Re: YOU MUST KNOW THIS MAN

Piet van Oostrum wrote: >> Deltantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (D) wrote: > >> D> Does c.l.python get religious spam that much? Of all of the places to be >> D> spammed the least likely I expected would be here. > > Is that the reason you find it necessary to repeat it? Sorry, was busy and forgot t

Re: Timezones in python

On 5 Dec, 13:59, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > En Wed, 05 Dec 2007 06:43:49 -0300, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > Thanks guys for your answers! I know those library's but I was > > wondering is there something build-in for this simple convert convert. > > I have to do it onl

Re: "Python" is not a good name, should rename to "Athon"

Piet van Oostrum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> "Adrian Cherry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (AC) wrote: > >>AC> For that matter C# is no better, I thought that # was >>pronounced AC> hash, I still refer to C# as C-hash. > > Are you musically illiterate? Yup! The limits of

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Re: reloading modules and isinstance()

Tlis schrieb: > On 5 Dec, 13:18, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > cybersource.com.au> wrote: >> On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:41:48 +0100, Diez B. Roggisch wrote: >>> You just discovered one reason why reload() is a bad idea and IMHO >>> shouldn't be used at all - as tempting it might be. >> I disagre

Re: An Object's Type

Bruno Desthuilliers schrieb: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : >> Hi, >> >> Is it possible to find out if an object is of a certain type or of a >> type derived from this type? >> > You have the answer, thanks to Diez and Christian. Now unless you have a > *very* compelling reason to check the type of

Re: Python surpasses Perl in TIOBE index

On Dec 5, 4:18 pm, George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 5, 7:34 am, BlueBird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Dec 4, 4:08 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > This is *not* an attempt to start yet another Python-versus- > > > AnyOtherProgrammingLanguage flame war, but I thought peop

Re: reloading modules and isinstance()

On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:21:01 +0100, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Tlis schrieb: >> On 5 Dec, 13:18, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> cybersource.com.au> wrote: >>> On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:41:48 +0100, Diez B. Roggisch wrote: You just discovered one reason why reload() is

Re: reloading modules and isinstance()

Jean-Paul Calderone schrieb: > On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:21:01 +0100, "Diez B. Roggisch" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Tlis schrieb: >>> On 5 Dec, 13:18, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> cybersource.com.au> wrote: On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:41:48 +0100, Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > You just

Re: An Object's Type

paul schrieb: > Bruno Desthuilliers schrieb: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : >>> Hi, >>> >>> Is it possible to find out if an object is of a certain type or of a >>> type derived from this type? >>> >> You have the answer, thanks to Diez and Christian. Now unless you have >> a *very* compelling rea

Re: SimpleXMLRPCServer interruptable?

On Dec 5, 10:00 pm, Edward Kozlowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 5, 10:19 pm, Edward Kozlowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Dec 5, 6:22 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > En Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:20:35 -0300, Bret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > > > I ju

Re: "Python" is not a good name, should rename to "Athon"

Piet van Oostrum wrote: >> "Adrian Cherry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (AC) wrote: > >> AC> For that matter C# is no better, I thought that # was pronounced >> AC> hash, I still refer to C# as C-hash. > > Are you musically illiterate? Note that the notation for the note (!) isn't universal. French

Re: An Object's Type

paul a écrit : > Bruno Desthuilliers schrieb: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : >>> Hi, >>> >>> Is it possible to find out if an object is of a certain type or of a >>> type derived from this type? >>> >> You have the answer, thanks to Diez and Christian. Now unless you have >> a *very* compelling re

Re: reloading modules and isinstance()

On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 13:59:00 +0100, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] >> >> Who says it isn't feasible? >> >> http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/browser/trunk/twisted/python/rebuild.py > >Nice try - for sure. But it seems to be geared towards special cases, >not a general-purpose "

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Re: "Python" is not a good name, should rename to "Athon"

> "Adrian Cherry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (AC) wrote: >AC> Piet van Oostrum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in >AC> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: "Adrian Cherry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (AC) wrote: >>> >AC> For that matter C# is no better, I thought that # was pronounced AC> hash, I still refer t

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Re: multidimensional "arrays"

Horacius ReX: > do you know how to do similar but in two dimensions ? >>> nr = 3 >>> nc = 4 >>> [[None] * nc for _ in xrange(nr)] [[None, None, None, None], [None, None, None, None], [None, None, None, None]] Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: SimpleXMLRPCServer interruptable?

