Add vs in-place add of str to list

2008-10-02 Thread rs387
Hi I'm trying to understand why it is that I can do >>> a = [] >>> a += 'stuff' >>> a ['s', 't', 'u', 'f', 'f'] but not >>> a = [] >>> a = a + 'stuff' Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in TypeError: can only concatenate list (not "str") to list Can someone explain the logi

Re: How to read a jpg bytearray from a Flash AS3 file

2008-10-02 Thread Tim Roberts
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Thanks! I'm using form = cgi.FieldStorage(). When I print out the >contents of form, I get this: > >FieldStorage(None, None, '\xff\xd8\xff\xe0\x00\x10JFIF >\x00\x01\x01\x00\x00\x01\x00\x01\x00\x00\xff\xdb >\x00\x84\x00\x05\x03\x04\x04\x04\x03\x05\x04\x04\x04\x05\x05\

Re: Add vs in-place add of str to list

2008-10-02 Thread Erik Max Francis
rs387 wrote: I'm trying to understand why it is that I can do a = [] a += 'stuff' a ['s', 't', 'u', 'f', 'f'] but not a = [] a = a + 'stuff' Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in TypeError: can only concatenate list (not "str") to list Can someone explain the logic? W

Re: how to make smtplib.SMTP('localhost') work on window xp

2008-10-02 Thread Tim Roberts
zxo102 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >In my case, I implement an application with python to accomplish >collecting real time data from a serial port: com1 which is connected >to some xbee hardwares. >The python logging module is used to save the information generated at >runtime into a log file. Sin

Re: I built a nice html templater!

2008-10-02 Thread Tim Roberts
Derick van Niekerk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Ok - so it's not really an awesome achievement and only handles basic >templating needs (no loops and other programming constructs) but maybe >someone will find it useful. Sure, that's what the world needed. We didn't have enough Python HTML templ

Re: Event-driven framework (other than Twisted)?

2008-10-02 Thread Phillip B Oldham
On Oct 2, 1:32 am, "James Mills" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://hg.shortcircuit.net.au/index.wsgi/pymills/file/b7498cd4c6a4/ex... Thanks for the example, but its not loading. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Event-driven framework (other than Twisted)?

2008-10-02 Thread Phillip B Oldham
On Oct 2, 1:28 am, "James Mills" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Phillip, I have been developing a rather unique > event-driven and component architecture library > for quite some time that is (not twisted). Actually > it's nothing like twisted, but based on 2 core > concepts: >  * Everything is a Com

Re: TypeError: can't pickle HASH objects?

2008-10-02 Thread est
On Oct 2, 1:51 pm, "James Mills" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 3:34 PM, est <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > wow. It's giga-size file. I need stream reading it, md5 it. It may > > break for a while. > > So use generators and consume the stream ? > > --JamesMills > > -- > -- > --

Re: RELEASED Python 2.6 final

2008-10-02 Thread nneonneo
Hmm, I was looking forward to trying this out, but the Windows installer link (http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6/python-2.6.msi) is presently broken (as is the link for the 64-bit Windows version). While I'm at it, I might also point out that http://www.python.org/download/windows/ is quite ou

Re: pyhton or json, list or array?

2008-10-02 Thread Bernhard Walle
Hi, * bruce [2008-09-30 13:01]: > > i was told > that it's json, but i have no idea how to convert it/manipulate it.. See http://json.org/ for a list of available JSON parsers for Python. I personally used python-simplejson, and I was happy with it. :-) Regards, Bernhard -- http://mail.python.o

Re: Odd Errors

2008-10-02 Thread Aaron "Castironpi" Brady
On Oct 2, 12:52 am, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED] central.gen.new_zealand> wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steven > > D'Aprano wrote: > > On Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:14:49 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > > >> In message > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > >> Aaron "Castironpi" Brady wrote:

Re: TypeError: can't pickle HASH objects?

2008-10-02 Thread Aaron "Castironpi" Brady
On Oct 2, 2:44 am, est <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 2, 1:51 pm, "James Mills" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 3:34 PM, est <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > wow. It's giga-size file. I need stream reading it, md5 it. It may > > > break for a while. > > > So use generat

Re: what does "python -i" use as input stream (stdin)?

