Re: OpenSource documentation problems

2005-09-01 Thread Paul Rubin
Michael Sparks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I've submitted a number of doc bugs to sourceforge and the ones that > > are simple errors and omissions do get fixed. > > Cool. Better than nothing, but it's only one class of problem, and maybe the easiest kind to report. There's another type

Re: OpenSource documentation problems

2005-09-01 Thread Terry Hancock
On Thursday 01 September 2005 10:11 pm, Paul Rubin wrote: > "Fred L. Drake, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ideally, emails to docs at python.org would result in issues being > > created somewhere, simply so they don't get lost. It probably > > doesn't make sense for those to land in SourceFo

Re: Are there free molecular libraries written in python ?

2005-09-01 Thread Alessandro Bottoni
Xiao Jianfeng wrote: > Hi, > > Are there any free libraries for the analysis and manipulation of > molecular structural models, implemented in the Python programming > language ? > > Thanks. What about the followings? MMTK = http://starship.python.net/crew/hinsen/MMTK/ PyMol = http://pymol.sou

Re: Are there free molecular libraries written in python ?

2005-09-01 Thread Robert Kern
Xiao Jianfeng wrote: > Hi, > > Are there any free libraries for the analysis and manipulation of > molecular structural models, implemented in the Python programming > language ? Google is your friend. http://starship.python.net/crew/hinsen/mmtk.html http://pymol.sourceforge.net/ http://www.scri

Re: Python C module questions

2005-09-01 Thread Thomas Heller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] > /* convert sequences to tuples if necessary */ > ra1 = PySequence_Fast(ra1, "ra1 must be iterable"); > if (ra1 == NULL) { > return NULL; > } > > dec1 = PySequence_Fast(dec1, "dec1 must be iterable"); > if (dec1 == NULL) { >

Are there free molecular libraries written in python ?

2005-09-01 Thread Xiao Jianfeng
Hi, Are there any free libraries for the analysis and manipulation of molecular structural models, implemented in the Python programming language ? Thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: global interpreter lock

2005-09-01 Thread Bryan Olson
Mike Meyer wrote: > Bryan Olson writes: >>With Python threads/queues how do I wait for two queues (or >>locks or semaphores) at one call? (I know some methods to >>accomplish the same effect, but they suck.) > > By "not as good as", I meant the model they provide isn't as managable > as the

Re: Python doc problems example: gzip module

2005-09-01 Thread EP
"Xah Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > today i need to decompress > since i'm familiar with what the fuck > Fuck the > I just need to decompress that fucking doc whatever fuck Is it just me or, do you suppose, with so much unnecessary "f" word, this is not a post at all, but a

Re: Python C module questions

2005-09-01 Thread Robert Kern
jbrewer wrote: [I wrote:] >>You probably shouldn't post such large pieces of code to the list. > > OK. BTW, please attribute your quotes. [Still me:] >>You mean a docstring on the module object itself? > > Actually, I meant docstrings to the module and the functions, objects, > methods, whatev

Re: Writing formatted data (numeric) to a binary file

2005-09-01 Thread Robert Kern
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm conscious that the "write" command would allow me to write text to > a binary file, but I'm not clear how to: > 1) format my numeric data such that it matches the real*4 format > 2) parse an entire row of a 2D array without using a for loop. For homogeneous blocks o

Re: Sockets: code works locally but fails over LAN

2005-09-01 Thread Bryan Olson
n00m wrote: >>Bryan; > > I tested your code locally (in I*D*L*E) - it works fine! Glad it worked, but I'd still disrecommend IDLE for that version. Threads may live after the program seems to be done (and may still own the port you need). Below is a version that respects ^C to terminate more-or

Re: OpenSource documentation problems

2005-09-01 Thread Terry Hancock
On Thursday 01 September 2005 04:03 am, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Steve Holden wrote: > > I agree that maintaining documentation is a generic problem of the open > > source world, but it's a sad fact of life that generally people are > > better-motivated to complain about documentation (and almost eve

Re: Add lists to class?

