Re: bisect intersection

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Re: Feature suggestion: sum() ought to use a compensated summation algorithm

Duncan Booth wrote: Szabolcs Horvát <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I thought that it would be very nice if the built-in sum() function used this algorithm by default. Has this been brought up before? Would this have any disadvantages (apart from a slight performance impact, but Python is a high

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Re: Feature suggestion: sum() ought to use a compensated summation algorithm

Gabriel Genellina wrote: Python doesn't require __add__ to be associative, so this should not be used as a general sum replacement. It does not _require_ this, but using an __add__ that is not commutative and associative, or has side effects, would qualify as a serious misuse, anyway. So I

Re: Feature suggestion: sum() ought to use a compensated summation algorithm

On May 3, 9:50 am, Szabolcs Horvát <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did the following calculation:  Generated a list of a million random > numbers between 0 and 1, constructed a new list by subtracting the mean > value from each number, and then calculated the mean again. > > The result should be 0,

Re: Feature suggestion: sum() ought to use a compensated summation algorithm

> > > However I find the seccond argument hack ugly. Does the sum way have any > > > performance advantages over the reduce way? > > > Yes, sum() is faster: ... > Not really; you measure the import and the attribute access time in > the second case. sum() is 2x faster for adding numbers only: Try

Re: Feature suggestion: sum() ought to use a compensated summation algorithm

On May 5, 9:37 am, Szabolcs Horvát <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gabriel Genellina wrote: > > > Python doesn't require __add__ to be associative, so this should not be > > used as a general sum replacement. > > It does not _require_ this, but using an __add__ that is not commutative > and associati

Re: Feature suggestion: sum() ought to use a compensated summation algorithm

"Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > En Sun, 04 May 2008 12:58:25 -0300, Duncan Booth > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > >> Szabolcs Horvát <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> I thought that it would be very nice if the built-in sum() function >>> used this algorithm by default. Has th

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>> NS/dir1/file1.py >> NS/dir2/file2.py > This *must* be wrong or at least not the full directory listing - please > read It is the directory structure in one of the python paths. > Missing __init__.py in the dir2? Oh right. I forgot about this. Thank you! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinf

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Re: Feature suggestion: sum() ought to use a compensated summation algorithm

Szabolcs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 5, 9:37 am, Szabolcs Horvát <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Gabriel Genellina wrote: >> >> > Python doesn't require __add__ to be associative, so this should >> > not be > used as a general sum replacement. >> >> It does not _require_ this, but using an

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Re: How to pass a multiline arg to exec('some.exe arg')?

Hint: for some reason in VBScript it works fine. What makes it different, with Python? I tried all possible ways to combine quotes, ' and ", with no avail -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to pass a multiline arg to exec('some.exe arg')?

On May 5, 10:25 am, n00m <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > os:windows > ml = 'line1 \n line2 \n line3 \n' > exec('some.exe "' + ml + '"') > > and some.exe get only 'line1'... I think your problem lies with your "\n", escape chars. Assuming these are not arguments and are indeed separating statements, I

Re: How to pass a multiline arg to exec('some.exe arg')?

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Re: pygame music, cant read mp3?

globalrev wrote: > http://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/mixer.html > > import pygame > > #pygame.mixer.init(frequency=22050, size=-16, channels=2, > buffer=3072) //it complained abiout words= > so i guess its only the nbrs should be there// > > pygame.mixer.init(22050, -16, 2, 3072) > pygame.mixer.m

Re: use php in python httpservers

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confused about self, why not a reserved word?

class Foo(object): def Hello(self): print "hi" object is purple, ie some sort of reserved word. why is self in black(ie a normal word) when it has special powers. replacing it with sel for example will cause an error when calling Hello. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/li

Re: pygame music, cant read mp3?

On 5 Maj, 13:47, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > globalrev wrote: > >http://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/mixer.html > > > import pygame > > > #pygame.mixer.init(frequency=22050, size=-16, channels=2, > > buffer=3072) //it complained abiout words= > > so i guess its only the nbrs should

Re: pygame music, cant read mp3?

On 5 Maj, 14:03, globalrev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5 Maj, 13:47, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > globalrev wrote: > > >http://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/mixer.html > > > > import pygame > > > > #pygame.mixer.init(frequency=22050, size=-16, channels=2, > > > buffer=3072)

Re: confused about self, why not a reserved word?

2008/5/5, globalrev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > class Foo(object): > def Hello(self): > print "hi" > > object is purple, ie some sort of reserved word. > > why is self in black(ie a normal word) when it has special powers. > replacing it with sel for example will cause an erro

Re: pygame music, cant read mp3?

