Iterate over text file, discarding some lines via context manager

2014-11-28 Thread fetchinson .
Hi all, I have a feeling that I should solve this by a context manager but since I've never used them I'm not sure what the optimal (in the python sense) solution is. So basically what I do all the time is this: for line in open( 'myfile' ): if not line: # discard empty lines

Re: Iterate over text file, discarding some lines via context manager

2014-11-28 Thread fetchinson .
On 11/28/14, Dave Angel wrote: > On 11/28/2014 10:04 AM, fetchinson . wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I have a feeling that I should solve this by a context manager but >> since I've never used them I'm not sure what the optimal (in the >> python sense) solution

Re: Do you like the current design of python.org?

2014-12-05 Thread Fetchinson .
>> Did you ever hit the "Socialize" button? No, but it doesn't bother me. >> Are you eager to see the latest >> tweets when you are reading a PEP? No, but it doesn't bother me either. You can easily block twitter related things by a number of ways, firewalls, /etc/hosts, etc. >> Do you run away

Re: Do you like the current design of python.org?

2014-12-09 Thread Fetchinson .
>> Lest it seem like I am agreeing with these complaints, I'd like to say: >> Either python goes this way or the way of Fortran and Cobol. > > You mean if Cobol had a shiny but disfunctional website we'd be using that > instead of Python? Why would he mean that? If !A implies !B, it does *not* fo

Re: Do you like the current design of python.org?

2014-12-09 Thread Fetchinson .
>> > Many links are broken. When you click on the broken link, it says that > it >> > has been reported and will be fixed, but weeks later it remains broken, >> > e.g.: >> > >> > https://www.python.org/doc/essays/metaclasses/Eiffel.py >> >> What makes you think that this page is ought to return act

Re: Do you like the current design of python.org?

2014-12-09 Thread Fetchinson .
On 12/9/14, Ethan Furman wrote: > On 12/05/2014 03:30 AM, Fetchinson responded to >> Steven D'Aprano's rant of: >>> >>> Many links are broken. When you click on the broken link, it says that >>> it >>> has been reported and will be fixed, but

Re: If One Line

2014-12-25 Thread Fetchinson .
> Is it possible in python: > > if ((x = a(b,c)) == 'TRUE'): > print x Nope. Assignment is not allowed in a conditional. Cheers, Daniel > Thanks. > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown -- https://m

Future of python on android

2014-12-25 Thread Fetchinson .
Hi all, I was using sl4a for quite some time on android and it basically worked very well although some features are missing. It looks like sl4a is dead, although I could be wrong. Does anyone knowledgeable have any further info on the future of sl4a? For instance it doesn't work with android 5 an

Re: Future of python on android

2014-12-25 Thread Fetchinson .
efully it will be around for a while and won't evaporate like sl4a :) Cheers, Daniel > According to wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_van_Rossum Guido > works for dropbox. > > Billy > > On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Fetchinson . > wrote: > >> H

Re: Future of python on android

2014-12-26 Thread Fetchinson .
On 12/26/14, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Fetchinson . wrote: > >> Guido is still working at google, right? > > > No. Google is still using Python for lots of things, but Guido is now > working for Dropbox. > > https://www.python.org/~guido/ Thanks, I missed the t

Re: Future of python on android

2014-12-26 Thread Fetchinson .
On 12/26/14, iMath wrote: > 在 2014年12月25日星期四UTC+8下午11时31分24秒,Fetchinson .写道: >> Hi all, >> >> I was using sl4a for quite some time on android and it basically >> worked very well although some features are missing. It looks like >> sl4a is dead, altho

Re: Python Sanity Proposal: Type Hinting Solution

2015-01-23 Thread Fetchinson .
On 1/23/15, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Terry Reedy wrote: > >> On 1/22/2015 10:59 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: >>> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 2:22 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: This idea is so brilliant that it is already an option in mypy and is part of the new type-hint proposal. The separate

