how to get char ASCII value.

2007-04-10 Thread veblen . lee
for an example: 'a' value 0x61 '1' value 0x31. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Database in memory

2007-04-10 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
"Jeremy Sanders" [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > Dictionaries are one of the most useful things in Python. Make sure you know > how to take adavantage of them... +1 for QOTW - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [offtopic?] problem with UDP broadcast on Windows XP

2007-04-10 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
"Irmen de Jong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gabriel Genellina wrote: > > > Try running the service impersonating another user (not LOCAL_SERVICE, > > the default). > > You can change that from the service control panel. > > Alas, that didn't change anything. > I made it run as a user account

Re: how to get char ASCII value.

2007-04-10 Thread 7stud
On Apr 10, 12:57 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > for an example: > 'a' value 0x61 > '1' value 0x31. How about: import string for char in string.lowercase: print hex(ord(char) ) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Exec Statement Question

2007-04-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks for the responses everyone. That does make sense to me now. -Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Queue get timeout parameter question

2007-04-10 Thread Thomas Krüger
Godzilla schrieb: > I have been using the queue module for a multithreaded environment and > things seem to work well... until we had a requirement for the > application to be able to time sync to the server. With the time sync, > it actually disorientated the timeout in the queue's get() method...

Re: tuples, index method, Python's design

2007-04-10 Thread Antoon Pardon
On 2007-04-06, Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 11:33 -0700, 7stud wrote: >> On Apr 6, 7:56 am, "Paul Boddie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > The problem with 7stud's quote from GvR is that it's out of date: >> >> I would argue that it shows the very guy who invente

exec statement Syntax Error on string pulled from MySQL

2007-04-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It's the strangest thing, I'm pulling some text out of a MySQL table and trying to run exec on it, and it keeps giving me a syntax error, always at the end of the first line. Thanks in advance for any help. I'm really stuck on this one! -Greg I'm not sure what information would be most useful

Re: tuples, index method, Python's design

2007-04-10 Thread Antoon Pardon
On 2007-04-08, Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 07:51 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote: >> Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > > Maybe we can add such methods to the PyPy tuples for some time, to >> > > experimentally see if they make the language worse :-) >> > >

Re: tuples, index method, Python's design

2007-04-10 Thread Antoon Pardon
On 2007-04-09, Georg Brandl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Rubin schrieb: >> Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Will tuples also get a sort method? What about append and extend? pop? >>> __iadd__? __delslice__? >> >> They are immutable so they won't get .sort() etc. sorted(...) alre

Re: exec statement Syntax Error on string pulled from MySQL

2007-04-10 Thread Duncan Booth
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To really get a picture of what is coming out of the DB I had the > program print out everything about this string using this code: > print code > print repr(code) > print type(code) > for char in code: > print ord(char),char

Re: Queue get timeout parameter question

2007-04-10 Thread Godzilla
On Apr 10, 5:38 pm, Thomas Krüger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Godzilla schrieb: > > > > > > > I have been using the queue module for a multithreaded environment and > > things seem to work well... until we had a requirement for the > > application to be able to time sync to the server. With the ti

Re: pluie documentation in english

2007-04-10 Thread M�ta-MCI
Bonjour ! Avec Internet-Explorer 6 : Dans Internet-explorer, par le menu, faire : Outils + Options_internet Aller sur le dernier onglet (Avancé), et cocher : autoriser le contenu actif (désolé pour le français, mais mon anglais est vraiment trop mauvais). Et, merci pour l'info, ça m'

Re: RFC: Assignment as expression (pre-PEP)

2007-04-10 Thread Georg Brandl
Alex Martelli schrieb: > Adam Atlas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hasn't this been discussed many many times before? I think Guido has >> been favourable to the idea of allowing :=, but that was a long time >> ago, and I don't think anything ever came of it. >> >> Personally, if anything, I'd l

NLTK, Random Sentence Generators?

2007-04-10 Thread Passer By
Has any created or not of examples of random sentence generators using n-gram models (or other models might be interesting). I know of one example from a course at MIT, but besides that nothing. Any help would be great. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: exec statement Syntax Error on string pulled from MySQL

2007-04-10 Thread Georg Brandl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > It's the strangest thing, I'm pulling some text out of a MySQL table > and trying to run exec on it, and it keeps giving me a syntax error, > always at the end of the first line. > > Thanks in advance for any help. I'm really stuck on this one! > > -Greg > > I'm no

Re: tuples, index method, Python's design

2007-04-10 Thread Duncan Booth
Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> When a new feature is requested, the burden of proof is on the requester >> to show that it has uses. > > I don't agree. Good or bad design is not dependant on what is > implemented and what is not. There is a cost to every new language feature: it has

Why is __getslice__ still implemented?

