Re: Making a non-root daemon process

Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hmm. I typed the example program in as a simplified version of what > I'm doing; but didn't actually *run* it. When I do run it, I get no > exception, as you say. > > Now I'll have to find out what significant difference there is > between my failing code a

execution speed increase after compile py code into exe?

hello, would there be any speed increase in code execution after python code being compiled into exe file with py2exe? thanks, kelie -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: execution speed increase after compile py code into exe?

> > would there be any speed increase in code execution after python > code being > compiled into exe file with py2exe? > No. I would expect slower startup followed by the same code execution time you'd get from running normally (not that I've actually tested it, mind you). regards, Michae

Re: execution speed increase after compile py code into exe?

Kelie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hello, > > would there be any speed increase in code execution after python code being > compiled into exe file with py2exe? AIUI that's not what p2yexe is about - it's essentially about packaging up your python program for ease of distribution and installation

Re: execution speed increase after compile py code into exe?

Michael Bentley wrote: >> >> would there be any speed increase in code execution after python code >> being >> compiled into exe file with py2exe? >> > > No. I would expect slower startup followed by the same code execution > time you'd get from running normally (not that I've actually teste

Re: creating "jsp-like" tool with python

On Mar 24, 6:18 am, "jd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to create a program that takes files with "jsp-like" markup > and processes the embedded code (which would be python) to produce the > output file. There would be two kinds of sections in the markup file: > python code to be evaluated,

Re: execution speed increase after compile py code into exe?

> > Actualy startup is faster for the apps that I have py2exe'd. I think > this may be because all the modules are in one place and Python > doesn't > have to go searching for them. Thanks, Will! That's good to know. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Join strings - very simple Q.

On Mar 23, 1:30 pm, Paulo da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Kent escreveu: > ... > > > New way: > > l=['a','b','c'] > > jl=','.join(l) > > I thank you all. > > Almost there ... > I tried "".join(l,',') but no success ... :-( > > Paulo Perhaps you're doing it wrong, despite having an examp

Re: Create new processes over telnet in XP

Irmen de Jong schrieb: > Shane Geiger wrote: >> This reminds me of something I once wanted to do: How can I install >> Python in a totally non-gui way on Windows (without the use of VNC)? I >> think I was telnetted into a computer (or something like that) and I was >> unable to run the usual P

Re: Join strings - very simple Q.

On Mar 24, 5:59 am, "Dustan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 23, 1:30 pm, Paulo da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Mike Kent escreveu: > > ... > > > > New way: > > > l=['a','b','c'] > > > jl=','.join(l) > > > I thank you all. > > > Almost there ... > > I tried "".join(l,',') but no succe

Re: Join strings - very simple Q.

import string def test_join(l): print "Joining with commas: ", string.join(l,',') print "Joining with empty string: ", string.join(l,'') print "Joining same way, using another syntax: ", ''.join(l) print "Joining with the letter X: "

Re: Create new processes over telnet in XP

"Godzilla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Rob, I would be logging into another XP machine to do some software I was afraid of that. :) > installation... the code you provided, correct me if I'm wrong, seems > to work under Unix/Linux. This part of running and killing processes, yes. > Any idea

draw like windows performance Graph

Type the "taskmgr", Windows performance Graph give a really nice dynamic history curve, It will be wonderful If I could use the same kind of graph to represent the network flow in my python program. Is there a windows api for this graph drawing? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pytho

Re: Join strings - very simple Q.

"Dustan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps you're doing it wrong, despite having an example right in > front of you? > > Side by side comparison: > jl=string.join(l,',') > jl=','.join(l) > > The sequence is passed as an argument to the join method, and the > delimiter is the string whose metho

Re: creating "jsp-like" tool with python

jd wrote: > I'd like to create a program that takes files with "jsp-like" markup > and processes the embedded code (which would be python) to produce the > output file. There would be two kinds of sections in the markup file: > python code to be evaluated, and python code that returns a value tha

Re: Join strings - very simple Q.

