Re: Python Newbie

On 02/24/2013 02:43 PM, piterrr.dolin...@gmail.com wrote: ... But for the moment I am trying to imitate familiar ground. This is EXACTLY why you're having trouble grasping Python. Python is a different language and requires a different mind-set and different approach. In this, it is NO dif

Re: installation

In article <445bf19a-2093-4910-97a5-7f23d6e64...@insightbb.com>, Steve Pruitt wrote: > I installed Python 3.3 for the Mac (10.6.8), but I did not get the > interpreter installed. I get IDLE and the Launcher, but no interpreter. At > least I can't find it. > > I thought maybe it updated /Sys

nested loops

hi everyone, i have the following program: import time count_timer = int(raw_input('how many seconds?: ')) for i in range(count_timer, 0, -1): print i time.sleep(1) print 'blast off!' this is the result: how many seconds?: 5 5 4 3 2 1 blast off! how can i have it print a row of star

Re: nested loops

Here's one solution import time count_timer = int(raw_input('how many seconds?: ')) for i in range(count_timer, 0, -1): print i, print "*" * i time.sleep(1) print 'blast off!' On 25 February 2013 22:46, leonardo wrote: > hi everyone, > > i have the following program: > > import tim

Re: nested loops

thanks for the help, it works Il 26/02/2013 10.58, Sven ha scritto: Here's one solution import time count_timer = int(raw_input('how many seconds?: ')) for i in range(count_timer, 0, -1): ||print i, print "*" * i time.sleep(1) print 'blast off!' On 25 February 2013 22:46, leonardo

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Re: IMAP4_SSL and OpenSSL compatibility

W. Martin Borgert debian.org> writes: > > When I add an ssl_version argument to the call to > ssl.wrap_socket() in imaplib.IMAP4_SSL.open(), I can connect to > the Exchange server without problems: > > self.sslobj = ssl.wrap_socket(self.sock, self.keyfile, self.certfile, >

Nuitka now supports Python 3.2

Nuitka now supports Python 3.2 syntax and compiles the full CPython 3.2 test suite. http://nuitka.net/posts/nuitka-release-040.html What is Nuitka? Nuitka is an implementation of Python written in C++. At the moment it is claimed to be about 2.5 times as fast as CPython running the pystone b

Do you feel bad because of the Python docs?

One week ago, "JoePie91" wrote a blog post challenging the Python community and the state of Python documentation, titled: "The Python documentation is bad, and you should feel bad". http://joepie91.wordpress.com/2013/02/19/the-python-documentation-is-bad- and-you-should-feel-bad/ It is valuabl

Re: Do you feel bad because of the Python docs?

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:54 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > One week ago, "JoePie91" wrote a blog post challenging the Python > community and the state of Python documentation, titled: > > "The Python documentation is bad, and you should feel bad". > > http://joepie91.wordpress.com/2013/02/19/the-p

Re: Small program ideas

Hello, Some more ideas: 1. Implement sin(), cos(), tan() etc. The accuracy could be supplied as a parameter to the program. The correctness can be checked very easily with implemented versions. 2. Read a string/file and look for palindromes (the group of words that can read from both ends: A toy

RE: Nuitka now supports Python 3.2

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Re: Do you feel bad because of the Python docs?

In article , Chris Angelico wrote: > There are some issues with the Googleability of the Python docs at the > moment. It's much easier to find the official page of PHP's docs than > Python's. Trouble is, the official page of PHP docs is a lot less > helpful... like he says, it's in some cases fl

Re: Do you feel bad because of the Python docs?

: On 26 February 2013 08:54, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > One week ago, "JoePie91" wrote a blog post challenging the Python > community and the state of Python documentation [...] > [...] should we feel bad about Python's docs? The Python docs are my first port of call when I know the module (and m

Re: Do you feel bad because of the Python docs?

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > There's no doubt that one of PHP's strengths, perhaps its biggest > strength, is the good state of documentation. But should we feel bad > about Python's docs? I don't think that either the Python documentation > or community is as bad as J

Re: Do you feel bad because of the Python docs?

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:56 AM, Roy Smith wrote: > When people ask PHP questions, the questions tend to be phrased as "what > do I type to get X", and the answers come back that way too. The forums > are full of, "I had the same problem. Somebody told me to do this. I > don't really understan

Re: Small program ideas

On 2013-02-26, Vytas D. wrote: > Some more ideas: If you like puzzles but not math, then The Python Challenge is an interesting destination. You'll be thrown head first into Python libraries you might not otherwise not be interested, like PIL. Command line apps are not the norm in the challenge.

