Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications

2016-02-18 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Feb 18, 2016, at 10:33 AM, wrong.addres...@gmail.com wrote: > > torstai 18. helmikuuta 2016 17.21.32 UTC+2 Oscar Benjamin kirjoitti: >> On 18 February 2016 at 11:32, Chris Angelico wrote: >> [byte] >> It sounds to me as if all of your needs can be solved in pure Python >> code possibly u

Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications

2016-02-19 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Feb 19, 2016, at 8:13 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > On Sat, 20 Feb 2016 12:27 am, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > > >> Then the best suggestion I have would be to take a weekend and just >> read the language reference manual (it used to be about an 80-page PDF >> file, but has no doubt grown

Re: [Off-topic] Requests author discusses MentalHealthError exception

2016-03-03 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Mar 3, 2016, at 3:20 PM, alister wrote: > > On Thu, 03 Mar 2016 11:03:55 -0700, Ian Kelly wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 10:21 AM, alister >> wrote: >>> On Thu, 03 Mar 2016 13:35:12 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: 1) No physical object can have negative mass. 2) I am a part of

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] It is true that is impossible write in binary code, the lowest level of programming that you can write is in hex code?

2014-11-06 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Nov 5, 2014, at 6:14 PM, Clayton Kirkwood wrote: > > Yeah, the 11 was mesmerizing. You didn't need no stinkin' program to see how > busy the system was, you just checked the lights. You could really tell when > somebody was compiling or link/loading. As I've done many times since those > da

Re: Understanding "help" command description syntax - explanation needed

2014-11-07 Thread William Ray Wing
On Nov 7, 2014, at 7:42 AM, Dave Angel wrote: > > Bob Martin Wrote in message: >> in 730867 20141107 093651 c...@isbd.net wrote: >>> Darren Chen wrote: 在 2014年11月5日星期三UTC+8下午8时17分11秒,larry@gmail.com写道: > On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 7:13 AM, Ivan Evs

Re: Python handles globals badly.

2014-12-04 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Dec 4, 2014, at 8:56 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > > On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 14:51:14 +0200, Marko Rauhamaa > declaimed the following: > >> Chris Angelico : >> >>> A lot of programs don't use threads, and therefore cannot have thread >>> safety problems - or, looking at it the other way, do

Re: Do you like the current design of python.org?

2014-12-05 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Dec 5, 2014, at 5:43 AM, Steven D'Aprano > wrote: > > Peter Otten wrote: > >> Did you ever hit the "Socialize" button? Are you eager to see the latest >> tweets when you are reading a PEP? Do you run away screaming from a page >> where nothing moves without you hitting a button? Do you ap

Re: Run Programming ?????

2014-12-12 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Dec 12, 2014, at 8:03 AM, Chris Warrick wrote: > > > On Dec 12, 2014 1:40 PM, "Delgado Motto" > wrote: > > > > I travel alot, if not just interested in things of pocketable portability, > > and was curious if you can tell me if Python can be LEARNED from begi

Re: python traceroute

2015-01-21 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Jan 21, 2015, at 12:06 AM, Denis McMahon wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 19:37:26 -0800, Chandrakant Tiwari wrote: > >> in the program below i want it to make it work the same way as TRACERT >> command. > > As an observation, you're re-inventing a wheel that already works > perfectly we

Re: python 2 to python 3

2015-02-25 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Feb 24, 2015, at 9:55 PM, Audrey McFarlane wrote: > > I am using Wing101 v.5 and it is using Python2, but I want to make it use > Python3 instead because need Python3 for a uni lab. How do I change it? > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list Assuming you have Python

Re: Python programming

2014-02-12 Thread William Ray Wing
On Feb 12, 2014, at 10:04 PM, Roy Smith wrote: > In article , > Grant Edwards wrote: > >> On 2014-02-13, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: >> >>> An S-100 wire-wrap board. >> >> Yup, been there done that! > > Never did S-100, but I did do a custom Unibus card (wirewrap). > > You know you're wor

Re: SSH/Telnet program to Router/switch

2014-02-19 Thread William Ray Wing
On Feb 19, 2014, at 3:14 AM, Sujith S wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to programming and python. I am looking for a python script to do > ssh/telnet to a network equipment ? I know tcl/perl does this using > expect/send. > > Do we have expect available in python as well or need to use some other

