Re: Writing game-state data...

2012-11-08 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 09/11/2012 07:20, Graham Fielding wrote: Hey, folks, me again! I've been puzzling over this for a while now: I'm trying to write data to a file to save the state of my game using the following function: def save_game(): #open a new empty shelve (possibly overwriting an old one) to writ

Re: Multi-dimensional list initialization

2012-11-08 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 09/11/2012 06:37, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Fri, 09 Nov 2012 17:07:09 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 07/11/2012 01:55, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Who knows? Who cares? Nobody does: n -= n But I've seen this scattered through code:

Writing game-state data...

2012-11-08 Thread Graham Fielding
Hey, folks, me again! I've been puzzling over this for a while now: I'm trying to write data to a file to save the state of my game using the following function: def save_game(): #open a new empty shelve (possibly overwriting an old one) to write the game data file_object = open('sav

Re: Multi-dimensional list initialization

2012-11-08 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Fri, 09 Nov 2012 17:07:09 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: >> Can you enlighten us as to how this is better than either: >> x := -x >> or >> x := 0 - x >> ? I'm not seeing it. > > I'm hoping that Mark intended it as an example of crappy cod

Re: Multi-dimensional list initialization

2012-11-08 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 09 Nov 2012 17:07:09 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Mark Lawrence > wrote: >> On 07/11/2012 01:55, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >>> >>> >>> Who knows? Who cares? Nobody does: >>> >>> n -= n >>> >>> >> But I've seen this scattered through code: >> >> x := x - x -

Re: duck typing assert‏

2012-11-08 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 23:44:54 -0500, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 11/8/2012 6:40 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: [...] >> IFoo.bar # returns a computed property > > Assuming IFoo is a class and bar is a property attribute of the class, > IFoo.bar is the property object itself, not the computed property of

Re: duck typing assert

2012-11-08 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Ian Kelly wrote: > looks(Foo).like(IFoo), on the other hand, is crystal clear about which > argument is which. I'm not so sure that it is, tbh. If you read it like an English sentence, it's clearly testing whether Foo matches the template in IFoo, but which are yo

Re: Multi-dimensional list initialization

2012-11-08 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 07/11/2012 01:55, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> >> >> Who knows? Who cares? Nobody does: >> >> n -= n >> > > But I've seen this scattered through code: > > x := x - x - x Can you enlighten us as to how this is better than either: x := -x or

Re: duck typing assert‏

2012-11-08 Thread Terry Reedy
On 11/8/2012 6:40 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 15:39:24 -0500, Terry Reedy wrote: [...] test.py:21: UserWarning: 'bar': is not property. assert looks(Foo).like(IFoo) Traceback (most recent call last): File "test.py", line 21, in assert looks(Foo).like(IFoo) Asser

Re: Right solution to unicode error?

2012-11-08 Thread Andrew Berg
On 2012.11.08 08:06, Oscar Benjamin wrote: > It would be a lot better though if it just worked straight away > without me needing to set the code page (like the terminal in every > other OS I use). The crude equivalent of .bashrc/.zshrc/whatever shell startup script for cmd is setting a string valu

Re: How to print python commands automatically?

2012-11-08 Thread rusi
On Nov 9, 4:12 am, Peng Yu wrote: > Hi, > > In bash, set -v will print the command executed. For example, the > following screen output shows that the "echo" command is printed > automatically. Is there a similar thing in python? > > ~/linux/test/bash/man/builtin/set/-v$ cat main.sh > #!/usr/bin/e

Re: Multi-dimensional list initialization

2012-11-08 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 07/11/2012 01:55, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Who knows? Who cares? Nobody does: n -= n But I've seen this scattered through code: x := x - x - x -- Cheers. Mark Lawrence. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: how to simulate tar filename substitution across piped subprocess.Popen() calls?

