ANN: python-utmp 0.8

2009-08-10 Thread garabik-news-2005-05
python-utmp 0.8 === python-utmp provides 3 modules to access utmp and wtmp records: * utmpaccess is lowlevel module written in C, wrapping/emulating glibc functions * UTMPCONST provides useful constants * utmp is module build on top of utmpaccess module, providing object oriented

Roundup Issue Tracker 1.4.9 released

2009-08-10 Thread Richard Jones
I'm proud to release version 1.4.9 of Roundup which fixes some bugs: - fixed action taken in response to invalid GET request - fixed classic tracker template to submit POST requests when appropriate - fix problems with french and german locale files (issue 2550546) - Run each message of the

Florida Python training in October

2009-08-10 Thread lutz
We're pleased to announce a new venue for our Python classes. Python author and trainer Mark Lutz will be teaching a 3-day Python class on October 20-22, in Sarasota, Florida. Come spend 3 days mastering Python, and enjoy all that Florida and its Gulf Coast have to offer while you're here.

Re: Client/Server based on SocketServer and Windows

2009-08-10 Thread Kiki
Thank you Dennis I'm using 2 differents editor, which may be the cause of such a mess in the indentation. I must admitt that I lazily rely on those (not so bad indeed) editors. If indentation whas bad they would have tell me Too bad am i Won't post misindeted code anymore. --

Re: Unrecognized escape sequences in string literals

2009-08-10 Thread John Nagle
Carl Banks wrote: IOW it's an error-prone mess. It would be better if Python (like C) treated \ consistently as an escape character. (And in raw strings, consistently as a literal.) Agreed. For one thing, if another escape character ever has to be added to the language, that may change

Re: Unrecognized escape sequences in string literals

2009-08-10 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:56:55 -0700, Douglas Alan wrote: Steven D'Aprano wrote: Why should a backslash in a string literal be an error? Because in Python, if my friend sees the string foo\xbar\n, he has no idea whether the \x is an escape sequence, or if it is just the characters \x,

Re: Unrecognized escape sequences in string literals

2009-08-10 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:34:14 -0700, Carl Banks wrote: Why should a backslash in a string literal be an error? Because the behavior of \ in a string is context-dependent, which means a reader can't know if \ is a literal character or escape character without knowing the context, and it means

Re: reloading the module imported as 'from ... import ...'

2009-08-10 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:48:31 -0700, AlF wrote: Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:43:41 -0700, AlF wrote: Hi, what is the best way to reload the module imported using 'from ... import ...' Have you tried from ... import ... again? I have not because of an assumption

Re: Unrecognized escape sequences in string literals

2009-08-10 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:03:14 -0700, John Nagle wrote: if another escape character ever has to be added to the language, that may change the semantics of previously correct strings. And that's the only argument in favour of prohibiting non-special backslash sequences I've seen yet that is

Re: Unrecognized escape sequences in string literals

2009-08-10 Thread Douglas Alan
On Aug 10, 2:03 am, Steven D'Aprano ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au wrote: On Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:56:55 -0700, Douglas Alan wrote: Because in Python, if my friend sees the string foo\xbar\n, he has no idea whether the \x is an escape sequence, or if it is just the characters \x,

Re: Unrecognized escape sequences in string literals

2009-08-10 Thread Carl Banks
On Aug 9, 11:10 pm, Steven D'Aprano ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au wrote: On Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:34:14 -0700, Carl Banks wrote: Why should a backslash in a string literal be an error? Because the behavior of \ in a string is context-dependent, which means a reader can't know if \ is

Re: Unrecognized escape sequences in string literals

2009-08-10 Thread Douglas Alan
On Aug 10, 2:10 am, Steven D'Aprano I've never had any errors caused by this. But you've seen an error caused by this, in this very discussion. I.e., foo\xbar. \xba isn't an escape sequence in any other language that I've used, which is one reason I made this error... Oh, wait a minute -- it

Re: Monkeypatching an object to become callable

2009-08-10 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
7stud a écrit : (snip) class Wrapper(object): def __init__(self, obj, func): self.obj = obj self.func = func def __call__(self, *args): return self.func(*args) def __getattr__(self, name): return object.__getattribute__(self.obj, name) This should