Re: Just For Inquiry

2014-02-20 Thread William Ray Wing
On Feb 20, 2014, at 5:48 PM, John Gordon wrote: > In shivang patel > writes: > >> So, I kindly request to you please, give me a very brief info regarding >> *Role of Project Manager*. > > In my organization, a project manager does these things (and a lot more): > Ensure that a requirements d

Re: Mac vs. Linux for Python Development

2014-02-24 Thread William Ray Wing
On Feb 23, 2014, at 3:43 AM, twiz wrote: > Hello, > > I'm sure this is a common question but I can't seem to find a previous thread > that addresses it. If one one exists, please point me to it. > > I've been developing with python recreationally for a while on Ubuntu but > will soon be tra

Re: Coding a simple state machine in python

2014-02-24 Thread William Ray Wing
On Feb 24, 2014, at 8:30 PM, Ronaldo wrote: > How do I write a state machine in python? I have identified the states and > the conditions. Is it possible to do simple a if-then-else sort of an > algorithm? Below is some pseudo code: > > if state == "ABC": > do_something() > change state t

Re: Python programming

2014-03-06 Thread William Ray Wing
On Mar 6, 2014, at 8:24 PM, Roy Smith wrote: > In article , > Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > >> On 06 Mar 2014 02:51:54 GMT, alb...@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der >> Horst) declaimed the following: >> >>> In article , >>> Roy Smith wrote: In article , Grant Edwards wrote: >

Re: Python programming

2014-03-07 Thread William Ray Wing
On Mar 7, 2014, at 1:03 PM, John Ladasky wrote: > > As for FORTRAN? This week, I actually downloaded an application which > required a FORTRAN compiler. This is the only FORTRAN application I've ever > needed. It's not old code, the first revision came out about 10 years ago. > More than

Re: Switching between cmd.CMD instances

2014-04-02 Thread William Ray Wing
On Apr 2, 2014, at 1:03 AM, Josh English wrote: > I have a program with several cmd.Cmd instances. I am trying to figure out > what the best way to organize them should be. > > I've got my BossCmd, SubmissionCmd, and StoryCmd objects. > > The BossCmd object can start either of the other two, a

Re: "Latching" variables in function

2014-04-09 Thread William Ray Wing
On Apr 9, 2014, at 12:35 AM, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 4/8/2014 4:09 PM, Grawburg wrote: >> >> I've probably used the wrong term - I'm thinking of what I do when writing >> PLC code - so I can't find how to do this in my reference books. >> This is part of a project I'm working on with a Raspberr

Re: Significant digits in a float?

2014-05-01 Thread William Ray Wing
On May 1, 2014, at 12:16 AM, Mark H Harris wrote: > On 4/30/14 10:56 PM, Paul Rubin wrote: > >> There is a nice Javascript simulation of the N4-ES here: >> >> http://www.antiquark.com/sliderule/sim/n4es/virtual-n4es.html >> > > Thank you! > > The N4-ES and the N4-T (mine) are essentially the

Re: Can Python do this? First steps, links to resources or complete software referals appreciated.

2014-05-22 Thread William Ray Wing
On May 22, 2014, at 6:03 AM, ed.cot...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, I'm an academic and I want to find/adapt/create a script that will grab > abstracts (150-250 words of text) from Google Scholar search results and sort > them by relevance (e.g. keywords, keyword combinations, anything other way > yo

Re: IDE for python

2014-05-28 Thread William Ray Wing
On May 28, 2014, at 6:43 AM, Sameer Rathoud wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am new to python. > > I am currently using python 3.3 > > With python I got IDLE, but I am not very comfortable with this. > > Please suggest, if we have any free ide for python development. > -- > https://mail.python

Re: Module for dialoging with intercative programs, sockets, files, etc.

2013-08-06 Thread William Ray Wing
On Aug 6, 2013, at 4:44 AM, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: > Am 05.08.2013 21:38, schrieb Olive: >> I have found telnetlib which make very easy to interact with a telnet >> server, especially the read_until command. I wonder if something >> similar exits for other things that a telnet server. > > It's

Re: Unable to redirect the subprocess CMD.exe to txt file. Please help !!!

