Re: OT: Text editors
On Jul 29, 10:08 am, Ben Finney wrote: > Tim Chase writes: > > On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: > > > I highly recommend the use of notepad++. If anyone knows of a > > > better text editor for Windows please let me know :) I would have bet Mark was ribbing the folks on this list. Maybe you were not Mark? [Well you did say notepad++ not notepad] But to get a bit more serious... > > I highly recommend not tying your editor skills to a single OS, > especially one as ornery for programmers as Windows. > > > I'll advocate for Vim which is crazy-powerful and works nicely on > > just about any platform I touch. > > > Others will advocate for Emacs, which I can't say fits the way my > > brain works but it's also powerful and loved by many. > > Right. I'm in Tim's position, but reversed: my preference is for Emacs > but Vim is a fine choice also. They are mature, well-supported with > regular updates and a massive library of plug-ins for different uses, > have a huge community to help you, and work on all major programming > OSen. > > > The ubiquity of these two platforms makes a worthwhile investment of > > time spent in learning at least one if not both. > > I use both frequently in my work for different things, and they are good > for pretty much any task involving manipulation of text. > > Learn one of Emacs or Vim well, and you won't need to worry about text > editors again. Just curious about your emacs+python usage. Do you use the emacs builtin python mode or the separate python-mode? Do you use pdb? Any other special setups? How about ipython? [Personal note: Ive been using and teaching python with emacs for over 10 years now. But I am getting increasing 'funny looks' for not (for example) using eclipse.] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: OT: Text editors
Tim Chase writes: > On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: > > I highly recommend the use of notepad++. If anyone knows of a > > better text editor for Windows please let me know :) I highly recommend not tying your editor skills to a single OS, especially one as ornery for programmers as Windows. > I'll advocate for Vim which is crazy-powerful and works nicely on > just about any platform I touch. > > Others will advocate for Emacs, which I can't say fits the way my > brain works but it's also powerful and loved by many. Right. I'm in Tim's position, but reversed: my preference is for Emacs but Vim is a fine choice also. They are mature, well-supported with regular updates and a massive library of plug-ins for different uses, have a huge community to help you, and work on all major programming OSen. > The ubiquity of these two platforms makes a worthwhile investment of > time spent in learning at least one if not both. I use both frequently in my work for different things, and they are good for pretty much any task involving manipulation of text. Learn one of Emacs or Vim well, and you won't need to worry about text editors again. -- \“All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more | `\ robust, sophisticated, and well supported in logic and argument | _o__) than others.” —Douglas Adams | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: OT: Text editors (was Re: Search and replace text in XML file?)
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 12:33 PM, hamilton wrote: > Ok, so the answer is no. In terms of the editor, it's fine; you need only worry about Scintilla itself if you're aiming to incorporate it in your own program. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: OT: Text editors (was Re: Search and replace text in XML file?)
On 7/28/2012 4:42 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 7:43 AM, hamilton wrote: On 7/28/2012 1:23 PM, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: For info: http://scintilla.org/ Just did a quick check on scintilla. This looks like a single file editor. Is there a project like capability in there that I did not notice ? Scintilla is a text editing widget; SciTE is a Scintilla-based Text Editor (and is by the same author). The editor wraps up Scintilla with facilities for handling multiple files simultaneously (multiple buffers/tabbed display/whatever you want to call it). ChrisA Ok, so the answer is no. Thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How to represent dates BC
On Tuesday, July 24, 2012 2:55:29 AM UTC-7, Laszlo Nagy wrote:
> >>> conn.getqueryvalue("select '1311-03-14 BC'::date")
> What is the good representation here? Should I implement my own date
Do your datetime formatting in postgres: "select '1311-03-14 BC'::date::text"
PG does have a have a reasonable set of functions for working with datetime.
If you need something more complicated than a simple cast to text, I'd suggest
creating a function:
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION fmt_my_dates(date) RETURNS text LANGUAGE SQL AS
$$
SELECT EXTRACT(.. FROM $1)::text || ...
$$;
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Re: OT: Text editors (was Re: Search and replace text in XML file?)
