charlie strauss wrote:
> Below is a simple program that will cause python to intermittently
> stop executing for a few seconds. it's 100% reproducible on my
> machine.
Confirmed with Python 2.4.2 on Windows.
gc.disable() fixes it, so it looks like you found an inefficiency in the
Python's GC. I
Kay Schluehr wrote:
> Sybren Stuvel wrote:
>
>> Kay Schluehr enlightened us with:
>>
>>> Usually I struggle a short while with \ and either succeed or give up.
>>> Today I'm in a different mood and don't give up. So here is my
>>> question:
>>>
>>> You have an unknown character string c suc
Giovanni Bajo wrote:
> charlie strauss wrote:
>
> > Below is a simple program that will cause python to intermittently
> > stop executing for a few seconds. it's 100% reproducible on my
> > machine.
>
> Confirmed with Python 2.4.2 on Windows.
>
> gc.disable() fixes it, so it looks like you found
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> As far as I can tell, its not anything to do with your code. I think
> its something with tkinter modules.
as in ?
you've posted five posts to this thread, but you still haven't provided
us with more clues than "I noticed they didn't work" and "I think it's
something
On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 20:01:57 +0100, Thorsten Kampe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
>
> It's originally from Jamie Zawinski:
> 'Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use
> regular expressions." Now they have two problems.'
>
> And the simple reason why Regular Expressions
On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 11:24:56 +0200, Antoine De Groote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Can anybody tell me the reason(s) why regular expressions are not built
> into Python like it is the case with Ruby and I believe Perl?
In a way, there /is/ builtin support -- regexes would be much more
> > > Below is a simple program that will cause python to intermittently
> > > stop executing for a few seconds. it's 100% reproducible on my
> > > machine.
> >
> > Confirmed with Python 2.4.2 on Windows.
> >
> > gc.disable() fixes it, so it looks like you found an inefficiency in the
> > Python's
On Sun, 01 Oct 2006 07:13:25 GMT, Giovanni Bajo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> charlie strauss wrote:
>
>> Below is a simple program that will cause python to intermittently
>> stop executing for a few seconds. it's 100% reproducible on my
>> machine.
>
> Confirmed with Python 2.4.2 on Windows.
And
Thanks a lot to both of you. :)
Michiel
On Oct 1, 2006, at 12:12 AM, Steve Holden wrote:
> Michiel Sikma wrote:
>> Hello everybody.
>>
>> I recently had a bit of data loss and, among some other minor things,
>> lost my bookmarks. I once bookmarked this video tutorial which
>> allegedly showed ho
Frederic Rentsch wrote:
> Kay Schluehr wrote:
> > Sybren Stuvel wrote:
> >
> >> Kay Schluehr enlightened us with:
> >>
> >>> Usually I struggle a short while with \ and either succeed or give up.
> >>> Today I'm in a different mood and don't give up. So here is my
> >>> question:
> >>>
> >>> You ha
"Kay Schluehr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sybren Stuvel wrote:
> > Kay Schluehr enlightened us with:
> > > Usually I struggle a short while with \ and either succeed or give up.
> > > Today I'm in a different mood and don't give up. So here is my
> > > question:
> > >
> > > You have an unknown c
"Dennis Lee Bieber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 14:33:35 -0400, John Salerno
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
>
> >
> > Ok, I'm sure you all get the idea by now, but here's a simpler way to
> > look at it:
> >
> > Instead of
> >
> > first_name
Kay Schluehr wrote:
> This yields the hexadecimal representation of the ASCII character and
> does not simply echo the keystrokes '\' and 'a' for '\a' ignoring the
> escape semantics. One way to achieve this naturally is by prefixing
> '\a' with r where r'\a' indicates a "raw" string. But unfortun
FOUND IT!
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/1999-June/005833.html
So I'm supposed to only have ONE dictionary, 'glb', and forget the
'loc' for locals.
Just call PyRun(...glb,glb)
Seeing as this was a topic of discussion 7 years ago, maybe it ought to
be in the "extending and embe
Antoine De Groote wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Can anybody tell me the reason(s) why regular expressions are not built
> into Python like it is the case with Ruby and I believe Perl? Like for
> example in the following Ruby code
>
> line = 'some string'
>
> case line
>when /title=(.*)/
> puts "Titl
Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
> dumb question - is the backslash as escape character fixed
yes.
> seems to me that would help
help with what?
