Spell-checking Python source code
To my horror, someone pointed out to me yesterday that a web app I wrote has been prominently displaying a misspelled word. The word was buried in my code. Is there a utility out there that will help spell-check literal strings entered into Python source code? I don't mean spell-check strings entered by the user; I mean, go through the .py file, isolate strings, and tell me when the strings contain misspelled words. In an ideal world, my IDE would do this with a red wavy line. I guess a second-best thing would be an easy technique to open a .py file and isolate all strings in it. (I know that the better practice is to isolate user-displayed strings from the code, but in this case that just didn't happen.) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: removing common elemets in a list
On May 16, 2:17 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Suppose i have a list v which collects some numbers,how do i
remove the common elements from it ,without using the set() opeartor.
Thanks
Submit this as your homework answer -- it will blow your TA's mind!
import base64
def uniq(v):
return
eval(base64.b64decode('c29ydGVkKGxpc3Qoc2V0KHYpKSxrZXk9bGFtYmRhIHg6di5pbmRleCh4KSk='),locals())
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Re: remove all elements in a list with a particular value
On May 16, 11:21 am, Lisa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am reading in data from a text file. I want to enter each value on
the line into a list and retain the order of the elements. The number
of elements and spacing between them varies, but a typical line looks
like:
' SRCPARAM 1 6.35e-07 15.00 340.00 1.10 3.0 '
Why does the following not work:
line = ' SRCPARAM 1 6.35e-07 15.00 340.00 1.10 3.0 '
li = line.split(' ')
for j,i in enumerate(li):
if i == '':
li.remove(i)
After the original split I get:
['', '', '', 'SRCPARAM', '', '', '1', '6.35e-07', '15.00', '',
'340.00', '', '', '1.10', '', '', '', '', '', '3.0', '', '', '']
And after the for loop I get:
['SRCPARAM', '1', '6.35e-07', '15.00', '340.00', '1.10', '', '', '',
'3.0', '', '', '']
It doesn't remove all of the empty elements. Is there a better way to
split the original string? Or a way to catch all of the empty
elements?
Thanks
As explained elsewhere, this is not the best way to do a split. But
if in the future you run into the problem of how to remove all
elements in a list with a particular value, here are two popular
approaches:
items = ['', '', '', 'SRCPARAM', '', '', '1', '6.35e-07', '15.00', '',
'340.00', '', '', '1.10', '', '', '', '', '', '3.0', '', '', '']
print filter(lambda i: i != '', items)
['SRCPARAM', '1', '6.35e-07', '15.00', '340.00', '1.10', '3.0']
print [x for x in items if x != '']
['SRCPARAM', '1', '6.35e-07', '15.00', '340.00', '1.10', '3.0']
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Re: Using the Python interpreter
On Apr 18, 8:32 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Instead of starting IDLE as I normally do, I started the Python interpreter and tried to run a program. I got a Python prompt (), and then tried unsuccessfully to run a Python script named Script1.py that runs perfectly well in IDLE. Here's what I did: Script1.py Traceback (most recent call last): File stdin, line 1, in ? NameError: name Script1 is not defined python Script1.py File stdin, line 1 python Script1.py SyntaxError: invalid syntax I can load it (and have it execute) by typing import Script1 0 1 2 3 4 and if I edit it, I can then execute it by reloading it import Script1 0 1 2 3 4 module 'Script1' from 'Script1.pyc' But this seems contrived - is there no way to repeatedly run Script1 from the interpreter without reloading it? Thomas Philips You want execfile: execfile(Script1.py) See http://pyref.infogami.com/execfile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How to initialize a table of months.
On Apr 15, 9:30 pm, Steven W. Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm reading a logfile with a timestamp at the begging of each line, e.g.,
Mar 29 08:29:00
I want to call datetime.datetim() whose arg2 is a number between 1-12 so I
have to convert the month to an integer.
I wrote this, but I have a sneaky suspicion there's a better way to do it.
mons = {'Jan':1, 'Feb':2, 'Mar':3, 'Apr':4, 'May':5, 'Jun':6,
'Jul':7, 'Aug':8, 'Sep':9, 'Oct':10, 'Nov':11, 'Dec':12 }
def mon2int( mon ):
global mons
return mons[mon]
Is there a generator expression or a list comprehension thingy that would
be *betterer*? (I realize it's probably not that important but I find lots
of value in learning all the idioms.)