2013-09-03 Thread William Ray Wing
On Sep 3, 2013, at 9:54 AM, Venkatesh wrote: > Hello comp.lang.python Group, > > I am trying to invoke a subprocess in Python as below > > import sys > import time > import os > import subprocess > DETACHED_PROCESS = 0x0008 > > path = r'C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /k ping www.google.com -

Re: Cross Platform

2013-09-05 Thread William Ray Wing
On Sep 4, 2013, at 11:47 PM, Chandru Rajendran wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a doubt regarding the python cross platform. I think you mean you have a question... > If we write Class in windows ,whether we can without any modifications in > Linux, if so then how about the GUI programming and Li

Re: Can I trust downloading Python?

2013-09-09 Thread William Ray Wing
On Sep 9, 2013, at 12:23 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 09/09/2013 05:02 AM, Anthony Papillion wrote: >> But (and this is stepping into *really* paranoid territory here. But >> maybe not beyond the realm of possibility) it would not be so hard to >> compromise compilers at the chip level. If the

Re: Tryign to send mail via a python script by using the local MTA

2013-09-16 Thread William Ray Wing
On Sep 16, 2013, at 12:15 PM, Ferrous Cranus wrote: > Στις 16/9/2013 3:56 μμ, ο/η Antoon Pardon έγραψε: >> Op 16-09-13 14:11, Ferrous Cranus schreef: >>> Στις 16/9/2013 2:44 μμ, ο/η Heiko Wundram έγραψε: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 16.09.2013 13:37, schri

Re: Tryign to send mail via a python script by using the local MTA

2013-09-17 Thread William Ray Wing
On Sep 17, 2013, at 5:42 PM, Ferrous Cranus wrote: > On 17/9/2013 7:30 μμ, Denis McMahon wrote: >> On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 18:17:43 +0300, Ferrous Cranus wrote: >> >>> So cant this be done in python or not? >>> or is a mtetr of configuring the MTA? conf file? >> >> Python can not control data that

Re: Language design

2013-09-18 Thread William Ray Wing
On Sep 18, 2013, at 11:12 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 1:08 AM, Neil Cerutti wrote: >> On 2013-09-18, Chris Angelico wrote: >>> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 12:57 AM, Neil Cerutti wrote: There's lots of poetry with significant indentation, though. Imbuing the shape

Re: Why does it have red squiggly lines under it if it works perfectly fine and no errors happen when I run it?

2013-09-20 Thread William Ray Wing
On Sep 20, 2013, at 3:01 AM, William Bryant wrote: [byte] > > Thanks a lot! I have one more question, is there any way I can make my > program work on android tablets and ipads? Because I'd like to use it in > school because we are learning statistics and we are allowed our devices in > scho

Re: Tryign to send mail via a python script by using the local MTA

2013-09-21 Thread William Ray Wing
On Sep 21, 2013, at 5:21 AM, Νίκος wrote: > On 18/9/2013 2:29 πμ, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: >> On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 18:17:43 +0300, Ferrous Cranus >> declaimed the following: >> >>> So cant this be done in python or not? >>> or is a mtetr of configuring the MTA? conf file? >> >> You can't..

Re: Possibilities of Building "Stacked Neural Networks"

2013-09-25 Thread William Ray Wing
On Sep 25, 2013, at 5:43 AM, Robert Kern wrote: > On 2013-09-24 19:03, Michael Lamport Commons wrote: >> Dear Members of this list-serve: >> >>Would it be possible to build “stacked neural networks” like the one >> shown in the attached document? >> >>You may have a few questio

Re: DNS query against a specific server.

2013-09-30 Thread William Ray Wing
On Sep 30, 2013, at 7:42 AM, Michel Albert wrote: > Hi, > > ``socket.gethostbyname`` sends the DNS resolution query to the DNS server > specified by the OS. Is there an easy way to send a query to a *different* > server? > > I see that twisted.names allows you to do this, but, having all of t

Re: Complex literals (was Re: I am never going to complain about Python again)

2013-10-10 Thread William Ray Wing
On Oct 10, 2013, at 10:12 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2013-10-10, Chris Angelico wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 12:09 AM, Roy Smith wrote: >>> BTW, one of the earliest things that turned me on to Python was when I >>> discovered that it uses j as the imaginary unit, not i. All >>> right-t

Problem in Multiprocessing module

2013-10-11 Thread William Ray Wing
I'm running into a problem in the multiprocessing module. My code is running four parallel processes which are doing network access completely independently of each other (gathering data from different remote sources). On rare circumstances, the code blows up when one of my processes has do st

