Re: can i write a assemly language programs in python

2009-07-09 Thread Terry Reedy
Dave Angel wrote: m.reddy prasad reddy wrote: can any one tell me how to write assembly language programs in python...if no is there any other way to write the programs in python Reddi prasad reddy ph.no:09958083797 Assembly language is a different programming language than Python. You

Re: gett error message: TypeError: 'int' object is not callable

2009-07-09 Thread Rhodri James
On Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:06:45 +0100, Tom Kermode tkerm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Do you know a good way to avoid running into this problem? It makes sense to suggest not calling variables the same names as built-in functions, but that's hard for a new python programmer who doesn't already

Re: older pythons

2009-07-09 Thread Lie Ryan
superpollo wrote: Lie Ryan wrote: superpollo wrote: Lie Ryan wrote: AFAIK, no major linux distributions have officially ported to python 3.x. http://packages.debian.org/experimental/python3.1 Note the word experimental i noticed. isn't experimental official? i thought it was...

Re: Emacs Python-mode. Newbie problem.

2009-07-09 Thread Piet van Oostrum
Lacrima lacrima.ma...@gmail.com (L) wrote: L Thank you for really useful and detailed explanation. Now I can test L my code using Emacs. L But I think it works for me in a little bit different way. L My file contains only the print 'hello world'. L If I have no python shell running, then: L a)

Re: tkinter problem

2009-07-09 Thread Terry Reedy
Paul Simon wrote: Peter Otten __pete...@web.de wrote in message news:h3481q$d95$0...@news.t-online.com... Paul Simon wrote: Im using Mandriva 2008.1. I have to tell you honestly that I'm not sure exactly how I installed Python. Originally I had installed 2.5 from RPM but 2.6 was not

Colour of output text

2009-07-09 Thread Alex Rosslyn
Hi, I would like to learn a way of changing the colour of a particular part of the output text. I've tried the following: import os os.system(color 17) print This should be white on blue But that command changes the colour of ALL the text and the whole background. What i'm trying to do is

Re: Examples of Python driven Microsoft UI Automation wanted

2009-07-09 Thread Tim Harig
On 2009-07-09, DuaneKaufman duane.kauf...@gmail.com wrote: On Jul 9, 12:18 pm, Tim Harig user...@ilthio.net wrote: On 2009-07-09, TheSeeker duane.kauf...@gmail.com wrote: Specifically, I have a WinForms application I will be wanting to automate. Does anyone have some Python examples of

Re: Colour of output text

2009-07-09 Thread Tim Harig
On 2009-07-09, Alex Rosslyn black.line...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to learn a way of changing the colour of a particular part of the output text. I've tried the following http://catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html import os os.system(color 17) print This should be white on blue I

Re: Concatenating images (numpy arrays), but they look like HSV images

2009-07-09 Thread Robert Kern
On 2009-07-09 12:34, Sebastian Schabe wrote: Hello everybody, I want to concatenate 2 numpy array which in fact are RGB images: def concat_images(im1,im2): rows1 = im1.shape[0] rows2 = im2.shape[0] if rows1 rows2: im1 = concatenate((im1,zeros((rows2-rows1,im1.shape[1],3), int)), axis=0) elif

Re: Examples of Python driven Microsoft UI Automation wanted

2009-07-09 Thread DuaneKaufman
On Jul 9, 12:45 pm, Tim Harig user...@ilthio.net wrote: On 2009-07-09, DuaneKaufman duane.kauf...@gmail.com wrote: On Jul 9, 12:18 pm, Tim Harig user...@ilthio.net wrote: On 2009-07-09, TheSeeker duane.kauf...@gmail.com wrote: Specifically, I have a WinForms application I will be wanting

Re: Emacs Python-mode. Newbie problem.

