ANN: PyVISA 1.1 -- GPIB, USB, RS232 instrument control

2006-11-22 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! At http://pyvisa.sourceforge.net you can find information about the PyVISA package. It realises Python bindings for the VISA library functions, which enables you to control GPIB, USB, and RS232-serial measurement devices via Python. Yesterday I released version 1.1, which works much

What Guido does for his day job

2006-11-22 Thread Neal Norwitz
Ever wonder what Guido has been doing at Google? Now is your chance to find out! Guido has worked at Google for nearly a year. He splits his time between working on Python and working on Google projects. He will be giving a presentation and demo on Nov 30, 2006. I won't spoil it, but this

Sydney Python Users Meetup

2006-11-22 Thread hex-dump
Tonight November 23 from 6:30-8:30 pm, there will be a social gathering of Sydney Python Users Group and any individuals interested in discussing Python, Web, Zope, Plone, Ruby, Perl etc over drinks. Laptops, code review etc allowed. We will meet on the ground floor next to the internal entrance

Re: Is python for me?

2006-11-22 Thread cyberco
One resource you should always keep at hand is this extremely useful Quick Reference: http://rgruet.free.fr/PQR24/PQR2.4.html Study it carefully, there is a lot in there that can teach you about how Python works. Fire up IPython as well and start hacking! 2B --

Re: Quadratic Optimization Problem

2006-11-22 Thread Stefan Behnel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to do a quadratic optimization problem in python where the constraints are quadratic and objective function is linear. What are the possible choices to do this. Too bad these homework assignments get trickier every time, isn't it? Stefan --

Re: re.match -- not greedy?

2006-11-22 Thread Ant
EXI-Andrews, Jack wrote: the '*' and '+' don't seem to be greedy.. they will consume less in order to match a string: import re;re.match('(a+)(ab)','aaab').groups() ('aa', 'ab') this is the sort of behaviour i'd expect from '(a+?)(ab)' a+ should greedily consume a's at the expense

Re: Trying to understand Python objects

2006-11-22 Thread Fredrik Lundh
walterbyrd wrote: 1) Can attributes can added just anywhere? I create an object called point, then I can add attributes any time, and at any place in the program? in general, yes, but that should be done sparingly. 2) Are classes typically created like this: class Point: pass Then

Re: Parsing/Splitting Line

2006-11-22 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Noah Rawlins wrote: I'm a nut for regular expressions and obfuscation... import re def splitline(line, size=4): return re.findall(r'.{%d}' % size, line) splitline(helloiamsuperman) ['hell', 'oiam', 'supe', 'rman'] there are laws against such use of regular expressions in

file backup in windows

2006-11-22 Thread k.i.n.g.
Hi ALL, I am a newbee programmer and started of with python recently. I am trying write a script which backups outlook (.pst ) files everytime I shutdown my system. I have writtern following code after some findings on net. My .pst file path is as follows c:\documents and settings\060577\Local

Re: How to sort list

2006-11-22 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Klaus Alexander Seistrup wrote: Decorate-sort-undecorate? #v+ array = [] for addr in Emails: (user, domain) = addr.split('@') array.append((domain, user, addr)) # end for array.sort() SortedEmails = [addr for (user, domain, addr) in array] #v- note that DSU is built

Python visual IDE

2006-11-22 Thread king kikapu
Hi to all, i am not sure if this question really belongs here but anyway, here it goes: I have seen a lot of IDEs for Python, a lot of good stuff but actually none of them has what, for example, Visual Studio has: a Visual Editor (with the ability to place controls on forms etc etc), or RAD I

Re: Parsing/Splitting Line

2006-11-22 Thread Georg Brandl
Fredrik Lundh schrieb: Noah Rawlins wrote: I'm a nut for regular expressions and obfuscation... import re def splitline(line, size=4): return re.findall(r'.{%d}' % size, line) splitline(helloiamsuperman) ['hell', 'oiam', 'supe', 'rman'] there are laws against such use of

Pyparsing Question.

