Re: Python 3D CAD -- need collaborators, or just brave souls :)

2009-02-12 Thread greg
rantingrick wrote: It has long been my dream to create an open source 3D CAD program and I have a real good idea of the UI design Have you seen Sketchup? http://sketchup.google.com/ It has an amazingly intuitive user interface, much better than any other 3D modeller I've seen. Anyone thi

Re: Breaking Python list into set-length list of lists

2009-02-12 Thread John Machin
On Feb 12, 6:46 pm, Gerard Flanagan wrote: > Jason wrote: > > Hey everyone-- > > > I'm pretty new to Python, & I need to do something that's incredibly > > simple, but combing my Python Cookbook & googling hasn't helped me out > > too much yet, and my brain is very, very tired & flaccid @ the > >

Why does way_1() obtain the correct list but way_2() gets an empty list?

2009-02-12 Thread WP
Hello group! This is probably a silly newbie mistake but consider the following program: import libsbml def getSBMLModel(biomodel_path): reader = libsbml.SBMLReader() sbml_doc = reader.readSBML(biomodel_path) sbml_model = None if sbml_doc.getNumErrors() > 0: print 'I c

Re: Embed a web browser into a page

2009-02-12 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Carbon Man wrote: > Hi, > I need to embed a web browser into a python page. I am coming from the MS > world where I created an app that all of it's interfaces were actually web > pages rendered in an Internet Explorer activex control. There was a object > hook that allowed you to call into the hos

Re: ANN: Python 2.6 Quick Reference available

2009-02-12 Thread Krzysztof Retel
On Feb 12, 12:54 am, pyt...@bdurham.com wrote: > Richard, > > An excellent tool. Great job!!! > > Thank you for sharing this with the Python community. > > Regards, > Malcolm Many thanks Richard and Josh. I've just started my adventure with Python, and this document will help me a lot. Cheers, K

Re: Thank you, Tkinter. (easy to use)

2009-02-12 Thread Eric Brunel
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 06:06:06 +0100, wrote: [snip] My only (minor) complaint is that Tk doesn't draw text antialiased in the various widgets (menus, labels, buttons, etc.). From version 8.5 of tcl/tk, it's supposed to do it. See this page: http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/8.5.tml under 'Highlig

Re: best way to serve wsgi with multiple processes

2009-02-12 Thread Robin Becker
Graham Dumpleton wrote: . requests. If the work is indeed long running, the backend process would normally just acknowledge the request and not wait. The web page would return and it would be up to user to then somehow occassionally poll web server, manually or by AJAX, to see how progre

Match items in large list

2009-02-12 Thread Fisherking
Hi, I hope you can help me with this optimizing problem! I have a large list of dictionaries (about 250 000 of them). Two or more of these dictionaries contains the same data (not more than five or six of them per item) e.g. [{'a':1,'b':'2','c':3} , {'d': 4,'e':'5','f':6},{'a':1,'b':'2','c':3} , {

Re: Another optimization request :-)

2009-02-12 Thread andrew cooke
jeffg wrote: > To be honest, this is not my code and I'm new to python. It's part of > the open source project NetworkX, but I'm using this one call > extensively. I'm also not that familiar with the math behind the > physics. I'll read the documents and see if I can figure it > out. :-) Thank

Re: Match items in large list

2009-02-12 Thread Paul Rubin
Fisherking writes: > Which are the best way of searching through the list and extract the > items that are the same. Sort the list, then scan through looking for duplicates, which will be adjacent to each other. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Match items in large list

2009-02-12 Thread Martin
Hi, 2009/2/12 Paul Rubin : > Fisherking writes: >> Which are the best way of searching through the list and extract the >> items that are the same. hmmm how about using sqlites in memory database and let SQL take care of finding that for you? hth Martin -- http://soup.alt.delete.co.at http:/

Re: Why does way_1() obtain the correct list but way_2() gets an empty list?

2009-02-12 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
WP a écrit : Hello group! This is probably a silly newbie mistake but consider the following program: import libsbml def getSBMLModel(biomodel_path): reader = libsbml.SBMLReader() sbml_doc = reader.readSBML(biomodel_path) sbml_model = None if sbml_doc.getNumErrors() > 0:

Re: Functional schmunctional...