TIA
Well, I think you want time.strptime.
time.strptime(Mar 29 08:29:00, %b %d %H:%M:%S)
(1900, 3, 29, 8, 29, 0, 3, 88, -1)
See http://docs.python.org/lib/node85.html
However, if strptime did not exist, your dictionary solution is fine
-- a tad bit slow, but easy and maintainable, which is worth a lot.
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Re: when format strings attack
Perhaps it is not as severe a security risk, but pure Python programs
can run into similar problems if they don't check user input for %
codes. Example:
k = raw_input(Try to trick me: )
Try to trick me: How about %s this?
j = User %s just entered: + k
print j % John
Traceback (most recent call last):
File pyshell#8, line 1, in ?
print j % John
TypeError: not enough arguments for format string
On Jan 19, 10:44 am, Gabriel Genellina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió en el mensajenews:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.ddj.com/184405774;jsessionid=BDDEMUGJOPXUMQSNDLQCKHSCJUNN2JVN
I saw a warning from homeland security about this. I only comment on
the because I am trying to use os.system('command1 arg') and it doesn't
work but I do see examples with % that is borrowed from the c language.
Seems like if I can write a batch file that does something the same
behavior should happen in the os module..Pure Python programs are not
affected, but a review of the C implementation
should be made to see if any (variant of) printf is used without a proper
format. Anyway I doubt you could find something, because the vulnerability
is so well known for ages.
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Re: multiple parameters in if statement
Yup, join is better. The problem with using form.values() is that it will break if the HTML changes and adds some sort of new field that this function does not care about, or if an attacker introduces bogus fields into his query. John Machin wrote: On 16/04/2006 1:43 PM, John Zenger wrote: The other thing I'd recommend is stick that long list of fields in a list, and then do operations on that list: fields = ['delete_id', 'delete_date', 'delete_purchasetype', 'delete_price', 'delete_comment'] then to see if all those fields are empty: everything = for field in fields: everything += form.get(field,) Or everything = .join(form.get(field, ) for field in fields) Somewhat labour-intensive. It appears from the OP's description that no other entries can exist in the dictionary. If this is so, then: everything = .join(form.values()) but what the user sees on screen isn't necessarily what you get, so: everything = .join(form.values()).strip() if everything == : print Absolutely nothing entered! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: multiple parameters in if statement
Try this: if form.get(delete_id,) != and form.get(delete_data,) != and... the get method lets you have an optional second argument that gets returned if the key is not in the dictionary. Also, am I reading your code right? If I enter some fields but not all, you print a message that says Nothing entered. Nothing? The other thing I'd recommend is stick that long list of fields in a list, and then do operations on that list: fields = ['delete_id', 'delete_date', 'delete_purchasetype', 'delete_price', 'delete_comment'] then to see if all those fields are empty: everything = for field in fields: everything += form.get(field,) if everything == : print Absolutely nothing entered! Kun wrote: I am trying to make an if-statement that will not do anything and print 'nothing entered' if there is nothing entered in a form. I have the following code that does that, however, now even if I enter something into the form, the code still outputs 'nothing entered'. This violates the if statement and I am wondering what I did wrong. if form.has_key(delete_id) and form[delete_id].value != and form.has_key(delete_date) and form[delete_date].value != and form.has_key(delete_purchasetype) and form[delete_purchasetype].value != and form.has_key(delete_price) and form[delete_price].value != and form.has_key(delete_comment) and form[delete_comment].value != : delete_id=form['delete_id'].value delete_date=form['delete_date'].value delete_purchasetype=form['delete_purchasetype'].value delete_price=form['delete_price'].value delete_comment=form['delete_comment'].value else: print ERROR: Nothing entered! raise Exception -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: how relevant is C today?
