Re: Pb with an AttributeError

2007-09-27 Thread Nathan Harmston
27;: 'SP<136>=', 'value': ['SD:<0> ']} since {'key': 'SP<136>=', 'value': ['SD:<0> ']} is inside curly brackets it is a dictionary. I still dont get what your trying to have as your final result, but hop

Re: Pb with an AttributeError

2007-09-27 Thread Nathan Harmston
Did I just help someone with their homework? Hope not :S On 27/09/2007, Nathan Harmston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I m not sure what your trying to do, but this is where your problem is: > > string1 is not a string it is actually a dict because of your eval. >

Looking to learn python willing to clean up code

2007-11-22 Thread Nathan McSween
Hi I would like to learn python I have background in php, pawn, bash. I was wondering if anyone would like to show me the ropes or even just throw me some code that needs work and seeing what I come up with. Twisted python seems to have very bright people behind it using newer programming ideas

Is it possible to return a variable and use it...?

2008-03-02 Thread Nathan Pinno
a loss." total_needed = int(raw_input("What is the total eggs needed? ")) hen = int(raw_input("How many eggs did each hen lay? Enter them in 1 by 1 or enter * when done. ")) exp_1 exp_2 [/code] If not, then how do I do so? Thanks, Nathan P. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

How to factor using Python?

2008-03-09 Thread Nathan Pinno
How do I factor a number? I mean how do I translate x! into proper Python code, so that it will always do the correct math? Thanks in advance, Nathan P. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to factor using Python?

2008-03-10 Thread Nathan Pinno
On Mar 10, 12:10 pm, Mensanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 10, 12:48 am, Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 10 mar, 02:08, Nathan Pinno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > How do I factor a number? > > If factoring is ac

Why does my compiler say invalid syntax then highlight...?

2008-03-10 Thread Nathan Pinno
x = x + 1 print primes elif run == 2: break else: print "Sorry, not a choice. Please enter your choice again." print "Goodbye." How do I fix such an invalid syntax? TIA, Nathan Pinno -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Why does my compiler say invalid syntax then highlight...?

2008-03-11 Thread Nathan Pinno
On Mar 11, 1:12 pm, Mensanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 11, 3:36 am, Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Mensanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mar 10, 10:44‹¨«pm, Nathan Pinno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> W

Re: Calling a shared library using C types

2008-03-24 Thread Nathan Harmston
as I can see this should work? But as I am just starting with ctypes I am sure I doing something sorry very stupid. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated, Many thanks in advance, Nathan Im hoping python-list is ok for questions regarding ctypes :S -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Calling a shared library using C types

2008-03-24 Thread Nathan Harmston
On 25/03/2008, Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > En Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:56:08 -0300, Nathan Harmston > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > > import ctypes > > t = ctypes.CDLL('./Simulation.so') > > this works fine, I have a

Re: Calling a shared library using C types

2008-03-25 Thread Nathan Harmston
Hi, Just as a follow up to this...I ve discovered that its an issue with building shared libraries on mac os and it works fine on a Linux box :S. Thanks Nathan On 25/03/2008, Nathan Harmston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 25/03/2008, Gabriel Genellina <[EM

Re: Can i use this script as a python evaluator?

2008-10-20 Thread Nathan Seese
> #! /bin/sh > python -c "import sys;exec(sys.stdin)" I know this isn't your question, but I think you could write that more cleanly with: #!/usr/bin/python import sys exec(sys.stdin) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: search for a python compiler program whose name is jingle

2008-10-20 Thread Nathan Seese
> I don't remember its name very clear, it may be 'jingle' or not this > program runs on windows and can compile a python program into exe file > without gcc > it has no webspace but is announced on the author's blog when I find it > some times ago. > I can't find the link now. I there anybody else

Obtaining a callable class method object from a specific class

2008-04-10 Thread Nathan Duran
This is a contrived pseudocode example which has been broken out of a larger problem, so it may seem like a strange thing to want to do, but... I have a group of objects which inherit (single) from a common base class like so: --- class Root(object): @classmethod def CumulativeSco