2012-11-08 Thread Hans Mulder
On 8/11/12 19:05:11, jkn wrote: > Hi All > i am trying to build up a set of subprocess.Ponen calls to > replicate the effect of a horribly long shell command. I'm not clear > how I can do one part of this and wonder if anyone can advise. I'm on > Linux, fairly obviously. > > I have a command w

Re: duck typing assert

2012-11-08 Thread Ian Kelly
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 20:34:58 +0300, Andriy Kornatskyy wrote: > >> People who come from strongly typed languages that offer interfaces >> often are confused by lack of one in Python. Python, being dynamic >> typing programming language, follo

Re: duck typing assert‏

2012-11-08 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 15:39:24 -0500, Terry Reedy wrote: [...] > test.py:21: UserWarning: 'bar': is not property. >assert looks(Foo).like(IFoo) > Traceback (most recent call last): >File "test.py", line 21, in > assert looks(Foo).like(IFoo) > AssertionError > ''' > > I view this check

Re: duck typing assert‏

2012-11-08 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 20:34:58 +0300, Andriy Kornatskyy wrote: > People who come from strongly typed languages that offer interfaces > often are confused by lack of one in Python. Python, being dynamic > typing programming language, follows duck typing principal. It can as > simple as this: >   > as

Re: Multi-dimensional list initialization

2012-11-08 Thread 88888 Dihedral
On Monday, November 5, 2012 3:07:12 PM UTC+8, Chris Rebert wrote: > On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Demian Brecht wrote: > > > So, here I was thinking "oh, this is a nice, easy way to initialize a 4D > > matrix" (running 2.7.3, non-core libs not allowed): > > > > > > m = [[None] * 4] * 4 This

How to print python commands automatically?

2012-11-08 Thread Peng Yu
Hi, In bash, set -v will print the command executed. For example, the following screen output shows that the "echo" command is printed automatically. Is there a similar thing in python? ~/linux/test/bash/man/builtin/set/-v$ cat main.sh #!/usr/bin/env bash set -v echo "Hello World!" ~/linux/test/

Re: Right solution to unicode error?

2012-11-08 Thread Oscar Benjamin
On 8 November 2012 19:54, wrote: > Le jeudi 8 novembre 2012 19:49:24 UTC+1, Ian a écrit : >> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Oscar Benjamin >> >> wrote: >> >> > If I want the other characters to work I need to change the code page: >> >> > >> >> > O:\>chcp 65001 >> >> > Active code page: 65001

Re: Right solution to unicode error?

2012-11-08 Thread Ian Kelly
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Prasad, Ramit wrote: > Why would font not matter? Unicode is the abstract definition > of all characters right? From that we map the abstract > character to a code page/set, which gives real values for an > abstract character. From that code page we then visually di

RE: Right solution to unicode error?

2012-11-08 Thread Prasad, Ramit
wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: > > Le jeudi 8 novembre 2012 19:49:24 UTC+1, Ian a écrit : > > On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Oscar Benjamin > > > > wrote: > > > > > If I want the other characters to work I need to change the code page: > > > > > > O:\>chcp 65001 > > > Active code page: 65001 > > >

Re: Right solution to unicode error?

2012-11-08 Thread Ian Kelly
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 12:54 PM, wrote: > Font has nothing to do here. > You are "simply" wrongly encoding your "unicode". > '\u2013' > '–' '\u2013'.encode('utf-8') > b'\xe2\x80\x93' '\u2013'.encode('utf-8').decode('cp1252') > '–' No, it seriously is the font. This is what I ge

Re: duck typing assert‏

2012-11-08 Thread Terry Reedy
On 11/8/2012 12:34 PM, Andriy Kornatskyy wrote: People who come from strongly typed languages that offer interfaces often are confused by lack of one in Python. Python, being dynamic typing programming language, follows duck typing principal. It can as simple as this: assert looks(Foo).like(IFo

Re: int.__init__ incompatible in Python 3.3

2012-11-08 Thread Terry Reedy
On 11/8/2012 12:13 PM, Ian Kelly wrote: On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: Preparing for an upgrade from 2.7 to 3, I stumbled across an incompatibility between 2.7 and 3.2 on one hand and 3.3 on the other: class X(int): def __init__(self, value): super(X, se

Re: Right solution to unicode error?

