Re: Confusing Algorithm

[Tim Roberts]

RBotha r...@ymond.co.za wrote:

I'm facing the following problem:


In a city of towerblocks, Spiderman can 
“cover” all the towers by connecting the 
first tower with a spider-thread to the top 
of a later tower and then to a next tower 
and then to yet another tower until he 
reaches the end of the city. ...

-Example:
List of towers: 1 5 3 7 2 5 2
Output: 4


I'm not sure how a 'towerblock' could be defined. How square does a shape have 
to be to qualify as a towerblock? Any help on solving this problem?

Here's your city;

  [  ]
  [  ]
  [  ][  ][  ]
  [  ][  ][  ]
  [  ][  ][  ][  ]
  [  ][  ][  ][  ][  ][  ]
  [  ][  ][  ][  ][  ][  ][  ]
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   A   B   C   D   E   F   G

Once you see the picture, you can see that you'd thread from B to D without
involving C.  I think you'll go A to B to D to F to G -- 4 threads.
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QTableWidget updating columns in a single row

[Sara Lochtie]

I have written a GUI that gets data sent to it in real time and this data is 
displayed in a table. Every time data is sent in it is displayed in the table 
in a new row. My problem is that I would like to have the data just replace the 
old in the first row.

The table has 6 columns (A, B, C, D, E, F) I want the new data to continue 
replacing the old data in the same row unless the data that goes under column A 
changes, at which point a new row would be added.

Does anyone have tips on how to approach this? I can post a portion of my code 
to get a better idea of what I have done.


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Re: How to get JSON values and how to trace sessions??

[Tim Roberts]

webmas...@terradon.nl wrote:
 
But now i am wondering how to trace sessions? it is needed for a
multiplayer game, connected to a webserver. How do i trace a PHP-session?
I suppose i have to save a cookie with the sessionID from the webserver?

Yes.  The server will send a Set-Cookie: header with your first response.
You just need to return that in a Cookie: header with every request you
make after that.

Are their other ways to keep control over which players sends the gamedata?

Not sure what you mean.  If the web site requires cookies, this is what you
have to do.
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Fixing escaped characters python-xbee

[pabloblo85]

I am using a XBee to receive data from an arduino network.

But they have AP=2 which means escaped characters are used when a 11 or 13 
appears (and some more...)

When this occurs, XBee sends 7D and inmediatly XOR operation with char and 0x20.

I am trying to recover the original character in python but I don't know ho to 
do it.

I tried something like this:

read = ser.read(4) #Read 4 chars from serial port
for x in range (0,4):
if(toHex(read[x]) != '7d'): #toHex converts it to hexadecimal 
just for checking purposes
if(x  3):
read[x] = logical_xor(read[x+1], 20) #XOR
for y in range (x+1,3):
read[y] = read[y+1] 

read[3] = ser.read()
else:
read[x] = logical_xor(ser.read(), 20) #XOR

data = struct.unpack('f', read)[0]

logical_xor is:

def logical_xor(str1, str2):
return bool(str1) ^ bool(str2)

I check if 7D character is in the first 3 chars read, I use the next char to 
convert it, if it is the 4th, I read another one.

But I read in python strings are inmutables and I can't change their value once 
they have one.

What would you do in this case? I started some days ago with python and I don't 
know how to solve this kind of things...
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Re: QTableWidget updating columns in a single row

[Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick]

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Sara Lochtie sara.loch...@gmail.com wrote:
 I have written a GUI that gets data sent to it in real time and this data is 
 displayed in a table. Every time data is sent in it is displayed in the table 
 in a new row. My problem is that I would like to have the data just replace 
 the old in the first row.

 The table has 6 columns (A, B, C, D, E, F) I want the new data to continue 
 replacing the old data in the same row unless the data that goes under column 
 A changes, at which point a new row would be added.

 Does anyone have tips on how to approach this? I can post a portion of my 
 code to get a better idea of what I have done.


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My suggestion: compare the new data’s column A with the existing data
(store a copy of the old data somewhere?).  If it differs, add a new
row; if it doesn’t, change an existing one.  If you need help with the
exact implementation, show the *entire* code.

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Re: List Count

[Blind Anagram]

On 24/04/2013 02:59, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
 On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:57:17 +0100, Blind Anagram wrote:

[snip]

 In my opinion, it is more important to be efficient for large sieves, not 
 small. As they say, for small N, everything is fast. Nobody is going to 
 care about the difference between small-N taking 1ms or 10ms, but they 
 will care about the difference between big-N taking 1 minute or 1 hour. 
 So, as a general rule, optimize the expensive cases, and if the cheap 
 cases are a little less cheap than they otherwise would have been, nobody 
 will care or notice.

I agree in general but it is often the case that more sophisticated
algorithms only gain traction over simpler ones at much higher points
than might be expected from a simple analysis.  In my experience a naive
sieve is an efficient solution for a general purpose sieve class
primarily intended for situations where the sieve length can be large
but not huge.

As I think you have pointed out, memory is cheap and the memory
operations needed to do copying and counting operations are fast. So
using up memory is not normally an issue.  I have just found a situation
where a copy can have a serious impact on performance in an admittedly
limiting, minority use case.   It the fact that this copy is not, in
principle, necessary, that I find disappointing.

[snip]
 In this case, I would say that adding a limit argument to list.count is 
 *absolutely not* worthwhile, because it is insufficiently general. To be 
 general enough to be worthwhile, you would have to add three arguments:
 
 list.count(value, start=0, end=None, step=1)
 
 But even there I don't think it's general enough to cover the costs. I 
 believe that a better solution would be to create list views to offer a 
 subset of the list without actually copying.

I don't know a great deal about Python internals but I suspect that
these solutions would offer more but also cost more.  So where the
balance of advantages would lie is unclear.  But I am not pushing for a
particular (or, indeed, any) solution.

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Using SciPy in application

[Roozbeh]

Hi all,

I want to use spline interpolation function from SciPy in an application and at 
the same time, I don't want the end user to have to install SciPy separately. 
Is there a way around this problem?

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examples of pyraknet

[Jorge Alberto Diaz Orozco]

do anyone has examples of pyraknet???

I've being seen these ones (http://nullege.com/codes/search/pyraknet) but I 
still don't understand lot of things about it and I can't find anything else.


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Re: Fixing escaped characters python-xbee

[MRAB]

On 24/04/2013 08:33, pablobl...@gmail.com wrote:

I am using a XBee to receive data from an arduino network.

But they have AP=2 which means escaped characters are used when a 11 or 13 
appears (and some more...)

When this occurs, XBee sends 7D and inmediatly XOR operation with char and 0x20.

I am trying to recover the original character in python but I don't know ho to 
do it.

I tried something like this:

read = ser.read(4) #Read 4 chars from serial port
for x in range (0,4):
if(toHex(read[x]) != '7d'): #toHex converts it to hexadecimal 
just for checking purposes
if(x  3):
read[x] = logical_xor(read[x+1], 20) #XOR
for y in range (x+1,3):
read[y] = read[y+1] 

read[3] = ser.read()
else:
read[x] = logical_xor(ser.read(), 20) #XOR

data = struct.unpack('f', read)[0]

logical_xor is:

def logical_xor(str1, str2):
 return bool(str1) ^ bool(str2)

I check if 7D character is in the first 3 chars read, I use the next char to 
convert it, if it is the 4th, I read another one.

But I read in python strings are inmutables and I can't change their value once 
they have one.

What would you do in this case? I started some days ago with python and I don't 
know how to solve this kind of things...


You could try converting to a list, which is mutable.

# Python 3
read = list(ser.read(4))

pos = 0
try:
while True:
pos = read.index(0x7D, pos)
del read[pos]
read.extend(ser.read())
read[pos] ^= 0x20
except ValueError:
# There are no (more) 0x7D in the data.
pass

data = struct.unpack('f', bytes(read))[0]


# Python 2
read = [ord(c) for c in ser.read(4)]

pos = 0
try:
while True:
pos = read.index(0x7D, pos)
del read[pos]
read.append(ord(ser.read()))
read[pos] ^= 0x20
except ValueError:
# There are no (more) 0x7D in the data.
pass

data = struct.unpack('f', b.join(chr(c) for c in read))[0]

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Re: Using SciPy in application

[Oscar Benjamin]

On 24 April 2013 10:13, Roozbeh roozbe...@gmail.com wrote:

 I want to use spline interpolation function from SciPy in an application and 
 at the same time, I don't want the end user to have to install SciPy 
 separately. Is there a way around this problem?

They cannot use the function from scipy if scipy is not installed.
There are three ways round this problem:
1) Rewrite the interpolation function you need in your own code.
2) Require the user to install scipy.
3) Require the user to install some other package that has
interpolation functions.

Rewriting the interpolation function is probably not that difficult
depending on the type of interpolation you're using.


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Re: What is the reason for defining classes within classes in Python?

[vasudevram]

On Wednesday, April 24, 2013 6:20:36 AM UTC+5:30, alex23 wrote:
 On Apr 24, 9:13 am, vasudevram vasudev...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  On Wednesday, April 24, 2013 3:52:57 AM UTC+5:30, Ian wrote:
 
   On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 3:50 PM, vasudevram  wrote:
 
I saw an example of defining a class within another class
 
In what way is this useful?
 
 
 
   In that particular case they're just using it as a namespace.
 
 
 
  Not clear. An example or more explanation might help, if you can. Thanks.
 
 
 
 Namespaces are used to allow for the same label to be applied to
 
 different concepts without the labels conflicting with each other. If
 
 I was writing a program that dealt with the mathematics of morality, I
 
 might want to use the sine function and refer to it in the standard
 
 way as 'sin', and I might also want to store a value representing your
 
 lack of goodness as 'sin'. As you can't use the same label in the same
 
 scope to refer to two different objects, one way of dealing with this
 
 that lets you still use what you feel are the most appropriate names
 
 is to put them into a namespace. So you could express this as:
 
 
 
 class Math(object):
 
 sin = function()
 
 
 
 class Morality(object):
 
 sin = True
 
 
 
 Then in your code you can clearly distinguish between the two by using
 
 Math.sin and Morality.sin. Modules  packages are also namespaces, so
 
 in this example we'd replace the Math class with `import math`, which
 
 has a sin function defined within it.
 
 
 
 A nested class definition will be defined as an attribute of the class
 
 its defined within:
 
 
 
  class Outer(object):
 
 ... foo = 'FOO'
 
 ... class Inner(object):
 
 ... bar = 'BAR'
 
 ...
 
  Outer.Inner
 
 class '__main__.Inner'
 
  Outer.Inner.bar
 
 'BAR'
 
 
 
 With peewee, the Model class looks for a Meta attribute and uses
 
 attributes on it to perform some tasks, like where to retrieve/store
 
 the model data. This allows for a way of distinguishing between
 
 attributes used to define fields, and attributes needed for those
 
 tasks. It also means your Models can use field names that the class
 
 would otherwise reserve for its own internal purposes:
 
 
 
 class DatabaseDetails(Model):
 
 # these attributes are fields
 
 database = CharField()
 
 owner = CharField()
 
 
 
 # ...but the Meta attribute isn't
 
 class Meta:
 
 # these attributes are used by the Model class
 
 database = db
 
 
 
 Here, database as a field is a text string that could contain a
 
 database name, while DatabaseDetails.Meta.database contains a
 
 reference to an actual database where the DatabaseDetails record would
 
 be stored.

Actually, I did know what namespaces are in general. What I didn't get was how 
the inner class Meta in the peewee example was being used as a namespace. Your 
explanation makes things very clear. Thank you.

Just one other doubt:

  Outer.Inner
 
 class '__main__.Inner'
 

In the above output, I would have thought Python would print 
__main__.Outer.Inner or Outer.Inner instead of __main__.Inner, since Inner is 
an attribute of Outer?
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Re: Using SciPy in application

[Robert Kern]

On 2013-04-24 16:34, Oscar Benjamin wrote:

On 24 April 2013 10:13, Roozbeh roozbe...@gmail.com wrote:


I want to use spline interpolation function from SciPy in an application and at 
the same time, I don't want the end user to have to install SciPy separately. 
Is there a way around this problem?


They cannot use the function from scipy if scipy is not installed.
There are three ways round this problem:
1) Rewrite the interpolation function you need in your own code.


