Re: Build desktop application using django

On 10/16/2016 11:38 AM, ayuchitsalu...@gmail.com wrote: > Hello I want to build a desktop application which retrieves data from > server and stores data on server. I have basic experience of python > and I dont know how to build that thing. Crystal balls are always risky things to turn to when

Re: TCL/TK as default UI toolkit, and wayland

On 10/14/2016 05:40 AM, kerbingamer376 wrote: > Python's "standard" (and bundled on most platforms) UI tookkit is TCL/TK. > However, this has A LOT of drawbacks: > > * It's eyesore on a lot of platforms I thought this was largely solved in recent versions of Tcl/Tk that use the new Tile widget

Re: how to read linux kernel source with pycparser

On 10/13/2016 02:19 AM, meInvent bbird wrote: > is it possible to git pull a part of directory such as sched > and compile this subdirectory and pycparser it? I'm sure you could but it wouldn't help you. The parts of the kernel are modular but you can't compile them without configuring the whole

Re: OFF TOPIC mov is Turing complete

On 10/11/2016 09:19 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Completely off-topic, but too awesome not to share: > > The x86 assembly language "mov" instruction is Turing complete: > > https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sd601/papers/mov.pdf And apparently someone has taken this and made a small C compiler that

Re: Not getting output

On 10/11/2016 11:57 AM, dhawanpawa...@gmail.com wrote: > def abc(a,b): > l=[] > for i in range(a,b+1): > if i%2!=0: > > l.append(i) > print l > return 1 > > def bg(): > y=abc(11,31) > print y > I am not getting the output, but if i call

Re: while loop

On 10/11/2016 11:58 AM, dhawanpawa...@gmail.com wrote: > > n=6 > x=1 > while x<=n: > print "*"*x > x+=1 > while n>=x: > n=n-1 > print "*"* n > > > Only first loop is executing not the second one? Did you try printing out the loop variable to see what it does and what it is

Re: Python Shell in Russian exists/possible??

On 10/11/2016 05:33 AM, Андрей Логунов wrote: > I need the Python Shell for use in education (turtle graphics, etc.), > but the UI must be localized in the Russian language. The question is > if it's at all possible to feed the strings in or rebuild it or... For educational purposes, you might

Re: Conventions and requirements for a python module

On 10/11/2016 08:29 AM, Michael Felt wrote: > From reading the python source, and other projects I am looking to > patch I see that there is often a file __init__.py, sometimes empty > (only comments), sometimes not. > > I have tried looking in what I hope are the "regular" places such as: >

Re: PyQT - Signals and Slots?

On 10/10/2016 07:32 AM, Veek M wrote: > Whaaa...t?? Could someone explain what exactly is his grand design > besides being awfully circuitous? So he has some other Form thingy.. and > in that he sets up another mapping from ZeroSpinBox.atzero --> > ZeroSpinBox.announce where's announce and

Re: segfault using shutil.make_archive

On 10/06/2016 10:46 AM, Tim wrote: > I need to zip up a directory that's about 400mb. > I'm using shutil.make_archive and I'm getting this response: > > Segmentation fault: 11 (core dumped) > > The code is straightforward (and works on other, smaller dirs): > >

Re: Question on multiple Python users in one application

On 10/06/2016 07:48 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > If that had been your original plan, it's dead simple to enhance it to > use per-user module names. Just do this same work, but substitute a > different module name right at the beginning! Other > extremely-high-level interface functions are similar.

Re: Question on multiple Python users in one application

On 10/06/2016 06:03 PM, Loren Wilton wrote: >> So I take it that currently users access the software running in the >> virtual mainframe over telnet or some form of serial link and that they >> interact with it in a text terminal? This point is fairly important, >> because if it's true, then you

Re: Question on multiple Python users in one application

On 10/06/2016 04:47 PM, Loren Wilton wrote: > The Python code is running as (I hope) a native Windows DLL, so should be > able to access any existing Python libraries that exist on the WIndows > machine. Obviously this Python code will be using Windows-shaped data > objects like integers,

Re: BeautifulSoup help !!

