fork/exec with input redirection

2007-11-26 Thread Dan Upton
I have a Python script that does a fork/exec, so the parent process can get the child's PID and monitor /proc/PID/stat (on a CentOS system). Most of my processes' command lines are straightforward enough to do this with, but I have a handful that use < on the command line, eg ./gobmk_base.linux_x

Re: fork/exec with input redirection

2007-11-27 Thread Dan Upton
> > > ./gobmk_base.linux_x86 --quiet --mode gtp < 13x13.tst > > > > > The only thing I could really think of to try was > > > > >os.execv("./gobmk_base.linux_x86", ["./gobmk_base.linux_x86", > > > "--quiet", "--mode", "gtp", "<", "13x13.tst"]) > > > > > but this apparently doesn't work. Is the

Re: Bit Operations

2007-11-28 Thread Dan Upton
> >>> 0xff & (((0xff & a) << 4) | (0xff & b)) > 150 > > or, if you're sloppy, > > >>> (a << 4) | b > 150 Slightly OT, maybe - why exactly is the second alternative 'sloppy?' I believe you, because I had a problem once (in Java) with bytes not having the value I expected unless I did the and-magi

Re: "Python" is not a good name, should rename to "Athon"

2007-11-30 Thread Dan Upton
On Nov 30, 2007 11:17 AM, Matt Nordhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tim Chase wrote: > > (You'd think this was the Lisp ML, not Python... ) > > Atsp? :-) > -- Athp? Wait, no, Microsoft already claimed that one... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: "Python" is not a good name, should rename to "Athon"

2007-12-01 Thread Dan Upton
On Dec 1, 2007 12:34 PM, Bjoern Schliessmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dotan Cohen wrote: > > C was named after the B programming language, as it was inspired > > and meant to replace it. C++ is obviously C+1 > > Strictly speaking, C++ evalutes to C, but C is incremented > afterwards. > I guess

Re: How can i find a file size on the web ?

2007-12-02 Thread Dan Upton
On Dec 2, 2007 11:55 AM, Abandoned <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi.. > Can i find a file size witdhout download? > For example: www.roche.com/rochea_z_sp.pdf > How can i find its size with python ? When you send an HTTP request, most servers will respond with the content length. For instance, if

Re: "Python" is not a good name, should rename to "Athon"

2007-12-03 Thread Dan Upton
On Dec 3, 2007 4:34 PM, Russ P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm amazed that anyone here answered this obvious troll... > > I doubt the original post was a troll, but the statement above clearly > is. > > You are entitled to your opinion about the idea of changing the name > of the language, bu

Re:

2007-12-12 Thread Dan Upton
On Dec 11, 2007 8:19 PM, katie smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I tried googling and yahooing to find the answer and there was to many > conflicting results so i just decided to ask to simple question here. > > How do i could the number of letters in a string no a single letter all of > them. >

Re: [OT] Fractions on musical notation

2007-12-16 Thread Dan Upton
> Since the US, at least, uses whole/half/quarter/eighth/sixteenth... > notes, three-quarter and six-eight time falls out... I don't think this is technically true, but I've never been able to tell the difference. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [OT] Fractions on musical notation

2007-12-17 Thread Dan Upton
On Dec 16, 2007 10:32 PM, Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Dan Upton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > |> Since the US, at least, uses > whole/half/quarter/eighth/sixteenth... > | > notes, three-

Re: *** American nationalism is FAKE and its MYTHS are LIES, YANK BASTARDS RAPED BY THEIR OWN MARINES - ***

2008-01-12 Thread Dan Upton
On Jan 12, 2008 5:15 PM, ChairmanOfTheBored <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 11:50:07 -0800 (PST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >THERMUCK > > Is a goddmned retard. > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > Why was this ever on the Python list (I assume it start

A design problem

2008-01-30 Thread Dan Upton
Or: How to write Python like a Python programmer, not a Java programmer. This will be a little long-winded... So I just recently started picking up Python, mostly learning the new bits I need via Google and otherwise cobbling together the functions I've already written. It occurred to me though

Re: Will Python on day replace MATLAB?????????????????????????????????????????????????????

