Re: Best Scripting Language for Embedded Work?

2013-07-11 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Hi David, Am 12.07.13 03:18, schrieb David T. Ashley: On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 09:03:54 +0200, Christian Gollwitzer wrote: > Robert's answer made me hesitate - what exactly is your platform? Are you writing the scripts for the embedded platform, or for Windows, or does the embedded controller run

Re: Editor Ergonomics [was: Important features for editors]

2013-07-11 Thread Eric S. Johansson
On Fri, 12 Jul 2013 00:24:26 -0400, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Frankly, nothing comes even close to a real mouse for feedback and ease of use. Maybe a stylus. But that's it. before tremors, I would agree with you. Stylus is amazingly good tool for user interaction in a GUI. After tremors, not

Re: How do I get the OS System Font Directory(Cross-Platform) in python?

2013-07-11 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 21:24:00 -0700, Metallicow wrote: > Forgot to add >>> part. Is there any way to edit posts? Not unless thousands of people give you access to their computer so you can edit the emails in their inboxes. When you send a post to a public mailing list, its out their on fifty t

Re: How do I get the OS System Font Directory(Cross-Platform) in python?

2013-07-11 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Metallicow wrote: > On Thursday, July 11, 2013 8:27:04 PM UTC-5, Christian Heimes wrote: >> Am 11.07.2013 19:19, schrieb Metallicow: >> >> > @ Chris �Kwpolska� Warrick >> >> > Thanks, that is a start anyway. >> >> > a Pure-Python way was what I was wanting, not

Re: Concurrent writes to the same file

2013-07-11 Thread Jason Friedman
> > https://bitbucket.org/cameron_simpson/css/src/374f650025f156554a986fb3fd472003d2a2519a/lib/python/cs/fileutils.py?at=default#cl-408 > > That looks like it will do the trick for me, thank you Cameron. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Editor Ergonomics [was: Important features for editors]

2013-07-11 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jul 2013 01:50:17 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 1:42 AM, Paul Rudin >> wrote: >>> Text selection with a mouse is a different thing. Sometimes it's more >>> convenient, sometimes it's not. >> >> As scr

Re: How do I get the OS System Font Directory(Cross-Platform) in python?

2013-07-11 Thread Metallicow
On Thursday, July 11, 2013 8:27:04 PM UTC-5, Christian Heimes wrote: > Am 11.07.2013 19:19, schrieb Metallicow: > > > @ Chris �Kwpolska� Warrick > > > Thanks, that is a start anyway. > > > a Pure-Python way was what I was wanting, not win32api stuff. > > > > > > "C:\Windows\Fonts" > > >

Re: Editor Ergonomics [was: Important features for editors]

2013-07-11 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 12 Jul 2013 01:50:17 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 1:42 AM, Paul Rudin > wrote: >> Text selection with a mouse is a different thing. Sometimes it's more >> convenient, sometimes it's not. > > As screens get larger and the amount of text on them increases, it's >

Re: Best Scripting Language for Embedded Work?

2013-07-11 Thread Stefan Behnel
David T. Ashley, 12.07.2013 03:19: > On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 14:38:51 -0500, Johann Hibschman wrote: > >> David T. Ashley writes: >> >>> We develop embedded software for 32-bit micros using Windows as the >>> development platform. >> ... >>> I know that Tcl/Tk would do all of the above, but what about

python2.6 epoll.modify failed to unregister events ?

2013-07-11 Thread Ziliang Chen
Hi Guys, I have encountered an epoll issues. On the server side, I use epoll.poll() to wait for events, when there is a socket which has EPOLLIN/EPOLLUP events, I first try to read the socket (I did this coz it says EPOLLIN ready, I might think it has some data in its recv queue). After reading

Re: Documenting builtin methods

2013-07-11 Thread alex23
On 12/07/2013 9:11 AM, Joshua Landau wrote: I also feel that: def factory(): eatit = deque(maxlen=0).extend def exhaust_iter(it): """Doc string goes here""" eatit(it) return exhaust_iter exhaust_it = factory() del factory is a very unobvious way to change a doc

Re: hex dump w/ or w/out utf-8 chars

2013-07-11 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 11:42:26 -0700, wxjmfauth wrote: > And what to say about this "ucs4" char/string '\U0001d11e' which is > weighting 18 bytes more than an "a". > sys.getsizeof('\U0001d11e') > 44 > > A total absurdity. You should stick to Python 3.1 and 3.2 then: py> print(sys.version)

