Re: Python doesn't understand %userprofile%

2008-06-11 Thread Tim Roberts
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >In xp when I try os.path.getmtime("%userprofile/dir/file%") Python >bites back with "cannot find the path specified" Since my script has >to run on machines where the username is unspecified I need a fix. For the record, the %PERCENT% syntax for looking up an environmen

Re: catastrophic regexp, help!

2008-06-11 Thread Maric Michaud
Le Wednesday 11 June 2008 06:20:14 cirfu, vous avez écrit : > pat = re.compile("(\w* *)*") > this matches all sentences. > if fed the string "are you crazy? i am" it will return "are you > crazy". > > i want to find a in a big string a sentence containing Zlatan > Ibrahimovic and some other text. >

Re: Thanks for help re: %userprofile%

2008-06-11 Thread Tim Roberts
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >The python community is very helpful to newbies like me. I did however >manage to solve my problem in the meantime. I needed the modification >time of certain files on various computers, but I didn't know the >usernames ahead of time, so I used windows %userprofile% meth

Re: catastrophic regexp, help!

2008-06-11 Thread Maric Michaud
Le Wednesday 11 June 2008 09:08:53 Maric Michaud, vous avez écrit : > "this is zlatan example.' > compare with 'this is zlatan example', 'z'=='.', false > compare with 'this is zlatan ', 'z'=='e', false > compare with 'this is zlatan', 'z'==' ', false > compare with 'this is ', "zlatan"=="zlatan",

Re: h2py.py bug?

2008-06-11 Thread Gabriel Rossetti
Gabriel Genellina wrote: En Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:44:13 -0300, Gabriel Rossetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: I wanted to use the h2py.py script (Tools/scripts/h2py.py) and it didn't like char litterals : Skipping: PC_ERROR = ord() where my *.h file contained : #define PC_ERROR '0' I search

Asus F5RL 99D Notebook(Laptop)

2008-06-11 Thread Ayushi Mehra
This laptop comes with Intel 1.6GHz Dual Core Processor, 1GB RAM and 120GB HDD. It has a DVD Writer, 15.4-inch widescreen display with a resolution of 1280 x 800 dpi. The laptop also has an integrated ATI X300 video card, integrated modem and sound card, Wifi, Touchpad mouse, in-built speakers, 4 U

Re: Why does python not have a mechanism for data hiding?

2008-06-11 Thread cokofreedom
On Jun 11, 8:11 am, "Russ P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 10, 11:58 am, Jonathan Gardner > > > Who cares what the type of an object is? Only the machine. Being able > > to tell, in advance, what the type of a variable is is a premature > > optimization. Tools like psyco prove that computers

http client encoding

2008-06-11 Thread Lorenzo
Hi everybody, I wrote a small http client I'm using to download and analyze some web pages.I used urllib and the examples on the doc to create the http client, but I have some problems with the encoding of the returned data. Where can I find a good example about how to manage encoding for http

Re: catastrophic regexp, help!

2008-06-11 Thread Chris
On Jun 11, 6:20 am, cirfu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > pat = re.compile("(\w* *)*") > this matches all sentences. > if fed the string "are you crazy? i am" it will return "are you > crazy". > > i want to find a in a big string a sentence containing Zlatan > Ibrahimovic and some other text. > ie ret

How to view how much memory some process use in Windows?

2008-06-11 Thread Florencio Cano
How can I monitor with a Python script how much memory does a process use in Windows? I want to do statistics about memory consumption of processes like Firefox, Antivirus, etc. When I search in Google I only find information about how to monitor this in linux or how to reduce Python programs memor

Re: Why does python not have a mechanism for data hiding?

2008-06-11 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Russ P. a écrit : On Jun 10, 1:04 am, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: If you hope to get a general agreement here in favor of a useless keyword that don't bring anything to the language, then yes, I'm afraid you're wasting your time. Actually, what I hope to do is to "take something away" from th

Re: mysql to sqlite

2008-06-11 Thread Nick Craig-Wood
Gandalf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to convert mysql database to sqlite. is their any free tool > that does that? > I can convert my mysql db to XML file through phpmyadmin, will it be > easier to convert from XML to SQlite then from Mysql? I'd probably create the sqlite tables f

Re: Why does python not have a mechanism for data hiding?