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 7:43 AM, hamilton wrote: > On 7/28/2012 1:23 PM, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> For info: http://scintilla.org/ > > > Just did a quick check on scintilla. > > This looks like a single file editor. > > Is there a project like capability in there that I did not notice ? Scintilla is a text editing widget; SciTE is a Scintilla-based Text Editor (and is by the same author). The editor wraps up Scintilla with facilities for handling multiple files simultaneously (multiple buffers/tabbed display/whatever you want to call it). ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Search and replace text in XML file?
todd.tab...@gmail.com wrote: > >I basically need to replace every occurrence C:\Program Files with >C:\Program Files (x86), regardless of location. For example, that >text appears within: >C:\Program Files\\Map Data\Road_Centerlines.shp >and also within: >C:\Program >Files\Templates\RoadNetwork.rtx >...among others. >I've tried some non-python methods and they all ruined the XML structure. I don't see how that's possible. XML doesn't have any character counts, and it doesn't care about extra white space. A rock-stupid editor substitution should have been able to do this in two seconds. -- Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: OT: Text editors (was Re: Search and replace text in XML file?)
On 7/28/2012 1:23 PM, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: For info: http://scintilla.org/ Just did a quick check on scintilla. This looks like a single file editor. Is there a project like capability in there that I did not notice ? Thanks hamilton -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: OT: Text editors (was Re: Search and replace text in XML file?)
On Saturday, July 28, 2012 7:47:24 PM UTC+2, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 3:43 AM, wrote: > > > On Saturday, July 28, 2012 5:51:48 PM UTC+2, Chris Angelico wrote: > > > > > > ... and has a few limitations (eg it only really supports > > >> > > >> UTF-8), > > > > > > ?! > > > > > > It's my daily plain text editor (Windows) since ? (I don't remember). > > > And I'm using it for utf-8, utf-16 and cp1252 (my favorite coding) > > > without problems. > > > > Okay, I must have misunderstood something then. Was under the > > impression that it had some internals where it worked only in bytes, > > and that things wouldn't always work if you used anything other than > > UTF-8. It's not an issue for me, since UTF-8 suits me just fine, so > > I've never looked into it. Apologies for the Elmer FUD! > > > > ChrisA No problem. Important is just to say SciTE works fine with many codings. Having said this, I think there is probably some confusion between the scintilla widget and the editor, the application, SciTE using scintilla. In the Python world, the ported "scintilla widget", wxStyleTextCtrl in wxPython and QScintilla in PyQt are working internally in utf-8 and the api's, at least in wxPython, work with a byte arithmetic (annoying). If I used the PyQt version, I do not remember the status with Qt. I prefer the QPlainTextEdit widget. For info: http://scintilla.org/ jmf -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: OT: Text editors (was Re: Search and replace text in XML file?)
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: > I highly recommend the use of notepad++. If anyone knows of a > better text editor for Windows please let me know :) I'll advocate for Vim which is crazy-powerful and works nicely on just about any platform I touch. Others will advocate for Emacs, which I can't say fits the way my brain works but it's also powerful and loved by many. The ubiquity of these two platforms makes a worthwhile investment of time spent in learning at least one if not both. -tkc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: OT: Text editors (was Re: Search and replace text in XML file?)
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 3:43 AM, wrote: > On Saturday, July 28, 2012 5:51:48 PM UTC+2, Chris Angelico wrote: > > ... and has a few limitations (eg it only really supports >> >> UTF-8), > > ?! > > It's my daily plain text editor (Windows) since ? (I don't remember). > And I'm using it for utf-8, utf-16 and cp1252 (my favorite coding) > without problems. Okay, I must have misunderstood something then. Was under the impression that it had some internals where it worked only in bytes, and that things wouldn't always work if you used anything other than UTF-8. It's not an issue for me, since UTF-8 suits me just fine, so I've never looked into it. Apologies for the Elmer FUD! ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: OT: Text editors (was Re: Search and replace text in XML file?)
