On 09/18/10 03:53, Ethan Furman wrote:
> Lie Ryan wrote:
> [snip]
>> And even dict-syntax is not perfect for accessing XML file, e.g.:
>>
>>
>> foo
>> bar
>>
>>
>> should a['b'] be 'foo' or 'bar'?
>
> Attribute style access would also fail in this instance -- how is this
> worked-around?
In message , Nobody wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 12:27:08 +1200, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>>> That's why Stevens recommends that all TCP servers use the
>>> SO_REUSEADDR socket option.
>>
>> I don’t think I’ve ever used that. It seems to defeat a safety mechanism
>> which was put in for a re
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 12:27:08 +1200, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> That's why Stevens recommends that all TCP servers use the
>> SO_REUSEADDR socket option.
>
> I don’t think I’ve ever used that. It seems to defeat a safety mechanism
> which was put in for a reason.
It was put in for the benefit
On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 09:42:14 +0200, Peter Otten wrote:
[...]
>> Now that boggles my brain. Why was support for iteration added as a
>> subclass, instead of simply adding the __iter__ method to UserDict?
>> UserDict is supposed to be a drop-in replacement for dict (although the
>> use-cases for it
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 00:35:14 +, Seebs wrote:
> On 2010-09-19, AK wrote:
>> Funny that you should say that, because I thought quite a few times
>> that it would be really awesome if some texts in English had syntax
>> highlighting. Obviously, not Brothers Karamazov, but something like a
>> tut
Carl Karsten wrote:
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:
Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't want to be tied to Foxpro, which
means I need to be able to parse these files directly. I have the dbf
files, now I need the idx and cdx files.
What do you mean "tied" ?
I mea
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 10:44:06 -0700, Ethan Furman
declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
I have a pure-python module to read db3 and vfp 6 dbf files, and I find
that I need to read (and write) the idx and cdx index files that foxpro
generates. We are i
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:
> Vernon Cole wrote:
>>
>> Ethan:
>> I cannot see where you mentioned your operating system, I am assuming
>> Windows.
>>
>> Perhaps you have already investigated this ... I have no way to test it
>> ... but you might try:
>> ADO can access alm
Vernon Cole wrote:
Ethan:
I cannot see where you mentioned your operating system, I am assuming
Windows.
Perhaps you have already investigated this ... I have no way to test it
... but you might try:
ADO can access almost any data source, and a quick look seems to show
that .dbf is supported
On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 21:58:58 -0400, AK wrote:
>> I don't understand this. So far as I know, the phrase "speed reading"
>> refers to various methods of reading much faster than most people read,
>> and is real but not exceptionally interesting.
>
> Afaik the idea is that you can read a novel at t
On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 19:09:33 -0700, Carl Banks wrote:
> Apart from occasions like this and throwaway one-liners I use regular
> if-then statements. If Python had added the C-like a ? b : c, then I'd
> use it a lot more, since that version is not inherently unbalanced.
Define "unbalanced".
Putti
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 12:23:15 +1000, fridge wrote:
> # bigdigits2.py
[snip code]
It looks like Python. Did you have a specific question?
P.S. Please don't send HTML to non-binary news groups, it's very
annoying. And if you're sending it by email, your mail client appears to
be broken, because i
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 10:23 PM, fridge wrote:
> # bigdigits2.py
>
^
Here is the comment
>
> import sys
>
> zero=["***",
>"* *",
>"***"]
> one=["***",
> " * ",
> "***"]
> digits=[zero,one,zero,one,zero,one,zero,one,zero,one]
>
> inputted_digit=sys.argv[1]
> column_max=len(i
On 09/18/2010 10:12 PM, Seebs wrote:
On 2010-09-19, AK wrote:
On 09/18/2010 08:35 PM, Seebs wrote:
News flash: Not all people think the same way. Film at 11. :)
I've tried to use syntax coloring editors, and I've always found that
they end up making me slower and less accurate at reading
Niklasro wrote:
> I got 2 files main.py and i18n both with
> webapp request handlers which I would like access the variable.
I'd probably use a module for this. Create a third file, called
something like shared.py, containing the line that bruno gave above:
url = os.environ.get("HTTP_HOST", os.e
On 2010-09-19, AK wrote:
> On 09/18/2010 08:35 PM, Seebs wrote:
>> That wouldn't be *syntax* highlighting, that'd be *semantic* highlighting.
> In case of programming, the effect is similar.
