Re: Which compiler will Python 2.5 / Windows (Intel) be built with?

2006-06-18 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Scott David Daniels wrote: > I musunderstood you. I thought you were advocating that Python itself > be built on gcc, obviating many compiler access issues. That wouldn't > work because gcc cannot, by itself (as I understand it) get to all the > nooks and crannies a windows developer may need to

Active Python versions

2006-06-18 Thread Tom Del Rosso
Why is the Windows msi install file for ActivePython-2.4.3.12 only 15MB whereas the older msi file for ActivePython-2.4.2.10 was 19MB? BTW, is that the prefered Python environment? -- Reply in group, but if emailing add another zero, and remove the last word. -- http://mail.python.org/mailm

Re: Extracting values from text file

2006-06-18 Thread Mirco Wahab
Thus spoke Dennis Lee Bieber (on 2006-06-18 06:29): > On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 03:12:23 +0200, Mirco Wahab > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: >> - you have to explicitly instantiate a dictionary value >> (with 0) if/before you want in-place add to it (why is that?) > U

Re: Standard Yes / No Windows Dialog box creation

2006-06-18 Thread flaus . a
SuperHik a écrit : > I've never seen "easier" way to do it, but my solution for you if you > want to create a GUI application without learning any GUI programming > would be to consider Glade, wxGlade and such... Yes I wanted something easy because it's the first time that I use a Gui into Pytho

Re: Standard Yes / No Windows Dialog box creation

2006-06-18 Thread flaus . a
Ravi Teja a écrit : > > Assuming you are on MS Windows. > import win32api, win32con > win32api.MessageBox(0, "Question", "Title", win32con.MB_YESNO) Yes, that's exactly what I was looking for! Thanks!! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

python texts?

2006-06-18 Thread nate
Everyone that took their time to reply, thank you. I have a better idea of where to go after Learning Python. I still do not have a good idea of where this book will put me in the grand scheme of things, but oh well. I suppose that is something I will find out soon enough. Once again, thank you

Re: code is data

2006-06-18 Thread Paddy
Ravi Teja wrote: > BJörn Lindqvist wrote: > > > Personally, I would like to see macros in Python (actually Logix > > > succeeding is good enough). But I am no language designer and the > > > community has no interest in it. When I absolutely need macros, I will > > > go elsewhere. > > > > One must

maximum integer length?

2006-06-18 Thread nate
Hey everyone, I am trying to figure out what is the largest integer I can. Lets say for 400 megabytes of memory at my disposal. I have tried a few things c = 2**100 d = 2**200 print c**d Obviously I didn't have enough memory for that, but I was able to c**3. (I think anyways, it is sti

Re: Extracting values from text file

2006-06-18 Thread Preben Randhol
On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 10:54:01 +0200 Mirco Wahab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For the other issue I stumbled upon: > > - no DWIM-ism (do what I mean) on 'value' addition > > a = '1' > a += '1.' > print a > > will print > 11. > > and not 2., as in 'dynamically ty

mapping None values to ''

2006-06-18 Thread micklee74
hi i wish to map None or "None" values to "". eg a = None b = None c = "None" map( , [i for i in [a,b,c] if i in ("None",None) ]) I can't seem to find a way to put all values to "". Can anyone help? thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Which compiler will Python 2.5 / Windows (Intel) be built with?

2006-06-18 Thread Roel Schroeven
Scott David Daniels schreef: > I musunderstood you. I thought you were advocating that Python itself > be built on gcc, obviating many compiler access issues. That wouldn't > work because gcc cannot, by itself (as I understand it) get to all the > nooks and crannies a windows developer may need t

Re: Cycles between package imports

2006-06-18 Thread John Roth
Martin Blais wrote: > Hi > > I'm a tad confused over a problem involving cycles between > packages. [lengthy example snipped] > > > I don't see why the reference to module a.alice could not be > available via the "from" syntax, even if it is still incompletely > initialized at the time of import

Re: mapping None values to ''

2006-06-18 Thread Tim Chase
> i wish to map None or "None" values to "". > eg > a = None > b = None > c = "None" > > map( , [i for i in [a,b,c] if i in ("None",None) ]) > > I can't seem to find a way to put all values to "". Can anyone help? > thanks I'd consider this a VeryBadIdea(tm). However, given Python's introsp

Re: mapping None values to ''

2006-06-18 Thread imho
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: > hi > i wish to map None or "None" values to "". > eg > a = None > b = None > c = "None" > > map( , [i for i in [a,b,c] if i in ("None",None) ]) > > I can't seem to find a way to put all values to "". Can anyone help? > thanks > You already filtered [a,b,c] in

Re: maximum integer length?

