ANN: Update to SCSIPython mass storage access routines under windows

2005-12-30 Thread sam
The Python SCSIPy libraries have been modified and it's documentation upgraded. These libraries have been re-compiled under both Python 2.3 and 2.4. These libraries alow a user to access SCSI,IDE,and USB mass storage devices under Windows XP and previous Windows versions that use the SCSI Pass

ANN: FarPy GUIE v0.3

2005-12-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
GUIE (GUI Editor) provides a simple WYSIWYG GUI editor for wxPython. The program was made in C# and saves the GUI that was created to a XML format I called GUIML. This GUIML is a pretty standard representation of the GUI created with the program. Next, GUIE takes these GUIML files and translates

Re: reading files into dicts

2005-12-30 Thread Fuzzyman
ConfigObj is good - it (effectively) turns a dictionary into an ini file, and vice versa. There is also built in support for type conversion. See http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/configobj.html See the ConfigPersist module which has functions to use ConfigObj for data persistence. It explains

Re: Application Portability?

2005-12-30 Thread Fuzzyman
I *think* that Python for the Palm platform is stalled a bit (Pippy). PythonCE is alive and well. Tkinter works quite well as a GUI front end - but you have to work quite hard to build a usable GUI on a PocketPC screen. For a list of resources see http://www.traybor.com/PythonCE/ Luke Dunstan

Python 2.4.2 gcc 3.4.4 Solaris 8 build issues

2005-12-30 Thread Holger Joukl
Hi, I encountered some build issues when compiling Python 2.4.4 on a Solaris 8 box using gcc 3.4.4: 1. Running configure detects that a C++-built main needs C++-linking. Therefore, Python gets linked with g++, creating a dependency on libstdc++. Some research showed up a rather elaborate

Re: Application Portability?

2005-12-30 Thread Dody Suria Wijaya
from your story, it seems that your apps has client and application server separated by XMLRPC, which requires network connection all the time. Then based on this assumption, IMHO, the simplest way to port to PDA would be via web browser, which available natively on every PDA, and thus very

Re: Question about re.sub and callables

2005-12-30 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Guyon Morée wrote: I can provide re.sub with a callable, but this will only be called with a match object, it's not possible to give it any of the other params. The solution I came up with to tackle this is with some funny globals, which doesnt feel 'right':

Re: Application Portability?

2005-12-30 Thread Neil Benn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a CRM application that I've written in Ruby that currently runs on Win32 clients as well as Linux ARM clients (Sharp Zaurus PDA's). The application uses Qt for its GUI presentation and XMLRPC calls to push/pull contact data back and forth. It suits my purposes, but

Re: IRC sockets and queries

2005-12-30 Thread Heiko Wundram
Jay wrote: ok have this program and i set a socket 2 connect to the server...so i can chat on the channels and stuff. my question is how would i go about set a socket directly 2 an individual query? Don't take this the hard way, but this question doesn't make sense, and your source code does

Re: MySQLdb Python API: Unable to connect

2005-12-30 Thread Mondal
Hi, First thanks to all of you for helping. It seems there was some error in my instance configuration or something. As a last resort I unistalled MySQL and then reinstalled in another drive. And bingo everything is working fine. I am able to connect through Python API, too. I copied the old

Re: python coding contest

2005-12-30 Thread Thomas Heller
Shane Hathaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andrew Durdin wrote: On 12/28/05, Shane Hathaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just found a 125 character solution. It's actually faster and more readable than the 133 character solution (though it's still obscure.) Having spent a good deal of time and

Re: Python 2.4.2 gcc 3.4.4 Solaris 8 build issues

2005-12-30 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Holger Joukl wrote: Now, I am still not 100 % sure about what I need to do. I need C++-extensions, but I do not want to link anything statically with Python, i.e. everything will be dynamically imported extension modules. I *think* I can build Python C-only, avoiding possible runtime

Re: IRC sockets and queries

2005-12-30 Thread David Wahler
Jay wrote: ok have this program and i set a socket 2 connect to the server...so i can chat on the channels and stuff. my question is how would i go about set a socket directly 2 an individual query? The last part of this paragraph is completely incomprehensible. my program is right here...