2008-06-11 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Russ P. a écrit : On Jun 10, 11:58 am, Jonathan Gardner (snip) Who cares about private declarations, or interface declarations at all? It is only a message to the developers. If you have a problem with your users doing the right thing, that is a social problem, not a technical one, and the sol

Re: Code correctness, and testing strategies

2008-06-11 Thread David
Thanks again for an informative reply :-) I finished that small app I mentioned last time (before reading the the last reply to this thread). A few points (apologies for the length): I added a few integration tests, to test features which unit tests weren't appropriate for. The main thing they do

Re: can't assign to literal

2008-06-11 Thread Chris
On Jun 11, 10:32 am, MRAB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 10, 10:57 pm, "Steven Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > for 1 in oids, vals head_oids: > > > SyntaxError: can't assign to literal > > > -- > > > 1 is a literal, you can't assign it to something. Are you trying to > > use it as a

Re: can't assign to literal

2008-06-11 Thread MRAB
On Jun 10, 10:57 pm, "Steven Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > for 1 in oids, vals head_oids: > > SyntaxError: can't assign to literal > > -- > > 1 is a literal, you can't assign it to something. Are you trying to > use it as a variable name? Slightly OT, but is there an editor that can displa

Re: Why does python not have a mechanism for data hiding?

2008-06-11 Thread Maric Michaud
Le Wednesday 11 June 2008 08:11:02 Russ P., vous avez écrit : > http://www.sofcheck.com > > Here is an excerpt from their website: > > "SofCheck’s advanced static error detection solutions find bugs in > programs before programs are run. By mathematically analyzing every > line of software, conside

Re: How to view how much memory some process use in Windows?

2008-06-11 Thread Duncan Booth
"Florencio Cano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I monitor with a Python script how much memory does a process > use in Windows? I want to do statistics about memory consumption of > processes like Firefox, Antivirus, etc. When I search in Google I only > find information about how to monitor

Python regex question

2008-06-11 Thread Tim van der Leeuw
Hi, I'm trying to create a regular expression for matching some particular XML strings. I want to extract the contents of a particular XML tag, only if it follows one tag, but not follows another tag. Complicating this, is that there can be any number of other tags in between. So basically, my re

Re: Why does python not have a mechanism for data hiding?

2008-06-11 Thread Paul Boddie
On 11 Jun, 10:10, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > Russ P. a écrit : > > > You may be right to an extent for small or medium-sized non-critical > > projects, but you are certainly not right in general. I read something > > a while back about the flight software for the Boeing 777. I think it > > was s

Re: Alternative to Decimal type

2008-06-11 Thread Frank Millman
Thanks to all for the various replies. They have all helped me to refine my ideas on the subject. These are my latest thoughts. Firstly, the Decimal type exists, it clearly works well, it is written by people much cleverer than me, so I would need a good reason not to use it. Speed could be a good

Re: How to kill a thread?

2008-06-11 Thread Antoon Pardon
On 2008-06-10, Rhamphoryncus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 10, 1:55 am, Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 2008-06-09, Rhamphoryncus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >> > On Jun 9, 5:33 am, Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On 2008-06-07, Rhamphoryncus <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Dumb idea?

2008-06-11 Thread A.T.Hofkamp
On 2008-06-10, Peter Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone - > > I like playing around with language syntax and semantics. I'm thinking > about pulling down the PyPy code and messing around to see what I can > accomplish. My first idea is most succinctly described by example: > > class IBlo

Parallel python + ??

