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Fafounet wrote: > I am parsing a web page with special chars such as é (which > stands for é). > I know I can have the unicode character é from unicode > ("\xe9","iso-8859-1") > but with those extra characters I don' t know. > > I tried to implement handle_charref within HTMLParser without success

Re: unicode() vs. s.decode()

Michael Ströder wrote: Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Michael Ströder (Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:26:09 +0200) timeit.Timer("unicode('äöüÄÖÜß','utf-8')").timeit(1000) 17.23644495010376 timeit.Timer("'äöüÄÖÜß'.decode('utf8')").timeit(1000) 72.087096929550171 That is significant! So the winner is:

Re: Parsing Binary Structures; Is there a better way / What is your way?

On Thursday 06 August 2009 20:50:30 Martin P. Hellwig wrote: > Thanks all for your insights and suggestions. > It seems to me that there are a couple of ways to this bit manipulation > and a couple of foreign modules to assist you with that. > > Would it be worth the while to do a PEP on this? > Pe

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Re: unicode() vs. s.decode()

On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 08:04:51 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote: > I believe that the comment "these benchmarks are meaningless" refers to > the length of the strings being used in the tests. Surely something > involving thousands or millions of characters is more meaningful? Or to > go the other way, yo

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On Friday 07 August 2009 05:02:10 Michael Mossey wrote: > Hello, > My problem is that in some cases, the network thread appears to stop, > while the main thread is doing a long computation. Is this computation done in pure python or are you calling some underlying thing in C? I would be surprise

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Sarmad George schrieb: > msg = "Hello World" Your sending your message without any headers (no subject etc). So probably your message lands in the recipients spam folder. Try: msg = """To: recipi...@example.com Subject: hello world Hello there""" The blank line between the headers and the bod

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Michael Mossey wrote: Hello, I have a simple application that needs one thread to manage networking in addition to the main "thread" that does the main job. It's not working right. I know hardly anything about threads, so I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction to research thi

Re: Python docs disappointing - group effort to hire writers?

alex23 wrote: Paul Rubin wrote: The PHP docs as I remember are sort of regular (non-publically editable) doc pages, each of which has a public discussion thread where people can post questions and answers about the topic of that doc page. I thought it worked re

Re: Web page data and urllib2.urlopen

> Dave Angel (DA) wrote: >DA> Piet van Oostrum wrote: >>> >DA> If Mozilla had seen a page with this line in an appropriate place, it'd >DA> immediately begin loading the other page, at "someotherurl" But there's no >DA> such line. >>> >>> >DA> Next, I looked for javascript. The Moz

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Dear All, We have extended and embedded python into my our application. We exposed few APIs to python using Py_InitModule("myModuleName", myMethods); where my methods are static PyMethodDef VistaDbMethods[] = { { (char *)"myAPI",_myAPICFunctionPtr ,METH_VARARGS,"usage: MyHelp)" } Now proble

Re: unicode() vs. s.decode()

* Steven D'Aprano (06 Aug 2009 19:17:30 GMT) > On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:05:52 +0200, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > > That is significant! So the winner is: > > > > > > unicode('äöüÄÖÜß','utf-8') > > > > Unless you are planning to write a loop that decodes "äöüÄÖÜß" one > > million times, these benchmar

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David Cournapeau schrieb: On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Diez B. Roggisch wrote: Hi, I'm trying to build a Cython-extension as Egg. However, this doesn't work - I can either use distutils to build the extension, creating a myextension.c-file on the way. If that's there, I can use setuptools

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Re: How to reset document string

Anand K Rayudu schrieb: Dear All, We have extended and embedded python into my our application. We exposed few APIs to python using Py_InitModule("myModuleName", myMethods); where my methods are static PyMethodDef VistaDbMethods[] = { { (char *)"myAPI",_myAPICFunctionPtr ,METH_VARARGS,"usage

Re: Python docs disappointing - group effort to hire writers?

alex23 writes: > I'd still like to see this kept out of the official docs as much as > possible, mostly for reasons of brevity & clarity. I think the > official docs should be considered definitive and not require a > hermeneutic evaluation against user comments to ensure they're still > correct..