Variant:

1.a) Copy the interpolation code from scipy into your own code.

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Re: Using SciPy in application

[Roozbeh]

On Wednesday, April 24, 2013 11:13:45 AM UTC+2, Roozbeh wrote:  Hi all, I want 
to use spline interpolation function from SciPy in an application and at the 
same time, I don't want the end user to have to install SciPy separately. Is 
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Re: Using SciPy in application

[Roozbeh]

On Wednesday, April 24, 2013 11:13:45 AM UTC+2, Roozbeh wrote:
 Hi all, I want to use spline interpolation function from SciPy in an 
 application and at the same time, I don't want the end user to have to 
 install SciPy separately. Is there a way around this problem? Thanks in 
 advance for your help

The thing is that the SciPy code for spline interpolation imports NumPy which 
also I don't want to use. So, I think I will have to write the code myself I 
guess.
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Re: Using SciPy in application

[Roozbeh]

On Wednesday, April 24, 2013 11:13:45 AM UTC+2, Roozbeh wrote:
 Hi all, I want to use spline interpolation function from SciPy in an 
 application and at the same time, I don't want the end user to have to 
 install SciPy separately. Is there a way around this problem? Thanks in 
 advance for your help

Any idea where can I find the recipe for the spline interpolation that does not 
rely on NumPy and/or SciPy and is written pure Python (no C code)?
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Re: Using SciPy in application

[Robert Kern]

On 2013-04-24 17:04, Roozbeh wrote:

On Wednesday, April 24, 2013 11:13:45 AM UTC+2, Roozbeh wrote:

Hi all, I want to use spline interpolation function from SciPy in an 
application and at the same time, I don't want the end user to have to install 
SciPy separately. Is there a way around this problem? Thanks in advance for 
your help


Any idea where can I find the recipe for the spline interpolation that does not 
rely on NumPy and/or SciPy and is written pure Python (no C code)?


If Google can't find it, it probably doesn't exist. Very few people would do 
this without numpy.


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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
 that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
 an underlying truth.
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Re: Fixing escaped characters python-xbee

[Peter Otten]

pablobl...@gmail.com wrote:

 I am using a XBee to receive data from an arduino network.
 
 But they have AP=2 which means escaped characters are used when a 11 or 13
 appears (and some more...)
 
 When this occurs, XBee sends 7D and inmediatly XOR operation with char and
 0x20.
 
 I am trying to recover the original character in python but I don't know
 ho to do it.
 
 I tried something like this:
 
 read = ser.read(4) #Read 4 chars from serial port
 for x in range (0,4):
 if(toHex(read[x]) != '7d'): #toHex converts it to hexadecimal just for
 checking purposes if(x  3):
 read[x] = logical_xor(read[x+1], 20) #XOR
 for y in range (x+1,3):
 read[y] = read[y+1]
 read[3] = ser.read()
 else:
 read[x] = logical_xor(ser.read(), 20) #XOR
 
 data = struct.unpack('f', read)[0]
 
 logical_xor is:
 
 def logical_xor(str1, str2):
 return bool(str1) ^ bool(str2)
 
 I check if 7D character is in the first 3 chars read, I use the next char
 to convert it, if it is the 4th, I read another one.
 
 But I read in python strings are inmutables and I can't change their value
 once they have one.
 
 What would you do in this case? I started some days ago with python and I
 don't know how to solve this kind of things...

As you cannot change the old string you have to compose a new one. I think 
the simplest approach is to always read one byte, and if it's the escape 
marker read another one and decode it. The decoded bytes/chars are then 
stored in a list and finally joined:

# Python 2
# untested
def read_nbytes(ser, n):
accu = []
for i in xrange(n):
b = ser.read(1)
if b == \x7d:
b = chr(ord(ser.read(1)) ^ 0x20)
accu.append(b)
return .join(accu)

b = read_nbytes(ser, 4)
data = struct.unpack('f', b)[0]


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Re: Using SciPy in application

[Alex van der Spek]

On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 04:34:44 -0700, Roozbeh wrote:

The scipy interpolation routines (splev, splrep, etc.) are on netlib:

http://www.netlib.org/dierckx/

This gives you FORTRAN source codes which you will have to compile 
yourself to either a DLL or an SO. Call them from python using ctypes.

I have done that for a number of the dierckx routines. No problems at all.

Hope this helps,
Alex van der Spek



 On Wednesday, April 24, 2013 11:13:45 AM UTC+2, Roozbeh wrote:
 Hi all, I want to use spline interpolation function from SciPy in an
 application and at the same time, I don't want the end user to have to
 install SciPy separately. Is there a way around this problem? Thanks in
 advance for your help
 
 Any idea where can I find the recipe for the spline interpolation that
 does not rely on NumPy and/or SciPy and is written pure Python (no C
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Re: What is the reason for defining classes within classes in Python?

[Peter Otten]

vasudevram wrote:

 On Wednesday, April 24, 2013 6:20:36 AM UTC+5:30, alex23 wrote:
 
 A nested class definition will be defined as an attribute of the class
 
 its defined within:
 
 
 
  class Outer(object):
 
 ... foo = 'FOO'
 
 ... class Inner(object):
 
 ... bar = 'BAR'
 
 ...
 
  Outer.Inner

 Just one other doubt:
 
  Outer.Inner
 
 class '__main__.Inner'
 
 
 In the above output, I would have thought Python would print
 __main__.Outer.Inner or Outer.Inner instead of __main__.Inner, since Inner
 is an attribute of Outer?

The Python developers seem to agree with you and have made the compiler 
smart enough to accomodate your expectations in Python 3.3:

$ cat tmp.py
class Outer:
class Inner:
pass

print(Outer.Inner)
$ python3.2 tmp.py
class '__main__.Inner'
$ python3.3 tmp.py
class '__main__.Outer.Inner'


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Re: What is the reason for defining classes within classes in Python?

[vasudevram]

Interesting. Thank you.
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ALL function arguments in a common dictionary

[Wolfgang Maier]

Hi everybody,
what is the recommended way of stuffing *all* function arguments (not just
the ones passed by **kwargs) into a common dictionary?

The following sort of works when used as the first block in a function:
try:
kwargs.update(locals())
except NameError:
kwargs = locals().copy()

except that it's nesting pre-existing kwargs.

Thanks for your help,
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Re: ALL function arguments in a common dictionary

[Fábio Santos]

A quick hack:

 from inspect import getargspec

 def func(a, b, c=3, **kwargs):
... out_dict = {}
... args, _, keywords, _ = getargspec(func)
... for argname in args:
... out_dict[argname] = locals()[argname]
... if keywords:
... out_dict.update(locals()[keywords])
... return out_dict
...
 func(1,2, gah=123)
{'a': 1, 'c': 3, 'b': 2, 'gah': 123}


On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Wolfgang Maier
wolfgang.ma...@biologie.uni-freiburg.de wrote:
 Hi everybody,
 what is the recommended way of stuffing *all* function arguments (not just
 the ones passed by **kwargs) into a common dictionary?

 The following sort of works when used as the first block in a function:
 try:
 kwargs.update(locals())
 except NameError:
 kwargs = locals().copy()

 except that it's nesting pre-existing kwargs.

 Thanks for your help,
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Re: Using SciPy in application

[Miki Tebeka]

 I want to use spline interpolation function from SciPy in an application and 
 at the same time, I don't want the end user to have to install SciPy 
 separately.
You can pack you application with py2exe, pyinstaller ... and then they won't 
even need to install Python.

Another option (which is not always possible) is to make you application a web 
site and then only you need to install SciPy on the server.
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Re: Using SciPy in application

[Roozbeh]

On Wednesday, April 24, 2013 3:52:50 PM UTC+2, Miki Tebeka wrote:
  I want to use spline interpolation function from SciPy in an application 
  and at the same time, I don't want the end user to have to install SciPy 
  separately. You can pack you application with py2exe, pyinstaller ... and 
  then they won't even need to install Python. Another option (which is not 
  always possible) is to make you application a web site and then only you 
  need to install SciPy on the server.


I thought about the py2exe option but the problem is, this application is a 
plug-in written for Abaqus CAE and hence it will use the python version that 
comes with Abaqus CAE distribution and Abaqus must be able to compile the 
Python codes every time on the start-up otherwise it won't recognize the 
plug-in and thats why SciPy and NumPy are also not an option. 
I guess as Alex said, I will have to use DLLs or write it myself.
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Re: Using SciPy in application

[Maarten]

On Wednesday, April 24, 2013 1:40:14 PM UTC+2, Robert Kern wrote:
 On 2013-04-24 17:04, Roozbeh wrote:
 
  On Wednesday, April 24, 2013 11:13:45 AM UTC+2, Roozbeh wrote:
 
  Hi all, I want to use spline interpolation function from SciPy in an 
  application and at the same time, I don't want the end user to have to 
  install SciPy separately. Is there a way around this problem? Thanks in 
  advance for your help
 
  Any idea where can I find the recipe for the spline interpolation that does 
  not rely on NumPy and/or SciPy and is written pure Python (no C code)?
 
 
 If Google can't find it, it probably doesn't exist. Very few people would do 
 this without numpy.

A trivial 'pure python spline' google search yields this:
http://urchin.earth.li/~twic/splines.py

(Warning: old code, python 2.2 era).

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improvements sought re. logging across modules

[The Night Tripper]

Hi all
I have a small suite of python modules, say

A.py
B.py
C.py

which can be invoked in a variety of ways. eg. 

1) A.py is invoked directly; this imports and uses B.py and C.py

2) B.py is invoked; this imports and uses A.py and C.py

I use the logging module in all of these python modules, and I want to be 
able to use a single logger across the entire suite of whichever set of 
scripts is running. 

The way I do this at the moment is to have a separate module mylogger.py:

== mylogger.py ==

import logging

class MyLogger:   #using python 2.4 ;-o
def __init__(self):
self.log = logging.getLogger(MY_APP_NAME)
def setupLogging(self):
self.log.setlevel(logging.DEBUG)
# ...

# our singleton logging object
mylogger = Mylogger()
# EOF

and then in my other modules A.py, B.py etc. I have something like:

== A.py ==

import mylogger
gLog = mylogger.mylogger

if __name__ == __main__:
gLog.setupLogging()
gLog.info(Module A running as main)
main()
#EOF

== B.py ==

import mylogger
gLog = mylogger.mylogger

if __name__ == __main__:
gLog.setupLogging()
gLog.info(Module B running as main)
main()
# EOF

This works, but I can't help thinking I'm missing a trick here. Any 
suggestions?

Thanks
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My gui

[Daniel Kersgaard]

Today, being the last day of lectures at school, my instructor ran briefly 
through Tkninter and GUIs. I'd been looking forward to this particular lesson 
all semester, but when I got home and copied a sample program from my textbook 
verbatim, IDLE does nothing. No error, no nothing. Any ideas? Here  is the code 
from my program. I'm not sure if this is appropriate, but suggestions are 
helpful.

import tkinter
import tkinter.messagebox

class MyGui:
def _init_(self):
self.main_window = tkinter.Tk()

self.top_frame = tkinter.Frame(self.main_window)
self.bottom_frame = tkinter.Frame(self.main_window)

self.prompt_label = tkinter.Label(self.top_frame, text = 'Enter a 
distance in Kilometers: ')
self.kilo_entry = tkinter.Entry(self.top_frame, width = 10)

self.prompt_label.pack(side = 'left')
self.kilo_entry.pack(side = 'left')

self.calc_button = tkinter.Button(self.bottom_frame, text = 'Convert', 
command = self.convert)

self.quit_button = tkinter.Button(self.bottom_frame, text = 'Quit', 
command = self.main_window.destroy)

self.calc_button.pack(side = 'left')
self.quit_button.pack(side = 'left')

self.top_frame.pack()
self.bottom_frame.pack()

tkinter.mainloop()

def convert(self):
kilo = float(self.kilo_entry.get())

miles = kilo * 0.6214

tkinter.messagebox.showinfo('Result', str(kilo) + ' kilometers is equal 
to ' + str(miles) + 'miles.')

poop = MyGui()

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Re: QTableWidget updating columns in a single row

[Sara Lochtie]

On Tuesday, April 23, 2013 11:22:29 PM UTC-7, Sara Lochtie wrote:
 I have written a GUI that gets data sent to it in real time and this data is 
 displayed in a table. Every time data is sent in it is displayed in the table 
 in a new row. My problem is that I would like to have the data just replace 
 the old in the first row.
 
