Re: PyPI - how do you pronounce it?

2012-01-28 Thread Chris Rebert
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 11:48 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > Hopefully this will be a step up from Rick's threads in usefulness, > but I'm aware it's not of particularly great value! > > How do you pronounce PyPI? Is it: > * Pie-Pie? Personally, yes. Reflecting upon it, I now recognize this is ambig

Re: PyPI - how do you pronounce it?

2012-01-28 Thread Ben Finney
Chris Angelico writes: > How do you pronounce PyPI? Is it: > * Pie-Pie? It overlaps with “PyPy” which, to remain unambiguous, should be pronounced that way. > * Pie-Pea-Eye? This. As an Anglophile, there is no compulsion to aggressively pronounce every initialism; we spell them out where neede

Re: PyPI - how do you pronounce it?

2012-01-28 Thread Andrew Berg
On 1/28/2012 1:48 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: > How do you pronounce PyPI? > * Pie-Pea-Eye? This, primarily because it represents 3 words, and secondarily to eliminate confusion with PyPy. -- CPython 3.2.2 | Windows NT 6.1.7601.17640 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PyPI - how do you pronounce it?

2012-01-28 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:48:49 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > Hopefully this will be a step up from Rick's threads in usefulness, but > I'm aware it's not of particularly great value! > > How do you pronounce PyPI? Is it: Obviously that's pronounced Fin-tim-lin-bin-whin-bim-lim-bus-stop-F'tang- F'

Re: PyPI - how do you pronounce it?

2012-01-28 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Obviously that's pronounced Fin-tim-lin-bin-whin-bim-lim-bus-stop-F'tang- > F'tang-Olé-Biscuitbarrel. Ah, it's of British origin then. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Popen in main and subprocess

2012-01-28 Thread pistacchio
the following code (in the main thread) works well, I grep some files and the search until the first 100 results are found (writing the results to a file), then exit: command = 'grep -F "%s" %s*.txt' % (search_string, DATA_PATH) p = Popen(['/bin/bash', '-c', command], stdout = PIPE) f

Re: PyPI - how do you pronounce it?

2012-01-28 Thread Aaron France
On 01/28/2012 10:57 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:48:49 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: Hopefully this will be a step up from Rick's threads in usefulness, but I'm aware it's not of particularly great value! How do you pronounce PyPI? Is it: Obviously that's pronounced Fin-ti

Re: Popen in main and subprocess

2012-01-28 Thread Thomas Rachel
Am 28.01.2012 11:19 schrieb pistacchio: the following code (in the main thread) works well, I grep some files and the search until the first 100 results are found (writing the results to a file), then exit: command = 'grep -F "%s" %s*.txt' % (search_string, DATA_PATH) p = Popen(['/bin

Re: what is the unicode?

2012-01-28 Thread Dave Angel
I'm guessing you're using Python 2.7 or something similar. Things are much different in Python 3.x On 01/28/2012 02:47 AM, contro opinion wrote: > as far as i know > u'中国'.encode('utf-8') > '\xe4\xb8\xad\xe5\x9b\xbd' > > so,'\xe4\xb8\xad\xe5\x9b\xbd' is the utf-8 of '中国' No, it is the utf

Re: calling a simple PyQt application more than once

2012-01-28 Thread Jabba Laci
> You can click the "Press me" button as many times as you wish; it > retrieves and displays/prints the same HTML file on each click. Hi, Thanks for your reply. I forgot to mention that my first solution created a headless browser, i.e. it didn't create any GUI. I would like to keep it that way,

Re: python logging filter limitation, looks intentional?

2012-01-28 Thread Chris Withers
On 20/01/2012 20:09, Terry Reedy wrote: version upgrade. The proposed change isn't a new feature, it's a request for an existing feature to work differently. Thank you for the clarification. I had not gotten that the request was for a change, which has a much higher bar to pass than feature add

Re: Job Opportunity: Software Engineers at growing start-up! (Philadelphia, PA area)

2012-01-28 Thread Chris Withers
On 26/01/2012 19:09, GardnerJessica wrote: We’re looking for talented engineers who are interested in working on hard problems. Please don't spam the list with jobs, use the job board: http://www.python.org/community/jobs/howto/ cheers, Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Batch Proces

Questions regarding the daemon module.

