Re: integer and string compare, is that correct?

On Jan 10, 10:34 am, Nobody wrote: > Hellmut Weber wrote: > >> being a causal python user (who likes the language quite a lot) > >> it took me a while to realize the following: > >>  >>> max = '5' > >>  >>> n = 5 > >>  >>> n >= max > >> False > > >> Section 5.9 Comparison describes this. > > >> Ca

Re: Converting a float to a formatted outside of print command

On Nov 23, 3:15 pm, stephen_b wrote: > I'd like to convert a list of floats to formatted strings. The > following example raises a TypeError: > > y = 0.5 > x = '.1f' % y You meant: x = '%.1f' % y -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: 3.x and 2.x on same machine (is this info at Python.org??)

On Nov 12, 1:52 pm, rantingrick wrote: > Hello, > > Currently i am using 2.6 on Windows and need to start writing code in > 3.0. I cannot leave 2.x yet because 3rd party modules are still not > converted. So i want to install 3.0 without disturbing my current > Python2.x. What i'm afraid of is tha

Re: My own accounting python euler problem

On Nov 8, 4:43 am, Ozz wrote: > Hi, > > > My first question is: > > 1. given a list of invoives I=[500, 400, 450, 200, 600, 700] and a > > check Ch=600 > > how can I print all the different combinations of invoices that the > > check is possibly cancelling > > Incidentally, I'm currently learning

Re: Pythonic list/tuple/dict layout?

On Jan 25, 2:18 am, Akira Kitada wrote: > Hi, > > There is more than one way to write a list/tuple/dict in Python, > and actually different styles are used in standard library. > As a hobgoblin of little minds, I rather like to know which style is > considered "Pythonic" > in the community. > > I

Re: PySqlite - division of real numbers without decimal fractions

On Nov 6, 3:46 pm, Astley Le Jasper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been getting errors recently when using pysqlite. I've declared > the table columns as real numbers to 2 decimal places (I'm dealing > with money), but when doing division on two numbers that happen to > have no decimal fractions

Re: Anyone in the Houston / College Station / Austin area? Looking to do some sprints / joint projects.

On Nov 1, 10:35 pm, xkenneth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All, > >    I'm in Houston/College Station/Austin quite often and I'm looking > for other coders to do some joint projects with, share experiences, or > do some sprints. Let me know if you're interested. > > Regards, > Ken I live in Houston

Re: why in returns values for array and keys for dictionary

On Aug 25, 9:57 pm, alex23 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 26, 10:49 am, "++imanshu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >     Wouldn't it be nicer to have 'in' return values (or keys) for both > > arrays and dictionaries. Arrays and Dictionaries looked so similar in > > Python until I learned this

Re: How to make xss safe strings

On Aug 20, 10:10 pm, Roopesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > How can I make a string XSS safe? Will > simply .replace('<','<').replace('>','>') do the work? Or > are there some other issues to take into account?. Is there already a > function in python which will do this for me. For HTML,

Re: random numbers according to user defined distribution ??

On Aug 6, 8:26 pm, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED] cybersource.com.au> wrote: > On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:02:37 -0700, Alex wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > > I wonder if it is possible in python to produce random numbers according > > to a user defined distribution? Unfortunately the random module doe

Re: Decimals not equalling themselves (e.g. 0.2 = 0.2000000001)

On Aug 3, 9:02 am, CNiall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am very new to Python (I started learning it just yesterday), but I > have encountered a problem. > > I want to make a simple script that calculates the n-th root of a given > number (e.g. 4th root of 625--obviously five, but it's just an exa

Re: Odd math related issue.

