Pygame.draw challenge is over!

2006-06-25 Thread richard
It was quite successful too! Download the submissions from the pyweek.org site: http://media.pyweek.org/static/pgd-200606.zip Congratulations to all who participated! Richard -- Visit the PyWeek website: http://www.pyweek.org/ --

Re: MSoffice metadata

2006-06-25 Thread Gary Herron
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi is there a module in Python to extract metadata in MS office documents thanks Perhaps. OpenOffice can read and write MS office files, and OpenOffice has an API (called UNO for Universal Network Objects) which has a Python binding (called the Python-UNO bridge).

Re: subprocess.Popen on Windows

2006-06-25 Thread Uri Nix
Hi, Been there - try looking at: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/f2cb83e948326ff5/d69feabbfc940b01?q=uri.nixrnum=2#d69feabbfc940b01 Cheers, Uri -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: String negative indices?

2006-06-25 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 21:15:17 -0700, Erik Max Francis wrote: Steven D'Aprano wrote: In mathematics, well, maybe... certainly in the Real number system, there is no difference, and +0 and -0 are just two ways of writing the same thing. In the hyperreals, +0 and -0 are the same, but there are

Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

2006-06-25 Thread George Neuner
On 22 Jun 2006 08:42:09 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Darren New schrieb: I'm pretty sure in Pascal you could say Type Apple = Integer; Orange = Integer; and then vars of type apple and orange were not interchangable. No, the following compiles perfectly fine (using GNU Pascal): program

Re: String negative indices?

2006-06-25 Thread Erik Max Francis
Steven D'Aprano wrote: Steven D'Aprano wrote: In matrix maths, there are an infinite number of different matrices where all the elements are zero -- they are all distinct, different, zeroes. What do you even mean by that? By matrix maths, do you just mean matrices whose elements are

Python taught in schools?

2006-06-25 Thread MilkmanDan
I'll be a college freshman this fall, attending Florida Institute of Tech studying electrical engineering. I was considering taking some classes in programming and computer science, and I happened to notice that everything taught is using C++. After further research, it seems to me that C++ seems

Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

2006-06-25 Thread Anton van Straaten
David Hopwood wrote: But since the relevant feature that the languages in question possess is dynamic tagging, it is more precise and accurate to use that term to describe them. So you're proposing to call them dynamically-tagged languages? Also, dynamic tagging is only a minor help in this

Make Microsoft angry!

2006-06-25 Thread 1gentle . giant
Make Microsoft angry! How? Click here and find out: http://xthost.info/browser/index.htm -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

2006-06-25 Thread Anton van Straaten
Marshall wrote: Chris F Clark wrote: I'm particularly interested if something unsound (and perhaps ambiguous) could be called a type system. I definitely consider such things type systems. I don't understand. You are saying you prefer to investigate the unsound over the sound? The

Can you help me with the below code? Urgent!

2006-06-25 Thread gokcemutlu
I want to trace a function while it executes and keep its local variables as states. In trace function all the things work well but after all when I print states, they are all the same. I couldn't solve the problem. I guess it's because of frame, please can you help me? import sys states = []

Skunk file upload problem

2006-06-25 Thread shalinmangar
Hi, I am using Skunk web application server. The problem is that when I try to upload files from a form, the web.protocol.Connection object that I use in my python script can only give me the name of the uploaded file. I have no clue as to how to get the binary data itself or where the temp file

Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

2006-06-25 Thread rossberg
Marshall wrote: This means that there's a sense in which the language that the programmer programs in is not the same language that has a formal semantic definition. As I mentioned in another post, programmers are essentially mentally programming in a richer language - a language which

Re: Can you help me with the below code? Urgent!

2006-06-25 Thread Pierre Quentel
This is because in states you store a reference to frame.f_locals, not the value it takes. When you print states, all the items are the same reference to the same object and have the same value If you want to store the values at each cycle you should store a copy of frame.f_locals, which will

logging error with RotatingFileHandler

2006-06-25 Thread flupke
Hi, i'm getting errors with the log module concerning RotatingFileHandler. I'm using Python 2.4.3 on Windows XP SP2. This used to work in previous python versions but since i upgraded to 2.4.3 i get these errors: Traceback (most recent call last): File C:\Python24\lib\logging\handlers.py,

Re: Can you help me with the below code? Urgent!