On Dec 6, 7:04 am, Bret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 5, 10:00 pm, Edward Kozlowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Dec 5, 10:19 pm, Edward Kozlowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Dec 5, 6:22 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > En Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:2

Re: which configparse?

Best, is naturally, a somewhat subjective evaluation. That being said, configparser is well regarded. I have also seen these two options that you might want to check out: http://wiki.woodpecker.org.cn/moin/Dict4Ini http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/configobj.html > I have all my options setup

Re: An Object's Type

Bruno Desthuilliers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So ask yourself: in which way will the final result be different > from would very probably happens without the "typecheking code" ? In > *both* cases, you end up with a runtime exception. The idea behind such type checks is to make sure type erro

Re: multidimensional "arrays"

Horacius ReX wrote: > do you know how to do similar but in two dimensions ? Investigate the numpy module if you are dealing with numbers. Jeremy -- Jeremy Sanders http://www.jeremysanders.net/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: multidimensional "arrays"

Hi, DATA = [ [ 0 for i in range(ncolumns) ] for i in range(nrows) ] Is one way. DON'T do it like this: row = [0] * ncolumns data = [ row ] * nrows # WRONG! Since after that, every row is the exact same object; if you set data[0][0] = 1, the first element of _every_ row is 1. But I guess you a

Re: SimpleXMLRPCServer interruptable?

On Dec 6, 7:04 am, Bret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 5, 10:00 pm, Edward Kozlowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Dec 5, 10:19 pm, Edward Kozlowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Dec 5, 6:22 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > En Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:2

Re: "Python" is not a good name, should rename to "Athon"

Boris Borcic wrote: > Piet van Oostrum wrote: >>> "Adrian Cherry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (AC) wrote: >> >>> AC> For that matter C# is no better, I thought that # was pronounced >>> AC> hash, I still refer to C# as C-hash. >> >> Are you musically illiterate? > > Note that the notation for the n

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Best way to merge/sort two sorted lists?...

...is to forget they are sorted??? While trying to optimize some NUCULAR libraries I discovered that the best way to merge 2 sorted lists together into a new sorted list is to just append them and re-sort. The following test case demonstrates this. It can be criticized in many ways: it only tests

Re: "Python" is not a good name, should rename to "Athon"

Boris Borcic a écrit : > Piet van Oostrum wrote: > >>> "Adrian Cherry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (AC) wrote: >> >> >>> AC> For that matter C# is no better, I thought that # was pronounced >>> AC> hash, I still refer to C# as C-hash. >> >> >> Are you musically illiterate? > > > Note that the notat

Re: New subclass vs option in __init__

Kurt Smith a écrit : > Hi List: > > Class inheritance noob here. > > For context, I have the following base class and subclass: > > class Base(object): > def __init__(self, val): > self.val = val > > class Derived1(Base): > def __init__(self, val): > super(Derived1, self

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Re: pipeline encoding

Diez B. Roggisch: > > Python tries and guesses the stdout-encoding based on the terminal > settings. So the first print works. > > However, piping to a file means that it can't do so, because it doesn't > (and shouldn't) make any assumptions on the output encoding desired - > after all, it migh

Re: An Object's Type

Hrvoje Niksic a écrit : > Bruno Desthuilliers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > writes: > > >>So ask yourself: in which way will the final result be different >>from would very probably happens without the "typecheking code" ? In >>*both* cases, you end up with a runtime exception. > > The idea behind such

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Capture DOS error???

