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2006-04-15 Thread Vikram Katju
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ANN: XMLObject

2006-04-15 Thread aum
Hi folks, I've just released an XML object wrapper called XMLObject, which aims to do for XML file handling what SQLObject does for database access. XMLObject wraps XML files as Python objects, and lets you work with XML data more quickly and easily, and with code that's shorter and much more rea

Re: Help for a complete newbie

2006-04-15 Thread Alex Martelli
Steve Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Both are a bit out of date. The current python version is 2.4. > Learning Python covers 2.3. Nutshell covers up to 2.2. > > One of these days Alex will come out with a 2nd Edition of Nutshell and > there will be much rejoicing. ;-) If everything

Re: List operation: Removing an item

2006-04-15 Thread Terry Reedy
"Miguel E." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi, > > I've been (self) studying Python for the past two months and I have had > no background in OOP whatsoever. > > I was able to write an interactive program that randomly selects an item > from a list. From a Main Menu

Re: Numpy and cPickle

2006-04-15 Thread Robert Kern
Mr. M wrote: > Somehow, the bug does not show up any more. I believe it was due to the > numpy version that is fetched by cPickle. Is there any way to control > (or even determine), which library version cPickle grabs for unpickling > a numpy array (numpy, scipy, etc)? You can import the appro

Re: Why aren't these more popular (Myghty & Pylons)?

2006-04-15 Thread Jonathan Ellis
Karlo Lozovina wrote: > There's only one thing bothering me, and that is it's lack of publicity. > There are only few posts on thig NG with some refference to Myghty, and > even less when it comes to Pylons (http://pylonshq.com/), framework built > on top of Myghy. Myghy project isn't that new to e

Re: List operation: Removing an item

2006-04-15 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 22:39:37 -0600, Miguel E. wrote: > I am trying to create a function that removes an item as specified by > the user. Apparently, the list operation "del list[:]" deletes the > entire list. Below is the sample function. If you know the value of the item, and not its position:

Re: Numpy and cPickle

2006-04-15 Thread Mr. M
Martin Manns wrote: > Robert Kern wrote: >> Martin Manns wrote: > >>> If I cPickle a numpy array under Linux and un-cPickle it under Solaris >>> 10, my arrays seem to be transposed. >> Transposed? That's odd. There was a byteorder issue with pickles going across >> differently-endianed platforms

List operation: Removing an item

2006-04-15 Thread Miguel E.
Hi, I've been (self) studying Python for the past two months and I have had no background in OOP whatsoever. I was able to write an interactive program that randomly selects an item from a list. From a Main Menu, the user has the option to add items to an empty list, show the list, run the rando

Re: Iterating through a nested list

2006-04-15 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 22:36:17 -0500, CamelR wrote: > I have a newbie question, and I have seen reference to this mentioned > in many places, but all just say "this has been discussed frequently > in (other places) so we won't discuss it here..." and I am unable to > find the actual answer... > > I

Re: My python can not get addr info

2006-04-15 Thread Serge Orlov
一首诗 wrote: > socket.gaierror: (10104, 'getaddrinfo failed') You're using a buggy firewall, write to your firewall vendor about this bug. IDLE shell is making a connection over loopback network interface in other words making a connection from your computer to your computer, this type of connection

My python can not get addr info

2006-04-15 Thread 一首诗
D:\python24\Lib\idlelib>pyshell.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "D:\python24\Lib\idlelib\PyShell.py", line 1388, in ? main() File "D:\python24\Lib\idlelib\PyShell.py", line 1361, in main if not flist.open_shell(): File "D:\python24\Lib\idlelib\PyShell.py", line 277, in open

My python can not get addr info

2006-04-15 Thread Peter Cai
D:\python24\Lib\idlelib>pyshell.py Traceback (most recent call last):   File "D:\python24\Lib\idlelib\PyShell.py", line 1388, in ?     main()   File "D:\python24\Lib\idlelib\PyShell.py", line 1361, in main     if not flist.open_shell():   File "D:\python24\Lib\idlelib\PyShell.py", line 277, in open

