Re: [rotatingloghandler]: How to read the logs produced ?

2011-01-19 Thread Michael Ricordeau
I suggest SyslogHandler in logging package to centralize all logs . http://docs.python.org/library/logging.html#sysloghandler In my opinion, rotating, parsing, filtering logs is a different task (for a sysadmin not a developper). I'm doing this for all my projects at work : - using SyslogHand

Re: [OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

2011-01-19 Thread Stefan Behnel
Octavian Rasnita, 19.01.2011 07:10: aren't the Pyton bytecode-compiled files considered secure enough? Can they be easily decompiled? Yes. Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: __pycache__, one more good reason to stck with Python 2?

2011-01-19 Thread H₂0 . py
On Jan 18, 4:04 am, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > > What's the advantage of 'find ... | xargs ...' over 'find ... -exec ...'? Portability. Running the '-exec' version will work fine in a directory with a relatively small number of files, but will fail on a large one. 'xargs', which is de

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-19 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: "rantingrick" You know we Python programmers are professional debaters. This has been my take on the Python community. However without the virtues of compromise and community spirit all we are going to do is fight like cats and dogs forever to the very detriment of the very community we wi

Re: [OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

2011-01-19 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: "Stefan Behnel" Octavian Rasnita, 19.01.2011 07:10: aren't the Pyton bytecode-compiled files considered secure enough? Can they be easily decompiled? Yes. Stefan Would it be hard to introduce the possibility of adding encryption of the bytecode similar to what the Zend encoder doe

Re: [OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

2011-01-19 Thread Stefan Behnel
Octavian Rasnita, 19.01.2011 11:31: From: "Stefan Behnel" Octavian Rasnita, 19.01.2011 07:10: aren't the Pyton bytecode-compiled files considered secure enough? Can they be easily decompiled? Yes. FYI, just take a look at the 'dis' module. There are also decompilers available. IIRC, one is

Re: UTF-8 question from Dive into Python 3

2011-01-19 Thread Tim Harig
On 2011-01-19, Tim Roberts wrote: > Tim Harig wrote: >>On 2011-01-17, carlo wrote: >> >>> 2- If that were true, can you point me to some documentation about the >>> math that, as Mark says, demonstrates this? >> >>It is true because UTF-8 is essentially an 8 bit encoding that resorts >>to the ne

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-19 Thread Adam Skutt
On Jan 18, 3:23 pm, "Octavian Rasnita" wrote: > From: "Alexander Kapps" > > > Tkinter causes damage? Very bad damage? What are you talking about? > > I am talking about the fact that Python promotes Tkinter, and many beginners > will start using it, and they will start creating applications with

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-19 Thread Adam Skutt
On Jan 19, 1:37 am, "Octavian Rasnita" wrote: > > The users shouldn't want something better. Everyone should create GUIs which > are accessible for everyone by default, without making any special effort > for doing this. Accessibility always requires special effort, and I don't see how changing t

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-19 Thread Adam Skutt
On Jan 19, 1:37 am, "Octavian Rasnita" wrote: > > Most of the programmers don't know that and they don't even need to know > that, but if a lib that create accessible GUIS would be promoted, most of > the Python programmers would use that lib and would create good apps by > default, without even k

Re: UTF-8 question from Dive into Python 3

2011-01-19 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:34:53 + (UTC) Tim Harig wrote: > That is why the FAQ I linked to > says yes to the fact that you can consider UTF-8 to always be in big-endian > order. It certainly doesn't. Read better. > Essentially all byte based data is big-endian. This is pure nonsense. -- htt

Re: UTF-8 question from Dive into Python 3

2011-01-19 Thread Tim Harig
Considering you post contained no information or evidence for your negations, I shouldn't even bother responding. I will bite once. Hopefully next time your arguments will contain some pith. On 2011-01-19, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:34:53 + (UTC) > Tim Harig wrote: >> Th

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-19 Thread Mark Roseman
Octavian, Thank you for clearly articulating your concern that Tk does not provide any support for screen readers. While I believe that people can have legitimate differences of opinion as to whether this merits its removal/replacement from stdlib, there is no question that this is a serious a

Re: UTF-8 question from Dive into Python 3

2011-01-19 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:00:13 + (UTC) Tim Harig wrote: > > - Q: Can a UTF-8 data stream contain the BOM character (in UTF-8 form)? If > - yes, then can I still assume the remaining UTF-8 bytes are in big-endian > ^^ > - or

Re: __pycache__, one more good reason to stck with Python 2?

