Re: Best GUI for Python

2015-04-28 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 28.04.15 um 09:54 schrieb Steven D'Aprano: On Tuesday 28 April 2015 16:59, Chris Angelico wrote: On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 4:43 PM, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: I don't think that choosing UCS-2 only is any worse than any other application feature like support

Re: Best GUI for Python

2015-04-27 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 27.04.15 um 19:02 schrieb Grant Edwards: On 2015-04-26, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info writes: Tkinter is easier to use, as it is standard with Python. So long as you have Tk/Tcl installed on your computer, Tkinter should

Re: Best GUI for Python

2015-04-27 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 27.04.15 um 01:06 schrieb Chris Angelico: On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 6:26 AM, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: It doesn't have to. By using the newer ‘tkinter.ttk’ library URL:https://docs.python.org/3/library/tkinter.ttk.html, the GUI will use native look-and-feel widgets. Does

Re: Best GUI for Python

2015-04-27 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 27.04.15 um 09:15 schrieb Steven D'Aprano: On Monday 27 April 2015 16:55, Christian Gollwitzer wrote: YMMV. Is non-BMP needed for any living non-esoteric language? I agree that it is a big flaw, but still is useful for very many projects. Yes. The Unicode Supplementary Multilingual

Re: Lockfile hanling

2015-03-31 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 31.03.15 um 16:50 schrieb Ervin Hegedüs: there is an app, written in Python, which stores few bytes of datas in a single file. The application uses threads. Every thread can modify the file, but only one at a time. I'm using a lock file to prevent the multiple access. Here is the lock

Re: Lockfile hanling

2015-03-31 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 31.03.15 um 21:17 schrieb Ian Kelly: On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 12:58 PM, Christian Gollwitzer aurio...@gmx.de wrote: Am 31.03.15 um 16:50 schrieb Ervin Hegedüs: there is an app, written in Python, which stores few bytes of datas in a single file. The application uses threads. Every thread

Re: Sudoku solver

2015-03-30 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 30.03.15 um 08:50 schrieb Ian Kelly: On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 12:03 PM, Marko Rauhamaa ma...@pacujo.net wrote: Be careful with the benchmark comparisons. Ian's example can be solved with the identical algorithm in eight different ways (four corners, left or right). I ran the example with my

Re: Sudoku solver

2015-03-29 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 29.03.15 um 05:06 schrieb Steven D'Aprano: I'm not one of those people who think that C is by definition the fastest language conceivable. (People who believe this sometimes make an exception for hand-crafted assembly, which is ironic since these days the best C optimizing compilers can

Re: Sudoku solver

2015-03-27 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 26.03.15 um 00:04 schrieb Mark Lawrence: On 25/03/2015 22:50, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 10:39 pm, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: I have yet to find practical use for fibonacci numbers. Many people have failed to find practical uses for many things from mathematics. Doesn't mean

Re: test1

2015-03-27 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 26.03.15 um 02:34 schrieb Tiglath Suriol: I may stay a while just to poke you in the eye a little longer. I am beginning to enjoy this. People entering a battle of wits unarmed. It's a joy to watch. Wow you must be really bored. Christian --

Re: Pexpect idea - but can I handle curses?

2015-03-13 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 13.03.15 um 18:25 schrieb Skip Montanaro: I understand that. Tell that to management though. They were working on 13.1 for awhile, but seem to be focused on 13.2 now, though not all our internal software works on that. I'll give up on hoping I get access to a more modern top anytime soon.

Re: (Still OT) Nationalism, language and monoculture [was Re: Python Worst Practices]

2015-03-06 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 06.03.15 um 19:15 schrieb Marko Rauhamaa: llanitedave llanited...@birdandflower.com: It's obvious that's what's needed here is a PEP requiring that the International Phonetic Alphabet be used for all Python identifiers and keywords. You're onto something: ROFL!!! Though I'd prefer a

Re: Make standalone gui-enabled app for LINUX

2015-03-06 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 06.03.15 um 09:14 schrieb Mehdi: On Friday, March 6, 2015 at 12:58:11 AM UTC+3:30, Christian Gollwitzer wrote: Use pyinstaller. It creates a portable app, i.e. either single file or directory which can be run on (nearly) any system. However the resulting files can be awfully big. I use

