Re: Increment Variable Name

2008-01-23 Thread Pablo Ziliani
Hi David, David Brochu wrote: I know the length of a list and I want to pass each element of a list to a unique variable, thus I want to increment variable names. If the list length = 4, i want to have the following variables: var1, var2, var3, var4. yuck... no, believe me, you

Re: Increment Variable Name

2008-01-23 Thread Pablo Ziliani
Ben Finney wrote: This has a very bad code smell (...) \ `\ _o__) Ben Finney That is forcefulness. (sorry, couldn't resist) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Increment Variable Name

2008-01-23 Thread Pablo Ziliani
David Brochu wrote: Pablo - Thanks for the reply. Basically what I am trying to do is pass each value from a list to the following line of code (where XXX is where I need to pass each value of the list tests = easygui.multchoicebox(message=Pick the test(s) you would like to run from the

Re: alternating string replace

2008-01-11 Thread Pablo Ziliani
Paul Rubin wrote: George Sakkis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: from itertools import chain, izip, cycle print ''.join(chain(*izip(s1.split('_'),cycle(':,'[:-1] from itertools import cycle a = cycle(':,') print re.sub('_', lambda x: a.next(), s1) Lovely. If there OP didn't

Re: alternating string replace

2008-01-09 Thread Pablo Ziliani
cesco wrote: Hi, say I have a string like the following: s1 = 'hi_cat_bye_dog' and I want to replace the even '_' with ':' and the odd '_' with ',' so that I get a new string like the following: s2 = 'hi:cat,bye:dog' Is there a common recipe to accomplish that? I can't come up with any

Re: Python's great, in a word

2008-01-07 Thread Pablo Ziliani
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would you Python old-timers try to agree on a word or two that completes: The best thing about Python is ___. Hi Martin, here is my top three: 1) Fun 2) Simplicity 3) Productivity -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python's great, in a word

2008-01-07 Thread Pablo Ziliani
Dustan wrote: On Jan 7, 11:40 am, Martin Marcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it's pythonicness. it is pythonicness??? Obviously a typo, for It is pythonic, Ness. A reference to the well-known Loch Ness Monster, definitely pythonic if you see some pictures:

Re: reading list of list to a file

2007-12-09 Thread Pablo Ziliani
Hi Croliina, caroliina escribió: i made a list of lists Please notice that this problem: but i cant write it into a file. has nothing to do with this other one: how do i get the first string in a sublist? For the first one, it is impossible to answer without seeing some actual code.

Re: searching a value of a dict (each value is a list)

2007-12-09 Thread Pablo Ziliani
Seongsu Lee escribió: Hi, I have a dictionary with million keys. Each value in the dictionary has a list with up to thousand integers. (...) I want to find out the key value which has a specific integer in the list of its value. Sorry if this is unhelpful, but have you considered moving

Re: List Question

2007-10-02 Thread Pablo Ziliani
Paul Hankin wrote: On Oct 2, 10:06 pm, brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How is this expressed in Python? If x is in y more than three times: print x y is a Python list. Simple and readable: if len([a for a in y if x == a]) 3: print x Or the slightly-too-flashy

Re: Program inefficiency?

2007-09-29 Thread Pablo Ziliani
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a solution here that I'm missing? What am I doing that is so inefficient? Hi Jeff, Yes, it seems you have plenty of performance leaks. Please see my notes below. def massreplace(): editfile = open(pathname\editfile.txt) filestring =

Re: Program inefficiency?

2007-09-29 Thread Pablo Ziliani
thebjorn wrote: On Sep 29, 5:22 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wrote the following simple program to loop through our help files and fix some errors (in case you can't see the subtle RE search that's happening, we're replacing spaces in bookmarks with _'s) (...) Ugh, that was

Re: strange unbound local error?

2007-09-29 Thread Pablo Ziliani
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: spam = 42 def eggs(): print spam spam = spam + 1 if __name__==__main__: eggs() This thows an UnboundLocalError at line 4 (print statement). But if I comment out line 5 (variable assignment), no error occurs. Can you explain me this, please? Hi

Re: Program inefficiency?

2007-09-29 Thread Pablo Ziliani
thebjorn wrote: On Sep 29, 7:55 pm, Pablo Ziliani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thebjorn wrote: Ugh, that was entirely too many regexps for my taste :-) Oh yeah, now it's clear as mud. I'm anxiously awaiting your beacon of clarity ;-) Admittedly, that was a bit arrogant from my

Re: ValueError: too many values to unpack

2007-09-27 Thread Pablo Ziliani
Zentrader wrote: On Sep 27, 9:46 am, Shawn Minisall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: line 3 - 19.1829.1578.75212.10 line 4 - 10020410.29 And this is the code I'm using: #read withdrawls from file on line3 line = infile.readline() #split withdrawls up

Re: regex with specific list of string

2007-09-26 Thread Pablo Ziliani
Carsten Haese wrote: On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 15:42 +, james_027 wrote: hi, how do I regex that could check on any of the value that match any one of these ... 'jan', 'feb', 'mar', 'apr', 'may', 'jun', 'jul', 'aug', 'sep', 'oct', 'nov', 'dec' Why regex? You can simply check if

Re: regex with specific list of string

2007-09-26 Thread Pablo Ziliani
Carsten Haese wrote: On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 12:49 -0400, Steve Holden wrote: james_027 wrote: hi, how do I regex that could check on any of the value that match any one of these ... 'jan', 'feb', 'mar', 'apr', 'may', 'jun', 'jul', 'aug', 'sep', 'oct', 'nov', 'dec' Thanks patr =

[OT] Python Argentina T-shirt to exchange

2006-06-17 Thread Pablo Ziliani
Hi guys, sorry for this _very_ off-topic message. I'll be in Paris, France next week and I thought someone there might be interested to exchange this http://www.python.com.ar/moin/Remeras T-shirt (size M) with me? I'd really like to take home a py-french (or wherever) one instead. Thanks and