On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 05:31:00PM -0400, Jay Loden wrote:
> Robert Dailey wrote:
> > Well, I don't know what is wrong with people then. I don't see how
> > required arguments are of bad design. Some command-line applications are
> > built around performing tasks based on information received. Comp
> I suppose we Pythonistas are just too permissive for our own good.
> Consider the opportunity to use mixed tabs and spaces a piece of rope of
> your preferred length ...
I thought I remembered reading somewhere that Python 3000 will ban tabs
as indentation characters, but now I can't turn up a
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 09:53:11AM -0700, 7stud wrote:
> s1 = "hello"
> s2 = s1.encode("utf-8")
>
> s1 = "an accented 'e': \xc3\xa9"
> s2 = s1.encode("utf-8")
>
> The last line produces the error:
>
> ---
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "test1.py", line 6, in ?
> s2 = s1.encode
On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 10:48:10PM -0700, Paul Rubin wrote:
> If you're having trouble with Python because you're new at
> programming, I can sympathize--I don't think it's the most
> beginner-friendly of languages despite the efforts in that direction
> by the designers.
Just curious--what la
Forget about that--I then found /usr/lib/python2.5/encodings/aliases.py,
which is also in Python 2.4. Sorry for the silly question!
On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 07:04:59PM -0400, Omari Norman wrote:
> My program creates new XML files (not through the DOM, but just by
> simple file.write call
My program creates new XML files (not through the DOM, but just by
simple file.write calls.) It would be nice if said files would
be in the default system encoding. So in Python 2.5 I use
ENCODING = codecs.lookup(locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]).name
locale.getdefaultlocale()[1] sometimes returns a
> I want to create a script which reads files in a
> current directory and renames them according to some
> scheme. The file names are in Russian - sometimes
> the names encoded as win-1251, sometimes as koi8-r etc.
> I want to read in file name and convert it to list for
> further processing. T
My app needs to validate XML. That's easy enough in Unix. What is the
best way to do it in Windows?
The most obvious choice would of course be PyXML. However, apparently it
is no longer maintained:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6473
so there are no Windows binaries that w