2005-09-01 Thread Mike Meyer
"BBands" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a list with some strings in in it, 'one', 'two' 'three' and so > on. I would like to add lists to a class with those names. I have no > way of knowing what will be in the list or how long the list will be in > advance. Others have told you how to do i

Re: Python C module questions

2005-09-01 Thread jbrewer
>You probably shouldn't post such large pieces of code to the list. OK. >You mean a docstring on the module object itself? Actually, I meant docstrings to the module and the functions, objects, methods, whatever else in the module. My code was derived from the Python Cookbook, which left that p

Re: 'isa' keyword

2005-09-01 Thread Terry Hancock
On Thursday 01 September 2005 07:28 am, Fuzzyman wrote: > On 1 Sep 2005 00:52:54 -0700, "talin at acm dot org" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's the difference between this and ``isinstance`` ? Other than proposing a keyword operator instead of a function, apparently nothing. isinstance() ev

Re: Writing formatted data (numeric) to a binary file

2005-09-01 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2005-09-02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm conscious that the "write" command would allow me to write > text to a binary file, but I'm not clear how to: > 1) format my numeric data such that it matches the real*4 format > 2) parse an entire row of a 2D array without using a

Re: Python / web

2005-09-01 Thread Mike Meyer
Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > I know general Python pretty well and interested in using Python for a > web project. It will have the standard display, user input, fields, > look-ups, reports, database routines, etc. Been looking though the > Python web docs. and seeing stuff like m

Re: Epydoc - Documenting class members?

2005-09-01 Thread Terry Hancock
On Thursday 01 September 2005 03:01 am, Miki Tebeka wrote: > [Miki] > >> Is there a way to document class members in Epydoc? > > [Terry] > > Yes. See additions below: > I don't like this, I want to document where I declare the variable below. > Doxygen (www.doxygen.org), for one example, knows ho

Writing formatted data (numeric) to a binary file

2005-09-01 Thread Trevor . Dhu
I am just starting to use python, and as such my question may well be a bit simplistic. I am currently trying to write what should be a very basic set of routines for reading and writing to a binary grid format (ERMapper). However: I am struggling to find the correct tools to write a row of a 2-

Re: OpenSource documentation problems

2005-09-01 Thread Steve Holden
Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote: > On Thursday 01 September 2005 22:53, Steve Holden wrote: > > So, probably the best outcome of this current dialogue would be a change > > to the bottom-of-page comment so instead of saying > > > > """Release 2.4, documentation updated on 29 November 2004. > > See Ab

Re: pain

2005-09-01 Thread Steve Holden
James Stroud wrote: > On Thursday 04 August 2005 07:49 am, projecktzero wrote: [...] >>The manager may have his reasons for choosing the tools. > > > Reason: ignorance. > [...] and the day managers stop being ignorant we'll all be able to fly around on pigs. Not wishing to offend the pigs, of

Re: is there a better way to check an array?

2005-09-01 Thread Mike Meyer
"Steve M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You can check for membership in a list at least these ways: Two ways - idnex and the in keyword. > my_list.find(candidate) > -returns the index into my_list of the first occurrence of candidate. > Returns -1 if candidate doesn't occur in my_list. Lists don

Re: OpenSource documentation problems

2005-09-01 Thread Steve Holden
Paul Rubin wrote: [snip snippety snip snip, snip snip] > > Calling the Python docs "worthless" is false and unconstructive; > saying that the docs have shortcomings in part because the Python > project itself places too little priority on doc quality is perfectly > legitimate. Python's core devel

Re: cgi, reusing html. common problem?

