On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 9:43 PM, Marco wrote:
> Hi all, why the maximum and minimum exp values are 1024 and -1021?:
>
sys.float_info
> sys.float_info(max=1.7976931348623157e+308, max_exp=1024, max_10_exp=308,
> min=2.2250738585072014e-308, min_exp=-1021, min_10_exp=-307, dig=15,
> mant_dig=53
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 3:29 AM, Daniel Kersgaard
wrote:
> def drawWalls(surface):
>
> #left and right walls
> for y in range(HEIGHT):
> surface.blit(wallblock, (0, y * BLOCK_SIZE))
> surface.blit(wallblock, (WIDTH * BLOCK_SIZE, y * BLOCK_SIZE))
>
> for x in range(W
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 8:43 AM, John Ladasky
wrote:
> I think that they're disappointed when I show them how much they have to
> understand just to write a program that plays Tic Tac Toe.
The disillusionment of every novice programmer, I think. It starts out
as "I want to learn programming and
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber
wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Jul 2013 22:43:35 +0300, ??? declaimed
> the following:
>
>>
>>Lest say i embed inside my index.html the Javascript Geo Code.
>>
>>Is there a way to pass Javascript's outcome to my Python cgi script somehow?
>>
>>Can Java
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Joel Goldstick
wrote:
> There is a book : http://inventwithpython.com/ Invent Your Own Computer
> Games with Python
> which claims to teach people to program games in python. I haven't read it,
> but it seems to be for beginning programmers. Take a look.. Maybe
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:20 PM, Neil Cerutti wrote:
> Markov chains are an advanced technique you could introduce, but
> you'd need a huge list of names broken into syllables from
> somewhere.
You could use names broken into letters... or skip the notion of names
and just generate words. Lists
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:55 PM, Neil Cerutti wrote:
> On 2013-07-17, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:20 PM, Neil Cerutti wrote:
>>> Markov chains are an advanced technique you could introduce, but
>>> you'd need a huge list of names broken i
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 11:44 AM, wrote:
> Hi everyone. I am starting to learn python and I decided to start with what I
> though was a simple script but I guess now. All I want to do is return what
> current network location I am using on my mac. Every time I run it, it gives
> me back a 0. I
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 11:59 AM, wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 17, 2013 7:50:44 PM UTC-6, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>
>> Copy and paste your actual code, don't re-type it :)
>
> This is as far as I have gotten. THis is all my code and it has been copied
> and pasted. T
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Aseem Bansal wrote:
> I wanted to do a little project for learning Python. I thought a chat system
> will be good as it isn't something that I have ever done.
A good thing to start with. Yes, it's been done before, many times...
but if you think about it, it's th
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Aseem Bansal wrote:
> @vikash agrawal
>
> About GUI I discussed it at
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!starred/comp.lang.python/M-Dy2pyWRfM and I
> am thinking about using PySide 1.2 for clients of chat system. I think I'll
> need downloadable clients if I wa
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Aseem Bansal wrote:
> @Chris Angelico
>
> Thanks. That cleared many doubts and your suggestions would definitely be
> useful.
>
> I am asking the next paragraph because you said about Python 3 helping with
> things. I am not looking for a de
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Aseem Bansal wrote:
> @Andrew Berg
> @Chris Angelico
>
> Is there a way to have both Python 2 and 3 installed on my computer till I
> can update the little codebase that I have built? Can I make different
> commands for invoking python 2 and Py
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Aseem Bansal wrote:
> @ChrisA
>
> Thanks. That's great. That solved the whole thing easily. I'll install Python
> 3 and start updating today.
>
> About reading comp.lang.python can you suggest how to read it and reply? I
> have never read a newsgroup leave alone
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Aseem Bansal wrote:
> @ChrisA
>
> I subscribed to it. How do I reply to a message that has already been posted
> before my subscription?
Not easily, far as I know. But you now have this reply, and you can
always just post something with the right subject line and
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Aseem Bansal wrote:
> I tried replying to your message by mail. I used the reply button and send it
> to "python-list@python.org"? Or do I need to use "pytho...@python.org" as you
> wrote in your post?
