Re: python newbie - question about lexical scoping

>> On Dec 1, 4:47 pm, Matt Barnicle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > aye yaye aye... thanks for the pointers in the right direction.. i > fiddled around with the code for a while and now i've reduced it to the > *real* issue... i have a class dict variable that apparentl

Re: Timezones in python

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there any build in solution in python to handle timezones? My > problem is I have to convert +4 time to +0. In the worst case i can > just add +4 to the houer but I'm not very happy about that. Another > problem is the summer/winter timechange which happen with one wee

Re: File to dict

Chris wrote: > Ta Matt, wasn't paying attention to what I typed. :) > And didn't know that about .get() and not having to declare the > global. > Thanks for my mandatory new thing for the day ;) :-) -- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: File to dict

Duncan Booth wrote: > Just some minor points without changing the basis of what you have done > here: > > Don't bother with 'readlines', file objects are directly iterable. > Why are you calling both lstrip and rstrip? The strip method strips > whitespace from both ends for you. > > It is usual

Re: File to dict

Chris wrote: > For the first one you are parsing the entire file everytime you want > to lookup just one domain. If it is something reused several times > during your code execute you could think of rather storing it so it's > just a simple lookup away, for eg. > > _domain_dict = dict() > def gen

Re: finding dir of main .py file

ron.longo wrote: > Nope, maybe I'm not explaining myself well. > > When I do os.getenv('HOME') I get back None. > > According to the docs, 'HOME' is the user's home directory on some > platforms. Which is not what I want. > > What I want is the directory in which an application's main .py file

Re: E-Mail Parsing

Merrigan wrote: > I am writing a script to administer my E-Mail Server. The One thing > I'm currently struggling with is kind of Parsing the E-Mail adress > that I supply to the script. > > I need to get the username (The part BEFORE the @ sign) out of the > address so that I can use it elsewhere.

Re: determining bytes read from a file.

vineeth wrote: > parser.add_option("-b", "--bytes", dest="bytes") This is an aside, but if you pass 'type="int"' to add_option, optparse will automatically convert it to an int, and (I think), give a more useful error message on failure. -- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: E-Mail Parsing

Merrigan wrote: > Hi Matt, > > Thank you very much for the help. It was exactly what I was looking > for, and made my script much safer and easier to use. > > Blessings! > > -- Merrigan You're welcome. :-) -- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: urlparse.urlparse bug - misparses long URL

John Nagle wrote: > Here's a hostile URL that "urlparse.urlparse" seems to have mis-parsed. > > http://[EMAIL > PROTECTED]&xUDysvTbzZZOaymjQ2oYIx2AvMdJ1WQfjP02wIBBQBb1EVZAqmmGunxrcyGx1AcfegWUUYtaZfRW434O5Qn6InSMUZXgF5e3KzJbCntBGOj7pv31zab&action=login-run&passkey=e84239c9da59dbeb61d4d45db2cc5

Re: High speed web services

herbasher wrote: > I'm wondering: I'm really not so much into heavy frameworks like > Django, because I need to build a fast, simple python based > webservice. > > That is, a request comes in at a certain URL, and I want to utilize > Python to respond to that request. > > Ideally, I want the scri

Re: opposite of zip()?

Rich Harkins wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Given a bunch of arrays, if I want to create tuples, there is >> zip(arrays). What if I want to do the opposite: break a tuple up and >> append the values to given arrays: >>map(append, arrays, tupl) >> except there is no unbound append() (List.

Re: Question about email-handling modules

Robert Latest wrote: > Hello, > > I'm new to Python but have lots of programming experience in C, C++ and > Perl. Browsing through the docs, the email handling modules caught my eye > because I'd always wanted to write a script to handle my huge, ancient, and > partially corrupted email archive

Re: Local variables in classes and class instantiation

A.J. Bonnema wrote: > Hi all, > > I just started using Python. I used to do some Java programming, so I am > not completely blank. > > I have a small question about how classes get instantiated within other > classes. I have added the source of a test program to the bottom of this > mail, that

Re: Python for web...

