Re: New Tkinter windows don't get focus on OS X

2009-09-11 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
On Thursday 10 September 2009 18:19:09 Joshua Bronson wrote: > True, but it'll still be a lot less painful for me to test my app if I > can get it to steal focus > when launched from the command line. If anyone knows how to do this in > Tkinter, help would be much appreciated. > look for widget.f

Why can't I run this test class?

2009-09-11 Thread Kermit Mei
Dear all, I'm a newbie for python, and I write a program to test how to implement a class: #!/usr/bin/env python class Test: 'My Test class' def __init__(self): self.arg1 = 1 def first(self): return self.a

Re: Why can't I run this test class?

2009-09-11 Thread Chris Rebert
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Kermit Mei wrote: > Dear all, >    I'm a newbie for python, and I write a program to test how to > implement a class: > > #!/usr/bin/env > python > > class Test: >    'My Test class' >    def __init__(self): >        self.arg1 = 1 > >    def first(self): >        

Re: Why can't I run this test class?

2009-09-11 Thread Donn
On Friday 11 September 2009 09:30:42 Kermit Mei wrote: Do this: class Test(object): > t1 = Test And this: t1 = Test() That makes an instance and runs the __init__ \d -- home: http://otherwise.relics.co.za/ 2D vector animation : https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/things/ Font manager : https://

Getting error while importing Sybase Module in Python

2009-09-11 Thread gopalmore007
Hi, I have solaris 10 x86 installed. I have installed Sybase module 0.39 on Python2.5. While importing Sybase module. I m getting bellow error.Please suggest. python Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, May 16 2007, 19:39:00) [GCC 3.4.6] on sunos5 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more i

Re: Why can't I run this test class?

2009-09-11 Thread Kermit Mei
On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 00:33 -0700, Chris Rebert wrote: > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Kermit Mei wrote: > > Dear all, > >I'm a newbie for python, and I write a program to test how to > > implement a class: > > > > #!/usr/bin/env > > python > > > > class Test: > >'My Test class' > >

Re: Why can't I run this test class?

2009-09-11 Thread Chris Rebert
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Kermit Mei wrote: > On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 00:33 -0700, Chris Rebert wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Kermit Mei wrote: >> > Dear all, >> >    I'm a newbie for python, and I write a program to test how to >> > implement a class: >> > >> > #!/usr/bin/env

Re: New Tkinter windows don't get focus on OS X

2009-09-11 Thread eb303
On Sep 11, 9:14 am, Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > On Thursday 10 September 2009 18:19:09 Joshua Bronson wrote: > > > True, but it'll still be a lot less painful for me to test my app if I > > can get it to steal focus > > when launched from the command line. If anyone knows how to do this in > > Tki

Re: Why can't I run this test class?

2009-09-11 Thread Kermit Mei
On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 00:43 -0700, Chris Rebert wrote: > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Kermit Mei wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 00:33 -0700, Chris Rebert wrote: > >> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Kermit Mei wrote: > >> > Dear all, > >> >I'm a newbie for python, and I write a progra

Re: Q on explicitly calling file.close

2009-09-11 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:26:16 -0300, David C. Ullrich escribió: On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 15:13:49 -0700 (PDT), r wrote: On Sep 9, 4:19 pm, Charles Yeomans wrote: I removed the except block because I prefer exceptions to error codes. how will the caller know an exception has occurred? What if l

Re: New Tkinter windows don't get focus on OS X

2009-09-11 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
On Friday 11 September 2009 09:53:56 eb303 wrote: > On Sep 11, 9:14 am, Hendrik van Rooyen > wrote: > > look for widget.focus_force() > > and look for widget.grab_set_global() > > Doesn't work. BTW, forcing the focus or setting the grab globally are > usually considered very annoying and I don't

Re: Question about unpickling dict subclass with custom __setstate__

2009-09-11 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:09:34 -0300, Matthew Wilson escribió: I subclassed the dict class and added a __setstate__ method because I want to add some extra steps when I unpickle these entities. This is a toy example of what I am doing: class Entity(dict): def __setstate__(self, d