I have not found that to be the case. It's been exactly the same as syntax
highlighting in English would
# bigdigits2.py
import sys
zero=["***",
"* *",
"***"]
one=["***",
" * ",
"***"]
digits=[zero,one,zero,one,zero,one,zero,one,zero,one]
inputted_digit=sys.argv[1]
column_max=len(inputted_digit)
row_max=3
r=0
while r<3:
line=""
c=0
while c--
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On Sep 17, 1:01 pm, Andreas Waldenburger
wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:20:33 -0400 AK wrote:
>
> > I also like this construct that works, I think, since 2.6:
>
> > code = dir[int(num):] if side == 'l' else dir[:-1*int(num)]
>
> I wonder when this construct will finally start to look good.
I do
I am creating a ctypes buffer from an existing non-ctypes object that
supports buffer protocol using the following code:
from ctypes import *
PyObject_AsReadBuffer = pythonapi.PyObject_AsReadBuffer
PyObject_AsReadBuffer.argtypes =
[py_object,POINTER(c_void_p),POINTER(c_size_t)]
PyObject_AsReadBu
On 09/18/2010 09:08 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 20:00:32 -0400, AK declaimed
the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
Funny that you should say that, because I thought quite a few times that
it would be really awesome if some texts in English had syntax
highlighting. O
On 09/18/2010 08:35 PM, Seebs wrote:
On 2010-09-19, AK wrote:
Funny that you should say that, because I thought quite a few times that
it would be really awesome if some texts in English had syntax
highlighting. Obviously, not Brothers Karamazov, but something like a
tutorial, or a manual, or a
On Sep 18, 4:15 pm, Jorgen Grahn wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-09-18, Niklasro wrote:
> > Hi
> > How can I make the visibility of a variable across many methods or
> > files? To avoid repeating the same line eg url =
> > os.environ['HTTP_HOST'] if os.environ.get('HTTP_HOST') else
> > os.environ['SERVE
On 2010-09-19, AK wrote:
> Funny that you should say that, because I thought quite a few times that
> it would be really awesome if some texts in English had syntax
> highlighting. Obviously, not Brothers Karamazov, but something like a
> tutorial, or a manual, or an online article. If key words w
In message , Jorgen Grahn
wrote:
> That's why Stevens recommends that all TCP servers use the
> SO_REUSEADDR socket option.
I don’t think I’ve ever used that. It seems to defeat a safety mechanism
which was put in for a reason.
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On 09/18/2010 07:38 PM, Seebs wrote:
On 2010-09-18, AK wrote:
On 09/18/2010 06:56 PM, Seebs wrote:
Basically, I can handle
do x if y
pretty well, but
do x if y else z
always breaks my parser.
So in English, I might say "I'll go to the store if I have time", but
I'd rarely us
On 2010-09-18, AK wrote:
> On 09/18/2010 06:56 PM, Seebs wrote:
>> Basically, I can handle
>> do x if y
>> pretty well, but
>> do x if y else z
>> always breaks my parser.
>> So in English, I might say "I'll go to the store if I have time", but
>> I'd rarely use "I'll go to the store if
On Fri, 2010-09-17, James Mills wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:33 AM, moerchendiser2k3
> wrote:
>> I am really sorry, but what are you talking about ? Hmmm, ...I have
>> problems to compile Python on SL, I did not ask anything about
>> "dynamic attribute". I don't get it...
>
> You are subscr
On 09/18/2010 06:56 PM, Seebs wrote:
On 2010-09-18, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:01:54 -0400, Andreas Waldenburger wrote:
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:20:33 -0400 AK wrote:
I also like this construct that works, I think, since 2.6:
code = dir[int(num):] if side == 'l' else dir[
On Sat, 2010-09-18, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> In message
> <2f830099-4264-47bc-98ee-31950412a...@q21g2000prm.googlegroups.com>, cerr
> wrote:
>
>> I get a socket error "[Errno 98] Address already in use" when i try to
>> open a socket that got closed before with close(). How come close()
>> do
On Sep 18, 4:13 pm, "bruno.desthuilli...@gmail.com"
wrote:
> On 18 sep, 17:25, Niklasro wrote:
>
> > Hi
> > How can I make the visibility of a variable across many methods or
> > files? To avoid repeating the same line eg url =
> > os.environ['HTTP_HOST'] if os.environ.get('HTTP_HOST') else
>
On Sat, 2010-09-18, Niklasro wrote:
> Hi
> How can I make the visibility of a variable across many methods or
> files? To avoid repeating the same line eg url =
> os.environ['HTTP_HOST'] if os.environ.get('HTTP_HOST') else
> os.environ['SERVER_NAME'] I repeat for many methods. So declaring it
>
On 9/17/2010 11:12 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
I was writing some tests for a mapping class I have made, and I decided
to run those same tests over dict and UserDict. The built-in dict passed
all the tests, but UserDict failed one:
You forgot to specify Python version ;-).
class SimpleMappingT
On 2010-09-18, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:01:54 -0400, Andreas Waldenburger wrote:
>> On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:20:33 -0400 AK wrote:
>>> I also like this construct that works, I think, since 2.6:
>>> code = dir[int(num):] if side == 'l' else dir[:-1*int(num)]
>> I wonder when
On Sep 18, 2010, at 5:24 PM, pyt...@bdurham.com wrote:
> Is there a standard library function to remove a folder that may
> contain files and subfolders? Or must I write a function that
> walks my folder's children and deletes all files/subfolders
> first, and then call os.removedirs()?
