Re: Why do Pythoneers reinvent the wheel?

Stefano Masini wrote: SNIP I wonder how many people (including myself) have implemented their own versions of such modules, at least once in their pythonic life. I indeed have my own odict (even same name! :). My own pathutils (different name, but same stuff). My own validate... and so

Re: Python compiled?

billiejoex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. I'm sorry for a noob question like this but I'll try to ask it anyway. One of the greatest problem that may discourage a new user to choose Python language is it's interpreted nature. I doubt it. C#, VB.NET, VBscript, Javascript and Perl have not

Re: nested tuples

Luis P. Mendes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to solve this problem: suppose I'm reading a csv file and want to create a tuple of all those rows and values, like ((row1value1, row1value2, row1value3),(row2value1, row2value2, row2value3),..., (rowNvalue1, rowNvalue2, rowNvalue3)) I haven't

Re: Why do Pythoneers reinvent the wheel?

On 10 Sep 2005 02:10:59 EDT, Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As someone who implemented their own configuration mini-language with validation, blah, blah, blah (http://www.tundraware.com/Software/tconfpy/) Well, a configuration mini language with validation and blahs is not exactly what

Re: Python compiled?

Tim Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I doubt it. C#, VB.NET, VBscript, Javascript and Perl have not suffered from being interpreted. Are you kidding? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Why do Pythoneers reinvent the wheel?

Stefano Masini wrote: On 10 Sep 2005 02:10:59 EDT, Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As someone who implemented their own configuration mini-language with validation, blah, blah, blah (http://www.tundraware.com/Software/tconfpy/) Well, a configuration mini language with validation

Re: Why do Pythoneers reinvent the wheel?

Tim Daneliuk wrote: 1) The existing tool is inadequate for the task at hand and OO subclassing is overrated/overhyped to fix this problem. Even when you override base classes with your own stuff, you're still stuck with the larger *architecture* of the original design. You really

Re: Create new instance of Python class in C

phil hunt enlightened us with: Why do you need to maske lots of copies? The puzzles are stored in a NxN list of strings. The strings contain all the numerals that that block can contain. So a 9x9 puzzle contains 81 strings 123456789 when it's empty. My creation function picks a block that isn't

Re: Why do Pythoneers reinvent the wheel?

On 10 Sep 2005 03:16:02 EDT, Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: frameworks are unlikely to serve them well as written. I realize this is all at a level of complexity above what you had in mind, but it's easy to forget that a significant portion of the world likes/needs/benefits from things

execute commands and return output

Hi all. I'm searching for a portable (working on *nix and win32) function that executes a system command and encapsulate its output into a string. Searching for the web I found this: os.popen('command').read() It is perfect but when che command return an error the funciotn returns an empy

Re: List of integers L.I.S. (SPOILER)

Bryan Olson wrote: Could be. Yet you did write: It's incredibly fast! I just was obliged to exclaim It's incredibly fast! because I THOUGHT your first version handled ALL TEN testcases from the input. But the code read from the *20-lines* input *ONLY 2* its first lines. Usually they place

Re: nested tuples

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 | | Why? What is it about the list of tuples that you don't like? | Philosophically, it's more in line with Guido's separation of list and | tuple. I'm not saying that I don't like, I was just curious to know if there was a way to do it using

Re: Why do Pythoneers reinvent the wheel?

Kay Schluehr wrote: Tim Daneliuk wrote: 1) The existing tool is inadequate for the task at hand and OO subclassing is overrated/overhyped to fix this problem. Even when you override base classes with your own stuff, you're still stuck with the larger *architecture* of the

Re: Why do Pythoneers reinvent the wheel?

Stefano Masini wrote: On 10 Sep 2005 03:16:02 EDT, Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: frameworks are unlikely to serve them well as written. I realize this is all at a level of complexity above what you had in mind, but it's easy to forget that a significant portion of the world

Re: execute commands and return output

billiejoex wrote: Hi all. I'm searching for a portable (working on *nix and win32) function that executes a system command and encapsulate its output into a string. Searching for the web I found this: os.popen('command').read() It is perfect but when che command return an error the

Re: execute commands and return output

billiejoex wrote: Hi all. I'm searching for a portable (working on *nix and win32) function that executes a system command and encapsulate its output into a string. Searching for the web I found this: os.popen('command').read() It is perfect but when che command return an error the

