Re: [Tutor] min max confusion

2007-02-07 Thread frank h.
:-)) turns out I found the problem: max was a local integer variable in my namespace. as such it was obviously not callable On 2/7/07, frank h. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hello all here is a disturbing session with min() and max() for which I have absolutely no explanation >>

[Tutor] min max confusion

2007-02-07 Thread frank h.
hello all here is a disturbing session with min() and max() for which I have absolutely no explanation t = (952L, 945L, 941L, 939L, 949L, 972L, 956L, 965L, 973L, 965L) min(t) 939L max(t) exceptions.TypeError Traceback (most recent call last) TypeError: 'int' ob

Re: [Tutor] timedelta doesnt do month

2007-02-05 Thread frank h.
thanks kent for your fast and comprehensive answer! On 2/5/07, Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: frank h. wrote: > so what is the easiest way to to get to a list of months in a given > timeinterval, e.g. > > >> startdate = datetime.date(2005,2,13) > >>

[Tutor] timedelta doesnt do month

2007-02-05 Thread frank h.
so what is the easiest way to to get to a list of months in a given timeinterval, e.g. startdate = datetime.date(2005,2,13) enddate = datetime.date(2007,1,25) delta = enddate - startdate delta.days 711 delta.months exceptions.AttributeErrorTraceback (most recent ca

Re: [Tutor] local daynames in unicode

2007-01-31 Thread frank h.
hm I guess I found an answer myself on windows, the default encoding is not 'utf8' thus, if I use encoding = locale.getlocale()[1] t.decode(encoding) instead of t.decode('utf8') it works On 1/31/07, frank h. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello all, using python 2

[Tutor] local daynames in unicode

2007-01-31 Thread frank h.
Hello all, using python 2.4.4, I have the following session on Mac OS X: import datetime, locale locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'se_SE') t=datetime.date(2007,01,29).strftime("%A") t 'M?\xa5ndag' type(t) t.decode('utf8') u'M\xe5ndag' fantastic! I just got the unicode version of the swedish name

[Tutor] setlocale on windows

2006-11-02 Thread frank h.
Hello all,I wrote a script on UNIX that uses the following statements:import locale, datetimelocale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'sv_Se')with that, I can get localized dates like this> datetime.datetime.today ().strftime('%A')'Fredag'problem is, this doesnt work on windows!I get:locale.Error: unsupport

[Tutor] from string to variable name

2006-10-05 Thread frank h.
hello, i have a string variable that  contains a name that I want to use as a variablenameputting aside questions of why I would like to do that - i this possible at all?so I want to assign a value to a variable whos name is available only as a string to me. that variable does not exist yet in the

[Tutor] local day names in ascii

2006-06-19 Thread frank h.
Hello List,i am trying to convert local Swedish daynames to ASCII"Måndag" should become "Mandag""Lördag" should become "Lordag""Söndag" should become "Sondag" here is my sessionimport localelocale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'sv_Se')datetime.date(2006, 06, 19).strftime("%A")'M\xc3\xa5ndag'datetime.dat

Re: [Tutor] timeout

2006-01-16 Thread frank h.
Hello how can I break a loop after a certain amount of time has passed? pseudocode: with timeout of 60sec: while True: pass is there a simple way? without resorting to queues etc. (this is a bit over my head) thanks for any insight you might have -frank On 1/16/06, frank h

[Tutor] timeout

2006-01-16 Thread frank h.
Hello how can I break a loop after a certain amount of time has passed? pseudocode: with timeout of 60sec: ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

[Tutor] use gzip with large files

2005-07-19 Thread frank h.
hello all I am trying to write a script in python that parses a gzipped logfile the unzipped logfiles can be very large (>2GB) basically the statements file = gzip.GzipFile(logfile) data = file.read() for line in data.striplines(): would do what I want, but this is not feasible becasue t