Re: [Tutor] UnicodeDecodeError

2005-02-23 Thread Kent Johnson
Michael Lange wrote: now it looks like the total confusion seems to clear up (at least partially). After some googling it seems to me that the best bet is to use unicode strings exclusively. I think that is a good plan. When I set the unicode flag in gettext.install() to 1 the gettext strings are

Re: [Tutor] threads

2005-02-23 Thread guillermo . fernandez . castellanos
Nothing to do, but did you think about SimPy? http://simpy.sourceforge.net/ It may make your life much simpler. G On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 11:32:12 -0800 (PST), Danny Yoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Shitiz Bansal wrote: > > > I am trying to build a traffic network simulator us

[Tutor] Interpreter level objects

2005-02-23 Thread Jacob S.
Hi everyone! Let's see, my topic of discussion for today is this. If the psyco package can work on an interpreter level--I don't know if that's the right terminology, but this is what it does. Say I put the code import psyco psyco.full() in sitecustomize.py and run a random file that I have al

Re: Re: [Tutor] Problems with test cgi script on windows XP/Apache

2005-02-23 Thread Jacob S.
I find it's convenient to get rid of that problem. The easy thing to get to folder options You can 1) Go to control panel and click folder options 2) Open a folder, click the view menu, and choose folder options Either way it's the same screen. Now, in the middle tab, there is a checkmark about hal

Re: [Tutor] Method/subclass

2005-02-23 Thread Bill Kranec
This article might also be helpful, as it is a little more concrete: http://www.devx.com/dbzone/Article/22093. I found it by Googling for 'python database access object'. Is this the kind of thing that you are referring to, Kent? HTH, Bill Liam Clarke wrote: Kia ora, I'm not really sure

Re: [Tutor] UnicodeDecodeError

2005-02-23 Thread Michael Lange
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 07:21:40 -0500 Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is a part of Python that still confuses me. I think what is happening is > - self.nextfile is a Unicode string sometimes (when it includes special > characters) > - the gettext string is a byte string > - to comp

Re: [Tutor] threads

2005-02-23 Thread Danny Yoo
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Shitiz Bansal wrote: > I am trying to build a traffic network simulator using python, for my > degree project. > > I need to run at least 5-6000 cars simultaneously. I wanted to run each > car in a separate thread. However , after about 400 threads i am unable > to create ne

Re: [Tutor] threads

2005-02-23 Thread Kent Johnson
Shitiz Bansal wrote: Hi, Googling for my problem i found the following page: http://gnosis.cx/publish/programming/charming_python_b7.html It doesnt make much sense to me.It seems that the author is implementing a series of routines rather than running them sumultaneously as threads are supposed to

Fwd: [Tutor] threads

2005-02-23 Thread Max Noel
Some day I'm actually going to learn how to hit the "Reply All" button. I swear. Begin forwarded message: From: Max Noel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: February 23, 2005 18:42:37 GMT To: Shitiz Bansal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Tutor] threads On Feb 23, 2005, at 17:50, Shitiz Bansal wrote: Hi,

Re: [Tutor] threads

2005-02-23 Thread Shitiz Bansal
Hi, Googling for my problem i found the following page: http://gnosis.cx/publish/programming/charming_python_b7.html It doesnt make much sense to me.It seems that the author is implementing a series of routines rather than running them sumultaneously as threads are supposed to do.Am i missing th

Re: [Tutor] threads

2005-02-23 Thread Kent Johnson
Shitiz Bansal wrote: Hi, I am trying to build a traffic network simulator using python, for my degree project. I need to run at least 5-6000 cars simultaneously.I wanted to run each car in a separate thread. However , after about 400 threads i am unable to create new threads. There does seem to be

Re: [Tutor] Python sizeof()

2005-02-23 Thread Danny Yoo
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Shitiz Bansal wrote: > Is there a python equivalent of c's sizeof function. Unfortuntately, no, not as a standard builtin. However, there is a third-party library called mxTools that does include a sizeof() function: http://www.egenix.com/files/python/mxTools.html B

[Tutor] threads

2005-02-23 Thread Shitiz Bansal
Hi, I am trying to build a traffic network simulator using python, for my degree project. I need to run at least 5-6000 cars simultaneously.I wanted to run each car in a separate thread. However , after about 400 threads i am unable to create new threads. Here's the code: >>> cars=range(1000) >>

Refactoring and Domain Objects was Re: [Tutor] Method/subclass

2005-02-23 Thread Ismael Garrido
Kent Johnson wrote: Start small :-) Get a little bit of the database working. Write unit tests for it. Get a little piece of GUI working that uses that part of the database. Lather. Rinse. Repeat. Refactor as your understanding of the problem grows. Talking about refactoring. I couldn't get Bicy

Re: [Tutor] UnicodeDecodeError

2005-02-23 Thread Kent Johnson
Michael Lange wrote: Hello list, I've encountered an (at least for me) weird error in the project I'm working on (see the traceback below). Unfortunately there are several of my application's modules involved, so I cannot post all of my code here. I hope I can explain in plain words what I'm doin

Re: [Tutor] UnicodeDecodeError

2005-02-23 Thread Michael Lange
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 19:17:40 -0500 "Isr Gish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This part of the error is saying what the problem is. > >>UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe4 in position 22: > ordinal not in range(128) > > Thatthe ascii codec that's being used can't decod

Re: [Tutor] Method/subclass

2005-02-23 Thread Kent Johnson
Liam Clarke wrote: I'm not sure I understand your response fully, so I've described how I would do this in accordance with my understandinf of the method described above. Any feedback/corrections are gratefully welcomed. But first, a wee bit of explanation. As I said, this is very sketchy. I've ru

[Tutor] Python sizeof()

2005-02-23 Thread Shitiz Bansal
Hi, Is there a python equivalent of c's sizeof function. If not, then what are the typical sizes of the BoundedSemaphore object in python? Shitiz __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Sign up for Fantasy Baseball. http://baseball.fantasysports.yaho