Re: New Tkinter windows don't get focus on OS X

2009-09-11 Thread eb303
On Sep 11, 10:40 am, Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > On Friday 11 September 2009 09:53:56 eb303 wrote: > > > On Sep 11, 9:14 am, Hendrik van Rooyen > > wrote: > > > look for widget.focus_force() > > > and look for widget.grab_set_global() > > > Doesn't work. BTW, forcing the focus or setting the grab

Re: Python server locks up

2009-09-11 Thread sturlamolden
On 9 Sep, 22:28, Zac Burns wrote: > Theories: >    Python is resizing the large dictionary >    Python is garbage collecting Python uses reference counting, not a generational GC like Java. A Python object is destroyed when the refcount drops to 0. The GC only collects cyclic references. If you

How can I use my modules here?

2009-09-11 Thread Kermit Mei
Hello community! I write a modules for testing, and my code is like this(under Linux): $ tree . |-- MyTestModules | |-- Test1.py | |-- Test2.py | `-- __init__.py `-- main.py 1 directory, 4 files $ find . -name '*.py' -print0|xargs -0 cat main.py Begin ## #!/usr/

Re: How can I use my modules here?

2009-09-11 Thread Chris Rebert
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:24 AM, Kermit Mei wrote: > Hello community! > > I write a modules for testing, and my code is like this(under Linux): > > > $ tree > . > |-- MyTestModules > |   |-- Test1.py > |   |-- Test2.py > |   `-- __init__.py > `-- main.py > > 1 directory, 4 files > > $ find . -name

Re: Accessing objects at runtime.

2009-09-11 Thread Gary Duzan
In article <228b-379d-4fe4-956b-cf803541a...@37g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>, jacopo wrote: >I have a system comprising many objects cooperating with each others. >(For the time being, everything is running on the same machine, in the >same process but things might change in the future). The sy

Re: Why can't I run this test class?

2009-09-11 Thread Ulrich Eckhardt
Kermit Mei wrote: > #!/usr/bin/env > python > > class Test: > 'My Test class' > def __init__(self): > self.arg1 = 1 > > def first(self): > return self.arg1 > > t1 = Test 't1' is now an alternative name for 'Test'. What you wanted instead was to instantiate 'Test', wh

Re: "Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt" source code

2009-09-11 Thread Steven Woody
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:18 PM, David Boddie wrote: > On Thursday 10 September 2009, Steven Woody wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 9:33 PM, David Boddie > wrote: > > > > See this page for the links: > > > > > > http://www.qtrac.eu/pyqtbook.html > > > > but the URL is not reachable from here.

Python 3.1 csv with gzip

2009-09-11 Thread dryfish
Python 3.1.1 doesn't seem to be happy with the use of gzip.open with csv.reader. Using this: import gzip, csv, sys data = csv.reader(gzip.open(sys.argv[1])) for row in data: print(row) Will give this: Traceback (most recent call last): File "./a.py", line 6, in for row in data: _csv

Re: How can I use my modules here?

2009-09-11 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 02:29 -0700, Chris Rebert wrote: > For some reason, your Python program is being executed by bash as if > it were a shell script, which it's not. > No idea what the cause is though. Because the first 2 bytes of the file need to be #!/path/to/interpreter, the OP has:

Re: Why can't I run this test class?

2009-09-11 Thread Benjamin Kaplan
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 4:01 AM, Kermit Mei wrote: > On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 00:43 -0700, Chris Rebert wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Kermit Mei > wrote: > > > On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 00:33 -0700, Chris Rebert wrote: > > >> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Kermit Mei > wrote: > > >>

Re: How can I use my modules here?

2009-09-11 Thread Kermit Mei
On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 07:48 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 02:29 -0700, Chris Rebert wrote: > > For some reason, your Python program is being executed by bash as if > > it were a shell script, which it's not. > > No idea what the cause is though. > > Because the first 2 bytes

Download and save a picture - urllib

2009-09-11 Thread mattia
Hi all, in order to download an image. In order to correctly retrieve the image I need to set the referer and handle cookies. opener = urllib.request.build_opener(urllib.request.HTTPRedirectHandler (), urllib.request.HTTPCookieProcessor()) urllib.request.install_opener(opener) req = urllib.reques

