On Tue, 02 Jul 2013 19:46:13 -0400, Roy Smith wrote:
> In article ,
> Ned Deily wrote:
>
>> If you find a bug in Python, don't send it to comp.lang.python; file a
>> bug report in the issue tracker.
>
> I'm not sure I agree with that one, at least not fully. It's certainly
> true that you sho
On Tue, 02 Jul 2013 17:30:32 -0700, rurpy wrote:
>> Needless to say, I disagree with your position. There is no place for
>> baseless insults in this community; but when the behaviour of someone
>> in this community is harmful, then it is entirely appropriate to use
>> clear terms (e.g. “incompete
On Tue, 02 Jul 2013 18:20:12 -0700, goldtech wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Using Windows
>
> I want to run a .py file script using pythonw.exe so the DOS box will
> not open. Is there a way from inside the script to say "run me with
> pythonw.exe and not python.exe"?
I don't believe so, because by the t
On Tue, 02 Jul 2013 06:48:59 -0700, rusi wrote:
> A plague is raging in the town
> A rat scampers into the room.
> People are harried --- A RAT!
[...]
Very imaginative, but your characterisation of people's responses to the
plague rat appears to have very little in common with the actual
respon
On Wed, 03 Jul 2013 08:39:59 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> Steve Simmons writes:
>> Does this list have a code of conduct or a netiqeutte (sp?)
>> statement/requirement?
>
> This forum (both a Usenet newsgroup and a mailing list) is part of the
> Python community. So the “Python Community Code of C
I'm running a box with Debian squeeze, and I just ran:
sudo aptitude install jython
which ended up installing Python 2.5:
[...]
Linking and byte-compiling packages for runtime python2.5...
Setting up python2.5 (2.5.5-11) ...
Does anyone know why CPython 2.5 is a dependency for Jython 2.5.1+ on
On Wed, 03 Jul 2013 07:43:46 -0500, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>> Does anyone know why CPython 2.5 is a dependency for Jython 2.5.1+ on
>> Debian squeeze?
>
> Might Jython use some Python modules/packages unmodified? Does sys.path
> in Jython refer to the CPython tree?
Apparently not:
>>> sys.path
On Wed, 03 Jul 2013 14:00:49 +0100, Tim Golden wrote:
> Goodness, I doubt if you'll find anyone who can seriously make a case
> that the Windows command prompt is all it might be. I'm not a Powershell
> user myself but people speak highly of it.
I understand that Powershell is aimed more for batc
Most people are familiar with:
import this
and sometimes even with:
from __future__ import braces
But I'm aware of at least three more. Anyone care to give them?
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On Wed, 03 Jul 2013 10:15:22 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote:
> And in Jython there's:
>
> from __future__ import GIL
Nice one! I didn't know about that!
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On Wed, 03 Jul 2013 10:10:17 -0400, Roy Smith wrote:
> In article ,
> Terry Reedy wrote:
>
>> 6. If you make an informed post to the tracker backed up by at least
>> opinion, at least one tracker responder be in a better mode when
>> responding.
>
> What I generally do is summarize the problem
On Wed, 03 Jul 2013 11:08:11 -0700, rusi wrote:
> And when Nikos moves up from petty criminal status to responsible
> citizen,
"Petty criminal status"?
/headdesk
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On Wed, 03 Jul 2013 12:18:58 -0700, rurpy wrote:
> On 07/03/2013 12:08 PM, rusi wrote:
>> On Wednesday, July 3, 2013 10:31:23 PM UTC+5:30, ru...@yahoo.com wrote:
>>> Are the existence of laws against beating people up negated because
>>> you told them in advance? Or negated because they "deserve"
Recently, there was a thread where people discussed variable
declarations, with a couple people stating that they wished that Python
required you to declare local variables, instead of globals.