Re: execute commands and return output

Thank you for your help but I'm searching a different way. Moreover it doesn't work always (for exaple: try a 'dir' command). Because of I'm implementing a remote shell the [[os.popen('command').read()]] rapresents the best for me because it can also accepts arguments direclty (for example:

Re: execute commands and return output

Hi ! Look (the doc for) Popen2, Popen3, Popen4 Subprocess @-salutations Michel Claveau -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: execute commands and return output

billiejoex wrote: Moreover it doesn't work always (for exaple: try a 'dir' command). why use os.system(dir) when Python already offers things like os.listdir, os.walk, and glob.glob ? /F -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Design Principles

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After all, the fact that Python is not strongly typed and is interpreted rather than compiled if you think those are facts, you don't understand how Python works. (hint: Python's both strongly typed *and* compiled) sacrificing programmer producitivity the ability

Re: Why do Pythoneers reinvent the wheel?

On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 08:53:24 +0200, Stefano Masini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, so we might as well learn a little more and rewrite os.path, the time module and pickle. Right? :) And in fact people have done all of these: os.path: path.py

Re: execute commands and return output

billiejoex wrote: Thank you for your help but I'm searching a different way. Moreover it doesn't work always (for exaple: try a 'dir' command). Because of I'm implementing a remote shell the [[os.popen('command').read()]] rapresents the best for me because it can also accepts arguments

Re: global interpreter lock

Michael Sparks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But I think to do it on Erlang's scale, Python needs user-level microthreads and not just OS threads. You've just described Kamaelia* BTW, except substitute micro-thread with generator :-) (Also we call the queues outboxes and inboxes, and the

Re: Using Python with COM to communicate with proprietary Windows software

On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 08:36:00 +0200, Thomas Heller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: {...} (I have released and announced this 3 weeks ago, but haven't got a single feedback. So it seems the need to access custom interfaces is very low.) I have downloaded it and am trying to find the time to play with

Re: execute commands and return output

billiejoex wrote: Hi all. I'm searching for a portable (working on *nix and win32) function that executes a system command and encapsulate its output into a string. Searching for the web I found this: os.popen('command').read() It is perfect but when che command return an error the

Re: Why do Pythoneers reinvent the wheel?

Michael Amrhein wrote: Stefano Masini schrieb: On 8 Sep 2005 08:24:50 -0700, Fuzzyman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is pythonutils ? = ConfigObj - simple config file handling validate - validation and type conversion system listquote - string to list conversion

Re: Why do Pythoneers reinvent the wheel?

Stefano Masini wrote: cut reinventing wheel example Although I'm not experienced enough to comment on python stuff itself I do know that in general there are 2 reasons that people reinvent the wheel: - They didn't know of the existence of the first wheel - They have different roads Those

Re: Why do Pythoneers reinvent the wheel?

A.M. Kuchling wrote: PEP 206 (http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0206.html) suggests assembling an advanced library for particular problem domains (e.g. web programming, scientific programming), and then providing a script that pulls the relevant packages off PyPI. I'd like to hear suggestions of

Re: The penis is way too delicate for masturbation

Chucky Janica wrote: Once upon a time - for example, 1 Sep 2005 05:32:54 -0700 - there was this guy, or something, called [EMAIL PROTECTED], and they made us all feel better by saying the following stuff: . That penis, more to the point, is too small for masturbation. CJ

Re: simple problem with os.rename() parameters - path with spaces

Peter Hansen wrote: Tom wrote: I'm having a problem using a path with spaces as a parameter to os.rename() in a program on WinXP. This works fine at the command line (where the folder c:\aa bb exists) os.rename( c\aa bb, c:\cc dd ); But, I can't get it to work in my program, eg. print

Re: simple problem with os.rename() parameters - path with spaces

Yes, I am sure about those things. I've tried shutil.move and got the same result. Forward slash? I'll give that a try and report back here if it works. Thanks, Tom. Larry Bates wrote: Are you sure the source directory exists and you have rights to rename it? Because the rename works for

How to handle very large MIME Messages with the email package?

