Re: regular expression

Aaron - Here's a pyparsing approach (requires latest 1.3 pyparsing version). It may not be as terse or fast as your regexp, but it may be easier to maintain. By defining floatNum ahead of DOT in the scanner definition, you specify the dot-containing expressions that you do *not* want to have dots

Re: Grouping code by indentation - feature or ******?

On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 10:02:13 +0100, Javier Bezos wrote: > > "Tim Tyler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió en el mensaje > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> What do you guys think about Python's grouping of code via indentation? >> >> Is it good - perhaps because it saves space and eliminates keypresses? >> >>

Re: Suggesting a new feature - "Inverse Generators"

"Jordan Rastrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Hmmm, I like the terminology consumers better than acceptors. Here's an implementation of Python consumers using generators: http://groups.google.co.uk/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Oren -- http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: Turn of globals in a function?

Ron_Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Is there a way to hide global names from a function or class? > > I want to be sure that a function doesn't use any global variables by > mistake. So hiding them would force a name error in the case that I > omit an initi

Re: Python slogan, was Re: Grouping code by indentation - feature or ******?

Kent Johnson wrote: > Interesting that in the quote on wikiquote, Churchill indicates that the > sentiment is not original with him: > "Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government > except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." > > Note the "it

Re: Python for a 10-14 years old?

Simon Brunning wrote: On 23 Mar 2005 21:03:04 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there something out there like "Python for kids" which would explain *basic* programming concepts in a way which is accessible and entertaining for kids aged 10-14 (that about where her brain is ri

Re: Why tuple with one item is no tuple

Antoon Pardon wrote: So python choose a non-deterministic direction. To me (2,3) + (4,5) equals (6,8). I don't dispute that having an operator to combine (2,3) and (4,5) in (2,3,4,5) is usefull, but they should never have used the "+" for that. ("alph", "bravo") + ("delta", "max") --> ("alphdelta"

Re: Suggesting a new feature - "Inverse Generators" -- tangential topic

> The ability to have 'full coroutines', or at least more 'coroutiney > behaviour' than is provided by generators alone, was I think what I was Jordan, This is somewhat off-topic, but perhaps you might be interested in taking a look at the Lua language (http://www.lua.org/). It supports coroutine

Re: Turn off globals in a function?

>If you put the above def b in e.g. a_module.py, >and do a (untested ;-) > >from a_module import b > >instead of defining it locally, then the global references >from b (and whatever else you import from a_module) >should be to the global dict defined for a_module (i.e., its >outermost scope),

Re: ossaudiodev full duplex

Thanks that was helpful. The mixer seems werid though. I tested first with the alsamixer and the only way I can get the line-in in to record is to put the "mix" channel into capture mode. However, doing that mixes all the record sources together so I get the orginal sound that is played through t

Re: Python slogan, was Re: Grouping code by indentation - feature or ******?

Peter Otten wrote: Skip Montanaro wrote: >> Or, paraphrasing Mark Twain, "Python is the worst possible >> programming language, except for all the others." Google thinks it's Winston Churchill as well. I did come across a quote wiki: http://www.wikiquote.org/ Wikiquote is nice. I misse

Re: Turn of globals in a function?

On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 12:18:39 -0800, Michael Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Ron_Adam wrote: >> Is there a way to hide global names from a function or class? >> >> I want to be sure that a function doesn't use any global variables by >> mistake. So hiding them would force a name error in the

Re: html tags and python

On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 18:07:01 -0800, EP wrote: > Then... about the time you start to try to build a real application with > JavaScript, it will start to drive you mad... and you will have a new, > greater affection for Python. Actually, if you dig into it really hard, it's not bad. In fact of all t

Re: html tags and python

> > January > February > March > April > May > June > July > August > September > October > November > December > > > The thing is: > I also want the user to choose a date > I will make thi

ANN: pyparsing-1.3 released

I'm happy to announce that 1) pyparsing has been pretty stable for the past 6 months (the last formal release 1.2.2 was last September), and 2) I finally found the time to put together a new release, version 1.3. This release also includes all of the enhancements I posted to CVS last fall as versi

Re: character-filtering and Word (& company)

