is not clear? > > Are you talking

Re: Python Module for Determining CPU Freq. and Memory?

2006-04-06 Thread Michele Petrazzo
Tim Golden wrote: > [efrat] > > |I'd like to determine at runtime the computer's CPU frequency and > | memory. > | > | (Please note: I'm interested in hardware stuff, like how much > | memory the > | machine has; not how much free memory is available.) > > I don't know if there's a cross-

Re: pre-PEP: The create statement

2006-04-06 Thread Michele Simionato
Steven Bethard wrote: > The PEP is based on a suggestion [1]_ from Michele Simionato on the > python-dev list. True, but I would also mention that the idea of the 'create' keyword come from Nick Coghlan: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-October/057531.html Michele Simionato

Re: urllib.urlencode wrongly encoding ± character

2006-04-06 Thread Serge Orlov
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > you are right. but when I capture traffic in firefox via > livehttpheaders extension, it shows me that ± is encoded to %B1. It depends on whether user entered url into address bar or clicked on submit button on a page. In the first case there were no standard how to deal

Re: pre-PEP: The create statement

2006-04-06 Thread bruno at modulix
Steven Bethard wrote: > The PEP below should be mostly self explanatory. I'll try to keep the > most updated versions available at: > > http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~bethard/py/pep_create_statement.txt > http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~bethard/py/pep_create_statement.html > > > > PEP: XXX > Title

debug CGI with complex forms

2006-04-06 Thread Sullivan WxPyQtKinter
When the form in one HTML is very complex with a lot of fields(input, button,radio,checkbox etc.), setting the environment is quite burdernsome, so I usually change the stdout and stderr of the submit processing script to a file object to see the output directly from that file. This just can do, bu

Re: Dice probability problem

2006-04-06 Thread Antoon Pardon
On 2006-04-05, Tomi Lindberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Antoon Pardon wrote: > >> def __rmul__(self, num): >> tp = num * [self] >> return reduce(operator.add, tp) >> >> sum3d6 = 3 * D(6) > > One basic question: is there any particular reason not to > use __mul__ instead (that would al

Re: pre-PEP: The create statement

2006-04-06 Thread Serge Orlov
bruno at modulix wrote: > Steven Bethard wrote: > > The PEP below should be mostly self explanatory. I'll try to keep the > > most updated versions available at: [snip] > > Seems mostly clean. +1. > That's what Trojans said when they saw a wooden horse at the gates of Troy ;) Serge. -- http

Re: pre-PEP: The create statement

2006-04-06 Thread Michele Simionato
bruno at modulix wrote: > Seems mostly clean. +1. > > (and I do prefer it with the 'create' statement - more explicit and > readable than Michele's original proposition IMHO). Well, I do agree ;) Actually, Steven's original PEP draft was closer to my original proposal, but I suggested him to prop

malloc'ed PyTypeObject

2006-04-06 Thread Gabriel de Dietrich
Hi, I'm doing my first project on embedding and then extending Python in an application. The idea is to import a set of C++ plug-ins into Python and then be able to run a script that uses these plug-ins. Please note that what I'm importing into Python are the plug-in classes in order to be abl

Re: RELEASED Python 2.5 (alpha 1)

2006-04-06 Thread Michele Simionato
Michael Ekstrand wrote: > Michele Simionato wrote: > > Michael Ekstrand wrote: > >> After reading AMK's survey of what's new in Python 2.5, I am suitably > >> impressed. As usual, I can't wait to start using the cool new > >> features... extended generators? (mind is currently swimming with the >

How to catch python's STDOUT

2006-04-06 Thread praveenkumar . 117
Hi, Can someone help me by suggesting how to capture python's STDOUT. I doesn't want the python's output to get displayed on the screen. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: urllib.urlencode wrongly encoding ± character

2006-04-06 Thread sleytr
I have no control over server side. I'm using Ubuntu Breezy at home and Ubuntu Dapper at work. Now I'm at work and same code working properly here! (returning %B1) I'm not sure and not checked yet but locale settings and/or installed Python version may be different between two computers. I think

Re: How to catch python's STDOUT

2006-04-06 Thread Fredrik Lundh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Can someone help me by suggesting how to capture python's > STDOUT. I doesn't want the python's output to get displayed on the > screen. you can replace sys.stdout (and/or sys.stderr) with your own file-like object, e.g. class NullStream: def write(s

