On Sat, 20 Aug 2022 at 05:12, Barry wrote:
>
>
>
> > On 19 Aug 2022, at 19:33, Chris Angelico wrote:
> >
> > What's the best way to precisely reconstruct an HTML file after
> > parsing it with BeautifulSoup?
>
> I recall that in bs4 it parses i
What's the best way to precisely reconstruct an HTML file after
parsing it with BeautifulSoup?
Using the Alice example from the BS4 docs:
>>> html_doc = """The Dormouse's story
The Dormouse's story
Once upon a time there were three little sisters; and
their names were
http://example.com/elsie;
On Fri, 19 Aug 2022 at 10:07, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
> On 2022-08-18, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > On Fri, 19 Aug 2022 at 05:05, Grant Edwards
> > wrote:
> >> On 2022-08-18, Chris Angelico wrote:
> >>
> >> > It's one of the frustrations w
On Fri, 19 Aug 2022 at 08:15, Tobiah wrote:
>
> > You configure the web server to send:
> >
> > Content-Type: text/html; charset=...
> >
> > in the HTTP header when it serves HTML files.
>
> So how does this break down? When a person enters
> Montréal, Quebéc into a form field, what are
On Fri, 19 Aug 2022 at 05:05, Grant Edwards wrote:
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> On 2022-08-18, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > On Fri, 19 Aug 2022 at 04:19, David at Booomer wrote:
> >
> >> The trailing , does make commenting out arguments easier but
> >> unexpected coming from ‘ol
On Fri, 19 Aug 2022 at 04:19, David at Booomer wrote:
> > This is really common in modern programming languages (read: programming
> > languages younger than 30 years or so), because it makes it much more
> > convenient to extend/shorten/reorder a list. Otherwise you alway have to
> > remember
On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 at 07:05, Dan Stromberg wrote:
>
> Hi folks.
>
> I'm attempting to package up a python package that uses Cython.
>
> Rather than build binaries for everything under the sun, I've been focusing
> on including the .pyx file and running cython on it at install time. This
>
On Sat, 6 Aug 2022 at 22:39, Richard Damon wrote:
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> On 8/6/22 8:12 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > On Sat, 6 Aug 2022 at 22:08, Richard Damon wrote:
> >> On 8/6/22 12:01 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> >>> On Sat, 6 Aug 2022 at 13:54, Dan Stromberg wrote:
>
On Sat, 6 Aug 2022 at 22:08, Richard Damon wrote:
>
> On 8/6/22 12:01 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > On Sat, 6 Aug 2022 at 13:54, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> >> On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 12:54 PM Grant Edwards
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> In C, thi
On Sat, 6 Aug 2022 at 13:54, Dan Stromberg wrote:
>
> On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 12:54 PM Grant Edwards
> wrote:
>
> > In C, this doesn't do what it looks like it's supposed to do.
> >
> >if (foo)
> > do_this();
> > and_this();
> >then_do_this();
> >
> It's been quite a while since
On Tue, 2 Aug 2022 at 07:48, <2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com> wrote:
>
> On 2022-08-01 at 13:41:11 -0700,
> Dan Stromberg wrote:
>
> > keys = [5, 10, 15, 14, 9, 4, 1, 2, 8, 6, 7, 12, 11]
> >
> > dict_ = {}
> > for key in keys:
> > dict_[key] = 1
>
> $ python
> Python 3.10.5 (main, Jun 6
On Tue, 2 Aug 2022 at 06:50, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>
> >
> > So I decided to write a little test program to run on a variety of
> > CPythons, to confirm what I was thinking.
> >
> > And instead I got a surprise.
> >
> > On 1.4 through 2.1 I got descending key order. I expected the keys to be
> >
On Sun, 31 Jul 2022 at 20:27, Weatherby,Gerard wrote:
>
> I’m not aware of any standard convention for laying out packages.
>
> PEP 8 (https://peps.python.org/pep-0008/) specifies conventions for how to
> write Python, so a standard layout PEP would not be inconsistent.
>
PEP 8 species rules
On Sat, 30 Jul 2022 at 04:54, Morten W. Petersen wrote:
>
> OK.
>
> Well, I've worked with web hosting in the past, and proxies like squid were
> used to lessen the load on dynamic backends. There was also a website
> opensourcearticles.com that we had with Firefox, Thunderbird articles etc.
