syntax error message

rogram got message in box "syntax error" and after I clicked OK the #2 in the heading Python 3.2.3 was high-lighted  in red and the "or" and "for" words were changed to red letters and program seems to be text only. In other words, I am not able to re-use or change th

New Python build regr test___all__ fails at 'ctypes.macholib.dyld'

be appreciated Regards, John --- Posted via news://freenews.netfront.net/ - Complaints to n...@netfront.net --- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Re: PyQt QCalendarWidget events question

# suppress the single-click action; perform double-click action instead self.first_click_timer.stop() print "Performing double-click action" # prepare for second mouseReleaseEvent self.double_clicked = True # main program app = G.QApplication([]) button = Button("Click or double-click me") button.show() app.exec_() HTH, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Implicit conversion to boolean in if and while statements

the same problem, for exactly the same reason - boolean types were an afterthought there, too. John Nagle -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: help needed with subprocess, pipes and parameters

bb, path], stdin = bob.stdout, stdout = subprocess.PIPE,) Never looked under the subprocess hood but maybe there's a race condition with the kate subprocess starting before the bob subprocess has set up its stdout. It's unlikely but so easy to check with a sleep between the subproces

Let child process to run while parent is out (multiprocessing)

def main(...): build_id = create_build_id(...) build_stuff return build_id Suppose build_stuff compiles a C program. It could take days to finish, and notify users their builds are ready. I was thinking about using mutliprocessing to handle the build_stuff. So here is a sample: #!/us

Re: Encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism

he current evidence indicates the universe will just keep > expanding, it's more of a "deep freeze death..." Heat death means *lack* of heat. -- John Gordon A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs gor...@panix.com B is for Basil, assaulted by bears

Re: Encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism

ack of heat; in fact, it implies that there'll be > rather more heat than there now is, because we currently have a whole > lot of chemical energy available to be used. *mind blown* -- John Gordon A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs gor.

Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾

bserved outside the U.S. -- John Gordon A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs gor...@panix.com B is for Basil, assaulted by bears -- Edward Gorey, "The Gashlycrumb Tinies" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: the meaning of r’.......‘

On Monday, July 23, 2012 1:59:42 AM UTC-6, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 5:56 PM, levi nie wrote: > > the meaning of r’...‘？ > > It's a raw string. > > http://docs.python.org/py3k/tutorial/introduction.html#strings > > Chris Angelico Since this

Re: from future import pass_function

On Wednesday, July 25, 2012 9:32:33 PM UTC-7, Ethan Furman wrote: > What code does `pass` run? When do we pass parameters to `pass`? When > do we need to override `pass`? > > Answers: None. Never. Still waiting for a reply from the OP for a use > case. When I brought up this same issue s

Re: from future import pass_function

On Wednesday, July 25, 2012 1:40:45 AM UTC-7, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: > Hi! > > I just had an idea, it occurred to me that the pass statement is pretty > similar to the print statement, and similarly to the print() function, > there could be a pass() function that does and returns nothing. I had

Re: from future import pass_function

On Thursday, July 26, 2012 2:23:02 PM UTC-7, Ethan Furman wrote: > That's a reasonable thing to want, and quite easily accomplished by > passing `lambda: None` or `lambda *args, **kwargs: None` instead. That's the same solution that Steven D'Aprano proposed the last time we had this discussion

Re: Intermediate Python user needed help

Check line 76 of your code for errors. If line 76 is incorrectly formed, Python may see line 77 as a continuation of line 76 and throw the SyntaxError because of that. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: looking for a neat solution to a nested loop problem

own generator function that yields values in whatever order you want: def my_generator(): yield 9 yield 100 for i in range(200, 250): yield i yield 5 -- John Gordon A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs gor...@panix.com

Re: On-topic: alternate Python implementations

en code does something unexpected to other code, the backup interpreter is used to get control out of the trouble spot so that the JIT compiler can then recompile the code. (I think; I've read the paper but haven't looked at the internals.) This is hard to implement and hard to get right. John Nagle -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Arithmetic with Boolean values

I have gotten used to switching back and forth between Boolean algebra and numerical values. Python generally makes this quite easy. I just found a case that surprises me. Here is what I want to accomplish: I want to process a list. If the length of the list L is odd, I want to process it o

