Re: Suggested improvements for IDLE (non-official)

Tim H wrote: r wrote: On Jan 14, 4:43 pm, Terry Reedy wrote: OFF-TOPIC:(but related) What is the state of Tkinter at this point. Is an active effort under way to port TK 8.5 into Python? Tkinter and IDLE are very important to Python, but i understand there are much more important areas where

Re: Does Python really follow its philosophy of "Readability counts"?

Terry Reedy writes: > >> Have you looked at Tim Sweeney's talk that I mentioned in another post? > >> http://www.st.cs.uni-saarland.de/edu/seminare/2005/advanced-fp/docs/s... > > I did. He gives a really nice use case for Python's ability to > dynamically modify classes imported from a library.

Re: Alphametric fun with Python

Terry Reedy: >It illustrates well the point you intended. I don't know what my point was. A suggestion: with that solver, to find solution in a faster way you have to write many equations. Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Does Python really follow its philosophy of "Readability counts"?

"James Mills" wrote: > At the most basic level do you really think a machine > really cares about whether -you- the programmer > has illegally accessed something you shouldn't have ? Yes it does - this is exactly why some chips have supervisor and user modes - to keep the monkeys away from the t

Re: Convention vs. fascism

"Aaron Brady" wrote: On Jan 15, 6:41 pm, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:24:19 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > Steven D'Aprano writes: > > >> On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 07:58:49 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > >> > Steven D'Aprano writes: > > >> >> On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:08:37 +0100, Diez

Re: spam on the list - how are things now?

"Terry Reedy" wrote: > James Mills wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:30 PM, wrote: > >> We've been running SpamBayes on the news-to-mail gateway on mail.python.org > >> for a couple weeks now. To me it seems like the level of spam leaking onto > >> the list has dropped way down but I'd lik

Re: [Python-Dev] multiprocessing vs. distributed processing

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Matthieu Brucher wrote: > 2009/1/16 James Mills : >> I've noticed over the past few weeks lots of questions >> asked about multi-processing (including myself). > > Funny, I was going to blog about this, but not just for Python. > >> For those of you new to multi-pr

Re: Convention vs. fascism

On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:03:28 +0200, Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > Oh come on you lot - you are carrying on as if Diez were wearing his > skull socks again - do me a favour and give him a break! Well, for what it's worth, I should say one final thing: I didn't disagree with what Diez said, only the

Re: reverse dict lookup & Relation class

On Jan 14, 7:04 pm, Chris Rebert wrote: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Aaron Brady wrote: > > Hi, this is a continuation of something that comes up now and again > > about reverse lookups on dictionaries, as well as a follow-up to my > > pursuit of a Relation class from earlier. snip > > Or,

RE: problem in implementing multiprocessing

I create two heavy objects sequentially without using multipleProcessing then creation of the objects takes 2.5 sec.if i create these two objects in separate process then total time is 6.4 sec. i am thinking it is happening due to the pickling and unpickling of the objects.if i am right then what

Re: Does Python really follow its philosophy of "Readability counts"?

Hendrik van Rooyento keep the monkeys away from the typewriter. Love it... just fully describes why we should keep some parts hidden from the pointyHairedBossHired Code monkeys... I'd like to think I know what I am doing... can't say the same of all people that have access to the code unfortunat

Re: reverse dict lookup & Relation class

On Jan 14, 7:54 pm, MRAB wrote: > Aaron Brady wrote: > > Hi, this is a continuation of something that comes up now and again > > about reverse lookups on dictionaries, as well as a follow-up to my > > pursuit of a Relation class from earlier. > > > For a reverse lookup, you just need two lookups.

Re: List comprehension - NameError: name '_[1]' is not defined ?

Terry Reedy wrote: > Peter Otten wrote: > >> List comprehensions delete the helper variable after completion: > > I do not believe they did in 2.4. Not sure of 2.5. As Mario said, 2.4, 2.5, and 2.6 all show the same behaviour. > There is certainly > a very different implementation in 3.0

Re: lazy evaluation is sometimes too lazy... help please.

