Re: q: how to output a unicode string?

2007-04-25 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> So why is it that in the first case I got UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' > codec can't encode? Seems as if, within Idle, a utf-8 codec is being > selected automagically... why should that be so there and not in the > first case? I'm a bit confused on what you did when the error appears if you t

Re: trinary operator - if then else

2007-04-25 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Michael >> >> Does Python 2.4 support it? > > Not precisely, but you can *usually* get away with: > > a and b or c This is really bad advice, as long as you don't explain why it "usually" works (and often enough not). This for example won't work:

Re: jython: user-defined modules

2007-04-25 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Gregor Stich wrote: > Dear all, > > I hope my question is here in the right place... > What I want to achieve is a communication between Java and Python. We > have a pretty strong framework of existing python scripts and modules. > Now I want to use jython in order to faciliate the communication

Re: My python annoyances so far

2007-04-25 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > Hi all. I'm learning python these days. I'm going to use this thread > to post, from time to time, my annoyances with python. I hope someone > will clarify things to me where I have misunderstood them. > > Annoyances: > > 1. Underscores! What's the deal with that? Esp

Re: Python not giving free memory back to the os get's me in real problems ...

2007-04-25 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
TimC schrieb: > Donald 'Paddy' McCarthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > >> Could you split the program into one handling the outer loop and >> calling another program, with data transfer, to handle the inner >> loops? >> >> - Paddy. > > I'm afraid this isn't possible, because the python macro is call

Re: How does Jython compile python modules that can be used by the JVM?

2007-04-26 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
ChrisW schrieb: > Hi, > > I need a relatively technical answer to the above question - I've > looked through the Jython docs / FAQs and Googled it but to no > avail... if anyone can let me know I'd be most grateful, The jython mailing list is the better place to ask this. However, actually this

Re: passing tuple with pyqt4 signal/slot mechanism

2007-04-26 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Pradnyesh Sawant schrieb: > Hello, > I have a pyqt4 code in which i'm trying the signal/slot mechanism. The > (stripped) code is as follows: > > class D(QtCore.QThread): >def __init__(self): >QtCore.QThread.__init__(self) >tpl = ("Primary", "priSec") >print "tpl:", tpl

Re: Interrupting ftplib.storbinary()

2007-04-26 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Florian Demmer schrieb: > Hi! > > I have a number of ftp uploads running in parallel using > ftplib.storbinary and threading and in case one of them fails I need > to interrupt all the others (but not exit the program completely)... > do you guys have an idea how i could implement the interruption

Weekly Python Patch/Bug Summary

2007-04-27 Thread Kurt B. Kaiser
Patch / Bug Summary ___ Patches : 356 open ( -1) / 3756 closed (+11) / 4112 total (+10) Bugs: 968 open (+10) / 6673 closed (+16) / 7641 total (+26) RFE : 254 open ( +3) / 282 closed ( +2) / 536 total ( +5) New / Reopened Patches __ fixes bug

Re: Could zipfile module process the zip data in memory?

2007-04-29 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
人言落日是天涯,望极天涯不见家 schrieb: > On Apr 29, 7:37 pm, "Daniel Nogradi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I made a C/S network program, the client receive the zip file from the >>> server, and read the data into a variable. how could I process the >>> zipfile directly without saving it into file. >>> In the d

Re: What's the life time of the variable defined in a class function?

2007-04-30 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
eated some > widgets. It could be show in the window. Does it indicated the life > time of varable m,n,j is base on the object range? Python has no variables. It has objects, which can be bound to names. Each binding to a name will increase a reference counter. Each unbinding will decrease

Re: I can't inherit from "compiled" classes ?

