Re: print syntax

2009-09-05 Thread Bernie
On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:22:14 -0400, doug wrote: > I am new to python, working by way through 'Core Python Programming'. I > can find no description of using print with the built-in type for > formatting. I think I have got some [most?] of it from Chun, google, and > python.org. My comment is - it

Re: Multiple inheritance - How to call method_x in InheritedBaseB from method_x in InheritedBaseA?

2009-09-05 Thread The Music Guy
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Scott David Daniels wrote: > The Music Guy wrote: >> >> I have a peculiar problem that involves multiple inheritance and method >> calling. >> >> I have a bunch of classes, one of which is called MyMixin and doesn't >> inherit from anything. MyMixin expects that it

Re: recursive decorator

2009-09-05 Thread Michele Simionato
> def enable_recur(f): >     print f.func_code.co_names >     if 'recur' not in f.func_code.co_names: >         return f # do nothing on non-recursive functions >     c = Code.from_code(f.func_code) >     c.code[1:1] = [(LOAD_GLOBAL, f.__name__), (STORE_FAST, 'recur')] >     for i, (opcode, value)

Re: print() a list

2009-09-05 Thread AggieDan04
On Sep 5, 1:51 am, Dero wrote: > On Sep 5, 2:35 pm, "Mark Tolonen" wrote: > > > "DarkBlue" wrote in message > > >news:b9c0c4ac-5f8f-4133-b928-9e55ab4b2...@x5g2000prf.googlegroups.com... > > > >I am trying to get used to the new print() syntax prior to installing > > > python 3.1: ... > > Without

Re: possible attribute-oriented class

2009-09-05 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:51:39 -0700, Ken Newton wrote: > On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Steven > D'Aprano wrote: ... >> >>> The old discussion, the above link points to, shows that such a >>> dot-accessible dict-like class is something that many people need and >>> repeatedly implemet it (more or

Turn-based game - experimental economics

2009-09-05 Thread Paolo Crosetto
Dear all, I am writing an application in Python for an experiment in Experimental Economics. For those who do not know what this is: experimental economics uses controlled, computerised lab experiments with real subjects, putting the subject in a game mimicking the situation of interest and co

Formatted input function

2009-09-05 Thread candide
I have a text file and the first line provides the best score of a game. This line has the following format : Best score : 42 In order to update the score, I try to retrieve the score value. In C, we would manage this with the following statement : fscanf(foo_file, "Best score : %d", &score);

Re: Formatted input function

2009-09-05 Thread Chris Rebert
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 3:13 AM, candide wrote: > I have a text file and the first line provides the best score of a game. This > line has  the following format : > > Best score : 42 > > In order to update the score, I try to retrieve the score value. > > In C, we would manage this with the followin

Re: Turn-based game - experimental economics

2009-09-05 Thread bouncy...@gmail.com
As I Understand it I Would just use a simple shared variable or perhaps data wrote to a file to indicate busy or waiting and then use some kind of wait function or no-op to simulate' then recheck -- Sent via Cricket Mobile Email --Original Message-- From: Paolo Crosetto To: Da

Query

2009-09-05 Thread Hassan Baig
We are developing a turn-based strategy game in Python 2.6. One of the features of this game is that several battles can be concurrently in progress which each one having a *user-defined* turn-length. So the problem here is coming up with a robust method of turn processing which ensures all initia

Re: The future of Python immutability

2009-09-05 Thread sturlamolden
On 5 Sep, 08:47, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > How do you know? After more than 10 years experience with scientific programming I just do. When it comes to numerics I have a gut feeling for what is fast and what is slow. It's not difficult actually. You just have to imagine how often the interpreter

Re: The future of Python immutability

2009-09-05 Thread Adam Skutt
On Sep 5, 12:06 am, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Fri, 04 Sep 2009 06:36:59 -0700, Adam Skutt wrote: > > Nope, preventing mutation of the objects themselves is not enough. You > > also have to forbid variables from being rebound (pointed at another > > object).  Consider this simple example: > > > -

Re: incorrect DeprecationWarning?

