Re: Why Python does *SLICING* the way it does??

can start wherever you want. You can't slice them, true, but you can't have everything. :-) -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Why Python does *SLICING* the way it does??

age syntax would be rather high :-) Not to mention the sanity of everyone's editors when they try to do bracket matching! -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinf

Re: Why Python does *SLICING* the way it does??

): return list.__getitem__(self, i - self.base) # etc... -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: generate De Bruijn sequence memory and string vs lists

ple? Whatever it is, it seems like there should be a more efficient way than materialising the whole umpteen-gigabyte sequence. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

paramiko transport and invoke_shell

=via_host, via_user='user2', via_auth='pass2') print ssht.run('uname -a') print ssht.run_in_shell('sudo su - user') ssht.run_in_shell('password_for_above') print ssht.run_in_shell('id') # above id should return user Regards Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Classes

but the way the paragraph is worded, it sounds like it's just been blindly lifted from some Java or C++ book. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: IDE for python

like about it. Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: IDE for python

On Wed, 2014-05-28 at 22:55 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 9:46 PM, Greg Schroeder wrote: > >> > Please suggest, if we have any free ide for python development. > > > > Anything that writes text is fine. > > I recommend the standard text e

Suds and Complex Sequences

to do this. Does anyone out there know how I can generate the request? Thanks for your time, Greg Lindstrom -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ANN: PyGUI 2.5

more than one view of a model are at odds with the way Tk works. Anyone who wants to have a go at it is welcome to try, though. -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: TK + MVC

Emeka wrote: Greg, Do you have an example where the Controller is connected? No, in fact I've never really felt the need for anything called a Controller in the GUI stuff I've done. I just have Models and Views. Models hold the data, and Views display it and handle input. If you c

Overlaying PDF with data

ng with health care forms which are quite complex (over 150 fields to potentially populate) and would like to do it as painlessly as possible. I'm running Python 2.7 on Windows. Thanks for any advice you may have, --greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Web Testing Frameworks

ation/documentation/training on how to test a web site? Thanks! --greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

access to preallocated block of memory?

e reserved block and a length, and have the memory accessible. Is there some existing python object/facility I can use or will I need to create a custom module? Any tips, hints, or pointers would certainly be appreciated! Thanks, Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: access to preallocated block of memory?

So array can not map a pre-existing chunk of memory? I did not port the mmap module because such semantics don't exist on VxWorks. Based on comments thus far, it looks like mmap is my best bet here? Any other options? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: why does php have a standard SQL module and Python doesn't !?

To build on Heiko's comment's, and to be clear, Python does have a standard interface description, to which many SQL interfaces are available. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: access to preallocated block of memory?

for any confusion my original question may of created. I was rushed when I posted it. Hopefully this posting will be more clear as to my intentions and needs. Sincerely, Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: access to preallocated block of memory?

I think you're getting caught in OS/platform semantics rather than a python solution. I already have access to the block on memory...I simply need information about existing python facilities which will allow me to expose the block to python as a native type...from which I can read byte for byte a

Re: access to preallocated block of memory?

Based on the answers thus far, I suspect I'll being traveling this road shortly. Thanks, Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: access to preallocated block of memory?

Dang it. That's what I suspected. Thanks! Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: access to preallocated block of memory?

That certainly looks interesting. I'll check it out right now. Thanks! Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Shed Skin (Python-to-C++ Compiler) 0.0.5.9

I've been following this project with great interest. If you don't mind me asking, can you please include links, if available, when you post updates? Great Stuff! Keep in coming! Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: access to preallocated block of memory?

What license does the code use? The PKG-INFO file says its MIT? This accurate? I'm still looking over the code, but it looks like I can do exactly what I need with only minor changes. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: SMP, GIL and Threads

atify your concurrent access requirements. Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PythonWin troubleshooting

just delete the above key, and PythonWin will recreate it the next time it is run). I guess there is no guarantee that you will not run into this again, but, as I said, I have not seen it recur with the latest builds of PythonWin. --- Greg Chapman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Guido at Google

Guido would acknowledge a query, but never announce it. That's not his style. This should have a positive impact on Python. His job description has a *very* significant portion of his time dedicated specifically to working on Python. (much more than his previous "one day a week" jobs have given hi

Re: Guido at Google

50% "on" 100% "with" On 12/22/05, Jay Parlar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 22, 2005, at 2:20 PM, Greg Stein wrote: > > Guido would acknowledge a query, but never announce it. That's not his > > style. > > > > This shoul

Application Portability?

