On 2024-05-26, Gilmeh Serda via Python-list wrote:
> The web claims (I think on all pages I've read about Markdown and Python)
> that this code should work, with some very minor variants on the topic:
>
> ```python
>
> import os
>
> with open(os.path.join('/home/user/apath', 'somefile')) as f:
>
On 2024-05-19, Barry via Python-list wrote:
>
>
>> On 18 May 2024, at 16:27, Peter J. Holzer via Python-list
>> wrote:
>>
>> I don't think Linux users have to deal with venvs
>
> Modern debian (ubuntu) and fedora block users installing using pip.
You can't even use pip to do "user" installs?
On 2024-05-19, Gilmeh Serda via Python-list wrote:
> On Sun, 19 May 2024 08:32:46 +0100, Alan Gauld wrote:
>
>> I've honestly never experienced this "nightmare".
>> I install stuff and it just works.
>
> Hear! Hear! Me too! And all that.
>
> I'm on Manjaro, which is a tad finicky about other
On 2024-05-19, Alan Gauld via Python-list wrote:
>> The dependency nightmare created by python, pip
>> and all the rest cannot be resolved otherwise.
>
> I've honestly never experienced this "nightmare".
> I install stuff and it just works.
Same here. I occasonlly use pip to install something
On 2024-05-18, Mats Wichmann via Python-list wrote:
> Distros have do offer a good selection of packaged Python bits, yes, but
> only for the version of Python that's "native" to that distro release.
> If you need to test other versions of Python, you're mostly on your own.
For a few years I
On 2024-05-18, Peter J. Holzer via Python-list wrote:
> On 2024-05-16 19:46:07 +0100, Gordinator via Python-list wrote:
>
>> To be fair, the problem is the fact that they use Windows (but I
>> guess Linux users have to deal with venvs, so we're even.
>
> I don't think Linux users have to deal
On 2024-05-14, Alan Gauld via Python-list wrote:
> On 14/05/2024 18:44, Gordinator via Python-list wrote:
>
>> I wish to write a terminal emulator in Python. I am a fairly
>> competent Python user, and I wish to try a new project idea. What
>> references can I use when writing my terminal
On 2024-05-14, Alan Gauld via Python-list wrote:
> On 14/05/2024 18:44, Gordinator via Python-list wrote:
>
>> I wish to write a terminal emulator in Python. I am a fairly
>> competent Python user, and I wish to try a new project idea. What
>> references can I use when writing my terminal
On 2024-04-10, Alan Gauld via Python-list wrote:
> On 10/04/2024 19:50, WordWeaver Evangelist via Python-list wrote:
>
>> I have a simple question. I use the following textPrompt in some of my
>> Jython modules:
>> '\n[1;33mYour choice is? (A B C D E): ', maxChars=1, autoAccept=False,
>>
On 2024-04-10, WordWeaver Evangelist via Python-list
wrote:
> I have a simple question. I use the following textPrompt in some of my Jython
> modules:
> '\n[1;33mYour choice is? (A B C D E): ', maxChars=1, autoAccept=False,
> forceUppercase=True)
> Is there a way to add an ANSI color code
On 2024-03-25, Loris Bennett via Python-list wrote:
> Grant Edwards writes:
>
>> On 2024-03-22, Loris Bennett via Python-list wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, I was mistakenly thinking that the popping the element would
>>> leave me with the dict minus the popped key-v
On 2024-03-22, Loris Bennett via Python-list wrote:
> Yes, I was mistakenly thinking that the popping the element would
> leave me with the dict minus the popped key-value pair.
It does.
> Seem like there is no such function.
Yes, there is. You can do that with either pop or del:
>>> d =
On 2024-03-21, MRAB via Python-list wrote:
> As it's recommended to use the Python Launcher py on Windows, I use
> that instead:
>
> py -m pip install something
>
> because it gives better support if you have multiple versions of
> Python installed.