You replied correctly. The ellipsis was presumably an anti-s
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Jake Angulo wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Aseem Bansal wrote:
>>
>> I wanted to do a little project for learning Python. I thought a chat
>> system will be good as it isn't something that I have ever done.
>> ...
>>
>> I wanted to know what
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 6:30 AM, Matthew Lefavor wrote:
> All:
>
> I've been having trouble with all three Python mailing lists (python-list,
> python-dev, python-ideas). This has been going on for about a month.
> Whenever I post, it takes hours for my messages to be posted on the list. I
> first
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Jorgen Grahn wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-07-18, Chris Angelico wrote:
> ...
>> You can certainly do your server-side programming directly in Python;
>> in fact, I recommend it for this task. There's no reason to use HTTP,
>> much less a
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 12:57 AM, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>> One relevant piece of information: I have subscribed and unsubscribed to
>> different combinations of these lists several times over the past year, and
>> particularly over the past few months (as I was trying to manage the flow of
>> emai
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 2:31 AM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> Admittedly, this was a few years back that we ran into this problem, and
> since then we've just routinely whitelisted email from Optus and Bigpond,
> curse their black souls for making spam prevention just that little bit
> harder. So I su
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 4:54 AM, wrote:
> And do not forget memory. The €uro just become expensive.
>
sys.getsizeof('
> )
> 26
sys.getsizeof('€')
> 40
>
> I do not know. When an €uro char need 14 bytes more that
> a dollar, I belong to those who thing there is a problem
> somewhere.
Oh
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 8:10 AM, Devyn Collier Johnson
wrote:
>
> On 07/19/2013 12:19 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 10:21:10 -0400, Joel Goldstick wrote:
>>
>>> >> class="gmail_quote">
>>
>> [snip 70-odd lines of HTML...]
>>
>>> I'm guessing you may be posting with html. So
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 8:08 AM, Devyn Collier Johnson
wrote:
> As for the case-insensitive if-statements, most code uses Latin letters.
> Making a case-insensitive-international if-statement would be interesting. I
> can tackle that later. For now, I only wanted to take care of Latin letters.
> I
ing is similar to lowercasing but more aggressive because it is
>> intended to remove all case distinctions in a string. For example, the
>> German lowercase letter 'ß' is equivalent to "ss". Since it is already
>> lowercase, lower() would do nothing to
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 9:52 AM, David M. Cotter wrote:
> i'd like my app to be "available" to python while it's running.
>
> for example, say my app is "FooBar.app".
>
> when my FooBar.app is running, now there is a python interface available to
> python, and the user can write python scripts to
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 10:48 PM, Devyn Collier Johnson
wrote:
> Many users on here have answered my questions and given me ideas and
> suggestions for code that I am using in my open-source GPLv3 chatbot. When I
> release the next update (that will be in a month or two), does anyone that
> has co
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 6:22 AM, wrote:
> temp = 0
> for y in range(input_num):
> count += 1
> temp += inputs[y] * h_weight[count]
> hidden[x] = 1/(1+e**(-temp))
It's a micro-optimization that'll probably have negligible effect,
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 9:24 AM, wrote:
> Hi there Chris.
> Unfortunately, using iterations was about twice as slow as the original
> implementation, so that's not the solution.
> Thank's anyway.
Fascinating! Well, was worth a try anyhow. But that's a very surprising result.
ChrisA
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http://
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 3:39 PM, David Hutto wrote:
> With linux you can have your package listed in synaptic, and can use with a
> sudo apt-get install whatever ogg player like ogg123, and windows I don't
> work with that much, but I'm pretty sure I've played .wav files from the
> command line be
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 4:07 PM, David Hutto wrote:
> Yeah, its like yum used in others(or the point and click gui package
> installers). The main point kind of is in cross platform it would seem that
> you would just use what's available with try/except, or if statements, and
> the question is wh
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Paul Rudin wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano writes:
>
>> On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 13:22:03 -0700, pablobarhamalzas asked:
>>
>> "How can I make this piece of code even faster?"
>>
>> - Use a faster computer.
>> - Put in more memory.
>> - If using Unix or Linux, decrease the "n
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 8:31 PM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 03:19:24 -0700, pablobarhamalzas wrote:
>
>> Thank's for all the replies! I've tried some of the imporovements you
>> suggested (using math.exp() and sum() or math.fsum()). None of that made
>> the code faster, because t
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 12:42 AM, Gilles wrote:
> Hello
>
> Every once in a while, my ISP's SMTP server refuses to send
> perfectly legit e-mails because it considers them as SPAM.