[Newbie] Plone/workflow change ownership

2005-12-30 Thread frederic . willem
Hi all, I would like to change the ownership of an object when changing its state. However when I call : obj=state_change print obj.getOwnerTuple() I get (['MyPortal', 'portal_workflow', 'TC_Workflow'], 'scripts') with scripts as owner. The method changeOwnership do nothing. Are there any tips

pyvm source code

2005-12-30 Thread stelios xanthakis
Hi. pyvm is a program that can run python 2.4 bytecode. It can also run the bytecode of the 'pyc compiler' and consequently it can run python source code. It's written from the scratch and it has only been tested on a x86/Linux system. It's not portable yet, neither ready for the simple user,

Re: new-style classes multiplication error message isn't veryinformative

2005-12-30 Thread Jon Guyer
Steven D'Aprano steve at REMOVETHIScyber.com.au writes: On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 03:47:30 +, Jon Guyer wrote: We have a rather complicated class that, under certain circumstances, knows that it cannot perform various arithmetic operations, and so returns NotImplemented. As a trivial

Re: Graphviz/dot language formatter

2005-12-30 Thread jelle
Hi, the recently added boost.graph python binding could be most useful: http://www.osl.iu.edu/~dgregor/bgl-python/#download -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: pyvm source code

2005-12-30 Thread EleSSaR^
stelios xanthakis si è profuso/a a scrivere su comp.lang.python tutte queste elucubrazioni: What's good about it is that it's small and easier to hack and write large scale programs using pyvm as the base runtime. On the other hand, pyvm is not compatible with python and AFAIC there is no

csrss.exe Numeric

2005-12-30 Thread jelle
I have a function that uses the Numeric module. When I launch the function csrss.exe consumes 60 / 70 % cpu power rather than having python / Numeric run at full speed. Has anyone encountered this problem before? It seriously messes up my Numeric performance. I'm running 2.4.2 on xp. Cheers,

Re: pyvm source code

2005-12-30 Thread Martin v. Löwis
EleSSaR^ wrote: What's good about it is that it's small and easier to hack and write large scale programs using pyvm as the base runtime. I'm sorry I don't get it. Could you please explain it better? What are the advantages of this pyvm compared to the 'original' Python? I think he said it:

Re: Application Portability?

2005-12-30 Thread greg . kujawa
Neil Benn wrote: Hello, I know that this isn't a fashionable thing to write on a dynamic language newsgroup but I would really recommend switching to Java for your work if you are looking at recoding it. I'm running Java on handhelds and it works well. If you want to use dynamic

Re: python coding contest

2005-12-30 Thread roberto . alsina
Thomas Heller wrote: X=' _ _ _ | _| _ |_|_' Y=0x23018F406A3530EC273F008 j=.join seven_seg=lambda n:j(j(c)+\nfor c in zip(*[X[Ym+int(d)*97::8]for d in n for m in(6,3,0)])) Interesting bit: Although there are more 3-char combinations when you read vertically, they compact better. If

Re: new-style classes multiplication error message isn't very informative

2005-12-30 Thread ziga . seilnacht
Jon Guyer wrote: This is a fake line to confuse the stupid top-posting filter at gmane We have a rather complicated class that, under certain circumstances, knows that it cannot perform various arithmetic operations, and so returns NotImplemented. As a trivial example: class my:

Re: Passing cgi parameters to script...

2005-12-30 Thread Kent Johnson
Diez B. Roggisch wrote: sophie_newbie wrote: Is there any way that I can pass cgi parameters to my script locally, before i upload it to the webserver, so that i can debug it. You might think of using CGIHttpServer to test your scripts in a server-environment - while still being local.

