Re: bool evaluations of generators vs lists

2009-02-24 Thread Antoon Pardon
On 2009-02-10, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 12:50 -0800, Josh Dukes wrote: > > I don't understand what you mean by this. But if you really want to > know if a generator is "non-empty": > > def non_empty(virgin_generator): > try: > virgin_generator.next() # note you ju

Re: How does one get from "ImportError: DLL load failed:..." to a culprit .dll and symbol?

2009-02-24 Thread Chris Cormie
My reading of the Python 2.6.1 version of dynload_win.c tells me that: 1. It uses LoadLibraryEx() to attempt to load the pyd given its full pathname 2. If that fails, it gets the Windows error code using GetLastError() 3. It gets the Windows message text using FormatMessage() 4. It assembles

Re: read csv error question

2009-02-24 Thread John Machin
On Feb 24, 10:42 am, rdmur...@bitdance.com wrote: > Vincent Davis wrote: > > I am trying to read a csv file from excel on a mac. I get the following > > error.SystemExit: file some.csv, line 1: new-line character seen in unquoted > > field - do you need to open the file in universal-newline mode?

Re: opening files with names in non-english characters.

2009-02-24 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:29:07 -0200, venutaurus...@gmail.com escribió: First of all thanks for your response. I've written a function as shown below to recurse a directory and return a file based on the value of n. I am calling this fucntion from my main code to catch that filename. Th

Re: Reference or Value?

2009-02-24 Thread andrew cooke
Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:14:34 -0300, andrew cooke wrote: > >> Steven D'Aprano wrote: >>> On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:37:27 -0300, andrew cooke wrote: >>> as far as i understand things, the best model is: 1 - everything is an object 2 - everything is passed by

Re: Problem in accessing files with unicode fonts.

2009-02-24 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:15:33 -0200, venu madhav escribió: > def findFile(dir_path): > for name in os.listdir(dir_path): > full_path = os.path.join(dir_path, name) > print full_path > if os.path.isdir(full_path): > findFile(full_path) > else: >

Re: Problem in accessing files with unicode fonts.

2009-02-24 Thread venutaurus...@gmail.com
On Feb 24, 1:44 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" wrote: > En Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:15:33 -0200, venu madhav   > escribió: > > > > >> > def findFile(dir_path): > >> >     for name in os.listdir(dir_path): > >> >         full_path = os.path.join(dir_path, name) > >> >         print full_path > >> >         if

Re: intermediate python csv reader/writer question from a beginner

2009-02-24 Thread Nick Craig-Wood
Learning Python wrote: > anything related to csv, I usually use VB within excel to manipulate > the data, nonetheless, i finally got the courage to take a dive into > python. i have viewed a lot of googled csv tutorials, but none of > them address everything i need. Nonetheless, I was wonder

Re: Reference or Value?

2009-02-24 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:44:01 -0200, andrew cooke escribió: Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:14:34 -0300, andrew cooke wrote: Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:37:27 -0300, andrew cooke wrote: as far as i understand things, the best model is: 1 - everything is a

Re: Problem in accessing files with unicode fonts.

2009-02-24 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:18:41 -0200, venutaurus...@gmail.com escribió: Thank you for your solution. It really helped. But how should I give if my path is in a varialble. For ex: path has that value obtained through command line arguments. path = sys.argv[2] In such a case how can we convert

Re: Reference or Value?

2009-02-24 Thread andrew cooke
Gabriel Genellina wrote: > En Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:44:01 -0200, andrew cooke > escribió: > >> Steven D'Aprano wrote: >>> On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:14:34 -0300, andrew cooke wrote: >>> Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:37:27 -0300, andrew cooke wrote: > >> as far as i und

Re: A tale of two execs

2009-02-24 Thread Carl Banks
On Feb 23, 9:13 pm, aha wrote: > Hello All, >   It occurred to me that I might just want to try copying the > subprocess.py installed in a /usr/lib/python24 installation to the > directory where I place the scripts that I need to launch my > application...I know this was mentioned earlier.  Anyway

Re: tkinter icons as bytestrings, not files?