I'm sure they have their (foolish, pathetic) *wink* reasons for this, but
I thought I'd explain why I
On Thu, 04 Jul 2013 14:07:55 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Steven D'Aprano
> wrote:
>> With respect to the Huffman coding of declarations, Javascript gets it
>> backwards. Locals ought to be more common, but they require more
>> typ
On Thu, 04 Jul 2013 05:30:03 +0100, Joshua Landau wrote:
> That said, I'm not too convinced. Personally, the proper way to do what
> you are talking about is creating a new closure. Like:
>
> for i in range(100):
> with new_scope():
> for i in range(100):
> func(i)
> f
On Thu, 04 Jul 2013 12:01:26 +0100, Robert Kern wrote:
> On 2013-07-04 10:14, Νίκος wrote:
>
>> If you guys want to use it i can send you a patch for it. I know its
>> illegal thing to say but it will help you use it without buying it.
>
> Please do not use this forum to make such offers.
Than
On Thu, 04 Jul 2013 07:02:26 -0700, rusi wrote:
> On Thursday, July 4, 2013 7:03:19 PM UTC+5:30, Steve Simmons wrote:
>> Boy oh boy! You really are a slow learner Nicos. You have just offered
>> to commit a crime and to include dozens of others in that crime ON A
>> PUBLIC FORUM. Please think befo
On Thu, 04 Jul 2013 03:06:25 -0400, Dave Angel wrote:
> On 07/04/2013 01:32 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>
>
>>
>> Well, if I ever have more than 63,000,000 variables[1] in a function,
>> I'll keep that in mind.
>>
>
>>
>&g
On Thu, 04 Jul 2013 15:47:57 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Steven D'Aprano
> wrote:
>> Accidental shadowing can be a problem, but I've never heard of anyone
>> saying that they were *forced* to shadow a global they needed access
>&
On Thu, 04 Jul 2013 17:54:20 +0100, Rotwang wrote:
[...]
> Anyway, none of the calculations that has been given takes into account
> the fact that names can be /less/ than one million characters long.
Not in *my* code they don't!!!
*wink*
> The
> actual number of non-empty strings of length a
On Thu, 04 Jul 2013 10:20:43 -0700, Arturo B wrote:
> I'm making this exercise: (Python 3.3)
>
> Write a function translate() that will translate a text into
> "rövarspråket" (Swedish for "robber's language"). That is, double every
> consonant and place an occurrence of "o" in between. For exampl
On Fri, 05 Jul 2013 17:05:49 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Steven D'Aprano
> wrote:
>> If you know C, that's like:
>>
>> ?(condition-being-tested, value-if-true, value-if-false)
>
> Or to be precise:
>
> con
On Fri, 05 Jul 2013 09:48:09 +0200, bill papanastasiou wrote:
> hello , good morning
>
> how i can pùt one python file in website ?
The same way you would put any other file in a website.
Can you be more specific? What website do you want to put it on? Is it
your website or somebody else's?
On Fri, 05 Jul 2013 10:53:35 +, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Since I don't do any numerical stuff with the arrays, Numpy doesn't seem
> to be a good choice. I think this is an argument to add real arrays to
> Python.
Guido's time machine strikes again:
import array
By the way, I'm not exactly
On Fri, 05 Jul 2013 14:54:26 +, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Jul 2013 13:44:57 +0100, Fábio Santos wrote: May I suggest
> you avoid range and use enumerate(the_array) instead? It might be
> faster.
>
> How does this work?
>
> Given
>
> Grid= [[0 for j in range(9)] for i in range(9)]
On Fri, 05 Jul 2013 16:07:03 +, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> The solution above take 0.79 seconds (mean of 100 calls) while the
> following version take 1.05 seconds (mean of 100 calls):
1) How are you timing the calls?
2) Don't use the mean, that's the wrong statistic when you are measuring
so
On Fri, 05 Jul 2013 15:47:45 +, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> > for r, row_lst in enumerate(Grid):
> > for c, val in enumerate(row_lst):
>
> I assume the creation of the temporary lists "row_list" is a bit
> expensive.
