Re: PLEASE ACCEPT MY SINCERE APOLOGIES

On Feb 1, 5:08 am, Paddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 1, 1:26 am, "Blubaugh, David A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > To Everyone on the planet Earth, > > > Please accept my apologies for > > > Why the Hell has nobody answered my question. > > > I am just trying to

Re: dict comprehension

On Feb 1, 6:21 am, "Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Daniel Fetchinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > | Hi folks, > | > | There is a withdrawn PEP about a new syntax for dict comprehension: > |http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0274/which says: > > I be

Re: Bug/Patch: Problem with xml/__init__.py when using freeze.py

En Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:16:47 -0200, glomde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > I tried to do freeze.py for my script that uses ElementTree. > But got the this error: > > File "/usr/lib/python2.5/xml/__init__.py", line 45, in > _xmlplus.__path__.extend(__path__) > AttributeError: 'str' object

Re: Will Python on day replace MATLAB?????????????????????????????????????????????????????

"Danyelle Gragsone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could you please use less question marks. Yes, preferably a maximum of one sentence-end punctuation mark per sentence. -- \ "When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a | `\ great parking spot, then sit in my ca

Re: Why the HELL has nobody answered my question !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

John Henry wrote: >> Why the HELL has nobody answered my question >> ! > > Urhpeople in HELL can't answer your question. Try sending your > post to HEAVEN... How do you know people in hell aren't doing any programming in Python? Especially "Gene Expressio

Re: Python Standardization: Wikipedia entry

"Paddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | On Feb 1, 12:18 am, "Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > ANSI does not actually make standards. It make metastandards about how to | > make standards (both style and process) and accredites US standard-making | > bod

Re: Why the HELL has nobody answered my question !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>Why the HELL has nobody answered my question >! Urhpeople in HELL can't answer your question. Try sending your post to HEAVEN... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: dict comprehension

"Daniel Fetchinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Hi folks, | | There is a withdrawn PEP about a new syntax for dict comprehension: | http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0274/ which says: I believe both set and dict comprehensions will be in 3.0. -- http://mai

Re: dict comprehension

> > Hi folks, > > > > There is a withdrawn PEP about a new syntax for dict comprehension: > > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0274/ which says: > > > > "Substantially all of its benefits were subsumed by generator > > expressions coupled with the dict() constructor." > > > > What does the author

Re: dict comprehension

On Feb 1, 6:06 am, "Ryan Ginstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Behalf Of Daniel Fetchinson > > What does the author mean here? What's the Preferably One Way > > (TM) to do something analogous to a dict comprehension? > > I imagine something like this: > > >>> keys = "a b c".split() > >>> valu

Re: dict comprehension

"Daniel Fetchinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What does the author mean here? What's the Preferably One Way (TM) to > do something analogous to a dict comprehension? from itertools import izip d = dict((k,v) for k,v in izip(keys, values)) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: dict comprehension

Ryan Ginstrom wrote: >> On Behalf Of Daniel Fetchinson >> What does the author mean here? What's the Preferably One Way >> (TM) to do something analogous to a dict comprehension? >> > > I imagine something like this: > > keys = "a b c".split() values = [1, 2, 3] D = dict([(a

Re: dict comprehension

Daniel Fetchinson wrote: > Hi folks, > > There is a withdrawn PEP about a new syntax for dict comprehension: > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0274/ which says: > > "Substantially all of its benefits were subsumed by generator > expressions coupled with the dict() constructor." > > What does the

RE: dict comprehension

> On Behalf Of Daniel Fetchinson > What does the author mean here? What's the Preferably One Way > (TM) to do something analogous to a dict comprehension? I imagine something like this: >>> keys = "a b c".split() >>> values = [1, 2, 3] >>> D = dict([(a, b) for a, b in zip(keys, values)]) >>> D {

