>> What do you guys think about Python's grouping of code via
>> indentation?
Peter> This is a Python newsgroup. Assume that we all have been
Peter> brainwashed.
+1 QOTW.
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Esben> What i don't know is how to the client ip. I would think I should
Esben> override the _marshalled_dispatch method but I can't quite grasp
Esben> it all.
First, from my reading of SimpleXMLRPCServer, I don't think _dispatch()
belongs at that level. It belongs in the request han
>> Or, paraphrasing Mark Twain, "Python is the worst possible
>> programming language, except for all the others."
Peter> I've been trying to establish that a while ago, but would
Peter> attribute it to Winston Churchill -- so I'm a little confused
Peter> now.
Google thinks i
Will> Is the second edition of the Python Cookbook worth getting if you
Will> have the first edition? How much new material is there in the 2nd
Will> edition?
While I have dived into it yet, I received a copy from O'Reilly last week.
It's about twice the size of the first edition, and
Seo> Hello, comp.lang.python, and catalog-sig, Some of you may remember
Seo> my mail with the very same subject last year. :-) I have continued
Seo> to maintain the table, and here's the updated result:
Seo> http://sparcs.kaist.ac.kr/~tinuviel/pypackage/list.cgi
Very nice. I hav
>> Would it make sense to add a "distutils" column for those packages
>> that can be installed from source using "python setup.py install" or
>> do you assume that all the listed packages have that capability?
Seo> Are you suggesting linking to the project's homepage, or upstream
I dumped my old fastpython.html web page:
http://manatee.mojam.com/~skip/python/fastpython.html
in favor of a page on the Python wiki:
http://www.python.org/moin/PythonSpeed/PerformanceTips
Now everybody can help fix warts, add content, etc, etc, etc.
References to the old page are red
>> For example, for Temporary Name Resolution Failure, python raises an
>> exception which I've handled well. The problem lies with obsolete
>> urls where no exception is raised and I end up having a 404 error
>> page as my data.
Diez> It makes no sense having urllib generatin
Venkat> When I checked the .py sources (in Lib folder) thru grep for
Venkat> 'ipv6', I see the same references I'd see, if I ran the
Venkat> configure command without the --enable-ipv6 option. Is that
Venkat> normal or is there an issue I need to address here.
Yes, it's normal.
>>> upper_list = map(string.upper, list_of_str)
Andreas> What am I supposed to do instead?
Try
[s.upper() for s in list_of_str]
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Andreas> Yeeh, I was expecting something like that. The only reason to
Andreas> use map() at all is for improving the performance. That is
Andreas> lost when using list comprehensions (as far as I know). So,
Andreas> this is *no* option for larger jobs.
Did you test your hypothes
martijn> I thought I was ready with my own spider... But then there was
martijn> a bug, or in other words a missing part in my code.
martijn> I forget that people do this in website html:
martijn> http://www.nic.nl/monkey.html";>is oke
martijn> error
martijn> error
pydoc
Stelios> I'm collecting small testlets to benchmark it, discover
Stelios> bottlenecks and improve it. They should be small and not use
Stelios> any crazy modules. Only [sys, os, itertools, thread,
Stelios> threading, math, random] for now.
Take a look around for Marc Andre Lembu
Paul> I'd like to have a function (or other callable object) that
Paul> returns 0, 1, 2, etc. on repeated calls.
...
Paul> There should never be any possibility of any number getting
Paul> returned twice, or getting skipped over, even if f is being called
Paul> from multipl
Peter> unitttest is surely not the be all and end all of Python unit
Peter> testing frameworks... but it's one of the batteries included in
Peter> the standard distribution, and it's pretty trivial to get started
Peter> using it, unless maybe you try to go by the documentation ins
>> I guess the other thing to compare to is something like SciPy, which
>> is a kind of specialized distribution of Python for scientific
>> applications.
Robert> No, Scipy is just a (large) package. Enthon, on the other hand,
Robert> is just such a distribution.