Re: Make standalone gui-enabled app for LINUX

2015-03-05 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 05.03.15 um 18:31 schrieb Mehdi: Hi I know there are tools like cx_freeze or nuitka for making a linux standalone python app. but i couldn't find a good tutorial about how to making a portable gui-enabled python3 app in linux. by gui-enabled i mean application which use any gui libs

Re: Python Worst Practices

2015-03-04 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 04.03.15 um 00:12 schrieb Chris Angelico: The problems come from needing more than two components at each step, like with string formatting. You could write it like this: Hello, %s from %s! % name % location but then it'd be really hard to track down errors - the modulo operator would

Re: Python Worst Practices

2015-03-03 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 03.03.15 um 12:12 schrieb Chris Angelico: On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Christian Gollwitzer aurio...@gmx.de wrote: Are you trying to pick on C++ streams? I could never understand why anybody has problems with an arrow that means put into the left thing instead of shift the bits

Re: Python Worst Practices

2015-03-03 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 28.02.15 um 02:44 schrieb Chris Angelico: On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 12:32 PM, sohcahto...@gmail.com wrote: For example, I've seen someone create a Socket class, then created an operator overload that allowed you to add a string to your socket to make the socket send the string, with the

Re: Parallelization of Python on GPU?

2015-02-27 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 26.02.15 um 06:53 schrieb John Ladasky: Thanks for the various links, Ethan. I have encountered PyCUDA before, but not the other options. So far, I'm not seeing code examples which appear to do what I would like, which is simply to farm out one Python process to one GPU core. The

Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type

2015-02-01 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 01.02.15 um 08:58 schrieb Marko Rauhamaa: Paul Rubin no.email@nospam.invalid: Marko Rauhamaa ma...@pacujo.net writes: Stroustrup apparently has never had to deal with callbacks; his thick books never made a mention of them last time I checked. C++ has function pointers just like C,

Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type

2015-01-31 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 30.01.15 um 19:23 schrieb Paul Rubin: Michael Torrie torr...@gmail.com writes: Follow basic [C++] rules and 99% of segfaults will never happen and the majority of leaks will not happen either. That is a safe and simple approach, but it works by copying data all over the place instead of

Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type

2015-01-29 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 30.01.15 um 02:40 schrieb Rustom Mody: FORTRAN use dictionary type(dictionary), pointer :: d d=dict_new() call set(d//'toto',1) v = d//'toto' call dict_free(d) The corresponding python d = dict() d['toto'] = 1 v = d['toto'] del(d) In particular note the del in the

Re: Python Sanity Proposal: Type Hinting Solution

2015-01-24 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 23.01.15 um 20:23 schrieb Rick Johnson: On Thursday, January 22, 2015 at 9:22:40 PM UTC-6, Terry Reedy wrote: that it is already an option in mypy and is part of the new type-hint proposal. An *OPTION*? If it is not mandatory then why bother? If authors have a choice between writing type

Re: apostrophe not considered with tkinter's wordstart and wordend

2015-01-22 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 05.01.15 um 14:20 schrieb Rick Johnson: *GASP*! Of course all this could be avoided if those short- sighted TK folks would have allowed the programmer to define the pattern! ಠ_ಠ Well, it turns out you actually can. We don't have Guido's time machine, but still there is a configuration

Re: Announce: PyPrimes 0.2.1a

2015-01-07 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Hi Steve, Am 08.01.15 um 05:35 schrieb Steven D'Aprano: At long last, I am pleased to announce the latest version of PyPrimes, a pure Python package for working with prime numbers. Nice. PyPrimes is compatible with Python 2 and 3, and includes multiple algorithms for the generating and

Re: list comparison vs integer comparison, which is more efficient?

2015-01-04 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 04.01.15 um 13:17 schrieb austin aigbe: However, it took a shorter time (0.004s) with 24 function calls than your code (0.005s) which took just 13 function calls to execute. Why is this? These times are way too short for conclusive results. Typically, the OS timer operates with a

Re: Python Tk Tix GUI documentation builder overview and tips

2015-01-04 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 03.01.15 um 22:57 schrieb Terry Reedy: On 1/3/2015 1:30 PM, aba...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have had issues running Tix on python 2.7.6 and 3.4.2: More details on the issue here. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27751923/tix-widgets-installation-issue Has anyone had similar issues with

Re: Looking for sample python script using Tkinter

2015-01-02 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 03.01.15 um 00:03 schrieb accessnew...@gmail.com: I have a script that I trying to go from command line entry to interface entry. I am tinkering with Tkinter and want to review some Tkinter interface building scripts. Really basic stuff covering file selection and making some of the data

Re: Moving 1 Picture in a Programm - How to?

