RE: Tutorial creates confusion about slices

2007-04-25 Thread Hamilton, William
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:python- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Antoon Pardon > Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 7:40 AM > To: python-list@python.org > Subject: Re: Tutorial creates confusion about slices > > On 2007-04-24, Michael Bentley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

RE: Python keywords

2007-04-26 Thread Hamilton, William
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:python- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of gtb > Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 1:50 PM > To: python-list@python.org > Subject: Re: Python keywords > > On Apr 26, 10:16 am, Larry Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://docs.python.or

RE: import structures

2007-04-30 Thread Hamilton, William
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:python- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of spohle > Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 10:03 AM > To: python-list@python.org > Subject: Re: import structures > > On Apr 30, 8:00 am, Paul McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Apr 30, 9:56 a

RE: import structures

2007-04-30 Thread Hamilton, William
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:python- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of spohle > Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 10:25 AM > To: python-list@python.org > Subject: Re: import structures > > On Apr 30, 8:16 am, "Hamilton, William " <

RE: Dict Copy & Compare

2007-04-30 Thread Hamilton, William
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:python- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Rawlins - > Think Blue > Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 6:09 AM > To: 'Tim Golden' > Cc: python-list@python.org > Subject: RE: Dict Copy & Compare > > On quick question, how can I order a d

RE: re-importing modules

2007-05-01 Thread Hamilton, William
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:python- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Nagle > Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 7:32 PM > To: python-list@python.org > Subject: Re: re-importing modules > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>In addition to the warning that reload() do

RE: Dict Copy & Compare

2007-05-01 Thread Hamilton, William
> -Original Message- > From: Steven D'Aprano > Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 10:14 PM > To: python-list@python.org > Subject: RE: Dict Copy & Compare > > On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:50:58 -0500, Hamilton, William wrote: > > >> On quick question, h

RE: Strange terminal behavior after quitting Tkinter application

2007-05-04 Thread Hamilton, William
> -Original Message- > From: Chris > Subject: Re: Strange terminal behavior after quitting Tkinter application > Clicking 'Quit' or on the window's 'x' causes the application to quit > without messing up the terminal. With root.mainloop() commented out, > though, no combination of root.quit

RE: How to check if a string is empty in python?

2007-05-04 Thread Hamilton, William
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On May 4, 5:02 am, Jaswant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is a simple way to do it i think > > > > s=hello > > > > >>> if(len(s)==0): > > > > ... print "Empty" > > ... else: > > ... print s > > ... > > hello > > But you are

RE: Strange terminal behavior after quitting Tkinter application

2007-05-07 Thread Hamilton, William
> From: Chris > > I'll admit to being surprised at seeing a claim that a tkinter > > application, started within an interactive session, without a mainloop, > > even runs... I could see it maybe happening from Idle, since Idle is > > running a tkinter mainloop, so the application bindings m

RE: Simulating simple electric circuits

2007-05-09 Thread Hamilton, William
> From: Bjoern Schliessmann > Sounds more familiar than the analog approach. Maybe I misunderstood > something ... but I can't transfer my problem to this way of > thinking yet. My biggest problem is the fact that relays aren't > really interested in voltage, but current. > > Also, I find it diffi

RE: change of random state when pyc created??

2007-05-10 Thread Hamilton, William
> From: Alan Isaac > > I'm sure my first pass will be flawed, but here goes: > > http://docs.python.org/lib/typesmapping.html: > to footnote (3), add phrase "which may depend on the memory location of > the > keys" to get: > > Keys and values are listed in an arbitrary order, > which may

RE: keyword checker - keyword.kwlist

2007-05-10 Thread Hamilton, William
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi > > I try to check whether a given input is keyword or not. However this > script won't identify keyword input as a keyword. How should I modify it > to make it work? > > #!usr/bin/env python > import keyword > > input = raw_input('Enter identifier to check >> '

RE: keyword checker - keyword.kwlist

2007-05-10 Thread Hamilton, William
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > F:\Ohjelmat\Python25\Lib\keyword.pyc That's your problem. Rename keyword.py to keywordcheck.py, and delete keyword.pyc in this directory, and it should work fine. --- -Bill Hamilton -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

RE: Trying to choose between python and java

2007-05-15 Thread Hamilton, William
> From: Beliavsky On May 15, 1:30 am, Anthony Irwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > #5 someone said that they used to use python but stopped because the > > language changed or made stuff depreciated (I can fully remember > > which) and old code stopped working. Is code written today likely