2007-04-10 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! According to , __getslice__ is deprecated. At the moment, I derive an own class from unicode and want to implement my own slicing. I found that I have to override __getslice__ since __getitem__ isn't called when I have something like m

Re: tuples, index method, Python's design

2007-04-10 Thread Antoon Pardon
On 2007-04-10, Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> When a new feature is requested, the burden of proof is on the requester >>> to show that it has uses. >> >> I don't agree. Good or bad design is not dependant on what is >> implemented and what

Re: confirm password for logged in user

2007-04-10 Thread René Fleschenberg
André Wyrwa schrieb: > I'm wondering, though, if there isn't ANY way to have the password > confirmed for the user that is already logged in. Please note the > difference, i don't want to write some kind of login functionality. The > user is already authenticated, i just want to have a typed in pas

Re: tuples, index method, Python's design

2007-04-10 Thread Paul Boddie
On 10 Apr, 11:48, Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-04-10, Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > There is a cost to every new language feature: it has to be implemented, > > documented, maintained, and above all learned by the users. Good design > > involves, in part, not a

Re: Why is __getslice__ still implemented?

2007-04-10 Thread James Stroud
Torsten Bronger wrote: > Hallöchen! > > According to , > __getslice__ is deprecated. At the moment, I derive an own class > from unicode and want to implement my own slicing. I found that I > have to override __getslice__ since __getitem__ isn't

Re: NLTK, Random Sentence Generators?

2007-04-10 Thread James Stroud
Passer By wrote: > Has any created or not of examples of random sentence generators using > n-gram models (or other models might be interesting). > > I know of one example from a course at MIT, but besides that nothing. > > Any help would be great. > > Best is to just cull text from your spam

Re: tuples, index method, Python's design

2007-04-10 Thread Antoon Pardon
On 2007-04-10, Paul Boddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Now with implementation and maintaining. If you would start with a class >> of sequence which classes like tuple and list would inherit from, then >> there also would be a single function to be implemented and maintained. >> It would just be

Re: Why is __getslice__ still implemented?

2007-04-10 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! James Stroud writes: > [...] > > Which version of python are you using? 2.4 > chernev 20% /sw/bin/python > Python 2.5 (r25:51908, Oct 10 2006, 03:45:47) > [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5363)] on darwin > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

RE: Breaking up Strings correctly:

2007-04-10 Thread Michael Yanowitz
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Adam Atlas Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 11:28 PM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Breaking up Strings correctly: On Apr 9, 8:19 am, "Michael Yanowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello: > >I have

Re: Custom Python Runtime

2007-04-10 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:17:33 -0300, Jack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > 1. One Windows, it's possible to zip all files in a Python24.zip. I'm not > very clear if it's used in the stardard distribution. What can, > and what can not be put into this file? I suppose zip file will help > reduce the d

Re: tuples, index method, Python's design

2007-04-10 Thread Carsten Haese
On 10 Apr 2007 07:31:13 GMT, Antoon Pardon wrote > On 2007-04-06, Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you have a use case for tuple.index, please show it to me, and I'll > > show you what you should be using instead of a tuple. > > No wonder no convincing use cases for tuples have show

Re: tuples, index method, Python's design

2007-04-10 Thread Carsten Haese
On 10 Apr 2007 09:48:41 GMT, Antoon Pardon wrote > If someone states: "Show me your use case for using tuple.index and I > will show you how to avoid it." or words to that effect I think there > is little use trying. Or maybe you just can't think of any good use cases, and that's annoying you beca

Re: setup() and C extensions

2007-04-10 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Tue, 10 Apr 2007 03:02:22 -0300, 7stud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > I can't find any documentation on the setup() function in the > distutils.core module; specifically I want to know what the 'name' > argument does. In some examples in the python docs, they use the name > argument like th

Re: NLTK, Random Sentence Generators?

