random.gauss: range

2010-02-26 Thread pistacchio
hi, i'm trying the random.gauss function. can anyone explain how to get a number between a given range? like, from 0 to 20 with an average of 10? and how to determine the "steep" of the curve? i've never studied it, so mu and sigma don't really tell me a thing. thanks in advange -- http://mail.py

Re: Renaming identifiers & debugging

2010-02-26 Thread Luca
Roald de Vries wrote: I would suggest to do choose the same strategy as 'from __future__ import ...' takes, which does similar things and limits them to the module it is used in. I would be curious to hear about your results. Kind regards, Roald Hi, well, i have thought on the issue and i th

Re: A more specific query ...

2010-02-26 Thread Gib Bogle
Chris Rebert wrote: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Gib Bogle wrote: How can I interrogate Python to find out where it is looking to find the PyQt4 DLLs in a Windows installation? import sys print(sys.path) Note this thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/p...@riverbankcomputing.com/msg20121

Re: Problems uploading to IIS using FTP over SSL

2010-02-26 Thread Stephen Nelson-Smith
On Feb 26, 2:05 pm, Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote: > Hello, I'm sorry - I hadn't realised that python-list ended up here as well. Sincere apologies for double-posting. S. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: random.gauss: range

2010-02-26 Thread Robert Kern
On 2010-02-26 15:26 PM, pistacchio wrote: hi, i'm trying the random.gauss function. can anyone explain how to get a number between a given range? You don't. The Gaussian distribution has infinite range. The best you can do with the standard library is to keep sampling until you get a number in

Re: Docstrings considered too complicated

2010-02-26 Thread Mark Lawrence
Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote: Andreas Waldenburger wrote: On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:09:36 -0600 Tim Daneliuk wrote: On 2/24/2010 2:23 PM, Andreas Waldenburger wrote: [stuff] Reminiscent of: mov AX,BX ; Move the contents of BX into AX Well, there might be some

Re: A more specific query ...

2010-02-26 Thread Gib Bogle
The point of my question was that sys.path is clearly not being used in this case. When I start Python sys.path includes D:\python26\lib\site-packages which seems to be the Python default. Using sys.path.append I have tried adding both D:\python26\lib\site-packages\PyQt4 and D:\python26\lib\si

How to determine if threads are active in an application?

2010-02-26 Thread python
Is there technique to determine if threads are active in a Python application? The only technique I can think of is to check sys.modules for thread and threading. But this will only show whether these modules were imported - not whether there are actually background threads running. Motivation: W

Re: Quoting quotes

2010-02-26 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message , William Lohrmann wrote: > The best thing would be to backslash the single quote: print 'The play > "All\'s Well That Ends Well"' Backslash-type escapes are the most general solution to this type of problem. They’re also the easiest to apply automatically: for ch in input_stri

Re: Six Minutes and fourty two seconds

2010-02-26 Thread Mark Lawrence
Tobiah wrote: Now that I use python, this is the amount of time per day that I spend adding forgotten semicolons while debugging other languages. You think that's bad? I've spent hours today converting the J language that I don't dare mention to Python. Once in a blue moon I came across a

Re: loop through each line in a text file

2010-02-26 Thread John Posner
On 2/26/2010 4:21 PM, qtrimble wrote: fileIN = open(r"C:\testing.txt", "r") for line in fileIN: year = line[3:7] day = line[7:10] print year, day This is good since i can get the year and day of year into a variable but I haven't gotten any further. That's an excellent start.

Re: Dictionary or Database—Please advise

2010-02-26 Thread Aahz
In article , Patrick Sabin wrote: > >A database usually stores data on disk and not in RAM. However you could >use sqlite with :memory:, so that it runs in RAM. The OP wants transparent caching, so :memory: wouldn't work. -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncr

Re: Dictionary or Database—Please advise

2010-02-26 Thread Luis M . González
On Feb 26, 12:58 pm, Jeremy wrote: > I have lots of data that I currently store in dictionaries.  However, > the memory requirements are becoming a problem.  I am considering > using a database of some sorts instead, but I have never used them > before.  Would a database be more memory efficie

Re: Dictionary or Database�Please advise

2010-02-26 Thread Aahz
In article , Roy Smith wrote: > >Whatever database you pick, you're almost certainly going to end up having >to install it wherever you install your application. There's no such thing >as a universally available database that you can expect to be available >everywhere. ...unless you use SQLi

Re: Dictionary or Database—Please advise

2010-02-26 Thread Aahz
In article <891a98fa-c398-455a-981f-bf72af772...@s36g2000prh.googlegroups.com>, Jeremy wrote: > >I have lots of data that I currently store in dictionaries. However, >the memory requirements are becoming a problem. I am considering >using a database of some sorts instead, but I have never used

