On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 1:03 AM, brasse wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Is there any way that I can get at all the arguments passed to a
> function as a map without using keyword arguments?
>
> def foo(a, b, c):
># Can I access all the arguments in a collection somewhere?
You can use positional arguments
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 1:34 AM, brasse wrote:
> On Jan 26, 10:11 am, Chris Rebert wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 1:03 AM, brasse wrote:
>> > Hello!
>>
>> > Is there any way that I can get at all the arguments passed to a
>> > function as a map wi
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 8:11 AM, loial wrote:
> I am trying to learn about web services and how to interface with a
> 3rd party web service from python.
>
> Can anyone point me at an idiots guide/tutorial for someone who is new
> to web services?
The XML-RPC client module in the std lib (xmlrpcli
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Christian Heimes wrote:
> Hendrik van Rooyen schrieb:
>> It starts with the conspiracy of silence at the interactive prompt:
>>
>> Python 2.4.3 (#69, Mar 29 2006, 17:35:34) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on
>> win32
>> Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for m
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Reckoner wrote:
> I'm not sure this is possible, but I would like to have
> a list of objects
>
> A=[a,b,c,d,...,z]
>
> where, in the midst of a lot of processing I might do something like,
>
> A[0].do_something_which_changes_the_properties()
>
> which alter the
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 1:08 AM, M Kumar wrote:
> is python a pure objected oriented language?
Firstly:
(A) Replying to Digests rather than individual posts is very discouraged.
(B) The proper way to start a new thread by emailing
python-list@python.org (as it says in the very header of the diges
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 2:01 AM, M Kumar wrote:
> Object oriented languages doesn't allow execution of the code without class
> objects, what is actually happening when we execute some piece of code, is
> it bound to any class?
That's not really the standard definition of object-oriented (c.f.
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Alan G Isaac wrote:
> 1. I seem not to understand something obvious at
> http://docs.python.org/3.0/reference/expressions.html#slicings
> (I assume I'm just not reading this right.)
> What is an example of a slicing using a "slice_list"?
There's nothing in the st
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Oleksiy Khilkevich
wrote:
> Hello, everyone,
> This may be a totally noob question, but since I am one, so here is it.
>
> I have the following code (not something much of):
> http://paste.debian.net/27204
> The current code runs well, but the problem is with input
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 02:25:57 -0800, Chris Rebert wrote:
>
>> In addition to methods, Python has functions, which are not associated
>> with a class
>
> Yes they are.
>
>>>> (lambda: None).__c
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Hung Vo wrote:
> I'm new to Python and also wondering about OOP in Python.
>
> I want to justify the above question (is Python Object-Oriented?).
> Does Python follow the concepts/practices of Encapsulation,
> Polymorphism and Interface, which are quite familiar t
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:25 PM, alex23 wrote:
> On Jan 30, 4:15 pm, Chris Rebert wrote:
>> - Python does not support interfaces in the Java sense (although there
>> are a few third-party libraries that add such support); neither does
>> Smalltalk. Instead, both Smalltal
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 4:27 AM, Hongyi Zhao wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Suppose I've the entries like the following in my file:
>
> --
> 116.52.155.237:80
> ip-72-55-191-6.static.privatedns.com:3128
> 222.124.135.40:80
> 217.151.231.34:3128
> 202.106.121.134:80
> 211.161.197.182:80
> hpc
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:31 PM, Brendan Miller wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> If I:
>
> import sys
>
> sys = sys.version
>
> This executes find but:
>
> import sys
>
> def f():
>sys = sys.version
>
> This gives an error indicating that the sys on the right hand
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 3:22 AM, Hussein B wrote:
> Hey,
> I have a log file that doesn't contain the word "Haskell" at all, I'm
> just trying to do a little performance comparison:
> ++
> from datetime import time, timedelta, datetime
> start = datetime.now()
> print start
> lines = [l
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 9:08 AM, wrote:
> On Jan 30, 12:15 am, Chris Rebert wrote:
>> - Python supports encapsulation. Prefixing an attribute/method with an
>> underscore indicates that other programmers should treat it as
>> 'private'. However, unlike B&D la
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Stef Mientki wrote:
> hello,
>
> Until now I used a simple wrapper around pysqlite and pyodbc to manage my
> databases.