2008-01-31 Thread Dan Upton
> with ImpulseC and the graphing capabilities of GNU Plot and SciPy in http://gnuplot-py.sourceforge.net/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: CDA conversion

2008-02-01 Thread Dan Upton
On Jan 31, 2008 9:00 PM, Sick Monkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good evening. I am trying to write an application in Python that will allow > a person to insert a CD into their computer and this python script will > convert the music to mp3. > > NOTE: I have already google'd this, and nothing r

Re: Dear David (was: MyHDL project)

2008-02-07 Thread Dan Upton
On Feb 7, 2008 8:59 PM, ajaksu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 7, 10:05 pm, "Blubaugh, David A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I do not understand why people such as yourself cannot construct > > anything but insults and complaints. > > I can help with that. People asked politely a few days ag

Re: OT: Failed saving throw

2008-03-05 Thread Dan Upton
On 5 Mar 2008 07:36:37 -0800, Aahz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For anyone who hasn't heard, E. Gary Gygax died yesterday. Some people > think we should build a tomb in his honor. ;-) Yeah, I just saw a tribute on Order of the Stick: http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0536.html -- http://mail

Re: execute

2008-03-09 Thread Dan Upton
On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Gif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i'm trying to execute a file without replacing the current process, > but after searching the help file, documentations and the web, i can't > a way of doing that. > > os.exec*() will close the current program. > > ps: by executin

Re: Is c.l.py becoming less friendly?

2009-02-05 Thread Dan Upton
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:00 AM, mk wrote: > > (duck) > > 542 comp.lang.python rtfm > > 467 comp.lang.python shut+up > > 263 comp.lang.perl rtfm > > 45 comp.lang.perl shut+up > But over how many messages for each group? Wouldn't the percentage of messages containing those be more interesting than

Re: Is c.l.py becoming less friendly?

2009-02-05 Thread Dan Upton
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Tim Rowe wrote: > 2009/2/5 Tim Chase : > >> Is this where we tell you to shut up? ;-) > > [snip] > >> It would also be interesting to see how many of those posts are concentrated >> in certain threads > > And, as you have clearly demonstrated, how many of those po

Re: Off Topic: Re: Obama's Birth Certificate - Demand that US presidential electors investigate Obama's eligibility

2008-12-04 Thread Dan Upton
[snip > > > Follow-ups again set to talk.politics. Of course that may be futile in > dealing with this kind of scumbag. > > -- > --Bryan Also, changing newsgroups followups doesn't affect replying to the mailing list. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [OT] stable algorithm with complexity O(n)

2008-12-13 Thread Dan Upton
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 2:00 PM, David Hláčik wrote: >> Unless I grossly miss out on something in computer science 101, the lower >> bound for sorting is O(n * log_2 n). Which makes your task impossible, >> unless there is something to be assumed about the distribution of numbers in >> your sequen

Re: stable algorithm with complexity O(n)

2008-12-15 Thread Dan Upton
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:05 AM, wrote: >> Non-comparison sorts are a useful technique, but it's changing the >> problem, and they are only useful in very limited circumstances. There's >> a good reason that most sort routines are based on O(n*log n) comparison >> sorts instead of O(n) bucket so

Re: stable algorithm with complexity O(n)

2008-12-22 Thread Dan Upton
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 12:29 PM, wrote: > On Dec 15, 10:00 pm, "cmdrrickhun...@yaho.com" > wrote: >> It can be proven that you cannot sort an arbitrarily large set of >> numbers, given no extra information, faster than O(n log n). > > Cormen Leiserson and Rivest, "Algorithms", have a short clea

Re: If an OS was to be written in Python, how'w it look?

2008-10-06 Thread Dan Upton
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Eric Wertman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> If an OS was to be written in Python and the hardware optimized for >>> it, what changes would be made to the hardware to accomodate Python >>> strenghs and weaknesses? > > > I'm no expert, but this would seem like a good

Re: Building musical chords starting from (a lot of) rules

2008-11-14 Thread Dan Upton
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Mr. SpOOn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm writing a method to create musical chords. > > This method must follow a specific set of syntax rules. At least, this > is my idea, but maybe there's a better way. > Anyway, in the code I have class Chord which is a s

Re: calling python scripts as a sub-process

2008-11-19 Thread Dan Upton
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Philip Semanchuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 19, 2008, at 2:03 PM, Catherine Moroney wrote: > >> The command (stored as an array of strings) that I'm executing is: >> >> ['python ../src_python/Match1.py ', >> '--file_ref=MISR_AM1_GRP_ELLIPSOID_GM_P228_O003

