Re: Is this secure?

Steven D'Aprano writes: > Given a random six character password taken out of an alphabet of 52 > characters, it takes over nine billion attempts to brute force it. > Reducing the alphabet by 50% cuts that down to less than 200 million. To > make up for that loss of 1 bit of entropy, you need tw

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Why tarfile.TarFile.gzopen is not in the online documentation?

I stumbled uppon this and find it somewhat odd: some class methods of TarFile and TarInfo do not appears in either the online documentation or search while they have a doc string: http://docs.python.org/search.html?q=gzopen http://docs.python.org/library/tarfile.html?highlight=tarfile#tarfile.TarF

Re: Use eval() safely?

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while loop with the condition used in the body

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Re: while loop with the condition used in the body

Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: > Hi! > > I'm looking for a way to write code similar to this C code: > > while(rq = get_request(..)) { > handle_request(rq); > } > > Currently I'm doing > > while True: > rq = get_request(...) > if not rq: > break > handle_request(rq)

Re: while loop with the condition used in the body

Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: > I'm looking for a way to write code similar to this C code: > > while(rq = get_request(..)) { > handle_request(rq); > } > > Currently I'm doing > > while True: > rq = get_request(...) > if not rq: > break > handle_request(rq) > >

Re: Signature-based Function Overloading in Python

Michael Rudolf wrote: Just a quick question about what would be the most pythonic approach in this. In Java, Method Overloading is my best friend, but this won't work in Python: >>> def a(): pass >>> def a(x): pass >>> a() Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in

Re: Why tarfile.TarFile.gzopen is not in the online documentation?

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 09:37:19AM +0100, Baptiste Lepilleur wrote: > I stumbled uppon this and find it somewhat odd: some class methods of > TarFile and TarInfo do not appears in either the online documentation or > search while they have a doc string: > > http://docs.python.org/search.html?q=gzo

Re: while loop with the condition used in the body

Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: > >> I'm looking for a way to write code similar to this C code: >> >> while(rq = get_request(..)) { >> handle_request(rq); >> } >> > Assuming get_request(...) is called with the same arguments on each > iteration and uses

Re: while loop with the condition used in the body

Duncan Booth wrote: > Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > >> Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: >> >>> I'm looking for a way to write code similar to this C code: >>> >>> while(rq = get_request(..)) { >>> handle_request(rq); >>> } >>> >> Assuming get_request(...) is called with the same argum

Re: Creating variables from dicts

On Feb 24, 4:08 am, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:44:10 -0800, Luis M. González wrote: > > On Feb 24, 1:15 am, Steven D'Aprano > > wrote: > >> On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:47:22 -0800, Luis M. González wrote: > >> > On Feb 23, 10:41 pm, Steven D'Aprano > >> > wrote: > >> >> On Tue, 2

Re: Creating variables from dicts

On Feb 24, 7:44 am, Luis M. González wrote: > On Feb 24, 4:08 am, Steven D'Aprano > > > > > > wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:44:10 -0800, Luis M. González wrote: > > > On Feb 24, 1:15 am, Steven D'Aprano > > > wrote: > > >> On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:47:22 -0800, Luis M. González wrote: > > >> >

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Luis M. González a écrit : (snip) Alright, this is what the docs say about locals: "Note The built-in functions globals() and locals() return the current global and local dictionary, respectively, which may be useful to pass around for use as the second and third argument to exec(). Note The def

scope of generators, class variables, resulting in global na

Hello, Can someone help me understand what is wrong with this example? class T: A = range(2) B = range(4) s = sum(i*j for i in A for j in B) It produces the exception: : global name 'j' is not defined The exception above is especially confusing since the following similar example (I jus

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Re: Creating variables from dicts

Luis M. González a écrit : On Feb 23, 5:53 pm, vsoler wrote: Hi, I have two dicts n={'a', 'm', 'p'} v={1,3,7} and I'd like to have a=1 m=3 p=7 that is, creating some variables. How can I do this? You are probably coming from another language and you're not used to python's data structur

Re: Signature-based Function Overloading in Python

First: Thanks for all the replies so far, they really helped me. Am 24.02.2010 11:28, schrieb Jean-Michel Pichavant: >>> def a(x=None): if x is None: pass else: pass This is the way to do it python, and it has its advantages: 1 docstring, 1 way do do it, 1 interface.