Re: Shebang line on Windows?

Michael Torrie writes: > Actually, the shell isn't involved in parsing the shebang line at all. > That's actually done in the kernel by the program loader. So it's the > kernel that has a problem with it; wonder if Linus would accept a patch > to ignore the tailing CR? Worth a try in my opinion

Re: nested loops

On Mon, 25 Feb 2013 23:46:11 +0100, leonardo wrote: > hi everyone, > > i have the following program: > > import time count_timer = int(raw_input('how many seconds?: ')) > for i in range(count_timer, 0, -1): > print i time.sleep(1) > print 'blast off!' > > > this is the result: > > how ma

Re: Python Newbie

On 2013-02-23, 15:51 GMT, Chris Angelico wrote: > When you learn your first language, you think you're learning to > program, but that's not really accurate. Once you've learned half a > dozen, you begin to understand something of the art of coding as > distinct from any particular language; after

Re: webbrowser.open("./documentation/help.html")-- No Go in Windows

On 2013-02-25, 03:37 GMT, llanitedave wrote: > url_link = "file:///" + fullpath Isn't this too many slashes. On Linux I get URI file:usr/share/doc/whatever.html which is just too many slashes (it should be three, two for the protocol, one for the root directory). Matěj -- http://m

Re: Python Newbie

On 2013-02-23, 18:44 GMT, jmfauth wrote: > Very easy to explain: wrong, incorrect, naive unicode > handling. PLONK! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Small program ideas

On 2013-02-26, 03:48 GMT, eli m wrote: > On Friday, February 15, 2013 7:22:41 PM UTC-8, eli m wrote: >> Any small program ideas? I would prefer to stick to command line >> ones. Thanks. > > Thank you guys for the suggestions. Any more? 1) Clone git repository from https://github.com/mcepl/html2te

Difference in RE between 3.2 and 3.3 (or Aaron Swartz memorial)

Hi, as my method to commemorate Aaron Swartz, I have decided to port his html2text to work fully with the latest python 3.3. After some time dealing with various bugs, I have now in my repo https://github.com/mcepl/html2text (branch python3) working solution which works all the way to python 3

Writing to same file from two threads

Hi, I noticed in someone elses program that it writes single lines to the same file from (what I call for loss of a better name) the "main thread" of the program and from a thread sub- sequentally started. This got me worried if it might result in garbled output (i.e. having some output from A

Re: Do you feel bad because of the Python docs?

On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 01:26:47 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > And just to add to the pile of ways this could be done, the first > response in this thread > https://forums.digitalpoint.com/threads/how-to-get-last-character-in- string.796134/ > suggests *reversing the string* and indexing from the fro

Re: stmplib MIMEText charset weirdness

On Tuesday, February 26, 2013 2:10:28 AM UTC-5, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:00:24 -0800, Adam W. wrote: > > The documentation for MIMEText is rather terse, but it implies that the > > parameter given should be a string, not bytes: > > > > http://docs.python.org/3.2/library

Re: Do you feel bad because of the Python docs?

On 2013-02-26, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > "The Python documentation is bad, and you should feel bad". Ahh! A point at which I can interject. As a rank green python noob, I definitely hava an opinion on python documentation and it's not entirely flattering. OTOH, it's hard to toss any other sing

Re: Difference in RE between 3.2 and 3.3 (or Aaron Swartz memorial)

On 2/21/2013 4:22 PM, Matej Cepl wrote: as my method to commemorate Aaron Swartz, I have decided to port his html2text to work fully with the latest python 3.3. After some time dealing with various bugs, I have now in my repo https://github.com/mcepl/html2text (branch python3) working solution wh

Re: yield expression

On 24/02/2013 7:36 PM, Ziliang Chen wrote: Hi folks, When I am trying to understand "yield" expression in Python2.6, I did the following coding. I have difficulty understanding why "val" will be "None" ? What's happening under the hood? It seems to me very time the counter resumes to execute, it

Re: Do you feel bad because of the Python docs?

