ANN: python-ldap-2.3.10

2009-11-01 Thread Michael Ströder
Find a new release of python-ldap: http://www.python-ldap.org/ python-ldap provides an object-oriented API to access LDAP directory servers from Python programs. It mainly wraps the OpenLDAP 2.x libs for that purpose. Additionally it contains modules for other LDAP-related stuff (e.g.

The Python: Rag November issue available

2009-11-01 Thread Bernie
The November issue of The Python: Rag is available at: http://www.pythonrag.org A monthly, free, community run, Python magazine - issues are in pdf format, intended for anyone interested in Python. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python

ANN: Pyfora, a Python forum

2009-11-01 Thread Saketh
Hi everyone, I am proud to announce the release of Pyfora (http://pyfora.org), an online Python forum to supplement comp.lang.python and #python. Please feel free to register and post any questions or tips you may have! Sincerely, Saketh --

Distribute 0.6.7 released

2009-11-01 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On behalf of the Distribute team, I am pleased to announce the 0.6.7 release of Distribute. Distribute is a fork of the Setuptools project, and the 0.6.x series a drop-in replacement for Setuptools. Distribute is intended to replace Setuptools as the standard method for working with Python module

ANN: blist 1.0.2

2009-11-01 Thread Daniel Stutzbach
blist 1.0.2 is now available: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/blist/ What is blist? -- The blist is a type that looks, acts, and quacks like a Python list, but has better asymptotic performance when inserting or deleting elements (O(log n)). For small lists, blists and the

PiCloud Beta Release

2009-11-01 Thread Ken Elkabany
PiCloud has released a Python library, cloud, which allows you to easily offload the execution of a function to a cluster of servers running on Amazon Web Services. As a beta product, we are currently free to all users who sign up with beta code PYTHONLIST. To register, go to

Re: import bug

2009-11-01 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:38:16 -0300, Gabriel Genellina wrote: Incorrect. Simplicity of implementation and API is a virtue, in and of itself. The existing module machinery is quite simple to understand, use and maintain. Uhm... module objects might be quite simple to understand, but module

Re: Sqlite3. Substitution of names in query.

2009-11-01 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message mailman.2397.1257034364.2807.python-l...@python.org, Carsten Haese wrote: Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: In message mailman.2376.1257005738.2807.python-l...@python.org, Carsten Haese wrote: Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: In message mailman.2357.1256964121.2807.python-l...@python.org,

Re: Identifiers exposed by a package

2009-11-01 Thread Robert Kern
Ben Finney wrote: Robert Kern robert.k...@gmail.com writes: If you are going to expose symbols in your __init__.py, they should not have the same name as any of the modules in the package. Would I be correct in assuming you make an exception for the package importing one of the modules in

Re: __eq__() inconvenience when subclassing set

2009-11-01 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:55:27 -0300, Jess Austin jess.aus...@gmail.com escribió: On Oct 29, 10:41 pm, Gabriel Genellina gagsl-...@yahoo.com.ar wrote: We know the last test fails because the == logic fails to recognize mySet (on the right side) as a more specialized object than frozenset

stdin in embedded python

2009-11-01 Thread KillSwitch
I have a C++ program, with a GUI, into which I have embedded python. I have made several python functions in C++, one of which I use to override the normal stdout and stderr so that they print to a text box of my GUI. One thing I cannot think of how to do is to redefine stdin so that it pauses the

Re: Pyfora, a place for python

2009-11-01 Thread Paul Rubin
Saketh saketh.bhamidip...@gmail.com writes: I am proud to announce the release of Pyfora (http://pyfora.org), an online community of Python enthusiasts to supplement comp.lang.python and #python. And the reason to want to further fragment Python discussion is exactly what? --

Re: Sqlite3. Substitution of names in query.

