PUB (Python Users Berlin) meeting: 24.09., 7pm, newthinking store
The next PUB meeting takes place on 24.09. at newthinking store, tucholskystr. 48, 10117 Berlin, Germany at 7pm. Afterwards, we'll go to a restaurant for food and drink. We welcome all people interested in the Python programming language. best regards, stephan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html
Berlin User Group Meeting 25.07.
The Berlin User Group is meeting on Fr., the 25th of July at 7pm. Address: Prater beergarden - Kastanienallee 7-9 - 10435 Berlin - Germany In case of bad weather, there is a restaurant at the same location. See you there! Stephan http://wiki.python.de/User_Group_Berlin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html
Re: PyPy questions
Allen schrieb: I read the website of some information about PyPy, and how a translator translates the RPython code to C/CLI/Java/etc to be compiled to a native executable or something like that. Would it be possible, in PyPy, to write such an extension that could easily be compiled to native code from Python code? Is this functionality planned in a future release of it? Also, how is the source distributed (If I opt to use it I will end up compiling it on a system without an initial python install (a scratch linux system)), so does the source include the generated C code? B. Vanderburg II these kind of questions are better asked on pypy-dev. Anyway, at the moment you need a working python installation in order to run the pypy chain. I have to admit that I didn't understand your question, but you should read the pypy documentation on codespeak.net as it will probably answer all of your questions. Alternativly, you might want to join the #pypy channel on freenode Stephan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Access to CAN-Bus
Thin Myrna schrieb: I'd like to access some drive hardware via CAN bus from Python under Linux (sending rec'ing PDOs). Googling around I couldn't find a Python package, but people who said that they are doing this, though. I guess they are using their home brewn software. Any pointer to - such software (anyone willing to share his experience?) - how to write such software? Under Windows, I guess, I could use some COM or ctypes functionality to access the hardware vendor's hardware. What if I wanted to access such hardware from Linux? Is there a package that allows that in a vendor (who doesn't support Linux) independent way? Many thanks in advance Thin We've done this once (sorry no open source). If I remember right, we've been using ctypes on windows to access the CAN card. If I had to do something like this again, I'd definatelly check out an USB CAN adapter which might be easier to handle (but one never knows). Stephan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
money data type
Hi lazyweb, I'm wondering, if there is a usable money data type for python available. A quick search in pypi and google didn't convey anything, even though the decimal data type seemed to be planned as a money data type originaly. Thanks for any pointers Stephan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: money data type
Lie wrote: On Jun 9, 10:22 pm, Stephan Diehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi lazyweb, I'm wondering, if there is a usable money data type for python available. A quick search in pypi and google didn't convey anything, even though the decimal data type seemed to be planned as a money data type originaly. Thanks for any pointers Stephan What is it that you feel is lacking in the decimal datatype that makes you feel you require a money datatype? Decimal datatype was a general purpose fixed-point number, which is usually the behavior required for money calculation, but it's not named 'money' because this behavior isn't only useful for money calculation, so they don't name it money. I'm actually quite sure that the decimal data type will be sufficient for what I plan to do, but in a general setting, one would need currency support, maybe different rounding rules for different currencies, exchange rates, etc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Meeting Python User Group Berlin 07.05.
Hallo, The next berlin python user group meeting is Wednesday, 7th of may, 7pm Place: new thinking store, Tucholskystr. 48, 10117 Berlin Further information can be found at http://wiki.python.de/User_Group_Berlin See you there Stephan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html
Berlin Area Python User's Group Meeting
The next meeting is on Wednesday, the 19th of march at newthinking store, starting 7pm. Details can be found at http://wiki.python.de/User_Group_Berlin See you there Stephan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html
Re: Eurosymbol in xml document
Hallo Helmut,
Hi,
i'm new here in this list.