2009-09-05 Thread Alan G Isaac
Alan G Isaac wrote: Python 2.6.2 (r262:71605, Apr 14 2009, 22:40:02) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. class MyError(Exception): ... def __init__(self, message): ... Exception.__init__(self) ... self.message = message ...

PyCon 2010 - Call for Tutorials

2009-09-05 Thread Greg Lindstrom
The Tutorial Committee for PyCon 2010 in Atlanta is now accepting proposals for classes. This year will feature 2 days of classes prior to the "official" conference. These classes are 3-hour long sessions concentrating on specific Python packages or techniques and are taught by some of the smarte

Re: incorrect DeprecationWarning?

2009-09-05 Thread exarkun
On 12:20 pm, alan.is...@gmail.com wrote: Alan G Isaac wrote: Python 2.6.2 (r262:71605, Apr 14 2009, 22:40:02) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. class MyError(Exception): ... def __init__(self, message): ... Exception.__

Re: Application-global "switches"?

2009-09-05 Thread kj
In Ethan Furman writes: >I've seen a couple cool recipes implementing WORM* attributes if you >wanted to ensure that your settings were not re-set. >Steven D'Aprano wrote one with a class name of ConstantNamespace, you >can search on that if you're interested. I'd include the code, but I

ANNOUNCE: Leo 4.6.3 released

2009-09-05 Thread Edward K Ream
Leo 4.6.3 final is now available at: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3458&package_id=29106 Leo is a text editor, data organizer, project manager and much more. See: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/intro.html Leo 4.6.3 fixes a significant caching bug in Leo 4.6.2. Leo 4

Re: incorrect DeprecationWarning?

2009-09-05 Thread Alan G Isaac
On 9/5/2009 9:07 AM, exar...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: You are using the deprecated practice. Clearly not, or it would fail in Python 3, which it does not. Attributes are not scoped to a particular class. There is only one "message" attribute on your "MyError" instance. It does not belong just

Re: IMGCrush (New Python image optimizing tool)

2009-09-05 Thread Aahz
In article , kiithsa...@gmail.com wrote: > >Requires ImageMagick and Python (coded in python 2.x, I'm running 2.6 >but it might run on older python as well) Why are you using ImageMagick instead of PIL? -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "Look, it's

Re: Math Notations, Computer Languages, and the “F orm” in Formalism

2009-09-05 Thread slawekk
> Theorem provers > such as OCaml (HOL, Coq), Mizar does math formalism as a foundation, > also function as a generic computer language, but lacks abilities as a > computer algebra system or math notation representation. Isabelle's presentation layer is well integrated with LaTeX and you can use

Re: incorrect DeprecationWarning?

2009-09-05 Thread Terry Reedy
exar...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: On 12:20 pm, alan.is...@gmail.com wrote: I think you are missing my point. I understand it is just a DeprecationWarning. But **why** should I receive a deprecation warning when I am **not** using the deprecated practice? Since I am **not** using the deprecated

Re: How to access ODBC databases ?

2009-09-05 Thread Timothy Madden
Martin P. Hellwig wrote: Timothy Madden wrote: Martin P. Hellwig wrote: Timothy Madden wrote: >>> conn = pyodbc.connect('DRIVER={PostgreSQL Unicode};Servername=127.0.0.1;UID=pikantBlue;Database=pikantBlue') Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in pyodbc.Error: ('0', '[0

Re: Formatted input function

2009-09-05 Thread Terry Reedy
Chris Rebert wrote: On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 3:13 AM, candide wrote: I have a text file and the first line provides the best score of a game. This line has the following format : Best score : 42 In order to update the score, I try to retrieve the score value. In C, we would manage this with th

Re: Turn-based game - experimental economics

2009-09-05 Thread Terry Reedy
Paolo Crosetto wrote: Dear all, I am writing an application in Python for an experiment in Experimental Economics. For those who do not know what this is: experimental economics uses controlled, computerised lab experiments with real subjects, putting the subject in a game mimicking the sit

Re: incorrect DeprecationWarning?