2012-11-08 Thread wxjmfauth
Le jeudi 8 novembre 2012 19:49:24 UTC+1, Ian a écrit : > On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Oscar Benjamin > > wrote: > > > If I want the other characters to work I need to change the code page: > > > > > > O:\>chcp 65001 > > > Active code page: 65001 > > > > > > O:\>Q:\tools\Python33\python

Re: Right solution to unicode error?

2012-11-08 Thread wxjmfauth
Le jeudi 8 novembre 2012 19:32:14 UTC+1, Oscar Benjamin a écrit : > On 8 November 2012 15:05, wrote: > > > Le jeudi 8 novembre 2012 15:07:23 UTC+1, Oscar Benjamin a écrit : > > >> On 8 November 2012 00:44, Oscar Benjamin > >> wrote: > > >> > On 7 November 2012 23:51, Andrew Berg wrote: > >

RE: duck typing assert

2012-11-08 Thread Andriy Kornatskyy
Ian, Thank you for the comments. There is definitely a room for improvement, however there are limits. One of them is related to decorator that replaces decorated method arguments with something like *args, **kwargs. Here is an example. def x():     def decorate(m):     def x(*args, **kwa

Re: Right solution to unicode error?

2012-11-08 Thread Ian Kelly
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Oscar Benjamin wrote: > If I want the other characters to work I need to change the code page: > > O:\>chcp 65001 > Active code page: 65001 > > O:\>Q:\tools\Python33\python -c "import sys; > sys.stdout.buffer.write('\u03b1\n'.encode('utf-8'))" > α > > O:\>Q:\tools\

Re: duck typing assert

2012-11-08 Thread Ian Kelly
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Andriy Kornatskyy wrote: > > People who come from strongly typed languages that offer interfaces often are > confused by lack of one in Python. Python, being dynamic typing programming > language, follows duck typing principal. It can as simple as this: > > asser

Re: Right solution to unicode error?

2012-11-08 Thread Oscar Benjamin
On 8 November 2012 15:05, wrote: > Le jeudi 8 novembre 2012 15:07:23 UTC+1, Oscar Benjamin a écrit : >> On 8 November 2012 00:44, Oscar Benjamin wrote: >> > On 7 November 2012 23:51, Andrew Berg wrote: >> >> On 2012.11.07 17:27, Oscar Benjamin wrote: >> >> >>> Are you using cmd.exe (standard Wi

Re: accuracy problem in calculation

2012-11-08 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-11-08, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 4:05 AM, Debashish Saha wrote: >> (15+1.00067968)-(15+1.00067961) >> Out[102]: 2.384185791015625e-07 >> >> 1.00067968-(1.00067961) >> Out[103]: 7.1866624e-08 >> >> above i am showing the two different results,t

how to simulate tar filename substitution across piped subprocess.Popen() calls?

2012-11-08 Thread jkn
Hi All i am trying to build up a set of subprocess.Ponen calls to replicate the effect of a horribly long shell command. I'm not clear how I can do one part of this and wonder if anyone can advise. I'm on Linux, fairly obviously. I have a command which (simplified) is a tar -c command piped th

Re: accuracy problem in calculation

2012-11-08 Thread Dave Angel
On 11/08/2012 12:05 PM, Debashish Saha wrote: > (15+1.00067968)-(15+1.00067961) > Out[102]: 2.384185791015625e-07 > > 1.00067968-(1.00067961) > Out[103]: 7.1866624e-08 > > above i am showing the two different results,though the two outputs > should be same if we do it in cop

duck typing assert‏

2012-11-08 Thread Andriy Kornatskyy
People who come from strongly typed languages that offer interfaces often are confused by lack of one in Python. Python, being dynamic typing programming language, follows duck typing principal. It can as simple as this:   assert looks(Foo).like(IFoo)   The post below shows how programmer can as

duck typing assert

2012-11-08 Thread Andriy Kornatskyy
People who come from strongly typed languages that offer interfaces often are confused by lack of one in Python. Python, being dynamic typing programming language, follows duck typing principal. It can as simple as this: assert looks(Foo).like(IFoo) The post below shows how programmer can asse

