Re: xmlrpc idea for getting around the GIL

2009-11-23 Thread Carl Banks
On Nov 22, 10:58 pm, Patrick Stinson wrote: > On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Diez B. Roggisch wrote: icating) the multiprocessing module would be ideal. > > The problem is that the OP has a embedded application running threads. > > multiprocssing doesn't help there. > > that's right. I cannot m

multitasking

2009-11-23 Thread ashwini yal
Hi, I want to know diffrent methods of multitasking supported by python(I want to run diffrent jobs simultaneously at same time) which is the good approach. I know about threads,but i also know that using threads leads to less operational speed. Can someone help me -- Regards , Ashwini . K --

Re: scanning under windows WIA with custom settings (dpi / etc )

2009-11-23 Thread News123
Hi r, r wrote: > On Nov 22, 11:32 am, News123 wrote: > >> - This script works fine for me under Windows 7, however I'm >> unable to specify additional parameters, like dpi and >> color mode. > > I have found something interesting but have no idea HOW to implement > it?? It seems the setting

Re: scanning under windows WIA with custom settings (dpi / etc )

2009-11-23 Thread News123
Hi r, r wrote: > On Nov 22, 11:32 am, News123 wrote: > >> - This script works fine for me under Windows 7, however I'm >> unable to specify additional parameters, like dpi and >> color mode. > > I have found something interesting but have no idea HOW to implement > it?? It seems the setting

Re: Go versus Brand X

2009-11-23 Thread Robert Kern
Aahz wrote: In article <7ms7ctf3k2a7...@mid.individual.net>, Gregory Ewing wrote: However, Go's designers seem to favour using the absolute minimum number of characters they can get away with. Although if they *really* wanted that, they would have dropped most of the semicolons and used inden

Re: creating pipelines in python

2009-11-23 Thread Robert Kern
per wrote: hi all, i am looking for a python package to make it easier to create a "pipeline" of scripts (all in python). what i do right now is have a set of scripts that produce certain files as output, and i simply have a "master" script that checks at each stage whether the output of the pre

Re: creating pipelines in python

2009-11-23 Thread Paul Rudin
per writes: > hi all, > > i am looking for a python package to make it easier to create a > "pipeline" of scripts (all in python). what i do right now is have a > set of scripts that produce certain files as output, and i simply have > a "master" script that checks at each stage whether the outpu

Re: creating pipelines in python

2009-11-23 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 14:49 -0800, per wrote: > i am looking for a python package to make it easier to create a > "pipeline" of scripts (all in python). what i do right now is have a > set of scripts that produce certain files as output, and i simply have > a "master" script that checks at each s

Re: python regex "negative lookahead assertions" problems

2009-11-23 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 11/22/09 16:05, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 11/22/09 14:58, Jelle Smet wrote: Hi List, I'm trying to match lines in python using the re module. The end goal is to have a regex which enables me to skip lines which have ok and warning in it. But for some reason I can't get negative lookaheads wo

QtPython: removeChild/addChild QGroupBox

2009-11-23 Thread Threader Slash
Hi Everybody, I am developing a system for a customer which is displayed in a set of GroupBox. Depending on mouse events, the container (groupBox) must be removed from the centralwidget, or then added with new updated data for the table. Here is a piece of the code that runs nicely and shows the a

Re: problem manipulating a list belonging to a class

2009-11-23 Thread Terry Reedy
Marc Leconte wrote: Dear all, I have a problem with the following code (ubuntu 8.04, Python 2.5.2): class Toto(object): def __init__(self, number, mylist=[]): self.number=number self.mylist=mylist pass pass listA=Toto(number=1) li

lxml 2.2.4 for Python 2.6

2009-11-23 Thread Srijit Kumar Bhadra
Is there any reason why lxml-2.2.4-py2.6-win32.egg (md5) or lxml-2.2.4.win32-py2.6.exe is not available? Best regards, /Srijit -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

python and Postgresq

2009-11-23 Thread Andy dixon
Hi, Does anyone have a link to, or can provide an example script for using python-pgsql (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-pgsql/) or if someone can recommend an alternative, that would be fantastic. Thanks! Andy Dixon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python and Postgresq

2009-11-23 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Andy dixon wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone have a link to, or can provide an example script for using > python-pgsql (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-pgsql/) or if someone can > recommend an alternative, that would be fantastic. I'd recommend psycopg2. This is an introduction: http://www.dev

Re: python simply not scaleable enough for google?

