Jorgen Grahn wrote:
> > Done once, it's usually not unacceptable.
>
> In fact, I can't think of a scenario where it /would/ be unacceptable ;-)
if you're stuck on a system that doesn't use copy-on-write ?
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"George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How can I compare the text in the element tags with the elements
> tags in filling and if they match replace the text within the elements
> tags with the text in the matching element tag of fillin.
> For example Since the text Monday in form matches the Elem
Neal Becker wrote:
> I can do this with a generator:
>
> def integers():
> x = 1
> while (True):
> yield x
> x += 1
>
> for i in integers():
>
> Is there a more elegant/concise way?
depends on your definition of "integers":
xrange(sys.maxint) # 0-b
Rune Strand wrote:
> I've read a lot of your comments the last years. Your friendliness
> always strikes me.
terseness != unfriendlyness
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> > However, Tkinter not most people's favorite, because the widgets look
> > crude, they don't resemble the native widgets of any popular platform,
> > and the widget set is somewhat limited.
(given that the web interface is the new black, that's not much of
an argument. tkinter with the right s
Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
> I rarely find things in python strange or named incorrectly, but this is
> IMHO such a case - setdefault led me to think that using it would set a
> default value to return for _future_ lookups of non-existant keys. That
> semantics is known in e.g. ruby or java.
>
> I th
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> firstly i couldnt find the DBM module for python 2.3.5, trustix system and
> i386 hardware platform.
> so i downloaded gnu dbm for python 2.3.5 and i568( precisly,
> python-gdbm-2.3.5-4tr.i586), simply assuming it could just work.
>
> but trying to install gives me the f
Paul Boddie wrote:
> On the subject of other virtual machine implementations, I wonder what
> happened to this one:
>
> http://effbot.org/zone/pytte.htm
>
> Fredrik? ;-)
so much code, so little time...
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Kalle Anke wrote:
> I know I've done this once before ... I think ... but now I can't figure out
> how to do it
>
> I've set my web server to use an alias similar to this
>
>ScriptAlias /xx/ "/Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/xxx.cgi/"
>
> which makes it possible for me to write
>
>http:/
Leandro Lameiro wrote:
> What's wrong in having a function like the one I said, that would
> split files for you, feed md5.update and, when it is over, return the
> digest?
Calculating the digest sum for a file on disk, without doing anything else
with that file, is a very small subset of everyth
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Forcing every digest module to add code to cater for just one of many
> use cases is most likely a waste of time.
here's the hash API specification, btw:
http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0247.html
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"SPE - Stani's Python Editor" wrote:
> Use re.split, as this is the fastest and cleanest way.
> However, iff you have to split a lot of strings, the best is:
>
> import re
> delimiters = re.compile('_| ')
>
> def split(x):
> return delimiters.split(x)
or, shorter:
import re
split = re.
Jari Aalto wrote:
> Please suggest comments how can I make this script to work
> from bash.
replace it with a call to the compileall module?
$ python -mcompileall [directory...]
?
$ python -mcompileall -h
option -h not recognized
usage: python compileall.py [-l] [-f] [-q] [-d d
Tim Roberts wrote:
> >This entry is obsolete: it should mention the 'key' option of the
> >standard sort method.
>
> It should mention it, but not necessarily recommend it.
>
> I haven't run the numbers in Python, but in Perl, the undecorated sort is
> so well-optimized that the Schwartzian transf
Jari Aalto wrote:
> Thanks, but that will not work. The files are gathered from discrete
> places
really? so what is that "find" command doing in your code ?
compile $(find path/to -type f -name "*.py")
seems to me as if
python -mcompileall path/to
would do exactly what your script d
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Sometimes I suggest to add things to the language (like adding some set
> methods to dicts), but I've seen that I tend to forget the meaning of
> six set/frozenset operators:
>
> s & t s &= t
> s | t s |= t
> s ^ t s ^= t
>
> My suggestion is to remove them, and keep
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Microsoft has never made a computer in its existence. Not one.
http://www.microsoft.com/xbox/
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Steve Holden wrote:
> Question: what's the difference between
>
> dict((name, seq) for seq, name in enumerate(description))
>
> (the improved version of my answer posted by Scott David Daniels) and
>
> dict(enumerate(description))
a missing
def enumerate(x, enumerate=enumerate): # ov
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I initially thought that generator/generator expression is cool (sort of
> like the lazy evaluation in Haskell) until I notice this side effect.
