On 4/5/2011 4:42 PM, John Nagle wrote:
Well, actually Unicode support went in back around Python 2.4.
Even earlier, I think, but there were and still are problems with
unicode in 2.x. Some were and will only be fixed in 3.x.
In 3.x, ASCII strings went away, but that was more of a removal.
On 4/6/2011 12:31 PM, MRAB wrote:
On 06/04/2011 07:06, Dan Stromberg wrote:
I suspect not all string methods were kept for the bytes type:
Doc says "Bytes and bytearray objects, being “strings of bytes”, have
all methods found on strings, with the exception of encode(), format()
and isiden
On 4/6/2011 6:06 AM, Νικόλαος Κούρας wrote:
Now it works like i wanted but i want to ask you if i wrote it
correctly, especially when i check against `""` and None
One important note: there is one and one one None object; there can be
multiple strings with value ''. So, testing against each i
On 4/6/2011 7:20 PM, Jabba Laci wrote:
Hi,
I tried Pylint today and it gave me a warning for the function
"filter".
That is a bug in PyLint. Do not take any code checker as gospel truth.
Is it deprecated?
No. One can look in the source code for a deprecation warning statement
or run 3.2 w
On 4/6/2011 7:58 PM, Nobody wrote:
On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 02:20:22 -0700, Pierre GM wrote:
I need to run a third-party binary from a python script and retrieve
its output (and its error messages). I use something like
process = subprocess.Popen(options, stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
stderr=subprocess.
On 4/8/2011 11:55 AM, r wrote:
I had a problem for which I've already found a "satisfactory"
work-around, but I'd like to ask you if there is a better/nicer
looking solution. Perhaps I'm missing something obvious.
The code looks like this:
stream-of-tokens = token-generator(stream-of-characters
On 4/9/2011 9:28 PM, candide wrote:
Python is very good at introspection, so I was wondering if Python (2.7)
provides any feature to retrieve the list of its keywords (and, as,
assert, break, ...).
Yes. (Look in the manuals, or try the obvious imports ;-)
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On 4/10/2011 5:12 AM, candide wrote:
Le 10/04/2011 04:01, Terry Reedy a écrit :
Yes. (Look in the manuals,
I did : my main reference book is the Martelli's /Python in a Nutshell/
You should only use that as a supplement.
and the index doesn't refer to the keyword import
a
On 4/11/2011 10:10 AM, Natan Yellin wrote:
Hey everyone,
This is my first posting to python-list, so be gentle.
I propose the following function for the math module (which can, of
course, be rewritten in C):
zod = lambda a, b: b and a / b
This is way too trivial to add.
zod, the zero
On 4/11/2011 11:54 AM, Aahz wrote:
In article,
Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
Hey, all. A co-worker asked me a question, and I've got no idea how (or
if) it can be done. Bottom line: he'd like to save off the text from an
interpreter session, his thinking being that you've already tried to get
what y
On 4/11/2011 4:36 AM, rusi wrote:
http://www.cse.uconn.edu/~dqg/papers/cie05.pdf
may be of interest (and also other papers of Peter Wegner questioning
the universality of Turing machines lambda calculus etc)
Thank you for that reference. In summary, it says that while Turing
machine are univ
On 4/12/2011 4:15 AM, harrismh777 wrote:
Anyone here who does not understand how absurd software patents can get
should contemplate the following (based on a real patent from about 20
years ago, when CDroms were new.
A Methods for Ensuring that the Correct CDROM is in the CDROM drive.
While
On 4/12/2011 12:12 PM, Aahz wrote:
In article,
Terry Reedy wrote:
Idle will save the contents of the shell window, including opening slash
line and prompts.
The problem is that normally you *don't* want the prompts. I believe
IPython handles that.
I have already had in mind that
On 4/12/2011 2:25 PM, zildjohn01 wrote:
Wow. Two dozen replies, the majority of which are arguing over whether
the end of my snippet is reachable. I thought the behavior of if
statements was well-established by this point.
