Re: Colons, indentation and reformatting. (2)

2007-01-09 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> Won't the following rules work when pasting complete Python statements > and complete lines, after other lines in an editor: > > lets call the line after which the block is to be pasted the paste > line, and the original indent of the first line of the copied block to > be pasted the copy indent

Re: Colons, indentation and reformatting. (2)

2007-01-09 Thread Paddy
OK, whilst colons are not sufficient to re-format a completely mis-indented file. I'm thinking that they are sufficient for reformatting most pasted code blocks when refactoring say? - Paddy. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: help: code formatter?

2007-01-09 Thread siggi
Chuck wrote: > http://lacusveris.com/PythonTidy/PythonTidy.python Wow, what a giant of a program! Trying to find out how this works. Thank you, siggi "Chuck Rhode" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > siggi wrote this on Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 03:33:21PM +0100.

Re: help: code formatter?

2007-01-09 Thread siggi
Thomas wrote: > Tools\scripts\reindent.py in your Python distribution. Thank you Thomas! What a bucket full of toolsin \tools! I didn't know that. siggi "Thomas Heller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > siggi schrieb: >> Hi all, >> >> as a newbie I have prob

line duplication using logging to file

2007-01-09 Thread seb
Hi, I am writing to a file some basic information using the logging module. It is working but in the log file some line are printed several time. I had put some print debugging messages in the logging function (so they appear on the consile) and they are called once only. Obviously there is some u

Re: private variables

2007-01-09 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
belinda thom a écrit : > Hello, > > In what version of python were private variables added? Which private variables ? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: private variables

2007-01-09 Thread belinda thom
On Jan 9, 2007, at 12:20 AM, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > belinda thom a écrit : >> Hello, >> >> In what version of python were private variables added? > > Which private variables ? Haha. The ones that are provided for convenience (via name mangling) that aren't really private if you wish to

Re: Module to read svg

2007-01-09 Thread Tim Roberts
Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: >>> Does anyone know if there's an actual free implementation of this? >> >> For the dom module in it, xml.dom.minidom should work. Depending on >> your processing needs, that might be sufficient. > >I do

Re: Execute binary code

2007-01-09 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
"Chris Mellon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Repost. Is there any chance at all that ML could set the > reply-to to the list instead of the sender? +1 - I regularly hit "reply all", delete the OP, and then I get : "Message has a suspicious header" - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mai

Re: recursive function

2007-01-09 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
"cesco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Neil Cerutti wrote: > > On 2007-01-08, cesco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have a dictionary of lists of tuples like in the following example: > > > dict = {1: [(3, 4), (5, 8)], > > > 2: [(5, 4), (21, 3), (19, 2)], > > >

Re: Bitwise expression

2007-01-09 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
"Gigs_" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can someone explain me bitwise expression? > few examples for every expression will be nice > > x << y Left shift > x >> y Right shift > x & y Bitwise AND > x | y Bitwise OR > x ^ y Bitwise XOR (exclusive OR) > ~x Bitwise negation The short, and possibly weir

Re: code formatter?

2007-01-09 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
"siggi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a simple code formatter that first removes all indentations and > then refomats correctly? tabnanny ? - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Why less emphasis on private data?

2007-01-09 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
"Steven D'Aprano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 08 Jan 2007 13:11:14 +0200, Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > > > When you hear a programmer use the word "probability" - > > then its time to fire him, as in programming even the lowest > > probability is a certainty when you are doing millions of

Re: Module to read svg

2007-01-09 Thread Robert Kern
Tim Roberts wrote: > Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Martin v. Löwis wrote: >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Does anyone know if there's an actual free implementation of this? >>> For the dom module in it, xml.dom.minidom should work. Depending on >>> your processing needs, that mig

Re: recursive function

2007-01-09 Thread cesco
Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > "cesco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Neil Cerutti wrote: > > > On 2007-01-08, cesco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I have a dictionary of lists of tuples like in the following example: > > > > dict = {1: [(3, 4), (5, 8)], > > > >

Re: Colons, indentation and reformatting.

