In Unix, the file system hierarchy is like a tree that has a base or
'root' that exposes objects (files and folders) that can easily be
iterated over.
\ \ | / /
\ \ | / /
\ \|/ /
\ | /
\|/
|
|
Root
So, when I do os.chdir('/') I am at the base of the tree and ca
Gerrit Holl wrote:
> The very least you can try:
>
> import string
> string.ascii_uppercase
>
> for c in string.ascii_uppercase:
> if os.path.isdir('%s:/' % c):
> ...
>
> etc.
> But I suppose there should be a better way.
Oh yes, I do that. I spelled out the example very explicitly
Georg Brandl wrote:
> Which application needs to walk over ALL files? Normally, you just have a
> starting path and walk over everything under it.
Searching for a file by name. Scanning for viruses. Etc. There are lots
of legitimate reason to walk all paths from a central starting point, no???
-
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> what's the difference between a "starting path" and a "starting point" ?
None. What starting path or point would you suggest under Windows? Is
there something obvious that I'm missing? I see no starting point under
windows as my initial question clearly stated.
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Tim Golden wrote:
> [Rick]
> | Searching for a file by name. Scanning for viruses. Etc.
> | There are lots
> | of legitimate reason to walk all paths from a central
> | starting point, no???
>
> Well, to get you started, I think this is the kind
> of thing you'l
Thanks Tim and Rob... this works really well!
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What's the best way to read a byte of data directly from a block device
(a scsi hard drive) on Linux using Python?
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Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
> Reading it? Using read?
>
> f = open("/dev/foo")
> f.read(1)
>
> Diez
Wow, I didn't realize it was that simple. Thanks!
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Why can't Python have a reverse() function/method like Ruby?
Python:
x = 'a_string'
# Reverse the string
print x[::-1]
Ruby:
x = 'a_string'
# Reverse the string
print x.reverse
The Ruby approach makes sense to me as a human being. The Python
approach is not easy for me (as a human being) to rem
Demel, Jeff wrote:
> Ok, let me re-phrase:
>
> ...[snip]...
> I've been programming professionally for over 10 years, and have never
> once needed to reverse a string *or detect a palindrome*. Maybe it's a
> lack of imagination on my part, but I can't think of a single instance
> this might be ne
Tim Chase wrote:
> Well, there you go! Apparently, your wet paper bag has no "detect a
> palendrome" exit. While you're installing such an egress to your soggy
> dead-tree satchel, you could also provide similar "write a binary
Glad you guys are enjoying this. We're getting off-topic and I t
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> "Brad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Do you have children? How would your child feel if he brought you
>> something he had made and you then told him it was awful in *sooo* many
>> ways.
>
> If you're arguing that everything a child does and says should be rewarded...
I
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> brad tilley wrote:
>
>> How do I import a module and then ask it to show me its methods or
>> other aspects about itself during execution? I'd like to do something
>> such as this:
>>
>> import win32api
>
> dir(win32api)
> help(win32api)
>
> and also
>
> import inspect
Consider the following piece of code:
parser = optparse.OptionParser(usage="usage: %prog
[options]", add_help_option=False)
parser.add_option("-d", type="string", action="store", dest="DELIM",
default="|", help="single character delimiter in quotes (default: |)")
(options, args) = parser.parse
OK, using that convention, how would I create help for , , etc.
Thanks.
On 9/27/2006 12:44 AM, Ben Finney wrote:
> rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> usage: DelimTOFixedWidth.py [options]
>
> That's not the command-line argument style that op
I am trying to host a TuboGears app using Apache and mod_python on a
machine running Windows XP SP2 Professional.
Version info: apache_2.2.3-win32-x86-no_ssl.msi, python-2.4.4.msi,
mod_python-3.2.10.win32-py2.4-apache2.2.exe, mpcp-1.5.tar.gz,
turbogears-1.0b2-py2.4
nel, addr = self.accept()
ConnChannel(channel)
connTube = ConnTube(host, port)
asyncore.loop()
Thanks everyone!