Did you ever get a solution to this? I am also in need of this solution. Thanks, Erik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: pipeline encoding

Tomasz Toczyski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My locale is set to UTF-8. The command: > python -c "print u'\u03A9'" > gives me the desired result and doesn't produce any error. > > But when I want to redirect the output to a file I invoke: > python -c "print u'\u03A9'" > file.txt > I get an error:

Re: Best way to merge/sort two sorted lists?...

Aaron Watters wrote: > ...is to forget they are sorted??? code snipped Aaron I just flung your python merge code into pyrex and the results show that the iteration overhead can be brought down without much effort. The real deal would presumably be to start using pointers into the result list rat

Re: pipeline encoding

Tomasz Toczyski schrieb: > My locale is set to UTF-8. The command: > python -c "print u'\u03A9'" > gives me the desired result and doesn't produce any error. > > But when I want to redirect the output to a file I invoke: > python -c "print u'\u03A9'" > file.txt > I get an error: > > File "", line

Re: An Object's Type

On Dec 6, 2007 5:52 AM, paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bruno Desthuilliers schrieb: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > >> Hi, > >> > >> Is it possible to find out if an object is of a certain type or of a > >> type derived from this type? > >> > > You have the answer, thanks to Diez and Christian

Re: Best way to merge/sort two sorted lists?...

On 2007-12-06, Aaron Watters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ...is to forget they are sorted??? > > While trying to optimize some NUCULAR libraries I discovered > that the best way to merge 2 sorted lists together > into a new sorted list is to just append > them and re-sort. The following test case

Re: Best way to merge/sort two sorted lists?...

On Dec 6, 9:30 am, Aaron Watters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While trying to optimize some NUCULAR libraries I discovered > that the best way to merge 2 sorted lists together > into a new sorted list is to just append > them and re-sort. . . . > I'm beginning to think > a "sorted list merger" mi

__iadd__ useless in sub-classed int

For whatever reason, I need an inproved integer. Sounds easy, let's just subclass int: >>> class test(int): pass Now let's test it: >>> zed=test(0) >>> zed.__class__ >>> zed 0 So far, so good. Now let's try incrementing: >>> zed+=1 >>> zed 1 >>> zed.__class__ WTF??! Is this a bug

Re: pipeline encoding

Tomek Toczyski schrieb: > Diez B. Roggisch: > >> >> Python tries and guesses the stdout-encoding based on the terminal >> settings. So the first print works. >> >> However, piping to a file means that it can't do so, because it >> doesn't (and shouldn't) make any assumptions on the output encodi

Re: __iadd__ useless in sub-classed int

samwyse schrieb: > For whatever reason, I need an inproved integer. Sounds easy, let's > just subclass int: > class test(int): > pass > > Now let's test it: > zed=test(0) zed.__class__ > zed > 0 > > So far, so good. Now let's try incrementing: > zed+=1 ze

Re: Best way to merge/sort two sorted lists?...

On 2007-12-06, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 6, 9:30 am, Aaron Watters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> While trying to optimize some NUCULAR libraries I discovered >> that the best way to merge 2 sorted lists together >> into a new sorted list is to just append >> them and r

Re: pipeline encoding

> Are there any command line option for telling python what encoding to > use for stdout? Not a command line option. However, you can wrap sys.stdout with a stream that automatically performs an encoding. If all your print statements output Unicode strings, you can do sys.stdout = codecs.getwrite

Re: pipeline encoding

Tomek Toczyski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are there any command line option for telling python what encoding to > use for stdout? > > To be honest I have a more complicated program than the example that I > have presented - there are many print commands inside and it is not > very feasible for

Re: Best way to merge/sort two sorted lists?...

