Re: py3k concerns. An example

2008-04-27 Thread Aaron Watters
k about it. Can anyone recommend a good book on Ruby :)? -- Aaron Watters === http://www.xfeedme.com/nucular/pydistro.py/go?FREETEXT=unnecessary+breakage -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Cookie Confusion - How to Set a Cookie

2008-04-28 Thread Aaron Watters
if cookie == '': return {} c = SimpleCookie() c.load(cookie) cookiedict = {} for key in c.keys(): cookiedict[key] = c.get(key).value return cookiedict === All the best. -- Aaron Watters === http://www.xfeedme.com/nucular/pydistro.py/go?FREETEXT=monster -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: simple chemistry in python

2008-04-29 Thread Aaron Watters
entific data repositories (not web search forms: downloadable complete data)? -- Aaron Watters === http://www.xfeedme.com/nucular/pydistro.py/go?FREETEXT=valence -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Cookie Confusion - How to Set a Cookie

2008-04-29 Thread Aaron Watters
send the cookie header to the client correctly (if the client is configured to cooperate). -- Aaron Watters === http://www.xfeedme.com/nucular/pydistro.py/go?FREETEXT=default+does+nothing -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: best way to host a membership site

2008-04-30 Thread Aaron Watters
possible that my understanding of Django is not deep enough and that the answer is "Django". -- Aaron Watters === http://www.xfeedme.com/nucular/pydistro.py/go?FREETEXT=you+may+cheat -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: best way to host a membership site

2008-04-30 Thread Aaron Watters
tes that looked a little like this...) -- Aaron Watters === http://www.xfeedme.com/nucular/pydistro.py/go?FREETEXT=slip+nibble -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Tremendous slowdown due to garbage collection

2008-04-30 Thread Aaron Watters
this would make an excellent computer science Master's Thesis topic. Anybody looking for a topic? -- Aaron Watters http://www.xfeedme.com/nucular/pydistro.py/go?FREETEXT=use+while+fresh -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Cookie Confusion - How to Set a Cookie

2008-05-02 Thread Aaron Watters
On May 1, 9:02 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Apr 29, 3:35 pm, Aaron Watters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Thanks for the code, Aaron. I will give it a try. > > > > I've been reading some more about cookielib and am not sure whether I &g

Re: Why is None <= 0

2008-05-02 Thread Aaron Watters
his using L.sort(cmp) where cmp is implemented in Python can result in a significant speed penalty. What's up with Tim Peters anyway? I haven't seen much from him for a while. -- Aaron Watters === http://www.xfeedme.com/nucular/pydistro.py/go?FREETEXT=quote+tim+peters -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: STL multimap

2008-05-05 Thread Aaron Watters
variable-width. You lost me here. python 2.6: >>> def (a): a[:]=[x] File "", line 1 def (a): a[:]=[x] ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax All the best. -- Aaron Watters === http://www.xfeedme.com/nucular/pydistro.py/go?FREETEXT=gaping+security+hole -- http://mail

Re: STL multimap

2008-05-06 Thread Aaron Watters
h no bubbling. It's too bad the Python that comes installed on Macs doesn't support channels :(. I know I didn't address your question or comments... -- Aaron Watters http://www.xfeedme.com/nucular/pydistro.py/go?FREETEXT=ifdef+stackless -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: High-performance Python websites

2009-12-06 Thread Aaron Watters
/ and here http://listtree.appspot.com/ I hope that helps. -- Aaron Watters === an apple every 8 hours will keep 3 doctors away. -kliban -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

ANN: WHIFF.0.7 += GAE + jQueryUI + internationalization + testdrive = (last beta?)

2009-12-09 Thread Aaron Watters
lemented on Google App Engine using WHIFF. I hope you like. -- Aaron Watters === Talk low. Talk slow. And don't say a lot. -- John Wayne's advice to Clint Eastwood -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ANN: WHIFF.0.7 += GAE + jQueryUI + internationalization + testdrive = (last beta?)

2009-12-09 Thread Aaron Watters
On Dec 9, 1:48 pm, Terry Reedy wrote: > Aaron Watters wrote: > > Also the WHIFF documentation is now hosted on Google App > > Engine at thehttp://whiffdoc.appspot.com/domain. > > When I went there and clicked on the "scatter chart is generated by a > straightforwa

Re: a huge shared read-only data in parallel accesses -- How? multithreading? multiprocessing?

2009-12-09 Thread Aaron Watters
or Python or any other programming language. Generally you can always get to any piece of data in about 4 seeks at most anyway, so if your disk is fast your app will be fast too. The file can be accessed concurrently without problems by any number of processes or threads. -- Aa

Re: ANN: WHIFF.0.7 += GAE + jQueryUI + internationalization + testdrive = (last beta?)

