On 2013-07-31 16:32, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2013-07-31, Tim Chase wrote:
> > I interpret Grant's statement as wanting the "table" to look like
> >
> > for name, value, description in (
> > ("cost", 42, "How much it cost&qu
On 2013-07-31 16:32, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2013-07-31, Tim Chase wrote:
> > I interpret Grant's statement as wanting the "table" to look like
> >
> > for name, value, description in (
> > ("cost", 42, "How much it cost&qu
On 2013-08-01 15:52, Terry Reedy wrote:
> Newly revised this morning:
> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#maximum-line-length
>
> The diff with all the changes is here
> http://hg.python.org/peps/rev/fb24c80e9afb
Just a quick spelling fix of
s/experimants/experiments/
at http://hg.pyth
On 2013-08-02 14:00, Schneider wrote:
> I have to write a small SMTP-Relay script (+ some statistic infos)
> and I'm wondering, if this
> can be done in python (in terms of performance, of course not in
> terms of possibility ;) ).
>
> It has to handle around 2000 mails per hour for at least 8hour
On 2013-08-08 22:32, Joshua Landau wrote:
> On 8 August 2013 21:03, Terry Reedy wrote:
> > If .pop were being added today, I would argue against including
> > the index parameter.
>
> 3) There's always deque for deques
Unless you have pre-2.4 code, in which case I'm glad .pop() was
included (but
On 2013-08-10 21:03, Krishnan Shankar wrote:
> >>> a=10
> >>> id(a)
> 21665504
> >>> b=a
> >>> id(b)
> 21665504
> >>> c=10
> >>> id(c)
> 21665504
>
> I am actually assigning new value to c. But from the value of id()
> all three variables take same location. With variables a and b it
> is ok. But
On 2013-08-14 18:14, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 6:05 PM, wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013, at 10:32, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote:
> >> I'm always and still be suprised by the number of hard coded
> >> '\n' one can find in Python code when the portable (here
> >> win)
> >>
> >> >
On 2013-08-17 17:18, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> # Yes, this is good, consistent design
> len(myrecord.field)
> len(obj.data)
> len(data.value)
> len(collection[key])
I would also add that, if the primary goal of your class is to
encapsulate the data, you can do
class MyClass:
def __init__(sel
On 2013-08-27 08:25, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 ni...@superhost.gr wrote:
> >Actually it is.
Frankly, it's not. It's called the Python mailing list because it's
for discussing *Python*. Otherwise, it would be called "Python and
random irrelevant topics" mailing list.
There a
On 2013-08-28 05:52, AdamKal wrote:
> From time to time I have to apply a series of functions to a value
> in such a way:
>
> func4(func3(func2(func1(myval
>
> I was wondering if there is a function in standard library that
> would take a list of functions and a initial value and do the above
On 2013-08-28 06:23, AdamKal wrote:
> Thanks!
>
> I guess this is as simple as it gets then. I was just looking for
> the "one obvious way to do it".
When 3 replies from 3 people all arrive within minutes, each
suggesting reduce(), I'd figure it's the "one obvious way to do
it" :-)
-tkc
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On 2013-08-28 13:14, random...@fastmail.us wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013, at 12:44, John Levine wrote:
> > I have a crufty old DNS provisioning system that I'm rewriting
> > and I hope improving in python. (It's based on tinydns if you
> > know what that is.)
> >
> > The record formats are, in th
On 2013-08-29 04:48, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote:
> I'm C++ programmer and unfortunately put semicolon at end of my
> statements in python.
>
> Quesion:
> What's really defferences between putting semicolon and don't put?
>From a technical standpoint, nothing (see below). From a "readability
on t
On 2013-08-29 10:31, Chris Angelico wrote:
> but putting semicolons at the ends of Python statements is as
> useless as putting lots of (((irritating (((superfluous
> (((parentheses) in your C++ code. The parser won't mind,
> but subsequent programmers will wonder what these unneces
On 2013-08-31 13:11, Eduardo Alvarez wrote:
> When using argparse, is there a way to specify in what order
> arguments get parsed? I am writing a script whose parameters can be
> modified in the following order:
>
> Defaults -> config file -> command-line switches.
