Re: Python gotcha of the day

2018-03-13 Thread Bill
Dan Sommers wrote: On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 04:08:30 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Explain the difference between these two triple-quoted strings: But remove the spaces, and two of the quotation marks disappear: py> """\"" '"' That's (a) a triple quoted string containing a single escaped q

Re: Python gotcha of the day

2018-03-13 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 14Mar2018 04:08, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Explain the difference between these two triple-quoted strings: Here is a triple-quoted string containing spaces and a triple-quote: py> """ \""" """ ' """ ' But remove the spaces, and two of the quotation marks disappear: py> """\"" '"' """

[RELEASE] Python 3.6.5rc1 is now available for testing

2018-03-13 Thread Ned Deily
Announcing the immediate availability of Python 3.6.5 release candidate 1! Python 3.6.5rc1 is the first release candidate for Python 3.6.5, the next maintenance release of Python 3.6. While 3.6.5rc1 is a preview release and, thus, not intended for production environments, we encourage you to expl

Re: Python gotcha of the day

2018-03-13 Thread Dan Sommers
On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 04:08:30 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Explain the difference between these two triple-quoted strings: > But remove the spaces, and two of the quotation marks disappear: > > py> """\"" > '"' That's (a) a triple quoted string containing a single escaped quote, followed

Python gotcha of the day

2018-03-13 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Explain the difference between these two triple-quoted strings: Here is a triple-quoted string containing spaces and a triple-quote: py> """ \""" """ ' """ ' But remove the spaces, and two of the quotation marks disappear: py> """\"" '"' If nobody gets the answer, I shall reveal all late

Re: Enumerating all 3-tuples (Posting On Python-List Prohibited)

2018-03-13 Thread Ben Bacarisse
Lawrence D’Oliveiro writes: > On Tuesday, March 13, 2018 at 1:58:48 PM UTC+13, Ben Bacarisse wrote: >> Of course you can always generate n-tuples of N and then map these to >> n-tuples of the intended sequence but that seems inelegant. > > This whole discussion seems to be going off on esoteric,

Re: serial communication error for loop

2018-03-13 Thread MRAB
On 2018-03-14 00:23, Dhileepan Kumar wrote: #!/usr/bin/python import serial import MySQLdb while True: #establish connection to MySQL. You'll have to change this for your database. dbConn = MySQLdb.connect("localhost","root","1234","ifet") or die ("could not connect to database")

Re: serial communication error for loop

2018-03-13 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 11:23 AM, Dhileepan Kumar wrote: > > #!/usr/bin/python > > import serial > import MySQLdb > while True: > #establish connection to MySQL. You'll have to change this for your database. > dbConn = MySQLdb.connect("localhost","root","1234","ifet") or die > ("could not

serial communication error for loop

2018-03-13 Thread Dhileepan Kumar
#!/usr/bin/python import serial import MySQLdb while True: #establish connection to MySQL. You'll have to change this for your database. dbConn = MySQLdb.connect("localhost","root","1234","ifet") or die ("could not connect to database") #open a cursor to the database cu

Re: 2.7 EOL = 2020 January 1

2018-03-13 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 10:58:42 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote: > On March 10, on thread "Python 2.7 -- bugfix or security before EOL?", > Guido van Russum wrote > > "The way I see the situation for 2.7 is that EOL is January 1st, 2020, > and there will be no updates, not even source-only security patches

Re: 2.7 EOL = 2020 January 1

2018-03-13 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 5:30 AM, Tim Chase wrote: > On 2018-03-13 10:58, Terry Reedy wrote: >> Two days later, Benjamin Peterson, the 2.7 release manager, replied >> "Sounds good to me. I've updated the PEP to say 2.7 is completely >> dead on Jan 1 2020." adding "The final release may not literall

Re: 2.7 EOL = 2020 January 1

2018-03-13 Thread Tim Chase
On 2018-03-13 10:58, Terry Reedy wrote: > Two days later, Benjamin Peterson, the 2.7 release manager, replied > "Sounds good to me. I've updated the PEP to say 2.7 is completely > dead on Jan 1 2020." adding "The final release may not literally be > on January 1st". Am I the only one saddened by