2009-07-09 Thread Lacrima
On Jul 9, 8:42 pm, Piet van Oostrum p...@cs.uu.nl wrote: Lacrima lacrima.ma...@gmail.com (L) wrote: L Thank you for really useful and detailed explanation. Now I can test L my code usingEmacs. L But I think it works for me in a little bit different way. L My file contains only the print

Re: Examples of Python driven Microsoft UI Automation wanted

2009-07-09 Thread Paul McGuire
On Jul 9, 1:09 pm, DuaneKaufman duane.kauf...@gmail.com wrote: The application I wish to interact with is not my own, but an ERP system GUI front-end. I have used pywinauto to drive a Flash game running inside of an Internet Explorer browser - that's pretty GUI! -- Paul --

Re: tough-to-explain Python

2009-07-09 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:05:57 -0700, Simon Forman wrote: persistent idea out there that programming is a very accessible skill, like cooking or gardening, anyone can do it, and even profit from it, monetarily or otherwise, etc., and to some extent I am Programming is not like any other human

Re: Examples of Python driven Microsoft UI Automation wanted

2009-07-09 Thread DuaneKaufman
On Jul 9, 1:29 pm, Paul McGuire pt...@austin.rr.com wrote: On Jul 9, 1:09 pm, DuaneKaufman duane.kauf...@gmail.com wrote: The application I wish to interact with is not my own, but an ERP system GUI front-end. I have used pywinauto to drive a Flash game running inside of an Internet

Re: gett error message: TypeError: 'int' object is not callable

2009-07-09 Thread Friðrik Már Jónsson
Hi Rhodri, It's only really a pitfall if you try to use the built-in after you've redefined it. That's the thing to keep an eye open for. You're right, but in cases where you're editing a codebase which you didn't author entirely by yourself you may not be aware of that. That said, if

Re: tkinter problem

2009-07-09 Thread David Smith
Paul Simon wrote: Peter Otten __pete...@web.de wrote in message news:h3481q$d95$0...@news.t-online.com... Paul Simon wrote: Chris Rebert c...@rebertia.com wrote in message news:mailman.2863.1247095339.8015.python-l...@python.org... On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Paul Simonpsi...@sonic.net

Re: Best way to add a position value to each item in a list

2009-07-09 Thread Sean
On Jul 9, 1:16 pm, Sean sberr...@gmail.com wrote: I have a huge list, 10,000,000+ items.  Each item is a dictionary with fields used to sort the list.  When I have completed sorting I want to grab a page of items, say 1,000 of them which I do easily by using list_data[x:x+1000] Now I want to

Re: tough-to-explain Python

2009-07-09 Thread J. Cliff Dyer
On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 18:10 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote: If programming is symbol manipulation, then you should remember that the user interface is also symbol manipulation, and it is a MUCH harder problem than databases, sorting, searching, and all the other problems you learn about in

Re: Best way to add a position value to each item in a list

2009-07-09 Thread Sean
On Jul 9, 1:16 pm, Sean sberr...@gmail.com wrote: I have a huge list, 10,000,000+ items.  Each item is a dictionary with fields used to sort the list.  When I have completed sorting I want to grab a page of items, say 1,000 of them which I do easily by using list_data[x:x+1000] Now I want to

Re: Best way to add a position value to each item in a list

2009-07-09 Thread Carl Banks
On Jul 9, 1:16 pm, Sean sberr...@gmail.com wrote: I have a huge list, 10,000,000+ items.  Each item is a dictionary with fields used to sort the list.  When I have completed sorting I want to grab a page of items, say 1,000 of them which I do easily by using list_data[x:x+1000] Now I want to

Re: Examples of Python driven Microsoft UI Automation wanted

2009-07-09 Thread Michael Torrie
DuaneKaufman wrote: With MS utilities like UISpy and the like, I can 'see' the controls in the application, but I do not seem to be able to manipulate them programatically, and I believe it us simply due to my not understanding of the UI Automation API. You're probably better off using a

Re: Examples of Python driven Microsoft UI Automation wanted

2009-07-09 Thread Michael Torrie
TheSeeker wrote: Alternatives to Microsoft's UI Automation are welcome too, but I have tried using winguiauto and watsup (along with AutoIt), and there seems to be severe limitations when using these tools with WinForm applications. http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=96752

Re: Cleaning up after failing to contructing objects

2009-07-09 Thread Mattias Brändström
On Jul 9, 7:30 pm, Lie Ryan lie.1...@gmail.com wrote: brasse wrote: Hello! I have been thinking about how write exception safe constructors in Python. By exception safe I mean a constructor that does not leak resources when an exception is raised within it. The following is an example

