Re: [pyxl] Re: xlrd 0.7.4 released!

2012-04-04 Thread Chris Withers
On 03/04/2012 21:46, Josh English wrote: When I try to import xlrd, I get an error IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'C:\\Users\\josh\\Desktop\\Portable Python\\App\\lib\\site-packages\\xlrd-0.7.5-py2.7.egg\\xlrd\\version.txt' *sigh* I hate python packaging, I'll get a 0.7.6 releas

xlrd 0.7.6 released!

2012-04-04 Thread Chris Withers
And the goat sacrifice continues... On 03/04/2012 08:34, Chris Withers wrote: On 03/04/2012 08:04, Chris Withers wrote: I'm pleased to announce the release of xlrd 0.7.4. I've just release a 0.7.5 that fixes this. Except it didn't, I've just released 0.7.6, which will hopefully bring an end

Implementing python program running in background.

2012-04-04 Thread Rishabh Verma
I need to implement a simple python program, which will be using the oAuth tokens and secrets of all users in out system and will be fetching some stuff from a JSON API. The list of all these users(with a flag if they are logged-in or not right now) is there in a Redis DB. The JSON API needs to be

Re: No os.copy()? Why not?

2012-04-04 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:46:31 -0400, D'Arcy Cain wrote: > >> def cp(infile, outfile): >>    open(outfile, "w").write(open(infile).read()) > > Because your cp doesn't copy the FILE, it copies the file's CONTENTS, > which are not the same thing

ANN: bayeux 0.2 released

2012-04-04 Thread Matej Cepl
Bayeux 0.2 is now available at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/bayeux bayeux is a module for generating TAP (http://testanything.org/). Version 0.2 is an initial version registered in the Cheesshop. Release notes: -- * module tap.py for programatic writing of TAP stream * clone of un

Re: xlrd 0.7.6 released!

2012-04-04 Thread Karim
Le 04/04/2012 09:24, Chris Withers a écrit : And the goat sacrifice continues... On 03/04/2012 08:34, Chris Withers wrote: On 03/04/2012 08:04, Chris Withers wrote: I'm pleased to announce the release of xlrd 0.7.4. I've just release a 0.7.5 that fixes this. Except it didn't, I've just rele

Re: Python and Bloomberg

2012-04-04 Thread Bastian Ballmann
Am 03.04.2012 16:35, schrieb smac2...@comcast.net: Hello, I was just wondering if anyone had experience using Python to interact with Bloomberg. Ideally, I'd look to use Python to feed Bloomberg's OVML calculator with a list of inputs, and then use an additional program to grab the results of the

Re: No os.copy()? Why not?

2012-04-04 Thread Alain Ketterlin
Steven D'Aprano writes: > On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:46:31 -0400, D'Arcy Cain wrote: > >> On 03/28/12 16:12, John Ladasky wrote: >>> I'm looking for a Python (2.7) equivalent to the Unix "cp" command. >>>>>open("outfile", "w").write(open("infile").read()) > Because your cp doesn't copy the FIL

Re: No os.copy()? Why not?

2012-04-04 Thread Roy Smith
On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:46:31 -0400, D'Arcy Cain wrote: > > cp is not a system command, it's a shell command. Why not just use the > > incredibly simple and portable > > > >>>>open("outfile", "w").write(open("infile").read()) In article <4f7be1e8$0$2$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>,

Re: No os.copy()? Why not?

2012-04-04 Thread Roy Smith
In article <87fwcj4zru@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>, Alain Ketterlin wrote: > And sparse files are really hard to reproduce, at least on Unix: on > Linux even the system's cp doesn't guarantee sparseness of the copy (the > manual mentions a "crude heuristic"). I imagine the heuristic is to look f

Re: No os.copy()? Why not?

2012-04-04 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Roy Smith wrote: > Slightly off-topic, but are there file systems these days which support > off-line copying?  If I have a disk at the other end of a network link, > it would be nice to tell the disk to copy a file and tell me when it's > done. Depends on your ne

Re: Is Programing Art or Science?

