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2013-02-09 Thread MoneyMaker
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Coercing one object to type of another

2013-02-09 Thread Vijay Shanker
Hi Inside a function i get a two arguments, say arg1 and arg2, how can i convert arg2 to same type as arg1 ? I dont know type of arg1 or arg2 for that matter, I just want to convert arg2 to type of arg1 if possible and handle the exception if raised. Also: >>> int('2') 2 >>> float('2.0') 2.0 >>>

Re: Coercing one object to type of another

2013-02-09 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Vijay Shanker wrote: > Hi > Inside a function i get a two arguments, say arg1 and arg2, how can i convert > arg2 to same type as arg1 ? > I dont know type of arg1 or arg2 for that matter, I just want to convert arg2 > to type of arg1 if possible and handle the exc

python3 binascii.hexlify ...

2013-02-09 Thread Cameron Simpson
This seems to return a bytes object in Python 3.3.0. I was expecting a string. The documentation here: http://docs.python.org/3/library/binascii.html#binascii.hexlify also keeps me expecting a string. Am I missing something? Example: [hg/css-venti-bytes+utf8]fleet*2> python3 Python 3.3.0

string.replace doesn't removes ":"

2013-02-09 Thread Joshua Robinson
Hi *Monte-Pythons*, x = "this is a simple : text: that has colon" s = x.replace(string.punctuation, ""); OR s = x.replace(string.punctuation, ""); print x # 'this is a simple : text: that has colon' # The colon is still in the text Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong ? Py.Version

Re: python3 binascii.hexlify ...

2013-02-09 Thread Peter Otten
Cameron Simpson wrote: > This seems to return a bytes object in Python 3.3.0. I was expecting a > string. The documentation here: > > http://docs.python.org/3/library/binascii.html#binascii.hexlify > > also keeps me expecting a string. Am I missing something? """Return the hexadecimal represe

Re: string.replace doesn't removes ":"

2013-02-09 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 10:04 PM, Joshua Robinson wrote: > Hi Monte-Pythons, > > x = "this is a simple : text: that has colon" > s = x.replace(string.punctuation, ""); OR > s = x.replace(string.punctuation, ""); > print x # 'this is a simple : text: that has colon' > # The colon is still in the

Python3 curses behavior

2013-02-09 Thread Vlasov Vitaly
Hello. I found strange behavior of curses module, that i can't understand. I initialize screen with curses.initscr(), then i create subwin of screen with screen.subwin(my_subwin_sizes). After that i fill subwin with my_char in for-loop. On last char in last line subwin.addch() raises exception.

Re: Coercing one object to type of another

2013-02-09 Thread Vijay Shanker
On Saturday, February 9, 2013 4:13:28 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Vijay Shanker wrote: > > > Hi > > > Inside a function i get a two arguments, say arg1 and arg2, how can i > > convert arg2 to same type as arg1 ? > > > I dont know type of arg1 or arg2 fo

Re: python3 binascii.hexlify ...

2013-02-09 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > """Return the hexadecimal representation of the binary data. Every byte of > data is converted into the corresponding 2-digit hex representation. > """ > > makes it pretty clear that the function is operating on bytes, not str

Re: Python3 curses behavior

2013-02-09 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 10:23 PM, Vlasov Vitaly wrote: > Hello. > > I found strange behavior of curses module, that i can't understand. I > initialize screen with curses.initscr(), then i create subwin of screen with > screen.subwin(my_subwin_sizes). After that i fill subwin with my_char in > fo

Re: Coercing one object to type of another

2013-02-09 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 10:23 PM, Vijay Shanker wrote: > well it will always return me this: > > > what i want is if i know arg1 is of string type(and it can be of any type, > say list, int,float) and arg2 is of any type, how can i convert it to type of > arg1, > if arg1='hello world', type(arg1

Alternatives to Splunk?