I'm sorry, y
>>> {'a':1,'b':'2','c':[3,4]}.keys()
['a', 'c', 'b']
Joshua> How come? :-)
Because:
>>> {'A':1,'b':'2','Cat':[3,4]}.keys()
['A', 'b', 'Cat']
:-)
For more detail:
http://www.python.org/doc/faq/general.html#id48
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dccarson> I changed debuglevel to 1 and looked at the response on the
dccarson> recipient names. They are BOTH accepted, but still only my id
dccarson> (d123456) receives the e-mail. The long id (d1234567890)
dccarson> never gets the e-mail. Here is the excerpt of the exchange.
James> Is it possible to check if you have permission to access and or
James> change a directory or file?
Yes, but it's generally much easier to try, then recover from any errors:
try:
f = open(somefile, "a")
except IOError, msg:
print "can't open", somefile, "for
codecraig> I thought I posted this, but its been about 10min and hasnt
codecraig> shown up on the group.
Patience...
codecraig> localhost - - [14/Apr/2005 16:06:28] "POST /RPC2 HTTP/1.0" 200 -
codecraig> Anyhow, is there a way I can surpress that so its not printed
codecraig
Rodney> I did a source code build of Python 2.4.1 on OS X (10.3.8) and
Rodney> the executable produced was 'python.exe'. Can someone tell me
Rodney> whether this is a bug, feature, or UserError?
The default file system on MacOSX is case insensitive. As a result the .exe
extension is
Roy> I've been playing around with ctypes
Roy> (http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes/) recently. So
Roy> far, it looks pretty cool.
Wrapping C++ libraries?
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steve> I propose that an additional a URL be set up for the Python HTML
steve> documentation. This URL will always contain the current version
steve> of the documentation. Suppose we call it "current". Then (while
steve> 2.4 is still the current version) the documentation for th
Skip> But appears to be firefox-specific.
Michael> Works for me with both Firefox and IE6 under WinXP
The wikalong.org thing is firefox-specific. You trimmed too much from my
reply.
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codecraig> I thought i read somewhere that by using pickle or something,
codecraig> that u could get a string representation of your object (or a
codecraig> file in my case) and send that. Any ideas?
Sure:
stuff = xmlrpclib.Binary(open(somefile).read())
server.call_some_remo
Peter> I am trying to write Master Thesis on refactoring Python code.
Peter> Where should I look for information?
I'm not sure, but one piece of code to check out would probably be Bicycle
Repair Man, a early-stage prototype refactoring tool for Python. I don't
recall where it's hosted.
codecraig> how would I decode it?
Assuming you have Python at the other end and you get a Binary object
instead of a string, access its data attribute. OTOH, xmlrpclib may
automatically decode the wrapper object for you.
In any case, I have two further recommendations:
* Check the xmlr
Cesar> I have set the DEBUG_LEAK flag with the GC and in the program
Cesar> cycle printed the length of the garbage list. Is this enough to
Cesar> determine if there is a leak in the python code? (the value
Cesar> rises).
That suggests to me that you have objects with __del__ meth
codecraig> stefan: i added, "return 1" to my sendFile method on the
server...took
codecraig> care of the error, thanks.
Yes, by default XML-RPC doesn't support objects like Python's None. As the
error message indicated you have to enable allow_none to permit transmission
of None.
Skip
Tran> I am new to Python and desperated to look for a good Python
Tran> debugger. I mean a debugger with source coding tracking. For
Tran> C/C++, emacs and gud offers execellent development env. The source
Tran> code tracking is extremely useful for recursive functions.
There is
Robin> So we avoid dirty page writes etc etc. However, I still think I
Robin> could get away with a small window into the file which would be
Robin> more efficient.
It's hard to imagine how sliding a small window onto a file within Python
would be more efficient than the operating sys
>> It's hard to imagine how sliding a small window onto a file within Python
>> would be more efficient than the operating system's paging system. ;-)
Robin> well it might be if I only want to scan forward through the file
Robin> (think lexical analysis). Most lexical analyzers use
Robin> I implemented a simple scanning algorithm in two ways. First
buffered scan
Robin> tscan0.py; second mmapped scan tscan1.py.
...
