Re: Python and IDEs [was Re: Python 3 is killing Python]

2014-08-11 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> >> > Thankfully, all actually user-friendly operating systems (MacOS, > >> > TOS, RiscOS, probably AmigaOS, MacOS X) spare(d) their users the > >> > bottomless cesspit of "package management" and/or "installers". > >> > > >> > Because on such operating systems, each and every application is > >>

Re: Python and IDEs [was Re: Python 3 is killing Python]

2014-08-11 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> > Linux was made by geeks who didn't have a clue of ergonomics for > > screenworkers and didn't care to get one. > > I can only repeat what you said earlier: > > "You should get a clue in stead [sic] of just fantasizing up > assumptions based on ignorance." > > I daresay that Linus Torvalds sp

Re: Python and IDEs [was Re: Python 3 is killing Python]

2014-08-13 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> >> By the way, you keep replying to people, and quoting them, but > >> deleting their name. Please leave the attribution in place, so we > >> know who you are replying to. > > > > That's what the "References:"-Header is there for. > > The References header is for the benefit of news and mail cl

Re: Python and IDEs [was Re: Python 3 is killing Python]

2014-08-13 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> >> > Because on such operating systems, each and every application is > >> > an entirely self-contained package that doesn't need any > >> > "packages" or "installers" to use it. > > > >> For people who have never used such a system it's probably > >> difficult to see the advantages. > > > > Tha

Re: very lightweight gui for win32 + python 3.4

2014-09-14 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> wxPython and Qt are well known but they are not exactly lightweight. wxPython not lightweight? It's just a wrapper of win32. Sincerely, Wolfgang -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python code in presentations

2014-10-01 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> Right now the method I'm using is write the code in notepad++, use a > plugin (NppExport) to copy paste code into powerpoint. After using it > a little bit, I'm really not satisfied with this method, it's > expensive and all this copy paste stuff is driving me crazy. Not to > mention that the syn

Re: open office in another language?

2012-01-13 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> I'm a somewhat-satisfied openoffice.org user. I mean it works, but if > it weren't in Java I'd be doing some of my own tweaking. But since > it's in Java I stay away... no likey. OpenOffice (now LibreOffice, btw.) is not implemented in Java, if that's what you mean. It _is_ scriptable in Python

Re: Maximum Likelihood Estimation

2013-02-02 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> I am looking for a Python implementation of Maximum Likelihood > Estimation. If any one can kindly suggest. With a google search it > seems scipy,numpy,statsmodels have modules, but as I am not finding > proper example workouts I am failing to use them. For statistics I would suggest using R (h

Re: PyQT app accessible over network?

2013-02-22 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> I've been working at learning python off and on now for a while, with > a couple programs in mind as a goal - kind of specialized stuff that > I can't seem to find a good match for already available, competitor > records, score-keeping & results for an amateur sports tournament. So you want to

Re: PyQT app accessible over network?

2013-02-24 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> My concern is that using postgres or mysql for this would be akin to > using a sledgehammer to swat a fly, I wouldn't use MySQL for anything that requires anything else than "select". And PostgreSQL has extremely spartanic resource requirements in the default configuration. It runs on Linux on

Re: PyQT app accessible over network?

2013-02-24 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> As far as doing client/server stuff with just a database engine, > unless you have tight control over the environment end to end, from a > security pov, it's not a good idea to expose the database engine > itself to the internet. Better to put a restricted web services API > in front of it that

Re: What's the easiest Python datagrid GUI (preferably with easy database hooks as well)?

2013-03-14 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> I want to write a fairly trivial database driven application, it will > basically present a few columns from a database, allow the user to add > and/or edit rows, recalculate the values in one column and write the > data back to the database. > > I want to show the data and allow editing of the

Re: What's the easiest Python datagrid GUI (preferably with easy database hooks as well)?

2013-03-16 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> Very helpful collection, only one open question: which of them work > with Python 3? No clue, sorry. Given how many other modules are not yet compatible with Python 3, I haven't investigated that yet. wxwidgets/wxPython already has *just* made the switch to Cocoa (with 2.9) when Carbon support

Re: What's the easiest Python datagrid GUI (preferably with easy database hooks as well)?

2013-03-19 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> As far as Dabo is concerned, at the moment I just have to know how to > spell "crash" ... Seems like someone is in desperate need of what they call "release management". X-( Sincerely, Wolfgang -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What's the easiest Python datagrid GUI (preferably with easy database hooks as well)?