Re: int.__init__ incompatible in Python 3.3

2012-11-08 Thread Ian Kelly
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: > Hi! > > Preparing for an upgrade from 2.7 to 3, I stumbled across an incompatibility > between 2.7 and 3.2 on one hand and 3.3 on the other: > > class X(int): > def __init__(self, value): > super(X, self).__init__(value) > X(42)

Re: accuracy problem in calculation

2012-11-08 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 4:05 AM, Debashish Saha wrote: > (15+1.00067968)-(15+1.00067961) > Out[102]: 2.384185791015625e-07 > > 1.00067968-(1.00067961) > Out[103]: 7.1866624e-08 > > above i am showing the two different results,though the two outputs > should be same if we do

Re: Executing .exe on a remote Windows machine

2012-11-08 Thread Kevin Holleran
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Chris Rebert wrote: > On Thursday, November 8, 2012, Kevin Holleran wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Kevin Holleran wrote: >> >>> My goodness psexec. >>> >>> thanks can't believe that didn't come to me... >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012

Re: error

2012-11-08 Thread Dave Angel
On 11/08/2012 08:47 AM, inshu chauhan wrote: > Actually data is neither a zanzibar nor a class nor a list.. its a yml > image. with pixels > I am trying to access pixels of a 3D image through this programme.. > You want us to keep guessing? And without supplying any new information? There's no

Re: Executing .exe on a remote Windows machine

2012-11-08 Thread Chris Rebert
On Thursday, November 8, 2012, Kevin Holleran wrote: > On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Kevin Holleran > > > wrote: > >> My goodness psexec. >> >> thanks can't believe that didn't come to me... >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Tim Golden >> >> > wrote: >> >>> On 08/11/2012

Re: Executing .exe on a remote Windows machine

2012-11-08 Thread Tim Golden
On 08/11/2012 15:37, Kevin Holleran wrote: > [code] > try: > print("Attempting to restart Splunk...") > subprocess.call(["psexec", "" + host, "'c:\\Program > Files\\Splunk\\bin\\splunk.exe'", "restart"]) > [/code] > > & am getting: > > [output] > Attempting to restart

int.__init__ incompatible in Python 3.3

2012-11-08 Thread Ulrich Eckhardt
Hi! Preparing for an upgrade from 2.7 to 3, I stumbled across an incompatibility between 2.7 and 3.2 on one hand and 3.3 on the other: class X(int): def __init__(self, value): super(X, self).__init__(value) X(42) On 2.7 and 3.2, the above code works. On 3.3, it gives me a "TypeErr

Re: Multi-dimensional list initialization

2012-11-08 Thread Ian Kelly
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Andrew Robinson wrote: > OK: Then copy by reference using map: > > values = zip( map( lambda:times, xrange(num_groups) ) ) > if len(values) < len(times) * num_groups ... > > Done. It's clearer than a list comprehension and you still really don't > need a li

Re: Executing .exe on a remote Windows machine

2012-11-08 Thread Kevin Holleran
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Kevin Holleran wrote: > My goodness psexec. > > thanks can't believe that didn't come to me... > > > > > On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Tim Golden wrote: > >> On 08/11/2012 14:25, Kevin Holleran wrote: >> > Good morning, >> > >> > I wrote a python script

Re: isinstance(.., file) for Python 3

2012-11-08 Thread Stefan Behnel
Duncan Booth, 08.11.2012 14:58: > Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: >> If possible, I'm looking for a solution that works for Pythons 2 and 3, >> since I'm not fully through the conversion yet and have clients that >> might use the older snake for some time before shedding their skin. >> >> Suggestions? >

Re: Right solution to unicode error?