Re: Encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism

On Tuesday, July 17, 2012 12:39:53 PM UTC-7, Mark Lawrence wrote: > I would like to spend more time on this thread, but unfortunately the 44 > ton artic carrying "Java in a Nutshell Volume 1 Part 1 Chapter 1 > Paragraph 1 Sentence 1" has just arrived outside my abode and needs > unloading :-)

Re: python 6 compilation failure on RHEL

t ought to help. You might be better off building Python 2.7, but you asked about 2.6. John Nagle -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Why doesn't Python remember the initial directory?

s and then look at the __file__ attribute. You need to be a bit careful with this; the import machinery was rewritten for the upcoming 3.3 release, and there were several changes to the module information. John Roth -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Objects in Python

encing the method object itself, instead of calling it method. In other words, you've left off the parentheses. I.e. you're doing something like this: print my_object.foo Instead of this: print my_object.foo() -- John Gordon A is for Amy, who fell down the stai

Re: help me debug my "word capitalizer" script

On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 3:28:18 AM UTC-7, Kamil Kuduk wrote: > less file.txt | sed -e "s/\b\([a-z]\{4,\}\)/\u\1/g" Say what? Yes, you could do a crazy regex at the Linux prompt. But... will you be able to retain that insane syntax in your head until the NEXT time you need to write somet

Re: ctypes - python2.7.3 vs python3.2.3

ich goes out of scope when myfunction() exits. *_mydata ends up pointing to garbage. -- John Gordon A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs gor...@panix.com B is for Basil, assaulted by bears -- Edward Gorey, "The Gashlycrumb Tinies&quo

Re: [pyxl] xlrd-0.8.0 .xlsx formatting_info=True not imlemented

ht provide the formatting info you need: http://packages.python.org/openpyxl/index.html http://pypi.python.org/pypi/openpyxl/1.5.8 John Y. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: interfacing with x86_64 assembler

I haven't seen this joke on the Net in years, does anyone still remember it? "C combines the power of assembly language with the readability and maintainability of assembly language." -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Parsing ISO date/time strings - where did the parser go?

pages/pdate says: "Unfortunately there is no easy way to parse full ISO 8601 dates using the Python standard library." It looks like this was taken out of "xml" at some point, but not moved into "datetime". John Nagle -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Parsing ISO date/time strings - where did the parser go?

On 9/6/2012 12:51 PM, Paul Rubin wrote: > John Nagle writes: >> There's an iso8601 module on PyPi, but it's abandoned; it hasn't been >> updated since 2007 and has many outstanding issues. > > Hmm, I have some code that uses ISO date/time strings and just c

Re: ctypes - python2.7.3 vs python3.2.3

c char mydata[16]; That will solve the immediate problem, however it makes myfunction() non-reentrant. > (Btw.: I don't know why you use char ** _mydata, i would use > char * _mydata, but then again, i'm not very familiar with > ctypes) He uses char **

Re: Parsing ISO date/time strings - where did the parser go?

On 2012-09-06, at 2:34 PM, John Nagle wrote: Yes, it should. There's no shortage of implementations. PyPi has four. Each has some defect. PyPi offers: iso8601 0.1.4 Simple module to parse ISO 8601 dates iso8601.py 0.1dev Parse utilities for is

Re: Parsing ISO date/time strings - where did the parser go?

On 9/8/2012 5:20 PM, John Gleeson wrote: > > On 2012-09-06, at 2:34 PM, John Nagle wrote: >> Yes, it should. There's no shortage of implementations. >> PyPi has four. Each has some defect. >> >> PyPi offers: >> >> iso8601 0.1.4 Simpl

Re: Python presentations

In andrea crotti writes: > For my experience if I only see code in slides I tend not to believe > that it works somehow Presumably you will have some credibility with your audience so they won't just assume you're making it up? I think slides would be fine.

Re: Installing Pip onto a mac os x system

In John Mordecai Dildy writes: > Now it shows the error of: > sudo: easy_instal: command not found Try 'easy_install' instead of 'easy_instal'. -- John Gordon A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs gor...@panix.com B is for

Re: Print Function

version 3, print was changed into a function. Use this and it will work: print("Game Over") -- John Gordon A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs gor...@panix.com B is for Basil, assaulted by bears -- Edward Go

Re: Reducing cache/buffer for faster display

y 1-2 > > min or so. > Yup! Just add a call to sys.stdout.flush() after each print. Isn't terminal output line-buffered? I don't understand why there would be an output delay. (Unless the "\r" is messing things up...) -- John Gordon

Re: How to get progress in python script.

