Re: PostgreSQL, psycopg2 and OID-less tables

2006-09-15 Thread Dale Strickland-Clark
Hi Harald Thanks for that, somewhat comprehensive, answer. -- Dale Strickland-Clark Riverhall Systems - www.riverhall.co.uk -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: how do you convert and array of doubles into floats?

2006-09-15 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch schrieb: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, SpreadTooThin > wrote: > >> I have some code... >> >> import array >> >> a = array.array('d') >> f = open('file.raw') >> a.fromfile(f, 10) >> >> now I need to convert them into floats (32 bit...) what do i do? > > What about: > > b = ar

Re: UDP packets to PC behind NAT

2006-09-15 Thread Steve Holden
Janto Dreijer wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: > >>On 2006-09-15, Janto Dreijer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>>Would it be a reasonable solution to initiate a TCP connection >>>from the client to the server and somehow (?) let the server >>>figure out how the client is connecting? And the

Re: PostgreSQL, psycopg2 and OID-less tables

2006-09-15 Thread Dale Strickland-Clark
Tim N. van der Leeuw wrote: > > Hi, > > select lastval(); > Thanks, that was useful. -- Dale Strickland-Clark Riverhall Systems - www.riverhall.co.uk -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Question about pipes/os.popen

2006-09-15 Thread Steve Holden
Kevin Walzer wrote: > I'm trying to structure a Python script that streams output over a pipe. > > Here is my code: > > import os > > cmd = os.popen('echo foo | sudo -S /usr/sbin/tcpdump -en1') > cmd.read() > > This returns output of "". I'm expecting the standard output of "tcpdump > -en1". Ho

Re: REQ: Java/J2EE Developer 10 Months

2006-09-15 Thread Steve Holden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > Skill: > > > *Java, 2 year UNIX - HP / Solaris, 2 yrs OOA+D, Corba, Perl, XML, UML. > *Java dev experience, Swing, JPS, 2 years of OOA+D. Clearly not spam, since the guy is so in touch with the readership of this group ... sigh ... is it just me, or is t

Re: REQ: Java/J2EE Developer 10 Months

2006-09-15 Thread Carsten Haese
On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 14:41, Steve Holden wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [...] > > Skill: > > > > > > *Java, 2 year UNIX - HP / Solaris, 2 yrs OOA+D, Corba, Perl, XML, UML. > > *Java dev experience, Swing, JPS, 2 years of OOA+D. > > Clearly not spam, since the guy is so in touch wit

Strange xml.parsers.xml import problem

2006-09-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, c.l.p.'ers- I am having a problem with the import of xml.parsers.expat that has gotten me completely stumped. I have two programs, one a PyQt program and one a command line (text) program that both eventually call the same code that imports xml.parsers.expat. Both give me different results...

Strange xml.parsers.expat import problem [corrected subject]

2006-09-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sorry, that should have been "xml.parsers.expat" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, c.l.p.'ers- > > I am having a problem with the import of xml.parsers.expat that has > gotten me completely stumped. I have two programs, one a PyQt program > and one a command line (text) program that both eventually c

Help on the deformer object

2006-09-15 Thread Dean Card
I am trying to use a MESH transform from the Python Imaging Library and am having trouble defining my deformer object. What I want to do is map one eight item tuple like (x0, y0, x1, y1, x2, y2, x3, y3) to another set of points like (x00, y00, x10, y10, x20, y20, x30, y30) where (xn, yn) is a p

ancestor class' __init__ doesn't call other methods

2006-09-15 Thread Luis P. Mendes
Hi, I have the following problem: I instantiate class Sistema from another class. The result is the same if I import it to interactive shell. s = Sistema("par") class Sistema: def __init__(self, par): cruza_ema = CruzaEmas(par) class CruzaEmas(Ema, Cotacoes): def __init__(self

Re: fail to indent in inner loop

2006-09-15 Thread Jakub Hegenbart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi > > I've started learning python. I was typing from a tutorial, > and I fail to indent on an inner loop. > I got an error and all my previous typed lines are gone. > is there a way to prevent this. > i don't mind editing the last line, but to lose all the previous lin

Re: REQ: Java/J2EE Developer 10 Months

2006-09-15 Thread skip
Carsten> Yes, he is an idiot. Good call on CC'ing your assessment to Carsten> him. :) Steve knows it's good to be subtle with these guys. ;-) Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: REQ: Java/J2EE Developer 10 Months

2006-09-15 Thread Kay Schluehr
Steve Holden wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [...] > > Skill: > > > > > > *Java, 2 year UNIX - HP / Solaris, 2 yrs OOA+D, Corba, Perl, XML, UML. > > *Java dev experience, Swing, JPS, 2 years of OOA+D. > > Clearly not spam, since the guy is so in touch with the readership of > this gro

Re: how do you convert and array of doubles into floats?