Re: Python Sanity Proposal: Type Hinting Solution

2015-01-23 Thread Fetchinson .
On 1/23/15, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 12:23 AM, Fetchinson . > wrote: >> In any case, I'm pretty sure it was said before, but I can't really >> find it anywhere, can someone tell me what the rationale is for >> *function signature* type

Re: Python Sanity Proposal: Type Hinting Solution

2015-01-24 Thread Fetchinson .
On 1/24/15, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Fetchinson . wrote: > >> On 1/23/15, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > [...] >>> Cobra is especially close to Python-like syntax, and supports unit tests >>> as well: >>> >>> >>>

python on mobile mailing list

2015-01-28 Thread Fetchinson .
Hi all, the mobile-sig mailing list is alive: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mobile-sig/2015-January/thread.html If you are interested in python on smart phones that's the place to go! Cheers, Daniel -- Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown -- https://mail.python.o

Re: Python 2 to 3 conversion - embrace the pain

2015-03-15 Thread Fetchinson .
On 3/15/15, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 15/03/2015 19:05, John Nagle wrote: >> On 3/14/2015 1:00 AM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >>> John Nagle : I'm approaching the end of converting a large system from Python 2 to Python 3. Here's why you don't want to do this. >>> >>> A nice report, thanks

Re: Great Math Mystery

2015-04-17 Thread Fetchinson .
>> In an altercation with the police, complying with their orders greatly >> increases your chances of survival. > > Ah, the definition of a police state: where ordinary people, whether > breaking the law or not, are forced by fear of death to obey the police at > all times, whether the police are

smart scheduling for webapp tester

2015-05-12 Thread Fetchinson .
I'm looking into a robust solution for web application testing. While selenium is great for the actual testing, I'm thinking of a scheduler as the final piece in the pipeline. Let's say I have 4 websites that I need to test periodically, A, B, C, D. I'd like to be able to define things like "run th

Re: smart scheduling for webapp tester

2015-05-12 Thread Fetchinson .
On 5/12/15, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 6:31 AM, Fetchinson . > wrote: >> I'm looking into a robust solution for web application testing. While >> selenium is great for the actual testing, I'm thinking of a scheduler >> as the final piece i

lambda in list comprehension acting funny

2012-07-10 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
funcs = [ lambda x: x**i for i in range( 5 ) ] print funcs[0]( 2 ) print funcs[1]( 2 ) print funcs[2]( 2 ) This gives me 16 16 16 When I was excepting 1 2 4 Does anyone know why? Cheers, Daniel -- Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown -- http://mail.python.org/mail

Re: lambda in list comprehension acting funny

2012-07-10 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> funcs = [ lambda x: x**i for i in range( 5 ) ] > print funcs[0]( 2 ) > print funcs[1]( 2 ) > print funcs[2]( 2 ) > > This gives me > > 16 > 16 > 16 > > When I was excepting > > 1 > 2 > 4 > > Does anyone know why? And more importantly, what's the simplest way to achieve the latter? :) -- Psss,

Re: lambda in list comprehension acting funny

2012-07-11 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
>>> funcs = [ lambda x: x**i for i in range( 5 ) ] >>> print funcs[0]( 2 ) >>> >>> This gives me >>> 16 >>> >>> When I was excepting >>> 1 >>> >>> Does anyone know why? > >Just the way Python lambda expressions bind their variable > references. Inner 'i' references the outer scope's 'i' variabl

Re: lambda in list comprehension acting funny

2012-07-11 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
>> You should not be using lambda in this case >> .for x in [2, 3]: >> .funcs = [x**ctr for ctr in range( 5 )] >> .for p in range(5): >> .print x, funcs[p] >> .print > > If you change the requirements, it's always easy to solve problems. But > it is the wrong problem that you ha

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'CABRTException'

