Re: Blank Line at Program Exit

On Thursday 20 August 2009 07:31:14 Steven Woody wrote: > Hi, > Any python program, even that does absolutely nothing in the code, will > cause a blank line printed out when the program exit. What's the reason? not for me: h...@linuxbox:~/Sasol/lib> cat blank.py h...@linuxbox:~/Sasol/lib> pytho

Re: your favorite debugging tool?

On Saturday 22 August 2009 16:49:22 Aahz wrote: > In article , > > Esmail wrote: > >What is your favorite tool to help you debug your code? I've been > >getting along with 'print' statements but that is getting old and > >somewhat cumbersome. > > Despite the fact that I've been using Python for m

Re: your favorite debugging tool?

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Re: conditional for-statement

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Re: your favorite debugging tool?

On Aug 22, 4:25 pm, Esmail wrote: > Hi all, > > What is your favorite tool to help you debug your > code? I've been getting along with 'print' statements > but that is getting old and somewhat cumbersome. > > I'm primarily interested in utilities for Linux (but > if you have recommendations for Wi

Re: Numeric literals in other than base 10 - was Annoying octal notation

On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 14:54:41 -0700 (PDT), James Harris wrote: > They look good - which is important. The trouble (for me) is that I > want the notation for a new programming language and already use these > characters. I have underscore as an optional separator for groups of > digits - 123000 and

Re: conditional for-statement

On Aug 23, 10:09 am, seb wrote: > Hi, > > i was wondering if there is a syntax alike: > > for i in range(10) if i > 5: >     print i > > equivalent to > > for i in (for i in range(10) if i>5): >     print i > > sebastien AFAIK, no syntax fo that. But the standard syntax is not too different: for

Re: Annoying octal notation

MRAB: >'_': what if in the future we want to allow them in numbers for clarity? Hettinger says it's hard (= requires too many changes) to do that and Python programs don't have big integer constants often enough, so probably that improvement will not see the light. In the meantime in a Python pr

Re: IDLE file saving problem

On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:48:56 -0700 (PDT), r wrote: >On Aug 21, 4:10 pm, MRAB wrote: > >Yes, and much more needs improvement! I have made many changes already >and i am polishing an "IDLE 3000" for the good people of Pythonia, >stay tuned more to come There is a small little detail that nags

Re: conditional for-statement

Il Sun, 23 Aug 2009 01:09:04 -0700 (PDT), seb ha scritto: > Hi, > > i was wondering if there is a syntax alike: > > for i in range(10) if i > 5: > print i You can write for i in filter(lambda i: i > 5, range(10)): print i but for i in range(10): if i > 5: print i it' be

Re: Numeric literals in other than base 10 - was Annoying octal notation

In comp.lang.python James Harris wrote: > On 22 Aug, 10:27, David <71da...@libero.it> wrote: ... >> >> What about 2_1011, 8_7621, 16_c26h or 2;1011, 8;7621, 16;c26h ? > > They look good - which is important. The trouble (for me) is that I > want the notation for a new programming language and a

Re: logging SMTPhandler Error

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Re: Is Python what I need?

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Re: your favorite debugging tool?

Il Sat, 22 Aug 2009 10:25:37 -0400, Esmail ha scritto: > > I use emacs as my primary development environment, FWIW. > Someone mentioned winpdb .. anyone have experience/comments > on this? Others? I use Winpdb on Windows and I feel quite comfortable. The interface is not so clever as more advanc

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Re: Combining python and perl

On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 05:37 -0700, Peng Yu wrote: > Hi, > > According to http://www.python.org/doc/essays/comparisons.html, it > says > > "Python and Perl come from a similar background (Unix scripting, which > both have long outgrown), and sport many similar features, but have a > different phil

Re: Blank Line at Program Exit

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Nitebirdz wrote: > On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 01:31:14PM +0800, Steven Woody wrote: > > Hi, > > Any python program, even that does absolutely nothing in the code, will > > cause a blank line printed out when the program exit. What's the reason? > > Thanks. > > > >

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Re: Python/Fortran interoperability

On Aug 23, 6:35 am, n...@cam.ac.uk wrote: > I am interested in surveying people who want to interoperate between > Fortran and Python to find out what they would like to be able to do > more conveniently, especially with regard to types not supported for C > interoperability by the current Fortran