Looking at the email package, it seems all the MIMExxx classes takes string but not file object as the payload. I need to handle very large MIME messages say up to 100M. And possibly many of them. Is email package sufficient. If not is it possible to extend it? Looking at a previous thread it

Re: nested tuples

Luis P. Mendes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Why? What is it about the list of tuples that you don't like? | Philosophically, it's more in line with Guido's separation of list and | tuple. I'm not saying that I don't like, I was just curious to know if there

Re: Python compiled?

Tim Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] billiejoex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. I'm sorry for a noob question like this but I'll try to ask it anyway. One of the greatest problem that may discourage a new user to choose Python language is it's interpreted

Re: What's the difference between VAR and _VAR_?

On 8 Sep 2005 22:48:05 -0700 Johnny Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought there must be something special when you named a VAR with '_' the first character. Maybe it's just a programming style and I had thought too much... It is just a programming style issue. In Python, variables and

Re: OpenSource documentation problems

On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 18:16:36 -0400 Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You need a better browser. Mine - at least on Unix - have an option to dump textareas into text files, invoke my favorite editor on them, and then read the file back in when the editor exits. Assuming i'm not running the

Re: simple problem with os.rename() parameters - path with spaces

Tom wrote: Drive E: is removable, so I was careful to verify that that was a factor in the problem. Yes, I can do the same renaming, with the same drive, at the command line. I think I put the emphasis in the wrong place in my question. This isn't really about os.rename(). It is about

Re: Why do Pythoneers reinvent the wheel?

Stefano Masini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It would be great if there was a section in the Python manual like this: Quick and Dirty: Commonly needed tricks for real applications 1. odict 2. file system management 3. xml (de)serialization 4. ... Each section would describe the problem and

Re: Why do Pythoneers reinvent the wheel?

In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IMHO, one of Python's greatest virtues is its ability to shift paradigms in mid-program so that you can use the model that best fits your problem space. IOW, Python is an OO language that doesn't jam it down your throat, you can

Re: Why do Pythoneers reinvent the wheel?

In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dave Brueck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many projects (Python-related or not) often seem to lack precisely what has helped Python itself evolve so well - a single person with decision power who is also trusted enough to make good decisions, such that when disagreements

Re: execute commands and return output

Thanks for suggestions. I'll try one of these solutions soon. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Unusual Python Sighting

In article: http://humorix.org/articles/2005/08/notice/ ... 6. The use of semantically significant whitespace in Python® programs might be protected by intellectual property laws in five (5) countries, --Scott David Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: OpenSource documentation problems

In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael Ekstrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 18:16:36 -0400 Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You need a better browser. Mine - at least on Unix - have an option to dump textareas into text files, invoke my favorite editor on them, and then

IDisatch and pythoncom

Hi, I have a COM component server that just exposes the IDispatch interface but when you use it in a VB app you can access other method. I think the way to access the other methods( as does it VBA for ex) is to use Invoke but don't know how to do it in python. Say for ex i want to convert

Re: Python versus Perl

* Dieter Vanderelst (2005-09-06 18:03 +0100) I'm currently comparing Python versus Perl to use in a project that involved a lot of text processing. I'm trying to determine what the most efficient language would be for our purposes. I have to admit that, although I'm very familiar with

Re: OpenSource documentation problems

Michael Ekstrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 18:16:36 -0400 Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You need a better browser. Mine - at least on Unix - have an option to dump textareas into text files, invoke my favorite editor on them, and then read the file back in when the

pydoc search in browser

Hi I am a newbie to pydoc and I need some help. I would really appreciate if some one can tell me how to add search box in a page generated by pydoc, e.g. I want to add serch like the one in pydoc.org thanks sakcee -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Using Python with COM to communicate with proprietary Windows software

On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 08:36:00 +0200, Thomas Heller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like a perfect job for comtypes, which is a COM library implemented in pure Python, based on ctypes. comtypes should make it easy to access custom (non-dispatch derived) com interfaces, or the vtable based part of

Re: IDisatch and pythoncom

Hi ! Perhaps : .Dispactch vs .Dispatch ? @-salutations Michel Claveau -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Unusual Python Sighting

Scott David Daniels wrote: In article: http://humorix.org/articles/2005/08/notice/ ... 6. The use of semantically significant whitespace in Python® programs might be protected by intellectual property laws in five (5) countries, --Scott David Daniels [EMAIL

Re: encryption with python

Steven D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 14:31:03 -0700, jlocc wrote: Basically I will like to combine a social security number (9 digits) and a birth date (8 digits, could be padded to be 9) and obtain a new 'student number'. It would be better if the original

Re: Python versus Perl

Dieter Vanderelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1 - How does the speed of execution of Perl compares to that of Python? To a first-order approximation, Perl and Python run at the same speed. They are both interpreted languages with roughly the same kind of control flow and data structures. The

Re: Why do Pythoneers reinvent the wheel?