2009-11-23 Thread Robin Becker
sturlamolden wrote: On 20 Nov, 11:12, Robin Becker wrote: Presumably that means they could potentially run in parallel on the 10 cpu machines of the future. I'm not so clear on whether the threadless tasklets will run on separate cpus. You can make a user-space scheduler and run a 1

Switching Databases

2009-11-23 Thread Victor Subervi
Hi; I have the following code: import MySQLdb ... user, passwd, db, host = login() db = MySQLdb.connect(host, user, passwd, 'cart') cursor= db.cursor() ... cursor.close() db = MySQLdb.connect(host, user, passwd, db) cursor= db.cursor() Now, python complains about me opening a new connection. But

Re: Go versus Brand X

2009-11-23 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Le Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:36:33 -0600, Robert Kern a écrit : > > I think there is an overall design sensibility, it's just not a > human-facing one. They claim that they designed the syntax to be very > easily parsed by very simple tools in order to make things like syntax > highlighters very easy an

Python & OpenOffice Spreadsheets

2009-11-23 Thread Gerhard Häring
Is there a *simple* way to read OpenOffice spreadsheets? Bonus: write them, too? I mean something like: doc.cells[0][0] = "foo" doc.save("xyz.ods") >From a quick look, pyodf offers little more than just using a XML parser directly. -- Gerhard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python

Re: python and Postgresq

2009-11-23 Thread Ben Finney
"Andy dixon" writes: > Does anyone have a link to, or can provide an example script for using > python-pgsql (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-pgsql/) or if someone > can recommend an alternative, that would be fantastic. "Diez B. Roggisch" writes: > I'd recommend psycopg2. I'd recommend i

Re: python and Postgresq

2009-11-23 Thread Andy dixon
"Diez B. Roggisch" wrote in message news:7mv62nf3hp17...@mid.uni-berlin.de... Andy dixon wrote: Hi, Does anyone have a link to, or can provide an example script for using python-pgsql (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-pgsql/) or if someone can recommend an alternative, that would be fanta

Re: Python & OpenOffice Spreadsheets

2009-11-23 Thread Paul Rudin
Gerhard Häring writes: > Is there a *simple* way to read OpenOffice spreadsheets? > > Bonus: write them, too? > > I mean something like: > > doc.cells[0][0] = "foo" > doc.save("xyz.ods") > >>From a quick look, pyodf offers little more than just using a XML parser > directly. Depends on exactly

Re: python and Postgresq

2009-11-23 Thread Krishnakant
On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 11:22 +0100, Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > Andy dixon wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Does anyone have a link to, or can provide an example script for using > > python-pgsql (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-pgsql/) or if someone can > > recommend an alternative, that would be fantas

Re: Python & OpenOffice Spreadsheets

2009-11-23 Thread Krishnakant
On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 11:12 +, Paul Rudin wrote: > Gerhard Häring writes: > > > Is there a *simple* way to read OpenOffice spreadsheets? > > > > Bonus: write them, too? > > > > I mean something like: > > > > doc.cells[0][0] = "foo" > > doc.save("xyz.ods") > > > >>From a quick look, pyodf offe

Re: python and Postgresq

2009-11-23 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Krishnakant wrote: > On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 11:22 +0100, Diez B. Roggisch wrote: >> Andy dixon wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > Does anyone have a link to, or can provide an example script for using >> > python-pgsql (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-pgsql/) or if someone >> > can recommend an alte

Re: Python & OpenOffice Spreadsheets

2009-11-23 Thread Chris Withers
Gerhard Häring wrote: Is there a *simple* way to read OpenOffice spreadsheets? Ironically, if you don't mind working in .xls, which OpenOffice handles just fine, you have xlrd and xlwt to do exactly what you're after: http://www.python-excel.org/ cheers, Chris -- Simplistix - Content Mana

python and netezza

2009-11-23 Thread Shan
Is there any module in python to connect with netezza database?(like cx_Oracle which is used to connect Oracle from python) Thanks for any help. - Shan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

print function in python3.1

2009-11-23 Thread Anjanesh Lekshminarayanan
Python 3.1.1 sql = "INSERT INTO `tbl` VALUES (NULL, '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s');" for row in fp: print (sql, (row[0],row[1],row[2],row[3],row[4])) . INSERT INTO `tbl` VALUES (NULL, '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s'); ('142', 'abc', '2006-04-09 02:19:24', '', '') . Why is it showing %s in the outp

