Graph Dates and Values

2009-03-10 Thread brianrpsgt1
I am trying to plot dates and values on a graph using matplotlib. Below is the code. I can run this and it works great, until I get to about 2000 rows from the DB. Things really start to slow down. I have successfully plotted up to 5000 rows from the DB, but it is very slow. I am attempting to

Re: 2.6.1 - simple division

2009-03-10 Thread Tim Chase
farsi...@gmail.com wrote: 4 / 5.0 0.84 0.8 * 5 4.0 Start here: http://docs.python.org/tutorial/floatingpoint.html Play with these: >>> 4/5.0 0.84 >>> print 4/5.0 0.8 >>> print repr(4/5.0) 0.84 >>> str(4/5.0) '0.8' >>> repr(4/5.0) '0.8000

Re: xml input sanitizing method in standard lib?

2009-03-10 Thread Stefan Behnel
Gabriel Genellina wrote: > En Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:30:31 -0200, Petr Muller escribió: > >> Thanks for response and sorry for I wasn't clear first time. I have a >> heap of data (logs), from which I build a XML document using >> xml.dom.minidom. In this data, some xml invalid characters may occur -

Re: last and final attempt to search for python ods library.

2009-03-10 Thread Krishnakant
On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 15:55 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote: > I think you are confusing process and result. The result is a cell that > spans more than one column or row *when displayed*, thus hiding the > cells that would otherwise be displayed. This is, I am 99.9% sure, > controlled by an attribute

Re: Mapping 64 bit int from C to Python-2.2

2009-03-10 Thread Explore_Imagination
On Mar 9, 5:57 pm, MRAB wrote: > Explore_Imagination wrote: > > Hi > > > I want to map 64 bit integers from C to python. I must use Python 2.2 > > BUT There is no support for 64 bits integers in Python2.2 (Supported > > in 2.5). > > > Now the problem is that I have these four variables: > > > unit

Re: Mapping 64 bit int from C to Python-2.2

2009-03-10 Thread Explore_Imagination
On Mar 9, 5:57 pm, MRAB wrote: > Explore_Imagination wrote: > > Hi > > > I want to map 64 bit integers from C to python. I must use Python 2.2 > > BUT There is no support for 64 bits integers in Python2.2 (Supported > > in 2.5). > > > Now the problem is that I have these four variables: > > > unit

Re: last and final attempt to search for python ods library.

2009-03-10 Thread Krishnakant
On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 00:27 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote: > In any case, api-for-odfpy.odt has > I am going through the documentation for odfpy but finding it pritty complex right now. > 5.17.12 table.CoveredTableCell > Requires the following attributes: No attribute is required. > Allows the followi

Re: Mapping 64 bit int from C to Python-2.2

2009-03-10 Thread Explore_Imagination
On Mar 9, 5:57 pm, MRAB wrote: > Explore_Imagination wrote: > > Hi > > > I want to map 64 bit integers from C to python. I must use Python 2.2 > > BUT There is no support for 64 bits integers in Python2.2 (Supported > > in 2.5). > > > Now the problem is that I have these four variables: > > > unit

Mapping 64 bit int from C to Python-2.2 ?????

2009-03-10 Thread Explore_Imagination
Hi I want to map 64 bit integers from C to python. I must use Python 2.2 BUT There is no support for 64 bits integers in Python2.2 (Supported in 2.5). Now the problem is that I have following variables: unit32_t a,b,c; uint64_t w,x,y,z; I use this funtion to map values: Py_BuildValue( "(l

Re: creating a list of all imported modules

2009-03-10 Thread Duncan Booth
mat...@gmail.com wrote: for i in dir() : > ... t = eval( 'type(' + i + ')' ) > ... if re.match('.*module.*',str(t)) : print i, t > ... If you think you need eval stop and think again. You don't. If you think you need regular expressions stop and think again. You usually don't. >>> def

Re: Windows install to custom location after building from source

2009-03-10 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> BTW what are your feelings on a patch to msi.py to change the > names of the directories it's looking for to pick up the Tk > licenses? It's a bit of a grey area since the only "canonical" > reference I can find is the externals checkout from within > tools\buildbot: you might as well argue that

Re: Mapping 64 bit int from C to Python-2.2 ?????