 
 
 The table has 6 columns (A, B, C, D, E, F) I want the new data to continue 
 replacing the old data in the same row unless the data that goes under column 
 A changes, at which point a new row would be added.
 
 
 
 Does anyone have tips on how to approach this? I can post a portion of my 
 code to get a better idea of what I have done.

So that is where I am stuck. I don't how to compare them and I am trying to 
avoiding saving the data to a file.  

This is the code that I have:





if msg.arg2() != ERROR:
entry = (A, B, C, D, E, F) 
self.data.append(entry) 

data = self.data 

# Display how many runs occurred
self.statusBar().showMessage('Data read. %s Run(s) Occurred.' % 
self.runCount)

# Populates table by adding only new entries to the end of the table
lastRow = self.table.rowCount()
self.table.setRowCount(len(data))
for entryPos in range(lastRow, len(data)): 
for fieldPos in range(6):   
item = QtGui.QTableWidgetItem(str(data[entryPos][fieldPos]))
self.table.setItem(entryPos, fieldPos, item)
self.table.resizeColumnsToContents()
self.table.horizontalHeader().setStretchLastSection(True)   
   
self.currentRunLabel.setText('Current Run: ' + str(self.runCount))
self.currentLineLabel.setText('Number of lines: ' + str(len(self.data)))
print('End of %s. run:%s. entries found' % (self.runCount, 
len(self.data)))
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Re: using pandoc instead of rst to document python

[R. Michael Weylandt]

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 12:14 AM, Peng Yu pengyu...@gmail.com wrote:
 I currently use sphinx to generate the doc (in rst). How to figure it
 to support pandoc's markdown?

If I understand the desired workflow, it's just 1) write in markdown;
2) then run pandoc to convert to rst; 3) then run Sphinx to render
html or whatever you want.

You could even script this in python ;-)

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Re: improvements sought re. logging across modules

[Fábio Santos]

Maybe import mylogger.mylogger as gLog? I don't know what you mean by
missing a trick. Your example seems pretty pythonic to me, except for the
fact that you use a singleton where you could have a couple of functions
and use the module as the namespace.
On 24 Apr 2013 17:58, The Night Tripper jkn...@nicorp.co.uk wrote:

 Hi all
 I have a small suite of python modules, say

 A.py
 B.py
 C.py

 which can be invoked in a variety of ways. eg.

 1) A.py is invoked directly; this imports and uses B.py and C.py

 2) B.py is invoked; this imports and uses A.py and C.py

 I use the logging module in all of these python modules, and I want to be
 able to use a single logger across the entire suite of whichever set of
 scripts is running.

 The way I do this at the moment is to have a separate module mylogger.py:

 == mylogger.py ==

 import logging

 class MyLogger:   #using python 2.4 ;-o
 def __init__(self):
 self.log = logging.getLogger(MY_APP_NAME)
 def setupLogging(self):
 self.log.setlevel(logging.DEBUG)
 # ...

 # our singleton logging object
 mylogger = Mylogger()
 # EOF

 and then in my other modules A.py, B.py etc. I have something like:

 == A.py ==

 import mylogger
 gLog = mylogger.mylogger

 if __name__ == __main__:
 gLog.setupLogging()
 gLog.info(Module A running as main)
 main()
 #EOF

 == B.py ==

 import mylogger
 gLog = mylogger.mylogger

 if __name__ == __main__:
 gLog.setupLogging()
 gLog.info(Module B running as main)
 main()
 # EOF

 This works, but I can't help thinking I'm missing a trick here. Any
 suggestions?

 Thanks
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Re: improvements sought re. logging across modules

[Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick]

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 6:54 PM, The Night Tripper jkn...@nicorp.co.uk wrote:
 Hi all
 I have a small suite of python modules, say

 A.py
 B.py
 C.py

 which can be invoked in a variety of ways. eg.

 1) A.py is invoked directly; this imports and uses B.py and C.py

 2) B.py is invoked; this imports and uses A.py and C.py

 I use the logging module in all of these python modules, and I want to be
 able to use a single logger across the entire suite of whichever set of
 scripts is running.

 The way I do this at the moment is to have a separate module mylogger.py:

 == mylogger.py ==

 import logging

 class MyLogger:   #using python 2.4 ;-o
 def __init__(self):
 self.log = logging.getLogger(MY_APP_NAME)
 def setupLogging(self):
 self.log.setlevel(logging.DEBUG)
 # ...

 # our singleton logging object
 mylogger = Mylogger()
 # EOF

 and then in my other modules A.py, B.py etc. I have something like:

 == A.py ==

 import mylogger
 gLog = mylogger.mylogger

 if __name__ == __main__:
 gLog.setupLogging()
 gLog.info(Module A running as main)
 main()
 #EOF

 == B.py ==

 import mylogger
 gLog = mylogger.mylogger

 if __name__ == __main__:
 gLog.setupLogging()
 gLog.info(Module B running as main)
 main()
 # EOF

 This works, but I can't help thinking I'm missing a trick here. Any
 suggestions?

 Thanks
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No need to do such magic.  Just set logging up as you would normally.
The first logging instance should pick up logs from everywhere.  For
example:

=== aurqt/aqds.py ===
class AQDS:
logging.basicConfig(format='%(asctime)-15s [%(levelname)-7s] '
':%(name)-10s: %(message)s',
filename=os.path.join(confdir, 'aurqt.log'),
level=logging.DEBUG)
log = logging.getLogger('aurqt')
console = logging.StreamHandler()
console.setLevel(logging.INFO)
console.setFormatter(logging.Formatter('[%(levelname)-7s] '
 ':%(name)-10s: %(message)s'))
logging.getLogger('').addHandler(console)
log.info('*** aurqt v' + __version__)

=== pkgbuilder/pbds.py ===
class PBDS:
logging.basicConfig(format='%(asctime)-15s [%(levelname)-7s] '
':%(name)-10s: %(message)s',
filename=os.path.join(confdir, 'pkgbuilder.log'),
level=logging.DEBUG)
log = logging.getLogger('pkgbuilder')
log.info('*** PKGBUILDer v' + __version__)

=== aurqt/__init__.py ===
from .aqds import AQDS
DS = AQDS()
import pkgbuilder # ← also imports pkgbuilder.DS = pkgbuilder.pbds.PBDS()

=== bin/aurqt output ===
[INFO   ] :aurqt : *** aurqt v0.1.0
[INFO   ] :requests.packages.urllib3.connectionpool: Starting new
HTTPS connection (1): aur.archlinux.org
[WARNING] :pkgbuilder: tty-clock version is a date, ignored for downgrade.

=== {confdir}/aurqt.log ===
2013-04-24 19:34:21,079 [INFO   ] :aurqt : *** aurqt v0.1.0
2013-04-24 19:35:19,096 [WARNING]
:requests.packages.urllib3.connectionpool: Starting new HTTPS
connection (1): aur.archlinux.org
2013-04-24 19:35:21,004 [WARNING] :pkgbuilder: tty-clock version is a
date, ignored for downgrade.

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A Healthy Alternative to Takeaway Regret

[23alagmy]

A Healthy Alternative to Takeaway Regret

http://natigtas7ab.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-healthy-alternative-to-takeaway-regret.html
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Re: My gui

[Dave Angel]

On 04/24/2013 01:08 PM, Daniel Kersgaard wrote:

Today, being the last day of lectures at school, my instructor ran briefly 
through Tkninter and GUIs. I'd been looking forward to this particular lesson 
all semester, but when I got home and copied a sample program from my textbook 
verbatim, IDLE does nothing. No error, no nothing. Any ideas? Here  is the code 
from my program. I'm not sure if this is appropriate, but suggestions are 
helpful.

import tkinter
import tkinter.messagebox

class MyGui:
 def _init_(self):
 self.main_window = tkinter.Tk()

 self.top_frame = tkinter.Frame(self.main_window)
 self.bottom_frame = tkinter.Frame(self.main_window)

 self.prompt_label = tkinter.Label(self.top_frame, text = 'Enter a 
distance in Kilometers: ')
 self.kilo_entry = tkinter.Entry(self.top_frame, width = 10)

 self.prompt_label.pack(side = 'left')
 self.kilo_entry.pack(side = 'left')

 self.calc_button = tkinter.Button(self.bottom_frame, text = 'Convert', 
command = self.convert)

 self.quit_button = tkinter.Button(self.bottom_frame, text = 'Quit', 
command = self.main_window.destroy)

 self.calc_button.pack(side = 'left')
 self.quit_button.pack(side = 'left')

 self.top_frame.pack()
 self.bottom_frame.pack()

 tkinter.mainloop()

 def convert(self):
 kilo = float(self.kilo_entry.get())

 miles = kilo * 0.6214

 tkinter.messagebox.showinfo('Result', str(kilo) + ' kilometers is 
equal to ' + str(miles) + 'miles.')

poop = MyGui()



I'm not an IDLE user, but I wouldn't be surprised if IDLE interferes 
with some GUI apps.   I'd run your code from the bash prompt.




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Re: improvements sought re. logging across modules

[Dave Angel]

On 04/24/2013 12:54 PM, The Night Tripper wrote:

Hi all
I have a small suite of python modules, say

A.py
B.py
C.py

which can be invoked in a variety of ways. eg.

1) A.py is invoked directly; this imports and uses B.py and C.py

2) B.py is invoked; this imports and uses A.py and C.py



Right there you have a potential problem.  Unless you make those imports 
conditional, you have an import loop, which can be a minor problem, or a 
big one.


Whenever you find loops in the import call tree, please break them.  The 
best way is to move the interdependencies into yet another module, and 
let both A and B import that one.




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Re: My gui

[Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick]

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 7:08 PM, Daniel Kersgaard
danielkersga...@gmail.com wrote:
 Today, being the last day of lectures at school, my instructor ran briefly 
 through Tkninter and GUIs. I'd been looking forward to this particular lesson 
 all semester, but when I got home and copied a sample program from my 
 textbook verbatim, IDLE does nothing. No error, no nothing. Any ideas? Here  
 is the code from my program. I'm not sure if this is appropriate, but 
 suggestions are helpful.

 import tkinter
 import tkinter.messagebox

 class MyGui:
 def _init_(self):
 self.main_window = tkinter.Tk()

 self.top_frame = tkinter.Frame(self.main_window)
 self.bottom_frame = tkinter.Frame(self.main_window)

 self.prompt_label = tkinter.Label(self.top_frame, text = 'Enter a 
 distance in Kilometers: ')
 self.kilo_entry = tkinter.Entry(self.top_frame, width = 10)

 self.prompt_label.pack(side = 'left')
 self.kilo_entry.pack(side = 'left')

 self.calc_button = tkinter.Button(self.bottom_frame, text = 
 'Convert', command = self.convert)

 self.quit_button = tkinter.Button(self.bottom_frame, text = 'Quit', 
 command = self.main_window.destroy)

 self.calc_button.pack(side = 'left')
 self.quit_button.pack(side = 'left')

 self.top_frame.pack()
 self.bottom_frame.pack()

 tkinter.mainloop()

 def convert(self):
 kilo = float(self.kilo_entry.get())

 miles = kilo * 0.6214

 tkinter.messagebox.showinfo('Result', str(kilo) + ' kilometers is 
 equal to ' + str(miles) + 'miles.')

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poop?  Seriously?  You aren’t serious about that copying, right?

Your code seems to be missing a lot of important stuff.  You don’t
inherit from tkinter.Frame.  Compare your program to the sample “Hello
world!” program:
http://docs.python.org/2/library/tkinter.html#a-simple-hello-world-program
— unfortunately, I am not a fan and I am not knowledgeable about
tkinter, but I can see a lot of stuff is missing.

Please try fixing it and running it _outside of IDLE_, which is also
built in Tk.  This may cause problems (but don’t worry, the code you
pasted doesn’t work anyways.)

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Re: QTableWidget updating columns in a single row

[Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick]

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Sara Lochtie sara.loch...@gmail.com wrote:
 So that is where I am stuck. I don't how to compare them and I am trying to 
 avoiding saving the data to a file.

To a file?  Just store it in a class attribute and you will be fine.
You have it in self.data already.  Unless that structure doesn’t work,
then “mirror” your table in a Python array.  (alternatively, you could
query QTableWidgetItem.text() for every existing item, but that’s
crazy.)