2005-09-01 Thread John M. Gabriele
On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 20:57:56 -0500, Steve Holden wrote: > John M. Gabriele wrote: >> [snip] >> >> Is that how it's usually done? If not, what *is* the >> usual way of handling this? >> > There are a million ways to solve this particular problem, despite > Python's "TSBOAPOOOWTDI" (see "import t

Re: OpenSource documentation problems

2005-09-01 Thread Paul Rubin
"Fred L. Drake, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ideally, emails to docs at python.org would result in issues being > created somewhere, simply so they don't get lost. It probably > doesn't make sense for those to land in SourceForge automatically, > since then everyone has to read every plea fo

Re: OpenSource documentation problems

2005-09-01 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
On Thursday 01 September 2005 22:53, Steve Holden wrote: > So, probably the best outcome of this current dialogue would be a change > to the bottom-of-page comment so instead of saying > > """Release 2.4, documentation updated on 29 November 2004. > See About this document... for information o

Re: Bug in string.find

2005-09-01 Thread Paul Rubin
Ron Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > All of the following get the center 'd' from the string. > > a = 'abcdefg' > print a[3] # d 4 gaps from beginning > print a[-4]# d 5 gaps from end > print a[3:4] # d > print a[-4:-3] # d > print a[-4:4] # d > print a[3:-3]

Re: OpenSource documentation problems

2005-09-01 Thread Steve Holden
Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Rocco Moretti wrote: > > >>Something a simple as allowing doc bugs to be submitted from a webform >>w/o login would reduce the barrier to contribute. - Increasing the size >>of the "About" text wouldn't hurt either. (To be honest, I've never >>noticed that text before, and

Re: OpenSource documentation problems

2005-09-01 Thread Steve Holden
Rocco Moretti wrote: > Steve Holden wrote: > > >>Every page of the docs links to "About this document", which contains >>the following: """If you are able to provide suggested text, either to >>replace existing incorrect or unclear material, or additional text to >>supplement what's already av

Re: global interpreter lock

2005-09-01 Thread Mike Meyer
Bryan Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mike Meyer wrote: > > Bryan Olson writes: > >>System support for threads has advanced far beyond what Mr. Meyer > >>dealt with in programming the Amiga. > > > > I don't think it has - but see below. > > > >>In industry, the two major camps are Posix

Re: descriptors for container items

2005-09-01 Thread Terry Reedy
"Brock Filer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > countries['us']['Colorado']['Denver']['@population'] > > This is going to be used in user-input formulae, so I'm willing to do a > lot of work for minor beautifications. I'd like to be able to say (I > know, the quotes ar

Re: Bug in string.find

2005-09-01 Thread Terry Reedy
"Ron Adam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Fredrik Lundh wrote: >> Ron Adam wrote: >>>The problem with negative index's are that positive index's are zero >>>based, but negative index's are 1 based. Which leads to a non >>>symmetrical situations. >> >> indices point

Re: SpamBayes wins PCW Editors Choice Award for anti-spam software.

2005-09-01 Thread Mike Meyer
Alan Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [Tony Meyer] >> Should the Python developers likewise get some cryptic name? > No, they'll always be the python-dev cabal to me. And here I thought I was dealing with the SMOP. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce

Re: 'isa' keyword

2005-09-01 Thread D H
talin at acm dot org wrote: > Although I realize the perils of even suggesting polluting the Python > namespace with a new keyword, I often think that it would be useful to > consider defining an operator for testing whether or not an item is a > member of a category. It's a good idea but not like

Re: OpenSource documentation problems

2005-09-01 Thread Mike Meyer
Asbjørn Sæbø <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Xah Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I'm very sorry to say, that the Python doc is one of the worst possible >> in the industry. [...] > I suppose you are going to volounteer to fix it, then. Right? He once did, for one part of it. The problem he ran

Re: Proposal: add sys to __builtins__

2005-09-01 Thread MrJbQ7
Steve Holden wrote: > I wonder if it would be worth special-casing the AttributeError [snip] What is it that Tim Peters said? "Special cases aren't special enough..." Besides, a better way is to use your ~/.pythonrc file for customizing according to your needs. A simple: echo "import sys, os"