2009-09-05 Thread exarkun
On 02:28 pm, alan.is...@gmail.com wrote: I am not sure how best to deprecate dependence on the Python 2.5 mistake, but this is not it. And I know at least one important library that is affected. I'll agree that it's not great. I certainly would have preferred it not to have been done. It i

Re: The future of Python immutability

2009-09-05 Thread Terry Reedy
Adam Skutt wrote: \ This is a side-effect of writing code that relies on global variables. Global variables are generally a bad idea. Global constants are fine. Nope, the variables don't have to be global to have this problem, they just have to be shared: >>> a = 3 >>> b = lambda x: x

Re: Turn-based game - experimental economics

2009-09-05 Thread Paolo Crosetto
Dear Terry, thanks. > > As I understand your description, the server and each client will be a > separate process on a separate machine (once deployed), so threads do > not seem applicable. (For development, you can use separate processes on > one machine communicating through sockets just as if

Re: Support for Windows 7 ?

2009-09-05 Thread Pascale Mourier
Martin v. Löwis a écrit : Without having seen any details, I refuse to guess. Most likely, it is a user mistake. YES IT IS! Sorry for the inconvenience. I usually start from this assumption. Yesterday this new student was really agressive, and I assumed he was right! Here's his mistake: wi

Re: Turn-based game - experimental economics

2009-09-05 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
On Saturday 05 September 2009 12:07:59 Paolo Crosetto wrote: 8<--- > > The problem I now face is to organise turns. Players, as in Scrabble, will > play in turns. So far I have developed the server and ONE client, and > cannot get my head round to - nor

Q on explicitly calling file.close

2009-09-05 Thread kj
There's something wonderfully clear about code like this: # (1) def spam(filename): for line in file(filename): do_something_with(line) It is indeed pseudo-codely beautiful. But I gather that it is not correct to do this, and that instead one should do something l

Re: possible attribute-oriented class

2009-09-05 Thread Jan Kaliszewski
05-09-2009 Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:37:15 +0200, Jan Kaliszewski wrote: Named tuples (which indeed are really very nice) are read-only, but the approach they represent could (and IMHO should) be extended to some kind of mutable objects. [snip] What sort of extensions di

Re: Support for Windows 7 ?

2009-09-05 Thread MRAB
Pascale Mourier wrote: Martin v. Löwis a écrit : Without having seen any details, I refuse to guess. Most likely, it is a user mistake. YES IT IS! Sorry for the inconvenience. I usually start from this assumption. Yesterday this new student was really agressive, and I assumed he was right!

Re: Q on explicitly calling file.close

2009-09-05 Thread MRAB
kj wrote: There's something wonderfully clear about code like this: # (1) def spam(filename): for line in file(filename): do_something_with(line) It is indeed pseudo-codely beautiful. But I gather that it is not correct to do this, and that instead one should do

Re: Formatted input function

2009-09-05 Thread Günther Dietrich
candide wrote: >In C, we would manage this with the following statement : > >fscanf(foo_file, "Best score : %d", &score); > >Does Python provide an equivalent ? RTFM! :) In the python 2.5 manual: Chapter 4.2.6 (search pattern 'scanf' on the index tab of python25.chm) There are some scanf-pat

Re: Q on explicitly calling file.close

2009-09-05 Thread Dave Angel
kj wrote: There's something wonderfully clear about code like this: # (1) def spam(filename): for line in file(filename): do_something_with(line) It is indeed pseudo-codely beautiful. But I gather that it is not correct to do this, and that instead one should do som