John Machin escreveu: .. > Python 2.2.3 (#42, May 30 2003, 18:12:08) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on > win32 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > | >>> help("".join) > Help on built-in function join: > > join(...) > S.join(sequence) -> string > > Return a st

Re: Join strings - very simple Q.

Dustan escreveu: > On Mar 23, 1:30 pm, Paulo da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Mike Kent escreveu: >> ... >> >>> New way: >>> l=['a','b','c'] >>> jl=','.join(l) >> I thank you all. >> >> Almost there ... >> I tried "".join(l,',') but no success ... :-( >> >> Paulo > > Perhaps you're doing it

Re: Idiom for running compiled python scripts?

On Mar 23, 9:30 am, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A small script called "python_compile_and_run" in "pseudo" code: > > #!/usr/bin/env python > import sys > > # Following is invalid syntax unfortunately :( > from sys.argv[1].rstrip('.py') import main > > sys.argv = sys.argv[1:] > if __name__ ==

Re: Join strings - very simple Q.

Steven D'Aprano escreveu: > On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:15:29 -0700, John Machin wrote: > > > Western civilization is 6,000 years old. After reading that post I wouldn't talk about civilization, western or any other :-) Regards. Paulo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [JOB] Sr. Python Developer, Northern VA

Chuck Rhode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John J. Lee wrote this on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 21:16:13 +. My reply is > below. > > > I sympathise but conventional wisdom (which surely has a lot of > > truth in it) is that employers are not faced with the problem of > > minimising false negatives (fai

Re: [JOB] Sr. Python Developer, Northern VA

Anton Vredegoor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John J. Lee wrote: [...] > > but I'm sure you appreciate the point -- if you're hiring employees, > > being fairly risk-averse is probably quite rational. > > So when we really mean business, you're back to static typing? I'm not wedded to dynamic typ

Problem with game

Hello, the following script (it's in German): import random print "Wie oft wollen Sie spielen?" anzahl_spiele = input() games = 0 while games < anzahl_spiele: games += 1 print "Raten sie die Zahl, die vom Computer generiert wird!" random_number = random.randint(1, 100)

Re: Problem with game

> File "Python-episode12-Zahlenraten.py", line 15 > print "Die eingegebene Zahl ist kleiner als die generierte Zahl." IndentationError: expected an indented block -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: fine grain logging cotrol

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 21:15:56 -0400, "Eric S. Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > >> Gabriel Genellina wrote: >> >>> I don't get all the details of what's all that stuff for, but from the >>> error and traceback, I think you f

Re: Problem with game

On Mar 24, 5:20 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > File "Python-episode12-Zahlenraten.py", line 15 > > print "Die eingegebene Zahl ist kleiner als die generierte Zahl." > > IndentationError: expected an indented block You should indent stuff inside if-statement deeper than the if itself. I.e.

Re: PyImport_ImportModule/embedding: surprising behaviors

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Abrahams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I was under the impression that both the current directory *and* the >python library directory were already, automatically, in sys.path, so >I'm really surprised to see this. Am I doing something wrong, or is >this simpl

Pattern for foo tool <-> API <-> shell|GUI

I'm looking for a pattern where different client implementations can use the same commands of some fictive tool ("foo") by accessing some kind of API. Actually I have the need for such pattern for my own tool (http://openswarm.sourceforge.net). I already started restructuring my code to separat

Re: PyImport_ImportModule/embedding: surprising behaviors

Aahz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > David Abrahams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >I was under the impression that both the current directory *and* the > >python library directory were already, automatically, in sys.path, so > >I'm really surprised to see this.

Re: Join strings - very simple Q.

