PyGame migrating to JavaScript

Startling news from http://pygame.org/news.html : pygame rewritten for javascript - Apr 1, 2010 Javascript in recent years has been getting better and better, and now is a way better language than python. So to keep up with the times pygame has been rewritten for javascript. Please prepare

Re: PyGame migrating to JavaScript

Javascript in recent years has been getting better and better, and > now is a way better language than python. So to keep up with the > times pygame has been rewritten for javascript. > *shudders* Can someone convince me why that is a good idea at all? Any rationales? Cheers, -Xav -- http:/

Re: PyGame migrating to JavaScript

Xavier Ho wrote: Javascript in recent years has been getting better and better, and now is a way better language than python. So to keep up with the times pygame has been rewritten for javascript. *shudders* Can someone convince me why that is a good idea at all? Any rationales? C

Re: PyGame migrating to JavaScript

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Gary Herron wrote: > It's a joke -- see > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Da D'oh! Can't believe that got me. (It's already 2nd of April... you're not supposed to make that joke now! =p) Cheers, Xav

Re: folks, what's wrong with this?

Ani a écrit : Hi All: I am just a beginner in python. Can anyone please tell me what is wrong with this piece of code? Robert already addressed your problem, so I'll just comment on a couple other points: import copy class BaseDummyObject(object): def __init__(self): pass Th

Python and read archives?

Hi!I want to make a multios (Win/Lin) Python based media catalog program, but I have a little problem with reading archives.Ok, Python supports zip and tar, but the world have more archives, like "rar", "7z", "tar.gz", "gz", etc.First I was happy with 7z.exe, because it is knows many formats, an

idle 2.x and unicode literals

Hi, I'm working with Python 2.6.4 on Ubuntu 9.10 and noticed a difference between IDLE and command line python. If I enter an é (accented e, LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE) as a unicode string in command line python I get this: >>> u'é' u'\xe9' In IDLE 2.6.4 I get this: >>> u'é' u'\xc3\xa9'

Re: (a==b) ? 'Yes' : 'No'

On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 21:16:18 -0700, Steve Howell wrote: > The ironic thing about the ternary operator is that it is not really > ternary; it's binary. Even just making an expression from a binary > operator inevitably leads to syntax hell. > > There is a principle of programming that I would lik

pynotify for python 3.1.. Help Please..

Hello all, I'm trying to display system notifications in ubuntu.. I've tested pynotify in python 2.6 and it's working fine.. I want to know if i can do the same with python 3? I tried but there is no module named pynotify error is displayed.. Any of your help would be much appreciated.. -

Splitting a string

Maybe I'm just lazy, but what is the fastest way to convert a string into a tuple containing character sequences and integer numbers, like this: 'si_pos_99_rep_1_0.ita' -> ('si_pos_', 99, '_rep_', 1, '_', 0, '.ita') Thanks for ideas, Thomas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-li

Re: pynotify for python 3.1.. Help Please..

Hi Jebamnana, You'll probably have to copy the pynotify contents to the Python 3.1 folder. (under Libs\site-packages). You should be able to find the folder in the Python 2.6 paths. Once you do that, you can try to use it. But I don't know if pynotify will be able to run with Python 3.1. For inst

Re: pynotify for python 3.1.. Help Please..

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Xavier Ho wrote: > Hi Jebamnana, > Jebagnana* Sorry. -Xav -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Hey Sci.Math, Musatov here. I know I've posted a lot of weird stuff trying to figure things out, but I really think I am onto something here and need some bright minds to have a look at this, comput

SPARSE COMPLETE SETS FOR NP: SOLUTION OF A CONJECTURE BY MARTIN MICHAEL MUSATOV * for llP: Sparse Comp1ete Sets Solution of a Conjecture In this paper we show if NP has a sparse complete set under many-one reductions, then ? NP. The result is extended to show NP is sparse reducible, then P = ip

subprocess.Popen objects: how to ensure that stdin is closed

I am writing a small app which requires input using stdin to the subprocess. I use the following technique: proc = subprocess.Popen (cmdargs, stdin=subprocess.PIPE) proc.stdin.write ("Something") proc.stdin.flush () ... proc.stdin.write ("something else") proc.stdin.flush () ... and so on. I c

