Re: Is c.l.py becoming less friendly?

2009-02-05 Thread Tim Rowe
2009/2/5 Tim Chase : > Is this where we tell you to shut up? ;-) [snip] > It would also be interesting to see how many of those posts are concentrated > in certain threads And, as you have clearly demonstrated, how many of those posts also contain a smiley or some other form of hedging in a po

Re: Ordered dict by default

2009-02-05 Thread Bryan Olson
Stephen Hansen wrote: Ooh, as an addendum... I found one case where I want insertion-and-update order: meaning that its an ordered dictionary that maintains insertion order, but an update to a particular item moves that item to the back so an update behaves like del d[key]; d[key] = value in term

Re: Is c.l.py becoming less friendly?

2009-02-05 Thread Dan Upton
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Tim Rowe wrote: > 2009/2/5 Tim Chase : > >> Is this where we tell you to shut up? ;-) > > [snip] > >> It would also be interesting to see how many of those posts are concentrated >> in certain threads > > And, as you have clearly demonstrated, how many of those po

Re: Couple of noobish question

2009-02-05 Thread Tim Rowe
2009/2/5 Bruno Desthuilliers : > Thanks for the correction - as you may have guessed, I have not used windows > for years !-) And I can't get Linux running (more precisely, I can't /keep/ X-Windows running). Isn't it a good job that Python is cross-platform -- as long as we stay clear of the os m

Python Installation Error

2009-02-05 Thread Ahmed Majeed
Hi, I am working over a research project and need Python 2.3 or later to be installed on my Intel Centrino machine, running Fedora 9 as OS. I have downloaded latest stable release Python 2.6.1 from Python.org, but when I tried installing it, terminal returned an error on 'make', saying: "Failed to

Re: Is c.l.py becoming less friendly?

2009-02-05 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Tim Rowe a écrit : 2009/2/5 Tim Chase : Is this where we tell you to shut up? ;-) [snip] It would also be interesting to see how many of those posts are concentrated in certain threads And, as you have clearly demonstrated, how many of those posts also contain a smiley or some other form

where clause

2009-02-05 Thread bearophileHUGS
This comes after a small discussion in another Python newsgroup. Haskell supports a where clause, that's syntactic sugar that allows you to define things like this: p = a / b where a = 20 / len(c) b = foo(d) That means: a = 20 / len(c) b = foo(d) p = a / b I don't know how much good t

Re: How to call python from a foreign language thread (C++)

2009-02-05 Thread Philip Semanchuk
On Feb 3, 2009, at 11:37 PM, Victor Lin wrote: It does not work. But however, thanks your help. I have tired so many methods to do. But it crash...crash..deadlock...deadlock..crash...crash... I have no any tried success. I am going crazy. Could someone help me, thanks. Hi Victor, I have some

Re: Ordered dict by default

2009-02-05 Thread bearophileHUGS
Bryan Olson: > A few bits fuzzy. Is the following True or False if dict is insert-ordered? >     dict(a=6, b=7) == dict(b=7, a=6) In my odict implementation I have disallowed that syntax because if you want to define a mydict(**kwds) function that allows a syntax like: mydict(a=6, b=7) it takes

Re: Flattening lists

2009-02-05 Thread Aahz
In article , Michele Simionato wrote: > >Looks fine to me. In some situations you may also use hasattr(el, >'__iter__') instead of isinstance(el, list) (it depends if you want to >flatten generic iterables or only lists). Of course, once you do that, you need to special-case strings... -- Aahz

Python Integrated Parallel Pipeline EnviRonment: PIPPER

2009-02-05 Thread Kyle
I wanted to share a Python based project which I've been working on. Python Integrated Parallel Pipeline EnviRonment (PIPPER) is an MPI based programming environment that works much like an OpenMP on Python code. It is designed to create a python programming environment where parallel computations

Re: Ordered dict by default

2009-02-05 Thread Steve Holden
bearophileh...@lycos.com wrote: > Bryan Olson: >> A few bits fuzzy. Is the following True or False if dict is insert-ordered? >> dict(a=6, b=7) == dict(b=7, a=6) > > In my odict implementation I have disallowed that syntax because if > you want to define a mydict(**kwds) function that allows a