Charles Hartman wrote: > I'm working on text-handling programs that want plain-text files as > input. It's fine to tell users to feed the programs with plain-text > only, but not all users know what this means, even after you explain > it, or they forget. So it would be nice to be able to handle g

Re: ossaudiodev full duplex

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, rjm wrote: > [recording the output] > > Any ideas? Am I doing something fundamentally wrong? Any help would > be greatly appreciated. You have to use the mixer to select which channel(s) should be the source of the recording. It's best is to deselect all other sources e

Re: Once again a unicode question

* Serge Orlov [23:45 26/03/05 CET]: Nicolas Evrard wrote: Hello, I'm puzzled by this test I made while trying to transform a page in html to plain text. Because I cannot send unicode to feed, nor str so how can I do this ? Seems like the parser is in the broken state after the first exception. Fe

Re: Grouping code by indentation - feature or ******?

On Saturday 26 March 2005 02:52 pm, Mike Meyer wrote: > Because newlines are optional statement terminators. Yes; I have accidentally found that ; can be used also as an optional statement terminator--when rewriting some perl code. James -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Mar 24)

as they got it formed, they elected Whitney Young as the chairman, and who [do] you think became the co-chairman? Stephen Currier, the white man, a millionaire. Powell was talking about it down at the Cobo [Hall] today. This is what he was talking about. Powell knows it happened. Randolph knows it

Re: The Greatest News Ever!

On Saturday 26 March 2005 01:55 pm, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 17:02:56 + (UTC), R.Meijer > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > > Now, what I don't understand is what this is doing in a python newsgroup? > > The same thing it was doing

Re: character-filtering and Word (& company)

Charles Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm working on text-handling programs that want plain-text files as > input. It's fine to tell users to feed the programs with plain-text > only, but not all users know what this means, even after you explain > it, or they forget. So it would be nice t

Re: wxPython Install

| | If I can't install an operating system then put wxPython on it | without jumping through hoops, my probelm will be wxPython. | James Under Debian GNU/Linux installing Python and wxpython using the apt package manager is accomplished via the command lines # apt-

Re: Grouping code by indentation - feature or ******?

James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Friday 25 March 2005 08:39 am, Ivan Van Laningham wrote: > Why do we need : at the end of our if and for loops? I spend approximately 6 > minutes/100 lines of code going back and finding all of the times I missed :. > Is it for cheating? Because new

Re: Once again a unicode question

Nicolas Evrard wrote: > Hello, > > I'm puzzled by this test I made while trying to transform a page in > html to plain text. Because I cannot send unicode to feed, nor str so > how can I do this ? Seems like the parser is in the broken state after the first exception. Feed only binary strings to i

Once again a unicode question

Hello, I'm puzzled by this test I made while trying to transform a page in html to plain text. Because I cannot send unicode to feed, nor str so how can I do this ? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ python2.4 .Python 2.4.1c2 (#2, Mar 19 2005, 01:04:19) .[GCC 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-12)] on linux2 .Type "help", "

Re: The Greatest News Ever!

"R.Meijer" wrote: > > yahoo.com> writes: > > > > > http://www.jcil.blogspot.com << The Greatest News Ever! > > > > Wow, what a total bullshit (no offense to christians >_> ) Personally I find christians, especially this kind rather offense. > Now, what I don't understand is what this is doin

Re: Turn of globals in a function?

On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 20:01:28 GMT, Ron_Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Is there a way to hide global names from a function or class? > >I want to be sure that a function doesn't use any global variables by >mistake. So hiding them would force a name error in the case that I >omit an initializat

Re: Embedding Python

Am Samstag, 26. März 2005 21:36 schrieb Mark Tolonen: > I also (before I originally posted) did a "find / -name libpython*" with no > success. Looks like Redhat 9 ships with a statically linked version of > python. Hmm... Sorry to have thought otherwise... RedHat is braindead. :-) -- --- Heiko.

