On Feb 22, 2005, at 23:08, Bill Mill wrote:
If I recall correctly, there is not a direct way. Instead, you're
going to want to have your worker thread check a queue it shares with
the parent every so often to see if the supervisor thread has sent a
quit message to it.
Peace
Bill Mill
bill.mill at
On Feb 16, 2005, at 10:26, . Sm0kin'_Bull wrote:
it prints like...
John GoodmanJohn GoodmanJohn GoodmanJohn GoodmanJohn Goodman
But i want to print it like...
John Goodman John Goodman John Goodman John Goodman John Goodman
How can I do it?
Try replacing the called = name * 5 line
On Feb 16, 2005, at 01:58, Bernard Lebel wrote:
Now, I have a list of jobs, each job being a windows bat file that
launches an executable and performs a rendering task. So I have this
queue of jobs, and would like to launch one only when the previous one
has finished, and in a separate window.
On Feb 16, 2005, at 02:36, Liam Clarke wrote:
I'm sorry, but when does oThread get the value 1?
If you're testing for it's existence via a True/False thing, try
if oThread:
But otherwise, I'm not sure what you're expecting to get.
Once again, you hit the spot, Liam. It seems that a Thread object
On Feb 14, 2005, at 22:18, Liam Clarke wrote:
Windows, she is a woman, and woman are mysterious in their little
quirks. Unfortunately, you cannot divorce her, for she controls your
software and you really need DirectX if you want to play Sid Mier's
Pirates!
Actually, you can find Atari ST and
On Feb 15, 2005, at 02:38, Mike Hall wrote:
Ok, I've got it working. The environment.plist file wants a path
beginning with /Users, not /Local_HD. So simple! Thanks everyone.
Yeah, the system hard drive on Mac OS X (which is seen as Macintosh
HD, or in your case Local HD in the Finder) is
On Feb 14, 2005, at 10:37, Lobster wrote:
- I am trying to call up an external program
with something like a Shell command - can not find a way of doing
this
(in windows)
Any hints?
What about os.system('your_command_here')?
-- Max
maxnoel_fr at yahoo dot fr -- ICQ #85274019
Look at you
On Feb 10, 2005, at 19:50, Bill Mill wrote:
so #{variable} seems to do it. The googling shows that there are a
myriad of other ways, which I haven't even looked at. They all seem to
involve #{[symbol]variable} .
Here, [symbol] refers to the scope(?) of the variable. See the
discussion between me
On Feb 10, 2005, at 03:07, Ismael Garrido wrote:
Danny Yoo wrote:
###
def f(a,L=[]):
if L==[5]:
print 'L==[5] caught'
print L
print 'resetting L...'
L=[]
L.append(a)
return L
###
Now I'm dizzy... I can't understand why there are two L!
L is a local variable of
On Feb 6, 2005, at 08:59, Liam Clarke wrote:
Ah, yeah, gotta get me one of those textbooks.
(Wait a minute, that would mean, my approach wasn't the textbook
approach... /me salvages a little pride.)
While I jest somewhat, that highlights a serious deficiency in my
education that becomes more and
On Feb 4, 2005, at 06:39, Chad Crabtree wrote:
I've tried this and I cannot figure out why this does not work. I
figure this has something to do with order of operations. I figured
someone would know exactly why it doesn't work. Wouldn't this start
inside parens then from left to right?
On Feb 3, 2005, at 09:48, Alan Gauld wrote:
Pythons lambda feature is a bare minimum (and Guido wants to remove
it!).
Does he? Damn, just when I was learning functional programming! (in
Haskell, if you're curious ^^)
Yes the Japanese thing is an issue.
THere are a few English books now, and the
On Feb 3, 2005, at 23:19, Alan Gauld wrote:
Sean, what book/tutor are you using for Haskell?
I learned it from The Haskell School of Expression which
was OK but very graphics focused, I'd be interested in
recommended second source on Haskell.
