Re: Corectly convert from %PATH%=c:\\X; "c:\\a; b" TO ['c:\\X', 'c:\\a; b']

I do agree that it is a crazy format - and am amazed that it works at the prompt. For the first case - you have a mismatched double quote for test2 at the end of the string. test2 should be r'c:\A"\B;C"\D;c:\program files\xyz' instead. For the 2nd case - my code swallowed the ';' it split on - so

Makeing TopLevel Modal ?

Hi all, I want to make a dialog (using Tk Toplevel) but need it to be modal. Is this possible using Tk ? Show below is an example how I am calling the custom dialog: class main: def __init__(self,parent): top = self.top = Toplevel(parent)

Re: re module non-greedy matches broken

* "lothar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > this response is nothing but a description of the behavior i reported. Then you have not read my response carefully enough. > as to whether this behaviour was intended, one would have to ask the module > writer about that. No, I've responded with a view o

Re: the bugs that try men's souls

Wow again. I had a real "V8 moment" when I looked at your solution (smacking my forhead, groaning ruefully, etc). You were right: my intention was simply to hide the trivial cases from view; I completely missed the fact that I was now testing for membership in a different set. I should have rememb

Re: the bugs that try men's souls

"Jordan Rastrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Wow. I'd resigned myself to the task of reformulating my question in an intelligent way, I stopped by just to leave a little note to the effect that the thread wasn't dead, and I find out the question's been answ

Re: (win32) speedfan api control

Nice idea- getting the handle to a control. But how do you know what to pass for wparam , lparam , flags ? BTW- I don't see anything unique to Active Python here. You can do all of this with the Python windows extensions, which can be installed without Active Python. -- http://mail.python.org/ma

Re: help with python-devel!!!

Just give (as root) # urpmi python-devel (assuming you have configured urpmi properly, Google for "easy urpmi"). Michele Simionato -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

checkbook manager

I'd like to try personal financial management using Python. I just found PyCheckbook, but it does not support check printing. Is there a Python check printing application kicking around? Thanks, Alan Isaac -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: On slashdot

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > There is a discussion about "Python Moving into the Enterprise" on > Slashdot: > > http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/04/03/0715209.shtml?tid=156&tid=8 Using dejanews as a proxy to measure the meme propagation of "python" versus other scri

Re: what's the use of __repr__?when shall I use it?

Vikram wrote: __repr__ should return something that when eval'ed yields an identical object (if possible). That's strictly possible in so few cases that it's not really a very helpful guideline, in my opinion. I find the following view more helpful: * str() is for producing the normal output of a p

Re: Silly question re: 'for i in sys.stdin'?

Jeff Epler wrote: The iterator for files is a little bit like this generator function: def lines(f): while 1: chunk = f.readlines(sizehint) for line in chunk: yield line Inside file.readlines, the read from the tty will block until sizehint bytes have been read o

Re: string goes away

Dan Bishop wrote: John J. Lee wrote: Doesn't work with unicode, IIRC. u" ".join(["What's", "the", "problem?"]) u"What's the problem?" str.join(x, y) isn't quite a drop-in replacement for string.join(y, x), since it's not polymorphic on the joining string: >>> str.join(u" ", ["a", "b"]) Traceback (

Re: Help me dig my way out of nested scoping

On 3 Apr 2005 16:21:10 -0700, "Brendan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Thanks for the tips. Making FW a callable class (choice 5) seems to be >a good (if verbose) solution. I might just wrap my temporary values in >a list [lastX, lastA, lastB] and mutate them as Michael suggests. >Thanks to Michael

Re: Silly question re: 'for i in sys.stdin'?

The iterator for files is a little bit like this generator function: def lines(f): while 1: chunk = f.readlines(sizehint) for line in chunk: yield line Inside file.readlines, the read from the tty will block until sizehint bytes have been read or EOF is seen. If

Re: Silly question re: 'for i in sys.stdin'?