2006-11-22 Thread Ant
I have a home-grown Wiki that I created as an excercise, with it's own wiki markup (actually just a clone of the Trac wiki markup). The wiki text parser I wrote works nicely, but makes heavy use of regexes, tags and stacks to parse the text. As such it is a bit of a mantainability nightmare -

Re: file backup in windows

2006-11-22 Thread Fredrik Lundh
k.i.n.g. wrote: how can i make the following code work, I have probelm with filepath declaration. http://effbot.org/pyfaq/tutor-i-need-help-im-getting-an-error-in-my-program-what-should-i-do /F -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

gopherlib deprecated in 2.5

2006-11-22 Thread Szabolcs Nagy
I've just seen that gopherlib is deprecated in python 2.5 http://docs.python.org/lib/module-gopherlib.html we still use this protocol (though there are only few working gopher servers are left on the net) My friend just wrote a standard compliant gopher server (pygopherd had some problems oslt)

RE: file backup in windows

2006-11-22 Thread Tim Golden
| c:\documents and settings\060577\Local Settings\Application | Data\Microsoft\Outlook | where 060577 represents username. I want my script to | identigy the user | logged in and go to the resp outlook folder or should be able to read | outlook store directory path from registry and the copy

Re: file backup in windows

2006-11-22 Thread John Machin
k.i.n.g. wrote: Hi ALL, I am a newbee programmer and started of with python recently. I am trying write a script which backups outlook (.pst ) files everytime I shutdown my system. I have writtern following code after some findings on net. My .pst file path is as follows c:\documents and

Re: Is there a list comprehension for this?

2006-11-22 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:00:02 -0800, John Machin wrote: Steven D'Aprano wrote: [snip] def running_sum(dw): Return a list of the running sums of sequence dw rs = [0]*len(dw) for i in range(len(dw)): rs[i] = dw[i] + rs[i-1] Please explain to the newbies why there is

Re: Is there a list comprehension for this?

2006-11-22 Thread John Machin
Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:00:02 -0800, John Machin wrote: Steven D'Aprano wrote: [snip] def running_sum(dw): Return a list of the running sums of sequence dw rs = [0]*len(dw) for i in range(len(dw)): rs[i] = dw[i] + rs[i-1] Please

Re: Is there a list comprehension for this?

2006-11-22 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 02:28:04 -0800, John Machin wrote: Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:00:02 -0800, John Machin wrote: Steven D'Aprano wrote: [snip] def running_sum(dw): Return a list of the running sums of sequence dw rs = [0]*len(dw) for i in

text file parsing (awk - python)

2006-11-22 Thread Daniel Nogradi
Hi list, I have an awk program that parses a text file which I would like to rewrite in python. The text file has multi-line records separated by empty lines and each single-line field has two subfields: node 10 x -1 y 1 node 11 x -2 y 1 node 12 x -3 y 1 and this I would like to parse into a

RE: file backup in windows

2006-11-22 Thread Tim Golden
[... snip ...] | --- | how can i make the following code work, I have probelm with filepath | declaration. | --- | import os, shutil | filepath = ' C:\\Documents and Settings\\060577\\Local |

Re: Trying to understand Python objects

2006-11-22 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
walterbyrd wrote: Reading Think Like a Computer Scientist I am not sure I understand the way it describes the way objects work with Python. 1) Can attributes can added just anywhere? I create an object called point, then I can add attributes any time, and at any place in the program? Apart

Re: file backup in windows

2006-11-22 Thread k.i.n.g.
Thank You all for reply's so far code import os, sys from win32com.shell import shell, shellcon local_app_data = shell.SHGetSpecialFolderPath (0, shellcon.CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA) outlook_path = os.path.join (local_app_data, Microsoft, Outlook) print outlook_path /code) The above code

File upload from client application (non-form based upload)

2006-11-22 Thread stuart
Hi I'm trying to write a Python script to receive and save a file on a web server that has been POST'ed from a client application. In essence, this is similar to handling a file upload from an HTML form. However, I can't use: form = cgi.FieldStorage() fileitem = form['file'] since the file is