Martin v. Löwis wrote: As for *learning* the languages: never learn a language without a specific inducement. If you know you are going to write a Python extension, an Apache module, or a Linux kernel module in the near future, start learning C today. If you don't know what you want to use it for, learning it might be a waste of time, as you won't know what to look for if you don't have a specific project in mind. Your message makes me sad, as if I heard someone say never read a book without a specific inducement; if you know someone is going to ask you about the book, start reading it today, but if you don't know what you are going to use the book for, reading it will be a waste of time. Programming languages are intellectual achievements and you can learn a lot every time you study a new one (provided it is different enough from the ones you already know.) Even if you don't have an immediate project in mind, learning a new programming language can mean learning a new style of programming, or at least a new way of looking at computer science. That is worthwhile even if you get no immediate use from the new language. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: very strange problem in 2.4
Your list probably contains several references to the same object, instead of several different objects. This happens often when you use a technique like: list = [ object ] * 100 ..because although this does make copies when object is an integer, it just makes references in other cases. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Problem (very basic, but strange): I have a list holding a population of objects, each object has 5 vars and appropriate funtions to get or modify the vars. When objects in the list have identical vars (like all = 5 for var a and all = 10 for var b across all vars and objects) and i change self.mylist[i].change_var_a(5) to a new value, in this case var a in object i to 5, now all vars of type a in all objects in my list are changed to 5 instead of just var a in object mylist[i], which is my goal. if i print self.mylist[i].return_var_a() right after I change var a in object i, I get the correct change, however when i print out the whole list, the last change to var a in the last object modified takes over for all objects in the list. note: all the vars not being modified must be the same across all objects in the list, the var being modified need not be the same as the one before it in the list (but will be once just one of the identical object are changed). The value changed in the last object var modified takes over for all object vars making them exactly identical. If, for example, half the list has objects with random vars init. and the other half is identical, as above, and I perform the same operation, as above, to one of the identical var objects self.mylist[i].change_var_a(5) (to an object that has identicals in the list) all the identicals are changed in the same way as above, however the objects that have different var values are unchanged. What is python doing? Am I missing something? Any ideas at all would be wonderful? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: For loop and list comprehension similarity
Rather than a list comprehension, it would be faster and more memory-efficient to use a generator comprehension. Just change the square brackets to parentheses: for j in (i*2 for i in c if test): print j Grant Edwards wrote: On 2006-03-26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I apologize if this was brought up before, I couldn't find any prior art :-). On more than one occasion, I found myself wanting to use a conditional loop like this (with Invalid syntax error, of course): for i in c if test: print i*2 ...because it's similar to the list comprehension construct: [i*2 for i in c if test] - Is this the intended difference in constructs? The available equivalent feels a bit awkward: for i in c: if test: print i*2 for j in [i*2 for i in c if test]: print j -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: wildcard exclusion in cartesian products