2007-04-30 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> I understand what you are saying, and at the same time don't > understand why it doesn't work. Isn't "everything an object" in > python? And if something is an object does it not implies it's an > instance of some class? It means that, but it seems that you can't subclass everything, especially

Re: playing sound in mac osx

2007-05-01 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
tooru honda schrieb: > Hi, > > I am a newbie to mac and python. > > Is there an easy way to play wav or mp3 sound file ? I used to use > winsound module before switching to mac, but that only works for windows. pygame might help. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Problems with time

2007-05-01 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
loial schrieb: > I am running on an AIX system with time zone set to BST > > If I run the following, I get the GMT time, i.e an hour less than the > correct time. > > How can I get the correct time > > now = time() > > timeProcessed = strftime("%H:%M",gmtime(now)) > localtime?

Re: Comparing bitmap images for differences?

2007-05-01 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > I know it's a long shot but does anyone have any pointers to generic > algorithms - or, even better, Python code - for comparing images and > computing a value for the "difference" between them? > > What I want to do is to compare two bitmap images (taken from a > webc

Re: Store variable name in another variable

2007-05-01 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
loial schrieb: > OK, I have it working with dictionaries. > > However I have another scenerio : > > I am reading a file containing records like the following : > > > > > .. > .. > > > I need to substitute MYVARIABLE with the current value of MYVARIABLE > in my python script and write the fi

Re: Grabbing the output of a long-winded shell call (in GNU/Linux)

2007-05-01 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Efrat Regev schrieb: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On May 1, 2:23 pm, Efrat Regev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> So my question is if there's a way to "grab" the output as it's being >>> generated. It doesn't matter if the solution is blocking (as opposed to >>> callback based), since threads ca

Re: How can I get the ascii code of a charter in python?

2007-05-01 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > Hi, > a python newbe needs some help, > > I read the python doc at > http://docs.python.org/lib/module-curses.ascii.html > > I tried > Import curses.asciicurses.ascii > Print ascii('a') > > I get an error saying module curses.ascii8 does not exsist. > > How can I ge

Re: Python for Windows other way to getting it?

2007-05-01 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > Hello > I don't have permission to install new application on the PC I'm > using, I need a zipped version of python that I can copy on my > external drive. Where can I get a zip version? http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/movpy/ Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailma

Re: Killing Threads

2007-05-02 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> You probably need to setDaemon (True) on your threads > after you've created them and before they run. That > tells the OS: don't bother waiting for these ones to > finish if the program exits. (At least I think that's > what it does; I don't use threads all that much) Actually all it does is to

Re: Lazy evaluation: overloading the assignment operator?

2007-05-02 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
gt; One particular use for this would be to implement "lazy evaluation". > For example it would allow us to get rid of all the temporary arrays > produced by NumPy. > > For example, consider the expression: > > y = a * b + c * d > > If this expression is evaluated

Weekly Python Patch/Bug Summary

2007-05-05 Thread Kurt B. Kaiser
Patch / Bug Summary ___ Patches : 360 open ( +4) / 3760 closed ( +4) / 4120 total ( +8) Bugs: 971 open ( +3) / 6683 closed (+10) / 7654 total (+13) RFE : 257 open ( +3) / 282 closed ( +0) / 539 total ( +3) New / Reopened Patches __ test_1686

Re: how do you implement a reactor without a select?

2007-05-07 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> Notice that I copied the Twisted terminology, but > I did not look at Twisted implementation because I did not want to > use a select (I assume that the GUI mainloops do not use it either). Why do you assume that? It's a wrong assumption. Yielding a thread/process until the OS wakes it up becaus

Re: File Name Format

2007-05-08 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Anand wrote: > Greetings, > > How do I convert programmatically the file names from WIN32 to UNIX > format? > > A code snippet would be of great help. > We are new to python! :) unix_name = win_name.replace("\\", "/") But this of course won't work for anything that starts with a drive letter f

Re: Designing a graph study program

2007-05-08 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> > Well then I wanted to draw graphs and I found that pydot is working > really nicely. > BUT I'd like to do this, an interactive program to see ho the > algorithms works... > For example in the breath search first, every time the algorithm > colors a node, the program should redraw the graphs. W

Re: Designing a graph study program

2007-05-08 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> Ok thank you very much I'll try with that. > But I have some design doubts, I'd like to keep the algorithm (for > example bfs) as clean as possible, being independent from the drawing > methods. > And how could I make it step through algorithms without having a more > complicated code? Maybe usin

Re: Gui thread and async jobs.