2013-02-09 Thread sssdevelop
Are there any opensource alternatives to Splunk? Need tool to analyze the log files.. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python3 curses behavior

2013-02-09 Thread Vlasov Vitaly
суббота, 9 февраля 2013 г., 15:28:51 UTC+4 пользователь Chris Angelico написал: > On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 10:23 PM, Vlasov Vitaly wrote: > > > Hello. > > > > > > I found strange behavior of curses module, that i can't understand. I > > initialize screen with curses.initscr(), then i create subw

Re: Jinja2 installation help

2013-02-09 Thread Robert Iulian
Here is the fucked up thing that I learned from all the hours of reading from different websites and documentation. To install Pip I need to install Easy_Install--> To install Easy_install I need to install Setup Tools whitch is NOT compatible with Python 3.XX ... If PIP is a replacement for Ea

Re: Jinja2 installation help

2013-02-09 Thread Kwpolska
On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Robert Iulian wrote: > Here is the fucked up thing that I learned from all the hours of reading from > different websites and documentation. > > To install Pip I need to install Easy_Install--> To install Easy_install I > need to install Setup Tools whitch is NOT

Re: Jinja2 installation help

2013-02-09 Thread Robert Iulian
Ah...Must have slipped that. It worked! Thank you all for the support ! Be well ! Robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Alternatives to Splunk?

2013-02-09 Thread Rodrick Brown
On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 7:27 AM, sssdevelop wrote: > Are there any opensource alternatives to Splunk? > Need tool to analyze the log files.. > > This is highly off topic, however I'm using logstash + kibana for my log analysis. > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- ht

Re: Any idea how i can format my output file with ********************Start file*********************** usinf Python 2.7

2013-02-09 Thread Dave Angel
On 02/09/2013 09:27 AM, Morten Engvoldsen wrote: Hi Team, I Have saved my output in .doc file and want to format the output with *Start the File Some data here ***End of File* Can you let me know how can i do th

Re: Any idea how i can format my output file with ********************Start file*********************** usinf Python 2.7

2013-02-09 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Sat, 9 Feb 2013 15:27:16 +0100 Morten Engvoldsen wrote: > I Have saved my output in .doc file and want to format the output with > > *Start the File > > Some data here > > > ***End of File* > > Can you let me

Re: Any idea how i can format my output file with ********************Start file*********************** usinf Python 2.7

2013-02-09 Thread Morten Engvoldsen
Hi Cain, Thanks for your reply. I am stroning all the contents in "batchdate" and then, data = base64.encodestring(batchdata) and then writing "data" in doc file. I know i can append "***Start file***" in the batchdata, but is there a better python code like multiply * into

Re: Any idea how i can format my output file with ********************Start file*********************** usinf Python 2.7

2013-02-09 Thread Peter Otten
Morten Engvoldsen wrote: > I know i can append "***Start file***" in the > batchdata, but is there a better python code like multiply * into 10 times > -- any python code i can add the formatting in dynamic way instead of > hardcoding with "***Start file***

Re: Any idea how i can format my output file with ********************Start file*********************** usinf Python 2.7

2013-02-09 Thread Morten Engvoldsen
Hi Davea, I am using Python 2.7. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Logwatch python

2013-02-09 Thread Cleuson Alves
Hello, I am trying to run this code, but I get an answer incorrect arguments numbers. someone could put an example of arguments for me to use in the / var / log? Thank you. import os, sys from optparse import OptionParser

Re: Logwatch python

2013-02-09 Thread Roy Smith
In article <1de56e5b-4f9b-477d-a1d4-71e7222a2...@googlegroups.com>, Cleuson Alves wrote: > Hello, I am trying to run this code, but I get an answer incorrect arguments > numbers. someone could put an example of arguments for me to use in the / var > / log? Since the first cave man tried to so

Re: Any idea how i can format my output file with ********************Start file*********************** usinf Python 2.7

2013-02-09 Thread rusi
On Feb 9, 7:27 pm, Morten Engvoldsen wrote: > Hi Team, > I Have saved my output in .doc file and want to format the output with > > *Start the File > > Some data here > > ***End of File* > > Can you let me know how ca

Re: Any idea how i can format my output file with ********************Start file*********************** usinf Python 2.7

2013-02-09 Thread Dave Angel
On 02/09/2013 10:01 AM, Morten Engvoldsen wrote: Hi Davea, I am using Python 2.7. Sorry, I should have noticed the python version in the subject line, but didn't until this reply. How about print >> outfile, "Start the File".center(55, "*") after creating the file, and print >> outfile, "

Re: Alternatives to Splunk?

