Re: Is there a Python module to parse a date like the 'date' command in Linux?

On 21/05/2023 5:53 am, Chris Green wrote: I'm converting a bash script to python as it has become rather clumsy in bash. What is the use case? However I have hit a problem with converting dates, the bash script has:- dat=$(date --date "$1" +"%Y/%m/%d") and this will accept almost anyth

RE: where is requests

Try pip install requests--(Unsigned mail from my phone) Original message From: Rich Osborne Date: 24/5/23 11:49 (GMT+10:00) To: python-list@python.org Subject: where is requests I have install Python 3.11.3 but my import requests does not work. I found documentation that refe

Re: Is there a Python module to parse a date like the 'date' command in Linux?

On 23/05/2023 7:16 pm, Chris Green wrote: Mike Dewhirst wrote: [-- multipart/mixed, encoding 7bit, 22 lines --] [-- text/plain, encoding base64, charset: UTF-8, 16 lines --] On 21/05/2023 5:53 am, Chris Green wrote: I'm converting a bash script to python as it has become rather c

Re: Is there a Python module to parse a date like the 'date' command in Linux?

On 24/05/2023 6:00 pm, Mike Dewhirst wrote: On 23/05/2023 7:16 pm, Chris Green wrote: Mike Dewhirst wrote: [-- multipart/mixed, encoding 7bit, 22 lines --] [-- text/plain, encoding base64, charset: UTF-8, 16 lines --] On 21/05/2023 5:53 am, Chris Green wrote: I'm converting a

Re: Why assert is not a function?

riately confused - but I only ever used it when I was absolutely certain the assertion was bullet-proof. And it is a long time since I did that. I prefer try-except nowadays. Mike ChrisA -- Signed email is an absolute defence against phishing. This email has been signed with my private

Re: A 35mm film camera represented in Python object

On 2/04/2021 8:47 am, D.M. Procida wrote: D.M. Procida wrote: Hi everyone, I've created - a representation of a Canonet G-III QL17 in Python. There's also documentation: . It's a pure Python model of the p

Re: Not found in the documentation

On 27/04/2021 11:24 am, elas tica wrote: Le mardi 27 avril 2021 à 01:44:04 UTC+2, Paul Bryan a écrit : From https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html#the-standard-type-hierarchy : Thanks for the reference. I was expecting to find this information in the Built-in Types section from

Re: Definition of "property"

On 31/05/2021 2:57 am, Irv Kalb wrote: I am doing some writing (for an upcoming book on OOP), and I'm a little stuck. I understand what a "property" is, how it is used and the benefits, but apparently my explanation hasn't made the light bulb go on for my editor. The editor is asking for a de

XAMPP control panel python

ip I have is for py3. I can put the .py file on pastebin if anyone wants. Apparently the Win v. of xampp has a CP based on Delphi someone said, so that one is being maintained. -- Mike Easter -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python and Ubuntu versions

is unconventional. -- Mike Easter -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python and Ubuntu versions

Mike Easter wrote: Terry Reedy wrote: Mike Easter wrote: For those who are following this thread on a conventional news server, there are missing parts which came from the python-list mailing list instead. For those who prefer an nntp access to the mailing list, the corresponding group on

Re: Python and Ubuntu versions

Terry Reedy wrote: Mike Easter wrote: For those who are following this thread on a conventional news server, there are missing parts which came from the python-list mailing list instead. For those who prefer an nntp access to the mailing list, the corresponding group on news.gmane.io is

Re: Python and Ubuntu versions

Mike Easter wrote: In the past, old gmane required posting w/ a good email because the gmane server required you to receive an email and self-approve your posting. The old gmane also obfuscated the email of someone posting that way. So, you needed to configure your agent to use a good email

Problem with install of Python 3.5.2 on Windows Vista

The install seemed to be going well up to near the end when I got the msg 'Python has stopped working', I clicked the button then I got the msg 'Setup was successful'.  I then clicked 'IDLE' and it says it can't find 'api-msi-win-crt-runtime-11-1-0.dll'.  I checked Python Tracker and saw that t

Parsing a single-level JSON file

hi all, Im reading in a JSON file that looks like this [ { "name":"myField1", "searchable":true, "navigable":true, "custom":true, "clauseNames":[ "cf[10190]", "Log Details" ], "orderable":true, "id":"customfield_10190",

Re: Parsing a single-level JSON file

On Friday, November 18, 2016 at 1:23:18 PM UTC-5, mike@gmail.com wrote: > hi all, > > Im reading in a JSON file that looks like this > > > [ >{ > "name":"myField1", > "searchable":true, > &

Re: Parsing a single-level JSON file

the end result file looks like this cat fields.json {"myField1": {"id": "customfield_10600"}, "myField2": {"id": "customfield_11334"}, "myField3": {"id": "customfield_993434"}, etc etc -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

object types, mutable or not?