> or if you could turn the behaviour off - don't know how though...
eh? if you don't want to use repr(), you don't have to.
--
http://mail.python.org
Thus spoke Steve Holden (on 2006-09-30 23:58):
> Mirco Wahab wrote:
>> Thus spoke MRAB (on 2006-09-30 20:54):
>>>One of the differences between the Python way and the Perl way is that
>>>the Perl way has a side-effect: ...
>> I fail to see the benefit of a re-object, I consider these to
>> be just
Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Ben Finney wrote:
> [...]
> > A 'try ... except' statement is not an exception handler. [...]
>
> Just as a matter of interest, what would your definition of an
> exception handler be, then? Specifically, what's the "except" clause
> for?
It seems my und
Thus spoke A.M. Kuchling (on 2006-09-30 19:26):
> On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 09:10:14 +0100,
> Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> My God, Perl 6 is going to be even less comprehensible that Perl 5,
>> which was at least usable. Is »=>« really a Perl6 operator? That's too
>> funny!
>
> While we
Mirco Wahab wrote:
> Therefore, I'd like to have a usable and understandable
> example of Regex-object juggling, that shows clearly
> what its real benefit is (or gives an idea of - ).
Here are some benefits:
DRY - You can assign a regexp to a variable and pass it around or call
specific instance
Hi!
Kamaelia 0.5.0 marks a major stepping point for the Kamaelia project.
It means we officially have coverage over almost all the core areas we want
in version 1.0, with some substantial and useful subsystems in the form of
network delivery (tcp, udp, multicast servers), and interactive capabil
Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > But ordinary programmers write real-world applications with shared data
> > all the time, namely database apps.
>
> I don't call that shared data because access to the shared data is
> arbitrated by a third party - namely the database. I mean where 2 or
>
John Machin enlightened us with:
> Hi, Sybren. I tried folloing your recipe on Windows with OOo 2.0 ...
>
> Minor problem: the executable is called soffice, not ooffice.
>
> Major problem: it crashed right at the start, somewhere in the maze
> of dlls.
That's not nice.
> Has anyone managed to get
Jorgen Grahn:
> However, there is a set of common problems which would be hell to solve
> without regexes.
I agree, and I think no one is thinking about dropping REs from Python
stdlib.
Here people are mostly talking about what's better between having them
in the stdlibs instead of inside the core
> Links abour Windev for those who like facts :
>
> http://www.windev.com/pcsoft/testimonials/index.html
> http://www.pcsoft.fr/annonce10/photos.html
> http://www.pcsoft.fr/pcsoft/120pages/index.html
Well, it _could_ be that all the readers in comp.lang.python are utterly
braindead morons with e
Paul Rubin wrote:
> Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > But ordinary programmers write real-world applications with shared data
>> > all the time, namely database apps.
>>
>> I don't call that shared data because access to the shared data is
>> arbitrated by a third party - namely the databa
John Salerno wrote:
> Steve Holden wrote:
>
>
>>The methods do indeed look in their enclosing class, but only for
>>self-relative references. These are sought first in the instance, then
>>in the instance's class, then in the instance's class's superclass, and
>>so on up to the ultimate superc
Antoine De Groote wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Can anybody tell me the reason(s) why regular expressions are not built
> into Python like it is the case with Ruby and I believe Perl? Like for
> example in the following Ruby code
>
> line = 'some string'
>
> case line
>when /title=(.*)/
> puts "Tit
Alex Martelli wrote:
> Magnus Lycka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>...
> > stuff in the world, so my standard extrapolation technique would yield
> > 3 python programmers globally.
>
> I think this estimate is low, based on three piece of data I know (but,
> sorry, are all confidential;-) and
Steve Holden wrote:
> Fine. Just because you fail to see the benefit, however, that doesn't
> mean there isn't one.
the real reason is of course, as Richard Feynman famously observed, that
in Python, "everything is made of objects".
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Michiel Sikma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> lost my bookmarks. I once bookmarked this video tutorial which
> allegedly showed how to make a wiki in 10 minutes with some Python
> network framework. Does anybody know which one it might have been?
If you add another ten minutes, this would be ht
charlie strauss wrote:
Below is a simple program that will cause python to intermittently
stop executing for a few seconds. it's 100% reproducible on my machine.
I'd be tempted to say this is a nasty garbage collection performance
issue except that there is no major memory to be garbage col
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
>>As far as I can tell, its not anything to do with your code. I think
>>its something with tkinter modules.
