Re: comparing values in two sets

2006-05-15 Thread Paul Rubin
Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here's a variant that does performs only the necessary tests: > > >>> from itertools import izip > >>> True not in (a == b for a, b in izip(range(3), range(3))) Cute! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Compile Python

2006-05-15 Thread Miki
Hello Zoidberg, > How would one compile python with Visual Studio 2005? By reading the section "Building on non-UNIX systems" in the README file (hint: chceck out the "PC" directory) Miki http://pythonwise.blogspot.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Web framework to recommend

2006-05-15 Thread .
Hi Jacky, if you want make a good experiment, you can use: LocaWapp - localhost web applications http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/LocaWapp/09 Post here your feedback. Bye and good work D. Jacky ha scritto: > Hi all, > > I just started learning Python and would like to starting writing some >

Re: Web framework to recommend

2006-05-15 Thread jdec
Hi, Jacky Please find below a link to the tool you're looking for : http://karrigell.sourceforge.net/ It's small, easy to install and work with, good documented (In english an in french). The developper is also very reactive on questions / remarks. I'm using it since more than 1 year without tr

Re: Problem with Tkinter on Mac OS X

2006-05-15 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Jean Richelle schrieb: > Hello, > > I installed version 2.4.1 (and I tried also with 2.4.3) of Python under > 10.3.9 (and 10.4.6), and I trying to use Tkinter. For simplicity I'm > testing the "hello world" that I found in the documentation. > I first launch IDLE, write (cut and paste from the

Re: New tail recursion decorator

2006-05-15 Thread Michele Simionato
Duncan Booth wrote: > My other problem with this is that the decorator is very fragile although > this may be fixable This version should be more robust against exceptions: class tail_recursive(object): """ tail_recursive decorator based on Kay Schluehr's recipe http://aspn.activestat

Unicode to DOS filenames (to call FSUM.exe)

2006-05-15 Thread Christian Stooker
Hi ! Yesterday I got a very interesting bug. I don't understand, why I got it, because I thinking about this function: that is safe. But I was not. The code: import sys,os UFN=u'%s\\xA\xff'%os.getcwd() if os.path.exists(UFN): os.remove(UFN) f=open(UFN,'w') f.write('%s\n'%('='*80)) f.close

RE: Windows Copy Gui

2006-05-15 Thread Tim Golden
[placid] | Just wondering if anyone knows how to pop up the dialog that windows | pops up when copying/moving/deleting files from one directory to | another, in python ? http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i/copy-a-file.html#shell TJG ___

Re: Tabs versus Spaces in Source Code

2006-05-15 Thread mystilleef
I agree, use tabs. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Tabs versus Spaces in Source Code

2006-05-15 Thread Mumia W.
Xah Lee wrote: > Tabs versus Spaces in Source Code > > Xah Lee, 2006-05-13 > > In coding a computer program, there's often the choices of tabs or > spaces for code indentation. There is a large amount of confusion about > which is better. It has become what's known as “religious war” — > a heated

Re: Starting/launching eric3

2006-05-15 Thread Michele Petrazzo
Byte wrote: > OK, now I've managed to get it working, but when I run it the eric3 > splash screen pops up, and then it says (in terminal): > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ eric3 > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/lib/site-python/eric3/eric3.py", line 147, in ? > main() > File "/usr/

Re: Windows Copy Gui

2006-05-15 Thread placid
Tim Golden wrote: > [placid] > > | Just wondering if anyone knows how to pop up the dialog that windows > | pops up when copying/moving/deleting files from one directory to > | another, in python ? > > http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i/copy-a-file.html#shell thanks, thats what i was af

Re: retain values between fun calls

2006-05-15 Thread bruno at modulix
Gary Wessle wrote: > Hi > > the second argument in the functions below suppose to retain its value > between function calls, the first does, the second does not and I > would like to know why it doesn't? Fisrt thing to remember is that function's default args are eval'd only once - when the def

Re: Decorator

2006-05-15 Thread Michele Simionato
I will shamelessly plug in my own decorator module: http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~micheles/python/decorator.zip and http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~micheles/python/documentation.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Web framework to recommend

2006-05-15 Thread Sybren Stuvel
Jacky enlightened us with: > I just started learning Python and would like to starting writing > some web-based applications with Python. You could check out my web framework, the UnrealTower Engine. It uses Cheetah as template engine, it's fast and small - it doesn't get in your way. http://www.