;, '2'] >>> type (obj) >>> >>> obj = dict( zip(obj[0::2],obj[1::2]) ) >>> type (obj) >>> obj {'a': '1', 'b': '2'} At what level does my understanding break down? Thanks, Mike -- One reason experience is such a good teacher is that she doesn't allow dropouts. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: object types, mutable or not?

On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 07:10:11PM -0400, Richard Damon wrote: > On 5/13/18 4:02 PM, Mike McClain wrote: > > I'm new to Python and OOP. > > Python en 2.7.14 Documentation The Python Language Reference > > 3. Data model > > 3.1. Objects, values and types > >

stock quotes off the web, py style

mport get def getAquote(symbol): url = 'https://api.iextrading.com/1.0/stock/()/quote'.format(symbol) reply = module.get(url) return my_parse(reply) Thanks, Mike -- Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothin

Re: stock quotes off the web, py style

For Friedrich's, Peter's and the many other responses, many thanks. I will get a handle on python eventually and the many teachers on this list are making that easier. Mike -- "There are three kinds of men. The ones who learn by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest

Re: stock quotes off the web, py style

but it is easy to parse. > You would do multiple symbols in a loop which you enter with an open > urllib object, rather than opening a new one for each symbol inside > the loop. At the moment I can't see how to do that but will figure it out. Thanks for the pointer. Mike -- "The

Re: object types, mutable or not?

committee has to bear the responsibility for those > > terms. They are pretty well defined in the C world, so I think you need to > > point the finger of accusation at either Brian or Dennis. > > > > Let's be fair and blame one of them for each. > Let's be fa

decorat{or,ion}

ave a place in bar's interface? Thanks again, Mike -- "Keep active but don't be afraid to occasionally indulge." - Jeralean Talley, America's oldest living woman -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: decorat{or,ion}

On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 08:22:59AM +0200, dieter wrote: > Mike McClain writes: > > An "object", in general, is something that can have attributes > (holding the object state) and methods (defining often operations on > the object state but in some cases also general ope

Re: decorat{or,ion}

On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 07:22:28AM +, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Fri, 18 May 2018 18:31:16 -0700, Mike McClain wrote: > > I *think* you are describing something like this: Real close! > def foo(x): > return x + 1 > > def bar(arg): > a = baz(arg) # do so

Re: decorat{or,ion}

On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 09:11:02AM +0200, dieter wrote: < lots if good info snipped > Hi dieter, I'm still working my way through the info you posted and making sense of it (mostly) but didn't want to wait any longer to say 'Thanks.' Thanks, Mike -- Even duct tape c

'_' and '__'

In their discussion of 'List replication operator' Steven D'Aprano and Ben Finney used these '_' and '__'. Steve said, "[[] for _ in range(5)]". Ben said, "[ [] for __ in range(5) ]". These aren't listed separately in the index,

Re: '_' and '__'

To the many who responded, many thanks. I,too, found Nick Coghlan's answer iluminating. Mike -- There are always gossips everywhere you go and few of them limit themselves to veracity when what they consider a good story is available to keep their audience entertained. - MM --

... (ellipsis)

ython3.2 it becomes 'Type error' but still doesn't give me anything usable. Is the ellipsis really useable in anything other than documentation or does it actually have a function in python? If the latter would someone please provide an example showing how it is used? Thanks, Mike

version

to python3.2. Most of the errors were because I had used 'print' without parens which 2.7 liked but 3.2 doesn't. Is there a way in a script to know which version of python is being run so I can write: If (version == 2.7): do it this way elsif (version == 3.2):

Re: ... (ellipsis)

On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 11:00:13PM -0400, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 5/31/2018 10:26 PM, Mike McClain wrote: > > I'm having understanding the use if the ellipsis. > >I keep reading that it is used in slices > > By numpy for numpy multidimensional arrays, which have thei

Re: version

On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 07:44:35PM -0700, Mike McClain wrote: > Is there a way in a script to know which version of python is being > run so I can write: > If (version == 2.7): > do it this way > elsif (version == 3.2): > do it another way > Thanks fo

Re: version

On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 08:02:27AM -0700, Mike McClain wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 07:44:35PM -0700, Mike McClain wrote: > > > Is there a way in a script to know which version of python is being > > run so I can write: > > If (version == 2.7): > >

Re: Why list.reverse() modifies the list, but name.replace() does not modify the string?

