Setash enlightened us with:
> 1) Classes. How do you extend classes?
>
> I know its as easy as:
>
> class classname(a)
>do stuff
>
>
> But where does the parent class need to lie? In the same file? Can
> it lie in another .py file in the root directory?
It doesn't matter at all, as long as 'a'
Setash enlightened us with:
>> class1.py:
>>
>> class Class1(object):
>> pass
>>
>> class2.py:
>> import class1
This line imports class1.py and places its contents under the name
"class1".
> classes.py:
>
> class Class1
> pass
>
> class Class2(Class1)
> pass
That's co
ArdPy enlightened us with:
> Is it possible to hack through the code written by Guido van Rossum
> that makes the python interpreter.
Yes it is.
> If yes please let me know how to begin. If its not then pardon me.
Download the source, start hacking.
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Kamilche enlightened us with:
> DetectUnusedModules.py - Detect modules that were imported but not
> used in a file. When run directly, this class will check all files
> in the current directory.
Nice as it is, but why not use pylint to check this and many other
coding style issues?
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Kjell Magne Fauske enlightened us with:
> I recommend taking a look at Django [1]. It is not a CMS right out
> of the box, but writing one using the Django framework is not that
> difficult.
Django is my favourite as well. It's very easy to start building a
dynamic website.
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Fulvio enlightened us with:
> I was thinking about use md5 check to se if a file had changes since
> last check. Am I correct?
You can do that, but a check on the mtime (os.stat) would be a lot
easier.
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Paolo Pantaleo enlightened us with:
> is thre something like py2exe for Linux? I don't need to build a
> standalone executable (most Linuxes have python instaled), but at
> least I need to provide all the needed libraries togheter with my
> source code, so users just need to download one file, and
alf enlightened us with:
> I have a command line program which also does some interaction with the
> user using stdin and stdout.
>
> My requirement is to print prompt so the user can answer in the same
> line. Unfortunately:
>
> print 'enter command:',
>
>
> does not really work as the comma i
John Salerno enlightened us with:
> Hmm, looks like this doesn't work anyway if open() doesn't work,
> because then f.close() raises an UnboundLocalError for obvious
> reasons.
Neither work 100% correct, actually. If the file can be located and
opened, but not read, the message
Could not loca
elderic enlightened us with:
> are there other ways than the ones below to check for 'function'> in a python script?
First of all, why would you want to? If you want to call the object
as a function, just do so. Handle the exception that is raised when
it's raised.
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Christophe enlightened us with:
> I don't think it's a good idea because when you place a try catch
> block around a function call, you'll catch any exception thrown by
> the function itself and not only the "cannot be called" exception.
That depends on the exception you're catching, doesn't it?
Bo Yang enlightened us with:
> I have writen a python program to slove a problem described as
> below:
Please post again, but then leaving indentation intact, since this is
unreadable.
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Manoj Kumar P enlightened us with:
> Can anyone tell me a good python editor/IDE?
> It would be great if you can provide the download link also.
VIM 7 is great, http://www.vim.org/
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David C Ullrich enlightened us with:
> I thought that the fact that you could use the same trick for
> _shuffling_ a list was my idea, gonna make me rich and famous. I
> guess I'm not the only one who thought of it. Anyway, you can use
> DSU to _shuffle_ a list by decorating the list with random n
Arthur Pemberton enlightened us with:
> What is the best way to do data source abtraction?
That depends on your data source. For files, file-like objects are an
abstraction. For databases there is PEP 249.
> I was thinking of almost having classA as my main class, and have
> classA dynamically "a
jj_frap enlightened us with:
> When I try to print the "winner" (I've not coded for kicker strength
> and ties yet) via the max function, it returns the maximum value in
> the list rather than the index associated with that value.
>
> How do I return the index?
You can't even be sure it exists - t
Erik Max Francis enlightened us with:
>> The other zilion persons who were not interested (other than the four I
>> mentioned above) silently and peacefully ignored the question on went
>> on with their happy lifes.
>
> That's because many of them have killfiled you.
