[setuptools] install data-file in users home-dir

2015-07-10 Thread c.buhtz
I am using setuptools to create a wheel file. There is a conf-file I want to install into the users config-diretory. e.g. /home/user/.config/appname/app.conf setup(..., data_files = [ ('~/.config/appname/', ['app.conf']) ] ) I see two problems here: 1. I don't know the users "name".

EuroPython 2015 Keynote: Mandy Waite

2015-07-10 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
We are pleased to introduce our final keynote speaker for EuroPython 2015: Mandy Waite. She will be giving her keynote on Friday, July 24. About Mandy Waite - Mandy works at Google as a Developer Advocate for Google Cloud Platform and to make the world a better place for developer

Re: [setuptools] install data-file in users home-dir

2015-07-10 Thread Chris Warrick
On 10 July 2015 at 03:11, wrote: > I am using setuptools to create a wheel file. > > There is a conf-file I want to install into the users config-diretory. > e.g. /home/user/.config/appname/app.conf > > setup(..., > data_files = [ ('~/.config/appname/', ['app.conf']) ] > ) > > I see tw

The EuroPython 2015 Keynotes

2015-07-10 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
With Mandy Waite we have announced all keynotes for EuroPython 2015: 5 keynotes, 6 speakers, 4 women and 2 men. Keynote Schedule * Monday: Ola Sendecka & Ola Sitarska * Tuesday: Guido van Rossum * Wednesday: Holger Krekel * Thursday: Carrie Anne * Friday: Mandy Waite More d

Combing Search Engine with REST

2015-07-10 Thread subhabrata . banerji
Dear Group, I am trying to make a search engine. I used Whoosh to do it. I want to add documents to it. This is going fine. Now, I want to add documents in the index with REST framework. I could learn Flask well. My task is to use Flask to add documents (by using put/post) to index. I am sligh

Re: The EuroPython 2015 Keynotes

2015-07-10 Thread beliavsky--- via Python-list
On Friday, July 10, 2015 at 7:21:14 AM UTC-4, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > With Mandy Waite we have announced all keynotes for EuroPython 2015: > 5 keynotes, 6 speakers, 4 women and 2 men. Your mentioning these numbers makes me wonder if the organizing committee is using gender preferences in its selec

Re: Combing Search Engine with REST

2015-07-10 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Fri, 10 Jul 2015 04:46:25 -0700, subhabrata.bane...@gmail.com writes: >Dear Group, > >I am trying to make a search engine. I used Whoosh to do it. >I want to add documents to it. This is going fine. >Now, I want to add documents in the index with REST framework. >I could learn Fl

Re: Evaluation order

2015-07-10 Thread candide
Le vendredi 10 juillet 2015 04:02:56 UTC+2, Chris Angelico a écrit : > I'm not sure what contradiction you're referring to, here. The > evaluation that you're pointing out says, as Terry showed via the > disassembly, that Python's first action is to look up the name 't' and > grab a reference t

Re: Evaluation order

2015-07-10 Thread Ned Batchelder
On Friday, July 10, 2015 at 8:04:36 AM UTC-4, candide wrote: > Le vendredi 10 juillet 2015 04:02:56 UTC+2, Chris Angelico a écrit : > > > > > I'm not sure what contradiction you're referring to, here. The > > evaluation that you're pointing out says, as Terry showed via the > > disassembly, tha

Re: Evaluation order

2015-07-10 Thread Terry Reedy
On 7/10/2015 8:04 AM, candide wrote: Le vendredi 10 juillet 2015 04:02:56 UTC+2, Chris Angelico a écrit : I'm not sure what contradiction you're referring to, here. The evaluation that you're pointing out says, as Terry showed via the disassembly, that Python's first action is to look up the nam

Re: Evaluation order

2015-07-10 Thread Thierry Chappuis
Hi, No, the value of t is a reference to tje list. So first, (1) the value of the reference t is recovered, (2) the parenthesis is evaluated, (...) the whole expression is evaluated. To evaluate (2), the .sort() call is executed in place with the side effect of sorting the content of t. t.sort()

Re: Evaluation order

2015-07-10 Thread Thierry Chappuis
Hi, No, the value of t is a reference to tje list. So first, (1) the value of the reference t is recovered, (2) the parenthesis is evaluated, (...) the whole expression is evaluated. To evaluate (2), the .sort() call is executed in place with the side effect of sorting the content of t. t.sort()

Re: (side-)effects and ...

