Brad wrote:
On Nov 25, 10:49 pm, Chris Rebert wrote:
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 6:35 PM, The Music Guy
wrote:
Hello all,
I just posted to my blog about a feature that I'd like to see added to
Python. Before I go through the trouble of learning how to write a PEP or
how to extend the Python inte
n00m wrote:
Ok ok
Of course, it's a local name; -- just my silly slip.
And seems it belongs to no dict[]...
Just an internal volatile elf
Local names are not implemented as dict, but rather as sort of an array
in the compiler. The name resolution of locals is compile time and
doesn't use dict
Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote:
Peng Yu wrote:
There are some assertion code (testing if a condition is false, if it
is false, raise an Error object) in my python, which is useful when I
test my package. But such case would never occur when in the produce
code. If I keep them in if statement, it w
Ramdas wrote:
Dear all,
I believe this is an error which was fixed in Python 2.3 itself. But I
am running Python 2,5.2 and error keeps on cropping up.
Here is my code to construct emails . It works perfectly when I dont
have any attachments. Please find my code at
http://dpaste.com/hold/125574
On 02/19/10 14:57, Steve Howell wrote:
> In a more real world example, the intermediate results would be
> something like this:
>
>departments
>departments_in_new_york
>departments_in_new_york_not_on_bonus_cycle
>employees_in_departments_in_new_york_not_on_bonus_cycle
>names_of
On 02/20/10 13:32, MattB wrote:
>
> I'm using the network in my own apartment. Not the campus's.
> Moreover, my mac's MAC address is different from the MAC address shown
> by my router, but as I said I'm also blocked when using my friend's
> wireless router at his apartment.
>
> So it must be my
On 02/20/10 17:30, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> In message , Rhodri James wrote:
>
>> In classic Pascal, a procedure was distinct from a function in that it had
>> no return value. The concept doesn't really apply in Python; there are no
>> procedures in that sense, since if a function terminates
On 02/20/10 18:17, sjdevn...@yahoo.com wrote:
> On Feb 20, 1:30 am, Lawrence D'Oliveiro central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:
>> In message , Rhodri James wrote:
>>
>>> In classic Pascal, a procedure was distinct from a function in that it had
>>> no return value. The concept doesn't really apply in Py
On 02/20/10 16:38, Kee K Y CHEN wrote:
> HI All,
>
> Apologize for being a newbie to python area and sorry for my English.
>
> Actually what I need is embedding a python interactive console(or other
> shell console alike module) on my python program for debugging and
> controlling purpose during
On 02/20/10 14:39, northof40 wrote:
> On Feb 20, 4:13 pm, MRAB wrote:
>> northof40 wrote:
>>> I'm using the subroutine module to run run python script A.py from
>>> B.py (this is on windows fwiw).
>>
>>> A.py is not my script and it may raise arbitary errors before exiting.
>>> How can I determine
On 02/20/10 19:36, MattB wrote:
> On Feb 20, 2:02 am, Lie Ryan wrote:
>> On 02/20/10 13:32, MattB wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> I'm using the network in my own apartment. Not the campus's.
>>> Moreover, my mac's MAC address is different from th
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 12:52 AM, Stef Mientki wrote:
>> hello,
>>
>> I would like my program to continue on the next line after an uncaught
>> exception,
>> is that possible ?
>>
>> thanks
>> Stef Mientki
>>
That reminds me of VB's "On Error Resume Next"
--
http://mail.python.org/mailman/list
On 02/21/10 12:02, Stef Mientki wrote:
> On 21-02-2010 01:21, Lie Ryan wrote:
>>> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 12:52 AM, Stef Mientki
wrote:
>>>
>>>> hello,
>>>>
>>>> I would like my program to continue on the next line after an uncaught
On 02/21/10 19:27, lallous wrote:
> If the base defines the method and it was empty, then my C++ code
> would still call the function. This is not optimal because I don't
> want to go from C++ to Python if the _derived_ class does not
> implement the cb.
That sounds like a microoptimization; hav
On 02/21/10 15:21, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> > So it looks like variables in a list are stored as object references.
> Python doesn't store variables in lists, it stores objects, always.