On Mar 24, 7:16 am, Paulo da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dustan escreveu: > > > > > On Mar 23, 1:30 pm, Paulo da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Mike Kent escreveu: > >> ... > > >>> New way: > >>> l=['a','b','c'] > >>> jl=','.join(l) > >> I thank you all. > > >> Almost there ... > >> I

Re: Mastering Python

On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 09:38:52PM EST, Paul McGuire wrote: > On Mar 16, 9:27 am, "BartlebyScrivener" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mar 16, 8:39 am, "Paul McGuire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Wow, are you still reading? Quit wasting time and go download a > > > Python dist and

Re: Need help to learn Python

> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: 23 Mar 2007 06:20:15 -0700 > > Core Python Programming is mostly theory and very little code. It's > good for reference and digging deeper into the language... let me clarify here that mike's statement refers to the total number of large applications in the book.

Removing Python 2.4.4 on OSX

I want to upgrade to 2.5 but I don't see any unistall instructions anywhere. Robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Join strings - very simple Q.

On Mar 24, 8:30 am, Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In case you are feeling that the ','.join(l) looks a bit jarring, be aware > that there are alternative ways to write it. You can call the method on the > class rather than the instance: > >jl = str.join(',', l) >jl = unicode.joi

Re: Removing Python 2.4.4 on OSX

On Mar 24, 11:30 am, "Robert Hicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to upgrade to 2.5 but I don't see any unistall instructions > anywhere. > > Robert Windows allows us to uninstall it. I think the only thing it really installs is the files, and then it sets the system path, so just delete the

Re: Pattern for foo tool <-> API <-> shell|GUI

On Mar 24, 10:31 am, Anastasios Hatzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking for a pattern where different client implementations can use the > same commands of some fictive tool ("foo") by accessing some kind of API. > Actually I have the need for such pattern for my own tool > (http://openswar

Re: Removing Python 2.4.4 on OSX

Hi, Robert Hicks wrote: > I want to upgrade to 2.5 but I don't see any unistall instructions > anywhere. > > Robert I don't know if this is pertinent to your situation, but yesterday I read something that said you need a "framework" install in order to do GUI programming with wxPython. I believ

Re: Removing Python 2.4.4 on OSX

Robert Hicks wrote: >... but I don't see any unistall instructions > anywhere. > Did 2.4.4 come pre-installed? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Removing Python 2.4.4 on OSX

On 24 Mar 2007 10:30:28 -0700, Robert Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to upgrade to 2.5 but I don't see any unistall instructions > anywhere. You're not required to remove the old version before installing the new version. Just install the new version somewhere like /usr/local and put

Re: Removing Python 2.4.4 on OSX

Robert Hicks schrieb: > I want to upgrade to 2.5 but I don't see any unistall instructions > anywhere. Don't do it. OSX uses the shipped version for its own purposes, and you'll break things if you uninstall it. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Join strings - very simple Q.

7stud schrieb: > On Mar 24, 8:30 am, Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In case you are feeling that the ','.join(l) looks a bit jarring, be aware >> that there are alternative ways to write it. You can call the method on the >> class rather than the instance: >> >>jl = str.join(',', l)

Re: Join strings - very simple Q.

"Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 7stud schrieb: >> When I try the latter example, I get an error: >> >> lst = ["hello", "world"] >> print unicode.join(u"\u00d7", lst) >> >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "test1.py", line 2, in ? >> print unicode.join(u"\u00d7", l

A better webpage filter

Since a few days I've been experimenting with a construct that enables me to send the sourcecode of the web page I'm reading through a Python script and then into a new tab in Mozilla. The new tab is automatically opened so the process feels very natural, although there's a lot of reading, filt

Re: Join strings - very simple Q.

"7stud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 24, 8:30 am, Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> In case you are feeling that the ','.join(l) looks a bit >> jarring, be aware that there are alternative ways to write it. >> You can call the method on the class rather than the instance: >> >>

Re: Removing Python 2.4.4 on OSX

On Mar 24, 2:09 pm, "Greg Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 24 Mar 2007 10:30:28 -0700, Robert Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I want to upgrade to 2.5 but I don't see any unistall instructions > > anywhere. > > You're not required to remove the old version before installing the new >

Re: Removing Python 2.4.4 on OSX

On Mar 24, 2:06 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Hicks schrieb: > > > I want to upgrade to 2.5 but I don't see any unistall instructions > > anywhere. > > Don't do it. OSX uses the shipped version for its own purposes, and > you'll break things if you uninstall it. > > Die

Anyone know of a MICR parser algorithm written in Python?