Re: How to catch python's STDOUT

2006-04-06 Thread Sybren Stuvel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] enlightened us with: > Can someone help me by suggesting how to capture python's STDOUT. I > doesn't want the python's output to get displayed on the screen. python somescript.py > /dev/null Sybren -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital

Simple string formatting question

2006-04-06 Thread Steven D'Aprano
I have a sinking feeling I'm missing something really, really simple. I'm looking for a format string similar to '%.3f' except that trailing zeroes are not included. To give some examples: FloatString 1.0 1 1.1 1.1 12.1234 12.123 12.0001 12 and similar. He

Re: "The World's Most Maintainable Programming Language"

2006-04-06 Thread Mirco Wahab
Hi Ralf >> Perl, named after Pearl Biggar (Larry Wall’s fiancée), > > His wife was Gloria since at least 1979, perl was published > in 1987. This seems to be an insider joke (he wanted to call > the language "Gloria" first, then "pearl", then "perl"). Thanks for pointing this out ;-) This mak

Converting Integer to String

2006-04-06 Thread Jose Carlos Balderas Alberico
Hello. I'm trying to turn an integer into a string, and the "repr" function doesn't work the way I want.   The repr function inserts a '\n' at the end of the string, and I need to get the string representation without the '\n', since I need to insert the stringed data into a sql query.   I get "SEL

Re: Converting Integer to String

2006-04-06 Thread Jose Carlos Balderas Alberico
Thank you for the quick reply, but still doesn't work. Now it seems the "\n" is executed instead of printed.   This is what I get when I print the query:   SELECT * FROM blah WHERE (cod = 23 )   The code is being executed in an XMLRPC server. Maybe that's the problem? I don't know, but I don't get

Re: How to catch python's STDOUT

2006-04-06 Thread praveenkumar . 117
HI, I am a member of comp.lang.python. I posted a message saying how to capture python's STDOUT. sorry i did not clearly mentioned the problem. I have python script in which i have some print statements. I dont want the outputs of print to be displayed on t

Re: Converting Integer to String

2006-04-06 Thread Jose Carlos Balderas Alberico
That works just fine.Problem solved :)   Thank you so much for your help Wesley   Jose Carlos.  2006/4/6, Wesley Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: ...or'%i' %546gives:'546'  Wesley Brooks. On 06/04/06, Wesley Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Jose Carlos,str(234) gives '234'Is that what your after?

Re: urllib.urlencode wrongly encoding � character

2006-04-06 Thread Fredrik Lundh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I think there should be way to encode ± to %B1 on any platform/locale > combination. While searching for a real solution, I'm going to add a > search&destroy filter for %C2 on urlencoded dictionary as a workaround. > Because my queries are constant and %C2 is the only p

Re: How to catch python's STDOUT

2006-04-06 Thread Steven D'Aprano
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, >Can someone help me by suggesting how to capture python's > STDOUT. I doesn't want the python's output to get displayed on the > screen. >>> import sys, StringIO >>> SAVEOUT = sys.stdout >>> capture = StringIO.StringIO() >>> sys.stdout = capture >>>

Re: How to catch python's STDOUT

2006-04-06 Thread Fredrik Lundh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have python script in which i have some print statements. > I dont want the outputs of print to be displayed on the console > since it is used my fellow-workers > But i need those prints for debugging purpose > So some how i want

Using PythonWin32 to copy text to Windoze Clipboard for Unix-style random .sig rotator?

2006-04-06 Thread dananrg
Can you tell I miss Unix? I want to write a Python script that, when launched, will choose a random .sig (from a list of about 30 cool ones I've devised), and store the .sig text in the Windows Clipboard, so I can then paste it into any Windows application. This way, it'll work for Outlook e-mail

Re: How to catch python's STDOUT

2006-04-06 Thread Sybren Stuvel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] enlightened us with: > I have python script in which i have some print statements. I dont > want the outputs of print to be displayed on the console since it is > used my fellow-workers But i need those prints for debugging purpose > So some how i want to capture those prints can

Re: Splitting a string with extra parameters

2006-04-06 Thread Fulvio
Alle 11:23, giovedì 06 aprile 2006, Chris P ha scritto: > when splitting based on a delimiter of "," the above string gets broken up > in 5 "columns" instead of 4 due to the "," in the money amount. There should be cvs package in the python directory. Why don't you try that way? Reading some help