2006-09-15 Thread Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch schrieb: >> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, SpreadTooThin >> wrote: >> >>> I have some code... >>> >>> import array >>> >>> a = array.array('d') >>> f = open('file.raw') >>> a.fromfile(f, 10) >>> >>> now I need to convert them int

Re: how do you convert and array of doubles into floats?

2006-09-15 Thread Tim Peters
[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch] >> What about: >> >> b = array.array('f', a) [Diez B. Roggisch] > AFAIK d and f are synonym for arrays, as python doesn't distinguish > between these two on a type-level. And double it is in the end. While Python has no type of its own corresponding to the native C `flo

Re: REQ: Java/J2EE Developer 10 Months

2006-09-15 Thread Tim Chase
>> *Java, 2 year UNIX - HP / Solaris, 2 yrs OOA+D, Corba, Perl, >> XML, UML. *Java dev experience, Swing, JPS, 2 years of >> OOA+D. > > Clearly not spam, since the guy is so in touch with the > readership of this group ... sigh ... is it just me, or is > this person an idiot? Perhaps this is an a

Re: Coding Nested Loops

2006-09-15 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Bjoern Schliessmann wrote: That doesn't answer the question. A list of 2-tuples would do the same (and was ordered and could be indexed). Björn, et al.: For the purpose of generating a data sample, the list of 2-tuples will work. Thanks all, Rich -- Richard B. Shepar

Re: Searching for patterns on the screen

2006-09-15 Thread Paul McGuire
"John Machin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Paul McGuire wrote: >> "Jerry Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > Hello all, >> As far as working just in Python, you could remove the tuple unpacking >> inside removeColor, and shor

Re: Check if variable is an instance of a File object

2006-09-15 Thread George Sakkis
Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > #1 : should I start by checking that 'file' is indeed an instance of a > > File object ? > > Unless you have a *very* compelling reason to do so (and I can't imagine > one here), definitively, no. FWIW, it's pretty common in Python to pass

Re: ancestor class' __init__ doesn't call other methods

2006-09-15 Thread Rob De Almeida
Luis P. Mendes wrote: > Method a() is not called. Why is this? What is the best option to > solve this? Have Cotacoes returning values and not to be an ancestor > class of CruzaEmas? It works for me, after rearranging your code a little bit: class Ema: pass class Sistema: def __init__

Re: Limitate speed of a socket-based data transferring

2006-09-15 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2006-09-15, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>The sender will send at whatever rate they are capable of, so >>>packets may just become backlogged on your receiving socket >> >> >> When that happens, the sending end of the socket will throttle >> down to match the rate at which data i

wxTimer problem

2006-09-15 Thread abcd
I have a python script which creates a wx.App, which creates a wx.Frame (which has a wx.Timer). looks sorta like this: class MyProgram: def __init__(self): self.app = MyApp(0) self.app.MainLoop() class MyApp(wx.App): def OnInit(self): self.myframe= MyFrame()

Re: Outbound port on sockets

2006-09-15 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2006-09-15, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I don't know what "multi-homing problems are either". >> Apparently there must be some ftp clients that require the >> source port for the data connection to be port 20. >> >> The RFC is pretty vague. It does say the server and clinet but

Re: How do I converted a null (0) terminated string to a Python string?

2006-09-15 Thread George Sakkis
Michael wrote: > Robert, > > Thanks to you and everyone else for the help. The "s.split('\x00', > 1)[0] " solved the problem. And a probably faster version: s[:s.index('\x00')] George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: wxTimer problem

2006-09-15 Thread Bjoern Schliessmann
abcd wrote: > ...and I am getting this error: > > "timer can only be started from the main thread" > > how can I fix this?? > > FYI, my script is being started by a new thread each time Fix: Start the script from the main thread only. Regards, Björn -- BOFH excuse #53: Little hamster in

Re: How do I converted a null (0) terminated string to a Python string?