Re: any plans to make pprint() a builtin?

2006-05-15 Thread Ant
Considering that the current: import pprint pprint.pprint(x) is hardly lengthy, I can't see how either of the alternatives proposed are any better. > python.pprint.pprint(x) 6 characters shorter, but considerably more keystrokes if you are using pprint more than once. Is it worth adding the 'py

Re: comparing values in two sets

2006-05-15 Thread Gerard Flanagan
John Salerno wrote: > I'd like to compare the values in two different sets to test if any of > the positions in either set share the same value (e.g., if the third > element of each set is an 'a', then the test fails). > > I have this: > > def test_sets(original_set, trans_letters): > for pair

Re: Web framework to recommend

2006-05-15 Thread bruno at modulix
Jacky wrote: > Hi all, > > I just started learning Python and would like to starting writing some > web-based applications with Python. > > I did have pretty much experience with doing so with PHP and Java, but > Python seems a bit different for me. > > Do you guys have some good web framework t

Re: Web framework to recommend

2006-05-15 Thread BLeAm
Hi Jacky, Even though Turbogears and Django are focused from many people, and I'm not so sure whether this the best or not, but let's check at http://spyce.sourceforge.net, you can embed Python script into the page just like JPS,ASP,PHP. Hope this help. Cheers! -- http://mail.python.org/mailma

Making all string literals Unicode

2006-05-15 Thread Richie Hindle
Hi, Am I imagining it, or is there a switch or an environment variable to make Python treat all string literals as unicode? I seem to recall seeing it mentioned somewhere, but now I can't find it anywhere. Thanks, -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/p

Re: Possible constant assignment operators ":=" and "::=" for Python

2006-05-15 Thread Piet van Oostrum
> Edward Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (EE) wrote: >EE> Piet van Oostrum wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (T) wrote: >>> >T> As you can see, the "constant" A can be modified this easily. But if >T> there were an intuitive mechanism to declare a symbol to be immutable, >T> then there won't be t

List and order

2006-05-15 Thread Nic
Hello, I'm using the NetworkX Python package (https://networkx.lanl.gov/). Through this package I wrote the following code: import networkx as NX G=NX.Graph() G.add_edge(1,2) G.add_edge(2,3) G.add_edge(3,4) ddeg=G.degree(with_labels=True) for (u,v) in G.edges(): print ddeg[u],ddeg[v] As resul

Re: Making all string literals Unicode

2006-05-15 Thread Thomas Heller
Richie Hindle wrote: > Hi, > > Am I imagining it, or is there a switch or an environment variable to > make Python treat all string literals as unicode? I seem to recall > seeing it mentioned somewhere, but now I can't find it anywhere. > > Thanks, > python -U -- http://mail.python.org/mailma

Re: Web framework to recommend

2006-05-15 Thread Jacky
Hi all, Thanks all of you for your recommendations, I'll check them out one by one. Besides, I'd like to say more about what I want to do. Since I'm planning to write something for "backend", I might not focus very much on the layout (HTML template) yet. Instead, I'd like to receive inputs i

Re: Web framework to recommend

2006-05-15 Thread bruno at modulix
Jacky wrote: > Hi all, > > Thanks all of you for your recommendations, I'll check them out one by one. > > Besides, I'd like to say more about what I want to do. Since I'm > planning to write something for "backend", I might not focus very much > on the layout (HTML template) yet. Instead, I'd

[ANN] pykill32 0.2

2006-05-15 Thread Manlio Perillo
pykill32 is a small library that enable developers and users on Windows 2000/XP to send signals to a Python process. It emulates the POSIX kill. There is also a script, kill.py, with a minimal emulation of POSIX kill(1). And a simple dumpbin.py script that list all modules (DLL) loaded by a proce

Re: where do you run database scripts/where are DBs 'located'?