2009-02-12 Thread Steve Holden
Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > "Steve Holden" wrote: > >> Jeez, doesn't anyone read the fine manual any more? I hope this was just >> an academic exercise. >> > socket.inet_ntoa(struct.pack("!l", 10)) >> '59.154.202.0' >> Holden's rule: when it looks simple enough to be worth including i

Re: Match items in large list

2009-02-12 Thread Peter Otten
Fisherking wrote: > I hope you can help me with this optimizing problem! > I have a large list of dictionaries (about 250 000 of them). Two or > more of these dictionaries contains the same data (not more than five > or six of them per item) e.g. [{'a':1,'b':'2','c':3} , {'d': > 4,'e':'5','f':6},{

Untangling pythonWin and IDLE Processes on XP Pro

2009-02-12 Thread W. eWatson
It appears if one moves between IDLE and pythonWin (pyWin) that two separate loops (threads?) can occur, and that IDLE can produce incorrect results. Since I have preferred IDLE over pyWin, that leaves me currently in a quandry. How do I renew these processes, so that I can proceed with IDLE?

Re: Library similar to UserAgent (perl)

2009-02-12 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
mattia wrote: > Hi everybody, I'm looking for an easy way to put data in a form, then > click the button and follow the redirect. Also I need to use cookies. I > read that using perl this can be done using the UserAgent lib, that also > provide th browser functionality to let the site believe that

xacml api info request

2009-02-12 Thread Oguz Yarimtepe
I am looking for how can i use XACML with Python. Anybody who had used xacml with python or and idea? Thanx. -- Oğuz Yarımtepe www.loopbacking.info -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: cannot install

2009-02-12 Thread Benjamin Kaplan
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 3:41 AM, Vladimír Župka wrote: > Here is config.log: > > This file contains any messages produced by compilers while > running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake. > > It was created by python configure 3.0, which was > generated by GNU Autoconf 2.61.

[ANN] TracShell 0.1 released

2009-02-12 Thread J Kenneth King
I tend to work a lot with Trac for project management and have always found the browser interface to be a productivity killer. I always wanted a simple command-line interface to Trac, but having never found one I found a little free time and got off my laurels to make one. TracShell 0.1 is an ear

Re: Untangling pythonWin and IDLE Processes on XP Pro

2009-02-12 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
W. eWatson wrote: > It appears if one moves between IDLE and pythonWin (pyWin) that two > separate loops (threads?) can occur, and that IDLE can produce incorrect > results. Since I have preferred IDLE over pyWin, that leaves me currently > in a quandry. How do I renew these processes, so that I c

An executable operational semantics for Python

2009-02-12 Thread gideon
Hi everybody, I've recently finished my Master's thesis on the semantics of Python. In my thesis I define the semantics of Python by rewriting an abstract machine. The sources that are used to produce my thesis can also be compiled into a working interpreter. Hence I call it an 'executable' semant

Re: TracShell 0.1 released

2009-02-12 Thread Krzysztof Retel
On 12 Feb, 14:06, J Kenneth King wrote: > I tend to work a lot with Trac for project management and have always > found the browser interface to be a productivity killer. I always > wanted a simple command-line interface to Trac, but having never found > one I found a little free time and got off

Re: Untangling pythonWin and IDLE Processes on XP Pro

2009-02-12 Thread W. eWatson
Diez B. Roggisch wrote: W. eWatson wrote: It appears if one moves between IDLE and pythonWin (pyWin) that two separate loops (threads?) can occur, and that IDLE can produce incorrect results. Since I have preferred IDLE over pyWin, that leaves me currently in a quandry. How do I renew these pro

cx_Oracle-5.0 Problem

2009-02-12 Thread Brandon Taylor
Hello everyone, I'm Brandon Taylor, senior web developer with the University of Texas at Austin. We're using Python 2.6.1 and having a lot of difficulty getting the cx_Oracle-5.0 library to install on one of our MacBooks running OS X 10.5.6. We can get cx_Oracle to compile, but after running setu

Re: how can this iterator be optimized?