>
> However, I want to give the
On 2013-09-01 17:03, materil...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello everybody
> I'm trying to run this:
>
>
> >>> a = 'E:\Dropbox\jjfsdjjsdklfj\sdfjksdfkjslkj\flute.wav'
> >>> a.split('\')
>
> SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal
>
>
> I think that the character '\' is the problem, but unfortu
On 2013-09-02 10:23, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> | I also want to know how to mirror a character, in my case this
> | one ©, because I'll use the Copyleft
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft | to distribute my app.
>
> Isn't that a copyright symbol? I'd have a look at the "uncidoedata"
> module,
On 2013-09-02 14:20, Grant Edwards wrote:
> >> This saves an indent level.
> >
> > Just out of interest: is saving an indent level a useful thing?
>
> Perhaps he's worried about the world running out of tabs?
>
> I heard that most of the tab mines are in China and they're going to
> stop exportin
On 2013-09-02 10:47, Roy Smith wrote:
> > > Perhaps he's worried about the world running out of tabs?
> > >
> > > I heard that most of the tab mines are in China and they're
> > > going to stop exporting...
> >
> > And buying all that indentation supports terrorists. Conserve
> > whitespace or t
On 2013-09-03 02:06, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> So the real bug is with the parser.
>
> It is likely that nobody noticed this bug in the first place
> because the current behaviour doesn't matter for regexes, which is
> the primary purpose of raw strings. You can't end a regex with an
> unescaped b
I've got some old 2.4 code (requires an external lib that hasn't been
upgraded) that needs to process a CSV file where some of the values
contain \r characters. It appears that in more recent versions (just
tested in 2.7; docs suggest this was changed in 2.5), Python does the
Right Thing™ and just
On 2013-09-04 10:20, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> > _csv.Error: newline inside string
>
> How are the lines actually terminated, with \r\n or with just \n? If
> it's just \n, what happens if you specify \n as the line terminator?
Unfortunately, the customer feed contains DOS newlines ("\r\n").
I'm
On 2013-09-04 16:31, MRAB wrote:
> You could try replacing the '\r' with another character that doesn't
> appear elsewhere and then change it back afterwards.
>
> MARKER = '\x01'
>
> def cr_to_marker(f):
> for line in f:
> yield line.replace('\r', MARKER)
>
> def marker_to_cr(item)
On 2013-09-06 05:09, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> And thank goodness for SIGWINCH. :-)
BEDEVERE: How do you know she is a SIGWINCH?
VILLAGER: She looks like one.
CROWD: Right! Yeah! Yeah!
:-)
I'm just glad it's no longer 40-chars-per-column and purely
upper-case like the Apple ][+ on which I cut m
On 2013-09-06 20:47, Tim Delaney wrote:
> On 6 September 2013 20:35, Tim Chase wrote:
> > I'm just glad it's no longer 40-chars-per-column and purely
> > upper-case like the Apple ][+ on which I cut my programming teeth.
>
> Couldn't you switch the ][+ into hig
On 2013-09-17 00:15, Ferrous Cranus wrote:
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On 2013-09-17 16:21, Ferrous Cranus wrote:
> I just want to say tot he program that
>
> that only run the for statement if and only if person=='George'
>
> I dont see nay reason as to why this fails
>
> perhaps like:
>
> for times in range(0, 5) if person=='George':
>
> but that fails too...
>
On 2013-09-20 02:58, Aseem Bansal wrote:
> I started Python 4 months ago. Largely self-study with use of
> Python documentation, stackoverflow and google. I was thinking what
> is the minimum that I must know before I can say that I know Python?
It's a fuzzy line. A good while back, there was a t
On 2013-09-23 10:10, quarantinemi...@gmail.com wrote:
> based on two values I want to extract from a CSV file. The
> CSV has at least 1000 rows, an example:
>
> 0,0,KGD,0,DME,0,,0,0
[snip]
> I'd like to automatically go through each row in the CSV file from
> beginning to end to extract the two va
On 2013-09-25 14:18, John Gordon wrote:
> However, if the user did not arrive from another page, then
> HTTP_REFERER will be missing. This happens when the user types the
> web address directly into their browser, or clicks on a bookmark,
> or many other ways.