>
> >>>a=(x for x in range(2))
> >>>list(a)
> [1,2]
> >>>list(a)
> []
>
> Would this make generator/generator expression's usa
Christian Stapfer wrote:
> As to the value of complexity theory for creativity
> in programming (even though you seem to believe that
> a theoretical bent of mind can only serve to stifle
> creativity), the story of the discovery of an efficient
> string searching algorithm by D.E.Knuth provides a
Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
> Files allow to seek, in addition to stream semantics.
Some files. Not all files support seek operations. Some only support
forward seek.
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"The Eternal Squire" wrote:
> Regardless of the technical difficulties involved (and I know they are
> legion), I am considering developing a very limited subset of Python
> fit to run on embedded systems using 80188 or 68332 microchips. My
> main question regarding this is: even if I am succes
"Peres" wrote:
> Slow means more than 20ms to erase the screen. After double buffering it
> improved a lot , of course (16 ms) but I'll need a faster speed.
are you measuring the time it takes to go from a populated screen to a blank
screen? if so, you're probably seeing the screen refresh time
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have a hebrew text file, which I want to read in python
> I don't know which encoding I need to use
that's not a good start. but maybe it's one of these:
http://sites.huji.ac.il/tex/hebtex_fontsrep.html
?
> how I do that
f = open(myfile)
text = f.read
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The following code fails (pythonbugtest.exe takes one parameter, a
> string):
>
> import os
> result = os.system('"pythonbugtest.exe" "test"')
> assert(result == 0)
>
> The error message is:
>
> 'pythonbugtest.exe" "test' is not recognized as an internal or external
> co
Alex Hunsley wrote:
> Symantec antivirus has apparently picked up a virus in my Python 2.4
> (under cygwin):
>
> Scan type: Scheduled Scan
> Event: Threat Found!
> Threat: Bloodhound.Exploit.49
> File: C:\cygwin\lib\python2.4\email\MIMEBase.pyc
> Location: Quarantine
> Action taken: Quarantin
Eugene Druker wrote:
> tkFont.Font(...) is a class instance, while you need font description.
Font instances are font descriptors.
>>> f = tkFont.Font(family="ariel", size=24, weight=tkFont.BOLD)
>>> f
>>> print f
font10726496
> t.tag.config( 'TBU', font=('times', 12, 'bold
Joerg Schuster wrote:
> I need to import modules from user defined paths. I.e. I want to do
> something like:
>
> module_dir = sys.argv[1]
>
> my_path = os.path.join(module_dir, 'bin', 'my_module')
>
> from my_path import my_object
>
> Obviously, it doesn't work this way. How would it work?
some
John Abel wrote:
> def _importModule( moduleName ):
> modName = __import__ ( moduleName )
> modComponents = moduleName.split( '.' )
> for indivComp in modComponents[ 1: ]:
> modName = getattr( modName, indivComp )
>
>return modName
__import__ takes a module name, not an ar
Madhusudan Singh wrote:
>> Can you give us an example. I don't know what two bit
>> hex means (takes at least 4 bits to make a hex digit).
>
> Like 64(base 16)=100.
> I am referring to 64 in the above.
that's two digits, not two bits.
>>> print int("64", 16)
100
>> Now I'm going to try
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> So I want to define a method that takes a "boolean" in a module, eg.
>
> def getDBName(l2):
> ...
>
> Now, in Python variables are bound to types when used, right?
no. variables are bound to objects, and objects have types.
> Eg.
> x = 10 # makes it an INT
no. that
"Tuvas" wrote:
> I am currently writing an extention module that needs to recieve a list
> of characters that might vary in size from 0 to 8. This is written as a
> list of characters rather than a string because it's easier to
> manipulate. However, when I pass this list of characters into the
>
"Tuvas" wrote:
> I am in the process of writing an extention module, and am coming up
> with lots of problems. Perhaps someone could be of use. I keep getting
> data that isn't what I'm sending the program. Let me give the line of C
> code and Python Code and output to illistrate the problem.
>
>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Try 4NT (http://www.jpsoft.com). It is like cmd on steroids. I've
> been using it for years and it is the *only* thing that makes powerful
> batch files possible on Windows.
why bother with "powerful batch files" when you can use a real programming
language ?
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Andreas Kostyrka wrote:
> > Do we have something like abstract methods & Abstract class.
> >
> > So that my class would just define the method. And the implementation
> > would be defined by somebody else.
