A Python sprint will be held on Saturday June 3, from 10 AM to 5 PM at
the Arlington Career Center in Arlington VA. Thanks to Jeff Elkner,
who found space for holding a Python sprint.
I've created a wiki page at
http://wiki.python.org/moin/ArlingtonSprint with information and
directions; please
PyGUI 1.7.1 is now available:
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python_gui/
New features:
- Slider control.
- run() convenience function, equivalent to application().run().
- Geometry.rects_intersect() function.
Enhancements:
- Files given on the command
Hello all,
I am pleased to announce that I will be writing a book on CherryPy which
will published by Packt Publishing [1]. Packt is a fairly recent
publishing company based in the United Kingdom which has focused since the
beginning in providing the developer community with books specific to
Happy to announce that the Eric3 python IDE has found a home
for its documentation and wiki!
Currently effords are taken to document the user interface
of the Eric3-IDE. The documentation and wiki project is hosted at
http://ericide.python-hosting.com/ . Everyone interested in Eric
is heartly
Hi there,
I'm pleased to announce a new bug-fix release of Pynakotheka.
Pynakotheka is a simple GPL-licensed python script which generates
static HTML photo albums to be added to web sites or to be burnt in CDs.
It includes some templates and it's easy to create more.
It depends on python,
Ken Tilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
kenny (wondering what to call a flock (?!) of lemmings)
Couldn't find it here:-
http://ojohaven.com/collectives/
So I would propose a leap of lemmings :-)
WAY OT! Sorry.
atb
Glyn
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PyGUI 1.7.1 is now available:
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python_gui/
New features:
- Slider control.
- run() convenience function, equivalent to application().run().
- Geometry.rects_intersect() function.
Enhancements:
- Files given on the command
Hi
is there a module to do things like concatenate all files in a given
directory into a big file, where all the files have the same data
formate?
name address phone_no.
or do I have to open each, read from old/write-or-append to new ...
thanks
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The overall goal is to remove a barrier to more widespread use of
Open Source - growing the mindshare dedicated to it and potentially
shrinking the mindshare dedicated to commercially-produced software.
While I don't agree with the dichotomy you present -- much of
Gary Wessle wrote:
Hi
is there a module to do things like concatenate all files in a given
directory into a big file, where all the files have the same data
formate?
name address phone_no.
or do I have to open each, read from old/write-or-append to new ...
thanks
There's hardly enough
Ken Tilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
Absolutely. That's why firms who are interested in building *seriously*
large scale systems, like my employer (and supplier of your free mail
...
Obviously will not scale. Never.
Well... hardly ever!
You are talking about being
Steve R. Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
But the key in the whole thread is simply that indentation will not
scale. Nor will Python.
This is a curious statement, given that Python is famous for scaling well.
I think ridiculous is a better characterization than curious, even
if
Ken Tilton wrote:
Oh, my, you are preaching to the herd (?!) of lemmings?! Please tell me
you are aware that lemmings do not have ears. You should just do Lisp
all day and add to the open source libraries to speed Lisp's ascendance.
The lemmings will be liberated the day Wired puts John
Your email message
To :
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Kay Schluehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
And then the 12th vanished Lisper returns and Lispers are not
suppressed anymore and won't be loosers forever. The world will be
The mark of a true loser is the inability to spell 'loser.' Zing!
them as zealots, equipped with the character of suicide
Ken Tilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
g Hopefully it can be a big issue and still not justify a flame war.
Mileages will always vary, but one reason for lambda is precisely not
to have to stop, go make a new function for this one very specific
use, come back and use it as the one lambda
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) writes:
Ken Tilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
Absolutely. That's why firms who are interested in building *seriously*
large scale systems, like my employer (and supplier of your free mail
...
Obviously will not scale. Never.
Well... hardly
Ivan Vinogradov wrote:
snip
NaNs are handled.
Throwing an exception would be nice in regular Python (non-scipy).