Re: Obtaining a callable class method object from a specific class

2008-04-10 Thread Nathan Duran
On Apr 10, 2008, at 1:25 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > won't question why you want to do this... > Here is a solution base on a metaclass, but it feels wrong. > class MetaScore(type): >def __new__(meta, name, bases, attrs): >attrs.setdefault('score', score) >return type.__ne

Re: About __init__ and default arguments

2008-04-11 Thread Nathan Duran
On Apr 11, 2008, at 11:35 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'd like to assign the value of an attribute in __init__ as the > default > value of an argument in a method. See below: Are you sure? You will not get fresh values with each call in Python as you would in other languages. Why not jus

Re: Advice on tools/technologies/books, etc.

2008-04-12 Thread Nathan Duran
On Apr 12, 2008, at 6:55 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Will it be possible for me to put together an async site > with only python? Nope. Not until some browser embeds a Python interpreter in it anyway. Your primary choices are JavaScript and Flash. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listi

Required Python Consultants

2008-04-21 Thread Ramesh Nathan
Hi, I am looking for Python consultants to work with us for couple of months. The location is Bangalore, India. Anybody interested, please contact me. With warm regards, Ramesh Nathan, Head - Business Relations, Winfoware Technologies Ltd, Mobile - 0 93425 54560

Python Consultants required - Urgent

2008-04-21 Thread Ramesh Nathan
HI Anand, I am looking for python consultants for a couple of months. Please let me know if you could help us directly or suggest some one suitable. With warm regards, Ramesh Nathan, Head - Business Relations, Winfoware Technologies Ltd, Mobile - 0 93425 54560. Land

Odd Errors

2008-09-28 Thread Nathan Seese
When I run: #!/usr/bin/python lines = list() while 1: try: inLine = raw_input() lines = lines.append(inLine) except EOFError: break I get: Traceback (most recent call last): File "./foobar.py", line 7, in lines = lines.append(inLine) AttributeError: 'NoneTyp

Re: Odd Errors

2008-09-28 Thread Nathan Seese
> On Sep 28, 7:13 pm, alex23 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The problem is with this: >> >> >         lines = lines.append(inLine) >> >> The append method of a list modifies the list in-place, it doesn't >> return a copy of the list with the new element appended. In fact, it >> returns None, which i

Converting a strng to an anonymous function

2008-09-29 Thread Nathan Seese
I'm writing a program to sort files with arbitrary python code. The method I'm using for that is to pass sort an anonymous function taken from the arguments. I'm wondering how to change a raw string into an anonyous function. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Converting a strng to an anonymous function

2008-09-29 Thread Nathan Seese
> On Sep 29, 11:25 pm, Nathan Seese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm writing a program to sort files with arbitrary python code. The >> method I'm using for that is to pass sort an anonymous function taken >> from the arguments. I'm wondering how

PExpect Cross-Platform Alternative

2010-02-11 Thread Nathan Farrar
nning this scripts in a Linux environment). However, I was just tasked to get these scripts running in a windows environment and to my dismay very quickly realized that pexpect is not cross platform compatible. Am I stuck, or are there solutions out there? Cheers! Nathan -- The men the Ameri

Large regular expressions

2010-03-15 Thread Nathan Harmston
methods of these kind of string matching in Python? I m trying to see if my swigged alphabet trie is faster than whats possible in Python! Many thanks, Nathan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Generating text from a regular expression

2010-03-31 Thread Nathan Harmston
if this possible in Python or possible using anything. Google doesnt seem to give any obvious answers. Many thanks in advance, Nathan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Question about list comprehension/standard "for" disparities

2010-03-31 Thread Nathan Rice
be expanded to accommodate statements of the form: bar(x) for x in y ? This inconsistency really bothered me when I started playing with python, and it seems kind of at-odds with the "one right way to do things" mentality. -Nathan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Generating text from a regular expression