2011-01-19 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:58:14 -0800, jmfauth wrote: > It is now practically impossible to launch a Python application via a > .pyc file. When has that ever been possible? .pyc files are Python byte-code. You can't run them directly using Python (except via the import machinery), you can't run

Screen readers for Tkinter (was Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!)

2011-01-19 Thread python
Mark/Octavian, It sounds like Tka11y (spelled with the digit '1' vs. the letter 'L') addresses this problem for Linux users. According to its website, adding accessability support is as simple as changing one import statement. Details follow my signature. Malcolm Tka11y - Tk Accessibility htt

Re: __pycache__, one more good reason to stck with Python 2?

2011-01-19 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On 19 Jan 2011 14:42:14 GMT Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:58:14 -0800, jmfauth wrote: > > > It is now practically impossible to launch a Python application via a > > .pyc file. > > > When has that ever been possible? > > > .pyc files are Python byte-code. You can't run them

Re: UTF-8 question from Dive into Python 3

2011-01-19 Thread Adam Skutt
On Jan 19, 9:00 am, Tim Harig wrote: > > So, you can always assume a big-endian and things will work out correctly > while you cannot always make the same assumption as little endian > without potential issues.  The same holds true for any byte stream data. You need to spend some serious time pro

Re: move to end, in Python 3.2 Really?

2011-01-19 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-01-19, geremy condra wrote: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 3:54 PM, rantingrick wrote: >> >> And were the hell is Steve Holden? Why has he not weighed in on these >> (or any) discussions. He (Steve Holden) is second in command to the >> entire community. Yet we have yet to hear a peep from thi

Re: UTF-8 question from Dive into Python 3

2011-01-19 Thread Tim Harig
On 2011-01-19, Adam Skutt wrote: > On Jan 19, 9:00 am, Tim Harig wrote: >> That is why I say that byte streams are essentially big endian. It is >> all a matter of how you look at it. > > It is nothing of the sort. Some byte streams are in fact, little > endian: when the bytes are combined into

Re: UTF-8 question from Dive into Python 3

2011-01-19 Thread Tim Harig
On 2011-01-19, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:00:13 + (UTC) > Tim Harig wrote: >> UTF-8 has no apparent endianess if you only store it as a byte stream. >> It does however have a byte order. If you store it using multibytes >> (six bytes for all UTF-8 possibilites) , which is

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-19 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: "Adam Skutt" On Jan 18, 3:23 pm, "Octavian Rasnita" wrote: > From: "Alexander Kapps" > > > Tkinter causes damage? Very bad damage? What are you talking about? > > I am talking about the fact that Python promotes Tkinter, and many beginners > will start using it, and they will start creati

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-19 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: "Adam Skutt" On Jan 19, 1:37 am, "Octavian Rasnita" wrote: > > Most of the programmers don't know that and they don't even need to know > that, but if a lib that create accessible GUIS would be promoted, most of > the Python programmers would use that lib and would create good apps by > def

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-19 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: "Mark Roseman" > Octavian, > > Thank you for clearly articulating your concern that Tk does not provide > any support for screen readers. > > While I believe that people can have legitimate differences of opinion > as to whether this merits its removal/replacement from stdlib, there is

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-19 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: "Adam Skutt" On Jan 19, 1:37 am, "Octavian Rasnita" wrote: > > The users shouldn't want something better. Everyone should create GUIs which > are accessible for everyone by default, without making any special effort > for doing this. > Accessibility always requires special effort, and I do

Re: UTF-8 question from Dive into Python 3

2011-01-19 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:03:11 + (UTC) Tim Harig wrote: > > For many operations, it is just much faster and simpler to use a single > character based container opposed to having to process an entire byte > stream to determine individual letters from the bytes or to having > adaptive size contai

Re: __pycache__, one more good reason to stck with Python 2?

