Re: gui application on cross platform

On 28 Mag, 08:01, james_027 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am using delphi to develop gui application, and wish to make a shift > to python. here are some of my question/concern... > > 1. is python develop gui application a cross platform? just like java > swing? Yes. Qt, wxwidgets and pyg

Re: Error in optparse documentation

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Shatadal wrote: > I think the documentation should be modified so that it is made clear > that %default in the help string behaves as is claimed only in version > 2.4 and higher. Maybe something should be added for clarity but I don't think it's an error in the docs. You

Re: Can python create a dictionary from a list comprehension?

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, half.italian wrote: > [entries.__setitem__(int(d.date.strftime('%m'))], d.id) for d in > links] > > btw...I was curious of this too. I used 'dir(dict)' and looked for a > method that might do what we wanted and bingo! This is really ugly. Except `__init__()` it's always

Re: gui application on cross platform

On May 28, 3:06 pm, Stefano Canepa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 28 Mag, 08:01, james_027 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I am using delphi to develop gui application, and wish to make a shift > > to python. here are some of my question/concern... > > > 1. is python develop gui applica

Re: Newbie question - better way to do this?

Steve Howell skrev: > def firstIsCapitalized(word): > return 'A' <= word[0] <= 'Z' For someone who is worried about the impact of non-ascii identifiers, you are making surprising assumptions about the contents of data. Nis -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Can python create a dictionary from a list comprehension?

> Example: > > a = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10] > > aDict = dict([(x,x+1) for x in a if x%2==0]) > > print aDict > When I run this program I get: {8: 9, 2: 3, 4: 5, 10: 11, 6: 7} why this output isn't ordered, giving: {2: 3, 4: 5, 6: 7, 8: 9, 10: 11 } -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyth

Re: Can python create a dictionary from a list comprehension?

Pierre Quentel a écrit : > On 27 mai, 22:55, erikcw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to turn o list of objects into a dictionary using a list >> comprehension. ... > > entries = dict([ (int(d.date.strftime('%m')),d.id) for d in links] ) > > With Python2.4 and above you can use a

Re: Is PEP-8 a Code or More of a Guideline?

Ben Finney a écrit : > Paul McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> It is a bit reassuring that I am not the only one who turns a blind >> eye to this part of the PEP, that l_c_w_u bothers others as well. > > I see similar support for lower_case, and opposition to > camelCase. It's nice that we'

Re: os.path.walk not pruning descent tree (and I'm not happy with that behavior?)

I'm really sorry, for all that private mails, thunderbird is awfully stupid dealing with mailing lists folder. Gabriel Genellina a écrit : > En Sun, 27 May 2007 22:39:32 -0300, Joe Ardent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > - iterate backwards: > > for i in range(len(names)-1, -1, -1): >f

Flags of the world

http://shaheeilyas.com/flags/ Scroll to the bottom to see why this is not entirely off-topic. Are there other public examples in which Python has been used to harvest and represent public information in useful and/or interesting ways? Ideas for some more? Tim C -- http://mail.python.org/mailma

Re: gui application on cross platform

En Mon, 28 May 2007 04:28:50 -0300, james_027 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > I am using delphi to develop gui application, and wish to make a shift > to python. here are some of my question/concern... Explore the Python wiki, specially and Choosin

Re: unit testing

Steve Howell skrev: > And, really, if > you're not doing automated tests on your application > now, you don't know what you're missing. Quote of the day, IMO. Nis -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Can python create a dictionary from a list comprehension?

En Mon, 28 May 2007 05:20:16 -0300, Wim Vogelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: >> Example: >> >> a = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10] >> >> aDict = dict([(x,x+1) for x in a if x%2==0]) >> >> print aDict >> > > When I run this program I get: > {8: 9, 2: 3, 4: 5, 10: 11, 6: 7} > > why this output isn't orde

Re: Can python create a dictionary from a list comprehension?

> > why this output isn't ordered, giving: > {2: 3, 4: 5, 6: 7, 8: 9, 10: 11 } > > I made the original list two elements longer: a = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12] and to my surprise the output is now ordered, giving: {2: 3, 4: 5, 6: 7, 8: 9, 10: 11, 12: 13} I am running ActiveState ActivePytho

Re: os.path.walk not pruning descent tree (and I'm not happy with that behavior?)

