The final release of version 0.6.1 of xlrd is now available from
http://www.lexicon.net/sjmachin/xlrd.htm and from the Cheeseshop
(http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/xlrd).
What is xlrd? It's a small (download approx 0.1 Mb) pure-Python
library for extracting information from Microsoft Excel (tm)
Sean McIlroy wrote:
I recently found out that unicode(\347, iso-8859-1) is the
lowercase c-with-cedilla, so I set out to round up the unicode
numbers
of the extra characters you need for French, and I found them all
just
fine EXCEPT for the o-e ligature (oeuvre, etc). I examined the
unicode
Some poster wrote (in connexion with another topic):
... unicode(\347, iso-8859-1) ...
Well, I haven't had a good rant for quite a while, so here goes:
I'm a bit of a retro specimen, being able (inter alia) to recall octal
opcodes from the ICT 1900 series (070=call, 072=exit, 074=branch, ...)
brolewis wrote:
I have a directory that has two files in it:
parse.py
parser.py
parse.py imports a function from parser.py and uses it to parse out
the
needed information. On Linux, the following code works without a
problem:
parse.py, line 1:
from parser import regexsearch
However,
brolewis wrote:
I have a directory that has two files in it:
parse.py
parser.py
parse.py imports a function from parser.py and uses it to parse out
the
needed information. On Linux, the following code works without a
problem:
parse.py, line 1:
from parser import regexsearch
However,
Case Nelson wrote:
Hi there I've just been playing around with some python code and I've
got a fun little optimization problem I could use some help with.
Basically, the program needs to take in a random list of no more than
10 letters, and find all possible mutations that match a word in
Lucas Raab wrote:
I didn't want to go through the rigamole of adding myself to the
SciTe
mailing list, so I'm asking my question here. How do I choose a
different C/C++ compiler to compile in?? I don't use the g++
compiler; I
use the VC 7 compiler.
TIA,
Lucas
How the @#$% should we know?
Paul Rubin wrote:
Case Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Basically, the program needs to take in a random list of no more
than
10 letters, and find all possible mutations that match a word in
my
dictionary (80k words). However a wildcard letter '?' is also an
acceptable character which
Chris Lasher wrote:
Hello,
I have a rather large (100+ MB) FASTA file from which I need to
access records in a random order. The FASTA format is a standard
format
for storing molecular biological sequences. Each record contains a
header line for describing the sequence that begins with a ''
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 09:12:49 -0500, Tim Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
[Aki Niimura]
I started to use pickle to store the latest user settings for the tool
I wrote. It writes out a pickled text file when it terminates and it
restores the settings when it starts.
...
I guess DOS text format
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
lst = [i for i in lst if i != 2]
(if you have 2.4, try replacing [] with () and see what happens)
The result is a generator with a name (lst) that's rather misleading
in the context. Achieving the same result as the list comprehension, by
doing lst = list(i for ...
Nick Coghlan wrote:
I think this is about the best you can do for an in-place version:
for i, x in enumerate(reversed(lst)):
if x == 2:
del lst[-i]
I think del lst[-i-1] might be functionally better.
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Michael Hoffman wrote:
John Machin wrote:
Three significant figures is plenty. Showing just the minimum of
the
results might be better.
It might be, but how much time do you want to spend on getting your
results for a benchmark that will be run once in the better format?
About the same
Please consider the timings below, where a generator expression starts
out slower than the equivalent list comprehension, and gets worse:
python -m timeit -s orig=range(10) lst=orig[:];lst[:]=(x for x
in orig)
10 loops, best of 3: 6.84e+004 usec per loop
python -m timeit -s
Ermmm ... only remove the when you are sure it is a whole word. Even
then it's a dodgy idea. In the first 1000 lines of the nearest address
file I had to hand, I found these: Catherine, Matthew, Rotherwood,
Weatherall, and The Avenue.
Ermmm... don't rip out commas (or other punctuation); replace
You can't even get anywhere near 100% accuracy when comparing
authoritative sources e.g. postal authority and the body charged with
maintaining a database of which streets are in which electoral district
-- no, not AUS, but close :-)
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John Machin wrote:
Ermmm ... only remove the when you are sure it is a whole word.
