Re: Python 2.5, problems reading large ( > 4Gbyes) files on win2k

On Mar 2, 10:09 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Folks, > > I've a Python 2.5 app running on 32 bit Win 2k SP4 (NTFS volume). > Reading a file of 13 GBytes, one line at a time. It appears that, > once the read line passes the 4 GByte boundary, I am getting > occasional random line concatenations. I

Re: classes and functions

Silver Rock wrote: > Friends, > > I don´t see why using classes.. functions does everything already. I > read the Rossum tutotial and two other already. > > Maybe this is because I am only writing small scripts, or some more > serious misunderstandings of the language. > > Please give me a light

Re: Perl and Python, a practical side-by-side example.

On Mar 2, 2:44 pm, "Shawn Milo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (snipped) > I'm attaching both the Perl and Python versions, and I'm open to > comments on either. The script reads a file from standard input and > finds the best record for each unique ID (piid). The best is defined > as follows: The ne

print a ... z, A ... Z, "\n"' in Python

HI guys, How do you write Perl's print a ... z, A ... Z, "\n"' in Python In Python? A way I came up with is the following, but I'm sure this is ugly. ''.join(chr(c) for c in (range(ord('a'), ord('z')+1) + range(ord('A'), ord('Z')+1))) or crange = lambda c1, c2: [ chr(c) for c in

Re: Perl and Python, a practical side-by-side example.

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bjoern Schliessmann wrote: > Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: >> Shawn Milo a écrit : > >>> if recs.has_key(piid) is False: >> >> 'is' is the identity operator - practically, in CPython, it >> compares memory addresses. You *dont* want to use it here. > > It's recommended

Re: Sort with extra variables

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas Dybdahl Ahle wrote: > Den Fri, 02 Mar 2007 21:13:02 +0100 skrev Bjoern Schliessmann: > >> Thomas Dybdahl Ahle wrote: >> >>> However I'd really like not to use the lambda, as it slows down the >>> code. >> >> Did you check how much the slowdown is? > > Yes, the la

Re: print a ... z, A ... Z, "\n"' in Python

> How do you write Perl's > > print a ... z, A ... Z, "\n"' in Python > > > In Python? you might consider this cheating, but it's packed with zen goodness: >>> import string >>> print string.letters abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listi

Re: cyclic iterators ?

Paul Rubin a écrit : > > As Bruno says, you can use itertools.cycle, but the problem above is > that you're not looping repeatedly through the list; you yield all the > elements, then yield the first element again, then stop. So for > ['a','b','c'] you'd yield the sequence a,b,c,a. Yes, that

Re: html sql client

On Mar 2, 8:33 am, "gert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 2, 7:33 am, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, gert wrote: > > > I was thinking about making a column module that names the columns, i > > > was hoping there would be some sort of api featur

Re: Perl and Python, a practical side-by-side example.

On Mar 3, 7:08 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mar 2, 2:44 pm, "Shawn Milo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (snipped) > > > I'm attaching both the Perl and Python versions, and I'm open to > > comments on either. The script reads a file from standard input and > > finds the best record for each un

Re: print a ... z, A ... Z, "\n"' in Python

js: > crange = lambda c1, c2: [ chr(c) for c in range(ord(c1), ord(c2)+1) ] > ''.join(chr(c) for c in crange('a', 'z') + crange('A', 'Z')) Yes, managing char ranges is a bit of pain with Python. You can also pack those chars: xcrange = lambda cc: (chr(c) for c in xrange(ord(cc[0]), ord(cc[1]) +1)

How to query a unicode data from sqlite database

Can anyone tell the technique of composing a WHERE clause that refer to a unicode data. e.g. "WHERE FirstName = ABCD" where ABCD is the unicoded first name in the form that sqlite will match with its records. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Perl and Python, a practical side-by-side example.