2006-09-15 Thread Robert Kern
George Sakkis wrote: > Michael wrote: > >> Robert, >> >> Thanks to you and everyone else for the help. The "s.split('\x00', >> 1)[0] " solved the problem. > > And a probably faster version: s[:s.index('\x00')] Yup. About twice as fast for at least one dataset: In [182]: import timeit In [183]

Re: Exposing Excel as a Webservice

2006-09-15 Thread Brandon
Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately I cannot use a different format for the data since I'm really using Excel as a calculation engine. I don't own the authoring of these spreadsheets or even the data inside of them so I cannot change the format. The spreadsheets also are complicated enough and c

Re: how do you convert and array of doubles into floats?

2006-09-15 Thread SpreadTooThin
Tim Peters wrote: > [Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch] > >> What about: > >> > >> b = array.array('f', a) > > [Diez B. Roggisch] > > AFAIK d and f are synonym for arrays, as python doesn't distinguish > > between these two on a type-level. And double it is in the end. > > While Python has no type of its o

Re: Question about pipes/os.popen

2006-09-15 Thread Kevin Walzer
Steve Holden wrote: >> > Probably expecting sudo to read the standard input for its password. > > First of all, sudo doesn't always ask for your password. Secondly, when > it does I'm pretty sure it will take care to try and do it on the > controlling tty, not by reading stdin. > sudo wasn't th

Re: Coding Nested Loops

2006-09-15 Thread George Sakkis
Peter Otten wrote: > from itertools import count, izip, cycle, chain, repeat, starmap, imap > from random import choice > > first = ["X", "Y", "Z"] > second = ["A", "B", "C"] > second_count = [13, 14, 33] > third = [1.1, 2.2, 3.3, 4.4] > > random_floats = imap(choice, repeat(third)) > columns = [

Re: REQ: Java/J2EE Developer 10 Months

2006-09-15 Thread Tim Chase
shrikant COOLSOFT wrote: > Tim > > Stop acting like an [EMAIL PROTECTED]& > > > > > Tim Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> *Java, 2 year UNIX - HP / Solaris, 2 yrs OOA+D, Corba, Perl, >>> XML, UML. *Java dev experience, Swing, JPS, 2 years of >>> OOA+D. >> Clearly not spam,

Re: Question about pipes/os.popen

2006-09-15 Thread Donn Cave
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [ someone's command that fails, run in popen ] > > cmd.read() > > > > This returns output of "". ... > > I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here. > > > Probably expecting sudo to read the standard input for its password. Al

Re: wxTimer problem

2006-09-15 Thread abcd
> Fix: Start the script from the main thread only. > > Regards, > > > Björn thanks for NO help.anyways, I got rid of the Timer b/c all i was using it for was to check the state of the "shift" key.but I am now binding to key up/down. thanks anyway -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listi

Re: ancestor class' __init__ doesn't call other methods

2006-09-15 Thread Luis P. Mendes
Rob De Almeida escreveu: > Luis P. Mendes wrote: >> Method a() is not called. Why is this? What is the best option to >> solve this? Have Cotacoes returning values and not to be an ancestor >> class of CruzaEmas? > > It works for me, after rearranging your code a little bit: > Ok, thanks. I alr

Re: Coding Nested Loops

2006-09-15 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Peter Otten wrote: > It's not clear to me why you would use dictionaries, especially as they > are unordered; I used lists instead: ... > Now that is a nice occasion to get acquainted with the itertools module... Peter, I have to study the docs to understand what's g

something for itertools

2006-09-15 Thread Daniel Nogradi
In a recent thread, http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2006-September/361512.html, a couple of very useful and enlightening itertools examples were given and was wondering if my problem also can be solved in an elegant way by itertools. I have a bunch of tuples with varying lengths and w

Re: ancestor class' __init__ doesn't call other methods

2006-09-15 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Luis P. Mendes a écrit : > Hi, > > I have the following problem: > > I instantiate class Sistema from another class. The result is the same > if I import it to interactive shell. > > s = Sistema("par") > > class Sistema: > def __init__(self, par): > cruza_ema = CruzaEmas(par) > >

How to change font direction?

