On 4/10/2012 3:28 PM, Benjamin Kaplan wrote:
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Franck Ditter wrote:
In article
Hum, but when I press, Ctl-F6, nothing happens !!??!! F6 gives me char.
(MacOS-X Lion, France, Idle 3.3.0a2)
This is what Ctrl-F6 does on Windows.
>>> =
On 4/10/2012 4:10 PM, Rainer Weikusat wrote:
'car' and 'cdr' refer to cons cells in Lisp, not to strings. How the
first/rest terminology can be sensibly applied to 'C strings' (which
are similar to linked-lists in the sense that there's a 'special
termination value' instead of an explicit length
On 4/12/2012 6:11 AM, Jérémy Bethmont wrote:
There is an error in the MD5 checksums section of the following page:
http://python.org/download/releases/2.7.3/
Python-3.1.5.tgz, Python-3.1.5.tar.bz2 and Python-3.1.5.tar.xz
are listed instead of:
Python-2.7.3.tgz, Python-2.7.3.tar.bz2 and Pyt
On 4/12/2012 6:34 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:
Okay, so I haven't asked a stupid question in a long time and I'm
suffering withdrawal symptoms... ;)
5 % 0 = ?
It seems to me that the answer should be 5: no matter how many times we
add 0 to itself, the remainder of the intermediate step will be 5.
I
On 4/13/2012 7:04 AM, Eiríkur Hjartarson wrote:
Hi,
I think I have possibly found a bug in the subprocess module. The
(potential) bug appears when executing a subprocess from a daemon
(after double-forking). This is on RHEL 6.2 with python version
2.6.6.
What happens is you use the new 2.7.3
On 4/15/2012 5:07 PM, Kiuhnm wrote:
This is the behavior I need:
path = path.replace('\\', '')
Is there a better way?
For one-time use, and given that you cannot un-double with the r prefix,
not that I know of. For using the substrings multiple times, name them.
>>> s = r'abc\cd\ef'
>>>
On 4/15/2012 12:16 PM, Ian Kelly wrote:
On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Shmuel Metz
wrote:
In<87aa2iz3l1@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com>, on 04/11/2012
at 05:32 PM, "Pascal J. Bourguignon" said:
You're confused. C doesn't have arrays. Lisp has arrays. C only has
vectors
Neither C
On 4/15/2012 5:13 AM, contro opinion wrote:
>>> f=open(r'c:\windows\temp\test','r')
>>> f=open('c:\\windows\\temp\\test','r')
Your life will be much happier is you use forward slashes for filenames
in Python programs.
f = open('c:/windows/temp/test', 'r')
You only need backslashes when
On 4/15/2012 4:01 PM, Bryan wrote:
On Windows the file extension determines what executable opens the
file. Running both Python 2 and Python 3 on Windows is painful where
it doesn't need to be. I'd like to encourage my users to check out
Python 3, but installing it on Windows will take over the
On 4/15/2012 6:59 PM, Ian Kelly wrote:
On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
On 4/15/2012 12:16 PM, Ian Kelly wrote:
On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Shmuel Metz
wrote:
In<87aa2iz3l1@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com>, on 04/11/2012
at 05:32 PM, "Pascal J.
On 4/16/2012 4:12 AM, Pedro Larroy wrote:
I would like to contribute to this documentation
http://docs.python.org/library/sqlite3.html
> Can somebody point me how to best do it?
Documentations improvement sometimes start with discussion on this list.
Both code and documentation issues are hand
On 4/16/2012 8:01 AM, Alan Ristow wrote:
Hi all,
I have defined a class that includes a number of helper methods that
are useful to me, but pretty redundant. Something like so, where I
maintain a list of tuples:
class A(object):
def __init__(self):
self.listing = []
# This m
On 4/16/2012 8:37 AM, superpollo wrote:
alex23 ha scritto:
On Apr 16, 7:34 pm, superpollo wrote:
is there a way to convert the graphical output of a pygame application
to a mpeg file or better an animated gif? i mean, not using an external
capture program...