Re: Unrecognized escape sequences in string literals

2009-08-10 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:37:33 -0700, Carl Banks wrote: On Aug 9, 11:10 pm, Steven D'Aprano ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au wrote: On Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:34:14 -0700, Carl Banks wrote: Why should a backslash in a string literal be an error? Because the behavior of \ in a string is

install tarball package Python on Debian, necessary modules not found

2009-08-10 Thread Frédéric Léger
I use Debian Lenny and I tried to install the tarball packaging of the lastest python realease (http://www.python.org/download/, release 3.1). After read README file I launch standard Makefile commands. But at the end of make command, I have got this message: ... Python build finished, but the

Re: Unrecognized escape sequences in string literals

2009-08-10 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:57:18 -0700, Douglas Alan wrote: On Aug 10, 2:10 am, Steven D'Aprano I've never had any errors caused by this. But you've seen an error caused by this, in this very discussion. I.e., foo\xbar. Your complaint is that invalid escapes like \y resolve to a literal

Re: resume upload wsgi script

2009-08-10 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
250KB :) So why do you bother? Its just HTTP1.1 has everything for making ftp like file transfers possible. When I write it to a file then I am back at square one because I still need to load it completely to get it into a blob. Well, the blob is nothing but datat in the file-system. If

Re: Problem with join in__str__() in class (newbie)

2009-08-10 Thread Fencer
Piet van Oostrum wrote: [snip] Thanks for your detailed reply! - Fencer -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Unrecognized escape sequences in string literals

2009-08-10 Thread Duncan Booth
Douglas Alan darkwate...@gmail.com wrote: \xba isn't an escape sequence in any other language that I've used, which is one reason I made this error... Oh, wait a minute -- it *is* an escape sequence in JavaScript. But in JavaScript, while \xba is a special character, \xb is synonymous with

Re: Unrecognized escape sequences in string literals

2009-08-10 Thread Duncan Booth
Steven D'Aprano ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au wrote: Or perhaps they should follow bash's lead, and map \C to C for every character. If there were no special escapes at all, Windows programmers wouldn't keep getting burnt when they write C:\\Documents\today\foo and end up with

Re: install tarball package Python on Debian, necessary modules not found

2009-08-10 Thread garabik-news-2005-05
Frédéric Léger frederic.le...@contactoffice.net wrote: I use Debian Lenny and I tried to install the tarball packaging of the lastest python realease (http://www.python.org/download/, release 3.1). After read README file I launch standard Makefile commands. But at the end of make command, I

Re: Problem in installing PyGreSQL

2009-08-10 Thread Thangappan.M
Here I attached the setup.py and setup.cfg file.This is for your reference. I have changed the exception line. Even though I got the following error while running the python setup.py build running build running build_py running build_ext error: No such file or directory

Re: exec(dir(),d)

2009-08-10 Thread Emanuele D'Arrigo
Thank you both for the explanation. As a matter of fact RTFM doesn't -always- help. Sometimes I'm just thick and I can read the manual 10 times and still not understand, as it happened on this particular matter. Your contribution focused my attention on the right bit of the manual which I somehow

Re: Unrecognized escape sequences in string literals

2009-08-10 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:32:30 -0700, Douglas Alan wrote: In C++, if I know that the code I'm looking at compiles, then I never need worry that I've misinterpreted what a string literal means. If you don't know what your string literals are, you don't know what your program does. You can't

Re: Cython + setuptools not working with .pyx,only with .c-files

2009-08-10 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Stefan Behnel wrote: Diez B. Roggisch wrote: I'm trying to build a Cython-extension as Egg. However, this doesn't work - I can either use distutils to build the extension, creating a myextension.c-file on the way. If that's there, I can use setuptools to build the egg. But when I

Problem Regarding Handling of Unicode string

2009-08-10 Thread joy99
Dear Group, I am using Python26 on WindowsXP with service pack2. My GUI is IDLE. I am using Hindi resources and get nice output like: एक where I can use all the re functions and other functions without doing any transliteration,etc. I was trying to use Bengali but it is giving me output like:

