Re: Overwrite just one line? Am I a n00b or is this impossible? Both? :D

pper bound you wish. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM erikmaxfrancis Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude. -- Sir Thomas Browne -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Overwrite just one line? Am I a n00b or is this impossible? Both? :D

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok the key was "r+b" as opposed to "a+b" but why is that? R is for read, correct? And b for binary. Adding the plus gives me some form of write capability? Read binary is "rb," but read-write binary is "r+b." The "+" me

Re: templating system

emplate would look something like this:: @[for record in records]@ @record.title @[end for]@ Batch expanding the template would look like something as simple as (substituting in your example):: ... return em.expand(open(templateFilename).r

Re: templating system

had a need to do so, so it's always been low priority. I've certainly never heard of any complaints of EmPy's speed (or lack therefore) as being a problem in the field. Unless you huge realtime demands, I doubt EmPy's speed would be a major impediment. (Of course, if you

Re: ANN: Python 2.3.2 for PalmOS available

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If anyone want to check this out, heres the url: http://pyar.decode.com.ar/Members/ltorre/PythonPalm Note the links are swapped; the one that says source package points to the .prc file, and the one that says .prc file goes to the source package. -- Erik Max Francis

Re: ANN: Python 2.3.2 for PalmOS available

d never returns. It worked on my Treo 650, although you quickly ran out of space in the input text area (if you typed too many characters it would beep and prevent you from typing anymore). -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA,

Re: Proposal: an unchanging URL for Python documentation

Fredrik Lundh wrote: did you check that link before you posted it? Works here. Your browser is probably concluding the trailing . is part of the URL, rather than sentence punctuation :-). -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA &

Re: ANN: Python 2.3.2 for PalmOS available

RM wrote: I get odd results when trying to use exponents. For example: 4^2 6 Someone else already pointed out that ** is exponentiation. ^, on the other hand, bitwise exclusive or. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA &am

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

riday. Too bad it comes to an abrupt "temporary end". Ironically, I just used Unix tools (tr, grep, sed) for each of the puzzles except the first one, and that first one was only because I tend to use Python as a convenient calculator anyway :-). -- Erik Max Francis && [E

ANN: EmPy 3.3.2 released (Python 3.x compatibility)

EmPy should work with any version of Python from 2.4 onward, including 3.x. License This code is released under the LGPL. Release history [since 3.3] - 3.3.2; 2014 Jan 24. Additional fix for source compatibility between 2.x and 3.0. - 3.3.1; 2014 Jan 22. Source c

Help needed to create a Python extension library for an existing shared memory hash table library

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

Re: while True or while 1

e of being _way_ too defensive. -- Erik Max Francis && m...@alcyone.com && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 18 N 121 57 W && AIM/Y!M/Jabber erikmaxfrancis Ambition can creep as well as soar. -- Edmund Burke -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: while True or while 1

e idiomatic `while 1` notation comes from back in the pre-Boolean days. In any reasonably modern implementation, `while True` is more self-documenting. I would imagine the primary reason people still do it, any after-the-fact rationalizations aside, is simply habit. -- Erik Max Francis &&a

Re: Proposal: Inline Import

y to import an already-imported module, inline or not, the second (or subsequent) imports are no-operations. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM erikmaxfrancis Golf is a good walk spoile

Re: ANN: pygene - genetic algorithms package

ek or two. Hopefully I'll have a basic system ready by New Year's, but I can't really make any promises. The best way to encourage me to get it done is probably to keep me talking about it :-). -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max

Re: Another newbie question

> a = point.x > b = point.x > assert (a is b)# can fail > > for that matter > > assert (point.x is point.x) > > can fail. These attributes aren't "member variables" any more. Which is perfectly fine, since testing identity with `

Re: "0 in [True,False]" returns True

having Booleans, if you can't tell them from integers? Because return True is clearer than return 1 if the purpose of the return value is to indicate a Boolean rather than an arbitrary integer. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.c

Re: "0 in [True,False]" returns True

sent true print x, y Besides, it's not the only reason, but it's a good one. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM erikmaxfrancis Ipsa scientia potestas est. "Kn

Re: "0 in [True,False]" returns True

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > True too, and could be the reason(or similar too) why the OP wants to > test the type rather than the logical value of it. The type is for the self-documentation purposes. The value is the same; so no, that's not a good reason either. -- Erik Max Franci