Re: REALLY simple xml reader

Ivan Illarionov wrote: >> Also, for XML documents, they were probably thinking that the >> documents will be machine-generated most of the time. As far as I can >> tell, they were right in that. > > If anybody has to deal with human-generated XML/HTML in Python it may > be better to use something

dict comprehension

Hi folks, There is a withdrawn PEP about a new syntax for dict comprehension: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0274/ which says: "Substantially all of its benefits were subsumed by generator expressions coupled with the dict() constructor." What does the author mean here? What's the Preferably

Re: Naive idiom questions

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:30:09 -0600, Terran Melconian wrote: > * Is there a way to get headings in docstrings? > > I want to create my own sections, like "OVERVIEW", "EXAMPLES", > "AUTHORS", "BUGS", etc. I can't figure out any way to do this. In > perldoc, I can easily use =head1, but

Re: best(fastest) way to send and get lists from files

On Jan 31, 7:34 pm, "Abrahams, Max" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've looked into pickle, dump, load, save, readlines(), etc I've used the following sometimes: from pprint import pprint as pp print "data = \\" pp(data) That created a python file that could be read as a module, but there are limit

Re: PLEASE ACCEPT MY SINCERE APOLOGIES

On Feb 1, 1:26 am, "Blubaugh, David A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To Everyone on the planet Earth, > > Please accept my apologies for > > Why the Hell has nobody answered my question. > > I am just trying to finish a Masters thesis that is quite beyond > anything in this worl

Re: Python Standardization: Wikipedia entry

On Feb 1, 12:18 am, "Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "John Nagle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Submitting Python 2.5 to ISO/ANSI might be a good idea. > > ANSI does not actually make standards. It make metastandards about how to > make standards

Re: Will Python on day replace MATLAB?????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Hi David I am not familiar with ImpulseC. I think it may be unlikely for Python to replace MATLAB - maybe Python has less specialized libraries than MATLAB but Python has the width of applications. I will be hardpressed to think of a convincing argument to teach MATLAB as a replacement of Python/

PyWeek 6 is coming!

PyWeek 6 will run from 00:00 UTC on March 30th through to 00:00 UTC on April 6th. Registration is NOT OPEN YET. It will open on Friday 2008/02/29. If you're new (or even coming back again) please have a look at the rules and help pages at http://www.pyweek.org/ The PyWeek challenge: 1. Inv

Re: char string 2 hex string

You could also do: "".join(['%02x' % ord(c) for c in 'AAA']) On 31 Jan 2008, at 14:09, Paul Rubin wrote: Antonio Chay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: "AAA" should be "414141" 'AAA'.encode('hex') -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list On 31 Jan 2008, at 14:05, Antonio Chay wrot

Re: Will Python on day replace MATLAB?????????????????????????????????????????????????????

> I have been evaluating the python environment ever more closer. I > believe I can interface python with a development environment known as > the ImpulseC environment. The ImpulseC environment develops C to VHDL > for FPGA development. I would especially love to interface Python > with Impul

CDA conversion

Good evening. I am trying to write an application in Python that will allow a person to insert a CD into their computer and this python script will convert the music to mp3. NOTE: I have already google'd this, and nothing really pops out at me. I found tons of applications that does this, but I

Re: Will Python on day replace MATLAB?????????????????????????????????????????????????????

> with ImpulseC and the graphing capabilities of GNU Plot and SciPy in http://gnuplot-py.sourceforge.net/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Naive idiom questions

Terran Melconian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I guess for complete symmetry, there should then be frozendicts as well, > although I don't envision a lot of use for them at the moment. There should definitely be frozendicts and I've been wanting to write an implementation. The main thing about th

Re: Naive idiom questions

On Jan 31, 4:30 pm, Terran Melconian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Why are there no real mutable strings available? > > I found MutableString in UserString, but further research indicates > that it is horribly inefficient and actually just wraps immutable > strings for the implementati

Re: Will Python on day replace MATLAB?????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Danyelle Gragsone wrote: > Could you please use less question marks. This is not part of his Masters... :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Naive idiom questions

On 2008-01-31, Bjoern Schliessmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you measure such impact on your application? > Also see http://www.skymind.com/~ocrow/python_string/ I don't have a real application yet. That was, in fact, exactly the web page which informed me that the MutableString class was

Re: Will Python on day replace MATLAB?????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Could you please use less question marks. thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Will Python on day replace MATLAB?????????????????????????????????????????????????????