>
> Even Python variables aren't variables *grin*, although it's really
> difficult to avoid using the term. P
On 02/22/10 19:43, Norman Rieß wrote:
> Am 02/22/10 09:02, schrieb Steven D'Aprano:
>> On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:49:51 +0100, Norman Rieß wrote:
>>
>>
>>> This is the actual code:
>>>
>>> source_file = bz2.BZ2File(file, "r")
>>> for line in source_file:
>>> print line.strip()
>>>
>>> print "E
On 02/24/10 05:25, Michael Rudolf wrote:
> Just a quick question about what would be the most pythonic approach in
> this.
>
> In Java, Method Overloading is my best friend, but this won't work in
> Python:
> So - What would be the most pythonic way to emulate this?
> Is there any better Idom tha
On 02/24/10 11:21, Aahz wrote:
> In article ,
> D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
>> On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:54:25 -0800 (PST)
>> Joan Miller wrote:
>>>
>>> *Sorry by this message off topic, but this is too important*
>>
>> Is it just me or has the spew from gmail on this list radically
>> increased in the
On 02/23/10 05:30, W. eWatson wrote:
> On 2/22/2010 8:29 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2010-02-22, W. eWatson wrote:
>>
>>> Last night I copied a program from folder A to folder B.
>>
>> [tail of various windows breakages elided]
>>
>>> Comments?
>>
>> Switch to Linux?
>>
>> Or at least install C
On 02/24/10 12:08, Nobody wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:22:05 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>>> Java - The JVM code been hacked to death by Sun engineers (optimised)
>>> Python - The PVM code has seen speed-ups in Unladen or via Pyrex..
>>> ad-infinitum but nowhere as near to JVM
>>
>> Pyt
On 02/24/10 12:38, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:06:09 +0100, Daniel Fetchinson wrote:
>
>>> Hmm. I wonder if all the spam is coming from the NG side. I'll have
>>> to look at that. One of the reasons that I stopped reading UseNet over
>>> ten years ago was because of the dimi
On 02/24/10 14:09, Robert Kern wrote:
> On 2010-02-23 20:43 , Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 02:40:13 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:36:02 +0100, mk wrote:
>>>
The question is: is this secure? That is, can the string generated this
way be consid
On 02/24/10 17:07, MattB wrote:
> All -- problem solved. Following Lie's suggestions, and the links
> from those pages, I went hunting around in my /library/preferences/
> SystemConfiguration/. I opened all of the 6 or 7 files that were in
> there, and all looked as if they contained info directl
On 02/25/10 07:40, Wanja Gayk wrote:
> Am 24.02.2010, 00:22 Uhr, schrieb Lawrence D'Oliveiro
> :
>
>>> Java - The JVM code been hacked to death by Sun engineers (optimised)
>>> Python - The PVM code has seen speed-ups in Unladen or via Pyrex..
>>> ad-infinitum but nowhere as near to JVM
>>
>> Pyth
On 02/25/10 05:18, kj wrote:
> I think I remember, early in my learning of Python, coming across
> the commandment "THOU SHALT NOT USE TRIPLE-QUOTES TO COMMENT-OUT
> LINES OF CODE", or something to that effect. But now I can't find
> it!
I've never heard of it, though I can think of a few reasons
On 03/02/10 00:09, Andreas Waldenburger wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 05:01:49 -0800 (PST) alex23
> wrote:
>
>> Andreas Waldenburger wrote:
>>> But as I said: a) I am (we are) not in a position to impose this (We
>>> don't work with the code, we just run the software).
>>
>> I personally believe t
On 02/25/2010 06:16 AM, mk wrote:
> On 2010-02-24 20:01, Robert Kern wrote:
>> I will repeat my advice to just use random.SystemRandom.choice() instead
>> of trying to interpret the bytes from /dev/urandom directly.