2013-03-19 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> >> Will look at Pypapi and SQLkit. > > > Did look: SQLkit needs Python 2. Personally I would be more concerned about the apparent end-of-life of PyGTK. > Pypapi, from the link you gave: "The new release of PyPaPi is written > in Java. You can find more info in the official site." On this > offi

Re: IDE for GUI Designer

2013-04-07 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> Guys, is this, I wonder if there is an IDE with native support for the > development of GUI's A decent Python IDE would probably integrate well enough with any decent GUI builder. If there was one (decent GUI builder). Unfortunately there's afaik currently no GUI builder available for any of th

Re: IDE for GUI Designer

2013-04-13 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> Well, I usually use the Qt Designer and it does work well for me. > > It generates a .ui file with it which has to be passed to pyuic to > generate the actual Python code Wow. Even one more step than with code generation directly from the GUI builder. Clumsy, tedious, static. Cocoa's Interf

Re: Queueing in Python (ala JMS)

2005-12-20 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> Is there a JMS-like API available for Python? Better. >:-> Omninotify, a Corba notification service implementation. Sincerely, Wolfgang Keller -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Book about database application development?

2006-10-15 Thread Wolfgang Keller
;W** applications" are totally irrelevant for me. TIA, Sincerely, Wolfgang Keller -- My email-address is correct. Do NOT remove ".nospam" to reply. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Book about database application development?

2006-10-15 Thread Wolfgang Keller
er how to connect a GUI to a database, with quite a bit of application logic in between. And how to do it well. Sincerely, Wolfgang Keller -- My email-address is correct. Do NOT remove ".nospam" to reply. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Book about database application development?

2006-10-16 Thread Wolfgang Keller
ion developers. Yes, thanks, I know about Dabo. As I know about Kiwi, Thyme, GNUe, TinyERP and so on... But I would still like to learn how to do things myself if I need to. Sincerely, Wolfgang Keller -- My email-address is correct. Do NOT remove ".nospam" to reply. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Book about database application development?

2006-10-16 Thread Wolfgang Keller
ecause he _hates_ everything that remotely ressembles to any mutation of C(++/#/Java). Sincerely, Wolfgang Keller -- My email-address is correct. Do NOT remove ".nospam" to reply. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Book about database application development?

2006-10-17 Thread Wolfgang Keller
and C#, sorry! Which is precisely the reason why I wanted to make sure there really is nothing else before I buy. *sigh* I thought with Delphi being quite popular for database applications, there should be _something_. Sincerely, Wolfgang Keller -- My email-address is correct. Do NOT re

Re: Book about database application development?

2006-10-20 Thread Wolfgang Keller
>> does anyone know of a good book that about development of database >> applications? > > Scott Ambler's "Agile Database Techniques" Thanks for the hint, the summaries indicate that this one could be very useful indeed. Sincerely, Wolfgang Keller -- My

Re: Book about database application development?

2006-10-23 Thread Wolfgang Keller
s - be able to implement missing things myself - be able to do things "from scratch" if nothing else helps. I mentioned Delphi just as an example for a language that I am able to read easily. TIA, Sincerely, Wolfgang Keller -- My email-address is correct. Do NOT remove "

Re: Best Middle Tier Architechure?

2006-09-08 Thread Wolfgang Keller
On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 03:59:46 +0200, Butternut Squash wrote (in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>): > I have seen XML-RPC and > soap. Are there other options? OmniORBpy Sincerely, Wolfgang Keller -- My email-address is correct. Do NOT remove ".nospam" to reply. -- http://m

Re: Help me use my Dual Core CPU!

2006-09-14 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> Are there any other concurrency options I've not discovered yet? PyMPI? Ironpython? Sincerely, Wolfgang Keller -- My email-address is correct. Do NOT remove ".nospam" to reply. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: One program in different GUI Toolkits

2006-09-23 Thread Wolfgang Keller
here: http://www.satzbau-gmbh.de/staff/abel/httrack-py/ So the work could really focus on the GUI. BTW: There's a book from MITP "Python und GUI Toolkits" (in German) that shows how to implement a given example program with Tkinter, Qt, wxWidgets and GTK+2. Sincerely, Wolfgang Kel

Re: What is the best way to "get" a web page?

2006-09-24 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> Can anyone point me to a tutorial or other reference on how to "get" all > of the html contents at a particular page? Why not use httrack? http://www.satzbau-gmbh.de/staff/abel/httrack-py/ Sincerely, Wolfgang Keller -- My email-address is correct. Do NOT remove &q

Re: windev vs python SOS

2006-09-30 Thread Wolfgang Keller
tary software, you _depend_ on the original developer to continue to exist, fix bugs, implement required functionality... How anyone can bet the existence of a company on proprietary software in a time where even multi-billion dollar companys get taken over just to "consolidate comp

Re: windev vs python SOS

2006-10-01 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> Links abour Windev for those who like facts : > > http://www.windev.com/pcsoft/testimonials/index.html > http://www.pcsoft.fr/annonce10/photos.html > http://www.pcsoft.fr/pcsoft/120pages/index.html Well, it _could_ be that all the readers in comp.lang.python are utterly braindead morons with e

Re: Python code written in 1998, how to improve/change it?

