Hi,
We're happy to announce release 0.71.4 of Task Coach. This release
fixes a few bugs.
Bugs fixed:
* Opening an old .tsk file with missing e-mail attachments would crash
Task Coach.
* Don't throw exception when showing an (error) message while synchronizing.
* When merging from the same file
HI folks...
i need some suggestion on making graphs. Will this be possible
with normal python setup file or do i need to download add ons for
that..
help me out
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On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 12:29 AM, suku [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
HI folks...
i need some suggestion on making graphs. Will this be possible
with normal python setup file or do i need to download add ons for
that..
Python includes no such module for that in the standard library.
You'll need
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm trying to solve the 9-tile puzzle using as functional an approach
as possible. I've recently finished reading SICP and am deliberately
avoiding easy python-isms for the more convoluted scheme/functional
methods. The following function is trivial to do with for
James Stroud wrote:
def linear_search(array, truth_func, loc=(0,0)):
idx1, idx2 = loc
if idx1 = len(array):
return None
if idx2 = len(array[idx1]):
return linear_search(array, truth_func, (idx1+1, 0))
value = array[idx1][idx2]
tf = truth_func(value)
if tf:
return loc
How can I make a var parm, where the called function can modify
the value of the parameter in the caller?
def f(x):
x = x + 1
n = 1
f(n)
# n should now be 2
Many TIA!!
Mark
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On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 12:54 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How can I make a var parm, where the called function can modify
the value of the parameter in the caller?
Not directly possible or encouraged. You can emulate it by sticking
the value in a container object (e.g. list) though:
def f(x):
suku wrote:
HI folks...
i need some suggestion on making graphs. Will this be possible
with normal python setup file or do i need to download add ons for
that..
help me out
I like pychart. It has the advantage of being pure python and makes very
nice looking plots. You might
John Machin wrote:
Here's the scoop: It's a bug in the newline handling (in io.py, class
IncrementalNewlineDecoder, method decode). It reads text files in 128-
byte chunks. Converting CR LF to \n requires special case handling
when '\r' is detected at the end of the decoded chunk n in case
Rainy wrote:
On Dec 6, 3:40 pm, Stef Mientki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hello,
I want to give a small beep,
for windows there's message-beep,
and there seems to be something like curses ,
but that package seems to be totally broken in P2.5 for windows.
Any other suggestions ?
thanks,
Stef
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 1:27 AM, Stef Mientki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rainy wrote:
On Dec 6, 3:40 pm, Stef Mientki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hello,
I want to give a small beep,
for windows there's message-beep,
and there seems to be something like curses ,
but that package seems to be
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there an easy way to see the number of PyPI packages which have
been ported to Python 3?
Yes: browse all pacakges classified with
Programming Language :: Python :: 3
You can find them at
http://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=browsec=533
It seems that some
On Dec 7, 8:15 pm, Terry Reedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
John Machin wrote:
Here's the scoop: It's a bug in the newline handling (in io.py, class
IncrementalNewlineDecoder, method decode). It reads text files in 128-
byte chunks. Converting CR LF to \n requires special case handling
when
Sorry Dennis,
I don't understand your answer.
I'm not very knowledgable with all the OO vocabulary, but just use OO.
self.a , self.b , self.c are stored in the object and could later be
used by other object-methods.
like
def print_a_b_c(self):
print self,a,self.b,self.c
the name
On Dec 6, 9:35 pm, Carl Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Dec 6, 8:17 pm, Steven D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I don't like cast, because a cast is an instruction to the compiler to
treat data as some type other than what it was defined as.
It doesn't
create a new piece of data. (At least in
Lie wrote:
On Dec 7, 1:02 am, News123 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What would be interesting would be some syntactical sugar to get rid of
the 'self' (at least in the code body).
example:
class C:
class_elements a,b,c,d
def method(self,arg):
global d
a,b,c =
Rasmus Fogh wrote:
Dear All,
For the first time I have come across a Python feature that seems
completely wrong. After the introduction of rich comparisons, equality
comparison does not have to return a truth value, and may indeed return
nothing at all and throw an error instead. As a result,
Any suggestions?