>
> Also, obviously, it's up to the
On 2013-09-25 18:02, Νίκος wrote:
> This indeed works now:
>
> ref = os.environ.get('HTTP_REFERER', 'Άγνωστο Ref')
>
> but iam wondering why this doesnt work also:
>
> ref = os.environ('HTTP_REFERER')
>
> Shouldnt both work?
No...that calls os.environ. You likely *mean*
ref = os.environ['H
On 2013-09-25 18:16, Νίκος wrote:
> how caom the http_referer thing works ok now but when i just print
> all the key listing of .os.environ ket the http_referer key isnt
> inside?
Well, first off, it's entirely possible (based on reading that
paragraph) that you typed something wrong.
That said,
On 2013-09-25 15:45, trip...@gmail.com wrote:
> Say, I have a namedtuple like this:
>
> {'a': brucelee(x=123, y=321), 'b': brucelee('x'=123, 'y'=321)
>
> I need to convert it to:
>
> {'a': {'x':123, 'y': 321},'b': {'x':123, 'y': 321}}
While it uses the "private" member-variable "_fields", you c
On 2013-09-26 01:08, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 18:41:25 -0500, Tim Chase wrote about
> namedtuple:
>
> > While it uses the "private" member-variable "_fields", you can do
>
> It's not actually private!
>
> namedtup
On 2013-09-26 16:42, Virendra Tripathi wrote:
> Thx Tim. Your solution works.
After Steven's reply, I recommend
dict((k,v._asdict()) for k,v in d.iteritems())
which simplifies matters.
-tkc
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I've got a large heapq'ified list and want to walk it in-order
without altering it. I get the "unsorted" heap'ish results if I just
do
from heapq import heappush, heappop, nlargest, nsmallest
my_heap = []
for thing in lots_of_items():
heappush(thing)
for item in my_heap:
...
To g
On 2013-09-28 09:11, cerr wrote:
> I have a list of sentences and a list of words. Every full word
> that appears within sentence shall be extended by i.e. "I
> drink in the house." Would become "I in the ." (and
> not "I in the .")
This is a good place to reach for regular expressions. It com
[mercy, you could have trimmed down that reply]
On 2013-09-28 10:43, cerr wrote:
> On Saturday, September 28, 2013 4:54:35 PM UTC, Tim Chase wrote:
>> import re
>
> Great, only I don't have the re module on my system :(
Um, it's a standard Python library. You
On 2013-09-30 19:04, Franck Ditter wrote:
> two points make me crazy :
> 1. Tail recursion is not optimized. We are in 2013, why ? This is
> known technology (since 1960). And don't answer with "good
> programmers don't use recursion",
I seem to recall hearing that the primary reason it hadn't bee
Daniel,
I'm sorry your initial interactions with the list were tainted
by this experience. Modulo these degenerative threads (usually
started by Nikos), it *really* is a helpful and friendly place.
On 2013-10-02 00:24, Daniel Stojanov wrote:
> 2) I just signed up the this mailing list. To the re
On 2013-10-02 09:48, Tim Delaney wrote:
> Because there's no chance with the brilliance you display that
> there could be any possibility of login details being kept in
> plaintext in your database.
>
> And of course your database is so well locked down that no attacker
> with a login to it could
On 2013-10-02 05:38, feedthetr...@gmx.de wrote:
> (Hey Thunderbird has a very useful new feature. Ignore thread.)
Unfortunately, as of when I last tested it, it only works in the
newsgroup part of TB, not the mail portion of TB.
Sadly, Claws-Mail (my current mailer) doesn't have a native
kill-thr
On 2013-10-02 13:43, Νίκος wrote:
> 2. Still feel that that the solution provided to me doesn't meet my
> needs and should have been re-written in a different way.
This is part of the trouble people had recently in the
IP-address/default-value thread. Python has what folks here call a
"pythonic"
On 2013-10-04 02:21, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > workers = []
> > for params in whatever:
> > thread = threading.Thread(params)
> > thread.start()
> > workers.append(thread)
>
> You could shorten this by iterating twice, if that helps:
>
> worke
On 2013-10-05 18:08, Harvey Greenberg wrote:
> I am looping as for L in file.readlines(), where file is csv.