2009-02-24 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Tue, 24 Feb 2009 02:56:12 -0200, Peter Billam escribió: As a newbie, starting with Python3, I'm working my way through Mark Summerfield's tkinter examples. In the toolbar, there's lines like: image = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), image) image = tkinter.PhotoImage(file

Re: Python, HTTPS (SSL), tlslite and POST method (and lots of pain)

2009-02-24 Thread yatsek
OK I found workaround. So just for other fighting the same thing: Instead of using tlslite use pyOpenSSL and as a base for your server you can use: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/442473/ When you add do_POST method everything works greetz Jacek -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyt

Re: Reference or Value?

2009-02-24 Thread Steven D'Aprano
andrew cooke wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:14:34 -0300, andrew cooke wrote: >> >>> Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:37:27 -0300, andrew cooke wrote: > as far as i understand things, the best model is: > > 1 - everything is an object >>

undefined reference to `init_warnings' when compiling after freeze...

2009-02-24 Thread PS
Hello Python users I am trying to compile .py files using freeze with Python 2.6.1, but I get an error even when trying with hello.py from the examples. Freeze semes to do its work (last lines only): p...@linux-s7f4:~/soft/Python-2.6.1/Tools/freeze> python freeze.py hello.py generating table of

try except question - serious foo bar question, and pulling my hair out :-)

2009-02-24 Thread Laszlo Nagy
Given this class below: import Queue import threading from sorb.util.dumpexc import dumpexc import waitablemixin PREFETCH_SIZE = 10 class Feeder(threading.Thread,waitablemixin.WaitableMixin): def __init__(self,connection_manager): self.cm = connection_manager self.expired_asin

Re: try except question - serious foo bar question, and pulling my hair out :-)

2009-02-24 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:22:41 -0200, Laszlo Nagy escribió: Given this class below: [code removed] It seems impossible to me. The while loop should only exit if stop_requested becomes set, OR if an exception is raised. However, all exceptions are cought and logged. But there are no excep

Re: try except question - serious foo bar question, and pulling my hair out :-)

2009-02-24 Thread Laszlo Nagy
I assume stop_requested is an Event object. Maybe other thread cleared it? It was never set! -> nothing can clear it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: try except question - serious foo bar question, and pulling my hair out :-)

2009-02-24 Thread Laszlo Nagy
I assume stop_requested is an Event object. Maybe other thread cleared it? It was never set! -> nothing can clear it. In theory, it could be that a thread sets the event object. E.g.: #1. other thread calls stop_requested.set() #2. "while not self.stop_requested.isSet()" -- loop exists #3

Re: "Byte" type?

2009-02-24 Thread Paddy O'Loughlin
2009/2/24 John Nagle : > Martin v. Löwis wrote: Please don't call something dumb that you don't fully understand. It's offenses the people who have spent lots of time developing Python -- personal, unpaid and voluntary time! > >   Some of the people involved are on Google's payr

Re: Newby - is this what they are looking for ?? and is their a better a way

2009-02-24 Thread Chris Rebert
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 4:54 AM, Gary Wood wrote: > ''' program. > 1.What type of data will the input be? What type of data will the output be? > 2.Get the phrase from the user. > 3.Convert to upper case. > 4.Divide the phrase into words. > 5.Initialize a new empty list, letters. > 6.Get the first

Re: try except question - serious foo bar question, and pulling my hair out :-)

2009-02-24 Thread Laszlo Nagy
It seems impossible to me. The while loop should only exit if stop_requested becomes set, OR if an exception is raised. However, all exceptions are cought and logged. But there are no exceptions logged. And stop_requested is NOT SET. (see the last line in the log). What is happening here?

Re: How to read columns in python

2009-02-24 Thread Steve Holden
Dhananjay wrote: > Well, > > The three columns are tab separated and there are 200 such rows having > these 3 columns in the file. > > First two columns are x and y coordinates and third column is the > corresponding value. > > I want to read this file as a matrix in which column1 correspond to

Newby - is this what they are looking for ?? and is their a better a way

2009-02-24 Thread Gary Wood
''' program. 1.What type of data will the input be? What type of data will the output be? 2.Get the phrase from the user. 3.Convert to upper case. 4.Divide the phrase into words. 5.Initialize a new empty list, letters. 6.Get the first letter of each word. 7.Append the first letter to the lis

Re: Python C-API Object Allocation

2009-02-24 Thread Stefan Behnel
> On Feb 21, 2009, at 10:01 AM, William Newbery wrote: >> Ive been learning the C-API lately so I can write python extensions >> for some of my c++ stuff. First thing that comes to (my) mind is that you probably do not want to write code against the bare C-API. Instead, give Cython a try. http://

