Re: Programming Idiomatic Code

2007-07-02 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Jul 2, 5:22 pm, "Nathan Harmston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I m sorry but I m bored at work (and no ones looking so I can write > some Python) and following a job advertisement post,I decided to write > the code to do its for the one entitled Ninjas or something like that. > I was won

Re: log caller

2007-06-27 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Jun 27, 2:42 pm, Matthew Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to print the function calls to a module? Like: > > test.py > import mymod > print mymod.x() > > mymod.py > # each time a function is called we print out the called function and module > print 'Func call: %s from %s' % (??

Re: Help needed with translating perl to python

2007-06-26 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Jun 26, 8:59 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (snipped) > > >>> def bcdlen(*args): > > ... strlen = "%04s" % str(args[0]) > ... firstval = int(strlen[2:3]) * 16 + int(strlen[3:4]) > ... lastval = int(strlen[0:1]) * 16 + int(strlen[1:2]) > ... return "%s%s" % (chr(firstval), chr(la

Re: Help needed with translating perl to python

2007-06-26 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Jun 26, 8:04 am, vj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a perl script which connect to network stream using sockets. > The scripts first logins in to the server and then parses the data > comming from the socket. > > Statement 1: > my $today = sprintf("%4s%02s%02s", [localtime()]->[5]+1900, >

Re: regular expressions eliminating filenames of type foo.thumbnail.jpg

2007-06-25 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Jun 25, 2:41 pm, oscartheduck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I eventually went with: > > #!/usr/bin/env python > from PIL import Image > import glob, os, re > > size = 128, 128 > > def thumbnailer(dir, filenameRx): > for picture in [ p for p in os.listdir(dir) if > os.path.isfile(os.path.join

Re: newb: Scope Question

2007-06-22 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Jun 22, 3:53 pm, johnny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Scope of ids: > When I print "ids", it's always empty string '', as I have intialized > before. That's not what I want. I want the ids to have > str(r['id']).join(',') > > if res: > ids = '' > for r in res['key

Re: Adding method to a class on the fly

2007-06-22 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Jun 22, 2:44 pm, John Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 22, 2:28 pm, askel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (snipped) > > The above doesn't exactly do I what need. I was looking for a way to > add method to a class at run time. I'm not sure what you mean by this. Bind an attribute -- a

Re: Help With Better Design

2007-06-19 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Jun 19, 6:34 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greetings, > > I have been working on a little project today to help me better > understand classes in Python (I really like Python). I am a self > taught programmer and consider myself to fall in the "beginner" > category for sure. It was initially sp

Re: example: 40286 -> 68204

2007-06-03 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Jun 3, 5:23 pm, Shihpin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there a fuction that reverse the digits of a number? > > Many thanks, > > Shihpin Lin One can use int, str and a slice: print int(str(40286)[::-1]) -- Hope this helps, Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyth

Re: Usage of the __and__ method

2007-05-30 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On May 30, 10:11 pm, theju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > I've two objects (both instances of a class called Person) and I want > to use the __and__ method and print the combined attributes of the two > instances. > > To be precise, here is my code > > class Person: > def __init_

Re: converting text and spans to an ElementTree

2007-05-22 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On May 21, 11:02 pm, Steven Bethard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have some text and a list of Element objects and their offsets, e.g.:: > > >>> text = 'aaa aaa aaabbb bbbaaa' > >>> spans = [ > ... (etree.Element('a'), 0, 21), > ... (etree.Element('b'), 11, 18), >

Re: converting text and spans to an ElementTree

2007-05-22 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On May 21, 11:02 pm, Steven Bethard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have some text and a list of Element objects and their offsets, e.g.:: > > >>> text = 'aaa aaa aaabbb bbbaaa' > >>> spans = [ > ... (etree.Element('a'), 0, 21), > ... (etree.Element('b'), 11, 18), >

Re: matplotlib: howto set title of whole window?

