Re: Sending XML to a WEB Service and Getting Response Back

2010-12-20 Thread Ian Kelly
On 12/20/2010 11:34 PM, John Nagle wrote: SOAPpy is way out of date. The last update on SourceForge was in 2001. 2007, actually: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywebsvcs/files/ And there is repository activity within the past 9 months. Still, point taken. -- http://mail.python.org/mailma

Re: Google AI challenge: planet war. Lisp won.

2010-12-20 Thread Jason Earl
On Mon, Dec 20 2010, Jon Harrop wrote: > Wasn't that the "challenge" where they wouldn't even accept solutions > written in many other languages (including both OCaml and F#)? > > Cheers, > Jon. http://ai-contest.com/faq.php Question: There is no starter package for my favorite language. What

Re: Sending XML to a WEB Service and Getting Response Back

2010-12-20 Thread John Nagle
On 12/20/2010 12:14 PM, Hidura wrote: I recommend you use the urllib.request in the library of python says everything that you want to know. 2010/12/20, Anurag Chourasia: Dear Python Mates, I have a requirement to send a XML Data to a WEB Service whose URL is of the form http://joule:8041/DteE

Re: Google AI challenge: planet war. Lisp won.

2010-12-20 Thread Jon Harrop
Wasn't that the "challenge" where they wouldn't even accept solutions written in many other languages (including both OCaml and F#)? Cheers, Jon. "Xah Lee" wrote in message news:44a8f48f-e291-463e-a042-d0cbc31a2...@z17g2000prz.googlegroups.com... discovered this rather late. Google has a AI

Re: Bug in fixed_point?!

2010-12-20 Thread Terry Reedy
On 12/20/2010 10:03 PM, C Barrington-Leigh wrote: I cannot figure out what I'm doing wrong. The following does not return a fixed point: What did it do? For nearly all such questions, cut and paste actual output or traceback. from scipy import optimize xxroot= optimize.fixed_point(lambda xx

Re: Modifying an existing excel spreadsheet

2010-12-20 Thread Stefan Sonnenberg-Carstens
Am 20.12.2010 22:56, schrieb Ed Keith: I have a user supplied 'template' Excel spreadsheet. I need to create a new excel spreadsheet based on the supplied template, with data filled in. I found the tools here http://www.python-excel.org/, and http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyexcelerator/. I

Bug in fixed_point?!

2010-12-20 Thread C Barrington-Leigh
I cannot figure out what I'm doing wrong. The following does not return a fixed point: from scipy import optimize xxroot= optimize.fixed_point(lambda xx: exp(-2.0*xx)/2.0, 1.0, args=(), xtol=1e-12, maxiter=500) print ' %f solves fixed point, ie f(%f)=%f ?'% (xxroot,xxroot,exp(-2.0*xxroot)/2.0) C

Re: Redundant importing of modules

2010-12-20 Thread Steve Holden
On 12/20/2010 8:36 PM, Jshgwave wrote: > When writing a function that uses a module such as NumPy, it is tempting > to include the statement "import numpy" or "import numpy as np" in the > definition of the function, in case the function is used in a script > that hasn't already imported NumPy. >

Re: Class-override of a sort-key method?

2010-12-20 Thread Steve Holden
On 12/20/2010 7:10 PM, Chris Rebert wrote: > On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 3:23 PM, wrote: >> Hi all - it would seem that these days, all the cool kids use the sort >> function's 'key' kwarg in order to sort a list of custom objects quickly. > > Really? They don't bother to define __cmp__ or similar?

Redundant importing of modules

2010-12-20 Thread Jshgwave
When writing a function that uses a module such as NumPy, it is tempting to include the statement "import numpy" or "import numpy as np" in the definition of the function, in case the  function is used in a script that hasn't already imported NumPy. That could lead to the script issuing the "im

Re: Catching user switching and getting current active user from root on linux

2010-12-20 Thread Steve Holden
On 12/20/2010 12:54 PM, mpnordland wrote: > I give up, I will never try to use a usenet group again. For the ones > of you who tried to help thank you. You helped to identify some of my > troubles, as for you @usernet, you are a troll Don't give up after one experience. Usenet can be really useful

Re: Class-override of a sort-key method?