I can say that I didn't killfi
Hi folks,
I just noticed I still had the "no archive" header on, which is rather
stupid. If I want to make life easier for people, the information I
posted in this thread should be archived! Here is a small summary:
Get data from an OpenOffice.org spreadsheet with a Python script. It
works on the
John Machin enlightened us with:
> Suppose one has over a hundred spreadsheets (real-life example:
> budgets from an organisation's reporting centres) ... manually
> opening each in OOo Calc is less than appealing, and not very
> robust.
True. There are functions that can load files as well. Combi
John Machin enlightened us with:
> Firstly, let me say that you are highly commended for wading so far
> into the OOo docs and producing two pieces of code that actually do
> something. I've opened up the docs two or three times, said "Waaahht
> the " and closed them rapidly.
Thanks. I had the
Dennis Lee Bieber enlightened us with:
> The above is windows, I believe Linux uses instead of
>
That's correct. And so do all unix systems including MacOS X.
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km enlightened us with:
> Is there any PEP to introduce true threading features into python's
> next version as in java? i mean without having GIL.
What is GIL? Except for the Dutch word for SCREAM that is...
> when compared to other languages, python is fun to code but i feel
> its is lacking be
Hi folks!
The two small snippets I wrote two days ago were well received. With
the danger of being called a hero I proceded and wrote a proper
article about OpenOffice.org and Python.
It contains the following sections:
* Preparation
* Gaining access to a document
* Getting to the d
Jim Hugunin enlightened us with:
> I'm extremely happy to announce that we have released IronPython 1.0
> today! http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython
Congratulations!
> We were also able to release IronPython publicly from Microsoft with
> a BSD-style license. [...] Without the drive and input of
MC enlightened us with:
> Thanks!
You're welcome!
> - and Python 2.4.x?
I've used Python 2.4.3 to write the article.
> - I have Python 2.4 and then "embbed Python 2.3 of OOo" ; how
> install some things in this last Python? I dream to call Pywin32
> from OOo...
Please rephrase that qu
olive enlightened us with:
> you did not understand Michel question because Ubuntu seems to be
> the only distribution coming with OpenOffice and Python 2.4 compiled
> together.
Ah, okay. I have no other distributions here, so I rely on others to
give me more information about them.
> Others plat
sridhar enlightened us with:
> iam having user account on an exchangeserver.
> with that can i send an email using python?
>
> if iam using the following code iam getting error
>
>
> fromAddress = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> toAddress = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> msg = "Subject: Hello\n\nThis is the body of t
Steve Holden enlightened us with:
> This is untrue for the Python smtplib, though correct according to
> the RFCs. The SMTP.data() method uses a locally-declared function
> called quotedata() to ensure the correct line endings, so using "\n"
> will result in the same message as using "\r\n".
Ah, w
Tim Williams enlightened us with:
> Can you send email via it using outlook express or a similar
> POP3/IMAP mail client?
Wouldn't you use a SMTP client to send email?
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Kevin D Smith enlightened us with:
> I've written a simple Python extension for UNIX, but I need to get
> it working on Windows now. I'm having some difficulties figuring
> out how to do this.
I had to do the same, and I didn't get much result. My solution:
install Cygwin, use the Python that co
Lex Hider enlightened us with:
> Any tips on the code quality and use of python would be appreciated.
> I've got a feeling the overall structure is up the creek.
I'll post some remarks about the code ;-)
> HOME = os.path.expanduser("~")
I wouldn't use this. Just use os.environ['HOME']. In most c
Lawrence D'Oliveiro enlightened us with:
> Why doesn't MySQLdb provide a function like this:
Because generally you're able to pass newlines and the like just fine.
You can even store binary data into a BLOB column.
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T enlightened us with:
> We all know that there are many softwares that require some license
> key or registration key to enable them. How does one implement
> something like this in python?
Why do you want to? I've never seen software successfully protected by
such schemes. If you really want to
Connelly Barnes enlightened us with:
> I wrote the 'autoimp' module [1], which allows you to import lazy modules:
>
> The main point of autoimp is to make usage of the interactive Python
> prompt more productive by including "from autoimp import *" in the
> PYTHONSTARTUP file.
