Re: Simple unicode-safe version of str(exception)?

2008-04-29 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! Russell E. Owen writes: [...] So...to repeat the original question, is there any simpler unicode-safe replacement for str(exception)? Please show us the tracebacks you get becuae unicode(s) must fail, too, if there are non-ASCII characters involved. Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten

Import fails with python but succeeds with python -v

2008-04-29 Thread John Normoyle
Hi, I've noticed strange behaviour where cx_Oracle will fail to load when using python but it will succeed when using python -v while throwing Unsatisfied code symbol errors. This is for Python 2.5, Oracle 9.2 and cx_Oracle 4.3.1 on the platform HP-UX 11 Output for python: ImportError:

Re: Issue with regular expressions

2008-04-29 Thread Matimus
On Apr 29, 6:46 am, Julien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm fairly new in Python and I haven't used the regular expressions enough to be able to achieve what I want. I'd like to select terms in a string, so I can then do a search in my database. query = ' some words with and without

Re: Issue with regular expressions

2008-04-29 Thread Paul McGuire
On Apr 29, 9:20 am, Paul McGuire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 29, 8:46 am, Julien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to select terms in a string, so I can then do a search in my database. query = '    some words  with and without    quotes    ' p =

Simple import question about mac osx

2008-04-29 Thread jmDesktop
Hi, I have this code (learning from Core Python, Chun's book), module named chap2.py. class FooClass(object): version=0.1 def __init__(self, nm='John Doe'): self.name=nm print 'Created a class instance for ', nm def showname(self):

Re: Simple unicode-safe version of str(exception)?

2008-04-29 Thread Sion Arrowsmith
Russell E. Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No. e.message is only set if the exeption object receives exactly one argument. And not always then: e1 = Exception(u\u00fe) e1.message Traceback (most recent call last): File stdin, line 1, in ? AttributeError: Exception instance has no attribute

Re: Given a string - execute a function by the same name

2008-04-29 Thread python
Erik, Perhaps I missed something earlier in the thread, but I really don't see the need for that registry dict or the register decorator. Python already maintains a dictionary for each scope: The advantage of the decorator technique is that you explicitly declare which functions are eligible

Re: Issue with regular expressions

2008-04-29 Thread George Sakkis
On Apr 29, 9:46 am, Julien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm fairly new in Python and I haven't used the regular expressions enough to be able to achieve what I want. I'd like to select terms in a string, so I can then do a search in my database. query = ' some words with and without

Re: Simple import question about mac osx

2008-04-29 Thread jmDesktop
On Apr 29, 1:16 pm, jmDesktop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have this code (learning from Core Python, Chun's book), module named chap2.py. class FooClass(object):         version=0.1         def __init__(self, nm='John Doe'):                 self.name=nm                 print 'Created a

Re: Simple import question about mac osx

2008-04-29 Thread s0suk3
On Apr 29, 12:46 pm, jmDesktop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 29, 1:16 pm, jmDesktop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have this code (learning from Core Python, Chun's book), module named chap2.py. class FooClass(object): version=0.1 def __init__(self, nm='John

Re: Colors for Rows

2008-04-29 Thread Victor Subervi
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:11 AM, D'Arcy J.M. Cain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:33:32 -0500 Victor Subervi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: why doesn't this work? First, let me remove some blank lines to reduce scrolling. z = 3 for d in (1,2,3,4,5,6): I changed id to a

Re: Simple import question about mac osx

2008-04-29 Thread jmDesktop
On Apr 29, 1:54 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 29, 12:46 pm, jmDesktop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 29, 1:16 pm, jmDesktop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have this code (learning from Core Python, Chun's book), module named chap2.py. class FooClass(object):        

Re: Colors for Rows

2008-04-29 Thread Joe Riopel
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Victor Subervi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi; why doesn't this work? It never increments z! Yet, if I print z, it will increment and change the bgcolor! Why?! Are you only trying to print 'tr bgcolor=%s\n' % bg once, or for each iteration of the loop? It

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-29 Thread Fuzzyman
On Apr 22, 11:25 am, azrael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hy guys, A friend of mine i a proud PERL developer which always keeps making jokes on python's cost. Please give me any arguments to cut him down about his commnets like :keep programing i python. maybe, one day, you will be able to

Re: Zope/DTML Infuriating...

