Re: Is __mul__ sufficient for operator '*'?

2009-10-19 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:59:12 -0300, Mick Krippendorf escribió: Gabriel Genellina schrieb: __special__ methods are searched in the type, not in the instance directly. x*y looks for type(x).__mul__ (among other things) So I thought too, but: class meta(type): def __mul__(*args):

Re: help to convert c++ fonction in python

2009-10-19 Thread geremy condra
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 2:06 AM, Robert Kern wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> >> On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:48:46 -0400, geremy condra wrote: >> >>> For the love of baby kittens, please, please, please tell me that you do >>> not believe this securely encrypts your data. >> >> Surely that depends on

Re: File not closed on exception

2009-10-19 Thread arve.knud...@gmail.com
On Oct 19, 5:56 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" wrote: > En Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:45:49 -0200, arve.knud...@gmail.com   > escribió: > > > I thought that file objects were supposed to be garbage-collected and > > automatically closed once they go out of scope, at least that's what > > I've been told by more

Re: File not closed on exception

2009-10-19 Thread arve.knud...@gmail.com
On Oct 19, 4:14 pm, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2009-10-19, arve.knud...@gmail.com wrote: > > > I thought that file objects were supposed to be > > garbage-collected and automatically closed once they go out of > > scope, > > At some point after they go out of scope, they will be. > Eventually.  Ex

Re: File not closed on exception

2009-10-19 Thread arve.knud...@gmail.com
On Oct 19, 3:48 pm, Ethan Furman wrote: > arve.knud...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hi > > > I thought that file objects were supposed to be garbage-collected and > > automatically closed once they go out of scope, at least that's what > > I've been told by more merited Python programmers. I'm also quite

Re: help to convert c++ fonction in python

2009-10-19 Thread Robert Kern
Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:48:46 -0400, geremy condra wrote: For the love of baby kittens, please, please, please tell me that you do not believe this securely encrypts your data. Surely that depends on your threat model? Well, let's let the OP off the hook immediately. H

python noob

2009-10-19 Thread bostongeek21
i am brand new to the python and programming world just finished reading byte out of python which is an excellent book. As i am new to the programming world im kind of at a lose as to where to go from here? i am just learning so im not as experienced as most of you but i would like to get my feet w

Re: The rap against "while True:" loops

2009-10-19 Thread Jaime Buelta
For me, it's more a question of clarity than anything else. I don't like very much using break, continue or more than one return per function on C/C++, but sometimes it's much clearer to use them. Also, in Python I use them often, as usually the code is cleaner this way. for example, I will wrote

Re: ftplib connection fails with multiple nics

2009-10-19 Thread Tim Roberts
Sean DiZazzo wrote: > >I'm trying to connect to an ftp site from a windows machine with two >nics going to two different networks, but I keep getting the below >exception: > >Traceback (most recent call last): > File "ftp.pyo", line 70, in connect > File "ftp.pyo", line 17, in __init__ > File "

Re: ftplib connection fails with multiple nics

2009-10-19 Thread Shantanu Joshi
Sean DiZazzo writes: > On Oct 16, 4:51 pm, Sean DiZazzo wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm trying to connect to an ftp site from a windows machine with two >> nics going to two different networks, but I keep getting the below >> exception: >> >> Traceback (most recent call last): >>   File "ftp.pyo", l

Re: a simple unicode question

2009-10-19 Thread Mark Tolonen
"George Trojan" wrote in message news:hbidd7$i9...@news.nems.noaa.gov... A trivial one, this is the first time I have to deal with Unicode. I am trying to parse a string s='''48° 13' 16.80" N'''. I know the charset is "iso-8859-1". To get the degrees I did >>> encoding='iso-8859-1' >>> q=s

Re: a simple unicode question

2009-10-19 Thread Mark Tolonen
"George Trojan" wrote in message news:hbidd7$i9...@news.nems.noaa.gov... A trivial one, this is the first time I have to deal with Unicode. I am trying to parse a string s='''48° 13' 16.80" N'''. I know the charset is "iso-8859-1". To get the degrees I did >>> encoding='iso-8859-1' >>> q=s

Re: Is __mul__ sufficient for operator '*'?

