Re: Hpw make lists that are easy to sort.

2007-03-30 Thread Anton Vredegoor
Terry Reedy wrote: If I understand correctly, you want to multiiply each of m numbers by each of n numbers, giving m*n products. That is O(m*n) work. Inserting (and extracting) each of these is a constant size m priority cue takes, I believe, O(log(m)) work, for a total of m*n*log(m).

Cheeseshop needs mirrors

2007-03-30 Thread Jon
I'm a frequent helper in the IRC channel for the Pylons web framework. Pylons is installed from eggs using easy_install, and when Cheeseshop is down (or so slow it might as well be down), it gives a bad impression of our framework and Python in general. It took us half an hour to figure out how to

Game programming for kids: looking for open source 2D game development kit

2007-03-30 Thread Max Kubierschky
Hello, I'm planning to give a game programming course for kids of mixed age. For this, I am looking for an open source 2D game development kit. I am also willing to participate in the development of the development kit. Features I'd like to see - Possibility to construct simple games via drag

Remote XML Parsing

2007-03-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How can I parse a remote XML file with Python? And what will I be able to do with this XML file in Python? Sorry if this is a noob-ish question. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python 2.5 fails where 2.4 works when running external program

2007-03-30 Thread Heikki Toivonen
Peter Otten wrote: I think Exception.args always was supposed to be a tuple. Starting with 2.5 Python enforces that constraint: [...] http://docs.python.org/tut/node10.html#SECTION001030 But use of .args is discouraged. Instead, the preferred use is to pass a single argument

Re: Any consumer review generators available?

2007-03-30 Thread nullified
On 29 Mar 2007 20:34:26 -0700, Evil Otto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 29, 2:19 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a fake consumer review generator that could generate realistic looking reviews for any products, kind of like on amazon.com but generated by Artificial

Re: Remote XML Parsing

2007-03-30 Thread Laurent Pointal
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : How can I parse a remote XML file with Python? And what will I be able to do with this XML file in Python? Sorry if this is a noob-ish question. You can process XML data with Python as long as you can get it - you will be able to do what you want with it. How do

Re: Game programming for kids: looking for open source 2D game development kit

2007-03-30 Thread Laurent Pointal
Max Kubierschky a écrit : Hello, I'm planning to give a game programming course for kids of mixed age. For this, I am looking for an open source 2D game development kit. I am also willing to participate in the development of the development kit. Features I'd like to see - Possibility to

Is any way to split zip archive to sections?

2007-03-30 Thread Durumdara
Hi! I want to create some backup archives with python (I want to write a backup application in Python). Some package managers (7z, arj, winzip) can create splitted archives (1 mega, 650, 700 mega, etc). Because I want to ftp these results to a ftp server, I want to split large volumes to 15 mb

Re: with timeout(...):

2007-03-30 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
Nick Craig-Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like there to be something which works well enough for day to day use. Ie doesn't ever wreck the internals of python. It could have some caveats like may not timeout during C functions which haven't released the GIL and that would still make it

Re: Weird behavior in search in a list

2007-03-30 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
Su Y [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want find the first number in extend[] which is larger than num, so I wrote: def find(num): count=0 for elem in extend: if elemnum: count+=1 return count I found that if extend[] is monotonous, like [1.1, 2.3, 3.2, 4.5,

Re: socket read timeout

2007-03-30 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
Jean-Paul Calderone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:29:35 +0200, Hendrik van Rooyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are sockets full duplex? Uh, yes. The reason I asked is that I have noticed that other file like objects (on Suse 10 Linux and Python 2.4 out of the box) aren't

Memory testing in Python

2007-03-30 Thread csselo
Hi all I want to test my python code for memory efficiency in gnu/linux.How can I do this? thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What are OOP's Jargons and Complexities

2007-03-30 Thread Timofei Shatrov
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 06:48:05 GMT, Mike Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] tried to confuse everyone with this message: Xah Lee wrote: So, a simple code like this in normal languages: becomes in Java: Only when written by someone almost entirely ignorant of Java. Which is the state most people

Re: What are OOP's Jargons and Complexities

2007-03-30 Thread bugbear
Xah Lee wrote: So, a simple code like this in normal languages: a = a string; b = another one; c = join(a,b); print c; or in lisp style (set a a string) (set b another one) (set c (join a b)) (print c) becomes in Java: public class test { public static void main(String[]

