Re: Static analysis tools

2012-10-11 Thread Tim Leslie
On 12 October 2012 04:25, Dan Stromberg wrote: > > I'm familiar with pylint, and have recently played with pyflakes and flake8. > I've also heard of pychecker. > > Are there others, perhaps including some that aren't written in Python, but > still check Python? Another one I've found useful for s

Re: dynamic assigments

2011-03-24 Thread Tim Leslie
On 25 March 2011 13:51, scattered wrote: > Here is another possibility: you are using Python *interactively* in > solving cryptograms (as a matter of fact - I was doing exactly this > yesterday in trying to solve some Playfair ciphers). You have a > ciphertext that is a stream of letters in the ra

Re: A Moronicity of Guido van Rossum

2005-09-29 Thread Tim Leslie
On 29 Sep 2005 07:24:17 -0700, Xah Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Of course, you begin to write things like Java, in three thousand wordsjust to state you are a moron. +1 QOTW. Tim -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: lambda

2005-01-13 Thread Tim Leslie
Because if it takes more than a single line it deserves a name. Also, if you have more than one line in this function, how do you plan to reference it if not by name? Tim On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:53:09 +1000, Egor Bolonev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > why functions created with lambda forms cannot

Re: Does a function like isset() exist in Python?

2005-06-22 Thread Tim Leslie
On 6/23/05, Patrick Fitzsimmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm sure I should know this, but I can't find it in the manual. > > Is there a function in Python like the function in PHP isset()? It > should take a variable name and return True or False depending on > whether the variable i

Re: Lambda

2005-02-08 Thread Tim Leslie
Short answer: lambda is a python keyword which allows you to create anonymous functions which may be considered a useful thing to have in certain cases*. Long answer: To be provided by someone else who isn't meant to be working right now. Tim * There is much debate as to just how useful lambda

Re: round not rounding to 0 places

2006-08-16 Thread Tim Leslie
On 16 Aug 2006 00:19:24 -0700, Fuzzydave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been using a round command in a few places to round > a value to zero decimal places using the following format, > > round('+value+', 0) > > but this consistantly returns the rounded result of the value > to one decimal pl

Re: Computing FFT with Python NumPy 1.0

2006-11-01 Thread Tim Leslie
On 1 Nov 2006 16:04:59 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recently installed Python 2.5 on Windows and also installed numpy > 1.0. I'd like to compute an FFT on an array of numbers but I can't > seem to access the FFT function. I'm fairly new to Python (obviously) > and I can

Re: Making a time series analysis package in python - advice or assistance sought

2006-07-06 Thread Tim Leslie
Hi Ray, As a first step you might want to look at numpy/scipy/matplotlib numpy (numpy.scipy.org) provides the underlying data structures (array and matrices among other things) you require. This will handle all your vector stuff, reading/writing to and from files, "loop macros", etc. scipy (www.

Re: __init__() not called automatically

2005-05-25 Thread Tim Leslie
On 25 May 2005 21:31:57 -0700, Sriek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > i come from a c++ background. i ws happy to find myself on quite > familiar grounds with Python. But, what surprised me was the fact that > the __init__(), which is said to be the equivlent of the constructor in > c++, is not a

Re: prime number

2005-05-29 Thread Tim Leslie
On 29 May 2005 19:55:32 -0700, lostinpython <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having trouble writing a program that figures out a prime number. > Does anyone have an idea on how to write it? All I know is that n > 2 > is prim if no number between 2 and sqrt of n (inclusivly) evenly > divides n. Th

Re: Generalized Linear Least Squares Problems

2005-05-31 Thread Tim Leslie
On 31 May 2005 03:12:49 -0700, venkat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I want to solve linear least sqaure problem( min||c-Ax||2 subject to > Bx=d ). How do I do it in python. lapack has a routine for doing this > (DGGLSE). Can I access this from python? > Check out scipy, in particular the l

Re: why python on debian without the module profile?