2006-06-18 Thread casevh
nate wrote: > So I am just wondering how long an integer can be with 400 megabytes of > memory. > > I guess this is a question of logic? > each integer takes up a byte right? If I have 400 megabytes that would > mean I could have a long integer with up to 419,430,400,000 integers? > Python longs a

Re: mapping None values to ''

2006-06-18 Thread Gerard Flanagan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi > i wish to map None or "None" values to "". > eg > a = None > b = None > c = "None" > > map( , [i for i in [a,b,c] if i in ("None",None) ]) > > I can't seem to find a way to put all values to "". Can anyone help? > thanks a = [None, 'None', None] def filtre(x):

Re: Detecting key presses

2006-06-18 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > Ok, I'm pretty new to python, so this might be a stupid question. I'm > trying to write a simple text-based pong clone, and I can't figure out > how to read key presses to move the paddles. I just need something that > does the same thing as getch() and kbhit(). I can't

debugging in eclipse+pydev

2006-06-18 Thread yaru22
Hi. I'd like to know how to debug in eclipse+pydev. In the menu, "Pydev Debug", there's Start Debug Server option, but I don't know how to use it. Few questions I have about debugging are: 1) how do i set a breakpoints in pydev? 2) how do i execute the code line by line? I mean... step into, st

Re: maximum integer length?

2006-06-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2006-06-18, Sybren Stuvel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > nate enlightened us with: >> Obviously I didn't have enough memory for that, but I was able to c**3. >> (I think anyways, it is still trying to display the result) >> >> So I am just wondering how long an integer can be with 400 megabytes o

Re: Extracting values from text file

2006-06-18 Thread Mirco Wahab
Thus spoke Preben Randhol (on 2006-06-18 13:34): > On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 10:54:01 +0200 > Mirco Wahab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> - no DWIM-ism (do what I mean) on 'value' addition > > But you don't add two values. you add two strings. If you > want numbers you must convert the strings. Why? At

Re: Date Subtraction

2006-06-18 Thread Cameron Laird
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >rsutradhar_python wrote: > >> How to subtract date which is stored in string variable? >> >> Example: >> >> date1="2006-01-10" >> date2="2005-12-15" >> date = date1 - date2 >> should giv

Re: maximum integer length?

2006-06-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
nate wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I am trying to figure out what is the largest integer I can. Lets say > for 400 megabytes of memory at my disposal. > > I have tried a few things > c = 2**100 > d = 2**200 > print c**d > > Obviously I didn't have enough memory for that, but I was able to c**3

Tetris

2006-06-18 Thread Devon G. Parks
I've been searching google and this group for a while now for a good tutorial on making a Tetris-style game in Python. I hear Tetris is a good starting point, and although I am fairly new to programming I think I would learn best if I had some code to experiment with because without a tutorial I ha

Re: Date Subtraction

2006-06-18 Thread Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Cameron Laird wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >>rsutradhar_python wrote: >>> date1="2006-01-10" >>> date2="2005-12-15" >>> date = date1 - date2 >>> should give me 25 but problem is tha

Re: Tetris

2006-06-18 Thread Rune Strand
Devon G. Parks wrote: > I've been searching google and this group for a while now for a good > tutorial on making a Tetris-style game in Python. I hear Tetris is a > good starting point, and although I am fairly new to programming I > think I would learn best if I had some code to experiment with

Re: Extracting values from text file

2006-06-18 Thread Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mirco Wahab wrote: > You see the picture? Pythons designer made the > same mistake as the Java/Javascript designer - > they use the _same_ operator (+) for number _addition_ > and string _concatenation_, which is, imho, cumbersome. And ``+`` means also list/tuple concatena

