[issue11240] Running unit tests in a command line tool leads to infinite loop with multiprocessing on Windows

2012-01-17 Thread Chris Jones
Chris Jones ch...@chrisejones.com added the comment: You can work around this issue by using: python.exe -c import nose; nose.main() instead of nosetests Note that nose.main() with no args parses sys.argv -- nosy: +Chris.Jones ___ Python tracker rep

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Re: OT: Code Examples

2011-03-03 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 02:29:54PM EST, Emile van Sebille wrote: On 3/1/2011 3:59 PM Chris Jones said... On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 12:03:02PM EST, Emile van Sebille wrote: On 3/1/2011 12:43 AM Erik de Castro Lopo said... Why Python? For me? Because it's executable pseudocode

Re: OT: Code Examples

2011-03-01 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 12:03:02PM EST, Emile van Sebille wrote: On 3/1/2011 12:43 AM Erik de Castro Lopo said... Why Python? For me? Because it's executable pseudocode Not for nothing, Emile.. hey.. you could end up with pseudo bugs and pseudo headaches .. cj --

Re: Problems of Symbol Congestion in Computer Languages

2011-03-01 Thread Chris Jones
in current GNU/linux distributions.. especially since it knows nothing about Unicode. Here's the X/A+ map I came up with: // A+ keyboard layout: /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/apl // Chris Jones - 18/12/2010 // Enable via: // $ setxkbmap -v 10 apl default partial alphanumeric_keys modifier_keys

Re: How to use Python well?

2011-02-20 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 05:27:24PM EST, Cameron Simpson wrote: [..] Any yet I (and others, based on stuff I've seen) find info to be a disaster. Why? - it forces the reader to use a non-standard pager to look at info, typically the utterly weird one that comes with the info

Re: Problems of Symbol Congestion in Computer Languages

2011-02-18 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 06:40:17AM EST, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 02:50:11 -0500, Chris Jones wrote: Always struck me as odd that a country like Japan for instance, with all its achievements in the industrial realm, never came up with one single major piece of software

Re: Problem with giant font sizes in tkinter

2011-02-18 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 09:35:56PM EST, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 01:29:02 -0500, Chris Jones wrote: labelfont = '-Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal-*-140-*' [...] First of all, you need to know precisely what the above font name coding means. [...] http

Re: Problems of Symbol Congestion in Computer Languages

2011-02-17 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 09:55:47PM EST, Cor Gest wrote: Some entity, AKA Cthun cthun_...@qmail.net.au, [..] And you omitted the #1 most serious objection to Xah's proposal, rantingrick, which is that to implement it would require unrealistic things such as replacing every 101-key keyboard

Re: Problems of Symbol Congestion in Computer Languages

2011-02-17 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 01:30:04AM EST, Westley Martínez wrote: On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 22:28 -0500, Chris Jones wrote: On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 09:55:47PM EST, Cor Gest wrote: Some entity, AKA Cthun cthun_...@qmail.net.au, [..] And you omitted the #1 most serious objection to Xah's

Re: Problems of Symbol Congestion in Computer Languages

2011-02-17 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 12:43:37AM EST, John Nagle wrote: On 2/17/2011 6:55 PM, Cor Gest wrote: [..] At least it should try to mimick a space-cadet keyboard, shouldn't it? I've used both the MIT Space Cadet keyboard on a Symbolics LISP machine, and the Stanford SAIL keyboard. There's

Re: Problem with giant font sizes in tkinter

2011-02-10 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 09:08:01PM EST, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:48:47 +, Cousin Stanley wrote: Steven D'Aprano wrote: I have a tkinter application under Python 2.6 which is shows text in a giant font, about twenty(?) times larger than expected. The fonts

Re: Using dictionary key as a regular expression class

2010-01-23 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 02:45:41AM EST, Terry Reedy wrote: On 1/22/2010 9:58 PM, Chris Jones wrote: Do you mean I should just read the file one character at a time? Whoops, my misdirection (you can .read(1), but this is s l o w. I meant to suggest processing it a char at a time. Right