Re: sql using characters like é and ã

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Utf-8 is the same as Unicode? No, UTF-8 is one (of several) possible encodings for expressing Unicode as a stream of bytes. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121

Re: Worthwhile to reverse a dictionary

examples I saw (python.org, aspn.activestate.com, > Learning Python by Lutz, among others) use d={'x' : 'y'}. In the latter case the values are ints, whereas in the former they are strings. But you probably didn't mean that; indeed it is the case that d

Re: quick unicode Q

e an id3 tag) how do I make the > interpretter understand that it may contain unicode? Read it as a string, and then decode it with the .decode method. You specify what encoding it's in. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA,

Re: quick unicode Q

http://www.id3.org/id3v2.4.0-structure.txt -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM erikmaxfrancis You are in the music / In the man's car next to me -- Sade -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Cp1251-symbols in SOAP request

erly, you have to encode it to a string properly. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM erikmaxfrancis Could it be / That we need loving to survive -- Neneh Cherry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Cp1251-symbols in SOAP request

Pelmen wrote: > what to do, to encode it properly? UTF-8? You're the one sending it through a socket; only you know what the other side expects. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W &

Re: Testing the availability of a module

ImportError in your except clause. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM erikmaxfrancis Substance is one of the greatest of our illusions. -- Sir Arthur Eddington -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: parsing engineering symbols

t; => 12000.0 > I searched the web, but could not find any function. There's some extensive code in the SI class in BOTEC which does this: http://www.alcyone.com/software/botec/ -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/

Re: How to check if a string "is" an int?

eError: ... do something else ... -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM erikmaxfrancis May it not be that, at least, the brighter stars are like our Sun, the upholding and energizing ce

Re: How to check if a string "is" an int?

which means to try to convert it and catch any exception that results from failure. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM erikmaxfrancis Make it come down / Like molasses rain -- Sandra St. Victor -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to check if a string "is" an int?

e latter is clearly a more useful functionality. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM erikmaxfrancis Make it come down / Like molasses rain -- Sandra St. Victor -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: serialize object in jython, read into python

Noah wrote: > You can give up on pickle, because pickle is only > guaranteed to work with the exact same version of the Python > interpreter. Not true. You're thinking of marshal. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jos

Re: call static function from extension module - syntaxerror

f and > using setup. My method is defined as > > static PyMethodDef ast_man_methods[] = { > {"exec",exec,METH_VARARGS,"Execute Asterisk commands."}, > {NULL,NULL,0,NULL} > }; > > What might be my problem?? exec is a reserved word. >>> exe

Re: Vector math library

o do vector > addition, cross products, dot products etc. and probably in the future > I'll need matrix math as well. ZOE has an la a module that helps with linear algebra computations including (three-dimensional) vectors and matrices: http://www.alcyone.com/software/zoe/

Re: Unicode Question

David Pratt wrote: > This is not working for me. Can someone explain why. Many thanks. Because '\xbe' isn't UTF-8 for the character you want, '\xc2\xbe' is, as you just showed yourself in the code snippet. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] &&a

Re: Limiting the size of List and making it Homogeneous

nts of type int. > C, C++: >int intarr[5] > How can I achieve this kind of behavior ? Use a list and keep it of length 5. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM erikmaxfrancis

Re: On Numbers

e whether your hierarchy of numeric types includes a complex type or not. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM erikmaxfrancis Walk into a room and make the / Whole interior inferior -- Ice Cube -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: On Numbers

t; Mathematica. Note that cmath.sqrt returns the expected complex result for cmath.sqrt(-1.0). -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM erikmaxfrancis Our purpose is to make the agony o

Re: On Numbers

out that cmath.sqrt is what you want if you really do want the complex result rather than the principal real one. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM erikmaxfrancis Dear World: I am le

Re: String handling and the percent operator

stitute it at one value. (Even with this fix, though, your message didn't have enough formatters.) -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM erikmaxfrancis Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: String handling and the percent operator

Tom Plunket wrote: > Excellent. Thanks. Has this been around long? I "learned" Python in > the 1.6 days iirc, but haven't done much except simple scripting with > it since... Yep. Been around since at least 1.5.x. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: String handling and the percent operator

d over to get its own tuple. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM erikmaxfrancis Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. -- Sigmund Freud -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Coding style