2008/5/5, globalrev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > pygame.mixer.music.load('C:/Python25/myPrograms/pygameProgs/example1.mp3') Are you sure that: os.path.exists('C:/Python25/myPrograms/pygameProgs/example1.mp3') == True? Check it with python. -- Regards, Wojtek Walczak http://www.stud.umk.pl/~wojtekwa

Re: confused about self, why not a reserved word?

On Mon, 5 May 2008 04:57:25 -0700 (PDT), globalrev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: class Foo(object): def Hello(self): print "hi" object is purple, ie some sort of reserved word. What your text editor of choice does with syntax coloring is its own business. It doesn't really

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David Anderson wrote: The thing is this query works fine on the console through psql, but not in my code? can anyone explain me why? On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 9:31 PM, David Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Hi all I have this function: def checkName(sel

Re: confused about self, why not a reserved word?

globalrev wrote: > class Foo(object): > def Hello(self): > print "hi" > > object is purple, ie some sort of reserved word. It is not. > why is self in black(ie a normal word) when it has special powers. > replacing it with sel for example will cause an error when calling > Hello. That must be

Re: confused about self, why not a reserved word?

On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 04:57 -0700, globalrev wrote: > class Foo(object): > def Hello(self): > print "hi" > > object is purple, ie some sort of reserved word. > > why is self in black(ie a normal word) when it has special powers. > replacing it with sel for example will cause a

Re: using sqlite3 - execute vs. executemany; committing ...

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Re: using sqlite3 - execute vs. executemany; committing ...

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On May 4, 7:22 pm, Noah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to match against Event.type for KeyPress and ButtonPress. > Currently I'm using integer constants (2 and 4). Are these constants > defined anywhere? The docs talk about KeyPress and ButtonPress, but I > don't see them in any of the Tki

Re: confused about self, why not a reserved word?

globalrev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > class Foo(object): >def Hello(self): >print "hi" > > object is purple, ie some sort of reserved word. > > why is self in black(ie a normal word) when it has special powers. Because `self` is just a name. Using `self` is a convention,

Re: confused about self, why not a reserved word?

sorry i noticed now a little error, i was playing around a lot and saw that on the sel-example i had then called foo.hello() instead of foo.Hello(). but it was an informing error now i egt it. was wondering about self anyway so thanks for clearing it up. but it still is a bit confusing that u c

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Re: How to convert unicode string to unsigned char *

On Mon, 5 May 2008 15:41:08 +0200, Simon Posnjak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi! I have a C module for which I created a wrapper with swig. The function def is: C: int some_thing(unsigned char * the_str); eg: Python: some_module.some_thing (the_str) Now I would like to feed it with a UTF-8

Re: Feature suggestion: sum() ought to use a compensated summation algorithm

On May 5, 12:24 pm, Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Szabolcs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On May 5, 9:37 am, Szabolcs Horvát <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Gabriel Genellina wrote: > > >> > Python doesn't require __add__ to be associative, so this should > >> > not be > > used as a gen

Re: pygame music, cant read mp3?

On 5 Maj, 14:17, "Wojciech Walczak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/5/5, globalrev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > pygame.mixer.music.load('C:/Python25/myPrograms/pygameProgs/example1.mp3') > > Are you sure that: > > os.path.exists('C:/Python25/myPrograms/pygameProgs/example1.mp3') == True? > > Check

Re: confused about self, why not a reserved word?

> the class-thing seems inside out somehow in python. if im doing > foo.Hello() im already saying that im using the class foo because i > did foo=Foo() before and then still when calling Hello() i am > invisibly passing the class itself a s a parameter by default? > just seems backwards and weird.

Re: pygame music, cant read mp3?

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 10:09 AM, globalrev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5 Maj, 14:17, "Wojciech Walczak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > 2008/5/5, globalrev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > pygame.mixer.music.load('C:/Python25/myPrograms/pygameProgs/example1.mp3') > > > > > Are you sure

Re: How to convert unicode string to unsigned char *

On Mon, 5 May 2008 16:05:08 +0200, Simon Posnjak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Jean-Paul Calderone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 5 May 2008 15:41:08 +0200, Simon Posnjak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I have a C module for which I created a wrapper with s

Re: SSL through python. possible ?

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Re: Nested os.path.join()'s

On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 16:21 +0200, Paul Scott wrote: > example: > > if os.path.exists(os.path.join(basedir,picdir)) == True : > blah blah > Sorry, pasted the wrong example... Better example: pics = glob.glob(os.path.join(os.path.join(basedir,picdir),'*')) > Question is, is there a bet

Re: pygame music, cant read mp3?

