Re: First time I looked at Python was(...)

On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 13:39:50 +0100, Carlos Anselmo Dias wrote: > On 06/10/2014 01:10 PM, Ben Finney wrote: >> Carlos Anselmo Dias writes: >> >>> Following my post Copy/paste of python team(...) + script >>> attachment(...) >> I find those screeds very difficult to read. One significant >> improve

Re: First time I looked at Python was(...)

On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 14:09:52 +0100, Carlos Anselmo Dias wrote: >>> Hi ... >>> >>> English is not my maternal language ... I wrote what I consider the >>> most appropriated taking in consideration that the summary of the >>> description might be enough to help people think about it ... >>> If those

Re: First time I looked at Python was(...)

On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 11:53:38 +0100, Robin Becker wrote: > On 10/06/2014 11:14, alister wrote: >> On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 21:54:25 +0100, Carlos Anselmo Dias wrote: > >> >> I'm sorry What does all this relate to? >> >> >> > Turing test? I

Re: First time I looked at Python was(...)

On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 14:59:09 +0100, Carlos Anselmo Dias wrote: > On 06/10/2014 02:47 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2014-06-10, Carlos Anselmo Dias wrote: >> >>> English is not my maternal language ... >> And stringing together a bunch of phrases with elipses without every >> completing a sentenc

Re: try/except/finally

On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 19:14:18 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 10/06/2014 08:27, Thomas Rachel wrote: >> Am 08.06.2014 05:58 schrieb Rustom Mody: >> >>> Some people¹ think that gotos are a code-smell. >>> ¹ I am not exactly those people. >>> A chap called E W Dijkstra made the statement: "Goto sta

Re: Micro Python -- a lean and efficient implementation of Python 3

On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 12:27:26 -0700, wxjmfauth wrote: > Le samedi 7 juin 2014 04:20:22 UTC+2, Tim Chase a écrit : >> On 2014-06-06 09:59, Travis Griggs wrote: >> >> > On Jun 4, 2014, at 4:01 AM, Tim Chase wrote: >> >> > > If you use UTF-8 for everything >> >> >> > >> > It seems to me, that inc

Re: Micro Python -- a lean and efficient implementation of Python 3

On Wed, 11 Jun 2014 08:29:06 +1000, Tim Delaney wrote: > On 11 June 2014 05:43, alister wrote: > > >> Your error reports always seem to resolve around benchmarks despite >> speed not being one of Pythons prime objectives >> >> > By his own admission, jmf

Re: First time I looked at Python was(...)

On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 22:15:29 +0100, Carlos Anselmo Dias wrote: > Hi... > > I don't understand the 'problem' of several people ... > > I created one post because I've several projects, I'm looking for one > team of experienced experts in Python to work in my projects ... asap > ... I provided one

Re: try/except/finally

On Wed, 11 Jun 2014 00:00:49 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jun 2014 06:37:01 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> I don't know a single piece of programming advice which, if taken as an >> inviolate rule, doesn't at some point cause suboptimal code. > > "Don't try to program while your

Re: OT: This Swift thing

On Thu, 12 Jun 2014 09:06:50 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jun 2014 12:16:08 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Steven D'Aprano >> wrote: >>> I'm just pointing out that our computational technology uses over a >>> million times more energy than the t

Re: what is the location of erpnext database?

On Fri, 13 Jun 2014 02:16:13 -0700, satishguptajaipur wrote: > I was thinking of connecting the database to access for some custom > reports. > What is the location of erpnext database? > > Regards Satish How on earth should we know? It is your database server you should know. -- If you're c

Re: OT: This Swift thing

On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 08:34:13 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > > Partly that. But also, people want to know how long that will *really* > last. For instance, 10 hours of battery life... doing what? Can I really > hop on a plane for ten hours and write code the whole way without > external power? Or

Re: Python Noob, open file dialog

On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 00:36:29 -0700, cutey Love wrote: > No it's still paused after selection and only excutes when the window is > closed. > > On Tuesday, June 17, 2014 6:34:41 PM UTC+1, MRAB wrote: >> On 2014-06-17 17:49, cutey Love wrote: >> >> > My first attempt at Python, >> > I'm using Tkin