2006-05-15 Thread NoNickName
Gerard Flanagan wrote: > Interactive SQL tutorial: http://www.sqlcourse.com/ ; > http://sqlcourse2.com/ > > Indirectly helpful maybe: > http://initd.org/tracker/pysqlite/wiki/basicintro > > HTH > > Gerard There's also the TechBookReport SQL tutorial - which is geared to MySQL (and, shudder, Acc

Re: A critic of Guido's blog on Python's lambda

2006-05-15 Thread Ben
Nothing you have described sounds that complicated, and you never come up with concrete objections to other peoples code (apart that it took 10 years to write in Lisp, so it must be really hard) Why are you running a SoC project for PyCells if you dislike the language so much. People who do like

please help me is sms with python

2006-05-15 Thread huda ahmed
hi please i need your help . how can i send sms from pc(windows xp) to mobile symbian 60 6630 by python i need your help please i hope you answer me as fast as u can thanks in advance.. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Translation of C# DES Encryption

2006-05-15 Thread Andreas Pauley
Edward Elliott wrote: >You need to find the exact algorithm the DESCryptoServiceProvider uses. >CBC and CTR are common modes with IVs. Besides mode of operation, there's >the issue of how it pads the data (in the cipher, not base64). There could >also be differences in things like the key sche

How to organise classes and modules

2006-05-15 Thread Alex
Hi, this is my first mail to the list so please correct me if Ive done anything wrong. What Im trying to figure out is a good way to organise my code. One class per .py file is a system I like, keeps stuff apart. If I do that, I usually name the .py file to the same as the class in it. File: Foo.

Re: Web framework to recommend

2006-05-15 Thread Miki
Hello Jacky, I found CherryPy + Cheeta a good solution. See (shameless plug) http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=10075/ur0604h/ Miki http://pythonwise.blogspot.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Unicode to DOS filenames (to call FSUM.exe)

2006-05-15 Thread John Machin
According to my reading of the source, the function you have called expects an 8-bit string. static PyObject * PyGetShortPathName(PyObject * self, PyObject * args) { char *path; if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "s:GetShortPathName", &path)) If it is given Unicode, PyArg_ParseTu

Re: please help me is sms with python

2006-05-15 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
huda ahmed wrote: > hi > please i need your help . > > how can i send sms from pc(windows xp) > to mobile symbian 60 6630 by python > > i need your help please > i hope you answer me as fast as u can > > thanks in advance.. Attach a Mobile to your computer using USB/Bluetooth, ope

Re: comparing values in two sets

2006-05-15 Thread Gerard Flanagan
Gerard Flanagan wrote: > John Salerno wrote: > > I'd like to compare the values in two different sets to test if any of > > the positions in either set share the same value (e.g., if the third > > element of each set is an 'a', then the test fails). > > > > I have this: > > > > def test_sets(origi

Re: How to organise classes and modules

2006-05-15 Thread Ilkka Poutanen
On 2006-05-15, Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: import Foo Foo.Foo.bar() > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "", line 1, in ? > TypeError: unbound method bar() must be called with Foo instance as > first argument (got nothing instead) > > ... > > One thing that I tried that work

Two ZSI questions

2006-05-15 Thread robin . diederen
Hi, I'm currently developing a SOAP client for the Zimbra collaboration suite (www.zimbra.com). I'm writing a WSDL and using ZSI's "wsdl2py.py" to export it to Python code. There are two things I can't get to work and I cannot find any documentation on. 1. The Zimbra framework requires messages t

Re: List of lists of lists of lists...