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Re: Parsing Binary Structures; Is there a better way / What is your way?

On Aug 5, 10:46 am, "Martin P. Hellwig" wrote: > Hi List, > > On several occasions I have needed (and build) a parser that reads a > binary piece of data with custom structure. For example (bogus one): > > BE > +-+-+-+-+--++ > | Version | Command

Re: Cython + setuptools not working with .pyx,only with .c-files

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Re: unicode() vs. s.decode()

Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * Steven D'Aprano (06 Aug 2009 19:17:30 GMT) >> What if you're writing a loop which takes one million different lines of >> text and decodes them once each? >> >> >>> setup = 'L = ["abc"*(n%100) for n in xrange(100)]' >> >>> t1 = timeit.Timer('for line in L: line.deco

how to overload operator "< <" (a < x < b)?

hi all, is it possible to overload operator "< <"? (And other like this one, eg "<= <=", "> >", ">= >=") Any URL/example? Thank you in advance, D. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python docs disappointing - group effort to hire writers?

alex23 wrote: Paul Rubin wrote: The PHP docs as I remember are sort of regular (non-publically editable) doc pages, each of which has a public discussion thread where people can post questions and answers about the topic of that doc page. I thought it worked re

Re: how to overload operator "< <" (a < x < b)?

dmitrey schrieb: hi all, is it possible to overload operator "< <"? (And other like this one, eg "<= <=", "> >", ">= >=") Any URL/example? Thank you in advance, D. http://docs.python.org/reference/datamodel.html#object.__lt__ Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Web page data and urllib2.urlopen

Piet van Oostrum wrote: DA> But the raw page didn't have any javascript. So what about that original DA> raw page triggered additional stuff to be loaded? DA> Is it "user agent", as someone else brought out? And is there somewhere I DA> can read more about that aspect of thing

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Hi! I found an interesting thing in Python. Today one of my "def"s got wrong result. When I checked the code I saw that I miss a "," from the list. l = ['ó' 'Ó'] Interesting, that Python handle them as one string. print ['ó' 'Ó'] ['\xf3\xd3'] I wanna ask that is a bug or is it a feature? In

Re: How to reset document string

On Aug 7, 2:54 am, Anand K Rayudu wrote: > Dear All, > > We have extended and embedded python into my our application. > We exposed few APIs to python using > >  Py_InitModule("myModuleName", myMethods); > where my methods are > > static PyMethodDef VistaDbMethods[] = { >    { (char *)"myAPI",_myA

Re: Bug or feature: double strings as one

durumdara schrieb: Hi! I found an interesting thing in Python. Today one of my "def"s got wrong result. When I checked the code I saw that I miss a "," from the list. l = ['ó' 'Ó'] Interesting, that Python handle them as one string. print ['ó' 'Ó'] ['\xf3\xd3'] I wanna ask that is a bug or

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Re: Bug or feature: double strings as one

durumdara wrote: > I found an interesting thing in Python. > Today one of my "def"s got wrong result. > > When I checked the code I saw that I miss a "," from the list. > > l = ['ó' 'Ó'] > > Interesting, that Python handle them as one string. > > print ['ó' 'Ó'] > ['\xf3\xd3'] > > I wanna ask

Re: how to overload operator "< <" (a < x < b)?

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 8:00 AM, dmitrey wrote: > hi all, > is it possible to overload operator "<  <"? (And other like this one, > eg "<=  <=", ">  >", ">=  >=") > Any URL/example? > Thank you in advance, D. That isn't an operator at all. Python does not support compound comparisons like that. You

Re: Web page data and urllib2.urlopen

> Dave Angel (DA) wrote: >DA> Piet van Oostrum wrote: >>> >DA> But the raw page didn't have any javascript. So what about that original >DA> raw page triggered additional stuff to be loaded? >DA> Is it "user agent", as someone else brought out? And is there somewhere I

Re: pulldom extracting records from recordset

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 6:10 PM, S.Selvam wrote: > Hi all, > > I am using pulldom to handle large xml files.It works fine, but i do not > know how to store a particular set of records(as xml) out of the recordset. > -code- > from xml.dom import pulldom > hamlet_file = open

Re: how to kill subprocess when Python process is killed?