On 5 Maj, 16:09, globalrev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5 Maj, 14:17, "Wojciech Walczak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > 2008/5/5, globalrev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > pygame.mixer.music.load('C:/Python25/myPrograms/pygameProgs/example1.mp3') > > > Are you sure that: > > > os.path.exists('C

Re: How to convert unicode string to unsigned char *

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Jean-Paul Calderone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 5 May 2008 16:05:08 +0200, Simon Posnjak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Jean-Paul Calderone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 5 May 2008 15:41:08 +0200, Simon Po

Re: Nested os.path.join()'s

On Mon, 05 May 2008 16:28:33 +0200, Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 16:21 +0200, Paul Scott wrote: example: if os.path.exists(os.path.join(basedir,picdir)) == True : blah blah Sorry, pasted the wrong example... Better example: pics = glob.glob(os.path.join

Re: pygame music, cant read mp3?

On 5 Maj, 16:29, globalrev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5 Maj, 16:09, globalrev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On 5 Maj, 14:17, "Wojciech Walczak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > 2008/5/5, globalrev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > pygame.mixer.music.load('C:/Python25/myPrograms/pygam

Re: Nested os.path.join()'s

On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 10:34 -0400, Jean-Paul Calderone wrote: > How about not nesting the calls? > > >>> from os.path import join > >>> join(join('x', 'y'), 'z') == join('x', 'y', 'z') > True > >>> > Great! Thanks. Didn't realise that you could do that... :) --Paul All Email o

Re: Nested os.path.join()'s

On 2008-05-05, Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Today, I needed to concatenate a bunch of directory paths and files > together based on user input to create file paths. I achieved this > through nested os.path.join()'s which I am unsure if this is a good > thing or not. > > example: > > if

Re: confused about self, why not a reserved word?

globalrev a écrit : sorry i noticed now a little error, i was playing around a lot and saw that on the sel-example i had then called foo.hello() instead of foo.Hello(). but it was an informing error now i egt it. was wondering about self anyway so thanks for clearing it up. but it still is a

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Re: Pygame and PGU

Zaka wrote: > Hi. I need some help to make map system in PGU. For exmple we have 2 > maps and when we leave first we enter to second. > > > >! > > > ___ What is a PGU? What is a map-system? And what is that ascii art above? And what might you

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Re: pygame music, cant read mp3?

On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 07:32 -0700, globalrev wrote: > On 5 Maj, 16:29, globalrev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 5 Maj, 16:09, globalrev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On 5 Maj, 14:17, "Wojciech Walczak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > 2008/5/5, globalrev <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: pygame music, cant read mp3?

> directory = ['C:','Python25','myPrograms','pygameProgs','dront.mp3'] > os.path.join(directory) > > Then python can worry about the gritty details, and you don't have to. Or somewhat neater IMHO: os.path.join('C:','Python25','myPrograms','pygameProgs','dront.mp3') Diez -- http://mail.python.

Re: logger output

On May 4, 10:40 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > En Mon, 05 May 2008 00:33:12 -0300,skunkwerk<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > > > i'm redirecting the stdout & stderr of my python program to a log. > > Tests i've done on a simple program with print statements, etc. work > > fi

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Re: Python application distribution

ron.longo wrote: > unable to execute. Why is this? At this point I'm not really keen on > handing out the source files to my application, it feels unprofessional. If you plan to deploy on windows, py2exe could be the more "professional" approach you are thinking of. -- http://mail.python.org

Re: Feature suggestion: sum() ought to use a compensated summation algorithm

On May 3, 4:31 pm, Thomas Dybdahl Ahle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 21:37 +, Ivan Illarionov wrote: > > On Sat, 03 May 2008 20:44:19 +0200, Szabolcs Horvát wrote: > > > > Arnaud Delobelle wrote: > > > >> sum() works for any sequence of objects with an __add__ method, not >

Re: How to convert unicode string to unsigned char *

> some_module.some_thing(the_string) function is a swig generated > function from a C lib. The C lib function expects unsigned char *. > > The generated function is: If you don't want to change the generated function, I recommend to put a wrapper around it, as Jean-Paul suggested: def some_thing

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On May 5, 12:28 am, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > En Mon, 05 May 2008 00:09:02 -0300, hdante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > > > > >  Isn't this guy a bot ? :-) It's learning fast. I believe there is a > > "frame" in C, composed of its stack and globals. For generators in C,

Re: config files in python

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Re: Feature suggestion: sum() ought to use a compensated summation algorithm

Gabriel Genellina wrote: Python doesn't require __add__ to be associative, so this should not be used as a general sum replacement. But if you know that you're adding floating point numbers you can use whatever algorithm best fits you. Or use numpy arrays; I think they implement Kahan summatio

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On May 2, 1:52 pm, Mike Driscoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 2, 1:20 pm, Heikki Toivonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Mike Driscoll wrote: > > > On Apr 29, 8:56 am,TkNeo<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I need to do SSL file transfer using python? Is there a library i can > > >> use ? >

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"Zed A. Shaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > GPLv3? > > How do people feel about Vellum's GPLv3 status? It actually doesn't > impact anyone unless you embed Vellum into a project/product or you Yeah, but it effectively prevents people from embedding it into their apps that wish to remain BSD/MIT

Re: So you think PythonCard is old? Here's new wine in an old bottle.

