Re: [JOB] Sr. Python Developer, Northern VA

2007-03-22 Thread Anton Vredegoor
Steven D. Arnold wrote: > Neosynapse is seeking a senior software developer located in or Subtract ten points from your credibility for writing senior here. > willing to relocate to the Northern VA area to join a project > building one of the largest grid computing data platforms in the >

Re: [JOB] Sr. Python Developer, Northern VA

2007-03-22 Thread Anton Vredegoor
Steve Holden wrote: >> /rant >> > Feel better now? Yes! But *now* I'm afraid it will have negative consequences for my future employability. However if it will lead to adjusting the kind of submissions at http://www.python.org/community/jobs/ it was probably worth it. A. 'thanks for asking' -

Re: [JOB] Sr. Python Developer, Northern VA

2007-03-22 Thread Anton Vredegoor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I think the steady increase in the number of active listings over the > past couple years bodes well for the job prospects of Python > programmers as a whole. There are currently 99 job postings on the > job board dating back to mid-December. A year ago there were a

Re: [JOB] Sr. Python Developer, Northern VA

2007-03-22 Thread Anton Vredegoor
Michael Bentley wrote: > Perhaps it is different where you live, but here you can put on your > resume relevant things that aren't paying jobs. Otherwise nobody > would ever get their first job, right? Sure you can. But around here if one has been unemployed for a while it's nearly impossib

Re: [JOB] Sr. Python Developer, Northern VA

2007-03-22 Thread Anton Vredegoor
John J. Lee wrote: > You may not realise it if you haven't been applying for work since you > did that, but I'm sure you've done a lot for your "employability" (I > hate that word, it implies that it's a one-sided business, clearly > false) by working as a freelancer. Since I'm freelancing my lev

A better webpage filter

2007-03-24 Thread Anton Vredegoor
Since a few days I've been experimenting with a construct that enables me to send the sourcecode of the web page I'm reading through a Python script and then into a new tab in Mozilla. The new tab is automatically opened so the process feels very natural, although there's a lot of reading, filt

Re: A better webpage filter

2007-03-24 Thread Anton Vredegoor
Gabriel Genellina wrote: > I use the Opera browser: http://www.opera.com > Among other things (like having tabs for ages!): > - enable/disable tables and divs (like you do) > - enable/disable images with a keystroke, or only show cached images. > - enable/disable CSS > - banner supressing (aggress

Re: A better webpage filter

2007-03-26 Thread Anton Vredegoor
John J. Lee wrote: > http://webcleaner.sourceforge.net/ Thanks, I will look into it sometime. Essentially my problem has been solved by switching to opera, but old habits die hard and I find myself using Mozilla and my little script more often than would be logical. Maybe the idea of having a

Re: A better webpage filter

2007-03-26 Thread Anton Vredegoor
Gabriel Genellina wrote: > If you don't mind using JavaScript instead of Python, UserJS is for you: > http://www.opera.com/support/tutorials/userjs/ My script loads a saved copy of a page and uses it to open an extra tab with a filtered view. It also works when javascript is disabled. A. --

Hpw make lists that are easy to sort.

2007-03-28 Thread Anton Vredegoor
Python's sorting algorithm takes advantage of preexisting order in a sequence: #sort_test.py import random import time def test(): n = 1000 k = 2**28 L = random.sample(xrange(-k,k),n) R = random.sample(xrange(-k,k),n) t = time.time() LR = [(i+j) for i in L for j i

Re: Hpw make lists that are easy to sort.

2007-03-28 Thread Anton Vredegoor
Paul Rubin wrote: > Well there are various hacks one can think of, but is there an actual > application you have in mind? Suppose both input lists are sorted. Then the product list is still not sorted but it's also not completely unsorted. How can I sort the product? I want to know if it is n

Re: Hpw make lists that are easy to sort.

2007-03-28 Thread Anton Vredegoor
Terry Reedy wrote: > One could generate the items in order in less space by doing, for instance, > an m-way merge, in which only the lowest member of each of the m sublists > is present at any one time. But I don't know if this (which is > O(m*n*log(m))) would be any faster (in some Python imp

Re: Hpw make lists that are easy to sort.

2007-03-29 Thread Anton Vredegoor
Terry Reedy wrote: > If I understand correctly, you want to multiiply each of m numbers by each > of n numbers, giving m*n products. That is O(m*n) work. Inserting (and > extracting) each of these is a constant size m priority cue takes, I > believe, O(log(m)) work, for a total of m*n*log(m).