2007-04-10 Thread Passer By
James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Passer By wrote: > > > Has any created or not of examples of random sentence generators > > using n-gram models (or other models might be interesting). I > > know of one example from a course at MIT, but besides that > > nothing. Any help would be great

Re: setup() and C extensions

2007-04-10 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Tue, 10 Apr 2007 03:35:35 -0300, 7stud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > 1) When you create a C array to map python names to the C functions > that you defined: > > static PyMethodDef MyFunctions[] = > { > {"my_calc", (PyCFunction)my_func, METH_VARARGS, "my very speedy c > function"}, >

Re: Database in memory

2007-04-10 Thread Nicko
Jim wrote: > I have an application that will maintain an in-memory database in the > form of a list of lists. Does anyone know of a way to search for and > retreive "records" from such a structure? The answer very much depends on the manner in which you want to do the look-up. If you only need t

Re: "Plugin" architecture - how to do?

2007-04-10 Thread c james
Take a look at Trac. This might give you some ideas. http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracDev/ComponentArchitecture -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: tuples, index method, Python's design

2007-04-10 Thread Antoon Pardon
On 2007-04-10, Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10 Apr 2007 07:31:13 GMT, Antoon Pardon wrote >> On 2007-04-06, Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > If you have a use case for tuple.index, please show it to me, and I'll >> > show you what you should be using instead of a tuple

Re: pluie documentation in english

2007-04-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Apr 10, 3:14 am, "Méta-MCI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bonjour ! > > Avec Internet-Explorer 6 : > > Dans Internet-explorer, par le menu, faire : Outils + Options_internet > Aller sur le dernier onglet (Avancé), et cocher : autoriser le contenu actif > > (désolé pour le français, mais mon a

Re: pluie documentation in english

2007-04-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Apr 10, 3:14 am, "Méta-MCI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bonjour ! > > Avec Internet-Explorer 6 : > > Dans Internet-explorer, par le menu, faire : Outils + Options_internet > Aller sur le dernier onglet (Avancé), et cocher : autoriser le contenu actif > > (désolé pour le français, mais mon a

Re: tuples, index method, Python's design

2007-04-10 Thread Duncan Booth
Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-04-10, Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> There is a cost to every new language feature: it has to be >> implemented, documented, maintained, and above all learned by the >> users. Good design involves, in part, not adding to these burdens

Re: Hosting Companies: Help for Python Users?

2007-04-10 Thread Steve Holden
Neil Hodgson wrote: > Steve Holden: > >> Dennis Lee Beiber: >> >> > Too many 3rd-party modules still aren't available in 2.5 >> > versions for my tastes... >> >> This applies particularly (though not exclusively) to the Windows >> platform, for various reasons -- the most common one is that Lin

Re: tuples, index method, Python's design

2007-04-10 Thread Carsten Haese
On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 12:29 +, Antoon Pardon wrote: > On 2007-04-10, Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10 Apr 2007 07:31:13 GMT, Antoon Pardon wrote > >> On 2007-04-06, Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > If you have a use case for tuple.index, please show it to me, an

Re: [offtopic?] problem with UDP broadcast on Windows XP

2007-04-10 Thread Steve Holden
Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > "Irmen de Jong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Gabriel Genellina wrote: >> >>> Try running the service impersonating another user (not LOCAL_SERVICE, >>> the default). >>> You can change that from the service control panel. >> Alas, that didn't change anything. >>

Re: setup() and C extensions

2007-04-10 Thread Carsten Haese
On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 23:35 -0700, 7stud wrote: > 2) When returning None, why use the idiom: > > Py_INCREF(Py_None); > return Py_None; > > instead of: > > return Py_BuildValue(""); > As Gabriel said, the preferred idiom is faster and clearer. Sufficiently recent Pythons define the macro Py_RET

Re: tuples, index method, Python's design

2007-04-10 Thread Antoon Pardon
On 2007-04-10, Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 2007-04-10, Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> There is a cost to every new language feature: it has to be >>> implemented, documented, maintained, and above all learned by the >>> use

Re: tuples, index method, Python's design

2007-04-10 Thread Antoon Pardon
On 2007-04-10, Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Adding the index method to tuples is not adding a feature. It is >> removing a limitation. > > The non-existence of tuple.index is only a limitation if there is a need > for the method to exist. Please prove that this need exists. It doe

Re: tuples, index method, Python's design

2007-04-10 Thread Antoon Pardon
On 2007-04-10, Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10 Apr 2007 09:48:41 GMT, Antoon Pardon wrote >> If someone states: "Show me your use case for using tuple.index and I >> will show you how to avoid it." or words to that effect I think there >> is little use trying. > > Or maybe you just