Re: how to check if a value is a floating point or not

On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 14:28:52 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2014-06-20, Mark Lawrence wrote: > >> For the OP a very important rule of thumb is never use a bare except, >> so this is right out. >> >> try: >> doSomething() >> except: >> WTF() > > IMO, that sort of depends on WTF() doe

Re: Adding thread module support to Ubuntu 3 for Python3

On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 19:40:24 -0700, Larry Hudson wrote: > On 06/23/2014 01:12 PM, kenak...@gmail.com wrote: >> What package do I need to install to get thread support (import thread) >> for Python 3 running under ubuntu 3? >> >> > Just curious... Ubuntu 3 -- Are you really running a version that

Re: State of speeding up Python for full applications

On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 20:54:29 -0700, CM wrote: > I occasionally hear about performance improvements for Python by various > projects like psyco (now old), ShedSkin, Cython, PyPy, Nuitka, Numba, > and probably many others. The benchmarks are out there, and they do > make a difference, and sometimes

Re: Newbie coding question

On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 20:53:35 +0200, Martin S wrote: > Hi, > > I've been following the tutorial here > http://anh.cs.luc.edu/python/hands-on/3.1/handsonHtml/ > But when I get to section 1.10 there is > > person = input('Enter your name: ') > > However this generates an error > > person =

Re: What should i do

On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 08:18:24 -0700, Paul McNett wrote: > On 6/27/14, 2:19 AM, suburb4nfi...@gmail.com wrote: >> Hello I finished the codeacademy python course a week ago and my goal >> is to start developing websites (both back and front end) ,my question >> is do i start the web dev tuts and lear

Re: What should i do

On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 12:39:49 -0700, suburb4nfilth wrote: > Thank you for the fast response guys, what if I go with django instead > of flask and is javascript hard to learn considering that I have no > knoledge of any other language beside Python? I guess it depends on what you want it to do Per

Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces

On Sat, 05 Jul 2014 20:57:14 +1200, Gregory Ewing wrote: > Rick Johnson wrote: >> Why is a handheld light called a flashlight? It does not flash, > > According to Wikipedia, originally it did: > > "Early flashlights ran on zinc–carbon batteries, which could not provide > a steady electric curren

Re: NaN comparisons - Call For Anecdotes

On Wed, 09 Jul 2014 23:09:36 +0200, Anders J. Munch wrote: > Ethan Furman: >> I would suggest you ask for this on the numerical mailing lists instead >> of here -- and you may not want to offer a beer to everyone that has an >> anecdote for NaN behavior being useful. > I don't have time to start t

Re: How to decipher :re.split(r"(\(\([^)]+\)\))" in the example

On Thu, 10 Jul 2014 23:33:27 -0400, Roy Smith wrote: > In article , > Tim Chase wrote: > >> On 2014-07-10 22:18, Roy Smith wrote: >> > > Outside this are \( and \): these are literal opening and closing >> > > bracket characters. So: >> > > >> > >\(\([^)]+\)\) >> > >> > although, even bett

Re: Python 3 is killing Python

> > Image, for a moment, a world WITHOUT the great USA! Yes, i know you > little commies love to curse the USA, and yes, > there are many dark sins committed within AND beyond her borders, but > try to tell me you bass-turds, what nation in modern history has > contributed more technological achie

Re: Python 3 is killing Python

On Mon, 14 Jul 2014 21:18:05 -0700, Rick Johnson wrote: > On Monday, July 14, 2014 9:11:47 PM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote: >> I dunno. It's not like Great Britain, Australia, or New Zealand did >> anything significant in either war, is it. > > Most of Europe occupied, London bombed into the stone

Re: Python 3 is killing Python

On Tue, 15 Jul 2014 15:50:46 +0100, MRAB wrote: > On 2014-07-15 13:19, alister wrote: >>> >>> Image, for a moment, a world WITHOUT the great USA! Yes, i know you >>> little commies love to curse the USA, and yes, there are many dark >>> sins committed wi

Re: This Python 3 is killing Python thread is killing me.