Re: Editor Ergonomics [was: Important features for editors]

2013-07-11 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Big deal. I am utterly unconvinced that raw typing speed is even close to > a bottleneck when programming. Data entry and transcribing from (say) > dictated text, yes. Coding, not unless you are a one-fingered hunt-and- > peek typist. The

Re: Editor Ergonomics [was: Important features for editors]

2013-07-11 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 09:45:33 -0400, Roy Smith wrote: > In article <2fdf282e-fd28-4ba3-8c83-ce120...@googlegroups.com>, > jus...@zeusedit.com wrote: > >> On Wednesday, July 10, 2013 2:17:12 PM UTC+10, Xue Fuqiao wrote: >> >> > * It is especially handy for selecting and deleting text. >> >>

Re: Callable or not callable, that is the question!

2013-07-11 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 15:05:59 +0200, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: > Hello! > > I just stumbled over a case where Python (2.7 and 3.3 on MS Windows) > fail to detect that an object is a function, using the callable() > builtin function. Investigating, I found out that the object was indeed > not callable

Re: How do I get the OS System Font Directory(Cross-Platform) in python?

2013-07-11 Thread Christian Heimes
Am 11.07.2013 19:19, schrieb Metallicow: > @ Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick > Thanks, that is a start anyway. > a Pure-Python way was what I was wanting, not win32api stuff. > > "C:\Windows\Fonts" > The windows path proves valid. Works on XP, Vista, 7. Not sure about win8? That's the wrong way to

Re: Casting classes WAS: Documenting builtin methods

2013-07-11 Thread Christian Heimes
Am 12.07.2013 02:23, schrieb Mark Janssen: > A user was wondering why they can't change a docstring in a module's class. For CPython builtin types (classes) and function have read-only doc strings for multiple reasons. Internally the doc strings are stored as constant C string literals. The __doc_

Re: Best Scripting Language for Embedded Work?

2013-07-11 Thread David T . Ashley
On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 14:38:51 -0500, Johann Hibschman wrote: >David T. Ashley writes: > >> We develop embedded software for 32-bit micros using Windows as the >> development platform. >... >> I know that Tcl/Tk would do all of the above, but what about Python? >> Any other alternatives? > >Given

Re: Best Scripting Language for Embedded Work?

2013-07-11 Thread David T . Ashley
On Tue, 09 Jul 2013 21:44:48 -0400, Dave Angel wrote: >On 07/09/2013 09:29 PM, David T. Ashley wrote: >> We develop embedded software for 32-bit micros using Windows as the >> development platform. >> >> We are seeking a general purpose scripting language to automate >> certain tasks, like cleani

Casting classes WAS: Documenting builtin methods

2013-07-11 Thread Mark Janssen
A user was wondering why they can't change a docstring in a module's class. This made me think: why not have a casting operator ("reciprocal"?) to transform a bonafide class into a mere carcass of a class which can then modified and reanimated back into its own type with the type function? Such t

Re: Documenting builtin methods

2013-07-11 Thread Joshua Landau
On 11 July 2013 07:06, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > But really, I'm having trouble understanding what sort of application > would have "run an iterator to exhaustion without doing anything with the > values" as the performance bottleneck :-) Definitely not this one. Heck, there's even no real reaso

Re: xslice idea | a generator slice

2013-07-11 Thread Ian Kelly
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Fábio Santos wrote: > Isn't all of itertools implemented in C? If we are not using a python-level > and not-so-fast __getitem__ I would wager the C version is a lot faster. > > And if the input is indexable could I assume that it is not too large to > have around i

Re: xslice idea | a generator slice

2013-07-11 Thread Fábio Santos
On 11 Jul 2013 17:38, "Oscar Benjamin" wrote: > > On 11 July 2013 17:21, Russel Walker wrote: > > To confess, this is the second time I've made the mistake of trying to implement generator like functionality of a builtin when there already is on in itertools. Need to start studying that module ab

Re: hex dump w/ or w/out utf-8 chars

2013-07-11 Thread wxjmfauth
Le jeudi 11 juillet 2013 15:32:00 UTC+2, Chris Angelico a écrit : > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 11:18 PM, wrote: > > > Just to stick with this funny character ẞ, a ucs-2 char > > > in the Flexible String Representation nomenclature. > > > > > > It seems to me that, when one needs more than ten by