2006-06-25 Thread gokcemutlu
Hello, You're right about it but this is a simple code which tells my problem. I need actually the frame itself for states and unfortunately copy.copy(frame) throws an exception. Pickling also doesn't work. Do you have any other idea? Thanks, Gokce. Pierre Quentel schrieb: This is because

Re: Entity GUI tool?

2006-06-25 Thread Dave Cook
On 2006-06-22, icebear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ubuntu Drake comes with or allows you to install something called entity which sounds like it ought to be the world's ultimate Python GUI tool. Looks like it only supports gtk 1.2. Dave Cook --

Re: Can you help me with the below code? Urgent!

2006-06-25 Thread Pierre Quentel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Hello, You're right about it but this is a simple code which tells my problem. I need actually the frame itself for states and unfortunately copy.copy(frame) throws an exception. Pickling also doesn't work. Do you have any other idea? Thanks, Gokce. In your

Re: win32com and name of com

2006-06-25 Thread bli
Roger Upole wrote: bli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (All authors are fairly sparse on the topic using Microsoft examples that are more self evident.) thanks muchly! Your best bet is the documentation for the application. However, if the dll is registered

Re: Can you help me with the below code? Urgent!

2006-06-25 Thread gokcemutlu
Hello, Thanks for your help. I just copy things that I want to keep using copy.copy function. Trying to copy frames won't lead me to anywhere :) Gokce. Pierre Quentel schrieb: [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Hello, You're right about it but this is a simple code which tells my problem. I

Re: sum fonction in gadfly

2006-06-25 Thread jean-jeanot
Thank you for your help. I have changed StringVar in IntVar and it works! I didn't know that IntVar (as StringVa) were Tkinter Widget variables! (It is important to read the doc!) I made another mistake in the value definition. I'have changed '%s' in %d and it goes perfectly well. It could be

PEP thought experiment: Unix style exec for function/method calls

2006-06-25 Thread Michael
Hi, [ I'm calling this PEP thought experiment because I'm discussing language ideas for python which if implemented would probably be quite powerful and useful, but the increased risk of obfuscation when the ideas are used outside my expected/desired problem domain probably massively

Re: Python in HTML

2006-06-25 Thread Mirco Wahab
Thus spoke [EMAIL PROTECTED] (on 2006-06-23 17:40): Does anyone know of a way to embed python scripts into html, much like you would javascript or php? I do not want to use this to connect to a database, but rather for a functional script to be called when a user clicks on a link to open a

Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

2006-06-25 Thread Joachim Durchholz
George Neuner schrieb: The point is really that the checks that prevent these things must be performed at runtime and can't be prevented by any practical type analysis performed at compile time. I'm not a type theorist but my opinion is that a static type system that could, a priori, prevent

Re: Python taught in schools?

2006-06-25 Thread BartlebyScrivener
dan but out of curiousity does dan anyone know of a school that teaches Python? http://www.python.org/about/quotes/ University of Maryland I have the students learn Python in our undergraduate and graduate Semantic Web courses. Why? Because basically there's nothing else with the flexibility

Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

2006-06-25 Thread Joachim Durchholz
Dimitri Maziuk schrieb: That is the basic argument in favour of compile time error checking, extended to runtime errors. I don't really care if it's the compiler or runtime that tells the luser your code is broken, as long as it makes it clear it's *his* code that's broken, not mine. You can

What is that, swearing (was: Python in HTML)

2006-06-25 Thread Mirco Wahab
Thus spoke Andy Dingley [EMAIL PROTECTED] (on 2006-06-23 18:10): [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Python, like it's (evil?) cousin Perl, Isn't that evil cousin Ruby? Perl's the mad old grandmother in the attic, spewing out incomprehensible [EMAIL PROTECTED]% swearing all day. There's actually a

pypy-0.9.0: stackless, new extension compiler

2006-06-25 Thread Michael Hudson
The PyPy development team has been busy working and we've now packaged our latest improvements, completed work and new experiments as version 0.9.0, our fourth public release. The highlights of this fourth release of PyPy are: **implementation of stackless features** We now support the

Re: Python taught in schools?