Re: Game programming for kids: looking for open source 2D game development kit

2007-03-30 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Max Kubierschky schrieb: Hello, I'm planning to give a game programming course for kids of mixed age. For this, I am looking for an open source 2D game development kit. I am also willing to participate in the development of the development kit. Features I'd like to see - Possibility to

Object Oriented Database with interface for Pyhton

2007-03-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello all I am looking for an object oriented database with interffaces for python. Either open source or commercial. I am looking for a Database not a object persistence system. I would like to be able to execute queries outside from the aplication. If posible wih OQL ( object query language )

Indentation for code readability

2007-03-30 Thread DE
Hello, Here is what I do in C++ and can not right now in python : pushMatrix() { drawStuff(); pushMatrix(); { drawSomeOtherStuff() } popMatrix(); } popMatrix(); The curly brackets have no functional meaning but increase the readability significantly. I want

Re: Game programming for kids: looking for open source 2D game development kit

2007-03-30 Thread Max Kubierschky
Diez B. Roggisch schrieb: Max Kubierschky schrieb: Hello, I'm planning to give a game programming course for kids of mixed age. For this, I am looking for an open source 2D game development kit. I am also willing to participate in the development of the development kit. Features I'd like

Re: Indentation for code readability

2007-03-30 Thread Thomas Krüger
DE schrieb: Hello, Here is what I do in C++ and can not right now in python : pushMatrix() { drawStuff(); pushMatrix(); { drawSomeOtherStuff() } popMatrix(); } popMatrix(); The curly brackets have no functional meaning but increase the

Re: Object Oriented Database with interface for Pyhton

2007-03-30 Thread csselo
http://www.sqlalchemy.org/ you ll like it. On 30 Mart, 12:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all I am looking for an object oriented database with interffaces for python. Either open source or commercial. I am looking for a Database not a object persistence system. I

How to get the demension of a video file?

2007-03-30 Thread seppl43
Hello there, does anybody know, how to get the dimension values (width/height) of a quicktime (.mov) and/or a avi-file? Is there perhaps a module which can do this job? Thank you for tips. seppl -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Object Oriented Database with interface for Pyhton

2007-03-30 Thread M�ta-MCI
Hi! http://www.sqlalchemy.org/ No. sqlalchemy is an object-oriented-interface(or wrapper) Alfaeco want an Object-Oriented-Database (like Jasmin, Caché, etc.) @-salutations Michel Claveau -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Object Oriented Database with interface for Pyhton

2007-03-30 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : (top-post corrected) On 30 Mart, 12:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all I am looking for an object oriented database with interffaces for python. Either open source or commercial. I am looking for a Database not a object persistence system.

Re: Cheeseshop needs mirrors

2007-03-30 Thread Paul Boddie
On 30 Mar, 09:05, Jon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If something as widely used as eggs is going to have a single point of failure like the Cheeseshop, we can't have it going down. I'm sure there are other solutions, but my suggestion is simply to have mirrors. It works for Debian, after all. It

Re: How can I get the content of a web site using http library

2007-03-30 Thread Lawrence Oluyede
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-urllib2.html Look into urlopen's data parameter. I add also this tutorial to the plate: http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/urllib2.shtml -- Lawrence, oluyede.org - neropercaso.it It is difficult to get a man to

Re: Game programming for kids: looking for open source 2D game development kit

2007-03-30 Thread Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Max Kubierschky wrote: What part of Squeak is targeted at 2D game development? http://www.squeak.org/Features/FunandGames/ And also take a look at http://www.squeakland.org/ (Kids play → Etoys) which is a framework for children, that let's you paint objects and attach

Re: socket read timeout

2007-03-30 Thread Jean-Paul Calderone
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 08:22:18 +0200, Hendrik van Rooyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jean-Paul Calderone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:29:35 +0200, Hendrik van Rooyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are sockets full duplex? Uh, yes. The reason I asked is that I have noticed that

Library for windows ini-files ?

2007-03-30 Thread stef
hello, is there a Python library for easy reading and writing windows ini-files ? thanks, Stef Mientki -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

python win32com and dispatchbaseclass

2007-03-30 Thread vml
I am a newbie in python and com. I am trying to use python and com to access to a software. I had a look in the file .py describing the interface (generated by makepy) and I found some dispatch base class... My fisrt question is : is it possible to invoke a com object dispatch base class?

