Re: completely implicit interpolation based on a frame object

2010-12-07 Thread Steve Holden
On 12/8/2010 2:49 AM, Edward Peschko wrote: > All, > > Ok, it looks like in order to implement a tracer that does > interpolation, I'm going to have to hack around with frames. > > Perl's interpolation is fairly straightforward, to do interpolation of > $a == 1 all you need to do is put quotes ar

Re: Using logging module to log either to screen or a file

2010-12-07 Thread RedBaron
On Dec 7, 7:33 pm, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote: > RedBaron wrote: > > Hi, > > I am beginner to python and i am writing a program that does a lot of > > things. One of the requirements is that the program shud generate a > > log file. I came across python loggging module and found it very > > usefu

Re: Books recommendation

2010-12-07 Thread Oshan
hi kee, i'm a beginner too.. when i asked the same question, some python gurus recommended these books and videos. in fact it worked.. so now i'm forwarding the same to you... 1. Core Python Programming by Wesley J. Chun 2. python quick reference guide - *http://rgruet.free.fr/#QuickRef.* 3. Pyt

Re: default behavior

2010-12-07 Thread Piet van Oostrum
Steven D'Aprano writes: > You don't need the space between strings and the attribute access: > "1".zfill(2) is fine. You only need it for numbers, due to the ambiguity > between the decimal point and dotted attribute access. Personally I prefer parentheses: (1).conjugate -- Piet van Oostrum

Re: Comparisons of incompatible types

2010-12-07 Thread TomF
On 2010-12-07 16:09:17 -0800, Mark Wooding said: Carl Banks writes: I think that feeling the need to sort non-homogenous lists is indictative of bad design. Here's a reason you might want to. You're given an object, and you want to compute a hash of it. (Maybe you want to see whether some

Re: group 0 in the re module

2010-12-07 Thread Yingjie Lan
: Use \g<0>. Thanks! Though I wish all \1, \2, ..., should also be forbidden. Such a mixture of things looks like a patch work. No offense meant. Yingjie -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: convert assembly data (double words and bytes) in two tupple

2010-12-07 Thread MRAB
On 08/12/2010 02:36, joblack wrote: I have two assembly data txt files, one has the structure: 0E1459D1Fh, 0AB58FAAEh, 4303E35Bh, 55FA3020h, 0E66D76ADh, 0EF434544h, ... and the other has the structure: 53h, 6, 6Bh, 0D4h, 40h, 35h, 0B5h, 33h, 0AFh, 30h, 0B3h, 66h, ... (I removed the dd and db

Re: Collision of rotated rectangles without pygame

2010-12-07 Thread Ian
On Dec 7, 4:11 pm, Steve Holden wrote: > >>> timeit.timeit(fm) > 0.58099985122680664 > >>> timeit.timeit(fd) > 0.5524577636719 > > Of course it's possible that the random number generation is dominating, I think that it is. Moving the random number generation out into setup: >>> t1 = timeit

Re: convert assembly data (double words and bytes) in two tupple

2010-12-07 Thread Chris Rebert
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 6:36 PM, joblack wrote: > I have two assembly data txt files, one has the structure: > > 0E1459D1Fh, 0AB58FAAEh, 4303E35Bh, 55FA3020h, 0E66D76ADh, > 0EF434544h, ... > > and the other has the structure: > > 53h, 6, 6Bh, 0D4h, 40h, 35h, 0B5h, 33h, 0AFh, 30h, 0B3h, > 66h, ... >

Re: group 0 in the re module

2010-12-07 Thread MRAB
On 08/12/2010 02:23, Yingjie Lan wrote: Hi, According to the doc, group(0) is the entire match. m = re.match(r"(\w+) (\w+)", "Isaac Newton, physicist") m.group(0) # The entire match 'Isaac Newton' But if you do this: import re re.sub(r'(\d{3})(\d{3})', r'\0 to \1-\2', '757234') '\x00 to 75

convert assembly data (double words and bytes) in two tupple

2010-12-07 Thread joblack
I have two assembly data txt files, one has the structure: 0E1459D1Fh, 0AB58FAAEh, 4303E35Bh, 55FA3020h, 0E66D76ADh, 0EF434544h, ... and the other has the structure: 53h, 6, 6Bh, 0D4h, 40h, 35h, 0B5h, 33h, 0AFh, 30h, 0B3h, 66h, ... (I removed the dd and db with awk) Now I want both of them in