>
>
> as in ?
>
> you've posted five posts to this thread, but you still haven't provided
> us with more clues than "I noticed they
Congratulations on the clear way in which you have set out your proposal.
I hope that it will make its way to PEPdom.
Colin W.
Larry Hastings wrote:
> This is such a long posting that I've broken it out into sections.
> Note that while developing this patch I discovered a Subtle Bug
> in CPython
Wolfgang Keller wrote:
>>Links abour Windev for those who like facts :
>>
>>http://www.windev.com/pcsoft/testimonials/index.html
>>http://www.pcsoft.fr/annonce10/photos.html
>>http://www.pcsoft.fr/pcsoft/120pages/index.html
>
>
> Well, it _could_ be that all the readers in comp.lang.python are ut
Hello,
I am a new shtoom user,but I have one problem.I was download last
shtoom source and when I write
example:
>>> from shtoom.app.phone import Phone
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in -toplevel-
from shtoom.app.phone import Phone
ImportError: No module named app.phon
Steve and other good folks who replied:
I want to clarify that, on my computer, the first instance of the gap occurs
way before the memory if filled. (at about 20% of physical ram). Additionally
the process monitor shows no page faults.
Yes if you let the as-written demo program run to comp
I am pleased to announce a new release of InformixDB, the DB-API 2.0 module
for connecting to IBM Informix database engines.
Changes since version 2.2:
- Allow parameter list for executemany() to be arbitrary iterable objects.
- .prepare() method and .command attribute for explicitly prepared sta
By the way if you are on a fast computer, and an OS whose time.time()
function can resolve less than 0.5 seconds then you can see this problem on
your machine at lower memory utilizations by changing the value of the default
"allowed_gap" in the gtime class from 0.5 seconds down to say 0.1 sec
charlie strauss wrote:
> Steve and other good folks who replied:
>
> I want to clarify that, on my computer, the first instance of the gap occurs
> way before the memory if filled. (at about 20% of physical ram).
> Additionally the process monitor shows no page faults.
>
> Yes if you let the
>>
>I think the point you are missing is that the garbage collector is
>triggered from time to time to ensure that no cyclical garbage remains
>uncollected, IIRC. The more data that's been allocated, the longer it
>takes the collector to scan all of memory to do its job.
>
>If you can find a w
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Sorry about that.
>
> As far as I can tell, its not anything to do with your code. I think
> its something with tkinter modules. Sorry about misleading you.
>
> Thanks for the help, I'm sure you'll hear from me soon again. In
> fact...
Unless you post the following, no-
Steve, digging into the gc docs a bit more, I think the behaviour I am seeing
is still not expected. Namely, the program I offered has no obvious place
where objects are deallocated. The way GC is supposed to work is thate there
are three levels of objects
level0: newly created objects
level
I'm building a web application using sqlalchemy in my db layer.
Some of the tables require single integer primary keys which might be
exposed in some parts of the web interface. If users can guess the next
key in a sequence, it might be possible for them to 'game' or
manipulate the system in unexp
charlie strauss wrote:
> Could you clarify that for me. GC really has three components
> two it: 1) finding and freeing unrefernced memory by refer
> refer counts 2) cycle removal and 3) defragementing the
> storage stack. If I turn off GC, don't I lose all of these?
CPython always does (
charlie strauss wrote:
> level0: newly created objects
> level1: objects that survived 1 round of garbage collection
> level2: objects that survivied 2+ rounds of gargbage collection
>
> Since all of my numerous objects are level2 objects, and none of
> them are every deallocated, then I shou
"Simon Wittber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Some of the tables require single integer primary keys which might be
> exposed in some parts of the web interface. If users can guess the next
> key in a sequence, it might be possible for them to 'game' or
> manipulate the system in unexpected ways. I
Jorgen Grahn skrev:
> On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 20:01:57 +0100, Thorsten Kampe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> And the simple reason why Regular Expressions are not a part of the
>> core Python language is that Regular Expressions are overrated.