I'm not Sean, but I'm using Simon Thompson's Haskell:
On Feb 3, 2005, at 23:41, Jeff Shannon wrote:
(But then, at my job I'm stuck using a horrible Frankenstein's monster
of a proprietary language on a daily basis, so I can't help but
believe that there's plenty more awful languages around that didn't
happen to be rescued from oblivion by an
On Feb 2, 2005, at 10:19, Ewald Ertl wrote:
Hi!
Using binary operations:
a='0x87BE'
str(hex(int(a,16) 0xFF))
'0xbe'
str(hex((int(a,16) 0xFF00) / 0xFF))
'0x87'
HTH Ewald
Actually, the int conversions aren't even necessary.
hex(0x87BE 0xFF)
'0xbe'
hex((0x87BE 0xFF00) / 0xFF)
'0x87'
-- Max
On Feb 2, 2005, at 23:18, Liam Clarke wrote:
1) I'll use Perl for the regex stuff from now on, Perl is obviously
built for this.
Actually IIRC Perl *invented* regexes as we know them. The standard
regex syntax is known as Perl regex syntax.
2 ) There's More Than One Way To Do It makes debugging
(damn, forgot to add the main part of my argumentation)
I learnt Perl as well, a few years ago. It was the first scripting
language I came across (all I knew before that were C, Turbo Pascal,
and a few calculator programming languages), so I immediately fell in
love with its string
On Feb 1, 2005, at 23:08, Ismael Garrido wrote:
Hello.
I was just wondering, what magic can you do with classes? I mean,
things like class Name(Exception) or class Name(threading.Thread),
which other classes are interesting to subclass? I've seen Object too,
but I don't understand what it does.
On Jan 30, 2005, at 02:18, R. Alan Monroe wrote:
print Percent completed: + str(percent) + \r
Print forces a newline.
Try sys.stdout.write instead.
Alan
You can also use the following syntax:
print Percent completed:, str(percent), \r,
The trailing comma is NOT a typo, it is intentional. It
On Jan 27, 2005, at 02:09, Jason White wrote:
I'm curious about good tutorial websites and books to buy.
I learned Python (well, the basics thereof -- enough to do useful
stuff on my summer job, anyway ^^) in an afternoon using the official
tutorial that's found somewhere on
On Jan 25, 2005, at 23:40, Danny Yoo wrote:
In pseudocode, this will look something like:
###
hints = identifyDuplicateRecords(filename)
displayDuplicateRecords(filename, hints)
###
My data set the below is taken from is over 2.4 gb so speed and memory
considerations come into play.
Are sets more
On Jan 26, 2005, at 00:50, Luis N wrote:
Ok, urllib.quote worked just fine, and of course so did
urllib.pathname2url.
I should have run a dir() on urllib. Those functions don't appear in
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-urllib.html
Now, how might one go about calculating the New York time
On Jan 26, 2005, at 02:56, Luis N wrote:
In other words I have to do some arithmetic:
import time
time.timezone
0
The server is located in Dallas, Texas.
Which means it's not properly configured. On UNIX systems, to
configure the timezone, you must adjust /etc/localtime so that it's a
symlink
On Jan 26, 2005, at 03:17, Terry Carroll wrote:
My goal here is not efficiency of the code, but efficiency in my Python
thinking; so I'll be thinking, for example, ah, this should be a list
comprehension instead of a knee-jerk reaction to use a for loop.
Comments?
The point of the code is to take
On Jan 24, 2005, at 23:29, Luis N wrote:
How would I best turn this string:
'2005-01-24 00:00:00.0'
into this string:
'2005%2D01%2D24%2000%3A00%3A00%2E0'
In order to call a URL.
I've hunted through the standard library, but nothing seemed to jump
out.
The pathname2url in urllib seems to do
On Jan 23, 2005, at 12:55, Kevin wrote:
How well would a multi user texed based game created in just Python
run if there were over 300 - 400 players (Just a hypathetical
question) Would python be to slow to handle that amount of traffic?