>
> Out of curiosity:
>
> def gen_rand_string(length):
> prng = random.System
On 03/03/2010 09:47 AM, TomF wrote:
> On 2010-03-02 13:14:50 -0800, R Fritz said:
>
>> On 2010-02-28 06:31:56 -0800, sstein...@gmail.com said:
>>>
>>> On Feb 28, 2010, at 9:28 AM, Someone Something wrote:
>>>
Is there something like cpan for python? I like python's syntax, but
Iuse perl
On 03/03/2010 04:48 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Or one can simply use *reason*: what justification is there for putting
> comments in strings at the top of the function? The only one I can see is
> if you are writing for an embedded device, you may want to remove doc
> strings to save memory --
On 03/03/2010 08:27 PM, Oren Elrad wrote:
> Howdy all, longtime appreciative user, first time mailer-inner.
>
> I'm wondering if there is any support (tepid better than none) for the
> following syntactic sugar:
>
> silence:
> . block
>
> ->
>
> try:
> .b
On 03/07/2010 05:53 PM, Ping wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to find a way to create an asynchronous HTTP client so I
> can get responses from web servers in a way like
>
> async_http_open('http://example.com/', callback_func)
> # immediately continues, and callback_func is called with response
>
On 03/17/2010 05:59 AM, Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 10:04 +0100, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
>> Answer here:
>>
>> http://wiki.python.org/moin/FromFunctionToMethod
>
> I have a sense I used to know this once upon a time, but the question
> came to my mind (possibly again) and I
On 03/17/2010 04:32 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:57:17 +1100, Lie Ryan wrote:
>
>> Most people probably would never need to use
>> descriptor protocol directly, since the immediate benefit of descriptor
>> protocol are property(), clas
On 03/17/2010 08:12 PM, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
> Patrick Maupin a écrit :
>> On Mar 16, 1:59 pm, Jason Tackaberry wrote:
>>> Why not create the bound methods at instantiation time, rather than
>>> using the descriptor protocol which has the overhead of creating a new
>>> bound method each time
On 03/22/2010 07:07 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Perhaps you should have said that it was a wrapper around deque giving
> richer functionality, rather than giving the impression that it was a
> brand new data structure invented by you. People are naturally going to
> be more skeptical about a ne
On 03/29/2010 01:59 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 06:48:21 +1100, Lie Ryan wrote:
>
>> On 03/22/2010 07:07 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>> Perhaps you should have said that it was a wrapper around deque giving
>>> richer functionality, r
On 03/27/2010 10:28 PM, Jonathan Hartley wrote:
> one might like to name the complex block of logic, just to make it
> readable:
>
>
> x = 1
> def account_for_non_square_pixels(x):
>((some complex logic))
> account_for_non_square_pixels()
> y = 2
>
>
> But defining and then calling the func
On 04/02/10 13:01, Patrick Maupin wrote:
> On Apr 1, 7:49 pm, Tim Chase wrote:
>> David Robinow wrote:
>>> $ python -c "print 1/2 * 1/2"
>>> 0
>>
>>> But that's not what I learned in grade school.
>>> (Maybe I should upgrade to 3.1?)
>>
>> That's because you need to promote one of them to a float
On 04/02/10 11:25, Abethebabe wrote:
> I've recently finished reading A Byte Of Python and have the basics of
> Python down. I want to continue practice but I'm unsure what I can do.
> So I started looking for tutorials to open my mind a little, but
> everything I come across are beginner tutorials
On 04/03/10 06:24, John Bokma wrote:
>>
>> you think virtualbox could help? i wonder if one could run linux/
>> py2exe virtually on a win machine and get it working.
>
> Of course that works, a virtual windows machine is just a windows
> machine ;-).
>
> Also that you can't do a "cross compilatio
On 12/05/10 10:43, Jorge Biquez wrote:
> I do not see a good reason for not using Sqlite3 BUT if for some reason
> would not be an option what plain schema of files would you use?
Assuming you don't want SQL, you can use filesystem-based database. Most
people doesn't realize that a filesystem
On 12/05/10 15:52, Tim Harig wrote:
> On 2010-12-05, Tim Harig wrote:
>> Another, questionable but useful use, is to ignore the complex accounting
>> of your position inside of a complex data structure. You can continue
>> moving through the structure until an exception is raised indicating
>> th
On 12/11/10 11:37, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 3:51 PM, John Nagle wrote:
>> On 12/10/2010 3:25 PM, Stefan Behnel wrote:
>>> Benjamin Kaplan, 11.12.2010 00:13:
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
The only scopes Python has are module and function.