Donn Cave wrote: > Tac-tics is right, an empty list is not False. But that's not what he said. He said it was "not false." That's wrong. It's false. It's just not False. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/ma

Re: Coding style

riginal question was, "The first one." Feel free to write it the other way with an explicit test, but it's not Pythonic. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM eri

Re: building an index for large text files for fast access

alex23 wrote: > The standard library module 'libcache' does exactly what you're > considering implementing. I believe the module you're referring to is `linecache`. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ Sa

Re: singleton decorator

Andre Meyer wrote: > Am I missing something here? What is the preferred pythonic way of > implementing singleton elegantly? Create a class and then derive from it. There are examples on the Cookbook. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/ma

Re: #!/usr/bin/python or #!/usr/bin/env python?

path will invariably be wrong. (Yes, for those about to nitpick, it's conceivable that env might be somewhere other than /usr/bin. However, that is very rare and results in a no-win situations regardless of the issue of where Python is installed.) -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL P

Re: #!/usr/bin/python or #!/usr/bin/env python?

nX.Y would be a better choice. (Maybe that's what you meant.) -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM erikmaxfrancis Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose. -

Re: How to reverse tuples in a list?

h list comprehensions? Use reversed: >>> t = (1, 2, 3) >>> u = tuple(reversed(t)) >>> u (3, 2, 1) -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM er

Re: #!/usr/bin/python or #!/usr/bin/env python?

Stephan Kuhagen wrote: > Michał Bartoszkiewicz wrote: > >> #!/bin/sh >> """exec" python "$0" "$@""" > > Wow, cool... I like that! Only someone genuinely fond of the Tcl hack could ... -- Erik Max Francis && [

Re: #!/usr/bin/python or #!/usr/bin/env python?

evel of a sh interpreter -- thereby, defeating the purpose? -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM erikmaxfrancis Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. -- Robert F. Kennedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: #!/usr/bin/python or #!/usr/bin/env python?

the right thing but foil `file`, intentionally or unintentionally -- just as we've seen in this thread. The right way to approach this with `file` is to acknowledge that such tricks are inherently sh-specific and leave it identified as a sh file. Because that is, of course, exactly what it

Re: #!/usr/bin/python or #!/usr/bin/env python?

's processing, which is what the previously discussed tricks amount to. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM erikmaxfrancis Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. -- Evelyn Waugh -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: #!/usr/bin/python or #!/usr/bin/env python?

rly not if almost all tcl-scripts are > started that way. The problem is that there are endless ways to do that, and figuring out all the cases makes `file` an sh interpreter, not the magic number detector it's supposed to be. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && h

Re: #!/usr/bin/python or #!/usr/bin/env python?

not having publicly-writable things in your PATH. In other words, this is the argument for not putting things like /tmp or . (because you might cd to somewhere publicly writable like /tmp) in your PATH, not really for avoiding /usr/bin/env in hash bangs. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL P

Re: Global Objects...

KraftDiner wrote: > myGlobalDictionary doesn't seem to be visible to my someClass methods. > Why? What should I do? Specify more clearly what is happening, what you wanted it to do, and why you think it's wrong? You haven't given enough information. -- Erik Max Franci

Re: Can I do this with list comprehension?

[4, 8, 10] > > Any hints? >>> from itertools import izip >>> a = [0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0] >>> b = [2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12] >>> [y for x, y in izip(a, b) if x == 1] [4, 8, 10] -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/

Re: HOST - Assembla Inc. Breakout - Copyright Violation by Mr. Andy Singleton

Ilias Lazaridis wrote: > please relax and do not speak for all current and future readers > (archives). He may not be speaking for all of them, but he's speaking for the vast majority. You are a consummate pest. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http:/

Re: HOST - Assembla Inc. Breakout - Copyright Violation by Mr. Andy Singleton

Steve Holden wrote: > I have to say I find the colour of your socks *much* more interesting. Especially what with the skulls and all. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM, Y!M e

Re: class print?