MICR = The line of digits printed using magnetic ink at the bottom of a check. Does anyone know of a Python function that has been written to parse a line of MICR data? Or, some financial package that may contain such a thing? Or, in general, where I should be looking when looking for a piece of P

Re: Removing Python 2.4.4 on OSX

On Mar 24, 12:09 pm, "Greg Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 24 Mar 2007 10:30:28 -0700, Robert Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I want to upgrade to 2.5 but I don't see any unistall instructions > > anywhere. > > You're not required to remove the old version before installing the new

Re: Removing Python 2.4.4 on OSX

On 24 Mar 2007 12:10:12 -0700, 7stud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you explain how that works? If you install python in /usr/local, > doesn't that leave you with something like /usr/local/python? So what > does putting usr/local/bin ahead of your other paths do? ./configure --prefix=/usr/loca

Re: Removing Python 2.4.4 on OSX

bbxx789> Can you explain how that works? If you install python in bbxx789> /usr/local, doesn't that leave you with something like bbxx789> /usr/local/python? So what does putting usr/local/bin ahead of bbxx789> your other paths do? When you install with --prefix==/usr/local you

Re: Removing Python 2.4.4 on OSX

You don't have to uninstall 2.4.4 to use 2.5. Just change where the symlink points: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~\ 14:45:35$ ls -la /usr/bin/python lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 24 Mar 1 12:48 /usr/bin/python -> /usr/local/bin/python2.5 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~\ 14:45:40$ In general, I am a little wary of u

Re: Python object overhead?

On Mar 23, 4:04 pm, Jack Diederich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you make the record a new style class (inherit from object) you can > specify the __slots__ attribute on the class. This eliminates the per > instance dictionary overhead in exchange for less flexibility. > How is efficiency imp

Re: Python object overhead?

On 24 Mar 2007 13:08:02 -0700, 7stud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mar 23, 4:04 pm, Jack Diederich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> If you make the record a new style class (inherit from object) you can >> specify the __slots__ attribute on the class. This eliminates the per >> instance dictionar

Re: PyImport_ImportModule/embedding: surprising behaviors

David Abrahams wrote: > I'm seeing highly surprising (and different!) behaviors of > PyImport_ImportModule on Linux and Windows when used in a program with > python embedding. > > On Linux, when attempting to import a module xxx that's in the current > directory, I get > > ImportError: No module

Re: Removing Python 2.4.4 on OSX

Shane Geiger wrote: > You don't have to uninstall 2.4.4 to use 2.5. Just change where the > symlink points: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~\ 14:45:35$ ls -la /usr/bin/python > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 24 Mar 1 12:48 /usr/bin/python -> > /usr/local/bin/python2.5 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~\ 14:45:40$ >

Re: Removing Python 2.4.4 on OSX

7stud wrote: > On Mar 24, 12:09 pm, "Greg Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 24 Mar 2007 10:30:28 -0700, Robert Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> I want to upgrade to 2.5 but I don't see any unistall instructions >>> anywhere. >> You're not required to remove the old version before inst

Re: fine grain logging cotrol

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 11:29:34 -0400, "Eric S. Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > > >> yes. here is the code that fails. I don't understand why the unbound >> method. what is really weird is that when I singlestep through t

Re: Python object overhead?

On Mar 24, 2:19 pm, Jean-Paul Calderone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Only one list is created. It is used to define a C array where attributes > will be stored. Each instance still has that C array, but it has much less > overhead than a Python list or dictionary. > It's all C underneath, right?

Re: Python object overhead?