2009-11-01 Thread Carsten Haese
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: On what grounds are you asserting that it's not necessary to mix the two? Please elaborate your point. On the grounds that Python has more general and powerful string parameter- substitution mechanisms than anything built into any database API. That statement is

Re: problem with read() write()

2009-11-01 Thread Gertjan Klein
Alf P. Steinbach wrote: So with 'w+' the only way to get garbage is if 'read' reads beyond the end of file, or 'open' doesn't conform to the documentation. It does read beyond the end of file. This is perhaps the way the underlying C library works, but it looks like an unexpected feature (read:

Re: problem with read() write()

2009-11-01 Thread Alf P. Steinbach
* Gertjan Klein: Alf P. Steinbach wrote: So with 'w+' the only way to get garbage is if 'read' reads beyond the end of file, or 'open' doesn't conform to the documentation. It does read beyond the end of file. This is perhaps the way the underlying C library works, but it looks like an

Re: python os.path.exists failure

2009-11-01 Thread Roel Schroeven
koranthala schreef: Hi all, My code is as follows: path = r'C:/Program Files/testfolder/2.3/test.txt' if os.path.lexists(path): print 'Path Exists' else: print 'No file found in path - %s' %path print Popen(path, stdout=PIPE, shell=True).stdout.read() The output comes as

Re: problem with read() write()

2009-11-01 Thread Gertjan Klein
Alf P. Steinbach wrote: * Gertjan Klein: I reproduced (with Python 2.5.2 on WinXP) the code the OP wrote after creating an empty (0-byte) test file; after the write() the read() returns random garbage. I can't imagine why anyone would want that behaviour. The file grew to be 4099 bytes after

Re: problem with read() write()

2009-11-01 Thread Matt Nordhoff
Gertjan Klein wrote: Alf P. Steinbach wrote: So with 'w+' the only way to get garbage is if 'read' reads beyond the end of file, or 'open' doesn't conform to the documentation. It does read beyond the end of file. This is perhaps the way the underlying C library works, but it looks

Re: problem with read() write()

2009-11-01 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:44:45 +0100, Alf P. Steinbach wrote: Could you post (copy and paste) the code, and description of results? Using Python 2.6 under Linux (Fedora 7): f = open('garbage', 'r') # prove the file doesn't exist Traceback (most recent call last): File stdin, line 1, in

Re: stdin in embedded python

2009-11-01 Thread Dave Angel
KillSwitch wrote: I have a C++ program, with a GUI, into which I have embedded python. I have made several python functions in C++, one of which I use to override the normal stdout and stderr so that they print to a text box of my GUI. One thing I cannot think of how to do is to redefine stdin

Re: How to import only one module in a package when the package __init__.py has already imports the modules?

2009-11-01 Thread Peng Yu
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au wrote: On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:29:12 -0500, Peng Yu wrote: In my question, module A and B exist just for the sake of implementation. Even if I have module A and B, I don't want the user feel the existence of

Re: How to import only one module in a package when the package __init__.py has already imports the modules?

2009-11-01 Thread Peng Yu
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au wrote: On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:54:47 -0500, Peng Yu wrote: So python would not be able to accommodate my preference one class/function per file? Of course it does! You can do that RIGHT NOW -- just put one

Can I run a python program from within emacs?

2009-11-01 Thread Robinson
I have also just started with both Aquamacs and Python so I ask for your patience as well. When I evaluate the buffer (C-c C-C) I don't see any response or output from my python program. Should another buffer open automatically? Should a terminal window open? thanks for your patience.

Re: Looking for help getting tkinter to work.

2009-11-01 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Nov 1, 4:06 am, Shue Boks shoebox56car...@gmail.com wrote: I tried to compile Python and Tcl/Tk on Linux using the following files: Python-3.1.1.tar.gz tcl8.5.7-src.tar.gz Cannot get tkinter to work after compiling installing Tcl/Tk.  I get the following error after compiling Python:

Re: How to import only one module in a package when the package __init__.py has already imports the modules?

