Re: basic python questions

2006-11-18 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > I have taken the coments and think I have implemented most. My only Unfortunately, no. > question is how to use the enumerator. Here is what I did, I have tried > a couple of things but was unable to figure out how to get the line > number. > > def Xref(filename): >

Re: lxml/ElementTree and .tail

2006-11-19 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> You'll be surprised at how many XMLers agree that Web services are a > pretty inept reinvention of CORBA. I was pretty much slain by this > take: > > http://wanderingbarque.com/nonintersecting/2006/11/15/the-s-stands-for-simple Thanks for that! Sums up nicely my experiences, and gave me a good

Re: PyQt app in seperate thread

2006-11-22 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> OK I see that now. Thanks for pointing that out. So basically, I can't > do what I want at all. That's a bit of a pain. Is there no way of > tricking Qt into thinking I'm running it in the main thread? Maybe you can either invert the thread-roles - that is, run your "main" application in a threa

Re: PyQt app in seperate thread

2006-11-22 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
anders wrote: > > Diez B. Roggisch wrote: >> > OK I see that now. Thanks for pointing that out. So basically, I can't >> > do what I want at all. That's a bit of a pain. Is there no way of >> > tricking Qt into thinking I'm running it in the ma

Weekly Python Patch/Bug Summary

2006-11-22 Thread Kurt B. Kaiser
Patch / Bug Summary ___ Patches : 406 open (-10) / 3479 closed (+16) / 3885 total ( +6) Bugs: 931 open ( +1) / 6349 closed (+16) / 7280 total (+17) RFE : 245 open ( +1) / 244 closed ( +0) / 489 total ( +1) New / Reopened Patches __ Logging M

Re: Does only emacs and idle support symbolic debugging?

2006-11-23 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Victor Ng wrote: > Subject line pretty much says it all - are those the only two editors > that support running the symbolic debugger from inside the editor? Nope, eric for example does as well. And I presume komodo will do that also. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: NFS server

2006-11-24 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
srj wrote: > i wish to develop an NFS server usin python from scratch( some wise guy > told me i'ts easy!). > can i get any kinda tutorial for this?? > > any suggestions on how 2 begin? Ask the wise guy. All others install an NFS server. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-l

Re: problem with global variable in a module

2006-11-25 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
hollowspook schrieb: > def aa(): > global b > b=b+1 > print b > > b=1 > aa() > > The above code runs well in python shell. > > However I have a problem as follows. > > new a file named test.py > --

Re: Installation problem

2006-11-26 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Tommy Grav schrieb: > Trying to update my ActivePython installation I mistakenly downloaded > the Intel Mac version (rather than the PPC version) and tried to install > it. > The version did install but did not run of course. However, now trying > to install the PPC version of Activepython or even

Re: Generating header information using ElementTree

2006-11-26 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Craig schrieb: > Fredrik Lundh wrote: > >> Craig wrote: >> >>> I'm only new to Python so please bear with me. I using ElementTree to >>> generate an XML file that will reference a DTD and an XSL file. The >>> header information I want at the start of the file is as follows: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>

Re: Calling a thread asynchronously with a callback

2006-11-27 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Edwin Gomez wrote: > I'm a C# developer and I'm new to Python. I would like to know if the > concept of Asynchronous call-backs exists in Python. Basically what I > mean is that I dispatch a thread and when the thread completes it invokes > a method from the calling thread. Sort event driven co

Re: Passing com object from simple xmlrpc server to client

2006-11-27 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
tsjuan schrieb: > Hello python users, > > I am just learning on how to use xmlrpc and stumbled upon how to pass > com object > from server to client side. > > The client side complain about can't marshall the com object. I don't > know what type > of marshall command I should use to pass the obje

Re: Can you fix up wrapper function argument signatures?

