Re: Strange interaction between timeit and recursion

namekuseijin schrieb: Recursion is unpythonic. Do not use it. Since when? Says who? Lacking tail-recursion, it's not the choice for loops, but whatever algorithm is recursive can be written as such. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Threaded alternatives to smtplib?

Alex Jurkiewicz schrieb: Hi all, I'm writing a Python script to do a "mail merge" style email distribution. I create a few python threads and in each one I call `smtpserver = smtplib.SMTP(our.smtpserver.com)`. However, during the sending process, there seems to be only one connection open to o

Re: Self function

On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Arnaud Delobelle wrote: > bearophileh...@lycos.com writes: > >> Sometimes I rename recursive functions, or I duplicate&modify them, >> and they stop working because inside them there's one or more copy of >> their old name. >> This happens to me more than one time

Re: Self function

bearophileh...@lycos.com writes: > Sometimes I rename recursive functions, or I duplicate&modify them, > and they stop working because inside them there's one or more copy of > their old name. > This happens to me more than one time every year. > So I have written this: > > from inspect import get

Re: yet another list comprehension question

>>> ls = [(1,2), (3,4), (5, None), (6,7), (8, None)] >>> [(x,y) for (x,y) in ls if y] [(1, 2), (3, 4), (6, 7)] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Self function

On May 3, 5:21 pm, Emile van Sebille wrote: > On 5/3/2009 3:39 PM bearophileh...@lycos.com said... > > > > > Sometimes I rename recursive functions, or I duplicate&modify them, > > and they stop working because inside them there's one or more copy of > > their old name. > > This happens to me more

Re: Strange interaction between timeit and recursion

On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 11:27 PM, namekuseijin wrote: > Recursion is unpythonic.  Do not use it. That's a tad extreme. I think the accepted practice is merely not to use recursion gratuitously. Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Strange interaction between timeit and recursion

Recursion is unpythonic. Do not use it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Using Help inside Python

I'm from the time when I inspected python objects themselves, say: print obj.__doc__ or dir( obj ) to know the goodies... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Threaded alternatives to smtplib?

Hi all, I'm writing a Python script to do a "mail merge" style email distribution. I create a few python threads and in each one I call `smtpserver = smtplib.SMTP(our.smtpserver.com)`. However, during the sending process, there seems to be only one connection open to our mail server at any one

Re: python docs for beginner programmer?

In article <87vdohk791@benfinney.id.au>, ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au says... > > Deep_Feelings writes: > > > should i try them then after a month of reading i discover that they > > are - for example - not suitable for beginners OR should i ask here > > first ? :) > > You should take on the

Re: Multiprocessing.Queue - I want to end.

> You may have to write the consumer loop by hand, rather than using > 'for'.  In the same-process case, you can do this. > > producer: > sentinel= object( ) > > consumer: > while True: >   item= queue.get( ) >   if item is sentinel: >     break >   etc. > > Then, each consumer is guaranteed to con

Re: smtplib send email by using gmail smtp server

> > I've tested with 3.0.1 on Windows XP and worked fine. Seems to be a problem > in the SSL support, but that's all I could say. > > -- > Gabriel Genellina > thanks, I'll check SSL support on my system Tiefeng Wu 2009-05-04 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Code works fine except...

On May 3, 11:29 pm, Chris Rebert wrote: > Probably not the cause of the problem, but where > did the magic numbers 1.072 and 1.08 come from? It is perhaps not the most direct cause of the problem, in the sense that the magic numbers could take various values and the problem would still be there.

Re: Multiprocessing.Queue - I want to end.

Quoting Dennis Lee Bieber : > I'm not familiar with the multiprocessing module and its queues but, > presuming it behaves similar to the threading module AND that you have > design control over the consumers (as you did in the sample) make a > minor change. > > queue.put(None) ONCE i

Re: Multiprocessing.Queue - I want to end.

Quoting Hendrik van Rooyen : > "Luis Zarrabeitia" wrote: > > 8< ---explanation and example of one producer, > 8< ---more consumers and one queue > > >As you can see, I'm sending one 'None' per consumer, and hoping that no > >consumer will read more than

Re: object query assigned variable name?