> Now I'm looking for a better solution,
> because I've to support a (for this moment) unknown database,
> and I'm not the one who will choose the
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Vincent Davis wrote:
> Z=[[x for y in range(1,2) if AList[x]==y] for x in range(0,5)]
> I am not sure how to ask this but which "for" is looped first? I could
> test but was wondering if there was a nice explanation I could apply
> to future situations.
The outer
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 6:31 PM, LX wrote:
> This one has me mystified good!
>
> This works (print statement is executed as the Exception is caught) as
> advertised:
>try:
>raise AssertionError
>except AssertionError:
>print "caught AssertionError"
>
>
> But this one does no
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 7:35 PM, JuanPablo wrote:
> hi,
> I have a newbie question.
> In bash is posible call other program, send and recieve message with this.
>
> example:
> $ python > output << EOF
>> print "hello world"
>> EOF
> $ cat output
> hello world
>
> in python exist some similar ?
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Eric wrote:
> This is my first post, so please advise if I'm not using proper
> etiquette. I've actually searched around a bit and while I think I can
> do this, I can't think of a clean elegant way. I'm pretty new to
> Python, but from what I've learned so far is t
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 11:41 PM, wrote:
> hi
>I have to create a yaml file using my list of objects.shall i need to
> create a string using my objects and then load and dump that string or
> is there any other way to create the yaml file.
>
> i want a yaml file to be created from [Text, Autho
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 11:52 PM, wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Here is a sample piece of code with which I am having a problem, with
> Python version 2.4.4
>
> class Person:
>Count = 0 # This represents the count of objects of this class
>
>def __init__(self, name):
>self.name = name
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 1:29 AM, S.Selvam Siva wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have a small query,
> Consider there is a task A which i want to perform.
>
> To perform it ,i have two option.
> 1)Writing a small piece of code(approx. 50 lines) as efficient as possible.
> 2)import a suitable module to perform t
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Robert D.M. Smith
wrote:
> I have a question on global variables and how to use them. I have 2 files;
> a.py & b.py
>
> # a.py -
>
> myvar = { 'test' : '123' }
>
> # ---
> # b.py -
>
> from a import myvar
>
> def test():
> a.myvar = { 'blah' : '45
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Ferdinand Sousa
wrote:
> Hi
>
> Some weeks back I had been following the thread "Why can't assign to
> function call". Today, I saw the "function scope" thread, and decided I
> should ask about the behaviour below:
>
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 1:22 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> using e.g.
> import subprocess
> Package='app-arch/lzma-utils'
> EQ=subprocess.Popen(['/usr/bin/equery','depends',Package],stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
> EQ_output= EQ.communicate()[0]
>
> EQ_output is a string containing multiple lines.
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 5:02 PM, todp...@hotmail.com wrote:
> Using while loop and if statement, I'm trying to get Python to tell me
> whether there are even or odd number of 1's in a binary representation.
> For example, if I give Python a 0111, then I want it to say that the
> binary represen
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Muddy Coder wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Using urllib2 can trigger CGI script in server side. However, I
> encountered a problem of the so-called smart link. When a fairly large
> site, the server needs to track the identifier of each request from
> client, so it generated
A "byte" is *not* a Python type. My question was what *Python type*
(i.e. bytes (which is distinctly different from the abstract notion of
a byte), str/unicode, int, etc...) you were using for you "binary
representation", which you still haven't answered.
Also, please don't reply by top-posting
(ht
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Nick Matzke wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> So I have an interesting challenge. I want to compare two book chapters,
> which I have in plain text format, and find out (a) percentage similarity
> and (b) what has changed.
>
> Some features make this problem different than what
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 1:08 AM, Nick Matzke wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> So, I can run this in the ipython shell just fine:
>
> ===
> a = ["12", "15", "16", "38.2"]
> dim = int(sqrt(size(a)))
sqrt() is not a builtin function, it's located in the 'math' module.
You must have imported it at some po
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 3:40 AM, S.Selvam Siva wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I tried to do a string replace as follows,
>
s="hi & people"
s.replace("&","\&")
> 'hi \\& people'
>
> but i was expecting 'hi \& people'.I dont know ,what is something different
> here with escape sequence.
The Pyt
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:58 AM, Simon Mullis wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I've written a simple python script that accepts both stdin and a glob (or
> at least, that is the plan).
> Unfortunately, the glob part seems to hang when it's looped through to the
> end of the filehandle.