Re: Hpw make lists that are easy to sort.

2007-03-29 Thread Anton Vredegoor
Terry Reedy wrote: > If I understand correctly, you want to multiiply each of m numbers by each > of n numbers, giving m*n products. That is O(m*n) work. Inserting (and > extracting) each of these is a constant size m priority cue takes, I > believe, O(log(m)) work, for a total of m*n*log(m).

Re: Hpw make lists that are easy to sort.

2007-03-31 Thread Anton Vredegoor
Paul Rubin wrote: > Oh, I see what you mean. I don't see an obvious faster way to do it > and I don't have the feeling that one necessarily exists. As someone > mentioned, you could do an n-way merge, which at least avoids using > quadratic memory. Here's a version using Frederik Lundh's trick

Re: Emergence of Grok

2007-04-14 Thread Anton Vredegoor
Paul McGuire wrote: > I just stumbled upon a great-looking project, to make Zope3 more > approachable to mere mortals such as myself. Echoing the ROR mantra > of "convention over configuration", the Grok project (http:// > grok.zope.org/) aims to stand on the shoulders of Zope3, while > providin

Re: Simple integer comparison problem

2007-04-14 Thread Anton Vredegoor
Bart Willems wrote: > I have a feeling that there's a Python-solution that is shorter yet > better readable, I just can't figure it out yet... Shorter (and faster for big lists): Yes. More readable: I don't know, I guess that depends on ones familiarity with the procedure. import bisect def g

Re: proposed PEP: iterator splicing

2007-04-15 Thread Anton Vredegoor
Paul Rubin wrote: > def some_gen(): >... >yield *some_other_gen() > > comes to mind. Less clutter, and avoids yet another temp variable > polluting the namespace. > > Thoughts? Well, not directly related to your question, but maybe these are some ideas that would help dete

Re: proposed PEP: iterator splicing

2007-04-15 Thread Anton Vredegoor
Kay Schluehr wrote: > Maybe you should start by developing a design pattern first and > publish it in the Cookbook. I have the fuzzy impression that the idea > you are after, requires more powerfull control structures such as > delimited continuations that are beyond ths scope of Pythons simple >

Re: combination function in python

2007-04-15 Thread Anton Vredegoor
Jussi Piitulainen wrote: >> There's probably even a really clever way to avoid that final >> division, but I suspect that would cost more in time and memory than >> it would save. We're getting closer and closer to something I already posted a few times here. This implementation was unfortunate

Re: combination function in python

2007-04-15 Thread Anton Vredegoor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> We're getting closer and closer to something I already posted a few >> times here. This implementation was unfortunate because I consistently >> used an uncommon name for it so people couldn't easily find it > > But then, who's looking for it? The OP was trying to fin

Re: combination function in python

2007-04-16 Thread Anton Vredegoor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Isn't that what docstrings are for? Can't you leave > the function name noverk() and add something to the > effect of "this function calculates combinations"? > Then it would show up in searches, wouldn't it? Yes, a doc string would help finding it in searches, however

python-list@python.org

2007-04-18 Thread Anton Vredegoor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have modified, simplified and (hopefully) improved Steven's code > like this (but it may be a bit slower, because the class It is inside > the function?): Here is a yet more simple version, I wonder if it still does the same thing, whatever it is you are looking for

python-list@python.org

2007-04-18 Thread Anton Vredegoor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > If you don't wish to use objects, you can replace them with > a closure: > > import collections > > def xsplitter(iseq, pred): > queue = [ collections.deque(), collections.deque() ] > def it(parity): > while True: > if queue[parity]: >

Re: Looking for resources for making the jump from Java to Python easier and more productive

2006-04-22 Thread Anton Vredegoor
ToddLMorgan wrote: > I'm just starting out with python, after having a long history with > Java. I was wondering if there were any resources or tips from anyone > out there in Python-land that can help me make the transition as > successfully as possible? Perhaps you've made the transition yoursel

not quite 1252

2006-04-26 Thread Anton Vredegoor
I'm trying to import text from an open office document (save as .sxw and read the data from content.xml inside the sxw-archive using elementtree and such tools). The encoding that gives me the least problems seems to be cp1252, however it's not completely perfect because there are still chara