I'm not a Python expert by any means, but you're describing the classic symptoms of buffering. There is a '-u' command line switch for python to turn off buffering but that does not affect file iterators. See http://www.hmug.org/man/1/python.html for instance. Tom Eastman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wri

Re: property and virtuality

Laszlo Zsolt Nagy wrote: My problem is about properties and the virtuality of the methods. I would like to create a property whose get and set methods are virtual. You might find the following function useful, which I developed for use in PyGUI. def overridable_property(name, doc = None): ""

Re: Making a DLL with python?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd love to do the whole thing in Python, but I don't know how to make a DLL purely from Python. I don't think you can do it *purely* in Python. You'll at least need a C or Pyrex wrapper which dispatches to Python code. -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, University of Ca

Silly question re: 'for i in sys.stdin'?

I'm not new to Python, but I didn't realise that sys.stdin could be called as an iterator, very cool! However, when I use the following idiom: for line in sys.stdin: doSomethingWith(line) and then type stuff into the program interactively, nothing actually happens until I hit CTRL-D.

Re: Docorator Disected

On Sun, 03 Apr 2005 23:59:51 +0200, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Ron_Adam wrote: >> This would be the same without the nesting: >> >> def foo(xx): >> global x >> x = xx >> return fee >> >> def fee(y): >> global x >> return y*x >> >> z = foo(2)(6) > >Actually

Re: SimpleRPCServer

Skip Montanaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >First, from my reading of SimpleXMLRPCServer, I don't think _dispatch() >belongs at that level. It belongs in the request handler class or in a >separate dispatcher class, depending on what version of Python you're using. Quite so. As a variant I just u

Re: re module non-greedy matches broken

this response is nothing but a description of the behavior i reported. as to whether this behaviour was intended, one would have to ask the module writer about that. because of the statement in the documentation, which places no qualification on how the scan for the shortest possible match is to b

Re: unittest vs py.test?

Paul Rubin wrote: "Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: But assert statements vanish when you turn on the optimizer. If you're going to run your application with the optimizer turned on, I certainly hope you run your regression tests with the optimizer on. I don't see why you think so. Assert

Re: unittest vs py.test?

Scott David Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any code depending upon __debug__ being 0 won't be tested. Sometimes > test structures update values as a side-effect of tracking the debugging > state. Not massively likely, but it makes for a scary environment when > your tests cannot be run on a

Re: threading.Event file descriptor

//And there's no handle at all? There is one (check thread_nt.h) you have to "propagate" HANDLE to Pythom level. That's why, you have to change the interpreter. Do not forget, that thread is a build-in module. //I wouldn't want to derive from Event since my goal would be to submit a patch to make

Re: threading.Event file descriptor

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: //And there's no handle at all? There is one (check thread_nt.h) you have to "propagate" HANDLE to Pythom level. That's why, you have to change the interpreter. Do not forget, that thread is a build-in module. Sounds fine with me. A fileno (or whatever) function can be add

Re: unittest vs py.test?

"Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > But assert statements vanish when you turn on the optimizer. If > > you're going to run your application with the optimizer turned on, I > > certainly hope you run your regression tests with the optimizer on. > > I don't see why you think so. Asserti

Re: Help me dig my way out of nested scoping

>James Stroud Apr 3, 3:18 pm: >I think you might want to look at "python generators". I've seen discussion of generators before, but haven't invested the time to understand them yet. This might be a good excuse. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Help me dig my way out of nested scoping

F -is- in fact an iterative optimizer that minimizes A on x (B is the derivative of A). So yes, F will call A and B on mulitple 'x's. In that case, it seems the mutable object trick is the way to go. Thanks. I didn't follow your last sentence. What about the Python Cookbook? -- http://mail.