Re: Formatted input function

2009-09-05 Thread Chris Rebert
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 8:00 AM, Terry Reedy wrote: > Chris Rebert wrote: >> >> On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 3:13 AM, candide wrote: >>> >>> I have a text file and the first line provides the best score of a game. >>> This >>> line has  the following format : >>> >>> Best score : 42 >>> >>> In order to up

Re: Q on explicitly calling file.close

2009-09-05 Thread r
On Sep 5, 1:17 pm, Dave Angel wrote: > kj wrote: > > There's something wonderfully clear about code like this: > > >     # (1) > >     def spam(filename): > >         for line in file(filename): > >             do_something_with(line) > > > It is indeed pseudo-codely beautiful.  But I gather that

Re: Support for Windows 7 ?

2009-09-05 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* MRAB (Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:54:00 +0100) > Pascale Mourier wrote: > > Martin v. Löwis a écrit : > > > >> Without having seen any details, I refuse to guess. Most likely, it is > >> a user mistake. > > > > YES IT IS! Sorry for the inconvenience. I usually start from this > > assumption. Yesterday

Pythonwin.exe Error?!?

2009-09-05 Thread kennyken747
HELP! So apparently after installing EPD 5.0 (a python 2.5 dist) aside my main Python installation (2.6) I started getting this error. -Pure virtual function call Whenever I open up ActiveState Python, it gets this runtime error under pythonwin.exe Already uninstalled EPD but am still getting th

Re: Q on explicitly calling file.close

2009-09-05 Thread Tim Chase
CPython uses reference counting, so an object is garbage collected as soon as there are no references to it, but that's just an implementation detail. Other implementations, such as Jython and IronPython, don't use reference counting, so you don't know when an object will be garbage collected, wh

pysqlite throwing exception?

2009-09-05 Thread william tanksley
I'm trying to modify an app I wrote a few months ago, but now it dies on startup (it worked before). The app loads the SQLite Media Monkey database, and crashes on its first query (when I try to get the number of podcasts). At the end of this post is a reduced version of the problem (which produces

Re: Formatted input function

2009-09-05 Thread candide
Günther Dietrich a écrit : > > RTFM! :) > > In the python 2.5 manual: Chapter 4.2.6 (search pattern 'scanf' on the > index tab of python25.chm) Correct !! For once ;) the Manual gives an inambiguous answer : -- Simulating scanf() .-- Python does not currently have an equ

Re: Support for Windows 7 ?

2009-09-05 Thread Tim Roberts
Pascale Mourier wrote: > >YES IT IS! Sorry for the inconvenience. I usually start from this >assumption. Yesterday this new student was really agressive, and I >assumed he was right! > >Here's his mistake: with Windows the name of the directory rooted at a >drive name (say C:) is called 'C:\' n

Re: The future of Python immutability

2009-09-05 Thread Adam Skutt
On Sep 5, 11:29 am, Terry Reedy wrote: > > This is a pointless replacement for 'def b(x): return x+a' And? That has nothing to do with anything I was saying whatsoever. Point is: any mutable shared state is bad, and making objects immutable isn't enough to remove all shared state, or even reduce

Re: pysqlite throwing exception?

2009-09-05 Thread MRAB
william tanksley wrote: I'm trying to modify an app I wrote a few months ago, but now it dies on startup (it worked before). The app loads the SQLite Media Monkey database, and crashes on its first query (when I try to get the number of podcasts). At the end of this post is a reduced version of t

Re: pysqlite throwing exception?

2009-09-05 Thread william tanksley
william tanksley wrote: > Oh, this is Python 2.5 on Windows. New result: this works on Python 2.6. Obviously the SQLite format changed between the two runs. I'll call this "problem solved"; my app appears to run now. -Wm -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: pysqlite throwing exception?

2009-09-05 Thread william tanksley
MRAB wrote: > I wonder whether it's complaining about the "as count" part because > "count" is the name of a function, although you do say that the same > query works elsewhere. Hey, good catch. Thanks; I'll change that. (It wasn't the problem, but no doubt someday it could be.) -Wm -- http://m

Re: incorrect DeprecationWarning?