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Re: My gui

[Ned Batchelder]

On 4/24/2013 1:08 PM, Daniel Kersgaard wrote:

Today, being the last day of lectures at school, my instructor ran briefly 
through Tkninter and GUIs. I'd been looking forward to this particular lesson 
all semester, but when I got home and copied a sample program from my textbook 
verbatim, IDLE does nothing. No error, no nothing. Any ideas? Here  is the code 
from my program. I'm not sure if this is appropriate, but suggestions are 
helpful.

import tkinter
import tkinter.messagebox

class MyGui:
 def_init_(self):


You need to define __init__, not _init_.  Python special methods are 
named with double underscore leading and trailing, and __x__ is 
pronounced dunder-x.


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Re: QTableWidget updating columns in a single row

[Vincent Vande Vyvre]

Le 24/04/2013 19:12, Sara Lochtie a écrit :

On Tuesday, April 23, 2013 11:22:29 PM UTC-7, Sara Lochtie wrote:

I have written a GUI that gets data sent to it in real time and this data is 
displayed in a table. Every time data is sent in it is displayed in the table 
in a new row. My problem is that I would like to have the data just replace the 
old in the first row.



The table has 6 columns (A, B, C, D, E, F) I want the new data to continue 
replacing the old data in the same row unless the data that goes under column A 
changes, at which point a new row would be added.



Does anyone have tips on how to approach this? I can post a portion of my code 
to get a better idea of what I have done.

So that is where I am stuck. I don't how to compare them and I am trying to 
avoiding saving the data to a file.

This is the code that I have:





if msg.arg2() != ERROR:
entry = (A, B, C, D, E, F)  
self.data.append(entry)

 data = self.data
 
 # Display how many runs occurred

 self.statusBar().showMessage('Data read. %s Run(s) Occurred.' % 
self.runCount)
 
 # Populates table by adding only new entries to the end of the table

 lastRow = self.table.rowCount()
 self.table.setRowCount(len(data))
 for entryPos in range(lastRow, len(data)):
 for fieldPos in range(6):
 item = QtGui.QTableWidgetItem(str(data[entryPos][fieldPos]))
 self.table.setItem(entryPos, fieldPos, item)
 self.table.resizeColumnsToContents()
 self.table.horizontalHeader().setStretchLastSection(True)  
 self.currentRunLabel.setText('Current Run: ' + str(self.runCount))
 self.currentLineLabel.setText('Number of lines: ' + 
str(len(self.data)))
print('End of %s. run:%s. entries found' % (self.runCount, 
len(self.data)))
As sayed by Chris Kwpolska, you can compare the new data with the data 
of the first row.


Something like that:

 # Get the content of row 0, column A
first = str(self.table.item(0, 0).text())

for entryPos in range(lastRow, len(data)):
if str(data[entryPos][0]) == first:
self.update_first_row(data[entryPos])

else:
self.add_new_row(data[entryPos])
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Re: Weird python behavior

[Neil Cerutti]

On 2013-04-24, Forafo San ppv.g...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello All,
 I'm running Python version 2.7.3_6 on a FreeBSD system. The following session 
 in a Python interpreter throws a mysterious TypeError:

 --
 [ppvora@snowfall ~/xbrl]$ python 
 Python 2.7.3 (default, Apr 22 2013, 18:42:18) 
 [GCC 4.2.1 20070719  [FreeBSD]] on freebsd8
 Type help, copyright, credits or license for more information.
 import glob
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File stdin, line 1, in module
   File glob.py, line 14, in module
 myl = glob.glob('data/*.xml')
 TypeError: 'module' object is not callable
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 The file glob.py that the error refers to was run under another
 screen session. It's a mystery why even that program threw an
 error. Regardless, why should that session throw an import
 error in this session? Weird. Any help is appreciated. Thanks,

'Cause Python's import statement looks in the current directory
first for files to import. So you're importing your own
error-riddled and mortal glob.py, rather than Python's pristine
and Olympian glob.py.

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Weird python behavior

[Forafo San]

Hello All,
I'm running Python version 2.7.3_6 on a FreeBSD system. The following session 
in a Python interpreter throws a mysterious TypeError:

--
[ppvora@snowfall ~/xbrl]$ python 
Python 2.7.3 (default, Apr 22 2013, 18:42:18) 
[GCC 4.2.1 20070719  [FreeBSD]] on freebsd8
Type help, copyright, credits or license for more information.
 import glob
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File stdin, line 1, in module
  File glob.py, line 14, in module
myl = glob.glob('data/*.xml')
TypeError: 'module' object is not callable
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It's a mystery why even that program threw an error. Regardless, why should 
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appreciated. Thanks,
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Re: Using SciPy in application

[Grant Edwards]

On 2013-04-24, Roozbeh roozbe...@gmail.com wrote:

 I want to use spline interpolation function from SciPy in an
 application and at the same time, I don't want the end user to have
 to install SciPy separately. Is there a way around this problem?

You could bundle you app along with python and SciPy and whatever
other libraries are required using py2exe, py2app, cx_Freeze, Freeze,
etc.

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Re: Weird python behavior

[Forafo San]

On Wednesday, April 24, 2013 3:08:27 PM UTC-4, Neil Cerutti wrote:
 On 2013-04-24, Forafo San ppv.g...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  Hello All,
 
  I'm running Python version 2.7.3_6 on a FreeBSD system. The following 
  session in a Python interpreter throws a mysterious TypeError:
 
 
 
  --
 
  [ppvora@snowfall ~/xbrl]$ python 
 
  Python 2.7.3 (default, Apr 22 2013, 18:42:18) 
 
  [GCC 4.2.1 20070719  [FreeBSD]] on freebsd8
 
  Type help, copyright, credits or license for more information.
 
  import glob
 
  Traceback (most recent call last):
 
File stdin, line 1, in module
 
File glob.py, line 14, in module
 
  myl = glob.glob('data/*.xml')
 
  TypeError: 'module' object is not callable
 
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  The file glob.py that the error refers to was run under another
 
  screen session. It's a mystery why even that program threw an
 
  error. Regardless, why should that session throw an import
 
  error in this session? Weird. Any help is appreciated. Thanks,
 
 
 
 'Cause Python's import statement looks in the current directory
 
 first for files to import. So you're importing your own
 
 error-riddled and mortal glob.py, rather than Python's pristine
 
 and Olympian glob.py.
 
 
 
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 ahead and dauntlessly!  Make rapid progres!
 
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Re: My gui

[Arnaud Delobelle]

On 24 April 2013 18:53, Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick kwpol...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 7:08 PM, Daniel Kersgaard
 danielkersga...@gmail.com wrote:
 Today, being the last day of lectures at school, my instructor ran briefly 
 through Tkninter and GUIs. I'd been looking forward to this particular 
 lesson all semester, but when I got home and copied a sample program from my 
 textbook verbatim, IDLE does nothing. No error, no nothing. Any ideas? Here  
 is the code from my program. I'm not sure if this is appropriate, but 
 suggestions are helpful.

 import tkinter
 import tkinter.messagebox

 class MyGui:
 def _init_(self):
 self.main_window = tkinter.Tk()

 self.top_frame = tkinter.Frame(self.main_window)
 self.bottom_frame = tkinter.Frame(self.main_window)

 self.prompt_label = tkinter.Label(self.top_frame, text = 'Enter a 
 distance in Kilometers: ')
 self.kilo_entry = tkinter.Entry(self.top_frame, width = 10)

 self.prompt_label.pack(side = 'left')
 self.kilo_entry.pack(side = 'left')

 self.calc_button = tkinter.Button(self.bottom_frame, text = 
 'Convert', command = self.convert)

 self.quit_button = tkinter.Button(self.bottom_frame, text = 'Quit', 
 command = self.main_window.destroy)

 self.calc_button.pack(side = 'left')
 self.quit_button.pack(side = 'left')

 self.top_frame.pack()
 self.bottom_frame.pack()

 tkinter.mainloop()

 def convert(self):
 kilo = float(self.kilo_entry.get())

 miles = kilo * 0.6214

 tkinter.messagebox.showinfo('Result', str(kilo) + ' kilometers is 
 equal to ' + str(miles) + 'miles.')

 poop = MyGui()

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 poop?  Seriously?  You aren’t serious about that copying, right?

 Your code seems to be missing a lot of important stuff.  You don’t
 inherit from tkinter.Frame.  Compare your program to the sample “Hello
 world!” program:

His class is not a frame, it's just a container for the tkinter code.
It's a bit unusual but it looks correct to me (apart from the single
underscores in __init__() as spotted by Ned Batchelder).

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Finding the source of an exception in a python multiprocessing program

[William Ray Wing]

I run a bit of python code that monitors my connection to the greater Internet. 
 It checks connectivity to the requested target IP addresses, logging both 
successes and failures, once every 15 seconds.  I see failures quite regularly, 
predictably on Sunday nights after midnight when various networks are 
undergoing maintenance.  I'm trying to use python's multiprocessing library to 
run multiple copies in parallel to check connectivity to different parts of the 
country (they in no way interact with each other).

On rare occasions (maybe once every couple of months) I get the following 
exception and traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File ./CM_Harness.py, line 12, in module
Foo = pool.map(monitor, targets)# and hands off two targets
  File 
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/multiprocessing/pool.py,
 line 227, in map
return self.map_async(func, iterable, chunksize).get()
  File 
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/multiprocessing/pool.py,
 line 528, in get
raise self._value
IndexError: list index out of range

The code where the traceback occurs is:

#!/usr/bin/env python

 Harness to call multiple parallel copies
of the basic monitor program


from multiprocessing import Pool
from Connection_Monitor import monitor

targets = [8.8.8.8, www.ncsa.edu]
pool = Pool(processes=2)# start 2 worker processes
Foo = pool.map(monitor, targets)# and hands off two targets


Line 12, in my code is simply the line that launches the underlying monitor 
code.  I'm assuming that the real error is occurring in the monitor program 
that is being launched, but I'm at a loss as to what to do to get a better 
handle on what's going wrong. Since, as I said, I see failures quite regularly, 
typically on Sunday nights after midnight when various networks are undergoing 
maintenance, I don't _think_ the exception is being triggered by that sort of 
failure.

When I look at the pool module, the error is occurring in get(self, 
timeout=None) on the line after the final else:

def get(self, timeout=None):
self.wait(timeout)
if not self._ready:
raise TimeoutError
if self._success:
return self._value
else:
raise self._value


Python v 2.7.3, from Python.org, running on Mac OS-X 10.8.3

Thanks for any suggestions,
Bill
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Re: My gui

[Neil Cerutti]

On 2013-04-24, Arnaud Delobelle arno...@gmail.com wrote:
 His class is not a frame, it's just a container for the tkinter
 code. It's a bit unusual but it looks correct to me (apart from
 the single underscores in __init__() as spotted by Ned
 Batchelder).

I dunno if it makes any difference, but it's usual to call
mainloop of the root window, rather than tkinter.mainloop.

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Re: Finding the source of an exception in a python multiprocessing program

[Neil Cerutti]

On 2013-04-24, William Ray Wing w...@mac.com wrote:
 When I look at the pool module, the error is occurring in
 get(self, timeout=None) on the line after the final else:

 def get(self, timeout=None):
 self.wait(timeout)
 if not self._ready:
 raise TimeoutError
 if self._success:
 return self._value
 else:
 raise self._value

The code that's failing is in self.wait. Somewhere in there you
must be masking an exception and storing it in self._value
instead of letting it propogate and crash your program. This is
hiding the actual context.

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how to: multiplayer game connecting to central server effectively?

[webmaster]

hi,
I struggle for some days about a model for a multiplayer game application.
I read so much from my enemy Google, i got lost by all that info and dont know 
which path i should chose.

a multiplayer game application, sending/receiving  instantly every change in 
the game to a central webserver, http://www.x.com, probably via socket 
connection?

which system/module should i use for this contineous connection and where can i 
find a good tutorial, which a beginner like me can understand a bit? (i have 
read too many too complicated/technical artickles, but no nice tutorials).

i have tried and accompished an urllib connection, with get and post variabels, 
but that will be polling, with all the http-overhead for every poll. I think 
this is also to slow and no real updating of the game status.

