Re: Reading data from an ISA port

2007-07-27 Thread Gabriel Dragffy
On 23 Jul 2007, at 23:09, Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > Gabriel Dragffy schrieb: >> Dear list members >> >> I must admit I am a new user of Python, but it is a language that I >> enjoy using. >> >> For one of my university projects I need to write a program that can >> read several bytes from an ISA

slow emails

2007-07-27 Thread Gabriel Dragffy
Whenever I post to this list my email invariably takes ages to show up - perhaps two days or so. Often times not at all. Why is this? I am subscribed to Ubuntu mail list which is also high traffic, and my posts show up there within minutes. Thanks. Gabriel Dragffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: Relative-importing *

2007-07-27 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 09:05:51 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> from . import * >> from .sibiling import * >> from .. import * >> from ..parent_sibling import * >> >> ...and so on. The same error occurs: >> SyntaxError: 'import *' not allowed with 'from

Re: 128 or 96 bit integer types?

2007-07-27 Thread Tim Roberts
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Jul 27, 1:27 pm, Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Robert Dailey wrote: >> > Is there build-in or third party support for large integer types, such >> > as 96 or 128 bits in size? I require such large sizes for precision >> > issues (nano

Re: a simple string question

2007-07-27 Thread Zentrader
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > NEW TEXT : "Hello world;\nHello:\n\t\t\n\n\n\n\n\nHello2" If you are doing all of this to format the output into columns, Python's print() or write() will do this, and is easier as well. Some more info on what you want to do will clear things up. -- http://ma

Re: pythonic parsing of URL

2007-07-27 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 03:10:32 +, GreenH wrote: > I get some string as below from a library method (qt3 > QDropEvent.data()) I use. > file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Username/My%20Documents/45-61-Abc%20fold-%20den.vru > > I need file path on my system, for the above example: > C:/Document

Re: Removing certain tags from html files

2007-07-27 Thread Stefan Behnel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm doing a little script with the help of the BeautifulSoup HTML > parser and uTidyLib (HTML Tidy warper for python). > > Essentially what it does is fetch all the html files in a given > directory (and it's subdirectories) clean the code with Tidy (removes > deprecated

Re: Tkinter -- Show Data in an Excel like Read-Only Grid

2007-07-27 Thread Zentrader
On Jul 27, 2:56 pm, beginner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I am really new to Tk and Tkinter. I googled the web but it was not > mentioned how to build a data grid with Tkinter. > > Basically, I want to show an excel like data grid with fixed column > and row headers and sortable columns

Re: Imported globals?

2007-07-27 Thread Valentina Vaneeva
Thank you all, guys. I think, now I understand import behavior more :) Cheers, Valia -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Imported globals?

2007-07-27 Thread anethema
> It seems that in the first case change_value() called in module_b.py > ignores the global statement. Is it so? Why? What happens in the second > case? I really don't get it. The key is that it doesn't ignore the global statement, but that global specifically points to the variable 'value' in mod

pythonic parsing of URL

2007-07-27 Thread GreenH
I get some string as below from a library method (qt3 QDropEvent.data()) I use. file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Username/My%20Documents/45-61-Abc%20fold-%20den.vru I need file path on my system, for the above example: C:/Documents and Settings/Username/My Documents/45-61-Abc fold- den.vru I

Re: a simple string question

2007-07-27 Thread Zentrader
On Jul 27, 11:26 am, Wildemar Wildenburger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> If I understand you correctly you want to replace ";" by ";\n" and ":" > >> by ":\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t". > >> Well guess what? The replace() method does just this. Have a read: > >> http://docs.python.o

Re: Packages

2007-07-27 Thread Kevin T. Ryan
On Jul 27, 7:21 pm, Alex Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Kevin T. Ryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote innews:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > > > Hi All - > > > I'm having a problem and I hope you can help. I can't seem to import > > packages from within the package substructure as I think I should be >

Re: problem with change to exceptions

2007-07-27 Thread Alex Popescu
Neal Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Alex Popescu wrote: > >> Neal Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in >> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> > > [snip...] > >>> >> >> You can pass to the exception: >> a) a string (it will become the message) >> b) a tuple of values (can

Re: removing items from a dictionary ?