On Fri, 29 Jul 2022 at 11:42, Andrew MacIntyre wrote:
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> On 29/07/2022 8:08 am, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > It takes a bit of time to start ten thousand threads, but after that,
> > the system is completely idle again until I notify them all and they
> > shut down.
> >
On Fri, 29 Jul 2022 at 07:24, Morten W. Petersen wrote:
>
> Forwarding to the list as well.
>
> -- Forwarded message -
> From: Morten W. Petersen
> Date: Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 11:22 PM
> Subject: Re: Simple TCP proxy
> To: Chris Angelico
>
>
> W
On Thu, 28 Jul 2022 at 21:01, Morten W. Petersen wrote:
>
> Well, I was thinking of following the socketserver / handle layout of code
> and execution, for now anyway.
>
> It wouldn't be a big deal to make them block, but another option is to
> increase the sleep period 100% for every 200
On Thu, 28 Jul 2022 at 19:41, Morten W. Petersen wrote:
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> Hi Martin.
>
> I was thinking of doing something with the handle function, but just this
> little tweak:
>
> https://github.com/morphex/stp/commit/9910ca8c80e9d150222b680a4967e53f0457b465
>
> made a huge difference in CPU usage.
On Thu, 28 Jul 2022 at 05:36, Cecil Westerhof via Python-list
wrote:
>
> Roel Schroeven writes:
>
> > Cecil Westerhof via Python-list schreef op 27/07/2022 om 17:43:
> >> "Michael F. Stemper" writes:
> >>
> >> > This is orthogonal to your question, but might be of some use to you:
> >> >
> >> >
On Thu, 28 Jul 2022 at 04:32, Morten W. Petersen wrote:
>
> Hi Chris.
>
> You're thinking of the backlog argument of listen?
Yes, precisely.
> Well, STP will accept all connections, but can limit how many of the accepted
> connections that are active at any given time.
>
> So when I bombed it
On Thu, 28 Jul 2022 at 02:15, Morten W. Petersen wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> I'd like to share with you a recent project, which is a simple TCP proxy
> that can stand in front of a TCP server of some sort, queueing requests and
> then allowing n number of connections to pass through at a time:
How's this
On Wed, 27 Jul 2022 at 09:28, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>
> On Tue, 26 Jul 2022 16:38:38 +0200, Cecil Westerhof
> declaimed the following:
>
> >I need to get a random integer. At first I tried it with:
> >from secrets import randbelow
> >index = randbelow(len(to_try))
> >
> >This works
On Wed, 27 Jul 2022 at 08:18, Cecil Westerhof via Python-list
wrote:
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> Chris Angelico writes:
>
> > On Wed, 27 Jul 2022 at 06:06, Cecil Westerhof via Python-list
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Chris Angelico writes:
> >>
> >> > O
On Wed, 27 Jul 2022 at 06:06, Cecil Westerhof via Python-list
wrote:
>
> Chris Angelico writes:
>
> > On Wed, 27 Jul 2022 at 01:06, Cecil Westerhof via Python-list
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> I need to get a random integer. At first I tried it with:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2022 at 01:06, Cecil Westerhof via Python-list
wrote:
>
> I need to get a random integer. At first I tried it with:
> from secrets import randbelow
> index = randbelow(len(to_try))
>
> This works perfectly, but it took some time. So I thought I try:
> from random
On Wed, 20 Jul 2022 at 23:50, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote:
>
> I found
>
> https://peps.python.org/pep-3101/
>
> """
> PEP 3101 – Advanced String Formatting
> ...
> An example of the ‘getitem’ syntax:
>
> "My name is {0[name]}".format(dict(name='Fred'))
>
> It should be noted that the use
On Wed, 20 Jul 2022 at 21:06, Frank Millman wrote:
> I saw this from Paul Rubin - for some reason his posts appear in google
> groups, but not python-list.
>
> "It seems to only want integer constants. x[2+2] and x[k] where k=2
> don't work either.