Regardless of James Mills's coding prowess, I suppose I should follow
his
On 4/12/2011 2:44 PM, Dan Stromberg wrote:
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Terry Reedy wrote:
On 4/11/2011 4:36 AM, rusi wrote:
http://www.cse.uconn.edu/~dqg/papers/cie05.pdf
may be of interest (and also other papers of Peter Wegner questioning
the universality of Turing machines lambda
On 4/12/2011 3:26 PM, Keith wrote:
1) Is it possible to reload a class using the reload() method?
Yes, but instances of the old version will remain instances of the old
version, which will not go away until all its instances and other
references go away. So reload is deceptive, which is why
On 4/13/2011 11:12 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Personally, I'm glad that most of Python Dev don't hang around here. We
are far better off if Python Dev, you know, actually Devs Python, rather
than answering (mostly) easy questions and getting stuck in tar-pits.
Since 3.2 was released 45 days ag
On 4/14/2011 12:55 PM, Peter Otten wrote:
I don't expect that it matters much, but you don't need to sort your data if
you use a dictionary anyway:
Which means that one can build the dict line by line, as each is read,
instead of reading the entire file into memory. So it does matter for
int
On 4/16/2011 9:55 AM, Phil Winder wrote:
Hi,
I'm having a go at using ipython as a command prompt for data
analysis. Coming from Matlab, I'm used to typing multiple commands on
the same line then using the up arrow to go through my history.
How can I write multiple python commands on the same lin
On 4/16/2011 3:03 AM, Alec Taylor wrote:
IDLE loses syntax highlighting annoyingly often
Could you exlain?
When does it do that with a file labelled .py?
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On 4/18/2011 7:33 PM, Brendan Simon (eTRIX) wrote:
If there is an official release of source (e.g. 2.5.5 and 2.5.6) why
aren't binaries produced (other than to make it really hard for users
and force them to upgrade to a later major revision -- 2.6, 2.7, etc) ??
Unofficial answer:
A. Binaries
On 4/19/2011 12:05 AM, harrismh777 wrote:
Are bug reports wanted here, or just in issue tracker?
If one is somewhat experienced with Python and is sure about having
identified a bug, and is willing to search the tracker for existing
reports and respond to questions, then report on the tracker
On 4/19/2011 10:55 AM, Rob McGillivray wrote:
I'm new to Python, and trying to get python 3.2 installed on Centos
5.6. When I run 'make test', I receive several errors.
Welcome to Python.
Newbie lesson 1: write an informative subject line that will catch the
attention of people who can answe
On 4/19/2011 10:58 AM, Gerald Britton wrote:
serve method unless it is qualified. I now understand the Python does
not consider a class definition as a separate namespace as it does for
function definitions.
Class namespaces are separate namespaces but not in the same way as for
functions. C
On 4/19/2011 1:06 PM, cjblaine wrote:
What breaks if I remove lib/python2.7/test/* ? What purpose does it serve?
It allows you to run the test suite. Some people like to run it when
they install. Or they may run a module test if they have a problem with
a specific module or edit the Python c
On 4/19/2011 1:33 PM, Rob McGillivray wrote:
I am trying to install from an RPM downloaded from python.org.
That puzzles me. For *nix, I do not see .rpm, just tarballs, on
http://python.org/download/releases/3.2/
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On 4/19/2011 11:39 PM, harrismh777 wrote:
Terry Reedy wrote:
If one is new to Python and perhaps not sure, or should not be sure,
then I prefer that one ask here for a second opinion.
Thanks Terry. I am not new to Python, but I am new to Python3, and I'm
also relatively new to IDLE. Typi
On 4/20/2011 6:17 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
It's hardly just the press. "Hack" is a fine old English word:
"The jungle explorer hacked at the undergrowth with his machete."
"I was so hungry, I didn't take the time to neatly slice up the meat, but
just hacked off a chunk and stuffed it in my m
On 4/20/2011 1:15 PM, Ron wrote:
I've written an online interactive Python tutorial atop Google App Engine:
http://www.learnpython.org.
Currently giving 500 server error. Hope something clears up.