Extract CDATA Node

2009-02-24 Thread Girish
How do I extract CDATA node in Python? I'm using dom.minidom as follows:- from xml.dom.minidom import Document class XMLDocument(): def __init__(self): self.doc = Document() def parseString(self, d): self.doc = parseString(_encode(d)) return self #Create instan

Re: Extract CDATA Node

2009-02-24 Thread Jean-Paul Calderone
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:29:21 -0800 (PST), Girish wrote: How do I extract CDATA node in Python? I'm using dom.minidom as follows:- from xml.dom.minidom import Document class XMLDocument(): def __init__(self): self.doc = Document() def parseString(self, d): self.doc = pars

Re: more on unescaping escapes

2009-02-24 Thread Rhodri James
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:46:34 -, bvdp wrote: Just because I never really thought too much about it :) I'm doing my work on a linux box and my user is on windows ... and he's used to using '\' ... but, you are absolutely right! Just use '/' on both systems and be done with it. Of course

Which group ...

2009-02-24 Thread Ben
Ok, thanks ... I am going to be asking a lot of questions now ;-> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: try except question - serious foo bar question, and pulling my hair out :-)

2009-02-24 Thread Steve Holden
Laszlo Nagy wrote: > >>> >>> I assume stop_requested is an Event object. Maybe other thread >>> cleared it? >>> >> It was never set! -> nothing can clear it. > In theory, it could be that a thread sets the event object. E.g.: > > #1. other thread calls stop_requested.set() > #2. "while not self.s

Re: Reference or Value?

2009-02-24 Thread Tim Rowe
2009/2/24 Steven D'Aprano : > If you look at this Wikipedia page: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaluation_strategy > > you should be able to count no fewer than thirteen different terms for > different evaluation strategies, and "call-by-value" itself is described as > a family of strategies.

Re: Extending Python Questions .....

2009-02-24 Thread Ben
On Feb 23, 2:31 pm, Nick Craig-Wood wrote: > Ben wrote: > >  In My S-Lag Project called, SLAG, I have some function keys that get > >  mapped back to S-lang internal functions. > > >  My SLAG project works pretty much like Python (as does the S-Lang). > >  You write a S-lang script > >  that "imp

Re: Running script in module initialization

2009-02-24 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Mon, 23 Feb 2009 05:51:27 -0200, Kom2 escribió: On 20 Ún, 16:27, Steve Holden wrote: Kom2 wrote: > Hello, > I'm trying to convert my project from python 2.5 to python 3.0 and I > have the following problem. My project is PYD library written in C++. > So I have this PyInit_ModuleName functi

variables bound in moudules are None when module is not completely imported

2009-02-24 Thread chrysn
when a module being loaded is interrupted by an exception, code blocks that have the module's scope in their environment will later evaluate variables bound to that module to None, instead of preserving that scope (because it is still referenced somewhere) or raising a NameError (for which i see no

Re: try except question - serious foo bar question, and pulling my hair out :-)

2009-02-24 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:09:44 -0200, Laszlo Nagy escribió: It seems impossible to me. The while loop should only exit if stop_requested becomes set, OR if an exception is raised. However, all exceptions are cought and logged. But there are no exceptions logged. And stop_requested is NOT S

Re: shared lib from python code?

2009-02-24 Thread Gabriel Rossetti
andrew cooke wrote: Gabriel Rossetti wrote: Ok, maybe I mis-stated my problem (or mis-understood your answers).. I don' t want to share code as in have multiple processes access a variable and have the same value, like it is done in threads, what I want is to not have n copies of the code (cl

Re: shared lib from python code?

