Re: Preferred method for "Assignment by value"

2008-04-15 Thread sturlamolden
On Apr 15, 8:19 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Coming from VBA I have a tendency to think of everything as an > array... Coding to much in Visual Basic, like Fortran 77, is bad for your mind. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Getting subprocess.call() output into a string?

2008-04-15 Thread David
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:36 PM, Tobiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am not sure how to capture the output of a command > using subprocess without creating a temp file. I was > trying this: > > import StringIO > import subprocess > > file = StringIO.StringIO() > > subprocess.call("ls", st

Re: Recurring patterns: Am I missing it, or can we get these added to the language?

2008-04-15 Thread Jeffrey Froman
Erich wrote: > def iterable(item, count_str=False): > if not count_str and isinstance(item, str): > return False > try: > iter(item) > except: > return False > return True Beware the "except" clause here, as it catches *all* errors. Thus, if you happen to ha

Re: Getting subprocess.call() output into a string?

2008-04-15 Thread Tobiah
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:36:11 -0700, Tobiah wrote: > I am not sure how to capture the output of a command > using subprocess without creating a temp file. I was Sorry, I jumped into a secondary level of the docs, and didn't see it all. I guess I can use communicate() to get the output. Still, ab

Re: Recurring patterns: Am I missing it, or can we get these added to the language?

2008-04-15 Thread John Krukoff
On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 11:51 -0700, Erich wrote: > Hello all, > > Today I found myself once again defining two functions that I use all > the time: nsplit and iterable. These little helper functions of mine > get used all the time when I work. Im sick of having to define them > (but am very good

Re: Getting subprocess.call() output into a string?

2008-04-15 Thread David
> > Still, about StringIO... > The module description says you can use it to read and write strings as files, not that you can use strings *everywhere* you can use files. In your specific case, StringIO doesn't work, because the stdout redirection takes place at the operating system level (which

Re: webcam (usb) access under Ubuntu

2008-04-15 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Berco Beute schrieb: > Thanks, that would be great. Here you go. http://roggisch.de/vidio.tgz Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Recurring patterns: Am I missing it, or can we get these added to the language?

2008-04-15 Thread John Krukoff
On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 13:48 -0700, Jeffrey Froman wrote: > Tim Chase wrote: > >def nsplit(s, delim=None, maxsplit=None): > > if maxsplit: > >results = s.split(delim, maxsplit) > >result_len = len(results) > >if result_len < maxsplit: > > results.extend([''

Re: py3k s***s

2008-04-15 Thread Terry Reedy
"Sverker Nilsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | What serious reports? http://wiki.python.org/moin/Early2to3Migrations -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to import C++ static library?

2008-04-15 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> Diez: I tried SWIG, and it works nicely with C. For C++, I didn't manage > to make it work. I tried SIP; I have some problems compiling etc. Would > it be too much to ask you to supply a working example of a (simple, > stupid) C++ class and the necessary SIP files? Preferably for Mac OS X, >

Re: webcam (usb) access under Ubuntu

2008-04-15 Thread Berco Beute
On Apr 15, 11:18 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Berco Beute schrieb: > > > Thanks, that would be great. > > Here you go. > > http://roggisch.de/vidio.tgz > > Diez Wonderful! Thank you very much! I'm running out of time, but after installing the necessary goodies using the nice

Re: Different times between Python and System

2008-04-15 Thread Mark
On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:31:34 -0700, Josh wrote: > Hmm... That didn't work out so well that time. I feel like an idiot. > Previously there has been an hour difference between the system time and > the time that python reports. Thanks for the laugh though Josh. That was funny! :) -- http://mail.

Re: tkinter, event.widget, what do i get?

2008-04-15 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:45:08 -0300, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > when calling function hmm here, what do i get? the widget i clicked > on? > if i have a canvs on wich i have a bitmap and i click on the bitmap, > is the event.widget then the bitmap? > can i get info about the bitmap then? like c

Re: How is GUI programming in Python?

2008-04-15 Thread Joe P. Cool
On 12 Apr., 03:34, baalbek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Delphi/Object Pascal simply sucks big time! I disagree. Delphi/Object Pascal with the VCL (Visual Component Library) is one of the most sophisticated IDEs ever, even better than Qt IMO. The only drawback is that it is Windows only. > No rea

Re: tkinter, canvas, get color of image?

2008-04-15 Thread Bryan Oakley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 13 Apr, 19:19, Bryan Oakley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> mapq = PhotoImage(file = 'C:\Users\saftarn\Desktop\elmapovic.gif') >>> w.create_image(10, 10, image = mapq, anchor = NW) >>> after doing this is there any possibility of getting the

i want to add a timeout...

2008-04-15 Thread maehhheeyy
I want to add a timeout so that when I pull out my gps from my serial port, it would wait for a bit then loop and then see if it's there. I also want to add a print statement saying that there is no GPS device found. However when I run my code and unplug my serial port, my code will just hang until

Testing for callable or iterable (was: Recurring patterns: Am I missing it, or can we get these added to the language?)