Problem when fetching page using urllib2.urlopen

2009-08-10 Thread jitu
Hi, A html page contains 'anchor' elements with 'href' attribute having a semicolon in the url , while fetching the page using urllib2.urlopen, all such href's containing 'semicolons' are truncated. For example the href

Re: Unrecognized escape sequences in string literals

2009-08-10 Thread MRAB
Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:56:55 -0700, Douglas Alan wrote: [snip] My point of view is that every language has *some* warts; Python just has a bit fewer than most. It would have been nice, I should think, if this wart had been fixed in Python 3, as I do consider it to be a

Re: Problem Regarding Handling of Unicode string

2009-08-10 Thread Ulrich Eckhardt
joy99 wrote: [...] it is giving me output like: '\xef\xbb\xbf\xe0\xa6\x85\xe0\xa6\xa8\xe0\xa7\x87\xe0\xa6\x95' These three bytes encode the byte-order marker (BOM, Unicode uFEFF) as UTF-8, followed by codepoint u09a8 (look it up on unicode.org what that is). In any case, if

Re: Problem when fetching page using urllib2.urlopen

2009-08-10 Thread jitu
On Aug 10, 4:39 pm, jitu nair.jiten...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, A html page  contains 'anchor' elements with 'href' attribute  having a semicolon  in the url , while fetching the page using urllib2.urlopen, all such href's  containing  'semicolons' are truncated. For example the

[Errno 9] Bad file descriptor

2009-08-10 Thread Mehndi, Sibtey
Hi I am trying to create a COM object of picalo functionalities so that I can use it into my VB application but I am getting the following error [Errno 9] bad file descriptor. Can you please suggest me what is supposed to do to avoid this problem? This is my code class Test(object):

Re: www.python.org website is down?

2009-08-10 Thread Christopher
On Aug 8, 5:50 pm, Pouya Khankhanian kpo...@gmail.com wrote: On Aug 8, 11:49 am, Sharath sharath20...@gmail.com wrote: On Aug 8, 11:33 am, Pouya Khankhanian kpo...@gmail.com wrote: On Aug 8, 11:17 am, Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de wrote: This is probably a stupid question, but

Re: Changing Remote Registry

2009-08-10 Thread Kevin Holleran
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Tim Golden m...@timgolden.me.uk wrote: Kevin Holleran wrote: Long story short, I am using _winreg to do this. hKey = _winreg.OpenKey (keyPath, path, 0, _winreg.KEY_SET_VALUE) value,type = _winreg.QueryValueEx(hKey, item) if (value == wrongValue):

compression level with tarfile (w:gz) ?

2009-08-10 Thread Esmail
Hello, I was wondering if it possible to specify a compression level when I tar/gzip a file in Python using the tarfile module. I would like to specify the highest (9) compression level for gzip. Ideally: t = tarfile.open(tar_file_name+'.tar.gz', mode='w:gz:9') When I create a simple tar

Re: www.python.org website is down?

2009-08-10 Thread Xavier Ho
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Christopher nadiasver...@gmail.comwrote: Actually, it appears to be down again. Nope, works for me, just a little slow. -Xav -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: compression level with tarfile (w:gz) ?

2009-08-10 Thread Benjamin Kaplan
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Esmailebo...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello, I was wondering if it possible to specify a compression level when I tar/gzip a file in Python using the tarfile module. I would like to specify the highest (9) compression level for gzip. Ideally:   t =

Re: compression level with tarfile (w:gz) ?

2009-08-10 Thread Esmail
Benjamin Kaplan wrote: On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Esmailebo...@hotmail.com wrote: I was wondering if it possible to specify a compression level when I tar/gzip a file in Python using the tarfile module. I would like to specify the highest (9) compression level for gzip. Ideally: t =

Re: compression level with tarfile (w:gz) ?

2009-08-10 Thread Benjamin Kaplan
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Esmailebo...@hotmail.com wrote: Benjamin Kaplan wrote: On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Esmailebo...@hotmail.com wrote: I was wondering if it possible to specify a compression level when I tar/gzip a file in Python using the tarfile module. I would like to

Re: compression level with tarfile (w:gz) ?