Re: Python visual IDE

2006-11-22 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
king kikapu wrote: Hi to all, i am not sure if this question really belongs here but anyway, here it goes: I have seen a lot of IDEs for Python, a lot of good stuff but actually none of them has what, for example, Visual Studio has: a Visual Editor (with the ability to place controls on

Re: file backup in windows

2006-11-22 Thread Mikael Olofsson
k.i.n.g. wrote: [snip code] The above code was fine while printing, when I am trying to use this (outlook_path) to use as source path it is giving file permission error can you please clarify this Did you follow the link that Fredrik Lundh gave you? /MiO --

Data not flushed at the moment

2006-11-22 Thread MindClass
I've to modifying a file, then I use a method imported that access to that file and has to read the new data, but they are not read ( as if the data were not flushed at the moment even using .close() explicitly). --- ... ... # If it is not

Re: file backup in windows

2006-11-22 Thread k.i.n.g.
Hi , I am sorry I am providing the code i used as it is. Being newbee to programming I have tinkerd with various options i found on the net. start of the code

RE: file backup in windows

2006-11-22 Thread Tim Golden
| code | import os, sys | from win32com.shell import shell, shellcon | | local_app_data = shell.SHGetSpecialFolderPath (0, | shellcon.CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA) | outlook_path = os.path.join (local_app_data, Microsoft, Outlook) | | print outlook_path | | /code) | | | The above code was fine

PyQt app in seperate thread

2006-11-22 Thread anders
I am writing a plugin for a piece of software in python, and I want to start up a PyQt GUI in the plugin, without stalling the main thread while the gui is running (later i will want to pass messages between the main thread and the gui thread). I'm new to pyqt, so I'm probably doing something

Capture file descriptors while running an external program

2006-11-22 Thread jfigueiras
Hi all! I have a problem with the module subprocess! The problem is that the external software that I am running under subprocess.Popen opens stdin, stdout, stderr, and other file descriptors to write and read in the hard drive. I know how to capture stdin, stdout and stderr, what I cannot do is

RE: file backup in windows

2006-11-22 Thread Tim Golden
| I am sorry I am providing the code i used as it is. Being newbee to | programming I have tinkerd with various options i found on the net. Thanks. That makes it a lot easier [... snip ...] | source = outlook_path | #source = outlook_path +'\\*' | print source [...] | win32file.CopyFile

Re: Python visual IDE

2006-11-22 Thread king kikapu
hmmm,,,ok, i see your point. As i understand it, as a newcomer, it is a little cumbersome to right the code in one ide, glue the UI from another toll and all that stuff. I know it works but if someone is coming from VS.Net, it seems a little strange, at first. I also saw that the wxWidgets is

Re: text file parsing (awk - python)

2006-11-22 Thread Peter Otten
Daniel Nogradi wrote: I have an awk program that parses a text file which I would like to rewrite in python. The text file has multi-line records separated by empty lines and each single-line field has two subfields: node 10 x -1 y 1 node 11 x -2 y 1 node 12 x -3 y 1 and this

XML Validation in Python using XSV

2006-11-22 Thread bmichel
I'd like to use XSV for validating an XML file in Python. I am working on Linux Debian platform. I'm not sure how to install XSV and how to configure it. My goal is to be able to import the XSV library in Python and be able to use it's functions. XSV v2.10 for Debian available here:

Getting exceptions back from calls to embedded python

2006-11-22 Thread john . pye
Hi all, I have an application that is using embedded python to offer some scripting ability. An API is exposed via SWIG, and I am accessing that API from my embedded python interpreter. Scripts are present as separate files, and I'm invoking them at present using the following: iserr =

Re: PyQt app in seperate thread

2006-11-22 Thread Phil Thompson
On Wednesday 22 November 2006 12:37 pm, anders wrote: I am writing a plugin for a piece of software in python, and I want to start up a PyQt GUI in the plugin, without stalling the main thread while the gui is running (later i will want to pass messages between the main thread and the gui