i'm developing a little program using an xml document. So far it's easy
going, but when parsing an xml document which contains the EURO symbol
('€') then I get an error:
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character u'\xa4' in
position 11834: character maps to undefined
first of all, unicode handling is a little bit difficult, when encountered
the first time, but in the end, it really makes a lot of sense :-)
Please read some python unicode tutorial like
http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/unicode
If you open up a python interactive prompt, you can do the following:
print u'\u20ac'
€
u'\u20ac'.encode('utf-8')
'\xe2\x82\xac'
u'\u20ac'.encode('iso-8859-15')
'\xa4'
u'\u20ac'.encode('iso-8859-1')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File stdin, line 1, in module
UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode character u'\u20ac' in
position 0:
\u20ac is the unicode code point for the Euro sign, so u'\u20ac' is the
unicode euro sign in python. The different encode calls translate the
unicode into actual encodings.
What you are seeing in your xml document is the iso-8859-15 encoded euro
sign. As Diez already noted, you must make shure, that
1. the whole xml document is encoded in latin-15 and the encoding header
reflects that
or
2. make sure that the utf-8 encoded euro sign is in your xml document.
Hope that makes sense
Stephan
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Re: appwsgi
gert wrote: can my http://appwsgi.googlecode.com/ be on the http://wsgi.org/ page somewhere please :) you are free to register yourself on wsgi.org and put a link to your software at the appropriate place. It's a wiki, after all. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Berlin (Germany) Python User Group is meeting on 23.1.
The Berlin Python User Group is meeting on the 23.1. at newthinking store at 7pm. All details can be found at http://wiki.python.de/User_Group_Berlin. The Berlin Python User Group is planning to meet every two month to talk about Python. Most talking will be done in german, but I can assure you that english could be spoken as well, if the need arises... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html
Berlin (Germany) Python User Group is meeting on 23.1.
The Berlin Python User Group is meeting on the 23.1. at newthinking store at 7pm. All details can be found at http://wiki.python.de/User_Group_Berlin. The Berlin Python User Group is planning to meet every two month to talk about Python. Most talking will be done in german, but I can assure you that english could be spoken as well, if the need arises... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Standard Full Text Search Engine
Martin Marcher wrote: Hello, is there something like a standard full text search engine? I'm thinking of the equivalent for python like lucene is for java or ferret for rails. Preferrably something that isn't exactly a clone of one of those but more that is python friendly in terms of the API it provides. Things I'd like to have: * different languages are supported (it seems most FTSs do only english) * I'd like to be able to provide an identifier (if I index files in the filesystem that would be the filename, or an ID if it lives in a database, or whatever applies) * I'd like to pass it just some (user defined) keywords with content, the actual content (as string, or list of strings or whatever) and to retrieve the results by search by keyword * something like a priority should be assignable to different fields (like field: title(priority=10, content=My Draft), keywords(priority=50, list_of_keywords)) Unnecessary: * built-in parsing of different files The standard I'm referring to would be something with a large and active user base. Like... WSGI is _the_ thing to refer to when doing webapps it should be something like $FTS-Engine is _the_ engine to refer to. any hints? I'm using swish-e (swish-e.org) for all my indexing needs. I'm not sure if there's a python binding available, I'm using swish-e as an external executable and live quite happyly with that. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
next python berlin user group meeting / naechstes berliner python treffen
time: 3.4., 7pm place: c-base info: http://groups.google.de/group/python-berlin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: A little more advanced for loop
Horta wrote: Hi folks, Suppose I have to loop over 3 lists being the same size at the same time and order. How can I do that without using the range() function or whatever indexing? Example using range: a = ['aaa', ''] b = ['bb', ''] c = ['c', ''] for i in range(len(a)): # using a[i], b[i], and c[i] I'm sure there's a elegant way to do that... Thanks in advance. Sure, there is: for a_item, b_item , c_item in zip(a,b,c): # do something -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
next berlin python-group meeting fr., 2.2.
after a long (veeeyy) long time, I'm pleased to announce our next python meeting in berlin. time: friday 2.2. 7pm place:Cafe Restaurant UNENDLICH Boetzowstrasse 14 10407 Berlin (Prenzlauer Berg Boetzowviertel) This is a fun meeting without offical talks. If you haven't done so already, subscribe to http://starship.python.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/python-berlin for last minute information. If you plan to come, please leave a short notice there, so we know how many people to expect. Cheers Stephan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: next berlin python-group meeting fr., 2.2.