>
> So I'd like to install a dead-simple SMTP server on my XP computer
> just to act as SMTP backup server.
>
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:49 AM, John Ladasky
wrote:
> Another project I thought of was a Pig Latin translator. (But do kids today
> even know what Pig Latin is? Am I showing my age?)
Even if they don't, they'll grok it no problem. It's simple enough.
ChrisA
--
http://mail.python.org/mailma
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 10:11 PM, Gilles wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 18:28:27 -0600, Michael Torrie
> wrote:
>>Having spent a long time managing e-mail servers, everything Ivan said
>>in his reply is true as well. I had forgotten a lot of that since I
>>haven't been running my own mail server (
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 10:38 PM, Gilles wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 22:29:42 +1000, Chris Angelico
> wrote:
>>One thing to check when you change how you send mail is your SPF
>>record. I run the mail server for kepl.com.au and have set its SPF to:
>>
>>&
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:08 AM, Michael Torrie wrote:
> On 07/22/2013 06:51 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>> Thanks for the tip. I didn't know about SPF
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sender_Policy_Framework
>>
>> It's a great way of detecting legit
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:21 AM, Michael Torrie wrote:
> My mail server did a number of things:
> 1. ensure IP address of sending server has a reverse name (domain didn't
> particularly matter)
> 2. ensure the HELO address in SMTP matches IP address of sending server
> 3. check sender IP address
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 2:25 AM, Michael Torrie wrote:
> On 07/22/2013 08:15 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> If legit mail is rejected for failing an SPF check, it's the sending
>> admin's problem, not yours. You should never have problems with it if
>> it's set u
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 6:06 PM, Duncan Booth
wrote:
> Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:08 AM, Michael Torrie
>> wrote:
>>> On 07/22/2013 06:51 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>>>> Thanks for the tip. I didn't kn
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> Ah, there's a solution to this one. You simply use your own
> envelope-from address; SPF shouldn't be being checked for the From:
> header.
There's an example, by the way, of this exact technique right here -
pyth
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 8:06 PM, Duncan Booth
wrote:
> Excellent idea, I'll tell the email forwarding service to rewrite their
> system immediately.
Yes. If they are using your domain in the MAIL FROM command and not
using your mail servers, then yes, you should tell them, and use a
different ser
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 1:12 AM, Michael Torrie wrote:
> On 07/23/2013 03:30 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>> Ah, there's a solution to this one. You simply use your own
>>> envelope-from address; SPF shouldn
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 8:34 AM, Rafael Durán Castañeda
wrote:
> In [3]: [ y for y in itertools.chain.from_iterable(x)]
> Out[3]: ['A0', 'A1', 'A2', 'B0', 'B1', 'B2', 'C0', 'C1', 'C2']
Complete aside, given that this has already been pointed out as
solving a different problem: Any time you see a
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Vincent Vande Vyvre
wrote:
> In fact, in my code, the original file is open in binary mode, the line
> separator is translate to \n and it is parsed by the module tokenise.
>
> I'm not a Windows user but my code must be run also on Win, this is the
> reason of the
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 5:47 PM, wrote:
>
> --
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Not a Python question. I'm sure Google can help you with this one -
just take three words from your question, 'user specific cronjobs',
and you'll get plenty of advice.
ChrisA
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http://mail.py
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:40 PM, wrote:
> Short example. Writing an editor with something like the
> FSR is simply impossible (properly).
jmf, have you ever written an editor with *any* string representation?
Are you speaking from any level of experience at all?
ChrisA
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http://mail.python.o
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 12:17 AM, David Hutto wrote:
> I've screwed up plenty of times in python, but can write code like a pro
> when I'm feeling better(on SSI and medicaid). An editor can be built simply,
> but it's preference that makes the difference. Some might have used tkinter,
> gtk. wxpyt
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 12:47 AM, Michael Torrie wrote:
> On 07/24/2013 07:40 AM, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote:
>> Sorry, you are not understanding Unicode. What is a Unicode
>> Transformation Format (UTF), what is the goal of a UTF and
>> why it is important for an implementation to work with a UTF.