2013-02-09 Thread sssdevelop
Yup - its off topic. I was triggered to write here because Splunk is written in Python. And Python is good at Parsing/Regex. Thank you for your response about logstash, kibana. I was looking for such tools only - thank you so much. ---sss On Saturday, February 9, 2013 7:05:57 PM UTC+5:30, R

Re: Alternatives to Splunk?

2013-02-09 Thread Matty Sarro
Look up any nosql database. At it's heart that is what splunk is built on. Or, if you're working with less than 500mb of data a day, just use the free version of splunk. On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 12:09 PM, sssdevelop wrote: > Yup - its off topic. I was triggered to write here because Splunk is > w

Re: Any idea how i can format my output file with ********************Start file*********************** usinf Python 2.7

2013-02-09 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 09/02/2013 14:27, Morten Engvoldsen wrote: Hi Team, I Have saved my output in .doc file and want to format the output with *Start the File Some data here ***End of File* Can you let me know how can i do that using

Re: Python3 curses behavior

2013-02-09 Thread Terry Reedy
On 2/9/2013 6:23 AM, Vlasov Vitaly wrote: Hello. I found strange behavior of curses module, that i can't understand. I initialize screen with curses.initscr(), then i create subwin of screen with screen.subwin(my_subwin_sizes). After that i fill subwin with my_char in for-loop. On last char in l

Re: Any idea how i can format my output file with ********************Start file*********************** usinf Python 2.7

2013-02-09 Thread Terry Reedy
On 2/9/2013 11:21 AM, rusi wrote: On Feb 9, 7:27 pm, Morten Engvoldsen wrote: Hi Team, I Have saved my output in .doc file and want to format the output with *Start the File Some data here ***End of File* Can y

Re: python3 binascii.hexlify ...

2013-02-09 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 09Feb2013 22:26, Chris Angelico wrote: | On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: | > """Return the hexadecimal representation of the binary data. Every byte of | > data is converted into the corresponding 2-digit hex representation. | > """ | > | > makes it pretty

Re: Alternatives to Splunk?

2013-02-09 Thread Steven D'Aprano
sssdevelop wrote: > Are there any opensource alternatives to Splunk? > Need tool to analyze the log files.. Is Google blocked where you are? How about other search engines like DuckDuckGo, Bling, Yahoo, etc? Surely *some* search engine must work. If not, I suggest asking on a mailing list for

Re: Coercing one object to type of another

2013-02-09 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Vijay Shanker wrote: > Hi > Inside a function i get a two arguments, say arg1 and arg2, how can i > convert arg2 to same type as arg1 ? I dont know type of arg1 or arg2 for > that matter, I just want to convert arg2 to type of arg1 if possible and > handle the exception if raised. How do you pr

Re: Is Python programming language?

2013-02-09 Thread Tim Roberts
Grant Edwards wrote: > >IMO, a "scripting language" is used to automate tasks that would >otherwise be done by a human sitting at a keyboard typing commands. >[Perhaps that definition should be extended to include tasks that >would otherwise by done by a human sitting and clicking on a GUI.] I th

Re: Is Python programming language?

2013-02-09 Thread Michael Torrie
On 02/09/2013 04:26 PM, Tim Roberts wrote: > Most people would call bash a "scripting language", but it is also clearly > a programming language. It has syntax, variables and expressions. I > suspect it is Turing-complete, although I haven't seen a proof of that. > > I would assert that scriptin

Re: Is Python programming language?

2013-02-09 Thread Terry Reedy
On 2/9/2013 6:53 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: On 02/09/2013 04:26 PM, Tim Roberts wrote: Most people would call bash a "scripting language", but it is also clearly a programming language. It has syntax, variables and expressions. I suspect it is Turing-complete, although I haven't seen a proof of

Re: Is Python programming language?

