Re: Something in the function tutorial confused me.

2007-08-06 Thread Alex Popescu
Stargaming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:46b6df49$0$26165 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > On Sun, 05 Aug 2007 23:50:24 -0700, Lee Fleming wrote: > >> Hello, >> I have a simple question. Say you have the following function: >> >> def f(x, y = []): >> y.append(x) >> return y >> >> print f(23) #

Re: how to run os.execv() to run command pslq dbname < gen.command

2007-08-04 Thread Alex Popescu
Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Sonu wrote: >> hello all , >> > I want to watch my TV, but it's not working. Can you tell me how to > fix it? ... > I can help you... but only with a couple of channels :-). >> i need to run psql from my py file,, >> for that

RE: File Handling & TRY/EXCEPT

2007-08-03 Thread Alex Popescu
"Robert Rawlins - Think Blue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Thanks for your ideas guys, > > I'm unfortunately tied to 2.4 so don't have the full try except > status, but I'm now working with the following code: > > def addApp(self, event): > try: >

Re: File Handling & TRY/EXCEPT

2007-08-03 Thread Alex Popescu
"Robert Rawlins - Think Blue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > This is a multipart message in MIME format. > > --=_NextPart_000_00B0_01C7D5B0.02EB8BA0 > Hello Guys, > > > > I'm looking for some advice on how best to handle file read/write > errors with try/except as

Re: Pythonic way for missing dict keys

2007-08-02 Thread Alex Popescu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote in news:1i27mku.1sc8l3x1dda3crN% [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Bruno Desthuilliers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> Alex Popescu a écrit : > > [... snip ...] > > > The mere check of whether an object possesses some important s

Re: Pythonic way for missing dict keys

2007-08-02 Thread Alex Popescu
Bruno Desthuilliers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Steven D'Aprano a écrit : > (snip) > >> Instead of doing: > >> if callable(function): function() >> >> you should do: >> >> try: >> function() >> except TypeError: >> pass > > There are time where you may want

Re: a dict trick

2007-08-02 Thread Alex Popescu
james_027 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:1186036331.304916.304020 @e9g2000prf.googlegroups.com: > hi > > for example I have this dictionary > > dict = {'name':'james', 'language':'english'} > > value = 'sex' in dict and dict['sex'] or 'unknown' > > is a right pythonic of doing this one? I a

Re: Where do they tech Python officialy ?

2007-08-02 Thread Alex Popescu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote in news:1i26u6o.pthuan2j7nufN% [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Alex Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >... >> Have you seen/heard of Jim lately? Cause I haven't. By the time he was >> the lead of the AspectJ team his charismatic

Re: Where do they tech Python officialy ?

2007-08-01 Thread Alex Popescu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote in news:1i25pjo.1mo5uqc1yxqsjkN% [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Alex Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >... >> > and you will both learn a lot _and_ acquire "professional experience" >> > that any enlightened employer wil

Re: Checking object types

2007-08-01 Thread Alex Popescu
"Robert Dailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > --=_Part_51775_19953536.1185988361742 > Hi, > > I'm currently interested in creating an __add__() operator for one of > my classes. This class handles both integers and objects its own type, > however I don't know how I c

Re: Where do they tech Python officialy ?

2007-08-01 Thread Alex Popescu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote in news:1i23wyk.avc945i4dwsiN% [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > NicolasG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >... >> The problem is that I would like to work as a Python programmer but >> all the job vacancies I can find requires a couple of years of >> professional experien

Re: Wing IDE for Python v. 3.0 beta1 released

2007-07-31 Thread Alex Popescu
Wingware <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Hi, > > I'm happy to announce the first beta release of Wing IDE 3.0. It is > available from http://wingware.com/wingide/beta > > > [snip...] > > There is one feature that I would like to suggest: open module in project. Currentl

Re: Simple question about logging module.