Rick
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#logging.basicConfig(format="%(message)s",level=logging.DEBUG)
suite = unittest.TestLoader().loadTestsFromTestCase(UnitTests)
unittest.TextTestRunner(verbosity=verbosity).run(suite)
# Running without verbosity is equivalent to replacing the above
# two lines with the following:
#un
On May 1, 7:38 pm, Terry Reedy wrote:
> I presume in your overall time text, you ran the two versions of the
> algorith 'naked'. But, for some reason, you are profiling them embedded
> inside a test suite and runner. It does not seem that this should
> affect relative timing, but I have seen so
On May 2, 9:10 am, Rick wrote:
> I was posting to the list mostly because I would like to know whether
> I can do something different when I profile my code so that it give
> results that correspond more closely to those that the nonprofiling
> results give.
A good comment that wa
Is there any way to get the current time from time.gov using urllib2 or
something similar?
Does anyone have any examples of doing this?
Thanks!
Rick King
Southfield MI
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op. The problem is, I don't know how
to deal with it when log file rotates and change name. I need then to break
running 'tail -f _some_file_' and excecute 'tail -f _other_file'. Can you give
me hints how to do this?
Regards
Rick
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Hello,
My first attenpt at a simple python Tkinter application. I wanted to
see how to load file names into a listbox from a menu. This is what I
got until the part of displaying the file names in a listbox, which I
could not figfure out how to do?
Any help would be appreciated. Trying to do thi
On Wednesday, May 29, 2013 7:24:48 PM UTC-5, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> About the only thing I don't like is:
>
> var = 1,
>
> That binds var to a tuple (singleton) value, instead of 1.
I don't understand why Python needs tuples anyway; at least not tuple
literals!. I mean, i like the idea of a
> On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 2:58 AM, rusi wrote:
> > On May 30, 5:58 pm, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > > The alternative would be an infinite number of iterations, which is far
> > > far worse.
> >
> > There was one heavyweight among programming teachers -- E.W. Dijkstra
> > -- who had some rather extre
Note to those of you who may be new to Python: I will refer to "print" as a
function -- just be aware that "print" was a statement before Python3000 was
introduced.
Introduction:
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On Jun 2, 12:20 pm, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 3:04 AM, Rick Johnson
> > * Woefully inadequate because: Switching on or off the debug
> >messages is only valid in the current module that the
> >function was imported. What if you want to kill
On Sunday, June 2, 2013 12:49:02 PM UTC-5, Dan Sommers wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Jun 2013 03:20:52 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 3:04 AM, Rick Johnson
> [...]
> Or use the logging module. It's easy to get going quickly
> (just call logging.basicConfi
On Sunday, June 2, 2013 1:58:30 PM UTC-5, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sun, 02 Jun 2013 10:04:00 -0700, Rick Johnson wrote:
Oh Steven, you've really outdone yourself this time with the
theatrics. I hope you scored some "cool points" with your
minions. Heck, you almost h
On Monday, June 3, 2013 10:16:13 PM UTC-5, Vito De Tullio wrote:
> Rick Johnson wrote:
> > Take your
> > standard yes/no/cancel dialog, i would expect it to return
> > True|False|None respectively,
> you clearly mean True / False / FileNotFound.
No, i clearly meant what
On Tuesday, June 4, 2013 12:39:59 AM UTC-5, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Jun 2013 18:37:24 -0700, Rick Johnson wrote:
> Consider a simple thought experiment. Suppose we start with a sequence of
> if statements that begin simple and get more complicated:
> if a == 1: ...
On Jun 4, 10:44 am, Rick Johnson wrote:
> What we need is a method by which we can validate a symbol
> and simultaneously do the vaidation in a manner that will
> cast light on the type that is expected. In order for this
> to work, you would need validators with unique "type
On Jun 4, 11:00 am, Chris Angelico wrote:
> You know, if you want a language with strict type declarations and
> extreme run-time efficiency, there are some around.