Broken pipe with os.popen3()

2007-04-10 Thread Christoph Krammer
Hello everybody, I try to use an external OCR tool to convert some binary image data to text. The image is in one variable, the text should be converted to another. I use the following code: (si, so, se) = os.popen3('ocrad') si.write(frame) si.close() messagetext += so.read() This code l

Python Speech tools

2007-04-10 Thread Amit K Saha
Hi list I intend to design a Speech Recognition system.Can I have some pointers to the available Python speech tools? Till date I am aware of only Python bindings for a speech tool called Snack (http://www.speech.kth.se/snack/) Any help will be appreciated. -- Amit K Saha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: tuples, index method, Python's design

2007-04-10 Thread Steve Holden
Paul Boddie wrote: > On 10 Apr, 11:48, Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 2007-04-10, Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> There is a cost to every new language feature: it has to be implemented, >>> documented, maintained, and above all learned by the users. Good design >>> i

Re: tuples, index method, Python's design

2007-04-10 Thread Carsten Haese
On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 13:21 +, Antoon Pardon wrote: > > But if you are so eager to rewrite, how about the following: > > > > I am using the struct module to get binary data from a file. > > Sometimes I want to skip until I find a particular binary > > number. Somewhat simplified it looks like

Re: Python Speech tools

2007-04-10 Thread kyosohma
On Apr 10, 2:15 pm, Amit K Saha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi list > I intend to design a Speech Recognition system.Can I have some pointers > to the available Python speech tools? > > Till date I am aware of only Python bindings for a speech tool called > Snack (http://www.speech.kth.se/snack/)

Re: Broken pipe with os.popen3()

2007-04-10 Thread Thomas Guettler
Christoph Krammer wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I try to use an external OCR tool to convert some binary image data to > text. The image is in one variable, the text should be converted to > another. I use the following code: > > (si, so, se) = os.popen3('ocrad') > si.write(frame) > si.close

Re: tuples, index method, Python's design

2007-04-10 Thread Carsten Haese
On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 09:57 -0400, Steve Holden wrote: > I hear the screams of "just add the index() method to tuples and have > done with it" and, to an extent, can sympathize with them. But that way > lies creeping featurism and the next thing you know we'll have a ternary > operator in the la

Re: Problem with getting an option value

2007-04-10 Thread Lucas Malor
Peter Otten wrote: > Lucas Malor wrote: >> >> The problem is options is an instance, so options."delete", for example, >> is wrong; I should pass options.delete . How can I do? > > Use getattr(): Thank you. Do you know also if I can do a similar operation with functions? I want to select with a

Re: tuples, index method, Python's design

2007-04-10 Thread Paul Boddie
On 10 Apr, 15:57, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The point I am trying to make is that circumstances alter cases, and that we > can't always rely on our intuition to determine how specific methods > work, let alone whether they are available. But it's telling that by adopting precisel

Re: Breaking up Strings correctly:

2007-04-10 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:12:53 -0300, Michael Yanowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > I guess what I was looking for was something simpler than parsing. > I may actually use some of what you posted. But I am hoping that > if given a string such as: > '((($IP = "127.1.2.3") AND ($AX < 15)) OR (($I

Re: Why is __getslice__ still implemented?

2007-04-10 Thread Steven Bethard
Torsten Bronger wrote: > Hallöchen! > > According to , > __getslice__ is deprecated. At the moment, I derive an own class > from unicode and want to implement my own slicing. I found that I > have to override __getslice__ since __getitem__ isn't

Re: Why is __getslice__ still implemented?

2007-04-10 Thread Jean-Paul Calderone
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:35:56 -0600, Steven Bethard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Torsten Bronger wrote: >> Hallöchen! >> >> According to , >> __getslice__ is deprecated. At the moment, I derive an own class >> from unicode and want to implement my ow

Re: tuples, index method, Python's design

2007-04-10 Thread Steve Holden
Carsten Haese wrote: > On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 09:57 -0400, Steve Holden wrote: >> I hear the screams of "just add the index() method to tuples and have >> done with it" and, to an extent, can sympathize with them. But that way >> lies creeping featurism and the next thing you know we'll have a ter

convert html entities into real chars

2007-04-10 Thread Laszlo Nagy
Hi, I would like to have a function that can convert '>' into '>', '&' into '&' etc. I could not find how to do it easily (I have a code snippet for the opposite). Thanks, Laszlo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Check for keypress on Linux xterm ?