2010-04-02 Thread Nathan Harmston
Thanks everyone, the invRegexInf is perfect. Thanks again, Nathan On 1 April 2010 10:17, Gabriel Genellina wrote: > En Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:23:48 -0300, Paul McGuire > escribió: >> >> On Mar 31, 5:49 am, Nathan Harmston >> wrote: >>> >>> I have a

Re: Kindly show me a better way to do it

2010-05-08 Thread Nathan Rice
itertools is also written in c, so if you're working with a big nested list is long it will be a lot faster. On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Tycho Andersen wrote: > On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Günther Dietrich > wrote: > [snip] > > Too simple? > > No, not at all. I really only intended to p

Re: write a 20GB file

2010-05-15 Thread Nathan Rice
This is precisely the situation mmap was made for :) It has almost the same methods as a file so it should be an easy replacement. On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Nobody wrote: > On Fri, 14 May 2010 18:38:55 -0400, J wrote: > > >>> someone smarter than me can correct me, but file.write() will

Most reliable/pythonic way to tell if an instance comes from a class implemented in C/etc?

2010-05-24 Thread Nathan Rice
d way, given an instance of a class, to determine if it is wrapped or native? Currently I check to see if it has __slots__ then try to setattr a dummy variable but I imagine there is probably a cleaner way. Nathan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: if, continuation and indentation

2010-05-29 Thread Nathan Rice
I prefer to just break such things into multiple lines. You're doing that already anyhow, it's not much of a speed hit, and it makes exactly what you're testing explicit. If I break a statement onto multiple lines I only use parenthesis, and that is as a last resort. In my opinion there's almost

Re: Mixing Decimal and float

2010-06-02 Thread Nathan Rice
, subclass) - Return true if subclass should be considered a (direct or indirect) subclass of class. If defined, called to implement issubclass(subclass, class). Nathan On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 4:24 AM, B.V. wrote: > Hi, > > In order to solve some issues due to operations between Decimal and &g

FIle transfer over network - with Pyro?

2010-06-03 Thread Nathan Huesken
files are pretty big)? I somehow need to ensure, that the client requesting a file transfer is the same client getting the file. So some sort of authentication is needed. What library would you use to do the file transfer? Regards, Nathan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: FIle transfer over network - with Pyro?

2010-06-09 Thread Nathan Huesken
Thanks for all the replies. I might use http, or I utilize a separate ftp server. On Sat, 5 Jun 2010 13:34:45 -0700 geremy condra wrote: > On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Dan Stromberg > wrote: > >> A more realistic answer is probably to use something based on > >> HTTP. This solves a number o

Good solutions for passing around large numbers of arguments in a layered architecture?

2010-06-11 Thread Nathan Rice
I've been running into a problem lately where I have an architecture like so: Main class -> facade/configuration class -> low level logic class. The main class is what the user interacts with. The facade/config class is responsible for loading and managing the lower level classes and providing a

File descriptor to file object

2010-06-14 Thread Nathan Huesken
Hi, tempfile.mkstemp returns a file name and a file descriptor (as returned by os.open). Can I somehow convert this descriptor to a file object? Thanks! Nathan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Should I Learn Python or Ruby next?

2010-06-22 Thread Nathan Rice
It really depends on what you want to do. Ruby and Python are both highly expressive languages. Python syntax seems "nicer" to me but that is subjective. As far as community support, Python has 4342 packages listed in sourceforge, Ruby has 705. Python is listed in ~0.4% of jobs at indeed.com's

Re: Using Classes

2010-06-24 Thread Nathan Rice
As others have mentioned when you would like to encapsulate data and functions together, they're useful. Also, if you find yourself passing lists/tuples/dictionaries around frequently, you might benefit from converting them into classes. This tends to make the code clearer and more readable, you