2007-07-27 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:38:31 +0200, martyw wrote: > Remoing elements from a dict is done with del, try this; > >>> d = {'a' : 1,'b' : 2} > >>> del d['a'] > >>> print d > {'b': 2} > >>> > > maybe you can post a working snippet to demonstrate your problem Wow. This wins my award for the least

Re: Factory pattern again

2007-07-27 Thread Steve Holden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > first you need find the bottleneck of your script db or function > if the bottleneck is db > 1. which db do you use do you optimize the db from read > 2. the sql you write do not use any index "maybe select code, type > from products where type = 'I' or type = 'S' will he

Re: curses/urwid simple menu

2007-07-27 Thread Lee Harr
> SGVsbG8uIENvdWxkIHlvdSBoZWxwIG1lLi4uSSBuZWVkIHRvIGNyZWF0ZSBhcHBsaWNhdGlvbiB3 > aXRoIHVyd2lkIG9yIGN1cnNlcwpzdXBwb3J0LiBIYXZlIHlvdSBnb3QgYSBwcmV0dHkgc2ltcGxl > IGV4YW1wbGUgd2l0aCBpdD8KCgotLSAKUG96ZHJhd2lhbSBMZXN6ZWsgTWm2Ck5vdGhpbmcgaXMg > c2VjdXJlLCBwYXJhbm9pYSBpcyB5b3VyIGZyaWVuZC4K >>> s = >>>

Re: adding a docstring to an instancemethod

2007-07-27 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 06:24:48 -0300, Gabriel Genellina wrote: > En Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:48:12 -0300, jelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > escribió: > >> Hi Gabriella, >> thanks for pointing me in the right direction: > > Twice in a week... I'll have to revise my own masculinity... You need to spit and f

Re: Comparing Dictionaries

2007-07-27 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 14:11:02 -0500, Kenneth Love wrote: > The published recipe (based on ConfigParser) did not handle my INI > files. I have periods in both the section names and the key names. > The INI files contents were developed according to an internally > defined process that other non-Pyt

Re: problem with change to exceptions

2007-07-27 Thread Paul Rubin
Neal Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > should set self.args to None. Nothing wrong there, and what has this got to > do with NoneType being iterable? Probably the traceback constructor tried to iterate through the args. You should initialize the args to an empty tuple, not None. Also note th

Re: C++ Modules for python: How to?

2007-07-27 Thread Robert Dailey
Okay I've actually got it compiling now, however it is saying it can't find "stdio.h" (No such file or directory). This means it doesn't know where the include directories are. How do I specify include directories? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: problem with change to exceptions

2007-07-27 Thread Neal Becker
Alex Popescu wrote: > Neal Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >> import exceptions >> >> class nothing (exceptions.Exception): >> def __init__ (self, args=None): >> self.args = args >> >> if __name__ == "__main__": >> raise nothing >> >> Traceback (

Re: Relative-importing *

2007-07-27 Thread Alex Popescu
Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> from . import * >> from .sibiling import * >> from .. import * >> from ..parent_sibling import * >> >> ...and so on. The same error occurs: >> SyntaxError: 'import *' not allowed

Re: OOP in Python book?

2007-07-27 Thread Dick Moores
At 08:41 AM 7/27/2007, Bill wrote: >Does anyone out there have any information about this book. It's >listed on Amazon to be published in November of this year. A simple >Google search (1st page only) doesn't show anything useful, and I >can't find a reference on the web sites of the authors. Neith

Re: problem with change to exceptions

2007-07-27 Thread Alex Popescu
Neal Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > import exceptions > > class nothing (exceptions.Exception): > def __init__ (self, args=None): > self.args = args > > if __name__ == "__main__": > raise nothing > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "",

Re: Tkinter program with a usable interpreter console

2007-07-27 Thread Ivan Johansen
beginner wrote: > The problem is that the Tkinter program ends with a .mainloop() call > and it is not going to give back control to the command prompt. I feel > it is almost like I need to implement the python shell myself. Is > there any better way of doing this? Take a look at this: http://lfw.