2009-08-10 Thread Lars Gustäbel
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 08:50:21AM -0400, Esmail wrote: I was wondering if it possible to specify a compression level when I tar/gzip a file in Python using the tarfile module. I would like to specify the highest (9) compression level for gzip. tarfile uses gzip.GzipFile() internally,

Re: www.python.org website is down?

2009-08-10 Thread r
On Aug 8, 8:48 am, MRAB pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com wrote: ...(snip) Bothwww.python.organd svn.python.org are down.  They're hosted on the same machine, and it seems to have run into disk problems and hasn't rebooted even after power-cycling.  Thomas Wouters will be visiting the machine

Re: Social problems of Python doc [was Re: Python docs disappointing]

2009-08-10 Thread rurpy
On Aug 9, 10:02 pm, David Lyon david.l...@preisshare.net wrote: ... Before you do that, you should clearly work out in your own mind how you think things need to improve. It's not good enough just saying this or that is bad without having specific ideas on what needs to change. ''' He did.

Re: www.python.org website is down?

2009-08-10 Thread MRAB
r wrote: On Aug 8, 8:48 am, MRAB pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com wrote: ...(snip) Bothwww.python.organd svn.python.org are down. They're hosted on the same machine, and it seems to have run into disk problems and hasn't rebooted even after power-cycling. Thomas Wouters will be visiting the machine

Re: Unrecognized escape sequences in string literals

2009-08-10 Thread Douglas Alan
On Aug 10, 4:37 am, Steven D'Aprano There is at least one good reason for preferring an error, namely that it allows Python to introduce new escape codes without going through a long, slow process. But the rest of these complaints are terribly unconvincing. What about: o Beautiful is

Re: syntax checker in python

2009-08-10 Thread nn
On Aug 7, 4:39 pm, horos11 horo...@gmail.com wrote: ps - I just realized that it isn't enough to do: python -c 'import /path/to/script' since that actually executes any statement inside of the script (wheras all I want to do is check syntax) So - let me reprhase that - exactly how can you

With or without leading underscore...

2009-08-10 Thread Ulrich Eckhardt
...that is the question! I have a module which exports a type. It also exports a function that returns instances of that type. Now, the reason for my question is that while users will directly use instances of the type, they will not create instances of the type themselves. So, the type is a

Re: Python configuration question when python scripts are executed using Appweb as web server.

2009-08-10 Thread IronyOfLife
Hi Gabriel Thanks for the detailed and useful reply. On Aug 7, 1:37 am, Gabriel Genellina gagsl-...@yahoo.com.ar wrote: En Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:49:30 -0300, IronyOfLife mydevfor...@gmail.com   escribió: On Aug 5, 4:18 pm, Gabriel Genellina gagsl-...@yahoo.com.ar wrote: En Tue, 04 Aug

Re: compression level with tarfile (w:gz) ?

2009-08-10 Thread Esmail
Benjamin Kaplan wrote: I can't find tarfile.gzopen in the tarfile docs, I'm looking here: http://docs.python.org/library/tarfile.html Am I looking at the wrong page? My mistake. It isn't a function of the tarfile module, it's a class method of tarfile.TarFile. I was looking at the

Re: Need help in configuration for TimedRotatingFileHandler

2009-08-10 Thread Dave Angel
Lokesh Maremalla wrote: snip Code: mlogger = logging.getLogger(simpleExample) def a_view(request): mlogger.debug(a_view called) if request.method== POST : mlogger.debug(post function) else: mlogger.debug(serve function) Execution: step1: Executed the code and got the

Re: Unrecognized escape sequences in string literals

2009-08-10 Thread Scott David Daniels
Douglas Alan wrote: So, what's the one obvious right way to express foo\zbar? Is it foo\zbar or foo\\zbar And if it's the latter, what possible benefit is there in allowing the former? And if it's the former, why does Python echo the latter? Actually, if we were designing from fresh

Re: With or without leading underscore...

2009-08-10 Thread Jan Kaliszewski
10-08-2009 Ulrich Eckhardt eckha...@satorlaser.com wrote: So, the type is a part of the public API, but its constructor is not. Should I mark the type as private (with a leading underscore) or not? IMHO you shouldn't (i.e. name should be marked public) because of possible usage of e.g.

