On Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:27:14 -0500, Terry Reedy wrote:
[...]
>> and should be treated as a bug. Raymond made a strong case arguing for
>> repeatability, and then approved a bug fix that broke repeatability. I
>> doubt that was deliberate.
>
> It was deliberate that randrange was changed to an eve
On 6.2.2012 09:05, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
You have persuaded me that the doc should be more explicit that while
the basic random.random sequence will be kept repeatable with seed set
(except perhaps after a changeover of several releases), the convenience
transformations can be changed if improve
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 2/6/2012 1:53 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> I suppose there's no chance of moving to a free compiler?
>
> VC express is free-as-in-beer. The whole V. Studio is free to core
> developers. MS may not *like* open-source software, but they have de
On 6.2.2012 09:45, Matej Cepl wrote:
Also, how could I write a re-implementation of random.choice which would
work same on python 2.6 and python 3.2? It is not only matter of unit
tests, but I would really welcome if the results on both versions
produce the same results.
Silly, of course, the s
On 06.02.12 01:58, Matej Cepl wrote:
Hi,
> I have just finished listening to the FLOSS Weekly podcast #200
> (http://twit.tv/show/floss-weekly/200) on autotest, where I've learned
> about the existence of TAP (http://testanything.org/). A standardization
> of testing seems to be so obviously The
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Hello,
I work with a 3rd party tool that provides a C API for customization.
I created Python bindings for this C API so my customizations are nothing
more than this example wrapper code almost verbatim:
http://docs.python.org/extending/embedding.html#pure-embedding
I have many .c files just
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> A more explicit note will help, but the basic problem applies: how do you
> write deterministic tests given that the random.methods (apart from
> random.random itself) can be changed without warning?
Biting the bullet would mean supplying your own PRNG, under your control
On 02/06/2012 09:57 AM, Matej Cepl wrote:
On 6.2.2012 09:45, Matej Cepl wrote:
Also, how could I write a re-implementation of random.choice which would
work same on python 2.6 and python 3.2? It is not only matter of unit
tests, but I would really welcome if the results on both versions
produce
On 02/06/12 12:48, Aaron France wrote:
On 02/06/2012 09:57 AM, Matej Cepl wrote:
Silly, of course, the solution is obvious ... I have just
embedded random.choice from 2.6 to my code.
Matěj
Is the above actually a good idea though?
What I understand you're doing is embedding the source from
th
Hello,
Eric Frederich gmail.com> writes:
>
> 1)Is calling Py_Initialize twice correct, or will I run into other problems
> down the road?
It's fine in practice (spurious calls are ignored).
> I am not sure if there is a mechanism to get something called at the end of
the
> user's session wit
On 2/6/2012 7:24 AM, Frank Becker wrote:
On 06.02.12 01:58, Matej Cepl wrote:
I have just finished listening to the FLOSS Weekly podcast #200
(http://twit.tv/show/floss-weekly/200) on autotest, where I've learned
about the existence of TAP (http://testanything.org/). A standardization
of testi
On 6.2.2012 21:51, Terry Reedy wrote:
The 'TAP standard' is what the Perl TAP module does. There is a
pre-draft for an IETF standard. You could ask why Perl people don't care
about joining the unittest 'standard'.
I don't think it is fair:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_Anything_Protocol#Ex
On 6.2.2012 20:26, Tim Chase wrote:
In an ideal world, the code wouldn't have broken backwards compat.
However, given the conditions, if Matej is willing to forgo bug-fixes,
it's a reasonable solution. The alternate might be to try moving the
recent/fixed version into the old project and updating
Hi,
I wish to call a function in c++ dll which returns a unicode array from
python.
extern "c"
{
__declspec(dllexport) int test(wchar_t** ppText)
{
*ppText = new wchar_t[30];
wcscpy(*ppText, L"this is a test");
return 0;
}
__declspec(dllexport) int FreeString(wc
See the link I attached.
Ruby-like blocks would be nice too.
Implicit returns.
Better strings like """My name is #{name}""".
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I'd like to read in the output of a voltcraft vc960 voltmeter
connected to a usb-port.
I found the perl-script below but I'd like to accomplish the same with
python:
I guess I have to use the module serial but I don't know how I should
set the serial parameters so they are the same as in the perl-s
On Feb 3, 8:42 pm, Matej Cepl wrote:
> Ask anybody developing in CoffeeScript/Vala how much they love debugging
> when they have to go through different styles of errors, bugs in the
> intermediate processes, etc.