Re: Splitting a string

>>> s = 'si_pos_99_rep_1_0.ita' >>> res = tuple(re.split(r'(\d+)', s)) >>> res ('si_pos_', '99', '_rep_', '1', '_', '0', '.ita') >>> On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Thomas Heller wrote: > Maybe I'm just lazy, but what is the fastest way to convert a string > into a tuple containing character se

Re: Splitting a string

Best I can come up with: >>> def split_number(string): ... output = [string[0]] ... for character in string[1:]: ... if character.isdigit() != output[-1].isdigit(): ... output.append('') ... output[-1] += character ... return tuple(output) ... >>> split_numb

Re: subprocess.Popen objects: how to ensure that stdin is closed

On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 10:17:55 +, Harishankar wrote: > I am writing a small app which requires input using stdin to the > subprocess. > > I use the following technique: > > proc = subprocess.Popen (cmdargs, stdin=subprocess.PIPE) > > proc.stdin.write ("Something") > proc.stdin.flush () > ...

Re: Hey Sci.Math, Musatov here. I know I've posted a lot of weird stuff trying to figure things out, but I really think I am onto something here and need some bright minds to have a look at this, co

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 8:14 PM, A Serious Moment wrote: > SPARSE COMPLETE SETS FOR NP: > SOLUTION OF A CONJECTURE > BY MARTIN MICHAEL MUSATOV * > > for llP: > > Sparse Comp1ete Sets > Solution of a Conjecture > Hi, If you're serious about this posting, could you please: 1) Provide a link to a P

Re: Splitting a string

Oops, minor update: >>> def split_number(string): ... output = [string[0]] ... for character in string[1:]: ... if character.isdigit() != output[-1].isdigit(): ... if output[-1].isdigit() is True: ... output[-1] = int(output[-1]) ... output.a

Re: pynotify for python 3.1.. Help Please..

I guess it is a 3rd party module. Run setup.py with python3.1, however it can happen that the module is not python3 compatible. In that case try using 2to3 if you can. On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Xavier Ho wrote: > On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Xavier Ho wrote: > >> Hi Jebamnana, >> > > J

Re: Splitting a string

On Apr 2, 11:12 am, Thomas Heller wrote: > Maybe I'm just lazy, but what is the fastest way to convert a string > into a tuple containing character sequences and integer numbers, like this: > > 'si_pos_99_rep_1_0.ita'  -> ('si_pos_', 99, '_rep_', 1, '_', 0, '.ita') > This is very probably not the

Re: (a==b) ? 'Yes' : 'No'

Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Yes, I agree, we should be using the previously well known syntax: > > condition -> value_if_true, value_if_false > > which was introduced by BCPL in 1966. > What, not this? VALOF TEST condition THEN RESULTIS value_if_true ELSE RESULTIS value_if_false which was also

Re: Splitting a string

Thomas Heller wrote: > Maybe I'm just lazy, but what is the fastest way to convert a string > into a tuple containing character sequences and integer numbers, like > this: > > > 'si_pos_99_rep_1_0.ita' -> ('si_pos_', 99, '_rep_', 1, '_', 0, '.ita') >>> parts = re.compile("([+-]?\d+)").split('s

subclass of object

Hi, what is the difference between: def MyClass(object): pass and def MyClass(): pass -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: pynotify for python 3.1.. Help Please..

Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately pynotify is not available as a .py file but as an .so (shared library) file. In both python 2.5 and 2.6 installations it can be found at /var/lib/python-support/python2.x/gtk-2.0/pynotify/__init__.py , _pynotify.so. I think it was written in native

Re: subclass of object

* Jason Friedman: Hi, what is the difference between: def MyClass(object): pass and def MyClass(): pass If you really meant 'def', then the first is a routine taking one argument, and the second is a routine of no arguments. If you meant 'class' instead of 'def', then it depends o

Re: subclass of object

Jason Friedman wrote: > Hi, what is the difference between: > > def MyClass(object): > pass > > and > > def MyClass(): > pass In Python 3, nothing. In Python 2, the former gets you a subclass of object whereas the latter gets you an instance of , for compatibility with pre-2.2 versions.