2015-01-01 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 01.01.15 um 19:43 schrieb lucasvfxd...@gmail.com: Hey Guys! I need your help! So i want to make a programm like the app called Feed Me There are 2 Pictures (I got that) than you can click the food picture and drag it on the boys mouth and than the sad boys face disappears and a happy face

Re: list comprehension return a list and sum over in loop

2014-12-12 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 12.12.14 09:30, schrieb KK Sasa: Mark Lawrence於 2014年12月12日星期五UTC+8下午3時17分43秒寫道: Hi Mark and Yotam, Thanks for kind reply. I think I didn't make my problem clear enough. The slow part is [d2(t[k]) for k in xrange(1000)]. In addition, I don't need to construct a list of 1000 lists inside, but

Re: Python, C++ interaction

2014-12-04 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 03.12.14 09:29, schrieb Michael Kreim: I did some googleing on extending Python by C++ code but I did not find something that satisfies me. I gave SWIG a try, but several webpages disadvised me of using it. Also my small experiments did not work. I don't know why SWIG is discouraged; in my

Re: SQLite3 in Python 2.7 Rejecting Foreign Key Insert

2014-11-23 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 23.11.14 07:32, schrieb Chris Angelico: did a sequence of commands which ought to have failed, but didn't. Let's see if I can recreate this: rosuav@sikorsky:~$ sqlite3 SQLite version 3.7.13 2012-06-11 02:05:22 Enter .help for instructions Enter SQL statements terminated with a ; sqlite

Re: GUI toolkit(s) status

2014-11-22 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 22.11.14 19:33, schrieb wxjmfa...@gmail.com: As you are rewriting unicode, a small suggestion/request. Assume that one processes a part of the Bible in polytonic Greek, one has to create a ton of temporary (locale) letters, °)))o αὐτὸν τὸν ἰχθύα ὁ Χριστιανὸς ἔγραψε τρόλλοι --

Re: GUI toolkit(s) status

2014-11-21 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 21.11.14 05:49, schrieb Paul Rubin: Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu writes: Tcl/Tk currently use UCS-2, which only handles BMP chars. Alternatives to support astral chars: [other encodings] This is not entirely true: Tcl supports lazy typing, i.e. values (Tcl_Obj) are cast upon request into

Re: GUI toolkit(s) status

2014-11-20 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 20.11.14 09:40, schrieb Chris Angelico: On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 7:25 PM, Paul Rubin no.email@nospam.invalid wrote: wxjmfa...@gmail.com writes: Today, there are simply no more valid and working GUI toolkit running out of the box. Tkinter still works for me. What's the problem? Ignore

Re: Challenge: optimizing isqrt

2014-11-01 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Hi Steven, let me start by answering from reverse: Q3: What is the largest value of n beyond which you can never use the float optimization? A3: There is no such value, besides the upper limit of floats (DBL_MAX~ 10^308) P3: If you feed a perfect square into the floating point square

Re: Challenge: optimizing isqrt

2014-11-01 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Addendum: If my method below works, you can also use it to speed up computations for n2*1022, by splitting off an even power of two from the integer and computing the FP sqrt of the mantissa for the seed, i.e. doing the FP manually. Am 01.11.14 09:02, schrieb Christian Gollwitzer: Hi Steven

Re: Challenge: optimizing isqrt

2014-11-01 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 01.11.14 09:13, schrieb Chris Angelico: On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 7:02 PM, Christian Gollwitzer aurio...@gmx.de wrote: Your above algorithm is obviously doing Heron- or Newton-Raphson iterations, so the same as with floating point math. The first line before the while loop computes some

Re: Challenge: optimizing isqrt

2014-11-01 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 01.11.14 09:33, schrieb Chris Angelico: On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 7:25 PM, Christian Gollwitzer aurio...@gmx.de wrote: Part of the point of that algorithm is that it never uses FP, and is therefore not limited by FP restrictions. which are??? Most notably, the inability to represent every

Re: Has color Green changed from Python 33 to 34 ?