I don't like declaring types everywhere, i hate it. I prefer duck
typed languages, HOWEVER, in order for duck typing to work
consist
On Jun 4, 12:42 pm, Ian Kelly wrote:
> > By this manner, we can roll three common tests into one
> > method:
> > * Boolean conversion
> > * member truthiness for iterables
> > * type checking
> How exactly does this is_valid method perform the first two? Are you
> suggesting that an
On Wednesday, June 5, 2013 11:59:07 AM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote:
> Frankly, I don't think the language much matters. It's all
> down to the skill of the programmers and testers. Ada
> wasn't the source of the problem unless Ada has a bug in
> it... which is going to be true of pretty much any
>
mes to objects
> (which is what python does) and variables (which is what languages like
> C have). It's very clear Rick does not have an understanding of this
> either.
Just because someone does not "prefer" this or that aspect of Python, does not
mean they don't understa
On Wednesday, June 5, 2013 2:15:57 AM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote:
> [...]
> I cannot name a single modern programming language that does NOT have
> some kind of implicit boolification.
Congrats: Again you join the ranks of most children who make excuses for their
foolish actions along the lines
On Wednesday, June 5, 2013 8:37:20 PM UTC-5, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Jun 2013 09:15:01 -0700, Russ P. wrote:
> > On Wednesday, June 5, 2013 1:59:01 AM UTC-7, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> >> On 05/06/2013 07:11, Russ P. wrote:
> What prevents bugs is the skill of the people writing the code,
On Thursday, June 6, 2013 1:03:24 PM UTC-5, Rick Johnson wrote:
> The second covers type checking objects that enter into new
> namespaces. That would cover all functions/methods arguments
> (at a minimum).
Yeah, before anyone starts complaining about this, i meant to say "scope&
On Sunday, June 9, 2013 8:21:43 AM UTC-5, Malte Forkel wrote:
> I have asked the PSF for help regarding the implications of the license
> status of code from sre_parse.py and the missing license statement in
> sre.py. I'll happily report their answer to the list I they don't reply
> in this thread
On Sunday, June 9, 2013 4:08:54 PM UTC-5, zipher wrote:
> >> That's not entirely correct. If he *publishes* his code (I'm using
>
> >> this term "publish" technically to mean "put forth in a way where
>
> >> anyone of the general public can or is encouraged to view"), then he
>
> >> is *tacitly
s not my law, this is the law of the
universe in which we live.
""" But Rick you're heartless. What of the children? If we legalize drugs then
kids will be addicts, some will even die!"""
How many are dying now in the streets from gangland shootouts? How m
On Monday, June 10, 2013 9:56:43 PM UTC-5, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 20:14:55 -0400, Terry Jan Reedy wrote:
> > For instance, open Lib/idlelib/GrepDialog.py in an editor that colorizes
> > Python syntax, such as Idle's editor, jump down to the bottom and read
> > up, and (until i
On Tuesday, June 11, 2013 8:34:55 AM UTC-5, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> GvR is saying that it's okay to use the names of built-in functions or
> types as the names of local variables, even if that causes the built-in
> to be inaccessible within that function.
Looks like we've finally found the tra
Umm, "Niko". (Superfluous Unicode Removed)
The code you have written is very difficult to read because you are doing too
much inside the conditional and you're repeating things!. For starters you
could compile those regexps and re-use them:
## BEGIN SESSION ##
py> import re
py> s = """\
... hel
tion".
Then, when you assigned the x,y,z values to "self.position" you thought you
where assigning them to the "class level variable" named "position", HaHa, but
then again you had NO idea that "class level variables" and "instance level
variables&
On Monday, June 10, 2013 2:56:15 PM UTC-5, Ian wrote:
> [...]
