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On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 07:45:08 +0200, Rajendran Appavu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I am done with a widget that is packed in a Frame, is it safe to > call destroy() method on the widget after calling its pack_forget() or > grid_forget() method? Since I do that all the time, I'd say yes... D

Re: listing the type of an object

Stef Mientki a écrit : > How can I list a type of an object instance ? > > I tried: > > class tLED (tDevice): Do yourself (and the world) a favour and give up hungarian notation... This should be: class Led(Device): #... > def some_proc(self): > print 'type(self)', type(self) >

Re: PEP 3107 and stronger typing (note: probably a newbie question)

Stephen R Laniel a écrit : > On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 09:08:16AM +0200, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: >> You said ? > > I could link again to Mark-Jason Dominus, who writes that > people often make the following inference: > > 1) C is strongly typed. Lol. C is well known for it's very weak typing.

Re: Python's "only one way to do it" philosophy isn't good?

Douglas Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Before the with statement, you could do the same thing but you > > needed nested try/finally blocks > > No, you didn't -- you could just encapsulate the resource acquisition > into an object and allow the destructor to deallocate the resource. But with

Re: Portable general timestamp format, not 2038-limited

On Jun 27, 10:51 pm, Paul Rubin wrote: > The difficulty/impossibility of computing intervals on UTC because of > leap seconds suggests TAI is a superior timestamp format. If you care about intervals you'd better keep timestamps in SI seconds since some zero time point (j

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Let me add that instead of an an-close-as-possible translation > from the original Perl code, one can rewrite this as: > def bcdlen(length): > ... strlen = "%04s" % length > ... return chr(int(strlen[2:4], 16)) + chr(int(strlen[0:2], 16)) > > > which is

Re: listing the type of an object

Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > Stef Mientki a écrit : >> How can I list a type of an object instance ? >> >> I tried: >> >> class tLED (tDevice): > > > Do yourself (and the world) a favour and give up hungarian notation... > This should be: > > class Led(Device): >#... > > Didn't know that thi

Re: PEP 3107 and stronger typing (note: probably a newbie question)

Stephen R Laniel wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 09:08:16AM +0200, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > > You said ? > > I could link again to Mark-Jason Dominus, who writes that > people often make the following inference: > > 1) C is strongly typed. > 2) C's typing sucks. > 3) Hence strong typing sucks.

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Re: listing the type of an object

stef a écrit : > Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: >> Stef Mientki a écrit : >>> How can I list a type of an object instance ? >>> >>> I tried: >>> >>> class tLED (tDevice): >> >> >> Do yourself (and the world) a favour and give up hungarian notation... >> This should be: >> >> class Led(Device): >>

problem with hack using multiple inheritance for plugins

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Re: PEP 3107 and stronger typing (note: probably a newbie question)

On 28 Jun, 07:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote: > John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > PEP 3107 is static typing without enforcement, which is not a good thing. > > Wrong: PEP3107 is a syntax for adding arbitrary metadata annotations (so > that said annotations don't get squished wh

Re: problem with hack using multiple inheritance for plugins

> At this point, it seems too much a deep object-oriented hell to be > able to dig it myself. Would you help me getting some cue on the > problem? Update. Now I know that: - every sane Python class should return after type(self) - when disabling the multiple-inheritance-hack, the situation comes

Re: Python's "only one way to do it" philosophy isn't good?

On 2007-06-23, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:21:14 -0400, Douglas Alan wrote: > >> I.e., I could write a new object system for Lisp faster than I could >> even begin to fathom the internal of CPython. Not only that, I have >> absolutely no desire to spend my v

Re: problem with hack using multiple inheritance for plugins

"massimo s." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now I know that: > - every sane Python class should return after > type(self) Wrong. Only old style classes are 'instance' type, and you should never be using an old style class unless you have a very good reason for it. Always use 'object' (or another

Re: problem with hack using multiple inheritance for plugins

massimo s. a écrit : >> At this point, it seems too much a deep object-oriented hell to be >> able to dig it myself. Would you help me getting some cue on the >> problem? > > Update. Now I know that: > - every sane Python class should return after > type(self) Certainly not, unless you're using

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Re: Evolution of a pythonistas!

swordofrue wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I just started reading the python documentation and then I got to > thinking. How does a pythonistas evolve? What kind of natural > evolution does a pythonistas endure? The reason why I wonder is > simply because I have no idea of where I should be going. W

Re: Evolution of a pythonistas!