Yes, I forgot that strings are immutable. I can't change anything in the string. Silly me! Thank you very much, I appreciate it. I guess sometimes it just take an outsider to take you outside the box. And all is answered. :) From: Python-list on behalf of Mark

Re: Why list.reverse() modifies the list, but name.replace() does not

Yes, I forgot that strings are immutable. I can't change anything in the string. Silly me! Thank you very much, I appreciate it. I guess sometimes it just take an outsider to take you outside the box. And all is answered. :) From: Python-list on behalf of Mark La

Re: Overwhelmed by the Simplicity of Python. Any Recommendation?

Same here. Debugging in Python is annoying, I like to step through my code line by line, it's impossible to do it with object-oriented programming language. Also, there's no good REPL IDE. Spyder barely works with some basic features. PyCharm, the most popular, takes too long to start, and you

ANN: Python 201 - Intermediate Python book

also written with Python 3 in mind. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks, Mike Driscoll -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ANN: Python 201 - Intermediate Python book

as Amazon's or Google's APIs. There will probably be some kind of chapter about Selenium / Web Driver too. I have some other ideas too. I hope that answered your question. Mike -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ANN: Python 201 - Intermediate Python book

e), but I am a KickStarter fan (having purchased > more games than was probably wise ;) . > > -- > ~Ethan~ You'll also get early access to the book so you'll get to see the chapters as soon as I'm done with them (most of the time). Mike -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Strange urlopen error

the errno is None. I expected it to be 4. Is there a better way to catch this error in Python 2? I am aware of PEP475, but we cannot upgrade to Python 3 right now. Thanks, Mike -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Resources/pointers for writing maintable, testable Python

<http://pytest.org/latest/> > > Cheers! > Andrew Farrell I was under the impression that this book is primarily aimed at Python/Django web testing. I saw "Testing Python: Applying Unit Testing, TDD, BDD and Acceptance Testing" is getting good reviews too though. Mike -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python 3.5.1

IDLE. If there's not, then I'm guessing it didn't install correctly. I haven't had any problems installing Python 3.5 on my Windows PCs, although I have had issues getting it installed in certain locked down virtual environments. Try uninstalling and then reinstalling Python

Re: Resources/pointers for writing maintable, testable Python

On Thursday, May 19, 2016 at 11:23:53 AM UTC-5, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 5/19/2016 11:33 AM, Mike Driscoll wrote: > > On Wednesday, May 18, 2016 at 4:48:28 PM UTC-5, Andrew Farrell wrote: > >> Hi Jacob, > >> > >> You are probably looking for the book Test-Drive

Re: Wanted Python programmer to join team

possible terms, I end up wasting everyone's time. +1 I have had recruiters from within Company A bug me about their company, but when I asked about a salary range, they said that they wouldn't discuss that until a later stage but that I would be happy with it. How would they know? The

ANN: Creating GUI Applications with wxPython

s included with the book. You can read more about it here if you are interested: https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2019/01/14/creating-gui-applications-with-wxpython-kickstarter/ Feel free to ask me questions about it too. Thanks, Mike -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Logistic Regression Define X and Y for Prediction

Hi All, I have the below code. X = df.iloc[:, [4, 403]].values​ y = df.iloc[:, 404].values Dummy Data looks like: host Mnemonic 12.234.13.6 start 22.22.44.67 something 23.44.44.14 begin When I define the X and Y values for prediction in the train and test data,

Re: Logistic Regression Define X and Y for Prediction

Hi Jason, I will try it out... Nothing in the documentation tells a person. Thanks From: Python-list on behalf of Jason Friedman Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 7:19 PM Cc: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Logistic Regression Define X and Y for Predicti

Problems with Python install on Windows 10

file cannot be accessed by the system "C:\Users\Mike\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\python.exe" If I search in that directory, I find a to python.exe. I have added that directory to my Path. I can see Python 3.8.1 in the Control Panel. I've rebooted. Reinstalled. Tried just abo