Re: new-style classes multiplication error message isn't very informative

2005-12-30 Thread google
ziga.seilnacht at gmail.com writes: This is a bug in Python. See this thread: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-December/059046.html OK, thanks. This doesn't strike me as the same issue (but maybe it is). We're not getting NotImplemented returned, we're getting a TypeError;

Re: help with lists and writing to file in correct order

2005-12-30 Thread Kent Johnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hey mike-the sample code was very useful. have 2 questions when i use what you wrote which is listed below i get told unboundlocalerror: local variable 'product' referenced before assignment. You would get this error if you have a tr that doesn't have an hr

Re: reading files into dicts

2005-12-30 Thread Tim Williams (gmail)
On 30/12/05, Chris F.A. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2005-12-30, Tim Williams (gmail) wrote: Apologies for the top post, it was my first attempt at using gmail's pda-enabled web interface. There is no option to bottom post.Can you not move the cursor? Nope, there is a checkbox option to

Re: Application Portability?

2005-12-30 Thread Peter Hansen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neil Benn wrote: I know that this isn't a fashionable thing to write on a dynamic language newsgroup but I would really recommend switching to Java for your work if you are looking at recoding it. I was thinking this to myself as well, as Java should be

WMI - invalid syntax error?

2005-12-30 Thread py
Hi, I am running python 2.4.2 on win xp pro. I have the WMI module from Tim Golden (http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/wmi.html). I have some code which does this... MyScript.py -- import wmi # the ip of my own local desktop machine = 1.2.3.4 try: w = wmi.WMI(machine) #

python code optimization

2005-12-30 Thread Darius Kučinskas
Hi,I know that sometimes optimization is not good idea.So I want to know what you think about this one:we have code like this: tables = []for i in ... : tables.extend(...)we optimize code like this:tables = []pfTablesExtend = tables.extendfor i in ... : pfTablesExtend(...)I what to know is this

Re: WMI - invalid syntax error?

2005-12-30 Thread py
here's the trace... File MyScript.py, line 10, wmiObj = wmi.WMI(machine) File wmi.py, line 519, in __init__ handle_com_error (error_info) File wmi.py, line 131, in handle_com_error raise x_wmi, \n.join (exception_string) x_wmi: -0x7ffbfe1c - Invalid syntax --

Re: WMI - invalid syntax error?

2005-12-30 Thread py
one more note, I am using WMI v0.6 however, I also tried it with the latest version 1.0 rc2. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

RE: WMI - invalid syntax error?

2005-12-30 Thread Tim Golden
[py] import wmi # the ip of my own local desktop machine = 1.2.3.4 try: w = wmi.WMI(machine) # also tried, wmi.WMI(computer=machine) except Exception, e: print ERROR:, e . . c:python from MyScript import * ERROR: -0x7ffbfe1c - Invalid syntax . . here's the trace... File

MidiToText : EventDispatcher instance has no attribute 'sysex_events'

2005-12-30 Thread tim
Trying to convert midi to text using MidiToText.py. I get the following: midi_port: 0 Traceback (most recent call last): File MidiToText.py, line 176, in ? midiIn.read() File C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\midi\MidiInFile.py, line 24, in read p.parseMTrkChunks() File

Re: Python as a Server vs Running Under Apache

2005-12-30 Thread Larry Bates
Matt Helm wrote: I am starting the design phase of a large project (ERP) where the backend will mostly be Python (or Ruby) providing web services. In this type of usage, is there any benenfit to running under Apache as opposed to a pure Python solution using Medusa, TwistedMatrix, or the

Re: WMI - invalid syntax error?