Re: Library for windows ini-files ?

2007-03-30 Thread Laurent Pointal
stef a écrit : hello, is there a Python library for easy reading and writing windows ini-files ? http://docs.python.org/lib/module-ConfigParser.html A+ Laurent. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Library for windows ini-files ?

2007-03-30 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
stef schrieb: hello, is there a Python library for easy reading and writing windows ini-files ? Isn't ConfigParser ini-style? I'm not totally sure though. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Indentation for code readability

2007-03-30 Thread Bjoern Schliessmann
DE wrote: The curly brackets have no functional meaning but increase the readability significantly. Personally, I don't think so. It quite explodes the code. Yes, I also indent BSD style in my C++ programs. Regards, Björn -- BOFH excuse #175: OS swapped to disk --

Re: Memory testing in Python

2007-03-30 Thread Cameron Laird
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I want to test my python code for memory efficiency in gnu/linux.How can I do this? . . . What does memory efficiency mean to you? Are you asking how to

Re: PyPy for dummies

2007-03-30 Thread Cameron Laird
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . . . It is also European funding for an open source project with sprints. I'm sure some eurocrat will be dissecting the project to see if it is aa good way to fund

Re: with timeout(...):

2007-03-30 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Nick Craig-Wood schrieb: Diez B. Roggisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I beleive the convention is when calling an OS function which might block the global interpreter lock is dropped, thus allowing other python bytecode to run. So what? That doesn't help you, as you are single-threaded here.

Re: Object Oriented Database with interface for Pyhton

2007-03-30 Thread MC
Salut! Heureusement qu'il y a qq français pour faire un peu de ménage... -- @-salutations Michel Claveau -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: make RE more cleaver to avoid inappropriate : sre_constants.error: redefinition of group name

2007-03-30 Thread aspineux
On 30 mar, 00:13, Paddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 29, 3:22 pm, aspineux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to parse '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' or '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' and get the email address [EMAIL PROTECTED] the regex is r'[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]' now, I want to give

Sending emails to 3 addresses....

2007-03-30 Thread Boudreau, Emile
Hello all, I'm trying to send a results email to 3 people. For some reason only the first person in the list will receive the email but in the received email it shows the 3 addresses. Here is my code, can someone show me where I'm going wrong?? Thanks sendMail('this is the subject line', 'the

Re: Library for windows ini-files ?

2007-03-30 Thread stef
Laurent Pointal wrote: stef a écrit : hello, is there a Python library for easy reading and writing windows ini-files ? http://docs.python.org/lib/module-ConfigParser.html A+ Laurent. thanks Laurent, that seems to be what I was looking for. cheers, Stef --

Re: which methods to use?

2007-03-30 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:55:04 -0300, Gabriel Genellina wrote: En Thu, 29 Mar 2007 01:56:15 -0300, Steven D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: By the way, id(obj) == id(another_object) is just a long way of writing obj is another_object. Just as a side note: that's not true, testing by

Re: Sending emails to 3 addresses....

2007-03-30 Thread Tim Williams
On 30/03/07, Boudreau, Emile [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sendMail('this is the subject line', 'the results: 71 fails, 229 pass, 300 total.', '[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]') def sendMail(subject, body, TO, FROM=[EMAIL PROTECTED]): print TO HOST =

Re: What are OOP's Jargons and Complexities

2007-03-30 Thread Lew
Timofei Shatrov wrote: On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 06:48:05 GMT, Mike Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] tried to confuse everyone with this message: Xah Lee wrote: So, a simple code like this in normal languages: becomes in Java: Only when written by someone almost entirely ignorant of Java.

Re: What are OOP's Jargons and Complexities

2007-03-30 Thread Lew
Xah Lee wrote: public class test { public static void main(String[] args) { String a = new String(a string); String b = new String(another one); StringBuffer c = new StringBuffer(40); c.append(a); c.append(b); System.out.println(c.toString()); } } Er. How

Re: Sending emails to 3 addresses....