Re: Help with cumulative sum

2009-09-11 Thread Giacomo Boffi
Maggie writes: > [...] > else: >print 'The loop is finito' do you know of it.comp.lang.python? -- Sarebbe essere un atto di pieta'. Contro i miei principi.-- whip, in IFMdI -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: IDE for python similar to visual basic

2009-09-11 Thread Nobody
On Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:56:17 +, Albert van der Horst wrote: >>The main advantage of a GUI builder is that it helps prevent you from >>hard-coding the GUI into the program. You could get the same effect by >>coding a UIL/XRC/etc file manually, but a GUI builder tends to force it. > > A GUI bui

Re: IDE for python similar to visual basic

2009-09-11 Thread Nobody
On Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:04:40 -0700, r wrote: >> >It also allows the GUI to be edited by without requiring any programming >> >knowledge. This eliminates the need for the GUI designer to be familiar >> >with the programming language used (or any programming language), and >> >allows customisation b

Re: IDE for python similar to visual basic

2009-09-11 Thread r
On Sep 11, 7:08 am, Nobody wrote: (snip) > I'm saying that the user understands their workflow and environment better > than the application's programmers. The user should be able to decide > which menu items are shown and where, which buttons are shown and where, > etc. The code doesn't need to k

ANN: warehouse Objects in SQLite : y_serial module

2009-09-11 Thread code43
Module download at SourceForge http://yserial.sourceforge.net Serialization + persistance :: in a few lines of code, compress and annotate Python objects into SQLite; then later retrieve them chronologically by keywords without any SQL. Most useful "standard" module for a database to store schema-

Re: IDE for python similar to visual basic

2009-09-11 Thread Brendon Wickham
> > > The interface really should be configurable by the user according to their > needs. The code doesn't need to *know* the position or dimensions of > a widget, or its label or colour or spacing, let alone dictate them. > Perhaps...but the user needs a framework in order to understand the funct

Re: An assessment of the Unicode standard

2009-09-11 Thread r
On Sep 10, 8:43 pm, Jan Claeys wrote: > Maybe we should use a language that has a Turing-complete grammar, so > that even computers can understand & speak it "easily"? Interesting, i do find some things more easily explainable using code, however, code losses the ability to describe abstract ide

Re: IDE for python similar to visual basic

2009-09-11 Thread David Smith
r wrote: > On Sep 11, 7:08 am, Nobody wrote: > (snip) >> I'm saying that the user understands their workflow and environment better >> than the application's programmers. The user should be able to decide >> which menu items are shown and where, which buttons are shown and where, >> etc. The code

Re: Python 3.1 csv with gzip

2009-09-11 Thread Stefan Behnel
dryfish wrote: > Python 3.1.1 doesn't seem to be happy with the use of gzip.open with > csv.reader. > > Using this: > > import gzip, csv, sys > > data = csv.reader(gzip.open(sys.argv[1])) > for row in data: > print(row) > > Will give this: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File ".

Execution order

2009-09-11 Thread DarkBlue
Here is some code from a pyqt4.5.4 application on python 2.6 def findData(self): self.ui.label.setText('Processing... ') # here we do something which takes a few seconds self.refreshGrid() The problem is that the text in the self.ui.label is only changed on screen after th

Iterating Through Dictionary of Lists

2009-09-11 Thread JB
I have created a small program that generates a project tree from a dictionary. The dictionary is of key/value pairs where each key is a directory, and each value is a list. The list have unique values corresponding to the key, which is a directory where each value in the list becomes a subdirector

Re: IDE for python similar to visual basic

2009-09-11 Thread Kevin Walzer
On 8/30/09 1:48 PM, r wrote: Hello qwe rty, I remember my first days with GUI programming and thinking to myself; how on earth can i write GUI code without a MS style GUI builder? Not to long after that i was coding up some pretty spectacular GUI's from nothing more than source code and loving

Re: Execution order

2009-09-11 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
DarkBlue wrote: > Here is some code from a pyqt4.5.4 application on python 2.6 > > def findData(self): > > self.ui.label.setText('Processing... ') > > # here we do something which takes a few seconds > self.refreshGrid() > > > > The problem is that the text in the self.ui.