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have to develop a web based enterprise application for my final year > project. Since i am interested in open source, i searched the net. > Almost 90% of them were PHP and MySQL. Cant we use python for that ? I > tried several sites, but there is not e

Re: save gb-2312 web page in a .html file

Peter Pei wrote: > I am trying to read a web page and save it in a .html file. The problem is > that the web page is GB-2312 encoded, and I want to save it to the file with > the same encoding or unicode. I have some code like this: > url = 'http://blah/' > headers = { 'User-Agent' : 'Moz

Re: save gb-2312 web page in a .html file

Peter Pei wrote: > You must be right, since I tried one page and it worked. But there is > something wrong with this particular page: > http://overseas.btchina.net/?categoryid=-1. When I open the saved file (with > IE7), it is all messed up. > > url = 'http://overseas.btchina.net/?categoryi

Re: Big-endian binary data to/from Python ints?

William McBrine wrote: > Here are a couple of functions that I feel stupid for having written. > They work, and they're pretty straightforward; it's just that I feel like > I must be missing an easier way to do this... > > def net_to_int(numstring): > """Convert a big-endian binary number, i

Re: Re:

t one person willfully creates such a mess every > time Xah posts? Shush! > Don't waste your time with the Bokma. He wants everyone to follow the posting rules that annoy Bokma the least, but he never follows them himself. Matt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python sqlite and regex.

en't aware, there will be a "sqlite3" module in Python 2.5 based on pysqlite 2.2: http://initd.org/tracker/pysqlite Using pysqlite will make it easier to move to the Python 2.5 sqlite3 module if that's important to you. -- Matt Good -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python sqlite and regex.

Oops, sorry about the confusion regarding the built-in REGEXP. That's kind of disappointing. It would appear that the user-defined regexp function in the original post should work assuming the SQL and regex syntax errors are corrected. However, there *is* a GLOB built-in to SQLite 3 that has a d

Re: Software Needs Philosophers

tions in a rational manner. They would be > able to warn us if we were about to do something stupid with > our society. > Thank you for that laugh. I think you're the first person I've read in this century who advocates Plato's silly notion of the philosopher kings. If you want to talk philosophy, please jump foward past the Enlightment. Matt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Optional code segment delimiter?

xkenneth wrote: > Is it possible to use optional delimiters other than tab and colons? > > For example: > > if this==1 { > print this > } Heheheh.. -- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: sqlobject question...

bruce wrote: > hi... > > this continues my investigation of python/sqlobject, as it relates to the > need to have an id, which is auto-generated. > > per various sites/docs on sqlobject, it appears that you can override the > id, by doing something similar to the following: > > def foo(SQLObject

Re: Fate of itertools.dropwhile() and itertools.takewhile()

Raymond Hettinger wrote: > I'm considering deprecating these two functions and would like some > feedback from the community or from people who have a background in > functional programming. > > * I'm concerned that use cases for the two functions are uncommon and > can obscure code rather than cl

Re: problem with global var

Bruno Ferreira wrote: > Hi, > > I wrote a very simple python program to generate a sorted list of > lines from a squid access log file. > > Here is a simplified version: > > ## > 1 logfile = open ("squid_access.log", "r") > 2 topsquid = [["0", "0", "0", "0", "0"

Re: Delete lines containing a specific word

Francesco Pietra wrote: > Please, how to adapt the following script (to delete blank lines) to delete > lines containing a specific word, or words? > > f=open("output.pdb", "r") > for line in f: > line=line.rstrip() > if line: > print line > f.close() > > If python in Li

Re: problem of converting a list to dict

bsneddon wrote: > This seemed to work for me if you are using 2.4 or greater and > like list comprehension. dict([ tuple(a.split("=")) for a in mylist[1:-1]]) > {'mike': 'manager', 'paul': 'employee', 'tom': 'boss'} > > should be faster than looping That's what he's doing (well, a generator

Re: Elementary string-formatting

Odysseus wrote: > Hello, group: I've just begun some introductory tutorials in Python. > Taking off from the "word play" exercise at > > > > I've written a mini-program to tabulate the number of characters in each > word in a fi

Re: ucs2 or ucs4?