Re: while loop with the condition used in the body

Peter Otten wrote: > Duncan Booth wrote: >> for rq in incoming_requests(...): >>handle_request(rq) > > ...and a likely implementation would be > > def incoming_requests(...): > while True: > rq = ... # inlined version of get_request() > if not rq: > break >

Re: Creating variables from dicts

Luis M. González a écrit : On Feb 23, 10:41 pm, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:41:16 -0800, Luis M. González wrote: By the way, if you want the variables inside myDict to be free variables, you have to add them to the local namespace. The local namespace is also a dictionary "lo

Re: Fascism is coming to Internet

On 23 feb, 20:16, "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" wrote: > On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:30:03 +0100 > > Olof Bjarnason wrote: > > Even if this is "Off Topic" (which I think it really isn't in any open > > source / free software-oriented mailing list), I want to agree with > > Joan. > > It isn't about the Python pro

Re: scope of generators, class variables, resulting in global na

* Nomen Nescio: Hello, Can someone help me understand what is wrong with this example? class T: A = range(2) B = range(4) s = sum(i*j for i in A for j in B) It produces the exception: : global name 'j' is not defined Which Python implementation are you using? I can't reproduce the er

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Re: Artificial Neural Networks recommendation

Gereon Kaiping writes: > Are there other modules for simulating ANNs? Fann has python bindings. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Creating variables from dicts

On Feb 24, 8:48 am, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > Luis M. Gonz lez a crit : > (snip) > > > Alright, this is what the docs say about locals: > > "Note > > The built-in functions globals() and locals() return the current > > global and local dictionary, respectively, which may be useful to pass > > a

Re: When will Python go mainstream like Java?

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On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:53:44 -0600, Edward K Ream wrote: A critical bug has been reported against Leo 4.7 final, and indeed all previous versions of Leo 4.7. The bug can cause loss of data in @file nodes when Leo 4.7 saves .leo files created with older versions of Leo. This bug will be fixed i

Re: When will Python go mainstream like Java?

Stefan Behnel wrote: > Chris Rebert, 23.02.2010 06:45: >> Indeed. Python is at position 7, just behind C#, in the TIOBE Index: >> http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html > > That index is clearly flawed. A language like PHP (whatever that is > supposed to be comparable wit

Re: How to make an empty generator?

John Posner wrote: > On 2/19/2010 2:25 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: >> On 2/19/2010 12:44 PM, Stephen Hansen wrote: >> >>> Much to my embarrassment, sometime last night I realized I was being a >>> complete idiot, and the 'correct' way to handle this in my scenario is >>> really just: >>> >>> def initial

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Hi; I'm getting this error: A problem occurred in a Python script. Here is the sequence of function calls leading up to the error, in the order they occurred. /var/www/html/globalsolutionsgroup.vi/simplemail/mail2.py 52 53 ''' 54 my_mail() 55 print ''' 56 my_mail = /var/www/ht

Re: Creating variables from dicts

Luis M. González a écrit : On Feb 24, 8:48 am, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: Luis M. Gonz lez a crit : And what about the trick of updating globals? Is it legal? It's legal, but it's (usually) a very bad idea - at the top-level, it harms readability, and from within a function it's doubly ba

Re: How to make an empty generator?

On 2/24/2010 9:07 AM, Steve Holden wrote: John Posner wrote: Note that the Py2.6.4 documentation is inconsistent. AFAICT, it conforms to Terry's definitions above in most places. But the Glossary says: generator A function which returns an iterator.<... more ...> generator expressio

Re: scope of generators, class variables, resulting in global na

On Feb 24, 5:52 am, Nomen Nescio wrote: > Hello, > > Can someone help me understand what is wrong with this example? > > class T: >   A = range(2) >   B = range(4) >   s = sum(i*j for i in A for j in B) > > It produces the exception: > > : global name 'j' is not defined > > The exception above is

Re: scope of generators, class variables, resulting in global na

On Feb 24, 12:21 pm, "Alf P. Steinbach" wrote: > * Nomen Nescio: > > > Hello, > > > Can someone help me understand what is wrong with this example? > > > class T: > >   A = range(2) > >   B = range(4) > >   s = sum(i*j for i in A for j in B) > > > It produces the exception: > > > : global name 'j'

Re: Spam from gmail (Was: fascism)

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Re: When will Python go mainstream like Java?

