Re: Regular expressions

2015-11-03 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 04.11.15 um 04:48 schrieb Steven D'Aprano: On Wednesday 04 November 2015 11:33, ru...@yahoo.com wrote: Not quite. Core language concepts like ifs, loops, functions, variables, slicing, etc are the socket wrenches of the programmer's toolbox. Regexs are like an electric impact socket wrench

Re: Python PNG Viewer(Browser Based)

2015-11-03 Thread Ben Finney
Arshpreet Singh writes: > On Tuesday, 3 November 2015 21:32:03 UTC+5:30, Chris Warrick wrote: > > Your problem is lack of basic understanding of the Internet. > > Yes That's true at some level. More specifically, your problem is not “how do I do this with Python?” but rather “what is a web pag

Re: Python PNG Viewer(Browser Based)

2015-11-03 Thread Arshpreet Singh
On Tuesday, 3 November 2015 21:32:03 UTC+5:30, Chris Warrick wrote: > On 3 November 2015 at 12:54, Arshpreet Singh wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > > > I am looking for Browser-based PNG file viewer written in > > Python.(Flask framework preferably) > > > > Following project(Flask-Based) provides m

Re: Regular expressions

2015-11-03 Thread Nobody
On Wed, 04 Nov 2015 14:23:04 +1100, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> Its very name indicates that its default mode most certainly is regular >> expressions. > > I don't even know what grep stands for. >From the ed command "g /re/p" (where "re" is a placeholder for an arbitrary regular expression). Test

Re: Regular expressions

2015-11-03 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wednesday 04 November 2015 11:33, ru...@yahoo.com wrote: >> Not quite. Core language concepts like ifs, loops, functions, >> variables, slicing, etc are the socket wrenches of the programmer's >> toolbox. Regexs are like an electric impact socket wrench. You can do >> the same work without i

Re: Regular expressions

2015-11-03 Thread Michael Torrie
On 11/03/2015 08:23 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >>> Grep can use regular expressions (and I do so with it regularly), but >>> it's default mode is certainly not regular expressions ... >> >> Its very name indicates that its default mode most certainly is regular >> expressions. > > I don't even kno

Re: Irregular last line in a text file, was Re: Regular expressions

2015-11-03 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wednesday 04 November 2015 03:56, Tim Chase wrote: > Or even more valuable to me: > > with open(..., newline="strip") as f: > assert all(not line.endswith(("\n", "\r")) for line in f) # Works only on Windows text files. def chomp(lines): for line in lines: yield line.rstrip(

Re: Regular expressions

2015-11-03 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wednesday 04 November 2015 03:20, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 3:10 AM, Seymore4Head > wrote: >> Yes I knew that -1 represents the end character. It is not a question >> of trying to accomplish anything. I was just practicing with regex >> and wasn't sure how to express a *

Re: Regular expressions

2015-11-03 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wednesday 04 November 2015 13:55, Dan Sommers wrote: > On Tue, 03 Nov 2015 19:04:23 -0700, Michael Torrie wrote: > >> On 11/03/2015 05:33 PM, rurpy--- via Python-list wrote: >>> I consider regexs more fundemental. One need not even be a programmer >>> to use them: consider grep, sed, a zillio

Re: Regular expressions

2015-11-03 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Tim Chase wrote: > It's not as helpful as one might hope because you're stuck using a > fixed regexp rather than an arbitrary regexp, but if you have a > particular regexp you search for frequently, you can index it. > Otherwise, you'd be doing full table-scans (or

Re: Unbuffered stderr in Python 3

2015-11-03 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wednesday 04 November 2015 09:25, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 11/3/2015 10:42 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 2:00 AM, Random832 wrote: >>> Nobody writes: >>> It's probably related to the fact that std{in,out,err} are Unicode streams. >>> >>> There's no fundamental r

Re: Regular expressions

2015-11-03 Thread Tim Chase
On 2015-11-03 19:04, Michael Torrie wrote: > Grep can use regular expressions (and I do so with it regularly), > but it's default mode is certainly not regular expressions, and it > is still very powerful. I suspect you're thinking of `fgrep` (AKA "grep -F") which uses fixed strings rather than re