This works to catch NaN on OSX and Linux:
# assuming x is a number
if x+1==x or x!=x:
#x is NaN
x != x works, but:
x = 1e100
x + 1 == x
True
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What OS? IDEs are overkill, bloated, complex and slow for agile
languages like Python. You need an editor that is nimble, fast, simple,
powerful and doesn't get in your way. For linux, I suggest Scribes.
http://scribes.sf.net
http://scribes.sf.net/snippets.htm (Flash Demo)
Hi list,
I'm doing some tests on my debian testing and I see a very strange
memory problem with py 2.5a2 (just downloaded) and compiled with gcc
4.1.0, but not with the gcc 3.3.5:
My test are:
#--test.py
import sys
if sys.version.startswith(2.3):
from sets import Set as set
Bill Atkins wrote:
Kay Schluehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
And then the 12th vanished Lisper returns and Lispers are not
suppressed anymore and won't be loosers forever. The world will be
The mark of a true loser is the inability to spell 'loser.' Zing!
There is not much lost.
them as
Saurabh Sardeshpande wrote:
Pardon if this is already discussed extensively. But what is the best
IDE for Python for a newbie? I have experience in C++ and Java and this
is the first time I am learning a scripting language.
Thanks in advance
Try all the you find!
However on linux I find
Bill Atkins wrote:
cut
How do you define scalability?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=define%3AscalabilitybtnG=Google+Search
;-)
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Alexander Schremmer wrote:
...
Just as a sidenote, there are also at least the organisations BBC RD (
Kamaelia) and Python Software Foundation (including Python, PyPy, ...)
which offer work on Python software.
I only just had a chance to check c.l.p.a - thanks for posting the reference
above -
Martin P. Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Bill Atkins wrote:
cut
How do you define scalability?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=define%3AscalabilitybtnG=Google+Search
;-)
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mph
OK, my real question is: what features of Python make it scalable?
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Happy to announce that the Eric3 python IDE has found a home
for its documentation and wiki!
Currently effords are taken to document the user interface
of the Eric3-IDE. The documentation and wiki project is hosted at
http://ericide.python-hosting.com/ . Everyone interested in Eric
is heartly
Bill Atkins wrote:
OK, my real question is: what features of Python make it scalable?
Let me guess: Python makes it easier to scale the application on
the features axis, and the approach to large-scale computation
taken by google makes Python's poor raw performance not so big
an issue, so it
Stephan Diehl wrote:
On Fri, 05 May 2006 05:39:08 -0700, D wrote:
Is it possible to have Python authenticate with Active Directory?
Specifically what I'd like to do is have a user enter a
username/password, then have Python check the credentials with AD - if
what they entered is valid, for
pay attention to Ryan. Do not use 'str' as an identifier as you will
over write the built-in doing so. this seems easiest so far.
s = tyrtrbd =ffgtyuf == =tyryr =u=p ff
s = s.replace('=', '=#')
print s # - tyrtrbd =#ffgtyuf =#=# =#tyryr =#u=#p ff
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Bill Atkins wrote:
Martin P. Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Bill Atkins wrote:
cut
How do you define scalability?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=define%3AscalabilitybtnG=Google+Search
;-)
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mph
OK, my real question is: what features of Python make it scalable?
Well I'm
On 06 May 2006 16:41:45 +1000, Gary Wessle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
is there a module to do things like concatenate all files in a given
directory into a big file, where all the files have the same data
formate?
If you want to combine text files file1 and file2 into a combined file1
txt =
Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ivan Vinogradov wrote:
It doesn't seem to be here under OSX either (universal Python install).
It's not enabled by default. In the source distribution, it is
Modules/fpectlmodule.c .
Since numpy seems to be working on a variety of
On 06/05/06, Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a string...
str = tyrtrbd =ffgtyuf == =tyryr =u=p ff
I want to replace the characters after each '=', what I ended up doing is
somthing like this...
buf = list(str)
newchr = '#'
count = 0
for i in range(len(buf)):
if buf[count]
Also addressing the Python and scaling question is the
kamaelia.sourceforge.net project whos objective is to solve the
problems of putting the BBCs vast archives on the web, and who use
Python.