2006-06-25 Thread Cameron Laird
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], MilkmanDan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll be a college freshman this fall, attending Florida Institute of Tech studying electrical engineering. I was considering taking some classes in programming and computer science, and I happened to notice that everything taught

Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

2006-06-25 Thread Joachim Durchholz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Joachim Durchholz wrote: A type is the encoding of these properties. A type varying over time is an inherent contradiction (or another abuse of the term type). No. It's just a matter of definition, essentially. E.g. in Smalltalk and Lisp, it does make sense to

Re: Python taught in schools?

2006-06-25 Thread Mirco Wahab
Thus spoke Cameron Laird (on 2006-06-25 13:08): I'll gratuitously add that, even though I'm personally fond of C++, I think teaching it as is done in colleges and high schools (!) amounts to child abuse. It's wildly inappropriate. C++ programming requires you to massively invest your

Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

2006-06-25 Thread Joachim Durchholz
Chris F Clark schrieb: Chris F Clark schrieb: In that sense, a static type system is eliminating tags, because the information is pre-computed and not explicitly stored as a part of the computation. Now, you may not view the tag as being there, but in my mind if there exists a way of

Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

2006-06-25 Thread Joachim Durchholz
Darren New schrieb: John W. Kennedy wrote: 360-family assembler, yes. 8086-family assembler, not so much. And Burroughs B-series, not at all. There was one ADD instruction, and it looked at the data in the addresses to determine whether to add ints or floats. :-) I heard that the

Life + Python = Golly

2006-06-25 Thread Andrew Trevorrow
Golly is an open source, cross-platform Life app which features an unbounded universe and uses Gosper's hashlife algorithm to allow the exploration of patterns at unprecedented scales and speeds. We've just released version 1.0 and Python fans might be interested to hear that we're now using

Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

2006-06-25 Thread Joachim Durchholz
Anton van Straaten schrieb: Marshall wrote: Can you be more explicit about what latent types means? Sorry, that was a huge omission. (What I get for posting at 3:30am.) The short answer is that I'm most directly referring to the types in the programmer's head. Ah, finally that

Re: USB and Python

2006-06-25 Thread Philippe Martin
Many thanks, Philippe Philippe Martin wrote: Hi, I need to talk to a USB device (PC or other) from Python - I am not talking about mounting a file system but sharing information as you would though a TCP-IP socket layer or an RS232 interface. Is there such low-level module available

Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

2006-06-25 Thread Joachim Durchholz
Marshall schrieb: It seems we have languages: with or without static analysis with or without runtime type information (RTTI or tags) with or without (runtime) safety with or without explicit type annotations with or without type inference Wow. And I don't think that's a complete list,

error with string (beginner)

2006-06-25 Thread Alex Pavluck
Hello. I get the following error with the following code. Is there something wrong with my Python installation? code: import types something = input(Enter something and I will tell you the type: ) if type(something) is types.IntType: print you entered an integer elif type(something) is

Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

2006-06-25 Thread Joachim Durchholz
Anton van Straaten schrieb: It seems we have languages: with or without static analysis with or without runtime type information (RTTI or tags) with or without (runtime) safety with or without explicit type annotations with or without type inference Wow. And I don't think that's a complete

Re: HTTP server

2006-06-25 Thread placid
Simon Forman wrote: Ok, seriously, I don't know how pydoc does it, but when I need a quick-and-dirty http server [written in python] I use something like this: from BaseHTTPServer import HTTPServer from SimpleHTTPServer import SimpleHTTPRequestHandler HTTPServer(('', 8000),

Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

2006-06-25 Thread Joachim Durchholz
Andreas Rossberg schrieb: Luca Cardelli has given the most convincing one in his seminal tutorial Type Systems, where he identifies typed and safe as two orthogonal dimensions and gives the following matrix: | typed | untyped ---+---+-- safe | ML|