On Jul 21, 3:52 am, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Rawlins wrote: > > I’ve got what seems to me to be a totally illogical math issue here > > which I can’t figure out. Take a look at the following code: > > >         /self/.__logger.info(/"%i / %i"/ % (bytes_transferred, > > /sel

Re: Cyclic imports

On Jun 26, 10:40 pm, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > I'm looking for some advice dealing with cyclic, cross-package > imports. > > I've created the following demo file structure: > ./a/__init__.py > ./a/a.py > ./b/__init__.py > ./b/b.py > ./main.py > > a.py imports a class from b.py an

Re: newb question on strings

On Jun 24, 4:04 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you trying to escape for a regular expression? > > Just do re.escape(). > > >>> print re.escape('Happy') > Happy > >>> print re.escape("Frank's Diner") > > Frank\'s\ Diner > > If you're escaping for URLs, there's urllib2.quote

Re: Weird local variables behaviors

On Jun 20, 7:32 pm, Matt Nordhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sebastjan Trepca wrote: > > Hey, > > > can someone please explain this behavior: > > > The code: > > > def test1(value=1): > >     def inner(): > >         print value > >     inner() > > > def test2(value=2): > >     def inner(): > >  

Re: At long last...

On Jun 19, 9:24 pm, Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 19, 10:17 pm, Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Carl Banks wrote: > > > Tuples will have an index method in Python 2.6. > > > > I promise I won't indiscriminately use tuples for homogenous data. > > > Honest.  Scout's hon

Re: advanced listcomprehenions?

On Jun 18, 4:42 pm, cirfu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am wondering if it is possible to write advanced listcomprehensions. > > For example: > """Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for > multiples of three print "Fizz" instead of the number and for the > multiples of five

Re: Does '!=' equivelent to 'is not'

On Jun 16, 10:29 pm, pirata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm a bit confusing about whether "is not" equivelent to "!=" > > if a != b: >   ... > > if a is not b: >   ... > > What's the difference between "is not" and "!=" or they are the same thing? "is not" is the logical negation of the "is" oper

Re: numpy: handling float('NaN') different in XP vs. Linux

On Jun 13, 10:45 pm, "John [H2O]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a script: > > from numpy import float > OutD=[] > v=['3','43','23.4','NaN','43'] > OutD.append([float(i) for i in v[1]]) > > On linux: > Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Mar  7 2008, 04:10:12) > [GCC 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu

Re: PEP on breaking outer loops with StopIteration

On Jun 9, 8:07 pm, "Kris Kowal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had a thought that might be pepworthy.  Might we be able to break > outer loops using an iter-instance specific StopIteration type? > > This is the desired, if not desirable, syntax:: > >     import string >     letters = iter(string.lo

Re: line continuation for lines ending in "and" or "or"

On Jun 4, 10:09 pm, "Russ P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've always appreciated Python's lack of requirement for a semi-colon > at the end of each line. I also appreciate its rules for automatic > line continuation. If a statement ends with a "+", for example, Python > recognizes that the statem

Re: decorators when?

On May 27, 7:32 pm, Kam-Hung Soh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David C. Ullrich wrote: > > What version added decorators (using the > > @decorator syntax)? > > > (Is there a general way I could have found out the answer myself?) > > > Is there a somthing such that "from __future__ import something"

Re: Hungarian Notation

On May 27, 12:28 am, "inhahe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anybody know of a list for canonical prefixes to use for hungarian > notation in Python?  Not that I plan to name all my variables with hungarian > notation, but just for when it's appropriate. pnWe vUse adjHungarian nNotation prepAt

Re: related to python

On May 21, 9:34 pm, "salil_reeves" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > develop a function called standardise_phrase to convert > the user's input to a standard form for subsequent processing. This > involves: > 1. removing all inter-word punctuation, which for our purposes is > assumed to > consist only o

Re: related to python

On May 21, 9:34 pm, "salil_reeves" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > develop a function called standardise_phrase to convert > the user's input to a standard form for subsequent processing. This > involves: > 1. removing all inter-word punctuation, which for our purposes is > assumed to > consist only o

Re: Struct usage and varying sizes of h, l, etc

On May 20, 5:59 pm, Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ethan Furman wrote: > > Greetings, > > > I'm looking at the struct module for binary packing of ints and floats.   > > The documentation refers to C datatypes.  It's been many years since I > > looked at C, but I seem to remember that the

Re: Keeping two lists aligned after processing

On May 11, 1:22 am, philly_bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a population of five algorithms. Each Alg has a method, > Alg.accuracy(), which calculates its accuracy. Running the accuracy > method on each Alg, I end up with a list of accuracies like [0.75, > 0.10, 0.45, 0.80, 0.45] > > Now I

Re: range with variable leading zeros

On May 8, 10:42 pm, yhvh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to generate a range with variable leading zeros > > x = [0010, 0210] You do realize that this is octal, right? > padding = len(x[1]) len is undefined for integers. Perhaps you meant "len(str(x[1]))". > for j in range(x[0], x[1]): >  

Re: How can I add spaces where ever I have capital letters?