2011-01-19 Thread jmfauth
My "nightmare" was mainly due, because when I read the the "What's new?", I did not understand too much this caching stuff. It's only later, after testing some applications, I really got the surprise to understand it. (Py3.1 and Py3.2 pyc's mixture). Having said this, to tell you the truth. I do r

Re: Screen readers for Tkinter (was Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!)

2011-01-19 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: > Mark/Octavian, > > It sounds like Tka11y (spelled with the digit '1' vs. the letter 'L') > addresses this problem for Linux users. > > According to its website, adding accessability support is as simple as > changing one import statement. > > Details follow my signature. > > Malcolm >

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-19 Thread Adam Skutt
On Jan 19, 10:41 am, "Octavian Rasnita" wrote: > > Not true. WxPython uses wxWIDGETS which uses the default OS widgets which > usually offer the accessibility features. > (At least under Windows, but most users that need accessibility use Windows > anyway). > Right, under Windows, which is a pr

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-19 Thread Adam Skutt
On Jan 19, 11:09 am, "Octavian Rasnita" wrote: > From: "Adam Skutt" > > Accessibility always requires special effort, and I don't see how > > changing toolkits gets away from this. > > This is the most false thing I ever heard and the most dangerous. O RLY? http://www.wxwidgets.org/docs/techno

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-19 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-01-19, Octavian Rasnita wrote: > From: "Adam Skutt" >> If you want functional accessibility support, you're going to have to >> write it in Python yourself, and get the accessibility manufacturers >> to support it. All of the cross-platform toolkits have poor to non- >> existent accessi

Re: [OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

2011-01-19 Thread geremy condra
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Octavian Rasnita wrote: > From: "Stefan Behnel" >> >> Octavian Rasnita, 19.01.2011 07:10: >>> >>> aren't the Pyton bytecode-compiled files considered secure enough? >>> Can they be easily decompiled? >> >> Yes. >> >> Stefan >> > > > Would it be hard to introduce t

Detecting Remaining Thread

2011-01-19 Thread Damian Johnson
Hi, I've been trying to track down a familiar concurrency problem without any success: Unhandled exception in thread started by Error in sys.excepthook: Original exception was: I realize that this is due to a background thread still being alive and kicking when the application terminates (ie, a m

Re: __pycache__, one more good reason to stck with Python 2?

2011-01-19 Thread Sherm Pendley
H₂0.py writes: > On Jan 18, 4:04 am, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: >> >> What's the advantage of 'find ... | xargs ...' over 'find ... -exec ...'? > > Portability. Running the '-exec' version will work fine in a directory > with a relatively small number of files, but will fail on a large

Re: __pycache__, one more good reason to stck with Python 2?

2011-01-19 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 08:30:12 -0800 (PST) jmfauth wrote: > Yes, I can launch a pyc, when I have a single file. > But what happens, if one of your cached .pyc file import > a module with a name as defined in the parent directory? > The machinery is broken. The parent dir is not in the > sys.path. W

Re: UTF-8 question from Dive into Python 3

2011-01-19 Thread Tim Harig
On 2011-01-19, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:03:11 + (UTC) > Tim Harig wrote: >> >> For many operations, it is just much faster and simpler to use a single >> character based container opposed to having to process an entire byte >> stream to determine individual letters from

Re: UTF-8 question from Dive into Python 3

2011-01-19 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 18:02:22 + (UTC) Tim Harig wrote: > On 2011-01-19, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:03:11 + (UTC) > > Tim Harig wrote: > >> > >> For many operations, it is just much faster and simpler to use a single > >> character based container opposed to having t

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-19 Thread patty
> On Jan 18, 9:54 pm, Adam Skutt wrote: >> On Jan 18, 9:27 pm, Corey Richardson wrote: >> At which point, it's pretty damn >> small.  Not as small as all of the Tk functionality, I think, but well >> under 10MiB compressed. > > Yea but look at all your gaining. I would rather sacrifice a few megs

Re: __pycache__, one more good reason to stck with Python 2?