Yes, that's for the same reason that x[spam]
On Wed, 20 Jul 2022 at 20:55, Frank Millman wrote:
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> On 2022-07-20 11:37 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > On Wed, 20 Jul 2022 at 18:34, Frank Millman wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all
> >>
> >> C:\Users\E7280>python
> >> Python 3.9.7 (tags/v3
On Wed, 20 Jul 2022 at 18:34, Frank Millman wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> C:\Users\E7280>python
> Python 3.9.7 (tags/v3.9.7:1016ef3, Aug 30 2021, 20:19:38) [MSC v.1929 64
> bit (AMD64)] on win32
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>>
> >>> x = list(range(10))
>
On Sat, 9 Jul 2022 at 10:57, MRAB wrote:
>
> On 08/07/2022 23:20, Avi Gross via Python-list wrote:
> > Nati Stern has asked several questions here, often about relatively
> > technical uses of python code that many of us have never used and still is
> > not providing more exact info that tends
On Thu, 30 Jun 2022 at 02:49, Johannes Bauer wrote:
> But now consider what happens when we create the lambdas inside a list
> comprehension (in my original I used a generator expresison, but the
> result is the same). Can you guess what happens when we create conds
> like this?
>
> conds = [
On Wed, 29 Jun 2022 at 11:00, Rob Cliffe via Python-list
wrote:
>
> On 26/06/2022 23:22, Jon Ribbens via Python-list wrote:
> > On 2022-06-26, Rob Cliffe wrote:
> >> This 2-line program
> >>
> >> def f(): pass
> >> def g(): pass
> >>
> >> runs silently (no Exception). But:
> >>
> >> 23:07:02
On Wed, 29 Jun 2022 at 01:37, נתי שטרן wrote:
> headers["Authorization"] = "Basic
> YjMwMzcwODY3NTUzNDMwNTg5NzA2MjkyNDFmMDE1YWY6VjNKYTk2Y1F4RTFzeTdYbzRnbkt0a2k1djhscXUyU01oSE5VWUwwRg=="
>
The error is that you just revealed your credentials to the whole
world. This is a public mailing list.
On Mon, 27 Jun 2022 at 08:15, Rob Cliffe via Python-list
wrote:
>
> This 2-line program
>
> def f(): pass
> def g(): pass
>
> runs silently (no Exception). But:
>
> 23:07:02 c:\>python
> Python 3.8.3 (tags/v3.8.3:6f8c832, May 13 2020, 22:20:19) [MSC v.1925 32
> bit (Intel)] on win32
> Type
On Fri, 24 Jun 2022 at 22:16, נתי שטרן wrote:
>
> My TARGET is to bind many code libraries to one Huge code file that works
> optimally and do optimizations if needed.
> In this file have code of huge part of falconpy, ALL code of re, argparse,
> are and many other code libraries
>
> This
On Fri, 24 Jun 2022 at 18:43, נתי שטרן wrote:
>
> class _NamedIntConstant(int):
> def __new__(cls, value, name):
> self = super(_NamedIntConstant, cls).__new__(cls, value)
> self.name = name
> return self
>
> def __repr__(self):
> return self.name
>
>
On Fri, 24 Jun 2022 at 09:03, Mats Wichmann wrote:
> Also note that while it's claimed to be fine These Days, inheriting from
> a base type like this is sometimes tricky, sometimes broken... be
> somewhat aware.
Depends on your definition of "broken". If you want to make a custom
integer type,
On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 at 13:12, Paulo da Silva
wrote:
>
> Às 03:20 de 21/06/22, MRAB escreveu:
> > On 2022-06-21 02:33, Chris Angelico wrote:
> >> On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 at 11:13, Paulo da Silva
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Às 20:01 de 20/06/22,
On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 at 12:53, Avi Gross via Python-list
wrote:
>
> I don't even want to think fo what sound a C# Python would make.
Probably about 277 Hz...
ChrisA
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https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 at 11:13, Paulo da Silva
wrote:
>
> Às 20:01 de 20/06/22, Paulo da Silva escreveu:
> > Às 18:19 de 20/06/22, Stefan Ram escreveu:
> >>The same personality traits that make people react
> >>to troll postings might make them spread unconfirmed
> >>ideas about the
On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 at 08:01, dn wrote:
>
> On 21/06/2022 09.47, Roel Schroeven wrote:
> ...
>
> > So we have an untrustworthy site that's the only one to claim that
> > CPython is short for Core Python, and we have an official site that says
> > CPython is so named because it's written in C. Hm,
On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 at 07:48, Roel Schroeven wrote:
>
> Paulo da Silva schreef op 20/06/2022 om 21:01:
> > Às 18:19 de 20/06/22, Stefan Ram escreveu:
> > >The same personality traits that make people react
> > >to troll postings might make them spread unconfirmed
> > >ideas about the
On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 at 06:31, Stefan Ram wrote:
>
> Paulo da Silva writes:
> >Do you have any credible reference to your assertion "The "C" in
> >"CPython" stands for C."?