I think learning a language from the documentation is an unreasonable expectation and burden for the authors. Buy a book, take a class, they are designed to provide you with a path from start to finish in a sensible manner, the documentation in my opinion is supposed to be a reference and a ref

Re: yield expression

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Colin J. Williams wrote: > Perhaps it's becaoue (teild count) is a statement. Statements do not return > a value. yield is a bit of an odd duck in that it's both a statement and an expression. Compare: http://docs.python.org/3/reference/simple_stmts.html#the-yi

Re: groupby behaviour

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 9:27 AM, andrea crotti wrote: > So I was trying to use groupby (which I used in the past), but I > noticed a very strange thing if using list on > the result: As stated in the docs: """ The returned group is itself an iterator that shares the underlying iterable with grou

Re: IMAP4_SSL and OpenSSL compatibility

Quoting "Antoine Pitrou" : W. Martin Borgert debian.org> writes: When I add an ssl_version argument to the call to ssl.wrap_socket() in imaplib.IMAP4_SSL.open(), I can connect to the Exchange server without problems: self.sslobj = ssl.wrap_socket(self.sock, self.keyfile, self.certfile,

Re: Do you feel bad because of the Python docs?

On 2013.02.26 10:19, notbob wrote: > zsh? What docs!? You mean other than the gigantic user manual? http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/ -- CPython 3.3.0 | Windows NT 6.2.9200 / FreeBSD 9.1 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: yield expression

On 02/26/2013 11:34 AM, Colin J. Williams wrote: On 24/02/2013 7:36 PM, Ziliang Chen wrote: Hi folks, When I am trying to understand "yield" expression in Python2.6, I did the following coding. I have difficulty understanding why "val" will be "None" ? What's happening under the hood? It seems t

Re: yield expression

Hi, You are using "yield" incorrectly. "yield" works like return, but it can return more than once from the same function. Functions that "yield" produce a so called "generator" object. This generator object gives you values every time you call it. The generator works very interesting way. It sta

Re: groupby behaviour

2013/2/26 Ian Kelly : > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 9:27 AM, andrea crotti > wrote: >> So I was trying to use groupby (which I used in the past), but I >> noticed a very strange thing if using list on >> the result: > > As stated in the docs: > > """ > The returned group is itself an iterator that sha

python 3 problem: how to convert an extension method into a class Method

In python 2 I was able to improve speed of reportlab using a C extension to optimize some heavily used methods. so I was able to do this class A: . def method(self,...): try: from extension import c_method import new A.method = new.instancemethod(c_method,

Re: Writing to same file from two threads

j...@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) writes: > in garbled output (i.e. having some output from A inside a > line written by B or vice versae) because the "main thread" or Yes they do get garbled like that. Preferred Python style is put a single thread in charge of all the i/o to that file, and

Re: groupby behaviour

andrea crotti writes: > It's very weird though this sharing and still doesn't really look > rightl, is it done just for performance reasons? It could consume unbounded amounts of memory otherwise. E.g. if there are millions of items in the group. If you're not worried about that situation it's

Re: Do you feel bad because of the Python docs?

On 2013-02-26 14:26, Chris Angelico wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:56 AM, Roy Smith wrote: When people ask PHP questions, the questions tend to be phrased as "what do I type to get X", and the answers come back that way too. The forums are full of, "I had the same problem. Somebody told me

Re: python 3 problem: how to convert an extension method into a class Method

On 02/26/2013 12:21 PM, Robin Becker wrote: In python 2 I was able to improve speed of reportlab using a C extension to optimize some heavily used methods. so I was able to do this class A: That creates an old-style class in Python 2.x. They've been obsolete for many years. You want to d

Re: Do you feel bad because of the Python docs?

On 2013-02-26, Andrew Berg wrote: > On 2013.02.26 10:19, notbob wrote: >> zsh? What docs!? > You mean other than the gigantic user manual? > http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/ "This document was generated by Simon Ruderich on July 24, 2012" 'bout damn time!! ;) nb -- http://mail.python.org

Re: Do you feel bad because of the Python docs?