>
> class AbstractBase:
> def method(self):
> raise TypeError("abstract method c
"Tuvas" wrote:
> Well, the point of declaring it as a char was to have it as an 8 bit
> integer, as is requested later on in the program.
since ParseTuple writes an integer to the address you pass in,
that's likely to overwrite some random stuff on the stack. like-
wise, passing in a character b
Micah Elliott wrote:
> And the regex is comparatively slow, though I'm not confident this one
> is optimally written:
>
> $ python -mtimeit -s'import re' '
> re.sub(r"^(\w*)", r"/\1/", "a b c")'
> 1 loops, best of 3: 44.1 usec per loop
the above has to look the pattern up in the
Lonnie Princehouse wrote:
> Maybe it could fall back to module.__file__ if the module isn't found
> in sys.path??
> ... or reload could just take an optional path parameter...
>
> Or perhaps I'm the only one who thinks this is silly:
>
> >>> my_module = imp.load_module(module_name,
> >>> *imp.fin
someone wrote:
> I cannot quite understand when the third index is a negative
> number,like this:
> a = '0123456789'
> a[1:10:2] I know the index step is 2, so it will collect items from
> offset 1, 3, 5, 7, 9
> but when a negative number come,like:
> a[1::-1] answer '10', and a[1:10:-1] only answ
"Bell, Kevin" wrote:
> I'm having trouble with something that seems like it should be simple.
>
> I need to copy a file, say "abc-1.tif" to another directory, but if it's
> in there already, I need to transfer it named "abc-2.tif" but I'm going
> about it all wrong.
>
> Here's what doesn't work: (
"Ernesto" wrote:
> Thanks. Can anyone provide an example of using *subprocess* to run
> helloWorld.C through the python interpreter.
compile helloWorld, and run:
import subprocess
subprocess.call("helloWorld")
(any special reason why you couldn't figure this out yourself, given the
exa
"Ernesto" wrote:
> Is there a way to compile a C program into a .pyc file that has the
> same behavior as the compiled C program?
unless you find a C->Python compiler, no. PYC files contain Python bytecode,
C compilers usually generate native code for a given machine platform.
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Steve Holden wrote:
> Here's a start:
>
> http://codespeak.net/pipermail/pypy-dev/2003q1/000198.html
if anyone could turn ideas that only exist in Christian's brain into working
systems,
the world would look a lot different.
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"Bell, Kevin" wrote:
> I ended up slicing my string into a new one, rather than trying to have
> a copy of the string to alter in one case, or leave intact in another
> case.
given that you cannot modify strings in place in Python, that comment
probably doesn't match what your code really did...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am wondering if there is a dictionary data type that allows me to
> define the order of access when iterating it using items/keys etc. ?
>
> An example:
>
> a=dict(a=dict(), c=dict(), h=dict())
> prefer=['e','h', 'a']
>
> for x in a.values: print x
>
> would give me
>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have a flat text file, 3 records, each record has two columns,
> the columns are tab separated.
>
> The file looks like this (approximately)
>
> Sarajevo 431104-133111
(when did they move sarajevo to italy?)
> Mostar 441242-133421
> Zagreb 432322-134423
here's a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > reset your brain:
> >
> > http://effbot.org/zone/python-objects.htm
>
> Neat link.
>
> Can you expand on this:
>
> > a type (returned by type(x))
> ...
> > You cannot change the type.
the page was written before the "type/class unification" in Python 2.2,
at a tim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> My questions:
> 1) in the example above is there a subelement of doc with a tag
> 'SampleDetails'?
find only searches for direct subelements; SampleDetail is not a direct
subelement to SampleRoot, since there's a SpecificInformation element
in between.
> 2) if so, what
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> - Information about the current line and file as Ruby:
> __LINE__ __FILE__
> Instead of the python version:
> inspect.stack()[0][2] inspect.stack()[0][1]
(that's (mostly) CPython-dependent, and should be avoided)
> - ~== for approximate FP equality
str(a) == str(b)
>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >if you can define the semantics, it's a few lines of code. if you're not
> sure about the semantics, a built-in won't help you...<
>
> I think the language needs a fast built-in version of it. If something
> is both inside Mathematica and Ruby, then probably it can be
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >sure looks like four possible outcomes.<
>
> Right (but to me four explicit answers seem better than three answers
> and an exception still).
def cmp4(a, b):
try:
return cmp(a, b)
except:
return None
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Thank you Fredrik Lundh for showing everybody that indeed lot of people
> feel the need of such function in Python too.
you seem to be missing the point: all those versions are highly optimized,
and tuned for the specific use-cases. a generic flatten would be u
Torsten Bronger wrote:
> The following code
>
> from subprocess import call
> call(['cp', 'subdir/*.jpg', 'othersubdir/'])
>
> yields
>
> cp: call of stat for "subdir/*.jpg" not possible: File or directory not found
>
> (This may not be the real error message since it's back-translated
> from Germ
"beza1e1" wrote:
> It has is uses. I had some kind of parser and had a dict like this:
> {case: function, ...} It had to be a dict, because i wanted to
> dynamically add and remove cases. In some cases nothing had to be done.