There is, but it's probably not g
On 4/16/2012 5:21 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
This is the 0.8.1~+alpha1 release of Pyjamas. Pyjamas comprises several
projects, one of which is a stand-alone python-to-javascript compiler; other
projects include a Graphical Widget Toolkit, such that pyjamas applications
can run eithe
On 4/18/2012 12:47 AM, Hans Mulder wrote:
On 18/04/12 03:08:08, Kiuhnm wrote:
print(1)
print(2)
print(3)
with open('test') as f:
data = f.read()
with open('test') as f:
data = f.read()
How much of that is needed to trigger the problem?
All three prints? Any of them?
I get the same
On 4/18/2012 10:22 AM, Kiuhnm wrote:
The bug was confirmed and a patch is now available:
http://bugs.python.org/issue14612
And applied to 2.7, 3.2, and 3.3.
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On 4/18/2012 11:56 AM, cheung wrote:
how does the function "dir" works,
> where can I get the python-c source of dir in py2.7 project.
Interesting question.
The CPython source is here: hg.python.org/cpython/
From there, select branches, 2.7, and browse.
From there, Python/bltinmodule.c has so
On 4/19/2012 7:14 AM, Kiuhnm wrote:
On 4/19/2012 6:21, lkcl wrote:
yeah, it does :) python is... the best word i can describe it is:
it's beautiful. it has an elegance of expression that is only marred
by the rather silly mistake of not taking map, filter and reduce into
the list object itself:
On 4/19/2012 7:20 AM, Alek Storm wrote:
Why not use list comprehension syntax?
For 3.x, that should be shortened to "Why not use comprehension
syntax?", where comprehensions by default become generator expressions.
These:
> Map: [val+1 for val in some_list]
> Filter: [val for val in some_li
On 4/19/2012 8:12 AM, lkcl luke wrote:
you don't *have* to use lambdas with map and reduce,
you just have touse a function,
> where a lambda happens to be a nameless function.
Abbreviated statements like the above sometimes lead people to think
that there is more difference between def functi
On 4/19/2012 11:51 AM, Jacob MacDonald wrote:
When I talk about an iterable, I say "iterable".
Ditto. Examples from manual:
"filter(function, iterable)
Construct an iterator from those elements of iterable for which function
returns true."
(I would work this differently.)
"map(function, iter
On 4/19/2012 1:15 PM, Kiuhnm wrote:
A with statement is not at the module level only if it appears inside a
function definition or a class definition.
This is true, I believe, of all statements.
Am I forgetting something?
Comprehensions (in Py3) and lambda expressions also introduce new loc
On 4/19/2012 5:32 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
On 19Apr2012 14:32, Terry Reedy wrote:
| On 4/19/2012 11:51 AM, Jacob MacDonald wrote:
|> When I talk about an iterable, I say "iterable".
|
| Ditto.
I used to, but find myself saying "sequence" these days. It reads
better, b
On 4/19/2012 6:16 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
On 19Apr2012 18:07, Terry Reedy wrote:
| On 4/19/2012 5:32 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
|> On 19Apr2012 14:32, Terry Reedy wrote:
|> | On 4/19/2012 11:51 AM, Jacob MacDonald wrote:
|> |> When I talk about an iterable, I s
On 4/20/2012 6:47 PM, Diego Manenti Martins wrote:
Anybody knows the data is sent in a different way for Python 2.5, 2.6
and 2.7 using this code:
You could check the What's New for 2.7 and see if there is any mention
of a change to urllib2. Or diff the 2.6 and 2.7 versions of urllib2.py.
i
On 4/20/2012 9:41 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
Except that "list of foos" and "sequence of foos" make sense from a
grammar standpoint, but "iterator of foos" does not. Or maybe it does?
I consider it grammatical, but idiomatically, it *is* an innovation.
Language evolves as needs evolve.
--
Terry
On 4/21/2012 9:08 AM, Dave Angel wrote:
On 04/21/2012 08:48 AM, Bernd Nawothnig wrote:
On 2012-04-20, Rotwang wrote:
since a method doesn't assign the value it returns to the instance on
which it is called; what it does to the instance and what it returns are
two completely different things.