2009-03-10 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> Any Suggestions? Read all of the responses you got the last time you posted the very same article. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Mapping 64 bit int from C to Python-2.2

2009-03-10 Thread Mark Hammond
On 10/03/2009 2:51 AM, Explore_Imagination wrote: Hi I want to map 64 bit integers from C to python. I must use Python 2.2 BUT There is no support for 64 bits integers in Python2.2 (Supported in 2.5). Now the problem is that I have these four variables: unit32_t a,b,c; uint64_t w,x,y,z; I use

Re: Windows install to custom location after building from source

2009-03-10 Thread Tim Golden
Martin v. Löwis wrote: BTW what are your feelings on a patch to msi.py to change the names of the directories it's looking for to pick up the Tk licenses? It's a bit of a grey area since the only "canonical" reference I can find is the externals checkout from within tools\buildbot: you might as w

Re: a potential pep to extend the syntax of for loops

2009-03-10 Thread pang
> This idea has already been proposed and rejected.  But discuss away as > you wish ;=). > > tjr Where is that? I didn't see any related pep's. Could you post a link? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Packaging Survey

2009-03-10 Thread JanC
Robert Kern wrote: > On 2009-03-09 13:52, R. David Murray wrote: >> The web _really, really_ needs some sort of mechanism for a site >> to say "I'm not claiming anything about my identity, I'm just >> providing you an https channel over which to talk to me >> securely". > > If I don't claim an id

Determining from which web page a cgi script is invoked?

2009-03-10 Thread davidgould
Given a webpage test.html that has a form with a cgi script, how can you determine inside the cgi script the name of the webpage that invoked the script? I have many different html pages that use a common cgi script for form processing and want to determine the name of the webpage. Thanks. -- htt

Re: Is python worth learning as a second language?

2009-03-10 Thread Wolfgang Rohdewald
On Montag, 9. März 2009, r wrote: > Long answer: > 'Ye%s' %'s'*1000 simplified long answer: 'Yes' * 1000 or did you mean 'Ye%s' %('s'*1000) -- Wolfgang -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Ban Xah Lee

2009-03-10 Thread Tim Wintle
On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 21:28 -0700, Luis Gonzalez wrote: > C'mon guys, Xha Lee always wins, because fools like you get mad at him > instead of ignoring him. Here here! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Number Sequencing, Grouping and Filtering

2009-03-10 Thread flebber
Hi I was hoping someone would be able to point me in the direction of some good documentation regarding sequencing, grouping and filtering and in which order they should be done. As a small example it is easy to create the range of numbers 1 to 20. But if I wanted to group all possible combinatio

Re: Determining from which web page a cgi script is invoked?

2009-03-10 Thread Tim Chase
davidgo...@davidgould.com wrote: Given a webpage test.html that has a form with a cgi script, how can you determine inside the cgi script the name of the webpage that invoked the script? I have many different html pages that use a common cgi script for form processing and want to determine the n

Re: Number Sequencing, Grouping and Filtering

2009-03-10 Thread Chris Rebert
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 2:54 AM, flebber wrote: > Hi > > I was hoping someone would be able to point me in the direction of > some good documentation regarding sequencing, grouping and filtering > and in which order they should be done. > > As a small example it is easy to create the range of numb

Re: Number Sequencing, Grouping and Filtering

2009-03-10 Thread flebber
On Mar 10, 8:54 pm, flebber wrote: > Hi > > I was hoping someone would be able to point me in the direction of > some good documentation regarding sequencing, grouping and filtering > and in which order they should be done. > > As a small example it is easy to create the range of numbers 1 to 20.

Re: Number Sequencing, Grouping and Filtering

2009-03-10 Thread Chris Rebert
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 3:00 AM, flebber wrote: > On Mar 10, 8:54 pm, flebber wrote: >> Hi >> >> I was hoping someone would be able to point me in the direction of >> some good documentation regarding sequencing, grouping and filtering >> and in which order they should be done. >> >> As a small e

Re: Why is lambda allowed as a key in a dict?