Re: calling python scripts as a sub-process

2008-11-19 Thread Dan Upton
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Catherine Moroney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Upton wrote: >> >> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Philip Semanchuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Nov 19, 2008, at 2:03 PM, Catherine Moroney wrote:

Re: how to get information of a running prog in python

2008-05-12 Thread Dan Upton
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 10:19 PM, Jimmy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, i know it may be a little non-python thing, however, I can think > of no place better to post this question :) > > can anyone tell me, in python, how to obtain some information of a > running program? > paticularly, if i

Re: how to get information of a running prog in python

2008-05-12 Thread Dan Upton
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:02 PM, Jimmy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 13, 10:36 am, "Dan Upton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 10:19 PM, Jimmy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Well, i know it may be a little

Re: Python and Flaming Thunder

2008-05-13 Thread Dan Upton
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Dave Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The "Flaming Thunder" looks promising, but without being free > > software, it's unlikely it will create a large developer community, > > specially considering both free general purpose and scientific > > programming l

Re: Python and Flaming Thunder

2008-05-13 Thread Dan Upton
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Torsten Bronger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallöchen! > > > Dave Parker writes: > > >> Notice that I said "free software", not "*** FREE *** software > >> 1!" (that is, free as in freedom, not free as in > >> beer). Read again my answer, considering thi

Re: Python and Flaming Thunder

2008-05-13 Thread Dan Upton
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Matthieu Brucher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Perhaps. But if elementary school students can easily understand why > > one programming language gives the answer 100 (Flaming Thunder): > > > > Write 10^2. > > > > but can't understand why another programming lan

Re: I'm stuck in Python!

2008-05-14 Thread Dan Upton
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:55 PM, alex23 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 14, 5:41 am, "inhahe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "George Sakkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >> > You must be new here. It is an AS (Artificial Stupidity) trolling bot, >> > you can safely ignore its posts. >>

Re: send yield

2008-05-15 Thread Dan Upton
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:32 AM, castironpi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why can't I write this? > -- Because your antecedent is undefined? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: call tree tool?

2008-05-15 Thread Dan Upton
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 5:19 PM, jay graves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 15, 3:47 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I'm cleaning up some old code, and want to see what orphan >> functions might be sitting around. >> >> Is there a static call tree analyzer for python? > > How about > http://pyc

Re: send yield

2008-05-15 Thread Dan Upton
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Luis Zarrabeitia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 15 May 2008 09:32:37 am castironpi wrote: >> Why can't I write this? >> -- >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > yield recieved. > > Thanks. Should that be ack yield ? -- http://mail.p

Re: writing python extensions in assembly

2008-05-16 Thread Dan Upton
>> 3. If it is still slow, embed some assembler where it is slowing down. >> > > I won't know if the assembler is faster until I embed it, and if I'm going > to do that I might as well use it. > Although it's true I'd only have to embed it for one system to see (more or > less). > Regardless of w

Re: writing python extensions in assembly

2008-05-16 Thread Dan Upton
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 2:08 PM, inhahe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Dan Upton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >> >> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Mensanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>

Re: morning in Python

2008-05-16 Thread Dan Upton
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 2:12 PM, inhahe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "George Sakkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On May 16, 11:58 am, "inhahe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm not an expert in this but what does it mean to emphasize state? It >> seems the oppo

can't delete from a dictionary in a loop

2008-05-16 Thread Dan Upton
This might be more information than necessary, but it's the best way I can think of to describe the question without being too vague. The task: I have a list of processes (well, strings to execute said processes) and I want to, roughly, keep some number N running at a time. If one terminates, I

Re: How do *you* use Python in non-GUI work?

