Martin MOKREJ¦ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> I have sets.Set() objects having up to 20E20 items,
> just imagine, you want to compare how many words are in English, German,
> Czech, Polish disctionary. You collect words from every language and record
> them in dict or Set, as you wish.
>
>
Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> handle with builtin Python operations without putting some thought
> into algorithms and data structures. From "ribosome" I'm guessing
> you're doing computational biology. If you're going to be writing
Mark Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >>Also, is there a good tool for writing database UIs?
> > Yes, quite a few.
>
> Ah yes, but is there really? For example, I did a search of the TOC of
> GTK+ Reference Manual:
Try looking on freshmeat or sourceforge instead.
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=?windows-1252?Q?Martin_MOKREJ=8A?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Yes, I'm. I still don't get what that acronym CLRS stands for ... :(
CLRS = the names of the authors, Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, and Stein,
if I spelled those correctly. :)
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I need to set up a wiki for a small group. I've played with MoinMoin
a little bit and it's reasonably straightforward to set up, but
limited in capabilities and uses BogusMarkupConventions. I want to
use it anyway because I need something running right away and I don't
want to spend a whole lot o
Brion Vibber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> MediaWiki should run with PHP configured in CGI handler mode, but
> these days mod_php has got its claws just about everywhere anyway. If
> you control your own server and don't have multi-user security
> worries, mod_php is simple enough to install and wi
Torsten Mohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> i'd like to pass a reference or a pointer to an object
> to a function. The function should then change the
> object and the changes should be visible in the calling
> function.
Normally you would pass a class instance or boxed object, and let the
functi
Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Well I for one disagreed with many of your estimates of the zen's
> applicability to macros, but I just couldn't be arsed saying so.
Well, I was being somewhat flip with them, as I felt Carl was being
snotty in referring me to the Zen list. The point the
Alexander Schremmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I need to set up a wiki for a small group. I've played with MoinMoin
> > a little bit and it's reasonably straightforward to set up, but
> > limited in capabilities and uses BogusMarkupConventions.
>
> At which point do you see limitations?
It
Richie Hindle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > [MoinMoin] doesn't have [...] automatic update notification for
> > specific pages of your choice
>
> Yes it does. See http://entrian.com/sbwiki for example - register there
> and you'll see in your preferences "Subscribed wiki pages (one regex per
O
"kpp9c" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> These are analog tapes that were digitized (on to CD or a digital tape)
> that have now been exported as individual files that are meant to be
> part of an on-line audio archive. ...
> I was hoping and
> praying that some one here was feeling generous and show
Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> A few months ago I tried and failed to get squirrelmail/php to run
> with Apache2 and freeBSD 4.9. It seems that php prefers the old style
> apache 1.3 work flow. I got some help from the php guys, but not
> enough. I suppose I could have run a separate a
Alexander Schremmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > It doesn't have features that MW has, like user pages,
>
> It does.
Oops, correct, however, they're not anything like MW's, which are
almost like an internal email system inside the wiki. You can sign
any comment with ~~~ or and it generat
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> 2. One could proposed hygienic pattern-matching macros in Python,
> similar to
> Scheme syntax-rules macros. Again, it is not obvious how to
> implement pattern-matching in Python in a non-butt-ugly way. Plus,
> I feel hygienic macros quite limited and not worth the effo
"Case Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Basically, the program needs to take in a random list of no more than
> 10 letters, and find all possible mutations that match a word in my
> dictionary (80k words). However a wildcard letter '?' is also an
> acceptable character which increases the wor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David M. Cooke) writes:
> >> > lists of incoming links to wiki pages,
> ...
> Most Wiki implementations (MoinMoin included) have this, by using a
> search. Usually, following the original Wiki (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki)
> model, you get at it by clicking on the title of the page.
>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > I can't imagine how it could be worse than the learning curve of
> > __metaclass__, which we already have.
>
> To me, learning macros *and their subtilities* was much more difficult
> than learning metaclasses.
I guess I've only used Lisp macros in pretty straightfor
Alexander Schremmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > How does it do that? It has to scan every page in the entire wiki?!
> > That's totally impractical for a large wiki.
>
> So you want to say that c2 is not a large wiki? :-)
I don't know how big c2 is. My idea of a large wiki is Wikipedia.
My g
Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > How does it do that? It has to scan every page in the entire wiki?!
> > > That's totally impractical for a large wiki.