Re: hex dump w/ or w/out utf-8 chars

2013-07-11 Thread wxjmfauth
Le jeudi 11 juillet 2013 20:42:26 UTC+2, wxjm...@gmail.com a écrit : > Le jeudi 11 juillet 2013 15:32:00 UTC+2, Chris Angelico a écrit : > > > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 11:18 PM, wrote: > > > > > > > Just to stick with this funny character ẞ, a ucs-2 char > > > > > > > in the Flexible String

Re: the general development using Python

2013-07-11 Thread CM
On Wednesday, July 10, 2013 7:57:11 PM UTC-4, Joshua Landau wrote: > Yeah, but why keep shipping the Python interpreter? If you choose the > installer route, you don't have to keep shipping it -- it's only > downloaded if you need it. If not, then you don't download it again. I admit that not ne

Re: How do I get the OS System Font Directory(Cross-Platform) in python?

2013-07-11 Thread Metallicow
On Thursday, July 11, 2013 12:47:01 PM UTC-5, Nobody wrote: > > What makes you think the system *has* a system font directory? Way back when I was kid, I remember a computer that had two colors and 1 built-in font and no mouse. Heck the keyboard was even attached in front a tube screen box. Wo

Re: xslice idea | a generator slice

2013-07-11 Thread Ian Kelly
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Oscar Benjamin wrote: > On 11 July 2013 17:21, Russel Walker wrote: >> To confess, this is the second time I've made the mistake of trying to >> implement generator like functionality of a builtin when there already is on >> in itertools. Need to start studying

Re: Mypy

2013-07-11 Thread Stefan Behnel
Fábio Santos, 11.07.2013 10:16: > Guido tweeted that yesterday. It seems interesting. Although I'm not > comfortable using a subset of the language. > > They seem to want to kill the GIL. This could get much more popular when > they do. Then don't forget to also take a look at Cython. Stefan -

Re: How do I get the OS System Font Directory(Cross-Platform) in python?

2013-07-11 Thread Nobody
On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 08:32:34 -0700, Metallicow wrote: > How do I get the OS System Font Directory(Cross-Platform) in python? What makes you think the system *has* a system font directory? In the traditional X11 model, the only program which needs fonts is the X server, and that can be configured

Re: How do I get the OS System Font Directory(Cross-Platform) in python?

2013-07-11 Thread Metallicow
@ Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick Thanks, that is a start anyway. a Pure-Python way was what I was wanting, not win32api stuff. "C:\Windows\Fonts" The windows path proves valid. Works on XP, Vista, 7. Not sure about win8...? Don't have a mac handy, but the link should be enough to help write some code

Re: xslice idea | a generator slice

2013-07-11 Thread Oscar Benjamin
On 11 July 2013 17:21, Russel Walker wrote: > To confess, this is the second time I've made the mistake of trying to > implement generator like functionality of a builtin when there already is on > in itertools. Need to start studying that module abit more I think. I'm > looking at the docs now

Re: xslice idea | a generator slice

2013-07-11 Thread Russel Walker
> > def __init__(self, seq, *stop): > > > > Wouldn't it be better if it has the same signature(s) as itertools.islice? That's actually what I was going for, except I was modeling it after range, but that was the only way I knew to implement it. > > if len(stop) > 3: > > >

Re: xslice idea | a generator slice

2013-07-11 Thread Ian Kelly
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Russel Walker wrote: > Just some dribble, nothing major. > > I like using slices but I also noticed that a slice expression returns a new > sequence. > > I sometimes find myself using them in a for loop like this: > > > seq = range(10) > for even in seq[::2]: >

Re: ANN: psutil 1.0.0 released

2013-07-11 Thread Dotan Cohen
Thanks, this looks really nice. I was duplicating some of this for my CLI-based webserver control panel: https://github.com/dotancohen/burton As soon as I integrate psutil into Burton I'll add it to the README and such. How would you like me to mention attribution exactly? -- Dotan Cohen http://

Re: How do I get the OS System Font Directory(Cross-Platform) in python?

2013-07-11 Thread Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 08:54:17AM -0700, Metallicow wrote: > For a portable font install tool. > > Finding if a particular font exists, > useful when testing apps in virtual environent, > rendering text from a font, > Font file manipulations, > etc.. > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinf

Re: Wedding Planning Shortcuts

2013-07-11 Thread Alister
On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 23:42:14 -0700, fletcherbenjiaa wrote: > A wedding is truly a labor of love for most engaged couples, and it's > natural to feel a bit wary of the wedding planning process. However, it > doesn't have to be so intimidating or cumbersome. Sure there are lots of > details in even

Re: Concurrent writes to the same file

2013-07-11 Thread Neal Becker
Dave Angel wrote: > On 07/11/2013 12:57 AM, Jason Friedman wrote: >> Other than using a database, what are my options for allowing two processes >> to edit the same file at the same time? When I say same time, I can accept >> delays. I considered lock files, but I cannot conceive of how I avoid

Re: How do I get the OS System Font Directory(Cross-Platform) in python?