A quick fix: change your last two functions to: def generateNotMatching(A,n,P): for g in gen(A,n,P,[]): for x in g: yield x def gen(A,n,P,acc): if any(imap((lambda p: allStar(p) and notNullOrZero(p,n)), P)): yield [] else: if n==0: yield map(rev,[acc]) else: for a in A: for xx in gen(A,n-1,advancePatterns(a,P),[a]+acc): yield xx For the most part, just replace return with yield. By the way: you are reinventing the wheel with imap and rev. imap is itertools.imap. rev(L) is the same as L[:-1]. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The python code below is adapted from a Haskell program written by Tomasz Wielonka on the comp.lang.functional group. It's more verbose than his since I wanted to make sure I got it right. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.functional/browse_frm/thread... Does anyone know how to turn it into a module (or whatever it's called) so that I can put it in a loop and not have to generate the whole list? I've already tried without success. The program solves the following problem: generate the subset X of the cartesian product S^n that excludes n-tuples defined by wildcards. For example, if I want to exclude from [1,2,3]^3 the wc's [1,*,2] and [*,3,*,3,*], where * stands for a sequence of zero or more elements of [1,2,3], then I just type for x in generateNotMatching([1,2,3,4],4,[[1,'*',2],[3,'*',4]]): print x and get the output [1, 1, 1] [1, 1, 3] [1, 2, 1] [1, 2, 3] [1, 3, 1] [2, 1, 1] [2, 1, 2] [2, 1, 3] [2, 2, 1] [2, 2, 2] [2, 2, 3] [2, 3, 1] [2, 3, 2] [3, 1, 1] [3, 1, 2] [3, 2, 1] [3, 2, 2] This is nice! But all elements are generated before they are printed. ## import sys, os, string def imap(function, source): for element in source: yield function(element) def any(iterable): '''True iff at least one element of the iterable is True''' for element in iterable: if element: return True # or element and change the definition return False def all(iterable): '''True iff no element of the iterable is True''' '''SHOULD BE?: True iff all element of the iterable are True''' for element in iterable: if not element: return False return True def rev(L): rL=[] for x in L: rL=[x]+rL return rL def advancePattern(x,p): if p==[]: return [] else: h=p[0] t=p[1:] if h != '*': if h == x: return [t] else: return [] else: return [p] + [t] + advancePattern(x,t) def advancePatterns(x,P): aP=[] for p in P: aP += advancePattern(x,p) return aP #return [advancePattern(x,p) for p in P] def allStar(p): return all( imap((lambda x: x=='*'),p) ) def notNullOrZero(p,n): return p !=[] or n==0 def generateNotMatching(A,n,P): return gen(A,n,P,[]) def gen(A,n,P,acc): if any(imap((lambda p: allStar(p) and notNullOrZero(p,n)), P)): return [] else: if n==0: return map(rev,[acc]) else: aG=[] for a in A: aG += gen(A,n-1,advancePatterns(a,P),[a]+acc) return aG ## -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Simple py script to calc folder sizes
Caleb Hattingh wrote:
Hi everyone
[Short version: I put a some code below: what changes can make it run
faster?]
On my slow notebook, your code takes about 1.5 seconds to do my
C:\Python24 dir. With a few changes my code does it in about 1 second.
Here is my code:
import os, os.path, math
def foldersize(fdir):
Returns the size of all data in folder fdir in bytes
root, dirs, files = os.walk(fdir).next()
files = [os.path.join(root, x) for x in files]
dirs = [os.path.join(root, x) for x in dirs]
return sum(map(os.path.getsize, files)) + sum(map(foldersize, dirs))
suffixes = ['bytes','kb','mb','gb','tb']
def prettier(bytesize):
Convert a number in bytes to a string in MB, GB, etc
# What power of 1024 is less than or equal to bytesize?
exponent = int(math.log(bytesize, 1024))
if exponent 4:
return %d bytes % bytesize
return %8.2f %s % (bytesize / 1024.0 ** exponent, suffixes[exponent])
rootfolders = [i for i in os.listdir('.') if os.path.isdir(i)]
results = [ (foldersize(folder), folder) for folder in rootfolders ]
for size, folder in sorted(results):
print %s\t%s % (folder, prettier(size))
print
print Total:\t%s % prettier(sum ( size for size, folder in results ))
# End
The biggest change I made was to use os.walk rather than os.path.walk.
os.walk is newer, and a bit easier to understand; it takes just a single
directory path as an argument, and returns a nice generator object that
you can use in a for loop to walk the entire tree. I use it in a
somewhat unconventional way here. Look at the docs for a more
conventional application.
The map(os.path.getsize, files) code should run a bit faster than a
for loop, because map only has to look up the getsize function once.
I use log in the prettier function rather than your chain of ifs. The
chain of ifs might actually be faster. But I spent so long studying
math in school that I like to use it whenever I get a chance.
Some other comments on your code:
def cmpfunc(a,b):
if a.count b.count:
return 1
elif a.count == b.count:
return 0
else:
return -1
This could be just return a.count - b.count. Cmp does not require -1
or +1, just a positive, negative, or zero.
foldersizeobjects.sort(cmpfunc)
You could also use the key parameter; it is usually faster than a cmp
function. As you can see, I used a tuple; the sort functions by default
sort on the first element of the tuples. Of course, sorting is not a
serious bottleneck in either program.
tot=0
for foldersize in foldersizeobjects:
tot=tot+foldersize.count
print foldersize
tot += is cooler than tot = tot + . And perhaps a bit faster.