2008-06-11 Thread Thor
Hi, I am running a program using Parallel Python and I wonder if there is a way/module to know in which CPU/core the process is running in. Is that possible? Ángel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python regex question

2008-06-11 Thread Gerhard Häring
Tim van der Leeuw wrote: Hi, I'm trying to create a regular expression for matching some particular XML strings. I want to extract the contents of a particular XML tag, only if it follows one tag, but not follows another tag. Complicating this, is that there can be any number of other tags in

Re: Python doesn't understand %userprofile%

2008-06-11 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Jun 11, 1:58 am, Tim Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >In xp when I try os.path.getmtime("%userprofile/dir/file%") Python > >bites back with "cannot find the path specified" Since my script has > >to run on machines where the username is unspecified I need a fix.

Re: Parallel python + ??

2008-06-11 Thread Gerhard Häring
Thor wrote: Hi, I am running a program using Parallel Python and I wonder if there is a way/module to know in which CPU/core the process is running in. Is that possible? This is of course OS-specific. On Linux, you can parse the proc filesystem: >>> open("/proc/%i/stat" % os.getpid()).read().

Re: Producer-consumer threading problem

2008-06-11 Thread George Sakkis
On Jun 11, 1:59 am, Rhamphoryncus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why not use a normal Queue, put a dummy value (such as None) in when > you're producer has finished, and have the main thread use the normal > Thread.join() method on all your child threads? I just gave two reasons: - Concurrency / in

Re: can't assign to literal

2008-06-11 Thread Lie
On Jun 11, 3:32 pm, MRAB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 10, 10:57 pm, "Steven Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > for 1 in oids, vals head_oids: > > > SyntaxError: can't assign to literal > > > -- > > > 1 is a literal, you can't assign it to something. Are you trying to > > use it as a v

Re: Dynamic HTML from Python Script

2008-06-11 Thread dusans
On Jun 11, 1:58 am, asdf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a python script whose output i want to dynamically display > on a webpage which will be hosted using Apache. How do I do that? > > thanks def index(req): return "Page" u cant run it on lighttpd also, which is much faster then Apache

Re: problems with opening files due to file's path

2008-06-11 Thread Carsten Haese
Alexnb wrote: I don't think you understand it doesn't matter how the variable gets there But it *does* matter. Compare this: py> filename = "C:\Somewhere\01 - Some Song.mp3" py> print filename C:\Somewhere - Some Song.mp3 To this: py> filename = raw_input("Enter the filename: ") Enter the fi

python gui

2008-06-11 Thread Gabriela Soares
Greetings, I want to make a dynamic dashboard, something like: http://examples.adobe.com/flex3/labs/dashboard/main.html# but using python. Is it possible ? Thanks in advance. Best regards, Gabriela Soares. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Numpy array to gzip file

2008-06-11 Thread Sean Davis
I have a set of numpy arrays which I would like to save to a gzip file. Here is an example without gzip: b=numpy.ones(100,dtype=numpy.uint8) a=numpy.zeros(100,dtype=numpy.uint8) fd = file('test.dat','wb') a.tofile(fd) b.tofile(fd) fd.close() This works fine. However, this does not: fd

Re: Does the python library of Google Data API is truly free?

2008-06-11 Thread Kless
I understand very well that a service is a software which is accessed through a network. And the description given on Wikipedia [1] is "A 'Web service' (also Web Service) is defined by the W3C as "a software system designed to support interoperable Machine to Machine interaction over a network."

Re: Alternative to Decimal type

2008-06-11 Thread Ethan Furman
Frank Millman wrote: Thanks to all for the various replies. They have all helped me to refine my ideas on the subject. These are my latest thoughts. Firstly, the Decimal type exists, it clearly works well, it is written by people much cleverer than me, so I would need a good reason not to use it

Re: problems with opening files due to file's path

2008-06-11 Thread Lie
On Jun 11, 10:07 am, Alexnb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think you understand it doesn't matter how the variable gets there, > the same code is run regardless, I have no problem with the GUI, but you > asked, and so I told you. the code os.startfile( is run if there is a > GUI or it is

Re: Producer-consumer threading problem

2008-06-11 Thread Larry Bates
George Sakkis wrote: On Jun 10, 11:47 pm, Larry Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I had a little trouble understanding what exact problem it is that you are trying to solve but I'm pretty sure that you can do it with one of two methods: Ok, let me try again with a different example: I want to d

Re: Parallel python + ??