To All, I have been evaluating the python environment ever more closer. I believe I can interface python with a development environment known as the ImpulseC environment. The ImpulseC environment develops C to VHDL for FPGA development. I would especially love to interface Python with Impul

Re: How to identify which numbers in a list are within each others' range

On Jan 31, 7:11 pm, Paul Rubin wrote: > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > True... Any lighter-weight implementation of > > sets out there? That is, one that would defer > > use of resources until actually needed -- > > somewhat akin to the distinction

Re: Naive idiom questions

On 2008-02-01, Roger Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 31, 11:48 am, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm not sure what you're asking. AFAIK, the main reason that >> strings are immutable is so they can be used as dict keys. > > I think its more fundamental than that. If strin

PLEASE ACCEPT MY SINCERE APOLOGIES

To Everyone on the planet Earth, Please accept my apologies for Why the Hell has nobody answered my question. I am just trying to finish a Masters thesis that is quite beyond anything in this world. David Blubaugh -Original Message- From: [EMAI

Re: psycopg2

Andre' John wrote: > Hi > > I am trying to do this for a Postgresql database: > > conn = psycopg2.connect('host=localhost') > cur = conn.cursor() > cur.execute("SELECT * FROM names WHERE name=%s", ['S']) > > , which doesn't work, and neither does > > cur.execute("SELECT * FROM names WHERE name=

Re: Naive idiom questions

On Jan 31, 11:48 am, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm not sure what you're asking. AFAIK, the main reason that > strings are immutable is so they can be used as dict keys. > I think its more fundamental than that. If strings were mutable you would be constantly worrying about whe

psycopg2

Hi I am trying to do this for a Postgresql database: conn = psycopg2.connect('host=localhost') cur = conn.cursor() cur.execute("SELECT * FROM names WHERE name=%s", ['S']) , which doesn't work, and neither does cur.execute("SELECT * FROM names WHERE name='%s'", ['S']) or cur.execute("SELECT *

Re: Removal of element from list while traversing causes the next element to be skipped

En Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:45:42 -0200, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Hmm, how does this fare?? > > for i in range(len(a)): > if a[i]==99: a=a[:i]+a[i+1:] > > > I like following your guys code noodling. I can come up with something > that does what it appears your doing, sometimes, but as t

Re: Python Standardization: Wikipedia entry

"John Nagle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Submitting Python 2.5 to ISO/ANSI might be a good idea. ANSI does not actually make standards. It make metastandards about how to make standards (both style and process) and accredites US standard-making bodies tha

Re: Design question - Sharing of single object by multiple processes

Mike D wrote: > Steve, > > You raise some very good (and obvious) issues I did'nt consider. I'll > look further into this sort of implementation as I'm quite interested. > > I suppose a compromise could be to load the objects from a pickle, that > may have issues in terms of updating the pickle

Re: How to identify which numbers in a list are within each others' range

"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > True... Any lighter-weight implementation of > sets out there? That is, one that would defer > use of resources until actually needed -- > somewhat akin to the distinction between > range and xrange, and so on. Don't even think of doing it that w

Re: object vs class oriented -- xotcl

On 29 Jan., 19:22, William Pursell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I > believe "per object mixin" is the correct > term for such an animal. The first several google > hits on that phrase all reference xotcl, so I'm > not sure if that is an xotcl inspired vocabulary > that isn't really standard. wel

