Re: IOS-style command line interface module?

Doh, I am indeed referring to the standard "cmd" module - thanks! To [EMAIL PROTECTED], the above module does what you describe. Thanks again, David. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: list.clear() missing?!?

Ville Vainio wrote: > Fredrik Lundh wrote: >>because Python already has a perfectly valid way to clear a list, >>perhaps ? >> >>del l[:] > > > Ok. That's pretty non-obvious but now that I've seen it I'll probably > remember it. I did a stupid "while l: l.pop()" loop myself. Actually, it's in

Re: list.clear() missing?!?

Alan Morgan wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>* s.clear() is more obvious in intent > > Serious question: Should it work more like "s=[]" or more like > "s[:]=[]". I'm assuming the latter, but the fact that there is > a difference is an argu

Re: list.clear() missing?!?

Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Convenience and obviousness are important for APIs -- that's why lists > have pop, extend and remove methods. The only difference I can see between > a hypothetical clear and these is that clear can be replaced with a > one-liner, while the others need at least two, e.g. fo

How to measure speed improvements across revisions over time?

I know how to use timeit and/or profile to measure the current run-time cost of some code. I want to record the time used by some original implementation, then after I rewrite it, I want to find out if I made stuff faster or slower, and by how much. Other than me writing down numbers on a piece o

Need help using callables and setup in timeit.Timer

I want to time some code that depends on some setup. The setup code looks a little like this: >>> b = range(1, 1001) And the code I want to time looks vaguely like this: >>> sorted(b) Except my code uses a different function than sorted. But that ain't important right now. Anyhow, I

Re: indexing lists/arrays question

On Thu 13 May 2010 10:36:58 AM EDT, a wrote: > this must be easy but its taken me a couple of hours already > > i have > > a=[2,3,3,4,5,6] > > i want to know the indices where a==3 (ie 1 and 2) > > then i want to reference these in a > > ie what i would do in IDL is > > b=where(a eq 3) > a1=a(b)

Where should I store docs in my project?

I used paster to create a project named pitz. I'm writing a bunch of user documentation. Where should I put it? The project looks a little like this: /home/matt/projects/pitz setup.py pitz/ __init__.py # has my project code docs/ # has my reST files

itertools.intersect?

Hi, During a fun coding session yesterday, I came across a problem that I thought was already solved by itertools, but on investigation it seems it isn't. The problem is simple: given one or more ordered sequences, return only the objects that appear in each sequence, without reading the whole se

Is this pylint error message valid or silly?

Here's the code that I'm feeding to pylint: $ cat f.py from datetime import datetime def f(c="today"): if c == "today": c = datetime.today() return c.date() And here's what pylint says: $ pylint -e f.py No config file found, using defau

Re: Is this pylint error message valid or silly?

On Fri 19 Jun 2009 02:55:52 AM EDT, Terry Reedy wrote: >> if c == "today": >> c = datetime.today() > > Now I guess that you actually intend c to be passed as a datetime > object. You only used the string as a type annotation, not as a real > default value. Something li

Re: Rich comparison methods don't work in sets?

On Fri 19 Jun 2009 03:02:44 PM EDT, Gustavo Narea wrote: > Hello, everyone. > > I've noticed that if I have a class with so-called "rich comparison" > methods > (__eq__, __ne__, etc.), when its instances are included in a set, > set.__contains__/__eq__ won't call the .__eq__ method of the elements

Where does setuptools live?

I'm trying to create a patch for a diabolical issue I keep running into, but I can't seem to find the setuptools repository. Is it this one? http://svn.python.org/view/sandbox/trunk/setuptools/ It's seen no changes in 9 months. The issue in question is its (ab)use of .svn to directly read wo

Does cProfile include IO wait time?

I have a command-line script that loads about 100 yaml files. It takes 2 or 3 seconds. I profiled my code and I'm using pstats to find what is the bottleneck. Here's the top 10 functions, sorted by internal time: In [5]: _3.sort_stats('time').print_stats(10) Sat Jul 4 13:25:40 2009

supported versions policy?