2005-12-30 Thread py
Tim Golden wrote: Could you just post (or send by private email if you prefer) the exact script you're running? If you want to send it privately, please us mail at timgolden.me.uk. I am truly unsure what the problem could be, and the fact that the error says invalid syntax ...just doesn't make

Re: [EVALUATION] - E04 - Leadership! Google, Guido van Rossum, PSF

2005-12-30 Thread Ilias Lazaridis
Martin P. Hellwig wrote: [...] - (complex elaborations) So the sum it up my unanswered question to you so far are: - What is your definition of Efficiency http://lazaridis.com/efficiency/definitions.html (as stated on the website, any feedback is welcome. But please not within this thread).

RE: WMI - invalid syntax error?

2005-12-30 Thread Tim Golden
[py] | Tim Golden wrote: | Could you just post (or send by private email if you prefer) | the exact script you're running? If you want to send it | privately, please us mail at timgolden.me.uk. | | I am truly unsure what the problem could be, and the fact that the | error says invalid syntax

Re: WMI - invalid syntax error?

2005-12-30 Thread py
Tim Golden wrote: code import wmi wmi._DEBUG = True c = wmi.WMI () # This will print a moniker looking something like this: # winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=Impersonate,authenticationLevel=Default}/ro ot/cimv2 /code and let me know what comes out. I ran it twice, first it worked, second

Re: query on python list

2005-12-30 Thread Larry Bates
I'm having trouble determining what you want but I think there are a couple of problems in your code: list2 = ['1','2','5',4] did you mean list2 = ['1','2','3','4'] Note missing quotes around the 4 and 5 instead of 3 If you want to know if list2 is found in list 1 it is as simple as: if

Re: oop in python

2005-12-30 Thread Larry Bates
novice wrote: hello over there! I have the following question: Suppose I created a class: class Point: pass then instanciated an instance: new = Point() So now how to get the instance new as a string: like ' new ' ;

Re: python code optimization

2005-12-30 Thread Peter Hansen
Darius Kučinskas wrote: I know that sometimes optimization is not good idea. It's neither good nor bad. Whether or not to optimize is merely a decision that should not be made without considering the cost, and without a real need driving it. The need can only be seen by profiling your code

Re: MidiToText : EventDispatcher instance has no attribute 'sysex_events'

2005-12-30 Thread Carsten Haese
On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 09:52, tim wrote: Trying to convert midi to text using MidiToText.py. I get the following: midi_port: 0 Traceback (most recent call last): File MidiToText.py, line 176, in ? midiIn.read() File C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\midi\MidiInFile.py, line 24, in read

Re: WMI - invalid syntax error?

2005-12-30 Thread py
py wrote: Something must be happening somewhere causing it to get fouled up. I'm gonna try on a different PC. I tried on another PC, same problem. Also, I added reload(wmi) before I create an instance of wmi.WMI just to see what happens, so I hve... import wmi def ppn(machine=None): try:

Re: new-style classes multiplication error message isn't veryinformative

2005-12-30 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 13:23:30 +, Jon Guyer wrote: Steven D'Aprano steve at REMOVETHIScyber.com.au writes: On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 03:47:30 +, Jon Guyer wrote: We have a rather complicated class that, under certain circumstances, knows that it cannot perform various arithmetic

Re: python coding contest

2005-12-30 Thread Tim Hochberg
Shane Hathaway wrote: Andrew Durdin wrote: On 12/28/05, Shane Hathaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just found a 125 character solution. It's actually faster and more readable than the 133 character solution (though it's still obscure.) Having spent a good deal of time and effort, and not

Xah's Edu Corner: Tech Geekers and their Style

2005-12-30 Thread Xah Lee
Sometimes you want your text to flow into multiple columns, as in newspaper's layout. However, as of 2005-12 this is not yet possible. One can make-do by hard-coding it into HTML TABLE using multiple columns. It is a pain because when you change your text, you have to manually cut and paste to

Xah's Edu Corner: Tech Geekers and their Style

2005-12-30 Thread Xah Lee
Sometimes you want your text to flow into multiple columns, as in newspaper's layout. However, as of 2005-12 this is not yet possible. One can make-do by hard-coding it into HTML TABLE using multiple columns. It is a pain because when you change your text, you have to manually cut and paste to

