Re: Python Windows Extensions for Mac

2011-08-20 Thread Günther Dietrich
In article , Chris Rebert wrote: >On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 1:02 PM, johnny.venter wrote: >> >> Hello, I am looking for the Python Windows Extensions to see if they can be >> installed on a Mac.THanks. > >Your request is nonsensical. That's not completely true. >pywin32 wraps the Windows API

Re: Stop quoting spam [was Re: Hot Girls ...]

2011-08-20 Thread Alec Taylor
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Albert W. Hopkins wrote: > > > On Friday, August 19 at 17:12 (-0400), Matty Sarro said: > >> >> If you're that offended then spend the cycles fixing the damn list so >> it >> stops having so much spam. You realize spam comes in almost >> constantly, >> right? Enoug

Compare tuples of different lenght

2011-08-20 Thread Jurgens de Bruin
Hi, I have a list of tuples: [(2,),(12,13),(2,3,4),(8,),(5,6),(7,8,9),] I would like to compare all the tuples to each other and if one element if found two tuples the smallest tuples is removed from the list. example if tuple 1 and tuple 3 are compare it should find that a single element in ea

Re: Help on PyQt4 QProcess

2011-08-20 Thread Phil Thompson
On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:32:12 -0700 (PDT), Edgar Fuentes wrote: > On Aug 19, 4:21 pm, Carl Banks wrote: >> On Friday, August 19, 2011 12:55:40 PM UTC-7, Edgar Fuentes wrote: >> > On Aug 19, 1:56 pm, Phil Thompson >> >  wrote: >> > > On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:15:20 -0700 (PDT), Edgar Fuentes >> > > w

Re: Compare tuples of different lenght

2011-08-20 Thread Chris Rebert
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 1:25 AM, Jurgens de Bruin wrote: > Hi, > > I have a list of tuples: > > [(2,),(12,13),(2,3,4),(8,),(5,6),(7,8,9),] > > I would like to compare all the tuples to each other and if one > element if found two tuples the smallest tuples is removed from the > list. So, would [(

Re: Compare tuples of different lenght

2011-08-20 Thread Jurgens de Bruin
On Aug 20, 10:45 am, Chris Rebert wrote: > On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 1:25 AM, Jurgens de Bruin wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I have a list of tuples: > > > [(2,),(12,13),(2,3,4),(8,),(5,6),(7,8,9),] > > > I would like to compare all the tuples to each other and if one > > element if found two tuples the s

Re: Compare tuples of different lenght

2011-08-20 Thread Jurgens de Bruin
On Aug 20, 10:45 am, Chris Rebert wrote: > On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 1:25 AM, Jurgens de Bruin wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I have a list of tuples: > > > [(2,),(12,13),(2,3,4),(8,),(5,6),(7,8,9),] > > > I would like to compare all the tuples to each other and if one > > element if found two tuples the s

Python import search path

2011-08-20 Thread Kevin Zhang
Hi, This is the directory tree. project └── sme ├── src │ ├── a.pth │ ├── sss.py └── test └── ttt.py I need to import sss.py in ttt.py. Found a few solution in python docs. A. sys.path.append B. add ***.pth file C. edit .../site-packages/site.py I found out that a.pt

Re: Stop quoting spam [was Re: Hot Girls ...]

2011-08-20 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:10:49 -0400 Rodrick Brown wrote: > It's not the end of the world calm down I thought it was quite funny for a > friday joke! The first message might have been funny (if you are twelve) but the rest were annoying and insulting. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain | Democracy i

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Re: Compare tuples of different lenght

2011-08-20 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Jurgens de Bruin wrote: > Hi, > > I have a list of tuples: > > [(2,),(12,13),(2,3,4),(8,),(5,6),(7,8,9),] > > I would like to compare all the tuples to each other and if one > element if found two tuples the smallest tuples is removed from the > list. It's not clear what you mean by "smallest"