En Mon, 28 May 2007 05:25:18 -0300, Maric Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Gabriel Genellina a écrit : >> - iterate backwards: >> >> for i in range(len(names)-1, -1, -1): >>fname = names[i] >>if fname[:1]=='.': >> names.remove(fname) >> > > This is not about iterating backwar

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I'm trying to use Scipy's LU factorization. Here is what I've got: from numpy import * import scipy as Sci import scipy.linalg A=array([[3., -2., 1., 0., 0.],[-1., 1., 0., 1., 0.],[4., 1., 0., 0., 1.]]) p,l,u=Sci.linalg.lu(A,permute_l = 0) now, according to the documentation: **

Re: Can python create a dictionary from a list comprehension?

On May 28, 12:25 am, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, half.italian > wrote: > > > [entries.__setitem__(int(d.date.strftime('%m'))], d.id) for d in > > links] > > > btw...I was curious of this too. I used 'dir(dict)' and looked for a > > method that migh

Re: What's the best way to iniatilize a function

Jack schrieb: > I didn't call del explicitly. I'm expecting Python to call it when > the program exits. I put a logging line in __del__() but I never > see that line printed. It seems that __del__() is not being called > even when the program exits. Any idea why? > > http://effbot.org/pyfaq/my-

Re: gui application on cross platform

james_027 wrote: > Hi, > > I am using delphi to develop gui application, and wish to make a shift > to python. here are some of my question/concern... > > 1. is python develop gui application a cross platform? just like java > swing? > 2. delphi makes things easy for me like coding for a specific

Re: Can python create a dictionary from a list comprehension?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Do you think we just shouldn't use list comprehensions to build > dictinaries at all? Or is Stefan's solution acceptable (and pythonic)? Use list comprehensions where you need the resulting list; if you want nothing but the side effects, use a for loop. [Stefan Sonnenb

Re: Can python create a dictionary from a list comprehension?

En Mon, 28 May 2007 05:37:12 -0300, Wim Vogelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > I made the original list two elements longer: a = > [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12] > > and to my surprise the output is now ordered, giving: {2: 3, 4: 5, 6: 7, > 8: > 9, 10: 11, 12: 13} > > I am running ActiveState

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Re: Unsubscribing from the mailing list

"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I do not know if this is the correct group to ask this question. But > since mailman is python-based I thought i would ask here. There are a great many Python-based applications; this forum is for discussing the Python language and closely-related

Re: Unsubscribing from the mailing list

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi All, > > I do not know if this is the correct group to ask this question. But > since mailman is python-based I thought i would ask here. > > I had subscribed to a mailing list called [EMAIL PROTECTED] > adventitiously. I then wanted to reverse my decision and so tri

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On 26 mai, 04:14, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (snip) > one of the primary ideas behind object > orientation is that the class defines the same methods for all instances. > While this is effectively the standard behaviour in class-based OOPLs, I would definitively not present this as "o

Re: python -- prolog bridge error

On May 27, 8:40 pm, yuce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > PySWIP requires "libpl.dll" to be on the path. There are two ways to > do this: > > 1) Add 'bin' directory of SWI-Prolog to the PATH (it's C:\Program Files > \pl\bin on my system), > > 2) Or, copy 'libpl.dll' and 'pthreadVC.dll' to C:

Re: Issue of redirecting the stdout to both file and screen

人言落日是天涯，望极天涯不见家 wrote: > I wanna print the log to both the screen and file, so I simulatered a > 'tee' > > class Tee(file): > > def __init__(self, name, mode): > file.__init__(self, name, mode) > self.stdout = sys.stdout > sys.stdout = self > > def __del__(self):

Re: Can python create a dictionary from a list comprehension?

"Wim Vogelaar" wrote: > >> >> why this output isn't ordered, giving: >> {2: 3, 4: 5, 6: 7, 8: 9, 10: 11 } >> >> > > I made the original list two elements longer: a = > [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12] > > and to my surprise the output is now ordered, giving: {2: 3, 4: 5, 6: > 7, 8: 9, 10: 11, 12:

Re: Issue of redirecting the stdout to both file and screen

En Mon, 28 May 2007 06:17:39 -0300, 人言落日是天涯，望极天涯不见家 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > I wanna print the log to both the screen and file, so I simulatered a > 'tee' > > class Tee(file): > > def __init__(self, name, mode): > file.__init__(self, name, mode) > self.stdout = sys.std