Re: text analysis in python

Terry Reedy wrote: "Maurice LING" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Say I code my stuffs in Jython (importing java libraries) in a file "text.py" Just to be clear, Jython is not a separate langague that you code *in*, but a separate implementation that you may slight

Re: Help me dig my way out of nested scoping

Thanks for the tips. Making FW a callable class (choice 5) seems to be a good (if verbose) solution. I might just wrap my temporary values in a list [lastX, lastA, lastB] and mutate them as Michael suggests. Thanks to Michael especially for the explanation of the name-binding process that's at th

Re: Help me dig my way out of nested scoping

"Brendan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I have a function, call it F(x), which asks for two > other functions as arguments, say A(x) and B(x). ... If I understand this and the rest, a third party library whose code you cannot modify (easily) has a function F wit

Re: Help me dig my way out of nested scoping

On 3 Apr 2005 14:12:48 -0700, "Brendan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi everyone > >I'm new to Python, so forgive me if the solution to my question should >have been obvious. I have a function, call it F(x), which asks for two >other functions as arguments, say A(x) and B(x). A and B are most >ef

Re: string goes away

John J. Lee wrote: > Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] > >str.join(sep, list_of_str) > [...] > > Doesn't work with unicode, IIRC. >>> u" ".join(["What's", "the", "problem?"]) u"What's the problem?" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Help me dig my way out of nested scoping

On Sunday 03 April 2005 04:12 pm, Brendan wrote: > from ThirdPartyLibrary import F > from MyOtherModule import AB > > def FW(x): > lastX = None > aLastX = None > bLastX = None I'm pretty sure your method will work if you just specify that these are global: def FW(x): global lastX

Re: Question about the Python Cookbook: How much of this is new?

RickMuller wrote: I had a question about the second edition of the Python Cookbook. I own and have thoroughly enjoyed the first edition of the Python Cookbook. How much of the second edition is new? Is this "essential reading" if I already have the first edition? I realize that there are new sectio

Re: Lambda: the Ultimate Design Flaw

Artie Gold wrote: Torsten Bronger wrote: The whole text seems to be a variant of . TschÃ, Torsten. Ya think? ;-) Heh. I was glad that Torsten pointed it out; I didn't get what was funny about the joke until then. -- http://mail.python.org/ma

Re: boring the reader to death (wasRe: Lambda: the Ultimate Design Flaw

Aahz wrote: Note very, VERY, *VERY* carefully that the quote says nothing about "boring code". The quote explicitly refers to "reams of trivial code" as boring -- and that's quite true. Consider this distinction: Thank you for this important clarification. if foo == 'red': print 'foo

Re: boring the reader to death (wasRe: Lambda: the Ultimate DesignFlaw

Scott David Daniels wrote: No, poetry is to be read slowly and carefully, appreciating the nuance at every point. You should be able to read "past" python, while poetry is at least as much about the form of the expression as it is about what is being expressed. Right, I agree with these descriptio

Re: unittest vs py.test?

"Paul Rubin" <"http://phr.cx"@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Raymond Hettinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> When writing a large suite, you quick come to appreciate being able >> to use assert statements with regular comparision operators, debugging >> with normal p

Question about the Python Cookbook: How much of this is new?

I had a question about the second edition of the Python Cookbook. I own and have thoroughly enjoyed the first edition of the Python Cookbook. How much of the second edition is new? Is this "essential reading" if I already have the first edition? I realize that there are new sections that describe l

Re: StopIteration in the if clause of a generator expression

This is all just making everything far too complicated. What you really want to do is quite simple: import itertools def condition(x): return x < 5 list(itertools.takewhile(condition, (i for i in range(10 The 'Stop Iteration In Generator Expression' problem was solved in the language that Li

Re: text analysis in python

Maurice Ling wrote: In the Java world, there is GATE (general architecture for text engineering) and it seems very impressive. Are there something like that for Python? I worked with GATE this last summer and really hated it. Can't decide whether that was just my growing distaste for Java or ac

Re: threading.Event file descriptor

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is no event handle used in Event object (for NT at least). Do not know about Linux... And there's no handle at all? It's not important if it's not an event handle as long as it is an handle usable with WaitForMultipleObjects. Also, I don't understand how it will be

Re: Help me dig my way out of nested scoping

I wish I had time to dig into your specific problem because it looks interesting. But I think you might want to look at "python generators". I beleive there is no reason that they can't yield a function. http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0255.html http://docs.python.org/ref/yield.html http://linuxg