2008-06-11 Thread Thor
Gerhard Häring wrote: > This is of course OS-specific. On Linux, you can parse the proc > filesystem: > > >>> open("/proc/%i/stat" % os.getpid()).read().split()[39] > > You can use the "taskset" utility to query or set CPU affinity on Linux. > It is going to be in Linux (mainly) I was thinking

Re: Dynamic HTML from Python Script

2008-06-11 Thread Lie
On Jun 11, 9:16 am, asdf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:20:48 +1000, Aidan wrote: > > asdf wrote: > >>> Well, there's a few ways you could approach it. > > >>> You could create a cgi program from your script - this is probably the > >>> solution you're looking for. > > >> Outpu

Re: Does the python library of Google Data API is truly free?

2008-06-11 Thread Eduardo O. Padoan
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Kless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I understand very well that a service is a software which is accessed > through a network. > > And the description given on Wikipedia [1] is "A 'Web service' (also > Web Service) is defined by the W3C as "a software system designe

Re: Dynamic HTML from Python Script

2008-06-11 Thread Ivan Illarionov
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 01:05:45 +, asdf wrote: >> Well, there's a few ways you could approach it. >> >> You could create a cgi program from your script - this is probably the >> solution you're looking for. >> >> > Output from the script does come up very often. There is a new output > every 1

Re: How to kill a thread?

2008-06-11 Thread Fuzzyman
On Jun 11, 6:56 am, Rhamphoryncus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 10, 3:41 pm, Fuzzyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jun 10, 2:03 am, Rhamphoryncus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So how does .NET deal with the sys.stdout corruption? Does it? > > > That has never been an issue for us.

Re: Does the python library of Google Data API is truly free?

2008-06-11 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> I understand very well that a service is a software which is accessed > through a network. No, you obviously don't understand. A service is something that is offered to you, for free or not, and that you might use on the terms the service provider lays down. Some examples? Pizza delivery servi

Re: Producer-consumer threading problem

2008-06-11 Thread giltay
> Sounds like a sentinel would work for this. The producer puts a > specific object (say, None) in the queue and the consumer checks for > this object and stops consuming when it sees it. But that seems so > obvious I suspect there's something else up. There's a decent implementation of thi

Re: Dynamic HTML from Python Script

2008-06-11 Thread Lie
On Jun 11, 9:57 am, Aidan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > asdf wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:20:48 +1000, Aidan wrote: > > >> asdf wrote: > Well, there's a few ways you could approach it. > > You could create a cgi program from your script - this is probably the > solution you're lo

Re: Producer-consumer threading problem

2008-06-11 Thread Jean-Paul Calderone
On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:46:37 -0700 (PDT), George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Jun 10, 11:47 pm, Larry Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I had a little trouble understanding what exact problem it is that you are trying to solve but I'm pretty sure that you can do it with one of two metho

Re: Alternative to Decimal type

2008-06-11 Thread Frank Millman
On Jun 11, 4:39 pm, Ethan Furman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank Millman wrote: > > Thanks to all for the various replies. They have all helped me to > > refine my ideas on the subject. These are my latest thoughts. > > Out of curiosity, what is the purpose of these numbers?  Do they > represen

Re: problems with opening files due to file's path

2008-06-11 Thread Carsten Haese
Lie wrote: In most GUI toolkits (including Tkinter) and raw_input() function, when you input a string (using the textbox, a.k.a Entry widget) it would automatically be escaped for you, so when you input 'path\path \file.txt', the GUI toolkit would convert it into 'path\\path\ \file.txt'. That's

My fight with classes :)

2008-06-11 Thread TheSaint
Hi, I'm very new with classes. I still reading something around ;) I got started to try a concatenation of 2 type of string, which have a particular property to start with A or D. My class here: """ Small class to join some strings according to the leading first letter""" def __init

ANN: Pyrex 0.9.8.4

2008-06-11 Thread greg
Pyrex 0.9.8.4 is now available: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python/Pyrex/ This version fixes a bug introduced by the last change to unsigned integer indexing. What is Pyrex? -- Pyrex is a language for writing Python extension modules. It lets you freely mix opera