> On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 9:12 PM, John Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a string (which I got from the names of my classes) and I would like > > to print out my CamelCase classes as titles. > > > I would like it to do this: > > my_class_name = "ModeCommand" > > ## Do some magic

Re: Mathematics in Python are not correct

On May 8, 6:14 pm, Luis Zarrabeitia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 08 May 2008 06:54:42 pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > The problem is that Python parses -123**0 as -(123**0), not as > > (-123)**0. > > Actually, I've always written it as (-123)**0. At least where I'm from, > exponentiat

Re: We have string.isdigit(), why not string.isNumber()?

On Apr 30, 7:56 pm, MooMaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > N00b question alert! I did a search for isdigit() in the group > discussion, and it didn't look like the question had been asked in the > first 2 pages, so sorry if it was... > > The manual documentation says: > "isdigit( ) > > Return true

Re: A small and very basic python question

On Apr 27, 5:26 pm, Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dennis wrote: > > Could anyone tell me how this line of code is working: > > > filter(lambda x: x in string.letters, text) > > > I understand that it's filtering the contents of the variable text and I > > know that lambda is a kind of embedde

Re: How do I say "Is this a function"?

On Apr 26, 6:17 pm, John Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I determine is something a function? > > For instance, I don't want to relying on exceptions below: > > def f1(): >print "In f1" > > def f3(): >print "In f3" > > def others(): >print "In others" > > for i in xrange(1,3):

Re: Is 2006 too old for a book on Python?

On Apr 25, 8:16 am, jmDesktop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I wanted to buy a book on Python, but am concerned that some of > them are too old. One I had come to after much research was Core > Python by Wesley Chun. I looked at many others, but actually saw this > one in the store and liked it

Re: Curious relation

On Apr 23, 11:51 pm, Greg J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was reading the programming Reddit tonight and came across this > (http://reddit.com/info/6gwk1/comments/): > > >>> ([1]>2)==True > True > >>> [1]>(2==True) > True > >>> [1]>2==True > > False > > Odd, no? > > So, can anyone here shed light

Re: Explicit variable declaration

On Apr 22, 7:39 pm, "Filip Gruszczyński" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyone! > > It is my first message on this list, therefore I would like to say > hello to everyone. I am fourth year student of CS on the Univeristy of > Warsaw and recently I have become very interested in dynamically ty

Re: Alternate indent proposal for python 3000

On Apr 21, 4:01 am, Paul Boddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 21 Apr, 00:54, Dan Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > We wouldn't even need that. Just a new source encoding. Then we > > could write: > > > # -*- coding: end-block

Re: Java or C++?

On Apr 21, 5:26 pm, Jorgen Grahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:14:08 -0700 (PDT), NickC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Apr 15, 1:46 pm, Brian Vanderburg II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >> This will automatically call the constructors of any contained objects > >> to ini

Re: Alternate indent proposal for python 3000

On Apr 20, 11:42 am, Matthew Woodcraft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I feel that including some optional means to block code would be a big > >> step in getting wider adoption of the language in web development and > >> in general. I do understand

Re: Checking if a text file is blank

On Apr 20, 1:04 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greetings! > > I've just started learning python, so this is probably one of those > obvious questions newbies ask. > > Is there any way in python to check if a text file is blank? > > What I've tried to do so far is: > > f = file("frie

Re: how to remove \n in the list

On Apr 14, 10:55 pm, Yves Dorfsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gabriel Genellina wrote: > > En Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:41:55 -0300, reetesh nigam > >> l=['5\n', '2\n', '7\n', '3\n', '6\n'] > > >> how to remove \n from the given list > > > l is is very poor name... I'll use lines instead: > > > lines[:

Re: about the ';'

On Apr 13, 10:33 pm, "Penny Y." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I saw many python programmers add a ';' at the end of each line. > As good style, should or should not we do coding with that? That's just because their fingers are stuck in C mode. The recommended style is NOT to use unnecessary semico

Re: Recommended "from __future__ import" options for Python 2.5.2?