Re: OpenSource documentation problems

2005-09-01 Thread Mike Meyer
"Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Rocco Moretti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> There is just one giant roadblock to that suggestion - Sourceforge >> requires a login to post bugs/patches. > > After reading this and the rest of your post, and rememberin

Re: Proposal: add sys to __builtins__

2005-09-01 Thread Steve Holden
Rick Wotnaz wrote: > Michael Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > >>What would people think about adding sys to __builtins__ so that >>"import sys" is no longer necessary? This is something I must >>add to every script I write that's not a one-liner since they >>hav

Re: pain

2005-09-01 Thread James Stroud
On Thursday 04 August 2005 07:49 am, projecktzero wrote: > "a manager telling me what tools to use to do my job is a bad > manager by definition because he should realize that the people who > best > know what tools to use are the peope who use the tools*." > > I'm sorry, this doesn't make much se

Re: cgi, reusing html. common problem?

2005-09-01 Thread Steve Holden
John M. Gabriele wrote: > I'm putting together a small site using Python and cgi. > > (I'm pretty new to this, but I've worked a little with > JSP/servlets/Java before.) > > Almost all pages on the site will share some common (and > static) html, however, they'll also have dynamic aspects. > I'm

Re: The penis is way too delicate for masturbation

2005-09-01 Thread Steve Holden
Ilya the Recusant wrote: > In a not so bright galaxy nowhere near intelligent space, "Eve S." > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in bericht >>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >>>. >>> >> >>A decent amount of gentle sucking on the other hand never goes amiss. > > > Must...not..

Re: 'isa' keyword

2005-09-01 Thread Steve Holden
phil hunt wrote: > On 1 Sep 2005 00:52:54 -0700, talin at acm dot org <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>The "isa" operator would of course be overloadable, perhaps by an >>accessor functions called __isa__, which works similarly to >>__contains__. The potential uses for this are not limited to >>isin

descriptors for container items

2005-09-01 Thread Brock Filer
... or something like that. I have an XMLish data structure whose nodes' __get/set/del item__ methods resolve as: node['foo'] -> node.children['foo'] node['@bar'] -> node.attributes['bar'] so you can say: countries['us']['Colorado']['Denver']['@population'] This is going to be used in user-i

Re: Python doc problems example: gzip module

2005-09-01 Thread pspierce
Peter Maas wrote: > Xah Lee schrieb: > > today i need to use Python to decompress gzip files. > > > > since i'm familiar with Python doc and have 10 years of computing > > experience with 4 years in unix admin and perl, i have quickly located > > the official doc: > > > > http://python.org/doc/2

Re: Bug in string.find

2005-09-01 Thread Ron Adam
Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Ron Adam wrote: > > >>The problem with negative index's are that positive index's are zero >>based, but negative index's are 1 based. Which leads to a non >>symmetrical situations. > > > indices point to the "gap" between items, not to the items themselves. So how do I

Re: cgi, reusing html. common problem?

2005-09-01 Thread John M. Gabriele
On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 19:10:14 +0200, Walter Dörwald wrote: > John M. Gabriele wrote: > >> I'm putting together a small site using Python and cgi. >> >> (I'm pretty new to this, but I've worked a little with >> JSP/servlets/Java before.) >> >> Almost all pages on the site will share some common (

Re: cgi, reusing html. common problem?

2005-09-01 Thread John M. Gabriele
On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 13:12:14 +0100, Fuzzyman wrote: > On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 03:10:07 -0400, "John M. Gabriele" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I'm putting together a small site using Python and cgi. >> >>(I'm pretty new to this, but I've worked a little with >>JSP/servlets/Java before.) >> >>Almos

Re: cgi, reusing html. common problem?