2009-10-19 Thread Mick Krippendorf
Gabriel Genellina schrieb: > __special__ methods are searched in the type, not in the instance > directly. x*y looks for type(x).__mul__ (among other things) So I thought too, but: class meta(type): def __mul__(*args): return 123 class boo(object): __metaclass__ = meta print boo

Re: Is __mul__ sufficient for operator '*'?

2009-10-19 Thread Mick Krippendorf
Muhammad Alkarouri schrieb: > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "", line 1, in > x*7 > TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for *: 'Maybe' and 'int' > > The farthest I can go in this is that I presume that __mul__ (as > called by operator *) is supposed to be a bound method while

Re: Is __mul__ sufficient for operator '*'?

2009-10-19 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:31:44 -0300, Muhammad Alkarouri escribió: I was having a go at a simple implementation of Maybe in Python when I stumbled on a case where x.__mul__(y) is defined while x*y is not. __special__ methods are searched in the type, not in the instance directly. x*y looks

Re: smtplib upload progress

2009-10-19 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:33:50 -0300, Guyon Morée escribió: I wanted to use smtplib to send a bunch of files. All good, except I cant monitor the upload progress as far as I can see. So I monkey patched the SMTP.sendall method, which chops up the data and keeps calling a provided callback for

Re: The Never-Ending Saga Continues

2009-10-19 Thread Carsten Haese
Victor Subervi wrote: > Can you give me an example of this? That depends. How much of your client's money are you offering us for doing your work? -- Carsten Haese http://informixdb.sourceforge.net -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: elementtree examples

2009-10-19 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:02:44 -0300, Robert Kern escribió: On 2009-10-19 14:50 PM, Kee Nethery wrote: Am looking for that level of documentation for each function, interface and object listed in the official docs for elementtree. Does it exist? No. Well, not so detailed, but the selftest.

Re: smtplib send mail dns resolve problem

2009-10-19 Thread 星星
On 10月19日, 下午11时05分, "Gabriel Genellina" wrote: > En Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:44:14 -0200, 星星   > escribió: > > >     my email smtp server hostname can be parsed to 5 ips, for example: > >     ** > >      my email smtp server hostname:  e

Re: restriction on sum: intentional bug?

2009-10-19 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:50:55 -0300, Carl Banks escribió: Consider this thought experiment: class Something(object): def __radd__(self,other): return other + "q" x = ["a","b","c",Something()] If x were passed to "".join(), it would throw an exception; but if passed to a sum()

Re: Is __mul__ sufficient for operator '*'?

2009-10-19 Thread Gary Herron
Muhammad Alkarouri wrote: Hi everyone, I was having a go at a simple implementation of Maybe in Python when I stumbled on a case where x.__mul__(y) is defined while x*y is not. The class defining x is: class Maybe(object): def __init__(self, obj): self.o = obj def __repr__(self

Re: help to convert c++ fonction in python

2009-10-19 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:48:46 -0400, geremy condra wrote: > For the love of baby kittens, please, please, please tell me that you do > not believe this securely encrypts your data. Surely that depends on your threat model? If you think that the NSA is interested in your data, then no, obviously

Re: Frameworks

2009-10-19 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> web2py is interesting the author appears to be implying(I could be > misunderstanding this) that the web2py db ORM is equal to if not > superior to SQLAlchemy - From > http://www.web2py.com/AlterEgo/default/show/150 I don't read that out of the post, and it almost certainly is wrong, at least o

Re: organizing your scripts, with plenty of re-use

2009-10-19 Thread bukzor
On Oct 15, 4:30 pm, bukzor wrote: > On Oct 13, 3:20 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" > wrote: > > > > > > > En Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:38:44 -0300, Buck escribió: > > > > The only way to get your packages on the PYTHONPATH currently is to: > > >    * install the packages to site-packages  (I don't have acces

Is __mul__ sufficient for operator '*'?