Re: How to sort list

2006-11-22 Thread Klaus Alexander Seistrup
Fredrik Lundh wrote: note that DSU is built into Python these days: L.sort(key=transform) Sweet, thanks for the hint. Cheers, -- Klaus Alexander Seistrup http://klaus.seistrup.dk/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: XML Validation in Python using XSV

2006-11-22 Thread Stefan Behnel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to use XSV for validating an XML file in Python. I am working on Linux Debian platform. I'm not sure how to install XSV and how to configure it. My goal is to be able to import the XSV library in Python and be able to use it's functions. You can use dpkg to

Re: Pyparsing Question.

2006-11-22 Thread Stefan Behnel
Ant wrote: So I thought I'd look into the pyparsing module, but can't find a simple example of processing random text. Have you looked at the examples on the pyparsing web page? Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: XML Validation in Python using XSV

2006-11-22 Thread bmichel
No particular reason for XSV I just want to validate XML files against an XML schema through Python. If you can suggest any other package for debian, I'll be glad to try it. Michel Stefan Behnel wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to use XSV for validating an XML file in Python. I am

Method argument names

2006-11-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Having a method: def method(self,x,y): is it possible to discover, from outside the method, that the methods arguments are ['self', 'x', 'y']? Thanks. /Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Quadratic Optimization Problem

2006-11-22 Thread Beliavsky
Stefan Behnel wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to do a quadratic optimization problem in python where the constraints are quadratic and objective function is linear. What are the possible choices to do this. Too bad these homework assignments get trickier every time, isn't it? I

Re: Method argument names

2006-11-22 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Having a method: def method(self,x,y): is it possible to discover, from outside the method, that the methods arguments are ['self', 'x', 'y']? import inspect help(inspect.getargspec) HTH -- bruno desthuilliers python -c print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1]

Re: PyQt app in seperate thread

2006-11-22 Thread anders
Phil Thompson wrote: On Wednesday 22 November 2006 12:37 pm, anders wrote: I am writing a plugin for a piece of software in python, and I want to start up a PyQt GUI in the plugin, without stalling the main thread while the gui is running (later i will want to pass messages between the

Re: text file parsing (awk - python)

2006-11-22 Thread Daniel Nogradi
I have an awk program that parses a text file which I would like to rewrite in python. The text file has multi-line records separated by empty lines and each single-line field has two subfields: node 10 x -1 y 1 node 11 x -2 y 1 node 12 x -3 y 1 and this I would

What's going on here?

2006-11-22 Thread Dale Strickland-Clark
Python 2.4.2 (#1, Oct 13 2006, 17:11:24) [GCC 4.1.0 (SUSE Linux)] on linux2 Type help, copyright, credits or license for more information. a = object() a object object at 0xb7bbd438 a.spam = 1 Traceback (most recent call last): File stdin, line 1, in ? AttributeError: 'object' object has no

Re: PyQt app in seperate thread

2006-11-22 Thread Phil Thompson
On Wednesday 22 November 2006 2:06 pm, anders wrote: Phil Thompson wrote: On Wednesday 22 November 2006 12:37 pm, anders wrote: I am writing a plugin for a piece of software in python, and I want to start up a PyQt GUI in the plugin, without stalling the main thread while the gui is

Re: Python visual IDE

2006-11-22 Thread Steve
I haven't used it but Komodo (Professional version) says it has: ActiveState GUI Builder (Komodo Professional only) Enhance your applications with GUI dialogs: Simple, Tk-based dialog builder with seamless round-trip integration, for Perl, Python, Ruby, and Tcl. --

Re: XML Validation in Python using XSV

2006-11-22 Thread Stefan Behnel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stefan Behnel wrote: BTW: any reason you need to use XSV? There are some other libraries out there that can validate XML based on XML Schema and RelaxNG, e.g. lxml. They are much more powerful than XSV. No particular reason for XSV I just want to validate XML files