2010-12-20 Thread Chris Rebert
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 3:23 PM, wrote: > Hi all - it would seem that these days, all the cool kids use the sort > function's 'key' kwarg in order to sort a list of custom objects quickly. Really? They don't bother to define __cmp__ or similar? Sounds lazy and poorly structured. > Unfortunately

Class-override of a sort-key method?

2010-12-20 Thread pythonlist . calin79
Hi all - it would seem that these days, all the cool kids use the sort function's 'key' kwarg in order to sort a list of custom objects quickly. Unfortunately, as opposed to using 'cmp', where you can implent __cmp__ to get 'automatic sorting' in a similar fashion, there doesn't seem to be a direc

Re: Sending XML to a WEB Service and Getting Response Back

2010-12-20 Thread Ian Kelly
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Anurag Chourasia wrote: > Dear Python Mates, > I have a requirement to send a XML Data to a WEB Service whose URL is of the > form http://joule:8041/DteEnLinea/ws/EnvioGuia.jws > I also have to read back the response returned as a result of sending this > data to

Re: Why do my list go uni-code by itself?

2010-12-20 Thread Dave Angel
On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Martin Hvidberg wrote: I'm reading a fixed format text file, line by line. I hereunder present the code. I have out part not related to the file reading. Only relevant detail left out is the lstCutters. It looks like this: [[1, 9], [11, 21], [23, 48], [50, 59], [61, 96

Modifying an existing excel spreadsheet

2010-12-20 Thread Ed Keith
I have a user supplied 'template' Excel spreadsheet. I need to create a new excel spreadsheet based on the supplied template, with data filled in. I found the tools here http://www.python-excel.org/,  and http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyexcelerator/. I have been trying to use the former, sin

Re: Why do my list go uni-code by itself?

2010-12-20 Thread Ian Kelly
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Martin Hvidberg wrote: > Question: > In the last printout, tagged >InReturLst> all entries turn into uni-code. > What happens here? Actually, they were all unicode to begin with. You're using codecs.open to read the file, which transparently decodes the data usin

Re: Why do my list go uni-code by itself?

2010-12-20 Thread MRAB
> I'm reading a fixed format text file, line by line. I hereunder present the code. I have out part not related to the file reading. > Only relevant detail left out is the lstCutters. It looks like this: > [[1, 9], [11, 21], [23, 48], [50, 59], [61, 96], [98, 123], [125, 150]] > It specifies the

Re: Trying to parse a HUGE(1gb) xml file

2010-12-20 Thread Tim Harig
On 2010-12-20, spaceman-spiff wrote: > 0. Goal :I am looking for a specific element..there are several 10s/100s > occurrences of that element in the 1gb xml file. The contents of the xml, > is just a dump of config parameters from a packet switch( although imho, > the contents of the xml dont mat

Re: Trying to parse a HUGE(1gb) xml file

2010-12-20 Thread Terry Reedy
On 12/20/2010 2:49 PM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: Yes, this is a terrible technique; most examples are crap. Yes, this is using DOM. DOM is evil and the enemy, full-stop. You're still using DOM; DOM is evil. For serial processing, DOM is superfluous superstructure. For random access pr

Why do my list go uni-code by itself?