2009-03-10 Thread Iain King
On Mar 10, 6:38 am, Daniel Fetchinson wrote: > On 3/9/09, bearophileh...@lycos.com wrote: > > > See here Daniel Fetchinson: > > >http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/... > > > But be quite careful in using that stuff, it has some traps. > > Thanks a lot for all the

how to maximize a window with pygame

2009-03-10 Thread Jonathan Chacón
Hello I want to have a maximized window with pygame how can I know the resolution of the screen to create de pygame window with the good size? thanks and regards Jonathan Chacón -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: creating a list of all imported modules

2009-03-10 Thread John Machin
On Mar 10, 11:01 am, Tim Michelsen wrote: > Hello, > > how do I create a list of all modules imported by my module/script and > which are present in the namespace? > > I am looking for something like %who in Ipython. > > My aim is to create a file for the documentation that shows all > dependencie

Re: Ban Xah Lee

2009-03-10 Thread Christian
Xah Lee schrieb: Christian wrote: On Mar 9, 1:22 pm, Christian wrote: XahLeeschrieb:> Of interest: • Why Can't You Be Normal? http://xahlee.org/Netiquette_dir/why_cant_you_be_normal.html IMHO the point that you never reply to responds is what makes it problematic. I have seen 10 or mor

Re: A parser for S.W.I.F.T. MT940 Files (for banking transactions)

2009-03-10 Thread dwahli
On 9 mar, 14:59, Saki wrote: > Hello, > > I need an MT940 file parses. It can be either a pure python library or > a binding/wrapper, no matter. Almost all european banks provide > transactions extract in MT940 format. There are parsers around, but > none of them are for python. Any help is greatl

Re: last and final attempt to search for python ods library.

2009-03-10 Thread Krishnakant
> > any ways thanks for your reply, > > Right now I am stuck very badly. > > > > The problem is that I am trying python-ooolib and did find the library > > pritty good. > > There's another one called ooolib-python; have you had a look at that? > Can you provide the url? Actually I think I saw t

Re: xml input sanitizing method in standard lib?

2009-03-10 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Tue, 10 Mar 2009 05:40:10 -0200, Stefan Behnel escribió: Gabriel Genellina wrote: En Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:30:31 -0200, Petr Muller escribió: I don't know what else is illegal in xml, so I've searched if there's some method how to prepare strings for insertion to a xml doc before I start r

Re: last and final attempt to search for python ods library.

2009-03-10 Thread John Machin
On 10/03/2009 10:35 PM, Krishnakant wrote: any ways thanks for your reply, Right now I am stuck very badly. The problem is that I am trying python-ooolib and did find the library pritty good. There's another one called ooolib-python; have you had a look at that? Can you provide the url? Actu

Re: Why is lambda allowed as a key in a dict?

2009-03-10 Thread S Arrowsmith
Iain King wrote: >Sort of tangenitally; is there any real difference between the outcome >of the two following pieces of code? > >a = lambda x: x+2 > >def a(x): >return x+2 a.__name__ As for why that matters, try a(None) and see which gives the more informative traceback. -- \S under

Re: A Dangling Tk Entry

2009-03-10 Thread W. eWatson
Rhodri James wrote: > On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 04:14:51 -, W. eWatson > wrote: > >> Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote: >>> On Mon, 09 Mar 2009 04:22:57 -0700, W. eWatson wrote: >>> Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote: > On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 22:20:09 -0700, W. eWatson wrote: > >> You didn't

Re: A Dangling Tk Entry

2009-03-10 Thread r
OK, here is a slightly cleaned up version of this horrible code. I did not change too much at one time for fear of confusing you. The main problem is you did not explicitly grid the entry like i told you earlier, and why you are using eval is beyond any measure of sanity... from Tkinter import * i

Re: Menu Interface Problem.

2009-03-10 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:48:07 -0200, Paulo Repreza escribió: # Program exits until 'menu_item = 9' while menu_item != 9: print '-' print '1. Print the list.' print '2. Add a name to the list.' print '3. Remove a name from the list.' print '4. Change an item

Re: Ban Xah Lee

2009-03-10 Thread TomSW
> Xah Lee schrieb (and how...) For Google Groups users, there is a kill file implementation for Firefox / Greasemonkey: http://www.penney.org/ggkiller.html hth, Tom -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

error compiling 2.5

2009-03-10 Thread jonsoons
I am compiling 2.5 on Solaris 10 SPARC. I edited Modules/Setup to try and enable tkinter. ranlib claims that it cannot find libtk8.4.so even though I have a -L option pointing to it. ranlib libpython2.5.a /usr/sfw/bin/gcc -o python \ Modules/python.o \

