peace writes:
> On Thursday, March 20, 2014 1:20:03 AM UTC-7, dieter wrote:
> ...
>> You may want to use debugging to determine what goes on in detail.
> ...
> I tried doing that. I still could not figure out what was wrong. Thank you.
Debugging is often not easy. An essential strategy is "divide
On 14/03/2014 00:36, Tim Chase wrote:
On 2014-03-14 00:25, Chris Withers wrote:
I've been pleasantly surprised by the succinct, well reasoned and
respectful replies from each of the communities!
As one who doesn't lurk on the other lists, is there a nice executive
summary of their responses?
Le samedi 22 mars 2014 05:59:34 UTC+1, Mark H. Harris a écrit :
> On 3/21/14 11:46 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
> > (Side point: You have your 0d and your 0a backwards; the Unix line
>
> > ending is U+000A, and the Windows default is U+000D U+000A.)
>
>
>
> Yeah, I know... smart apple.
>
>
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 8:06 PM, Rustom Mody wrote:
> Two: A comprehension variable is not bound but reassigned across the
> comprehension. This problem remains in python3 and causes weird behavior when
> lambdas are put in a comprehension
Because Python as a language only has the concept of assi
On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 23:51:38 -0500, Mark H Harris wrote:
> Lambda is a problem, if only because it causes confusion. What's the
> problem? Glad you asked. The constructs DO NOT work the way most people
> would expect them to, having limited knowledge of python!
Why is that a problem? Would you c
On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 01:24:33 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 3/22/2014 12:30 AM, Mark H Harris wrote:
>> On 3/21/14 11:15 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>> It compounds. One reply makes for double spacing... two makes
>>> quadruple, three means we have seven wasted lines between every pair
>>> of real
On 3/22/2014 5:50 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 01:24:33 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote:
If I were in charge of the software used for this list, I would replace
Mark with a custom addition to return mis-formated posts (more blank
lines than not) with instructions on how to fix them.
Dan Sommers wrote:
On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 14:51:54 +0100, Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick wrote:
(though GitHub could qualify as social media for some…)
+1 QOTW
https://xkcd.com/624/
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Steven D'Aprano :
> This makes perfect sense: by the time you call the functions, the name x
> has been rebound to the value 3.
> [...]
> Now I'm not sure precisely how Haskell implements this trick, but it
> suggests to me that it creates a different closure each time around
> the loop of the
Ian Kelly :
> You can get the desired effect by adding a layer of indirection:
>
fl = [(lambda x: lambda y: x+y)(x) for x in [1,2,3]]
A trick to remember! Variable lifetime reduction by function invocation.
Marko
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On 22/03/2014 02:06, Rustom Mody wrote:
The same in haskell:
Prelude> let fl = [\ y -> x + y | x <- [1,2,3]]
Prelude> [(fl!!i) 0 | i<- [0,1,2]]
[1,2,3]
My really big complaint about Python is that it's nothing like CORAL 66.
I think I'll raise this on python ideas in an attempt to get this
On 22/03/2014 03:58, Mark H Harris wrote:
On 3/21/14 5:44 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
I'm pleased to see that you have answers. In return would you either use
the mailing list https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list or
read and action this https://wiki.python.org/moin/GoogleGroupsPytho
On 22/03/2014 08:54, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote:
Le samedi 22 mars 2014 05:59:34 UTC+1, Mark H. Harris a écrit :
On 3/21/14 11:46 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
(Side point: You have your 0d and your 0a backwards; the Unix line
ending is U+000A, and the Windows default is U+000D U+000A.)
On Saturday, March 22, 2014 3:39:21 AM UTC+2, Terry Reedy wrote:
> Does your .b2 install work? Can you delete it thru the programs list?
I uninstalled it before this entire adventure.
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I am trying to get all the element data from the rss below.
The only thing I am pulling is the first element.
I don't understand why the for loop does not go through the entire rss.
Here is my code
try:
from urllib2 import urlopen
except ImportError:
from urllib.request import urlopen
http://ssdeep.sourceforge.net/usage.html
the installation described in aboved document is for Linux only.
Well, I need experiment and see errors.
Regards,
> - Original Message -
> From: Mark H Harris
> Sent: 03/22/14 05:32 AM
> To: python-list@python.org
> Subject: Re: Installing ssdeep
On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 5:21 AM, wrote:
> I am trying to get all the element data from the rss below.
> The only thing I am pulling is the first element.
> I don't understand why the for loop does not go through the entire rss.
> Here is my code
[SNIP]
> for item in soup.find_all('item'):
>
Hi,
I have a script (see below) that I want to terminate after X seconds.
