[ANNOUNCE] Campaign to support the notmm project!

2012-08-13 Thread Etienne Robillard
Hi All, I'm raising a campaign to support the notmm project, a freely accessible open source project i created to develop an advanced web framework for Django. Furthermore the project is using ConfigObj internally for allowing flexible configuration and Cython for extending Django apps in C.

Re: Idle no longer works

2012-08-13 Thread jussij
On Saturday, August 11, 2012 4:09:16 PM UTC-7, Opap-OJ wrote: > I can no longer open the Idle IDE for Python on Windows 7. > .. > Any idea why? It looks like your registry has changed. To fix this just use the Windows Explorer, click on a Python file and use the 'Open with, Choose default progr

Re: save dictionary to a file without brackets.

2012-08-13 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 17:15:12 -0700, alex23 wrote: > On Aug 10, 7:37 pm, Mark Lawrence wrote: >> Well whatever you do *DON'T* mention Cython. I mentioned it just now >> but I think I've got away with it. > > While I'm not against threads straying off topic, you're beginning to > come across as a

Re: Threads and sockets

2012-08-13 Thread Ulrich Eckhardt
Am 10.08.2012 15:01, schrieb loial: I am writing an application to send data to a printer port(9100) and then recieve PJL responses back on that port. Because of the way PJL works I have to do both in the same process(script). If I understand that right, you are opening a TCP connection, so ob

Re: Official reason for omitting inspect.currentcallable() ?

2012-08-13 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 23:06:19 +, kj wrote: > Is there an *explicitly stated* reason (e.g. in a PEP, or in some python > dev list message) for why the inspect module (at least for Python 2.7) > does not include anything like a "currentcallable()" function that would > *stably*[1] return the curr

testfixtures 2.3.5 Released!

2012-08-13 Thread Chris Withers
Hi All, I'm pleased to announce the release of testfixtures 2.3.5. testfixtures is a collection of helpers for writing succinct unit tests including help for: - Comparing objects and sequences Better feedback when the results aren't as you expected along with support for comparison of objec

Re: Official reason for omitting inspect.currentcallable() ?

2012-08-13 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 23:06:19 +, kj wrote: > >> Is there an *explicitly stated* reason (e.g. in a PEP, or in some python >> dev list message) for why the inspect module (at least for Python 2.7) >> does not include anything like a "curre

How to uncompress a VOB file? (Win XP)

2012-08-13 Thread Xantipius
subj -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Threading KeyError in Python 3.3 beta 2?

2012-08-13 Thread Blind Anagram
I thought I would try out Python 3.3 beta 2. This works well so far but I keep getting the message: Exception KeyError: KeyError(6308,) infrom 'c:\\Program Files\\Python33\\lib\\threading.py'> ignored after some of my python code completes. Is this an issue worth reporting? -- http:

Re: How to uncompress a VOB file? (Win XP)

2012-08-13 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 03:18:49 -0700, Xantipius wrote: > subj The same way as you compressed it, only in reverse. When you ask a sensible question, I'm sure that somebody will give you a sensible answer. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Threading KeyError in Python 3.3 beta 2?

2012-08-13 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Blind Anagram wrote: > I thought I would try out Python 3.3 beta 2. > This works well so far but I keep getting the message: > > Exception KeyError: KeyError(6308,) in 'c:\\Program Files\\Python33\\lib\\threading.py'> ignored > > after some of my python code compl

Re: Threading KeyError in Python 3.3 beta 2?

2012-08-13 Thread Blind Anagram
"Chris Angelico" wrote in message news:mailman.3222.1344856408.4697.python-l...@python.org... On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Blind Anagram wrote: I thought I would try out Python 3.3 beta 2. This works well so far but I keep getting the message: Exception KeyError: KeyError(6308,) in igno

Re: Running Python web apps on shared ASO servers?

2012-08-13 Thread Gilles
On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 22:26:19 +0100, Tim Golden wrote: >Just to make a point: one person's "isn't a good solution" is another >person's "works perfectly well for me". Modern servers are really quite >quick: the cost of starting up a Python process and generating an HTML >page can be really quite

Re: Threading KeyError in Python 3.3 beta 2?

2012-08-13 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Blind Anagram wrote: > > Here is a fairly short bit of code which produces the exception: > > for pre in ('12', '13', '14', '15', '21' ): > n = int(pre + '543') > s = str(n * n) > if len(set(s)) == 9: >print(n, s) Interesting. I just downloaded a clean 3.3

Re: Threading KeyError in Python 3.3 beta 2?