Re: Dictionary or Database—Please advise

2010-02-26 Thread Phlip
On Feb 26, 7:58 am, Jeremy wrote: > I have lots of data that I currently store in dictionaries.  However, > the memory requirements are becoming a problem.  I am considering > using a database of some sorts instead, but I have never used them > before.  Would a database be more memory efficien

Re: loop through each line in a text file

2010-02-26 Thread rurpy
On Feb 26, 2:21 pm, qtrimble wrote: > On Feb 26, 4:14 pm, OdarR wrote: > > > > below is just a sample.  There are well over 500,000 lines that need > > > processed. > > > > wer1999001 > > >       31.2234      82.2367 > > >       37.9535      82.3456 > > > wer1999002 > > >       31.2234      82.2

Variable definition

2010-02-26 Thread Raphael Mayoraz
Hello, I'd like to define variables with some specific name that has a common prefix. Something like this: varDic = {'red': 'a', 'green': 'b', 'blue': 'c'} for key, value in varDic.iteritems(): 'myPrefix' + key = value I know this is illegal, but there must be a trick somewhere. Thanks,

Re: loop through each line in a text file

2010-02-26 Thread alex goretoy
I smell homework -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Get dosctring without import

2010-02-26 Thread Ben Finney
Joan Miller writes: > On 26 feb, 12:35, Ben Finney wrote: > > A common convention is to have a ‘README’ text file, written in > > reStructuredText for rendering to various output formats as part of > > the documentation. You could then have the ‘setup.py’ program read > > the contents of that fi

Re: A more specific query ...

2010-02-26 Thread Gib Bogle
The PyQt4 problem results from having copies of the Qt DLLs in directories that are in the PATH, as Doug Bell discovered. In my case I have two programs that use Qt, AMD CodeAnalyst and Matlab. If I rename BOTH these directories I can import the PyQt4 modules. Since this behaviour did not oc

Re: A more specific query ...

2010-02-26 Thread Gib Bogle
The PyQt4 problem results from having copies of the Qt DLLs in directories that are in the PATH, as Doug Bell discovered. In my case I have two programs that use Qt, AMD CodeAnalyst and Matlab. If I rename BOTH these directories I can import the PyQt4 modules. Since this behaviour did not oc

Re: Docstrings considered too complicated

2010-02-26 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:09:36 -0600, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > Reminiscent of: > > mov AX,BX ; Move the contents of BX into AX That's a *good* comment, because without it most English-speaking people would assume you were moving the contents of AX into BX. > And, yes, I've actually

importing libraries not working 2.6.4

2010-02-26 Thread Routb3d
I used the x86 Python 2.6.4 installer. I am working in x64 Win7 pro. I have tried adjusting environment variables as well as putting the files directly in the search path of Python.. Python still returns this.. Any ideas? >>> import sys >>> sys.path ['C:\\Python26\\Lib\\idlelib', 'C:\\Program Fil

Re: Variable definition

2010-02-26 Thread Rhodri James
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:32:27 -, Raphael Mayoraz wrote: I'd like to define variables with some specific name that has a common prefix. Why? No seriously, how do you think this is going to solve whatever problem you clearly think it will solve? -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeeste Herder

Re: Variable definition

2010-02-26 Thread Alf P. Steinbach
* Raphael Mayoraz: Hello, I'd like to define variables with some specific name that has a common prefix. Something like this: varDic = {'red': 'a', 'green': 'b', 'blue': 'c'} for key, value in varDic.iteritems(): 'myPrefix' + key = value I know this is illegal, but there must be a trick s

Re: importing libraries not working 2.6.4

2010-02-26 Thread Rami Chowdhury
On Friday 26 February 2010 16:06:56 Routb3d wrote: > I used the x86 Python 2.6.4 installer. I am working in x64 Win7 pro. > > I have tried adjusting environment variables as well as putting the > files directly in the search path of Python.. Python still returns > this.. Any ideas? Where are you

Re: Variable definition

2010-02-26 Thread alex goretoy
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Alf P. Steinbach wrote: > * Raphael Mayoraz: > >> Hello, >> >> >> I'd like to define variables with some specific name that has a common >> prefix. >> Something like this: >> >> varDic = {'red': 'a', 'green': 'b', 'blue': 'c'} >> for key, value in varDic.iteritems