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Re: scope of generators, class variables, resulting in global na

Nomen Nescio wrote: > Hello, > > Can someone help me understand what is wrong with this example? > > class T: > A = range(2) > B = range(4) > s = sum(i*j for i in A for j in B) > > It produces the exception: > > : global name 'j' is not defined It's due to scoping rules for classes and/or

Re: When will Python go mainstream like Java?

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parametrizing a sqlite query

c.execute("SELECT bin FROM bins WHERE qtl LIKE '%:keys%'",{'keys':keywords}) This query returns empty. When it is executed, keywords = 'harvest'. To check it, I do it on the command line and it works as expected: sqlite> SELECT bin FROM bins WHERE qtl LIKE '%harvest%'; 11C 11D 12F I guess there

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Re: How to make an empty generator?

generator An iterator produced by a generator function or a generator expression. -John +1. Can someone submit a documentation patch, please? Will do. -John [sorry if this is a dup] Done: #8012 "Revise generator-related Glossary entries" -John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: Is this secure?

On 2010-02-24 03:50, Paul Rubin wrote: The stuff about converting 4 random bytes to a decimal string and then peeling off 2 digits at a time is pretty awful, and notice that since 2**32 is 4294967296, in the cases where you get 10 digits, the first 2-digit pair is never higher than 42. Yikes! I

Re: parametrizing a sqlite query

On Feb 24, 5:07 pm, Sebastian Bassi wrote: > c.execute("SELECT bin FROM bins WHERE qtl LIKE '%:keys%'",{'keys':keywords}) > > This query returns empty. When it is executed, keywords = 'harvest'. > To check it, I do it on the command line and it works as expected: > > sqlite> SELECT bin FROM bins W

Re: parametrizing a sqlite query

On Feb 24, 5:21 pm, Jon Clements wrote: > On Feb 24, 5:07 pm, Sebastian Bassi wrote: > > > c.execute("SELECT bin FROM bins WHERE qtl LIKE '%:keys%'",{'keys':keywords}) > > > This query returns empty. When it is executed, keywords = 'harvest'. > > To check it, I do it on the command line and it wo

Re: When will Python go mainstream like Java?

On 2010-02-24 03:26, George Sakkis wrote: Well I for one wouldn't want Python to go exactly Java way, see this: http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/charts/permanent-demand-trend.aspx?s=jav... This is the percentage of job offers in UK where the keyword "Java" appears. Same for C#, it looks like C# is

Re: How to measure elapsed time under Windows?

En Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:29:45 -0300, Tim Roberts escribió: "Gabriel Genellina" wrote: The original problem was with the RDTSC instruction on multicore CPUs; different cores may yield different results because they're not synchronized at all times. Not true. The synchronization issue has two

Re: Intra-package C extensions with freeze.py

On 2010-01-13 20:52, Pascal Chambon wrote: I've managed to solve that by manually "monkey patching" sys.modules, before fusemodule's actual import. But this looks like an unsatisfying solution, to me. Geez.. Does anyone have a clue about how to freeze a python program cleanly, in case such i

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Re: A tool for find dependencies relationships behind Python projects

On 2月23日, 上午12時32分, Hellmut Weber wrote: > Hi Victor, > I would be intereseted to use your tool ;-) > > My system is Sabayon-5.1 on Lenovo T61. > Trying for the first time easy_install I get the following error: > > > > r...@sylvester ~ # easy_install gluttony > Searching for

Re: Is this secure?

mk wrote: > On 2010-02-24 03:50, Paul Rubin wrote: >> The stuff about converting 4 random bytes to a decimal string and then >> peeling off 2 digits at a time is pretty awful, and notice that since >> 2**32 is 4294967296, in the cases where you get 10 digits, the first >> 2-digit pair is never high

Re: Is this secure?

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Noob raw_input question

Yesterday I downloaded and installed Python 3.1 and working through some examples but I have hit a problem >>> a = raw_input("Enter a number" ) Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in a = raw_input("Enter a number" ) NameError: name 'raw_input' is not defined>>>a = raw_input

Re: Is this secure?