2012-08-13 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 12:24:55 +0100, Blind Anagram wrote: > Here is a fairly short bit of code which produces the exception: > > for pre in ('12', '13', '14', '15', '21' ): > n = int(pre + '543') > s = str(n * n) > if len(set(s)) == 9: > print(n, s) Um, I don't think so. >>> for pre

Re: Threading KeyError in Python 3.3 beta 2?

2012-08-13 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Since your code doesn't even import threading, let alone use it, I can't > imagine how you get an error in threading. Hey, I try not to get scornful until at least the sixth post :) ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pytho

Re: How to uncompress a VOB file? (Win XP)

2012-08-13 Thread Ben Finney
Xantipius writes: > subj resp -- \ “What is needed is not the will to believe but the will to find | `\ out, which is the exact opposite.” —Bertrand Russell, _Free | _o__) Thought and Official Propaganda_, 1928 | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mail

Re: Threading KeyError in Python 3.3 beta 2?

2012-08-13 Thread Blind Anagram
"Chris Angelico" wrote in message news:mailman.3223.1344857956.4697.python-l...@python.org... On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Blind Anagram wrote: Here is a fairly short bit of code which produces the exception: for pre in ('12', '13', '14', '15', '21' ): n = int(pre + '543') s = str(n *

Re: Threading KeyError in Python 3.3 beta 2?

2012-08-13 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Blind Anagram wrote: > Thanks to you both for your responses. > > Its an IDE issue of some kind (I am using WING). > > When I run under a command prompt (or IDLE) all is well. Next time, do mention that sort of environmental consideration in the original post :)

Re: decoding a byte array that is unicode escaped?

2012-08-13 Thread strong . drug
пятница, 6 ноября 2009 г., 12:48:47 UTC+4 пользователь sam написал: > I am simply trying to display this copyright symbol on a webpage, so > how do I encode the byte array to utf-8 given that it is 'escape > encoded' in the above way? I tried: > > responseByteArray.decode('utf-8') > and response

Re: save dictionary to a file without brackets.

2012-08-13 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 13/08/2012 01:15, alex23 wrote: On Aug 10, 7:37 pm, Mark Lawrence wrote: Well whatever you do *DON'T* mention Cython. I mentioned it just now but I think I've got away with it. While I'm not against threads straying off topic, you're beginning to come across as a bit of an asshole now. Ju

Re: How to uncompress a VOB file? (Win XP)

2012-08-13 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 13/08/2012 11:18, Xantipius wrote: subj Either a) write some code and when and if it fails give us a small code snippet that demonstates the problem with the complete traceback. or b) state how much you are willing to pay for someone here to come up with a solution for you. -- Cheer

Re: How to uncompress a VOB file? (Win XP)

2012-08-13 Thread PythonAB
On 13 aug 2012, at 14:40, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 13/08/2012 11:18, Xantipius wrote: >> subj >> > > Either > > a) write some code and when and if it fails give us a small code snippet that > demonstates the problem with the complete traceback. > > or > > b) state how much you are willing

Re: How to uncompress a VOB file? (Win XP)

2012-08-13 Thread Miki Tebeka
Have a look at PyMedia. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

ANN: psutil 0.6.0 released

2012-08-13 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
Hi folks, I'm pleased to announce the 0.6.0 release of psutil: http://code.google.com/p/psutil/ This is one of the best releases so far as it addresses two important issues: system memory functions management and permission errors occurring on Windows and OSX. === Memory functions === psutil.ph

Re: Official reason for omitting inspect.currentcallable() ?

2012-08-13 Thread kj
In Chris Angelico writes: >I'm not familiar with it by that name, but Pike's this_function is >what the OP's describing. You got it. >It's a useful construct in theory when you want to write in recursion, >which was part of the rationale behind PEP 3130 Thank you! kj -- http://mail.python

print(....,file=sys.stderr) buffered?

2012-08-13 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, for tracing purposes I have added some print outs like print('+++ before calling foo',file=sys.stderr) x=foo(..) print('--- after calling foo', and within 'foo' print('>>> entering foo ...',file=sys.stderr) Now, when executing this, I always get +++ before calling foo --- after calling f

Re: print(....,file=sys.stderr) buffered?

2012-08-13 Thread Ramchandra Apte
As far as I know, stdout is usually buffered (not necessary) in both C++ and Python stderr is non-buffered in both C++ and Python (I can't imagine the point of stderr if it were buffered) Even with this, stdout usually come immediately - the situation you have shouldn't happen. Are you using an IDE

Re: Does anyone have an activate script for portable python?