2006-09-15 Thread Daniel Mark
Hello all: I am using PIL to draw some graphics and I need to draw some texts in vertical direction rather than the default left-to-right horizontal direction. Is there anyway I could do that? Thank you -Daniel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: add without carry

2006-09-15 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Jon Ribbens a écrit : > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > >>Hugh wrote: >> >>>Sorry, here's an example... >>> >>>5+7=12 >>> >>>added without carrying, 5+7=2 >>> >>>i.e the result is always less than 10 >> >>>I've been thinking some more about this and my brain is startin

Re: something for itertools

2006-09-15 Thread Tim Williams
On 15/09/06, Daniel Nogradi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In a recent thread, > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2006-September/361512.html, > a couple of very useful and enlightening itertools examples were given > and was wondering if my problem also can be solved in an elegant way > b

Re: something for itertools

2006-09-15 Thread Daniel Nogradi
> > In a recent thread, > > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2006-September/361512.html, > > a couple of very useful and enlightening itertools examples were given > > and was wondering if my problem also can be solved in an elegant way > > by itertools. > > > > I have a bunch of tuples

Re: Why not event-driven packages in other than the main thread?

2006-09-15 Thread Paul Rubin
Tor Erik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've developed an application were I've used Tkinter for the GUI. > When I ran the GUI in another thread than the main, it kept locking > up. I experienced similar problems with Twisted. Tkinter is not thread-safe. You have to synchronize any cross-thread c

Re: min() & max() vs sorted()

2006-09-15 Thread MRAB
Tim Peters wrote: > [MRAB] > > Some time after reading about Python 2.5 and how the built-in functions > > 'min' and 'max' will be getting a new 'key' argument, I wondered how > > they would treat those cases where the keys were the same, for example: > > > > L = ["four", "five"] > > print min(L,

Re: something for itertools

2006-09-15 Thread George Sakkis
Daniel Nogradi wrote: > In a recent thread, > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2006-September/361512.html, > a couple of very useful and enlightening itertools examples were given > and was wondering if my problem also can be solved in an elegant way > by itertools. > > I have a bunch o

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

2006-09-15 Thread Paul McGuire
"Paul McGuire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Andy Dingley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> I am looking for python code that takes as input a list of strings >>> [...] and outputs the python regu

Tkinter.Button(... command) lambda and argument problem

2006-09-15 Thread Jay
I'm having a problem using lambda to use a command with an argument for a button in Tkinter. buttons = range(5) for x in xrange(5): buttons[x] = Button(frame, text=str(x+1), command=lambda: self.highlight(x)) buttons[

Re: something for itertools

2006-09-15 Thread Tim Williams
On 15/09/06, Daniel Nogradi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > or maybe a one liner :) > > > > >>> (a + 5*(None,))[:5] > > (1, 2, 3, None, None) > > > > Well, something like this is what I actually do. But for this first I > have to loop over all tuples and pick out the maximal length, so over > all

Re: xmlrpc, extract data from http headers

2006-09-15 Thread Filip Wasilewski
Milos Prudek wrote: > I perform a XML-RPC call by calling xmlrpclibBasicAuth which in turn calls > xmlrpclib. This call of course sends a HTTP request with correct HTTP > headers. The response is correctly parsed by xmlrpclib, and I get my desired > values. > > However, I also need to get the raw H

Re: Tkinter.Button(... command) lambda and argument problem

2006-09-15 Thread Paul Rubin
"Jay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm having a problem using lambda to use a command with an argument for > a button in Tkinter. > > buttons = range(5) > for x in xrange(5): > self.highlight(x)) > buttons[x].pack(side=LEFT) > > The buttons a

Re: Tkinter.Button(... command) lambda and argument problem

2006-09-15 Thread Jay
Perfect. Thanks. Paul Rubin wrote: > "Jay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm having a problem using lambda to use a command with an argument for > > a button in Tkinter. > > > > buttons = range(5) > > for x in xrange(5): > > > self.highlight(x)) > >

Re: min() & max() vs sorted()

2006-09-15 Thread Tim Peters
[MRAB] >>> Some time after reading about Python 2.5 and how the built-in functions >>> 'min' and 'max' will be getting a new 'key' argument, I wondered how >>> they would treat those cases where the keys were the same, for example: >>> >>> L = ["four", "five"] >>> print min(L, key = len), max(L, ke

Re: Looking for the Perfect Editor

2006-09-15 Thread Patrick Thomson
Personally, I use the non-free but absolutely phenomenal TextMate (http://macromates.com/), but I've enjoyed my work with jEdit (http://www.jedit.org/) and, of course, (X)Emacs. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Tkinter.Button(... command) lambda and argument problem