Re: associative array

On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:57:11 +, Harishankar wrote: > On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:40:30 -0700, Javier Montoya wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> I'm a newbie in python and would be acknowledge if somebody could shed >> some light on associative arrays. >> More precisely, I would like to create a multi-di

Re: subclass of object

Alf P. Steinbach wrote: > * Jason Friedman: >> Hi, what is the difference between: >> >> def MyClass(object): >> pass >> >> and >> >> def MyClass(): >> pass > > If you really meant 'def', then the first is a routine taking one > argument, and the second is a routine of no arguments. > > I

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Re: subclass of object

* Steve Holden: Alf P. Steinbach wrote: * Jason Friedman: Hi, what is the difference between: def MyClass(object): pass and def MyClass(): pass If you really meant 'def', then the first is a routine taking one argument, and the second is a routine of no arguments. If you meant 'cla

plagiarism, no follow-ups please

On Apr 2, 6:14 am, A Serious Moment cross-posted an OCR'd version of a 1980 paper by SR Mahaney, mutilating the text further to remove its attribution and create the false impression of authorship by the (im)poster. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

plagiarism, no follow-ups please

On Apr 2, 8:27 am, A Serious Moment cross-posted a 1980 paper by J. Hartmanis and S.R. Mahaney, falsely taking credit for their work. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: CGI templating with python

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Re: Splitting a string

On Apr 2, 6:24 am, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > Thomas Heller wrote: > > Maybe I'm just lazy, but what is the fastest way to convert a string > > into a tuple containing character sequences and integer numbers, like > > this: > > > 'si_pos_99_rep_1_0.ita'  -> ('si_pos_', 99, '_rep_', 1,

Re: (a==b) ? 'Yes' : 'No'

On Apr 2, 2:04 am, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 21:16:18 -0700, Steve Howell wrote: > > The ironic thing about the ternary operator is that it is not really > > ternary; it's binary.  Even just making an expression from a binary > > operator inevitably leads to syntax hell. > > > T

Re: off topic but please forgive me me and answer

On Apr 1, 7:34 pm, Patrick Maupin wrote: > On Apr 1, 4:42 pm, Tim Chase wrote: > > Uh, did you try it at the python prompt?   When I try it at the IPython prompt, I get Object 'how much is one half times one half' not found. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: (a==b) ? 'Yes' : 'No'

Steve Howell wrote: > On Apr 2, 2:04 am, Steven D'Aprano cybersource.com.au> wrote: [...] >> How is the ternary operator "not really ternary, it's binary"? It >> requires three arguments, not two, which makes it ternary. In Python >> syntax: >> > > Of course, I understand that the ternary operato

Re: (a==b) ? 'Yes' : 'No'

On Apr 2, 7:05 am, Steve Howell wrote: > On Apr 2, 2:04 am, Steven D'Aprano > > > cybersource.com.au> wrote: > > On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 21:16:18 -0700, Steve Howell wrote: > > > The ironic thing about the ternary operator is that it is not really > > > ternary; it's binary.  Even just making an expr

Re: (a==b) ? 'Yes' : 'No'

On Apr 2, 7:21 am, Steve Holden wrote: > Steve Howell wrote: > > On Apr 2, 2:04 am, Steven D'Aprano > cybersource.com.au> wrote: > [...] > >> How is the ternary operator "not really ternary, it's binary"? It > >> requires three arguments, not two, which makes it ternary. In Python > >> syntax: >

Re: Dynamic Class Creation

In article <8d79f0cb-9c5b-4243-8891-a15fb311f...@z18g2000prh.googlegroups.com>, Josh English wrote: > > >Analog Science Fiction and Fact >Analog >Science Fiction >First Contact >Hard Science Fiction > >Stanley Schmidt, Editor >267 Broadway, 4th Floor >

Re: (a==b) ? 'Yes' : 'No'

Steve Howell wrote: I forgot this one: def obfuscated_triager(rolls, pins, lookup = ['normal'] * 10 + ['strike'] + [None] * 9 + ['spare'] ): return lookup[rolls * pins] Bah...no need to be _quite_ so obscure: def triager(rolls, pins): return { (1, 10):'strike',

Re: (a==b) ? 'Yes' : 'No'

On Apr 2, 7:52 am, Tim Chase wrote: > Steve Howell wrote: > > I forgot this one: > > > def obfuscated_triager(rolls, pins, > >         lookup = ['normal'] * 10 + ['strike'] + [None] * 9 + ['spare'] > >         ): > >     return lookup[rolls * pins] > > Bah...no need to be _quite_ so obscure: >    