2007-07-31 Thread Alex Popescu
"Gabor Urban" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > --=_Part_36089_18686793.1185871599583 > Hullo, > > I have started to use Python's logging, and got a problem. I have > created some loggers and wrote some lines in the log. The problem is, > that most of the lines appear do

Re: replacement for execfile

2007-07-29 Thread Alex Popescu
"Steven D'Aprano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 15:17:56 +, Alex Popescu wrote: > >> Hi all! >> >> From another thread (and the pointed PEP) I have found that execfile >> will not be p

replacement for execfile

2007-07-28 Thread Alex Popescu
Hi all! >From another thread (and the pointed PEP) I have found that execfile will not be present in Py3k. So, I am wondering what will be its replacement? Considering that most probably Py3k will keep eval and exec, this will still be possible (indeed requiring manual loading of the file strin

Re: Pythonic way for missing dict keys

2007-07-28 Thread Alex Popescu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John J. Lee) wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Alex Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Zentrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in >> news:1185041243.323915.161230 @x40g2000prg.googlegroups.com: >> >>> On Jul 21, 7:48 a

Re: problem with change to exceptions

2007-07-27 Thread Alex Popescu
Neal Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Alex Popescu wrote: > >> Neal Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in >> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> > > [snip...] > >>> >> >> You can pass to the exception: >&g

Re: Relative-importing *

2007-07-27 Thread Alex Popescu
Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> from . import * >> from .sibiling import * >> from .. import * >> from ..parent_sibling import * >> >> ...and so on. The same error occurs: >> SyntaxError: 'import *' not allowed

Re: problem with change to exceptions

2007-07-27 Thread Alex Popescu
Neal Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > import exceptions > > class nothing (exceptions.Exception): > def __init__ (self, args=None): > self.args = args > > if __name__ == "__main__": > raise nothing > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "",

Re: Packages

2007-07-27 Thread Alex Popescu
"Kevin T. Ryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Hi All - > > I'm having a problem and I hope you can help. I can't seem to import > packages from within the package substructure as I think I should be > able to. For example, I create a directory structure as follows: >

Re: removing items from a dictionary ?

2007-07-26 Thread Alex Popescu
Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > hello, > > I want to remove some items from a dictionary, > so I would expect this should work: > >Nets = {} >... fill the dictionary Nets > >for net in Nets: > if net.upper() in Eagle_Power_Nets : >de

Re: Singleton in Python Cookbook

2007-07-26 Thread Alex Popescu
Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Alex Popescu wrote: >> Alex Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in >> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> >>> "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in >>> news:[

Re: os.path.walk usage on WinXP

2007-07-26 Thread Alex Popescu
Alex Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Hi all! > > I am trying to use the os.path.walk function, but I am getting a weird > error: > > def _walk(dir_name): > def selector(arg, dirname, fnames): > print "selector" >

Re: os.path.walk usage on WinXP

2007-07-26 Thread Alex Popescu
Alex Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Hi all! > > I am trying to use the os.path.walk function, but I am getting a weird > error: > > def _walk(dir_name): > def selector(arg, dirname, fnames): > print "selector" >

os.path.walk usage on WinXP

2007-07-26 Thread Alex Popescu
Hi all! I am trying to use the os.path.walk function, but I am getting a weird error: def _walk(dir_name): def selector(arg, dirname, fnames): print "selector" os.path.walk(dir_name, selector, None) File "C:\zengarden\python\python25\lib\ntpath.py", line 325, in walk names = os.list

Re: Singleton in Python Cookbook

2007-07-26 Thread Alex Popescu
Bruno Desthuilliers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Alex Popescu a écrit : > > [snip...] > > > I don't have the book, so if you don't post the code, I just give up > trying to guess what the problem can be. I've sent the ori

Re: Singleton in Python Cookbook

2007-07-25 Thread Alex Popescu
Alex Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >> Alex Popescu schrieb: >>> Hi all! >>> >>> I was reading through Python Cookbook th

Re: Singleton in Python Cookbook

2007-07-25 Thread Alex Popescu
"Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Alex Popescu schrieb: >> Hi all! >> >> I was reading through Python Cookbook the Singleton recipe. At this >> moment I am a bit puzzled as the example in the book is not worki

Singleton in Python Cookbook

2007-07-25 Thread Alex Popescu
Hi all! I was reading through Python Cookbook the Singleton recipe. At this moment I am a bit puzzled as the example in the book is not working resulting in: TypeError: type.__new__(SingleSpam): SingleSpam is not a subtype of type (I haven't presented the original code as I am not sure about co

Re: classmethod & staticmethod

2007-07-24 Thread Alex Popescu
Neil Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:eRwpi.36813$G23.28496 @newsreading01.news.tds.net: > On 2007-07-25, Alex Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> As a matter of style, how do you figure out that class_list is >> a class attribute and not an instance attr