2012-08-13 Thread Ramchandra Apte
PS:virtualenv is added to the stdlib in Python 3.3 On 13 August 2012 05:42, alex23 wrote: > On Aug 12, 9:09 am, Gelonida N wrote: > > In Pythons installed with virtualenv there is on windows an activate.bat > > script, that can be used to setup the cmd-shell such, that the search > > path for p

Re: print(....,file=sys.stderr) buffered?

2012-08-13 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-08-13, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > for tracing purposes I have added some print outs like > > print('+++ before calling foo',file=sys.stderr) > x=foo(..) > print('--- after calling foo', > > and within 'foo' > print('>>> entering foo ...',file=sys.stderr) > > Now, when executing this

Re: save dictionary to a file without brackets.

2012-08-13 Thread alex23
On Aug 13, 10:37 pm, Mark Lawrence wrote: > Why on your say so? My mistake, I didn't realise you wanted to sound so tedious. Knock yourself out. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: save dictionary to a file without brackets.

2012-08-13 Thread alex23
On Aug 13, 6:05 pm, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Chill out Alex, it's all good. Mark was channelling a famous scene from > "Fawlty Towers", staring Monty Python's own John Cleese, hence it is on- > topic, for the sillier definitions of on-topic. Thank you, yes, I get that. However, Mark has repeatedl

Re: print(....,file=sys.stderr) buffered?

2012-08-13 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:43:31 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2012-08-13, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> Hi, >> >> for tracing purposes I have added some print outs like >> >> print('+++ before calling foo',file=sys.stderr) >> x=foo(..) >> print('--- after calling foo', Sorry, this is a cut'n paste

Re: save dictionary to a file without brackets.

2012-08-13 Thread rusi
On Aug 13, 1:05 pm, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > Chill out Alex, it's all good. Mark was channelling a famous scene from > "Fawlty Towers", staring Monty Python's own John Cleese, hence it is on- > topic, for the sillier definitions of on-topic. Ha! Thanks for that connection. Watched and enjoyed F

Re: print(....,file=sys.stderr) buffered?

2012-08-13 Thread Jerry Hill
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Now, when executing this, I always get > > +++ before calling foo > --- after calling foo entering foo ... Can you give us a piece of code we can run that produces this output for you? You gave us an outline in your original post,

Sharing code between different projects?

2012-08-13 Thread andrea crotti
I am in the situation where I am working on different projects that might potentially share a lot of code. I started to work on project A, then switched completely to project B and in the transiction I copied over a lot of code with the corresponding tests, and I started to modify it. Now it's ti

Re: save dictionary to a file without brackets.

2012-08-13 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 13/08/2012 17:14, alex23 wrote: On Aug 13, 10:37 pm, Mark Lawrence wrote: Why on your say so? My mistake, I didn't realise you wanted to sound so tedious. Knock yourself out. Yes m'lud. Do I lick your boots or polish them? -- Cheers. Mark Lawrence. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: save dictionary to a file without brackets.

2012-08-13 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 13/08/2012 01:15, alex23 wrote: On Aug 10, 7:37 pm, Mark Lawrence wrote: Well whatever you do *DON'T* mention Cython. I mentioned it just now but I think I've got away with it. While I'm not against threads straying off topic, you're beginning to come across as a bit of an asshole now. Ju

Re: Idle no longer works

2012-08-13 Thread Terry Reedy
On 8/13/2012 1:43 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 00:11:06 -0700 (PDT), jus...@zeusedit.com declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: On Saturday, August 11, 2012 4:09:16 PM UTC-7, Opap-OJ wrote: I can no longer open the Idle IDE for Python on Windows 7. .. Any id

Re: Does anyone have an activate script for portable python?

2012-08-13 Thread Gelonida N
On 08/13/2012 02:12 AM, alex23 wrote: On Aug 12, 9:09 am, Gelonida N wrote: In Pythons installed with virtualenv there is on windows an activate.bat script, that can be used to setup the cmd-shell such, that the search path for python and pythor elated tools (pip / easy_install) is setup proper

Re: Sharing code between different projects?

2012-08-13 Thread Rob Day
I'd just create a module - called shared_utils.py or similar - and import that in both projects. It might be a bit messy if there's no 'unifying theme' to the module - but surely it'd be a lot less messy than your TempDirectory class, and anyone else who knows Python will understand 'import shared_

Re: Sharing code between different projects?