2008-04-15 Thread Ben Finney
Erich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > def iterable(item, count_str=False): > if not count_str and isinstance(item, str): > return False > try: > iter(item) > except: > return False > return True > This is just simple boolean test for whether or not an object

Re: How to have unittest tests to be executed in the order they appear?

2008-04-15 Thread Ben Finney
"Giampaolo Rodola'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a way to force unittest to run test methods in the order > they appear? No, and this is a good thing. Your test cases should *not* depend on any state from other test cases; they should function equally well when executed in any arbitrar

Re: how to remove \n in the list

2008-04-15 Thread Yves Dorfsman
Dan Bishop wrote: >>> lines[:] = [line.rstrip('\n') for line in lines] >> What is the point of the [:] after lines ? How different is it with or >> without it ? > > It causes the result to be stored in the existing list. > If we do: lines = [line.rstrip('\n') for line in lines] lines is now a

Re: Brand New!

2008-04-15 Thread agent E 10
On Apr 14, 8:37 pm, Benjamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 14, 9:00 pm, agent E 10 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:>    Hi, I'm brand > new to programming. Have any suggestions? I'm young. > > Was it a good idea to start with python? I was planning on creating a > > very simple program that asked

Re: tkinter, event.widget, what do i get?

2008-04-15 Thread skanemupp
On 16 Apr, 00:24, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > En Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:45:08 -0300, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > when calling function hmm here, what do i get? the widget i clicked > > on? > > if i have a canvs on wich i have a bitmap and i click on the bitmap, > > is the

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Re: how to remove \n in the list

2008-04-15 Thread alex23
On Apr 16, 9:26 am, Yves Dorfsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If we do: > lines[:] = [line.rstrip('\n') for line in lines] > > We reuse an existing list, therefore we are saving the time it takes to > create a new list ? So this is a performance issue ? I think it's more of a reference issue. You

Re: How to have unittest tests to be executed in the order they appear?

2008-04-15 Thread tom arnall
On Tuesday 15 April 2008 16:23, Ben Finney wrote: > "Giampaolo Rodola'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Is there a way to force unittest to run test methods in the order > > they appear? > > No, and this is a good thing. > > Your test cases should *not* depend on any state from other test > cases;

Re: Gecko 1.9

2008-04-15 Thread Todd Whiteman
Joe P. Cool wrote: > In 2005 I heard of plans to add Python as a second language to the > Gecko engine. Is this still true? Or has this plan been abandoned? > You can use Python inside of Mozilla (Gecko) based applications now, such as Firefox/Thunderbird/Komodo Edit/XulRunner which communicate

import hooks

2008-04-15 Thread Patrick Stinson
What's the current way to install an import hook? I've got an embedded app that has a few scripts that I want to import each other, but that are not in sys.modules. I intentionally keep them out of sys.modules because their names will not be unique across the app. They will, however, be unique betw

Re: How to have unittest tests to be executed in the order they appear?

2008-04-15 Thread Ben Finney
Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Find out about test fixtures in the documentation for unittest > http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-unittest>. Find out easier with the right URL context http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-unittest>. -- \ "I like my dental hygenist, I think she

OverflowError: regular expression code size limit exceeded

2008-04-15 Thread gdetre
Dear all, I'm trying to get a large, machine-generated regular expression (many thousands of characters) to work in Python on a Mac (running Leopard), and I keep banging my head against this brick wall: >>> update_implicit_link_regexp_temp() Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, i

Re: How is GUI programming in Python?

2008-04-15 Thread lxlaurax
On 11 abr, 20:31, sturlamolden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 11, 5:01 am, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Another annoying thing with the Qt license is that you have to choose it > > at the very start of the project. You cannot develop something using the > > open sourc

Re: Interesting timing issue I noticed

2008-04-15 Thread Jonathan Shao
I've written up a stripped down version of the code. I apologize for the bad coding; I am in a bit of a hurry. import random import sys import time sizeX = 320 sizeY = 240 borderX = 20 borderY = 20 # generates a zero matrix def generate_zero(): matrix = [[0 for y in range(sizeY)] for x in ra

Re: Brand New!

2008-04-15 Thread Benjamin
On Apr 15, 6:37 pm, agent E 10 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 14, 8:37 pm, Benjamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Apr 14, 9:00 pm, agent E 10 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:>Hi, I'm brand > > new to programming. Have any suggestions? I'm young. > > > Was it a good idea to start with pyth

Re: How is GUI programming in Python?

2008-04-15 Thread Benjamin
On Apr 15, 9:17 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 11 abr, 20:31, sturlamolden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Apr 11, 5:01 am, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > Another annoying thing with the Qt license is that you have to choose it > > > at the very start of the proje

RE: How is GUI programming in Python?