2012-04-04 Thread Seymour J.
In <87hax0suun@sapphire.mobileactivedefense.com>, on 04/03/2012 at 04:22 PM, Rainer Weikusat said: >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_arts Do you need the Quadrivium or is the Trivium enough for programming ? If the term "art" is good enough for Knuth it's good enough for me. -- Shm

Re: Run once while loop

2012-04-04 Thread John O'Hagan
On Tue, 3 Apr 2012 23:00:22 +0200 Anatoli Hristov wrote: > On 03 Apr 2012, at 22:45, Ian Kelly wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Anatoli Hristov wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'm trying to do a while loop with condition of time if time is > >> 12:00:00 print text, but for this one secon

Re: Run once while loop

2012-04-04 Thread Anatoli Hristov
I thing the best will be if I use hundreds of the seconds to print the message. for example at 12:00:00:10, but unfortunately I cant see that I can use hundreds of the seconds. Does anyone knows if I can use it ? Thanks Anatoli On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 2:25 PM, John O'Hagan wrote: > On Tue, 3

Re: Run once while loop

2012-04-04 Thread Benjamin Kaplan
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Anatoli Hristov wrote: > I thing the best will be if I use hundreds of the seconds to print the > message. > > for example at 12:00:00:10, but unfortunately I cant see that I can use > hundreds of the seconds. > > Does anyone knows if I can use it ? > > Thanks > > A

Re: No os.copy()? Why not?

2012-04-04 Thread Thomas Rachel
Am 03.04.2012 11:34 schrieb John Ladasky: I use subprocess.call() for quite a few other things. I just figured that I should use the tidier modules whenever I can. Of course. I only wanted to point out that os.system() is an even worse approach. shutils.copy() is by far better, of course. --

Re: Number of languages known [was Re: Python is readable] - somewhat OT

2012-04-04 Thread Nathan Rice
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 1:49 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:17:18 -0400, Nathan Rice wrote: > >> I have never met a programmer that was not completely into computers. >> That leaves a lot unspecified though. > > You haven't looked hard enough. There are *thousands* of VB, Java,

Re: getaddrinfo NXDOMAIN exploit - please test on CentOS 6 64-bit

2012-04-04 Thread John Nagle
On 4/2/2012 6:53 PM, John Nagle wrote: On 4/1/2012 1:41 PM, John Nagle wrote: On 4/1/2012 9:26 AM, Michael Torrie wrote: On 03/31/2012 04:58 PM, John Nagle wrote: Removed all "search" and "domain" entries from /etc/resolve.conf It's a design bug in glibc. I just submitted a bug report. ht

Re: Is Programing Art or Science?

2012-04-04 Thread Chiron
On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 03:33:24 -0400, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz wrote: > If the term "art" is good enough for Knuth it's good enough for me. I think that may be the most intelligent comment so far... -- Some rise by sin and some by virtue fall. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-l

Re: xlrd 0.7.6 released!

2012-04-04 Thread Chris Withers
On 04/04/2012 09:57, Karim wrote: Hello, This release manage the '.xlsx' format? No, that is planned for the 0.8 release. cheers, Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Batch Processing & Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listin

igraph and usage of Read(klass, f, format=None, *args, **kwds) question

2012-04-04 Thread ishwar . rattan
I have a file with with adjacency list of an undirected graph one vertex list per input line [0 1, 1 2 3, 2 1, 3 1] assume a newline for commas (file is named adjl.txt). Can some one give an example of loading this into graph of 4 vertices? import igraph g = igraph.Graph() g.Read("adjl.txt", "e

Re: Number of languages known [was Re: Python is readable] - somewhat OT

2012-04-04 Thread rusi
On Apr 3, 11:42 pm, Nathan Rice wrote: > Lets start with some analogies.  In cooking, chefs use recipes to > produce a meal; the recipe is not a tool.  In architecture, a builder > uses a blueprint to produce a building; the blueprint is not a tool. > In manufacturing, expensive machines use plans

Re: Async IO Server with Blocking DB

2012-04-04 Thread Jon Clements
On Tuesday, 3 April 2012 23:13:24 UTC+1, looking for wrote: > Hi > > We are thinking about building a webservice server and considering > python event-driven servers i.e. Gevent/Tornado/ Twisted or some > combination thereof etc. > > We are having doubts about the db io part. Even with connectio

