Python C API String Memory Consumption

When I run the following function, I seem to have a mem leak, a 20 mb of memory is allocated and is not freed. Here is the code I run: >>> import esauth >>> for i in range(100): ... ss = esauth.penc('sumer') ... >>> for i in range(100): ... ss = esauth.penc('sumer') ... And here

Re: How can I change size of GUI?

Muddy Coder wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I copied code from book: > > class ScrolledText(Frame): > def __init__(self, parent=None, text='', file=None): > Frame.__init__(self, parent) > self.pack(expand=YES, fill=BOTH) > self.makeWidgets() > self.settext(text, file) >

Re: Anyone mannaged to access parallel port on windows xp?

> I have a switch that I should connect to the parallel port, but had no luck > with it. Tha guy that made it for me told me that it would be easyer to > connect via parallel instead the USB > So did anyone have success? I only get suckess!! :-)) > tryed giveio.sys but it doesn't wort (can't f

Re: in place list modification necessary? What's a better idiom?

MooMaster wrote: > Now we can't calculate a meaningful Euclidean distance for something > like "Iris-setosa" and "Iris-versicolor" unless we use string-edit > distance or something overly complicated, so instead we'll use a > simple quantization scheme of enumerating the set of values within the >

Re: in place list modification necessary? What's a better idiom?

Peter Otten wrote: > MooMaster wrote: > >> Now we can't calculate a meaningful Euclidean distance for something >> like "Iris-setosa" and "Iris-versicolor" unless we use string-edit >> distance or something overly complicated, so instead we'll use a >> simple quantization scheme of enumerating th

Re: in place list modification necessary? What's a better idiom?

On Apr 7, 12:38 am, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > MooMaster wrote: > > Now we can't calculate a meaningful Euclidean distance for something > > like "Iris-setosa" and "Iris-versicolor" unless we use string-edit > > distance or something overly complicated, so instead we'll use a > > simpl

Re: Anyone mannaged to access parallel port on windows xp?

I have a PC at work and at home. I wanted to write the errors it throws out when i try to use the module but now it work on this PC(the one at work). I don't get it?!?! I tryed so many things and now I can't remember what I have done :-))) This is worse than before! I will post the errors when i

Re: Anyone mannaged to access parallel port on windows xp?

Yes that module is the one to blame for my headache! :-)) > Have you tried http://pyserial.wiki.sourceforge.net/pyParallel ? > > Cheers, > Daniel > > -- > Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python C API String Memory Consumption

Interestaing I changed malloc()/free() usage with PyMem_xx APIs and the problem resolved. However, I really cannot understand why the first version does not work. Here is the latest code that has no problems at all: static PyObject * penc(PyObject *self, PyObject *args) { PyObject * result

pseudo-code

If no internet connection: if have files: run anyway, with warning else: ERROR else: if error getting hash/files: if have files: run anyway, with warning else: ERROR else: run -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: in place list modification necessary? What's a better idiom?

Carl Banks wrote: > On Apr 7, 12:38 am, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: >> MooMaster wrote: >> > Now we can't calculate a meaningful Euclidean distance for something >> > like "Iris-setosa" and "Iris-versicolor" unless we use string-edit >> > distance or something overly complicated, so inst

Re: Python C API String Memory Consumption

On Apr 7, 12:01 am, k3xji wrote: > When I run the following function, I seem to have a mem leak, a 20 mb > of memory > is allocated and is not freed. Here is the code I run: > > >>> import esauth > >>> for i in range(100): > > ...     ss = esauth.penc('sumer') > ... > > >>> for i in range(1000

PIL\Tkinter and Transparencies, Rubber Lines, and Dragging Image Objects

Basically, I'd like to know how one (broadly, e.g., references in Win-land) does IP (image processing) and drawing techniques such as rubber lines, and dragging image objects across the canvas. I know there are some pretty powerful toolkits out there, but I'd like to limit this to PIL and Tkinte

Re: Issue with subprocess Module

tarun wrote: Hello All, I've a batch file to be invoke using a python script. The batch file has pause, and the time, I need to send some command to the batch file from my scripts. I placed both, the batch file (test.bat) and the python script (test.py) in the same folder. And executed 'test.py

Re: Some test fail on my new Python 2.6

Sorin Schwimmer wrote: > > > Run 'make test' instead of running them one by one. > > I did it *before* going one by one. I then tried individual tests in hope of > getting hints of what to look for. Actualy, for the first three tests, the > "make test" script commented that it is unusual for t

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Scraping a web page

I'm using the following to scrape a web page: import urllib f = urllib.urlopen("http://www.google.com";) s = f.read() It is working, but it's returning the source of the page. Is there anyway I can get almost a screen capture of the page? Dankon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-

Re: Issue with subprocess Module

Dave Angel wrote: tarun wrote: Hello All, I've a batch file to be invoke using a python script. The batch file has pause, and the time, I need to send some command to the batch file from my scripts. I placed both, the batch file (test.bat) and the python script (test.py) in the same folder.