2006-11-27 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Gerard Brunick schrieb: > Consider: > > >>> def negate(func): > ... def wrapper(*args, **kwargs): > ... return not func(*args, **kwargs) > ... return wrapper > ... > >>> def f(x): > ... return x > 10 > ... > >>> g = negate(f) > >>> g(20) > False > >>> g(5) > True > > Now

Small prog question from a newbie: abt variables in a function definition

2006-11-29 Thread B Shyam Sundar
Hi all, I am a newbie as far as python is concerned ... I am trying to write a code for playing bridge in obj oriented manner .. Well ... i have this small problem: class hand: def __init__(self,set_of_cards=[]): self.set_of_cards=set_of_cards card_played_flag =0 def play(played_

Re: Is there a reason not to do this?

2006-11-30 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Ron Garret schrieb: > One of the things I find annoying about Python is that when you make a > change to a method definition that change is not reflected in existing > instances of a class (because you're really defining a new class when > you reload a class definition, not actually redefining i

Weekly Python Patch/Bug Summary

2006-11-30 Thread Kurt B. Kaiser
Patch / Bug Summary ___ Patches : 407 open ( +1) / 3484 closed ( +5) / 3891 total ( +6) Bugs: 936 open ( +5) / 6363 closed (+14) / 7299 total (+19) RFE : 246 open ( +1) / 244 closed ( +0) / 490 total ( +1) New / Reopened Patches __ sys.id()

Re: client/server design and advice

2006-12-01 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> First off, i was wondering if this is a reasonable setup: The entire > process would involve a server which manages which pc is processing > which set of data (which may be a given text file or the like), and a > client application which i would run on a few pc's locally when they > aren't in us

Re: Resource cleanup

2006-12-03 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> but am wondering exactly what 'resources' are left available when the > r.close method is called in the __del__ method of RealTypeResourceCleaner. > > In particular, can I rely on the module globals of r still being present > if the RealType instance is going away because the main script has

Re: logo design

2006-12-05 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> > Web-badges serve slightly different purpose than logos. It is more for > the purpose of promotion, than representation. For the same reason, > there are mascots. For example, Java the language, has a official logo > of a smoking coffee cup, but also has a mascot of a penguin named > “Duke”. h

Re: Novice: replacing strings with unicode variables in a list

2006-12-06 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > Im totally new to Python so please bare with me. > > Data is entered into my program using the folling code - > > str = raw_input(command) > words = str.split() > > for word in words: > word = unicode(word,'latin-1') > word.encode('utf8') > > This gives

Re: Windows: get owner and group of a file

2006-12-06 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
kai rosenthal wrote: > Hello, > > with ls -l on windows I get > -rw-r--r-- 1 500 everyone 320 Nov 09 09:35 myfile > > How can I get on windows with a standard python 2.2 (without windows > extensions) the information "500" and "everyone" (owner and group)? > Also I cannot use popen('ls -l'). Ar

Re: Module Indexing

2006-12-06 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
JKPeck schrieb: > We are interested in building a module index for our libraries similar > to the global module index on the Python site. Is there a tool/script > available that builds something similar to that automatically? We > would probably want the result to be an html document. Several, e

Weekly Python Patch/Bug Summary

2006-12-06 Thread Kurt B. Kaiser
Patch / Bug Summary ___ Patches : 413 open ( +6) / 3489 closed ( +5) / 3902 total (+11) Bugs: 943 open ( +7) / 6364 closed ( +1) / 7307 total ( +8) RFE : 246 open ( +0) / 244 closed ( +0) / 490 total ( +0) New / Reopened Patches __ popen() s

Re: How to create a global hotkey?

2006-12-07 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I want to make a Python app that runs in the background, and when a > user hits a key combination, for a function to run. This sounds simple > enough, but all of the keypress detecting libraries I can find count on > you creating a window and then detecting keypresses wh

Re: SOAP Server with WSDL?

2006-12-07 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
>> I can't figure out if I want SOAP, or CORBA, or would it just be > Unless you are talking to an existing CORBA interface, don't go there. Can't agree to that. CORBA is by far better than SOAP. And writing an IDL is actually a easy and straightforward thing to do - no tools needed, as when wri

Re: Rinning Excel macro's with Jython?