2012-11-08 Thread wxjmfauth
Le jeudi 8 novembre 2012 15:07:23 UTC+1, Oscar Benjamin a écrit : > On 8 November 2012 00:44, Oscar Benjamin wrote: > > > On 7 November 2012 23:51, Andrew Berg wrote: > > >> On 2012.11.07 17:27, Oscar Benjamin wrote: > > >>> Are you using cmd.exe (standard Windows terminal)? If so, it does not

Re: Executing .exe on a remote Windows machine

2012-11-08 Thread Kevin Holleran
My goodness psexec. thanks can't believe that didn't come to me... -- Kevin Holleran Master of Science, Computer Information Systems Grand Valley State University Master of Business Administration Western Michigan University SANS GCFE, CCNA, ISA, MCSA, MCDST, MCP My Paleo & Fitness Blo

Re: Executing .exe on a remote Windows machine

2012-11-08 Thread Tim Golden
On 08/11/2012 14:25, Kevin Holleran wrote: > Good morning, > > I wrote a python script to connect out to a bunch of my remote machines > that are running some software. It modifies a bunch of the config files > for me. After making the changes, I need to restart the software. The > way to do th

Re: Multi-dimensional list initialization

2012-11-08 Thread wrw
On Nov 7, 2012, at 11:51 PM, Andrew Robinson wrote: > On 11/07/2012 04:00 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> Andrew, it appears that your posts are being eaten or rejected by my >> ISP's news server, because they aren't showing up for me. Possibly a side- >> effect of your dates being in the distant p

Executing .exe on a remote Windows machine

2012-11-08 Thread Kevin Holleran
Good morning, I wrote a python script to connect out to a bunch of my remote machines that are running some software. It modifies a bunch of the config files for me. After making the changes, I need to restart the software. The way to do this is to call an .exe passing in a argument 'restart'

Re: Numpy module

2012-11-08 Thread Colin J. Williams
On 08/11/2012 8:09 AM, Anssi Saari wrote: farrellpolym...@gmail.com writes: [snip] Does Numpy 1.6.2 not run with Python 3.2.3? It does on the Raspberry Pi, which uses a variant of Debian. Colin W. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Right solution to unicode error?

2012-11-08 Thread Oscar Benjamin
On 8 November 2012 00:44, Oscar Benjamin wrote: > On 7 November 2012 23:51, Andrew Berg wrote: >> On 2012.11.07 17:27, Oscar Benjamin wrote: >>> Are you using cmd.exe (standard Windows terminal)? If so, it does not >>> support unicode >> Actually, it does. Code page 65001 is UTF-8. I know that do

RE: Right solution to unicode error?

2012-11-08 Thread Anders Schneiderman
Thanks, Oscar and Ramit! This is exactly what I was looking for. Anders > -Original Message- > From: Oscar Benjamin [mailto:oscar.j.benja...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 6:27 PM > To: Anders Schneiderman > Cc: python-list@python.org > Subject: Re: Right solution to un

Re: isinstance(.., file) for Python 3

2012-11-08 Thread Duncan Booth
Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: > If possible, I'm looking for a solution that works for Pythons 2 and 3, > since I'm not fully through the conversion yet and have clients that > might use the older snake for some time before shedding their skin. > > Suggestions? Why bother checking types at all? def

Re: error

2012-11-08 Thread inshu chauhan
Actually data is neither a zanzibar nor a class nor a list.. its a yml image. with pixels I am trying to access pixels of a 3D image through this programme.. On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 8:59 PM, woooee wrote: > From this line, "data" appears to be a class > if 0 < ix < data.width and 0 < iy <

Re: Numpy module

2012-11-08 Thread Anssi Saari
farrellpolym...@gmail.com writes: > Hello to the group! > > I've learned a lot about Ubuntu just trying to install numpy for Python > 3.2.3. I've finally managed to put it in the Python3.2 directory but when I > try to import it, I still get there's "no module named numpy." There are > other mo

Re: isinstance(.., file) for Python 3

2012-11-08 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 13:05:22 +0100, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: > Firstly, I have code that allows either a file or a string representing > its content as parameter. If the parameter is a file, the content is > read from the file. In Python 2, I used "isinstance(p, file)" to > determine whether the par

Re: isinstance(.., file) for Python 3

2012-11-08 Thread Peter Otten
Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: > Hi! > > I have two problems that are related and that I'd like to solve together. > > Firstly, I have code that allows either a file or a string representing > its content as parameter. If the parameter is a file, the content is > read from the file. In Python 2, I used