Sounds like a great
Lawrence D'Oliveiro enlightened us with:
> Yes, I have done blobs. Still need a quoting function for the
> specials, though.
Why? What makes your data so different from mine? I can store newlines
and the likes just fine in a regular text field.
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Roy Smith enlightened us with:
> I'm working on a product which for a long time has had a Perl
> binding for our remote access API. A while ago, I wrote a Python
> binding on my own, chatted it up a bit internally, and recently had
> a (large) customer enquire about getting access to it.
>
> I ask
Lawrence D'Oliveiro enlightened us with:
> "select * from details where person_name like"
> " concat(\"%%\", %s, \"%%\")" \
> % \
> QuoteSQL(name, True)
Wouldn't this be a whole lot better?
cursor.execute(
"select * from details where person_name like ?",
'%' +
Lawrence D'Oliveiro enlightened us with:
>> Wouldn't this be a whole lot better?
>>
>> cursor.execute(
>> "select * from details where person_name like ?",
>> '%' + name + '%'
>> )
>
> No. Can you figure out why?
Ok, should have tested it better. This works fine on my machine,
though:
cu
Duncan Booth enlightened us with:
> I think his point was that any '%' characters inside name act like
> wildcards whereas his version looked for literal percents.
But of course.
> This could be an argument for having a utility function to escape
> the wildcards for this sort of situation, but ce
Lawrence D'Oliveiro enlightened us with:
>> An escaping function should be small and not do all kinds of
>> escaping for different situations at once.
>
> Even when the two situations are related?
Yup, even then. Different situations need different escaping
functions.
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Paddy enlightened us with:
> All this keyboarding has finally caught up with me and I'm getting
> aches in my fingers.
Use more force with your fingers, and take regular typing breaks.
Often RSI is caused by subtle movements without applying a lot of
force.
Another good way to beat RSI is to lea
Aahz enlightened us with:
> Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>well, if you're only watching mtv, it's easy to think that there's
>>obviously not much demand for country singers, blues musicians,
>>British hard rock bands, or melodic death metal acts.
>
> Any other votes for this being
abcd enlightened us with:
> Any suggestions on how to find out? I did try adding to MyFile
>
> def __call__(self, *args):
> print "calling:", args
> return file.__call__(self, *args)
>
> but I never see that either.
I don't know the answer to your problem, but I can explain why this
d
Lawrence D'Oliveiro enlightened us with:
> The trouble with this is that, instead of offering extra functionality, it
> leaves the door open to making two stupid mistakes:
>
> 2) quoting of wildcards BEFORE quoting of non-wildcards
Why is this a "stupid" mistake in your view? Please explain th
[EMAIL PROTECTED] enlightened us with:
> hi
> what is the python way to concat 2 lines eg
concated = line1 + line2
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codefire enlightened us with:
> I'm using the isinstance built-in function. I've found the docs for
> it, but there are no docs on the supported types.
All types/classes are supported.
> For example isinstance(a, int) works fine but isinstance(s, string)
> doesn't - because 'string is not known'.
Lawrence D'Oliveiro enlightened us with:
> You're proposing two separate functions:
>
> 1) quoting of non-wildcard specials
> 2) quoting of wildcard specials
I'm suggesting functions based on the role of the string they need to
escape, not the characters in that string.
1) Quoting of
Lawrence D'Oliveiro enlightened us with:
> Because quoting the wildcards introduces backslash specials before
> each wildcard. Quoting non-wildcards then causes those backslashes
> to be doubled, which means they escape themselves instead of the
> wildcards.
I don't know about other DBMSes, but in
walterbyrd enlightened us with:
> If so, I doubt there are many.
>
> I wonder why that is?
www.uwklantprofiel.nl and www.uwpensioenanalyse.nl, both systems are
written in Python, although the website of the former is still in PHP.
It'll be Python soon, too. I've created both systems.
