Re: TypeError: int argument required

which doesn't give you much more help. Yes, I know from past conversations that you have a superhuman ability to recognise the code in apparent line noise. That still doesn't make it legible to anyone else. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: TypeError: int argument required

I was complaining about. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ERROR: how to use a text file in a module?

(~/Network/Test/topo.txt, r)', or the equivalent on Windows). -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PEP8 79 char max

flipping between them slows me down dramatically. Long lines have no effect on the speed of the program, but they can have serious effects on the speed of the programmer. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PEP8 79 char max

On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 01:11:18 +0100, Joshua Landau jos...@landau.ws wrote: On 30 July 2013 00:08, Rhodri James rho...@wildebst.demon.co.uk wrote: I'm working on some shonky C code at the moment that inconsistent indentation and very long lines. It is extremely annoying not to be able to put

Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max]

is it would be more foolproof to edit that stuff with a spreadsheet. There's nothing foolproof about using a spreadsheet! -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Beginner question

in ('y', 'yes', 'ohdeargodyes', 'you get the idea'): print('ok') else: print('goodbye') sys.exit() -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Enum vs OrderedEnum

?) of standard and hostile environments as class variables. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Pair of filenos read/write each other?

? Sockets? It depends a bit on what you're trying to do, exactly. If you give us a bit more context, we might be able to give you better advice. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Encapsulation unpythonic?

changes to constants persisted. Many's the poor natural scientist who was perplexed to find that 0 suddenly had the value 1! -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: creating rectangle with qt-designer

answered by the Qt Designer manual? Which can be googled for trivially, by the way. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python variables? [was Re: class implementation]

! :) Or, alternatively, that Python has many constants, such as all those immutable integers cached around the place :-) What it doesn't have is fixed bindings. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: class implementation

working, it makes it so much easier for the rest of us to understand what you meant when you use terms so loosely! -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python was designed (was Re: Multi-threading in Python vs Java)

) that does nothing to bolster my confidence in your philosophising. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Possibly better loop construct, also labels+goto important and on the fly compiler idea.

or Usenet newsgroup. Google groups seems to delight in making the previous post a poorly defined concept (by gratuitously breaking reference chains and the like). It's not that the skill isn't universal, it's that the opportunity isn't. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses

Re: Parsing multiple lines from text file using regex

) -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Parsing ISO date/time strings - where did the parser go?

could call it dead simple. ISO-8601-2004(E) is 40 pages long. A short standard, then :-) -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Obnoxious postings from Google Groups

. Advanced? Huh. I have here a language that does exactly what I want without all that messy syntax nonsense. I call it Research Assistant. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: loops

, credits or license for more information. print(1,2,3) 1 2 3 Python 2.7.1+ (r271:86832, Sep 27 2012, 21:12:17) [GCC 4.5.2] on linux2 Type help, copyright, credits or license for more information. print(1,2,3) (1, 2, 3) -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- http

Re: Working with classes

this. The program makes perfectly good sense, it is your description that I don't understand. Please tell us what it is supposed to do, and what makes you think it doesn't do it. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [Help] [Newbie] Require help migrating from Perl to Python 2.7 (namespaces)

code and leave us to guess? Sorry but I'm not bored enough to try. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Most discussion on comp.lang.python is about developing with Python

is not moderated. God alone knows what Googlegroups thinks it's doing. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PyMyth: Global variables are evil... WRONG!

already disallowed? It sounds to me like you're complaining that Python is ahead of the curve here :-) -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Experiences/guidance on teaching Python as a first programming language

(something Modula-2 and C didn't do nearly as well); and so on and so forth. None of this is stuff your students need for their work, so I wouldn't waste time side-tracking them with it. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python

Re: Experiences/guidance on teaching Python as a first programming language

On Mon, 09 Dec 2013 23:42:14 -, Roy Smith r...@panix.com wrote: In article op.w7umbykna8ncjz@gnudebeest, Rhodri James rho...@wildebst.demon.co.uk wrote: Pascal and BCPL contrasted rigid typing with practically non-existent typing Wow, you actually used BCPL? I didn't realize