Ken Pu wrote: Hi, below is the code I thought should create two generates, it[0] = 0,1,2,3,4,5, and it[1] = 0,10,20,30,..., but they turn out to be the same!!! from itertools import * itlist = [0,0] for i in range(2): itlist[i] = (x+(i*10) for x in count()) print "what's in the bags:" print

Re: Possible bug in Tkinter - Python 2.6

On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:09:00 +0100, José Matos wrote: On Thursday 15 January 2009 15:28:36 r wrote: First of all be very careful using from "module" import * or you will have name conflicts. Tkinter is made to be imported this way and i do it all the time. for the others do. import tkMessageB

Re: Possible bug in Tkinter - Python 2.6

On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:49:22 +0100, Terry Reedy wrote: Eric Brunel wrote: [snip]>> And BTW, if this is actually a bug, where can I report it? bugs.python.org Thanks. I reported the problem. -- python -c "print ''.join([chr(154 - ord(c)) for c in 'U(17zX(%,5.zmz5(17l8(%,5.Z*(93-965$l7+-']

Re: Client Socket Connection to Java server

On 16 Gen, 08:10, TechieInsights wrote: > I am having problems with a socket connection to a Java server.  In > java I just open the socket, pass the length and then pass the bits > across the socket. > > I created a socket object: > > import socket > > class MySocket: >         def __init__(self,

Re: Python 3 isinstance

Carl Banks wrote: > On Jan 15, 1:08 pm, Duncan Booth wrote: >> Carl Banks wrote: >> > I don't see what the big deal is.  Right now isinstance accepts a >> > typ > e >> > or a tuple of types.  The code could be changed to allow a type, or >> > any iterable the returns types (wherein every items

Re: Alphametric fun with Python

bearophileh...@lycos.com wrote: Terry Reedy: It illustrates well the point you intended. I don't know what my point was. I quoted and was responding to Raymond. A suggestion: with that solver, to find solution in a faster way you have to write many equations. I did... one for each colum

Re: lazy evaluation is sometimes too lazy... help please.

James Stroud schrieb: Ken Pu wrote: Hi, below is the code I thought should create two generates, it[0] = 0,1,2,3,4,5, and it[1] = 0,10,20,30,..., but they turn out to be the same!!! from itertools import * itlist = [0,0] for i in range(2): itlist[i] = (x+(i*10) for x in count()) print "what

Re: English-like Python

On Jan 16, 5:39 pm, Erik Max Francis wrote: > Inform 7 has some > interesting ideas, but I think the general problem with English-like > programming language systems is that once you get into the nitty gritty > details, you end up having to know exactly the right things to type, This has always b

Re: Does Python really follow its philosophy of "Readability counts"?

Paul Rubin wrote: Terry Reedy writes: Have you looked at Tim Sweeney's talk that I mentioned in another post? http://www.st.cs.uni-saarland.de/edu/seminare/2005/advanced-fp/docs/s... I did. He gives a really nice use case for Python's ability to dynamically modify classes imported from a libr

PyPlot

Hi , I need Pyplot module , How to get and install ( plug in with my python 2.4 distribution ) !!! TIA. Shah. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Problem using python C API

Hi, I'm trying to use the Python C API but I have a problem when importing my new module. Here is my (short) code: #include "Python.h" long sumList(PyObject *list) { int i, n; long total = 0; PyObject *item; n = PyList_Size(list); if (n < 0) return NULL; for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {

Re: Does Python really follow its philosophy of "Readability counts"?

Terry Reedy writes: > If the library framework were written in Python, one would have a > choice between creating a parallel class hierachy (through > inheritance) that dupicates *every* class in the original hierachy and > dynamically patching just those classes that need to be changed. I think

Re: lazy evaluation is sometimes too lazy... help please.