The main loop of the program is waiting for user input.
The program enters the main loop and I try to shut down the program
after X seconds from a thread but I can't figure out how to do it. The
program should also do some c
Jabba Laci Wrote in message:
> Hi,
>
> I have a script (see below) that I want to terminate after X seconds.
> The main loop of the program is waiting for user input.
> The program enters the main loop and I try to shut down the program
> after X seconds from a thread but I can't figure out how
> You need a flag to indicate that a particular invocation is the
> dummy one (background). So use that same flag either to suppress
> starting the thread, or to avoid the unwanted raw_input.
>
> Alternatively, rethink the need to preload at boot time. Any
> caching the OS does is likely to o
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 12:18 AM, Dave Angel wrote:
> Alternatively, rethink the need to preload at boot time. Any
> caching the OS does is likely to only last a few minutes,
> depending on load. So maybe you can make the real load seem to be
> quicker by displaying the gui right away, but d
Could you figure this out?
On Wednesday, November 16, 2005 10:37:09 PM UTC+8, bobu...@yahoo.com wrote:
> I have the following test script in the file customize.py
>
> # C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\sitecustomize.py
> print "test text from sitecustomize"
>
> If start Python from command prompt I
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 12:41 AM, wrote:
> Could you figure this out?
>
> On Wednesday, November 16, 2005 10:37:09 PM UTC+8, bobu...@yahoo.com wrote:
>> [ chomp ]
You're responding to a decade-old post, you're posting from Google
Groups, and you haven't added any information to the thread at all
I'm trying to create a program that will prompt the user for a list of text
files to read from, then read those text files and build a dictionary of all
the unique words found. Then finally put those unique words into another file
and make it alphabetical order.
What I've got:
import string
s
On Mar 20, 2014 9:59 PM, "Dave Angel" wrote:
>
> dtran...@gmail.com Wrote in message:
> > And I was wondering how I would add the partenthesis because I tried:
> >
> > return numtochar(c1 + c2 (%26)) and it gave me an error.
>
> Please help us to help you by actually showing the traceback.
> Doe
kjaku...@gmail.com Wrote in message:
> I'm trying to create a program that will prompt the user for a list of text
> files to read from, then read those text files and build a dictionary of all
> the unique words found. Then finally put those unique words into another file
> and make it alphabe
On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 22:58:37 -0500, Mark H Harris wrote:
> I notice (since moving my stuff to Thunderbird two weeks back) the
> double spacing you keep squawking about, but I don't find it the big
> nuisance you're talking about; ok, so we have to scroll a bit further.
It's not the scrolling that
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 1:50 AM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> Line endings are terminators: they end the line. Whether you consider the
> terminator part of the line or not is a matter of opinion (is the cover
> of a book part of the book?) but consider this:
>
> If you say that the end of lines a
On Saturday, March 22, 2014 2:39:56 PM UTC+5:30, Ian wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 8:06 PM, Rustom Mody wrote:
> > Two: A comprehension variable is not bound but reassigned across the
> > comprehension. This problem remains in python3 and causes weird behavior
> > when
> > lambdas are put in a
On Saturday, March 22, 2014 7:52:28 PM UTC+5:30, Ian wrote:
> On Mar 20, 2014 9:59 PM, "Dave Angel" wrote:
> > dtra...@gmail.com Wrote in message:
> > > And I was wondering how I would add the partenthesis because I tried:
> > > return numtochar(c1 + c2 (%26)) and it gave me an error.
> > Please
In article ,
Tim Chase wrote:
>On 2014-03-18 21:38, Terry Reedy wrote:
>> At least with hg, one should best test the code in the working
>> directory *before* committing to the local repository.
>
>I don't know if this is a hg-vs-git way of thinking, but I tend to
>frequently commit things on a p
On 22/03/2014 09:09, Ian Kelly wrote:
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 8:06 PM, Rustom Mody wrote:
Two: A comprehension variable is not bound but reassigned across the
comprehension. This problem remains in python3 and causes weird behavior when
lambdas are put in a comprehension
Because Python as a l
In article ,
Gregory Ewing wrote:
>Chris Angelico wrote:
>> You can then offer a non-source-control means of downloading that
>> specific revision.
>
>Just keep in mind the downside that you can't then
>push or pull your changes directly back into the main
>repository. You can generate a patch fi
Haralanov, Mitko wrote:
>> For control at that level you'd be better off using
>> direct system calls, i.e. os.open() and os.read(),
>> then you can read exacty the number of bytes you want.