On 10/06/2016 11:34 AM, Navneet Siddhant wrote: > I guess I will have to extract data from multiple divs as only > extracting data from the parent div which has other divs in it with > the different data is coming up all messed up. Will play around and > see if I could get through it. Let me

Re: Python and ssh for remote login

On 10/05/2016 11:46 AM, Noah wrote: > Hello folk, > > I would like to use a python script to ssh into a server using a username > and password and perhaps ass port. > > Any ideas on how to script that. If paramiko doesn't fit your needs, traditionally this sort of work was done with the pexpect

Re: how to read linux kernel source with pycparser

On 10/04/2016 03:36 AM, meInvent bbird wrote: > i expect to use pycparser to read linux kernel source > and get a AST tree, > > but there are so many directory, > > how to read linux kernel source with pycparser? > > how to customize pycparser to search what we want such as bug or fix > to

Re: Is that forwards first or backwards first? (Re: unintuitive for-loop behavior)

On 10/03/2016 08:21 PM, Steve D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, 4 Oct 2016 05:48 am, Michael Torrie wrote: > >> There is that old, but false, saying that the only intuitive interface >> is the nipple. Turns out everything, even that, is learned > > Citation required. Sure,

Re: Is that forwards first or backwards first? (Re: unintuitive for-loop behavior)

On 10/03/2016 11:57 AM, sohcahto...@gmail.com wrote: > Surprisingly, despite driving that previous car for 13 years, the switch was > incredibly easy. I've never accidentally gone to sixth gear instead of > reverse, or forgotten to shift into sixth on the highway. Also, accidentally > going

Re: Is that forwards first or backwards first? (Re: unintuitive for-loop behavior)

On 10/03/2016 03:10 AM, Gregory Ewing wrote: > Rustom Mody wrote: >> My new car goes in reverse when I put it in first gear but only on full-moon >> nights with the tank on reserve when the left light is blinking > > OT aside: When I went to take my current car (a manual) > for a test drive, I

Re: announcing fython

On 10/01/2016 09:06 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 1:58 PM, wrote: >> Fython speed is the same as Fortran speed. >> >> There is no restriction on the Python code. >> Once a Fython program is avalaible, Python can throw any scalar or Numpy >>

Re: Copying a compiled Python from one system to another

On 10/01/2016 05:21 AM, Steve D'Aprano wrote: > Long story short: I have no working systems capable of compiling the > latest Python 3.6, and no time to upgrade my usual machines to > something which will work. > > However I do have access to another machine (actually a VM) which > can compile

Re: how to automate java application in window using python

On 09/29/2016 01:18 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > On Thursday, September 29, 2016 at 11:46:59 PM UTC+13, Ned Batchelder wrote: >> This is just getting rude. Let's please drop it. > > Do you have anything substantive to contribute? He's already contributed far more to this list, and to

Re: how to automate java application in window using python

On 09/18/2016 02:22 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > I know one blind computer user who is quite capable with the command > line, and who has little fondness for GUI apps. You should see how > quickly he works... Good for him. This is very good that there are tools like that that he and many

Re: how to automate java application in window using python

On 09/18/2016 04:03 AM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > Like I said, trying to automate a GUI is a waste of time. GUIs are > designed for humans, not computers, to use. Well then we have a huge problem. Especially for users who are visually-impaired. Fortunately almost all GUIs (Windows, Linux, and

Re: manually sorting images?

On 09/04/2016 04:09 PM, Gregory Ewing wrote: > Quivis wrote: >> 2. You want to sort them according to red houses, blue houses, green >> trees, yellow trees (that's autumn leaves), cats, dogs, children, elderly >> people, > > But... but... what if you have a picture of a child > playing with a

Re: Extend unicodedata with a name/pattern/regex search for character entity references?

