e "bike shed effect":
http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/lexicon.html#bikeshed
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very well spent either way!
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[Peter]
> http://www.pick.ucam.org/~ptc24/yvfc.html
[Jeff]
> Yuma Valley Agricultural Center?
> Yaak Valley Forest Council?
I went through the same process. My guess is "Yes, Very F'ing Clever."
Peter?
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> http://www.pick.ucam.org/~ptc24/yvfc.html
[fraca7]
> print ''.join(map(lambda x: chrord(x) - ord('a')) + 13) % 26) +
> ord('a')), 'yvfc'))
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> small-mindedness with the group. In the end our most valuable
> contributions to groups like this can be the gift of being able to walk
> away from a fight simply to keep the noise level down.
+1 (and +1 QONW).
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evaluates C; if it is true, A is evaluated to give the
> result, otherwise, B is evaluated to give the result.
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t rather than the real thing. Try this:
>>> import cgkit
>>> print cgkit.__file__
>>> dir(cgkit)
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[Andrew]
> Is it just me, or does python-list@python.org not send with a Reply-
> To header?
It's not just you. I don't get one either.
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[Mike]
> Is there a python library, that is able to create Excel files with
> unicode characters.
pyExcelerator claims to do this, but I've never used it.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyexcelerator/
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mpossible -- in Latin is no reason to forbid
> them in English.
Your previous post to this thread was chock-full of split nominatives: "The
Hollywood voice", "the specific regional accent", "the English-speaking
world", "the original French". And you call
n English.
Split nominatives like "the green tomato" are also impossible in Latin, but
no-one seems to object to their use in English.
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> wish it were otherwise.
It *is* otherwise. You should follow the Ajaxian weblog here:
http://www.ajaxian.com/
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"ctypes", 0);
You use "windll" for stdcall functions (eg. the Windows API) and "cdll" for
cdecl functions. I don't know which one VB defaults to. If you get it
wrong, ctypes will give you an error talking about using the "wrong calling
convention".
[ale.of.ginger]
> WConio.gotoxy(10,10)
> error: GetConOut Failed
Are you running at a Windows Command Prompt, or in an IDE? As I understand
it, WConio will only work in a Windows Command Prompt.
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[ss2003]
> I am stuck at above after doing a lot of f.write for every line of HTML
> . Any betterways to do this in python?
See the "Templating Engines" section of
http://wiki.python.org/moin/WebProgramming - I hope you have a few hours to
spare! 8-)
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[Shi]
> Yes, i am using python 2.3,
> I have used from sets import *
> but still report the same error:
> > > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > > File "", line 1, in ?
> > > NameError: name 'set' is not defined
It's 'Set&
isB)
> False(should be true!)
Slow down. The intersection of A and B is [2, 5, 9].
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but if this doesn't help then at least you'll have narrowed it down to
999,999. 8-)
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[Gabriel]
> 2. Set global key biddings.
You can do this using ctypes:
http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?selm=mailman.929.1069345408.702.python-list%40python.org
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[Erik]
> I am now a super gushing fan-boy.
+1 Quote of the Week!
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does have some of the features you say it doesn't (perhaps you've been
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The title
>>> print tree.findtext("html/head/title")
None
>>>
What am I missing?
I'm using elementtree-1.2.4-20041228 on Windows with Python 2.3.
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say is this:
>>> print tree.findtext("head/title")
The title
Sorry to waste people's time!
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Many thanks!
One question: why the `self.btree = None` in the last line? Isn't
`self.btree` guaranteed to go away at this point anyway? (If the answer
is "it's necessary for weird cases that would take an hour to explain"
then I'll be more than happy to simply use it. 8-)
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> other words, its an explicit requirement for *this* __del__, not a general
> requirement.
I see, yes. Very clever - thanks for the explanation!
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> __del__ methods in library objects such that they can be invoked
> multiple times gracefully.
Another good point - thanks.
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g would never have cropped up (even if asynchat.async_chat had an
instance variable named '__map', which is the whole point (which you know,
Steven, but others might not)).
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> Python you would consider to be a security issue?
I can't speak for the OP, but one hypothetical example might be a buffer
overrun vulnerability in the socket module.
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u can get rid of
the >>> prompts in one go.)
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[Dave Brueck]
> Please keep the discussion civil; please help keep c.l.py a nice place to
> visit.
+1
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[Gary]
> I recenly built a C API Python extension for Python 2.3
> on OS X, and now I need to build it for Windows. Will
> [MS Visual Studio Pro 6.0] do the trick?
Yes. That's exactly the compiler that Python 2.3 itself, and most 2.3
extensions, were built with.
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> code generated by MinGW-GCC 3.4.4 outpaces that generated by MSVC++ 6.0
> by a considerable margin in some of my performance-critical extensions,
> and the size of the binaries is often smaller.
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> about blindness...
Me too!
Many thanks, Bengt.
