Re: Using Beautiful Soup to entangle bookmarks.html

2006-09-09 Thread Francach
Hallo George, thanks a lot! This is exactly the direction I had in mind. Your script demonstrates nicely how Beautiful Soup works. Regards, Martin. George Sakkis wrote: > Francach wrote: > > Hi George, > > > > Firefox lets you group the bookmarks along with other information into > > directories

Re: Looking for a regexp generator based on a set of known string representative of a string set

2006-09-09 Thread vbfoobar
James Stroud a écrit : > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello > > > > I am looking for python code that takes as input a list of strings > > (most similar, > > but not necessarily, and rather short: say not longer than 50 chars) > > and that computes and outputs the python regular expression that >

Re: Is it just me, or is Sqlite3 goofy?

2006-09-09 Thread Kay Schluehr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I wouldn't be at all surprised if the pysqlite author operated under that > assumption. That the Python developers didn't pick up on the issue is not > surprising. I'm not sure how many of them are (py)sqlite users, probably > relatively few. > > Skip Who has reviewe

Re: Minidom XML output - attributes in wrong order ?

2006-09-09 Thread Stefan Behnel
Peter Møllerud wrote: > I'm very new to Python then you might want to consider using ElementTree or lxml, not necessarily minidom. > c = doc.createElement("sometest") > doc.appendChild(c) > tmp = doc.createElement("info") > tmp.setAttribute("vehicle", "car") > tmp.setAttribute("x-ray ", "100-1")

Re: Building Python Based Web Application

2006-09-09 Thread Nick Vatamaniuc
The most modest way is to use pure Python and interface via CGI with the web. I would start there. As you code you will find yourself saying "I wonder if a framework is out there that already has automated this specific process (say templating)?", well then you can search and find such a framework

Re: convert loop to list comprehension

2006-09-09 Thread Simon Forman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks for that, Carl. I think that using the loop is probably what > I'll end up doing. I had no idea that the listcomp thing would be quite > a complicated as it is appearing. I had it in my mind that I was > missing some obvious thing which would create a simple solut

Re: Map with an extra parameter

2006-09-09 Thread Simon Forman
ml1n wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This may be what you need: > > > > class foo: > > def __init__(self, a, b): > > self.a = a > > self.b = b > > > > vars = [1,2,3,4,5,6] > > objects = [foo(a, 1) for a in vars] > > > > > > Note that in Python the new is expressed wit the () at th

Re: best split tokens?

2006-09-09 Thread John Machin
Tim Chase wrote: > > I had a hard time comin' up with any words I'd want to call > "words" where the additional non-word glyph (apostrophe, dash, > etc) wasn't 'round the middle of the word. :) > > Any more crazy examples? :) > 'ey, 'alf a mo, wot about when 'enry 'n' 'orace drop their aitches?

Re: Looking for a regexp generator based on a set of known string representative of a string set

2006-09-09 Thread Anthra Norell
Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: >> Hello >> >> I am looking for python code that takes as input a list of strings >> (most similar, >> but not necessarily, and rather short: say not longer than 50 chars) >> and that computes and outputs the python regular expression that >> mat

Re: pyserial problem: script stops reading

2006-09-09 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
"Frederic Wenzel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I wrote a script on Linux that uses pyserial to read status messages | from a serial line using readlines(). For now, it just displays what | it gets on stdout: | | 17:42 | 0005 | 02 | | 5 |Rack Abs.| - | --210 | 17:42 | 0008 | 02 | | 5 |Ra

Re: Tkinter listbox:get

2006-09-09 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in email: | Hi,and sorry I forget tell you what I want exactly. | | My problem is | | example: | | when I write like you tell me: | | >>> idx=lb.curselection() | >>> StringValue=lb.get(idx) <=== This | | THEN,ERROR IS: | | Traceback (most recent call last):

Re: Unable to make python work properly

2006-09-09 Thread Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Benjamin Grant wrote: > Hi all, > I'd greatly appreciate any help. I can configure, make and install > everything fine. I'm using python 2.4 I have ubuntu dapper drake. I am > trying to install hplip which requires python. When I do this, this > also works but while run