Re: PyQt GUI

2009-07-09 Thread Helvin
On Jul 10, 3:54 am, Robert Kern robert.k...@gmail.com wrote: On 2009-07-09 01:27, Helvin wrote: On Jul 9, 11:29 am, Robert Kernrobert.k...@gmail.com  wrote: On 2009-07-08 18:10, Helvin wrote: Thanks for the fast replies! I will look into how to use VTK now. Where would I find VTK's

Re: Examples of Python driven Microsoft UI Automation wanted

2009-07-09 Thread DuaneKaufman
On Jul 9, 4:12 pm, Michael Torrie torr...@gmail.com wrote: TheSeeker wrote: Alternatives to Microsoft's UI Automation are welcome too, but I have tried using winguiauto and watsup (along with AutoIt), and there seems to be severe limitations when using these tools with WinForm

Re: tough-to-explain Python

2009-07-09 Thread Ethan Furman
Steven D'Aprano wrote: There is some evidence that 30-60% of people simply cannot learn to program, no matter how you teach them: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000635.html http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/research/PhDArea/saeed/ I'm sympathetic to the idea, but not entirely convinced.

Re: Package for fast plotting of many data points in Python?

2009-07-09 Thread Stef Mientki
tt-industries wrote: Hi, I am programming a oscilloscope module in Python. For this reason, I want to plot very many data points as fast as possible. This can be more than 100 000 at once. At once is impossible ;-) So far I have been using the ploting module of wxPython. which plotting

Package for fast plotting of many data points in Python?

2009-07-09 Thread tt-industries
Hi, I am programming a oscilloscope module in Python. For this reason, I want to plot very many data points as fast as possible. This can be more than 100 000 at once. So far I have been using the ploting module of wxPython. However, it becomes unstable for more than 25000 points. Can someone

Re: can i write a assemly language programs in python

2009-07-09 Thread Pablo Torres N.
Or maybe he meant if you can have both Python and assembler code in the same source file, but I haven't heard of it. If what you are trying to do is write a faster version of some part of your code, try SWIG: http://www.swig.org/ Playing the guessing game is a time sink, and since nobody has

Re: Catching control-C

2009-07-09 Thread Miles Kaufmann
On Jul 9, 2009, at 9:20 AM, Lie Ryan wrote: Michael Mossey wrote: I want to understand better what the secret is to responding to a ctrl-C in any shape or form. Are you asking: when would the python interpreter process KeyboardInterrupt? ... In single threaded python program, the currently

Re: can i write a assemly language programs in python

2009-07-09 Thread Simon Forman
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 3:17 AM, m.reddy prasad reddyreddy@gmail.com wrote: can any one tell me how to write assembly language programs in python...if no is there any other way to write the programs in python Reddi prasad reddy ph.no:09958083797 --

sys.exit() and PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags()

2009-07-09 Thread Xavier Bénech
Hi, There is a behaviour I do not understand of PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags(), normally when it executes a python script containing a sys.exit(), it results by ending the calling application. I have got this behaviour with PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags() when I call it from the main thread of a GUI

Re: can i write a assemly language programs in python

2009-07-09 Thread Bearophile
Simon Forman: Examine CorePyhttp://www.corepy.org CorePy is a complete system for developing machine-level programs in Python. CorePy lets developers build and execute assembly-level programs interactively from the Python command prompt, embed them directly in Python applications, or export

Re: Package for fast plotting of many data points in Python?

2009-07-09 Thread Chris Rebert
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 3:03 PM, tt-industriesmail.to.daniel.pl...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, I am programming a oscilloscope module in Python. For this reason, I want to plot very many data points as fast as possible. This can be more than 100 000 at once. So far I have been using the ploting

Re: gett error message: TypeError: 'int' object is not callable

2009-07-09 Thread Simon Forman
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Nicknleio...@gmail.com wrote: snip    fields = line.split()    for i in range(len(fields)):        fields[i] = float(fields[i]) instead of the above code you could say: fields = [float(n) for n in in line.split()] Have fun getting back into python! :] (A lot

Re: gett error message: TypeError: 'int' object is not callable

2009-07-09 Thread Paul Rubin
Nick nleio...@gmail.com writes: text = file.readlines() len = len(text) fields = text[1].split() Is that intended to split the first line of the file? Remember that arrays in python begin at index 0. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

AP -- MeAmI.org Paces Google

2009-07-09 Thread Musatov
Los Angeles (AP) --MeAmI.org now has users in 50 countries following its adopted use in Pakistan. The search engine has grown in popularity 10,000 fold following its Beta test launch three months ago in April, 2009. Supporters of the site claim it is better than rival Google upon which platform