> > For serveral years, I have been looking for a way to migrate away from > desktop GUI/client-server programming onto the browser based network > computing model of programming. Unfortunately, up until recently, > browser based programs are very limited - due to the limitation of > HTML itself.

Re: How do I say "Is this a function"?

John Henry schrieb: exec fct You don't want this. You want to store the function in a list instead: l = [ f1, f3, others ] for i in [0,1]: l[i]() Greetings, Fabiano -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

need help of regular expression genius

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psycopg2 ReferenceManual

Hi all, where can I find the reference manual from the psycopg2 or the dbapi2.0 because in their official pages I could'nt find thx -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

listing computer hard drives with python

Hi I am looking for a way to get a list of all active logical hard drives of the computer (["c:","d:"..]) Thanks, Ohad -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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

Lance, > I am still undecided if the ability for the user to edit the file > independently of the program is a good or bad thing. I prefer user viewable plain (non-XML) text files because: - easy to make a change in case of emergency - easy to visually review and search - easy to version contro

Re: STL multimap

Hi there. Maybe a little more context would help us figure out what you want here... On May 5, 1:28 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is multimap just a syntax-checked dictionary of mutable sequences? I think the equivalent of a multimap can be implemented several different ways, depending on what

os.open and O_EXCL

Greetings! I am trying to lock a file so no other process can get read nor write access to it. I thought this was possible with os.open(filename, os.O_EXCL), but that is not working. I am aware of the win32file option to do file locking, so my question is this: what is the purpose of the o

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

Lance, > I am still undecided if the ability for the user to edit the file > independently of the program is a good or bad thing. I prefer user viewable plain (non-XML) text files because: - easy to make a change in case of emergency - easy to visually review and search - easy to version contro

Writing elapsed time as a string

Hello. I'm sorry if this has been asked a thousand (million) times. Is there a nifty pythonesque way to produce a string representing an elapsed time period, in terms of years, months, days, hours, mins, seconds? I am storing times in a MySQL db, and would love to be able to write the time e

Writing elapsed time as a string

Hello. I'm sorry if this has been asked a thousand (million) times. Is there a nifty pythonesque way to produce a string representing an elapsed time period, in terms of years, months, days, hours, mins, seconds? I am storing times in a MySQL db, and would love to be able to write the time e

Re: Preventing 'bad' filenames from raising errors in os.path

Matimus and John, Thank you both for your feedback. Matimus: I agree with your analysis. I blame lack of caffeine for my original post :) Regards, Malcolm -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ISBN Barecode reader in Python?

Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> All: I have written a program to query Amazon with ISBN and get >> the book details. I would like to extend so that I can read >> ISBN from the barcode (I will take a photo of the same using >> webcam or mobile).

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

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I didn't find your language offensive but you might consider toning down > your review of the Awesome Window Manager :) Nah - keep up the bad attitude. Your (Zed) blog/articles are one of the few things on the programmosphere that actually make me laugh audibly. -- ht

Re: Visual Studio 6 compile of 2.5.2 fails with missing db.h

On May 5, 11:43 am, brucoder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Searched the archives, but I can only find mention of db.h problems relating > to Linux. > > I've downloaded the source for 2.5.2 and am trying to compile it in Visual > Studio 6 (SP6). I've just stepped back to 2.3.7 and re

Re: ISBN Barecode reader in Python?

Max Erickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The killer application for ISBN lookup on Amazon is checking prices > while in the bookstore. Being able to email a photo from your phone > and then getting an email with the Amazon price in response would be > way easier than typing the isbn into Goo

Re: Are rank noobs tolerated, here?

On 2008-05-04, notbob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to learn how to program. I'm using: > > How to Think Like a Computer Scientist > > Learning with Python > 2nd Edition http://openbookproject.net//thinkCSpy/index.xhtml OK then, using the above, I get everything up till chap 3 and

Re: generator functions in another language

On May 4, 1:11 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > There is no such thing as a 'frame' per se in C; byte code is > integral. As there is no such thing as suspended state without > frames, and no such thing as generators without suspended state. Well, for implementing generators there are alternatives

Re: confused about self, why not a reserved word?

"globalrev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | sorry i noticed now a little error, i was playing around a lot and saw | that on the sel-example i had then called foo.hello() instead of | foo.Hello(). Lesson: whenever one inquires about an 'error', one should cut and pa

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