SpreadTooThin wrote: > Hi... Many python object can be printed simpy by saying: > print obj > what method(s) need to be implemented in my own classes such that print > dumps the object? __str__ -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/

Re: Painless way to do 3D visualization

So, I'd really appreciate any hints as to where to look for anything a > little more usable. There's also ZOE: http://www.alcyone.com/software/zoe/ but if a lack of documentation turned you off to VPython then ZOE is probably not for you either. -- Erik Max Francis &&

Re: Python component model

Ilias Lazaridis wrote: > http://dabodev.com > http://case.lazaridis.com/wiki/DaboAudit Who. Cares. What. You. Think? -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM, Y!M erikmaxfran

Re: shuffling elements of a list

David C. Ullrich wrote: > Good example, because we know that EMF is not dumb. I've seen > the same algorithm many times - the best example is ... Man, an error made _six years ago_ and people are still bringing it up ... -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] &&

Re: An oddity in list comparison and element assignment

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > With all due respect to your well-deserved standing in the Python > community, I'm not convinced that equality shouldn't imply invariance > under identical operations. Doo you really want 2 == 2.0 to be False? -- Erik Max Francis

Re: C# equivalent to range()

They actually wanted to talk about Python, not some random other language that you're trying to learn that has nothing to do with it ... -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM e

Re: Max function question: How do I return the index of the maximum value of a list?

Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM erikmaxfrancis Could it be / That we need loving to survive -- Neneh Cherry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Where is the ucs-32 codec?

ll builds), > like the 'utf-8' codec does, right? Note that UTF-32 is UCS-4. UCS-32 ("Universial Character Set in 32 octets") wouldn't make much sense. Not that Python has a UCS-4 encoding available either. I'm really not sure why. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMA

Re: C# equivalent to range()

owingly ask questions in the wrong places, and then actually _defend_ their actions after they're politely but firmly informed how to fix the problem. You're really not making yourself look any better by continuing this thread ... -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Where is the ucs-32 codec?

lready supported. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM erikmaxfrancis Democritus may have come from Abdera, but he was no dummy. -- Carl Sagan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: C# equivalent to range()

saying that the "enjoy to waste their time niggling." He's complaining that people weren't nice to help. But they _were_. They answered his question politely and to the point. It's _he_ that turned rude after that. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] &am

Re: C# equivalent to range()

| | http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Sorry, if you think those are unacceptable tones for responses to off-topic questions, the real world is going to be something of an unpleasant shock. He asked a question. He was told how to get the answer. No one was rude until _

Re: C# equivalent to range()

Neuruss wrote: > The other zilion persons who were not interested (other than the four I > mentioned above) silently and peacefully ignored the question on went > on with their happy lifes. That's because many of them have killfiled you. -- Erik Max Francis && [EM

Re: the most efficient method of adding elements to the list

alf wrote: > Would it be .append()? Does it reallocate te list with each apend? > > l=[] > for i in xrange(n): > l.append(i) No, it doesn't. It expands the capacity of the list if necessary. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcy

Re: CENSORSHIP - Django Project (Schema Evolution Support)

Rene Pijlman wrote: > Wikipedia always tells the Absolute Truth, because if it doesn't, we can > edit it and fix it right away. Tell that to John Seigenthaler. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37

Re: CENSORSHIP - Django Project (Schema Evolution Support)

Thorsten Kampe wrote: > I think I have a deja-vu... Did someone say "Xah"?! With a hint of Brandon. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM erikmaxfrancis Too much a

Re: Xah Lee network abuse

Mallor wrote: > I know I'm coming late to the barbeque. In passing, I ask: do you have > an objective, impartial perspective on the subject of committing > crimes? Because libel is a crime. No, it is a tort. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www

Re: Xah Lee network abuse

. Is there? Anyway, it's certainly a tort in all relevant jurisdictions here. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM erikmaxfrancis Covenants without the sword are but words. -- Camden -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Xah Lee network abuse

something factually true is _not_ in and of itself a defense against a libel suit in the UK. As for the reverse side of the issue, in jurisdictions where it _is_ a defense, if one were to accuse him of being a pedophile but couldn't prove it, that would certainly be an actionable o

Re: Xah Lee network abuse

libel. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM erikmaxfrancis To perceive is to suffer. -- Aristotle -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Xah Lee network abuse

rson who he was replying to, i.e., you. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM erikmaxfrancis Twenty-four hours a day, three-hundred sixty-five days a year as Secretary

Re: Xah Lee network abuse

ibel law is not quite as simple as the original poster was making it out to be). If you don't wish to defend your position, that's fine, but pointing fingers is kind of weird at this stage. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jos

Re: Xah Lee network abuse

Philippa Cowderoy wrote: > I'd still appreciate being referred to as "she" rather than "he" though. Oops, my bad. Never occurred to me after all these years, which is kind of embarrassing, actually :-). -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && h

Re: curses module bug in windows python?