>
> L is a list of 3 items, eg, [{'a':1, 'b':2}, [1,2,3], 10] Note that
> the first item is a dir and 2nd is a list, so parsing with split
> doesn't work. Is there a way to convert L, whic
On 2013-10-07 12:26, Walter Hurry wrote:
> The 'Goodbye' post was made in rather a fit of pique, for which I
> apologise. If I am allowed a second chance, there is actually
> something puzzling me at the moment. It's a UnicodeDecodeError, but
> I shall start a separate thread about it.
Indeed, th
On 2013-10-08 15:36, Denis McMahon wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Oct 2013 08:33:48 -0400, Roy Smith wrote:
> > In the old days, it used to be /usr/dict/words. Port Python to
> > v6, and save another 6 characters :-)
>
> Doesn't matter where it is, a link to it exists at "/w" now ;)
You prodigal...wasting
On 2013-10-08 17:17, Chris Angelico wrote:
> Who's up for some fun? Implement an XKCD-936-compliant password
> generator in Python 3, in less code than this:
>
> print(*__import__("random").sample(open("/usr/share/dict/words").read().split("\n"),4))
>
> Second challenge: Use it for generating all
On 2013-10-09 19:28, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 09/10/2013 19:06, Denis McMahon wrote:
>> Find the relevant forums and ask in them.
>
> Why am I thinking of this
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_a_Hole_in_My_Bucket ?
There's a bug in my program, dear newsgroup, dear newsgroup,
There's a b
On 2013-10-10 12:10, MRAB wrote:
> Re "==", this page:
>
> http://php.net/manual/en/language.operators.comparison.php
>
> states:
>
> """If you compare a number with a string or the *comparison involves
> numerical strings*, then each string is converted to a number and
> the comparison per
On 2013-10-11 08:01, Starriol wrote:
> NO.;NAME;SOURCE;DESTINATION;VPN ;SERVICE;ACTION;TRACK;INSTALL
> ON;TIME;COMMENT
> 1;;fwxcluster;mcast_vrrp;;vrrp;accept;Log;fwxcluster;Any;"VRRP;;*Comment
> suppressed* ;igmp**;
> 2;;fwxcluster;fwxcluster;;FireWall;accept;Log;fwxcluster;Any;"Managemen
On 2013-10-11 15:40, Tim Chase wrote:
> the dangling open-quotes on #1 that cause most CSV parsers to read
> until the subsequent line is read.
And by "subsequent line", I mean "subsequent closing-quote" of
course. :-)
-tkc
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On 2013-10-16 06:09, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > "xyz" - "abc";
> (1) Result: "xyz"
> > "cba" - "abc";
> (2) Result: "cba"
> > "abcdabc" - "abc";
> (3) Result: "d"
>
> Every instance of the subtracted-out string is removed. It's
> something like x.remove(y) in many other languages.
Or as one
On 2013-10-16 13:22, Peter Otten wrote:
> The problem might be ipv6-related.
I second this as the likely culprit -- I've had to disable IPv6 on my
Debian laptop since my AT&T router is brain-dead and doesn't seem to
support it, so I would often get timeouts similar to what is the OP
describes and
On 2013-10-19 14:08, David Robinow wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> You can try all these out in the interactive interpreter (you
>> probably have IDLE installed, which on Windows is rather nicer to
>> work with than the default interactive mode).
>
> IDLE is cr
On 2013-10-21 15:55, David Robinow wrote:
> I wasn't aware that the interactive interpreter on Linux had
> features that the Windows version didn't. I'm curious what those
> features might be.
It's mostly the benefits that come from being built with the readline
library, meaning you get
- command
On 2013-10-24 14:53, Ben Finney wrote:
> I think the request is incoherent: If you want to allow the user to
> primarily interact with the program, this is incompatible with also
> wanting to redirect standard input.