On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 09:32:31 -0800, Deb Wyatt wrote: > Can you all stop already with the non python US bashing? Please? > > Deb in WA, USA > > Protect > your computer files with professional cloud backup. > Get PCRx Backup and upload

Re: I need an idea for practise!

On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 02:59:11 -0700, Nicholas Cannon wrote: > Ok I would say I am almost a intermediate python programer. I have made > 2 programs(with GUI). And basically they are quite boring(a text editor > and calculator). I love programming but i am lost of ideas i actually > suck at finding g

Re: OT: usenet reader software

On Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:10:02 -0700, memilanuk wrote: > Given the ongoing hub-bub about Google Groups and some recent long > threads where I *really* wanted to be able to mute/ignore certain > individuals/subjects... I started looking into other choices for Usenet > reader software again. I use ne

Re: Making every no-arg method a property?

On Wed, 06 Aug 2014 10:34:04 +1200, Gregory Ewing wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: >> Did I miss a news story? Have the parentesis mines all exploded >> causing the price of parenthesis to skyrocket? > > The Unicode Consortium has been secretly buying them up for some time > now. Pretty soon you wo

Re: Making every no-arg method a property?

On Tue, 05 Aug 2014 12:39:18 -0700, Christian Calderon wrote: > I have been using python for 4 years now, and I just started learning > ruby. > I like that in ruby I don't have to type parenthesis at the end of each > function call if I don't need to provide extra arguments. I just > realized righ

Re: Keep one GUI always on TOP while python code is running

On Fri, 08 Aug 2014 23:58:56 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> (for instance, on all my Linux systems, I can hit Ctrl-Alt-F1 to switch >> away from the GUI altogether). > > Does that work when xscreensaver or equivalent has locked the system? If > so, > that's a security vulnerability. I have n

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

On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 11:08:43 +0200, Wolfgang Keller wrote: >> 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. > > Sincerely,

Re: how to get the ordinal number in list

On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 12:56:59 +0100, Robert Kern wrote: > On 2014-08-11 03:04, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> Rustom Mody wrote: >> >>> Its when we have variables that are assigned in multiple places that >>> we start seeing mathematical abominations like x = x+1 >> >> That's not a mathematical abominat

Re: how to get the ordinal number in list

On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 00:21:28 -0700, wxjmfauth wrote: > Math: > > Try to formalize with mathematics the Flexible String Representation. > You should quickly realize, it is a logical mathematical absurdity. > Unbelievable. > > jmf Mathematicians work with numbers (Algebra is a abstraction of nume

Re: how to get the ordinal number in list

On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 23:39:42 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 8:40 PM, alister > wrote: >> On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 00:21:28 -0700, wxjmfauth wrote: >> [ chomp ] >> >> Mathematicians work with numbers (Algebra is a abstraction of numerical >>

Re: newbee

On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 19:57:14 -0400, Frank Scafidi wrote: > I just acquired a Raspberry Pi and want to program in Python. I was a > PL/1 programmer back in the 60's & 70's and Python is similar. I am > struggling with some very fundamental things that I am not finding in > the documentation. Can so

Re: newbee

On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 15:13:34 +0200, Mok-Kong Shen wrote: > Am 13.08.2014 13:55, schrieb alister: > [snip] > > A related question: How could one write a Python program and have it run > on a mobile phone in general (independent of a PC)? > > M. K. Shen you would need a p

Re: Captcha identify

On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 07:39:20 -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > On 8/12/2014 9:46 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Wesley wrote: >>> If my questions make you guys not so happy, I am sorry and please just >>> ignore. >>> I just wanna a general suggestion here in the be

Re: newbee

On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 15:31:37 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 8/13/2014 7:55 AM, alister wrote: >> >> I am not in the same league as many of the posters here when it comes >> to Python but fortunately i do have two Raspberry Pi's :-) > > Great! We really someone w

Re: Code to Python 27 prompt to access a html file stored on C drive

On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 08:09:11 -0700, Simon Evans wrote: > Dear Programmers, I want to access a html file on my C drive, in the > > Python 27 prompt, all the examples I come across seem to require for > > access for the html file be on a server, rather than on the same > > computer's C drive. I