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On 4/21/2011 8:02 AM, Rob McGillivray wrote:
Hi All,
Does anyone know if it is ‘safe’ to install Python 3.2 on CentOS? By
‘safe’ I mean not breaking the existing base Python 2.4.x installation
upon which various CentOS/RHEL services (like yum) depend. Will the
‘make install’ install 3.2 in paral
On 4/21/2011 11:43 AM, chad wrote:
Let's say I have the following
class BaseHandler:
def foo(self):
print "Hello"
class HomeHandler(BaseHandler):
pass
Then I do the following...
test = HomeHandler()
test.foo()
How can HomeHandler call foo() when I never created an ins
On 4/21/2011 8:25 PM, Paul Rubin wrote:
Matt Chaput writes:
I'm looking for some code that will take a Snowball program and
compile it into a Python script. Or, less ideally, a Snowball
interpreter written in Python.
(http://snowball.tartarus.org/)
Anyone heard of such a thing?
I never saw
On 4/21/2011 9:14 PM, Thomas Rachel wrote:
Hi folks,
it is possible to close a generator. That is (among others) for the
following case:
I run a for loop over the iterator, but then I break it. Now I can leave
the generator to the GC (which is AFAI have been told a thing which I
should not do),
On 4/22/2011 4:01 AM, Thomas Rachel wrote:
Am 22.04.2011 09:01, schrieb Wolfgang Rohdewald:
On Freitag 22 April 2011, Terry Reedy wrote:
When returning from the function, g, if local, should
disappear.
yes - it disappears in the sense that it no longer
accessible, but
AFAIK python makes
On 4/24/2011 5:58 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Consider this in Python 3.1:
def f(a=42):
... return a
...
f()
42
f.__defaults__ = (23,)
f()
23
Is this an accident of implementation, or can I trust that changing
function defaults in this fashion is guaranteed to work?
Interesting que
On 4/24/2011 5:21 PM, Ken Seehart wrote:
Good point, Benjamin. I didn't think of testing on Jython before
answering. For practical purposes it's a really good idea to test
obscure features against all potential target platforms.
In this case, I would argue that**Benjamin's test demonstrates a bu
On 4/25/2011 2:20 AM, harrismh777 wrote:
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
It seems to me that weak typing is a Do What I Mean function, and DWIM is
a notoriously bad anti-pattern that causes far more trouble than it is
worth. I'm even a little suspicious of numeric coercions between integer
and float. (Bu
On 4/26/2011 12:07 PM, Chris Rebert wrote:
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Ariel wrote:
Hi everybody, how could I concatenate unicode strings ???
What I want to do is this:
unicode('this an example language ') + unicode('español')
but I get an:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "",
On 4/26/2011 3:27 PM, Dan Stromberg wrote:
for 0<= i< 1000:
x *= 0.8
#x += 0.01
print x
In my WinXP (Athlon), 3.2 standard install
x=1.0
print(x)
for i in range(1000):
x *= 0.8
x += 0.01
print(x)
takes about 3 1/2 secs with addition comment
On 4/27/2011 7:40 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
http://docs.python.org/dev/howto/logging.html
This one in particular was sorely needed, especially its early if-then
discussion of whether to use ‘logging’ at all. Thanks very much to Vinay
Sajip.
Yes, he has been working pretty steadily for some months
On 4/28/2011 12:28 PM, Uncle Ben wrote:
I have lost the convenient feature that to edit a .py file I could
right-click on the file name and reach the menu item "Edit with IDLE".
The workaround is not hard, but it wouild be nice to get this feature
back.
It happened when I was mungeing around an
On 4/28/2011 2:59 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Still, it could be worse... I've seen a programs use to represent
missing values, on the basis that nobody could ever have more than (say)
5000 invoices in the database...
(I wish I was exaggerating.)
All 9s in a field for missing was once sta
On 4/28/2011 1:33 PM, steven.oldner wrote:
Just downloaded Python3.2 from python's site and attempted to run some
of the examples in the 24.2.10 Tk Styling. The button worked,
I found 4 examples, none of which *do* anything. Perhaps they are only
meant to show syntax. I am running WinXP. You?