Re: Error Testing

2013-10-31 Thread William Ray Wing
On Oct 31, 2013, at 1:17 PM, Neil Cerutti wrote: > On 2013-10-31, rusi wrote: >> On Thursday, October 31, 2013 8:50:27 PM UTC+5:30, Neil Cerutti wrote: >>> wrote: This suggests that Pascal went against established practice. This is false. FORTRAN used = and that was a mistake caused by

Re: Basic Python Questions - Oct. 31, 2013

2013-11-01 Thread William Ray Wing
On Oct 31, 2013, at 5:31 AM, "E.D.G." wrote: > Posted by E.D.G. on October 31, 2013 > > The following are several relatively basic questions regarding Python's > capabilities. I am not presently using it myself. At the moment a number of > people including myself are comparing it with o

Re: Basic Python Questions - Oct. 31, 2013

2013-11-01 Thread William Ray Wing
On Nov 1, 2013, at 2:08 PM, Ethan Furman wrote: > On 11/01/2013 08:42 AM, William Ray Wing wrote: >> >> Granted, this performance is based on pulling in libraries. It imports >> numpy, mathplotlib, and wx to handle the fast array calculations, the >> plotting, an

Re: multiprocessing: child process race to answer

2013-11-02 Thread William Ray Wing
On Nov 2, 2013, at 1:03 AM, smhall05 wrote: > On Friday, November 1, 2013 10:52:40 PM UTC-4, MRAB wrote: >> On 02/11/2013 02:35, smhall05 wrote: >> >>> I am using a basic multiprocessing snippet I found: >>> >>> #- >>> from multiprocessing imp

Re: multiprocessing: child process race to answer (forgot to Cc: the list)

2013-11-02 Thread William Ray Wing
t; finds the answer in about 250ms, but since I can't stop the other processes, > it takes about 800ms before I can use the answer. Do you recommend a global > variable flag? Any other suggestions? > > On Nov 2, 2013 8:17 AM, "William Ray Wing" wrote: > On Nov 2, 20

Re: how to load test a web app?

2013-11-06 Thread William Ray Wing
On Nov 6, 2013, at 1:25 PM, Skip Montanaro wrote: >> Have a look at selenium and sauce labs: >> >> http://www.seleniumhq.org/ >> https://saucelabs.com/ > > Maybe we should pass that information along to Kathleen Sebelius. :-) > > Skip Definitely! Anyone seen the cover of this week's issue of

Re: i want to know about python language

2013-11-07 Thread William Ray Wing
On Nov 7, 2013, at 1:51 AM, Kewl p wrote: > On Thursday, November 7, 2013 8:48:26 AM UTC+5:30, Kewl p wrote: >> h > > can i get link of a ide in which python can run,,...?? > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list There are actually almost too many. Googling for Python

Re: ANN: Wing IDE 5.1.2 released

2015-02-26 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Feb 26, 2015, at 2:04 PM, Jim Mooney wrote: > > Hey, can I run Py 2.7 and 3.4 side by side without a lot of hassle, using > Wing? I run both since I'm migranting and so far the free IDEs just seem to > choke on that. > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list I assume y

Re: New to Python - block grouping (spaces)

2015-04-16 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Apr 16, 2015, at 2:11 AM, Paul Rubin wrote: > > Steven D'Aprano writes: >> I'm aware that Coffeescript provides a brace-free wrapper around Javascript; >> I'm not aware of any wrapper that *adds* braces to a language without them. > > You're not old enough to remember Ratfor ;-) > -- >

Re: Accessing DataSocket Server with Python

2015-05-29 Thread William Ray Wing
> On May 28, 2015, at 6:17 PM, Dan Stromberg wrote: > > I have no idea about the protocol used by NI DataSockets, but you > might be able to reverse engineer the protocol by using the official > client with a sniffer. > > Also, be aware that TCP/IP guarantees that you get the correct data in >

Re: Fixing Python install on the Mac after running 'CleanMyMac'

2015-05-29 Thread William Ray Wing
> On May 29, 2015, at 9:12 AM, Cem Karan wrote: > > > On May 28, 2015, at 11:47 PM, Laura Creighton wrote: > >> webmas...@python.org just got some mail from some poor embarrased >> soul who ran this program and broke their Python install. >> >> They are running Mac OSX 10.7.5 >> >> They are

Re: Need assistance

2015-07-18 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Jul 18, 2015, at 1:34 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: > > [byte] > What is an {HP calculator} roll operation? > The original Hewlett Packard “Scientific” calculators (HP-35, 45, 65, etc) that used Polish notation (operand, operand, operation; with no “=“ sign) had a stack. That stack itsel

Re: Python handles globals badly.

