Re: Functions continuing to ru after returning something?

2010-08-31 Thread Maxwell Hansen
On 08/30/2010 05:05 PM, Bradley Hintze wrote: I may be having a brain fart, but is it at all possible to have a function first return a value then continue its calculation. Like this simple example: my_var = 5 def my_function(): return my_var my_var +=1 This obviously won't work as wr

Re: Extended slicing and Ellipsis - where are they used?

2007-09-15 Thread Rodney Maxwell
On Sep 13, 5:50 pm, James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rodney Maxwell wrote: > > The following are apparently legal Python syntactically: > >L[1:3, 8:10] > >L[1, ..., 5:-2] > > > But they don't seem to work on lists: > >>>>

Re: Extended slicing and Ellipsis - where are they used?

2007-09-15 Thread Rodney Maxwell
On Sep 13, 5:50 pm, James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rodney Maxwell wrote: > > The following are apparently legal Python syntactically: > >L[1:3, 8:10] > >L[1, ..., 5:-2] > > > But they don't seem to work on lists: > >>>>

Extended slicing and Ellipsis - where are they used?

2007-09-13 Thread Rodney Maxwell
The following are apparently legal Python syntactically: L[1:3, 8:10] L[1, ..., 5:-2] But they don't seem to work on lists: >>> l = [0,1,2,3] >>> l[0:2,3] Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in TypeError: list indices must be integers >>> l[...] Traceback (most recent call

Re: PythonCard or Dabo?

2007-06-01 Thread Bill Maxwell
On 19 Mar 2007 10:40:03 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... >You might want to submit this to the wxpython news-group. ... What is the name of this newsgroup? I can't seem to locate it on my news server. Thanks, Bill -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Why not just show the out-of-range index?

2006-12-03 Thread Bill Maxwell
On Sun, 3 Dec 2006 23:31:56 -0500, Jean-Paul Calderone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 3 Dec 2006 17:23:49 -0800, Russ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Rather, they (like I) will encourage to OP to submit a patch that fixes the >>> problem. >> >>Now, that would be rather silly. I would have to fa

Re: About alternatives to Matlab

2006-11-29 Thread Bill Maxwell
On 16 Nov 2006 13:09:03 -0800, "sturlamolden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ...SNIP... >To compare Matlab with NumPy we can e.g. use the D4 discrete wavelet >transform. I have here coded it in Matlab and Python/NumPy using Tim >Swelden's lifting scheme. > >First the Matlab version (D4_Transform.m):

Re: Python deployment options.

2006-11-15 Thread Bill Maxwell
On 8 Nov 2006 03:42:09 -0800, "king kikapu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I see...So, if these are the only options, the only "safe" bet is to >install the language on the machine (beeing Win, Linux or Mac) >and execute the .py files, right ?? No, those are not the only options. Check out PyI

Re: How to choose the right GUI toolkit ?

2006-11-10 Thread Bill Maxwell
e the code. >*** > >So, it works. Thanks for looking into it. It sounds like either it has been fixed in the newer version -- or I didn't do something correctly. It's been a long time, and I was just going by the notes I made back then. > >

Re: How to choose the right GUI toolkit ?

2006-11-09 Thread Bill Maxwell
On 8 Nov 2006 11:49:07 -0800, "John Henry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >John Salerno wrote: >> Dan Lenski wrote: >> >> > So, is there another toolkit I should be looking at? >> >> I highly recommend wxPython. It's very mature, full-featured, and >> portable, and fairly easy to learn as well. I ca

Re: Network Programming in Python

2006-06-22 Thread Bill Maxwell
On 22 Jun 2006 12:02:14 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I am a newbie in python. I want to learn and implement a small >networking concept. Please help me. Every help is appreciated. > >I have one Linux Box and one Windows PC. I want to have a daemon >running on Windows PC which listens on some s

Re: wxPython problem

2006-05-06 Thread Bill Maxwell
On 28 Apr 2006 10:16:57 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >What I'm wondering is, perhaps it has something to do with the wx.pth >file? I can't seem to find anything in the documentation about what the >path should be, which file it should be pointing to. Mine has this in it: wx-2.6-msw-un

Re: Write a GUI for a python script?

2006-03-05 Thread Bill Maxwell
On Sat, 4 Mar 2006 13:08:35 -0500, "Peter Decker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 3/4/06, Bill Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Dabo does look really nice, but seems like it has a ways to go yet. >> >> I downloaded it a couple of weeks ago, and

Re: Write a GUI for a python script?

2006-03-04 Thread Bill Maxwell
On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 07:19:34 -0500, "Peter Decker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I started with wxPython and struggled with it for a long time. I was >able to get the job done, but using it never seemed natural. Then I >found the Dabo project, whose ui module wraps wxPython into a much >more Pythonic

Why is 'None' not assignable but 'True'/'False' are?

2006-01-02 Thread Rodney Maxwell
In Python 2.4.1: >>> None = 99 SyntaxError: assignment to None >>> True = 99 >>> False = 99 >>> True == False True --- So why is 'None' special? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: some suggestions about GUI toolkits?

