Re: Download Proprietary Microsoft Products Now

2010-04-26 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
On Apr 26, 12:16 pm, Lawrence D'Oliveiro l...@geek- central.gen.new_zealand wrote: Just been looking at this review of Visual Studio 2010 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/26/blowing_bubbtles/:     ... the 2GB ISO was quicker to download than it was to install - not     even counting the

Re: Why this exception catch doesn't work?? (python 3)

2010-04-20 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
On Apr 20, 1:06 pm, MRAB pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com wrote: Dodo wrote: Hello, I don't understand why this won't execute import urllib.request as u import socket socket.setdefaulttimeout(10) l = http://img144.imageshack.us/my.php?image=koumakandg8.jpg; # supposed to timeout try:

Re: Updated License Term Agreement for VC Redistributable in VS 2008 SP1

2010-04-14 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
On Apr 14, 10:11 pm, pyt...@bdurham.com wrote: I just stumbled across the following page which seems to indicate that the MS VC 2008 runtime files[1] required to distribute Python applications compiled with Py2exe and similar tools can be shipped without the license restriction many previously

Python Script Creator/Generator (function factory)

2010-03-30 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
experience with generating functionality this way, and could you give me some pointers in the right direction? Any tips, advice, book recommendations are more than welcome. Kind regards, Andrej Mitrovic -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Script Creator/Generator (function factory)

2010-03-30 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
I forgot to mention, I'm using Python 2.5.x. I can't use Python 3 unfortunately, the 3rd party application uses Py2.5.x internally, so I have to limit the functionality to that version. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Vertical line in function arguments

2010-03-27 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
There is this peace of code in a 3rd party module: MidiIn.SetFilter(pypm.FILT_ACTIVE | pypm.FILT_CLOCK | pypm.FILT_PITCHBEND | pypm.FILT_NOTE) What are the vertical lines in a function call such as this? This actually calls a function from a Pyrex module that was compiled

Re: Vertical line in function arguments

2010-03-27 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
Well I hate it when this happens. I ask a question, and literally 2 seconds later I bump into the answer. This explains it a bit: http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#bit-string-operations-on-integer-types -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Traversing through Dir()

2010-03-26 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
On Mar 26, 9:18 am, Alf P. Steinbach al...@start.no wrote: * Andrej Mitrovic: I would like to traverse through the entire structure of dir(), and write it to a file. Now, if I try to write the contents of dir() to a file (via pickle), I only get the top layer. So even if there are lists

Re: Have you embraced Python 3.x yet?

2010-03-26 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
I use both, really. I started by learning and using Python 3, but I ended up using Python 2 much more often compared to Py3. Not because of the functionality of the language, but because most software that embeds Python or is extendable in some way is usually using Python 2. + There's the whole

Traversing through Dir()

2010-03-25 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
I would like to traverse through the entire structure of dir(), and write it to a file. Now, if I try to write the contents of dir() to a file (via pickle), I only get the top layer. So even if there are lists within the returned list from dir(), they get written as a list of strings to the file.

Re: Python Documentation website layout changed?

2010-03-21 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
On Mar 20, 12:32 am, Steve Holden st...@holdenweb.com wrote: Steve Holden wrote: Andrej Mitrovic wrote: On Mar 17, 6:41 pm, Andrej Mitrovic andrej.mitrov...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, What happened to the sidebar on the left of the documentation website? It seems to be gone: http

Python Documentation website layout changed?

2010-03-17 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
Hi, What happened to the sidebar on the left of the documentation website? It seems to be gone: http://docs.python.org/py3k/index.html I found it quite useful since I can quickly swap between Python2/3 documentation, and between other parts of the documentation as well. --

Re: Python Documentation website layout changed?

2010-03-17 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
On Mar 17, 6:41 pm, Andrej Mitrovic andrej.mitrov...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, What happened to the sidebar on the left of the documentation website? It seems to be gone: http://docs.python.org/py3k/index.html I found it quite useful since I can quickly swap between Python2/3 documentation

Traversing through variable-sized lists

2010-02-17 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
Hi, I couldn't figure out a better description for the Subject line, but anyway, I have the following: _num_frames = 32 _frames = range(0, _num_frames) # This is a list of actual objects, I'm just pseudocoding here. _values = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4] I want to call a function of _frames for each frame

Re: Traversing through variable-sized lists

2010-02-17 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
On Feb 17, 8:24 pm, John Posner jjpos...@optimum.net wrote: On 2/17/2010 1:10 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: Hi, I couldn't figure out a better description for the Subject line, but anyway, I have the following: _num_frames = 32 _frames = range(0, _num_frames) # This is a list

Re: Traversing through variable-sized lists

2010-02-17 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
On Feb 17, 11:56 pm, Dave Angel da...@ieee.org wrote: Andrej Mitrovic wrote: On Feb 17, 8:24 pm, John Posner jjpos...@optimum.net wrote: On 2/17/2010 1:10 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: snip However the values list might have an uneven number of items. I would like to make it as evenly

Re: Interesting talk on Python vs. Ruby and how he would like Python to have just a bit more syntactic flexibility.