2009-02-24 Thread Gabriel Rossetti
Duncan Booth wrote: Gabriel Rossetti wrote: Ok, maybe I mis-stated my problem (or mis-understood your answers).. I don' t want to share code as in have multiple processes access a variable and have the same value, like it is done in threads, what I want is to not have n copies of the code

Re: reading file to list

2009-02-24 Thread nick_keighley_nospam
On 17 Jan, 17:16, Xah Lee wrote: > comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.scheme,comp.lang.functional,comp.lang.python,comp.­lang.ruby > > Here's a interesting toy problem posted by Drew Krause to > comp.lang.lisp: > > > On Jan 16, 2:29 pm, Drew Krause wrote [paraphrased a bit]: > > OK,

Re: Newby - is this what they are looking for ?? and is their a better a way

2009-02-24 Thread Tim Rowe
You're doing well so far. As Chris has said, you need to read the later part of the question more carefully. A couple of other things: 1. 'input' might not be the best way to get the phrase, because the user will have to put the phrase in quotes or the program will (probably) crash. Have a look at

Unix Change Passwd Python CGI

2009-02-24 Thread Derek Tracy
I am using python version 2.5.1 and need to create a python cgi application to allow a user to change their unix password. Apache is running on the same system that needs the password changed. I need to keep security high and can not install additional modules at this time. I just need a general

Re: try except question - serious foo bar question, and pulling my hair out :-)

2009-02-24 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-02-24, Steve Holden wrote: >> However, this cannot happen. This application is running >> multiple threads (10+) and every thread monitors the global >> "stop_requested" flag. If there was an unexpected error in the >> service, stop_requested.set() is called. It will stop all >> threads a

Re: try except question - serious foo bar question, and pulling my hair out :-)

2009-02-24 Thread Laszlo Nagy
Use this instead: import sys try: ??? except: e = sys.exc_value do_with(e) Only at the outermost block on your code, if ever... The fact that some exceptions don't inherit from Exception is on purpose -- usually you *dont* want to catch (and swallow) SystemExit (nor KeyboardInte

Re: Newby - is this what they are looking for ?? and is their a better a way

2009-02-24 Thread Peter Otten
Tim Rowe wrote: > 1. 'input' might not be the best way to get the phrase, because the > user will have to put the phrase in quotes or the program will > (probably) crash. Have a look at raw_input. Gary is using Python 3 where input() works like the raw_input() of yore. The giveaway is > print(wo

Re: Python AppStore / Marketplace

2009-02-24 Thread Richard Brodie
"Rhodri James" wrote in message news:mailman.615.1235436896.11746.python-l...@python.org... > A souq is a bazaar :-) > Maybe I've just read too much arabic-themed fiction, but I was surprised not > to find the word in my trusty Chambers. Try under 'souk'. Transliterating to the Roman 'q' seem

March 2, 2009 Pyowa Meeting

2009-02-24 Thread Mike Driscoll
Hi, Just a quick note to say that our next Pyowa (Python Users Group of Iowa) meeting will be next Monday, March 2nd from 7-9 p.m. We will be in our original location at the Marshall County Sheriff's Office, 2369 Jessup Ave, Marshalltown, IA. Remember, it's technically NOT in Marshalltown at all.

Re: thanks very much indeed for your help is there a better way to do this (python3) newby

2009-02-24 Thread kshitij
On Feb 24, 6:29 am, "Rhodri James" wrote: > On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:33:31 -, Gary Wood wrote: > > '''exercise to complete and test this function''' > > import string > > def joinStrings(items): > >     '''Join all the strings in stringList into one string, > >     and return the result. For ex

Re: tkinter icons as bytestrings, not files?

2009-02-24 Thread Eric Brunel
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:56:12 +0100, Peter Billam wrote: Greetings, As a newbie, starting with Python3, I'm working my way through Mark Summerfield's tkinter examples. In the toolbar, there's lines like: for image, command in ( ('images/filenew.gif', self.fileNew), ('ima

Re: python sql query in django

2009-02-24 Thread May
On Feb 23, 12:48 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > May a écrit : > (snip) > > > I may not stay with Django. > > Nope, but your question was about Django. > > > I am seriously looking for whether python > > can read data from a relational database > > Of course - as long as there's a Python adapter

Re: Extending Python Questions .....

2009-02-24 Thread Nick Craig-Wood
Ben wrote: > No, It uses the the S-lang for video, and input control. However, SLAG > is more of an abstract layer on top of that. > > It has a Structures that contains menus and screens (menumodule / > screenmodule). One LOADS them up with parameters. such as creating > a new menu is like:

Python Image Library IOError - cannot find JPEG decoder?