2012-10-02 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
I've noticed a strange thing with python lately: Python 2.6.2 (r262:71600, Aug 21 2009, 12:23:57) [GCC 4.4.1 20090818 (Red Hat 4.4.1-6)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> def f(): print x ... >>> f() terminate called after throwing an instance o

Re: terminate called after throwing an instance of 'CABRTException'

2012-10-02 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
>> I've noticed a strange thing with python lately: >> >> >> >> Python 2.6.2 (r262:71600, Aug 21 2009, 12:23:57) >> [GCC 4.4.1 20090818 (Red Hat 4.4.1-6)] on linux2 >> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > def f(): print x >> ... > f() >> terminate called

system tray or notification area in python

2012-10-16 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
Hi folks, I'm using a stand alone window manager without gnome or kde or any other de. But I still would like to have a system tray or notification area and so far used stalonetray for this. Stalonetray is written in C and is a GTK application, works all right but sometimes it doesn't. For instanc

Fwd: system tray or notification area in python

2012-10-16 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
>> Hi folks, >> >> I'm using a stand alone window manager without gnome or kde or any >> other de. But I still would like to have a system tray or notification >> area and so far used stalonetray for this. Stalonetray is written in C >> and is a GTK application, works all right but sometimes it doe

Re: Fwd: system tray or notification area in python

2012-10-17 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
Hi folks, So I thought I would write a brand new stand alone system tray or notification area in python. I guess I need to use gtk bindings or some such but don't really know what my options are. Where would I start something like this? Any pointers would be great

Re: system tray or notification area in python

2012-10-17 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
>> So I thought I would write a brand new stand alone system tray or >> notification area in python. I guess I need to use gtk bindings or >> some such but don't really know what my options are. >> >> Where would I start something like this? >> Any pointers would be greatly

Re: can we append a list with another list in Python ?

2012-10-23 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> can we append a list with another list in Python ? using the normal routine > syntax but with a for loop ?? x = [1,2,3] y = [10,20,30] x.extend( y ) print x this will give you [1,2,3,10,20,30] which I guess is what you want. Cheers, Daniel -- Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress

assign only first few items of a tuple/list

2012-12-04 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
Hi folks, I swear I used to know this but can't find it anywhere. Say I have a list x = [ 1,2,3,4,5 ] and only care about the first two items. I'd like to assign the first two items to two variables, something like, a, b, _ = x but the above will not work, of course, but what is the common idiom

unpacking first few items of iterable

2012-12-13 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
Hi folks, I swear I used to know this but can't find it anywhere: What's the standard idiom for unpacking the first few items of an iterable whose total length is unknown? Something like a, b, c, _ = myiterable where _ could eat up a variable number of items, in case I'm only interested in the

Re: unpacking first few items of iterable

2012-12-13 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
>>Hi folks, I swear I used to know this but can't find it anywhere: >> >>What's the standard idiom for unpacking the first few items of an >>iterable whose total length is unknown? >> >>Something like >> >>a, b, c, _ = myiterable >> >>where _ could eat up a variable number of items, in case I'm onl

Re: unpacking first few items of iterable

2012-12-13 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
Hi folks, I swear I used to know this but can't find it anywhere: What's the standard idiom for unpacking the first few items of an iterable whose total length is unknown? Something like a, b, c, _ = myiterable where _ could eat up a variable number

pygnomevfs get_local_path_from_uri replacement

2012-12-22 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
Hi folks, I realize this is slightly off topic and maybe belongs to a gnome email list but it's nevertheless python: I use an old python program that was written for gnome 2 and gtk 2 and uses the function get_local_path_from_uri. More specifically it uses gnomevfs.get_local_path_from_uri. Now wi

Re: pygnomevfs get_local_path_from_uri replacement

2012-12-22 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
>> Hi folks, I realize this is slightly off topic and maybe belongs to a >> gnome email list but it's nevertheless python: >> >> I use an old python program that was written for gnome 2 and gtk 2 and >> uses the function get_local_path_from_uri. More specifically it uses >> gnomevfs.get_local_path_