On 2010-02-24 18:59, Steve Holden wrote: Aw shucks when will I learn to do the stuff in 3 lines well instead of 20, poorly. :-/ When you've got as much experience as Paul? And how much experience does Paul have? (this is mostly not a facile question) For my part, my more serious effort (o

Re: parametrizing a sqlite query

Am 24.02.10 18:07, schrieb Sebastian Bassi: c.execute("SELECT bin FROM bins WHERE qtl LIKE '%:keys%'",{'keys':keywords}) This query returns empty. When it is executed, keywords = 'harvest'. To check it, I do it on the command line and it works as expected: sqlite> SELECT bin FROM bins WHERE qt

Re: Noob raw_input question

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Abigail wrote: > Yesterday I downloaded and installed Python 3.1 and working through some > examples but I have hit a problem > a = raw_input("Enter a number" ) > Traceback (most recent call last): >  File "", line 1, in >    a = raw_input("Enter a number" )

What's the word on using """ to comment-out?

I think I remember, early in my learning of Python, coming across the commandment "THOU SHALT NOT USE TRIPLE-QUOTES TO COMMENT-OUT LINES OF CODE", or something to that effect. But now I can't find it! Is my memory playing me a trick? After all, from what I've seen since then, the practice of

Re: Noob raw_input question

On 2010-02-24 11:39 AM, Abigail wrote: Yesterday I downloaded and installed Python 3.1 and working through some examples but I have hit a problem a = raw_input("Enter a number" ) Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in a = raw_input("Enter a number" ) NameError: name 'ra

Re: Noob raw_input question

On 2/24/2010 12:39 PM, Abigail wrote: Yesterday I downloaded and installed Python 3.1 and working through some examples but I have hit a problem a = raw_input("Enter a number" ) Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in a = raw_input("Enter a number" ) NameError: name 'raw

Re: Noob raw_input question

Abigail wrote: > Yesterday I downloaded and installed Python 3.1 and working through some > examples but I have hit a problem > a = raw_input("Enter a number" ) > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "", line 1, in > a = raw_input("Enter a number" ) > NameError: name 'raw_input'

Re: Noob raw_input question

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Re: Is this secure?

On 2010-02-24 18:56, Michael Rudolf wrote: The reason is 256 % 26 != 0 256 mod 26 equals 22, thus your code is hitting a-v about 10% (256/26 is approx. 10) more often than w-z. writing secure code is hard... I'm going to switch to PHP: Python world wouldn't lose much, but PHP would gain a lo

Re: Is this secure?

On 2010-02-24 12:35 PM, mk wrote: While with this: def gen_rand_word(n): with open('/dev/urandom') as f: return ''.join([chr(ord('a') + ord(x) % 26) for x in f.read(n) if ord(x) < 235]) a 3852 ... 1. I'm systematically getting 'a' outlier: have no idea why for now. 2. This is somewhat bett

Re: What's the word on using """ to comment-out?

On Feb 24, 12:18 pm, kj wrote: > I think I remember, early in my learning of Python, coming across > the commandment "THOU SHALT NOT USE TRIPLE-QUOTES TO COMMENT-OUT > LINES OF CODE", or something to that effect.  But now I can't find > it! Your going to get many opinions on this subject but my s

Re: Is this secure?

On 2010-02-24 20:01, Robert Kern wrote: I will repeat my advice to just use random.SystemRandom.choice() instead of trying to interpret the bytes from /dev/urandom directly. Oh I hear you -- for production use I would (will) certainly consider this. However, now I'm interested in the problem i

Re: What's the word on using """ to comment-out?

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Re: Is this secure?

On 2010-02-24 20:01, Robert Kern wrote: I will repeat my advice to just use random.SystemRandom.choice() instead of trying to interpret the bytes from /dev/urandom directly. Out of curiosity: def gen_rand_string(length): prng = random.SystemRandom() chars = [] for i in range(length

Re: Is this secure?

On 2010-02-24 13:09 PM, mk wrote: On 2010-02-24 20:01, Robert Kern wrote: I will repeat my advice to just use random.SystemRandom.choice() instead of trying to interpret the bytes from /dev/urandom directly. Oh I hear you -- for production use I would (will) certainly consider this. However, n

Re: Is this secure?