>
> And I have no idea wh
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 6:00 AM, Youri Lammers
wrote:
> Ok,
>
> I want to run a program called 'muscle' with my python script,
> muscle uses the following command:
> 'muscle.exe -in filename -out filename'
> so far I got:
>
> import os
> args = ['-in filename', '-out filename']
As Christian indire
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Vincent Davis wrote:
> Is it correct that if I want to return multiple objects from a function I
> need to in some way combine them?
> def test1():
> a = [1,3,5,7]
> b = [2,4,6,8]
> c=[a,b]
>return a, b # this does not work?
>return [a, b] # does
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:52 PM, agile wrote:
> Explain ADO and RDO
Take 5 seconds to Google them and find their Wikipedia pages:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Data_Objects
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActiveX_Data_Objects
Apparently they're 2 Microsoft technology acronyms -- and they're
**
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 3:03 AM, Ken Elkabany wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am attempting to fully-simulate an 'int' object with a custom object type.
> It is part of a library I am creating for python futures and promises. Is
> there anyway such that type(my_object) can return ? Or for that
> matter, any
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 1:49 AM, Kalyankumar Ramaseshan
wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Excuse me if this is a repeat question!
>
> I just wanted to know how are strings represented in python?
>
> I need to know in terms of:
>
> a) Strings are stored as UTF-16 (LE/BE) or UTF-32 characters?
IIRC, Depends on wha
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 10:50 AM, r0g wrote:
> Hi There,
>
> I have a function that uses *args to accept a variable number of
> parameters and I would like it to return a variable number of objects.
>
> I could return a list but I would like to take advantage of tuple
> unpacking with the return va
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 7:18 PM, er wrote:
> Somebody much more intelligent than I said today that someone told him that
> Python lists are just dictionaries with lists hashed by integers. Since he
> said that someone else told him this, I piped up and said that I thought
> that wasn't true. I lo
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Chris Rebert wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 7:18 PM, er wrote:
>> > Somebody much more intelligent than I said today that someone told him
>> > that
>> > Python lists are just dictionaries with lists hashed by integers.
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Ron Garret wrote:
> Is there any? Where is it? Extensive Googling has proven fruitless.
It's not a standard Python exception. A third-party library you're
using must be raising it. Check the exception traceback.
Cheers,
Chris
--
Follow the path of the Iguana.
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 4:46 AM, wrote:
> If I want to convert a single date format I can do:
>
> import datetime, dateutil.parser
> d = dateutil.parser.parse('2008-09-26)
> print d.strftime('%A %d, %b %y' )
>
> but if I want convert a long list of time how can do it in the fastest
> way?
> for ex
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 10:42 AM, J wrote:
> What are your thoughts on this module I created?
* You should probably use individual docstrings for each function
rather than one giant module docstring
* Don't use 'list' as a variable name; it shadows the name of the
builtin list type
* You can use t
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Paul McGuire wrote:
> On Feb 8, 12:42 pm, J wrote:
>> What are your thoughts on this module I created?
>>
> Here are a few steps to illustrate some good basic Python idioms worth
> learning:
>
> Step 1: Replace many-branched if-elif with dict
>
> While translating
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 2:45 PM, J wrote:
> Thanks for your answers, especially Chris Rebert and Paul McGuire's. I
> have a question:
> How far does Python go in the Game Development field? (Using Python
> only, no extensions)
You pretty much need to integrate with some C(++) l
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 2:03 AM, Joel Ross wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have this piece of code:
> #
>
> wordList = "/tmp/Wordlist"
> file = open(wordList, 'r+b')
Why are you opening the file in binary mode? It's content is text!
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Oltmans wrote:
> Here is the scenario:
>
> It's a command line program. I ask user for a input string. Based on
> that input string I retrieve text from a text file. My text file looks
> like following
>
> Text-file:
> -
> AbcManager=C:\source\code\Modul
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Lionel wrote:
> On Feb 9, 4:04 pm, Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:
>> On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 15:20:05 -0800 (PST), Lionel
>> wrote:
>> >Hello. I've been scouring the web looking for something to clear up a
>> >little confusion about the use of "super()" but haven't found
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 10:28 PM, oyster wrote:
> I mean this
> [code]
> def fib(n):
>if n<=1:
>return 1
>return fib(n-1)+fib(n-2)
>
> useCore(1)
> timeit(fib(500)) #this show 20 seconds
>
> useCore(2)
> timeit(fib(500)) #this show 10 seconds
> [/code]
>
> Is it possible?
