Is vs Equality Operator

Hello, I am having problem in using is. Here is what i am doing. x='' if x is None or x is '': return 1 The above statement does not return value 1. If i changed the above check to if x == None or x == '': return 1 Now it works fine. Any idea. What is happening here. I am usin

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from random import randint s1 = '' s2 = '' for i in xrange(1000): s1 += chr(randint(97,122)) s2 += chr(randint(97,122)) print s1[:25] print s2[:25] import difflib s = difflib.SequenceMatcher(None, s1, s2) print s.find_longest_match(0, len(s1), 0, len(s2)) >>> == RESTART

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Re: A bug in difflib module? (find_longest_match)

En Thu, 01 May 2008 04:35:17 -0300, n00m <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: from random import randint s1 = '' s2 = '' for i in xrange(1000): s1 += chr(randint(97,122)) s2 += chr(randint(97,122)) print s1[:25] print s2[:25] import difflib s = difflib.SequenceMatcher(None, s1, s2) print

Re: A bug in difflib module? (find_longest_match)

Gabriel Genellina: > En Thu, 01 May 2008 04:35:17 -0300, n00m <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi�: > > > from random import randint > > > > s1 = '' > > s2 = '' > > > > for i in xrange(1000): > > s1 += chr(randint(97,122)) > > s2 += chr(randint(97,122)) > > > > print s1[:25] > > print s2[:25] > >

Re: Is vs Equality Operator

Good Z wrote: Hello, I am having problem in using is. Here is what i am doing. Short answer: Use == for equality.Don't use "is". Ever! (Especially if you are a newbie.) Longer answer: In a dozen years of programming Python, the only time I use "is" is when testing for something like

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thanks Peter, for your perfect explanation, and By the way, looping over a dictionary destroys its key advantage, O(1) lookup. Use # untested if attr in self.extra_setters: self.extra_setters[attr](value) else: self.__dict__[attr] = value and something similar in __getattr__(). ye

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On 2008-04-30 18:42, Sean Ryan wrote: Hi all, (A similar question was posted by a colleague, but did not appear to reach comp.lang.python or this list). I am wondering if the -v option causes the python application to be more tolerant to module import warnings and / or errors. The reason is th

Re: A bug in difflib module? (find_longest_match)

En Thu, 01 May 2008 06:21:22 -0300, n00m <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > import difflib > s = difflib.SequenceMatcher(None, s1, s2) > print s.find_longest_match(0, len(s1), 0, len(s2)) > (0, 0, 0) > > I think it's line #314 in difflib "who's to blame" -- Me too. Could you think of some alternat

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Re: Best way to store config or preferences in a multi-platform way.

Look at the pickle and marshal modules. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Is vs Equality Operator

Good Z schrieb: > Hello, > I am having problem in using is. Here is what i am doing. > > x='' > if x is None or x is '': > return 1 > > The above statement does not return value 1. > > If i changed the above check to > if x == None or x == '': > return 1 > Now it works fine. >

Re: Is vs Equality Operator

'is' tests for identity (variable references the same memory location) while '==' tests for equality. Though it's probably best to use 'is' with more complex classes and not the simpler built-in types like integers. See how 'is' works for lists below: >>> l1 = [1,2,3,4] >>> l3 = [1,2,3,4] >>> l1

Re: Python 2.6 and wrapping C libraries on Windows

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Re: Best way to store config or preferences in a multi-platform way.

On 2008-05-01 13:37, Lance Gamet wrote: Hi, python beginner starting a new project here. This project will store most of its actual data in a shared-database, but I have a small amount of user specific data that I need to be stored like configuration or preferences for example, the list of dat

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Re: Best way to store config or preferences in a multi-platform way.

Lance Gamet wrote: Hi, python beginner starting a new project here. This project will store most of its actual data in a shared-database, but I have a small amount of user specific data that I need to be stored like configuration or preferences for example, the list of databases that the prog

Signals/Slots support in Python

I don't know if any such support is already built in, so I ended up making my own simple signals/slots like mechanism. If anyone is interested then here it is, along with a simple test. It can connect to normal functions as well as instance methods. It also supports weak connections where wh

Re: Best way to store config or preferences in a multi-platform way.

Lance Gamet schrieb: Hi, python beginner starting a new project here. This project will store most of its actual data in a shared-database, but I have a small amount of user specific data that I need to be stored like configuration or preferences for example, the list of databases that the pr

Re: ]ANN[ Vellum 0.16: Lots Of Documentation and Watching

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Re: [ANN] Vellum 0.16: Lots Of Documentation and Watching

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Re: Best way to store config or preferences in a multi-platform way.

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Re: Please help me with linking libraries on Solaris 10 sparc

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Re: Please help me with linking libraries on Solaris 10 sparc

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Re: Please help me with linking libraries on Solaris 10 sparc

On May 1, 10:17 am, Ralf Schönian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > idev schrieb: > > > > > Hi all, > > Please help me with my stuff. > > > I downloaded python 2.5.1 package fromhttp://blastwave.orgit was > > compiled using Sun Studio 11 for Solaris 8 sparc. > > > My system is Solaris 10 sparc and I com

Re: Please help me with linking libraries on Solaris 10 sparc

On May 1, 10:30 am, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > lib/python/site-packages/psycopg2/_psycopg.so: symbol round: > > referenced symbol not found > > You need to link _psycopg.so with the math library, -lm. > > Regards, > Martin Martin, could you please tell me how to do this, I am

Re: Signals/Slots support in Python

On 5/1/08, Brian Vanderburg II ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >I don't know if any such support is already built in, so I ended up >making my own simple signals/slots like mechanism. If anyone is >interested then here it is, along with a simple test. It can connect to >normal functions as well as

Re: Best way to store config or preferences in a multi-platform way.

