Re: Python subprocesses experience mysterious delay in receiving stdin EOF

Anybody else see this issue? On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Yang Zhang wrote: > On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Jean-Michel Pichavant > wrote: >> Yang Zhang wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:01 AM, MRAB wrote: >>> On 09/02/2011 01:59, Yang Zhang wrote: > > I r

Re: How to create a dict based on such a file?

On 14 fév, 06:47, Wang Coeus wrote: > Hi all, > I am new to python. Currently I encountered a problem, please help me to > solve this. Thanks in advance! > I have a file like below: ConfigParser Library does exacly what you want but with .ini file format [block1] key1=value1 key2=value2 ... Can

[RELEASED] Python 3.2 rc 3

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On behalf of the Python development team, I'm happy to announce the third release candidate of Python 3.2. Python 3.2 is a continuation of the efforts to improve and stabilize the Python 3.x line. Since the final release of Python 2.7, the 2.x line w

Re: files,folders,paths

On Feb 14, 12:12 am, Ben Finney wrote: > ecu_jon writes: > > On Feb 13, 8:29 pm, Ben Finney wrote: > > > Instead, focus on the issue that's causing you confusion: > > > constructing a filesystem path and testing whether it exists. > > > > Make a *minimal* program that shows the problem you're ha

How to create a dict based on such a file?

Hi all, I am new to python. Currently I encountered a problem, please help me to solve this. Thanks in advance! I have a file like below: ++ block1 { key1=value1 key2=value2 key3=value3 } block2 { key1=value4 key2=value5 key4=value6 } ... blockn { k

Sending email via proxy

Hello, Is chilkat the best option for doing this?(Sending email via proxy) Kind Regards, Jason Sergeant This email has been processed by SmoothZap - www.smoothwall.net -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: files,folders,paths

ecu_jon writes: > On Feb 13, 8:29 pm, Ben Finney wrote: > > Instead, focus on the issue that's causing you confusion: > > constructing a filesystem path and testing whether it exists. > > > > Make a *minimal* program that shows the problem you're having. Post it > > *here* (that's why it's impor

Re: Extending classes __init__behavior for newbies

Am 14.02.2011 00:12, schrieb rantingrick: > False! There IS harm in using super when super not needed. The > difference is readability! And don't downplay that aspect. You > yourself have said this in the past. It seems *some* of us have very > short memories. Of course you are entitled to have yo

Re: files,folders,paths

this is a reply to both Dave Angel and Ben Finney. this version of testing i think incorperates what you guys are saying. http://thanksforallthefish.endofinternet.net/ testing1.py">testin1.py except maybe the os.join.path in the last function. here is the traceback Traceback (most recent call last)

Re: files,folders,paths

On Feb 13, 8:48 pm, Dave Angel wrote: > (You forgot to include the list in your response, and you neglected to > properly quote the message you were replying to.  That makes it quite > hard to separate your remarks from mine) > > On 02/13/2011 07:19 PM, jon hayes wrote: > > > c:\users\name\backup\

Re: files,folders,paths

On Feb 13, 8:29 pm, Ben Finney wrote: > ecu_jon writes: > > here take a look. > >http://thanksforallthefish.endofinternet.net/testing.py > > I think you're confusing yourself by shoving lots of experimental lines > into a large program and not isolating the problem. I see that you are > trying lo

Re: files,folders,paths

(You forgot to include the list in your response, and you neglected to properly quote the message you were replying to. That makes it quite hard to separate your remarks from mine) On 02/13/2011 07:19 PM, jon hayes wrote: c:\users\name\backup\ #win7 c:\docs and settings\name\app data\backup

Re: Class or Dictionary?

On Feb 14, 12:02 pm, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 2/13/2011 6:16 PM, Martin De Kauwe wrote: > > > > > > > I think I got it, did you mean something like this? > > > class Constants: > > >      radius_of_earth = 6.37122E+6 > >      days_as_yrs = 1.0 / 365.25 > >      m2_as_ha = 1E-4  # metres squared as

Re: files,folders,paths

ecu_jon writes: > here take a look. > http://thanksforallthefish.endofinternet.net/testing.py I think you're confusing yourself by shoving lots of experimental lines into a large program and not isolating the problem. I see that you are trying lots of different ways of doing the same thing, and

Re: Class or Dictionary?