2005-09-01 Thread John M. Gabriele
On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 09:20:51 +0200, Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > John M. Gabriele wrote: >> I'm putting together a small site using Python and cgi. >> >> (I'm pretty new to this, but I've worked a little with >> JSP/servlets/Java before.) >> >> Almost all pages on the site will share some common (a

Re: HTML tags optimization [ interesting problem]

2005-09-01 Thread Sybren Stuvel
DENG enlightened us with: > i use SGMLParser to process HTML files, in order to do some > optimizations, > > something like this: > >TEXT1TEXT2 > > optimise to > >TEXT1TEXT2 Why not optimize it to: TEXT1 TEXT2? > [ snipped stuff about tags ] If you're serious about using HTML, I suggest you re

Re: OpenSource documentation problems

2005-09-01 Thread Sybren Stuvel
Bryan Olson enlightened us with: > > Why don't you help us by improving the documentation? > > Workin' on it. That's all I needed to know ;-) Sybren -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety la

Re: named pipe input

2005-09-01 Thread Donn Cave
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "max(01)*" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i have some problems understanding following behaviour. > > consider this: > $ cat file_input_3.pl > #!/usr/bin/perl > > open MIAPIPE, "una_pipe"; > > while ($riga = ) ... > $ cat file_input_3.py > #!/usr/bin/python > >

Re: 'isa' keyword

2005-09-01 Thread phil hunt
On 1 Sep 2005 00:52:54 -0700, talin at acm dot org <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >The "isa" operator would of course be overloadable, perhaps by an >accessor functions called __isa__, which works similarly to >__contains__. The potential uses for this are not limited to >isinstance() sugar, however.

Re: telnet.read_until() from telnetlib

2005-09-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
then you are using a regex expression that is a wildcard match, and that is non-deterministic. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: OpenSource documentation problems

2005-09-01 Thread A.M. Kuchling
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 17:09:27 +0200, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the useredit approach I'm using over at the librarybook site works > pretty well. for example, if you go to That looks pleasantly simple. I don't consider the pydoc.amk.ca experiment to have been really succes

Re: Add lists to class?

2005-09-01 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
BBands a écrit : (snip) > class master: > def __init__(self, list): Don't use 'list' as an identifier, it will shadow the builtin list type. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Improving my text processing script

2005-09-01 Thread Paul McGuire
Yes indeed, the real data often has surprising differences from the simulations! :) It turns out that pyparsing LineStart()'s are pretty fussy. Usually, pyparsing is very forgiving about whitespace between expressions, but it turns out that LineStart *must* be followed by the next expression, wit

Re: Add lists to class?

2005-09-01 Thread Michael Ekstrand
On Sep 1, 2005, at 3:18 PM, BBands wrote: > Something like: > > class master: > def __init__(self, list): > self.count = len(list) > for line in list: > self.line = [] # obviously this doesn't work No, but this does: class master: def __init__(self, lst):

Re: Add lists to class?

2005-09-01 Thread BBands
tested and working... jab, now possessing an embarrassment of riches, says "Thanks!" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python / web

2005-09-01 Thread dimitri pater
On 9/1/05, Larry Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: flexibility comes complexity.  For less complex needs there are othermore lightweight things like CherryPy. Yes, I agree CherryPy is very nice. I am currently updating my site using CherryPy (and CherryTemplate) and it all works very nice. You'll le

Re: Weekly Python Patch/Bug Summary

2005-09-01 Thread Terry Reedy
"Kurt B. Kaiser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Patches : 903 open (+551) / 5222 closed (+2324) / 6125 total (+2875) >Bugs: 903 open (-23) / 5222 closed (+45) / 6125 total (+22) Something went awry, as the patch totals did not really rise up to exactly th

Re: Add lists to class?

2005-09-01 Thread Larry Bates
I think what you want is this (not tested): class master: def __init__(self, list): self.count = len(list) for entry in list: self.__dict__[entry]= [] This will get you master class with three attributes a = master(list) a.one a.two a.three each containing an e

Re: Python / web

2005-09-01 Thread Larry Bates
IMHO it all depends on the complexity required by the final product that you are attempting to create. For complex projects, it is hard to beat Zope/Plone. They have lots of built in things that you don't have to write and are nearly infinitely extensible. We recently chose Zope for a project an

Re: Add lists to class?