Formal interfaces with Python

Hello, some time ago I've heard about proposals to introduce the concecpt of interfaces into Python. I found this old and rejected PEP about that: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0245/ What is the current status of that? Thanks, Florian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: speeding things up with C++

thanks! i'll look into this. On May 27, 5:35 am, Che Guevara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 26, 11:19 am, bullockbefriending bard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > However, I hope someone reading this will be able to tell me that I'm > > being a total pessimist and that in fact it isn't very

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Re: speeding things up with C++

I wonder if Jython might be the answer? Java is going to be faster than Python for the time-critical part of my program. Does anybody have experience getting data structures like nested lists / tuples into a java routine from a running jython program (and then back again)? -- http://mail.python.o

pyAntTasks

I am trying to use pyAntTasks in Eclipse. I have followed the example in the ibm doc, but I get the following error: [taskdef] Could not load definitions from resource pyAntTasks.properties. It could not be found. I have added pyAntTasks to my classpath and AntHome directory. Anybody have any i

Re: Issue of redirecting the stdout to both file and screen

Gabriel Genellina wrote: > En Mon, 28 May 2007 06:17:39 -0300, ??? > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > >> I wanna print the log to both the screen and file, so I simulatered a >> 'tee' >> >> class Tee(file): >> >> def __init__(self, name, mode): >> file.__init__(self, name,

Good idea to use a class as function with __new__?

Hi, I am implementing som code generation and want to to use some variant of the template method pattern. What I came up with is to have a class with the common part in a method and the subclasses can then override the Customize methods to do their own special part. Now to the question I use the

Re: Flags of the world

Tim Churches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > http://shaheeilyas.com/flags/ > > Scroll to the bottom to see why this is not entirely off-topic. I fail to see what it has to do with the thread you're replyiing to, which is a discussion of creating a dictionary from a list comprehension. If you want

Re: Is PEP-8 a Code or More of a Guideline?

Paul McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-December/058750.html > > At first, Guido seemed ambivalent, and commented on the > contentiousness of the issue, but it seems that the "non-English > speakers can more easily find word breaks marked w

Re: What's the best way to iniatilize a function

On Mon, 28 May 2007 11:01:26 +0200, Gregor Horvath wrote: > Jack schrieb: > >> I didn't call del explicitly. I'm expecting Python to call it when >> the program exits. I put a logging line in __del__() but I never >> see that line printed. It seems that __del__() is not being called >> even when

Re: Ancient projectiles (was: Muzzle Velocity (was: High resolution sleep (Linux))

Roy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron Laird) > wrote: > > > Hmmm; now you've got me curious. What *were* the first > > composite projectiles? > > Fetchez la Vache! :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (May 28)

QOTW: "Good God! Is there *anything* that python does not already do? I hardly feel the need to write programs anymore ... Its really 80% like of the questions that are asked here get answered along the lines of: import some_fancy_module solution = some_fancy_module.exactly_the_right_func

Re: itertools.groupby

On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 18:12 -0700, Steve Howell wrote: > [...] there is no way > that "uniquekeys" is a sensible variable [...] That's because the OP didn't heed the advice from the docs that "Generally, the iterable needs to already be sorted on the same key function." > http://informixdb.blogsp

Re: What's the best way to iniatilize a function

On Sun, 27 May 2007 23:20:49 -0700, Jack wrote: > Thanks Steven, for the reply. Very helpful. I've got a lot to learn in > Python :) > > Some questions: > >> (1) Python can automatically free most data structures and close open >> files, but if your needs are more sophisticated, this approach m

Re: What's the best way to iniatilize a function

Jack wrote: >>> 2. what's the right way to call mylib_exit()? I put it in __del__(self) >>> but it is not being called in my simple test. >> >> instance.__del__ is only called when there are no references to the >> instance. > > I didn't call del explicitly. I'm expecting Python to call it when >

Re: Error in optparse documentation

On May 28, 2:19 am, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Shatadal > wrote: > > > I think the documentation should be modified so that it is made clear > > that %default in the help string behaves as is claimed only in version > > 2.4 and higher. > > Maybe so

Re: Newbie question - better way to do this?

--- Nis Jørgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Howell skrev: > > > def firstIsCapitalized(word): > > return 'A' <= word[0] <= 'Z' > > For someone who is worried about the impact of > non-ascii identifiers, > you are making surprising assumptions about the > contents of data. > The f

Re: itertools.groupby

On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 20:28 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote: >fst = operator.itemgetter(0) >snd = operator.itemgetter(1) > >def bates(fd): > # generate tuples (n,d) of lines from file fd, > # where n is the record number. Just iterate through all lines > # of the file, stamping

Can string be callable as a method ?