Robin> C:\code\reportlab\demos\gadflypaper>\tmp\tscan0.py dingo.dat
Robin> len=139583265 w=103 time=110.91
Robin> C:\code\reportlab\de
Bengt> To be fairer, I think you'd want to hoist the re compilation out
Bengt> of the loop.
The re module compiles and caches regular expressions, so I doubt it would
affect the runtime of either version.
Bengt> But also to be fairer, maybe include the overhead of splitting
Bengt
I've been programming for a long while in an event&callback-driven world.
While I am comfortable enough with the mechanisms available (almost 100% of
what I do is in a PyGTK world with its signal mechanism), it's never been
all that satisfying, breaking up my calculations into various pieces, and
t
>From the couple responses I've seen, I must have not made myself
clear. Let's skip specific hypothetical tasks. Using coroutines,
futures, or other programming paradigms that have been introduced in
recent versions of Python 3.x, can traditionally event-driven code be
written in a more linear mann
> Anyone in the
> know who can explain this phenomenon?
I don't think I can explain it authoritatively, but I can hazard a
guess. Skimming the archives sorted by author, it looks like most/all
the correspondents are Python core developers. That leads me to
believe this was a list created for the c
This is slightly longer than ChrisA's second solution:
>>> import uuid
>>> s = "%12x" % uuid.getnode()
>>> ":".join(x+y for x, y in zip(s[::2], s[1::2]))
'18:03:73:cb:2a:ee'
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> What's the problem with Python 3.x? It was first released in 2008, but
> web hosting companies still seem to offer Python 2.x rather.
>
> For example, Google App Engine only offers Python 2.7.
>
> What's wrong?...
What makes you think anything's wrong? Major changes to any
established piece of s
I suspect when best to validate inputs depends on when they
come in, and what the cost is of having objects with invalid
state. If the input is something that is passed along when
the object is instantiated, you kind of have to validate in
__init__ or __new__, right?
Let's create a stupid example:
> I want to say August of 1993, but there are apparently those who disagree.
Misc/HISTORY says 26 January 1994:
===
==> Release 1.0.0 (26 January 1994) <==
===
Actually, Misc/HISTORY has release headings going back as far as
This took my by surprise just now:
>>> import datetime
>>> now = datetime.datetime.now()
>>> isinstance(now, datetime.datetime)
True
>>> isinstance(now, datetime.time)
False
>>> isinstance(now, datetime.date)
True
>>> issubclass(datetime.datetime, datetime.date)
True
I'd never paid any attention
One thing that always reinforced my notion that
issubclass(datetime.datetime, datetime.date) should be False is that
the presence of of date and time methods gives me a mental image of
delegation, not inheritance. That is, it "feels" like a datetime
object is the aggregation of a date object and a
My son sent me a link to an essay about highlighting program data instead
of keywords:
https://medium.com/p/3a6db2743a1e/
I think this might have value, especially if to could bounce back and forth
between both schemes. Is anyone aware of tools like this for Python? Bonus
points for pointers to a
> What it is doing is color coding user-supplied identifiers, with different
> color for each one. I found that confusing to read.
I think it would take some time to get used to, and I don't think it
would be the only way I'd like to view my program.
I think an interactive pylint (or pyflakes or
> Another point:
> sax is painful to use compared to full lxml (dom)
> But then sax is the only choice when files cross a certain size
> Thats why the above question
No matter what the choice of XML parser, I suspect you'll want to
convert it to some other form for processing.
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According ato the pytz doc (http://pytz.sourceforge.net/):
"‘UTC’ is Universal Time, also known as Greenwich Mean Time or GMT in
the United Kingdom."
If they are equal, why don't timezone objects created from those two
strings compare equal?
>>> pytz.timezone("UTC") == pytz.timezone("GMT")
False
Following up on my earlier note about UTC v. GMT, I am having some
trouble grokking attempts to convert a datetime into UTC. Consider
these three values:
>>> import pytz
>>> UTC = pytz.timezone("UTC")
>>> UTC
>>> LOCAL_TZ = pytz.timezone("America/Chicago")
>>> LOCAL_TZ
>>> now = datetime.datetim
Not sure if this is exactly what you're asking, but perhaps you want triple
quotes?