2005-09-01 Thread BBands
Thanks to a generous Pyhtonista replied with a pointer to setattr(). jab -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: is there a better way to check an array?

2005-09-01 Thread jdonnell
Thanks for all the help everyone. Steve, sets are perfect. I didn't even realize they existed. Somehow I completely missed that part of the tutorial. Thanks :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: OpenSource documentation problems

2005-09-01 Thread Michael Sparks
A.M. Kuchling wrote: > On 1 Sep 2005 05:04:33 -0700, > Paul Boddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Please note that I'm not labelling you as a troll. > > No, he's simply barking mad. I was amused by a rec.arts.sf.written > discussion [1] where Lee complains that Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)'s > writ

Re: Improving my text processing script

2005-09-01 Thread pruebauno
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Paul McGuire wrote: > > match...), this program has quite a few holes. > tried run it though and it is not working for me. The following code > runs but prints nothing at all: > > import pyparsing as prs > And this is the point where I have to post the real stuff because

Re: The penis is way too delicate for masturbation

2005-09-01 Thread Ilya the Recusant
In a not so bright galaxy nowhere near intelligent space, "Eve S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in bericht >news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> . >> > >A decent amount of gentle sucking on the other hand never goes amiss. Must...not...make...joke... Ilya the Recusant -

Re: named pipe input

2005-09-01 Thread max(01)*
Eric Nieuwland wrote: > max(01)* wrote: > >> $ cat file_input_3.py >> #!/usr/bin/python >> >> import sys >> >> MIAPIPE = open("una_pipe", "r") >> >> for riga in MIAPIPE: >>print riga, >> ... >> [...] >> BUT if i try to do the same with the python code, something different >> happens: i have to

Re: Proposal: add sys to __builtins__

2005-09-01 Thread Rick Wotnaz
Michael Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > What would people think about adding sys to __builtins__ so that > "import sys" is no longer necessary? This is something I must > add to every script I write that's not a one-liner since they > have this idiom at the bottom:

Re: Adding bound methods dynamically... CORRECTED

2005-09-01 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Kevin Little a écrit : Oops, sorry, forgot to answer > ''' > I want to dynamically add or replace bound methods in a class. (snip) > Is there a more pythonic way that's as straight forward? What's wrong with: class Foo: pass def method(self): print "%s" % self f = Foo() Foo.method = me

Starting twisted service manually

2005-09-01 Thread qvx
I want to start twisted app from another GUI application and not via twistd. It works fine when started via twistd (1 & 2) but not when I try to start it manually (1 & 3) - nothing is listening to 8080 port. # (1) common part from nevow import rend, appserver from twisted.application import servi

Re: The penis is way too delicate for masturbation

2005-09-01 Thread Eve S.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in bericht news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > . > A decent amount of gentle sucking on the other hand never goes amiss. -- sexy .sig wanted -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Improving my text processing script

2005-09-01 Thread pruebauno
Paul McGuire wrote: > match...), this program has quite a few holes. > > What if the word "Identifier" is inside one of the quoted strings? > What if the actual value is "tablename10"? This will match your > "tablename1" string search, but it is certainly not what you want. > Did you know there ar

Re: OpenSource documentation problems

2005-09-01 Thread Michael Sparks
Hi Paul, Paul Rubin wrote: > Michael Sparks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [[[ some random stuff, /intended/ at supporting people who have contributed docs, rather than saying people who offer constructive suggestions are bad. Possibly badly written. ]]] > I've submitted a number of doc bugs to

Re: Improving my text processing script

2005-09-01 Thread pruebauno
Miki Tebeka wrote: > Look at re.findall, I think it'll be easier. Minor changes aside the interesting thing, as you pointed out, would be using re.findall. I could not figure out how to. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Add lists to class?

