Re: generate Windows exe on Linux

2012-02-22 Thread Waldek M.
On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 04:12:29 -0800 (PST), Plumo wrote: > I have a python script using only the standard libraries. > Currently I use a Windows VM to generate exe's, which is cumbersome. And what exactly *is* this exe about? > Has anyone had success generating exe's from within Linux? That doesn'

Re: generate Windows exe on Linux

2012-02-23 Thread Waldek M.
On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:42:11 +0100, Jérôme wrote: >>> Has anyone had success generating exe's from within Linux? >> >> That doesn't seem to have anything to do with Python, >> but you might want to google for cross-compiling. > > I think his question is totally python related. > > As I understa

Re: python 3 constant

2011-06-22 Thread Waldek M.
Dnia Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:17:49 +0100, Noah Hall napisał(a): > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 7:54 PM, sidRo wrote: >> How to declare a constant in python 3? > > There aren't true constants in Python, but instead we use a standard > defined by PEP 8, which states constants are in all caps, for example,

Re: python 3 constant

2011-06-23 Thread Waldek M.
Dnia Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:22:37 +1000, Ben Finney napisał(a): > If you mean creating a binding which can't be re-bound: −1. Perhaps. Or perhaps that could be done in some other fashion; I admit that I usually stick to more strict languages and while Python's flexibility is great... I'm really missi

Re: python 3 constant

2011-06-23 Thread Waldek M.
Dnia Fri, 24 Jun 2011 01:29:38 +1000, Chris Angelico napisał(a): > You can have them in Python. Just run your code through cpp (the C > preprocessor) first. Voila! > > It's handy for other things too. Don't like Python's lack of "then" > and "end if"? [...] Yup, got the sarcasm, that's for sure. B

Re: python 3 constant

2011-06-25 Thread Waldek M.
Dnia Thu, 23 Jun 2011 23:04:37 +1000, Ben Finney napisał(a): >>> The ability to re-bind any attribute, even ones which the author >>> thought should be constant, makes writing unit tests much easier. I >>> don't see that putative benefits of constant bindings would be >>> anywhere near as valuable.

Re: python 3 constant

2011-06-25 Thread Waldek M.
Dnia Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:04:43 -0700 (PDT), alex23 napisał(a): >> But your point was...? > > That it's easier for you to find ways to achieve what you want than it > is require Python to change to accommodate your need. And when exactly did I write that I require anyone to change anything? I'd li

Re: python 3 constant

2011-06-25 Thread Waldek M.
Dnia Fri, 24 Jun 2011 08:00:06 +1000, Chris Angelico napisał(a): >> Yup, got the sarcasm, that's for sure. >> But your point was...? > > That if you want something, there's usually a way to get it. > Sometimes, giving someone what they want - or showing them how to get > it - makes it obvious to t

Re: python 3 constant

2011-06-25 Thread Waldek M.
Dnia Sat, 25 Jun 2011 20:59:17 +1000, Chris Angelico napisał(a): > In all seriousness, sometimes adding features to one language is best > done by dropping to another. This is probably not as useful in > interpreted languages like Python, but I have on multiple occasions > run code through the C pr

Re: ANN: pyparsing 1.5.6 released!

2011-07-01 Thread Waldek M.
Dnia Thu, 30 Jun 2011 23:09:18 -0700 (PDT), Paul McGuire napisał(a): > After about 10 months, there is a new release of pyparsing, version > 1.5.6. This release contains some small enhancements, some bugfixes, > and some new examples. Thanks! That is great news. I'm not using pyparsing right now

Re: Testing if a global is defined in a module

2011-07-05 Thread Waldek M.
Dnia Tue, 5 Jul 2011 14:11:56 + (UTC), Grant Edwards napisał(a): > Because those specially-formatted comments are wrong. ... because? Not in sarcasm mode; just curious why you don't like them. Br. Waldek -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Testing if a global is defined in a module

2011-07-05 Thread Waldek M.
Dnia Wed, 06 Jul 2011 03:36:24 +1000, Steven D'Aprano napisał(a): > Because unless you are extremely disciplined, code and the comments > describing them get out of sync. [...] True, but that gets far worse with external docs. Do you have in mind any better replacement? Br. Waldek -- http://mail.

Re: Implicit initialization is EVIL!

2011-07-06 Thread Waldek M.
Dnia Wed, 6 Jul 2011 08:10:27 -0700 (PDT), rantingrick napisał(a): >> In the Unix/Linux world, there is a graphical application called xkill which >> has no menus and no windows, all it has is a mouse cursor! No, it does not >> run in the background: it is a foreground app. > > Wow nice corner cas

Re: How to get or set the text of a textfield?

2011-07-10 Thread Waldek M.
Dnia Sun, 10 Jul 2011 21:14:10 -0500, Anthony Papillion napisał(a): > > So I've built a UI with Glade and have loaded it using the standard > Python code. In my UI, I have a textfield called txtUsername. How do I > get and set the text in this field from my Python code? http://developer.gnome.org

Re: Python ++ Operator?