On 12/11/10 23:43, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a "recommended" Python distribution for Windows XP?
>
> I know about the one that can be downloaded from python.org (which I am using
> for the moment) and the one offered by ActiveState but I don't know which one
> is better for a b
On 04/04/10 13:01, Patrick Maupin wrote:
> On Apr 3, 9:24 pm, Steven D'Aprano cybersource.com.au> wrote:
>> To put it another way, even though there are an infinite number of
>> rationals, they are vanishingly rare compared to the irrationals. If you
>> could choose a random number from the real n
On 04/05/10 20:31, sapient wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I found several discussions where this question was asked, but was not
> answered.
Why would you want to translate docstring? Docstring is meant for
developers not users. Maintaining a translated docstring is going to be
a maintenance hell and will e
On 04/06/10 02:38, ejetzer wrote:
> On 5 avr, 12:36, ejetzer wrote:
>> For a school project, I'm trying to make a minimalist web browser, and
>> I chose to use Tk as the rendering toolkit. I made my parser classes
>> into Tkinter canvases, so that I would only have to call pack and
>> mainloop fun
On 04/06/10 12:38, Peng Yu wrote:
> I want to show what commands have been executed when I run a python
> script. Is there an option which can instruct python to print the
> commands automatically?
>
> (If you are familiar with R, what I am asking is essentially
> options(echo=T) in R.)
>
It's n
On 04/06/10 18:42, Alain Ketterlin wrote:
> Alain Ketterlin writes:
>
>> d = dict()
>> for r in [1,2,3]:
>> d[r] = [r for r in [4,5,6]]
>> print d
>
> Thanks to Chris and Paul for the details (the list comp. r actually
> leaks). I should have found this by myself.
>
> My background is more
On 04/07/10 00:16, Albert van der Horst wrote:
> In article ,
> Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote:
>> Pierre Quentel wrote:
>>
>>> I'm surprised nobody proposed a solution with itertools ;-)
>>
>> next(itertools.takewhile(lambda _: a == b, ["yes"]), "no")
>
> I could learn something here, if y
On 04/06/10 23:52, Tim Arnold wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a few classes that manipulate documents. One is really a
> process that I use a class for just to bundle a bunch of functions
> together (and to keep my call signatures the same for each of my
> manipulator classes).
>
> So my question is whether
On 04/07/10 03:23, gerardob wrote:
> The error below appears. In the case i remove the comment to initialize m2,
> the same thing happens. Any ideas on how to fix this?
>
When unpickling a user-defined class, you unpickling module must have
access to the original class definition. This means if
On 04/06/10 19:52, sapient wrote:
> Lie Ryan, thank you for your answer!
>> Why would you want to translate docstring? Docstring is meant for
>> developers not users.
> I have mentioned that I want to provide API for existing image-
> processing applicaion in Python.
> In
On 04/07/10 02:22, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2010-04-06, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2010-04-06, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote:
>>> Pablo Recio Quijano wrote:
Why must be commercial, when there is open and free alternatives? Like
GNU Plot.
>>>
>>> Gnuplot is ugly. I'm using it because I d
On 04/06/10 19:47, Peter Otten wrote:
> Tim Eichholz wrote:
>
>> I think maybe I am using the wrong function. I want to paste the
>> entire 192x192 contents of cols[f] into newimage. I would think it
>> works like newimage.paste(cols[f], (x, 0, 192+x, 192)) if that's not
>> it I think I'm missing
On 04/07/10 04:11, Gustavo Narea wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Could you please confirm whether my understanding of equality
> operations in sets and lists is correct? This is how I think things
> work, partially based on experimentation and the online documentation
> for Python:
>
> When you compare two l
On 04/07/10 14:18, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> I could have used None, or "root", or "this is a magic value that
> probably won't clash with an entry in the tree", or -1 as a sentinel
> instead, but they all risk accidental clashes with tree entries.