Re: ubuntu crash

2006-09-09 Thread Peter Otten
Jay wrote: > Here are some commands to try: > > apt-get install ubuntu-standard > apt-get install ubuntu-desktop > > Also, I'd recommend trying Ubuntu's official forums website. I've > found their community to be extremely helpful. > > http://www.ubuntuforums.org/ > > Plus, why on earth would

Re: Unicode / cx_Oracle problem

2006-09-09 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Richard Schulman schrieb: > Sorry to be back at the goodly well so soon, but... > > ...when I execute the following -- variable mean_eng_txt being > utf-16LE and its datatype nvarchar2(79) in Oracle: > > cursor.execute("""INSERT INTO mean (mean_id,mean_eng_txt) > VALUES (:id,:mean)""",id=id

Re: Map with an extra parameter

2006-09-09 Thread Peter Otten
ml1n wrote: > I'm not really sure how to explain this so maybe some example code is > best. This code makes a list of objects by taking a list of ints and > combining them with a constant: > > class foo: > def __init__(self): > self.a = 0 > self.b = 0 > > def func(a,b): > f = new

Re: Is it just me, or is Sqlite3 goofy?

2006-09-09 Thread Paul Boddie
Kay Schluehr wrote: > [Quoting Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch...] > > If you are so fond of static typing, why are you using Python in the first > > place? Just see it as consistency -- dynamically typed language → > > dynamically typed DB columns. ;-) > > I have to admit I find this bogus too. It ha

search and replace in a file :: newbie help

2006-09-09 Thread techie2go
hi... i m now updating an sql file old file contains lines insert into mobilebill values ('Apr 01, 03', 'OUT', '91804103253', 34, 3.2); insert into mobilebill values ('Apr 01, 03', 'OUT', '91806392475', 84, 5.2); insert into mobilebill values ('Apr 01, 03', 'OUT', '918317048193', 76, 7.6); i want

Re: Building Python Based Web Application

2006-09-09 Thread Steve Holden
James Stroud wrote: > Hello All, > > I am interested in setting up a modest invoicing system for some > consulting I am doing. I like the idea of managing this on the web and > creating invoices and printing them from a browser. However, I'm not > really sure where to start. I've played with so

Re: SQLwaterheadretard3 (Was: Is it just me, or is Sqlite3 goofy?)

2006-09-09 Thread Steve Holden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Paul McNett wrote: > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>>Do you know what INNER JOIN means? >>> >>>Do you know how important it is to a relational database? >>> >>>Can you explain how an INNER JOIN can even work, in theory, >>>with dynamic data types? >> >>Let's stop the pi

Re: convert loop to list comprehension

2006-09-09 Thread Steve Holden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > > Cool ... and damn but you guys are fast with the answers. This appears > to work find, but in a quick and dirty test it appears that the [list] > version takes about 2x as long to run as the original loop. Is this > normal? > No hard and fast information, but as

Re: convert loop to list comprehension

2006-09-09 Thread Steve Holden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Carl Banks wrote: > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>>Paul Rubin wrote: >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >print sum( ([i]*n for i,n in enumerate(seq)), []) Wow, I had no idea you could do that. After all the discussion about summing strings, I'm as

Re: search and replace in a file :: newbie help

2006-09-09 Thread Peter Otten
techie2go wrote: > i m now updating an sql file > = > but the output is just > 2003-01-04 > and not > > insert into mobilebill values ('2003-01-04', 'OUT', '91804103253', 34, > 3.2); > > help me in this regard, what did i do wrong... You can find out yourself if you throw in so

Re: Looking for the Perfect Editor

2006-09-09 Thread mystilleef
I recommend Scribes. http://scribes.sf.net Flash Demo: http://scribes.sf.net/snippets.htm GIF Demo: http://www.minds.may.ie/~dez/images/blog/scribes.html Omar wrote: > I'd love the perfect editor that would be: > > a) free > > b) enable me to drag and drop code snippets from a sort of browser i

Bug in the documentation (?)