2006-12-11 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there a way to run Excel macro's with jython? Similar to the > win32com in python? Thank you. I wish people using Jython would remember that whatever they desire the runtime to do, they should investigate the Java options for their problem - and then simply use that

Re: Python Operating System

2006-12-11 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Richard Jones schrieb: > Diez B. Roggisch wrote: >> Python has no notion of pointers > > See: > > http://docs.python.org/lib/module-ctypes.html > > In particular: > > http://docs.python.org/lib/ctypes-pointers.html Certainly cool, yet not too helpful

Re: variables with dynamicly generated names

2006-12-14 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
avlee schrieb: > Hello > > Is it possible to use in python variables with dynamicly created names ? > How ? In such cases, use a dictionary: vars = {} for some_name, some_value in some_values_generating_thing(): vars[some_name] = some_value Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinf

Re: Conditional iteration

2006-12-14 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> Is it redundant according to your criteria, yes I would say: > > a = {True: a, False: c}[condition] > > or > > a = [c, a][condition] > > would yield exactly the same even in one sentence Obviously it is _not_ the exact same. def fac(n): return n * fac(n-1) if n else 1 Try that wit

Weekly Python Patch/Bug Summary

2006-12-14 Thread Kurt B. Kaiser
cgi.py multipart/form-data (2006-12-07) http://python.org/sf/1610654 opened by Chui Tey \b in unicode regex gives strange results (2006-12-07) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1611131 opened by akaihola os.path.exists("file/") failure on Solaris 9 (2006-12-07) http://pyt

Re: Roundtrip SQL data especially datetime

2006-12-17 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> > Most values tend to work, but only because the SQL string representation > happens to be the same as the Python representation. That may not apply to > some float values, bool, perhaps others. I had hoped the tools would have > solved those problems so I don't have to. In typed languages (J

Re: Changing variable to integer

2006-12-17 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
vertigo schrieb: > > Hello > > I receive such error: > File "p4.py", line 24, in PrintWordCountFloat > print "%s %f" % (word,words[word]) > TypeError: list indices must be integers > > i call PrintWordCountFloat with hash table, keys are words(string) and > values float. > This part of the

Re: Roundtrip SQL data especially datetime

2006-12-17 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> > The advantage of static typing in this context is that the variable still > holds the type even if the value happens to be null. Any value that has been > exposed to user input comes back as a string and has to be validated and > converted to the correct data type. Static typing provides a

Re: Class property with value and class

2006-12-19 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
manstey wrote: > Hi, > > Is is possible to have two classes, ClassA and ClassB, and > setattr(ClassA, 'xx',ClassB), AND to then have ClassA.xx store an > integer value as well, which is not part of ClassB? > > e.g. If ClassB has two properties, name and address: > > ClassA.xx=10 > ClassA.xx.nam

Re: update attribute - (newbie)

2006-12-19 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Bruce wrote: class A: > ... def __init__(self): > ... self.t = 4 > ... self.p = self._get_p() > ... def _get_p(self): > ... return self.t > ... a = A() a.p > 4 a.t += 7 a.p > 4 > > I would like to have it that when I ask for p, method _get_p is always > called so

Re: SQLALCHEMY - Method to have the last word, by Michael Bayer

2006-12-19 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> I understand your elaborations. > > Possibly "sqlalchemy" should do the same, until it's fully functional > and do not 'frustrate users'. > > And "Turbogears", too. And Django, as it's still not fully functional > (mainly due to it's deficient ORM layer). > > Or all those projects remain open(

Re: SQLALCHEMY - Method to have the last word, by Michael Bayer

2006-12-20 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> So - stop it, go away, and please, pretty please with sugar on top: don't >> come back. Python doesn't need you, this NG doesn't need you, no FOSS >> project n

Weekly Python Patch/Bug Summary

2006-12-21 Thread Kurt B. Kaiser
Patch / Bug Summary ___ Patches : 420 open ( +6) / 3510 closed (+12) / 3930 total (+18) Bugs: 944 open ( -5) / 6391 closed (+15) / 7335 total (+10) RFE : 249 open ( +2) / 245 closed ( +0) / 494 total ( +2) New / Reopened Patches __ cp720 enc

Re: How a script can know if it has been called with the -i command line option?