Re: Regular expressions

2015-11-03 Thread Dan Sommers
On Tue, 03 Nov 2015 19:04:23 -0700, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 11/03/2015 05:33 PM, rurpy--- via Python-list wrote: >> I consider regexs more fundemental. One need not even be a programmer >> to use them: consider grep, sed, a zillion editors, database query >> languages, etc. > > Grep can use

Re: Regular expressions

2015-11-03 Thread Michael Torrie
On 11/03/2015 05:33 PM, rurpy--- via Python-list wrote: > I consider regexs more fundemental. One need not even be a programmer > to use them: consider grep, sed, a zillion editors, database query > languages, etc. Grep can use regular expressions (and I do so with it regularly), but it's defaul

Re: Creating PST files using Python

2015-11-03 Thread rurpy--- via Python-list
I should have checked the web site before posting, it appears that both libpst and libpff only read pst files, no write. Sorry for the noise. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Creating PST files using Python

2015-11-03 Thread rurpy--- via Python-list
On 11/03/2015 12:09 PM, Anthony Papillion wrote: > Does anyone know of a module that allows the wiring of Outlook PST > files using Python? I'm working on a project that will require me to > migrate 60gb of maildir mail (multiple accounts) to Outlook. I used libpst (http://www.five-ten-sg.com/libp

Re: Regular expressions

2015-11-03 Thread rurpy--- via Python-list
On Monday, November 2, 2015 at 9:38:24 PM UTC-7, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 11/02/2015 09:23 PM, rurpy--- via Python-list wrote: > >> My completely unsolicited advice is that regular expressions shouldn't be > >> very high on the list of things to learn. They are very useful, and very > >> tricky

Re: Regular expressions

2015-11-03 Thread rurpy--- via Python-list
On 11/03/2015 12:15 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, 3 Nov 2015 03:23 pm, rurpy wrote: > >> Regular expressions should be learned by every programmer or by anyone >> who wants to use computers as a tool. They are a fundamental part of >> computer science and are used in all sorts of matching

Re: Creating PST files using Python

2015-11-03 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 04Nov2015 09:12, Chris Angelico wrote: On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 6:09 AM, Anthony Papillion wrote: Does anyone know of a module that allows the wiring of Outlook PST files using Python? I'm working on a project that will require me to migrate 60gb of maildir mail (multiple accounts) to Outlo

Re: Regular expressions

2015-11-03 Thread Robin Koch
Am 03.11.2015 um 05:23 schrieb ru...@yahoo.com: Of course there are people who misuse regexes. /^1?$|^(11+?)\1+$/ There are? 0:-) -- Robin Koch -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Unbuffered stderr in Python 3

2015-11-03 Thread Terry Reedy
On 11/3/2015 10:42 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 2:00 AM, Random832 wrote: Nobody writes: It's probably related to the fact that std{in,out,err} are Unicode streams. There's no fundamental reason a Unicode stream should have to be line buffered. If it's "related", it's o

Re: Irregular last line in a text file, was Re: Regular expressions

2015-11-03 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-11-03, Tim Chase wrote: [re. iterating over lines in a file] > I can't think of more than 1-2 times in my last 10+ years of > Pythoning that I've actually had potential use for the newlines, If you can think of 1-2 times when you've been interating over the lines in a file and wanted to

Re: Creating PST files using Python

2015-11-03 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 6:09 AM, Anthony Papillion wrote: > Does anyone know of a module that allows the wiring of Outlook PST files > using Python? I'm working on a project that will require me to migrate 60gb > of maildir mail (multiple accounts) to Outlook. > *wince* I don't, but if there is

Re: Irregular last line in a text file, was Re: Regular expressions

2015-11-03 Thread Tim Chase
On 2015-11-03 11:39, Ian Kelly wrote: > >> because I have countless loops that look something like > >> > >> with open(...) as f: > >> for line in f: > >> line = line.rstrip('\r\n') > >> process(line) > > > > What would happen if you read a file opened like this without > > iter

Re: Modern recommended exception handling practices?