Re: Dictionary from a list

In article , EK wrote: >On Aug 20, 2:10=A0pm, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: >> >> >>> from itertools import izip >> >>> it =3D iter([1,2,3,4,5,6]) >> >>> dict(izip(it, it)) >> >> {1: 2, 3: 4, 5: 6} > >dict(zip(*[iter(l)]*2)) No, that's not a good solution. For starters, it's less reada

Re: Annoying octal notation

Dennis Lee Bieber writes: > About the only place one commonly sees leading zeros on decimal > numbers, in my experience, is zero-filled COBOL data decks (and since > classic COBOL stores in BCD anyway... binary (usage is > computational/comp-1) was a later add-on to the data specification mo

Re: logging SMTPhandler Error

In article <60de8d40-61f4-4ffd-bcef-749bf0667...@k19g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>, Bev in TX wrote: >On Aug 23, 12:48=A0am, a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote: >> >> It's also not too difficult to do the moral equivalent with dnspython and >> find the MX host for the domain you're trying to send e-ma

Re: Numeric literals in other than base 10 - was Annoying octal notation

garabik-news-2005...@kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk writes: > Why not just use the space? 123 000 looks better than 123_000, and is > not syntactically ambiguous (at least in python). And as it already > works for string literals, it could be applied to numbers, too… +1 to all this. I think this discus

Re: Python/Fortran interoperability

n...@cam.ac.uk wrote: > I am interested in surveying people who want to interoperate between > Fortran and Python to find out what they would like to be able to do > more conveniently, especially with regard to types not supported for C > interoperability by the current Fortran standard. Any sugge

Re: Numeric literals in other than base 10 - was Annoying octal notation

I had an objection to using spaces in numeric literals last time around and it still stands, and it still stands in the new one. What happens if you use a literal like 0x10f 304? Is 304 treated as decimal or hexadecimal? It's not clear how you would begin to combine it The way string concatena

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Re: Python/Fortran interoperability

On 23 Aug, 12:35, n...@cam.ac.uk wrote: > I am interested in surveying people who want to interoperate between > Fortran and Python to find out what they would like to be able to do > more conveniently, especially with regard to types not supported for C > interoperability by the current Fortran s

Re: Is Python what I need?

newbie wrote: > I'm interested in developing computer based, interactive programs for > students in a special school who have an aversion to pen and paper. > I've searched the net to find ready made software that will meet my > needs but it is either written to a level much higher than these > stu

Re: Trying To Catch Invalid User Input

Victor Subervi wrote: Hi; I have the following: style = raw_input('What style is this? (1 = short, 2 = long): ') flag = 0 while flag == 0: if (style != 1) or (style != 2): style = raw_input('There was a mistake. What style is this? (1 = short, 2 = long): ') else: flag = 1 I would

Re: Trying To Catch Invalid User Input

Victor Subervi wrote: Hi; I have the following: style = raw_input('What style is this? (1 = short, 2 = long): ') flag = 0 while flag == 0: if (style != 1) or (style != 2): style = raw_input('There was a mistake. What style is this? (1 = short, 2 = long): ') else: flag = 1 I would

Re: Is Python what I need?

On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, newbie wrote: > Hi all > I'm interested in developing computer based, interactive programs for > students in a special school who have an aversion to pen and paper. > I've searched the net to find ready made software that will meet my > needs but it is either written to a leve

Re: Numeric literals in other than base 10 - was Annoying octal notation

wrote in message news:h6r4fb$18...@aioe.org... In comp.lang.python James Harris wrote: On 22 Aug, 10:27, David <71da...@libero.it> wrote: ... What about 2_1011, 8_7621, 16_c26h or 2;1011, 8;7621, 16;c26h ? They look good - which is important. The trouble (for me) is that I want the not

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Re: Trying To Catch Invalid User Input

On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 16:36 +0100, MRAB wrote: > Victor Subervi wrote: > > Hi; > > I have the following: > > > > style = raw_input('What style is this? (1 = short, 2 = long): ') > > flag = 0 > > while flag == 0: > > if (style != 1) or (style != 2): > > style = raw_input('There was a mistake.

