Re: Parsing a file with iterators

2008-10-17 Thread Eddie Corns
Luis Zarrabeitia [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I need to parse a file, text file. The format is something like that: TYPE1 metadata data line 1 data line 2 ... data line N TYPE2 metadata data line 1 ... TYPE3 metadata ... And so on. The type and metadata determine how to parse the following dat= a

Re: Regarding Telnet library in python

2008-08-13 Thread Eddie Corns
Hishaam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, In python documentation, i found a telnet example as follows: - import getpass import sys import telnetlib HOST = localhost user = raw_input(Enter your remote account: ) password =

Re: trying to match a string

2008-07-18 Thread Eddie Corns
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Hi, I am taking a string as an input from the user and it should only contain the chars:L , M or R I tried the folllowing in kodos but they are still not perfect: [^A-K,^N-Q,^S-Z,^0-9] [L][M][R] [LRM]?L?[LRM]? etc but they do not exactly meet what I need. For

Re: parse dates

2008-06-02 Thread Eddie Corns
brechmos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I have been using PHP the last while and in particular strtotime. What I want to replicate is finding the second or fourth Monday of the next month. In PHP with strtotime it is easy (strtotime(second Monday, strtotime(next month), but I can't find an easy

Re: Thousand Seperator

2008-03-14 Thread Eddie Corns
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to find some code that will turn: 100 - 100 1000 - 1,000 100 - 1,000,000 -1000 - -1,000 I know that can be done using a regular expression. In Perl I would do something like: sub thousand { $number = reverse $_[0]; $number =~

Re: Intelligent Date Time parsing

2008-03-10 Thread Eddie Corns
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm new to python and I was wondering if there are any intelligent date/time parsing modules out there. I've looked at strptime (or whichever it is) and mxDateTime from the eGenix package. I need something to parse user input for a django app, and it's awesome to be able

Re: Online Debugging

2008-01-31 Thread Eddie Corns
Yansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to debug a script on my server and it's taking forever using print to find the error. I've tried to use the debugging examples on this page http://webpython.codepoint.net/debugging but they don't seem to be working for me. Is there an easier/better way

Re: Natural-language datetime parsing and display (was: user friendly datetime features)

2008-01-09 Thread Eddie Corns
For PARSING see http://code-bear.com/code/parsedatetime/ The OP was looking for presentation though. I know roundup has code for this if an independent library can't be found. Eddie -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: why did these companies choose Tcl over Python

2007-10-31 Thread Eddie Corns
chewie54 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, As an electronics engineer I use some very expensive EDA CAD tool programs that are scriptable using Tcl. I was wondering why these companies have choose to use Tcl instead of Python. Some of these are: Mentor Graphics ModelTech VHDL and Verilog

Re: Can a low-level programmer learn OOP?

2007-07-24 Thread Eddie Corns
Paul McGuire [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Jul 23, 12:43 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eddie Corns) wrote: Paul McGuire [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Jul 23, 5:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eddie Corns) wrote: Wolfgang Strobl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: few of James Gimple's snippets from Algorithms

Re: Can a low-level programmer learn OOP?

2007-07-23 Thread Eddie Corns
Wolfgang Strobl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: few of James Gimple's snippets from Algorithms in SNOBOL4 (-http://www.snobol4.org/) as an exercise using that library might help to get a better appreciation. Perhaps I'll try, eventually ... I never noticed them or the PDF of the book there before.

Re: Can a low-level programmer learn OOP?

2007-07-23 Thread Eddie Corns
Paul McGuire [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Jul 23, 5:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eddie Corns) wrote: Wolfgang Strobl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: few of James Gimple's snippets from Algorithms in SNOBOL4 (-http://www.snobol4.org/) as an exercise using that library might help to get a better

Re: Can a low-level programmer learn OOP?