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-27 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> I'm new to python, got 10-20 years perl and C experience, all gained on unix > alike machines hacking happily in vi, and later on in vim. > > Now it's python, and currently mainly on my kubuntu desktop. Welcome to the club! > Do I really need a real IDE, as the windows guys around me say I do,

format a measurement result and its error in "scientific" way

2012-02-15 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
Hi folks, often times in science one expresses a value (say 1.03789291) and its error (say 0.00089) in a short way by parentheses like so: 1.0379(9) One can vary things a bit, but let's take the simplest case when we only keep 1 digit of the error (and round it of course) and round the value corre

Re: format a measurement result and its error in "scientific" way

2012-02-16 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
>> Hi folks, often times in science one expresses a value (say >> 1.03789291) and its error (say 0.00089) in a short way by parentheses >> like so: 1.0379(9) >> >> One can vary things a bit, but let's take the simplest case when we >> only keep 1 digit of the error (and round it of course) and roun

Re: format a measurement result and its error in "scientific" way

2012-02-16 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
On 2/16/12, Ian Kelly wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:36 AM, Daniel Fetchinson > wrote: >>>> Hi folks, often times in science one expresses a value (say >>>> 1.03789291) and its error (say 0.00089) in a short way by parentheses >>>> like so: 1.0379(9

Re: format a measurement result and its error in "scientific" way

2012-02-17 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
>> Thanks, it's simpler indeed, but gives me an error for value=1.267, >> error=0.08: >> >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "/home/fetchinson/bin/format_error", line 26, in >>print format_error( sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2] ) >&

Re: format a measurement result and its error in "scientific" way

2012-02-17 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
>> Hi folks, often times in science one expresses a value (say >> 1.03789291) and its error (say 0.00089) in a short way by parentheses >> like so: 1.0379(9) > > Before swallowing any Python solution, you should > realize, the values (value, error) you are using are > a non sense : > > 1.03789291 +

Re: Fetching data from a HTML file

2012-03-23 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
On 3/23/12, Sangeet wrote: > Hi, > > I've got to fetch data from the snippet below and have been trying to match > the digits in this to specifically to specific groups. But I can't seem to > figure how to go about stripping the tags! :( > > Sum class="green">24511 align='center'>02561.496 > [min]

Re: Open Source: you're doing it wrong - the Pyjamas hijack

2012-05-09 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
It's also quite ironic that the initial complaining started from how the domain name www.pyjs.org is not available only pyjs.org is. At the same time the Rebel Chief's listed domain name on github, see https://github.com/xtfxme, gives you a server not found: http://the.xtfx.me/ :) On 5/9/12, ant

Re: Open Source: you're doing it wrong - the Pyjamas hijack

2012-05-09 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> the original goal was to purchase a domain and fork -- > i made this very clear in my notes -- `uxpy.net`. however, the most > respectable member of the commit IMO convinced me otherwise. (I'm a total outsider, never used pyjs.) Anthony, you never explained what the reasoning behind the advice

Re: Open Source: you're doing it wrong - the Pyjamas hijack

2012-05-15 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> Blatantly the pyjs ownership change turned out to be an awkward > operation (as reactions on that ML show it), but a fork could also have > very harmfully "split" pyjs-interested people, so all in all I don't > think there was a perfect solution - dictatorships never fall harmlessly. You say "f

Re: Namespace hack

2012-05-24 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> >From the Zen of Python ("import this"): > > Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those! > > > Inspired by this, I have a decorator that abuses function closures to > create a namespace type with the following properties: > > - all methods are static methods that do not take

Re: Namespace hack

2012-06-05 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
>> Funny, you got to the last line of "import this" but apparently >> skipped the second line: >> >> Explicit is better than implicit. >> >> And you didn't even post your message on April 1 so no, I can't laugh >> even though I'd like to. > > Can you be less condescending? Of course! :) Anyway, t

Re: New member intro and question

2011-06-18 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> > I'm a new list member from the United States. Long time programmer, > fairly new to Python and absolutely loving it so far! I'm 36, live in > Oklahoma, and own a small Linux software development and consulting > firm. Python has made my life a *lot* easier and, the more I learn, > the easier i

web hosting, first hand experiences?