Even
then it's a dodgy idea. In the first 1000 lines of the nearest
address
file I had to hand, I found these: Catherine, Matthew, Rotherwood,
Weatherall, and The Avenue.
Partial apologies: I wasn't reading
Bob Smith wrote:
Is shutil.copyfile(src,dst) the *most* portable way to copy files
with
Python? I'm dealing with plain text files on Windows, Linux and Mac
OSX.
Thanks!
Portable what? Way of copying??
Do you want your files transferred (a) so that they look like native
text files on the
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 22:02:51 -0700, Steven Bethard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
See Mark's post, if you need to know the index of something this is
the perfect case for enumerate (assuming you have at least Python 2.3):
But the OP (despite what he says) _doesn't_ need to know the index of
the
Tim Peters wrote:
[josh]
Why can't timedelta arithmetic be done on time objects?
Obviously, because it's not implemented wink.
(e.g. datetime.time(5)-datetime.timedelta(microseconds=3)
Nonzero days of the timedelta could either be ignored, or
trigger an exception.
And if the result
Johnny Lin wrote:
Hi!
Is there a way to automate the unbinding of multiple variables? Say
I
have a list of the names of all variables in the current scope via
dir(). Is there a command using del or something like that that will
iterate the list and unbind each of the variables?
Yes. It's
André Roberge wrote:
Sorry for the simple question, but I find regular
expressions rather intimidating. And I've never
needed them before ...
How would I go about to 'define' a regular expression that
would identify strings like
__alphanumerical__ as in __init__
(Just to spell things
Jay donnell wrote:
I have a short multi-threaded script that checks web images to make
sure they are still there. I get a segmentation fault everytime I run
it and I can't figure out why. Writing threaded scripts is new to me
so
I may be doing something wrong that should be obvious :(
def
Jay donnell wrote:
### Have you looked in your database to see if the script has
actually
updated item.goodImage? Do you have a test plan?
Thank you for the help. Sorry for the messy code. I was under time
constraints. I had class, and I was rushing to get this working
before
class. I
Bob Smith wrote:
Are these the same:
1. f_size = os.path.getsize(file_name)
2. fp1 = file(file_name, 'r')
data = fp1.readlines()
last_byte = fp1.tell()
I always get the same value when doing 1. or 2. Is there a reason I
should do both? When reading to the end of a file, won't
Tim Roberts wrote:
Bob Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are these the same:
1. f_size = os.path.getsize(file_name)
2. fp1 = file(file_name, 'r')
data = fp1.readlines()
last_byte = fp1.tell()
I always get the same value when doing 1. or 2. Is there a reason I
should do both?
Tim Roberts wrote:
Bob Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are these the same:
1. f_size = os.path.getsize(file_name)
2. fp1 = file(file_name, 'r')
data = fp1.readlines()
last_byte = fp1.tell()
I always get the same value when doing 1. or 2. Is there a reason I
should do both?
Andrew McLean wrote:
In case anyone is interested, here is the latest.
def insCost(tokenList, indx, pos):
The cost of inserting a specific token at a specific
normalised position along the sequence.
if containsNumber(tokenList[indx]):
return INSERT_TOKEN_WITH_NUMBER +
Gilles Arnaud wrote:
Hello,
I've got a nasty bug and no idea to deal with :
here is the method :
Big snip. The Python code is unlikely to be your problem.
and the trace
trace
in None [(-2.0, 2.0), (-2.0, 2.0)] [0.1385039192456847,
0.87787941093093491] 2 2 function undo at 0x81ff94c
Greg Lindstrom wrote:
Hello-
I have a file generated by an HP-9000 running Unix containing form
feeds
signified by ^M^L. I am trying to scan for the linefeed to signal
certain processing to be performed but can not get the regex to see
it. Suppose I read my input line into a variable named
Paul Kooistra wrote:
I need a tool to browse text files with a size of 10-20 Mb. These
files have a fixed record length of 800 bytes (CR/LF), and containt
records used to create printed pages by an external company.