Re: The meaning of = (Was: tough-to-explain Python)

2009-07-09 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message h3291j$mf...@reader1.panix.com, kj wrote: .., Lundh writes: Assignment statements modify namespaces, not objects. counterexample a = [3] b = a These may indeed modify a namespace, not any object. However: a[:] = [4] a [4] b [4] What change

Re: Running a script to build docs from setup.py

2009-07-09 Thread Ben Finney
Tony Houghton h...@realh.co.uk writes: I've looked through the manual but I can't find any hooks in distutils for generating files at install time other than extension modules and .pyc files. Should I just run the script from somewhere in my setup.py before calling distutils' setup function?

Re: AP -- MeAmI.org Paces Google

2009-07-09 Thread The Masked Logician
On Jul 9, 6:03 pm, Musatov marty.musa...@gmail.com wrote: Los Angeles (AP) -- MeAmI.org now has users in 50 countries following its adopted use in Pakistan. The search engine has grown in popularity 10,000 fold following its Beta test launch three months ago in April, 2009. Supporters of the

Re: Package for fast plotting of many data points in Python?

2009-07-09 Thread Ben Finney
tt-industries mail.to.daniel.pl...@googlemail.com writes: I am programming a oscilloscope module in Python. For this reason, I want to plot very many data points as fast as possible. This can be more than 100 000 at once. I think you will find good results using Numpy for your arrays of data

Re: Package for fast plotting of many data points in Python?

2009-07-09 Thread Roy Smith
In article 0734dc45-d8a0-4f28-b945-f9e179f30...@h11g2000yqb.googlegroups.com, tt-industries mail.to.daniel.pl...@googlemail.com wrote: I am programming a oscilloscope module in Python. Sigh. I guess I'm showing my age, but I still can't get used to the idea that the right tool to build an

How to check if any item from a list of strings is in a big string?

2009-07-09 Thread inkhorn
Hi all, For one of my projects, I came across the need to check if one of many items from a list of strings could be found in a long string. I came up with a pretty quick helper function to check this, but I just want to find out if there's something a little more elegant than what I've cooked

Re: How to check if any item from a list of strings is in a big string?

2009-07-09 Thread Chris Rebert
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 6:36 PM, inkhornmatt.dub...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi all, For one of my projects, I came across the need to check if one of many items from a list of strings could be found in a long string.  I came up with a pretty quick helper function to check this, but I just want to

Re: AP -- MeAmI.org Paces Google

2009-07-09 Thread David Bernier
Musatov wrote: Los Angeles (AP) --MeAmI.org now has users in 50 countries following its adopted use in Pakistan. The search engine has grown in popularity 10,000 fold following its Beta test launch three months ago in April, 2009. Supporters of the site claim it is better than rival Google upon

Re: AP -- MeAmI.org Paces Google

2009-07-09 Thread Friðrik Már Jónsson
I'll be the first to admit it. The point of writing a fake story by Associated Press and publishing it on a programming mailing list is totally beyond me. Confoundedly yours, Friðrik Már -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: AP -- MeAmI.org Paces Google

2009-07-09 Thread The Masked Logician
On Jul 9, 6:41 pm, David Bernier david...@videotron.ca wrote: Musatov wrote: Los Angeles (AP) --MeAmI.org now has users in 50 countries following its adopted use in Pakistan.  The search engine has grown in popularity 10,000 fold following its Beta test launch three months ago in April,

Re: Opening a SQLite database in readonly mode

2009-07-09 Thread Aahz
In article mailman.2905.1247159861.8015.python-l...@python.org, Joshua Kugler jos...@joshuakugler.com wrote: Joshua Kugler wrote: Sorry about that...since pysqlite and APSW are both discusses on the pysqlite list, I had made an incorrect assumption. Oops. are both discusses? Yeef, I must

language analysis to enforce code standards

2009-07-09 Thread Jason S. Friedman
Hello, I administer the Informatica ETL tool at my company. Part of that role involves creating and enforcing standards. I want the Informatica developers to add comments to certain key objects and I want to be able to verify (in an automated fashion) that they have done so. I cannot merely