2008-10-02 Thread Almar Klein
> > I did not understand completely what you want, and rereading previous posts > I got even more confused... > Could you provide a complete description of what you want to do? > Is it a single process, or two separate processes? Running on the same > machine or remotely? All python or there is ano

Re: ssh keepalive

2008-10-02 Thread loial
<> def command ( self , command ) : """ process requested command through ssh """ print command if not self._connected : return False , "No SSH connection available" try : stdin , stdout , stderr = self._ssh.exec_command( command )

Re: Database GUI generation from schema

2008-10-02 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Eric Wertman a écrit : Sorry if this is misplaced, but I could have sworn I saw a link on this list to a package that would auto-generate data entry type forms from a database schema, similar to django's auto-admin interface. Does anyone recall a package like that? I did some searching, but I'v

Re: Peek inside iterator (is there a PEP about this?)

2008-10-02 Thread Peter Otten
Luis Zarrabeitia wrote: > On Wednesday 01 October 2008 01:14:14 pm Peter Otten wrote: >> Luis Zarrabeitia wrote: >> > a = iter([1,2,3,4,5]) # assume you got the iterator from a function and >> > b = iter([1,2,3]) # these two are just examples. >> >> Can you provide a concrete use case? > > I'

docs.python.org inaccessible

2008-10-02 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
Been getting 403 errors all afternoon. At one time I used to assiduously download PDF files of all the documentation I wanted to refer to. These days I've grown accustomed to just having a bunch of Web browser windows semi-permanently open. Until a rude shock like this happens to hit me. Maybe I

using SSh problem!

2008-10-02 Thread sa6113
I want to connect form a windows machine to a Linux one using SSH (I use Paramiko) and simply copy a file to Linux machine. Would you please help me how should I start? Is there any useful code? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/using-SSh-problem%21-tp19775680p19775680.html

Re: TypeError: can't pickle HASH objects?

2008-10-02 Thread est
On Oct 2, 4:22 pm, "Aaron \"Castironpi\" Brady" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 2, 2:44 am, est <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > On Oct 2, 1:51 pm, "James Mills" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 3:34 PM, est <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > wow. It's giga-size

Re: TypeError: can't pickle HASH objects?

2008-10-02 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:50:05 -0300, est <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: import md5 a=md5.md5() import pickle pickle.dumps(a) Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "C:\Python25\lib\pickle.py", line 1366, in dumps Pickler(file, protocol).dump(obj) File "C:\Python25\

Re: RELEASED Python 2.6 final

2008-10-02 Thread skip
Chris> Also, the docs currently seem broken. Known problem. The elves are working on it. -- Skip Montanaro - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.webfast.com/~skip/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

how best to use a dictionary in this function?

2008-10-02 Thread Terrence Brannon
Ok, here is some code: def calc_profit(std_clicks, vip_clicks, ad_rate=200, upline_status=None): payout = {} payout_std = std_clicks * rates['std'].per_click payout_vip = vip_clicks * rates['vip'].per_click ... now note that std_clicks and vip_clicks are passed to the function. Now,

Re: TypeError: can't pickle HASH objects?

2008-10-02 Thread Aaron "Castironpi" Brady
On Oct 2, 4:03 am, est <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 2, 4:22 pm, "Aaron \"Castironpi\" Brady" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > On Oct 2, 2:44 am, est <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Oct 2, 1:51 pm, "James Mills" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 3:34 PM,

Re: RELEASED Python 2.6 final

2008-10-02 Thread skip
nneonneo> Hmm, I was looking forward to trying this out, but the Windows nneonneo> installer link nneonneo> (http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6/python-2.6.msi) is nneonneo> presently broken (as is the link for the 64-bit Windows nneonneo> version). We are aware of it. Becau

Re: how best to use a dictionary in this function?

2008-10-02 Thread Aaron "Castironpi" Brady
On Oct 2, 4:18 am, Terrence Brannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, here is some code: > > def calc_profit(std_clicks, vip_clicks, ad_rate=200, > upline_status=None): >     payout = {} >     payout_std = std_clicks * rates['std'].per_click >     payout_vip = vip_clicks * rates['vip'].per_click > >

Re: using SSh problem!