Re: Splitting a string

On 4/2/2010 6:21 AM, Shashwat Anand wrote: >>> s = 'si_pos_99_rep_1_0.ita' >>> res = tuple(re.split(r'(\d+)', s)) >>> res ('si_pos_', '99', '_rep_', '1', '_', '0', '.ita') This solves the core of the problem, but is not quite there ;-). Thomas requested conversion of int literals to ints, wh

Re: off topic but please forgive me me and answer

Patrick Maupin, 02.04.2010 07:25: On Apr 1, 11:52 pm, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 22:44:51 +0200, superpollo declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: how much is one half times one half? import math print math.exp((math.log(1) - math.log(2))

I'm not sure you understand

On Apr 2, 5:36 am, Chip Eastham wrote: > On Apr 2, 6:14 am, A Serious Moment > cross-posted > an OCR'd version of a 1980 paper > by SR Mahaney, mutilating the text > further to remove its attribution > and create the false impression of > authorship by the (im)poster. I'm afraid you misunderstan

Re: Splitting a string

I don't know how fast this is (Python 2.x): >>> from itertools import groupby >>> t = 'si_pos_99_rep_1_0.ita' >>> tuple(int("".join(g)) if h else "".join(g) for h,g in groupby(t, >>> str.isdigit)) ('si_pos_', 99, '_rep_', 1, '_', 0, '.ita') It doesn't work with unicode strings. Bye, bearophile

Re: plagiarism, no follow-ups please

On 4/2/2010 7:36 AM, Chip Eastham wrote: On Apr 2, 6:14 am, A Serious Moment cross-posted an OCR'd version of a 1980 paper by SR Mahaney, mutilating the text further to remove its attribution and create the false impression of authorship by the (im)poster. You report, we decide? Fox News has

Re: (a==b) ? 'Yes' : 'No'

On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 07:05:49 -0700, Steve Howell wrote: >> How is the ternary operator "not really ternary, it's binary"? It >> requires three arguments, not two, which makes it ternary. In Python >> syntax: >> > Of course, I understand that the ternary operator has three arguments, > but it only

Re: I'm not sure you understand

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 11:35 AM, A Serious Moment wrote: > Do you really not see the complete absurdity of posting an entire paper in this forum as plain text? Not only are you completely off-topic for this group, but the paper as you posted it is completely unreadable; regardless of whether i

Re: C-style static variables in Python?

In Steve Holden writes: >But the real problem is that the OP is insisting on using purely >procedural Python when the problem is screaming for an object-oriented >answer. My initial reaction to this comment was something like "What? switch from procedural to OO just to be able to do some one-t

Re: PyGame migrating to JavaScript

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 1:23 AM, Xavier Ho wrote: > On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Gary Herron wrote: >> It's a joke -- see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Da > > D'oh! > > Can't believe that got me. > > (It's already 2nd of April... you're not supposed to make that joke now! =p) He'

Re: PyGame migrating to JavaScript

On Apr 2, 3:19 am, Gary Herron wrote: > Xavier Ho wrote: > >  Javascript in recent years has been getting better and better, and > > >      now is a way better language than python. So to keep up with the > >      times pygame has been rewritten for javascript. > > > *shudders* > > > Can someone c

Re: How to run python without python

On Apr 1, 5:54 pm, Chris Rebert wrote: > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Krister Svanlund > > wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Spencer wrote: > >> Is there a way to developing a script on linux and give it > >> to someone on microsoft, so that they could run it on microsoft > >> withou

Re: How to run python without python

On Apr 2, 11:09 am, "danmcle...@yahoo.com" wrote: > On Apr 1, 5:54 pm, Chris Rebert wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Krister Svanlund > > > wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Spencer wrote: > > >> Is there a way to developing a script on linux and give it > > >> to som

Re: How to run python without python

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 10:09 AM, danmcle...@yahoo.com wrote: > On Apr 1, 5:54 pm, Chris Rebert wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Krister Svanlund >> wrote: >> > On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Spencer wrote: >> >> Is there a way to developing a script on linux and give it >> >> to someo

Re: How to run python without python

On Apr 2, 11:23 am, Chris Rebert wrote: > On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 10:09 AM, danmcle...@yahoo.com > > wrote: > > On Apr 1, 5:54 pm, Chris Rebert wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Krister Svanlund > >> wrote: > >> > On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Spencer > >> > wrote: > >> >> Is there

Re: C-style static variables in Python?