Each line (record) contains an 2-character identifier, like 'A0' or
'C1'.
Paul Kooistra wrote:
I need a tool to browse text files with a size of 10-20 Mb. These
files have a fixed record length of 800 bytes (CR/LF), and containt
records used to create printed pages by an external company.
Each line (record) contains an 2-character identifier, like 'A0' or
'C1'.
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 01:15:10 +0530, Swaroop C H [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 12:38:13 -0700, Brent W. Hughes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd like to get a character from stdin, perform some action, get another
character, etc. If I just use stdin.read(1), it waits until I finish
Jeff Shannon wrote:
Paul Kooistra wrote:
1. Does anybody now of a generic tool (not necessarily Python
based)
that does the job I've outlined?
2. If not, is there some framework or widget in Python I can adapt
to
do what I want?
Not that I know of, but...
3. If not, should I
Jeff Shannon wrote:
John Machin wrote:
Jeff Shannon wrote:
[...] If each record is CRLF terminated, then
you can get one record at a time simply by iterating over the file
(for line in open('myfile.dat'): ...). You can have a dictionary
classes or factory functions, one for each
Terry Reedy wrote:
No offense taken. My personal strategy is to read only as much of
trollish
threads as I find interesting or somehow instructive, almost never
respond,
and then ignore the rest. I also mostly ignore discussions about
such
threads.
Indeed. Let's just nominate XL to the
inhahe wrote:
Hi i'm a newbie at this and probably always will be, so don't be
surprised
if I don't know what i'm talking about.
but I don't understand why regex look-behinds (and look-aheads) have
to be
fixed-width patterns.
i'm getting the impression that it's supposed to make searching
mike wrote:
Just recently, my virus checker detected what it called a Trojan
Horse
in the py.dll file in the python22 folder.
Sorry to come on like the Inquisition, but this _might_ be something of
significance to the whole Windows Python community:
When was just recently? Which virus checker
Dave Opstad wrote:
One of the functions in a C extension I'm writing needs to return a
tuple of integers, where the length of the tuple is only known at
runtime. I'm currently doing a loop calling PyInt_FromLong to make
the
integers,
What is the purpose of this first loop?
In what
Dave Opstad wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
John Machin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is the purpose of this first loop?
Error handling. If I can't successfully create all the PyInts then I
can
dispose the ones I've made and not bother making the tuple at all.
In what variable
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
PyList_SetItem(List,i,Str);
you should check the return value, though. PyList_SetItem may (in
theory) fail.
:-)
Only a bot could say that. We mere mortals have been known to do things
like (a) pass a non-list as the first argument (b) pass an out-of-range
value
Leeuw van der, Tim wrote:
Do you have a file called drwtsn32.log anywhere on your computer?
No, unfortunately I cannot find such file anywhere on my computer
What do I do to get such file? Or anything equally useful?
On my Windows 2000 box, just crash something :-)
Perhaps this may
Leeuw van der, Tim wrote:
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
on behalf of John Machin
Sent: Thu 2/3/2005 12:00 PM
To: python-list@python.org
Subject: Re: Crashing Python interpreter! (windows XP, python2.3.4,
2.3.5rc1,2.4.0)
Leeuw van der, Tim wrote:
Do
Leeuw van der, Tim wrote:
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
on behalf of John Machin
Sent: Thu 2/3/2005 12:00 PM
To: python-list@python.org
Subject: Re: Crashing Python interpreter! (windows XP, python2.3.4,
2.3.5rc1,2.4.0)
Leeuw van der, Tim wrote:
Do
On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 12:01:35 +0100, Håkan Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hi.
I am trying to convert a string into a function pointer.
Suppose I have the following:
from a import a
from b import b
from c import c
funcString = GetFunctionAsString()
and funcString is a string that contains
Chad Everett wrote:
Hi Everyone,
I am new to Python and programming in general. I bought the book
Python
Programming for the Absolute Beginner by michael Dawson.
I have been working through it but am having trouble.