On Apr 12, 1:41 pm, "Malcolm Greene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any consensus on what "from __future__ import" options > developers should be using in their Python 2.5.2 applications? > > Is there a consolidated list of "from __future__ import" options to > choose from? Just look inside

Re: str(bytes) in Python 3.0

On Apr 12, 9:29 am, Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 12, 10:06 am, Kay Schluehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 12 Apr., 14:44, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Gabriel Genellina schrieb: > > > > > On the last line, str(x), I would expect 'abc' - same as str(x,

Re: text adventure game problem

On Apr 8, 8:01 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > okay, I'm having this one problem with a text adventure game. It's > kind of hard to explain, but I'll do my best. > [code] > > def prompt_kitchen(): > global gold > gold_taken = False > while True: > prompt_kit = raw_input('>') >

Re: Newbie: How to pass a dictionary to a function?

On Apr 7, 10:54 pm, BonusOnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I pass a dictionary to a function as an argument? The same way you pass any other argument. > # Say I have a function foo... > def foo (arg=[]): It's generally a bad idea to use [] as a default argument. > x = arg['name'] > y = a

Re: id functions of ints, floats and strings

On Apr 5, 9:30 pm, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In fact all you can in truth say is that > >a is b --> a == b > You can't even guarantee that. >>> inf = 1e1000 >>> nan = inf / inf >>> nan is nan True >>> nan == nan False -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: regarding memoize function

On Apr 3, 6:33 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I saw example of memoize function...here is snippet > > def memoize(fn, slot): >def memoized_fn(obj, *args): > if hasattr(obj, slot): > return getattr(obj, slot) > else: > val = fn(obj, *ar

Re: sine in python

On Apr 3, 6:09 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Apr 3, 11:58 pm, Astan Chee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > I have a math function that looks like this > > sin (Theta) = 5/6 > > How do I find Theta (in degrees) in python? I am aware of the math.sin > > function, but is there a reverse

Re: Question about overloading of binary operators

On Mar 31, 5:03 pm, gigs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Raj Bandyopadhyay wrote: > > Hi > > > Here's a simple class example I've defined > > > # > > class myInt(int): > >def __add__(self,other): > > return 0 > > > print 5 + myInt(4) #prints 9 > > print myInt(4)

Re: Stuck in a loop

On Mar 31, 8:22 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I wrote a simple algorithm and it keeps getting stuck in a loop. I > guess I'm just to tired to figure it out: > > compcount=[5,4,2,2] > suitrank=[0,0,0,0] > > trump=2 > l,lt=0,0 > while l<4: > while lt<4: > if l==trump: > l+=1

Re: Why prefer != over <> for Python 3.0?

On Mar 29, 12:34 pm, Lie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 29, 5:55 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I don't know if this is the right place to discuss the death of <> in > > Python 3.0, or if there have been any meaningful discussions posted > > before (hard to search google with '<>' keyword)

Re: Why prefer != over <> for Python 3.0?

On Mar 30, 5:40 am, Torsten Bronger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallöchen! > > Bjoern Schliessmann writes: > > Lie wrote: > > >> Ah yes, that is also used (I completely forgot about that one, my > >> math's aren't that sharp anymore) and I think it's used more > >> frequently than ><. > > > Where

Re: Why prefer != over <> for Python 3.0?