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Re: newbie question
orangeDinosaur wrote: I wrote up a script in my preferred text editor. It contains maybe ten lines of code. I want to be able to execute those code lines with a single command either from the inline mode or from IDLE. How do I do this? I saved the file (myscript.py) in a folder that I've specified in my PYTHONPATH environment variable, and when I type From the Python shell, you can use execfile to run a script: execfile(joshua.py) This works regardless of your OS. The file must be in your Python path. If it isn't, just specify the full path. Like: execfile(rC:\Code\WOPR\Backdoor\joshua.py) While viewing your code with IDLE, hit F5 to execute it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: regular expresson for Unix and Dos Lineendings wanted
Franz Steinhaeusler wrote: Thank you all for the replies. But I still don't have a solution. Of course with more lines it is possible, but it would be fine to have a oneliner. re.sub(r\s+[\n\r]+, lambda x: x.expand(\g0). \ lstrip( \t\f\v),text).rstrip() ...where text is the unsplit block of text with mysterious line-endings. But I think your code is a lot easier to read. :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: regular expresson for Unix and Dos Lineendings wanted
How about r\s+[\n\r]+|\s+$ ?
Franz Steinhaeusler wrote:
Hello, I need a regularexpression, which trims trailing whitespaces.
While with unix line endings, it works;
but not with Window (Dos) CRLF's:
import re
retrailingwhitespace = re.compile('(?=\S)[ \t]+$', re.MULTILINE)
1) Windows
r=erewr\r\nafjdskl
newtext, n = retrailingwhitespace.subn('', r)
n
1
newtext
'erewr\r\nafjdskl'
2) Unix
r=erewr\nafjdskl
newtext, n = retrailingwhitespace.subn('', r)
n
2
newtext
'erewr\nafjdskl'
Who can help me (regular expression, which works for both cases).
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Re: number ranges (was Re: Matlab page on scipy wiki)
Steven D'Aprano wrote: John Zenger wrote: I strongly agree that Python should promote range or xrange to syntax. I favor [0..10] rather than [0:10] because 0..10 is inherently easier to understand. Inherently? You mean people are born with an instinctive, unlearnt understanding of ..? I mean that most people will have seen that notation somewhere else in their pre-Python lives, so it won't take much effort for them to remember what it is, at least more so than 0:10. With the introduction of a single keyword, we could do this: for i in 2 to 5: print i, which would print 2 3 4 5 This proposed syntax is also easy to understand, maybe more than .., because it uses natural language. The only criticism is that it creates a list without using [] notation. How about [2 to 5]? (I'm open to arguments that it should be more Pythonic and less mathematical, and halt at 4.) I am also open to such arguments but it will be tough to convince me that x to y should mean something different from what it means in Pascal, BASIC, and English. A second keyword downto would allow easy backwards loops, Downto would only be necessary if we wanted [10 to 1] to equal []. and a third step will absolutely kill any chance of Guido agreeing to this whatsoever. What about [1 to 3 to 10]? (Or [1 to 10:2]?) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Processing text using python
If you have already read the string into memory and want a convenient way to loop through it 3 characters at a time, check out the batch recipe: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/303279 It uses itertools to make an iterator over the string, returning 3 characters at a time. Cool stuff. nuttydevil wrote: Hey everyone! I'm hoping someone will be able to help me, cause I haven't had success searching on the web so far... I have large chunks of text ( all in a long string) that are currently all in separate notebook files. I want to use python to read these strings of text, THREE CHARACTERS AT A TIME. (I'm studying the genetic code you see, so I need to read and analyse each sequence one codon at a time effectively.) Does anyone have any idea of how to do this using python? I'm going to be optimistic and thank you for your help in advance! Samantha. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Get parameters from URL using CGI
import cgi import cgitb; cgitb.enable() # Optional; for debugging only print Content-Type: text/html print f = cgi.FieldStorage() for i in f.keys(): print p,i,:,f[i].value abcd wrote: i want to create a CGI script which simply prints out values given via the URL (such as when a GET is performed). So if I have a script named, foo.cgi and I access it by going to: http://www.somesite.com/cgi-bin/foo.cgi?name=johnage=90 I want foo.cgi to print out: name: john age: 90 how do i get the values from the URL like that? thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Format file size for printing
I know of no built-in way, but you could probably code this in a few lines using print %.1f and so on. (Some of us, by the way, are in the camp that believes a kilobyte is 1024 bytes, not 1000, so 103803 bytes for us is about 101.4 kilobytes). abcd wrote: is there a built-in way of printing the size of a file nicely? So if the file size is 103803 bytes it prints out like: 103.8K or 0.1MB something liek that? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: number ranges (was Re: Matlab page on scipy wiki)
Colin J. Williams wrote: Bryan Cole wrote: First, I think the range() function in python is ugly to begin with. Why can't python just support range notation directly like 'for a in 0:10'. Or with 0..10 or 0...10 syntax. That seems to make a lot more sense to me than having to call a named function. Anyway, that's a python pet peeve, and python's probably not going to change something so fundamental... I strongly agree that Python should promote range or xrange to syntax. I favor [0..10] rather than [0:10] because 0..10 is inherently easier to understand. Every maths text I have read uses the .. notation to show ranges; for that reason, perhaps, Haskell uses ... The colon is already overused; it both signals the beginning of compound statements, and has all sorts of slice/indexing meanings when it is inside square brackets, depending on how many colons there are and whether there are arguments between them. Haskell also has a good step notation. In Haskell: [1..10] means [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10] [1,3..10] means [1,3,5,7,9] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: strange error I can't figure out...