I've happily used Cheetah with Leo (http://webpages.charter.net/
edreamleo/front.html) to organise and script my code generation needs,
but you may also be happy with cog (http://nedbatchelder.com/code/
cog/).
AK
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On Sun, 07 Dec 2008 12:43:13 +0100, News123 wrote:
Sorry Dennis,
I don't understand your answer.
I'm not very knowledgable with all the OO vocabulary, but just use OO.
self.a , self.b , self.c are stored in the object and could later be
used by other object-methods.
In Python
Thanks for your answers,
I'll look at
- Python Programming, for the absolute beginner (second edition by
MichaelDawson.
and at the LiveWires Course: http://www.livewires.org.uk/python/home
I looked at http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/thinkCSpy/ but
think it's not a good choice for a
On Sun, 07 Dec 2008 08:54:46 +, mh wrote:
How can I make a var parm, where the called function can modify the
value of the parameter in the caller?
By using another language.
def f(x):
x = x + 1
n = 1
f(n)
# n should now be 2
Python doesn't work like that. You should read
On Dec 6, 2:29 pm, Guido van Rossum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
So, assuming I now wish to propose a corrective PEP to remedy this
situation for Python 3.1 and beyond, what is the best way to get started
on such a proposal?
Don't bother writing a PEP to make 'as' available as an
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
How can I make a var parm, where the called function can modify
the value of the parameter in the caller?
def f(x):
x = x + 1
n = 1
f(n)
# n should now be 2
Chris showed one way, another is simply returning it. As python can
return ad-hoc created tuples
Robert Kern Wrote:
Terry Reedy wrote:
Rasmus Fogh wrote:
Personally I would like to get these [EMAIL PROTECTED]* misfeatures
removed,
What you are calling a misfeature is an absence, not a presence that
can be removed.
That's not quite true. Rich comparisons explicitly allow non-boolean
On Dec 6, 8:39 pm, Rainy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I got an interrupted system call exception in select and I don't know
what could have caused it. Here's the error:
select.select(inputs, [], [], 9)
error: (4, 'Interrupted system call')
Caught an exception, shutting down...
It's py2.3,
Jamed Stroud Wrote:
Rasmus Fogh wrote:
Dear All,
For the first time I have come across a Python feature that seems
completely wrong. After the introduction of rich comparisons, equality
comparison does not have to return a truth value, and may indeed return
nothing at all and throw an error
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How can I make a var parm, where the called function can modify
the value of the parameter in the caller?
def f(x):
x = x + 1
n = 1
f(n)
# n should now be 2
Many TIA!!
Mark
Why not run it and see?
Your function returns None.
The function in effect takes a
Chris Rebert wrote:
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 1:27 AM, Stef Mientki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rainy wrote:
On Dec 6, 3:40 pm, Stef Mientki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hello,
I want to give a small beep,
for windows there's message-beep,
and there seems to be something like curses ,
Stef Mientki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In the output window (stdout) which is black letters on white background,
it prints bell in white letters with a black background.
What do you mean? And what version dependency are you
referring to?
Well some of you actually hear something,
I
On Dec 6, 9:21 am, News123 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
One of my 'non technical' friends complained about knowing nothing at
all about programming (though using computers regularly for mails / web
browsing / googling and downloading / cropping photos )
He wants to play a little with
Hi ,
I am new to scripting, I am working on script which would create 'n'
number address book entries into a csv file which would be used to
import into a address book. I need suggestions for the same
The fileds for csv file are as follows
Title,First Name,Middle Name,Last
On Dec 7, 2008, at 6:36 AM, Duncan Booth wrote:
Python is just printing the ascii bell character: some environments
will
interpret that as a request to make a beep, some will do things like
flashing the whole screen, others just output a graphic character.
Python
doesn't know what your
Quoting James Stroud [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
First, here is why the ability to throw an error is a feature:
class Apple(object):
def __init__(self, appleness):
self.appleness = appleness
def __cmp__(self, other):
assert isinstance(other, Apple), 'must compare apples to
Sorry, with
import Tkinter
Tkinter.Tk().bell()
you get a new window for the same price...