2007-04-10 Thread hlubenow
Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2007-04-09, hlubenow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> My problem is, I don't want my program to wait for the keypress. >> I just want to check, if a key is currently pressed and if not, I'd like >> to continue with my program (like "INKEY$" in some BASIC-dialects). > > T

Re: tuples, index method, Python's design

2007-04-10 Thread BJörn Lindqvist
On 4/10/07, Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i = p.index(current_player) > opponents = p[:i-1] + p[i+1:] > > An alternative is this: > > opponents = tuple(x for x in p if x is not current_player) > > You may disagree, but in my opinion, the alternative is better because > it is a more nat

Re: convert html entities into real chars

2007-04-10 Thread Laszlo Nagy
> I would like to have a function that can convert '>' into '>', > '&' into '&' etc. I could not find how to do it easily (I have a > code snippet for the opposite). Found it, sorry def convertentity(m): """Convert a HTML entity into normal string (ISO-8859-1)""" if m.group(1)=='#':

Re: tuples, index method, Python's design

2007-04-10 Thread BJörn Lindqvist
On 4/10/07, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Boddie wrote: > > On 10 Apr, 11:48, Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 2007-04-10, Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>> There is a cost to every new language feature: it has to be implemented, > >>> documented, m

Re: Problem with getting an option value

2007-04-10 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Lucas Malor a écrit : > Peter Otten wrote: >> Lucas Malor wrote: >>> The problem is options is an instance, so options."delete", for >>> example, is wrong; I should pass options.delete . How can I do? >> Use getattr(): > > Thank you. Do you know also if I can do a similar operation with > function

Re: Problem with getting an option value

2007-04-10 Thread Larry Bates
Lucas Malor wrote: > Peter Otten wrote: >> Lucas Malor wrote: >>> The problem is options is an instance, so options."delete", for example, >>> is wrong; I should pass options.delete . How can I do? >> Use getattr(): > > Thank you. Do you know also if I can do a similar operation with functions? I

Re: tuples, index method, Python's design

2007-04-10 Thread Steve Holden
Paul Boddie wrote: > On 10 Apr, 15:57, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The point I am trying to make is that circumstances alter cases, and that we >> can't always rely on our intuition to determine how specific methods >> work, let alone whether they are available. > > But it's telling

Re: convert html entities into real chars

2007-04-10 Thread Larry Bates
Laszlo Nagy wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like to have a function that can convert '>' into '>', > '&' into '&' etc. I could not find how to do it easily (I have a > code snippet for the opposite). > Thanks, > > Laszlo > You can use htmlentitydefs module to help with this. import htmlentityd

installing pyqt4 on ubuntu 6.06

2007-04-10 Thread Pradnyesh Sawant
Hello, I have a newly installed ubuntu 6.06 system. I am trying to install pyqt4 on it, but without success. The contents of the /etc/apt/sources.list file are: deb http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main rest

Parsing log in SQL DB to change IPs to hostnames

2007-04-10 Thread KDawg44
Hi, I am brand new to Python. In learning anything, I find it useful to actually try to write a useful program to try to tackle an actual problem. I have a syslog server and I would like to parse the syslog messages and try to change any ips to resolved hostnames. Unfortunately, I am not gettin

Re: installing pyqt4 on ubuntu 6.06

2007-04-10 Thread Jean-Paul Calderone
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:05:37 +0530, Pradnyesh Sawant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello, >I have a newly installed ubuntu 6.06 system. I am trying to install >pyqt4 on it, but without success. The contents of the >/etc/apt/sources.list file are: >*

Re: tuples, index method, Python's design

2007-04-10 Thread Carsten Haese
On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 17:10 +0200, BJörn Lindqvist wrote: > On 4/10/07, Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i = p.index(current_player) > > opponents = p[:i-1] + p[i+1:] > > > > An alternative is this: > > > > opponents = tuple(x for x in p if x is not current_player) > > > > You may disag

Re: tuples, index method, Python's design

2007-04-10 Thread Carsten Haese
On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 11:44 -0400, Carsten Haese wrote: > On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 17:10 +0200, BJörn Lindqvist wrote: > > On 4/10/07, Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > i = p.index(current_player) > > > opponents = p[:i-1] + p[i+1:] > > > > > > An alternative is this: > > > > > > opponent

Re: Check for keypress on Linux xterm ?