RE: tkFileDialog.askopenfilename()

2007-05-16 Thread Hamilton, William
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi, > When I call tkFileDialog.askopenfilename() , the dialog box opens with > the current directory as the default directory. Is it possible to open > the dialog box with a directory other than the current directory. Can > we pass in a user defined starting director

RE: tkinter button state = DISABLED

2007-05-21 Thread Hamilton, William
> From: Eric Brunel On Thu, 17 May 2007 09:30:57 +0200, Hendrik van Rooyen > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> En Wed, 16 May 2007 03:22:17 -0300, Hendrik van Rooyen > >>> I have never seen this working in Tkinter, unless the button was > >>> presse

RE: Random selection

2007-05-21 Thread Hamilton, William
> From: Tartifola > Hi, > I have a list with probabilities as elements > > [p1,p2,p3] > > with of course p1+p2+p3=1. I'd like to draw a > random element from this list, based on the probabilities contained in > the list itself, and return its index. > > Any help on the best way to do that? > Tha

RE: Installing Python in a path that contains a blank

2007-05-22 Thread Hamilton, William
> From: John Machin > On 21/05/2007 11:30 PM, Konrad Hinsen wrote: > > I am trying to install Python from sources in my home directory on a Mac > > cluster (running MacOS X 10.4.8). The path to my home directory contains > > a blank, and since the installation procedure insists on getting an > > ab

RE: 'int' object is not callable in an threaded app

2007-05-22 Thread Hamilton, William
> From: king kikapu > > Hi, > > i have a problem with the following piece of code that id just drive > me nuts (from the morning...) > I think is more Python specific than Qt, folks from Qt forum have > already give me directions of how to do it but that Python error > message is just impossible

Different methods with same name but different signature?

2007-05-24 Thread william dy
william dy christin de los santos lynor laxina - Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos & more. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

printing list, is this a bug?

2007-05-25 Thread William Chang
Is the different behavior between __repr__ and __str__ intentional when it comes to printing lists? Basically I want to print out a list with elements of my own class, but when I overwrite __str__, __str__ doesn't get called but if I overwrite __repr__, __repr__ will get called. Is this a bug? F

Re: printing list, is this a bug?

2007-05-25 Thread William Chang
oh okay. thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

RE: c[:]()

2007-05-30 Thread Hamilton, William
> From: Warren Stringer > Hmmm, this is for neither programmer nor computer; this is for a user. If > I > wanted to write code for the benefit for the computer, I'd still be > flipping > switches on a PDP-8. ;-) > > This is inconsistent: > > why does c[:][0]() work but c[:]() does not? > Why does

RE: Making Gridded Widgets Expandable

2007-07-30 Thread Hamilton, William
> From: Jim > Hi, > I'm looking at page 548 of Programming Python (3rd Edition) by Mark > Lutz. > The following GUI script works with no problem, i.e., the rows and > columns expand: > = > # Gridded Widgets Expandable page 548 > > fro

RE: Bug in Time module, or in my understanding?

2007-08-02 Thread Hamilton, William
> From: Joshua J. Kugler > > I am getting results like these with the time module: > > >>> import time > >>> int(time.mktime(time.strptime('2007-03-11 02:00:00', '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M > %S'))) > 1173610800 > >>> int(time.mktime(time.strptime('2007-03-11 03:00:00', '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M > %S'))) > 1173610800

RE: Something in the function tutorial confused me.

2007-08-06 Thread Hamilton, William
> From: Lee Fleming > > On Aug 6, 6:25 am, Neil Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Because when the function is called, the line > > > > if y is None: y = [] > > > is executed, binding a brand new empty list to y. This > "rebinding" happens every time the function is called, unless you

RE: Something in the function tutorial confused me.