Sybren
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Tim Chase enlightened us with:
> >>> cur.execute("select * from people where last_name in (%s)" %
> ','.join('%s' for i in xrange(len(t))),
> t)
But since the value of 'i' isn't used at all, it can be abbreviated
to:
>>> cur.execute("select * from people where last_name in (%s)" %
Fredrik Lundh enlightened us with:
> and now we're waiting for the "['%s']*len(t)" vs. "'%s' for i in t"
> benchmarks (and the "consistency is more important than efficiency"
> and "creating extra objects is conceptually wrong" followups, and
> the "it depends on what you mean by" followups to the
Steve Holden enlightened us with:
> Otherwise you might as well say that any costs associated with using
> a piece of software (including purchase pricing) are "hostile to the
> wants of the user".
It's true. People pay because they have to, but they'd rather not.
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Mike Playle enlightened us with:
> Imagine you're an IT manager for a medium-to-large company who wants
> to use some expensive piece of software. You talk to the vendor and
> buy a licence to use the software on up to 5 machines at once, but
> you don't know who in the company will want to use it,
Steve Holden enlightened us with:
> And you guarantee that the contents of the smartcard is only used by
> one user at a time by building a licensing system for the
> smartcards?
We can never, ever make a 100% guarantee that people won't copy what
you supply them. The only way to do that is to tho
Erik Johnson enlightened us with:
> When I run this and view the email I receive in MS Outlook Express,
> what I see is the HTML rendered in the body of the message, my body
> is not seen anywhere and there is no attachment.
If the HTML document should really be attached, give it a
Content-Dis
Erik Johnson enlightened us with:
> # Ah! Yes, that works! Thank you! ;)
You're welcome!
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Antoine De Groote enlightened us with:
> I hope I don't upset anybody by comparing Python to Ruby (again). Is
> there something like Ruby's retry keyword in Python?
Please don't assume that everybody knows Ruby through and through...
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Tim Williams enlightened us with:
> def check_lock():
> import os, sys
> try:
> os.remove({filename})
> except:
> if "Permission denied" in sys.exc_info()[1]:
> print 'This program is already running'
> sys.exit()
> f_lock = open({filename},'w
[EMAIL PROTECTED] enlightened us with:
> Are then any currently active and reasonably mature Python plugins/
> apis/whatever for programming/scripting OpenOffice? The page I've
> found is http://udk.openoffice.org/python/python-bridge.html, but it
> was last updated more than a year ago.
Aside fro
Paul Rubin enlightened us with:
>> height = 0
>> for block in stack:
>> if block.is_marked():
>> print "Lowest marked block is at height", height
>> break
>> height += block.height
>> else:
>> raise SomeError("No marked block")
>
> all_heights = [block.height for blo
Antoine De Groote enlightened us with:
> Can anybody tell me the reason(s) why regular expressions are not built
> into Python like it is the case with Ruby and I believe Perl?
They _are_ built into Python. Python ships with the 're' module.
> Python Culture says: 'Explicit is better than implic
Kay Schluehr enlightened us with:
> Usually I struggle a short while with \ and either succeed or give up.
> Today I'm in a different mood and don't give up. So here is my
> question:
>
> You have an unknown character string c such as '\n' , '\a' , '\7' etc.
>
> How do you echo them using print?
>
John Machin enlightened us with:
> Hi, Sybren. I tried folloing your recipe on Windows with OOo 2.0 ...
>
> Minor problem: the executable is called soffice, not ooffice.
>
> Major problem: it crashed right at the start, somewhere in the maze
> of dlls.
That's not nice.
> Has anyone managed to get
John Machin enlightened us with:
> Many thanks for all that, olive; I made the minimal hacks to make it
> open an XLS ffile, and it worked!
> I'll try to see why that worked and my previous experiment crashed
> inside a DLL.
Thanks, keep us posted!
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Simon Willison enlightened us with:
> try:
> do_something()
> except HttpError:
> # An HTTP error occurred
> except ApplicationError:
> # An application error occurred
> else:
> # It worked!
>
> This does the job fine, but has a couple of problems.
> I anticipate that most people using my
Bill Williams enlightened us with:
> I don't know enough about Python internals, but the suggested
> solutions all seem to involve scanning bigList. Can this presumably
> linear operation be avoided by using dict or similar to find all
> occurrences of smallist items in biglist and then deleting th
Jia,Lu enlightened us with:
> I want to deal keyboard event in Linux console.
> Example: I Create a deamon at background and when I press F1 key
> then print Hello at Console.