On 24 Mar 2007 13:52:46 -0700, 7stud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mar 24, 2:19 pm, Jean-Paul Calderone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Only one list is created. It is used to define a C array where attributes >> will be stored. Each instance still has that C array, but it has much less >> overhea

Re: Python object overhead?

On 3/23/07, Bjoern Schliessmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (Note that almost everything in Python is an object!) Could you tell me what in Python isn't an object? Are you counting old-style classes and instances as "not object"s? -- Felipe. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-li

Re: A better webpage filter

En Sat, 24 Mar 2007 15:45:41 -0300, Anton Vredegoor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Since a few days I've been experimenting with a construct that enables > me to send the sourcecode of the web page I'm reading through a Python > script and then into a new tab in Mozilla. The new tab is automati

Re: Join strings - very simple Q.

On Mar 25, 12:32 am, Paulo da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Machin escreveu: > .. > > > > > Python 2.2.3 (#42, May 30 2003, 18:12:08) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on > > win32 > > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > > | >>> help("".join) > > Help on built-in f

Re: Python object overhead?

En Sat, 24 Mar 2007 18:07:57 -0300, Felipe Almeida Lessa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > On 3/23/07, Bjoern Schliessmann > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> (Note that almost everything in Python is an object!) > > Could you tell me what in Python isn't an object? Are you counting > old-style classe

qt ver. 3, linux, windows, and modal forms

Hi, I'm having a problem with modal forms on windows. I've written a very short test program, with a main window and a form called from the main window. The form is set to modal with form.setModal(1) before calling form.show(). All works as expected on Linux. The form is modal, not allowing th

bugs.python.org has been compromised (urgent)

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Re: Anyone know of a MICR parser algorithm written in Python?

On Mar 24, 2:05 pm, "mkppk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > MICR = The line of digits printed using magnetic ink at the bottom of > a check. > > Does anyone know of a Python function that has been written to parse a > line of MICR data? > Or, some financial package that may contain such a thing? > Or,

Re: Idiom for running compiled python scripts?

On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 07:21:21 -0700, irstas wrote: > Also, rstrip doesn't work like you think it does. > 'pyxyypp.py'.rstrip('.py') == 'pyx' Well there is embarrassing confirmation that I am a python newbie :( > I timed it against running plain .py and running .pyc directly. It > seemed to be roug

Re: A better webpage filter

Gabriel Genellina wrote: > I use the Opera browser: http://www.opera.com > Among other things (like having tabs for ages!): > - enable/disable tables and divs (like you do) > - enable/disable images with a keystroke, or only show cached images. > - enable/disable CSS > - banner supressing (aggress

Re: fine grain logging cotrol

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > I've never resorted to the debugger -- it's always been faster for > me to just wolf-fence* code with print statements... depends on the situation for me. normally I use log statements that turn on or off based on predicates (now I need to figure out how to han

Re: qt ver. 3, linux, windows, and modal forms

On Saturday 24 March 2007 23:08, Mike wrote: > I'm having a problem with modal forms on windows. I've written a very > short test program, with a main window and a form called from the main > window. The form is set to modal with form.setModal(1) before calling > form.show(). Is form an instance

Re: Pattern for foo tool <-> API <-> shell|GUI

On Saturday 24 March 2007 18:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mar 24, 10:31 am, Anastasios Hatzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm looking for a pattern where different client implementations can use > > the same commands of some fictive tool ("foo") by accessing some kind of > > API. Actually I

Re: bugs.python.org has been compromised (urgent)

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Hi all, I'm trying to write a python script using plotting form pylab. Unfortunatelly I've encountered a problem. When I run the script via 'python myscript.py' the plot windows open and close very quickly, or when I added the show() command the shell window was locked until I closed the figures.

Re: Idiom for running compiled python scripts?