Re: Embedding Python

"Reinhold Birkenfeld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Heiko Wundram wrote: >> Am Samstag, 26. März 2005 20:43 schrieb Mark Tolonen: >>> On my system, for whatever reason, the .so library isn't present. I >>> have >>> the python-devel package installed. >> >> I actu

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Hello All, I will soon have an excuse to install a new operating system on my computer. I would like to know exactly what operating system I should have so that I can get wxPython going. wxPython is my only hold-out on my current system. wxPython seems to need gnome. So I have tried to build ga

urllib.urlretireve problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everybody, I've got a small problem with urlretrieve. Even passing a bad url to urlretrieve doesn't raise an exception. Or does it? If Yes, What exception is it ? And how do I use it in my program ? I've searched a lot but haven't found anythi

Re: Turn of globals in a function?

Ron_Adam wrote: Is there a way to hide global names from a function or class? I want to be sure that a function doesn't use any global variables by mistake. So hiding them would force a name error in the case that I omit an initialization step. This might be a good way to quickly catch some hard

Re: Embedding Python

Heiko Wundram wrote: > Am Samstag, 26. März 2005 20:43 schrieb Mark Tolonen: >> On my system, for whatever reason, the .so library isn't present. I have >> the python-devel package installed. > > I actually can't believe this; do > > ldconfig -p|grep "python" Or, use ldd =python to exactly di

Turn of globals in a function?

Is there a way to hide global names from a function or class? I want to be sure that a function doesn't use any global variables by mistake. So hiding them would force a name error in the case that I omit an initialization step. This might be a good way to quickly catch some hard to find, but e

Re: Embedding Python

Am Samstag, 26. März 2005 20:43 schrieb Mark Tolonen: > On my system, for whatever reason, the .so library isn't present. I have > the python-devel package installed. I actually can't believe this; do ldconfig -p|grep "python" as root and look for any output. And remember that the shared librar

Re: mysteriously nonfunctioning script - very simple

Am Samstag, 26. März 2005 19:47 schrieb Sean McIlroy: > Why not try the following: >>> import datetime >>> x = datetime.datetime.now() >>> x datetime.datetime(2005, 3, 26, 21, 48, 13, 495765) >>> y = datetime.datetime(2005,3,26,21,50) # Wake me up today at 21:50 >>> y datetime.datetime(2005, 3,

Re: Embedding Python

"Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> This works for me on Redhat 9: >> >> g++ x.cpp -o x -I/usr/include/python2.2 -pthread -lm >> -ldl -lutil /usr/lib/python2.2/config/libpython2.2.a >> > > Why did you chose the static variant? This should be equival

Re: mysteriously nonfunctioning script - very simple

Sean McIlroy wrote: Fair enough. Here's the verbose version: ## from time import sleep,time,localtime wakeuptime = (7,00) ## I WANT TO BE WOKEN UP AT 7AM (FOR EXAMPLE) onehourlater = (wakeuptime[0]+1, wakeuptime[1]) ## ONE HOUR

Re: mysteriously nonfunctioning script - very simple

Sean McIlroy wrote: > Fair enough. Here's the verbose version: > from time import sleep,time,localtime > > wakeuptime = (7,00) > ## I WANT TO BE WOKEN UP AT 7AM (FOR EXAMPLE) > > onehourlater = (wakeuptime[0]+1, wakeuptime[1]) > ## ONE HOUR LATER THAN THAT IS 8AM > > while not wakeuptime < loc

Re: Example Code - Named Pipes (Python 2.4 + ctypes on Windows)

Srijit Kumar Bhadra wrote: > However, I wish that there was more documentation of win32all beyond > existing PyWin32.chm. I suspect you have already used the "more documentation" -- it's the MSDN docs. p -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python slogan, was Re: Grouping code by indentation - feature or ******?

Skip Montanaro wrote: > >> Or, paraphrasing Mark Twain, "Python is the worst possible > >> programming language, except for all the others." > Google thinks it's Winston Churchill as well. I did come across a quote > wiki: > > http://www.wikiquote.org/ > > None of the quotes attrib

Re: mysteriously nonfunctioning script - very simple

> ## > from time import sleep,time,localtime > > wakeuptime = (7,00) > ## I WANT TO BE WOKEN UP AT 7AM (FOR EXAMPLE) > > onehourlater = (wakeuptime[0]+1, wakeuptime[1]) > ## ONE HOUR LATER THAN THAT IS 8AM > > while not wakeupti