>>> print "now is the time for all good men ..."
now is the time for all good men ...
>>> print '''now is the time for "all good men" ...'''
now is the time for "all good men" ...
It's not easy to visually disting
Google for "python flatten list."
This question comes up frequently, though I'm not sure if that's
because it's a common homework problem or because people are unaware
of the += operator (or extend method) for lists, and so build
lists-of-lists when they could just build them flat in the first
pla
> That might be an indication of good code design :)
Or he got lucky and all his previous globals were mutable. :)
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On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 9:14 PM, Dave Angel wrote:
> And when the q-bits get entangled up, we won't know the question
> till after the answer has collapsed.
Won't looking at the answer change it?
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For various reasons at work, we get Python from a third party. I just
installed VTK for OpenSuSE on one of my desktop machines using zypper.
When I import it from /usr/bin/python (2.7.3), the import works just
fine. When I try to import it from our vendor-provided Python (2.7.2),
I get this traceba
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 4:41 AM, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>> I think this means that at configure time, OpenSuSE and our vendor
>> chose different values for the --enable-unicode option. Is that
>> correct?
>
> Ea
> Good luck getting this fixed. Even if you do manage to get your vendor
> to start shipping wide builds, you're going to have people screaming
> about how much more RAM their processes use now :( Never mind that
> other Linux builds of Python have done the same thing for years.
Our vendor hasn't
> Which one is most recommended to use for mutex alike locking to
> achieve atomic access to single resource:
>
> - fcntl.lockf
> - os.open() with O_SHLOCK and O_EXLOCK
> - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/lockfile/0.9.1
> - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/zc.lockfile/1.1.0
> - any other ?
As the author
On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
> This is true of all mutexes, no?
Hmmm... You might well be right. I thought that use of the O_EXLOCK
flag in the open(2) system call would prevent other processes from
opening the file, but (at least on my Mac) it just blocks until the
first proc
Here's a dumb little bit of code, adapted from a slightly larger script:
#!/usr/bin/env python
"dummy"
import glob
import os
def compare_prices(*_args):
"dummy"
return set()
def find_problems(cx1, cx2, cx3, prob_dates):
"dummy"
for fff in sorted(glob.glob("/path/to/*.nrm")):
Sorry, I should have been explicit. prob_dates (the actual argument of the
call) is a set. As far as I know pylint does no type inference, so pylint
can't tell if the LHS and RHS of the |= operator are appropriate, nor can
it tell if it has an update() method.
Before writing, I had more-or-less co
I created an issue for the pylint folks:
https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/774
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hers don't have the
same problems I have.
Thanks,
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>
> Your question seems quite cinfusing to me but I think following may is what
> you are asking for.(Read the source)
>
> https://google-mail-oauth2-tools.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/python/oauth2.py
>
> After getting the authentication you can use imaplib to get all the gmail
> Data.
Thanks, I wi
Running flake8 over some code which has if statements with multiple
conditions like this:
if (some_condition and
some_other_condition and
some_final_condition):
play_bingo()
the tool complains that the indentation of the conditions is the same
as the next block. In th
Thanks for the replies, folks. I'll provide a single response:
1. Using backslash to continue... When I first started using Python in
the mid-90s I don't recall that parenthesized expressions could be
continued across lines (at least, not in all contexts), so the
backslash was required. I believe
Is this correct (today, with Daylight Savings in effect)?
>>> import pytz
>>> i.timezone
'America/Chicago'
>>> pytz.timezone(i.timezone)
>>> ot
datetime.datetime(2016, 3, 14, 9, 30, tzinfo=)
>>> ot.tzinfo
Shouldn't the America/Chicago timezone reflect DST?
Thx,
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On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 10:26 AM, Ian Kelly wrote:
> Why should it? You only asked pytz for the Chicago timezone. You
> didn't ask for it relative to any specific time.
