Re: Compiling extensions on Python 2.7, Windows 10 64 bit

2016-04-30 Thread Andrea Gavana
Hi, On Friday, 29 April 2016, Igor Korot <ikoro...@gmail.com> wrote: > Andrea, > > On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 4:27 PM, Andrea Gavana <andrea.gav...@gmail.com > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > On Friday, 29 April 2016,

Re: Compiling extensions on Python 2.7, Windows 10 64 bit

2016-04-29 Thread Andrea Gavana
Hi, On Friday, 29 April 2016, Igor Korot wrote: > Andrea, > > On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 3:45 PM, > > wrote: > > Dear list, > > > > I have been trying to compile wxPython Phoenix ( > https://github.com/wxWidgets/Phoenix) from source

Compiling extensions on Python 2.7, Windows 10 64 bit

2016-04-29 Thread andrea . gavana
Dear list, I have been trying to compile wxPython Phoenix (https://github.com/wxWidgets/Phoenix) from source on Windows 10 64 bit, Python 2.7 64 bit, using the very handy Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7 (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=44266). I

Re: cPickle.load vs. file.read+cPickle.loads on large binary files

2015-11-18 Thread andrea . gavana
Hi, On Wednesday, November 18, 2015 at 10:00:43 AM UTC+1, Nagy László Zsolt wrote: > > Perhaps there is a size threshold? You could experiment with different > > block > > sizes in the following f.read() replacement: > > > > def read_chunked(f, size=2**20): > > read =

cPickle.load vs. file.read+cPickle.loads on large binary files

2015-11-17 Thread andrea . gavana
Hello List, I am working with relatively humongous binary files (created via cPickle), and I stumbled across some unexpected (for me) performance differences between two approaches I use to load those files: 1. Simply use cPickle.load(fid) 2. Read the file as binary using file.read() and

Re: cPickle.load vs. file.read+cPickle.loads on large binary files

2015-11-17 Thread andrea . gavana
Hi Peter, On Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 4:57:57 PM UTC+1, Peter Otten wrote: > Andrea Gavana wrote: > > > Hi Chris, > > > > On Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 4:20:34 PM UTC+1, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 1:20 AM, Andrea Gavana wrote: &g

Re: cPickle.load vs. file.read+cPickle.loads on large binary files

2015-11-17 Thread andrea . gavana
Hi Chris, On Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 4:20:34 PM UTC+1, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 1:20 AM, Andrea Gavana wrote: > > Thank you for your answer. I do get similar timings when I swap the two > > functions, and specifically still 15 seconds to re

Re: cPickle.load vs. file.read+cPickle.loads on large binary files

2015-11-17 Thread andrea . gavana
Hi Peter, On Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 3:14:57 PM UTC+1, Peter Otten wrote: > Andrea Gavana wrote: > > > Hello List, > > > > I am working with relatively humongous binary files (created via > > cPickle), and I stumbled across some u

Change import order with *.pth files

2011-10-02 Thread Andrea Gavana
Hi All, my apologies if this is a dumb question, but I couldn't find a solution - possibly because I am not sure how to state my problem in a short sentence. Let's say I am using a package called blah, and this package is already installed on site-packages (and I need it to be there) with a

Re: IMAP4_SSL, libgmail, GMail and corporate firewall/proxy

2011-02-17 Thread Andrea Gavana
Hi Malcolm, On 17 February 2011 11:44, Malcolm Greene wrote: Andrea, What type of result do you get trying port 993 ? Thank you for your answer. I have tried that, with imaplib and libgmail. This is what I get with imaplib: Traceback (most recent call last): File

Re: IMAP4_SSL, libgmail, GMail and corporate firewall/proxy

2011-02-17 Thread Andrea Gavana
Hi Malcolm, On 17 February 2011 19:20, pyt...@bdurham.com wrote: Hi Andrea, Have you tried temporarily turning off your Windows firewall software and/or any locally installed internet security software like Norton, Avast, etc? You don't need to turn off your entire security package, just