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Heikki Toivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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|I did some searches but did not find any definitive answers as to
| whether or not it should be possible to build Python 2.4+ with Microsoft
| Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition.
|
| I tried it myself (have VC++ project files
Eric wrote:
I have a string...
str = tyrtrbd =ffgtyuf == =tyryr =u=p ff
I want to replace the characters after each '=',
If you are replacing any char after = with # then re.sub() makes it easy:
In [1]: import re
In [2]: s = tyrtrbd =ffgtyuf == =tyryr =u=p ff
In [3]: re.sub('=.',
Martin P. Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
and clients make it quite scalable. For example, I'm creating a
xmlrpcserver that returns a randomized cardlist, but I because of
fail-over I needed some form of scalability , my solution was to first
randomize the deck then marshal it and dump the
to Andrew Gwozdziewycz:
Real humor...
Peter Otten:
thanks your reminder, in my project, a will a superset of b.
so symmetric_difference equals difference.
thank you all again!
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Paul Rubin http://[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I don't know what good that hardware crypto is doing you, if you're
then writing out the shuffled deck to disk in the clear.
Ehhh, I guess you want the crypto hardware to generate physical
randomness for each shuffle. I'm skeptical of the value of
Paul Rubin wrote:
Martin P. Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
and clients make it quite scalable. For example, I'm creating a
xmlrpcserver that returns a randomized cardlist, but I because of
fail-over I needed some form of scalability , my solution was to first
randomize the deck then
Thomas F. Burdick wrote:
Ken Tilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
g Hopefully it can be a big issue and still not justify a flame war.
Mileages will always vary, but one reason for lambda is precisely not
to have to stop, go make a new function for this one very specific
use, come back and use
Martin P. Hellwig wrote:
Bill Atkins wrote:
cut
How do you define scalability?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=define%3AscalabilitybtnG=Google+Search
Damn! Google can do that?! Omigod!!! Not joking, I never knew that,a
lways used dictionary.com. Thx! I meant:
The ability to
Kay Schluehr wrote:
Ken Tilton wrote:
Oh, my, you are preaching to the herd (?!) of lemmings?! Please tell me
you are aware that lemmings do not have ears. You should just do Lisp
all day and add to the open source libraries to speed Lisp's ascendance.
The lemmings will be liberated the day
Em Sex, 2006-05-05 às 16:37 -0400, Ivan Vinogradov escreveu:
This works to catch NaN on OSX and Linux:
# assuming x is a number
if x+1==x or x!=x:
#x is NaN
This works everywhere:
nan = float('nan')
.
.
.
if x == nan:
# x is not a number
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Felipe.
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The clnum package adds rational numbers and arbitrary precision floating
point numbers in real and complex form to Python. Also provides
arbitrary precision floating point replacements for the functions in the
math and cmath standard library modules.
Home page:
Due to the contribution of Frank Palazzolo, a Windows binary installer
and build instructions are available for the clnum package. This also
makes ratfun and rpncalc usable on the Windows platform.
The clnum package adds rational numbers and arbitrary precision floating
point numbers in real and
Felipe Almeida Lessa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Em Sex, 2006-05-05 às 16:37 -0400, Ivan Vinogradov escreveu:
This works to catch NaN on OSX and Linux:
# assuming x is a number
if x+1==x or x!=x:
#x is NaN
This works everywhere:
nan = float('nan')
.
.
.
if x == nan:
Eric wrote:
I have a string...
str = tyrtrbd =ffgtyuf == =tyryr =u=p ff
I want to replace the characters after each '=', what I ended up doing is
somthing like this...
buf = list(str)
newchr = '#'
count = 0
for i in range(len(buf)):
if buf[count] == '=':
buf[count + 1]
Rony Steelandt wrote:
We have a vacancy for a python programmer for a 6 months assignement.
If interested, please visit www.bucodi.com
And don't worry we speak english :)
R_
seriously, a job opportunity in France?? I heard that the unemployment rate
is not doing too well.