Seeking regex optimizer

2006-06-18 Thread Kay Schluehr
I have a list of strings ls = [s_1,s_2,...,s_n] and want to create a regular expression sx from it, such that sx.match(s) yields a SRE_Match object when s starts with an s_i for one i in [0,...,n]. There might be relations between those strings: s_k.startswith(s_1) -> True or s_k.endswith(s_1) ->

Re: code is data

2006-06-18 Thread Ravi Teja
Paddy wrote: > Ravi Teja wrote: > > BJörn Lindqvist wrote: > > > > Personally, I would like to see macros in Python (actually Logix > > > > succeeding is good enough). But I am no language designer and the > > > > community has no interest in it. When I absolutely need macros, I will > > > > go els

Re: mapping None values to ''

2006-06-18 Thread Jean-Paul Calderone
On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 07:37:00 -0500, Tim Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> i wish to map None or "None" values to "". >> eg >> a = None >> b = None >> c = "None" >> >> map( , [i for i in [a,b,c] if i in ("None",None) ]) >> >> I can't seem to find a way to put all values to "". Can anyone help?

Re: code is data

2006-06-18 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Ravi Teja wrote: > Web frameworks, which seem to be the rage now in Python community could > have benefited tremendously from Macro capabilities since they have a > lot of boiler plate. they do? methinks you haven't done much web programming lately... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listi

Re: Extracting values from text file

2006-06-18 Thread Mirco Wahab
Thus spoke Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch (on 2006-06-18 18:54): > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mirco Wahab wrote: >> they use the _same_ operator (+) for number _addition_ >> and string _concatenation_, which is, imho, cumbersome. > > And ``+`` means also list/tuple concatenation and really anything for us

Chess module blog

2006-06-18 Thread Will McGugan
Hi folks, I have just blogged about a Python chess module of mine that I wrote a while back. I plan on using it for a commerical project, but making the module open source. So I would be interested in comments / advice reagarding programming style and also optimization. http://www.willmcgugan.

Re: download file from intranet linux server to windows clients

2006-06-18 Thread Cameron Laird
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Luis P. Mendes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . . . >I'm building an intranet web server in Linux for around 40 windows >clients with Django. > >The problem is that I want to build an excel file base

Re: maximum integer length?

2006-06-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2006-06-18, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Que? An integer is just a whole number without fraction. What are you >> talking about? > > He's talking about decimal digits. Each decimal digit takes up > 3.322 bits. A byte can hold about 2.4 digits. 400MB should be > able to hold an

Passing data to system command

2006-06-18 Thread Chris Hieronymus
Hi, I have a bunch of x-y data contained in an array. I would like to plot the data using an external program (psxy in GMT). The plotting program takes x-y couples as standard input. How do I get the data into the system call? I used to do things in csh and awk, i.e., something like aw

aligning SGML to text

2006-06-18 Thread Steven Bethard
I have some plain text data and some SGML markup for that text that I need to align. (The SGML doesn't maintain the original whitespace, so I have to do some alignment; I can't just calculate the indices directly.) For example, some of my text looks like: TNF binding induces release of AIP1

Re: Extracting values from text file

2006-06-18 Thread Preben Randhol
On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 17:46:43 +0200 Mirco Wahab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thus spoke Preben Randhol (on 2006-06-18 13:34): > > On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 10:54:01 +0200 > > Mirco Wahab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> - no DWIM-ism (do what I mean) on 'value' addition > > > > But you don't add two valu

Re: code is data

2006-06-18 Thread Ravi Teja
Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Ravi Teja wrote: > > > Web frameworks, which seem to be the rage now in Python community could > > have benefited tremendously from Macro capabilities since they have a > > lot of boiler plate. > > they do? methinks you haven't done much web programming lately... > > You

Re: code is data

2006-06-18 Thread Roberto Bonvallet
Ravi Teja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I *like* 1..5 (ada, ruby) instead of range(5). If I had macros, I would > have done it myself for *my* code. You can write your own preprocessor to handle things like that. -- Roberto Bonvallet -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Simple script to make .png thumbnails from .zip archive...