2009-02-12 Thread josh logan
On Feb 11, 8:22 pm, Basilisk96 wrote: > Hello all, > > I have the following function that uses an intermediate iterator > "rawPairs": > > def MakePairs(path): >     import os >     import operator >     join = os.path.join >     rawPairs = ( >         (join(path, s), func(s)) >         for s in os

Re: TracShell 0.1 released

2009-02-12 Thread J Kenneth King
Krzysztof Retel writes: > On 12 Feb, 14:06, J Kenneth King wrote: >> I tend to work a lot with Trac for project management and have always >> found the browser interface to be a productivity killer. I always >> wanted a simple command-line interface to Trac, but having never found >> one I found

Re: Could you recommend job schedulling solution?

2009-02-12 Thread redbaron
> > I think parallel python will take of that for you > (http://www.parallelpython.com/) I've found that RPyC (http://rpyc.wikidot.com/) is quite usefull for my task. It allows me to build RPC service which accepts ordinary python function from client and return result in synchronous or asynchron

some history of computing and celebrities [was lisp machine keyboards]

2009-02-12 Thread Xah Lee
On Feb 12, 7:28 am, Xah Lee wrote: > lisp machine keyboards. > > • Knite keyboard. I think this is one of the > earlist.http://world.std.com/~jdostale/kbd/Knight.html > > • Symbolics earlier style keyboard (PN 364000), by Peter > Painehttp://www.asl.dsl.pipex.com/symbolics/photos/IO/kbd-older.ht

Re: cx_Oracle-5.0 Problem

2009-02-12 Thread redbaron
> ImportError: dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/ > lib/python2.6/site-packages/cx_Oracle.so, 2): Symbol not found: > ___divdi3 You didn't link cx_Oracle.so all libs which it use. run "ldd -r cx_Oracle.so" and you'll have an idea about all missing symbols. The names of misse

Read Only attributes, auto properties and getters and setters

2009-02-12 Thread TechieInsights
Ok, so I noticed some of the modules (such as many of the datetime attributes) are read-only, which means the __setattr__ and __set__ methods are intercepted... pretty easy. I am looking for a way to automate this. The real goal is not to have read only attributes, but to have getters and setters

Re: Untangling pythonWin and IDLE Processes on XP Pro

2009-02-12 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> Done that. Been there. It doesn't work. If I take another py tkinter > program and run it in IDLE, it *will work*. The current program goes boom. That's pure luck then. IDLE is written in Tkinter, and *running* Tkinter apps inside of it is bound to fail sooner or later. Failure might be as drast

Re: Read Only attributes, auto properties and getters and setters

2009-02-12 Thread TechieInsights
Oh... one other thing that would be really cool is to do this with AOP/ descriptors! I just haven't been able to get that to work either. Basics... @readonly class MyClass(object): def __init__(self, x): self.set_x(x) def get_x(self): return self._

Embarrasing questio

2009-02-12 Thread Catherine Heathcote
But I just cant find it. How do I do an or, as in c/c++'s ||? Just trying to do something simple, the python equivilent of: if(i % 3 == 0 || i % 5 == 0) Thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Embarrasing questio

2009-02-12 Thread TechieInsights
On Feb 12, 9:03 am, Catherine Heathcote wrote: > But I just cant find it. How do I do an or, as in c/c++'s ||? Just > trying to do something simple, the python equivilent of: > > if(i % 3 == 0 || i % 5 == 0) > > Thanks. if i % 3 == 0 or i % 5 == 0 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyth

Re: Embarrasing questio

2009-02-12 Thread TechieInsights
On Feb 12, 9:03 am, Catherine Heathcote wrote: > But I just cant find it. How do I do an or, as in c/c++'s ||? Just > trying to do something simple, the python equivilent of: > > if(i % 3 == 0 || i % 5 == 0) > > Thanks. in 2.5 and above you can do if any(i%3 == 0, i%5 == 0) -- http://mail.python.

Re: Breaking Python list into set-length list of lists

2009-02-12 Thread MRAB
Mensanator wrote: On Feb 11, 10:58�pm, Jason wrote: Hey everyone-- I'm pretty new to Python, & I need to do something that's incredibly simple, but combing my Python Cookbook & googling hasn't helped me out too much yet, and my brain is very, very tired & flaccid @ the moment I have a lis

Re: Embarrasing questio

2009-02-12 Thread Aahz
In article , Catherine Heathcote wrote: > >But I just cant find it. How do I do an or, as in c/c++'s ||? Just >trying to do something simple, the python equivilent of: > >if(i % 3 == 0 || i % 5 == 0) if i % 3 == 0 or i % 5 == 0: You may find it worthwhile to quickly step through everything in