2007-03-30 Thread Tim Williams
On 30/03/07, Tim Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Emile, (slight change to my original reply) You are passing the TO addresses as 3 addresses in a single string. [TO] results in a list containing a single string - not a list containing 3 individual addresses. You need to either pass the

RE: Sending emails to 3 addresses....

2007-03-30 Thread Boudreau, Emile
Thanks so much I would of never found that out. Problem SOLVED Emile Boudreau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Williams Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 9:12 AM To: Boudreau, Emile Cc: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Sending

Re: which methods to use?

2007-03-30 Thread Duncan Booth
Steven D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: py id(object()) == id(object()) True py object() is object() False That's weird. How on earth does that happen? The lifetimes of the two objects createted in the first comparison do not overlap: once the call to id() returns it immediately drops

Re: Indentation for code readability

2007-03-30 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 02:04:45 -0700, DE wrote: Hello, Here is what I do in C++ and can not right now in python : pushMatrix() { drawStuff(); pushMatrix(); { drawSomeOtherStuff() } popMatrix(); } popMatrix(); The curly brackets have no

Re: A nice way to use regex for complicate parsing

2007-03-30 Thread aspineux
On 29 mar, 17:33, Paul McGuire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 29, 9:42 am, Shane Geiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be worth learning pyparsing to do this. Thanks to Shane and Steven for the ref to pyparsing. I also was struck by this post, thinking this is pyparsing written in re's

Re: How to get the demension of a video file?

2007-03-30 Thread Bart Ogryczak
On Mar 30, 11:56 am, seppl43 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello there, does anybody know, how to get the dimension values (width/height) of a quicktime (.mov) and/or a avi-file? Is there perhaps a module which can do this job? Identify from ImageMagick. There is a Python binding (PythonMagick,

Re: Indentation for code readability

2007-03-30 Thread Mark Jackson
DE [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, Here is what I do in C++ and can not right now in python : pushMatrix() { drawStuff(); pushMatrix(); { drawSomeOtherStuff() } popMatrix(); } popMatrix(); The curly brackets have no functional meaning but

Re: Object Oriented Database with interface for Pyhton

2007-03-30 Thread Laurent Pointal
MC a écrit : Salut! Heureusement qu'il y a qq français pour faire un peu de ménage... Question de décalage horaire ? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Any consumer review generators available?

2007-03-30 Thread Evil Otto
On Mar 30, 3:46 am, nullified [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29 Mar 2007 20:34:26 -0700, Evil Otto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 29, 2:19 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a fake consumer review generator that could generate realistic looking reviews for any products, kind of

Re: Any consumer review generators available?

2007-03-30 Thread nullified
On 30 Mar 2007 07:01:16 -0700, Evil Otto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 30, 3:46 am, nullified [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29 Mar 2007 20:34:26 -0700, Evil Otto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 29, 2:19 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a fake consumer review generator that could

Re: Indentation for code readability

2007-03-30 Thread DE
Thanks Peter. This sounds like to right solution for my case, because in addition to indentation, I can automate push and pop. I'll investigate this further. I appreciate. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Indentation for code readability

2007-03-30 Thread Duncan Booth
DE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is what I do in C++ and can not right now in python : pushMatrix() { drawStuff(); pushMatrix(); { drawSomeOtherStuff() } popMatrix(); } popMatrix(); If I understand this contortion is because you have some

Re: Indentation for code readability

2007-03-30 Thread DE
I don't understand why you are indenting the function calls. What does the indentation and spacing signify? The indentation of function calls increases readability not in the sense that it is easier to decrypt the code, but rather it is analogous to the coordinate system transformations these

Re: Indentation for code readability

2007-03-30 Thread DE
Thanks Duncan. I guess you and Peter have been typing in the same minute :) It really looks like a good solution, I wasn't aware this with statement in Python. I can imagine the context handler coming handy in other cases too. Devrim -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Indentation for code readability

2007-03-30 Thread Alex Martelli
Thomas Krüger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW: having one way to do it is one of the main ideas of Python's philosophy. Yes, just like C's -- see point 4 in the Spirit of C summary taken from the ISO Standard for C and quoted e.g. at http://www.artima.com/cppsource/spiritofc.html . Of course,

Re: Indentation for code readability

2007-03-30 Thread Paul McGuire
On Mar 30, 4:04 am, DE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The curly brackets have no functional meaning... Curly brackets have no functional meaning? Surely you must be thinking of C, but not C++. Some of the most powerful idioms (idia?) of C++ make use of functionality that runs when a closing bracket