2015-11-03 Thread Paul Rubin
Chris Angelico writes: > Aside from string exceptions and the "except Type, e:" syntax, I would > agree with you. Actually, I can't think of any "obsolete > exception-handling practices" in any language. I'd say that context managers are a big recent improvement in Python over dealing with a lot

Re: Unbuffered stderr in Python 3

2015-11-03 Thread Random832
George Trojan writes: > This does set line buffering, but does not change the behaviour: The opposite of line buffering is not no buffering, but full (i.e. block) buffering, that doesn't get flushed until it runs out of space. TextIOWrapper has its own internal buffer, and its design apparently d

Creating PST files using Python

2015-11-03 Thread Anthony Papillion
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Does anyone know of a module that allows the wiring of Outlook PST files using Python? I'm working on a project that will require me to migrate 60gb of maildir mail (multiple accounts) to Outlook. Thanks Anthony - -- Sent from my Android device wi

Re: Irregular last line in a text file, was Re: Regular expressions

2015-11-03 Thread Ian Kelly
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Ian Kelly wrote: > On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 9:56 AM, Tim Chase > wrote: >> Or even more valuable to me: >> >> with open(..., newline="strip") as f: >> assert all(not line.endswith(("\n", "\r")) for line in f) >> >> because I have countless loops that look som

Re: Irregular last line in a text file, was Re: Regular expressions

2015-11-03 Thread Ian Kelly
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 9:56 AM, Tim Chase wrote: > On 2015-11-03 16:35, Peter Otten wrote: >> I wish there were a way to prohibit such files. Maybe a special >> value >> >> with open(..., newline="normalize") f: >> assert all(line.endswith("\n") for line in f) >> >> to ensure that all lines en

Re: Unbuffered stderr in Python 3

2015-11-03 Thread George Trojan
Forwarded Message Subject:Re: Unbuffered stderr in Python 3 Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2015 18:03:51 + From: George Trojan To: python-list@python.org On 11/03/2015 05:00 PM, python-list-requ...@python.org wrote: On Mon, 02 Nov 2015 18:52:55 +1100, Steven D'Apra

cvxopt install problem

2015-11-03 Thread Ek Esawi
Hi All— I needed to install cvxopt on a 64 bit W7. I found out that cvxopt is incompatible with a 64 bit. It only compatible with a 32 bit which can be installed on a 64 bit computer and it works. I stumbled on this on another discussion group posting. The suggestion was to install python 32 b

Re: Unbuffered stderr in Python 3

2015-11-03 Thread George Trojan
On 11/03/2015 05:00 PM, python-list-requ...@python.org wrote: On Mon, 02 Nov 2015 18:52:55 +1100, Steven D'Aprano wrote: In Python 2, stderr is unbuffered. In most other environments (the shell, C...) stderr is unbuffered. It is usually considered a bad, bad thing for stderr to be buffered. W

Re: Irregular last line in a text file, was Re: Regular expressions

2015-11-03 Thread Peter Otten
Tim Chase wrote: > On 2015-11-03 16:35, Peter Otten wrote: >> I wish there were a way to prohibit such files. Maybe a special >> value >> >> with open(..., newline="normalize") f: >> assert all(line.endswith("\n") for line in f) >> >> to ensure that all lines end with "\n"? > > Or even more

pybabel extraction mess

2015-11-03 Thread Nagy László Zsolt
If I have a large project with multiple directories, then I may want to assign different translation domains for different subpackages. Suppose I have this directory structure: main | |--- sub1 | |--- sub2 | | sub2.1 | | sub2.2

CherryPy cpstats and ws4py

2015-11-03 Thread Israel Brewster
I posted this to the CherryPy and ws4py mailing lists, but in the week since I did that I've only gotten two or three views on each list, and no responses, so as a last-ditch effort I thought I'd post here. Maybe someone with more general python knowledge than me can figure out the traceback and

Re: Irregular last line in a text file, was Re: Regular expressions

2015-11-03 Thread Tim Chase
On 2015-11-03 16:35, Peter Otten wrote: > I wish there were a way to prohibit such files. Maybe a special > value > > with open(..., newline="normalize") f: > assert all(line.endswith("\n") for line in f) > > to ensure that all lines end with "\n"? Or even more valuable to me: with open(