Re: python coding contest

2005-12-30 Thread Michael Spencer
Tim Hochberg wrote: Shane Hathaway wrote: Andrew Durdin wrote: On 12/28/05, Shane Hathaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just found a 125 character solution. It's actually faster and more readable than the 133 character solution (though it's still obscure.) Having spent a good deal of time

python for with double test

2005-12-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hi all the is a way for doing a for with double test: example for i in range(0,10) and f==1: thanx everyone -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python coding contest

2005-12-30 Thread Shane Hathaway
Tim Hochberg wrote: g=''.join;seven_seg=lambda i:g( g(' _|x|'[ord(~$]m'k{d\x7fo[int(n)])sj] for n in i for j in(2,1,4))+'\n'for s in(6,0,3)) I've replaced the unprintable characters and added some preemptive linebreaks so that hopefully this won't get too munged. It's all clear now,

Pyrex on Darwin, gcc 3.3 optimization trouble

2005-12-30 Thread Will Ware
I am trying to build a Pyrex module on Mac OS X version 10.3.9 (don't know which big cat that is). It already builds fine on Mandrake Linux and Windows XP. I have one source file where gcc hangs if given an optimization setting of -O2 or -O3, but a level of -O works fine. Can anybody suggest an

Re: python for with double test

2005-12-30 Thread Peter Hansen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all the is a way for doing a for with double test: example for i in range(0,10) and f==1: Not sure if you're asking a question, but is this what you are trying to do? : if f == 1: for i in range(0,10):

Re: python for with double test

2005-12-30 Thread Szabolcs Nagy
for i in range(0,10): if f!=1: break ... i=0 while i10 and f==1: ... i+=1 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python coding contest

2005-12-30 Thread Szabolcs Nagy
my two solutions (well I wasn't so clever to encode everything in strings instead of numbers, but at least it won't give warnings about non ascii characters): 128: j,seven_seg=''.join,lambda s:j(j(' |_ |'[i3*int(c)b]for c in s for b in(4,2,1))+'\n'for i in(306775170,1060861645,524130191)) 122:

Re: When Python *Eggs* better than Python *distutils*?? What's Eggs?

2005-12-30 Thread Phillip J. Eby
Paul Boddie wrote: Could anyone enlighten me/us as to why the Smart Package Manager [1] (written in Python, presented at EuroPython this year) isn't being more closely investigated as part of a suitable solution? More closely investigated by whom, as a solution for what? Surely there is

Re: python for with double test

2005-12-30 Thread Alan Franzoni
Il 30 Dec 2005 09:02:30 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: hi all the is a way for doing a for with double test: what's a 'double test' exactly? :-) 'for' does no test, it just iterates over a list. If you want to execute the iteration only if f is 1, do this: if f==1: for i in

Re: When Python *Eggs* better than Python *distutils*?? What's Eggs?

2005-12-30 Thread Phillip J. Eby
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been using distuils for a while and was wondering when Python Eggs (new project) is better? If you have a relatively simple setup script, don't need to upload your package to PyPI, and don't include any files other than .py files and C extensions in your

Re: MidiToText : EventDispatcher instance has no attribute 'sysex_events'

2005-12-30 Thread tim
Carsten Haese wrote: On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 09:52, tim wrote: Trying to convert midi to text using MidiToText.py. I get the following: midi_port: 0 Traceback (most recent call last): File MidiToText.py, line 176, in ? midiIn.read() File C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\midi\MidiInFile.py,

Re: python coding contest

2005-12-30 Thread Shane Hathaway
Szabolcs Nagy wrote: my two solutions (well I wasn't so clever to encode everything in strings instead of numbers, but at least it won't give warnings about non ascii characters): 128: j,seven_seg=''.join,lambda s:j(j(' |_ |'[i3*int(c)b]for c in s for b in(4,2,1))+'\n'for i

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: Tech Geekers and their Style