Re: wxEVT_SCROLL_ENDSCROLL

try wx.EVT_SCROLL_ENDSCROLL ? Jack Holt wrote: > Hello, > > I got the following error: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "vplayer.py", line 15, in ? > File "config.pyo", line 3, in ? > File "wx\__init__.pyo", line 44, in ? > File "wx\_core.pyo", line 3592, in ? > AttributeErro

Re: Online Debugging

En Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:15:05 -0200, Yansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > I'm trying to debug a script on my server and it's taking forever > using print to find the error. I've tried to use the debugging > examples on this page http://webpython.codepoint.net/debugging but > they don't seem to

wxEVT_SCROLL_ENDSCROLL

Hello, I got the following error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "vplayer.py", line 15, in ? File "config.pyo", line 3, in ? File "wx\__init__.pyo", line 44, in ? File "wx\_core.pyo", line 3592, in ? AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'wxEVT_SCROLL_ENDSCROLL' I ne

Re: Why the HELL has nobody answered my question !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Steve Holden wrote: > ... > Look guys, I thought we'd agreed that the PSU was no longer to be How did Steve manage to click send again after the para -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python modules collection

On 31 jan, 02:57, "Guilherme Polo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/1/30, J. Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hello, > > > Is there a site for python,which collects most kinds of python modules? > > like CPAN for Perl. > > Sometime I want to use a module,like the time/date modules,don't know > >

Re: How to identify which numbers in a list are within each others' range

On Jan 31, 3:09 pm, Paul Rubin wrote: > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > mysets = [set(range(x[2],x[1])) for x in mylist] > > This is pretty horrible, each set can be arbitrarily large, > i.e. if x[2] and x[1] are 0 and 100, you get a set with > a m

Re: How to identify which numbers in a list are within each others' range

"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > mysets = [set(range(x[2],x[1])) for x in mylist] This is pretty horrible, each set can be arbitrarily large, i.e. if x[2] and x[1] are 0 and 100, you get a set with a million elements. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to identify which numbers in a list are within each others' range

On Jan 31, 2:48 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 31, 8:12 am, erikcw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One way would be to use sets and check for intersection: > > for idx, s in enumerate(mysets): > for next_idx, next_s in enumerate(mysets[idx+1:]): > if s.inter

Re: REALLY simple xml reader

> Also, for XML documents, they were probably thinking that the > documents will be machine-generated most of the time. As far as I can > tell, they were right in that. If anybody has to deal with human-generated XML/HTML in Python it may be better to use something like http://www.crummy.com/softw

Re: Dictionary Keys question

On Jan 31, 7:35 am, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dustan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Jan 30, 7:02 pm, FireNWater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thank you for the explanation. . . I think I now have a (foggy) > > > understanding of hash tables. It seems to be a way to create order

Re: Python Standardization: Wikipedia entry

Colin J. Williams wrote: > John Nagle wrote: >> Paddy wrote: >>> I would value the opinion of fellow Pythoneers who have also >>> contributed to Wikipedia, on the issue of "Is Python Standardized". >>> Specifically in the context of this table: >>> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_

Re: REALLY simple xml reader

Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > Ricardo Aráoz schrieb: >> Diez B. Roggisch wrote: >>> Ricardo Aráoz schrieb: Thanks Ivan, it seems a elegant API, and easy to use. I tried to play a little with it but unfortunately could not get it off the ground. I kept getting >>> root = et.fromstring

Re: helper function in a class' namespace

On Jan 31, 8:05 pm, Stargaming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > class A(object): > >    def Helper(M) : > >      return 'H>'+M > >    def __init__(self,Msg) : > >      print Helper(Msg) > > > doesn't work since Python is looking for a global function Helper (why?) > > Because in the scope of th

Re: How to identify which numbers in a list are within each others' range

On Jan 31, 8:12 am, erikcw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a list of numbers each with a +/- margin of error. I need to > identify which ones overlab each other. > > For example: > 55 +/- 3 > 20 +/- 2 > 17 +/- 4 > 60 +/- 3 > > #base, max, min > list = [ > (55, 58, 52), > (20, 22, 18),

