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Re: What is the best way to handle a command line argument that includes an escape sequence like \n?

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Re: What is the best way to handle a command line argument that includes an escape sequence like \n?

Steve, THANKS! That is exactly what I was looking for but unable to find. Joe "Steven Bethard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Joe wrote: >> It appears that Python treats the comand line string as a raw string. >> >> what is the best way to work around the issue?

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Re: What is the best way to handle a command line argument that includes an escape sequence like \n?

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Re: Distributing applications

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 13:07:25 -0600, Jaime Wyant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, if you have an idea on updating py2exe bundled apps, I'm all ears... I'm working on a little project that requires remote updating. What I basically came up with is two nested applications. program/program.exe r

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What is the best way to handle a command line argument that includes an escape sequence like \n?

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Re: Need help running external program

Rigga wrote: Tim Jarman wrote: Rigga wrote: Brian van den Broek wrote: Rigga said unto the world upon 2005-02-27 15:04: (snip stuff about raw strings) Thanks for all your help with this it is appreciated, one further question though, how do I pass a variable to the external program while using

Re: Need help running external program

Rigga wrote: (snip) >> > This is the command I am trying to run: > > feed is a list of web addresses > > output, input = popen2("wget -q %s -O - | tr '\r' '\n' | tr \' \" | sed -n > 's/.*url="\([^"]*\)".*/\1/p'" % feed[counter]) > > But it does not work, if I escape the string using r""" and

Re: passing lists

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Re: passing lists

Earl Eiland wrote: def Match(..., Raw_packet_queue, ...): ... print 'in Match, Raw_Packet_queue is', Raw_packet_queue # this returns 'Reader object at 0xaaa' ... return [Last_Passed, Last_Dropped, Raw_packet_queue] # this causes 'unsubscriptable object'error message

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Re: Need help running external program

Tim Jarman wrote: > Rigga wrote: > >> Brian van den Broek wrote: >> >>> Rigga said unto the world upon 2005-02-27 15:04: > > (snip stuff about raw strings) > >> Thanks for all your help with this it is appreciated, one further >> question though, how do I pass a variable to the external progra

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Re: Need help running external program

Rigga wrote: > Brian van den Broek wrote: > >> Rigga said unto the world upon 2005-02-27 15:04: (snip stuff about raw strings) > Thanks for all your help with this it is appreciated, one further question > though, how do I pass a variable to the external program while using the > r""" > > Than

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Re: substring matching

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Re: yield_all needed in Python

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Re: Need help running external program

Brian van den Broek wrote: > Rigga said unto the world upon 2005-02-27 15:04: >> Tim Jarman wrote: > > > >>>No, the r was the point - it's there to tell Python not to do any >>>escaping on the string. Try it again with the r and see what happens. >>> >> >> Brilliant!!! that works a treat than

Re: Distributing applications

Sneaky! I like it. Now if there was only a subversion python module... jw On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 22:08:45 +0100, Thomas Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Serge Orlov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Jaime Wyant wrote: > > > >> This becomes especially hairy when someone is updating from 1.0 t

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Re: Distributing applications

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Re: Distributing applications

Jaime Wyant wrote: > This becomes especially hairy when someone is updating from 1.0 to > say 1.5. Then I have to keep track of all the deltas between > 1.0/1.5. My way is much simpler because I don't have to keep up with > *anything*. As long as I test my code against my custom built > distribut

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Re: yield_all needed in Python

Jeremy> At first I liked this, but the reason that is a syntax error is Jeremy> that it is "supposed" to be Jeremy> def f(): Jeremy> yield (x for x in gen1(arg)) Jeremy> which today on 2.4 returns a generator instance which will in Jeremy> turn yield one generator ins

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Re: Distributing applications

Phillip Mills wrote: > First, thanks to all the people who have answered so far for the > suggestions. > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > André Søreng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Phillip Mills wrote: > > > > My problems are: > > [...] > > > http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/py2exe/ >

Re: yield_all needed in Python

On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 22:54:14 +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: > Douglas Alan wrote: >> Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>Guido has generally observed a parsimony about the introduction of >>>features such as the one you suggest into Python, and in particular >>>he is reluctant to add new keywo

Re: How would you program this?

This should have said "time python linalg_brute.py" . I changed the name, but didn't rerun the test. linalg.py is the same as linalg_brute.py. > > 02:42 PM /d/code/Python$ time python linalg.py > 3 3 8 8 > 9 3 8 6 > 9 5 9 8 > 3 7 6 9 > - > 3 3 9 7 > 8 3 8 7 > 9 5 9 8 > 4 7 5 9 > ---

Re: How would you program this?

Paul Rubin wrote: > "Carl Banks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>No kidding--it's a constrained integer programming problem. Those can >>be pretty nasty. This one is pretty simple, being linear with only 12 >>unknowns. However, they get very difficult very fast. There are whole >>optimization

Re: Distributing applications

I'm fairly new to python myself (with about 16 years of various languages); I found py2exe fairly straightforward to use. The instructions are ok, but if you care to see it I took some notes and threw them into an article on my company site.

Re: How would you program this?

On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 10:23:33 -0800, engsol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is a number puzzle which appears in the daily paper. > Because I'm between Python projects, I thought it might be > fun to write a program to solve it20 minute job, max. > > On closer inspection, it became apparent t

Re: How would you program this?