On 2/13/2011 6:16 PM, Martin De Kauwe wrote: I think I got it, did you mean something like this? class Constants: radius_of_earth = 6.37122E+6 days_as_yrs = 1.0 / 365.25 m2_as_ha = 1E-4 # metres squared as hectares g_as_tonnes = 1E-6 # grammes as tonnes kg_as_tonnes

Re: EPD 7.0 released

On 2011-02-13 10:40 , sturlamolden wrote: EPD is great, at least for scientific users. There is just one installer, with everything we need, instead of struggling with dozens of libraries to download, configure and build. It is still Python 2.7 (not 3.1) due to libraries like SciPy. A subscriptio

Re: Call to Update All Tutorials to Python3.x Standards.

On 13Feb2011 14:47, rantingrick wrote: | On Feb 13, 4:30 pm, Steven D'Aprano wrote: | > The official stance of the Python development team is that 2.7 and 3.x | > will co-exist for a long, long time. Removing 2.x tutorials would be | > cutting off our nose to spite our face. | | That is BS Steve

Re: files,folders,paths

On Feb 13, 6:39 pm, Ben Finney wrote: > ecu_jon writes: > > can you give an example of how to build a folder name, maybe as a > > string, with parts of it as variables, that have to be strung > > together. like x = "//servername/+variable+"/"+variable+"/" > >     import os.path > >     infile_pat

Re: Class or Dictionary?

On Feb 14, 10:16 am, Martin De Kauwe wrote: > On Feb 13, 6:35 pm, Terry Reedy wrote: > > > > > > > On 2/12/2011 9:20 PM, Martin De Kauwe wrote: > > > > On Feb 13, 5:12 am, Terry Reedy  wrote: > > >> On 2/12/2011 1:24 AM, Martin De Kauwe wrote: > > > >>> The point of this posting was just to ask t

Re: files,folders,paths

On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, ecu_jon wrote: first let me say, you guys are helping me and i thank you for that. i do not want to sound confrontational. i have don my best to make this os agnostic. yes i know, right now in 21a, destination2 is windows specific. that's mostly because os.path.isd

Re: Problem with giant font sizes in tkinter

On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 02:08:01 -, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:48:47 +, Cousin Stanley wrote: Steven D'Aprano wrote: I have a tkinter application under Python 2.6 which is shows text in a giant font, about twenty(?) times larger than expected. The fonts are set usi

Re: files,folders,paths

ecu_jon writes: > can you give an example of how to build a folder name, maybe as a > string, with parts of it as variables, that have to be strung > together. like x = "//servername/+variable+"/"+variable+"/" import os.path infile_path = os.path.join(["//servername", start_dir, other_d

Re: Extending classes __init__behavior for newbies

Ben Finney writes: > However, using ‘__super__’ properly is very problematic. By which I meant the ‘super’ built-in. Sorry for any resulting confusion. -- \ “Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?” “Uh, I think so, | `\ Brain, but balancing a family and a career ... ooh, it's

Re: Extending classes __init__behavior for newbies

On Feb 13, 5:11 pm, James Mills wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 8:39 AM, rantingrick wrote: > > Did everyone miss the fact that this inheritance is unnecessary? > > Considering the Ship class has an attribute "speed" that will be > > affected (either directly or indirectly) by simply modifying i

Re: Extending classes __init__behavior for newbies

James Mills writes: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 8:21 AM, MRAB wrote: > > I would've done it this way: > > > > class FasterShip(Ship): > >    def __init__(self, speed=0, **kwargs): > >        Ship.__init__(self, **kwargs) > >        self.speed = speed > > What's the difference between calling the b

Re: Class or Dictionary?

On Feb 13, 6:35 pm, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 2/12/2011 9:20 PM, Martin De Kauwe wrote: > > > On Feb 13, 5:12 am, Terry Reedy  wrote: > >> On 2/12/2011 1:24 AM, Martin De Kauwe wrote: > > >>> The point of this posting was just to ask those that know, whether it > >>> was a bad idea to use the class

Re: files,folders,paths

Tim Roberts writes: > ecu_jon wrote: > > > >i know backslashes are special. there a special pain in my #$%. > >without a windows environment, you would have to change destination2 > >significantly to try it out. but like i said above you can try > >version 11 in a linux environment. > > If they