Does Python have a formal policy on the support lifetime (bug fixes, security fixes, etc.) for major and minor versions? I did a bit of searching on the Python web site and this group, but didn't find anything. If there is a policy posted somewhere (and I just didn't dig deep enough), would someo

How to refer to data files without hardcoding paths?

When a python package includes data files like templates or images, what is the orthodox way of referring to these in code? I'm working on an application installable through the Python package index. Most of the app is just python code, but I use a few jinja2 templates. Today I realized that I'm

Re: Soap with python?

On 09/08/2009 08:40 AM, Otto Hellwig wrote: > reccommend [sic ...] the best soap library ... Client side only? Suds (https://fedorahosted.org/suds/). Accept no subsitute! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to refer to data files without hardcoding paths?

On Mon 07 Sep 2009 10:57:01 PM EDT, Gabriel Genellina wrote: > I prefer > to use pkgutil.get_data(packagename, resourcename) because it can handle > those cases too. I didn't know about pkgutil until. I thought I had to use setuptools to do that kind of stuff. Thanks! Matt -- http://mail.pyth

Question about unpickling dict subclass with custom __setstate__

I subclassed the dict class and added a __setstate__ method because I want to add some extra steps when I unpickle these entities. This is a toy example of what I am doing: class Entity(dict): def __setstate__(self, d): log.debug("blah...") Based on my experiments, the

Re: os.execv Overhead

On 09/16/2009 11:12 AM, mark.mcdow...@gmail.com wondered about: > overhead of [fork/exec]: An alternative might be os.spawn?(), etal. It might run a tiny bit faster because it combines the two operations, but I think you're pretty close to the metal. Jim -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/list

How do I begin debugging a python memory leak?

I have a web app based on TurboGears 1.0. In the last few days, as traffic and usage has picked up, I noticed that the app went from using 4% of my total memory all the way up to 50%. I suspect I'm loading data from the database and somehow preventing garbage collection. Are there any tools that

Re: Set/Get attribute syntatic sugar

Заур Шибзухов wrote: > There is a syntactic sugar for item access in > dictionaries and sequences: > > o[e] = v <-> o.__setitem__(e, v) > o[e] <-> o.__getitem__(e) > > where e is an expression. > > There is no similar way for set/get attribute for objects. > If e is a given name, then > >

Re: Cleaning strings with Regular Expressions

sheffdog wrote: > Using regular expressions, the best I can do so far is using the re.sub > command but it still takes two lines. Can I do this in one line? Or > should I be approaching this differently? All I want to end up with is > the file name "ppbhat.tga". A regular expression to do what you

Re: My First Python Script

Ed Hotchkiss wrote: > def ZeroThrough255(): > x = 0 > while x <= 255: > if len(x) == 1: > mySet = '00' + str(x) > elif len(x) == 2: > mySet = '0' + str(x) > else: > mySet = x >

Any logger created before calling logging.config.dictCOnfig is not configured

t "log.root.level: {0}".format(log1.root.level) print "log.root.handlers: {0}".format(log1.root.handlers) print "log1.parent.level: {0}".format(log1.parent.level) print "log1.parent.handlers: {0}".format(log1.parent.handlers) print "log1.level: {0}".format(log1.level) print "log1.handlers: {0}".format(log1.handlers) print "log1.propagate: {0}".format(log1.propagate) print "log1.getEffectiveLevel(): {0}".format(log1.getEffectiveLevel()) ### SCRIPT END -- W. Matthew Wilson m...@tplus1.com http://tplus1.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Missing logging output in Python