2009-02-24 Thread Dario Traverso
I've been trying to install the Python Image Library (PIL) on my Mac OSX Leopard laptop, but have been running into some difficulties. I've built the library, using the included setup.py script. The build summary checks out ok, and sounds the option libraries to all be found. I grabbed bo

Re: try except question - serious foo bar question, and pulling my hair out :-)

2009-02-24 Thread Tim Rowe
2009/2/24 Grant Edwards : > It works with a person as well as stuffed toys -- but trying to > order a person on the internet gets you in a lot more trouble. > It's also a little more embarassing when you realize your > mistake in front of a person.  OTOH, sometimes a person will > ask an enlighten

Re: Python AppStore / Marketplace

2009-02-24 Thread Paul Boddie
On 22 Feb, 12:24, Marcel Luethi wrote: > > Using my iPhone I suddenly realize how easy it is to find applications > in Apple's AppStore. How easy and fast it is to install or de-install > an app. My iPhone even checks in the background if there is an upgrade > which could be installed painlessly.

Re: Unix Change Passwd Python CGI

2009-02-24 Thread James Matthews
IMHO That sounds like the biggest security hole I can think of. Anyways you can open a pipe to passwd. to have the change there password. James On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Derek Tracy wrote: > I am using python version 2.5.1 and need to create a python cgi application > to allow a user to

Re: Metaclass conflict TypeError exception: problem demonstration script

2009-02-24 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
"Barak, Ron" writes: > However, when line 7 is in effect (with line 8 commented out), viz.: > > $ cat -n metaclass_test01.py | head > 1 #!/usr/bin/env python > 2 > 3 import sys > 4 import wx > 5 import CopyAndPaste > 6 > 7 class ListControl(wx.Frame, CopyAndPaste): If this is

Re: Python 3 and easygui problem

2009-02-24 Thread blogger
Thanks to all for helping Peter on this. Just a bit of an update... The solution offered in this thread to Peter's original problem is the same as the once I arrived at. There is a bit of discussion about it here: http://pythonconquerstheuniverse.blogspot.com/2009/01/moving-to-python-30-part1.ht

Re: python sql query in django

2009-02-24 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Thanks for all your suggestions. From what I've experienced in Django and now that I know a little more about how Python functions, I will probably use a combination of PHP and Django, instead of trying to get Python to do the web portion of my project. Thanks again! That sounds like the wors

Accessing callers context from callee method

2009-02-24 Thread mobiledreamers
when i call a method foo from another method func. can i access func context variables or locals() from foo so def func(): i=10 foo() in foo, can i access func's local variables on in this case i Thanks a lot -- Bidegg worlds best auction site http://bidegg.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailm

Re: Accessing callers context from callee method

2009-02-24 Thread Chris Rebert
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:53 AM, wrote: > when i call a method foo from another method func. can i access func context > variables or locals() from foo > so > def func(): >   i=10 >   foo() > > in foo, can i access func's local variables on in this case i You can, but it's an evil hack that I w

pdftk

2009-02-24 Thread Reimar Bauer
Hi Does one know about a python interface to pdftk? Or something similar which can be used to fill a form by fdf data. cheers Reimar -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Is there any equivalent feature available in Python..?

2009-02-24 Thread zaheer . agadi
Hi, Is there any Python equivalent of java jar,can I include all my sources,properties file etc into a single file.Is there anyway in Python that I can run like the following java -jar Mytest.jar --startwebserver How to so something like this in Python? Thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: Python AppStore / Marketplace

2009-02-24 Thread ajaksu
Steve Holden wrote: > And the "multiplatform client" that should "easily and elegantly allow > app browsing, downloading and installing those apps" would presumably > have to account for the many differences in package formats and install > requirements between the different platforms. And then yo

Re: Is there any equivalent feature available in Python..?

2009-02-24 Thread Chris Rebert
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:05 AM, wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any Python equivalent of java jar,can I include all my > sources,properties file etc into a single file.Is there anyway in > Python that I can run like the following > > java  -jar Mytest.jar --startwebserver > > How to so something like

Re: Extending Python Questions .....

2009-02-24 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Feb 24, 11:31 am, Nick Craig-Wood wrote: > Ben wrote: > >  No, It uses the the S-lang for video, and input control. However, SLAG > >  is more of an abstract layer on top of that. > > >  It has a Structures that contains menus and screens (menumodule / > >  screenmodule). One LOADS them up wit

Re: shared lib from python code?