2009-11-01 Thread Peng Yu
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au wrote: On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:48:10 -0500, Peng Yu wrote: Variables in a function are already private.  How can the names in one function be affected by other functions in the same module? You

Re: Pyfora, a place for python

2009-11-01 Thread Martijn Arts
I think it's a really good idea :) My accountname is TotempaaltJ On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Paul Rubin http://phr...@nospam.invalidwrote: Saketh saketh.bhamidip...@gmail.com writes: I am proud to announce the release of Pyfora (http://pyfora.org), an online community of Python

Re: Can I run a python program from within emacs?

2009-11-01 Thread Jason Sewall
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Robinson wanderingaen...@comcast.net wrote: I have also just started with both Aquamacs and Python so I ask for your patience as well. When I evaluate the buffer (C-c C-C) I don't see any response or output from my python program. Should another buffer open

Re: What is Islam?-1

2009-11-01 Thread omer azazi
from python to exe py2exe turns Python programs into packages that can be run on other Windows computers without needing to install Python on those computers. Python is needed on the computer where py2exe itself is run because py2exe is a Python program and it includes parts of Python in the

Re: stdin in embedded python

2009-11-01 Thread KillSwitch
On Nov 1, 5:34 am, Dave Angel da...@ieee.org wrote: KillSwitch wrote: I have a C++ program, with a GUI, into which I have embedded python. I have made several python functions in C++, one of which I use to override the normal stdout and stderr so that they print to a text box of my GUI.

Re: Can I run a python program from within emacs?

2009-11-01 Thread Robinson
Jason, Thanks, but I have already tried your suggestions (which seem like logical cause/effect actions) and nothing. There must be a python preference or something I haven't set correctly. There is no Aquamacs list, but I'll check further. Thanks again for the quick reply. On Nov 1,

Re: Can I run a python program from within emacs?

2009-11-01 Thread rustom
On Nov 1, 7:20 pm, Robinson wanderingaen...@comcast.net wrote: I have also just started with both Aquamacs and Python so I ask for   your patience as well. When I evaluate the buffer (C-c C-C) I don't see any response or   output from my python program. Should another buffer open  

ANN: blist 1.0.2

2009-11-01 Thread Daniel Stutzbach
blist 1.0.2 is now available: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/blist/ What is blist? -- The blist is a type that looks, acts, and quacks like a Python list, but has better asymptotic performance when inserting or deleting elements (O(log n)). For small lists, blists and the

Re: How to import only one module in a package when the package __init__.py has already imports the modules?

2009-11-01 Thread Robert Kern
Peng Yu wrote: On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au wrote: Oh wait, I get it... you want to do a global search-and-replace over the entire file. *face-palm* Yes. You get it. In any capable programmer's editor, it should not be hard to do a

Re: How to import only one module in a package when the package __init__.py has already imports the modules?

2009-11-01 Thread Robert Kern
Peng Yu wrote: On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au wrote: On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:54:47 -0500, Peng Yu wrote: So python would not be able to accommodate my preference one class/function per file? Of course it does! You can do that RIGHT NOW

Tkinter callback arguments

2009-11-01 Thread Lord Eldritch
Hi Maybe this is maybe something it has been answered somewhere but I haven't been able to make it work. I wanna pass one variable to a callback function and I've read the proper way is: Button(.., command=lambda: function(x)) So with def function(a): print a I get the value of x. Ok.

Re: Tkinter callback arguments

2009-11-01 Thread MRAB
Lord Eldritch wrote: Hi Maybe this is maybe something it has been answered somewhere but I haven't been able to make it work. I wanna pass one variable to a callback function and I've read the proper way is: Button(.., command=lambda: function(x)) So with def function(a): print a I

Tkinter callback arguments

2009-11-01 Thread Lord Eldritch
Hi Maybe this is maybe something it has been answered somewhere but I haven't been able to make it work. I wanna pass one variable to a callback function and I've read the proper way is: Button(.., command=lambda: function(x)) So with def function(a): print a I get the value of x. Ok.