Re: Embarrasing questio

2009-02-12 Thread Catherine Heathcote
TechieInsights wrote: On Feb 12, 9:03 am, Catherine Heathcote wrote: But I just cant find it. How do I do an or, as in c/c++'s ||? Just trying to do something simple, the python equivilent of: if(i % 3 == 0 || i % 5 == 0) Thanks. if i % 3 == 0 or i % 5 == 0 Yea, new it would be embarras

Re: An executable operational semantics for Python

2009-02-12 Thread bearophileHUGS
gideon: > I've recently finished my Master's thesis on the semantics of Python. > In my thesis I define the semantics of Python by rewriting an abstract > machine. The sources that are used to produce my thesis can also be > compiled into a working interpreter. Hence I call it an 'executable' > sem

Re: Another optimization request :-)

2009-02-12 Thread bearophileHUGS
On Feb 12, 2:48 am, jeffg wrote: > If anyone wants to take this on... I would really really like to have > the spring_layout modified to support multi-threading if at all > possible. You can start creating a compiled Python extension using ShedSkin, it may be enough. Bye, bearophile -- http://ma

Re: Embarrasing questio

2009-02-12 Thread Michele Simionato
On Feb 12, 5:07 pm, TechieInsights wrote: > On Feb 12, 9:03 am, Catherine Heathcote > > wrote: > > But I just cant find it. How do I do an or, as in c/c++'s ||? Just > > trying to do something simple, the python equivilent of: > > > if(i % 3 == 0 || i % 5 == 0) > > > Thanks. > > in 2.5 and above

Re: Embarrasing questio

2009-02-12 Thread km
Hi, you could do it this way also : if i in [3,5]: do something... KM ~ On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 1:19 AM, Michele Simionato < michele.simion...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Feb 12, 5:07 pm, TechieInsights wrote: > > On Feb 12, 9:03 am, Catherine Heathcote > > > > wrote: > > >

Re: Embarrasing questio

2009-02-12 Thread Catherine Heathcote
Aahz wrote: In article , Catherine Heathcote wrote: But I just cant find it. How do I do an or, as in c/c++'s ||? Just trying to do something simple, the python equivilent of: if(i % 3 == 0 || i % 5 == 0) if i % 3 == 0 or i % 5 == 0: You may find it worthwhile to quickly step through ever

Re: Embarrasing questio

2009-02-12 Thread Tim Rowe
2009/2/12 km : > Hi, > > you could do it this way also : > > if i in [3,5]: > do something... True, you could do it, but it would be wrong. The original is true for i = 6, 9, 10, 12 and so on, but yours doesn't seem to be... -- Tim Rowe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Read Only attributes, auto properties and getters and setters

2009-02-12 Thread josh logan
On Feb 12, 10:58 am, TechieInsights wrote: > Oh... one other thing that would be really cool is to do this with AOP/ > descriptors!  I just haven't been able to get that to work either. > Basics... > > @readonly > class MyClass(object): >         def __init__(self, x): >                 self.set_x

Re: Embarrasing questio

2009-02-12 Thread TechieInsights
On Feb 12, 9:19 am, Michele Simionato wrote: > On Feb 12, 5:07 pm, TechieInsights wrote: > > > On Feb 12, 9:03 am, Catherine Heathcote > > > wrote: > > > But I just cant find it. How do I do an or, as in c/c++'s ||? Just > > > trying to do something simple, the python equivilent of: > > > > if(i

Re: Read Only attributes, auto properties and getters and setters

2009-02-12 Thread TechieInsights
On Feb 12, 9:27 am, josh logan wrote: > On Feb 12, 10:58 am, TechieInsights wrote: > > > > > Oh... one other thing that would be really cool is to do this with AOP/ > > descriptors!  I just haven't been able to get that to work either. > > Basics... > > > @readonly > > class MyClass(object): > >

Re: Match items in large list

2009-02-12 Thread MRAB
Fisherking wrote: Hi, I hope you can help me with this optimizing problem! I have a large list of dictionaries (about 250 000 of them). Two or more of these dictionaries contains the same data (not more than five or six of them per item) e.g. [{'a':1,'b':'2','c':3} , {'d': 4,'e':'5','f':6},{'a':