2012-01-28 Thread David Lambert
I was looking for a simple way to daemonize a Python process, and found: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3143/ I used easy_install to add this package (I thought), but when I attempted to use the example in the above link, I got the error: AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute

Re: Patching CGIHTTPServer.py

2012-01-28 Thread Miki Tebeka
IMO the code is good enough to submit a patch. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PyPI - how do you pronounce it?

2012-01-28 Thread Miki Tebeka
cheeseshop :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: runtime error

2012-01-28 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 1/27/2012 10:38 AM nikos spanakis said... Hi I just minstalled python 3.1 on my windons XP SP3 but on the start up I get the following error message: You don't say what you specifically installed, but for windows you may find activestates distribution a good fit. See http://www.activest

Re: what is the unicode?

2012-01-28 Thread Dan Sommers
On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:47:17 +0800, contro opinion wrote: u'中国'.encode('utf-8') > '\xe4\xb8\xad\xe5\x9b\xbd' > > so,'\xe4\xb8\xad\xe5\x9b\xbd' is the utf-8 of '中国' Those bytes are the utf-8 encoding of those CJK ideograph (I won't even pretend to know what those CJK ideographs are or

Re: PyPI - how do you pronounce it?

2012-01-28 Thread Stefan Behnel
Chris Angelico, 28.01.2012 08:48: > Hopefully this will be a step up from Rick's threads in usefulness, > but I'm aware it's not of particularly great value! > > How do you pronounce PyPI? Is it: > * Pie-Pie? I consider this taken by PyPy, and I tend to run into the trap of pronouncing both the s

Re: to express unicode string

2012-01-28 Thread Michael Torrie
On 01/28/2012 12:21 AM, contro opinion wrote: s='你好' On my computer, s is a byte string that contains the utf-8 formatted encoding of 你好. This has nothing to do with python, though, and everything to do with the line editor python's interpreter is doing. In other words, the string is encode

Re: Questions regarding the daemon module.

2012-01-28 Thread Chris Rebert
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 5:54 AM, David Lambert wrote: > I was looking for a simple way to daemonize a Python process, and found: > > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3143/ > > I used easy_install to add this package (I thought), but when I attempted to > use the example in the above link, I got

Re: PyPI - how do you pronounce it?

2012-01-28 Thread Ben Finney
Chris Rebert writes: > On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 11:48 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > > How do you pronounce PyPI? Is it: > > * Pie-Pie? > > Personally, yes. Reflecting upon it, I now recognize this is ambiguous > with PyPy, but context should make it clear verbally. I've had many conversations wher

Re: PyPI - how do you pronounce it?

2012-01-28 Thread Ben Finney
Steven D'Aprano writes: > On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:48:49 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > > How do you pronounce PyPI? Is it: > > Obviously that's pronounced Fin-tim-lin-bin-whin-bim-lim-bus-stop-F'tang- > F'tang-Olé-Biscuitbarrel. You're a very silly man and I'm not going to interview you. > > * P

Re: Questions regarding the daemon module.

2012-01-28 Thread Ben Finney
David Lambert writes: > I was looking for a simple way to daemonize a Python process, and found: > > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3143/ > > I used easy_install to add this package (I thought), but when I attempted > to use the example in the above link, I got the error: > > > AttributeError

Re: PyPI - how do you pronounce it?

2012-01-28 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Ben Finney wrote: > Steven D'Aprano writes: >> > * Pie-Pie? >> >> Or that one. > > What flavour is it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKB4h9gvmm0> Concrete! Flavour of the month. Thanks for the responses, all. Looks like Pie-Pea-Eye has consensus (with hon ment

Re: to express unicode string

2012-01-28 Thread Terry Reedy
On 1/28/2012 2:58 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: On 01/28/2012 12:21 AM, contro opinion wrote: s='你好' On my computer, s is a byte string that contains the utf-8 formatted encoding of 你好. On mine, s is a (unicode) string containing those two characters. That is because I pasted the above into IDL

Re: PyPI - how do you pronounce it?