Re: can't assign to literal

2008-06-11 Thread Lie
On Jun 11, 2:53 am, maehhheeyy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > this is stopping my program from running properly. is there something > wrong in my code when that happens? That simply means you did something like this: 'hello' = 'another' 123 = 'kilo' [12, 'asd] = 123 Sometimes it's not that obvious

Re: can't assign to literal

2008-06-11 Thread TheSaint
On 16:47, mercoledì 11 giugno 2008 Chris wrote: > SciTE and Notepad++ Pype, spe, just to point it out. Jedit, but rather a bloatware. I'd like to know which is the litest multi platform and indipendent. Pype is very good when compiled in exe, but not doing in Linux in that way. -- Mailsweeper Ho

Object Manipulation and Frames

2008-06-11 Thread uo
Hello people, I would like to get some advice on the method that i should use to develop a cyber billing wxpython app.I had started but i hit a snag when i realised i could not launch or fiddle with properties of a Frame object within another frame object, what i had intended to do was to first l

Re: Dynamic HTML from Python Script

2008-06-11 Thread Dave Parker
On Jun 11, 7:59 am, Lie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can't make the browser refresh automatically in the server side, Yes you can. I don't know how to do it in Python, but here's an example in Flaming Thunder of a small, fast, light compiled server side CGI that delivers dynamic content every

Re: problems with opening files due to file's path

2008-06-11 Thread Lie
On Jun 11, 9:14 pm, Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lie wrote: > > In most GUI toolkits (including Tkinter) and raw_input() function, > > when you input a string (using the textbox, a.k.a Entry widget) it > > would automatically be escaped for you, so when you input 'path\path > > \file.

Re: Dynamic HTML from Python Script

2008-06-11 Thread Sebastian "lunar" Wiesner
Lie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at Mittwoch 11 Juni 2008 16:04: > FYI: AJAX is just a very fancy name for Javascript AJAX is not just a "name", it's a _religion_ SCNR -- Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters. (Rosa Luxemburg) -- http://mail.python.org/mailm

Re: Object Manipulation and Frames

2008-06-11 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Jun 11, 9:36 am, uo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello people, >   I would like to get some advice on the method that i should use to > develop a cyber billing wxpython app.I had started but i hit a snag > when i realised i could not launch or fiddle with properties of a > Frame object within an

convert sqlite ANSI to UTF-8

2008-06-11 Thread Gandalf
I used sqliteadmin to manage my sqlite database and I copy past queries translated from mysql phpmyadmin output it worked (little slowly but worked...), the only problem now is that sqliteadmin stored my hebrew char as ANSI instead of UTF-8 and now I don't know how to search data from this table.

Re: catastrophic regexp, help!

2008-06-11 Thread TheSaint
On 12:20, mercoledì 11 giugno 2008 cirfu wrote: > patzln = re.compile("(\w* *)* zlatan ibrahimovic (\w* *)*") I think that I shouldn't put anything around the phrase you want to find. patzln = re.compile(r'.*(zlatan ibrahimovic){1,1}.*') this should do it for you. Unless searching into a specia

Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jun 11)

2008-06-11 Thread Gabriel Genellina
QOTW: "You could use exec. Probably if you find yourself doing this a lot, you're better off using a dictionary." - Erik Max Francis Python books for programmers: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/83d2bc376f6a5c69/ Determining in whic

Re: can't assign to literal

2008-06-11 Thread Ethan Furman
MRAB wrote: On Jun 10, 10:57 pm, "Steven Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: for 1 in oids, vals head_oids: SyntaxError: can't assign to literal -- 1 is a literal, you can't assign it to something. Are you trying to use it as a variable name? Slightly OT, but is there an editor that can disp

Re: [Tutor] python gui

2008-06-11 Thread Gabriela Soares
How ? Any references ? On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:18 PM, W W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:03 AM, Gabriela Soares > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > I want to make a dynamic dashboard, something like: > > > > http://examples.adobe.com/flex3/labs/dashboard/

Re: catastrophic regexp, help!