NFO messages to sys.stderr > console = logging.StreamHandler() > console.setLevel(logging.INFO) > # set format that is cleaber for console use > formatter = logging.Formatter('%(name)-12s: %(levelname)-8s %(message)s') > # tell the handler to use this format >

trying to use swig for the first time

...I have some C code (foo.c and foo.h) that I would like to be able to access using python. I've written my interface file (foo.i) like so: %module foo %{ #include "foo.h" %} %include "foo.h" I then do the following on the command line: $ swig -python foo.i $ gcc -c foo.c foo_wrap.c -I /usr/inc

Re: Convert from numbers to letters

Bill Mill wrote: > On 5/19/05, Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Bill Mill wrote: >> >> Traceback (most recent call last): File"",line1,in? NameError: name 'sorted' is not defined I think you're probably using 2.4 ?? >>> >>>Yes, sorted() is new in python 2.4 .You coul

Re: Convert from numbers to letters

Gary Wilson Jr wrote: > alpha = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'.upper() > pairs = [x for x in alpha] + [''.join((x,y)) for x in alpha for y in alpha] I forget, is string concatenation with '+' just as fast as join() now (because that would look even nicer)

PAM authentication?

I would like my application to be able to authenticate through PAM. Is there any code out there that implements this? All I could find was PyPAM (http://www.pangalactic.org/PyPAM/), which doesn't look like it has been touched in almost 6 years and requires python1.5. -- http://mail.python.org/mai

__init__.py in packages

I'm creating a python package foo. What is intended use for __init__.py files? Well, I found this: http://www.python.org/doc/essays/packages.html >From what I can gather it is for initialization of the package when doing an import, but I would really like to see an example or situation that makes

Re: Perl s/ To Python?

John Abel wrote: > Does anyone know of a quick way of performing this: > > $testVar =~ s#/mail/.*$##g Use the re (regular expression) module. Since you are iterating over a lot of entries, it is good to compile the regular expression outside of the loop. >>> import re >>> mailRE = re.compile('/

Re: Building Binary Packages

On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:35:35 +, kyosohma wrote: > I am trying to figure out how to build binaries for Python packages and > I've done it with MinGW. Apparently, you still can: http://tinyurl.com/yb4bps -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

The curious behavior of integer objects

Am I nuts? Or only profoundly confused? I expected the this little script to print "0": class foo(int): def __init__(self, value): self = value & 0xF print foo(0x10) Instead, it prints "16" (at least on python 2.4.4 (Linux) and 2.5 (Wine). Jim Wilson GNV, FL --

Debugging pipe IPC

t; and allowed me to compose/test small snippets on the terminal. So far, no joy. Is this possible? If so, can someone nudge me toward a solution or better yet a recipe? Jim Wilson Gainesville, FL -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Debugging pipe IPC

Ian Clark pointed me to: > ... the cmd module. > Yes, I found that, but I could only get it to print a nice interactive prompt, "(Cmd)", read a line of input and discard it. Apparently, I'm too stupid to figure out how to hook it into python. Jim

Re: Another newbie design question

ot;""'d strings. They come in quite handy in a lot of practical cases. And remember: "If you need it and you don't have it, you don't need it." (at least in backpacking :) Jim Wilson Gainesville, FL -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Debugging pipe IPC

Ian Clark wrote: > Jim B. Wilson wrote: > ... >> The child/client sends requests on its stdout and receives responses >> on stdin. > > So, why can't you just run this client on the command line and let the > shell handle stdin/stdout for you? I'm not s

Re: Debugging pipe IPC

Ian Clark wrote: > ... whatever 'mother' was sending it ("Clean your room!" most like) :) > If it's very verbose ... Alas, it is quite verbose. Constructing a single instance of a class (from the Pyrex extension acting as the child's two-way radio) could involve tens of thousands of more-or-le

Re: Debugging pipe IPC

Ian Clark wrote: > import os > os.system("netcat -l -p 1234 localhost") > > HTH, Nope, but the network theme got me thinking about how one might run Python on a remote host. After a few false starts, Googling "remote python shell" led me to Guido's "ripshell.py" (not *that* Guido, a diffe

Re: itertools.intersect?

