ANN: TFTPgui1.1 released

2007-05-01 Thread Bernie
TFTPgui1.1 is available at http://code.google.com/p/tftpgui/ What is TFTPgui? == TFTPgui is a TFTP server. It is intended to run as a user-initiated program, rather than a service daemon, and displays a GUI interface allowing the user to stop and start the TFTP server. It provides

Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Apr 30)

2007-05-01 Thread ???? ???
QOTW: That is just as feasible as passing a cruise ship through a phone line. - Carsten Haese, on transporting a COM object across a network. Less vividly but more formally, as he notes, A COM object represents a connection to a service or executable that is running on one computer. Transferring

Re: Problem with PyQt4

2007-05-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I rebuild them from source now. Hope this can help me. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: re-importing modules

2007-05-01 Thread Graham Dumpleton
On May 1, 3:51 pm, Paul Rubin http://[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Graham Dumpleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That it doesn't reload a parent when a child changes may be fine in an interactive debugger, but can cause problems if not done where automatic reloading is being done in a long running

Want to build a binary header block

2007-05-01 Thread Bob Greschke
This is the idea Block = pack(240s, ) Block[0:4] = pack(H, W) Block[4:8] = pack(H, X) Block[8:12] = pack(B, Y) Block[12:16] = pack(H, Z)) but, of course, Block, a str, can't be sliced. The real use of this is a bit more complicated such that I can't just fill in all of the

Re: re-importing modules

2007-05-01 Thread John Nagle
Graham Dumpleton wrote: On May 1, 3:51 pm, Paul Rubin http://[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Graham Dumpleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That it doesn't reload a parent when a child changes may be fine in an interactive debugger, but can cause problems if not done where automatic reloading is being

Re: While we're talking about annoyances

2007-05-01 Thread Arnaud Delobelle
On Apr 30, 3:51 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote: Michael Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Well, counting the index() function that is called in both cases, the original rank() had one sort, but my version has two sorts. That doesn't affet the big-O behavior -- O(N

Python+Pygame+PyopenGL all in one package?

2007-05-01 Thread shirish
Hi all, Is it possible to have Python+Pygame+PyOpenGL in one compact package so people can play the games released at pyweek.org . I have been having a hard time getting the whole thing on windows as well as linux (Ubuntu 7.04) . Strangely, my pleas for the same on pyopengl have gone

Log-in to forums (using cookielib)?

2007-05-01 Thread Olivier Oost
Hi, I need to login to a online forum, like a phpbb forum, and leave a message there. I figured I need to use cookielib, but the documentation of cookielib is not very clear to me. I tried to just copy/paste all the cookies from FireFox into my Python-program, like this: import cookielib,

playing sound in mac osx

2007-05-01 Thread tooru honda
Hi, I am a newbie to mac and python. Is there an easy way to play wav or mp3 sound file ? I used to use winsound module before switching to mac, but that only works for windows. Thanks Tooru P.S. I am using Mac OSX 10.4.8 and Python 2.5 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: playing sound in mac osx

2007-05-01 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
tooru honda schrieb: Hi, I am a newbie to mac and python. Is there an easy way to play wav or mp3 sound file ? I used to use winsound module before switching to mac, but that only works for windows. pygame might help. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Qustion about struct.unpack

2007-05-01 Thread eC
On Apr 30, 9:41 am, Steven D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:45:22 -0700, OhKyu Yoon wrote: Hi! I have a really long binary file that I want to read. The way I am doing it now is: for i in xrange(N): # N is about 10,000,000 time = struct.unpack('=',

Re: Log-in to forums (using cookielib)?

2007-05-01 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Tue, 01 May 2007 04:44:57 -0300, Olivier Oost [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: I need to login to a online forum, like a phpbb forum, and leave a message there. I figured I need to use cookielib, but the documentation of cookielib is not very clear to me. Can someone please tell me how I

Re: Log-in to forums (using cookielib)?