RE: Eject a Removable USB drive

2009-03-10 Thread Rickey, Kyle W
def do_magic(): from staples import easy_button result = easy_button.press() return result :) In all seriousness that code did the trick but only after a short delay. I noticed when I first ran it, there was no effect. But when I ran it interactively, it succeeded. Is there any way

Re: A Dangling Tk Entry

2009-03-10 Thread r
Alright try this code. The only thing that i left out was inheriting from Frame, but since i cannot see your entire progam i did not want to do that for fear of breaking some other code. You had a lot of useless code in there and more code that was just a spaghetti mess. If you want to return a dic

Re: Why is lambda allowed as a key in a dict?

2009-03-10 Thread Duncan Booth
Iain King wrote: > Sort of tangenitally; is there any real difference between the outcome > of the two following pieces of code? > > a = lambda x: x+2 > > def a(x): > return x+2 > Disassemble it to see. The functions themselves have identical code bytes, the only difference is the name o

Re: Windows install to custom location after building from source

2009-03-10 Thread Tim Golden
Martin v. Löwis wrote: First, it relies on config.py whose existence msi.py optionally ignores. Feel free to create a patch for that. http://bugs.python.org/issue5467 TJG -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Ban Xah Lee

2009-03-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-03-10, Tim Wintle wrote: > On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 21:28 -0700, Luis Gonzalez wrote: >> C'mon guys, Xha Lee always wins, because fools like you get mad at him >> instead of ignoring him. > > Here here! Hear hear! -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! FROZEN ENTREES ma

Re: creating a list of all imported modules

2009-03-10 Thread Timmie
> Put this code at the end of your script: > import sys > info = [(module.__file__, name) > for (name, module) in sys.modules.iteritems() > if hasattr(module, '__file__')] > info.sort() > import pprint > pprint.pprint(info) > > AFAIK unless someone has been mess

Re: Set & Frozenset?

2009-03-10 Thread Lie Ryan
Matt Nordhoff wrote: Alan G Isaac wrote: Hans Larsen schrieb: How could I "take" an elemment from a set or a frozenset On 3/8/2009 2:06 PM Diez B. Roggisch apparently wrote: You iterate over them. If you only want one value, use iter(the_set).next() I recall a claim that f

PyEval_EvalCode(...) problem

2009-03-10 Thread googler . 1 . webmaster
Hi! I have a problem with PyEval_EvalCode(...) I compile the following code and execute them with PyEval_EvalCode (...) class MyClass(mod.Upper): pass register(MyClass) #just the type, not the instance Thats all. So register(...) is a Python C API method so i take the type and store it in

Re: Graph Dates and Values

2009-03-10 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Tue, 10 Mar 2009 05:08:41 -0200, brianrpsgt1 escribió: I am trying to plot dates and values on a graph using matplotlib. Below is the code. I can run this and it works great, until I get to about 2000 rows from the DB. Things really start to slow down. I have successfully plotted up to

Re: Windows install to custom location after building from source

2009-03-10 Thread Tim Golden
Martin v. Löwis wrote: I also see that it fails to add custom actions into InstallExecuteSequence. I find that puzzling - apparently, it tries to merge the twice. Are you sure you didn't run it twice? It will certainly fail the second time. Just to confirm: I'm certainly only running this once

Re: creating a list of all imported modules

2009-03-10 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:29:28 -0200, Timmie escribió: Put this code at the end of your script: import sys info = [(module.__file__, name) for (name, module) in sys.modules.iteritems() if hasattr(module, '__file__')] info.sort() import pprint pprint.pprint(in

Re: Why is lambda allowed as a key in a dict?