2007-08-06 Thread Hamilton, William
> From: Lee Fleming > On Aug 6, 12:30 pm, "Hamilton, William " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When you call f(23), the variable y within it gets created and points at > > None. When f(23) exits, the y that it created gets destroyed. (Well, > > goes ou

RE: list index()

2007-08-30 Thread Hamilton, William
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > How could it not be an exception, in the plain English sense of the > > word? Most certainly you're asking for the index because you want to do > > something with the index. If the item is not found, you have no index, > > so that's a special case that must be hand

RE: application version checking against database

2007-09-07 Thread Hamilton, William
> From: imageguy > > We are trying to implement a system that checks the version of the > application against a version number stored in the database. We don't > want the app and the db don't become out of sync. > > We have tried setting a __version__ variable in the top most module, > however,

RE: Silent SaveAs when using the Excel win32com module

2007-09-10 Thread Hamilton, William
> From: Chris > > I'm trying to create an excel file which will act as a log, however I > want to overwrite the file if it exists. > > Looking at the SaveAs method I can't find anything that would allow > it. I don't want the prompt to appear to ask whether to replace the > file or not. I just wa

RE: Checking if elements are empty

2007-09-11 Thread Hamilton, William
> From: Steve Holden > Neil Cerutti wrote: > > On 2007-09-10, Chris Mellon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 9/10/07, Neil Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Agreed; but I prefer 'if y[0] == ""', absent more context and > >>> better names. > >> Probably should use u"" if you're going to take

RE: newbie: stani's python editor if-else

2007-09-11 Thread Hamilton, William
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:python- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 8:26 AM > To: python-list@python.org > Subject: Re: newbie: stani's python editor if-else > > On Sep 10, 11:24 pm, madzientist <[EMAIL PRO

RE: Excel process still running after program completion.

2007-09-11 Thread Hamilton, William
> From: Chris > > I have a python script that is driving Excel and using the win32com > module. However, upon program completion there's still an Excel.exe > process running in the background that I must terminate through Task > Manager. Reading up on other threads indicate that maybe I still have

RE: Python code-writing for the blind. Was (Re: newbie: stani's pythoneditor if-else)

2007-09-11 Thread Hamilton, William
> From: madzientist > > Thanks, everybody, for the very very useful and kind responses. > > There is a second reason why I asked the question about automatic de- > indenting. I am teaching myself Python partly so I can then help my > technically astute, but blind friend learn programming. For the

RE: An ordered dictionary for the Python library?

2007-09-12 Thread Hamilton, William
> From: Michele Simionato > > On Sep 12, 3:54 pm, Mark Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On 12 Sep, 13:46, Michele Simionato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Actually I meant by key order, so insertion order doesn't matter at > > all. If you need a dictionary-like data structure that respect

Re: Perl and Python, a practical side-by-side example.

2007-03-03 Thread William Heymann
On Saturday 03 March 2007, Ben Finney wrote: > Bjoern Schliessmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > if not recs.has_key(piid): # [1] > Why not if piid not in recs: That is shorter, simpler, easier to read and very slightly faster. Plus you can change the data structure of recs later with

Using wildcards with Popen in the Subprocess module

2007-03-15 Thread William Hudspeth
Hello, I am needing to pass an argument to the Popen function of the Subprocess module that includes a wildcard in the filename. It seems that Popen is not able to expand wildcards, and treats a filename that includes a wildcard as a literal. EX. var1="/path_to_files/filnames*.doc" result=Popen

Re: Using wildcards with Popen in the Subprocess module

2007-03-15 Thread William Hudspeth
Hello Mike, Thanks for responding. I need to pass multiple filenames to an executable. The filenames are similar to one another, but differ only slightly, hence the use of the wildcard. The executable works well from the command line if I pass in a wildcard filename, but Popen can't expand the wil

Project organization and import redux

2007-04-05 Thread Hamilton, William
I apologize for bringing up something that's a month dead. But, I've been reading through the recent archives and came across this discussion, and want to make sure I understand a particular about the interactive prompt. "Martin Unsal" wrote: > I'm perfectly well aware that I'm not going to be a

Re: Looping issues

2007-04-05 Thread Hamilton, William
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 1:01 PM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Looping issues What I am trying to do is compare two files to each other. If the 2nd file contains the same line t

Re: Objects, lists and assigning values

2007-04-05 Thread Hamilton, William
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Manuel Graune Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 12:14 PM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Objects, lists and assigning values Hello, while trying to learn how to program using objects in python (up to now s

RE: tuples, index method, Python's design

2007-04-11 Thread Hamilton, William
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:python- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven D'Aprano > Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 7:49 AM > To: python-list@python.org > Subject: Re: tuples, index method, Python's design > > (There is one other option: you care that 32 is so

RE: passing class by reference does not work??