Re: Detection of a specific sound

2015-11-03 Thread Joel Goldstick
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Ian Kelly wrote: > On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 7:45 AM, William Ray Wing wrote: > > > >> On Oct 25, 2015, at 8:17 PM, Montana Burr > wrote: > >> > >> I'm looking for a library that will allow Python to listen for the > shriek of a smoke alarm. Once it detects this sh

Re: Irregular last line in a text file, was Re: Regular expressions

2015-11-03 Thread Jussi Piitulainen
Peter Otten writes: > Jussi Piitulainen wrote: >> Peter Otten writes: >> >>> If a "line" is defined as a string that ends with a newline >>> >>> def ends_in_asterisk(line): >>> return False >>> >>> would also satisfy the requirement. Lies, damned lies, and specs ;) >> >> Even if a "line" is d

Re: Python PNG Viewer(Browser Based)

2015-11-03 Thread marco . nawijn
On Tuesday, November 3, 2015 at 12:55:09 PM UTC+1, Arshpreet Singh wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I am looking for Browser-based PNG file viewer written in > Python.(Flask framework preferably) > > Following project(Flask-Based) provides many things(File manager as > well as file viewer) but it do

Re: Detection of a specific sound

2015-11-03 Thread Ian Kelly
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 7:45 AM, William Ray Wing wrote: > >> On Oct 25, 2015, at 8:17 PM, Montana Burr wrote: >> >> I'm looking for a library that will allow Python to listen for the shriek of >> a smoke alarm. Once it detects this shriek, it is to notify someone. >> Ideally, specificity can be

Re: Regular expressions

2015-11-03 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 3:10 AM, Seymore4Head wrote: > Yes I knew that -1 represents the end character. It is not a question > of trying to accomplish anything. I was just practicing with regex > and wasn't sure how to express a * since it was one of the > instructions. In that case, it's nothin

Re: Regular expressions

2015-11-03 Thread Seymore4Head
On Tue, 3 Nov 2015 10:34:12 -0500, Joel Goldstick wrote: >On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 10:17 PM, Seymore4Head >wrote: > >> On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 20:42:37 -0600, Tim Chase >> wrote: >> >> >On 2015-11-02 20:09, Seymore4Head wrote: >> >> How do I make a regular expression that returns true if the end of >>

Re: Python PNG Viewer(Browser Based)

2015-11-03 Thread Chris Warrick
On 3 November 2015 at 12:54, Arshpreet Singh wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I am looking for Browser-based PNG file viewer written in > Python.(Flask framework preferably) > > Following project(Flask-Based) provides many things(File manager as > well as file viewer) but it does not support PNG file

Re: LU decomposition

2015-11-03 Thread Oscar Benjamin
On 1 November 2015 at 10:04, gers antifx wrote: > > I have to write a LU-decomposition. My Code worked so far but (I want to > become better:) ) I want to ask you, if I could write this LU-decomposition > in a better way? > > def LU(x): > L = np.eye((x.shape[0])) > n = x.shape[0] > f

Re: Detection of a specific sound

2015-11-03 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Oct 25, 2015, at 8:17 PM, Montana Burr wrote: > > I'm looking for a library that will allow Python to listen for the shriek of > a smoke alarm. Once it detects this shriek, it is to notify someone. Ideally, > specificity can be adjusted for the user's environment. For example, I expect >

Re: Unbuffered stderr in Python 3

2015-11-03 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 2:00 AM, Random832 wrote: > Nobody writes: > >> It's probably related to the fact that std{in,out,err} are Unicode >> streams. > > There's no fundamental reason a Unicode stream should have to be line > buffered. If it's "related", it's only in that an oversight was made in

Irregular last line in a text file, was Re: Regular expressions

2015-11-03 Thread Peter Otten
Jussi Piitulainen wrote: > Peter Otten writes: > >> If a "line" is defined as a string that ends with a newline >> >> def ends_in_asterisk(line): >> return False >> >> would also satisfy the requirement. Lies, damned lies, and specs ;) > > Even if a "line" is defined as a string that comes f

Re: Regular expressions

2015-11-03 Thread Joel Goldstick
On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 10:17 PM, Seymore4Head wrote: > On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 20:42:37 -0600, Tim Chase > wrote: > > >On 2015-11-02 20:09, Seymore4Head wrote: > >> How do I make a regular expression that returns true if the end of > >> the line is an asterisk > > > >Why use a regular expression? > >