2009-02-24 Thread Terry Reedy
Gabriel Rossetti wrote: Ok, I see, thank you. I thought this was possible since I have used *.pyd files before and from what I had read they were dynamic library files. I guess they must be written in C/C++ then. Thank you for the explanation. Yes, that can be confusing. Unlike .py, .pyc, .

Run a linux system command as a superuser, using a python script

2009-02-24 Thread madhav
I have got postfix installed on my machine and I am updating on of its configuration files programmatically(using python)(on some action). Since any change in the configuration needs a reload, I need to reload postfix to reflect the latest change. How can I do that in a python script. Precisely, I

Re: Run a linux system command as a superuser, using a python script

2009-02-24 Thread Chris Rebert
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:38 AM, madhav wrote: > I have got postfix installed on my machine and I am updating on of its > configuration files programmatically(using python)(on some action). > Since any change in the configuration needs a reload, I need to reload > postfix to reflect the latest ch

Re: [Tutor] Accessing callers context from callee method

2009-02-24 Thread wesley chun
> when i call a method foo from another method func. can i access func context > variables or locals() from foo > so > def func(): >   i=10 >   foo() > > in foo, can i access func's local variables A. python has statically-nested scoping, so you can do it as long as you: 1. define foo() as an in

Re: Is there any equivalent feature available in Python..?

2009-02-24 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 11:05 -0800, zaheer.ag...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any Python equivalent of java jar,can I include all my > sources,properties file etc into a single file.Is there anyway in > Python that I can run like the following > > java -jar Mytest.jar --startwebserver > >

Re: more on unescaping escapes

2009-02-24 Thread Adam Olsen
On Feb 23, 7:18 pm, bvdp wrote: > Gabriel Genellina wrote: > > En Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:31:20 -0200, bvdp escribió: > >> Gabriel Genellina wrote: > >>> En Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:46:34 -0200, bvdp escribió: > Chris Rebert wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 4:26 PM, bvdp wrote: > > > [pro

Re: 'u' Obselete type – it is identical to 'd'. (7)

2009-02-24 Thread John Machin
On Feb 25, 4:48 am, mathieu wrote: > I did not know where to report that: > > 'u'     Obselete type – it is identical to 'd'.       (7) > > http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#string-formatting So what's your problem with that? Do you believe that 'u' is not accepted? That 'u' is not id

Re: Python 3D CAD -- need collaborators, or just brave souls :)

2009-02-24 Thread r
On Feb 20, 3:09 pm, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > Even 3DS or Maya is easier to learn that Blender. > > Notepad is easier to learn that VI. Not a good program does simple make. And not a good program does complex make either Yoda. Assembly language is very powerful and allows full control down to the p

Re: pdftk

2009-02-24 Thread JB
Reimar Bauer a écrit : Hi Does one know about a python interface to pdftk? Or something similar which can be used to fill a form by fdf data. everyday i use : import os os.system("pdftk.exe source.pdf fill_form data.fdf output output.pdf flatten") and BIM ;) -- http://mail.python.org/mai

Cross-compiling error when compiling 2.6.1...

2009-02-24 Thread Garrett Cooper
I come across the following error: checking for chflags... configure: error: cannot run test program while cross compiling See `config.log' for more details. make-3.81[1]: *** [/nobackup/garrcoop/python_upgrade/contrib/python/obj-mips32/Makefile] Error 1 make-3.81[1]: Leaving directory `/nobackup/

Re: Python AppStore / Marketplace

2009-02-24 Thread geremy condra
Just a few quick questions on your proposed design: 1) What tools, if any, do you propose to help developers package for this platform? 2) How do you plan to deal with applications that change or depend on system-wide settings, ie, conf files, kernel version, or the registry? 3) What advantages do

Re: python sql query in django

2009-02-24 Thread May
On Feb 24, 10:36 am, "Diez B. Roggisch" wrote: > > Thanks for all your suggestions.  From what I've experienced in Django > > and now that I know a little more about how Python functions, I will > > probably use a combination of PHP and Django, instead of trying to get > > Python to do the web por

Re: more on unescaping escapes

2009-02-24 Thread bvdp
Adam Olsen wrote: On Feb 23, 7:18 pm, bvdp wrote: Gabriel Genellina wrote: En Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:31:20 -0200, bvdp escribió: Gabriel Genellina wrote: En Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:46:34 -0200, bvdp escribió: Chris Rebert wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 4:26 PM, bvdp wrote: [problem with Python

