Re: IDE for python 2.6 (auto complete)

2009-05-04 Thread Ben Finney
Soumen banerjee writes: > Is there any IDE with support for autocomplete in python 2.6 with all > the newer functions included? Emacs, with the right library, is an excellent Python IDE with auto-completion and many other features http://tellarite.net/2008/05/09/emacs-as-a-powerful-python-ide/>.

Re: Self function

2009-05-04 Thread bearophileHUGS
Carl Banks: >1. Singly-linked lists can and should be handled with iteration.< I was talking about a binary tree with list-like topology, of course. >All recursion does it make what you're doing a lot less readable for almost >all programmers.< I can't agree. If the data structure is recursiv

Database help needed

2009-05-04 Thread Amber
My PHB is insane. Today he drops 50,000 databases in MS Access format on my desk, and tells me that by Friday I need to: * Remove all of the "junk content" in the record fields; * Remove all records with blank fields in them; * Correct all fields in which the markup is "wrong"; * Correct all field

Re: Self function

2009-05-04 Thread Carl Banks
On May 4, 4:06 pm, bearophileh...@lycos.com wrote: > Carl Banks: > > >1. Singly-linked lists can and should be handled with iteration.< > > I was talking about a binary tree with list-like topology, of course. "(every node has 1 child, and they are chained)" That's a singly-linked list, not a tre

Re: Database help needed

2009-05-04 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 5/4/2009 4:30 PM Amber said... My PHB is insane. Today he drops 50,000 databases in MS Access format on my desk, and tells me that by Friday I need to: * Remove all of the "junk content" in the record fields; * Remove all records with blank fields in them; * Correct all fields in which the

Re: Database help needed

2009-05-04 Thread CTO
On May 4, 7:51 pm, Emile van Sebille wrote: > On 5/4/2009 4:30 PM Amber said... > > > > > > > My PHB is insane. > > > Today he drops 50,000 databases in MS Access format on my desk, and > > tells me that by Friday I need to: > > * Remove all of the "junk content" in the record fields; > > * Remove

Re: Code works fine except...

2009-05-04 Thread John Yeung
On May 4, 10:01 am, Ross wrote: > The "magic numbers" that everyone is wondering about are > indeed used for spreading out the bye selection and I got > them by simply calculating a line of best fit when plotting > several courts: byes ratios. But that doesn't really help you. When you do seq[::

Re: Tkinter, Trouble with Message,Label widget

2009-05-04 Thread norseman
definitive on Toplevel was the biggest help. All I have read have never clearly stated its purpose. (A non-root root) per Tkinter help: "class Toplevel(BaseWidget, Wm) Toplevel widget, e.g. for dialogs. ... " Since I'm not doing dialogs, I quite reading and move on. John: Thank you again. Today: 20090504 copy/paste from Python 2.5.2 on Linux Slackware 10.2 Steve norse...@hughes.net -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

RE: sorting items in a table problematic because of scientific notation

2009-05-04 Thread Davis, Amelie Y
Thank you _ that solved it.   Amélie    Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail or any of its attachments (if applicable)   -Original Message- From: python-list-bounces+aydavis=purdue@python.org [mailto:python-list-bounces+aydavis=purdue@python.org] On Be

Re: Code works fine except...

2009-05-04 Thread Ross
On May 4, 7:59 pm, John Yeung wrote: > On May 4, 10:01 am, Ross wrote: > > > The "magic numbers" that everyone is wondering about are > > indeed used for spreading out the bye selection and I got > > them by simply calculating a line of best fit when plotting > > several courts: byes ratios. > >

Re: subprocess & shared environments

2009-05-04 Thread Robert Dailey
On May 1, 4:18 pm, Aaron Brady wrote: > On May 1, 12:09 am, Robert Dailey wrote: > > > I'm currently calling subprocess.call() on a batch file (in Windows) > > that sets a few environment variables that are needed by further > > processes started via subprocess.call(). How can I persist the > > e

local module-docs server on Linux?

2009-05-04 Thread Soumen banerjee
Hello, I had used python on windows and one of the features i liked best was that you could start a module-docs server and then use firefox to access it. This would show module-docs for all modules you had installed(including any 3rd party installs) . How do i do this on linux? regards Soumen -- ht

Re: Code works fine except...

2009-05-04 Thread John Yeung
On May 4, 8:56 pm, Ross wrote: > Anyways, you're right that seq[0] is always evaluated. > That's why my algorithm works fine when there are odd > numbers of players in a league. It doesn't work fine for all odd numbers of players. For example, 15 players on 3 courts should result in 5 byes. Bu

Re: local module-docs server on Linux?

2009-05-04 Thread David Lyon
Hi Soumen, You could try running the Python Package Manager that we are developing on sourceforge. There isn't a release yet but we have implemented two buttons inside the program for 'Examples' and 'Documentation'. What they do is go off and find any documentation files or example directories f

Re: Code works fine except...