't think file locking would be an issue. -- John Gordon A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs gor...@panix.com B is for Basil, assaulted by bears -- Edward Gorey, "The Gashlycrumb Tinies" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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Please let me know, if you might want to consider this progressive job opportunity and discuss the position details. Thank you for the thoughts. Regards, John Cook Team Recruiting Services Terra Health, Inc 5710 W. Hausman, Ste 108 San Antonio, TX 78249 P-210.424.4017 F-210.582.0084 C

Re: how to insert random error in a programming

In Debashish Saha writes: > how to insert random error in a programming? Open the program source file and replace the Nth character with a random character. -- John Gordon A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs gor...@panix.com B is for Basil, assaulted

Re: Exception Messages

vCamError inherit __str__() from Exception? -- John Gordon A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs gor...@panix.com B is for Basil, assaulted by bears -- Edward Gorey, "The Gashlycrumb Tinies" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: install pyOpenSSL in python2.7

can get it on PyPI here http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyOpenSSL SSLv2 is no longer supported in OpenSSL, and version 0.13 no longer expects it. - John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to only get a list of the names of the non-directory files in current directory ('.')?

In iMath writes: > how to get a list of names of everything in the current directory ? Try os.listdir() . -- John Gordon A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs gor...@panix.com B is for Basil, assaulted by bears -- Edward Go

Re: How to only get a list of the names of the non-directory files in current directory ('.')?

In Chris Angelico writes: > It yields it? You mean Google is an iterator? ITYM generator. -- John Gordon A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs gor...@panix.com B is for Basil, assaulted by bears -- Edward Gorey, &

Re: Generate unique ID for URL

x27;docs.python.org/library/uuid.html') > 'ZG9jcy5weXRob24ub3JnL2xpYnJhcnkvdXVpZC5odG1s' > I would prefer more concise ID's. > What do you recommend? - Compression? Does the ID need to contain all the information necessary to recreate the original URL? -- John Gordon A is for Amy, who

Describing code with slides

I'm trying to work out the best way to provide a description of some code in a set of presentation slides which can be played backward and forward through the bits that someone is trying to understand (rather than using a screencast -- where you can never seem to rewind just the right amount ...).

Re: Robust regex

ng = 'key_1|||value_1key_2|||value_2' pairs = string.split('') for pair in pairs: keyval = pair.split('|||') print '%s=%s' % (keyval[0], keyval[1]) -- John Gordon A is for Amy

Re: 10 sec poll - please reply!

In <3d71f175-164e-494c-a521-2eaa5679b...@googlegroups.com> Michael Herrmann writes: > What, in your view, would be the most intuitive alternative name? keyboard_input(). -- John Gordon A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs gor...@panix.com B is

Re: List problem

In <8c0a3ea9-2560-47eb-a9c7-3770e41fe...@googlegroups.com> subhabangal...@gmail.com writes: > Dear Group, > I have a list of the following pattern, > [("''", "''"), ('Eastern', 'NNP'), ('Army', 'NNP'), ('Commander', 'NNP'), (= > 'Lt', 'NNP'), ('Gen', 'NNP'), ('Dalbir', 'NNP'), ('Singh', 'NNP'),

Re: Conversion of List of Tuples

n tup_list: for item in t: new_list.append(item) -- John Gordon A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs gor...@panix.com B is for Basil, assaulted by bears -- Edward Gorey, "The Gashlycrumb Tinies" -- http://mail.

Re: Conversion of List of Tuples

In subhabangal...@gmail.com writes: > Thanks. But I am not getting the counter "5posts 0 views"...if > moderator can please check the issue. I logged in via Google Groups and all the replies were present. What is your question? (This group is not moderated.)