2007-07-17 Thread Eddie Corns
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aahz) writes: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Wolfgang Strobl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNOBOLs powerfull patterns still shine, compared to Pythons clumsy regular expressions. Keep in mind that Python regular expressions are modeled on the grep/sed/awk/Perl model so as to be

Re: How Can I Increase the Speed of a Large Number of Date Conversions

2007-06-08 Thread Eddie Corns
vdicarlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am a programming amateur and a Python newbie who needs to convert about 100,000,000 strings of the form 1999-12-30 into ordinal dates for sorting, comparison, and calculations. Though my script does a ton of heavy calculational lifting (for which numpy and

Re: Calculating CIDR blocks

2007-04-20 Thread Eddie Corns
Look at: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/466298 it handles most of the logic of combining IP ranges. Eddie -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Calculating CIDR blocks

2007-04-20 Thread Eddie Corns
=?iso-8859-1?q?Pekka_J=E4rvinen?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 20 huhti, 14:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eddie Corns) wrote: Look at:http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/466298 it handles most of the logic of combining IP ranges. Eddie I'm getting error: Traceback (most recent

Re: Need help to learn Python

2007-03-26 Thread Eddie Corns
wesley chun [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: with that said, i would still like to state that the book's target audience is for people who know how to program but need to pick up Python as quickly as possible. the theory that's in the book is really more explanation of how the Python interpreter works,

Re: flattening/rolling up/aggregating a large sorted text file

2007-03-22 Thread Eddie Corns
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Given a large ascii file (delimited or fixed width) with one ID field and dimensions/measures fields, sorted by dimensions, I'd like to flatten or rollup the file by creating new columns: one for each combination of dimension level, and summing up measures over all

Re: CherryPy/Turbogears on server not controlled by me

2007-02-20 Thread Eddie Corns
Diez B. Roggisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian Blais wrote: Hello, I was wondering if there is a way to run CherryPy/Turbogears on a server that I don't have root access to. If I just choose a random port, I think the security guys on the server would get annoyed at me. Why should

Re: BaseHTTPServer weirdness

2006-09-12 Thread Eddie Corns
Ron Garret [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wouldn't necessarily say you are wrong here, It's just that the cgi module has sort of just growed, so it isn't conveniently factyored for reusability in other contexts. Several

Re: String pattern matching

2006-04-03 Thread Eddie Corns
Jim Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone have experience with string pattern matching? I need a fast way to match variables to strings. Example: string - variables abcaaab - xyz abca - xy eeabcac - vxw x matches abc y matches a z matches aab w maches ac v maches ee Off topic I

Re: String pattern matching

2006-04-03 Thread Eddie Corns
Kent Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eddie Corns wrote: If I get time I'll try to get this working in Sam Wilmott's Python pattern matching library. What fun! Cool! I have to get in on the fun :-) This program uses Sam Wilmott's library to find one solution. It is a simple translation

Re: telnet session

2006-03-29 Thread Eddie Corns
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi i am using a telnet session to simulate an authentication mechanism USER = user PASSWORD = password try: telnet = telnetlib.Telnet(HOST) telnet.set_debuglevel(5) telnet.read_until(login: ) telnet.write(USER + \n)

Re: Help: Creating condensed expressions

2006-03-24 Thread Eddie Corns
David Hirschfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here's the problem: Given a list of item names like: apple1 apple2 apple3_SD formA formB formC kla_MM kla_MB kca_MM which is a subset of a much larger list of items, is there an efficient algorithm to create condensed forms that match those items,

Re: A better RE?

2006-03-10 Thread Eddie Corns
Magnus Lycka [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want an re that matches strings like 21MAR06 31APR06 1236, where the last part is day numbers (1-7), i.e it can contain the numbers 1-7, in order, only one of each, and at least one digit. I want it as three groups. I was thinking of Just a small point -

Re: A better RE?

2006-03-10 Thread Eddie Corns
Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eddie Corns wrote: I want an re that matches strings like 21MAR06 31APR06 1236, where the last part is day numbers (1-7), i.e it can contain the numbers 1-7, in order, only one of each, and at least one digit. I want it as three groups. I was thinking

Re: A better RE?

2006-03-10 Thread Eddie Corns
Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eddie Corns wrote: Just a small point - what does in order mean here? if it means that eg 1362 is not valid then you're stuck because it's context sensitive and hence not regular. I'm not seeing that. Any finite language is regular -- as a last resort you could

Re: telnetlib problems

2006-03-02 Thread Eddie Corns
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for the reply. I've replaced the call to read_very_eager() with read_until() and enabled debugging messages. My script now looks like this... # import telnetlib tn = telnetlib.Telnet('192.168.100.11') tn.set_debuglevel(9)

Re: telnetlib problems

2006-03-01 Thread Eddie Corns
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to use a python script to access an embedded computer running linux and connected via a crossover ethernet cable using the following script... ...and I realize the username and password is not realistic... I'm still in proof of concept stage here :)

Re: Twisted book opinions?