2007-01-09 Thread Leif K-Brooks
Paddy wrote: > Thinking about it a little, it seems that a colon followed by > non-indented code that has just been pasted in could also be used by a > Python-aware editor as a flag to re-indent the pasted code. How would it reindent this code? if foo: print "Foo!" if bar: print "Bar!" Like thi

Re: How to write temporary data to file?

2007-01-09 Thread Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas Ploch wrote: > d = { > 'url1': { > 'emails': ['a', 'b', 'c',...], > 'matches': ['d', 'e', 'f',...] > }, > 'url2': {... > } > > This dictionary will get _very_ big, so I want to write it somehow to a > file after it has g

formattazione cifra con decimali

2007-01-09 Thread Nuke
Ho cercato un poco sulla documentazione di python senza trovare una risposta soddisfacente al mio problema, quindi spero di trovare un aiuto qui. Ho creato un programmino che mi fa alcuni calcoli e riepiloghi personali e vorrei visualizzare i totali numerici in euro con la formattazione comprensiva

Re: How to write temporary data to file?

2007-01-09 Thread Laszlo Nagy
Thomas Ploch írta: > Hi folks, > > I have a data structure that looks like this: > > d = { > 'url1': { > 'emails': ['a', 'b', 'c',...], > 'matches': ['d', 'e', 'f',...] > }, > 'url2': {... > } > > This dictionary will get _very_ big, so I want to write

Re: formattazione cifra con decimali

2007-01-09 Thread Nuke
Nuke ha scritto: > Ho cercato un poco sulla documentazione di python senza trovare una > risposta soddisfacente al mio problema, quindi spero di trovare un > aiuto qui. > Ho creato un programmino che mi fa alcuni calcoli e riepiloghi > personali e vorrei visualizzare i totali numerici in euro con

Re: General Question About Python

2007-01-09 Thread Torabisu
I think the best I've heard is, "Programming in Python is like writing poetry". Its really a beautiful language, so simple, short, powerful and to the point. We use it in conjunction with Django to implement a web based device management solution for our products. We've also written a multi-thre

Re: line duplication using logging to file

2007-01-09 Thread Vinay Sajip
seb wrote: > Hi, I am writing to a file some basic information using the logging > module. It is working but in the log file some line are printed > several time. I had put some print debugging messages in the logging > function (so they appear on the consile) and they are called once only. > Obv

Re: General Question About Python

2007-01-09 Thread billie
Torabisu wrote: > Its quite weird, we're looking for Python skills but are battling to > find at the moment... Normally Python on its own will probably not > land you a job, but the last two companies I've worked for are doing > indepth Python development, so hopefully the tables are turning a bi

A simple array in Python

2007-01-09 Thread bg_ie
Hi, I have the following enum - class State: Fire = 0 Water = 1 Earth = 2 And I want a variable which holds a value for each of these states, something like - myState1[State.Fire] = 10 myState1[State.Earth] = 4 myState2[State.Fire] = 20 myState2[State.Earth] = 24 How d

Re: A simple array in Python

2007-01-09 Thread Laszlo Nagy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I have the following enum - > > class State: > Fire = 0 > Water = 1 > Earth = 2 > > And I want a variable which holds a value for each of these states, > something like - > class State: Fire = 0 Water = 1 Earth = 2 m

[ANN] html5lib 0.2

2007-01-09 Thread James Graham
DESCRIPTION HTML parsing library based on the WHATWG Web Applications 1.0 "HTML5" specification[1]. The parser is designed to work with all existing flavors of HTML and implements well-defined error recovery that has been specified though analysis of the behavior of modern desktop web browsers.

I compile the Pychm in windows,But meet a lot of errors......