Re: Processes not exiting

2009-08-10 Thread ma3mju
On 7 Aug, 16:02, MRAB pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com wrote: ma3mju wrote: On 3 Aug, 09:36, ma3mju matt.u...@googlemail.com wrote: On 2 Aug, 21:49, Piet van Oostrum p...@cs.uu.nl wrote: MRAB pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com (M) wrote: M I wonder whether one of the workers is raising an exception,

wxpython question

2009-08-10 Thread azrael
Is there maybe a method bounded to the class SpinCtrl() that could hide the widget. One that is maybe also implemented in any other control. self.spcKvadDo = wx.SpinCtrl(id=-1, initial=0, max=100, min=0, name='spcKvadDo', parent=self.pnlFilteri, pos=wx.Point(10, 10), size=wx.Size(118, 21),

Florida Python training in October

2009-08-10 Thread Mark Lutz
We're pleased to announce a new venue for our Python classes. Python author and trainer Mark Lutz will be teaching a 3-day Python class on October 20-22, in Sarasota, Florida. Come spend 3 days mastering Python, and enjoy all that Florida and its Gulf Coast have to offer while you're here. This

Re: compression level with tarfile (w:gz) ?

2009-08-10 Thread Esmail
Hi Lars, Lars Gustäbel wrote: How much smaller is it? I did a test with a recent Linux kernel source tree which made an archive of 337MB. Command-line gzip was ahead of Python's GzipFile() by just 20200 bytes(!) with an archive of about 74MB. Is the only way to accomplish the higher rate to

Re: reloading the module imported as 'from ... import ...'

2009-08-10 Thread Piet van Oostrum
Steven D'Aprano ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au (SD) wrote: SD On Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:48:31 -0700, AlF wrote: Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:43:41 -0700, AlF wrote: Hi, what is the best way to reload the module imported using 'from ... import ...' Have you

variable scoping question.

2009-08-10 Thread Cornelius Keller
Hi, I'm a quite fresh python programmer, (6 Month python experience). Today I found something I absolotly don'nt understand: given the following function: def test_effect(class_id=None,class_ids=[]): if class_id is not None: if class_id not in class_ids:

Re: variable scoping question.

2009-08-10 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Cornelius Keller wrote: Hi, I'm a quite fresh python programmer, (6 Month python experience). Today I found something I absolotly don'nt understand: given the following function: def test_effect(class_id=None,class_ids=[]):     if class_id is not None:         if class_id not in

Re: Social problems of Python doc [was Re: Python docs disappointing]

2009-08-10 Thread r
On Aug 9, 11:02 pm, David Lyon david.l...@preisshare.net wrote: Since you're talking about documentation, which is a part of python, don't you think you should be discussing it on python-dev ? Yea, them's be a friendly bunch to noob ideas ;). Hey i got a better idea, lets go to the IRS and see

Re: Unrecognized escape sequences in string literals

2009-08-10 Thread Douglas Alan
On Aug 10, 10:58 am, Scott David Daniels scott.dani...@acm.org wrote:  The string rules reflect C's rules, and I see little excuse for trying to change them now. No they don't. Or at least not C++'s rules. C++ behaves exactly as I should like. (Or at least g++ does. Or rather *almost* as I

Re: setting Referer for urllib.urlretrieve

2009-08-10 Thread samwyse
On Aug 9, 9:41 am, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this- cybersource.com.au wrote: On Sun, 09 Aug 2009 06:13:38 -0700,samwysewrote: Here's what I have so far: import urllib class AppURLopener(urllib.FancyURLopener):     version = App/1.7     referrer = None     def __init__(self,

Re: Processes not exiting

2009-08-10 Thread MRAB
ma3mju wrote: On 7 Aug, 16:02, MRAB pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com wrote: ma3mju wrote: On 3 Aug, 09:36, ma3mju matt.u...@googlemail.com wrote: On 2 Aug, 21:49, Piet van Oostrum p...@cs.uu.nl wrote: MRAB pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com (M) wrote: M I wonder whether one of the workers is raising an

Re: variable scoping question.