2008-06-11 Thread Peter Pearson
On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:20:14 -0700 (PDT), cirfu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > pat = re.compile("(\w* *)*") > this matches all sentences. > if fed the string "are you crazy? i am" it will return "are you > crazy". > > i want to find a in a big string a sentence containing Zlatan > Ibrahimovic and som

Re: [Tutor] python gui

2008-06-11 Thread W W
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Gabriela Soares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How ? That's an extremely broad question, and shows little initiative, and offers little information. Most of us are happy to help you solve problems for free, but few, if any, are willing to write your programs for fre

Re: can't assign to literal

2008-06-11 Thread TheSaint
On 00:15, giovedì 12 giugno 2008 Ethan Furman wrote: > I like Vim (Vi Improved) What about justifying text ? -- Mailsweeper Home : http://it.geocities.com/call_me_not_now/index.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: convert sqlite ANSI to UTF-8

2008-06-11 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Jun 11, 10:04 am, Gandalf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I used sqliteadmin to manage my sqlite database and I copy past > queries translated from mysql phpmyadmin output it worked (little > slowly but worked...), the only problem now is that sqliteadmin stored > my hebrew char as ANSI instead of

How to find duplicate 3d points?

2008-06-11 Thread oprah . chopra
I have a large data file of upto 1 million x,y,z coordinates of points. I want to identify which points are within 0.01 mm from each other. I can compare the distance from each point to every other point , but this takes 1 million * 1 million operations, or forever! Any quick way to do it, perhaps

Re: My fight with classes :)

2008-06-11 Thread Peter Pearson
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:16:56 +0800, TheSaint <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm very new with classes. I still reading something around ;) > > I got started to try a concatenation of 2 type of string, which have a > particular property to start with A or D. > > My class here: > """ Small cl

Re: [Tutor] python gui

2008-06-11 Thread Gabriela Soares
Hello, With all respect, I posed the question as a noob who has NO ideia how to solve the problem at hand. All I asked for were some references, such as known applications that use such technology to guide me to where I should focus. It never crossed my mind to ask for code. If I wanted to do so,

Re: How to find duplicate 3d points?

2008-06-11 Thread Tim Henderson
On Jun 11, 11:35 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a large data file of upto 1 million x,y,z coordinates of > points. I want to identify which points are within 0.01 mm from each > other. I can compare the distance from each point to every other > point , but this takes 1 million * 1 million op

Re: How to find duplicate 3d points?

2008-06-11 Thread Gary Herron
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a large data file of upto 1 million x,y,z coordinates of points. I want to identify which points are within 0.01 mm from each other. I can compare the distance from each point to every other point , but this takes 1 million * 1 million operations, or forever! Any

Re: Advice for a python newbie on parsing whois records?

2008-06-11 Thread Phillip B Oldham
On Jun 10, 8:21 pm, Miki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > > Hi. I'm stretching my boundaries in programming with a little python > > shell-script which is going to loop through a list of domain names, > > grab the whois record, parse it, and put the results into a csv. > > > I've got the res

Re: Alternative to Decimal type

2008-06-11 Thread Nick Craig-Wood
Frank Millman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks to all for the various replies. They have all helped me to > refine my ideas on the subject. These are my latest thoughts. > > Firstly, the Decimal type exists, it clearly works well, it is written > by people much cleverer than me, so I would

Re: How to kill a thread?