2.7 EOL = 2020 January 1

2018-03-13 Thread Terry Reedy
On March 10, on thread "Python 2.7 -- bugfix or security before EOL?", Guido van Russum wrote "The way I see the situation for 2.7 is that EOL is January 1st, 2020, and there will be no updates, not even source-only security patches, after that date. Support (from the core devs, the PSF, and p

Re: Enumerating all 3-tuples

2018-03-13 Thread Robin Becker
On 13/03/2018 11:14, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Mon, 12 Mar 2018 13:17:15 +, Robin Becker wrote: It's possible to generalize the cantor pairing function to triples, but that may not give you what you want. Effectively you can generate an arbitrary number of triples using an iterative method.

Re: Enumerating all 3-tuples

2018-03-13 Thread Antoon Pardon
On 10-03-18 02:13, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > I am trying to enumerate all the three-tuples (x, y, z) where each of x, > y, z can range from 1 to ∞ (infinity). > > This is clearly unhelpful: > > for x in itertools.count(1): > for y in itertools.count(1): > for z in itertools.count(1): >

Re: How do Fractions convert to int?

2018-03-13 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 12:40:26 +0100, Robin Koch wrote: > Am 13.03.2018 um 12:16 schrieb Steven D'Aprano: > >> How do Fractions convert to ints when they have no __int__ method? > > It uses __trunc__: Ah, thanks! -- Steve -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How do Fractions convert to int?

2018-03-13 Thread Robin Koch
Am 13.03.2018 um 12:16 schrieb Steven D'Aprano: How do Fractions convert to ints when they have no __int__ method? It uses __trunc__: | In general, the int() conversion should try __int__() first and if | it is not found, try __trunc__().[https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3141/] -- Robin

How do Fractions convert to int?

2018-03-13 Thread Steven D'Aprano
How do Fractions convert to ints when they have no __int__ method? py> from fractions import Fraction py> x = Fraction(99, 2) py> int(x) # works fine 49 py> x.__int__ Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in AttributeError: 'Fraction' object has no attribute '__int__' -- Ste

Re: Enumerating all 3-tuples

2018-03-13 Thread Paul Moore
On 13 March 2018 at 11:01, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sat, 10 Mar 2018 11:15:49 +, Paul Moore wrote: > >> On 10 March 2018 at 02:18, MRAB wrote: > [...] >>> This might help, although the order they come out might not be what you >>> want: >>> >>> def triples(): >>> for total in itertools

Re: Enumerating all 3-tuples

2018-03-13 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 12 Mar 2018 13:17:15 +, Robin Becker wrote: > It's possible to generalize the cantor pairing function to triples, but > that may not give you what you want. Effectively you can generate an > arbitrary number of triples using an iterative method. My sample code > looked like this > >

Re: Enumerating all 3-tuples (Posting On Python-List Prohibited)

2018-03-13 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 11 Mar 2018 01:40:01 +, Ben Bacarisse wrote: > I'm sure deep recursion is not needed, it's just tricky translating from > a lazy language when one is not familiar with all the iterator > facilities in Python. For example, I couldn't find an append operation > that returns an iterable.

Re: Enumerating all 3-tuples

2018-03-13 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 10 Mar 2018 11:15:49 +, Paul Moore wrote: > On 10 March 2018 at 02:18, MRAB wrote: [...] >> This might help, although the order they come out might not be what you >> want: >> >> def triples(): >> for total in itertools.count(1): >> for i in range(1, total): >>

Re: Enumerating all 3-tuples

2018-03-13 Thread Robin Becker
On 12/03/2018 18:05, Chris Angelico wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 2:54 AM, Robin Becker wrote: On 12/03/2018 13:17, Robin Becker wrote: An alternative approach gives more orderly sequences using a variable base number construction 4 (0, 0, 1) 9 (0, 0, 1) 18 (0, 0, 2) 32 (0, 0, 2) I spy dup