2006-12-22 Thread Michael B. Trausch
Peter Wang wrote: > Michele Simionato wrote: >> The subject says it all, I would like a script to act differently when >> called as >> $ python script.py and when called as $ python -i script.py. I looked >> at the sys module >> but I don't see a way to retrieve the command line flags, where should

Weekly Python Patch/Bug Summary

2006-12-29 Thread Kurt B. Kaiser
Patch / Bug Summary ___ Patches : 413 open ( -7) / 3521 closed (+11) / 3934 total ( +4) Bugs: 946 open ( +2) / 6400 closed ( +9) / 7346 total (+11) RFE : 248 open ( -1) / 246 closed ( +1) / 494 total ( +0) New / Reopened Patches __ Auto-comp

Re: PEP 3107 Function Annotations for review and comment

2006-12-30 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
ne* > can't be enough of a motivation for this? To me, it is far from > self-evident what purpose function annotations would serve. > > I also wonder why a very obtrusive syntax addition is needed when it > clearly is possible to annotate functions in today's Python. Why is &

Re: can't find a suitable application server

2006-12-30 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
krishnakant Mane wrote: > hello, > I have read about zope and found it very good. > but right now I am a bit confused about one project I have just procured. > it is supposed to be a simple 3 tear application. the front end will > be a thin client which we will develop using wxpython. > We are us

Re: Question concerning this list [WebCrawler]

2007-01-01 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
homsky-0 (regular language) Grammar? Nope. LALR is a context free grammar parsing technique. Regular expressions can't express languages like a^n b^n but something like is ^2^2 Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Writing more efficient code

2007-01-01 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
gonzlobo schrieb: > Greetings, and happyNewYear to all. > > I picked up Python a few weeks ago, and have been able to parse large > files and process data pretty easily, but I believe my code isn't too > efficient. I'm hoping dictionaries will help out, but I'm not sure the > best way to implement

Re: mutable numeric type

2007-01-02 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Helmut Jarausch schrieb: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Way to go. >> Try doing this. >> x = MutableNumeric(42) > ^^ > where is this defined? In the OPs example. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: code optimization (calc PI)

2007-01-03 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
mm wrote: > (Yes, I konw whats an object is...) > BTW. I did a translation of a pi callculation programm in C to Python. > (Do it by your own... ;-) Is that a question on how to optimize code you won't show us? If yes, I'm sorry to tell you that crystal balls are short these days. Too much new-ye

Re: C/C++, Perl, etc. to Python converter

2007-01-03 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
mm wrote: > > Is there a Perl to Python converter? > Or in general: a XY to Python converter? > > Is see, that Python is much better then Perl anyway. > But for beginners, they whant to konw how is this done with Python etc. > > Sure, there are some docus out there in the internet. But a conver

Re: Unsubscribing from the list

2007-01-03 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 03/01/07, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> if you're unable to follow written instructions, how on earth did you >> manage to subscribe to this list ? >> >> >> > > Actually, I'm a compete idiot and I always post to the mailing list > instead of RTFM or STFW. Wh

Re: C/C++, Perl, etc. to Python converter

2007-01-03 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> > I think that it *is* possible to do it, but a whole lot of work had to > be done to achieve this. It is all about how many rules (like how to > convert this block of unreadable code of language X into a readable > python block) you are willing to find/program (and these are a lot). It > is a

Weekly Python Patch/Bug Summary

2007-01-04 Thread Kurt B. Kaiser
Patch / Bug Summary ___ Patches : 418 open ( +5) / 3522 closed ( +1) / 3940 total ( +6) Bugs: 959 open (+13) / 6405 closed ( +5) / 7364 total (+18) RFE : 250 open ( +2) / 245 closed ( -1) / 495 total ( +1) New / Reopened Patches __ update to