Re: Iterating Through Dictionary of Lists

2009-09-11 Thread Stefan Behnel
JB wrote: > I have created a small program that generates a project tree from a > dictionary. The dictionary is of key/value pairs where each key is a > directory, and each value is a list. The list have unique values > corresponding to the key, which is a directory where each value in the > list b

Re: Some issue with easy_install and PIL/Imaging

2009-09-11 Thread Chris Withers
Klein Stéphane wrote: Resume : 1. first question : why PIL package in "pypi" don't work ? Because Fred Lundh have his package distributions unfortunate names that setuptools doesn't like... 2. second question : when I add PIL dependence in my setup.py and I do "python setup.py develop",

Re: Execution order

2009-09-11 Thread DarkBlue
On Sep 11, 9:34 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" wrote: > DarkBlue wrote: > > Here is some code from a pyqt4.5.4  application on python 2.6 > > > def findData(self): > > >       self.ui.label.setText('Processing... ') > > >       # here we do something which takes a few seconds > >       self.refreshGrid()

Re:

2009-09-11 Thread Chris Withers
open...@hushmail.com wrote: fs = cgi.FieldStorage() url = fs.getvalue('url', "http://www.openlayers.org";) try: insert a "print url" here... y = urllib2.urlopen(url) print y.read() This script produces the "failed')>". This is a name lookup failing, whatever you're ending up with

Re: HTTP POST File without cURL

2009-09-11 Thread John Giotta
Is there a verbose feature for urllib2.urlopen? Here is my python snippet for posted the file: req = urllib2.Request(url='https://%s%s' % (host, selector), data=open('test.zip', 'rb').read()) req.add_header('content-type', 'application/zip') req.add_header('Authorization', 'Basic %s' % self.auth)

Podcast catcher in Python

2009-09-11 Thread Chuck
Hi all, I would like to code a simple podcast catcher in Python merely as an exercise in internet programming. I am a CS student and new to Python, but understand Java fairly well. I understand how to connect to a server with urlopen, but then I don't understand how to download the mp3, or whate

Re: Podcast catcher in Python

2009-09-11 Thread Chuck
Also, if anyone could recommend some books that cover this type of programming, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Use python to execute a windows program

2009-09-11 Thread Doran, Harold
Dear list: My question is conceptual at the moment. Current problem: I have a windows-based program that reads in a file and from that file generates data that is saved to a file. The way we do this now is a person sits in front of their machine and proceeds as follows: 1) Open windows program

Re: Use python to execute a windows program

2009-09-11 Thread Simon Brunning
2009/9/11 Doran, Harold : > The way we do this now is a person sits in front of their machine and > proceeds as follows: > > 1) Open windows program > 2) Click file -> open which opens a dialog box > 3) Locate the file (which is a text file) click on it and let the > program run. It might very wel

how to return value from button clicked by python

2009-09-11 Thread chen tao
Hi, I have several buttons, I want to realize: when I click first button, the button will call a function, and the function should return some parameter value, because I need this value for the other buttons. I tried the button.invoke() function, it almost got it...however, I only want it

Message box always appears on 2nd monitor

2009-09-11 Thread ed
No matter what I do, the MessageBox always appears on the 2nd monitor. I've forced all the other widgets to monitor 1. I thought that creating a class and forcing the position would help, but it hasn't. I'm using Ubuntu Jaunty, python 2.6. Any ideas what I can do to force widgets to a specific

Re: [Guppy-pe-list] An iteration idiom (Was: Re: loading files containing multiple dumps)

2009-09-11 Thread Chris Withers
Sverker Nilsson wrote: If you just use heap(), and only want total memory not relative to a reference point, you can just use hpy() directly. So rather than: CASE 1: h=hpy() h.heap().dump(...) #other code, the data internal to h is still around h.heap().dump(...) you'd do: CASE 2: hpy().heap

Re: Podcast catcher in Python

2009-09-11 Thread Falcolas
On Sep 11, 8:20 am, Chuck wrote: > Hi all, > > I would like to code a simple podcast catcher in Python merely as an > exercise in internet programming.  I am a CS student and new to > Python, but understand Java fairly well.  I understand how to connect > to a server with urlopen, but then I don't

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

2009-09-11 Thread Scott David Daniels
The Music Guy wrote: ... def main(): ... class MyMixin(object): This is a mistake. If Mixins inherit from CommonBase as well, no order of class definition can catch you out. If it doesn't, you can get yourself in trouble. def method_x(self, a, b, c): super(MyMixin, self).met

Re: How can I use my modules here?