2008-06-11 Thread Ian Bicking
On Jun 7, 6:30 am, Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is an attempt at a killable thread > >  http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/496960 > > and > >  http://sebulba.wikispaces.com/recipe+thread2 I use this recipe in paste.httpserver to kill wedged threads, and it

Re: can't assign to literal

2008-06-11 Thread Ethan Furman
TheSaint wrote: On 00:15, giovedì 12 giugno 2008 Ethan Furman wrote: I like Vim (Vi Improved) What about justifying text ? Do you mean indenting, or wrapping? Vim has excellent indenting support, and Python files already included that support proper indenting, syntax coloring, etc. I

Reading info from an active file

2008-06-11 Thread Keith Nation
I have a program that writes a log file as it is running to give status of the job. I would like to read that file, pull certain lines of text from it, and write to a new file. Because I am such a novice user, I was hoping someone had covered this before and could let me know of your methods. If

Re: Numpy array to gzip file

2008-06-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Jun 11, 9:17 am, Sean Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a set of numpy arrays which I would like to save to a gzip > file. Here is an example without gzip: > > b=numpy.ones(100,dtype=numpy.uint8) > a=numpy.zeros(100,dtype=numpy.uint8) > fd = file('test.dat','wb') > a.tofile(fd)

Re: Confusion with weakref, __del__ and threading

2008-06-11 Thread George Sakkis
On Jun 11, 1:40 am, Rhamphoryncus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 10, 8:15 pm, George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I'm baffled with a situation that involves: > > 1) an instance of some class that defines __del__, > > 2) a thread which is created, started and referenced by that

Reading info from an active file

2008-06-11 Thread Keith Nation
I have a program that writes a log file as it is running to give status of the job. I would like to read that file, pull certain lines of text from it, and write to a new file. Because I am such a novice user, I was hoping someone had covered this before and could let me know of your methods. If

Finding a sense of word in a text

2008-06-11 Thread Sengly
Dear all, This might be off group but I am looking for a python library that can help me to find a sense of a word in a text and eventually a list of synonyms of that term. I searched the web and found one but it is written in perl (http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse/senserelate.html) :( I appreciate

web2py forum or mailing list?

2008-06-11 Thread cirfu
i cant find a web2py mailing list or forum, not by googling and not on the web2py homepage. (yes thats right im asking about web2py not webpy). this framework seems great and i installed and it seems like all i wished for. easy to install, easy to use, fast, etc. just an overall better, complete

question about import

2008-06-11 Thread Jonathan Vanasco
I'm a little unclear about import / __import__ I'm exploring dynamically importing modules for a project, and ran into this behavior works as expected: app = __import__( myapp ) appModel = __import__( myapp.model ) but... appname= 'myapp' app = __import__( "%s" % appname ) ap

Re: problems with opening files due to file's path

2008-06-11 Thread Alexnb
Okay, so as a response to all of you, I will be using the Entry() widget in Tkinter to get this path. and the repr() function just makes all my backslashes 4 instead of just 1, and it still screwes it up with the numbers and parenthesis is has been since the first post. Oh and I know all about esc

Re: Instructions on how to build py2exe 0.6.8 (or an installer would be nice, too!)

2008-06-11 Thread chardish
On Jun 10, 8:50 pm, Mike Driscoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Evan, > > > > > > > > I finally figured out how to check out the code. I'm at work now, > > > where I only have VS2008 installed so I'll have to wait until I get > > > home this evening to try compiling it. I'll let you know if I have

Re: [Tutor] python gui

2008-06-11 Thread john
W W wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Gabriela Soares > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How ? > > That's an extremely broad question, and shows little initiative, and > offers little information. Most of us are happy to help you solve > problems for free, but few, if any, are willing to wri

Re: question about import

2008-06-11 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Jonathan Vanasco schrieb: I'm a little unclear about import / __import__ I'm exploring dynamically importing modules for a project, and ran into this behavior works as expected: app = __import__( myapp ) appModel = __import__( myapp.model ) but... appname= 'myapp' app = __impor

Re: How to kill a thread?