2009-08-10 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Aug 10, 5:12 pm, Diez B. Roggisch de...@nospam.web.de wrote: Cornelius Keller wrote: Hi, I'm a quite fresh python programmer, (6 Month python experience). Today I found something I absolotly don'nt understand: given the following function: def

Re: variable scoping question.

2009-08-10 Thread Cornelius Keller
On 10 Aug., 17:12, Diez B. Roggisch de...@nospam.web.de wrote: Cornelius Keller wrote: [snip] http://effbot.org/zone/default-values.htm Diez Ok thank you. I' understand now why. I still think this is very confusing, because default values don't behave like most people would expect without

Re: M2Crypto: How to generate subjectKeyIdentifier / authorityKeyIdentifier

2009-08-10 Thread Matthias Güntert
Now I have this patch applied to the M2Crypto SVN branch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Problem Regarding Handling of Unicode string

2009-08-10 Thread Piet van Oostrum
joy99 subhakolkata1...@gmail.com (j) wrote: j Dear Group, j I am using Python26 on WindowsXP with service pack2. My GUI is IDLE. j I am using Hindi resources and get nice output like: j एक j where I can use all the re functions and other functions without doing j any transliteration,etc. j I was

Re: Client/Server based on SocketServer and Windows

2009-08-10 Thread Dave Angel
Kiki wrote: Thank you Dennis I'm using 2 differents editor, which may be the cause of such a mess in the indentation. I must admitt that I lazily rely on those (not so bad indeed) editors. If indentation whas bad they would have tell me Too bad am i Won't post misindeted code anymore.

Re: www.python.org website is down?

2009-08-10 Thread r
On Aug 10, 9:13 am, MRAB pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com wrote: r wrote: On Aug 8, 8:48 am, MRAB pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com wrote: ...(snip) Bothwww.python.organdsvn.python.org are down.  They're hosted on the same machine, and it seems to have run into disk problems and hasn't rebooted even

Re: M2Crypto: How to generate subjectKeyIdentifier / authorityKeyIdentifier

2009-08-10 Thread Matthias Güntert
Hello once again Now I have the extension-patch [0] applied to the M2Crypto SVN branch (revision 704). Creating a root and an subRoot CA certificate now works great including the SKID/AKID extensions. I am also able to verify those created certificates using: $ openssl verify -CAfile

Re: Problem when fetching page using urllib2.urlopen

2009-08-10 Thread dorzey
geturl - this returns the real URL of the page fetched. This is useful because urlopen (or the opener object used) may have followed a redirect. The URL of the page fetched may not be the same as the URL requested. from http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/urllib2.shtml#info-and-geturl It

Re: variable scoping question.

2009-08-10 Thread MRAB
Francesco Bochicchio wrote: On Aug 10, 5:12 pm, Diez B. Roggisch de...@nospam.web.de wrote: Cornelius Keller wrote: Hi, I'm a quite fresh python programmer, (6 Month python experience). Today I found something I absolotly don'nt understand: given the following function: def

Re: resume upload wsgi script

2009-08-10 Thread gert
On Aug 10, 10:39 am, Diez B. Roggisch de...@nospam.web.de wrote: 250KB :) So why do you bother? Its just HTTP1.1 has everything for making ftp like file transfers possible. When I write it to a file then I am back at square one because I still need to load it completely to get it into

Re: variable scoping question.

2009-08-10 Thread Ethan Furman
Cornelius Keller wrote: [snip] I still think this is very confusing, because default values don't behave like most people would expect without reading the docs. - Cornelius Why would you expect to become a good programmer of _any_ language without reading its docs? ~Ethan~ --

Re: reloading the module imported as 'from ... import ...'

2009-08-10 Thread William
What about using the reimport library? http://code.google.com/p/reimport/ Cheers, William From: AlF spamgrinder.tryla...@ggmail.com To: python-list@python.org Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 1:48:31 AM Subject: Re: reloading the module imported as 'from ...

Re: With or without leading underscore...