Re: random.gauss: range

2010-02-26 Thread pistacchio
thanks, betadistribute did the work... and i learned a new thing! On 26 Feb, 22:56, Robert Kern wrote: > On 2010-02-26 15:26 PM, pistacchio wrote: > > > hi, > > i'm trying the random.gauss function. can anyone explain how to get a > > number between a given range? > > You don't. The Gaussian dist

Re: random.gauss: range

2010-02-26 Thread Raymond Hettinger
On Feb 26, 1:26 pm, pistacchio wrote: > hi, > i'm trying the random.gauss function. can anyone explain how to get a > number between a given range? like, from 0 to 20 with an average of > 10? and how to determine the "steep" of the curve? i've never studied > it, so mu and sigma don't really tell

Re: Docstrings considered too complicated

2010-02-26 Thread John Bokma
Steven D'Aprano writes: > On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:09:36 -0600, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > >> Reminiscent of: >> >> mov AX,BX ; Move the contents of BX into AX > > > That's a *good* comment, because without it most English-speaking people > would assume you were moving the contents of A

Re: Docstrings considered too complicated

2010-02-26 Thread MRAB
Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:09:36 -0600, Tim Daneliuk wrote: Reminiscent of: mov AX,BX ; Move the contents of BX into AX That's a *good* comment, because without it most English-speaking people would assume you were moving the contents of AX into BX. [sn

Re: Variable definition

2010-02-26 Thread John Posner
On 2/26/2010 6:32 PM, Raphael Mayoraz wrote: Hello, I'd like to define variables with some specific name that has a common prefix. Something like this: varDic = {'red': 'a', 'green': 'b', 'blue': 'c'} for key, value in varDic.iteritems(): 'myPrefix' + key = value No trick, just swap a new ke

Re: Docstrings considered too complicated

2010-02-26 Thread Alf P. Steinbach
* MRAB: Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:09:36 -0600, Tim Daneliuk wrote: Reminiscent of: mov AX,BX ; Move the contents of BX into AX That's a *good* comment, because without it most English-speaking people would assume you were moving the contents of AX into B

PyAutoRun

2010-02-26 Thread Zubin Mithra
Hello, I have been using python for quite some time; however this is the first python project i have worked on. The code is hosted at http://github.com/zubin71/PyAutoRun The code needs re-factoring and feature additions; i have put up a TODO list there too. It`d be great if anyone could work on

Re: importing libraries not working 2.6.4

2010-02-26 Thread Rami Chowdhury
On Friday 26 February 2010 17:42:04 Isaiah Coberly wrote: > Thanks for the reply. > > I tried putting the files from > > C:\OpenCV2.0\Python2.6\Lib > > too > > C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages > > and Python still wont import.. > > I adjusted the environment variables to try and import maya.sta

Re: Dictionary or Database—Please advise

2010-02-26 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:56:47 +0100, Patrick Sabin wrote: >> Shelve looks like an interesting option, but what might pose an issue >> is that I'm reading the data from a disk instead of memory. I didn't >> mention this in my original post, but I was hoping that by using a >> database it would be m

Re: Dictionary or Database—Please advise

2010-02-26 Thread Paul Rubin
Jeremy writes: > I have lots of data that I currently store in dictionaries. However, > the memory requirements are becoming a problem. I am considering > using a database of some sorts instead, but I have never used them > before. Would a database be more memory efficient than a dictionary? W

Re: random.gauss: range

2010-02-26 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:26:44 -0800, pistacchio wrote: > hi, > i'm trying the random.gauss function. can anyone explain how to get a > number between a given range? like, from 0 to 20 with an average of 10? That's not what a Gaussian distribution does. It has an infinite range. Are you sure you w

Re: Docstrings considered too complicated

2010-02-26 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:47:26 -0600, John Bokma wrote: > Steven D'Aprano writes: > >> On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:09:36 -0600, Tim Daneliuk wrote: >> >>> Reminiscent of: >>> >>> mov AX,BX ; Move the contents of BX into AX >> >> >> That's a *good* comment, because without it most Englis

Re: Variable definition

2010-02-26 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:15:16 -0500, John Posner wrote: > On 2/26/2010 6:32 PM, Raphael Mayoraz wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'd like to define variables with some specific name that has a common >> prefix. >> Something like this: >> >> varDic = {'red': 'a', 'green': 'b', 'blue': 'c'} for key, value in >

Re: Docstrings considered too complicated

2010-02-26 Thread MRAB
Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:47:26 -0600, John Bokma wrote: Steven D'Aprano writes: On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:09:36 -0600, Tim Daneliuk wrote: Reminiscent of: mov AX,BX ; Move the contents of BX into AX That's a *good* comment, because without it most Englis