2014-10-31 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 30.10.14 12:23, schrieb ast: I just updated this morning my Python from a 3.3rc to 3.4 (Windows) and I noticed that the 'Green' color in tkinter GUI is not the same at all. 'Green' in 3.4 is very dark. I had to replace it with 'Lime' to get back a nice 'Green'. If you are dependent on the

Re: What does %%(%s)s mean/expand to in Python? What does rowshtml += (rowhtml % ((fieldname, ) * 3)) expand to? Kindly explain.

2014-10-29 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 29.10.14 07:15, schrieb satishmlm...@gmail.com: What does %%(%s)s mean in Python? Instead of posting all those questions here, you can simply try it in an interactive python interpreter: Apfelkiste:VecTcl chris$ python Python 2.7.2 (default, Oct 11 2012, 20:14:37) [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible

Re: [OT] spelling colour / color was Re: Toggle

2014-10-11 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 10.10.14 22:05, schrieb alister: Would the French tolerate me using an alternative Variant (Canadian or Carribean)? I think not UK English as spoken in England is the definitive version. The clue is in the Name - English not American I tend to agree that British English is the correct

Re: Syntax Highlighting in a tkinter Text widget

2014-10-06 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 07.10.14 07:35, schrieb Nicholas Cannon: Hey guys Im working on an open source text editor(https://github.com/nicodasiko/Text-Config-2) and I would like to add syntax highlighting(mainly for python code). I have built the editor in python and the text input is a Text tkinter widget. I know

Re: Python 3.4.1 installer on Mac links Python to old Tcl/Tk

2014-10-05 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 04.10.14 07:53, schrieb Ned Deily: In article m0n3n3$48j$1...@dont-email.me, Kevin Walzer k...@codebykevin.com wrote: A Tcl library compiled for 8.5 can be loaded into 8.6 with no re-compiling required because of stubs. It has nothing to do with Python per se; that's just the way linking

Re: Python 3.4.1 installer on Mac links Python to old Tcl/Tk

2014-10-03 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 03.10.14 00:08, schrieb Ned Deily: So, to really support Tk 8.6, the only viable option at the moment would be for us to ship our own versions of Tk, like the Windows installer does. But it wouldn't be acceptable, IMO, to force other projects and users to migrate to 8.6 in the middle of a

Re: Lists

2014-09-15 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 15.09.14 04:40, schrieb Seymore4Head: nums=range(1,11) print (nums) I don't understand why the command nums=range(1,11) doesn't work. I would think that print(nums) should be 1,2,3 ect. Instead it prints range(1,11) It does work, but in a different way than you might think. range() does

Re: very lightweight gui for win32 + python 3.4

2014-09-14 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 13.09.14 13:31, schrieb Thomas Heller: Am 13.09.2014 03:19, schrieb Grant Edwards: On 2014-09-12, Thomas Heller thel...@ctypes.org wrote: Am 12.09.2014 18:38, schrieb Chris Angelico: Does Tkinter really work well with cx_Freeze? I doubt it (from my experiences with py2exe). I never had

Re: What is acceptable as 'open-source'? [was Python vs C++]

2014-08-27 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 27.08.14 09:50, schrieb Frank Millman: This is quite a timely message for me. I am inching closer to releasing a version of my accounting software, and a lot of the above comments apply to me as well. At present I am the only developer, and my project is not hosted anywhere, so I have to

Re: Global indent

2014-08-23 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 23.08.14 11:08, schrieb Steven D'Aprano: I just started up emacs, and got a GUI window with an abstract picture of a gnu and a bunch of instructions which I didn't get a chance to read. I clicked on the text, and the instructions disappeared. I don't know how to get them back. They were

Re: Global indent

2014-08-23 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Hi Steven, I agree with all you said. Am 23.08.14 16:56, schrieb Steven D'Aprano: Christian Gollwitzer wrote: There are ways to put these editors into Beginner's mode, for vim there is evim, and for sure emacs has something similar, where the editor behaves more like you expect. In evim

Re: Global indent

2014-08-23 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 23.08.14 16:19, schrieb Joshua Landau: (Since this is already an editor war...) On 23 August 2014 10:41, Christian Gollwitzer aurio...@gmx.de wrote: Sometimes I impress my colleagues with what they call magic, i.e. creating special repeated lists of numbers by a few keystrokes in gvim

Re: Python vs C++

2014-08-22 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 21.08.14 14:54, schrieb David Palao: I consider myself a python programmer, although C++ was one of the first languages I learned (not really deeply and long time ago). Now I decided to retake C++, to broaden my view of the business. However, as I progress in learning C++, I cannot take out

Re: Python vs C++

2014-08-22 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 22.08.14 11:29, schrieb Marko Rauhamaa: So my advise is, use as high-level programming language as you can. If you can't, deal with it, but often you can break your system into parts where only a small corner needs to be implemented at the low level. Agreed. This is called Ousterhout's

Re: PyMatch Tool.