2007-01-09 Thread boyeestudio
The Error is show as below: D:\Downloads\pychm-0.8.4>python setup.py build running build running build_py running build_ext building 'chm._chmlib' extension D:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vc7\bin\link.exe /DLL /nologo /INCREMENTAL:NO /LIBPATH:D:\Python24\libs /LIBPATH:D:\Pytho

Re: General Question About Python

2007-01-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Enteng wrote: > To those who program in python, what programs do you do? Some Unix TCP servers, some data-driven command line apps, and some web stuff. > Also what community projects are you involved in(OSS probably)? None that are Python-based, aside from the occasional patch to support new Pyt

Re: Why less emphasis on private data?

2007-01-09 Thread sturlamolden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I let the user change the internal state of the engine, I have no > assurances that my product (the engine) is doing its job... How would you proceed to protect this inner states? In C++ private members they can be accessed through a cast to void pointer. In Java it ca

Re: Colons, indentation and reformatting. (2)

2007-01-09 Thread Paul McGuire
"Paddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > If this is not > the case then the user should be asked wether to re-indent the copy > block to be equal to, or de-dented w.r.t. the paste line indent prior > to pasting. > How would the user know this? Every dedent is ambig

Re: Maths error

2007-01-09 Thread Nick Maclaren
|> Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: |> |> > Is using the decimal module the best way around this? (I'm |> > expecting the first sum to match the second). It seem |> > anachronistic that decimal takes strings as input, though. As Dan Bishop says, probably not. The introduction to the decimal module ma

Re: Colons, indentation and reformatting. (2)

2007-01-09 Thread Jorgen Grahn
On 8 Jan 2007 23:57:29 -0800, Paddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK, whilst colons are not sufficient to re-format a completely > mis-indented file. I'm thinking that they are sufficient for > reformatting most pasted code blocks when refactoring say? Let's put it this way: if the formatter can

Re: Bitwise expression

2007-01-09 Thread Gigs_
Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > "Gigs_" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Can someone explain me bitwise expression? >> few examples for every expression will be nice >> >> x << y Left shift >> x >> y Right shift >> x & y Bitwise AND >> x | y Bitwise OR >> x ^ y Bitwise XOR (exclusive OR) >> ~x Bitwi

Re: line duplication using logging to file

2007-01-09 Thread Paul McGuire
"seb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi, I am writing to a file some basic information using the logging > module. It is working but in the log file some line are printed > several time. I had put some print debugging messages in the logging > function (so they appe

Re: Execute binary code

2007-01-09 Thread Jorgen Grahn
On 8 Jan 2007 12:29:36 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Is it possible to execute a binary string stored within a python script >> as executable code ? >> >> The script is run under Windows, and the binary code (a full executable >> file) is stored

Re: A simple array in Python

2007-01-09 Thread Paul McGuire
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi, > > I have the following enum - > > class State: > Fire = 0 > Water = 1 > Earth = 2 > > And I want a variable which holds a value for each of these states, > something like - > > myState1[State.Fire] = 10 > myState1[State.Earth] = 4

PyCFunction_New requires a pointer to a static PyMethodDef?

2007-01-09 Thread Ben Sizer
In following the example given at , I find that if I instead try to create PyMethodDef instances on the stack and create methods that way, rather than providing pointers to a static array of them, executing the method later raises an ex

Re: how to find the longst element list of lists

2007-01-09 Thread Peter Otten
Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Mon, 08 Jan 2007 13:55:40 +0100, Peter Otten wrote: > >>> The precise results depend on the version of Python you're running, the >>> amount of memory you have, other processes running, and the details of >>> what's in the list you are trying to sort. But as my test sh

Re: Non-blocking pipes during subprocess handling

2007-01-09 Thread Nick Craig-Wood
Tom Plunket <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using subprocess to launch, well, sub-processes, but now I'm > stumbling due to blocking I/O. > > Is there a way for me to know that there's data on a pipe, and possibly > how much data is there so I can get it? You might want to check out this mod