On Sat, 2 May 2009, John O'Hagan wrote: > On Fri, 1 May 2009, warpcat wrote: [...] > > Given an object: > > > > class Spam(object): > > def __init__(self): > > # stuff > > > > I'd like it to print, when instanced, something like this: > > >>> s = Spam() > > > > I’m assigned to s!

Re: Tkinter, Trouble with Message,Label widget

I assume that you create the two windows through two different calls to Tkinter.Tk() but you cannot enter two mainloops (at least not in a normal way). If you want a second window use the Toplevel widget. Try the following, it does what you want: import Tkinter root = Tkinter.Tk() my_text = Tk

Re: Code works fine except...

On May 3, 10:36 pm, Ross wrote: > def round_robin(players, rounds): [snip] > > def test_round_robin(players, rounds, courts, doubles = False): >     players = range(players) >     for week in round_robin(players,rounds,courts): [snip] First things first: I take it the call to round_robin is on

Re: Code works fine except...

On May 4, 12:36 pm, Ross wrote: > For the past couple weeks, I've been working on an algorithm to > schedule tennis leagues given court constraints and league > considerations (i.e. whether it's a singles or a doubles league). Here > were my requirements when I was designing this algorithm: > > -E

Re: Code works fine except...

On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Ross wrote: > For the past couple weeks, I've been working on an algorithm to > schedule tennis leagues given court constraints and league > considerations (i.e. whether it's a singles or a doubles league). Here > were my requirements when I was designing this algor

Re: for with decimal values?

On May 4, 11:41 am, Esmail wrote: > All this discussion makes me wonder if it would be a good idea > for Python to have this feature (batteries included and all) - it > would have its uses, no? Well, sometimes more discussion == less consensus :) But it's really easy to roll your own: from deci

Code works fine except...

For the past couple weeks, I've been working on an algorithm to schedule tennis leagues given court constraints and league considerations (i.e. whether it's a singles or a doubles league). Here were my requirements when I was designing this algorithm: -Each player plays against a unique opponent e

Re: for with decimal values?

Esmail writes: > All this discussion makes me wonder if it would be a good idea > for Python to have this feature (batteries included and all) - it > would have its uses, no? What feature are you referring to? Python already has fixed-point decimal values in the ‘decimal.Decimal’ type, if that's

Re: for with decimal values?

Gabriel Genellina wrote: Isn't so easy. You have representation errors and rounding errors here, and they accumulate. The last number printed should be 10.4 but I get 10.5: ... 10.3 10.4 10.5 (or more precisely, 10.459) Also, after exiting a for loop, the *last* value used is reta

pythonic chew toyz (continued)

On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 5:52 PM, kirby wrote: > From: "kirby.ur...@gmail.com" > Date: Jan 14, 2:18 pm > Subject: pythonic chew toyz (a column, by K. Urner) v.1 n.1 > To: comp.lang.python > > > Selena spotted me right away as "the O'Reilly spy", me agreeing she > had an exceptionally good memory,

Re: How to walk up parent directories?

Matthew Wilson writes: > Is there already a tool in the standard library to let me walk up from > a subdirectory to the top of my file system? Sounds like a pretty seldom-needed task, with an implementation simple using the existing standard library parts. > In other words, I'm looking for some

Re: python docs for beginner programmer?

Hey, I am a person who gets bored too quickly, too especially reading technical materials, and if the author(s) have the habit of wondering off the subject often. So far, I like Wesley Chun's Core Python book the most as a Python beginner like you. He also has video training material on the same s

Re: python docs for beginner programmer?

Deep_Feelings writes: > should i try them then after a month of reading i discover that they > are - for example - not suitable for beginners OR should i ask here > first ? :) You should take on the task of educating yourself. The official Python docs are an excellent resource. If you're self-ad

How to walk up parent directories?

Is there already a tool in the standard library to let me walk up from a subdirectory to the top of my file system? In other words, I'm looking for something like: >>> for x in walkup('/home/matt/projects'): ... print(x) /home/matt/projects /home/matt /home / I know I

Re: python docs for beginner programmer?