2012-08-13 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 2:53 AM, andrea crotti wrote: > The problem is that there are functions/classes from many domains, so it > would not make much sense to create a real project, and the only name I > could give might be "utils or utilities".. There's actually much merit in a generic utilitie

Re: How to uncompress a VOB file? (Win XP)

2012-08-13 Thread Xantipius
On Aug 13, 3:40 pm, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 13/08/2012 11:18, Xantipius wrote: > > > subj > > Either > > a) write some code and when and if it fails give us a small code snippet > that demonstates the problem with the complete traceback. > > or > > b) state how much you are willing to pay for so

Re: How to uncompress a VOB file? (Win XP)

2012-08-13 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Xantipius wrote: > Mark, in regard your last remark: > it's just a recreation for me. Nothing more in it. > I like to put some weird and useless problems before myself. In that case, I strongly recommend that you write some code instead of throwing zero-effort que

Re: How to uncompress a VOB file? (Win XP)

2012-08-13 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 14/08/2012 00:00, Xantipius wrote: On Aug 13, 3:40 pm, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 13/08/2012 11:18, Xantipius wrote: subj Either a) write some code and when and if it fails give us a small code snippet that demonstates the problem with the complete traceback. or b) state how much you are

Re: save dictionary to a file without brackets.

2012-08-13 Thread alex23
On Aug 14, 3:43 am, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 13/08/2012 01:15, alex23 wrote: > > > On Aug 10, 7:37 pm, Mark Lawrence wrote: > >> Well whatever you do *DON'T* mention Cython. I mentioned it just now but > >> I think I've got away with it. > > > While I'm not against threads straying off topic, yo

Re: save dictionary to a file without brackets.

2012-08-13 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 18:07:26 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 13/08/2012 17:14, alex23 wrote: >> On Aug 13, 10:37 pm, Mark Lawrence wrote: >>> Why on your say so? >> >> My mistake, I didn't realise you wanted to sound so tedious. Knock >> yourself out. >> >> >> > Yes m'lud. Do I lick your boots

Re: How to uncompress a VOB file? (Win XP)

2012-08-13 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 01:34:46 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote: > When did you seek my permission to call me by my forename? Sheesh. It's 2012, not 1812. If you sign your posts with your full name, you have to expect that people will call you "Mark" rather than "Mr Lawrence" or "Lord High Mucky-Muck G

how to call perl script from html using python

2012-08-13 Thread mullapervez
Hi, I wanna call perl script in HTML form n store that data in DB using Python. How can i do this...?? Please help me Thank you Pervez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: how to call perl script from html using python

2012-08-13 Thread Simon Cropper
On 14/08/12 15:12, mullaper...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I wanna call perl script in HTML form n store that data in DB using Python. How can i do this...?? Please help me Thank you Pervez Google you question. Many solutions already exist on the Internet. -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper

Re: how to call perl script from html using python

2012-08-13 Thread mullapervez
On Tuesday, August 14, 2012 10:42:48 AM UTC+5:30, mulla...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, > > > > I wanna call perl script in HTML form n store that data in DB using Python. > > > > How can i do this...?? > > > > Please help me > > > > Thank you > > Pervez Hey Simon, Thank You for your m

Re: how to call perl script from html using python

2012-08-13 Thread Simon Cropper
On 14/08/12 15:31, mullaper...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, August 14, 2012 10:42:48 AM UTC+5:30, mulla...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I wanna call perl script in HTML form n store that data in DB using Python. How can i do this...?? Please help me Thank you Pervez Hey Simon, Thank

Re: how to call perl script from html using python

2012-08-13 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 22:12:48 -0700, mullapervez wrote: > Hi, > > I wanna call perl script in HTML form n store that data in DB using > Python. > > How can i do this...?? > > Please help me Okay, let me give you some general advice first, then some programming advice If your question look

Re: how to call perl script from html using python

2012-08-13 Thread Pervez Mulla
On Tuesday, August 14, 2012 10:42:48 AM UTC+5:30, Pervez Mulla wrote: > Hi, > > > > I wanna call perl script in HTML form n store that data in DB using Python. > > > > How can i do this...?? > > > > Please help me > > > > Thank you > > Pervez Thank you for your advice steven, I a

pylagiarism -- Need help now! Please provide code...

2012-08-13 Thread Simon Cropper
Hi Everyone, I just had a great idea for a new python module. I haven't bothered googling it or doing any research. I need help putting together some code; today preferably, my boss is on my back. Can someone please contribute a functioning module showing me how to do it? Once I have all y