2010-02-16 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
On Feb 16, 7:38 pm, Casey Hawthorne caseyhhammer_t...@istar.ca wrote: Interesting talk on Python vs. Ruby and how he would like Python to have just a bit more syntactic flexibility. http://blog.extracheese.org/2010/02/python-vs-ruby-a-battle-to-the-de... -- Regards, Casey Gary's friend

Re: Awful book warning: How to think like a (Python) programmer - non-working examples

2010-02-08 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
The book covers Python 2.x syntax. You might have downloaded Python 3.1, which has different syntax then Python 2.x. From what I can tell, the first example on page 7 is print 1 + 1. Try issuing this command: print(1 + 1) If everything goes well, and you get '2' as the answer, then you're

Re: Awful book warning: How to think like a (Python) programmer - non-working examples

2010-02-08 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
On Feb 8, 10:14 pm, David Malcolm dmalc...@redhat.com wrote: On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 12:53 -0800, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: The book covers Python 2.x syntax. You might have downloaded Python 3.1, which has different syntax then Python 2.x. From what I can tell, the first example on page 7

Re: Checking the coding style

2010-02-07 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
On Feb 7, 8:22 pm, Kev Dwyer kevin.p.dw...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:36:10 +0100, Pablo Recio Quijano wrote: Hi! I'm finishing a project writen in Python, and I realize about the document PEP8 - Style Guide for Python Code [1]. Is there any app or script that checks if my

Re: Possible? Python 2.6.x and PythonWin on 64-bit Windows 7

2010-02-07 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
On Feb 8, 1:26 am, escalation746 escalation...@yahoo.com wrote: I am having a heck of a time doing the simplest thing: installing Python and the pywin extensions, including the PythonWin editor I have always relied on, into my new Windows 7 Professional 64-bit OS. I tried the Python package

Re: Google AI Challenge at U of Waterloo

2010-02-06 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
Sweet, something to keep my brain busy for the next couple of weeks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: TABS in the CPython C source code

2010-02-06 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
On Feb 6, 9:31 pm, Alf P. Steinbach al...@start.no wrote: Just trying to delve into the CPython source code. Pleasant surprise: while e.g. the gcc compiler is written in KR C (1975 style C), CPython seems to be written in almost modern C (1989 and on). But, hey, TABS used for indenting,

Re: whassup? builtins? python3000? Naah can't be right?

2010-02-01 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
Hey, it's really simple! Just like the excerpt from the Learning Python book says: Really, the built-in scope is just a built-in module called builtins, but you have to import builtins to query built-ins because the name builtins is not itself built-in :) --

Re: Python distutils build problems with MinGW

2010-02-01 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
On Feb 1, 4:03 am, Andrej Mitrovic andrej.mitrov...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 1, 2:59 am, Andrej Mitrovic andrej.mitrov...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've made a similar post on the Cython mailing list, however I think this is more python-specific. I'm having trouble setting up distutils

Re: Python distutils build problems with MinGW

2010-02-01 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
I've found the problem: For the windows Python 3.1.1 x86 installation, the file \Python31\Lib \Distutils\command\build_ext.py, has this: Line 313: self.compiler = new_compiler(compiler=None, But Python 2.6 has this line: Line 306: self.compiler =

Re: Python distutils build problems with MinGW

2010-02-01 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
On Feb 1, 5:44 pm, casevh cas...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 1, 8:31 am, Andrej Mitrovic andrej.mitrov...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 1, 4:03 am, Andrej Mitrovic andrej.mitrov...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 1, 2:59 am, Andrej Mitrovic andrej.mitrov...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've made

Re: Python distutils build problems with MinGW

2010-02-01 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
Well, in any case this seems to be working ok for me now. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PEP 3147 - new .pyc format

2010-01-31 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
Leave magic to the witches of Perl. :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Python distutils build problems with MinGW

2010-01-31 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
Hi, I've made a similar post on the Cython mailing list, however I think this is more python-specific. I'm having trouble setting up distutils to use MinGW instead of Visual Studio when building a module. Even tho I've just uninstalled VS, and cleared out any leftover VS environment variables,

Re: Python distutils build problems with MinGW

2010-01-31 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
On Feb 1, 2:59 am, Andrej Mitrovic andrej.mitrov...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've made a similar post on the Cython mailing list, however I think this is more python-specific. I'm having trouble setting up distutils to use MinGW instead of Visual Studio when building a module. Even tho I've just

Changing tab behavior in Python Interactive mode

2010-01-29 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
I've noticed that when running Python in interactive mode (via cmd on windows), the first time I hit tab it will move 4 spaces to the right, however each new tab will move 8 spaces instead of 4. Why this inconsistent behavior? And how could I change this to be consistent and always move only 4

Re: Changing tab behavior in Python Interactive mode

2010-01-29 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
On Jan 29, 6:47 pm, Steve Holden st...@holdenweb.com wrote: Andrej Mitrovic wrote: I've noticed that when running Python in interactive mode (via cmd on windows), the first time I hit tab it will move 4 spaces to the right, however each new tab will move 8 spaces instead of 4. Why

Re: Changing tab behavior in Python Interactive mode

2010-01-29 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
On Jan 29, 10:07 pm, Steve Holden st...@holdenweb.com wrote: Andrej Mitrovic wrote: On Jan 29, 6:47 pm, Steve Holden st...@holdenweb.com wrote: Andrej Mitrovic wrote: I've noticed that when running Python in interactive mode (via cmd on windows), the first time I hit tab it will move 4