Re: threading.Event file descriptor

Nicolas Fleury wrote: > Hi, > Is there any way to get the file descriptor on Unix or handle on Windows > associated internally with a threading.Event object? So that it can be > used in a call to select or WaitForMultipleObjects. > Thx and regards, > Nicolas Good idea! But... There is no event

Re: text analysis in python

"Maurice LING" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Say I code my stuffs in Jython (importing java libraries) in a file >"text.py" Just to be clear, Jython is not a separate langague that you code *in*, but a separate implementation that you may slightly differently co

Re: StopIteration in the if clause of a generator expression

Raymond Hettinger wrote: [Peter Otten] Do you see any chance that list comprehensions will be redefined as an alternative spelling for list()? Not likely. It is possible that the latter spelling would make it possible for Py3.0. eliminate list comps entirely. However, they are very popular and p

Re: Help me dig my way out of nested scoping

Brendan wrote: Hi everyone I'm new to Python, so forgive me if the solution to my question should have been obvious. ... Good question. For a thorough explanation see: http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel/ref/naming.html Simple version follows: OK, here's my problem: How do I best store and cha

Re: text analysis in python

Mark Winrock wrote: You might try http://web.media.mit.edu/~hugo/montylingua/ "Liu, Hugo (2004). MontyLingua: An end-to-end natural language processor with common sense. Available at: web.media.mit.edu/~hugo/montylingua." Thanks Mark. I've downloaded MontyLingua and it looks pretty cool. To me,

Re: Docorator Disected

Ron_Adam wrote: This would be the same without the nesting: def foo(xx): global x x = xx return fee def fee(y): global x return y*x z = foo(2)(6) Actually, it wouldn't. >>> def foo(xx): ... global x ... x = xx ... return fee ... >>> def fee(y): ... global x ... return

Re: "specialdict" module

Georg Brandl wrote: I think I like Jeff's approach more (defaultvalues are just special cases of default factories); there aren't many "hoops" required. Apart from that, the names just get longer ;) Yes Jeff's approach does simplify the implementation and more-or-less eliminates my complexity obje

Help me dig my way out of nested scoping

Hi everyone I'm new to Python, so forgive me if the solution to my question should have been obvious. I have a function, call it F(x), which asks for two other functions as arguments, say A(x) and B(x). A and B are most efficiently evaluated at once, since they share much of the same math, ie, A

Re: "specialdict" module

Michael Spencer wrote: > 1. Given that these are specializations, why not have: > > class defaultvaluedict(dict): > ... > > class defaultfactorydict(dict): > ... > > rather than having to jump through hoops to make one implementation satisfy > both > cases I think I like Jeff's app

can't link Python 2.4.1 against external libxml2 ...

hi all, i've successfully built Python-2.4.1 from src on OSX 10.3.8 as a framework install with: ./configure \ --enable-framework \ --with-threads \ --with-cxx=g++ \ --enable-ipv6 \ --enable-toolbox-glue make frameworkinstall i'm next attempting to build same but linking agai

Re: Corectly convert from %PATH%=c:\\X; "c:\\a; b" TO ['c:\\X', 'c:\\a; b']

The C code that Python uses to find the initial value of sys.path based on PYTHONPATH seems to be simple splitting on the equivalent of os.pathsep. See the source file Python/sysmodule.c, function makepathobject(). for (i = 0; ; i++) { p = strchr(path, delim); // ";" on win

mini_httpd (ACME Labs) & Python 2.4.1 integration

Hi folks,I have a webserver based on mini_httpd v1.19(http://www.acme.com/software/mini_httpd/).I'd like to run some python-based CGI scripts via this webserver on an RH9 system.In theory, with the right env settings, Ishould be able to launch mini_httpd like so: mini_httpd -c *.pyand be able to ru

help with python-devel!!!

I am trying to install Numeric python which fails because I do not have "/usr/lib/python-2.3/config/Makefile" I've done some research and figured out I don't have the "python-devel" package ... how do I get this?? I'm running Mandrake 10.1 and typing "urpmi python-devel" does not work (it can't

Re: Decorater inside a function? Is there a way?