> >
> > So you want to say that c2 is not a large wiki? :-)
>
> I don&#x
"drs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi, I need to send secure data over an insecure network. To that end, I am
> needing to encrypt serialized data and then decrypt it. Is there a builtin
> way to do this in Python? MD5, SHA, etc encrypt, but I am not seeing a way
> to get back my data.
No, Py
Ian Bicking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> That sounds like you'd be implementing your own filesystem ;)
Yes, this shouldn't be any surprise. Implementing a special purpose
file system what every database essentially does.
> If you are just trying to avoid too many files in a directory, another
>
Ian Bicking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If the data has to be somewhere, and you have to have relatively
> random access to it (i.e., access any page; not necessarily a chunk of
> a page), then the filesystem does that pretty well, with lots of good
> features like caching and whatnot. I can't s
Simon Wittber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there a legitimate use for classic classes that I am not aware of?
Yes, new-style classes don't work in older Python installations. Some
Python users prefer not to be on such a frequent upgrade treadmill, so
they continue to use old versions. Theref
Simon Wittber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Is there a reason NOT to use them? If a classic class works fine, what
> > incentive is there to switch to new style classes?
>
> Perhaps classic classes will eventually disappear?
It just means that the formerly "classic" syntax will define a
new-
"hanz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > But wait if I do that, people will tell me how bad that it is,
> > because it will keep a reference to the value which will prevent
> > the garbage collector from harvesting this memory.
>
> Nobody will tell you that it's bad. Python was never about super
> p
Steven Bethard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Note that sorted is a builtin function, not a method of a list
> object.
Oh, same difference. I thought it was a method because I'm not using
2.4 yet. The result is the same, other than that having it as a
function instead of a method is another incon
"Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Oh, same difference. I thought it was a method because I'm not using
> > 2.4 yet. The result is the same
>
> nope. sorted works on any kind of sequence, including forward-only
> iterators. sorted(open(filename)) works just fine, for example.
Oh
"Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >>> Well, it seems that Guido is wrong then. The documentation clearly
> >>> states that an expression is a statement.
> >>
> >> no, it says that an expression statement is a statement. if you don't
> >> understand the difference, please *plonk* yourself
"Venkat B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm looking build a CGI-capable SSL-enabled web-server around Python 2.4 on
> Linux.
> It is to handle ~25 hits possibly arriving "at once". Content is non-static
> and built by the execution of py cgi-scripts talking to a few backend
> processes.
>
> 1) I
"Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Huh? Expressions are not statements except when they're "expression
> > statements"? What kind of expression is not an expression statement?
>
> any expression that is used in a content that is not an expression statement,
> of course.
Come on, th
Open the file on windows for writing with "wb" mode, the b is for binary.
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Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> So, precisely how should one go about cleanly embedding something that
> cares about whitespace into a context which doesn't care in the
> slightest?
Treat the macro like a function call whose arguments are thunks made
from the macro arguments, or somethi
"Chris Lasher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Forgive my ignorance, but what does using mmap do for the script? My
> guess is that it improves performance, but I'm not sure how. I read the
> module documentation and the module appears to be a way to read out
> information from memory (RAM maybe?).
Evan Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> wakes up the producer, which has been blocked waiting to add a board
> to the Queue. It sets about generating the next board, and the
> consumer doesn't get to run again until the producer blocks again or
> is preempted.
That's weird. Preemption should
Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> You probably already know that sensible compiled language systems have
> used constant folding since time immemorial, but Python has always
> eschewed it. That's what comes of being a pragmatist's language: if
> such optimizations really are required the p
"Reed L. O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I see rotor was removed for 2.4 and the docs say use an AES module
> provided separately... Is there a standard module that works alike or
> an AES module that works alike but with better encryption?
If you mean a module in the distribution, the ans
Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What exactly are/were the political reasons for rotor removal?
Some countries have laws about cryptography software (against some
combination of export, import, or use). The Python maintainers didn't
want to deal with imagined legal hassles that might de
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I was wondering whether anyone could recommend a good C++ book, with
> "good" being defined from the perspective of a Python programmer. I
> realize that there isn't a book titled "C++ for Python Programmers",
> but has anyone found one that they th
Scott David Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I understand this to be true. Since I am trying to address encryption
> in the zipfile module, and I know you actually follow a bit of the
> encryption stuff, can you answer a question or two for me?
Sure, I can try, so go ahead. There's more cry
Dfenestr8 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> No glaring security holes that you noticed? Other than being able to hide
> things in html tags?
Looks like you can also embed arbitrary javascript (I just tried it).
I haven't looked at the script itself yet.