On Thu, 01 May 2008 08:30:03 -0500, Nick Craig-Wood wrote: > Lance Gamet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> This project will store most of its actual data in a shared-database, >> but I have a small amount of user specific data that I need to be >> stored like configuration or preferences for examp

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Hi, I have a piece of software which uses threads in very massive way - like hundreds of them generated every second. there is also a piece of code which maintains the number of outstanding threads, simply counter+=1 is executed when before starting the thread and counter-=1 after it fini

simple beginner question about lists and negative index

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Re: Signals/Slots support in Python

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Re: simple beginner question about lists and negative index

On May 1, 10:59 am, jmDesktop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This program: > > s = 'abcde' > i = -1 > for i in range (-1, -len(s), -1): >     print s[:i], i > > gives > > abcd -1 > abc -2 > ab -3 > a -4 > > Why doesn't the first one have the e if -1 is the end of the list?  In > Dive Into Python it s

Re: is +=1 thread safe

If no other threads will be accessing the counter, there will be no problem. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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Re: computing with characters

On May 1, 3:36 am, Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Apr 30, 5:06 am, Torsten Bronger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >> Hallöchen! > > >> SL writes: > >> > "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in bericht > >> >news:[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: is +=1 thread safe

AlFire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But I still can not believe that +=1 is not a thread safe operation. > > > Any clue? The statement: x+=1 is equivalent to: x = x.__iadd__(1) i.e. a function call followed by an assignment. If the object is mutable then this *may* be safe so

Re: is +=1 thread safe

AlFire wrote: Hi, all is very simple and by the end of the program life I expect the counter to zero out. however I am getting values -1, -2, 1 ,2 ,3 and quite often 0 as expected. I guarded those statement with Lock.{acquire,release} and now it always returns 0. But I still can not belie

Re: is +=1 thread safe

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Re: Please help me with linking libraries on Solaris 10 sparc

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Re: Please help me with linking libraries on Solaris 10 sparc

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Re: Best way to store config or preferences in a multi-platform way.

On 2008-05-01, Ivan Illarionov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IMO .ini-like config files are from the stone age. The modern approach is > to use YAML (http://www.yaml.org). You mean YAML isn't a joke!? It's so ludicrously overcomplicated, and so comprehensively and completely fails to achieve its

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Re: Is vs Equality Operator

"Good Z" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Hello, | I am having problem in using is. Here is what i am doing. | | x='' | if x is None or x is '': |return 1 x is not the singleton value None, nor is it the newly created null string object. It is up to the imp

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Re: Best way to store config or preferences in a multi-platform way.

On May 1, 12:11 pm, Jon Ribbens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-05-01, Ivan Illarionov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > IMO .ini-like config files are from the stone age. The modern approach is > > to use YAML (http://www.yaml.org). > > You mean YAML isn't a joke!? It's so ludicrously overcomp

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Re: simple beginner question about lists and negative index

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Re: Best way to store config or preferences in a multi-platform way.

On Thu, 01 May 2008 11:11:29 -0500, Jon Ribbens wrote: > On 2008-05-01, Ivan Illarionov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> IMO .ini-like config files are from the stone age. The modern approach >> is to use YAML (http://www.yaml.org). > > You mean YAML isn't a joke!? It's so ludicrously overcomplicate

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On Thu, 01 May 2008 09:45:28 -0700, Carl Banks wrote: > On May 1, 12:11 pm, Jon Ribbens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 2008-05-01, Ivan Illarionov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > IMO .ini-like config files are from the stone age. The modern >> > approach is to use YAML (http://www.yaml.org).

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Re: Best way to store config or preferences in a multi-platform way.

On May 1, 4:37 am, Lance Gamet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, python beginner starting a new project here. > > This project will store most of its actual data in a shared-database, but > I have a small amount of user specific data that I need to be stored like > configuration or preferences for e

Re: Best way to store config or preferences in a multi-platform way.

On May 1, 1:30 pm, Ivan Illarionov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 01 May 2008 09:45:28 -0700, Carl Banks wrote: > > On May 1, 12:11 pm, Jon Ribbens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 2008-05-01, Ivan Illarionov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > IMO .ini-like config files are from the stone

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Re: Best way to store config or preferences in a multi-platform way.

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Re: Best way to store config or preferences in a multi-platform way.

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Re: Best way to store config or preferences in a multi-platform way.

Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 1, 12:11 pm, Jon Ribbens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2008-05-01, Ivan Illarionov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > IMO .ini-like config files are from the stone age. The modern approach is > > > to use YAML (http://www.yaml.org). > > > > You m

Re: Best way to store config or preferences in a multi-platform way.

On Thu, 01 May 2008 14:13:08 -0500, Jon Ribbens wrote: > On 2008-05-01, Ivan Illarionov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I used XML files before for this purpose and found YAML much easier and >> better suitable for the task. >> >> Please explain why don't like YANL so much? > > Because even the exa

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Re: Best way to store config or preferences in a multi-platform way.

On Thu, 01 May 2008 11:56:20 -0700, Carl Banks wrote: > On May 1, 1:30 pm, Ivan Illarionov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, 01 May 2008 09:45:28 -0700, Carl Banks wrote: >> > On May 1, 12:11 pm, Jon Ribbens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On 2008-05-01, Ivan Illarionov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

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Re: Best way to store config or preferences in a multi-platform way.

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Re: Best way to store config or preferences in a multi-platform way.

On Thu, 01 May 2008 23:03:38 +0200, Torsten Bronger wrote: > Hallöchen! > > Ivan Illarionov writes: > >> [...] >> >> I took the example from >> http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/10/29/14225/062 I haven't use my own >> example only because I don't have one at hand right now. YAML, in its >> simp

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