> There are a couple of ways you might get this to work the way you
> want. One is by adding as an extra layer a proxy object, which could
> be as simple as:
> class Proxy(object):
> def __init__(self, ref):
> self.ref = ref
On Tuesday, June 11, 2013 8:25:30 PM UTC-5, nagia@gmail.com wrote:
> is there a shorter and more clear way to write this?
> i didnt understood what Rick trie to told me.
My example included verbatim copies of interactive sessions within the Python
command line. You might understan
On Tuesday, June 11, 2013 9:14:38 PM UTC-5, alex23 wrote:
> On Jun 12, 12:05 pm, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
> > You have to include the coding phase.
> > How else would he get into an error state?
>
> Via copy & paste.
Now that's more like it Alex!
If you move to my side the Python world could
On Tuesday, June 11, 2013 10:37:39 PM UTC-5, Rick Johnson wrote:
> Now that's more like it Alex!
Opps, it seems i falsely interpreted Chris's post as directed towards me, and
then with that false assumption in mind i went on to falsely interpreted reply
to Chris. Folks if you
On Wednesday, June 12, 2013 2:17:49 PM UTC-5, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 6/4/2013 11:45 PM, Mike Hansen wrote:
> > Is "Rick Johnson" the alter ego of Xah Lee, or is he the result of a
> > cross breeding experiement with a troll by Saruman at Isengard?
> He is a Python prog
ar a knocking sound whilst driving but the sound is
absent whist idling, you can deduce that the problem most likely exists in the
drive-train. From there you'd need to focus in at an even smaller level of
detail -- but you could not come to that conclusion if you did not possess (at
mi
On Wednesday, June 12, 2013 11:08:44 PM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote:
> No. Definitely not. Programming does NOT begin with a GUI. It begins
> with something *simple*, so you're not stuck fiddling around with the
> unnecessary. On today's computers, that usually means console I/O
> (actually consol
On Thursday, June 13, 2013 3:18:57 PM UTC-5, Joshua Landau wrote:
> [...]
> GUI is boring. I don't give a damn about that. If I had it
> my way, I'd never write any interfaces again (although
> designing them is fine). Console interaction is faster to
> do and it lets me do the stuff I *want* to d
On Thursday, June 13, 2013 11:05:00 PM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote:
Chris, a GUI interface can be created for *ANY* command line
functionality. By utilizing the GUI you can be more
productive because a "point" and a "click" are always faster
than "peck-peck-peck" * INFINITY.
For instance, if i w
On Sunday, June 16, 2013 4:52:16 PM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote:
> Okay... I'm trying to get my head around what you've done
> here. Isn't it simply that you've made a way to, with what
> looks like a point-and-click interface, let the user type
> in a command line?
> [...]
> That's no more usin
On Tuesday, June 18, 2013 11:45:29 AM UTC-5, Roy Smith wrote:
> I've got a 170 MB file I want to search for lines that look like:
> [2010-10-20 16:47:50.339229 -04:00] INFO (6): songza.amie.history -
> ENQUEUEING: /listen/the-station-one
> This code runs in 1.3 seconds:
>
On Tuesday, June 18, 2013 9:47:34 PM UTC-5, andrew...@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm looking at developing a program for work that can be
> distributed to others (i.e. and exe file). The
> application would open various dialogue boxes and ask the
> user for input and eventually perform mathematical
> cal
On Wednesday, June 19, 2013 8:58:19 AM UTC-5, augus...@gmail.com wrote:
> This is my first post in this group and the reason why I
> came across here is that, despite my complete lack of
> knowledge in the programming area, I received an order
> from my teacher to develop a visually interactive pro
use tkinter, this would give you a start.