Re: Trying to understand Python objects

2006-11-22 Thread walterbyrd
Thanks everybody. I will sort all of this out, but right now my head is spinning. Is there some book, or other reference, that explains of this? I was thinking about Python for Dummies. The Think like a Computer Scientist book, and Dive into Python book don't seem to explain Python's object model

Re: Python visual IDE

2006-11-22 Thread king kikapu
I have already downloaded and seen the trial of Komodo Professional. Indeed it has a simple Gui Builder but one can only use TKinter on it. No wxWidgets support and far from truly RAD, but it is the only integrated GUI builder in these IDEs... On Nov 22, 4:31 pm, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: PyQt app in seperate thread

2006-11-22 Thread anders
Phil Thompson wrote: On Wednesday 22 November 2006 2:06 pm, anders wrote: Phil Thompson wrote: On Wednesday 22 November 2006 12:37 pm, anders wrote: I am writing a plugin for a piece of software in python, and I want to start up a PyQt GUI in the plugin, without stalling the main

Re: PyQt app in seperate thread

2006-11-22 Thread Chris Mellon
On 22 Nov 2006 06:43:55 -0800, anders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Phil Thompson wrote: On Wednesday 22 November 2006 2:06 pm, anders wrote: Phil Thompson wrote: On Wednesday 22 November 2006 12:37 pm, anders wrote: I am writing a plugin for a piece of software in python, and I want to

ANN: PyVISA 1.1 -- GPIB, USB, RS232 instrument control

2006-11-22 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! At http://pyvisa.sourceforge.net you can find information about the PyVISA package. It realises Python bindings for the VISA library functions, which enables you to control GPIB, USB, and RS232-serial measurement devices via Python. Yesterday I released version 1.1, which works much

Re: What's going on here?

2006-11-22 Thread Scott David Daniels
Dale Strickland-Clark wrote: Python 2.4.2 (#1, Oct 13 2006, 17:11:24) a = object() a.spam = 1 Traceback (most recent call last): File stdin, line 1, in ? AttributeError: 'object' object has no attribute 'spam' class B(object): pass a = B() a.spam = 1 What is subclassing adding to

Re: What's going on here?

2006-11-22 Thread Richie Hindle
What is subclassing adding to the class here? A __dict__: o = object() dir(o) ['__class__', '__delattr__', '__doc__', '__getattribute__', '__hash__', '__init__', '__new__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__setattr__', '__str__'] class C(object): pass ... c = C() dir(c)

Re: What's going on here?

2006-11-22 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Dale Strickland-Clark wrote: Why can't I assign to attributes of an instance of object? it doesn't have any attribute storage. /F -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python visual IDE

2006-11-22 Thread hg
king kikapu wrote: I have already downloaded and seen the trial of Komodo Professional. Indeed it has a simple Gui Builder but one can only use TKinter on it. No wxWidgets support and far from truly RAD, but it is the only integrated GUI builder in these IDEs... On Nov 22, 4:31 pm, Steve

Re: XML Validation in Python using XSV

2006-11-22 Thread bmichel
I've read a bit about lxml, didn't found anything related to validating XML schema... Maybe you can give more details on how to install lxml and use it in Python to validate XML files against an XML Schema I'm going to ask the server administrator to install lxml, so I can't play around a lot

Re: XML Validation in Python using XSV

2006-11-22 Thread Stefan Behnel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stefan Behnel wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stefan Behnel wrote: BTW: any reason you need to use XSV? There are some other libraries out there that can validate XML based on XML Schema and RelaxNG, e.g. lxml. They are much more powerful than XSV. No particular

Re: What's going on here?

2006-11-22 Thread Gerald Klix
Perhaps this piece of code might explain the behaviour: class C( object ): ... __slots__ = () ... o = C() o.a = 1 Traceback (most recent call last): File input, line 1, in ? AttributeError: 'C' object has no attribute 'a' object behaves like having an implict __slots__ attribute.