IMAP4_SSL, libgmail, GMail and corporate firewall/proxy

2011-02-16 Thread Andrea Gavana
Hi All, I apologize in advance if I'm going to write very stupid things, my expertise in http/socket/imap stuff is very close to zero. I'm using Python 2.6.5 on Windows XP SP3. I am trying to access my GMail account from my office, and it appears our company's firewall is blocking all

Re: IMAP4_SSL, libgmail, GMail and corporate firewall/proxy

2011-02-16 Thread Andrea Gavana
respond after a period of time, or establishe d connection failed because connected host has failed to respond :-( :-( Thank you for your answer. On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:58 PM, Andrea Gavana andrea.gav...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All,    I apologize in advance if I'm going to write very stupid

ANN: GUI2Exe 0.5.0

2009-10-16 Thread Andrea Gavana
Hi All, I am happy to announce a new release of GUI2Exe (0.5.0). What is it? = GUI2Exe is my first attempt to unify all the available executable builders for Python in a single and simple to use graphical user interface. At the moment the supported executable builders are: -

ANN: GUI2Exe 0.4.0

2009-10-06 Thread Andrea Gavana
Hi All, I am happy to announce a new release of GUI2Exe (0.4.0). What is it? = GUI2Exe is my first attempt to unify all the available executable builders for Python in a single and simple to use graphical user interface. At the moment the supported executable builders are: -

Making wxPython a standard module?

2008-06-12 Thread Andrea Gavana
Hi Diez All, And on a personal note: I find it *buttugly*. Do you mind explaining why you find it *buttugly*? I am asking just out of curiosity, obviously. I am so biased towards wxPython that I won't make any comment on this thread in particular, but I am curious to know why some people find

Re: Making wxPython a standard module?

2008-06-12 Thread Andrea Gavana
Hi Ed All, On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Ed Leafe wrote: On Jun 12, 2008, at 10:55 AM, Andrea Gavana wrote: And on a personal note: I find it *buttugly*. Do you mind explaining why you find it *buttugly*? I am asking just out of curiosity, obviously. I am so biased towards wxPython

PEP 3131: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

2007-05-17 Thread Andrea Gavana
Hi All, In summary, this PEP proposes to allow non-ASCII letters as identifiers in Python. In primis, I would like to congratulate with Martin to have started one of the most active threads (flame wars? :- D ) in the python-list history. By scanning the list from January 2000 to now, this is

[pywin32] - Excel COM problem

2007-02-09 Thread Andrea Gavana
Hi All, I have a very simple python script that tries to put a rectangular shape in a worksheet and then add some text inside that shape. The main problem, is that as usual Excel doesn't like input strings longer than 200 and something characters. So, by just recording a macro in Excel, I

Re: Simple SVN/CVS-like library in Python?

2007-02-08 Thread Andrea Gavana
Andrea Gavana wrote: Hi All, in our office we work with quite complex input files for a reservoir simulator. Those files have thousands of keywords, switches, sub-keywords and whatever. Every time a modification is requested, we modify the input file and re-run the simulator

Simple SVN/CVS-like library in Python?

2007-02-07 Thread Andrea Gavana
Hi All, in our office we work with quite complex input files for a reservoir simulator. Those files have thousands of keywords, switches, sub-keywords and whatever. Every time a modification is requested, we modify the input file and re-run the simulator. Obviously, the possible modifications

PythonWin And Excel Problem

2006-12-01 Thread Andrea Gavana
Hi All, I am having some problems in running a very simple python script, which prints some numbers in an Excel spreadsheet. The numbers are stored in a list. I know that the numbers are different (random generated), but when I open the Excel file I get a column of data with all the numbers