The minimal correction, I guess, is to write itlist[i] = (x+(i*10) for i in [i] for x in count()) instead of itlist[i] = (x+(i*10) for x in count()) although itlist[i] = (x+(i*10) for i,s in (i,count()) for x in s) will better mimic generalizations in the sense that the "minimal cor

Re: lazy evaluation is sometimes too lazy... help please.

itlist[i] = (x+(i*10) for i,s in (i,count()) for x in s) oops, that would be itlist[i] = (x+(i*10) for i,s in [(i,count())] for x in s) or equivalent, kind of ugly anyway. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: lazy evaluation is sometimes too lazy... help please.

James Stroud wrote: > I'm going to get flamed > pretty hard for this, but it doesn't seem to be the intuitive behavior > to me either. Given this is the second time this issue has come up today, I'd have to agree with you. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Ordering of urlencoded tuples incorrect

On Jan 16, 1:44 am, John Machin wrote: > On Jan 16, 11:59 am, benluca...@googlemail.com wrote: > > > I'm having problems with the ordering of the tuples produced by > > urllib.urlencode. Taking an example straight from the docs and so > > doing the following: > > What are "the docs" you are readi

Re: reverse dict lookup & Relation class

On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:30:36 -0800, Aaron Brady wrote: > Hi, this is a continuation of something that comes up now and again > about reverse lookups on dictionaries, as well as a follow-up to my > pursuit of a Relation class from earlier. [...] > What's the best way to construct this class? Or,

Re: Python 3 isinstance

On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:58:53 +, Duncan Booth wrote: > That still leaves the question whether anyone has ever actually taken > advantage of this feature. You can do isinstance(x, (IntType, LongType, > StringTypes)) but I didn't even know that StringTypes existed until a > couple of moments ago,

multiprocessing question/error

Hi, I was using the former processing package with python 2.5 with no problems. After switching to python 2.6.1 I am having some problems with the same code. The problem seems to be related to the fact that I am using Pool.map with a bounded method, since it is inside a class. To clarify a little

Re: lazy evaluation is sometimes too lazy... help please.

On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:51:43 -0500, Ken Pu wrote: > Hi, below is the code I thought should create two generates, it[0] = > 0,1,2,3,4,5, and it[1] = 0,10,20,30,..., but they turn out to be the > same!!! [...] > I see what Python is doing -- lazy evaluation doesn't evaluate (x+(i*10) > for x in cou

Re: mimetypes oddity

In article , wrote: >[mimetype weirdness reported] >Sion> Is this a bug? >Might be. Can you file a bug report in the Python issue tracker with a >small script that demonstrates the behavior? http://bugs.python.org/issue4963 (It's tagged as being 2.4 and 2.5 because those are the versio

Re: multiprocessing vs. distributed processing

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:52 AM, James Mills wrote: > I've noticed over the past few weeks lots of questions > asked about multi-processing (including myself). > > For those of you new to multi-processing, perhaps this > thread may help you. Some things I want to start off > with to point out are

Integrating awk in Python

Hello, I'm developing a software package using python. I've programmed all necessary tools but I have to use other stuff from other people. Most of these external scripts are developed using awk. At the beggining I thought to "translate" them and program them in python but I prefer to avoid it bec

Re: process/thread instances and attributes

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:37 PM, James Mills wrote: > After some work ... I've taken Laszlo's suggestion of using Value > (shared memory) objects > to share state between the -pseudo- Process (manager) object and it's > underlying multiprocessing.Process > instance (and subsequent process): > > H

Re: Integrating awk in Python

Hi, take a look at the 5th link at http://tinyurl.com/7s8kfq It's called pyawk. Regards, wr Am Freitag, 16. Januar 2009 13:02:59 schrieb Alfons Nonell-Canals: > Hello, > I'm developing a software package using python. I've programmed all > necessary tools but I have to use other stuff from other

Re: List comprehension - NameError: name '_[1]' is not defined ?

On Jan 16, 5:09 am, mario ruggier wrote: > Laboriously doing all these > checks on each expr eval will be very performance heavy, so I hope to > be able to limit access to all these more efficiently. Suggestions? None regarding the general issue, a try:except to handle this one: '(x for x in ())

Re: Does Python really follow its philosophy of "Readability counts"?