I adopted that practice years ago on Linux as
On 2024-03-15, Thomas Passin via Python-list wrote:
> On 3/15/2024 5:30 AM, Loris Bennett via Python-list wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am initialising an object via the following:
>>
>> def __init__(self, config):
>>
>> self.connection = None
>>
>> self.source_name =
On 2024-03-08, Thomas Passin via Python-list wrote:
>
>> Hi, I tested this with Python 3.8. Good to know that this was fixed!
>
> We just learned a few posts back that it might be specific to Linux; I
> ran it on Windows.
On Linux, the limit is imposed by the filesystem. Most of the "real"
On 2024-03-08, Grant Edwards via Python-list wrote:
>> OSError: [Errno 36] File name to
On 2024-03-08, Grant Edwards via Python-list wrote:
> On 2024-03-08, Thomas Passin via Python-list wrote:
>> On 3/8/2024 1:03 PM, Albert-Jan Roskam via Python-list wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I was replacing some os.path stuff with Pathlib and I discovered this:
>
On 2024-03-08, Thomas Passin via Python-list wrote:
> On 3/8/2024 1:03 PM, Albert-Jan Roskam via Python-list wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I was replacing some os.path stuff with Pathlib and I discovered this:
>> Path(256 * "x").is_file() # OSError
>> os.path.isfile(256 * "x") # bool
>>
On 2024-03-08, Chris Angelico via Python-list wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Mar 2024 at 00:51, Grant Edwards via Python-list
> wrote:
>
>> One might argue that "global" isn't a good choice for what to call the
>> scope in question, since it's not global. It's limited to that
On 2024-03-07, Cameron Simpson via Python-list wrote:
> Yes. Note that the "global" namespace is the module in which the
> function is defined.
One might argue that "global" isn't a good choice for what to call the
scope in question, since it's not global. It's limited to that source
file. It
On 2024-03-07, dn via Python-list wrote:
> The idea of importing a module into the REPL and then (repeatedly)
> manually entering the code to set-up and execute is unusual (surely type
> such into a script (once), and run that (repeatedly). As you say, most
> of us would be working from an
On 2024-03-06, Roel Schroeven via Python-list wrote:
> Op 6/03/2024 om 17:40 schreef Jacob Kruger via Python-list:
>> >>> from scoping2 import *
>
> [...]
>
> I would advice not to use 'import *', if at all possible, for multiple
> reasons, one of which is to prevent problems like this.
On 2024-03-06, MRAB via Python-list wrote:
> On 2024-03-06 01:44, Ethan Furman via Python-list wrote:
>> On 3/5/24 16:49, MRAB via Python-list wrote:
>> > On 2024-03-06 00:24, Ethan Furman via Python-list wrote:
>> >> On 3/5/24 16:06, Chano Fucks via Python-list wrote:
>> >>
>> >>>
On 2024-03-05, Cameron Simpson via Python-list wrote:
> Because there are no variable definitions in Python, when you write
> a function Python does a static analysis of it to decide which
> variables are local and which are not. If there's an assignment to a
> variable, it is a local variable.
On 2024-02-24, MRAB via Python-list wrote:
> On 2024-02-24 01:14, Steve GS via Python-list wrote:
>
>> Python, Tkinter: How do I determine if a window has been resized? I
>> want to locate buttons vertically along the right border and need
>> to know the new width. The buttons are to move with
On 2024-02-19, Chris Green via Python-list wrote:
> It's using f'{...}' at the moment.
Here's a demonstration of how to hook custom code into the f-string
formatting engine. It's brilliantly depraved.
On 2024-02-19, Thomas Passin wrote:
>> About 24 hours later, all of my posts (and the confirmation e-mails)
>> all showed up in a burst at the same time on two different unrelated
>> e-mail accounts.
>>
>> I still have no clue what was going on...
>
> Sometimes a post of mine will not show up
On 2024-02-18, Peter J. Holzer via Python-list wrote:
> [Replying to the list *and* Grant]
>
> On 2024-02-17 19:38:04 -0500, Grant Edwards via Python-list wrote:
>> Today I noticed that nothing I've posted to python-list in past 3
>> weeks has shown up on the list.