Re: Variable definition

2010-02-26 Thread John Posner
On 2/26/2010 10:20 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:15:16 -0500, John Posner wrote: On 2/26/2010 6:32 PM, Raphael Mayoraz wrote: Hello, I'd like to define variables with some specific name that has a common prefix. Something like this: varDic = {'red': 'a', 'green': 'b', 'bl

Re: Variable definition

2010-02-26 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:32:27 -0800, Raphael Mayoraz wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to define variables with some specific name that has a common > prefix. > Something like this: > > varDic = {'red': 'a', 'green': 'b', 'blue': 'c'} > for key, value in varDic.iteritems(): > 'myPrefix' + key = va

Re: importing libraries not working 2.6.4

2010-02-26 Thread Rami Chowdhury
On Feb 26, 2010, at 19:47 , Isaiah Coberly wrote: > C:\OpenCV2.0\Python2.6\Lib\site-packages > > no .py files here.. > > cv.pyd > libcv.dll.a > > > C:\OpenCV2.0\Python2.6\Lib\site-packages\opencv > > _init_.py > matlan_syntax.py > adaptors.py > cv.py > It looks to me like 'opencv' is stru

Re: Docstrings considered too complicated

2010-02-26 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On 27 Feb 2010 00:02:40 GMT Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:09:36 -0600, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > > mov AX,BX ; Move the contents of BX into AX > > That's a *good* comment, because without it most English-speaking people > would assume you were moving the contents of

Re: Docstrings considered too complicated

2010-02-26 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 2/26/2010 9:25 PM, MRAB wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:47:26 -0600, John Bokma wrote: >> >>> Steven D'Aprano writes: >>> On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:09:36 -0600, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > Reminiscent of: > > mov AX,BX ; Move the contents of

Re: How to end TCP socket data while using readline()?

2010-02-26 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 26Feb2010 10:39, Arjun wrote: | Hi, I have a small script that runs a TCP server. A client connects to | this server and transmits a stored file line-by-line, and then waits | for a confirmation "done". However, when I run them the first loop | never really ends -- as the TCP server keeps expec

Re: Docstrings considered too complicated

2010-02-26 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:54:53 +, MRAB wrote: > The assembly languages of virtually all the processors that I've come > across put the destination first, eg. x86: Incorrect. x86 assembly has two distinct syntax branches, "Intel syntax" (which is most common in the Windows world according to W

Re: Docstrings considered too complicated

2010-02-26 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 03:25:47 +, MRAB wrote: >> Also, some assemblies perform the move in different directions >> according to the arguments. So you might have: >> >> mv AX,BX ; move contents of BX into AX mv @CX,DX ; move contents of >> @CX into DX >> >> Horrible, yes, but apparently some a

Re: Docstrings considered too complicated

2010-02-26 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:51:17 -0600, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > The only possible exception to this I can think of is when there is some > non-obvious side-effect (i.e. language and/or hardware is > "misfeatured"): > > mov A,B; Moving A into B also will also arm >

Re: Variable definition

2010-02-26 Thread Dave Angel
Steven D'Aprano wrote: for key, value in varDic.iteritems(): varDic['myPrefix_' + key] = value del varDic[key] Watch out if any of the existing values already startswith 'myPrefix' You can end up with trouble just as confusing as if 'myPrefix' is an empty string DaveA -- http:/

Re: DreamPie - The Python shell you've always dreamed about!

2010-02-26 Thread alex23
Mensanator wrote: > "You're" not getting the point. If every link has to be accompanied by a summary of all of the information at the end of it, what point is there to linking? (Programmers are the _only_ people I know of who complain about the arduousness of tasks like typing quotes or clicking

Re: A more specific query ...

2010-02-26 Thread Gib Bogle
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:00:32 +1300, Gib Bogle declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: The PyQt4 problem results from having copies of the Qt DLLs in directories that are in the PATH, as Doug Bell discovered. In my case I have two programs that use Qt, A

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2010-02-26 Thread raghumech
FREE CALL TO ANYWHERE .. http://mobiletricks777.blogspot.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: staticmethod and namespaces

2010-02-26 Thread darnzen
On Feb 26, 10:20 am, "Diez B. Roggisch" wrote: > Am 26.02.10 17:08, schrieb Diez B. Roggisch: > > > > > > > Am 26.02.10 16:57, schrieb darnzen: > >> On Feb 26, 9:41 am, "Diez B. Roggisch" wrote: > >>> Am 26.02.10 16:32, schrieb darnzen: > > On Feb 26, 3:15 am, "Diez B. Roggisch" wrote: >

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