Re: Memory testing in Python

2007-03-30 Thread mkPyVS
While I have a great deal of interest in memory management, my general reaction to your question as you've posed it is, Don't; concentrate for now on good Python style. I agree but for monitoring... I've had good luck with executing a popen to grab and parse output from ps -Af and pass it your

next python berlin user group meeting / naechstes berliner python treffen

2007-03-30 Thread Stephan Diehl
time: 3.4., 7pm place: c-base info: http://groups.google.de/group/python-berlin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Indentation for code readability

2007-03-30 Thread DE
The curly brackets have no functional meaning... Curly brackets have no functional meaning? Surely you must be thinking of C, but not C++. Some of the most powerful idioms (idia?) of C++ make use of functionality that runs when a closing bracket causes local variables to fall out of

Inserting '-' character in front of all numbers in a string

2007-03-30 Thread kevinliu23
Hey guys, I want to be able to insert a '-' character in front of all numeric values in a string. I want to insert the '-' character to use in conjunction with the getopt.getopt() function. Rigt now, I'm implementing a menu system where users will be able to select a set of options like 2a 3ab

New to Python - Easy way to open a text file

2007-03-30 Thread Max Steel
Hey gang, I'm new to python coding. I'm trying to find the simplest way to open a text file (on the same server) and display it's content. The text file is plain text (no markup language of any kind). The filename gets found and placed into a variable named [plainfiles.href] I'm using python

Re: Inserting '-' character in front of all numbers in a string

2007-03-30 Thread kyosohma
On Mar 30, 10:38 am, kevinliu23 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey guys, I want to be able to insert a '-' character in front of all numeric values in a string. I want to insert the '-' character to use in conjunction with the getopt.getopt() function. Rigt now, I'm implementing a menu system

Re: Inserting '-' character in front of all numbers in a string

2007-03-30 Thread Larry Bates
kevinliu23 wrote: Hey guys, I want to be able to insert a '-' character in front of all numeric values in a string. I want to insert the '-' character to use in conjunction with the getopt.getopt() function. Rigt now, I'm implementing a menu system where users will be able to select a

Re: Game programming for kids: looking for open source 2D game development kit

2007-03-30 Thread John Nagle
Max Kubierschky wrote: Diez B. Roggisch schrieb: Max Kubierschky schrieb: Hello, I'm planning to give a game programming course for kids of mixed age. For this, I am looking for an open source 2D game development kit. I am also willing to participate in the development of the

Re: Islam, the Religion of Ease

2007-03-30 Thread adrian . villanustre
On Mar 29, 11:36 am, moslim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Excuse me!! Would you stop for a moment?! O...man...Haven't you thought-one day- about yourself ? Who has made it? Have you seen a design which hasn't a designer ?! Have you seen a wonderful,delicate work without a worker ?! It's you and

Re: New to Python - Easy way to open a text file

2007-03-30 Thread kyosohma
On Mar 30, 10:49 am, Max Steel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey gang, I'm new to python coding. I'm trying to find the simplest way to open a text file (on the same server) and display it's content. The text file is plain text (no markup language of any kind). The filename gets found and placed

Re: New to Python - Easy way to open a text file

2007-03-30 Thread skip
Max Hey gang, I'm new to python coding. I'm trying to find the Max simplest way to open a text file (on the same server) and display Max it's content. Try the open() builtin function: f = open(plainfiles.href, r) print f.read() Skip --

Re: Memory testing in Python

2007-03-30 Thread Cameron Laird
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], mkPyVS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While I have a great deal of interest in memory management, my general reaction to your question as you've posed it is, Don't; concentrate for now on good Python style. I agree but for monitoring... I've had good luck with executing a

Re: make RE more cleaver to avoid inappropriate : sre_constants.error: redefinition of group name

2007-03-30 Thread Paddy
On Mar 30, 1:44 pm, aspineux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30 mar, 00:13, Paddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 29, 3:22 pm, aspineux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to parse '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' or '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' and get the email address [EMAIL PROTECTED] the regex is

Re: Library for windows ini-files ?