Re: Python Installation Error

2009-02-05 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Ahmed Majeed schrieb: Hi, I am working over a research project and need Python 2.3 or later to be installed on my Intel Centrino machine, running Fedora 9 as OS. I have downloaded latest stable release Python 2.6.1 from Python.org, but when I tried installing it, terminal returned an error on 'ma

Re: Flattening lists

2009-02-05 Thread rdmurray
Quoth J Kenneth King : > mk writes: > > > Hello everybody, > > > > Any better solution than this? > > > > def flatten(x): > > res = [] > > for el in x: > > if isinstance(el,list): > > res.extend(flatten(el)) > > else: > > res.append(el) > > retu

Re: Flattening lists

2009-02-05 Thread Tobiah
> Hello everybody, > > Any better solution than this? a = [1, 2, 3, [4, 5, 6], [[7, 8], [9, 10]]] print str(a).replace('[', '').replace(']', '').split(', ') ;) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Flattening lists

2009-02-05 Thread Tobiah
On Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:06:39 -0800, Tobiah wrote: > >> Hello everybody, >> >> Any better solution than this? > > a = [1, 2, 3, [4, 5, 6], [[7, 8], [9, 10]]] print str(a).replace('[', > '').replace(']', '').split(', ') > > ;) Or: a = ['text', 'string', 3, [4, 5, 6], [[7, 8], [9, 10]]] print e

Re: where clause

2009-02-05 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 10:04 -0800, bearophileh...@lycos.com wrote: > This comes after a small discussion in another Python newsgroup. > Haskell supports a where clause, that's syntactic sugar that allows > you to define things like this: > > p = a / b > where > a = 20 / len(c) > b = foo(

Re: subprocess returncode windows

2009-02-05 Thread Andrew
On Dec 16 2008, 5:11 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" wrote: > En Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:21:35 -0200, Andrew   > escribió: > > > > > On Dec 16, 12:50 pm, Christian Heimes wrote: > >> Andrew schrieb: > > >> > I'm running into a strange situation with getting incorrect > >> > returncodes / exit status from py

Re: where clause

2009-02-05 Thread bearophileHUGS
Albert Hopkins: > One could imagine this getting "out of hand" e.g. Yes, any syntax can be abused (your example isn't abusive enough). > a = 20 / len(c) > where > c = p / b > try: > b = foo(d) > where > d = bar() >

Re: os.system issues

2009-02-05 Thread Chris Rebert
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 6:00 AM, Youri Lammers wrote: > Ok, > > I want to run a program called 'muscle' with my python script, > muscle uses the following command: > 'muscle.exe -in filename -out filename' > so far I got: > > import os > args = ['-in filename', '-out filename'] As Christian indire

Re: Python Integrated Parallel Pipeline EnviRonment: PIPPER

2009-02-05 Thread Stefan Behnel
Kyle wrote: > def do_call(x,y): > print "Hello World", x, y, os.getpid() > > if __name__ == '__pipper_main__': > a_range = range( int(sys.argv[1]) ) > #pragma pipper_start > for a in a_range : > for b in a_range : > do_call(a,b) >

Re: Python Installation Error

2009-02-05 Thread Benjamin Kaplan
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Ahmed Majeed wrote: > Hi, > I am working over a research project and need Python 2.3 or later to > be installed on my Intel Centrino machine, running Fedora 9 as OS. I > have downloaded latest stable release Python 2.6.1 from Python.org, > but when I tried install

Re: Flattening lists

2009-02-05 Thread Michele Simionato
On Feb 5, 7:24 pm, a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote: > In article > , > Michele Simionato   wrote: > > > > >Looks fine to me. In some situations you may also use hasattr(el, > >'__iter__') instead of isinstance(el, list) (it depends if you want to > >flatten generic iterables or only lists). > >

Re: global name 'sqrt' is not defined

2009-02-05 Thread Nick Matzke
Scott David Daniels wrote: M.-A. Lemburg wrote: On 2009-02-05 10:08, Nick Matzke wrote: ..., I can run this in the ipython shell just fine: a = ["12", "15", "16", "38.2"] dim = int(sqrt(size(a))) ...But if I move these commands to a function in another file, it freaks out: You need to add:

Re: Python Integrated Parallel Pipeline EnviRonment: PIPPER

2009-02-05 Thread Kyle
PIPPER doesn't yet have a very large user base, and is still in Alpha. So if there is enough demand, syntax changes would still be possible at this stage. Kyle > I'm not a big fan of comments that change semantics. Wouldn't a modified > 'with' statement look better? > > We have a couple of other

Re: tkSimpleDialog window focus problem

2009-02-05 Thread inkhorn
After much tinkering, I figured out the problem. Before the call to the ftp.login function, I had another simpledialog asking for a userid. The focus was leaving the parent Tk window altogether right after userid entry. So, right after the call to obtain the userid from the user, i called the Fr

Re: global name 'sqrt' is not defined

2009-02-05 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Nick Matzke schrieb: Scott David Daniels wrote: M.-A. Lemburg wrote: On 2009-02-05 10:08, Nick Matzke wrote: ..., I can run this in the ipython shell just fine: a = ["12", "15", "16", "38.2"] dim = int(sqrt(size(a))) ...But if I move these commands to a function in another file, it freaks o

Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Feb 5)

2009-02-05 Thread Gabriel Genellina
QOTW: "Findability trumps usability. If you can't find it, you can't use it." - information architect Robert Morville Boolean expressions don't necesarily yield a boolean type - and that's very useful: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/e834202d1a6a919/

Re: where clause

2009-02-05 Thread Paul Rubin
bearophileh...@lycos.com writes: > Note that where may also be designed to create a new scope (as in > Haskell, I think), that's why I have inlined the bar and p/b. In Haskell, "where" is only allowed at the outermost level of a function definition (including a nested one), not in an arbitrary exp

Re: database wrapper ?

2009-02-05 Thread Mike Orr
On Feb 1, 3:47 pm, Stephen Hansen wrote: > Googling, I found SQLalchemy, > which looks quit good. > SQLAlchemy is very good. I'm very slowly migrating our entire codebase to it. >   > > > But as I only want to choose once, > I googled for  "SQLalchemy alternatives", > but it didn't find many answe

Re: kinterbasdb + firebird 1.5 with python 2.6 ?

2009-02-05 Thread Laszlo Nagy
Uwe Grauer írta: Laszlo Nagy wrote: Does anyone know how to get firebird 1.5 driver (kinterbasdb) for FireBird 1.5? My problem: * python 2.6 already installed on a server * there is a firebird 1.5 database on the same server * I need to access it from python 2.6 Any thoughts?

Re: Extracting file from zip archive in Python 2.6.1

2009-02-05 Thread Brandon Taylor
On Feb 4, 12:16 am, "Gabriel Genellina" wrote: > En Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:36:40 -0200, Brandon Taylor   > escribió: > > > > > On Feb 3, 1:16 pm, Brandon Taylor wrote: > >> On Feb 3, 9:45 am, "Gabriel Genellina" wrote: > >> > En Tue, 03 Feb 2009 05:31:24 -0200, Brandon Taylor   > >> > escribió: >

Re: Ordered dict by default

2009-02-05 Thread Terry Reedy
Paul Rubin wrote: bearophileh...@lycos.com writes: Now Ruby dicts are ordered by default: http://www.igvita.com/2009/02/04/ruby-19-internals-ordered-hash/ Maybe I didn't read that carefully enough, but it looks like "ordered" means the dict records come out in the same order you inserted them

Re: Ordered dict by default

2009-02-05 Thread Terry Reedy
andrew cooke wrote: so what is happening with pep 372? http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0372/ There seems to be a number of unanswered questions as to the exact behavior (see Q and A section). The author needs to promote more discussion by those interested, including here, and make a deci

Re: Is c.l.py becoming less friendly?

2009-02-05 Thread Terry Reedy
mk wrote: (duck) 542 comp.lang.python rtfm What is so unfriendly about 'read the fine manual'? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Skipping bytes while reading a binary file?

2009-02-05 Thread Lionel
Hello, I have data stored in binary files. Some of these files are huge...upwards of 2 gigs or more. They consist of 32-bit float complex numbers where the first 32 bits of the file is the real component, the second 32bits is the imaginary, the 3rd 32-bits is the real component of the second number

Re: Is c.l.py becoming less friendly?

2009-02-05 Thread Mensanator
On Feb 5, 4:20 pm, Terry Reedy wrote: > mk wrote: > > > (duck) > > > 542 comp.lang.python rtfm > > What is so unfriendly about 'read the fine manual'? You've seen a fine manual? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: kinterbasdb + firebird 1.5 with python 2.6 ?