2008-05-19 Thread Dan Upton
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 6:20 PM, John Salerno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey all. Just thought I'd ask a general question for my own interest. Every > time I think of something I might do in Python, it usually involves creating > a GUI interface, so I was wondering what kind of work you all do

Re: Python and Flaming Thunder

2008-05-19 Thread Dan Upton
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 11:20 PM, Dave Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For another example, I've always preferred languages that are English- > like because it's easier to return to your code after several years > and still know what you were doing (and it's easier for someone else > to maint

Re: Python and Flaming Thunder

2008-05-21 Thread Dan Upton
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Dave Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For example, consider the two statements: > > x = 8 > x = 10 > > The reaction from most math teachers (and kids) was "one of those is > wrong because x can't equal 2 different things at the same time". Sounds to me

Re: Python and Flaming Thunder

2008-05-21 Thread Dan Upton
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Daniel Fetchinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Or just: If command is "quit" ... >>> >>> Hmmm. In Flaming Thunder, I'm using "is" (and "is an", "is a", etc) >>> for assigning and checking types. For example, to read data from a >>> file and check for

Re: can someone with guessing a number

2008-05-21 Thread Dan Upton
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 12:42 PM, garywood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would just like the program to exit after guessing the amount of numbers > wrong > > # Guess My Number > import random > the_number = random.randrange(100) + 1 > tries = 1 > # guessing loop > while (guess != the_number): >

Re: can someone with guessing a number

2008-05-21 Thread Dan Upton
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 12:55 PM, abhilash pp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:12 PM, garywood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> I would just like the program to exit after guessing the amount of >>> numbers wrong >>> >>> # Guess My Number >>> import random >>> the_number =

Re: Python and Flaming Thunder

2008-05-21 Thread Dan Upton
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Dave Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 21, 10:00 am, "Dan Upton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Sounds to me like the teacher is being difficult, ... > > No, proof-by-contradiction is a common technique in math. I

Re: best way to check if pid is dead?

2008-05-21 Thread Dan Upton
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 3:02 PM, bukzor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have a pythonic way to check if a process is dead, given > the pid? > > This is the function I'm using is quite OS dependent. A good candidate > might be "try: kill(pid)", since it throws an exception if the pid is > d

Re: Bug in floating-point addition: is anyone else seeing this?

2008-05-21 Thread Dan Upton
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Dave Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 21, 2:44 pm, "Jerry Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> My understand is no, not if you're using IEEE floating point. > > Yes, that would explain it. I assumed that Python automatically > switched from hardware floa

Re: Python and Flaming Thunder

2008-05-21 Thread Dan Upton
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Fuzzyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 14, 10:30 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Dave Parker schrieb: >> > > All of the calculators and textbooks that elementary school students >> > > use, use "^" for powers. >> >> I've never seen th

Re: related to python

2008-05-21 Thread Dan Upton
This looks like a homework assignment, but... On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:34 PM, salil_reeves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > develop a function called standardise_phrase to convert > the user's input to a standard form for subsequent processing. This > involves: > 1. removing all inter-word punctuati

Re: Python is slow

2008-05-22 Thread Dan Upton
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:14 PM, cm_gui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Python is slow.Almost all of the web applications written in > Python are slow. Zope/Plone is slow, sloow, so very slooow. Even > Google Apps is not faster. Neither is Youtube. > Facebook and Wikipedia (Mediawiki), writt

Re: Books for learning how to write "big" programs

2008-05-22 Thread Dan Upton
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Kurt Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 10:55 AM, duli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi: >> I would like recommendations for books (in any language, not >> necessarily C++, C, python) which have walkthroughs for developing >> a big software p

Re: Why is math.pi slightly wrong?

2008-05-22 Thread Dan Upton
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Mensanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 22, 11:32 am, "Dutton, Sam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've noticed that the value of math.pi -- just entering it at the >> interactive prompt -- is returned as 3.1415926535897931, whereas (as every >> pi-obsessive

Re: Python and Flaming Thunder

2008-05-28 Thread Dan Upton
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Dave Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > If catch(set x to y+z.) < 0.1 then go to tinyanswer. >> >> So what does this do exactly if the set throws an error? > > I think the catch should catch the error thrown by set, compare it to > 0.1, the comparison will not

Re: Python and Flaming Thunder

2008-05-29 Thread Dan Upton
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 3:36 AM, Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Catch doesn't return just error types or numbers, it can return any >> object returned by the statements that are being caught; catch doesn't >> care what type they are. For examp

Re: Python and Flaming Thunder

2008-05-29 Thread Dan Upton
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 5:57 PM, D'Arcy J.M. Cain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guess I am still new to this group and don't understand its charter. > I wasn't aware that it was a Flaming Blunder group. Can someone please > point me to a newsgroup or mailing list dedicated to the Python > program

Re: question

2008-05-29 Thread Dan Upton
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Gandalf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 30, 12:14 am, John Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Gandalf wrote: >> > how do i write this code in order for python to understand it >> > and print me the x variable >> >> > x=1 >> > def (): >> > x++ >> >

Re: definition of a highlevel language?