On 09/04/2016 04:22 PM, Gregory Ewing wrote: > Larry Hudson wrote: >> If you continue to read this forum, you will quickly learn to ignore >> "Pointy-Ears". He rarely has anything worth while to post, and his >> unique fetish about Real Names shows him to be a hypocrite as well. > > To be

Re: Is duck-typing misnamed?

On 08/27/2016 05:28 PM, ROGER GRAYDON CHRISTMAN wrote: > They took a woman who originally, I think we might agree, was not a witch, Umm no, she was actually a witch. Which makes the scene even funnier. "Fair caught," she says at the end. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Does This Scare You?

On 08/19/2016 05:42 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > Python 3.5.2+ (default, Aug 5 2016, 08:07:14) > [GCC 6.1.1 20160724] on linux > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>> from pathlib import PureWindowsPath > >>>

Re: What's the best way to minimize the need of run time checks?

On 08/14/2016 04:45 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > On Monday, August 15, 2016 at 4:31:44 AM UTC+12, BartC wrote: > >> But it can't create a new record or struct type at runtime which can >> then be accessed using normal syntax, in compiled code that already >> existed before the record was

Re: Anyone here running Python on a PowerPC?

On 08/13/2016 08:35 PM, Paul Rubin wrote: > Steven D'Aprano writes: >> Is there anyone here running Python on a PowerPC willing to help me >> diagnose and fix this issue? http://bugs.python.org/issue27761 > > https://duckduckgo.com/?q=powerpc+emulator > > gets a few

Re: Anyone here running Python on a PowerPC?

On 08/13/2016 08:35 PM, Paul Rubin wrote: > Steven D'Aprano writes: >> Is there anyone here running Python on a PowerPC willing to help me >> diagnose and fix this issue? http://bugs.python.org/issue27761 > > https://duckduckgo.com/?q=powerpc+emulator > > gets a few

Re: Win32 API in pywin32

On 08/13/2016 06:22 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > On Saturday, August 13, 2016 at 10:49:11 PM UTC+12, eryk sun wrote: >> You can call GetFileSizeEx [1]. Or call GetFileInformationByHandleEx >> [2] to get the FileStandardInfo. These APIs use the LARGE_INTEGER >> union type, which has a long long

Re: Win32 API in pywin32

On 08/13/2016 06:22 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > On Saturday, August 13, 2016 at 10:49:11 PM UTC+12, eryk sun wrote: >> You can call GetFileSizeEx [1]. Or call GetFileInformationByHandleEx >> [2] to get the FileStandardInfo. These APIs use the LARGE_INTEGER >> union type, which has a long long

Re: What's the best way to minimize the need of run time checks?

On 08/12/2016 05:07 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > The first time I ever compiled a full-sized application (not a particular > large one either, it was a text editor a little more featureful than > Notepad) it took something like nine hours to compile on a Mac SE (this was > circa 1990). How mad

Re: Python slang

On 08/10/2016 05:57 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 08/10/2016 10:19 AM, Random832 wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 10, 2016, at 07:59, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: >>> The use of = also has a long history... FORTRAN (where the comparison >>> was .EQ.), BASIC (granted, K r

Re: What's the best way to minimize the need of run time checks?

On 08/10/2016 11:29 AM, Michael Selik wrote: > On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 9:31 PM Steven D'Aprano > wrote: > >> >> http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com.au/2008/05/dynamic-languages-strike-back.html > > > Great link. I enjoyed the video, too. >

Re: Python slang

On 08/10/2016 10:19 AM, Random832 wrote: > On Wed, Aug 10, 2016, at 07:59, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: >> The use of = also has a long history... FORTRAN (where the comparison >> was .EQ.), BASIC (granted, K required assignment to start with the >> keyword LET, so the use of = was mainly a

Re: What's the best way to minimize the need of run time checks?