No temporary list is being created. The pre-existing list is just being
gr
I have a pool of worker threads, created like this:
threads = [MyThread(*args) for i in range(numthreads)]
for t in threads:
t.start()
I then block until the threads are all done:
while any(t.isAlive() for t in threads):
pass
Is that the right way to wait for the threads to be done? S
On Fri, 05 Jul 2013 19:12:44 +0200, Irmen de Jong wrote:
> On 5-7-2013 18:59, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> I then block until the threads are all done:
>>
>> while any(t.isAlive() for t in threads):
>> pass
>>
>>
>> Is that the right way to wa
On Fri, 05 Jul 2013 18:39:15 +, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Jul 2013 16:50:41 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 05 Jul 2013 16:07:03 +, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
>>
>>> The solution above take 0.79 seconds (mean of 100 calls) while the
On Sat, 06 Jul 2013 09:10:39 -0500, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>> The fact that rms has crippling RSI should indicate that emacs'
>> ergonomics is not right.
>
> Kind of a small sample size, don't you think?
Yes, but RMS is worth 1000 ordinary programmers!!!
*wink*
[...]
> More likely, rms ignore
I sometimes find myself needing to promote[1] arbitrary numbers
(Decimals, Fractions, ints) to floats. E.g. I might say:
numbers = [float(num) for num in numbers]
or if you prefer:
numbers = map(float, numbers)
The problem with this is that if a string somehow gets into the original
numbers,
On Sun, 07 Jul 2013 05:17:01 +0100, Joshua Landau wrote:
> On 7 July 2013 04:56, Steven D'Aprano
> wrote:
...
>> def promote(x):
>> if isinstance(x, str): raise TypeError return float(x)
>>>> from operator import methodcaller
>>>> safe_fl
On Sun, 07 Jul 2013 23:43:24 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 11:13 PM, Wayne Werner
> wrote:
>> Which you would then use like:
>>
>>
>> conn = create_conn()
>> with new_transaction(conn) as tran:
>> rows_affected = do_query_stuff(tran)
>> if rows_affected == 42:
>>
On Fri, 05 Jul 2013 13:24:43 +, Neil Cerutti wrote:
> for x in range(4):
>print(x)
> print(x) # Vader NOoOO!!!
That loops do *not* introduce a new scope is a feature, not a bug. It is
*really* useful to be able to use the value of x after the loop has
finished. That's a much mor
On Mon, 08 Jul 2013 10:48:03 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
[...]
> That means that I, as programmer, have to keep track of the nesting
> level of subtransactions. Extremely ugly. A line of code can't be moved
> around without first checking which transaction object to work with.
I feel your pain, b
On Mon, 08 Jul 2013 13:11:37 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 12:23 PM, Steven D'Aprano
> wrote:
>> On Mon, 08 Jul 2013 10:48:03 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: [...]
>>> That means that I, as programmer, have to keep track of the nesting
>>>
On Sun, 07 Jul 2013 17:22:26 -0700, blatt wrote:
> Hi all,
> but a particular hello to Chris Angelino which with their critics and
> suggestions pushed me to make a full revision of my application on hex
> dump in presence of utf-8 chars.
I don't understand what you are trying to say. All charact
On Sun, 07 Jul 2013 23:16:39 -0700, jussij wrote:
> I couldn't live without the keyboard macro record and playback.
I used to work with a programmer who couldn't live without his insulin
injections.
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On Sun, 07 Jul 2013 22:34:46 -0700, jussij wrote:
> On Sunday, July 7, 2013 12:41:02 PM UTC+10, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
>> I am not an ergonomic expert, but I understand that moving from mouse
>> to keyboard actually helps prevent RSI, because it slows down the rate
&g
On Mon, 08 Jul 2013 07:32:01 +0800, Xue Fuqiao wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> (English is not my native language; please excuse typing errors.)
>
> I'm a Python newbie and just started reading PEP 8. PEP says:
>
> ---
> |The closing bra
On Mon, 08 Jul 2013 11:39:21 +0100, Joshua Landau wrote:
> On 8 July 2013 00:32, Xue Fuqiao wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> (English is not my native language; please excuse typing errors.)