2006-05-15 Thread Ángel Gutiérrez Rodríguez
bruno at modulix wrote: > for N: > mylist = [mylist] > Right that! > I'm afraid I don't understand. Could you forgive my stupidity and > re-explain this a bit more clearly ? > No need to. Former solution worked fine. Thanks! -- Ángel Gutiérrez Rodríguez - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Instituto de Cienc

[ANN] PyYAML-3.02: YAML parser and emitter for Python

2006-05-15 Thread Kirill Simonov
Announcing PyYAML-3.02 A new bug-fix release of PyYAML is now available: http://pyyaml.org/wiki/PyYAML Changes === * Fix win32 installer. Apparently bdist_wininst does not work well under Linux. * Fix a bug in add_path_resolver. * A

Re: Unicode to DOS filenames (to call FSUM.exe)

2006-05-15 Thread DurumDara
John Machin írta: > According to my reading of the source, the function you have called > expects an 8-bit string. > > static PyObject * > PyGetShortPathName(PyObject * self, PyObject * args) > { > char *path; > if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "s:GetShortPathName", &path)) > > If

Re: List of lists of lists of lists...

2006-05-15 Thread Ángel Gutiérrez Rodríguez
Robert Kern wrote: > James Stroud wrote: > http://numeric.scipy.org > Thanks! That's anotehr solution, yes! -- Ángel Gutiérrez Rodríguez - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Instituto de Ciencia de los Materiales de Madrid - CSIC SpLine - European Syncrothorn Radiation Facility - Grenoble - France Postal adress:

Re: How to organise classes and modules

2006-05-15 Thread bruno at modulix
Alex wrote: > Hi, this is my first mail to the list so please correct me if Ive done > anything wrong. > > What Im trying to figure out is a good way to organise my code. One > class per .py file is a system I like, keeps stuff apart. If I do > that, I usually name the .py file to the same as the

Re: Unicode to DOS filenames (to call FSUM.exe)

2006-05-15 Thread DurumDara
John Machin írta: > Looks like you need a GetShortPathNameW() but it's not implemented. > Raise it as an issue on the pywin32 sourceforge bug register. Tell Mark > I sent you :-) > Another thought: try using ctypes. > Hi ! It seems to be I found a solution. A little tricky, but it is working:

Re: How to organise classes and modules

2006-05-15 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> Some unbound method error. Have I missunderstood something or am I on > the right track here? You misunderstood that you'd have to create an instance first before invoking a method on that very instance. That is the same in C++, btw. > But in my opinion, this is very ugly. Especially if the cla

Re: please help me is sms with python

2006-05-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yet another option: Use web-service provided by your mobile operator (by means of cookielib, urllib2, etc). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: List and order

2006-05-15 Thread Nic
Hello Miki, Many thanks for the support. I tried to insert and execute the code, but the following error happens: Traceback (most recent call last): File "grafodna.py", line 10, in ? edges.sort(key = lambda u, v: (ddeg(u), ddeg(v))) TypeError: () takes exactly 2 arguments (1 given) Do you

RE: Formmating excel cells with PyExcelerator or COM

2006-05-15 Thread Tim Golden
[Mauricio Tellez] | Hi, I just want that a number like 1234.123 appear in excel | as 1,234.12 | In excel I just select some cells, then right click on them | and select "Cell Formatting" then select Number, and check | "Use thounsands separator" and 2 decimal places. I can't find | how to do t

Large Dictionaries

2006-05-15 Thread Chris Foote
Hi all. I have the need to store a large (10M) number of keys in a hash table, based on a tuple of (long_integer, integer). The standard python dictionary works well for small numbers of keys, but starts to perform badly for me inserting roughly 5M keys: # keys dictionary metakit (both usin