>
> Whether a source is considered "credible" is something
> everyone must decide for themselves.
>
> I can say that
On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 at 06:16, Leo wrote:
>
> On Wed, 15 Jun 2022 04:47:31 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
> > Don't bother with a main() function unless you actually need to be
> > able to use it as a function. Most of the time, it's simplest to
> > just ha
Somewhere around the place, I remember reading something about how PEP
401 (the retirement of the BDFL and the accession of the FLUFL) came
to be. It involved a joke being turned on its originator, I think. But
I can't find it back. Anyone have a reference handy?
ChrisA
--
On Thu, 16 Jun 2022 at 05:00, Zoltan Szenderak wrote:
>
>
>
> Only on my Windows 10, on my Windows 11 works perfectly. I uninstalled and
> reinstalled python, it did not help, I tried everything I found online,
> Stackoverflow, python.org, did not help. Not just this module, others too.
> They
On Wed, 15 Jun 2022 at 05:45, Roel Schroeven wrote:
>
> Chris Angelico schreef op 14/06/2022 om 20:47:
> > > def main():
> > > for each in (iterEmpty, iter1, iter2, iterMany):
> > > baseIterator = each()
> > > chopFirst
On Wed, 15 Jun 2022 at 04:07, Travis Griggs wrote:
> def mapFirst(stream, transform):
> try:
> first = next(stream)
> except StopIteration:
> return
> yield transform(first)
> yield from stream
Small suggestion: Begin with this:
stream = iter(stream)
That way,
On Tue, 14 Jun 2022 at 01:59, h3ck phy wrote:
>
> It would be nice if we could write something like this
> data: dict[str, *] = {}
> instead of
> data: dict[str, Any] = {}
>
> In import statement asterisk means "all names" in a module.
> But in type closure it should mean "all types".
Type hints
On Fri, 10 Jun 2022 at 03:44, Dave wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Before I write my own I wondering if anyone knows of a function that will
> print a nicely formatted dictionary?
>
> By nicely formatted I mean not all on one line!
>
https://docs.python.org/3/library/pprint.html
from pprint import pprint
On Thu, 9 Jun 2022 at 04:14, <2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com> wrote:
>
> On 2022-06-09 at 03:18:56 +1000,
> Chris Angelico wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 9 Jun 2022 at 03:15, <2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 2022-06-08
On Thu, 9 Jun 2022 at 03:15, <2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com> wrote:
>
> On 2022-06-08 at 08:07:40 -,
> De ongekruisigde wrote:
>
> > Depending on the problem a regular expression may be the much simpler
> > solution. I love them for e.g. text parsing and use them all the time.
> >
On Wed, 8 Jun 2022 at 19:13, Dave wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for this!
>
> So, is there a copy function/method that returns a MutableString like in
> objective-C? I’ve solved this problems before in a number of languages like
> Objective-C and AppleScript.
>
> Basically there is a set of common
On Wed, 8 Jun 2022 at 18:20, Dave wrote:
>
> PS
>
> I’ve also tried:
> myCompareFile1 = myTitleName
> myCompareFile1.replace("\u2019", "'")
> myCompareFile2 = myCompareFileName
> myCompareFile2.replace("\u2019", "'")
> Which also doesn’t work, the replace itself work but it still fails the
>
On Wed, 8 Jun 2022 at 18:12, Dave wrote:
> I tried the but it doesn’t seem to work?
> myCompareFile1 = ascii(myTitleName)
> myCompareFile1.replace("\u2019", "'")
Strings in Python are immutable. When you call ascii(), you get back a
new string, but it's one that has actual backslashes and such
On Wed, 8 Jun 2022 at 07:24, Barry wrote:
>
>
>
> > On 7 Jun 2022, at 22:04, Dave wrote:
> >
> > It depends on the language I’m using, in Objective C, I’d use isNumeric,
> > just wanted to know what the equivalent is in Python.