2009-08-10 Thread Carl Banks
On Aug 10, 7:37 am, Ulrich Eckhardt eckha...@satorlaser.com wrote: ...that is the question! I have a module which exports a type. It also exports a function that returns instances of that type. Now, the reason for my question is that while users will directly use instances of the type, they

Re: Unrecognized escape sequences in string literals

2009-08-10 Thread Carl Banks
On Aug 10, 4:41 am, MRAB pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com wrote: Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:56:55 -0700, Douglas Alan wrote: [snip] My point of view is that every language has *some* warts; Python just has a bit fewer than most. It would have been nice, I should think, if

how to use exec stmt to get input from user

2009-08-10 Thread Rick King
I have a cmd.py-derived program (with a wxPython GUI) and want to execute python statements for lines that are not my own special commands. So basically it's either: def do_somecommand(self,arg): ... or def default(self,arg): exec arg in globals(),self.cmdlocals (where

Re: Unrecognized escape sequences in string literals

2009-08-10 Thread Carl Banks
On Aug 10, 1:37 am, Steven D'Aprano ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au wrote: On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:37:33 -0700, Carl Banks wrote: On Aug 9, 11:10 pm, Steven D'Aprano ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au wrote: On Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:34:14 -0700, Carl Banks wrote: Why should a

Python documentation servers

2009-08-10 Thread Roy Hyunjin Han
Are there issues with the python documentation servers? http://docs.python.org/ The site has been really slow to respond all weekend. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: wxpython question

2009-08-10 Thread David
Il Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:55:42 -0700 (PDT), azrael ha scritto: Is there maybe a method bounded to the class SpinCtrl() that could hide the widget. One that is maybe also implemented in any other control. AFAIK, any widget can be made invisibile calling the .Show(False) method of the container

Re: how to use exec stmt to get input from user

2009-08-10 Thread David C Ullrich
What you're trying to do and what's not working isn't entirely clear to me. But if I had a wxPython application and I wanted to execute user input (note the _if_) I'd just pop up a window (I forget how ShowModal is spelled in wx right now) with a text box and an Execute button and a Cancel

Re: pybotwar-0.5

2009-08-10 Thread r
On Aug 9, 9:46 pm, Mensanator mensana...@aol.com wrote: On Aug 9, 3:26 pm, Lee Harr miss...@hotmail.com wrote: pybotwar is a fun and educational game where players create computer programs to control simulated robots to compete in a battle arena. http://pybotwar.googlecode.com/ Why is

Re: variable scoping question.

2009-08-10 Thread J. Cliff Dyer
On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 08:46 -0700, Cornelius Keller wrote: On 10 Aug., 17:12, Diez B. Roggisch de...@nospam.web.de wrote: Cornelius Keller wrote: [snip] http://effbot.org/zone/default-values.htm Diez Ok thank you. I' understand now why. I still think this is very confusing,

Re: pybotwar-0.5

2009-08-10 Thread Mark Lawrence
[snip] r slayer of the galactic-ly stupid! Can I assume from this that you intend killing yourself, on the grounds that some 10 days ago you couldn't successfully use a windows compiled help file? -- Kindest regards. Mark Lawrence. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python documentation servers

2009-08-10 Thread r
On Aug 10, 12:53 pm, Roy Hyunjin Han starsareblueandfara...@gmail.com wrote: Are there issues with the python documentation servers?http://docs.python.org/ The site has been really slow to respond all weekend. try this thread

Re: Problem when fetching page using urllib2.urlopen

2009-08-10 Thread Piet van Oostrum
jitu nair.jiten...@gmail.com (j) wrote: j Hi, j A html page contains 'anchor' elements with 'href' attribute having j a semicolon in the url , while fetching the page using j urllib2.urlopen, all such href's containing 'semicolons' are j truncated. j For example the href

Re: www.python.org website is down?

2009-08-10 Thread Piet van Oostrum
MRAB pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com (M) wrote: M r wrote: On Aug 8, 8:48 am, MRAB pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com wrote: ...(snip) Bothwww.python.organd svn.python.org are down. They're hosted on the same machine, and it seems to have run into disk problems and hasn't rebooted even after

Re: Python docs disappointing - group effort to hire writers?

2009-08-10 Thread Ethan Furman
Kee Nethery wrote: As someone trying to learn the language I want to say that the tone on this list towards people who are trying to learn Python feels like it has become anti-newbies. Learning a new language is difficult enough without seeing other newbies getting shamed for not knowing

Re: Python docs disappointing - group effort to hire writers?