On Apr 1, 5:34 pm, kj wrote: > When coding C I have often found static local variables useful for > doing once-only run-time initializations.  For example: > Here is a decorator to make a function self-aware, giving it a "this" variable that points to itself, which you could then initialize from

Re: C-style static variables in Python?

kj wrote: > In Steve Holden > writes: > >>But the real problem is that the OP is insisting on using purely >>procedural Python when the problem is screaming for an object-oriented >>answer. > > My initial reaction to this comment was something like "What? switch > from procedural to OO just to

Re: C-style static variables in Python?

kj wrote: > I suppose one could refactor this: > > > def spam(x, y, z): > try: > mongo = spam.mongo > except AttributeError: > mongo = spam.mongo = heavy_lifting_at_runtime() > return frobnicate(x, y, z, mongo) > > ham = spam(3, 4, 5) > > > into this: > > > class

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Re: C-style static variables in Python?

kj wrote: class _Spam(object): @classmethod def _(cls, x, y, z): try: mongo = cls.mongo except AttributeError: mongo = cls.mongo = heavy_lifting_at_runtime() return frobnicate(x, y, z, mongo) ham = _Spam._(1, 2, 3) Is this really more n

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Re: subclass of object

Steve Holden wrote: Alf P. Steinbach wrote: * Jason Friedman: Hi, what is the difference between: def MyClass(object): pass and def MyClass(): pass If you really meant 'def', then the first is a routine taking one argument, and the second is a routine of no arguments. If you meant

Re: C-style static variables in Python?

On Apr 2, 1:21 pm, Ethan Furman wrote: > For this type of situation, my preference would be: > > class spam(object): >      def __call__(self, x, y, z): >          try: >              mongo = self.mongo >          except AttributeError: >              mongo = self.mongo = heavy_lifting_at_runtime(

Re: C-style static variables in Python?

On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:08:42 +, kj wrote: > Other responses advocated for global variables. I avoid them in > general, In general this is wise, but remember that because Python globals are not globally global, but local to a single module, they're safer than globals in other languages. St

Re: off topic but please forgive me me and answer

On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 22:44:51 +0200 superpollo wrote: > how much is one half times one half? While everyone else is mocking you: Can you please elaborate on why you want to know and what kind of problem you're trying to solve with this? Also, don't you think you should have picked a maths forum f

Re: plagiarism, no follow-ups please

purple wrote: > On 4/2/2010 7:36 AM, Chip Eastham wrote: >> On Apr 2, 6:14 am, A Serious Moment >> cross-posted >> an OCR'd version of a 1980 paper >> by SR Mahaney, mutilating the text >> further to remove its attribution >> and create the false impression of >> authorship by the (im)poster. >

Re: folks, what's wrong with this?

Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: And now for the most import point: __getattr__ is only called as a *last* resort. That is, after the attribute lookup mechanism will have tried *and failed* to find the name in the instance's __dict__. In general, "getattr" is for unusual situations only. If you w

Re: How to run python without python

"danmcle...@yahoo.com" writes: > On Apr 2, 11:23 am, Chris Rebert wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 10:09 AM, danmcle...@yahoo.com >> >> wrote: >> > On Apr 1, 5:54 pm, Chris Rebert wrote: >> >> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Krister Svanlund >> >> wrote: >> >> > On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 1:36 AM

Re: C-style static variables in Python?

Patrick Maupin wrote: On Apr 2, 1:21 pm, Ethan Furman wrote: For this type of situation, my preference would be: class spam(object): def __call__(self, x, y, z): try: mongo = self.mongo except AttributeError: mongo = self.mongo = heavy_lifting_a

Re: off topic but please forgive me me and answer

On Apr 2, 2:41 pm, Andreas Waldenburger wrote: > While everyone else is mocking you: Can you please elaborate on why you > want to know and what kind of problem you're trying to solve with this? > Also, don't you think you should have picked a maths forum for this > kind of question? Methinks th

Re: off topic but please forgive me me and answer

On Apr 1, 9:44 pm, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:49:43 -0500, Tim Chase wrote: > > David Robinow wrote: > >> $ python -c "print 1/2 * 1/2" > >> 0 > > >>  But that's not what I learned in grade school. > >> (Maybe I should upgrade to 3.1?) > > > That's because you need to promote

Re: C-style static variables in Python?

