guis... without conveying any useful
information (to me) in 30 minutes. If you tell them they have
10 minutes and make them get organized in advanced
they are much more likely to get to the point and
everyone can see something else before they run out of
attention span.
-- Aaron Watters
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by
This one is about managing the community dynamics
in the subversion project.
http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=-4216011961522818645
It only made me a little uncomfortable at certain moments :).
Good viewing.
-- Aaron Watters
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e fine to add something like this as an additional elaboration, but
I want bisect to scream as fast as possible in the default streamlined
usage.
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dueling bumper stickers:
use java/get rich
use perl/get laid -- both equally sensible
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On Feb 26, 10:03 am, Aaron Watters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi folks. Andy Pausch who headed up the Alice project
> which aims to teach 3D animation using Python ...
Oops. It looks like Alice 1.0 was Python; 2.0 is java, but whatever.
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h/
You've probably already seen it, but I thought I'd point
out the Python angle. It's a good view to help put things
in perspective. Its one of those internet phenomena.
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the
programming stuff on the job, since most of
what counts seems to be politics, really.
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On Feb 22, 5:31 pm, Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Aaron Watters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > 3) ...I was thinking
> > of adding an optional feature to Nucular which would allow
> > a look-up like "given a word find all attributes that con
better/standard name, yes? What is it please? Thanks!
Answers from anyone else welcomed also.
[Nucular: http://nucular.sourceforge.net/ ]
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There are 3 kinds of people: those who can count, and those who can't.
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intended use. If
it isn't maybe you should find something else. Suggestions
and criticism are always welcome.
-- Aaron Watters
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"Visit New Jersey: It's not as bad as you think!"
-- suggested New Jersey tourism slogan
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d, with no possible locking issues.
Nucular supports document threading in the
manner of USENET replies. Built in semantics allows
"follow ups" to messages to match patterns that
match the "original" messages.
Nucular indexes and retrieves data quickly.
I hope you like.
-- Aaron
ome
hints above, but it's mixed in with a lot of other stuff...)
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m having trouble
understanding why people would want
to buy in to this. For example at
the amazon site I see things like
"it might take a couple minutes
to load your image..." Are they
joking?
hmmm. -- Aaron Watters
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it could
be used. Bonus points if you mention
Python in the response!
An actual example would be great,
if it's not web scraping and searching.
- Aaron Watters
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On Dec 6, 2:01 pm, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Dec 6, 9:30 am, Aaron Watters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> See recipes:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/491285
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/305269
I previ
On Dec 6, 9:51 pm, "Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Aaron Watters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> The current version of list.sort (timsort) was designed to take advantage
> of pre-existing order. It should discover the 2 sorted sublist
On Dec 6, 2:14 pm, Neil Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2007-12-06, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > See recipes:
> >http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/491285
> >http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/305269
>
> That's fairly awesome.
T
ice tiny extension module
(at least for my purposes).
See timing demonstration code below. Let me know if there
is a better way or if the test is fatally flawed, please.
--- Aaron Watters
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==snip: test code belo
ltural backgrounds.
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nterpreter a lot slower (which may be why javascript
is pretty slow).
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rst few weeks
trying to talk about the filesystem. Instead
you say "follow these steps and all will
become clear later." It's not a matter of
preference -- it's a matter of necessity.
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ation frameworks, even in Python
-- too much strange magic floats around in the air
-- usually in order to make things "easy" that I never thought
were hard in the first place.
-- Aaron Watters
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-- adding, deleting, changing freely
-- and I think this was motivated by the
"C" level understanding that it really is just another
hash table. From a pythonic perspective you would
never think of behaving this way except under
extreme duress.
-- Aaron Watters
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mple
examples at the interactive prompt.
But if you talk like the above to them, they
will run for the hills... (no offense intended).
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nything.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
I'm guessing the file is okay, but something involving naming
is wrong. Check the error log file(s). It may show that
mod_py is looking inside the module and not finding the right
function/method. As others have said, some sample code wou
Try chaning it
to
data = "dummy"
while data:
...
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strings in week 3+
and hash tables and other scary things would
probably wait for the second course.
IronPython anyone? (btw, what's up with IronPython?)
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as some serious advantages. I don't
see anything wrong in teaching a bit of both, tho.
Students also like to learn languages which they can
find in the "help wanted" section very easily ;).
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and the dictionary.has_key(...) method
instead of looping over lists.
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On Nov 18, 7:12 pm, "martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I need some help with my job assignment
our
run, finding nothing every time.
Just my 2c.
-- Aaron Watters
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ace),
so you run into memory contention issues sooner than
on 32 bit machines, for similar memory sizes.
If there is something deeper going
on please correct me, I would very much like to know.
-- Aaron Watters
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dicts
that consume beyond that.That's better than I feared at any
rate...
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thing.
The bulk of the newbies are either off in VB land
or struggling with java.
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ch are longs, as done in
http://nucular.sourceforge.net and http://bplusdotnet.sourceforge.net
and elsewhere. Someone please summarize.
-- Aaron Watters
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t (especially for free). However, I have to plug nucular as a
possible
back end data store that may make it easier for you to implement the
app you outlined. Please have a look:
http://nucular.sourceforge.net
See the "demos" for examples of what you can do with it very easil
eory (or category theory or similar)
which is fundamentally relational. Historically
hierarchical/network databases preceded rdbms's because they
are fundamentally more efficient. Unfortunately, they are
also fundamentally more inflexible (it is generally agreed).