2011-07-03 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
Hi folks, I know this comes up regularly but the thing is that the quality of service changes also quite regularly with many of the hosting companies. What's currently the best option for shared hosting of a turbogears application? I'm thinking of dreamhost and webfaction does anyone have any recen

Re: web hosting, first hand experiences?

2011-07-04 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
>> Hi folks, I know this comes up regularly but the thing is that the >> quality of service changes also quite regularly with many of the >> hosting companies. What's currently the best option for shared hosting >> of a turbogears application? I'm thinking of dreamhost and webfaction >> does anyone

OT

2011-08-19 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
I'll be 59 in a couple of months. -- Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Suggestion Reqd for Designing a Website in Python

2011-02-25 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
>> >I have developed one big Machine Learning software a Machine >> >Translation system in Python. >> >Now, I am thinking to make a User Interface of it and upload it in a >> >web site. >> >> Do you mean you want people to download this from a web site as an >> executable, and then run it locally o

Re: Fun python 3.2 one-liner

2011-04-05 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
>> what is the character limit on a one liner :P. > > For PEP 8 compliance, 80 characters. :-) Yeah, but we don't live in the 80's or 90's anymore and our screens can support xterms (or let alone IDE widows) much wider than 80 characters. I'm using 140 for python these days. Seriously, who would w

Re: Fun python 3.2 one-liner

2011-04-05 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
what is the character limit on a one liner :P. >>> >>> For PEP 8 compliance, 80 characters. :-) >> >> Yeah, but we don't live in the 80's or 90's anymore and our screens can >> support xterms (or let alone IDE widows) much wider than 80 characters. >> I'm using 140 for python these days. Serio

Common practice for multiple python versions sharing 3rd party modules

2011-04-09 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
Hi folks, In order to test my own modules with various python versions I've installed python 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 3.1, 3.2. The original installation on my fedora box was 2.6 and all 3rd party modules so far were installed under /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages. Since now the executable 'python' po

Re: Postmortem on Unladen Swallow

2011-04-14 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> There's a postmortem on the failure of Unladen Swallow by one of the > developers at: > > http://qinsb.blogspot.com/2011/03/unladen-swallow-retrospective.html This outcome of things is really a testament to the hard work of the pypy folks. They, a volunteer bunch, beat google! And that's somethi

Re: SQLObject 1.2.0

2011-11-21 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
Thanks a million Oleg! Cheers, Daniel On 11/20/11, Oleg Broytman wrote: > Hello! > > I'm pleased to announce version 1.2.0, the first stable release of branch > 1.2 of SQLObject. > > > What is SQLObject > = > > SQLObject is an object-relational mapper. Your database tables are

Re: Python module for making Quicktime or mpeg movies from images

2007-10-12 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> My Python script makes a bunch of images that I want to use as frames > in a movie. I've tried searching for a module that will take these > images and put them together in a Quicktime or mpeg movie, but haven't > found anything. My images are currently pdfs, but I could make them > into just a

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-13 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> Hello everybody, > > I just joined this mailing list. Thanks for your comments about gluon. > > I have posted a short video about it and I am planning to make more > over the week-end. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBjja6N6IYk > > About some of your comments: > - the most complex modules (li

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-13 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> ... I almost forgot ... > > another difference between Gluon and Django,TG is that in Gluon if > you write controllers without view you automatically get generic view > that render and BEAUTIFY() the variables returned by the controllers. > That means you can develop the logic of your application

Re: python project ideas

2007-10-25 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> hi to everyone > I wondered if this might be the right place to ask for some ideas for > python project for university. > I'd like it to be something useful and web-based. And the project must > be complete in 2-3 months by 2-3 person group. > May be something useful for open source or python com

Re: why there is no pythonscript insine web browsers?