2008-10-02 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, sa6113 wrote: > I want to connect form a windows machine to a Linux one using SSH (I use > Paramiko) and simply copy a file to Linux machine. Do you want to be able to connect without having to enter a password? You'll need to set up a public/private key pair for t

docs.python.org access should be working again

2008-10-02 Thread skip
Sorry for the problem with docs.python.org. Python 2.6 includes a complete rework of the Python documentation suite. There were problems with the installation location which should be resolved now. If you visit http://docs.python.org/ and still see the 2.5.2 doc page, force a page reload

Re: RELEASED Python 2.6 final

2008-10-02 Thread Francesco Guerrieri
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 11:23 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >nneonneo> Hmm, I was looking forward to trying this out, but the Windows >nneonneo> installer link >nneonneo> (http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6/python-2.6.msi) is >nneonneo> presently broken (as is the link for the

Re: ssh keepalive

2008-10-02 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Thu, 02 Oct 2008 05:26:25 -0300, loial <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: <> Still not enough. From your first post, the error was: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'exec_command' def command ( self , command ) : """ process requested command through ssh """ print co

Re: Database GUI generation from schema

2008-10-02 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:36:08 -0300, Eric Wertman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: Sorry if this is misplaced, but I could have sworn I saw a link on this list to a package that would auto-generate data entry type forms from a database schema, similar to django's auto-admin interface. Does anyone

Re: Odd Errors

2008-10-02 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Aaron "Castironpi" Brady wrote: > On Oct 2, 12:52 am, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > central.gen.new_zealand> wrote: > >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >> Steven >> >> D'Aprano wrote: >> > On Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:14:49 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >>

Re: TypeError: can't pickle HASH objects?

2008-10-02 Thread est
On Oct 2, 5:07 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > En Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:50:05 -0300, est <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > > > > import md5 > a=md5.md5() > import pickle > pickle.dumps(a) > > Traceback (most recent call last): > >   File "", line 1, in > >

Re: using SSh problem!

2008-10-02 Thread sa6113
No, my problem isn't entering password or not ? I want to know what should I do to connect between different platform and copy a file . Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, sa6113 > wrote: > >> I want to connect form a windows machine to a Linux one using SSH (I use

Re: using SSh problem!

2008-10-02 Thread Tim Golden
sa6113 wrote: No, my problem isn't entering password or not ? I want to know what should I do to connect between different platform and copy a file . Did you try searching? This looks hopeful: http://commandline.org.uk/python/2008/may/28/sftp-python/ TJG -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/lis

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Re: RELEASED Python 2.6 final

2008-10-02 Thread olive
> Surely you're joking! > Everybody knows that python developers never sleep :-) Wrong! All my collegues are Java developers and I'm the only one who sleep (and like a log). Congratulations, by the way. Olivier. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: using SSh problem!

2008-10-02 Thread Ulrich Eckhardt
sa6113 wrote: > I want to connect form a windows machine to a Linux one using SSH (I use > Paramiko) and simply copy a file to Linux machine. > Would you please help me how should I start? For starters, I'd take a look at 'scp'. Other than that, what does the question you asked have to do with Pyt

Re: using SSh problem!

2008-10-02 Thread sa6113
One of the Python implementations of SSH is called Paramiko. Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: > > sa6113 wrote: >> I want to connect form a windows machine to a Linux one using SSH (I use >> Paramiko) and simply copy a file to Linux machine. >> Would you please help me how should I start? > > For starte

Re: Python on JavaScript VM's (such as V8)?

2008-10-02 Thread lkcl
On Sep 3, 10:02 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Berco Beute: > > > I wonder what it would take to implement Python in JavaScript so it it's been done. http://pyjamas.sf.net > > can run on those fancy new JavaScript VM's such as Chrome's V8 or that's been done, too. http://advogato.org/artic

Python on Javascript VMs (such as V8)

2008-10-02 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
[folks, my apologies for the double-post via comp.lang.python whilst my tiny brain works backwards and notices - eventually - that comp.lang.python is mirrored from python-list duh] On Sep 3, 10:02 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Berco Beute: > > I wonder what it would take to implement Python in

Determine minimum required version for a script

2008-10-02 Thread techtonik
Can somebody remind how to check script compatibility with old Python versions? I can remember PHP_CompatInfo class for PHP that parses a script or directory to find out the minimum version and extensions required for them to run, and I wonder if there was anything like this for Python? -- --ana

Re: Add vs in-place add of str to list

2008-10-02 Thread rs387
On Oct 2, 8:11 am, Erik Max Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's because the `+=` operator is doing the equivalent of calling the > `extend` method, which treats its argument as a generic sequence, and > doesn't enforce type. I see. Do you know whether this is seen as a problem with the langu