Re: Packages

2007-07-27 Thread Alex Popescu
"Kevin T. Ryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Hi All - > > I'm having a problem and I hope you can help. I can't seem to import > packages from within the package substructure as I think I should be > able to. For example, I create a directory structure as follows: >

Re: C++ Modules for python: How to?

2007-07-27 Thread Robert Dailey
On Jul 6, 7:39 pm, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 7, 9:26 am,RobertDailey<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Jul 6, 3:06 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >RobertDaileyschrieb: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > I'm interested in making a C++ library of mine usable t

Re: Relative-importing *

2007-07-27 Thread Ben Finney
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > from . import * > from .sibiling import * > from .. import * > from ..parent_sibling import * > > ...and so on. The same error occurs: > SyntaxError: 'import *' not allowed with 'from .' Interesting. I know that 'from foo import *' is frowned on an

Re: problem with change to exceptions

2007-07-27 Thread Paul Rubin
Neal Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable > I'll have to say, I don't understand this error. It's "lame duck typing". The .args attribute on an Exception instance is expected to be a tuple of the arguments passed through the raise statement. It is Non

Re: Another C API Question

2007-07-27 Thread Farshid Lashkari
beginner wrote: > I did and it did not seem to work. I ended up doing the following. > Verbose, isn't it? > If I do d=PyFloat_AsDouble(oDiscount); in the third "if", I get an > error. Maybe I missed something obvious. That's strange. I just tried the following code: fprintf(stdout,"True = %lf\n",

Packages

2007-07-27 Thread Kevin T. Ryan
Hi All - I'm having a problem and I hope you can help. I can't seem to import packages from within the package substructure as I think I should be able to. For example, I create a directory structure as follows: testpkg __init__.py [empty] testsub1/ __init__.py [empty] bad.py [impor

problem with change to exceptions

2007-07-27 Thread Neal Becker
import exceptions class nothing (exceptions.Exception): def __init__ (self, args=None): self.args = args if __name__ == "__main__": raise nothing Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "/usr/tmp/python-3143hDH", line 5, in __init__ self.args = args T

Re: Another C API Question

2007-07-27 Thread beginner
On Jul 27, 4:50 pm, Farshid Lashkari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > beginner wrote: > > I did and it did not seem to work. I ended up doing the following. > > Verbose, isn't it? > > If I do d=PyFloat_AsDouble(oDiscount); in the third "if", I get an > > error. Maybe I missed something obvious. > > Tha

Re: Another C API Question

2007-07-27 Thread beginner
On Jul 27, 4:50 pm, Farshid Lashkari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > beginner wrote: > > I did and it did not seem to work. I ended up doing the following. > > Verbose, isn't it? > > If I do d=PyFloat_AsDouble(oDiscount); in the third "if", I get an > > error. Maybe I missed something obvious. > > Tha

"struct" module problem w/ pyinstaller

2007-07-27 Thread Keith
Hello, I am trying to create exectuables on inux using "pyinstaller". I am using pyinstaller-1.3, RHEL 4.4, Python 2.5. The executables fail to run. The problem returned is pertaining to "struct.py" not being able to find the module "_struct". struct.py is located under /usr/local/lib/python-2.5

Re: Problem embedding in small Win32 App

2007-07-27 Thread Brad Johnson
Gabriel Genellina yahoo.com.ar> writes: > > By far, the most common problem extending/embedding Python is to do wrong > reference counts. > Read http://docs.python.org/ext/refcounts.html again (I hope you already > did!) and make sure you don't hold a pointer to an object without > increme