Re: General Question About Python

2007-01-09 Thread Michele Simionato
Enteng wrote: > To those who program in python, what programs do you do? > Also what community projects are you involved in(OSS probably)? > Will mastering the language land me a job? Well, I few years ago I decided to learn Python to get a job and it worked. Of course, you should think of someth

Re: line duplication using logging to file

2007-01-09 Thread seb
Hi, Thanks for the help. Meanwhile I have written the logging function from scratch and it works without the multiple lines. This means that the multiple line copy is not due to the multiple processes (or thread) trying to access the log file but to something else. Thanks. Sebastien. the new fu

Re: Execute binary code

2007-01-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jorgen Grahn wrote: > On 8 Jan 2007 12:29:36 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For what it's worth[1], under Unix it /is/ impossible. The only way to bring > in > new code (short of dynamic libraries) is to call exec(2) or its variations, > and all need a file system object t

Using with CSV library in Python 2.2!!!

2007-01-09 Thread mohan
Hi Guys, I'm back one more basic question, this time on using CSV (Comma Seperated Value) library with Python 2.2. At my workplace I have Python 2.2 installed and am using PythonWin 2.2.1 IDE from Mark Hammond. I want to use the CSV library module for reading data from the .csv files and when I t

Re: Colons, indentation and reformatting.

2007-01-09 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2007-01-09, Leif K-Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paddy wrote: >> Thinking about it a little, it seems that a colon followed by >> non-indented code that has just been pasted in could also be >> used by a Python-aware editor as a flag to re-indent the >> pasted code. > > How would it reinde

Re: formattazione cifra con decimali

2007-01-09 Thread Jerry Hill
On 9 Jan 2007 01:43:41 -0800, Nuke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to visualize a number (or a string of that number) using the > decimal separator. > i have this number visualized: 50320,12 and i need that the > visualization of this number is: 50.320,13. > There is a function that directly co

pyExcelerator big integer values

2007-01-09 Thread Gacha
I use pyExcelerator to import some data from xml file. One column contains integer values like: 4750456000708 4750456000715 4750456000333 ... But when I do import the pyExcelerator converts them to something like this: 4.7504560002e+12 4.7504560007e+12 4.7504560007e+12 4.7504560003e+12 How I under

Re: Maths error

2007-01-09 Thread Carsten Haese
On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 11:38 +, Nick Maclaren wrote: > |> Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > |> > |> > Is using the decimal module the best way around this? (I'm > |> > expecting the first sum to match the second). It seem > |> > anachronistic that decimal takes strings as input, though. > > As Dan

mxODBC problems

2007-01-09 Thread Sean Davis
I have just installed mxODBC on my x86_64 suse linux machine, where I use unixODBC for connection. Running queries from isql or DataManager works fine for the DSN that I am using. However, under mxODBC, I can get a connection object and a cursor object, but all attempts to execute even the simple

Re: re.sub and re.MULTILINE

2007-01-09 Thread nyenyec
Paddy wrote: > Check the arguments to re.sub. > > >>> re.sub('(?m)^foo', 'bar', '\nfoo', count=0) > '\nbar' > > - Paddy. Duh! :) I appreciate it, thanks. -- nyenyec -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Using with CSV library in Python 2.2!!!

2007-01-09 Thread skip
mohan> 1. Does Python 2.2 come with CSV library module or not? If yes, mohan>have I lost it somewhere?? As the docs for the csv module indicate, it was new in 2.3. mohan> 2. If Python 2.2 does not come with CSV module, is it possible to mohan>add the csv module to the Pyt

Re: Using with CSV library in Python 2.2!!!