Seeking help: reading text file with genfromtxt

2012-04-04 Thread frankenstein
Hi all I have got a text file which is only 32 MB in size and consists of the following type of lines (columns are fixed): == Header text 1 line ... 01-Jan-2006 0055 145.069 -16.0449 83.2246 84.2835 499.14680 0.074029965 01-Jan-2006 0065

Re: Async IO Server with Blocking DB

2012-04-04 Thread Steve Howell
On Apr 3, 3:13 pm, looking for wrote: > Hi > > We are thinking about building a webservice server and considering > python event-driven servers i.e. Gevent/Tornado/ Twisted or some > combination thereof etc. > > We are having doubts about the db io part. Even with connection > pooling and cache, t

Igraph and usage of Read(kclass, f, format=...) question

2012-04-04 Thread ish
I am using igraph package via Python interface. I have a list of edges of a graph one edge per line of input in a file (e.txt) and want igraph to read the edges into the graph. Can any one give me a usage hint of igraph.Graph.Read()?? import igraph g = igraph.Graph() g.add_vertices(3)# 4 ver

Re: Number of languages known [was Re: Python is readable] - somewhat OT

2012-04-04 Thread Steve Howell
On Apr 3, 11:19 pm, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:39:14 -0400, Nathan Rice wrote: > > Much like > > with the terminal to GUI transition, you will have people attacking > > declarative natural language programming as a stupid practice for noobs, > > and the end of computing (even

Re: Google Tech Talk: lisp at JPL

2012-04-04 Thread ccc31807
On Apr 3, 1:53 am, Xah Lee wrote: > 〈The Remote Agent Experiment: Debugging Code from 60 Million Miles > Away〉 > Google Tech Talk, (2012-02-14) Presented by Ron Garret. > @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gZK0tW8EhQ RG mentions giving a more technical version to a Lisp User Group. Any chance that

Re: No os.copy()? Why not?

2012-04-04 Thread Steve Howell
On Apr 4, 1:37 am, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Steven D'Aprano > > wrote: > > On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:46:31 -0400, D'Arcy Cain wrote: > > >> def cp(infile, outfile): > >>    open(outfile, "w").write(open(infile).read()) > > > Because your cp doesn't copy the FILE, it co

Re: Number of languages known [was Re: Python is readable] - somewhat OT

2012-04-04 Thread Nathan Rice
> Long personal note ahead. > tl;dr version: Computers are such a large shift for human civilization > that generally we dont get what that shift is about or towards. Another option: since *computers* are such a general device, there isn't just one notion. > In the long run I expect computing sci

Re: No os.copy()? Why not?

2012-04-04 Thread Nobody
On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:14:18 -0400, Roy Smith wrote: >> And sparse files are really hard to reproduce, at least on Unix: on >> Linux even the system's cp doesn't guarantee sparseness of the copy (the >> manual mentions a "crude heuristic"). > > I imagine the heuristic is to look for blocks of all

Re: Number of languages known [was Re: Python is readable] - somewhat OT

2012-04-04 Thread Nathan Rice
> The "building cabinets" problem is interesting: > >  1. To actually build a cabinet, there's a lot of domain knowledge > that's probably implicit in most circumstances.  A carpenter might > tell another carpenter which hinge to use, but they won't have to talk > about why doors need hinges or how

Installing a binary package on virtualenv on windows

2012-04-04 Thread Manu
Hi I have been using virtualenv on my windows desktop for quite a while now and would really recommend everyone to use it. Something I come across is how can I install a binary dependency in my virtual environment . I need to install lxml and gevent. Both packages are delivered as windows inst

Re: igraph and usage of Read(klass, f, format=None, *args, **kwds) question

2012-04-04 Thread Ian Kelly
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 9:45 PM, wrote: > I have a file with with adjacency list of an undirected graph one vertex list > per input line [0 1, 1 2 3, 2 1, 3 1] assume a newline for commas (file is > named adjl.txt). Can some one give an example of loading this into graph of 4 > vertices? > > im

Why does this hang sometimes?

2012-04-04 Thread Jesse Jaggars
I am just playing around with threading and subprocess and found that the following program will hang up and never terminate every now and again. import threading import subprocess import time def targ():    p = subprocess.Popen(["/bin/sleep", "2"])    while p.poll() is None:        time.sleep(1)

Re: Async IO Server with Blocking DB

2012-04-04 Thread Jean-Paul Calderone
On Apr 3, 6:13 pm, looking for wrote: > Hi > > We are thinking about building a webservice server and considering > python event-driven servers i.e. Gevent/Tornado/ Twisted or some > combination thereof etc. > > We are having doubts about the db io part. Even with connection > pooling and cache, t

Python Gotcha's?