2013-07-11 Thread Metallicow
For a portable font install tool. Finding if a particular font exists, useful when testing apps in virtual environent, rendering text from a font, Font file manipulations, etc.. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Editor Ergonomics [was: Important features for editors]

2013-07-11 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 1:42 AM, Paul Rudin wrote: > Text selection with a mouse is a different thing. Sometimes it's > more convenient, sometimes it's not. As screens get larger and the amount of text on them increases, it's likely to get more and more useful to use a mouse... but personally, I

Re: How do I get the OS System Font Directory(Cross-Platform) in python?

2013-07-11 Thread Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Metallicow wrote: > How do I get the OS System Font Directory(Cross-Platform) in python? > > Need a simple script for > Windows, Linux, Mac, etc.. > > Or using wxPython. > > I can't seem to find anything that works, and I don't want to hard-code paths. > -- > http:

Re: Editor Ergonomics [was: Important features for editors]

2013-07-11 Thread Paul Rudin
Roy Smith writes: > This is why I never understood the attraction of something like > xemacs, where you use the mouse to make text selections and run > commands out of menus. Menus are good for learning the functionality, and you have them just as much in Gnu emacs as in xemacs. You can even us

How do I get the OS System Font Directory(Cross-Platform) in python?

2013-07-11 Thread Metallicow
How do I get the OS System Font Directory(Cross-Platform) in python? Need a simple script for Windows, Linux, Mac, etc.. Or using wxPython. I can't seem to find anything that works, and I don't want to hard-code paths. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ANN: psutil 1.0.0 released

2013-07-11 Thread 88888 Dihedral
Giampaolo Rodola'於 2013年7月11日星期四UTC+8下午11時02分01秒寫道: > > Congratulations on the 1.0.0 release! > > > > Thanks a lot. =) > > > > > Btw. any change you can put up a prebuilt installer for a 64-bit built > > > with Python 3.3? You have one for Python 3.2 > > > (http://code.google.com/p/psutil

Re: xslice idea | a generator slice

2013-07-11 Thread Oscar Benjamin
On 11 July 2013 15:54, Russel Walker wrote: > ...oh and here is the class I made for it. > > class xslice(object): > ''' > xslice(seq, start, stop, step) -> generator slice > ''' > > def __init__(self, seq, *stop): Wouldn't it be better if it has the same signature(s) as itertools

Re: ANN: psutil 1.0.0 released

2013-07-11 Thread Giampaolo Rodola'
> Congratulations on the 1.0.0 release! Thanks a lot. =) > Btw. any change you can put up a prebuilt installer for a 64-bit built > with Python 3.3? You have one for Python 3.2 > (http://code.google.com/p/psutil/downloads/list), but the version for Python > 3.3 is not there. Unfortunately I'm

xslice idea | a generator slice

2013-07-11 Thread Russel Walker
Just some dribble, nothing major. I like using slices but I also noticed that a slice expression returns a new sequence. I sometimes find myself using them in a for loop like this: seq = range(10) for even in seq[::2]: print even (That's just for an example) But wouldn't it be a bit of a

Re: xslice idea | a generator slice

2013-07-11 Thread Russel Walker
...oh and here is the class I made for it. class xslice(object): ''' xslice(seq, start, stop, step) -> generator slice ''' def __init__(self, seq, *stop): if len(stop) > 3: raise TypeError("xslice takes at most 4 arguments") elif len(stop) < 0:

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Re: Kivy for Python 3.3

2013-07-11 Thread fronagzen
On Thursday, July 11, 2013 9:17:07 PM UTC+8, Paul Kölle wrote: > Am 11.07.2013 11:09, schrieb fronag...@gmail.com: > > > Hello, first time poster here, and general newbie to Python. > > > > > > I'm looking to write a program in Python, (and have in fact written > > > most of it by now,) and am

Re: Callable or not callable, that is the question!

2013-07-11 Thread Jason Swails
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Ulrich Eckhardt < ulrich.eckha...@dominolaser.com> wrote: > Hello! > > I just stumbled over a case where Python (2.7 and 3.3 on MS Windows) fail > to detect that an object is a function, using the callable() builtin > function. Investigating, I found out that the o

Re: Callable or not callable, that is the question!