2008-04-29 Thread Arnaud Delobelle
Jens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] @Marco: Thanks for the links :-) Python may be one of those really elegant languages, but the reference is really sub standard. Checkout the layout of php.net for comparison. Think what you will about php, but the reference is excellent. For that matter

Re: So you think PythonCard is old? Here's new wine in an old bottle.

2008-04-29 Thread Panyasan
On 29 Apr., 18:17, John Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are a whole bunch of test programs that comes with Pythoncard. Do they work? (Not all of them will work - some requires a database) Yes, the examples work. Just the resourceEditor.py and the layoutEditor.py in the distributed

Re: Simple import question about mac osx

2008-04-29 Thread Jerry Hill
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:14 PM, jmDesktop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. That worked on mac. But it does work like I said in Windows. Don't know why. Mr. Chun must also be using Windows because that is the way he does it in his book. It shouldn't work that way on windows either. Can

Re: @classmethod question

2008-04-29 Thread Scott SA
On 4/24/08, Bruno Desthuilliers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: It is a series of convenience methods, in this case I'm interacting with a database via an ORM (object-relational model). out of curiosity : which one ? I'm rapidly becoming a django junkie^TM I want the ability to call a

Sending Cntrl-C ??

2008-04-29 Thread gamename
Hi, I really like this recipe for controlling subprocesses: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/440554 However, I can't figure out how I can send the equivalent of Cntrl-C to the subprocess. How can that be done? TIA, -T --

Re: Colors for Rows

2008-04-29 Thread J. Cliff Dyer
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 13:14 -0500, Victor Subervi wrote: On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:11 AM, D'Arcy J.M. Cain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:33:32 -0500 Victor Subervi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: why doesn't this work? First,

Re: list.reverse()

2008-04-29 Thread Ivan Illarionov
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:26:07 -0700, Paul McGuire wrote: On Apr 28, 1:12 pm, Mark Bryan Yu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This set of codes works: x = range(5) x.reverse() x [4, 3, 2, 1, 0] You can also use list slicing to get a reversed list: x = range(5) x [0, 1, 2, 3, 4] x[::-1]

Re: Simple import question about mac osx

2008-04-29 Thread jmDesktop
On Apr 29, 2:37 pm, Jerry Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:14 PM, jmDesktop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:  Thanks.  That worked on mac.  But it does work like I said in  Windows.  Don't know why.  Mr. Chun must also be using Windows because  that is the way he does it in

Re: Setting an attribute without calling __setattr__()

2008-04-29 Thread Joshua Kugler
animalMutha wrote: Consider reading the *second* paragraph about __setattr__ in section 3.4.2 of the Python Reference Manual. if you are simply going to answer rtfm - might as well kept it to yourself. For what it's worth, I (the original poster) am glad he answered that way. It showed me

Re: Colors for Rows

2008-04-29 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:14:34 -0500 Victor Subervi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:11 AM, D'Arcy J.M. Cain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for d in (1,2,3,4,5,6): I changed id to a sequence so that the example actually runs. Please run your examples first and cut and paste

Re: Colors for Rows

2008-04-29 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:03:23 -0400 J. Cliff Dyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or, if you aren't sure how many colors you'll be using, try the more robust: bg[z % len(bg)] Good point although I would have calculated the length once at the start rather than each time through the loop. -- D'Arcy

__getattr__ and recursion ?

2008-04-29 Thread Stef Mientki
hello, I tried to find an easy way to add properties (attributes) to a number of different components. So I wrote a class, from which all these components are derived. By trial and error I created the code below, which now works, but there is one thing I don't understand: in the line indicated

Re: Simple unicode-safe version of str(exception)?

2008-04-29 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Torsten Bronger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallöchen! Russell E. Owen writes: [...] So...to repeat the original question, is there any simpler unicode-safe replacement for str(exception)? Please show us the tracebacks you get becuae unicode(s) must

Re: cytpes **int

2008-04-29 Thread VernM
On Apr 28, 11:57 pm, Diez B. Roggisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gabriel Genellina schrieb: [snip repetition] That's true for a pointer to a pointer to int, and it's valid if the functions references **b or b[0][0] - but in this case int** probably means [pointer to] an array of

Re: Cookie Confusion - How to Set a Cookie

2008-04-29 Thread cbhoem
On Apr 28, 1:37 pm, Aaron Watters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 28, 9:42 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see the cookie in my HTTP header but do not get anything in the cookie text file. I'm working on linux. print Content-type: text/html cookie = Cookie.SimpleCookie()