Thanks. I thought using America/Chicago was supposed to automagically
take into account transitions into and out of Daylight Sav
On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Ian Kelly wrote:
> Note that the above example is technically incorrect since
> datetime.now() returns local time and I'm not in the Chicago timezone,
> but it demonstrates the process.
>
> Also, if you haven't already read the pytz documentation, you should.
> ht
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Simon Kennedy wrote:
> Just out of academic interest, is there somewhere in the Python docs where
> the following is explained?
Yes:
https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#truth-value-testing
https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/stdtypes.html#truth-valu
On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 7:53 AM, Joseph Shen wrote:
> In the boost::python library there is a function
>
> >>> boost::python::long_
>
> and this function return a boost::python::object variable
>
> I'm trying to wrap a double variable but I can't find
> something just like
>
> >> boost::python::d
On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Roberto Martínez wrote:
> The workaround of calling a different method inside __call__ is not valid
> for my case because I want to change the *signature* of the function also
> -for introspection reasons.
You could define __call__ like so:
def __call__(self, *a
I've been developing a little web server. The request handler
subclasses SimpleHTTPRequestHandler. It has a do_GET method which
figures out what work to actually do, then ends with this:
def do_GET(self):
...
sys.stdout.flush()
sys.stderr.flush()
As it's still being ac
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Skip Montanaro
wrote:
> I figured everything would be flushed to the respective .stdout and
> .stderr files at the end of every request, but that appears not to be
> the case.
I stand corrected. I added
print ">> request finished&qu
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Irmen de Jong wrote:
> Any reason you're not using the logging module and get it all nicely dumped
> into a log
> file instead?
I'm an old fart. What can I say? BITD, (as Irmen is well aware, being
about as old as I am in Python years), print was all we had. (We
> No bites? I'd have thought there'd be a few crazy ideas thrown out in
> answer to this.
I was on vacation for a few days, so haven't been all that attentive
to my mail. I have an autoload module which does something similar
(note the Python 2.x syntax):
import sys, inspect, traceback, re
def a
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> Interesting data point there - that you actually have it handy and
> choose not to use it.
And, I believe I wrote it. Can't have a worse recommendation than
that. A cook who doesn't eat his own cooking. :-) I think I disabled
its import so
> def main(func):
> if func.__module__ == "__main__":
> func()
> return func # The return could be omitted to block the function from
> being manually called after import.
>
> Just decorate the "main" function of the script with that, and it will be
> automatically called when r
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Ian Kelly wrote:
> ... other things decorated with atexit.register
> might actually be called before the main function
I don't think that will happen. The atexit module is documented to
execute its exit functions in reverse order. What's not documented is
the beha
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Skip Montanaro
wrote:
> What's not documented is
> the behavior of calling atexit.register() while atexit._run_exitfuncs
> is running. That's an implementation detail, and though unlikely to
> change, it might be worthwhile getting that beha
I discussion on the code-quality list got me thinking. Suppose I have
an old-style class in a 2.x app:
class Foo:
def __init__(self):
blah blah blah
I still use 2.x exclusively, but anytime I run pylint over a bit of
code and it complains that Foo is old-school, I make the obvious
change to
On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 9:54 AM, wrote:
> > Here is an *entirely typical* example: on some Unix, try
> >
> > % pydoc urllib
>
I don't know who "kj" is, and jstnms123 seems to be basically off his
rocker, so I won't try cc'ing either of them. (They also seem to
misunderstand the nature of contrib
> But it breaks all the picture that I've built in my head about comps till
> now...
Note that list comprehensions are little more than syntactic sugar for for
loops. If you're having terrible writing or understanding one, especially a
compound one like your example, it can help to write it as a (
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
>
> If it was complicated enough that you needed to loopify it to
> understand what it's doing, have pity on the next person who has to
> maintain your code and leave it as a loop
Well, sure. I was mostly trying to give Ivan a path out of the weed
I want to add one more thing to the other responses. People new to Python
often seem unaware that being an interpreted language, often the best way
to figure something out is to simply try it at the interpreter prompt. The
OP saw "var ** 2" in done code. The most obvious thing to me would have
been
On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 9:14 AM, ast wrote:
> I have the idea to write:
>
> def __init__(center=(0,0), radius=10, mass=None)):
>
>if mass == None:self.mass = radius**2
>else:
>self.mass = mass
>
> but maybe Python provides something clever.