2013-07-11 Thread Peter Otten
Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: > Hello! > > I just stumbled over a case where Python (2.7 and 3.3 on MS Windows) > fail to detect that an object is a function, using the callable() > builtin function. Investigating, I found out that the object was indeed > not callable, but in a way that was very unexpec

Re: Editor Ergonomics [was: Important features for editors]

2013-07-11 Thread Roy Smith
In article <2fdf282e-fd28-4ba3-8c83-ce120...@googlegroups.com>, jus...@zeusedit.com wrote: > On Wednesday, July 10, 2013 2:17:12 PM UTC+10, Xue Fuqiao wrote: > > > * It is especially handy for selecting and deleting text. > > When coding I never use a mouse to select text regions or to dele

Re: hex dump w/ or w/out utf-8 chars

2013-07-11 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 11:18 PM, wrote: > Just to stick with this funny character ẞ, a ucs-2 char > in the Flexible String Representation nomenclature. > > It seems to me that, when one needs more than ten bytes > to encode it, > sys.getsizeof('a') > 26 sys.getsizeof('ẞ') > 40 > > this

Re: hex dump w/ or w/out utf-8 chars

2013-07-11 Thread wxjmfauth
Le lundi 8 juillet 2013 19:52:17 UTC+2, Chris Angelico a écrit : > On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 3:31 AM, wrote: > > > Unfortunately (as probably I told you before) I will never pass to > > > Python 3... Guido should not always listen only to gurus like him... > > > I don't like Python as before...s

Callable or not callable, that is the question!

2013-07-11 Thread Ulrich Eckhardt
Hello! I just stumbled over a case where Python (2.7 and 3.3 on MS Windows) fail to detect that an object is a function, using the callable() builtin function. Investigating, I found out that the object was indeed not callable, but in a way that was very unexpected to me: class X:

Re: Kivy for Python 3.3

2013-07-11 Thread Ulrich Eckhardt
Welcome to Python! Am 11.07.2013 11:09, schrieb fronag...@gmail.com: I'm looking to write a program in Python, (and have in fact written most of it by now,) and am trying to put together a GUI for it. Kivy looks very nice, particularly with the fact that it's supposed to be compatible with most

Re: Kivy for Python 3.3

2013-07-11 Thread Paul Kölle
Am 11.07.2013 11:09, schrieb fronag...@gmail.com: Hello, first time poster here, and general newbie to Python. I'm looking to write a program in Python, (and have in fact written most of it by now,) and am trying to put together a GUI for it. Kivy looks very nice, particularly with the fact that

Re: ElementTree: can't figure out a mismached-tag error

2013-07-11 Thread fronagzen
On Thursday, July 11, 2013 8:25:13 PM UTC+8, F.R. wrote: > On 07/11/2013 10:59 AM, F.R. wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I haven't been able to get up to speed with XML. I do examples from > > > the tutorials and experiment with variations. Time and time again I > > > fail with errors messag

Re: Kivy for Python 3.3

2013-07-11 Thread Ian Foote
On 11/07/13 10:09, fronag...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, first time poster here, and general newbie to Python. I'm looking to write a program in Python, (and have in fact written most of it by now,) and am trying to put together a GUI for it. Kivy looks very nice, particularly with the fact that i

Re: ElementTree: can't figure out a mismached-tag error

2013-07-11 Thread F.R.
On 07/11/2013 10:59 AM, F.R. wrote: Hi all, I haven't been able to get up to speed with XML. I do examples from the tutorials and experiment with variations. Time and time again I fail with errors messages I can't make sense of. Here's the latest one. The url is "http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=

Re: ElementTree: can't figure out a mismached-tag error

2013-07-11 Thread Fábio Santos
On 11 Jul 2013 10:24, wrote: > > Actually, I don't think etree has a HTML parser. And I would counter-recommend lxml if speed is an issue: BeautifulSoup takes a long time to parse a large document. > > On Thursday, July 11, 2013 5:08:04 PM UTC+8, Fábio Santos wrote: > > > > Use an HTML parser.