On Saturday 03 March 2007, Ben Finney wrote: > Bjoern Schliessmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > if not recs.has_key(piid): # [1] > Why not if piid not in recs: That is shorter, simpler, easier to read and very slightly faster. Plus you can change the data structure of recs later with

Re: print a ... z, A ... Z, "\n"' in Python

> But note that you return the last item of the range too, and that goes > against the semantic of the usual Python range/xrange, so you may want > to call this function with another name. That makes sense. 100% agree with you. > Maybe there are better ways to solve this problem. Maybe a way to >

Re: print a ... z, A ... Z, "\n"' in Python

I forgot to cc pythonlist... # Thanks for you quick reply. I didn't know any string constants. >From Python Library reference, 4.1.1 String constants: letters The concatenation of the strings lowercase and uppercase described below. The specific value is locale-dependen

Re: Perl and Python, a practical side-by-side example.

William Heymann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Saturday 03 March 2007, Ben Finney wrote: > > Bjoern Schliessmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > if not recs.has_key(piid): # [1] > > > Why not > > if piid not in recs: > > That is shorter, simpler, easier to read and very slightly fas

Re: Sort with extra variables

> Well, you'd have to define the function inside the sortMoves function, as > it is where the variables exists. > > def sortMoves(board, table, ply, moves): > def sortKey(move): > return getMoveValue(board, table, ply, move) > moves.sort(key=sortKey, reverse=True) return moves >

Re: print a ... z, A ... Z, "\n"' in Python

js wrote: > A way I came up with is the following, but I'm sure this is ugly. You could abuse __getitem__ (terribly, heh!) and use slice syntax... class crange(): def __init__(self): self.valid = range(47,58) + range(65,91) + range(97,123) def __getitem__(self, s): if is

Re: Sort with extra variables

Den Sat, 03 Mar 2007 11:26:08 +0100 skrev Diez B. Roggisch: >> Well, you'd have to define the function inside the sortMoves function, >> as it is where the variables exists. >> >> def sortMoves(board, table, ply, moves): >> def sortKey(move): >> return getMoveValue(board, table, ply,

Re: print a ... z, A ... Z, "\n"' in Python

"js " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> But note that you return the last item of the range too, and that >> goes against the semantic of the usual Python range/xrange, so you >> may want to call this function with another name. > > That makes sense. 100% agree with you. > >> Maybe there are better w

Re: Converting a c array to python list

Russell E. Owen wrote: > > It might help to have a clearer idea of why you want to do this. > I am writing a Mandelbrot fractal generator with Tkinter interface. Now the generation works like this - there is a loop in python which iterates through fractal's pixels and for each of them calls a

Re: print a ... z, A ... Z, "\n"' in Python

> > Maybe we don't want char range If string constants would be rich > > enough. > > But as soon as we want a string that doesn't correspond to any > pre-defined constants, we're hosed. For example, there isn't > a constant that would correspond to this Perl-ism: > > print l ... w, e ... j, L ..

Re: Python 2.5, problems reading large ( > 4Gbyes) files on win2k

Just curious, but since the file size limitation on NTFS is 4 GB, have you confirmed that it isn't some other part of the interaction that is causing the problem? What FS is hosting the files? On 2 Mar 2007 10:09:15 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Folks, I've a Python 2.5

Re: A more navigable Python Library Reference page

> > Google doesn't seem to let you add attachments so I've put a sample of > the output here:http://www.qtrac.eu/libindex.html > at the bottom of the page there is a link to the ~100 line libindex.py > script that generated it. I like it. thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyth

Re: Perl and Python, a practical side-by-side example.

On Mar 2, 10:44 pm, "Shawn Milo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm new to Python and fairly experienced in Perl, although that > experience is limited to the things I use daily. > > I wrote the same script in both Perl and Python, and the output is > identical. The run speed is similar (very fast) a

Re: print a ... z, A ... Z, "\n"' in Python

js <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HI guys, > > How do you write Perl's > > print a ... z, A ... Z, "\n"' in Python > > In Python? This specific one is easy, though this doesn't generalize: import string print string.lowercase + string.uppercase For the general case, there's no way to avo