2007-05-11 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On May 11, 3:44 pm, dmitrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi all, > does anyone know howto set title of whole window? (I mean not just > area above plot but string in the same line where buttons 'close', > 'iconify', 'fullscreen' are situated) > Use coordinates to set a title for the current figur

Re: Inheritance problem

2007-05-09 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On May 9, 11:33 am, Bjoern Schliessmann wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > class longList(shortList): > > > def __init__(self): > > > shortList.setList() > > > self.setList() > > Addition: Always call the base class __init__ in your constructor if > there exists one, i. e. >

Re: How to check if a string is empty in python?

2007-05-02 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On May 2, 1:35 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How to check if a string is empty in python? > if(s == "") ?? Empty strings and containers are false; so one can write if (not s): print "something..." -- Hope this helps, Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: sqlite for mac?

2007-05-01 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On May 1, 10:12 am, 7stud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 1, 4:08 am, "Daniel Nogradi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Does sqlite come in a mac version? > > > The interface (pysqlite) is part of the python 2.5 standard library > > but you need to install sqlite itself separately (as far as

Re: python function in pipe

2007-04-28 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Apr 28, 6:37 am, Bart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone! > > Im using module that gives errors to stderr/stdout (generated by SWIG) > Problem is that I need to parse this errors/information from module. > > os.popen3 looks nice but this executes command not function. > > Is there any

Re: function minimization

2007-04-22 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Apr 22, 6:55 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is anyone aware of python library that does function minimization a la > Minuit (http://wwwasdoc.web.cern.ch/wwwasdoc/minuit/) used by CERN? > > thanks If you have a C complier and the lapack, blas, and levmar libraries, you cou

Re: Suggestion: str.itersplit()

2007-04-21 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Apr 21, 5:58 am, Dustan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >From my searches here, there is no equivalent to java's > > StringTokenizer in python, which seems like a real shame to me. > > However, str.split() works just as well, except for the fact that it > creates it all at one go. I suggest an iter

python-list@python.org

2007-04-19 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Apr 19, 3:37 pm, Anton Vredegoor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anton Vredegoor wrote: > > Maybe this one is better? > > No, this one keeps generating output. > > But this one stops at least: > > from collections import deque > from itertools import chain, repeat > > def xsplitter(seq, pred): >

python-list@python.org

2007-04-19 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Apr 19, 9:13 am, Anton Vredegoor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (snipped) > > > How about this one? > > No that can result in an infinite loop after yet another > > print it1.next() > > This one however ... > > from collections import deque > > class sentinel(object): > pass > > class myiter

python-list@python.org

2007-04-18 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Apr 18, 12:23 pm, Anton Vredegoor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (snipped) > But still, the 'while True:' loop and the 'try-except' clause and the > explicit StopIteration are not necessary ... > > from collections import deque > > def xsplitter(seq, pred): > Q = deque(),deque() > it = i

python-list@python.org

2007-04-18 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Apr 17, 3:52 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (snipped) > > So far I haven't succed using the coroutine Python 2.5 allows using > the generators, and I think still that xsplitter can be done with two > coroutines instead of two It objects. Despite Steven's code I am > unable still to write a work

python-list@python.org

2007-04-16 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Apr 16, 5:14 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Once in while I too have something to ask. This is a little problem > that comes from a Scheme Book (I have left this thread because this > post contains too much Python code for a Scheme > newsgroup):http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.scheme/br

Re: list insertion question

2007-04-16 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Apr 16, 6:05 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi > i have a list (after reading from a file), say > data = [ 'a','b','c','d','a','b','e','d'] > > I wanted to insert a word after every 'a', and before every 'd'. so i > use enumerate this list: > for num,item in enumerate(data): > if "a" in item

Re: unittest assertRaises Problem

2007-04-16 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Apr 16, 3:13 pm, "john" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All: > > Hi. I am an experienced developer (15 yrs), but new to Python and have > a question re unittest and assertRaises. No matter what I raise, > assertRaises is never successful. Here is the test code: > > class Foo: > def testExceptio

Re: script for seconds in given month?