Re: Embedding Python

> This works for me on Redhat 9: > > g++ x.cpp -o x -I/usr/include/python2.2 -pthread -lm > -ldl -lutil /usr/lib/python2.2/config/libpython2.2.a > Why did you chose the static variant? This should be equivalent: g++ x.cpp -o x -I/usr/include/python2.2 -pthread -lm -ldl -lutil -lpython2.2 -

Re: mysteriously nonfunctioning script - very simple

Fair enough. Here's the verbose version: ## from time import sleep,time,localtime wakeuptime = (7,00) ## I WANT TO BE WOKEN UP AT 7AM (FOR EXAMPLE) onehourlater = (wakeuptime[0]+1, wakeuptime[1]) ## ONE HOUR LATER THAN THAT IS

Re: Embedding Python

"Markus Franz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi! > > I wanted to run some Python code from inside a C program, so I did it > like it was explained in the Python manual: > > #include > int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { > Py_Initialize(); > PyRun_SimpleString("prin

Re: Archives and magic bytes

> Perhaps this is mostly a reflection on me as a programmer :-} but I > found the job surprisingly tricky. No I think you're right... It's not very important for me retrieve exactly what kind of file it is, it could be just something more in my little program (an organizer that put files in the rig

Re: Example Code - Named Pipes (Python 2.4 + ctypes on Windows)

Harald Massa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Srijit Kumar Bhadra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in >> Here is an example of Multithreaded Pipe Server and Client using the >> excellent ctypes library (Windows). > > Excellent. Maybe you would also like to post it to the > > http://starship.python.net/cre

Re: Example Code - Named Pipes (Python 2.4 + ctypes on Windows)

"Srijit Kumar Bhadra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > I am quite familiar with Mark Hammond's win32all. It is excellent. > However, I wish that there was more documentation of win32all beyond > existing PyWin32.chm. I am aware of "Python Programming on Win32" but I > do not have access to i

py_compile vs. IndentationError

Why does py_compile print IndentationError in a different format than SyntaxError? It makes it harder to parse the output in a non-python program. Sorry: IndentationError: ('unindent does not match any outer indentation level', ('foo.py', 19, 17, '\t\t\t return 0.0 \n')) instead of File

Re: Grouping code by indentation - feature or ******?

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 11:31:33 -0800, James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Friday 25 March 2005 08:39 am, Ivan Van Laningham wrote: >> As far as grouping by indentation goes, it's why I fell in love with >> Python in the first place.  Braces and so on are just extraneous cruft >> as far as I'

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Title: PyGreSQL binary for Windows Has anyone built PyGreSQL for windows 2000 that would be willing to send me the binary version? I do not have a windows compiler and need to run it. Thank you, lance Lance Ellinghaus -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Example Code - Named Pipes (Python 2.4 + ctypes on Windows)

"Srijit Kumar Bhadra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > Here is an example of Multithreaded Pipe Server and Client using the > excellent ctypes library (Windows). Excellent. Maybe you would also like to post it to the http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/moin.cgi/CtypesModule Ctypes-Wiki for eas

Re: html tags and python

http://diveintopython.org/file_handling/index.html really good tutorial on exceptions. The whole book is well done, in fact, I recommend it. I also like Practical Python, and the Oreilly "Learning Python", but they're not online. For production purposes, you'd still do date-check on the client

Re: Embedding Python

Markus Franz wrote: > Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > >>>/home/mmf/tmp/ccVD2V4h.o(.text+0x1d): In function `main': >>>: undefined reference to `Py_Initialize' >>>/home/mmf/tmp/ccVD2V4h.o(.text+0x2a): In function `main': >>>: undefined reference to `PyRun_SimpleString' >>>/home/mmf/tmp/ccVD2V4h.o(.text+

Re: Embedding Python

Diez B. Roggisch wrote: /home/mmf/tmp/ccVD2V4h.o(.text+0x1d): In function `main': : undefined reference to `Py_Initialize' /home/mmf/tmp/ccVD2V4h.o(.text+0x2a): In function `main': : undefined reference to `PyRun_SimpleString' /home/mmf/tmp/ccVD2V4h.o(.text+0x32): In function `main': : undefined re

Re: The Greatest News Ever!

yahoo.com> writes: > > http://www.jcil.blogspot.com << The Greatest News Ever! > Wow, what a total bullshit (no offense to christians >_> ) Now, what I don't understand is what this is doing in a python newsgroup? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to ensure Maximize button shows in Linux/Unix (Tkinter)

Harlin Seritt wrote: > Diez, > > Thanks for the quick reply. I am running this under KDE. I actually > haven't tried doing so under any other wm for the moment. Any ideas how > to get it to show in KDE? I also run kde, and it shows that maximze-button. I've no idea why that doesn't work for you.

