Re: Command prompt not shown when running Python script with subprocess on Windows

2014-05-27 Thread Tim Golden
On 28/05/2014 00:01, ps16thypresenceisfullnessof...@gmail.com wrote: I want users to be able to enter paths in the XML file exactly the way they would be entered in a Windows shortcut. Since it is possible to make a Windows shortcut for path-to-script.py without the python.exe in front of it and

Re: hashing strings to integers

2014-05-27 Thread Dan Sommers
On Tue, 27 May 2014 17:02:50 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > - rather than "zillions" of them, there are few enough of them that > the chances of an MD5 collision is insignificant; > (Any MD5 collision is going to play havoc with your strategy of > using hashes as a proxy for the real string

Re: Command prompt not shown when running Python script with subprocess on Windows

2014-05-27 Thread ps16thypresenceisfullnessofjoy
Sorry for not being explicit enough. I am aware that this would work if I called python.exe path-to-script.py with shell=False. In my Python program, I parse an XML file like the one I have included below. Then I loop through the paths of the apps listed in it and run them by calling something

Re: is there a list/group for beginners?

2014-05-27 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 7:38 AM, Deb Wyatt wrote: > thanks,John. I guess I was/am afraid to embarrass myself on this list, but > then I accidentally posted a question meant for the tutor list and ended up > getting more for my money than I expected :). I really appreciate that the > people on

Re: is there a list/group for beginners?

2014-05-27 Thread Deb Wyatt
> -Original Message- > From: john_lada...@sbcglobal.net > Sent: Tue, 27 May 2014 11:38:39 -0700 (PDT) > To: python-list@python.org > Subject: Re: is there a list/group for beginners? > > Hi, Deb. > > Ten years ago (or eleven?), I was completely new to Python. I could not > begin to und

Re: python

2014-05-27 Thread Tim Chase
On 2014-05-27 08:43, himanshul...@gmail.com wrote: > Need of python in embedded systems??? Define "embedded". I've got a couple small low-powered devices here (a Digi ConnectPort, a Raspberry Pi, a low-end 32-bit system with 32MB of RAM) all of which run Python. It might be trickier if you're ta

Re: Hello and sorry for disturbing !

2014-05-27 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 27/05/2014 21:02, maksu...@gmail.com wrote: I recommend to install PyCharm Three copies in three minutes of one line with no context, that's a record, congratulations :) -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawr

Re: Python box (home-use smart router)

2014-05-27 Thread Tim Chase
On 2014-05-27 15:33, animalize81 wrote: > Home-use smart router is more and more popular. > > If embeds Python into such router, and > develops a framework that has the following features: > > 1, allow power-down at any time > 2, dynamic domain name > 3, local storage support (SD cards or Hard

Re: help with memory leak

2014-05-27 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 5:56 AM, Neal Becker wrote: > I'm trying to track down a memory leak in a fairly large code. It uses a lot > of > numpy, and a bit of c++-wrapped code. I don't yet know if the leak is purely > python or is caused by the c++ modules. Something to try, which would separat

Re: Hello and sorry for disturbing !

2014-05-27 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 5:56 AM, giacomo boffi wrote: > Rustom Mody writes: > >> For ubuntu you should need nothing for python. >> In other words python should run on a basic ubuntu installation. >> From the shell just type python and the interpreter should start. >> >> For more specialized work

Re: Hello and sorry for disturbing !

2014-05-27 Thread maksufff
I recommend you to install PyCharm -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Hello and sorry for disturbing !

2014-05-27 Thread maksufff
I recommend you to install PyCharm -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Hello and sorry for disturbing !

2014-05-27 Thread maksufff
I recommend to install PyCharm -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Hello and sorry for disturbing !