So it's usefull only when using tkinter
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Arnaud Delobelle wrote:
* you seem to disregard the fact that in 'programming language' there
is the word 'language'. A language is a way to _communicate_
information, in the case of a programming language
On Sun, 07 Dec 2008 13:03:43 +, Rasmus Fogh wrote:
Jamed Stroud Wrote:
...
Second, consider that any value in python also evaluates to a truth
value in boolean context.
But bool(x) can fail too. So not every object in Python can be
interpreted as a truth value.
Third, every function
On Sun, 07 Dec 2008 07:17:30 -0700, Joe Strout wrote:
But invoking the standard system beep is such a basic function that it
ought to be easier than this. I'm pretty sure it's a single OS call on
all platforms. On OS X, for example, it's
void NSBeep(void);
declared in NSGraphics.h.
On Dec 7, 12:40 am, Stef Mientki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hello,
I want to give a small beep,
for windows there's message-beep,
and there seems to be something like curses ,
but that package seems to be totally broken in P2.5 for windows.
Any other suggestions ?
thanks,
Stef Mientki
John Machin schrieb:
He did. Ugly stuff using readline() :-) Should still work, though.
Well, well, I'm a C kinda guy used to while (fgets(b, sizeof(b), f))
kinda loops :-)
But, seriously - I find that whole while True: and if line ==
construct ugly as hell, too. How can reading a file line
I like this one:
http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld/
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On Sun, 07 Dec 2008 16:05:53 +0100
Johannes Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But, seriously - I find that whole while True: and if line ==
construct ugly as hell, too. How can reading a file line by line be
achieved in a more pythonic kind of way?
for line in open(filename):
do stuff with
Erik Max Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[about removing self]
P.S. You're beating a long-dead horse here; your precise proposal has
been brought up countless times on comp.lang.python and shot down
every single time for the same reason. It isn't going to happen.
I guess it's part of the
Python Community
The following is just an idea that I considered that may be helpful in
creating an application in a single archive easier and with less code.
Such an application would be similar to jar files for Java.
First, the application and all data files should be able to run either
On 2008-12-07, suku [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i need some suggestion on making graphs. Will this be possible
with normal python setup file or do i need to download add ons for
that..
gnuplot-py
matplotlib
vtk
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On 2008-12-07, Joe Strout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But invoking the standard system beep
What makes you think there is such a thing as the standard
system beep?
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On Sun, 07 Dec 2008 13:03:43 +, Rasmus Fogh wrote:
Jamed Stroud Wrote:
...
Second, consider that any value in python also evaluates to a truth
value in boolean context.
But bool(x) can fail too. So not every object in Python can be
interpreted as a truth value.
Third, every function
On Sun, 07 Dec 2008 02:49:27 -0500 acerimusdux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not sure though whether allowing both syntaxes would make things
more or less confusing. It might actually be helpful in some respects
for newcomers to realize that self.method(arg) is somewhat the same
as
Brian Allen Vanderburg II [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In addition it is needed to be able to open a file just as easily
whether that file is in the archive or not. Assuming that a datafile in
an application may be located relative to the '__file__' attributes, the
following will not work in
On Sun, 7 Dec 2008 00:29:13 -0800 (PST)
suku [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
HI folks...
i need some suggestion on making graphs. Will this be possible
with normal python setup file or do i need to download add ons for
that..
help me out
rpy
Martin
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Martin It seems that some package authors only classify with
Martin Programming Language :: Python :: 3
I did a release for lockfile yesterday which supports 3.0. I added the
Programming Language :: Python :: 3.0 tag, but
On Sat, 6 Dec 2008 23:21:04 -0800 (PST) Lie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think we have to test this on newbies. [snip]
Now that's talking like a programmer!
Ideas on how such a survey could be conducted? Anyone?