2006-09-15 Thread bearophileHUGS
In that case you don't need a lambda: import Tkinter as tk class Test: def __init__(self, parent): buttons = [tk.Button(parent, text=str(x+1), command=self.highlight(x)) for x in range(5)] for button in buttons: button.pack(side=tk.LEFT) def highlight(self, x)

Re: Finding dynamic libraries

2006-09-15 Thread MonkeeSage
Bill Spotz wrote: > Is there a way to tell an executing python script where to look for > dynamically-loaded libraries? If I understand, you want to tell an already running python process to import some extensions from arbitrary locations? If that is correct, you could use a file to hold the dynam

Re: Tkinter.Button(... command) lambda and argument problem

2006-09-15 Thread Jay
Thanks for the tip, but that breaks things later for what I'm doing. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In that case you don't need a lambda: > > import Tkinter as tk > > class Test: > def __init__(self, parent): > buttons = [tk.Button(parent, text=str(x+1), > command=self.highlight(x)) for x

Re: how do you convert and array of doubles into floats?

2006-09-15 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
>> AFAIK d and f are synonym for arrays, as python doesn't distinguish >> between these two on a type-level. And double it is in the end. > > No `array.array` is really about "C compiler types". You get C doubles in > form of Python's `float` type if you read from the `array.array` but it's > st

mp3 libs and programs

2006-09-15 Thread Jay
I'm writing a python script that involves playing mp3 files. The first approach I had was sending commands to unix command-line programs in order to play them. I tired mpg123 and moosic, but there was a key feature to my program's success that's missing. SEEK! I need to be able to start playing

Re: mp3 libs and programs

2006-09-15 Thread Tim Williams
On 15 Sep 2006 18:16:41 -0700, Jay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm writing a python script that involves playing mp3 files. The first > approach I had was sending commands to unix command-line programs in > order to play them. I tired mpg123 and moosic, but there was a key > feature to my progra

Re: mp3 libs and programs

2006-09-15 Thread Jay
Only if I have to. PyMedia is a pain and a half to build and why do that if I can just pipe it out to some other program? Tim Williams wrote: > On 15 Sep 2006 18:16:41 -0700, Jay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm writing a python script that involves playing mp3 files. The first > > approach I

Re: mp3 libs and programs

2006-09-15 Thread Harold Fellermann
hi, Jay wrote: > I'm writing a python script that involves playing mp3 files. The first > approach I had was sending commands to unix command-line programs in > order to play them. I tired mpg123 and moosic, but there was a key > feature to my program's success that's missing. SEEK! I need to

Re: mp3 libs and programs

2006-09-15 Thread Jay
That's definately a good choice, but what about mplayer in slave mode? Can I use that with python? Would that be able to seek? Harold Fellermann wrote: > hi, > > Jay wrote: > > I'm writing a python script that involves playing mp3 files. The first > > approach I had was sending commands to unix

Re: mp3 libs and programs

2006-09-15 Thread Jay
I checked it and I can most definitely do the seeking from the command line with mplayer. Can I use slave mode with python? Jay wrote: > That's definately a good choice, but what about mplayer in slave mode? > Can I use that with python? Would that be able to seek? > > > Harold Fellermann wrote

generators/iterators: filtered random choice

2006-09-15 Thread gry
I want a function (or callable something) that returns a random word meeting a criterion. I can do it like: def random_richer_word(word): '''find a word having a superset of the letters of "word"''' if len(set(word) == 26): raise WordTooRichException, word while True: w = rand

Re: mp3 libs and programs

2006-09-15 Thread Richard Jones
Jay wrote: > I'm writing a python script that involves playing mp3 files. I've previously successfully used the Python interface for MAD: http://www.underbit.com/products/mad/ which was trivial to use in combination with libao's python interface (and throw in ogg.vorbis from xiph.org and you'

Re: Looking for the Perfect Editor

2006-09-15 Thread BartlebyScrivener
>> which allows soft word-wrap (no >> line breaks stored in the file) gvim 7.0 if you set wrap and linebreak :set wrap :set lbr The lines will softwrap only at whitespace and various punctuation marks. For the indentation issue, use autoindent. rd -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Tkinter.Button(... command) lambda and argument problem