On Mar 29, 6:08 am, Paul Rubin wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I don't know if this is the right place to discuss the death of <> in > > Python 3.0, or if there have been any meaningful discussions posted > > before (hard to search google with '<>' keyword), but wh

Re: counting using variable length string as base

On Mar 27, 1:15 am, Grimsqueaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I'm fairly new to Python and to this list. I have a problem that > is driving me insane, sorry if it seems simple to everyone, I've been > fighting with it for a while. :)) > > I want to take a variable length string and use it as a

Re: Why does python behave so? (removing list items)

On Mar 26, 5:12 pm, Thomas Dybdahl Ahle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 23:04 +0100, Michał Bentkowski wrote: > > Why does python create a reference here, not just copy the variable? > > Python, like most other oo languages, will always make references for =, > unless you work on

Re: python hash() function

On Mar 25, 9:22 pm, "Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Alvin Delagon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > | Hello, > | > | >>> hash("foobar") > | -1969371895 > | > | Anyone can explain to me how the hash() function in python does its work? > A > | link to its

Re: NameError: name 'guess' is not defined

On Mar 22, 10:44 am, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > > > > > I am very new to both programming and Pyhton and while trying to do > > some practice using A byte of python an Error pops up on the IDLE > > shell. I am using windows XP. PLease see below. > >

Re: String To List

On Mar 17, 1:15 am, Girish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a string a = "['xyz', 'abc']".. I would like to convert it to a > list with elements 'xyz' and 'abc'. Is there any simple solution for > this?? > Thanks for the help... eval(a) will do the job, but you have to be very careful about usi

Re: Immutable and Mutable Types

Bernard Lim wrote: > Hi, > > I'm reading the Python Reference Manual in order to gain a better > understanding > of Python under the hood. > > On the last paragraph of 3.1, there is a statement on immutable and mutable > types as such: > > > Depending on implementation, for immutable types, opera

Re: Convert int to float

On Mar 15, 4:43 pm, Guido van Brakel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > I have this now: > > > def gem(a): > > g = sum(a) / len(a) > > return g > > > print gem([1,2,3,4]) > > print gem([1,10,100,1000]) > > print gem([1,-2,3,-4,5]) > > It now gives a int, but i would like to see floats.

Re: no more comparisons

On Mar 13, 7:38 pm, Alan Isaac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Dickinson wrote: > > Sorting tuples, where the second item in the tuple should > > have the opposite ordering to the first is going to be > > a bit of a pain. Or even worse, where the ordering of the > > second item depends on the va

Re: no more comparisons

On Mar 12, 6:52 pm, Alan Isaac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Rubin wrote: > > The cmp option should not be removed. However, requiring > > it to be specified as a keyword parameter instead of just > > passed as an unlabelled arg is fine. > > Sure; I would have no problem with that. > > But tha

Re: Regarding coding style

On Mar 8, 1:31 pm, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > > What I really can't stand are the pointy-haired comment blocks > at the beginnings of C/C++ functions that do things like tell > you the name and return type of the function and list the names > and types of the parameters. Gee, t

Re: Why """, not '''?

On Mar 5, 7:24 pm, Matt Nordhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > Surely it would depend on the type of text: pick up any random English > > novel containing dialogue, and you're likely to find a couple of dozen > > pairs of quotation marks per page, against a few apostrophes

Re: How about adding rational fraction to Python?

On Feb 29, 12:55 am, Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:39:51 -, Steven D'Aprano > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed the following in > comp.lang.python: > > > By that logic, we should see this: > > > >>> len("a string") > > '8' > > Why? len() is a functio

Re: call by reference howto????

On Feb 27, 6:02 pm, Tamer Higazi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > Can somebody of you make me a sample how to define a function based on > "call by reference" ??? > > I am a python newbie and I am not getting smart how to define functions, > that should modify the variable I passed by reference.

Re: How about adding rational fraction to Python?

On Feb 26, 11:21 pm, Mark Dickinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 26, 11:55 pm, Paul Rubin wrote: > > > So use: return sum(number_list) / float(len(number_list)) > > That makes it somewhat more explicit what you want. Otherwise > > But that fails for a list of Dec

Re: Critique of first python code

On Feb 8, 7:30 pm, Zack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[snip] > > The generators you show here are interesting, and it prodded me on how > to add tuples but at the moment (I'm a python newbie) the generator > seems less readable to me than the alternative. After some input from > Scott David Daniels I

Re: Floating point bug?

On Feb 14, 8:10 pm, Zentrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's a misconception. The decimal-module has a different base (10 > > instead of 2), and higher precision. But that doesn't change the fact > > that it will expose the same rounding-errors as floats do - just for > > different numbers.