2009-09-11 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Chris Rebert wrote: > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:24 AM, Kermit Mei wrote: >> Hello community! >> >> I write a modules for testing, and my code is like this(under Linux): >> >> >> $ tree >> . >> |-- MyTestModules >> | |-- Test1.py >> | |-- Test2.py >> | `-- __init__.py >> `-- main.py >> >> 1 direct

string interpolation mystery in Python 2.6

2009-09-11 Thread Alan G Isaac
MYSTERY: how can "%s"%error be different from "%s"%str(error) in Python 2.6? APOLOGY: I tried to strip this down, but could not find a simple way to reproduce the problem. This way works, however. (There is a discussion on the docutils-develop list.) Although there are several steps, we are ta

Re: Use python to execute a windows program

2009-09-11 Thread Alan G Isaac
Does the Windows application offer a COM interface? http://oreilly.com/catalog/pythonwin32/chapter/ch12.html http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/ Alan Isaac -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Message box always appears on 2nd monitor

2009-09-11 Thread Sean DiZazzo
On Sep 11, 8:27 am, ed wrote: > No matter what I do, the MessageBox always appears on the 2nd monitor. > I've forced all the other widgets to monitor 1. > I thought that creating a class and forcing the position would help, but > it hasn't. > > I'm using Ubuntu Jaunty, python 2.6. > > Any ideas wh

Problem with the inclusion of new files like lxml, django, numpy, etc.

2009-09-11 Thread joy99
Dear Group, I am trying to download the following files, a) lxml, b) numpy, c) scipy, and d) django. I am trying to include them in C\python26\Lib But they are giving error report, as I am trying to use them by importing. I am using IDLE as GUI, my OS is WinXP SP2, and my Python version 2.6. I

RE: Use python to execute a windows program

2009-09-11 Thread Doran, Harold
I am working with this now. I'm toying with the examples to test out a few things and learn how this works. I've made some modifications such that I have the following working (below). This does nothing more than open a program. I have commented out the portion #app.AM.MenuSelect("File->Open Data

Re: Different results for request() vs putrequest()

2009-09-11 Thread John Gordon
In John Gordon writes: > According to the documentation, these two sections of code should be > equivalent: > conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection(host) > conn.putrequest("POST", url) > conn.putheader("Proxy-Authorization", myProxy) > conn.putheader("Content-Length", "%d" % len(body)) > con

Re: Unexpected 411 error response using httplib

2009-09-11 Thread John Gordon
In John Gordon writes: > As you can see, I am including the call to putheader() for Content-Length, > and the debugging output confirms that the header is present in the outgoing > message. > So why am I getting a 411 Length Required error? To follow up my own post, this was happening because

Re: Problem with the inclusion of new files like lxml, django, numpy, etc.

2009-09-11 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
joy99 schrieb: Dear Group, I am trying to download the following files, a) lxml, b) numpy, c) scipy, and d) django. I am trying to include them in C\python26\Lib But they are giving error report, as I am trying to use them by importing. What is an "error report"? Unless you get more specific

Re: Problem with the inclusion of new files like lxml, django, numpy, etc.

2009-09-11 Thread Robert Kern
On 2009-09-11 11:39 AM, joy99 wrote: Dear Group, I am trying to download the following files, a) lxml, b) numpy, c) scipy, and d) django. I am trying to include them in C\python26\Lib But they are giving error report, as I am trying to use them by importing. I am using IDLE as GUI, my OS is W

Re:

2009-09-11 Thread opengis
Thank you for the response. I have been using urllib2.urlopen("http://www.openlayers.org";), so I can rule out the url being incorrect. Since my original question I can add the following: 1. I am not using a proxy to connect to the internet 2. I added these lines to the script: ...