2009-10-19 Thread Muhammad Alkarouri
Hi everyone, I was having a go at a simple implementation of Maybe in Python when I stumbled on a case where x.__mul__(y) is defined while x*y is not. The class defining x is: class Maybe(object): def __init__(self, obj): self.o = obj def __repr__(self): return 'Maybe(%s)

Re: Frameworks

2009-10-19 Thread flebber
On Oct 20, 3:31 am, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > Hello, > > Just to clarify. I did not make any statement about "web2py is   > superior to SQLAlchemy" since that is somewhat subjective. > SQLALchemy for example does a much better job at accessing legacy   > databases. web2py is more limited in that

Request for Beta Testers

2009-10-19 Thread Ken Elkabany
Hello, My company is seeking beta testers for a new cloud-computing platform that is built for the Python programming language. The platform allows Python developers to leverage the computational power of a cluster of servers with only a couple lines of code. If you have a need for distributed com

Re: elementtree examples

2009-10-19 Thread Kee Nethery
On Oct 19, 2009, at 1:02 PM, Robert Kern wrote: On 2009-10-19 14:50 PM, Kee Nethery wrote: Am looking for that level of documentation for each function, interface and object listed in the official docs for elementtree. Does it exist? No. Thank you. Kee -- http://mail.python.org/mailma

Re: Checking a Number for Palindromic Behavior

2009-10-19 Thread Guyon Morée
> >def is_palidrome (n): > >    return str(n) == ''.join (reversed (str(n))) > > >which will return True if integer n is a palidromic or False > >otherwise. > > I wouldn't normally provide a direct solution to this type of request; but > since you have, may I suggest: > > def is_palindrome (n): >  

Re: os.path.join

2009-10-19 Thread Ethan Furman
Ethan Furman wrote: Following closely on the heels of the whole sum()ing strings debate, I think I found an error -- at least, it's not documented to behave this way... def uncompress_job(job_num, save_path='z:\\old_jobs', restore_path='z:\\orders'): d

os.path.join

2009-10-19 Thread Ethan Furman
Following closely on the heels of the whole sum()ing strings debate, I think I found an error -- at least, it's not documented to behave this way... def uncompress_job(job_num, save_path='z:\\old_jobs', restore_path='z:\\orders'): destination = os.path.

smtplib upload progress

2009-10-19 Thread Guyon Morée
Hi, I wanted to use smtplib to send a bunch of files. All good, except I cant monitor the upload progress as far as I can see. So I monkey patched the SMTP.sendall method, which chops up the data and keeps calling a provided callback for every chunk of data sent. This feels kind of dirty and I w

Re: The Never-Ending Saga Continues

2009-10-19 Thread Rami Chowdhury
On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:20:38 -0700, Victor Subervi wrote: Can you give me an example of this? V An example of an online upload form? Sure -- Gmail's "Basic HTML" interface for attachments is a good example. I'd advise doing a web search or two for HTTP file uploads, multipart forms, and

Re: Frameworks

2009-10-19 Thread Emmanuel Surleau
> Django : very strong integration, excellent documentation and support, > huge community, really easy to get started with. And possibly a bit more > mature and stable... One strong point in favour of Django: it follows Python's philosophy of "batteries included", and features a large array of pl

Re: Checking a Number for Palindromic Behavior

2009-10-19 Thread rurpy
On Oct 18, 4:56 pm, Gary Herron wrote: > Benjamin Middaugh wrote: > > Thanks to everyone who helped with my query on reversing integers. I > > have one more simple problem I'm having trouble solving. I want to > > check a number for palindromic behavior (reading the same backwards > > and forwards

Re: The Never-Ending Saga Continues

2009-10-19 Thread Victor Subervi
Can you give me an example of this? V On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Rami Chowdhury wrote: > On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:56:19 -0700, Victor Subervi < > victorsube...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Of course. >> 1) I need to upload data: images and other fields (mainly varchar, int). >> 2) I want to upload

Re: Reverse Iteration Through Integers

2009-10-19 Thread Martien Verbruggen
On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:04:36 -0700 (PDT), alex23 wrote: > On Oct 19, 3:53 pm, Jabba Laci wrote: >> Would someone explain how str[::-1] work? I'm new to Python and I only >> saw so far the str[begin:end] notation. What is the second colon? > > Slice notation is of the form [start:stop:step

Passing a sqlite connection into an extension module

2009-10-19 Thread Matteo
Hello- I'm trying to find out if there is a way to share a sqlite database connection between python and an extension module written in C or C+ +. My setup is that I have some pretty intensive OpenGL rendering code that gets its values from a largish sqlite database, performs a fair bit of computat

Re: Checking a Number for Palindromic Behavior

2009-10-19 Thread Andrew Henshaw
> wrote in message >news:63dea9e7-97af-4b20-aa0a-c762d9944...@a21g2000yqc.googlegroups.com... >On Oct 18, 4:20 pm, MRAB wrote: >> Benjamin Middaugh wrote: >> > Thanks to everyone who helped with my query on reversing integers. I >> > have one more simple problem I'm having trouble solving. I want

Re: Capturing a var from JavaScript

2009-10-19 Thread Carsten Haese
Victor Subervi wrote: > It doesn't work. What I want is to capture winX and winY and use them in > python. How? Since you're still not heeding the advice from this article, please allow me to refer you to it again: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- Carsten Haese http://informixdb.