2007-05-08 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
king kikapu wrote: > Hi, i am reading the book "Python Cookbook, 2nd edition" and i > encountered a very handy recipe, the one that is called "Combining > GUIs and Asynchronous I/O with Threads" > > It is talking about retain a main GUI thread, doing async work with > worker threads and have both

Re: changing a var by reference of a list

2007-05-08 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Jorgen Bodde wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to simplify my code, and want to automate the assigning of > variables I get back from a set. I was thinking of putting the > variables I want changed in a list: > > L = [self._varA, self._varB ] > > self._varA is a variable I want to change when I pass

Re: Gui thread and async jobs.

2007-05-08 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
>> It depends on the toolkit you use. Qt has thread-safe custom events in >> 3.x, and afaik signal/slots (and thus events) are generally thread-safe >> in 4.x. So, no problems there. >> >> Diez > > Aha...So you do not use polling there (in Qt), correct ? You don't need to, no. Diez -- http://m

Using os.popen and os.chdir together

2007-05-08 Thread Looney, James B
Within a script on a *nix machine, I use os.chdir then os.popen, and it appears to me as though the os.chdir had no effect so far as the os.popen is concerned. Why's that? Here's what I'm doing: >>> import os >>> os.path.realpath( os.curdir ) '/home/jlooney' >>> print os.popen( "echo $PWD" ).rea

RE: Using os.popen and os.chdir together

2007-05-08 Thread Looney, James B
ok, nevermind. My coworker pointed out part of what's wrong. Guess I'll need to do more spelunking in my script to figure out what I'm messing up. -JB From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Looney, James B Sent: Tuesday,

Re: Boolean confusion

2007-05-09 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
, its value is > returned; otherwise, y is evaluated and the resulting value is returned." > > Based on what is said above, shouldn't my first expression ( > string.find('020914A','.') and len('020914A') > 10) evaluate to > false b/c m

Re: change of random state when pyc created??

2007-05-09 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Alan Isaac wrote: > > "Peter Otten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Alan Isaac wrote: >> There is nothing wrong with the random module -- you get the same numbers > on >> every run. When there is no pyc-file Python uses some RAM to create it >> and therefore your

RE: preferred windows text editor?

2007-05-09 Thread Looney, James B
I'm using Vim (http://www.vim.org/). -JB -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of T. Crane Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 12:07 PM To: python-list@python.org Subject: preferred windows text editor? Right now I'm using Notepad++. What are other peop

Re: Behavior of mutable class variables

2007-05-09 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > I have written a program that runs portfolio simulations with > different parameters and prints the output, but am mystified by the > behavior of a mutable class variable. A simplified version of the > program follows - would you kindly help me understand why it behaves

Re: elegant python style for loops

2007-05-09 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
27;t work as it is a tuple of lists, as opposed to a list of tuples. > Is there an elegant solution to this? Is there a way to merge lists > into a list of tuples to allow moving through multiple lists, or is > the for i in range(len(listkeys)): the only solution? > > Any suggestions?