2007-05-01 Thread Olivier Oost
Gabriel Genellina wrote: En Tue, 01 May 2007 04:44:57 -0300, Olivier Oost [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: I need to login to a online forum, like a phpbb forum, and leave a message there. I figured I need to use cookielib, but the documentation of cookielib is not very clear to me. Can

Re: playing sound in mac osx

2007-05-01 Thread kaens
Is there really no cross-platform audio capability in the standard library? On 5/1/07, Diez B. Roggisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tooru honda schrieb: Hi, I am a newbie to mac and python. Is there an easy way to play wav or mp3 sound file ? I used to use winsound module before

Re: Master's Thesis Help Needed

2007-05-01 Thread kaens
I'll check it out. I'm running kubuntu (really, should work for any linux unless you're giving out .deb files) On 29 Apr 2007 18:53:51 -0700, RobJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Awhile ago I asked for your help in getting some ideas about setting up an on-line course to learn how to use Python web

Re: Log-in to forums (using cookielib)?

2007-05-01 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Tue, 01 May 2007 05:39:14 -0300, Olivier Oost [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Gabriel Genellina wrote: En Tue, 01 May 2007 04:44:57 -0300, Olivier Oost [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Can someone please tell me how I should log-in and leave a message on the board? Sure. But considering

Re: Qustion about struct.unpack

2007-05-01 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Tue, 01 May 2007 05:22:49 -0300, eC [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Apr 30, 9:41 am, Steven D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:45:22 -0700, OhKyu Yoon wrote: I have a really long binary file that I want to read. The way I am doing it now is: for i in xrange(N):

Re: logging SMTPHandler and Authentication

2007-05-01 Thread Vinay Sajip
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/ef8... That fairly old thread suggests that someone provide a patch, which hasn't happened. Sorry I missed that thread - your requirement is a reasonable one to be dealt with by the core. So I will look to implement this

Error in python.org homepage.

2007-05-01 Thread alessiogiovanni . baroni
Hi to all!!! I sended an email to webmaster at python dot org, but was blocked... why? In the homepage of python.org there is an error: the link that point to source distribution is not updated to Python 2.5.1. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: sqlite for mac?

2007-05-01 Thread Daniel Nogradi
Does sqlite come in a mac version? The interface (pysqlite) is part of the python 2.5 standard library but you need to install sqlite itself separately (as far as I remember) from www.sqlite.org Daniel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: logging SMTPHandler and Authentication

2007-05-01 Thread Vinay Sajip
On May 1, 1:08 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm new to Python, but I've been thrown into coding a pretty complicated regression testing script. I need to email the log of the daily test to the code owners. I thought I could use SMTPHandler for this, but our email system requires

Re: python TK scrollbar problem

2007-05-01 Thread Ray
James Stroud wrote: You are not binding to the Scrollbar.set() method nor are you assigning the Scrollbar a command. You should try to emulate this: http://www.pythonware.com/library/tkinter/introduction/x7583-patterns.htm You need to also determine exactly what it is you want to

Re: Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Apr 30)

2007-05-01 Thread Neil Hodgson
Cameron Laird: ... but the *references* in that object are unlikely to be meaningful on the second machine (or, in many cases, on the original machine, if at a sufficiently later time). The marshaling of the object is responsible for persisting any contained references in a format that

Why are functions atomic?

2007-05-01 Thread Michael
Why are functions atomic? (I.e. they are not copied.) For example, I would like to make a copy of a function so I can change the default values: from copy import copy f = lambda x: x f.func_defaults = (1,) g = copy(f) g.func_defaults = (2,) f(),g() (2, 2) I would like the following

Problems with time

2007-05-01 Thread loial
I am running on an AIX system with time zone set to BST If I run the following, I get the GMT time, i.e an hour less than the correct time. How can I get the correct time now = time() timeProcessed = strftime(%H:%M,gmtime(now)) --

Re: zipfile: grabbing whole directories

2007-05-01 Thread Daniel Nogradi
The built in zipfile.write doesn't seem to like taking a directory instead of a filename. for example: for each in listofdir: archive.write(each) blows up when one of the items listed in listofdir is a subdirectory. File /usr/local/lib/python2.4/zipfile.py, line 405,