>
> It seems to me they are currently /underrated/ in the
charlie strauss wrote:
> Steve, digging into the gc docs a bit more, I think the behaviour I am seeing
> is still not expected. Namely, the program I offered has no obvious place
> where objects are deallocated. The way GC is supposed to work is thate there
> are three levels of objects
>
> l
On Oct 1, 2006, at 9:48 AM, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> charlie strauss wrote:
>
>> level0: newly created objects
>> level1: objects that survived 1 round of garbage collection
>> level2: objects that survivied 2+ rounds of gargbage collection
>>
>> Since all of my numerous objects are level2 object
Charlie Strauss wrote:
> Sorry to be slow but I don't know what "looking at the status
> message" means.
did you add
import gc
gc.set_debug(gc.DEBUG_STATS)
to the top of the program? (you need to run it to see the status
messages, of course)
--
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James Stroud wrote:
> This is because that list is an attribute of the class. Instances have a
> reference of this class attribute, but it can be replaced by an
> attribute of the instance with self (self is a reference to the instance
> and not the class. This example might help:
Ah, I see! S
Charlie Strauss schreef:
> On Oct 1, 2006, at 9:48 AM, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
>> charlie strauss wrote:
>>> Could you clarify that for me. GC really has three components
>>> two it: 1) finding and freeing unrefernced memory by refer
>>> refer counts 2) cycle removal and 3) defragementing the
>>>
John Salerno wrote:
> James Stroud wrote:
>
>
>>This is because that list is an attribute of the class. Instances have a
>>reference of this class attribute, but it can be replaced by an
>>attribute of the instance with self (self is a reference to the instance
>>and not the class. This exampl
Roel Schroeven wrote:
> Charlie Strauss schreef:
>
>>On Oct 1, 2006, at 9:48 AM, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
>>
>>>charlie strauss wrote:
>>>
Could you clarify that for me. GC really has three components
two it: 1) finding and freeing unrefernced memory by refer
refer counts 2) cycle remov
Hi.
I was searching for some information regarding a problem and found an
interesting post that includes an answer to the problem; thought the
post is very helpful it is based on a wrong assumption and thus the
solution it suggests is incorrect. It took me some time to understand
that the suggested
Roel Schroeven wrote:
> AFAIK Python always does reference counting, and the garbage collector
> is used only for more difficult cases. As the gc module docs say:
> "Since the collector supplements the reference counting already used in
> Python, you can disable the collector if you are sure you
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi.
> I was searching for some information regarding a problem and found an
> interesting post that includes an answer to the problem; thought the
> post is very helpful it is based on a wrong assumption and thus the
> solution it suggests is incorrect. It took me some t
Steve Holden wrote:
> John Salerno wrote:
>> James Stroud wrote:
>>
>>
>>> This is because that list is an attribute of the class. Instances have a
>>> reference of this class attribute, but it can be replaced by an
>>> attribute of the instance with self (self is a reference to the instance
>>>
Steve Holden wrote:
> I think you'll find that most programs that eat through memory in this
> way will exhibit pretty much the same behaviour. If you *know* your
> program isn't creating data cycles, just turn the GC off and rely on
> reference counting. That won't save you from paging when you
>
The primary key is usually there to uniquely identify each row. There
are a couple of ways to generate them:
One is to always create a new integer id (sequentially or random)
when you insert a new row. This means that if you insert the same data
again, the row will always be duplicated. Usual
Gabriel Genellina wrote:
> At Wednesday 27/9/2006 07:30, Mirco Wahab wrote:
>
>> >> When the Samurai of medieval Japan were confronted
>> >> with new 'battlefield language', e.g. early Shotguns,
>> >> they resisted because one could push any peasant
>> >
>> > shouldn't this be "they [the Samurai]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Since then, feedback from students in industry is that it is being used
> more and more, day in and day out by top world class shops (games,
> effects, etc). BUT It's still Java, C++, PHP, SQL that have the
> marketing demands...
Absolutely. But note that SQL (like J
Paul McGuire wrote:
> In the interests of beating a dead horse into the ground
>(metaphor-mixing?),
> I looked at using map to one-line the OP's request, and found an interesting
> inconsistency.
>
> I tried using map(reversed, list(enumerate(a))), but got back a list of
> iterators. To c
Phil Schmidt wrote:
> Eric Brunel wrote:
>> But Marc's answer still applies: it's a lot of work for something that
>> will usually be configured once. So requiring to restart the tool when the
>> UI language changes should be acceptable.
>
> Thanks for the example, that helps.
>
> I agree with yo
Scott David Daniels wrote:
>> map(tuple,map(reversed,list(enumerate(a
>
> Doesn't the following read more easily?
>
> [tuple(reversed(x)) for x in enumerate(a)]
that involves two extra name lookups for each item in the sequence,
though, so it doesn't execute more easily.