It depends... What would be happening in said game? What
This code gives the number in an unusual format like 3.1415'None'
it has a number part and a string part . I want to seperate these from
easc other but I couldn't manage. I mean when I try to turn it into
string format then try to use things like [:4] or like that they don't
work.Any idea how
On Jan 23, 2005, at 22:08, Liam Clarke wrote:
Don't you mean
x=random.randint(0, lenoflist) ?? I'm assuming you want an integer.
random.randrange() returns an item (which can be a float or whatever,
but by default is an int) in the specified range. In that case, an int
between 0 and lenoflist.
On Jan 22, 2005, at 13:53, Kent Johnson wrote:
That is the simplest solution. If your file gets bigger and you don't
want to read it all at once, you can use enumerate to iterate the
lines and pick out the one you want:
f = open(...)
for i, line in enumerate(f):
if i==targetLine:
print
Hi everyone,
Having learnt OOP with C++, and most of my OOP experience being with
Java, I'm used to storing my classes in one file for each class. I find
it tidier and easier to read/debug.
However, when I try to do the same in Python, each file corresponds to
a module with a single class in
On Jan 19, 2005, at 03:58, David Rock wrote:
For me, it seems that the way you are supposed to interact with an XML
DOM is to already know what you are looking for, and in theory, you
_should_ know ;-)
Indeed. The problem is, even if I know what I'm looking for, the
problem remains that given
On Jan 18, 2005, at 03:46, Liam Clarke wrote:
Curious - what's mod_python?
A Python module for the Apache web server, that among other things
addresses the main shortcoming of CGI: mod_python (and mod_perl,
mod_php and mod_ruby, for that matter) keeps the interpreter into
memory (and as part
On Jan 18, 2005, at 17:52, Jack Cruzan wrote:
Greetings!
Ok if any of you read my earlier email you would have seen that:
A) I am a newbie programmer.
B) A Shadowrun gamer.
C) In over my head making a SRCG (Shadowrun Character Generator)
so with that in mind gave up making my python based SRCG.
On Jan 18, 2005, at 22:50, Kent Johnson wrote:
Python, instead, lets you change what attribute access means. The way
to do this is with 'properties'. This is kind of an advanced topic,
here are two references:
http://www.python.org/2.2.1/descrintro.html#property
Hi everyone,
I've just spent the last few hours learning how to use the DOM XML API
(to be more precise, the one that's in PyXML), instead of revising for
my exams :p. My conclusion so far: it sucks (and so does SAX because I
can't see a way to use it for OOP or recursive XML trees).
I'm
On Jan 17, 2005, at 20:51, Jack Cruzan wrote:
Ok, so each character has his name, race, his stats, his skills, and
his
gear.
since the name and character is unique there is no need for a class
these things.
hmmm maybe I am conceptualizing this wrong.
would each new character then be a dictonary?
On Jan 17, 2005, at 23:07, Bernard Lebel wrote:
Okay... so if I follow you, a class that has methods not part of
itself, it's not a static class...? So should I understand that a
class that gets inherited methods can be considered OOP?
Not exactly. Basically, object-oriented programming is just
On Jan 16, 2005, at 21:13, Liam Clarke wrote:
If I understand correctly, once an object is created, as long as
references to it exist, it isn't garbage collected.
Correct, more or less (in the exception case where a references b, b
references a but nothing else references either, both are GC'd
On Jan 10, 2005, at 14:31, john stanley wrote:
This is my first attempt at programing and my first program sort of
did work hear is the program and if any one can tell me what i did
wrong or forgot i would appreciate it
a = input(Type in the Grose: )
b = input(type in the Miles: )
print a *
On Jan 13, 2005, at 04:13, Bob Gailer wrote:
I like Kent's response.
foobar(item)/0 is a valid expression. It fits the grammar of
expressions. The fact that it raises an exception does not make it an
invalid expression.
Consider foobar(item)/xyz. It is valid. If xyz == 0 then it will also
On Jan 11, 2005, at 20:25, Mike Procario wrote:
I got an unexpected error today using string.atof.
ValueError: invalid literal for float(): -17,019.797
To me -17,019.797 looks like a perfectly good floating point
number. I cannot find documentation on what the allowed range is.