2009-12-10 Thread Aaron Watters
gh for you? :) You are now immortalized in the WHIFF repository http://aaron.oirt.rutgers.edu/cgi-bin/whiffRepo.cgi/rev/6d8c650102dd Please let me know if anything else offends your sensibilities. Thanks again, -- Aaron Watters === an apple every 8 hours will keep 3 doctors away. -- kliban -- http

wave robot notes

2009-12-23 Thread Aaron Watters
using wave, please add it to a wave and try it out. It should "respond" to a BNF rule you type in like this one: program ::= "begin" (statement ";")+ "end" $$ Happy Holidays everyone... I'm off to the slopes :). -- Aaron Watters === an apple ev

Re: Moving from PHP to Python. Is it Possible

2009-12-29 Thread Aaron Watters
than full > academic description. http://whiffdoc.appspot.com (again) there are lots and lots of examples. I hope you like it and have a happy new year! -- Aaron Watters === my resolution last year was not to make any resolutions this year. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

regex object limitations/behavior for large regexes?

2009-12-30 Thread Aaron Watters
very large? Do they remain as fast? Do they display reasonable (linear or n log n) memory growth? Do they just stop working at some point? Please reply if you have any experience with very large regexes or other insights. Thanks in advance. -- Aaron Watters === less is more --

Re: regex object limitations/behavior for large regexes?

2009-12-30 Thread Aaron Watters
Sorry, I should have looked harder. I found this: http://bugs.python.org/issue1160 It looks exactly like my use case. drat. -- Aaron Watters http://whiffdoc.appspot.com === less is more. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: is this whiff/wsgi claim true?

2009-09-30 Thread Aaron Watters
wsgi/wiki/ConfigurationDirectives#WSGIScr... Thanks. I think this observation makes a liar of me :(. I'll have to reword the claim. I could split hairs to assert that this is "not the same" thing, but it's close enough -- Aaron Watters === Speak roughly to your little boy

Re: AJAX Widget Framework

2009-10-02 Thread Aaron Watters
in support for AJAX. You could probably use this as a starting point for building your "grid" widget. I've used WHIFF with jquery and mootools javascript libraries with much success. Please let me know what you think. -- Aaron Watters === Ban DHMO! http://www.dhmo.org/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Object Relational Mappers are evil (a meditation)

2009-10-05 Thread Aaron Watters
etween extremely unpleasant and impossible to make any non-trivial changes to a non-trivial program, especially after it has been populated with data. Ok I feel a little better now. Maybe I should get back to work... -- Aaron Watters http://aaron.oirt.rutgers.edu/myapp/docs/W1100_1200.wwiki

Re: Object Relational Mappers are evil (a meditation)

2009-10-21 Thread Aaron Watters
On Oct 16, 10:35 am, mario ruggier wrote: > On Oct 5, 4:25 pm, Aaron Watters wrote: > > > Occasionally I fantasize about making a non-trivial change > > to one of these programs, but I strongly resist going further > > than that because the ORM meatgrinder makes

ANN: WHIFF += Mako & treeview & url rewrites

2009-10-26 Thread Aaron Watters
at are shorter and easier to understand. Read it here: http://aaron.oirt.rutgers.edu/myapp/docs/W1100_2050.UrlMapping WHIFF HOME PAGE: http://whiff.sourceforge.net I hope you like it! -- Aaron Watters === less is more. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Web development with Python 3.1

2009-10-26 Thread Aaron Watters
aaron.oirt.rutgers.edu/myapp/GenBankTree/index http://whiff.sourceforge.net -- Aaron Watters === It gotta be rock-roll music if you wanna dance with me if you wanna dance with me -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ANN: WHIFF += Mako & treeview & url rewrites

2009-10-27 Thread Aaron Watters
On Oct 27, 7:04 am, Paul Boddie wrote: > On 27 Okt, 03:49, Aaron Watters wrote: > > > > > WHIFF now includes components for > > implementing "tree views" for web navigation panes > > or other purposes, either using AJAX or frame > &g

Re: ANN: WHIFF += Mako & treeview & url rewrites

2009-10-27 Thread Aaron Watters
Paul Boddie wrote: > On 27 Okt, 03:49, Aaron Watters wrote: ... > > http://aaron.oirt.rutgers.edu/myapp/GenBankTree/index > > This looks interesting, but when I have JavaScript switched off, I get > a big traceback ... I just tried it. How do you get a traceback? For me none