On 2007-12-06, Neil Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It should beat ResortEverything consistently once the lists > become larger than a certain size. Do you get better results at > all with the above function? With psyco, my merge_sorted becamse faster than relying on timsort at roughly 80 ele

Re: pipeline encoding

Tomek Toczyski wrote: > Diez B. Roggisch: > >> >> Python tries and guesses the stdout-encoding based on the terminal >> settings. So the first print works. >> >> However, piping to a file means that it can't do so, because it doesn't >> (and shouldn't) make any assumptions on the output encodin

Determining Dependencies

Hello All- I have a Python routine consisting of 75 or more files (most files house 1 object) and would like to know if there is an automated way to search though the files and determine all of the (non-standard lib) modules required to run the routine. For example, looking in my base class I can

Re: Best way to merge/sort two sorted lists?...

On 2007-12-06, Aaron Watters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 6, 2:14 pm, Neil Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 2007-12-06, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > See recipes: >> >http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/491285 >> >http://aspn.activestate.com/AS

Re: which configparse?

Shane Geiger wrote: > Best, is naturally, a somewhat subjective evaluation. That being said, > configparser is well regarded. I have also seen these two options that > you might want to check out: > > http://wiki.woodpecker.org.cn/moin/Dict4Ini > http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/configobj.htm

Re: JSON

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i tried a couple python json libraries. i used simplejson on the > server and was using cjson on the client, but i ran into this issue. > i'm now using simplejson on both sides, but i'm still interested in > this issue. did i do something wrong? is there a bug in one of

Re: Capture DOS error???

Tangen, Erik wrote: > Did you ever get a solution to this? > I am also in need of this solution. > Thanks, > Erik Can you clarify? What is a DOS error? You mean an error in reading or writing a file? That would be an IOError exception. If a file is not found, or you can't read it, that's an O

Re: which configparse?

Martin Marcher wrote: > Hi, > > On 12/6/07, Neal Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> configparse looks like what I want, but it seems last commit was >2years >> ago. >> >> What is the best choice? > > that seems like configparse is the best choice. Thanks. I see something right off that shou

Re: Best way to merge/sort two sorted lists?...

On Dec 6, 2:14 pm, Neil Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-12-06, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > See recipes: > >http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/491285 > >http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/305269 > > That's fairly awesome. T

Re: which configparse?

Hi, On 12/6/07, Neal Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > configparse looks like what I want, but it seems last commit was >2years > ago. > > What is the best choice? that seems like configparse is the best choice. I use it quite often and no commit in >2years to me means "Boy that's stable softwa

sqlite or xml

Hello group, If I need store and use a couple thousand of people's contact info: first name, last name, phone, fax, email, address, etc. I'm thinking of using either sqlite or xml. Which one is better? My understanding is if there is large amount of data, sqlite would be better as far as speed is

Charging range

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Re: How can I create customized classes that have similar properties as 'str'?

On Nov 24, 6:38 pm, Hrvoje Niksic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > samwyse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > create a hash that maps your keys to themselves, then use the values > > of that hash as your keys. > > The "atom" function you describe already exists under the name > "intern". D'oh! That's wh

Re: Distutils help for sub-packages

On Dec 5, 7:20 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I recommend asking the distutils guys at their list: > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > > Mike I did, and no one replied there either. Probably because everyone, there and here, were too polite to say that I was nutso. Which

Re: sqlite or xml

On Dec 6, 10:21 pm, Kelie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello group, > > If I need store and use a couple thousand of people's contact info: > first name, last name, phone, fax, email, address, etc. I'm thinking > of using either sqlite or xml. Which one is better? My understanding > is if there is

Re: Distutils help for sub-packages

On Dec 6, 2:37 pm, Rick Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 5, 7:20 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > I recommend asking the distutils guys at their list: > > >http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > > > Mike > > I did, and no one replied there either. Probably because e

