Re: Printing digits in one place

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Re: 3.0rc3: 'os.extsep' gone ... ?

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Re: How to get a directory file descriptor?

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Re: Security implications of using open() on untrusted strings.

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Re: Python surpasses Perl in popularity?

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Re: Security implications of using open() on untrusted strings.

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Re: Python surpasses Perl in popularity?

On Nov 25, 4:57 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I'll try again: On what grounds do you assert that "Many libraries, > > aren't as sophisticated - ie spreadsheet reading and writing."? What > > Python spreadsheet reading and writing libraries have you us

Re: initialized list: strange behavior

On Nov 24, 10:34 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Python experts! Please explain this behavior: > > >>> nn=3*[[]] > >>> nn > [[], [], []] > >>> mm=[[],[],[]] > >>> mm > > [[], [], []] > > Up till now, 'mm' and 'nn' look the same, right? Nope! > > >>> mm[1].append(17) > >>> mm > [[], [17], []] > >>

Re: initialized list: strange behavior

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Python experts! Please explain this behavior: > [] make an empty list. [ [],[],[] ] makes a list of three different empty lists. 3*[[]] makes a list of three references to the same list. Realy, that should explain it all, but perhaps there are enough empty lists

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Re: Python surpasses Perl in popularity?

Quoting John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I'll try again: On what grounds do you assert that "Many libraries, aren't as sophisticated - ie spreadsheet reading and writing."? What Python spreadsheet reading and writing libraries have you used? In what way are they less sophisticated than their per

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Re: Python surpasses Perl in popularity?

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Re: Python surpasses Perl in popularity?

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Re: Python surpasses Perl in popularity?

On Nov 25, 2:59 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Care to elaborate on the relative unsophistication of Python > > spreadsheet reading and writing libraries? > > > Cheers, > > John > > Not really. > > But one only has to use both languages on a regular ba

Re: Python surpasses Perl in popularity?

Quoting John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Care to elaborate on the relative unsophistication of Python spreadsheet reading and writing libraries? Cheers, John Not really. But one only has to use both languages on a regular basis to realise that perl is well ahead on the libaray/module front

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Re: 3.0rc3: 'os.extsep' gone ... ?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Martin> In any case - if the intention was that extsep is now not > Martin> supported anymore, it should have been removed from the other > Martin> *path modules as well (along with removing it from the > Martin> documentation). > > No, that wasn't my int

Re: Python surpasses Perl in popularity?

On Nov 25, 12:25 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Python, whilst very powerful, doesn't have the sheer scale of   > contributors that Perl has. ie cpan. Many libraries, aren't as   > sophisticated - ie spreadsheet reading and writing. Care to elaborate on the relative unsophistication of Python spr

Re: 3.0rc3: 'os.extsep' gone ... ?

> Martin> Not that I regret it's gone - it was a useless constant, anyway, > Martin> as the extension separator is '.' on all interesting systems. > > Except if you diff r57096 and r57097 I suspect you'll find that it was > different in RISCOS. I did, and interestingly enough, you won't

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Re: Quick question about None and comparisons

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Re: Printing digits in one place

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Re: 3.0rc3: 'os.extsep' gone ... ?

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Re: 3.0rc3: 'os.extsep' gone ... ?

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Re: My first Python program -- a lexer

Thomas Mlynarczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John Machin schrieb: > >> *IF* you need to access the regex associated with a token in O(1) >> time, a dict is indicated. > > O(1) - Does that mean `mydict[mykey]` takes the same amount of time, > no matter if mydict has 10 or 10 entries? How

Re: Start learning 2.6 or wait for 3.0?

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Re: 3.0rc3: 'os.extsep' gone ... ?

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Re: Printing digits in one place

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Re: Printing digits in one place

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Re: Using dictionary to hold regex patterns?

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Re: 3.0rc3: 'os.extsep' gone ... ?

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Re: Building Python 2.5.2 for Itanium

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Re: Python 3.0 - is this true?

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Re: Python 3.0 - is this true?

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Re: Using dictionary to hold regex patterns?

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Re: for loop specifying the amount of vars

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Re: Security implications of using open() on untrusted strings.