>
Today I noticed that nothing I've posted to python-list in the past 3
weeks has shown up on the list. I don't know how to troubleshoot this
other than by sending test messages. Obviously, if this shows up on the
list, then I'm making progress...
[message 3]
--
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--
Today I noticed that nothing I've posted to python-list in past 3
weeks has shown up on the list. I don't know how to troubleshoot this
other than sending test messages. Obviously, if this shows up on the
list, then I'm making progress.
[message 4]
--
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--
Today I noticed that nothing I've posted to python-list in past 3
weeks has shown up on the list. I don't know how to troubleshoot this
other than sending test messages. Obviously, if this shows up on the
list, then I've gotten it to work...
--
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--
Today I noticed that nothing I've posted to python-list in past 3
weeks has shown up on the list. I don't know how to troubleshoot this
other than sending test messages. Obviously, if this shows up on the
list, then I've gotten it to work...
--
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--
On 2024-02-16, Chris Green wrote:
> I'm looking for a simple way to make NaN values output as something
> like '-' or even just a space instead of the string 'nan'.
I tried monkey-patching the __format__ method of float, but it's
immutable, so that didnt' work. Is float.__format__ what's used
[I've been trying all afternoon to post via slrn, but nothing is
showing up on the list. Forgive me if multiple posts eventually show
up.]
On 2024-02-17, Cameron Simpson via Python-list wrote:
> On 16Feb2024 22:12, Chris Green wrote:
>>I'm looking for a simple way to make NaN values output as
[Posts via slrn and my GMail account aren't showing up, so I guess I'll
try
subscribing from a different e-mail address.]
On 2024-02-17, Cameron Simpson via Python-list
wrote:
On 16Feb2024 22:12, Chris Green wrote:
I'm looking for a simple way to make NaN values output as something
like
On 2024-02-17, Cameron Simpson via Python-list wrote:
> On 16Feb2024 22:12, Chris Green wrote:
>>I'm looking for a simple way to make NaN values output as something
>>like '-' or even just a space instead of the string 'nan'. [...]
>>
>>Battery Voltages and Currents
>>Leisure Battery -
On 2024-02-17, Cameron Simpson via Python-list wrote:
> On 16Feb2024 22:12, Chris Green wrote:
>>I'm looking for a simple way to make NaN values output as something
>>like '-' or even just a space instead of the string 'nan'. [...]
>>
>>Battery Voltages and Currents
>>Leisure Battery -
On 2024-02-17, Cameron Simpson via Python-list wrote:
> On 16Feb2024 22:12, Chris Green wrote:
>>I'm looking for a simple way to make NaN values output as something
>>like '-' or even just a space instead of the string 'nan'. [...]
>>
>>Battery Voltages and Currents
>>Leisure Battery -
On 2024-02-17, Cameron Simpson via Python-list wrote:
> On 16Feb2024 22:12, Chris Green wrote:
>>I'm looking for a simple way to make NaN values output as something
>>like '-' or even just a space instead of the string 'nan'.
>>[...]
>>
>>Battery Voltages and Currents
>>Leisure Battery -
On 2024-02-16, Chris Green via Python-list wrote:
> I'm looking for a simple way to make NaN values output as something
> like '-' or even just a space instead of the string 'nan'.
It would probably help if you told us how you're "outputting" them now
(the Python feaatures/functions used, not
On 2024-01-29, Rich Shepard via Python-list wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jan 2024, Rich Shepard via Python-list wrote:
>
>> No, I hadn't ... but I am reading it now.
>
> Perhaps I missed the answer to my question when reading the io module. It
> explains how to open/write/read files of text and binary
On 2023-12-28, Peter J. Holzer via Python-list wrote:
> On 2023-12-28 05:20:07 +, rbowman via Python-list wrote:
>> On Wed, 27 Dec 2023 03:53:42 -0600, Greg Walters wrote:
>> > The biggest caveat is that the shared variable MUST exist before it can
>> > be examined or used (not surprising).