Re: print function in python3.1

2009-11-23 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Anjanesh Lekshminarayanan wrote: > Python 3.1.1 > > sql = "INSERT INTO `tbl` VALUES (NULL, '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s');" > for row in fp: > print (sql, (row[0],row[1],row[2],row[3],row[4])) > . > INSERT INTO `tbl` VALUES (NULL, '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s'); ('142', > 'abc', '2006-04-09 02:

Perl conversion to python...

2009-11-23 Thread Benjamin Schollnick
Folks, I'm having some issues here with pyserial & trying to translate a perl script to python... It's probably my inexperience with PySerial & perl that is troubling me... Can anyone assist? I'm concerned, since I can't seem to receive the data in any reliable manner.. I've tested multiple ti

depikt (gtk-wrappers): Threads, code-inlining Pixbufs

2009-11-23 Thread DreiJane
Hello, these days i make depikt, my replacement of pygtk. There are several reasons to do this: - Support for Python3 - Exact control of encoding issues. I myself (a German) hope to abandon with any python unicode objects forever in future - that is, why Python3 is an important improvement for

Re: print function in python3.1

2009-11-23 Thread Anjanesh Lekshminarayanan
> Depending on your DB-adapter, you are out of luck here. Either connect to a > db even if you don't need it, or try & see if you can locate the > implementation in the module somehow. ImportError: No module named MySQLdb MySQLdb only available in Python2. -- Anjanesh Lekshmnarayanan -- http:

Re: Scripts Only Run In Root

2009-11-23 Thread liuxin9...@gmail.com
On Nov 23, 2:36 am, geremy condra wrote: > On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Victor Subervi > > wrote: > > Hi; > > I can only run my python scripts on my server if they are owned by root. How > > do I change that? > > TIA, > > Victor > > Almost certainly going to need more information. On that no

Re: print function in python3.1

2009-11-23 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Anjanesh Lekshminarayanan wrote: >> Depending on your DB-adapter, you are out of luck here. Either connect to >> a db even if you don't need it, or try & see if you can locate the >> implementation in the module somehow. > > ImportError: No module named MySQLdb > MySQLdb only available in Python2

depikt (gtk-wrappers): Threads, inlining Pixbufs to python code

2009-11-23 Thread DreiJane
Hello, these days i make depikt, my replacement of pygtk. There are several reasons to do this: - Support for Python3 - Exact control of encoding issues. I myself (a German) hope to abandon with any python unicode objects forever in future - that is, why Python3 is an important improvement for

Re: Switching Databases

2009-11-23 Thread Carsten Haese
Victor Subervi wrote: > Hi; > I have the following code: > > import MySQLdb > ... > user, passwd, db, host = login() > db = MySQLdb.connect(host, user, passwd, 'cart') > cursor= db.cursor() > ... > cursor.close() > db = MySQLdb.connect(host, user, passwd, db) > cursor= db.cursor() > > Now, python

depikt (gtk-wrappers): Threads, inlining Pixbufs to python code

2009-11-23 Thread DreiJane
Hello, these days i make depikt, my replacement of pygtk. There are several reasons to do this: - Support for Python3 - Exact control of encoding issues. I myself (a German) hope to abandon with any python unicode objects forever in future - that is, why Python3 is an important improvement for m

Re: print function in python3.1

2009-11-23 Thread Anjanesh Lekshminarayanan
As of now, there is no mysql adaptor for Python3. Hence cant use escape_string() > I don't have the slightest clue what you want to say with that. -- Anjanesh Lekshmnarayanan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

depikt (gtk-wrappers): Threads, inlining Pixbufs to python code

2009-11-23 Thread DreiJane
Hello, these days i make depikt, my replacement of pygtk. There are several reasons to do this: - Support for Python3 - Exact control of encoding issues. I myself (a German) hope to abandon with any python unicode objects forever in future - that is, why Python3 is an important improvement for m