Re: print a ... z, A ... Z, "\n"' in Python

js <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I forgot to cc pythonlist... > # > > Thanks for you quick reply. > > I didn't know any string constants. > > >From Python Library reference, 4.1.1 String constants: > > letters >The concatenation of the strings lowercase and uppercase de

Randomizing in Python

I want to randomize a certain calculation in Python but haven't figured it out yet. To explain what i mean, I' m going to use an example: I want to get the numbers to do a random experience database for a game. What would be necessary to do so? -- http://mail.python.o

qcombobox.findtext and matchflags.matchendswith

Hi. Using the PyQt4 library, I am trying to use the following function("cbo" is a qtcombobox): cbo.findText(searchStr, QtCore.MatchEndsWith) If I don't use the "QtCore.MatchEndsWith", the function works properly, but doesn't return partial matches ending with "searchStr". If I use "QtCore.MatchE

Re: Randomizing in Python

On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 08:46:09 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I want to randomize a certain calculation in Python but haven't > figured it out yet. To explain what i mean, I' m going to use an > example: > I want to get the numbers to do a random > experience database

Re: qcombobox.findtext and matchflags.matchendswith

On Saturday 03 March 2007 4:52 pm, borntonetwork wrote: > Hi. > > Using the PyQt4 library, I am trying to use the following > function("cbo" is a qtcombobox): > > cbo.findText(searchStr, QtCore.MatchEndsWith) > > If I don't use the "QtCore.MatchEndsWith", the function works > properly, but doesn't

Re: Perl and Python, a practical side-by-side example.

Shawn Milo kirjoitti: > > I am not looking for the smallest number of lines, or anything else > that would make the code more difficult to read in six months. Just > any instances where I'm doing something inefficiently or in a "bad" > way. > > I'm attaching both the Perl and Python versions, an

Re: class attrdict

Could you do something like this? class attrdict(dict): def __getattr__(self, attr): if self.has_key(attr): return self[attr] else: message = "'attrdict' object has no attribute '%s'" % attr raise AttributeError, message If you have a

py2exe: LoadLibrary(pythondll) failed

Hi there, I py2exe my test.py as test.exe with a lot of dll and pyc in that directory. If I move the test.exe into another directory and run it from there, it gives me an error " LoadLibrary(pythondll) failed... python24.dll". How can I set it up correctly for this test.exe to run? Thanks.

How to set docstrings for extensions supporting PyNumberMethods?

Hello, I am writing a python extension (compiled C code) that defines an extension type with PyNumberMethods. Everything works swimmingly, except I can't deduce a clean way to set the docstring for tp_* methods. That is, I always have type.__long__.__doc__ == 'x.__long__() <==> long(x)' which

Re: class attrdict

Andrew Coffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could you do something like this? > > class attrdict(dict): > def __getattr__(self, attr): > if self.has_key(attr): > return self[attr] > else: > message = "'attrdict' object has no attribute '%s'" % attr

Re: print a ... z, A ... Z, "\n"' in Python

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > js <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> HI guys, >> >> How do you write Perl's >> >> print a ... z, A ... Z, "\n"' in Python >> >> In Python? > > This specific one is easy, though this doesn't generalize: > > import strin

Re: pyHook or SetWindowsHookEx

On Mar 2, 7:01 pm, "abcd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > :( The answer depends on which GUI library you use. E.g. if you use MFC there is an object called win32ui.PyCWnd that has methods for hooking key strokes. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: classes and functions

On Mar 2, 11:01 pm, Nicholas Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Claire, > > That is the beauty of using Python. You have a choice of using > classes and traditional OOP techniques or sticking to top level > functions. For short, small scripts it would probably be overkill to > use clas

pop method question

Howdy Folks, I was just playing around in IDLE at the interactive prompt and typed in dir({}) for the fun of it. I was quite surprised to see a pop method defined there. I mean is that a misnomer or what? From the literature, pop is supposed to be an operation defined for a stack data s

Re: pop method question

Nicholas Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I realize that in this context it is used for removing a specific key > from the current dictionary object. But why call it pop and not > something more intuitive like remove or delete? I wasn't a python programmer back than, but I'd guess it's be

Re: pop method question

Nicholas Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was just playing around in IDLE at the interactive prompt and typed > in dir({}) for the fun of it. I was quite surprised to see a pop > method defined there. I mean is that a misnomer or what? From the > literature, pop is supposed to be an opera

Re: pop method question

On Mar 3, 2007, at 3:49 PM, Paul Rubin wrote: > Nicholas Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I was just playing around in IDLE at the interactive prompt and typed >> in dir({}) for the fun of it. I was quite surprised to see a pop >> method defined there. I mean is that a misnomer or what?