2010-12-20 Thread Martin Hvidberg
I'm reading a fixed format text file, line by line. I hereunder present the code. I have out part not related to the file reading. Only relevant detail left out is the lstCutters. It looks like this: [[1, 9], [11, 21], [23, 48], [50, 59], [61, 96], [98, 123], [125, 150]] It specifies the first a

Re: Trying to parse a HUGE(1gb) xml file

2010-12-20 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 12:29 -0800, spaceman-spiff wrote: > I need to detect them & then for each 1, i need to copy all the > content b/w the element's start & end tags & create a smaller xml > file. Yep, do that a lot; via iterparse. > 1. Can you point me to some examples/samples of using SAX, >

Re: Trying to parse a HUGE(1gb) xml file

2010-12-20 Thread spaceman-spiff
Hi Usernet First up, thanks for your prompt reply. I will make sure i read RFC1855, before posting again, but right now chasing a hard deadline :) I am sorry i left out what exactly i am trying to do. 0. Goal :I am looking for a specific element..there are several 10s/100s occurrences of that

Re: Trying to parse a HUGE(1gb) xml file

2010-12-20 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 11:34 -0800, spaceman-spiff wrote: > Hi c.l.p folks > This is a rather long post, but i wanted to include all the details & > everything i have tried so far myself, so please bear with me & read > the entire boringly long post. > I am trying to parse a ginormous ( ~ 1gb) xml f

Re: Sending XML to a WEB Service and Getting Response Back

2010-12-20 Thread Hidura
I recommend you use the urllib.request in the library of python says everything that you want to know. 2010/12/20, Anurag Chourasia : > Dear Python Mates, > > I have a requirement to send a XML Data to a WEB Service whose URL is of the > form http://joule:8041/DteEnLinea/ws/EnvioGuia.jws > > I als

Re: Trying to parse a HUGE(1gb) xml file

2010-12-20 Thread Tim Harig
[Wrapped to meet RFC1855 Netiquette Guidelines] On 2010-12-20, spaceman-spiff wrote: > This is a rather long post, but i wanted to include all the details & > everything i have tried so far myself, so please bear with me & read > the entire boringly long post. > > I am trying to parse a ginormous

Re: **** httplib.InvalidURL: nonnumeric port ****

2010-12-20 Thread Kev Dwyer
On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 01:00:36 +0530, Anurag Chourasia wrote: Anurag, HTTPConnection takes a host and a port number as arguments, not just a URL. So you could construct your connection request like this: conn = httplib.HTTPConnection('joule', 8041) then use the request() method on the connection

Re: help with link parsing?

2010-12-20 Thread Chris Rebert
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Littlefield, Tyler wrote: > Hello all, > I have a question. I guess this worked pre 2.6; I don't remember the last > time I used it, but it was a while ago, and now it's failing. Anyone mind > looking at it and telling me what's going wrong? Please describe /exac

Re: **** httplib.InvalidURL: nonnumeric port ****

2010-12-20 Thread Chris Rebert
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Kev Dwyer wrote: >> On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:01:44 +0530, Anurag Chourasia wrote: >> >>> import httplib >> >>> help(httplib.HTTP) >> Help on class HTTP in module httplib: >> >> class HTTP >>  |  Compatibility class with httplib.py from 1.5. >>  | >>  |  Methods de

Re: Questions

2010-12-20 Thread Terry Reedy
On 12/20/2010 12:10 PM, lewi...@verizon.net wrote: 3. I have used Tk in the past with Tcl and IncrTcl. Where can I find a lot of Python/Tk examples so that I can save some time in developing GUIs? Do a search, or possibly a google codesearch, on tkinter or Tkinter, which is Python's tk inter(

Trying to parse a HUGE(1gb) xml file

2010-12-20 Thread spaceman-spiff
Hi c.l.p folks This is a rather long post, but i wanted to include all the details & everything i have tried so far myself, so please bear with me & read the entire boringly long post. I am trying to parse a ginormous ( ~ 1gb) xml file. 0. I am a python & xml n00b, s& have been relying on the

Re: **** httplib.InvalidURL: nonnumeric port ****

2010-12-20 Thread Anurag Chourasia
Hi Kevin, Thanks for the response. I tried with HTTPConnection but the same problem. >>> h1 = httplib.HTTPConnection(' http://joule:8041/DteEnLinea/ws/EnvioGuia.jws') Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ? File "/u01/home/apli/wm/python241/lib/python2.4/httplib.py", line 58

help with link parsing?

