Re: merge stdin, stdout?

On Feb 4, 8:20 pm, exar...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: > On 01:56 am, jonny.lowe.12...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > >Hi everyone, > > >Is there an easy way to mergestdinandstdout? For instance suppose I > >havescriptthat prompts for a number and prints the number. If you > >execute this with redirection f

Re: How to guard against bugs like this one?

Stephen Hansen wrote: On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:16 PM, John Nagle > wrote: kj wrote: Through a *lot* of trial an error I finally discovered that the root cause of the problem was the fact that, in the same directory as buggy.py, there is *an

Re: method to intercept string formatting % operations

On Feb 5, 6:57 am, bradallen wrote: > Hello, > > For container class derived from namedtuple, but which also behaves > like a dictionary by implementing __getitem__ for non-integer index > values, is there a special reserved method which allows intercepting % > string formatting operations? I woul

Re: Python and Ruby

On 2010-02-04 17:46 PM, Ethan Furman wrote: Robert Kern wrote: On 2010-02-04 14:55 PM, Jonathan Gardner wrote: On Feb 3, 3:39 pm, Steve Holden wrote: Robert Kern wrote: On 2010-02-03 15:32 PM, Jonathan Gardner wrote: I can explain all of Python in an hour; I doubt anyone will understand al

Re: C:\Python25\Lib\IDLELIB\idle.pyw won't start

Duncan Booth wrote: Anthra Norell wrote: Using pythonw.exe will start the program with all error output dumped in the bit bucket. Running from a command prompt with python.exe will at least let you see if there are any errors. python.exe from the command line works all right in a

Re: Your beloved python features

"George Sakkis" wrote in message news:de06116c-e77c-47c4-982d-62b48bca5...@j31g2000yqa.googlegroups.com... I'll give the benefit of doubt and assume you're joking rather than trolling. George * Not trolling, my friend! GvR got it

Re: Editor for Python

Hi Laszlo, I use Wing IDE (not free, $35 for personal edition) and PyScripter (free). I find both good, for different reasons. Regards, Alan Laszlo Nagy wrote: Hi All, I know that this question was put up on this

Re: Python and Ruby

Robert Kern wrote: On 2010-02-04 17:46 PM, Ethan Furman wrote: Robert Kern wrote: On 2010-02-04 14:55 PM, Jonathan Gardner wrote: On Feb 3, 3:39 pm, Steve Holden wrote: Robert Kern wrote: On 2010-02-03 15:32 PM, Jonathan Gardner wrote: I can explain all of Python in an hour; I doubt anyon

Re: How to guard against bugs like this one?

John Nagle wrote: kj wrote: ... Through a *lot* of trial an error I finally discovered that the root cause of the problem was the fact that, in the same directory as buggy.py, there is *another* innocuous little script, totally unrelated, whose name happens to be numbers.py. The right ans

Re: method names nounVerb or verbNoun

On Feb 5, 3:26 pm, Chris Rebert wrote: > On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Wanderer wrote: > > Which is the more accepted way to compose method names nounVerb or > > verbNoun? > > > For example voltageGet or getVoltage? getVoltage sounds more normal, > > but voltageGet is more like voltage.Get. I

Re: method names nounVerb or verbNoun

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Wanderer wrote: > On Feb 5, 3:26 pm, Chris Rebert wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Wanderer wrote: >> > Which is the more accepted way to compose method names nounVerb or >> > verbNoun? >> >> > For example voltageGet or getVoltage? getVoltage sounds more

Re: method names nounVerb or verbNoun

* Wanderer: On Feb 5, 3:26 pm, Chris Rebert wrote: On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Wanderer wrote: Which is the more accepted way to compose method names nounVerb or verbNoun? For example voltageGet or getVoltage? getVoltage sounds more normal, but voltageGet is more like voltage.Get. I seem

Re: Your beloved python features

> GvR got it right when he discarded the superfluous semicolons from the ends > of statements--and then he ADDS superfluous colons to the ends of control > statements? It will probably be as much of a shock to you as it was to me > when I learned after studying parsing that colons, semicolons, "th

Re: YAML (was: Python and Ruby)

On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:22:03 -0500, Lou Pecora wrote: [...] >> > That's what I needed. 3 lines to write or read a inhomogeneous >> > collection of variables. >> >> Easy, but also quick and dirty -- good enough for small scripts, but >> not really good enough for production applications. [...] >

Re: which

On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:52:19 +0100, mk wrote: > assert isinstance(cmd, basestring) or cmd is None, "cmd should be string > or None" Do not use assertions for input validation. That's not what they're for. assert is compiled away when you run your code with the -O switch, which means that the te