On 4/29/2011 7:52 AM, sathe...@e-ndicus.com wrote:
How could i increase the unicode range beyond 1 ?
Use Python3, which, after renaming unichar to chr, changed it to always
accept the full range of codepoints, even when that means returning a
two-char string on narrow builds, like window
On 4/30/2011 3:22 PM, Alexander Lyabah wrote:
I spend a lot of time in writing a new service checkio.org
It's all about python, learn python, find the best solution in
python.
And Im looking for feedback from peoples who best in python. Here I
make some video tutorial about this service http:/
On 5/1/2011 4:45 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Python uses a data model of "name binding" and "call by object"
(also known as "call by sharing"). I trust I don't need to define my
terms, but just in case:
http://effbot.org/zone/call-by-object.htm
http://effbot.org/zone/python-objects.htm
Now, thi
On 5/1/2011 5:27 AM, Hans Georg Schaathun wrote:
Of course you do, but you are still only saying that there might be
an application where this might happen because of excessive although
logically correct recursion. You have not given a single example where
it actually happened.
I will. Stack
On 5/1/2011 12:49 PM, Alexander Lyabah wrote:
And what do you think about Score Games and competitions?
The rules of the first score game were not clear to me. I could not
figure out how to play it interactively myself so I could see how it
actually played.
--
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On 5/1/2011 6:33 PM, Gregory Ewing wrote:
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Python uses a data model of "name binding" and "call by object" (also
known as "call by sharing").
It can be summed up in a less jargony way by saying that all
data is stored in heap-allocated objects,
This is incomprehensible
On 5/1/2011 7:16 PM, BartC wrote:
Yes, it generates lots of calls.
About 22000 for fib(20), and 330 million for fib(40).
Using the standard double recursion implementation of fib, ncf(n)
(number of calls to fib() for fib(n)) requires ncf(n-2) + ncf(n+1) + 1
calls. The +1 is for the call to
On 5/1/2011 9:00 PM, Chris Rebert wrote:
I would think to a file named "screen_capture.jpg" in the current
working directory. What that is for IDLE, I don't know.
At least on windows with 3.2, if one just starts up the shell, it is in
the Pythonxy directory. If one runs a file from an edit wi
On 5/2/2011 9:14 AM, Hans Georg Schaathun wrote:
On Sun, 01 May 2011 18:24:30 -0400, Terry Reedy
: Python does not do this automatically because 1) it can be a semantic
: change under some circumstances; 2) one who wants the iterative version
: can just as easily write it directly;
That&#
On 5/3/2011 1:04 AM, Stefan Behnel wrote:
The bad thing about this recipe is that it requires quite a bit of
background knowledge in order to infer that the code the developer is
looking at is actually correct.
The main math knowledge needed is the trivial fact that if a*x + b = 0,
then x = -
On 5/3/2011 2:29 AM, Gregory Ewing wrote:
Terry Reedy wrote:
The trick is that replacing x with j and evaluating therefore causes
(in Python) all the coefficients of x (now j) to be added together
separately from all the constant terms to reduce the linear equation
to a*x+b (= 0 implied
Your problem is reveal in the subject line. As discussed in many other
threads, including a current one, Python does not have 'variables' in
the way that many understand the term. Python binds names to objects.
Binding statements (assignment, augmented assignment, import, def,
class, and others
On 5/4/2011 3:45 AM, Mehta, Pratik wrote:
For tutorialPython.pdf
Page 17 of the ebook (i.e. page 23 of pdf) under topic *3.2 First Steps
towards programming*
Under while loop, there should be a “,” after print b
Print b,
(a comma after ‘b’ is missing)
[You should mention versions when posting
On 5/4/2011 10:06 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
after a long delay the pyjamas project - http://pyjs.org - has begun the
0.8 series of releases, beginning with alpha1:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/pyjamas/files/pyjamas/0.8/
pyjamas is a suite of projects, including a python-to-jav
On 5/4/2011 12:51 PM, Daniel Neilson wrote:
Hello,
I'm hoping that there will be someone here with sufficient expertise to
answer a question on Python 3 for me.