2010-12-20 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
Hello all, I have a question. I guess this worked pre 2.6; I don't remember the last time I used it, but it was a while ago, and now it's failing. Anyone mind looking at it and telling me what's going wrong? Also, is there a quick way to match on a certain site? like links from google.com and

Re: **** httplib.InvalidURL: nonnumeric port ****

2010-12-20 Thread Kev Dwyer
On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:01:44 +0530, Anurag Chourasia wrote: >>> import httplib >>> help(httplib.HTTP) Help on class HTTP in module httplib: class HTTP | Compatibility class with httplib.py from 1.5. | | Methods defined here: | | __init__(self, host='', port=None, strict=None) The con

Sending XML to a WEB Service and Getting Response Back

2010-12-20 Thread Anurag Chourasia
Dear Python Mates, I have a requirement to send a XML Data to a WEB Service whose URL is of the form http://joule:8041/DteEnLinea/ws/EnvioGuia.jws I also have to read back the response returned as a result of sending this data to this WebService. This web service implements the following operati

**** httplib.InvalidURL: nonnumeric port ****

2010-12-20 Thread Anurag Chourasia
All, When i try to open a URL of the form http://joule:8041/DteEnLinea/ws/EnvioGuia.jws, I am getting an error as below complaining for some non-numeric port. wm (wmosds) [zibal] - /u01/home/apli/wm/app/gdd :>python Python 2.4.1 (#2, May 30 2005, 09:40:30) [C] on aix5 Type "help", "copyright", "c

Questions

2010-12-20 Thread lewisr2
Folks, 1. As a free lance developer I need to use Python with Web Content Services using IIS7 (Windows 7).  However, I don't have a lot of time to learn IIS7.  Can someone tell me how to configure IIS7 to be used by Python CGI scripts? 2.  I noticed that the latest distribution from ActiveState h

Re: how to measure TCP congestion windows using python ??

2010-12-20 Thread MrJean1
FWIW, on CentOS 4.7, the ctypes version works fine, but the struct version fails, because len(tcp_info) is only 100 bytes while struct.calcsize('B...L') is 104. However, if the format is changed to '7B23L', i.e. one 'L' shorter, the struct version works and returns to same result as the ctypes ver

Re: Catching user switching and getting current active user from root on linux

2010-12-20 Thread mpnordland
I give up, I will never try to use a usenet group again. For the ones of you who tried to help thank you. You helped to identify some of my troubles, as for you @usernet, you are a troll -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python-list Digest, Vol 87, Issue 122

2010-12-20 Thread Randy Given
as On Dec 19, 2010 6:05 AM, wrote: > Send Python-list mailing list submissions to > python-list@python.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > python-lis

Re: Python-list Digest, Vol 87, Issue 122

2010-12-20 Thread Randy Given
ZS On Dec 19, 2010 6:05 AM, wrote: > Send Python-list mailing list submissions to > python-list@python.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > python-lis

Re: Creating custom types from C code

2010-12-20 Thread Stefan Behnel
Eric Frederich, 20.12.2010 16:23: I remember reading about named tuples when they were back-ported to the 2.X series but I never played with them. Is there a way to instantiate a named tuple from C code? There isn't a dedicated C-API for named tuples, but you can instantiate any Python type fr

Re: Creating custom types from C code

2010-12-20 Thread Eric Frederich
Thanks for the reply. I remember reading about named tuples when they were back-ported to the 2.X series but I never played with them. Is there a way to instantiate a named tuple from C code? Maybe I'm over-thinking this whole thing. Is there a simple way that I can define a class in Python and i

Re: How can I intentionally crash my lappy?

2010-12-20 Thread Christian Heimes
Am 20.12.2010 09:45, schrieb mechtheist: > I am no programmer, but know the rudiments [the rudi'est of rudiments] > of working with Python. I have a simple need, to have a simple > script/app I can run that will crash my PC. On my desktops, I can > always hit the reset, but that is not an opt

Re: How can I intentionally crash my lappy?