2009-05-04 Thread Ross
On May 4, 7:33 pm, John Yeung wrote: > On May 4, 8:56 pm, Ross wrote: > > > Anyways, you're right that seq[0] is always evaluated. > > That's why my algorithm works fine when there are odd > > numbers of players in a league. > > It doesn't work fine for all odd numbers of players.  For example, 1

Re: Self function

2009-05-04 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 04 May 2009 15:51:15 -0700, Carl Banks wrote: > All > recursion does it make what you're doing a lot less readable for almost > all programmers. What nonsense. There are many algorithms that are more understandable written recursively than iteratively -- consult any good text book for e

Problem with case insensitive volumes

2009-05-04 Thread dmoore
Does anyone know of a way to get the unique pathname for files stored on FAT32 or other case insensitive drives? For example: os.path.samefile('/media/usbkey/file1.jpg','/media/usbkey/FILE1.jpg') returns True but, is there a simple way to determine whether '/media/usbkey/ file1.jpg' or '/media/

Re: Self function

2009-05-04 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 04 May 2009 16:33:13 -0700, Carl Banks wrote: > On May 4, 4:06 pm, bearophileh...@lycos.com wrote: >> Carl Banks: >> >> >1. Singly-linked lists can and should be handled with iteration.< >> >> I was talking about a binary tree with list-like topology, of course. > > "(every node has 1 chi

Re: Problem with case insensitive volumes

2009-05-04 Thread Dave Angel
dmoore wrote: Does anyone know of a way to get the unique pathname for files stored on FAT32 or other case insensitive drives? For example: os.path.samefile('/media/usbkey/file1.jpg','/media/usbkey/FILE1.jpg') returns True but, is there a simple way to determine whether '/media/usbkey/ file1.

Re: local module-docs server on Linux?

2009-05-04 Thread CTO
On May 4, 10:30 pm, Soumen banerjee wrote: > Hello, > I had used python on windows and one of the features i liked best was > that you could start a module-docs server and then use firefox to > access it. pydoc -p -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Question of UTF16BE encoding / decoding

2009-05-04 Thread Napalmski
Hello, I have an encoded string in the form "004e006100700061006c006d", if you split on every 4 characters it decodes to a single character. I have come up with this: name = '004e006100700061006c006d' name2 = "" for x in range(0, len(name), 4): name2 = name2 + chr(int(name[x:x+4], 16)) Is t

Re: Threaded alternatives to smtplib?

2009-05-04 Thread Alex Jurkiewicz
Piet van Oostrum wrote: AJ> if __name__ == '__main__': AJ>THREADS = [] AJ>for i in range(CONCURRENCY): AJ>THREADS.append(threading.Thread(target=threadProcessRecipient)) AJ>for thread in THREADS: AJ>thread.run() You should use thread.start(), not thread.run(). W

Re: Code works fine except...

2009-05-04 Thread John Yeung
On May 4, 11:01 pm, Ross wrote: > Anyways, I'm new to > programming and this has been a good learning experience. I'm glad that you've been trying, and seem to be sticking it out despite sometimes getting negative feedback here. > Next time around, I'll be sure to thoroughly comment > my code be

Re: Question of UTF16BE encoding / decoding

2009-05-04 Thread Mark Tolonen
"Napalmski" wrote in message news:mpg.2469d7edf8bbcd0a989...@eu.news.astraweb.com... Hello, I have an encoded string in the form "004e006100700061006c006d", if you split on every 4 characters it decodes to a single character. I have come up with this: name = '004e006100700061006c006d' name2

Re: subprocess & shared environments

2009-05-04 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Mon, 04 May 2009 23:25:42 -0300, Robert Dailey escribió: Thanks for your help guys. Unfortunately both ideas will not work. I guess I should have mentioned that the batch file in question is vsvars32.bat, from the Visual Studio installation directory. I should not modify this file, nor can

Any idea to emulate tail -f

2009-05-04 Thread Joel Juvenal Rivera Rivera
I want to make something very similar to the command tail -f (follow a file), i have been trying with some while True and some microsleeps (about .1 s); did someone has already done something like this? And about the file is the apache acceslog of a site with a lot of traffic. Regards joe

Re: Self function

2009-05-04 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 04 May 2009 17:54:50 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote: > bearophileh...@lycos.com wrote: > >> Another possible syntax: >> >> def fact(n): >> return 1 if n <= 1 else n * return(n - 1) >> >> But I guess most people don't see this problem as important&common >> enough to justify changing the l

Re: Self function

2009-05-04 Thread Carl Banks
On May 4, 8:22 pm, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Mon, 04 May 2009 15:51:15 -0700, Carl Banks wrote: > > All > > recursion does it make what you're doing a lot less readable for almost > > all programmers. > > What nonsense. It's not nonsense for a singly-linked list. I don't need to be taught the

Which one is best Python or Java for developing GUI applications?

2009-05-04 Thread srinivasan srinivas
Could you tell me does Python have any advantages over Java for the development of GUI applications? Thanks, Srini Now surf faster and smarter ! Check out the new Firefox 3 - Yahoo! Edition http://downloads.yahoo.com/in/firefox/?fr=om_email_firefox -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/list

Re: Self function

2009-05-04 Thread Chris Rebert
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Mon, 04 May 2009 17:54:50 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote: > >> bearophileh...@lycos.com wrote: >> >>> Another possible syntax: >>> >>> def fact(n): >>>     return 1 if n <= 1 else n * return(n - 1) >>> >>> But I guess most people don't see thi

Re: Any idea to emulate tail -f

2009-05-04 Thread CTO
On May 5, 2:00 am, Joel Juvenal Rivera Rivera wrote: > I want to make something very similar to  the command tail -f (follow a > file), i have been trying  with some while True and some microsleeps > (about .1 s); did someone has already done something like this? > > And about the file is the apac

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