Re: Compare tuples of different lenght

2011-08-20 Thread Jurgens de Bruin
On Aug 20, 12:17 pm, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Jurgens de Bruin wrote: > > Hi, > > > I have a list of tuples: > > > [(2,),(12,13),(2,3,4),(8,),(5,6),(7,8,9),] > > > I would like to compare all the tuples to each other and if one > > element if found two tuples the smallest tuples is removed from th

Re: Compare tuples of different lenght

2011-08-20 Thread Peter Otten
Jurgens de Bruin wrote: > Hi, > > I have a list of tuples: > > [(2,),(12,13),(2,3,4),(8,),(5,6),(7,8,9),] > > I would like to compare all the tuples to each other and if one > element if found two tuples the smallest tuples is removed from the > list. > > example if tuple 1 and tuple 3 are com

Re: Hot Girls are Looking for Sex

2011-08-20 Thread hackingKK
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Re: Stop quoting spam [was Re: Hot Girls ...]

2011-08-20 Thread David Robinow
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 4:16 AM, Alec Taylor wrote: >> ... > I found said joke rather funny :P Perhaps, as a retired amateur comedian, my standards are too high, but I don't think adding a smilie to a stupid post suddenly turns it into a joke. Nevertheless, the quality of the attempt is not reall

Re: Python import search path

2011-08-20 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Kevin Zhang wrote: > Found a few solution in python docs. > A. sys.path.append > I think A is not so pretty, and I don't have root  privilege to use B and C. > So any both more elegant and practical solutions? If, as I understand from your directory tree, ttt.py

Re: Stop quoting spam [was Re: Hot Girls ...]

2011-08-20 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 08:17:32 -0400 David Robinow wrote: > > I found said joke rather funny :P > Perhaps, as a retired amateur comedian, my standards are too high, How does one retire from amateur status? Do you suddenly start charging for telling jokes? :-) > but I don't think adding a smilie

Really, stop repeating spam! (Was: Hot Girls...)

2011-08-20 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 15:16:08 +0530 hackingKK wrote: > Well, they might be indented in the right places but i don't know if > loops, conditions, functions, if they all happen or not. > :) [Entire spam deleted AGAIN] Good grief! Haven't you seen all the followups to that posting you replied to?

Re: Really, stop repeating spam! (Was: Hot Girls...)

2011-08-20 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 3:57 PM, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: > Wait, I get it.  The spammer, Matty and you are all on gmail.  You are > all the same person, aren't you? > Gmail is all one person now? That would explain why I keep seeing things I agree with. I had no idea there were so many of me arou

Re: Compare tuples of different lenght

2011-08-20 Thread John O'Hagan
On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 01:25:18 -0700 (PDT) Jurgens de Bruin wrote: > Hi, > > I have a list of tuples: > > [(2,),(12,13),(2,3,4),(8,),(5,6),(7,8,9),] > > I would like to compare all the tuples to each other and if one > element if found two tuples the smallest tuples is removed from the > list. [

Re: testing if a list contains a sublist

2011-08-20 Thread Simon Forman
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Johannes wrote: > hi list, > what is the best way to check if a given list (lets call it l1) is > totally contained in a second list (l2)? > > for example: > l1 = [1,2], l2 = [1,2,3,4,5] -> l1 is contained in l2 > l1 = [1,2,2,], l2 = [1,2,3,4,5] -> l1 is not contai

Re: Python Windows Extensions for Mac

2011-08-20 Thread Kevin Walzer
On 8/19/11 4:02 PM, johnny.venter wrote: Hello, I am looking for the Python Windows Extensions to see if they can be installed on a Mac.THanks. You can certainly try to install them via easy_install, I supposed, but it's doubtful they would do anything, as the Mac does not support win32 AP

Re: List spam

2011-08-20 Thread George
I find python group is filled with spam mails, is there any way to filter these mails before sending it to the group. I can't see this situation with similar user group, such as the jsr. George. On 20/08/2011 07:07, "Ben Finney" wrote: > Javier writes: > You will lose a lot of people > askin

extended slicing and negative stop value problem

2011-08-20 Thread Max Moroz
Would it be a good idea to change Python definition so that a[10, -1, -1] referred to the elements starting with position 10, going down to the beginning? This would require disabling the "negative stop value means counting from the end of the array" magic whenever the step value is negative. The