> To represent this in the dict a identity function is needed.
in Pytho
"Gonnasi" wrote:
> With
> >glob.glob("*")
>
> or
> >os.listdir(cwd)
>
> I can get a combined file list with directory list, but I just wanna a
> bare file list, no directory list. How to get it?
use os.path.isfile on the result.
for file in glob.glob("*"):
if not os.path.isfile(file)
Sebastjan Trepca wrote:
> I'm trying to get a localized date format from strftime() but it seems
> that is doesn't have any parameters for that or any information about
> this issue in Python docs.
>
> For example I want to turn this:
> 19 Oct, 2005
> to this(slovene language):
> 19 Okt, 2005
you
Tom Anderson wrote:
> This is taken from the AI 754 standard, i take it? :)
>
> Seriously, that's horrible. Fredrik, you are a bad man, and run a bad
> railway.
>
> However, looking at the page the OP cites, the only mention of that
> operator i can find is in Dylan, and in Dylan, it's not
"thatchmatic" wrote:
> I just downloaded and I think installed python. I am not sure if I
> did cause it does'nt respond to the commands that the read me file
> told me to use. Also can someone suggest a trial program I can maybe
> write for fun?
what happens when you type
python
at a com
"Joey C." wrote:
> thefile = params["upfile.file"]
> if os.path.getsize(thefile) <= conf["upmax"]:
>print "File Size Okay." #Add Functions Later...
> else:
>print "File Too Large." #Here, too.
>
> CGItb reported the following error:
> TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Those two are easy. However, and this is where I show
> my hard-won ignorance, and admit that I don't see the
> problem with the property examples:
>> class Base(object)
>> def getFoo(self): ...
>> def setFoo(self): ...
>> foo = property(getFoo
Shi Mu wrote:
>I got confused by the following information from the help for "FIND":
> find(s, *args)
what "FIND" ?
>>> help(str.find)
Help on method_descriptor:
find(...)
S.find(sub [,start [,end]]) -> int
Return the lowest index in S where substring sub is found,
such that sub is
Ernesto wrote:
>> > Thanks. Can anyone provide an example of using *subprocess* to run
>> > helloWorld.C through the python interpreter.
>>
>> compile helloWorld, and run:
>>
>> import subprocess
>> subprocess.call("helloWorld")
>>
>> (any special reason why you couldn't figure this out y
"ychaouche" wrote:
> i am having a strange experience with the pickle module. I use
> python2.4 and i really don't understand what is happening on !
> take a look at this :
>
>
> import pickle
> print "hello"
>
>
> hello
> hello
>
did you perhaps name your test program "pickle.py" ?
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"Tuvas" wrote:
> I have been writing a program that is designed to return an 8 byte
> string from C to Python. Occasionally one or more of these bytes will
> be null, but the size of it will always be known. How can I write an
> extention module that will return the correct bytes, and not just unt
Terry Hancock wrote:
> Note also that for those who count, "str(f)" is exactly as long
> (in keystrokes) as "'%s'%f", making the "just" a matter of opinion.
the % implementation still has to create an overallocated output buffer,
parse the format string, call str() on the argument, verify the res
"marduk" wrote:
>> What's the standard replacement for the obsolete grep module?
>
> AFAIK there never was a "grep" module. There does, however exist a
> deprecated "regex" module:
there was a "grep" module in 1.5.2 and earlier:
http://effbot.org/librarybook/grep.htm
but it was removed in
Shi Mu wrote:
> what does the following code mean?
>
> y = pickle.load(file("cnumber.pickle", "r"))
open the file "cnumber.pickle" for reading, pass the file handle to
the pickle.load function, and store the result in the "y" variable.
> also, I can not understand "f" in pickle.dump(x, f)
the s
Ed Hotchkiss wrote:
> i have a generic script that is using several modules on windows and linux
> boxes. i need to have the scripts test if a module is installed, and then if
> not - then to install the module. can anyone give me a headsup on how to
> test for a module, returning something to ind
"Joey C." wrote:
> Here is a basic overview of the variables included there.