Re: AP -- MeAmI.org Paces Google

2009-07-09 Thread Martin Musatov
Thank you. Martin Musatov 2009/7/9 Friðrik Már Jónsson frid...@pyth.net I'll be the first to admit it. The point of writing a fake story by Associated Press and publishing it on a programming mailing list is totally beyond me. Confoundedly yours, Friðrik Már --

Re: hoe to build a patched socketmodule.c

2009-07-09 Thread Roger Binns
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jacopo mondi wrote: Hi all, I need to patch socketmodule.c (the _socket module) in order to add support to an experimental socket family. You may find it considerably easier to use ctypes since that will avoid the need for any patching. You'll

Re: Clarity vs. code reuse/generality

2009-07-09 Thread Nobody
On Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:57:15 -0300, Gabriel Genellina wrote: Nobody says you shouldn't check your data. Only that assert is not the right way to do that. assert is not the right way to check your *inputs*. It's a perfectly reasonable way to check data which should be valid, as well as a way

Re: language analysis to enforce code standards

2009-07-09 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:06:35 +, Jason S. Friedman wrote: Hello, I administer the Informatica ETL tool at my company. Part of that role involves creating and enforcing standards. I want the Informatica developers to add comments to certain key objects and I want to be able to verify (in

Re: psyco V2 beta2 benchmark

2009-07-09 Thread Zac Burns
Where do you get this beta? I heard that Psyco V2 is coming out but can't find anything on their site to support this. -- Zachary Burns (407)590-4814 Aim - Zac256FL Production Engineer (Digital Overlord) Zindagi Games On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 5:26 AM, larudwerlarud...@freenet.de wrote: just out

Re: IP Address Function

2009-07-09 Thread Tim Roberts
Fred Atkinson fatkin...@mishmash.com wrote: I wonder why they don't just have a function to return it instead of putting you through all of that? In CGI, EVERYTHING gets communicated through environment variables. That (and the stdin stream) is really the only option, since you get a new

Re: AP -- MeAmI.org Paces Google

2009-07-09 Thread David Bernier
Musatov wrote: Los Angeles (AP) --MeAmI.org now has users in 50 countries following its adopted use in Pakistan. The search engine has grown in popularity 10,000 fold following its Beta test launch three months ago in April, 2009. Supporters of the site claim it is better than rival Google upon

Re: How to check if any item from a list of strings is in a big string?

2009-07-09 Thread Nobody
On Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:36:05 -0700, inkhorn wrote: For one of my projects, I came across the need to check if one of many items from a list of strings could be found in a long string. If you need to match many strings or very long strings against the same list of items, the following should

Re: Clarity vs. code reuse/generality

2009-07-09 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:28:04 +0100, Nobody wrote: On Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:57:15 -0300, Gabriel Genellina wrote: Nobody says you shouldn't check your data. Only that assert is not the right way to do that. assert is not the right way to check your *inputs*. It's a perfectly reasonable way

Re: tough-to-explain Python

2009-07-09 Thread Terry Reedy
Steven D'Aprano wrote: And speaking of binary search: [quote] I was shocked to learn that the binary search program that Bentley PROVED CORRECT and SUBSEQUENTLY TESTED [emphasis added] in Chapter 5 of Programming Pearls contains a bug. Once I tell you what the it is, you will understand why

Re: AP -- MeAmI.org Paces Google

2009-07-09 Thread scriber77
On Jul 9, 7:54 pm, David Bernier david...@videotron.ca wrote: Musatov wrote: Los Angeles (AP) --MeAmI.org now has users in 50 countries following its adopted use in Pakistan.  The search engine has grown in popularity 10,000 fold following its Beta test launch three months ago in April,

Re: language analysis to enforce code standards

2009-07-09 Thread Bruce C. Baker
Jason S. Friedman ja...@powerpull.net wrote in message news:mailman.2927.1247192026.8015.python-l...@python.org... Hello, I administer the Informatica ETL tool at my company. Part of that role involves creating and enforcing standards. I want the Informatica developers to add comments to

Re: AP -- MeAmI.org Paces Google

2009-07-09 Thread MichaelW
On Jul 10, 1:25 pm, scribe...@yahoo.com wrote: On Jul 9, 7:54 pm, David Bernier david...@videotron.ca wrote: Musatov wrote: Los Angeles (AP) --MeAmI.org now has users in 50 countries following its adopted use in Pakistan.  The search engine has grown in popularity 10,000 fold

Re: AP -- MeAmI.org Paces Google

2009-07-09 Thread Bruce C. Baker
scribe...@yahoo.com wrote in message news:defacf35-6149-485a-8f03-15472d63d...@a39g2000pre.googlegroups.com... ka-snip Oh, puh-LEEZ, Martin! A two-year-old wouldn't be fooled by this! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Package for fast plotting of many data points in Python?