R
On 4/21/2012 9:02 AM, Bernd Nawothnig wrote:
You should better not rely on that result. I would consider it to be
an implementation detail. I may be wrong, but would an implementation
that results in
() is () ==> False
be correct or is the result True really demanded by the language
specifica
On 4/22/2012 3:43 PM, John Nagle wrote:
On 4/20/2012 9:34 PM, john.tant...@gmail.com wrote:
On Friday, April 20, 2012 12:34:46 PM UTC-7, Rotwang wrote:
I believe it says somewhere in the Python docs that it's undefined and
implementation-dependent whether two identical expressions have the sam
On 4/23/2012 12:38 AM, Devin Jeanpierre wrote:
On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 9:22 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
On 4/22/2012 3:43 PM, John Nagle wrote:
On 4/20/2012 9:34 PM, john.tant...@gmail.com wrote:
On Friday, April 20, 2012 12:34:46 PM UTC-7, Rotwang wrote:
I believe it says somewhere in the
On 4/23/2012 1:55 PM, Devin Jeanpierre wrote:
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Benjamin Kaplan
wrote:
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Paul Rubin wrote:
The "is" operator is perfectly defined. But it doesn't check to see
whether two objects hold equivalent values, it checks whether they are
t
On 4/23/2012 4:37 PM, Devin Jeanpierre wrote:
However, you appear to be trying to shift the goalposts. Either "1 is
1" is always True, or always False, or sometimes one or the other. If
I'm mistaken and it so happens that numeric constants are guaranteed
somewhere to always be cached, then repla
On 4/25/2012 4:05 PM, Frank Miles wrote:
I have an exceedingly simple function that does a "named import".
It works perfectly for one file "r"- and fails for the second "x".
If I reverse the order of being called, it is still "x" that fails,
and "r" still succeeds.
os.access() always reports th
On 4/25/2012 4:49 PM, Adam Skutt wrote:
Identity and equality are distinct concepts in programming languages.
There's nothing that can be done about that, and no particularly good
reason to force certain language behaviors because some "programmers"
have difficulty with the distinction.
Though,
On 4/26/2012 9:12 AM, Neil Cerutti wrote:
On 2012-04-26, Neil Cerutti wrote:
I made the following wrong assumption about the csv EBNF
recognized by Python (ignoring record seps):
record -> field {delim field}
Is that in the docs?
There's at least some csv "standard" documents requiring m
On 4/26/2012 10:21 AM, ZHONG Chen wrote:
"PyIntBlocks are never returned to the system before shutdown"
I saw this comment in Python 2.6.8's source code: Objects/intobject.c
line 25
But in the function PyInt_ClearFreeList()
It will call PyMem_FREE(list) for empty int block.
Why?
Before procee
On 4/26/2012 1:48 AM, John Nagle wrote:
This assumes that everything is, internally, an object. In CPython,
that's the case, because Python is a naive interpreter and everything,
including numbers, is "boxed". That's not true of PyPy or Shed Skin.
So does "is" have to force the creation of a te
On 4/27/2012 4:55 AM, Stefan Behnel wrote:
I want the script
itself to update a window in the host application (via the extension) every
time the script calls print().
Then replace sys.stdout (and maybe also sys.stderr) by another object that
does what you want whenever its write() method is c
On 4/28/2012 2:09 PM, laymanzh...@gmail.com wrote:
In my understanding, there is no directly relation between mutable
and hashable in Python. Any class with __hash__ function is
"hashable".
According the wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immutable_object
In object-oriented and functional prog
On 4/29/2012 3:59 AM, J. Mwebaze wrote:
I am just wondering which specific algorithm does python use to compare
two strings.
'Python' does not use algorithms, implementations do. CPython may check
id and or hash before doing a character-by-char comparison (or perhaps
multiple chars at a time)
On 4/29/2012 3:57 AM, John O'Hagan wrote:
How do function objects fit into this scheme? They have __hash__, __eq__, seem
to work as dict keys and are mutable. Is it because their hash value doesn't
change?
I suspect functions use the default equality and hash based on id, which
does not chang
On 4/29/2012 6:05 AM, Terry Reedy wrote:
On 4/29/2012 3:59 AM, J. Mwebaze wrote:
I am just wondering which specific algorithm does python use to compare
two strings.