Re: classmethod & staticmethod

2007-07-24 Thread Alex Popescu
"Steven D'Aprano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 21:35:58 +, Alex Popescu wrote: > >> Neil Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in >> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> >>> On 2007-07-24, Alex

Re: classmethod & staticmethod

2007-07-24 Thread Alex Popescu
Neil Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > On 2007-07-24, Alex Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Bruno Desthuilliers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> > > [snip...] > >> >> cla

Re: Subclassing int

2007-07-24 Thread Alex Popescu
G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > --=_Part_187401_13883248.1185238999144 > Hi, > > I am trying to subclass int to allow a constructor to accept None. > I am > trying the following > > class INT(int): > def __init__(self, x): > if x is None: >

Re: code packaging

2007-07-22 Thread Alex Popescu
On 7/22/07, Ryan Ginstrom <> wrote: > Hi Alex: > > Do you develop for Windows? Are you looking to automate a build > process? > > The standard library's build module is distutils: > http://docs.python.org/lib/module-distutils.html > > As I mentioned in my post, I use a variety of third-party mo

Re: Pythonic way for missing dict keys

2007-07-22 Thread Alex Popescu
Zentrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:1185041243.323915.161230 @x40g2000prg.googlegroups.com: > On Jul 21, 7:48 am, Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip...] > > >>From the 2.6 PEP #361 (looks like dict.has_key is deprecated) > Python 3.0 compatability: ['compatibility'-->someon

RE: code packaging

2007-07-21 Thread Alex Popescu
"Ryan Ginstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> On Behalf Of Paul Rubin >> I'm wondering how other projects go about this. > > I develop an automated build system from the very beginning. Running > the build script: > * Creates the API documentation (epydoc) > * Creates t

Re: Pythonic way for missing dict keys

2007-07-21 Thread Alex Popescu
Bruno Desthuilliers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Alex Popescu a écrit : >> Jakub Stolarski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > > > [snip...] > > > d = dict() > answer = d.get('answer', 42) > answer in d > =>

Re: Sorting dict keys

2007-07-20 Thread Alex Popescu
Miles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > On 7/20/07, Alex Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If you just want to iterate over your dict in an ordered manner than >> all you have to do is: >> >> for k in my_dict.keys().sort(): >>

Re: Sorting dict keys

2007-07-20 Thread Alex Popescu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:1184970471.146819.86280 @r34g2000hsd.googlegroups.com: I am not sure about your scenario, but as you discovered the sort() method is modifying the in place list (and doesn't return a new one). If you just want to iterate over your dict in an ordered manner than al

Re: Pythonic way for missing dict keys

2007-07-20 Thread Alex Popescu
Jakub Stolarski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Version 1 and 2 do different thing than version 3. The latter doesn't > add value to dict. > > As it was mentioned before, use: > 1 - if you expect that there's no key in dict > 2 - if you expect that there is key in dict >

Re: Pythonic way for missing dict keys

2007-07-20 Thread Alex Popescu
Neil Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > On 2007-07-20, Alex Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi all! >> >> I am pretty sure this has been asked a couple of times, but I >> don't seem to find it on the archives (Google

Pythonic way for missing dict keys

2007-07-20 Thread Alex Popescu
Hi all! I am pretty sure this has been asked a couple of times, but I don't seem to find it on the archives (Google seems to have a couple of problems lately). I am wondering what is the most pythonic way of dealing with missing keys and default values. According to my readings one can take t

Re: Converting between objects

2007-07-20 Thread Alex Popescu
"Nathan Harmston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Hi, > > I have being thinking about this and was wondering with built in types > you can do things like > > float(1) or str(200) > > is there way I can define conversion functions like this: > > say i have a class A and

Re: how to find available classes in a file ?

2007-07-18 Thread Alex Popescu
Alex Popescu gmail.com> writes: > > On Jul 17, 4:41 am, "Gabriel Genellina" yahoo.com.ar> > wrote: > > En Mon, 16 Jul 2007 20:13:19 -0300, Alex Popescu > > gmail.com> escribi > I apologize for posting the previous message a couple of time

Re: Posted messages not appearing in this group

2007-07-18 Thread Alex Popescu
Sanjay gmail.com> writes: > > Hi All, > > I tried posting in this group twice since last week, but the messages > did not appear in the forum. Don't know why. Trying this message > again... > > Sanjay > Something similar seemed to happen to me too, but when checking with gmane I've noticed t

Re: how to find available classes in a file ?