In Pytho
Is there a standard library function to remove a folder that may
contain files and subfolders? Or must I write a function that
walks my folder's children and deletes all files/subfolders
first, and then call os.removedirs()?
Thank you,
Malcolm
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2010/9/18 Dennis Lee Bieber :
> On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 10:48:44 +0200, Vlastimil Brom
> declaimed the following in
> gmane.comp.python.general:
>
>>
>> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2008-May/540773.html
>>
> Ah, based on that listing you are not worried about embedded tags;
> yo
In article ,
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> In message , Ned Deily
> wrote:
> > try:
> > import readline
> > except ImportError:
> > print("Module readline not available.")
> > else:
> > import rlcompleter
> > readline.parse_and_bind("tab: complete")
>
Carl Karsten wrote:
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:
Carl Karsten wrote:
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:
Does anybody have any pointers, tips, web-pages, already written
routines,
etc, on parsing *.cdx files? I have found the pages on MS's sight
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:
> Carl Karsten wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:
>>
>>> Does anybody have any pointers, tips, web-pages, already written
>>> routines,
>>> etc, on parsing *.cdx files? I have found the pages on MS's sight for
>
I was expecting this to work:
import logging
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
logger.warn('this is a warning')
instead it produced the error:
No handlers could be found for logger "__main__"
However, if instead I do:
import logging
logging.warn('creating logger')
logger = lo
Carl Karsten wrote:
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:
Does anybody have any pointers, tips, web-pages, already written routines,
etc, on parsing *.cdx files? I have found the pages on MS's sight for
Foxpro, but they neglect to describe the compaction algorithm used, and my
On 18 sep, 17:25, Niklasro wrote:
> Hi
> How can I make the visibility of a variable across many methods or
> files? To avoid repeating the same line eg url =
> os.environ['HTTP_HOST'] if os.environ.get('HTTP_HOST') else
> os.environ['SERVER_NAME']
First learn to use Python correctly:
url =
Hi
How can I make the visibility of a variable across many methods or
files? To avoid repeating the same line eg url =
os.environ['HTTP_HOST'] if os.environ.get('HTTP_HOST') else
os.environ['SERVER_NAME'] I repeat for many methods. So declaring it
to a super class and inheriting it is my plan.
In message , Grant Edwards wrote:
> Even when the connection was properly terminated (from an
> application's POV), there's a TIME_WAIT period before the TCP stack
> considered the connection completely gone and will allow re-use of the
> port.
I’m not so sure about that. I’ve done a bunch of dev
On 2010-09-18, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> In message
><2f830099-4264-47bc-98ee-31950412a...@q21g2000prm.googlegroups.com>, cerr
> wrote:
>
>> I get a socket error "[Errno 98] Address already in use" when i try to
>> open a socket that got closed before with close(). How come close()
>> doesn't
> I'll probably port 3148 to Python 2.x after its running happily in
> Python 3.2.
Very good news.
One idea: Once library becomes reliable enough- of course there are
various use cases - but IMHO it perfectly fits the problem domain of
implementing an async DB library on top of it. I suppose th
Jabba Laci wrote:
I'd like to create a simple alarm application that shows an alarm
window. The application should shut down automatically after 5
seconds.
Are you sure that's a good idea? What happens if the
user gets distracted for 6 seconds and misses the
alarm?
--
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2010/9/18 Dennis Lee Bieber :
> On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 10:44:43 +0200, Vlastimil Brom
> declaimed the following in
> gmane.comp.python.general:
>
>
>> Ok, thanks for confirming my suspicion :-),
>> Now I have to decide whether I shall use my custom data structure,
>> where I am on my own, or whether
In message , Ned Deily
wrote:
> try:
> import readline
> except ImportError:
> print("Module readline not available.")
> else:
> import rlcompleter
> readline.parse_and_bind("tab: complete")
>
> Note the print() form which works with either Python 2 or
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> I was writing some tests for a mapping class I have made, and I decided
> to run those same tests over dict and UserDict. The built-in dict passed
> all the tests, but UserDict failed one:
>
> class SimpleMappingTest(unittest.TestCase):
> type2test = UserDict.UserDict
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