'Python' does not use algorithms, implementations do. CPython may check
id and or hash before doing a charact
On 4/30/2012 2:20 AM, Frank Millman wrote:
Hi all
For a while now I have been using Google Groups to read this group, but on the
odd occasion when I want to post a message, I use Outlook Express, as I know
that some people reject all messages from Google Groups due to the high spam
ratio (whi
On 4/30/2012 6:41 AM, viral shah wrote:
Hi
I want to make a pattern like this
*1
22
333
5
Python 3:
>>> for i in range(1,6): print(i*str(i))
1
22
333
5
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On 5/1/2012 1:25 AM, Dan Stromberg wrote:
Anyway, here's the comparison, with code and graph:
http://stromberg.dnsalias.org/~strombrg/sort-comparison/
(It's done in Pure python and Cython, with a little m4).
Interesting, BTW, that an unstable quicksort in Cython was approaching
timsort as a C
On 5/2/2012 10:49 AM, Nikhil Verma wrote:
This was posted as html (with text copy). Please send messages to the
list and newsgroup as text (only). Html sometimes does strange things,
especially if you post code.
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On 5/2/2012 10:14 PM, Steve Howell wrote:
This is slightly off topic, but I'm hoping folks can point me in the
right direction.
I'm looking for a fairly lightweight key/value store that works for
this type of problem:
ideally plays nice with the Python ecosystem
the data set is static, an
On 5/3/2012 8:36 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
Hi,
list(a_set)
When convert two sets with the same elements to two lists, are the
lists always going to be the same (i.e., the elements in each list are
ordered the same)? Is it documented anywhere?
"A set object is an unordered collection of distinct hash
On 5/4/2012 12:52 AM, John O'Hagan wrote:
Just read the thread on pyjamas-dev. Even without knowing anything about the
lead-up to the coup, its leader's linguistic contortions trying to justify it
And what is the name of the miscreant, so we know who to have nothing to
with?
--
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On 5/4/2012 8:00 AM, Peng Yu wrote:
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 6:21 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
Thanks. This is what I'm looking for. I think that this should be
added to the python document as a manifestation (but nonnormalized) of
what "A set object
On 5/4/2012 4:33 PM, ferreirafm wrote:
Hi there,
I simply can't print anything in the second for-loop bellow:
#
#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys
filename = sys.argv[1]
outname = filename.split('.')[0] + '_pdr.dat'
begin = 'Distance distribution'
end = 'R
Peng, I actually am thinking about it.
Underlying problem: while unordered means conceptually unordered as far
as the collection goes, the items in the collection, if homogenous
enough, may have a natural order, which users find hard to ignore. Even
if not comparable, an implementation such as
On 5/7/2012 6:23 AM, Exam Aya wrote:
For anyone working on object oriented programing languages like C++,
Java, C#, Python, PHP, etc. this workshop is a must. It goes through
the set of design patterns that started it all - Go4 - (Gang of 4)
patterns. The workshop will very interactive and each
On 5/8/2012 9:47 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 11:43 PM, Devin Jeanpierre
wrote:
There is no "both projects". there was Luke's project, and then
Risinger stole it and it's Risinger's project. There is only that one
thing -- Luke has no """fork""" of his own codebase.
Presu
On 5/8/2012 12:42 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 2:12 AM, Terry Reedy wrote:
You still have it backwards. Risinger forked the project with a new code
host and mailing list, but stole the name and and some data in the process
and made the false claim that his fork was the
On 5/8/2012 4:05 PM, John Gordon wrote:
I'm trying to come up with a scheme for organizing exceptions in
my application.
Currently, I'm using a base class which knows how to look up the text
of a specific error in a database table, keyed on the error class name.
The base class looks like this:
On 5/8/2012 3:13 PM, Edward C. Jones wrote:
I use up-to-date Debian testing (wheezy), amd64 architecture. I downloaded,
compiled and installed Python 3.3.0 alpha 3 (from python.org) using
"altinstall". Debian wheezy comes with python3.2 (and 2.6 and 2.7). I
installed the Debian package "python3-b
On 5/8/2012 5:47 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
From what others have posted, it has a new code repository (that being
the ostensible reason for the fork), project site, and mailing list --
the latter two incompetently. Apparently, the only thing he has kept are
the domain and project names (the
On 5/11/2012 12:35 AM, Michael Rene Armida wrote:
Given this source:
def do_something(val):
if val:
return 'a'
else:
return 'b'
How do I get the line number of the "else:" line, using the ast
module? The grammar only includes the 'orelse' list:
If(expr test, s
On 5/11/2012 1:55 AM, John Terrak wrote:
I couldnt find anywhere in the documentation that int() can throw a ValueError.