Re: not quite 1252

2006-04-26 Thread Anton Vredegoor
Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Anton Vredegoor wrote: > >> I'm trying to import text from an open office document (save as .sxw and >> read the data from content.xml inside the sxw-archive using >> elementtree and such tools). >> >> The encoding that gives

Re: not quite 1252

2006-04-26 Thread Anton Vredegoor
Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Not sure I understand the question. If you process data in cp1252, > then \x94 and \x94 are legal characters, and the Python codec should > support them just fine. Tell that to the guys from open-office. Anton -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: not quite 1252

2006-04-27 Thread Anton Vredegoor
John Machin wrote: > Firstly, this should be 'content.xml', not 'contents.xml'. Right, the code doesn't do *anything* :-( Thanks for pointing that out. At least it doesn't do much harm either :-| > Secondly, as pointed out by Sergei, the data is encoded by OOo as UTF-8 > e.g. what is '\x94' in

Re: not quite 1252

2006-04-28 Thread Anton Vredegoor
Serge Orlov wrote: > I extracted content.xml from a test file and the header is: > > > So any xml library should handle it just fine, without you trying to > guess the encoding. Yes my header also says UTF-8. However some kind person send me an e-mail stating that since I am getting \x94 and s

Re: not quite 1252

2006-04-28 Thread Anton Vredegoor
Richard Brodie wrote: > "Anton Vredegoor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Yes my header also says UTF-8. However some kind person send me an e-mail >> stating that >> since I am getting \x94 and such output when us

Re: not quite 1252

2006-04-28 Thread Anton Vredegoor
Serge Orlov wrote: > Anton Vredegoor wrote: >> In fact there are a lot of printable things that haven't got a text >> attribute, for example some items with tag ()s. > > In my sample file I see , is that you're talking > about? Since my file is small I ca

Re: not quite 1252

2006-04-28 Thread Anton Vredegoor
Anton Vredegoor wrote: > So, probably yes. If it doesn't have a text attribrute if you iterate > over it using OOopy for example: Sorry about that, I meant if the text attribute is None, but there *is* some text. Anton -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: not quite 1252

2006-04-28 Thread Anton Vredegoor
Martin v. Löwis wrote: > So if that is the case: What is the problem then? If you interpret > the document as cp1252, and it contains \x93 and \x94, what is > it that you don't like about that? In yet other words: what actions > are you performing, what are the results you expect to get, and > wha

Re: not quite 1252

2006-04-29 Thread Anton Vredegoor
Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Well, if the document is UTF-8, you should decode it as UTF-8, of > course. Thanks. This and: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8 solved my problem with understanding the encoding. Anton proof that I understand it now (please anyone, prove me wrong if you can): from z

Re: A critic of Guido's blog on Python's lambda

2006-05-08 Thread Anton Vredegoor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When you consider that there was just a big flamewar on comp.lang.lisp > about the lack of standard mechanisms for both threading and sockets in > Common Lisp (with the lispers arguing that it wasn't needed) I find it > "curious" that someone can say Common Lisp scales w

Re: Is psyco available for python 2.6?

2008-11-09 Thread Anton Vredegoor
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:45:40 +0100 Gerhard Häring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > psyco seems to just work on Linux with Python 2.6. So it is probably > "only" a matter of compiling it on Windows for Python 2.6. Yes. I compiled it using "wp setup.py build --compiler=mingw32" with cygwin, where wp w

Re: Possible bug in Tkinter for Python 2.6

2008-11-19 Thread Anton Vredegoor
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:57:53 +0100 "Eric Brunel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying out Python 2.6 and I found what might be a bug in the > Tkinter module. How can I report it? maybe here: http://bugs.python.org/issue3774 > The possible bug is a traceback when trying to delete a menu item

Re: Best strategy for finding a pattern in a sequence of integers

2008-11-21 Thread Anton Vredegoor
On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:10:02 +0100 Gerard flanagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > data = ''' > 1 6 6 1 6 6 1 6 6 1 6 6 1 6 6 1 9 3 3 0 3 3 0 3 3 0 3 3 0 10 6 6 > 1 6 6 1 6 6 1 6 6 1 6 6 1 6 6 1 6 6 1 9 3 3 0 3 3 0 3 3 0 3 3 0 10 6 6 > 1 6 6 1 6 6 1 6 6 1 6 6 1 6 6 1 6 6 1 9 3 3 0 3 3 0 3 3 0 3 3 0 1

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