2014-08-18 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 18.08.14 14:21, schrieb Rafael Francischini: Em sexta-feira, 15 de agosto de 2014 17h59min28s UTC-3, Christian Gollwitzer escreveu: I expected something like visual regexp: http://laurent.riesterer.free.fr/regexp/ Since RegExp-Syntax is very similar across tools, yours is almost

Re: Matplotlib Contour Plots

2014-08-18 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 18.08.14 18:51, schrieb Jamie Mitchell: On Friday, August 15, 2014 4:13:26 PM UTC+1, Steven D'Aprano wrote: So I have two 1D arrays: 1st array - ([8, 8.8,8.5,7.9,8.6 ...], dtype=float32) It has a shape (150,) 2nd array - ([2, 2.2, 2.5, 2.3, ...],dtype=float32) It has a shape (150,) What

Re: PyMatch Tool.

2014-08-15 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 14.08.14 21:50, schrieb rafinha.u...@gmail.com: Hello, I created this tool to help me develop on formatting text using regular expressions. Any questions, I am available. Thank you. Tool - https://github.com/rfunix/PyMatch I expected something like visual regexp:

Re: Begginer in python trying to load a .dll

2014-08-12 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 12.08.14 20:36, schrieb c1223: Hi, Im working in the development of a program based in python that allow us to contrl a spectometer. The spectometer has an .dll file. The idea is to work through this dll and operate the spectometer. The name of the .dll is AS5216.dll. I've trying with ctype,

Re: how to write file into my android phone?

2014-08-10 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 10.08.14 11:39, schrieb Steven D'Aprano: Android phones don't mount as storage devices? Oh well, that's Android crossed off my list. Not any longer. They used to, but the support for mass storage was dropped in favour of MTP to allow concurrent access from both the computer and the

Re: Idle crashes when using accentuated letters in Mac OS X

2014-08-10 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 10.08.14 15:03, schrieb Anamaria Martins Moreira I am facing a problem with using accentuated characters in idle (2.7.6 or 2.7.8). When I type the accent, idle crashes. If I call python from a terminal, there is no such problem. Try updating your Tcl/Tk to the latest version, e.g. via

Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters

2014-08-04 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 04.08.14 01:08, schrieb Chris Angelico: On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Wiktor look@signature.invalid wrote: I have to ask - is there a way to make that original concept work? I know, that CP437 has symbols ╖, ╢ and ╘, but does not have polish letters - and I need to display them too.

Re: Python 3.4.1 installer on Mac links Python to old Tcl/Tk

2014-06-26 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 26.06.14 12:39, schrieb Peter Tomcsanyi: Christian Gollwitzer aurio...@gmx.de wrote in message news:lofciv$nq6$1...@dont-email.me... For PNG image support you can load either the Img package which gives support for a large variety of images, or the smaller tkpng package. My first Google

Re: Python 3.4.1 installer on Mac links Python to old Tcl/Tk

2014-06-26 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 26.06.14 14:37, schrieb Christian Gollwitzer: Am 26.06.14 12:39, schrieb Peter Tomcsanyi: Christian Gollwitzer aurio...@gmx.de wrote in message news:lofciv$nq6$1...@dont-email.me... For PNG image support you can load either the Img package which gives support for a large variety of images

Re: Python 3.4.1 installer on Mac links Python to old Tcl/Tk

2014-06-25 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Hi Peter, Am 24.06.14 20:11, schrieb Peter Tomcsanyi: I use the Python 3.4.1 installer from https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-341/ The Windows installation comes with Tcl/Tk version 8.6 which has some new features (compared to 8.5) that are very important to me. may I ask which

Re: Python 3.4.1 installer on Mac links Python to old Tcl/Tk

2014-06-25 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 25.06.14 21:26, schrieb Peter Tomcsanyi: Christian Gollwitzer aurio...@gmx.de wrote in message news:lodruv$k45$1...@dont-email.me... may I ask which features of 8.6 you need in particular? I need two of them: - Angled text - PNG image support with alpha channel (even if it seems a bit

Re: Under what kind of situation, time.sleep(n) would sleep much longer than n seconds?