Using dictionary key as a regular expression class

2010-01-22 Thread Chris Jones
I was writing a script that counts occurrences of characters in source code files: #!/usr/bin/python import codecs tcounters = {} f = codecs.open('/home/gavron/git/screen/src/screen.c', 'r', utf-8) for uline in f: lline = [] for char in uline[:-1]: lline += [char] counters = {} for i

Re: Using dictionary key as a regular expression class

2010-01-22 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 05:07:13PM EST, Arnaud Delobelle wrote: [..] import codecs from collections import defaultdict tcounters = defaultdict(int) f = codecs.open('/home/gavron/git/screen/src/screen.c', 'r', utf-8) for c in f.read(): tcounters[c] += 1 for c, n in

Re: Using dictionary key as a regular expression class

2010-01-22 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 08:46:35PM EST, Terry Reedy wrote: On 1/22/2010 4:47 PM, Chris Jones wrote: I was writing a script that counts occurrences of characters in source code files: #!/usr/bin/python import codecs tcounters = {} f = codecs.open('/home/gavron/git/screen/src/screen.c', 'r

Re: twenty years ago Guido created Python

2010-01-03 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 05:06:24PM EST, Steve Howell wrote: FYI: http://twitter.com/gvanrossum Python is a truly awesome programming language. Not only is Guido a genius language designer, but he is also a great project leader. What an accomplishment. Congratulations to everybody who

Re: twenty years ago Guido created Python

2010-01-03 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 04:19:02PM EST, Ben Finney wrote: Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com writes: Interesting to note that Guido's achievements prompt much less response, and get much less coverage […] The entirety of ‘comp.lang.python’ is an ongoing response to Guido van Rossum's

Re: twenty years ago Guido created Python

2010-01-03 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 10:18:18PM EST, Ben Finney wrote: Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com writes: [..] Sorry you missed my point. I didn't, since I attempted to bring it back on topic by expunging the off-topic part of your message. Er.. what's 'off-topic' about mentioning that a couple

Re: UnicodeDecodeError? Argh! Nothing works! I'm tired and hurting and...

2009-12-03 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 07:59:30PM EST, David Robinow wrote: On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 7:33 PM, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au wrote: On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:52:35 +0100, Michael Ströder wrote: Aahz wrote: Just to be contrary, I *like* mbox. Me too. :-) Why?

Re: UnicodeDecodeError? Argh! Nothing works! I'm tired and hurting and...

2009-11-24 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 08:02:09AM EST, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Good grief, it's about six weeks away from 2010 and Thunderbird still uses mbox as it's default mail box format. Hello, the nineties called, they want their mail formats back! Are the tbird developers on crack or something? I

Re: UnicodeDecodeError? Argh! Nothing works! I'm tired and hurting and...

2009-11-24 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 05:43:32PM EST, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:19:10 -0500, Chris Jones wrote: On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 08:02:09AM EST, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Good grief, it's about six weeks away from 2010 and Thunderbird still uses mbox as it's default mail box

Re: ANN: Urwid 0.9.9 - Console UI Library

2009-11-18 Thread Chris Jones
I noticed that when run on a 256-color capable xterm, upon exiting the demo programs the colors in the bash shell are modified - e.g the bash prompt, the output of colored ls commands. For instance, due to my fiddling with dircolors, a file with executable flags on is normally displayed in light

Re: a simple unicode question

2009-10-27 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 06:21:11AM EDT, Lie Ryan wrote: Chris Jones wrote: [..] Best part of Unicode is that there are multiple encodings, right? ;-) No, the best part about Unicode is there is no encoding! Unicode does not define any encoding; RFC 3629: ISO/IEC 10646 and Unicode define

Re: a simple unicode question

2009-10-22 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:35:11PM EDT, Nobody wrote: [..] Characters outside the 16-bit range aren't supported on all builds. They won't be supported on most Windows builds, as Windows uses 16-bit Unicode extensively: I knew nothing about UTF-16 friends before this thread. Best part of

Re: a simple unicode question

2009-10-21 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:20:35AM EDT, Nobody wrote: On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:56:21 +, George Trojan wrote: [..] Where are the literals (i.e. u'\N{DEGREE SIGN}') defined? You can get them from the unicodedata module, e.g.: import unicodedata for i in xrange(0x1):

Re: Are there any modules for IRC, that work with Python 3.1?