2007-11-12 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> I'm an old programmer coming from a cobol background and started to > learn python. I'm using javasript for web based applications but after I > started to learn python, the javascript language started to seem ugly to > me. Now I'm wondering why there is java support on web browsers but no > pyth

setters and getters in python 2.6 and 3.0

2007-11-29 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
Hi list, I've been following a discussion on a new way of defining getters and setters on python-dev and just can't understand what the purpose is. Everybody agreed on the dev list that this is a good idea so I guess it must be right :) The whole thing started with this post of Guido: http://mail

Re: setters and getters in python 2.6 and 3.0

2007-11-29 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> > Hi list, I've been following a discussion on a new way of defining > > getters and setters on python-dev and just can't understand what the > > purpose is. Everybody agreed on the dev list that this is a good idea > > so I guess it must be right :) > > > > The whole thing started with this post

Re: Announcing Apydia

2007-11-30 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> Today, I am very excited to announce the first release of the Apydia > API reference documentation generator for Python. It's designed as an > instantly serviceable replacement for Pudge's API documentation > generator. It won't generate complete websites from reST etc. like > Pudge does, though

[OT] minimalist web server

2007-12-01 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
Hi list, This is way off topic but maybe somebody knowledgeable can help. I'm looking for the most minimalist web server ever that does nothing else than return a fixed static page for every request. Regardless of what the request is, it just needs to be an HTTP request to port 80, the web se

Re: [OT] minimalist web server

2007-12-01 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> > I'm looking for the most minimalist web server ever that does nothing > > else than return a fixed static page for every request. Regardless of > > what the request is, it just needs to be an HTTP request to port 80, > > the web server should return always the same html document. What would > >

Re: [OT] minimalist web server

2007-12-01 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
Maybe I found what I'm looking for: cheetah, a web server that is 600 lines of C code and that's it :) http://freshmeat.net/projects/cheetahd/ On 12/1/07, Daniel Fetchinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm looking for the most minimalist web server ever tha

Re: [OT] minimalist web server

2007-12-02 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> > The reason I need this is that my current best strategy to avoid ads in > > web pages is putting all ad server names into /etc/hosts and stick my > > local ip number next to them (127.0.0.1) so every ad request goes to my > > machine. I run apache which has an empty page for 404 errors so I'll

Re: Python surpasses Perl in TIOBE index

2007-12-04 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> > Well we Python folks are spoiled but for most people C++ counts as a > > high level language > > Well, some parts are high-level, but it's full of very > deep elevator shafts for you to accidentally fall > into... > > A truly high-level language also *doesn't* have low > level parts (or at leas

Re: Python surpasses Perl in TIOBE index

2007-12-04 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
On 12/4/07, Daniel Fetchinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Well we Python folks are spoiled but for most people C++ counts as a > > > high level language > > > > Well, some parts are high-level, but it's full of very > > deep elevator shafts for

Re: contributing to an open source project

2007-12-05 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> I am looking for an open source project to contribute to, to enhance > my python skills. I have about 6 months experience in the language. I > have searched freshmeat.net, but as I'm pretty new, I'm not sure which > projects I would be able to contribute to. > > If anyone can suggest any open sou

Re: [OT] minimalist web server

2007-12-31 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> Using DSL (Damn Small Linux) try apache! Or you can try litehttpd > > > > Hi list, > > > > This is way off topic but maybe somebody knowledgeable can help. > > > > I'm looking for the most minimalist web server ever that does nothing > > else than return a fixed static page for every request.