Re: Experiences/guidance on teaching Python as a first programming language

. Five years per language, ten languages, that's 50 years I think. Or do I rewrite my diary for next week, so I learn Smalltalk Monday morning, Ruby Monday afternoon, Julia Tuesday morning ... Welcome to Computer Science lectures :-) -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses

Re: Experiences/guidance on teaching Python as a first programming language

at it and exclaimed, It's a hammer, all our problems must be nails! And the rest is C++. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Re: Experiences/guidance on teaching Python as a first programming language

explicit is better than implicit? -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Experiences/guidance on teaching Python as a first programming language

Pascal, but it's a painful process and it won't be pretty. It's far better to use a language as it is rather than as you want it to be. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Experiences/guidance on teaching Python as a first programming language

another layer of *stuff* between you and the machine. That's not to say it's the right language to be writing applications. +1 -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Postfix conditionals

to properly comprehend what was going on and what the results would be for my sample data. It looks like a good idea, but I don't think it works that well in practice. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Postfix conditionals

relevant Perl around any more. I think it had to do with losing the visual cue of indentation, and just having to think that little bit harder to notice that I wasn't dealing with purely linear code. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- https://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3

considerable margin. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3

On Tue, 07 Jan 2014 01:35:54 -, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Rhodri James rho...@wildebst.org.uk wrote: On Mon, 06 Jan 2014 21:17:06 -, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Monday 06 January 2014 16:16:13 Terry Reedy did opine

Re: Python solve problem with string operation

to do this is probably using groupby: from itertools import groupby input = 3443331123377 output = .join(k for k, _ in groupby(s)) print output -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to write this as a list comprehension?

(then, name): _,mn,dy,_,_,_,wd,_,_ = localtime(then) return somefunc(mn, dy, wd, name) ... [meaningful_name(then, name) for (then, name) in mylist] I assume there's some good reason you didn't want somefunc() to do the localtime() itself? -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder

Re: Help with some python homework...

- (discount * price_per_book) after applying the discount. * refactoring, that's (1 - discount) * price_per_book. Ta da! -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: fputs

. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: 2 + 2 = 5

) # False five.contents[five.contents[:].index(5)] = 4 print(2 + 2 == 5) # True (must be sufficiently large values of 2 there...) Heh. The author is apparently anonymous, I guess for good reason. Someone's been writing FORTRAN again :-) -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder

Re: class error

://bugs.python.org/issue11604 It has to be said that the confusion is exacerbated by ignoring PEP-8 and using the same (CamelCase) name for the module and the class. That does provide a rich source of errors in cases like this. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- http://mail.python.org

Re: Regex in if statement.

to everything regardless of how appropriate they are. I certainly did! -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python problem

split strings, not lists. By the looks of it that line is something left over from a previous attempt. Just delete it, it's not doing anything useful for you. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: An unusual question...

On Sun, 17 Apr 2011 17:17:02 +0100, wisecrac...@tesco.net wrote: I`ll give you a clue... id(some_object) is close enough but NOT that close. You do realise that what id() returns is implementation-dependent, don't you? In particular, what IronPython returns isn't an address. -- Rhodri

Re: An unusual question...

to the next. Relying on implementation-defined behaviour like this is a good way of getting code to blow up in your face. You'll get much more reliable results by starting in a language that was actually intended for direct memory access, like C, and wrapping that in Python. -- Rhodri James

Re: Popen to get stdout and stderr for ffmpeg - No such file or directory ?

'), stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE) The manual gives you an example of using shlex to split a string into tokens if you'd rather do it that way. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Namespaces in functions vs classes

. $50 will supply enough articles to keep a small company understandable for over a year. With your generous help, we can beat this scourge! Ahem. Normal service will now be resumed. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: MIDI message sending and receiving, MID file manipulation

(http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonInMusic) has an entire section on MIDI packages. I've never used any of them, so I can't comment. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: use of index (beginner's question)

if the list you want to index into isn't one of the lists you might want to look up, but that's just a detail. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: obviscating python code for distribution

even if you do strip out all the debug information. By chance I'm having to do something closely related to this at work just at the moment; it's hard, but far from impossible. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Beginner needs advice

! Now this is an analogy fallacy, and an obvious one at that. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: doing cross platform file work

to them. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Functions help

time you call it: for i in range(6): print(i*i) for day in (Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri): do_stuff_for_day(day) -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Functions help