Hi all I tried to scan a directory and __import__ all modules , imported module: help imported module: __init__ imported module: hi imported module: thanks and I scaned all methods in them, and put them to a list like: [['f_chelp', 'f_help'], [], ['f_exclaim', 'f_hi', 'random'], ['f_thanks', 'r

Re: a bug in python windows service?

On May 27, 11:25 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > En Sun, 27 May 2007 09:07:36 -0300, momobear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > >> Instead of extending join(), write a specific method to signal the > >> quitEvent or just let the caller signal it. And I don't see in this > >> ex

Re: gui application on cross platform

james_027 wrote: > Hi, > > I am using delphi to develop gui application, and wish to make a shift > to python. here are some of my question/concern... > > 1. is python develop gui application a cross platform? just like java > swing? > 2. delphi makes things easy for me like coding for a specifi

Re: Is PEP-8 a Code or More of a Guideline?

John J. Lee wrote: > Paul McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] >> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-December/058750.html >> >> At first, Guido seemed ambivalent, and commented on the >> contentiousness of the issue, but it seems that the "non-English >> speakers can more easil

Re: Can string be callable as a method ?

On Mon, 28 May 2007 06:45:47 -0700, Jia Lu wrote: > Hi all > I tried to scan a directory and __import__ all modules , > > imported module: help > imported module: __init__ > imported module: hi > imported module: thanks > > and I scaned all methods in them, and put them to a list like: > > [['

Re: itertools.groupby

--- Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > + The operation of \function{groupby()} is similar > to the \code{uniq} > filter > + in \UNIX{}. [...] Thanks! The comparison of groupby() to "uniq" really clicks with me. To the extent that others like the Unix command line analogy for u

Re: Is PEP-8 a Code or More of a Guideline?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steven Bethard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stefan Sonnenberg-Carstens wrote: > > Paul McGuire schrieb: > >> I'm starting a new thread for this topic, so as not to hijack the one > >> started by Steve Howell's excellent post titled "ten small Python > >> programs".

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Re: itertools.groupby

--- Paul Rubin <"http://phr.cx"@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote: > [...] > Here's yet another example that came up in something > I was working on: > you are indexing a book and you want to print a list > of page numbers > for pages that refer to George Washington. If > Washington occurs on > several conse

Re: Newbie question - better way to do this?

Steve Howell skrev: > --- Nis Jørgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Steve Howell skrev: >> >>> def firstIsCapitalized(word): >>> return 'A' <= word[0] <= 'Z' >> For someone who is worried about the impact of >> non-ascii identifiers, >> you are making surprising assumptions about the >> co

Re: Is PEP-8 a Code or More of a Guideline?

--- Roy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's certainly easier to parse ip_address as > compared to IPAddress. > Same with snmp_manager vs SNMPManager. > Somebody earlier was actually advocating something called proper_case, in which you can capitalize certain letters for clarity, like test

Re: itertools.groupby

On May 27, 6:50 pm, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 27, 2:59 pm, Steve Howell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > These docs need work. Please do not defend them; > > please suggest improvements. > > FWIW, I wrote those docs. Suggested improvements are > welcome; however, I thi

Re: ten small Python programs

Steve Howell wrote: > I've always thought that the best way to introduce new > programmers to Python is to show them small code > examples. > This is really a nice piece of missing Python. Sorry I didn't follow this thread accurately, but have you considered to produce an example environment li

Re: ten small Python programs

Just for the amusement of the audience. The following is a reusable testscript: >>> def add_money(amounts): ... pennies = sum([round(int(amount * 100)) for amount in amounts]) ... return float(pennies / 100.0) ... >>> add_money([0.13, 0.02]) == 0.15 0.14999 >>> add_money([0.13,

Re: Issue of redirecting the stdout to both file and screen

En Mon, 28 May 2007 09:10:40 -0300, Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Gabriel Genellina wrote: > >> En Mon, 28 May 2007 06:17:39 -0300, ??? >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: >> >>> def __init__(self, name, mode): >>> file.__init__(self, name, mode) >>> se

Re: Newbie question - better way to do this?