Re: Python web aps - A matter of security

2008-01-05 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
On 1/5/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm developing a Python-based web ap, but don't understand how to best > organize the modules and set permissions for maximum security. > > Here's how the Python code for my ap is organized: > > 1) I have Python modules in a proje

Re: Newbie question: Classes

2008-01-08 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> Basically, I have created a program using tkinter without using any class > structure, simply creating widgets and functions (and finding ways around > passing variables from function to function, using global variables etc). > The program has become rather large ( lines?) I am trying to now put

user friendly datetime features

2008-01-08 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
Many times a more user friendly date format is convenient than the pure date and time. For example for a date that is yesterday I would like to see "yesterday" instead of the date itself. And for a date that was 2 days ago I would like to see "2 days ago" but for something that was 4 days ago I wou

Re: Natural-language datetime parsing and display (was: user friendly datetime features)

2008-01-09 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> For PARSING see http://code-bear.com/code/parsedatetime/ > > The OP was looking for presentation though. I know roundup has code for > this if an independent library can't be found. Thanks for all the responses! Indeed I was looking for presentation and not parsing, I'll take a look at roundup

Re: Natural-language datetime parsing and display

2008-01-09 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> > > The OP was looking for presentation though. I know roundup has > > > code for this if an independent library can't be found. > > > > Thanks for all the responses! > > Indeed I was looking for presentation and not parsing, I'll take a > > look at roundup. > > Yes, that's why I indicated that C

Re: __init__ explanation please

2008-01-12 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> I'm new to Python, and OOP. I've read most of Mark Lutz's book and more > online and can write simple modules, but I still don't get when __init__ > needs to be used as opposed to creating a class instance by assignment. For > some strange reason the literature seems to take this for granted. I'd

Re: __init__ explanation please

2008-01-13 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
Please keep discussion on the list.. > > I'm not sure if I understand your question correctly but maybe this will > > help: > > > > If you want code to be run upon creating an instance of your class you > > would use __init__. Most common examples include setting attributes on > > the instance

Re: Why the HELL has nobody answered my question !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2008-01-30 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> I do not understand why no one has answered the following question: > > Has anybody worked with Gene Expression Programming Hm, maybe because nobody did? Just a thought. It can also be that everyone worked with it but everyone is part of a big conspiracy not to answer any of your emails

Re: Has Anyone Worked with Gene Expression Programming ???????????????????????????

2008-01-30 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
>> To Anyone, > > > > > > > > Has anyone worked with Gene Expression Programming??? Specifically, has > > anyone out there worked with pygep software package??? I have a few > > questions > > > > > > David Blubaugh > > -- Actually, it turns out I might say I'm a world known expert of Gene

dict comprehension

2008-01-31 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
Hi folks, There is a withdrawn PEP about a new syntax for dict comprehension: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0274/ which says: "Substantially all of its benefits were subsumed by generator expressions coupled with the dict() constructor." What does the author mean here? What's the Preferably

Re: dict comprehension

2008-01-31 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> > Hi folks, > > > > There is a withdrawn PEP about a new syntax for dict comprehension: > > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0274/ which says: > > > > "Substantially all of its benefits were subsumed by generator > > expressions coupled with the dict() constructor." > > > > What does the author

Re: Python Standardization: Wikipedia entry

2008-02-01 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> Depends entirely on the operative meaning of standardized. Formal > standards body? Obviously no. > > Specified in a standard-setting document? Yes. In fact, in someways, > Python is better standardized that C, for instance, in that the Python > standard usefully standardizes some things that t

GUI definition for web and desktop

2008-02-02 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
Hi pythoneans, I'm looking for a simple text based GUI definition format and associated python modules to work with it that is capable of defining simple GUI's for *both* the web and the desktop. I have an application that is accessible through the web and also through desktop applications and bot

Re: GUI definition for web and desktop

2008-02-03 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> >> >> > I'm looking for a simple text based GUI definition format and > >> > >> [...] > >> > I believe Glade produces XML descriptions of its interfaces, so wxGlade > >> >> would be one possible starting-point. > >> >> > >> > > >> > Glade does, but dont confuse it with wxGlade. wxGlad