Re: How to catch python's STDOUT

2006-04-06 Thread Sybren Stuvel
Fredrik Lundh enlightened us with: > or you can use the "logging" module: > > http://docs.python.org/lib/module-logging.html I'd definitely do that. Sybren -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take th

How to work with directories and files with spaces

2006-04-06 Thread s99999999s2003
hi I am working in unix and i have some directories names with spaces eg ABC DEF A how can i work effectively with spaces in directory/file names in python? sometimes when i do os.path.join(dir_with_spaces,"-somestring" ) , it gives me "-somestring" as the name only...without ABC DEF A it should

RE: Using PythonWin32 to copy text to Windoze Clipboard for Unix-stylerandom .sig rotator?

2006-04-06 Thread Tim Golden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | I want to write a Python script that, when launched, will choose a | random .sig (from a list of about 30 cool ones I've devised), | and store | the .sig text in the Windows Clipboard, so I can then paste | it into any | Windows application. Very quick and untested answer.

Re: how to convert string

2006-04-06 Thread Fulvio
Alle 08:51, giovedì 06 aprile 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: > for x in range(10): > sys.stdout.write(x) > sys.stdout.write(" ") BTW, how to write a number repeatly in the same line and position, without let the printout to scroll down. F -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/l

Re: urllib.urlencode wrongly encoding � character

2006-04-06 Thread Richard Brodie
"Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I'm obviously missing some context here, but "encoding ± to %B1 on any > platform" is exactly what urlencode does: > >>>> import urllib >>>> urllib.urlencode([("key", chr(0xb1))]) >'key=%B1' Yeah but you'

Re: Using PythonWin32 to copy text to Windoze Clipboard for Unix-stylerandom .sig rotator?

2006-04-06 Thread Fredrik Lundh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can you tell I miss Unix? by your early-nineties spelling of Windows ? > I want to write a Python script that, when launched, will choose a > random .sig (from a list of about 30 cool ones I've devised), and store > the .sig text in the Windows Clipboard, so I can then

how to touch a file

2006-04-06 Thread s99999999s2003
hi i have a dir that contains directories with names and spaces in between example rootdir | > ABC DEF A | ---> BDD SD N I wanted to touch a file with the same name as the directories inside each directory rootdir | > ABC DEF A |---> ABC DEF A-dummy | -

how to create file with spaces

2006-04-06 Thread s99999999s2003
hi i have a dir that contains directories with names and spaces in between example rootdir | > ABC DEF A | ---> BDD SD N I wanted to touch a file with the same name as the directories inside each directory rootdir | > ABC DEF A |---> ABC DEF A-dummy | -

Re: how to convert string

2006-04-06 Thread Fredrik Lundh
"Fulvio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW, how to write a number repeatly in the same line and position, without let > the printout to scroll down. for i in range(100): print "\r", i, # do something print will work, as long as the message isn't too long, and you're printi

RE: Using PythonWin32 to copy text to Windoze Clipboard for Unix-stylerandom .sig rotator?

2006-04-06 Thread Ryan Ginstrom
> On > Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I want to write a Python script that, when launched, will choose a > random .sig (from a list of about 30 cool ones I've devised), > and store > the .sig text in the Windows Clipboard, so I can then paste > it into any > Windows application. You might try lo

Re: how to touch a file

2006-04-06 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi > > i have a dir that contains directories with names and spaces in between > example > > rootdir >| > ABC DEF A >| ---> BDD SD N > > I wanted to touch a file with the same name as the directories inside > each directory > > rootdir >| > ABC DE

Re: how to create file with spaces

2006-04-06 Thread Fredrik Lundh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I wanted to touch a file with the same name as the directories inside > each directory > > rootdir >| > ABC DEF A > |---> ABC DEF A-dummy >| ---> BDD SD N > |---> BDD SD N-dummy > > heres the code : > for d in os.wa

Re: how to create file with spaces

2006-04-06 Thread Fredrik Lundh
> try > > filename = dirpath + "-dummy" > if not os.path.isfile(filename): > open(filename, "w").close() better make that basename = os.path.basename(dirpath) + "-dummy" filename = os.path.join(dirpath, basename) if not os.path.isfile(filename): open(filename,

Cleaning the current environment after a fork

2006-04-06 Thread Robin Haswell
Hey guys I want to fork a process, but my scope has lots of stuff that the child won't need. Is it possible to clean the current environment of cruft so it is collected and freed? Basically I want it to go something like this. This is my first forking Python app, by the way: # {{{ My app import