Re: C/C++, Perl, etc. to Python converter

2007-01-05 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
>> It is definitely _not_ possible. There are so many design decisions >> that are differing based on what a language offers - e.g. generators, >> garbage collection, precise control over memory layout and so on. > >Inter-language translators have been written. There's usually > a performan

Re: Problem installing MySQLdb/1.2.1_p2 with Python/2.4.1 and MySQL/5.0.18

2007-01-05 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Sean O'Donnell schrieb: > Hi, > > I can't seem to get MySQLdb/1.2.1p2 to install on Slackware/10.2, with > Python/2.4.1, and MySQL/5.0.18. > > The following command: > > $ python setup.py build 2> setup.err > > returns the following errors: > > http://pastebin.com/851624 > > Any suggestions?

Re: Encoding / decoding strings

2007-01-05 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey Everyone, > > Was just wondering if anyone here could help me. I want to encode (and > subsequently decode) email addresses to use in URLs. I believe that > this can be done using MD5. Are you by chance after a way to create URLs that contain an email which the ser

Re: program deployment

2007-01-05 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
king kikapu wrote: >> Python code is normally deployed as straight source code. > > But isn't this a problem of its own ?? I mean, many people do not feel > good if the know that their source code is lying around on other > machines... This has been discussed a bazillion times on this list - the

Re: PDF rendering toolkit?

2007-01-06 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> I'm looking for a tool to take an actual .pdf file and display it in a > window (I'm using wxwidgets at the moment) No idea if there is a one-shot-kills-them-all solution out there - but if you have a way to go for windows, you might checkout PyQt and PyKDE to embed a kpfd-view in a window of

Re: Why less emphasis on private data?

2007-01-06 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > Coming from a C++ / C# background, the lack of emphasis on private data > seems weird to me. I've often found wrapping private data useful to > prevent bugs and enforce error checking.. > > It appears to me (perhaps wrongly) that Python prefers to leave class > data pu

Re: Recommendations (or best practices) to define functions (or methods)

2007-01-08 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
vizcayno schrieb: > Hello: > Need your help in the "correct" definition of the next function. If > necessary, I would like to know about a web site or documentation that > tells me about best practices in defining functions, especially for > those that consider the error exceptions management. > I

Re: Recommendations (or best practices) to define functions (or methods)

2007-01-08 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
vizcayno schrieb: > Diez B. Roggisch ha escrito: > >> vizcayno schrieb: >>> Hello: >>> Need your help in the "correct" definition of the next function. If >>> necessary, I would like to know about a web site or documentation that >>> tells

Re: class unbound method and datetime.datetime.today()

2007-01-08 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > Hi, I got confused when I learned the function datetime.today(). > > So far I learned, unless an instance is created, it is not possible to > call the class method. For example: > > class Foo: > def foo(self): > pass > > Foo.foo() # error: unbound method foo()

Re: Colons, indentation and reformatting. (2)

2007-01-09 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> Won't the following rules work when pasting complete Python statements > and complete lines, after other lines in an editor: > > lets call the line after which the block is to be pasted the paste > line, and the original indent of the first line of the copied block to > be pasted the copy indent

Re: Testing for the presence of input from stdin.

2006-01-23 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> I can get the script to behave as expected when content's piped to it > using sys.stdin but I'd like to know that there's data coming from > stdin or fail and print the useage again. Is there a simple way to > achieve this? There are more experienced UNIXers here, but from my POV I don't see how

Weekly Python Patch/Bug Summary

2006-01-23 Thread Kurt B. Kaiser
Patch / Bug Summary ___ Patches : 391 open ( +7) / 3028 closed (+12) / 3419 total (+19) Bugs: 905 open ( -4) / 5519 closed (+19) / 6424 total (+15) RFE : 207 open ( -1) / 197 closed ( +1) / 404 total ( +0) New / Reopened Patches __ Patch for

Weekly Python Patch/Bug Summary (Revised)

2006-01-23 Thread Kurt B. Kaiser
Patch / Bug Summary ___ Patches : 391 open ( +7) / 3028 closed (+12) / 3419 total (+19) Bugs: 906 open ( -3) / 5519 closed (+19) / 6425 total (+16) RFE : 207 open ( -1) / 197 closed ( +1) / 404 total ( +0) New / Reopened Patches __ Patch for

Re: float formatting

2006-01-25 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> However, if I do that I get errors saying that all args were not > converted during string formatting. An escaped 'i' does not work > either. You need to format the string twice - first, to generate the float formatting string, and then to format the string. Like this: num = 7.1234567890123

Re: While loop - print several times but on 1 line.