PythonWin And Excel Problem

2006-12-01 Thread Andrea Gavana
Hi Michael, First of all you should call the random.seed() function. That was at least what I´ve always done. seed([x]) Thanks for your suggestion, but it doesn't matter whether you call seed() or not. The random number generator can *not* return 10 equal values if called 10 times,

Re: PyWin32-winxptheme and py2exe

2006-11-15 Thread Andrea Gavana
Hi Stefan, You probably need to include the common Control Manifest to supprt themes see in the py2exe\samples\advanced directory for an example how to do it. I am already doing it. In my Setup.py there is a manifest file embedded in a Python string. Plus, I *also* have a file called

PyWin32-winxptheme and py2exe

2006-11-14 Thread Andrea Gavana
Hi all, I am having some troubles mixing py2exe and winxptheme. Basically, I am using wxPython 2.7.2.0 with Python 2.5, and painting some window background using the UxTheme via winxptheme. This is what I am doing: hwnd = MyWindow.GetHandle() self.hTheme = winxptheme.OpenThemeData(hwnd,

Numpy-f2py troubles

2006-10-17 Thread Andrea Gavana
Hello NG, I am using the latest Numpy release 1.0rc2 which includes F2PY. I have switched to Python 2.5 so this is the only alternative I have (IIUC). With Python 2.4, I was able to build a very simple fortran extension without problems. My extension contains 4 subroutines that scan a file

Reading unformatted big-endian files

2006-08-11 Thread Andrea Gavana
Hello NG, that may sound a silly question, but I didn't find anything really clear about the issue of reading unformatted big endian files with Python. What I was doing till now, was using Fortran to read those files and compile this Fortran extension using F2PY. Now that it seems that no

Reading unformatted big-endian files

2006-08-11 Thread Andrea Gavana
Hello John, Silently ignoring errors when reading a file doesn't sound like a good idea to me at all, especially if different records have different formats. Yeah, you're right, but the file itself is quite big and I am interested only in a small part of it. Moreover, the sequence

Reading unformatted big-endian files

2006-08-11 Thread Andrea Gavana
Hello John, (1) Upgrade to 2.5 as soon as it goes final -- struct's performance has been improved. I would love to, but I have some dependencies (like wxPython, Numeric, py2exe and so on) for which a 2.5 stable release either doesn't exist or is not fully tested or will break my app in some

Compiling extensions

2006-08-10 Thread Andrea Gavana
Hello NG, I'm struggling and googling around, but without big success. I am trying to build a fortran extension with F2PY, and it seems to me an impossible task. At the moment, I have the following installed: - Latest f2py - MS Visual Studio 2003 - Python 2.4 - Intel Visual Fortan 9.1 I

[PIL]: Image size in runtime

2006-06-20 Thread Andrea Gavana
Hello NG, sorry if the message is not strictly Python-related, but it is fantastically impossible to send post to Image-SIG. I am using PIL to load and display some pictures (via wxPython) in a GUI. I have added the ability for the user to change the linear dimensions of the image (in pixels)

Re: Visualisation Engine for Python

2006-01-03 Thread Andrea Gavana
I am looking for a 2D data visualisation or graphics library for Python. Can anyone point me in the right direction? You could try out matplotlib: http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/ HTH. Andrea. Imagination Is The Only Weapon In The War Against Reality. http://xoomer.virgilio.it/infinity77

Re: wxPython Licence vs GPL

2005-11-22 Thread Andrea Gavana
Hello John Sarah, (This assumes the wxPython Licence is compatible with the GPL -- if not, do we just cosmetically change any remaining lines, so none remain from the orignal?) IIRC, wxPython license has nothing to do with GPL. Its license is far more free than GPL is. If you want to create

Re: Icon on wx.MDIParentFrame

2005-11-06 Thread Andrea Gavana
Hello Len I would like to put an Icon on the frame but cannot figure out how to do it any help. What about: wx.MDIParentFrame.SetIcon(self, icon) ? I usually take a look also to the wxPython API docs at: http://www.wxpython.org/docs/api/ Or I use some google-fu to find answers, both for

Re: Python gui

2005-11-06 Thread Andrea Gavana
No, and *I hope* that if another toolkit has to replace Tkinter (will never happen?) will be PyGTK... :) This will only mean that people that now prefer wxPython over Tkinter will in future prefer wxPython over PyGTK ;-) Andrea. -- Imagination Is The Only Weapon In The War Against Reality.