On Apr 2, 2:38 pm, Ethan Furman wrote: > Patrick Maupin wrote: > > On Apr 2, 1:21 pm, Ethan Furman wrote: > >> For this type of situation, my preference would be: > > >> class spam(object): > >>      def __call__(self, x, y, z): > >>          try: > >>              mongo = self.mongo > >>        

Re: Splitting a string

Patrick Maupin schrieb: > On Apr 2, 6:24 am, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: >> Thomas Heller wrote: >> > Maybe I'm just lazy, but what is the fastest way to convert a string >> > into a tuple containing character sequences and integer numbers, like >> > this: >> >> > 'si_pos_99_rep_1_0.ita'

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Re: (a==b) ? 'Yes' : 'No'

In Steve Holden writes: >John Nagle wrote: >> Chris Rebert wrote: >>> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:40 AM, gentlestone >>> wrote: Hi, how can I write the popular C/JAVA syntax in Python? Java example: return (a==b) ? 'Yes' : 'No' My first idea is: return ('

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Hello all, I am new to python ans was wondering if there was a way to get the mac address from the local NIC? Thanks for your help. Gerad -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: (a==b) ? 'Yes' : 'No'

kj writes: > Anyway, I don't know of any other language that puts the test > between the alternatives. No doubt there's one out there, with > emphasis on "out there"... Perl has something that has IMO somewhat the same problem: print "Hello, world!\n" if $some_condition; I prefer most of the

Re: C-style static variables in Python?

Patrick Maupin wrote: [snippage] Well, I think the whole discussion has basically been about personal preference. OTOH, but if you call the function a few million times, you might find the cost of try/except to be something that you would rather not incur -- it might become a performance issue

Re: (a==b) ? 'Yes' : 'No'

kj wrote: > In Steve Holden > writes: > >> John Nagle wrote: >>> Chris Rebert wrote: On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:40 AM, gentlestone wrote: > Hi, how can I write the popular C/JAVA syntax in Python? > > Java example: >return (a==b) ? 'Yes' : 'No' > > My first

Re: C-style static variables in Python?

On Apr 2, 3:33 pm, Ethan Furman wrote: > My main point, though, was using __call__, and not some weird _ method.  ;) Yes, __call__ is good. In general, not naming things that don't need to be named is good (but if you have too many of them to keep track of, then, obviously, they need to be named

Re: Is it possible to store data in a Python file in a way similar to Ruby's __END__ section?

Christopher Roach wrote: > I have a script that I am working on to process a bunch of data. A > good portion of the Tk-based GUI is driven by a large set of YAML data > and I'd love to store that data inside of the script so that I can > send just a single file to my colleague. Ruby has a mechanism

Re: (a==b) ? 'Yes' : 'No'

kj wrote: In Steve Holden writes: John Nagle wrote: Chris Rebert wrote: On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:40 AM, gentlestone wrote: Hi, how can I write the popular C/JAVA syntax in Python? Java example: return (a==b) ? 'Yes' : 'No' My first idea is: return ('No','Yes')[bool(a==b)] Is th

Re: (a==b) ? 'Yes' : 'No'

On Apr 2, 3:12 pm, kj wrote: > Is that for real???  It's the QWERTY rationale all over again.  Swell. Well, bearing in mind that everybody seems to have an agenda, so you can't (or shouldn't, anyway) take all your news from a single source, it may be that the common wisdom about the QWERTY thing

Re: Is it possible to store data in a Python file in a way similar to Ruby's __END__ section?