Re: Python C API String Memory Consumption

k3xji wrote: Interestaing I changed malloc()/free() usage with PyMem_xx APIs and the problem resolved. However, I really cannot understand why the first version does not work. Here is the latest code that has no problems at all: static PyObject * penc(PyObject *self, PyObject *args) { Py

Re: in place list modification necessary? What's a better idiom?

Carl Banks wrote: > import collections > import itertools > > def createInitialCluster(fileName): > fixedPoints = [] > # quantization is a dict that assigns sequentially-increasing > numbers > # to values when reading keys that don't yet exit > quantization = defaultdict.collections

Re: building release - assert-free python library

grbgooglefan writes: > I would like to avoid [exceptions] when compiling the libpython.a > library because when this libpython gets used for production purpose > and it aborts, the application goes down without any means of > graceful handling that error condition. How can we handle this? Except

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 382: Namespace Packages

[Resent due to a python.org mail server problem] On 2009-04-03 22:07, Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> I'd like to extend the proposal to Python 2.7 and later. > > I don't object, but I also don't want to propose this, so > I added it to the discussion. > > My (and perhaps other people's) concern is th

cgi file limit size?

davidj411 wrote: > I am wondering where the limitation of filesize comes from when i > upload a large file. > it uploads when the filesize is less than 20 MB (but not if larger). > the script does not limit the filesize so it is either an HTTP > specification or a webserver limit, right? > maybe m

Re: building release - assert-free python library

grbgooglefan wrote: > How can I build a release and not the debug version of libpython.a? > I have seen that there are assert, abort statements in lot many > functions in Python code. I would like to avoid those when compiling > the libpython.a library because when this libpython gets used for > pr

Re: pseudo-code

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 2:00 AM, r-w wrote: > If no internet connection: >    if have files: >        run anyway, with warning >    else: >        ERROR > else: >    if error getting hash/files: >        if have files: >            run anyway, with warning >        else: >            ERROR >    els

Re: Issue with subprocess Module

On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 07:53 -0400, Dave Angel wrote: > > > subprocess.Popen() is expecting the name of a program, which should > normally have an extension of .exe You're handing it a .bat file, > which is not executable. It only executes in the context of a command > interpreter (shell),

Re: Some test fail on my new Python 2.6

> Run 'make test' instead of running them one by one. I did it *before* going one by one. I then tried individual tests in hope of getting hints of what to look for. Actualy, for the first three tests, the "make test" script commented that it is unusual for them to fail on my platform (linux2)

Issue with subprocess Module

Hello All, I've a batch file to be invoke using a python script. The batch file has pause, and the time, I need to send some command to the batch file from my scripts. I placed both, the batch file (test.bat) and the python script (test.py) in the same folder. And executed 'test.py' (Please find

Re: PIL\Tkinter and Transparencies, Rubber Lines, and Dragging Image Objects

W. eWatson wrote: > Basically, I'd like to know how one (broadly, e.g., references in Win-land) > does IP (image processing) and drawing techniques such as rubber lines, and > dragging image objects across the canvas. I know there are some pretty > powerful toolkits out there, but I'd like to limit

Re: Eval Problem

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nonlocal in Python 2.6

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Re: Web validation

On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 08:44 +1000, r-w wrote: > If no internet connection: > if have files: > run anyway, with warning > else: > ERROR > else: > if error getting hash/files: > if have files: > run anyway, with warning > else: >

Re: How to go about. On read/write locks

> "Diez B. Roggisch" (DBR) wrote: >>> This is a classical synchronization problem with a classical solution: >>> You treat the readers as a group, and the writers individually. So you >>> have a write lock that each writer has to acquire and release, but it is >>> acquired only by the first r

Re: in place list modification necessary? What's a better idiom?