Thanks in advance for any hint/tutorial i get:)

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Re: how to: multiplayer game connecting to central server effectively?

[John Gordon]

In c6c26882-ec2e-41f9-a4c3-d403976c7...@googlegroups.com 
webmas...@terradon.nl writes:

 i have tried and accompished an urllib connection, with get and post
 variabels, but that will be polling, with all the http-overhead for every
 poll. I think this is also to slow and no real updating of the game status.

Http can still work, depending on what kind of game it is.  For example
a game where only the current player can make decisions and the other
players just sit and watch (like Risk), or a game where each player submits
a move and the server applies the game rules to resolve the outcome (like
Rock-Scissors-Paper).

But a truly interactive game would probably require something more, like
an active socket connection.

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Re: how to: multiplayer game connecting to central server effectively?

[Fábio Santos]

This series of articles is flash-based, and the examples apparently
don't run, but it is a great read on all the problems you face when
coding several kinds of multiplayer games, and the variety of things
you can do to fix it:

http://playerio.com/documentation/tutorials/building-flash-multiplayer-games-tutorial/

Did you know that Age of Empires was actually internally turn-based,
in order to avoid syncing problems?


On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 10:48 PM, John Gordon gor...@panix.com wrote:
 In c6c26882-ec2e-41f9-a4c3-d403976c7...@googlegroups.com 
 webmas...@terradon.nl writes:

 i have tried and accompished an urllib connection, with get and post
 variabels, but that will be polling, with all the http-overhead for every
 poll. I think this is also to slow and no real updating of the game status.

 Http can still work, depending on what kind of game it is.  For example
 a game where only the current player can make decisions and the other
 players just sit and watch (like Risk), or a game where each player submits
 a move and the server applies the game rules to resolve the outcome (like
 Rock-Scissors-Paper).

 But a truly interactive game would probably require something more, like
 an active socket connection.

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Re: Finding the source of an exception in a python multiprocessing program

[William Ray Wing]

On Apr 24, 2013, at 4:31 PM, Neil Cerutti ne...@norwich.edu wrote:

 On 2013-04-24, William Ray Wing w...@mac.com wrote:
 When I look at the pool module, the error is occurring in
 get(self, timeout=None) on the line after the final else:
 
def get(self, timeout=None):
self.wait(timeout)
if not self._ready:
raise TimeoutError
if self._success:
return self._value
else:
raise self._value
 
 The code that's failing is in self.wait. Somewhere in there you
 must be masking an exception and storing it in self._value
 instead of letting it propogate and crash your program. This is
 hiding the actual context.
 
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I'm sorry, I'm not following you.  The get routine (and thus self.wait) is 
part of the pool module in the Python multiprocessing library.
None of my code has a class or function named get.

-Bill

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Re: Finding the source of an exception in a python multiprocessing program

[Oscar Benjamin]

On 24 April 2013 20:25, William Ray Wing w...@mac.com wrote:
 I run a bit of python code that monitors my connection to the greater 
 Internet.  It checks connectivity to the requested target IP addresses, 
 logging both successes and failures, once every 15 seconds.  I see failures 
 quite regularly, predictably on Sunday nights after midnight when various 
 networks are undergoing maintenance.  I'm trying to use python's 
 multiprocessing library to run multiple copies in parallel to check 
 connectivity to different parts of the country (they in no way interact with 
 each other).

 On rare occasions (maybe once every couple of months) I get the following 
 exception and traceback:

 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File ./CM_Harness.py, line 12, in module
 Foo = pool.map(monitor, targets)# and hands off two targets
   File 
 /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/multiprocessing/pool.py,
  line 227, in map
 return self.map_async(func, iterable, chunksize).get()
   File 
 /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/multiprocessing/pool.py,
  line 528, in get
 raise self._value
 IndexError: list index out of range

 The code where the traceback occurs is:

 #!/usr/bin/env python

  Harness to call multiple parallel copies
 of the basic monitor program
 

 from multiprocessing import Pool
 from Connection_Monitor import monitor

 targets = [8.8.8.8, www.ncsa.edu]
 pool = Pool(processes=2)# start 2 worker processes
 Foo = pool.map(monitor, targets)# and hands off two targets


 Line 12, in my code is simply the line that launches the underlying monitor 
 code.  I'm assuming that the real error is occurring in the monitor program 
 that is being launched, but I'm at a loss as to what to do to get a better 
 handle on what's going wrong. Since, as I said, I see failures quite 
 regularly, typically on Sunday nights after midnight when various networks 
 are undergoing maintenance, I don't _think_ the exception is being triggered 
 by that sort of failure.

 When I look at the pool module, the error is occurring in get(self, 
 timeout=None) on the line after the final else:

 def get(self, timeout=None):
 self.wait(timeout)
 if not self._ready:
 raise TimeoutError
 if self._success:
 return self._value
 else:
 raise self._value


 Python v 2.7.3, from Python.org, running on Mac OS-X 10.8.3

This looks to me like a bug in multiprocessing but I'm not very
experienced with it. Perhaps it would be good to open an issue on the
tracker. It might not be solvable without an easier way of reproducing
it though.


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Re: Finding the source of an exception in a python multiprocessing program

[MRAB]

On 24/04/2013 20:25, William Ray Wing wrote:

I run a bit of python code that monitors my connection to the greater Internet. 
 It checks connectivity to the requested target IP addresses, logging both 
successes and failures, once every 15 seconds.  I see failures quite regularly, 
predictably on Sunday nights after midnight when various networks are 
undergoing maintenance.  I'm trying to use python's multiprocessing library to 
run multiple copies in parallel to check connectivity to different parts of the 
country (they in no way interact with each other).

On rare occasions (maybe once every couple of months) I get the following 
exception and traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
   File ./CM_Harness.py, line 12, in module
 Foo = pool.map(monitor, targets)# and hands off two targets
   File 
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/multiprocessing/pool.py,
 line 227, in map
 return self.map_async(func, iterable, chunksize).get()
   File 
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/multiprocessing/pool.py,
 line 528, in get
 raise self._value
IndexError: list index out of range

The code where the traceback occurs is:

#!/usr/bin/env python

 Harness to call multiple parallel copies
 of the basic monitor program


from multiprocessing import Pool
from Connection_Monitor import monitor

targets = [8.8.8.8, www.ncsa.edu]
pool = Pool(processes=2)# start 2 worker processes
Foo = pool.map(monitor, targets)# and hands off two targets


Line 12, in my code is simply the line that launches the underlying monitor 
code.  I'm assuming that the real error is occurring in the monitor program 
that is being launched, but I'm at a loss as to what to do to get a better 
handle on what's going wrong. Since, as I said, I see failures quite regularly, 
typically on Sunday nights after midnight when various networks are undergoing 
maintenance, I don't _think_ the exception is being triggered by that sort of 
failure.


[snip]
If the exception is being raised by 'monitor', you could try catching
the exception within that (or write a simple wrapper function which
calls it), write the traceback to a logfile, and then re-raise.

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Scan CSV file and saving it into an array

[Ana Dionísio]

Hello!

I have this script that scans a csv file and if the value in the first column 
== 200 it saves that row into an array.

The problem is, I need to save that row and the next 10 rows in that same 
array. What can I add to the script so it does that? I tried to do for row in 
len(10): but I get an error.


p = csv.reader(open('file.csv'), delimiter=';')
a=[0]*2881
a = numpy.array(a, dtype=dict)
for row in p:
   if row[0]==200:
  a=row
  break
print a
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Re: Scan CSV file and saving it into an array

[Rhodri James]

On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:01:01 +0100, Ana Dionísio  
anadionisio...@gmail.com wrote:



I tried to do for row in len(10): but I get an error.


Please remember to tell us what error, with the traceback, so that we can  
make fun of you for not reading it :-)  In this case it's pretty obvious;  
Python will complain that you can't call len() on an integer (because it's  
not a container type, so the whole idea of length is meaningless).  You  
probably meant to use range(10) instead of len(10), but then row  
would be the integers from 0 to 9 inclusive, which isn't what you want  
either.


What you actually want to do is row = p.next() (in Python 2.x) or row =  
next(p) (in Python 3.x) to get the next row from the CSV file, add it to  
the array and repeat until you have ten more lines.  Another for-loop will  
make this less tedious to write.


Odd that this subject should have come up so many times in various guises  
in the last week or two.


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Re: Finding the source of an exception in a python multiprocessing program

[Dave Angel]

On 04/24/2013 05:09 PM, William Ray Wing wrote:

On Apr 24, 2013, at 4:31 PM, Neil Cerutti ne...@norwich.edu wrote:


On 2013-04-24, William Ray Wing w...@mac.com wrote:

When I look at the pool module, the error is occurring in
get(self, timeout=None) on the line after the final else:

def get(self, timeout=None):
self.wait(timeout)
if not self._ready:
raise TimeoutError
if self._success:
return self._value
else:
raise self._value


The code that's failing is in self.wait. Somewhere in there you
must be masking an exception and storing it in self._value
instead of letting it propogate and crash your program. This is
hiding the actual context.

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I'm sorry, I'm not following you.  The get routine (and thus self.wait) is part of the 
pool module in the Python multiprocessing library.
None of my code has a class or function named get.

-Bill



My question is why bother with multithreading?  Why not just do these as 
separate processes?  You said they in no way interact with each other 
and that's a clear clue that separate processes would be cleaner.


Without knowing anything about those libraries, I'd guess that somewhere 
they do store state in a global attribute or equivalent, and when that 
is accessed by both threads, it can crash.


Separate processes will find it much more difficult to interact, which 
is a good thing most of the time.  Further, they seem to be scheduled 
more efficiently because of the GIL, though that may not make that much 
difference when you're time-limited by network data.


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Re: Scan CSV file and saving it into an array

[Dave Angel]

On 04/24/2013 07:21 PM, Rhodri James wrote:

On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:01:01 +0100, Ana Dionísio
anadionisio...@gmail.com wrote:



  SNIP

Odd that this subject should have come up so many times in various
guises in the last week or two.



Not that odd.  In a larger classroom I'd expect several of the students 
to have enough internet savvy to find a forum like this.


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epiphany

[Roy Smith]

I discovered something really neat today.

We've got a system with a bunch of rules.  Each rule is a method which 
returns True or False.  At some point, we need to know if all the rules 
are True.  Complicating things, not all the rules are implemented.  
Those that are not implemented raise NotImplementedError.

We used to have some ugly logic which kept track of which rules were 
active and only evaluated those.

So, here's the neat thing.  It turns out that bool(NotImplemented) 
returns True.  By changing the unimplemented rules from raising 
NotImplementedError to returning NotImplemented, the whole thing becomes:

return all(r() for r in rules)
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Re: Finding the source of an exception in a python multiprocessing program

[Oscar Benjamin]

On 25 April 2013 00:26, Dave Angel da...@davea.name wrote:
 On 04/24/2013 05:09 PM, William Ray Wing wrote:

 On Apr 24, 2013, at 4:31 PM, Neil Cerutti ne...@norwich.edu wrote:

 On 2013-04-24, William Ray Wing w...@mac.com wrote:

 When I look at the pool module, the error is occurring in
 get(self, timeout=None) on the line after the final else:

 def get(self, timeout=None):
 self.wait(timeout)
 if not self._ready:
 raise TimeoutError
 if self._success:
 return self._value
 else:
 raise self._value


 The code that's failing is in self.wait. Somewhere in there you
 must be masking an exception and storing it in self._value
 instead of letting it propogate and crash your program. This is
 hiding the actual context.

 --
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 I'm sorry, I'm not following you.  The get routine (and thus self.wait)
 is part of the pool module in the Python multiprocessing library.
 None of my code has a class or function named get.

 -Bill


 My question is why bother with multithreading?  Why not just do these as
 separate processes?  You said they in no way interact with each other and
 that's a clear clue that separate processes would be cleaner.

It's using multiprocessing rather than threads: they are separate processes.


 Without knowing anything about those libraries, I'd guess that somewhere
 they do store state in a global attribute or equivalent, and when that is
 accessed by both threads, it can crash.

It's state that is passed to it by the subprocess and should only be
accessed by the top-level process after the subprocess completes (I
think!).


 Separate processes will find it much more difficult to interact, which is a
 good thing most of the time.  Further, they seem to be scheduled more
 efficiently because of the GIL, though that may not make that much
 difference when you're time-limited by network data.