2007-04-10 Thread hlubenow
Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2007-04-09, hlubenow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> My problem is, I don't want my program to wait for the keypress. >> I just want to check, if a key is currently pressed and if not, I'd like >> to continue with my program (like "INKEY$" in some BASIC-dialects). > > T

Re: install wxPython

2007-04-10 Thread kyosohma
On Apr 9, 3:20 pm, Marco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem to install wxPython on my MacBook (Pythonversion 2.5). > If would install the wxPython (python setup.py install), then I got > this error: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/Users/marco/Desktop/flexo1/wxpyth

Re: Why is __getslice__ still implemented?

2007-04-10 Thread Steven Bethard
Jean-Paul Calderone wrote: > On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:35:56 -0600, Steven Bethard > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Yes, you do still need to implement __getslice__ if you're subclassing >> a class (like unicode or list) which provides it. The __getslice__ >> method can't be removed entirely for backw

Re: Why is __getslice__ still implemented?

2007-04-10 Thread Jean-Paul Calderone
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:51:45 -0600, Steven Bethard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Jean-Paul Calderone wrote: >> On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:35:56 -0600, Steven Bethard >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Yes, you do still need to implement __getslice__ if you're subclassing >>> a class (like unicode or list)

Re: tuples, index method, Python's design

2007-04-10 Thread Paul Boddie
On 10 Apr, 17:29, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You can call something non-controversial when it generates a thread like > this? :-) It's really a storm in a teacup. The acid test would be to > generate a patch that added the method and then see if you could get a > committer to commi

Re: Parsing log in SQL DB to change IPs to hostnames

2007-04-10 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On Apr 10, 8:37 pm, "KDawg44" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am brand new to Python. In learning anything, I find it useful to > actually try to write a useful program to try to tackle an actual > problem. > > I have a syslog server and I would like to parse the syslog messages > and try t

Re: tuples, index method, Python's design

2007-04-10 Thread Paul Boddie
On 10 Apr, 17:44, Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You have a point. Here is my revised solution: > > assert current_player in p > opponents = tuple(x for x in p if x is not current_player) > > The added advantage is that AssertionError is better than IndexError for > conveying that a s

Re: Queue get timeout parameter question

2007-04-10 Thread skip
Godzilla> Ok... But I'm afraid no syncing is not an option for the Godzilla> device... Then you'll either need to use something like ntp or sync much more frequently so you don't yank the time by so much. Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Check for keypress on Linux xterm ?

2007-04-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-04-10, hlubenow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> My problem is, I don't want my program to wait for the >>> keypress. I just want to check, if a key is currently pressed >>> and if not, I'd like to continue with my program (like >>> "INKEY$" in some BASIC-dialects). >> >> The answer to this

Re: tuples, index method, Python's design

2007-04-10 Thread Antoon Pardon
On 2007-04-10, Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 13:21 +, Antoon Pardon wrote: >> > But if you are so eager to rewrite, how about the following: >> > >> > I am using the struct module to get binary data from a file. >> > Sometimes I want to skip until I find a p

Re: Check for keypress on Linux xterm ?

2007-04-10 Thread hlubenow
Grant Edwards wrote: > I do make mistakes, but before telling somebody he's wrong, it > might be a good idea to actually try what he's suggested. ;) I completely agree. The script waited at first for key-input, so I thought, I was right. But I was not. I apologize ! H. -- http://mail.python.org

Re: NLTK, Random Sentence Generators?

2007-04-10 Thread gene tani
On Apr 10, 1:36 am, Passer By <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has any created or not of examples of random sentence generators using > n-gram models (or other models might be interesting). > > I know of one example from a course at MIT, but besides that nothing. > > Any help would be great. Markov ch

Re: Why is __getslice__ still implemented?

2007-04-10 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! Steven Bethard writes: > Torsten Bronger wrote: > >> [...] >> >> [...] It forces people to implement a deprecated function after >> all. I think the docs should say that you still have to override >> __getslice__ when subclassing from a built-in type, unless I >> really don't underst

grabbing Pictures from the web

2007-04-10 Thread Juan Vazquez
I am new to python (2 weeks old) and I would like to write a script that grabs pictures from the web (specifically flickr) and put them on a Tk Canvas for a slide show/editing program. my 2 questions are 1) How do I grab a picture from the web 2) is the use of the Tk canvas for working with the p

Re: tuples, index method, Python's design

2007-04-10 Thread bearophileHUGS
BJörn Lindqvist: > > One might perversely allow extension to lists and tuples to allow > >[3, 4] in [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] > > to succeed, but that's forcing the use case beyond normal limits. The > > point I am trying to make is that circumstances alter cases, and that we > > can't always rely on

Re: tuples, index method, Python's design

2007-04-10 Thread BJörn Lindqvist
On 4/10/07, Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > opponents = tuple(x for x in p if x is not current_player) > > > > > Your alternative is wrong because it wont raise ValueError if > > current_player is not present in the tuple. Please revise your > > "solution." > > You have a point. Here

Re: Why is __getslice__ still implemented?