2006-09-09 Thread Pawel Oleksik
Hi, Snake Tamers According to http://www.python.org/doc/2.4.1/lib/typesseq-strings.html (and next releases): """ The conversion types are: Conversion Meaning Notes [...] x Unsigned hexadecimal (lowercase).

Re: super and __init__

2006-09-09 Thread Duncan Booth
"Jason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As far as I can tell, the best way to use super() with an __init__ > function is to stick to a rigid function signiture. ... > Unfortunately, I don't see a way of avoiding this problem with super(). An easy way to avoid changing the method signature is to use

PIL cannot open TIFF image in Windows

2006-09-09 Thread Andres Corrada-Emmanuel
Hello, I have installed PIL 1.1.5 on Windows with Python 2.4. I'm unable to open .tiff images that I can open and view using Windows Explorer. In other words, this simple test fails: import Image im = Image.open('small.tif') with an 'cannot identify image file' error message. I'm able to open .j

[Fwd: Problems with PyGridTableBase]

2006-09-09 Thread Mario Lacunza
- Mensaje reenviado De: Mario Lacunza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Para: Lista Python Ing Asunto: Problems with PyGridTableBase Fecha: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 00:03:20 -0500 Hello, I attach two files:frmClientes and frmClientesNE. frmClientes charge a Grid with resume Costumers data: Name, Com

What algorithm does Python use to evaluate: if substring in string

2006-09-09 Thread Tor Erik
I would be surprised if it is the naive: m = 0 s1 = "me" s2 = "locate me" s1len = len(s1) s2len = len(s2) found = False while m + s1len <= s2len: if s1 == s2len[m:m+s1len]: found = True break m += 1 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python

Re: Building Python Based Web Application

2006-09-09 Thread Gerard Flanagan
James Stroud wrote: > Hello All, > > I am interested in setting up a modest invoicing system for some > consulting I am doing. I like the idea of managing this on the web and > creating invoices and printing them from a browser. However, I'm not > really sure where to start. I've played with some C

pyparsing listAllMatches problem

2006-09-09 Thread don pasquale
hello, I'm using pyparsing and trying to parse something like: test="""Q(x,y,z):-Bloo(x,"Mitsis",y),Foo(y,z,1243),y>28,x<12,x>3""" and also have all comparison predicates in a separate list apart from the parse tree. So my grammar has this line in it: Comparison_Predicate = Group(variable + one

Re: PIL cannot open TIFF image in Windows

2006-09-09 Thread Rob Williscroft
Andres Corrada-Emmanuel wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] in comp.lang.python: > I have installed PIL 1.1.5 on Windows with Python 2.4. I'm unable to > open .tiff images that I can open and view using Windows Explorer. In > other words, this simple test fails: > > import Image > im = Image.open('s

Re: mysqldb + multi-threading

2006-09-09 Thread hg
hg wrote: > Hi, > > I am writing a transaction server (socket-based) under windows. > > I use mysqldb to log info into MySQL. > > It is all working and I need now to decide whether to use forks > (CreateProcess I guess) or threads. > > I saw in another thread that some db engines did have issue

Re: What algorithm does Python use to evaluate: if substring in string

2006-09-09 Thread Alex Martelli
Tor Erik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would be surprised if it is the naive: Yep -- it's "a mix between Boyer-Moore and Horspool with a few more bells and whistles on the top", as documented and implemented in Objects/stringlib/fastsearch.h in the Python sources and well discussed and explained

Re: What algorithm does Python use to evaluate: if substring in string

2006-09-09 Thread Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tor Erik wrote: > I would be surprised if it is the naive: Why? I guess it simply calls an appropriate C library function. Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What algorithm does Python use to evaluate: if substring in string

2006-09-09 Thread Tor Erik
Alex Martelli wrote: > Tor Erik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I would be surprised if it is the naive: > > Yep -- it's "a mix between Boyer-Moore and Horspool with a few more > bells and whistles on the top", as documented and implemented in > Objects/stringlib/fastsearch.h in the Python source

newbie: datastructure `dictionary' question

2006-09-09 Thread jason
Hello, I am completely new to python and I have question that I unfortunately could not find in the various documentation online. My best guess is that the answer should be quitte easy but I have just enterd the learning phase so that means a hightend chance for stupidity and mistakes on my part.