Re: isinstance(.., file) for Python 3

2012-11-08 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 11:05 PM, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: > Firstly, I have code that allows either a file or a string representing its > content as parameter. If the parameter is a file, the content is read from > the file. In Python 2, I used "isinstance(p, file)" to determine whether the > parame

Re: Unconverted data remains

2012-11-08 Thread MRAB
On 2012-11-08 08:04, Nikhil Verma wrote: Hi My Problem I have a list :- L = ['Sunday November 11 2012 9:00pm ', 'Thursday November 15 2012 7:00pm ',\ 'Friday November 16 2012 7:00pm ', 'Monday November 19 2012 7:30pm ', \ 'Friday November 23 2012 7:30

Re: isinstance(.., file) for Python 3

2012-11-08 Thread MRAB
On 2012-11-08 12:05, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: Hi! I have two problems that are related and that I'd like to solve together. Firstly, I have code that allows either a file or a string representing its content as parameter. If the parameter is a file, the content is read from the file. In Python 2,

isinstance(.., file) for Python 3

2012-11-08 Thread Ulrich Eckhardt
Hi! I have two problems that are related and that I'd like to solve together. Firstly, I have code that allows either a file or a string representing its content as parameter. If the parameter is a file, the content is read from the file. In Python 2, I used "isinstance(p, file)" to determine

Re: Right solution to unicode error?

2012-11-08 Thread Hans Mulder
On 8/11/12 00:53:49, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > This error confuses me. Is that an exact copy and paste of the error, or > have you edited it or reconstructed it? Because it seems to me that if > task.subject is a unicode string, as it appears to be, calling print on > it should succeed: > > py>

Re: Right solution to unicode error?

2012-11-08 Thread wxjmfauth
Le mercredi 7 novembre 2012 23:17:42 UTC+1, Anders a écrit : > I've run into a Unicode error, and despite doing some googling, I > > can't figure out the right way to fix it. I have a Python 2.6 script > > that reads my Outlook 2010 task list. I'm able to read the tasks from > > Outlook and stor

Re: creating size-limited tar files

2012-11-08 Thread andrea crotti
2012/11/8 andrea crotti : > > > > Yes yes I saw the answer, but now I was thinking that what I need is > simply this: > tar czpvf - /path/to/archive | split -d -b 100M - tardisk > > since it should run only on Linux it's probably way easier, my script > will then only need to create the list of fil

Re: creating size-limited tar files

2012-11-08 Thread andrea crotti
2012/11/7 Oscar Benjamin : > > Correct. But if you read the rest of Alexander's post you'll find a > suggestion that would work in this case and that can guarantee to give > files of the desired size. > > You just need to define your own class that implements a write() > method and then distributes

Re: Unconverted data remains

2012-11-08 Thread Peter Otten
Nikhil Verma wrote: > I have a list :- > L = ['Sunday November 11 2012 9:00pm ', 'Thursday November 15 2012 > 7:00pm ',\ [...] > 2012 7:00pm '] > final_event_time = [datetime.strptime(iterable, '%A %B %d %Y %I:%M%p') for > iterable in L] > > and having this error Unconverted data remains .

Re: Read number of CSV files

2012-11-08 Thread Peter Otten
Smaran Harihar wrote: > I am able to read through a CSV File and fetch the data inside the CSV > file but I have a really big list of CSV files and I wish to do the same > particular code in all the CSV files. > > Is there some way that I can loops through all these files, which are in a > single

Re: Multi-dimensional list initialization

2012-11-08 Thread Andrew Robinson
On 11/07/2012 11:09 PM, Ian Kelly wrote: On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Andrew Robinson wrote: OK, and is this a main use case? (I'm not saying it isn't I'm asking.) I have no idea what is a "main" use case. Well, then we can't evaluate if it's worth keeping a list multiplier around at all

Unconverted data remains

2012-11-08 Thread Nikhil Verma
Hi My Problem I have a list :- L = ['Sunday November 11 2012 9:00pm ', 'Thursday November 15 2012 7:00pm ',\ 'Friday November 16 2012 7:00pm ', 'Monday November 19 2012 7:30pm ', \ 'Friday November 23 2012 7:30pm ', 'Sunday November 25 2012 8:00pm ',\