Re: Solve a Debate

On Feb 15, 10:24 am, nexes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alright so me and my friend are having argument. > > Ok the problem we had been asked a while back, to do a programming > exercise (in college) > That would tell you how many days there are in a month given a > specific month. > > Ok I did my

Re: Reducing types

On Feb 10, 1:19 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > For me Python is useful to write code that gives *correct* results, > allowing me to write it in a short & simple way, with quick debugging > cycles (and for other purposes, like to write dynamic code, to use it > as glue language to use libraries, to

Re: Basic inheritance question

On Jan 5, 4:53 am, Bjoern Schliessmann wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: > >> self.startLoc = start > >> self.stopLoc = stop > > > Thanks! Of course it should. Old Java habits die slowly. > > That's not really a Java habit. In Java and C++, personally I lik

Re: Is there a string function to trim all non-ascii characters out of a string

On Dec 31, 2:20 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a string function to trim all non-ascii characters out of a > string? > Let say I have a string in python (which is utf8 encoded), is there a > python function which I can convert that to a string which composed o

Re: Optional code segment delimiter?

On Dec 29, 12:41 pm, Matt Nordhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > xkenneth wrote: > > Is it possible to use optional delimiters other than tab and colons? > > > For example: > > > if this==1 { > > print this > > } > > > > Heheheh.. Wow! I

Re: Proposal: Decimal literals in Python.

On Oct 27, 10:27 am, Paul Hankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 27, 3:09 pm, MRAB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Oct 27, 12:12 am, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote:> Matimus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > The trailing L [for 'long' literals] is going away in Python 3.0. >

Re: delineating by comma where commas inside quotation marks don't count

On Oct 24, 8:56 pm, "Junior" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to open a text file for reading and delineate it by comma. I also > want any data > surrounded by quotation marks that has a comma in it, not to count the > commas inside the > quotation marks Use the csv module. -- http://mail.py

Re: A short question about non-ascii characters in list

On Sep 17, 12:08 am, js <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> print u"äöü" > äöü > >>> print [u"äöü"] > > [u'\xe4\xf6\xfc'] > > Python seems to treat non-ASCII chars in a list differently from the > one in the outside of a list. > I think this behavior is so inconvenient and actually makes debugging > w

Re: subclass of integers

On Sep 14, 9:30 am, Mark Morss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to construct a class that includes both the integers and > None. I desire that if x and y are elements of this class, and both > are integers, then arithmetic operations between them, such as x+y, > return the same result as

Re: Does shuffle() produce uniform result ?

On Aug 24, 2:38 am, tooru honda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have read the source code of the built-in random module, random.py. > After also reading Wiki article on Knuth Shuffle algorithm, I wonder if > the shuffle method implemented in random.py produces results with modulo > bias. > >

Re: beginner, idomatic python 2

On Aug 23, 10:21 pm, "bambam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would someone like to suggest a replacement for this? This is a > function that returns different kinds of similar objects, depending > on what is asked for. PSP and PWR are classes. I don't really > want to re-write the calling code very

Re: beginner whitespace question

On Aug 9, 8:28 pm, James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > eggie5 wrote: > > But this still isn't valid: > > > from django.db import models > > > class Poll(models.Model): > >question = models.CharField(max_length=200) > >pub_date = models.DateTimeField('date published') > > > def __u

Re: beginner whitespace question

On Aug 9, 7:02 pm, eggie5 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 9, 4:52 pm, Dan Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Aug 9, 6:47 pm, eggie5 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I keep getting an error for line 7, what's wrong with this? > >

Re: beginner whitespace question

On Aug 9, 6:47 pm, eggie5 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I keep getting an error for line 7, what's wrong with this? > > from django.db import models > > class Poll(models.Model): > question = models.CharField(max_length=200) > pub_date = models.DateTimeField('date published') > > def

Re: bias in random.normalvariate??