Re: ubuntu crash

2006-09-09 Thread Jay
Oh.. Sorry about that, then. Did my suggestions work at all? Peter Otten wrote: > Jay wrote: > > > Here are some commands to try: > > > > apt-get install ubuntu-standard > > apt-get install ubuntu-desktop > > > > Also, I'd recommend trying Ubuntu's official forums website. I've > > found t

Re: Problem on getting various character set from pop3.retr

2006-09-09 Thread John Machin
GM wrote: > Dear all, > > The problem that I am facing now is that, when I use poplib to get a > email message with chinese character set like big5, the character > string is changed automatically to sth like =B8=D5=ACQ=AAM...the OS I > am using is red hat ES4 and the python version I am using is

Re: best split tokens?

2006-09-09 Thread Tim Chase
>> Any more crazy examples? :) > > 'ey, 'alf a mo, wot about when 'enry 'n' 'orace drop their aitches? I said "crazy"...not "pathological" :) If one really wants such a case, one has to omit the standard practice of nesting quotes: John replied "Dad told me 'you can't go' but let Judy"

Re: newbie: datastructure `dictionary' question

2006-09-09 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
jason schrieb: > Hello, > > I am completely new to python and I have question that I unfortunately > could not find in the various documentation online. My best guess is > that the answer should be quitte easy but I have just enterd the learning > phase so that means a hightend chance for stupidit

Re: newbie: datastructure `dictionary' question

2006-09-09 Thread John Machin
jason wrote: > Hello, > > I am completely new to python and I have question that I unfortunately > could not find in the various documentation online. My best guess is > that the answer should be quitte easy but I have just enterd the learning > phase so that means a hightend chance for stupidity

Re: mysqldb + multi-threading

2006-09-09 Thread skip
> "Bryan" == Bryan Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bryan> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bryan> Go with your gut. Python threads are reasonably portable, and Bryan> work well on modern MS-Windows. >> >> >> Maybe ignore your gut and read the documentation. ;-) >> Bryan

Re: best split tokens?

2006-09-09 Thread John Machin
Tim Chase wrote: > >> Any more crazy examples? :) > > > > 'ey, 'alf a mo, wot about when 'enry 'n' 'orace drop their aitches? > > I said "crazy"...not "pathological" :) > > If one really wants such a case, one has to omit the standard > practice of nesting quotes: > > John replied "Dad told

Re: unicode "table of character" implementation in python

2006-09-09 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Tim Roberts schrieb: >> 0530..058F; Armenian >> 0590..05FF; Hebrew >> ... > > This is a fabulously useful list, Martin. Did you get this from a web > page? Can you tell me where? It's part of the Unicode Consortium's database (UCD, Unicode Character Database). This specific table is called "cod

EyeDB Object Database (ODBMS) - Python wrapper

2006-09-09 Thread GinTon
EyeDB is a free ODBMS based on the ODMG 3 specification with programming interfaces for C++ and Java. It is very powerfull, mature, safe and stable. In fact, it was developed in 1992 for the Genome View project althought rewritten in 1994, and has been used in a lot of bioinformatics projects http

Re: ANN: GMPY binaries for Windows 2.5

2006-09-09 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch schrieb: > Interesting subject line. I think I still have a set of "Win 3.11 for > workgroups" disks lying around somewhere, but where do I get Windows 2.5? ;-) IIRC, there was no Windows 2.5 release. There was a Windows 2.1 release; it was released in May '88, but then t

Re: os.name under Win32

2006-09-09 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Igor Kravtchenko schrieb: > My question is whether that is supposed to be totally impossible. > Under Win32, we are indeed supposed to have os.name = "nt". Is that value > hardcoded in Win32 binaries distribution themself? Can it potentially > change? I can't test it right now, but I would expec

Re: How to build extensions on Windows?