Eclipse IDE question

2006-06-25 Thread kilnhead
I am trying to use eclipse for python development. Is it possible to run a python script without having to name/setup a configuration? Can eclipse be set up so that run loads the code into the interpreter and goes? I don't want to create a new run config every time I want to run a script. --

Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

2006-06-25 Thread Vesa Karvonen
In comp.lang.functional Joachim Durchholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Even ML and Pascal have ways to circumvent the type system, [...] Show me a Standard ML program that circumvents the type system. -Vesa Karvonen -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

2006-06-25 Thread rossberg
Joachim Durchholz write: Another observation: type safeness is more of a spectrum than a clearcut distinction. Even ML and Pascal have ways to circumvent the type system, No. I'm not sure about Pascal, but (Standard) ML surely has none. Same with Haskell as defined by its spec. OCaml has a

Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

2006-06-25 Thread Pascal Costanza
Joachim Durchholz wrote: Andreas Rossberg schrieb: Luca Cardelli has given the most convincing one in his seminal tutorial Type Systems, where he identifies typed and safe as two orthogonal dimensions and gives the following matrix: | typed | untyped

Re: error with string (beginner)

2006-06-25 Thread K.S.Sreeram
Alex Pavluck wrote: String: Source for exec/eval is unavailable I'm not able to find this message anywhere in the Python-2.4.3 sources. What python version are you using? What input did you enter when the prompt appeared? and copypaste the *exact* exception you got including the full traceback.

Re: pypy-0.9.0: stackless, new extension compiler

2006-06-25 Thread Paul Rubin
I've been away from Usenet for a while but this is the most interesting stuff I've seen here in ages. Way cool. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: error with string (beginner)

2006-06-25 Thread Jon Clements
Alex Pavluck wrote: Hello. I get the following error with the following code. Is there something wrong with my Python installation? code: import types something = input(Enter something and I will tell you the type: ) if type(something) is types.IntType: print you entered an integer

How to parse timestamps containing milliseconds

2006-06-25 Thread Christopher Helck
Hi,I'm trying to read a file containing timestamps with milliseconds (2006/3/18 8:20:34.050). The DateTime object seems to take milliseconds (microseconds really) but the strftime method doesn't have a format code for the millisecond field (in other languages I've used %s.). When I try to parse I

Re: error with string (beginner)

2006-06-25 Thread Jason
I believe what you are trying to do is something like the following. [code] def isIntLike(x): try:int(x) except: return False else: return True something = raw_input(Enter something and I will tell you the type: ) if isIntLike(something):print I am an int

Re: Python taught in schools?

2006-06-25 Thread faulkner
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering I TAed a python class last semester, and am using it to build a webapp for the Arts and Humanities dept. http://www.olin.edu MilkmanDan wrote: I'll be a college freshman this fall, attending Florida Institute of Tech studying electrical engineering. I

Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

2006-06-25 Thread David Hopwood
Joachim Durchholz wrote: Andreas Rossberg schrieb: Luca Cardelli has given the most convincing one in his seminal tutorial Type Systems, where he identifies typed and safe as two orthogonal dimensions and gives the following matrix: | typed | untyped

Re: MSoffice metadata

2006-06-25 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: hi is there a module in Python to extract metadata in MS office documents You can automate MS Office using the python win32 com extensions of Mark Hammond. They come bundled with the active-state python build, or can be obtained separately. Diez --

Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

2006-06-25 Thread David Hopwood
Chris F Clark wrote: Chris Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Unfortunately, I have to again reject this idea. There is no such restriction on type theory. Rather, the word type is defined by type theorists to mean the things that they talk about. Do you reject that there could be

Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

2006-06-25 Thread David Hopwood
David Hopwood wrote: Chris F Clark wrote: I'm particularly interested if something unsound (and perhaps ambiguous) could be called a type system. Yes, but not a useful one. The situation is the same as with unsound formal systems; they still satisfy the definition of a formal system. I

Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

2006-06-25 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] | and even C is typesafe unless you use unsafe constructs. | | Tautology. Every language is safe unless you use unsafe constructs. | (Unfortunately, you can hardly write interesting programs in any safe | subset of C.) Fortunately, some people do, as living