Tkinter -- Show Data in an Excel like Read-Only Grid

2007-07-27 Thread beginner
Hi All, I am really new to Tk and Tkinter. I googled the web but it was not mentioned how to build a data grid with Tkinter. Basically, I want to show an excel like data grid with fixed column and row headers and sortable columns. But the grids can be read-only. Can anyone give some hint on impl

Tkinter program with a usable interpreter console

2007-07-27 Thread beginner
Hi everyone, I have a question about Tkinter programs. What I want is a GUI window along with an interpreter window, so that I can do things by clicking on the GUI or typing commands in the interpreter console. For example, I wish I can type in the console: >>> modify_my_key_data() >>> update_gui

Re: C API -- Two questions

2007-07-27 Thread beginner
On Jul 27, 1:23 am, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:34:22 +, beginner wrote: > > 2) How can I make the arguments less picky without writing a lot of > > type conversion code? My function really needs a tuple as its > > argument. For example, f( (1,2,

Re: Another C API Question

2007-07-27 Thread beginner
On Jul 27, 11:37 am, Farshid Lashkari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > beginner wrote: > > This works with PyFloat only. It does not work with integers. > > Did you try it out? I have used it on ints, bools, and objects that > implement the __float__ method. It does not work on strings though. I did a

Re: Is access to locals() of "parent" namespace possible?

2007-07-27 Thread André
On Jul 27, 6:01 pm, Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 20:46 +, André wrote: > > I want to give a user the possibility of "restarting" an interactive > > session, by removing all the objects defined by her since the > > beginning. The way I make this possible is b

Process Control Help

2007-07-27 Thread tylerca
I'm attempting to start some process control using Python. I've have quite a bit of literature on networking, and have made some tinkering servers and clients for different protocols HTTP, FTP, etc... But now it's time for the murky web of industrial protocol. I'm looking to start with IO and s

Re: Is access to locals() of "parent" namespace possible?

2007-07-27 Thread Carsten Haese
On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 20:46 +, André wrote: > I want to give a user the possibility of "restarting" an interactive > session, by removing all the objects defined by her since the > beginning. The way I make this possible is by having a "function" > that can be called during the interactive ses

Re: zip() function troubles

2007-07-27 Thread Terry Reedy
"Istvan Albert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | On Jul 27, 2:18 pm, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | >> What was really surprising is that it works | >> with no issues up until 1 million items" | | later editing made the sentence more difficult to rea

Is access to locals() of "parent" namespace possible?

2007-07-27 Thread André
I want to give a user the possibility of "restarting" an interactive session, by removing all the objects defined by her since the beginning. The way I make this possible is by having a "function" that can be called during the interactive session using locals() as an argument, as follows: restart

Re: Problem embedding in small Win32 App

2007-07-27 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:06:32 -0300, Brad Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > PyObject* o = PyDict_GetItemString(_d, "_outcatcher"); > PyObject* a = PyObject_GetAttrString(o, "data"); > ::MessageBox(NULL, PyString_AsString(a), _T(""), NULL); > > However, it only works twice.

Re: zip() function troubles

2007-07-27 Thread Istvan Albert
On Jul 27, 2:18 pm, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What was really surprising is that it works >> with no issues up until 1 million items" later editing made the sentence more difficult to read I should have said: "What was really surprising is that zip works with no issues up un

Re: Why PHP is so much more popular for web-development

2007-07-27 Thread SamFeltus
I don't suggest Python is unconcerned with the casual user and the end user, only that this is where PHP's community excels. Learnig both as a newbie, I actually found PHP more confusing and difficult than Python. Programming in PHP reminds me of a game of trivial pursuit. Once you know a little

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Re: Comparing Dictionaries

2007-07-27 Thread Kenneth Love
At 09:55 PM 7/26/2007, Ben Finney wrote: >Kenneth Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > In other words, I consider these two dictionaries to be equivalent: > > > > { 'dog' : 'bone', 'cat' : 'fever', 'mouse' : 'mickey' } > > { 'mouse' : 'mickey', 'dog' : 'bone', 'cat' : 'fever' } > > > > wh