Re: Unicode in cgi-script with apache2

On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 20:10:25 +0200, Dominique Ramaekers wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a little script: > > #!/usr/bin/env python3 print("Content-Type: text/html") > print("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate")# HTTP/1.1 > print("Expires: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT") # Date in the past >

Re: 'is not' or '!='

On Mon, 18 Aug 2014 23:53:49 +0300, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > "ElChino" : > >> A newbie question to you; what is the difference between statements >> like: >> if x is not None: >> and if x != None: > > Do the following: take two $10 bills. Hold one bill in the left hand, > hold the other bill in

Re: PyQt4 - Issue with deleting a QWidget from a QGridLayout

On Wed, 20 Aug 2014 00:11:24 +0200, Alex Murray wrote: > Hi, > >   > > I've discovered some very strange behaviour when trying to > delete a QWidget from a QGridLayout. The following code demonstrates > this behaviour: > >   > > >>> from PyQt4 import QtGui > > >>> import sys > > >>> app = Qt

Re: Global indent

On Sat, 23 Aug 2014 18:19:21 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Rob Gaddi wrote: > >> Emacs and vim both have huge learning curves that I've decided aren't >> worth climbing. > > In my opinion, they are designed for people willing and able to commit > to memory dozens, even hundreds, of obscure key

Re: This formating is really tricky

On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 21:10:47 -0400, Joel Goldstick wrote: > you should try python-tudor mailing list > Oh Wow I didn't know Python was that old - it even pre-dates Electricity :-) -- Hand, n.: A singular instrument worn at the end of a human arm and commonly thrust into somebod

Re: This formating is really tricky

On Tue, 26 Aug 2014 12:32:14 +0300, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > alister : > >> Oh Wow I didn't know Python was that old - it even pre-dates >> Electricity :-) > > Electricity arose already before the Great Inflation. > > > Marko but it was not in

Re: Editing text with an external editor in Python

On Mon, 01 Sep 2014 15:06:04 -0500, Tim Chase wrote: > On 2014-09-02 04:23, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> Read $VISUAL, if it exists, otherwise $EDITOR, if it exists, otherwise >> fall back on something hard coded. Or read it from an ini file. Or >> create an entry in the register. Whatever. That's up

Re: Editing text with an external editor in Python

On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 18:45:54 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 6:35 PM, alister > wrote: >> if edlin is your only option then it would be better to spend you time >> writhing your own text editor! > > Heh! > > Considering how easy it is to depl

Re: Python is going to be hard

On Wed, 03 Sep 2014 19:33:41 -0700, Rustom Mody wrote: > On Thursday, September 4, 2014 7:56:31 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico > wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Rustom Mody wrote: >> > On Thursday, September 4, 2014 7:26:56 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico >> > wrote: >> >> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014

Re: Looking for a suitable Python resource

On Thu, 04 Sep 2014 11:13:16 -0700, sohi.khushi7 wrote: > Hello group members, > > I have worked with languages like C, C++, C#, Java and Objective C > before. > > Now I want to learn Python. Most of the resources that I have seen > online are oriented mainly towards beginners to programming. Is

Re: Is there a canonical way to check whether an iterable is ordered?

On Fri, 19 Sep 2014 21:56:05 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 9:46 PM, Steven D'Aprano > wrote: >> Chris Angelico wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 8:59 PM, Steven D'Aprano >>> wrote: Here's a proof of concept of what would be allowed: >> [...] >>> Also, this can't

Re: Love to get some feedback on my first python app!!!

On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 16:32:27 +0200, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote: > - Original Message - >> From: "Chris Angelico" >> Cc: python-list@python.org Sent: Saturday, 20 September, 2014 4:58:44 >> PM Subject: Re: Love to get some feedback on my first python app!!! > [snip] >> >> #search API

Re: Obscuring Python source from end users

On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 00:36:47 -0700, norman.ives wrote: > Hello list > > Python 3.4 applies. > > I have a project that involves distributing Python code to users in an > organisation. Users do not interact directly with the Python code; they > only know this project as an Excel add-in. > > Now,