"andrew cooke" wrote: > Carl Banks wrote: > > import collections > > import itertools > > > > def createInitialCluster(fileName): > > fixedPoints = [] > > # quantization is a dict that assigns sequentially-increasing > > numbers > > # to values when reading keys that don't yet exit > >

building release - assert-free python library

How can I build a release and not the debug version of libpython.a? I have seen that there are assert, abort statements in lot many functions in Python code. I would like to avoid those when compiling the libpython.a library because when this libpython gets used for production purpose and it aborts

Re: Scraping a web page

f = urllib.urlopen("http://www.google.com";) s = f.read() It is working, but it's returning the source of the page. Is there anyway I can get almost a screen capture of the page? This is the job of a browser -- to render the source HTML. As such, you'd want to look into any of the browser-aut

Re: pseudo-code

On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:00:30 +1000, r-w wrote: > If no internet connection: > if have files: > run anyway, with warning > else: > ERROR > else: > if error getting hash/files: > if have files: > run anyway, with warning > else: >

Re: extract Infobox contents

On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 23:41 +0100, Rhodri James wrote: > On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:12:14 +0100, Anish Chapagain > wrote: > > > Hi, > > I was trying to extract wikipedia Infobox contents which is in format > > like given below, from the opened URL page in Python. > > > > {{ Infobox Software > > | n

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 382: Namespace Packages

On 2009-04-03 02:44, P.J. Eby wrote: > At 10:33 PM 4/2/2009 +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> Alternative Approach: >> - >> >> Wouldn't it be better to stick with a simpler approach and look for >> "__pkg__.py" files to detect namespace packages using that O(1) check ? > >> One of

Re: in place list modification necessary? What's a better idiom?

Carl Banks wrote: MooMaster wrote: So I'm reading in values from a file, and for each column I need to dynamically discover the range of possible values it can take and quantize if necessary. This is the solution I've come up with: [snip] #harvested from http://www.rosettacode.org/wiki/IsNume

Re: in place list modification necessary? What's a better idiom?

just playing around - doesn't work with 3.0 due to lack of pattern binding (which i think is coming back in 3.1?) >>> from collections import defaultdict >>> from itertools import count >>> def mkdict(): return defaultdict(count().next) ... >>> converters = defaultdict(mkdict) >>> def to_float((i

Re: in place list modification necessary? What's a better idiom?

R. David Murray wrote: >> [...] >> try: >> dimensions.append(float(s)) >> except: >> dimensions.append(float(quantization[s])) > > No, no, no; never use a bare except! :) can you explain why? i can't think of any reason why the code would be better catching a specific exception. as

Re: Issue with subprocess Module

tarun wrote: Hello All, I've a batch file to be invoke using a python script. The batch file has pause, and the time, I need to send some command to the batch file from my scripts. I placed both, the batch file (test.bat) and the python script (test.py) in the same folder. And executed 'test.py

Re: Re: How can I change size of GUI?

For what definition of 'did not work'? Seems perfectly fine to me. Just try to add the lines: root = Tk() Try adding a line like this: root.geometry("400x300+100+75") ... which means: "make the window 400 pixels wide and 300 pixels high, with the upperleft corner at point (100,75)"

Re: Python C API String Memory Consumption

On Apr 7, 9:19 pm, MRAB wrote: > k3xji wrote: > > Interestaing I changed malloc()/free() usage with PyMem_xx APIs and > > the problem resolved. However, I really cannot understand why the > > first version does not work. Here is the latest code that has no > > problems at all: > > > static PyObjec

Re: Issue with subprocess Module

Tim Golden wrote: tarun wrote: Hello All, I've a batch file to be invoke using a python script. The batch file has pause, and the time, I need to send some command to the batch file from my scripts. I placed both, the batch file (test.bat) and the python script (test.py) in the same folder.

Re: in place list modification necessary? What's a better idiom?

andrew cooke wrote: R. David Murray wrote: [...] try: dimensions.append(float(s)) except: dimensions.append(float(quantization[s])) No, no, no; never use a bare except! :) can you explain why? i can't think of any reason why the code would be better catching a specific exceptio

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Re: Eval Problem

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Re: in place list modification necessary? What's a better idiom?