Re: mini browser with python

hing else? What web standards does this mini browser need to support? Full HTML5? Partial HTML? CSS? Javascript? Flash? -- John Gordon A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs gor...@panix.com B is for Basil, assaulted by bears -- Edw

Installing packages on Mac OS X 10.7.5

Hello Everyone! I have python v2.7.1 and I am trying to install packages on the Mac OS X v10.7.5 I am trying to install: Distribute Nose virtualenv If anyone can help me that would be great John Dildy jdild...@gmail.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: mini browser with python

In inq1ltd writes: > Right now I need some way to display > 15 to 20 lines of html in its own window or > as part of my screen. Could you open a shell window and run a text web browser such as Lynx? -- John Gordon A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs gor...@

Re: date-time comparison, aware vs naive

actual code you're using, instead of telling us about it. -- John Gordon A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs gor...@panix.com B is for Basil, assaulted by bears -- Edward Gorey, "The Gashlycrumb Tinies" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: String manipulation in python..NEED HELP!!!!

to go about doing > that please help. def encode(plain): '''Return a substituted version of the plain text.''' encoded = '' for ch in plain: encoded += key[alpha.index(ch)] return encoded -- John Gordon A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs gor...@panix.com B is for Basil, assaulted by bears -- Edward Gorey, "The Gashlycrumb Tinies" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: MySQLdb compare lower

sql = 'UPDATE product SET price=%s WHERE LOWER(sku)=%s' cursor.execute(sql, (price, sku.lower()) -- John Gordon A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs gor...@panix.com B is for Basil, assaulted by bears -- Edward Gorey, "The Gashlycrumb Tinies" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Why Doesn't This MySQL Statement Execute?

; cursor.execute("""insert into interactions values(Null, %s, "Call Back", > %s)""" % (i_id, date_plus_2)) > and no cigar :( > Tom Have you tried using single-quotes around Call Back, instead of double quotes? I've noticed that SQL statements pre

Question regarding mod_python and a script for web.

e can point me in the right direction for solving this. Basically, the problem is this. we have a webform that collects data such as, NAME, SSN, EMAIL Address etc.. when the user hits submit, the uri posts to the query string like the folllowing: https://test.uchast.com/admit/supp.py?fname=john&

RE: Question regarding mod_python and a script for web.

Hi Ion thanks a bunch, for responding. The problem we seem to be running into is that When we change the forms to a post instead of a get I cannot pick up the post values using cgi: page_info = cgi.FieldStorage() is this a limitation of mod_python? Thanks. john Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:59

Re: Evaluate postgres boolean field

In andydtay...@gmail.com writes: > for row in cursor: > row_count += 1 > if row[4] = True > print row[1] Since row[4] is a boolean value, you should be able to just say: if row[4]: print row[1] --

Re: Need a specific sort of string modification. Can someone help?

On Saturday, January 5, 2013 12:35:26 AM UTC-8, Sia wrote: > I have strings such as: > > tA.-2AG.-2AG,-2ag > > .+3ACG.+5CAACG.+3ACG.+3ACG Just curious, do these strings represent DNA sequences? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: new to python and programming at large.

the method from itself. The argument to your method is called 'y' in the definition, but you refer to it as 'Y' in the return statement. Variable names are case-sensitive. -- John Gordon A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs gor...@panix.com B is f

Re: Why BOM in logging message?

: [etc...] I worked on an application that would insert a BOM in syslog messages if the logged message contained unicode, but not if it was plain ascii. Not sure if this relates to your issue, but it's similar enough that it seemed worth mentioning. -- John Gordon A is f

Re: Psycopg2 SyntaxError: invalid syntax on "INSERT INTO" database

ar to have two very different versions of the tubecross table. One version has three fields (id, num, data) and the other version has at least four (station_code, SAJ, SPB, SOQ). Which one is correct? Also, what is the 'cursor_to' variable? It doesn't appear to be defined anywhere. --

Re: RIse and fall of languages in 2012

On Wednesday, January 9, 2013 11:23:51 PM UTC-8, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > One should always be careful pronouncing a language dead or dying, No kidding! https://www.google.com/#q=is+fortran+still+used I usually use the query phrase "Why isn't Fortran dead yet?", but you get a better list of l

Re: Thought of the day

t the > expression was first used with years ago. Probably applies to just > about any technology. Including Java. Steven cleverly worded it in such a way as to apply directly to threads. The sentences are jumbled and interleaved, as if they were the output of two threads that are not synchroni

Re: Thought of the day

On Sunday, January 13, 2013 8:16:29 PM UTC-8, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > A programmer had a problem, and thought Now he has "I know, I'll solve > two it with threads!" problems. Very nice! :^) This problem isn't exclusive to Python, however. Other multi-threaded applications can produce jumbled