Re: Python Basics

On Sat, 04 Oct 2014 11:09:58 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Chris Angelico wrote: > >> On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Seymore4Head >> wrote: > >>> for i in range(1,10): >>> print (str(i)*i) >> >> Seymour, please don't do this. When you "help" someone by just giving >> him the answer to a

Re: Toggle

On Thu, 09 Oct 2014 17:57:03 +1300, Gregory Ewing wrote: > Seymore4Head wrote: >> I want to toggle between color="Red" and color="Blue" > > toggle = {"Red": "Blue", "Blue": "Red"} > color = toggle[color] How about a simple colour = 'red' if colour == 'blue' else 'blue' -- The light at the e

Re: Practice question

On Mon, 06 Oct 2014 22:06:09 -0400, Seymore4Head wrote: > On Tue, 7 Oct 2014 01:46:37 + (UTC), Denis McMahon > wrote: > >>On Sun, 05 Oct 2014 19:02:31 -0400, Seymore4Head wrote: >> >>> For the record, I don't want a hint. I want the answer. >>> I see a practice question is similar to this.

Re: [OT] spelling colour / color was Re: Toggle

On Thu, 09 Oct 2014 23:48:36 +0300, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Tim Delaney : > >> It's very annoying to have some methods use "z" and others "s" in the >> same package. > > "-ize" is standard everywhere in the English-speaking world. Not in England! > > Americans insist on "analyze," "paralyze" a

Re: [OT] spelling colour / color was Re: Toggle

On Fri, 10 Oct 2014 22:01:58 +0300, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > alister : > >> On Thu, 09 Oct 2014 23:48:36 +0300, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >> >>> "-ize" is standard everywhere in the English-speaking world. >> >> Not in England! > > http:

Re: Toggle

On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 05:43:10 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 5:38 AM, Tony the Tiger > wrote: >>> colour = 'red' if colour == 'blue' else 'blue' >> >> I call that a subtle bug that most likely will jump up and bite your >> behind when you least expect it. > > More generall

Re: (test) ? a:b

On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 12:41:49 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 22/10/2014 10:27, Chris Angelico wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 8:16 PM, Mark Lawrence >> wrote: without not: j = [j+1, 3][j>=10] with not: j = [3, j+1][not (j>=10)] >>> The death penalty should be rein

Re: (test) ? a:b

On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 02:18:42 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 2:12 AM, alister > wrote: >>> Perhaps you're correct. Is there anything worse than looking at a >>> dreadful piece of code that makes no sense at all and knowing that >>&g

Re: Misleading error message of the day

On Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:10:17 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2011-12-08, Roy Smith wrote: >> On Thursday, December 8, 2011 10:03:38 AM UTC-5, Jean-Michel Pichavant >> wrote: >>> string are iterable, considering this, the error is correct. >> >> Yes, I understand that the exception is correct. I

Re: nested loops

On Mon, 25 Feb 2013 23:46:11 +0100, leonardo wrote: > hi everyone, > > i have the following program: > > import time count_timer = int(raw_input('how many seconds?: ')) > for i in range(count_timer, 0, -1): > print i time.sleep(1) > print 'blast off!' > > > this is the result: > > how ma

Re: need for help

On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 19:35:14 +0100, leonardo selmi wrote: > hi guys > > i typed the following program: > > class ball: > def _init_(self, color, size, direction): > self.color = color self.size = size self.direction = direction > > def _str_(self): > msg = 'hi, i am a '

Re: i need help

On Mon, 04 Mar 2013 07:07:53 -0800, Bryan Devaney wrote: > On Sunday, March 3, 2013 6:45:26 PM UTC, Kwpolska wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 7:46 AM, Michael Torrie >> wrote: >> >> > On 02/21/2013 03:18 AM, leonardo wrote: >> >> >> thanks, problem solved >> >> >> > >> > Apparently not. The

Re: Lists and Decimal numbers

On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:52:00 +0100, Peter Otten wrote: > Ana Dionísio wrote: > >> So, I have this script that puts in a list every minute in 24 hours >> >> hour=[] >> i=0 t=-(1.0/60.0) >> while i<24*60: >> i = i+1 t = t+(1.0/60.0) >> hour.append([t]) > > In many cases you can write > >

Re: Lists and Decimal numbers

On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 20:00:38 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2013-03-20, Alister wrote: > >> and a list comprehension would streamline things further >> >> t=[round(x*1.0/60),4 for x in range(1440)] #compatible with V2.7 & >> V3.0) > > There'

Re: Help with python code!