Re: please help me is sms with python

2006-05-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yet another option: Use Python high level API for Symbian (http://opensource.nokia.com/projects/pythonfors60/) to write simple server which listen to desktop client (both in Python). Server (phone side): accept requests, send SMS using mobile phone capability Client (desktop): send requests, speci

Re: Large Dictionaries

2006-05-15 Thread Richie Hindle
[Chris] > Has anyone written a fast hash module which is more optimal for > large datasets ? PyJudy might be what you're looking for, though I've never used it: http://www.dalkescientific.com/Python/PyJudy.html "Judy's key benefits are scalability, high performance, and memory efficiency. A J

Re: List and order

2006-05-15 Thread Peter Otten
Nic wrote: > I tried to insert and execute the code, but the following error happens: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "grafodna.py", line 10, in ? > edges.sort(key = lambda u, v: (ddeg(u), ddeg(v))) > TypeError: () takes exactly 2 arguments (1 given) > > Do you know how is it

Re: Large Dictionaries

2006-05-15 Thread Roy Smith
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chris Foote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all. > > I have the need to store a large (10M) number of keys in a hash table, > based on a tuple of (long_integer, integer). The standard python > dictionary works well for small numbers of keys, but starts to > perfo

Re: How to install pyTrix?

2006-05-15 Thread Peter Otten
DeepBlue wrote: > can any1 please tell me how to install pyTrix? Just putting the module into your site-packages directory might be sufficient. Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Large Dictionaries

2006-05-15 Thread Claudio Grondi
Chris Foote wrote: > Hi all. > > I have the need to store a large (10M) number of keys in a hash table, > based on a tuple of (long_integer, integer). The standard python > dictionary works well for small numbers of keys, but starts to > perform badly for me inserting roughly 5M keys: > > # keys

Web development with python.

2006-05-15 Thread j . paston . cooper
Is Plone analoguous to ASP.NET? Is it a python web developing platform? I am confused on what Turbogears is aswell because of the lack of documentation for it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Web development with python.

2006-05-15 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is Plone analoguous to ASP.NET? Is it a python web developing platform? No, if anything ZOPE is analogous to ASP.NET. Plone is an CMS (Conetent Management System) application written on top of ZOPE. > I am confused on what Turbogears is aswell because of the lack of >

Re: How to organise classes and modules

2006-05-15 Thread Alex
On 5/15/06, bruno at modulix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alex wrote: > > Hi, this is my first mail to the list so please correct me if Ive done > > anything wrong. > > > > What Im trying to figure out is a good way to organise my code. One > > class per .py file is a system I like, keeps stuff apa

Re: Web development with python.

2006-05-15 Thread Ilkka Poutanen
On 2006-05-15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is Plone analoguous to ASP.NET? Is it a python web developing platform? Plone is analoguous to something line Kentico CMS[1]. Plone runs on Zope which is an application server, being to Python sort of what IIS is to ASP.NET, I think. Do

Decrypt DES by password

2006-05-15 Thread Thomas Dybdahl Ahle
Hi, I've got some DES encrypted data, for which I know the password. The problem is that I have to generate an 8byte key from the password. I use python-crypto-2.0.1. I also know, that the C# way to do the decryption is: PasswordDeriveBytes bytes1 = new PasswordDeriveBytes("passwordString", null);

Re: unzip zip files

2006-05-15 Thread DataSmash
Thanks! I ended up using the "-d" parameter. I did try the zipfile module but I couldn't figure it out, nor could I find any examples using it. I also didn't have any luck changing the working dircectory and making it work. import subprocess, os # Get all the zip files in the current directory. f

RE: How to pass variables between scripts?

2006-05-15 Thread Gross, Dorit (SDRN)
> > > > #! /usr/local/bin/python > > # test_exec.py > > > > import os, sys, glob > > > > fileList = glob.glob('/data/*.ZIP') > > > > for f in fileList: > > try: > > globvars = {'infile' : f} > > locvars = {} > > execfile('/scripts/second.py', globvars(), loc

Re: Sending mail with attachment...