Re: qcombobox.findtext and matchflags.matchendswith

On Mar 3, 12:17 pm, Phil Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 03 March 2007 4:52 pm,borntonetworkwrote: > > > > > Hi. > > > Using the PyQt4 library, I am trying to use the following > > function("cbo" is a qtcombobox): > > > cbo.findText(searchStr, QtCore.MatchEndsWith) > > > If I don'

portable Python ifconfig

Hi all, I'm looking for a portable (FreeBSD and Linux) way of getting typical ifconfig information into Python. Some research on the web brought me to Linux only solutions http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/439094 http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/43909

Re: Questions about app design - OOP with python classes

On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 09:30:20 +0100, Diez B. Roggisch wrote: >> A type system doesn't help. So what if they're both floats? The test >> is still bogus, your code will still wait too long to engage the >> retro-rockets, and the billion dollar space craft will still be travelling >> at hundreds of mi

Re: py2exe: LoadLibrary(pythondll) failed

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are there any "Piecewise Cubic Hermite Interpolating Polynomial" in python

Hi all I want to use the matlab function "pchip" in python. I have checked the scipy, but there is only spline Interpolating. Are there any pchip Interpolating in python? Thanks Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: class attrdict

On Mar 3, 1:29 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote: > It would be nice, yes, weren't it for the inevitable irregularity, one > way or another, caused by the clash between attributes and items. In thinking about it, I think this might fall under 'we're all consenting adults here'. I mean, y

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"ftp://ftp.python.org/pub/"; is returning "Connection Refused" today. Does that ever work? I need FTP access to download onto a colocated server. John Nagle -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Questions about app design - OOP with python classes

Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Multi-Level-Specification allows you to > > express physical quantities with their respective unit, and operations > > on them to yield the combined unit at compile-time. There are some > > rather complicated cases where simple unification won't so

Re: py2exe: LoadLibrary(pythondll) failed

zxo102 schrieb: > Hi there, >I py2exe my test.py as test.exe with a lot of dll and pyc in that > directory. If I move the test.exe into another directory and run it > from there, it gives me an error " LoadLibrary(pythondll) failed... > python24.dll". How can I set it up correctly for this te

Re: pop method question

On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 15:56:39 -0500, Nicholas Parsons wrote: > > On Mar 3, 2007, at 3:49 PM, Paul Rubin wrote: > >> Nicholas Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> I was just playing around in IDLE at the interactive prompt and typed >>> in dir({}) for the fun of it. I was quite surprised to se

Re: cyclic iterators ?

On Mar 3, 1:27 am, Paul Rubin wrote: > "Tool69" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I've tried something like this to have a cyclic iterator without > > sucess: > > > def iterate_mylist(my_list): > > k = len((my_list) > > i=0 > > while i <= k : > > yield m

Re: pop method question

On Saturday 03 March 2007 15:56, Nicholas Parsons wrote: > On Mar 3, 2007, at 3:49 PM, Paul Rubin wrote: > > Nicholas Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I was just playing around in IDLE at the > >> interactive prompt and typed in dir({}) for > >> the fun of it. I was quite surprised to se

Re: Questions about app design - OOP with python classes

On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 21:53:09 -0800, Paul Rubin wrote: > Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > That still sounds like an unreliable manual type system, >> It's unreliable in the sense that the coder has to follow the naming >> convention, and must have some bare minimum of sense. If you