Re: How to clean up socket connection to printer

2013-07-11 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 7:28 PM, loial wrote: > Replies to questions : > > 1. Does the printer accept connections again after some time? > > Yes, bit seems to vary how long that takes > > 2. Does the printer accept connections if you close and re-open the > Python interpreter? > > Not after a Conn

Re: How to clean up socket connection to printer

2013-07-11 Thread loial
Replies to questions : 1. Does the printer accept connections again after some time? Yes, bit seems to vary how long that takes 2. Does the printer accept connections if you close and re-open the Python interpreter? Not after a Connection reset error. The script exits after trapping the "Con

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-11 Thread Michael Torrie
On 07/10/2013 02:43 AM, Mats Peterson wrote: > I fear you don’t even know what a regular expression is. Then this will > of course not affect you. Hmm, and your stack exchange posts had a similar tone, hmm? I for one have never ready any of your posts on this forum before, so it looks like you've

Re: ElementTree: can't figure out a mismached-tag error

2013-07-11 Thread fronagzen
Actually, I don't think etree has a HTML parser. And I would counter-recommend lxml if speed is an issue: BeautifulSoup takes a long time to parse a large document. On Thursday, July 11, 2013 5:08:04 PM UTC+8, Fábio Santos wrote: > On 11 Jul 2013 10:04, "F.R." wrote: > > > > > > Hi all, >

Kivy for Python 3.3

2013-07-11 Thread fronagzen
Hello, first time poster here, and general newbie to Python. I'm looking to write a program in Python, (and have in fact written most of it by now,) and am trying to put together a GUI for it. Kivy looks very nice, particularly with the fact that it's supposed to be compatible with most platfor

Re: ElementTree: can't figure out a mismached-tag error

2013-07-11 Thread Fábio Santos
On 11 Jul 2013 10:04, "F.R." wrote: > > Hi all, > > I haven't been able to get up to speed with XML. I do examples from the tutorials and experiment with variations. Time and time again I fail with errors messages I can't make sense of. Here's the latest one. The url is " http://finance.yahoo.com/

ElementTree: can't figure out a mismached-tag error

2013-07-11 Thread F.R.
Hi all, I haven't been able to get up to speed with XML. I do examples from the tutorials and experiment with variations. Time and time again I fail with errors messages I can't make sense of. Here's the latest one. The url is "http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=XIDEQ&ql=0";. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Pyth

Re: Concurrent writes to the same file

2013-07-11 Thread Nobody
On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 22:57:09 -0600, Jason Friedman wrote: > Other than using a database, what are my options for allowing two processes > to edit the same file at the same time? When I say same time, I can accept > delays. What do you mean by "edit"? Overwriting bytes and appending bytes are sim

Re: Documenting builtin methods

2013-07-11 Thread Ben Finney
Joshua Landau writes: > On 11 July 2013 05:13, Joshua Landau wrote: > > > > Ah, I get it. It is easy to misread my post as "I have this > exhaust_iter" and it's obvious it doesn't work because why else would > I post here what do I do HALP! Right. Just because you think there's one obvious int

Re: Mypy

2013-07-11 Thread Fábio Santos
On 11 Jul 2013 09:08, "Steven D'Aprano" wrote: > > Things are certainly heating up in the alternate Python compiler field. > Mypy is a new, experimental, implementation of Python 3 with optional > static typing and aiming for efficient compilation to machine code. > > http://www.mypy-lang.org/inde

Mypy

2013-07-11 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Things are certainly heating up in the alternate Python compiler field. Mypy is a new, experimental, implementation of Python 3 with optional static typing and aiming for efficient compilation to machine code. http://www.mypy-lang.org/index.html -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/

Re: Stack Overflow moder ator “animuson”

2013-07-11 Thread CM
On Wednesday, July 10, 2013 11:01:26 AM UTC-4, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Mats, I fear you have misunderstood. If the Python Secret Underground > existed, which it most certainly does not, it would absolutely not have > the power to censor people's emails or cut them off in the middle of > *That'

Re: Documenting builtin methods

2013-07-11 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 17:06:39 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Steven D'Aprano >> wrote: >>> I think the right solution here is the trivial: >>> >>> def exhaust(it): >>> """Doc string here.""" >>> d

Re: Documenting builtin methods

2013-07-11 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 17:06:39 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Steven D'Aprano > wrote: >> I think the right solution here is the trivial: >> >> def exhaust(it): >> """Doc string here.""" >> deque(maxlen=0).extend(it) >> >> >> which will be fast enough for al

Re: Documenting builtin methods

2013-07-11 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > I think the right solution here is the trivial: > > def exhaust(it): > """Doc string here.""" > deque(maxlen=0).extend(it) > > > which will be fast enough for all but the tightest inner loops. But if > you really care about optimizi