>>
>> I'm a Python newbie and just started reading PEP 8. PEP says:
>>
>>
On Mon, 08 Jul 2013 07:44:11 -0700, davide.dalmasso wrote:
> Hi, I work with Python 3.3.
> I downloaded an IPython executable version from
> http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ I installed it but no
> shortcut appears in my start menu. How can I launch it or alternatively
> is there some ot
On Mon, 08 Jul 2013 21:52:19 -0700, saadharana wrote:
> Hey i'm looking for a new router.
I recommend this one:
http://www.bunnings.com.au/products_product_1350w-aeg-12-router-rt1350e_P6230066.aspx
Helpfully-as-ever-ly yrs,
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On Tue, 09 Jul 2013 00:32:00 +0100, MRAB wrote:
> On 08/07/2013 23:02, Joshua Landau wrote:
>> On 8 July 2013 22:38, MRAB wrote:
>>> On 08/07/2013 21:56, Dave Angel wrote:
Characters do not have a width.
>>>
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>> It depends what you mean by "width"! :-)
>>>
>>> Try this (Python
On Tue, 09 Jul 2013 07:49:45 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 6:56 AM, Dave Angel wrote:
>> But Unicode has nothing to do with Guido, and it has existed for about
>> 25 years (if I recall correctly).
>
> Depends how you measure. According to [1], the work kinda began back
>
On Mon, 08 Jul 2013 10:53:18 -0700, ferdy.blatsco wrote:
> Not using python 3, for me (a programmer which was present at the
> beginning of computer science, badly interacting with many languages
> from assembler to Fortran and from c to Pascal and so on) it was an hard
> job to arrange the abrupt
On Tue, 09 Jul 2013 12:15:29 +0200, Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 11:34 AM, wrote:
>> Note the difference between SS and ẞ 'FRANZ-JOSEF-STRAUSS-STRAẞE'
>
> This is a capital Eszett. Which just happens not to exist in German.
> Germans do not use this character, it is
On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 18:26:19 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Mats Peterson wrote:
>> A moderator who calls himself “animuson” on Stack Overflow doesn’t want
>> to face the truth. He has deleted all my postings regarding Python
>> regular expression matching being e
On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 08:55:46 +0200, Stefan Behnel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been looking for a Python package for formatting international
> dates, numbers and monetary values
[...]
> https://github.com/mitsuhiko/babel
>
> Since it took me quite a while to figure this out, I thought I'd post
> this
On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 07:55:05 +, Mats Peterson wrote:
> A moderator who calls himself “animuson” on Stack Overflow doesn’t want
> to face the truth. He has deleted all my postings regarding Python
> regular expression matching being extremely slow compared to Perl.
That's by design. We don't w
On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 08:46:44 +, Mats Peterson wrote:
> Chris Angelico wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Mats Peterson
>> wrote:
>>> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 18:26:19 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
[...]
>>>>
On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 00:00:59 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
> And now for something completely different.
>
> I knocked together a prime number generator, just for the fun of it,
> that works like a Sieve of Eratosthenes but unbounded.
[...]
> So, a few questions. Firstly, is there a stdlib way to
On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 17:46:13 +0200, Giampaolo Rodola' wrote:
> Hi there folks,
> I'm pleased to announce the 1.0.0 release of psutil:
> http://code.google.com/p/psutil/
Congratulations on the 1.0.0 release!
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On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 09:03:24 +, Mats Peterson wrote:
> Not a troll. It's just hard to convince Python users that their beloved
> language would have inferior regular expression performance to Perl.
I can't speak for others, but I've known for many years that Python's
regex implementation was
On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 16:54:02 +0100, Joshua Landau wrote:
> On 10 July 2013 10:00, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 07:55:05 +, Mats Peterson wrote:
>>
>>> A moderator who calls himself “animuson” on Stack Overflow doesn’t
>>> want to
On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 18:53:34 +0100, Joshua Landau wrote:
> I might be misattributing posts then. Or... YOU'RE IN DENIAL!