They are separate processes and do not share the GIL (unless I'm very
much mistaken). Also I think the underlying program is limited by the
call to sleep for 15 seconds.


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Re: Scan CSV file and saving it into an array

[Dave Angel]

On 04/24/2013 07:01 PM, Ana Dionísio wrote:

Hello!

I have this script that scans a csv file and if the value in the first column 
== 200 it saves that row into an array.


No it doesn't. It creates a list, then overwrites it with a numpy array, 
then overwrites that with a list of strings representing one row.


If you want to really use a Python array, then read here:

   http://docs.python.org/2/library/array.html

It'd probably be best to start with a precise problem statement, 
presumably copied from your textbook or assignment sheet.  What python 
version is this for?  And what OS?  (that affects whether you need a 
file mode)  Exactly what data structure are you trying to build?  What 
type of a csv file are you trying to use?  Is there a standard header 
line?  How big might the file be?  What behavior do you want if there's 
no line that begins with the field 200?  Or if there's more than one 
such line?  Or if there are less than 10 lines following it in the file? 
 What about a field of 0200?




The problem is, I need to save that row and the next 10 rows in that same 
array. What can I add to the script so it does that? I tried to do for row in 
len(10): but I get an error.



When you say get an error it could be one of many things.  In this 
case, it's obvious, since len() doesn't make sense with an integer 
parameter.  But in general you want to say either:


1) it gave me the wrong result.  I expected  and got 
2) it did nothing at all.
3) it gave an exception, and here's the full traceback.




p = csv.reader(open('file.csv'), delimiter=';')
a=[0]*2881
a = numpy.array(a, dtype=dict)


These two lines do nothing useful, and they confuse the reader of the 
code, since they imply that the list will end up of size 2881, and/or as 
a numpy array.



for row in p:
if row[0]==200:
   a=row
   break


missing else clause. How do you detect that there was no match?


print a




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Re: Finding the source of an exception in a python multiprocessing program

[Dave Angel]

On 04/24/2013 08:00 PM, Oscar Benjamin wrote:

On 25 April 2013 00:26, Dave Angel da...@davea.name wrote:

On 04/24/2013 05:09 PM, William Ray Wing wrote:



   SNIP



My question is why bother with multithreading?  Why not just do these as
separate processes?  You said they in no way interact with each other and
that's a clear clue that separate processes would be cleaner.


It's using multiprocessing rather than threads: they are separate processes.



You're right;  I was completely off base.  brain-freeze.



SNIP


It's state that is passed to it by the subprocess and should only be
accessed by the top-level process after the subprocess completes (I
think!).



Separate processes will find it much more difficult to interact, which is a
good thing most of the time.  Further, they seem to be scheduled more
efficiently because of the GIL, though that may not make that much
difference when you're time-limited by network data.


They are separate processes and do not share the GIL (unless I'm very
much mistaken).


No, you're not mistaken.  Somehow I interpreted the original as saying 
multi-thread, and everything else was wrong as a result.  Now it sounds 
like a bug in, or misuse of, the Pool class.




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Re: Scan CSV file and saving it into an array

[Oscar Benjamin]

On 25 April 2013 00:01, Ana Dionísio anadionisio...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello!

 I have this script that scans a csv file and if the value in the first column 
 == 200 it saves that row into an array.

 The problem is, I need to save that row and the next 10 rows in that same 
 array. What can I add to the script so it does that? I tried to do for row in 
 len(10): but I get an error.


 p = csv.reader(open('file.csv'), delimiter=';')
 a=[0]*2881
 a = numpy.array(a, dtype=dict)

You shouldn't be using a numpy array for this; use a list instead. I
suggest that you have a go at the Python tutorial and avoid using
numpy until you are more confident with the basics of Python itself.

The tutorial (for Python 2) is here:
http://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/


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Re: epiphany

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:50:33 -0400, Roy Smith wrote:

 I discovered something really neat today.
 
 We've got a system with a bunch of rules.  Each rule is a method which
 returns True or False.  At some point, we need to know if all the rules
 are True.  Complicating things, not all the rules are implemented. Those
 that are not implemented raise NotImplementedError.


NotImplementedError is intended to be raised by abstract base classes to 
indicate a method that must be overridden. I also use it as a place-
holder for functions or methods I haven't actually written yet. I'm not 
sure what semantics you're giving NotImplementedError in your code, but I 
wonder whether a neater solution might be to just use rule = None for 
unimplemented rules, rather than:

def unimplemented():
raise NotImplementedError

rule = unimplemented

Then your logic for seeing if all rules return true would become:

all(r() for r in rules if r is not None)

and for seeing if all rules return true or are unimplemented:

all(r is None or r() for r in rules)



 We used to have some ugly logic which kept track of which rules were
 active and only evaluated those.

I don't see why you would need anything like that. Reading further on, I 
see that you are counting unimplemented rules as true, for some reason 
which I don't understand. (Knowing nothing of your use-case, I would have 
expected intuitively that unimplemented rules count as not true.) A 
simple helper function will do the job:


def eval(rule):
try:
return rule()
except NotImplementedError:
return True

everything_is_true = all(eval(r) for r in rules)



No need for complicated ugly logic keeping track of what rules are 
implemented. But if you're worried about the cost of catching those 
exceptions (you've profiled your code, right?) then that's easy with a 
decorator:


def not_implemented(func):
@functools.wraps(func)
def inner(*args, **kw):
raise NotImplementedError
inner.ni = True
return inner


# Decorate only the rules you want to be unimplemented.

@not_implemented
def my_rule():
pass


everything_is_true = all(r() for r in rules if not hasattr(r, 'ni'))



Note that if you could reverse the logic so that unimplemented rules 
count as not true, this will also work:

try:
everything_is_true = all(r() for r in rules)
except NotImplementedError:
everything_is_true = False



 So, here's the neat thing.  It turns out that bool(NotImplemented)
 returns True.  By changing the unimplemented rules from raising
 NotImplementedError to returning NotImplemented, the whole thing
 becomes:
 
 return all(r() for r in rules)

Objects are supposed to return NotImplemented from special dunder methods 
like __add__, __lt__, etc. to say I don't know how to implement this 
method for the given argument. Python will then try calling the other 
object's special method. If both objects return NotImplemented, Python 
falls back on whatever default behaviour is appropriate.

So, knowing nothing of your application, I fear that this is an abuse of 
NotImplemented's semantics. If a rule returns NotImplemented, I would 
expect your application to fall back on a different rule. If that's not 
the case, you're using it in a non-standard way that will cause confusion 
for those with expectations of what NotImplemented means.



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Re: epiphany

[Roy Smith]

In article 5178884b$0$29977$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com,
 Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote:

 I don't see why you would need anything like that. Reading further on, I 
 see that you are counting unimplemented rules as true, for some reason 
 which I don't understand.

The top-level logic we need to enforce is this configuration doesn't 
violate any rules.
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Re: epiphany

[Chris Angelico]

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Roy Smith r...@panix.com wrote:
 In article 5178884b$0$29977$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com,
  Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote:

 I don't see why you would need anything like that. Reading further on, I
 see that you are counting unimplemented rules as true, for some reason
 which I don't understand.

 The top-level logic we need to enforce is this configuration doesn't
 violate any rules.

Then have your unimplemented rules simply return True. Easy!

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Re: epiphany

[Roy Smith]

In article mailman.1044.1366856455.3114.python-l...@python.org,
 Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Roy Smith r...@panix.com wrote:
  In article 5178884b$0$29977$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com,
   Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote:
 
  I don't see why you would need anything like that. Reading further on, I
  see that you are counting unimplemented rules as true, for some reason
  which I don't understand.
 
  The top-level logic we need to enforce is this configuration doesn't
  violate any rules.
 
 Then have your unimplemented rules simply return True. Easy!
 
 ChrisA

It's nice to have tri-state logic:

* This rule passes

* This rule fails

* This rule was not evaluated

What I've got now expresses that perfectly.
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Re: epiphany

[Ethan Furman]

On 04/24/2013 06:35 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

Objects are supposed to return NotImplemented from special dunder methods
like __add__, __lt__, etc. to say I don't know how to implement this
method for the given argument. Python will then try calling the other
object's special method. If both objects return NotImplemented, Python
falls back on whatever default behaviour is appropriate.

So, knowing nothing of your application, I fear that this is an abuse of
NotImplemented's semantics. If a rule returns NotImplemented, I would
expect your application to fall back on a different rule. If that's not
the case, you're using it in a non-standard way that will cause confusion
for those with expectations of what NotImplemented means.


Why would you assume some random application is going to deal with NotImplemented the same way the python interpreter 
does?  And even the interpreter isn't consistent -- sometimes it will return false (__eq__) and sometimes it will raise 
an Exception (__add__).


I hardly think it an abuse of NotImplemented to signal something is not implemented when NotImplemented means, um, not 
implemented.


possibly-not-implemented-ly yours,

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Re: My gui

[Terry Jan Reedy]

On 4/24/2013 1:53 PM, Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick wrote:


Please try fixing it and running it _outside of IDLE_, which is also
built in Tk


The default mode of Idle runs user code in a separate process. Editing 
tkinter code with Idle and running it (in the separate process) should 
be no problem.




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Re: epiphany

[Ethan Furman]

On 04/24/2013 07:20 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Roy Smith r...@panix.com wrote:

In article 5178884b$0$29977$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com,
  Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote:


I don't see why you would need anything like that. Reading further on, I
see that you are counting unimplemented rules as true, for some reason
which I don't understand.


The top-level logic we need to enforce is this configuration doesn't
violate any rules.


Then have your unimplemented rules simply return True. Easy!


And less clear.

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Re: how to: multiplayer game connecting to central server effectively?

[Chris Angelico]

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 6:59 AM,  webmas...@terradon.nl wrote:
 hi,
 I struggle for some days about a model for a multiplayer game application.
 I read so much from my enemy Google, i got lost by all that info and dont 
 know which path i should chose.

 a multiplayer game application, sending/receiving  instantly every change in 
 the game to a central webserver, http://www.x.com, probably via socket 
 connection?

 which system/module should i use for this contineous connection and where can 
 i find a good tutorial, which a beginner like me can understand a bit? (i 
 have read too many too complicated/technical artickles, but no nice 
 tutorials).

 i have tried and accompished an urllib connection, with get and post 
 variabels, but that will be polling, with all the http-overhead for every 
 poll. I think this is also to slow and no real updating of the game status.

 Thanks in advance for any hint/tutorial i get:)

The easiest way to start would be a MUD or chat server. Establish a
TCP socket, then whenever anything happens, report the change to all
connected sockets. In its simplest form:

* Accept connection
* Wait for login (or, for a simple test, just Enter your name:  would do)
* Add connection to pool
* Whenever a line of text is received, prepend the name and send it to
every connection in the pool.

That's a basic chat server. A MUD adds only a small bit of
complication: you need some form of command parser, and not everything
will announce to all connected clients. I can walk you through a lot
of this, but I haven't done most of it in Python; there's another
language, very similar in semantics, which is better suited to MUD
building: Pike. But it's all similar enough that you'll be able to do
it in either.

The project you're looking at sounds to me like it'd be well
implemented as a MUD-style connection with a fancy client in front of
it. Debug your system using the MUD connection, and make sure you
don't have any security holes that can be exploited by someone
switching out your client for a custom one; because, believe you me,
someone will figure out how to do it. (If you're concerned about
privacy, you can easily switch in SSL/TLS, while not fundamentally
changing any of your code.) Start with something as simple as you
possibly can, and then add complication only as you find you need it.

Here's the module you'll be wanting:
http://docs.python.org/3.3/library/socket.html

(By the way, you won't be connecting to a *web* server. Your central
server will be quite separate from that system. It might happen to be
the same computer, but there's no real connection.)

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Re: My gui

[Chris Angelico]

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 3:08 AM, Daniel Kersgaard
danielkersga...@gmail.com wrote:
 import tkinter
 import tkinter.messagebox

 class MyGui:
 def _init_(self):
 ... all code here

 poop = MyGui()

As already mentioned, changing that to __init__ makes everything work
(I just tested in Python 3.3 on Windows). But since Python is not
Java, there's no reason to bury all this code in a class; just move
all that code flush left and abandon the explicit instantiation. The
constructor doesn't return until the window's been closed, so there's
really no point in returning an object. (Maybe if you remove the
mainloop() call, you could possibly make use of two of these sorts of
windows, but YAGNI - don't bother with the complexity required to
handle multiple simultaneous windows until you have a use-case.)