On 3 Apr 2005 11:17:35 -0700, "George Sakkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>def define(func): >>if not ENABLE_TYPECHECKING: >>return lambda func: func >># else decorate func > >A small correction: The argument of the decorator is not 'func' but the >parameter checks you want to enfo

Re: "specialdict" module

Georg Brandl wrote: Hello, in follow-up to the recent "dictionary accumulator" thread, I wrote a little module with several subclassed dicts. Comments (e.g. makes it sense to use super), corrections, etc.? Is this PEP material? Docstrings, Documentation and test cases are to be provided later. mfg

RE: Corectly convert from %PATH%=c:\\X; "c:\\a; b" TO ['c:\\X', 'c:\\a; b']

My goal is to check for certain paths appearing in the current PATH (set by a bunch of scripts run in some random order) and (1) rearrange some of them so that they are in the "correct" order and (2) replace some for which I have preferred alternatives. The quote processing I saw cmd.exe do was di

Re: Decorater inside a function? Is there a way?

>def define(func): >if not ENABLE_TYPECHECKING: >return lambda func: func ># else decorate func A small correction: The argument of the decorator is not 'func' but the parameter checks you want to enforce. A template for define would be: def define(inputTypes, outputType): if

Re: Queue.Queue-like class without the busy-wait

Paul Rubin wrote: > Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I believe futex is the thing you want for a modern linux. Not > > very portable though. > > That's really cool, but I don't see how it can be a pure userspace > operation if the futex has a timeout. The kernel must need to k

Re: Corectly convert from %PATH%=c:\\X; "c:\\a; b" TO ['c:\\X', 'c:\\a; b']

chirayuk wrote: However, I just realized that the following is also a valid PATH in windows. PATH=c:\A"\B;C"\D;c:\program files\xyz" (The quotes do not need to cover the entire path) Too bad! What a crazy format! So here is my handcrafted solution. def WinPathList_to_PyList (pathList): pIter

Re: "specialdict" module

Jeff Epler wrote: > The software you used to post this message wrapped some of the lines of > code. For example: >> def __delitem__(self, key): >> super(keytransformdict, self).__delitem__(self, >> self._transformer(key)) Somehow I feared that this would happen. > In defaultdict, I w

Re: Decorator Dissection

On Sun, 03 Apr 2005 08:32:09 +0200, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Ron_Adam wrote: >> I wasn't aware that the form: >> >> result = function(args)(args) >> >> Was a legal python statement. >> >> So python has a built in mechanism for passing multiple argument sets >> to neste

Re: text analysis in python

Maurice Ling wrote: Hi, I'm a postgraduate and my project deals with a fair bit of text analysis. I'm looking for some libraries and tools that is geared towards text analysis (and text engineering). So far, the most comprehensive toolkit in python for my purpose is NLTK (natural language tool

Re: "specialdict" module

The software you used to post this message wrapped some of the lines of code. For example: > def __delitem__(self, key): > super(keytransformdict, self).__delitem__(self, > self._transformer(key)) In defaultdict, I wonder whether everything should be viewed as a factory: def setde

"specialdict" module

Hello, in follow-up to the recent "dictionary accumulator" thread, I wrote a little module with several subclassed dicts. Comments (e.g. makes it sense to use super), corrections, etc.? Is this PEP material? Docstrings, Documentation and test cases are to be provided later. mfg Georg -

Re: Docorator Disected

On 3 Apr 2005 00:11:22 -0800, "El Pitonero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Martin v. Löwis wrote: >Perhaps this will make you think a bit more: Now my problem is convincing the group I do know it. LOL >Another example: > >def f(): > return f > >g = f()()()()()()()()()()() > >is perfectly valid.