Re: Comparing Dictionaries

2007-07-27 Thread Kenneth Love
At 04:42 AM 7/27/2007, Ali wrote: >On Jul 26, 10:18 pm, Kenneth Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am new to Python, but not programming. I would like to start my > > Python career by developing programs according to the "best practices" > > of the industry. Right now, that appe

Problem embedding in small Win32 App

2007-07-27 Thread Brad Johnson
I received no responses yesterday, this is a repost. I'm still stuck on this one ladies and gentlemen, and I'm sure it's one of those simple things (isn't it always?) I am creating a small test application in Windows to test the embedding of the interpreter in order to execute arbitrary Python sta

Re: 128 or 96 bit integer types?

2007-07-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Jul 27, 1:27 pm, Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Dailey wrote: > > Is there build-in or third party support for large integer types, such > > as 96 or 128 bits in size? I require such large sizes for precision > > issues (nanoseconds). Thanks. > >>> SECOND = 10**9 > >>> YEAR = 36

Re: Imported globals?

2007-07-27 Thread star . public
On Jul 27, 1:30 pm, Valentina Vaneeva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you, Gary, but I still have one question. What happens in the > second case? If I add a call to change_value() to module_a, the value > in module_b is imported changed. Why? What exactly does the import > statement import in

Re: zip() function troubles

2007-07-27 Thread Paul Rubin
Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What was really surprising is that it works with no issues up > > until 1 million items, but for say 10 million it pretty much goes > > nuts. Does anyone know why? > > There's nothing in izip() that holds memory, tracks indices, or ... The issue w

Re: Removing certain tags from html files

2007-07-27 Thread sebzzz
> > Than take a hold on the content and add it to the parent. Somthing like > this should work: > > from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup > > def remove(soup, tagname): > for tag in soup.findAll(tagname): > contents = tag.contents > parent = tag.parent > tag.extract()

Re: Removing certain tags from html files

2007-07-27 Thread Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:40:23 +, sebzzz wrote: > My question, since I'm quite new to python, is about what tool I > should use to remove the table, tr and td tags, but not what's > enclosed in it. I think BeautifulSoup isn't good for that because it > removes what's enclosed as well. Than take

Re: 128 or 96 bit integer types?

2007-07-27 Thread Peter Otten
Robert Dailey wrote: > Is there build-in or third party support for large integer types, such > as 96 or 128 bits in size? I require such large sizes for precision > issues (nanoseconds). Thanks. >>> SECOND = 10**9 >>> YEAR = 365*24*60*60 >>> 2**128/SECOND/YEAR 10790283070806014188970L What are

Re: a simple string question

2007-07-27 Thread Wildemar Wildenburger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> If I understand you correctly you want to replace ";" by ";\n" and ":" >> by ":\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t". >> Well guess what? The replace() method does just this. Have a read: >> http://docs.python.org/lib/string-methods.html> >> > No,that's not what I need... > When this f

Re: zip() function troubles

2007-07-27 Thread Raymond Hettinger
On Jul 26, 4:25 pm, Istvan Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now I know that zip () wastes lots of memory because it copies the > content of the lists, I had used zip to try to trade memory for speed > (heh!) , and now that everything was replaced with izip it works just > fine. What was really

ANN: M2Crypto 0.18

2007-07-27 Thread Heikki Toivonen
M2Crypto is the most complete Python wrapper for OpenSSL featuring RSA, DSA, DH, HMACs, message digests, symmetric ciphers (including AES); SSL functionality to implement clients and servers; HTTPS extensions to Python's httplib, urllib, and xmlrpclib; unforgeable HMAC'ing AuthCookies for web sessi

Re: Why is "for line in f" faster than readline()