Re: multiple parameters in if statement

2006-04-15 Thread John Zenger
Try this: if form.get("delete_id","") != "" and form.get("delete_data","") != "" and... the "get" method lets you have an optional second argument that gets returned if the key is not in the dictionary. Also, am I reading your code right? If I enter some fields but not all, you print a messa

Iterating through a nested list

2006-04-15 Thread CamelR
I have a newbie question, and I have seen reference to this mentioned in many places, but all just say "this has been discussed frequently in (other places) so we won't discuss it here..." and I am unable to find the actual answer... I expected : Array = ["topdir", ["/subdir1", ["/file1", "/file2

Sending part of a page as the body of an email

2006-04-15 Thread Kun
I currently have a python-cgi script that extracts data from a mysql table. I would like to save this data as a string and send it to a recipient via email. I know how to send email using the smtp lib, but what I do not know his how to save a portion of the page as a string. Any pointers? --

Re: multiple parameters in if statement

2006-04-15 Thread John Machin
On 16/04/2006 10:28 AM, Kun wrote: > I am trying to make an if-statement that will not do anything and print > 'nothing entered' if there is nothing entered in a form. I have the > following code that does that, however, now even if I enter something > into the form, the code still outputs 'not

Re: How to Convert a string into binary

2006-04-15 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2006-04-16, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 16/04/2006 5:25 AM, HNT20 wrote: >> >> hi --> 011011101001 >> > > This implies that the bits in a byte are transmitted MSB first. I > haven't done anything anywhere near this area since about the time that > acoustic couplers went

Why aren't these more popular (Myghty & Pylons)?

2006-04-15 Thread Karlo Lozovina
I've been browsing what Python has to offer in the world of web programming for past few weeks, while preparing to select something for small, quick and dirty projects where my favorable solution, Zope3, is an overkill. There sure are handfull of solutions out there, but I didn't quite like a

Re: How to Convert a string into binary

2006-04-15 Thread Jesse Hager
The short version: def str2bin(s): return ''.join([''.join(['10'[not (m&ord(x))] for m in (128,64,32,16,8,4,2,1)]) for x in s]) Notes: Split into 3 lines for newsgroup post, 3rd line is actually the end of the 2nd. It will run as shown above. Returns digits in MSB order, to return L

Re: multiple parameters in if statement

2006-04-15 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 20:28:47 -0400, Kun wrote: > I am trying to make an if-statement that will not do anything and print > 'nothing entered' if there is nothing entered in a form. I have the > following code that does that, however, now even if I enter something > into the form, the code still

Re: print without newline "halts" program execution

2006-04-15 Thread Karlo Lozovina
Jay Parlar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Your problem is that the 'print' statement is sending the text to > sys.stdout, and sys.stdout is buffered. I thought it was something like this, but I couldn't find it in the docs : (. > print 'Start: %f,'% st, > sys.stdout.flu

Re: multiple parameters in if statement...

2006-04-15 Thread Kun
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Kun wrote: >> I am trying to make an if-statement that will not do anything and print >> 'nothing entered' if there is nothing entered in a form. I have the >> following code that does that, however, now even if I enter something > > Yes, but did you enter everything? >

Re: Help with python output redirection

2006-04-15 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 07:36:30 -0700, fatal.serpent wrote: > Thank you. Also this script is PublicDomain right? Oh heavens, I never even thought about that... the world was a much better place when you actually needed to *claim copyright* rather than just have it apply automatically on every stupid

Re: The whitespaceless frontend

2006-04-15 Thread Chris Smith
> "Stelios" == Stelios Xanthakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Stelios> It had to happen :) http://pyvm32.infogami.com/EPL Stelios> Seriously, this is not so much about the whitespace as Stelios> for the new features, which might interest people who are Stelios> thinking about n

Re: symbolic links, aliases, cls clear

2006-04-15 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On 2006-04-13, Barry Margolin wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > "Chris F.A. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> In fact, my scripts are portable to other terminal types by use >> of files for each terminal, generated with tput. Using a >> different terminal is as easy

Re: multiple parameters in if statement...

