Re: Tab completion

2009-04-02 Thread sjbrown
readline.parse_and_bind('\C-n: complete') Makes it Ctrl-n do the completion, like vim. On Apr 2, 7:59 am, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Does anyone use the tab-completion recipe in the docs? > > http://docs.python.org/library/rlcompleter.html#module-rlcompleter > > suggests using this to enable tab-c

Re: Newbie Q about Turtle Gfx

2009-02-18 Thread sjbrown
It looks like there may be a bug if you were expecting t to be some object other than a dict. You can apparently contact the authour here: http://www.briggs.net.nz/log/contact/ On Feb 18, 2:16 pm, "Neil" wrote: > Hello > > Sorry if this is not an appropriate newsgroup for this problem. I am ver

Re: CPython loading modules into memory

2009-02-11 Thread sjbrown
shal.c in the Python2.5.4 source. Looks like the actual reading of the file is done in the marshal.c function PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile. It is read sequentially using a small buffer on the heap. -sjbrown -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

CPython loading modules into memory

2009-02-11 Thread sjbrown
Can someone describe the details of how Python loads modules into memory? I assume once the .py file is compiled to .pyc that it is mmap'ed in. But that assumption is very naive. Maybe it uses an anonymous mapping? Maybe it does other special magic? This is all very alien to me, so if someone