depikt (gtk-wrappers): Threads, inlining Pixbufs to python code

2009-11-23 Thread DreiJane
Hello, these days i make depikt, my replacement of pygtk. There are several reasons to do this: - Support for Python3 - Exact control of encoding issues. I myself (a German) hope to abandon with any python unicode objects forever in future - that is, why Python3 is an important improvement for m

depikt (gtk-wrappers): Threads, inlining Pixbufs to python code

2009-11-23 Thread DreiJane
Hello, these days i make depikt, my replacement of pygtk. There are several reasons to do this: - Support for Python3 - Exact control of encoding issues. I myself (a German) hope to abandon with any python unicode objects forever in future - that is, why Python3 is an important improvement for m

Re: print function in python3.1

2009-11-23 Thread Carsten Haese
Anjanesh Lekshminarayanan wrote: > As of now, there is no mysql adaptor for Python3. Hence cant use > escape_string() Maybe it would help if you explained what you are actually trying to accomplish. -- Carsten Haese http://informixdb.sourceforge.net -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/p

Re: Switching Databases

2009-11-23 Thread Victor Subervi
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Carsten Haese wrote: > You thought you did, but did you? The code snippet above doesn't show > any code that closes a database connection. > Would you be so kind as to tell me exactly what code *does* close a database, then? That would solve this handily. Other th

Re: Switching Databases

2009-11-23 Thread Carsten Haese
Victor Subervi wrote: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Carsten Haese > wrote: > > You thought you did, but did you? The code snippet above doesn't show > any code that closes a database connection. > > > Would you be so kind as to tell me exactly what c

KirbyBase : replacing string exceptions

2009-11-23 Thread Brendan
In KirbyBase there is a method that uses string exceptions for control, even though it has a defined exception. Is there any reason the string exceptions below could not be replaced? i.e. in code below replace: raise "No Match" with: raise KBError() and except 'No Match': with: except KBError: I h

Re: Switching Databases

2009-11-23 Thread Victor Subervi
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Carsten Haese wrote: > As I said, the best way we can help you is if you copy the actual error > message so that we may diagnose the actual problem and suggest a > solution that fixes the problem. > That gave me the idea that I should simply open two separate con

Re: Python/HTML integration: phileas v0.3 released

2009-11-23 Thread J Kenneth King
papa hippo writes: > On 20 nov, 09:02, Stefan Behnel wrote: >> papa hippo, 19.11.2009 19:53: >> >> > The prime goal of 'phileas' is to enable html code to be seamlessly >> > included in python code in a natural looking syntax, without resorting >> > to templatng language. >> >> I assume you know

Re: print function in python3.1

2009-11-23 Thread Anjanesh Lekshminarayanan
> Maybe it would help if you explained what you are actually trying to > accomplish. import csv f = csv.reader(open('data.txt'), delimiter='\t') # 2GB text file sql = "INSERT INTO `data` VALUES (NULL,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s);" for row in f: print (sql, (row[0],row[1],row[2],row[3],row[4])) $ python3 p

Re: Switching Databases

2009-11-23 Thread Carsten Haese
Victor Subervi wrote: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Carsten Haese > wrote: > > As I said, the best way we can help you is if you copy the actual error > message so that we may diagnose the actual problem and suggest a > solution that fixes the pro

Re: Switching Databases

2009-11-23 Thread Victor Subervi
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Carsten Haese wrote: > Have you tried to *read* and *understand* this error message? My guess > is no. The error message tells you all you need to know. You need to > pass a string as argument 4, but you aren't. <> is a database > connection object, not a string.

Re: print function in python3.1

2009-11-23 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Anjanesh Lekshminarayanan wrote: >> Maybe it would help if you explained what you are actually trying to >> accomplish. > > import csv > f = csv.reader(open('data.txt'), delimiter='\t') # 2GB text file > sql = "INSERT INTO `data` VALUES (NULL,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s);" > for row in f: > print (sql, (r

Re: KirbyBase : replacing string exceptions

2009-11-23 Thread Steve Howell
On Nov 23, 7:22 am, Brendan wrote: > In KirbyBase there is a method that uses string exceptions for > control, even though it has a defined exception. Is there any reason > the string exceptions below could not be replaced? > i.e. in code below replace: > raise "No Match" > with: > raise KBError()

Re: Minimally intrusive XML editing using Python

2009-11-23 Thread Thomas Lotze
Please consider this a reply to any unanswered messages I received in response to my original post. Dave Angel wrote: > What's your real problem, or use case? Are you just concerned with > diffing, or are others likely to read the xml, and want it formatted the > way it already is? I'd like t

Re: Perl conversion to python...