2009-03-10 Thread Vito De Tullio
MRAB wrote: > >>> (lambda arg: arg) == (lambda arg: arg) > False curious... I somehow thinked that, whereas >>> (lambda: 0) is (lambda: 0) should be False (obviously) >>> (lambda: 0) == (lambda: 0) could be True... maybe because `{} == {} and {} is not {}` (also for []) -- By ZeD -- http://

Re: PyEval_EvalCode(...) problem

2009-03-10 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:32:00 -0200, escribió: Hi! I have a problem with PyEval_EvalCode(...) I compile the following code and execute them with PyEval_EvalCode (...) class MyClass(mod.Upper): pass register(MyClass) #just the type, not the instance Thats all. So register(...) is a Py

Re: Ban Xah Lee

2009-03-10 Thread Alan Mackenzie
In comp.lang.lisp Xah Lee wrote: > Some people says that i don't participate in discussion, and this is > part of the reason they think i'm a so-called ?troll?. Actually i do, > and read every reply to my post, as well have replied to technical > questions other posted. Most replies to my posts a

Re: Why is lambda allowed as a key in a dict?

2009-03-10 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:00:18 -0200, Vito De Tullio escribió: MRAB wrote: >>> (lambda arg: arg) == (lambda arg: arg) False curious... I somehow thinked that, whereas (lambda: 0) is (lambda: 0) should be False (obviously) (lambda: 0) == (lambda: 0) could be True... maybe because `{}

Re: Graph Dates and Values

2009-03-10 Thread brianrpsgt1
On Mar 10, 7:40 am, "Gabriel Genellina" wrote: > En Tue, 10 Mar 2009 05:08:41 -0200, brianrpsgt1   > escribió: > > > I am trying to plot dates and values on a graph using matplotlib. > > Below is the code.  I can run this and it works great, until I get to > > about 2000 rows from the DB.  Things

Re: Candidate for a new itertool

2009-03-10 Thread pruebauno
On Mar 9, 6:55 pm, Raymond Hettinger wrote: > [prueba] > > > The data often contains objects with attributes instead of tuples, and > > I expect the new namedtuple datatype to be used also as elements of > > the list to be processed. > > > But I haven't found a nice generalized way for that kind o

Re: A Dangling Tk Entry

2009-03-10 Thread W. eWatson
"Down, Fang! Down, boy. Down." -- Soupy Sales, Comedian, talking to his imaginary animal, circa 1960. Thank you very much. One more quote before I continue. A favorite. "The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so." by Josh Bil

Re: A Dangling Tk Entry

2009-03-10 Thread r
On Mar 10, 10:52 am, "W. eWatson" wrote: [snip: biting the hand that feeds] This is not the first time you have come to c.l.py with "hat in hand" seeking help and then scoffed at suggestions made by well respected posters. I should have known you would just do the same again. I don't know what yo

Re: Graph Dates and Values

2009-03-10 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:32:10 -0200, brianrpsgt1 escribió: On Mar 10, 7:40 am, "Gabriel Genellina" wrote: En Tue, 10 Mar 2009 05:08:41 -0200, brianrpsgt1   escribió: > I am trying to plot dates and values on a graph using matplotlib. > Below is the code.  I can run this and it works great, u

Re: parallel/concurrent process in python

2009-03-10 Thread Minesh Patel
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:47 PM, wrote: > I'm trying to figure out parallel process python code. Something > similar to fork funtion in C. > > For example, I using sniff tool in scapy to capture packets but i want > this to run in the background: > > --- > from scapy.all import * > import subp

Re: Windows install to custom location after building from source

2009-03-10 Thread Tim Golden
Tim Golden wrote: However, the .msi installs (and Python runs) without issue on a virgin VirtualXP. And it passes the basic test suite ok. I lied. test_zipfile fails because the new(ish) zipdir.zip doesn't get carried across to the install. Patched in: http://bugs.python.org/issue5470 A co

can python import class or module directly from a zip package

2009-03-10 Thread Flank
can python import class or module directly from a zip package ,just like jave does from jar package without extracting the class file into directory so far as i know ,python module should be unzip to file system in order to use them, -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Indentations and future evolution of languages

2009-03-10 Thread John Nagle
Kay Schluehr wrote: On 6 Mrz., 02:53, bearophileh...@lycos.com wrote: This is an interesting post, it shows me that fitness plateau where design of Python syntax lives is really small, you can't design something just similar: http://unlimitednovelty.com/2009/03/indentation-sensitivity-post-mort

Re: can python import class or module directly from a zip package

2009-03-10 Thread Stefan Behnel
Flank wrote: > can python import class or module directly from a zip package Yes, just put the .zip file into your PYTHONPATH. Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Indentations and future evolution of languages