On 08/09/2016 02:51 PM, Juan Pablo Romero Méndez wrote: > 2016-08-09 13:18 GMT-07:00 Rob Gaddi : >> It's not a style, it's the absence of one. >> >> def add2list(lst, elem): >> lst.extend([elem, elem]) >> return lst >> >> I did all the type checking I

Re: Make sure you removed all debugging print statements error

On 08/08/2016 06:20 AM, aaryanrevi...@gmail.com wrote: > Hello guys! I was answering a question on a piece of homework of > mine. Sadly I can't answer it correctly due to the repetitive error > being "Make sure you removed all debugging print statements." > Hopefully one of you guys can help me

Re: How do I make a game in Python ?

On 08/07/2016 08:47 AM, Cai Gengyang wrote: > Games are great. I guess I would like to invent animated games that > can teach students how to solve mathematical, physics, engineering , > Go and programming puzzles, basic financial literacy and investing > techniques through interesting and

Re: How do I make a game in Python ?

On 08/06/2016 03:51 PM, Cai Gengyang wrote: > As in, any recommended websites that helps users create complex games in > Python ? I imagine you create a complex game in Python the same way you'd do it in just about any other language. Thus any website on game design would be broadly applicable.

Re: Python slang

On 08/06/2016 08:27 PM, Clayton Kirkwood wrote: > You can always tell the correctness by removing the other person. If it > doesn't sound right then, then it is wrong. You don't say 'I gave to I', or > 'I gave to me', it is 'I gave to myself'. Yup good point, and I failed at that obviously.

Re: Python slang

On 08/05/2016 07:14 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > In English, we refer to ourselves in the first person as I, me, myself, and > sometimes "self", never as "this". One can say "this one has a hat", for > example, but it sounds weird, like something the Borg would say about a > specific Borg unit.

Re: Ide or code editor confusion

On 08/04/2016 01:23 AM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > On Friday, July 22, 2016 at 2:38:10 AM UTC+12, Chris Angelico wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 12:22 AM, sigmaphine1914 wrote: >>> Beginning Python: using Python 2.6 and Python 3.1. By James Payne >>> >>> Part II. >> >> Ugh, that's extremely

Re: usage of functools.partial in in parallelism

On 08/01/2016 01:13 AM, Michael Selik wrote: > You might benefit from watching the talk "Stop Writing Classes" > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9pEzgHorH0 Great talk! Thanks for posting that. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Using valid emails

On 08/01/2016 10:32 AM, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: > On Sun, 31 Jul 2016 14:01:26 -0600 > Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> So I have to examine every address I reply to or deal with the >>> bounce message later. Way to move your spam problem to someone &g

Re: Why not allow empty code blocks?

On 07/31/2016 10:04 AM, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: > On Sun, 31 Jul 2016 11:53:47 -0400 > "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" wrote: >> On Mon, 01 Aug 2016 00:25:58 +1000 >> On the other hand I have no throwaway accounts. Every address I use >> is a primary one. I have all sorts of methods to block

Re: Why not allow empty code blocks?

On 07/30/2016 11:53 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sun, 31 Jul 2016 02:29 am, Rustom Mody wrote: > >> MIT on practical reasons for python over scheme: >> > https://www.wisdomandwonder.com/link/2110/why-mit-switched-from-scheme-to-python >> Berkeley on fundamental reasons for the opposite choice:

Re: Why not allow empty code blocks?

On 07/24/2016 07:14 PM, BartC wrote: > I've done little Python coding but still, having to use kid gloves for > indents does figure quite a bit in that. > > I can give some more examples but I'll probably be told that I'm using > the wrong tools! Which suggest there is a problem, but the effort

Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects?

