Re: windows utf8 & lxml

2016-12-21 Thread Sayth Renshaw
On Tuesday, 20 December 2016 22:54:03 UTC+11, Sayth Renshaw wrote: > Hi > > I have been trying to get a script to work on windows that works on mint. The > key blocker has been utf8 errors, most of which I have solved. > > Now however the last error I am trying to overcome, the solution appear

Re: windows utf8 & lxml

2016-12-21 Thread Peter Otten
Sayth Renshaw wrote: > On Tuesday, 20 December 2016 22:54:03 UTC+11, Sayth Renshaw wrote: >> Hi >> >> I have been trying to get a script to work on windows that works on mint. >> The key blocker has been utf8 errors, most of which I have solved. >> >> Now however the last error I am trying to o

for loop iter next if file bad

2016-12-21 Thread Sayth Renshaw
Hi I am looping a list of files and want to skip any empty files. I get an error that str is not an iterator which I sought of understand but can't see a workaround for. How do I make this an iterator so I can use next on the file if my test returns true. Currently my code is. for dir_path, s

Re: for loop iter next if file bad

2016-12-21 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 8:47 PM, Sayth Renshaw wrote: > def return_files(file_list): > """ > Take a list of files and return file when called. > > Calling function to supply attributes > """ > for file in file_list: > with open(os.path.join(dir_path, file), 'rb') as fd:

Re: for loop iter next if file bad

2016-12-21 Thread Sayth Renshaw
Ah yes. Thanks ChrisA http://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/python_loop_control.htm The continue Statement: The continue statement in Python returns the control to the beginning of the while loop. The continue statement rejects all the remaining statements in the current iteration of the loop an

RE: for loop iter next if file bad

2016-12-21 Thread Joaquin Alzola
>def return_files(file_list): >""" >Take a list of files and return file when called. > >Calling function to supply attributes >""" >for file in file_list: >with open(os.path.join(dir_path, file), 'rb') as fd: >if os.stat(fd.name).st_size == 0: >

SQLAlchemy and Postgres

2016-12-21 Thread Ethan Furman
There's a question over on SO [1] asking about an interaction between SQLAlchemy and postgres which may be related to an SQLA upgrade from 1.0 to 1.1 and the generation of a check clause Sadly, I don't have any experience with SQLAlchemy -- anybody here want to take a crack at it? -- ~Ethan~ [1

Re: [OT] "Invisible posts", was: Best attack order for groups of numbers trying to destroy each other, given a victory chance for number to number attack.

2016-12-21 Thread skybuck2000
On Thursday, December 15, 2016 at 1:17:10 PM UTC+1, Peter Otten wrote: > skybuck2...@hotmail.com wrote: > > > I received a reply from somebody on my ISP newsserver. Apperently his > > reply is not visible on google groups. I wonder why, maybe it's a banned > > troll or something, but perhaps not.

Re: topology rules in python

2016-12-21 Thread Fabien
On 12/21/2016 07:11 AM, Bernd Nawothnig wrote: On 2016-12-20, Xristos Xristoou wrote: I have a PostGIS database with shapefiles lines, polygons and points and I want to create a topology rules with python. Any idea how to do that ?some packages ? http://www.gdal.org/ or: pip install gdal al

Mergesort problem

2016-12-21 Thread Deborah Swanson
I'm not a beginning python coder, but I'm not an advanced one either. I can't see why I have this problem, though at this point I've probably been looking at it too hard and for too long (several days), so maybe I'm just too close to it. Can one of you guys see the problem (besides my childish codi

Re: Mergesort problem

2016-12-21 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 11:55 AM, Deborah Swanson wrote: > The problem is that while mergeSort puts the list ls in perfect order, > which I can see by looking at result on merge's final return to > mergeSort, and at the left and the right once back in mergeSort. Both > the left half and the right

RE: Mergesort problem

2016-12-21 Thread Deborah Swanson
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 11:55 AM, Deborah Swanson > wrote: > > The problem is that while mergeSort puts the list ls in > perfect order, > > which I can see by looking at result on merge's final return to > > mergeSort, and at the left and the right once back in > mergeSort. Both > > the le