Re: method to intercept string formatting % operations

On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:49:00 +0100, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote: > Anyway why would you want to use the tuple form ? it's beaten in every > aspect by the dictionary form. Except convenience, efficiency and readability. "%s %s" % (1, 2) versus "%(a)s %(b)s" % {'a': 1, 'b': 2} I'm all in favou

reconstruct the source of a lambda from its func_code, func_name, etc

Thy Pon: Has anyone figured out how to reflect a passed function, such as a lambda, all the way back to its source? I am aware than func_code knows the file name and line number; I would rather not use them to read the file because the lambda might not start in the first column. I will go with th

Re: xmlrpc slow in windows 7 if hostnames are used

Hi Gabriel, Gabriel Genellina wrote: > En Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:34:20 -0300, News123 escribió: > >> I wrote a small xmlrpc client on Windows 7 with python 2.6 >> >> srv = xmlrpclib.Server('http://localhost:80') >> >> I was able to perform about 1 rpc call per second >> >> After changing to >> srv

Re: which

On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:21:05 +0100, mk wrote: > if isinstance(cmd, str): > self.cmd = cmd.replace(r'${ADDR}',ip) > else: > self.cmd = cmd > > or > > self.cmd = cmd > if isinstance(cmd, str): > self.cmd = cmd.replace(r'${ADDR}',ip) Whichever one you like. The differences are insi

Re: method names nounVerb or verbNoun

On Feb 5, 4:53 pm, Chris Rebert wrote: > On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Wanderer wrote: > > On Feb 5, 3:26 pm, Chris Rebert wrote: > >> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Wanderer wrote: > >> > Which is the more accepted way to compose method names nounVerb or > >> > verbNoun? > > >> > For examp

Re: Dreaming of new generation IDE

"Steve Holden" wrote in message news:mailman.1998.1265399766.28905.python-l...@python.org... Arnaud Delobelle wrote: Robert Kern writes: I prefer Guido's formulation (which, naturally, I can't find a direct quote for right now): if you expect that a boolean argument is only going to take *

Re: Python's Reference And Internal Model Of Computing Languages

On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:53:33 -0600, David Thole wrote: > I read thisand am a tiny bit confused about the actual problem. > > It's not exactly complex to realize that something like: a = b = array > that a and b both point to the array. > > Logically speaking, I'm not sure how one could assum

Re: xmlrpc slow in windows 7 if hostnames are used

Hi JM, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote: >> Gabriel Genellina wrote: >> >>> En Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:34:20 -0300, News123 escribió: >>> >>> I wrote a small xmlrpc client on Windows 7 with python 2.6 srv = xmlrpclib.Server('http://localhost:80') I was able to perform about

Re: method names nounVerb or verbNoun

On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:53:08 -0800, Wanderer wrote: > Which is the more accepted way to compose method names nounVerb or > verbNoun? > > For example voltageGet or getVoltage? getVoltage sounds more normal, +0.5 for getVoltage +1 get_voltage -1 for voltageGet or voltage_get > but > voltageGe

execute sqlite3 dot commands in python

Does anybody know if it possible to execute sqlite3 dot commands in python? dovanotas:/pages/links# python Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jan 4 2009, 17:40:26) [GCC 4.3.2] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import sqlite3 >>> sqlite3 .help Traceback (

Re: Repost: Read a running process output

On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:57:17 -0800, Ashok Prabhu wrote: > I very badly need this to work. I have been googling out for a week > with no significant solution. I open a process p1 which does keeps > running for 4+ hours. It gives some output in stdout now and then. I > open this process with subproc

Re: Dreaming of new generation IDE

On 2010-02-05 16:22 PM, bartc wrote: "Steve Holden" wrote in message news:mailman.1998.1265399766.28905.python-l...@python.org... Arnaud Delobelle wrote: Robert Kern writes: I prefer Guido's formulation (which, naturally, I can't find a direct quote for right now): if you expect that a boo

Re: method names nounVerb or verbNoun

On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:26:38 -0800, Chris Rebert wrote: > On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Wanderer > wrote: >> Which is the more accepted way to compose method names nounVerb or >> verbNoun? >> >> For example voltageGet or getVoltage? getVoltage sounds more normal, >> but voltageGet is more like

Re: reconstruct the source of a lambda from its func_code, func_name, etc

On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:19:36 -0800, Phlip wrote: > Thy Pon: > > Has anyone figured out how to reflect a passed function, such as a > lambda, all the way back to its source? Use the dis module to disassemble the byte code to human readable form, then write some sort of decompiler to translate it