On Aug 3, 10:38 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm a Python newbie and certainly no expert on statistics, but my wife > was taking a statistics course this summer and to illustrate that > sampling random numbers from a distribution and taking an average of > the samples gives you a random number as

Re: automatic type conversion for comparison operators

On Jul 26, 8:04 pm, Russ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Bishop wrote: > > BTW, are you a former Pascal programmer? > > No. Why do you ask? [The code snippet I wrote was made up to get a > point across. I > did not actually use that function name in my code.] I just ha

Re: question about math module notation

On Jul 26, 3:59 pm, Paul Rubin wrote: > brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ah yes, that works too... thanks. I've settled on doing it this way: > > print int(math.pow(2,64)) > > I like the added parenthesis :) > > I was surprised to find that gives an exact (integer, no

Re: automatic type conversion for comparison operators

On Jul 26, 6:22 pm, Russ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I posted a message on this several days ago, but it apparently got > lost > in googlespace, so I'll try it again. > > I recently discovered a bug in my code that apparently resulted from > the automatic conversion of a function pointer to an int

Re: Permutations with generators

On Jul 21, 12:42 am, Pablo Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey guys! > For the last couple of days, I've been fighting a war against > generators and they've beaten the crap out of me several times. What I > want to do is implement one that yields every possible permutation of > a given sequenc

Re: a=0100; print a ; 64 how to reverse this?

On Jul 17, 7:40 am, mosi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you, > this is great, > I thought that this should be standard in python 2.4 or 2.5 or in some > standard library (math ???) > Didn`t find anything. The bin() function is slated to be added to the next version of Python. Why there isn't

Re: In a dynamic language, why % operator asks user for type info?

On Jul 16, 7:10 pm, Karthik Gurusamy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > The string format operator, %, provides a functionality similar to the > snprintf function in C. In C, the function does not know the type of > each of the argument and hence relies on the embedded % > specifier to guide itse

Re: Semantics of file.close()

On Jul 16, 6:35 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I'm a Python beginner and I'm trying to open, write and close a file > in a > correct manner. I've RTFM, RTFS, and I've read this > thread:http://groups.google.ca/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/7... > > I still cannot figure ou

Re: Pass by reference or by value?

On Jul 13, 2:10 pm, Robert Dailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed in Python all function parameters seem to be passed by > reference. This means that when I modify the value of a variable of a > function, the value of the variable externally from the function is > also modified. Pyt

Re: Learning Basics

On Jul 8, 12:10 pm, Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I've been studying python for a few months (it is my first foray > into computer programming) and decided to write my own little simple > journaling program. It's all pretty basic stuff but I decided that I'd > learn more from it if more expe

Re: Where is the syntax for the dict() constructor ?!

On Jul 5, 10:19 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote: > Neil Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Besides, a string is an excellent epresentation for a zip code, > > since arithmetic upon them is unthinkable. > > Absolutely! Excel, unless you remedied that later with a column > operation,

Re: Questions about input lines (maximum length and continuation)

On Jul 3, 10:41 pm, Robert Dodier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm planning to write a program which automatically generates > Python code. > > (1) Is there a limit on the length of a line in a Python program? No. > (2) From what I understand, symbols, operators, and numbers > cannot b

Re: 16bit hash

On Jun 27, 12:11 pm, Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Josiah Carlson wrote: > > Robin Becker wrote: > >> Is the any way to get an efficient 16bit hash in python? > > > hash(obj)&65535 > > > - Josiah > > yes I thought of that, but cannot figure out if the internal hash really > distribute

Re: How can I 'compound' streams?

On Jun 27, 7:40 pm, XiaQ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to build a stream that writes to stdout and a file at the same > time. Is there already a function in the Python library to do this? class FileAndStdout(file): def write(self, data): file.write(self, data) sys.stdout

Re: matrix class

On Jun 12, 7:31 pm, DarrenWeber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Below is a module (matrix.py) with a class to implement some basic > matrix operations on a 2D list. Some things puzzle me about the best > way to do this (please don't refer to scipy, numpy and numeric because > this is a personal progr

Re: Integer division

On Jun 7, 8:30 pm, Some Other Guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello all, > > I have two integers and I want to divide one by another, and want to > > get an integer result which is the higher side whenever the result is > > a fraction. > > 3/2 => 1 # Usual behavior >

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