2007-07-27 Thread Alexandre Ferrieux
On Jul 27, 2:16 pm, Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alexandre Ferrieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Now, *why* is such buffering gaining speed over stdio's fgets(), which > > already does input buffering (though in a more subtle way, which makes > > it still usable with pipes etc.) ? >

Relative-importing *

2007-07-27 Thread rbygscrsepda
Hi, I'm a newbie at Python. :) Right now it's not letting me import * from any relative package name--i.e., a name that starts with a dot. For instance, none of the following work: from . import * from .sibiling import * from .. import * from ..parent_sibling import * ...and so on

Re: Factory pattern again

2007-07-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
first you need find the bottleneck of your script db or function if the bottleneck is db 1. which db do you use do you optimize the db from read 2. the sql you write do not use any index "maybe select code, type from products where type = 'I' or type = 'S' will help" and you need create index on ty

Re: a simple string question

2007-07-27 Thread vedrandekovic
On 27 srp, 19:29, Wildemar Wildenburger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have one question about string.I am trying to make an function to > > analyze line of some text, this is my example: "HELLO;HELLO2:WORLD:", > > if that function in this text find ";" and ":" ( in t

Removing certain tags from html files

2007-07-27 Thread sebzzz
Hi, I'm doing a little script with the help of the BeautifulSoup HTML parser and uTidyLib (HTML Tidy warper for python). Essentially what it does is fetch all the html files in a given directory (and it's subdirectories) clean the code with Tidy (removes deprecated tags, change the output to be x

Re: a simple string question

2007-07-27 Thread Wildemar Wildenburger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have one question about string.I am trying to make an function to > analyze line of some text, this is my example: "HELLO;HELLO2:WORLD:", > if that function in this text find ";" and ":" ( in this example will > find both) > > e.g that function must return this: > >

Re: 128 or 96 bit integer types?

2007-07-27 Thread Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:45:05 +, Robert Dailey wrote: > Is there build-in or third party support for large integer types, such > as 96 or 128 bits in size? Yes there is, just use integer values. If it don't fit into an `int` it gets promoted to a `long`. Python `long`\s are only bounded by a

Re: Imported globals?

2007-07-27 Thread Valentina Vaneeva
On Jul 27, 2007, at 10:56 PM, Gary Herron wrote: > The variable "value" is global in module_a, and "change_value" will > always refer to that variable. > > However, in module_b, when you from module_a import value, > change_value > you have created two new variables global to module_b that

Re: Compiling python2.5.1 results in 3.5MB python lib?

2007-07-27 Thread Chris Mellon
On 7/27/07, simonbun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm compiling 2.5.1 and end up with a 3.5MB libpython2.5.so file. I > seem to remember it should be somewhere around the 1MB mark. What > could be causing this? > > I'm using ./configure --enable-shared > > This is a problem for me seein

Re: Filtering content of a text file

2007-07-27 Thread Ira . Kovac
Thanks all for the input. This is going to be a great basis for starting. And, yeah - I wish it was a homework. Best, Ira -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Reading data from an ISA port

2007-07-27 Thread Gabriel Dragffy
On 23 Jul 2007, at 23:09, Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > Gabriel Dragffy schrieb: >> Dear list members >> >> I must admit I am a new user of Python, but it is a language that I >> enjoy using. >> >> For one of my university projects I need to write a program that can >> read several bytes from an ISA

Compiling python2.5.1 results in 3.5MB python lib?

2007-07-27 Thread simonbun
Hi all, I'm compiling 2.5.1 and end up with a 3.5MB libpython2.5.so file. I seem to remember it should be somewhere around the 1MB mark. What could be causing this? I'm using ./configure --enable-shared This is a problem for me seeing as i'm using apache+mod_python to serve web content. Each apa

Re: Factory pattern again

2007-07-27 Thread Steve Holden
Mike Howarth wrote: > Having overcome my first hurdle with the factory pattern, I've now hit > another stumbling block > > At the moment I'm trying to return around 2000 records from a db and load up > the relevant product object, what I've found is this is running extremely > slowly (> 20mins), t

Re: pyparser and recursion problem

2007-07-27 Thread pyscottishguy
Hey, Thanks for the further explanations. I'm going to play around more with the 'recursive grammar' and 'parse-time dynamic grammar element' stuff so that I understand it a bit better. I liked the changes you suggested. The alternative grammar definitely makes the code easier to understand, plu

128 or 96 bit integer types?