On 2013-02-26 17:54, notbob wrote: > >> zsh? What docs!? > > You mean other than the gigantic user manual? > > http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/ > > "This document was generated by Simon Ruderich on July 24, 2012" > > 'bout damn time!! ;) Generated...from source that has been around for age

Re: Python Newbie

On 02/26/2013 01:32 AM, Larry Hudson wrote: > On 02/24/2013 02:43 PM, piterrr.dolin...@gmail.com wrote: > >> ... But for the moment I am trying to imitate familiar ground. > > This is EXACTLY why you're having trouble grasping Python. Python is a > different language and > requires a differen

Re: python 3 problem: how to convert an extension method into a class Method

Robin Becker wrote: > In python 2 I was able to improve speed of reportlab using a C extension > to optimize some heavily used methods. > > so I was able to do this > > > class A: > . > def method(self,...): > > > > try: > from extension import c_method >

Re: yield expression

On 26/02/2013 12:07 PM, Vytas D. wrote: Hi, You are using "yield" incorrectly. "yield" works like return, but it can return more than once from the same function. Functions that "yield" produce a so called "generator" object. This generator object gives you values every time you call it. The ge

Re: Do you feel bad because of the Python docs?

On 2/26/2013 7:54 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: One week ago, "JoePie91" wrote a blog post challenging the Python community and the state of Python documentation, titled: "The Python documentation is bad, and you should feel bad". http://joepie91.wordpress.com/2013/02/19/the-python-documentation-i

Re: Do you feel bad because of the Python docs?

On 2013-02-26, Tim Chase wrote: > which suggests that they've been actively maintained since 1999-2000 > or so. in various guises, dating back to the man pages. Not all as thorough as the latest "manual". Perhaps I shoulda qualified usable docs. ;) nb -- http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: Do you feel bad because of the Python docs?

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Adam W. wrote: > I think learning a language from the documentation is an unreasonable > expectation and burden for the authors. That's how I learned it. The Python tutorial, together with the stdlib reference manual, are often recommended to beginners to Python

Re: Do you feel bad because of the Python docs?

On 02/26/2013 07:54 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: One week ago, "JoePie91" wrote a blog post challenging the Python > community and the state of Python documentation, titled: > > "The Python documentation is bad, and you should feel bad". > > http://joepie91.wordpress.com/2013/02/19/the-python-doc

Re: Do you feel bad because of the Python docs?

On Feb 26, 11:19 am, notbob wrote: > On 2013-02-26, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > > "The Python documentation is bad, and you should feel bad". > > Ahh!  A point at which I can interject. > > As a rank green python noob, I definitely hava an opinion on python > documentation and it's not entirely fl

Re: Python Newbie

- Original Message - > Hi guys, > > Question. Have this code > > intX = 32 # decl + init int var > intX_asString = None # decl + init with NULL string var > > intX_asString = intX.__str__ ()# convert int to string > > What are these ugly under

Re: Python Newbie

On 02/26/2013 10:23 AM, ru...@yahoo.com wrote: On 02/26/2013 01:32 AM, Larry Hudson wrote: Python variables do NOT have any data type. I have no problem interpreting the OP's statement as meaning that he wanted to use a Python variable to consistently reference a particular type and wanted a n

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Re: python 3 problem: how to convert an extension method into a class Method

On 26/02/2013 18:38, Peter Otten wrote: Robin Becker wrote: In python 2 I was able to improve speed of reportlab using a C extension to optimize some heavily used methods. so I was able to do this class A: . def method(self,...): try: from extension impo

Re: nested loops

leonardo writes: > how can i have it print a row of stars beside each number, like this?: > > how many seconds?: 5 > 5 * * * * * > 4 * * * * > 3 * * * > 2 * * > 1 * > blast off! You could use the repetition operator * since you have the number of repetitions needed in i. Alternatively, consider

Re: Python Newbie

"Jean-Michel Pichavant" wrote in message news:mailman.2567.1361905815.2939.python-l...@python.org... - Original Message - Hi guys, Question. Have this code intX = 32 # decl + init int var intX_asString = None # decl + init with NULL string var

Re: stmplib MIMEText charset weirdness

On 2/25/2013 11:00 PM, Adam W. wrote: Can someone explain to me why I can't set the charset after the fact. Email was revised to v.6 for 3.3, so the immediate answer to both your why questions is 'because email was not revised yet'. text = MIMEText('❤¥'.encode('utf-8'), 'html') In 3.3 thi

Re: Writing to same file from two threads

Paul Rubin wrote: > j...@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) writes: > > in garbled output (i.e. having some output from A inside a > > line written by B or vice versae) because the "main thread" or > Yes they do get garbled like that. Preferred Python style is put a > single thread in charge of a