Re: Python 3D CAD -- need collaborators, or just brave souls :)

2009-02-24 Thread geremy condra
I'm interested. If you are still serious about doing this in two months, send me an email. If you have something put together at that point we can talk about its future. Sound fair? Geremy Condra -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Run a linux system command as a superuser, using a python script

2009-02-24 Thread geremy condra
Run the script as root and have it drop privs when it doesn't need them. Or set up a separate daemon to do the rootish parts of it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Problem with environment variables and cx_Oracle

2009-02-24 Thread Brandon Taylor
Hello everyone, Here's my setup: OS X (10.5.6 - Intel), Oracle Instant Clinet 10_2, Python 2.6.1, Django trunk I have my Oracle instantclient folder at: /Users/bft228/Library/Oracle/ instantclient_10_2 In my .bash_profile, I have ORACLE_HOME and LD_LIBRARY_PATH specified as: ORACLE_HOME="$HOME/

Pydev 1.4.4 Released

2009-02-24 Thread Fabio Zadrozny
Hi All, Pydev and Pydev Extensions 1.4.4 have been released -- note that the release already happened 4 days ago... :) Details on Pydev Extensions: http://www.fabioz.com/pydev Details on Pydev: http://pydev.sf.net Details on its development: http://pydev.blogspot.com Release Highlights in Pydev

Re: Run a linux system command as a superuser, using a python script

2009-02-24 Thread birdsong
On Feb 24, 11:44 am, Chris Rebert wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:38 AM, madhav wrote: > > I have got postfix installed on my machine and I am updating on of its > > configuration files programmatically(using python)(on some action). > > Since any change in the configuration needs a reload, I

Re: Cross-compiling error when compiling 2.6.1...

2009-02-24 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: > I come across the following error: > > checking for chflags... configure: error: cannot run test program > while cross compiling > See `config.log' for more details. > make-3.81[1]: *** > [/nobackup/garrcoop/python_upgrade/contrib/python/ob

Re: pdftk

2009-02-24 Thread Jason Scheirer
On Feb 24, 12:43 pm, JB wrote: > Reimar Bauer a écrit : > > > Hi > > > Does one know about a python interface to pdftk? > > Or something similar which can be used to fill a form by fdf data. > > everyday i use : > > import os > os.system("pdftk.exe source.pdf fill_form data.fdf output output.pdf >

Re: 'u' Obselete type – it is identical to 'd'. (7)

2009-02-24 Thread Steven D'Aprano
mathieu wrote: > I did not know where to report that: > > 'u' Obselete type – it is identical to 'd'. (7) > > http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#string-formatting > > Thanks If you google on "python bug tracker" the first link is the correct one. I don't know what you want

Getting screen dims platform specific? Say it ain't so!

2009-02-24 Thread Lionel
Hello people, I'm looking for a way to get the screen dimensions (in pixels) using the standard Python library. The only thing I found so far was the following: from win32api import GetSystemMetrics Width = GetSystemMetrics(0) Height = GetSystemMetrics(1) I get an error claiming "no module named

Re: 'u' Obselete type – it is identical to 'd'. (7)

2009-02-24 Thread John Machin
On Feb 25, 9:06 am, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > mathieu wrote: > > I did not know where to report that: > > > 'u'   Obselete type – it is identical to 'd'.         (7) > > >http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#string-formatting > > > Thanks > > If you google on "python bug tracker" the first

Re: Getting screen dims platform specific? Say it ain't so!

2009-02-24 Thread Luis Zarrabeitia
On Tuesday 24 February 2009 05:57:52 pm Lionel wrote: > from win32api import GetSystemMetrics I'd guess that win32api is patform specific, as in "api for win32". -- Luis Zarrabeitia (aka Kyrie) Fac. de Matemática y Computación, UH. http://profesores.matcom.uh.cu/~kyrie -- http://mail.python.org/

Re: Getting screen dims platform specific? Say it ain't so!

2009-02-24 Thread geremy condra
For X systems you can use xwininfo, ie: from commands import getstatusoutput def get_screen_dims(): status, output = getstatusoutput("xwininfo -root") if not status: On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Luis Zarrabeitia wrote: > On Tuesday 24 February 2009 05:57:52 pm Lionel wrote: > > from win32

Re: Getting screen dims platform specific? Say it ain't so!