As a counter-example, might I suggest one I use regularly:
gimme_stuff_on_stdo
On 2013-10-24 12:16, markot...@gmail.com wrote:
> How to create a program similar to paint, but the difference would
> be that the cursor would be always in the middle and the canvas
> moves or the camera is always fixed on the cursor as it moves
> around the canvas. And the canvas should be infini
On 2013-10-24 21:51, Grant Edwards wrote:
> > To hold an (effectively) infinite *bitmap* canvas, you'd
> > (effectively) need an (effectively) infinite amount of memory.
>
> Sparse arrays allow it to be sort-of implemented as long as most of
> the bitmap is "empty".
Fair enough. Raw bitmap can
Given the following example 2.7 code:
from functools import wraps
class require_keys:
def __init__(self, *keys):
self.keys = keys
def __call__(decorator_self, fn):
@wraps(fn)
def result_fn(method_self, *args, **kwargs):
# import pdb; pdb.set_trace()
req = method_self.__
On 2013-10-27 00:26, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 11:50 PM, Vito De Tullio
> wrote:
> > you miss a FactoryFactory and a couple of *Manager.
> >
> > Oh, and it should be xml-config-driven.
>
> Or a metaclass and a few decorators. They're inherently Pythonic,
> right?
You are de
On 2013-10-25 22:01, Peter Otten wrote:
> > from functools import wraps
> > class require_keys:
> > def __init__(self, *keys):
> > self.keys = keys
> > def __call__(decorator_self, fn):
> > @wraps(fn)
> > def result_fn(method_self, *args, **kwargs):
> > # import pdb; pdb.set_t
On 2013-10-26 22:24, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Why on earth would you want to throw away perfectly good
> information?
The main reason I've needed to do it in the past is for normalization
of search queries. When a user wants to find something containing
"pingüino", I want to have those results c
On 2013-10-26 21:54, Roy Smith wrote:
> In article ,
> Tim Chase wrote:
>> I'd be just as happy if Python provided a "sloppy string compare"
>> that ignored case, diacritical marks, and the like.
>
> The problem with putting fuzzy matching in the core
On 2013-10-28 07:01, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote:
>> Simply ignoring diactrics won't get you very far.
>
> Right. As an example, these four French words :
> cote, côte, coté, côté .
Distinct words with distinct meanings, sure.
But when a naïve (naive? ☺) person or one without the easy ability
to e
On 2013-10-29 11:42, Ben Finney wrote:
> You are keeping your virtualenv separate from your working tree,
> right?
This was one of the key bits I missed in most of the
virtualenv{,wrapper} documentation and only figured out after asking
several questions here on c.l.p Once I had that understandin
On 2013-10-29 08:38, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote:
> >>> import timeit
> >>> timeit.timeit("a = 'hundred'; 'x' in a")
> 0.12621293837694095
> >>> timeit.timeit("a = 'hundreij'; 'x' in a")
> 0.26411553466961735
That reads to me as "If things were purely UCS4 internally, Python
would normally take 0
I've got some decorators that work fine as such:
@dec1(args1)
@dec2(args2)
@dec3(args3)
def myfun(...):
pass
However, I used that sequence quite a bit, so I figured I could do
something like
dec_all = dec1(args1)(dec2(args2)(dec3(args3)))
to consolidate the whole mess down to
@
On 2013-10-29 17:42, MRAB wrote:
> If you apply the stacked decorators you get:
>
> myfun = dec1(args1)(dec2(args2)(dec3(args3)(myfun)))
>
> If you apply dec_all you get:
>
> myfun = dec1(args1)(dec2(args2)(dec3(args3)))(myfun)
>
> See the difference? You need the lambda to fix that.
On 2013-10-29 13:48, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> All maintenance of Python 2.6, including for security issues, has
> now ended.
>
> So too has my latest stint as Python Release Manager.
I'm sorry to see you step down, but am thankful for your many years of
solid work. Wishing you the best,
-tkc
-
On 2013-10-30 21:30, Joshua Landau wrote:
> started talking about compressing *random data*
If it's truly random bytes, as long as you don't need *the same*
random data, you can compress it quite easily. Lossy compression is
acceptable for images, so why not random files? :-)
import os
inn
On 2013-10-30 19:28, Roy Smith wrote:
> For example, it's reasonable to consider any vowel (or string of
> vowels, for that matter) to be closer to another vowel than to a
> consonant. A great example is the word, "bureaucrat". As far as
> I'm concerned, it's spelled {b, vowels, r, vowels, c, r,
On 2013-10-31 22:12, Göktuğ Kayaalp wrote:
> My usual practise is to have two entry points to the program as
> executable scripts.
