[issue1054967] bdist_deb - Debian packager
Paul Hummer p...@eventuallyanyway.com added the comment: I've been doing a review of this patch for the last few hours. There are a few issues that need to be taken care of in order for it to move forward, and I'm currently working on them, in this order: 1. Update the patch to the most recent svn. The most current patch is almost 5 years old. I've ported it forward. 2. Fix the unittests. The patch is failing its unittests currently, and so I'm fixing the unittests, and will be adding tests where there may not be any coverage. 3. Implement the suggestions made by alberanid and kbk, adding tests where necessary. I've been chatting with jafo, and am willing to commit to maintaining this code for the next few years, and am willing to sign the contributor agreement in order to do so. I don't particularly want to step on anyone's toes, so if someone else is also working on this, I'm happy to hand off what I've already been working on. -- nosy: +rockstar ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue1054967 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: Python books?
Alex Martelli wrote: BartlebyScrivener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 14, 3:50 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aahz) wrote: Some people prefer shorter books -- Python for Dummies (for new programmers) and Python in a Nutshell (for experienced programmers) both try to give a thorough survey of Python while keeping the book easy to carry. Not for me to comment about my own books, but I can second your recommendation for your for Dummies for beginners. And other people like lots of examples and code organized around practical projects a person might like to accomplish using Python. The Python Cookbook 2nd edition is great for this, and Martelli et al are great writers, as well as great programmers. If you like _substantial_ examples, rather than the simple/short ones typically used in manageable-sized books, Hetland's Practical Python was also a great buy (I believe it's now been replaced by Beginning Python by the same author, but unfortunately I haven't seen that one). In general I dislike books that try to teach a language (or other technology) via substantial examples, because the issues with the examples may obscure those with the language or technology; e.g., Stroustrup tries that route in The C++ Programming Language, as Lutz does in Programming Python, and to my taste the results are inferior. However, at least in Practical Python (can't speak for Beginning Python), Hetland managed to pull it off -- perhaps by placing the substantial programs he develops as successive examples in a clever sequence, so that at each step he's not dealing with many diverse new issues but just manageably few of them. Alex I'll vouch for Beginning Python This was my first Python book, and it taught me everything I needed to get started. I still refer to it from time to time. After I graduated from that, I started reading Python Network Programming, the next book in that Apress series. Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: help developing an editor to view openoffice files.
krishnakant Mane wrote: hello, well what I exactly need to do is firstly have a way to read .odt and .ods files. I have a lot of information in open office format which I need to access. The most important thing is that I completely want to avoid the use of microsoft office. so I need to firstly get access to open office documents through a python module that can read and parse those documents and may be convert it to html and display in some kind of an html/ text area may be wxpython can help? secondly I want to edit those documents may be in html format and then when I say sayve it should save the changes back to .odt with the formatting information. can this be made possible? thanks and regards, Krishnakant. I actually just read this in the O'Reilly book Python Cookbook, so I know this answer off the top of my head. OpenOffice files are merely zip files with well documented XML inside. Use the builtin zip module to open them, and then it's just XML parsing. As far as the editor, you'll have to familiarize yourself with the XML data from the documentation, and it sounds like that's quite a project. Just out of curiosity, why not just download OpenOffice? Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Newbie Question
Stef Mientki wrote: Oh I forgot that, ... ... in Delphi you don't have to choose ;-) Dang it! I hate it when they give me choices like that! Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Hacking in python
enes naci wrote: i would like to know about hacking in python too whether its illegal or not is not the point and anyway it doesn't mean i'm gong to use it. Does your mom know you're using her computer to take down the government? I'm gonna tell on you! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: wxPython libraries never detected