2015-07-10 Thread Skip Montanaro
On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 9:05 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > Even if it respects that, there's no way that Mailman can know to > respect his ridiculous copyright restriction. > Well, sure. But Mailman is probably not alone in this regard. In case it wasn't clear from Tony the Tiger's post (everything

Re: (side-)effects and ...

2015-07-10 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 12:05 AM, Skip Montanaro wrote: > I'm not sure about X-No-Html. A quick Google search for that header returned > nothing useful. Yeah. At best it seems redundant - "Hey look, there's no HTML in this message!" - but I suspect it's mainly bragging "I can add headers to my po

Re: Evaluation order

2015-07-10 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 10:04 PM, candide wrote: > But in order to perform an operation, the interpreter has to evaluate the > operands and "evaluating" is not "grabbing a reference to". Actually, it is. Suppose that instead of 't', you had a function call: def get_t(announce, returnme=[]):

Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory

2015-07-10 Thread Mark Storkamp via Python-list
I'm just learning Python, and I've run into trouble trying to change directory to the windows My Documents directory. There's likely a better way to do this, but this is what I've tried so far: - from tkinter import Tk from tkinter.filedialog import as

Re: Evaluation order

2015-07-10 Thread Thierry Chappuis
Anyway, if we enter this kind of discussion, it is a reliable indication that the code smells. There is a pythonic way to express the same task: >>> t.sort() >>> t kind regards Thierry On ven., juil. 10, 2015 at 2:28 PM, Terry Reedy < tjre...@udel.edu [tjre...@udel.edu] > wrote: On 7/10/2015 8

Re: Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory

2015-07-10 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 10/07/2015 15:27, Mark Storkamp via Python-list wrote: I'm just learning Python, and I've run into trouble trying to change directory to the windows My Documents directory. There's likely a better way to do this, but this is what I've tried so far:

Re: [setuptools] install data-file in users home-dir

2015-07-10 Thread Chris Warrick
CC’ing the mailing list; please use Reply All in the future. On 10 July 2015 at 16:36, wrote: > Hi Chris, > > thank you for your answer. > > On 2015-07-10 09:39 Chris Warrick wrote: >> You should NEVER use sudo with pip. Instead, use virtualenvs as a >> regular user, or create your own .deb pa

Re: Evaluation order

2015-07-10 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 10/07/2015 15:30, Thierry Chappuis wrote: [snipped] Please don't top post here as it can get irritating, especially in long threads, thanks. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/

Re: Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory

2015-07-10 Thread Laura Creighton
Maybe HOMEPATH is what windows calls it? http://libertyboy.free.fr/computing/reference/envariables/ (but maybe this is only for windows XP. I don't have a windows system, so I cannot test this.) Laura -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory

2015-07-10 Thread MRAB
On 2015-07-10 15:27, Mark Storkamp via Python-list wrote: I'm just learning Python, and I've run into trouble trying to change directory to the windows My Documents directory. There's likely a better way to do this, but this is what I've tried so far:

Re: Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory

2015-07-10 Thread Mark Storkamp via Python-list
In article , MRAB wrote: > On 2015-07-10 15:27, Mark Storkamp via Python-list wrote: > > I'm just learning Python, and I've run into trouble trying to change > > directory to the windows My Documents directory. There's likely a better > > way to do this, but this is what I've tried so far: > > >

Re: Combing Search Engine with REST

2015-07-10 Thread subhabangalore
On Friday, July 10, 2015 at 5:36:48 PM UTC+5:30, Laura Creighton wrote: > In a message of Fri, 10 Jul 2015 04:46:25 -0700, > writes: > >Dear Group, > > > >I am trying to make a search engine. I used Whoosh to do it. > >I want to add documents to it. This is going fine. > >Now, I want to add doc

Re: Matplotlib X-axis timezone trouble

2015-07-10 Thread Peter Pearson
On Thu, 09 Jul 2015 19:50:33 GMT, Tony the Tiger wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jun 2015 00:56:26 +, Peter Pearson wrote: > >> If I use timezone US/Central, I get the same (bad) plot. > > Perhaps this can help?: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1301493/setting-timezone-in-python Yes, thanks. As I s