On 2023-12-11, Chris Green via Python-list wrote:
> Is there a way to abbreviate the following code somehow?
>
> lv = {'dev':'bbb', 'input':'1', 'name':'Leisure volts'}
> sv = {'dev':'bbb', 'input':'0', 'name':'Starter volts'}
> la = {'dev':'bbb', 'input':'2', 'name':'Leisure Amps'}
>
On 2023-11-27, Grant Edwards via Python-list wrote:
> On 2023-11-26, Dieter Maurer via Python-list wrote:
>
>> If you do not have this case (e.g. usually if you open the file
>> in a class's `__init__`), you do not use a context manager.
>
> He knows that. The OP wr
On 2023-11-26, Dieter Maurer via Python-list wrote:
> If you do not have this case (e.g. usually if you open the file
> in a class's `__init__`), you do not use a context manager.
He knows that. The OP wrote that he wants to use that can
_only_ be used by a context manager, but he wants that
On 2023-11-14, Dom Grigonis via Python-list wrote:
>
>> Except the 'any' and 'all' builtins are _exactly_ the same as bitwise
>> or and and applided to many bits. To do something "in line" with that
>> using the 'xor' operator would return True for an odd number of True
>> values and False for an
On 2023-11-13, Dom Grigonis via Python-list wrote:
> I am not asking. Just inquiring if the function that I described
> could be useful for more people.
>
> Which is: a function with API that of `all` and `any` and returns
> `True` if specified number of elements is True.
I've got no objection
On 2023-11-13, Dom Grigonis via Python-list wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I think it could be useful to have `xor` builtin, which has API similar to
> the one of `any` and `all`.
>
> * Also, it could have optional second argument `n=1`, which
> * indicates how many positives indicates `True` return. For
On 2023-11-06, Greg Ewing via Python-list wrote:
> On 7/11/23 7:45 am, Mats Wichmann wrote:
>> Continuing with the example, if you have a single phone number field, or
>> let a mobile number be entered in a field marked for landline, you will
>> probably assume you can text to that number.
>
>
On 2023-11-05, D'Arcy Cain via Python-list wrote:
> On 2023-11-05 00:39, Grant Edwards via Python-list wrote:
>> Definitely. Syntactic e-mail address "validation" is one of the most
>> useless and widely broken things on the Interwebs. People who do
>&
On 2023-11-04, Michael Torrie via Python-list wrote:
> On 11/4/23 02:51, Simon Connah via Python-list wrote:
>
>> Wow. I'm half tempted to make a weird email address to see how many
>> websites get it wrong.
In my experience, they don't have to be very weird at all.
>> Thank you for the link.
>
On 2023-11-02, Michael Torrie via Python-list wrote:
> On 11/2/23 00:42, Simon Connah via Python-list wrote:
>
>> Valid as in conforms to the standard. Although having looked at the
>> standard that might be more difficult than originally planned.
>
> You'll have to read the relevant RFCs. Lots
On 2023-11-01, Chris Angelico via Python-list wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Nov 2023 at 08:09, Grant Edwards via Python-list
> wrote:
>> Make sure it has an '@' in it. Possibly require at least one '.'
>> after the '@'.
>
> No guarantee that there'll be a dot after the at.
Ah, I
On 2023-11-01, Simon Connah via Python-list wrote:
> I'm building a simple project using smtplib and have a
> question. I've been doing unit testing but I'm not sure how to check
> if an email message is valid.
Send an e-mail using it? If the right person gets the e-mail, then
it's valid?
>
On 2023-10-25, o1bigtenor via Python-list wrote:
> Haven't heard of a python IDE - - - doesn't mean that there isn't such - -
> just that I haven't heard of such. Is there a python IDE?
Seriously? Now you're just trolling.
google.com/search?q=python+ide=python+ide
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--
On 2023-10-24, o1bigtenor via Python-list wrote:
> So how does one test software then?