Re: helper function in a class' namespace

On Jan 31, 10:39 pm, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED] cybersource.com.au> wrote: > On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:05:44 +, Stargaming wrote: > > String concatenation is generally considered unpythonic, better use > > string interpolation:: > > >     'H> %s' % (M,) [...] > Also, the tuple above is tot

Re: helper function in a class' namespace

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:05:44 +, Stargaming wrote: > String concatenation is generally considered unpythonic, better use > string interpolation:: > > 'H> %s' % (M,) String concatenation is significantly faster than string interpolation. >>> import timeit >>> timeit.Timer("'H> %s' % M", "

Re: Design question - Sharing of single object by multiple processes

Steve, You raise some very good (and obvious) issues I did'nt consider. I'll look further into this sort of implementation as I'm quite interested. I suppose a compromise could be to load the objects from a pickle, that may have issues in terms of updating the pickle perhaps, though it would be m

Re: How to identify which numbers in a list are within each others' range

On Jan 31, 4:12 pm, erikcw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a list of numbers each with a +/- margin of error.  I need to > identify which ones overlab each other. > > For example: > 55 +/- 3 > 20 +/- 2 > 17 +/- 4 > 60 +/- 3 > > #base, max, min > list = [ > (55, 58, 52), > (20, 22, 18),

Re: Naive idiom questions

Terran Melconian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to be able to accumulate a string with +=, not by going > through an intermediate list and then doing ''.join(), because I > think the latter is ugly. There are also times when I'd like to use > the string as a modifiable buffer

Re: pyExcelerator - Can I read and modify an existing Excel-WorkBook?

On Feb 1, 4:37 am, Stephen Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes indeed, pyExcelerator does support reading data from excel > spreadsheets. I presume this is an orphaned and belated reply to the 3-message thread in July 2006 with the same subject. > An example of how to do this is included in th

Re: Naive idiom questions

Terran Melconian wrote: > * Why are there no real mutable strings available? > > I found MutableString in UserString, but further research > indicates that it is horribly inefficient and actually just > wraps immutable strings for the implementation. Did you measure such impact on you

Re: char string 2 hex string

Antonio Chay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "AAA" should be "414141" 'AAA'.encode('hex') -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

char string 2 hex string

Hello! I need to transform a string from a file into a hexadecimal representation, for example: "AAA" should be "414141" With perl I do this with: unpack("H*","AAA") And with python I got this: "".join([str(hex(ord(x)))[2:] for x in "AAA"]) But seems a little "weird" for me. Is there anothe

Re: best(fastest) way to send and get lists from files

Abrahams, Max wrote: > I've looked into pickle, dump, load, save, readlines(), etc. > > Which is the best method? Fastest? My lists tend to be around a thousand to a > million items. > > Binary and text files are both okay, text would be preferred in general > unless there's a significant speed

Re: Design question - Sharing of single object by multiple processes

Mike D wrote: > Steve, > > Thanks for the response. My question really comes down to, as you > suggested, premature optimization. > > It is more for my own understanding than a current practical use. > > If an object is loaded into memory and other threads(or processes) can > recieve a pointer

Re: best(fastest) way to send and get lists from files

Abrahams, Max wrote: > I've looked into pickle, dump, load, save, readlines(), etc. > > Which is the best method? Fastest? My lists tend to be around a thousand to a > million items. > > Binary and text files are both okay, text would be preferred in general > unless there's a significant speed

Re: Naive idiom questions

On 2008-01-31, Terran Melconian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Why are there no real mutable strings available? [...] > I want to be able to accumulate a string with +=, not by going > through an intermediate list and then doing ''.join(), So what's stopping you? >>> s = "one" >>> s +=