Re: file backup in windows

2006-11-22 Thread MC
Hi! are your friend. See, also: filepath = '%HOMEPATH%\\LocalSettings\\Application Data\\Microsoft\\Outlook\\*' and %USERPROFILE% %APPDATA% etc. -- @-salutations Michel Claveau -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: XML Validation in Python using XSV

2006-11-22 Thread bmichel
This works for me. You were very helpful, thank you! Michel Stefan Behnel wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stefan Behnel wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stefan Behnel wrote: BTW: any reason you need to use XSV? There are some other libraries out there that can validate XML based on

Re: Pyparsing Question.

2006-11-22 Thread Paul McGuire
Ant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a home-grown Wiki that I created as an excercise, with it's own wiki markup (actually just a clone of the Trac wiki markup). The wiki text parser I wrote works nicely, but makes heavy use of regexes, tags and stacks to parse

Re: file backup in windows

2006-11-22 Thread Fredrik Lundh
MC wrote: are your friend. to be precise, list2cmdline is your friend. see discussion and examples here: http://effbot.org/pyfaq/why-can-t-raw-strings-r-strings-end-with-a-backslash.htm /F -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python visual IDE

2006-11-22 Thread king kikapu
I didn't know about this product you mention (wxDesigner). I download the trial and it seems pretty good, reminds me the wxGlade. So you make the GUI in this, generate Python code and import the module on your main project and reference it respectively ?? On Nov 22, 4:58 pm, hg [EMAIL

Re: Python visual IDE

2006-11-22 Thread johnf
king kikapu wrote: Hi to all, i am not sure if this question really belongs here but anyway, here it goes: I have seen a lot of IDEs for Python, a lot of good stuff but actually none of them has what, for example, Visual Studio has: a Visual Editor (with the ability to place controls on

Re: Data not flushed at the moment

2006-11-22 Thread MindClass
Here it's very well explained: http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/browse_thread/thread/7bcb01ec38e7e6cd syncdb() method: http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/django/core/management.py#L435 But I'm not sure if is a django problem or from python. MindClass ha escrito:

Re: Python visual IDE

2006-11-22 Thread hg
Yes, Actually when you create the project from wxDesigner, the main will also be generated for you ... then you include the correct files in eclipse (note that one file never needs to be edited ... like glade). I went for wxDesigner years ago when wxglade was fairly unstable ... have not tested

Re: Caution newbie question: python window to stay open ?

2006-11-22 Thread jim-on-linux
Michael, put this at the top of your code. After the window closes read the testLog.out file. It may give you a clue as to what is happening. sys.stdout = open('testLog.out', 'w') jim-on-linux http://www.inqvista.com On Tuesday 21 November 2006 22:20, mkengel wrote: Caution: newbie

Re: PyQt app in seperate thread

2006-11-22 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
OK I see that now. Thanks for pointing that out. So basically, I can't do what I want at all. That's a bit of a pain. Is there no way of tricking Qt into thinking I'm running it in the main thread? Maybe you can either invert the thread-roles - that is, run your main application in a thread,

Re: PyQt app in seperate thread

2006-11-22 Thread anders
Diez B. Roggisch wrote: OK I see that now. Thanks for pointing that out. So basically, I can't do what I want at all. That's a bit of a pain. Is there no way of tricking Qt into thinking I'm running it in the main thread? Maybe you can either invert the thread-roles - that is, run your

Re: PyQt app in seperate thread

2006-11-22 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
anders wrote: Diez B. Roggisch wrote: OK I see that now. Thanks for pointing that out. So basically, I can't do what I want at all. That's a bit of a pain. Is there no way of tricking Qt into thinking I'm running it in the main thread? Maybe you can either invert the thread-roles -

Re: Note about getattr and '.'

2006-11-22 Thread Carl Banks
Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 22:39:09 +0100, Mathias Panzenboeck wrote: Yes, this is known. I think IronPython uses a specialized dictionary for members, which prohibits malformed names. I don't know if there will be such a dictionary in any future CPython version.