I checked the "The Python Language Reference", and the "The Python
Standard Library " to no avail.
Did I missed something?
To add to Chris' answer:
If the domain of a funct
On 5/12/2012 9:30 AM, contro opinion wrote:
there is a simple equation,
50/((1+x)**0.9389)+50/((1+x)**1.9389)+1050/((1+x)**2.9389)-1045=0
i input :
from sympy import *
x=Symbol('x')
solve(50/((1+x)**0.9389)+50/((1+x)**1.9389)+1050/((1+x)**2.9389)-1045, x)
Traceback (most recent call last):
On 5/13/2012 9:25 AM, David Shi wrote:
Can anyone tell me how to call and exectute C code in Python?
Regards.
David
*From:* "python-list-requ...@python.org"
*To:* python-list@python.org
*Sent:* Friday, 11 May 2012, 5:35
On 5/16/2012 11:02 PM, Mark R Rivet wrote:
It seems like all the info on tkinter is around the 2000 time frame.
Is tkinter still being developed/supported?
tkinter is CPython's tk interface. tcl/tk is still being developed at
Active State. The Windows release for Py 3.3 will come with 8.5.11,
On 5/16/2012 9:45 PM, gwhite wrote:
Hi,
I am a newbie running the latest pythonxy (2.7.2.1)& spyder and
python 2.7.2. I suspect my questions are mostly basic to python, and
not specific to Spyder or iPython.
Note: Up until now, I mainly used MATLAB, and thus need to de-program
myself appropr
On 5/17/2012 4:23 AM, Devin Jeanpierre wrote:
str.isdecimal = isdecimal(...)
S.isdecimal() -> bool
Return True if there are only decimal characters in S,
False otherwise.
Help on method_descriptor in str:
str.isdigit = isdigit(...)
S.isdigit() -> bool
Return True i
On 5/17/2012 5:50 AM, Alain Ketterlin wrote:
gry writes:
sys.version --> '2.6 (r26:66714, Feb 21 2009, 02:16:04) \n[GCC 4.3.2
[gcc-4_3-branch revision 141291]]
I thought this script would be very lean and fast, but with a large
value for n (like 15), it uses 26G of virtural memory, and
On 5/17/2012 8:50 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Thu, 17 May 2012 21:32:29 +0200, Marco wrote:
Is it normal the str.isnumeric() returns False for these Cuneiforms?
'\U00012456'
'\U00012457'
'\U00012432'
'\U00012433'
They are all in the Nl category.
Are you sure about that? Do you have a refe
On 5/20/2012 12:33 PM, Vincent Vande Vyvre wrote:
On 20/05/12 17:55, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Is this a bug in the doctest documentation, or is my browser broken?
On this page:
http://docs.python.org/library/doctest.html#option-flags-and-directives
scroll down to the examples showing the doctes
On 5/20/2012 1:16 PM, Ian Kelly wrote:
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 10:52 AM, e-mail mgbg25171
wrote:
There's a little forth program written in python here
#http://openbookproject.net/py4fun/forth/forth.py
I'm struggling to understand what these lines mean.
def rJnz (cod,p) : return (cod[p],p+1)[d
On 5/20/2012 11:33 PM, angelja...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm trying to embed a part of python (core+some modules) in my iOS application
for internal scripting.
I have not read that anyone has run under iOS yet ;-). Good luck.
I started from compiling original unmodified Python source. Tried both
On 5/24/2012 4:53 PM, Duncan Booth wrote:
Scott Siegler wrote:
Hello,
I am an experienced programmer but a beginner to python. As such, I
can figure out a way to code most algorithms using more "C" style
syntax.
Hi, welcome to Python. I came here from C also.