--- Nis Jørgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I disagree that word.istitle is the correct idiom - > from the naming of > the function in the original example, I would guess > "word[0].isupper" > would do the trick. > That would return something like this: You want to add parens: wor

Re: Is PEP-8 a Code or More of a Guideline?

Roy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > On the other hand, I'm convinced that words_with_underscores, is easier to > read. This is especially true when abbreviations creep into variable > names. It's certainly easier to parse ip_address as compared to IPAddress. > Same with snmp_manager

Re: speeding things up with C++

On May 26, 11:19 am, bullockbefriending bard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've done all the requisite profiling and thought fairly deeply about > the efficiency of my python code, but am still going to have to speed > up the innermost guts of what I am doing. > > Essentially, I need to pass a list

Re: Good idea to use a class as function with __new__?

En Mon, 28 May 2007 09:17:30 -0300, glomde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > I am implementing som code generation and want to to use some variant > of the template method pattern. > > What I came up with is to have a class with the common part > in a method and the subclasses can then override the

Re: ten small Python programs

--- Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Howell wrote: > > I've always thought that the best way to introduce > new > > programmers to Python is to show them small code > > examples. > > > This is really a nice piece of missing Python. > Thanks. > The wxPython demo program is wr

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Re: Good idea to use a class as function with __new__?

Gabriel Genellina wrote: > def __call__(self, *args, **kwds): > return self.__TemplateMethod(*args, **kwds) > > x = Template()(prefix="foo") > or perhaps: > x = Template(prefix="foo")() > > I think the extra () improves readability - it's clear that x comes from a > function call, it

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Re: Formal interfaces with Python

"Florian Lindner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Hello, | some time ago I've heard about proposals to introduce the concecpt of | interfaces into Python. I found this old and rejected PEP about that: | http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0245/ | | What is the current

Re: speeding things up with C++

thanks. i'll definitely look into this. On May 28, 10:48 pm, Kay Schluehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 26, 11:19 am, bullockbefriending bard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > I've done all the requisite profiling and thought fairly deeply about > > the efficiency of my python code, but

Re: itertools.groupby

On May 28, 8:34 am, 7stud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >- there are two more examples on the next page. those two > > examples also give sample inputs and outputs. > > I didn't see those. Ah, there's the rub. The two sections of examples and recipes are there for a reason. This isn't a beginne

Re: itertools.groupby

--- Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 18:12 -0700, Steve Howell > wrote: > > [...] there is no way > > that "uniquekeys" is a sensible variable [...] > > That's because the OP didn't heed the advice from > the docs that > "Generally, the iterable needs to already b

Re: Tix and OS X

On May 26, 8:51 pm, Kevin Walzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeff Reavis wrote: > > Does python not ship with Tix for OS X? I know there was an issue with > > 2.5.0 and Tix on Windows, and upgrading to 2.5.1 fixed it. > > Unfortunately, I seem to have the same issue with OS X and 2.5.1. The > > er

Re: itertools.groupby

--- Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's not for everyone, so it isn't a loss if > someone sticks > with writing plain, clear everyday Python instead of > an itertool. > I know most of the module is fairly advanced, and that average users can mostly avoid it, but this is a very

Re: Why isn't this query working in python?

En Mon, 28 May 2007 14:53:57 -0300, Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > On Sun, 27 May 2007 20:35:28 -0400, Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > >> On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 16:39 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > > sql = ""

Re: ten small Python programs

> >> The wxPython demo program is written as an >> interactive tutorial, >> with a few hundred examples, nicely ordered in >> groups. >> The user can view the demo, the code and the help >> text. >> The user can also change the code and see the >> results right away. >> > > Do you have a link? w

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Hello the list :-) I do a little program that permit the user to manage list of sentences. This program runs into a linux shell. The user can add, modify and delete the sentences. What I want to do is : When the user want to modify one sentence, I would like to do this : Modify your sentence :

ANN: IPyKit, the standalone IPython prompt

Some of you might want to play with IPyKit, especially you need a swiss-army-knife Python prompt on a (win32) machine where you don't really want to install anything (python, pyreadline, ipython, PATH settings...). It's basically a py2exe'd "preconfigured" IPython. http://ipython.scipy.org/moin/I

Re: expat parser

Sebastian Bassi wrote: > I have this code: > > import xml.parsers.expat > def start_element(name, attrs): >print 'Start element:', name, attrs > def end_element(name): >print 'End element:', name > def char_data(data): >print 'Character data:', repr(data) > p = xml.parsers.expat.Parser