2006-02-09 Thread Eddie Corns
Jay Parlar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was hoping to get some c.l.p. opinions on O'Reilly's new Twisted book. Well I certainly felt that I understood it better after reading the book. OTOH I haven't tried to put that knowledge into practice yet. I think calling it a cookbook is misleading, it

Re: Python and curses

2005-12-16 Thread Eddie Corns
linuxfreak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Was wanting to write a text based application in python seems curses module is the way to go... anyone knows of any good tutorials apart from the one written by esr There is at least 1 higher level library atop curses. http://excess.org/urwid/ I've only

Re: another time challenge

2005-09-29 Thread Eddie Corns
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey there pythoneers i have another question about time, specifically, the mxDateTime module. i have been able to get a RelativeDateTimeDiff between two times, it gives me a difference between two DateTimes in the form of +3days +2hours etc... so, if i have a date that

Re: Looking for system/network monitoring tool written in Python

2005-09-22 Thread Eddie Corns
Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've found a fair number of systems/network monitoring tools (things like Big Brother, Big Sister, cricket, etc.) written in Perl. Depressing isn't it! I'm curious if there are any written in Python. I couldn't find any after extensive searching. I wasn't

Re: Looking for system/network monitoring tool written in Python

2005-09-22 Thread Eddie Corns
Simon Brunning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 9/22/05, Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've found a fair number of systems/network monitoring tools (things like Big Brother, Big Sister, cricket, etc.) written in Perl. I'm curious if there are any written in Python. There's EDDIE -

Re: week-year conversion to date

2005-09-14 Thread Eddie Corns
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was wondering if it there is an easy way to get the dd-mm- from ww-. I would like to get, for example the first day (date-month-year) in the week i specify. Found plenty of ways to go th other way, but none that give me the reverse. Idealy I would like both

Re: ideas for university project ??

2005-08-26 Thread Eddie Corns
Jon Hewer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi I'm about to start my third, and final, year in computer science at cambridge uni, and i need to come up with an idea for a software project, but i'm really struggling for ideas, and i was wondering whether anyone here had any suggestions. I'd say i'm

Re: How to know if connection is active when using telnetlib?

2005-08-26 Thread Eddie Corns
Wojciech Halicki-Piszko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How to know if connection is active after telnetlib.Telnet.open(host,port)? If open() doesn't throw an exception then you should have a connection you can start reading/writing with. Unless you have some special meaning for 'active'? I'm just

Re: need a little help with time

2005-08-26 Thread Eddie Corns
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey there. i have a time string (created with strftime) then read from a file, i am having some trouble understanding how to get the difference between times. i know i can structime(timestring) and get a time value, but i dont know how to manipulate it. basically, if i

Re: shuffle the lines of a large file

2005-03-07 Thread Eddie Corns
Joerg Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I am looking for a method to shuffle the lines of a large file. I have a corpus of sorted and uniqed English sentences that has been produced with (1): (1) sort corpus | uniq corpus.uniq corpus.uniq is 80G large. The fact that every sentence

Re: Trees

2005-02-28 Thread Eddie Corns
Alex Le Dain [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a generic tree module that can enable me to sort and use trees (and nodes). Basically having methods such as .AddNode(), .GetAllChildren(), .FindNode() etc. http://newcenturycomputers.net/projects/rbtree.html might do most of what you want.

Re: Trouble using telentlib

2005-02-28 Thread Eddie Corns
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nitin Chaumal) writes: I sarched the existing threads but didnt find an answer to this. I am writing simple script which uses telentlib to open a session with a unix machine and run tail -f logfile.txt on one of the logfiles. import telnetlib HOST = 192.X.X.X user = myname

Re: HTML Tree View with ol and a href

2005-01-28 Thread Eddie Corns
Gregor Horvath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Before I reinvent the wheel I`d like to ask if someone has done this before since I did not find an advice at Google. The goal is to create a dynamic Tree View in HTML. Say I have a data strucure like this: structList =