Re: python 3 problem: how to convert an extension method into a class Method

Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 26/02/2013 18:38, Peter Otten wrote: >> Robin Becker wrote: >> >>> In python 2 I was able to improve speed of reportlab using a C extension >>> to optimize some heavily used methods. >>> >>> so I was able to do this >>> >>> >>> class A: >>> . >>> def metho

Re: python 3 problem: how to convert an extension method into a class Method

On 02/26/2013 09:21 AM, Robin Becker wrote: In python 2 I was able to improve speed of reportlab using a C extension to optimize some heavily used methods. so I was able to do this class A: . def method(self,...): try: from extension import c_method impo

Re: python 3 problem: how to convert an extension method into a class Method

Ethan Furman wrote: > On 02/26/2013 09:21 AM, Robin Becker wrote: >> In python 2 I was able to improve speed of reportlab using a C extension >> to optimize some heavily used methods. >> >> so I was able to do this >> >> >> class A: >> . >> def method(self,...): >> >> >>

Re: Python Newbie

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 6:42 AM, Piterrr wrote: > This reminds me, when I first started working with databases and saw an > error msg which said that my query had "ambiguous columns" I laughed for 1/2 > hr. I found it incredibly exitaining that a 100% deterministic piece of > hardware could have t

Re: python 3 problem: how to convert an extension method into a class Method

Am 26.02.2013 21:19, schrieb Ethan Furman: > Dumb question, but have you tried just assigning it? In Py3 methods are > just normal functions... > > 8<-- > class A(): > pass > > A.method = c_method > 8<-- That doesn't work with builtin functions

Re: Do you feel bad because of the Python docs?

On 26/02/2013 12:54, Steven D'Aprano wrote: One week ago, "JoePie91" wrote a blog post challenging the Python community and the state of Python documentation, titled: "The Python documentation is bad, and you should feel bad". http://joepie91.wordpress.com/2013/02/19/the-python-documentation-is

Re: Python Newbie

On Tuesday, February 26, 2013 11:59:51 AM UTC-7, Ethan Furman wrote: > On 02/26/2013 10:23 AM, ru...@yahoo.com wrote: > > On 02/26/2013 01:32 AM, Larry Hudson wrote: > >> Python variables do NOT have any data type. > > I have no problem interpreting the OP's statement > > as meaning that he wanted

Re: Do you feel bad because of the Python docs?

Just to throw in my 2c -- in the same way that 'a picture is worth a thousand words', an interactive interpreter is worth volumes of documentation (especially one with such a nice help()/__doc__ functionality). It's worth pointing out that 'interpreter' appears in the original rant once (according

Re: Small program ideas

On Monday, February 25, 2013 10:15:24 PM UTC-8, Dave Angel wrote: > On 02/25/2013 10:48 PM, eli m wrote: > > > On Friday, February 15, 2013 7:22:41 PM UTC-8, eli m wrote: > > >> Any small program ideas? I would prefer to stick to command line ones. > >> Thanks. > > > > > > Thank you guys for t

Re: Small program ideas

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Re: Do you feel bad because of the Python docs?

On 02/26/2013 11:00 AM, nn wrote: > What it could have is better searching capability and a way to see > more examples. Examples would clutter the documentation so maybe they > should be collapsible, but you can never have enough examples. A good resource (although only covering up to v2.3) is e

Re: Small program ideas

On Tuesday, February 26, 2013 4:22:10 PM UTC-8, Joshua Landau wrote: > On 26 February 2013 22:47, eli m wrote: > > > > > > How hard would it be to change one file to another and would it be a > small-medium sized program? > > > How do you want to change it? Like rename a file (os.rename)?

Re: Do you feel bad because of the Python docs?

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 4:54 AM, Steven D'Aprano < steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > There's no doubt that one of PHP's strengths, perhaps its biggest > strength, is the good state of documentation. But should we feel bad > about Python's docs? I don't think so at all. I think the

Re: Do you feel bad because of the Python docs?

On Tuesday, February 26, 2013 4:17:22 PM UTC-6, Jason Swails wrote: > Just to throw in my 2c -- in the same way that 'a picture > is worth a thousand words', an interactive interpreter is > worth volumes of documentation (especially one with such a > nice help()/__doc__ functionality). Yes! I don'

Re: Do you feel bad because of the Python docs?