2006-01-26 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Danny wrote: > Hello there. > > I'm creating a little text changer in Python. In the program there is a > while loop. The problem is that a while loop will have 1 print statement > and it will loop until it gets to the end of the text. > Example: > > num = 5 // Set num to 5 > while num >= 1: /

Re: Problem with odbc (pywin32) and unicode

2006-01-27 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Frank Millman wrote: > Hi all > > I am using odbc from pywin32 to connect to MS SQL Server. I am changing > my program from the old (incorrect) style of embedding values in the > SQL command to the new (correct) style of passing the values as > parameters. I have hit a problem. > > The following

Re: Problem with odbc (pywin32) and unicode

2006-01-27 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> Unicode is one of those grey areas that I know I will have to try to > understand one day, but I am putting off that day as long as possible! I suggest you better start right away instead of stumbling over it all the time. The most problems in that field don't come from the inherent complexity o

Re: MYSql, CGI web page search code not working

2006-01-28 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> > db=MySQLdb.connect(host = 'localhost', db = 'phone') > cursor=db.cursor() > cursor.execute("Select * from phone where name = name order by name") You don't parametrize the query. The where-clause thus is a tautology, as the name is always the name. Do something like this: cursor.execute("

Re: seperating directories from files

2006-01-30 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> It's not what you are looking for here, but os.stat gives you access to > lots of information about files. In Linux and Windows, though, the > 'type' of a file is incorporated into its filename through an extension. No, only in windows. Under linux/unix in general there might exist the file-com

Re: Fuzzy Lookups

2006-01-30 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> As mentioned above this works quite well and I am happy with it, but I > wonder if there is a more Pythonic way of doing this type of lookup? I did a levenshtein-fuzzy-search myself, however I enhanced my version by normalizing the distance the following way: def relativ

Re: Fuzzy Lookups

2006-01-30 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > >> The advantage becomes apparent when you try to e.g. compare >> >> "Angelina Jolie" >> >> with >> >> "AngelinaJolei" >> >> and >> >> "Bob&quo

Re: Newbie question: Unicode hiccup on reading file i just wrote

2006-01-30 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Darcy schrieb: > hi all, i have a newbie problem arising from writing-then-reading a > unicode file, and i can't work out what syntax i need to read it in. > > the syntax i'm using now (just using quick hack tmp files): > BEGIN > f=codecs.open("tt.xml","r","utf8") > fwrap=codecs.EncodedFile(f,"as

Re: Have you any idea how to make window transparent using pygame?

2006-01-30 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Terry Hancock schrieb: > On 30 Jan 2006 08:52:04 -0800 > "kishkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I just want to make window transparent. ;) At this moment >> I've found only ideas of taking screenshots to make >> background... Anything else? > > You are looking for "alpha" surfaces. In a full RGB

Re: Omniorb event channel question

2006-01-31 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> channel = orb.getRootInterface(channelname) > chadmin = channel.for_consumers() > supplier = chadmin.obtain_push_supplier() > listener = EventListener() > supplier.connect_push_consumer(listener) Not sure, but I guess you want a listener._this() here. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/

Re: Question about idioms for clearing a list

2006-01-31 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Steven Watanabe wrote: > I know that the standard idioms for clearing a list are: > > (1) mylist[:] = [] > (2) del mylist[:] > > I guess I'm not in the "slicing frame of mind", as someone put it, but > can someone explain what the difference is between these and: > > (3) mylist = [] > >

Re: howto catch an Exception and still print the TraceBack?