> "mark.v.we...@gmail.com" (M) wrote: >M> I am writing a Python program that launches a subprocess (using >M> Popen). >M> I am reading stdout of the subprocess, doing some filtering, and >M> writing to >M> stdout of the main process. >M> When I kill the main process (cntl-C) the subprocess k

Re: Is python buffer overflow proof?

* Neil Hodgson (Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:32:55 GMT) > Thorsten Kampe: > > You cannot create "your own" buffer overflow in Python as you can in C > > and C++ but your code could still be vulnerable if the underlying Python > > construct is written in C. > >Python's standard library does now inclu

Re: how to overload operator "< <" (a < x < b)?

On Aug 7, 10:50 pm, Benjamin Kaplan wrote: > That isn't an operator at all. Python does not support compound > comparisons like that. You have to do "a > b and b > c". You know, it costs nothing to open up a python interpreter and check your certainty: >>> x = 10 >>> 1 < x < 20 True This is a _

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Good morning, I fear the answer to this is that I just cannot do this I wrote a python script that goes out to a bunch of remote machines and queries the registry for some values. Effectively, there have been some software upgrades that have been done as the need arose but we need to do them

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Thorsten Kampe wrote: > Bollocks. No one will even notice whether a code sequence runs 2.7 or > 5.7 seconds. That's completely artificial benchmarking. But that's not what you first claimed: > I don't think any measurable speed increase will be > noticeable between those two. But please, keep c

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Re: Python docs disappointing - group effort to hire writers?

Paul Rubin wrote: > Such evaluation would only do them good.  The official docs are full > of errors and omissions, which is why we have this thread going on > here in the newsgroup. And there is a process for reporting and correcting such errors and omissions, which

Re: Changing Remote Registry

Kevin Holleran wrote: Good morning, I fear the answer to this is that I just cannot do this I wrote a python script that goes out to a bunch of remote machines and queries the registry for some values. Effectively, there have been some software upgrades that have been done as the need ar

Re: Bug or feature: double strings as one

On 2009-08-07, durumdara wrote: > Hi! > > I found an interesting thing in Python. > Today one of my "def"s got wrong result. > > When I checked the code I saw that I miss a "," from the list. > > l = ['?' '?'] > > Interesting, that Python handle them as one string. > > print ['?' '?'] > ['\xf3\xd3

Re: how to overload operator "< <" (a < x < b)?

alex23 schrieb: On Aug 7, 10:50 pm, Benjamin Kaplan wrote: That isn't an operator at all. Python does not support compound comparisons like that. You have to do "a > b and b > c". You know, it costs nothing to open up a python interpreter and check your certainty: x = 10 1 < x < 20 True T

Re: M2Crypto: How to generate subjectKeyIdentifier / authorityKeyIdentifier

Matthias Güntert wrote: M2Crypto has a couple of bugs open related that, with potential workarounds that I haven't yet deemed polished enough to checkin, but which might help you out: https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7530 https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12151

Re: Processes not exiting

On 3 Aug, 09:36, ma3mju wrote: > On 2 Aug, 21:49, Piet van Oostrum wrote: > > > > MRAB (M) wrote: > > >M> I wonder whether one of the workers is raising an exception, perhaps due > > >M> to lack of memory, when there are large number of jobs to process. > > > But that wouldn't prevent the jo

RE: Changing Remote Registry

> > Good morning, >> >> I fear the answer to this is that I just cannot do this >> >> I wrote a python script that goes out to a bunch of remote machines and >> queries the registry for some values. Effectively, there have been some >> software upgrades that have been done as the need arose b

Re: Processes not exiting

On 3 Aug, 09:36, ma3mju wrote: > On 2 Aug, 21:49, Piet van Oostrum wrote: > > > > MRAB (M) wrote: > > >M> I wonder whether one of the workers is raising an exception, perhaps due > > >M> to lack of memory, when there are large number of jobs to process. > > > But that wouldn't prevent the jo

Re: how to overload operator "< <" (a < x < b)?