Re: Docorator Disected

On Sun, 03 Apr 2005 07:53:07 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bengt Richter) wrote: >>No, I did not know that you could pass multiple sets of arguments to >That phraseology doesn't sound to me like your concept space is quite >isomorphic >with reality yet, sorry ;-) You'll be happy to know, my concept

Re: re module non-greedy matches broken

* lothar wrote: > re: > 4.2.1 Regular Expression Syntax > http://docs.python.org/lib/re-syntax.html > > *?, +?, ?? > Adding "?" after the qualifier makes it perform the match in non-greedy > or > minimal fashion; as few characters as possible will be matched. > > the regular expression mod

re module non-greedy matches broken

re: 4.2.1 Regular Expression Syntax http://docs.python.org/lib/re-syntax.html *?, +?, ?? Adding "?" after the qualifier makes it perform the match in non-greedy or minimal fashion; as few characters as possible will be matched. the regular expression module fails to perform non-greedy matches

Re: Corectly convert from %PATH%=c:\\X; "c:\\a; b" TO ['c:\\X', 'c:\\a; b']

if your goal is to search for files on a windows-style path environment variable, maybe you don't want to take this approach, but instead wrap and use the _wsearchenv or _searchenv C library functions http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/vclib/html/_crt__searchenv.2c_._wsearchenv.asp Incid

Re: Python Cookbook

I want to just second this comment by Heike. I received my copy of the 2nd Edition from O'Reilly on Friday. I am still working my way slowly through the first chapter on Text, and I am nearing the end of that chapter. I intend to work my way through sequentially, because I can't think of a better

On slashdot

There is a discussion about "Python Moving into the Enterprise" on Slashdot: http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/04/03/0715209.shtml?tid=156&tid=8 Bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: string goes away

"Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Out of curiosity: when thinking about Python 3.0, what is the timespan > in which you expect that to appear? Before 2010? After 2010? After 2020? I'm not terribly worried about Python 3.0 incompatibilities, whenever those are. There are already thre

Re: string goes away

Andreas Beyer wrote: If I am getting the docs etc. correctly, the string-module is depricated and is supposed to be removed with the release of Python 3.0. I still use the module a lot and there are situations in which I don't know what to do without it. Maybe you can give me some help. Out of cu

Re: Docorator Disected

On Sun, 03 Apr 2005 08:37:02 +0200, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Ron_Adam wrote: >>>Ah, so you did not know functions are objects just like numbers, >>>strings or dictionaries. I think you may have been influenced by other >>>languages where there is a concept of static declaratio

Re: string goes away

Andreas Beyer wrote: Yeeh, I was expecting something like that. The only reason to use map() at all is for improving the performance. That is lost when using list comprehensions (as far as I know). So, this is *no* option for larger jobs. Don't believe anything you hear right away, especially not

Re: string goes away

Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] >str.join(sep, list_of_str) [...] Doesn't work with unicode, IIRC. John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Python Cookbook

Hi all! I've received my copy of the Python Cookbook two days ago, and just thought that I might independently commend all you editors and recipe designers out there to an excellent book! I've thoroughly enjoyed reading the introductions in each chapter, and although I've been programming in Py

Re: text analysis in python

. I don't know if you're aware that, in a fairly strong sense, anything "[i]n the Java world" *is* "for Python". If you program with Jython (for example--there are other ways to achieve much the same end), your source code can be in Python, but you have full access to any library coded in Java.

Re: Decorater inside a function? Is there a way?

On 3 Apr 2005 00:20:32 -0800, "George Sakkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Yes, it is possible to turn off type checking at runtime; just add this >in the beginning of your define: > >def define(func): >if not ENABLE_TYPECHECKING: >return lambda func: func ># else decorate func > >w

Re: the bugs that try men's souls

I think I found your bug, although it took a bit of time, a fair bit of thought, and a fair bit of extra test-framework code - your program is very concise, reasonably complex, and very unreadable. Its perfect for testing maths theorems of your own interest, but you probably should have polished it

Re: text analysis in python

The book "Text Processing in Python" by David Mertz, available online at http://gnosis.cx/TPiP/ , may be helpful. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Newsgroup Programming