>
> params = cgi.FieldStorage()
> I accidentally made a mistake when typing what the "thefile" variable
> is.
> thefile = params["upfile"].file
> "upfile" is the CGI field that contains the file that I'm uploading.
> As y
"Ask" wrote:
> As an example, if I create a window, I've been unable to force it to be a
> certain size, and put a
> button (widget) at (say) 20,40 (x & y). Is window formatting possible?
I'm pretty sure all GUI toolkits can do that, but the exact details depend on
the library
you're using.
(
Alex Martelli wrote:
> No, LC goes back a long way -- I think it was in 2.0 already, 2.1 for
> sure.
$ python1.5 -c "print [x for x in 'abc']"
File "", line 1
print [x for x in 'abc']
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
$ python2.0 -c "print [x for x in 'abc']"
['a', 'b', 'c']
I w
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The output I was contemplating was a DOM "DNA" - that is the DOM
> without the instances of the elements or their data, a bare tree, a
> prototype tree based on what is in the document (rather than what is
> legal to include in the document).
>
> Just enough data that fo
Alex Martelli wrote:
>> my hard-won ignorance, and admit that I don't see the
>> problem with the property examples:
>>
>> > class Sic:
>> > def getFoo(self): ...
>> > def setFoo(self): ...
>> > foo = property(getFoo, setFoo)
>
> Sorry for skipping the 2nd argument to s
Simon Burton wrote:
> I'd like to experiment with this, does anyone know where to start ?
with the "once there is" parts, probably (see below).
> It seems that the parser module still produces the same junk as before.
> So where do we find these nice high level AST objects ?
here's a nice summa
Shi Mu wrote:
>I can not understand the use of "cell" and "row" in the code:
>
> # convert the matrix to a 1D list
> matrix = [[13,2,3,4,5],[0,10,6,0,0],[7,0,0,0,9]]
> items = [cell for row in matrix for cell in row]
> print items
working through the Python tutorial might be a good idea. here's
Joerg Schuster wrote:
> I just want to use more than 100 capturing groups.
define "more" (101, 200, 1000, 10, ... ?)
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"Joey C." wrote:
> I'm afraid on my interpreter, this works.
>
if os.path.getsize("C:\\Documents and Settings\\Joey\\Desktop\\file.txt")
<= 1000:
print "<= 1000."
>
> <= 1000.
>
> No problems there, as you can see.
I'm not sure if you replied to my post, but what I tried to say is
Robby Dermody wrote:
> In the diagrams above, one can see the night-day separation clearly. At
> night, the memory usage growth seemed to all but stop, but with the
> increased call volume of the day, it started shooting off again. When I
> first started gathering this data, I was hoping for a log
Vincent Gulinao wrote:
> Hi, I'm new to python and just upgraded python on my system from 2.3 to 2.4.
> My platform is Linux-2.6.9-1.667smp-i686-with-redhat-3-Heidelberg.
>
> Is there any way to inherit (share?) all extensions and additional modules
> the my 2.3 have? (of course, beside re-install
>> Hi, I'm new to python and just upgraded python on my system from 2.3 to 2.4.
>> My platform is Linux-2.6.9-1.667smp-i686-with-redhat-3-Heidelberg.
>>
>> Is there any way to inherit (share?) all extensions and additional modules
>> the my 2.3 have? (of course, beside re-installing everything)
>
>
Viktor Marohnic wrote:
> I would to do something like this.
>
> container = []
>
> p1 = point()
> l1 = line()
>
> and i would like to override = method of the module so that its puts
> all objects into container.
> how i can do something like that.
you cannot, at least not as you've described the
David Poundall wrote:
> importedfiles = {}
> for f in FileList
> f2 = f.split('.')[0] # strip the .py, .pyc
> __import__(f2)
> s2 = f2+'.main()' # main is the top file in each import
> c = compile(s2, '', 'eval')
> importedfiles[f2] = eval(c)
>
> 'importedfiles' should hold an
Iain King wrote:
> Anyway, back to the OP: in this specific case, the cap of 100 groups in
> a RE seems random to me, so I think the rule applies.
perhaps in the "indistinguishable from magic" sense.
if you want to know why 100 is a reasonable and non-random choice, I
suggest checking the RE doc
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> just namespace + tag
here's an ElementTree-based example:
# http://effbot.org/tag/elementtree
import elementtree.ElementTree as ET
FILE = "example.xml"
path = ()
path_map = {}
for event, elem in ET.iterparse(FILE, events=("start", "end")):
"Tommytrojan" wrote:
> thanks for your quick reply. I guess I should have included the output.