2008-06-11 Thread Rhamphoryncus
On Jun 11, 7:56 am, Fuzzyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 11, 6:56 am, Rhamphoryncus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Jun 10, 3:41 pm, Fuzzyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Jun 10, 2:03 am, Rhamphoryncus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > How does that protect code like this? >

Re: Producer-consumer threading problem

2008-06-11 Thread Rhamphoryncus
On Jun 11, 6:00 am, George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 11, 1:59 am, Rhamphoryncus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Why not use a normal Queue, put a dummy value (such as None) in when > > you're producer has finished, and have the main thread use the normal > > Thread.join() method o

Re: Confusion with weakref, __del__ and threading

2008-06-11 Thread Rhamphoryncus
On Jun 11, 10:43 am, George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 11, 1:40 am, Rhamphoryncus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The trick here is that calling proxy.sleep(0.01) first gets a strong > > reference to the Mystery instance, then holds that strong reference > > until it returns. > > Ah,

Re: problems with opening files due to file's path

2008-06-11 Thread Carsten Haese
Alexnb wrote: Okay, so as a response to all of you, I will be using the Entry() widget in Tkinter to get this path. and the repr() function just makes all my backslashes 4 instead of just 1, and it still screwes it up with the numbers and parenthesis is has been since the first post. Oh and I kno

Re: problems with opening files due to file's path

2008-06-11 Thread Thomas Morton
@Mike and the others yesterday I did think after I posted that code (the string substitution thing) that it might do that. Thanks for clarifying that it was rubbish :P @ Alexnb I'm do a lot of support on a community forum that uses Python as it's language - I can tell you from experience tha

PKG-INFO encoding?

2008-06-11 Thread Daniel Holth
What should the encoding be for PKG-INFO? PEP 241, 301, 314, and 345 do not specify. I notice PKG-INFO must comply with an RFC that predates Unicode, and I notice I get a traceback if I try to put a non-ascii character into my Python 2.4.3 setup.py description. (I eventually decided to just .encod

Re: problems with opening files due to file's path

2008-06-11 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-06-11, Alexnb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, so as a response to all of you, I will be using the Entry() widget in > Tkinter to get this path. OK. > and the repr() function just makes all my backslashes 4 > instead of just 1, and it still screwes it up with the numbers > and parenthe

Re: Instructions on how to build py2exe 0.6.8 (or an installer would be nice, too!)

2008-06-11 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Jun 11, 12:38 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Jun 10, 8:50 pm, Mike Driscoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Evan, > > > > > > > > I finally figured out how to check out the code. I'm at work now, > > > > where I only have VS2008 installed so I'll have to wait until I get > > > > home th

Programming question

2008-06-11 Thread Brad Navarro
Greetings, Being extremely new to Python, I haven't got the experience to figure this one out on my own and frankly I am not sure I would know where to look. Basically, what I am trying to do is get a list of each file's attributes within a directory. Basically, the information that the 'l

Re: Programming question

2008-06-11 Thread Jeff McNeil
Have a look at os.listdir and os.stat. I've never worked with 1.5, so I don't know what will work with it and what won't,. but I'd imagine the following ought to be fine, though. stat_list = [] for dirent in os.listdir('your_directory'): stat_list.append(os.stat(dirent)) Jeff On Wed, Jun

*** Massive Copyright Violation by the US Government ***

2008-06-11 Thread lemnitzer
Printing dollar is a copyright violation I recently heard that the USA government or the unfederal reserve is printing dollars. Is this a copyright violation ? Is this also a theft ? Is there a scheme to print dollars in such a way to selectiv

Re: Producer-consumer threading problem

2008-06-11 Thread Carl Banks
On Jun 10, 11:33 pm, George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I pasted my current solution athttp://codepad.org/FXF2SWmg. Any > feedback, especially if it has to do with proving or disproving its > correctness, will be appreciated. It seems like you're reinventing the wheel. The Queue class do

Re: How to kill a thread?

2008-06-11 Thread Fuzzyman
On Jun 11, 6:49 pm, Rhamphoryncus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 11, 7:56 am, Fuzzyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Jun 11, 6:56 am, Rhamphoryncus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Jun 10, 3:41 pm, Fuzzyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Jun 10, 2:03 am, Rhamphoryncus <

Re: Alternative to Decimal type

2008-06-11 Thread Terry Reedy
"Frank Millman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Thanks to all for the various replies. They have all helped me to | refine my ideas on the subject. These are my latest thoughts. | | Firstly, the Decimal type exists, it clearly works well, it is written | by people mu

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