Ranting Rick? Is that you?
:-)
> Who wins? You decide!
Ah, definitely not RR :-)
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On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 04:15:37 +0100, Joshua Landau wrote:
> I have this innocent and simple code:
>
> from collections import deque
> exhaust_iter = deque(maxlen=0).extend
At this point, exhaust_iter is another name for the bound instance method
"extend" of one specific deque instance.
Other i
On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 17:06:39 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Steven D'Aprano
> wrote:
>> I think the right solution here is the trivial:
>>
>> def exhaust(it):
>> """Doc string here."""
>>
Things are certainly heating up in the alternate Python compiler field.
Mypy is a new, experimental, implementation of Python 3 with optional
static typing and aiming for efficient compilation to machine code.
http://www.mypy-lang.org/index.html
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On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 15:05:59 +0200, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I just stumbled over a case where Python (2.7 and 3.3 on MS Windows)
> fail to detect that an object is a function, using the callable()
> builtin function. Investigating, I found out that the object was indeed
> not callable
On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 09:45:33 -0400, Roy Smith wrote:
> In article <2fdf282e-fd28-4ba3-8c83-ce120...@googlegroups.com>,
> jus...@zeusedit.com wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday, July 10, 2013 2:17:12 PM UTC+10, Xue Fuqiao wrote:
>>
>> > * It is especially handy for selecting and deleting text.
>>
>>
On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 11:42:26 -0700, wxjmfauth wrote:
> And what to say about this "ucs4" char/string '\U0001d11e' which is
> weighting 18 bytes more than an "a".
>
sys.getsizeof('\U0001d11e')
> 44
>
> A total absurdity.
You should stick to Python 3.1 and 3.2 then:
py> print(sys.version)
On Fri, 12 Jul 2013 01:50:17 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 1:42 AM, Paul Rudin
> wrote:
>> Text selection with a mouse is a different thing. Sometimes it's more
>> convenient, sometimes it's not.
>
> As screens get larger and the amount of text on them increases, it's
>
On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 21:24:00 -0700, Metallicow wrote:
> Forgot to add >>> part. Is there any way to edit posts?
Not unless thousands of people give you access to their computer so you
can edit the emails in their inboxes.
When you send a post to a public mailing list, its out their on fifty
t
On Fri, 12 Jul 2013 07:36:30 +, Duncan Booth wrote:
> To be a convincing use-case you would have to show a situation where
> something had to be both a static method and a utility method rather
> than just one or the other and also where you couldn't just have both.
I have a class where I hav
On Fri, 12 Jul 2013 23:01:47 +0100, Joshua Landau wrote:
> Isn't a superscript "c" the symbol for radians?
Only in the sense that a superscript "o" is the symbol for degrees.
Semantically, both degree-sign and radian-sign are different "things"
than merely an o or c in superscript.
Neverthele
On Fri, 12 Jul 2013 13:58:29 -0400, Devyn Collier Johnson wrote:
> I plan to spend some time optimizing the re.py module for Unix systems.
> I would love to amp up my programs that use that module.
In my experience, often the best way to optimize a regex is to not use it
at all.
[steve@ando ~]$
On Fri, 12 Jul 2013 23:38:18 -0700, Metallicow wrote:
> On Saturday, July 13, 2013 12:36:45 AM UTC-5, Tim Roberts wrote:
>> Really? Because Windows is the ONLY one of the major operating systems
>>
>> that actually has a dedicated system fonts directory. Linux doesn't
>> even
>>
>> have a dedi
On Fri, 12 Jul 2013 23:43:55 -0700, peter wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> I am new to Python and wondering if there is a better python way to do
> something. As a learning exercise I decided to create a python bash
> script to wrap around the Python Crypt library (Version 2.7).
A Python bash script? What
On Sat, 13 Jul 2013 00:56:52 -0700, wxjmfauth wrote:
> I am convinced you are not conceptually understanding utf-8 very well. I
> wrote many times, "utf-8 does not produce bytes, but Unicode Encoding
> Units".