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sys.excepthook() is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.
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Felipe Almeida Lessa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
This works everywhere:
nan = float('nan')
Not.
nan = float('nan')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File pyshell#4, line 1, in -toplevel-
nan = float('nan')
ValueError: invalid literal for float(): nan
Hi!
Thank you for a quick and informative response!
I'd go for 'manually decorating' anyway. Metaclasses can be really handy
for framework-like stuff, but for the use case you describe, I think the
explicit decorator option is much more, well, explicit - and also more
flexible - than
Terry Reedy wrote:
Felipe Almeida Lessa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
This works everywhere:
nan = float('nan')
Not.
nan = float('nan')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File pyshell#4, line 1, in -toplevel-
nan = float('nan')
ValueError:
It appears that apps distributed as Python Eggs are either a single
compressed
blob in site-packages directory or a directory under site-packages
directory.
Is this ALWAYS true? So by just erasing stuff under site-packages
I can do a COMPLETE uninstallation of an Egg?
Chris
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Terry Reedy wrote:
Felipe Almeida Lessa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
This works everywhere:
nan = float('nan')
Not.
nan = float('nan')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File
On 2006-05-06, Tim Williams wrote:
On 06/05/06, Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a string...
str = tyrtrbd =ffgtyuf == =tyryr =u=p ff
I want to replace the characters after each '=', what I ended up doing is
somthing like this...
buf = list(str)
newchr = '#'
count = 0
for i in
I played around with my old code before I saw your post, and I believe
I've found a solution that's a bit neater than what I had before. I
thought I could just as well post it if you're interested and have the
time. This one uses multiple inheritance, but it's legal and there's
only one metaclass.
Martin P. Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This is a weird approach. Why not let the ticket by the (maybe
encrypted) PRNG seed that generates the permutation?
Because the server that handles the generate request doesn't need to
be the same as the one that handles the request to give the
Paul Rubin wrote:
Martin P. Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This is a weird approach. Why not let the ticket by the (maybe
encrypted) PRNG seed that generates the permutation?
Because the server that handles the generate request doesn't need to
be the same as the one that handles the
I'm replying to Ben because William's post is no longer on my news server.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like to offer a couple of links to the kind of stuff I am talking
about w.r.t. the transparency issue.
First, some from Eclipse:
http://www.eclipse.org/legal/ See especially the
[ I pruned the cross-posting down to a reasonable level ]
Ken Tilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Thomas F. Burdick wrote:
This is second-hand, as I don't actually follow Python closely, but
from what I've heard, they now have reasonable scoping rules (or maybe
they're about to, I'm not
Felipe Almeida Lessa wrote:
Em Sex, 2006-05-05 às 16:37 -0400, Ivan Vinogradov escreveu:
This works to catch NaN on OSX and Linux:
# assuming x is a number
if x+1==x or x!=x:
#x is NaN
This works everywhere:
nan = float('nan')
Have you tried it on Windows?
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I have
Alexander Schmolck wrote:
Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ivan Vinogradov wrote:
Since numpy seems to be working on a variety of platforms/hardware,
how hard would it be to extract this functionality from it to add to
Python proper?
Harder than just enabling fpectl.
Last thing I
Ken Tilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Martin P. Hellwig wrote:
Bill Atkins wrote:
cut
How do you define scalability?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=define%3AscalabilitybtnG=Google+Search
Damn! Google can do that?! Omigod!!! Not joking, I never knew that,a
You're
John Bokma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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Reported for excessive crossposting.
Did u report yourself?
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Hi
I am trying to print out the contents of a directory, sorted.
the code
1 import os, sys
2
3 if len(sys.argv) 2:
4 sys.exit(please enter a suitable directory.)
5
6 print os.listdir(sys.argv[1]).sort()
I'm using PyGreSQL on a PostgreSQL db.
I didn't even include my SQL but Serge guessed right and that's what I
had. I changed it and it works now.
Thanks for the help! :)
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Gary Wessle wrote:
Hi
I am trying to print out the contents of a directory, sorted.