2011-01-19 Thread jmfauth
On Jan 19, 7:03 pm, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 08:30:12 -0800 (PST) > > jmfauth wrote: > > Yes, I can launch a pyc, when I have a single file. > > But what happens, if one of your cached .pyc file import > > a module with a name as defined in the parent directory? > > The machine

Re: [OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

2011-01-19 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-01-19, geremy condra wrote: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Octavian Rasnita wrote: >> Would it be hard to introduce the possibility of adding encryption of the >> bytecode similar to what the Zend encoder does for PHP or Filter::Crypto for >> Perl? > > The iron law of cryptography: t

Re: UTF-8 question from Dive into Python 3

2011-01-19 Thread Tim Harig
On 2011-01-19, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 18:02:22 + (UTC) > Tim Harig wrote: >> Converting to a fixed byte >> representation (UTF-32/UCS-4) or separating all of the bytes for each >> UTF-8 into 6 byte containers both make it possible to simply index the >> letters by a const

Re: __pycache__, one more good reason to stck with Python 2?

2011-01-19 Thread Carl Banks
On Jan 19, 6:42 am, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > But having said that, the __pycache__ idea isn't too bad. If you have > this directory structure: > > ./module.py > ./module.pyc > > and import module, the top-level .pyc file will continue to be used. Nope. PEP 3147 says it now always uses __pycache_

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-19 Thread geremy condra
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:22 AM, wrote: > > Now I think I understand a little better where you all are coming from -- > I am a Unix person and I guess I expected to have to learn GUI's using > whatever is provided for me by default. Which isn't a bad thing.   And if > I had to add additional sof

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-19 Thread geremy condra
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:37 AM, geremy condra wrote: > No, it's about other operating systems too, but what it comes down to > is that rantingrick has been on the warpath about tkinter for a while, > and hasn't proposed a particularly viable alternative. The sad thing > is that if he weren't so

Re: UTF-8 question from Dive into Python 3

2011-01-19 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 19:18:49 + (UTC) Tim Harig wrote: > On 2011-01-19, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 18:02:22 + (UTC) > > Tim Harig wrote: > >> Converting to a fixed byte > >> representation (UTF-32/UCS-4) or separating all of the bytes for each > >> UTF-8 into 6 byte con

Re: [OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

2011-01-19 Thread Tim Delaney
On 20 January 2011 06:16, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2011-01-19, geremy condra wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Octavian Rasnita > wrote: > > >> Would it be hard to introduce the possibility of adding encryption of > the > >> bytecode similar to what the Zend encoder does for PHP or F

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-19 Thread Patty
- Original Message - From: "geremy condra" To: Cc: "rantingrick" ; Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 11:37 AM Subject: Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly! On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:22 AM, wrote: Now I think I understand a little better where you all are coming from -

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-19 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 1/19/2011 11:37 AM geremy condra said... On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:22 AM, wrote: And aren't some of these libraries developed by 3rd parties? Any library to replace tkinter would come from a third party, yes. And how is that handled by the people in charge? Again, there aren't rea

Re: __pycache__, one more good reason to stck with Python 2?