2007-04-11 Thread Hamilton, William
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:python- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of wswilson > Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 9:24 AM > To: python-list@python.org > Subject: passing class by reference does not work?? > > Here is my code: > > class A(): > val = 0 > > de

RE: pop() clarification

2007-04-11 Thread Hamilton, William
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:python- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott > > I understand all that. What I don't understand is why all the > documentation > I see says, "When removing a specific element from a list using pop() it > must be in this format: list

RE: tuples, index method, Python's design

2007-04-11 Thread Hamilton, William
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:python- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Mellon > Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 9:12 AM > To: python-list@python.org > Subject: Re: tuples, index method, Python's design > > > So, when you have a) a third party module that you c

RE: Iterate through a dictionary of lists one "line" at a time

2007-04-18 Thread Hamilton, William
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:python- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of wswilson > Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 1:39 PM > To: python-list@python.org > Subject: Iterate through a dictionary of lists one "line" at a time > > Here is my code: > > listing = {'id': [

RE: sorteddict PEP proposal [started off as orderedict]

2007-09-25 Thread Hamilton, William
> From: Paul Hankin > > > Here's a first go. Sorting occurs when the keys are iterated over, > making it fast (almost as a dict) for construction, insertion, and > deletion, but slow if you're iterating a lot. You should look at some > use cases to decide if this approach is best, or if a sorted

Re: s.split() on multiple separators

2007-09-30 Thread William James
On Sep 30, 8:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello everyone, > > OK, so I want to split a string c into words using several different > separators from a list (dels). > > I can do this the following C-like way: > > >>> c=' abcde abc cba fdsa bcd '.split() > >>> dels='ce ' > >>> for j in dels: > >

Re: Create a string array of all comments in a html file...

2007-09-30 Thread William James
On Sep 30, 10:39 am, sophie_newbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I'm wondering how i'd go about extracting a string array of all > comments in a HTML file, HTML comments obviously taking the format > "". > > I'm fairly stumped on how to do this? Maybe using regular expressions? > > Thanks. E:\R

Re: Delete spaces

2007-09-30 Thread William James
John Machin wrote: > On Sep 29, 1:43 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > If I have a text file that is delimited by spaces, how do I import it > > and get to comma delimited? Here is a row of data from the text file: > > > > 1110:55:14 265 8.5 > > 1.4+1.1 2.5

RE: sorteddict [was a PEP proposal, but isn't anymore!]

2007-10-01 Thread Hamilton, William
> From: thebjorn > What's stabledict? I'm assuming that ordereddict is a mapping that > maintains insertion order(?) Yes, ordereddict is a dict that maintains insertion order. Stabledict is probably a dict that maintains _an_ order, so that repr() and the like return the same value when used on d

RE: tkinter question

2007-10-08 Thread Hamilton, William
> -Original Message- > From: Kevin Walzer > > See http://www.codebykevin.com/blosxom/business/phynchronicity-new.png: > this is an application I develop. The layout is all handled by "pack" > and paned windows. Where you you use "grid" in a layout like this? > I'd use a three row grid, w

RE: List loops

2007-10-09 Thread Hamilton, William
> From: Tommy Grav > > Hi everyone, > >I have a list of objects where I have want to do two loops. > I want to loop over the list and inside this loop, work on all > the elements of the list after the one being handled in the outer > loop. I can of course do this with indexes: > > >>> alist

parse text file

2007-10-29 Thread william paul
Hi: I am new to this list and new to Python. I have a text file that looks like: 4 50 3 900 " or "]" sign. For example: 4 50 3 900 7 400 ... 9 70 How can I do this? Thank you William __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yaho

Re: maximum number of threads

2007-01-11 Thread William Heymann
On Wednesday 10 January 2007 7:11 am, Felipe Almeida Lessa wrote: > --- > $ python test.py > 50 > 100 > 150 > 200 > 250 > 300 > 350 > Exception raised: can't start new thread > > Biggest number of threads: 382 > --- > > The test.py script is attached. So you know I tried this on ubuntu edgy 64bit

Re: spidering script

2007-01-23 Thread William Park
In David Waizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello.. > > I'm looking for a script (perl, python, sh...)or program (such as wget) > that will help me get a list of ALL the links on a website. lynx -dump (look at the bottom) -- William Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: asyncore DoS vulnerability