Re: import bug

2009-11-01 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:54:15 -0300, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au escribió: On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:38:16 -0300, Gabriel Genellina wrote: Incorrect. Simplicity of implementation and API is a virtue, in and of itself. The existing module machinery is quite simple to

Re: list comprehension problem

2009-11-01 Thread Mick Krippendorf
Steven D'Aprano wrote: There are an infinite number of empty sets that differ according to their construction: The set of all American Presidents called Boris Nogoodnik. The set of all human languages with exactly one noun and one verb. The set of all fire-breathing mammals. The set of

Re: Feedback wanted on programming introduction (Python in Windows)

2009-11-01 Thread Rhodri James
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:26:45 -, Alf P. Steinbach al...@start.no wrote: * Rhodri James: On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:53:05 -, Alf P. Steinbach al...@start.no wrote: with the best knowledge of the program's environment, is unable to handle (such as delete) files or folders with paths

Re: Feedback desired on reworked ch 1 progr. intro (now Python 3.x, Windows)

2009-11-01 Thread Rhodri James
Before we start, can I just say that I find Google Docs loathsome? On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 07:40:36 -, Alf P. Steinbach al...@start.no wrote: I hope this new version of ch 1 is, well, better, addresses some of the concerns raised? g Section 1.1 needs serious work. You have a very

Re: stdin in embedded python

2009-11-01 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:34:44 -0300, KillSwitch gu.yakahug...@gmail.com escribió: On Nov 1, 5:34 am, Dave Angel da...@ieee.org wrote: KillSwitch wrote: I have a C++ program, with a GUI, into which I have embedded python. I have made several python functions in C++, one of which I use to

__str__ difficulty with lists

2009-11-01 Thread Jabba Laci
Hi, I have a list that contains custom objects. When printing the list, I'd like to have a readable result, i.e. I'd like to see the output of the __str__ functions. See an example below. When I call print li, I would like to get [3, 5]. How to do that? Thanks, Laszlo == class

Re: Feedback wanted on programming introduction (Python in Windows)

2009-11-01 Thread Alf P. Steinbach
* Rhodri James: On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:26:45 -, Alf P. Steinbach al...@start.no wrote: * Rhodri James: On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:53:05 -, Alf P. Steinbach al...@start.no wrote: with the best knowledge of the program's environment, is unable to handle (such as delete) files or folders

Re: Feedback desired on reworked ch 1 progr. intro (now Python 3.x, Windows)

2009-11-01 Thread Alf P. Steinbach
* Rhodri James: Before we start, can I just say that I find Google Docs loathsome? On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 07:40:36 -, Alf P. Steinbach al...@start.no wrote: I hope this new version of ch 1 is, well, better, addresses some of the concerns raised? g Section 1.1 needs serious work. Could

Re: __str__ difficulty with lists

2009-11-01 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Jabba Laci schrieb: Hi, I have a list that contains custom objects. When printing the list, I'd like to have a readable result, i.e. I'd like to see the output of the __str__ functions. See an example below. When I call print li, I would like to get [3, 5]. How to do that? Use __repr__

Re: Sqlite3. Substitution of names in query.

2009-11-01 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message mailman.2418.1257062992.2807.python-l...@python.org, Carsten Haese wrote: Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: In message mailman.2397.1257034364.2807.python-l...@python.org, Carsten Haese wrote: On what grounds are you asserting that it's not necessary to mix the two? Please elaborate

Re: import bug

2009-11-01 Thread MRAB
Gabriel Genellina wrote: [snip] One way to avoid name clashes would be to put the entire standard library under a package; a program that wants the standard re module would write import std.re instead of import re, or something similar. Every time the std package is suggested, the main argument

About one class/function per module

2009-11-01 Thread Peng Yu
I recently asked how to support one class/function per module under the title 'How to import only one module in a package when the package __init__.py has already imports the modules?' I summarize my key points below. In particular, I have to two questions: 1. What disadvantages there are to

Re: About one class/function per module

2009-11-01 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Peng Yu schrieb: I recently asked how to support one class/function per module under the title 'How to import only one module in a package when the package __init__.py has already imports the modules?' I summarize my key points below. In particular, I have to two questions: 1. What disadvantages

Re: Sqlite3. Substitution of names in query.