Tim Daneliuk wrote: > Nope - this module is not supported under Windows ... There's at least one Python curses module for Windows: http://adamv.com/dev/python/curses/ -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA &a

Re: String negative indices?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there some magic I'm missing here? Wouldn't it actually be better for > Python to treat 0 as a > special case here, so that x[-2:0] and x[-2:] generated the same result? No, since x[-2:0:-1] already has meaning and it isn't what you want

Re: String negative indices?

an matrices whose elements are reals, or something else? -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM erikmaxfrancis My heart is pure as the driven slush. -- Tallulah Bankhead -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: String negative indices?

nterpreted your "distinct, different, zeroes" as referring to the elements but not the matrices. Just a misunderstanding. Every zero matrix is an additive identity, and there are an infinite number of them. That's certainly true. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Python question

access this same data structure in this way multiple times before moving on to the next one, would be to turn it into a dictionary first:: d = dict(row) print d['min'] Note that all of these solutions assume that the key you want is indeed in there. If it might not be, t

Re: how do i make an array global

i] = ... -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM erikmaxfrancis Every human being is a problem in search of a solution. -- Ashley Montagu -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: a class variable question

. You mean:: class A: _var1 = 0 ... def func1(self): A._var1 = 1 All you're doing in your example is setting a local variable inside the func1 method, which has no effect. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] &&a

Re: a class variable question

> > def func1(self): > self._var1 = 1 Note this only changes the attribute in the instance. If he wants it to be changed for all other instances, he needs to change it in the class with:: A._var1 = 1 -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www

Re: how do i make an array global

t have to be concerned about the precise case in which it's required, reducing bugs when you change a block so that it would have been required if you hadn't included it. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA &&

Re: defining multi dimensional array

bruce wrote: > basic question.. > > how do i define a multi dimensional array > > a[10][10] > > is there a kind of a = array(10,10) It's just a list of lists. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ Sa

Re: language design question

y to rewrite this using methods (member functions). >> [a.len() for a in ('abc', (1,2,3), [1,2], {1:2})] > > Did you actually try that? He was answering a hypothetical. He wasn't suggesting that was valid syntax today. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] &a

Re: 3d simulation

alimoe wrote: >> Genetic Programming or Genetic Algorithms? > > whats the difference? Genetic algorithms usually involve the manipulation of bit strings. Genetic programming usually involves more program-like constructs, such as Lisp s-expressions. -- Erik Max Francis &&a

Re: Test for number?

Helmut Jarausch wrote: > One step further > > try: >eval(x+'0') > That is an exceedingly bad idea. Type: __import__('sys').exit(), in the prompt and see what happens. You _never_ want to run `eval` on an untrusted string. Never. -- E

Re: time-based point system

that, you can define (or get help defining) how to calculate them. As it is you've not given nearly enough information to answer your question. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W &

Re: time-based point system

to define more clearly what properties of this negative function you want to narrow it down beyond that. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM, Y!M erikmaxfrancis Get married, bu

Re: time-based point system

efine them up front, it results in a very unsatisfactory guessing game of proposing a function, you telling me what's wrong with it, and repeat until either or both of us get bored. And, by the way, this is a question about mathematics, and so has nothing to do specifically with Python.

Re: Strange behaviour of 'is'

whether their identity is shared with other objects in other contexts is never significant. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM, Y!M erikmaxfrancis Little things / Cut like k

Re: eval(source, {'builtins': {}}) archived as Faq

ource): return eval(source, {'builtins': {}}) ... >>> e('__import__("sys").exit()') Oops, the interpreter exited. Just when you think you've covered all the bases, you haven't. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://ww

Re: eval(source, {'builtins': {}}) archived as Faq

oit I gave wouldn't have worked so easily. The bottom line here is that you shouldn't even try to go through the exercise of seeing if you can bullet-proof a solution using eval; instead, you shouldn't even try. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://ww

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