2005-12-30 Thread Michael Winter
On 30/12/2005 16:45, Xah Lee wrote: [Follow-ups trimmed to c.i.w.a.stylesheets] [snip] A proposed solution is in CSS3 “Multi-column layout”, drafted in 2001 but not yet in any mainstream browsers as of 2005-12. Quite rightly so, in my opinion. The Multi-column layout module is currently a

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: Tech Geekers and their Style

2005-12-30 Thread Pascal Bourguignon
Xah Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sometimes you want your text to flow into multiple columns, as in newspaper's layout. However, as of 2005-12 this is not yet possible. One can make-do by hard-coding it into HTML TABLE using multiple columns. It is a pain because when you change your text,

Re: Newbie - SOAP return message with embedded ZIP file

2005-12-30 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Rodney schrieb: Hi again, thanks for the help with figuring out how to parse a SOAP return message. I know have a return message that has an embedded ZIP file in it. Can anyone help me figure out how to extract this file from the SOAP return message. The message looks as following:

Re: python coding contest

2005-12-30 Thread Claudio Grondi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Heller wrote: X=' _ _ _ | _| _ |_|_' Y=0x23018F406A3530EC273F008 j=.join seven_seg=lambda n:j(j(c)+\nfor c in zip(*[X[Ym+int(d)*97::8]for d in n for m in(6,3,0)])) Interesting bit: Although there are more 3-char combinations when you read

Re: python coding contest

2005-12-30 Thread André
For the few that might be interested, I will be posting the details of a 117 character long solution to the challenge on my blog http://aroberge.blogspot.com/. Enjoy! André -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: IRC sockets and queries

2005-12-30 Thread Heiko Wundram
David Wahler wrote: snip Not only is this obnoxious, it doesn't even work. snip Not only is this _extremely_ obnoxious, but it doesn't even work. Don't expect any help from me. snip Thanks for pointing that out (I must've missed those two examples when I read the code). And I even pointed

Re: python coding contest

2005-12-30 Thread Shane Hathaway
André wrote: For the few that might be interested, I will be posting the details of a 117 character long solution to the challenge on my blog http://aroberge.blogspot.com/. Enjoy! You took advantage of prime numbers, enabling you to extract encoded information using a single modulus

compare dictionary values

2005-12-30 Thread rbt
What's a good way to compare values in dictionaries? I want to find values that have changed. I look for new keys by doing this: new = [k for k in file_info_cur.iterkeys() if k not in file_info_old.iterkeys()] if new == []: print new, No new files. else:

Re: oop in python

2005-12-30 Thread jmdeschamps
Larry Bates wrote: novice wrote: hello over there! I have the following question: Suppose I created a class: class Point: pass then instanciated an instance: new = Point() So now how to get the instance new as a

Re: oop in python

2005-12-30 Thread jmdeschamps
(addendum) ... And even ... eval(t).max() 12 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Tuning a select() loop for os.popen3()

2005-12-30 Thread Christopher DeMarco
Hi all... I've written a class to provide an interface to popen; I've included the actual select() loop below. I'm finding that sometimes popen'd processes take a really long time to complete and other times I get incomplete stdout. E.g: - on boxA ffmpeg returns in ~25s; on boxB (comparable

Re: python coding contest

2005-12-30 Thread Tim Hochberg
Shane Hathaway wrote: André wrote: For the few that might be interested, I will be posting the details of a 117 character long solution to the challenge on my blog http://aroberge.blogspot.com/. Enjoy! You took advantage of prime numbers, enabling you to extract encoded information

Re: csrss.exe Numeric

2005-12-30 Thread Travis E. Oliphant
jelle wrote: I have a function that uses the Numeric module. When I launch the function csrss.exe consumes 60 / 70 % cpu power rather than having python / Numeric run at full speed. Has anyone encountered this problem before? It seriously messes up my Numeric performance. Are you

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: Tech Geekers and their Style

