String flags - redundant?

Hi to everyone, I'm rather a Python newbie, so I've put myself a question. Are these two statements (performance-wise) equal? r""" Text """ and """ Text """ I mean using the raw flag speeds up things because the interpreter doesn't need to look after escape sequences? Or it's rather optimize

Re: Odd math related issue.

However, you should be carefully because using an %i modifier for a what-should-be a float value truncates the value in a way you may not expect. What I mean is that if you have sent 2 out of 3 bytes, the math will be 200/3 which with the %i modifier will print 66, rather than 66.6 (or at least 6

Re: How to troubleshoot hanging script?

Hi, Just a thought, I'm not sure it's the best way. You can start an alarm just before the line you *think* it's wrong and cancel it after that. If it's activated then you probably have pinpointed the location. Have a look at the signals module http://docs.python.org/lib/module-signal.html, the a

Re: Looking out a module for Subversion

As for the open source IDE you can always try Eclipse with PyDev extension. Dudeja, Rajat wrote: Hi, I'm new to Python. I only have read "Byte of Python" by Swaroop C H just to be familiar with sytax of python. I've installed Python 2.5 from Active State and using its PythonWin Editor / interpr

Re: very rare python expression

Nothing strange about that syntax (though some spaces might helped you out). The '&' operator is a bit-wise operator (http://docs.python.org/ref/bitwise.html). 甜瓜 wrote: Howdy everyone, I saw a strange python code in pygame project. What does "while not(x&528or x in l):" mean? Below code works

Using trace module from command line

d it using python -m trace -r -f blah.blah But nothing is displayed... What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance, Alexandru Palade -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Setting urllib2 what IP to use

Hi, I have an interface (let's say eth0) which has more than one IP. Is there any way I can choose - from a parameter or something - what ip to use? Thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: how to find position of dictionary values

lookfor = 'dfsdf' for item, value in kev.items(): if lookfor in value: print item print value.index(lookfor) break # assuming you only want one result You can also skip the 'if' verification in which case you need to catch ValueError exceptio

Re: Safely move an element into a heap

I'm not sure what you expect as an answer, but if you mean the heap as in the data structure, you can not just arbitrarily move one key where you want as it will destroy the heap property. Giampaolo Rodola' wrote: Hi, I wanted to know if does exist a safe way to, given a heap, move an arbitra