2007-03-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mar 30, 1:26 am, stef [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, is there a Python library for easy reading and writing windows ini-files ? thanks, Stef Mientki Maybe check this out? http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/configobj.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

911 was a HEINOUS CRIME by RACIST YANK BASTARDZ - Opinion from JAPANESE Americans

2007-03-30 Thread thermate2
http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/page.php?a=32710 March 28, 2007 at 21:50:23 Breaking my silence on 9/11 Truth by John Kusumi Page 1 of 1 page(s) http://www.opednews.com Tell A Friend Initially I preferred to keep silent about the 9/11 Truth Movement, to not be diverted from my issue.

Re: New to Python - Easy way to open a text file

2007-03-30 Thread Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], kyosohma wrote: I'm not familiar with ezt formats, however reading a text file is a breeze. This sentence doesn't match the code that follow. It's really simpler than that ``while`` loop. f = open(r'pathToFile') while True: line = f.readline() if not

Re: File deletion after 72 hours of creation

2007-03-30 Thread Tim Williams
On 29 Mar 2007 13:40:58 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 29, 12:02 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex I'm looking for a simple method to delete a folder after 72 Alex Business hours (saturday/sunday doesnt count) since its Alex creation. Note that This is

Re: Inserting '-' character in front of all numbers in a string

2007-03-30 Thread Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], kevinliu23 wrote: 2a 3ab into -2a -3ab. In [8]: '-' + ' -'.join('2a 3ab 4xy'.split()) Out[8]: '-2a -3ab -4xy' Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Modules positive surprises

2007-03-30 Thread Steven Bethard
Jan Danielsson wrote: But then there are a few modules that I just love to use, because they are so clean from interface to function. Among them I can't help mentioning optparse. plug If you like optparse, you should try argparse: http://argparse.python-hosting.com/ It has an

Re: Inserting '-' character in front of all numbers in a string

2007-03-30 Thread kevinliu23
Hey guys, thanks for the quick replies. I'm looking for something more generic than adding it to 2a 3ab. For example, under the menu option 2, there can be upwards of 8 other suboptions. I'll see what's suggested here and post back if I run into more problems. Thanks guys! --

Re: Islam, the Religion of Ease

2007-03-30 Thread hg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 29, 11:36 am, moslim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Excuse me!! Would you stop for a moment?! O...man...Haven't you thought-one day- about yourself ? Who has made it? Have you seen a design which hasn't a designer ?! Have you seen a wonderful,delicate work without

Re: Islam, the Religion of Ease

2007-03-30 Thread hg
Just came to me ... if wars were always fought with fish as weapons, they'd be much less hunger in the world ... lol ... (as a non-anglo-saxon, I thought for many years that lol meant Lord, Oh Lord !) hg (Holly Grail) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What are OOP's Jargons and Complexities

2007-03-30 Thread Mike Schilling
Timofei Shatrov wrote: On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 06:48:05 GMT, Mike Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] tried to confuse everyone with this message: Xah Lee wrote: So, a simple code like this in normal languages: becomes in Java: Only when written by someone almost entirely ignorant of Java.

clean up html document created by Word

2007-03-30 Thread jd
I am looking for python code (working or sample code) that can take an html document created by Microsoft Word and clean it up (if you've never had to look at a Word-generated html document, consider yourself lucky ;-) Alternatively, if you know of a non-python solution, I'd like to hear about

Re: What are OOP's Jargons and Complexities

2007-03-30 Thread Mike Schilling
bugbear wrote: Er. How about public class test { public static void main(String[] args) { String a = a string; String b = another one; StringBuffer c = a + b; String c (etc.), that is. System.out.println(c); } } --

Re: clean up html document created by Word

2007-03-30 Thread kyosohma
On Mar 30, 12:20 pm, jd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for python code (working or sample code) that can take an html document created by Microsoft Word and clean it up (if you've never had to look at a Word-generated html document, consider yourself lucky ;-) Alternatively, if you

Re: clean up html document created by Word

2007-03-30 Thread Peter Otten
jd wrote: I am looking for python code (working or sample code) that can take an html document created by Microsoft Word and clean it up (if you've never had to look at a Word-generated html document, consider yourself lucky ;-) Alternatively, if you know of a non-python solution, I'd like

Re: clean up html document created by Word

2007-03-30 Thread jkn
IIUC, the original poster is asking about 'cleaning up' in the sense of removing the swathes of unnecessary and/or redundant 'cruft' that Word puts in there, rather than making valid HTML out of invalid HTML. Again, IIUC, HTMLtidy does not do this. If Beautiful Soup does, then I'm intererested!