Re: Python dynamic attribute creation

2010-06-25 Thread Nathan Rice
You are thinking like a C programmer Why do you want the language to tie your hands? I want a language to give me the tools I need and get out of the way. The more assumptions that are baked into a language the more opportunities it has to be wrong. Furthermore, object oriented design is a

Re: Heuristic

2010-06-25 Thread Nathan Rice
I solve optimization problems like this all the time using branch and bound. Just arrange the possible scenarios into a state space tree, (ideally ordered by lowest average cost supplier) then prune any branch where the best case scenario given supplier cost plus shipping cost summed over all remai

importing modules from higher level directory

2010-06-25 Thread Nathan Huesken
Hi, Is it somehow possible to import modules from *.py files in a higher level directory? Intuitively I would do import ../module but that does not work. How does it work? Thanks! Nathan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: importing modules from higher level directory

2010-06-25 Thread Nathan Rice
Add the parent directory to your sys.path... On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Nathan Huesken wrote: > Hi, > > Is it somehow possible to import modules from *.py files in a higher > level directory? > Intuitively I would do > > import ../module > > but that does n

Re: Decorators, with optional arguments

2010-07-02 Thread Nathan Rice
I like to think of decorators with arguments as decorator factory functions. I try and unroll them as much as possible... I have some decorators that work like so (and please note that the wraps and returns_as_output are separate so that I can mutate the behavior as needed, if you just wanted a si

Re: python app development

2010-07-03 Thread Nathan Rice
Expert Python Programming by Tarek Ziade is a fairly good book, covers a lot of core stuff, though it doesn't really cover gui app development at all. On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 1:48 PM, mo reina wrote: > an anyone recommend a resource (book,tutorial,etc.) that focuses on > application development in

tarfile and progress information

2010-07-07 Thread Nathan Huesken
Hi, I am packing large files with tarfile. Is there any way I can get progress information while packing? Thanks! Nathan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Storing a callback function as a class member

2010-07-07 Thread Nathan Huesken
given) self is given as parameter this way, is it not? How can this be done? Thanks! Nathan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Storing a callback function as a class member

2010-07-08 Thread Nathan Huesken
back had a different number of parameters than I expected. Thanks for the effort! Nathan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Opinions please -- how big should a single module grow?

2010-07-09 Thread Nathan Rice
I start to look at whether some subset of functions or classes are not referenced by other subsets of functions or classes in a module when it gets to about 1K LoC, and if I don't find any by the time it gets to about 1500 LoC, I start to look at ways I can refactor the code in the module to be les

Re: Why doesn't python's list append() method return the list itself?

2010-07-11 Thread Nathan Rice
Do list(reversed(list(reversed([1, 2, 3, 4])) + [[]])) Though TBH sometimes get annoyed at this behavior myself. There are a lot of people who are very vocal in support of returning none, and it makes sense in some ways. Since reversed returns an iterator though, it makes this code horrible and

Re: Why doesn't python's list append() method return the list itself?

2010-07-11 Thread Nathan Rice
Yeah, I long ago filed the in place place in the same folder as strings-as-sequences, all() returning True for an empty iterable and any returning True rather than the thing which triggered it. Almost always annoying and worked around, but that's the price you pay for the other nice stuff :) It j

Re: Why doesn't python's list append() method return the list itself?

2010-07-12 Thread Nathan Rice
Stephen: I'm not adverse to being able to do that, but the number of times that I've wanted to do that is greatly outweighed by the number of times I've had to pass a function "(somestring,)" or call "if isinstance(foo, basestring): ..." to avoid producing a bug. The more abstract and adaptive th

Re: Why doesn't python's list append() method return the list itself?