On 07/13/2016 01:00 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 4:44 PM, Steven D'Aprano > wrote: >> Even if Github was 100% open source with no proprietary extensions, and the >> *technical* cost of leaving was low, the single-network effect would

Re: Touch screen development in Python

On 07/13/2016 01:33 PM, Jahn wrote: > I would like to learn more how to write python based touch application > for embedded system but I do not know what conditions a touch screen must > have so that it > will response to touch. > Does anyone know? These days GUI toolkits such as GTK+ or Qt

Re: [OT] Compression of random binary data

On 07/13/2016 03:46 AM, jonas.thornv...@gmail.com wrote: > It is not that the data is not compressible i just need more chunks > or random data, it is the footprint of the algorithm that has a > certain it is a structure afterall albeit richer in interpretation > than the numerical field. Err,

Re: Compression of random binary data

On 07/12/2016 11:46 AM, jonas.thornv...@gmail.com wrote: > Well the algorithm start with looking up a suitable folding structure > "close enough to the number", then it works down the folding > structure finding the fold where the difference or sum between the > folds closest to zero. > > You do

Re: Curious Omission In New-Style Formats

On 07/11/2016 01:27 PM, Ian Kelly wrote: > On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 12:54 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: >> In any case, I think it an improvement to say that '0x00123' has a field >> width of 7 rather than a 'precision' of 5. >> > '{:#07x}'.format(0x123) # specifiy field width >>

Re: the best online course

On 07/06/2016 06:50 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: >> I want to be easy and not bored so i can learn python. > > There is no Royal Road, nothing is going to be handed to you on a plate. Seconded. If he gets bored easily, he will not be very successful at learning Python or any other programming

Re: Need help compiling Python-devel

On 07/05/2016 10:35 AM, TM wrote: > This option is not straight forward. There are too many dependencies. > Easier in Linux not so easy in AIX. > > Is it possible to copy the python executable (ie the code below)? > # cp -p python python-devel What is this python-devel thing? You said you

Re: Structure of program development

On 07/04/2016 01:50 PM, BartC wrote: > On 04/07/2016 17:55, Chris Warrick wrote: > >>> A second question of the basic design. If I write a program, can I move it >>> to a computer that is without any Python software, or does that machine >>> have to download the Python software? Does Python

Re: Creating a calculator

On 06/30/2016 09:08 PM, Elizabeth Weiss wrote: > while True: > print("Options:") > print("Enter 'add' to add two numbers") > print("Enter 'subtract' to subtract two numbers") > print("Enter 'multiply' to multiply two numbers") > print("Enter 'divide' to divide two

Re: sample chatting apps in pyqt

On 06/30/2016 07:45 AM, tommy yama wrote: > Hi all, > > Let me post my question here > Has anyone installed and run any of sample chat apps in pyqt? > > Although I've tried to install and run sample scripts in pyqt once, the > error said pyqt must be reinstalled. If you paste the error message

Re: Question on compiling on linux

On 06/27/2016 08:28 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, 28 Jun 2016 10:01 am, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > >> The Outlook style works well in a business environment where the >> recipient is likely the original sender of the quoted text, and doesn't >> need the context -- the quoted copy is just a

Re: Getting back into PyQt and not loving it.

On 06/27/2016 02:14 PM, codewiz...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sunday, June 26, 2016 at 5:45:18 PM UTC-4, Michael Torrie wrote: >> >> Qt's a fantastic toolkit, and the most mature of any of them, and the >> most portable, but man the bindings are not Pythonic at all. > >

Re: Getting back into PyQt and not loving it.

On 06/27/2016 12:44 AM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > On Monday, June 27, 2016 at 6:16:01 PM UTC+12, John Ladasky wrote: > >> Between the Py3 requirement and the need to work with all major OS's, I >> decided to learn PyQt and not GTK+. > > GTK+ is available for Python 3. > > No doubt it will

Re: Getting back into PyQt and not loving it.

On 06/26/2016 07:05 PM, llanitedave wrote: > Not sure that wxPython is really any different in that respect, and > Tkinter doesn't feel Pythonic to me, either -- considering how it's > Tk at heart. So what's the alternative? There really is no good > Python-based GUI tool, and that's a shame.