>
> and mo
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:13 PM, Frank Potter wrote:
> I have a xxx.py which has code as below:
>
> import string
>
> print dir(string)
> print string.printable
>
>
> when I run it, I got the strange error:
>
> "\n"
> "\n"
> "##result##\n"
> "##msg##\n"
> "##pass_no##\n"
> "##pot_num##\n"
> "##pot
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:45 AM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:18:23 +1000, Gerhard Weis wrote:
>
>> Once I have seen Haskell code, that ran fibonacci on a 4 core system.
>>
>> The algorithm itself basically used an extra granularity paramet until
>> which new threads will be sp
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Josh Dukes wrote:
> quite simply...what???
>
> In [108]: bool([ x for x in range(10) if False ])
> Out[108]: False
This evaluates the list comprehension and creates an empty list, which
is considered boolean False by Python.
> In [109]: bool( x for x in range(10
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 8:42 AM, wrote:
> let's assume I (almost) have and extension available as a C file and
> the setup.py and I want to generate from this single c file 2 .so
> files using
>
> cc -DOPTION1 x.c to produce x_1.so
> cc -DOPTION2 x.c to produce x_2.so
>
> and at runtime depending
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Muddy Coder wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I want to use a Button to trigger askopenfilename() dialog, then I can
> select a file. My short code is below:
>
>
> def select_file():
>filenam = askopenfilename(title='Get the file:')
> return filenam
>
> root =
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:50:02 -0800, Josh Dukes wrote:
>
>> The thing I don't understand is why a generator that has no iterable
>> values is different from an empty list.
>
> How do you know it has no iterable values until you call next() o
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Tim Chase
> wrote:
I would like to open the csv file with folowwing command,
file=archive.open("CHAVI_MACS_SC_A__AUG_25_08_FinalReport_090812.csv","r")
But it turned out error,
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1,
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 1:44 PM, kylin wrote:
> I want to remove all the punctuation and no need words form a string
> datasets for experiment.
>
> I am new to python, please give me some clue and direction to write
> this code.
The `replace` method of strings should get you pretty far (just
repla
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:04 AM, Lorenzo Di Gregorio
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I thought that I could zero-pad a floating point number in 'print' by
> inserting a zero after '%', but this does not work.
>
> I get:
>
> print '%2.2F' % 3.5
> 3.50
> print '%02.2F' % 3.5
> 3.50
>
> How can I get print (in a
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 7:43 AM, Siva Subramanian
wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am new on this list and computer programming
>
> I have two distinct statistical files (both csv)
>
> 1. Report_2_5 – this is a report dump containing over a 10 million
> records and is different every day
>
> 2.
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Sebastian wrote:
> I have a question from the pyar list that may have been discussed on this
> list, but i didn't catch it.
> Have some common objects been somewhat hardcoded into python, like some
> integers as shown in the examples below? What other object have
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
> I looked though the os.path manual. I don't find a function that can
> test if a path is in a directory or its sub-directory (recursively).
>
> For example, /a/b/c/d is in /a its sub-directory (recursively). Could
> somebody let me know if such func
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
> Suppose I have a list of strings, A. I want to compute the list (call
> it B) of strings that are elements of A but doesn't match a regex. I
> could use a for loop to do so. In a functional language, there is way
> to do so without using the for loo
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Chris Rebert wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
>>> Suppose I have a list of strings, A. I want to compute the list (call
>>> it B) of strings that are elements of
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 10:49 PM, Gabriel Genellina
wrote:
> En Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:53:14 -0300, Chris Rebert
> escribió:
>> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
>>> I looked though the os.path manual. I don't find a function that can
>>> test if
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 1:56 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> i'm sure there's a painfully obvious answer to this, but is there a
> reason i can't do:
>
help(import)
> File "", line 1
> help(import)
> ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>
> on the other hand, i can certainly g
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Ray Holt wrote:
> Can you comment and uncomment code from the shell. I know that the format
> meny only shows in the edit window. I tried crtl + 3, which is what it said
> in the configuration window to use, and nothing happens.
I'm assuming by "the shell" you mean
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Moses wrote:
> I have written a script in python to plot a graph. However, the
> range for the x-axis starts from 0.5 to 1.0. However, I would like
> to start from 0 to 1. Any pointer to this shall be appreciated.