2006-04-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kun wrote: > I am trying to make an if-statement that will not do anything and print > 'nothing entered' if there is nothing entered in a form. I have the > following code that does that, however, now even if I enter something Yes, but did you enter everything? > into the form, the code still o

Re: How to Convert a string into binary

2006-04-15 Thread John Machin
On 16/04/2006 5:25 AM, HNT20 wrote: > > hi --> 011011101001 > This implies that the bits in a byte are transmitted MSB first. I haven't done anything anywhere near this area since about the time that acoustic couplers went the way of buggy whips, but my vague recollection is LSB first

multiple parameters in if statement

2006-04-15 Thread Kun
I am trying to make an if-statement that will not do anything and print 'nothing entered' if there is nothing entered in a form. I have the following code that does that, however, now even if I enter something into the form, the code still outputs 'nothing entered'. This violates the if state

Async Sleep?

2006-04-15 Thread Aleksandar Cikota
Hi all, Does a async sleep exist? How to check this every 10 sec, but that the CPU is free? Code: import win32com.client import time import os Document = win32com.client.Dispatch('MaxIm.Document') Application = win32com.client.dynamic.Dispatch('MaxIm.Application') path_to_watch = "F:/Images/VRT

Re: Calling Python from Matlab

2006-04-15 Thread Kelvie Wong
I have a suspicion it is the collaborative effort that is the problem here -- I try to use Python whenever possible for engineering/numerical analysis, but the established industry standard (for most disciplines of engineering) is still MATLAB. Although Python is arguably better in most respects,

Re: How to Convert a string into binary

2006-04-15 Thread Felipe Almeida Lessa
Em Sáb, 2006-04-15 às 18:09 -0400, Terry Reedy escreveu: > # given string s > binchars = [] > for c in s: binchars.append(a2b[ord(c)]) Faster: binchars = [a2b[ord(c)] for c in s] -- Felipe. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: shutil.copy time stamp errors on win XP

2006-04-15 Thread BartlebyScrivener
Thank you! I went into the set up of my network storage device and found the time settings all wrong. Fixed it. Sorry for the trouble. rick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Calling Python from Matlab

2006-04-15 Thread Michael Tobis
I'm afraid I can't be very helpful to you, but you could be most helpful to some of us. Can you elaborate on what specifically you found difficult? In some circles Python is regarded as a direct competitor to Matlab. Your preference for Python for "other things than standard mathematical work" in

Re: shutil.copy time stamp errors on win XP

2006-04-15 Thread M�ta-MCI
Hi! Warning : Win-XP manage many date/time for files : creation, last access, last modification, year (?), day of photo And, this can to change, depending on format of disk (NTFS, FAT, etc.) and/or type of files (Jpeg, exe, etc.) On a LAN, the date/time can also to depend of the date/time and

shutil.copy time stamp errors on win XP

2006-04-15 Thread BartlebyScrivener
I'm working on various backup scripts, using filecmp and shutil. When I run a script to copy files to a mapped network drive, shutil creates a backup file with a date of 2002 or so. If I use shutil.copy2 it copies the dates of the original files, but creates folders with similary old dates and ti

Re: Help with python output redirection

2006-04-15 Thread John Machin
On 16/04/2006 12:36 AM, fatal.serpent top-posted: > Thank you. Also this script is PublicDomain right? Wrong. If you attempt to turn "The D'Aprano Code" into a best-seller, and don't donate assign all of your royalties to the PSF, they will pursue you and your descendants to the ends of the univ

Re: How to Convert a string into binary

2006-04-15 Thread Terry Reedy
"HNT20" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > i am new to python language. i am working on a gnuradio project where it > uses python as the primary programming language. i am trying to convert > a message, text, or numbers into binary code so that i can process it. >

Re: How to Convert a string into binary

2006-04-15 Thread HNT20
Felipe Almeida Lessa wrote: > Em Sáb, 2006-04-15 às 19:25 +, HNT20 escreveu: >> is there a way to convert a string into its binary representation of the >> ascii table.?? > > I'm very curious... why? > > And no, I don't have the answer. > well, once i get the binary representations, i can