2005-12-30 Thread Harlan Messinger
[followups to comp.infosystems.www.authoring stylesheets, since that's the only newsgroup the OP addressed where this is relevant (LISP?? what was he thinking?] Xah Lee wrote: Sometimes you want your text to flow into multiple columns, as in newspaper's layout. However, as of 2005-12 this is

Re: csrss.exe Numeric

2005-12-30 Thread Tim Peters
[jelle] I have a function that uses the Numeric module. When I launch the function csrss.exe consumes 60 / 70 % cpu power rather than having python / Numeric run at full speed. Has anyone encountered this problem before? It seriously messes up my Numeric performance. I'm running 2.4.2 on xp.

Re: python coding contest

2005-12-30 Thread Claudio Grondi
André wrote: For the few that might be interested, I will be posting the details of a 117 character long solution to the challenge on my blog http://aroberge.blogspot.com/. Enjoy! André It doesn't work for me as described on that page. The output is scrumbled. It seems, that the 12

Re: compare dictionary values

2005-12-30 Thread Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], rbt wrote: What's a good way to compare values in dictionaries? Look them up and then compare!? ;-) I want to find values that have changed. I look for new keys by doing this: new = [k for k in file_info_cur.iterkeys() if k not in file_info_old.iterkeys()]

Re: python coding contest

2005-12-30 Thread Shane Hathaway
Claudio Grondi wrote: so I tried all which made sense in the context of '0' conversion and found out, that it should be the ' _ |_|_ _| |' not the at http://aroberge.blogspot.com/ ' _ |_|_ _| |' The HTML source has the three spaces. If the code had been surrounded by a pre

Re: compare dictionary values

2005-12-30 Thread rbt
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], rbt wrote: What's a good way to compare values in dictionaries? Look them up and then compare!? ;-) I want to find values that have changed. I look for new keys by doing this: new = [k for k in file_info_cur.iterkeys() if k not

Re: Guido working on Pypy?

2005-12-30 Thread Vincent Wehren
Andrew Durdin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 29 Dec 2005 04:12:53 -0800, Luis M. González [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | According to this blog entry, it says that Guido has been hired by | Google to work on Pypy: | http://zephyrfalcon.org/weblog2/arch_e10_00870.html

Re: Python as a Server vs Running Under Apache

2005-12-30 Thread fuzzylollipop
as great as mod_python is, there are lots of restrictions and limitations to what youc an do with it because of limitations of apache itself, and I am refereing to apache 2.x as well as 1.x, like others are saying if you don't need apache specific things it will just be one more thing to work

Re: python coding contest

2005-12-30 Thread André
Shane Hathaway wrote: Claudio Grondi wrote: so I tried all which made sense in the context of '0' conversion and found out, that it should be the ' _ |_|_ _| |' not the at http://aroberge.blogspot.com/ ' _ |_|_ _| |' The HTML source has the three spaces. If the code had

Re: python coding contest

2005-12-30 Thread André
Claudio Grondi wrote: P.S. By the way: on Windows XP with UltraEdit there was no problem to input the special characters. There is an ASCII table and a HEX editor mode available for it. Any hints which free editor makes it possible, too? I simply used Pythonwin. (print chr(3), then cut and

Re: compare dictionary values

2005-12-30 Thread Tim Williams (gmail)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], rbt wrote: What's a good way to compare values in dictionaries? Do you need to compare dictionaries, if its an option it would be simpler/cheaper to compare each entry from your file listing with entries in a single dict and act accordingly, mainly because you will already

Re: Guido at Google

2005-12-30 Thread John J. Lee
Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] No, it's not a silly idea. Dean Baker, the Co-Director the Center for Economic and Policy Research, has proposed for the U.S. government to establish a Software Developer's Corps. For $2 billion per year, it could fund about 20,000 developers to

Global Variables in OOP and Python

2005-12-30 Thread newbie
Hello, I have questions about global variables in OOP (in general) and Python (in specific). I understand (I think) that global variables are generally not a good idea. However, if there are variables that need to be accessed by a number of classes that exists in separate namespaces (files),

python encoding bug?