2007-04-16 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Apr 16, 10:18 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Matt> from time import mktime > Matt> def secondsInMonth(year, month): > Matt> s1 = mktime((year,month,1,0,0,0,0,0,-1)) > Matt> s2 = mktime((year,month+1,1,0,0,0,0,0,-1)) > Matt> return s2-s1 > > Probably won't work if

Re: "Cloning" file attributes and permissions

2007-04-12 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Apr 12, 5:19 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Apr 12, 4:09 pm, Paulo da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (snipped) > > > import subprocess > retcode = subprocess.call([ "/bin/cp", "-p", oldfile, newfile ]) > On my system, this preserves the access permissions and ownership. > > And if you m

Re: "Cloning" file attributes and permissions

2007-04-12 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Apr 12, 4:09 pm, Paulo da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: > > > > > On Apr 12, 9:20 am, Paulo da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi! > > >> I need to process a file to produce another file that *must* have > >> *exactly* the same attributes and permissions of

Re: "Cloning" file attributes and permissions

2007-04-12 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Apr 12, 9:20 am, Paulo da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I need to process a file to produce another file that *must* have > *exactly* the same attributes and permissions of the former. What is the > best way to do this? The file must not exist with contents (it may exist > empty) un

Re: python regular expression help

2007-04-11 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Apr 11, 9:50 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > En Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:14:01 -0300, Qilong Ren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > escribió: > > > Thanks for reply. That actually is not what I want. Strings I am dealing > > with may look like this: > > s = 'a = 4.5 b = 'h' 'd' c = 4.5

Re: Database Timestamp conversion error

2007-04-06 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Apr 6, 1:48 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (snipped) > If I look in the MS Access database, I see the timestamp as "5/6/112". > Obviously some user didn't enter the correct date and the programmer > before me didn't give Access strict enough rules to block bad dates. > How do I test for a malfor

Re: grandparent method with super

2007-04-05 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Apr 5, 2:13 pm, Martin Manns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 5 Apr 2007 16:55:38 -0400 > > > > "John Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >That works, but when I replace A with something else, I do not get > > >the > > grandparent anymore > > >without changing all the method calls. Basical

Re: elementary tuple question. (sorry)

2007-04-05 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Apr 5, 2:08 pm, "Steven W. Orr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a tuple that I got from struct.unpack. Now I want to pass the data > from the returned tuple to struct.pack > > >>> fmt > > 'l 10l 11i h 4h c 47c 0l'>>>struct.pack(fmt, tup) > > Traceback (most recent call last): >File "", l

Re: how to remove multiple occurrences of a string within a list?

2007-04-05 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Apr 4, 7:43 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote: (snipped) > A "we-don't-need-no-stinkin'-one-liners" more relaxed approach: > > import collections > d = collections.defaultdict(int) > for x in myList: d[x] += 1 > list(x for x in myList if d[x]==1) > > yields O(N) performance (give tha

Re: Newbie Question about sequence multiplication

2007-04-04 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Apr 4, 3:19 pm, "Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (snipped) > > print > print ' ' * left_margin + '+' + '-' * (box_width-2) + '+' > print ' ' * left_margin + '| ' + ' ' * text_width + ' |' > print ' ' * left_margin + '| ' + ' ' sentence + ' |' > print ' ' * left_margin + '|

Re: calling super()

2007-04-04 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Apr 4, 12:22 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, I have been trying to call the super constructor from my > derived class but its not working as expected. See the code: > > class HTMLMain: > def __init__(self): > self.text = ""; > print(self.text); > def __del__(self):

Re: Overlapping matches

2007-04-01 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Apr 1, 1:38 pm, Rehceb Rotkiv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the re documentation, it says that the matching functions return "non- > overlapping" matches only, but I also need overlapping ones. Does anyone > know how this can be done? Perhaps lookahead assertions are what you're looking for?

Re: Sorting a multidimensional array by multiple keys

2007-03-31 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Mar 31, 6:42 am, Rehceb Rotkiv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (snipped) > As each line consists of 5 words, I would break up the data into an array > of five-field-arrays (Would you use lists or tuples or a combination in > Python?). The word "BUT" would be in the middle, with two fields/words > l

Re: Weird gcc behaviour with function pointer types

2007-03-29 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Mar 29, 6:05 am, greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In my quest to eliminate C compiler warnings from > Pyrex output, I've discovered some utterly bizarre > behaviour from gcc 3.3. > > The following code: > >void g(struct foo *x) { >} > >void f(void) { > void (*h)(struct foo *);

Re: Creating a new data structure while filtering its data origin.