2009-10-15 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 01:39:48AM EDT, TerryP wrote: [..] Having recently been put into search for a new IRC client, and everything I've thrown in the cauldron having become a disappointment... OT as always, but I'm surprised you found weechat-curses disappointing. CJ --

[OT] vim clientserver [was: best vi / emacs python features]

2009-10-10 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 12:59:00AM EDT, TerryP wrote: On Oct 8, 3:29 am, Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote: [..] It's most valuable for sending data to an existing instance of vim, by name. Both files and keystrokes can be sent fwiw. [..] On top of that, I sometimes group instances

Re: best vi / emacs python features

2009-10-07 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 07:06:08PM EDT, TerryP wrote: [..] I am a freak: I do not use nor want syntax highlighting. I don't want my editor to understand mail, irc, or the www either, I want it to edit text efficiently so I can go on with the rest of my life as soon as possible. Given the

Re: A new Internet-search website written in Python

2009-10-01 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 05:22:50AM EDT, hrg...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/1/09, Paul Rubin http://phr...@nospam.invalid wrote: ... By the way, I have noticed that the address in the from field in your e-mail is set to http://phr...@nospam.invalid;. Is this supposed to imply that my previous

Re: An assessment of the Unicode standard

2009-09-03 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 03:16:03PM EDT, r wrote: [..] Bring on the metric system Terry, i have been waiting all my life!! Now, if we can only convince those 800 million Mandarin Chinese speakers... *ahem* Do we have a Chinese translator in the house? :-) Between the idea And the

Re: An assessment of the Unicode standard

2009-08-29 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 07:12:26PM EDT, Stephen Hansen wrote: Unicode (*puke*) seems nothing more than a brain fart of morons. And sadly it was created by CS majors who i assumed used logic and deductive reasoning but i must be wrong. Why should the larger world keep supporting such

Re: An assessment of the Unicode standard

2009-08-29 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 11:07:17PM EDT, Neil Hodgson wrote: Benjamin Peterson: Like Sanskrit or Snowman language? Sanskrit is mostly written in Devanagari these days which is also useful for selling things to people who speak Hindi and other Indian languages. Is the implication that the

[OT] From: header - WAS: Python docs disappointing - group effort to hire writers?

2009-08-11 Thread Chris Jones
Hello Paul, This is strictly OT, but when you get a chance, could you contact me off list at the above address? I need your help with the From: email address specified in your posts to the list. Thanks, CJ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python docs disappointing

2009-07-31 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 06:03:25PM EDT, Carl Banks wrote: On Jul 31, 2:28 pm, kj no.em...@please.post wrote: In e22013d0-fbad-44e0-919b-ad5bb5f2d...@g19g2000vbi.googlegroups.com Carl Banks pavlovevide...@gmail.com writes: (omg you have to use a *mouse*) That's precisely the point.  

Re: Good books in computer science?

2009-06-21 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 06:42:50PM EDT, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: In message mailman.1558.1245010564.8015.python-l...@python.org, Chris Jones wrote: Vivaldi vs. Mozart And the latter especially had definitely mastered his editor. Just think of the sheer volume of the coding he

Re: Good books in computer science?

2009-06-14 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 09:04:02AM EDT, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Nathan Stoddard wrote: The best way to become a good programmer is to program. Write a lot of code; work on some large projects. This will improve your skill more than anything else. I think there are about 100 million VB

Re: decoding keyboard input when using curses

2009-05-31 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 04:55:19PM EDT, Arnaud Delobelle wrote: Hi all, Disclaimer: I am not familiar with the curses python implementation and I'm neither an ncurses nor a unicode expert by a long shot. :-) I am looking for advice on how to use unicode with curses. First I will explain my

Re: decoding keyboard input when using curses

2009-05-31 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 02:30:54PM EDT, Arnaud Delobelle wrote: Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com writes: [...] Try this: #include locale.h #include ncurses.h #include stdlib.h #include stdio.h #include string.h /* Here I need to add the following include to get wint_t on macOS X