Re: list.reverse()

2008-04-29 Thread Carl Banks
On Apr 29, 9:32 am, Roy Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The reasoning goes along the lines of, reverse in place is an expensive operation, so we don't want to make it too easy for people to do. At least that's the gist of what I got out of the argument the many times it has come up. Except

Re: Simple import question about mac osx

2008-04-29 Thread s0suk3
On Apr 29, 2:17 pm, jmDesktop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 29, 2:37 pm, Jerry Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:14 PM, jmDesktop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. That worked on mac. But it does work like I said in Windows. Don't know why. Mr. Chun must

Need Python alternative to Request-Tracker help desk software

2008-04-29 Thread Sells, Fred
I've been tasked with either implementing Request-Tracker to upgrade our help desk issue tracking system or finding a Python equivalent (both in terms of functionality and wide spread use). Request-Tracker uses Apache and MySQL, which would also be appropriate to Python. I would prefer to go

Re: So you think PythonCard is old? Here's new wine in an old bottle.

2008-04-29 Thread Panyasan
On 29 Apr., 20:30, Panyasan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29 Apr., 18:17, John Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are a whole bunch of test programs that comes with Pythoncard. Do they work? (Not all of them will work - some requires a database) Yes, the examples work. Just the

Re: Colors for Rows

2008-04-29 Thread J. Cliff Dyer
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 15:39 -0400, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:03:23 -0400 J. Cliff Dyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or, if you aren't sure how many colors you'll be using, try the more robust: bg[z % len(bg)] Good point although I would have calculated the length

py2exe Icon Resources

2008-04-29 Thread flarefight
I have created an app using python and then converting it to an exe using py2exe, and have the following code: icon_resources: [(1, appFavicon.ico), (2, dataFavicon.ico)] in my py2exe setup file, the appFavicon works fine and it sets that as the app icon thats fine, but the program creates data

Re: @classmethod question

2008-04-29 Thread Scott SA
On 4/23/08, Ivan Illarionov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On 24 ???, 07:27, Scott SA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using the @classemethod decorator for some convenience methods and for It would make sense to separate instance-level and class-level behaviour with additional 'objects' namespace.

Re: Simple unicode-safe version of str(exception)?

2008-04-29 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! Russell E. Owen writes: Torsten Bronger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Russell E. Owen writes: [...] So...to repeat the original question, is there any simpler unicode-safe replacement for str(exception)? Please show us the tracebacks you get becuae unicode(s) must fail, too,

Re: Cookie Confusion - How to Set a Cookie

2008-04-29 Thread Aaron Watters
Thanks for the code, Aaron. I will give it a try. I've been reading some more about cookielib and am not sure whether I should use Cookie or cookielib. This is what I want to do: a user is going to login. Upon a successful login, I want to write their name and date/time of visit to a

string translate, replace, find and the forward slash

2008-04-29 Thread destroooooy
Hi folks, I'm finding some (what I consider) curious behavior with the string methods and the forward slash character. I'm writing a program to rename mp3 files based on their id3 tags, and I want to protect against goofy characters in the in tags. So I do the following: unsafe_chars =

Re: Simple import question about mac osx

2008-04-29 Thread Jerry Hill
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 3:17 PM, jmDesktop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Windows I took the text file I created on mac with vi and opened it in PythonWin. I ran it. It compiled. I run the import and call from the python interpreter. You're not doing what you think you're doing. I'm not

Re: string translate, replace, find and the forward slash

2008-04-29 Thread Arnaud Delobelle
destroy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi folks, I'm finding some (what I consider) curious behavior with the string methods and the forward slash character. I'm writing a program to rename mp3 files based on their id3 tags, and I want to protect against goofy characters in the in tags. So

Re: API's and hardware communication. Newbie

2008-04-29 Thread Grayham
It seems to me that python needs to be extended with C in some form to able to do what i need. I think instead of learning two languages i am going to put all my efforts in to learning C as it seems that's where i am going to end up. Thank you both for the feed back and links Regards Grayham

Re: string translate, replace, find and the forward slash

2008-04-29 Thread destroooooy
On Apr 29, 4:50 pm, Arnaud Delobelle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: destroy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi folks, I'm finding some (what I consider) curious behavior with the string methods and the forward slash character. I'm writing a program to rename mp3 files based on their id3 tags,

Re: py2exe Icon Resources

2008-04-29 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Apr 29, 3:24 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have created an app using python and then converting it to an exe using py2exe, and have the following code: icon_resources: [(1, appFavicon.ico), (2, dataFavicon.ico)] in my py2exe setup file, the appFavicon works fine and it sets that as the

accuracy issues with numpy arrays?

