pyshell and unum hint

I like to have unum units imported automatically on my PYTHONSTARTUP since I'm always converting things, and I also like to use pyshell. They conflict for some reason I don't understand (pyshell doesn't like the Unum.as method, maybe since it will be a keyword): 1.0*IN.as(M) File "", line 1

Help with 'popen'

Can someone let me know why this won't work? Thanks. >>> from os import popen >>> popen('export asdfasdf=hello').read() '' >>> popen('echo $asdfasdf').read() '\n' Thanks. Stephen -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Clearing a DOS terminal in a script

This doesn't seem to work in a dos terminal at the start of a script: from os import popen print popen('clear').read() Any idea why not? Thanks. Stephen -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Clearing a DOS terminal in a script

On Dec 13, 11:21 am, "Chris Mellon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It opens "clear" with it's own virtual terminal and clears that > instead. Even when I launch the script from a cmd shell with "python myscript.py"? > There's an ANSI control code you can use to reset the screen, try printing > tha

Default location of python on OS X

I've installed the latest 2.5 python today from python.org, and I think it ended up in "/Applications/MacPython 2.5". I also have a "/Applications/MacPython 2.4" and a "/Applications/ MacPython-2.4". Can I delete these, or did one of them come with Leopard? I still have a "/Library/Python/2.3" an

Re: Default location of python on OS X

On Jan 8, 11:33 pm, Tommy Nordgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I still have a "/Library/Python/2.3" and a "/Library/Python/2.5". > > > Thanks. > > > Stephen > Leopard INCLUDES Python 2.5, there is no need to install it. Thanks -- that made the decision easy. I didn't need all those MacP

Re: Converting a float to a formatted outside of print command

On Nov 23, 3:17 pm, Dan Bishop wrote: > You meant: > > x = '%.1f' % y Thanks, I'm a dufus today. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Help with OS X installation

I have python 2.6 on OS X 10.5.8: $ python --version Python 2.6.2 $ which python /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/bin/python When installing an egg, python 2.5 shows up: """ $ sudo easy_install ipython-0.10-py2.6.egg Password: Processing ipython-0.10-py2.6.egg removing '/Libra

Re: Help with OS X installation

Thanks all. That did it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Converting a float to a formatted outside of print command

I'd like to convert a list of floats to formatted strings. The following example raises a TypeError: y = 0.5 x = '.1f' % y -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

List comprehension and string conversion with formatting

I'd like to convert a list of floats to a list of strings constrained to one .1f format. These don't work. Is there a better way? [".1f" % i for i in l] or [(".1f" % i) for i in l] StephenB -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: List comprehension and string conversion with formatting

On Jun 9, 10:43 am, Carl Banks wrote: > You need a % in there, chief. > > Carl Banks You are so right. Thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list