Python 101 2nd Edition book

-2nd-edition-kickstarter-is-live/ Feel free to ask any questions that you might have as well. Thanks, Mike -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

RE: Python download for windows

HilaryPython isn't an ordinary program as understood by (most) Windows users.It needs a command-prompt in which to run interactively. In other words, after successful installation, open a command prompt (aka DOS prompt) and type "python". It should open, announce itself and display its character

Re: Python question

On 12/03/2020 1:47 pm, DL Neil via Python-list wrote: On 12/03/20 3:03 AM, Rhodri James wrote: On 11/03/2020 04:06, Michael Torrie wrote: On 3/10/20 6:49 PM, Souvik Dutta wrote: What about moving on to a social media app completely made in pythoj for python? No thanks. I don't want to be on

Re: How to uninstall Python3.7 in Windows using cmd ?

On 29/03/2020 5:06 am, Terry Reedy wrote: On 3/27/2020 8:07 AM, deepalee khare wrote: How to Uninstall Python3.7.3 using cmd ? i tried using cmd: Msiexec /uninstall C:\Python37\python.exe But it gives me below error: enter image description here Python is not currently installed with msi, hen

Re: How to uninstall Python3.7 in Windows using cmd ?

On 29/03/2020 10:24 pm, Terry Reedy wrote: On 3/29/2020 12:17 AM, Mike Dewhirst wrote: On 29/03/2020 5:06 am, Terry Reedy wrote: On 3/27/2020 8:07 AM, deepalee khare wrote: How to Uninstall Python3.7.3 using cmd ? i tried using cmd: Msiexec /uninstall C:\Python37\python.exe But it gives me

Re: Unable to install or operate PIP on Windows 10

python -m pip install D:\Users\mike/downloads/Pillow-6.0.0-cp37-cp37m-win_amd64.whl Don't worry about my slashes and backslashes. That part of the above line is copied from a requirements file assembled by batch file. Pip doesn't care about the angle of the slash. I think numpy

Re: How to uninstall Python3.7 in Windows using cmd ?

On 30/03/2020 2:55 pm, Michael Torrie wrote: On 3/29/20 6:41 PM, Mike Dewhirst wrote: I would first determine whether it is the 32 or 64 bit version which is installed. I would then visit www.python.org and download the exact same python executable installer. Don't know what msi is b

Re: Is there a difference between python

On 6/04/2020 8:35 am, Malcolm Greene wrote: Is there a difference between the following 2 ways to launch a console-less script under Windows? python

Re: Helping Windows first time users

t in this conversation. But it is interesting. I use Windows because I have no choice. All my production machines are non-gui Ubuntu. I started my programming on non-gui PCs which made it simple with Windows. However, on reading some of these emails from struggling Windows users it is e

Re: Pip not working on windows

: The system cannot find the file specified. But when I manually inspected the folder 📂 the files were there I even tried upgrading it by python -m pip install --upgrade pip which worked but I still can not use pip. Just thoughtI'd try it on my Windows PC ... (xxex3) D:\Users\mike\envs\

Re: Installation Error

standard place. My favourite is C:\Python36, C:\Python37, C:\Python38 etc. All the best Mike Please help, Charlie Seagraves -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Is there some reason that recent Windows 3.6 releases don't included executable nor msi installers?

ou let it, Windows just absolutely knows what you really meant despite what you tell it. It is a necessary evil when your clients use it. Cheers Mike -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Is there some reason that recent Windows 3.6 releases don't included executable nor msi installers?

On 29/05/2020 12:26 pm, Chris Angelico wrote: On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 11:57 AM Mike Dewhirst wrote: I am an example I installed all the Pythons on my Windows 10 dev machine (locked into Windows by having clients) but I'm also locked into Python 3.6.9 on my Ubuntu 18.04 production mac

Re: Is there some reason that recent Windows 3.6 releases don't included executable nor msi installers?