2009-08-10 Thread r
On Aug 10, 11:13 am, Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us wrote: (snip) As someone who relies heavily on the docs I will also say that the idea of giving the ability to modify the official documentation to somebody who is /learning/ the language is, quite frankly, terrifying. (snip) Ethan, I think

Re: pybotwar-0.5

2009-08-10 Thread Mensanator
On Aug 10, 1:35 pm, r rt8...@gmail.com wrote: Sure, there is no documentation http://www.mensanator.com/mensanator/PythonTurtle/paper.htm -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: how to use exec stmt to get input from user

2009-08-10 Thread Rick King
Thanks for your comment. The purpose of the application is to automate the manipulation of large numbers of files. For automation I want to be able to have scripts that I can use for various purposes. On input, cmd.py handles calling do_ methods for known commands; for the rest I want

numpy array merge

2009-08-10 Thread Nathan
Is there an easy way to merge two numpy arrays with different rank sizes (terminology?). I want to make a single array by concatenating two arrays along a given direction and filling the excess cells with a dummy variable. numpy concatenate works well as long as the two arrays have the same

Re: How to find out in which module an instance of a class is created?

2009-08-10 Thread Johannes Janssen
Christian Heimes schrieb: Johannes Janssen wrote: class A(object): def __init__(self, mod=__name__): self.mod = mod won't work. In this case mod would always be foo. You have to inspect the stack in order to get the module of the caller. The implementation of

Re: help with threads

2009-08-10 Thread Aahz
In article 5a744bd6-6b9a-4f46-97c1-bb7fd65b8...@l5g2000pra.googlegroups.com, Michael Mossey michaelmos...@gmail.com wrote: I have a simple application that needs one thread to manage networking in addition to the main thread that does the main job. It's not working right. I know hardly anything

Re: Python docs disappointing - group effort to hire writers?

2009-08-10 Thread David Lyon
On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:13:34 -0700, Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us wrote: As someone who relies heavily on the docs I will also say that the idea of giving the ability to modify the official documentation to somebody who is /learning/ the language is, quite frankly, terrifying. What is

Re: Python docs disappointing - group effort to hire writers?

2009-08-10 Thread Paul Rubin
r rt8...@gmail.com writes: Whilst writing any tutorial on any subject matter please remember, you may be an expert, but mostly *non-experts* will be reading your material... pssft, this may come as a surprise, but tutorials are meant for *NON-EXPERTS*! I think the Python tutorial is aimed at

Re: Python configuration question when python scripts are executed using Appweb as web server.

2009-08-10 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:48:31 -0300, IronyOfLife mydevfor...@gmail.com escribió: Why different results in IIS and appweb? [...] This is fairly easy to explain. When I configured IIS to execute python scripts, as per the documentation I pass two command line arguments. Appweb works this way. It

dictionary help

2009-08-10 Thread Krishna Pacifici
Hi, kind of a newbie here, but I have two questions that are probably pretty simple. 1. I need to get rid of duplicate values that are associated with different keys in a dictionary. For example I have the following code. s={} s[0]=[10,2,3] s[10]=[22,23,24] s[20]=[45,5] s[30]=[2,4]

Re: dictionary help

2009-08-10 Thread J. Cliff Dyer
On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 22:11 -0400, Krishna Pacifici wrote: Hi, kind of a newbie here, but I have two questions that are probably pretty simple. 1. I need to get rid of duplicate values that are associated with different keys in a dictionary. For example I have the following code. s={}

Re: Unrecognized escape sequences in string literals

2009-08-10 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:21:03 -0700, Douglas Alan wrote: But you're right, it's too late to change this now. Not really. There is a procedure for making non-backwards compatible changes. If you care deeply enough about this, you could agitate for Python 3.2 to raise a PendingDepreciation

Re: With or without leading underscore...

2009-08-10 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:37:25 +0200, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: ...that is the question! I have a module which exports a type. It also exports a function that returns instances of that type. Now, the reason for my question is that while users will directly use instances of the type, they will

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