On Jun 28, 6:46 am, swordofrue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > How does a pythonistas evolve? > Get the Python Cookbook 2d, pick a useful looking project, and adapt it for your own needs. Learn by doing. Some people enjoy just doing the tutorials with the interpreter open, testing

Re: problem with hack using multiple inheritance for plugins

On 28 Giu, 13:45, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > massimo s. a écrit : > > >> At this point, it seems too much a deep object-oriented hell to be > >> able to dig it myself. Would you help me getting some cue on the > >> problem? > > > Update. Now I know that: > > - every sane Python class should retu

Re: listing the type of an object

On 2007-06-28, Bruno Desthuilliers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stef Mientki a écrit : >> How can I list a type of an object instance ? >> >> I tried: >> >> class tLED (tDevice): > > > Do yourself (and the world) a favour and give up hungarian notation... > This should be: > > class Led(Device):

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Martin v. Löwis wrote: 0 the ideal hash :) can't be argued with >... > So: what are your input data, and what is the > distribution among them? > > Regards, > Martin > I'm trying to create UniqueID's for dynamic postscript fonts. According to my resources we don't actually need to use th

Re: problem with hack using multiple inheritance for plugins

On 28 Giu, 13:45, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > > wrt/ this snippet: > > for plugin_name in self.config['plugins']: > try: > plugin=__import__(plugin_name) > try: > print type(self) > eval('plugin.'+plugin_name+'Commands._plu

Re: Too many 'self' in python.That's a big flaw in this language.

Alex Martelli wrote: > Bjoern Schliessmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Mh, strange, I personally like to use "this.a" in C++, to make >> clear I use an instance variable. > That would be nice, unfortunately your C++ compiler will refuse > that, and force you to use this->a instead;-). Sure,

Re: problem with hack using multiple inheritance for plugins

On 28 Giu, 13:45, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > wxFrame is obviously a new-style class. I don't know if it's true, however. I tried that: >>> class A(object): ... def __init__(self): ... print type(self) ... >>> a=A() so in fact what I see has something to do with new style cla

Re: PEP 3107 and stronger typing (note: probably a newbie question)

Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > John Nagle a écrit : >> Actually, static typing is for detecting errors before the >> program is run. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ gcc -ototo toto.c > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ./toto > Erreur de segmentation > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ > > You said ? Did he say that static

Re: Too many 'self' in python.That's a big flaw in this language.

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jorgen Bodde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had the same feeling when I started, coming from a C++ background, I > forgot about self a lot, creating local copies of what should be an > assign to a class instance, or methods that could not be found because > I for

Re: 16bit hash

Robin Becker wrote: > Martin v. Löwis wrote: > > 0 the ideal hash > > :) > > can't be argued with > >> ... >> So: what are your input data, and what is the >> distribution among them? >> >> Regards, >> Martin >> > I'm trying to create UniqueID's for dynamic postscript fonts. According > to

Re: problem with hack using multiple inheritance for plugins

massimo s. wrote: > On 28 Giu, 13:45, Bruno Desthuilliers [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> massimo s. a écrit : >> At this point, it seems too much a deep object-oriented hell to be able to dig it myself. Would you help me getting some cue on the problem? >>> Update. Now I know that: >>

RE: Evolution of a pythonistas!

concur 100%. You can breeze through the fist half of the online tutorial in a about 2 cups of coffee but you don't know what you don't know until you try to do something real. Even with 20 years of working with Python, I find goodies in the cookbook for each new project. Get a python aware edito

Re: Python's "only one way to do it" philosophy isn't good?

On 6/27/07, Douglas Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Chris Mellon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 6/27/07, Douglas Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> The C++ folks feel so strongly about this, that they refuse to provide > >> "finally", and insist instead that you use destructors and RA

Re: problem with hack using multiple inheritance for plugins

On 28 Giu, 14:41, "massimo s." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The new-style behaviour only appears when wxFrame is plugged with the > current hack. > That is: > > - print type(self) in wxFrame alone returns > - print type(self) in the plugged (multiply inherited) wxFrame returns > < class '__main__

Re: Evolution of a pythonistas!

On Jun 28, 8:02 am, "Sells, Fred" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > concur 100%. You can breeze through the fist half of the online tutorial in > a about 2 cups of coffee but you don't know what you don't know until you > try to do something real. > > Even with 20 years of working with Python, I find g

Re: equality & comparison by default (was Re: Too many 'self' in python.That's a big flaw in this language.)

On 2007-06-27, Alex Martelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A.T.Hofkamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I think that again now with the default implementation of the >> object.__eq__ and object.__hash__ methods. I believe these methods should >> not exist until the programmer explicitly defines th

Re: Evolution of a pythonistas!