Stephan Diehl wrote: http://starship.python.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/python-berlin argghhh, wrong link. please try http://starship.python.net/mailman/listinfo/python-berlin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Oct 10)
Cameron Laird wrote: goon summarizes WSGI resources: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/f7d67bc039748792 THE wsgi resource at the moment is http://wsgi.org . (sorry, I've missed the original thread) Stephan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Behavior on non definded name in Cheetah
Paolo Pantaleo wrote: [I hope I am posting to the right place] I have a cheetah template something like this: x is: $x y is: $y z is: $z [Actually more complicated] If for example $y is not defined I get an exception and the parsing of the template stops. Is there any way to substitute $y with an emty string and making cheeta going on with parsing? Thnx PAolo http://cheetahtemplate.org/docs/users_guide_html_multipage/language.namemapper.missing.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Registry of Methods via Decorators
bayerj schrieb: I want to make a registry of methods of a class during creation. My attempt was this classdecorators.py Author: Justin Bayer Creation Date: 2006-06-22 Copyright (c) 2006 Chess Pattern Soft, All rights reserved. class decorated(object): methods = [] @classmethod def collect_methods(cls, method): cls.methods.append(method.__name__) return method class dec2(decorated): @collect_methods def first_func(self): pass @collect_methods def second_func(self): pass replace '@collect_methods' with '@decorated.collect_methods' and this will do what you want. But keep in mind, that the 'methods' list in decorated will be used for all derived classes. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Dumb-as-rocks WSGI serving using standard library
On Mon, 22 May 2006 18:18:34 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: [...] Everything else that I can find leads to dependencies I don't want for flexibility I don't need: cherrypy, paste, et al. Any suggestions for how to serve up a simple WSGI application with just the standard library? the easiest seems to be james: http://wsgiarea.pocoo.org/james/ or flup: http://www.saddi.com/software/flup/ (for FCGI adapter) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Active Directory Authentication
On Fri, 05 May 2006 05:39:08 -0700, D wrote: Is it possible to have Python authenticate with Active Directory? Specifically what I'd like to do is have a user enter a username/password, then have Python check the credentials with AD - if what they entered is valid, for example, it returns a 1, otherwise a 0.. Thanks! It's possible and you need the python-ldap package for it. The actual authentication will look like (simplified): def authenticate(user='',passwd=''): dn = find_user_dn(user) try: l = ldap.open(AD_HOST_URL) l.protocol_version = ldap.VERSION3 l.simple_bind_s(dn,passwd) l.search_s(SEARCHDN,ldap.SCOPE_SUBTREE,'objectType=bla') l.unbind_s() return True except ldap.LDAPError: return False obviously, you need to supply some function 'find_user_dn' that maps the user to its DN. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Stackless Python for 2.4.3
On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 06:04:27 -0800, Fuzzyman wrote: Richard Tew wrote: Hi, Stackless Python is now available for the recent release of Python 2.4.3 (final). Does anyone happen to know if Stackless Python is compatible with existing third party extension modules (like e.g. Tkinter and wxPython) ? It's definatelly compatible with wxPython. If memory serves right, there were some issues with Tkinter. It would be best to ask on stackless mailinglist for details (I'm not sure, if wxPython worked out of the box or if there was some trick involved) Stephan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Alternatives to Stackless Python?