On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 14:32:21 -0700, gerrymcgovern wrote: > On Sunday, March 31, 2013 5:27:06 PM UTC-4, Roy Smith wrote: >> In article <4455829d-5b4a-44ee-b65f-5f72d429b...@googlegroups.com>, >> >> jojo wrote: >> >> >> >> > Thanks for your replies. Just to be clear this is for a interview and

Re: Calling python script in dos and passing arguments

On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 12:10:09 -0700, Chris Rebert wrote: > On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 7:14 AM, PEnergy wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> I am trying to write a python script that, when called from the DOS >> prompt, will call another python script and pass it input variables. >> My current code will open t

Re: How to set my gui?

On Thu, 18 Apr 2013 23:24:29 +0200, Tracubik wrote: > Hi all! > I'm trying to make a simple program that essentially do this: > > 1) open a html file (extracted epub file) > 2) search for occurrences like "ita-ly" > 3) put them on a simple GUI: 1 text field and two buttons: keepy it and > correct

Re: Python teaching book recommendations: 3.3+ and with exercises

On Fri, 03 May 2013 00:36:48 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > One of my younger brothers, still school age, is to be studying some > aspect of computing for the next term or two. I strongly recommended he > learn Python (it has a bit more future than studying the internals of > OS/2), and my/his fat

Re: Using site-packages with alt-installed Python version

On Sun, 16 May 2010 12:07:08 +0300, Tuomas Vesterinen wrote: > I am testing an application GUI with Python 2.4, 2.5 and 2.6. The native > Python (in Fedora 12) is 2.6. Versions 2.4 and 2.5 are alt-installed. > > Aplication GUI uses: > import pygtk > pygtk.require('2.0') > import gtk > import gobj

Re: Question on Python Function

On Mon, 24 May 2010 13:15:01 -0700, joy99 wrote: > Dear Group, > > I have a small question on function. > > If I write two functions like the following: > > IDLE 2.6.5 def function1(n): > element1=5 > element2=6 > add=element1+element2 > print "PRINT THE ADDITION",a

Re: Question on Python Function

On Mon, 24 May 2010 22:56:34 +0200, Vlastimil Brom wrote: > 2010/5/24 joy99 : >> >> >> Dear Group, >> >> I have a small question on function. >> >> If I write two functions like the following: >> >> IDLE 2.6.5 > def function1(n): >>        element1=5 >>        element2=6 >>        add=element1

Re: Error

On Wed, 26 May 2010 11:09:58 -0700, Chris Rebert wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:48 AM, William Miner > wrote: >> I’m relative new to python and I puzzled by the following strange (to >> me) behavior. I was taking pieces from two old scripts to build a new >> one. When I began to debug it I g

Re: Another Little MySQL Problem

On Wed, 26 May 2010 12:43:29 -0700, John Nagle wrote: > Kushal Kumaran wrote: >> On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 14:45 -0400, Victor Subervi wrote: >>> Hi; >>> I have this code: >>> >>> clientCursor.execute('select ID from %s' % (personalDataTable)) >>> upds = [itm[0] for itm in clientCursor] print

Re: Another Little MySQL Problem

On Wed, 26 May 2010 15:30:16 -0700, John Nagle wrote: > Alister wrote: >> I think you should probably also write your execute differently: >> >>>>> clientCursor.execute('select ID from %s' , (personalDataTable,)) >> >> this ensures t

Re: Syntax problem - cannot solve it by myself

On Wed, 09 Jun 2010 02:45:36 +, Deadly Dirk wrote: > On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:52:44 -0700, alex23 wrote: > > >> Unless you have a clear need for 3rd party libraries that currently >> don't have 3.x versions, starting with Python 3 isn't a bad idea. > > From what I see, most of the people are

Re: Which is the best implementation of LISP family of languages for real world programming ?