2009-07-09 Thread lazy1
Hello Daniel, Can someone recommend me a faster plotting library? I found out gnuplot to be blazing fast for many many points. I usually just call it using subprocess but there are Python bindings to it somewhere as well. HTH, -- Miki miki.teb...@gmail.com http://pythonwise.blogspot.com --

Re: How to check if any item from a list of strings is in a big string?

2009-07-09 Thread Paul Rubin
inkhorn matt.dub...@sympatico.ca writes: def list_items_in_string(list_items, string): for item in list_items: if item in string: return True return False You could write that as (untested): def list_items_in_string(list_items, string): return any(item in

Re: How to check if any item from a list of strings is in a big string?

2009-07-09 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:36:05 -0700, inkhorn wrote: def list_items_in_string(list_items, string): for item in list_items: if item in string: return True return False ... Any ideas how to make that function look nicer? :) Change the names. Reverse the order of the

Re: How to check if any item from a list of strings is in a big string?

2009-07-09 Thread John Machin
On Jul 10, 12:53 pm, Nobody nob...@nowhere.com wrote: On Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:36:05 -0700, inkhorn wrote: For one of my projects, I came across the need to check if one of many items from a list of strings could be found in a long string. If you need to match many strings or very long

Re: tough-to-explain Python

2009-07-09 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:07:34 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote: Steven D'Aprano wrote: And speaking of binary search: [quote] I was shocked to learn that the binary search program that Bentley PROVED CORRECT and SUBSEQUENTLY TESTED [emphasis added] in Chapter 5 of Programming Pearls contains a

Re: AP -- MeAmI.org Paces Google

2009-07-09 Thread Musatov
On Jul 9, 7:54 pm, David Bernier david...@videotron.ca wrote: Musatov wrote: Los Angeles (AP) --MeAmI.org now has users in 50 countries following its adopted use in Pakistan.  The search engine has grown in popularity 10,000 fold following its Beta test launch three months ago in April,

Re: How to use Python to interface with Web pages?

2009-07-09 Thread Tim Roberts
Peter peter.milli...@gmail.com wrote: Any help would be appreciated :-) I want to write an auction sniping tool in Python. Please don't. -- Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com Providenza Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Examples of Python driven Microsoft UI Automation wanted

2009-07-09 Thread Tim Roberts
TheSeeker duane.kauf...@gmail.com wrote: I am embarking on teaching myself Microsoft UI Automation using Python as the scripting language. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has a great Python package called pyAA that does exactly this:

Looking for the right library for a simple HTTP client

2009-07-09 Thread scriptlear...@gmail.com
I am trying to implement a simple client that can do the following: 1)to send the following kinds of HTTP requests and validate responses 1.1 GET 1.2 POST with application/x-www-form-urlencoded encoding 1.3 POST with multipart/form-data encoding 2)to set any number of (even duplicate) headers.

Re: AP -- MeAmI.org Paces Google

2009-07-09 Thread David Bernier
Musatov wrote: On Jul 9, 7:54 pm, David Bernier david...@videotron.ca wrote: Musatov wrote: Los Angeles (AP) --MeAmI.org now has users in 50 countries following its adopted use in Pakistan. The search engine has grown in popularity 10,000 fold following its Beta test launch three months ago

Re: AP -- MeAmI.org Paces Google

2009-07-09 Thread Floetry
On Jul 9, 8:33 pm, Bruce C. Baker b...@undisclosedlocation.net wrote: scribe...@yahoo.com wrote in message news:defacf35-6149-485a-8f03-15472d63d...@a39g2000pre.googlegroups.com... ka-snip Oh, puh-LEEZ, Martin! A two-year-old wouldn't be fooled by this! Any reason ka-snip? Binomial