Russ P. wrote: [...] > I spent *way* too much time on that post. I really need to quit > spending my time refuting the baloney that passes for wisdom here. He who cannot ignore baloney is doomed to refute it. regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC

vb2py status?

G'day everyone So is vb2py dead? If not, any idea when it'll support python 3? Kind regards, Bruce. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Experiment: Church lists in Python

Hello there Pythoners, It was almost a week ago, when I got bored and thought, Python is quite a boring language, so I'd need to do some evil functional programming again. I thought, I'd share the result. ;) This time, I added a Church style representation for lists [1] to Python. The problem t

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I believe that I have answered my own question. If anyone else is interested in what I did ... using iPython's code completion (. then hit tab tab) I noticed that msg had a _request attribute. I set that attribute to "1" and that sent the message that I needed! Hope everyone has a great day! D

Re: English-like Python

On Jan 16, 3:15 am, alex23 wrote: > On Jan 16, 5:39 pm, Erik Max Francis wrote: > > > Inform 7 has some > > interesting ideas, but I think the general problem with English-like > > programming language systems is that once you get into the nitty gritty > > details, you end up having to know exact

Re: Readline and Python 2.6.1 on a Mac

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Re: Python 3 isinstance

Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:58:53 +, Duncan Booth wrote: > >> That still leaves the question whether anyone has ever actually taken >> advantage of this feature. You can do isinstance(x, (IntType, >> LongType, StringTypes)) but I didn't even know that StringTypes >> exist

Re: Does Python really follow its philosophy of "Readability counts"?

Quoting "Russ P." : > On Jan 15, 12:21 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers > wrote: > > > Once again, the important point is that there's a *clear* distinction > > between interface and implementation, and that you *shouldn't* mess with > > implementation. > > If you "*shouldn't* mess with the implementat

Re: Does Python really follow its philosophy of "Readability counts"?

Paul Rubin wrote: 1) Parallelism. Commodity desktop computers now have 8 effective cpu cores or maybe even 16 soon (Mac Pro, Intel Core i7) but Python still has the evil GIL that forces all threads to run on one core. Java, Erlang, and Haskell (GHC) all beat Python in this area. By the time P

Re: English-like Python

[Hit Reply instead of Reply All. Sorry alex23.] alex23 wrote: On Jan 16, 5:39 pm, Erik Max Francis wrote: Inform 7 has some interesting ideas, but I think the general problem with English-like programming language systems is that once you get into the nitty gritty details, you end up having to

Re: Client Socket Connection to Java server

TechieInsights wrote: I am having problems with a socket connection to a Java server. In java I just open the socket, pass the length and then pass the bits across the socket. I created a socket object: import socket class MySocket: def __init__(self, host='localhost', port = 28192, b

Re: Start two threads in same time

On Jan 16, 7:36 pm, vedrandeko...@gmail.com wrote: > Hello, > > Does anybody know how can I start two threads in same time? > > Regards, > John Use threading module. Creating a new thread is as easy as -- --- import threading cla

Re: Convention vs. fascism [OT]

"Steven D'Aprano" wrote: >And... skull socks? Cool. Where can I get some? Don't you remember? - Google the group - there was some dust raised about them some time ago. I think he got them from KDW - "Kaufhaus Der Welt" aka "Klau Dir Was" :-) - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/

Re: Start two threads in same time

On Jan 16, 7:46 pm, koranthala wrote: > On Jan 16, 7:36 pm, vedrandeko...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Hello, > > > Does anybody know how can I start two threads in same time? > > > Regards, > > John > > Use threading module. > Creating a new thread is as easy as -- > ---

Re: Problem using python C API

On Jan 16, 2009, at 5:31 AM, shi dingan wrote: void initexample() { PyObject *m; m = Py_InitModule("example", exampleMethods); } When I try to import examplemodule, I obtain the following message: import examplemodule Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ? ImportError: d