I have a CRM application that I've written in Ruby that currently runs on Win32 clients as well as Linux ARM clients (Sharp Zaurus PDA's). The application uses Qt for its GUI presentation and XMLRPC calls to push/pull contact data back and forth. It suits my purposes, but I am looking to port it to

Re: Application Portability?

Neil Benn wrote: > Hello, > > I know that this isn't a fashionable thing to write on a > dynamic language newsgroup but I would really recommend switching to > Java for your work if you are looking at recoding it. I'm running Java > on handhelds and it works well. If you want to use dy

Re: exec a string in an embedded environment

sing it for some time now. Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: exec a string in an embedded environment

I would be happy to share my point with you. In fact, I'm fixing a minor memory leak (socket module; vxWorks specific) in Python 2.3.4 (ported version) today. My port is actually on BE XScale. Email me at g t copeland2002@@ya hoo...com and I'll be happy to talk more with you. -- http://mail.py

SDL doesn't cope well with FreeSans

, too. The fonts that come with MacOSX don't have these problems, so the fault doesn't seem to be with SDL or FreeType. Has anyone else noticed this? If it's a problem with the quality of FreeSans, can anyone recommend a free Helvetica-like font family that doesn't have this proble

Re: How to catch python's STDOUT

n replace sys.stdout with any object having a write() method which does whatever you want with the output. You can similarly replace sys.stderr to capture output written to standard error. -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand http://ww

ANN: Quest for the Holy Grail (a PyGame game)

age: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/grailquest/index.html It requires Python 2.3 or later and PyGame with SDL_image and SDL_ttf support. That's all! Comments, suggestions and amusing gameplay anecdotes are welcome. Have fun, -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, University of Canterbury, Ch

Re: time.localtime() Format Question

I'm sorry I didn't have time to grep your entire post, but maybe this will help: >>> import time >>> t = time.localtime() >>> t (2006, 8, 20, 12, 48, 52, 6, 232, 1) >>> time.strftime('%a, %d %b %Y', t) 'Sun, 20 Aug 2006' -greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Tkinter--does anyone use it for sophisticated GUI development?

e anywhere near to succeeding. http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python_gui/ -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

George Neuner wrote: > You can't totally prevent it ... if the index computation involves > types having a wider range, frequently the solution is to compute a > wide index value and then narrow it. But if the wider value is out of > range for the narrow type you have a problem. > ...snip... > > T

Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

Chris F Clark wrote: > Thus, as we traverse a list, the first element might be an integer, > the second a floating point value, the third a sub-list, the fourth > and fifth, two more integers, and so on. If you look statically at > the head of the list, we have a very wide union of types going by.

Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

Chris F Clark wrote: > Very impressive. It looks right to me and simple enough to > understand. I must find the time to learn a modern FP language. Can > you write a fold for this that prints the data as a binary tree of > triples? I have to believe it isn't that hard {- Refactoring this a

Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

ray, so you can't use an index from one array with a different array. You'll probably also enjoy the paper... "Eliminating Array Bound Checking Through Dependent Types" http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/xi98eliminating.html ...and DML itself... http://www.cs.bu.edu/~hw

Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

ng like... (define (apply fun args) (eval (cons fun args))) ...but "eval" seems a little like overkill. Is there a better way? Greg Buchholz -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [Pyrex] pyrex functions to replace a method (Re: replace a method in class: how?)

ore putting it in the class. I have suggested that builtin functions should be given the same method-binding behaviour as interpreted functions. The idea wasn't rejected out of hand, but I don't think anything has been done about it yet. -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

using TreeBuilder in an ElementTree like way

I am trying to write some python code for a library that reads an XML-like language from a file into elementtree data structures. Then I want to be able to read and/or modify the structure and then be able to write it out either as XML or in the original format. I really want the api for the XM