2007-03-29 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Mar 28, 1:44 pm, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone. > > I'm trying to work with very simple data structures but I'm stuck in the very > first steps. If someone has the luxury of a few minutes and can give an > advice how to resolve this, I'll really appreciate it. > > 1- I have a list o

Re: make RE more cleaver to avoid inappropriate : sre_constants.error: redefinition of group name

2007-03-29 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Mar 29, 7:22 am, "aspineux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to parse > > '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' or '<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' and get the email address [EMAIL > PROTECTED] > > the regex is > > r'<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>|[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > > now, I want to give it a name > > r'<(?P[EMAIL PROTECTED])>|(

Re: call to function by text variable

2007-03-25 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Mar 25, 3:36 pm, "ianaré" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yeah the subject doesn't really make sense does it? > > anyway want I want to do is this: > if n == 1: > > self.operations.insert(pos, operations.Replace.Panel(self, main)) > > elif n == 2: > > self.operations.insert(pos, operations.

Re: Daylight saving time question

2007-03-20 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Mar 20, 12:53 pm, Mr Pekka Niiranen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > is it possible to get the two annual daylight saving times > (day, month and time) from Python by giving location > in some country/location string ("Europe/Finland" for example). > > I need to ask country in program and ca

Re: using regexp

2007-03-19 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Mar 19, 10:33 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi > how can i use regexp to group these digits into groups of 3? > > eg > line 123456789123456789 > > i have : > > pat = re.compile("line\s+(\d{3})" , re.M|re.DOTALL) > > but this only gives the first 3. I also tried > > "line\s+(\d{3})+" > but also

Re: string formatting: engineering notation

2007-03-14 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Mar 14, 1:14 pm, Darren Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know if it is possible to represent a number as a string with > engineering notation (like scientific notation, but with 10 raised to > multiples of 3: 120e3, 12e-6, etc.). I know this is possible with the > decimal.Decimal cl

Re: How to capture environment state after running a shell script.

2007-03-13 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Mar 13, 5:57 am, "Gerard Flanagan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have a third party shell script which updates multiple environment > values, and I want to investigate (and ultimately capture to python) > the environment state after the script has run. But running the script > as a c

Re: Request for a change in the csv module.

2007-03-12 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Mar 12, 4:26 pm, Paulo da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. > > I have just seen that csv module, more exactly the Dialect class, > does not have any variable to specify the "floating point" character! > In portuguese this is ','. Not '.'. 3.1415 -> 3,1415. > I think this is also the case o

Re: Newbie Question : "grep"

2007-03-12 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Mar 12, 10:01 am, "Erik Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry, I forgot to paste the modified version of my code in the post:. I > think this is the same behaviour: > > for line in lines: > if "placed" in line: > if "i_a/i_b/ROM/" in line: > pos = (line.split()[4]).

Re: Reading a portion of a file

2007-03-08 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Mar 8, 10:35 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (snipped) > > Ok, regex was my first thought because I used to use grep with Perl > and shell scripting to grab everything from one pattern to another > pattern. The file is just an unformatted file. What is below is > exactly what is in the file. The

Re: Perl and Python, a practical side-by-side example.

2007-03-03 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Mar 2, 2:44 pm, "Shawn Milo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (snipped) > I'm attaching both the Perl and Python versions, and I'm open to > comments on either. The script reads a file from standard input and > finds the best record for each unique ID (piid). The best is defined > as follows: The ne

Re: Matplotlib axes label

2007-03-02 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Mar 2, 7:02 am, "John Henry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 1, 10:07 pm, "John Henry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Mar 1, 9:53 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > (snipped) > > > You can try adjusting the labels and ticks > > > using matplotlib.ticker. > > > > To the example you cit

Re: Matplotlib axes label

2007-03-01 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Mar 1, 3:10 pm, "John Henry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been asking this question at the matplotlib user list and never > gotten an answer. I am hoping that there are matplotlib users here > that can help. > > My problem with matplotlib's way of handling axes label is illustrated > by th