2006-09-09 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Kevin D. Smith schrieb: > Then there is Mike Fletcher's web page > (http://www.vrplumber.com/programming/mstoolkit/) that describes in > detail how to build extensions, but most of the links to external > software are no longer valid. I think it's safe to say that I am > completely lost, as there

Re: convert loop to list comprehension

2006-09-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Paul Rubin wrote: > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > FWIW, the original loop looked perfectly fine and readable and I'd > > > suggest going with that over these hacked-up listcomp solutions. Don't > > > use a listcomp just for the sake of using a listcomp. > > > > Thanks for

Re: pyserial problem: script stops reading

2006-09-09 Thread Frederic Wenzel
On 9/9/06, Hendrik van Rooyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | I wrote a script on Linux that uses pyserial to read status messages > | from a serial line using readlines(). For now, it just displays what > | it gets on stdout: > | (...) > | ser = serial.Serial(port=1, > |

Re: Building Python Based Web Application

2006-09-09 Thread John Henry
Adam Jones wrote: > John Henry wrote: > > Hi folks. > > > > I am interested on this topic as well. > > > > If my application is not database related, what would be a good choice? > > > > I have clients that wish to use my Python applications but I am not > > willing to give them the code. So, I a

Re: Request for tips on my first python script.

2006-09-09 Thread Steven Bethard
Lex Hider wrote: > try: > opts, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], "l:", > ["latest=", "notfound"]) > except getopt.GetoptError: > sys.exit(2) > #usage() > > for opt, arg in opts: > if opt in (

Re: What algorithm does Python use to evaluate: if substring in string

2006-09-09 Thread Alex Martelli
Tor Erik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alex Martelli wrote: > > Tor Erik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I would be surprised if it is the naive: > > > > Yep -- it's "a mix between Boyer-Moore and Horspool with a few more > > bells and whistles on the top", as documented and implemented in >

Re: newbie: datastructure `dictionary' question

2006-09-09 Thread jason
On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 09:00:35 -0700, John Machin wrote: > jason wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am completely new to python and I have question that I unfortunately >> could not find in the various documentation online. My best guess is >> that the answer should be quitte easy but I have just enterd the

Re: Secure Postgres access

2006-09-09 Thread Reid Priedhorsky
On Thu, 07 Sep 2006 18:36:32 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote: > Reid Priedhorsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Wouldn't they need a database password? >> >> Well, right now, no. I have Postgres configured to trust the OS on who is >> who. > > You trust the OS on the client machine, but not the clien

Re: pyparsing listAllMatches problem

2006-09-09 Thread Paul McGuire
"don pasquale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > hello, > I'm using pyparsing and trying to parse something like: > test="""Q(x,y,z):-Bloo(x,"Mitsis",y),Foo(y,z,1243),y>28,x<12,x>3""" > > and also have all comparison predicates in a separate list apart from the > parse

Re: Looking for the Perfect Editor

2006-09-09 Thread Claudio Grondi
Omar wrote: > thanks for the suggestions, fellas > Would be kind of you to tell us which one you have decided to use and why? Claudio Grondi P.S. If you don't like any of already mentioned you can give SciTe a try. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Question about subclassing - version 2

2006-09-09 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Maric Michaud a écrit : > Le vendredi 08 septembre 2006 10:15, Bruno Desthuilliers a écrit : > >>You >>mentioned NotImplementedError, which is indeed the usual way to make >>something "abstract" in Python. > > > Hummm, some more thoughts about this. > > I can imagine class hierarchies where the

Re: Building Python Based Web Application

2006-09-09 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
James Stroud a écrit : > Hello All, > > I am interested in setting up a modest invoicing system for some > consulting I am doing. I like the idea of managing this on the web and > creating invoices and printing them from a browser. However, I'm not > really sure where to start. I've played with

Re: newbie: datastructure `dictionary' question

2006-09-09 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
jason a écrit : Just some more suggestions: > def parselog(data): > other = 0 > records = {} > > for line in string.split(data, '\n'): for line in data.split('\n'): > str = line.strip() This will shadow the builtin 'str' type. You could reassign to 'line' instead, or