Re: Untangling pythonWin and IDLE Processes on XP Pro

2009-02-12 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Feb 12, 8:57 am, "W. eWatson" wrote: > Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > > W. eWatson wrote: > > >> It appears if one moves between IDLE and pythonWin (pyWin) that two > >> separate loops (threads?) can occur, and that IDLE can produce incorrect > >> results. Since I have preferred IDLE over pyWin, tha

Re: Untangling pythonWin and IDLE Processes on XP Pro

2009-02-12 Thread W. eWatson
I simply ask, "How do I get around the problem?" -- W. eWatson (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet Web Page: -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listin

Re: Untangling pythonWin and IDLE Processes on XP Pro

2009-02-12 Thread W. eWatson
As with Diez, I simply ask, "How do I get around the problem?" Are you two telling me that it is impossible? OK, here's my offer to both of you. Do you have IDLE for Python 2.5 and have good familiarity with Tkinter? If so, I'll send you the code and you can try it yourself. My guess is that

Re: openOffic, windows, and Python 2.5

2009-02-12 Thread John Fabiani
Terry Reedy wrote: > John Fabiani wrote: >> Hi, >> OpenOffice 3 on windows uses python 2.3.x (I have no idea why). > > I presume because no one has volunteered to do the update for the Py-UNO > bridge. In any case, why do you consider that to be a problem. It is > common for apps to include the

Spam

2009-02-12 Thread Kottiyath
Hi, There seems to be lot of spam coming in this newsgroup. Is it possible to have some mechanism similar to say - slashdot - wherein mails can be moderated by any of the usual users? This is required only for people who is posting for the first time (or people who has been rated spam befo

Re: Untangling pythonWin and IDLE Processes on XP Pro

2009-02-12 Thread W. eWatson
W. eWatson wrote: As with Diez, I simply ask, "How do I get around the problem?" Are you two telling me that it is impossible? OK, here's my offer to both of you. Do you have IDLE for Python 2.5 and have good familiarity with Tkinter? If so, I'll send you the code and you can try it yourself

Re: Spam

2009-02-12 Thread Stephen Hansen
> There seems to be lot of spam coming in this newsgroup. > Is it possible to have some mechanism similar to say - slashdot - > wherein mails can be moderated by any of the usual users? > This is required only for people who is posting for the first time > (or people who has been rated spam b

Re: Spam

2009-02-12 Thread Stephen Hansen
> C.P.L C.L.P even. Ahem. --S -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Embarrasing questio

2009-02-12 Thread MRAB
Michele Simionato wrote: On Feb 12, 5:07 pm, TechieInsights wrote: On Feb 12, 9:03 am, Catherine Heathcote wrote: But I just cant find it. How do I do an or, as in c/c++'s ||? Just trying to do something simple, the python equivilent of: if(i % 3 == 0 || i % 5 == 0) Thanks. in 2.5 and above

Re: Spam

2009-02-12 Thread Tim Chase
If you subscribe to C.P.L as a mailing list instead of a newsgroup, I believe most of the spam gets filtered out at the mailing list<->news group gateway by the Python.org spam filters... At least no spam in my Gmail spam folder appears to be flagged from this group(at a very brief glance) so they

Re: Avoiding argument checking in recursive calls

2009-02-12 Thread Terry Reedy
Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 04:31:10 -0500, Terry Reedy wrote: Steven D'Aprano writes: def fact(n): if n < 0: raise ValueError if n = 0: return 1 return fact(n-1)*n At the risk of premature optimization, I wonder if there is an idiom for avoiding the unnecessary te

Re: zlib interface semi-broken

2009-02-12 Thread Travis
So I've submitted a patch to bugs.python.org to add a new member called is_finished to the zlib decompression object. Issue 5210, file 13056, msg 81780 -- Crypto ergo sum. http://www.subspacefield.org/~travis/ Do unto other faiths as you would have them do unto yours. If you are a spammer, pleas

Re: Read Only attributes, auto properties and getters and setters

2009-02-12 Thread TechieInsights
Ok... for some closure I have written a class to automate the process. It takes getters and setters and deleters and then sets the property automatically. Sweet! class AutoProperty(type): def __new__(cls, name, bases, methoddict): processed = [] getter =