2005-09-01 Thread BBands
I have a list with some strings in in it, 'one', 'two' 'three' and so on. I would like to add lists to a class with those names. I have no way of knowing what will be in the list or how long the list will be in advance. Something like: class master: def __init__(self, list): self.coun

Re: Equivalent for an internal write in Python ?

2005-09-01 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Madhusudan Singh wrote: > I am looking to write a formatted string to a string variable : > > Say I have 1.067e-01, I need to write 106.700 to some string. > > In Fortran 95, this would be accomplished with a : > > character(len=7) :: stringvar > real :: stringval > > ... > > write(stringvar,'(f7.

Re: Equivalent for an internal write in Python ?

2005-09-01 Thread Michael Hoffman
Madhusudan Singh wrote: > Say I have 1.067e-01, I need to write 106.700 to some string. Uh, I'm going to assume you meant 1.067e2, because 1.067e-01 != 106.700. > character(len=7) :: stringvar > real :: stringval > > ... > > write(stringvar,'(f7.3)') stringval >>> stringval = 1.067e2 >>> st

Equivalent for an internal write in Python ?

2005-09-01 Thread Madhusudan Singh
Hi I am looking to write a formatted string to a string variable : Say I have 1.067e-01, I need to write 106.700 to some string. In Fortran 95, this would be accomplished with a : character(len=7) :: stringvar real :: stringval ... write(stringvar,'(f7.3)') stringval How does one do somethin

named pipe input

2005-09-01 Thread max(01)*
hi there. i have some problems understanding following behaviour. consider this: ... $ cat file_input_3.pl #!/usr/bin/perl open MIAPIPE, "una_pipe"; while ($riga = ) { print STDOUT ("$riga"); } $ cat file_input_3.py #!/usr/bin/python import sys MIAPIPE = open("una_pipe", "r") fo

Re: OpenSource documentation problems

2005-09-01 Thread Terry Reedy
"Paul Rubin" <"http://phr.cx"@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I think there is an attitude problem in the central Python development > community, which is to expect external volunteers to do stuff with no > cajoling and no guidance. You are correct. No one has voluntee

Re: named pipe input

2005-09-01 Thread Eric Nieuwland
max(01)* wrote: > $ cat file_input_3.py > #!/usr/bin/python > > import sys > > MIAPIPE = open("una_pipe", "r") > > for riga in MIAPIPE: >print riga, > ... > [...] > BUT if i try to do the same with the python code, something different > happens: i have to type ALL the lines on console #2 and co

Proposal: add sys to __builtins__

2005-09-01 Thread Michael Hoffman
What would people think about adding sys to __builtins__ so that "import sys" is no longer necessary? This is something I must add to every script I write that's not a one-liner since they have this idiom at the bottom: if __name__ == "__main__": sys.exit(main(sys.argv[1:])) Additionally,

Re: OpenSource documentation problems

2005-09-01 Thread Terry Reedy
"Rocco Moretti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > There is just one giant roadblock to that suggestion - Sourceforge > requires a login to post bugs/patches. After reading this and the rest of your post, and remembering others like it, I decided this maybe is a real

Re: Python C module questions

2005-09-01 Thread Thomas Heller
Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm rather new to Python, and I've just written my first Python C >> module. I was wondering if some more experience Pythonista would look >> over what I've written and given me some pointers (or find some bugs). >>

Re: Writing Multithreaded Client-Server in Python.

2005-09-01 Thread Paul Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I suspect he was trying to say that BaseHTTPServer has no mechanism for > > handling state. As you know, of course, this is most relevant across > > multiple successive connections to a server from the same client, and > > has little to do with threads. Usually you wo

Re: Python C module questions

2005-09-01 Thread Robert Kern
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I'm rather new to Python, and I've just written my first Python C > module. I was wondering if some more experience Pythonista would look > over what I've written and given me some pointers (or find some bugs). > I had a few questions while writing this as well.