Re: Checking a Number for Palindromic Behavior

2009-10-19 Thread Ethan Furman
ru...@yahoo.com wrote: On Oct 19, 12:41 pm, Ethan Furman wrote: gslindstrom wrote: On Oct 18, 5:56 pm, Gary Herron wrote: Benjamin Middaugh wrote: Thanks to everyone who helped with my query on reversing integers. I have one more simple problem I'm having trouble solving. I want to ch

Re: The Never-Ending Saga Continues

2009-10-19 Thread Rami Chowdhury
On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:56:19 -0700, Victor Subervi wrote: Of course. 1) I need to upload data: images and other fields (mainly varchar, int). 2) I want to upload the "other fields" to a MySQL database. 3) Since it is so problematic, I now want to upload the images to *anything but* a

Re: elementtree examples

2009-10-19 Thread Robert Kern
On 2009-10-19 14:50 PM, Kee Nethery wrote: Am looking for that level of documentation for each function, interface and object listed in the official docs for elementtree. Does it exist? No. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is

Re: Checking a Number for Palindromic Behavior

2009-10-19 Thread rurpy
On Oct 19, 12:41 pm, Ethan Furman wrote: > gslindstrom wrote: > > On Oct 18, 5:56 pm, Gary Herron wrote: > > >>Benjamin Middaugh wrote: > > >>>Thanks to everyone who helped with my query on reversing integers. I > >>>have one more simple problem I'm having trouble solving. I want to > >>>check a

Re: The Never-Ending Saga Continues

2009-10-19 Thread Victor Subervi
Of course. 1) I need to upload data: images and other fields (mainly varchar, int). 2) I want to upload the "other fields" to a MySQL database. 3) Since it is so problematic, I now want to upload the images to *anything but* a MySQL database (presumably ftp) 4) I want to make this easy (tra

Re: classes riddle

2009-10-19 Thread Dave Angel
inhahe wrote: Can somebody clear this up for me? -- Class B(A): def __init__(self, a) A.__init__(a) self.a = a a = A() ba = B(a) bc = B(a) bd = B(a) -- I'm not sure what A.__init__ here does. I would think its __init__ is designed specifically to run once for any given object.. so i'm no

Re: elementtree examples

2009-10-19 Thread Kee Nethery
On Oct 19, 2009, at 12:06 PM, Paul Rubin wrote: Kee Nethery writes: do not appear to contain examples for each object, interface or function. Where would I find examples that use each elementtree function, interface and object? effbot.org has a few. yes I agree it has a few. It's not anyw

Re: a simple unicode question

2009-10-19 Thread beSTEfar
On 19 Okt, 21:07, George Trojan wrote: > A trivial one, this is the first time I have to deal with Unicode. I am > trying to parse a string s='''48° 13' 16.80" N'''. I know the charset is > "iso-8859-1". To get the degrees I did >  >>> encoding='iso-8859-1' >  >>> q=s.decode(encoding) >  >>> q.spl

Re: Raw_input with readline in a daemon thread makes terminal text disappear

2009-10-19 Thread Aahz
In article , John O'Hagan wrote: > >I'm getting input for a program while it's running by using raw_input in a >loop in separate thread. This works except for the inconvenience of not having >a command history or the use of backspace etc. > >That can be solved by loading the readline module; ho

Re: a simple unicode question

2009-10-19 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
George Trojan schrieb: A trivial one, this is the first time I have to deal with Unicode. I am trying to parse a string s='''48° 13' 16.80" N'''. I know the charset is "iso-8859-1". To get the degrees I did >>> encoding='iso-8859-1' >>> q=s.decode(encoding) >>> q.split() [u'48\xc2\xb0', u"13