2006-09-15 Thread Dustan
Jay wrote: > Thanks for the tip, but that breaks things later for what I'm doing. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In that case you don't need a lambda: > > > > import Tkinter as tk > > > > class Test: > > def __init__(self, parent): > > buttons = [tk.Button(parent, text=str(x+1), > >

Re: xmlrpc with Basic Auth

2006-09-15 Thread Bryan
Milos Prudek wrote: > I need to use XML-RPC call with Basic Authorization in HTTP headers. I found > xmlrpclibBasicAuth.py, and it can be used as follows: > > from xmlrpclibBasicAuth import Server > s=Server("http://www.example.com/rpc.php","user","pwd";) > print s.system.listMethods() > > Is th

Re: mp3 libs and programs

2006-09-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PyMedia has Windows binaries available for download. http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pymedia/pymedia-1.3.7.2.win32-py2.4.exe?download Jay wrote: > Only if I have to. PyMedia is a pain and a half to build and why do > that if I can just pipe it out to some other program? > > > Tim Williams wrote

Re: generators/iterators: filtered random choice

2006-09-15 Thread Calvin Spealman
On 15 Sep 2006 19:17:25 -0700, gry@ll.mit.edu wrote: > I want a function (or callable something) that returns a random > word meeting a criterion. I can do it like: > > def random_richer_word(word): > '''find a word having a superset of the letters of "word"''' > if len(set(word) == 26):

Re: Tkinter.Button(... command) lambda and argument problem

2006-09-15 Thread James Stroud
Dustan wrote: > Jay wrote: > >>Thanks for the tip, but that breaks things later for what I'm doing. >> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>>In that case you don't need a lambda: >>> >>>import Tkinter as tk >>> >>>class Test: >>>def __init__(self, parent): >>>buttons = [tk.Button(parent, te

Re: How to change font direction?

2006-09-15 Thread theju
Well here are some self explanatory functions that I've written for displaying the text vertically and from right to left. As for rotation gimme some more time and i'll come back to you. Also I don't guarantee that this is the best method(cos I myself am a newbie), but I can guarantee you that it w

float questions

2006-09-15 Thread spiffy
after some calculations i have this number as a result... -7.1054273576010019e-015 what does the 'e' mean? is this an error? i want to be able to round this number to 3 places, but round() does not work please excuse my ignorance any help would be appreciated -- http://mail.python.org/mailma

Re: PostgreSQL, psycopg2 and OID-less tables

2006-09-15 Thread Frank Millman
Dale Strickland-Clark wrote: > Now that OIDs have been deprecated in PostgreSQL, how do you find the key of > a newly inserted record? > > I've tried three Python client libraries, including psycopg2, and where they > support cursor attribute 'lastrowid' (Python DB API 2.0), it is always > zero. >

Re: float questions

2006-09-15 Thread Gabriel Genellina
At Saturday 16/9/2006 02:56, spiffy wrote: after some calculations i have this number as a result... -7.1054273576010019e-015 This means -7.1054... * 10**(-15) and it's a compact way of writing -0.0071054... what does the 'e' mean? is this an error? It is not an error, just a

Re: min() & max() vs sorted()

2006-09-15 Thread Paddy
MRAB wrote: > Tim Peters wrote: > > [MRAB] > > > Some time after reading about Python 2.5 and how the built-in functions > > > 'min' and 'max' will be getting a new 'key' argument, I wondered how > > > they would treat those cases where the keys were the same, for example: > > > > > > L = ["four",

Looking for a python IDE

2006-09-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello I am looking for a good IDE for Python. Commercial or Open Software. If possible with visual GUI designer. For the moment I am considering Komodo. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Coding Nested Loops

2006-09-15 Thread Peter Otten
Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Peter Otten wrote: > >> It's not clear to me why you would use dictionaries, especially as they >> are unordered; I used lists instead: > >... > >> Now that is a nice occasion to get acquainted with the itertools >> module... > > Peter, > >I

Re: float questions

2006-09-15 Thread Ben Finney
spiffy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > after some calculations i have this number as a result... > -7.1054273576010019e-015 > > what does the 'e' mean? is this an error? It indicates that this is a number represented with scientific notation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_notation>

Re: float questions

2006-09-15 Thread spiffy
On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 03:13:16 -0300, Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >At Saturday 16/9/2006 02:56, spiffy wrote: > >>after some calculations i have this number as a result... >>-7.1054273576010019e-015 > >This means -7.1054... * 10**(-15) and it's a compact way of writing >-0.

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