Re: IMPORTANT 2.5 API changes for C Extension Modules

2006-04-06 Thread konrad . hinsen
On 05.04.2006, at 08:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Python 2.5 alpha 1 is in the process of being released later today. > There are important changes that are in 2.5 to support 64-bit systems. > These changes can cause Python to crash if your module is not upgraded > to support the changes. Pytho

Re: Cleaning the current environment after a fork

2006-04-06 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> I want to fork a process, but my scope has lots of stuff that the child > won't need. Is it possible to clean the current environment of cruft so it > is collected and freed? Basically I want it to go something like this. > This is my first forking Python app, by the way: I'm not an expert of th

Re: IMPORTANT 2.5 API changes for C Extension Modules

2006-04-06 Thread Fredrik Lundh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > One question: Is there a safe way to keep extension modules backward- > compatible with older Python versions? absolutely. > I am thinking of something like > > #ifndef PY_SSIZE_T_DEFINED > typedef Py_ssize_t int; > #endif > > assuming that Python 2.5 defines PY_SSIZE_

Re: python on Mac

2006-04-06 Thread Lou Pecora
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thomas Nelson wrote: > > I just purchased a new macbook (os 10.4.6), and I'm trying to install > > python 2.4 on it. I downloaded and ran the two installers recommended > > at http://www.python.org/download/mac/. Now I ha

Unicode, command-line and idle

2006-04-06 Thread a . serrano
Hello, the following program prompts the user for a word and tests to see if it is the same as another one. If the user types "españa" (note that the word contains an 'ñ'), the program should output "same". This works if I run the code in IDLE but does not if I run it in the windows console. Can so

Re: Unicode, command-line and idle

2006-04-06 Thread Fredrik Lundh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, the following program prompts the user for a word and tests to > see if it is the same as another one. If the user types "españa" (note > that the word contains an 'ñ'), the program should output "same". This > works if I run the code in IDLE but does not if I run

Re: how to convert string

2006-04-06 Thread Fulvio
Alle 18:21, giovedì 06 aprile 2006, Fredrik Lundh ha scritto: > will work, as long as the message isn't too long I was trying some print"\b\b\b\b", i, For a number of 4 digit, but I think I miscalculated some lenght variation. The reason of this is because it won't leave previous printing.

Re: how to create file with spaces

2006-04-06 Thread Fulvio
Alle 18:18, giovedì 06 aprile 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: > How can i deal with spaces in this case? I don't have an idea with python, but if can help I may say that bash you might use "\ " to escape a space or use a quoted full path. The shell program "basename" is failing, anyhow with fi

Re: Splitting a string with extra parameters

2006-04-06 Thread Amit Khemka
I guess you should use "re" module ... In this case re.split("\D,\D", YOUR_STRING) should work. (splits only when "," is between two non-digits). for details and more options see python-docs. cheers, amit. On 4/6/06, Fulvio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alle 11:23, giovedì 06 aprile 2006, Chris

How to change the docs - a case study

2006-04-06 Thread Kent Johnson
There has been a lot of discussion here recently about making changes to the docs, and what new system should be in place, etc., wiki, etc. I occasionally chime in with a note that it's pretty easy to submit a doc patch through SourceForge and they are often accepted quickly. The point being th

Re: Splitting a string with extra parameters

2006-04-06 Thread Andrew Gwozdziewycz
On Apr 6, 2006, at 7:38 AM, Amit Khemka wrote: > I guess you should use "re" module ... In this case re.split("\D,\D", > YOUR_STRING) should work. (splits only when "," is between two > non-digits). This works assuming all line elements are quoted. This would fail if (and this too my knowledg

shelve and ".bak .dat .dir" files

2006-04-06 Thread Michele Petrazzo
Hi, I'm trying a script on a debian 3.1 that has problems on shelve library. The same script work well on a fedora 2 and I don't know why it create this problem on debian: #extract from my code import shelve class XX: def __init__(self): self._data = shelve.open("/tmp/myfile") # do th

Re: How to work with directories and files with spaces

2006-04-06 Thread Michele Petrazzo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi > > I am working in unix and i have some directories names with spaces > eg ABC DEF A > how can i work effectively with spaces in directory/file names in > python? Like you can do with unix: michele:~$ echo "Michele" > my\ name michele:~$ python Python 2.3.5 (#2, Ma