group 0 in the re module

2010-12-07 Thread Yingjie Lan
Hi, According to the doc, group(0) is the entire match. >>> m = re.match(r"(\w+) (\w+)", "Isaac Newton, physicist") >>> m.group(0) # The entire match 'Isaac Newton' But if you do this: >>> import re >>> re.sub(r'(\d{3})(\d{3})', r'\0 to \1-\2', '757234') '\x00 to 757-234' where I expected '7

completely implicit interpolation based on a frame object

2010-12-07 Thread Edward Peschko
All, Ok, it looks like in order to implement a tracer that does interpolation, I'm going to have to hack around with frames. Perl's interpolation is fairly straightforward, to do interpolation of $a == 1 all you need to do is put quotes around "$a == 1" to have $a evaluated. So, I'd like to do t

Re: Comparisons of incompatible types

2010-12-07 Thread BartC
"Carl Banks" wrote in message news:bf4be9a7-a079-4454-9969-60e9be305...@k14g2000pre.googlegroups.com... On Dec 6, 4:17 pm, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Mon, 06 Dec 2010 08:59:12 -0800, TomF wrote: > I'm aggravated by this behavior in python: > x = "4" > print x < 7# prints False > I can't

Re: Comparisons of incompatible types

2010-12-07 Thread Ben Finney
Paul Rubin writes: > Ben Finney writes: > > but, if there is no ‘set’ type, it's fine to write:: > > sorted(foolist) == sorted(barlist) > > what about dictionaries? Creating a needless dict for each list would make the code even less clear, I'd think. (We're talking here about design, which

Re: Comparisons of incompatible types

2010-12-07 Thread Paul Rubin
Ben Finney writes: > but, if there is no ‘set’ type, it's fine to write:: > sorted(foolist) == sorted(barlist) what about dictionaries? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Comparisons of incompatible types

2010-12-07 Thread Ben Finney
Carl Banks writes: > On Dec 6, 4:17 pm, Steven D'Aprano +comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > > Nevertheless, I agree that in hindsight, the ability to sort such > > lists is not as important as the consistency of comparisons. > > I think that feeling the need to sort non-homogenous lists is

Re: Comparisons of incompatible types

2010-12-07 Thread Mark Wooding
Carl Banks writes: > I think that feeling the need to sort non-homogenous lists is > indictative of bad design. Here's a reason you might want to. You're given an object, and you want to compute a hash of it. (Maybe you want to see whether someone else's object is the same as yours, but don't

Re: Comparisons of incompatible types

2010-12-07 Thread Mark Wooding
John Nagle writes: [Stepanov] > makes the point that, for generic programs to work right, the basic > operations must have certain well-defined semantics. Then the same > algorithms will work right across a wide variety of objects. > > This is consistent with Python's "duck typing", but inconsis

Re: Exception handling in Python 3.x

2010-12-07 Thread Steve Holden
On 12/7/2010 1:48 AM, MRAB wrote: > Perhaps Python could use Guido's time machine to check whether the > sequence will yield another object in the future. :-) Since there's only one time machine that would effectively be a lock across all Python interpreters. regards Steve -- Steve Holden

Re: Exception handling in Python 3.x

2010-12-07 Thread Steve Holden
On 12/7/2010 5:58 AM, John Nagle wrote: >PEP 255, like too much Python literature, doesn't distinguish clearly > between the language definition and implementation detail. It says > "The mechanics of StopIteration are low-level details, much like the > mechanics of IndexError in Python 2.1". A

Re: RCX using python serial help

2010-12-07 Thread MRAB
On 06/12/2010 15:37, Astan Chee wrote: Hi, I've got a lego mindstorm RCX 1.0 (but firmware is 2.0) that uses one of those old serial IR towers to control the microcontroller. I've had a look around at python's serial documentation as well as the RCX's documentation and I'm trying to write somethi

Re: Perceived inconsistency in py3k documentation

2010-12-07 Thread Steve Holden
On 12/6/2010 8:00 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 14:47:38 -0500 > Terry Reedy wrote: >> On 12/5/2010 3:31 AM, Greg wrote: >> >> For future reference, >> >>> 1) At http://docs.python.org/py3k/reference/datamodel.html: >>> 2) At http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/stdtypes.html: >>