Re: extended slicing and negative stop value problem

2011-08-20 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Max Moroz wrote: > Would it be a good idea to change Python definition so that a[10, -1, -1] > referred to the elements starting with position 10, going down to the > beginning? Well, first off I think it's a dangerous idea to change semantics of something like th

Re: try... except with unknown error types

2011-08-20 Thread Paul Rubin
Steven D'Aprano writes: >> You can catch all exceptions by catching the base class Exception: > > Except that is nearly always poor advice, because it catches too much: it > hides bugs in code, as well as things which should be caught. > You should always catch the absolute minimum you need to cat

Re: extended slicing and negative stop value problem

2011-08-20 Thread Max
On Aug 20, 11:29 am, Chris Angelico wrote: > If you're using a variable for the stop value, you just need to set it > to an explicit None if it would fall negative: > > >>> a[10:None:-1] > That doesn't work if it's set in a loop or if it's calculated as a formula. For example, this very simple co

Re: extended slicing and negative stop value problem

2011-08-20 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Max wrote: > That doesn't work if it's set in a loop or if it's calculated as a > formula. For example, this very simple code doesn't work because of > the "-1 problem". > Right, which is what I meant by setting it to an explicit None: if input[starting_pos:endin

Re: try... except with unknown error types

2011-08-20 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Paul Rubin wrote: > Steven D'Aprano writes: >>> You can catch all exceptions by catching the base class Exception: >> >> Except that is nearly always poor advice, because it catches too much: it >> hides bugs in code, as well as things which should be caught. >> You should always catch the absolu

Re: try... except with unknown error types

2011-08-20 Thread John Nagle
On 8/19/2011 1:24 PM, John Gordon wrote: In<4e4ec405$0$29994$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com> Steven D'Aprano writes: You can catch all exceptions by catching the base class Exception: Except that is nearly always poor advice, because it catches too much: it hides bugs in code, as well

Re: extended slicing and negative stop value problem

2011-08-20 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Pardon me for breaking threading, but I don't have Max's original post. On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Max Moroz wrote: > Would it be a good idea to change Python definition so that a[10, -1, -1] I presume you mean slice notation a[10:-1:-1]. > referred to the elements starting with positio

Re: Python Windows Extensions for Mac

2011-08-20 Thread Johnny Venter
Thank you all for the replies. I would like to query various Windows' objects and resources from Mac and/or Linux such as Active Directory users, network shares, group members, etc... What module or methods can I use with python to accomplish this? I found dcerpc might be the way to go. On A

Re: Python Windows Extensions for Mac

2011-08-20 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 12:51 AM, Johnny Venter wrote: > Thank you all for the replies. I would like to query various Windows' objects > and resources from Mac and/or Linux such as Active Directory users, network > shares, group members, etc... What module or methods can I use with python to >

Re: Replacement for the shelve module?

2011-08-20 Thread Gregory Ewing
Robert Kern wrote: That's just incorrect. You shouldn't use (binary) floats for many *accounting* purposes, but for many financial/econometric analyses, floats are de rigeur and work much better than decimals There's a certain accounting package I work with that *does* use floats -- binary one

Re: Replacement for the shelve module?

2011-08-20 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 1:37 AM, Gregory Ewing wrote: > There's a certain accounting package I work with that *does* > use floats -- binary ones -- for accounting purposes, and > somehow manages to get away with it. Not something I would > recommend trying at home, though. > Probably quite a few,

Re: Python Windows Extensions for Mac

2011-08-20 Thread Johnny Venter
Yes, I want to make my queries from a remote non-Windows computer. Here is the scenario: >From my mac, I want to use python to access and read objects from a remote >Windows computer joined to a Windows 2003 functional level domain. Given this, >what is the best way to accomplish this? On Au