2009-02-05 Thread Benjamin Kaplan
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Laszlo Nagy wrote: > Uwe Grauer írta: > >> Laszlo Nagy wrote: >> >> >>> Does anyone know how to get firebird 1.5 driver (kinterbasdb) for >>> FireBird 1.5? >>> >>> My problem: >>> >>> * python 2.6 already installed on a server >>> * there is a firebird 1.5 data

Re: Skipping bytes while reading a binary file?

2009-02-05 Thread Lionel
On Feb 5, 2:22 pm, Lionel wrote: > Hello, > I have data stored in binary files. Some of these files are > huge...upwards of 2 gigs or more. They consist of 32-bit float complex > numbers where the first 32 bits of the file is the real component, the > second 32bits is the imaginary, the 3rd 32-bit

Re: Is c.l.py becoming less friendly?

2009-02-05 Thread Steve Holden
Mensanator wrote: > On Feb 5, 4:20 pm, Terry Reedy wrote: >> mk wrote: >> >>> (duck) >>> 542 comp.lang.python rtfm >> What is so unfriendly about 'read the fine manual'? > > You've seen a fine manual? Yes, and I'm fine well sure this is somewhere between a silly thread and a troll. regards Ste

Re: Skipping bytes while reading a binary file?

2009-02-05 Thread MRAB
Lionel wrote: > Hello, > I have data stored in binary files. Some of these files are > huge...upwards of 2 gigs or more. They consist of 32-bit float complex > numbers where the first 32 bits of the file is the real component, the > second 32bits is the imaginary, the 3rd 32-bits is the real compo

Re: HOWTO for setting up a PyQt project in Eclipse ?

2009-02-05 Thread David Boddie
On Thursday 05 February 2009 18:13, Linuxguy123 wrote: > Does anyone know of a HOWTO for setting up a PyQt project in Eclipse ? > > I know about setting up a PyDev project, just wondering how to integrate > the QtDesigner parts. > > For example, should I save the QtDesigner project in the root P

updating nntplib

2009-02-05 Thread Travis
Hello all, There are some notable deficiencies in nntlib. Here are two: 1) It says it implements NNTP as defined in RFC 977, but NNTP has a newer RFC, RFC 3977, which clarifies some vagueness and has more commands defined. However, as it currently stands you cannot issue these commands, since t

Re: Skipping bytes while reading a binary file?

2009-02-05 Thread Lionel
On Feb 5, 2:48 pm, MRAB wrote: > Lionel wrote: > >  > Hello, >  > I have data stored in binary files. Some of these files are >  > huge...upwards of 2 gigs or more. They consist of 32-bit float complex >  > numbers where the first 32 bits of the file is the real component, the >  > second 32bits i

Re: Is the subprocess module robust enough in 2.4?

2009-02-05 Thread James Mills
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 2:20 AM, wrote: > The subprocess module was added in Python 2.4. I'm running 2.4.5 at work. > I know it's seen many bugfixes since first released. Is the version in 2.4 > robust enough to use in preference to os.popen and friends? "Is xxx rubust enough" is an untangible

Re: updating nntplib

2009-02-05 Thread Travis
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 04:40:36PM -0600, Travis wrote: > 2) In some cases, it will bomb out upon receiving certain greetings > that it doesn't expect. As I understand it, it actually terminates > the connection, not allowing for catching an exception or anything. > I have not verified this myself

Re: Skipping bytes while reading a binary file?

2009-02-05 Thread Lionel
On Feb 5, 2:56 pm, Lionel wrote: > On Feb 5, 2:48 pm, MRAB wrote: > > > > > > > Lionel wrote: > > >  > Hello, > >  > I have data stored in binary files. Some of these files are > >  > huge...upwards of 2 gigs or more. They consist of 32-bit float complex > >  > numbers where the first 32 bits of

Re: Skipping bytes while reading a binary file?

2009-02-05 Thread Lionel
On Feb 5, 3:35 pm, Lionel wrote: > On Feb 5, 2:56 pm, Lionel wrote: > > > > > > > On Feb 5, 2:48 pm, MRAB wrote: > > > > Lionel wrote: > > > >  > Hello, > > >  > I have data stored in binary files. Some of these files are > > >  > huge...upwards of 2 gigs or more. They consist of 32-bit float co

Re: Is c.l.py becoming less friendly?