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(Having a daughter has improved my speech - I'm much more careful about
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rface to scanners, digital
cameras and other devices which implement TWAIN, for the Windows
platform. It provides the functionality to allow a Python
application to connect to the scanner/camera and to retrieve images
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[Harald]
> Always go to bed exactly when you want to write the first lambda.
[Peter]
> Eureka. The Twentieth Pythonic Thesis has finally surfaced.
+1 QOTW.
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[Steve]
> While cheeseshop might resonate with the Monty Python fans I have to
> say I think the name sucks in terms of explaining what to expect. If I
> ask someone where I can find a piece of code and the direct me to the
> cheese shop, I might look for another language.
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IP connection should never send two
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('Small' typically means less than about 1400 bytes.) Each time you do
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days that's not difficult. (NB. entrian.com is not running on it yet.)
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u'\\Device\\NPF_{62280C1D-DC5C-42AF-BA0F-6BDB48418CA5}']
I'm using WinPcap 3.0. My packet.dll is stamped as version 3.0.0.18.
Maybe you're running a different version?
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[n00m]
> WHY ON THE EARTH <'module' object has no attribute 'AF_INET'> ???
Because you have a socket.py in d:\python23\00 which is being picked up
instead of Python's own socket module. You shouldn't give your modules
the same name as Python's own
le information. Please
post:
o The command you're typing into the command prompt
o The error message you're getting
o The full traceback
o The code you're trying to run, or if it's too big then the piece that
the last line of the traceback refers to
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3. Double-click your .vbs file in Windows Explorer.
Now what does the python Command Prompt say? By your description above,
it sounds like it disappears, but that ought to be impossible.
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[Alan]
> SpamBayes has won the Personal Computer World (pcw.co.uk) Editors Choice
> award for anti-spam software
Yay! Do we get one of those cheesy medals to put on our website? 8-)
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iles:
C:\> d:
D:\> cd \python23
D:\> python d:\python23\socket6.py > out.txt 2> err.txt
Does anything appear in d:\python23\out.txt or d:\python23\err.txt?
[Dennis]
> I'd be tempted to blame the VBS script then...
n00m, can you post the vbs?
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[Miklos]
> The ring of the friendly serpent in business suite: Python, Zope, Plone
> http://www.jegenye.com/
Did you mean "business suit"?
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;t work at the
interactive prompt, only in a real source file.)
(The fact that I felt obliged to add the first paragraph on that page is
the funniest part of the whole thing. I really did have people genuinely
thanking me for the module, asking for features, asking for help with
using it, and so on
[Philip]
> For that matter I would find implementing the classical algorithms far
> easier if python had 'goto'
I can't believe it - first a request for COMEFROM and now one for GOTO,
both on the same day. I should have put http://entrian.com/goto/ under a
commercial lice
ting several invites per second. Shame it's written in PHP 8-)
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8-)
[John]
> from goto.py ( http://entrian.com/goto/ ):
> .# Label: "label .x" XXX Computed labels.
>
> :-)
Yay! I've been waiting nearly a year for someone to spot that. 8-)
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[vic]
> I'm doing some evil things in Python and I would find it useful to
> determine which class a method is bound to when I'm given a method
> pointer.
Here you go:
>>> class Foo:
... def bar(self):
... pass
...
>>> Foo.bar.im_class
>>&
ill do what you are asking for, independent of Python and py2exe
> and everything else. Standalone single-file packagers.
InnoSetup is the most popular free single-file-installer generator for
Windows. NSIS is probably second.
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f ps - thanks for the education!
I learn something valuable from comp.lang.python every week, and most of
it has nothing to do with Python. 8-)
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[Martin]
> I'd like to encourage feedback on whether the Windows installer works
> for people.
It worked fine for me, upgrading from 2.4 on XPsp2.
The only glitch was that it hung for 30 seconds between hitting Next on
the directory-choosing page and the feature-choosing page.
32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
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t; in the Add/Remove list, and no other Python
2.4 entries (apart from the likes of "Python 2.4 ctypes-0.9.2") but
that's to be expected. ]
Thanks for looking into this, and sorry to take up your time with
something that boils down to user error.
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#x27;ve copied the new python24.dll into
C:\python24, and everything now thinks it's 2.4.1c1. Sorry about that.
(I wish I could remember why I'd copied the DLL, but I can't. I'd like to
think there was a good reason. 8-)
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rdcopy manual - I find the
electronic one easier to use.
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hen that's no problem.
(I'd briefly considered doing this myself, until I found your site.)
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[Keith]
> Sigh, this reminds me of a discussion I had at my work once... It seems
> to write optimal Python code one must understand various probabilites of
> your data, and code according to the likely scenario. 8-)
s/Python //g
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great tool.
I had to hard-code a username - does it require you to use HTTP
authentication before it will work? If so, it would be good if you
mentioned that in the documentation.