2006-06-18 Thread K P S
Hi. I'm looking for a small script that will take a .zip archive and pull the first .jpg from the archive and convert it to a .png. The reason for this is I want to have tuhmbnails for these archives in nautilus under gnome. I would like something similar to the following code, which will pull

Re: import hook

2006-06-18 Thread Jeremy Sanders
Thomas Heller wrote: > There are also other ways. You could extend __path__ of foo, and the > pkgutil module might also be useful. The __path__ trick worked nicely, thanks. Here is the code in case anyone is interested # Allow veusz to be run even if not installed into PYTHONPATH try: impor

Re: debugging in eclipse+pydev

2006-06-18 Thread Fabio Zadrozny
Hi,On 18 Jun 2006 07:46:48 -0700, yaru22 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi.I'd like to know how to debug in eclipse+pydev.In the menu, "Pydev Debug", there's Start Debug Server option, but Idon't know how to use it.Few questions I have about debugging are: 1) how do i set a breakpoints in pydev?2) how

wxPython GUI designer

2006-06-18 Thread diffuser78
I am newbie learning wxPython. I tried using GUI designer called wxGlade. When it generated code I couldnt get the same level of flexibility as writing the code by oneself. Any view on what you think about using GUI designer tools. Every help is appreciated. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/li

Re: wxPython GUI designer

2006-06-18 Thread DH
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am newbie learning wxPython. I tried using GUI designer called > wxGlade. When it generated code I couldnt get the same level of > flexibility as writing the code by oneself. > > Any view on what you think about using GUI designer tools. > > Every help is appreciated.

Getting output from external programs...

2006-06-18 Thread ph0b0s
Hi, i'm making an mp3 conversion program in Python, but am kind of stuck now. The conversion routines work, using LAME, but now a i'm building a GUI  with GLADE around it, and would like to be able to show LAME's output  to the user in a status window in my gui.. but don't know where to start.

Do you know good source codes to study?

2006-06-18 Thread Rintaro Masuda
Hi guys,   I am about to finish reading the book "Learning Python" which is published by O'reilly. This is a good book and I get basic knowledge of Python from it.   I think it's time to read good source codes for the next step.  It might be great to join some open source projects.   So, do

Re: Seeking regex optimizer

2006-06-18 Thread Paddy
Kay Schluehr wrote: > I have a list of strings ls = [s_1,s_2,...,s_n] and want to create a > regular expression sx from it, such that sx.match(s) yields a SRE_Match > object when s starts with an s_i for one i in [0,...,n]. There might > be relations between those strings: s_k.startswith(s_1) ->

Re: aligning SGML to text

2006-06-18 Thread Gerard Flanagan
Steven Bethard wrote: > I have some plain text data and some SGML markup for that text that I > need to align. (The SGML doesn't maintain the original whitespace, so I > have to do some alignment; I can't just calculate the indices directly.) > For example, some of my text looks like: > > TNF bi

Re: Simple script to make .png thumbnails from .zip archive...

2006-06-18 Thread hdante
Hi, I don't know zipfile by heart, but python official documentation is always good ( docs.python.org ). You need a loop in the file list like this: for file in zip: process(file) Unfortunatelly, there are too many ways to create a thumbnail from an image. I'll cite one, using the "pyth

Re: mapping None values to ''

2006-06-18 Thread Roberto Bonvallet
imho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > map(lambda x:"" , [i for i in [a,b,c] if i in ("None",None) ]) You don't need map when using list comprehensions: ["" for i in [a, b, c] if i in ("None", None)] -- Roberto Bonvallet -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: USB support

2006-06-18 Thread rodmc
Thanks for this, I have managed to build PyUSB and install it in the relevant directory. However I get bus errors when I try the PlugUSB.py example. Does anyone know why this is likely to be the case? I am using Macpython 2.4, Libusb 0.1.12 and PyUSB 0.3.3 on an Intel based mac. Thanks in advanc

any subway web dev experiences

2006-06-18 Thread a
subway is pythons ruby on rails competitor pls tell me if u hav any expereinces thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: wxPython GUI designer

2006-06-18 Thread diffuser78
Are there any good commercial project built with wx ? I am a newbie and a have to write a small application in Python. I was wondering which optin would be best for me in terms of least learning curve and getting the final product ASAP. Thanks DH wrote: > In my opinion none of the wx* or gtk* re