2008-04-29 Thread eli
Hi, I'm writing a quick script to import a fits (astronomy) image that has very low values for each pixel. Mostly on the order of 10^-9. I have written a python script that attempts to take low values and put them in integer format. I basically do this by taking the mean of the 1000 lowest pixel

Re: accuracy issues with numpy arrays?

2008-04-29 Thread Robert Kern
You will want to ask numpy questions on the numpy mailing list: http://www.scipy.org/Mailing_Lists I need a little more time to mull on your problem to give you an actual answer, but I hope I can do that over there instead of here. -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole

pyExcelerator number formats and borders (was Re: PyExcerlerator details)

2008-04-29 Thread John Machin
A_H wrote: Hi, I'm using PyExcelerator, and it's great, If you are using the latest released version, it's not, IMO. Reading the fixed-later bug reports on Sourceforge may prompt you to get the latest version from svn. Reading the unfixed bug reports on Sourceforge may prompt you to switch

Re: string translate, replace, find and the forward slash

2008-04-29 Thread destroooooy
On Apr 29, 4:50 pm, Arnaud Delobelle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: destroy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi folks, I'm finding some (what I consider) curious behavior with the string methods and the forward slash character. I'm writing a program to rename mp3 files based on their id3 tags,

MatplotLib errors

2008-04-29 Thread Thomas Philips
I have just started using MatPlotLib, and use it to generate graphs from Python simulations. It often happens that the graph is generated and a Visual C++ Runtime Library error then pops up: Runtime Error! Program C:\Pythin25\Pythonw.exe This application has requested the Runtime to terminate in

Tix.HList - Move Cursor

2008-04-29 Thread ivan
Hello, How do I move the keyboard cursor position in a Tix.HList? I am using an HList with the right mouse button bound to pop up a menu. If the right click is done on an unselected item, I change the selection to that item. This works, however the keyboard cursor position remains at the last

Re: Need Python alternative to Request-Tracker help desk software

2008-04-29 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 2008-04-29 22:15, Sells, Fred wrote: I've been tasked with either implementing Request-Tracker to upgrade our help desk issue tracking system or finding a Python equivalent (both in terms of functionality and wide spread use). Request-Tracker uses Apache and MySQL, which would also be

Re: @classmethod question

2008-04-29 Thread Ivan Illarionov
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:30:08 -0600, Scott SA wrote: With that said, your reply is amazingly helpful in my quest to understand python, Django, etc. Django is the ORM I referred to, so the material you have written helps explain a few things. This was my intention. Django ORM uses Pyhton

Re: Sending Cntrl-C ??

2008-04-29 Thread Christian Heimes
gamename schrieb: Hi, I really like this recipe for controlling subprocesses: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/440554 However, I can't figure out how I can send the equivalent of Cntrl-C to the subprocess. How can that be done? import os import signal import

Re: string translate, replace, find and the forward slash

2008-04-29 Thread Arnaud Delobelle
destroy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Apr 29, 4:50 pm, Arnaud Delobelle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: marigold:junk arno$ python Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jan 17 2008, 19:35:17) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)] on darwin Type help, copyright, credits or license for more information.

Re: i want to add a timeout to my code

2008-04-29 Thread maehhheeyy
On Apr 17, 4:24 pm, Miki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 17, 1:10 pm,maehhheeyy[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to add a timeout so that when I pull out my gps from my serial port, it would wait for a bit then loop and then see if it's there. I also want to add a print statement saying that

Re: Simple unicode-safe version of str(exception)?

2008-04-29 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Should I report this as a bug? I suspect it's a misfeature. Please no. There isn't much that can be done about it, IMO. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Simple unicode-safe version of str(exception)?

2008-04-29 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! Martin v. Löwis writes: Should I report this as a bug? I suspect it's a misfeature. Please no. There isn't much that can be done about it, IMO. One could give Exception a __unicode__ method. On the other hand, this kind of conversion of an exception to something printable is a

timeout

2008-04-29 Thread maehhheeyy
Hi, I was just wondering if there was such thing as a timeout module. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Sending Cntrl-C ??