Some /very/ basic information such as what plotting
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 3:25 AM, Hugo Léveillé
wrote:
> By default, a boolean knob has the text label on the right. How can I make
> it on the left?
We're not mind readers. We'll need to know which GUI toolkit you're using.
Cheers,
Chris
--
http://blog.rebertia.com
--
http://mail.python.org/mai
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Eduardo Lenz wrote:
> Em Qua 11 Nov 2009, às 03:21:55, Diez B. Roggisch escreveu:
>> Richard Purdie schrieb:
>> > I've been having problems with an unexpected exception from python which
>> > I can summarise with the following testcase:
>> >
>> > def A():
>> >
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 4:16 AM, Daniel Jowett wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm trying to categorize items in a list, by copying them into a
> dictionary...
> A simple example with strings doesn't seem to work how I'd expect:
>
basket = ['apple', 'orange', 'apple', 'pear', 'orange', 'banana']
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 4:49 AM, 7stud wrote:
> I'm trying to install lxml, but I can't figure out the installation
> instructions. Here:
>
> http://codespeak.net/lxml/installation.html
>
> it says:
>
> 1) Get the easy_install tool.
> My os is mac os x 10.4.11.
I would recommend installing fink
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 4:37 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> Is there a way to make the "global x" apply to all functions without
> adding it to each one?
Thankfully, no.
> What I'm trying to do is to avoid having "import X" statements
> everywhere by changing __builtin__. It seems my approach does
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 1:59 AM, ankita dutta wrote:
> hi all,
>
> i have a file of 3x3 matrix of decimal numbers(tab separated). like this :
>
> 0.02 0.38 0.01
> 0.04 0.32 0.00
> 0.03 0.40 0.02
>
> now i want to read 1 row and get the sum of a particular row. but when i am
> try
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 7:10 AM, Peng Yu wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 12:00 AM, alex23 wrote:
>> On Nov 12, 2:46 pm, Peng Yu wrote:
>>> I see Error is derived from EnvironmentError in shutil.py.
>>>
>>> class Error(EnvironmentError):
>>> pass
>>>
>>> I'm wondering why EnvironmentError ca
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:26 AM, King wrote:
>> Why is it easier than the above mentioned - they are *there* (except the
>> custom xml), and just can be used. What don't they do you want to do?
>>
>> Other than that, and even security issues put aside, I don't see much
>> difference between pickl
> Quoting MRAB :
>> Yasser Almeida Hernández wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all!!
>>>
>>> I'm writing a script where i call a external program which receive some
>>> arguments.
>>> One of this arguments is stored in a variable, that is passed as
>>> argument as well:
>>>
>>> import os
>>> ...
>>> f = open(fil
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 3:25 PM, AON LAZIO wrote:
> Hi, I have some problem with object reference
> Say I have this code
>
> a = b = c = None
> slist = [a,b,c]
Values are stored in the list, not references to names. Modifying the
list does not change what values the names a, b, and c have. There
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
> Chris Rebert wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 3:25 PM, AON LAZIO wrote:
>>> Hi, I have some problem with object reference
>>> Say I have this code
>>>
>>> a = b = c = None
>>> sl
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 4:06 AM, Nobody wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:02:29 +0100, Luca Fabbri wrote:
>
>> I'm looking for a way to be able to load a generic file from the
>> system and understand if he is plain text.
>> The mimetype module has some nice methods, but for example it's not
>> work
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 4:50 AM, Kuhl wrote:
> found in my system, so I have to use python instead. However, "import
> subprocess" still failed, see below.
>
> # which python
> /usr/bin/python
> # which ipython
> ipython: Command not found.
> # python
> Python 2.2.3 (#1, Feb 2 2005, 12:22:48)
>
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 6:01 AM, mrholtsr wrote:
> Is there a Python newsgroup for those who are strictly beginners at
> programming and python?
python-tutor:
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Cheers,
Chris
--
http://blog.rebertia.com
--
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pytho
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 6:02 AM, Mr.SpOOn wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to use logical operators (or, and) with the "in" statement,
> but I'm having some problems to understand their behavior.
>
> In [1]: l = ['3', 'no3', 'b3']
>
> In [2]: '3' in l
> Out[2]: True
>
> In [3]: '3' and '4' in l
> Out[3]:
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 6:08 AM, Mr.SpOOn wrote:
> Sorry for replying to myself, but I think I understood why I was wrong.