2009-03-10 Thread skip
John> The only complaint I have there is that mixing tabs and spaces for John> indentation should be detected and treated as a syntax error. Guido's time machine strikes again (fixed in Python 3.x): % python3.0 ~/tmp/mixed.py File "/home/titan/skipm/tmp/mixed.py", line 3

Re: [!! SPAM] can python import class or module directly from a zip package

2009-03-10 Thread Seairth Jacobs
Flank wrote: can python import class or module directly from a zip package ,just like jave does from jar package without extracting the class file into directory so far as i know ,python module should be unzip to file system in order to use them, -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyth

Re: Graph Dates and Values

2009-03-10 Thread brianrpsgt1
On Mar 10, 9:44 am, "Gabriel Genellina" wrote: > En Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:32:10 -0200, brianrpsgt1   > escribió: > > > > > > > On Mar 10, 7:40 am, "Gabriel Genellina" > > wrote: > >> En Tue, 10 Mar 2009 05:08:41 -0200, brianrpsgt1   > >> escribió: > > >> > I am trying to plot dates and values on

Re: parallel/concurrent process in python

2009-03-10 Thread cgoldberg
> Why not use os.fork(), it is the same as C's fork? os.fork is not cross platform. It is *nix only. Subprocess runs on Windows also. The OP never specified his platform. -Corey -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: last and final attempt to search for python ods library.

2009-03-10 Thread Krishnakant
Hi John, I tryed this same library to begin with. python-ooolib is very good except that it misses a major feature of cell merging (spanning ). That is the point from which I started the thread. I even thought the author of that library will respond back but did not happen. Seams it is a very o

[JOB] Short-term python programming consultant - funds expire soon!

2009-03-10 Thread Rob Clewley
Dear Pythonistas, Our open-source software project (PyDSTool) has money to hire an experienced Python programmer on a short-term, per-task basis as a technical consultant (i.e., no fringe benefits offered). The work can be done remotely and will be paid after the satisfactory completion of the obj

Re: A Dangling Tk Entry

2009-03-10 Thread W. eWatson
r wrote: On Mar 10, 10:52 am, "W. eWatson" wrote: [snip: biting the hand that feeds] This is not the first time you have come to c.l.py with "hat in hand" seeking help and then scoffed at suggestions made by well respected posters. I should have known you would just do the same again. I don't k

Re: parallel/concurrent process in python

2009-03-10 Thread Ommer . Simjee
On Mar 10, 10:06 am, Minesh Patel wrote: > On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:47 PM,   wrote: > > I'm trying to figure out parallel process python code. Something > > similar to fork funtion in C. > > > For example, I using sniff tool in scapy to capture packets but i want > > this to run in the background:

Re: A parser for S.W.I.F.T. MT940 Files (for banking transactions)

2009-03-10 Thread John Machin
On Mar 10, 3:09 am, "andrew cooke" wrote: > a month is more than enough - i would expect to have something in a week. > if possible, a data size of 1GB or more would be useful, but A gigabyte of SWIFT messages as test data? > please remember that this is a "best efforts" attempt only.  i have no

Re: Determining from which web page a cgi script is invoked?

2009-03-10 Thread cm
davidgo...@davidgould.com escribió: Given a webpage test.html that has a form with a cgi script, how can you determine inside the cgi script the name of the webpage that invoked the script? I have many different html pages that use a common cgi script for form processing and want to determine th

Re: PyEval_EvalCode(...) problem

2009-03-10 Thread googler . 1 . webmaster
http://rafb.net/p/Uyb5Ps45.html Pelase note, when I call PyObject_CallObject(...) in the wrapped C register(..) method it works fine. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Is python worth learning as a second language?

2009-03-10 Thread r
On Mar 9, 6:37 pm, Wolfgang Rohdewald wrote: > On Montag, 9. März 2009, r wrote: > > Long answer: > >  'Ye%s' %'s'*1000 > > simplified long answer: > 'Yes' * 1000 ♦ Sure that works too but sounds like your stu..stu..studdering. > or did you mean > 'Ye%s' %('s'*1000) ♦ Oops, must test snippets bef

Re: a potential pep to extend the syntax of for loops

2009-03-10 Thread Terry Reedy
pang wrote: This idea has already been proposed and rejected. But discuss away as you wish ;=). tjr Where is that? py-dev and/or python-ideas lists within last year > I didn't see any related pep's. Though helpful, not too many people write PEPs to document rejections. > Could you post a

Re: Set & Frozenset?