On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 at 09:01, andrew cooke wrote: R. David Murray wrote: [...] try: dimensions.append(float(s)) except: dimensions.append(float(quantization[s])) No, no, no; never use a bare except! :) can you explain why? i can't think of any reason why the code would be bette

RE: Scraping a web page

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Re: PIL\Tkinter and Transparencies, Rubber Lines, and Dragging Image Objects

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Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 382: Namespace Packages

At 02:30 PM 4/7/2009 +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> Wouldn't it be better to stick with a simpler approach and look for >> "__pkg__.py" files to detect namespace packages using that O(1) check ? > > Again - this wouldn't be O(1). More importantly, it breaks system > packages, which now again have

PyXML and Python-2.6

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Re: nonlocal in Python 2.6

Kay Schluehr gmx.net> writes: > > I always wondered about the decision to omit the nonlocal statement > from the Python 2.X series because it seems to be orthogonal to Python > 2.5. Are there any chances for it to be back ported? The only reason it was not backported was that either no one prov

Re: Python C API String Memory Consumption

Carl Banks gmail.com> writes: > However, Python apparently does leak a reference if passed a Unicode > object; PyArg_ParseTuple automatically creates an encoded string but > never decrefs it. (That might be necessary evil to preserve > compatibility, though. PyString_AS_STRING does it too.) Uni

Re: Issue with subprocess Module

Tim Golden wrote: Dave Angel wrote: tarun wrote: Hello All, I've a batch file to be invoke using a python script. The batch file has pause, and the time, I need to send some command to the batch file from my scripts. I placed both, the batch file (test.bat) and the python script (test.py)

Re: in place list modification necessary? What's a better idiom?

MRAB wrote: > andrew cooke wrote: >> R. David Murray wrote: [...] try: dimensions.append(float(s)) except: dimensions.append(float(quantization[s])) >>> No, no, no; never use a bare except! :) >> >> can you explain why? i can't think of any reason why the cod

Python syntax

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Adding method to class at run-time: bad style?

I realize that technically all methods are added to classes at "run-time", but what I'm talking about is this: import ClientForm def controlEqual(self,other): return (self.type == other.type) and \ (self.name == other.name) and \ (self.value == other.value

Re: Adding method to class at run-time: bad style?

On Apr 7, 4:37 pm, Grant Edwards wrote: > I realize that technically all methods are added to classes at > "run-time", but what I'm talking about is this: Raymond Hettinger solves this problem nicely with a class decorator: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576685/ -- http://mail.python.org/ma

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Re: PyXML and Python-2.6

On 7 Apr, 16:01, Andrew MacKeith wrote: > The Python.org "SIG for XML Processing in Python" page indicates that > "The SIG, through the mailing list and the PyXML project hosted on > SourceForge...". > > The PyXML project on SourceForge " is no longer maintained. ", so > perhaps the SIG page could

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 382: Namespace Packages

On 2009-04-07 16:05, P.J. Eby wrote: > At 02:30 PM 4/7/2009 +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> >> Wouldn't it be better to stick with a simpler approach and look for >> >> "__pkg__.py" files to detect namespace packages using that O(1) >> check ? >> > >> > Again - this wouldn't be O(1). More importantl

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RE: Scraping a web page

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Re: Scraping a web page

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Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 382: Namespace Packages

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 11:58 PM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> >> This means your proposal actually doesn't add any benefit over the >> status quo, where you can have an __init__.py that does nothing but >> declare the package a namespace.  We already have that now, and it >> doesn't need a new filenam

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Re: Python C API String Memory Consumption

On Apr 7, 2:10 pm, John Machin wrote: > On Apr 7, 9:19 pm, MRAB wrote: > > > > > k3xji wrote: > > > Interestaing I changed malloc()/free() usage with PyMem_xx APIs and > > > the problem resolved. However, I really cannot understand why the > > > first version does not work. Here is the latest cod

Re: Delicious API and urllib2

Bill wrote: > The delicious api requires http authorization (actually https). A > generic delicious api post url is "https:// > username:passw...@api.api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/add?url=http:// > example.com/&description=interesting&tags=whatever". > The simplest way is probably to manually add th

Re: Issue with subprocess Module

Tim Golden wrote: > tarun wrote: > > Hello All, > > > > I've a batch file to be invoke using a python script. The batch file has > > pause, and the time, I need to send some command to the batch file from my > > scripts. I placed both, the batch file (test.bat) and the python script > > (test.py

Re: On Integration Testing

Emanuele D'Arrigo wrote: Hi everybody, I just finished unit-testing a couple of tightly related modules and it's now time to test them together to a) check if they do talk to each other in the ways they should, b) check how fast they can talk to each other. The problem? Well, the problem is that

Re: Adding method to class at run-time: bad style?

Grant Edwards wrote: I realize that technically all methods are added to classes at "run-time", but what I'm talking about is this: import ClientForm def controlEqual(self,other): return (self.type == other.type) and \ (self.name == other.name) and \ (se

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Re: extracting plain text from RTF-file ?