"Carl Banks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No kidding--it's a constrained integer programming problem. Those can > be pretty nasty. This one is pretty simple, being linear with only 12 > unknowns. However, they get very difficult very fast. There are whole > optimization textbooks written on th

Re: yield_all needed in Python

Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you do write a PEP, try to get genexp syntax supported by the > yield keyword. > That is, the following currently triggers a syntax error: >def f(): > yield x for x in gen1(arg) Wouldn't yield *(x for x in gen1(arg)) be sufficient, and

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Re: yield_all needed in Python

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Re: How would you program this?

engsol wrote: > There is a number puzzle which appears in the daily paper. > Because I'm between Python projects, I thought it might be > fun to write a program to solve it20 minute job, max. > > On closer inspection, it became apparent that it's not a > simple thing to program. No kidding--i

Re: Distributing applications

On 2 Mar 2005 10:43:38 -0800, Serge Orlov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jaime Wyant wrote: > > I chose not to use py2exe because it made updating my app a bit > > messier. For instance, suppose I don't use the smtplib module in > > version 1 of my software. Py2exe realizes that and doesn't 'packag

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Re: Distributing applications

First, thanks to all the people who have answered so far for the suggestions. In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, André Søreng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Phillip Mills wrote: > > My problems are: [...] > http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/py2exe/ Apparently I had more problems than I men

Re: What's the cost of using hundreds of threads?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Przemys=B3aw_R=F3=BFycki?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I don't spawn them because of computional reasons, but due to the fact >that it makes my code much more simpler. I use built-in tcp features >to achieve loadbalancing - every flow (directed thr

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Re: How would you program this?

> > Rows: > 3 + B + C + D = 22 > E + F + 8 + H = 26 > I + J + K + 8 = 31 > M + 7 + O + P = 25 > > Col sums: > 24, 18, 31, 31 > > Diag sums: > 3 + F + K + P = 24 > M + J + 8 + D = 24 > > > This is a system of 12 variables and 10 equations. Looks like there will be more than one solution (if I rem

Re: How would you program this?

"engsol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > There is a number puzzle which appears in the daily paper. > Because I'm between Python projects, I thought it might be > fun to write a program to solve it20 minute job, max. > > On closer inspection, it became apparent tha

Re: Distributing applications

Jaime Wyant wrote: > I chose not to use py2exe because it made updating my app a bit > messier. For instance, suppose I don't use the smtplib module in > version 1 of my software. Py2exe realizes that and doesn't 'package' > smtplib with my executable. Now, if I release version 1.1 which does >

Re: Help- Recursion v. Iter Speed comparison

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How would you program this?

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Re: Identify and perform actions to data within stated limits

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Re: looking for expertise

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Re: yield_all needed in Python

"Steven Bethard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Douglas Alan wrote: >> In this case, that is great, since I'd much prefer >> >>yield *gen1(arg) >> >> than >> >>yield_all gen1(arg) > > I'm guessing the * syntax is pretty unlikely to win Guido's approval. > T

Re: What's the cost of using hundreds of threads?

> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Przemysław Różycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Thanks for your comments on winXP threads implementation. You confirmed me in conviction that I shouldn't use windows. >> Personally I use linux with 2.6.10 kernel, so hopefully I don't have to share your grie

Re: What's the cost of using hundreds of threads?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Przemys³aw Ró¿ycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Thanks for your comments on winXP threads implementation. You confirmed >me in conviction that I shouldn't use windows. >Personally I use linux with 2.6.10 kernel, so hopefully I don't have to >share your grief. ;) ?

Re: Problem in Dictionaries

"Glauco Silva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >I would like to know if the dictionary can sort with a function that i >give to then! No. You have to either make a list of key,value items and sort that, possibly with a cmp or key parameter items = d.items() items.

Re: any Python equivalent of Math::Polynomial::Solve?

Carl Banks wrote: > If you don't have a great need for speed, you can accomplish this > easily with the linear algebra module of Numeric/numarray. Suppose > your quintic polynomial's in the form > >a + b*x + c*x**2 + d*x**3 + e*x**4 + x**5 > > The roots of it are equal to the eigenvalues of

Re: Distributing applications

Phillip Mills wrote: I've learned enough of the Python language to be mildly dangerous and have used it in a few personal projects. All my development of commercial (or production) products over the past dozen years have been done with C++ or Java. For a program I'm planning -- to begin during

ANNOUNCE: Kamaelia 0.1.1 Released

Kamaelia 0.1.1 has been released! This is the initial release version of Kamaelia. What is it? === Kamaelia is a collection of Axon components designed for network protocol experimentation in a single threaded, select based environment. Axon components are python generators are augmented

[ANN] IPython 0.6.12 is out.

Hi all, I'm glad to announce the release of IPython 0.6.12. This is mainly a bugfix release. IPython's homepage is at: http://ipython.scipy.org and downloads are at: http://ipython.scipy.org/dist I've provided RPMs (for Python 2.3 and 2.4, built under Fedora Core 3), plus source downloads (.

Re: HELP: Python equivalent of UNIX command "touch"

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, pekka niiranen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Roy Smith wrote: >> pekka niiranen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>Does anybody know Python recipe for changing the date >>>of the directory or files in W2K to current date and time? >>>In UNIX shell command "touch" does

Re: HELP: Python equivalent of UNIX command "touch"

Roy Smith wrote: pekka niiranen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anybody know Python recipe for changing the date of the directory or files in W2K to current date and time? In UNIX shell command "touch" does it. You want os.utime() Nope, it does not work for directories in Windows -- http://mail.p

Re: rearrange text

ah thanks I couldn't figure out how to join it up very appropriately, had this loop ... yeeeaah .. :) Thanks for both comments -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: rearrange text

On 2 Mar 2005 07:36:48 -0800, Daniel Skinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I have the following text > > var = '1,2,3,4' > > and I want to use the comma as a field delimeter That bit's easy: C:\WINNT\system32>python Python 2.4 (#60, Nov 30 2004, 11:49:19) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32

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