Ctypes behave differenty on windows 2000 and windows XP

2008-10-02 Thread dudeja . rajat
Hi, Im facing a strange problem with ctypes module on windows 2000. I did not face this problem with the windows Xp. The problem is this code and specifically "c_long" which behave differently on win2000 and winxp from ctypes import * h = windll.LoadLibrary("C:\\Windows\\System32\\myDll.dll") p

Re: IDLE doesn't run on OSX 10.3.9

2008-10-02 Thread thomascribbs
Just installed TclTkAquaBI-8.4.9.0.dmg from http://tcltkaqua.sourceforge.net/...still have no IDLE startup... Please let me know other ideas...thanks. -Tom On Oct 1, 9:22 am, Kevin Walzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Just did a new install of Tcl/tk from activestat

Sample code required to validate a xml file against XSD

2008-10-02 Thread hrishy
Hi Does anybody have a python xample program to validate a xml file against a XSD. regards Hrisy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

python-2.6

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Re: Peek inside iterator (is there a PEP about this?)

2008-10-02 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:14:09 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote: > Iterators are intended for 'iterate through once and discard' usages. Also for reading files, which are often seekable. I don't disagree with the rest of your post, I thought I'd just make an observation that if the data you are iterating

Re: python-2.6

2008-10-02 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Oct 2, 8:33 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all. > > I've installed on may MacOS X 10.4.11 (PPC) Python-2.5.2, numpy and scipy. > Now I'm interested to insall Python-2.6. My question is: What will happen to > may scientific modules if now I jump fro 2.5.2 to 2.6? I've to reinstall > numpy and

Pyjamas 0.3 Release: python-to-javascript compiler and AJAX library

2008-10-02 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
Pyjamas 0.3 --- Pyjamas is a python-to-javascript compiler and an AJAX-based Widget toolkit for Web Development (for the sister project, running pyjamas-based apps on the desktop, see http://pyjd.sf.net which is based on http://webkit.org). Pyjamas Applications are written in python, yet

Re: Add vs in-place add of str to list

2008-10-02 Thread Mel
rs387 wrote: > On Oct 2, 8:11 am, Erik Max Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It's because the `+=` operator is doing the equivalent of calling the >> `extend` method, which treats its argument as a generic sequence, and >> doesn't enforce type. > > I see. Do you know whether this is seen as a

Re: IDLE doesn't run on OSX 10.3.9

2008-10-02 Thread thomascribbs
Now I downloaded the latest Python 2.6 that came out yesterday, and also downloaded the latest ActiveTcl... I run a Terminal, cd /usr/local/bin, and type "idle2.6"...get this error message: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin/ idle2

Re: Python arrays and sting formatting options

2008-10-02 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:38:12 +, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote: >> The first problem with "with" is that it looks like the Pascal "with" >> statement, but acts nothing like it. That may confuse anyone with >> Pascal experience, and there are a lot of us out there. > > But Python is not Pascal

code critique requested - just 60 lines

2008-10-02 Thread Terrence Brannon
Hi, I would like some feedback on how you would improve the following program: http://www.bitbucket.org/metaperl/ptc_math/src/21979c65074f/payout.py Basically, using non-strict dictionary keys can lead to bugs, so that worried me. Also, I'm not sure that my code is as crisp and concise as it could

Re: Odd Errors

2008-10-02 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:52:58 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> On Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:14:49 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> >>> In message >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >>> Aaron "Castironpi" Brady wrote: >>> Do you ever want

Re: code critique requested - just 60 lines

2008-10-02 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:51:30 -0700, Terrence Brannon wrote: > Hi, I would like some feedback on how you would improve the following > program: > http://www.bitbucket.org/metaperl/ptc_math/src/21979c65074f/payout.py Well, for starters, I'd say that's the WORST implementation of Quicksort I've ev

windows help files ?

2008-10-02 Thread Stef Mientki
Hello, I've 2 questions about python help files: 1. how can I launch the windows help file (CHM), from python with a keyword as argument ? 2. now when my program should also run under Linux/Mac, how should I call the help file under Linux/Mac. Going to the website for the help informati

Re: Add vs in-place add of str to list

2008-10-02 Thread rs387
On Oct 2, 3:50 pm, Mel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > rs387 wrote: > > I see. Do you know whether this is seen as a problem with the language > > design? > > No. OK, I get it now. I was assuming that the "+" could be implemented in terms of "+=" as follows: def add(x,y): temp = list(x) temp

Re: using SSh problem!