Re: sqlite or xml

> how much data is considered to be "large amount"? one record Unless you really need XML to communicate with some other app via a predetermined schema, use a database to store and retrieve data. If you only need to send data to another app via a predetermined schema, use a database and then

Re: splitting a words of a line

On Dec 7, 2:21 am, Sumit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi , >I am trying to splitt a Line whihc is below of format , > > AzAccept PLYSSTM01 [23/Sep/2005:16:14:28 -0500] "162.44.245.32 CN= > cojack (890),OU=1,OU=Customers,OU=ISM-Users,OU=kkk > Secure,DC=customer,DC=rxcorp,DC=com" "pl

Re: __iadd__ useless in sub-classed int

On Dec 6, 1:12 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > samwyse schrieb: > > > For whatever reason, I need an inproved integer. Sounds easy, let's > > just subclass int: > > class test(int): > >pass > > > Now let's test it: > > zed=test(0) > zed.__class__ > > >

Re: __iadd__ useless in sub-classed int

On Dec 6, 2007 3:02 PM, samwyse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 6, 1:12 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > samwyse schrieb: > > > > > For whatever reason, I need an inproved integer. Sounds easy, let's > > > just subclass int: > > > > class test(int): > > >pass >

Re: __iadd__ useless in sub-classed int

On 2007-12-06, samwyse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And that's my complaint. The value in is being replaced > by something almost, but not quite, identical to the original > value. Python's internal implementation of __iadd__ for > isn't returning , it's returning a new value belonging to > the

Calculate an age

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Re: sqlite or xml

Tim Chase wrote: >> how much data is considered to be "large amount"? > > one record > > Unless you really need XML to communicate with some other app via a > predetermined schema, use a database to store and retrieve data. If you > only need to send data to another app via a predetermined sch

I'm missing something here with range vs. xrange

I've been playing with Python a bit. Doing little performance benchmarks and working with Psyco. It's been fun and I've been learning a lot. For example, in a previous post, I was looking for a way to dynamically add new runtime function to a class. Martin told me to use a class instance variabl

Re: Calculate an age

On Dec 7, 8:34 am, Pierre Quentel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have searched in the standard distribution if there was a function > to return the difference between 2 dates expressed like an age : > number of years, of months and days. The difference between datetime > instances retur

Re: I'm missing something here with range vs. xrange

Joe Goldthwaite wrote: > I read that the range function builds a list and that xrange > returns an iterator and is therefore more efficient. This is generally not true. > In my testing, they both come out to almost exactly the same > performance wise. Did something get changed in Python 2.4 to

Re: sqlite or xml

Tim Chase wrote: >> how much data is considered to be "large amount"? > > one record > > Unless you really need XML to communicate with some other app via a > predetermined schema, use a database to store and retrieve data. If you > only need to send data to another app via a predetermined sch

Re: sqlite or xml

Thanks Chris, Tim and Yu-Xi. I'll follow your advice and use database. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Speed of Nested Functions & Lambda Expressions

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Re: Calculate an age

On Dec 6, 4:19 pm, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 7, 8:34 am, Pierre Quentel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > I have searched in the standard distribution if there was a function > > to return the difference between 2 dates expressed like an age : > > number of years,

Re: using pdb and catching exception

Just checked to see how Ruby deals with this. Both languages allow one to register a trace functon to catch "events" like call, line, return, exception, etc. Ruby however register an event before the raise takes place. It might be cool for some good person to go through the process of making a for

Re: Calculate an age

On Dec 6, 11:19 pm, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 7, 8:34 am, Pierre Quentel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > I have searched in the standard distribution if there was a function > > to return the difference between 2 dates expressed like an age : > > number of years

Re: Best ways of managing text encodings in source/regexes?