Re: Saying latently-typed language is making a category mistake

2006-06-25 Thread David Hopwood
Matthias Blume wrote: David Hopwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Patricia Shanahan wrote: Vesa Karvonen wrote: ... An example of a form of informal reasoning that (practically) every programmer does daily is termination analysis. [...] Given a program, it may be possible to formally prove that it

array manipulation without for loops

2006-06-25 Thread Sheldon
Hi, I have two arrays that are of the same dimension but having 3 different values: 255, 1 or 2. I would like to set all the positions in both arrays having 255 to be equal, i.e., where one array has 255, I set the same elements in the other array to 255 and visa versa. Does anyone know how to do

languages with full unicode support

2006-06-25 Thread Xah Lee
Languages with Full Unicode Support As far as i know, Java and JavaScript are languages with full, complete unicode support. That is, they allow names to be defined using unicode. (the JavaScript engine used by FireFox support this) As far as i know, here's few other lang's status: C → No.

Re: array manipulation without for loops

2006-06-25 Thread Gary Herron
Sheldon wrote: Hi, I have two arrays that are of the same dimension but having 3 different values: 255, 1 or 2. I would like to set all the positions in both arrays having 255 to be equal, i.e., where one array has 255, I set the same elements in the other array to 255 and visa versa. Does

Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

2006-06-25 Thread rossberg
Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: | | (Unfortunately, you can hardly write interesting programs in any safe | subset of C.) Fortunately, some people do, as living job. I don't think so. Maybe the question is what a safe subset consists of. In my book, it excludes all features that are potentially

Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

2006-06-25 Thread Chris F Clark
Chris F Clark (I) wrote: I'm particularly interested if something unsound (and perhaps ambiguous) could be called a type system. I definitely consider such things type systems. Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't understand. You are saying you prefer to investigate the unsound over

Re: Python taught in schools?

2006-06-25 Thread Alex Martelli
MilkmanDan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll be a college freshman this fall, attending Florida Institute of Tech studying electrical engineering. I was considering taking some classes in programming and computer science, and I happened to notice that everything taught is using C++. After

Re: Python taught in schools?

2006-06-25 Thread David Reed
MilkmanDan wrote: I'll be a college freshman this fall, attending Florida Institute of Tech studying electrical engineering. I was considering taking some classes in programming and computer science, and I happened to notice that everything taught is using C ++. After further research,

Re: languages with full unicode support

2006-06-25 Thread Frank Buss
Xah Lee wrote: Lisps → No. The Common Lisp spec (CLHS) doesn't require that implementations support Unicode characters, but it doesn't forbid it and some implementations support it, e.g. http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes.html -- Frank Buss, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.frank-buss.de,

Re: array manipulation without for loops

2006-06-25 Thread Sheldon
Hi Gary, I am really trying to cut the time down as I have 600+ arrays with dimensions (1215,1215) to compare and I do a lot more things with the arrays. If I understand you correctly, there is no way around a for loop? /Sheldon Gary Herron wrote: Sheldon wrote: Hi, I have two arrays

Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

2006-06-25 Thread Chris Smith
Joachim Durchholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, I have to insist that it's not me who's stretching terms here. All textbook definitions that I have seen define a type as the set/operations/axioms triple I mentioned above. No mention of immutability, at least not in the definitions. The

Re: HTTP server

2006-06-25 Thread Simon Forman
placid wrote: Simon Forman wrote: ... For what you're asking about you'd probably want to use the CGIHTTPRequestHandler from the CGIHTTPServer module instead. Check out http://docs.python.org/lib/module-CGIHTTPServer.html This is what i was after, thanks for the tip. You're welcome,

Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

2006-06-25 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: | | | | (Unfortunately, you can hardly write interesting programs in any safe | | subset of C.) | | Fortunately, some people do, as living job. | | I don't think so. Maybe the question is what a safe subset consists | of. In my book, it

Re: array manipulation without for loops

2006-06-25 Thread Alex Martelli
Sheldon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have two arrays that are of the same dimension but having 3 different values: 255, 1 or 2. I would like to set all the positions in both arrays having 255 to be equal, i.e., where one array has 255, I set the same elements in the other array to 255 and visa