Re: Python / web

2005-09-01 Thread Jagged
Check out Django: http://www.djangoproject.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: OpenSource documentation problems

2005-09-01 Thread Paul Rubin
"Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > another problem is that to be able to do really good work on the > documentation, you need to know things well enough to "have the > big picture". and once you have that, you'll find that the docs aren't > really as bad as you once thought they were.

Python / web

2005-09-01 Thread Robert
Hi, I know general Python pretty well and interested in using Python for a web project. It will have the standard display, user input, fields, look-ups, reports, database routines, etc. Been looking though the Python web docs. and seeing stuff like mod_python, CGI, PSP, CherryPy, etc..., A

Python C module questions

2005-09-01 Thread jeremy . d . brewer
Hi, I'm rather new to Python, and I've just written my first Python C module. I was wondering if some more experience Pythonista would look over what I've written and given me some pointers (or find some bugs). I had a few questions while writing this as well. Also, I know that there are much be

Re: Well, Reading is hard to learn...

2005-09-01 Thread Cameron Laird
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Boddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >bruno wrote: >> >> I have spent 1 week on learning reading and felt good. but I still don't >> understand most part of Emmanuel Kant's writings. >> > >Monty Python really missed out there: cut to a sketch featuring three >yea

Re: Python built email message doesn't support OutLook Express

2005-09-01 Thread Robert Kern
praba kar wrote: > --- "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>That is not what Sybren requested - we need the >>message text. If you >>send html, make sure your paragraphs are html >>paragraphs (enclosed in >>-tags) and not pure whitespace, as html ignores >>these. > > I am sending tex

Re: Sockets: code works locally but fails over LAN

2005-09-01 Thread n00m
>Bryan; I tested your code locally (in I*D*L*E) - it works fine! And of course I'll test it over LAN but only tomorrow - at work. See the picture of my IDLE window with output of your code: http://free.7host02.com/n00b/socket_Br.gif Note the 4th line in Blue: there Z is the name of my home machine,

Re: Python doc problems example: gzip module

2005-09-01 Thread plainsane
Peter Maas wrote: > Xah Lee schrieb: > > today i need to use Python to decompress gzip files. > > > > since i'm familiar with Python doc and have 10 years of computing > > experience with 4 years in unix admin and perl, i have quickly located > > the official doc: > > > > http://python.org/doc/2

Re: global interpreter lock

2005-09-01 Thread Bryan Olson
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > Well, at that point, you could substitute "waiting on a queue" with > "waiting on a socket" and still have the same problem -- regardless of > the nature of the language/libraries for threading; it's a problem with > the design of the classes as applied to a thre

Re: graphical or flow charting design aid for python class development?

2005-09-01 Thread Florian Diesch
William Gill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Being somewhat new to Python, and having a tendency to over complicate > things in my class design, I was wondering if anyone can suggest a > simple graphical or flowcharting tool that they use to organize their > class and program design? Because of a

Re: Adding bound methods dynamically... CORRECTED

2005-09-01 Thread bruno modulix
Mike Meyer wrote: > bruno modulix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>Devan L wrote: >> >>>Kevin Little wrote: >>> >>> I want to dynamically add or replace bound methods in a class. >> >>(snip) >> >> >>>I'm not an expert, but why do you need to dynamically add or replace >>>bound methods? >> >>T

Re: OpenSource documentation problems

2005-09-01 Thread Alan Balmer
On 1 Sep 2005 03:51:55 -0700, "Xah Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Python's Documentation Thinking about it, I can't imagine why I've waited so long to filter this idiot. -- Al Balmer Balmer Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: is there a better way to check an array?

2005-09-01 Thread Steve M
You can check for membership in a list at least these ways: my_list.index(candidate) -returns the index into my_list of the first occurrence of candidate. Raises ValueError if candidate doesn't occur in my_list. my_list.find(candidate) -returns the index into my_list of the first occurrence of ca

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