2005-06-13 Thread Tim Leslie
My understanding is that there are licence issues (someone please correct me if I'm wrong). The moral of the story is that there's a seperate (non-free) package for the profiler: http://packages.debian.org/testing/python/python2.4-profiler HTH Tim On 6/13/05, kyo guan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: Problem with following python code

2007-06-11 Thread Tim Leslie
On 6/12/07, why? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been having problem with the following code. It's supposed to > print the prime numbers between 10 and 100. But i'm not getting any > output, i.e. i guess the outer 'for' loop is being traversed only > once. I would be greatful if you could help m

Re: String parsing

2007-05-08 Thread Tim Leslie
On 8 May 2007 18:09:52 -0700, HMS Surprise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The string below is a piece of a longer string of about 2 > characters returned from a web page. I need to isolate the number at > the end of the line containing 'LastUpdated'. I can find > 'LastUpdated' with .find but n

Re: function with list argument defaulting to [] - what's going on here???

2007-04-15 Thread Tim Leslie
On 14 Apr 2007 20:20:42 -0700, Paddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 15, 3:58 am, Steven D'Aprano > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 17:33:11 -0800, Troy Melhase wrote: > > > On 4/14/07, Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> While trying to write a recursive function involvin

Re: Why did no one tell me about import antigravity?

2007-12-05 Thread Tim Leslie
On 5 Dec 2007 10:08:48 GMT, Adrian Cherry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:52f0eca3-e807-4890-b21d- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > Python on xkcd: > > > > http://xkcd.com/353/ > > > > Another good comic from xkcd, I'm surprised by the muted response > on here. Don't fo

Re: Rubik's cube translation

2008-03-30 Thread Tim Leslie
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:24 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I get a Rubik's cube translation out of this: > > >>> a= numpy.array([[0,1,2],[3,4,5],[6,7,8]]) > >>> a > array([[0, 1, 2], >[3, 4, 5], >[6, 7, 8]]) > >>> a[:,0],a[:,1],a[:,2] #no good > (array([0, 3, 6]), a

Re: matrix algebra

2008-09-22 Thread Tim Leslie
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Al Kabaila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > My OS is Linux (openSUSE 10.3) and my interest in retirement is Python > applications to Structural Analysis of Civil Engineering structures, > currently in 2 dimensions only (under GPL). Modern Structural Analysis is

Re: Newbie question...

2008-09-29 Thread Tim Leslie
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First, apologies for such a newbie question; if there's a better forum (I've > poked around, some) feel free to point it out to me. Anyway, a mere 25-odd > years after first hearing about OOP, I've finally decided to go

Re: Q's: pythonD and range(1,12)

2006-03-13 Thread Tim Leslie
On 3/14/06, John Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've very new to python, and am currently toying with pythonD. Couldsomeone please explain the rationale behind python designers' thinkingin deciding the function "range(1,12)" should return the sequence 1 to 11 rather than the more intuitively-use

Re: "is not" operator?

2010-07-08 Thread Tim Leslie
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Jack Diederich wrote: > > The right way to think about python syntax is not to consider what is > obvious to an LL(1) compiler, or what makes sense in English, but > rather "what was the obvious way to write an LL(1) syntax if you are a > Dutchman who speaks Englis

Re: weighted mean; weighted standard error of the mean (sem)

2010-09-09 Thread Tim Leslie
On 10 September 2010 10:36, C Barrington-Leigh wrote: > > Most immediately, I'd love to get code for weighted sem. I'll write it > otherwise, but if I do I'd love to know whom to bug to get it > incorporated into numpy.sem ... The best place to ask about numpy related stuff is the numpy mailing l

Re: weighted mean; weighted standard error of the mean (sem)

2010-09-09 Thread Tim Leslie
On 10 September 2010 11:43, C Barrington-Leigh wrote: > >> The best place to ask about numpy related stuff is the numpy mailing list at: >> >> http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >> >> This is also the best place to present a patch if you have code to >> contribute. In my exper