Getting back into PyQt and not loving it.

I'm starting to question the advice I gave not long ago to for new users to consider the Qt toolkit with Python. I just did a little project porting a simple graphical user interface from GTK+ to Qt (PyQt4 for now as that's what I have installed). For the most part it worked out pretty well.

Re: Assignment Versus Equality

On 06/26/2016 12:47 PM, Christopher Reimer wrote: > I started writing a BASIC interpreter in Python. The rudimentary version > for 10 PRINT "HELLO, WORLD!" and 20 GOTO 10 ran well. The next version > to read each line into a tree structure left me feeling over my head. So > I got "Writing

Re: how to python to use virtual memory?

On 06/24/2016 08:44 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > I don't know how Linux handles swap disk -- Windows normally sets the > swap space to ~2X physical memory (for small RAM -- my 12GB system has a > 12GB swap and suggests 18GB). Linux typically uses a user-set swap partition. The old rule

Re: while Loops

On 06/21/2016 09:50 PM, Elizabeth Weiss wrote: > i=1 > while i<=5: >print(i) >i=i+1 > > The result is: > 1 > 2 > 3 > 4 > 5 > > Why is one of the results 5 since i=i+1? Should the maximum result be 4 since > 4 +1=5? > > Thanks for your help! If you trace the execution through in your

Re: Request for opinions: A cross language development tool

On 06/21/2016 06:10 AM, Tal Zion wrote: > So how does this magic work? We developed a new compiler platform called > Bridge. At the heart of Bridge is the Bridge Extensible Code > Representation (BECR). Code in any language is parsed into an AST and is > then translated to the BECR. The BECR

Re: best text editor for programming Python on a Mac

On 06/19/2016 03:21 PM, Quivis wrote: > On Sat, 18 Jun 2016 20:26:36 -0400, Joel Goldstick wrote: > >> that it is on every linux system > > No, it isn't! I can be *installed* on every Linux system, but that a > whole other can of worms. True vim is not. But vi should be. I'm not aware of any

Re: best text editor for programming Python on a Mac

On 06/19/2016 12:06 PM, Christian Gollwitzer wrote: > Am 19.06.16 um 18:20 schrieb Rustom Mody: >> I gave an emacs solution to the issue not because I find editor-wars engaging >> but because I dont know how to do *this* with vi. >> I'd be surprised if vi actually cant do these: >> 1. Look under

Re: best text editor for programming Python on a Mac

On 06/19/2016 10:20 AM, Rustom Mody wrote: > Yes the OP said he was using vim > And he could not handle a unicode encoding issue I missed that part! I somehow thought the unicode issues were coming from his use of the built-in Mac text editor. In any case, I have never had unicode problems with

Re: Method Chaining

On 06/19/2016 09:01 AM, Ethan Furman wrote: > On 06/19/2016 04:56 AM, Joonas Liik wrote: >> On 18 June 2016 at 23:47, Ethan Furman wrote: >>> On 06/18/2016 07:05 AM, Joonas Liik wrote: > the leading dot does not resolve the ambiguity that arises from: with ob_a: with

Re: best text editor for programming Python on a Mac

On 06/19/2016 01:34 AM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > On Sunday, June 19, 2016 at 7:13:26 PM UTC+12, Christian Gollwitzer wrote: > >> Am 19.06.16 um 02:12 schrieb Lawrence D’Oliveiro: >> >>> But not vi/vim. It only lets you place your cursor *on* a character, >>> not *in-between* characters. >> >>

Re: best text editor for programming Python on a Mac

On 06/19/2016 04:41 AM, Pete Forman wrote: > Both emacs and vim are powerful tools in the hands of experienced users > but I would recommend neither to someone starting out who is just > looking for a code-aware editor. In any case this doesn't matter here because the original poster already said

