Re: Java is killing me! (AKA: Java for Pythonheads?)

2011-08-12 Thread Jeffrey Gaynor
One Java-eque solution is to pass in an object that has the arguments and build the validity logic into that object. So you have public class LimitsAndLevels{ float[] whatever = null; float anotherOne = 0.0; // or maybe some other overloaded value public float[] getWhatever(){ isValid

Re: Egos, heartlessness, and limitations

2011-04-14 Thread Jeffrey Gaynor
Lemme see now... >i laid out grandiose plans for a new beginning only to have my words >fall on deaf ears. Have we become so self absorbed as to care only for >our status and ego and not for the community at whole? So you proposed a grandiose plane that is a heck of a lot of work for the peo

Re: value of pi and 22/7

2011-03-17 Thread Jeffrey Gaynor
There are a few long strings, but have fun yourself with the pi digit searcher: http://www.angio.net/pi/bigpi.cgi Longest string I heard of was nine 6's in a row, so search for 6 and see what you get. - Original Message - From: "Ian Kelly" To: "Jeffrey Gayn

Re: value of pi and 22/7

2011-03-17 Thread Jeffrey Gaynor
(pulls out doctorate in Math.) Take a circle and measure its diameter, then circumference (coffee cans and string are helpful). Then pi = Circumference/diameter approximating that is hard. It turns out that even though it *looks* like a nice fraction, the value that results is not (fractions of

Re: Question on multiple python environments in Apache

2010-10-25 Thread Jeffrey Gaynor
Re: Question on multiple python environments in Apache Why wouldn't you use multiple apache instances? On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Jeffrey Gaynor < jgay...@ncsa.uiuc.edu > wrote: I have several different versions of a web app that run under Apache. The issue is t

Question on multiple python environments in Apache

2010-10-22 Thread Jeffrey Gaynor
I have several different versions of a web app that run under Apache. The issue is that I need to have several different configurations available under several environments (such as Django, mod_python and plain vanilla mod_wsgi). Is there a simple way to get several of these to be completely ind

Re: pythagorean triples exercise

2010-10-22 Thread Jeffrey Gaynor
As I indicated, generating such triples is easy. What you found is the edge case that 2*i*j = 200 => 100 = i*j so (i,j) = (100,1) or (50,2) (25,4), (20,5) or (10,10). The maximal value are i = 100, j = 1. The other sides are i^2 - j^2 = 10,000 - 1 = i^2 + j^2 = 10,000 + 1 = 10,001 ...a

Re: pythagorean triples exercise

2010-10-21 Thread Jeffrey Gaynor
What you want is to realize that all integer Pythagorean triples can be generated by a pair of integers, (i,j), j < i. The values are just (* = multiply, ^ = exponentiation) a = 2*i*j b = i^2 - j^2 c = i^2 + j^2 (hypotenuse) So yes indeed a^2 + b^2 = c^2. This is a very ancient result, btw and

Re: PyCharm

2010-10-14 Thread Jeffrey Gaynor
Yip. I'm using it and for the most part like it. But... I used their Java IDE for years (it totally rocks, highly recommended), so I it is very comfortable to use PyCharm. One thing that bugs me in refactoring though is that renaming a method or variable does not necessarily work. It's suppose

Re: Newbie question regarding SSL and certificate verification

2010-07-29 Thread Jeffrey Gaynor
rote: > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Jeffrey > Gaynor wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am making a first large project in python and am having quite a >> bit of difficulty unscrambling various python versions and what >> they can/cannot do. To wit, I must communicate with

Newbie question regarding SSL and certificate verification

2010-07-28 Thread Jeffrey Gaynor
Hi, I am making a first large project in python and am having quite a bit of difficulty unscrambling various python versions and what they can/cannot do. To wit, I must communicate with certain services via https and am required to perform certificate verification on them. The problem is that