2009-11-01 Thread Carsten Haese
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: Says someone who hasn't realized where the real inefficiencies are. Remember what Tony Hoare told us: premature optimization is the root of all evil. These are databases we're talking about. Real-world databases are large, and reside on disk, which is several

Re: About one class/function per module

2009-11-01 Thread Robert Kern
Peng Yu wrote: So far, I haven't find one. It seems impossible in python, but I want to double check if there is one solution. We have already told you more than twice that the answer is No. Please don't triple check. -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole world is an

Re: import bug

2009-11-01 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:34:19 -0300, Gabriel Genellina wrote: En Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:54:15 -0300, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au escribió: On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:38:16 -0300, Gabriel Genellina wrote: Incorrect. Simplicity of implementation and API is a virtue, in and

Re: list comprehension problem

2009-11-01 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:32:15 +0100, Mick Krippendorf wrote: When we want find out if two sets s1 and s2 are the same we only need to look at their extensions, so given: (i s1)(Ay)(y e s1 - y is a fire-breathing animal) (i s2)(Ay)(y e s2 - y is a real number equal to sqrt(-1)) we only

Re: How to import only one module in a package when the package __init__.py has already imports the modules?

2009-11-01 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:46:42 -0600, Robert Kern wrote: Peng Yu wrote: On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au wrote: Oh wait, I get it... you want to do a global search-and-replace over the entire file. *face-palm* Yes. You get it. In

Function states [was Re: How to import only one module in a package when the package __init__.py has already imports the modules?]

2009-11-01 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:07:37 -0600, Peng Yu wrote: It is reasonable to assume the log of the number of states of a function or a class is proportional to it length. Hence, when a function or a class is long, you will never be able to test all its states. def f(n): return n + 5 def

Re: Tkinter callback arguments

2009-11-01 Thread Alf P. Steinbach
* MRAB: Lord Eldritch wrote: Hi Maybe this is maybe something it has been answered somewhere but I haven't been able to make it work. I wanna pass one variable to a callback function and I've read the proper way is: Button(.., command=lambda: function(x)) So with def function(a):

Re: Why 'import module' will not import module.py but the directory module?

2009-11-01 Thread Colin W.
Robert Kern wrote: On 2009-10-31 19:16 PM, Peng Yu wrote: On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Robert Kernrobert.k...@gmail.com wrote: On 2009-10-31 18:51 PM, Peng Yu wrote: If I have both the directory 'module' and the file 'module.py' in a directory in $PYTHONPATH, python will import 'module'

Doesn't MS-Windows likes Python ? (or: why more than 20 sec delay when running a program from Python)

2009-11-01 Thread Stef Mientki
hello, I've an AutoIt program that set some switches in the LAN settings. When I launch the AutoIt executable, the settings are changed immediately. When I launch the AutoIt executable from python (which is the intention), it hangs for about 20 seconds, before any action appears on the screen.

Re: Feedback wanted on programming introduction (Python in Windows)

2009-11-01 Thread Rhodri James
On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:20:20 -, Alf P. Steinbach al...@start.no wrote: * Rhodri James: This is a weird attribution style, by the way. I don't think it helps. On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:26:45 -, Alf P. Steinbach al...@start.no wrote: * Rhodri James: On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:53:05

Re: Feedback wanted on programming introduction (Python in Windows)

2009-11-01 Thread Alf P. Steinbach
* Rhodri James: On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:20:20 -, Alf P. Steinbach al...@start.no wrote: * Rhodri James: This is a weird attribution style, by the way. I don't think it helps. That's a pretty weird thing to comment on. And as far as I can see the comment doesn't make sense except as

Re: About one class/function per module

2009-11-01 Thread alex23
On Nov 2, 8:11 am, Peng Yu pengyu...@gmail.com wrote: I prefer organized my code one class/function per file (i.e per module in python). I know the majority of programmers don't use this approach. Therefore, I'm wondering what its disadvantage is. You mean, what disadvantages it has _other_