[issue6435] logging: cache the traceback text on formatter, instead of record

2009-07-09 Thread Vinay Sajip
Vinay Sajip vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk added the comment: I fail to follow your logic, in the following respects: 1. The exception text cannot be cached in the formatter because a formatter will format lots and lots of records. Formatters live for a long time, records do not. 2. The exception text

[issue6435] logging: cache the traceback text on formatter, instead of record

2009-07-09 Thread Sridhar Ratnakumar
Sridhar Ratnakumar sridh...@activestate.com added the comment: On Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:59:17 -0700, Vinay Sajip rep...@bugs.python.org wrote: 1. The exception text cannot be cached in the formatter because a formatter will format lots and lots of records. Formatters live for a long time,

[issue6435] logging: cache the traceback text on formatter, instead of record

2009-07-09 Thread Vinay Sajip
Vinay Sajip vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk added the comment: Not thoroughly .. as I missed the point 1. on formatter processing multiple records. But what do you say to points 2, 3 and 4? Of course they may not apply to your use case, but are they not valid points? --

[issue6444] multiline exception logging via syslog handler

2009-07-09 Thread Max Arnold
New submission from Max Arnold lwa...@gmail.com: I use syslog message routing mechanism to log high-priority messages from my python code to separate file. When exceptions are logged, only first line routed to specified file, and the rest goes in /var/log/messages. Such problem exists when

[issue6393] OS X: python3 from python-3.1.dmg crashes at startup

2009-07-09 Thread Mark Dickinson
Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com added the comment: One *could* add a check in pythonrun.c to substitute some suitable default (UTF-8) if nl_langinfo(CODESET) returns an empty value. While googling for the source of this problem, I found other software projects that take this approach. It

[issue6377] distutils compiler switch ignored

2009-07-09 Thread Marc-Andre Lemburg
Marc-Andre Lemburg m...@egenix.com added the comment: Tarek Ziadé wrote: Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com added the comment: I'll set back the compiler attribute when compiler_obj is set too, so third-party code will be able to work with it as before. The current code will deprecate

[issue6393] OS X: python3 from python-3.1.dmg crashes at startup

2009-07-09 Thread Ronald Oussoren
Ronald Oussoren ronaldousso...@mac.com added the comment: The manpage says that nl_langinfo returns an empty string when there is an invalid setting. There is validity in saying that 'LANG=utf-8' is an invalid setting, the LANG variable is supposed to a locale name, which would be a language

[issue6435] logging: cache the traceback text on formatter, instead of record

2009-07-09 Thread Sridhar Ratnakumar
Sridhar Ratnakumar sridh...@activestate.com added the comment: 2. The exception text needs to be stored in the record, because in some instances (e.g. pickling and sending over a socket) this information will not be available at the other end in any other way. Caching in the record object is

[issue6393] OS X: python3 from python-3.1.dmg crashes at startup

2009-07-09 Thread Mark Dickinson
Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com added the comment: There is validity in saying that 'LANG=utf-8' is an invalid setting Agreed. But that doesn't really explain why e.g. LANG=en_US also produces , while LANG=invalid produces US-ASCII. I do wonder how the user ended up with LANG=utf-8 in

[issue6377] distutils compiler switch ignored

2009-07-09 Thread Tarek Ziadé
Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com added the comment: The build_ext command cannot be run twice, because the first time, the compiler option may be set to unix for example, or left to None, and then is transformed into a compiler object. That's the bug. If you call it again, it'll break because

[issue6393] OS X: python3 from python-3.1.dmg crashes at startup

2009-07-09 Thread Ronald Oussoren
Ronald Oussoren ronaldousso...@mac.com added the comment: The attached patch (issue6393-fix.patch) seems to fix the issue. Could you please test and have a look at the patch? It basicly tests if the output of nl_langinfo(CODESET) is the empty string and defaults to 'UTF-8' in that case (but

[issue6377] distutils compiler switch ignored

2009-07-09 Thread Marc-Andre Lemburg
Marc-Andre Lemburg m...@egenix.com added the comment: Tarek Ziadé wrote: Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com added the comment: The build_ext command cannot be run twice, because the first time, the compiler option may be set to unix for example, or left to None, and then is transformed into

[issue6377] distutils compiler switch ignored

2009-07-09 Thread Marc-Andre Lemburg
Marc-Andre Lemburg m...@egenix.com added the comment: FWIW: I've changed our mxSetup code to use a method for accessing the compiler instance. Perhaps that's the better way to go for standard distutils commands as well ?! E.g. .get_compiler_object() --