2008-04-29 Thread gamename
import os import signal import subprocess popen = subprocess(...) os.kill(popen.pid, signal.SIGINT) Or with Python 2.6+: popen.send_signal(signal.SIGINT) Thanks, Christian. Would that work on win32 as well? -T -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python(2.5) reads an input file FASTER than pure C(Mingw)

2008-04-29 Thread Lie
On Apr 28, 2:14 am, n00m [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lie wrote: On Apr 27, 6:28�am, n00m [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No so simple, guys. E.g., I can't solve (in Python) this:http://www.spoj.pl/problems/INTEST/ Keep getting TLE (time limit exceeded). Any ideas? After all, it's weekend.

Re: So you think PythonCard is old? Here's new wine in an old bottle.

2008-04-29 Thread John Henry
On Apr 29, 1:16 pm, Panyasan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29 Apr., 20:30, Panyasan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29 Apr., 18:17, John Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are a whole bunch of test programs that comes with Pythoncard. Do they work? (Not all of them will work - some

Re: Simple import question about mac osx

2008-04-29 Thread ivan
On Apr 29, 3:47 pm, Jerry Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you run your code in pythonwin, it's just like calling 'python -i chap2.py'  It runs the code in chap2.py, then gives you an interpreter window to interact with your code.  In this case, that means that FooClass is visible with no

Re: i want to add a timeout to my code

2008-04-29 Thread John Krukoff
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 14:47 -0700, maehhheeyy wrote: On Apr 17, 4:24 pm, Miki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 17, 1:10 pm,maehhheeyy[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to add a timeout so that when I pull out my gps from my serial port, it would wait for a bit then loop and then see if

how to convert a multiline string to an anonymous function?

2008-04-29 Thread Danny Shevitz
Simple question here: I have a multiline string representing the body of a function. I have control over the string, so I can use either of the following: str = ''' print state return True ''' str = ''' def f(state): print state return True ''' and I want to convert this into the function:

Re: how to convert a multiline string to an anonymous function?

2008-04-29 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Danny Shevitz schrieb: Simple question here: I have a multiline string representing the body of a function. I have control over the string, so I can use either of the following: str = ''' print state return True ''' str = ''' def f(state): print state return True ''' and I want to

Re: timeout

2008-04-29 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
maehhheeyy schrieb: Hi, I was just wondering if there was such thing as a timeout module. time.sleep? Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python command mis-interprets arrow keys

2008-04-29 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Rahul schrieb: My python command line seems messed up. I can't seem to be able to use my backspace key nor my arrow keys. I only get control characters: ^[[A^[[D^[[D^[[D^[[C^[[C^[[C etc. I access my Linux box via a SecureCRT console. Only after opening the python interpreter does this

Re: API's and hardware communication. Newbie

2008-04-29 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Grayham schrieb: It seems to me that python needs to be extended with C in some form to able to do what i need. I think instead of learning two languages i am going to put all my efforts in to learning C as it seems that's where i am going to end up. It's your decision of course. But you will

Re: python command mis-interprets arrow keys

2008-04-29 Thread Rahul
Diez B. Roggisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is libreadline installed? Thanks for your help Diez. I did a locate and found: /usr/lib/libreadline.a /usr/lib/libreadline.so /usr/lib/libreadline.so.5 /usr/lib/libreadline.so.5.1

Re: python command mis-interprets arrow keys

2008-04-29 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Rahul schrieb: Diez B. Roggisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is libreadline installed? Thanks for your help Diez. I did a locate and found: /usr/lib/libreadline.a /usr/lib/libreadline.so /usr/lib/libreadline.so.5 /usr/lib/libreadline.so.5.1

Re: Sending Cntrl-C ??