Re: ten small Python programs

--- Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> It would even be nicer, if everybody could drop > >> her/his examples > >> in a standard way, so they would be automatically > >> incorporated in > >> something like the wxPython interactive demo. > >> > > > > Can you elaborate? > > Well if y

Re: User input with a default value that can be modified

On May 28, 11:52 am, "Etienne Hilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello the list :-) > > I do a little program that permit the user to manage list of sentences. > This program runs into a linux shell. > The user can add, modify and delete the sentences. > > What I want to do is : > > When the user

Re: itertools.groupby

> > That's not for everyone, so it isn't a loss if > > someone sticks > > with writing plain, clear everyday Python instead of > > an itertool. > > I know most of the module is fairly advanced, and that > average users can mostly avoid it, but this is a very > common-antipattern that groupby() solv

Re: User input with a default value that can be modified

On May 28, 11:52 am, "Etienne Hilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello the list :-) > > I do a little program that permit the user to manage list of sentences. > This program runs into a linux shell. > The user can add, modify and delete the sentences. > > What I want to do is : > > When the user

Re: itertools.groupby

Steve Howell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > for has_chars, frags in itertools.groupby(lines, > lambda x: len(x) > 0): Hmmm, it appears to me that itertools.groupby(lines, bool) should do just the same job, just a bit faster and simpler, no? Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/p

Re: Is PEP-8 a Code or More of a Guideline?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Historically, it's only Java and the Windows world (including non- > standard Windows-style C++) that use forcedCase significantly (C# > draws from both). I remember meeting that style first in the X Window System (now commonly known as X11, but it w

Re: itertools.groupby

7stud wrote: > Bejeezus. The description of groupby in the docs is a poster child > for why the docs need user comments. Can someone explain to me in > what sense the name 'uniquekeys' is used this example: > This is my first exposure to this function, and I see that it does have some uses in

Re: ten small Python programs

Steve Howell wrote: > --- Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: It would even be nicer, if everybody could drop her/his examples in a standard way, so they would be automatically incorporated in something like the wxPython interactive demo. >>> Can you elaborate? >

Re: itertools.groupby

Gordon Airporte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is my first exposure to this function, and I see that it does > have some uses in my code. I agree that it is confusing, however. > IMO the confusion could be lessened if the function with the current > behavior were renamed 'telescope' or 'compact

Tkinter error

Finally started trying to build a simple gui form for inserting text data into a mysql db of quotations. I found this nice Tkinter tutorial, http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/py4fun/gui/tkPhone.html but midway I'm getting an error. from Tkinter import * >>> win = Tk() >>> f = Frame(win) >>> b1 = But

Re: ten small Python programs

--- Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > I don't know MoinMoin, > but the answer is Yes (although maybe not for your > ten snippets). > First of all I think all programmers keep there own > collection of code snippets, > which much more valuable then "all the code code > snippets from everyone"

Re: itertools.groupby

--- Paul Rubin <"http://phr.cx"@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote: > > > But that is what groupby does, except its notion of > uniqueness is > limited to contiguous runs of elements having the > same key. It occurred to me that we could also rename the function uniq(), or unique(), after its Unix counterpa

Re: Tkinter error

BartlebyScrivener wrote: > Finally started trying to build a simple gui form for inserting text > data into a mysql db of quotations. > > I found this nice Tkinter tutorial, > > http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/py4fun/gui/tkPhone.html > > but midway I'm getting an error. > > from Tkinter import * >

Re: itertools.groupby

--- Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > That's not for everyone, so it isn't a loss if > > > someone sticks > > > with writing plain, clear everyday Python > instead of > > > an itertool. > > > > I know most of the module is fairly advanced, and > that > > average users can mostly

Re: itertools.groupby

--- Alex Martelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Howell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >... > > for has_chars, frags in itertools.groupby(lines, > > lambda x: len(x) > 0): > > Hmmm, it appears to me that itertools.groupby(lines, > bool) should do > just the same job, just a bit faster and si

Re: Is PEP-8 a Code or More of a Guideline?

On Mon, 28 May 2007 14:12:33 -0700, Alex Martelli wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Historically, it's only Java and the Windows world (including non- >> standard Windows-style C++) that use forcedCase significantly (C# >> draws from both). > > I remember meeting that st

Re: itertools.groupby

Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think the OP would have been better-off with plain > vanilla Python such as: > >See http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/259173 But that recipe generates the groups in a random order depending on the dict hashing, instead of

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