2006-02-01 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Saizan wrote: > In an event-driven application i'd like to keep the program alive > regardless of any exceptions raised by the handlers, but still be able to > debug them by reading the appropriate TraceBack from stderr. I can put > something like: See sys.exc_info() The you can do: try: .

Re: my openGL API need threads!!! But how to ,ake it work???

2006-02-02 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Laurent wrote: > Hi, > > here is the context: > > I'm coding a openGL API I will need for a project for my school. > This API is quite simple: > > an ooglScene describe all needed to make an openGL, and inherits from a > list. So an ooglScene is fundamentaly a list of ooglObjects (which is > or

Re: my openGL API need threads!!! But how to ,ake it work???

2006-02-02 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Laurent wrote: > That is exactly what I do not want!! > > this is not transparent, I'm sure it is possible to make what I want: > Scene = ooglScene() > Scene.run() > scene.append(ooglPoint()) Well, if you know so well what you want, why don't you know how to do it? Besides: just using threads m

Re: PyQt: QListView how to retrieve selected items?

2006-02-02 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Flavio schrieb: > Hi, > > I have a QListview widget that allows me to store a bunch of strings in > it. This strings can be visualized, sorted, selected, etc. > > My Problem is that I cant find a way to get the user selected items > back from it! I looked over the Qt documentation many times over

Re: PyQt: QListView how to retrieve selected items?

2006-02-02 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Flavio schrieb: > Iterating over the items and checking if it is selected, sounds like a > good idea, but there no obvious way to get a hold of the list of > items!! The only way you can get an item is if you are in single > selection mode and you call selectedItem(). But I have to use multiple >

Re: PyQt: QListView how to retrieve selected items?

2006-02-02 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Flavio schrieb: >> Who has created these items? Obviously you, so you _can_ store the list >> of selected items. > > well yeah, but the Idea was to let the user select(through the widget) > a subset of the original list and then access that subset... > >> Or you use the equally well documented QL

Re: A problem with some OO code.

2006-02-04 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> AttributeError: 'Obj' object has no attribute > '_Object__ls_demanded_links' > -- > > Perhaps I'll explain what's going on there. First, the objects' manager > is created, and then also some objects are created. After doing that, > the object calle

Re: numeric expression from string?

2006-02-04 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Brian Blais schrieb: > Hello, > > I have a string input from the user, and want to parse it to a number, > and would like to know how to do it. I would like to be able to accept > arithmetic operations, like: > > '5+5' > '(4+3)*2' > '5e3/10**3' > > I thought of using eval, which will work, bu

Re: how to run BeautifulSoup in Jython

2006-02-05 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
ye juan schrieb: > Hi, > > Anyone tries to use BeautifulSoup ( > http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/ ) in > Jython? I can not run that ,the error that Jython > gives me is: unpack sequence too long. You've asked that on th jython mailing list and got a negative answer. What makes you

Re: jython newbee general question docu / os.fstat

2006-02-05 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Mark Fink schrieb: > Hi there, > > unfortunately I am new to Jython and my "Jython Essentials" book is > still in the mail. I looked into the Jython API Doc but could not find > the information. > I am porting a Python library to Jython and some parts are missing. My > question basically is where

Re: rexec in jython??

2006-02-05 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Mark Fink wrote: > this is really funny... > I tried to use eval(String) as an replacement. It works now but the > calculation results from my tests are not as expected: 2 + 3 = 23 !!! 2 > - 3 = 2-3... > I have the feeling that there is a really easy solution for this. > Unfortunately I have no en

Re: rexec in jython??