2008-10-02 Thread Sean DiZazzo
On Oct 2, 3:27 am, sa6113 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, my problem isn't entering password or not ? > I want to know what should I do to connect between different platform and > copy a file . > > Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, sa6113 > > wrote: > > >> I want to

set DOS environment variable

2008-10-02 Thread bill
Hi all, Can Python set a DOS environment variable? TIA, Bill -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: set DOS environment variable

2008-10-02 Thread Dan Upton
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 11:18 AM, bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Can Python set a DOS environment variable? > > TIA, > > Bill I'd look at http://www.python.org/doc/2.5.2/lib/os-procinfo.html . It looks like putenv should do what you want. It might only affect the current process an

Re: RELEASED Python 2.6 final

2008-10-02 Thread konstantin
On Oct 2, 7:46 am, Barry Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I > am happy to announce the release of Python 2.6 final. This is the > production-ready version of the latest in the

Re: code critique requested - just 60 lines

2008-10-02 Thread bearophileHUGS
Terrence Brannon, I suggest you to shorten a lot some of those very long lines. > # http://code.activestate.com/recipes/278259/ > def sumDict(d): > return reduce(lambda x,y:x+y, d.values()) Not all recipes are good, and that looks bad in various ways. Try this: def sumDictValues(d): retu

Re: code critique requested - just 60 lines

2008-10-02 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:51:30 -0700, Terrence Brannon wrote: > Hi, I would like some feedback on how you would improve the following > program: > http://www.bitbucket.org/metaperl/ptc_math/src/21979c65074f/payout.py Okay, I've read over the code, and tried to guess from context what it is suppose

problem with sockets code

2008-10-02 Thread Daniel
Hello, I can't seem to get my sockets code to work right. Here is what I have inside my RequestHandler handle() function: total_data=[] data = True logger_server.debug(self.__class__.__name__ + ' set data = True') while data: logger_server.debug(self.

Re: windows help files ?

2008-10-02 Thread Daniel
On Oct 2, 9:13 am, Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I've 2 questions about python help files: > > 1. how can I launch the windows help file (CHM), from python  with a > keyword as argument ? > > 2. now when my program should also run under Linux/Mac,  how should I > call the hel

Re: Sample code required to validate a xml file against XSD

2008-10-02 Thread Daniel
On Oct 2, 7:32 am, hrishy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > Does anybody have a python xample program to validate a xml file against a > XSD. > > regards > Hrisy I just googled "python validate a xml file against XSD" and found this: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/xml-sig/2003-March/009244.h

Re: Database GUI generation from schema

2008-10-02 Thread Eric Wertman
> Perhaps are you talking about dabo ? > http://www.dabodev.com Yes, that was it. Thanks! I was a little dissapointed to see that the wikipedia entry for that software was deleted. Is dabo not widely used? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Re: pylab without X11

2008-10-02 Thread Willem-Jan Vriend
Thanks that worked ! I changed the backend to Agg. Allthough a problem there is that with the backend Agg you only can write the resulting image to a file or a file like object, it does not accept the (apache) request handler to write the file to. And I do not want to save the file to disk fir

Re: index all instances by id - a memory leak?

2008-10-02 Thread Richard Levasseur
On Oct 1, 10:35 pm, Jason Scheirer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 1, 10:01 pm, Dan Barbus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Oct 2, 7:54 am, Dan Barbus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >     def getItemById(id): > > >         return _itemsById[id] > > > I just saw that this won't compile. Sti

Re: IDLE doesn't run on OSX 10.3.9

2008-10-02 Thread thomascribbs
Looks like installing TclTkAqua-8.4.10.dmg fixed it...IDLE runs now! -Tom On Oct 1, 9:22 am, Kevin Walzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Just did a new install of Tcl/tk from activestate.com and IDLE still > > not working... > > > -Tom > > Did you install Tcl/Tk 8.5?