--
http:/
Mirco Wahab wrote:
> Thus spoke A.M. Kuchling (on 2006-09-30 19:26):
> > On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 09:10:14 +0100,
> > Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thats it. What is the fuzz all about? I consider 'hyper fatarrow'
> (you did't the »=>« get right) just a joke of LW
> (he does so sometimes ;
stéphane bard wrote:
> hello, my boss ask me to prefer windev to python.
> I have to argue
>
> - python work on multiple platform (linux, mac, windows)
> A good point but it didn't interest him. Because
> we want to choose a language for prototyping.
> So multi platform is not enough.
Leif K-Brooks wrote:
> Gabriel Genellina wrote:
>> Try this. It first chooses 0, 1/2, then 1/4, 3/4, then */8...
>> It's the best I could make if you don't know the number of colors
>> beforehand. If you *do* know how many colors, your previous response
>> is OK.
I've no better suggestion than e
[charlie strauss]
> Below is a simple program that will cause python to intermittently
> stop executing for a few seconds. it's 100% reproducible on my machine.
Any program that creates a great many long-lived container objects
will behave similarly during the creation phase. Others have
explain
[charlie strauss]
>>> Below is a simple program that will cause python to intermittently
>>> stop executing for a few seconds. it's 100% reproducible on my
>>> machine.
[Giovanni Bajo]
>> Confirmed with Python 2.4.2 on Windows.
[Jorgen Grahn]
> And Python 2.3.5 on Linux, amd64. In fact, it caus
[Steve Holden, "pins the blame" for pauses on periodic cyclic gc]
> ...
> So basically what you have here is a pathological example of why it's
> sometimes wise to disable garbage collection. Tim, did I miss anything?
Nope!
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hello
I'm writing a Python application for live music performance/improivsation,
using csound as the synthesis engine, and Python for compositional
algorithms, GUI and control.
I creating several threads:
one for GUI
one for csound,
one for a timed queue (timed automation events),
one for commun
[charlie strauss]
> I want to clarify that, on my computer, the first instance of the gap occurs
> way
> before the memory if filled. (at about 20% of physical ram). Additionally the
> process monitor shows no page faults.
Python has no idea of how much RAM you have, or even of how much RAM
it's
[charlie strauss]
> Steve, digging into the gc docs a bit more, I think the behaviour I am seeing
> is still
> not expected. Namely, the program I offered has no obvious place where
> objects
> are deallocated. The way GC is supposed to work is thate there are three
> levels of
> objects
>
> l
[Charlie Strauss]
>>> level0: newly created objects
>>> level1: objects that survived 1 round of garbage collection
>>> level2: objects that survivied 2+ rounds of gargbage collection
>>>
>>> Since all of my numerous objects are level2 objects, and none of
>>> them are every deallocated, then I
I guess I'm just looking for a small code sample hooked up to the code
I gave, that would collect the input, compare it to code such as:
if x==5
print "Five"
elif x==6
print "Six"
elif x==7
print "Seven"
Something along those lines. That was actually like the code I used for
someth
Is anyone else having trouble? It worked for me last night, but now it's
saying:
C00D11BD: Cannot play the file
Windows Media Player cannot play the file because the specified protocol
is not supported.
If you encountered this error by typing a Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
in the Open URL di
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Paul Rubin wrote:
>> Very interesting post and list. I think I'd add at least one assembly
>> language.
>
> Yes, definitely.
I'd propose DEK's MMIX assembly language if you go for only one (or two)
-- learn modern machine architectural directions at the same time
On 1 Oct 2006 14:08:24 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I guess I'm just looking for a small code sample hooked up to the code
> I gave, that would collect the input, compare it to code such as:
>
> if x==5
> print "Five"
> elif x==6
> print "Six"
> elif x==7
> p
hello all,
pretty straightforward question here, i think. i'm experimenting with
classes and have written a File class that looks like it's worth
keeping for future use. however, i cannot work out where to put it for
this purpose or how to get it in.
i figured i'd try a bit of (un)inspired guessw
should read 'definitions', of course. i hate stupid typos.
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Hello,
we want to teach absolute programming newbies
a first language, so they can start programming
simple scientific models.
We thought Python would make a good choice for
a first language; but where pretty stumped when
we found out that there is no simple way to draw
pixels to a screen. (This
sam wrote:
> pretty straightforward question here, i think. i'm experimenting with
> classes and have written a File class that looks like it's worth
> keeping for future use. however, i cannot work out where to put it for
> this purpose or how to get it in.