> The code is in Lib/idlelib/aboutDialog.py. I do not know
> how to make the 'dialog' be a main window instead, nor how
> to replace a main window with a new set of widgets (as
> opposed to opening a new window), but I presume its
On Wednesday, June 19, 2013 2:17:35 PM UTC-5, Ahmed Abdulshafy wrote:
> I'm reading the Python.org tutorial right now, and I found
> this part rather strange and incomprehensible to me>
>
> Important warning: The default value is evaluated only
> once. This makes a difference when the default is a
On Thursday, June 13, 2013 2:11:08 AM UTC-5, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Gah! That's twice I've screwed that up.
> Sorry about that!
Yeah, and your difficulty explaining the Unicode implementation reminds me of a
passage from the Python zen:
"If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad
On Thursday, June 20, 2013 1:26:17 AM UTC-5, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> The *implementation* is easy to explain. It's the names of
> the encodings which I get tangled up in.
Well, ignoring the fact that you're last explanation is
still buggy, you have not actually described an
"implementation", no,
On Thursday, June 20, 2013 7:57:06 AM UTC-5, rusi wrote:
> Every language has gotchas. This is one of python's.
So are we purposely injecting illogic into our language just
to be part of some "cool crowd" of programming languages with
gotchas.
"You thought intuitiveness was a virtue? Haha, we go
On Thursday, June 20, 2013 9:04:50 AM UTC-5, Andrew Berg wrote:
> On 2013.06.20 08:40, Rick Johnson wrote:
> > then what is the purpose of a Unicode Braille character set?
> Two dimensional characters can be made into 3 dimensional shapes.
Yes in the real world. But what a
On Thursday, June 20, 2013 10:38:34 AM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote:
> Function defaults in Python, being implemented as
> attributes on the function object, are very similar in
> nature to static variables in C.
Oh wait a minute. i think it's becoming clear to me now!
Python functions are objects
On Thursday, June 20, 2013 12:12:01 PM UTC-5, rusi wrote:
> Python (and all the other 'cool' languages) dont have
> gotchas because someone malevolently put them there. In
> most cases, the problem is seen too late and the cost of
> changing entrenched code too great.
Okay. So now you are admitt
On Thursday, June 20, 2013 7:57:28 PM UTC-5, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:05:32 -0700, Rick Johnson wrote:
> > Python functions are objects that take arguments, of
> > which (the arguments) are then converted to attributes
> > of the function object.
On Friday, June 21, 2013 2:10:49 AM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote:
> Why should that be? Why is a subroutine not allowed to
> retain any state?
I refuse to repeat myself for lazy readers!
> You're free to write code in a purely functional style if
> you like
I don't want to write code in a purely
On Thursday, June 20, 2013 5:28:06 PM UTC-5, Lefavor, Matthew
(GSFC-582.0)[MICROTEL LLC] wrote:
>
> [snip example showing dummy coder doing something dumb]
>
> +1. This is what convinces me that keeping references to
> keyword arguments is actually the right thing to do.
>
> Perhaps I'm biased b
On Friday, June 21, 2013 10:57:17 AM UTC-5, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:05:32 -0700, Rick Johnson wrote:
> > py> class FuncAdd(object):
> > ... def __init__(self, ivalue):
> > ... self.ivalue = ivalue
> Notice how you are storin
On Friday, June 21, 2013 12:47:56 PM UTC-5, Rotwang wrote:
> It isn't clear to me from your posts what exactly you're
> proposing as an alternative to the way Python's default
> argument binding works. In your version of Python, what
> exactly would happen when I passed a mutable argument as a
> de
On Friday, June 21, 2013 1:37:13 PM UTC-5, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Okay, you're trolling. Time for another month in the kill-file.
> *plonk*
That's so typical of you. You start losing an argument, and
when you have no remaining counter arguments, you resort to
name calling. Why am i not surprise
On Friday, June 21, 2013 2:18:27 PM UTC-5, Rick Johnson wrote:
> On Friday, June 21, 2013 1:37:13 PM UTC-5, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
> > Okay, you're trolling.