Re: best text editor for programming Python on a Mac

On 06/18/2016 08:51 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > On Sunday, June 19, 2016 at 2:09:31 PM UTC+12, Michael Torrie wrote: >> It was later on that they figured out the N+1 thing you mentioned >> by ignoring the character cells: >> >> 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 H E L L O

Re: best text editor for programming Python on a Mac

On 06/18/2016 08:51 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > On Sunday, June 19, 2016 at 2:09:31 PM UTC+12, Michael Torrie wrote: >> It was later on that they figured out the N+1 thing you mentioned by >> ignoring the character cells: >> >> 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 >> H E

Re: best text editor for programming Python on a Mac

On 06/18/2016 06:12 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > Pull up any old GUI-based editor you like, for example Windows > (shudder) Notepad. If there are N characters in your file, then the > insertion point can be placed at N + 1 positions: in-between two > adjacent characters, or before the first

Re: best text editor for programming Python on a Mac

On 06/18/2016 06:50 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 06/18/2016 06:12 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: >> But not vi/vim. It only lets you place your cursor *on* a character, >> not *in-between* characters. That’s why you need two separate >> insertion commands, insert-before and

Re: best text editor for programming Python on a Mac

On 06/18/2016 06:12 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > On Sunday, June 19, 2016 at 11:07:23 AM UTC+12, Michael Torrie > wrote: >> >> On 06/17/2016 05:52 PM, Chris via Python-list wrote: >>> >>> Any suggestions for a good open source text editor for the Mac

Re: best text editor for programming Python on a Mac

On 06/17/2016 05:52 PM, Chris via Python-list wrote: > Any suggestions for a good open source text editor for the Mac out > there? For now, I am going to stick with vim. Good choice. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PyCon Keynote

On 06/18/2016 04:33 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 06/18/2016 03:20 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: >> On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 7:14 AM, Quivis <quivis@domain.invalid> wrote: >>> On Thu, 09 Jun 2016 12:53:37 -0700, Ethan Furman wrote: >>> >>>>https://www

Re: PyCon Keynote

On 06/18/2016 03:20 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 7:14 AM, Quivis wrote: >> On Thu, 09 Jun 2016 12:53:37 -0700, Ethan Furman wrote: >> >>>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSfe5M_zG2s >> >> Good example of how not to do a presentation. Embarrassing.

Re: python regex: variable length of positive lookbehind assertion

On 06/15/2016 08:57 AM, Jussi Piitulainen wrote: > Marko Rauhamaa writes: >> And nothing in alister's answer suggests that. > > Now *I'm* surprised. He simply said, here's a regex that can parse the example string the OP gave us (which maybe looked a bit like HTML, but like you say, may not be),

Re: base64.b64encode(data)

On 06/12/2016 11:16 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > "Safe to transmit in text protocols" surely should mean "any Unicode code > point", since all of Unicode is text. What's so special about the base64 > ones? > > Well, that depends on your context. For somebody who cares about sending > bits over a

Re: how to solve memory

On 06/09/2016 06:58 PM, meInvent bbird wrote: > Do you have a question for the list? If so, please state what it is, and describe what you are doing and what isn't working. If you can boil it down to a dozen lines of run-able, self-contained code that illustrates the problem, that is helpful

Re: Possible PEP - two dimensional arrays?

On 06/07/2016 06:17 PM, Harrison Chudleigh wrote: > I was programming a computer game and found that while 1D arrays can be > created using the module array, there is no module for two-dimensional > arrays, unlike languages like C. Currently, the closest thing Python has to > a 2D array is a

Re: Recommendation for GUI lib?

Accidentally didn't reply to the list... On 06/07/2016 03:45 PM, Roland Koebler via Python-list wrote: > You can also try Qt (http://qt.io), and one of its Python-bindings. > But I was never happy with Qt and think some GUI-concepts of GTK+ are much > better than the ones of Qt, and I like Glade

Re: Everything good about Python except GUI IDE?