...
if I remove .sort() at the end of line 6 I get an unsorted list of
files, if I leave it I get None. who do I fix this?
`blah.sort()` sorts in-place and returns None. You probably want
sorted(blah):
a
Hi all,
Being struck by article 7421 of the linux journal
(http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7421), I'll tried to give it a go.
Mainly because I have done some experiments with Glade and found that
it is really easy to create good looking GUIs. On the other end, there
is the GladeGen tool which
On 2006-05-06, Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since numpy seems to be working on a variety of platforms/hardware,
how hard would it be to extract this functionality from it to add to
Python proper?
Harder than just enabling fpectl.
Last thing I heard fpectl was considered to be
On May 6, 2006, at 4:39 PM, Aengys wrote:
Hi all,
Being struck by article 7421 of the linux journal
(http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7421), I'll tried to give it a
go.
Mainly because I have done some experiments with Glade and found that
it is really easy to create good looking
On 2006-05-06, Terry Reedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's Python 2.4.1 on Mac OS X.
float(NaN)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File pyshell#5, line 1, in -toplevel-
float(NaN)
ValueError: invalid literal for float(): NaN
As Tim Peters has said often enough, this sort of thing
Alex Martelli wrote:
Ken Tilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Martin P. Hellwig wrote:
Bill Atkins wrote:
cut
How do you define scalability?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=define%3AscalabilitybtnG=Google+Search
Damn! Google can do that?! Omigod!!! Not joking, I never knew that,a
O/S: Win2K
Vsn of Python: 2.4
Here is copy/paste from interactive window of pythonwin:
x = Joe's desk
y = 'Joe\x92s desk'
type(x)
type 'str'
type(y)
type 'str'
print x
Joe's desk
print y
Joe's desk
if x == y:
... print 'equal'
... else:
... print 'not equal'
...
not equal
len(x)
Ken Tilton wrote:
Come on, try just one meaty Common Lisp project at Google. Have someone
port Cells to Python. I got halfway done but decided I would rather be
doing Lisp. uh-oh. Does Python have anything like special variables? :)
Omigod. I scare myself sometimes. This would be a great
Hi
could someone help me to find out whats wrong with this code?
code
import os, sys
if len(sys.argv) 2:
sys.exit(please enter a suitable directory.)
dpath = sys.argv[1]
for name in os.listdir(dpath):
if os.isfile(dpath+name):
infile =
Gary Wessle wrote:
Hi
could someone help me to find out whats wrong with this code?
code
import os, sys
if len(sys.argv) 2:
sys.exit(please enter a suitable directory.)
dpath = sys.argv[1]
for name in os.listdir(dpath):
if
Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2006-05-06, Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since numpy seems to be working on a variety of platforms/hardware,
how hard would it be to extract this functionality from it to add to
Python proper?
Harder than just enabling fpectl.
Last thing I heard fpectl was
Ken Tilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
Looks like dictionaries are no match for the ambiguity of natural
language. :) Let me try again: it is Python itself that cannot scale, as
in gain new power and capability, and at least in the case of lambda
it seems to be because of
On Thursday 04 May 2006 12:57, Tim Williams wrote:
(and why do you
seem to think that this matters, btw ?)
I actually think it is complete twaddle
For my part, I have to agree with you on this one.
In terms of any subjective to-and-fro'ing regarding the languages
themselves I did some
Ryan Forsythe wrote:
Gary Wessle wrote:
Hi
I am trying to print out the contents of a directory, sorted.
...
if I remove .sort() at the end of line 6 I get an unsorted list of
files, if I leave it I get None. who do I fix this?
`blah.sort()` sorts in-place and returns None. You probably
Edward Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think both your goal and his (spreading free software at the
expense of non-free) are counterproductive.
Huh? A goal is counterproductive? By what do you measure
counterproductive, if not the goal?
Organizations (and people) should look for the
Hi there,
I'm pleased to announce a new bug-fix release of Pynakotheka.