2007-02-02 Thread William Heymann
On Thursday 01 February 2007, billie wrote: > Here's the traceback: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "C:\Documents and Settings\root\Desktop\test.py", line 31, in ? > asyncore.loop(timeout=1) > File "C:\Python24\lib\asyncore.py", line 192, in loop > poll_fun(timeout, map)

Re: Bill Gates was never the Richest man on earth

2007-11-06 Thread William Hughes
the Baviarian Illuminati do not exist. - William -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Bill Gates was never the Richest man on earth

2007-11-06 Thread William Hughes
On Nov 6, 6:56 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Zionazi obviously tries to shift blame and confuse the picture. One way to recognize a dupe of the Bavarian Illuminati is their tendency to characterize everyone as Zionists. - William Hughes -- http://mail.python.org/mail

Performance on local constants?

2007-12-22 Thread William McBrine
Hi all, I'm pretty new to Python (a little over a month). I was wondering -- is something like this: s = re.compile('whatever') def t(whatnot): return s.search(whatnot) for i in xrange(1000): print t(something[i]) significantly faster than something like this: def t(whatnot): s =

Re: Performance on local constants?

2007-12-26 Thread William McBrine
Thanks for all the answers on this. (And, sorry the lousy Subject line; I couldn't think of a better one.) -- 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 -- pass it on -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Big-endian binary data to/from Python ints?

2007-12-26 Thread William McBrine
Here are a couple of functions that I feel stupid for having written. They work, and they're pretty straightforward; it's just that I feel like I must be missing an easier way to do this... def net_to_int(numstring): """Convert a big-endian binary number, in the form of a string of arbit

Subclassing types in C

2006-05-16 Thread William Studenmund
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I used the embedding python guide to embed python in an application to let me easily script the app. It's all working rather well, and I've added a number of types which expose the internals to python. However I've gotten to the point where I want

Re: Tabs are EVIL *and* STUPID, end of discussion. (Re: Tabs versus Spaces in Source Code)

2006-05-17 Thread William Studenmund
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On May 17, 2006, at 8:46 PM, Edward Elliott wrote: > Dave Hansen wrote: > >> On Wed, 17 May 2006 17:28:26 GMT in comp.lang.python, Edward Elliott >>> Just for the sake of completeness: >>> >>> cat file |sed 's/\t//g' >> >> That doesn't always work

Re: Big-endian binary data to/from Python ints?

2007-12-27 Thread William McBrine
On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 16:50:53 -0800, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > your code might (I've not actually checked it) be incorrect if ported > to another machine. Nope. :-) > If the problem is that you have the four bytes as a character string, > use the struct module to interpret it as a binary integer

python scripts with IIS

2008-01-19 Thread william paul
When I launch the file using IE I get the message: CGI Error The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers. The headers it did return are: This is a test for python scripts with IIS How can I remove the CGI error? Than

Re: python scripts with IIS

2008-01-19 Thread william paul
Thank you, William - Original Message From: Rolf van de Krol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: python-list@python.org Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 5:33:59 PM Subject: Re: python scripts with IIS Adding the following lines before your print statement should do the trick. IIS complains

object vs class oriented -- xotcl

2008-01-24 Thread William Pursell
I've been away from Python for at least a year, and in the interim have spent a little time looking at the XOTcl object framework for Tcl. One of the interesting features of XOTcl is the ability for an object to change class dynamically. The XOtcl documentation makes the claim that this makes it

Removal of element from list while traversing causes the next element to be skipped

2008-01-29 Thread William McBrine
Look at this -- from Python 2.5.1: >>> a = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] >>> for x in a: ... if x == 3: ... a.remove(x) ... print x ... 1 2 3 5 >>> a [1, 2, 4, 5] >>> Sure, the resulting list is correct. But 4 is never printed during the loop! What I was really trying to do was this: apps =

Re: object vs class oriented -- xotcl

2008-01-29 Thread William Pursell
On Jan 24, 9:16 pm, "Guilherme Polo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/1/24, William Pursell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Can I do it in Python? > > > class A(object): pass > class B(object): pass > > a = A() > a.__class__ = B > > That ? May

Re: Removal of element from list while traversing causes the next element to be skipped

2008-02-01 Thread William McBrine
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:07:45 -0800, cokofreedom wrote: > Anyone else noticed that the OP has not actually replied to any of the > suggestions... Sorry. I was just fascinated at the turns it was taking. But the first answer was fine for me: for name in apps[:]: etc. Thanks all. -- 09 F9 11