Re: Comparisons of incompatible types

2010-12-07 Thread Carl Banks
On Dec 7, 3:08 pm, John Nagle wrote: > The basic Boolean identities > >         (a or b) == (b or a) >         not (a or b) == (not a) and (not b) >         not (not a) == a > > should all hold, or an type exception should be raised. > With Python accepting both "True" and "1" as sort of > equival

Re: Comparisons of incompatible types

2010-12-07 Thread Carl Banks
On Dec 6, 4:17 pm, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Mon, 06 Dec 2010 08:59:12 -0800, TomF wrote: > > I'm aggravated by this behavior in python: > > > x = "4" > > print x < 7    # prints False > > I can't imagine why this design decision was made. > > You've never needed to deal with an heterogeneous li

Re: Collision of rotated rectangles without pygame

2010-12-07 Thread Steve Holden
On 12/7/2010 9:53 AM, John Nagle wrote: > On 12/5/2010 2:49 PM, Martin Manns wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am looking for a Python library for 2D collision checks of rotated >> rectangles. Currently, I have found vizier 0.5b that is based on pygame. >> >> Since I do not want to add a pygame dependency t

Re: Comparisons of incompatible types

2010-12-07 Thread John Nagle
On 12/6/2010 4:17 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Mon, 06 Dec 2010 08:59:12 -0800, TomF wrote: I'm aggravated by this behavior in python: x = "4" print x< 7# prints False I can't imagine why this design decision was made. You've never needed to deal with an heterogeneous list? data =

Re: is py2exe still active ?

2010-12-07 Thread Steve Holden
Octavian: It's great that you want to let people know about bugs. Put yourself in the position of the package maintainer, however. She or he doesn't spend all day working on cxFreeze, and probably doesn't even do a Google search on cxFreeze very often. So they are unlikely to find out about this p

Re: Collision of rotated rectangles without pygame

2010-12-07 Thread Martin Manns
On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 00:53:27 -0800 John Nagle wrote: > On 12/5/2010 2:49 PM, Martin Manns wrote: > Probably because you seem to be trying to compute the intersection > point for coincident lines, which is not well-defined. I found the problem: pygame returns one pixel more for the right bor

using trace to do 'in place' evaluation of variables

2010-12-07 Thread Edward Peschko
All, I've been using the trace module for python (as per http://www.dalkescientific.com/writings/diary/archive/2005/04/20/tracing_python_code.html), and would very much like to have a feature there that I've implemented for perl already. Namely, I would like output in the format as described on t

Re: find memory leaks in running program

2010-12-07 Thread shearichard
On Dec 8, 5:51 am, Marco Hornung wrote: > Hey, > > -- > questions > -- > 1. What are the best tools to analyze pythons mem

Python creates "locked" temp dir

2010-12-07 Thread utabintarbo
I am using tempfile.mkdtemp() to create a working directory on a remote *nix system through a Samba share. When I use this on a Windows box, it works, and I have full access to the created dir. When used on a Linux box (through the same Samba share), the created directory shows as "locked", and I a

Re: win32com pythonwin extensions part of stdlib?

2010-12-07 Thread harijay
Thanks Tim for your reply. I did get that build . Also thanks for the examples. Looking forward to using the module Hari On Dec 7, 3:22 pm, Tim Golden wrote: > You want something from here: > >    http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/pywin32/Build%20214/ > > Which one you need will depe

Re: win32com pythonwin extensions part of stdlib?

2010-12-07 Thread harijay
Thanks Ian for your reply. I downloaded the zip file linked by the "Download Binaries/View All files link" . All that gave me was a zip file which unpacked to the source and documentation implying I had to use distutils. If instead I looked at the Build 214 link on sourceforge which corresponds to

Re: RCX using python serial help

2010-12-07 Thread MRAB
On 06/12/2010 15:37, Astan Chee wrote: Hi, I've got a lego mindstorm RCX 1.0 (but firmware is 2.0) that uses one of those old serial IR towers to control the microcontroller. I've had a look around at python's serial documentation as well as the RCX's documentation and I'm trying to write somethi

Re: win32com pythonwin extensions part of stdlib?