2007-01-09 Thread mohan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > mohan> 1. Does Python 2.2 come with CSV library module or not? If yes, > mohan>have I lost it somewhere?? > > As the docs for the csv module indicate, it was new in 2.3. > > mohan> 2. If Python 2.2 does not come with CSV module, is it possible to > mohan>

Survey respondents needed for masters thesis

2007-01-09 Thread luffmusse
We are two students from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden (http://www.kth.se/eng/). We are currently doing our masters thesis in Applied Information Technology where we specialize in security. As a part of this thesis we will do a survey where we compare general information ab

Determine an object is a subclass of another

2007-01-09 Thread abcd
How can tell if an object is a subclass of something else? Imagine... class Thing: pass class Animal: pass class Dog: pass d = Dog() I want to find out that 'd' is a Dog, Animal and Thing. Such as... d is a Dog d is a Animal d is a Thing Thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailm

Re: Using with CSV library in Python 2.2!!!

2007-01-09 Thread skip
mohan> Thanks man. What kind of source code changes should I do to mohan> "_csv.c" file , have you any idea on that too?? I've no particular ideas. There are sometimes small C API changes between feature releases though. If you read through the What's New document for version 2.3 (googl

Re: Determine an object is a subclass of another

2007-01-09 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2007-01-09, abcd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can tell if an object is a subclass of something else? > > Imagine... > > class Thing: > pass > > class Animal: > pass > > class Dog: > pass > > d = Dog() > > I want to find out that 'd' is a Dog, Animal and Thing. Such > as... > > d

Re: Determine an object is a subclass of another

2007-01-09 Thread Matimus
First you need to subclass the classes so that Dog actually is a subclass of Animal which is a subclass of thing... class Thing: pass class Animal(Thing): pass class Dog(Animal): pass class Weapon(Thing): pass class Gun(Weapon): pass Then you can use 'isinstance' >>>d = Dog() >>>is

Re: How to write temporary data to file?

2007-01-09 Thread Thomas Ploch
Laszlo Nagy schrieb: > Thomas Ploch írta: >> Hi folks, >> >> I have a data structure that looks like this: >> >> d = { >> 'url1': { >> 'emails': ['a', 'b', 'c',...], >> 'matches': ['d', 'e', 'f',...] >> }, >> 'url2': {... >> } >> >> This dictionary will get _very_ big, s

Internet Survey

2007-01-09 Thread octabox
Hello all, I represent Octabox, an Internet Start-up developing a wide-scale platform for Internet services. We are very interested to know your thoughts on Internet productivity and how it might be improved, and to that end we have set up a short survey at our website - http://www.octabox.com/pr

Internet Survey

2007-01-09 Thread octabox
Hello all, I represent Octabox, an Internet Start-up developing a wide-scale platform for Internet services. We are very interested to know your thoughts on Internet productivity and how it might be improved, and to that end we have set up a short survey at our website - http://www.octabox.com/pr

Re: How to write temporary data to file?

2007-01-09 Thread Thomas Ploch
Thomas Ploch schrieb: > Laszlo Nagy schrieb: >> Thomas Ploch írta: >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> I have a data structure that looks like this: >>> >>> d = { >>> 'url1': { >>> 'emails': ['a', 'b', 'c',...], >>> 'matches': ['d', 'e', 'f',...] >>> }, >>> 'url2': {... >>> } >>> >>>

Re: Determine an object is a subclass of another

2007-01-09 Thread abcd
yea i meant to have animal extend thing and dog extend animalmy mistake. anyways, is there a way to check without having an instance of the class? such as, isinstance(Dog, (Animal, Thing)) ?? thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Execute binary code

2007-01-09 Thread sturlamolden
Jorgen Grahn wrote: > For what it's worth[1], under Unix it /is/ impossible. The only way to bring > in > new code (short of dynamic libraries) is to call exec(2) or its variations, > and all need a file system object to load the code from. The x86 processor cannot tell the difference between c

Re: Determine an object is a subclass of another

2007-01-09 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
abcd a écrit : > yea i meant to have animal extend thing and dog extend animalmy > mistake. > > anyways, is there a way to check without having an instance of the > class? > > such as, > > isinstance(Dog, (Animal, Thing)) ?? > > issubclass(Dog, Animal) Note that such tests should only be

Re: Internet Survey

2007-01-09 Thread zoara
On 9 Jan 2007 06:58:15 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello all, > > I represent Octabox, an Internet Start-up developing a wide-scale > platform for Internet services. We are very interested to know your > thoughts on Internet productivity and how it might be improved, and to > that end we h

Re: Why less emphasis on private data?