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Re: No complex rationals in Python 3.0

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RE: for loop specifying the amount of vars

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Re: for loop specifying the amount of vars

I have a list which contains a folder structure, for instance: dirs=['c:\', 'temp', 'foo', 'bar'] The length of the list can vary. I'd like to be able to construct a os.path.join on the list, but as the list can vary in length I'm unsure how to do this neatly. Sounds like you want argument un

Re: for loop specifying the amount of vars

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Jules Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a list which contains a folder structure, for instance: > > dirs=['c:\', 'temp', 'foo', 'bar'] > > The length of the list can vary. I'd like to be able to construct a > os.path.join on the list, but as the

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Re: No complex rationals in Python 3.0

Rock wrote: I appreciate the inclusion of the fractions module in Python 2.6 and therefore in Python 3.0. But I feel there's something missing: no possibility for complex rationals (or arbitrary precision) integers. I was just checking the complex number support in Python, compared, for instance,

Re: No complex rationals in Python 3.0

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Re: Building Python 2.5.2 for Itanium

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Re: My first Python program -- a lexer

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Re: how to dynamically instantiate an object inheriting from several classes?

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Re: Using dictionary to hold regex patterns?

John Machin schrieb: Rephrasing for clarity: Don't use a data structure that is more complicated than that indicated by your requirements. Could you please define "complicated" in this context? In terms of characters to type and reading, the dict is surely simpler. But I suppose that under t

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Re: My first Python program -- a lexer

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Re: Using dictionary to hold regex patterns?

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Happy Birthday, Georg! Thanks for a great tool! Klaus "SimPy" Muller > -Original Message- > From: Georg Brandl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sonntag, 23. November 2008 19:45 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Sphinx 0.5 released > > Hi all, > > I'm proud to anno

Re: Can't find Python Library packages in Ubuntu (Debian)

On 24 Nov, 12:42, "Jerzy Jalocha N" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I will try to contact whoever is responsible for the packaging of Python > in Ubuntu (or Debian), and ask them if they are willing to support the > _complete_ Python release. They may already do so, but I'd argue that they could do

Re: 3.0rc3: 'os.extsep' gone ... ?

On 24 Nov, 08:43, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That doesn't really explain it. It always was os.path.extsep, > but it *also* was os.extsep. I've always known it as the former; a perusal of the Python repository would probably indicate when it became exposed in the os module its

Re: Can't find Python Library packages in Ubuntu (Debian)

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 9:37 AM, David Cournapeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think most people using python as a development tool use the version > available in their distribution. Personally, I mostly use the stock > python of Ubuntu. Although building python itself is not difficult on > the t

Re: Python 3.0 - is this true?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] >> l = [] >> for line in open("bigfile.txt"): >> x = random.randint(0,100) >> if x < 4: l.append(None) >> else: l.append(line) > >So use '' or '\0' instead of None for null lines. Or replace None for >the s

Re: Module Structure/Import Design Problem

On Nov 22, 2:39 am, Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gabriel Genellina wrote: > > En Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:36:11 -0200, Stef Mientki > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > I'm not an expert, I even don't fully understand your problem, > but having struggled with imports in the past,

3.0rc3: List of 'os.', 'os.path.' attribute redundencies ... !! ?

IDLE 3.0rc3 (using XP) >>> import os >>> os.altsep '/' >>> os.path.altsep '/' >>> os.curdir '.' >>> os.path.curdir '.' >>> os.defpath '.;C:\\bin' >>> os.path.defpath '.;C:\\bin' >>> os.devnull 'nul' >>> os.path.devnull 'nul' >>> os.pardir '..' >>> os.path.pardir '..' >>> os.pathsep ';' >>> o

Re: PIL (python imaging library) or Mathematics help both appreciated

Well not much maths in my answers but... On 24 Nov, 08:52, amine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > well, here is the background.  I have images of objects (cars, > clothes, ...) with a white background in most of the cases > > I have to build a function with PIL that takes away the background. > it see

Re: Install modules with no root privilegies

Alfons Nonell-Canals <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Install python modules in a linux computer is really easy, it is because > the module is a package of the distribution or because the python > installation is really easy. But, in both situations, you need root > privilegies. > I would like to know

Install modules with no root privilegies

Hello, Install python modules in a linux computer is really easy, it is because the module is a package of the distribution or because the python installation is really easy. But, in both situations, you need root privilegies. I would like to know how to install modules only for one user, with no

PIL (python imaging library) or Mathematics help both appreciated

well, here is the background. I have images of objects (cars, clothes, ...) with a white background in most of the cases I have to build a function with PIL that takes away the background. it seems simple, just look for the "white" and make it transparent but the problem is in reality much more c

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