Re: array manipulation without for loops

2006-06-25 Thread Alex Martelli
Sheldon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Gary, I am really trying to cut the time down as I have 600+ arrays with dimensions (1215,1215) to compare and I do a lot more things with the arrays. If I understand you correctly, there is no way around a for loop? In pure Python (w/o extension

Re: array manipulation without for loops

2006-06-25 Thread Gary Herron
Sheldon wrote: Hi Gary, I am really trying to cut the time down as I have 600+ arrays with dimensions (1215,1215) to compare and I do a lot more things with the arrays. If I understand you correctly, there is no way around a for loop? Well no. I gave you two alternatives to for loops.

Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

2006-06-25 Thread Scott David Daniels
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Huh? There is a huge, fundamental difference: namely whether a type system is sound or not. A soundness proof is obligatory for any serious type theory, and failure to establish it simply is a bug in the theory. So you claim Java and Objective C are simply bugs in the

Re: array manipulation without for loops

2006-06-25 Thread Sheldon
Alex, I am using Numeric and have created 3 arrays: zero((1215,1215),Float) Two arrays are compared and one is used to hold the mean difference between the two compared arrays. Then I compare 290 or 340 pairs of arrays. I know that memory is a problem and that is why I don't open all of these

Re: array manipulation without for loops

2006-06-25 Thread Tim Chase
I have two arrays that are of the same dimension but having 3 different values: 255, 1 or 2. I would like to set all the positions in both arrays having 255 to be equal, i.e., where one array has 255, I set the same elements in the other array to 255 and visa versa. Does anyone know how to do

Re: error with string (beginner)

2006-06-25 Thread Cameron Laird
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alex Pavluck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I get the following error with the following code. Is there something wrong with my Python installation? code: import types something = input(Enter something and I will tell you the type: ) if type(something) is

Re: Python taught in schools?

2006-06-25 Thread diffuser78
I think there is a Python club at UCF, Orlandomight help you indirectly. MilkmanDan wrote: I'll be a college freshman this fall, attending Florida Institute of Tech studying electrical engineering. I was considering taking some classes in programming and computer science, and I happened

Re: Python taught in schools?

2006-06-25 Thread diffuser78
I replied to a wrong post. My bad.I know for sure that there is some kinda Python Club at UCF Orlando. There is Prof called Michael Johnson who teaches Physics gives you an intro to Python. http://www.physics.ucf.edu/~mdj/MinimalPython.html Good Luck --

Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

2006-06-25 Thread Marshall
Joachim Durchholz wrote: Anton van Straaten schrieb: It seems we have languages: with or without static analysis with or without runtime type information (RTTI or tags) with or without (runtime) safety with or without explicit type annotations with or without type inference Wow.

Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

2006-06-25 Thread Chris Smith
Anton van Straaten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is that there are no useful sound definitions for the type systems (in the static sense) of dynamically-typed languages. Yet, we work with type-like static properties in those languages all the time, as I've been describing. I

Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

2006-06-25 Thread J�rgen Exner
Scott David Daniels wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Huh? There is a huge, fundamental difference: namely whether a type system is sound or not. A soundness proof is obligatory for any serious type theory, and failure to establish it simply is a bug in the theory. So you claim Java and

Re: Eclipse IDE question

2006-06-25 Thread seerhut
kilnhead wrote: I am trying to use eclipse for python development. Is it possible to run a python script without having to name/setup a configuration? Can eclipse be set up so that run loads the code into the interpreter and goes? I don't want to create a new run config every time I want to

Re: array manipulation without for loops

2006-06-25 Thread Alex Martelli
Sheldon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex, I am using Numeric and have created 3 arrays: zero((1215,1215),Float) Two arrays are compared and one is used to hold the mean difference between the two compared arrays. Then I compare 290 or 340 pairs of arrays. I know that memory is a problem and

Re: array manipulation without for loops

2006-06-25 Thread Alex Martelli
Tim Chase [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... all = [(x==255 or y==255) and (255, 255) or (x,y) for (x,y) in itertools.izip(a1,a2)] b1 = [x[0] for x in all] b2 = [x[1] for x in all] a1, a2 = b1, b2 # if you want them to replace the originals Seems to do what I understand that you're