Re: pre-PEP: The create statement

2006-04-06 Thread bruno at modulix
Serge Orlov wrote: > bruno at modulix wrote: > >>Steven Bethard wrote: >> >>>The PEP below should be mostly self explanatory. I'll try to keep the >>>most updated versions available at: > > > [snip] > > >>Seems mostly clean. +1. >> > > > That's what Trojans said when they saw a wooden horse

Re: Simple string formatting question

2006-04-06 Thread Ben Finney
"Steven D'Aprano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a sinking feeling I'm missing something really, really > simple. "Oh no, everyone in the galaxy gets that, that's perfectly natural paranoia." > I'm looking for a format string similar to '%.3f' except that > trailing zeroes are not included

[ANNOUNCE] OpenRTS 0.2b2 released

2006-04-06 Thread Andreas R.
OpenRTS is a cross-platform open source real-time strategy game developed in Python. Now version 0.2b2 has been released. The new release uses the Twisted networking library for multi-player games, and has graphics from the Hard Vacuum project. The game can be downloaded from http://www.openrts

An interview with Michael Foord, aka "Fuzzyman" on Python411

2006-04-06 Thread UrsusMaximus
www.awaretek.com/python/index.html features a Python411 interview with Michael Foord, aka Fuzzyman, Python hacker who has contributed a disproportionate amount and quality of open source projects, applications, tools, tutorials, Pyzine articles, and more in his mere 3 years in the community. This

Re: Unicode, command-line and idle

2006-04-06 Thread M�ta-MCI
(just for confirm) Hi! if the console is in cp1252, raw_input work OK with "ñ" This (your) script : # -*- coding: cp1252 -*- import sys text1 = u'españa' text2 = unicode(raw_input(), sys.stdin.encoding) if text1 == text2: print 'same' else: print 'not same' work OK with "chcp 8

Re: How to change the docs - a case study

2006-04-06 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Kent Johnson wrote: > Here is an example. This morning I noticed a minor discrepancy in the > docs for the 'rot13' encoding. I posted a bug to SourceForge at 10:05 > GMT. At 10:59 someone commented that maybe the code was broken rather > than the docs. At 11:18 another poster responded that the co

Re: pre-PEP: The create statement

2006-04-06 Thread Michael Ekstrand
Carl Banks wrote: > That's probably even more readable than class A, if not as familiar. > My biggest concern with this is the special arguments of the caller. > It breaks my heart that we couldn't do something like this: > > create dict keymap: > A = 1 > B = 2 > Why couldn't you? Maybe

Re: Simple string formatting question

2006-04-06 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Here is a (quick and dirty) reference implementation: > > def format(f, width=3): > fs = '%%.%df' % width > s = fs % f > return s.rstrip('0').rstrip('.') > > Is there a way of getting the same result with just a > single string format expression? not with % it

Pyexcelerator

2006-04-06 Thread Jens Kabella
Hi, i have a question with the pyexcelerator Modul. I´m using the Version 0.6.3a. Now I want to know how I can change the Colour Palette of Excel. I want to have my own colours for pattern_fore_colour and things like this. I want to build the colours dynamically. I have the RGB values for the

Re: output formatting for user-defined types

2006-04-06 Thread Peter Hansen
Russ wrote: > Thanks, but that is not acceptable for my application. Any other ideas? Yeah, how about we read your mind or make wild guesses about why it's not acceptable, and about what your requirements really are. Really, your response seems a little bizarre to me, given that __float__ is th

Re: pre-PEP: The create statement

2006-04-06 Thread Michael Ekstrand
Steven Bethard wrote: > The PEP below should be mostly self explanatory. I'll try to keep the > most updated versions available at: > > http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~bethard/py/pep_create_statement.txt > http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~bethard/py/pep_create_statement.html > > > > PEP: XXX > Ti

Re: ``pickling'' and ``unpickling''

2006-04-06 Thread Roy Smith
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Lonnie Princehouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pickling is the Python term for serialization. See > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serialization > > Suppose you want to save a Python object "x" to a file... > > output_file = open('my_pickle', 'wb') # open a fi

Re: "The World's Most Maintainable Programming Language"

2006-04-06 Thread Peter Hansen
Mirco Wahab wrote: > Hi Ralf >>So we should rename Python into Cottonmouth >>to get more attention. > > No, always take some word that relates to > something more or less 'feminine', its about > 96% of young males who sit hours on programming > over their beloved 'languages' ;-) > > Pythia? (htt