That's what customers are for!
[Actually, that's true more often than it should be.]
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On 2023-10-24, Thomas Passin via Python-list wrote:
> Something less ambitious than a full proof of correctness of an
> arbitrary program can sometimes be achieved. The programming team
> for the Apollo moon mission developed a system which, if you would
> write your requirements in a certain
On 2023-10-24, Dan Purgert via Python-list wrote:
> On 2023-10-24, o1bigtenor wrote:
>> Greetings
>>
>> (Sorry for a nebulous subject but dunno how to have a short title for
>> a complex question.)
>> [...]
>> Is there a way to verify that a program is going to do what it is
>> supposed to do
On 2023-10-24, o1bigtenor via Python-list wrote:
> Is there a way to verify that a program is going to do what it is
> supposed to do even before all the hardware has been assembled and
> installed and tested?
It depends on what you mean by "verify ...". If you want to prove a
program correct
On 2023-08-04, Chris Angelico via Python-list wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Aug 2023 at 09:36, dn via Python-list
> wrote:
>
>> Faced with a situation where an argument may be a scalar-value or an
>> iterable, I'll presume the latter, eg throw it straight into a for-loop.
>> If that fails (because the
On 2023-06-21, Chris Angelico via Python-list wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jun 2023 at 02:54, Dan Kolis via Python-list
> wrote:
>>
>> Why do we tolerate this spam ?
>>
>> this seems most likely a way to inject viruses into people's workflow.
>>
>> That wiped out usenet. Ahh without an explaination; ( and
On 2023-05-31, Vishal Chandratreya wrote:
> When an exception occurs, the full path to the file from which it
> originates is displayed, but redundant elements are not removed. For
> instance:
> $ ./python ./foo
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/home/User/cpython/./foo", line 4, in
On 2023-05-26, Rob Cliffe via Python-list wrote:
> Grant, I may well buy one of the books you suggested.
I haven't had look at either of the newer books, but I got a lot of
good out of the Grayson book (20 years ago). I also had a Tcl/Tk book
that I found useful even when usng tkinter, but
On 2023-05-26, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2023-05-25, Kevin M. Wilson via Python-list wrote:
>
>> Ok, I'm not finding any info. on the int() for converting a str to
>> an int (that specifies a base parameter)?!
>
> Where are you looking?
>
> https://docs.python.or
On 2023-05-25, Kevin M. Wilson via Python-list wrote:
> Ok, I'm not finding any info. on the int() for converting a str to
> an int (that specifies a base parameter)?!
Where are you looking?
https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#int
> The picture is of the code I've written...
On 2023-05-24, Rob Cliffe via Python-list wrote:
> I have recently started converting a large project to tkinter, starting
> with zero knowledge of tkinter. (You are free to think: BAD IDEA. )
Well, you could be translating them to Tcl/Tk -- so on the scale of
bad ideas, your's barely
On 2023-05-22, Keith Thompson wrote:
> My understanding is that nntplib isn't being erased from reality,
> it's merely being removed from the set of modules that are provided
> by default.
>
> I presume that once it's removed from the core, it will still be
> possible to install it via pip or
On 2023-05-21, Retrograde wrote:
> Who ever came up with "Removing dead batteries" as a slogan, when
> some of those batteries still work perfectly well, needs to rethink
> it. Go ahead and remove code that no longer works, OK. But removing
> unpopular modules? That undercuts the entire
On 2023-05-19, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 18May2023 12:06, Jack Dangler wrote:
>>I thought the OP of the tkinter thread currently running may have
>>needed to install the tkinter package (since I had the same missing
>>component error message), so I tried to install the package on to my
On 2023-05-12, Rob Cliffe via Python-list wrote:
>
> Python 3.8.3 (tags/v3.8.3:6f8c832, May 13 2020, 22:20:19) [MSC v.1925 32
> bit (Intel)] on win32
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import tkinter
> >>> tkinter.messagebox
> Traceback (most recent
On 2023-05-16, Chris Green wrote:
> Grizzy Adams wrote:
>> Tuesday, May 16, 2023 at 9:26, Alan Gauld wrote:
>> Re: What to use instead of nntplib? (at least in part)
>>
>> >On 15/05/2023 22:11, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> >> I got a nice warnin
On 2023-05-16, Alan Gauld wrote:
> On 16/05/2023 10:06, Cameron Simpson wrote:
>
>>> I'm curious as to why nntplib is deprecated? Surely there are still a
>>> lot of nntp servers around, both inside and outside corporate firewalls?