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In article , Rami Chowdhury wrote: > >> Most indian languages have a different >> grammer (compared to English). So i'm curious to see how that would be >> implemented in a parser > >+1 -- I'd be interested in seeing this too, although we have drifted >OT here and perhaps this conversation woul

Re: conditional for-statement

Hi, i was wondering if there is a syntax alike: for i in range(10) if i > 5: print i You can write for i in filter(lambda i: i > 5, range(10)): print i but for i in range(10): if i > 5: print i it' better readable, and for i in range(6,10): print i it's e

Re: Trying To Catch Invalid User Input

Really slick! Thanks! V On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 16:36 +0100, MRAB wrote: > > Victor Subervi wrote: > > > Hi; > > > I have the following: > > > > > > style = raw_input('What style is this? (1 = short, 2 = long): ') > > > flag = 0 > > > while

Re: can python make web applications?

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Re: Python/Fortran interoperability

["Followup-To:" header set to comp.lang.fortran.] On 2009-08-23, n...@cam.ac.uk wrote: > > I am interested in surveying people who want to interoperate between > Fortran and Python to find out what they would like to be able to do > more conveniently, especially with regard to types not supported

Re: Most "active" coroutine library project?

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Re: Annoying octal notation

On 21 Aug, 00:59, James Harris wrote: ... > > Is there some magic to make the 2.x CPython interpreter to ignore the > > annoying octal notation? > > I'd really like 012 to be "12" and not "10". > > This is (IMHO) a sad hangover from C (which took it from B ... This seemed worth writing up so I'

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Re: Python/Fortran interoperability

In article , JB wrote: >["Followup-To:" header set to comp.lang.fortran.] Sorry - set back again, because you don't provide an Email address, and there's a significant issue. Thanks for the response. >> 1) Do you want to use character strings of arbitrary length? > >As in, a signed C int (

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Re: Combining python and perl

On Aug 23, 8:00 am, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 05:37 -0700, Peng Yu wrote: > > Hi, > > > According tohttp://www.python.org/doc/essays/comparisons.html, it > > says > > > "Python and Perl come from a similar background (Unix scripting, which > > both have long outgrown), and spor

Re: Is python faster than java?

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Re: web frameworks that support Python 3

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Re: Combining python and perl

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Re: conditional for-statement

On Aug 23, 6:18 pm, John Posner wrote: > >> Hi, > > >> i was wondering if there is a syntax alike: > > >> for i in range(10) if i > 5: > >>     print i > > > You can write > > > for i in filter(lambda i: i > 5, range(10)): > >     print i > > > but > > > for i in range(10): > >     if i > 5: > >  

Re: web frameworks that support Python 3

David Prager Branner wrote: > I use Chinese and therefore Unicode very heavily, and so Python 3 is > an unavoidable choice for me. As others noted before, this statement is not true by itself. > But I'm frustrated by the fact that > Django, Pylons, and TurboGears do not support Python 3 yet and

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Re: conditional for-statement

On Aug 23, 10:36 pm, seb wrote: > On Aug 23, 6:18 pm, John Posner wrote: > > > > > > > >> Hi, > > > >> i was wondering if there is a syntax alike: > > > >> for i in range(10) if i > 5: > > >>     print i > > > > You can write > > > > for i in filter(lambda i: i > 5, range(10)): > > >     print i

Re: Numeric literals in other than base 10 - was Annoying octal notation

On 23 Aug, 04:38, c...@tiac.net (Richard Harter) wrote: > On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 14:54:41 -0700 (PDT), James Harris > > > > > > wrote: > >On 22 Aug, 10:27, David <71da...@libero.it> wrote: > > >... (snipped a discussion on languages and other systems interpreting > >numbers with a leading zero as oct

Re: conditional for-statement

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 1:36 PM, seb wrote: > On Aug 23, 6:18 pm, John Posner wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> i was wondering if there is a syntax alike: >> >> >> for i in range(10) if i > 5: >> >>     print i >> >> > You can write >> >> > for i in filter(lambda i: i > 5, range(10)): >> >     print i >>

Re: Numeric literals in other than base 10 - was Annoying octal notation

On 23 Aug, 00:16, Mel wrote: > James Harris wrote: > > I have no idea why Ada which uses the # also apparently uses it to end > > a number > > >   2#1011#, 8#7621#, 16#c26b# > > Interesting.  They do it because of this example from >

Re: Numeric literals in other than base 10 - was Annoying octal notation

On 23 Aug, 21:55, James Harris wrote: ... > >  However for floating point you > > need at least three letters because a floating point number has > > three parts: the fixed point point, the exponent base, and the > > exponent.  Now we can represent the radices of the individual > > parts with th

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What is the recommended library for xml parsing?