How to ensure Maximize button shows in Linux/Unix (Tkinter)

I have a tkinter program that shows the 'maximize' button while running on Windows but not in Linux. Is there a way to make it show in Linux? Thanks, Harlin Seritt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Why is a JIT compiler faster than a byte-compiler

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-psyco.html?t=gr,lnxw03=PsycoC http://gnosis.cx/publish/programming/charming_python_b9.html On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 11:22:03 +0100, Torsten Bronger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallöchen! > > "dodoo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > http://www-9

Re: How to ensure Maximize button shows in Linux/Unix (Tkinter)

Diez, Thanks for the quick reply. I am running this under KDE. I actually haven't tried doing so under any other wm for the moment. Any ideas how to get it to show in KDE? Thanks, Harlin Seritt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Grouping code by indentation - feature or ******?

On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 15:42:03 +, Tim Tyler wrote: > I very much favour the smalltalk-inspired idea of keeping the actual > language as small as is reasonably possible. > > I wonder if there are any promising new kids on the dynamic > scripting-language block that I haven't heard about yet - i.e

Re: How to ensure Maximize button shows in Linux/Unix (Tkinter)

Harlin Seritt wrote: > I have a tkinter program that shows the 'maximize' button while running > on Windows but not in Linux. Is there a way to make it show in Linux? On linux (or X-Windows in general) the windowdecorations (which maximize is a part of) are managed by the windowmanager, not the g

Re: Suggesting a new feature - "Inverse Generators"

Hmmm, I like the terminology consumers better than acceptors. The ability to have 'full coroutines', or at least more 'coroutiney behaviour' than is provided by generators alone, was I think what I was trying to get at with my original idea, although things got a bit sidetracked by the way I focus

Re: Grouping code by indentation - feature or ******?

Javier Bezos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted: > "Tim Tyler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi? en el mensaje > > What do you guys think about Python's grouping of code via indentation? > > > > Is it good - perhaps because it saves space and eliminates keypresses? [...] > I particularly hate it, bu

Re: Example Code - Named Pipes (Python 2.4 + ctypes on Windows)

Hello, I am quite familiar with Mark Hammond's win32all. It is excellent. However, I wish that there was more documentation of win32all beyond existing PyWin32.chm. I am aware of "Python Programming on Win32" but I do not have access to it at present. Best Regards, /Srijit -- http://mail.python.

Re: html tags and python

Hi and thanks for the replies. It is starting to make a little sense. But its still not that clear... If I import the DateTime or install and import the mx package. Where should I then change something in my code? I guess that I will have to see if the entered number is valid when the user click

Re: Grouping code by indentation - feature or ******?

Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted: > I, Tim Tyler wrote: > > What do you guys think about Python's grouping of code via indentation? > > This is a Python newsgroup. Assume that we all have been brainwashed. ;-) I had a good look for comp.lang.python.advocacy before posting my ques

The Greatest News Ever!

http://www.jcil.blogspot.com << The Greatest News Ever! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

ossaudiodev full duplex

I'm messing around with trying to record sound reflections off of various objects at different frequencies. I'm using python 2.4 on Fedora Core 3 and I have an SBLive card. Basically, I want to send some samples through a speaker and then record from an input source (the line input on the sound ca

Re: Bug in threading.Thread.join() ?