Re: py2exe and croatian letters

2009-10-19 Thread Samir Alukovic'
Mark Tolonen wrote: "Samir aluko...@work" wrote in message news:ab6475d0-133c-478d-8f08-eafea0733...@j39g2000yqh.googlegroups.com... I am making a simple program in Croatian. In the beginning I set "# - *- coding: cp1250 -*-" code and when i run it in Python shell it comes out fine, but when

Re: py2exe and croatian letters

2009-10-19 Thread Samir Aluković
Mark Tolonen wrote: "Samir aluko...@work" wrote in message news:ab6475d0-133c-478d-8f08-eafea0733...@j39g2000yqh.googlegroups.com... I am making a simple program in Croatian. In the beginning I set "# - *- coding: cp1250 -*-" code and when i run it in Python shell it comes out fine, but when

pylab/matplotlib large plot memory management - bug? or tuning parameter needed?

2009-10-19 Thread bdb112
Summary: It is not straightforward to avoid memory leaks/consumption in pylab. If we define x = arange(1e6) # adjust size to make the increment visible, yet fast enough to plot # then repetition of plot(x,hold=0) # consumes increasing memory according to ubuntu system monitor Details: #vers

Re: ANN: Testoob 1.15 released

2009-10-19 Thread oripel
On Oct 14, 5:59 pm, Jorgen Grahn wrote: > But this sentence on the home page > >     The documentation is sadly outdated, but may be >     a starting point: > > made me stop looking.  As far as I can tell, you cannot even find out > what's so advanced about it (or why "advanced" is a good thing) >

a simple unicode question

2009-10-19 Thread George Trojan
A trivial one, this is the first time I have to deal with Unicode. I am trying to parse a string s='''48° 13' 16.80" N'''. I know the charset is "iso-8859-1". To get the degrees I did >>> encoding='iso-8859-1' >>> q=s.decode(encoding) >>> q.split() [u'48\xc2\xb0', u"13'", u'16.80"', u'N'] >>> r=

Re: elementtree examples

2009-10-19 Thread Paul Rubin
Kee Nethery writes: > do not appear to contain examples for each object, interface or > function. Where would I find examples that use each elementtree > function, interface and object? effbot.org has a few. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: os.system() question

2009-10-19 Thread Benjamin Kaplan
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Bryan Irvine wrote: > I'm a python n00b and so pardon me in advance if this is really stupid > question. > > I have my suspicions but why does the following not work the way I'm > anticipating it will? > > (python 2.4.4) > import os if (os.system('echo t

Re: The Never-Ending Saga Continues

2009-10-19 Thread Rami Chowdhury
On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:51:04 -0700, Victor Subervi wrote: What I am looking for is a way to upload data into MySQL *and* simultaneously, in the same form (to make it easy for the user), ftp images into a directory. Could you let us know why you want to do this -- what you're trying to

Re: Capturing a var from JavaScript

2009-10-19 Thread Victor Subervi
Yeah, I know, but if I use CGI then I have to pass variables in the URL, and I was trying to avoid that. Thanks, V On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:50 PM, geremy condra wrote: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Victor Subervi > wrote: > > Hey, that's great! Can do it in python? Fantastic! How? How d

elementtree examples

2009-10-19 Thread Kee Nethery
The official elementtree docs: http://docs.python.org/library/xml.etree.elementtree.html do not appear to contain examples for each object, interface or function. Where would I find examples that use each elementtree function, interface and object? I assume there is some kind of regression

The Never-Ending Saga Continues

2009-10-19 Thread Victor Subervi
Hi; Now that we know for sure that my code isn't to blame for not being able to download/access images from MySQL I have contacted my hosting service to see if they will do anything about it. Presuming they won't, I need to find a work-around. What I am looking for is a way to upload data into MyS

Re: Checking a Number for Palindromic Behavior

2009-10-19 Thread Ethan Furman
gslindstrom wrote: On Oct 18, 5:56 pm, Gary Herron wrote: Benjamin Middaugh wrote: Thanks to everyone who helped with my query on reversing integers. I have one more simple problem I'm having trouble solving. I want to check a number for palindromic behavior (reading the same backwards and f

Re: Checking a Number for Palindromic Behavior

2009-10-19 Thread rurpy
On Oct 18, 11:54 pm, alex23 wrote: > ru...@yahoo.com wrote: >> One, it was suggested without any evidence the the OP was >> "probably" asking about homework. My observation over >> several years is that this group has a very poor record >> of identifying homework problems. And if someone can >>