Re: Your beloved python features

On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:29:07 +0100, mk wrote: > Ethan Furman wrote: > >> http://www1.american.edu/academic.depts/cas/econ/faculty/isaac/ choose_python.pdf >> >> > Choose to get your difficult questions about threads in Python ignored. > Oh well.. With an attitude like that, you're damn lucky i

Re: xmlrpc slow in windows 7 if hostnames are used

News123 wrote: > Hi Gabriel, > > Gabriel Genellina wrote: >> En Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:34:20 -0300, News123 escribió: >> >>> I wrote a small xmlrpc client on Windows 7 with python 2.6 >>> >>> srv = xmlrpclib.Server('http://localhost:80') >>> >>> I was able to perform about 1 rpc call per second >>>

Re: Your beloved python features

On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:22:25 -0600, Bruce C. Baker wrote: > GvR got it right when he discarded the superfluous semicolons from the > ends of statements--and then he ADDS superfluous colons to the ends of > control statements? They're not superfluous, they have a real, practical use. > It will

how to make a SimpleXMLRPCServer abort at CTRL-C under windows

Hi, I'm using an XMLRPC server under Windows. What I wonder is how I could create a server, that can be killed with CTRL-C The server aborts easily with CTRL-BREAK but not with CTRL-C (under Windows) If I press CTRL-C it will only abort when the next RPC call occurs. It seems it is blocking i

Re: SQLite3: preventing new file creation

In article <6cf467a9-99d7-4fda-99da-075b4b38e...@k6g2000prg.googlegroups.com>, Gnarlodious wrote: > >Every time I say something like: > >connection=sqlite3.connect(file) > >sqlite creates a new database file. Can this behavior be suppressed >through SQLite? Or am I forced to check for the file ex

Re: Dreaming of new generation IDE

bartc wrote: > > "Steve Holden" wrote in message > news:mailman.1998.1265399766.28905.python-l...@python.org... >> Arnaud Delobelle wrote: >>> Robert Kern writes: >>> I prefer Guido's formulation (which, naturally, I can't find a direct quote for right now): if you expect that a boolea

Re: execute sqlite3 dot commands in python

gintare statkute wrote: > Does anybody know if it possible to execute sqlite3 dot commands in python? > > dovanotas:/pages/links# python > Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jan 4 2009, 17:40:26) > [GCC 4.3.2] on linux2 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. import s

Re: Dreaming of new generation IDE

On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:22:39 +, bartc wrote: > "Steve Holden" wrote in message > news:mailman.1998.1265399766.28905.python-l...@python.org... >> Arnaud Delobelle wrote: >>> Robert Kern writes: >>> I prefer Guido's formulation (which, naturally, I can't find a direct quote for right

Re: method names nounVerb or verbNoun

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:26:38 -0800, Chris Rebert wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Wanderer >> wrote: >>> Which is the more accepted way to compose method names nounVerb or >>> verbNoun? >>> >>> For example voltageGet or getVoltage

Re: list.extend([]) Question

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Gerald Britton wrote: > I think it's because when you do ['a'].extend([]) or whatever, the > result is whatever the method "extend" returns.  But "extend" has no > return value, hence you will see None if you do this interactively. > That sums it up. In Python th

Re: Your beloved python features

Steven D'Aprano wrote: Trailing spaces and tabs, on the other hand, *are* invisible. But they're also insignificant, and so don't matter. (Except for one little tiny corner case, which I shall leave as an exercise for the advanced reader.) Drat, now I'm gonna be up at odd hours tonight dredg

Calendar GUI

Hello Everyone, I'm working on setting up some software for a Peruvian non-profit to help them organize their incoming volunteers. One of the features I'd like to add is a calendar-like view of the different volunteers arrival dates and staying time, with potentially some other info through some d

Re: Calendar GUI

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 9:08 PM, William Gaggioli wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I'm working on setting up some software for a Peruvian non-profit to help > them organize their incoming volunteers. One of the features I'd like to add > is a calendar-like view of the different volunteers arrival dates

Re: Google AI Challenge at U of Waterloo

On Feb 6, 7:02 am, Forthminder wrote: > Contest runs from 4 February to 26 February 2010. > > You may choose a programming language, such as > Java, C++, Python, Ruby or Haskell. > > See details at > > http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/contest/problem_description.php > > Bonne Chance! > > Mentifex > --ht