2011-01-19 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:00:20 +0100, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >> .pyc files are Python byte-code. You can't run them directly using >> Python (except via the import machinery), you can't run them as a >> script, they're not machine code. Unless you write a wrapper to import >> the file as a module, y

Re: [OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

2011-01-19 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: "geremy condra" > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Octavian Rasnita wrote: >> From: "Stefan Behnel" >>> >>> Octavian Rasnita, 19.01.2011 07:10: aren't the Pyton bytecode-compiled files considered secure enough? Can they be easily decompiled? >>> >>> Yes. >>> >>> Stefan >>> >

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-19 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: "Adam Skutt" > wxWidgets' support is completely inadequate for a true cross-platform > system, the developers are aware of this and acknowledge this and > believe a rewrite is necessary. Thus, it is currently really in no > better state than Tk. It depends on what you mean by a "true cross

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-19 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: "Grant Edwards" > On 2011-01-19, Octavian Rasnita wrote: >> From: "Adam Skutt" > >>> If you want functional accessibility support, you're going to have to >>> write it in Python yourself, and get the accessibility manufacturers >>> to support it. All of the cross-platform toolkits have p

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-19 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: "Adam Skutt" On Jan 19, 11:09 am, "Octavian Rasnita" wrote: > From: "Adam Skutt" > > Accessibility always requires special effort, and I don't see how > > changing toolkits gets away from this. > > This is the most false thing I ever heard and the most dangerous. O RLY? http://www.wxwid

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-19 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:45:22 -0800, Patty wrote: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:22 AM, wrote: >> >> Now I think I understand a little better where you all are coming from >> -- I am a Unix person and I guess I expected to have to learn GUI's >> using whatever is provided for me by default. Which i

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-19 Thread rantingrick
On Jan 19, 12:22 pm, pa...@cruzio.com wrote: > Who or what group is actually in charge of what libraries (and programming > commands/methods such as the Python 3.x rewrite of 'print') goes into > Python?   Well it comes down to "Guido, some Guys, and a mailing list". see this link fro more detail

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-19 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:45:22 -0800, Patty wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "geremy condra" To: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:22 AM, wrote: >> >> Now I think I understand a little better where you all are coming from >> -- I am a Unix person and I guess I expected to have to learn G

Re: __pycache__, one more good reason to stck with Python 2?

2011-01-19 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:30:36 -0800, Carl Banks wrote: > On Jan 19, 6:42 am, Steven D'Aprano +comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> But having said that, the __pycache__ idea isn't too bad. If you have >> this directory structure: >> >> ./module.py >> ./module.pyc >> >> and import module, the

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-19 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-01-19, Octavian Rasnita wrote: > From: "Grant Edwards" > >>> WxPython is not perfect but most of the objects it offers are >>> accessible so this is not true. Only Tk and GTK are bad. >> >> On all of my computers, wxPython uses Gtk. There are other choices >> for wxWidget backends on Li

Re: Screen readers for Tkinter (was Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!)

2011-01-19 Thread Terry Reedy
On 1/19/2011 11:27 AM, Octavian Rasnita wrote: Note: Currently, accessibility is only available via ATK<=> AT-SPI on Linux. Sorry, no Windows MSAA support. This project is good, a step ahead, but in order to be really useful it should be the one provided by the default Python package. And o

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-19 Thread rantingrick
On Jan 19, 3:51 pm, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2011-01-19, Octavian Rasnita wrote: > Which of my statements was "not true"? > >  1) On all of my computers wxPython uses Gtk. > >  2) There are other backend choices on Linux besides Gtk. > >  3) Gtk is by far the most common wxWidgets backend on Li

Re: __pycache__, one more good reason to stck with Python 2?

2011-01-19 Thread Alice Bevan–McGregor
On 2011-01-19 13:01:04 -0800, Steven D'Aprano said: I know I've seen problems executing .pyc files from the shell in the past... perhaps I was conflating details of something else. Ah, I know! [steve@sylar ~]$ chmod u+x toto.pyc [steve@sylar ~]$ ./toto.pyc : command not found �� ./toto.pyc: lin

Re: UTF-8 question from Dive into Python 3

2011-01-19 Thread Terry Reedy
On 1/19/2011 1:02 PM, Tim Harig wrote: Right, but I only have to do that once. After that, I can directly address any piece of the stream that I choose. If I leave the information as a simple UTF-8 stream, I would have to walk the stream again, I would have to walk through the the first byte o