2008-05-30 Thread Dan Upton
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 26 May 2008 15:49:33 -0400, Dan Upton wrote: > >> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 3:22 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I don't know if it would necessarily look like the CPython VM

Re: New variable?

2008-06-03 Thread Dan Upton
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 3:16 PM, tmallen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 3, 3:03 pm, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Jun 3, 8:40 pm, tmallen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > What's the proper way to instantiate a new variable? x = ""? >> >> You don't need to pre-declare your variables.

Re: Python and Flaming Thunder

2008-06-05 Thread Dan Upton
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 9:43 AM, John Salerno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Dave Parker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On May 20, 7:05 pm, Collin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- > For example, consider the two statements: > > x = 8 > x = 10 > > The reacti

Re: Does the python library of Google Data API is truly free?

2008-06-10 Thread Dan Upton
>> Or if they prohibit you to host malicious, offending or otherwise >> problematic content served by the free apache - is that "against free >> software?" > Please, don't be demagogue. Please don't be [a] troll? I fail to see what is so hard to understand about the difference between free so

Re: Combining music or video files?

2008-06-15 Thread Dan Upton
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 11:55 PM, Jason Scheirer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 15, 7:53 pm, John Salerno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Before I try this and destroy my computer :) I just wanted to see if >> this would even work at all. Is it possible to read a binary file such >> as an mp3 or

Re: Porn Addiction

2008-06-25 Thread Dan Upton
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 8:24 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Help, I'm addicted to porn. I've been downloading porn online and > masturbating to it for a few years... Lately it's gotten even worse, I > spend hours and hours surfing and masturbating to it. It's taking over > my life and ruining ev

Re: [Employment] New TurboGears Job in Eugene, OR

2008-06-27 Thread Dan Upton
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Paul McNett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Silas Snider wrote: >> >> Full-time academic year position >> Salary range: $2819 - $4404 per month ( $16.26 - $25.41 per hour) > >> The following knowledge, skills and experience are necessary for this >> position: >> >> Exp

Re: Why is recursion so slow?

2008-06-29 Thread Dan Upton
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 1:27 AM, Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > slix wrote: >> >> Recursion is awesome for writing some functions, like searching trees >> etc but wow how can it be THAT much slower for computing fibonacci- >> numbers? > > The comparison below has nothing to do with re

Re: Why is recursion so slow?

2008-06-29 Thread Dan Upton
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > People should read posts to the end before replying, in case it actually > says what one thinks it should, but just in a different order than one > expected. Well, pardon me. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyth

Re: Interest not met.

2008-07-03 Thread Dan Upton
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Adam Lanier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > david odey wrote: >> >> I write to inform you that the reason I subscribed to this web page is not >> been met. >> >> I want to be sent sample codes in programming languages especially python >> and an email tutorial on C#.

Re: Cross Compiler for Python?

2008-07-07 Thread Dan Upton
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 4:15 AM, Hendrik van Rooyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Up to now, I have been innocently using the vanilla python > that comes with the Linux distribution (Suse in my case). > > For the past few days, I have been playing with a little > device called an eBox - it is basical

Re: Python Written in C?

2008-07-20 Thread Dan Upton
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Michiel Overtoom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Giveitawhril wrote... > >> REAL WORLD programmers who want to be generally useful go >> and learn C#. > > No: Real programmers first eat a quiche and then return to their Pascal > programming. Bah, new-fangled languages

Re: Python Written in C?

2008-07-20 Thread Dan Upton
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 11:51 PM, Mensanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 20, 10:05�pm, Stephen Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Carry bits? Who worries about carry bits when you have >> > unlimited precision arithmetic? You want cool? >> > THIS is cool: >> >> > j = ((invert(xyz[1]-xy

Re: Python Written in C?

2008-07-21 Thread Dan Upton
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:12:54 +0200, mk wrote: > >> Seriously, though, would there be any advantage in re-implementing >> Python in e.g. C++? >> >> Not that current implementation is bad, anything but, but if you'

Re: automating python programs

2008-07-21 Thread Dan Upton
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Zach Hobesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to figure out how to run a python program on a schedule, maybe > every half an hour... Is this possible? > > Thanks! > > -Zach > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > On Linux, man

Re: How can I check nbr of cores of computer?