Re: ? MDI depreciated

2005-11-06 Thread Andrea Gavana
Hello Len, Hate to ask this dum question (since I've been hiding under a rock). But if the MDI UI model is/was depreciated. What is the new UI model. This much depends on which kind of application you have in mind. In my organization a lot of software that we use (basically for reservoir

Re: Python doc problem example: gzip module (reprise)

2005-11-05 Thread Andrea Gavana
Hello NG, I've managed to avoid reading Xah Lee's diatribes for the most part. Since you included the *WHOLE THING* in your post, I had an opportunity to see what he had to say, and for once I agree with some of it. snip I would love to see examples for essentially every function and

Re: Python gui

2005-11-05 Thread Andrea Gavana
Hello Philippe, Is wxWidget now part of python ? or will it be ? No, I don't think it will ever be part of Python. But, wxWidgets is written in C++, so it has nothing *pythonic* in it. There is, however, a Python Binding of wxWidgets, called (obviously ;-) ) wxPython. If you can install a

Calling Class' Child Methods

2005-11-04 Thread Andrea Gavana
Hello NG, this may seem a stupid (or even impossible) question, but my knowlegde of Python is quite limited. I have basically a simple graphical user interface that contains a Panel, another panel (child of the main panel) and a custom widget (child of the main panel). Basically is something

Re: wxPython: updating style of StaticText from event generated by button

2005-11-01 Thread Andrea Gavana
Hello Kees, and via the even handler I try to give StaticText a different style: In general you *can not* change in runtime the style of a widget. Only a very limited subset of the wxPython widgets supports style changes in runtime. I would suggest you 2 alternatives: 1) Use wx.lib.stattext ==

Re: wxPython: updating style of StaticText from event generated by button

2005-11-01 Thread Andrea Gavana
Hello Kees, Thanks :), I'll give both of your hints a try. What I basically want to do is have something like an old style button in win xp that's either up or down, since I couldn't find a more straightforward method I thought taking a text widget and adjusting the border at mouse click

Re: Problem with exe from py2exe

2005-10-30 Thread Andrea Gavana
Hello Martin, My script runs fine with python, but the .exe produced with py2exe crashes out with: Traceback (most recent call last): File App1.py, line 4, in ? File wx\__init__.pyc, line 42, in ? File wx\_core.pyc, line 3163, in ? AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute

Re: wxListbook layout problem

2005-10-25 Thread Andrea Gavana
Hello Kay, Core Windows/Contols folder, replace there wx.LB_DEFAULT by wx.LB_RIGHT and resize the main window the listbox on the right side moves into the area of colored panel. This is a surprise to say the least. Has anyone of the GUI specialists an idea how to fix this? Yeah, that's a

[PIL]: Question On Changing Colour

2005-10-17 Thread Andrea Gavana
Hello Terry, new_hue # your 'basic color', just the hue part rgb_base # color from the basic button image rgb_new # the new color you want to replace rgb_base with rgb_new = hsv_to_rgb( (new_hue,) + rgb_to_hsv(rgb_base)[1:]) thanks a lot for your suggestion! However, either I did not

Re: [PIL]: Question On Changing Colour

2005-10-13 Thread Andrea Gavana
I have tried your solution, Terry: new_hue # your 'basic color', just the hue part rgb_base # color from the basic button image rgb_new # the new color you want to replace rgb_base with rgb_new = hsv_to_rgb( (new_hue,) + rgb_to_hsv(rgb_base)[1:]) thanks a lot for your suggestion!