On Jun 11, 3:05 am, Chris Rebert wrote: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Mensanator wrote: > > On Jun 10, 5:24 pm, David Wilson wrote: > >> Hi, > > >> During a fun coding session yesterday, I came across a problem that I > >> thought was already solve

Re: itertools.intersect?

On Jun 11, 12:59 am, Jack Diederich wrote: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 6:24 PM, David Wilson wrote: > > During a fun coding session yesterday, I came across a problem that I > > thought was already solved by itertools, but on investigation it seems > > it isn't. > >

Re: itertools.intersect?

On Jun 10, 11:24 pm, David Wilson wrote: > Hi, > > During a fun coding session yesterday, I came across a problem that I > thought was already solved by itertools, but on investigation it seems > it isn't. > > The problem is simple: given one or more ordered sequences,

a simple question

I recently downloaded the latest version of python, 3.9.6. Everything works except, the turtle module. I get an error message every time , I use basic commands like forward, backward, right and left. My syntax is correct: pat.forward(100) is an example. Can you tell me what is wrong.      thanks

F-string usage in a print()

future_value = 0 for i in range(years): # for i in range(months): future_value += monthly_investment future_value = round(future_value, 2) # monthly_interest_amount = future_value * monthly_interest_rate # future_value += monthly_interest_amount # display the result print(f"Year =

Help, PyCharm fails to recognize my tab setting...See attached picture of the code.

C:\Users\kevin\PycharmProjects\Myfuturevalue\venv\Scripts\python.exe C:\Users\kevin\PycharmProjects\Myfuturevalue\FutureValueCal.py   File "C:\Users\kevin\PycharmProjects\Myfuturevalue\FutureValueCal.py", line 31    elif (years > 50.0) or (years < 1.0) :    ^IndentationError: expected an indent

Pycharm IDE

Greetings... Kevin here:I need help, as you have guessed!I have this line: The Print Statement... Why complain about a 'comma', or a ')'???def play_game(): number = random.randint(1, LIMIT) print (f'"I am thinking of a number between 1 to {LIMIT}\n")Or is this a setting in the IDE, I need

Re: Pycharm IDE

aze."      Isaiah 43:2 On Tuesday, April 18, 2023 at 06:44:37 PM MDT, aapost wrote: On 4/18/23 19:18, Kevin M. Wilson wrote: >Why complain about a 'comma', or a ')'??? >      print (f'"I am thinking of a number between 1 to {LIMIT}\n") my

Re: Pycharm IDE

u: and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned: the flames will not set you ablaze."      Isaiah 43:2 On Tuesday, April 18, 2023 at 11:17:52 PM MDT, Kevin M. Wilson via Python-list wrote: print (f'

PyCharm's strict PEP and not so strict?

Greetings,     I'm in a bit of a quandary, I want some strict syntax errors to be flagged, but the use of single quotes vs double quotes! NOT what I need from the 'checker', you dig? As I've recently returned to the IDE, and no longer have the "stones" for bull, how do I set up the kind of "

Editing PEP-8, in particular "expected 2 blanks, found 1

Folks, help please! What the @#$! are these doing popping up. Code styles are personal, and not subject to debate.Where can I edit these out of my IDE? Kevin "When you pass through the waters, I will be with you: and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk th

Disable 'style PEP' messages

Hi... How do I set Pycharm to find only syntax errors?!! "When you pass through the waters, I will be with you: and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned: the flames will not set you ablaze."      Isaiah 43:2 | |

Three (3) >>> in the debug screen of PyCharm... Que Es over?!!

"When you pass through the waters, I will be with you: and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned: the flames will not set you ablaze."      Isaiah 43:2 | | Virus-free.www.avg.com | -- https://mail.python.org/m

Invalid literal for int() with base 10?