Neal Becker wrote: > How do I tell if my python-2.5 is build with ucs2 or ucs4? You can also check sys.maxunicode. >>> import sys >>> sys.maxunicode If it's 1114111, you're UCS-4. If it's something much lower, you're UCS-2. -- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Is str/unicode.encode supposed to work? with replace/ignore

BerlinBrown wrote: > With this code, ignore/replace still generate an error > > # Encode to simple ascii format. > field.full_content = field.full_content.encode('ascii', > 'replace') > > Error: > > [0/1] 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in positi

Re: multi-Singleton-like using __new__

J Peyret wrote: > - Same with using try/except KeyError instead of in cls.cache. > Has_key might be better if you insist on look-before-you-leap, because > 'in cls.cache' probably expends to uri in cls.cache.keys(), which can > be rather bad for perfs if the cache is very big. i.e. dict lookups >

Re: multi-Singleton-like using __new__

Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Except that using has_key() means making an attribute lookup, which takes > time. I was going to say that, but doesn't 'in' require an attribute lookup of some sort too, of __contains__ or whatever? has_key is probably now just a wrapper around that, so it would be one mo

Re: different key, same value in dictionaries

Gary Herron wrote: > You could use ImmutableSets as indexes. (In fact this is the whole > reason for the existence of ImmutableSets.) > > You could derive your own dictionary type from the builtin dictionary > type, and map an index operation d[(x,y)] to > d[ImmutableSet(a,b)]. Then all of d[a,b

Re: Is there a web visitor counter available in Python ...

W. Watson wrote: > ... that is free for use without advertising that I can use on my web pages? > I have no idea is suitable for this. My knowledge of Python is somewhat > minimal at this point. Maybe Java is better choice. You can analyze your web logs. That's more accurate than a hit counter,

Re: idiom to ask if you are on 32 or 64 bit linux platform?

Jon wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I've got a ctypes wrapper to some code which seems to be different > when compiled on 32 bit linux compared to 64 bit linux. For the > windows version I can use sys.platform == 'win32' versus 'linux2' to > decide whether to get the .dll or .so library to load. Havi

Re: How do I execute a command from within python and wait on that command?

Rafael Sachetto wrote: > os.system(command) > > or > > proc = popen2.Popen3(command) > proc.wait() I don't know about "cleanly terminat[ing] the command shell", but you should use the subprocess module now, not any of the other functions scattered around. -- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/l

Re: How to overcome the incomplete download with urllib.urlretrieve ?

This isn't super-helpful, but... James Yu wrote: > This is part of my code that invokes urllib.urlretrieve: > > for i in link2Visit: > localName = i.split('/') > i = i.replace(' ', '%20') You should use urllib.quote or urllib.quote_plus (the latter replaces spaces with "+" in

Re: global variables: to be or not to be

icarus wrote: > I've read 'global variables' are bad. The ones that are defined as > 'global' inside a function/method. > > The argument that pops up every now and then is that they are hard to > keep track of. I don't know Python well enough to argue with that. > Just started learning it a few

Re: clocking subprocesses

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mar 3, 12:41 pm, Preston Landers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Run your command through the "time" program. You can parse the output >> format of "time", or set a custom output format. This mostly applies >> to Unix-like systems but there is probably an equivalent s

Re: os.system with cgi

G wrote: > Hi, > >I have the following peace of code > > def getBook(textid, path): > url = geturl(textid) > if os.path.isfile(path + textid): > f = open(path + textid) > else: > os.system('wget -c ' + url + ' -O ' path + textid) > f = open(path + textid) >

[OT] Re: Why """, not '''?

Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Surely it would depend on the type of text: pick up any random English > novel containing dialogue, and you're likely to find a couple of dozen > pairs of quotation marks per page, against a few apostrophes. That's an idea... Write a novel in Python docstrings. Someone

Re: Internet Explorer 8 beta release

Colin J. Williams wrote: > Isn't compliance with the W3C standard > the best way of achieving multiple > browser rendering? Exactly. IE 8 is supposed to be significantly less horrible. It won't catch up completely, but perhaps by IE 9 it will. Or this is all a joke, Microsoft buys Opera and shut

Re: Distributed App - C++ with Python for Portability?