2007-01-09 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, 09 Jan 2007 10:27:56 +0200, Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > "Steven D'Aprano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> On Mon, 08 Jan 2007 13:11:14 +0200, Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: >> >> > When you hear a programmer use the word "probability" - >> > then its time to fire him, as in programming even

Re: Execute binary code

2007-01-09 Thread Chris Mellon
On 9 Jan 2007 07:04:11 -0800, sturlamolden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jorgen Grahn wrote: > > > For what it's worth[1], under Unix it /is/ impossible. The only way to > > bring in > > new code (short of dynamic libraries) is to call exec(2) or its variations, > > and all need a file system obj

Re: code formatter?

2007-01-09 Thread siggi
>tabnanny? not quite! "Hendrik van Rooyen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "siggi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Is there a simple code formatter that first removes all indentations and >> then refomats correctly? > > tabnanny ? > > - Hendrik > > > -- htt

how to clean sys.path

2007-01-09 Thread siggi
Hi all, when I do >>>sys.path in IDLE (winXP), i get a horrendously long list of paths, paths I may have used during a lot of trials and errors. How can I clean up sys.path? I mean, trim it of unnecessary paths? So far, I know only the command >>>sys.path.append(r'c:etc...'), but how to de

Re: Determine an object is a subclass of another

2007-01-09 Thread Felipe Almeida Lessa
On 9 Jan 2007 07:01:31 -0800, abcd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > anyways, is there a way to check without having an instance of the > class? In [1]: class A: ...: pass ...: In [2]: class B(A): ...: pass ...: In [3]: issubclass(B, A) Out[3]: True In [4]: isinstance(B(), B) Out

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: Introduction to 3D Graphics Programing

2007-01-09 Thread hg
Xah Lee wrote: > I don't know OpenGL, but i think it is a low-level crap, and have done > the industry huge irreparable damage the same way unix has. So you _are_ psychic ! is the end of the world be in 2007 ? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Using with CSV library in Python 2.2!!!

2007-01-09 Thread Larry Bates
mohan wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I'm back one more basic question, this time on using CSV (Comma > Seperated Value) library with Python 2.2. At my workplace I have Python > 2.2 installed and am using PythonWin 2.2.1 IDE from Mark Hammond. > > I want to use the CSV library module for reading data from

Re: mxODBC problems

2007-01-09 Thread Larry Bates
Sean Davis wrote: > I have just installed mxODBC on my x86_64 suse linux machine, where I > use unixODBC for connection. Running queries from isql or DataManager > works fine for the DSN that I am using. However, under mxODBC, I can > get a connection object and a cursor object, but all attempts

Re: Internet Survey

2007-01-09 Thread Lawrence Statton XE2/N1GAK
zoara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Link NOT removed to encourage more abuse ... > > http://www.octabox.com/productivity_poll.php I somehow missed this the first time. Thanks for the pointer -- I gave them some nice PDP-10 related responses. I truly hope to have my TOPS-20 productivity improve

Re: Internet Survey

2007-01-09 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 15:25:43 + zoara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9 Jan 2007 06:58:15 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > I represent Octabox, an Internet Start-up developing a wide-scale > Well, that was too tempting to pass up. Amusing answers related to dirty > b

Re: Maths error

2007-01-09 Thread Tim Peters
[Rory Campbell-Lange] >>> Is using the decimal module the best way around this? (I'm >>> expecting the first sum to match the second). It seem >>> anachronistic that decimal takes strings as input, though. [Nick Maclaren] >> As Dan Bishop says, probably not. The introduction to the decimal >> mod

Re: Maths error

2007-01-09 Thread Bjoern Schliessmann
Nick Maclaren wrote: > No, don't. That is about another matter entirely, It isn't. Regards, Björn -- BOFH excuse #366: ATM cell has no roaming feature turned on, notebooks can't connect -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: help: code formatter?