On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 02:18:43 -, Dennis Lee Bieber wlfr...@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Mon, 24 Feb 2014 01:01:15 -, Rhodri James rho...@wildebst.org.uk declaimed the following: The function range returns the sequence of numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 [*], so this has the same effect

Re: Reference

are not random number generators. They are far too cussed for that :-) -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Reference

instruction, or that splitting a loop into two to avoid a conditional test will let an DSP's optimiser double the speed of a section of code. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Balanced trees

time (longer now that I'm not in practise), but that's a separate matter. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Balanced trees

to double- check that there's no 16-bit overflow causing something unexpected. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: CallBack function in C Libraries.

to suggest since it isn't one of the usual problems, but you might find reading https://wiki.python.org/moin/GoogleGroupsPython helpful. It will certainly help with the double-spacing in your quote above. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- https://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: Explanation of this Python language feature? [x for x in x for x in x] (to flatten a nested list)

as the friend of mine I've finally persuaded to stop writing Fortran in Python, I promise! -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python installation on windows

Installation Guide page has instructions for editing the Apache config files. No mention of running .\configure -- why are you doing that? Try just editing the config files as the documentation suggests and see if that works. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- https

Re: Explanation of this Python language feature? [x for x in x for x in x] (to flatten a nested list)

On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 02:46:28 -, Ian Kelly ian.g.ke...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 6:32 PM, Rhodri James rho...@wildebst.org.uk wrote: On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 05:26:26 -, Rustom Mody rustompm...@gmail.com wrote: Well almost... Except that the 'loop' I am talking of is one

Re: python installation on windows

nearly didn't bother putting in the effort to make it readable. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Time we switched to unicode? (was Explanation of this Python language feature?)

65535 for example is a token. The more digits there are in the number, the harder it is for me to take in in a way that doesn't happen with letters. Even forty is better than 40 if you want me to recall it! -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- https://mail.python.org

Re: Explanation of this Python language feature? [x for x in x for x in x] (to flatten a nested list)

of whom even know what a merkin is, and use the term anyway. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Code style query: multiple assignments in if/elif tree

was that the lines were too long (even ignoring the trouble line-wrapping caused in your post) to take in with only a couple of eye movements along the line. That makes a really quite surprising difference to the comprehensibility of the whole thing. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder

Re: Explanation of this Python language feature? [x for x in x for x in x] (to flatten a nested list)

: *plonk* -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: OFF TOPIC Spanish in the USA [was Re: Explanation of this Python language feature?]

the need to specify an official language. One might wonder why... -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Unpacking U-Boot image file

* Image Timestamp I suspect taking this apart may be a little involved. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Teaching python to non-programmers

was the straw to break the camel's back this week, but it is a complete pain to the rest of us. I have more than once considered getting my reader to automatically discard anything with @googlegroups.com in the message ID just to reduce the aggravation. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder

Re: Teaching python to non-programmers

On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 21:20:05 +0100, pete.bee@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, April 10, 2014 3:40:22 PM UTC-7, Rhodri James wrote: It's called irony, and unfortunately Mark is reacting to an all-to-common situation that GoogleGroups foists on unsuspecting posters like yourself. People

Re: Can't figure out 'instance has no attribute' error

, and stop using tabs. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Problem in writing demands to the xml file

you say, It doesn't seem to work, what do you mean? What are you expecting it to do? What does it actually do? Is there a traceback? -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python box (home-use smart router)

* use Python for application writing because speed and space constraints are usually quite tight, which generally means coding in C for preference (despite my boss's attempts to force me to use C++). -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- https://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: IDE for python

of higher resolution screens is that he can tile more 80x40 console windows on them. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: IDE for python

commands -- rgrep, lgrep, grep-find etc I generally find M-x grep sufficient. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: toy list processing problem: collect similar terms

. Which you didn't either, I note. The only downside to killfiles is that you have to pay attention or you sometimes get bitten by this stuff. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: EOF while scanning triple-quoted string literal

that as the end of a text file. How you get out of that one, I'm not sure, but frankly putting arbitrary binary into a literal string is rather asking for something like this to come and bite you. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Fastest way to detect a non-ASCII character in a list of strings.