Paddy wrote: > After profiling their may be other ways to remove a bottleneck, such > as > using existing highly-optimised libraries such as Numpy; Psycho, an > optimising interpreter that can approach C type speeds for Python > code; > and you could create your own C++ based libraries. > > You mi

Re: Distributed App - C++ with Python for Portability?

Stefan Behnel wrote: > And if you really need the efficiency of "well-tuned raw C", it's one function > call away in your Cython code. What do you mean by that? I know nothing about how Cython compares to C in performance, so I said "well-tuned" because it must be possible to write C that is fast

Re: is operator

Metal Zong wrote: > The operator is and is not test for object identity: x is y is true if > and only if x and y are the same objects. > x = 1 y = 1 x is y > True > > Is this right? Why? Thanks. I believe Python automatically creates and caches int objects for 0-256, so whenever y

Re: is operator

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I believe Python automatically creates and caches int objects for 0-256, >> so whenever you use them, they refer to the same exact objects. Since >> ints are immutable, it doesn't matter. > > One of the biggest hits on start-up time, by the way. ;) Well, the developer

Re: Creating a file with $SIZE

Robert Bossy wrote: > k.i.n.g. wrote: >> I think I am not clear with my question, I am sorry. Here goes the >> exact requirement. >> >> We use dd command in Linux to create a file with of required size. In >> similar way, on windows I would like to use python to take the size of >> the file( 50MB,

Re: Update pytz timezone definitions

_robby wrote: > I am looking at using pytz in a scheduling application which will be > used internationally. I would like to be able to update the definition > files that pytz uses monthly or bi-monthly. > > As far as I can tell, pytz seems to be updated (fairly) regularly to > the newest tzdata,

Re: request for Details about Dictionaries in Python

Michael Wieher wrote: > I'm not sure if a well-written file/seek/read algorithm is faster than a > relational database... > sure a database can store relations and triggers and all that, but if > he's just doing a lookup for static data, then I'm thinking disk IO is > faster for him? not sure I w

Re: Unicode/UTF-8 confusion

Tom Stambaugh wrote: > I'm still confused about this, even after days of hacking at it. It's > time I asked for help. I understand that each of you knows more about > Python, Javascript, unicode, and programming than me, and I understand > that each of you has a higher SAT score than me. So please

Re: Python Generators

mpc wrote: > def concatenate(sequences): > for seq in sequences: > for item in seq: > yield item You should check out itertools.chain(). It does this. You call it like "chain(seq1, seq2, ...)" instead of "chain(sequences)" though, which may be a problem for you. The res

Re: Problem with PARAGRAPH SEPARATOR

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Actually that's what I tried to do, for example: > outputString = myString.encode('iso-8859-1','ignore') > > However, I always get such messages (the character, that's causing problems > varies, but its always higher than 127 ofc...) > > 'ascii' codec can't decode byte

Re: Strange loop behavior

Gabriel Rossetti wrote: > Hello, > > I wrote a program that reads data from a file and puts it in a string, > the problem is that it loops infinitely and that's not wanted, here is > the code : > > d = repr(f.read(DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE)) > while d != "": > file_str.write(d) >

Re: v = json.loads("{'test':'test'}")

gert wrote: > On Jan 25, 11:16 pm, Дамјан Георгиевски wrote: >>> raise ValueError(errmsg("Expecting property name", s, end)) >>> http://docs.python.org/library/json.html >>> What am I doing wrong ? >> try this >> v = json.loads('{"test":"test"}') >> >> JSON doesn't support single quotes, only doub

Re: v = json.loads("{'test':'test'}")

Matt Nordhoff wrote: > gert wrote: >> On Jan 25, 11:16 pm, Дамјан Георгиевски wrote: >>>> raise ValueError(errmsg("Expecting property name", s, end)) >>>> http://docs.python.org/library/json.html >>>> What am I doing wrong ? >>> try

Re: time: Daylight savings confusion

Tim H wrote: > On Win XP 64bit, Python 2.6.1 64bit > > I am trying to rename files by their creation time. > > It seems the time module is too smart for its own good here. > > time.localtime(os.path.getctime(f)) returns a value one hour off from > what windows reports for files that were created