Re: Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory

2015-07-10 Thread Rustom Mody
On Friday, July 10, 2015 at 8:56:48 PM UTC+5:30, Mark Storkamp wrote: > MRAB wrote: > > > On 2015-07-10 15:27, Mark Storkamp via Python-list wrote: > > > I'm just learning Python, and I've run into trouble trying to change > > > directory to the windows My Documents directory. There's likely a b

Re: Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory

2015-07-10 Thread Rustom Mody
On Friday, July 10, 2015 at 11:18:57 PM UTC+5:30, Rustom Mody wrote: > On Friday, July 10, 2015 at 8:56:48 PM UTC+5:30, Mark Storkamp wrote: > > MRAB wrote: > > > > > On 2015-07-10 15:27, Mark Storkamp via Python-list wrote: > > > > I'm just learning Python, and I've run into trouble trying to c

Re: [setuptools] install data-file in users home-dir

2015-07-10 Thread c.buhtz
Hi Chris, thank you for your answer. On 2015-07-10 09:39 Chris Warrick wrote: > You should NEVER use sudo with pip. Instead, use virtualenvs as a > regular user, or create your own .deb packages. I am not sure, but maybe this is an Ubuntu-specific "problem"? When I don't use sudo I got error

Re: The EuroPython 2015 Keynotes

2015-07-10 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 10:01 PM, beliavsky--- via Python-list wrote: > On Friday, July 10, 2015 at 7:21:14 AM UTC-4, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> With Mandy Waite we have announced all keynotes for EuroPython 2015: >> 5 keynotes, 6 speakers, 4 women and 2 men. > > Your mentioning these numbers makes m

Re: Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory

2015-07-10 Thread Tim Chase
On 2015-07-10 09:27, Mark Storkamp via Python-list wrote: > sourcedir = os.environ['HOME']+"/Documents/" First, I'd do a couple things here to accommodate various systems to make it cross-platform: sourcedir = os.path.join( os.path.expanduser('~'), "Documents" ) > os.chdir(sourcedi

Re: The EuroPython 2015 Keynotes

2015-07-10 Thread beliavsky--- via Python-list
On Friday, July 10, 2015 at 2:58:18 PM UTC-4, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 10:01 PM, beliavsky--- via Python-list > wrote: > > On Friday, July 10, 2015 at 7:21:14 AM UTC-4, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > >> With Mandy Waite we have announced all keynotes for EuroPython 2015: > >> 5 keyn

Re: The EuroPython 2015 Keynotes

2015-07-10 Thread Jon Ribbens
On 2015-07-10, beliav...@aol.com wrote: > On Friday, July 10, 2015 at 2:58:18 PM UTC-4, Chris Angelico wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 10:01 PM, beliavsky--- via Python-list >> wrote: >> > On Friday, July 10, 2015 at 7:21:14 AM UTC-4, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> >> With Mandy Waite we have announce

Re: pygtk2 and colors

2015-07-10 Thread nickgeovanis
I may be phrasing this question improperly, but...If I need a canvas or canvas-like object, does GTK3/pygobject provide one? Or only GTK2/PyGTK? The answer seems to be "only GTK2/PyGTK" but the discussion I find online doesn't seem to have a clear answer. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/lis

Re: The EuroPython 2015 Keynotes

2015-07-10 Thread Terry Reedy
On 7/10/2015 5:14 PM, beliavsky--- via Python-list wrote: On Friday, July 10, 2015 at 2:58:18 PM UTC-4, Chris Angelico wrote: On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 10:01 PM, beliavsky--- via Python-list wrote: On Friday, July 10, 2015 at 7:21:14 AM UTC-4, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: With Mandy Waite we have annou

Re: [setuptools] install data-file in users home-dir

2015-07-10 Thread c.buhtz
On 2015-07-10 09:39 Chris Warrick wrote: > And you should not create the files in your install script. Instead, > install them to a different data dir (somewhere in 'share/appname', or > alongside your package). When someone runs your app, only then you > should copy this file to user’s config di

Re: Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory

2015-07-10 Thread random832
The My Documents directory is not guaranteed to be named "Documents". On older versions of windows it was "My Documents", and on foreign versions of windows it is a name in their language. The correct way to get the path of this folder is, for example (couldn't test since I'm on a mac right now)

Re: [setuptools] install data-file in users home-dir

2015-07-10 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 10:01 AM, wrote: > On 2015-07-10 09:39 Chris Warrick wrote: >> And you should not create the files in your install script. Instead, >> install them to a different data dir (somewhere in 'share/appname', or >> alongside your package). When someone runs your app, only then