Re: [Pyrex] pyrex functions to replace a method (Re: replace a method in class: how?)

class C(str): pass C.ord = new.instancemethod(ord, None, C) c = C("a") print c.ord() -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Python business software?

so it would be an option. Thanks for you help, --greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: merits of Lisp vs Python

Paul Rubin writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Warnock) writes: > > Weird. This is exactly why I use *Lisp* -- because it stays > > completely readable even if you don't use it on a daily basis!!! > > Hmm. I haven't used Lisp in a while and no longer find it so > readable

Re: merits of Lisp vs Python

Paul Rubin writes: > André Thieme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > import module > > > module.function = memoize(module.function) > > > > Yes, I mentioned that a bit earlier in this thread (not about the > > "during runtime" thing). > > I also said that many macros onl

Re: merits of Lisp vs Python

Stephen Eilert wrote: > So, let's suppose I now want to learn LISP (I did try, on several > occasions). What I would like to do would be to replace Python and code > GUI applications. Yes, those boring business-like applications that > have to access databases and consume those new-fangled web-ser

Re: Numarray, numeric, NumPy, scpy_core ??!!

i?id=138791 (that's one of the applicable bug reports). A workaround to this problem is to add the option '-ffloat-store' to your CFLAGS. -greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Dual Core outlook

The short answer is, "maybe". Python will be CPU bound but not I/O bound. This means you can have multiple threads concurrently performing I/O. On the other hand, if you have two threads which are CPU bound, only one will run at a time. Having said that, there are plenty of ready work arounds.

PyDev/Eclipse Help

OK, I *know* it means I can't load PythonProjectWizard, but you get my drift, right?). Thanks for your help...see yo in Dallas!--greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

inheritance with new-style classes - help

ngbut okay...let's look some more... >>> x.__dict__ {'_attrib': 'base'} What??! Where the heck did self._childAttrib go? And why? Can someone please shine some light here? Please? Thanks in advance, Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: inheritance with new-style classes - help

BTW, this is on Python 2.3.4. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: inheritance with new-style classes - help

Doh! Child's __init__ was declared as __init(). Fixing that took care of it! Sorry for wasting the bandwidth! Cheers, Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: pyvm -- faster python

ly intended to apply to *compiled* languages. -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Launch file in Notepad

If the \t was entered as a command line arg it will be interpreted as a \ and a t. For example: #test.py import sys b1 = sys.argv[1] b2 = "C:\test.txt" print b1 print b2 will result in this: C:\>test.py C:\test.txt C:\test.txt C: est.txt -greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Documentation (should be better?)

nk it would make a big difference in this area. -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: pygame on win32, image.fromstring()

;P" is for 8bit pallete indices. When I look at the properties of aceclub.bmp, Windows says it's Bit Depth is 4. I'm not sure if they're talking about the same thing, though. If so, you could probably use PIL to convert the depth. -greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Modifying a built-in function for logging purposes

ion... > > Bye. > Would this work? _file = file def file(path, mode): print path, mode return _file(path, mode) -greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: A Specific PyGame

razy, but I'm not finding any visited links that are productive. > I've also extracted everything out of .mozilla/.../history.dat. As you > can see, I'm looking for a specific answer to my specific query. > Perhaps you are thinking of GvR (Guido van Robot): http://gvr.so

Re: wxpython and wxtextctrl

new. The wxTextCtrl notation (vs wx.TextCtrl) is the old way (but it IS kept around for backwards compatablility). My guess is that your code is for for a newer version of wxPython than what you actually have. Try printing the version from in your code: import wxPyhon print wxPython.__version__

Re: Q: "...Learning with Python" ...a property that addition and multiplication have...

I would consider this more about thinking like a mathematician than a computer scientist!) -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Just remember that Python is sexy

xception". (Of course, you could get straight from "index" to "exception" that way too, but then there wouldn't be any excuse for mentioning sex. :-) -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Pyrex: step in for loop

7;d suggest using the for-loop to iterate over a contiguous range of integers and an expression that maps the loop variable to whatever you want. If you want the maximum possible speed, it *may* be faster to use a while loop instead and do your own index updating. But profile to make sure. --

Python Challenge 10?