>>
>
> The problem is not controlling the number of bytes read. That part seems
> to be working. The issu
Mark Lawrence :
> On 22/03/2014 09:09, Ian Kelly wrote:
>> Because Python as a language only has the concept of assignment, not
>> binding. I think it would be weird and confusing if variables worked
>> this way in comprehensions and nowhere else.
>
> My understanding has always been that an expre
The foll is fairly standard fare in denotational semantics -- please excuse
the length!
In order to understand (formally) the concept of 'variable'
we need to have at the least a concept of name(or identifier) -> value mapping.
This mapping is called an 'environment'
If we stop at that we get the
On 2014-03-22 17:32, Albert van der Horst wrote:
> >I don't know if this is a hg-vs-git way of thinking, but I tend to
> >frequently commit things on a private development branch regardless
> >of brokenness, but once I get it working, I flatten & clean up
> >those changes ("rebase" in git terms, wh
Hi,
I can recommend the book "Pragmatic Guide to Git". Very practical and to the
point:
http://www.amazon.com/Pragmatic-Guide-Git-Programmers/dp/1934356727/ref=sr_1_1/184-0142481-0484062?ie=UTF8&qid=1395518159&sr=8-1&keywords=pragmatic+guide+to+git
I addition, I read a big fat super-exhaustive
On 3/22/2014 9:41 AM, vikram.deni...@gmail.com wrote:
Could you figure this out?
On Wednesday, November 16, 2005 10:37:09 PM UTC+8, bobu...@yahoo.com wrote:
I have the following test script in the file customize.py
# C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\sitecustomize.py
print "test text from sitecust
On 3/22/2014 8:40 AM, Jabba Laci wrote:
I have a script (see below) that I want to terminate after X seconds.
The main loop of the program is waiting for user input.
The program enters the main loop and I try to shut down the program
after X seconds from a thread but I can't figure out how to do
Hi Python fans, I just released my first open source project ever called
SharedHashFile [1]. It's a shared memory hash table written in C. Some guy on
Quora asked [2] whether there's an extension library for Python coming out. I
would like to do one but I know little about Python. I was wonderin
Thanks to all those who answered.
- Vasudev
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>LOOK, MOM! A BIRD, A PLANE, A THRINAXODON!
>
RICHARD LEAKEY WAS RECENTLY ARRESTED IN CONNECTION TO EVOLUTIONARY SCANDALS.
>
THRINAXODON CAUGHT THE WHOLE SCENE!
>
ONLY ONE GUESS TO WHAT RICHARD LEAKEY WAS UP TO WILL SHUT YOUR MOUTHS!
>
RICHARD LEAKEY WAS B
On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 05:26:26 -, Rustom Mody
wrote:
Well almost...
Except that the 'loop' I am talking of is one of
def loop():
return [yield (lambda: x) for x in [1,2,3]]
or
return (yield (lambda: x) for x in [1,2,3])
or just plain ol
(lambda x: for x in [1,2,3])
IOW loop
On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 02:09:20 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 1:50 AM, Steven D'Aprano
> wrote:
>> Line endings are terminators: they end the line. Whether you consider
>> the terminator part of the line or not is a matter of opinion (is the
>> cover of a book part of the bo
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 02:09:20 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 1:50 AM, Steven D'Aprano
>> wrote:
>>> Line endings are terminators: they end the line. Whether you consider
>>> the terminator part of the line or not
Albert-Jan Roskam Wrote in message:
>
In addition to posting in html format, you have also set the font
size too small for me to easily read. Reason number 12 for
posting in text mode in a text newsgroup.
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On 23Mar2014 12:37, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Steven D'Aprano
> wrote:
> > On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 02:09:20 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
> >> On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 1:50 AM, Steven D'Aprano
> >> wrote:
> >>> Line endings are terminators: they end the line. Whether yo
On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 6:32 PM, Rhodri James wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 05:26:26 -, Rustom Mody
> wrote:
>
>> Well almost...
>> Except that the 'loop' I am talking of is one of
>> def loop():
>> return [yield (lambda: x) for x in [1,2,3]]
>> or
>> return (yield (lambda: x) for x
On Sunday, March 23, 2014 8:16:28 AM UTC+5:30, Ian wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 6:32 PM, Rhodri James wrote:
> > wrote:
> >> Well almost...
> >> Except that the 'loop' I am talking of is one of
> >> def loop():
> >> return [yield (lambda: x) for x in [1,2,3]]
> >> or
> >> return (yiel
On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 9:16 PM, Rustom Mody wrote:
> [I am not completely sure whether the following can be proved/is true]
>
> 1. One can change lambda's closure rules which would amount to
> "significant complexity for relatively little gain"
>
> 2. One can change comprehension rules to not rea
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