Re: Building Python Based Web Application

2006-09-09 Thread Andre Meyer
Karrigell can really be recommended. Simple, but powerful. No need for SQL (though it can), just use the pure Python buzhug, Karrigell services and (Cheetah) templates. Works great.regardsAndre -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Unable to make python work properly

2006-09-09 Thread Terry Hancock
Benjamin Grant wrote: > Hi all, I'd greatly appreciate any help. I can configure, make and > install everything fine. I'm using python 2.4 I have ubuntu dapper > drake. I am trying to install hplip which requires python. When I do > this, this also works but while running the following error oc

makepy, ADO and dynamic.py

2006-09-09 Thread Chris Curvey
I'm trying to track down a performance issue in my Windows code, and hotshot is telling me that the most time and calls are spent in these methods ncalls tottime percall cumtime percall filename:lineno(function) 75975 63982.7790.842 124464.4191.638 c:\python24\lib\site-packages\

Can I make unicode in a repr() print readably?

2006-09-09 Thread Terry Hancock
I still run into my own ignorance a lot with unicode in Python. Is it possible to define some combination of __repr__, __str__, and/or __unicode__ so that the unicode() wrapper isn't necessary in this statement: >>> print unicode(jp.concepts['adjectives']['BLUE'][0]) (i.e. can I make it so tha

OT: What encoding is this?

2006-09-09 Thread skip
Way off-topic for Python, but can someone tell me what encoding was used in this web page: http://www.loppen.dk/side.php?navn=getin I'm guessing ISO-8859-15, but the page doesn't indicate and it's none of the ones available in Safari. Thanks, Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinf

Re: OT: What encoding is this?

2006-09-09 Thread Eric Pederson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Way off-topic for Python, but can someone tell me what encoding was used in >this web page: > >http://www.loppen.dk/side.php?navn=getin > >I'm guessing ISO-8859-15, but the page doesn't indicate and it's none of the >ones available in Safari. > >Thanks, > >Skip > >

Re: Looking for a regexp generator based on a set of known string representative of a string set

2006-09-09 Thread James Stroud
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have tried their online Text-symbol Pattern Discovery > with these input values: > > cpkg-3 > cpkg-31008 > cpkg-3000A > cpkg-30006 > nsug-300AB > nsug-300A2 > cpdg-30001 > nsug-300A3 Well, in the realm of sequence analysis, it is trivial to devise a regex for the

Re: pyparsing listAllMatches problem

2006-09-09 Thread don pasquale
On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 20:46:29 +0300, Paul McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for posting this test case. This is a bug in pyparsing. I'll > have a > fix ready shortly. > > -- Paul Ur welcome, I hope you find the bug and squash it :). I temporalily solved my problem (in case anyone

Re: Looking for the Perfect Editor

2006-09-09 Thread Omar
I've been using scite the last few days, and have also been experimenting with ulipad. thanks, again -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Secure Postgres access

2006-09-09 Thread Paul Rubin
Reid Priedhorsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > B) Work machine. Run by others, many users. I'd like to also run my > database client (Python) here. Well, just how much do you distrust that machine? If you think it's totally pwned by attackers who will stop at nothing to subvert your client, you s

Re: os.name under Win32

2006-09-09 Thread Steve Holden
Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Igor Kravtchenko schrieb: > >>My question is whether that is supposed to be totally impossible. >>Under Win32, we are indeed supposed to have os.name = "nt". Is that value >>hardcoded in Win32 binaries distribution themself? Can it potentially >>change? > > > I can't t

Re: pyserial problem: script stops reading

2006-09-09 Thread Steve Holden
Frederic Wenzel wrote: > On 9/9/06, Hendrik van Rooyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>| I wrote a script on Linux that uses pyserial to read status messages >>| from a serial line using readlines(). For now, it just displays what >>| it gets on stdout: >>| (...) >>| ser = serial.Serial(port=1, >>|

Re: OT: What encoding is this?