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Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Presumably he is talking about crypo-export rules. In the past strong
> > cryptography has been treated as munitions, and as such exporting it
> > (especially from the USA) could have got you into very serious
> > trouble.
>
> well since rotor is a ger
Tim Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Python's basic list type is a flat vector instead of a
> recursively-defined S-expression, and that there's no direct way to
> break out of a containing loop from a nested loop.
Huh? [1,2,[3,4,5],[6,7]],8 is a perfectly valid Python list.
And you c
Tim Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Huh? [1,2,[3,4,5],[6,7]],8 is a perfectly valid Python list.
>
> You're claiming not to know any relevant difference between Python
> lists and Lisp lists? Heh.
Python doesn't provide syntactic sugar for [1,[2,[3,[4,[] if
that's what you me
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bengt Richter) writes:
> Isn't the SSL dependent on OS or at least shared lib support?
Firefox has its own implementation. IE uses wininet which is built
Windows. I'm not aware of any no-crypto version of Windows but even
if there is one, the US version is running, like, every
Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Apparently factorization based crypto is on the way out anyhow (as an
> article in Scientific American is reported to claim).
I haven't seen that SA article but I saw the Slashdot blurb. They
have confused "quantum cryptography" with quantum computation,
Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> But how, in Lisp, would you transliterate the Python list [1, 2, 3, 4]?
With a vector.
> Clearly the Python list *is* different, and the tradeoff was to
> obtain speed of random access, presumably (I wasn't taking an interest
> in Python in its early day
Reinhold Birkenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> For those of you who don't know what YAML is: visit http://yaml.org/!
> You will be amazed, and never think of XML again. Well, almost.
Oh please no, not another one of these. We really really don't need it.
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andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Anybody like to comment on which editor they use for python web app
> development -
Emacs
For both discrete and mixed python and html code, and why?
There's no reason to use anything else.
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"neutrino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have a binary file and wish to see the "raw" content of it. So I open
> it in binary mode, and read one byte at a time to a variable, which
> will be of the string type. Now the problem is how to print the binary
> format of that charater to the standard o
Tim Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> But at that time, Python didn't have lexical scoping, and it wasn't
> clear that it ever would. So what's the bigger wart? Making
> listcomps exactly equivalent to an easily-explained Python for-loop
> nest, or introducing a notion of lexical scope unique
"Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I'm going by newsgroup messages from around the time that I was
> > proposing to put together a standard block cipher module for Python.
>
> Ah, newsgroup messages. Anybody could respond, whether they have insight
> or not.
Here's the message I h
Dave Benjamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Can we get a show of hands for all of those who have written or are
> currently maintaining code that uses the leaky listcomp "feature"?
It's really irrelevant whether anyone is using a feature or not. If
the feature is documented as being available, it
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) writes:
> If it changed the semantics of for-loops in general, that would be quite
> inconvenient to me -- once in a while I do rely on Python's semantics
> (maintaining the loop control variable after a break; I don't recall if
> I ever used the fact that the vari
Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > No, unfortunately; the python-dev consensus was that encryption raised
> > export control issues, and the existing rotor module is now on its way to
> > being removed.
>
> I'm sure thats wrong now-a-days. Here are some examples of open
> source soft
"Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Some languages let you say things like:
> > for (var x = 0; x < 10; x++)
> > do_something(x);
> > and that limits the scope of x to the for loop.
>
> depending on the compiler version, compiler switches, IDE settings, etc.
Huh? I'm not sure
"Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "I'll only work on stuff if I'm sure it's going right into the core"
> isn't exactly a great way to develop good Python software. I
> recommend the "would anyone except me have any use for this?"
> approach.
1. Crypto is an important "battery" for man
"A.M. Kuchling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It was discussed in this thread:
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-April/034959.html
>
> Guido and M.-A. Lemburg were leaning against including crypto; everyone else
> was positive. But Guido's the BDFL, so I interpreted his vote as b
"Andrew Koenig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In this case, I think the right solution to the problem is two-fold:
>
> 1) from __future__ import lexical_comprehensions
>
> 2) If you don't import the feature, and you write a program that depends
> on a list-comprehension variable rema
"Andrew Koenig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Actually, I don't think so. If you intend for it to be impossible for "z =
> x" to refer to the x in the list comprehension, you shouldn't mind putting
> in "from __future__ import lexical_comprehensions." If you don't intend for
> it to be impossi
"Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "lack of understanding of how Python is used"
>
> wonderful. I'm going to make a poster of your post, and put it on my
> office wall.