2010-12-20 Thread rob
Thanks, that is exactly what I was looking for. Unfortunately, it is only for /non/-USB keyboards, I may be able to figure something out from there with hotkey or something. On 12/20/2010 3:31 AM, Stefan Sonnenberg-Carstens wrote: http://pcsupport.about.com/od/tipstricks/ht/makebsodxp.htm Am

Re: How can I intentionally crash my lappy?

2010-12-20 Thread Paul Scott
On 20/12/2010 10:45, mechtheist wrote: > I am no programmer, but know the rudiments [the rudi'est of rudiments] > of working with Python. I have a simple need, to have a simple > script/app I can run that will crash my PC. On my desktops, I can > always hit the reset, but that is not an option

Re: True lists in python?

2010-12-20 Thread Duncan Booth
Vito 'ZeD' De Tullio wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> I can't see any way to go from this linked list: >> >> node1 -> node2 -> node3 -> node4 -> node5 -> node6 -> node7 >> >> to this: >> >> node1 -> node6 -> node5 -> node4 -> node3 -> node2 -> node7 >> >> in constant time. You have to to

Re: How can I intentionally crash my lappy?

2010-12-20 Thread rob
On 12/20/2010 4:22 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 02:45:18 -0600, mechtheist wrote: I am no programmer, but know the rudiments [the rudi'est of rudiments] of working with Python. I have a simple need, to have a simple script/app I can run that will crash my PC. On my desktops

Re: Dynamic list name from a string

2010-12-20 Thread MarcoS
Ok, thanks Steven and Andre for yours reply. This is my situation: I've a list of objects of differents classes, with a common attribute name Something like this: class Object1: obj1_name other fields date class Object2: obj2_name other fields date ... class O

"encoding" attribute codecs.getwriter-produced streams

2010-12-20 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Try this code: # foo.py import sys, codecs stream = codecs.getwriter('utf-8')(sys.stdout) print stream.encoding $ python foo.py | cat None I expected the `encoding' attribute to be "UTF-8", since the stream otherwise correctly functions as a utf-8 encoding stream. Is this a bug in the stream fa

Re: Dynamic list name from a string

2010-12-20 Thread Andre Alexander Bell
Hello, On 12/20/2010 11:08 AM, MarcoS wrote: > Hi, I need to create a list with a dynamic name, something like this: > > '%s_list' %my_dynamic list = [] > > It's this possible? I would suggest you use a dictionary to store your lists like this: lists = {} lists[my_dynamic_list] = [] Maybe yo

Re: How can I intentionally crash my lappy?

2010-12-20 Thread Stefan Sonnenberg-Carstens
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/tipstricks/ht/makebsodxp.htm Am Mo, 20.12.2010, 09:45 schrieb mechtheist: > I am no programmer, but know the rudiments [the rudi'est of rudiments] > of working with Python. I have a simple need, to have a simple > script/app I can run that will crash my PC. On my de

Re: Dynamic list name from a string

2010-12-20 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 02:08:57 -0800, MarcoS wrote: > Hi, I need to create a list with a dynamic name, something like this: > > '%s_list' %my_dynamic list = [] > > It's this possible? I'm pretty sure you don't *need* to, you just think you do. It is highly unlikely that there is anything you can

Re: How can I intentionally crash my lappy?

2010-12-20 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 02:45:18 -0600, mechtheist wrote: > I am no programmer, but know the rudiments [the rudi'est of rudiments] > of working with Python. I have a simple need, to have a simple > script/app I can run that will crash my PC. On my desktops, I can > always hit the reset, but that is

Dynamic list name from a string

2010-12-20 Thread MarcoS
Hi, I need to create a list with a dynamic name, something like this: '%s_list' %my_dynamic list = [] It's this possible? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

How can I intentionally crash my lappy?

2010-12-20 Thread mechtheist
I am no programmer, but know the rudiments [the rudi'est of rudiments] of working with Python. I have a simple need, to have a simple script/app I can run that will crash my PC. On my desktops, I can always hit the reset, but that is not an option with my laptop. Can anyone tell me of an ea