2009-11-23 Thread J Kenneth King
Benjamin Schollnick writes: > Folks, > > I'm having some issues here with pyserial & trying to translate a perl > script to python... It's probably my inexperience with PySerial & > perl that is troubling me... > > Can anyone assist? > > I'm concerned, since I can't seem to receive the data in a

Re: Go versus Brand X

2009-11-23 Thread Steve Howell
On Nov 23, 2:47 am, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Le Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:36:33 -0600, Robert Kern a écrit : > > > > > I think there is an overall design sensibility, it's just not a > > human-facing one. They claim that they designed the syntax to be very > > easily parsed by very simple tools in order

Re: KirbyBase : replacing string exceptions

2009-11-23 Thread Brendan
On Nov 23, 12:21 pm, Steve Howell wrote: > On Nov 23, 7:22 am, Brendan wrote: > > > In KirbyBase there is a method that uses string exceptions for > > control, even though it has a defined exception. Is there any reason > > the string exceptions below could not be replaced? > > i.e. in code below

Print to Printer Tkinter Text

2009-11-23 Thread J Wolfe
Hi, Is there a way to print the format of a Tkinter text box to a color printer with its tags, e.g. a blue text at font size 18 and bold will like it displays? Thanks, Jonathan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Beginning Question about Python functions, parameters...

2009-11-23 Thread astral orange
Hi, I am trying to teach myself Python and have a good book to help me but I am stuck on something and I would like for someone to explain the following piece of code for me and what it's actually doing. Certain parts are very clear but once it enters the "def store(data, full_name): " function

A More Concise Description of Numpy than the Guide to Numpy?

2009-11-23 Thread W. eWatson
I'm looking the 300+ page pdf of the Guide to Numpy. Is there a more concise and practical guide to its use in science and mathematics? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Go versus Brand X

2009-11-23 Thread Robert Kern
On 2009-11-23 04:47 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: Le Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:36:33 -0600, Robert Kern a écrit : I think there is an overall design sensibility, it's just not a human-facing one. They claim that they designed the syntax to be very easily parsed by very simple tools in order to make thing

Re: Beginning Question about Python functions, parameters...

2009-11-23 Thread Neo
astral orange schrieb: > Hi, I am trying to teach myself Python and have a good book to help me > but I am stuck on something and I would like for someone to explain > the following piece of code for me and what it's actually doing. > Certain parts are very clear but once it enters the "def store(d

[repost please help me] python setup.py build for 32-bits on x86_64 machine

2009-11-23 Thread Sérgio Monteiro Basto
Hi, I am in x86_64 arch , but I need compile things on 32 bits with python setup.py build Can't change the fact that distutils creates x86_64 directories: build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.3/ Also if I try with a python compile in 32bits and installed in system . how I force distutils build to 32-bi

adding a directory to sys.path

2009-11-23 Thread John Guenther
This is Mac related. I am running snow leopard. I am using Python 2.6.3. I had a lot of difficulty figuring out how to add a directory to sys.path that would be there every time I launched Idle. I have a directory called PythonPrograms in my Documents folder. When I installed Python it had '/Us

Re: A More Concise Description of Numpy than the Guide to Numpy?

2009-11-23 Thread Robert Kern
On 2009-11-23 11:49 AM, W. eWatson wrote: I'm looking the 300+ page pdf of the Guide to Numpy. Is there a more concise and practical guide to its use in science and mathematics? You will want to ask numpy questions on the numpy mailing list: http://www.scipy.org/Mailing_Lists You may also f

Don't Understand Error

2009-11-23 Thread Victor Subervi
Hi; I have the following code: #!/usr/bin/env python import smtplib import cgitb; cgitb.enable() import cgi import sys,os sys.path.append(os.getcwd()) from login import login import MySQLdb import re, string def mailSpreadsheet(): user, passwd, db, host = login() database = MySQLdb.connect(h