Steven, you wouldn't know "trolling" even if you were an honorary salad tosser
at a
On Friday, June 21, 2013 2:20:22 PM UTC-5, Neil Cerutti wrote:
> Rick, it's not a wart, It's a gotcha. The reason it's a
> gotcha is this: In order to predict what will happen
> correctly, you have to have mastered three separate Python
> concepts.
>
> 1. How name
On Friday, June 21, 2013 2:25:49 PM UTC-5, MRAB wrote:
> On 21/06/2013 19:26, Rick Johnson wrote:
> >
> > The Apathetic Approach:
> >
> >
On Friday, June 21, 2013 5:49:51 PM UTC-5, MRAB wrote:
> I notice that you've omitted any mention of how you'd know that the
> argument was mutable.
My argument has always been that mutables should not be
passed into subroutines as default arguments because bad
things can happen. And Python's excu
On Friday, June 21, 2013 6:40:51 PM UTC-5, Rotwang wrote:
> On 21/06/2013 19:26, Rick Johnson wrote:
> [...]
> I didn't ask what alternative methods of handling default
> argument binding exist (I can think of several, but none
> of them strikes me as preferable to how Python
On Friday, June 21, 2013 8:31:35 PM UTC-5, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Tuples have to go into the "Bad List" because, although
> they themselves are immutable, their contents may not be.
> Imagine the confusion and horror that poor developers will
> experience when they do something like this:
>
> de
On Friday, June 21, 2013 8:54:50 PM UTC-5, MRAB wrote:
> On 22/06/2013 00:51, Rick Johnson wrote:
> > On Friday, June 21, 2013 5:49:51 PM UTC-5, MRAB wrote:
> > My argument has always been that mutables should not be
> > passed into subroutines as default arguments becau
On Friday, June 21, 2013 8:38:21 PM UTC-5, Ian wrote:
> The answer to this conundrum is staring you in the face.
Thanks for posting a solution for this. Not sure if i'll
ever need it, but nice to know.
> Note that the TypeError complains that you passed it an
> "unhashable" type, and not that you
On Friday, June 21, 2013 9:32:43 PM UTC-5, rusi wrote:
> So Rick... I agree with you... all these theoreticians
> should be burnt at the stake! On a more serious note: many
> people make similar mistakes eg Haskellers who think
> Haskell is safe. Safer (than something or other) -- Ok
> See my blog [...]
> for a history of wishes akin to yours and lessons not
> learnt. In short the problems accruing from unconstrained
> imperative programming are severe and the solutions are
> hard. In the meanwhile, goals such as your 'keep-
> procedures-stateless' can and should certainly be
>
On Saturday, June 22, 2013 8:36:43 AM UTC-5, Joshua Landau wrote:
> message = "Item wrote to MongoDB database "
> message += "{0[MONGODB_DB]}/{0[MONGODB_COLLECTION]}".format(settings)
> log.msg(message, level=log.DEBUG, spider=spider)
If you're going to whore out parts of the string to
variables i
On Saturday, June 22, 2013 10:40:24 AM UTC-5, Joshua Landau wrote:
> > Plus, your use of the format syntax is incorrect.
> Wut?
Well what i mean exactly is not that it's illegal, i just
find the use of the "getattr sugar", from WITHIN the format
string, to be excessively noisy.
In short, i don't
On Saturday, June 22, 2013 12:19:31 PM UTC-5, Rotwang wrote:
> > On 22/06/2013 02:15, Rick Johnson wrote:
> > IS ALL THIS REGISTERING YET? DO YOU UNDERSTAND?
>
> No, I don't. These two special cases are not sufficient
> for me to determine what semantics you are propos
On Saturday, June 22, 2013 6:12:50 PM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote:
> As a general rule, I don't like separating format strings and their
> arguments.