Re: Thread-safe dictionary

2007-05-10 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Jean-Paul Calderone schrieb: > On 10 May 2007 05:45:24 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Hi, >> >> please consider the following code: >> >> >> from __future__ import with_statement >> >> class safe_dict(dict): >>def __init__(self, *args, **kw): >>self.lock = threading.Lock() >>

Re: trouble with generators

2007-05-10 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
t; in list attributes of others, e.g.: All your code below shows that you don't create classes, but _instances_ of classes. So - is that what you mean to do? Or do you really want to create classes? > class A: > def __init__(self): > self.id = 'A1' >

Weekly Python Patch/Bug Summary

2007-05-13 Thread Kurt B. Kaiser
Patch / Bug Summary ___ Patches : 362 open ( +2) / 3766 closed ( +6) / 4128 total ( +8) Bugs: 968 open ( -3) / 6692 closed ( +9) / 7660 total ( +6) RFE : 256 open ( -1) / 286 closed ( +4) / 542 total ( +3) New / Reopened Patches __ Fix off-b

RE: os.listdir() doesn't work ??

2007-05-14 Thread Looney, James B
The case sensitivity has to do with the OS you're on. So, using glob from Un*x is case sensitive, but from Windows it isn't. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stef Mientki Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 3:39 PM To: python-list@python.org Subje

Re: Recursion limit problems

2007-05-15 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> with the same hash value. > That is, you should define __hash__ and one of (__cmp__ or __eq__). > __neq__ (inequality) isn't required nor used by dict/set implementation. > (Anyway, Python will transform a!=b into not(a==b), if __neq__ isn't > defined). Neither <,

Re: Quote aware split

2007-05-16 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Ondrej Baudys wrote: > Hi, > > After trawling through the archives for a simple quote aware split > implementation (ie string.split-alike that only splits outside of > matching quote) and coming up short, I implemented a quick and dirty > function that suits my purposes. Maybe using the csv m

Re: Unusual i/o problems

2007-05-16 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > I am parsing an xml file ,before that i have replaced a string in > the original xml file with another and made a new xml file which will > now be parsed.I am also opening some more files for output.The > following code shows some i/o commands. > file_input = r

Re: Components for a client/server architecture

2007-05-21 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> - Java (and possibly Jython) or Mono/C# (or possibly IronPython) on the > server. Requirements are: A strong and fair threading model. This is > actually what drove me away from Perl and what essentially prevents > using a normal Python interpreter on the server. I don't know whether > th

Re: Translating some Java to Python

2007-05-21 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> > Hmm, > > As an experienced developer I'm rather new to Python, so please forgive me > any non-Pythonic babbling. > From a language point you're probably right, but from a design point I'd > like to have methods that are clearly associated with a class as methods > of that class, even if they

Re: Simple omniORBpy example throws exception with error 0x41540002

2007-05-22 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Samuel wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to get the files from this tutorial to work: > http://www.grisby.org/presentations/py10code.html > > Direct link to the files: > http://www.grisby.org/presentations/py10code/adder.idl > http://www.grisby.org/presentations/py10code/adderServer.py > > It produc

Re: omniORBpy: Error 0x41540002

2007-05-22 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Samuel wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to get the files from this tutorial to work: > http://www.grisby.org/presentations/py10code.html > > Direct link to the files: > http://www.grisby.org/presentations/py10code/adder.idl > http://www.grisby.org/presentations/py10code/adderServer.py > > It produc

Re: Simple omniORBpy example throws exception with error 0x41540002

2007-05-22 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Samuel wrote: > On May 22, 1:54 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It indeed does open a connection - because it wants to register with a >> NameServer. > > Ah, I see now how this works. I happen to run Ubuntu here, so I tried > the foll

Weekly Python Patch/Bug Summary

2007-05-22 Thread Kurt B. Kaiser
Patch / Bug Summary ___ Patches : 364 open ( +2) / 3769 closed ( +3) / 4133 total ( +5) Bugs: 986 open (+18) / 6701 closed ( +9) / 7687 total (+27) RFE : 258 open ( +2) / 287 closed ( +1) / 545 total ( +3) New / Reopened Patches __ syslog sy

Re: Module listing in order.