Re: [Guppy-pe-list] An iteration idiom (Was: Re: loading files containing multiple dumps)

2009-09-11 Thread Ethan Furman
Chris Withers wrote: Sverker Nilsson wrote: The __repr__ I use don't have the enclosing <>, granted, maybe I missed this or it wasn't in the docs in 2005 or I didn't think it was important (still don't) but was that really what the complain was about? No, it was about the fact that when I do

Re: Turn-based game - experimental economics

2009-09-11 Thread Paolo Crosetto
In data sabato 05 settembre 2009 21:47:41, Dennis Lee Bieber ha scritto: > Much better to just send the token TO the active client (which is > responsible for returning it at the end of its turn processing) Dennis, I am finally getting my head round this problem. I do have a further question,

Re: Python server locks up

2009-09-11 Thread Paul Rubin
sturlamolden writes: > Python uses reference counting, not a generational GC like Java. A > Python object is destroyed when the refcount drops to 0. The GC only > collects cyclic references. If you create none, there are no GC delays > (you can in fact safely turn the GC off). Python does not sha

Re: Podcast catcher in Python

2009-09-11 Thread Chuck
On Sep 11, 10:30 am, Falcolas wrote: > On Sep 11, 8:20 am, Chuck wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > I would like to code a simple podcast catcher in Python merely as an > > exercise in internet programming.  I am a CS student and new to > > Python, but understand Java fairly well.  I understand how to co

Re: Python server locks up

2009-09-11 Thread Terry Reedy
sturlamolden wrote: On 9 Sep, 22:28, Zac Burns wrote: Theories: Python is resizing the large dictionary Python is garbage collecting Python uses reference counting, not a generational GC like Java. The CPython implementation, that is. Jython, built on top of Java, uses Java's GC. D

Creating a local variable scope.

2009-09-11 Thread Johan Grönqvist
Hi All, I find several places in my code where I would like to have a variable scope that is smaller than the enclosing function/class/module definition. One representative example would look like: -- spam = { ... } eggs = { ... } ham = (a[eggs], b[spam]) -- The essence is tha

Re: Creating a local variable scope.

2009-09-11 Thread Neal Becker
Johan Grönqvist wrote: > Hi All, > > I find several places in my code where I would like to have a variable > scope that is smaller than the enclosing function/class/module definition. > > One representative example would look like: > > -- > spam = { ... } > eggs = { ... } > > ham = (a

Re: how to return value from button clicked by python

2009-09-11 Thread r
On Sep 11, 10:19 am, chen tao wrote: (snip) >     I tried the button.invoke() function, it almost got it...however, > I only want it returns value when the button clicked, but because the > program is in the class _ini_ function, so it always runs once before > I click the button... so don't call

Re: Podcast catcher in Python

2009-09-11 Thread Chuck
On Sep 11, 12:56 pm, Chuck wrote: > On Sep 11, 10:30 am, Falcolas wrote: > > > > > > > On Sep 11, 8:20 am, Chuck wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I would like to code a simple podcast catcher in Python merely as an > > > exercise in internet programming.  I am a CS student and new to > > > Python,

Python C/API Problem

2009-09-11 Thread Gianfranco Murador
Hi to all python fans, i'm trying to run this C source file: [code] #include #include #include #include #include int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { Py_Initialize(); struct _node *node = PyParser_SimpleParseString("from time import time,ctime\n"

Where find regexs needed to build lexical analyzer for Python source code?

2009-09-11 Thread Chris Seberino
I'd like to build a lexer aka lexical analyzer aka tokenizer for Python source code as a learning exercise. Where can I find the regexs that define the tokens of Python source? (I am aware of tokenizer.py but I was hoping there was a web page w/ a list somewhere.) cs -- http://mail.python.org/ma

Re: Podcast catcher in Python

2009-09-11 Thread Chuck
On Sep 11, 1:09 pm, Chuck wrote: > On Sep 11, 12:56 pm, Chuck wrote: > > > > > > > On Sep 11, 10:30 am, Falcolas wrote: > > > > On Sep 11, 8:20 am, Chuck wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > I would like to code a simple podcast catcher in Python merely as an > > > > exercise in internet programm

Mapping in python? Transforming shapefile so that basemap can read them?

2009-09-11 Thread C Barr Leigh
I'm trying to get started with plotting maps in python. I need to read "shape files" (.shp) and make maps. There seem to be many efforts but none is complete? I'm looking for suggestions and troubleshooting. The basemap package is obviously at an impressive stage and comes with some data: http://w

Re: Creating a local variable scope.