Re: Spam

2009-02-12 Thread TechieInsights
On Feb 12, 10:23 am, Tim Chase wrote: > > If you subscribe to C.P.L as a mailing list instead of a > > newsgroup, I believe most of the spam gets filtered out at the > > mailing list<->news group gateway by the Python.org spam > > filters... At least no spam in my Gmail spam folder appears to > >

Re: Match items in large list

2009-02-12 Thread Terry Reedy
Fisherking wrote: Hi, I hope you can help me with this optimizing problem! I have a large list of dictionaries (about 250 000 of them). Two or more of these dictionaries contains the same data (not more than five or six of them per item) e.g. [{'a':1,'b':'2','c':3} , {'d': 4,'e':'5','f':6},{'a':

how to distribute python extensions independently of python

2009-02-12 Thread Travis
So, Recently I made a fix to the zlib module that I need for use at work. I would like other employees to be able to use it without recompiling python. I assume I can just rename it and distribute it as a python extension. I was wondering how I can provide a way for other employees to build it.

Re: Untangling pythonWin and IDLE Processes on XP Pro

2009-02-12 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
W. eWatson wrote: > As with Diez, I simply ask, "How do I get around the problem?" Are you two > telling me that it is impossible? YES. That's what we and all the others who answered to you in the other thread are telling you, repeatedly. It is impossible. Really. No kidding. For sure. Jawoll, ga

Re: Spam

2009-02-12 Thread andrew cooke
A quick search on "imap nntp" turned up this list that might be useful - http://deflexion.com/messaging/ although I wonder when it was written because I remember using Aaron's RSS to email aggregator when RSS was new(!). It mentions gmane, though, which certainly still exists (I assume it carries

Re: Embarrasing questio

2009-02-12 Thread Michele Simionato
On Feb 12, 6:22 pm, MRAB wrote: > Michele Simionato wrote: > > On Feb 12, 5:07 pm, TechieInsights wrote: > >> On Feb 12, 9:03 am, Catherine Heathcote > > >> wrote: > >>> But I just cant find it. How do I do an or, as in c/c++'s ||? Just > >>> trying to do something simple, the python equivilent

Re: how to distribute python extensions independently of python

2009-02-12 Thread andrew cooke
You might want to read https://www.dfwpython.org/repo/Presentations/2008-10-04-PyArkansas-PythonEggsIntro/eggs-introduction.pdf It covers a lot of ground; I used it to work out how to distribute a pure Python package, but I am sure it mentions compiled packages too. In my case I ended up using s

Re: Untangling pythonWin and IDLE Processes on XP Pro

2009-02-12 Thread Scott David Daniels
W. eWatson wrote: As with Diez, I simply ask, "How do I get around the problem?" Are you two telling me that it is impossible? OK, here's my offer to both of you. Do you have IDLE for Python 2.5 and have good familiarity with Tkinter? If so, I'll send you the code and you can try it yourself

something wrong with isinstance

2009-02-12 Thread maksym . kaban
Hi there. now i'm a complete newbie for python, and maybe my problem is stupid but i cannot solve it myself i have an object of class GeoMap which contains lists with objects of GeoMapCell (i will not explain what they should do, hope its not important). Then i want to serialize these objects to j

Re: Untangling pythonWin and IDLE Processes on XP Pro

2009-02-12 Thread Terry Reedy
W. eWatson wrote: As with Diez, I simply ask, "How do I get around the problem?" Are you two telling me that it is impossible? Try this analogy. One television, two stubborn kids that want to watch different programs. One has the remote, the other the buttons on the TV. What happens? How

Re: Embarrasing questio

2009-02-12 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Michele Simionato writes: > On Feb 12, 6:22 pm, MRAB wrote: >> Michele Simionato wrote: >> > On Feb 12, 5:07 pm, TechieInsights wrote: >> >> On Feb 12, 9:03 am, Catherine Heathcote >> >> >> wrote: >> >>> But I just cant find it. How do I do an or, as in c/c++'s ||? Just >> >>> trying to do som

Re: Spam

2009-02-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-02-12, andrew cooke wrote: > Can I read news via secure NNTP (nntps)? > Yes. Point your news reader towards nntps://snews.gmane.org/. > > http://www.gmane.org/faq.php > > I should be working; I will try that this evening. What was the name of > the client that threaded messages with