On 29/05/2020 2:59 pm, Dieter Maurer wrote: Mike Dewhirst wrote at 2020-5-29 11:55 +1000: On 29/05/2020 10:51 am, Terry Reedy wrote: ... Source only releases only block Windows/Mac users who choose not to upgrade to a released installer and who cannot or choose not to compile. I am an example

RE: Questioning the effects of multiple assignment

Original message From: dn via Python-list Date: 7/7/20 16:04 (GMT+10:00) To: 'Python' Subject: Questioning the effects of multiple assignment TLDR; if you are a Python 'Master' then feel free to skim the first part (which you should know hands-down), until the excerpts fro

Re: App for Moto e6 using Python?

en in python but I do not know how to convert it to an app. > I wonder how much of the python code will still apply. Have you looked at Beeware? I believe they have recently released for Android. Mike > When I was into this > in the past, I installed Kivy and was able to finally gene

Re: Fake news Detect

at like Wikipedia. Except editors for page 2 would need a threshold score for being correct. Everyone can criticise but you lose points for being on the wrong side of history. That'll be 2 cents Mike > > -- > Grant > signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

RE: Dowloading package dependencies from locked down machine

I think your best bet is to make a formal business case to your IT people and explain what's in it for them. If they hold all the cards you defeat them at your peril.Mike -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Dowloading package dependencies from locked down machine

On 28/07/2020 9:43 am, Andrew McLean wrote: > On 26/07/2020 14:07, Mike Dewhirst wrote: >> I think your best bet is to make a formal business case to your IT >> people and explain what's in it for them. If they hold all the cards >> you defeat them at your peril. &g

Re: Any timeline for PIL for Python 3.4

On 11/08/2020 2:35 pm, Martin wrote: > Hi, > > I am running Python 3.4.4, and would like to > use the Python Imaging Library (PIL).  This > is currently not available for Python > Version 3.  Does anybody know when it will > become available? Try Pillow https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ins

Re: Use of a variable in parent loop

nion is genuine OO. And the community. Perl can be extremely terse, much more so than Python but that is where the "write-only" criticism comes from. Perl's terseness can only work for throwaway code.[1] Python is - or can be - quite terse but if written Pythonically is almost self-d

Re: Changing strings in files

On 10/11/2020 5:24 pm, Manfred Lotz wrote: I have a situation where in a directory tree I want to change a certain string in all files where that string occurs. My idea was to do - os.scandir and for each file - check if a file is a text file - if it is not a text file skip that file

Re: Sniffing Text Files

David Pratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi. I have files that I will be importing in at least four different > plain text formats, one of them being tab delimited format, a couple > being token based uses pipes (but not delimited with pipes), another > being xml. There will likely be others as w

Re: C#3.0 and lambdas

"A.M. Kuchling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Agreed; python-dev has gotten pretty boring with all the endless discussions > over some minor point. Of course, it's much easier and lower-effort to > propose a syntax or nitpick a small point issue than to tackle a big > complicated issue like static

Re: Sniffing Text Files

David Pratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks Mike for your reply. I am not aware of libmagic and will look > to see what it provides. and ... Skip Montanaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You can also run the file(1) command and see what it says. I seem > to recall

Re: Parsing an HTML a tag

"beza1e1" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I do not really know, what you want to do. Getting he urls from the a > tags of a html file? I think the easiest method would be a regular > expression. I think this ranks as #2 on the list of "difficult one-day hacks". Yeah, it's simple to write an RE that

Re: Parsing an HTML a tag

"beza1e1" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think for a quick hack, this is as good as a parser. A simple parser > would miss some cases as well. RE are nearly not extendable though, so > your critic is valid. Pretty much any first attempt is going to miss some cases. There libraries available that

Re: ncurses programming

Torsten Bronger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hallöchen! > > "ncf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> [...] >> >> Py Docs: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-curses.html > > This document suggests that Python+ncurses won't work on windows. > What's the reason for this? Could it be that ncurses doe

Re: attribute error

"M.N.A.Smadi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > HI; > > I am having the following error. I am using someone else's code and > all they are doing is pass an argv to a function then > > def execute_action(manager, argv): > method_name = argv.pop(0).lower() > > > and am getting this strange error.

Re: Overhead of individual python apps

"Qopit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When running in Windows, launching each application generates a > process, and each of those processes ends up taking up > 4MB of system > memory. This memory usage is as reported by the Windows Task manager > for the python.exe image name. The first step is

Re: Human readable number formatting

Alex Willmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When reporting file sizes to the user, it's nice to print '16.1 MB', > rather than '16123270 B'. This is the behaviour the command 'df -h' > implements. There's no python function that I could find to perform this > formatting , so I've taken a stab at it

Re: Will python never intend to support private, protected and public?

Paul Rubin writes: > Chris Gonnerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> -- Make it easy to do right. >> >> What you are promoting is the first philosophy: Tie the programmer's >> hands so he can't do wrong. Python for the most part follows the >> second philosophy, making

Re: Will python never intend to support private, protected and public?