I develop in CoffeeScript. I love debugging it because _it's just
javascript_.
CS
I am not a programmer, but this past week I have had a crash course in
python scripting am have been rather impressed with myself for having
written a fairly complicated script that among many other processes
reads a database table via SearchCursor, populates a word template via
Bookmarks, then sav
On Feb 2, 9:23 pm, Michal Hantl wrote:
> See the link I attached.
> Ruby-like blocks would be nice too.
> Implicit returns.
> Better strings like """My name is #{name}""".
Uhu... Looks like you want Ruby, not Python
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As my request might have been too much asked, I have started doing
some coding myself.
I'm in doubt about the readline statement -which doesn't show anything
received- as the meter sends continuously streams of 11 bytes
Is there a way to just monitor with python what is arriving at a
serial port?
On Jan 31, 6:12 pm, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 1/31/2012 11:27 AM, gujax wrote:
>
> > Thanks Terry,
> > I see that the issue has been closed by you.
> > However, I do not know how to run the patch on my Windows. Do I
> > reinstall IDLE?
> > Please suggest. I am using Python2.7
>
Thank you Terry,
The
On Jan 31, 6:12 pm, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 1/31/2012 11:27 AM,gujaxwrote:
>
> > Thanks Terry,
> > I see that the issue has been closed by you.
> > However, I do not know how to run the patch on my Windows. Do I
> > reinstall IDLE?
> > Please suggest. I am using Python2.7
>
Hi Terry,
I changed the
On Feb 2, 11:28 pm, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Steven D'Aprano
>
> wrote:
> > No matter what Python did, somebody would complain.
>
> +1
>
> This is, I think, the ultimate truth of the matter.
People would not complain if they did not care. The only useless
complaint
On 2/2/2012 3:57 PM, Jean Dupont wrote:
I'd like to read in the output of a voltcraft vc960 voltmeter
connected to a usb-port.
I found the perl-script below but I'd like to accomplish the same with
python:
The script below is for an old-fashioned, slow, multiple-pin serial
port, not usb. I don
I'm attempting to run a python script in Blender (blender3d.org) which
is generating an error
8< ~~
File "/home/dave/Apps/blender-2.49b-linux-glibc236-py26-
x86_64/.blender/scripts/pantographLib.py", line 1941, in Pen
MITER = cairo.LINE_JOIN
I need to set the following options I found in a Perl-script in Python for
serial communication with a device (a voltmeter):
$port->handshake("none");
$port->rts_active(0);
$port->dtr_active(1);
I have thus far the following statements but I think it does not set the above
parameters correctl
How do you build a dictionary dynamically? Doesn't seem to be an
insert object or anything. So I need an empty dictionary that I then
want to populate with values I get from looping through a list and
grabbing some properties. So simply, I have (fyi, arcpy = module for
interacting with gis data)
On Jan 24, 2:52 pm, Rob Richardson wrote:
> I use PythonWin to debug the Python scripts we write. Our scripts often use
> the log2pyloggingpackage. When running the scripts inside the debugger, we
> seem to get oneloggingobject for every time we run the script. The result is
> that after run
I am trying to obtain the last accessed date. About 50% of the files'
attributes were updated such that the file was last accessed when this
script touches the file.
I was not opening the files
Anyone have a thought of why this happened.
Python 2.6 on windows xp
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On Feb 4, 6:13 pm, noydb wrote:
> How do you build a dictionary dynamically? Doesn't seem to be an
> insert object or anything. So I need an empty dictionary that I then
> want to populate with values I get from looping through a list and
> grabbing some properties. So simply, I have (fyi, arcp
On Feb 4, 9:33 pm, Python_Junkie
wrote:
> I am trying to obtain the last accessed date. About 50% of the files'
> attributes were updated such that the file was last accessed when this
> script touches the file.
> I was not opening the files
>
> Anyone have a thought of why this happened.
>
> Pyt
On 02/04/2012 01:13 PM, noydb wrote:
How do you build a dictionary dynamically? Doesn't seem to be an
insert object or anything. So I need an empty dictionary that I then
want to populate with values I get from looping through a list and
grabbing some properties. So simply, I have (fyi, arcpy
On 3 Feb., 11:47, John O'Hagan wrote:
> But isn't it equally true if we say that z = t[1], then t[1] += x is
> syntactic sugar for z = z.__iadd__(x)? Why should that fail, if z can handle
> it?