Re: [repost please help me] python setup.py build for 32-bits on x86_64 machine

2009-11-23 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Sérgio Monteiro Basto wrote: > Hi, > I am in x86_64 arch , but I need > compile things on 32 bits with > python setup.py build > > Can't change the fact that distutils creates x86_64 > directories: > build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.3/ > > Also if I try with a python compile in 32bits and installed > i

Re: adding a directory to sys.path

2009-11-23 Thread Christian Heimes
John Guenther schrieb: > This is Mac related. I am running snow leopard. I am using Python 2.6.3. > > I had a lot of difficulty figuring out how to add a directory to sys.path > that would be there every time I launched Idle. I have a directory called > PythonPrograms in my Documents folder. Whe

Re: Beginning Question about Python functions, parameters...

2009-11-23 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
astral orange wrote: > Hi, I am trying to teach myself Python and have a good book to help me > but I am stuck on something and I would like for someone to explain > the following piece of code for me and what it's actually doing. > Certain parts are very clear but once it enters the "def store(da

Re: Beginning Question about Python functions, parameters...

2009-11-23 Thread j
On Nov 23, 12:37 pm, Neo wrote: > astral orange schrieb: > > > > > Hi, I am trying to teach myself Python and have a good book to help me > > but I am stuck on something and I would like for someone to explain > > the following piece of code for me and what it's actually doing. > > Certain parts a

Re: problem manipulating a list belonging to a class

2009-11-23 Thread Marc Leconte
Thx all, good to know :) Le dimanche 22 novembre 2009 à 15:16 -0800, Steve Howell a écrit : > On Nov 22, 3:14 pm, Steve Howell wrote: > > > Explanations of why you need to write it that will follow... > > I knew this had to be written up somewhere... > > http://www.ferg.org/projects/python_got

Re: Implementation of Book Organization tool (Python2.[x])

2009-11-23 Thread ~km
> Though many would disagree, I consider XML as a form of database though > it is only suitable for data exchange. XML is suitable for low- to > medium-volume purpose and when compatibility with various systems is > extremely important (nearly any OS and any programming language has XML > parsers;

attributes, properties, and accessors -- philosophy

2009-11-23 Thread Ethan Furman
The problem I have with properties is my typing. I'll end up assigning to an attribute, but get the spelling slightly wrong (capitalized, or missing an underscore -- non-obvious things when bug-hunting), so now I have an extra attribute which of course has zero effect on what I'm trying to do

Re: Python & OpenOffice Spreadsheets

2009-11-23 Thread jfabiani
Krishnakant wrote: > On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 11:12 +, Paul Rudin wrote: >> Gerhard Häring writes: >> >> > Is there a *simple* way to read OpenOffice spreadsheets? >> > >> > Bonus: write them, too? >> > >> > I mean something like: >> > >> > doc.cells[0][0] = "foo" >> > doc.save("xyz.ods") >> >

Re: Beginning Question about Python functions, parameters...

2009-11-23 Thread david wright
- Original Message From: j To: python-list@python.org Sent: Mon, November 23, 2009 10:26:42 AM Subject: Re: Beginning Question about Python functions, parameters... On Nov 23, 12:37 pm, Neo wrote: > astral orange schrieb: > > > > > Hi, I am trying to teach myself Python and have a good

Re: attributes, properties, and accessors -- philosophy

2009-11-23 Thread Chris Rebert
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Ethan Furman wrote: > The problem I have with properties is my typing.  I'll end up assigning to > an attribute, but get the spelling slightly wrong (capitalized, or missing > an underscore -- non-obvious things when bug-hunting), so now I have an > extra attribut

Line Breaks

2009-11-23 Thread Susan Day
Hi; I have the following line of code I'm sending to postfix: msg = 'A Message From %s:\n\n %s' % (string.replace(customer, '_', ' '), msg) Unfortunately, it ignores the line breaks. I also tried %0A but that was ignored also. Please advise. TIA, Suzie -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinf

Re: Beginning Question about Python functions, parameters...