Anything not used to develop AI is going to be depricated. An AI
On 2023-05-15, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>> I got a nice warning today from the inews utility I use daily:
>>
>> DeprecationWarning: 'nntplib' is deprecated and slated for
>> removal in Python 3.13
>>
>> What should I use in place of nntplib?
>
> I'd recommend creating a PyPI project with the
I got a nice warning today from the inews utility I use daily:
DeprecationWarning: 'nntplib' is deprecated and slated for removal in
Python 3.13
What should I use in place of nntplib?
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On 2023-04-24, Mats Wichmann wrote:
> On 4/24/23 10:32, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> However... I just realized that Python's curses support is missing two
>> huge chunks: both menu and form support are not there. I guess that
>> explains why people feel the need to writ
On 2023-04-24, Alan Gauld wrote:
> On 24/04/2023 17:26, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> Does the Python curses support in the standard library not include
>> support for the curses form library? It seems to include support for
>> the panel library, but I can't find any mention of th
On 2023-04-24, Grant Edwards wrote:
> The other big advantage of an ncurses program is that since curses
> support is in the std library, a curses app is simpler to
> distribute. Right now, the application is a single .py file you
> just copy to the destination machine and run.
Does the Python curses support in the standard library not include
support for the curses form library? It seems to include support for
the panel library, but I can't find any mention of the form library.
I see in the docs that menu support is still missing. :/
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--
On 2023-04-24, Michael Torrie wrote:
> On 4/21/23 15:57, Barry wrote:
>
>> Maybe this, recently lwn.net article,
>> https://textual.textualize.io/ I was planning to check it out.
>
> Textual definitely looks slick and modern. And with a modern
> terminal emulator it works quite well and is
I recently googled across the ncurses application framework npyscreen,
and was thinking about giving it a try for a small but real project
(something that would be distributed to customers), but I'm a bit
concerned that npyscreen no longer "alive".
The pypi page says the homepage is
On 2023-04-13, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 12Apr2023 22:12, avi.e.gr...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>>I suspect the OP is thinking of languages like PERL or JAVA which guess
>>for you and make such conversions when it seems to make sense.
>
> JavaScript guesses. What a nightmare.
So does PHP. What's
On 2023-04-12, Ali Mohseni Roodbari wrote:
> Hi all,
> Please make this command for Python (if possible):
>
x=1
y='a'
wprint (x+y)
1a
If that's what you want, use PHP or some other language. Don't try to ruin
Python.
> In fact make a new type of print command which can
On 2023-04-12, Roel Schroeven wrote:
>> Huh? If we'd been discussing namedtuples over (say) dictionaries, I'd
>> perhaps have accepted the reply.
>
> ChatGPT is wrong.
>
>> Anything I've 'missed'?
>> - or a salutary tale of not depending upon ChatGPT etc?
> You didn't miss anything, ChatGPT is
On 2023-04-02, Michael Torrie wrote:
> On 4/2/23 05:09, Dietmar Schwertberger wrote:
>> I also did evaluate all the GUI builder from time to time between
>> 2000 and 2016 to find one that I could recommend to colleagues,
>> but could not find one. Then I started contributing to wxGlade
>> and I
On 2023-04-01, Thomas Passin wrote:
> Having worked with both, I'd rather use PyQt, although Tk might be
> easier to get a toy app going with. Both editing windows and packing
> are easier for me to understand with PyQt, for one thing.