Re: How to Convert a string into binary

2006-04-15 Thread HNT20
Rune Strand wrote: > HNT20 wrote: >> Hello All >> > > def ascii_to_bin(char): > ascii = ord(char) > bin = [] > > while (ascii > 0): > if (ascii & 1) == 1: > bin.append("1") > else: > bin.append("0") > ascii = ascii >> 1 > > bin.reve

Re: How to Convert a string into binary

2006-04-15 Thread HNT20
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If (assuming this is correct, you can do more tests) the given strings > are many and/or long, this can be a fast version. With Psyco this same > version can become quite faster. > Bye, > bearophile > > > from array import array > > class ToBinary(object): > """ToB

Python used to animate a compiled C program

2006-04-15 Thread I. Myself
SailChallenge was originally a program in C. It simulates a sailboat being navigated by an ANN (Artificial Neural Network). Now a Python "front end" has been created which invokes the compiled C program, and then captures the real time text output, converting it into an animation. A screen s

Re: Announce: Construct's wiki!

2006-04-15 Thread Serge Orlov
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > tomer> so now we have one place where people can share inventory > tomer> constructs, questions-and-answers, patches, documentation and > tomer> more. enjoy. > > I've never seen Construct before, but when you say "parser" I think of > parsing programming language

Best wx IDE

2006-04-15 Thread Chifran
Hi, which is the best wx IDE for GUI development? Thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: py2exe problem

2006-04-15 Thread Serge Orlov
bwaha wrote: > First time trying to create an executable with py2exe. I have a small > program which makes use of python23 (2.3.5?), wxpython ('2.6.2.1'), > matplotlib ('0.83.2'), win32com (latest?), Numeric ('23.7') on Windows XP & > Win2000. The program runs without problem but as an exe it does

Re: How to Convert a string into binary

2006-04-15 Thread Fredrik Lundh
"HNT20" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i am new to python language. i am working on a gnuradio project where it > uses python as the primary programming language. i am trying to convert > a message, text, or numbers into binary code so that i can process it. umm. characters and numbers are stored

Re: How to Convert a string into binary

2006-04-15 Thread bearophileHUGS
If (assuming this is correct, you can do more tests) the given strings are many and/or long, this can be a fast version. With Psyco this same version can become quite faster. Bye, bearophile from array import array class ToBinary(object): """ToBinary: class to convert a given string to a bin

Re: How to Convert a string into binary

2006-04-15 Thread Duncan Booth
HNT20 wrote: > is there a way to convert a string into its binary representation of the > ascii table.?? > > an example of what i want would be: > > hi --> 011011101001 Why not just write some code to do it? e.g. >>> def b1(n): return "01"[n%2] >>> def b2(n): return b1(n>>1)+b1

Re: ANN: 3 new ShowMeDo.com videos on Python Objects

2006-04-15 Thread Claudio Grondi
Ian Ozsvald wrote: > Summary: > At http://ShowMeDo.com we have 3 new videos by Jerol Harrington > introducing Python Objects: > http://showmedo.com/videoListPage?listKey=IntroductionToPythonObjectsUsingIPython_JerolH > > > and 5 videos for beginners to wxPython: > http://showmedo.com/videoListPa

Re: How to Convert a string into binary

2006-04-15 Thread Rune Strand
HNT20 wrote: > Hello All > def ascii_to_bin(char): ascii = ord(char) bin = [] while (ascii > 0): if (ascii & 1) == 1: bin.append("1") else: bin.append("0") ascii = ascii >> 1 bin.reverse() binary = "".join(bin) zerofix = (8

Re: How to Convert a string into binary

2006-04-15 Thread Felipe Almeida Lessa
Em Sáb, 2006-04-15 às 19:25 +, HNT20 escreveu: > is there a way to convert a string into its binary representation of the > ascii table.?? I'm very curious... why? And no, I don't have the answer. -- Felipe. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

How to Convert a string into binary

2006-04-15 Thread HNT20
Hello All i am new to python language. i am working on a gnuradio project where it uses python as the primary programming language. i am trying to convert a message, text, or numbers into binary code so that i can process it. i googled many times and tried many of the answers out there, no luck

Re: Unified web API for CGI and mod_python?