2009-03-10 Thread Terry Reedy
Lie Ryan wrote: I recall a claim that for result in myset: break is the most efficient way to get one result. I'd never expect that for-loop assignment is even faster than a precreated iter object (the second test)... but I don't think this for-looping variable leaking behavior is guar

Re: Set & Frozenset?

2009-03-10 Thread Paul Rubin
Terry Reedy writes: > > I'd never expect that for-loop assignment is even faster than a > > precreated iter object (the second test)... but I don't think this > > for-looping variable leaking behavior is guaranteed, isn't it? > > It is an intentional, documented feature: ... I prefer thinking of

Re: a potential pep to extend the syntax of for loops

2009-03-10 Thread pang
> > Sorry, no. > > tjr well, thank you Even now it's difficult to find the discussion, but at least I know about python-ideas. Thanks to all that replied. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Packaging Survey

2009-03-10 Thread C. Titus Brown
Hi Tarek, I'm an academic. What do I put down for Q #1? ;) (I put down "pro developer") --t On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 06:44:02AM +0100, Tarek Ziad? wrote: -> The Python Langage Summit is coming up. To prepare this event, I have -> put online a survey you can take to tell us a bit more about you

Re: Ban Xah Lee

2009-03-10 Thread Larry Gates
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:15:19 -0400, Lew wrote: > s...@netherlands.com wrote: >> On Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:08:54 -0400, Lew wrote: >> >>> Larry Gates wrote: For me, the worst thing is when I'm programming, and a bug *actually* gets on my monitor. In real life, I'm this tough person: a rug

Re: Eject a Removable USB drive

2009-03-10 Thread Mark Hammond
On 11/03/2009 12:39 AM, Rickey, Kyle W wrote: def do_magic(): from staples import easy_button result = easy_button.press() return result :) In all seriousness that code did the trick but only after a short delay. I noticed when I first ran it, there was no effect. But when I ran

Re: Set & Frozenset?

2009-03-10 Thread Terry Reedy
Paul Rubin wrote: Terry Reedy writes: I'd never expect that for-loop assignment is even faster than a precreated iter object (the second test)... but I don't think this for-looping variable leaking behavior is guaranteed, isn't it? It is an intentional, documented feature: ... I prefer think

Python 2.7 MSI / pywin32 snapshots [was: Windows install to custom location ...]

2009-03-10 Thread Tim Golden
Scott David Daniels wrote: Tim Golden wrote: ... Anyhow, at the end I have a working Python 2.7a0 running under Windows. Do you mean 3.1a0? As far as I know, 2.7a0 requires the use of the time machine, as it is expected to be 3 months out. If you do get an installer built, even having a semi

Re: Indentations and future evolution of languages

2009-03-10 Thread Kurt Smith
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 12:39 PM, wrote: > > >    John> The only complaint I have there is that mixing tabs and spaces for >    John> indentation should be detected and treated as a syntax error. > > Guido's time machine strikes again (fixed in Python 3.x): > >    % python3.0 ~/tmp/mixed.py >    

Re: [JOB] Short-term python programming consultant - funds expire soon!

2009-03-10 Thread Scott David Daniels
Rob Clewley wrote: Dear Pythonistas, Our open-source software project (PyDSTool) has money to hire an experienced Python programmer on a short-term, per-task basis as a technical consultant (i.e., no fringe benefits offered) Please see http://www.python.org/community/jobs/ for where to pos

Re: Indentations and future evolution of languages

2009-03-10 Thread Tim Rowe
2009/3/8 Tim Roberts : > Tim Rowe wrote: >> >>I don't think the article is right that "it's silly to have some >>expression/statement groupings indentation based and some grouped by >>enclosing tokens" -- provided it's done right. The OCAML-based >>language F# accepts OCAML enclosing tokens, but i

Re: creating a list of all imported modules

2009-03-10 Thread John Machin
On Mar 11, 1:29 am, Timmie wrote: > > Put this code at the end of your script: > >     import sys > >     info = [(module.__file__, name) > >         for (name, module) in sys.modules.iteritems() > >         if hasattr(module, '__file__')] > >     info.sort() > >     import pprint > >     pprint.p

ipython / vs \ in readline on MS Windows (and ipython help grepper)

2009-03-10 Thread bdb112
Q1/ I run a standard python ditribution with ipython and readline under cygwin. The tab filename completion works fine in the OS (bash shell) as expected, and tab filename completion at the ipython command line works, but with MS style path separators (backslash: run examples \test.py) which the r

Re: Why is lambda allowed as a key in a dict?