2008-04-29 Thread Christian Heimes
gamename schrieb: Thanks, Christian. Would that work on win32 as well? No, Windows doesn't support the same, rich set of signal as Unix OSes. Christian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

swig -python can't find _xxx.dll for windows

2008-04-29 Thread Dongpyo Hong
Dear all, I wrapped c++ code with swig, and made _xxx.dll file. But, when I import xxx.py file from Python interpreter: import xxx it keeps saying that ImportError: No module named _xxx I checked sys.path and PATH environment. Why is that? Any explanation? --Dongpyo = Dongpyo Hong Research

Code/test ratio wrt static vs dynamic typing [was: Re: Python Success stories]

2008-04-29 Thread George Sakkis
On Apr 29, 2:25 pm, Fuzzyman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are around 30 000 lines of Python in the production code and about 120 000 lines of Python code in the test framework. A rather off-topic and perhaps naive question, but isn't a 1:4 production/test ratio a bit too much ? Is there a

Re: python command mis-interprets arrow keys

2008-04-29 Thread Rahul
Diez B. Roggisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:67pq47F2plmb8U1 @mid.uni-berlin.de: The question is if python is build with readline support. Did the python version work before, and somehow got messed up, or did you build it yourself and it never actually worked? I suspect we upgraded

best way to host a membership site

2008-04-29 Thread Magdoll
Hi, I know this is potentially off-topic, but because python is the language I'm most comfortable with and I've previously had experiences with plone, I'd as much advice as possible on this. I want to host a site where people can register to become a user. They should be able to maintain

Re: simple chemistry in python

2008-04-29 Thread Astan Chee
Wow, that is the jackpot. Is that color node supposed to be the actual color of the element? or just representation? Thanks again Astan baoilleach wrote: If you are familiar with parsing XML, much of the data you need is stored in the following file:

Re: Simple unicode-safe version of str(exception)?

2008-04-29 Thread Jim
I often struggle with the problem outlined in part in this thread. I know that I'm going to repeat some of what is said elsewhere but I'd like to present the question all in one place. I believe that the routines in the Python standard library do not document which exceptions they could raise (I

Re: list.reverse()

2008-04-29 Thread Roy Smith
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], blaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check out this cool little trick I recently learned: x=range(5) x.reverse() or x [4, 3, 2, 1, 0] Useful for returning lists that you need to sort or reverse without wasting that precious extra line :) What it does:

Re: how to convert a multiline string to an anonymous function?

2008-04-29 Thread Matimus
On Apr 29, 3:39 pm, Diez B. Roggisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Danny Shevitz schrieb: Simple question here: I have a multiline string representing the body of a function. I have control over the string, so I can use either of the following: str = ''' print state return True

ssh

2008-04-29 Thread gert
Is this the best way to use ssh ? How can i use ssh keys instead of passwords ? I dont understand what happens when pid does not equal 0 , where does the cmd get executed when pid is not 0 ? How do you close the connection ? # http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-July/155390.html

Re: MatplotLib errors

2008-04-29 Thread Andrew Lee
Thomas Philips wrote: I have just started using MatPlotLib, and use it to generate graphs from Python simulations. It often happens that the graph is generated and a Visual C++ Runtime Library error then pops up: Runtime Error! Program C:\Pythin25\Pythonw.exe This application has requested the

Cheap Cabinets - Why You Don't Have To Sacrifice Quality To Find Cabinets At A Discount Price

2008-04-29 Thread kitchen . kabinets
Kitchen Cabinets: http://the-kitchen-cabinets.blogspot.com, With the demand for cheaper building materials and the rapid housing boom a couple of years back, many kitchen cabinet manufacturers started looking overseas for a way to make a cheaper kitchen cabinet. In order to conform to the KCMA

Re: ssh

2008-04-29 Thread Eric Wertman
I don't know about the best way.. I use this function, it works ok for me. I have an ssh key stashed already for my user ID, but you could look at the ssh options and supply one on the command line if you needed to. from popen2 import Popen3 def ssh(host,command) : ''' Wraps ssh commands

Re: ]ANN[ Vellum 0.16: Lots Of Documentation and Watching

2008-04-29 Thread Ben Finney
Zed A. Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just putting out an announcement that I've released a new version of Vellum numbered 0.16. When announcing new versions of Foo software, please always include (near the top) a What is Foo? or About Foo section, so that people know what you're talking about

xml.dom.minidom weirdness: bug?