2015-09-09 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Sep 9, 2015, at 1:22 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > [byte] > > I think my favourite is the guy who claims that the reason natural languages > all count from 1 is because the Romans failed to invent zero. (What about > languages that didn't derive from Latin, say, Chinese?) Right. Note

Re: Recover data over the network

2015-10-09 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Oct 9, 2015, at 10:44 PM, Arshpreet Singh wrote: > >> On Saturday, 10 October 2015 04:40:27 UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> >> What do you mean, "recover data from a server"? What has happened to the >> server? Can it boot or is it in an unbootable state? Are the hard drives >> physic

Re: Detection of a specific sound

2015-11-03 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Oct 25, 2015, at 8:17 PM, Montana Burr wrote: > > I'm looking for a library that will allow Python to listen for the shriek of > a smoke alarm. Once it detects this shriek, it is to notify someone. Ideally, > specificity can be adjusted for the user's environment. For example, I expect >

Re: What does “grep” stand for?

2015-11-06 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Nov 5, 2015, at 10:36 PM, Larry Hudson via Python-list > wrote: > > On 11/05/2015 05:18 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: >> On Thu, 5 Nov 2015 20:19:39 + (UTC), Grant Edwards >> declaimed the following: >> >>> Though I used a line-editor for a while on VMS, I was never very good >>> at i

Re: Writing a Financial Services App in Python

2015-11-19 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Nov 19, 2015, at 6:59 AM, Cai Gengyang wrote: > > > From YCombinator's new RFS, This is the problem I want to solve as it is a > severe problem I face myself and something I need. I want to write this app > in Python as I heard that Python is a great language that many programmers > use

Re: Python ORM library for distributed mostly-read-only objects?

2014-06-23 Thread William Ray Wing
On Jun 23, 2014, at 12:26 AM, smur...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sunday, June 22, 2014 3:49:53 PM UTC+2, Roy Smith wrote: > >> Can you give us some more quantitative idea of your requirements? How >> many objects? How much total data is being stored? How many queries >> per second, and what is th

Re: What use with Python

2014-07-01 Thread William Ray Wing
On Jul 1, 2014, at 6:56 PM, rxjw...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to Python. Weeks ago, I was asked about Python questions on an > interview. > Now I want to learn Python, but I do not know what I can do with it on a PC. > Especially I would like to do something interesting instead of som

Re: cx_freeze and temporary files - security related question

2014-07-06 Thread William Ray Wing
On Jul 6, 2014, at 9:21 AM, Richard Damon wrote: > On 5/21/14, 12:42 PM, Nagy László Zsolt wrote: >> I need to create an application for Windows 7 that runs from a flash >> drive. This program would be used to create remote backups of the >> pendrive. The pendrive contains sensitive data, so whe

Re: Does python support ATL Modelling Language?

2014-07-09 Thread William Ray Wing
On Jul 9, 2014, at 4:38 AM, varun bhatnagar wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to shift my application from JAVA to Python and in JAVA I am > using ATL Transformations (modelling techniques). Is it possible to do that > with Python, does python support ATL Transformations. If not is there any > API

Re: newbee

2014-08-13 Thread William Ray Wing
On Aug 13, 2014, at 9:57 AM, alister wrote: > On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 15:13:34 +0200, Mok-Kong Shen wrote: > >> Am 13.08.2014 13:55, schrieb alister: >> [snip] >> >> A related question: How could one write a Python program and have it run >> on a mobile phone in general (independent of a PC)? >> >

Re: Python makes Dilbert's list

2014-08-24 Thread William Ray Wing
On Aug 24, 2014, at 7:18 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: > For Sunday, Aug 24, 2014. > http://www.dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/0//000/20/2/5000/500/225504/225504.strip.sunday.gif > — And at the risk of straying a bit OT, here is what Dilbert should have pointed his boss at wrt s

Re: Small World Network model random data generation

2014-08-26 Thread William Ray Wing
On Aug 26, 2014, at 9:23 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Tue, 26 Aug 2014 12:16:33 +0200, lavanya addepalli > declaimed the following: > >> How can i generate a random data that is identical to my realworld data >> > > By definition, "random data" will be unlikely to ever be "identica