Re: Spam

2009-02-12 Thread andrew cooke
Grant Edwards wrote: >> I should be working; I will try that this evening. What was the name of >> the client that threaded messages with a cute ascii tree?! > > slrn? i think i was remembering trn, which is now apparently dead. will try slrn... thanks, andrew -- http://mail.python.org/mailma

Help: makefile in Windows

2009-02-12 Thread Muddy Coder
Hi Folks, I am learning Extending Python, by testing the demo script of Programming Python. In the book, a makefile for Linux is there, but I am using Windows currently. I wish somebody would help me to get a makefile for Windows, my makefile.linux is as below: PYDIR= c:\Python25 PY = $(PYDIR) h

Re: Read Only attributes, auto properties and getters and setters

2009-02-12 Thread josh logan
On Feb 12, 12:27 pm, TechieInsights wrote: > Ok... for some closure I have written a class to automate the > process.  It takes getters and setters and deleters and then sets the > property automatically.  Sweet! > > class AutoProperty(type): >         def __new__(cls, name, bases, methoddict): >

Re: something wrong with isinstance

2009-02-12 Thread Paul McGuire
On Feb 12, 11:53 am, maksym.ka...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi there. > now i'm a complete newbie for python, and maybe my problem is stupid > but i cannot solve it myself > > i have an object of class GeoMap which contains lists with objects of > GeoMapCell (i will not explain what they should do, hope i

Re: Spam

2009-02-12 Thread Aahz
In article , andrew cooke wrote: >Grant Edwards wrote: >>> I should be working; I will try that this evening. What was the name of >>> the client that threaded messages with a cute ascii tree?! >> >> slrn? > >i think i was remembering trn, which is now apparently dead. will try >slrn... thanks,

Get an image from a webcam in macOS

2009-02-12 Thread Jonathan Chacón
Hello, I can get an Image from a webcam in windows but I don't know how can I get an image from the webcam in a macbook in leopard. How can I do this? thanks and regards Jonathan Chacón -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

how many databases exists?

2009-02-12 Thread Rosell Pupo Polanco
hello, i am working in pythoncard and i need to know how many databases exist in my server POstgresql, exists some funcion in python that can help me?? greettings..Rosell .::[ La vida es rica en saberes, pero la vida es breve y no se vive, si no se sabe. ]::. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman

Capture images in macOS X

2009-02-12 Thread Jonathan Chacón
Hello, I need to capture images from the macbook webcam in leopard. Does anybody know how can I do this? Thanks and regards Jonathan Chacón -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Library similar to UserAgent (perl)

2009-02-12 Thread mattia
Hi everybody, I'm looking for an easy way to put data in a form, then click the button and follow the redirect. Also I need to use cookies. I read that using perl this can be done using the UserAgent lib, that also provide th browser functionality to let the site believe that you are getting th

__import__ Confusion

2009-02-12 Thread scott . bronson . nelson
Can someone explain to me what's going on here? >>> __import__('some.package.module', {}, {}, []) >>> __import__('some.package.module', {}, {}, ['']) (Note that '' is two single quotes) Thanks, Scott -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: something wrong with isinstance

2009-02-12 Thread maksym . kaban
> Here's a crazy idea out of left field.  Just before calling > isinstance, why not try: > > print(type(obj)) > print(str(obj)) > > This may illuminate the unexpected behavior, you'll find out just what > obj has in it. > > -- Paul Well the output of > print(type(obj)) > print(str(obj)) was J

Re: openOffic, windows, and Python 2.5

2009-02-12 Thread Terry Reedy
John Fabiani wrote: Terry Reedy wrote: John Fabiani wrote: Hi, OpenOffice 3 on windows uses python 2.3.x (I have no idea why). I presume because no one has volunteered to do the update for the Py-UNO bridge. In any case, why do you consider that to be a problem. It is common for apps to inc

Re: something wrong with isinstance

2009-02-12 Thread redbaron
Don't really sure, but try to define your class as new-style one. Like class GeoMap(object): ... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

is there a project running (GUI Builder for Python ) ?