I work in the Computer Science department at a large Canadian
University. We are currently doing a feasibility analysis for switching
On 5/4/2011 12:34 PM, ETP wrote:
I have a dos program (run in a window) that I would like to control
with a script.
Look at the subprocess module. You may have to (and be able to) have it
start up the window program with the dos program as an argument.
It needs only text input. For exampl
On 5/4/2011 2:17 PM, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
Here's a 22-line beauty for a classic and amazing algorithm:
http://bit.ly/bloom_filter
The wiki article on the algorithm is brief and well-written:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter
As I understand the article, the array of num_bits should
On 5/4/2011 5:39 PM, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
The 512 bits in h are progressively eaten-up between iterations. So
each pass yields a different (array index, bit_mask) pair.
Yeh, obvious now that I see it.
It's easy to use the interactive prompt to show that different probes
are produced on
On 5/5/2011 9:19 AM, Neil Cerutti wrote:
On 2011-05-04, John Nagle wrote:
That's a quirk of CPython's boxed number implementation. All
integers are boxed, but there's a set of canned objects for
small integers. CPython's range for this is -5 to +256,
incidentally. That's visible through the
On 5/6/2011 7:34 AM, James Mills wrote:
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Jabba Laci wrote:
If I want to check if a list is empty, which is the more pythonic way?
[...]
(2) if not li:
This is fine.
This is the intended way. Anything in addition is extra noise and wasted
calculation. In o
On 5/6/2011 3:22 PM, harrismh777 wrote:
I don't really like the old style, not because there is anything wrong
with it,
There is in that it special cases tuples. For instance, a message
function like
def emsg(x):
print("The following object caused a proplem: %s" % x)
raises "TypeError: n
On 5/6/2011 8:09 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 6:54 AM, Terry Reedy wrote:
def emsg(x):
if isinstance(x,tuple):
x = (x,)
print(The following object caused a proplem: %s" % x)
Couldn't you just do that unconditionally?
print(The following object caused
On 5/8/2011 10:07 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Because the test of "is this nothing, or something?" is a common, useful
test:
Because inductive algorithms commonly branch on 'input is something'
(not done, change args toward 'nothing'and recurse or iterate) versus
'input is nothing (done, retu
On 5/8/2011 6:44 AM, pb wrote:
Hi,
I', having trouble with scipy.
If you do not get an answer here, try the scipy list where scipy experts
hang out. You might also try searching the archives of that list or the
scipy bug tracker.
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On 5/9/2011 4:25 AM, Antonio CHESSA wrote:
apple = [["a","b","c"],[1,2,3,4,5,6],["antony","max","sandra","sebastian"]]
apple[0] = ["a","b","c"]
apple[1] = [1,2,3,4,5,6]
apple[2] = ["antony","max","sandra","sebastian"]
apple[0][1] = "b"
apple[2][3] = "sebastian"
to view all videos in a loop so
On 5/9/2011 10:29 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
If people then ask, how does the interpreter know the names?, I can add
more detail: names are actually strings in a namespace, which is usually
nothing more than a dict. Oh, and inside functions, it's a bit more
complicated still. And so on.
Which
On 5/9/2011 2:10 PM, James Wright wrote:
Hello,
I have been using a script on several boxes that have been around for
a while, and everything works just fine. I am finding though, that on
some new OS installs the script fails with:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "render4.py", line
On 5/8/2011 7:36 PM, Dan Stromberg wrote:
On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Terry Reedy mailto:tjre...@udel.edu>> wrote:
Because inductive algorithms commonly branch on 'input is something'
(not done, change args toward 'nothing'and recurse or iterate)
On 5/9/2011 4:25 PM, Claudiu Popa wrote:
I already told in the first post that I've implemented __str__ function,
> but it doesn't seems to be automatically called.
No, Python does not auto-coerce to strings (only between numbers).