So here's a direct translation to top-level code:

import tkinter
import tkinter.messagebox

def convert():
kilo = float(kilo_entry.get())
miles = kilo * 0.6214
tkinter.messagebox.showinfo('Result', str(kilo) + ' kilometers is
equal to ' + str(miles) + 'miles.')

main_window = tkinter.Tk()

top_frame = tkinter.Frame(main_window)
bottom_frame = tkinter.Frame(main_window)

prompt_label = tkinter.Label(top_frame, text = 'Enter a distance in
Kilometers: ')
kilo_entry = tkinter.Entry(top_frame, width = 10)

prompt_label.pack(side = 'left')
kilo_entry.pack(side = 'left')

calc_button = tkinter.Button(bottom_frame, text = 'Convert', command = convert)

quit_button = tkinter.Button(bottom_frame, text = 'Quit', command =
main_window.destroy)

calc_button.pack(side = 'left')
quit_button.pack(side = 'left')

top_frame.pack()
bottom_frame.pack()

tkinter.mainloop()


-- cut --

(You may want to bury the code inside a main(), but that's optional too.)

And here's a slightly modified version:

import tkinter
import tkinter.messagebox

main_window = tkinter.Tk()
top_frame = tkinter.Frame(main_window)
bottom_frame = tkinter.Frame(main_window)

tkinter.Label(top_frame, text = 'Enter a distance in Kilometers:
').pack(side = 'left')
km_entry = tkinter.Entry(top_frame, width = 10); km_entry.pack(side = 'left')

def convert():
km = float(km_entry.get())
miles = km * 0.6214
tkinter.messagebox.showinfo('Result', '%.2f kilometers is equal to
%.2f miles.' % (km, miles) )

tkinter.Button(bottom_frame, text = 'Convert', command =
convert).pack(side = 'left')
tkinter.Button(bottom_frame, text = 'Quit', command =
main_window.destroy).pack(side = 'left')

top_frame.pack()
bottom_frame.pack()

tkinter.mainloop()

-- cut --

I've removed some redundant variables (you don't need to hang onto
references to your labels,just pack 'em in and be done), and reordered
the code a bit to put the Convert button's function right near where
the Convert button is created (take your pick - do you prefer that, or
to have all the other functions up top? Both are viable); I also
changed your message box to use percent-formatting with fixed decimals
rather than str(), to tidy up the display a bit. Oh, and renamed
kilo to km, because to me kilo means kilogram. :)

This version of the code isn't necessarily better in every way, but
it's different. Like the Oracle in The Matrix, I want you to make up
your own mind as to what you ought to do; maybe you'll like some of my
changes, maybe you won't, but either way you're making an intelligent
decision about code style :)

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IPython in Emacs

[Seb]

Hi,

Please excuse the slightly off-topic query.  I'm learning Python, using
the IPython (0.13) shell, and wanted to run it from Emacs 24.  AFAICT,
python.el is the most actively developed library, and is included in
Emacs.  How do experienced Python programmers set up their python.el to
make the best of it?  I've done it following the recommendations given
in the library¹:

(setq
 python-shell-interpreter ipython
 python-shell-interpreter-args 
 python-shell-prompt-regexp In \\[[0-9]+\\]: 
 python-shell-prompt-output-regexp Out\\[[0-9]+\\]: 
 python-shell-completion-setup-code
 from IPython.core.completerlib import module_completion
 python-shell-completion-module-string-code
 ';'.join(module_completion('''%s'''))\n
 python-shell-completion-string-code
 ';'.join(get_ipython().Completer.all_completions('''%s'''))\n)

but this may be a little outdated as it refers to IPython 0.11.

Thanks,
Seb

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Re: epiphany

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:25:37 -0700, Ethan Furman wrote:

 On 04/24/2013 06:35 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
 Objects are supposed to return NotImplemented from special dunder
 methods like __add__, __lt__, etc. to say I don't know how to
 implement this method for the given argument. Python will then try
 calling the other object's special method. If both objects return
 NotImplemented, Python falls back on whatever default behaviour is
 appropriate.

 So, knowing nothing of your application, I fear that this is an abuse
 of NotImplemented's semantics. If a rule returns NotImplemented, I
 would expect your application to fall back on a different rule. If
 that's not the case, you're using it in a non-standard way that will
 cause confusion for those with expectations of what NotImplemented
 means.
 
 Why would you assume some random application is going to deal with
 NotImplemented the same way the python interpreter does?


Why would you assume that some random application is going to treat x==y 
the same way the Python interpreter does?

Just because you can design your objects to do anything you want doesn't 
mean you should. Breaking conventions carries costs by the mere fact that 
you're breaking conventions. There are established semantics that an 
experienced Python developer will expect for NotImplemented, and doing 
something else risks causing confusion and mistakes.

Or worse, bugs. If there is any chance that a rule might be called in a 
context where the Python interpreter gets to interpret the return result 
before you see it, then returning NotImplemented could lead to difficult 
to debug problems.



 And even the
 interpreter isn't consistent -- sometimes it will return false (__eq__)
 and sometimes it will raise an Exception (__add__).

As I said:

If both objects return NotImplemented, Python falls back on whatever 
default behaviour is appropriate.

If neither object knows how to compare the other for equality, the 
appropriate behaviour is to treat them as unequal. If neither object 
knows how to add itself to the other, the appropriate behaviour is to 
raise an exception.


 I hardly think it an abuse of NotImplemented to signal something is not
 implemented when NotImplemented means, um, not implemented.

It doesn't just mean not implemented in general, it has a specific 
meaning: I don't know what to do here, let the other object handle it.

As I have repeatedly said, I don't know the context of the application, 
but from what little has been described, this part of it doesn't feel to 
me like a good, clean design. I might be wrong, but from the outside it 
feels like the API should be that rules return a three-state logic 
instance:

True, False, Unknown

where Unknown can be trivially created with 

Unknown = object()

The semantics of NotImplementedError is that it is an *error*, and that 
doesn't sound appropriate given the example shown. Why would a rule that 
raises an *error* exception be treated as if it had passed? That's just 
wrong.

The semantics of NotImplemented is that it is a signal for one object to 
say I don't know how to do this, let somebody else try. That also 
doesn't seem appropriate. There's no sign that Roy's application does the 
equivalent to this:

result = rule()
if result is NotImplemented:
result = another_rule()
if result is NotImplemented:
result = some_default


Since rules apparently take no arguments, either:

1) they rely on global state, which is a nasty design; or

2) rules actually have a fixed return result, in which case why make them 
functions in the first place?


Since both possibilities seem stupid, and I do not believe that Roy 
actually is stupid, I suspect that his example over-simplifies the 
situation. But I can't comment on the infinite number of things that his 
code might do, I can only comment on the examples as actually given, and 
as given, I don't think that either NotImplementedError or NotImplemented 
is a clean solution to the problem.


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Re: IPython in Emacs

[rusi]

On Apr 25, 8:35 am, Seb splu...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,

 Please excuse the slightly off-topic query.  I'm learning Python, using
 the IPython (0.13) shell, and wanted to run it from Emacs 24.  AFAICT,
 python.el is the most actively developed library, and is included in
 Emacs.  How do experienced Python programmers set up their python.el to
 make the best of it?  I've done it following the recommendations given
 in the library¹:

 (setq
  python-shell-interpreter ipython
  python-shell-interpreter-args 
  python-shell-prompt-regexp In \\[[0-9]+\\]: 
  python-shell-prompt-output-regexp Out\\[[0-9]+\\]: 
  python-shell-completion-setup-code
  from IPython.core.completerlib import module_completion
  python-shell-completion-module-string-code
  ';'.join(module_completion('''%s'''))\n
  python-shell-completion-string-code
  ';'.join(get_ipython().Completer.all_completions('''%s'''))\n)

 but this may be a little outdated as it refers to IPython 0.11.

 Thanks,
 Seb

 +--- Footnotes ---+
 ¹ Ignored recommended setting for `python-shell-interpreter-args'

There were some ipython+emacs+windows bugs:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ipython/+bug/290228

Last I tried nearly 2 years, they were still there
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/36e757567f28368e

[Since you did not say whether you are on windows or *nix, just saying]
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Pythonic way to count sequences

[CM]

I have to count the number of various two-digit sequences in a list
such as this:

mylist = [(2,4), (2,4), (3,4), (4,5), (2,1)]  # (Here the (2,4)
sequence appears 2 times.)

and tally up the results, assigning each to a variable.  The inelegant
first pass at this was something like...

# Create names and set them all to 0
alpha = 0
beta = 0
delta = 0
gamma = 0
# etc...

# loop over all the tuple sequences and increment appropriately
for sequence_tuple in list_of_tuples:
if sequence_tuple == (1,2):
alpha += 1
if sequence_tuple == (2,4):
beta += 1
if sequence_tuple == (2,5):
delta +=1
# etc... But I actually have more than 10 sequence types.

# Finally, I need a list created like this:
result_list = [alpha, beta, delta, gamma] #etc...in that order

I can sense there is very likely an elegant/Pythonic way to do this,
and probably with a dict, or possibly with some Python structure I
don't typically use.  Suggestions sought.  Thanks.
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Re: Pythonic way to count sequences

[Chris Angelico]

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 3:05 PM, CM cmpyt...@gmail.com wrote:
 I have to count the number of various two-digit sequences in a list
 such as this:

 mylist = [(2,4), (2,4), (3,4), (4,5), (2,1)]  # (Here the (2,4)
 sequence appears 2 times.)

 and tally up the results, assigning each to a variable.

You can use a tuple as a dictionary key, just like you would a string.
So you can count them up directly with a dictionary:

count = {}
for sequence_tuple in list_of_tuples:
count[sequence_tuple] = count.get(sequence_tuple,0) + 1

Also, since this is such a common thing to do, there's a standard
library way of doing it:

import collections
count = collections.Counter(list_of_tuples)

This doesn't depend on knowing ahead of time what your elements will
be. At the end of it, you can simply iterate over 'count' and get all
your counts:

for sequence,number in count.items():
print(%d of %r % (number,sequence))

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Comparison Style

[llanitedave]

Given that 

s = some static value
i = a value incremented during a loop

I'm used to comparing them as

if i == s:
# some code

But for some unknown reason I did a switch

if s == i:
# same code

It didn't seem to make any difference at first glance, so I just got to 
wondering --

Is there a standard for comparison order?  Is there any kind of performance 
difference?  Is there even a tradition for one or the other?  Are there any 
gotchas?

Do I need to get a hobby?
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[issue9849] Argparse needs better error handling for nargs

[paul j3]

paul j3 added the comment:

This patch adds a value test for nargs during add_argument.  The core of the 
new test is in ArgumentParser._check_argument.

add_argument() now calls ArgumentParser._check_argument(), which calls 
_format_args().  If it gets a TypeError, it raises a metavar ValueError as 
before.  But if it gets an ValueError, it raises an ArgumentError.

An argument group gets the _check_argument method from its container.  This 
way, check_argument() works for both parsers and groups.

HelpFormater _format_args() now raises a ValueError if the nargs is not an 
integer (or one of the recognized strings). 

What kind of error should we produce when there is a problem with nargs?

An ArgumentError has the advantage that it includes the action name.  But the 
metavar tuple test was coded to raise ValueError.  Plus the test_argparse.py 
TestInvalidArgumentConstructors class tests all check for TypeError or 
ValueError.

I have kept the metavar tuple case as ValueError.  That way, test_argparse.py 
runs without a change.  I still need to add tests for invalid string nargs 
values.  And I think the case could be made for returning ArgumentValue errors.

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[issue9849] Argparse needs better error handling for nargs

[paul j3]

paul j3 added the comment:

The attached test_nargswarn.py file tests the argparse.py patch.  It tries out 
various nargs values, both for parsers, groups, and mutually exclusive groups.  
I intend to recast these to work in test_argparse.py

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[issue17532] IDLE: Always include Options menu on MacOSX

[Guilherme Simões]

Guilherme Simões added the comment:

Since extensions are probably going to be included into IDLE soon I'm attaching 
a version of the patch that also changes PyShell.py.