Type "who" and see which PTY you're connected to:
sybren pts/02006-10-04 07:55 (klappie.stuvel.eu)
So I'm conn
Pankaj enlightened us with:
> But i think python is worse than perl
No it isn't.
> It takes to interactive mode , which i don;t want to use.
Then don't use it.
> "python scriptname.py"
> does not execute python script
Yes it does.
> 1. I placed these contents in a file named "1.py"
> a,b=0,1
pycraze enlightened us with:
> I am currently using Fedora Core - 3 with apache 2.0 Web Server and
> Python 2.4 .
>
> [...] i would like to know have apache released any version that can
> be successfully use Python 2.4 ( with mod-python module ) using
> Fedora Core -3 .
I don't know about Fedora
rbt enlightened us with:
> This was my first real go at using mod_python. It was a bit
> different, but once I got the hang of it, I like it very much.
> Existing py scripts need little modification to work, and if you've
> done any PHP or Perl web projects in the past, you'll understand 50%
> of i
Juho Schultz enlightened us with:
> However, the bug sits on the next line. [...] I feel the traceback
> is misleading.
Well, the bug sits in the command starting on the line indicated.
Nitpick back: Learn about operator precedence and Python syntax rules.
You don't need so many brackets:
if dat
Roger L. Cauvin enlightened us with:
> I'm looking for a regular expression that matches the first, and
> only the first, sequence of the letter 'a', and only if the length
> of the sequence is exactly 3.
Your request is ambiguous:
1) You're looking for the first, and only the first, sequence of
Lonnie Princehouse enlightened us with:
> There doesn't seem to be any way to customize the behavior of "is" as
> can be done for other operators... why not?
Pure logic: A == A or A != A. An object is another object or not.
Why would you want to change that?
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Bruce R Graham enlightened us with:
> Run a script in cron.daily. The script should check a timestamp
> placed by the last occurrence of that script. Then check my home
> folder for files modified between that timestamp and now. Then send
> those files off to gmail.
> I have most of the pieces in p
Jim Segrave enlightened us with:
> Any lecturer assigning "write a mail server" as a class project is
> doing his/her students a true dis-service.
At one time, I got an assignment "Write a robust, user friendly SMTP
client". That was just after we learned how to user 'for' loops and
'if' statemen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] enlightened us with:
> myFile = '/work/output1'
> myFile = myFile.join(today)
> myFile = myFile.join(".txt")
join does something completely different. You want:
myFile = '/work/output1/%s.txt' % today
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Dan Lowe enlightened us with:
> I'm on my second major mail system deployment built around Exim, and
> would recommend it to anybody needing a robust, flexible mail
> server.
Same here. I used Sendmail, QMail, Exim 3 and Exim 4, and out of
those, Exim 4 came out winner.
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Andreas R. enlightened us with:
> OpenRTS is a new open source project, with the aim of creating a
> realtime strategy game. The game is developed in Python with Pygame.
> See http://www.openrts.org for more info about the game if you are
> interested.
To be honest, it looks very much like games f
Andreas R. enlightened us with:
> The game has isometric graphics. It's possible to have nice
> isometric graphics, ie. look at Civilization 3. Besides, there's a
> lot more to a good strategy game than good looks.
True. That's why I only commented on the graphics - that's the only
visible thing
questions? enlightened us with:
> The things put to screen doesn't redirect to the file I want.
What do you see on screen? What do you want to redirect to the file?
> What's the trick in here?
Giving us useful information.
Sybren
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Fuzzyman enlightened us with:
> My worry is that if '\n' *doesn't* signify a line break on the Mac,
> then it may exist in the body of the text - and trigger ``ending =
> '\n'`` prematurely ?
I'd count the number of occurences of '\r\n', '\n' without a preceding
'\r' and '\r' without following '\n
Fuzzyman enlightened us with:
> This is what I came up with. [...] Comments/corrections welcomed.
You could use a little more comments in the code, but apart from that
it looks nice.
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mwt enlightened us with:
> I want to do programmatic terminal commands on unix with python
If you want to use a real terminal, search for pty. If you just want
to start and stop scripts, check the popen2 module.