2009-09-05 Thread Alan G Isaac
I've filed a bug report: http://bugs.python.org/issue6844 Sadly the Twisted developers apparently did not file a bug report when they were bitten by this ... Alan Isaac -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Q on explicitly calling file.close

2009-09-05 Thread r
On Sep 5, 2:47 pm, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: (snip) > > Finally, I was under the impression that Python closed filehandles > > automatically when they were garbage-collected.  (In fact (3) > > suggests as much, since it does not include an implicit call to > > fh.close.) If so, the difference betwe

efficiently splitting up strings based on substrings

2009-09-05 Thread per
I'm trying to efficiently "split" strings based on what substrings they are made up of. i have a set of strings that are comprised of known substrings. For example, a, b, and c are substrings that are not identical to each other, e.g.: a = "0" * 5 b = "1" * 5 c = "2" * 5 Then my_string might be:

run-time inclusion of files

2009-09-05 Thread travis+ml-python
Hello, I was wondering if there was something like Perl's "require" that allows you to import a file whose name is specified at run-time. So far I've only seen imports of modules that are put in the standard module include path. I'm interested in three seperate problems: 1) being able to import

Re: Usage of main()

2009-09-05 Thread r
On Sep 4, 5:56 am, "Jan Kaliszewski" wrote: > 04-09-2009 o 08:37:43 r wrote: > > > Why use a nested function when you already *in* main? > > I understand you name global scope as 'main'. But (independently > of using the __main__ idiom and so on) it is still good idea not to > place to much code

Re: run-time inclusion of files

2009-09-05 Thread Chris Rebert
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 3:23 PM, wrote: > Hello, > > I was wondering if there was something like Perl's "require" that allows > you to import a file whose name is specified at run-time.  So far I've only > seen imports of modules that are put in the standard module include path. You'll need to use

Re: efficiently splitting up strings based on substrings

2009-09-05 Thread Rhodri James
On Sat, 05 Sep 2009 22:54:41 +0100, per wrote: I'm trying to efficiently "split" strings based on what substrings they are made up of. i have a set of strings that are comprised of known substrings. For example, a, b, and c are substrings that are not identical to each other, e.g.: a = "0" * 5

Re: efficiently splitting up strings based on substrings

2009-09-05 Thread per
On Sep 5, 6:42 pm, "Rhodri James" wrote: > On Sat, 05 Sep 2009 22:54:41 +0100, per wrote: > > I'm trying to efficiently "split" strings based on what substrings > > they are made up of. > > i have a set of strings that are comprised of known substrings. > > For example, a, b, and c are substrings

Re: efficiently splitting up strings based on substrings

2009-09-05 Thread Rhodri James
On Sat, 05 Sep 2009 23:54:08 +0100, per wrote: On Sep 5, 6:42 pm, "Rhodri James" wrote: On Sat, 05 Sep 2009 22:54:41 +0100, per wrote: > I'm trying to efficiently "split" strings based on what substrings > they are made up of. > i have a set of strings that are comprised of known substrings.

Re: run-time inclusion of files

2009-09-05 Thread Stephen Fairchild
travis+ml-pyt...@subspacefield.org wrote: > I'm interested in three seperate problems: > > 1) being able to import a file that isn't in the standard module include > path sys.path.insert(0, "/path/to/module" module = __import__("module") del sys.path[0] Ideally this goes into a function, possib

Re: efficiently splitting up strings based on substrings

2009-09-05 Thread per
On Sep 5, 7:07 pm, "Rhodri James" wrote: > On Sat, 05 Sep 2009 23:54:08 +0100, per wrote: > > On Sep 5, 6:42 pm, "Rhodri James" wrote: > >> On Sat, 05 Sep 2009 22:54:41 +0100, per wrote: > >> > I'm trying to efficiently "split" strings based on what substrings > >> > they are made up of. > >> >