It works fine for me. You must be having an indentation problem. Also, get rid of the comma at the end of that last print statement. Brian Blais wrote: Hello, I have an odd kind of Heisenbug in what looks like a pretty simple program. The program is a progress bar code I got at the Python Cookbook: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/168639 (including the code below) If you uncomment the one print statement I added in the progressBar class, you get the error: File test_progress2.py, line 19 diffFromMin = float(self.amount - self.min) ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax yet, without the print statement, it works fine. what am I overlooking here? thanks, bb # class progressBar: def __init__(self, minValue = 0, maxValue = 10, totalWidth=12): self.progBar = [] # This holds the progress bar string self.min = minValue self.max = maxValue self.span = maxValue - minValue self.width = totalWidth self.amount = 0 # When amount == max, we are 100% done self.updateAmount(0) # Build progress bar string def updateAmount(self, newAmount = 0): if newAmount self.min: newAmount = self.min if newAmount self.max: newAmount = self.max self.amount = newAmount #print hello #-- uncomment line to break # Figure out the new percent done, round to an integer diffFromMin = float(self.amount - self.min) percentDone = (diffFromMin / float(self.span)) * 100.0 percentDone = round(percentDone) percentDone = int(percentDone) # Figure out how many hash bars the percentage should be allFull = self.width - 2 numHashes = (percentDone / 100.0) * allFull numHashes = int(round(numHashes)) # build a progress bar with hashes and spaces self.progBar = [ + '#'*numHashes + ' '*(allFull-numHashes) + ] # figure out where to put the percentage, roughly centered percentPlace = (len(self.progBar) / 2) - len(str(percentDone)) percentString = str(percentDone) + % # slice the percentage into the bar self.progBar = self.progBar[0:percentPlace] + percentString + self.progBar[percentPlace+len(percentString):] def __str__(self): return str(self.progBar) if __name__ == __main__: import time prog = progressBar(0, 100, 77) for i in xrange(101): prog.updateAmount(i) print prog, \r, time.sleep(.05) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Should we still be learning this?
Don't overly concern yourself with your course being 100% up to date. When learning programming, the concepts are what is important, not the syntax or libraries you happen to be using. Even if they were to teach you the latest and greatest features of 2.4.2, that would be out of date in a few months/years when the next version comes along and the Python gods decide to deprecate the entire os module or something. Syntax and libraries change; just roll with it. When you are a student, the important thing is learning the mental skills of how to put it all together. When I was a wee lad, they taught me Pascal, a language that is now as dead as Latin, but I now realize that the language did not matter; all that mattered was that I learned the basics of how to design and put together a program in a (procedural) language. Once I knew that, it was a cinch to teach myself C in an afternoon, and only slightly tougher to learn C++ and then Java. Python is a good teaching language because by learning one language you learn three major programming paradigms: procedural, OO, and functional. It doesn't matter if, three years from now, a Dark Age descends upon the land and Python becomes as extinct as Pascal. If your course was decent, you spent your time learning programming, not just learning today's syntax and libraries, and you'll be able to learn Microsoft Visual C#++.Net.Com.Org or whatever other language happens to be fashionable in the future. And BTW, map and filter are such useful concepts that it makes sense to teach them to students even if they will one day be deprecated in Python. If you want to teach yourself Haskell or a Lisp dialect (and you should!), knowing those concepts will come in very handy. Max wrote: On monday I start a semester course in Python (the alternative was Java). I was looking through the course outline and noticed the following: 1) UserDict is used. This is deprecated, right? 2) There is no mention of list comprehensions, but map and filter are taught early and then revisited later. I don't think this is good: list comprehensions are, IMO, one of Python's great features, Psyco prefers them, they're more pythonic, and map and filter seem to be going out the window for Python 3000. What do you think? --Max -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Tab Character?