Re: text file parsing (awk - python)

2006-11-22 Thread bearophileHUGS
Peter Otten, your solution is very nice, it uses groupby splitting on empty lines, so it doesn't need to read the whole files into memory. But Daniel Nogradi says: But the names of the fields (node, x, y) keeps changing from file to file, even their number is not fixed, sometimes it is (node,

PyParsing and Headaches

2006-11-22 Thread Hugo Ferreira
Hi, I'm trying to construct a parser, but I'm stuck with some basic stuff... For example, I want to match the following: letter = A...Z | a...z literal = letter+ include_bool := + | - term = [include_bool] literal So I defined this as: literal = Word(alphas) include_bool = Optional(oneOf(+

Re: Programmatically replacing an API for another module

2006-11-22 Thread Chris Lambacher
On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 05:00:32PM -0800, Tom Plunket wrote: Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: I've got a bunch of code that runs under a bunch of unit tests. It'd be really handy if when testing I could supply replacement functionality to verify that the right things get called without

Re: Programmatically replacing an API for another module

2006-11-22 Thread Chris Lambacher
I'm just a bit loathe to download and install more stuff when something simpler appears to be near-at-hand. ...especially considering the page describing this module doesn't offer any download links! http://python-mock.sourceforge.net/ How about mini-mock:

KeyboardInterrupt from syscalls

2006-11-22 Thread Fredrik Tolf
Dear List, I was writing a Python extension module, including a sleeping call to poll(2), and noticed, to my great surprise (and joy), that even when blocking there, KeyboardInterrupt still worked properly when sending SIGINTs to the interpreter. It really got me wondering how it works, though.

utf - string translation

2006-11-22 Thread hg
Hi, I'm bringing over a thread that's going on on f.c.l.python. The point was to get rid of french accents from words. We noticed that len('à') != len('a') and I found the hack below to fix the problem ... yet I do not understand - especially since 'à' is included in the extended ASCII table,

How to pass a boolean to a stored proc using Cx_Oracle?

2006-11-22 Thread JG
Hi, I am using Python 2.4 and cx_Oracle. I have a stored proc that takes two arguments. First is an NUMBER, second is a BOOLEAN. How do you call that stored procedure? After properly extablishing a connection, I have something like this: cursor = con.cursor()

Re: KeyboardInterrupt from syscalls

2006-11-22 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Fredrik Tolf wrote: So how does it work? Does my code get to return Py_FALSE, and the interpreter ignores it, seeing that an exception is set? Is a non-local exit performed right over my call stack (in which case my next question would be how to clean up resources being used from my C code)?

Re: utf - string translation

2006-11-22 Thread Fredrik Lundh
hg wrote: We noticed that len('à') != len('a') sounds odd. len('à') == len('a') True are you perhaps using an UTF-8 editor? to keep your sanity, no matter what editor you're using, I recommend adding a coding directive to the source file, and using *only* Unicode string literals for

Re: utf - string translation

2006-11-22 Thread hg
Fredrik Lundh wrote: hg wrote: We noticed that len('à') != len('a') sounds odd. len('à') == len('a') True are you perhaps using an UTF-8 editor? to keep your sanity, no matter what editor you're using, I recommend adding a coding directive to the source file, and using *only*

Re: utf - string translation

2006-11-22 Thread hg
hg wrote: Fredrik Lundh wrote: hg wrote: We noticed that len('à') != len('a') sounds odd. len('à') == len('a') True are you perhaps using an UTF-8 editor? to keep your sanity, no matter what editor you're using, I recommend adding a coding directive to the source file, and using

Re: A python IDE for teaching that supports cyrillic i/o

2006-11-22 Thread od
tool69 wrote: Sorry, but did someone knows if Pida works under Windows ? Thanks. No, it doesn't really. You can start it up with a bit of hacking, and I have seen screenshots around, but only with the scintilla-based editor. We are waiting for SVG support in GTK on windows. Writing a