[PIL]: Question On Changing Colour

2005-10-11 Thread Andrea Gavana
Hello NG, First of all, sorry if this is not the right newsgroup. I have a small image that looks like a GUI button (with 3D effects given by different pixels colours). The current image has as "basic" colour the grey. For "basic", I mean that the predominant colour in the image is grey

A Faster Way...

2005-05-10 Thread andrea . gavana
Hello NG, it is probably a beginner question, but I didn't solve it without for-loops, and I am unable to determine if there is a faster way (probably using some built-in function) to do this task. I have to speed up a wxPython code that uses a lot of string concatenation (and uses these

Webbrowser On Windows

2005-04-29 Thread andrea . gavana
Hello NG, I am using the webbrowser module (on Windows 2000/XP), and I am wondering if anyone knows how to use the input arguments new. On Windows, it seems to be ignored. By looking at the commands it does on Windows: class WindowsDefault: def open(self, url, new=0, autoraise=1):

Avoiding DOS Window...

2005-04-11 Thread andrea . gavana
Hello NG, I don't know if this is the right place to post this question, but noting that it is os-related probably someone will have some nice idea. I have built an application using Python+wxPython, and I have compiled it into an exe file using py2exe. In my app, I use a call:

Problems On Path

2005-04-08 Thread andrea . gavana
Hello NG, yesterday I installed Python 2.4.1 (together with all the site-packages I need for it, including Pythonwin, wxPython, py2exe, etc...), but then I found that for some of my py2exe generated application there were some problems. So, I came back and I re-installed Python 2.3.4 as

How To Do It Faster?!?

2005-03-31 Thread andrea . gavana
Hello NG, in my application, I use os.walk() to walk on a BIG directory. I need to retrieve the files, in each sub-directory, that are owned by a particular user. Noting that I am on Windows (2000 or XP), this is what I do: for root, dirs, files in os.walk(MyBIGDirectory): a =

Rif: Re: How To Do It Faster?!?

2005-03-31 Thread andrea . gavana
Hello Lazslo NG, You can use the stat module to get attributes like last modification date, uid, gid etc. The documentation of the stat module has a nice example. Probably it will be faster because you are running an external program (well, dir may be resident but still the OS needs to create a

Retrieve Icons Associated To An Extension?

2005-03-29 Thread andrea . gavana
Hello NG, I have searched everyweher, and I am not able to find a solution... basically, I am constructing a GUI with wxPython, in which I have a list. In this list control, I have some file. I would like to associate (to every file) its icon (on Windows). I have searched about the use of

String Replace Problem...

2005-02-28 Thread andrea . gavana
Hello NG, probably this is a basic question, but I'm going crazy... I am unable to find an answer. Suppose that I have a file (that I called Errors.txt) which contains these lines: MULTIPLY 'PERMX' @PERMX1 1 34 1 20 1 6 / 'PERMX' @PERMX2 1 34 21 41 1 6 / 'PERMX'

Another RegEx Question...

2004-12-13 Thread andrea . gavana
Hello NG, I'm quite new to Python and I don't know if this is a FAQ (I can't find it) or an obvious question. I'm using the RE module in python, and I would like to be able to contruct something like the Window$ Find Files Or Folders engine. As the Window$ users know, you can filter the

Find Items Indices In A List...

2004-12-10 Thread andrea . gavana
Hello NG, I was wondering if there is a faster/nicer method (than a for loop) that will allow me to find the elements (AND their indices) in a list that verify a certain condition. For example, assuming that I have a list like: mylist = [0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 1, 10] I would like to

Regular Expression Problem...

2004-12-01 Thread andrea . gavana
Hello NG, I am quite new with Python... I'm writing an application that does also some regexp things on strings, but I'm having problem about identifying/extracting a substring from another string. What I have to do is to extract all the strings that begins with a $ character, but excluding