Re: text wrapping help

2007-02-28 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Feb 28, 5:50 pm, "Ryan K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 28, 8:27 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Try: > > > import re > > sample_text = """Personal firewall software may warn about the > > connection IDLE makes to its subprocess using this computer's internal > > loopback interface. T

Re: text wrapping help

2007-02-28 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Feb 28, 4:06 pm, "Ryan K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to text wrap a string but not using the textwrap module. I > have 24x9 "matrix" and the string needs to be text wrapped according > to those dimensions. Is there a known algorithm for this? Maybe some > kind of regular expression

Re: Extract String From Enclosing Tuple

2007-02-28 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Feb 28, 12:40 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm a bit embarrassed to have to ask for help on this, but I'm not finding > the solution in the docs I have here. > > Data are assembled for writing to a database table. A representative tuple > looks like this: > > ('eco', "(u'Roads',)", 0.07396

Re: classobj?

2007-02-26 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Feb 26, 5:43 pm, Venky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to create classes at runtime based on input from a textfile. > I am trying to use the function new.classobj. I am able to create the > new classes successfully, however I fail to understand on how to add > this new class to

Re: modifying a list while iterating through

2007-02-25 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Feb 25, 5:12 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > consider the following working loop where Packet is a subclass of > list, with Packet.insert(index, iterable) inserting each item in > iterable into Packet at consecutive indexes starting at index. > > i=0 > while(i if packet[i:i+5]==Pa

Re: Bug in time module - %z works in perl, not in python?

2007-02-21 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Feb 21, 6:17 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Following python code prints out incorrect UTC Offset - the python > docs say that %z is not fully supported on all platforms - but on > Linux Fedora FC5, perl code works and python does not - is this a bug > or is this expected behavior? For a EST tim

Re: how to compare...

2007-02-12 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Feb 12, 8:03 pm, "jairodsl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everybody ! > > I have two list, they are, S1=['A','B','C','D','E'], and > S2=['F','G','H','I','J'], but i have to compare both in this way: > > A vs J > A vs I, B vs J > A vs H,

Re: How to find all the same words in a text?

2007-02-11 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Feb 11, 5:13 am, Samuel Karl Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Johny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 10 Feb 2007 05:29:23 -0800 didst step > forth and proclaim thus: > > > I need to find all the same words in a text . > > What would be the best idea to do that? > > I make no claims of this being t

Re: Strings in Python

2007-02-08 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Feb 8, 8:28 am, "Johny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Playing a little more with strings, I found out that string.find > function provides the position of > the first occurance of the substring in the string. > Is there a way how to find out all substring's position ? > To explain more, > let's s

Re: grp.struct_group bug ?

2007-01-30 Thread attn . steven . kuo
On Jan 30, 5:42 pm, spam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is this a bug ? > > Running the following script with Python 2.3.5: > > #!/usr/bin/python > > import grp > > # groups = grp.getgrall() > > agroup = grp.getgrnam('wheel') > print agroup > print type(agroup) > > print agroup.__con

Re: Lists of lists and tuples, and finding things within them

2006-11-09 Thread attn . steven . kuo
Daniel Nogradi wrote: > > I have a program that keeps some of its data in a list of tuples. > > Sometimes, I want to be able to find that data out of the list. Here is > > the list in question: > > > > [('password01', 'unk'), ('host', 'dragonstone.org'), ('port', '1234'), > > ('character01', 'Thes

Re: re question

2006-11-01 Thread attn . steven . kuo
Schüle Daniel wrote: (snipped) > I am trying to construct a case where a greedy and > non greedy operation produce different result. > I dont see the difference between 'a??b' and 'a?b' > As far I understand is that ? will first try to match a > (it's greedy) and only if it fails then it step bac

Re: subprocess cwd keyword.

2006-10-26 Thread attn . steven . kuo
Ivan Vinogradov wrote: > Dear All, > > I would greatly appreciate a nudge in the right direction concerning > the use of cwd argument in the call function from subprocess module. > > The setup is as follows: > > driver.py <- python script > core/ <- directory >