Re: list comprehension problem

2009-11-01 Thread Mick Krippendorf
Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:32:15 +0100, Mick Krippendorf wrote: (Ax)(x is a fire-breathing animal - x is a real number equal to sqrt(-1)). And since there are neither such things, it follows that s1 = s2. That assumes that all({}) is defined as true. That is a common

Re: About one class/function per module

2009-11-01 Thread Peng Yu
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 7:02 PM, alex23 wuwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Nov 2, 8:11 am, Peng Yu pengyu...@gmail.com wrote: I prefer organized my code one class/function per file (i.e per module in python). I know the majority of programmers don't use this approach. Therefore, I'm wondering what its

Re: About one class/function per module

2009-11-01 Thread metal
On 11月2日, 上午9时27分, Peng Yu pengyu...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 7:02 PM, alex23 wuwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Nov 2, 8:11 am, Peng Yu pengyu...@gmail.com wrote: I prefer organized my code one class/function per file (i.e per module in python). I know the majority of programmers

Re: Pyfora, a place for python

2009-11-01 Thread alex23
Saketh saketh.bhamidip...@gmail.com wrote: If you have any suggestions, let me know -- this is a community effort! I'd like to suggest Pyaspora as a more apropos name ;) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: stdin in embedded python

2009-11-01 Thread Dave Angel
Gabriel Genellina wrote: En Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:34:44 -0300, KillSwitch gu.yakahug...@gmail.com escribió: On Nov 1, 5:34 am, Dave Angel da...@ieee.org wrote: KillSwitch wrote: I have a C++ program, with a GUI, into which I have embedded python. I have made several python functions in

Re: About one class/function per module

2009-11-01 Thread alex23
Peng Yu pengyu...@gmail.com wrote: So I am asking disadvantages besides python import mechanism is not friendly to it. Which part of name collisions have to be resolved somehow isn't explicit enough for you? You can't keep saying this works in C++ while refusing to accept that this is an

Re: Feedback wanted on programming introduction (Python in Windows)

2009-11-01 Thread Thad Smith
Richard Heathfield wrote: ... so I cheerfully installed it on the user's desktop machine (Windows ME, would you believe), and then set about configuring the reader, when... ouch! No PDF reader on the machine. Not even an ancient Adobe version. Oh dear. Program suddenly rendered completely

Re: About one class/function per module

2009-11-01 Thread Dave Angel
Peng Yu wrote: snip Some people mentioned an good IDE can do 1 and 4. But I'm not aware of an IDE that can allow me to change file name freely. I tried Visual Studio long time ago, I have to delete a file, change the file name and add the file back in order to change the file. I use Komodo

Regular express question

2009-11-01 Thread elca
Hello, i have some text document to parse. sample text is such like follow in this document, i would like to extract such like SUBJECT = 'NETHERLANDS MUSIC EPA' CONTENT = 'Michael Buble performs in Amsterdam Canadian singer Michael Buble performs during a concert in Amsterdam, The Netherlands,

ANN: python-ldap-2.3.10

2009-11-01 Thread Michael Ströder
Find a new release of python-ldap: http://www.python-ldap.org/ python-ldap provides an object-oriented API to access LDAP directory servers from Python programs. It mainly wraps the OpenLDAP 2.x libs for that purpose. Additionally it contains modules for other LDAP-related stuff (e.g.

The Python: Rag November issue available

2009-11-01 Thread Bernie
The November issue of The Python: Rag is available at: http://www.pythonrag.org A monthly, free, community run, Python magazine - issues are in pdf format, intended for anyone interested in Python. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Pyfora, a place for python

2009-11-01 Thread Ben Finney
Saketh saketh.bhamidip...@gmail.com writes: If you have any suggestions, let me know -- this is a community effort! Suggestion: Please don't make efforts to fragment the community. Rather, please direct seekers to the existing forums (the IRC channel, the Usenet groups and mailing lists)