Re: Seeking regex optimizer

2006-06-18 Thread Kay Schluehr
Paddy wrote: > Kay Schluehr wrote: > > I have a list of strings ls = [s_1,s_2,...,s_n] and want to create a > > regular expression sx from it, such that sx.match(s) yields a SRE_Match > > object when s starts with an s_i for one i in [0,...,n]. There might > > be relations between those strings: s

Re: code is data

2006-06-18 Thread BJörn Lindqvist
> > > community has no interest in it. When I absolutely need macros, I will > > > go elsewhere. > I *like* 1..5 (ada, ruby) instead of range(5). If I had macros, I would > have done it myself for *my* code. I think this example more is a symptom of a childish need to get things your way than of a

Re: Passing data to system command

2006-06-18 Thread hdante
Should be like this: from subprocess import Popen, PIPE my_output = file('output1.ps', 'w') p1 = Popen(["psxy"], stdin = PIPE, stdout=my_output) p1.stdin.write(my_format(array)) p1.communicate() my_output.close() I've never used that, though, please tell us if it worked. Chris Hieronymu

Re: Passing data to system command

2006-06-18 Thread faulkner
import os, subprocess xys = [[1,2],[3,4]] msg = '\n'.join([str(x) + ',' + str(y) for x, y in xys]) os.popen('command', 'w').write(msg) os.popen2('command')[0].write(msg) p = subprocess.Popen('command', stdin=subprocess.PIPE) p.stdin.write(msg) help(subprocess) help(os.popen) help(os.popen3) Ch

Re: Seeking regex optimizer

2006-06-18 Thread John Machin
On 19/06/2006 6:30 AM, Paddy wrote: > Kay Schluehr wrote: >> I have a list of strings ls = [s_1,s_2,...,s_n] and want to create a >> regular expression sx from it, such that sx.match(s) yields a SRE_Match >> object when s starts with an s_i for one i in [0,...,n]. There might >> be relations betwe

Re: Passing data to system command

2006-06-18 Thread Cameron Laird
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chris Hieronymus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . . . >input. How do I get the data into the system call? I used to do >things in csh and awk, >i.e., something like > >awk '{; print $1, $2}' fil

Re: Seeking regex optimizer

2006-06-18 Thread Mirco Wahab
Thus spoke Kay Schluehr (on 2006-06-18 19:07): > I have a list of strings ls = [s_1,s_2,...,s_n] and want to create a > regular expression sx from it, such that sx.match(s) yields a SRE_Match > object when s starts with an s_i for one i in [0,...,n]. There might > be relations between those strin

Re: Extracting values from text file

2006-06-18 Thread Mirco Wahab
Thus spoke Dennis Lee Bieber (on 2006-06-18 22:37): > The only cure for that is complete and painful bone marrow > transplant As a start, after six months of no PERL go back and try > reading some of your code. Uhhh, this is like giving the mounted knight a longbow and push him onto the ba

Re: any subway web dev experiences

2006-06-18 Thread George Sakkis
a wrote: > subway is pythons ruby on rails competitor > pls tell me if u hav any expereinces > thanks u wanna know reils n subway ur so kewl omg! no expereinces watsoevah, sori dud PS: If you want to be taken seriously, put at least some effort to make a readable english sentence. This is comp.

Re: Seeking regex optimizer

2006-06-18 Thread Paddy
Kay Schluehr wrote: > with reverse sorting as in your proposal.The naive solution is easy to > generate but I'm sceptical about its cost effectiveness. On the other > hand I do not want to investigate this matter if somebody else already > did it thoroughly. > > Regards, > Kay Hi Kay, The only wa

Re: mapping None values to ''

2006-06-18 Thread Max Erickson
"Roberto Bonvallet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You don't need map when using list comprehensions: > > ["" for i in [a, b, c] if i in ("None", None)] > That loses list elements that aren't in the tests: >>> a=7 >>> b="None" >>> c=None >>> ["" for i in [a,b,c] if i in ("None",None)] ['', ''

Re: mapping None values to ''

2006-06-18 Thread Scott David Daniels
Roberto Bonvallet wrote: > imho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> map(lambda x:"" , [i for i in [a,b,c] if i in ("None",None) ]) > You don't need map when using list comprehensions: >["" for i in [a, b, c] if i in ("None", None)] > More like: [(i, "")[i in ("None", None)] for i in [a,b,c]] -- --

Re: Simple script to make .png thumbnails from .zip archive...