2010-07-14 Thread Nathan Rice
ue, Jul 13, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Aahz wrote: > [Original not available on my swerver, responding here] > > >On 7/11/10 10:03 PM, Nathan Rice wrote: > >> > >> Yeah, I long ago filed the in place place in the same folder as > >> strings-as-sequences, all() returni

[ANN] Struqtural: High level database interface library

2010-07-16 Thread Nathan Rice
Struqtural makes it easy to get data into a database, and easy to work with it once it's there. Some of the big features include: * Automatically generate all tables and relations needed to represent XML in a database, including one to one, one to many, many to one and many to many relationships

Re: Struqtural: High level database interface library

2010-07-17 Thread Nathan Rice
> Oh yes, I'd rather write lines of that rather than pages of SQL in a Python > string. (not to mention, avoid some easy to fall into security flaws, not have to worry about porting dialect specific SQL code, etc, etc). Fixed that for you. I can't take the credit for that part though, that magi

Re: Good books in computer science?

2009-06-13 Thread Nathan Stoddard
first. > Which are the classic books in computer science which one should > peruse? A list of some good books is at steve.yegge.googlepages.com/ten-great- books. Also read programming blogs. -- Nathan Stoddard, http://nathanstoddard.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Pure python implementation of string.format?

2009-08-06 Thread nathan binkert
I was wondering if there was a pure python version of string.format anywhere that could be used with python 2.4 and python 2.5. Searching has only turned up an early implementation done for pep 3101, but it seems that it didn't get that far. Thanks, Nate -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/list

Re: Social problems of Python doc [was Re: Python docs disappointing]

2009-08-17 Thread Nathan Keel
Jon Harrop wrote: > Xah Lee wrote: >> On Aug 12, 12:15 pm, Raymond Hettinger wrote: >>> * The reason for implementing the key= parameter had nothing to do >>> with limitations of Python's compiler. Instead, it was inspired by >>> the >>> decorate-sort-undecorate pattern. >> >> The decorate-sort

Re: python doc available in emacs info format?

2009-08-19 Thread Nathan Keel
A.Politz wrote: > On Aug 17, 6:43 am, Xah Lee wrote: >> btw, is there still [no] info format for python doc? >> >> i feel kinda sad [...] >> Part of this is due to [other peoples fault] > > Someone started a rst2info project (google it), maybe you want to help > this guy out. > > Though, he mig

Re: CSV

2017-02-22 Thread Nathan Ernst
One other thing besides the issues noted with filename - newline is set to a space. It should be set to an empty string. See: https://docs.python.org/3/library/csv.html#id3 Regards, Nate On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 3:52 PM, wrote: > On Wednesday, February 22, 2017 at 5:55:47 PM UTC, Braxton Alfred

Re: Who are the "spacists"?

2017-03-18 Thread Nathan Ernst
ng after a non-whitespace character on a single line). Regards, Nathan On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 4:24 PM, Mikhail V wrote: > On 18 March 2017 at 16:54, Lutz Horn wrote: > > Am 18.03.17 um 16:18 schrieb Mikhail V: > >> On 18 March 2017 at 05:02, Ben Finney > >> wrote: >

Re: Who are the "spacists"?

2017-03-18 Thread Nathan Ernst
I don't generally align stuff, either, but if you're going to, use spaces. On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 4:55 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 8:50 AM, Nathan Ernst > wrote: > > My rule of thumb: tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment (i.e. trying > &g

Re: Who are the "spacists"?

2017-03-18 Thread Nathan Ernst
On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 4:44 PM, ROGER GRAYDON CHRISTMAN wrote: > Just a couple minor notes from my experience: > > 1) > Some of the course management software I use doesn't like me typing tab > characters. > When I want to post sample code into a course page using this software, > tabs > are eit

Re: Who are the "spacists"?