Re: list comprehension problem

2009-11-01 Thread Cousin Stanley
There are an infinite number of empty sets that differ according to their construction: The set of all fire-breathing mammals. Apparently, you have never been a witness to someone who recently ingested one of Cousin Chuy's Super-Burritos .. :-) -- Stanley

Re: list comprehension problem

2009-11-01 Thread Mel
Steven D'Aprano wrote: (6) Metaphoric equivalence: Kali is death. Life is like a box of chocolates. OK to here, but this one switches between metaphor and simile, and arguably, between identity and equality. Mel. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: self.__dict__ tricks

2009-11-01 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:15:48 -0500, Tim Johnson wrote: Many programmers I know stay away from 'lists' such as this, because they are afraid to show their ignorance. Me, I'm fearless, and I have learned a lot that I might not have otherwise. The only stupid question is the one you are afraid

Re: spring effect in Python

2009-11-01 Thread Cousin Stanley
I've problem to find something that give that physical effect ( like a spring). Any idea? You may find VPython useful for simulating physical effects http://www.vpython.org/ Examples including a couple that are spring-related

Re: Feedback wanted on programming introduction (Python in Windows)

2009-11-01 Thread Pascal J. Bourguignon
Thad Smith thadsm...@acm.org writes: Richard Heathfield wrote: ... so I cheerfully installed it on the user's desktop machine (Windows ME, would you believe), and then set about configuring the reader, when... ouch! No PDF reader on the machine. Not even an ancient Adobe version. Oh dear.

disable image loading to speed up webpage load

2009-11-01 Thread elca
Hi, im using win32com 's webbrowser module. i have some question about it.. is it possible to disable image loading to speed up webpage load? any help ,much appreciate thanks in advance -- View this message in context:

Re: About one class/function per module

2009-11-01 Thread rustom
On Nov 2, 3:11 am, Peng Yu pengyu...@gmail.com wrote: I recently asked how to support one class/function per module under the title 'How to import only one module in a package when the package __init__.py has already imports the modules?' I summarize my key points below. In particular, I have

Re: Regular express question

2009-11-01 Thread alex23
On Oct 31, 12:48 pm, elca high...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, i have some text document to parse. sample text is such like follow in this document, i would like to extract such like SUBJECT = 'NETHERLANDS MUSIC EPA' CONTENT = 'Michael Buble performs in Amsterdam Canadian singer Michael Buble

Re: Tkinter callback arguments

2009-11-01 Thread Lord Eldritch
Alf P. Steinbach wrote: * MRAB: Thank you all! It is working now nicely! God! I love usenet..:D -- Lord Eldritch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: spring effect in Python

2009-11-01 Thread Cleber Santos
You can try this: http://processingjs.org On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 5:26 AM, pochis40 pochi...@yahoo.it wrote: I'm trying to write in Python something similar to this: (Java) http://java.sun.com/applets/jdk/1.4/demo/applets/GraphLayout/example1.html or these: (Proce55ing)

Re: About one class/function per module

2009-11-01 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:33:57 -0800, alex23 wrote: Peng Yu pengyu...@gmail.com wrote: So I am asking disadvantages besides python import mechanism is not friendly to it. Which part of name collisions have to be resolved somehow isn't explicit enough for you? You can't keep saying this

Re: import bug

2009-11-01 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:01:42 -0300, MRAB pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com escribió: Gabriel Genellina wrote: One way to avoid name clashes would be to put the entire standard library under a package; a program that wants the standard re module would write import std.re instead of import re, or

Re: import bug

2009-11-01 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:51:04 -0300, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au escribió: On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:34:19 -0300, Gabriel Genellina wrote: En Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:54:15 -0300, Steven D'Aprano escribió: Shadowing a standard library module is no different. But that's

Re: About one class/function per module

2009-11-01 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:27:32 -0300, Peng Yu pengyu...@gmail.com escribió: On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 7:02 PM, alex23 wuwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Nov 2, 8:11 am, Peng Yu pengyu...@gmail.com wrote: I prefer organized my code one class/function per file (i.e per module in python). I know the