If this dead horse is revived because of that reason, then I'd go with
changing
Xah Lee wrote:
I didn't realize until after a hour, that if Jon simply give numerical
arguments to Main and Create, the result timing by a factor of 0.3 of
original. What a incredible sloppiness! and he intended this to show
Mathematica speed with this code?
The Main[] function calls Create.
On Dec 6, 12:54 pm, king kikapu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
have anyone using this release of NetBeans (6.5 with Python support)
with Python 3 without any problems ? I mean, does it work with Python3
or only with 2.x ?
No-one is using NetBeans for Python development ??
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm trying to solve the 9-tile puzzle using as functional an approach
as possible. I've recently finished reading SICP and am deliberately
avoiding easy python-isms for the more convoluted scheme/functional
methods. The following function is trivial to do with for
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why not use pkgutil.get_data()?
Provided you remember to put your zip file on PYTHONPATH you can already
run modules directly out of a zipfile (Python 2.5 and later).If your
zipfile contains __main__.py then with Python 2.6 or later you can run it
directly: just
On 7 Dec, 09:20, Martin v. Löwis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are there any special arrangements necessary for PyPI packages which
have both a Python 2.x version and a Python 3.x version?
So far, no such need has been identified.
I've had to fork my appscript project's
On Dec 7, 4:23 pm, Rasmus Fogh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If is is possible to change the language, how about having two
diferent functions, one for overloading the '==' operator, and another
for testing list and set membership, dictionary key identity, etc.?
I've often thought that this would
Hi folks,
The story of the explicit self in method definitions has been
discussed to death and we all know it will stay. However, Guido
himself acknowledged that an alternative syntax makes perfect sense
and having both (old and new) in a future version of python is a
possibility since it
I am new to scripting, I am working on script which would create 'n'
number address book entries into a csv file which would be used to
import into a address book. I need suggestions for the same
Please check out the 'csv' module. It comes with Python. Batteries
included. :-)
On Dec 7, 7:49 am, Stef Mientki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Chris Rebert wrote:
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 1:27 AM, Stef Mientki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rainy wrote:
On Dec 6, 3:40 pm, Stef Mientki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hello,
I want to give a small beep,
for windows there's
Daniel Fetchinson a écrit :
(snip)
It doesn't add anything but makes something that exists a bit clearer
Err... I fail to see how magically transforming def self.foo(...) into
def foo(self, ...) makes anything clearer about what really happens and
how Python's object model works.
and
James Stroud wrote:
Hello All,
I subclassed dict and overrode __setitem__. When instances are
unpickled, the __setstate__ is not called before the keys are assigned
via __setitem__ in the unpickling protocol.
I googled a bit and found that this a bug filed in 2003:
On Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:13:18 +0100 Bruno Desthuilliers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
and friendlier to newbies.
I'd rather say more acceptable to java-brainwashed developpers.
Why would you rather be unfriendly and seed ambivalence? I do see the
fun in a little Python snobbism, but ... come on.
News123 a écrit :
Lie wrote:
On Dec 7, 1:02 am, News123 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What would be interesting would be some syntactical sugar to get rid of
the 'self' (at least in the code body).
This has been debated to hell and back. And it's *not* going to happen.
example:
class C:
IMO: breaking backward compatibility is a big deal, and should only be
done when it is seriously needed.
Also, IMO, most of, if not all, of the changes being made in 3.0 are
debatable, at best. I can not think of anything that is being changed
that was really a show stopper anyway.
At best, I am
Daniel Fetchinson a écrit :
Hi folks,
The story of the explicit self in method definitions has been
discussed to death and we all know it will stay. However, Guido
himself acknowledged that an alternative syntax makes perfect sense
and having both (old and new) in a future version of python is
This is a little puzzling.
Using ipython:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Logstuff]$ ipython
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Sep 30 2008, 15:41:38)
Type copyright, credits or license for more information.
[snip ipython help message]
In [1]: import re
This works fine. But with the
The story of the explicit self in method definitions has been
discussed to death and we all know it will stay. However, Guido
himself acknowledged that an alternative syntax makes perfect sense
and having both (old and new) in a future version of python is a
possibility since it maintains
On Sun, 7 Dec 2008 11:22:23 -0800 (PST) walterbyrd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
IMO: breaking backward compatibility is a big deal, and should only be
done when it is seriously needed.