2012-01-28 Thread Matej Cepl
On 28.1.2012 17:06, Miki Tebeka wrote: cheeseshop :) +1 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: to express unicode string

2012-01-28 Thread Michael Torrie
On 01/28/2012 04:03 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 1/28/2012 2:58 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: >> On 01/28/2012 12:21 AM, contro opinion wrote: >> s='你好' >> >> On my computer, s is a byte string that contains the utf-8 formatted >> encoding of 你好. > > On mine, s is a (unicode) string containing thos

speaking at PyCon

2012-01-28 Thread Eric Snow
This is my first year speaking at PyCon, so I solicited speaking/preparation advice from a bunch of folks, particularly focusing on the PyCon speaking experience. I've compiled the results and put them online: http://ref.rtfd.org/speakers This is still rough, and feedback is welcome, as is more

object aware of others

2012-01-28 Thread Lee Chaplin
Hi all, I am trying to create an object that is aware of other objects created before itself, and when found, then copy some attributes from them, something like: class A: def __init__(self): self.myname = "IamA" print 'This is A' def foo(self): print "foo" def

Re: object aware of others

2012-01-28 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Lee Chaplin wrote: > I am trying to create an object that is aware of other objects created > before itself, and when found, then copy some attributes from them, > something like: If you're looking only at other objects of the same class, the easiest way is to mai

Re: object aware of others

2012-01-28 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:48:34 +1300, Lee Chaplin wrote: [...] > The last four lines work if they are in the same module as the class > definitions (a000), but it doesn't work if they are called from a > different module, say: globals() is not actually global to the entire Python session. It actua

Re: object aware of others

2012-01-28 Thread Terry Reedy
On 1/28/2012 11:02 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Lee Chaplin wrote: I am trying to create an object that is aware of other objects created before itself, and when found, then copy some attributes from them, something like: If you're looking only at other objects o

Re: object aware of others

2012-01-28 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 1/28/2012 11:02 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: >> >> If you're looking only at other objects of the same class, the easiest >> way is to maintain a list every time one is created. Then you just >> iterate over that list to know about your friends

Reading Adobe PDF File

2012-01-28 Thread Shrewd Investor
Hi, I have a very large Adobe PDF file. I was hoping to use a script to extract the information for it. Is there a way to loop through a PDF file using Python? Or do I need to find a way to convert a PDF file into a text file? If so how? Thanks! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyt

Re: Reading Adobe PDF File

2012-01-28 Thread Shrewd Investor
If somebody could point to me a resource (past posting, web page, and book) so I could learn or by posting a sample script that would be greatly appreciated? On Jan 28, 9:52 pm, Shrewd Investor wrote: > Hi, > > I have a very large Adobe PDF file.  I was hoping to use a script to > extract the inf

Re: Reading Adobe PDF File

2012-01-28 Thread Chris Rebert
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Shrewd Investor wrote: > Hi, > > I have a very large Adobe PDF file.  I was hoping to use a script to > extract the information for it.  Is there a way to loop through a PDF > file using Python? Haven't used it myself, but: http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/python/pd

Does python(django) have an official database driver to access SQLFire?

2012-01-28 Thread Jack
Does python(django) have an official database driver to access SQLFire? Or is there any roadmap to deliver an official database driver? Anyone know about this? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Does python(django) have an official database driver to access SQLFire

2012-01-28 Thread Niu.Jack
Hello, I have a question on Python. Does python(django) have an official database driver to access SQLFire? Or is there any roadmap to deliver an official database driver? Thanks Jack Niu Software Engineer, EGS International Game Technology 11/F Viva Plaza, No.29 Su Zhou Street, Haidian Dist

parse binary file

2012-01-28 Thread contro opinion
please download the attachment ,and put in c:\test.data and run the folloeing code: from struct import unpack file_obj = open('c:\\test.data', 'r') day = file_obj.read(40) while day: parsed = list(unpack('LLL', day[:28])) print parsed day = file_obj.read(4