2007-07-18 Thread Alex Popescu
On Jul 17, 4:41 am, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > En Mon, 16 Jul 2007 20:13:19 -0300, Alex Popescu > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > On Jul 17, 1:44 am, Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >> I want to hav

Re: how to find available classes in a file ?

2007-07-18 Thread Alex Popescu
On Jul 17, 4:41 am, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > En Mon, 16 Jul 2007 20:13:19 -0300, Alex Popescu > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > On Jul 17, 1:44 am, Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >> I want to hav

Re: how to find available classes in a file ?

2007-07-17 Thread Alex Popescu
On Jul 17, 4:41 am, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > En Mon, 16 Jul 2007 20:13:19 -0300, Alex Popescu > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > On Jul 17, 1:44 am, Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >> I want to hav

Re: how to find available classes in a file ?

2007-07-16 Thread Alex Popescu
On Jul 17, 1:44 am, Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to have a (dynamically) list of all classes defined in a py-file. > Is there a way of getting this list, without manually parsing the file ? > > thanks, > Stef Mientki I have written something that does something like this, but I

Re: Circular import problem

2007-07-15 Thread Alex Popescu
On Jul 15, 10:08 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > En Sun, 15 Jul 2007 08:49:54 -0300, Alex Popescu > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > > >> > But, I still don't understand how python can access a function in a > >

Re: Getting values out of a CSV

2007-07-15 Thread Alex Popescu
On Jul 15, 3:00 pm, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alex Popescu wrote: > > On Jul 14, 5:55 am, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >> So, as always, one should measure in each specific case if optimization is > >>

Re: Circular import problem

2007-07-15 Thread Alex Popescu
On Jul 14, 6:27 am, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > En Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:24:57 -0300, bvdp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > > > > >> Seehttp://effbot.org/zone/import-confusion.htm > >> Try to move the circular references later in the code (maybe inside a > >> function, when it

Re: Trying to choose between python and java

2007-07-15 Thread Alex Popescu
I read in this thread lots of different (hopefully personal) opinions on the question of Java vs Python, so I thought I will post mines too (with the amendment that I am a Java guy, spending there more than 10 years). I don't think you can do a performance comparison upfront (without having it com

Re: Lists in classes

2007-07-15 Thread Alex Popescu
On Jul 13, 6:02 am, Bruno Desthuilliers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alex Popescu a écrit : > (snip) > > > > > You are defining the list in the class context and so it becomes a > > class field/member. > > 'attribute' is the pythonic term. Thank

Re: Getting values out of a CSV

2007-07-14 Thread Alex Popescu
On Jul 14, 5:55 am, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, as always, one should measure in each specific case if optimization is > worth the pain [...]. > I hope I am somehow misreading the above sentence :-). IMO synonim language contructs should result in the same performance

Re: web page text extractor

2007-07-12 Thread Alex Popescu
On Jul 12, 5:24 pm, "Andre Engels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2007/7/12, Andre Engels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I forgot to include > > import urllib2, re > > here > > > def textonly(url): > ># Get the HTML source on url and give only the main text > >f = urllib2.urlopen(url) > >text =

Re: Lists in classes

2007-07-12 Thread Alex Popescu
On Jul 12, 6:23 pm, Jeremy Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Learning python from a c++ background. Very confused about this: > > > class jeremy: > list=[] > def additem(self): > self.list.append("hi") > return > > te

Re: stripping the first byte from a binary file

2007-07-11 Thread Alex Popescu
On Jul 11, 7:45 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alex Popescu wrote: > > On Jul 11, 4:15 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > Forgive my newbie ignorance, but I am wondering why the other method

Re: stripping the first byte from a binary file

2007-07-11 Thread Alex Popescu
On Jul 11, 4:15 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Forgive my newbie ignorance, but I am wondering why the other method > > would not work? I mean it may not be very safe, > > but I guess it may perform a lot better, than having to read the whole > > file just to cut out the firs