>
> The correct statement should be something like this:
>
> In [13]: ('b3' and '5') in l or ('3' and 'b3') in l
> Out[13]: True
No, you've just run into another misunderstan
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 6:23 AM, Xavier Ho wrote:
'3' in l and 'no3' in l
> True
>
> AND operator has a higher precedence, so you don't need any brackets here, I
> think. But anyway, you have to use it like that. So that's something you'll
> have to fix first.
Er, you mean lower precedence.
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Steve Ferg
wrote:
> This is a question for the language mavens that I know hang out here.
> It is not Python related, except that recent comparisons of Python to
> Google's new Go language brought it to mind.
>
> NOTE that this is *not* a suggestion to change Pytho
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Virgil Stokes wrote:
> Any suggestions on using Python to connect to Web servers (e.g. to access
> financial time series data)?
In what format? Using what protocol?
(*Insert other basic questions that need answering in order to answer
your question here*)
Cheers
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:36 AM, vsoler wrote:
> On Nov 16, 2:35 am, "Gabriel Genellina"
> wrote:
>> En Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:04:06 -0300, vsoler
>> escribió:
>>
>> > Ever since I installed my Python 2.6 interpreter (I use IDLE), I've
>> > been saving my
>> > *.py files in the C:\Program Files\Py
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:56 AM, vsoler wrote:
> On Nov 16, 8:45 pm, Chris Rebert wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:36 AM, vsoler wrote:
>> > On Nov 16, 2:35 am, "Gabriel Genellina"
>> > wrote:
>> >> En Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:04:06 -0300
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Hyunchul Kim
wrote:
> Hi, all.
>
> I want to improve speed of following simple function.
> Any suggestion?
>
> **
> def triple(inputlist):
> results = []
> for x in inputlist:
> results.extend([x,x,x])
> return results
> **
You'd probably
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:04 PM, King wrote:
> Python's getattr, setattr and __getattribute__ commands works fine
> with python types.
> For example:
> print o.__getattribute__("name")
> print getattr(o, "name")
> This is the easiest way to get an attribute using a string.
>
> In my case the "Nod
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:53 PM, King wrote:
> Writing/Reading data to xml is not a problem. The problem is when I
> have to write to attributes in xml, where a connections has been
> established.
> XML:
> destattribute="node2.gradient.colors[1][2]"/>
You did not include an example like this in
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 2:14 AM, Virgil Stokes wrote:
> If one goes to the following URL:
> http://www.nordea.se/Privat/Spara%2boch%2bplacera/Strukturerade%2bprodukter/Aktieobligation%2bNr%2b99%2bEuropa%2bAlfa/973822.html
>
> it contains a link (click on "Current courses NBD AT99 3113A") to:
> htt
2009/11/16 Yasser Almeida Hernández :
> Hi all..
> Sorry if this question sound elemental.
> How is the sintaxis for set the TODO and FIXME tags...?
There is no special syntax for those. Some people use them in
comments, but it's just a convention.
Cheers,
Chris
--
http://blog.rebertia.com
--
ht
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
> Stefan Behnel wrote:
>> Robert P. J. Day, 15.11.2009 15:44:
>> Now, all that's left to do is write a prime number generator (a random
>> number generator will do, too, but writing a good one isn't easy), run it
>> repeatedly in a loop, and
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Rustom Mody wrote:
> "Language L is (in)efficient. No! Only implementations are (in)efficient"
>
> I am reminded of a personal anecdote. It happened about 20 years ago
> but is still fresh and this thread reminds me of it.
>
> I was attending some workshop on theo
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 7:25 PM, wrote:
> The error I get;
>
> File "myscript.py", Line 18, in ?
> projectpath = ourHome+"/etc/TEMPLATE"
> TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'NoneType' and 'str'
>
> Python 2.4.3
>
> I've read were when passing a string to exec may need to end with a '
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 9:18 PM, alex23 wrote:
>> Peng Yu wrote:
>>> But the document doesn't say shutil need to be imported in order to
>>> use WindowsError. Shall the document or the code be corrected?
>>
>> Neither, it's your understanding tha
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 8:56 PM, ashwini yal wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to run a python script from interactive mode ,but i am not able
> to know how to run it? Is it possible? if yes please let me how to run the
> script?
execfile("/path/to/the/script.py")
or if it's on your sys.path
and does
101 - 200 of 2384 matches
Mail list logo