2007-07-27 Thread Robert Dailey
Hi, Is there build-in or third party support for large integer types, such as 96 or 128 bits in size? I require such large sizes for precision issues (nanoseconds). Thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Another C API Question

2007-07-27 Thread Farshid Lashkari
beginner wrote: > This works with PyFloat only. It does not work with integers. Did you try it out? I have used it on ints, bools, and objects that implement the __float__ method. It does not work on strings though. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: a simple string question

2007-07-27 Thread Zentrader
On Jul 27, 8:23 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I have one question about string.I am trying to make an function to > analyze line of some text, this is my example: "HELLO;HELLO2:WORLD:", > if that function in this text find ";" and ":" ( in this example will > find both) > > e.g that

Re: SQLObject 0.7.8

2007-07-27 Thread george williams
- Original Message - From: "Oleg Broytmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Python Announce Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Python Mailing List" Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 7:23 AM Subject: SQLObject 0.7.8 > Hello! > > I'm pleased to announce the 0.7.8 release of SQLObject. > > What is

Re: I am giving up perl because of assholes on clpm -- switching to Python

2007-07-27 Thread RedGrittyBrick
Paul Rubin wrote: > M brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Out of the pan and into the fire. :) Welcome to the world of Ph.D's >> in Computer Science. You think the Perl guys have attitude, just >> wait and see what you're in for over here. I think you'll find >> attitudes in any programming lang

Re: encode/decode misunderstanding

2007-07-27 Thread Tim Arnold
> If I read in the latin1 file using > codecs.open(filename,encoding='latin1') and write out the utf8 file by > opening with > codecs.open(othername,encoding='utf8'), would I no longer have a > problem -- I could just read in latin1 and write out utf8 with no more > worries about encoding? > >

Re: zip() function troubles

2007-07-27 Thread Chris Mellon
On 26 Jul 2007 23:35:44 -0700, Paul Rubin <"http://phr.cx"@nospam.invalid> wrote: > Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > When you are allocating a lot of objects without releasing them the garbage > > collector kicks in to look for cycles. Try switching it off: > > I think that is the answer

encoding misunderstanding

2007-07-27 Thread Tim Arnold
Hi, I'm beginning to understand the encode/decode string methods, but I'd like confirmation that I'm still thinking in the right direction: I have a file of latin1 encoded text. Let's say I put one line of that file into a string variable 'tocline', as follows: tocline = 'Ficha Datos de p\xe9rdid

Re: I am giving up perl because of assholes on clpm -- switching to Python

2007-07-27 Thread Danyelle Gragsone
Brad Wrote: In my experience, things have not changed at most PolySci Universities (Georgia Tech, NC State, Virginia Tech, etc). The Comp Engineering/CS/Math classes are still full of boys. Although there are some girls, but not a lot. If a girl is in the class (and that's a big if) no boy in the

Re: zip() function troubles

2007-07-27 Thread Chris Mellon
On 7/27/07, Istvan Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 27, 2:16 am, "Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > References are not objects. > > yes this a valid objection, > > but in all fairness the example in the original post operates on > comparably sized objects and also exhibited un

Re: Imported globals?

2007-07-27 Thread Gary Herron
Valentina Vaneeva wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to Python and I've found something in its interpreter that I > don't quite understand, and I don't really know how to correctly > formulate a search query. Here's the question. > > If we have a file module_a.py with the following content: > > | #!/us

OOP in Python book?