2009-03-10 Thread Craig Allen
> I think the point is that function objects compare by object identity, > so the two lambdas you use above are not equal even though they have the > same code. it raises an interesting question about why doesn't it. I can think of practical answers to that, obviously, but in principle, if a fun

Re: Why is lambda allowed as a key in a dict?

2009-03-10 Thread Paul Rubin
Craig Allen writes: > it raises an interesting question about why doesn't it. I can think > of practical answers to that, obviously, but in principle, if a > function compiles to exactly the same byte code, you obviously do not > need two copies of it, and like strings shouldn't an identical > fu

Question about xml.com

2009-03-10 Thread J
Dear all, I have loaded an xml file into xmldoc. I would have expected that print commandlet.childNodes[0].toxml() would contain the content but that's only at print commandlet.childNodes[1].toxml() The same for print commandlet.childNodes[2].toxml() Why are commandlet.childNodes[0] and co

Re: a potential pep to extend the syntax of for loops

2009-03-10 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:28:10 -0200, pang escribió: Even now it's difficult to find the discussion, but at least I know about python-ideas. Try http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.ideas -- Gabriel Genellina -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Number Sequencing, Grouping and Filtering

2009-03-10 Thread flebber
On Mar 10, 9:07 pm, Chris Rebert wrote: > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 3:00 AM, flebber wrote: > > On Mar 10, 8:54 pm, flebber wrote: > >> Hi > > >> I was hoping someone would be able to point me in the direction of > >> some good documentation regarding sequencing, grouping and filtering > >> and in

Re: Is python worth learning as a second language?

2009-03-10 Thread Craig Allen
On Mar 9, 12:43 am, ZikO wrote: > Hi > > I hope I won't sound trivial with asking my question. > > I am a C++ programmer and I am thinking of learning something else > because I know second language might be very helpful somehow. I have > heard a few positive things about Python but I have never w

Re: ipython / vs \ in readline on MS Windows (and ipython help grepper)

2009-03-10 Thread bdb112
More info: import readline ? readline c:\python25\lib\site-packages\ipython\rlineimpl.py $Id: Magic.py 1096 2006-01-28 20:08:02Z vivainio $ sys.platform 'win32' sys.getfilesystemencoding() 'mbcs' sys.winver '2.5' $more /usr/local/bin/ipython #!/bin/bash C:/Python25/python.exe "C:\Python25\

Re: parallel/concurrent process in python

2009-03-10 Thread Minesh Patel
> os.fork is not cross platform.  It is *nix only.  Subprocess runs on > Windows also.  The OP never specified his platform. > Just out of curiosity, how is one able to replace an os.fork() call with subprocess and have the child execute multiple statements? I typically see subprocess used for spa

Re: Why is lambda allowed as a key in a dict?

2009-03-10 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> it raises an interesting question about why doesn't it. I can think > of practical answers to that, obviously, but in principle, if a > function compiles to exactly the same byte code, you obviously do not > need two copies of it, and like strings shouldn't an identical > function have the same

Re: Set & Frozenset?

2009-03-10 Thread R. David Murray
Lie Ryan wrote: > Matt Nordhoff wrote: > > Alan G Isaac wrote: > >>> Hans Larsen schrieb: > How could I "take" an elemment from a set or a frozenset > >> > >> On 3/8/2009 2:06 PM Diez B. Roggisch apparently wrote: > >>> You iterate over them. If you only want one value, use > >>>

Re: Why is lambda allowed as a key in a dict?

2009-03-10 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:23:54 -0200, Craig Allen escribió: I think the point is that function objects compare by object identity, so the two lambdas you use above are not equal even though they have the same code. it raises an interesting question about why doesn't it. I can think of prac

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