2013-02-09 Thread Terry Reedy
On 2/9/2013 6:26 PM, Tim Roberts wrote: Grant Edwards wrote: IMO, a "scripting language" is used to automate tasks that would otherwise be done by a human sitting at a keyboard typing commands. [Perhaps that definition should be extended to include tasks that would otherwise by done by a human

Re: Is Python programming language?

2013-02-09 Thread Michael Torrie
On 02/09/2013 07:40 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: > If the language has arrays, conditional execution, and explicit (while) > loops or recursion, you can be pretty sure it is Turing complete. I > presume this covers awk and bash. Something like the game of Life, where > the looping in implicit in the o

Re: Spawn a process, then exit, whilst leaving process running?

2013-02-09 Thread Nobody
On Fri, 08 Feb 2013 21:04:33 -0800, Victor Hooi wrote: > I have a Python script that I'd like to spawn a separate process (SSH > client, in this case), and then have the script exit whilst the process > continues to run. > > I looked at Subprocess, however, that leaves the script running, and it'

Re: LangWart: Method congestion from mutate multiplicty

2013-02-09 Thread Rick Johnson
On Friday, February 8, 2013 9:36:52 PM UTC-6, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Rick Johnson wrote: > > > The solution is simple. Do not offer the "copy-mutate" methods and force > > all mutation to happen in-place: > > > > py> l = [1,2,3] > > py> l.reverse > > py> l > > [3,2,1] > > > > If the user wants

Re: LangWart: Method congestion from mutate multiplicty

2013-02-09 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Rick Johnson wrote: > My point was this: All mutate methods should mutate "in-place", if the > programmer wishes to create a mutated copy of the object, then the programmer > should /explicitly/ create a copy of the object and then apply the correct > mutator me

Re: Implicit conversion to boolean in if and while statements

2013-02-09 Thread Rick Johnson
On Friday, February 8, 2013 11:01:00 PM UTC-6, Chris Angelico wrote: > [...] > Another advantage of using two characters: There's no conflict between > set and dict literals. How do you notate an empty set in Python? {} > means an empty dict. What makes you believe that a language must provide lit

Re: Implicit conversion to boolean in if and while statements

2013-02-09 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Rick Johnson wrote: > On Friday, February 8, 2013 11:01:00 PM UTC-6, Chris Angelico wrote: >> [...] >> Another advantage of using two characters: There's no conflict between >> set and dict literals. How do you notate an empty set in Python? {} >> means an empty di

Re: LangWart: Method congestion from mutate multiplicty

2013-02-09 Thread Mark Janssen
On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 8:20 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Rick Johnson > wrote: >> My point was this: All mutate methods should mutate "in-place", if the >> programmer wishes to create a mutated copy of the object, then the >> programmer should /explicitly/ create

Re: Implicit conversion to boolean in if and while statements

2013-02-09 Thread Rick Johnson
On Friday, February 8, 2013 7:17:26 PM UTC-6, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Rick Johnson > > nested_list = array(array(string)) > > Actually, that's not a declaration, that's an assignment; and in Pike, > a 'type' is a thing, same as it is in Python (though not quite).

Re: Implicit conversion to boolean in if and while statements

2013-02-09 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Rick Johnson wrote: > Well Chris i have wonderful news for you! Python /does/ have "homogenous > arrays", and they're called, wait for it. arrays! Imagine that! That's not a built-in. But you were the one who complained about the way sum() could be applie

Re: Implicit conversion to boolean in if and while statements

2013-02-09 Thread Rick Johnson
On Friday, February 8, 2013 7:06:34 PM UTC-6, Ian wrote: > On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Rick Johnson > wrote: > > I'm a bit unnerved by the sum function. Summing a > > sequence only makes sense if the sequence in question > > contains /only/ numeric types. For that reason i decided > > to crea

Re: Any idea how i can format my output file with ********************Start file*********************** usinf Python 2.7

2013-02-09 Thread Morten Engvoldsen
Hi Dave, This sounds great, thanks for your help :) On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Dave Angel wrote: > On 02/09/2013 10:01 AM, Morten Engvoldsen wrote: > >> Hi Davea, >> I am using Python 2.7. >> >> > Sorry, I should have noticed the python version in the subject line, but > didn't until this r