2007-07-27 Thread Bill
Does anyone out there have any information about this book. It's listed on Amazon to be published in November of this year. A simple Google search (1st page only) doesn't show anything useful, and I can't find a reference on the web sites of the authors. Neither of the authors appears to be heavily

Re: SQLObject 0.7.8

2007-07-27 Thread Oleg Broytmann
Hello! On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 08:21:00AM -0700, george williams wrote: > - Original Message - And what is the question? Oleg. -- Oleg Broytmannhttp://phd.pp.ru/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN. -- http:

Re: Factory pattern again

2007-07-27 Thread Mike Howarth
Having overcome my first hurdle with the factory pattern, I've now hit another stumbling block At the moment I'm trying to return around 2000 records from a db and load up the relevant product object, what I've found is this is running extremely slowly (> 20mins), the db is normalized and indexes

Imported globals?

2007-07-27 Thread Valentina Vaneeva
Hi, I'm new to Python and I've found something in its interpreter that I don't quite understand, and I don't really know how to correctly formulate a search query. Here's the question. If we have a file module_a.py with the following content: | #!/usr/bin/env python | | value = 'in

a simple string question

2007-07-27 Thread vedrandekovic
Hello, I have one question about string.I am trying to make an function to analyze line of some text, this is my example: "HELLO;HELLO2:WORLD:", if that function in this text find ";" and ":" ( in this example will find both) e.g that function must return this: "HELLO;\nHELLO2:\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

Re: <> vs !=

2007-07-27 Thread Terry Reedy
"Simon Brunning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | On 7/26/07, James Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > What is the difference between <> and != | | <> is deprecated, != isn't. Other than that, nothing AFAIK. And <> will disappear in 3.0. -- http://mail.pytho

Re: [python-list] pdf read & write

2007-07-27 Thread David Boddie
On Fri Jul 27 15:35:02 CEST 2007, Hyunchul Kim wrote: > How can I read a pdf file and add invisible comment? > I want to make a script which read a pdf file and add tags inside the > file invisibly. Then, I will make a script for managing tags of given > pdf files. > > I know "referencer" can man

Re: pyparser and recursion problem

2007-07-27 Thread Paul McGuire
On Jul 26, 10:40 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey, > > Thanks Neil and Paul! > > After reading Neil's advice I started playing around with the > setParseAction method, and then I found Paul's script > 'macroExpander.py' (http://pyparsing.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/ > macroExpander.py). > Gr

Re: Another C API Question

2007-07-27 Thread beginner
Hi Farshid, On Jul 26, 8:18 pm, Farshid Lashkari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > beginner wrote: > > I know obj is a number, but I do not know the exact type. How can I > > convert it to double without writing a giant switch() that exhausts > > every single type of number? > > Try using the PyFloat_A

Re: Another C API Question

2007-07-27 Thread beginner
Hi Robert, On Jul 26, 8:16 pm, Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > beginner wrote: > > Hi, > > > I run into another C API question. What is the simplest way to convert > > an PyObject into a double? > > > For example, I have > > > PyObject *obj; > > > I know obj is a number, but I do not kno

Re: Submit form, open result in a browser

2007-07-27 Thread Cameron Laird
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tina I <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >theju wrote: >>> Is there a way to submit a form and then open the resulting page in the >>> default browser? (Writing the form submission code is not a problem by >>> the way) >> >> There is a library called "Client Form" that do

[python-list] pdf read & write

2007-07-27 Thread Hyunchul Kim
Dear all, How can I read a pdf file and add invisible comment? I want to make a script which read a pdf file and add tags inside the file invisibly. Then, I will make a script for managing tags of given pdf files. I know "referencer" can manage tags for pdf file but it seems store tag information

Re: Compile python with Mingw

2007-07-27 Thread Ninereeds
Steve Holden wrote: > You are wrong about the compatibility. You can't compile a library with > VC 2005 and run it with a Python compiled with VC 2003. OK, my bad - sorry about that red herring. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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