2009-02-05 Thread Terry Reedy
Mensanator wrote: On Feb 5, 4:20 pm, Terry Reedy wrote: mk wrote: (duck) 542 comp.lang.python rtfm What is so unfriendly about 'read the fine manual'? You've seen a fine manual? Yes, and I and others have spent hours and hours making the Python manuals finer. -- http://mail.python.org

Using multiprocessing from a Windows service

2009-02-05 Thread Volodya
Hi all, I think I've found a small bug with multiprocessing package on Windows. If you try to start a multiprocessing.Process from a Python- based Windows service, the child process will fail to run. When running the parent process as a regular Python program, everything works as expected. I've t

Re: global name 'sqrt' is not defined

2009-02-05 Thread Nick Matzke
OK, so the problem was that I had to exit ipython, re-enter it, and then import my module to get the errors to disappear. Thanks for the help! (PS: Is there a way to force a complete reload of a module, without exiting ipython? Just doing the import command again doesn't seem to do it.) Th

Re: subprocess returncode windows

2009-02-05 Thread Mark Hammond
On 6/02/2009 6:34 AM, Andrew wrote: Notice how python never gets the correct returncode from asadmin.bat but I can get the correct returncode from the shell every time. Can anyone tell me why Python wouldn't be able to get the correct returncode for asadmin? I think the problem will be that cmd

Re: global name 'sqrt' is not defined

2009-02-05 Thread James Mills
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Nick Matzke wrote: > (PS: Is there a way to force a complete reload of a module, without exiting > ipython? Just doing the import command again doesn't seem to do it.) m = __import__("mymobile") reload(m) cheers James -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/p

Re: where clause

2009-02-05 Thread Rhodri James
On Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:04:35 -, wrote: p = a / b where a = 20 / len(c) b = foo(d) You'd want to do it with paired keywords, in the manner of try/except, to avoid utterly breaking Python's syntax conventions. Perhaps something like this: do: p = a / b where: a = 20 / len(c)

Re: Where to host a (Python) project?

2009-02-05 Thread Ben Finney
a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes: > In article > <6dcb8ce5-c93e-458c-9047-e5db60f27...@v18g2000pro.googlegroups.com>, > andrew cooke wrote: > >hi, just fyi, i investigated this and you can join any publicly > >readable group by sending an email to the "-subscribe" address. you > >do not need

Re: global name 'sqrt' is not defined

2009-02-05 Thread Robert Kern
On 2009-02-05 18:55, James Mills wrote: On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Nick Matzke wrote: (PS: Is there a way to force a complete reload of a module, without exiting ipython? Just doing the import command again doesn't seem to do it.) m = __import__("mymobile") reload(m) Or more straight

Re: Use list name as string

2009-02-05 Thread Rhodri James
On Thu, 05 Feb 2009 03:32:59 -, Vincent Davis wrote: "The problem is you seem to be thinking in terms of objects having names. They don't. Names have objects."I agree this is my problem. This is not correct terminology then? The name of the object is anobject No. The name of the objec

MacPython 3.0 dmg installer?

2009-02-05 Thread Con
Hi, I was wondering, what's the status of the MacPython 3.0 installer (.i.e. dmg file) ? I have been using the previous MacPython dmg installers with great success without conflicting with other installations on the system. Thanks in advance, -Conrad -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

Converting numbers to words

2009-02-05 Thread todp...@hotmail.com
I've been trying to figure this out for over 2 hours and I'm really frustrated right now.I first made Python to ask user to input height in meters. If user puts certain value in meter, then it converts it to feet and inches as follows: Enter the height (in metres): 1.6It is 5 feet, 3 inches hig

ANN: Nucular full text indexing 0.4

2009-02-05 Thread Aaron Watters
ANNOUNCING NUCULAR 0.4 == This release adds a simple "table space" wrapper which makes Nucular easier to use for some purposes. It also fixes a number of bugs. WHERE IS IT? Find documentation and downloads at http://nucular.sourceforge.net/ WHAT IS IT? Nucular is a syst

Re: sorting for recursive folder rename

2009-02-05 Thread ianaré
On Dec 16 2008, 7:36 pm, "Rhodri James" wrote: > On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:20:52 -, ianaré wrote: > > Hello all, > > > I trying to recursivelyrenamefolders and files, and am looking for > > some ideas on the best way of doing this. The problem is that the > > given list of items can be in order,

Re: MacPython 3.0 dmg installer?