Robert Kern writes: > I will repeat my advice to just use random.SystemRandom.choice() > instead of trying to interpret the bytes from /dev/urandom directly. SystemRandom is something pretty new so I wasn't aware of it. But yeah, if I were thinking more clearly I would have suggested os.urandom

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In article <87sk8r5v2f@benfinney.id.au>, Ben Finney wrote: >a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes: >> >> Joan Miller is a regular poster; this is off-topic, but it's not spam. > >Non sequitur. Spam is spam, not by who authors or posts it, but by its >distribution (to many people, e.g. via a foru

Re: What's the word on using """ to comment-out?

In article , kj wrote: > >I think I remember, early in my learning of Python, coming across the >commandment "THOU SHALT NOT USE TRIPLE-QUOTES TO COMMENT-OUT LINES OF >CODE", or something to that effect. But now I can't find it! > >Is my memory playing me a trick? Possibly. I certainly do that

Re: Is this secure?

On 2010-02-24 13:16 PM, mk wrote: On 2010-02-24 20:01, Robert Kern wrote: I will repeat my advice to just use random.SystemRandom.choice() instead of trying to interpret the bytes from /dev/urandom directly. Out of curiosity: def gen_rand_string(length): prng = random.SystemRandom() chars = [

Re: Is this secure?

mk writes: > So I have little in the way of limitations of password length ...> > The main application will access the data using HTTP (probably), so > the main point is that an attacker is not able to guess passwords > using brute force. If it's HTTP instead of HTTPS and you're sending the passw

Re: Is this secure?

Am 24.02.2010 19:35, schrieb mk: On 2010-02-24 18:56, Michael Rudolf wrote: The reason is 256 % 26 != 0 256 mod 26 equals 22, thus your code is hitting a-v about 10% (256/26 is approx. 10) more often than w-z. writing secure code is hard... So true. That's why one should stick to standard l

Re: Is this secure?

On 2010-02-24 20:19, Robert Kern wrote: On 2010-02-24 13:09 PM, mk wrote: On 2010-02-24 20:01, Robert Kern wrote: I will repeat my advice to just use random.SystemRandom.choice() instead of trying to interpret the bytes from /dev/urandom directly. Oh I hear you -- for production use I would (

Re: Is this secure?

On 2010-02-24 20:30, Michael Rudolf wrote: The reason is 256 % 26 != 0 256 mod 26 equals 22, thus your code is hitting a-v about 10% (256/26 is approx. 10) more often than w-z. writing secure code is hard... So true. That's why one should stick to standard libs when it comes to crypto or secu

Trouble with ftplib uploading to an FTP server

This bit of code is designed to get the external IP address and hostname of a client , write it locally to a file, then upload to an FTP server. It works locally( one can see the IP number and hostname with a time stamp in /Users/admin/Documents) , but when the file is opened on the server after it

Re: Is this secure?

On 2010-02-24 14:02 PM, mk wrote: It would appear that SystemRandom().choice is indeed best (in terms of how much the counts stray from mean in std devs), but only after seeding it with os.urandom. Calling random.seed() does not affect SystemRandom() whatsoever. You are getting perfectly acce

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Re: Is this secure?

mk writes: > def rand_str_custom(n): > s = os.urandom(n) > return ''.join([chr(ord('a') + ord(x) % 26) for x in s if ord(x) < 234]) Note that simply throws away some of the chars. You have to replace them, not throw them away. > rand_str_SystemRandom_seeding > mean 3845.15384615 std dev

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Hi all, a company that works with my company writes a lot of of their code in Python (lucky jerks). I've seen their code and it basically looks like this: """Function that does stuff""" def doStuff(): while not wise(up): yield scorn Now my question is this: How do I kill these people

Re: When will Java go mainstream like Python?

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Re: Trouble with ftplib uploading to an FTP server

Sky Larking wrote: This bit of code is designed to get the external IP address and hostname of a client , write it locally to a file, then upload to an FTP server. It works locally( one can see the IP number and hostname with a time stamp in /Users/admin/Documents) , but when the file is opened o

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Aahz wrote: > In article <87sk8r5v2f@benfinney.id.au>, > Ben Finney wrote: >> a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes: >>> Joan Miller is a regular poster; this is off-topic, but it's not spam. >> Non sequitur. Spam is spam, not by who authors or posts it, but by its >> distribution (to many peopl

Re: Is this secure?