Pynakotheka is a simple GPL-licensed python script which generates
static HTML photo albums to be added to web sites or to be burnt in CDs.
It includes some templates and it's easy to create more.
It depends on python,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
My questions are:
Mostly answered in the language reference:
URL:http://docs.python.org/ref/strings.html
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_o__)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) writes:
Ken Tilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
Looks like dictionaries are no match for the ambiguity of natural
language. :) Let me try again: it is Python itself that cannot scale, as
in gain new power and capability, and at least in the case of
On 2006-05-06, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
On Sat, 06 May 2006 19:55:35 GMT, Dennis Lee Bieber
[EMAIL PROTECTED] declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
splits = encData.split(#, 1)
Whoops # = =
Since there are only what, five, escaped characters, the use of a
Hi Python Worriors I am looking for a py script which will send me email when ever my diskbecomes more than 90% full. By the way my OS is Win XP.If anybody have already has written same type of script or something very similar kind of script will also be great. Thanks a lot to all in
Alex Martelli wrote:
Ken Tilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
Looks like dictionaries are no match for the ambiguity of natural
language. :) Let me try again: it is Python itself that cannot scale, as
in gain new power and capability, and at least in the case of lambda
it seems to be
Bill Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
``allow ( as an ordinary single-character identifier'' as for the
unneded feature ``allow unnamed functions with all the flexibility of
named ones''.
Not so infeasible:
(let ((|bizarrely(named()symbol| 3))
(+ |bizarrely(named()symbol|
Gary Herron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Gary Wessle wrote:
Hi
is there a module to do things like concatenate all files in a given
directory into a big file, where all the files have the same data
formate?
name address phone_no.
or do I have to open each, read from old/write-or-append
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
O/S: Win2K
Vsn of Python: 2.4
Here is copy/paste from interactive window of pythonwin:
...
My questions are:
1) is the 'x' character within the variable y a signal that what
follows is a hex value?
Sort of; it is the \x pair that signals this. This is in the Python
Thank you. Yes, that post answers most of the questions. I now have a
bit of an understanding of the \xhh pattern. It's still unclear to me,
however, how one can go from the \x92 pattern and arrive at the
apostrophe character. Is \x92 theh apostrophe character in another
character set? If so,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) writes:
Bill Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
``allow ( as an ordinary single-character identifier'' as for the
unneded feature ``allow unnamed functions with all the flexibility of
named ones''.
Not so infeasible:
(let
Is there a good way to splice two lists together without resorting to a
manual loop? Say I had 2 lists:
l1 = [a,b,c]
l2 = [1,2,3]
And I want a list:
[a,1,b,2,c,3] as the result.
I've been searching around but I can't seem to find a good example.
Thanks,
Dan McLeran
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It appears that apps distributed as Python Eggs are either a single
compressed
blob in site-packages directory or a directory under site-packages
directory.
Is this ALWAYS true? So by just erasing stuff under site-packages
I can do a COMPLETE uninstallation of an
Ken Tilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
True but circular, because my very point is that () was a great design
choice in that it made macros possible and they made CL almost
infinitely extensible, while indentation-sensitivity was a mistaken
design choice because it makes for very clean
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It appears that apps distributed as Python Eggs are either a single
compressed
blob in site-packages directory or a directory under site-packages
directory.
Is this ALWAYS true?
No.
So by just erasing stuff under site-packages
I can do a
Bill Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
Read again what I wrote: I very specifically said ordinary
*single-character* identifier (as opposed to one of many characters
inside a multi-character identifier). Why do you think I said
otherwise, when you just quoted what I had written?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a good way to splice two lists together without resorting to a
manual loop? Say I had 2 lists:
l1 = [a,b,c]
l2 = [1,2,3]
And I want a list:
[a,1,b,2,c,3] as the result.
I've been searching around but I can't seem to find a good
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) writes:
Ken Tilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
True but circular, because my very point is that () was a great design
choice in that it made macros possible and they made CL almost
infinitely extensible, while indentation-sensitivity was a mistaken
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