2014-05-27 Thread giacomo boffi
Rustom Mody writes: > For ubuntu you should need nothing for python. > In other words python should run on a basic ubuntu installation. > From the shell just type python and the interpreter should start. > > For more specialized work there are dozens (maybe hundreds?) of > packages in the apt rep

help with memory leak

2014-05-27 Thread Neal Becker
I'm trying to track down a memory leak in a fairly large code. It uses a lot of numpy, and a bit of c++-wrapped code. I don't yet know if the leak is purely python or is caused by the c++ modules. At each iteration of the main loop, I call gc.collect() If I then look at gc.garbage, it is empt

Re: hashing strings to integers

2014-05-27 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 3:02 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > But I know that Python is a high-level language with > lots of high-level data structures like dicts which trade-off time and > memory for programmer convenience, and that I'd want to see some real > benchmarks proving that my application w

Re: hashing strings to integers

2014-05-27 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, 27 May 2014 16:13:46 +0100, Adam Funk wrote: > On 2014-05-23, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Adam Funk >> wrote: >>> I've also used hashes of strings for other things involving >>> deduplication or fast lookups (because integer equality is faster than >>> str

python

2014-05-27 Thread himanshulkce
Need of python in embedded systems??? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: hashing strings to integers

2014-05-27 Thread Adam Funk
On 2014-05-23, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 5/23/2014 6:27 AM, Adam Funk wrote: > >> that. The only thing that really bugs me in Python 3 is that execfile >> has been removed (I find it useful for testing things interactively). > > The spelling has been changed to exec(open(...).read(), ... . It you u

Re: hashing strings to integers

2014-05-27 Thread Adam Funk
On 2014-05-23, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Adam Funk wrote: >> I've also used hashes of strings for other things involving >> deduplication or fast lookups (because integer equality is faster than >> string equality). I guess if it's just for deduplication, though, a

Re: Python is horribly slow compared to bash!!

2014-05-27 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2014-05-26, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Mon, 26 May 2014 19:00:11 +0200, Johannes Bauer > declaimed the following: > >> >>Now let's all code Itanium assembler, yes? > > Naw... Let's beg Intel to bring back the iAPX-432, and beg AdaCore to > port GNAT to it. When the '432 datasheets came out

Re: is there a list/group for beginners?

2014-05-27 Thread John Ladasky
Hi, Deb. Ten years ago (or eleven?), I was completely new to Python. I could not begin to understand over 90 percent of what I was reading here in comp.lang.python. Still, I asked my newbie questions here. For the most part, I got excellent responses. I think you're in the right place. --

Re: Regular Expression for the special character "|" pipe

2014-05-27 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 27/05/2014 12:39, Aman Kashyap wrote: On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 16:59:38 UTC+5:30, Daniel wrote: What about skipping the re and try this: 'start=|ID=ter54rt543d|SID=ter54rt543d|end=|'.split('|')[1][3:] On 27.05.2014 14:09, Vlastimil Brom wrote: 2014-05-27 12:59 GMT+02:00 Aman Kashyap :

Re: Regular Expression for the special character "|" pipe

2014-05-27 Thread Roy Smith
In article , Wolfgang Maier wrote: > On 27.05.2014 13:39, Aman Kashyap wrote: > >> On 27.05.2014 14:09, Vlastimil Brom wrote: > >> > >>> you can just escpape the pipe with backlash like any other metacharacter: > >>> > >>> r"start=\|ID=ter54rt543d" > >>> > >>> be sure to use the raw string notat

Re: How keep Python 3 moving forward

2014-05-27 Thread wxjmfauth
Le lundi 26 mai 2014 01:09:31 UTC+2, Mark Lawrence a écrit : > On 25/05/2014 23:22, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > > > On Sun, 25 May 2014 11:34:59 -0700, Ethan Furman > > > declaimed the following: > > > > > >> On 05/25/2014 10:38 AM, Rustom Mody wrote: > > >>> > > >>> Your unicode is mojibaked

Re: Regular Expression for the special character "|" pipe

2014-05-27 Thread Wolfgang Maier
On 27.05.2014 13:39, Aman Kashyap wrote: On 27.05.2014 14:09, Vlastimil Brom wrote: you can just escpape the pipe with backlash like any other metacharacter: r"start=\|ID=ter54rt543d" be sure to use the raw string notation r"...", or you can double all backslashes in the string. Thanks