Re: GUI definition for web and desktop

2008-02-03 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> > It's clear to me that the logic behind a web interface and a desktop > > interface are two totally different things. I don't want a magic > > method to convert an html/javascript based web app to a desktop app as > > this is clearly impossible. > > But it is not impossible to embed a server on

Re: GUI definition for web and desktop

2008-02-03 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> > I'm looking for a simple text based GUI definition format and > > associated python modules to work with it that is capable of defining > > simple GUI's for *both* the web and the desktop. I have an application > > that is accessible through the web and also through desktop > > applications and

Re: GUI definition for web and desktop

2008-02-03 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> >> On the other hand, if you want pure HTML for your web app, maybe you > should > >> consider making the desktop app HTML-based, too? > > > > Jorge Godoy brought that up too, sounds pretty good, but how would > > that work? The desktop app would launch a mini webserver and the user > > would use

Re: Looking for library to estimate likeness of two strings

2008-02-06 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> Are there any Python libraries implementing measurement of similarity > of two strings of Latin characters? > > I'm writing a script to guess-merge two tables based on people's > names, which are not necessarily spelled the same way in both tables > (especially the given names). I would like som

Re: Microsoft's challenger to Python

2008-02-07 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> > > I am not, however, an in depth language nutter, so would > > > appreciate any of our more learned readers comments. Maybe I'm missing the obvious here, but what does Cobra have to do with Microsoft? (Apart from being .NET oriented.) It seems it's an open source project of a guy who doesn't

Re: Dear David

2008-02-08 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> I have discontinued the use of ?? a long time ago. Why is this > still a problem? Welcome to bewildering yet joyful world of usenet! It seems you are already having quite some fun! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ROUNDING???

2008-02-18 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> in python im doing the problem 255/494 Try this: >>> 255.0/494.0 0.51619433198380571 >>> float(255)/float(494) 0.51619433198380571 > it keeps giving me 0 instead of .51 > what am i doing wrong? Nothing, integer division is not wrong :) > please help me I have been looking for hours

Re: ANN: Phatch = PHoto bATCH processor and renamer based on PIL

2008-02-18 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
On 2/18/08, SPE - Stani's Python Editor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm pleased to announce the release of Phatch which is a > powerful batch processor and renamer. Phatch exposes a big part of the > Python Imaging Library through an user friendly GUI. (It is using > python-pyexiv2 to offer more e

Re: ANN: Phatch = PHoto bATCH processor and renamer based on PIL

2008-02-19 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> > > I'm pleased to announce the release of Phatch which is a > > > powerful batch processor and renamer. Phatch exposes a big part of the > > > Python Imaging Library through an user friendly GUI. (It is using > > > python-pyexiv2 to offer more extensive EXIF and IPTC support.) Phatch > > > is no

Re: ANN: Phatch = PHoto bATCH processor and renamer based on PIL

2008-02-24 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> I'm pleased to announce the release of Phatch which is a > powerful batch processor and renamer. Phatch exposes a big part of the > Python Imaging Library through an user friendly GUI. (It is using > python-pyexiv2 to offer more extensive EXIF and IPTC support.) Phatch > is not targeted at manipu

Re: most loved template engine on python is?

2008-02-24 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> After deciding choosing python as my future killer application language > for writing web applications, I need from you guys still some support, > if you apologize. > > Question: > Which is the most loved template engine for python? AFAIK, there is no single blessed template system. If you're up

Re: SQLLITE

2008-03-02 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> > > I am having a minor problem when I try and do this: > > > c.execute("insert into [tblTranscripts] (MovieID,Transcript) > > > Values(" + movieID + ",'" + formatText + "');") (don't even bother > > > commenting of the sql style I know its bad form but this is a simple > > > script). Whenever I

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