2007-05-23 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Ramashish Baranwal wrote: > Hi, > > I want to get a module's contents (classes, functions and variables) > in the order in which they are declared. Using dir(module) therefore > doesn't work for me as it returns a list in alphabetical order. As an > example- >

Re: Basic Class/Instance Question

2007-05-23 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Siah wrote: > I think that's because: No idea what is because of what. Please quote essential parts of the posting you refer to. [] is [] > False () is () > True This is an implementation artifact. The interpreter chose to create only one instance for the empty tuple for optimization

Re: Properties/Decorators [WAS: Can I reference 1 instance of an object by more names ? rephrase]

2007-05-23 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Wildemar Wildenburger wrote: > Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: >> here's an example using a property: >> >> class cpu_ports(object): >> def __init__(self, value=0): >> self._d = value >> @apply >> def value(): >> def fset(self, value): >> print 'vv' >>

Re: Parallel/distributed generator

2007-05-23 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
George Sakkis wrote: > I'm looking for any existing packages or ideas on how to implement the > equivalent of a generator (in the Python sense, i.e. > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0255/) in a parallel/distributed > way. As a use case, imagine a function that generates a range of > primes. I'

Re: Properties/Decorators [WAS: Can I reference 1 instance of an object by more names ? rephrase]

2007-05-23 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Wildemar Wildenburger schrieb: > Diez B. Roggisch wrote: >> It is that very apply. >> >> And apply takes a function as argument + additional arguments, and >> executes >> that function, returning the result of that function-call. It was used >> before the &

Re: Parallel/distributed generator

2007-05-23 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
George Sakkis schrieb: > On May 23, 2:11 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> George Sakkis wrote: >>> I'm looking for any existing packages or ideas on how to implement the >>> equivalent of a generator (in the Python sense, i.

Re: Changing Unicode object to Tuple Type

2007-05-24 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > Can we have change a unicode string Type object to a Tuple type > object.. If so how Why? Are you getting an error that makes you think that's a good idea? Tuples are basically structs, unicode objects are strings. There is no canonical way to convert them. Tel

Re: installing cx_Oracle.

2007-05-24 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Carl K schrieb: > I am trying to use this: > http://python.net/crew/atuining/cx_Oracle/html/cx_Oracle.html > it is a real module, right? > > sudo easy_install cx_Oracle did not easy_install cx_Oracle. > > http://www.python.org/pypi/cx_Oracle/4.3.1 doesn't give me any clue. > > I got the source f

Re: Changing Unicode object to Tuple Type

2007-05-24 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > On May 24, 5:11 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: >> >>> Can we have change a unicode string Type object to a Tuple type >>> object.. If so how >> Why? Are you g

Re: writing to a file

2007-05-30 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > as i understand there are two ways to write data to a file: using > f.write("foo") and print >>f, "foo". > what i want to know is which one is faster (if there is any difference > in speed) since i'm working with very large files. of course, if there > is any other way

Re: is there a standard way to "install" egg-files under windows ?

2007-05-30 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Stef Mientki schrieb: > hello, > > after 4 months playing around with Python, > and I still have troubles with egg files. > Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. > > If I google on "python egg", I get lost of links, > which contains huge pages of information, > and I'm totally scared off. >

Re: Appending a log file and see progress as program executes

2007-05-30 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Karim Ali schrieb: > Hi, > > I am writing a program that will take several days to execute :) and > would like to append to a log file but be able to open that file at any > time and see the errors that have occured. > > So this is what I am doing: > > -

Re: Appending a log file and see progress as program executes

2007-05-30 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Steve Holden schrieb: > Diez B. Roggisch wrote: >> Karim Ali schrieb: > [...] >> >> install cygwin bash, and use >> >> tail out.log >> > I think Diez meant > > tail -f out.log I did. Thanks. diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to clean a module?