Re: English-like Python

On Jan 16, 8:39 am, Erik Max Francis wrote: > I was thinking of this as well when I saw his post. Inform 7 has some > interesting ideas, but I think the general problem with English-like > programming language systems is that once you get into the nitty gritty > details, you end up having to kno

bubblefishymon

Hi Guys I am trying to get bubblefishymon to work as a gdesklet. (app is written in python) The app seems to work, but it does display any water. I'm assuming its because it cant poll the network card etc. If I try run it on the command line it shows this error : $ python __init__.py Traceback

Re: Problem using python C API

Right, thx for your reply, I completely overlooked "examplemodule.so" in the building step. Maybe I should sleep more these days :) Btw, I've now an other problem with PyArg_ParseTuple but I guess it is better to post in the capi-sig mailing list. Thx again, Marc. > > On Jan 16, 2009, at 5:31 AM,

Re: Does Python really follow its philosophy of "Readability counts"?

Paul Rubin wrote: But, if something is done by convention, then departing from the convention is by definition unconventional. If you do something unconventional in a program, it could be on purpose for a reason, or it could be by accident indicating a bug. I for one would love to see at least

confused about publishing more than one class in twisted server.

hello, I am writing a twisted based rpc service where I am implementing a complete application as a service. I have many modules which make a package. Now when we publish a service in twisted, we have to create one instance of a certain class and then publish it with the help of reactor. but in my

Start multiple listening servers in one file

I`m working on a django-project where I`m using the awsome pyftpdlib for ftpserver-functionality. I also have a simple worker deamon running in the background, but not listening to any port. How can I start all of these processes on one file? Tried using subprocess and popen but that resulted in an

Start two threads in same time

Hello, Does anybody know how can I start two threads in same time? Regards, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Skull Socks (was Re: Convention vs. fascism)

On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 08:57 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:03:28 +0200, Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > > > Oh come on you lot - you are carrying on as if Diez were wearing his > > skull socks again - do me a favour and give him a break! > And... skull socks? Cool. Where can

Re: Skull Socks (was Re: Convention vs. fascism)

On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:01:18 -0500, J. Cliff Dyer wrote: > On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 08:57 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:03:28 +0200, Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: >> >> > Oh come on you lot - you are carrying on as if Diez were wearing his >> > skull socks again - do me a favou

Re: Client Socket Connection to Java server

Hint: Java sends a '\n' character at the end. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Does Python really follow its philosophy of "Readability counts"?

mk writes: > I was flabbergasted to read that optional static typing was dropped by > Guido due to "lack of interest in community" IIRC. I don't remember that happening. PEP 3107 still lists type checking as a use case for Python 3.0 function annotations. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listin

Re: Integrating awk in Python

Willi Richert wrote: Hi, take a look at the 5th link at http://tinyurl.com/7s8kfq It's called pyawk. Stupid link wanting to set yet another useless cookie. Answer will not always be 5th. Just say 'Google pyawk' or better give link http://pyawk.sourceforge.net/ Am Freitag, 16. Januar 2009

Re: English-like Python

2009/1/16 The Music Guy : > Just out of curiousity, have there been any attempts to make a version > of Python that looks like actual English text? I mean, so much of Python > is already based on the English language that it seems like the next > natural step would be to make a programming language

Re: mimetypes oddity

Sion Arrowsmith wrote: In article , wrote: [mimetype weirdness reported] Sion> Is this a bug? Might be. Can you file a bug report in the Python issue tracker with a small script that demonstrates the behavior? http://bugs.python.org/issue4963 (It's tagged as being 2.4 and 2.5 because

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Hi, I ran a few tests on the new Python 2.6 multiprocessing module before migrating a threading code, and found out the locking code is not working well. In this case, a pool of 5 processes is running, each trying to get the lock and releasing it after waiting 0.2 seconds (action is repeated twice

Re: Possible bug in Tkinter - Python 2.6

Eric Brunel wrote: On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:49:22 +0100, Terry Reedy wrote: Eric Brunel wrote: [snip]>> And BTW, if this is actually a bug, where can I report it? bugs.python.org Thanks. I reported the problem. When you report that you reported to problem to the tracker (a good idea), pl