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Re: conditional for-statement

seb wrote: > On Aug 23, 6:18 pm, John Posner wrote: [ ... ] >> How about using a generator expression instead of a list? >> >> for i in (x for x in range(10) if x > 5): >> print i >> >> -John > > Indeed, but we could have the same syntax than for generators but > directly in the for statement as

Re: Numeric literals in other than base 10 - was Annoying octal notation

James Harris wrote: On 23 Aug, 00:16, Mel wrote: James Harris wrote: I have no idea why Ada which uses the # also apparently uses it to end a number 2#1011#, 8#7621#, 16#c26b# Interesting. They do it because of this example from

Re: Numeric literals in other than base 10 - was Annoying octal notation

James Harris wrote:... Another option: 0.(2:1011), 0.(8:7621), 0.(16:c26b) where the three characters "0.(" begin the sequence. Comments? Improvements? I did a little interpreter where non-base 10 numbers (up to base 36) were: .7.100 == 64 (octal) .9.100 == 100 (decimal)

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Re: Numeric literals in other than base 10 - was Annoying octal notation

"Scott David Daniels" wrote in message news:kn2dnszr5b0bwazxnz2dnuvz_s-dn...@pdx.net... James Harris wrote:... Another option: 0.(2:1011), 0.(8:7621), 0.(16:c26b) where the three characters "0.(" begin the sequence. Comments? Improvements? I did a little interpreter where non-base 10 n

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Re: Python/Fortran interoperability

On 23 Aug, 20:42, n...@cam.ac.uk wrote: > That is precisely what I am investigating.  TR 29113 falls a LONG > way before it gets to any of the OOP data - indeed, you can't even > pass OOP derived types as pure data (without even the functionality) > in its model.  Nor most of what else Python woul

Newbie: list comprehension troubles..

Hi, I'm trying to replace this... # this works but there must be a more pythonic way, right? tlist = [] for obj in self.objs: t = obj.intersect(ray) if (t != None): tlist.append((obj,t)) with a list comprehension- can it be done? Wh

Re: Newbie: list comprehension troubles..

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 4:27 PM, mm wrote: > Hi, I'm trying to replace this... > >        # this works but there must be a more pythonic way, right? >        tlist = [] >        for obj in self.objs: >            t = obj.intersect(ray) >            if (t != None): >                tlist.append((obj

Re: Python/Fortran interoperability

On 24 Aug, 00:02, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: >         That's a C language problem -- since a string in C is just an array > of character. The last FORTRAN dialect (and implementation) I used > passed strings On 24 Aug, 00:02, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > values -- FORTRAN strings were typically s

Re: Newbie: list comprehension troubles..

Chris Rebert wrote: On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 4:27 PM, mm wrote: Hi, I'm trying to replace this... # this works but there must be a more pythonic way, right? 'Pythonic' is readable, if nothing else tlist = [] for obj in self.objs: t = obj.intersect(ray)

Re: Python/Fortran interoperability

On 24 Aug, 01:59, sturlamolden wrote: > subroutine foobar(cstr) bind(c, name='foobar') >     use, intrinsic :: iso_c_binding >     type(c_ptr) :: cstr >     character(*), pointer :: fstr >     call c_f_pointer(cptr, fptr) > Which means that you can write a wrapper in Fortran callable from C, tha

Re: Newbie: list comprehension troubles..

Chris Rebert writes: > tlist = [pair for pair in ((obj, obj.intersect(ray)) for obj in > self.objs) if pair[1] is not None] > > Should it be done? Probably not. [Compared to a ‘for’ suite with an > ‘if’ suite, it's] less readable and less efficient. I disagree on the “less efficient”, unless you

Protecting against callbacks queuing up?