When I create stand-alone command-line scripts that take arguments,
usually they're akin to version-control tools, so I have the form
scriptname.py [--global-opts]
On 2013-11-03 19:40, Mark Janssen wrote:
> But you cheated by using a piece of information from "outside the
> system": length. A generic compression algorithm doesn't have this
> information beforehand.
By cheating with outside information, you can perfectly compress any
one data-set down to 1 b
On 2013-11-05 17:39, Nick the Gr33k wrote:
> >>> data = infile.readlines
You're assigning it to the bound function rather than calling the
function. Use the "call" operator:
data = infile.readlines()
-tkc
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On 2013-11-06 22:22, Grant Edwards wrote:
> Waving red flags at female bulls is rarely dangerous. ;)
though I still wouldn't recommend it if you're COWardly :-)
Well, maybe the issue is MOOt.
-tkc
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On 2013-11-07 10:57, Chris Angelico wrote:
> Waving red flags at female bulls is rarely dangerous. ;)
> >>>
> >>> though I still wouldn't recommend it if you're COWardly :-)
> >>>
> >>> Well, maybe the issue is MOOt.
> >>
> >> Ugh, if only these puns were like CALF-way funny...
> >
> > I here
On 2013-11-06 17:31, John Nagle wrote:
> >> MetaBright makes skill assessments to measure how talented
> >> people are at different skills. And recruiters use MetaBright to
> >> find outrageously skilled job candidates.
>
> With tracking cookies blocked, you get 0 points.
And with JavaScript bl
On 2013-11-06 23:06, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> Waving red flags at female bulls is rarely dangerous. ;)
> >>>
> >>> though I still wouldn't recommend it if you're COWardly :-)
> >>>
> >>> Well, maybe the issue is MOOt.
> >>
> >> Ugh, if only these puns were like CALF-way funny...
> >
> >I he
On 2013-11-07 17:03, Sibylle Koczian wrote:
> > Nikos, you are an excellent member of the Greek society.
> > Listening to you makes it so much easier to understand the
> > problems that your country has.
>
> Is there any reason at all to insult all other Greek readers of
> this newsgroup?
Greec
On 2013-11-07 11:02, jski...@gmail.com wrote:
> it's unlikely we'll ever be able to pull out javascript as it
> limits interactivity too much.
It was mostly in jest as it's one of the things I test when doing
web development. That said, the quizzes are mostly just HTML forms
where you pick the an
On 2013-11-07 21:18, Roy Smith wrote:
> It's not a shifting goalpost. My original statement was that:
>
> def foo():
>raise Exception
>
> defines a function which 1) has no explicit return statement and 2)
> does not return None. I stand by that statement. There is no
> possible codepath,
On 2013-11-09 07:53, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On the flip side, Python gets really awesome at some other things.
> Your operating system probably takes an entire CD to distribute,
> maybe even a DVD, so that's either 700MB or 4.7GB, give or take.
> Look how efficiently Python can represent it:
>
>
On 2013-11-10 01:27, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > Is everyone happy with the way things are? Could anyone recommend
> > a good, high level language for CGI work? Not sure if I'm going
> > to be happy with Perl (ahhh, get him, he's mentioned Perl and is
> > a heretic!) or Python. I would very much valu
On 2013-11-09 21:01, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> no comma is needed but a comma will be accepted.
I find the optional trailing comma particularly useful (and painful in
languages that don't accept it) for doing inline lists to produce
cleaner version-control diffs. I write most of my code like this
On 2015-02-28 12:09, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > * Make your language have a lot of keywords. Enough to make
> > memorizing them ALL unlikely, requiring constant visits to your
> > documentation
>
> Is 33 a lot?