2005-12-28 Thread Bill Maxwell
On 28 Dec 2005 05:51:50 -0800, "Luis M. González" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This question comes up in this mailing list every two or three days... >I suggest taking some time to read previous threads (use Google Groups >for en easier experience) and you'll find thousands of opinions and >suggest

Re: How should threads be terminated? (related to 'Help with thread related tracebacks')

2005-06-17 Thread Maxwell Hammer
Thanks Brian & Martin for the links. I actually found another good one: http://linuxgazette.net/107/pai.html Cheers. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How should threads be terminated? (related to 'Help with thread related tracebacks')

2005-06-17 Thread Maxwell Hammer
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 16:20:23 -0400, Peter Hansen wrote: > Maxwell Hammer wrote: >> This is related to an earlier post 'Help with thread related >> tracebacks'...for which I have had no feedback yet :-( > > If the question was well formulated, and it's bee

How should threads be terminated? (related to 'Help with thread related tracebacks')

2005-06-16 Thread Maxwell Hammer
Hi all, This is related to an earlier post 'Help with thread related tracebacks'...for which I have had no feedback yet :-( How should a thread complete i.e. how should it exit? Reading the python online docs one gets the idea that simply returning is OK - but I'm not sure. Is it ok to do a sys.e

Help with thread related tracebacks

2005-06-15 Thread Maxwell Hammer
Hope someone can help with a problem I'm having. A python program I wrote terminates with the following traceback. *** start traceback *** Error in atexit._run_exitfuncs: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.4/atexit.py", line 22, in _run_exitfuncs func(*targs, **kargs)

Re: Python Developers Handbook - Mistake done and corrected.

2005-06-11 Thread Maxwell Hammer
On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 04:52:12 -0700, wooks wrote: > > Your understanding of Usenet is that a post has to "appeal" (for the > want of a better word) to the majority of the NG readership. > > Look over a hundred people took a look (and the hits are steadily > going up whether despite or because of

Re: python.exe on Mac OS X!?

2005-04-17 Thread Rodney Maxwell
> The default file system on MacOSX is case insensitive. As a result the .exe > extension is required to disambiguate the generated executable from the > Python directory in the source distro. OK. I got it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python.exe on Mac OS X!?

2005-04-17 Thread Rodney Maxwell
>> executable produced was 'python.exe'. Can someone tell me whether this >> is a bug, feature, or UserError? > I'm not sure. Why don't you grab the binary? > http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.4.1/MacPython-OSX-2.4.1-1 .dmg Because I need to keep multiple versions of Python on this machine, and

python.exe on Mac OS X!?

2005-04-17 Thread Rodney Maxwell
I did a source code build of Python 2.4.1 on OS X (10.3.8) and the executable produced was 'python.exe'. Can someone tell me whether this is a bug, feature, or UserError? % ./configure % make % ./python.exe Python 2.4.1 (#1, Apr 17 2005, 12:14:12) [GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 14

Re: 2.4 crashes when try to exit app and mulitple threads active

2005-03-20 Thread Maxwell Hammer
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 22:35:39 -0500, Peter Hansen wrote: > When you say "only one thread running", did you mean only > one monitor thread in addition to the main thread, or did > you really mean only the main thread was active at this time? I meant there was the main app and one thread. The proble

2.4 crashes when try to exit app and mulitple threads active

2005-03-19 Thread Maxwell Hammer
An application I am developing executes many threads and then has a "monitor" part that waits for certain events. One of these events causes the application to have to shutdown. On shutdown the monitor part notifies the threads of a shutdown, and the threads must cleanup and exit. When all threads

Re: How to turn a variable name into a string?

2005-03-11 Thread Rodney Maxwell
> c = None (result of an assignment after the os.environ.get() returned a KeyError). Why not trap the KeyError? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

None in string formatting

2005-03-08 Thread rodney . maxwell
Was doing some string formatting, noticed the following: >>> x = None >>> "%s" % x 'None' Is there a reason it maps to 'None'? I had expected ''. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Unable to run IDLE Under Windows

2005-03-07 Thread maxwell
Thanks, guess I misunderstood--I thought "pythonw" _was_ IDLE. Now I see what IDLE is, and I wasn't actually wanting to run that. And as it turns out, my _real_ problem was that my path was making me run the CygWin version of Python from the "DOS" command prompt--which understandably dies with a

Re: Unable to run IDLE Under Windows

2005-03-04 Thread maxwell
Peter Otten wrote: > Perhaps your configuration files contain bad data: > > # IDLE reads several config files to determine user preferences. This > # file is the default config file for general idle settings. ... > # On Windows2000 and Windows XP the .idlerc directory is at > # Documents and

Re: Problem using/installing numarray

2005-02-17 Thread maxwell
Thanks, that explains why the CygWin Python will not import the .pyd files: >>> imp.get_suffixes() [('.dll', 'rb', 3), ('module.dll', 'rb', 3), ('.py', 'U', 1), ('.pyc', 'rb', 2)] Doesn't look like there's a way to get the CygWin Python to load .pyd files. So I guess I have to figure out why the

Problem using/installing numarray

2005-02-16 Thread maxwell
python2.4 /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.3/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: \ cannot find -l/lib/python2.4 I have a _directory_ /lib/python2.4, but it sounds like gcc is looking for some kind of library file. Suggestions? Mike Maxwell -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list