2017-03-18 Thread Nathan Ernst
I want a tab to be inserted, by default. If I want something else, I'll change the configuration. On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 6:38 PM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Nathan Ernst : > > > Tabs rectify this issue as you can configure them to appear how you > > like to see your code wi

Re: Recompilation of Python3.6.x

2017-03-22 Thread Nathan Ernst
I would also add a link to the dependency's project page, in case building from source is necessary. You don't always have root, and you're not always building with the system supplied compiler. There are a lot of situations that may require building from source. Far too many to even bother to en

Re: Two variable dictionary comprehension

2017-04-03 Thread Nathan Ernst
I was a bit surprised when I looked at the language reference for 3.6.x. I expected there'd be a direct link to comprehensions, but there's not. You have to know what you're looking for: 6.2.5: List Displays 6.2.6: Set Displays 6.2.7: Dictionary Displays And, then, click on the appropriate eleme

Re: Which directory should requests and openpyxl modules be installed to?

2017-04-03 Thread Nathan Ernst
Hi Pauline, It depends largely on whether you want to (and have sufficient permissions) to install for all users or just yourself. If, on *nix, you're installing site-wide (for all users), typically you'd do: "sudo pip install " (for python 2) or "sudo pip3 install " (for python 3). If you're in

Re: Which directory should requests and openpyxl modules be installed to?

2017-04-03 Thread Nathan Ernst
If you've installed into Program Files, then you're on Windows, and you've installed for all users. Start a command prompt by right-clicking on the start icon, then selecting "Command Prompt (Admin)". This should work on Windows 8.x and Windows 10. Windows 7, you may need to navigate through Progra

Re: Which directory should requests and openpyxl modules be installed to?

2017-04-03 Thread Nathan Ernst
Hi Pauline, I was able to infer you're on Windows, but not which version. Try right-clicking on the start menu to start a command prompt as an administrator (I'm not sure that was available in Windows 7, and I don't have access to a Win7 box currently to verify). Failing that, you should be able t

Re: Two variable dictionary comprehension

2017-04-03 Thread Nathan Ernst
ke a web request, parse JSON or XML, handle datetimes). Remember: Python comes with batteries included. -Nate On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 5:09 PM, Deborah Swanson wrote: > Nathan Ernst wrote, on April 03, 2017 1:59 PM > > > > I was a bit surprised when I looked at the language refer

Re: Python and the need for speed

2017-04-11 Thread Nathan Ernst
I used to write Python modules in C++. Well, more accurately, wrapped already-written C++ APIs to expose to Python using Boost Python. This wasn't due to performance issues, but to avoid reimplementing APIs. That said, I believe Python gets a bad wrap in regards to performance for a variety of re

Re: Python and the need for speed

2017-04-11 Thread Nathan Ernst
goto is a misunderstood and much misaligned creature. It is a very useful feature, but like nearly any programming construct can be abused. Constructs like 'break', 'continue' or 'next' in languages like Python or C/C++ are goto's with implied labels. As Mikhail said, goto's can be great to break

Re: Python and the need for speed

2017-04-11 Thread Nathan Ernst
I think that's fair (and I had intended to mention it). Although, I'm curious how threading with IO compares to using async/awai (I've not experience with async/await in Python, just in C#). Regards, Nate On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 8:04 PM, MRAB wrote: > On 2017-04-12 01:28,

Re: Goto Considered Harmful [was Re: Python and the need for speed]

2017-04-13 Thread Nathan Ernst
Thank you for that Alan Kay quote. Brightened up my day. Since you also mentioned COBOL, and this is a thread about "goto", reminded me of the single most abhorrent thing I ever saw in COBOL (I had to convert a single COBOL batch process to ASP.Net as an intern back in 2003-4). "MOVE NEXT SENTENCE"

Re: Unable to use Python IDLE after downloading the application

2017-04-17 Thread Nathan Ernst
Off topic, but I find it a little annoying that the default Windows installer links to the 32-bit installer (and there's no adjacent 64-bit installer link) - you have to dive into various links to get the 64-bit installer. Seeing as 64-bit Windows is now the norm, it should be the default. (It is p

Re: Bigotry (you win, I give up)