Re: Regular expressions

2015-11-03 Thread Jussi Piitulainen
Peter Otten writes: > If a "line" is defined as a string that ends with a newline > > def ends_in_asterisk(line): > return False > > would also satisfy the requirement. Lies, damned lies, and specs ;) Even if a "line" is defined as a string that comes from reading something like a file with d

Re: Unbuffered stderr in Python 3

2015-11-03 Thread Random832
Nobody writes: > It's probably related to the fact that std{in,out,err} are Unicode > streams. There's no fundamental reason a Unicode stream should have to be line buffered. If it's "related", it's only in that an oversight was made in the course of making that change. -- https://mail.python

Re: Detection of a specific sound

2015-11-03 Thread Random832
Dennis Lee Bieber writes: > If a fire did occur, and the inspectors find traces of wiring > going into what was supposed to be a stand-alone detector there is > a risk that it will be concluded that the detector had been > tampered with and may not have been functional... And that could > lead to

Re: Regular expressions

2015-11-03 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-11-03, Tim Chase wrote: > On 2015-11-02 20:09, Seymore4Head wrote: >> How do I make a regular expression that returns true if the end of >> the line is an asterisk > > Why use a regular expression? > > if line[-1] == '*': Why use a negative index and then a compare? if line.endswit

Re: Detection of a specific sound

2015-11-03 Thread alister
On Tue, 03 Nov 2015 09:03:14 -0500, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Tue, 3 Nov 2015 08:50:34 + (UTC), alister > declaimed the following: > >>Personally I would forget trying to analyse sound & see if there is any >>way to get an input signal direct from the alarm (even if that is as >>crude as

Re: Regular expressions

2015-11-03 Thread Tim Chase
On 2015-11-02 22:17, Seymore4Head wrote: > On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 20:42:37 -0600, Tim Chase > wrote: > > >On 2015-11-02 20:09, Seymore4Head wrote: > >> How do I make a regular expression that returns true if the end > >> of the line is an asterisk > > > >Why use a regular expression? > > > Because th

Re: venv issues

2015-11-03 Thread Nicholas Cole
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 9:32 PM, Nicholas Cole wrote: >> Logging in as a different user and creating a venv works perfectly, so >> it's clearly a config issue somewhere, but I've tried removing >> ~/.bashrc and ~/.bash_profile and that doesn'

Re: venv issues

2015-11-03 Thread Peter Otten
Nicholas Cole wrote: > I'm using python3.5 (installed from binaries) on the latest OS X. > > I have a curious issue with virtual environments on this machine (but > not on my other machine). > > > $ python3.5 -m venv testenv > $ source testenv/bin/activate > (testenv)$ python -m pip > /private/

Re: Regular expressions

2015-11-03 Thread Peter Otten
Tim Chase wrote: > On 2015-11-03 10:25, Peter Otten wrote: >> >>> How do I make a regular expression that returns true if the end >> >>> of the line is an asterisk >> >> >> >> Why use a regular expression? >> >> >> >> if line[-1] == '*': >> >> yep(line) >> >> else: >> >> nope(line) >

Re: venv issues

2015-11-03 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 9:32 PM, Nicholas Cole wrote: > Logging in as a different user and creating a venv works perfectly, so > it's clearly a config issue somewhere, but I've tried removing > ~/.bashrc and ~/.bash_profile and that doesn't help. What happens if you create a brand new user, then c

Re: venv issues

2015-11-03 Thread Nicholas Cole
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Wolfgang Maier wrote: > On 03.11.2015 11:32, Nicholas Cole wrote: >> >> I'm using python3.5 (installed from binaries) on the latest OS X. >> >> I have a curious issue with virtual environments on this machine (but >> not on my other machine). >> >> >> $ python3.5 -