Re: SEO - Search Engine Optimization - Seo Consulting

2007-05-01 Thread Bob Phillips
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Re: Problems with time

2007-05-01 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
loial schrieb: I am running on an AIX system with time zone set to BST If I run the following, I get the GMT time, i.e an hour less than the correct time. How can I get the correct time now = time() timeProcessed = strftime(%H:%M,gmtime(now)) localtime? Diez --

Re: Launching an independent Python program in a cross-platform way (including mac)

2007-05-01 Thread André
My apologies about the last post; I posted my test code by mistake, with hard-coded path information. Here's for future reference something that is general and should work cross-platform. André def exec_external(code=None, path=None): execute code in an external process currently works

PyGEP: Gene Expression Programming for Python

2007-05-01 Thread Candida Ferreira
Dear All, There's another open source GEP library released under the GNU. Its owner is Ryan O'Neil, a graduate student from George Mason University. In his words, PyGEP is a simple library suitable for academic study of Gene Expression Programming in Python 2.5, aiming for ease of use and

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Re: Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Apr 30)

2007-05-01 Thread Cameron Laird
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RE: re-importing modules

2007-05-01 Thread Hamilton, William
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:python- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Nagle Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 7:32 PM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: re-importing modules [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In addition to the warning that reload() does not

Re: SEO - Search Engine Optimization - Seo Consulting

2007-05-01 Thread Sebastian Kaliszewski
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Re: Store variable name in another variable

2007-05-01 Thread loial
OK, I have it working with dictionaries. However I have another scenerio : I am reading a file containing records like the following : IMPOSITION_DOCUMENT WFBAN_PAGE WFBAN_START_DETAILS name=\MYVARIABLE\ .. .. I need to substitute MYVARIABLE with the current value of MYVARIABLE in my python

Comparing bitmap images for differences?

2007-05-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I know it's a long shot but does anyone have any pointers to generic algorithms - or, even better, Python code - for comparing images and computing a value for the difference between them? What I want to do is to compare two bitmap images (taken from a webcam, so I'll likely be using PIL) and get

RE: Dict Copy Compare

2007-05-01 Thread Hamilton, William
-Original Message- From: Steven D'Aprano Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 10:14 PM To: python-list@python.org Subject: RE: Dict Copy Compare On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:50:58 -0500, Hamilton, William wrote: On quick question, how can I order a dict by the 'values' (not keys) before

Re: Store variable name in another variable

2007-05-01 Thread 7stud
On May 1, 6:43 am, loial [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I have it working with dictionaries. However I have another scenerio : I am reading a file containing records like the following : IMPOSITION_DOCUMENT WFBAN_PAGE WFBAN_START_DETAILS name=\MYVARIABLE\ .. .. I need to substitute

Re: Want to build a binary header block

2007-05-01 Thread Larry Bates
Bob Greschke wrote: This is the idea Block = pack(240s, ) Block[0:4] = pack(H, W) Block[4:8] = pack(H, X) Block[8:12] = pack(B, Y) Block[12:16] = pack(H, Z)) but, of course, Block, a str, can't be sliced. The real use of this is a bit more complicated such that I can't

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Re: Why are functions atomic?

2007-05-01 Thread Laurent Pointal
Michael wrote: Why are functions atomic? (I.e. they are not copied.) For example, I would like to make a copy of a function so I can change the default values: from copy import copy f = lambda x: x f.func_defaults = (1,) g = copy(f) g.func_defaults = (2,) f(),g() (2, 2) I would

Re: Why are functions atomic?

2007-05-01 Thread Laurent Pointal
Laurent Pointal wrote: http://docs.python.org/lib/partial-objects.html OOps http://docs.python.org/lib/module-functools.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

scaling

2007-05-01 Thread Ashok
hi, IDL language contains a function called BYTSCL to scale all values of Array that lie in the range (Min £ x £ Max) into the range (0 £ x £ Top). Is there a similar function available in python? I need this to scale the pixel values of an image using PIL. thanks in advance for any help

Re: Why are functions atomic?