You have to be explicit by calling str. Karim's statement "Yo
On 5/9/2011 8:44 PM, Algis Kabaila wrote:
The method of double indexing in the manner
a[i][j]
for the (i, j) -th element of multi-dimensional array is well known and
widely used. But how to enable the "standard" matrix notation
a[i, j]
in Python 3.2 in the manner of numpy (and other matrix packa
On 5/10/2011 3:22 AM, Algis Kabaila wrote:
On Tuesday 10 May 2011 11:25:59 Terry Reedy wrote:
> class listwrap:
> def __init__(self, lis):
> self._list = lis
> def __getitem__(self, dex):
> i,j = dex
> return self._list[i][j]
> # __setitem__: exerci
On 5/10/2011 3:41 AM, Gregory Ewing wrote:
Actually, you're right. What I've presented is a paper-and-pencil
implementation of the Python data model. Together with a set of
rules for manipulating the diagram under the direction of Python
code, you have a complete implementation of Python that yo
On 5/10/2011 12:41 PM, rusi wrote:
Sorry for a silly subject change: A better one will be welcome -- cant
think of a name myself.
Associated tools. I might separate them into development tools (up to
the production of python.exe) and usage tools (everything thereafter).
On Windows, this is a
On 5/11/2011 12:27 PM, TheSaint wrote:
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Before you re-write it, you should run 2to3 over it and see how much it
can do automatically:
Widely done, only the results from some query has radically changed on
favour of unicode. Errors raising about results which are not stri
On 5/11/2011 12:27 PM, Genstein wrote:
In py3k is it necessary to flush() a file between read/write calls in order
to see consistent results?
I ask because I have a case under Python 3.2 (r32:88445) where it does
appear to be, on both Gentoo Linux and Windows Vista.
I've naturally read http://
On 5/11/2011 3:08 PM, Genstein wrote:
On 11/05/2011 19:24, Terry Reedy wrote:
writing and reading. If you want others to look at this more, you should
1) produce a minimal* example that demonstrates the questionable
behavior, and 2) show the comparative outputs that raise your question
On 5/11/2011 11:44 PM, harrismh777 wrote:
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
You need to understand the difference between characters and bytes.
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
is also a good resource.
Thanks for being patient guys, here's what I've done:
astr="pound sign"
asym="
On 5/11/2011 8:26 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
I conclude that li == [] should have returned False. Either I'm not
understanding things correctly, or this is a bug.
The doc is wrong (and not only on this). I am working on a report with
suggested fixes. Will post number when finish.
--
Terry Jan Re
On 5/12/2011 9:30 AM, Genstein wrote:
With 3.2 on winxp, that is what I get with StringIO, text file, and
bytes file (the first two with b's removed). I would expect the same on
any system. If you get anything different, I would consider it a bug
Thanks Terry, you're entirely right there; I tri
On 5/12/2011 9:11 AM, JamesEM wrote:
I would prefer to generate the properties code dynamically from the
keys of the dictionaries.
What I am looking for is something like:
class MyClass(object):
def __init__(self):
self.d = {}
d['field1'] = 1.0
d['field2'] = 'A'
On 5/12/2011 12:17 PM, Ian Kelly wrote:
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 1:58 AM, John Machin wrote:
On Thu, May 12, 2011 4:31 pm, harrismh777 wrote:
So, the UTF-16 UTF-32 is INTERNAL only, for Python
NO. See one of my previous messages. UTF-16 and UTF-32, like UTF-8 are
encodings for the EXTERNAL
On 5/12/2011 3:37 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
On 5/11/2011 8:26 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
I conclude that li == [] should have returned False. Either I'm not
understanding things correctly, or this is a bug.
The doc is wrong (and not only on this). I am working on a report with
suggested fixes.