Re: multiprocessing & more

On Feb 13, 12:34 pm, Andrea Crotti wrote: > > First of all, does it make sense to use multiprocessing and a short > value as boolean to check if the simulation is over or not? > Maybe, but without knowing exactly what you're doing it's difficult to say if any other approach would be superior. Pl

Re: Extending classes __init__behavior for newbies

On Feb 13, 5:01 pm, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 08:27:10 +1000, James Mills wrote: > > What's the difference between calling the base class's constructor > > directly and using the super type ? > > If you have *only* single inheritance, then there is no practical > difference and

Re: Extending classes __init__behavior for newbies

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 8:39 AM, rantingrick wrote: > Did everyone miss the fact that this inheritance is unnecessary? > Considering the Ship class has an attribute "speed" that will be > affected (either directly or indirectly) by simply modifying it? The attribute "speed" was not a member of th

Re: files,folders,paths

On Feb 13, 5:11 pm, Tim Roberts wrote: > ecu_jon wrote: > > >i know backslashes are special. there a special pain in my #$%. > >without a windows environment, you would have to change destination2 > >significantly to try it out. but like i said above you can try version > >11 in a linux environme

Re: Extending classes __init__behavior for newbies

On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 08:27:10 +1000, James Mills wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 8:21 AM, MRAB > wrote: >> I would've done it this way: >> >> class FasterShip(Ship): >>    def __init__(self, speed=0, **kwargs): >>        Ship.__init__(self, **kwargs) >>        self.speed = speed > > What's the d

Re: Call to Update All Tutorials to Python3.x Standards.

On Feb 13, 4:30 pm, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > The official stance of the Python development team is that 2.7 and 3.x > will co-exist for a long, long time. Removing 2.x tutorials would be > cutting off our nose to spite our face. That is BS Steven and you know it! Of course we are going to suppor

Re: Extending classes __init__behavior for newbies

On Feb 13, 2011 5:37 PM, "James Mills" wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 8:21 AM, MRAB wrote: > > I would've done it this way: > > > > class FasterShip(Ship): > >def __init__(self, speed=0, **kwargs): > >Ship.__init__(self, **kwargs) > >self.speed = speed > > What's the diffe

Re: Extending classes __init__behavior for newbies

On Feb 13, 4:00 pm, James Mills wrote: > class FasterShip(Ship): > >     def __init__(self, l=0,b=0,t=0,name='', speed=0): >         super(FasterShip, self).__init__(l, b, t, name) > >         self.speed = speed Did everyone miss the fact that this inheritance is unnecessary? Considering the Shi

Re: files,folders,paths

On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 10:58:23 -0800, ecu_jon wrote: > i know config does not exist, for some reason the isfolder check is > passing it off saying it exists, when it does not. [steve@sylar ~]$ grep isfolder facbac-011.py [steve@sylar ~]$ grep isfolder facbac-012a.py [steve@sylar ~]$ There is no

Re: Extending classes __init__behavior for newbies

On Feb 13, 4:27 pm, James Mills wrote: > > class FasterShip(Ship): > >    def __init__(self, speed=0, **kwargs): > >        Ship.__init__(self, **kwargs) > >        self.speed = speed > > What's the difference between calling the base > class's constructor directly and using the super type ? wel

Re: Extending classes __init__behavior for newbies

On Feb 13, 4:21 pm, MRAB wrote: > I would've done it this way: > > class FasterShip(Ship): >      def __init__(self, speed=0, **kwargs): >          Ship.__init__(self, **kwargs) >          self.speed = speed Well it seem MRAB and i actually agree on *one* thing. Well, when they said... "great mi

Re: Call to Update All Tutorials to Python3.x Standards.