Plze. Python 3 is shipping now, and so is 2.x, where x 5. Python
2 is going to be around for quite some
Andreas Waldenburger schrieb:
This is a little puzzling.
Using ipython:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Logstuff]$ ipython
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Sep 30 2008, 15:41:38)
Type copyright, credits or license for more information.
[snip ipython help message]
In [1]: import re
On Sun, 7 Dec 2008 20:35:53 +0100 Andreas Waldenburger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 7 Dec 2008 11:22:23 -0800 (PST) walterbyrd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At best, I am a casual python user, so it's likely that I am missing
something.
Yes, the big picture.
OK, that was a bit harsh. I
On Sun, 07 Dec 2008 20:36:58 +0100 Diez B. Roggisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andreas Waldenburger schrieb:
This is a little puzzling.
Using ipython:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Logstuff]$ ipython
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Sep 30 2008, 15:41:38)
Type copyright, credits or
Daniel Fetchinson a écrit :
(snip)
Still, improved error messages would be desirable (concerning the
number of arguments passed to an instance method).
Then count me as +2 on this !-)
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I've had to fork my appscript project's codebase in order to add
support for Python 3.x. I would like to distribute both 2.x and 3.x
versions under the same package name for obvious reasons. This isn't a
problem with eggs as the Python version number is included in each
egg's name, but what
On Dec 7, 2008, at 8:48 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2008-12-07, Joe Strout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But invoking the standard system beep
What makes you think there is such a thing as the standard system
beep?
Because OS X (the platform with which I'm most familiar) certainly has
one,
Just found this in the re module's docs:
m = re.match(r(?Pfirst_name\w+) (?Plast_name\w+), Malcom
Reynolds)
Does this represent an attempt to phase out the gratuitous Monty Python
references in favor of gratuitous Firefly references? Because if so,
I'm all for it.
Anyways, stuff like
On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 23:33:35 -0800, 5lvqbwl02 wrote:
I'm trying to solve the 9-tile puzzle using as functional an approach as
possible. I've recently finished reading SICP and am deliberately
avoiding easy python-isms for the more convoluted scheme/functional
methods. The following function
Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
Daniel Fetchinson a écrit :
(snip)
It doesn't add anything but makes something that exists a bit clearer
Err... I fail to see how magically transforming def self.foo(...) into
def foo(self, ...) makes anything clearer about what really happens and
how Python's
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Andreas Waldenburger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just found this in the re module's docs:
m = re.match(r(?Pfirst_name\w+) (?Plast_name\w+), Malcom
Reynolds)
Does this represent an attempt to phase out the gratuitous Monty Python
references in favor of
I have a 12-year-old son who spends too much time playing Xbox live
and watching silly YouTube videos. I would like to try to get him
interested in programming. Is anyone aware of a good book or website
that addresses this concern, preferably (but not necessarily) using
Python? I could try to
On Dec 5, 2008, at 21:21 , Daniel Fetchinson wrote:
The proposal is to allow this:
class C:
def self.method( arg ):
self.value = arg
return self.value
instead of this:
class C:
def method( self, arg ):
self.value = arg
return self.value
I have
On Dec 7, 2008, at 15:13 , Russ P. wrote:
I have a 12-year-old son who spends too much time playing Xbox live
and watching silly YouTube videos. I would like to try to get him
interested in programming. Is anyone aware of a good book or website
check out:
On Sun, 7 Dec 2008 12:13:37 -0800 (PST) Russ P.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a 12-year-old son who spends too much time playing Xbox live
and watching silly YouTube videos. I would like to try to get him
interested in programming. Is anyone aware of a good book or website
that addresses
walterbyrd:
I can not think of anything that is being changed that was really a show
stopper anyway.