On May 4, 3:44 am, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message > , > > Deep_Feelings wrote: > > Do you think python online docs are good starting point for me? > > Why not try them and see? thank you should i try them then after a month of reading i discover that they are - for example - not suitabl

Re: python docs for beginner programmer?

In message , Deep_Feelings wrote: > Do you think python online docs are good starting point for me? Why not try them and see? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

python docs for beginner programmer?

Starting to learn python and because i don't want to read something twice (i get bored quickly) i need a source to learn python that is as comprehensive as possible. Do you think python online docs are good starting point for me? ( i experience with other programming languages ) or should i get g

Re: Doc strings in descriptors

En Sun, 03 May 2009 20:58:19 -0300, Дамјан Георгиевски escribió: I have a simple descriptor to create a cached property as shown below. ... The problem is that when I use the help() function on them, I don't get the doc string from the function that is being wrapped. ... What do I need to

Re: Self function

On 5/3/2009 3:39 PM bearophileh...@lycos.com said... Sometimes I rename recursive functions, or I duplicate&modify them, and they stop working because inside them there's one or more copy of their old name. This happens to me more than one time every year. So I have written this: from inspect im

Re: for with decimal values?

En Sun, 03 May 2009 17:41:49 -0300, Zentrader escribió: There is no need for a function or a generator. A for() loop is a unique case of a while loop ## for i in range(-10.5, 10.5, 0.1): ctr = -10.5 while ctr < 10.5: print ctr ctr += 0.1 Isn't so easy. You have representation errors

Re: Doc strings in descriptors

> I have a simple descriptor to create a cached property as shown below. ... > The problem is that when I use the help() function on them, I don't > get the doc string from the function that is being wrapped. ... > What do I need to do to get the doc string of the wrapped function to > apper when

Re: for with decimal values?

On Sun, 03 May 2009 13:41:49 -0700, Zentrader wrote: > There is no need for a function or a generator. A for() loop is a > unique case of a while loop > ## for i in range(-10.5, 10.5, 0.1): > ctr = -10.5 > while ctr < 10.5: >print ctr >ctr += 0.1 To match the semantics of range(), the f

Re: return functions

> You seem to have finally discovered that when using Apache/mod_wsgi, > Apache does a level of URL matching to filesystem based resources. didn't Paste include something like that ... > This isn't automatic in normal WSGI servers unless you use a WSGI > middleware that does the mapping for you.

Re: Using Help inside Python

On Sun, 03 May 2009 13:21:49 -0700, rose wrote: > Many Thanks to you Steven, for such a concise explanation of using the > help. May I request some examples to make it a bit more explicit. Suppose you want to get help about the max() function. Inside IDLE, at the command prompt, type: help(max)

Tkinter, Trouble with Message,Label widget

date can destroy old one and put up new one. ANY help is appreciated. Using: Python 2.5.2, Linux Slackware 10.2 Today: 20090503 Snippets: non functional, for clarifying only Steve -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Using Help inside Python

On Sun, 03 May 2009 21:21:49 +0100, rose wrote: On May 3, 8:15 pm, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Sun, 03 May 2009 07:49:49 -0700, rose wrote: > Hi, >             I have an idea of the basics of programming language in > general. How to access help in python i.e. help followed by something or >

Self function

Sometimes I rename recursive functions, or I duplicate&modify them, and they stop working because inside them there's one or more copy of their old name. This happens to me more than one time every year. So I have written this: from inspect import getframeinfo, currentframe def SOMEVERYUGLYNAME(n

Re: Is it better to use threads or fork in the following case

grocery_stocker wrote: Let's say there is a new zip file with updated information every 30 minutes on a remote website. Now, I wanna connect to this website every 30 minutes, download the file, extract the information, and then have the program search the file search for certain items. Would it

Re: Is it better to use threads or fork in the following case

> In addition, the zip file format stores the directory at the end of the   > file. So you can't process it until it's completely downloaded.   > Concurrency doesn't help here. Don't think that's relevant, if I'm understanding the OP correctly. Lets say you've downloaded the file once and you're d

Re: Is it better to use threads or fork in the following case

En Sun, 03 May 2009 17:45:36 -0300, Paul Hankin escribió: On May 3, 10:29 pm, grocery_stocker wrote: On May 3, 1:16 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" wrote: > grocery_stocker schrieb: > > Would it be better to use threads to break this up? I have one thread > > download the data and then have anothe

Re: Is it better to use threads or fork in the following case

On May 3, 1:40 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" wrote: > grocery_stocker schrieb: > > > > > On May 3, 1:16 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" wrote: > >> grocery_stocker schrieb: > > >>> Let's say there is a new zip file with updated information every 30 > >>> minutes on a remote website. Now, I wanna connect to this

Re: for with decimal values?