Naive idiom questions

* Why are there no real mutable strings available? I found MutableString in UserString, but further research indicates that it is horribly inefficient and actually just wraps immutable strings for the implementation. I want to be able to accumulate a string with +=, not by going

Re: sending a handmade SOAP request

On 31 jan, 15:23, Van Gale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, it's quite easy to SOAP by hand. > > I use Oren Tirosh's ElementBuilder class (on top of lxml instead of > ElementTree) to build the SOAP request and the xpath capabilities in lxml > to pull out the data I need from the response. > > http

Re: sending a handmade SOAP request

Hi, Bernard wrote: > Is there a way to POST a handmade SOAP request *without* using any > libraries like SOAPpy? This might help: http://effbot.org/zone/element-soap.htm I didn't try, but it should also work with lxml - which might make a couple of things a little easier, as it gives you XPath

Re: REALLY simple xml reader

Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:40:01 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > > Quite apart from a human thinking it's pretty or not pretty, it's *not > > valid XML* if the XML declaration isn't immediately at the start of the > > document http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#sec-p

Re: PIL linux err

dzizes wrote: > I'm trying to run simple .py on linux, which is using PIL. Below error > message which I receive: > > IOError: decoder jpeg not available > > Do you know what might be the problem? No, but google seems to: http://effbot.org/zone/pil-decoder-jpeg-not-available.htm Paul --

Re: sending a handmade SOAP request

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:03:26 -0800, Bernard wrote: > Hey y'all, > > Is there a way to POST a handmade SOAP request *without* using any > libraries like SOAPpy? Yes, it's quite easy to SOAP by hand. I use Oren Tirosh's ElementBuilder class (on top of lxml instead of ElementTree) to build the SO

Re: Dictionary Keys question

On Jan 31, 4:39 am, Dustan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 30, 7:02 pm, FireNWater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thank you for the explanation. . . I think I now have a (foggy) > > understanding of hash tables. It seems to be a way to create order > > The 'order' that your speaking of is n

RE: Design question - Sharing of single object by multiple processes

Steve, Thanks for the response. My question really comes down to, as you suggested, premature optimization. It is more for my own understanding than a current practical use. If an object is loaded into memory and other threads(or processes) can recieve a pointer to this location, would this not

Re: helper function in a class' namespace

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:51:23 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > the following code works fine > > def Helper(M) : >return 'H>'+M String concatenation is generally considered unpythonic, better use string interpolation:: 'H> %s' % (M,) > class A(object): >def __init__(self,Ms

helper function in a class' namespace

Hi, the following code works fine def Helper(M) : return 'H>'+M class A(object): def __init__(self,Msg) : print Helper(Msg) B=A('ZZ') but the Helper function is in the module's namespace. I'd like to put it into class A's namespace. Note, the Helper function doesn't need access to

Re: Python for mobiles

On Jan 31, 2008 1:16 PM, Shawn Milochik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A better solution would surely be to get a Nokia S60 'phone, for which > there is a native Python implementation. > > regards > Steve > -- > Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 > Holden Web LLC h

Re: PIL linux err

On Feb 1, 5:41 am, dzizes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to run simple .py on linux, which is using PIL. Below error > message which I receive: > > File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/PIL/Image.py", line 960, in > histogram > self.load() > File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-p

best(fastest) way to send and get lists from files

I've looked into pickle, dump, load, save, readlines(), etc. Which is the best method? Fastest? My lists tend to be around a thousand to a million items. Binary and text files are both okay, text would be preferred in general unless there's a significant speed boost from something binary. tha

Re: Python for mobiles

A better solution would surely be to get a Nokia S60 'phone, for which there is a native Python implementation. regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ Steve: Do you know if the Nokia E60i phone has this

pyExcelerator - Can I read and modify an existing Excel-WorkBook?