What I do:
For each new major version
Ant wrote:
> Don't think so, I followed the thread along a little, and it seems to
> be correct. In addition, they seem to have the ¥ character as the Perl
> 6 equivalent of zip(). Those crazy guys.
Yup, I don't think it was a joke either; there are several other
"hyper" operators already in pugs:
Ant wrote:
> Don't think so, I followed the thread along a little, and it seems to
> be correct. In addition, they seem to have the ¥ character as the Perl
> 6 equivalent of zip(). Those crazy guys.
Yup, I don't think it was a joke either; there are several other
"hyper" operators already in pugs:
sam wrote:
> hello all,
>
> pretty straightforward question here, i think. i'm experimenting with
> classes and have written a File class that looks like it's worth
> keeping for future use. however, i cannot work out where to put it for
> this purpose or how to get it in.
>
> i figured i'd try a
* Kent Johnson wrote (on 9/30/2006 2:04 PM):
> John Salerno wrote:
>> So my question in general is, is it a good idea to default to an OOP
>> design like my second example when you aren't even sure you will need
>> it? I know it won't hurt, and is probably smart to do sometimes, but
>> maybe it
> What I do:
>
> For each new major version of python, in .../site-packages I make a
> directory "sdd" (my initials). In it I put an empty file named
> "__init__.py". When I have things I want to reuse, I put them in
> files named things like ".../site-packages/sdd/goodidea.py", and
> I get use
On Oct 1, 2006, at 6:28 PM, Peter Mexbacher wrote:
> Hello,
>
> we want to teach absolute programming newbies
> a first language, so they can start programming
> simple scientific models.
>
> We thought Python would make a good choice for
> a first language; but where pretty stumped when
> we fou
Scott David Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> While these statements do mean something to experienced programmers,
> they seem to contradict everything a power-point wielding IT executive
> who understands everything "from a 5000 foot point of view" knows to
> be true. I really wish I knew ho
Max M wrote:
> When I used to program in Perl I used regex' for lots of stuff. In
> python I probably use them once every half year. I sinply do not need them.
I think you can pretty much do it either way without any big benefits /
losses. There are edge-cases that will break a praser just like th
Tim Williams wrote:
> my_nums = { 1 : 'One' , 2 : 'Two' , 3 : 'Three' , 4 : 'Four' } # etc etc
> print my_nums[x]
That's what I suggested, but since a list is already zero indexed I
used that rather than a dictionary. And Paul Rubin posted a very nice
solution that handles numbers larger than 9.
I’m trying to very simply insert a picture from
a file into an excel spreadsheet. I know how to do this in VBA and it works
fine, however when I try this from python I get an error. Doing a search on
this turned up nothing.
The code I’m using is:
from win32com.client.dynamic import Dispat
I'm writing a script in linux to excercise my python skills and have encountered a minor issue.Writing the script and creating an ouput file was simple enough and didn't take too long. However, I don't have permissions to execute the file by default. Now, I could simply chmod 755 the sucker and hav
Hi all,
I've been struggling with this for a while so I'm hoping that someone
could point me in the right direction. Here's my problem: I'm trying to
get the XPath for a given node in my document and then store that XPath
as an attribute of the element itself. If anyone has a recommendation
I'd be
"Steve Holden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> Hey,
>>
>> Sorry to bother everybody again, but this group seems to have quite a
>> few knowledgeable people perusing it.
>>
>> Here's my most recent problem: For a small project I am doing, I
Jordan wrote:
> If your using python 2.4.3 or essentially any of the 2.3, 2.4 series,
> i'd test out PyScripter as an IDE, it's one of the best that I've used.
> Unfortunately, they have yet to fully accomedate 2.5 code (you can
> still write 2.5 code with almost no problems, but you won't be abl
James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm writing a script in linux to excercise my python skills and have
> encountered a minor issue. Writing the script and creating an ouput
> file was simple enough and didn't take too long. However, I don't
> have permissions to execute the file by default.
Th
MonkeeSage wrote:
> Ant wrote:
> > Don't think so, I followed the thread along a little, and it seems to
> > be correct. In addition, they seem to have the ¥ character as the Perl
> > 6 equivalent of zip(). Those crazy guys.
>
> Yup, I don't think it was a joke either; there are several other
> "h
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