On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 16:55:51 +0200, Martin P. Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stefano Masini wrote: cut reinventing wheel example Although I'm not experienced enough to comment on python stuff itself I do know that in general there are 2 reasons that people reinvent the wheel: - They didn't

Re: Python compiled?

Terry Reedy wrote: Tim Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] billiejoex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. I'm sorry for a noob question like this but I'll try to ask it anyway. One of the greatest problem that may discourage a new user to choose Python language is

Find roots of ill-conditioned polynomials

If you are using the root finder in Numeric, and are having problems, check out the root finder in the ratfun module. My testing indicates that it will give the exact roots of a Wilkinson polynomial of degree 100. For more information see http://calcrpnpy.sourceforge.net/ratfun.html --

Re: encryption with python

Paul Rubin http://[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kirk Job Sluder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, there is a form of security design that involves one-way encryption of confidential information. You might want to be able to search on SSN, but not have the actual SSN stored in the database. So,

calling command line programs?

Hi all, This is probably a very newbie question, but after searching google and docs @ python.org I can't find an answer, so maybe someone would be able to help? I'd like to call command-line functions from my python script (like you would in perl using backticks)... Is there a way of doing

class 'Exception', unable to use 'super' to call superclass initializer

Hi, environment: Python 2.4, GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.12.2 having subclassed 'Exception' I'm trying to call the initialiser __init__(...) of the superclass Exception with 'super(..).__init__(..)' . However, trying to do so results in a 'TypeError: super() argument 1 must be type, not classobj'.

Re: encryption with python

Kirk Job Sluder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You have a client on the phone who needs access to information, but has forgotten or lost the 10-digit unique ID and the PIN you gave them two years ago. How do you provide that client with the information he or she needs? This is the kind of dilemma

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Re: calling command line programs?

On 2005-09-11, Yevgeniy (Eugene) Medynskiy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is probably a very newbie question, but after searching google and docs @ python.org I can't find an answer, so maybe someone would be able to help? I'd like to call command-line functions from my python script (like

Re: class 'Exception', unable to use 'super' to call superclass initializer

chriss wrote: Hi, environment: Python 2.4, GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.12.2 having subclassed 'Exception' I'm trying to call the initialiser __init__(...) of the superclass Exception with 'super(..).__init__(..)' . However, trying to do so results in a 'TypeError: super() argument 1 must be

Re: class 'Exception', unable to use 'super' to call superclass initializer

chriss wrote: Hi, environment: Python 2.4, GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.12.2 having subclassed 'Exception' I'm trying to call the initialiser __init__(...) of the superclass Exception with 'super(..).__init__(..)' . However, trying to do so results in a 'TypeError: super() argument 1 must be

Re: calling command line programs?

Yevgeniy (Eugene) Medynskiy wrote: Hi all, This is probably a very newbie question, but after searching google and docs @ python.org I can't find an answer, so maybe someone would be able to help? http://docs.python.org/lib/module-subprocess.html -- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the

Re: encryption with python

Paul Rubin http://[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kirk Job Sluder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We're told there is already a secure database in the picture somewhere, or at least one that unescapeably contains cleartext SSN's, so that's the system that should assign the ID numbers and handle

Re: calling command line programs?

Grant Edwards wrote: On 2005-09-11, Yevgeniy (Eugene) Medynskiy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is probably a very newbie question, but after searching google and docs @ python.org I can't find an answer, so maybe someone would be able to help? I'd like to call command-line functions from

Re: class 'Exception', unable to use 'super' to call superclass initializer

Peter Hansen wrote: chriss wrote: Hi, environment: Python 2.4, GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.12.2 having subclassed 'Exception' I'm trying to call the initialiser __init__(...) of the superclass Exception with 'super(..).__init__(..)' . However, trying to do so results in a 'TypeError: super()

Re: encryption with python

Kirk Job Sluder wrote: Paul Rubin http://[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kirk Job Sluder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We're told there is already a secure database in the picture somewhere, or at least one that unescapeably contains cleartext SSN's, so that's the system that should assign the ID numbers

Re: encryption with python

On Saturday 10 September 2005 14:01, Kirk Job Sluder wrote: Providing any kind of access to data involves creating a security hole. This is the biggest flaw in most discussions of computer security. On 9/9/05 Steven D'Aprano wrote: There are one-way encryption functions where the result can't

Re: encryption with python

Kirk Job Sluder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm more than happy to agree to disagree on this, but I see it differently. In aviation there certainly is a bit of risk-benefit analysis going on in thinking about whether the cost of a given safety is justified given the benefits in risk reduction.