Stef Mientki wrote: hello, I'm looking for a library to extract plain text from RTF-files. I found these only RTF generation http://pyrtf.sourceforge.net/ should be able to parse, but no download files http://code.google.com/p/pyrtf-ng/ any suggestions ? thanks, Stef Mientki -- http://mail.p

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Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 382: Namespace Packages

At 04:58 PM 4/7/2009 +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: On 2009-04-07 16:05, P.J. Eby wrote: > At 02:30 PM 4/7/2009 +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> >> Wouldn't it be better to stick with a simpler approach and look for >> >> "__pkg__.py" files to detect namespace packages using that O(1) >> check ? >> >

Re: python for loop

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Re: PyXML and Python-2.6

Andrew MacKeith wrote: > The Python.org "SIG for XML Processing in Python" page indicates that > "The SIG, through the mailing list and the PyXML project hosted on > SourceForge...". > > The PyXML project on SourceForge " is no longer maintained. ", so > perhaps the SIG page could be updated. > >

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Re: Adding method to class at run-time: bad style?

On 2009-04-07, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2009-04-07, Scott David Daniels wrote: >> Grant Edwards wrote: >>> I realize that technically all methods are added to classes at >>> "run-time", but what I'm talking about is this: > ... >> >>>ClientForm.Control.__eq__ = controlEqual >>>ClientForm

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Re: Issue with subprocess Module

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Re: Python syntax

janus99 wrote: well i'm pretty much a newb on python, it's my first comp lang. and i've been having some diffuclties, i want to get the hang of it and i'm wondering if u could help me understand the syntax structure. I messed around with my own comp (windos xp) command prompt and i currently pla

PyCon Italy 2009: Early Bird Deadline

The early-bird registration deadline for PyCon Tre (PyCon Italy 2009) is April 13th, just a few days from now. The conference will take place in Florence from May 8th till May 10th 2009, and features guests like Guido Van Rossum, Alex Martelli, Raymond Hettinger, Fredrik Lundh and Antonio Cangiano

PyCon Italy 2009: Early Bird Deadline

The early-bird registration deadline for PyCon Tre (PyCon Italy 2009) is April 13th, just a few days from now. The conference will take place in Florence from May 8th till May 10th 2009, and features guests like Guido Van Rossum, Alex Martelli, Raymond Hettinger, Fredrik Lundh and Antonio Cangi

Re: Issue with subprocess Module

Tim Golden wrote: Sounds reasonable, but isn't actually true. This works fine: import subprocess open ("t.bat", "w").write ("echo hello") subprocess.Popen ("t.bat") TJG Dave Angel wrote: The docs of Popen() state that it uses CreateProcess() on Windows, so I didn't even try it. I o

Re: Returning different types based on input parameters

On Apr 6, 3:02 pm, George Sakkis wrote: > For example, it is common for a function f(x) to expect x to be simply > iterable, without caring of its exact type. Is it ok though for f to > return a list for some types/values of x, a tuple for others and a > generator for everything else (assuming it'

Tkinter, tkFileDialog - how to select multiple files ?

Let me preface by saying that I don't do much Python, however, I am in my spare time, attempting to become somewhat comfortable with Python/ Tkinter. I just can't seem to understand what is the problem with this: -- import Tkinter, tkFileDialog root = Tkinter.Tk() files = tkFileDialog.askop

Request For Comment

How RFC1 got created: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/opinion/07crocker.html -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "...string iteration isn't about treating strings as sequences of strings, it's about treating strings as sequences of characters. The

Re: Adding method to class at run-time: bad style?

On 2009-04-07, Scott David Daniels wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: >> I realize that technically all methods are added to classes at >> "run-time", but what I'm talking about is this: >> >>import ClientForm >> >>def controlEqual(self,other): >>return (self.type == other.type) and \

Re: Creating Linked Lists in Python

J-Burns wrote: > How can I do this? And if I could do this by some other way than using > linked lists than do tell me about that as well. replying to this dead thread mainly for anyone using google. there's now a python regular expression engine in lepl and the source code can be seen via http:/

xml.dom.minidom getElementsByTagName white space issue

Hi,   I'm getting some XML tags with white spaces from a web service and when I try to get them with the getElements ByTagName I'm not able to do so. I'm getting an empty list. What I'm doing is:   #XML_response is an xml string xml_msg = xml.dom.minidom.parseString(XML_response)   nodes = xml_ms

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