2006-04-15 Thread Tim Chase
>> I've been digging around, but can't seem to come up >> with the right combo of words to google for to get >> helpful results. Is there some handy wrapper/module >> that allows code to target existance as both a CGI >> script and a mod_python script, with only one "import" >> statement? Perhaps

Re: Help for a complete newbie

2006-04-15 Thread gene tani
Ralph H. Stoos Jr. wrote: > Tim, > > After a little more research, I did find that out. It is funny, but in > the tutorial "Non-Programmers Tutorial For Python", it makes no mention > of the indentation issue, at least in the beginning portions which I had > read. > > This is an age old problem o

Re: PEP 359: The "make" Statement

2006-04-15 Thread Tim Hochberg
Tim Hochberg wrote: > Steven Bethard wrote: > >> Steven Bethard wrote: >> >>> Tim Hochberg wrote: >>> Steven Bethard wrote: > Steven Bethard wrote: > >> Duncan Booth wrote: >> >>> make Element html: >>> make Element body: >>> make Element p: >>>

Re: [Python-Dev] Building Python with the free MS Toolkit compiler

2006-04-15 Thread Paul Moore
On 4/15/06, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Moore wrote: > > I've just added some instructions on how to build Python on Windows > > with the free MS Toolkit C++ compiler. They are at > > http://wiki.python.org/moin/Building_Python_with_the_free_MS_C_Toolkit. > > Cool! If you th

Re: The whitespaceless frontend

2006-04-15 Thread Martin Blais
On 4/15/06, Stelios Xanthakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It had to happen :) Did it? > http://pyvm32.infogami.com/EPL > > Seriously, this is not so much about the whitespace as for the > new features, which might interest people who are thinking about > new features. More specifically,

Re: Kross - Start of a Unified Scripting Approach

2006-04-15 Thread Bo Yang
RM 写道: > This is from the new KOffice Announcement. > > http://www.koffice.org/announcements/announce-1.5.php > > '''This version of KOffice features a start of a unified scripting > solution called Kross. Kross provides cross-language support for > scripting (thus its name) and at present supports

ANN: Urwid 0.9.3 - Console UI Library

2006-04-15 Thread Ian Ward
Announcing Urwid 0.9.3 -- Urwid home page: http://excess.org/urwid/ Tarball: http://excess.org/urwid/urwid-0.9.3.tar.gz About this release: === This release adds support for gpm and mouse dragging to the raw_display module, improves mouse release repo

Re: Help for a complete newbie

2006-04-15 Thread Scott David Daniels
Steve Bergman wrote: > One of these days Alex will come out with a 2nd Edition of Nutshell and > there will be much rejoicing. ;-) > Rumor has it he is trying to hit print for OSCON (so soon, soon). --Scott David Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Help with python output redirection

2006-04-15 Thread fatal.serpent
Thank you. Also this script is PublicDomain right? Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 16:59:13 -0700, fatalserpent wrote: > > > Here is the basic code (yes, I know its tiny). > > > > x = ['print "x =", x', 'for m in x: print m'] > > print "x =", x > > for m in x: print m > > > > I want to

Re: Should I learn Python instead?

2006-04-15 Thread Steve Bergman
There is also TurboGears, which (IMO) is greatness in the making. Though unfortunately, the documentation is still catching up to the greatness. I'm using it and loving it, though. http://www.turbogears.org DJango is great for content management. TurboGears is (IMO) a more generalized framework

Re: Calling Python from Matlab

2006-04-15 Thread Daniel Nogradi
> I am desperately looking for a way to call Python from Matlab. I have become > used to Python's rich syntax and large number of libraries, and feel > ridiculously clumsy being stuck with Matlab's rather restricted facilities > for doing other things than standard mathematical work. > > Does anyon