Can someone give me a hint for No. 10? My MindBlaster card must be acting up -- I can't seem to tune into the author's brain waves on this one. I came up with what I thought was a perfectly good solution, but apparently it's wrong. :-( -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept

Re: What are OOP's Jargons and Complexities?

Pascal just a little has resulted in a very successful family of languages (UCSD, Turbo, Apple Pascal, etc.) -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python as client-side browser script language

ldn't be any difficulty with that. Python objects have complete control over which attributes can be read or written by Python code. That, together with restricting what the open() function can do, ought to provide a pretty good sandbox. -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, Univers

Re: Beginner question: Logs?

ly rarely be used. Better still, don't even *mention* it to a beginner. They don't need to know about it. At all. Really. -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Two questions

*have* to make them available to all other countries as well... not good for non-proliferation... -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [python-gtk] problem with multiple inheritance

andles inheritance from built-in types. You can only inherit from more than one built-in type if they have compatible C structures, and it appears that the two you're trying to inherit from aren't compatible. You'll have to think of some way of doing whatever you're trying to do w

Re: the python way?

I like this solution. For some reason it made me want to write a Ruby version of it. Possibly something about the title and the fact that Ruby enthusiasts are always going on about "the Ruby way". VOWELS = 'aeiouy'.split('') def reinterpolate(word) letters = word.split('').sort_by{rand} v

School Administration Software

Any advice you have would be welcome. Thanks, --greg -- Greg Lindstrom 501 975.4859 (office) Senior Programmer501 219-4455 (fax) NovaSys Health [EMAIL PROTECTED] Little Rock, Arkansas "We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.&

Re: Wxpython demo crashes

Pekka Karjalainen wrote: > I'm using WinXP (Finnish), Python 2.4.1 (#65, Mar 30 2005, 09:13:57) [MSC > v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 and wxPython 2.6.0.1. > > When I go to the Process and Events section in the wxDemo and run the > Process demo, bad things can happen. It crashes. I think the cras

Re: need some cgi help please

anything, is it? Are there any other files that it *can* open? -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: OO re-factoring (was Pythonese/Efficiency/Generalese critique [on Tutor])

ything OO. OO isn't necessarily better than non-OO. It's a means to an end, not an end in itself. -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Writing func_closure?

specific example. As far as I know, there is currently no supported way of directly creating or modifying cell objects from Python; it can only be done by some obscure trickery. So the docs are telling the truth here, in a way. :-) -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, University of Canterbury,

Re: circular import Module

le1 import somename because somename won't yet have been defined in file1 at the time file2 is imported. -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: \r\n or \n notepad editor end line ???

Peter Hansen wrote: > (I don't believe there's a "wU" and conceptually it's sort > of meaningless anyway, If we ever get quantum computers, presumably "wU" will write the newlines in all possible formats simultaneously... -- Greg Ewing, Comput

Re: Embedding: many interpreters OR one interpreter with many thread states ?

ly, despite there being apparent support in the API. So I suggest using a single interpeter with multiple threads. -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: __init__.py in packages

ch simpler! -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg _versions = [ ("Carbon", "Mac"), ("gtk", "Gtk"), ] from os import environ as _env _platdir = _env.ge

Re: Annoying behaviour of the != operator

ethods work. They don't make any semantic assumptions. It's arguable that there should perhaps be some default assumptions made, but the Python developers seem to have done the Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work, which isn't entirely unreasonable. -- Greg Ewing, Comp

Re: Annoying behaviour of the != operator

e justification. Some others: * Numeric arrays, where comparisons return an array of booleans resulting from applying the comparison to each element. * Computer algebra systems and such like, which return a parse tree as a result of evaluating an expression. -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science D

Re: Annoying behaviour of the != operator

> This gives the wacky world where > "[(1,2), (3,4)].sort()" works, whereas "[1+2j, 3+4j].sort()" doesn't. To solve that, I would suggest a fourth category of "arbitrary ordering", but that's probably Py3k material. -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science D