Re: stripping the first byte from a binary file

2007-07-11 Thread Alex Popescu
On Jul 11, 1:25 pm, Stefan Behnel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > rvr wrote: > > On Jul 11, 1:28 pm, Steven D'Aprano > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:06:04 +, rvr wrote: > >>> Is there a way to edit the file in place? The best I seem to be able to > >>> do is to use your

Re: Dynamic method

2007-07-10 Thread Alex Popescu
On Jul 10, 5:07 pm, "Daniel Nogradi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have an issue I think Python could handle. But I do not have the knowledge > > to do it. > > > Suppose I have a class 'myClass' and instance 'var'. There is function > > 'myFunc(..)'. I have to add (or bind) somehow the function

Re: execute script in certain directory

2007-07-09 Thread Alex Popescu
On Jul 9, 6:31 pm, brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I use idle or a shell to execute a python script, the script > executes in the directory it is currently in (in this case, my desktop). > However, when using GNOME and right clicking the py script and selecting > 'open with python', the exec

Re: Tool for finding external dependencies

2007-07-09 Thread Alex Popescu
On Jul 9, 6:42 pm, Rob Cakebread <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 9, 7:54 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > mod = modulefinder.ModuleFinder() > > mod.run_script(path/to/python_script.py) > > mod.report() > > > > > > Mike > > Nope. All of those tools and the code above show *all* impo

Re: Re-raising exceptions with modified message

2007-07-06 Thread Alex Popescu
On Jul 6, 4:20 am, Christoph Zwerschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alex Popescu wrote: > > Probably the simplest solution would be to create a new exception and > > wrapping the old one and the additional info. Unfortunately, this > > may have a huge impact on 3rd party

Re: Re-raising exceptions with modified message

2007-07-06 Thread Alex Popescu
On Jul 6, 4:20 am, Christoph Zwerschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alex Popescu wrote: > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: MethodType/FunctionType and decorators

2007-07-06 Thread Alex Popescu
On Jul 6, 6:19 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote: > Alex Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >... > > > frameworks (TestNG is not a unit testing framework, > > but a full flavored testing framework that fits perfectly functional > > testing, integ

Re: MethodType/FunctionType and decorators

2007-07-05 Thread Alex Popescu
On Jul 5, 5:01 pm, Michele Simionato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 5, 3:17 pm, Alex Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > The true story is that > > while working on Groovy (I am a committer on this dynlang meant to run > > on the Java VM:http:

Re: The best platform and editor for Python

2007-07-05 Thread Alex Popescu
On Jul 5, 5:46 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kay Schluehr wrote: > > On Jul 3, 8:12 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron Laird) wrote: > > > > Python is simply easier than C++; you might > > > well find that a debugger, for example, doesn't feel as essential > > > as it is for you

Re: Re-raising exceptions with modified message

2007-07-05 Thread Alex Popescu
On Jul 6, 12:21 am, Christoph Zwerschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kay Schluehr wrote: > > If you are sure that the exception isn't caught on another level just > > use the following showtraceback() function, manipulate it's output > > slightly and terminate your program with sys.exit() > > That'

Re: MethodType/FunctionType and decorators

2007-07-05 Thread Alex Popescu
On Jul 5, 3:32 pm, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alex Popescu wrote: > > On Jul 5, 11:17 am, Michele Simionato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >> On Jul 5, 3:41 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote: > > >>> > >> Alex

Re: MethodType/FunctionType and decorators

2007-07-05 Thread Alex Popescu
On Jul 5, 11:17 am, Michele Simionato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 5, 3:41 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote: > > > > > Alex already explained everything beautifully. I will just add a link > to > the definite guide to > descriptors:http://users.rcn.com/python/download/Descriptor

Re: MethodType/FunctionType and decorators

2007-07-04 Thread Alex Popescu
On Jul 5, 1:52 am, Alex Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all! > > I am pretty new to Python, so please excuse me if I am missing > something. Lately, I've been playing with decorators and I am a bit > confused about some behavior. Here is the code that puzzl

MethodType/FunctionType and decorators

2007-07-04 Thread Alex Popescu
Hi all! I am pretty new to Python, so please excuse me if I am missing something. Lately, I've been playing with decorators and I am a bit confused about some behavior. Here is the code that puzzles me: in python shell: def function(): pass class A(object): def method(self): pass from