Re: Help for a complete newbie

2006-04-15 Thread Steve Bergman
You can also access this group through Google Groups: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python which has nice search features. I found O'Reilly's "Learning Python" to be helpful in combination with O'Reilly's "Python in a Nutshell". Learning python is a nice introduction to Python but is

Calling Python from Matlab

2006-04-15 Thread Carl
I am desperately looking for a way to call Python from Matlab. I have become used to Python's rich syntax and large number of libraries, and feel ridiculously clumsy being stuck with Matlab's rather restricted facilities for doing other things than standard mathematical work. Does anyone know of g

XML-RPC server via xinetd

2006-04-15 Thread Jos Vos
Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to implement a XML-RPC server that is called by xinetd i.s.o. listening on a TCP socket itself. I already have implemented a stand-alone XML-RPC server using SimpleXMLRPCServer, but I now want something similar, that is started via xinetd (i.e. reading/writing via

Re: Announce: Construct's wiki!

2006-04-15 Thread skip
tomer> so now we have one place where people can share inventory tomer> constructs, questions-and-answers, patches, documentation and tomer> more. enjoy. I've never seen Construct before, but when you say "parser" I think of parsing programming languages. The couple of examples on th

Re: The whitespaceless frontend

2006-04-15 Thread DH
Stelios Xanthakis wrote: > It had to happen :) > > http://pyvm32.infogami.com/EPL > > Seriously, this is not so much about the whitespace as for the > new features, which might interest people who are thinking about > new features. More specifically, "methods" and the "$" operator > are reall

Re: The whitespaceless frontend

2006-04-15 Thread bearophileHUGS
This seems nice: global.x = 1 is the same as global x x = 1 but maybe instead of the global.name something to refer to the upper namespace (that can be the global one or the namespace of the function that contains this one) can be more general: upper.x = 1 upper.upper.x = 1 I think that making se

Re: HELP PLEASE: What is wrong with this?

2006-04-15 Thread Thomas Jollans
Ralph H. Stoos Jr. wrote: > File "autotp.py", line 21 > ready = raw_input("Ready to proceed ? TYPE (y)es or (n)o: ") > ^ please post the entire output and the surrounding code (as much as reasonable). It may well be some paranthesis error, as alreasy stated. -- Thomas Jollans - http:

py2exe problem

2006-04-15 Thread bwaha
First time trying to create an executable with py2exe. I have a small program which makes use of python23 (2.3.5?), wxpython ('2.6.2.1'), matplotlib ('0.83.2'), win32com (latest?), Numeric ('23.7') on Windows XP & Win2000. The program runs without problem but as an exe it doesn't even get to showi

Re: Why new Python 2.5 feature "class C()" return old-style class ?

2006-04-15 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Wildemar Wildenburger wrote: > But I guess I'll just keep adding the (object) appendix even after that, > so all my class definitions get syntax highlighting. why are you using an IDE that doesn't understand Python syntax ? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: list.clear() missing?!?

2006-04-15 Thread Fredrik Lundh
"Ben C" wrote: > I used to think it assigned with things like integers, because if you > write: > > a = 5 > b = a > b += 1 > print a > > a is still 5. So it looked like a and b stored values and b got a "copy" > of a's value. But this is the wrong interpretation, > > b += 1 > >

The whitespaceless frontend

2006-04-15 Thread Stelios Xanthakis
It had to happen :) http://pyvm32.infogami.com/EPL Seriously, this is not so much about the whitespace as for the new features, which might interest people who are thinking about new features. More specifically, "methods" and the "$" operator are really great and seem to solve the problem

Re: Should I learn Python instead?

2006-04-15 Thread Gerard Flanagan
fyleow wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm a student/hobbyist programmer interested in creating a web project. > It's nothing too complicated, I would like to get data from an RSS > feed and store that into a database. I want my website to get the > information from the database and display parts of it dep

Re: help me ( import cx_Oracle ) 失�

2006-04-15 Thread Sybren Stuvel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] enlightened us with: > ???d???b cx_Oracle (Oracle 9i, Python 2.4) ???b??windows > xp ??python???a??C:\Python24\cx_Oracle-doc?? > import cx_Oracle ???F > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "", line 1, in ? > ImportError: DLL load failed: ???M?

