Re: Python and encodings drives me crazy

On 6/20/05, Oliver Andrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does the following code write headline and caption in MacRoman encoding to the disk? f = codecs.open(outfilename, w, macroman) f.write(headline) It does, as long as headline and caption *can* actually be encoded as macroman. After

Re: Question about HTMLgen

On 6/20/05, Sebastian Bassi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am using HTMLgen. It is very nice. But I can't make it to generate an arbitrary command. For example I want to output this: embed src=canvas_norelief.svg width=140 height=68 type=image/svg+xml name=wmap wmode=transparent

Re: reading a list from a file

On 6/20/05, David Bear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a file that contains lists -- python lists. sadly, these are not pickled. These are lists that were made using a simple print list statement. Sad, indeed. But what kind of objects they held? Only ints? Ints and strings? Arbitrary objects?

Re: What makes an object uncopyable?

On 17 Jun 2005 15:41:07 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to make a copy of a certain Python object using the copy.copy() function. When I try to perform this operation I get an error like the following: copy.Error: un(shallow)copyable object of type ... What

Re: thread.start_new_thread question

On 6/17/05, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi KV, Here's a site that provides an easy, beginners example of how to do threading. You might find this useful too... :-) http://www.codesampler.com/python.htm (Look for the Spawning Threads section.) Thank you, but that doesn't answer my

Re: Set of Dictionary

On 6/16/05, Vibha Tripathi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks, I know sets have been implemented using dictionary but I absolutely need to have a set of dictionaries... While you can't have a set of mutable objects (even dictionaries :)), you can have a set of immutable snapshots of those

Re: Set of Dictionary

On 6/16/05, Vibha Tripathi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need sets as sets in mathematics: That's tough. First of all, mathematical sets can be infinite. It's just too much memory :) Software implementations can't fully match mathematical abstractions. sets of any unique type of objects

Re: which ports to use for SOAP?

On 6/17/05, Maurice LING [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm writing something that specifies the use of SOAP. One requirement that fumbles me is the port number(s) to use. (I assume you're talking about TCP ports, not SOAP ports.) Is there any way to find out which ports are not used by the

thread.start_new_thread question

Hi, Just curious: import thread help(thread.start_new_thread) . . . start_new_thread(function, args[, kwargs]) . . . Second argument is mandatory. Is it incidental or for a reason? - kv -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Single test for a class and all its subclasses?

On 6/15/05, Anthra Norell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: class C: ... class C2 (C): ... # What I want to do: if x.__class__ in (C, C2): do_something_with (x) If you have an instance, you can use isinstance() built-in. - kv -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: pyunit: remove a test case on the fly

On 15 Jun 2005 14:13:09 -0700, chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have a number of TestCase classes that have multiple test methods. We are interested in removing any of the individual test methods on the fly (dynamically, at runtime, whatever). Here's a simple approach imitating NUnit's

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