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-19 Thread Adam Skutt
On Jan 19, 4:04 pm, "Octavian Rasnita" wrote: > Those rules for creating an accessible application are obvious; like the fact > that a button need to contain a text label and not only an image, or that an > image needs to have a tooltip defined, or that a radio button needs to have a > label at

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-19 Thread rantingrick
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:40 PM, geremy condra wrote: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:37 AM, geremy condra wrote: >> No, it's about other operating systems too, but what it comes down to >> is that rantingrick has been on the warpath about tkinter for a while, >> and hasn't proposed a particularly

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-19 Thread rantingrick
On Jan 19, 4:40 pm, Adam Skutt wrote: > On Jan 19, 4:04 pm, "Octavian Rasnita" wrote: > > > Those rules for creating an accessible application are obvious; like the > > fact that a button need to contain a text label and not only an image, or > > that an image needs to have a tooltip defined, o

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-19 Thread Patty
On Jan 19, 12:22 pm, pa...@cruzio.com wrote: > Who or what group is actually in charge of what libraries (and programming > commands/methods such as the Python 3.x rewrite of 'print') goes into > Python? Well it comes down to "Guido, some Guys, and a mailing list". see this link fro more detail.

Re: move to end, in Python 3.2 Really?

2011-01-19 Thread rantingrick
On Jan 19, 9:18 am, Grant Edwards wrote: > And an unmoderated Usenet newsgroup (which has even less of a chain of > command than a mailing list). Moderated status has nothing to do with it. The fact is that the "elite" no longer feel it necessary to care about the troubles of the Python peasants

Re: move to end, in Python 3.2 Really?

2011-01-19 Thread André
On Wednesday, January 19, 2011 7:21:53 PM UTC-4, rantingrick wrote: > On Jan 19, 9:18 am, Grant Edwards wrote: > > > And an unmoderated Usenet newsgroup (which has even less of a chain of > > command than a mailing list). > > Moderated status has nothing to do with it. The fact is that the > "el

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-19 Thread Patty
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:45:22 -0800, Patty wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "geremy condra" To: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:22 AM, wrote: >> >> Now I think I understand a little better where you all are coming from >> -- I am a Unix person and I guess I expected to have to learn G

Re: move to end, in Python 3.2 Really?

2011-01-19 Thread rantingrick
On Jan 19, 5:26 pm, André wrote: > Perhaps it is because they are either busy programming and/or busy > organizing Pycon 2011. Some people do a lot, some people talk/write > a lot. It is hard to find the time to do both ... Well perhaps. I am not suggesting that these people are not working on i

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-19 Thread geremy condra
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:04 PM, rantingrick wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:40 PM, geremy condra > wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:37 AM, geremy condra wrote: >>> No, it's about other operating systems too, but what it comes down to >>> is that rantingrick has been on the warpath abou

Re: move to end, in Python 3.2 Really?

2011-01-19 Thread geremy condra
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:42 PM, rantingrick wrote: > Look, i am no perfect person and i do not expect that Steve is either. > However attempting to say that somehow my work --engaging the > community through lively debate in an attempt to re-energize the > Python spirit GvR created so long ago t

collections.Set Binary Reflected Operations

2011-01-19 Thread Chris Kaynor
I am implemented a custom set-like type which interacts with some third-party software when retrieving and mutating the set, and have derived my custom type off of collections.MutableSet, however I have noticed that some of the magic methods supported by the built-in set do not fully function with

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-19 Thread rantingrick
On Jan 19, 6:01 pm, geremy condra wrote: > I'm not telling you to change your behavior. I'm telling you that the > way you're doing things isn't effective. You can take that advice or > not, just as I can decide to listen to you... or not. > > I also wouldn't advise you to change your name again.