On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 07:21:21 -0700, irstas wrote: > A simple implementation that "works": Not quite irstas BTW .. > import imp, sys, os > c = sys.argv[1] > if not os.path.exists(c + 'c') or os.stat(c).st_mtime > os.stat(c + > 'c').st_mtime: > import compiler > compiler.compileFile(c) > de

Step value and function

Hi there. So I have a challenge in the Python book I am using (python programming for the absolute beginner) that tells me to improve a function, so that it can be called with a step value, and I havn't been able to find out yet what's meant by a step value, but i'll keep looking of course. I'd jus

question about C extensions

Hi: I have a question about extending python with C. I have read the docs and done some googling, but come up short on this particular (small) problem. I want to write a c extension to int. In particular, I want to grab the memory for the int from an alternative heap. I am confused about 2

Re: Anyone know of a MICR parser algorithm written in Python?

On Mar 24, 4:55 pm, "Paul McGuire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 24, 2:05 pm, "mkppk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > MICR = The line of digits printed using magnetic ink at the bottom of > > a check. > > > Does anyone know of a Python function that has been written to parse a > > line o

Re: qt ver. 3, linux, windows, and modal forms

Answers interspersed. David Boddie wrote: > On Saturday 24 March 2007 23:08, Mike wrote: > >> I'm having a problem with modal forms on windows. I've written a very >> short test program, with a main window and a form called from the main >> window. The form is set to modal with form.setModal(1) b

Python Game Programming Challenge #4 -- theme voting has started!

The next PyWeek game programming challenge starts next Sunday at 00:00UTC. If you're interested, there's definitely still time to sign up to the challenge. http://www.pyweek.org/ Theme voting has started. You may now log into (or sign up to ;) the PyWeek website to lodge your vote for theme. T

Re: Step value and function

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi there. So I have a challenge in the Python book I am using (python > programming for the absolute beginner) that tells me to improve a > function, so that it can be called with a step value, and I havn't > been able to find out yet what's meant by a step value, but i'l

Re: "persistent" plot windows

Rodrigo Lopez-Negrete wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to write a python script using plotting form pylab. > Unfortunatelly I've encountered a problem. When I run the script via > 'python myscript.py' the plot windows open and close very quickly, or > when I added the show() command the shell windo

Re: "persistent" plot windows

Hi James, Thanks for the answer, the ampersand only works if I use the show() command at the end of my script. I guess that helps although I haven't tested it with plotting subroutines. cheers, Rodrigo On Mar 24, 6:50 pm, James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rodrigo Lopez-Negrete wrote: >

Re: Idiom for running compiled python scripts?

En Sat, 24 Mar 2007 20:46:15 -0300, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > The above doesn't actually work for my test script. I have an atexit > call in the script which is deleting some temp files and I get the > following traceback on termination when run with the above: > > Error in atexit._run_

Re: Removing Python 2.4.4 on OSX

On Mar 24, 2007, at 12:30 PM, Robert Hicks wrote: > I want to upgrade to 2.5 but I don't see any unistall instructions > anywhere. Don't uninstall it. That's why Apple put python under /Library/Frameworks/ Python.framework/Versions. So you can have multiple versions installed. Hopefully you le

Re: Removing Python 2.4.4 on OSX

On Mar 24, 2007, at 12:55 PM, 7stud wrote: > In addition, the download notes for the stand alone MacPython 2.5 > install say that there aren't as many modules for 2.5 as there are for > the 2.4, which is something you may want to consider. There aren't as many pre-built modules for 2.5 at the Ma

Re: Removing Python 2.4.4 on OSX

> No, the OSX version is like 2.3 something. I installed the 2.4.4 > version in /usr/local bypassing the Apple stuff. Oh! Well then: ---[cut here]--- # danger will robinson -- use at your own risk ;-) rm /usr/local/bin/python* rm -rf /usr/local/lib/python ---[snip]--- Is the uninstall program :

functions, classes, bound, unbound?

Here is some example code that produces an error: class Test(object): def greet(): print "Hello" t = Test() t.greet() TypeError: greet() takes no arguments (1 given) Ok. That makes sense. t.greet() is a "bound method", so something automatically relays the instance obje

Re: functions, classes, bound, unbound?