Re: optimizing large dictionaries

On Jan 15, 4:39 pm, Per Freem wrote: > hello > > i have an optimization questions about python. i am iterating through > a file and counting the number of repeated elements. the file has on > the order > of tens of millions elements... > > i create a dictionary that maps elements of the file that

Re: Beginner: Data type conversion question

On Jan 15, 11:35 pm, Terry Reedy wrote: > flagg wrote: > > I am still fairly new to python and programming in general.  My > > question is regardingdataconversion, I am working on a script that > > will edit dns zone files, one of the functions i wrote handles > > updating the serial number. > > O

Re: lazy evaluation is sometimes too lazy... help please.

Ken Pu wrote: Hi, below is the code I thought should create two generates, it[0] = 0,1,2,3,4,5, and it[1] = 0,10,20,30,..., but they turn out to be the same!!! from itertools import * itlist = [0,0] for i in range(2): itlist[i] = (x+(i*10) for x in count()) ... print list(islice(itlist[0], 5)

Re: Integrating awk in Python

Alfons Nonell-Canals wrote: At the beggining I thought to "translate" them and program them in python but I prefer to avoid it because it means a lot of work and I should do it after each new version of this external stuff. I would like to integrate them into my python code. That's kind of

Re: Beginner: Data type conversion question

On Jan 15, 11:43 pm, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:09:43 -0800, flagg wrote: > > def checkSerial(): > >     """ > >     Checks the current 'date' portion of the serial number and checks > >     the current 'counter'(the two digit number at the end of the serial > >     n

Python 3: range objects cannot be sliced

Is the behavior below expected? Documented? (The error msg is misleading.) Thanks, Alan Isaac >>> x = range(20) >>> s = slice(None,None,2) >>> x[s] Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in TypeError: sequence index must be integer, not 'slice' -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/li

Re: List comprehension - NameError: name '_[1]' is not defined ?

On Jan 16, 1:35 pm, ajaksu wrote: > On Jan 16, 5:09 am, mario ruggier wrote: > > > Laboriously doing all these > > checks on each expr eval will be very performance heavy, so I hope to > > be able to limit access to all these more efficiently. Suggestions? > > None regarding the general issue, a

Re: Start multiple listening servers in one file

Thomas W wrote: I`m working on a django-project where I`m using the awsome pyftpdlib for ftpserver-functionality. I also have a simple worker deamon running in the background, but not listening to any port. How can I start all of these processes on one file? Tried using subprocess and popen bu

Re: Python 3: range objects cannot be sliced

On Jan 16, 5:45 pm, Alan G Isaac wrote: > Is the behavior below expected? Documented? > (The error msg is misleading.) > Thanks, > Alan Isaac > >  >>> x = range(20) >  >>> s = slice(None,None,2) >  >>> x[s] > Traceback (most recent call last): >    File "", line 1, in > TypeError: sequence index

Re: Python 3: range objects cannot be sliced

Alan G Isaac writes: > >>> x = range(20) > >>> s = slice(None,None,2) > >>> x[s] > Traceback (most recent call last): >File "", line 1, in > TypeError: sequence index must be integer, not 'slice' range is an iterator now. Try itertools.islice. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/p

Re: List comprehension - NameError: name '_[1]' is not defined ?

mario ruggier writes: > All the above attempts will be blocked this way. Any other disallow- > sub-strings to add to the list above? I think what you are trying to do is fundamentally hopeless. You might look at web.py (http://webpy.org) for another approach, that puts a complete interpreter for

Re: Integrating awk in Python

Am Freitag, 16. Januar 2009 13:02:59 schrieb Alfons Nonell-Canals: > Hello, > I'm developing a software package using python. I've programmed all > necessary tools but I have to use other stuff from other people. Most of > these external scripts are developed using awk. > > At the beggining I thoug

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Re: Python 3: range objects cannot be sliced