2014-06-19 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 19.06.14 01:38, schrieb Chris Angelico: a good console UI just requires this: something = raw_input(Enter something: ) print(Result: +result) That is actually one of the worst console UIs possible. Almost all beginner's courses start with programs like that, requiring the user to key

Re: Under what kind of situation, time.sleep(n) would sleep much longer than n seconds?

2014-06-19 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 19.06.14 09:42, schrieb Chris Angelico: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Christian Gollwitzer aurio...@gmx.de wrote: Am 19.06.14 01:38, schrieb Chris Angelico: a good console UI just requires this: something = raw_input(Enter something: ) print(Result: +result) That is actually one

Re: OT: This Swift thing

2014-06-07 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 06.06.14 13:20, schrieb Alain Ketterlin: Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com writes: It's impossible to accidentally call a base class's method when you ought to have called the overriding method in the subclass, which is a risk in C++ [2]. I don't how this can happen in C++, unless you

Re: 'complex' function with string argument.

2014-03-18 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 15.03.14 17:26, schrieb Jayanth Koushik: This is regarding the inbuilt 'complex' function. The python docs say: Note: When converting from a string, the string must not contain whitespace around the central + or - operator. For example, complex('1+2j') is fine, but complex('1 + 2j') raises

Re: 'complex' function with string argument.

2014-03-18 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Hi Steven, Am 18.03.14 09:00, schrieb Steven D'Aprano: On Tue, 18 Mar 2014 08:04:44 +0100, Christian Gollwitzer wrote: Am 15.03.14 17:26, schrieb Jayanth Koushik: This is regarding the inbuilt 'complex' function. The python docs say: Note: When converting from a string, the string must

Re: Explanation of list reference

2014-02-15 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Hi Dave, Am 14.02.14 19:08, schrieb dave em: He is asking a question I am having trouble answering which is how a variable containing a value differs from a variable containing a list or more specifically a list reference. as others have explained better and in more detail, there are mutable

Re: Explanation of list reference

2014-02-15 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 15.02.14 01:57, schrieb Chris Angelico: Can you give an example of an ambiguous case? Fundamentally, the 'is' operator tells you whether its two operands are exactly the same object, nothing more and nothing less, so I assume your ambiguous cases are ones where it's possible for two things to

Re: Tkinter widgets into classes.

2014-02-02 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 01.02.14 20:43, schrieb Lewis Wood: I was wandering if I could dynamically change my GUI and after a few searches on Google found the grid_remove() function. What I'm wandering now is if there is a way to group a lot of widgets up into one, and then use the one grid_remove function which

Re: Tkinter widgets into classes.

2014-02-02 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 02.02.14 00:07, schrieb Lewis Wood: It does, this is the whole code: from tkinter import * root=Tk() root.title(Second Root Testing) def secondwindow(): root2=Tk() root2.mainloop() button1=Button(root,text=Root2,command=secondwindow).grid(row=0,column=0) root.mainloop() I

Re: Using a static library in a C extension for Python

2014-01-22 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Hi, Am 22.01.14 12:01, schrieb lgabiot: Is it possible to link statically cairo to my extension, so that even if cairo is not installed on a computer, the code will run? I guess I would need to modify the setup.py file using distutils to compile cairo statically into my .so file? I've done

Re: Tkinter GUI Error

2014-01-14 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 14.01.14 22:27, schrieb Lewis Wood: Also anyone know how to create an entry box for Tkinter where you can only enter in 2 digits? You must use a validator to achieve this. This is a more advanced topic though. A validator is a function that is called whenever the user keys something in -

Re: Tkinter GUI Error

2014-01-13 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 13.01.14 19:49, schrieb fluttershy...@gmail.com: Inside the function is where I am having the problem, I am trying to get it to delete the label so that it may then replace it with a shorter text. Here is the full code: from tkinter import * import random main = Tk() main.title(Crack