2008-04-29 Thread JYA
Hi. I was writing an xmltv parser using python when I faced some weirdness that I couldn't explain. What I'm doing, is read an xml file, create another dom object and copy the element from one to the other. At no time do I ever modify the original dom object, yet it gets modified. Unless

QA-Test Jobs at Cisco-IronPort

2008-04-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cisco-IronPort is looking for a topnotch Quality Assurance/ Test Engineers with experience in one or more of the following: aPython, utomation framework, performance testing, email encryption, FreeBSD, white.gray box testing, API testing, web security appliances, UNIX, RAID, LDAP, SSH, DNS, SMTP,

QA-Test Jobs at Cisco-IronPort

2008-04-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cisco-IronPort is looking for a topnotch Quality Assurance/ Test Engineers with experience in one or more of the following: aPython, utomation framework, performance testing, email encryption, FreeBSD, white.gray box testing, API testing, web security appliances, UNIX, RAID, LDAP, SSH, DNS, SMTP,

Re: Python's doc problems: sort

2008-04-29 Thread J�rgen Exner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this self-promoting maniac still going at it? Although i disliked Perl very much [...] Then why on earth do you bother polluting this NG? Back into the killfile you go jue -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: swig -python can't find _xxx.dll for windows

2008-04-29 Thread Dongpyo Hong
Well, after several hours' googling I just found that Python for Windows only allow .pyd instead of .dll. When I just renamed .dll to .pyd, it just worked fine. But I don't still get the reason why. Anyone can explain this? --Dongpyo On Apr 30, 2008, at 12:00 PM, Dongpyo Hong wrote: Dear all,

Re: Python's doc problems: sort

2008-04-29 Thread George Sakkis
On Apr 29, 11:13 pm, Jürgen Exner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this self-promoting maniac still going at it? Although i disliked Perl very much [...] Then why on earth do you bother polluting this NG? Back into the killfile you go jue

ffmpeg hangs when executed from python

2008-04-29 Thread Andrew English
I have tried a few methods of executing ffmpeg from within python and it has hanged every time. Two of the configurations I tried are: def convertFileToFlash(filename): commandString = ./convertasftoswf.sh + getSaveDirectory() + + filename logging.debug(RUNNING: + commandString)

Re: timeout

2008-04-29 Thread Bill
maehhheeyy wrote, On 4/29/2008 6:02 PM: Hi, I was just wondering if there was such thing as a timeout module. Take a look at the Timer class, which is a subclass of the Thread class. Here's a link to the official Python documentation:

Problem with variables assigned to variables???

2008-04-29 Thread grepla
I have a simple line of code that requires the following inputs - an input file, output file and a SQL expression. the code needs to be run with several different SQL expressions to produce multiple output files. To do this I first created a list of a portion of the output filename: mylist =

sed to python: replace Q

2008-04-29 Thread Raymond
For some reason I'm unable to grok Python's string.replace() function. Just trying to parse a simple IP address, wrapped in square brackets, from Postfix logs. In sed this is straightforward given: line = date process text [ip] more text sed -e 's/^.*\[//' -e 's/].*$//' yet the following

[issue2713] Py3k warn on unicode escapes in raw strings

2008-04-29 Thread Georg Brandl
Georg Brandl [EMAIL PROTECTED] added the comment: This patch changes the raw-unicode-escape code to warn. Marc-Andre, is this OK? -- assignee: - lemburg nosy: +georg.brandl, lemburg __ Tracker [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bugs.python.org/issue2713

[issue2712] enhanced ioctl

2008-04-29 Thread ndbecker
ndbecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] added the comment: OK. __ Tracker [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bugs.python.org/issue2712 __ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe:

[issue1950] Potential overflows due to incorrect usage of PyUnicode_AsString.

2008-04-29 Thread Marc-Andre Lemburg
Marc-Andre Lemburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] added the comment: @@ -2195,7 +2200,7 @@ } return Py_None; } - len = lastdot - start; + len = (size_t)(lastdot - start);

[issue2717] tempfile.mkstempf

2008-04-29 Thread André Malo
André Malo [EMAIL PROTECTED] added the comment: It should catch OSError on fdopen, close fd and reraise, I think. -- nosy: +ndparker __ Tracker [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bugs.python.org/issue2717 __

[issue1950] Potential overflows due to incorrect usage of PyUnicode_AsString.

2008-04-29 Thread Marc-Andre Lemburg
Marc-Andre Lemburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] added the comment: BTW: The API PyUnicode_AsString() is pretty useless by itself - there's no way to access the size information of the returned string without again going to the Unicode object. I'd suggest to remove the API altogether and not only

[issue2690] Precompute range length

2008-04-29 Thread Nick Coghlan
Nick Coghlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] added the comment: It also isn't what range() and xrange() are used for now in 2.x. range() returns an actual list, hence is limited to sequences that fit in a reasonable amount of memory, and xrange() doesn't support values greater than sys.maxint at all (as it

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