2006-09-09 Thread Neil Hodgson
> http://www.loppen.dk/side.php?navn=getin > > I'm guessing ISO-8859-15, but the page doesn't indicate and it's none of the > ones available in Safari. It decodes to the same text using ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-15, or Windows-1252. More pages without declarations are produced on Windows so

Re: IronPython on Mono howto

2006-09-09 Thread Alex Martelli
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> One thing I did find especially annoying though was that none of the > >> editing keys worked. > > Seo> It is a known problem. It is a Mono bug. (ncurses-based colored > Seo> console is not really complete.) There is a workaround. > > Thanks, it wo

Re: Html character entity conversion

2006-09-09 Thread yichun
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > danielx wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> Here is my script: >>> >>> from mechanize import * >>> from BeautifulSoup import * >>> import StringIO >>> b = Browser() >>> f = b.open("http://www.translate.ru/text.asp?lang=ru";) >>> b.select_form(nr=0) >>> b["source"] = "h

Re: [ANN] geopy: a Geocoding Toolbox for Python

2006-09-09 Thread Brian Beck
Brian Beck wrote: > I'm happy to announce the first (alpha) release of geopy, a geocoding > toolbox for Python: http://exogen.case.edu/projects/geopy/ For anyone interested, there is now a mailing list on Google Groups: http://groups.google.com/group/geopy geopy also now supports the Virtual Eart

Function metadata (like Java annotations) in Python

2006-09-09 Thread oripel
Hi, I'm trying to attach some attributes to functions and methods, similar to Java annotations and .NET attributes. I also want to use a convenient decorator for it, something along the lines of @attr(name="xander", age=10) def foo(): ... Assigning attributes to the function will work, as will

Re: Looking for the Perfect Editor

2006-09-09 Thread Dick Moores
At 01:10 PM 9/8/2006, Doug Stell wrote: >Try www.TextPad.com. I've used it for years and love it. It >understands many programming language constructs and can be taught to >understand python so that things show up in color. Any tips on how to teach TextPad to understand python? Thanks, Dick Moor

Re: Function metadata (like Java annotations) in Python

2006-09-09 Thread bearophileHUGS
oripel: Maybe this is a silly suggestion, the docstring is already overloaded, but it may be used for this too: def foo(): """ ... ... @ATTR name="Xander" @ATTR age=10 @ATTR hobby="knitting" """ ... (Or somethins similar without the @). Later you can retrive the a

Re: Unicode / cx_Oracle problem

2006-09-09 Thread Richard Schulman
>> cursor.execute("""INSERT INTO mean (mean_id,mean_eng_txt) >> VALUES (:id,:mean)""",id=id,mean=mean) >>... >> "cx_Oracle.NotSupportedError: Variable_TypeByValue(): unhandled data >> type unicode" >> >> But when I try putting a codecs.BOM_UTF16_LE in various plausible >> places, I just end

pyExcelerator question - dates map to floats?

2006-09-09 Thread skip
I'm experimenting with pyExcelerator and am reading an XLS file which contains dates. In Excel on my Mac they look like "09/13/06". After parsing them out of the .XLS file they are floats, e.g. 38973.0. I assume that's an offset in days. Doing a little date math I come up with a base date of ap

Re: pyExcelerator question - dates map to floats?

2006-09-09 Thread skip
skip> Doing a little date math I come up with a base date of skip> approximately (though not quite) 1900-01-01: ... Reading the code in BIFFRecords.py I saw this docstring: This record specifies the base date for displaying date values. All dates are stored as count o

Re: Function metadata (like Java annotations) in Python

2006-09-09 Thread fumanchu
oripel wrote: > I'm trying to attach some attributes to functions and methods, similar > to Java annotations and .NET attributes. > ... > Assigning attributes to the function will work, as will assigning keys > and values to a dictionary in an attribute. But if there are more > decorators in the wa

Re: pyExcelerator question - dates map to floats?

2006-09-09 Thread John Machin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > skip> Doing a little date math I come up with a base date of > skip> approximately (though not quite) 1900-01-01: > ... > > Reading the code in BIFFRecords.py I saw this docstring: > > This record specifies the base date for displaying date values. All >