> >
> > If you know the answer why don’t you just tell me and if
On Sun, 5 Jun 2022 at 08:09, dn wrote:
>
> On 05/06/2022 09.50, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > No, but it shouldn't be too hard to make it if you want it. The
> > obvious option of calling max/min on the enumerated list won't work on
> > its own, since the index comes before t
On Sun, 5 Jun 2022 at 08:00, dn wrote:
>
> On 05/06/2022 06.56, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> > On Sat, 4 Jun 2022 13:36:26 -0500, "Michael F. Stemper"
> > declaimed the following:
> >
> >>
> >> Are there similar functions that return not only the minimum
> >> or maximum value, but also its
On Sun, 5 Jun 2022 at 07:46, Michael F. Stemper
wrote:
>
> Python contains built-in functions that return the minimum or
> maximum items in a list.
>
> >>> l = [1.618033,3.141593,2.718282]
> >>> min(l)
> 1.618033
> >>> max(l)
> 3.141593
> >>>
>
> Are there similar functions that
On Wed, 1 Jun 2022 at 11:05, Steve GS wrote:
>
>
> >Even easier, the few NPR podcasts I just checked now have RSS feeds of
> their episodes (as expected). It seems it would be much easier to just
> download the latest episode based on the XML file, normalize, send it to
> play, done.
>
> How
On Sun, 29 May 2022 at 08:26, Eryk Sun wrote:
>
> On 5/28/22, Chris Angelico wrote:
> >
> > be extremely confusing; so to keep everything safe, the interpreter
> > generates a name you couldn't possibly want - same as for the function
> > itself, which is
On Sun, 29 May 2022 at 06:41, Ralf M. wrote:
>
> Am 13.05.2022 um 23:23 schrieb Paul Bryan:
> > On Sat, 2022-05-14 at 00:47 +0800, bryangan41 wrote:
> >
> >> May I know (1) why can the name start with a number?
> >
> > The name of an attribute must be an identifier. An identifier cannot
> > begin
On Mon, 23 May 2022 at 09:19, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> That's not too informative (other than its relationship to moi), and I have
> room for probably four or five more characters. (I have a graphic artist in
> mind, so the space need not strictly be text either.)
Aww, not enough room to say
On Mon, 23 May 2022 at 09:23, Stefan Ram wrote:
> You are making it extra hard by wording the question in this
> way. "What's the difference between the moon and liberty?". Uh ...
>
> It's much easier to explain the moon and liberty separately.
"You can't tell the difference between a lump
On Sat, 21 May 2022 at 11:22, Michael Torrie wrote:
> And of course the answer given by the grandparent is that Dan should use
> a normal linux shebang line in his scripts and on Windows the py
> launcher will read that shebang and guestimate the proper python
> interpreter to use and execute the
On Wed, 18 May 2022 at 19:40, Stephen Tucker wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am a Windows 10 user still using Python 2.x (for good reasons, I assure
> you.)
>
> I have a Python 2.x module that I would like to be able to use in a variety
> of Python 2.x programs. The module outputs characters to the user
On Wed, 18 May 2022 at 04:05, Loris Bennett wrote:
>
> [snip (26 lines)]
>
> > I think you had a problem before that. Debian testing is not an
> > operating system you should be using if you have a fairly good
> > understanding of how Debian (or Linux in general) works.
>
> Should be
>
> I
On Wed, 18 May 2022 at 04:05, Loris Bennett wrote:
> > So now I have problems.
>
> I think you had a problem before that. Debian testing is not an
> operating system you should be using if you have a fairly good
> understanding of how Debian (or Linux in general) works.
I take issue with that!
On Tue, 17 May 2022 at 21:22, o1bigtenor wrote:
>
> Greetings
>
> I was having space issues in my /usr directory so I deleted some
> programs thinking that the space taken was more an issue than having
> older versions of the program.
>
> So one of the programs I deleted (using rm -r) was
On Sun, 15 May 2022 at 14:27, dn wrote:
>
> On 15/05/2022 11.34, 2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com wrote:
> > On 2022-05-15 at 10:22:15 +1200,
> > dn wrote:
> >
> >> That said, a function which starts with a list of ifs-buts-and-maybes*
> >> which are only there to ascertain which set of
On Thu, 12 May 2022 at 07:27, Marco Sulla wrote:
>
> On Wed, 11 May 2022 at 22:09, Chris Angelico wrote:
> >
> > Have you actually checked those three, or do you merely suppose them to be
> > true?
>
> I only suppose, as I said. I should do some benchmark and some
On Thu, 12 May 2022 at 06:03, Marco Sulla wrote:
> I suppose this function is fast. It reads the bytes from the file in chunks
> and stores them in a bytearray, prepending them to it. The final result is
> read from the bytearray and converted to bytes (to be consistent with the
> read method).