2007-05-01 Thread 7stud
On May 1, 5:06 am, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why are functions atomic? (I.e. they are not copied.) For example, I would like to make a copy of a function so I can change the default values: from copy import copy f = lambda x: x f.func_defaults = (1,) g = copy(f)

Re: Comparing bitmap images for differences?

2007-05-01 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I know it's a long shot but does anyone have any pointers to generic algorithms - or, even better, Python code - for comparing images and computing a value for the difference between them? What I want to do is to compare two bitmap images (taken from a webcam, so

Re: Store variable name in another variable

2007-05-01 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
loial schrieb: OK, I have it working with dictionaries. However I have another scenerio : I am reading a file containing records like the following : IMPOSITION_DOCUMENT WFBAN_PAGE WFBAN_START_DETAILS name=\MYVARIABLE\ .. .. I need to substitute MYVARIABLE with the current value

Re: SEO - Search Engine Optimization - Seo Consulting

2007-05-01 Thread David
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Re: re-importing modules

2007-05-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
John Nagle wrote: Steven D'Aprano wrote: I'd hate for reload to disappear, it is great for interactive development/debugging, at least under some circumstances. (If you have complex and tangled class hierarchies, it might not be powerful enough.) As for the semantics being awful, I

Re: Restricting the alphabet of a string

2007-05-01 Thread Nathan Harmston
Thanks, I might just move my trinary string (if I get that far) to be encoded as 0, 1, 2, thanks for your help. On 30 Apr 2007 11:14:10 -0700, John Machin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 30, 9:53 pm, Nathan Harmston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I ve being thinking about playing around

Re: Why are functions atomic?

2007-05-01 Thread Duncan Booth
7stud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does deepcopy work? It doesn't copy a function. The easiest way to make a modified copy of a function is to use the 'new' module. def f(x=2): print x=, x g = new.function(f.func_code, f.func_globals, 'g', (3,), f.func_closure) g() x= 3 f() x= 2 --

Re: Why are functions atomic?

2007-05-01 Thread Chris Mellon
On 1 May 2007 15:17:48 GMT, Duncan Booth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 7stud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does deepcopy work? It doesn't copy a function. The easiest way to make a modified copy of a function is to use the 'new' module. def f(x=2): print x=, x g = new.function(f.func_code,

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Re: Qustion about struct.unpack

2007-05-01 Thread OhKyu Yoon
Wow, thank you all! Gabriel Genellina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] En Tue, 01 May 2007 05:22:49 -0300, eC [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Apr 30, 9:41 am, Steven D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:45:22 -0700, OhKyu Yoon wrote: I have a

Re: re-importing modules

2007-05-01 Thread Chris Mellon
On 5/1/07, John Nagle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steven D'Aprano wrote: I'd hate for reload to disappear, it is great for interactive development/debugging, at least under some circumstances. (If you have complex and tangled class hierarchies, it might not be powerful enough.) As for the

Lisp-like macros in Python?

2007-05-01 Thread sturlamolden
Hello The Lisp crowd always brags about their magical macros. I was wondering if it is possible to emulate some of the functionality in Python using a function decorator that evals Python code in the stack frame of the caller. The macro would then return a Python expression as a string. Granted,

SWIG, STL pickle

2007-05-01 Thread Ondrej Marsalek
hello, i have the following problem/question: i have a c++ class i would like to wrap using swig, easy so far. i want to be able to pickle it as well and i understand that i need to implement the setstate and getstate methods to be able to do that. now the tricky part - my c++ class uses stl

SilverLight, a new way for Python?

2007-05-01 Thread Michel Claveau
Hi! SilverLight (MS flash killer), is a plug-in for InternetExplorer (Win), FireFox (Win), and Safari (Mac). The release 1.1-Alpha come with JScript Python (or ironPython?) See : http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/default.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/why-compelling.aspx

Re: Why are functions atomic?