On 1/16/2009 1:15 PM Paul Rubin apparently wrote: range is an iterator now. Try itertools.islice. Well yes, it behaves like xrange did. But (also like xrange) it supports indexing. (!) So why not slicing? I expected this (to keep it functionally more similar to the old range). Alan Isaac -- h

Re: Python 3: range objects cannot be sliced

Alan G Isaac schrieb: > On 1/16/2009 1:15 PM Paul Rubin apparently wrote: >> range is an iterator now. Try itertools.islice. > > Well yes, it behaves like xrange did. > But (also like xrange) it supports indexing. (!) > So why not slicing? > I expected this (to keep it functionally > more similar

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Hello everyone, I rewrote an example someone posted here recently from: >>> def print_method_name(method): def new_meth(*args, **kwargs): print method.func_name return method(*args, **kwargs) return new_meth >>> @print_method_name def f2():

Re: Differences between class and function decorator

mk wrote: > Note that function decorator returned None, while class decorator > returned function. > > Why the difference in behavior? After all, print_method_name decorator > also returns a function (well it's a new function but still a function)? That would be because the function decorator

Re: Does Python really follow its philosophy of "Readability counts"?

On Jan 16, 5:22 am, Steve Holden wrote: > Russ P. wrote: > > [...] > > > I spent *way* too much time on that post. I really need to quit > > spending my time refuting the baloney that passes for wisdom here. > > He who cannot ignore baloney is doomed to refute it. > > regards > Steve > -- > Steve

Re: are there some special about '\x1a' symbol

Steve Holden writes: > Unknown wrote: >> On 2009-01-12, John Machin wrote: >> >>> I didn't think your question was stupid. Stupid was (a) CP/M recording >>> file size as number of 128-byte sectors, forcing the use of an in-band >>> EOF marker for text files (b) MS continuing to regard Ctrl-Z as

Re: Lazy List Generator Problem

For those interested in the Sieve of Eratosthenes, have a look at: http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~oneill/papers/Sieve-JFP.pdf The examples in the paper are in Haskell, but I have been corresponding with the author who provided this Python version: def sieve(): innersieve = sieve() prevsquare = 1

Re: English-like Python

On 16 Jan, 05:42, Chris Rebert wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 5:02 PM, The Music Guy wrote: > > > > > Just out of curiousity, have there been any attempts to make a version > > of Python that looks like actual English text? > > [...] > Does the name "AppleScript" mean anything to you? ;-) [quo

Re: English-like Python

alex23 wrote: On Jan 16, 5:39 pm, Erik Max Francis wrote: Inform 7 has some interesting ideas, but I think the general problem with English-like programming language systems is that once you get into the nitty gritty details, you end up having to know exactly the right things to type, This ha

Re: Python 3: range objects cannot be sliced

It is documented: http://docs.python.org/3.0/library/stdtypes.html#sequence-types-str-bytes-bytearray-list-tuple-range -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Class decorator with argument

Hello, I wrote this class decorator with argument: >>> class ChangeDoc(object): def __init__(self, docstring): self.docstring = docstring def __call__(self, func): func.__doc__ = self.docstring return func It seems to work: >>> @C

Finding the full path of an executable

Is there a portable way to find the full path of a filename that would be called by os.execvp()? Thanks, Michael Hoffman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

tuple methods: documentation missing

http://docs.python.org/3.0/library/stdtypes.html#sequence-types-str-bytes-bytearray-list-tuple-range I see no mention of the tuple methods? Right after the paragraph "Most sequence types support the following operations." it seems appropriate to have one stating "Most sequence types support the

*Advanced* Python book?

Hello everyone, I looked for it I swear, but just can't find it. Most Python books seem to focus on examples of how to call functions from standard library. I don't need that, I have online Python documentation for that. I mean really advanced mental gymnastics, like gory details of how Pyt

Re: Class decorator with argument

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:15 PM, mk wrote: > Hello, > > I wrote this class decorator with argument: > class ChangeDoc(object): >def __init__(self, docstring): >self.docstring = docstring >def __call__(self, func): >func.__doc__ = self.docstring

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