On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 08:50:52 -0400, Benjamin Kaplan wrote: > On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 8:00 AM, dmitrey > wrote: >> hi all, >> is it possible to overload operator "<  <"? (And other like this one, >> eg "<=  <=", ">  >", ">=  >=") >> Any URL/example? >> Thank you in advance, D. > > That isn't an ope

Re: Changing Remote Registry

Kevin Holleran wrote: On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 10:11 AM, MRAB > wrote: Kevin Holleran wrote: Good morning, I fear the answer to this is that I just cannot do this I wrote a python script that goes out to a bunch of remote

Re: how to overload operator "< <" (a < x < b)?

Benjamin Kaplan wrote: Python does not support compound comparisons like that. You have to do "a > b and b > c". Funny, my python does. This has been around a long time. I am not certain whether 1.5.2 did it, but "chained comparisons" have been around for a long time. >>> 'a'< 'd' <'

Re: Processes not exiting

ma3mju wrote: On 3 Aug, 09:36, ma3mju wrote: On 2 Aug, 21:49, Piet van Oostrum wrote: MRAB (M) wrote: M> I wonder whether one of the workers is raising an exception, perhaps due M> to lack of memory, when there are large number of jobs to process. But that wouldn't prevent the join. And y

Re: Changing Remote Registry

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 10:46 AM, MRAB wrote: > Kevin Holleran wrote: > >> >> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 10:11 AM, MRAB > pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com>> wrote: >> >>Kevin Holleran wrote: >> >>Good morning, >> >>I fear the answer to this is that I just cannot do this >> >>

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Greetings everybody, I've been reading and mulling about python and security, specifically in terms of executing code that may or may not be trustworthy. I understand that libraries such as Rexec and Bastion are now deprecated because they have known vulnerabilities that may be exploited to circum

Re: Changing Remote Registry

Kevin Holleran wrote: On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 10:46 AM, MRAB > wrote: Kevin Holleran wrote: On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 10:11 AM, MRAB mailto:pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com>

Re: how to overload operator "< <" (a < x < b)?

On 12:50 pm, benjamin.kap...@case.edu wrote: On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 8:00 AM, dmitrey wrote: hi all, is it possible to overload operator "< �<"? (And other like this one, eg "<= �<=", "> �>", ">= �>=") Any URL/example? Thank you in advance, D. That isn't an operator at all. Python does not supp

Re: how to kill subprocess when Python process is killed?

On Aug 7, 12:57 am, alex23 wrote: > On Aug 7, 3:42 pm, "mark.v.we...@gmail.com" > wrote: > > > When I kill the main process (cntl-C) the subprocess keeps running. > > How do I kill the subprocess too? The subprocess is likely to run a > > long time. > > You can register functions to run when the

Re: Bug or feature: double strings as one

Grant Edwards wrote: On 2009-08-07, durumdara wrote: In other languages, like Delphi (Pascal), Javascript, SQL, etc., I must concatenate the strings with some sign, like "+" or "||". In other languages like Ruby, awk, C, C++, etc. adjacent string constants are concatenated. I must learn thi

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During all this conversation there was a ticket posted in the bug tracking system with the suggestion of each section in the official docs linking to a fixed wiki page that can contain user contributions. The ticket has been closed because this addition to the official docs is already in th

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Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > I'm trying to build a Cython-extension as Egg. > > However, this doesn't work - I can either use distutils to build the > extension, creating a myextension.c-file on the way. > > If that's there, I can use setuptools to build the egg. > > But when I remove the .c-file,

Re: Extracting matrix from a text file

On Aug 8, 2:19 am, bbarb...@inescporto.pt wrote: > I am new in python, and I am running it on Mac with Smultron editor. I   > need to read a textfile that includes numbers (in a matrix form),   > indexes, and strings, like this: > > Marsyas-kea distance matrix for MIREX 2007 Audio Similarity Exchan