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 08:50:44 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After recently getting excited about the possibilities that stackless python has to offer (http://harkal.sylphis3d.com/2005/08/10/multithreaded-game-scripting-with-stackless-python/) and then discovering that the most recent version of stackless available on stackless.com was for python 2.2 I am wondering if Stackless is dead/declining and if so, are there any viable alternatives that exist today? Well, it's not dead and the last recent version is for python 2.3 The developer of stackless, Christian Tismer, is one of the main developers of the PyPy project. (http://codespeak.net/pypy) For this reason, there is an extremely good chance that the ideas behind stackless will survive :-) . Visit www.stackless.com for further info. --- Stephan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Python CGI and Firefox vs IE
On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 10:50:15 -0700, Jason wrote: Hey y'all, this falls under the murky realm of HTML, CGI and Python...and IE. Python 2.4, using CGI to process a form. Basically I've got 3 buttons. Here's the HTML code: form action='http://127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/server_status.py' method=post button name='display' value='all,status' type='submit'All Servers/button button name='display' value='wkpea1,status' type='submit'WKPEA1/button button name='display' value='wknha2,status' type='submit'WKNHA2/button /form And the code that's messing things up: No, here you are wrong. IE doesn't work as expected with buttons. See http://www.solanosystems.com/blog/archives/2005/04/12/the-submit-button-problem/ This has nothing to do with Python. --- Stephan jason -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
curious about slice behaviour
I just found out by accident, that slice indices can be larger than the length of the object. For example 'test'[:50] 'test' 'test'[40:50] '' I'd rather expected to be confronted with an IndexError. (This is actually described in http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq.html, so my expectation was wrong :)) Does anybody know, why this is preferred to just raising an error? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: curious about slice behaviour
On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 14:26:14 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote: Stephan Diehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I just found out by accident, that slice indices can be larger than the length of the object. For example 'test'[:50] 'test' [...] Does anybody know, why this is preferred to just raising an error? Slicing was intentially designed to always give an answer (given int coords) and never say 'can't answer' (whether by exception or a None return). This avoids having to call len() when you don't care and avoids having to use try:...except:... or conditionalize the code when it is not needed. For instance c=s[0:1] is equivalent to c=s[0:min(1,len(s))] # if slice had to be exact, or c = s and s[0] or '' # or if s: c = s[0] else: c = '' # or try: c = s[0] except IndexError: c = '' People occasionally post buggy code which simply needs s[0] changed to s[0:1]. The form s[i:], which I am sure you agree is useful, is effectively equivalent to eithers[i:len(s)] or s[i:maxint]. The latter view generalizes to iterables without a knowable length. I do think that this is useful and can save some lines of code. Just never expected this. Terry J. Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: python and ajax
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:04:46 -0700, Steve Young wrote: Hi, I was wondering if anybody knew of any good tutorial/example of AJAX/xmlhttprequest in python. Thanks. -Steve As all the others have said already, AJAX has nothing to do with python, but everything with JavaScript. You might want to check out MochiKit (http://mochikit.com), a lightweight JavaScript library written by Bob Ippolito. Bob did a very good job in turning programming JS into a more python like experience. - stephan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: variable arguments question
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 03:48:40 -0400, vegetax wrote:
if i have a dictionary:
d = {'a':2,'b':3 }
l = (1,2)
how can i pass it to a generic function that takes variable keywords as
arguments? same thing with variable arguments, i need to pass a list of
arguments to the function
def asd(**kw): print kw
def efg(*arg): print arg
asd(d)
doesnt work
asd(kw = d)
doesnt work
but asd(**d)
efg(l)
doesnt work
and efg(*l)
will work.
i need to pass those as a dictionary and a list,since i dont know ahead of
time if which items would have d and l
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Re: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Dec 30)
On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 05:43:32 -0800, michele.simionato wrote:
Holger:
FWIW, i added the recipe back to the online cookbook. It's not
perfectly
formatted but still useful, i hope.
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/361742
Uhm... on my system I get:
german_ae = unicode('\xc3\xa4', 'utf8')
print german_ae # dunno if it will appear right on Google groups
ä
german_ae.decode('latin1')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File stdin, line 1, in ?
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe4' in
position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
?? What's wrong?
I'd rather use german_ae.encode('latin1')
^^
which returns '\xe4'.
Michele Simionato
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