Re: The future of Python immutability

2009-09-05 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:09:57 -0700, Adam Skutt wrote: >> Python does not have lambda objects. It has lambda expressions that >> produce function objects identical except for .__name__ to the >> equivalent def statement output. > > Sure sounds like python has lambda objects to me then... the fact >

Re: Q on explicitly calling file.close

2009-09-05 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:14:02 +, kj wrote: > Finally, I was under the impression that Python closed filehandles > automatically when they were garbage-collected. (In fact (3) suggests > as much, since it does not include an implicit call to fh.close.) If so, > the difference between (1) and (3

Re: The future of Python immutability

2009-09-05 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 05 Sep 2009 04:57:21 -0700, Adam Skutt wrote: >> > so the fact "Foo" and "Bar" are immutable isn't enough to solve the >> > problem. >> >> This is a side-effect of writing code that relies on global variables. >> Global variables are generally a bad idea. Global constants are fine. > > No

Re: Multiple inheritance - How to call method_x in InheritedBaseB from method_x in InheritedBaseA?

2009-09-05 Thread ryles
On Sep 4, 6:01 am, The Music Guy wrote: > I have a peculiar problem that involves multiple inheritance and method > calling. > > I have a bunch of classes, one of which is called MyMixin and doesn't > inherit from anything. MyMixin expects that it will be inherited along > with one of several oth

Re: efficiently splitting up strings based on substrings

2009-09-05 Thread Rhodri James
On Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:29:14 +0100, per wrote: it's exactly the same problem, except there are no constraints on the strings. so the problem is, like you say, matching the substrings against the string x. in other words, finding out where x "aligns" to the ordered substrings abc, and then dete

python smtp gmail authentication error (sending email through gmail smtp server)

2009-09-05 Thread online
Hi all, I have the following code import smtplib from email.mime.text import MIMEText smtpserver = 'smtp.gmail.com' AUTHREQUIRED = 1 # if you need to use SMTP AUTH set to 1 smtpuser = 'ad...@myhost.com' # for SMTP AUTH, set SMTP username here smtppass = '123456' # for

[ANN] pyKook 0.0.4 - a smart build tool similar to Make, Rake, or Ant

2009-09-05 Thread kwatch
Hi, I have released pyKook 0.0.4. http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Kook/0.0.4 http://www.kuwata-lab.com/kook/ http://www.kuwata-lab.com/kook/pykook-users-guide.html In this release, recipe syntax is changed (see below). Overview pyKook is a smart build tool similar to Make, Rake, Ant, or C

How to refer to data files without hardcoding paths?

2009-09-05 Thread Matthew Wilson
When a python package includes data files like templates or images, what is the orthodox way of referring to these in code? I'm working on an application installable through the Python package index. Most of the app is just python code, but I use a few jinja2 templates. Today I realized that I'm

Re: Multiple inheritance - How to call method_x in InheritedBaseB from method_x in InheritedBaseA?

2009-09-05 Thread Carl Banks
On Sep 4, 3:01 am, The Music Guy wrote: > I have a peculiar problem that involves multiple inheritance and method > calling. > > I have a bunch of classes, one of which is called MyMixin and doesn't > inherit from anything. MyMixin expects that it will be inherited along > with one of several oth

Re: How to refer to data files without hardcoding paths?

2009-09-05 Thread Ben Finney
Matthew Wilson writes: > Today I realized that I'm hardcoding paths in my app. They are > relative paths based on os.getcwd(), but at some point, I'll be > running scripts that use this code, these open(...) calls will fail. The conventional solution to this is: * Read configuration settings, w

Re: Q on explicitly calling file.close

2009-09-05 Thread kj
In <02b2e6ca$0$17565$c3e8...@news.astraweb.com> Steven D'Aprano writes: >(3) For quick and dirty scripts, or programs that only use one or two >files, relying on the VM to close the file is sufficient (although lazy >in my opinion *wink*) It's not a matter of laziness or industriousness, but

Re: How to refer to data files without hardcoding paths?