On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:14:01 -0700, bolega wrote: > Which is the best implementation of LISP family of languages for real > world programming ? > > http://wiki.alu.org/Implementation > > Kindly pick one from commercial and one from open-source . > > The criteria is : > > libraries, gui interfa

Re: First program

On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 10:04:02 +, Phil H wrote: > On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 09:03:43 +, Phil H wrote: > >> Hi, >> Trying my hand with Python but have had a small hiccup. Reading 'A >> byte of Python' and created helloworld.py as directed. >> >> Any help appreciated >> Phil > > Thanks Peter & Ch

Re: Problems with scripts

On Mon, 13 Feb 2017 10:08:11 -0800, Lauren Fugate wrote: > So I tried both of these and they didn't change anything, the python > shell printed the same things... No answers (answering you homework for you will not teach you anything useful) but some hints to help you think about the problem 1)

Re: WANT: bad code in python (for refactoring example)

On Wed, 15 Feb 2017 19:08:59 -0800, Paul Rubin wrote: > Antoon Pardon writes: >> On reason to use this is for some easy "logging" > > I think it's better to use the actual logging module. I generally start > a new program with print statements but convert them to logging after > there's enough

Re: WANT: bad code in python (for refactoring example)

On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 12:00:36 +0100, Cecil Westerhof wrote: > On Thursday 16 Feb 2017 10:43 CET, alister wrote: > >> On Wed, 15 Feb 2017 19:08:59 -0800, Paul Rubin wrote: >> >>> Antoon Pardon writes: >>>> On reason to use this is for some easy "log

Re: print odd numbers of lines from tekst WITHOUT space between lines

On Sat, 18 Feb 2017 11:55:34 -0600, boB Stepp wrote: > On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 11:38 AM, TTaglo wrote: >> i = 1 f = open ('rosalind_ini5(1).txt') >> for line in f.readlines(): >> if i % 2 == 0: >> print line >> i += 1 >> >> >> How do i get output without breaks between the lines?

Re: If statement with or operator

On Wed, 22 Feb 2017 22:33:31 +0530, Ganesh Pal wrote: > Hello Friends, > > I need suggestion on the if statement in the below code , all that I > was trying to do was to add a check i.e if any one of the functions > return True then break the loop. > > > end_time = time.time() + 300 >

Re: Dynamically replacing an objects __class__; is it safe?

On Thu, 16 Mar 2017 11:03:56 +1300, Gregory Ewing wrote: > Steve D'Aprano wrote: >> You probably can't make a whale fly just by changing the class to bird. >> It will need wings, and feathers, at the very least. > > Some things succeed in flying with neither wings nor feathers. > Helicopters, for

Re: Dynamically replacing an objects __class__; is it safe?

On Wed, 15 Mar 2017 19:10:17 -0700, Deborah Swanson wrote: > MRAB wrote, on Wednesday, March 15, 2017 3:19 PM >> >> On 2017-03-15 22:03, Gregory Ewing wrote: >> > Steve D'Aprano wrote: >> >> You probably can't make a whale fly just by changing the class to >> >> bird. It will need wings, and feat

Re: The ternaery operator

On Thu, 16 Mar 2017 03:12:32 +, Stefan Ram wrote: > The syntax > > a if c else b > > looks as if Guido made it intentionally ugly so that it will not be > used? > > Being able to detect patterns that are in widespread use among > programming languages enhances readability. > > II

Re: Dynamically replacing an objects __class__; is it safe?

On Thu, 16 Mar 2017 14:04:19 +, Jon Ribbens wrote: > On 2017-03-16, Robin Becker wrote: >> On 15/03/2017 13:53, Steve D'Aprano wrote: >>> You probably can't make a whale fly just by changing the class to >>> bird. It will need wings, and feathers, at the very least. >> >> the whale in the Hit

Re: relative paths connect using python

On Mon, 20 Mar 2017 10:49:39 -0700, Xristos Xristoou wrote: > Τη Δευτέρα, 20 Μαρτίου 2017 - 7:05:33 μ.μ. UTC+2, ο χρήστης Xristos > Xristoou έγραψε: >> i have a little confused problem. i want to store some paths from >> images using python 2.7 in windows 10. >> i have some relative path like this

Re: Who are the "spacists"?