2012-04-04 Thread Miki Tebeka
Greetings, I'm going to give a "Python Gotcha's" talk at work. If you have an interesting/common "Gotcha" (warts/dark corners ...) please share. (Note that I want over http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonWarts already). Thanks, -- Miki -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Gotcha's?

2012-04-04 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:34:20 -0700, Miki Tebeka wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm going to give a "Python Gotcha's" talk at work. If you have an > interesting/common "Gotcha" (warts/dark corners ...) please share. > > (Note that I want over http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonWarts already). The GIL p

Re: Python Gotcha's?

2012-04-04 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 04Apr2012 15:34, Miki Tebeka wrote: | I'm going to give a "Python Gotcha's" talk at work. | If you have an interesting/common "Gotcha" (warts/dark corners ...) please share. | | (Note that I want over http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonWarts already). Missing "return" means "return None". One

Re: Python Gotcha's?

2012-04-04 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 04Apr2012 23:07, Steven D'Aprano wrote: | If you decorate a function, by default the docstring is lost. | | @decorate | def spam(x, y): | """blah blah blah blah""" | | spam.__doc__ => raises exception | | Solution: make sure your decorator uses functools.wraps(). There's a functools.wr

Re: Python Gotcha's?

2012-04-04 Thread Cameron Simpson
No module level properties: >>> @property ... def x(): ... print 1 ... >>> x Actually, that doesn't work with classes either, only instances. Can I refer to the instance of the module/package? In the interpreter, __package__ is None instead of some unnamed "module/package". In g

Re: Python Gotcha's?

2012-04-04 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Miki Tebeka wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm going to give a "Python Gotcha's" talk at work. > If you have an interesting/common "Gotcha" (warts/dark corners ...) please > share. > > (Note that I want over http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonWarts already). Don't know if

Re: Python Gotcha's?

2012-04-04 Thread Tim Chase
On 04/04/12 17:34, Miki Tebeka wrote: Greetings, I'm going to give a "Python Gotcha's" talk at work. If you have an interesting/common "Gotcha" (warts/dark corners ...) please share. (Note that I want over http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonWarts already). 1) While I believe it was fixed in m

Re: No os.copy()? Why not?

2012-04-04 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 1:15 AM, Steve Howell wrote: > On Apr 4, 1:37 am, Chris Angelico wrote: >> And, as a subtle point: This method can't create the file "at size". I >> don't know how it'll end up allocating space, but certainly there's no >> opportunity to announce to the OS at file open/crea

Re: Igraph and usage of Read(kclass, f, format=...) question

2012-04-04 Thread alex23
On Apr 5, 12:00 am, ish wrote: > Any pointer will be appreciated. 1. Show your input. Odds are there's a problem with your data. 2. Show the output. "Does not work" tells us nothing of value. 3. Don't repeatedly post the same question in different threads. That doesn't make people answer any fast

Cannot connect to IMAP server in Python 3.2

2012-04-04 Thread Steven D'Aprano
I can connect to an IMAP server using Python 2.6: steve@runes:~$ python2.6 Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Dec 27 2010, 00:02:40) [GCC 4.4.5] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import imaplib >>> server = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('x') >>> print server

Re: Cannot connect to IMAP server in Python 3.2

2012-04-04 Thread Rob Williscroft
Steven D'Aprano wrote in news:4f7d2475$0$3$c3e8...@news.astraweb.com in gmane.comp.python.general: > I can connect to an IMAP server using Python 2.6: > > steve@runes:~$ python2.6 > Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Dec 27 2010, 00:02:40) server = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('x') > But when I tr

Re: Cannot connect to IMAP server in Python 3.2

2012-04-04 Thread Steve Howell
On Apr 4, 9:49 pm, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > I can connect to an IMAP server using Python 2.6: > > steve@runes:~$ python2.6 > Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Dec 27 2010, 00:02:40) > [GCC 4.4.5] on linux2 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.>>> > import imaplib > >>>