2010-12-07 Thread Tim Golden
You want something from here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/pywin32/Build%20214/ Which one you need will depend on your architecture and the version of Python you're running TJG -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: win32com pythonwin extensions part of stdlib?

2010-12-07 Thread harijay
Using the "binary" offered on sourceforge and calling "python setup.py install" Has the install asking for "vcsvarsall.bat" . So this does not seem to be a binary build On Dec 7, 1:27 pm, Ian wrote: > On Dec 7, 11:02 am, harijay wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Hi I am using Python 2.6.5 on Windo

Re: Books recommendation

2010-12-07 Thread Kee Nethery
On Dec 7, 2010, at 5:39 AM, Octavian Rasnita wrote: > Do you have, or can I find elsewhere a recommendation for books,tutorials and > sites appropriate for beginners? I have found that Python for Dummies is the book I use the most. It has lots of examples that work and that I can build upon. T

Re: is py2exe still active ?

2010-12-07 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-12-07, Anders Persson wrote: > When a look att py2exe homepage it is not looking like mutch happen, Why do you say that? The homepage was update last month. If you click on "recent changes" the last wiki page edit was less than two weeks ago, and there ahve been 19 posts to four differ

Re: is py2exe still active ?

2010-12-07 Thread Octavian Rasnita
This packager is also nice. If someone cares, I've discovered a small bug in it. If Python is installed on another drive than C under Windows, the cxfreeze.bat file still calls Python on the drive C and it doesn't work until it is corrected. Octavian - Original Message - From: "Cbast"

Re: win32com pythonwin extensions part of stdlib?

2010-12-07 Thread Ian
On Dec 7, 11:02 am, harijay wrote: > Hi I am using Python 2.6.5 on Windows. > > I wanted to start using the win32com extensions which I understand are > "essentially part of the stdlib" ( quoted > inhttp://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/win32_how_do_i.html) > Since I didnt have the extensions as st

Re: win32com pythonwin extensions part of stdlib?

2010-12-07 Thread Godson Gera
Not sure what you are trying to do but you can get a standalone binaries from http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/ which gets installed without any issues. If for some reason you are still having issues, you can try ActiveState Python which come bundled with pywin32 packages. On Tue, Dec 7, 2

Re: Task Engine Framework?

2010-12-07 Thread Tim Chase
On 12/07/2010 10:56 AM, Nate wrote: On Dec 7, 8:32 am, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: I'm in the process of developing a task engine / workflow module for my Python application and I'm wondering if anyone knows of existing code that could be used or adapted. Since I know that's far too generic a q

win32com pythonwin extensions part of stdlib?

2010-12-07 Thread harijay
Hi I am using Python 2.6.5 on Windows. I wanted to start using the win32com extensions which I understand are "essentially part of the stdlib" ( quoted in http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/win32_how_do_i.html) Since I didnt have the extensions as standard I went to sourceforge to get the module

Re: v = vte.Terminal() AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'Terminal'

2010-12-07 Thread edicionsdigitals.com edicions digitals xarxa social slu
Solved! A really dummy error: I've a vte.py file in the same folder, so import vte found this first than the needed! Thanks! (and sorry) Steve, On 7 Des, 17:34, "bruno.desthuilli...@gmail.com" wrote: > On 7 déc, 12:05, Steve wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I try to run a terminal emulation using Python

select on multiprocessing Listener class

2010-12-07 Thread Thomas Burdick
The multiprocessing module has some wrappers for sockets and while the Client object is selectable the Listener is not, I'm wondering if that could be changed or if there's a way to do it already that I'm not seeing? -Tom -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Books recommendation

2010-12-07 Thread Mauro Caceres
> > > I am also interested to find where I can get Python modules from and how... > similar tools and sites with cpan and ppm for Perl. > > You should look at http://pypi.python.org/pypi, for modules. pip (http://pip.openplans.org/) is a tool used to install python modules. enjoy -- Mauro Cácer

Re: Task Engine Framework?