Re: ANN: WHIFF += Mako & treeview & url rewrites

2009-10-27 Thread Aaron Watters
On Oct 27, 8:02 am, alex23 wrote: > If you need a full traceback, let me know. Well, yes, the bottom of the traceback would be more useful :). -- Aaron Watters -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ANN: WHIFF += Mako & treeview & url rewrites

2009-10-27 Thread Aaron Watters
On Oct 27, 8:16 am, Aaron Watters wrote: > On Oct 27, 8:02 am, alex23 wrote: > > > If you need a full traceback, let me know. > > Well, yes, the bottom of the traceback would be more useful :). > >    -- Aaron Watters Alex sent me the traceback (thanks!) and after con

Re: Web development with Python 3.1

2009-10-27 Thread Aaron Watters
I built WHIFF :). http://aaron.oirt.rutgers.edu/myapp/docs/W1100_2200.TreeView -- Aaron Watters === If all you got is lemons, make lemonade. -- anon. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Python library "support" propaganda lists?

2009-10-30 Thread Aaron Watters
line RTFM reply to the poster. There, I feel better now. -- Aaron Watters http://aaron.oirt.rutgers.edu/myapp/docs/W1100_1600.openFlashCharts === If you think you are smart enough to write multi-threaded programs, then you're not.-- Jim Ahlstrom -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python library "support" propaganda lists?

2009-10-30 Thread Aaron Watters
in particular -- I'm just making a general observation. Maybe as Robert suggests I will try comp.lang.python as a fall back after a few days of nonresponsiveness in the future... -- Aaron Watters http://aaron.oirt.rutgers.edu/myapp/docs/W1100_2200.TreeView === "I'm

Re: Python library "support" propaganda lists?

2009-10-30 Thread Aaron Watters
On Oct 30, 12:51 pm, Robert Kern wrote: > On 2009-10-30 11:31 AM, Aaron Watters wrote: > > > I know this may be due to simple laziness and negligence, > > but in that case they should turn moderation off. > > That's the funny thing about mailing list problems. I

graceful degradation : is it degrading?

2009-11-02 Thread Aaron Watters
le javascript if you want to use this page..." What is the state of best-practices and such? -- Aaron Watters === she was dirty, flirty / musta been about thirty... Stones '60s she was shifty, nifty / musta been about fifty... Stones '90s (what rhymes with 80?) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python simply not scaleable enough for google?

2009-11-13 Thread Aaron Watters
running on my laptop is *much* faster. By the way: the GO language smells like Rob Pike, and I certainly hope it is more successful than Limbo was. Of course, if Google decides to really push it then it's gonna be successful regardless of all other considerations, just like Sun did to

Re: wsgi with separate css file

2009-11-13 Thread Aaron Watters
om/ service is implemented using WHIFF under the Google App Engine environment. -- Aaron Watters === TO INFINITY... AND BEYOND! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python simply not scaleable enough for google?

2009-11-17 Thread Aaron Watters
speaking someone should invite Matt Mackall to give a Python conference keynote. Or how about Bram Cohen for that matter... -- Aaron Watters http://listtree.appspot.com/ === if you want a friend, get a dog. -Truman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python simply not scaleable enough for google?

2009-11-20 Thread Aaron Watters
Comparing language platforms using small numeric benchmarks often completely misses the point. -- Aaron Watters http://whiffdoc.appspot.com http://listtree.appspot.com === an apple every 8 hours will keep 3 doctors away. - kliban -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: CGI templating with python

2010-04-02 Thread Aaron Watters
out the test drive. http://whiffdoc.appspot.com/docs/W.intro -- Aaron Watters === This one goes to 11. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Announcing: WHIFF 1.0

2010-06-05 Thread Aaron Watters
eploy And much more. Please try it out and let me know what you think -- Aaron Watters === This one goes to eleven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

conceptual model diagram builder

2010-06-22 Thread Aaron Watters
source at this link. http://code.google.com/p/whiff/source/browse/#hg/trunk/test/root/schema Let me know what you think. If you want to get the source you will have to clone the google code mercurial archive (it isn't part of the whiff release yet). -- Aaron Watters === This

Re: mysql query results to web page

2010-06-22 Thread Aaron Watters
I scripting. I also had to mess with some directory permissions because my MySQLdb on my Mac in inside a Python Egg... to get around these sorts of problems you may have to look at your server error log. Also please see the WHIFF quickstart for a discussion of setting up a WSGI/WHIFF based CGI script. Good luck! -- Aaron Watters === % man less less is more. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: I wander which is better? JSP or Python? And is there a place for JSP?