Re: The rap against "while True:" loops

2009-10-19 Thread inhahe
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 1:55 PM, inhahe wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Mensanator wrote: > >> On Oct 10, 5:02�pm, kj wrote: >> > In <01ccc46d-5ea9-4dfe-ba22-699c6b859...@v36g2000yqv.googlegroups.com> >> Mensanator writes: >> > >> > In fact, if it were up to me, I would have made

Re: os.system() question

2009-10-19 Thread Chris Rebert
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Bryan Irvine wrote: > I'm a python n00b and so pardon me in advance if this is really stupid > question. > > I have my suspicions but why does the following not work the way I'm > anticipating it will? > > (python 2.4.4) > import os if (os.system('echo

Re: os.system() question

2009-10-19 Thread Ethan Furman
Bryan Irvine wrote: I'm a python n00b and so pardon me in advance if this is really stupid question. I have my suspicions but why does the following not work the way I'm anticipating it will? (python 2.4.4) import os if (os.system('echo test')): ...print 'success' ... else: ...prin

os.system() question

2009-10-19 Thread Bryan Irvine
I'm a python n00b and so pardon me in advance if this is really stupid question. I have my suspicions but why does the following not work the way I'm anticipating it will? (python 2.4.4) >>> import os >>> if (os.system('echo test')): ...print 'success' ... else: ...print 'failed' ... tes

Re: Tracking down DLL load errors in Windows ?

2009-10-19 Thread Fred Pacquier
"Mark Tolonen" said : > Yes, welcome to Microsoft's solution to DLL Hell...Side-by-Side DLL > Hell. As always, it boils down to a philosophical choice : is it better to suffer through Hell alone, or in bad company ? :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

classes riddle

2009-10-19 Thread inhahe
Can somebody clear this up for me? -- Class B(A): def __init__(self, a) A.__init__(a) self.a = a a = A() ba = B(a) bc = B(a) bd = B(a) -- I'm not sure what A.__init__ here does. I would think its __init__ is designed specifically to run once for any given object.. so i'm not sure what happ

Anyone have python 3.1.1 installed on Solaris 10 ? (sparc or x86)

2009-10-19 Thread Dave Crouse
Anyone have python 3.1.1 installed on Solaris 10 ? (sparc or x86) I've tried several times on sparc, I keep getting: gcc -lintl -o python \ Modules/python.o \ libpython3.1.a -lsocket -lnsl -lintl -lrt -ldl -lm Undefined first referenced symbol in file libintl_bind_textdomain_codeset libpython3.1

Re: Frameworks

2009-10-19 Thread Massimo Di Pierro
Hello, Just to clarify. I did not make any statement about "web2py is superior to SQLAlchemy" since that is somewhat subjective. SQLALchemy for example does a much better job at accessing legacy databases. web2py is more limited in that respect and we are working on removing those limitatio

Re: File not closed on exception

2009-10-19 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:45:49 -0200, arve.knud...@gmail.com escribió: I thought that file objects were supposed to be garbage-collected and automatically closed once they go out of scope, at least that's what I've been told by more merited Python programmers. An object (any object) is destro

Re: Memory deallocation

2009-10-19 Thread spam
Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:30:30 -0700, dheeraj wrote: Hi, a program of mine is being terminated by the OS as it uses too much memory. I guess this is due to static memory allocation I've also tried to use "del" but in vain. Is there any other function that performs the abov

Re: Checking a Number for Palindromic Behavior

2009-10-19 Thread gslindstrom
On Oct 18, 5:56 pm, Gary Herron wrote: > Benjamin Middaugh wrote: > > Thanks to everyone who helped with my query on reversing integers. I > > have one more simple problem I'm having trouble solving. I want to > > check a number for palindromic behavior (reading the same backwards > > and forwards

Re: print()

2009-10-19 Thread Ethan Furman
Dave Angel wrote: It was intended to be understood, not copied. +1 QOTW -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: strange behaviour of colon within string

2009-10-19 Thread Dave Angel
khany wrote: On 19 Oct, 14:44, StarWing wrote: On Oct 19, 9:15 pm, khany wrote: On 19 Oct, 13:44, khany wrote: however it fails to create the string UNLESS i remove the colon (:) in the http section. i tried to substitute it with chr(58) but it errors the same

Re: smtplib send mail dns resolve problem

2009-10-19 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:44:14 -0200, 星星 escribió: my email smtp server hostname can be parsed to 5 ips, for example: ** my email smtp server hostname: email-my.local.com ips through dns parse: 1.1.1.1 1.