OK, for those interested in this sort of thing, this is what I now think is necessary to work with Unicode in python. Thanks to those who gave feedback, and to Cliff in particular (but any remaining misconceptions are my own!) Here are the results of my attempts to come to grips with this. Commen

Re: sqlite or xml

On Dec 7, 12:34 am, Kelie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Chris, Tim and Yu-Xi. I'll follow your advice and use database. Hi Kelie If you're happy going with sqlite then stick with it. If on the other hand you were considering XML because you're more comfortable with that (e.g. you find XML

Re: which configparse?

On Dec 6, 2007 11:49 PM, Shane Geiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Best, is naturally, a somewhat subjective evaluation. That being said, > configparser is well regarded. I have also seen these two options that > you might want to check out: > > http://wiki.woodpecker.org.cn/moin/Dict4Ini > http:

Python Profiler GUI like Matlab?

Hi all, Is there any Python Profiler GUI like Matlab? I found the Matlab Profiler is very intuitive and easy to use. Best regards, Davy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Can I embed Windows Python in C# or VC++?

I want to use Python's Windows (python25.dll) version to embed in my C# (or atleast VC++) program for performing syntax checks on the Python expressions which are later supposed to be evaluated at runtime by another C++ program For this, I would like to use CPython API functions such as Py_Initial

PyImport_ImportModule("foo.bar")

I'm trying to import foo.bar in order not to add every single directory with python files to the search path. i immediately follow the import with the PyModule_AddObject call to put the imported module to __main__ module but later on PyEval_EvalCode on Py_CompileString compiled code "foo.bar.baz()

Re: JSON

Joshua Kugler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> i tried a couple python json libraries. i used simplejson on the >> server and was using cjson on the client, but i ran into this issue. >> i'm now using simplejson on both sides, but i'm still interested in >> this issue. d

Re: Best way to merge/sort two sorted lists?...

"Aaron Watters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | While trying to optimize some NUCULAR libraries I discovered | that the best way to merge 2 sorted lists together | into a new sorted list is to just append | them and re-sort. The current version of list.sort (timsort

Thought you would enjoy some funny math cartoons!!!

I just wanted to share some math cartoons (mathtoons) I put together at http://notsohumblepi.com. I thought you guys might enjoy. I tried to figure out how to make a mathtoon involving Pi in place of Python (like Pi in the middle of a snake) but couldn't get it to work. Anyways, I hope you enjoy.

Re: SimpleXMLRPCServer interruptable?

En Thu, 06 Dec 2007 13:11:09 -0300, Bret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > For completeness, what I ended up doing is this: > > server = SimpleXMLRPCServer((host, port)) > server.socket.settimeout(0.1) > > ServerWrapper became: > > def ServerWrapper(): > while True: >

Re: Python Profiler GUI like Matlab?

On 7 Des, 02:58, Davy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any Python Profiler GUI like Matlab? I found the Matlab > Profiler is very intuitive and easy to use. There is a Python profiler. But is does not have a GUI. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Capturing global input?

On 6 Des, 22:51, nomihn0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to accept mouse gestures and keyboard shortcuts as input to a > program. It depends on which GUI toolkit you use. Look in the wxPython, PyGTK, tkinter or pygame documentation. > The nature of this program requires that these command

Re: Timeout test hangs IDLE

En Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:03:49 -0300, Andreas Tawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: >> There was a strange error when using 'print' & threads. When >> what I printed filled the entire screen, instead of moving >> all the text up, IDLE just hanged. Try running your code from >> the shell instead, to s

Re: Class destructor -- strange behaviour

On Dec 6, 3:51 pm, Spes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have this simple code: > | #!/usr/bin/python > | import codecs > | import re > | from copy import deepcopy > | > | class MyClass(object): > | def __del__(self): > | deepcopy(1) > | > | x=MyClass() > > but I get an error: > | Excep

Re: Capturing global input?

On Dec 6, 9:16 pm, MonkeeSage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 6, 3:51 pm, nomihn0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'd like to accept mouse gestures and keyboard shortcuts as input to a > > program. The nature of this program requires that these commands be > > issued regardless of the currentl

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