Re: pop method question

On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 18:13:18 -0500, jim-on-linux wrote: > On Saturday 03 March 2007 15:56, Nicholas Parsons > wrote: >> On Mar 3, 2007, at 3:49 PM, Paul Rubin wrote: >> > Nicholas Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > writes: >> >> I was just playing around in IDLE at the >> >> interactive prompt and ty

Re: pop method question

Steven D'Aprano wrote: > I personally don't see that pop has any advantage, especially since the > most useful example > > while some_dict: > do_something_with(some_dict.pop()) > > doesn't work. Instead you have to write this: > > for key in some_dict.keys(): > # can't iterate over the

Re: Questions about app design - OOP with python classes

Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Unless there is a type system that can automatically deal with the > semantic difference between (say) screen coordinates and window > coordinates, or between height and width, or safe and unsafe strings, the > coder still has to deal with it themselves

Re: pop method question

James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > for akey in dict1: >if some_condition(akey): > dict2[akey] = dict2.pop(akey) > > Which necessitates a key is a little cleaner than your latter example. Yeah, I also think removing keys from a dict while iterating over it (like in Steven's exampl

Problem with returning prime number in a simple calculation program

Hello, I'm new to Python (I've learned everything up to iterators so far) and fairly new to Programming. This would be my first real program: #Coordinate Geometry (The whole program is not shown) import math import sys print "Welcome to the Coordinate Geometry Calculator!" print "Type 'terms' f

Re: pop method question

On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 23:22:10 +, James Stroud wrote: >> To my mind, having to supply a key to dict.pop makes it rather pointless. >> >> > > > I've used it in something like this and found it worthwhile: > > for akey in dict1: >if some_condition(akey): > dict2[akey] = dict2.pop(ake

Re: Eric on XP for Newbie

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Re: Problem with returning prime number in a simple calculation program

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [reformatted indentation] > def prime(): > num = input("Number ") > i = num - 1 > divcounter = 0 > while i > 1: > if num % i != 0 > divcounter += 1 > i -= 1 > if divcounter == num - 2: > print num, "is a prime n

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Re: pop method question

On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 15:36:14 -0800, Paul Rubin wrote: > James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> for akey in dict1: >>if some_condition(akey): >> dict2[akey] = dict2.pop(akey) >> >> Which necessitates a key is a little cleaner than your latter example. > > Yeah, I also think removing

Re: pop method question

Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 23:22:10 +, James Stroud wrote: > >>> To my mind, having to supply a key to dict.pop makes it rather pointless. >>> >>> >> >> I've used it in something like this and found it worthwhile: >> >> for akey in dict1: >>if some_condition(akey): >>

Re: thread safe SMTP module

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Re: py2exe: LoadLibrary(pythondll) failed

On 3月4日, 上午6时50分, Thomas Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > zxo102 schrieb: > > > Hi there, > >I py2exe my test.py as test.exe with a lot of dll and pyc in that > > directory. If I move the test.exe into another directory and run it > > from there, it gives me an error " LoadLibrary(pythondll

Re: Problem with returning prime number in a simple calculation program

On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 15:36:36 -0800, QHorizon wrote: > Hello, I'm new to Python (I've learned everything up to iterators so > far) and fairly new to Programming. This would be my first real > program: > > #Coordinate Geometry (The whole program is not shown) > > import math > import sys > > pri

Re: pop method question

[Nicholas Parsons] > Dictionaries in Python have no order but are sequences. > Now, does anyone know why the python core has this pop method > implemented for a dictionary type? > > I realize that in this context it is used for removing a specific key > from the current dictionary object. B

Re: portable Python ifconfig

On Mar 3, 3:38 pm, Bart Van Loon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking for a portable (FreeBSD and Linux) way of getting typical > ifconfig information into Python. Here's a pure python version of the C extension, based on the recipes you posted. In this version, the 'addr' key will not exist f

Re: portable Python ifconfig

On Mar 3, 7:17 pm, "MonkeeSage" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm pretty sure the offsets would be different for BSD Then again, mabye not. http://freebsd.active-venture.com/FreeBSD-srctree/newsrc/compat/linux/linux_ioctl.h.html Regards, Jordan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-