On 24 Mar 2007 20:24:36 -0700, 7stud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is some example code that produces an error: [snip] Why do people absolutely *love* to do weird and ugly things with Python? Contests apart, I don't see lots of people trying this kind of things on other (common) languages. Sa

Re: Idiom for running compiled python scripts?

On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 22:59:06 +, Mark wrote: >> I timed it against running plain .py and running .pyc directly. It >> seemed to be roughly on par with running .pyc directly, and about 18ms >> faster than running .py. The file had 600 lines (21kb) of code. > > So see my point at least? I'm stil

Re: Removing Python 2.4.4 on OSX

On Mar 24, 8:18 pm, Michael Bentley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 24, 2007, at 12:30 PM, Robert Hicks wrote: > > > I want to upgrade to 2.5 but I don't see any unistall instructions > > anywhere. > > Don't uninstall it. > > That's why Apple put python under /Library/Frameworks/ > Python.frame

Re: Removing Python 2.4.4 on OSX

On Mar 24, 9:40 pm, "7stud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 24, 8:18 pm, Michael Bentley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mar 24, 2007, at 12:30 PM, Robert Hicks wrote: > > > > I want to upgrade to 2.5 but I don't see any unistall instructions > > > anywhere. > > > Don't uninstall it. > > >

Re: Removing Python 2.4.4 on OSX

The only way you can do is rermove python2.4.4's files manually. I suggest you to use MacPorts or Fink. With MacPort, you can uninstall python2.4 by doing $ port uninstall python24 And Installation is $ port install python25 On 24 Mar 2007 10:30:28 -0700, Robert Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

Re: functions, classes, bound, unbound?

On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 20:24:36 -0700, 7stud wrote: > Here is some example code that produces an error: > > class Test(object): > def greet(): > print "Hello" > > t = Test() > t.greet() > TypeError: greet() takes no arguments (1 given) > > Ok. That makes sense. t.greet()

Re: Removing Python 2.4.4 on OSX

7stud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 24, 9:40 pm, "7stud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mar 24, 8:18 pm, Michael Bentley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Mar 24, 2007, at 12:30 PM, Robert Hicks wrote: > > > > > > I want to upgrade to 2.5 but I don't see any unistall instructions >

Using remote source code

Is there any possible way that I can place a .py file on the internet, and use that source code in an .py file on my computer? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: functions, classes, bound, unbound?

7stud wrote: > Here is some example code that produces an error: > > class Test(object): > def greet(): > print "Hello" > > t = Test() > t.greet() > TypeError: greet() takes no arguments (1 given) [snip] > Test.greet() > > TypeError: unbound method greet() must be called

Re: question about C extensions

I think I may have figured all this out by looking at examples in the python source, e.g. xxsubtype.c etc. Nonetheless, I would appreciate any extra info others might provide. Thanks again. --ralph Ralph Butler wrote: > Hi: > I have a question about extending python with C. I have read the doc

Re: Removing Python 2.4.4 on OSX

On Mar 24, 10:04 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote: 1462 Feb 20 14:31 .. > > Try /System/Library/Frameworks ... > > Alex There it is. I notice there is a directory: /Python.framework/ Versions/2.3/Mac/Tools/IDE which has a bunch of files in it. Do Macs have some kind of pre- instal

Re: Using remote source code

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any possible way that I can place a .py file on the internet, > and use that source code in an .py file on my computer? You can write an import hook in any way you like; see . Here's a trivial example (bereft of muc

Re: Join strings - very simple Q.

"Steven D'Aprano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:15:29 -0700, John Machin wrote: > > > OK, I'll bite: This was "new" in late 2000 when Python 2.0 was > > released. Where have you been in the last ~6.5 years? > > Western civilization is 6,000 years old. Anything after 1850

Re: Using remote source code

On Mar 25, 3:20 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there any possible way that I can place a .py file on the internet, > > and use that source code in an .py file on my computer? > > You can write an import hook in any way you like; see >

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