Re: Abstract and concrete syntax

nal language, but Python is not a functional language. In imperative programming, often you just do something for its side effect, and there's no obvious value to return. Forcing everything to return a value just for the sake of conceptual purity is an artificiality, in my view. -

Re: circular import Module

dependent modules. -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: FAQ: __str__ vs __repr__

Basically __repr__ should return a string representaion of the object, and __str__ should return a user-friendly pretty string. So maybe: class Person: ... def __repr__(self): return '' % (self.name, self.age, self.sign) def __str__(self): return self.name See this for a bett

Re: Help needed with translating perl to python

, 1, 1) ; >> return chr($firstval) . chr($lastval) ; >> >> } > >2. What does shift do above? 'shift' accesses the first argument passed to the function, in this case the value of length($msg) >3. is the '.' operator just + in python? In principle yes. -- Greg Armer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.codelounge.org If it would be cheaper to repair the old one, the company will insist on the latest model. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Creating Packages

step. I believe this package would be helpful to those of us dealing with text files. How do I go about making it available? Thanks, --greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Help Understanding mx.ODBC Error

unded. Thanks again Greg Corradini Steve Holden wrote: > > Greg Corradini wrote: >> Hello All, >> A few weeks ago, I wrote two scripts using mx.ODBC on an Access DB. Among >> other things, both scripts create new tables, perform a query and then >> populate the tables

Re: Help Understanding mx.ODBC Error

Steve Holden wrote: > > Greg Corradini wrote: > [actually, her wrote it here but I moved it to the bottom] >> Steve Holden wrote: >>> Greg Corradini wrote: >>>> Hello All, >>>> A few weeks ago, I wrote two scripts using mx.ODBC on an Access DB. &

Re: Using python with MySQL

nt me > to some documentation for accessing MySQL via python. Something of the > "Python and MySQL for Dummies" caliber would be about my speed, but of > course I will be thankful for anything offered. http://mysql-python.sourceforge.net/ -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/

1.#QNAN Solution

planation about the cause of this problem. Any ideas? Thanks Greg Corradini -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/1.-QNAN-Solution-tf3710941.html#a1037 Sent from the Python - python-list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: 1.#QNAN Solution

Thanks for you help Grant Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2007-05-08, Greg Corradini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm running descriptive stats on mileages from a database >> (float numbers, about a million records). My sum returns >> 1.#QNAN, which I unde

Boolean confusion

d." Based on what is said above, shouldn't my first expression ( string.find('020914A','.') and len('020914A') > 10) evaluate to false b/c my 'x' is false? And shouldn't the second expression evaluate to True? Thanks for your help Gr

Re: Boolean confusion

Thank you Diez and Antoon for demystifing this problem. I see where I've been going wrong. Diez B. Roggisch-2 wrote: > > Greg Corradini wrote: > >> >> Hello all, >> I'm having trouble understanding why the following code evaluates as it >> does: &

Re: Boolean confusion

On 2007-05-09, Greg Corradini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello all, > I'm having trouble understanding why the following code evaluates as it > does: > >>>> string.find('020914A','.') and len('020914A') > 10 >

os.popen on windows: loosing stdout of child process

When I use os.popen(cmd,'w'), I find that under windows, the stdout of the child process disappears, instead of appearing in the DOS window the script is invoked from. eg: C:\> type foo.py import os import sys file = os.popen("nslookup", 'w') file.write("google.com\n") file

Re: Installing Python in a path that contains a blank

On 5/21/07, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there not a similar trick on MacOS X? It's called a symlink: ln -s /Users/gdonald /foo -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Understanding mxODBC Insert Error

Hello, I'm trying to perform a simple insert statement into a table called Parcel_Test (see code below). Yet, I get an error message that I've never seen before (see traceback below). I've tried to put a semicolon at the end of the sql statement, but with no luck. Any ideas from more experienced m

Re: Wing IDE for Python v. 3.0 beta1 released

nd addressed all my questions over about a 3 or 4 day email conversation. -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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