Python equivalent of Perl e flag with regular expression

2008-10-02 Thread Friedman, Jason
I have lines that look like this: select column1, 'select' as type from table where column2 = 'foo' I want to return: SELECT column1, 'select' AS type FROM table WHERE column2 = 'foo' This is SQL with the keywords converted to uppercase. Note that the second "select" string is not a keyword and

self signing a py2exe winxp executable with signtool

2008-10-02 Thread William Heath
Hi All, I am trying to figure out how to self sign a py2exe winxp executable with signtool. Anyone know? I saw this which looked kind of promising: http://markmail.org/message/zj5nzechzgmjuu7c#query:signtool%20python+page:1+mid:s4jrb2hter4zxvg3+state:results -Tim P.S. Python rocks! -- http:/

Re: Database GUI generation from schema

2008-10-02 Thread Peter Decker
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Eric Wertman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Perhaps are you talking about dabo ? >> http://www.dabodev.com > > Yes, that was it. Thanks! I was a little dissapointed to see that > the wikipedia entry for that software was deleted. Is dabo not widely > used? Depend

javascript to python

2008-10-02 Thread Joe Hrbek
Could someone help me translate to something that would close to it in python? The anonymous functions are giving me problems. var dataListener = { data : "", onStartRequest: function(request, context){}, onStopRequest: function(request, context, status){ instream.cl

Re: code critique requested - just 60 lines

2008-10-02 Thread Lie Ryan
On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:51:30 -0700, Terrence Brannon wrote: > Hi, I would like some feedback on how you would improve the following > program: > http://www.bitbucket.org/metaperl/ptc_math/src/21979c65074f/payout.py > > Basically, using non-strict dictionary keys can lead to bugs, so that > worrie

Re: javascript to python

2008-10-02 Thread lkcl
On Oct 2, 5:54 pm, Joe Hrbek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could someone help me translate to something that would close to it in > python? The anonymous functions are giving me problems. class dataListener: def __init__(self): data = "" def onStartRequest(self, request, context)

Re: windows help files ?

2008-10-02 Thread Lie Ryan
On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:13:50 +0200, Stef Mientki wrote: > Hello, > > I've 2 questions about python help files: Python help files or your program's help files? > 1. how can I launch the windows help file (CHM), from python with a > keyword as argument ? I'm not really sure, but isn't CHM obsol

Re: javascript to python

2008-10-02 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Joe Hrbek a écrit : Could someone help me translate to something that would close to it in python? The anonymous functions are giving me problems. var dataListener = { data : "", onStartRequest: function(request, context){}, onStopRequest: function(request, context, status

Unpickling Exception-type objects

2008-10-02 Thread David McClosky
Hi everyone, I'm stumped over what is probably (hopefully?) a very simple problem. Suppose I have a class that multiply inherits from two classes, call them A and B. A inherits from a class that takes any number of arguments in __init__. B does not inherit from anything and requires one argument

Python 2.6, GUI not working on vista?

2008-10-02 Thread process
i just downloaded 2.6 and when running the gui nothing happens. anyone else with the same problem? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python equivalent of Perl e flag with regular expression

2008-10-02 Thread Peter Otten
Friedman, Jason wrote: > I have lines that look like this: > select column1, 'select' as type > from table > where column2 = 'foo' > > I want to return: > SELECT column1, 'select' AS type > FROM table > WHERE column2 = 'foo' > > This is SQL with the keywords converted to uppercase. Note that th

Re: Python 2.6, GUI not working on vista?

2008-10-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Oct 2, 2:27 pm, process <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i just downloaded 2.6 and when running the gui nothing happens. > > anyone else with the same problem? I have no idea what "gui" you're referring to. However, when I try to run Python on vista, I get: The application has failed to start bec

Re: Python equivalent of Perl e flag with regular expression

2008-10-02 Thread George Sakkis
On Oct 2, 1:06 pm, "Friedman, Jason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have lines that look like this: > select column1, 'select' as type > from table > where column2 = 'foo' > > I want to return: > SELECT column1, 'select' AS type > FROM table > WHERE column2 = 'foo' > > This is SQL with the keywords

how to find the directory where python is installed ?

2008-10-02 Thread Stef Mientki
hello, how can I determine the location of the Python installation under winXP / Linux, with a Python program ? thanks, Stef Mientki -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: RELEASED Python 2.6 final

2008-10-02 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Oct 1, 2008, at 11:46 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I am happy to announce the release of Python 2.6 final. This is the production-ready version of the latest in the Python 2 series

Re: how to find the directory where python is installed ?