2007-05-31 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
ai schrieb: > It assumes that there is a module A which have two global variables X > and Y. If I run "import A" in the IDLE shell, then I can use A.X and > A.Y correctly. But if I want to change the module A and then delete > the variable Y, I find I can use A.Y just the same as before! > In fact,

Re: Need Help with base64

2007-07-23 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
pycraze wrote: > Hi , > > I am currently trying to implement base64 encoding and decoding > scheme in C . Python has a module , base64 , that will do the > encoding and decoding with ease . I am aware of OpenSSL having support > for base64 encoding and decoding , but i will have to now impleme

Re: decorators tutorials

2007-07-23 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
james_027 wrote: > hi bruno, > > That seems to be hard to read at all, or I am just very new to python? > > With that decorator how do I take advantage of it compare when I just > write a function that could do the same as what the decorator did? I > could translate the could from above into ...

Re: Reading data from an ISA port

2007-07-23 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Gabriel Dragffy schrieb: > Dear list members > > I must admit I am a new user of Python, but it is a language that I > enjoy using. > > For one of my university projects I need to write a program that can > read several bytes from an ISA port. It has been suggested to me that I > look at using

Re: Problem in Socket.....

2007-07-24 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Clement schrieb: > Is it possible to close the socket connection immediately in > Python.. Because i am getting error even though i close it after > all the transfer I read from one article it is possible in C > socket Whether is it possible in Python? > Which error? And usually the p

Re: 16-bit colour representation

2007-07-25 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
uld possibly be represented like this. 65535 is presumably > white, but converting this into chunks of 5 gives me a 31, 31, 31, a > dark shade of grey. > > I guess I'm on the wrong track completely? > > I'm a bit unsure about how to treat what the guide calls 'UWORD'... ANDing and SHIFTing are your friends here: v = 0x0bcd b = v & 0xf v >>= 4 g = v & 0xf v >>= 4 r = v & 0xf print r, g, b Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Flatten a list/tuple and Call a function with tuples

2007-07-25 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> > tuple to a function f so that I make a function call f(1,2,3). In perl >> > it is a given, but in python, I haven't figured out a way to do it. >> > (Maybe apply? but it is deprecated?) >> >>> def foo(a, b, c): print a, b, c >> ... >> &

Re: Singleton in Python Cookbook

2007-07-25 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Alex Popescu schrieb: > Hi all! > > I was reading through Python Cookbook the Singleton recipe. At this moment > I am a bit puzzled as the example in the book is not working resulting in: > > TypeError: type.__new__(SingleSpam): SingleSpam is not a subtype of type > > (I haven't presented the o

Re: code indentation

2007-07-25 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> HELLO, > > On this group I ask for serious help and now we talk about > communication. Then I you don't know how to help me then please DON'T > SAY ANYTHING Your lack of command of the python language and programming concepts in general is only excelled by your inabillity to react properly in

Re: code indentation

2007-07-26 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > On 26 srp, 13:43, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Thorsten Kampe wrote: >>> * (Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:22:03 -0700) On 25 srp, 17:31, Wildemar Wildenburger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> And while we're on the topic of com

Weekly Python Patch/Bug Summary

2007-07-26 Thread Kurt B. Kaiser
Patch / Bug Summary ___ Patches : 399 open ( +5) / 3836 closed ( +9) / 4235 total (+14) Bugs: 1056 open (+10) / 6776 closed ( +3) / 7832 total (+13) RFE : 263 open ( +1) / 294 closed ( +1) / 557 total ( +2) New / Reopened Patches __ utilize 2

Re: 16-bit colour representation

2007-07-25 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
>> v = 0x0bcd >> b = v & 0xf >> v >>= 4 >> g = v & 0xf >> v >>= 4 >> r = v & 0xf >> print r, g, b >> >> > Alternatively, using 5-bit colors you would use > > b = v & 0x1f > g = (v >> 5) & 0x

Re: Why PHP is so much more popular for web-development

2007-07-25 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> Before you can even get started with Python web-development, you have > to understand this entire alphabit soup of: CGI, FASTCGI, MOD_PYTHON, > FLUP, WSGI, PASTE, etc. For me, configuring fastcgi has been the most > difficult part of getting django to work. PHP developers don't have to > bother w