Hello I'm using Python for S60 1.9.7 on my Nokia phone. I've made a program that gets input from an accelerometer sensor, and then calculates some stuff and displays the result. The sensor framework API does a callback to a function defined by me, every time new data is available. The prob

Re: Need cleanup advice for multiline string

On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:52:16 +0200, Stefan Behnel wrote: > Simon Brunning wrote: >> 2009/8/11 Robert Dailey: >>> On Aug 11, 3:40 pm, Bearophile wrote: There are gals too here. >>> It's a figure of speech. And besides, why would I want programming >>> advice from a woman? lol. Thanks for the h

Re: Protecting against callbacks queuing up?

Esben von Buchwald wrote: Hello I'm using Python for S60 1.9.7 on my Nokia phone. I've made a program that gets input from an accelerometer sensor, and then calculates some stuff and displays the result. The sensor framework API does a callback to a function defined by me, every time new da

Re: Python/Fortran interoperability

On 24 Aug, 02:26, nos...@see.signature (Richard Maine) wrote: > You missed the word "OOP", which seemed like the whole point. Not that > the particular word is used in the Fortran standard, but it isn't hard > to guess that he means a derived type that uses some of the OOP > features. Inheritance,

Re: install package in a particular python version

On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:53:18 -0700 (PDT), Steve1234 wrote: > Benjamin suggested: > sudo python2.5 setup.py install > and it works. This makes sense, thanks. > > I downloaded pythonpkgmgr from source and installed it. I got the > error that reguired wx package was missing. I couldn't find this

Re: Newbie: list comprehension troubles..

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > Chris Rebert writes: > >> tlist = [pair for pair in ((obj, obj.intersect(ray)) for obj in >> self.objs) if pair[1] is not None] >> >> Should it be done? Probably not. [Compared to a ‘for’ suite with an >> ‘if’ suite, it's] less readable and less

Re: Python/Fortran interoperability

sturlamolden wrote: > On 24 Aug, 02:26, nos...@see.signature (Richard Maine) wrote: > > > You missed the word "OOP", which seemed like the whole point. Not that > > the particular word is used in the Fortran standard, but it isn't hard > > to guess that he means a derived type that uses some of

Re: Numeric literals in other than base 10 - was Annoying octal notation

"bartc" wrote: > > "Scott David Daniels" wrote in message > news:kn2dnszr5b0bwazxnz2dnuvz_s-dn...@pdx.net... >> James Harris wrote:... >>> Another option: > > It can be assumed however that .9. isn't in binary? > > That's a neat idea. But an even simpler scheme might be: > > .octal.100 > .d

Re: What is the recommended library for xml parsing?

+1 ::results:: Cheers, Peter Petrelli On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:59 AM, Chris Rebert wrote: > On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Raimond Garcia > wrote: > > Is there a good build in library or should I use a third party one? > > xml.etree.ElementTree: > http://docs.python.org/library/xml.etre

Re: Python/Fortran interoperability

On 24 Aug, 01:59, sturlamolden wrote: > subroutine foobar(cstr) bind(c, name='foobar') >     use, intrinsic :: iso_c_binding >     type(c_ptr) :: cstr >     character(*), pointer :: fstr >     call c_f_pointer(cptr, fptr) Actually, this does not work, as it is illegal to create a pointer to a ch

Re: IOError: [Errno 22] invalid mode ('wb') or filename: in windows xp while making tarfile

John Machin wrote: Erik Max Francis alcyone.com> writes: Ryniek90 wrote: Is its the '|\U' literal fault in path '|C:\\Users\\Ryniek's WinSe7en\\MyNewGGBackup(2009-08-23 14:59:02).tar.bz2|' ? What is "the '|\U' literal fault" ??? It's probably a misleading error from

Re: Python/Fortran interoperability

On 24 Aug, 02:57, nos...@see.signature (Richard Maine) wrote: > Yes, it is no surprise that the C interop stuff fails to address this, > since it isn't in C. Something different/extra would be needed, which is > exactly what Nick said. I'm going to jump out of the middle of this now. > The only re

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