On 06/05/2016 10:01 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: > I've thought about this before and even tried my hand at creating a nice > library for doing this sort of thing with Python. Generators seem like > a natural analog for the shell pipes. However there is one big problem &g

Re: Everything good about Python except GUI IDE?

On 03/02/2016 03:36 PM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Requirements for what I have in mind: > > 1. It would have to be and feel like real Python. > > 2. External commands should be available as callable Python functions. > > 3. Functions/commands should return streams. (Generators, maybe?) > >

Re: Operator precedence problem

On 06/05/2016 10:05 AM, Uri Even-Chen wrote: > My suggestion: Never write expressions, such as 2 ** 3 ** 2 or even 2 * 4 > + 5, without parentheses. Always add parentheses - 2 ** (3 ** 2) (or (2 ** > 3) **2) or (2 * 4) + 5 (or 2 * (4 + 5)). I can understand using parenthesis when operator

Re: Don't put your software in the public domain

On Jun 3, 2016 04:57, "Steven D'Aprano" wrote: > (1) If the GPL licence is valid, then they are in breach of the licence > terms, the licence is revoked, and they are not legally permitted to > distribute or use the software; > > (2) If, as some people insist, the GPL licence

Re: Efficient handling of fast, real-time hex data

On 05/31/2016 06:20 PM, jlada...@itu.edu wrote: > So, how can I take the byte sequence <0x01 0x02 0x03 0x04 0x05 0x06 > \n> that Serial.readline() returns to me, and QUICKLY turn it into > three integer values, 258, 772, and 1286? Better yet, can I write > these bytes directly into an array

Re: How can I debug silent failure - print no output

On 05/27/2016 08:41 PM, Sayth Renshaw wrote: > This is my terminal and directory structure. Add more print() calls. Offhand I'd say that pq(filename=filename) is returning an empty list so that for loop is not doing anything. Hence your debugging print() calls never happen. Add sanity print()'s

Re: Strange Python related errors for androwarn.py. Please help!

On 05/27/2016 08:09 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 05/27/2016 08:41 AM, Sean Son wrote: >> Thank you for your reply. So the error isnt due to a bug in function >> itself? It is due to a possible error in the Android APK file? If that >> is the case, it would take a while

Re: Strange Python related errors for androwarn.py. Please help!

On 05/27/2016 08:41 AM, Sean Son wrote: > Thank you for your reply. So the error isnt due to a bug in function > itself? It is due to a possible error in the Android APK file? If that > is the case, it would take a while to figure this out. I tried contacted > the author of the project but I have

Re: Strange Python related errors for androwarn.py. Please help!

On 05/26/2016 05:57 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: > You could try emailing the author who's email address is listed on the > project's main github page. I suspect the project itself is abandoned. Ahem. That should have been whose. Sigh. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Strange Python related errors for androwarn.py. Please help!

On 05/26/2016 11:31 AM, Sean Son wrote: > Hopefully those help in any troubleshooting steps that you all recommend to > me! > > Thank you! You could try emailing the author who's email address is listed on the project's main github page. I suspect the project itself is abandoned. Was this

Re: JNLP File download and run

s.startfile) to do what you want to do, including examples you can adapt. Should be just a few of lines of actual python code to start with. > > On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 9:06 PM, Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com > <mailto:torr...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > On 05/20/2

Re: Image loading problem

On 05/21/2016 01:55 PM, Random832 wrote: > On Sat, May 21, 2016, at 12:54, Peter Otten wrote: >> It's not your fault, there's an odd quirk in the library: you have to >> keep a reference of the PhotoImage instance around to prevent the >> image from being garbage-collected. > > Just out of

Re: JNLP File download and run

On 05/20/2016 01:30 AM, Robert Clove wrote: > Hi, > > Can someone give me pseudo code to download and JNLP file from a URL and > run it? > > Looks like a advance concept in python You could use the urllib module to download the file, then use the subprocess module to spawn the javaws executable

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