Zentrader wrote: There is no need for a function or a generator. A for() loop is a unique case of a while loop ## for i in range(-10.5, 10.5, 0.1): ctr = -10.5 while ctr < 10.5: print ctr ctr += 0.1 Python stores floats in binary, and 0.1 can't be held exactly as a fractional binary numb

Re: Is it better to use threads or fork in the following case

On May 3, 10:29 pm, grocery_stocker wrote: > On May 3, 1:16 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" wrote: > > > grocery_stocker schrieb: > > > > Let's say there is a new zip file with updated information every 30 > > > minutes on a remote website. Now, I wanna connect to this website > > > every 30 minutes, down

Re: Is it better to use threads or fork in the following case

Probably better just to check HEAD and see if its updated within the time you're looking at before any unpack. Even on a 56k that's going to be pretty fast, and you don't risk unpacking an old file while a new version is on the way. If you still want to be able to unpack the old file if there's an

Re: for with decimal values?

There is no need for a function or a generator. A for() loop is a unique case of a while loop ## for i in range(-10.5, 10.5, 0.1): ctr = -10.5 while ctr < 10.5: print ctr ctr += 0.1 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Is it better to use threads or fork in the following case

grocery_stocker schrieb: On May 3, 1:16 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" wrote: grocery_stocker schrieb: Let's say there is a new zip file with updated information every 30 minutes on a remote website. Now, I wanna connect to this website every 30 minutes, download the file, extract the information, an

Re: Is it better to use threads or fork in the following case

On May 3, 1:16 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" wrote: > grocery_stocker schrieb: > > > Let's say there is a new zip file with updated information every 30 > > minutes on a remote website. Now, I wanna connect to this website > > every 30 minutes, download the file, extract the information, and then > > hav

Re: Using Help inside Python

On May 3, 8:15 pm, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sun, 03 May 2009 07:49:49 -0700, rose wrote: > > Hi, > >             I have an idea of the basics of programming language in > > general. How to access help in python i.e. help followed by something or > > to get to know about some inbuilt module or m

Re: Is it better to use threads or fork in the following case

grocery_stocker schrieb: Let's say there is a new zip file with updated information every 30 minutes on a remote website. Now, I wanna connect to this website every 30 minutes, download the file, extract the information, and then have the program search the file search for certain items. Would i

Is it better to use threads or fork in the following case

Let's say there is a new zip file with updated information every 30 minutes on a remote website. Now, I wanna connect to this website every 30 minutes, download the file, extract the information, and then have the program search the file search for certain items. Would it be better to use threads

Re: AutoComplete in C++ Editor for Python

flam...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am embedding python support in my C++ application and was looking at adding "Intellisense" or "AutoComplete" support. I found a way to do it using the "dir" function, but this creates a problem. Here's why. Let's say I have the following code in my editor: impo

Re: smtplib send email by using gmail smtp server

En Sun, 03 May 2009 12:18:33 -0300, tiefeng wu escribió: I'm tring send email using smtp.gmail.com here's the code: *s = SMTP('**smtp.gmail.com* *', 25) s.set_debuglevel(1)* *s.ehlo() s.starttls() s.ehlo() s.login(mygmailaccount, mygmailpassword) s.sendmail(from_addr

Re: File handling problem.

Dear Sir, Thanx for your prompt reply, I would be trying to work on your suggestion and get back to you as soon as possible. Best Regards, Subhabrata. On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Chris Rebert wrote: > On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 9:51 AM, SUBHABRATA BANERJEE > wrote: > > Dear Group, > > > > > >

Re: How to measure the memory cost in Python?