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I recently started coding with Python and I've been trying for the past hour or so to determine why, every time I import wx (or compile another piece of code that imports wx), Python can never find the libraries. I'm running Ubuntu Edgy 6.10, and, as per http://www.wxpython.org/download.php#sources, updated sources.list with the sources and installed python-wxgtk2.8, python-wxtools and wx2.8-i18n. I compiled the latest Python (as of writing), 2.5, from source. For example, SPE tells me that I need to install at least wxPython v. 2.5.4.1 to run SPE and any code that relies on import wx reports ImportError: No module named wx. However, whereis wx on the command line reports wx: /usr/lib/wx /usr/local/lib/wx /usr/include/ wx. What could be wrong here? I can't figure out why wx isn't being detected. Many thanks. Doing a `whereis wx` won't tell you about the python library installation. I'm using Ubuntu Edgy, with Python 2.4 installed (from apt), and wx-2.6. I can find the libraries in /usr/lib/python2.4/wx-2.6-gtk-unicode/ Check to see if you have wx installed in /usr/lib/python2.5 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: help with subscription to a process
The Python socket module, although lightweight, can be used to quickly establish a socket between client and server for the purpose of feeding data. I've done this once or twice with XML. If you are looking for something a bit more robust, might I suggest reading up on the Twisted libraries? Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am new to python and hence need some help i have a process A that posts events as XML docs. I need to create a listener to this process that subscribes to the process A and as and when a XML doc is posted parse it. I have creted an interface where if I specify the port number on which the listener is running the process A will automatically start posting events. The place I need help is to create a listener and a way of parsing the XML docs. If you can give me some starting points or docs/resources that will be great.. Thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How to return a simple variable from a function (still newbie) ?
How about restructuring your function like this: def some_function( z,y ): z = 2 y[2] = 'global ?' return z And then you'll have to react to the returning variable, like this in your code: x = 5 y = [1,2,3,4] print x,y print some_function( x, y ) print x,y Now, it appears like you want some_function() to change x and y. It doesn't really work that way. You'd have to either pass the variables by reference into the function, or overwrite the existing values with whatever the function returns. That might be beyond your scope now though. Keep plugging, and welcome to Python! Stef Mientki wrote: I want to return a simple variable from a function, not using the function result. Is that in any way possible ?? The code below is from O'Reilly, Learning Python, and there seems no way to return a simple var like z in the example below. Is that true ? thanks, Stef Mientki Python def some_function (z, y): z = 2 y[2] = 'global ?' x = 5 y = [1,2,3,4] print x,y some_function(x,y) print x,y /Python -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Anyone persuaded by merits of Lisp vs Python?
I am rather annoyed at the apples vs. oranges arguments I frequently see on Reddit and the like. I picked up python last summer after going through a very messy breakup (it seemed like a good thing to do with all the alone time). Anyway, ever since I started writing python, I've been bugged by a apples vs. oranges coworker to learn Lisp, because they are very similar. So at the beginning of this thread, I was reminded that I should go check it out. That's all it did for me. It reminded me to do something I was planning on doing myself anyway. Lisp vs. Python? How 'bout Haskell vs. Java, PBASIC vs. C++, and while we're at it, SmallTalk vs. Assembler! This month there was/is a 1000+ long thread called: merits of Lisp vs Python In comp.lang.lisp. snip I use both. And Java, and C++ too. Can one really survive knowing just one language these days, anyway? I agree with this entirely. I started learning PBASIC to work with a microcontroller. I learned Java for portability. I learned PHP for ease of web application development (I've been largely unimpressed with the python frameworks...but it's also lack of experience). I use python for utilities I need, and Lisp is great for some of the functional needs I have (see Mosquito-Lisp and the MOSREF project), and I can see use in it. But how many web applications have you seen written in Assembler? How many OS kernels written in Lisp? I bought my girlfriend an art desk for Christmas. I didn't use a freakin' hammer to drive the screws. Wrong tool for the job. Each language has its ups and downs. Call me the Martin Luther King of programming languages, but I have a dream. We can no sooner say one language is better than another than say white people are superior to black people. We're equal in our own respects. Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