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 2:10 AM, David M. Cotter wrote:
> So: i really want it to go to my own log file (via my Log() function). now,
> can i specify "please output to this FILE*" ?, i looked at all the python c
> headers but found nothing about redirecting the output.
Are you able to simply
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 1:57 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:
> On 07/24/2013 05:51 AM, Oscar Benjamin wrote:
>> What do you mean? Why would you want to create a temporary list just to
>> iterate over it explicitly or implicitly (set,
>> sorted, max,...)?
>
> You wouldn't. But you don't need .keys() for t
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 3:17 AM, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 7/24/2013 12:34 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> Side point: Why is iterating over a dict equivalent to .keys() rather
>> than .items()? It feels odd that, with both options viable, the
>> implicit version iterates ov
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 3:52 AM, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 7/24/2013 11:00 AM, Michael Torrie wrote:
>>
>> On 07/24/2013 08:34 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>>
>>> Frankly, Python's strings are a *terrible* internal representation
>>> for an editor widg
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 4:08 AM, Stefan Behnel wrote:
> Fábio Santos, 16.07.2013 00:54:
>> Does this mean he passes the Turing test?
>
> I'd say that "it" appears more correct. Or is there any indication of a
> specific bot gender? (I sure might have missed it...)
>
> Note that being of a specific
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 8:09 AM, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 7/24/2013 2:15 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> To my mind, exposing UTF-16 surrogates to the application is a bug
>> to be fixed, not a feature to be maintained.
>
> It is definitely not a feature, but a proper UTF-16 imp
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 8:59 AM, Michael Torrie wrote:
> I don't fully understand
> why making strings simply "unicode" in javascript breaks compatibility
> with older scripts. What operations are performed on strings that
> making unicode an abstract type would break?
Imagine this in JavaScrip
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 12:03 PM, wrote:
> Hello everyone I'm watching a tutorial on how to create a project on Django...
>
> django-admin.py startproject carabali
>
> when I run this code on terminal.. happens :
>
>
> http://nsae01.casimages.net/img/2013/07/25/130725021220676239.png
>
>
> There
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
> 24.07.13 21:15, Chris Angelico написав(ла):
>
>> To my mind, exposing UTF-16
>> surrogates to the application is a bug to be fixed, not a feature to
>> be maintained.
>
>
> Python 3 uses code points fr
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> Dicts aren't sets, and don't support set methods:
>
> py> d1 - d2
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "", line 1, in
> TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for -: 'dict' and 'dict'
I wouldn't take this as particularly signific
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 00:34:24 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> But mainly, I'm just wondering how many people here have any basis from
>> which to argue the point he's trying to make. I doubt most of us
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 04:15:42 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> If nobody had ever thought of doing a multi-format string
>> representation, I could well imagine the Python core devs debating
>> whether the co
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> - Views support efficient (O(1) in the case of keys) membership testing,
> which neither iterkeys() nor Python2 keys() does.
To save me the trouble and potential error of digging through the
source code: What's the complexity of membership
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 5:27 PM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 16:02:42 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Steven D'Aprano
>> wrote:
>>> Dicts aren't sets, and don't support set methods:
>>&
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Tanaya D wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using Python with Bots(EDI translator)
>
> But i am getting the following error:
> MappingFormatError: must be dicts in tuple: get((({'BOTSID': 'HEADER'},),))
The first thing to do is to construct a short piece of code that
demonstra
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 7:22 PM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> What I'm trying to say is that it is possible to use UTF-16 internally,
> but *not* assume that every code point (character) is represented by a
> single 2-byte unit. For example, the len() of a UTF-16 string should not
> be calculated by c
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 7:27 PM, wrote:
> A coding scheme works with a unique set of characters (the repertoire),
> and the implementation (the programming) works with a unique set
> of encoded code points. The critical step is the path
> {unique set of characters} <--> {unique set of encoded cod
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 18:15:22 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> That's true, but we already have that issue with sets. What's the union
>> of {0} and {0.0}? Python's answer: It depends on the order of the
&g
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 12:57 AM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> [ snip lengthy explanation of sets ]
> The union operator ought to
> be symmetrical, a ∪ b should be identical to b ∪ a, but isn't. Another
> leaky abstraction.