Alright, it's pretty obvious that I have a lot to learn before I'll be able to intelligently address this problem, but if somebody could point me at something that would help me figure out the terminology at least I'd really appreciate it. From what you're saying, it sounds like a combination of th

Re: File handling problem.

On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 9:51 AM, SUBHABRATA BANERJEE wrote: > Dear Group, > > > > I am working on a code like the following: > > > > from decimal import* > > #SAMPLE TEST PROGRAM FOR FILE > > def sample_file_test(n): > >     #FILE FOR STORING PROBABILITY VALUES > >     open_file=open("/python26/New

Reg: MFC71.DLL

Hi, I had written a python 2.4 program. When I made it to an executable with py2exe, it told that the mfc71.dll is not added - so I may have to ship it separately. It also showed many other dll's which are all in windows/system32 - which again it said is not added. Now, I have two questions -

Re: How to measure the memory cost in Python?

In article <7744f434-dd43-4010-ba25-90096f59d...@n7g2000prc.googlegroups.com>, CTO wrote: > >I will admit, I have *no idea* what that code is doing, but in looking >through the gc module documentation, I'm seeing the gc.get_objects >function. Would it be equivalent to what the OP is asking to tra

Re: File handling problem.

Dear Group, I am working on a code like the following: from decimal import* #SAMPLE TEST PROGRAM FOR FILE def sample_file_test(n): #FILE FOR STORING PROBABILITY VALUES open_file=open("/python26/Newfile1.txt","r+") #OPENING OF ENGLISH CORPUS open_corp_eng=open("/python26/

Re: stuck with PyOBEX

On Sunday 03 May 2009 10:33, alejandro wrote: > Yes! > >> I'll send you an updated version to try if you would like to test it. My mails to you keep getting returned, so I've put it here: http://www.boddie.org.uk/david/Projects/Python/PyOBEX/Software/PyOBEX-0.21.zip Please let me know if it wo

Re: Strange interaction between timeit and recursion

Steven D'Aprano schrieb: I'm seeing a strange interaction between timeit and recursion. sys.getrecursionlimit() 1000 from timeit import Timer setup = """def test(n=1): ... if n < 999: return test(n+1) ... return None ... """ exec setup test() is None True Timer('test()', setup).r

Re: Using Help inside Python

On Sun, 03 May 2009 07:49:49 -0700, rose wrote: > Hi, > I have an idea of the basics of programming language in > general. How to access help in python i.e. help followed by something or > to get to know about some inbuilt module or method etc. how do I access > help from within the ID

smtplib send email by using gmail smtp server

Hi all I'm tring send email using smtp.gmail.com here's the code: *s = SMTP('**smtp.gmail.com* *', 25) s.set_debuglevel(1)* *s.ehlo() s.starttls() s.ehlo() s.login(mygmailaccount, mygmailpassword) s.sendmail(from_addr, to_addr_list, message) s.close()* I got the followin

Re: problem with money datatype based calculations in python

On Sun, 2009-05-03 at 03:20 +, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: > Sorry, I should have mentioned my bias. :-) > No problems at all. It is a very good library. I get an impression that it > is realy a mature module and a very powerful set of API. > > I would like to know if it has been tested with

Using Help inside Python

Hi, I have an idea of the basics of programming language in general. How to access help in python i.e. help followed by something or to get to know about some inbuilt module or method etc. how do I access help from within the IDLE using the help command. Thank You. -- http://mail.pytho

Strange interaction between timeit and recursion

I'm seeing a strange interaction between timeit and recursion. >>> sys.getrecursionlimit() 1000 >>> from timeit import Timer >>> setup = """def test(n=1): ... if n < 999: return test(n+1) ... return None ... """ >>> exec setup >>> test() is None True >>> >>> Timer('test()', setup).repeat(

Re: Use of Unicode in Python 2.5 source code literals

On May 3, 7:37 am, Matt Nordhoff wrote: > Uncle Bruce wrote: > -- I think I've figured it out! What I was trying to do was to enter the literal strings directly into the IDLE interpreter. The IDLE interpreter will not accept high codepoints directly. However, when I put a defined function in