Re: Revision Control

Tim Chase wrote: >> -Mercurial (this is a big up and coming RCS) > > This is currently my favorite: good branching/merging, fast, written > mostly in Python (one C extension module, IIRC), and a simple interface > >> -Bazaar (written in Python. Also pretty new. I don't know about Windows >> s

Re: generating a liste of characters

This is a slightly old post, but oh well... Shane Geiger wrote: > import string > alphabet=list(string.letters[0:26]) > print alphabet Most of the string module's constants are locale-specific. If you want the ASCII alphabet instead of the current language's, you need to use string.ascii_{letters

Re: html codes

Daniel Fetchinson wrote: > Hi folks, > > I came across a javascript library that returns all sorts of html > codes in the cookies it sets and I need my web framework (written in > python :)) to decode them. I'm aware of htmlentitydefs but > htmlentitydefs.entitydefs.keys( ) are of the form '&#xxx'

Re: Using the `email' module in a bazaar plugin

Julian Smith wrote: > I don't seem to be able to use the `email' module from within a bazaar > plugin. Other modules work ok, e.g. nntplib. > > Here's my plugin, cut-down to show just the email problem: > > import sys > print 'sys.version', sys.version > > import nntplib > n = nntplib.NN

Re: Free place to host python files?

James Mills wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Chris Rebert wrote: >> I'll plug Bitbucket (http://bitbucket.org/). It gives you 150MB of >> Mercurial hosting for free, along with a bug tracker and wiki. And I >> hear it's implemented using Django. > > FreeHG (http://freehg.org) is pretty

Re: using subprocess module in Python CGI

ANURAG BAGARIA wrote: > Hello, > > I am a Python Newbie and would like to call a short python script via > browser using a CGI script, but initially I am trying to call the same > python script directly through python command line. The script intends > to perform a few command line in a pipe and I

Re: Inefficient summing

Chris Rebert wrote: > I personally would probably do: > > from collections import defaultdict > > label2sum = defaultdict(lambda: 0) FWIW, you can just use: label2sum = defaultdict(int) You don't need a lambda. > for r in rec: > for key, value in r.iteritems(): > label2sum[key] +=

Re: Implementing my own Python interpreter

Ognjen Bezanov wrote: > Hello All, > > I am a third year computer science student and I'm the process of > selection for my final year project. > > One option that was thought up was the idea of implement my own version > of the python interpreter (I'm referring to CPython here). Either as a > pr

chomp?

Hey Pythons. This script works fine except I would like it to NOT print everything on a newline. How can I tell print to chomp? Thanks. --- snip - #!/usr/bin/python import time import sys def getload(): f = open('/p

Re: Antigravity module needed.

Terry Reedy wrote: > If Python added an antigravity module to the stdlib, > what should it say or do? See > http://xkcd.com/353/ > (and let your mouse hover). It was added 2 days ago. :-P -- -- http://mail.python.org/mailm

Re: Simple print to stderr

RC wrote: > By default the print statement sends to stdout > I want to send to stderr > > Try > > print "my meeage", file=sys.stderr > > I got >> SyntaxError: invalid syntax > > I try > > print "my message", sys.stderr > > But it still sent to stdout. > What is the syntax? > > I wouldn't und

compare items in list to x

I want a program that loops over a list of numbers (y) and tells me whether each number in the list is less than, greater than or equal to another number (x). In the below code, I can't get python to see that 2 is equal to 2. x = 2 def compare(): for y in ['12', '33', '2']: if x

Re: Need help in understanding a python code

Benjamin Kaplan wrote: > If you really believe that, you haven't been following this list long > enough. Every terminology dispute always includes at least 1 Wikipedia > link. > > Also, you might want to look at this study: > http://news.cnet.com/2100-1038_3-5997332.html That study has been dispu

Re: A tale of two execs

aha wrote: > Hello All, > I am working on a project where I need to support versions of Python > as old as 2.3. Previously, we distributed Python with our product, but > this seemed a bit silly so we are no longer doing this. The problem > that I am faced with is that we have Python scripts that

Re: Set & Frozenset?