I am doing something now tha
On 5/29/2012 11:33 AM, Scott Siegler wrote:
Hello,
I have a surface that I load an image onto. During a collision I
would like to clear out the images of both surfaces that collided and
show the score. Is there a function call to clear a surface with an
image?
One way I was thinking was to fi
On 5/30/2012 2:52 AM, ru...@yahoo.com wrote:
In python2, "\u" escapes are processed in raw unicode
strings. That is, ur'\u3000' is a string of length 1
consisting of the IDEOGRAPHIC SPACE unicode character.
That surprised me until I rechecked the fine manual and found:
"When an 'r' or 'R' pre
On 5/30/2012 11:05 AM, Chuck wrote:
I just downloaded Enthought Python, free version. I wanted all the
included packages, but I can't seem to find the correct directory to
install new Python modules. Does anybody have an idea? I am trying
to add Universal Feed Parser to Enthought. I have trie
On 5/30/2012 6:19 PM, Matteo Landi wrote:
On May/28, Matteo Landi wrote:
Hi list,
recently I started to work on an application [1] which makes use of the Tkinter
module to handle interaction with the user. Simply put, the app is a text
widget displaying a file filtered by given criteria, with a
On 5/31/2012 11:02 AM, Ahmed, Shakir wrote:
When you want to start a new thread, make sure you start a new thread
and do not post as a response to another thread. This will get lost as a
response to 'How to suppress ...'.
Is this a homework, hobby, or work exercise?
I am trying to read a tx
On 6/1/2012 11:23 AM, Temia Eszteri wrote:
I've got a bit of a problem - my project uses weak sets in multiple
areas, the problem case in particular being to indicate what objects
are using a particular texture, if any, so that its priority in OpenGL
can be adjusted to match at the same time as i
On 6/1/2012 7:40 PM, Temia Eszteri wrote:
Given that len(weakset) is defined (sensibly) as the number of currently
active members, it must count. weakset should really have .__bool__
method that uses any() instead of sum(). That might reduce, but not
necessarily eliminate your problem.
Think i
On 6/4/2012 11:35 AM, David Shi wrote:
Please post plain text rather than html. It just works better and is the
convention for this newsgroup and mailing list.
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On 6/5/2012 1:19 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
The inspect.getargspec and getfullargspec functions allow you to extract
the function call signature for Python functions and methods. This allows
you to work out the constructor signature for pure-Python classes, by
calling inspect.getargspec on the __
On 6/6/2012 9:06 AM, Mark Summerfield wrote:
I have Python 3.2 with Tcl/Tk 8.5, but there doesn't seem to be a
ttk.Spinbox widget even though that widget is part of Tcl/Tk 8.5:
http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/TkCmd/ttk_spinbox.htm
Why is that?
My guess is that Spinbox was not present when tkinte
On 6/6/2012 4:56 PM, Jerry Hill wrote:
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Alec Ross wrote:
FWIW, English idiomatic usage includes "see overleaf", and "see over", for
the obverse side of a page/sheet, i.e, the following page; and "see facing
page", w/ the obvious meaning.
For what it's worth, I'v
On 6/8/2012 4:09 AM, Alister wrote:
On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 20:20:47 +, jkells wrote:
We are new to developing applications with Python. A question came up
concerning Python libraries being portable between Architectures.
More specifically, can we take a python library that runs on a X86
archi
On 6/9/2012 10:23 AM, a...@vorsicht-bissig.de wrote:
Hello subscribers,
I've recently encountered a strange problem with Python for Windows.
I'm using Windows 7 Pro 64 Bit and Python 3.2.3 64 Bit (also tried 32
bit). The Problem is, that pythonw.exe does not work at all!
Therefore no IDLE for me
On 6/9/2012 10:08 AM, Devin Jeanpierre wrote:
On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Neal Becker wrote:
Doesn't anyone else think it would be a good addition to open to specify a file
creation mode? Like posix open? Avoid all these nasty workarounds?
I do, although I'm hesitant, because this only
On 6/9/2012 6:25 PM, Neal Becker wrote:
Terry Reedy wrote:
The original open builtin was a thin wrapper around old C's stdio.open.