Especially when you want to consider the possibi
On 04/07/10 18:34, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
> Lie Ryan a écrit :
> (snip)
>
>> Since in function in python is a first-class object, you can instead do
>> something like:
>>
>> def process(document):
>> # note: document should encapsulate its
On 04/08/10 12:45, Patrick Maupin wrote:
> (And I got testy because of seeing other IMO unwarranted denigration
> of re on the list lately.)
Why am I seeing a lot of this pattern lately:
OP: Got problem with string
+- A: Suggested a regex-based solution
+- B: Quoted "Some people ... r
On 4/9/10, Tim Chase wrote:
> Lie Ryan wrote:
>> Why am I seeing a lot of this pattern lately:
>>
>> OP: Got problem with string
>> +- A: Suggested a regex-based solution
>>+- B: Quoted "Some people ... regex ... two problems."
>>
>>
On 04/09/10 06:54, M. Hamed wrote:
> Thanks Patrick, that is what I was exactly looking for.
>
> Paul, thanks for your example. wasn't familiar with the stack class.
The stack class is nothing but a wrapper that renames append() to
push(); everything you need can be fulfilled by the regular list
On 04/09/10 06:36, Robert Kern wrote:
> On 2010-04-08 15:08 PM, M. Hamed wrote:
>
>> On the other hand (other than installing NumPy) is there a built-in
>> way to do an array full of zeros or one just like the numpy.zeros()? I
>> know I can do it with list comprehension (like [0 for i in
>> range(
On 04/09/10 08:52, Ben Racine wrote:
> I have a list...
>
> ['dir_0_error.dat', 'dir_120_error.dat', 'dir_30_error.dat',
> 'dir_330_error.dat']
>
> I want to sort it based upon the numerical value only.
>
> Does someone have an elegant solution to this?
>
> Thanks,
> Ben R.
list.sort() and s
On 04/08/10 18:20, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
> Lie Ryan a écrit :
>> On 04/07/10 18:34, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
>>> Lie Ryan a écrit :
>>> (snip)
>>>
>>>> Since in function in python is a first-class object, you can instead do
>
On 04/09/10 12:32, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> Regexes do have their uses. It's a case of knowing when they are the
>> best approach and when they aren't.
>
> Agreed. The problems begin when the "when they aren't" is not recognised.
But problems also arises when people are suggesting overly complex
ser
On 04/09/10 18:59, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:48:22 +1000, Lie Ryan wrote:
>
>> On 04/09/10 12:32, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>>> Regexes do have their uses. It's a case of knowing when they are the
>>>> best approach and when they aren&
On 04/10/10 16:24, Mark Tolonen wrote:
>
> "Chris Rebert" wrote in message
> news:y2o50697b2c1004091304u627d99bfj44ad56fa76a3c...@mail.gmail.com...
>> On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 11:43 AM, John Nagle wrote:
>>> Chris Rebert wrote:
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Peyman Askari
wrote:
>
On 04/12/10 08:43, andrew cooke wrote:
>
> Is the third case here surprising to anyone else? It doesn't make
> sense to me...
>
> Python 2.6.2 (r262:71600, Oct 24 2009, 03:15:21)
> [GCC 4.4.1 [gcc-4_4-branch revision 150839]] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more
On 04/12/10 04:54, Mensanator wrote:
> On Apr 11, 11:53�am, Steven D'Aprano cybersource.com.au> wrote:
>> On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 21:08:44 -0700, Mensanator wrote:
> 3.x won't be adopted by developers until it's fixed. As of now, it's
> seriously broken and unsuitable for production.
>>
I
On 04/16/10 12:17, Dave W. wrote:
>>> I naively thought I could capture output from exec()'ed print
>>> invocations by (somehow) overriding 'print' globally. But this
>>> seems not to be possible.
>
>>
>>old_print = __builtins__.print
>>__builtins__.print = printhook
>>yield
>>_
On 04/16/10 21:29, MRAB wrote:
> Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
>> I thought I'd report this so I tried it several times more but unable
>> to reproduce: instead of above hang + crash + truncated traceback the
>> complete expected traceback appeared and the program terminated properly.