2010-12-07 Thread Nate
On Dec 7, 8:32 am, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 15:11 -0800, Nate wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm in the process of developing a task engine / workflow module for > > my Python application and I'm wondering if anyone knows of existing > > code that could be used or adapted.  Since

Re: sqlite3 and UTF-8

2010-12-07 Thread Peter Otten
Ale Ghelfi wrote: > i try this : > >> actual_encoding = ... # whatever >> def decode(s): >> return s.decode(actual_encoding) >> >> db = sqlite3.connect(...) >> db.text_factory = decode > > but now the error is : > > >>> rowset = cur.fetchall() > Traceback (most recent call last): >Fil

find memory leaks in running program

2010-12-07 Thread Marco Hornung
Hey, -- questions -- 1. What are the best tools to analyze pythons memory stack, while it is running? 2. Is there a possib

Re: sqlite3 and UTF-8

2010-12-07 Thread Ale Ghelfi
i try this : actual_encoding = ... # whatever def decode(s): return s.decode(actual_encoding) db = sqlite3.connect(...) db.text_factory = decode but now the error is : >>> rowset = cur.fetchall() Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in rowset = cur.fetchall() Fil

Re: v = vte.Terminal() AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'Terminal'

2010-12-07 Thread bruno.desthuilli...@gmail.com
On 7 déc, 12:05, Steve wrote: > Hi, > > I try to run a terminal emulation using Python+Gtk+Vte. Before develop > my own sources, i'm testing some examples like this > ;http://www.eurion.net/python-snippets/snippet/Embed%20a%20VTE%20termi... > > But when i try to run, i get this message error; > >

Re: Task Engine Framework?

2010-12-07 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 15:11 -0800, Nate wrote: > Hello, > I'm in the process of developing a task engine / workflow module for > my Python application and I'm wondering if anyone knows of existing > code that could be used or adapted. Since I know that's far too > generic a question, let me share

Re: Books recommendation

2010-12-07 Thread Octavian Rasnita
Thank you for your help. I have succeeded to create a Windows executable with py2exe. I've seen that the source code of the sample script is hidden. Do you know if it happens the same if the script uses other Python modules I will make? (Will py2exe hide the source code of those modules also?)

Re: sqlite3 and UTF-8

2010-12-07 Thread Peter Otten
Ale Ghelfi wrote: > I try to connect a database sqlite by sqlite3, but return an error. > > >>> rowset = cur.fetchall() > Traceback (most recent call last): >File "", line 1, in > rowset = cur.fetchall() > OperationalError: Could not decode to UTF-8 column 'DATO' with text > 'Document

Re: kinterbasdb error connection

2010-12-07 Thread Christian Heimes
Am 07.12.2010 16:35, schrieb Ale Ghelfi: > (i'm under Ubuntu 10.10 amd64 and python 2.6 and kinterbasdb 3.2 ) > I try to connect my database of firebird 2.5 by kinterbasdb. > But python return this error : > > >>> c = > kinterbasdb.connect(dsn="/media/VINACCIA.FDB",user="user",password="password

use of __new__ to permit "dynamic" completion within (any?) IDE ?

2010-12-07 Thread gst
Hi, I met a situation where I was passing an object created in/with an upper level module class to a lower level module class' instance in one of its __init__ argument and saving a ref of the upper object in that lower level class' new instance. But in my IDE I want the completion to also work fr

kinterbasdb error connection

2010-12-07 Thread Ale Ghelfi
(i'm under Ubuntu 10.10 amd64 and python 2.6 and kinterbasdb 3.2 ) I try to connect my database of firebird 2.5 by kinterbasdb. But python return this error : >>> c = kinterbasdb.connect(dsn="/media/VINACCIA.FDB",user="user",password="password",charset="UTF-8") Traceback (most recent call last)

sqlite3 and UTF-8

2010-12-07 Thread Ale Ghelfi
I try to connect a database sqlite by sqlite3, but return an error. >>> rowset = cur.fetchall() Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in rowset = cur.fetchall() OperationalError: Could not decode to UTF-8 column 'DATO' with text 'Document n°10' What's happend? thank you --

Re: is py2exe still active ?