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Conditional imports make sense to me, as in the following example: def foobar(filename): if os.path.splitext(filename)[1] == '.gz': import gzip f = gzip.open(filename) else: f = file(filename) # etc. And yet, quoth PEP 8: - Imports are always put at the

Re: Bug or feature: double strings as one

On 2009-08-07, Scott David Daniels wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2009-08-07, durumdara wrote: >>> In other languages, like Delphi (Pascal), Javascript, SQL, etc., I >>> must concatenate the strings with some sign, like "+" or "||". >> >> In other languages like Ruby, awk, C, C++, etc. adja

Re: question: why isn't a byte of a hash more uniform? how could I improve my code to cure that?

After I have written a short Python script that hashes my textfile line by line and collects the numbers next to the original, I checked what I got. Instead of getting around 25% in each treatment, the range is 17.8%-31.3%. That sounds suspiciously like 25% with a +/- 7% fluctuation one might e

Re: Extracting matrix from a text file

alex23 wrote: On Aug 8, 2:19 am, bbarb...@inescporto.pt wrote: I am new in python, and I am running it on Mac with Smultron editor. I need to read a textfile that includes numbers (in a matrix form), indexes, and strings, like this: Marsyas-kea distance matrix for MIREX 2007 Audio Similarit

Re: PEP 8 exegetics: conditional imports?

On Aug 8, 2:50 am, kj wrote: > Conditional imports make sense to me, as in the following example[...] > And yet, quoth PEP 8: > >     - Imports are always put at the top of the file, just after any module >       comments and docstrings, and before module globals and constants. > > ...which seems

Re: Bug or feature: double strings as one

In Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> writes: >durumdara wrote: >> I found an interesting thing in Python. >> Today one of my "def"s got wrong result. >> >> When I checked the code I saw that I miss a "," from the list. >> >> l = ['ó' 'Ó'] >> >> Interesting, that Python handle them as one strin

Re: Extracting matrix from a text file

MRAB wrote: > Or: >          columns = line.split(' ')[1 : ] Even better, well spotted. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python docs disappointing - group effort to hire writers?

On Aug 7, 11:03 am, Kee Nethery wrote: ...(snip) > I'm looking forward to the acceleration of improvements to the   > official docs based upon easy to provide user feedback. Glad to see   > that the bug tracking system is going to not be the primary means for   > documentation changes. +1 -- ht

Re: Bug or feature: double strings as one

kj wrote: > Feature, as others have pointed out, though I fail to see the need > for it, given that Python's general syntax for string (as opposed > to string literal) concatenation is already so convenient.  I.e., > I fail to see why > > x = ("first part of a very long string " >      "second par

Re: unicode() vs. s.decode()

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Re: Python docs disappointing - group effort to hire writers?

Kee Nethery wrote: > I'm looking forward to the acceleration of improvements to the   > official docs based upon easy to provide user feedback. Glad to see   > that the bug tracking system is going to not be the primary means for   > documentation changes. I'm not sure what you see as being funda

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Re: Python docs disappointing - group effort to hire writers?

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 1:48 PM, alex23 wrote: > Why exactly is posting an open comment on a bug tracker somehow > inferior to posting an open comment on a wiki? When one believes that development is controlled by a cabal which is jealous of outsiders and actively prevents improvements to the docs,

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On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 16:50 +, kj wrote: > > Conditional imports make sense to me, as in the following example: > > def foobar(filename): > if os.path.splitext(filename)[1] == '.gz': > import gzip > f = gzip.open(filename) > else: > f = file(filename) > # e

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Re: Python docs disappointing - group effort to hire writers?

David Robinow wrote: >  When one believes that development is controlled by a cabal which is > jealous of outsiders and actively prevents improvements to the docs, > any change, even if only in perception, helps to weaken the hold of > the evil forces holding back the success of Python. Yeah, it'

Re: PEP 8 exegetics: conditional imports?