Re: On radio buttons in tkinter

2014-01-04 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 04.01.14 11:17, schrieb eneskri...@gmail.com: So the issue is like this. I have to make a 2 x N grid like this: o Radio - 1 o Radio - 2 o Radio - 3 o Radio - 4 ... o Radio - N - 1 o Radio - N How to do so with a loop? Create the buttons and append them into a list, so you can later refer

Re: Using asyncio in event-driven network library

2013-12-25 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 24.12.13 16:41, schrieb Tobias M.: On 23.12.2013 20:59, Terry Reedy wrote: What would be easiest for user-developers would be if someone were able to wrap a gui loop in a way to give it the needed interface, so the gui loop itself replaced and became the asyncio loop. That's a good idea,

Re: Why Python is like C++

2013-12-21 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 21.12.13 09:06, schrieb Gregory Ewing: Michael Torrie wrote: Maybe BASIC's of the 70s. But Not QB. QuickBasic was a pretty impressive compiler in its day. Completely modern, structured language. I may have been thinking of GW-BASIC. There was definitely something that was pretty much an

Re: how to develop code using a mix of an existing python-program and console-commands

2013-12-18 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 18.12.13 21:17, schrieb Jean Dubois: I have a python-program which I want to perform its task first, then switch to the python console to experiment with further commands, using what was already defined in the python-program. Excellent way to use/debug a scripting langugage. Use ipython,

Re: GUI:-please answer want to learn GUI programming in python , how should i proceed.

2013-12-17 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 17.12.13 06:37, schrieb Rick Johnson: On Sunday, December 15, 2013 11:01:53 AM UTC-6, Steven D'Aprano wrote: low-level language with some interface to Python. The main difference between this hypothetical Python GUI and Tcl is that Tcl is a Turing-complete interpreter which lives in it's own

Re: GUI:-please answer want to learn GUI programming in python , how should i proceed.

2013-12-17 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 16.12.13 23:40, schrieb Chris Angelico: On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Christian Gollwitzer aurio...@gmx.de wrote: Let the flame war begin! I'll try to avoid flamage :) :) So let's vigorously discuss about facts;) But my rule of thumb with bash scripts is: If it exceeds a page or two

Re: GUI:-please answer want to learn GUI programming in python , how should i proceed.

2013-12-16 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Let the flame war begin! Am 16.12.13 17:10, schrieb Chris Angelico: Here's the Tcl procedure that I tweaked. This is from gitk; I find the word diff not all that useful, but a character diff at times is very useful. I haven't found a way to configure the word diff regex through gitk's options,

Re: GUI:-please answer want to learn GUI programming in python , how should i proceed.

2013-12-16 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 16.12.13 18:04, schrieb Grant Edwards: On 2013-12-16, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 3:46 AM, Grant Edwards invalid@invalid.invalid wrote: * The everything is a string view of the world is severly limiting if you're not just processing strings. I

Re: [newbie] trying socket as a replacement for nc

2013-12-12 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 12.12.13 00:08, schrieb Jean Dubois: I have an ethernet-rs232 adapter which allows me to connect to a measurement instrument by means of netcat on a linux system. e.g. entering nc 10.128.59.63 7000 allows me to enter e.g. *IDN? after which I get an identification string of the measurement

Re: [newbie] struggling wth tkinter

2013-12-08 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 07.12.13 17:52, schrieb Jean Dubois: I'm trying to go through a tutorial on tkinter which has the code below as an example. The only thing I see when running it is a little popup with Click mouse here to quit which works as expected but always shows the following error-message. However the

Re: [newbie] problem trying out simple non object oriented use of Tkinter

2013-12-06 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 06.12.13 14:12, schrieb Jean Dubois: It works but it's not all clear to me. Can you tell me what label.bind(1, quit) is standing for? What's the 1 meaning? bind connects events sent to the label with a handler. The 1 is the event description; in this case, it means a click with the left

Re: PIL(Pillow) fails with PNG image

2013-12-05 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 05.12.13 21:26, schrieb tastyminerals: Hi, I am getting an error when trying to use Pillow library to display image PNG on a Tkinter Button widget. Here is my code. |image= Image.open(os.path.join('icons','bulb.png')) # using PIL for png images self.correctGuessImage=