Ok, I'm not finding any info. on the int() for converting a str to an int (that specifies a base parameter)?! The picture is of the code I've written... And the base 10 paradigm involved?? years = int('y') # store for calculationValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: 'y'What is mean

From geeksforgeeks.org, on converting the string created by the input() to an INT

We can first convert the string representation of float into float using  float() function and then convert it into an integer using int().So, why can't a string of an integer be converted to an integer, via  print(int(str('23.5')))??? Perplexed | print(int(float('23.5'))) | "When you pas

Re: Invalid literal for int() with base 10?

e."      Isaiah 43:2 On Thursday, May 25, 2023 at 05:55:06 PM MDT, Kevin M. Wilson via Python-list wrote: Ok, I'm not finding any info. on the int() for converting a str to an int (that specifies a base parameter)?! The picture is of the code I've written... And the

For example: Question, moving a folder (T061RR7N1) containing a Specific file (ReadCMI), to folder: C:\\...\DUT0

for path, dir, files in os.walk(myDestinationFolder): # for path, dir, files in os.walk(destfolder): print('The path is %s: ', path) print(files) os.chdir(mySourceFolder) if not os.path.isfile(myDestinationFolder + file): # if not os.path.isfile(destfolder + file): prin

Re: Python cannot count apparently

Set i = 0 at the begin of the code, that way each entry starts at Logical 0 of the array/container/list... "The only way to have experience is by having the experience"! On Sunday, February 7, 2021, 12:56:40 PM MST, Karsten Hilbert wrote: Am Sun, Feb 07, 2021 at 07:47:03PM + schr

Python 2.7 and 3.9

My employer has hundreds of scripts in 2.7, but I'm writing new scripts in 3.9! I'm running into 'invalid syntax' errors.I have to maintain the 'Legacy' stuff, and I need to mod the path et al., to execute 3.7 w/o doing damage to the 'Legacy' stuff...IDEA' are Welcome! KMW John 1:4  "In him was

Tkinter needed as a legacy version 2.7 imports the module...

Hey Community,    Is there a site where I might/can download a version of Tkinter for Python 2.7? Seriously, KMW John 1:4  "In him was life; and the life was the light of men." -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Pycharm IDE: seeking an assist!

Greetings Python coders,     I have installed the Pycharm IDE, and upon successfully auto install of the path/environment statements. The IDE opened and displayed (bottom right corner):  The use of Java options environment variables detected. Such variables override IDE configuration files

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MS Edge settings are displayed in the first picture, the error I encountered is the second picture...not sure how I get around this!I reloaded the browser after checking the settings for JavaScript...confused. Kevin Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory tooverlook an off

Flubbed it in the second interation through the string: range error... HOW?

The following is my effort to understand how to process a string, letter, by letter: def myfunc(name):        index = 0    howmax = len(name)    # while (index <= howmax):    while (index < howmax):        if (index % 2 == 0):            print('letter to upper = {}, index {}!'.format(name[index]

Fw: Flubbed it in the second interation through the string: range error... HOW?

sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned: the flames will not set you ablaze."      Isaiah 43:2 - Forwarded Message - From: Kevin M. Wilson via Python-list To: python-list@python.org Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2024 at 10:35:23 PM MDTSubject: Fl

pdb: How to use the 'break' parameter?

break (Old_MacDonald:23 | name[indx] == 'd', indx = 4), based on the doc spec in python.org (https://docs.python.org/3/library/pdb.html#debugger-commands) Cell In[1], line 20 break (Old_MacDonald:23 | name[indx] == 'd', indx = 4) ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax I got one blan

Re: Python List is Not Dead

Excuse please, my failure. As I have not been following this discussion, why is the subject "Python List Is NOT Dead" a subject for discussion? Has the list been moving towards closing? KMW *** "When you pass through the waters, I will be with you:

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message saying that I require Python 3.6 or greater. I have downloaded and installed Python 3.10.1 but I am still receiving the same message. Can you please tell me what I am doing wrong ? I look forward to hearing from you. regards Mandy Wilson m. 07739 263 234 -- https

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