>
On Tue, 10 May 2022 at 19:57, anthony.flury
wrote:
>
>
> On 10/05/2022 09:20, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
> On Tue, 10 May 2022 at 18:06, anthony.flury via Python-ideas
> wrote:
>
> A proposal for a new tool to be implemented -
>
> It is often the case that
On Tue, 10 May 2022 at 07:07, Barry wrote:
> POSIX tail just prints the bytes to the output that it finds between \n bytes.
> At no time does it need to care about encodings as that is a problem solved
> by the terminal software. I would not expect utf-16 to work with tail on
> linux systems.
On Tue, 10 May 2022 at 05:12, Marco Sulla wrote:
>
> On Mon, 9 May 2022 at 19:53, Chris Angelico wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 10 May 2022 at 03:47, Marco Sulla
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, 9 May 2022 at 07:56, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> > > >
&
On Tue, 10 May 2022 at 03:47, Marco Sulla wrote:
>
> On Mon, 9 May 2022 at 07:56, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> >
> > The point here is that text is a very different thing. Because you
> > cannot seek to an absolute number of characters in an encoding with
> > variable sized characters. _If_ you did
On Mon, 9 May 2022 at 05:49, Marco Sulla wrote:
> Anyway, apart from my implementation, I'm curious if you think a tail
> method is worth it to be a method of the builtin file objects in
> CPython.
Absolutely not. As has been stated multiple times in this thread, a
fully general approach is
On Mon, 9 May 2022 at 04:15, Barry Scott wrote:
>
>
>
> > On 7 May 2022, at 22:31, Chris Angelico wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 8 May 2022 at 07:19, Stefan Ram wrote:
> >>
> >> MRAB writes:
> >>> On 2022-05-07 19:47, Stefan Ram wrote:
> >
On Sun, 8 May 2022 at 07:19, Stefan Ram wrote:
>
> MRAB writes:
> >On 2022-05-07 19:47, Stefan Ram wrote:
> ...
> >>def encoding( name ):
> >>path = pathlib.Path( name )
> >>for encoding in( "utf_8", "latin_1", "cp1252" ):
> >>try:
> >>with path.open(
On Sun, 8 May 2022 at 04:37, Marco Sulla wrote:
>
> On Sat, 7 May 2022 at 19:02, MRAB wrote:
> >
> > On 2022-05-07 17:28, Marco Sulla wrote:
> > > On Sat, 7 May 2022 at 16:08, Barry wrote:
> > >> You need to handle the file in bin mode and do the handling of line
> > >> endings and encodings
On Fri, 6 May 2022 at 09:53, Grant Edwards wrote:
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> On 2022-05-05, Mats Wichmann wrote:
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> > Without having any data at all on it, just my impressions, more
> > people these days learn from in-person or video experiences.
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> I've always been utterly baffled by video tutorials for
>
On Thu, 5 May 2022 at 13:14, Avi Gross wrote:
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> Chris,
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> It was an extremely open-ended question to a forum where
> most of the readers are more advanced, at least I think.
>
>
> My library has oodles of Python Books for free to borrow on paper and
> return and I have read many of them. There
On Thu, 5 May 2022 at 12:57, Avi Gross via Python-list
wrote:
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> https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonBooks
>
That's an incredibly daunting list, and not something I'd overly
strongly recommend, but yes, if you want to get a dead-tree or e-book
to read, there are quite a lot of options available.
On Thu, 5 May 2022 at 12:49, Patrick 0511 wrote:
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> Hello, I'm completely new here and don't know anything about python. Can
> someone tell me how best to start? So what things should I learn first?
>
I'd start right here with the tutorial!
https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/
Most important
On Tue, 3 May 2022 at 04:38, Marco Sulla wrote:
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> On Mon, 2 May 2022 at 18:31, Stefan Ram wrote:
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> > |The Unicode standard defines a number of characters that
> > |conforming applications should recognize as line terminators:[7]
> > |
> > |LF:Line Feed, U+000A
> > |VT:Vertical Tab,
On Mon, 2 May 2022 at 11:54, Cameron Simpson wrote:
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> On 01May2022 23:30, Stefan Ram wrote:
> >Dan Stromberg writes:
> >>But what about Unicode? Are all 10 bytes newlines in Unicode encodings?