2006-05-15 Thread Marcelo Ramos
Merrigan escribió: > Hi, > > I have now eventually finished my newbie-backup script and I'm very > proud of the way it functions... > > Anyways, I am looking for an easy way to use smtplib to send an email > with the output log of the script to multiple accounts. I need to use > it with a smtp serv

Re: Iterating generator from C

2006-05-15 Thread Christian Tismer
Sven Suursoho wrote: > Hi, > > > I am working on project that has embedded python interpreter to run > user-specified python procedures. Those procedures might return any > iterable object with set of result data -- basically everything for which > iter() returns valid object (list, tuple,

pythoncom and IDispatch

2006-05-15 Thread fraca7
Hello. I got a little problem while using pythoncom to automate IE; for some reason, changing the 'selectedIndex' on an instance of IHTMLSelectElement doesn't fire the 'onchange' event (I guess this is a bug in mshtml). So, I tried to get the 'onchange' event handler and call it myself. Accord

keyword help in Pythonwin interpreter

2006-05-15 Thread BartlebyScrivener
Using ActivePython 2.4.3 on Windows XP While in the Pythonwin IDE, if I seek keyword help by issuing the following command: >>>help ('while') I get: Sorry, topic and keyword documentation is not available because the Python HTML documentation files could not be found. If you have installed the

Re: Iterating generator from C

2006-05-15 Thread Sven Suursoho
Mon, 15 May 2006 16:53:12 +0300, Christian Tismer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I am working on project that has embedded python interpreter to run >> user-specified python procedures. Those procedures might return any >> iterable object with set of result data -- basically everything for >> w

Re: Web development with python.

2006-05-15 Thread bruno at modulix
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is Plone analoguous to ASP.NET? Certainly not. > Is it a python web developing platform? No, it's a CMS. FWIW, it's written in bold on the project's home page: """ Plone: A user-friendly and powerful open source Content Management System """ (http://www.plone.org) FW

Re: Tabs versus Spaces in Source Code

2006-05-15 Thread Harry George
Edward Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Eli Gottlieb wrote: > > > Actually, spaces are better for indenting code. The exact amount of > > space taken up by one space character will always (or at least tend to > > be) the same, while every combination of keyboard driver, operating > > system

Embedding python in package using autoconf

2006-05-15 Thread Hallvard B Furuseth
I want to use Python as an extension language in a package which uses autoconf. That means its and Python's autoconf #defines can conflict, so I can't safely #include both and the package's own include files:-( Do anyone have a safe way to #include at least without ? E.g. copy the files (and '

taking qoutes in arguments

2006-05-15 Thread Lee Caine
hi all, Im new to python and am in need of a little help Im attempting to write a program that finds and replaces text in all files in a given directory. example of running the program with arguments >python far.py /home/lee/Documents/ find replace I have managed to get it all working apar

Re: please help me is sms with python

2006-05-15 Thread Paul Boddie
Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > > Attach a Mobile to your computer using USB/Bluetooth, open it with a > terminal program and use these AT-commands. > > http://www.cellular.co.za/hayesat.htm#SMS Command Set > > You can do that in python too, by opening the COM-port the handset is > attached to and issuin

Re: keyword help in Pythonwin interpreter

2006-05-15 Thread BartlebyScrivener
I should add that if I type: >>>help ('sys') It works fine. So it's finding the module documentation, but not the keyword or topic. Thanks rick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: any plans to make pprint() a builtin?