2007-04-10 Thread Steven Bethard
Torsten Bronger wrote: > Hallöchen! > > Steven Bethard writes: > >> Torsten Bronger wrote: >> >>> [...] >>> >>> [...] It forces people to implement a deprecated function after >>> all. I think the docs should say that you still have to override >>> __getslice__ when subclassing from a built-in

Re: Database in memory

2007-04-10 Thread Nicko
On Apr 10, 1:10 pm, "Nicko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you expect to do exact-match look-up where the keys are not unique > then build a dictionary containing 'set' objects which are the sets of > records which have the given key. This lets you neatly find the > intersection of selections on m

Re: tuples, index method, Python's design

2007-04-10 Thread Carsten Haese
On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 19:21 +0200, BJörn Lindqvist wrote: > On 4/10/07, Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > opponents = tuple(x for x in p if x is not current_player) > > > > > > > Your alternative is wrong because it wont raise ValueError if > > > current_player is not present in the

ANN: pywinauto 0.3.7 now released

2007-04-10 Thread Mark Mc Mahon
Hi, 0.3.7 release of pywinauto is now available. pywinauto is an open-source (LGPL) package for using Python as a GUI automation 'driver' for Windows NT based Operating Systems (NT/W2K/XP/Vista?). SourceForge project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywinauto Download from SourceForge http

Re: Having trouble with relative imports

2007-04-10 Thread Echo
On 4/9/07, Echo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is my setup: > rpg > -objects > --__init__.py > --gameobject.py > --material.py > -__init__.py > -run_tests.py > -stats.py > > the contents of run_test.py is: > import objects as o > > the contents of objects/__init__.py is: > from material import *

writing my own extension

2007-04-10 Thread spohle
hi, i use a lot the enumerate in my scripts and got really interested in possibly writing my own enumerate as an extension, for which i would want to extend it to be able to pass a start and step attribute. can anyone point me on my way with good examples for that and how to write extensions ? t

Universal Feed Parser issue

2007-04-10 Thread i3dmaster
I have a sample Atom feed like this: http://app.example.com/fjie4id939xdl3io23 foo bar [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2007-04-09T22:14:15.000Z After parsed by feedparser, the timezone element does not get the attribute "America/Mountain". Same thing on status element. This does

Re: tuples, index method, Python's design

2007-04-10 Thread Chris Mellon
On 4/10/07, Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 19:21 +0200, BJörn Lindqvist wrote: > > On 4/10/07, Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > opponents = tuple(x for x in p if x is not current_player) > > > > > > > > > Your alternative is wrong because it wont

Re: Kill thread or at least socket.getaddrinfo

2007-04-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 26 Mar., 18:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > you know the pid, you can kill it, but that's not always a > clean way of accomplishing the task. So I have to open the connection in a new process... Sigh.. How I hate this part of Python. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Can I get the exit code "n" passed to sys.exit(n) ?

2007-04-10 Thread Yujo
Hello everybody, In the following code of the finish() function, is there any way to get the exit code passed to sys.exit() ? def finish() : RETURN_CODE_FROM_SYS_EXIT = # how can I get it ? if RETURN_CODE_FROM_SYS_EXIT = 0 : # process ended OK else : # process ended wit

Re: exec statement Syntax Error on string pulled from MySQL

2007-04-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Apr 10, 4:49 am, Georg Brandl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > > > > > It's the strangest thing, I'm pulling some text out of a MySQL table > > and trying to run exec on it, and it keeps giving me a syntax error, > > always at the end of the first line. > > > Thanks in

Re: Kill thread or at least socket.getaddrinfo

2007-04-10 Thread Chris Mellon
On 10 Apr 2007 11:07:51 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 26 Mar., 18:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > you know the pid, you can kill it, but that's not always a > > clean way of accomplishing the task. > > So I have to open the connection in a new process... Sigh.. How I hat

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