Re: Detecting Remaining Thread

2011-01-19 Thread Damian Johnson
Disregard, I figured it out. It turns out that the threads spawned by "thread.start_new_thread" are unreported by threading.enumerate. Cheers! -Damian On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Damian Johnson wrote: > Hi, I've been trying to track down a familiar concurrency problem > without any success:

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-19 Thread geremy condra
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 4:53 PM, rantingrick wrote: >> I don't think this is the case, first because you aren't very good at >> getting anybody to take you seriously > > How "self absorbed" must someone be to blame *ME* because *THEY* > cannot take *ME* seriously. Is this a joke Geremy? Sadly i kn

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-19 Thread Michael Torrie
On 01/19/2011 05:01 PM, geremy condra wrote: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:04 PM, rantingrick wrote: >> And you've also lost all >> connection with the people. I am desperately trying to to snap you out >> of this psychosis before it is too late! Tkinter will be the downfall >> of Python if we canno

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-19 Thread rantingrick
On Jan 19, 9:22 pm, geremy condra wrote: > Welcome to real life. You convince people that you're right or they > don't do what you say. Again you "think" (or miscomprehended rather!) that "somehow" i am here to "make" you do anything. On the contrary Geremy, i am here to "guide", to "foster", an

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-19 Thread rantingrick
On Jan 19, 9:20 pm, Michael Torrie wrote: > > All of the python programmers I know (we use python every day at > work) would say, "what is tkinter?" It's just not relevant to any of > them that I know. > And that is the very point i am trying to make Micheal! TclTk is SO old and dated that most p

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-19 Thread Brian Curtin
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 18:53, rantingrick wrote: > Without the car the driver is > nothing, and without the driver the car is nothing. But together, they > are a force to reckoned with. Well, unless the driver is Asian -- then > all bets are off! :-) Welcome to the auto-deletion filter. -- ht

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-19 Thread geremy condra
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 7:56 PM, rantingrick wrote: >> > But together, they >> > are a force to reckoned with. Well, unless the driver is Asian -- then >> > all bets are off! :-) >> >> Hahaha, racism was so funny in the 1700's! Now it's just asinine. > > Actually the joke is on you Geremy. Obvious

Re: collections.Set Binary Reflected Operations

2011-01-19 Thread Daniel Urban
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 01:51, Chris Kaynor wrote: > I am implemented a custom set-like type which interacts with some > third-party software when retrieving and mutating the set, and have derived > my custom type off of collections.MutableSet, however I have noticed that > some of the magic metho

Re: newb

2011-01-19 Thread WellsSUZETTE21
I received 1 st http://bestfinance-blog.com/topics/mortgage-loans";>mortgage loans when I was 25 and that supported my family very much. But, I need the bank loan once more time. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-19 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: "Grant Edwards" On all of my computers, wxPython uses Gtk. There are other choices for wxWidget backends on Linux, but Gtk is by far the most common. IOW, if Gtk is bad, then wxPython is bad. Not true. I think you're playing a bit fast and loose with your accusations. :-) I've made

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-19 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: "Adam Skutt" The fact that /every/ toolkit provides accessibility guidelines over and above whatever other UI guidelines they provide tells me that creating an accessible application is hardly obvious. Plus, if it were really that simple, the accessibility situation wouldn't be so poor. :

Re: Screen readers for Tkinter (was Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!)

2011-01-19 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: "Terry Reedy" On 1/19/2011 11:27 AM, Octavian Rasnita wrote: Note: Currently, accessibility is only available via ATK<=> AT-SPI on Linux. Sorry, no Windows MSAA support. This project is good, a step ahead, but in order to be really useful it should be the one provided by the default

Re: [OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

2011-01-19 Thread Stefan Behnel
Tim Harig, 18.01.2011 12:37: On 2011-01-18, Stefan Behnel wrote: Tim Harig, 17.01.2011 20:41: I prefer a single language as opposed to a creolization of two. With the possible exception of Lisp, I find it hard to think of a language that's still alive and not the creolisation of (at least) tw