2009-02-05 Thread Benjamin Peterson
Con gmail.com> writes: > > Hi, I was wondering, what's the status of the MacPython 3.0 installer > (.i.e. dmg file) ? I have been using the previous MacPython dmg > installers with great success without conflicting with other > installations on the system. There should be ones for 3.0.1 which

Re: Converting numbers to words

2009-02-05 Thread Steve Holden
todp...@hotmail.com wrote: > I've been trying to figure this out for over 2 hours and I'm really > frustrated right now. > > I first made Python to ask user to input height in meters. If user puts > certain value in meter, then it converts it to feet and inches as follows: > > > Enter the heigh

Re: Flattening lists

2009-02-05 Thread Benjamin Peterson
mk gmail.com> writes: > Hmm, I'm surprised by even that! Apparently list creation is more > expensive than I thought - it seems somewhat more expensive than the > cost of interpreting bytecode for "if var is None". Either list creation > is somewhat costly, or "if var is None" is really cheap.

return multiple objects

2009-02-05 Thread Vincent Davis
Is it correct that if I want to return multiple objects from a function I need to in some way combine them? def test1(): a = [1,3,5,7] b = [2,4,6,8] c=[a,b] return a, b # this does not work? return [a, b] # does not work? return c # this works but I don't like it, , is there a

Re: return multiple objects

2009-02-05 Thread Chris Rebert
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Vincent Davis wrote: > Is it correct that if I want to return multiple objects from a function I > need to in some way combine them? > def test1(): > a = [1,3,5,7] > b = [2,4,6,8] > c=[a,b] >return a, b # this does not work? >return [a, b] # does

Re: subprocess returncode windows

2009-02-05 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:34:29 -0200, Andrew escribió: On Dec 16 2008, 5:11 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" wrote: En Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:21:35 -0200, Andrew   escribió: > On Dec 16, 12:50 pm, Christian Heimes wrote: >> Andrew schrieb: >> > I'm running into a strange situation with getting inco

Re: Converting numbers to words

2009-02-05 Thread Brian Allen Vanderburg II
todp...@hotmail.com wrote: > > I've been trying to figure this out for over 2 hours and I'm really frustrated right now. > > I first made Python to ask user to input height in meters. If user puts certain value in meter, then it converts it to feet and inches as follows: > > > Enter the hei

Re: return multiple objects

2009-02-05 Thread Rhodri James
On Fri, 06 Feb 2009 03:03:01 -, Vincent Davis wrote: Is it correct that if I want to return multiple objects from a function I need to in some way combine them? def test1(): a = [1,3,5,7] b = [2,4,6,8] c=[a,b] return a, b # this does not work? return [a, b] # does not wo

Re: Using multiprocessing from a Windows service

2009-02-05 Thread Mark Hammond
On 6/02/2009 11:37 AM, Volodya wrote: Hi all, I think I've found a small bug with multiprocessing package on Windows. I'd actually argue its a bug in pythonservice.exe - it should set sys.argv[] to resemble a normal python process with argv[0] being the script. I'll fix it... Cheers, Mar

Re: Using multiprocessing from a Windows service

2009-02-05 Thread Mark Hammond
On 6/02/2009 2:50 PM, Mark Hammond wrote: On 6/02/2009 11:37 AM, Volodya wrote: Hi all, I think I've found a small bug with multiprocessing package on Windows. I'd actually argue its a bug in pythonservice.exe - it should set sys.argv[] to resemble a normal python process with argv[0] being t

Re: return multiple objects

2009-02-05 Thread Vincent Davis
That is what I was missing, Thanks Vincent Davis On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Rhodri James wrote: > On Fri, 06 Feb 2009 03:03:01 -, Vincent Davis < > vinc...@vincentdavis.net> wrote: > > Is it correct that if I want to return multiple objects from a function I >> need to in some way com