[issue6443] _winreg.QueryValueEx confused on double null terminated strings

2009-07-09 Thread Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc amaur...@gmail.com added the comment: The double null is supposed to mark the end of the whole sequence; the content you show under PendingFileRenameOperations is a invalid REG_MULTI_SZ value to me. How does regedit display it? -- nosy: +amaury.forgeotdarc

[issue5870] subprocess.DEVNULL

2009-07-09 Thread OG7
Changes by OG7 ony...@users.sourceforge.net: -- nosy: +OG7 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue5870 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing

[issue6445] Add check parameter to subprocess.Popen.communicate

2009-07-09 Thread OG7
New submission from OG7 ony...@users.sourceforge.net: communicate is often used in one-liners, but becomes a four-liner if you want to check the process exit status. Adding a check parameter would make it more convenient to get things right and write non-buggy code. The CalledProcessError

[issue6443] _winreg.QueryValueEx confused on double null terminated strings

2009-07-09 Thread Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc amaur...@gmail.com added the comment: It seems that regedit itself cannot handle these values, see how users have to edit data in binary mode to enter empty strings: http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-1715654.php Here is a script that shows the problem: the value is

[issue6393] OS X: python3 from python-3.1.dmg crashes at startup

2009-07-09 Thread Mark Dickinson
Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com added the comment: Thanks, Ronald! The patch fixes the problem for me. (I directly patched the locale.py file installed from the Python dmg, since I still haven't figured out how to build a python executable that exhibits this problem.) The patch doesn't look

[issue6435] logging: cache the traceback text on formatter, instead of record

2009-07-09 Thread Vinay Sajip
Vinay Sajip vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk added the comment: But the cache needs to be invalidated when `exc_info` is changed - as in set to None when it was a traceback object. When does the exc_info change for a record? AFAIK it's set when you create a LogRecord, and that's it. To be honest,

[issue6333] logging: ValueError: I/O operation on closed file

2009-07-09 Thread Vinay Sajip
Vinay Sajip vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk added the comment: Shouldn't the logging module be reliable in such cases? It tries to be, but it's neither omnipotent nor omniscient. It doesn't expect streams which it's using to be closed out from under it. See my comments about your ConsoleHandler

[issue6393] OS X: python3 from python-3.1.dmg crashes at startup

2009-07-09 Thread Ronald Oussoren
Ronald Oussoren ronaldousso...@mac.com added the comment: Good catch, the code in the else is indeed in the wrong order. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue6393 ___

[issue6333] logging: ValueError: I/O operation on closed file

2009-07-09 Thread holger krekel
holger krekel holger.kre...@gmail.com added the comment: I think the issue is unrelated to py.test - it just presents a use case as it wants to run 1000's of tests and capture stdout/stderr per each test function, cannot guess about a test's logging-usage yet wants to minimize memory/resource

[issue6446] import_spam() in extending python can fail without setting the error.

2009-07-09 Thread Julian Andres Klode
New submission from Julian Andres Klode j...@jak-linux.org: The given example function initspam fails if an Based on some experience with my own code, I have found out that the function import_spam() fails when the module is not importable. In this case, it returns 0, although it should return

[issue6414] struct module : processor endianness descriptions misleading

2009-07-09 Thread Alexey Shamrin
Alexey Shamrin sham...@gmail.com added the comment: Good suggestions, Mark! We should do both, I think. I didn't know about sys.byteorder before your message ;-) Thanks for education! How about this: Native byte order is big-endian or little-endian, depending on the host system. For example,

[issue6414] struct module : processor endianness descriptions misleading

2009-07-09 Thread Alexey Shamrin
Alexey Shamrin sham...@gmail.com added the comment: Little style: Native byte order is big-endian or little-endian, depending on the host system. For example, Intel x86 and AMD64 (x86-64) are little-endian; Motorola 68000 and PowerPC G5 are big-endian; ARM and DEC Alpha feature switchable

[issue6333] logging: ValueError: I/O operation on closed file

2009-07-09 Thread Vinay Sajip
Vinay Sajip vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk added the comment: Is it a problem to have the logging module be a bit more defensive and only try a flush/close if the stream isn't already closed? Not particularly, but it would be better if the following approach were taken: import logging import

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