Peter Hansen wrote: I'll take your last sentence as a form of blessing to go file a bug report... Filed as http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1171023&group_id=5470&atid=105470 I guess it makes more sense for any further discussion to go on there... (Coincidentally, another b

Re: DBAPI Paramstyle

Tim Roberts wrote: In theory, using a paramstyle allows the query to be sent to the SQL database backend and compiled like a program. Then, successive uses of the same query can be done by sending just the parameters, instead of sending the entire query string to be parsed and compiled again and a

Re: Embedding Python

> /home/mmf/tmp/ccVD2V4h.o(.text+0x1d): In function `main': > : undefined reference to `Py_Initialize' > /home/mmf/tmp/ccVD2V4h.o(.text+0x2a): In function `main': > : undefined reference to `PyRun_SimpleString' > /home/mmf/tmp/ccVD2V4h.o(.text+0x32): In function `main': > : undefined reference to `

Re: Suggesting a new feature - "Inverse Generators"

"Jordan Rastrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > But I'm not so much interested in alternate solutions to the problem > itself, which is to be honest trivial. I'm intereseted in the > implications of the imaginary solution of the Acceptor function. Of course. But

Re: [perl-python] limericks

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andras Malatinszky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Xah Lee wrote: > > Better: > > > > there is a Python, pithy > > mighty, lissome, and tabby > > algorithms it puffs > > conundrums it snuffs > > and cherished by those savvy > > > > > > there is a camel, kooky > > u

Re: Anonymus functions revisited : tuple actions

Ron_Adam wrote: > On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:58:27 +0100, Reinhold Birkenfeld > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Ron_Adam wrote: >> >>> What if you could: >>> >>> x = lambda{ x, y: x+y} >>> Hmm comma creates a problem here. so... >> > from __future__ import braces >>SyntaxError: not a chance

Re: float default formatting

Are you trying to do currency? There are better ways, using the locale methods. No, just dumping some data structures and I'd rather not check every item's type and format floats explicitly. I was hoping the sprintf mask float's __str__ probably uses was somehow exposed and could be altered. -- ht

Re: Python slogan, was Re: Grouping code by indentation - feature or ******?

>> Or, paraphrasing Mark Twain, "Python is the worst possible >> programming language, except for all the others." Peter> I've been trying to establish that a while ago, but would Peter> attribute it to Winston Churchill -- so I'm a little confused Peter> now. Google thinks i

Re: Bug in threading.Thread.join() ?

Tim Peters wrote: [Peter Hansen] If you hit Ctrl-C while the join's wait() is occurring, you'll raise a KeyboardInterrupt and bypass the release() call. Then you're doing something other than what you described. Here on WinXP SP2 w/ Python 2.4c2: [snip] I can hit Ctrl+C all day at this point, and

Re: Python slogan, was Re: Grouping code by indentation - feature or ******?

Peter Otten wrote: Tim Roberts wrote: Or, paraphrasing Mark Twain, "Python is the worst possible programming language, except for all the others." I've been trying to establish that a while ago, but would attribute it to Winston Churchill -- so I'm a little confused now. Can you provide the text w

Re: mysteriously nonfunctioning script - very simple

Sean McIlroy wrote: Can anybody help me make sense of the fact that the following script doesn't work? It's so simple I can't imagine what I'm missing. Any help will be much appreciated. Always post actual tracebacks of the problem, if indeed it is producing a traceback. Do this always by *cut and

Re: regular expression

Bengt Richter wrote: On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 23:54:32 -0500, Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Suggestion: whip up a variety of automated test cases and make sure you run them all whenever you make changes to this code... Goes to show you ;-/ Do we need more tests than these? [snip loads of tests

Re: html tags and python

get the mx package here: http://www.egenix.com/files/python/eGenix-mx-Extensions.html#Download-mxBASE = >>> import mx.DateTime >>> print mx.DateTime.DateTime(2004,2,31) # Feb. 31? Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ? mx.DateTime.RangeE

Re: Suggest more finesse, please. I/O and sequences.