Huh? Format strings don't take arguments because Python's built-in string type
is not callable.
py> callable("")
False
"Format string" is ju
On Saturday, June 22, 2013 9:39:30 PM UTC-5, christ...@gmail.com wrote:
> Writing simple program asking a question with the answer being
> "yes"...how do I allow the correct answer if user types Yes,
> yes, or YES?
Here is a clue.
py> 'e' == 'e'
True
py> 'E' == 'E'
True
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On Sunday, June 23, 2013 11:15:38 AM UTC-5, Ian wrote:
> If you're worried about efficiency, you can also
> explicitly name the superclass in order to call the method
> directly, like:
I'm NOT worried about efficiency, i worried about
readability, and using super (when super is NOT absolutely
requ
On Sunday, June 23, 2013 11:49:42 AM UTC-5, Roy Smith wrote:
> For what it's worth, I never bother to inherit from object
> unless I know there's something I need from new style
> classes. Undoubtedly, this creates a disturbance in The
> Force, but such is life.
Well, in Python 3000, if you don'
On Sunday, June 30, 2013 1:06:35 AM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote:
> So, here's a challenge: Come up with something really simple, and
> write an insanely complicated - yet perfectly valid - way to achieve
> the same thing. Bonus points for horribly abusing Python's clean
> syntax in the process.
Ch
On Jun 27, 5:21 pm, iconoclast011 wrote:
> Fairly new to Python ... Is there a way to efficiently (different from my
> brute
> force code shown below) to set up a game grid of buttons (ie with pygame)
> responding to mouse clicks ? I would want to vary the size of the grid ...
>
> Thanks
>
> Br
On Jul 2, 3:20 am, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Steven D'Aprano
>
> wrote:
> > "c" < first_word < second_word == third_word < "x"
>
> > I'm sure I don't have to explain what that means -- that standard chained
> > notation for comparisons is obvious and simple.
>
> > In
On Jun 30, 9:06 pm, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:05:26 +0200, Thomas Jollans wrote:
> > Yes. My sole point, really, is that "normally", one would expect these
> > two expressions to be equivalent:
>
> > a < b < c
> > (a < b) < c
>
> Good grief. Why would you expect that?
>
> You
On Jul 2, 11:42 am, Chris Angelico wrote:
> Rick, do you realize that you have
> to spoon-feed the interpreter with spaces/tabs when other interpreters
> just KNOW to drop back an indentation level when you close a brace?
Yes. And significant white space is my favorite attribute of Pyth
On Jul 2, 2:06 pm, Thomas Jollans wrote:
> On 07/02/2012 08:22 PM, Rick Johnson wrote:
>
> > Agreed. I wish we had one language. One which had syntactical
> > directives for scoping, blocks, assignments, etc, etc...
>
> > BLOCK_INDENT_MARKER -> \t
On Jul 2, 10:45 am, Wanderer wrote:
> Is there a way to set the mouse wheel resolution for the wxPython
> wx.Slider? I would like to use the graphic slider for coarse control
> and the mouse wheel for fine control. Right now the mouse wheel makes
> the slider jump ten counts and I would like it to
On Jul 2, 3:45 pm, Rick Johnson wrote:
> [...]
> MouseWheel -> cb(MEDIUM)
> MouseWheel+ControlKey -> cb(FINE)
> MouseWheel+ShiftKey -> cb(COURSE)
Of course some could even argue that three levels of control are not
good enough; for which i wholeheartedly agree!
A REA
On Jul 4, 6:21 pm, subhabangal...@gmail.com wrote:
> [...]
> To detect the document boundaries, I am splitting them into a bag
> of words and using a simple for loop as,
>
> for i in range(len(bag_words)):
> if bag_words[i]=="$":
> print (bag_words[i],i)
Ignoring that you are a
On Jul 5, 10:19 am, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> The number of seconds in a day (true solar day) varies by between 13 and
> 30 seconds depending on the time of the year and the position of the sun.
Indeed. Which proves that a time keeping system based on the haphazard
movements of celestial bodies is
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