2007-01-09 Thread Bjoern Schliessmann
siggi wrote: > Bjoern wrote: >> Why don't you just write one? :) > > Very funny! Just learning Python :( It isn't funny at all. You'll learn by doing and trying things. That's how all programmers start. Regards, Björn -- BOFH excuse #265: The mouse escaped. -- http://mail.python.org/ma

Question about using "with"

2007-01-09 Thread Steven W. Orr
>From the tutorial, they said that the following construct will automatically close a previously open file descriptor: --- #! /usr/bin/python import sys for nn in range ( 1, len(sys.argv ) ): print "arg ", nn, "value = ", sys.argv[nn] with open(sys.argv[nn]) as f:

Re: Maths error

2007-01-09 Thread Nick Maclaren
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tim Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: |> |> Well, just about any technical statement can be misleading if not qualified |> to such an extent that the only people who can still understand it knew it |> to begin with <0.8 wink>. The most dubious statement here to

Re: Question about using "with"

2007-01-09 Thread Laszlo Nagy
> > 591 > ./cat.py cat.py >File "./cat.py", line 6 > with open(sys.argv[nn]) as f: > ^ > SyntaxError: invalid syntax > 592 > > > This example came from http://docs.python.org/tut/node10.html down in > section 8.7 > > Am I missing something? > Are you using python 2.5? The

Re: how to clean sys.path

2007-01-09 Thread Laszlo Nagy
> > So far, I know only the command >>>sys.path.append(r'c:etc...'), but how > to delete or insert at the beginning of the list, I know not. > You can delete a slice. For example, del sys.path[2:5] More about slicing: http://docs.python.org/ref/slicings.html sys.path is a regular list. L

Re: Maths error

2007-01-09 Thread Terry Reedy
"Carsten Haese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 11:38 +, Nick Maclaren wrote: | > As Dan Bishop says, probably not. The introduction to the decimal | > module makes exaggerated claims of accuracy, amounting to propaganda. | > It is numerica

Re: Question about using "with"

2007-01-09 Thread Steven Bethard
Steven W. Orr wrote: >> From the tutorial, they said that the following construct will > automatically close a previously open file descriptor: > > --- > #! /usr/bin/python > import sys > > for nn in range ( 1, len(sys.argv ) ): > print "arg ", nn, "value = ", sys.argv[nn] >

Re: Yield

2007-01-09 Thread Mathias Panzenboeck
Fredrik Lundh schrieb: > Danny Colligan wrote: > >> Carsten mentioned that generators are more memory-efficient to use when >> dealing with large numbers of objects. Is this the main advantage of >> using generators? Also, in what other novel ways are generators used >> that are clearly superior

Re: Question about using "with"

2007-01-09 Thread Peter Otten
Steven W. Orr wrote: >>From the tutorial, they said that the following construct will > automatically close a previously open file descriptor: > > --- > #! /usr/bin/python > import sys > > for nn in range ( 1, len(sys.argv ) ): > print "arg ", nn, "value = ", sys.argv[nn] >

Re: Question about using "with"

2007-01-09 Thread Duncan Booth
Laszlo Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> 591 > ./cat.py cat.py >>File "./cat.py", line 6 >> with open(sys.argv[nn]) as f: >> ^ >> SyntaxError: invalid syntax >> 592 > >> >> This example came from http://docs.python.org/tut/node10.html down in >> section 8.7 >> >> Am I

distutils and ctypes

2007-01-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all, I suspect that I'm doing something stupid, I would like some other opinions though. I'm getting started with ctypes and am trying to use distutils to help build my module. At the moment I simply want distutils to build a shared c library (not a python extension!). Under linux, the followin