Re: [Python-Dev] Building Python with the free MS Toolkit compiler

2006-04-15 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Paul Moore wrote: > I've just added some instructions on how to build Python on Windows > with the free MS Toolkit C++ compiler. They are at > http://wiki.python.org/moin/Building_Python_with_the_free_MS_C_Toolkit. Cool! If you think that adding/changing files in Python would simplify the process,

Re: nested functions

2006-04-15 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > >BUT 'b' and 'c' simply do not exist outside the 'a' world. > > It's worth distinguishing between the _names_ 'b' and 'c' and the > _functions_ referred to by those names. The _names_ certainly do not > exist outside of the scope of the function referred to by 'a' (any

Re: VB to Python

2006-04-15 Thread Aleksandar Cikota
Vielen Dank. Es funktioniert. Mit freundlichen gruessen, Aleksandar Cikota "Gregor Horvath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Aleksandar Cikota schrieb: > >> Can someone translate the VB code to Python? >> >> VB code: >> >> Dim chsr as New DriverHelper.Chooser >> ch

Re: HELP PLEASE: What is wrong with this?

2006-04-15 Thread Sybren Stuvel
Ralph H. Stoos Jr. enlightened us with: > File "autotp.py", line 21 > ready = raw_input("Ready to proceed ? TYPE (y)es or (n)o: ") > ^ Please post the entire traceback, so we can see the actual error message. Posting the context of the bad line also wouldn't hurt. Sybren -- The probl

Re: Problem involving sets...

2006-04-15 Thread Dave Hughes
Kent Johnson wrote: > flamesrock wrote: > > Kind of a fun but confusing problem... > > > > I have two lists. Each list contains elements of two-element lists. > > l1 = [['c1',1],['c2',2],['c3',4]] > > l2 = [['c1',1],['c2',2],['c4',4],['c3',3]] > > > > Exactly in this format, where > > superlist[

Re: A problem with exec statement

2006-04-15 Thread Peter Otten
TPJ wrote: >> (...) Even allowing for the >> difficulties you've already experienced, it's nearly always better in >> practical cases to use assignment to the keys of a dictionary. Then no >> exec is required, and you have direct control over your own namespace. > > Well... Is this a sugestion, t

Re: requestion regarding regular expression

2006-04-15 Thread Kelie
Thanks to both of you, Kent and Scott. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PEP 359: The "make" Statement

2006-04-15 Thread Michele Simionato
Tim Hochberg ha scritto: > I think this PEP is going off the rails. It's primary virtue was that it > was a simpler, clearer way to write: > > class Foo(args): > __metaclass__ = some_metaclass > #... > > Once it starts calling secret magic methods behind the scenes it's > losi

Improvements for import this

2006-04-15 Thread Michael Hoffman
As the capabilities of core Python have increased, I've noticed that the logic in import this can be simplified to one line: print s.decode("rot13") ;) At the very least the last line: print "".join([d.get(c, c) for c in s]) could use a generator expression instead of a list comprehension. --

wxPython - antialiased drawing

2006-04-15 Thread Andreas Ennemoser
Hello, can anybody tell me if and how I do antialiased drawing in wxPython. Andy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

OneAtATime

2006-04-15 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
#!/usr/bin/python #+ # This script ensures there is only one instance of a particular command # running at a time. It may be useful, for example, for potentially # lengthy cron tasks, to ensure that a new task is not started if the # previous one has not finished yet. # # Invoke this script from th

Re: Problem involving sets...

2006-04-15 Thread flamesrock
wowowow now THAT is what I call simple! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Should I learn Python instead?

2006-04-15 Thread fyleow
Thanks guys. I picked up the Apress book on Python and downloaded the Komodo IDE trial to get me started. I'm going to try using Django to build my website and since my brother already has hosting I'll just borrow some space. He does PHP for a living, so it would probably be better for me to use