Re: Using multiprocessing from a Windows service

2009-02-05 Thread Volodymyr Orlenko
On 05/02/2009 8:26 PM, Mark Hammond wrote: On 6/02/2009 2:50 PM, Mark Hammond wrote: On 6/02/2009 11:37 AM, Volodya wrote: Hi all, I think I've found a small bug with multiprocessing package on Windows. I'd actually argue its a bug in pythonservice.exe - it should set sys.argv[] to resembl

Re: Using multiprocessing from a Windows service

2009-02-05 Thread James Mills
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Volodymyr Orlenko wrote: > In the patch I submitted, I simply check if the name of the supposed module > ends with ".exe". It works fine for my case, but maybe this is too general. > Is there a chance that a Python module would end in ".exe"? If so, maybe we > shoul

What is difference between ADO and RDO

2009-02-05 Thread agile
Explain ADO and RDO -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What is difference between ADO and RDO

2009-02-05 Thread Chris Rebert
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:52 PM, agile wrote: > Explain ADO and RDO Take 5 seconds to Google them and find their Wikipedia pages: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Data_Objects http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActiveX_Data_Objects Apparently they're 2 Microsoft technology acronyms -- and they're **

Re: Is c.l.py becoming less friendly?

2009-02-05 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
"Mensanator" >On Feb 5, 4:20 pm, Terry Reedy wrote: >> mk wrote: >> >> > (duck) >> >> > 542 comp.lang.python rtfm >> >> What is so unfriendly about 'read the fine manual'? > >You've seen a fine manual? Oh Fine! - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

i have an query regarding pyodbc

2009-02-05 Thread Rahul
hello all, I have installed pyodbc on my red hat enterprise 4 linux machine but when i go to use that using statement, import pyodbc through python console it gives me error as ImportError : dynamic module does not define init function (initpyodbc) and when i do 'nm pyodbc.so' command i get ou

Python Power Point Slides

2009-02-05 Thread Tehseen Siddiqui
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Re: Is c.l.py becoming less friendly?

2009-02-05 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
"Steve Holden" wrote: > Yes, and I'm fine well sure this is somewhere between a silly thread and > a troll. "Fine" reads wrong - it should be fining. Silly? Us here on clp, silly? What a monstrous thought! I'll have you know this is a respectable establishment, and you should be grateful tha

reconstruct html form in pyGTK window and create dict from pyGTK

2009-02-05 Thread alex goretoy
Hello All, What would be the best way to fetch a form/s from a webpage and then recreate it in a pygtk window? I'm doing some research on this for a project called pynutbutter. This is for jellpy actually, which handles creating option mappings for pynutbutter from a GUI. The things I know I woul

Re: Where to host a (Python) project?

2009-02-05 Thread alex goretoy
I use google code. http://code.google.com/p/pynutbutter -Alex Goretoy http://www.alexgoretoy.com On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Ben Finney < bignose+hates-s...@benfinney.id.au >wrote: > a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes: > > > In article < > 6dcb8ce5-c93e-458c-9047-e5db60f27...@v18g2000pro.g

Re: Using multiprocessing from a Windows service

2009-02-05 Thread Volodymyr Orlenko
On 05/02/2009 9:54 PM, James Mills wrote: On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Volodymyr Orlenko wrote: [...] Maybe there's another way to fix the forking module? I believe the best way to fix this is to fix the underlying issue that Mark has pointed out (monkey-patching mp won't do).

Re: web2py 1.56 is OUT

2009-02-05 Thread Markus Gritsch
Hi, when copying and pasting the example from the announcement into files, it wont run due to some errors: 2009/2/5 Massimo Di Pierro : > > Example of code (complete app) > = >## in model db.py >from gluon.tools import * >db=SQLDB() >db.define_table('puppy'

urllib2 performance on windows, usb connection

2009-02-05 Thread dq
I've googled this pretty extensively and can't find anyone who's had the same problem, so here it is: I wrote a console program in python to download podcasts, so speed is an issue. I have 1.6 M down. The key bit of downloading code is this: source = urllib2.urlopen( url ) target = open( fi

Re: urllib2 performance on windows, usb connection

2009-02-05 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> So does anyone know what the deal is with this? Why is the same code so > much slower on Windows? Hope someone can tell me before a holy war > erupts :-) Only the holy war can give an answer here. It certainly has *nothing* to do with Python; Python calls the operating system functions to read

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