A simple lexer

2007-01-09 Thread Neil Cerutti
I'm a royal n00b to writing translators, but you have to start someplace. In my Python project, I've decided that writing the dispatch code to sit between the Glulx virtual machine and the Glk API will be best done automatically, using the handy prototypes. Below is the prototype of the lexer, an

Re: private variables

2007-01-09 Thread Gabriel Genellina
At Tuesday 9/1/2007 04:38, belinda thom wrote: I knew it was a beehive, but I had hoped someone would know which version they were released, so I can put the proper statement into my tutorial (e.g. In version , Python provided some support for private variables...). I've been avoiding getting st

Re: Maths error

2007-01-09 Thread Simon Brunning
On 1/9/07, Tim Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, just about any technical statement can be misleading if not qualified > to such an extent that the only people who can still understand it knew it > to begin with <0.8 wink>. +1 QTOW -- Cheers, Simon B [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.pyt

Re: Maths error

2007-01-09 Thread Robert Kern
Bjoern Schliessmann wrote: > Nick Maclaren wrote: > >> No, don't. That is about another matter entirely, > > It isn't. Actually it really is. That thread is about the difference between str(some_float) and repr(some_float) and why str(some_tuple) uses the repr() of its elements. -- Robert Ke

Re: distutils and ctypes

2007-01-09 Thread Robert Kern
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So finally, my question is, is there a way to get distutils to simply > build a shared library on windows so that I can use ctypes with them??? Not out-of-box, no. The OOF2 project has added a bdist_shlib command which should do most of what you want, though. It's somew

Re: distutils and ctypes

2007-01-09 Thread Robert Kern
Robert Kern wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> So finally, my question is, is there a way to get distutils to simply >> build a shared library on windows so that I can use ctypes with them??? > > Not out-of-box, no. The OOF2 project has added a bdist_shlib command which > should do most of wh

Summarizing data by week

2007-01-09 Thread Mike Orr
What's the best way to summarize data by week? I have a set of timestamped records, and I want a report with one row for each week in the time period, including zero rows if there are weeks with no activity. I was planning to use ISO weeks because datetime has a convenient .isocalendar() method,

Newbie - converting csv files to arrays in NumPy

2007-01-09 Thread oyekomova
I would like to know how to convert a csv file with a header row into a floating point array without the header row. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Maths error

2007-01-09 Thread Nick Maclaren
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: |> > |> >> No, don't. That is about another matter entirely, |> > |> > It isn't. |> |> Actually it really is. That thread is about the difference between |> str(some_float) and repr(some_float) and why str(some_tuple) use

Re: Internet Survey

2007-01-09 Thread Pete Fenelon
In comp.arch.embedded [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello all, > > I represent Octabox, an Internet Start-up developing a wide-scale Hello. F*ck off, spammer. pete -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "he just stuck to buying beer and pointing at other stuff" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-li

Re: Newbie - converting csv files to arrays in NumPy

2007-01-09 Thread Robert Kern
oyekomova wrote: > I would like to know how to convert a csv file with a header row into a > floating point array without the header row. Use the standard library module csv. Something like the following is a cheap and cheerful solution: import csv import numpy def float_array_from_csv(filename

Re: Newbie - converting csv files to arrays in NumPy

2007-01-09 Thread Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, oyekomova wrote: > I would like to know how to convert a csv file with a header row into a > floating point array without the header row. Take a look at the `csv` module in the standard library. Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/li

Re: Maths error

2007-01-09 Thread Tim Peters
[Tim Peters] ... >|> Well, just about any technical statement can be misleading if not >|> qualified to such an extent that the only people who can still >|> understand it knew it to begin with <0.8 wink>. The most dubious >|> statement here to my eyes is the intro's "exactness carries over >|> in

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