I agree, but Python and its culture has a characteristic that not many
other languages share: it tries to be a tidy language, to have one
obvious way to do most things, it values readability
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
ats wrote:
I want to generate 3 different versions of a C++ source code,
basically injecting different flavours of inline assembler depending
on target compiler/CPU.
Are you aware that there are also packages that let you generate and
call C code
On Dec 7, 9:13 pm, Russ P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a 12-year-old son who spends too much time playing Xbox live
and watching silly YouTube videos. I would like to try to get him
interested in programming.
Lot of people learn to program even before age of 12.
But I think it's better for
On Dec 7, 4:13 pm, Russ P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a 12-year-old son who spends too much time playing Xbox live
and watching silly YouTube videos. I would like to try to get him
interested in programming. Is anyone aware of a good book or website
that addresses this concern, preferably
On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 16:34:56 -0800, Erik Max Francis wrote:
`$` as a shortcut for self, on the other hand, gives absolutely no
mnemonic indication what it stands for, and users would be simply left
guessing.
However, $ is sometimes used as an alternative way of writing S̸ (I've
attempted to
On Sun, 07 Dec 2008 20:56:40 GMT I V [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, if we want Python to the programming language of choice for
Lacanian psychoanalysts, perhaps we should adopt the symbol $ (or
even, with Python 3's support for unicode identifiers, S followed by
U+0388) instead of self.
OK, I'm
On Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:40:53 +0100, Stef Mientki wrote:
I want to give a small beep,
for windows there's message-beep,
and there seems to be something like curses ,
but that package seems to be totally broken in P2.5 for windows.
Any other suggestions ?
Many people have suggested sending
Peter Pearson schrieb:
On Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:40:53 +0100, Stef Mientki wrote:
I want to give a small beep,
for windows there's message-beep,
and there seems to be something like curses ,
but that package seems to be totally broken in P2.5 for windows.
Any other suggestions ?
Many people
Have a read of this http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2008/dec/05/python-3000/
It's a response to questions similar to yours by James Bennett
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 7:22 PM, walterbyrd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
IMO: breaking backward compatibility is a big deal, and should only be
done when it is
Rasmus Fogh wrote:
Current behaviour is both inconsistent and counterintuitive, as these
examples show.
x = float('NaN')
x == x
False
Blame IEEE for that one. Rich comparisons have nothing to do with that one.
ll = [x]
x in ll
True
x == ll[0]
False
import numpy
y = numpy.zeros((3,))
2008/12/7 walterbyrd [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
IMO: breaking backward compatibility is a big deal, and should only be
done when it is seriously needed.
Also, IMO, most of, if not all, of the changes being made in 3.0 are
debatable, at best. I can not think of anything that is being changed
that was
Luis Zarrabeitia wrote:
Quoting James Stroud [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
First, here is why the ability to throw an error is a feature:
class Apple(object):
def __init__(self, appleness):
self.appleness = appleness
def __cmp__(self, other):
assert isinstance(other, Apple), 'must
Rasmus Fogh wrote:
Current behaviour is both inconsistent and counterintuitive, as these
examples show.
x = float('NaN')
x == x
False
Perhaps this should raise an exception? I think the problem is not with
comparisons in general but with the fact that nan is type float:
py
Robert Kern wrote:
Terry Reedy wrote:
Rasmus Fogh wrote:
Personally I would like to get these [EMAIL PROTECTED]* misfeatures removed,
What you are calling a misfeature is an absence, not a presence that
can be removed.
That's not quite true.
In what way, pray tell. My statement still
James Stroud wrote:
[cast to bool] for numpy works like a unary ufunc.
Scratch that. Not thinking and typing at same time.
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Rasmus Fogh wrote:
Can anybody see a way this could be fixed (please)? I may well have to
live with it, but I would really prefer not to.
I made a suggestion in my first response, which perhaps you missed.
tjr
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On Dec 8, 2:05 am, Johannes Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
John Machin schrieb:
He did. Ugly stuff using readline() :-) Should still work, though.
Well, well, I'm a C kinda guy used to while (fgets(b, sizeof(b), f))
kinda loops :-)
But, seriously - I find that whole while True: and if
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