>>
>> Can anyone re
On 04/13/10 06:36, Martin v. Loewis wrote:
> Microsoft has just released Visual Studio 2010, along with its free (of
> charge) Express edition. Following a tradition, they are likely to
> withdraw support and availability for VS 2008 Express some time in the
> future.
If only Python could do that,
On 04/16/10 22:09, Robin Becker wrote:
> On 12/04/2010 21:36, Martin v. Loewis wrote:
> ...
>>
>> If you are planning to build Python extension modules in the next five
>> years, I recommend that you obtain a copy of VS Express, just in case
>> Microsoft removes it from their servers. As me
On 04/15/10 02:03, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Raymond Hettinger writes:
>> Not sure what the readability issue is. The phrase "nlargest(2,
>> iterable)" does exactly what it says, finds the 2 largest elements
>> from an iterable. That makes the programmer's intent more clear than
>> the slower, but sem
On 04/16/10 02:30, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 4/15/2010 9:34 AM, Дамјан Георгиевски wrote:
>> I'm writing this as a complete newbie (on the issue), so don't be
>> surprised if it's the stupidest idea ever.
>>
>> I was wondering if there was ever a discusision in the python community
>> on a 'raise-yie
On 04/16/10 23:41, J wrote:
> Ok... I know pretty much how .extend works on a list... basically it
> just tacks the second list to the first list... like so:
>
lista=[1]
listb=[2,3]
lista.extend(listb)
print lista;
> [1, 2, 3]
>
> what I'm confused on is why this returns None:
On 04/16/10 19:28, Jonathan Hartley wrote:
> I'm playing with ideas of what API to expose. My favourite one is to
> simply embed ANSI codes in the stream to be printed. Then this will
> work as-is on Mac and *nix. To make it work on Windows, printing could
> be done to a file0-like object which wra
On 04/15/10 06:38, pyt...@bdurham.com wrote:
> Alex,
>
>> I do not see anything about redistribution, only installation, unless I am
>> missing something?
>
> I read "installation" to mean the same as "redistribution" in the
> context of this article. Perhaps I'm wrong?
>
Does it makes sense t
On 04/17/10 03:40, pyt...@bdurham.com wrote:
> Lie,
>
>> Does it makes sense to be able to install a library in other's computer, but
>> not redistribute it? Hmm... I'll have to consult a lawyer.
>
> See Tim Robert's response (I can't remember which
On 04/17/10 16:20, Gregory Ewing wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:10:28 +0200, Hans Mulder wrote:
>>
>>
Anybody who invents another brace-delimited language should be beaten.
You always end up with a big problem trying to make sure the braces are
consistent w
On 04/17/10 21:23, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> In message
> , gelonida
> wrote:
>
>> I've been told, that following code snippet is not good.
>>
>> open("myfile","w").write(astring) ...
>
> I do that for reads, but never for writes.
>
> For writes, you want to give a chance for write errors t
On 04/18/10 00:13, Simon Brunning wrote:
> On 17 April 2010 09:03, David Zhang wrote:
>> I have started an open source project to develop human-level
>> Artificial Intelligence...
>
> Have you people never seen Terminator? Sheesh.
Ssshhh, you're disclosing our top-secret plan...
--
http://mail.
On 04/19/10 03:06, Martin P. Hellwig wrote:
> On 04/18/10 12:49, Tim Diels wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I was thinking of writing a GUI toolkit from scratch using a basic '2D
>> library'. I have already come across the Widget Construction Kit.
>>
>> My main question is: Could I build a GUI toolkit of reasona
On 04/24/10 06:07, Aahz wrote:
> In article <4bc120bd$0$8850$c3e8...@news.astraweb.com>,
> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>
>> I can only think of two circumstances where old-style classes are
>> *wrong*: if you use multiple inheritance with a diamond diagram ("...now
>> you have THREE problems" *wink
On 04/26/10 02:37, Jonathan Fine wrote:
>
> I don't know if the quadratic running time is an issue for my purpose.
It's not until you decide it's yes.
--
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
On 04/27/10 03:50, Peter Otten wrote:
> It is a bit unfortunate that your editor has side effects on your program,
> and I recommend that you never trust the result of importing a module from
> within idle's shell completely.