2009-02-12 Thread azrael
To be honest, in compare to Visual Studio, Gui Builders for wx widgets are really bad. Also completly for python there is not one good GuiBuilder. The only one I have seen that would come near VS was BoaConstructor, But the number of Bugs is just horrific. Too bad that no one is developing it furth

Re: __import__ Confusion

2009-02-12 Thread Benjamin Peterson
gmail.com> writes: > > Can someone explain to me what's going on here? > > >>> __import__('some.package.module', {}, {}, []) > > >>> __import__('some.package.module', {}, {}, ['']) > As documented [1], unless fromlist is not empty, the first module is returned. Use the solution at the end o

Re: cx_Oracle-5.0 Problem

2009-02-12 Thread Brandon Taylor
On Feb 12, 9:31 am, redbaron wrote: > > ImportError: dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/ > > lib/python2.6/site-packages/cx_Oracle.so, 2): Symbol not found: > > ___divdi3 > > You didn't link cx_Oracle.so all libs which it use. run "ldd -r > cx_Oracle.so" and you'll have an id

Re: is there a project running (GUI Builder for Python ) ?

2009-02-12 Thread J Kenneth King
azrael writes: > To be honest, in compare to Visual Studio, Gui Builders for wx > widgets are really bad. That's because Visual Studio is a Microsoft product to build interfaces for Microsoft products. wx on the other hand is cross platform and ergo, much more complicated. > Do you know if the

need help from some one who uses python-ooolib

2009-02-12 Thread Krishnakant
hello all, Has any one used python-ooolib to create open office spreadsheets? I want to know the method of merging cells using the library's calc class. happy hacking. Krishnakant. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Spam

2009-02-12 Thread Terry Reedy
andrew cooke wrote: A quick search on "imap nntp" turned up this list that might be useful - http://deflexion.com/messaging/ although I wonder when it was written because I remember using Aaron's RSS to email aggregator when RSS was new(!). It mentions gmane, though, which certainly still exists

Re: is there a project running (GUI Builder for Python ) ?

2009-02-12 Thread Stef Mientki
azrael wrote: To be honest, in compare to Visual Studio, Gui Builders for wx widgets are really bad. Also completly for python there is not one good GuiBuilder. The only one I have seen that would come near VS was BoaConstructor, But the number of Bugs is just horrific. Too bad that no one is dev

Re: Spam

2009-02-12 Thread Terry Reedy
Terry Reedy wrote: andrew cooke wrote: A quick search on "imap nntp" turned up this list that might be useful - http://deflexion.com/messaging/ although I wonder when it was written because I remember using Aaron's RSS to email aggregator when RSS was new(!). It mentions gmane, though, which ce

Can't load smtplib

2009-02-12 Thread S-boy
I can't seem to import smtplib in either a script or the command line interpreter. When I try to import smtp, there seems to be some kind of collision with urllib2. I get a weird error about Web server authorization, even though I'm not calling urllib2. Any ideas on what might be causing this? H

Re: Can't load smtplib

2009-02-12 Thread Jean-Paul Calderone
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:40:57 -0800 (PST), S-boy wrote: I can't seem to import smtplib in either a script or the command line interpreter. When I try to import smtp, there seems to be some kind of collision with urllib2. I get a weird error about Web server authorization, even though I'm not cal

Re: something wrong with isinstance

2009-02-12 Thread maksym . kaban
On 12 фев, 21:49, redbaron wrote: > Don't really sure, but try to define your class as new-style one. > Like > class GeoMap(object): >    ... Sorry, it didn't work -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: something wrong with isinstance

2009-02-12 Thread Paul McGuire
On Feb 12, 12:26 pm, maksym.ka...@gmail.com wrote: > > Well the output of > > > print(type(obj)) > > print(str(obj)) > > was > > > > > Just looks well, isn't it? i have no idea what's wrong So then how do you know isinstance is evaluating to False? And why do you return None if it evals to True

Re: something wrong with isinstance

2009-02-12 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
maksym.ka...@gmail.com schrieb: Hi there. now i'm a complete newbie for python, and maybe my problem is stupid but i cannot solve it myself i have an object of class GeoMap which contains lists with objects of GeoMapCell (i will not explain what they should do, hope its not important). Then i wa

Re: Capture images in macOS X

2009-02-12 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Jonathan Chacón schrieb: Hello, I need to capture images from the macbook webcam in leopard. Does anybody know how can I do this? Use the pyobjc bridge & some ObjectiveC-framework such as CocoaSequenceGrabber. http://www.skyfell.org/cocoasequencegrabber.html There are similar ones out ther

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