Re: Counting all permutations of a substring

2006-04-06 Thread Chris Lasher
Great suggestions, guys! Thanks so much! And yes, I stand corrected. A better suited subject title would have been "Counting all overlapping substrings". Thanks again, Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Simple string formatting question

2006-04-06 Thread Paul McGuire
"Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > > Here is a (quick and dirty) reference implementation: > > > > def format(f, width=3): > > fs = '%%.%df' % width > > s = fs % f > > return s.rstrip('0').rstrip('.') > > > > Is there

RE: "The World's Most Maintainable Programming Language"

2006-04-06 Thread Michael Yanowitz
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Peter Hansen Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 8:47 AM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: "The World's Most Maintainable Programming Language" Mirco Wahab wrote: > Hi Ralf >>So we should rename Python into

Re: ``pickling'' and ``unpickling''

2006-04-06 Thread Peter Hansen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > I am new in Python World.I want to know what is mean by ``pickling'' > and ``unpickling'' ? > And how can we used it?Please Give Me some links of Picking Examples. > Thanks You can generally answer such questions yourself by heading to docs.python.org and typi

Re: urllib.urlencode wrongly encoding ± character

2006-04-06 Thread Evren Esat Ozkan
when I remove "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-" line from start of the script it worked properly. So I moved variable decleration to another file and imported than it worked too. Now it's working but I dont understand what I'm doing wrong? I'm new to Python and unicode encoding. I'm tried encode/decode

BIOCHIP --->>> NO GOOD !!

2006-04-06 Thread okay
Hello, http://www.av1611.org/666/biochip.html To Archbishop Christodoulos Paraskevaides of the Greek Orthodox Church in Athens and Greece Archbishop, I talked with a Greek Orthodox believer in Australia and he told me two things of interest in these last days, as we see it this day even. They

Re: pre-PEP: The create statement

2006-04-06 Thread Tim N. van der Leeuw
>From what I read here it would make a huge useability improvement for properties, and for that alone I would vote this a +1 if I were given the right to vote. Could this still make it in Python 2.5 even? If it's pushed hard enough? I don't know if this has been discussed on the python-dev mailing

help with designing an app. based on ConfigParser

2006-04-06 Thread Alexandre CONRAD
Hello list ! I'm using the ConfigParser module to use configuration files (what else would it be for ?). But I have a dilema: I'd like to setup multiple "update server" for my application with update "priority". At first, I thought about adding a new section in my actual existing config file s

Re: pre-PEP: The create statement

2006-04-06 Thread Kay Schluehr
Steven Bethard wrote: > Python-Version: 2.6 Have you a rough estimation how many modules will be broken when "create" is introduced as a keyword? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to catch python's STDOUT

2006-04-06 Thread Peter Hansen
Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >>> import sys, StringIO > >>> SAVEOUT = sys.stdout > >>> capture = StringIO.StringIO() > >>> sys.stdout = capture > >>> print "hello" > >>> > > But be warned, I've had difficulty restoring stdout > afterwards, and needed to exit the interactive > interpreter to ge

Re: How to change the docs - a case study

2006-04-06 Thread Kent Johnson
Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Kent Johnson wrote: > >> Here is an example. This morning I noticed a minor discrepancy in the >> docs for the 'rot13' encoding. I posted a bug to SourceForge at 10:05 >> GMT. At 10:59 someone commented that maybe the code was broken rather >> than the docs. At 11:18 another

GUI issues in Python

2006-04-06 Thread diffuser78
Hi, I want to create a GUI where a user can select drag and drop kind of boxes, circles and make connections between them. This is basically for depicting states and dependencies. I am writing a program where I let the user input states and dependencies in a certain domain. Based on input given b

Re: urllib.urlencode wrongly encoding ± character

2006-04-06 Thread Evren Esat Ozkan
I'm just discovered that I don't have to remove that line, just change utf-8 to iso-8859-9 and it worked again. But I want to use utf-8. Please advise... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: help with designing an app. based on ConfigParser

2006-04-06 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Alexandre CONRAD wrote: > But now, how do I hold multiple servers ? In this case, I thought about > having multiple sections such as > > [SERVER 01] > [SERVER 02] > [SERVER 03] > > But it's not very efficient when I want to parse the WHOLE config file > to find which servers are available an