On Sun, 19 Mar 2017 23:01:22 +, Erik wrote: > On 19/03/17 22:29, Jon Ribbens wrote: >> On 2017-03-19, breamore...@gmail.com wrote: >>> On Sunday, March 19, 2017 at 9:54:52 PM UTC, Larry Hudson wrote: A trivial point (and irrelevant)... The thing I find annoying about an editor set

Re: Who are the "spacists"?

On Tue, 21 Mar 2017 06:04:12 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 5:57 AM, alister > wrote: >> I have just tested this with geany & it works a charm, >> >> personally I prefer tabs for setting my indent levels, it feels more >> logical &

Re: Escaping confusion with Python 3 + MySQL

On Sun, 26 Mar 2017 07:24:49 -0700, Νίκος Βέργος wrote: > Τη Κυριακή, 26 Μαρτίου 2017 - 5:19:27 μ.μ. UTC+3, ο χρήστης Ian έγραψε: > >> You need to change the placeholders back. The poster who told you to >> replace them was misinformed. > > okey altered them back to > > cur.execute('''UPDATE vi

Re: Escaping confusion with Python 3 + MySQL

On Sun, 26 Mar 2017 07:43:51 -0700, Νίκος Βέργος wrote: > Τη Κυριακή, 26 Μαρτίου 2017 - 5:38:57 μ.μ. UTC+3, ο χρήστης alister > έγραψε: >> On Sun, 26 Mar 2017 07:24:49 -0700, Νίκος Βέργος wrote: >> >> > Τη Κυριακή, 26 Μαρτίου 2017 - 5:19:27 μ.μ. UTC+3, ο χρήστης Ian &

Re: What is the difference between x[:]=y and x=y[:]?

On Wed, 12 Apr 2017 01:08:07 -0700, jfong wrote: > I have a list of list and like to expand each "list element" by > appending a 1 and a 0 to it. For example, from "lr = [[1], [0]]" expand > to "lr = [[1,1], [0,1], [1,0], [0,0]]". > > The following won't work: > > Python 3.4.4 (v3.4.4:737efcadf5

Re: Python and the need for speed

On Tue, 11 Apr 2017 16:31:16 -0700, Rick Johnson wrote: > On Tuesday, April 11, 2017 at 9:56:45 AM UTC-5, Steve D'Aprano wrote: >> On Tue, 11 Apr 2017 07:56 pm, Brecht Machiels wrote: >> > On 2017-04-11 08:19:31 +, Steven D'Aprano said: >> > >> > I understand that high performance was never a

Re: "Goto" statement in Python

On Thu, 13 Apr 2017 01:42:01 +0200, Mikhail V wrote: > On 12 April 2017 at 02:44, Nathan Ernst wrote: >> goto is a misunderstood and much misaligned creature. It is a very >> useful feature, but like nearly any programming construct can be >> abused. >> >> Constructs like 'break', 'continue' or '

Re: Static typing [was Re: Python and the need for speed]

On Sun, 16 Apr 2017 14:27:28 +1000, Steve D'Aprano wrote: > On Sat, 15 Apr 2017 11:55 am, Rick Johnson wrote: > >> apparently, the py-devs believe we only deserve type declarations that >> do nothing to speed up code execution (aka: type-hints), instead of >> type declarations that could actually

Re: Static typing [was Re: Python and the need for speed]

On Sun, 16 Apr 2017 09:48:15 +, alister wrote: > On Sun, 16 Apr 2017 14:27:28 +1000, Steve D'Aprano wrote: > >> On Sat, 15 Apr 2017 11:55 am, Rick Johnson wrote: >> >>> apparently, the py-devs believe we only deserve type declarations that >>> d

Re: Write a function sorting(L).

On Fri, 21 Apr 2017 12:58:52 -0700, Mohammed Ahmed wrote: > Write a function sorting(L) that takes a list of numbers and returns the > list with all elements sorted in ascending order. > Note: do not use the sort built in function > > it is a python question & the reason for this question is wha

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