2009-11-23 Thread MRAB
j wrote: On Nov 23, 12:37 pm, Neo wrote: astral orange schrieb: Hi, I am trying to teach myself Python and have a good book to help me but I am stuck on something and I would like for someone to explain the following piece of code for me and what it's actually doing. Certain parts are very

Line-continuation "Anti-Idiom" and with statement

2009-11-23 Thread Neil Cerutti
I installed Python 3.1 today, and I've been porting my small library of programs to the new system. I happened to read the interesting "Idioms and Anti-Idioms" HOWTO, and saw the '\' continuation character labeled an anti-idiom. I already generally avoided it, so I just nodded. Unfortunately, the

Re: Beginning Question about Python functions, parameters...

2009-11-23 Thread astral orange
On Nov 23, 1:17 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" wrote: > astral orange wrote: > > Hi, I am trying to teach myself Python and have a good book to help me > > but I am stuck on something and I would like for someone to explain > > the following piece of code for me and what it's actually doing. > > Certain p

Read IDL save files into Python

2009-11-23 Thread Thomas Robitaille
I would like to briefly advertise the 0.9.2 release of IDLSave, a package I recently developed to read IDL save files into Python. Installation instructions are available at http://idlsave.sourceforge.net/. Please do not hesitate to submit a bug report if you run into any problems! Cheers, Thomas

Re: Line Breaks

2009-11-23 Thread Stephen Hansen
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Susan Day wrote: > Hi; > I have the following line of code I'm sending to postfix: > > msg = 'A Message From %s:\n\n %s' % (string.replace(customer, '_', ' '), > msg) > > Unfortunately, it ignores the line breaks. I also tried %0A but that was > ignored also. Pl

IDE+hg

2009-11-23 Thread NiklasRTZ
Dear experts, Since no py IDE I found has easy hg access. IDEs PIDA and Eric claim Mercurial support not found i.e. buttons to clone, commit and push to repositories to define dev env dvcs, editor and deployment all in 1. I tested Boa Constructor, dr Python, Eric and PIDA none of which has other th

Re: Line Breaks

2009-11-23 Thread Gary Herron
Susan Day wrote: Hi; I have the following line of code I'm sending to postfix: msg = 'A Message From %s:\n\n %s' % (string.replace(customer, '_', ' '), msg) Unfortunately, it ignores the line breaks. I also tried %0A but that was ignored also. Please advise. TIA, Suzie That line does no

Re: Beginning Question about Python functions, parameters...

2009-11-23 Thread Stephen Hansen
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:26 AM, j wrote: > What I am not totally sure about is when the store function callsthe > lookup function and does "return data[label].get(name)", that line > "trips" me up somethen the lookup function returns that back to > the store function, assigns the data to th

Re: [repost please help me] python setup.py build for 32-bits on x86_64 machine

2009-11-23 Thread Sérgio Monteiro Basto
Diez B. Roggisch wrote: Hi, Thanks, > Sérgio Monteiro Basto wrote: > >> Hi, >> I am in x86_64 arch , but I need >> compile things on 32 bits with >> python setup.py build >> >> Can't change the fact that distutils creates x86_64 >> directories: >> build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.3/ >> >> Also if I tr

Re: Beginning Question about Python functions, parameters...

2009-11-23 Thread Stephen Hansen
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:14 AM, astral orange <457r0...@gmail.com> wrote: > But back to the example, on line 104 I see there's a call to the > lookup function, passing 3 > parameters ('data', which I think is a nested dictionary, label > (first, middle, last) and name). > > But I am getting lo

Re: Minimally intrusive XML editing using Python

2009-11-23 Thread Nobody
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:45:24 +0100, Thomas Lotze wrote: >> What's your real problem, or use case? Are you just concerned with >> diffing, or are others likely to read the xml, and want it formatted the >> way it already is? > > I'd like to put the XML under revision control along with other st

Re: Line Breaks

2009-11-23 Thread Susan Day
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Gary Herron wrote: > >>> print 'A Message From %s:\n\n %s' % ('someone','some message') > A Message From someone: > > some message > > > So... *Exactly* what are you doing with msg, and *exactly* what is your > evidence that line breaks are being ignored. With th

Re: Switching Databases

2009-11-23 Thread Terry Reedy
Victor Subervi wrote: A problem occurred in a Python script. Here is the sequence of function calls leading up to the error, in the order they occurred. [snip hmtl error report] Please post plain text - ascii or utf8. On my newsreader, what you posted, with a mismash of colors, bold, italic,