With tk it is _very_ easy to get small apps going. As
On 2023-03-30, Thomas Passin wrote:
> On 3/30/2023 5:15 AM, Andreas Eisele wrote:
>> [...] I was unpleasantly surprised that math.pow() does not have
>> this feature, hence "from math import *" overwrites the built-in
>> pow() function with a function that lacks functionality. [...]
>
> Not an
On 2023-03-29, Jack Dangler wrote:
>
>> data = sorted(data)
>
> Sorry for any injected confusion here, but that line "data =
> sorted(data)" appears as though it takes the value of the variable named
> _data_, sorts it and returns it to the same variable store, so no copy
> would be
On 2023-03-28, Thomas Passin wrote:
> On 3/28/2023 12:13 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2023-03-28, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>>
>>> So far, you seem to be the only person who has ever asked for a
>>> single entity incorporating an EPOCH (datetime.datetime) + a
On 2023-03-28, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> So far, you seem to be the only person who has ever asked for a
> single entity incorporating an EPOCH (datetime.datetime) + a
> DURATION (datetime.timedelta).
It seems to me that tuple of two timdate objects (start,end) is the
more obvious
On 2023-03-28, Travis Griggs wrote:
> A while ago I chose to use a deque that is shared between two threads. I did
> so because the docs say:
>
> "Deques support thread-safe, memory efficient appends and pops from
> either side of the deque with approximately the same O(1)
> performance in
On 2023-03-16, Thomas Passin wrote:
> In general, I don't like a lot of popups and code completions, so I
> tend to avoid them. I don't even like automatic parens or brace
> insertion.
I _hate_ it when the "editor" decides to insert stuff I didn't
type. There's an html editor I use
On 2023-03-10, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 10Mar2023 09:12, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>On 2023-03-10, Weatherby,Gerard wrote:
>>> On our Linux systems, I can up-arrow to go back to prior commands
>>> and use the left and right arrows to navigate a line. The
>&g
On 2023-03-10, Weatherby,Gerard wrote:
> On our Linux systems, I can up-arrow to go back to prior commands
> and use the left and right arrows to navigate a line. The
> functionality may be provided internally by readline. I’ve never had
> to dig into it because it meets my needs out of the box.
On 2023-03-10, Weatherby,Gerard wrote:
> I would say, “No, readline is not the right tool.”
>
> cmd.Cmd is: https://docs.python.org/3/library/cmd.html. I have a
> couple of cmd.Cmd modules, one of which I use daily and the other
> weekly.
I'll have to remember that one. It doesn't really fit my
On 2023-03-10, 2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com
<2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com> wrote:
> On 2023-03-10 at 12:57:48 +1100,
> Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 10 Mar 2023 at 12:56, Greg Ewing via Python-list
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > On 10/03/2
On 2023-03-10, Greg Ewing via Python-list wrote:
> On 10/03/23 10:08 am, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> It finally dawned on me after seeing an example I found elsewhere that
>> you don't call some module method to fetch the next user-entered line.
>>
>> You call the inpu
On 2023-03-09, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Mar 2023 at 10:04, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> Yeesh. What's _really_ embarassing is that I just stumbled across a
>> small test program with which I had apparently figured this out
>> 10-12 years ago. Must be about t
On 2023-03-09, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2023-03-09, Cameron Simpson wrote:
>
>> [...]
>>>It finally dawned on me after seeing an example I found elsewhere that
>>>you don't call some module method to fetch the next user-entered line.
>>>
>>>
On 2023-03-09, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> [...]
>>It finally dawned on me after seeing an example I found elsewhere that
>>you don't call some module method to fetch the next user-entered line.
>>
>>You call the input() built-in.
>
> Ah. That's not overtly stated? [...reads...] Ah, there it is in
On 2023-03-09, Chris Angelico wrote:
> Not sure about the history file, and I would assume that if you don't
> configure one, history is simply lost when you restart. But with tab
> completion, unless you need to be able to input a tab character, it
> should be safe to ignore the feature and
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