Re: running a python program

2014-08-27 Thread William Ray Wing
On Aug 27, 2014, at 9:42 AM, ngangsia akumbo wrote: > i have written a small scripts in python that inputs two values and prints > out the sum. > > Ok i want to be able to install this program on a windows 8 machine and run > it as a normal program. > > i want to be able to run it to any wind

Re: python script monitor

2014-09-15 Thread William Ray Wing
On Sep 15, 2014, at 8:07 PM, Nicholas Cannon wrote: > I have made an app that is not fully stable and I would like to monitor the > performance of the app and try and improve the speed of it. I tried to use > the activity monitor on the mac but what I want I'm to see how much ram, cup > and ot

Re: [OT] spelling colour / color was Re: Toggle

2014-10-11 Thread William Ray Wing
On Oct 11, 2014, at 3:20 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Sat, 11 Oct 2014 16:26:43 +0100, duncan smith > declaimed the following: > > >> The media have their own quirks when it comes to English. The BBC >> regularly use "top of" / "bottom of" in the sense of "start of" / "end >> of", but I d

Re: listbox binding..what is the current selection?

2013-03-07 Thread William Ray Wing
On Mar 6, 2013, at 11:38 PM, Rex Macey wrote: > Thanks. I have spent time with the docs, at least with the Python v3.3 and > tkinter v8.5 (pdf). I wish they had more examples. My approach is to browse > the docs, try a program, fail, read the docs, try again. When I can't figure > it out, I

Finding the source of an exception in a python multiprocessing program

2013-04-24 Thread William Ray Wing
I run a bit of python code that monitors my connection to the greater Internet. It checks connectivity to the requested target IP addresses, logging both successes and failures, once every 15 seconds. I see failures quite regularly, predictably on Sunday nights after midnight when various netw

Re: Finding the source of an exception in a python multiprocessing program

2013-04-24 Thread William Ray Wing
On Apr 24, 2013, at 4:31 PM, Neil Cerutti wrote: > On 2013-04-24, William Ray Wing wrote: >> When I look at the pool module, the error is occurring in >> get(self, timeout=None) on the line after the final else: >> >>def get(self, timeout=None): >>

Python alternatives to Text::SimpleTable?

2009-02-28 Thread Ray Van Dolson
So I'm looking for an easy (read: lazy) way to generate output in nice ASCII tables like the Text::SimpleTable[1] module in perl. I've come across two so far in the Python world that look promising[2][3] but I'm wondering if anyone else out there has some recommendations for me.

Pipelining tar create and tar extract the "Python" way...

2009-09-23 Thread Ray Van Dolson
vely copy file trees around, there might be better ways to do this from within python.. :) Thanks, Ray -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Pipelining tar create and tar extract the "Python" way...

2009-09-23 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 03:52:11PM -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > Hi all; > > In the land'o'shell, I can do something like the following: > > tar cvf - SrcDir | (cd /dest ; tar xvf -) > Bad form replying to my own post... while I'd still like to know i

Re: Pipelining tar create and tar extract the "Python" way...

2009-09-25 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 04:22:36PM -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 03:52:11PM -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > > Hi all; > > > > In the land'o'shell, I can do something like the following: > > > > tar cvf - SrcDir | (cd /dest ; t

Re: Who are the "spacists"?

2017-03-17 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Mar 17, 2017, at 8:52 PM, Mikhail V wrote: > > So Python supports both spaces and tabs for indentation. > > I just wonder, why not forbid spaces in the beginning of lines? > How would one come to the idea to use spaces for indentation at all? > That convention dates all the way back to t

Re: Python and the need for speed

2017-04-10 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Apr 10, 2017, at 8:25 AM, Mikhail V wrote: > > On 10 April 2017 at 02:21, Gregory Ewing wrote: >> >> >> >> My take on the idea of making Python less dynamic in order >> to improve speed is that you'll end up with a language that, >> while it may superficially resemble Python, doesn'

Re: closing image automatically in for loop , python

2017-04-12 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Apr 12, 2017, at 7:18 AM, Masoud Afshari wrote: > > Dear all > > I have several *.sfd files which created by a simulation code. I wrote a > program containing a for Loop which reads each time one .sfd file and plot > the requested Parameters. I have two request: > > 1- my Problem is t

I can not install matplotlib, numpy, scipy, and pandas.