2008-04-15 Thread Marlin Rowley
Hmm.. I'm just now learning wxPython and it's very very easy to me. Perhaps because I've delved into other GUI APIs like GLUT and Windows DirectX. Programming in C++ seems a pain when coming from Python. I'll let you know more when I delve more into it. -M > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subj

Re: Interesting timing issue I noticed

2008-04-15 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> I've written up a stripped down version of the code. I apologize for the bad > coding; I am in a bit of a hurry. > > import random > import sys > import time > > sizeX = 320 > sizeY = 240 > borderX = 20 > borderY = 20 > > # generates a zero matrix > def generate_zero(): > matrix = [[0 for y i

python memory leak only in x86 64 linux

2008-04-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
the memory usage of a python app keeps growing in a x86 64 linux continuously, whereas in 32 bit linux this is not the case. Python version in both 32 bit and 64 bit linux - 2.6.24.4-64.fc8 Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Oct 30 2007, 13:45:26) i isolated the memory leak problem to a function that uses

Re: Interesting timing issue I noticed

2008-04-15 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> Can I then simply ignore the time data then? I do see better performance > obviously the smaller the box is, but I guess my issues is how seriously to > take all this data. Because I can't claim "performance improvement" if there > isn't really much of an improvement. > > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at

Unicode chr(150) en dash

2008-04-15 Thread marexposed
Hello guys & girls I'm pasting an "en dash" (http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2013/index.htm) character into a tkinter widget, expecting it to be properly stored into a MySQL database. I'm getting this error: **

Re: Interesting timing issue I noticed

2008-04-15 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
On 4/15/08, Daniel Fetchinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can I then simply ignore the time data then? I do see better performance > > obviously the smaller the box is, but I guess my issues is how seriously > to > > take all this data. Because I can't claim "performance improvement" if > there

Re: How is GUI programming in Python?

2008-04-15 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On 11 abr, 20:31, sturlamolden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] > > I have no experience with GUI programming in Python, but from this > discussion it seems if the type of license is not an issue (for > FOSS development), PyQt is the best tool because it

python-gammu for Python 2.4 on Windows

2008-04-15 Thread Simon Kagwi
Hi everyone, I am looking for binaries (.exe) of python-gammu (any version) for Python 2.4. What I'm getting from the download website is only for Python 2.5. Does anyone know where I can get what I'm looking for? Google isn't really helping :-C Regards, Simon ___

Re: how to remove \n in the list

2008-04-15 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:26:16 -0300, Yves Dorfsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Dan Bishop wrote: > lines[:] = [line.rstrip('\n') for line in lines] >>> What is the point of the [:] after lines ? How different is it with or >>> without it ? >> >> It causes the result to be stored in the e

Re: Brand New!

2008-04-15 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:37:40 -0300, agent E 10 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > On Apr 14, 8:37 pm, Benjamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Apr 14, 9:00 pm, agent E 10 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:>    Hi, >> I'm brand new to programming. Have any suggestions? I'm young. >> > Was it a good idea t

Re: tkinter, event.widget, what do i get?

2008-04-15 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:45:24 -0300, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > On 16 Apr, 00:24, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> En Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:45:08 -0300, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: >> >> > when calling function hmm here, what do i get? the widget i clicked >> > on? >> > if i ha

Re: Brand New!

2008-04-15 Thread Paul Scott
On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 02:35 -0300, Gabriel Genellina wrote: > I'm unsure if teaching Javascript, VBScript and Python at the same time is > a good thing, I'd think one would get a language soup and mix all the > concepts, but if it works for you, go ahead. > For other resources, see the beginne

Re: import hooks

2008-04-15 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:14:18 -0300, Patrick Stinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > What's the current way to install an import hook? I've got an embedded > app > that has a few scripts that I want to import each other, but that are > not in > sys.modules. I intentionally keep them out of sy

Re: Unicode chr(150) en dash

2008-04-15 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\MySQLdb\cursors.py", line 149, in > execute query = query.encode(charset) UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' > codec can't encode character u'\u2013' in position 52: ordinal not in > range(256) Here it complains that it deals with the character U+2013, which is "EN DAS

Re: Compiling Python 2.5.2 on AIX 5.2

2008-04-15 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> What is Py_UNICODE_SIZE and why was it not defined? There are current > questions I have. Py_UNICODE_SIZE is the number of bytes that a Py_UNICODE value should have in the interpreter. With --enable-unicode=ucs2, it should be 2. I cannot guess why it is not defined; check pyconfig.h to find ou

Re: Interesting timing issue I noticed

2008-04-15 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:24:01 -0300, Jonathan Shao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > I've written up a stripped down version of the code. I apologize for the > bad > coding; I am in a bit of a hurry. First things first: I think you will gain inmensely using NumPy: http://numpy.scipy.org/ My t

Re: How is GUI programming in Python?

2008-04-15 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! Joe P. Cool writes: > On 12 Apr., 03:34, baalbek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Delphi/Object Pascal simply sucks big time! > > I disagree. Delphi/Object Pascal with the VCL (Visual Component > Library) is one of the most sophisticated IDEs ever, even better > than Qt IMO. [...] I wa

subplot function in matplotlib

2008-04-15 Thread eli
Does anyone know a workaround to plotting beyond 9 subplots in matplotlib? It would be nice to have 20 plots under the subplot function for example (poster). Cheers, Eli -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: py3k s***s

2008-04-15 Thread Sverker Nilsson
Thanks for your well-formulated article Providing the Python infrastructure with my program doesn't apply since I am providing a program/library that is intended to be general. So it doesn't help. All that py3k does to me, it seems, is some extra work. To be frank, no innovation. Just changes,

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