Re: Regular Expression for the special character "|" pipe

2014-05-27 Thread Aman Kashyap
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 16:59:38 UTC+5:30, Daniel wrote: > What about skipping the re and try this: > > > > 'start=|ID=ter54rt543d|SID=ter54rt543d|end=|'.split('|')[1][3:] > > > > On 27.05.2014 14:09, Vlastimil Brom wrote: > > > 2014-05-27 12:59 GMT+02:00 Aman Kashyap : > > >> I would like

Re: Regular Expression for the special character "|" pipe

2014-05-27 Thread Daniel
What about skipping the re and try this: 'start=|ID=ter54rt543d|SID=ter54rt543d|end=|'.split('|')[1][3:] On 27.05.2014 14:09, Vlastimil Brom wrote: 2014-05-27 12:59 GMT+02:00 Aman Kashyap : I would like to create a regular expression in which i can match the "|" special character too. e.g.

Re: Regular Expression for the special character "|" pipe

2014-05-27 Thread Aman Kashyap
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 16:39:19 UTC+5:30, Vlastimil Brom wrote: > 2014-05-27 12:59 GMT+02:00 Aman Kashyap : > > > I would like to create a regular expression in which i can match the "|" > > special character too. > > > > > > e.g. > > > > > > start=|ID=ter54rt543d|SID=ter54rt543d|end=| > >

Re: Regular Expression for the special character "|" pipe

2014-05-27 Thread Vlastimil Brom
2014-05-27 12:59 GMT+02:00 Aman Kashyap : > I would like to create a regular expression in which i can match the "|" > special character too. > > e.g. > > start=|ID=ter54rt543d|SID=ter54rt543d|end=| > > I want to only |ID=ter54rt543d| from the above string but i am unable to > write the pattern

Re: Check to see if the script has been previously used?

2014-05-27 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 9:05 PM, Dave Angel wrote: > Preferred approach is usually to respond to one of the > conventional argv switches. And let the user decide. Yes, this is a technique I've used when doing up important (and dangerous) MUD commands. The command will be something like "unload

Re: Check to see if the script has been previously used?

2014-05-27 Thread Dave Angel
Chris Angelico Wrote in message: > On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 5:45 PM, KC Sparks wrote: >> I was wondering if there was an extension or way that would allow me to >> print instructions if it is the first the the user has used the script. > > The trickiest part is defining the 'user'. Generally, thi

Regular Expression for the special character "|" pipe

2014-05-27 Thread Aman Kashyap
I would like to create a regular expression in which i can match the "|" special character too. e.g. start=|ID=ter54rt543d|SID=ter54rt543d|end=| I want to only |ID=ter54rt543d| from the above string but i am unable to write the pattern match containing "|" pipe too. By default python treat "

Re: Check to see if the script has been previously used?

2014-05-27 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 5:45 PM, KC Sparks wrote: > I was wondering if there was an extension or way that would allow me to > print instructions if it is the first the the user has used the script. The trickiest part is defining the 'user'. Generally, this sort of thing is done by creating a file

Check to see if the script has been previously used?

2014-05-27 Thread KC Sparks
Hi, I was wondering if there was an extension or way that would allow me to print instructions if it is the first the the user has used the script. Thanks, KC -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Python box (home-use smart router)

2014-05-27 Thread animalize81
Home-use smart router is more and more popular. If embeds Python into such router, and develops a framework that has the following features: 1, allow power-down at any time 2, dynamic domain name 3, local storage support (SD cards or Hard Disk) 4, telnet server etc. Then we can create micro

Re: Command prompt not shown when running Python script with subprocess on Windows

2014-05-27 Thread Stephen Hansen
You need to call python.exe path-to-script.py, I think, not just path-to-script.py. See sys.executable (though that depends on if you're a frozen app or not). I can't be sure though because there's no code. Show code when asking questions, it helps frame the discussion and get a better answer ;)

Re:Command prompt not shown when running Python script with subprocess on Windows

2014-05-27 Thread Dave Angel
ps16thypresenceisfullnessof...@gmail.com Wrote in message: > I have written a Python script with a wxPython GUI that uses subprocess.Popen > to open a list of files that the user provides. One of my users would like to > be able to run a Python script with my application. The Python script he is