Re: GUI issues in Python

2006-04-06 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I want to create a GUI where a user can select drag and drop kind of > boxes, circles and make connections between them. > > This is basically for depicting states and dependencies. I am writing a > program where I let the user input states and dependencies in

Re: shelve and ".bak .dat .dir" files

2006-04-06 Thread Sion Arrowsmith
Michele Petrazzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm trying a script on a debian 3.1 that has problems on shelve library. >The same script work well on a fedora 2 and I don't know why it create >this problem on debian: > [ ... ] >Now I see that shelve create not my file, but three files that has the

Re: HTMLParser fragility

2006-04-06 Thread Walter Dörwald
Rene Pijlman wrote: > Lawrence D'Oliveiro: >> I've been using HTMLParser to scrape Web sites. The trouble with this >> is, there's a lot of malformed HTML out there. Real browsers have to be >> written to cope gracefully with this, but HTMLParser does not. > > There are two solutions to this: >

Re: pre-PEP: The create statement

2006-04-06 Thread Michele Simionato
Kay Schluehr wrote: > Steven Bethard wrote: > > > Python-Version: 2.6 > > Have you a rough estimation how many modules will be broken when > "create" is introduced as a keyword? This is a very relevant question. I would expect the new keyword would break lots of modules. However measuring is bette

Re: GUI issues in Python

2006-04-06 Thread diffuser78
My question basically revolves around... that I dont want to draw circles and boxes for drawing purposes. I want the end user to be able to draw the GUI boxes and circles and makes connection to depict states and dependencies. So its a little unconventional and more like a SIMULATION TOOL. I am p

Re: Counting all permutations of a substring

2006-04-06 Thread Azolex
I wrote: > [counting all (possibly overlapping) occurences of a substring in a string] > > def count_subs(s,subs,pos=0) : > pos = 1+s.find(subs,pos) > return pos and 1+count_subs(s,subs,pos) > . now to push lisp-style to the extr

Re: python on Mac

2006-04-06 Thread gene tani
Lou Pecora wrote: > YIKES! Don't do that. Don't mess with Apple's python. Not > recommended. Check the MacPython FAQ and Wiki pages. Python 2.4 was > installed in /usr/local/bin. You should put that in your $PATH variable > Before /usr/bin. That will cause the new Python to be launched. >

python411 podcast -- problem with the 'modules' podcast?

2006-04-06 Thread John Salerno
Not sure if you guys follow along with the podcast, but if you do, has anyone else had problems listening to the Modules podcast? On my iPod, it stops at 8 minutes, and in iTunes it stretches out across the full 17-19 minutes, but the contents are still just the first 8 minutes (meaning that wh

Re: pre-PEP: The create statement

2006-04-06 Thread Steven Bethard
Michael Ekstrand wrote: > Something it could be useful to try to add, if possible: So far, it > seems that this create block can only create class-like things (objects > with a name, potentially bases, and a namespace). Is there a natural way > to extend this to other things, so that function creat

Re: python411 podcast -- problem with the 'modules' podcast?

2006-04-06 Thread UrsusMaximus
John, I'll go back and look intoi this tonight on the Modules Podcast. Sometimes, the problems are specific to a given user's equipmentn, and I don't always know how to fix them, which is frustrating. But, maybe there is a problem I can fix with that podcast. I'll let you know ton=ight after I get

Re: pre-PEP: The create statement

2006-04-06 Thread Michael Ekstrand
Steven Bethard wrote: > Michael Ekstrand wrote: >> Something it could be useful to try to add, if possible: So far, it >> seems that this create block can only create class-like things (objects >> with a name, potentially bases, and a namespace). Is there a natural way >> to extend this to other th

Re: Unicode, command-line and idle

2006-04-06 Thread a . serrano
Fredrik Lundh wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hello, the following program prompts the user for a word and tests to > > see if it is the same as another one. If the user types "españa" (note > > that the word contains an 'ñ'), the program should output "same". This > > works if I run the co

Re: kinterbas and Python

2006-04-06 Thread bssoft
Ok, thank..my python is 2.4.2 kinterbas is 3.2a1 Firebird is 1.5 on FEDORA CORE 4 my program code is run under winxp my actual code is equal above and when i past the code i forgot the quote but in my code the quote is correctly. My error code is : concorrency level error use kinterbas.init(c

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