Right. I agree with all your theory, which is fine and good. If we had
a "set
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 1:26 AM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 14:36:25 +0100, Jeremy Sanders wrote:
>> "To conserve memory, Emacs does not hold fixed-length 22-bit numbers
>> that are codepoints of text characters within buffers and strings.
>> Rather, Emacs uses a variable-length
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 2:36 AM, Irmen de Jong wrote:
> On 25-7-2013 17:11, santiago.d...@caoba.fr wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I never write any Python program but as a system administrator, I'm often
>> asked to install python on Debian servers.
>>
>> I just finished downloading, configuring, maki
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 3:18 AM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 01:36:07 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 1:26 AM, Steven D'Aprano
>> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 14:36:25 +0100, Jeremy Sanders wrote:
>>>&g
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 5:07 AM, wrote:
> Let start with a simple string \textemdash or \texttendash
>
sys.getsizeof('–')
> 40
sys.getsizeof('a')
> 26
Most of the cost is in those two apostrophes, look:
>>> sys.getsizeof('a')
26
>>> sys.getsizeof(a)
8
Okay, that's slightly unfair (bo
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 6:06 AM, wrote:
> I'm a bit new to python and I'm trying to create a simple program which adds
> words and definitions to a list, and then calls them forward when asked to.
One of the most important tidbits of information is: What version of
Python are you using?
> prin
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Devyn Collier Johnson
wrote:
>
> On 07/25/2013 09:54 AM, MRAB wrote:
>>
>> On 25/07/2013 14:42, Devyn Collier Johnson wrote:
>>>
>>> If I execute a Python3 script with this haspling (#!/usr/bin/python3.3)
>>> and Python3.3 is not installed, but Python3.2 is instal
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 2:53 PM, MRAB wrote:
> If you want to test what would happen if that version wasn't installed,
> set the shebang line to a future version, such as Python 3.4. I doubt
> you have that installed! :-)
Be careful, some people DO have a python3.4 binary :) Go for 3.5 for a
bit
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 9:21 PM, cerr wrote:
> >>> mylist = []
> >>> mydict = {}
> >>> mylist = '1','2'
Side point: mylist is no longer a list, it's a tuple. I don't think
pickle has problems with tuples, but it's worth noting that
difference.
ChrisA
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On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Devyn Collier Johnson
wrote:
> That really sucks. I was hoping Python had some way of doing that. All that
> it needs to do is display a little box at one of the corners of the screen.
> I thought someone would have implemented something by now. Thank you anyway.
On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Albert van der Horst
wrote:
> If the code is really tidy, it is possible to understand a function
> using only the *documentation* (not the code itself) of any function
> or data it uses.
I'd broaden that slightly to the function's signature, which consists
of the
On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Devyn Collier Johnson
wrote:
> About the aliases, I have tried setting pwd() as an alias for "os.getcwd()",
> but I cannot type "pwd()" and get the desired output. Instead, I must type
> "pwd". I tested this in Guake running Python3.3.
>
os.getcwd()
> '/home/c
On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Devyn Collier Johnson
wrote:
> Would a Python3 game module be more useful? I plan to make a function that
> rolls a die and prints the output (You got a 5) and other similar random
> games.
Taking someone else's module and learning to use it has a cost. Plus
there
On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 08:22:00 -0400, Devyn Collier Johnson wrote:
>> That really sucks. I was hoping Python had some way of doing that. All
>> that it needs to do is display a little box at one of the corners of the
>> screen. I thought some
On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 12:15 AM, syed khalid wrote:
> Syedk@syedk-ThinkPad-T410:~/shogun-2.0.0/src/interfaces/cmdline_static$
> shogun | more
This implies that you have something called 'shogun', without an
extension, in your $PATH. Where is the actual script? You may need to
install it by a qu
On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Michael Torrie wrote:
> Is my understanding of these things wrong?
No, your understanding of those matters is fine. There's just one area
you seem to be misunderstanding; you appear to think that jmf actually
cares about logical argument. I gave up on that theory
On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 6:36 PM, David Patterson
wrote:
> By the way, Chris, I think the book that Ruth brought on was probably
> supposed to be Debretts Peerage. I couldn't see the cover clearly but it
> would have been a more logical choice in view of the circumstances.