Re: python error

2015-11-03 Thread Terry Reedy
On 11/3/2015 8:07 AM, Ruud van Rooijen wrote: my code: from tkinter import * window = Tk() label = Label(window, text="miniproject A1") label.pack() window.mainloop() given error: C:\Users\Ruud\Python35\Scripts\python.exe Based on the below, python.exe should be in C:\Users\Ruud\AppData\Lo

python error

2015-11-03 Thread Ruud van Rooijen
my code: from tkinter import * window = Tk() label = Label(window, text="miniproject A1") label.pack() window.mainloop() given error: C:\Users\Ruud\Python35\Scripts\python.exe C:/Users/Ruud/PycharmProjects/School/project.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:/Users/Ruud/PycharmProj

Re: Regular expressions

2015-11-03 Thread Denis McMahon
On Mon, 02 Nov 2015 22:17:49 -0500, Seymore4Head wrote: > On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 20:42:37 -0600, Tim Chase > wrote: > >>On 2015-11-02 20:09, Seymore4Head wrote: >>> How do I make a regular expression that returns true if the end of the >>> line is an asterisk >>Why use a regular expression? > Bec

Re: venv issues

2015-11-03 Thread Wolfgang Maier
On 03.11.2015 11:32, Nicholas Cole wrote: I'm using python3.5 (installed from binaries) on the latest OS X. I have a curious issue with virtual environments on this machine (but not on my other machine). $ python3.5 -m venv testenv $ source testenv/bin/activate (testenv)$ python -m pip /privat

Re: Regular expressions

2015-11-03 Thread Tim Chase
On 2015-11-03 10:25, Peter Otten wrote: > >>> How do I make a regular expression that returns true if the end > >>> of the line is an asterisk > >> > >> Why use a regular expression? > >> > >> if line[-1] == '*': > >> yep(line) > >> else: > >> nope(line) > > Incidentally the code exa

Python PNG Viewer(Browser Based)

2015-11-03 Thread Arshpreet Singh
Hello Everyone, I am looking for Browser-based PNG file viewer written in Python.(Flask framework preferably) Following project(Flask-Based) provides many things(File manager as well as file viewer) but it does not support PNG files. https://github.com/vmi356/filemanager Any idea if I have to

venv issues

2015-11-03 Thread Nicholas Cole
I'm using python3.5 (installed from binaries) on the latest OS X. I have a curious issue with virtual environments on this machine (but not on my other machine). $ python3.5 -m venv testenv $ source testenv/bin/activate (testenv)$ python -m pip /private/tmp/testenv/bin/python: No module named pi

Re: Puzzled

2015-11-03 Thread Michiel Overtoom
> On 03 Nov 2015, at 05:46, Michael Torrie wrote: > Sometimes on Windows you can double-click a python file and it will run. The first thing I do on Windows after installing Python: edit the registry so that the 'open' key is changed to 'run', and 'edit with IDLE' becomes 'open'. I like to see

Re: Regular expressions

2015-11-03 Thread Peter Otten
Michael Torrie wrote: > On 11/02/2015 07:42 PM, Tim Chase wrote: >> On 2015-11-02 20:09, Seymore4Head wrote: >>> How do I make a regular expression that returns true if the end of >>> the line is an asterisk >> >> Why use a regular expression? >> >> if line[-1] == '*': >> yep(line) >> el

Re: installer user interface glitch ?

2015-11-03 Thread alister
On Sun, 01 Nov 2015 08:24:22 -0800, rurpy wrote: > On Sunday, November 1, 2015 at 8:52:55 AM UTC-7, Chris Angelico wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 2:43 AM, rurpy--- via Python-list >> wrote: >> > Why, oh why, do the python.org front page and other pages that offer >> > a Windows download not say

Re: Detection of a specific sound

2015-11-03 Thread alister
On Mon, 02 Nov 2015 20:49:03 -0700, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 10/25/2015 06:17 PM, Montana Burr wrote: >> I'm looking for a library that will allow Python to listen for the >> shriek of a smoke alarm. Once it detects this shriek, it is to notify >> someone. Ideally, specificity can be adjusted fo

Re: Regular expressions

2015-11-03 Thread Nick Sarbicki
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 7:15 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, 3 Nov 2015 03:23 pm, ru...@yahoo.com wrote: > > > Regular expressions should be learned by every programmer or by anyone > > who wants to use computers as a tool. They are a fundamental part of > > computer science and are used in