On Jun 28, 8:02 am, "Sells, Fred" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > concur 100%. > Get a python aware editor. I use Eclipse+PyDev for big jobs, but still use > Emacs with python-mode for quickies. Just when I was thinking we agreed! :) Get Vim! http://www.vim.org And the Cookbook http://www.amazo

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Re: problem with hack using multiple inheritance for plugins

massimo s. wrote: > Again: using a new-style plugin class for multiple inheritance does > not work. This statement is certainly too broad. [earlier] > TypeError: unbound method _plug_init() must be called with > dummyguiplugGui instance as first argument (got MainWindowPlugged > instance instead

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Re: equality & comparison by default (was Re: Too many 'self' in python.That's a big flaw in this language.)

A.T.Hofkamp wrote: a = Car2(123) b = Car2(123) a == b > > True > set([a,b]) > > set([Car2(123), Car2(123)]) > > I get a set with two equal cars, something that never happens with a set > my math teacher once told me. Then your math teacher misspoke. You have two different car

Re: 16bit hash

Thomas Jollans wrote: > Robin Becker wrote: ... >> I'm not sure my postscript is really good enough to do the latter so I >> hoped to pursue a python based approach which has a low probability of >> busting. Originally I thought the range was a 16bit number which is why >> I started with 16bit

Re: Portable general timestamp format, not 2038-limited

On Jun 27, 10:51 pm, Paul Rubin wrote: > According to , UTC is derived from > TAI. According to , TAI is a proper time, but the very first section in the TAI discussion page cites a refereed paper by the

Re: equality & comparison by default (was Re: Too many 'self' in python.That's a big flaw in this language.)

On 2007-06-28, Alan Isaac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A.T.Hofkamp wrote: > >a = Car2(123) >b = Car2(123) >a == b >> >> True >> >set([a,b]) >> >> set([Car2(123), Car2(123)]) >> >> I get a set with two equal cars, something that never happens with a set >> my math teacher once to

Re: making a opc client in Python and use opc server Events

On 4 juin, 11:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all > I have a sample code to implement opc client in Python. i use a > file .py making by makepy with pythonwin for Com Interface. > i can get all server in machine, connect to server opc, disconnect, > add group, add item, read, write item in server

Re: problem with hack using multiple inheritance for plugins

On 28 Giu, 15:37, Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > massimo s. wrote: > > Again: using a new-style plugin class for multiple inheritance does > > not work. > > This statement is certainly too broad. > > [earlier] > > > TypeError: unbound method _plug_init() must be called with > > dummyguipl

Re: equality & comparison by default (was Re: Too many 'self' in python.That's a big flaw in this language.)

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "A.T.Hofkamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In object oriented programming, objects are representations of values, and the > system shouldn't care about how many instances there are of some value, just > like numbers in math. Every instance with a certain value is t

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Re: problem with hack using multiple inheritance for plugins

massimo s. a écrit : > On 28 Giu, 13:45, Bruno Desthuilliers [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> wrt/ this snippet: >> >> for plugin_name in self.config['plugins']: >> try: >> plugin=__import__(plugin_name) >> try: >> print type(self) >>

Re: Python's "only one way to do it" philosophy isn't good?

On Jun 27, 11:41 pm, John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One right answer would be a pure reference counted system where > loops are outright errors, and you must use weak pointers for backpointers. > ... The general > idea is that pointers to

Re: problem with hack using multiple inheritance for plugins

massimo s. a écrit : > On 28 Giu, 14:41, "massimo s." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The new-style behaviour only appears when wxFrame is plugged with the >> current hack. >> That is: >> >> - print type(self) in wxFrame alone returns >> - print type(self) in the plugged (multiply inherited) wxFr

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Re: PEP 3107 and stronger typing (note: probably a newbie question)

Bjoern Schliessmann a écrit : > Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: >> John Nagle a écrit : > >>> Actually, static typing is for detecting errors before the >>> program is run. >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ gcc -ototo toto.c >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ./toto >> Erreur de segmentation >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $

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On Jun 26, 5:37 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Henrik Lied wrote: > > Hi there! > > > Has anyone made effort to try to create a python binding to a facial > >recognitionsoftware [1]? > > > For those of you with some experience - would this be very hard? > > OpenCV has a python-

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Neil Cerutti a écrit : > On 2007-06-28, Bruno Desthuilliers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Stef Mientki a écrit : >>> How can I list a type of an object instance ? >>> >>> I tried: >>> >>> class tLED (tDevice): >> >> Do yourself (and the world) a favour and give up hungarian notation... >> This sh

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On 28 Giu, 15:37, Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Post a self-contained example. Now I'm even more confused. The self-contained example is below... and it works, using only old-style declarations. #!/usr/bin/env python import wx import cmd global CLI_PLUGINS global GUI_PLUGINS class

Re: problem with hack using multiple inheritance for plugins

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Re: Help needed for Pmw and WxPython Interface

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Re: Evolution of a pythonistas!