It's more like syntactic sugar for
y = t; z = y.__getitem__(1); z.__iadd__(x); y.__setitem__(1, z)
PIL, PyCrypto and many other modules require a C compiler and linker.
Unfortunately neither install on my computer, with a PATH with the following:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC
C:\libraries\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin
C:\libraries\MinGW
C:\Python27\Scripts
Output from G:\pycrypt
On Feb 3, 6:27 pm, Antti J Ylikoski wrote:
> In Python textbooks that I have read, it is usually not mentioned that
> we can very easily program Common LISP-style closures with Python. It
> is done as follows:
> [...]
do my eyes not see nor my ears not hear?
a thread about common Lisp and Xan Le
On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 4:47 AM, Jean Dupont wrote:
> I need to set the following options I found in a Perl-script in Python for
> serial communication with a device (a voltmeter):
>
> $port->handshake("none");
> $port->rts_active(0);
> $port->dtr_active(1);
>
> I have thus far the following stat
On Feb 5, 4:29 pm, Andrew Berg wrote:
> This has nothing to do with dictionaries. If you want to add, delete, or
> change items, use a list (or a set if there aren't supposed to be any
> duplicates).
AND you don't care about ordering...
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OS is Red hat enterprise linux 5.5 and python version is 2.6
On Feb 2, 4:34 pm, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Feb 2012 05:53:22 -0800 (PST), loial
> wrote:
>
> >I am trying to write a python script to read data from a printer port
> >using python sockets, but it seems I am locking up th
IIRC it means that cairo was compiled against a Python compiled with
--enable-unicode=ucs4. But the version of Python you have was not (default is
ucs2).
Maybe you can find a different version/packaging of cairo that matches this.
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Unfortunately this just means that Word threw an error and it's not
giving many details about what that might be. Are you sure out_TOC is
valid on the other computer? eg,
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3730428/why-cant-i-save-as-an-excel-file-from-my-python-code
indicates Office fails in
On Feb 5, 6:40 am, Alec Taylor wrote:
> PIL, PyCrypto and many other modules require a C compiler and linker.
>
> Unfortunately neither install on my computer, with a PATH with the following:
>
> C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC
> C:\libraries\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin
> C:\librarie
Cookies work because I am able to login on website and GET other pages.
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I'd like to read in a stream of data which looks like this:
the device sends out a byte-string of 11 bytes roughly every second:
B0B0B0B0B03131B0B50D8A
B0B0B0B0B03131B0B50D8A
B0B0B031B63131B0310D8A
B0B034B3323432B3310D8A
B0B03237B53432B3310D8A
.
.
.
As you see every string is
On Feb 6, 10:58 am, Matej Cepl wrote:
> I have just finished listening to the FLOSS Weekly podcast #200
> (http://twit.tv/show/floss-weekly/200) on autotest, where I've learned
> about the existence of TAP (http://testanything.org/).
[...]
> What am I missing?
Experience?
Are you seriously adv
On Feb 7, 8:03 am, Matej Cepl wrote:
> On 6.2.2012 21:51, Terry Reedy wrote:
> > The 'TAP standard' is what the Perl TAP module does. There is a
> > pre-draft for an IETF standard. You could ask why Perl people don't care
> > about joining the unittest 'standard'.
>
> I don't think it is
> fair:h
On Feb 5, 4:13 am, noydb wrote:
> How do you build a dictionary dynamically?
> >>> inDict = {}
> >>> for inFC in inFClist:
> >>> print inFC
> >>> inCount = int(arcpy.GetCount_management(inFC).getOutput(0))
>
> where I want to make a dictionary like {inFC: inCount, inFC:
> inCount, }
>
In article
,
Jean Dupont wrote:
> I'd like to read in a stream of data which looks like this:
> the device sends out a byte-string of 11 bytes roughly every second:
>
> B0B0B0B0B03131B0B50D8A
> B0B0B0B0B03131B0B50D8A
> B0B0B031B63131B0310D8A
> B0B034B3323432B3310D8A
> B0B03
On 2/6/2012 11:10 AM, noydb wrote:
Adding to dictionaries just isn't obvious... if it's not dict.Add or
dict.Appaned or the like, not obvious to inexperienced me!
Have you read section 4.8-mapping types, of the library manual?
Or help(dict) at the interactive prompt?
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