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Mark Janssen wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 4:54 AM, Steven D'Aprano > wrote: >> >> There's no doubt that one of PHP's strengths, perhaps its biggest >> strength, is the good state of documentation. But should we feel bad >> about Python's docs? > > I don't thi

Re: Do you feel bad because of the Python docs?

Hi I'm a Python enthusiast who originally found the Python docs at python.org to be one of the main reasons that my enthusiasm was fed. Also the thoughtful presence of docstrings throughout good projects and libraries gives me the feeling that finding out how to do something in Python is just as ea

Re: Do you feel bad because of the Python docs?

On 2/26/2013 1:52 PM, Devin Jeanpierre wrote: I would assert it isn't very kind to those even with basic fundamentals. For example, under precisely what circumstances does int() raise TypeError? You won't find that under either int's documentation, or TypeError's documentation, you have to look

Re: Do you feel bad because of the Python docs?

On 2/26/2013 1:58 PM, Mitya Sirenef wrote: I think the issue with python documentation is that it ignores the 95/5 rule: 95% of people who land on a module's page are only looking for 5% of its information. So ideally it'd be separated in two different pages or two sections of the same page, som

Re: yield expression

On 02/26/2013 01:44 PM, Colin J. Williams wrote: On 26/02/2013 12:07 PM, Vytas D. wrote: Hi, You are using "yield" incorrectly. "yield" works like return, but it can return more than once from the same function. Functions that "yield" produce a so called "generator" object. This generator objec

Re: Do you feel bad because of the Python docs?

On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:48:27 +, MRAB wrote: > On 2013-02-26 14:26, Chris Angelico wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:56 AM, Roy Smith wrote: >>> When people ask PHP questions, the questions tend to be phrased as >>> "what do I type to get X", and the answers come back that way too. >>> The

Re: Do you feel bad because of the Python docs?

Subject: Re: Do you feel bad because of the Python docs? To: python-list@python.org Cc:Bcc: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=# Don't remove this line #=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- On 02/26/2013 09:00 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: On 2/26/2013 1:58 PM, Mitya Sirenef wrote: > >> I think the issue with python documen

Re: Do you feel bad because of the Python docs?

On Tuesday, February 26, 2013 7:48:51 PM UTC-6, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 2/26/2013 1:52 PM, Devin Jeanpierre wrote: > > > > [...snip legit complaint...] > > > Have you opened an issue, or checked for existing issue? I would be open > to the idea that entries like that for int should not be overly

Re: Small program ideas

On 02/26/2013 05:47 PM, eli m wrote: On Monday, February 25, 2013 10:15:24 PM UTC-8, Dave Angel wrote: On 02/25/2013 10:48 PM, eli m wrote: On Friday, February 15, 2013 7:22:41 PM UTC-8, eli m wrote: Any small program ideas? I would prefer to stick to command line ones. Thanks. Thank

Re: Do you feel bad because of the Python docs?

On 02/26/2013 10:09 PM, Mitya Sirenef wrote: (As a side note, I think it would be better if sections in datetime were > in separate pages, it would be easier to google and the navbar on the > left side is very crowded and rather hard to read - often I find myself > missing stuff that's in there

Re: python 3 problem: how to convert an extension method into a class Method

On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:21:16 +, Robin Becker wrote: > In python 2 I was able to improve speed of reportlab using a C extension > to optimize some heavily used methods. > > so I was able to do this > > > class A: > . > def method(self,...): > > > > try: > fr

Re: Small program ideas

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Dave Angel wrote: > But to convert a DOS text file (with lines ending cr/lf) into a Unix text > file (with lines ending lf) would be a dozen lines, shrinkable to 3 with > lots of experience. (And I'd probably prefer the dozen line version) Code golf! open("outf

Searching for a replacement for PIL

Hi, my actual program imports ImageTk, to generate TK compatible images. But it seems like PIL is no longer supported. Is there a replacement for draw Images at high rates into TKinter GUIs ? Best regards Thorsten -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Searching for a replacement for PIL

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 10:17 PM, Thorsten Kiefer wrote: > Hi, > my actual program imports ImageTk, to generate TK compatible images. > But it seems like PIL is no longer supported. Have you investigated the Pillow fork? https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pillow/ Cheers, Chris -- http://mail.python.o