>
> py> import keyword
> py> keyword.kwlist
> ['False', 'None', 'True', 'and', 'a
On 2015-02-28 17:56, MRAB wrote:
> On 2015-02-28 16:03, Cousin Stanley wrote:
> >
> >> From : Tim Chase
> >>
> >> A quick google-and-tally for languages
> >> and their corresponding number of keywords:
> >>
> >
> >
On 2015-02-28 10:13, Ethan Furman wrote:
> On 02/28/2015 09:56 AM, MRAB wrote:
> > On 2015-02-28 16:03, Cousin Stanley wrote:
> >>
> >>> From : Tim Chase
> >>>
> >>> A quick google-and-tally for languages
> >>> and their c
On 2015-03-09 11:37, Wolfgang Maier wrote:
> On 03/09/2015 11:23 AM, Antoon Pardon wrote:
>> Does anyone know what regular expression to use for a sequence of
>> letters? There is a class for alphanumerics but I can't find one
>> for just letters, which I find odd.
>
> how about [a-zA-Z] ?
That b
On 2015-03-09 13:26, Antoon Pardon wrote:
> Op 09-03-15 om 12:17 schreef Tim Chase:
>> (?:(?!_|\d)\w)
>
> So if I understand correctly the following should be a regular
> expression for a python3 identifier.
>
> (?:(?!_|\d)\w)\w+
If you don't have to treat it
On 2015-03-09 15:29, Antoon Pardon wrote:
> Op 09-03-15 om 13:50 schreef Tim Chase:
> >> (?:(?!_|\d)\w)\w+
> > If you don't have to treat it as an atom, you can simplify that to
> > just
> >
> > (?!_|\d)\w+
> >
> > which just means that th
On 2015-03-13 12:05, Larry Martell wrote:
> I need to remove all trailing zeros to the right of the decimal
> point, but leave one zero if it's whole number.
>
> But I can't figure out how to get the 5. to be 5.0.
> I've been messing with the negative lookbehind, but I haven't fou
On 2015-03-18 10:46, Aditya Raj Bhatt wrote:
> a = 5 '''a comment'''
>
> results in a syntax error
That's to be expected, and happens with any string, not just
triple-quoted:
>>> a = 5 "hello"
> there are no 'true' multiline comments in python and that all those
> 'block' comments are actuall
On 2015-03-23 21:19, Chandra Prashad mishra wrote:
> I want to know hint about web development... can any one get me...
Use your text editor and deploy your project to a web server.
-tkc
(you'd need to provide a few more details about what you want to get
anything more detailed in response)
On 2015-03-25 21:20, Dave Angel wrote:
>> pattern="DECRYPT_I"
>> regexp=re.compile(pattern)
>
> That could explain why it's so fast.
While I might have missed it in the thread, it also seems that
regexpen are overkill for this. Why not just test for
if pattern in name:
...
-tkc
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http
On 2015-03-26 08:33, Tiglath Suriol wrote:
> > Mark Lawrence
>
> I don't remember addressing his guy, HE addressed me FIRST, as all
> of you did,
Hmmm...To what then has he been replying? *You* posted/broadcast the
FIRST message which addressed every member of the list. If you
don't want to
On 2015-03-27 10:15, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> If that's all it is, why don't you just run the tokenizer over it
> and see what it says?
>
> py> from cStringIO import StringIO
> py> code = StringIO('spam = "abcd" "efgh"\n')
> py> import tokenize
> py> for item in tokenize.generate_tokens(code.readl
On 2015-04-09 03:25, subhabrata.bane...@gmail.com wrote:
> You may kindly suggest how to convert from .doc
> to .docx/.html/.pdf/.rtf as from them I am being able to convert
> to .txt.
Use an external tool such as "wv", "antiword", or "catdoc" that has
already done the hard work for you.
-tkc
On 2015-04-15 15:21, Gary Herron wrote:
> On 04/15/2015 02:51 PM, Chris Withers wrote:
> > I'm pleased to announce the release of xlwt 1.0.0.
>
> What a curiously incomplete announcement. Could you tell us what
> xlwt is? I see no hint here.
Heh, this and its sibling package, xlrd, are Python p
On 2015-04-17 03:10, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> And there there was the time I edited some code written by my boss.
> I intended to write a comment:
>
> # FIXME: this function is a little slow and should be optimized.
>
> but I hit the wrong key a couple of times and wrote:
>
> # This is a
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