On 2010-04-02 13:08:00 -0700, Christopher Roach said: I have a script that I am working on to process a bunch of data. A good portion of the Tk-based GUI is driven by a large set of YAML data and I'd love to store that data inside of the script so that I can send just a single file to my colleag

Re: Getting Local MAC Address

On Apr 2, 2:14 pm, Booter wrote: > Hello all, > > I am new to python ans was wondering if there was a way to get the mac > address from the local NIC? > > Thanks for your help. > > Gerad for windows parse p.stdout.read(): import subprocess p = subprocess.Popen('ipconfig', shell = True, stdout =

Re: Getting Local MAC Address

On Apr 2, 2:52 pm, "danmcle...@yahoo.com" wrote: > On Apr 2, 2:14 pm, Booter wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > I am new to python ans was wondering if there was a way to get the mac > > address from the local NIC? > > > Thanks for your help. > > > Gerad > > for windows parse p.stdout.read(): > > impo

Re: Getting Local MAC Address

On 2-4-2010 22:55, danmcle...@yahoo.com wrote: On Apr 2, 2:52 pm, "danmcle...@yahoo.com" wrote: On Apr 2, 2:14 pm, Booter wrote: Hello all, I am new to python ans was wondering if there was a way to get the mac address from the local NIC? Thanks for your help. Gerad for windows par

Re: Getting Local MAC Address

On Apr 2, 2:52 pm, "danmcle...@yahoo.com" wrote: > On Apr 2, 2:14 pm, Booter wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > I am new to python ans was wondering if there was a way to get the mac > > address from the local NIC? > > > Thanks for your help. > > > Gerad > > for windows parse p.stdout.read(): > > impo

Re: Splitting a string

Thomas Heller wrote: > Thanks to all for these code snippets. Peter's solution is the winner - > most elegant and also the fastest. With an additional list comprehension > to remove the possible empty strings at the start and at the end I get > 16 us. Interesting is that Xavier's solution (whic

Re: Getting Local MAC Address

On 04/02/2010 03:30 PM, Dan McLeran wrote: > i'm running python 2.6 on win xp sp3 and i get: Your code isn't portable to non-Windows OS's. On my Mac and on my Linux workstations it simply doesn't work. Using '/usr/sbin/ifconfig' as the executable name in Popen does work, however. The OP didn't

Re: Getting Local MAC Address

On 04/02/2010 02:14 PM, Booter wrote: > I am new to python ans was wondering if there was a way to get the mac > address from the local NIC? As Dan has indicated, you have to Popen an external command to get this information. Every OS has different commands and syntaxes for this. You'll have to h

Re: off topic but please forgive me me and answer

Mensanator wrote: On Apr 1, 9:44 pm, Steven D'Aprano wrote: 1/2.0 0.25 If you want an exact result when multiplying arbitrary fractions, you need to avoid floats and decimals and use Fractions: Fraction(1, 2)**2 Fraction(1, 4) Where do you get that

Re: Getting Local MAC Address

Booter wrote: > Hello all, > > I am new to python ans was wondering if there was a way to get the mac > address from the local NIC? > > Thanks for your help. > >>> import uuid >>> uuid.getnode() 246090452741227L >>> This is supposed to return the MAC address, but I am not sure it does. The docu

Re: Splitting a string

On Apr 2, 4:32 pm, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > _split = re.compile(r"(\d+)").split > def split(s): >     if not s: >         return () >     parts = _split(s) >     parts[1::2] = map(int, parts[1::2]) >     if parts[-1] == "": >         del parts[-1] >     if parts[0] == "": >        

Re: C-style static variables in Python?

In Duncan Booth writes: >class Spam(object): > mongo = None > def __call__(self, x, y, z): > if self.mongo is None: > self.mongo = heavy_lifting_at_runtime() > return frobnicate(x, y, z, self.mongo) >spam = Spam() >ham = spam(1, 2, 3) I really like this. Thanks. >T

Re: off topic but please forgive me me and answer

On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 12:35:55 -0700, Mensanator wrote: >> If you want an exact result when multiplying arbitrary fractions, you >> need to avoid floats and decimals and use Fractions: >> >> >>> Fraction(1, 2)**2 >> >> Fraction(1, 4) > > Where do you get that from? Where do I get what from? Fracti

Re: Generating text from a regular expression

Thanks everyone, the invRegexInf is perfect. Thanks again, Nathan On 1 April 2010 10:17, Gabriel Genellina wrote: > En Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:23:48 -0300, Paul McGuire > escribió: >> >> On Mar 31, 5:49 am, Nathan Harmston >> wrote: >>> >>> I have a slightly complicated/medium sized regular expre

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