Re: Access database - GUI - Python - I need architectural advice

2013-11-28 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 28.11.13 07:51, schrieb Ben Finney: Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 4:55 PM, jm.almeras jm.alme...@nospam.net wrote: 2) dimensionable and editable arrays of columns and rows like when you open a table under Access. I'm not aware of a widget in Tkinter

Re: Importing by file name

2013-11-24 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 24.11.13 04:41, schrieb Chris Angelico: As part of a post on python-ideas, I wanted to knock together a quick little script that imports a file based on its name, in the same way that the Python interpreter will happily take an absolute pathname for the main script. Is it imp.load_source()

Re: Retrieving possible list for use in a subsequent INSERT

2013-10-31 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 31.10.13 17:49, schrieb Nick the Gr33k: Στις 31/10/2013 1:19 μμ, ο/η Nick the Gr33k έγραψε: someone please that is aware of what's wrong? Your attitude. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python was designed (was Re: Multi-threading in Python vs Java)

2013-10-17 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 17.10.13 09:23, schrieb Peter Cacioppi: Do you have a clean little example of polymorphism being mocked in a reasonable way with pure C? There are many nice object-based C projects floating around, but real polymorphism? I think you can't do it without some bizarre work-arounds, but I'd be

Re: What version of glibc is Python using?

2013-10-12 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 12.10.13 08:34, schrieb John Nagle: I'm trying to find out which version of glibc Python is using. I need a fix that went into glibc 2.10 back in 2009. (http://udrepper.livejournal.com/20948.html) So I try the recommended way to do this, on a CentOS server: /usr/local/bin/python2.7 Python

Re: What version of glibc is Python using?

2013-10-12 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 12.10.13 09:20, schrieb Ned Deily: In article l3as90$5bk$1...@dont-email.me, John Nagle na...@animats.com wrote: [...] Why is the info from plaform.libc_ver() so bogus? The code is here: http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/2.7/Lib/platform.py#l141 Perhaps you could open an issue on the

Re: What version of glibc is Python using?

2013-10-12 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 12.10.13 09:53, schrieb Christian Gollwitzer: Am 12.10.13 09:20, schrieb Ned Deily: In article l3as90$5bk$1...@dont-email.me, John Nagle na...@animats.com wrote: [...] Why is the info from plaform.libc_ver() so bogus? The code is here: http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/2.7/Lib

Re: Process pending Tk events from GObject main loop?

2013-10-11 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 11.10.13 14:52, schrieb Skip Montanaro: I know I have things bassackwards, but trying to process Gtk events from Tkinter's main loop using after() isn't working. (I suspect our underlying C++ (ab)use of Gtk may require a Gtk main loop). I'd like to process Tk events periodically from a

Re: I am never going to complain about Python again

2013-10-10 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 10.10.13 06:36, schrieb Steven D'Aprano: Just came across this little Javascript gem: ,,, == Array((null,'cool',false,NaN,4)); = evaluates as true http://wtfjs.com/2011/02/11/all-your-commas-are-belong-to-Array I swear, I am never going to complain about Python again. More of this fun

Re: Complex literals (was Re: I am never going to complain about Python again)

2013-10-10 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 10.10.13 18:54, schrieb Grant Edwards: On 2013-10-10, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 1:12 AM, Grant Edwards invalid@invalid.invalid wrote: Nope. i is electical current (though it's more customary to use upper case). j is the square root of -1. and that

Re: Applying 4x4 transformation to 3-element vector with numpy

2013-10-08 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Dear John, Am 09.10.13 07:28, schrieb John Nagle: This is the basic transformation of 3D graphics. Take a 3D point, make it 4D by adding a 1 on the end, multiply by a transformation matrix to get a new 4-element vector, discard the last element. Is there some way to do that in numpy

Re: Adding new lines to word document using zipfile module within python 2.7?

2013-08-27 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 27.08.13 22:45, schrieb accessnew...@gmail.com: Writing text to a word document (word 2007) using the zipfile module via python coding (python 2.7). Below if the section of code I am using to do this. I can't figure out what character I need to use to get it to add new lines to the zipfile.

Re: Removing matching items from a list?

2013-08-04 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Hi Kevin, Am 04.08.13 02:38, schrieb kevin4f...@gmail.com: Sorry for the repeated messages. I have no idea why I have such a long time delay. My messages didn't appear until just now after a few minutes (thought I was having some issues). you are posting to newsgroups from the USENET. It is

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