2009-02-24 Thread geremy condra
my apologies- hit enter accidentally. anyway, just process the output of that command for the Height: and Width: lines. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

How do I decode unicode characters in the subject using email.message_from_string()?

2009-02-24 Thread Roy H. Han
Dear python-list, I'm having some trouble decoding an email header using the standard imaplib.IMAP4 class and email.message_from_string method. In particular, email.message_from_string() does not seem to properly decode unicode characters in the subject. How do I decode unicode characters in the

Re: Getting screen dims platform specific? Say it ain't so!

2009-02-24 Thread Lionel
On Feb 24, 3:53 pm, Luis Zarrabeitia wrote: > On Tuesday 24 February 2009 05:57:52 pm Lionel wrote: > > > from win32api import GetSystemMetrics > > I'd guess that win32api is patform specific, as in "api for win32". > > -- > Luis Zarrabeitia (aka Kyrie) > Fac. de Matemática y Computación, UH.http:

Re: Problem with environment variables and cx_Oracle

2009-02-24 Thread Zvezdan Petkovic
On Feb 24, 2009, at 4:34 PM, Brandon Taylor wrote: Here's my setup: OS X (10.5.6 - Intel), Oracle Instant Clinet 10_2, Python 2.6.1, Django trunk OS X is an important detail here. In my .bash_profile, I have ORACLE_HOME and LD_LIBRARY_PATH specified as: ORACLE_HOME="$HOME/Library/Oracle/inst

Re: 'u' Obselete type – it is identical to 'd'. (7)

2009-02-24 Thread Ben Finney
John Machin writes: > On Feb 25, 9:06 am, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > I don't know what you want to report, but I've reported that obsolete is > > mispelled: > > +1 Own Goal of the Year ... see > http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/misspelled.html Not so notable. It's merely one more inciden

Re: Getting screen dims platform specific? Say it ain't so!

2009-02-24 Thread John McMonagle
Lionel wrote: > Yes, it's platform specific. I was just trying anyway to see if it > would work. > > In a nutshell, what I need is a way to acquire the screen dimensions > (in pixels) and its dpi setting. This should work on all platforms: from Tkinter import * r = Tk() r.withdraw() r.winfo_scre

Re: Getting screen dims platform specific? Say it ain't so!

2009-02-24 Thread Luis Zarrabeitia
On Tuesday 24 February 2009 07:12:36 pm Lionel wrote: > In a nutshell, what I need is a way to acquire the screen dimensions > (in pixels) and its dpi setting. This is a guess, and a guess only. What do you want to know it for? If it is for painting something on the screen, maybe (just maybe - I

Re: How do I decode unicode characters in the subject using email.message_from_string()?

2009-02-24 Thread John Machin
On Feb 25, 11:07 am, "Roy H. Han" wrote: > Dear python-list, > > I'm having some trouble decoding an email header using the standard > imaplib.IMAP4 class and email.message_from_string method. > > In particular, email.message_from_string() does not seem to properly > decode unicode characters in t

Re: Getting screen dims platform specific? Say it ain't so!

2009-02-24 Thread Lionel
On Feb 24, 4:41 pm, Luis Zarrabeitia wrote: > On Tuesday 24 February 2009 07:12:36 pm Lionel wrote: > > > In a nutshell, what I need is a way to acquire the screen dimensions > > (in pixels) and its dpi setting. > > This is a guess, and a guess only. > What do you want to know it for? If it is for

Re: 'u' Obselete type – it is identical to 'd'. (7 )

2009-02-24 Thread John Machin
On Feb 25, 11:32 am, Ben Finney wrote: > John Machin writes: > > On Feb 25, 9:06 am, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > > I don't know what you want to report, but I've reported that obsolete is > > > mispelled: > > > +1 Own Goal of the Year ... see > >  http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/misspelled.

Re: pep 8 constants

2009-02-24 Thread Steve Holden
Ethan Furman wrote: > Steve Holden wrote: >> Brian Allen Vanderburg II wrote: >> >>> bock...@virgilio.it wrote: >>> Constants would be a nice addition in python, sure enough. But I'm not sure that this can be done without a run-time check every time the constant is used, and pyt

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