The problem is not
(yes, forgot to CC the list again -- argh!)
Begin forwarded message:
From: Max Noel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: January 11, 2005 23:33:44 GMT
To: Liam Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Tutor] More and more OT - Python/Java
On Jan 11, 2005, at 23:15, Liam Clarke wrote:
Out of curiousity, having
On Jan 12, 2005, at 01:40, Liam Clarke wrote:
So, you've got the XML like -
descript You are standing in front of a stump. A path leads north.
/descript
exits N /exits
and you have a XSL that works like a CSS?
descript {font:arial, align:center}
exits style:bolder
Is that a good paraphrasing?
On Jan 10, 2005, at 17:53, Kooser, Ara S wrote:
Does anyone have an suggestions, explanations, websites? Thanks.
Ara
import random
perc = raw_input(Please enter a threshold between 0-1. )
raw_input(Press return to make a world)
PERSON, EMPTY = '*', '.'
def percolation(perc):
randval =
On Jan 10, 2005, at 22:00, Liam Clarke wrote:
Hehe, I'm not up to collections yet... working through Learning Java
by O'Reilly.
If you already know a bit about OOP, I would recommend that you read
bruce Eckel's Thinking in Java. An excellent book, freely available
on-line (do a quick Google
On Jan 11, 2005, at 01:38, Kent Johnson wrote:
Max Noel wrote:
A good follow-up to that would be McMillan Wiggleswrorth's
Java Programming - Advanced Topics, through which I'm currently
reading. It has some really good stuff, including things about XML
parsing with SAX and DOM...
I may
dom4j? What is it? Is it part of the standard Java distribution? If
not, where can it be found?
Update: Okay, looks like it's time to go to bed. The link was in
bright blue and somehow I didn't see it. D'oh.
-- Max
maxnoel_fr at yahoo dot fr -- ICQ #85274019
Look at you hacker... A pathetic
On Jan 6, 2005, at 21:20, Brian van den Broek wrote:
Oh, the Life rules allow a world where every cell will change in
the next generation, iff your world is a torus (i.e. the lower row
touches the upper row as if it were immediately above it, and the
right column touches the left column as
On Jan 5, 2005, at 16:33, ümit tezcan wrote:
Are there any starting ideas for me to get going on this project
either thru the tutor or searching for snippets already created by
fellow programmers??
That's probably obvious, but you should proceed as follows:
- Generate a number for each person.
On Dec 22, 2004, at 22:24, Israel C. Evans wrote:
Fun!
testo = [line for line in commands.getoutput('ls -la').split('\n')]
for line in testo:
print line
spits out nicely formatted ls data.
It's Shelly!
I haven't tried it, but the above code looks like it could be
simplified to:
for line in
On Dec 16, 2004, at 03:56, Marc Gartler wrote:
Hi everybody,
Prior to this chunk of code 'glass' has been chosen from a list of
colors via user input, and I now want to have that choice connect to
one of several possible classes:
def glass_type(glasstype):
if glasstype == 'Red':
On Dec 16, 2004, at 04:20, Max Noel wrote:
def glass_type(glasstype):
if glasstype == 'Red':
myglass = RedGlassCost()
elif glasstype == 'Blue':
myglass = BlueGlassCost()
elif glasstype == 'Yellow':
myglass = YellowGlassCost
On Dec 14, 2004, at 18:15, Gooch, John wrote:
This is weird. I have a script that checks walks through directories,
checks
to see if their name matches a certain format ( regular expression ),
and
then prints out what it finds. However, it refuses to ever match on
numbers
unless the regexp is
On Dec 8, 2004, at 17:01, Dick Moores wrote:
I got this error msg for this line of code:
n = -(2(a**3.0)/27.0 - a*b/3.0 + c)
(where a = 1, b = 2, c = 3)
And was baffled until I realized the line should be
n = -(2*(a**3.0)/27.0 - a*b/3.0 + c)
But I still don't understand what callable means. Can
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