Just because you write it many times, doesn't make it correct. You are
simply wrong. U
On Sat, 13 Jul 2013 00:56:52 -0700, wxjmfauth wrote:
> You are confusing the knowledge of a coding scheme and the intrisinc
> information a "coding scheme" *may* have, in a mandatory way, to work
> properly. These are conceptualy two different things.
*May* have, in a *mandatory* way?
JMF, I kno
On Sat, 13 Jul 2013 04:07:21 -0700, fronagzen wrote:
> Well, I'm a newcome to Python, but I'm developing a program with a GUI
> in tkinter, and I'm wondering what is the best, 'most pythonic' way of
> doing this?
>
> I could, obviously, write a monolithic block of code.
>
> I can define the logi
On Sun, 14 Jul 2013 11:53:55 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
> Doh, I forgot which channel this was on again :( It feels like a
> python-list thread.
Can't you just hit Reply-List or even Reply-All?
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On Sat, 13 Jul 2013 20:09:31 -0700, vek.m1234 wrote:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17632246/beazley-4e-p-e-r-page29-
unicode
>
> "directly writing a raw UTF-8 encoded string such as 'Jalape\xc3\xb1o'
> simply produces a nine-character string U+004A, U+0061, U+006C, U+0061,
> U+0070, U+0065
On Sun, 14 Jul 2013 01:20:33 -0700, wxjmfauth wrote:
> For a very simple reason, the latin-1 block: considered and accepted
> today as beeing a Unicode design mistake.
Latin-1 (also known as ISO-8859-1) was based on DEC's "Multinational
Character Set", which goes back to 1983. ISO-8859-1 was fir
On Sun, 14 Jul 2013 17:25:32 -0700, fronagzen wrote:
> My next question is, to what degree should I 'slice' my logic into
> functions? How small or how large should one function be, as a rule of
> thumb?
I aim to keep my functions preferably below a dozen lines (excluding the
doc string), and de
On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 10:27:45 +0800, Gildor Oronar wrote:
> A currency exchange thread updates exchange rate once a minute. If the
> thread faield to update currency rate for 5 hours, it should inform
> main() for a clean exit. This has to be done gracefully, because main()
> could be doing somethi
Oh, I forgot another comment...
On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 03:04:14 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 10:27:45 +0800, Gildor Oronar wrote:
>>while time.time() - self.rate_timestamp < 5*3600:
>> ... # update exchange rate
On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 06:06:06 -0400, Devyn Collier Johnson wrote:
> On 07/14/2013 02:17 PM, 8 Dihedral wrote:
[...]
>> Do we want volunteers to speed up
>> search operations in the string module in Python?
>
> It would be nice if someone could speed it up.
Devyn,
8 Dihedral is our residen
On Tue, 16 Jul 2013 15:43:45 -0700, John Ladasky wrote:
> The kids all claim to be interested. They all want to write the next
> great 3D video game. Thus, I'm a little surprised that the kids don't
> actually try to sit down and code without me prompting them. I think
> that they're disappoint
On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 10:21:10 -0400, Joel Goldstick wrote:
> class="gmail_quote">
[snip 70-odd lines of HTML...]
> I'm guessing you may be posting with html. So all your code runs
> together.
> -- dir="ltr"> Joel Goldstickhttp://joelgoldstick.com
>
My irony meter didn't merely explode, it a
On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 09:22:48 -0400, Devyn Collier Johnson wrote:
> I have some code that I want to simplify. I know that a for-loop would
> work well, but can I make re.sub perform all of the below tasks at once,
> or can I write this in a way that is more efficient than using a
> for-loop?
>
> D
On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 09:57:47 -0500, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>> Is it possible that the name "Matthew Lefavor" has been added to a
>> greylist or something?