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[issue15301] os.chown: OverflowError: Python int too large to convert to C long

[Serhiy Storchaka]

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment:

Yes, it is what I had in mean. Sorry for indistinctness.

As far as you change _fd_converter() it will be good to add also a test for 
float/decimal/fractional fd. Otherwise the patch LGTM.

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[issue17825] Indentation.offset and SyntaxError.offset mismatch

[Florent Xicluna]

New submission from Florent Xicluna:

I noticed a difference between computation of column offset for SyntaxError and 
IndentationError (a subclass of SyntaxError).
It is slightly confusing.


def report(exc):
print('lineno %s, offset %s' % (exc.lineno, exc.offset))
raise

try:
exec('except IOError:')
except Exception as e:
report(e)

try:
exec('open(filepath)')
except Exception as e:
report(e)


** OUTPUT **
lineno 1, offset 6
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File stdin, line 4, in module
  File stdin, line 2, in module
  File string, line 1
except IOError:
 ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

lineno 1, offset 4
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File stdin, line 4, in module
  File stdin, line 2, in module
  File string, line 1
open(filepath)
^
IndentationError: unexpected indent


** Analysis **

Case (1): offset is 6, and caret is below column 5 for SyntaxError
Case (2): offset is 4, and caret is below column 4 for IndentationError

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nosy: flox
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Indentation.offset and SyntaxError.offset mismatch
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.3

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[issue12634] Random Remarks in class documentation

[Yongzhi Pan]

Yongzhi Pan added the comment:

It may be worth to noting that when creating property attribute using the 
property decorator, we may tend to name the method using nouns, like here:
http://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#property

This is when I once overided data attribute with method.

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[issue17826] Setting a side_effect on mock from create_autospec doesn't work

[Michael Foord]

New submission from Michael Foord:

 from unittest.mock import create_autospec
 def f(): pass
... 
 m = create_autospec(f)
 m.side_effect = [1, 2]
 m()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File stdin, line 1, in module
  File string, line 3, in f
  File /compile/py3k-cpython/Lib/unittest/mock.py, line 872, in __call__
return _mock_self._mock_call(*args, **kwargs)
  File /compile/py3k-cpython/Lib/unittest/mock.py, line 931, in _mock_call
result = next(effect)
TypeError: 'list' object is not an iterator

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messages: 187692
nosy: michael.foord
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: Setting a side_effect on mock from create_autospec doesn't work
type: behavior
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[issue17547] checking whether gcc supports ParseTuple __format__... erroneously returns yes with gcc 4.8

[Alex Leach]

Alex Leach added the comment:

I don't think I can tell you anything you don't know already, but ...

On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:38:18 +0100, Dave Malcolm rep...@bugs.python.org  
wrote:

 BTW, is that GCC format checking code available anywhere?

Is this what you mean?

http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/gcc/trunk/gcc/c-family/c-format.c?annotate=193304pathrev=193304

I got taken straight there from the link you sent, above...


 Am I right in thinking that it was an out-of-tree patch to GCC, from the
 pre-plugin days?

No idea.. GCC plugins have been around for several years now, though and  
the patch was only introduced in November. If this patch was applied to  
any past GCC distributions, I'm sure someone else would have been  
overwhelmed with warnings and would have mentioned something before now.  
Either way, it looks like the patch is going to stay.

In case you hadn't seen it already, the invoke.texi source file probably  
has the most descriptive changes:-

  
http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/gcc/trunk/gcc/doc/invoke.texi?r1=193304r2=193303pathrev=193304

KR,
Alex

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[issue17813] lzma and bz2 decompress methods lack max_size parameter

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[issue10951] gcc 4.6 warnings

[Martin v . Löwis]

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I don't mind them being backported, in the spirit of supporting newer tools 
well in 2.7. OTOH, I don't see it as necessary, either. 2.7 will eventually be 
phased out, and then it doesn't matter how much warnings it produces.

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[issue16499] CLI option for isolated mode

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[issue12238] Readline module loading in interactive mode

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[issue7475] codecs missing: base64 bz2 hex zlib hex_codec ...

[Martin v . Löwis]

Martin v. Löwis added the comment:

I don't see any point in merely bringing the codecs back, without any 
convenience API to use them. If I need to do

  import codecs
  result = codecs.getencoder(base64).encode(data)

I don't think people would actually prefer this over

  import base64
  result = base64.encodebytes(data)

I't (IMO) only the convenience method (.encode) that made people love these 
codecs.

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[issue7475] codecs missing: base64 bz2 hex zlib hex_codec ...

[Ezio Melotti]

Ezio Melotti added the comment:

IMHO it's also a documentation problem.  Once people figure out that they can't 
use encode/decode anymore, it's not immediately clear what they should do 
instead.  By reading the codecs docs[0] it's not obvious that it can be done 
with codecs.getencoder(...).encode/decode, so people waste time finding a 
solution, get annoyed, and blame Python 3 because it removed a simple way to 
use these codecs without making clear what should be used instead.
FWIW I don't care about having to do an extra import, but indeed something 
simpler than codecs.getencoder(...).encode/decode would be nice.

[0]: http://docs.python.org/3/library/codecs.html

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[issue15392] Create a unittest framework for IDLE

[Tomoki Imai]

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I have already posted idle_dev mailing list (and, no one replied :P).

I think, Ezio's suggestion is good if we will work for Python2.
Using unittest.mock and mock to support Python2 and Python3.
My proposal for GSoC is here.
Making very initial version for Python2 and Python3 and,
 complete Python3 version and, backport it in the end.
I'll set backporting for Python2 as optional work.
My main goal is to make unittest for Python3.

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[issue17226] libintl should also check for libiconv

[Alan Hourihane]

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Bumping. How does Jeffrey's patch look folks ?

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[issue17827] Document codecs.encode and codecs.decode

[Nick Coghlan]

New submission from Nick Coghlan:

The codecs module has long offered encode() and decode() convenience functions 
(since 2004: http://hg.python.org/cpython-fullhistory/rev/8ea2cb1ec598), but 
they're not documented (except through docstrings). We should fix that.

From the docstrings:
==
encode(obj, [encoding[,errors]]) - object

Encodes obj using the codec registered for encoding. encoding defaults
to the default encoding. errors may be given to set a different error
handling scheme. Default is 'strict' meaning that encoding errors raise
a ValueError. Other possible values are 'ignore', 'replace' and
'xmlcharrefreplace' as well as any other name registered with
codecs.register_error that can handle ValueErrors.
==
decode(obj, [encoding[,errors]]) - object

Decodes obj using the codec registered for encoding. encoding defaults
to the default encoding. errors may be given to set a different error
handling scheme. Default is 'strict' meaning that encoding errors raise
a ValueError. Other possible values are 'ignore' and 'replace'
as well as any other name registered with codecs.register_error that is
able to handle ValueErrors.
==

Note that the difference between the convenience functions in the codecs module 
and the methods on str, bytes and bytearray is that the latter have additional 
type checks to limit their usage to text encodings. str.encode expects a 
str-bytes conversion, while bytes.decode and bytearray.decode both expect the 
codec to produce a str object. codecs.encode and codecs.decode are both 
arbitrary object-object conversions, limited only by whatever the chosen codec 
supports.

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[issue7475] codecs missing: base64 bz2 hex zlib hex_codec ...

[Nick Coghlan]

Nick Coghlan added the comment:

It turns out MAL added the convenience API I'm looking for back in 2004, it 
just didn't get documented, and is hidden behind the from _codecs import * 
call in the codecs.py source code:

http://hg.python.org/cpython-fullhistory/rev/8ea2cb1ec598

So, all the way from 2.4 to 2.7 you can write:

  from codecs import encode
  result = encode(data, base64)

It works in 3.x as well, you just need to add the _codec to the end to 
account for the missing aliases:

 encode(bexample, base64_codec)
b'ZXhhbXBsZQ==\n'
 decode(bZXhhbXBsZQ==\n, base64_codec)
b'example'

Note that the convenience functions omit the extra checks that are part of the 
methods (although I admit the specific error here is rather quirky):

 bZXhhbXBsZQ==\n.decode(base64_codec)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File stdin, line 1, in module
  File /usr/lib64/python3.2/encodings/base64_codec.py, line 20, in 
base64_decode
return (base64.decodebytes(input), len(input))
  File /usr/lib64/python3.2/base64.py, line 359, in decodebytes
raise TypeError(expected bytes, not %s % s.__class__.__name__)
TypeError: expected bytes, not memoryview

I'me going to create some additional issues, so this one can return to just 
being about restoring the missing aliases.

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[issue7475] codecs missing: base64 bz2 hex zlib hex_codec ...

[Marc-Andre Lemburg]

Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment:

Just copying some details here about codecs.encode() and
codec.decode() from python-dev:


Just as reminder: we have the general purpose
encode()/decode() functions in the codecs module:

import codecs
r13 = codecs.encode('hello world', 'rot-13')

These interface directly to the codec interfaces, without
enforcing type restrictions. The codec defines the supported
input and output types.


As Nick found, these aren't documented, which is a documentation
bug (I probably forgot to add documentation back then).
They have been in Python since 2004:

http://hg.python.org/cpython-fullhistory/rev/8ea2cb1ec598

These API are nice for general purpose codec work and
that's why I added them back in 2004.

For the codecs in question, it would still be nice to have
a more direct way to access them via methods on the types
that you typically use them with.

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[issue17827] Document codecs.encode and codecs.decode

[Ezio Melotti]

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[issue7475] codecs missing: base64 bz2 hex zlib hex_codec ...

[Ezio Melotti]

Ezio Melotti added the comment:

 It works in 3.x as well, you just need to add the _codec to the end
 to account for the missing aliases:

FTR this is because of ff1261a14573 (see #10807).

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[issue17825] Indentation.offset and SyntaxError.offset mismatch

[R. David Murray]

R. David Murray added the comment:

Well, that would be because the invalid indent is detected when the 'o' is 
encountered, whereas the invalid syntax is detected when the 't' completes the 
keyword 'except'.

I don't think there is a bug here.

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[issue17828] More informative error handling when encoding and decoding

[Nick Coghlan]

New submission from Nick Coghlan:

Passing the wrong types to codecs can currently lead to rather confusing 
exceptions, like:


 bZXhhbXBsZQ==\n.decode(base64_codec)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File stdin, line 1, in module
  File /usr/lib64/python3.2/encodings/base64_codec.py, line 20, in 
base64_decode
return (base64.decodebytes(input), len(input))
  File /usr/lib64/python3.2/base64.py, line 359, in decodebytes
raise TypeError(expected bytes, not %s % s.__class__.__name__)
TypeError: expected bytes, not memoryview

 codecs.decode(example, utf8)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File stdin, line 1, in module
  File /usr/lib64/python3.2/encodings/utf_8.py, line 16, in decode
return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True)
TypeError: 'str' does not support the buffer interface


This situation could be improved by having the affected APIs use the exception 
chaining system to wrap these errors in a more informative exception that also 
display information on the codec involved. Note that UnicodeEncodeError and 
UnicodeDecodeError are not appropriate, as those are specific to text encoding 
operations, while these new wrappers will apply to arbitrary codecs, regardless 
of whether or not they use the unicode error handlers. Furthermore, for 
backwards compatibility with existing exception handling, it is probably 
necessary to limit ourselves to specific exception types and ensure that the 
wrapper exceptions are subclasses of those types.

These new wrappers would have __cause__ set to the exception raised by the 
codec, but emit a message more along the lines of the following:

==
codecs.DecodeTypeError: encoding='utf8', details=TypeError: 'str' does not 
support the buffer interface
==

Wrapping TypeError and ValueError should cover most cases, which would mean 
four new exception types in the codecs module:

Raised by codecs.decode, bytes.decode and bytearray.decode:
* codecs.DecodeTypeError
* codecs.DecodeValueError

Raised by codecs.encode, str.encode:
* codecs.EncodeTypeError
* codecs.EncodeValueError

Instances of UnicodeError wouldn't be wrapped, since they already contain codec 
information.

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[issue7475] codecs missing: base64 bz2 hex zlib hex_codec ...

[Nick Coghlan]

Nick Coghlan added the comment:

Issue 17827 covers adding documentation for codecs.encode and codecs.decode

Issue 17828 covers adding exception handling improvements for all encoding and 
decoding operations

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