Alan G Isaac wrote: >> Hans Larsen schrieb: >>> How could I "take" an elemment from a set or a frozenset > > > On 3/8/2009 2:06 PM Diez B. Roggisch apparently wrote: >> You iterate over them. If you only want one value, use >> iter(the_set).next() > > > I recall a claim that > >

Re: print - bug or feature - concatenated format strings in a print statement

bdb112 wrote: > Thanks for all the replies: > I think I see now - % is a binary operator whose precedence rules are > shared with the modulo operator regardless of the nature of its > arguments, for language consistency. > I understand the arguments behind the format method, but hope that the > sli

Re: download x bytes at a time over network

Saurabh wrote: > Heres the reason behind wanting to get chunks at a time. > Im actually retrieving data from a list of RSS Feeds and need to > continuously check for latest posts. > But I dont want to depend on Last-Modified header or the pubDate tag > in . Because a lot of feeds just output date('

Re: unsubscribe to send daily mails

Sudheer Rapolu wrote: > Hello > > Please unsubscribe to send daily mails to me. > > Warm Regards > Sudheer > > > > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list See the link in the signature of every message

Re: UnicodeEncodeError - opening encoded URLs

D4rko wrote: > Hi! > > I have a problem with urllib2 open() function. My application is > receiving the following request - as I can see in the developement > server console it is properly encoded: > > [27/Mar/2009 22:22:29] "GET /[blahblah]/Europa_%C5%9Arodkowa/5 HTTP/ > 1.1" 500 54572 > > Then

Re: Detecting Binary content in files

ritu wrote: > Hi, > > I'm wondering if Python has a utility to detect binary content in > files? Or if anyone has any ideas on how that can be accomplished? I > haven't been able to find any useful information to accomplish this > (my other option is to fire off a perl script from within m python

Re: safe eval of moderately simple math expressions

Joel Hedlund wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm writing a program that presents a lot of numbers to the user, and I > want to let the user apply moderately simple arithmentics to these > numbers. One possibility that comes to mind is to use the eval function, > but since that sends up all kinds of warning f

Re: Scrap Posts

Avi wrote: > Hey Folks, > > I love this group and all the awesome and python savvy people who post > here. However I also see some dumb posts like 'shoes' or something > related to sex :( > > What can we do about crap like this? Can we clean it up? Or atleast > flag some for removal. > > Moderat

Re: JSON and Firefox sessionstore.js

Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:08:35 +0100, I V wrote: > >> For something with at least a vague air of credibility to it, somebody >> who appears to be a Mozilla developer comments on their bug tracker, >> that sessionstore.js isn't "pure JSON" (though he only identifies the >> pa

Re: print(f) for files .. and is print % going away?

Esmail wrote: > Hello all, > > I use the print method with % for formatting my output to > the console since I am quite familiar with printf from my > C days, and I like it quite well. > > I am wondering if there is a way to use print to write > formatted output to files? > > Also, it seems like

Re: Use of Unicode in Python 2.5 source code literals

Uncle Bruce wrote: > I'm working with Python 2.5.4 and the NLTK (Natural Language > Toolkit). I'm an experienced programmer, but new to Python. > > This question arose when I tried to create a literal in my source code > for a Unicode codepoint greater than 255. (I also posted this > question in

Re: Simple way of handling errors

Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Wed, 06 May 2009 20:21:38 -0700, TomF wrote: > >>> The only reason you would bother going to the time and effort of >>> catching the error, printing your own error message, and then exiting, >>> is if you explicitly want to hide the traceback from the user. >> Well, to

Re: confused with subprocess.Popen

Soumen banerjee wrote: > Hello, > for a certain app, i used to use a command: > os.system("soundwrapper espeak -f line.txt") > now, if i wanted to kill espeak, i would have to run: > os.system("killall espeak") > since the subprocess module allows sending SIGKILL to the process, i > decided to swit