Tab is \t . As in: print coke\tpepsi tsvline.split(\t) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I make a tab character in code to split a line read with tabs in it? Thanks. Tom -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How to check...
This should be just a matter of determining how your string is encoded (ASCII, UTF, Unicode, etc.) and checking the ord of each character to see if it is in the contiguous range of English characters for that encoding. For example, if you know that the string is ASCII or UTF-8, you could check ord for each character and confirm it is less than 128. Lad wrote: Hello, How can I check that a string does NOT contain NON English characters? Thanks L. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: removing characters before writing to file
As mentioned in the thread, it makes sense to build the desired output
you want from the tuple, rather than converting the tuple to a string
and then doing replace operations on the string.
If you do want to go the replace route, you don't need the power of
regex substitutions for what you are interested in. Just try the
replace method:
foo = ('sometext1', 1421248118, 1, 'P ')
foo.replace(\', ).replace((, ).replace(), )
'sometext1, 1421248118, 1, P '
or, more elegantly:
.join([x for x in foo if x not in ['(',')','\''] ])
'sometext1, 1421248118, 1, P '
However, all of these replace-based solutions are bad because they will
not only replace the apostrophes and parentheses between the strings,
but also within them; what if sometext1 is actually John's Text?
You are much better off building your desired output from the actual
tuple data yourself.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi
i have some output that returns a lines of tuples eg
('sometext1', 1421248118, 1, 'P ')
('sometext2', 1421248338, 2, 'S ')
and so on
I tried this
re.sub(r '() ,'',str(output)) but it only get rid of the ' and not
the braces. I need to write the output to a file such that
sometext1, 1421248118, 1, P
sometext2, 1421248338, 2, S
I also tried escaping , re.sub(r '\(\) ,'',str(output)) but also did
not work
How can i get rid of the braces before writing to file? thanks
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Re: line wrapping problem
S Borg wrote: print mytextfile, '\n' #new line Wouldn't this print two line breaks--the one you specify in the string, plus the one always added by print if there is no comma at the end of the statement? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: seperating directories from files
raj wrote: How can I find ... if it's a file, whether it is an image file or not? Assuming you are running on an operating system that uses file extensions to indicate a file is an image (like Windows or Linux), something like this will work: import os.path def isImage(filename): return os.path.splitext(filename)[1] in ['.jpg','.png','.gif'] (Add as many file extensions to that list as you like...) Is there any method to read the metadata of files? It's not what you are looking for here, but os.stat gives you access to lots of information about files. In Linux and Windows, though, the 'type' of a file is incorporated into its filename through an extension. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: simple perl program in python gives errors
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also I noticed if I initialize a variable as 0 , then I can only do integer math not floating math. this just seems kind of backward as I am used to php and perl which dont require such strict rules. Not quite: foo = 0 foo += 122 print foo 122 print foo / 7 17 print foo / 7.0 17.4285714286 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Needing a WinXP Python variant of a line of code
import os, os.path path_to_nethack_logfile = for root, dirs, files in os.walk(c:\\): if 'nethackdir' in root: logs = [x for x in files if 'logfile' in x] if len(logs) 0: path_to_nethack_logfile = os.path.join(root, logs[0]) exit Ron Rogers Jr. wrote: I have this line of code that's written with Linux in mind: path_to_nethack_logfile = os.popen(locate logfile | grep nethackdir).read() and I'm wanting a Windows equivalent, any suestions? Thanks. CronoCloud (Ron Rogers Jr.) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