2010-06-28 Thread Aaron Watters
regular expressions and such. It's very easy to understand, develop, debug. This is why I wrote WHIFF to use a similar but generalized "drop in" paradigm. http://whiffdoc.appspot.com -- Aaron Watters === % man less less is more. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: I strongly dislike Python 3

2010-06-28 Thread Aaron Watters
thon in favor of a less chaotic platform, like Java or C# or even (got help us) Perl. I apologize if I pontificate. -- Aaron Watters -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Pdf download using mechanize

2010-07-06 Thread Aaron Watters
ge.net/mechanize/doc.html It looks like downloading any sort of file and saving it should be straightforward to me, but I haven't tried it. Aaron Watters http://whiffdoc.appspot.com === % man less less is more. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: free chart lib for Python?

2009-06-10 Thread Aaron Watters
in applets. Documentation here: http://aaron.oirt.rutgers.edu/myapp/amcharts/doc You can get it from the WHIFF mercurial repository for now. http://aaron.oirt.rutgers.edu/cgi-bin/whiffRepo.cgi I will upload a tarball to http://whiff.sourceforge.net soonish. Thanks in advance for any comments. -- Aaron Watte

ANN: WHIFF += Flash chart widget support

2009-06-11 Thread Aaron Watters
F does not provide a "packaged cake mix" for baking a web application. Instead WHIFF is designed to provide a set of ingredients which can be easily combined to make web applications (with no need to refine your own sugar or mill your own wheat). I hope you like it. -- Aaron Watters === l

Re: ANN: WHIFF += Flash chart widget support (Aaron Watters)

2009-06-12 Thread Aaron Watters
oked pretty good too, which I may add sometime. http://teethgrinder.co.uk/open-flash-chart/ -- Aaron Watters === an apple every 8 hours will keep 3 doctors away. -- kliban -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Good books in computer science?

2009-06-16 Thread Aaron Watters
the extra £10-£30 to get the > latest edition? This is the best book ever written on computer science and the first edition is free. http://www.math.upenn.edu/~wilf/AlgComp3.html -- Aaron Watters http://aaron.oirt.rutgers.edu/myapp/amcharts/doc === less is more. -- http://mail.python.

WHIFF 0.4 += repoze.who authentication + menus + calculator + docs.

2009-07-14 Thread Aaron Watters
. Documentation index: http://aaron.oirt.rutgers.edu/myapp/docs/W.intro . I hope you like it! -- Aaron Watters === % ping elvis elvis is alive -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

off topic: google groups sucks?

2009-08-17 Thread Aaron Watters
ng? gmane? With all the smart people working at google how can they up like this? Inquiring minds want to know. -- Aaron Watters === Sisyphus got ripped. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: off topic: google groups sucks?

2009-08-17 Thread Aaron Watters
On Aug 17, 10:05 am, Aaron Watters wrote: > Just a note.  It seems that google groups is increasing the > sucks coefficient. I'm having better luck now using the advanced search option with queries like gadfly group:comp.lang.python which become http://groups.google.com/grou

Re: off topic: google groups sucks?

2009-08-17 Thread Aaron Watters
n the results I want. (Lucene has this property too -- you get the results the algorithm wants you to get, rather than the results you want to get.) -- Aaron Watters === In communism the future is certain, but the past is ever changing. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Data visualization in Python

2009-08-20 Thread Aaron Watters
IFF is a collection of support services for WSGI applications which allows applications to be composed by "dropping" dynamic pages into container directories. http://aaron.oirt.rutgers.edu/myapp/docs/W.intro thanks, -- Aaron Watters === Sisyphus got ripped. -- http://mail.pytho

WHIFF += Open Flash Charts

2009-09-17 Thread Aaron Watters
script And XML). Project home page: http://whiff.sourceforge.net . Documentation index: http://aaron.oirt.rutgers.edu/myapp/docs/W.intro . I hope you like it! -- Aaron Watters === an apple every 8 hours will keep 3 doctors away -- kliban -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Looking for a pure Python chart drawing module

2009-09-18 Thread Aaron Watters
se are very pretty. http://aaron.oirt.rutgers.edu/myapp/docs/W1100_1600.openFlashCharts -- Aaron Watters === Tee front: 80 minutes / 16 positions / no protection back: Rutgers Rugby -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

is this whiff/wsgi claim true?

2009-09-25 Thread Aaron Watters
to correct the statement and my knowledge of what else is out there is faulty and incomplete, so please correct me. Thanks, -- Aaron Watters === less is more -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: is this whiff/wsgi claim true?

2009-09-25 Thread Aaron Watters
o note similarities with to modpy/publisher and even CGI but none of these are WSGI components or infrastructures whereas WHIFF is both a WSGI component and an infrastructure. So this is not the counterexample I was looking for. -- Aaron Watters === - She turned me into a newt! - A newt? - ...I g

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