Re: Submit form, open result in a browser

2007-07-27 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Tina I schrieb: > Hi, > > Is there a way to submit a form and then open the resulting page in the > default browser? (Writing the form submission code is not a problem by > the way) > I guess what I'm asking is how I can get the resulting URL and feed it > to the webbrowser module. > I need to

Re: cls & self

2007-07-27 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
james_027 schrieb: > hi, > > is cls & self the same thing? > > I have seen something like > > class A: > def dosomething(cls): >#doing something > > How is cls & self differ? How is it use? cls and self are just names. And you most certainly haven't seen the above, but this instea

Re: encode/decode misunderstanding

2007-07-29 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Tim Arnold schrieb: > Hi, I'm beginning to understand the encode/decode string methods, but I'd > like confirmation that I'm still thinking in the right direction: > > I have a file of latin1 encoded text. Let's say I put one line of that file > into a string variable 'tocline', as follows: > to

Re: Cross platform Python app deployment

2007-07-30 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Will McGugan wrote: > Hi, > > Is there some reference regarding how to package a Python application > for the various platforms? I'm familiar with Windows deployment - I use > Py2Exe & InnoSetup - but I would like more information on deploying on > Mac and Linux. On mac, there is py2app that all

Re: Detecting __future__ features

2007-07-30 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Neil Cerutti wrote: > On 2007-07-30, André <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Jul 30, 9:39 am, Neil Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I don't understand the qualification, "at runtime," you're >>> making. What's wrong with just importing what you want and >>> using it? If it's already been enab

Re: Bug? exec converts '\n' to newline in docstrings!?

2007-07-30 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Edward K Ream wrote: > It looks like both exec and execfile are converting "\n" to an actual > newline > in docstrings! > > Start idle: > > Python 2.5 (r25:51908, Sep 19 2006, 09:52:17) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] > on win32 > [rest of signon deleted] > s = '''\ > strings = 'abc'.split("\n

Re: Database objects? Persistence? Sql Server woes

2007-07-30 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Mike Howarth schrieb: > I've been having a few problems with connecting to SQL Server, initially I > was using dblib however found some problems with returning text fields > whereby all text fields were ignored and it bawked at multiline sql > statements. > > Having found these major stumbling blo

Re: simple string backspace question

2007-07-31 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
ASCII escapes >> codes. >> >> Why do you care about \b anyway :-) ? >> >> -- >> Lawrence, oluyede.org - neropercaso.it >> "It is difficult to get a man to understand >> something when his salary depends on not >> understanding it" - Upto

Re: (May be OT) developing in jython, using in java?

2007-07-31 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Gerardo Herzig schrieb: > Hi all. I dont know if this is the right place for asking this, but > maybe some of you know where i must go. > The thing is: > > Im writing a very simple class (in python) to access some LDAP server. A > companion will access to the same LDAP server too, but his develo

Re: standalone process to interact with the web

2007-08-01 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
beginner wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I am looking for a way to allow a standalone python process to easily > interactive with a few web pages. It has to be able to easily receive > requests from the web and post data to the web. > > I am thinking about implementing a standalone soap server, but I

Re: Python end of file marker similar to perl's __END__

2007-08-01 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
beginner wrote: > On Jul 31, 10:53 pm, beginner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> This is just a very simple question about a python trick. >> >> In perl, I can write __END__ in a file and the perl interpreter will >> ignore everything below that line. This is very handy when testing my

Re: standalone process to interact with the web

2007-08-02 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Bruno Desthuilliers schrieb: > beginner a écrit : >> On Aug 1, 5:04 am, Bruno Desthuilliers > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> beginner a écrit : >>> (snip) >>> Yes exactly. I just don't want to reinvent the wheel as I imagine there are already tons of libraries and frameworks that support R

Re: python 3.0, pywin32 and scipy

2007-08-02 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
vml schrieb: > Hello, > > > I am trying to promote python in my job, my collegue only see matlab > and microsoft scripting language. > I understood that there willl be no backward compatibility between > python 2.x and 3.0, does it means that: > > - my script using pywin32 for the COM layer and

Re: XML Processing

2007-08-02 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Roman schrieb: > Is there a package that converts a string that contains special > characters in xml to to literal value. For instance, converts string > http://myhome/¶m to http://myhome/¶m. import xml.sax.saxutils print xml.sax.saxutils.escape("I'm a happy & friendly guy, and 1 < 3 - neve

Re: __call__ considered harmful or indispensable?