Re: python and netezza

2009-11-23 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Shan wrote: > Is there any module in python to connect with netezza database?(like > cx_Oracle which is used to connect Oracle from python) You can use our mxODBC database adapters together with the Netezza ODBC drivers. For single-tier setups (client application and database on the same server o

Re: Line-continuation "Anti-Idiom" and with statement

2009-11-23 Thread MRAB
Neil Cerutti wrote: > I installed Python 3.1 today, and I've been porting my small > library of programs to the new system. > > I happened to read the interesting "Idioms and Anti-Idioms" > HOWTO, and saw the '\' continuation character labeled an > anti-idiom. I already generally avoided it, so I

Re: Don't Understand Error

2009-11-23 Thread Carsten Haese
Victor Subervi wrote: > [Mon Nov 23 09:52:21 2009] [error] [client 66.248.168.98] Premature end > of script headers: mailSpreadsheet.py, referer: > http://globalsolutionsgroup.vi/display_spreadsheet.py > > Why? A CGI script is expected to produce output. Your script doesn't produce any output, an

Re: Go versus Brand X

2009-11-23 Thread Terry Reedy
Robert Kern wrote: On 2009-11-23 04:47 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: Le Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:36:33 -0600, Robert Kern a écrit : I think there is an overall design sensibility, it's just not a human-facing one. They claim that they designed the syntax to be very easily parsed by very simple tools in

sandbox python via module loader

2009-11-23 Thread timprepscius
Greetings, in the past I wrote a sandboxing module loader for c++/ python. I am moving away from python.. I can't stand it actually. Call me blasphemous... I'm immune.. So this code is going to just find the trash.. Maybe it will be useful to someone else. Can't post it all, however, if you ar

Re: Python & OpenOffice Spreadsheets

2009-11-23 Thread Terry Reedy
Krishnakant wrote: On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 11:12 +, Paul Rudin wrote: Gerhard Häring writes: Is there a *simple* way to read OpenOffice spreadsheets? Bonus: write them, too? I mean something like: doc.cells[0][0] = "foo" doc.save("xyz.ods") >From a quick look, pyodf offers little more t

Re: Don't Understand Error

2009-11-23 Thread Victor Subervi
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Carsten Haese wrote: > Victor Subervi wrote: > > [Mon Nov 23 09:52:21 2009] [error] [client 66.248.168.98] Premature end > > of script headers: mailSpreadsheet.py, referer: > > http://globalsolutionsgroup.vi/display_spreadsheet.py > > > > Why? > > A CGI script is e

Re: print function in python3.1

2009-11-23 Thread Terry Reedy
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: Does Python 3.x include SQLite? Of course ;-] >>> import sqlite3 >>> dir(sqlite3) ['Binary', 'Cache', 'Connection', 'Cursor', 'DataError', [snip] adapt', 'adapters', 'apilevel', 'complete_statement', 'connect', 'converters', 'datetime', 'dbapi2', 'enable_callback_tr

Re: Go versus Brand X

2009-11-23 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Le Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:54:19 -0600, Robert Kern a écrit : > > Not really. The idea was to make the language easily parsed and lexed > and analyzed by *other* tools, not written in Go, that may have limited > capabilities. Well, if Go doesn't allow you to write libraries usable from other low- lev

Waiting for receiving data

2009-11-23 Thread Anjanesh Lekshminarayanan
fp = urllib.urlopen(url) data = fp.read() Retrieving XML data via an XML service API. Very often network gets stuck in between. No errors / exceptions. CTRL+C File "get-xml.py", line 32, in fp = urllib.urlopen(url) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/urllib.py", line 87, in urlopen return open

Re: IDE+hg

2009-11-23 Thread Joshua Kugler
NiklasRTZ wrote: > If you > know > a good light IDE with hg, please inform. Topic handled earlier, still > undecided > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-python/browse_thread/... > Thanks in advance > Niklas Rosencrantz WingIDE support Hg, as well as svn, git, and many others. j --

Re: A More Concise Description of Numpy than the Guide to Numpy?

2009-11-23 Thread W. eWatson
Robert Kern wrote: On 2009-11-23 11:49 AM, W. eWatson wrote: I'm looking the 300+ page pdf of the Guide to Numpy. Is there a more concise and practical guide to its use in science and mathematics? You will want to ask numpy questions on the numpy mailing list: http://www.scipy.org/Mailing_L

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