2006-05-15 Thread John Salerno
Ant wrote: > Considering that the current: > > import pprint > pprint.pprint(x) > > is hardly lengthy, I can't see how either of the alternatives proposed > are any better. > >> python.pprint.pprint(x) > > 6 characters shorter, but considerably more keystrokes if you are using > pprint more tha

Re: keyword help in Pythonwin interpreter

2006-05-15 Thread Peter Otten
BartlebyScrivener wrote: > Using ActivePython 2.4.3 on Windows XP > > While in the Pythonwin IDE, if I seek keyword help by issuing the > following command: > help ('while') > > I get: > > Sorry, topic and keyword documentation is not available because the > Python HTML documentation files

Re: Making all string literals Unicode

2006-05-15 Thread Richie Hindle
[Richie] > is there a switch or an environment variable to > make Python treat all string literals as unicode? [Thomas] > python -U Ah! Thanks. (I see it's deliberately omitted from the documentation because pieces of the standard library don't work with it, which is quite reasonable and expla

Re: count items in generator

2006-05-15 Thread Cameron Laird
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alex Martelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Cameron Laird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >> Alex Martelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> . >> . >> . >> >My preference woul

Re: keyword help in Pythonwin interpreter

2006-05-15 Thread BartlebyScrivener
Peter, >>> import pydoc >>> pydoc.help.docdir yields no result for me But adding the "break" into the pydoc module didn't work either. Mmm. I'll toy with this later. Thanks for pointing me to the right spot in the module. rick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to organise classes and modules

2006-05-15 Thread bruno at modulix
Alex wrote: > On 5/15/06, bruno at modulix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (snip) > > Thanks for taking your time to help me out. :) You have cleared out > many of my doubts. BTW, should I post "thank you" stuff here Ain't that what you just did ?-) > or does > it just clutter? Nope, 'thank you

Re: Iterating generator from C

2006-05-15 Thread Christian Tismer
Sven Suursoho wrote: >>> Is there any way to rewrite following program to handle returned >>> generator without hitting this bug? The only way I can think of getting around this is to make sure that there is always a running python frame. This would be possible if you can control how the exten

saving file permission denied on windows

2006-05-15 Thread zombek
I'm making a small program which takes a folder with images and generates optimized normal-sized images and thumbnails using Python Imaging Lbrary (PIL). The problem is here: os.mkdir(self.output) img = Image.open(os.path.join(self.dir,file)) img = img.resize(self.imgSize) # and here come

Re: saving file permission denied on windows

2006-05-15 Thread defcon8
Have you checked the persmissions to the folder? You can look from the properties of the folder to see. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: saving file permission denied on windows

2006-05-15 Thread zombek
The permission is OK I guess... I don't see anything about permission there, but I tried to save to maany other catalogs even to C:\ and D:\ and it raised the same error -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: count items in generator

2006-05-15 Thread Cameron Laird
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alex Martelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . . . >I'd be a bit worried about having len(x) change x's state into an >unusable one. Yes, it happens in other cases (if y in x:), but adding >more such

Test professionalism (was: count items in generator)

2006-05-15 Thread Cameron Laird
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Delaney, Timothy (Tim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . . . >That's exactly my point. Assuming your test coverage is good, such an >error would be caught by the MemoryError. An infinite loop should a

Re: [ANN] PyYAML-3.02: YAML parser and emitter for Python

2006-05-15 Thread Scott David Daniels
Kirill Simonov wrote: > > Announcing PyYAML-3.02 > > > A new bug-fix release of PyYAML is now available: > > http://pyyaml.org/wiki/PyYAML Another fix provided for Python 2.5 and friends. -- -Scott David Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http:

Finding yesterday's date with datetime

2006-05-15 Thread Thierry Lam
Is there an easy way to determine the yesterday's date(year-month-day) from the python datetime library if I know today's date? Thanks Thierry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

py on windows Mobile 5.0?