Re: Saying latently-typed language is making a category mistake

2006-06-25 Thread Chris Smith
Chris Uppal wrote: It seems to me that most (all ? by definition ??) kinds of reasoning where we want to invoke the word type tend to have a form where we reduce values (and other things we want to reason about) to equivalence classes[*] w.r.t the judgements we wish to make, and (usually)

Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

2006-06-25 Thread Joachim Durchholz
Chris Smith schrieb: Joachim Durchholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, I have to insist that it's not me who's stretching terms here. All textbook definitions that I have seen define a type as the set/operations/axioms triple I mentioned above. No mention of immutability, at least not in

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Re: array manipulation without for loops

2006-06-25 Thread Sheldon
Hi Alex, I will code this in a little while and get back to you. Terrific! I saw this function but I skipped over it without realizing what it could do. The Numeric doc is not very good and I am just getting into Python so your book sounds great especially since it covers Numeric. I will look

Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

2006-06-25 Thread rossberg
Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: | | | | (Unfortunately, you can hardly write interesting programs in any safe | | subset of C.) | | Fortunately, some people do, as living job. | | I don't think so. Maybe the question is what a safe subset

Re: sum fonction in gadfly

2006-06-25 Thread Scott David Daniels
jean-jeanot wrote: Thank you for your help. You're welcome. It could be useful for me to change of DB ? Which one ? Postgresql or another ? Well, if gadfly is serving you well, you might as well stay with it. Python 2.5 comes with sqlite3, which might well be a nice small step. I find

Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

2006-06-25 Thread Joachim Durchholz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Joachim Durchholz write: Another observation: type safeness is more of a spectrum than a clearcut distinction. Even ML and Pascal have ways to circumvent the type system, No. I'm not sure about Pascal, You'd have to use an untagged union type. It's the standard

Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

2006-06-25 Thread rossberg
Scott David Daniels wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Huh? There is a huge, fundamental difference: namely whether a type system is sound or not. A soundness proof is obligatory for any serious type theory, and failure to establish it simply is a bug in the theory. So you claim Java and

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Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

2006-06-25 Thread Joachim Durchholz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: | | (Unfortunately, you can hardly write interesting programs in any safe | subset of C.) Fortunately, some people do, as living job. I don't think so. Maybe the question is what a safe subset consists of. In my book, it excludes all

Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

2006-06-25 Thread Joachim Durchholz
Pascal Costanza schrieb: Another observation: type safeness is more of a spectrum than a clearcut distinction. Even ML and Pascal have ways to circumvent the type system, and even C is typesafe unless you use unsafe constructs. IOW from a type-theoretic point of view, there is no real

Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

2006-06-25 Thread Anton van Straaten
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In this context, the term latently-typed language refers to the language that a programmer experiences, not to the subset of that language which is all that we're typically able to formally define. That language is not a subset, if at all, it's the other way round,

Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

2006-06-25 Thread Chris Smith
Joachim Durchholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The immutability comes from the fact (perhaps implicit in these textbooks, or perhaps they are not really texts on formal type theory) that types are assigned to expressions, That doesn't *define* what's a type or what isn't! I'm sorry if

Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

2006-06-25 Thread Andrew McDonagh
Joachim Durchholz wrote: Chris Smith schrieb: Joachim Durchholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, I have to insist that it's not me who's stretching terms here. All textbook definitions that I have seen define a type as the set/operations/axioms triple I mentioned above. No mention of

Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

2006-06-25 Thread Marshall
Chris F Clark wrote: Chris F Clark (I) wrote: I'm particularly interested if something unsound (and perhaps ambiguous) could be called a type system. I definitely consider such things type systems. Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't understand. You are saying you prefer to

What technologies should I use for my application manager?

2006-06-25 Thread MrBlueSky
Hello! I've just finished working on my first Python app (a Tkinter-based program that displays the content of our application log files in graphical format). It was a great experience that's had a very positive response from my colleagues. So I'd like to try something different for my second

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