2009-09-05 Thread Dave Angel
Ben Finney wrote: Matthew Wilson writes: Today I realized that I'm hardcoding paths in my app. They are relative paths based on os.getcwd(), but at some point, I'll be running scripts that use this code, these open(...) calls will fail. The conventional solution to this is: * Read c

Re: The future of Python immutability

2009-09-05 Thread Terry Reedy
Adam Skutt wrote: On Sep 5, 11:29 am, Terry Reedy wrote: This is a pointless replacement for 'def b(x): return x+a' And? That has nothing to do with anything I was saying whatsoever. Agreed. However, posts are read by newbies. Posts that promote bad habits are fair game for comment. Py

Re: Support for Windows 7 ?

2009-09-05 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-09-05, Pascale Mourier wrote: > Well, os.listdir('C:') instead of raising an exception, for > some reason behaves like os.listdir('.'). Windows (and DOS) have worked like that for decades. A lone drive letter always refers to the "current directory" on that drive. It's been that way si

Re: Pythonwin.exe Error?!?

2009-09-05 Thread kennyken747
On Sep 5, 2:37 pm, kennyken747 wrote: > HELP! So apparently after installing EPD 5.0 (a python 2.5 dist) aside > my main Python installation (2.6) I started getting this error. > > -Pure virtual function call > > Whenever I open up ActiveState Python, it gets this runtime error > under pythonwin.e

Re: subprocess + python-daemon - bug/problem?

2009-09-05 Thread Sewar
I got the same bug. Traceback (most recent call last): File "./script1.py", line 30, in call(["python", "script2.py", "arg1"], stdout=sys.stdout, stderr=STDOUT) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 444, in call return Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs).wait() File "/usr/lib/python

Re: subprocess + python-daemon - bug/problem?

2009-09-05 Thread Sewar
I got the same bug. Traceback (most recent call last): File "./script1.py", line 30, in call(["python", "script2.py", "arg1"], stdout=sys.stdout, stderr=STDOUT) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 444, in call return Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs).wait() File "/usr/lib/python

Re: Q on explicitly calling file.close

2009-09-05 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 06 Sep 2009 01:51:50 +, kj wrote: > In <02b2e6ca$0$17565$c3e8...@news.astraweb.com> Steven D'Aprano > writes: > >>(3) For quick and dirty scripts, or programs that only use one or two >>files, relying on the VM to close the file is sufficient (although lazy >>in my opinion *wink*) >

midi file toolkit

2009-09-05 Thread Sean McIlroy
## python 2.6.2 from tkFileDialog import askopenfilename, askdirectory def nowindow(function): def windowless(): from Tkinter import Tk Tk().withdraw() return function() return windowless getfilename = nowindow(askopenfilename) getdirectoryname = nowindow(askdirec

Re: Problems with hex-conversion functions

2009-09-05 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:28:10 -0700, Arnon Yaari wrote: > Hello everyone. > Perhaps I'm missing something, but I see several problems with the two > hex-conversion function pairs that Python offers: 1. binascii.hexlify > and binascii.unhexlify 2. bytes.fromhex and bytes.hex > > Problem #1: > bytes

Re: Q on explicitly calling file.close

2009-09-05 Thread Stephen Hansen
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 6:51 PM, kj wrote: > In <02b2e6ca$0$17565$c3e8...@news.astraweb.com> Steven D'Aprano < > st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> writes: > > >(3) For quick and dirty scripts, or programs that only use one or two > >files, relying on the VM to close the file is sufficient (alt

Re: The future of Python immutability

2009-09-05 Thread John Nagle
Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Fri, 04 Sep 2009 06:36:59 -0700, Adam Skutt wrote: Nope, preventing mutation of the objects themselves is not enough. You also have to forbid variables from being rebound (pointed at another object). Right. What's needed for safe concurrency without global lock