Excellent. I hope you will re-read it several times a day. Doing
that might improve your attitude.
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"Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Excellent. I hope you will re-read it several times a day. Doing
> > that might improve your attitude.
>
> you really don't have a fucking clue about anything, do you?
You're not making any bloody sense. I explained to you why I wasn't
interested
Daniel Bickett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In my (brief) experience with YAML, it seemed like there were several
> different ways of doing things, and I saw this as one of it's failures
> (since we're all comparing it to XML).
YAML looks to me to be completely insane, even compared to Python
lis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) writes:
> I wonder, however, if, as an even "toyer" exercise, one might not
> already do it easily -- by first checking each token (as generated by
> tokenize.generate_tokens) to ensure it's safe, and THEN eval _iff_ no
> unsafe tokens were found in the check.
I d
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John J. Lee) writes:
> > Building larger ones seems to
> > have complexity exponential in the number of bits, which is not too
>
> Why?
The way I understand it, that 7-qubit computer was based on embedding
the qubits on atoms in a large molecule, then running the computation
pr
"A.M. Kuchling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It was discussed in this thread:
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-April/034959.html
In that thread, you wrote:
> Rubin wanted to come up with a nice interface for the module, and
> has posted some notes toward it. I have an existing
"Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > You're not making any bloody sense.
>
> oh, I make perfect sense, and I think most people here understand
> why I found your little "lecture" so funny. if you still don't get
> it, maybe some- one can explain it to you.
I would appreciate it if som
Brian van den Broek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> no Python expert, just a hobbyist. But, I think I can take this one on:
>
> Fredrik's contributed a lot to Python. The Standard Library book,
> several well know tools, and, I'd wager a finger, a fair bit of code
> in the standard lib. I don't thin
Stephen Waterbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I should note that I have to deal with XML a lot, but always
> kicking and screaming (though much less now because of Fredrik's
> Elementtree package ;). Thanks, Fredrik and Peter, for the
> references. ;)
I love this old rant about XML:
http://gr
Alan Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> However, I'm torn on whether to use ReST for textual content. On the
> one hand, it's looks pretty comprehensive and solidly implemented.
It seemed both unnecessary and horrendously overcomplicated when I
looked at it. I'd stay away.
> So, I'm hoping th
Ray Schumacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have a need for a time.clock() with >0.16 second (16us) accuracy.
> The sleep() (on Python 2.3, Win32, at least) has a .001s limit.
>
> Are they lower/better on other's platforms?
>
> The alternative appears to be more C code...
C code is your
"Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I don't see why you can't make up your mind enough to issue simple
> > statements like "the Python lib should have a module that does
> > so-and-so
>
> I can say that assuming I know what so-and-so is. For the specific
> case of AES, I would say "I
Francis Girard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Thank you Nick and Steven for the idea of a more generic imerge.
If you want to get fancy, the merge should use a priority queue (like
in the heapsort algorithm) instead of a linear scan through the
incoming iters, to find the next item to output. That
"Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> And I still stand by those blanket statements. Any new module (i.e.
> specific code) should see real users for some time before it can
> be incorporated into Python.
Let's see, the urandom module was recently released in 2.4, I think
initially at my
Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In other words, I'm intrigued how you managed to come up with something you
> consider to be a security issue with Python since Python offers no
> security. Perhaps, without revealing the actual issue in question, you
> could give an example of some oth
Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> SF doesn't seem to know about any such bug any more.
> Google finds me
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-bugs-list/2001-October/007669.html
> which appears to be SF bug 467384, but it says nothing about security or
> the Cookie module, just that
"Fuzzyman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The sourceforge bug tracker *is* the single right place to post such
> issues. The py-dev mailing list would be a second *useful* place to
> post such a comment, although not really the right place. The OP seemed
> to want an individual with whom he could ha
Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I understand the algorithm quite well but how to code the multiplication
> > stage most efficiently in python eludes me.
>
> You might want to look at
>
> http://gmpy.sourceforge.net/
>
> It has very fast multiplication up to any size you like
"Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Let's see, the urandom module was recently released in 2.4, I think
> > initially at my urging.
>
> There is no urandom module in Python 2.4.
Oops, sorry, it's in the os module:
http://docs.python.org/lib/os-miscfunc.html
The difference is si
Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> After my original flippant reply, I've been thinking some more about
> this, and whether CPython can really benefit from initial notification
> of a security flaw going privately to the developers first.