Re: What text editor is everyone using for Python

2009-05-28 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:06:25AM EDT, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Wed, 27 May 2009 22:34:45 -0400, Chris Jones wrote: I'm unsure about a python editor for everyone but since acquiring habits takes time, I'm in favor of sticking to one editor for everything. Or use an editor which

Re: What text editor is everyone using for Python

2009-05-28 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 07:38:33AM EDT, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Your point is? notepad, otoh.. *ducks and runs* .. likewise. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What text editor is everyone using for Python

2009-05-27 Thread Chris Jones
I'm unsure about a python editor for everyone but since acquiring habits takes time, I'm in favor of sticking to one editor for everything. CJ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: can python access OS level features like bash scripting?

2009-04-19 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 09:55:08AM EDT, Krishnakant wrote: hi very sorry for that On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 14:50 +0200, News123 wrote: Hi, I think you got lost in the wrong thread. Though your subject line is correct your post threads under Is there a programming language, that . . .

Re: Is there a programming language that is combination of PythonandBasic?

2009-04-19 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 04:35:27AM EDT, Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: Brian Blais wrote: On Apr 18, 2009, at 5:44 , Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: to untangle some spaghetti code. He did not mention if the spaghetti was actually doing it's job, bug free, which IMO is the only rational test for

Re: Tab completion

2009-04-02 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 10:59:29AM EDT, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Does anyone use the tab-completion recipe in the docs? http://docs.python.org/library/rlcompleter.html#module-rlcompleter suggests using this to enable tab-completion: try: import readline except ImportError: print

Re: Can python quickly display results like bash?

2009-03-17 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 02:10:36PM EDT, Chris Rebert wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 6:05 PM, robert song robertsong.li...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, everyone. python can be debugged with pdb, but if there anyway to get a quick view of the python execution. Just like sh -x of bash command.

Ipython - Do they have a separate mailing list or newsgroup?

2009-02-12 Thread Chris Jones
Just wondering if ipython is supported elsewhere. Thanks, CJ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: what IDE is the best to write python?

2009-02-01 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 07:26:24PM EST, Ben Finney wrote: a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes: Just to register a contrary opinion: I *hate* syntax highlighting On what basis? Real men hate syntax highlighting. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Rewriting a bash script in python

2008-11-08 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 09:23:02PM EST, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Chris Jones wrote: But then I started thinking .. what if for instance I had to scale my effort from my single system to a large data center with hundred of hosts .. with different backup

Re: Rewriting a bash script in python

2008-11-05 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 11:11:17PM EST, Ben Finney wrote: Chris Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am thinking of rewriting it in python using OOP tactics/strategy. Please advise. I advise you not to have the object-oriented programming hammer as your only tool, because it's easy

Re: Rewriting a bash script in python

2008-11-05 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 08:12:40PM EST, Tim Rowe wrote: 2008/11/6 Chris Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Begs the question .. how do I tell what is an object-oriented vs. a procedural problem? Practice, largely, so you're doing the right thing (provided you don't trust your /real/ backup data

Re: Rewriting a bash script in python

2008-11-05 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 09:21:38PM EST, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote: Well, if it handles your backups it doesn't work. It just pretends until you really *need* the backed up data. ;-) That's why a backup system needs to be

Rewriting a bash script in python

2008-11-04 Thread Chris Jones
I wrote a trivial backup script that does the following: If tonight is the first day of the month: save last month's archive do a full backup of the system else: save last night's differential backup back up all changes relative to the current month's full backup endif I

Re: using vim as a python class/module/function etc.. browser

2006-04-11 Thread Chris Jones
Daniel Nogradi wrote: Of course, modern versions of Exuberant Ctags also support Python, too. I apt-installed this package but the man page is rather intimidating so I thought I might as well make sure I was going in the right direction. You will probably want to read the vim documentation on

using vim as a python class/module/function etc.. browser

2006-04-10 Thread Chris Jones
I'm trying to make sense of a python program and was wondering if vim has any python-oriented functionalities (apart from syntax highlighting) that would make it somewhat easier to browse the source code. What I had in mind is something that would let me use CTRL+] to automatically display