2009-09-11 Thread Patrick Sabin
Johan Grönqvist schrieb: Hi All, I find several places in my code where I would like to have a variable scope that is smaller than the enclosing function/class/module definition. One representative example would look like: -- spam = { ... } eggs = { ... } ham = (a[eggs], b[spam])

Re: Creating a local variable scope.

2009-09-11 Thread Daniel Stutzbach
2009/9/11 Johan Grönqvist > I find several places in my code where I would like to have a variable > scope that is smaller than the enclosing function/class/module definition. > For what it's worth, there was a relevant proposal on the python-ideas list a few months back: http://mail.python.org

Dataflow programming in Python

2009-09-11 Thread Anh Hai Trinh
Hello all, I just want to share with you something that I've worked on recently. It is a library which implements streams -- generalized iterators with a pipelining mechanism and lazy-evaluation to enable data-flow programming in Python. The idea is to be able to take the output of a function tha

Re: Use python to execute a windows program

2009-09-11 Thread Jerry Hill
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Doran, Harold wrote: > I am working with this now. I'm toying with the examples to test out a > few things and learn how this works. I've made some modifications such > that I have the following working (below). This does nothing more than > open a program. > > I

Problem with queues and gobject event loop

2009-09-11 Thread Roman Kapl
Why does not this snipplet work? - from job import JobQueue import Queue import threading import gobject q=JobQueue() def worker(): print "Worker waiting" q.get() print "Got job!" if __name__ == "__main__": t = threadi

RE: Use python to execute a windows program

2009-09-11 Thread Doran, Harold
Thanks, Jerry. Tried that, as well as various other possible names to no avail. > -Original Message- > From: python-list-bounces+hdoran=air@python.org > [mailto:python-list-bounces+hdoran=air@python.org] On > Behalf Of Jerry Hill > Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 3:09 PM > To:

Re: Creating a local variable scope.

2009-09-11 Thread Ethan Furman
Patrick Sabin wrote: Johan Grönqvist schrieb: Hi All, I find several places in my code where I would like to have a variable scope that is smaller than the enclosing function/class/module definition. One representative example would look like: -- spam = { ... } eggs = { ... } ham

Re: Extracting patterns after matching a regex

2009-09-11 Thread Mart.
On Sep 9, 4:58 pm, Al Fansome wrote: > Mart. wrote: > > On Sep 8, 4:33 pm, MRAB wrote: > >>Mart. wrote: > >>> On Sep 8, 3:53 pm, MRAB wrote: > Mart. wrote: > > On Sep 8, 3:14 pm, "Andreas Tawn" wrote: > > Hi, > > I need to extract a string after a matching a regular expr

Re: Use python to execute a windows program

2009-09-11 Thread Jerry Hill
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Doran, Harold wrote: > Thanks, Jerry. Tried that, as well as various other possible names to no > avail. You'll need to dig into the documentation then, probably starting in one of these two places: http://pywinauto.openqa.org/howto.html http://pywinauto.openqa.or

Re: Python C/API Problem

2009-09-11 Thread Philip Semanchuk
On Sep 11, 2009, at 2:10 PM, Gianfranco Murador wrote: Hi to all python fans, i'm trying to run this C source file: [code] #include #include #include #include #include int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { Py_Initialize(); struct _node *node = PyParser_SimpleParseString("f

Re: Creating a local variable scope.

2009-09-11 Thread Terry Reedy
Johan Grönqvist wrote: Hi All, I find several places in my code where I would like to have a variable scope that is smaller than the enclosing function/class/module definition. One representative example would look like: -- spam = { ... } eggs = { ... } ham = (a[eggs], b[spam]) --

Re: How can I use my modules here?

2009-09-11 Thread Chris Rebert
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 4:48 AM, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 02:29 -0700, Chris Rebert wrote: >> For some reason, your Python program is being executed by bash as if >> it were a shell script, which it's not. >> No idea what the cause is though. > > Because the first 2 bytes of t

Re: Class variable inheritance

2009-09-11 Thread Lie Ryan
HPJ wrote: And by the way, the reason I've come across this problem at all is because I have something like this: class A: class X: n = 'a' x = X() class B(A): class X(A.X): n = 'b' # x = X() The line commented out was originally not there, but I found out I had to add it if I wa

Re: Mapping in python? Transforming shapefile so that basemap can read them?