2007-05-01 Thread John Nagle
Michael wrote: Why are functions atomic? (I.e. they are not copied.) Because Python has objects for when you need to associate state with a function. John Nagle -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Having problems accepting parameters to a function

2007-05-01 Thread rh0dium
Hi Experts!! I am trying to get the following little snippet to push my data to the function func(). What I would expect to happen is it to print out the contents of a and loglevel. But it's not working. Can someone please help me out. -snip-- #!/usr/bin/env python import

Re: Having problems accepting parameters to a function

2007-05-01 Thread Stargaming
rh0dium schrieb: Hi Experts!! I am trying to get the following little snippet to push my data to the function func(). What I would expect to happen is it to print out the contents of a and loglevel. But it's not working. Can someone please help me out. -snip--

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Re: Having problems accepting parameters to a function

2007-05-01 Thread 7stud
On May 1, 10:38 am, rh0dium [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Experts!! I am trying to get the following little snippet to push my data to the function func(). What I would expect to happen is it to print out the contents of a and loglevel. But it's not working. Can someone please help me out.

Re: sqlite for mac?

2007-05-01 Thread 7stud
On May 1, 4:08 am, Daniel Nogradi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does sqlite come in a mac version? The interface (pysqlite) is part of the python 2.5 standard library but you need to install sqlite itself separately (as far as I remember) fromwww.sqlite.org Daniel I'm using python 2.4.4

Re: Having problems accepting parameters to a function

2007-05-01 Thread 7stud
On May 1, 11:06 am, 7stud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might consider redefining func() so that you don't have to do the unpack--repack... When you define a function like this: def func(**keywordargs): print keywordargs the function expects to receive arguments in the form:

Re: SilverLight, a new way for Python?

2007-05-01 Thread Duncan Booth
Michel Claveau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! SilverLight (MS flash killer), is a plug-in for InternetExplorer (Win), FireFox (Win), and Safari (Mac). The release 1.1-Alpha come with JScript Python (or ironPython?) IronPython. Perhaps SilverLight is a new substitute for

Re: sqlite for mac?

2007-05-01 Thread kirkjobsluder
On May 1, 1:12 pm, 7stud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using python 2.4.4 because the download said there were more mac modules available for 2.4.4. than 2.5, and I can't seem to locate a place to download sqlite for mac. I it comes on OS X Tiger, and possibly earlier versions as well (it's

Re: sqlite for mac?

2007-05-01 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On May 1, 10:12 am, 7stud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 1, 4:08 am, Daniel Nogradi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does sqlite come in a mac version? The interface (pysqlite) is part of the python 2.5 standard library but you need to install sqlite itself separately (as far as I remember)

Re: sqlite for mac?

2007-05-01 Thread Michael Bentley
On May 1, 2007, at 12:39 PM, kirkjobsluder wrote: On May 1, 1:12 pm, 7stud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using python 2.4.4 because the download said there were more mac modules available for 2.4.4. than 2.5, and I can't seem to locate a place to download sqlite for mac. I it comes on OS X

Problem with inspect.getfile

2007-05-01 Thread elventear
Hello, I am trying to use someone else's module that makes use of inspect.getsourcelines. The code was not working for me, so I have been debugging to see why it is not working. I have reduced my problem to getting the wrong file path in the getfile-return object.co_filename call. Basically the

Re: Lisp-like macros in Python?

2007-05-01 Thread Chris Russell
On May 1, 5:10 pm, sturlamolden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello The Lisp crowd always brags about their magical macros. I was wondering if it is possible to emulate some of the functionality in Python using a function decorator that evals Python code in the stack frame of the caller. The

Re: sqlite for mac?

2007-05-01 Thread Daniel Nogradi
I'm using python 2.4.4 because the download said there were more mac modules available for 2.4.4. than 2.5, and I can't seem to locate a place to download sqlite for mac. I it comes on OS X Tiger, and possibly earlier versions as well (it's used as an index for Mail.app).. You just

Re: sqlite for mac?

2007-05-01 Thread Daniel Nogradi
Does sqlite come in a mac version? The interface (pysqlite) is part of the python 2.5 standard library but you need to install sqlite itself separately (as far as I remember) fromwww.sqlite.org Daniel I'm using python 2.4.4 because the download said there were more mac modules

Re: SEO - Search Engine Optimization - Seo Consulting

2007-05-01 Thread funfly3
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Re: Lisp-like macros in Python?