2006-06-18 Thread Scott David Daniels
hdante wrote: > there are too many ways to create a thumbnail from an > image. I'll cite one, using the "python image" external module, that > I've found to be very easy: > > import Image > def process(file): > try: > image = Image.open(file) > image.thumbnail ((128,128), Image.ANT

Re: Getting output from external programs...

2006-06-18 Thread Ten
On Sunday 18 June 2006 21:28, ph0b0s wrote: > Hi, > > i'm making an mp3 conversion program in Python, but am kind of stuck now. > The conversion routines work, using LAME, but now a i'm building a GUI >  with GLADE around it, and would like to be able to show LAME's output >  to the user in a

Re: Popen3 on Windows

2006-06-18 Thread reed
Jeffrey Barish wrote: > I have an application that has been working fine on Linux, but now I need to > port it to Windows XP. The program uses Popen3 to run another program. I > use Popen3 so that I can access the pid attribute, which I use to kill the > auxiliary program when necessary. Popen3

Python with Eclipse

2006-06-18 Thread Stan Cook
I've been trying to use Eclipse with Python on Linux for a while and have noticed something odd. After running the code or debugging a few times, its responsiveness gets really bad. Upon checking the equivalent of the task manager, I find several instances of Python running. When I kill the

Re: Chess module blog

2006-06-18 Thread faulkner
make psyco entirely optional by putting it in a try/except block. change INITIAL_BOARD to be a triple-quoted string. you seem to mostly follow pep8, which is all most folks ask, but i really like this style for docstrings: def test(): ''' hello, this text and the quotes line up

Re: aligning SGML to text

2006-06-18 Thread Steven Bethard
Gerard Flanagan wrote: > Steven Bethard wrote: >> I have some plain text data and some SGML markup for that text that I >> need to align. (The SGML doesn't maintain the original whitespace, so I >> have to do some alignment; I can't just calculate the indices directly.) >> For example, some of m

Re: Getting output from external programs...

2006-06-18 Thread Cameron Laird
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . . . >You can do this in various ways, ranging from the very simple and not very good > >from commands import getoutput > >x=getoutput(command) > > >- to your mor

Re: mapping None values to ''

2006-06-18 Thread Steven Bethard
Scott David Daniels wrote: > Roberto Bonvallet wrote: >> imho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> map(lambda x:"" , [i for i in [a,b,c] if i in ("None",None) ]) >> You don't need map when using list comprehensions: >>["" for i in [a, b, c] if i in ("None", None)] >> > More like: > > [(i, "")[i in ("N

Change value of element in list

2006-06-18 Thread O Plameras
Hi, I'm doing python tutorial, > http://docs.python.org/tut/node5.html and I have these, lists = ['spam', 'eggs', 100, 1234] lists[2] = lists[2] + 23 I expected this, lists = ['spam', 'eggs', 123, 1234] but got this, lists = ['spam', 'eggs', 100, 1234] What's my problem here ? I have Fedora

Re: Change value of element in list

2006-06-18 Thread O Plameras
O Plameras wrote: > Hi, > > I'm doing python tutorial, >> http://docs.python.org/tut/node5.html > > and I have these, > > lists = ['spam', 'eggs', 100, 1234] > lists[2] = lists[2] + 23 > > I expected this, > lists = ['spam', 'eggs', 123, 1234] > > but got this, > lists = ['spam', 'eggs', 100,

Re: aligning SGML to text

2006-06-18 Thread Steven Bethard
Steven Bethard wrote: > I have some plain text data and some SGML markup for that text that I > need to align. (The SGML doesn't maintain the original whitespace, so I > have to do some alignment; I can't just calculate the indices directly.) [snip] > Note that the SGML inserts spaces not only

ANN: pyfcp

2006-06-18 Thread aum
Hi all, pyfcp is a suite of tools, including a package, modules and applications, for accessing the Freenet network. What is freenet? Freenet - www.freenetproject.org - is a 'darknet' which supports anonymous publication and retrieval of websites and other media, in a way that makes it extremely