On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 15:03:18 -0600, Thomas L. Shinnick wrote: > At 01:18 PM 2/13/2011, rantingrick wrote: >>If any tutorial owners refuse to cooperate we need to remove their >>tutorials (and/or links to their tutorials) from the official Python >>website forever. > > How many tutorials have you

Re: Extending classes __init__behavior for newbies

On Feb 13, 4:00 pm, James Mills wrote: [snip] > When you subclass a base class (ship in your example) you need > to call it's parent (or super) methods. This includes the constructor > (__init__). > > The standard way of doing this in Python is: > > class FasterShip(Ship): > >     def __init__(s

Re: Extending classes __init__behavior for newbies

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 8:21 AM, MRAB wrote: > I would've done it this way: > > class FasterShip(Ship): >    def __init__(self, speed=0, **kwargs): >        Ship.__init__(self, **kwargs) >        self.speed = speed What's the difference between calling the base class's constructor directly and us

Re: files,folders,paths

ecu_jon wrote: >i have a samba server at home (acting as my test environment) with one >of the 'shares' mounted as v: on my windows box. inside of that are 4 >folders week[1-4]. i have created c:\users\name\backup , and put a few >files/folders in there to test with. please ignore the wxpython pa

Re: Extending classes __init__behavior for newbies

On 13/02/2011 22:00, James Mills wrote: On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 7:17 AM, Benjamin J. Racine wrote: I don't quite understand the interplay of the two different __init__ methods when trying to extend a class. Below is my hack attempt at doing so... class ship(object): def __init__(self,l=0

Re: files,folders,paths

ecu_jon wrote: > >i know backslashes are special. there a special pain in my #$%. >without a windows environment, you would have to change destination2 >significantly to try it out. but like i said above you can try version >11 in a linux environment. If they are a pain in your #$%, then don't u

Re: Call to Update All Tutorials to Python3.x Standards.

>However *we* are going to move forward with or >without you. In other words: We in RR's book means RR and this silent majority that has pitched in so much work to back his last call to move forward, that we're now boggling in awe at a new Idol. And moving forward means posting lots of trash, (

Re: Extending classes __init__behavior for newbies

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 7:17 AM, Benjamin J. Racine wrote: > I don't quite understand the interplay of the two different __init__ methods > when trying to extend a class.  Below is my hack attempt at doing so... > class ship(object): >     def __init__(self,l=0,b=0,t=0,name=''): >       self.l =

Re: Call to Update All Tutorials to Python3.x Standards.

On Feb 13, 3:03 pm, "Thomas L. Shinnick" wrote: > > In a city I used to live in, a long while ago, ... > > You would stop at a red light at a downtown corner and some unkempt > fellow would lurch out of nowhere, stagger onto your hood, smear his > dirty rag over a part of your windshield once or t

Extending classes __init__behavior for newbies

I don't quite understand the interplay of the two different __init__ methods when trying to extend a class. Below is my hack attempt at doing so... class ship(object): def __init__(self,l=0,b=0,t=0,name=''): self.l = l self.b = b self.t = t self.name

Re: Call to Update All Tutorials to Python3.x Standards.

At 01:18 PM 2/13/2011, rantingrick wrote: If any tutorial owners refuse to cooperate we need to remove their tutorials (and/or links to their tutorials) from the official Python website forever. How many tutorials have you written? In a city I used to live in, a long while ago, ... You would

Re: Call to Update All Tutorials to Python3.x Standards.

Hahaha. You've got a new one every week, don't you. What happened to the demand to evolve idol into the future or whatever the BS you were parroting was? So we're on TKInter being fixed/replaced, (which you haven't worked with the steps people gave you), Idol being forked and redone, (again whi

Re: Call to Update All Tutorials to Python3.x Standards.

PS: -- Open Invitation: -- I am more than willing to help out those who need to bring Python2.x tutorials into 3.x compliance (and i invite others to get involved!). I would prefer to convert all to 3.x tutorials and not engage in "monkey patching" by annotating

Call to Update All Tutorials to Python3.x Standards.

We need to start demanding that folks move towards 3.0 compliance with their tutorials. Most of the functionality in Python3000 is available from the __future__ module, especially in Python2.6 and up. There is no reason to continue supporting deprecated tutorials. If someone is still using an very

Re: files,folders,paths

"Please don't dump code on us and tell us to ignore parts of it. We're offering our time and experience without charging you, the least you can do is take the time to eliminate the irrelevant parts of the code yourself, and show us the smallest piece of code which demonstrates the problem. " i appr

Re: files,folders,paths

On Feb 13, 8:17 am, Dave Angel wrote: > On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, ecu_jon wrote: > > > > > i just tried changing that in ver12a, still get > > IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'V:\\week2\\configs\ > > \apache2.conf' > > good catch tho as that is needed. thanks. > > weekchoice is used

Re: Which non SQL Database ?