> I thought I was clear in the error description.
> The problem is that I never assign to 'string'. I only reference it (as
> the error message correctly states). If you comment out the import
> statemen
Joerg Schuster wrote:
> > if you want to know why 100 is a reasonable and non-random choice, I
> > suggest checking the RE documentation for "99 groups" and the special
> > meaning of group 0.
>
> I have read everything I found about Python regular expressions. But I
> am not able to understand wh
Loris Caren wrote:
> a = 'apple'
> b = 'banana'
> c = 'cabbage'
>
> How can I get something like:-
>
> for i in 'abc':
> r = eval(i)
> if r == 'cabbage': r = 'coconut'
>
> actually change the object referenced by r rather
> than creating a new object temporarily referenced by it?
if you n
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I use Python 2.3.3 (Enthought edition) with wxPython and it is
> installed on both WinXP and Win98. On Win98 machine I have the
> following error:
> File "C:\PYTHON23\lib\site-packages\freetype\font_lookup.py", line
> 24, in ?
> font_dirs.append(os.path.join(os.en
Joshua Ginsberg wrote:
> >>> r'\'
> File "", line 1
> r'\'
> ^
> SyntaxError: EOL while scanning single-quoted string
> >>> r'\\'
> ''
>
> Does that seem wrong to anybody else? Shouldn't the first one be
> syntactically correct?
the "r" prefix doesn't change how string literals are parsed; it
Gregory Piñero wrote:
> Any idea why I can't say:
>
> if 1:print 'a';else:print 'b'
>
> all in one line like that?
because ";" can only be used to separate simple statements, not
the different parts in a compound statement.
see the grammar for details:
http://docs.python.org/ref/grammar.txt
Bryan Olson wrote:
> The usual tools to deal with partial orderings are directed acyclic graphs,
> and "topological sorting". Try Googling the terms along with "Python".
here's a rather powerful timbot implementation:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/1999-July/006625.html
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> xml.sax._exceptions.SAXReaderNotAvailable: No parsers found
http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/moin.cgi/Py2exeAndPyXML
> I checked out what Ron suggested, but I've no files where the names
> could clash with python modules.
next time you get stuck, make sure to c
"flupke" wrote:
> Is there an easy to convert following hour notation hh:mm
> to decimals?
> For instance 2 hours and 30 minutes as 2:30 to 2,50
> I don't really know where to search for this kind of conversion.
you mean like
>>> timestamp = "2:30"
>>> hour, minute = timestamp.split(":")
Mike Meyer wrote:
> Did you do timings on it vs. mmap? Having to copy the data multiple
> times to deal with the overlap - thanks to strings being immutable -
> would seem to be a lose, and makes me wonder how it could be faster
> than mmap in general.
if you use "mmap" to read large files sequen
Paul Watson wrote:
> This is Cyngwin on Windows XP.
using cygwin to analyze performance characteristics of portable API:s
is a really lousy idea.
here are corresponding figures from a real operating system:
using a 16 MB file:
$ time python2.4 scanmap.py
real0m0.080s
user0m
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am returning a tuple from my python method and am stuck trying to
> figure out how to read it into a C array using PyArg_Parse.
> My C Code:
> int array[3];
> PyArg_Parse(return, "(iii)", &array);
>
> My Python Code:
> mytuple = (1,2,3)
> return mytuple
>
> That gives
Alex Martelli wrote:
> Have the spin function accept the pid argument and exit the loop if said
> pid has terminated; to check the latter, e.g., os.kill(pid, 0) -- this
> will raise an OSError if no process with that pid exists, so you can use
> a try/except OSError: to catch that and break as app
Alex Hunsley wrote:
> 2) Why should someone willing to help you enter into a private email
> discussion? Newsgroups like this exist to help people
looks like "Fan" wants to run his own group:
http://groups.google.com/group/newtopython/about
"There are no experts or PHD's, all are simple
"dale cooper" wrote:
> I've recently installed python2.4.2 on Fedora 4 (from downloaded
> sources), but it appeared, that I can't use Tkinter module:
>
import Tkinter
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "", line 1, in ?
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 38, i
"benz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>I have rewrited my code as follow, but it still not working.
>
> import os, sys
>
>
> pid = os.fork()
>
> if pid == 0:
> os.execvp("du",("du","-shc","/usr/share"))
> else:
> while 1:
>try:
> os.kill(pid,0)
> sys.stdout.write('running')
> sys.s
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