Sure. Makes no differen
On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
> I posted about a week ago, in response to Chris A., a method by which lookup
> for UTF-16 can be made O(log2 k), or perhaps more accurately,
> O(1+log2(k+1)), where k is the number of non-BMP chars in the string.
>
Which is an optimization cho
On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Joshua Landau wrote:
> On 28 July 2013 09:45, Antoon Pardon wrote:
>>
>> Op 27-07-13 20:21, wxjmfa...@gmail.com schreef:
>>>
>>> utf-8 or any (utf) never need and never spend their time
>>> in reencoding.
>>
>>
>> So? That python sometimes needs to do some kind of
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 12:49 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:
> On 07/28/2013 10:57 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>.
>.
>.
>
> Okay, how did you get confused that this was a Python List question? ;)
*sigh* Because I still haven't gotten around to switching mail clients
On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 1:28 PM, wrote:
> Hi,
> A good step by step easy book on Python is: "Start Here: Python 3x
> Programming Made Fun and Easier," at http://www.quantum-sight.com
This is a Usenet group and a mailing list, not a web forum. You do not
need to dig up a dozen ancient threads in
On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 11:14 PM, Joshua Landau wrote:
> GC does have sometimes severe impact in memory-constrained environments,
> though. See http://sealedabstract.com/rants/why-mobile-web-apps-are-slow/,
> about half-way down, specifically
> http://sealedabstract.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 12:43 PM, wrote:
> Le dimanche 28 juillet 2013 22:52:16 UTC+2, Steven D'Aprano a écrit :
> 3.2
timeit.timeit("r = dir(list)")
> 22.300465007102908
>
> 3.3
timeit.timeit("r = dir(list)")
> 27.13981129541519
3.2:
>>> len(dir(list))
42
3.3:
>>> len(dir(list))
45
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 3:20 PM, wrote:
>>c:\python32\pythonw -u "timitmod.py"
> 15.258061416225663
>>Exit code: 0
>>c:\Python33\pythonw -u "timitmod.py"
> 17.052203122286194
>>Exit code: 0
>>> len(dir(C))
Did you even think to check that before you posted timings?
ChrisA
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On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 5:09 PM, MRAB wrote:
> I'm surprised that Fraction(1/3) != Fraction(1, 3); after all, floats
> are approximate anyway, and the float value 1/3 is more likely to be
> Fraction(1, 3) than Fraction(6004799503160661, 18014398509481984).
At what point should it become Fraction(
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Matt wrote:
> I'm fairly new to python but have experience in other languages. What do you
> generally do when a library is outdated? I asked a question on a few forums
> and everyone has been pointing me to Mechanize, but it will not work with 3.3
>
> What do yo
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Ian Kelly wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 5:09 PM, MRAB wrote:
>>> I'm surprised that Fraction(1/3) != Fraction(1, 3); after all, floats
>>> are approximate anyway,
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 12:34 AM, Devyn Collier Johnson
wrote:
>
> I understand the symbols. I want to know how to perform the task in a script
> or terminal. I have searched Google, but I never saw a command. Typing "101
> & 010" or "x = (int(101, 2) & int(010, 2))" only gives errors.
Your probl
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Tim wrote:
> My intent is to pass it a directory name or path and if it exists, use
> shutil.rmtree to remove whatever is there (if it isn't a directory, try to
> unlink it); then use os.makedirs to create a new directory or path:
>
> def make_clean_dir(directory
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 12:48 AM, Devyn Collier Johnson
wrote:
> Now here is something that confuses me, the binary numbers are numbers not
> strings, so why are they put in quotes as if they are strings?
They aren't numbers at that point, they're strings of digits. A number
is represented in var
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 1:47 AM, John Ladasky
wrote:
> I'm getting one problem. After a few tests run, I can't close a window. I
> am normally closing each interactive test with the ESC key. But when that
> fails I try clicking with the mouse. This also fails. This broken behavior
> appear
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 3:02 AM, CM wrote:
> If I try additional commits in that same instance of my app being open,
> it gives me the same error every time. If I close the app and re-open
> it, it does not give me this error, with the same or very similar data
> being written in the same routine
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