2006-01-24 Thread Wolfgang Keller
rators... TIA, Sincerely, Wolfgang Keller -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Weird generator id() behaviour (was Re: Python code written in 1998, how to improve/change it?)

2006-01-24 Thread Wolfgang Keller
f() > else: > yield None Amazing. Executable pseudo-code, really. :-) And that's even (run-time) efficient? Tanks a lot, Sincerely, Wolfgang Keller -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python code written in 1998, how to improve/change it?

2006-01-25 Thread Wolfgang Keller
off after the > last yield. Well, no, independently from that. Just to avoid to inital overhead of the function call. ? Sincerely, Wolfgang Keller -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python code written in 1998, how to improve/change it?

2006-01-25 Thread Wolfgang Keller
call. Again, I'm just a poor scripting dilettant who's asking questions. Sincerely, Wolfgang Keller -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Generators vs. Functions?

2006-02-04 Thread Wolfgang Keller
eness of the test mentioned above, is it simply due to a less-than-optimum implementation of generators in the current Pyython interpreter and thus likely to change in the future or is this a matter of principle and will consequently remain like this forever? TIA, Sincerely, Wolfgang Kell

Re: ANN: PyGUI 1.6

2006-02-13 Thread Wolfgang Keller
And, btw; I couldn't immediately figure out from the documentation which widgets it supports. Does it support the Cocoa outline view, for example? TIA, Sincerely, Wolfgang Keller -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Bhavaya-like ORM for Python?

2005-05-02 Thread Wolfgang Keller
Hello, does anyone know of a Python ORM module that works like Bhavaya does for J***? In case Bhavaya isn't known, an introduction can be found at: http://bhavaya.openadaptor.org/intro.html. TIA, Best regards Wolfgang Keller -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ERP & CRM in Python

2005-05-02 Thread Wolfgang Keller
ble, as is reading an on-screen manual while actually trying out the software (<-> screenspace). Why not mailing lists instead of online-"forums". The former was made for efficient human-to-human communication, the latter not. Bets regards Wolfgang Keller -- http://mail.python.o

Europython schedule vs. accomodation/registration deadlines - HUH?

2005-05-02 Thread Wolfgang Keller
rth attending for them? This isn't serious, is it? I'm sorry, but I've never encountered this with any kind of conference... Best regards Wolfgang Keller -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ERP & CRM in Python

2005-05-06 Thread Wolfgang Keller
uses it. > > > The former was made for efficient human-to-human communication, the > > latter not. > I agree. Then why not create a gateway (<->) for the forums into mailinglists 1:1? Best regards Wolfgang Keller -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Pythonic ORM with support for composite primary/foreign keys?

2007-11-06 Thread Wolfgang Keller
(such as e.g. composite types)? TIA, Sincerely, Wolfgang Keller -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Modeling (Re: Pythonic ORM with support for composite primary/foreign keys?)

2007-11-09 Thread Wolfgang Keller
odeling, so that one could generate (and round-trip) nice "colorful and children-suitable" diagrams for the CXOs... >:-> TIA, Sincerely, Wolfgang Keller -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: New to python, open source Mac OS X IDE?

2009-01-30 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> I'm on a Mac. I use Netbeans for Java, PHP, and C if needed. Do you > even use an IDE for Python? WingIDE Not open source, but by far the best that I've tried. Sincerely, Wolfgang -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python package Management GUI - New Project on Sourceforge

2009-02-02 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> David, I would really recommend that you > seriously consider using the Tcp/Tk toolkit. I would seriously disrecommend using Tcl/Tk. > Why ? Because it doesn't allow to build a GUI application with not-ridiculous functionality, "look-and-feel" and quirk-free behaviour. > Because of my point a

Re: Does omniORBpy 3.2 supports DII?

2008-07-10 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> My apologies if this is not the correct forum for thses quiestions, It's not the wrong place to ask, but you're more likely to get answers from the omniORB mailing lists: http://www.omniorb-support.com/mailman/listinfo Sincerely, Wolfgang -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-lis

postgresql_autodoc in Python?

2009-12-07 Thread Wolfgang Keller
Hello, has anyone ever implemented something similar to postgresql_autodoc in Python? TIA, Sincerely, Wolfgang -- NO "Courtesy Copies" PLEASE! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Generating diagrams from PostgreSQL with Python (Re: postgresql_autodoc in Python?)

2009-12-10 Thread Wolfgang Keller
is unfortunately written in Perl. >;-> TIA, And, btw., please respect my .sig, Sincerely, Wolfgang Keller -- NO "Courtesy Copies" PLEASE! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python for professsional Windows GUI apps?

2009-08-25 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> I need controls for business apps like access to databases, good data > grid, printing reports (with or without barcodes), etc. The area of _desktop_ database application development indeed looks like a vast and very hostile desert in the Python landscape. The only framework that seems to be w

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