Re: stdin in embedded python

2009-11-01 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:13:10 -0300, Dave Angel da...@ieee.org escribió: Gabriel Genellina wrote: En Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:34:44 -0300, KillSwitch gu.yakahug...@gmail.com escribió: On Nov 1, 5:34 am, Dave Angel da...@ieee.org wrote: KillSwitch wrote: I have a C++ program, with a GUI, into

substituting list comprehensions for map()

2009-11-01 Thread Jon P.
I'd like to do: resultlist = operandlist1 + operandlist2 where for example operandlist1=[1,2,3,4,5] operandlist2=[5,4,3,2,1] and resultlist will become [6,6,6,6,6]. Using map(), I can do: map(lambda op1,op2: op1 + op2, operandlist1, operandlist2) Is there any reasonable way to do this via a

[issue7244] itertools.zip_longest behaves strangely with an iterable class

2009-11-01 Thread Hirokazu Yamamoto
Hirokazu Yamamoto ocean-c...@m2.ccsnet.ne.jp added the comment: I created the patch to improve test which was checked in r76004. This patch checks if correct elements are returned even when RuntimeError is raised. Could you take a look? -- Added file:

[issue7244] itertools.zip_longest behaves strangely with an iterable class

2009-11-01 Thread Hirokazu Yamamoto
Hirokazu Yamamoto ocean-c...@m2.ccsnet.ne.jp added the comment: correct elements are returned even when RuntimeError is raised. Or maybe it is not guaranteed. :-) -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue7244

[issue1006238] cross compile patch

2009-11-01 Thread Mike Frysinger
Mike Frysinger vap...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment: AC_TRY_RUN is already documented: http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/Obsolete-Macros.html#index-AC_005fTRY_005fRUN-1992 there are a bunch of distros out there (like OE and Gentoo) that have been maintaining

[issue7217] IDLE Subprocess Startup Error

2009-11-01 Thread ali
ali mr.da...@gmail.com added the comment: ? -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue7217 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list

[issue6896] Intermittent failures in test_mailbox

2009-11-01 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Antoine Pitrou pit...@free.fr added the comment: The explanation seems to be that some systems (including RDM's buildbot) have slightly bizarre mtime behaviour: $ date python -c 'import os; os.link(setup.py, t/c)' stat t date Sun Nov 1 09:49:04 EST 2009 File: `t' Size: 144

[issue6896] Intermittent failures in test_mailbox

2009-11-01 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Antoine Pitrou pit...@free.fr added the comment: Ok, here is a patch which seems to fix the problem reliably on RDM's buildbot. Ezio, can you give it a try? -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file15246/maildir.patch ___ Python tracker

[issue6896] Intermittent failures in test_mailbox

2009-11-01 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Antoine Pitrou pit...@free.fr added the comment: PS: this is the kind of traces I had when running TestMaildir on David's buildbot: at 1257086460.18, linking/renaming ... mtime of '/home/pitrou/trunk/@test_23145_tmp/new' is now 1257086459.0 at 1257086460.21, linking/renaming ... mtime of

[issue6748] test_debuglevel from test_telnetlib.py fails

2009-11-01 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Antoine Pitrou pit...@free.fr added the comment: Please note that the Windows buildbot shows another error: == ERROR: test_debuglevel (test.test_telnetlib.OptionTests)

[issue7246] getpass crashes when several returns are in stdin before getpass was called

2009-11-01 Thread Avihu Turzion
New submission from Avihu Turzion av...@turzion.com: When I have the following code: blah.py === import getpass nothing = getpass.getpass(blah:) And I run it like so: sleep 5 ./blah.py return return (I write the ./blah.py and returns while the sleep occurs) I get the following

[issue1006238] cross compile patch

2009-11-01 Thread Gregory P. Smith
Gregory P. Smith g...@krypto.org added the comment: Removing a toxic person from the cc list. Mike, please go harm some other all volunteer project. -- nosy: -vapier ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue1006238

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