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Ritesh Raj Sarraf enlightened us with:
> bFound = True
> break
> return bFound
I see two weird things. First of all, the retun statement won't be
reached due to the break before it. Let's assume the break isn't
needed, and you
billie enlightened us with:
> Hi all. I don't know if Python is good for this kind of jobs but I'm
> wondering if it's possible emulate the "netstat" command in Python.
On Linux, you can read /proc for that info, iirc.
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vpr enlightened us with:
> I want to build an Website using Apache / Python and MySQL.
I second Bruno: swap MySQL in favour of PostgreSQL.
> e.g. should I be using mod_python ?
You could use my framework based on mod_python and Cheetah. I find it
really easy to use. Check out http://www.unrealto
Kalle Anke enlightened us with:
> What about speed? I've always had the impression that while
> PostgreSQL is more complete than MySQL it's also slower.
For simple queries, I believe (no real knowledge here) MySQL is indeed
faster. One of the problems I have with MySQL is that it doesn't
support f
Dennis Lee Bieber enlightened us with:
> I believe that since 4.1, the "default table format" is InnoDB, and
> that DOES have some support foreign keys and transactions.
Finally they are starting to make more sense. I'd still rather use a
database that has had those features for a longer time, tho
Sinan Nalkaya enlightened us with:
> i searched and google long long time but couldnt find any result, i
> want pop the first line from file, i dont want to read all file
> contents because file is being updated from another proccess.
So basically, what you want is some sort of on-disk FIFO queue,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] enlightened us with:
> I figure I must just be missing something, but I can't seem to find
> good documentation for xml.dom.ext. What I'm hoping for is just a
> simple list of what actually is available in that package (what
> other packages get included if you import xml.dom.ext
Martin v. Löwis enlightened us with:
> No. You also need to provide static versions of all system
> libraries.
You can also ship the required .so files along with the program, and
set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include the directory in which you stored those
files. This can be easily done by a shell scrip
Bruno Desthuilliers enlightened us with:
>> I want to write a web framework for python based on mod_python as
>> my course homework , could you give some advise ?
>
> Yes : forget it.
Why forget it? I've written my own web framework
(http://www.unrealtower.org/) and it works great! It was a good
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Ville Vainio enlightened us with:
> When you write your own framework, you are helping yourself.
True. And if that doesn't have a negative effect on others (which I
think it doesn't) there is nothing wrong with that.
> If you use an existing framework and possibly contribute patches to
> it, you
Mladen Adamovic enlightened us with:
> I wonder which editor or IDE you can recommend me for writing Python
> programs. I tried with jEdit but it isn't perfect.
I use gvim (if I have X) and vim (if I don't). The only negative thing
about it, is its learning curve ;-)
Sybren
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The problem with
Alvin A. Delagon enlightened us with:
> I have to write a python script that would continously monitor and
> process a queue database. [...] I've been planning to do an infinite
> loop within the script to do this but I've been hearing comments
> that infinite loop is a bad programming practice.
I
Tuvas enlightened us with:
> I have a picture that is being displayed on a canvas interface, that
> I want to do the following. [...]
There are loads of GUI toolkits you could be using.
Please read "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way":
http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
It's a very g
Russ enlightened us with:
> Does it ever make sense to derive a class from a basic type such as
> float or int? Suppose, for example, that I want to create a class
> for physical scalars with units.
That makes sense.
> I thought about deriving from float, then adding the units. I played
> around
Dr. Pastor enlightened us with:
> What environment,library,product should I import or study to
> manipulate cameras, video, fire-wire, avi files?
That depends on what you want with it. Without more information I'd
say "transcode"
Sybren
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The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying ther
Russ enlightened us with:
> The problem is that when I derive a new class from float, the darn
> thing won't let me create a constructor that accepts more than one
> argument.
Use __new__, not __init__. It's the function that's called when a new
immutable object is created.
Sybren
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The problem
John Salerno enlightened us with:
> What I had asked was if I could just embed Python code within my
> HTML files, like you do with PHP, but they didn't address that yet.
Check out PSP.
Sybren
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capital punishment for stupidi
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