Basic question

2008-02-13 Thread WILLIAM SCHMIDT
7;C:\Python25' version = '2.5.1 (r251:54863, Apr 18 2007, 08:51:08) [MSC v.1310 32 bi... * Can someone explain what that "r" is doing and where I would find it in the documentation? Thank you in advance for your assistance. William T. Schmidt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Answer: Re: Basic question

2008-02-13 Thread WILLIAM SCHMIDT
Thank you Guilherme Solution below: >>> "Guilherme Polo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2008-02-13 06:48 >>> 2008/2/13, WILLIAM SCHMIDT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > In several places in the Python documentation I have run across an extra "r" > that I

decode Numeric Character References to unicode

2008-02-18 Thread William Heymann
How do I decode a string back to useful unicode that has xml numeric character references in it? Things like 占 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Looking for a Python Program/Tool That Will Add Line Numbers to a txt File

2008-02-18 Thread William Pursell
On Feb 14, 6:54 am, "W. Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > See Subject. It's a simple txt file, each line is a Python stmt, but I need > up to four digits added to each line with a space between the number field > and the text. Perhaps someone has already done this or there's a source on > the we

When file-like objects aren't file-like enough for Windows

2008-03-16 Thread William McBrine
This is proving to be a recurring problem for me. First, I used the save() method of a Python Imaging Library "Image" object to write directly to the "wfile" of a BaseHTTPRequestHandler- derived class: pic.save(self.wfile, 'JPEG') Worked great in Linux, barfed in Windows. I had to do this

How to get an XML DOM while offline?

2008-03-19 Thread william tanksley
I want to parse my iTunes Library xml. All was well, until I unplugged and left for the train (where I get most of my personal projects done). All of a sudden, I discovered that apparently the presence of a DOCTYPE in the iTunes XML makes xml.dom.minidom insist on accessing the Internet... So sudde

Re: reading file to list

2009-01-18 Thread William James
André Thieme wrote: > Xah Lee schrieb: > > comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.scheme,comp.lang.functional,comp.lang.pytho > > n,comp.lang.ruby > > > > Here's a interesting toy problem posted by Drew Krause to > > comp.lang.lisp: > > > > > > On Jan 16, 2:29 pm, Drew Krause wrote [p

Re: Mathematica 7 compares to other languages

2009-01-30 Thread William James
w_a_x_...@yahoo.com wrote: > On Dec 25, 5:24 am, Xah Lee wrote: > > > The JavaScript example: > > > > // Javascript. By William James > > function normalize( vec ) { > > var div=Math.sqrt(vec.map(function(x) x*x).reduce(function(a,b) > >

Python C-API Object Allocation

2009-02-21 Thread William Newbery
Ive been learning the C-API lately so I can write python extensions for some of my c++ stuff. I want to use the new and delete operators for creating and destroying my objects. The problem is python seems to break it into several stages. tp_new, tp_init and tp_alloc for creation and tp_del, t

Re: reading file to list

2009-02-22 Thread William James
André Thieme wrote: > (map #(map (fn [s] (Integer/parseInt s)) (.split % "\\s")) (line-seq > (reader "blob.txt"))) An error results: java.lang.Exception: Unable to resolve symbol: reader in this context This works: (map #(map (fn [s] (Integer/parseInt s)) (.split % "\\s")) (.split (slurp "ju

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-06 Thread William McBrine
On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:16:47 -0800, Fernando H. Sanches wrote: > I agree that the tab/space thing should be changed. Would it be too hard > to make the parser see if the indentation is consistent in the whole > file? *Something* has changed. I had a piece of code where, without realizing it, I h

Re: Guido's new method definition idea

2008-12-08 Thread william tanksley
On Dec 5, 6:21 pm, "Daniel Fetchinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like this new way of defining methods, what do you guys think? > Anyone ready for writing a PEP? I think it's an awesome proposal. It's about time! With this change, defining methods uses the same special syntax hack that call

Re: Mathematica 7 compares to other languages

2008-12-10 Thread William James
Jon Harrop wrote: > Xah Lee wrote: > > On Dec 10, 12:37 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Ruby: > > > > >> def norm a > >> s = Math.sqrt(a.map{|x|x*x}.inject{|x,y|x+y}) > >> a.map{|x| x/s} > >> end > > > > I don't know ruby, but i tried to run it and it does not work. > > > > #ruby > > def