Open no longer has that constraint. After more discussion here, someone
could open a tracker issue with a specific proposal. Keep in mind that
'mode
On 6/10/2012 7:39 PM, a...@vorsicht-bissig.de wrote:
Thank you for your help. I found the problem at some other place. The
registry tweaks didn't solve it. But I found the hint to look up my
.idlerc folder. So the problem was entirely IDLE related (yes, it
worked before). But it wasnt PyQt'S pro
On 6/13/2012 4:55 PM, bri...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi!
I'm trying to get a handle on pytz (http://pytz.sourceforge.net/). I don't have
root on the system I'll be running my script on, so I need to go for a local
installation. I copied pytz into a folder in my sys.path and am importing from
there.
On 6/13/2012 6:45 PM, Gilles wrote:
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 23:16:31 +0200, Christian Heimes
wrote:
PHP was developed for non-developers. (see
http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/ ).
It's much easier and also cheaper to find bad coders and non-developers
than code peop
On 6/15/2012 1:03 PM, Tomasz Rola wrote:
Last time I checked, Python didn't have linked lists - arrayed lists are
nice, but their elements can't be automatically GC-ed (or, this requires
very nontrivial GC algorithm), the easiest way I can think would be
replacing them with None manually. I'm no
On 6/15/2012 4:28 AM, RICHARD MOSELEY wrote:
To check whether the function has been previously converted, I make use
of internal objects within the ctypes module, namely, _SimpleCData and
_CFuncPtr. Is this a safe thing to do, bearing in mind that the objects
are documentated as internal?
It d
On 6/15/2012 3:04 PM, Paul Rubin wrote:
Terry Reedy writes:
Python iterators can do lazy evaluation. All the builtin classes come
with a corresponding iterator. ...
I wouldn't say iterators do lazy evaluation in the Scheme or Haskell
sense. Lazy evaluation imho means evaluation is def
On 6/15/2012 11:24 PM, Mark Livingstone wrote:
Hello!
I wish to properly cite Python in an academic paper I am writing.
Is there a preferred document etc to cite?
At present, I would use something like
Rossum, Guido van, et al, *The Python Language Reference*, Python
Software Foundation; ht
On 6/16/2012 5:01 PM, Christian Heimes wrote:
Am 16.06.2012 22:44, schrieb Terry Reedy:
Rossum, Guido van, et al, *The Python Language Reference*, Python
Software Foundation; http://docs.python.org/py3k/reference/index.html
Actually it's "van Rossum, Guido", not "Rossum,
On 6/17/2012 5:54 AM, gmspro wrote:
We know python is written in C.
Nope. The CPython Python interpreter is written in (as portable as
possible) C. The Jython, IronPython, and PyPy Python interpreters are
written in Jave, C#, and Python respectively. Each compiles Python to
something differe
On 6/17/2012 5:35 PM, Gelonida N wrote:
I'm having a module, which should lazily evaluate one of it's variables.
If you literally mean a module object, that is not possible. On the
other hand, it is easy to do with class instances, via the __getattr__
special method or via properties.
At
On 6/18/2012 12:39 PM, jmfauth wrote:
We are turning in circles.
You are, not we. Please stop.
You are somehow legitimating the reintroduction of unicode
literals
We are not 'reintroducing' unicode literals. In Python 3, string
literals *are* unicode literals.
Other developers reintroduc
On 6/18/2012 9:54 AM, Dave Angel wrote:
On 06/18/2012 09:47 AM, Neal Becker wrote:
I meant a module
You are correct that using periods in a module name conflicts with
periods in import statement syntax.
from src.directory import neal
that has nothing to do with periods being in a director
On 6/2/2011 12:18 PM, Nick Buchholz wrote:
Hi all,
I've been wandering through the DOCs for an hour and haven't found a
solution to this
I'm just starting to convert from 2.5 to 3.2 and I have a problem. I have a
code that looks like this.
from tkinter import *
import time
import datetim
On 6/2/2011 7:00 AM, Alain Ketterlin wrote:
Nowhere. But going against generally accepted semantics should at least
be clearly indicated. Lambda is one of the oldest computing abstraction,
and they are at the core of any functional programming language. Adding
a quick hack to python and call it
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