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RE: Evolution of a pythonistas!

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Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> try: >> f = file('test.txt', 'r') >> except IOError: >> print 'except' >> else: >> print 'else' >> finally: >> print 'finally' > You need Python 2.5 for that to work. In older Python versions you have to > nest try...except...else and try.

process stdin grab

hello I need to send commands to a process that i did not start. (mplayer specifically) I have the PIP of the process, and thats about all. Any ideas on how to do this in python? i need only to write to its stdin, not read any information from it, and i don't really need to know if my command wor

Re: Python's "only one way to do it" philosophy isn't good?

Andy Freeman wrote: > On Jun 27, 11:41 pm, John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While I agree that weak pointers are good and can not be an > afterthought, I've written code where "back" changed dynamically, and > I'm pretty sure that Nagle has as well. That sort of thing tends to show up

Re: 16bit hash

> If the UniqueID is used it must be unique when used in the printer > (where I cannot control which other UniqueID's might be present). I don't know much about PostScript; googling around gives http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/UniqueID.html that says that you should not use them anymore, and h

Re: Too many 'self' in python.That's a big flaw in this language.

Alex Martelli wrote: > Bjoern Schliessmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >... > >>Mh, strange, I personally like to use "this.a" in C++, to make clear >>I use an instance variable. > > > That would be nice, unfortunately your C++ compiler will refuse that, > and force you to use this->a inste

Re: try/except/else/finally problem

Ed Jensen wrote: > Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> try: >>> f = file('test.txt', 'r') >>> except IOError: >>> print 'except' >>> else: >>> print 'else' >>> finally: >>> print 'finally' > >> You need Python 2.5 for that to work. In older Python versions you have >> to

RE: ironpython exception line number

Given a file foo.py: def f(): You should get these results: IronPython 1.0.60816 on .NET 2.0.50727.312 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. >>> try: ... execfile('foo.py') ... except IndentationError, e: ... import sys ... x = sys.exc_info() ... >>> print x[1].fi

RE: Can IronPython work as Windows Scripting Host (WSH) language?

Currently IronPython doesn't support being hosted in WSH. It's something we've discussed internally in the past but we've never had the cycles to make it work. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of misiek3d Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 3:07 AM

Re: Vista 64 + Python2.5 + wxpython 28 issue

> I have installed python 2.5 (AMD64) on Vista (64), also installed wx 2.8 > but I'm getting this error: > > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "mymodule.py", line 39, in > import wx > File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\wx-2.8-msw-unicode\wx\__init__.py", > line 4 > 5, in

RE: Vista 64 + Python2.5 + wxpython 28 issue

Hello Martin, I installed wxpython 2.8 using the installer (wxPython2.8-win32-unicode-2.8.4.0-py25.ex), yeah I assume is the 32 bits version. Is there any 64 version installer or do I need to build myself ? Thanks, SRF -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: process stdin grab

On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 08:01:18PM +, Seltzer wrote: > I need to send commands to a process that i did not start. > (mplayer specifically) I have the PIP of the process, and thats > about all. I assume you mean 'PID'. This is somewhat offtopic, but mplayer supports receiving commands from a FI

exception from a thread

assume a scenario, where there is a class that for doing some work, spawns lot of threads. class X: def __init__(self): # Spawns some threads to # do some work now, assuming that at least one of the threads encounters a problem while doing work and throws an exception. Would I

Re: Vista 64 + Python2.5 + wxpython 28 issue

> Is there any 64 version installer or do I need to build myself ? There are hardly AMD64 versions of *anything* but the base Python distribution. I strongly advise to use the 32-bit version on AMD64 (in fact, I see little reason to run Win64 at all unless you have more that 4GiB in the box, or un

IMAP library

It seems that this question has been asked a few times in this group before, but sometime has passed since the last post and maybe there's something new. I'm looking for a high level IMAP library--I know of imaplib, but it's awfully documented and I was hoping to avoid reading RFCs for a si

Re: IMAP library

On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:44:02 -0300, Bruno Barberi Gnecco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems that this question has been asked a few times in this >group before, but sometime has passed since the last post and maybe there's >something new. I'm looking for a high level IMAP library--I know

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