Re: Mathematica 7 compares to other languages

2008-12-11 Thread William James
John W Kennedy wrote: > Xah Lee wrote: > > In lisp, python, perl, etc, you'll have 10 or so lines. In C or > > Java, you'll have 50 or hundreds lines. > > Java: > > static float[] normal(final float[] x) { >float sum = 0.0f; >for (int i = 0; i < x.length; ++i) sum += x[i] * x[i]; >f

Re: Mathematica 7 compares to other languages

2008-12-11 Thread William James
William James wrote: > John W Kennedy wrote: > > > Xah Lee wrote: > > > In lisp, python, perl, etc, you'll have 10 or so lines. In C or > > > Java, you'll have 50 or hundreds lines. > > > > > Java: > > > > static float[] norma

Re: Mathematica 7 compares to other languages

2008-12-11 Thread William James
William James wrote: > John W Kennedy wrote: > > > Xah Lee wrote: > > > In lisp, python, perl, etc, you'll have 10 or so lines. In C or > > > Java, you'll have 50 or hundreds lines. > > > > > Java: > > > > static float[] norma

Re: self signing a py2exe windows executable

2008-10-06 Thread William Heath
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Roger Upole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > William Heath wrote: > > Hi All, > > I thought I sent an email to the list regarding a need I have to self > sign > > a > > py2exe windows executable. Does anyone know how to do that?

Re: self signing a py2exe windows executable

2008-10-06 Thread William Heath
I don't know, how can I tell, sorry I am new to this. -Tim On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Roger Upole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > William Heath wrote: > > Hi Roger, > > I managed to get the dll and register it. I am now getting this error: > > &

Re: self signing a py2exe windows executable

2008-10-10 Thread William Heath
6:37 PM, Roger Upole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > William Heath wrote: > >I don't know, how can I tell, sorry I am new to this. > > -Tim > > > > You can use the certificates snap in for MMC to view them. > > Start->Run and enter mmc.exe > Fi

Re: RegExp: "wontmatch"-function

2008-10-13 Thread william tanksley
On Oct 13, 9:40 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm looking for a function which, given a regexp re and  and a string > str, returns whether re won't match any string starting with str. (so > it would always return False if str is "" or if str itself matches re > -- but that are only the easy cases)

Re: Dictionary of Dicts question

2008-10-16 Thread William Purcell
I believe that myDict['TestName'] = {'NewFileName': {}, } should be myDict['TestName']['NewFileName'] = {} -Bill On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Chris Rebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 12:19 PM, John Townsend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > I'm working with a Dictiona

arange randomly words in a list

2008-10-25 Thread william paul
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python script to act as list server

2008-11-16 Thread William Gill
Before I spend the next couple weeks researching and testing, can anyone tell me if what I want to do is possible, and possibly point me in the right direction to get started. I want to forward any email addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to a python script that will forward it to all the other su

py2exe automatic upgrades of a program while it is running, is that possible?

2009-03-02 Thread William Heath
Hi All, I am using py2exe to create a windows executable. I am curious if anyone knows a way to automatically upgrade a py2exe windows executable while it is running. Is that possible? If so how? If it isn't possible, what is the next best thing? Also, if it is not available using py2exe is it

Re: Ban Xah Lee

2009-03-09 Thread William James
Haines Brown wrote: > If we have studied a field obsessively for some > years, it is natural that we end in a position where our knowledge will > generally be superior. But this does not make us superior. What does make us superior? Are you so dishonest or insane as to assert that everyone is eq

Interfacing python and C

2009-03-27 Thread steve William
act* which is a function that I want to access from python and is declared in the interface file. Is there any specific way in which user defined headers need to be declared in the interface file? Should the user defined header be placed in the /usr/include directory? Any help on this is highly ap

Interfacing python and C

2009-03-27 Thread steve William
act* which is a function that I want to access from python and is declared in the interface file. Is there any specific way in which user defined headers need to be declared in the interface file? Should the user defined header be placed in the /usr/include directory? Any help on this is highly ap

Re: Python-list Digest, Vol 66, Issue 527

2009-03-27 Thread steve William
> > steve William wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> I'm using SWIG for the first time and I am facing some problems with user >> defined header files. I'm trying to use my own header file in a C program >> which would be interfaced with python. >> >

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