Re: OT: Can;'t find a Mozilla user group

Anthra Norell wrote: > I can't run Firefox and Thunderbird without getting these upgrade > ordering windows. I don't touch them, because I have reason to suspect > that they are some (Russian) virus that hijacks my traffic. Occasionally > one of these window pops up the very moment I hit a key and

Re: python without while and other "explosive" statements

ivo talvet wrote: > Hello, > > Is it possible to have a python which not handle the execution of > "while", "for", and other loop statements ? I would like to allow > remote execution of python on a public irc channel, so i'm looking for > techniques which would do so people won't be able to crash

Python book question

and Algorithms book? The book: http://www.fbeedle.com/053-9.html -- Matt H. -- "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it is too dark to read." -- Groucho Marx -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Compress a string

te(str): try: if c != str[i+1]: new_str += c except IndexError: new_str += c return new_str Cheers Matt -- -- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: Compress a string]

On Sun, 18 May 2008 19:13:57 +0100, J. Clifford Dyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 07:06:10PM +0100, Matt Porter wrote regarding Compress a string: Hi guys, I'm trying to compress a string. E.g: "BBBC" -> "ABC" The code I have

Re: Compress a string

On Sun, 18 May 2008 20:30:57 +0100, Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Matt Porter wrote: I'm trying to compress a string. E.g: "BBBC" -> "ABC" Two more: from itertools import groupby "".join(k for k, g in groupby("aa

Re: Get all the instances of one class

Tommy Nordgren wrote: > class MyClass : a_base_class > memberlist=[] > > # Insert object in memberlist when created; > # note: objects won't be garbage collected until removed from memberlist. Just to say, if you wanted to go about it that way, you could avoid the garbage collection probl

Re: module import problem

Milos Prudek wrote: > I have a Kubuntu upgrade script that fails to run: > > File "/tmp/kde-root//DistUpgradeFetcherCore.py", > line 34, in > import GnuPGInterface > ImportError > No module named GnuPGInterface > > I got a folder /usr/share/python-support/python-gnupginterface with > a "GnuPGI

Re: Does this path exist?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I wanted to ask for ways to test whether a path exists. I usually use > os.path.exists(), which does a stat call on the path and returns True > if it succeeds, or False if it fails (catches os.error). But stat > calls don't fail only when a path doesn't exist. I see that,

Re: Python 3000 vs. Python 2.x

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As a new comer to Python I was wondering which is the best to start > learning. I've read that a number of significant features have > changed between the two versions. Yet, the majority of Python > programs out in the world are 2.x and it would be nice to understand >

Re: write Python dict (mb with unicode) to a file

dmitrey wrote: > hi all, > what's the best way to write Python dictionary to a file? > > (and then read) > > There could be unicode field names and values encountered. > Thank you in advance, D. pickle/cPickle, perhaps, if you're willing to trust the file (since it's basically eval()ed)? Or JSON

Re: reading from an a gzip file

Nader wrote: > Hello, > > I have a gzip file and I try to read from this file withe the next > statements: > > gunziped_file = gzip.GzipFile('gzip-file') > input_file = open(gunziped_file,'r') > > But I get the nezt error message: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "read_sfloc_fi

Re: python/ruby question..

Mensanator wrote: > On Jun 18, 10:33�pm, "bruce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> hi... >> >> can someone point me to where/how i would go about calling a ruby app from a >> python app, and having the python app being able to get a returned value >> from the ruby script. >> >> something like >> >> tes

Re: Simple Class/Variable passing question

monkeyboy wrote: > Hello, > > I'm new to python, and PythonCard. In the code below, I'm trying to > create a member variable (self.currValue) of the class, then just pass > it to a simple function (MainOutputRoutine) to increment it. I thought > Python "passed by reference" all variables, but the

Re: images on the web

chris wrote: > I'm creating a data plot and need to display the image to a web page. > What's the best way of doing this without having to save the image to > disk? I already have a mod_python script that outputs the data in > tabular format, but I haven't been able to find anything on adding a > g

Re: images on the web

Matt Nordhoff wrote: > chris wrote: >> I'm creating a data plot and need to display the image to a web page. >> What's the best way of doing this without having to save the image to >> disk? I already have a mod_python script that outputs the data in >> tabul

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