2006-02-05 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Mark Fink wrote: > This is the original code section of the library including the > comments: > class AutoAdapter(TypeAdapter): > """ > This adapter returns a type based on the format of the table cell > contents, following python's rules for literals (plus a few > others). > We co

Re: NumPy error

2006-02-05 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
jason wrote: > Hello: > > I am using the following versions of Python and packages on Windows XP > (SP2): > > Python 2.4.2 > NumPy 0.9.4.win32-py2.4 > SciPy 0.4.4 for Python 2.4 and Pentium 4/SSE2 I fell for that yesterday. Cost me two hours. You have to install NumPy 0.9.2. Make sure you clea

Re: Compiling

2006-02-05 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> This is a standard response to a rather frequent question here. But I > am not sure I ever understood. Scheme / Lisp are about as dynamic as > Python. Yet they have quite efficient native compilers. Ex: Bigloo > Scheme. If you provide the necessary annotations for optimization. Not sure about ru

Re: NumPy error

2006-02-05 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
from scipy.optimize import fmin > Overwriting fft= from scipy.fftpack.basic (was > from numpy.dft.fftpack) > Overwriting ifft= from scipy.fftpack.basic (was > from numpy.dft.fftpack) > > And then I get the following result: > xopt = fmin(rosen, x0) > Optimization terminated successf

Re: how to kill a python process?

2006-02-05 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
MackS schrieb: > Hello! > > This question does not concern programming in python, but how to manage > python processes. Is there a way to "name" a python process? At least > on Linux, if I have two python programs running, they both run under > the name "python" > > #pidof program1.py > [empty li

Re: Python and Flash

2006-02-06 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
rodmc wrote: > Can anyone provide me with advice on how easy (or otherwise) it is to > drive a Flash animation (stored locally but displaed in a browser) with > a Python application. Basically information is getting streamed to a > Python client and this is expected to update the Flash animation.

Weekly Python Patch/Bug Summary

2006-02-06 Thread Kurt B. Kaiser
Patch / Bug Summary ___ Patches : 391 open ( +0) / 3038 closed (+10) / 3429 total (+10) Bugs: 915 open ( +9) / 5540 closed (+21) / 6455 total (+30) RFE : 209 open ( +2) / 197 closed ( +0) / 406 total ( +2) New / Reopened Patches __ difflib e

Re: variables preceeded with @

2006-02-07 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Thomas Girod wrote: > Hello there. > > I recently started looking at turbogears and I found code such as : > > class Root(controllers.Root): > @turbogears.expose(html="blog.templates.accueil") > def index(self,**kw): > return dict() > > > What is this "@" ? I looked around

Re: Is Python good for web crawlers?

2006-02-07 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Tempo wrote: > Why do you say that the bottleneck of the crawler will always be > downloading the page? Is it becasue there isn't already a modual to do > this and I will have to start from scratch? Or a bandwidth issue? Because of bandwidth - not necessarily yours directly, but the maximum flow

Re: Python threading, and processes

2006-02-08 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Robin Haswell wrote: > Hey there > > I'm doing some threading in python with Python 2.3 and 2.4 on Ubuntu and > Debian machines, and I've noticed that if I open a lot of threads (say, > 50), I get lots of python processes with individual PIDs, which consume a > disproportionate amount of CPU. Doe

Re: how to...python with winmodem...

2006-02-08 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
pdt wrote: > Hello, i wanna know how to communicate my python program with my > winmodem on PC...thanks!!! Use pyserial. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Circe released to public domain!

2006-02-08 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Kyle Brooks schrieb: > Wednesday, February 8th, 2006. > > Dear all, > > I hereby release Circe to the public domain. > > Our repo is at http://kbrooks.ath.cx/repos/circe. This is the second post I read, followed the link, skimmed through some sources and READMEs, and by now I got the impressi

Re: Form1.show()

2006-02-09 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
errmaker schrieb: > hi ! iam newbie on python. > how i can make form1 visible ? form just crated by pyqt > > > > class Form1(QMainWindow): > def __init__(self,parent = None,name = None,fl = 0): > QMainWindow.__init__(self,parent,name,fl) > self.statusBar() > >...

Re: Create dict from two lists

2006-02-10 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
py wrote: > I have two lists which I want to use to create a dictionary. List x > would be the keys, and list y is the values. > > x = [1,2,3,4,5] > y = ['a','b','c','d','e'] > > Any suggestions? looking for an efficent

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