Re: Uniquely identifying each & every html template

ml > nikos.html > cool.html > to HELP counter.py identify each webpage at a unique way. Instead of inserting unique content in every page, can you use the document path itself as the identifier? -- John Gordon A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs gor...@p

Re: Uniquely identifying each & every html template

key. (That seems fairly brittle though. For example if the disk crashes and is restored from a backup, the inodes could easily be different.) -- John Gordon A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs gor...@panix.com B is for Basil, assaulted by bears

Re: Using filepath method to identify an .html page

ml 0002 /home/files/steve/recipes/chocolate-cake.html0003 /home/files/mary/payroll.html 0004 -- John Gordon A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs gor...@panix.com B is for Basil, assaulted by bears

Re: Converting a string to a number by using INT (no hash method)

In <592233bd-3fc1-4e13-97f8-e11f89fbb...@googlegroups.com> Ferrous Cranus writes: > > pin int( htmlpage.encode("hex"), 16 ) % 1 > > > > It'll give you your number, but there are no guarantees of uniqueness. > You're looking at more blind random luck using that. > Finally!! THANK YOU VER

Re: Using filepath method to identify an .html page

In <4847a0e3-aefa-4330-9252-db08f2e99...@googlegroups.com> Ferrous Cranus writes: > And the .html files are not even close 10.000 You said you wanted a 4-digit number. There are 10,000 different 4-digit numbers. 0001 0002 ... 9999 -- John Gordon A is for

Re: Importing class from another file

ed Sub_Dir.My_Class Is there a file named __init__.py in Sub_Dir? A directory must contain that file in order to be considered a "module". (If you don't know what to put in the file, just leave it empty.) -- John Gordon A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs gor...@

Re: Converting a string to a number by using INT (no hash method)

187 cursor.execute( '''INSERT INTO visitors(pin, host , hits, useros, browser, date) VALUES(%s, %s, %s, %s, %s)''', (pin, hos t, 1, useros, browser, date) ) The INSERT statement gives six column names but only five placeholders (%s) in the VALUES clause. Perhaps

Re: Parse a Wireshark pcap file

can't find it... I am not clear on how to point Python > > there... > > > "libdnet" is likely a shared object binary... What I /think/ you > are > missing is the Python library that interfaces with that binary... > > Could http://pypi.python.org/pypi/dnet answer the question? > -- > Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN > wlfr...@ix.netcom.comHTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/ > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- John Evans -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Parse a Wireshark pcap file

esync with "port selfupdate", then install the scapy port again. You should see not only the libdnet port installed, but also py27-libdnet, which is the missing glue you need for interfacing with libdnet. On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Kevin Holleran wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 23,

Re: Search log for string and display hourly/daily report

t: ", daily_instances This code assumes that log lines begin with a timestamp similar to "2013-01-23T09:27:01". If the timestamp is in a different format, or occurs elsewhere in the line, you'll have to adjust for that. -- John Gordon A is for Amy,

Re: Arent these snippets equivalent?

valent to me (in terms of control flow). But in the second example the fp.read() statement is duplicated, which is undesirable. It would be all too easy for a maintenance programmer to go into the code a year from now and change the first one but miss the second one. -- John Gordon

Re: The best, friendly and easy use Python Editor.

> complete/auto correct. Try PyScripter. http://code.google.com/p/pyscripter/ -- John Gordon A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs gor...@panix.com B is for Basil, assaulted by bears -- Edward Gorey, "The Gashly

Re: The best, friendly and easy use Python Editor.

In Sharwan Joram writes: > use vim. He said he wanted autocomplete. Does Vim have that? -- John Gordon A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs gor...@panix.com B is for Basil, assaulted by bears -- Edward Gorey, "The Gas

Re: Please provide a better explanation of tuples and dictionaries

a a meaningful name (usually a string.) Dictionaries do not preserve the order in which items are created (but there is a class in newer python versions, collections.OrderedDict, which does preserve order.) Example: >>> person = {} # start with an empty dictionary >>

Re: search google with python

s an API, but you have to ask to use it. John Nagle -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: The devolution of English language and slothful c.l.p behaviors exposed!