2007-05-01 Thread Pascal Costanza
Converge is a Python-style language with a macro facility. See http://convergepl.org/ Pascal -- My website: http://p-cos.net Common Lisp Document Repository: http://cdr.eurolisp.org Closer to MOP ContextL: http://common-lisp.net/project/closer/ --

Re: Comparing bitmap images for differences?

2007-05-01 Thread 3c273
Those are my ideas so far but I thought it would be worth asking here first in case there are some known-good algorithms for doing this kind of thing rather than me trying to re-invent a wheel that ends up triangular... Thanks! Matthew. This might get you started.

Grabbing the output of a long-winded shell call (in GNU/Linux)

2007-05-01 Thread Efrat Regev
Hello, Suppose I want to run from within a Python GUI app some long-output shell call. For example, from within Python I might want to call g++ foo.cpp I already know there are many ways to do this, e.g., commands.getstatusoutput('g++ foo.cpp') to name one. The problem is that

Re: Why are functions atomic?

2007-05-01 Thread Martin v. Löwis
I know I could use a 'functor' defining __call__ and using member variables, but this is more complicated and quite a bit slower. (I also know that I can use new.function to create a new copy, but I would like to know the rational behind the decision to make functions atomic before I shoot

Re: sqlite for mac?

2007-05-01 Thread Ben Secrest
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2007-05-01, Daniel Nogradi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does sqlite come in a mac version? The interface (pysqlite) is part of the python 2.5 standard library but you need to install sqlite itself separately (as far as I remember) from

Re: Why are functions atomic?

2007-05-01 Thread Michael
On May 1, 9:34 am, John Nagle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael wrote: Why are functions atomic? (I.e. they are not copied.) Because Python has objects for when you need to associate state with a function. John Nagle Then why are functions mutable? I

Re: SilverLight, a new way for Python?

2007-05-01 Thread M�ta-MCI
Re! it can do much more than active scripting. Hummm Perhaps. But, with ActiveScripting, I can define functions class in Python, Ruby(script), Jscript, VBscript, Perl. I can call these functions/objects directly from Python, and share many objects ( libraries). I am not sure to find

Re: SEO - Search Engine Optimization - Seo Consulting

2007-05-01 Thread Bob Phillips
That is the oft-quoted, idiotic type of example. The reality is that if we follow the thread, we know the question, we only want to see the answer, not wade through a morass of stuff we have already seen. If we haven't seen it, guess what, we can go and read it. funfly3 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Grabbing the output of a long-winded shell call (in GNU/Linux)

2007-05-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 1, 2:23 pm, Efrat Regev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So my question is if there's a way to grab the output as it's being generated. It doesn't matter if the solution is blocking (as opposed to callback based), since threads can handle this. I just don't know how to grab the output. I

Re: Grabbing the output of a long-winded shell call (in GNU/Linux)

2007-05-01 Thread Efrat Regev
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 1, 2:23 pm, Efrat Regev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So my question is if there's a way to grab the output as it's being generated. It doesn't matter if the solution is blocking (as opposed to callback based), since threads can handle this. I just don't know how

Re: Generate report containing pdf or ps figures?

2007-05-01 Thread Ken Starks
Cameron Laird wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to be able to generate a PDF report which consists mostly of vector images (which I can generate as encapsulated Postscript, PDF, or SVG). What I need is a way to combine these figures into a

Using python with MySQL

2007-05-01 Thread HMS Surprise
Greetings, I need to peform some simple queries via MySQL. Searching the list I see that folks are accessing it with python. I am very new to python and pretty new to MySQL too. Would appreciate it if you could point me to some documentation for accessing MySQL via python. Something of the

Re: SEO - Search Engine Optimization - Seo Consulting

2007-05-01 Thread Jim Ford
Bob Phillips wrote: That is the oft-quoted, idiotic type of example. The reality is that if we follow the thread, we know the question, we only want to see the answer, not wade through a morass of stuff we have already seen. If we haven't seen it, guess what, we can go and read it. !tuoba

Re: SilverLight, a new way for Python?