2006-05-15 Thread Bell, Kevin
Does anyone know if/how to go about using python on a windows mobile 5.0 PDA? Kevin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: List and order

2006-05-15 Thread Nic
Many thanks. Both the cases are OK. The only problem is that from: 12 22 21 In spite of writing 12 12 22 it writes 12 21 22 Do you know how is it possible to delete also this last trouble? Thanks a bunch, Nic "Peter Otten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto nel messaggio news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Nic

Re: Finding yesterday's date with datetime

2006-05-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Try something like this... HTH. A. from datetime import * d1 = datetime( year=2006, month=5, day=15) d2 = datetime.now() for d in [d1,d2]: yest = d - timedelta(days =1 ) print "%s -> %s" % (d, yest) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

help with perl2python regular expressions

2006-05-15 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Hey all, I am trying to convert some old perl scripts I have to python. Here is a snippit of the regex I used in perl. I am trying to figure out the equivalent code in python. Can someone help? my $file =$Word->ActiveDocument->Content->Text; $file =~ /TABLE\s+1.*?JCP.*?MEAN.*?(?:(\d{1,3}\.\

Re: List and order

2006-05-15 Thread Peter Otten
Nic wrote: > The only problem is that from: > 12 > 22 > 21 > In spite of writing > 12 12 22 > it writes > 12 21 22 > Do you know how is it possible to delete also this last trouble? I thought that the two 12 were a typo, but it seems you want to reorder the nodes inside an edge, too. Here's a fix

Re: py on windows Mobile 5.0?

2006-05-15 Thread Gonzalo Monzón
Bell, Kevin escribió: >Does anyone know if/how to go about using python on a windows mobile 5.0 >PDA? > >Kevin > > > > Hi Bell, Yes, there's PythonCE (Python 2.4.3 port) for Windows CE / ARM, and seems to run with mobile 5. Please search in the pythonce mail list and you'll got the answers a

Re: Tabs versus Spaces in Source Code

2006-05-15 Thread Peter Decker
On 5/15/06, Chris Klaiber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem comes when the author prefers a smaller tab width than what my > editor is set to. Sure, I could change it for that file, but what if I'm > reading a whole directory? Sure, I could change the default setting in my > editor, but wha

Re: Large Dictionaries

2006-05-15 Thread Aahz
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Roy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chris Foote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: >> >> I have the need to store a large (10M) number of keys in a hash table, >> based on a tuple of (long_integer, integer). The standard python >> dicti

Re: Finding yesterday's date with datetime

2006-05-15 Thread Michael J. Fromberger
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Thierry Lam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there an easy way to determine the yesterday's date(year-month-day) > from the python datetime library if I know today's date? from datetime import datetime, timedelta today = datetime.today() yesterday = today - time

Re: Tabs versus Spaces in Source Code

2006-05-15 Thread Edward Elliott
Harry George wrote: > This has been discussed repeatedly, and the answer is "If you only > work alone, never use anyone else's code and no one ever uses your > codes, then do as you please. The answer is "Do what works best for your project". Smart people can agree on and use whatever conventio

ANN: Vancouver Python Workshop

2006-05-15 Thread Brian Quinlan
Vancouver Python Workshop = Building on the huge success of the 2004 Vancouver Python Workshop, the Vancouver Python and Zope User Group is pleased to announce the 2006 Vancouver Python Workshop. The conference will begin with keynote addresses on August 4st. Further talks

Re: A critic of Guido's blog on Python's lambda

2006-05-15 Thread Ken Tilton
Ben wrote: > > Nothing you have described sounds that complicated, and you never come > up with concrete objections to other peoples code (apart that it took > 10 years to write in Lisp, so it must be really hard) Oh, now I have to spend an hour dissecting any code you people toss-off that doe

Re: Large Dictionaries

2006-05-15 Thread Roy Smith
Aahz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don't forget that adding keys requires resizing the dict, which is a > moderately expensive operation. My guess would be that each resize grows the table by a constant factor, which IIRC, works out to amortized O(n). It's not as good as creating the dict the righ

Re: saving file permission denied on windows

2006-05-15 Thread Larry Bates
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm making a small program which takes a folder with images and > generates optimized normal-sized images and thumbnails using Python > Imaging Lbrary (PIL). The problem is here: > > os.mkdir(self.output) > > img = Image.open(os.path.join(self.dir,file)) > img =

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