Paul Rubin writes: > Gregor Horvath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > to be able to share private variables with other classes under certain >> > circumstances, it's better to use something like C++'s "friend" >> > declaration, where you can export the variables to a spec

Re: Will python never intend to support private, protected and public?

Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Note that the quoted article only applies to *writing* attributes. It >> doesn't say anything about needing accessors to *read* a >> variable. This encourages me th

Re: Will python never intend to support private, protected and public?

Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Generally that sounds reasonable. Obviously there are other examples >> > when (e.g. for security) you have to make sure that variables can't be >> > re

Re: A quick c.l.p netiquette question

Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I think you missed the other Peter's second post, where he points to >> his >> program: http://www.pick.ucam.org/~ptc24/yvfc.html >> I didn't read every one of his 158 lines, but his code is pure >> poetry, or >> possibly triple-distilled evil, depending

Re: attribute error

and', argv[2]) This should be execute_action('command', argv[2:]), with the ':' added. def execute_action(manager, argv): > method_name = argv.pop(0).lower() > > > > but i always thought that something like this will be standard stuff. >

Re: attribute error

telling you that string doesn't *have* a pop method. The interpreter is right. Strings are immutable, so "pop" doesn't make any sense for them. > Mike Meyer wrote: > > >In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, M.N.A.Smadi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > >

Re: Will python never intend to support private, protected and public?

Paul Rubin writes: > Bill Mill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Python is for consenting adults. > > Python might be for consenting adults, but multi-person software > projects are supposed to be done in the workplace, not the bedroom. > So there are still some software con

Re: Will python never intend to support private, protected and public?

Paul Rubin writes: > OTOH, "private" lets you say 100% for certain that another class > didn't clobber __xyz, and that any bug that clobbered it MUST reside > in the class that declared it. That makes auditing for __xyz-related > errors a lot simpler since you only have

Re: Hello gnome-terminal

egbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I start the following script in a gnome-terminal: > > #!/usr/bin/env python > import os > print "hello gnome-terminal" > print os.environ["PYTHONPATH"] > > I see the expected results in the same gnome-terminal window. > > However start

Re: Google Not Universal Panacea

Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, > > >> Are people really too lazy to do elementary research on Google? > > goes a bit too far in imputing motives to the enquirer and overlooking > the fact that there are some very good reasons for *not* using Google. Ok, *what* are the reasons

Re: where to post python code?

Alessandro Bottoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> the question it - where should i post the code to? >> It's not big enough to justify a source forge project, nor is it small >> enough to be considered a receipt fit for ASPN's Python Cookbook. > > Maybe "The Vaults of

Re: A Moronicity of Guido van Rossum

Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [off-list] > > Peter Hansen wrote: >> Gerrit Holl wrote: >> >>>True. However, most mail to this mailinglist has less than 0.001 spam >>>probability. As you can see, this one had 0.048 - a vast score, almost >>>enough to put it in my unsure box. It seems t

Re: Will python never intend to support private, protected and public?

Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> So, fool._bar is now clobbered. Nuts, the _bar attribute is broken for >> *every* instance of Fools. According to you, the error must be in >> Fools. Care to point it

Re: Will python never intend to support private, protected and public?

Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Unless your compiler detects and flags passing private variables to >> external functions all you've got is a convention that you don't pass >> private variables

Re: OT: Phases of the moon

Bart Lateur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >>A skeptical policeman who says he doesn't actually believe the moon >>affects behaviour nevertheless reports that "last weekend" things were >>really crazy, and it was a full moon. Somebody writes in to correct him: >>no, the ful

Re: Will python never intend to support private, protected and public?

Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Yes, the point is that it's something that you can check for by >> > examining the class in question without having to examine any other >> > classes. >>

Re: Will python never intend to support private, protected and public?

Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, it's a discussion of why a certain feature might be useful, not > that it's required. Mike Meyer points out some reasons it might be > hard to do smoothly without changing Python semantics in a deep way &g

Re: Program help

"FX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > can anybody write a code for a program that reads from a > /location/file & according to file contents, it execute script. e.g. if > file contains "mp" it runs media player. > I hope the code is small .. plz help me out! open http://www.mired.org/downloads/ > wi

Re: Python for search engine development

"corebump" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi everybody, > i planinng develop a search engine and i think using the python. Python > performance is enough this project? If you're going to do the heavy lifting in Python, maybe. It depends on what you're going to search, and the performance requirem

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