2008-10-02 Thread Timothy Grant
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello, > > how can I determine the location of the Python installation under winXP / > Linux, > with a Python program ? > > thanks, > Stef Mientki > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > This what you

Regular expressions and Unicode

2008-10-02 Thread Jeffrey Barish
I have a regular expression that I use to extract the surname: surname = r'(?u).+ (\w+)' However, when I apply it to this Unicode string, I get only the first 3 letters of the surname: name = 'Anton\xc3\xadn Dvo\xc5\x99\xc3\xa1k' surname_re = re.compile(surname) m = surname_re.search(name) m.gr

Re: how to find the directory where python is installed ?

2008-10-02 Thread Stef Mientki
Timothy Grant wrote: On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hello, how can I determine the location of the Python installation under winXP / Linux, with a Python program ? thanks, Stef Mientki -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: why? __builtins__ key added from eval

2008-10-02 Thread Lie Ryan
On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:04:34 -0500, William Purcell wrote: > I want to use eval to evaluate wx.TextCtrl inputs. How can I keep python > from adding the __builtins__ key to mydict when I use it with eval? > Other wise I have to __delitem__('__builtins__') everytime I use eval? > mydict = {'a'

questions from a lost sheep

2008-10-02 Thread Joe Strout
Hi all, I used to by a big Python fan, many years ago [1]. I stopped using it after discovering REALbasic, because my main developmental need is to write desktop applications that are as native as possible on each platform, and because I really like a strongly-typed language with a good

tkinter textwidget problem

2008-10-02 Thread kib2
Hi, In a tkinter TextWidget I would like to retrieve the last typed word. I've tried this with the 'wordstart' Expression [From the effbot site, "wordstart" and "wordend" moves the index to the beginning (end) of the current word. Words are sequences of letters, digits, and underline, or singl

Re: questions from a lost sheep

2008-10-02 Thread Chris Mellon
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Joe Strout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I used to by a big Python fan, many years ago [1]. I stopped using it after > discovering REALbasic, because my main developmental need is to write > desktop applications that are as native as possible on each plat

Re: Python equivalent of Perl e flag with regular expression

2008-10-02 Thread skip
Jason> With Perl I might do something like this: Jason> $line =~ s/(select)/uc($1)/e; ... Jason> How would I do this with Python? I'm sure there are plenty of ways to skin this particular cat, but how is 's/.../.../e' different from 's/.../.../'? (For those of us who are not Perl

Tkinter Entry blocked by tkFileDialog

2008-10-02 Thread Leonhard Vogt
Hello I have the following problem in Python 2.5 on Windows XP. On Ubuntu I do not see the problem. I have a Tkinter application as in the following example The entry-widget is somehow blocked (i cannot type characters into it) when I call askopenfilename before I create the widget. Calling asko

Re: Regular expressions and Unicode

2008-10-02 Thread skip
Jeffrey> However, when I apply it to this Unicode string, I get only the Jeffrey> first 3 letters of the surname: Jeffrey> name = 'Anton\xc3\xadn Dvo\xc5\x99\xc3\xa1k' Maybe name = unicode('Anton\xc3\xadn Dvo\xc5\x99\xc3\xa1k', "utf-8") ? Yup, that works: >>> name = unico

Re: Regular expressions and Unicode

2008-10-02 Thread Peter Otten
Jeffrey Barish wrote: > I have a regular expression that I use to extract the surname: > > surname = r'(?u).+ (\w+)' > > However, when I apply it to this Unicode string, I get only the first 3 > letters of the surname: > > name = 'Anton\xc3\xadn Dvo\xc5\x99\xc3\xa1k' That's a byte string. You

Re: questions from a lost sheep

2008-10-02 Thread skip
Joe> I've started to think fondly of the rock-solid stability of Python, Joe> and have been wondering if perhaps aggressive unit testing could Joe> mitigate most of the problems of weak typing. Note: Python is not weakly typed. It is dynamically typed. But, yes, there is no substit

Inheritance but only partly?

2008-10-02 Thread process
Let's say I have a class X which has 10 methods. I want class Y to inherit 5 of them. Can I do that? Can I do something along the lines of super(Y, exclude method 3 4 7 9 10) ? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Inheritance but only partly?

2008-10-02 Thread Gary Herron
process wrote: > Let's say I have a class X which has 10 methods. > > I want class Y to inherit 5 of them. > > Can I do that? Can I do something along the lines of super(Y, exclude > method 3 4 7 9 10) ? > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > No. But why do yo care? Yo

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