I've found and used the nntplib module for newgroup programming. Can anyone suggest a library, technique or reference on how to combine mutliple messages with attachments such as mp3's, .wmv, *.avi, etc.? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: unittest vs py.test?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Rubin wrote: > "Raymond Hettinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > When writing a large suite, you quick come to appreciate being able > > to use assert statements with regular comparision operators, debugging > > with normal print s

Re: A ClientForm Question

Il Fri, 01 Apr 2005 02:36:24 -0800, narke ha scritto: > Does anyone here use ClientForm to handle a HTML form on client side? > > I got a form, within which there is a image control, it direct me to > another page if i use mouse click on it. the code of the form as > below: > > action="CDocZ_M

Re: StopIteration in the if clause of a generator expression

[Peter Otten] > Do you see any chance that list comprehensions will be redefined as an > alternative spelling for list()? Not likely. It is possible that the latter spelling would make it possible for Py3.0. eliminate list comps entirely. However, they are very popular and practical, so my bet i

Re: text analysis in python

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Maurice Ling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . . . >In the Java world, there is GATE (general architecture for text >engineering) and it seems very impressive. Are there something like that >for Py

Re: unittest vs py.test?

"Raymond Hettinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When writing a large suite, you quick come to appreciate being able > to use assert statements with regular comparision operators, debugging > with normal print statements, and not writing self.assertEqual over and > over again. The generative test

Re: unittest vs py.test?

[Peter Hansen] > (I'm not dissing py.test, and intend to check it > out. Not to be disrepectful, but objections raised by someone who hasn't worked with both tools equate to hot air. > I'm just objecting to claims that unittest > somehow is "heavy", when those claiming that it > is seem to think

Re: Help with splitting

George Sakkis wrote: > If you don't want any null strings at the beginning or the end, an > equivalent regexp is: > whitespaceSplitter_2 = re.compile("\w+|\s+") whitespaceSplitter_2.findall("1 2 3 \t\n5") > ['1', ' ', '2', ' ', '3', ' \t\n', '5'] whitespaceSplitter_2.findall(

text analysis in python

Hi, I'm a postgraduate and my project deals with a fair bit of text analysis. I'm looking for some libraries and tools that is geared towards text analysis (and text engineering). So far, the most comprehensive toolkit in python for my purpose is NLTK (natural language tool kit) by Edward Loper

Re: redundant imports

Mike Meyer wrote: > The semantic behavior of "include" in C is the same as "from module > import *" in python. Both cases add all the names in the included > namespace directly to the including namespace. This usage is > depreciated in Python ... Did you mean discouraged? Or it's really slated f

Re: the bugs that try men's souls

Sean McIlroy wrote: > This needs some background so bear with me. > > The problem: Suppose p is a permutation on {0...n} and t is the > transposition that switches x and y [x,y in {0...n}]. A "stepup pair" > (just a term I invented) for p is a pair (a,b) of integers in {0...n} > with a of p iff (p(

Re: Corectly convert from %PATH%=c:\\X; "c:\\a; b" TO ['c:\\X', 'c:\\a; b']

Michael Spencer wrote: > chirayuk wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to treat an environment variable as a python list - and I'm > > sure there must be a standard and simple way to do so. I know that the > > interpreter itself must use it (to process $PATH / %PATH%, etc) but I > > am not able to fi

Re: Name of IDLE on Linux

Joal Heagney wrote: > If you're using KDE, you can set a bookmark in konqueror to the > documentation and it'll bring it up in the bookmark toolbar. Only hassle > is when you update python and the docs, you have to edit the bookmark. Or you can bookmark a symlink to the documentation and bookmark

Re: Decorater inside a function? Is there a way?

Yes, it is possible to turn off type checking at runtime; just add this in the beginning of your define: def define(func): if not ENABLE_TYPECHECKING: return lambda func: func # else decorate func where ENABLE_TYPECHECKING is a module level variable that can be exposed to the modu

Re: StopIteration in the if clause of a generator expression

jfj wrote: >> To make it a bit clearer, a StopIteration raised in a generator >> expression silently terminates that generator: > > *any* exception raised from a generator, terminates the generator Yeah, but StopIteration is the only expected exception and therefore the only one that client code

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