In fact, never trust IDLE. IDLE is a nice IDE when the alternative is
On 04/27/10 18:01, Peter Otten wrote:
> Lie Ryan wrote:
>
>> In fact, never trust IDLE. IDLE is a nice IDE when the alternative is
>> Notepad; but for serious work, you need a real IDE or a programmer's
>> text editor (vim or emacs, whichever side you're in).
On 04/27/10 08:41, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> Although I agree, moving away from VS would be nice. Since Unladen
> Swallow will eventually be merged with Python, will the dev team
> consider trying out Clang as an alternative to VS?
What would Unladen Swallow brings that would allow the development
On 04/27/10 10:36, Keith wrote:
> I think it's worth making the print statement (or print function, as
> the case may be) let us do engineering notation, just like it lets us
> specify scientific notation.
The print statement/function does no magic at all in specifying how
numbers look like when.
On 04/27/10 10:47, MRAB wrote:
> Mark Dickinson wrote:
>> On Apr 26, 4:36 am, Keith wrote:
>>> I am considering writing a PEP for the inclusion of an engineering
>>> format specifier, and would appreciate input from others.
>>
>>> [...]
>>
>>> I am thinking that if we simply added something like %
On 04/28/10 15:34, Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
> On 28.04.2010 07:11, * Sagar K:
>> Use triple quote:
>> d = """ this is
>> a sample text
>> which does
>> not mean
>> anything"""
>>
>> "goldtech" wrote in message
>> news:4e25733e-eafa-477b-a84d-a64d139f7...@u34g2000yqu.googlegroups.com...
>> On Apr 27
On 04/29/10 04:16, Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
> On 28.04.2010 18:54, * Lie Ryan:
>> On 04/28/10 15:34, Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
>
> Yes, that's been mentioned umpteen times in this thread, including the
> *very first* quoted sentence above.
>
> It's IMHO sort of nee
On 04/29/10 20:40, Gregory Ewing wrote:
> Lie Ryan wrote:
>> No, the implicit concatenation is there because Python didn't always
>> have triple quoted string. Nowadays it's an artifact and triple quoted
>> string is much preferred.
>
> I don't agree. I
On 04/29/10 16:34, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 02:16:46 +0100, MRAB wrote:
>
>> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>> On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 06:17:42 +1000, Lie Ryan wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Consider that the concatenation language feature probabl
On 04/30/10 13:21, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 05:41:26 +1000, Lie Ryan wrote:
>
>> On 04/29/10 20:40, Gregory Ewing wrote:
>>> Lie Ryan wrote:
>>>> No, the implicit concatenation is there because Python didn't always
>>>> h
On 04/30/10 12:07, Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
> On 30.04.2010 01:29, * Carl Banks:
>> On Apr 28, 11:16 am, "Alf P. Steinbach" wrote:
>>> On 28.04.2010 18:54, * Lie Ryan:
>>
>>>> Python have triple-quoted string when you want to include large amount
&g
On 04/30/10 05:58, News123 wrote:
> cjw wrote:
> However:
>
> I'd like to read in a spreadsheet, perform only minor modifications and
> write it back with the exact formatting. this is unfortunately not working.
Do you know that Python is one of OpenOffice's macro language? Python
macro have the
On 05/01/10 02:50, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote:
> Jabapyth wrote:
>> At least a few times a day I wish python had the following shortcut
>> syntax:
> currentCar = Car()
> currentCar = currentCar.nextCar
>
> The syntax you prose will be applicable on very little assignements (use
> case 3). I'm no
On 05/01/10 00:01, Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
> On 30.04.2010 12:51, * Lie Ryan:
>> On 04/30/10 12:07, Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
>>> On 30.04.2010 01:29, * Carl Banks:
>>>> On Apr 28, 11:16 am, "Alf P. Steinbach" wrote:
>>>>> On 28.04.2010 1
On 05/01/10 05:16, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to be very clever:
>
> Apparently Python calls the class attribute __del__ rather than the
> instance's __del__ attribute. Is that a bug or a feature? Is there any
> way to implement the desired functionality without introducing an
> a
801 - 900 of 1115 matches
Mail list logo