-- Aaron Watters
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ter
than most other rdbms's for apps
like data mining where you don't need
transactional support, especially if you use the table
implementations that don't support ACID transactions.
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ol
If you find that you need some functionality that is
missing, it may be easy to add. Let me know.
For example the underlying indexing methodology can
be manipulated in many clever ways to get different
performance characteristics.
-- Aaron Watters
===
When at first you don't succeed
give up
On Nov 1, 10:12 am, Aaron Watters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Oct 31, 6:10 pm, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Alright already. Here is the patched file you want
>
> http://nucular.sourceforge.net/kisstree_pickle.py
This file has been removed. A
On Nov 1, 11:42 pm, Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Aaron Watters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > >>> marshal.loads('RKp,U\xf7`\xef\xe77\xc1\xea\xd8\xec\xbe\\')
> > > Segmentation fault
> > >...
> > I'll
On Nov 1, 4:59 pm, Jean-Paul Calderone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:35:15 -0000, Aaron Watters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On Nov 1, 2:15 pm, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> On Nov 1, 4:45 am, Aaron Watters <[EMAIL
On Nov 1, 2:15 pm, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Nov 1, 4:45 am, Aaron Watters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Marshal is more secure than pickle
>
> "More" or "less" make little sense in a security context which
> typi
On Oct 31, 6:10 pm, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Oct 31, 12:27 pm, Aaron Watters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Makes more sense to use cPickle and be done with it.
>
> FWIW, I've updated the docs to be absolutely clear on the subject:
Therefore pickle should not be used as a general RPC
> mechanism.
This is absolutely correct. Marshal is more secure than pickle
because marshal *cannot* execute code automatically whereas pickle
does. The assertion that marshal is less secure than pickle is
absurd.
This is exactly why the gadf
On Oct 31, 1:37 pm, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Oct 31, 6:45 am, Aaron Watters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I like to use
> > marshal a lot because it's the absolutely fastest
> > way to store and load data to/from Python
dfly.sourceforge.net
and nucular full text/fielded search
http://nucular.sourceforge.net
use marshal as the underlying serializer. Using cPickle
would probably make serialization worse than 2x slower.
This is one of the 2 or 3 key tricks which make these
packages as fast as they are.
-- A
for a package released back in '94, eh?
-- Aaron Watters
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The method employed I would gladly explain,
While I have it so clear in my head,
If I had but the time and you had but the brain--
But much yet remains to be said.
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t;cp"?) -- I suspect some sort of
trickery,
frankly.
Anyway, if you want a feature like proximity searching or
some sort of internationalization support (it works with unicode, but
that's probably not enough), please let me know. I focused on
the core indexing and retrieval function
cess or other system
support such as shared memory locking.
-- Nucular supports concurrency. Arbitrary concurrent
updates and accesses by multiple processes or threads
are supported, with no possible locking issues.
-- Nucular indexes and retrieves large collections quickly.
I hope you like.
> Heh, check out the benchmark graphs:
>
> http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/09/20/conventional_hard_drive_obsole...
My point exactly :)... Thanks again
-- Aaron Watters
give me chocolate
and no one gets hurt.
(from a tee shirt)
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ed in really addressing the "google" size of data set
at the moment.
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147021
holy rusty metal batman! way-cool!
thanks, -- Aaron Watters
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less is more
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an be
very nice to have one access handled by one process in one
thread leaving the other cpu's available to handle other
accesses or do other things.
imho, fwiw, ymmv, rsn, afaik.
-- Aaron Watters
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even in a perfect world
where everyone is equal
i'd still own the film rights
and b
most purposes into nucular. Others may appear
in later releases, but the one's that are there cover the
most common needs, I think. I would prefer benchmarks
that compared simple common examples, not obscure
complicated ones.
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===
if you want a friend, get a dog.
-- Trum
roblem it's probably only the
first of many reasons they won't want to use it or will not
like it because it doesn't match their preconceptions. But
if there's some way to change the name easily in the next
week or so, I'll consider it anyway. hints?
-- Aaron Watters
===
in my open source projects? Besides there is
a great tradition of tounge-in-cheek package names, like
"Cold fusion", for example.
Actually one reason I chose it, is I own nucularOption.com and
also http://nucular.sourceforge.net was available.
too late now. sorry again,
-- Aaron Wat
ot; has already turned me off wanting to find out more about it.
>
> Tim Delaney
No, it doesn't stand for anything. I guess it's not for you :(.
Sorry about that.
(see the graphic at the bottom of http://nucular.sourceforge.net)
-- Aaron Watters
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An apple every 8 hours wil
ing issues.
-- Nucular indexes and retrieves large collections quickly.
Read more and download at:
http://nucular.sourceforge.net
Online demos:
http://www.xfeedme.com/nucular/gut.py/go
http://www.xfeedme.com/nucular/mondial.py/go
I hope you like!
-- Aaron Watters
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I don't know ka-RAH-te
entest.py", line 31,
in rename
Process
os.rename(firstname, secondname)
WindowsError: [Error 13] The process cannot access the file because it
is being
used by another process
So it looks like the answer in general is "no: you can't do that
on Windows."
Drat! Foiled again.
pport this feature (which I think is
standard for POSIX systems)?
Inquiring minds want to know. -- Aaron Watters
===
an apple every 8 hours
will keep 3 doctors away. -- kliban
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or precedence appropriately
(versus using and, or, not) and also correctly
implementing DeMorgan's laws and other property's of
boolean algebra
~(a*b) == ~a + ~b
etcetera.
1+True is bad practice and should be an error.
Anything else is false advertising
(and the java community has the pa
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