Re: Exception class documentation

On Feb 5, 2010, at 2:13 PM, Gerald Britton wrote: On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Charles Yeomans > wrote: I am so far unable to find the information I want about the Exception class. Information like the signature of __init__ seems to be unavailable. Any suggestions where I might find s

can pydoc display doc for local funcs? or other doc tools for own code

Hi, often I start "pydoc -g" in a projects working directory in order to view the docstrings of my own project and in order to get a quick overview of the code structure In some cases I would like to see also to see private methods (especially when trying to understand the internals of a collegu

Re: how to make a SimpleXMLRPCServer abort at CTRL-C under windows

En Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:03:51 -0300, News123 escribió: I'm using an XMLRPC server under Windows. What I wonder is how I could create a server, that can be killed with CTRL-C The server aborts easily with CTRL-BREAK but not with CTRL-C (under Windows) If I press CTRL-C it will only abort

Re: Drawing a zig-zag Trail in Python?

On 2/5/2010 9:30 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2010-02-05, W. eWatson wrote: I'd like to draw something like an animal track. Between each point is a line. Perhaps the line would have an arrow showing the direction of motion. There should be x-y coordinates axises. PIL? MatPlotLib, ?? I'd prob

"Nim" game being created, no GUI used... Need tips...

I am creating a game called Nim, but cannot get a loop going no matter what I do. What i am trying to do is get it to only accept input from 1 to 4, and keep asking for input from the same player if he/she enters in an invalid number. I also want it to stop when there is 1 or no piece(s) left, and

Re: Google AI Challenge at U of Waterloo

On 06-Feb-10 08:02, Forthminder wrote: Contest runs from 4 February to 26 February 2010. http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/contest/problem_description.php Bonne Chance! It's definitely *not* exactly a programming challenge, but algorithm challenge. A programming (only) challenge should only require

Re: [PyOpenGL-Users] Mouse wheel events?

Craig Berry wrote: Is there any way to get mouse wheel events from glut in PyOpenGL? Use Linux. (On Linux, Glut returns mouse wheel events as buttons 4 and 5), or use FreeGlut. On both Windows and Linux freeglut returns mouse wheel events as buttons 4 and 5. Gary Herron -- http://mai

WCK and PIL

I've written an app using the wck library (widget construction kit, see http://www.effbot.org), in addition to the wckGraph module. What I'd like to do, is take the output of one of my windows (happens to be a graph), and save it as a *.png or *.gif. I was planning on using the PIL for this. I'd li

Re: merge stdin, stdout?

En Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:39:07 -0300, jonny lowe escribió: On Feb 4, 8:20 pm, exar...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: On 01:56 am, jonny.lowe.12...@gmail.com wrote: >What I want is to have an easy way to merge input.txt and thestdout >so that output.txt look like: >Enter a number: 42 >You entered 42

Re: Import question

En Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:21:47 -0300, Andrew Degtiariov escribió: Code of our project has split into several packages and we deploy the project using buildout. All worked fine until I need to dynamically inspect python modules. Entirely by luck, I'd say :) ├───project.api.config │ ├───proje

Re: Dreaming of new generation IDE

En Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:22:39 -0300, bartc escribió: "Steve Holden" wrote in message news:mailman.1998.1265399766.28905.python-l...@python.org... Arnaud Delobelle wrote: Robert Kern writes: I prefer Guido's formulation (which, naturally, I can't find a direct quote for right now): if you e

Re: C:\Python25\Lib\IDLELIB\idle.pyw won't start

En Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:23:57 -0300, Anthra Norell escribió: I upgraded from 2.4 to 2.5 and am unable to start an 2.5 idle window. The OS is Windows ME. The download of 2.5 finished with a warning saying that 2.5 was the highest version for Windows 9* Any tips? I'd suggest a couple more

Re: Simple question about Queue.Queue and threads

En Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:45:30 -0300, Frank Millman escribió: Assume you have a server process running, a pool of worker threads to perform tasks, and a Queue.Queue() to pass the tasks to the workers. In order to shut down the server cleanly, you want to ensure that the workers have all fi

Re: Simple question about Queue.Queue and threads

On Feb 6, 7:59 am, "Gabriel Genellina" wrote: En Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:45:30 -0300, Frank Millman escribió: [...] > However, the queue is not empty - it still has the final None in it. Yes - but who cares? :) That was my point. I didn't think I needed to care, but I wanted to be sure I w

Re: Calendar GUI

Gabriel wrote: > On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 9:08 PM, William Gaggioli wrote: >> I'm working on setting up some software for a Peruvian non-profit to help >> them organize their incoming volunteers. One of the features I'd like to add >> is a calendar-like view of the different volunteers arrival dates

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