2005-12-30 Thread garabik-news-2005-05
I was playing with python encodings and noticed this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ python2.4 Python 2.4 (#2, Dec 3 2004, 17:59:05) [GCC 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-2)] on linux2 Type help, copyright, credits or license for more information. unicode('\x9d', 'iso8859_1') u'\x9d' U+009D is NOT a valid

Re: IRC sockets and queries

2005-12-30 Thread Jay
LMFAO! those were jokes for my friends. lol.and btw the dccpoper and bot and crap were jokes that i made up for my friends on the #python channel in freenode... It was a joke.Anyway.. My bad, its ok if u dont want to help... no one likes me on this group anyway... u guys just joined the crowd...

Re: IRC sockets and queries

2005-12-30 Thread J4Y
http://h1.ripway.com/jay001/PyIRCnMo.txt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Global Variables in OOP and Python

2005-12-30 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 15:03:54 -0800, newbie wrote: Hello, I have questions about global variables in OOP (in general) and Python (in specific). I understand (I think) that global variables are generally not a good idea. However, if there are variables that need to be accessed by a number

generators in Java?

2005-12-30 Thread Tom Sheffler
This may have been discussed before, so I apologize. Does Java have generators? I am aware of the Iterator interface, but it seems much more restrictive. Python generators are useful for many more things than simply list enumeration, but the Java Iterator seems limited. Tom --

Re: IRC sockets and queries

2005-12-30 Thread Heiko Wundram
Jay wrote: LMFAO! Yeah, me too. How lame do you think we are?! --- Heiko. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: IRC sockets and queries

2005-12-30 Thread Heiko Wundram
Heiko Wundram wrote: Yeah, me too. How lame do you think we are?! I won't feed the trolls... I won't feed the trolls... I won't feed the trolls... I won't feed the trolls... --- Heiko. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Strange interaction between exec, dictionary subtypes, and global variables in 2.4

2005-12-30 Thread Crutcher
I've been playing with dictionary subtypes for custom environments, and I encountered a strange interaction between exec, dictionary subtypes, and global variables. I've attached a test program, but first I'd like to give some background. Python uses dictionary objects as symbol tables in it's

Re: Global Variables in OOP and Python

2005-12-30 Thread Mike Meyer
newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So far, I have approached the problem by making the variables attributes of one class and passing instances of the class as variables to the other class' methods. That's the standard way to do it in OO languages. The other way I thought of is to create a

List index method for complex list item types?

2005-12-30 Thread techiepundit
I'm a Python newbie who just started learning the language a few weeks ago. So these are beginner questions. I have a list of sockets that I use for select.select calls like this: ReadList,WriteList,EventList = select.select(self.SocketList,[],[],3) In parallel with that list of sockets I want

Re: Tuning a select() loop for os.popen3()

2005-12-30 Thread Donn Cave
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christopher DeMarco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've written a class to provide an interface to popen; I've included the actual select() loop below. I'm finding that sometimes popen'd processes take a really long time to complete and other times I get incomplete

Re: IRC sockets and queries

2005-12-30 Thread J4Y
kk -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

python coding contest

2005-12-30 Thread Mark Dickinson
Here's a variant of André's brilliant idea that's 119 characters long, and fully printable: j=''.join;seven_seg=lambda z:j(j(' _ | |_ _|_|' [ord('^r|=Zm.:v\r'[int(a)])%u*2:][:3]for a in z) +\nfor u in(3,7,8)) Mark -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Global Variables in OOP and Python

2005-12-30 Thread Gary Herron
newbie wrote: Hello, I have questions about global variables in OOP (in general) and Python (in specific). I understand (I think) that global variables are generally not a good idea. However, if there are variables that need to be accessed by a number of classes that exists in separate

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