Re: utf - string translation

2006-11-22 Thread Duncan Booth
hg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: or in other words, put this at the top of your file (where utf-8 is whatever your editor/system is using): # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- and use u'text' for all non-ASCII literals. /F Hi, The problem is that: # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- import

Re: utf - string translation

2006-11-22 Thread hg
Duncan Booth wrote: hg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: or in other words, put this at the top of your file (where utf-8 is whatever your editor/system is using): # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- and use u'text' for all non-ASCII literals. /F Hi, The problem is that: # -*- coding: utf-8

Re: utf - string translation

2006-11-22 Thread Fredrik Lundh
hg wrote: How would you handle the string.maketrans then ? maketrans works on bytes, not characters. what makes you think that you can use maketrans if you haven't gotten the slightest idea what's in the string? if you want to get rid of accents in a Unicode string, you can do the

PyParsing and Headaches

2006-11-22 Thread Bytter
Hi, I'm trying to construct a parser, but I'm stuck with some basic stuff... For example, I want to match the following: letter = A...Z | a...z literal = letter+ include_bool := + | - term = [include_bool] literal So I defined this as: literal = Word(alphas) include_bool = Optional(oneOf(+ -))

Re: Programmatically replacing an API for another module

2006-11-22 Thread Tom Plunket
Chris Lambacher wrote: I'm just a bit loathe to download and install more stuff when something simpler appears to be near-at-hand. ...especially considering the page describing this module doesn't offer any download links! http://python-mock.sourceforge.net/ Oh yeah, and the

Re: utf - string translation

2006-11-22 Thread hg
Fredrik Lundh wrote: hg wrote: How would you handle the string.maketrans then ? maketrans works on bytes, not characters. what makes you think that you can use maketrans if you haven't gotten the slightest idea what's in the string? if you want to get rid of accents in a Unicode

regex problem

2006-11-22 Thread km
Hi all, line is am trying to match is 1959400|Q2BYK3|Q2BYK3_9GAMM Hypothetical outer membra29.90.00011 1 regex i have written is re.compile (r'(\d+?)\|((P|O|Q)\w{5})\|\w{3,6}\_\w{3,5}\s+?.{25}\s{3}(\d+?\.\d)\s+?(\d\.\d+?)') I am trying to extract 0.0011 value from the above line. why

Re: utf - string translation

2006-11-22 Thread John Machin
hg wrote: Duncan Booth wrote: hg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: or in other words, put this at the top of your file (where utf-8 is whatever your editor/system is using): # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- and use u'text' for all non-ASCII literals. /F Hi, The problem is

Re: PyParsing and Headaches

2006-11-22 Thread Chris Lambacher
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 11:17:52AM -0800, Bytter wrote: Hi, I'm trying to construct a parser, but I'm stuck with some basic stuff... For example, I want to match the following: letter = A...Z | a...z literal = letter+ include_bool := + | - term = [include_bool] literal So I defined

Re: gopherlib deprecated in 2.5

2006-11-22 Thread Terry Reedy
Szabolcs Nagy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I've just seen that gopherlib is deprecated in python 2.5 http://docs.python.org/lib/module-gopherlib.html we still use this protocol (though there are only few working gopher servers are left on the net) My friend

Re: Protecting against SQL injection

2006-11-22 Thread Christoph Zwerschke
Tor Erik Soenvisen wrote: How safe is the following code against SQL injection: # Get user privilege digest = sha.new(pw).hexdigest() # Protect against SQL injection by escaping quotes uname = uname.replace(', '') sql = 'SELECT privilege FROM staff

Re: regex problem

2006-11-22 Thread Tim Chase
line is am trying to match is 1959400|Q2BYK3|Q2BYK3_9GAMM Hypothetical outer membra29.90.00011 1 regex i have written is re.compile (r'(\d+?)\|((P|O|Q)\w{5})\|\w{3,6}\_\w{3,5}\s+?.{25}\s{3}(\d+?\.\d)\s+?(\d\.\d+?)') I am trying to extract 0.0011 value from the above line. why

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