Re: help to convert c++ fonction in python

2009-10-19 Thread geremy condra
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:25 AM, Tim Roberts wrote: > You wrote: >> >>For the love of baby kittens, please, please, please tell me that >>you do not believe this securely encrypts your data. > > The original poster asked to have two C++ functions converted to Python.   > That's what I did, using t

Re: efficient running median

2009-10-19 Thread denis
Folks, approximate medians -- would you settle for 49 - 51 % ? -- open up new possibilities, and there's quite a lot of work on that, for huuuge datasets. A class of problems: from a data stream X1 X2 ... you want, every so often, a histogram / quantile summary / distribution estimator such tha

ANNOUNCE: libmsgque 3.6 with perl support

2009-10-19 Thread Andreas Otto
Dear Users, = ?? I would like to announce libmsgque 3.6 and PLMK 1.1 ?? libmsgque is an infrastructure to write programming language ?? independent software using the : ?? ?? > Programming Language Micro Kernel ?? architecture. Never was it so easy to write an application server ?? by

Re: File not closed on exception

2009-10-19 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-10-19, arve.knud...@gmail.com wrote: > I thought that file objects were supposed to be > garbage-collected and automatically closed once they go out of > scope, At some point after they go out of scope, they will be. Eventually. Exactly when is an implementation detail. > at least that

Re: Frameworks

2009-10-19 Thread flebber
On Oct 20, 12:32 am, "Diez B. Roggisch" wrote: > > web2py is interesting the author appears to be implying(I could be > > misunderstanding this) that the web2py db ORM is equal to if not > > superior to SQLAlchemy - From > >http://www.web2py.com/AlterEgo/default/show/150 > > I don't read that out

Re: how to write a unicode string to a file ?

2009-10-19 Thread Walter Dörwald
On 17.10.09 08:28, Mark Tolonen wrote: > > "Kee Nethery" wrote in message > news:aaab63c6-6e44-4c07-b119-972d4f49e...@kagi.com... >> >> On Oct 16, 2009, at 5:49 PM, Stephen Hansen wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Stef Mientki >>> wrote: >> >> snip >> >>> The thing is, I'd be VERY

Re: strange behaviour of colon within string

2009-10-19 Thread khany
On 19 Oct, 14:44, StarWing wrote: > On Oct 19, 9:15 pm, khany wrote: > > > > > > > On 19 Oct, 13:44, khany wrote: > > > > hello all, > > > > i am relatively new to python and i am trying to convert a php app i > > > have over to it using googleapps. > > > > anyway here is the problem. i poll eba

Re: Frameworks

2009-10-19 Thread Marco Mariani
Diez B. Roggisch wrote: I don't read that out of the post, and it almost certainly is wrong, at least on a general level. There isn't much above SQLAlchemy regarding flexibility & power, so while simple cases might be simpler with other ORMs, they often make more complicated ones impossible. Bu

Re: File not closed on exception

2009-10-19 Thread Ethan Furman
arve.knud...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I thought that file objects were supposed to be garbage-collected and automatically closed once they go out of scope, at least that's what I've been told by more merited Python programmers. I'm also quite sure that this is quite a common assumption in various pro

Re: strange behaviour of colon within string

2009-10-19 Thread StarWing
On Oct 19, 9:15 pm, khany wrote: > On 19 Oct, 13:44, khany wrote: > > > hello all, > > > i am relatively new to python and i am trying to convert a php app i > > have over to it using googleapps. > > > anyway here is the problem. i poll ebay API which has in its XML " > xml version="1.0" encoding

Re: strange behaviour of colon within string

2009-10-19 Thread khany
On 19 Oct, 13:44, khany wrote: > hello all, > > i am relatively new to python and i am trying to convert a php app i > have over to it using googleapps. > > anyway here is the problem. i poll ebay API which has in its XML " xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> xmlns="http://www.ebay.com/marketplac