library, like: import string return set(.join(L)) = set(string.printable) I've no idea whether this is faster or slower than any of your suggestions. You could timeit and see, or you could wait a bit and not optimise prematurely. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- http

Re: Using nested lists and tables

? It still really isn't clear what your *question* is here. Perhaps if you showed us what you have tried already we might be better able to divine what problem you're facing? -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What people are using to access this mailing list

, some other software or online service? Usenet via my ISP, on comp.lang.python. Using what client (or web client)? Opera (as an NNTP client, not a web client). -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Compare source code

comments that could be paraphrased as your broken editor settings have made this (C code) unreadable. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Community Involvement

upvoted can be pretty hit-and-miss. The other thing that may affect this is that anything posted to SE is subject to the Creative Commons license. This may be an issue for academic purposes, I don't know. (It's certainly an issue when you come across J*ff!) -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest

Re: List spam

some, sure -- usually for Bollywood actress pictures -- but not enough to make me worry about Opera's relatively poor newsgroup filtering facilities. If you're getting as much as you say, it's being injected on the mail side of the gateway somehow. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder

Re: Word Perfect integration

, columns, etc) has so far been unequaled in anything else I have looked at. I take it you haven't looked at TeX, then? :-) -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Create an index from a webpage [RANT, DNFTT]

straightforward. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: optionparse: how to add a line break to the help text

, you'll need to write an IndentedHelpFormatter subclass that splits the text on \n\n, textwraps the split string individually, then re-joins them. _format_text() and format_option() look like the methods that would need replacing. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- http

Re: How do I automate the removal of all non-ascii characters from my code?

translating a character as a smart quote or a non breaking space or an e-umlaut or whatever, but that doesn't make the character legal! -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: stackoverflow and c.l.py

On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:05:23 +0100, memilanuk memila...@gmail.com wrote: Rick Xang Li are two examples of what you *don't* see (or at least I don't) @ SO Then you haven't been looking hard enough ;-) -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: Is there any way to access attributes from an imported module?

a module. Do you mean that one of the imported modules wishes to use an instance created in the main script? If that's the case, you're going to have to pass the instance to the module somehow, since the module knows nothing of what if anything has imported it. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest

Re: Is there any way to access attributes from an imported module?

on that doesn't grievously abuse at least one of the terms you are using. Could you post some illustrative code snippets, please? -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Language Enhancement Idea to help with multi-processing (your opinions please)

want more than one statement executed per step was to wrap sequences of statements in a SEQ construct. You end up indenting a long way very fast if you aren't careful. I'm afraid much as I love PAR, Python's dynamicism makes it rather more 'exciting' than it was in occam. -- Rhodri James

Re: PyWart (Terminolgy): Class

couple of decades of computer science. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Understanding Boolean Expressions

: comparisons, then bitwise operators (*not* bitwise comparisons!), then shifts, then arithmetic operators, the unary operators, the power operator, and finally primaries. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Scan CSV file and saving it into an array

so many times in various guises in the last week or two. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Editor Ergonomics [was: Important features for editors]

are the worse culprits. And while emacs is bad on the second, its excellent on the third -- to the extend that you 'live inside emacs,' you dont need the mouse. You clearly never trained as a classical pianist :-) -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: Creating a Program to Decompose a Number and Run a Function on that Decomposition

, but print is a function in Python 3, so the parameter need parentheses around them. This would all involve a lot less guesswork if you cut and pasted both your code and the error traceback. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python

Re: update a list element using an element in another list

(update_dict) range(len(something)) is usually a warning sign (code smell, if you prefer) that you aren't thinking in Python. If you really need the list index for some nefarious purpose, enumerate(something) is probably still a better bet. -- Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd -- https://mail.python.org

Re: Python - decode('hex')

which you weren't) Since you probably want to do this for your file name too, you might want to pass them as command line parameters to the script. Look up sys.argv[] in the standard library, or the argparse module if you're feeling keen. -- Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: If statement with or operator

t are true in a boolean context. if attempt_umount() or df_output_lines(): is far more likely to do what you expect. -- Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python3, column names from array - numpy or pandas

ive coding for blank lines or unexpected data in there, and if want to use the results later on you probably want to stash them in a dictionary, but that will do the job. -- Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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