His Rantingness has already widened the scope of his spampaign to include the world's lexicographers and the billion or so English speakers they represent, with the aim of liberating them all from their sad misapprehensions about what constitutes valid colloquial English, and by example, t

Re: Weird newbie question

version 2.x (and 1.x for that matter), "print" is a statement, but it was changed to be a function in python version 3.x. In other words, in python 2.x you can say this: print x print "hello there" But in python 3.x you have to do it a little differently: print(x) pri

Re: Where to put data

ve some modules which contain nothing but big constants, written by a program in Python format. John Nagle -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: calling a simple PyQt application more than once

pp.exec_() You can click the "Press me" button as many times as you wish; it retrieves and displays/prints the same HTML file on each click. HTH, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: calling a simple PyQt application more than once

in range(SEVERAL_TIMES): # Get a file-like object for the Python Web site's home page. f = urllib.urlopen(WEBPAGE) # Read from the object, storing the page's contents in 's'. s = f.read() f.close() print s Best, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Disable use of pyc file with no matching py file

On Jan 30, 3:43 pm, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 1/30/2012 4:30 PM, Roy Smith wrote: > > > Every so often (typically when refactoring), I'll remove a .py file > > and forget to remove the corresponding .pyc file.  If I then import > > the module, python finds the orphaned .pyc and happily imports it. >

Re: Disable use of pyc file with no matching py file

On Jan 31, 4:43 pm, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 1/31/2012 3:20 PM, John Roth wrote: > > > On Jan 30, 3:43 pm, Terry Reedy  wrote: > >> On 1/30/2012 4:30 PM, Roy Smith wrote: > > >>> Every so often (typically when refactoring), I'll remove a .py file > >

Re: copy on write

er both + and += should succeed, or both should fail. > > ~Ethan~ This also happens for tuples, sets, generators and range objects (probably any iterable), AFAIK only when the left operand is a list. Do lists get special treatment in terms of implicitly converting the right-hand operand? The

Re: copy on write

On Thu, 2 Feb 2012 01:34:48 -0500 Devin Jeanpierre wrote: > On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 10:18 PM, John O'Hagan > wrote: > > On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:40:47 -0800 > > Ethan Furman wrote: > > > >> Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> > Normally this is harm

Re: copy on write

On 02 Feb 2012 09:16:40 GMT Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:11:53 +1100, John O'Hagan wrote: > > > You're right, in fact, for me the surprise is that "t[1] +=" is > > interpreted as an assignment at all, given that for lists (and other

Re: copy on write

On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:25:00 -0500 Terry Reedy wrote: > On 2/2/2012 9:17 AM, John O'Hagan wrote: > > > It's not so much about the type of x but that of x[1]. Wouldn't it > > be possible to omit the assignment simply if the object referred to > > by x[1]

Re: Killing threads, and os.system()

e of subprocesses where, in other languages, you'd use threads. Of course, you load a new copy of the interpreter in each thread, so this bloats memory usage. John Nagle -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: copy on write

On 03 Feb 2012 05:04:39 GMT Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:08:06 +1100, John O'Hagan wrote: > > > I think we're 12 years late on this one. It's PEP 203 from 2000 and > > the key phrase was: > > > > "The in-place function

Re: Common LISP-style closures with Python

gt;>> h() 2 >>> h() 3 >>> j() 1 >>> j() 2 >>> j() 3 This way, you can also write to the attribute: >>> j.count = 0 >>> j() 1 John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Help with COM_error

ave been unable to find any documentation on it. Can anyone help with the com errors? What do they mean? How do I resolve them? Any help would be appreciated. John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Reading files in from the proper directory

le "myfile.txt"), python will attempt to open that file starting from the current working dir. -- John Gordon A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs gor...@panix.com B is for Basil, assaulted by bears -- Edward Gorey,

Re: Reading files in from the proper directory

In <9bfb3e39-2bc6-4399-90cc-1c53aa062...@h6g2000yqk.googlegroups.com> smac2...@comcast.net writes: > xls_files = glob.glob(in_dir + "*.xls") You may want to put a directory separator character in between the directory name and the filename glob patter

Re: MySQLdb not allowing hyphen

You are doing it wrong. Do NOT use the "%" operator when putting SQL queries together. Let "cursor.execute" fill them in. It knows how to escape special characters in the input fields, which will fix your bug and prevent SQL injection. John Nagle -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: changing sys.path

t sys first. John Nagle -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Software tool for stochastic simulation as well as for the stochastic optimization

suggest ... Matlab ... python ... something else? Any thoughts would be appreciated, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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