>
> And, due to CPython's release model, I really d
Franco Fiorese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> * Windows XP Pro: 16566.7 pystones/second
> * Linux (kernel 2.6.9 NPTL): 12346.2 pystones/second
>
> I have repeated the test, on Linux, also with other distributions and
> kernel but a relevant difference still exists with Windows offering a
> bet
Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Fair cop on the C thing, but that example otherwise illustrates my
> point perfectly.
I'm not sure what point you mean.
> Unpickling untrusted data is just as dangerous as evaluating or
> executing untrusted data.
>
> This is *still* dangerous, because
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) writes:
> ...or (just as hypothetically) purchasing some commercial compiler might
> help, under the assumption that the optimization and code generation of
> the compiler are the issues here. I have nothing but hearsay to go on,
> but IBM's compiler for PPC chips
"Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Indeed, if it was a single new function to an existing module, I would
> not require that this be delivered to users first. It is entire new
> libraries that I worry about.
Why is it different if a single new function is added to an existing
module,
Skip Montanaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What's your point? That I have to download and perhaps install them to use
> them? In that case, how are these two scenarios different:
>
> * I have to download and build the MySQLdb package to talk to MySQL
> servers from Python code
>
>
Skip Montanaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> And one that deals with cryptography is likely to be even more complex.
No. The AES module would have about the same complexity as the SHA module.
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Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> actually: mxCrypto is the most capable of these packages and might be
> the one with the most users, but it's completely unsuitable for the
> core because of its size).
Oops, I should say, mxCrypto itself isn't that large; t
"Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Apparently, people disagree on what precisely the API should be. E.g.
> cryptkit has
>
> obj = aes(key)
> obj.encrypt(data)
I don't disagree about the API. The cryptkit way is better than ECB
example I gave, but the ECB example shows it's possible
"Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> mxCrypto is primarily unsuitable for the core because Marc-Andre Lemburg
> will never ever contribute it. He is very concerned about including
> crypto code with the Python distribution, so he certainly won't
> contribute his own.
Oh wait, I confused
Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I would hate to see a module which only implemented ECB. Sure its the
> only operation necessary to build the others out of, but its the least
> secure mode of any block cipher.
It's intended as a building block for other modes. Most applications
sho
Skip Montanaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> * Quixote
>
> Paul> Don't know what this is.
>
> Web app framework.
I think Python should add a web app framework to its core, again since
it otherwise can't seriously begin to compete with PHP. However,
there are lots of approaches so thi
Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> There is a PEP about this...
>
> API for Block Encryption Algorithms v1.0
> http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0272.html
Yes, I know about that and have been in contact with its author. He
and I are in agreement (or at least were in agreement some ti
Jamey Cribbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> KirbyBase is a simple, plain-text, database management system written
> in Python. It can be used either embedded in a python script or in a
> client/server, multi-user mode. You use python code to express your
> queries instead of having to use another
"Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Oh, ok. Earlier you said you wanted user feedback before you could
> > conclude that there was reason to want an AES module at all.
>
> I believe I never said that. I said that I wanted user feedback to
> determine whether *this* AES module (where
Skip Montanaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> While it might be convenient to not have to distribute some third
> party library in addition to Python, there is a fundamental problem
> implementing a crypto algorithm from scratch for inclusion into
> Python. There is always the problem that the new
John Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The question is: does shipping a backend which imports a module that
> links with GPL code make some or all of the library GPL.
Literally speaking, no, not automatically, any more than driving a car
makes you into a licensed driver if you weren't one alrea
"Philippe C. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am trying to figure out the traps/issues about sending data structures
> through a TCP/IP socket under the following circumstances:
>
> 1) there could be a different O/S on both side of the socket
> 2) there could be a difference CPU architecure
"jose isaias cabrera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've looked through the internet (not long, though) but I have not
> been able to find a python translation to
>
> buffer[0] = (byte)Integer.parseInt(string,16);
>
> Has anyone ported any java programs to python and has translated this?
I think
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (kartik) writes:
> Since the Decimal type can represent any given fractional number
> exactly,
It can't. For example, it can't represent 1/3 exactly.
> including all IEEE binary floating-point numbers, wouldn't it be
> advisable to use Decimals for all floating point numbers (e
Philippe Fremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I would like to develop a tool that goes one step further than
> pychecker to ensure python program validity. The idea would be to get
> close to what people get on ocaml: a static verification of all types
> of the program, without any kind of variable
Tim Churches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >The question is: does shipping a backend which imports a module that
> > links with GPL code make some or all of the library GPL.
> We sought formal legal advice on this issue from a lawyer with
> expertise in open source licensing ...>
> The answer was
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