Yes indeed, pyExcelerator does support reading data from excel spreadsheets. An example of how to do this is included in the file xls2csv-gerry.py under the directory ... pyExcelerator/examples/tools Syntax is pretty straight forward. extract_all = parse_xls(filename, CP = None) where CP i

sending a handmade SOAP request

Hey y'all, Is there a way to POST a handmade SOAP request *without* using any libraries like SOAPpy? I've been having some communication trouble with a server using the new wse3 (http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/ details.aspx? familyid=018A09FD-3A74-43C5-8EC1-8D789091255D&displaylang=en). they

PIL linux err

Hi, I'm trying to run simple .py on linux, which is using PIL. Below error message which I receive: File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/PIL/Image.py", line 960, in histogram self.load() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/PIL/ImageFile.py", line 180, in load d = Image._getdecod

Re: Python for mobiles

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > Is there any chance that i could compile python programs to java (.jar > [java bytecode]) so that i could run them with full support (no > interpreter) in a wireless device (talking about mobiles eg. nokia, > ericsson). > I am aware of jython, however i am not

Re: REALLY simple xml reader

Stefan Behnel wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:40:01 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: >> >>> Quite apart from a human thinking it's pretty or not pretty, it's *not >>> valid XML* if the XML declaration isn't immediately at the start of the >>> document http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#sec

Re: Fw: Undeliverable Message

> Heres the code > > def increment(digits,symbols): >         overflow=True >         digitpos=-1 >         while overflow and -digitpos<=len(digits): >                 digitsymbolindex=symbols.index(digits[digitpos]) >                 if digitsymbolindex==len(symbols)-1: >                    

Python for mobiles

Hello, Is there any chance that i could compile python programs to java (.jar [java bytecode]) so that i could run them with full support (no interpreter) in a wireless device (talking about mobiles eg. nokia, ericsson). I am aware of jython, however i am not elegible of finding a proper article c

Re: Removal of element from list while traversing causes the next element to be skipped

Hmm, how does this fare?? for i in range(len(a)): if a[i]==99: a=a[:i]+a[i+1:] I like following your guys code noodling. I can come up with something that does what it appears your doing, sometimes, but as to it's relevant merits I havent a clue :) matt.

Re: REALLY simple xml reader

Hi, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:40:01 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > >> Quite apart from a human thinking it's pretty or not pretty, it's *not >> valid XML* if the XML declaration isn't immediately at the start of the >> document http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#sec-prolog-dtd>. Many XML

very simple Genetic Algorithm completed

Hi, I got some help with this from here, and there's been a little bit of discussion around GA's recently, so thought I'd post up my likey slow and clunky version of a GA that in essence just 'evolves' a solution to 'make a sum that evaluates to n using */+-0123456789' it's a really simple GA tha

Re: REALLY simple xml reader

Steven D'Aprano schrieb: > On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:40:01 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > >> Quite apart from a human thinking it's pretty or not pretty, it's *not >> valid XML* if the XML declaration isn't immediately at the start of the >> document http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#sec-prolog-dtd>. Many XML >>

Re: How to identify which numbers in a list are within each others' range

erikcw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the best way to in python to identify the list items that > overlap and the items that don't overlap with any other. This sounds like a homework problem, so the first thing I'll suggest is that you figure out exactly what it means for two of those inter

Re: Problems installing Python on server

On 28 Jan, 22:28, Yansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I asked my hosting company if they would upgrade Python on my server > to the latest version. They responded with: > > "Sorry no. We tend to stick with what comes packaged with the unix > distribution to ease maintenance issues. Which version a

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How to identify which numbers in a list are within each others' range

Hi, I have a list of numbers each with a +/- margin of error. I need to identify which ones overlab each other. For example: 55 +/- 3 20 +/- 2 17 +/- 4 60 +/- 3 #base, max, min list = [ (55, 58, 52), (20, 22, 18), (17, 21, 13), (60, 63, 57), ] In this example the range of list[0] overlaps the

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Helmut Jarausch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You're right: standard Python's math library missing the function arctan2. It's math.atan2 . -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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