2017-04-19 Thread Nathan Ernst
I've likewise mostly been ignoring this thread as it has gotten out of control. At a few jobs ago, I was nearly daily involved with interviewing candidates. Initially, I was point on "culture fit". i.e. how would the potential employee react to having a phone thrown at them (it happened - I worked

Re: How to port a python package to a embedded system

2017-04-25 Thread Nathan Ernst
As previously asked: what board are you using? There might be a simple response to your issue, but you've yet to state the board you're using. You will not get any useful responses until you answer this very, very simple question. If you can't "pip install", you'll probably have to build from sour

Re: packaging python code

2017-05-09 Thread Nathan Ernst
I've used bbfreeze on linux, but that's been ~8 years ago. Don't know about the current state of the project. Regards, Nate On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 9:42 PM, MrJean1 wrote: > > > Is there any way to pack my .py with all required libraries and create a > self running package? Something like buildi

Re: How to install Python package from source on Windows

2017-05-15 Thread Nathan Ernst
bones, single-user one). Regards, Nathan On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 4:01 PM, Deborah Swanson wrote: > Chris Angelico wrote, on Monday, May 15, 2017 11:22 AM > > > > On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 4:12 AM, Deborah Swanson > > wrote: > > > It continues to amaze me that Anaconda

Re: Overriding methods on a per instance basis

2017-05-15 Thread Nathan Ernst
There is another way to do it, but it's not pretty, and I don't recommend it: >>> class Foo: ... pass ... >>> from functools import partial >>> f = Foo() >>> def hello(self, arg): ... print("hello", arg) ... >>> f.hello = partial(hello, f) >>> f.hello("world") hello world This basically re

Re: How to install Python package from source on Windows

2017-05-16 Thread Nathan Ernst
MS used to, I'm not sure if they still do, provide a separate C++ SDK that included the compiler, but not the full IDE. It was still quite a large download at ~128MB. But, it included only the command-line compiler, linker & std lib. Starting with VS2017, the ABI is supposedly stable going foward

Re: Error

2017-06-28 Thread Nathan Ernst
Not sure if this is the cause of your error, but the value for the variable "user" is misspelled according to the preceding comment. "admim" vs "admin" (not the M instead of an N at the end). Regards, Nathan On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 3:08 PM, Ken R. Lewis wrote

Re: About the implementation of del in Python 3

2017-07-06 Thread Nathan Ernst
In Python, "==" is not a reference equality operator (and I hate Java for their misuse of the operator), so I absolutely disagree with using the Java description to describe Python's "==" operator, primarily because, well, it's wrong. Simple example: With Python 3.5.2 (should hold for any version

Re: Test 0 and false since false is 0

2017-07-07 Thread Nathan Ernst
n.org/3/library/functions.html#isinstance for details. Regards, Nathan On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 2:04 AM, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > Sayth Renshaw wrote: > > > I was trying to solve a problem and cannot determine how to filter 0's > but > > not false.

Re: About the implementation of del in Python 3

2017-07-07 Thread Nathan Ernst
gt;>> n = 4000; m = 4000; n is m True >>> n = 4000 >>> m = 4000 >>> n is m False >>> On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 2:29 AM, Dan Wissme wrote: > Le 06/07/2017 à 20:56, Nathan Ernst a écrit : > >> In Python, "==" is not a reference equal

Re: Where is python and idle?

2017-07-21 Thread Nathan Ernst
Check your user folder. For me, on my PC, python is installed at C:\Users\nernst\AppData\Local\Programs\Python Regards, Nate On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 9:24 AM, Brian Case wrote: > I am running windows 10 version 1703 as administrator on a Dell Inspiron > 15 laptop. > > I downloaded and installed

Re: Reading the documentation

2017-08-24 Thread Nathan Ernst
")) 2 >>> floor(2) 2 Remember that Python is strongly typed; you do not get automatic type conversions from strings to numeric types such as in Perl. Regards, Nathan On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 2:24 PM, Stefan Ram wrote: > This is a transcript: > > >>> from math im

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