Re: print a ... z, A ... Z, "\n"' in Python

rzed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote in > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > js <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> HI guys, > >> > >> How do you write Perl's > >> > >> print a ... z, A ... Z, "\n"' in Python > >> > >> In Python? > > > > This specific o

Re: class attrdict

MonkeeSage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 3, 1:29 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote: > > It would be nice, yes, weren't it for the inevitable irregularity, one > > way or another, caused by the clash between attributes and items. > > In thinking about it, I think this might fall un

Re: class attrdict

On Mar 3, 7:54 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote: > Besides missing the warning in the __init__, this also has pretty weird > behavior whenever subject to a .pop, .update, .setdefault, del of either > item or attr, etc, etc: the attributes and items "get out of sync" (and, > catching each

Re: pop method question

Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > while some_dict: > do_something_with(some_dict.pop()) > > doesn't work. Instead you have to write this: You have to use .popitem for this -- that's what's it's for... Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: pop method question

Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > The notion that "pop" is only defined for stack operations is somewhat > pedantic. Worse: it's totally wrong. It's also defined for eyes, as a musical genre, as a kind of soda, as an avant-garde artistic movement of the '50s, for baloons, as a

Re: pyHook or SetWindowsHookEx

On Feb 27, 9:01 am, "abcd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am having trouble with pyHook on python 2.4.1. Basically I have a > python app that uses pyHook to capture keyboard events and write them > straight to a file. The application is running as a service on a > windows machine. If I am at tha

Re: class attrdict

MonkeeSage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 3, 7:54 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote: > > Besides missing the warning in the __init__, this also has pretty weird > > behavior whenever subject to a .pop, .update, .setdefault, del of either > > item or attr, etc, etc: the attributes an

Re: portable Python ifconfig

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Re: pop method question

Hi Raymond, Thank you for your clarification below. I was just using "remove" and "delete" as possible alternatives to the name "pop" without much contemplation. Like you say below, it begs the question as to why not have two separate operations for dictionaries (retrieval of value from

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Re: pop method question

Nick, In regards to stack-like objects, pop() implies mutation of the reciever and returning the item 'popped' off the stack. The same _semantic_ meaning can be used for pop() regarding dictionaries, even though the _implementation_ would be different: dict.pop(key) mutates the reciever and return

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Re: Non Sequitur

Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > """ > I before E > Except after C > Or when sounded as A > As in Neighbor and Weigh > """ Yes, like the "A" sound in "weird" or "ceiling". -- \"Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral,

Re: portable Python ifconfig

It was 3 Mar 2007 18:43:57 -0800, when MonkeeSage wrote: > Bart, > > Can you try this and let us know if it works for FreeBSD? thanks for you suggestions! > import socket, fcntl, struct > > def _ifinfo(sock, addr, ifname): > iface = struct.pack('256s', ifname[:15]) > info = fcntl.ioctl(s

Python 2.5 incompatible with Fedora Core 6 - packaging problems again

I've been installing Python and its supporting packages on a dedicated server with Fedora Core 6 for about a day now. This is a standard dedicated rackmount server in a colocation facility, controlled via Plesk control panel, and turned over to me with Fedora Core 6 in an empty state. This is t

Re: Non Sequitur

Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > """ > > I before E > > Except after C > > Or when sounded as A > > As in Neighbor and Weigh > > """ > > Yes, like the "A" sound in "weird" or "ceiling". "ceiling" falls un

Re: Questions about app design - OOP with python classes

Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 09:30:20 +0100, Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > > >>>A type system doesn't help. So what if they're both floats? The test >>>is still bogus, your code will still wait too long to engage the >>>retro-rockets, and the billion dollar space craft will still be t

Re: are there any "Piecewise Cubic Hermite Interpolating Polynomial" inpython

"jitasi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Hi all | | I want to use the matlab function "pchip" in python. | I have checked the scipy, but there is only spline Interpolating. | Are there any pchip Interpolating in python? Putting p.. c.. h.. i.. p... Python into Googl