Am 24.02.2010 21:06, schrieb mk: I just posted a comparison with calculating std deviations for various methods - using os.urandom, SystemRandom.choice with seeding and without seeding. I saw them They all seem to have slightly different distributions. No they don't. Just run those tests a

Re: Help with lambda

Jonathan Gardner wrote: > On Feb 18, 4:28 am, lallous wrote: >> f = [lambda x: x ** n for n in xrange(2, 5)] > > This is (pretty much) what the above code does. > f = [] n = 2 f.append(lambda x: x**n) n = 3 f.append(lambda x: x**n) n = 4 f.append(lambda x: x**n

Re: Why tarfile.TarFile.gzopen is not in the online documentation?

On 2/24/2010 5:14 AM, Lars Gustäbel wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 09:37:19AM +0100, Baptiste Lepilleur wrote: I stumbled uppon this and find it somewhat odd: some class methods of TarFile and TarInfo do not appears in either the online documentation or search while they have a doc string: http

Re: python dowload

Am 24.02.10 00:08, schrieb monkeys paw: On 2/23/2010 3:17 PM, Tim Chase wrote: monkeys paw wrote: I used the following code to download a PDF file, but the file was invalid after running the code, is there problem with the write operation? import urllib2 url = 'http://www.whirlpoolwaterheaters

Re: Docstrings considered too complicated

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Andreas Waldenburger wrote: > Hi all, > > a company that works with my company writes a lot of of their code in > Python (lucky jerks). I've seen their code and it basically looks like > this: > > """Function that does stuff""" > def doStuff(): >    while not wise

Re: compiling python question

Am 24.02.10 03:00, schrieb Mag Gam: I am trying to compile python with Tk bindings. Do I need to do anything special for python to detect and enable Tk? What OS? What does the configure/build process say? Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Spam from gmail

a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes: > In article <87sk8r5v2f@benfinney.id.au>, > Ben Finney wrote: >>a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes: >>> >>> Joan Miller is a regular poster; this is off-topic, but it's not spam. >> >>Non sequitur. Spam is spam, not by who authors or posts it, but by its

Re: Problem creating executable, with PyQwt

David Boddie wrote: On Tuesday 23 February 2010 05:32, Gib Bogle wrote: David Boddie wrote: I have previously referred people with py2exe/PyQt issues to this page on the PyQt Wiki: http://www.py2exe.org/index.cgi/Py2exeAndPyQt If you can somehow convince py2exe to include the QtSvg module

Re: Files required for porting python

KIRAN wrote: "I see lot of code with several files." I had to laugh at this. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

How to monitor memory usage within Python? (Linux)

Is there some standard module for getting info about the process's memory usage, in a Linux/Unix system? (I want to avoid hacks that involve, e.g., scraping ps's output.) Thanks! ~K -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: scope of generators, class variables, resulting in global na

Hi Folks, Thanks everyone for the great contributions! I understand this better now. The distinction between a shorthand for a function definition and a shorthand for a loop iteration is crucial. Also: thanks for pointing out the even the list comprehension doesn't work in py3. That was incredibl

Re: What's the word on using """ to comment-out?

> After all, from what I've seen since then, the practice of > triple-quote-commenting (or TQC, pardon the TCA) is in fact quite > common. > > Is TQC OK after all? > > If not, what's the case against it? I have no sense of how approved it is, and don't have a strong opinion on it, but I would thin

ANN: Pyrex 0.9.8.6

Pyrex 0.9.8.6 is now available: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python/Pyrex/ Numerous bug fixes and a few improvements. See the CHANGES page on the web site for details. What is Pyrex? -- Pyrex is a language for writing Python extension modules. It lets you freely m

Re: How to monitor memory usage within Python? (Linux)

Am 24.02.10 23:35, schrieb kj: Is there some standard module for getting info about the process's memory usage, in a Linux/Unix system? (I want to avoid hacks that involve, e.g., scraping ps's output.) http://code.google.com/p/pympler/ Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-li

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