>
> That's not how greylisting works. Greylisting is a scheme used to
> eliminate spam. The server knows what email addresses it's received
>
On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 09:51:23 -0400, Devyn Collier Johnson wrote:
> def KDE_VERSION():
> print(subprocess.getoutput('kded4 --version | awk -F:
> \'NR == 2 {print $2}\'').strip()) ##Get KDE version##
I run KDE 3, and the above does not work for me.
*half a wink*
By the way, a comment that
On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 18:08:43 -0400, Devyn Collier Johnson wrote:
> As for the case-insensitive if-statements, most code uses Latin letters.
> Making a case-insensitive-international if-statement would be
> interesting. I can tackle that later. For now, I only wanted to take
> care of Latin letters
On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 21:04:55 -0400, Devyn Collier Johnson wrote:
> In the future, I want to
> make the perfect international-case-insensitive if-statement. For now,
> my code only supports a limited range of characters. Even with casefold,
> I will have some issues as Chris Angelico mentioned.
Th
On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 14:30:14 -0700, Paul McGuire wrote:
> Thanks for your continued support and interest in pyparsing!
And thank you for pyparsing!
Paul, I thought I would mention that over the last week or so on the
Python-Dev mailing list, there has been some discussion about adding a
parser
On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 13:22:03 -0700, pablobarhamalzas asked:
"How can I make this piece of code even faster?"
- Use a faster computer.
- Put in more memory.
- If using Unix or Linux, decrease the "nice" priority of the process.
I mention these because sometimes people forget that if you have a ch
On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 03:19:24 -0700, pablobarhamalzas wrote:
> Thank's for all the replies! I've tried some of the imporovements you
> suggested (using math.exp() and sum() or math.fsum()). None of that made
> the code faster, because they are functions you are calling lots of
> times, and function
On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 21:10:18 -0700, malayrev wrote:
> I faced a problem: to implement appropriate search program I need to
> tick few checkboxes which turned out to have the same name (name="a",
> id="a1","a2","a3","a4"). Set_input('a', True) does not work (I use Grab
> library)
Instructions for
On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 13:42:13 +0200, Vincent Vande Vyvre wrote:
> On Windows a script where de endline are the system line sep, the files
> are open with a double line in Eric4, Notepad++ or Gedit but they are
> correctly displayed in the MS Bloc-Notes.
I suspect the problem lies with Eric4, Notep
On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 19:59:01 -0400, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> {Liaden culture seems heavy on personal honor, and comments tend (to me)
> be worded to avoid any chance of being interpreted as disparaging of the
> person with whom one is speaking... Hmmm, pity such modes can't be
> enforced on the
On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 18:16:08 -0700, Ethan Furman wrote:
> Back in Python 2.x days I had a good grip on dict and dict.keys(), and
> when to use one or the other.
>
> Then Python 3 came on the scene with these things called 'views', and
> while range couldn't be bothered, dict jumped up and down sh
On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 08:57:11 -0700, Ethan Furman wrote:
> My point is that in 2.x .keys() did something different from the dict,
> while in 3.x it appears to me that they are the same.
Then you aren't looking very closely. d.keys() returns a set-like view
into the dict, which is great for compar
On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 13:17:12 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 7/24/2013 12:34 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> Side point: Why is iterating over a dict equivalent to .keys() rather
>> than .items()? It feels odd that, with both options viable, the
>> implicit version iterates over half the dict inste
On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 09:00:39 -0600, Michael Torrie wrote about JMF:
> His most recent argument that Python should use UTF as a representation
> is very strange to be honest.
He's not arguing for anything, he is just hating on anything that gives
even the tiniest benefit to ASCII users. This isn'
On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 17:59:43 -0700, Ethan Furman wrote:
>> Repeat after me: "In Python 2, d.keys() returns a list of keys, so if I
>> want a list of keys in Python 3, call list explicitly list(d.keys())."
>
> Actually, I would recommend `list(d)`, which also works the same in both
> 2 and 3.
Fai
On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 00:34:24 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
> But mainly, I'm just wondering how many people here have any basis from
> which to argue the point he's trying to make. I doubt most of us have
> (a) implemented an editor widget, or (b) tested multiple different
> internal representation
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