> > It seems in UTF-8, when a value is above U+007F, it will be
> > encoded with bytes that
On Mon, 2 May 2022 at 09:20, Dan Stromberg wrote:
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> On Sun, May 1, 2022 at 1:44 PM Chris Angelico wrote:
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>> On Mon, 2 May 2022 at 06:43, Dan Stromberg wrote:
>> > On Sun, May 1, 2022 at 11:10 AM Chris Angelico wrote:
>> >>
>> &g
On Mon, 2 May 2022 at 09:19, Dan Stromberg wrote:
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> On Sun, May 1, 2022 at 3:19 PM Cameron Simpson wrote:
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> > On 01May2022 18:55, Marco Sulla wrote:
> > >Something like this is OK?
> >
>
> Scanning backward for a byte == 10 in ASCII or ISO-8859 seems fine.
>
> But what about Unicode? Are
On Mon, 2 May 2022 at 01:53, Nas Bayedil wrote:
> We believe that using this method to develop completely new, fast
> algorithms, approaching the speed of the famous *QuickSort*, the speed of
> which cannot be surpassed, but its drawback can be circumvented, in the
> sense of stack overflow, on
On Sun, 1 May 2022 at 00:03, Vlastimil Brom wrote:
> (Even the redundant u prefix from your python2 sample is apparently
> accepted, maybe for compatibility reasons.)
Yes, for compatibility reasons. It wasn't accepted in Python 3.0, but
3.3 re-added it to make porting easier. It doesn't do
On Mon, 25 Apr 2022 at 01:47, Marco Sulla wrote:
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> On Sat, 23 Apr 2022 at 23:18, Chris Angelico wrote:
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>> Ah. Well, then, THAT is why it's inefficient: you're seeking back one
>> single byte at a time, then reading forwards. That is NOT going to
&g
On Sun, 24 Apr 2022 at 21:11, Antoon Pardon wrote:
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> Op 23/04/2022 om 20:57 schreef Chris Angelico:
> > On Sun, 24 Apr 2022 at 04:37, Marco Sulla
> > wrote:
> >> What about introducing a method for text streams that reads the lines
&g
On Sun, 24 Apr 2022 at 10:04, Cameron Simpson wrote:
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> On 24Apr2022 08:21, Chris Angelico wrote:
> >On Sun, 24 Apr 2022 at 08:18, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> >> An approach I think you both may have missed: mmap the file and use
> >> mmap.rfind(b'\n') to loca
On Sun, 24 Apr 2022 at 08:18, Cameron Simpson wrote:
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> On 24Apr2022 07:15, Chris Angelico wrote:
> >On Sun, 24 Apr 2022 at 07:13, Marco Sulla
> >wrote:
> >> Emh, why chunks? My function simply reads byte per byte and compares
> >> it to b"\n"
On Sun, 24 Apr 2022 at 08:06, dn wrote:
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> On 24/04/2022 09.15, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > On Sun, 24 Apr 2022 at 07:13, Marco Sulla
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sat, 23 Apr 2022 at 23:00, Chris Angelico wrote:
> >>>>> This is quite ineffici
On Sun, 24 Apr 2022 at 08:03, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
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> On 2022-04-24 04:57:20 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > On Sun, 24 Apr 2022 at 04:37, Marco Sulla
> > wrote:
> > > What about introducing a method for text streams that reads the lines
> >
On Sun, 24 Apr 2022 at 07:13, Marco Sulla wrote:
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> On Sat, 23 Apr 2022 at 23:00, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > > > This is quite inefficient in general.
> > >
> > > Why inefficient? I think that readlines() will be much slower, not
> > > only mor
On Sun, 24 Apr 2022 at 06:41, Marco Sulla wrote:
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> On Sat, 23 Apr 2022 at 20:59, Chris Angelico wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 24 Apr 2022 at 04:37, Marco Sulla
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > What about introducing a method for text streams that reads the
On Sun, 24 Apr 2022 at 04:37, Marco Sulla wrote:
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> What about introducing a method for text streams that reads the lines
> from the bottom? Java has also a ReversedLinesFileReader with Apache
> Commons IO.
It's fundamentally difficult to get precise. In general, there are
three steps to
On Sat, 23 Apr 2022 at 09:31, Rob Cliffe via Python-list
wrote:
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> I don't use docstrings much; instead I put a line or two of comments
> after the `def ` line.
> But my practice in such situations is as per the OP's 3rd suggestion, e.g.
> # Returns True if .
The point of docstrings is
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