On 5/13/2011 3:53 PM, harrismh777 wrote:
The unicode consortium is very careful to make sure that thousands of
symbols have a unique code point (that's great !) but how do these
thousands of symbols actually get displayed if there is no font
consortium? Are there collections of 'standard' fonts
On 5/14/2011 3:20 AM, harrismh777 wrote:
harrismh777 wrote:
def turnOnMonitor():
SC_MONITORPOWER = 0xF170
win32gui.SendMessage(win32con.HWND_BROADCAST,
win32con.WM_SYSCOMMAND, SC_MONITORPOWER, -1)
I've never tried turning my monitor on/off without using my finger...
The computer cannot tur
On 5/14/2011 4:41 AM, Nobody wrote:
On Fri, 13 May 2011 10:15:29 -0700, noydb wrote:
I want some code to take the items in a semi-colon-delimted string "list"
and places each in a python list. I came up with below. In the name of
learning how to do things properly, do you experts have a bette
On 5/14/2011 3:41 AM, harrismh777 wrote:
Terry Reedy wrote:
Easy, practical use of unicode is still a work in progress.
Apparently... the good news for me is that SBL provides their unicode
font here:
http://www.sbl-site.org/educational/biblicalfonts.aspx
I'm getting much closer here
On 5/14/2011 11:11 AM, cesium5...@yahoo.ca wrote:
I would like to build a database of all the MS-Excel file on a LAN. I
would like to get the files metadata : filename, summary, location,
size, etc.
You subject line is about a non-specific as can be, which means that the
person who can answer
On 5/14/2011 3:39 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Th money-quote as regards using arbitrary objects in truth tests:
[quote]
All this changed with the introduction of the two-element
boolean domain {true, false} which provides the vocabulary
needed to assign values to boolean expr
On 5/14/2011 3:45 AM, rusi wrote:
(True = True) is False
is a syntax error ;-)
and 'True = True' is a (useless) statement,
and statements do not have boolean values,
and 'True == True' *is* True, which is to say,
((True == True) is False) is False.
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On 5/14/2011 1:43 PM, rusi wrote:
But it seems you did not get the moral? Spelt out: "Beware of lossy
compression!"
[Which is also the moral of my 'proof']
I get it now. As I suggested in response to Stephen, [] and [1] spell
False and True only in boolean contexts (if/while headers) where th
On 5/15/2011 6:46 AM, Christoph Groth wrote:
Steven D'Aprano writes:
On Sun, 15 May 2011 11:11:41 +0200, Christoph Groth wrote:
I would like to avoid having _multiple_ objects which are equal (a ==
b) but not the same (a is not b). This would save a lot of memory.
Python hashed collection
On 5/15/2011 1:33 PM, rusi wrote:
On May 15, 10:07 am, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean. Can you explain please, what
properties of "first class booleans" do you think are missing from Python?
Given the usual CS definition of 'first class object', all Python
On 5/15/2011 5:36 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
On 5/15/2011 1:33 PM, rusi wrote:
Dijkstra's writings I alluded to,
at
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1070.html
"Acquiring that familiarity requires what in these financial times is
known as "intellec
On 5/17/2011 12:07 PM, lkcl wrote:
On May 4, 7:37 pm, Terry Reedy wrote:
On 5/4/2011 10:06 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
pyjamasis a suite of projects, including a python-to-javascript
compiler
As you well know, there is no such thing as 'python' when it comes to
compil
On 5/17/2011 12:38 PM, harrismh777 wrote:
Terry Reedy wrote:
Like it or not, Python 3 is the future of Python. It is the Python that
many Python newcomers learn first, and perhaps ever will.
Yes, no doubt, and I'm genuine about that...
... but there is something else to consider, as I&#
On 5/17/2011 1:04 PM, Chris Withers wrote:
Hi All,
I'm looking for a graceful pattern for the situation where I have a
provider of a sequence, the consumer of a sequence and code to moderate
the two, and where I'd like to consumer to be able to signal to the
provider that it hasn't succeeded in
On 5/17/2011 3:39 PM, MRAB wrote:
On 17/05/2011 19:47, Ethan Furman wrote:
In Python 3 one can say
--> huh = bytes(5)
BTW, help(bytes) doesn't seem to mention it!
I believe I mentioned that on some tracker issue.
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