Re: encryption with python

Kirk Job Sluder wrote: The only way to keep confidential stuff secure is to shred it, burn it, and grind the ashes. I think the fundamental problem is that that most customers don't want actual security. They want to be able to get their information by calling a phone number and saying

Re: simple problem with os.rename() parameters - path with spaces

Peter Hansen wrote: Tom wrote: Drive E: is removable, so I was careful to verify that that was a factor in the problem. Yes, I can do the same renaming, with the same drive, at the command line. I think I put the emphasis in the wrong place in my question. This isn't really about

Re: List of integers L.I.S. (SPOILER)

Bryan; My own version also timed out. And now I can tell: it's incredibly SLOW. Nevertheless it would be interesting to compare speed of my code against yours. I can't do it myself because my Python is of 2.3.4 version. Just uncomment your part. import bisect def oops(w,a,b): for m in w:

Re: Why do Pythoneers reinvent the wheel?

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On 10 Sep 2005 05:36:08 EDT, Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: On a more general note, for all the promises made over 3 decades about how OO was the answer to our problems, we have yet to see quantum OO goes

Re: First release of Shed Skin, a Python-to-C++ compiler.

Mark Dufour [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After nine months of hard work, I am proud to introduce my baby to the world: an experimental Python-to-C++ compiler. Wow, looks really cool. But why that instead of Pypy? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: encryption with python

In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steven D'Aprano wrote: last_number_used = 12345 usable_IDs = [] def make_studentID(): global last_number_used global usable_IDs if not usable_IDs: # generate another batch of IDs in random order usable_IDs = range(last_number_used,

Re: encryption with python

On Saturday 10 September 2005 15:02, Ron Adam wrote: Kirk Job Sluder wrote: I would think that any n digit random number not already in the data base would work for an id along with a randomly generated password that the student can change if they want. The service provider has full access

Re: encryption with python

James Stroud [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes and no. Yes, you are theoretically correct. No, I don't think you have the OP's original needs in mind (though I am mostly guessing here). The OP was obviously a TA who needed to assign students a number so that they could anonymously check their

Re: encryption with python

On Saturday 10 September 2005 16:30, Paul Rubin wrote: The info to be combined was the student's birthdate.  Why would the TA have access to either that or the SSN? Speaking as a former TA, we had all that and a little more, if I remember correctly. The why aspect is a little beyond me. James

[pyparsing] make sure entire string was parsed

How do I make sure that my entire string was parsed when I call a pyparsing element's parseString method? Here's a dramatically simplified version of my problem: py import pyparsing as pp py match = pp.Word(pp.nums) py def parse_num(s, loc, toks): ... n, = toks ... return int(n) + 10

Fun with decorators and unification dispatch

Been playing around a bit more with developing my python inference engine, and I thought it might be of general interest (plus, I am finding the criticism useful). My original goal was to brush up on my math skills. Now, I've long felt that the best way to learn a language *thoroughly* is to

Re: Why do Pythoneers reinvent the wheel?

[Tim Daneliuk] OO ideas predate C++ considerably. The idea of encapsulation and abstract data types goes back to the 1960s IIRC. Did not Simula-67 have it all already? When C++ came along, much later, I asked someone knowledgeable in the field of language design what was his opinion about

Re: Fun with decorators and unification dispatch

talin at acm dot org [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: # Declare that Factor is a generic function Factorial = Function() Was the comment a typo for Factorial? # Define Factorial( 0 ) @Arity( 0 ) def Factorial(): return 1 Overriding old definition of Factorial # Define Factorial( x )

Re: Python compiled?

Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Terry Reedy wrote: Nor has 386 'machine language' suffered from being interpreted, at a deeper level, by microcode. I think both you and Paul may be missing Tim's point. I don't think he's talking about suffering in

Expected Value

How would I get the expected value out of this information. I have tried many times to understand this but am unable to. The function expectP(z) computes E(X) for the random variable representing a sample over the probability generated by pf for the set of discrete items [1,10]. The

Re: Fun with decorators and unification dispatch

Yes, it was a typo. Even thought the function has not yet been bound to the name Factorial when it calls the decorator, the function's __name__ attribute is set to it, so I use that to look up the name of the generic. Here''s the source for Arity: def Arity( *pattern ): A function decorator

Re: calling command line programs?

On 2005-09-10, chriss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Take a look at os.popen, os.spawn, or the popen2, and subprocess modules. That last one seems to be gaining popularity. The suggested modules and functions have been deprecated according to the python 2.4 docs. The doc suggests to use the

Re: How to handle very large MIME Messages with the email package?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Looking at the email package, it seems all the MIMExxx classes takes string but not file object as the payload. I need to handle very large MIME messages say up to 100M. And possibly many of them. Is email package sufficient. If not

Re: encryption with python

James Stroud wrote: On Saturday 10 September 2005 15:02, Ron Adam wrote: Kirk Job Sluder wrote: I would think that any n digit random number not already in the data base would work for an id along with a randomly generated password that the student can change if they want. The service provider

Re: Python versus Perl

Roy Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dieter Vanderelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1 - How does the speed of execution of Perl compares to that of Python? To a first-order approximation, Perl and Python run at the same speed. 'Speed of execution' is a feature of

Re: Escaping certain characters

Jan Danielsson wrote: Robert Kern wrote: [---] Hmm... On second thought, I need to escape more characters. Is there no other way to escape characters in strings? Which characters? I need to escape '\n', '', '[' and ']'. I finally went with a few of these: string.replace('\n',

Re: Python linear algebra module -- requesting comments on interface

Terry Reedy wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The module will be public domain. Various lawyers have suggested that either you cannot do that (is US) or that you should not do that. (You know the joke -- ask two lawyers and you get three opinions --

Re: make sure entire string was parsed

Steven - Thanks for giving pyparsing a try! To see whether your input text consumes the whole string, add a StringEnd() element to the end of your BNF. Then if there is more text after the parsed text, parseString will throw a ParseException. I notice you call leaveWhitespace on several of

Re: List of integers L.I.S. (SPOILER)

[Bryan Olson, on the problem at http://spoj.sphere.pl/problems/SUPPER/ ] I never intended to submit this program for competition. The contest ranks in speed order, and there is no way Python can compete with truly-compiled languages on such low-level code. I'd bet money that the algorithm

Re: encryption with python

Paul Rubin http://[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kirk Job Sluder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Likewise, credit companies are currently making money hand-over-fist. If an identity is compromised, it's cheaper for them to just close the account, refund the money, and do their own fraud investigation

Re: First release of Shed Skin, a Python-to-C++ compiler.

experimental Python-to-C++ compiler.why that instead of Pypy? . pypy compiles to llvm (low-level virtual machine) bytecode which is obviously not as fast as the native code coming from c++ compilers; but the primary mission of pypy is just having a python system that is written in something

Re: simple problem with os.rename() parameters - path with spaces

Tom wrote: Peter Hansen wrote: Where do you think those double quotation marks came from? What happens if you try the following instead of using the variables you were trying to use? os.rename(e:\\music\\Joni Mitchell\\ogg-8, e:\\music.ogg\\Joni Mitchell\\ogg-8) Now try it with

Re: encryption with python

Ron Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kirk Job Sluder wrote: They want to be able to get their information by calling a phone number and saying a few words/phrases they memorized in childhood. Given the current market, it seems to be cheaper to deal with breaks after the fact than to

Re: Question about consistency in python language

Kay Schluehr wrote: Mike Meyer wrote: Yes, but the function sorted is more useful than a list method sorted in a duck typing language. I don't see what this has to do with duck typing? sorted() is simply a generic function accepting different types. I'm not aware that sorted() requires

getting words from readline

How is best to extract word strings from a line = infile.readline() I wish to quickly check the first word of each line of a text file. Indeed, How do I break a lineinput() line into component words (separate by spaces etc) ? Should I be looking at; Re Parser Slice StringIO ? Any

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