Re: clean up html document created by Word

2007-03-30 Thread Shane Geiger
Tidy can now perform wonders on HTML saved from Microsoft Word 2000! Word bulks out HTML files with stuff for round-tripping presentation between HTML and Word. If you are more concerned about using HTML on the Web, check out Tidy's Word-2000 http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/#word2000

Re: clean up html document created by Word

2007-03-30 Thread Peter Otten
jkn wrote: IIUC, the original poster is asking about 'cleaning up' in the sense of removing the swathes of unnecessary and/or redundant 'cruft' that Word puts in there, rather than making valid HTML out of invalid HTML. Again, IIUC, HTMLtidy does not do this. From that very page I linked to:

Re: clean up html document created by Word

2007-03-30 Thread bearophileHUGS
jd: I am looking for python code (working or sample code) that can take an html document created by Microsoft Word and clean it up (if you've never had to look at a Word-generated html document, consider yourself lucky ;-) Alternatively, if you know of a non-python solution, I'd like to hear

Re: Game programming for kids: looking for open source 2D game development kit

2007-03-30 Thread John Salerno
Laurent Pointal wrote: With Python: * pygame + build your drag'n drop features * if you like 3D, vpython. http://www.pygame.org/ http://www.vpython.org/ Wow, vpython looks pretty need. I'm messing around with it right now and reading the docs. But I can't find something...do you know

Re: LRU cache (and other things missing from the standard library ...)

2007-03-30 Thread skip
Evan I agree that LRU caches are a data structure too frequently Evan re-implemented in Python. I'd also like to see a standard cache Evan package, either as part of the standard library or elsewhere. To Evan that end, I've just uploaded an LRU cache package to the Python

Re: Game programming for kids: looking for open source 2D game development kit

2007-03-30 Thread John Salerno
John Salerno wrote: Laurent Pointal wrote: With Python: * pygame + build your drag'n drop features * if you like 3D, vpython. http://www.pygame.org/ http://www.vpython.org/ Wow, vpython looks pretty need. neat* :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Object Oriented Database with interface for Pyhton

2007-03-30 Thread kyosohma
On Mar 30, 8:51 am, Laurent Pointal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MC a écrit : Salut! Heureusement qu'il y a qq français pour faire un peu de ménage... Question de décalage horaire ? Here is a list of all the popular database interface modules:

Re: manually implementing staticmethod()?

2007-03-30 Thread 7stud
Hi, Thanks for the responses. On Mar 28, 4:01 pm, Michael Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 7stud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, Can someone show me how to manually implement staticmethod()? Here is my latest attempt: Raymond Hettinger

Re: LRU cache (and other things missing from the standard library ...)

2007-03-30 Thread skip
Evan http://www.python.org/pypi?:action=displayname=lrucacheversion=0.2 skip Couldn't get to your website, but I've been using this one I wrote skip for several years: skip http://www.webfast.com/~skip/python/Cache.py skip I'm just coming to this thread, so I don't know

Re: Inserting '-' character in front of all numbers in a string

2007-03-30 Thread Michael Bentley
On Mar 30, 2007, at 10:38 AM, kevinliu23 wrote: I want to be able to insert a '-' character in front of all numeric values in a string. I want to insert the '-' character to use in conjunction with the getopt.getopt() function. Rigt now, I'm implementing a menu system where users will be

Re: New to Python - Easy way to open a text file

2007-03-30 Thread Max Steel
Hmm.. maybe it'd help if I explained that I'm playing with edna http://edna.sourceforge.net/ I'll play with this simple code: f = open(r'pathToFile) for line in f: # do something with the line of text such as print it. f.close() and this one from Skip: f = open(plainfiles.href, r)

Re: New to Python - Easy way to open a text file

2007-03-30 Thread kyosohma
On Mar 30, 11:39 am, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], kyosohma wrote: I'm not familiar with ezt formats, however reading a text file is a breeze. This sentence doesn't match the code that follow. It's really simpler than that ``while`` loop. f =

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