2007-05-01 Thread Duncan Booth
Méta-MCI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Re! it can do much more than active scripting. Hummm Perhaps. But, with ActiveScripting, I can define functions class in Python, Ruby(script), Jscript, VBscript, Perl. I can call these functions/objects directly from Python, and share many objects

Re: Using python with MySQL

2007-05-01 Thread Greg Donald
On 1 May 2007 12:40:20 -0700, HMS Surprise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to peform some simple queries via MySQL. Searching the list I see that folks are accessing it with python. I am very new to python and pretty new to MySQL too. Would appreciate it if you could point me to some

Re: Using python with MySQL

2007-05-01 Thread Shafik
On May 1, 10:40 pm, HMS Surprise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, I need to peform some simple queries via MySQL. Searching the list I see that folks are accessing it with python. I am very new to python and pretty new to MySQL too. Would appreciate it if you could point me to some

Re: Using python with MySQL

2007-05-01 Thread HMS Surprise
On May 1, 2:58 pm, Greg Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1 May 2007 12:40:20 -0700, HMS Surprise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to peform some simple queries via MySQL. Searching the list I see that folks are accessing it with python. I am very new to python and pretty new to MySQL too.

Re: Lisp-like macros in Python?

2007-05-01 Thread Duane Rettig
sturlamolden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello The Lisp crowd always brags about their magical macros. I was wondering if it is possible to emulate some of the functionality in Python using a function decorator that evals Python code in the stack frame of the caller. The macro would then

Re: Grabbing the output of a long-winded shell call (in GNU/Linux)

2007-05-01 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Efrat Regev schrieb: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 1, 2:23 pm, Efrat Regev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So my question is if there's a way to grab the output as it's being generated. It doesn't matter if the solution is blocking (as opposed to callback based), since threads can handle this. I

Re: relative import broken?

2007-05-01 Thread Alan Isaac
Alex Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't know of any pretty way -- I'd do it by path manipulation (finding mypackage from os.path.abspath(__file__) and inserting its _parent_ directory in sys.path). Yes, that seems to be the standard solution. I find it

Re: SEO - Search Engine Optimization - Seo Consulting

2007-05-01 Thread Dom Robinson
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] says... You bottom posters really are a bunch of supercilious, self-righteous bigots. Personally, I find bottom-posting like reading a book backwards ... it doesn't work for me. And regardless of his response, Mr Bruney IS an MVP, he is

read list of dirnames and search for filenames

2007-05-01 Thread fscked
I cannot seem to get this to work. I am hyst trying to read in a list of paths and see if the directory or any sub has a filename pattern. Here is the code: import os, sys from path import path myfile = open(boxids.txt, r) for line in myfile.readlines(): d = path(line) for f in

Python for Windows other way to getting it?

2007-05-01 Thread noagbodjivictor
Hello I don't have permission to install new application on the PC I'm using, I need a zipped version of python that I can copy on my external drive. Where can I get a zip version? Thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

I wish that [].append(x) returned [x]

2007-05-01 Thread Tobiah
I wanted to do: query = query text % tuple(rec[1:-1].append(extra)) but the append() method returns none, so I did this: fields = rec[1:-1] fields.append(extra) query = query text % tuple(fields) -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com

Re: I wish that [].append(x) returned [x]

2007-05-01 Thread Rob Wolfe
Tobiah [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I wanted to do: query = query text % tuple(rec[1:-1].append(extra)) but the append() method returns none, so I did this: fields = rec[1:-1] fields.append(extra) query = query text % tuple(fields) What about this? query =

Re: I wish that [].append(x) returned [x]

2007-05-01 Thread Paul McGuire
On May 1, 3:45 pm, Tobiah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wanted to do: query = query text % tuple(rec[1:-1].append(extra)) but the append() method returns none, so I did this: fields = rec[1:-1] fields.append(extra) query = query text % tuple(fields) --

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