2016-01-06 Thread Omar Ray via Python-list
e not found in ['c:\\users\\---\\appdata\\local\\pro grams\\python\\python35-32\\lib', 'C:\\', 'c:\\users\\---\\appdata\\local\\progr ams\\python\\python35-32\\libs'] NOT AVAILABLE How do I download matplotlib and the other packages mentioned in the subject line? -Omar Ray -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How do you debug in Python? Coming from a Matlab and R user. I'm already aware of pdb.

2021-01-26 Thread William Ray Wing via Python-list
> On Jan 26, 2021, at 2:00 PM, C W wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I'm a long time Matlab and R user working on data science. How do you > troubleshooting/debugging in Python? > Another approach is to run the code in an IDE. I happen to use Wing, but that is a coincidence. But almost ANY

Re: Ann: New Python curses book

2021-03-30 Thread William Ray Wing via Python-list
I’ve ordered the book (physical volume). It will fulfill a need I’ve had for some time. Unfortunately, it is only available in the UK store, so the shipping cost by far outweighs the book’s cost. Hope for other’s sake, it migrates to the other Amazon stores fairly quickly. Thanks, Bill > On

Re: Matplotlib 3D limitations, please recommend alternative

2018-07-04 Thread William Ray Wing via Python-list
> On Jul 4, 2018, at 5:53 PM, John Ladasky wrote: > > I'm a regular Matplotlib user. Normally, I graph functions. I just > attempted to graph an icosahedral surface using the plot_trisurf() methods of > Matplotlib's Axes3D. I have discovered that Matplotlib is basically > hard-wired for gra

Re: How to change '\\' to '\'

2018-10-01 Thread William Ray Wing via Python-list
> On Oct 1, 2018, at 10:17 PM, Jach Fong wrote: > > Thanks for your info about how Windows supports the forward slash. > > I don't quit sure what is the meaning of "top posting" in your mail. > If its meaning (forgive me if I was wrong) is where the reply was put > in mail, I have reason of st

Re: Creating Win .exe file from *.py on Linux

2018-10-02 Thread William Ray Wing via Python-list
> On Oct 2, 2018, at 3:03 PM, John Doe wrote: > > Hello World > > Is it possible to create on Linux win .exe file from *.py file? > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list As was pointed out here a day or so ago, the answer is yes, but it is a two step process. First step

Re: the python name

2019-01-04 Thread William Ray Wing via Python-list
On 3/01/19 2:03 PM, Avi Gross wrote: > Challenge: Can we name any computer language whose name really would suggest > it was a computer language? > I think the name is the least important aspect of a computer language. I’d like to propose that classic FORTRAN (FORmulaTRANslator) came/comes close.

Re: the python name

2019-01-04 Thread William Ray Wing via Python-list
> On Jan 4, 2019, at 11:34 AM, Avi Gross wrote: > > [BYTE] > As I joked in an earlier message, I remember using a version of FORTRAN > called WATFOR. Yes, there was a WATFIV. > > Yah - WATFOR was Waterloo FORTRAN, an interpreted FORTRAN that was used a lot in intro classes. No matter w

Re: Levenberg-Marquardt non-linear least-squares fitting in Python

2019-03-28 Thread William Ray Wing via Python-list
> On Mar 28, 2019, at 7:54 AM, Madhavan Bomidi wrote: > > Hi, > > I have x and y variables data arrays. These two variables are assumed to be > related as y = A * exp(x/B). Now, I wanted to use Levenberg-Marquardt > non-linear least-squares fitting to find A and B for the best fit of the >

Re: Levenberg-Marquardt non-linear least-squares fitting in Python [follow-on]

2019-03-28 Thread William Ray Wing via Python-list
Below I’ve included the code I ran, reasonably (I think) commented. Note the reference to the example. The data actually came from a pandas data frame that was in turn filled from a 100 MB data file that included lots of other data not needed for this, which was a curve fit to a calibration ru

Re: [Tutor] Questions

2019-04-08 Thread William Ray Wing via Python-list
filings of individual > companies by putting in a ticker (preferably in excel, but an be done > elsewhere). Trying to figure out how to even start setting this up. > > Thank you! > > On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at 8:57 PM William Ray Wing <mailto:w...@mac.com>> wrote: >

Re: questions re: calendar module

2020-08-01 Thread William Ray Wing via Python-list
> On Aug 1, 2020, at 10:35 AM, o1bigtenor wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 9:29 AM o1bigtenor wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 6:58 AM Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: >>> >>> o1bigtenor wrote: >>> >>> import calendar >>> print (calendar.calendar(2024,1,1,2,8)) >>> I

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