2010-12-07 Thread Cbast
On Dec 7, 8:23 am, Anders Persson wrote: > Hi! > When a look att py2exe homepage it is not looking like mutch happen, > as a beginner i was thinking to start with Python 3, but i like to now > if py2exe will be for 3 too. > > Is any one have any info ? I don't have the answer about py2exe, but I'

Re: Using logging module to log either to screen or a file

2010-12-07 Thread Jean-Michel Pichavant
RedBaron wrote: Hi, I am beginner to python and i am writing a program that does a lot of things. One of the requirements is that the program shud generate a log file. I came across python loggging module and found it very useful. But I have a few problems Suppose by giving option '-v' along with

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Re: Books recommendation

2010-12-07 Thread Anders Persson
You can't compile Python to exe files, but there is program packing your script to a exe files, look att www.py2exe.org Beware that you must have py2exe version match your pythonversion and att current time the highest version is 2.7. /A On Dec 7, 2:39 pm, "Octavian Rasnita" wrote: > Hello, >

Books recommendation

2010-12-07 Thread Octavian Rasnita
Hello, Do you have, or can I find elsewhere a recommendation for books,tutorials and sites appropriate for beginners? I have a lot of experience in Perl but I am interested to also learn Python for: - web development (with frameworks similar with Catalyst and Ruby on Rails, good templating syst

is py2exe still active ?

2010-12-07 Thread Anders Persson
Hi! When a look att py2exe homepage it is not looking like mutch happen, as a beginner i was thinking to start with Python 3, but i like to now if py2exe will be for 3 too. Is any one have any info ? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Calling FORTAN dll functions from Python

2010-12-07 Thread Stefan Behnel
Alex van der Spek, 07.12.2010 12:11: Does anyone know how to call functions from FORTRAN dlls in Python? Is it even possible? Sure, have a look at fwrap and Cython. Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Calling FORTAN dll functions from Python

2010-12-07 Thread Alex van der Spek
Does anyone know how to call functions from FORTRAN dlls in Python? Is it even possible? I browsed the documentation for Python 2.6.1 and the Python/C API comes close to what I would like to do but it is strictly limited to C. Unfortunately the passing of arguments in C and FORTRAN is very diff

v = vte.Terminal() AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'Terminal'

2010-12-07 Thread Steve
Hi, I try to run a terminal emulation using Python+Gtk+Vte. Before develop my own sources, i'm testing some examples like this ; http://www.eurion.net/python-snippets/snippet/Embed%20a%20VTE%20terminal.html But when i try to run, i get this message error; v = vte.Terminal() AttributeError: '

Re: PEP8 compliance and exception messages ?

2010-12-07 Thread shearichard
On Dec 7, 9:17 am, Andreas Waldenburger wrote: > On Mon, 6 Dec 2010 00:22:49 -0500 Andreas Waldenburger > wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 5 Dec 2010 19:52:54 -0800 Chris Rebert > > wrote: > > > > On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 7:40 PM, shearichard > > > wrote: > > > > Hi - PEP8 says lines should not exceed 7

Re: PEP8 compliance and exception messages ?

2010-12-07 Thread shearichard
On Dec 6, 6:21 pm, Ben Finney wrote: > shearichard writes: > > Hi - PEP8 says lines should not exceed 79 characters in length > > (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/). > > > So if you've got some code that looks like this : > > > raise fooMod.fooException("Some message which is quite long")

Re: Exception handling in Python 3.x

2010-12-07 Thread Mark Wooding
John Nagle writes: >PEP 255, like too much Python literature, doesn't distinguish > clearly between the language definition and implementation detail. It > says "The mechanics of StopIteration are low-level details, much like > the mechanics of IndexError in Python 2.1". Applications should

Using logging module to log either to screen or a file

2010-12-07 Thread RedBaron
Hi, I am beginner to python and i am writing a program that does a lot of things. One of the requirements is that the program shud generate a log file. I came across python loggging module and found it very useful. But I have a few problems Suppose by giving option '-v' along with the program the u

Re: Collision of rotated rectangles without pygame

2010-12-07 Thread John Nagle
On 12/5/2010 2:49 PM, Martin Manns wrote: Hello, I am looking for a Python library for 2D collision checks of rotated rectangles. Currently, I have found vizier 0.5b that is based on pygame. Since I do not want to add a pygame dependency to my app, I replaced the pygame.rect.Rect by a wxPython

Re: [Python-Dev] [RELEASED] Python 3.2 beta 1

2010-12-07 Thread Łukasz Langa
Wiadomość napisana przez Georg Brandl w dniu 2010-12-06, o godz. 22:46: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On behalf of the Python development team, I'm happy to announce the > first of two beta preview releases of Python 3.2. > > Python 3.2 is a continuation of the efforts to