2008-07-30 Thread Dan Upton
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 2:22 PM, John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > defn noob wrote: >> >> How can I check how many cores my computer has? >> Is it possible to do this in a Python-app? > >Why do you care? Python can't use more than one of them at > a time anyway. Per Python process, but

Re: Homework help

2008-04-01 Thread Dan Upton
> > Write a function zip(lst1, lst2) such that zip accepts two equal > > length lists and returns a list of pairs. For example, zip(['a', 'b', > > 'c'], [10, 20, 30]) should evaluate to the list [('a', 10), ('b', 20), > > ('c', 30)]. > > Hey not even a rebinding necessary. :-) > We had some

Re: Rationale for read-only property of co_code

2008-04-02 Thread Dan Upton
> The thing I've been wondering is why _is_ it read-only? In what > circumstances having write access to co_code would break the language > or do some other nasty stuff? > > João Neves I can't speak to Python's implementation in particular, but self-modifying code in general is unpleasant. It

Re: Python in High School

2008-04-02 Thread Dan Upton
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Jan Claeys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Op Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:27:18 -0700, schreef sprad: > > > > I'm a high school computer teacher, and I'm starting a series of > > programming courses next year (disguised as "game development" classes > > to capture more inter

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread Dan Upton
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Mike Driscoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 16, 12:40 pm, "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't think I like the email list idea all that much. I'm already on > a number of them and they fill up my box like crazy. Besides that, in > emai

Re: Interesting timing issue I noticed

2008-04-16 Thread Dan Upton
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > En Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:36:14 -0300, Jonathan Shao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > escribió: > > *Gabriel Genellina* gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar > > > > > *Wed Apr 16 08:44:10 CEST 2008* > > >> Another thing would be to rearra

Re: Unix Device File Emulation

2008-04-23 Thread Dan Upton
(let's try this again, and actually send it to the list this time) On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:02 AM, blaine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey everyone, > So I've got a quick query for advice. > > We have an embedded device in which we are displaying to an LCD > device that sits at /dev/screen.

Re: MESSAGE RESPONSE

2008-04-23 Thread Dan Upton
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Diez B. Roggisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Blubaugh, David A. schrieb: > > > Is there a way to block these messages. I do not want to be caught > > with filth such as this material. I could lose my job with Belcan with > > evil messages such as these messages

Re: MESSAGE RESPONSE

2008-04-25 Thread Dan Upton
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 7:00 PM, ajaksu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 23, 1:27 pm, "Dan Upton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Diez B. Roggisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > Blub

Re: pygame music, cant read mp3?

2008-05-05 Thread Dan Upton
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 10:09 AM, globalrev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5 Maj, 14:17, "Wojciech Walczak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > 2008/5/5, globalrev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > pygame.mixer.music.load('C:/Python25/myPrograms/pygameProgs/example1.mp3') > > > > > Are you sure

Re: lacking follow-through

2008-09-08 Thread Dan Upton
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 10:59 PM, castironpi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 7, 7:34 pm, MRAB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sep 7, 11:28 pm, "Eric Wertman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > +1 Bot >> >> I think it's like duck typing: it doesn't matter whether he's actually >> a bot, only whe

Re: set DOS environment variable

2008-10-02 Thread Dan Upton
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 11:18 AM, bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Can Python set a DOS environment variable? > > TIA, > > Bill I'd look at http://www.python.org/doc/2.5.2/lib/os-procinfo.html . It looks like putenv should do what you want. It might only affect the current process an

printing from child process in Tkinter window

2009-08-27 Thread Dan Upton
Hi all, I've been messing with this for a couple hours now but can't make it work. Basically I have a Tkinter GUI that creates a child process via subprocess.Popen, and I would like to capture the child process's output to display it in a Text widget in the GUI. Relevant snippets: def click_star

Re: Logging contents of IRC channel

2009-09-01 Thread Dan Upton
http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/rfc/rfc.html describes (more or less) the protocol. It's actually pretty easy to write something which can connect and monitor one or more channels on a server--that's how I learned network programming in Java many moons ago. I'd say look at the RFC and start off lo