2011-07-16 Thread Waldek M.
Dnia Fri, 15 Jul 2011 23:09:02 +0200, Stefan Behnel napisał(a): [...] >> array[count++]=value; >> >> or the more direct pointer management: >> *ptr++=value; > > More direct, sure. But readable? Well, only when you know what this > specific pattern does. If you have to think about it, it may end u

Re: Python threading/multiprocessing issue.

2011-07-16 Thread Waldek M.
Dnia Fri, 15 Jul 2011 22:15:15 -0700, Dennis Lee Bieber napisał(a): > And (so far as I understand it) each process can claim its own CPU > core, whereas threads share the active core. I do not think so. AFAIK, threads may be distributed over differrent CPUs (just like in any other programmin

Re: Tabs -vs- Spaces: Tabs should have won.

2011-07-17 Thread Waldek M.
>> I'm still looking for the perfect programming font. Suggestions >> welcomed. > > When you find it Dotan, let me know, I've been looking since the later > '70's. For me, it's Terminus* (from sourceforge). Br. Waldek [*] As long as you don't need anything but iso8859-1. -- http://mail.python.

Re: AUTO: Craig Churchill is out of the office (returning 27/07/2011)

2011-07-18 Thread Waldek M.
> I am out of the office until 27/07/2011. > > I will respond to your message when I return. > If you require assitance in relation to the SPEAR Integration project > please contact Terry Mandalios. Why, thank you Craig. I will definitely contact Terry ;-) Br. Waldek PS. Sorry, couldn't stop mys

Re: PyWart: os.path needs immediate attention!

2011-07-29 Thread Waldek M.
Dnia Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:41:22 -0500, harrismh777 napisał(a): > The backslash sep is an asinine CPM/80 | DOS disk based carry-over which > does not fit well with the modern forward direction. The disk based file > system carry-over is bad enough; but, propagating multiple ways of doing > simple

Re: Help parsing a text file

2011-08-30 Thread Waldek M.
On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 23:05:23 +0200, Thomas Jollans wrote: > A name that is often thrown around on this list for this kind of > question is pyparsing. Now, I don't know anything about it myself, but > it may be worth looking into. Definitely. I did use it and even though it's not perfect - it's ver

Re: what's the command for (cd ..) in python

2011-09-10 Thread Waldek M.
On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 23:03:10 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > But think carefully before doing this. Some functions may be confused if you > change directories while they are running. You may be better off staying in > the same directory, and adjusting the path names to the files as you work > with

Re: what's the command for (cd ..) in python

2011-09-10 Thread Waldek M.
On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 21:11:32 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > The main one that comes to mind is os.walk, which has this to say: > > Caution: if you pass a relative pathname for top, don't change the > current working directory between resumptions of walk. walk never > changes the cur

Re: Request for research feedback

2011-09-15 Thread Waldek M.
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:55:13 +0100, Fulvio Valente wrote: > Hi, I am a research intern at the University of Strathclyde > who has been doing a summer research internship. I don't want to be rude, but please: could you rather first research how to use a newsreader before you use it? These long lin

Re: Request for research feedback

2011-09-15 Thread Waldek M.
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:11:13 -0400, Prasad, Ramit wrote: > I don't want to be rude but... > Not rude: > Rude: You're right. I must have gotten a few bad habits I didn't even realize. Thanks. Waldek -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Freelance Django developer needed

2011-10-11 Thread Waldek M.
> (First to everyone not into Django: sorry for the shameless job > advertisement!) > > We are searching for a Freelance Django developer to help us out! Well, if you're sorry then why do you go on? There's a much better place to post the job offer: http://www.python.org/community/jobs/ There,

Re: Job Offer: 3 Python Backend Developer and other Positions in Berlin

2011-10-23 Thread Waldek M.
On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 17:50:54 +0200, webcrowd.net wrote: > hope it is okay to post job offers here. If not sorry for the spam and > please let me know! Not really. It's a newsgroup on Python *language*, not on Python-everything. You might want to post here instead, though: http://www.python.org/c

Re: Dynamic variable creation from string

2011-12-07 Thread Waldek M.
On Wed, 7 Dec 2011 09:09:16 -0800 (PST), Massi wrote: > def Sum(D) : > return D['a']+D['b']+D['c'] > > Is there a way to create three variables dynamically inside Sum in > order to re write the function like this? > > def Sum(D) : > # Here some magic to create a,b,c from D > return a+

Re: InvalidResponseError: headers must be str

2012-01-02 Thread Waldek M.
On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:40:15 -0800 (PST), Niklas Rosencrantz wrote: > Thanks for the replies here. I will have patience but this bug > is blocking my integration efforts. I tried logging the TCP > packets with tcpdump and nothing special appeared. Well, it's free software, isn't it? You may either