It also erased my HTML file when I tried to save my changes. 8-) I'll
try to track that one down if I get the
r Windows machine being up for
longer than 2^32 ms (about 49 days), GetTickCount() will wrap back to
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> http://www.voidspace.org.uk/atlantibots/pythonutils.html#testenv
I've seen this announcement four times now - I don't whether you're seeing
problems with it, but it's definitely reaching the mailing list.
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code at runtime, and compare the behaviour of your modified version with
the original, all without leaving the demo - fantastic! Huge thanks to
whoever did that.)
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[]
>>> type(x)
>>>
with-thanks-to-Gordon-McMillan-ly y'rs,
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[Michael]
> from itertools import repeat
> for feet in [3,3,2,2,3]:
> print " ".join("DA-DA-DUM"
> for dummy in [None]
> for foot in repeat("metric", feet))
Spectacular! +1 QOTW
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void f()
{
int i;/* An integer to do something /*
short s; /* A short to do something */
get_s(&s);
/* Do something with s */
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> you fucking asses.
> paypal me a hundred dollars and i'll rewrite the whole re doc in a few
> hours.
Can we paypal you a hundred dollars to leave us alone? I'll pledge $10.
Are there another nine people here who'll do the same?
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d+Fractal+Landscapes%22&hl=en
or via this tinyurl:
http://tinyurl.com/6ugnk
(Search within that page for the phrase "Music and Fractal Landscapes".
Or Google for it, which is how I found the link.)
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d announced here on April 18th.
[Steve]
> I'll have to take your word for that.
Xah is right - I have a copy here of his message of 18th April, saying "i
have rewrote the Python's re module documentation.".
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> Since Python is Turing-complete
Is there some equivalent of Godwin's Law that we can invoke at this
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the user has typed a newline? I'd ditch that
code and do it at the server end:
expr = expr[4:].strip()
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[David]
> I'm trying to write something with the same brevity
> as perl's one-liner
>
> eval "\$$1=\$2" while @ARGV && $ARGV[0]=~ /^(\w+)=(.*)/ && shift;
import sys, re
for arg in sys.argv[1:]:
if re.match(r'\w+=.*', arg):
exible ways. You can still use the
Windows key as a modifier (as in Windows+E for Explorer).
No affiliation other than as a happy customer.
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leaves us with one
> thing, we may have gotten a string that used \r for newlines
Ah, OK. Your comment talks about DOS - that won't happen on DOS (or
Windows) which uses \r\n. I don't know about the Mac. But the \r\n pair
isn't handled by your code - strip() on the serve
> But can it change "Fn" key mapping?
I don't think so, no. There's no obvious user interface for that, anyway.
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t give those
improvements back to the community. But the Python license allows for this
too, and Python hasn't suffered for it. IMO choosing a BSD license will get
you more users than GPL, and the benefits of that will outweigh the
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>
> remove_file_type(sysroot, ['.tmp', '.TMP'])
def remove_file_type(target_dir, file_type):
[...]
if os.path.splitext(f)[1].lower() == file_type.lower():
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[1] http://www.linux-m32r.org/lxr/http/source/COPYING
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unquote(s)
unquote('abc%20def') -> 'abc def'.
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[rbt]
> What is the most efficient way to recursively remove files and directories?
shutil.rmtree: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-shutil.html#l2h-2356
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> How do I get SW_MAXIMIZE to be defined?
It's in win32con. Like this:
>>> from win32con import *
>>> SW_MAXIMIZE
3
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[Fredrik]
> oops. thought you were using ctypes, not the pythonwin extensions.
Even when I'm using ctypes I use win32con for the constants, unless
there's some special reason why I need the code to be independent of
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mpare these lits and generate a third list after
> comparison
>
> list3 would be ["apple", "banana","grape","orange", "pear"]
Use sets:
>>> from sets import Set as set # For compatibility with Python 2.3
>>> one = ["app
d in english, but in french it's (well - it
> was last time I used MS Word, which is quite some times ago???) "fusion
> de documents".
"Mail Merge"?
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Test
http://somewhere.com?a=1&b=2";>link
saying "cannot generate system identifier for general entity "b" [...] The
most common cause of this error is unencoded ampersands in URLs".
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[Johhny]
> I am trying to get the user that is running the scripts uid, I have had
> a look at the pwd module and it does not appear to offer that
> functionality. Is there any way within python to get that information ?
It's in the 'os' module:
>>> import o
[Antal]
> is there something wrong with django's website (djangoproject.com)
> or I have problems?
> It looks ugly, the css files can't be found, I even cannot download
> the source from there.
It's broken for me too, so it's not a problem at your end.
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#x27;, '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__',
'__setattr__', '__str__']
>>> class C(object): pass
...
>>> c = C()
>>> dir(c)
['__class__', '__delattr__', '__dict__', '__doc__', '__getattribute__&#x
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