2009-09-11 Thread Mart.
On Sep 11, 7:22 pm, C Barr Leigh wrote: > I'm trying to get started with plotting maps in python. I need to read > "shape files" (.shp) and make maps. There seem to be many efforts but > none is complete? I'm looking for suggestions and troubleshooting. > > The basemap package is obviously at an i

Re: Creating a local variable scope.

2009-09-11 Thread Carl Banks
On Sep 11, 10:36 am, Johan Grönqvist wrote: > In the other languages I have used I can either use braces (C and > descendants) or use let-bindings (SML, Haskell etc.) to form local scopes. I wouldn't mind a let statement but I don't think the language really suffers for the lack of it. I expect

Re: Python server locks up

2009-09-11 Thread Dave Angel
Paul Rubin wrote: sturlamolden writes: Python uses reference counting, not a generational GC like Java. A Python object is destroyed when the refcount drops to 0. The GC only collects cyclic references. If you create none, there are no GC delays (you can in fact safely turn the GC off). Pyt

Re: looking for a script that automaticly logs into hotmail

2009-09-11 Thread Mart.
On Sep 11, 10:31 pm, mmoalem wrote: > hi there all - trying to find a script wich will log into an hotmail > account - that is for the reason that after a certain amount of > inactivity time a hotmail account is expired and to prevent that from > happening accidentaly a script wich i can schedule

Progressive download in urllib2

2009-09-11 Thread Jon
I would like to be able to control the (stop/resume) the download of a large http object when using urllib2:urlopen() in Linux My understanding is that the open reads data until the socket buffers are filled, then waits until data is consumed (urllib2.read()) and fetches more. Is there a way to

Re: Class variable inheritance

2009-09-11 Thread Terry Reedy
Lie Ryan wrote: Note that when the python interpreter meets this statement: class B(P): def foo(self): print('ab') X = 'f' the compiler sees a class statement -> create a new blank class -> assign P as the new class' parent No, it saves th

Re: string interpolation mystery in Python 2.6

2009-09-11 Thread Alan G Isaac
Michael Foord came up with a much simpler illustration. With Python 2.6:: >>> try: ... open('flooble') ... except Exception as e: ... pass ... >>> e IOError(2, 'No such file or directory') >>> unicode(e) u"(2, 'No such fil

Re: string interpolation mystery in Python 2.6

2009-09-11 Thread Chris Rebert
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Alan G Isaac wrote: > Michael Foord came up with a much simpler > illustration.  With Python 2.6:: > >        >>> try: >        ...  open('flooble') >        ... except Exception as e: >        ...  pass >        ... >        >>> e >        IOError(2, 'No such file

Re: uses for setup.cfg and extracting data from it

2009-09-11 Thread Ben Finney
"P.J. Eby" writes: > If you're talking about setup.py, all you need to do is use the > distutils functions that allow you to run a setup.py without executing > any of its commands. Specifically, I want to programmatically access the metadata that is held in the arguments to the ‘distutils.setup(

Re: Python C/API Problem

2009-09-11 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:10:45 -0300, Gianfranco Murador escribió: int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { Py_Initialize(); struct _node *node = PyParser_SimpleParseString("from time import time,ctime\n" "print 'Today is',ctim

Writing a thread-safe class

2009-09-11 Thread Timothy Madden
Hello I would like to write a class with methods that can be accessed by many threads at the same time. For this I have a lock attribute in my class obtained with threading.Lock(), in the constructor, and every method begins by acquiring the lock and ends by releasing it My problem is that

Unicode - and MIMEType - Good friday fun.

2009-09-11 Thread rh0dium
Hi Geniuses, Can anyone please show me the way.. I don't understand why this doesn't work... # encoding: utf-8 from email.MIMEText import MIMEText msg = MIMEText("hi") msg.set_charset('utf-8') print msg.as_string() a = 'Ho\xcc\x82tel Ste\xcc\x81phane ' b = unicode(a, "utf-8") print b msg =

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