2007-08-02 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > I don't personally use __call__ methods in my classes, but I have > encountered it every now and then here at work in code written by other > people. The other day I replaced __call__ with a more obvious method name, > so now instead of executing > > obj(foo, bar,

Re: python 3.0, pywin32 and scipy

2007-08-02 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Jean-Paul Calderone schrieb: > On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 21:16:04 +0200, "Diez B. Roggisch" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> vml schrieb: >>> Hello, >>> >>> >>> I am trying to promote python in my job, my collegue only see matlab >>&g

Re: (no) fast boolean evaluation ? missing NOT

2007-08-03 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
be called, > because A is True. > > And I agree with Laurent that it should be better to write a clean code, > so it doesn't matter whether you write in Python or in Delphi. > > Gabriel: you pointed me to this page: > The exact behavior is defined in the Language R

Weekly Python Patch/Bug Summary

2007-08-03 Thread Kurt B. Kaiser
Patch / Bug Summary ___ Patches : 404 open ( +5) / 3847 closed (+11) / 4251 total (+16) Bugs: 1059 open ( +3) / 6784 closed ( +8) / 7843 total (+11) RFE : 263 open ( +0) / 295 closed ( +1) / 558 total ( +1) New / Reopened Patches __ struni: F

Re: Scope question

2007-08-06 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Nitro wrote: > Hello, > > today I wrote this piece of code and I am wondering why it does not work > the way I expect it to work. Here's the code: > > y = 0 > def func(): > y += 3 > func() > > This gives an > > UnboundLocalError: local variable 'y' referenced before assignment > > If I c

Re: boolean operations on sets

2007-08-06 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Flavio wrote: > Hi, I have been playing with set operations lately and came across a > kind of surprising result given that it is not mentioned in the > standard Python tutorial: > > with python sets, intersections and unions are supposed to be done > like this: > In [7]:set('casa') & set('por

Re: read(size=-1)

2007-08-06 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
7stud schrieb: > Suppose I write: > > f = open("myimg.jpg") > f.read(10) > > > According to the docs, > --- > read([size]) > > Read at most size bytes from the fileThe bytes are returned as a > string object. > -- > > How does python convert a byte to a string? A string _i

Re: How to avoid reverse code engineering of a python executable

2007-08-08 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote: > On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 11:40:28 +, NicolasG wrote: > >> Couple of day's ago I asked for your help on how to create a single >> file of a python executable. Now I want to proceed a little bit >> further asking how can I avoid (or at least make it difficult) for >

Re: help a n00b with a Zope site-package install

2007-08-08 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > I am having a general problem getting Zope installed as part of my > linux distro. We have a general problem solving problems that lack any concrete description of what is not working. We need stacktraces and so forth. Maybe reading this helps: http://catb.org/~es

Re: how to get output.

2007-08-08 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
indu_shreenath schrieb: > Hey, > I want to get the output of "DIR /AD /B" command to a varriable using > python. How can I do this? Using the subprocess-module. However, I'm not sure what DIR /AD /B does - but there are many functions in module os that might deliv

Re: Jython - variables are stored somehow

2007-08-09 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > Hi, > > I'm using Jython in combination with java. > > I wrote a jython skript, which calls a function from another jython > module called library.py. > > So, executing the function genData() in skript .py runs without > problem but if I execute the same function aga

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