Qertoip wrote: Peter Hansen wrote: -- import sys corpus = {} for word in open(sys.argv[1]).read().split(): corpus[word] = corpus.get( word, 0 ) + 1 words = reversed(sorted(data[::-1] for data in corpus.iteritems())) open(sys.argv[2], 'w').writelines('%7d : %s\n' % data f

Embedding Python

Hi! I wanted to run some Python code from inside a C program, so I did it like it was explained in the Python manual: #include int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { Py_Initialize(); PyRun_SimpleString("print 'Hallo World!'\n"); Py_Finalize(); return 0; } Then I trie

Re: html tags and python

Hansan wrote: Hi. Yeah I also like just to be able to write in numbers. That is how it works right now. But then I will have to make some code, that validates if the day number is higher than allowed. Like if it is January, the days arnt allowed to be higher than 31. Will one be so kind and expla

Re: mysteriously nonfunctioning script - very simple

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sean McIlroy) (SM) wrote: >SM> Can anybody help me make sense of the fact that the following script >SM> doesn't work? It's so simple I can't imagine what I'm missing. Any >SM> help will be much appreciated. What do you mean `it doesn't work'? -- Piet van Oostrum <[EMAIL

Re: html tags and python

Hi. Yeah I also like just to be able to write in numbers. That is how it works right now. But then I will have to make some code, that validates if the day number is higher than allowed. Like if it is January, the days arnt allowed to be higher than 31. Will one be so kind and explain how I wri

Python slogan, was Re: Grouping code by indentation - feature or ******?

Tim Roberts wrote: > Rocco Moretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Antoon Pardon wrote: >>> I have problems with all languages >>> currently available, so I use those which rub me wrong the least. >>> ... [I]t doesn't weight heavy enough >>> to go and use an other language, although I keeping look

Re: Why is a JIT compiler faster than a byte-compiler

HallÃchen! "dodoo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > http://www-900.ibm.com/developerworks/cn/linux/sdk/python/charm-28/index_eng.shtml I can't reach it. Is there an alternative URL? TschÃ, Torsten. -- Torsten Bronger, aquisgrana, europa vetus -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-l

Re: tree data structure

couple of links for python tree: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/217212 http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/201423 http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/305313 http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: DBAPI Paramstyle

Tim Roberts wrote: > In theory, using a paramstyle allows the query to be sent to the SQL > database backend and compiled like a program. Then, successive uses of the > same query can be done by sending just the parameters, instead of sending > the entire query string to be parsed and compiled aga

Re: Suggest more finesse, please. I/O and sequences.

Dnia Fri, 25 Mar 2005 21:09:41 -0500, Peter Hansen napisał(a): Thanks for comments! :) > Qertoip wrote: >> Good friend of mine heard about my attempt to create compact, simple Python >> script and authored the following PHP script: > [snip 7-line PHP script] >> ...which has the same functionalit

Re: html tags and python

"Hansan" wrote: > >Hi all > >I am making something for my webpage > >Where the user can choose a month: I have made that with a dropdown box. > > >January >February >March >April >May >June >July >August >September >O

Re: Grouping code by indentation - feature or ******?

"Tim Tyler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió en el mensaje news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > What do you guys think about Python's grouping of code via indentation? > > Is it good - perhaps because it saves space and eliminates keypresses? > > Or is it bad - perhaps because it makes program flow dependent on >

Re: Grouping code by indentation - feature or ******?

Rocco Moretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Antoon Pardon wrote: >> I have problems with all languages >> currently available, so I use those which rub me wrong the least. >> ... [I]t doesn't weight heavy enough >> to go and use an other language, although I keeping looking at >> the other language

Re: float default formatting

Bernard Delmée <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Is there a simple way to modify the default sprintf mask >used for floats ? (eg something like sys.float_mask = '%.2f') >I've tried assigning to float.__dict__[ '__str__' ], but >that's apparently not allowed. No. The mask string is passed relatively d

Re: ANN: Twisted version 2.0

Christopher Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Twisted 2.0 is a major upgrade, changing many things not only in the >code but also in the structure of the project. As of 2.0, Twisted was >split up into many sub-projects which you can read about in the >Twisted Split FAQ[1]. > >2.0 also marks

Re: DBAPI Paramstyle

Bob Parnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I have a mediocre talent at programming, which is why I chose python. >For me it was a good choice. I note this so that I hope you understand why >I say that I don't know what you are driving at. My understanding is that a >paramstyle is more efficient than

__getslice__ passed INT_MAX rather than sys.maxint for missing endpoint?

Hi, I don't actually know Python; I'm just trying to debug a problem I encounted in another program, so apologies if this has been covered before. I did do some Google searches though, and didn't find anything that specifically addressed this :) According to the documentation at

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