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J Wolfe wrote: > I would like to pass the label name of a menu to the command it is > calling, is that possible? > > self.menuitem.menu.add_command(label="pass this",command = lambda i = > self.self.menuitem.menu.cget("label"): self.function(i)) > > def function(self, i) > print i # print

Re: Setuptools - help!

Robert Kern wrote: > You need to put main.py into the pphoto package. > > $ mkdir pphoto/ > $ mv main.py pphoto/ > $ touch pphoto/__init__.py > Thanks, it worked. Any ideas how to run the resulting scripts without installing or running as root? Pete -- http://www.petezilla.co.uk -- http:/

Re: question: why isn't a byte of a hash more uniform? how could I improve my code to cure that?

László Sándor wrote: Thank you, Tim. My comments are below. On 2009-08-07 13:19:47 -0400, Tim Chase said: After I have written a short Python script that hashes my textfile line by line and collects the numbers next to the original, I checked what I got. Instead of getting around 25% in ea

Re: PEP 8 exegetics: conditional imports?

kj wrote: > Conditional imports make sense to me, as in the following example: > > def foobar(filename): > if os.path.splitext(filename)[1] == '.gz': > import gzip > f = gzip.open(filename) > else: > f = file(filename) > # etc. > > And yet, quoth PEP 8: > >

Re: PEP 8 exegetics: conditional imports?

kj wrote: I seek the wisdom of the elders. Is there a consensus on the matter of conditional imports? Are they righteous? Or are they the way of the wicked? imports in functions are dangerous and may lead to dead locks if they are mixed with threads. An import should never start a thread an

Re: Is "feedparser" deprecated?

John Nagle wrote: >    Feedparser requires SGMLlib, which has been removed from Python 3.0. > Feedparser hasn't been updated since 2007. Does this mean Feedparser > is dead? Wouldn't you be better served asking this on the feedparser bug tracker? http://code.google.com/p/feedparser/issues/list -

Re: question: why isn't a byte of a hash more uniform? how could I improve my code to cure that?

L wrote: Hi all, I am a Python novice, and right now I would be happy to simply get my job done with it, but I could appreciate some thoughts on the issue below. I need to assign one of four numbers to names in a list. The assignment should be pseudo-random: no pa

Re: passing menu label to function

Thanks Peter, I figured out an alternative just as you posted your response, I just looped through the buttons I wanted to add and used the loop variable to label the item and then passed it to the function, though your way seems much more robust. Thanks a lot! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: PEP 8 exegetics: conditional imports?

Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > This criterion is unlikely to be met for the examples you give above. time > is a built-in module, and gzip a thin wrapper around zlib which is also > built-in. This is something I was _utterly_ unaware of. Is there a list of what modules are built-in readil

Re: PEP 8 exegetics: conditional imports?

Albert Hopkins wrote: On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 16:50 +, kj wrote: Conditional imports make sense to me, as in the following example: def foobar(filename): if os.path.splitext(filename)[1] == '.gz': import gzip f = gzip.open(filename) else: f = file(filename)

Re: question: why isn't a byte of a hash more uniform? how could I improve my code to cure that?

Dave Angel wrote: [clever analysis snipped] > I'd use digest() instead of hexdigest(), and of course reduce the > subscript to 63 or less. OP: You could also try hash(line) % 4 While AFAIK it doesn't make promises about randomness it might still be good enough in practice. Peter -- http:

importing fully qualified scripts to check syntax

hey all, I'm trying to make a syntax checker, where I say: python -c "import /path/to/script" to check the syntax of the script named '/path/to/script' (note: no py extension needed). Of course this doesn't work because the functionality for import is bundled up with the environment.. So - is t

Re: PEP 8 exegetics: conditional imports?

alex23 wrote: > This is something I was _utterly_ unaware of. Is there a list of what > modules are built-in readily available? >> sys.builtin_module_names ('__builtin__', '__main__', '_ast', '_bisect', '_codecs', '_collections', '_functools', '_locale', '_random', '_socket', '_sre', '_struct',

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