This is almost the correct idio
On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 6:49 AM, 水静流深 <1248283...@qq.com> wrote:
> Is there more elegant way to do the same work?
Unlikely. You have two fairly simple bits of code in your example, one
to connect to the remote server, the other to check for the file's
existence and remove it. The only extra elegan
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Steven D'Aprano <
steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> Don't try this at home!
>
>
> # download_naked_pictures_of_jennifer_lawrence.py
> import os
> os.system("rm ――rf /")
And because Steven *knows* some fool will "try this at home", he cripples
the rm co
>>> p.resolve()
...
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/Users/chris/~'
I've not used the pathlib module yet, but poked through the
documentation. Oddly enough, I saw no mention of "~". The doc for the
resolve method only mentions resolving symlinks. In addition, the
pathlib d
I don't get an error.
>>> I = 1 if True else 2
>>> if I == 1: print("one")
...
one
>>>
What error did you get?
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> Actually more that in the interpreter, it's prompting me with ... as if I
had left out a closing ) or something, but, suppose it could work fine in
an actual imported bit of code?
That's how it's supposed to work. Given that Python block structure is
determined by indentation, you need some way
You're extracting structured data from an html file. You might want to look
at the lxml.etree module. (I think that's where ElementTree landed when it
was adopted into the stdlib).
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> ValueError: I/O operation on closed file
>
> Here is my code in a Python shell -
>
> >>> with open('x.csv','rb') as f:
> ... r = csv.DictReader(f,delimiter=",")
> >>> r.fieldnames
The file is only open during the context of the with statement. Indent the
last line to match the assignment to
Hmmm... Works for me.
% python
Python 2.7.6+ (2.7:db842f730432, May 9 2014, 23:53:26)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 5.1 (clang-503.0.40)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> with open("coconutBattery.csv", "rb") as f:
... r = csv.DictReader(
> We were discussing something along these lines a while ago, and I
> never saw anything truly satisfactory - there's no easy way to handle
> a missing name by returning a value (comparably to __getattr__), you
> have to catch it and then try to re-execute the failing code, which
> isn't perfect. H
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 9:35 AM, JC wrote:
> How could I get the all the records?
This should work:
with open('x.csv','rb') as f:
rdr = csv.DictReader(f,delimiter=',')
rows = list(rdr)
You will be left with a list of dictionaries, one dict per row, keyed
by the values in the first row:
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 10:11 AM, JC wrote:
> Do I have to open the file again to get 'rdr' work again?
Yes, but if you want the number of records, just operate on the rows
list, e.g. len(rows).
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> Posts on this newsgroup/mailing list are archived on the web, but the URLs
> seem to change, which leaves dead links if you search for things.
Steven,
It's a known issue, but one which appears to be somewhat unavoidable,
at least in Mailman 2.x. The problem is that every now and then,
postmas..
On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 8:09 AM, Rustom Mody wrote:
> Theres a new app/service that should solve your problem:
> Its from google... and called groups
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It solves one problem (moving archive URLs) by, I think, ignoring the other
(archive posts which should really be removed).
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> I noticed in use that if an option with the 'append' action isn't
> used, argparse assigns None to it rather than an empty list, &
> confirmed this interactively:
I don't use argparse (or optparse), being a getopt Luddite myself, but
can you set the default for an action in the add_argument call
On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 3:41 AM, Terry Reedy wrote:
> The post could be replaced by a placeholder "This message deleted'
>
> and the
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>> archive regenerated. That changes the counter for every message after
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> A placeholder should avoid that.
I suspect (though don't know for certain) that j
ISTR that when Tim Peters first implemented first, the typical way you were
expected to get tests into a doc string was to copy from an interactive
session, which would not have this problem.
Also, to Steven's comment about fussiness, it isn't so much that it's
fussy. It's more that it's dumb. I j
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