On Saturday, July 28, 2012 5:51:48 PM UTC+2, Chris Angelico wrote: ... and has a few limitations (eg it only really supports > > UTF-8), ?! It's my daily plain text editor (Windows) since ? (I don't remember). And I'm using it for utf-8, utf-16 and cp1252 (my favorite coding) without problems. jmf -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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Re: OT: Text editors (was Re: Search and replace text in XML file?)
On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 01:51:48 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Mark Lawrence > wrote: >> I highly recommend the use of notepad++. If anyone knows of a better >> text editor for Windows please let me know :) > > My current preference is SciTE, available on Linux and Windows both. > It's configured using Lua, has lexers (and thus syntax highlighters and > auto-indenters) for a huge list of languages (including Python, or I > wouldn't mention it), and isn't RAM-hungry. It's not bug-free (but what > isn't), and has a few limitations (eg it only really supports UTF-8), > but I've found it excellent as both text editor and pseudo-IDE. > > ChrisA I like Geany at present, although i have not tried too many others -- Nothing increases your golf score like witnesses. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Search and replace text in XML file?
On 28/07/2012 09:29, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 28/07/2012 08:17, Terry Reedy wrote: On 7/27/2012 9:23 PM, todd.tab...@gmail.com wrote: I'm looking to search an entire XML file for specific text and replace that text, while maintaining the structure of the XML file. For a one-off project, or for experimentation, I would use a proper text-editor* and run through with search/replace. For automation, use Jason's suggestion of .replace, perhaps on a line-by-line basis. * By definition, such only make changes you request. Notepad++ is one such on Windows. You do not want a word or document processor, or, for simple xml oblivious text substitutions, an xml processor. Such things often make changes of various sorts. I highly recommend the use of notepad++. If anyone knows of a better text editor for Windows please let me know :) My own preference is EditPad. I liked EditPad Lite so much that I bought EditPad Pro. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
OT: Text editors (was Re: Search and replace text in XML file?)
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: > I highly recommend the use of notepad++. If anyone knows of a better text > editor for Windows please let me know :) My current preference is SciTE, available on Linux and Windows both. It's configured using Lua, has lexers (and thus syntax highlighters and auto-indenters) for a huge list of languages (including Python, or I wouldn't mention it), and isn't RAM-hungry. It's not bug-free (but what isn't), and has a few limitations (eg it only really supports UTF-8), but I've found it excellent as both text editor and pseudo-IDE. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Search and replace text in XML file?
On 28/07/2012 08:17, Terry Reedy wrote: On 7/27/2012 9:23 PM, todd.tab...@gmail.com wrote: I'm looking to search an entire XML file for specific text and replace that text, while maintaining the structure of the XML file. For a one-off project, or for experimentation, I would use a proper text-editor* and run through with search/replace. For automation, use Jason's suggestion of .replace, perhaps on a line-by-line basis. * By definition, such only make changes you request. Notepad++ is one such on Windows. You do not want a word or document processor, or, for simple xml oblivious text substitutions, an xml processor. Such things often make changes of various sorts. I highly recommend the use of notepad++. If anyone knows of a better text editor for Windows please let me know :) -- Cheers. Mark Lawrence. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Search and replace text in XML file?
On 7/27/2012 9:23 PM, todd.tab...@gmail.com wrote: I'm looking to search an entire XML file for specific text and replace that text, while maintaining the structure of the XML file. For a one-off project, or for experimentation, I would use a proper text-editor* and run through with search/replace. For automation, use Jason's suggestion of .replace, perhaps on a line-by-line basis. * By definition, such only make changes you request. Notepad++ is one such on Windows. You do not want a word or document processor, or, for simple xml oblivious text substitutions, an xml processor. Such things often make changes of various sorts. -- Terry Jan Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