For non-SQL you could look into Kyoto Cabinet, which is Berkeley DB-like. Or ZODB which is a Python Object databes. -- Piet van Oostrum WWW: http://pietvanoostrum.com/ PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] Nu Fair Trade woonartikelen op http://www.zylja.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyth

Re: How can I print a traceback without raising an exception?

On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Gerald Britton wrote: > In the following example, I raise an exception in function h() which > prints a traceback.  I would like to know how I can get a similar > display on my terminal without raising an exception.  That is, can I > replace "raise Exception" in f

How can I print a traceback without raising an exception?

In the following example, I raise an exception in function h() which prints a traceback. I would like to know how I can get a similar display on my terminal without raising an exception. That is, can I replace "raise Exception" in function h() with some sequence of instructions (possibly using th

multiprocessing & more

Hi everyone, I have a few questions about my implementation, which doesn't make me totally happy. Suppose I have a very long process, which during its executiong logs something, and the logs are is in n different files in the same directory. Now in the meanwhile I want to be able to do realtime

Re: EPD 7.0 released

EPD is great, at least for scientific users. There is just one installer, with everything we need, instead of struggling with dozens of libraries to download, configure and build. It is still Python 2.7 (not 3.1) due to libraries like SciPy. A subscription for EPD is also a contribution to the deve

Re: Question on running exe file in Python

Thanks for your reply. On Feb 13, 6:58 pm, Chris Rebert wrote: > On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 4:56 AM, joy99 wrote: > > Dear Room, > > Just a friendly FYI: that's a strange salutation; comp.lang.python AKA > python-list isn't a chat room, at least in the normal sense of the > term. I know that. It is

Re: Question on running exe file in Python

On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 4:56 AM, joy99 wrote: > Dear Room, Just a friendly FYI: that's a strange salutation; comp.lang.python AKA python-list isn't a chat room, at least in the normal sense of the term. > I am using Python 2.6.5 (r265:79096, Mar 19 2010, 21:48:26) [MSC v. > 1500 32 bit (Intel)]

Re: files,folders,paths

On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, ecu_jon wrote: i just tried changing that in ver12a, still get IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'V:\\week2\\configs\ \apache2.conf' good catch tho as that is needed. thanks. weekchoice is used to pick week 1-4. really jsut returns 1-4. i plan to do full wee

Question on running exe file in Python

Dear Room, I am using Python 2.6.5 (r265:79096, Mar 19 2010, 21:48:26) [MSC v. 1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 on Windows XP (SP2). Trying to create an .exe file of my scripting file I had saved it as .exe instead of .py file. It seems created. But how to run it? I tried command prompt, seems unres

Question on using cx_freeze

Dear Room, I was trying to build an .exe file for my sample python scripting file "hello1.py". I felt using cx_freeze as py2exe was giving some problems for Python2.6, which I am using. I gave the following commands: >>> import sys >>> from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable >>> base = None if sys

Re: files,folders,paths

On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 02:06:15 -0800, ecu_jon wrote: > i have a samba server at home (acting as my test environment) with one > of the 'shares' mounted as v: on my windows box. inside of that are 4 > folders week[1-4]. i have created c:\users\name\backup , and put a few > files/folders in there to t

Re: Class or Dictionary?

On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 19:45:55 -0800, Dan Stromberg wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Steven D'Aprano > wrote: >> On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 21:47:32 -0800, Dan Stromberg wrote: >> >>> Did you have some sort of bad experience with pylint?  Do you resent >>> the 20 minutes it takes to set it up? >

Re: files,folders,paths

i just tried changing that in ver12a, still get IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'V:\\week2\\configs\ \apache2.conf' good catch tho as that is needed. thanks. weekchoice is used to pick week 1-4. really jsut returns 1-4. i plan to do full weekly backups with another script. getusername

Re: files,folders,paths

Without trying to understand your code, I see one difference if not os.path.isfile(destination+leftover+fname): become if not os.path.isfile(destination+leftover): Regards On Feb 13, 11:06 am, ecu_jon wrote: > i have a samba server at home (acting as my test environment) with one > of

files,folders,paths

i have a samba server at home (acting as my test environment) with one of the 'shares' mounted as v: on my windows box. inside of that are 4 folders week[1-4]. i have created c:\users\name\backup , and put a few files/folders in there to test with. please ignore the wxpython parts of the script, th