Re: Need Help with str.replace & tuples

On May 2, 6:22 pm, bearophileh...@lycos.com wrote: > mikefromvt:> I am very very unfamiliar with Python and need to update a Python > > script.  What I need to do is to replace three variables (already > > defined in the script) within a string.  The present script correctly > > replaces two of the

AutoComplete in C++ Editor for Python

Hello, I am embedding python support in my C++ application and was looking at adding "Intellisense" or "AutoComplete" support. I found a way to do it using the "dir" function, but this creates a problem. Here's why. Let's say I have the following code in my editor: import sys x = sys Now, I wou

ANN: pyscite

ANN: pyscite released Download it from: http://code.google.com/p/pyscite/ What is pyscite? Pyscite is a python module for accessing the SciTE editors Director Interface on windows. Example are included with code to integrate the aspell spell checker engine with SciTE. -- http://mail.python.or

Re: Use of Unicode in Python 2.5 source code literals

Uncle Bruce wrote: > I'm working with Python 2.5.4 and the NLTK (Natural Language > Toolkit). I'm an experienced programmer, but new to Python. > > This question arose when I tried to create a literal in my source code > for a Unicode codepoint greater than 255. (I also posted this > question in

Re: Use of Unicode in Python 2.5 source code literals

On Sun, 03 May 2009 03:43:27 -0700, Uncle Bruce wrote: > Based on some experimenting I've done, I suspect that the support for > Unicode literals in ANY encoding isn't really accurate. What seems to > happen is that there must be an 8-bit mapping between the set of Unicode > literals and what can

Use of Unicode in Python 2.5 source code literals

I'm working with Python 2.5.4 and the NLTK (Natural Language Toolkit). I'm an experienced programmer, but new to Python. This question arose when I tried to create a literal in my source code for a Unicode codepoint greater than 255. (I also posted this question in the NLTK discussion group). T

Re: stuck with PyOBEX

Yes! > I haven't tried to run it under Windows. I just assumed that > BluetoothSocket > would have the same API on both Linux and Windows. > > Looking around, it seems that this is something we can work around: > > http://svn.navi.cx/misc/trunk/laserprop/client/BluetoothConduit.py > > I'll send y

Re: eric not working on ubuntu 9.04

bvidinli wrote: > any idea ? It works on my Kubuntu 9.04, but I can provoke a similar error with $ export PYTHONPATH=`pwd` $ touch email.py $ eric As a first step I recommend that you make sure that eric doesn't accidentally import modules written by you. Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mai

Re: eric not working on ubuntu 9.04

>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/email/message.py", line 790, in Message >     from email.Iterators import walk Well, the module is called email.iterators (rather than email.Iterators), for starters. It looks like __all__ exports both names (which seems a little dodgy to me, but hey, y'all are the exp

Re: for with decimal values?

>>> import numpy as np >>> for i in np.arange(-10.5, 10.5, 0.1): ... print i ... -10.5 -10.4 -10.3 -10.2 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Doc strings in descriptors

On Sat, 02 May 2009 23:36:26 -0500, Kevin D. Smith wrote: > I have a simple descriptor to create a cached property as shown below. ... > What do I need to do to get the doc string of the wrapped function to > apper when using help()? Call it on the class, not the instance: >>> class Test(object

Re: for with decimal values?

On Sat, 02 May 2009 11:01:39 -0700, bearophileHUGS wrote: > Esmail: >> Is there a Python construct to allow me to do something like this: >>     for i in range(-10.5, 10.5, 0.1): > > Sometimes I use an improved version of this: > http://code.activestate.com/recipes/66472/ Care to contribute you

Re: writing consecutive data to subprocess command 'more'

Hmm, it works as long as the pager command is available on the system. I created a test file to explain what I mean. You can find it here: http://gist.github.com/105880 The 'pager' command is on purpose a command that is not available on the system. It should fall back to sys.stdout in the write m

Re: yet another list comprehension question

This isn't list comprehension, but it's something to keep in mind: b = filter(lambda x: None not in x, input_list) On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 10:25 PM, CTO wrote: > On May 2, 10:13 pm, Ross wrote: > > I'm trying to set up a simple filter using a list comprehension. If I > > have a list of tuples,