Re: Frameworks

2009-10-19 Thread flebber
On Oct 19, 10:51 pm, flebber wrote: > On Oct 19, 7:40 pm, Javier Santana wrote: > > > > > junohttp://github.com/breily/juno > > > it's very easy, uses sqlalchemy as ORM and jinja2 (others can be used > > if you want) for templates. > > > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Bruno Desthuilliers > > >

Re: strange behaviour of colon within string

2009-10-19 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 05:44 -0700, khany wrote: > i am relatively new to python and i am trying to convert a php app i > have over to it using googleapps. Welcome! > anyway here is the problem. i poll ebay API which has in its XML " xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> xmlns="http://www.ebay.co

Re: strange behaviour of colon within string

2009-10-19 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
khany wrote: > hello all, > > i am relatively new to python and i am trying to convert a php app i > have over to it using googleapps. > > anyway here is the problem. i poll ebay API which has in its XML " xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> xmlns="http://www.ebay.com/marketplace/search/v1/serv

strange behaviour of colon within string

2009-10-19 Thread khany
hello all, i am relatively new to python and i am trying to convert a php app i have over to it using googleapps. anyway here is the problem. i poll ebay API which has in its XML "http://www.ebay.com/marketplace/search/v1/services";> " however it fails to create the string UNLESS i remove

Re: Frameworks

2009-10-19 Thread flebber
On Oct 19, 7:40 pm, Javier Santana wrote: > junohttp://github.com/breily/juno > > it's very easy, uses sqlalchemy as ORM and jinja2 (others can be used > if you want) for templates. > > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Bruno Desthuilliers > > wrote: > > flebber a écrit : > > >> Hi > > >> I have

File not closed on exception

2009-10-19 Thread arve.knud...@gmail.com
Hi I thought that file objects were supposed to be garbage-collected and automatically closed once they go out of scope, at least that's what I've been told by more merited Python programmers. I'm also quite sure that this is quite a common assumption in various programs, at least given what opens

Re: restriction on sum: intentional bug?

2009-10-19 Thread Carl Banks
On Oct 19, 3:24 am, Tim Chase wrote: > Carl Banks wrote: > > Consider this thought experiment: > > > class Something(object): > >     def __radd__(self,other): > >         return other + "q" > > > x = ["a","b","c",Something()] > > > If x were passed to "".join(), it would throw an exception; but i

Re: The rap against "while True:" loops

2009-10-19 Thread Tim Rowe
2009/10/18 Steven D'Aprano : > That confuses me. If I call: > > y = mydict[x] > > how does my knowledge of what to do if x is not a key relate to whether > the language raises an exception, returns an error code, dumps core, or > prints "He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy" to stderr? >

Re: restriction on sum: intentional bug?

2009-10-19 Thread Tim Chase
Carl Banks wrote: Consider this thought experiment: class Something(object): def __radd__(self,other): return other + "q" x = ["a","b","c",Something()] If x were passed to "".join(), it would throw an exception; but if passed to a sum() without any special casing, it would successf

Re: How to check the exists of a name?

2009-10-19 Thread Piet van Oostrum
> David <71da...@libero.it> (D) wrote: >D> Il Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:43:36 -0700 (PDT), StarWing ha scritto: >>> I got a idea, use a try...except statement. there are another way to >>> do it ? >>> >>> (I just curious now, because I solve my problem in another way :-) >D> locals().has_key(mynam

Re: (from stdlib-sig) ctypes or struct from an h file

2009-10-19 Thread Erik Max Francis
Yuvgoog Greenle wrote: Ok I see your point that C is ambiguous concerning compiler implementation. I think #pragma pack should work out the padding issue but I'm not sure if the floating point issue is solvable. I don't have an idea for solving that one... #pragma is implementation defined and

Re: "Python for Bioinformatics" available and in stock

2009-10-19 Thread Bearophile
Sebastian Bassi, this is an piece from the #5: ProtSeq = raw_input("Protein sequence: ").upper() ProtDeg = {"A":4,"C":2,"D":2,"E":2,"F":2,"G":4,"H":2, "I":3,"K":2,"L":6,"M":1,"N":2,"P":4,"Q":2, "R":6,"S":6,"T":4,"V":4,"W":1,"Y":2} SegsValues = [] for aa in range(len(ProtSeq))

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