I am trying to make a coin flip program and keep geting a Synax Error
administrata wrote:
I'm programming Car Salesman Program.
It's been 3 days learning python...
From whom or what book or what tutorial?
But, i got problem
You got problemS. What Jeff Brian wrote, plus:
You have change instead of charge.
You forgot to add in the base price -- actual price
Francis Girard wrote:
Hi,
I think your last solution is not good unless your list is sorted
(in which
case the solution is trivial) since you certainly do have to see all
the
elements in the list before deciding that a given element is not a
duplicate.
You have to exhaust the iteratable
Jean de Largentaye wrote:
Hi,
I need to parse a subset of C (a header file), and generate some unit
tests for the functions listed in it. I thus need to parse the code,
then rewrite function calls with wrong parameters. What I call
shaking
the broken tree :)
I was thinking cdecl, and
jose isaias cabrera wrote:
the question is, how can I make this java (byte) call in python? so
that the
result would be the right one, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Let's get this straight: you have 40 hex digits; both your Java code
and your Python code each do 20 iterations, printing the 20 bytes that
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Jackson) wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
A: 42
Q: What multiple of 7 did I add to the critical expression in the Zeller
algorithm so it would remain nonnegative for the next few centuries?
What are you calling the Zeller algorithm, and what is the
Dan Perl wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello All,
What is the python equivalent of the following statement?
while (n--)
Like other posters said, you should give more details with your
question.
What do you mean by equivalent? The following is
administrata wrote:
Is it possible?
I tried...
I = John
print \
I used to love pizza
Error occurs!!!
But, I don't know how to fix... HELP
thx 4 reading.
Point 0: It helps if you post a copy of what the actual screen display
looked like, instead of just saying Error occurs!!!.
It
Michael Hartl wrote:
I warmly recommend downloading Peter Norvig's Python utilities file
(http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/python/utils.py) and putting it on your
Python path. (E.g., in bash, put a line like
export PYTHONPATH=/path/to/utilities_directory
in your .bashrc file.) The utils.py
MM wrote:
Hi,
I downloaded the latest win32all build 202 and tried to install under
win2000 with Py2.4. Install complains about 'couldn't open py2.4 to
run
script pywin32-preinstall.py'. I checked the directories and there
was
no sign of this file (preinstall.py) so I presume this is why
vegetax wrote:
How can i make my custom class an element of a set?
the idea is that it accepts file paths and construct a set of unique
files (the command cmp compares files byte by byte.),the files can
have different paths but the same content
Q: How do I transport ten sumo wrestlers on a
On 16 Feb 2005 18:47:21 GMT, Leo Breebaart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What I can't find an explanation for is why str.join() doesn't
automatically call str() on its arguments, so that e.g.
str.join([1,2,4,5]) would yield 1245, and ditto for e.g.
user-defined classes that have a __str__() defined.
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 14:24:02 -0600, Skip Montanaro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
John 4. For consistency, would you like 1 + 2 to produce 12?
No, the correct answer is obviously 3. ;-)
Obviously, in awk. Bletch! I once had to help out some users of a
system where software development had been
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 20:57:18 -0500, Scott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've installed Python 2.4 under WinXP and am attempting to
create an extension module using the steps outlined here:
http://python.org/doc/2.4/ext/win-cookbook.html
I'm specifically trying to perform step 6. Creating a brand
new
Jeffrey Maitland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL
PROTECTED]...
Well I would suggest the Python in a Nutshell and the Python Cookbook both
by O'Reilly as references. They are great for a desktop reference and I
check them first before I google/search else where for answers.
Jive wrote:
Martin v. Löwis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
OTOH, people who only have VC6 just need to buy VS.NET 2003,
which is still available.
I don't even know how to do that! :-) What's the difference between
VC++
.net Standard and Visual Studio .net Pro?
Jive wrote:
Here's my sitch:
I use gnuplot.py at work, platform Win32. I want to upgrade to
Python 2.4.
Gnuplot.py uses extension module Numeric. Numeric is now
unsupported.
The documentation says If you are new to Numerical Python, please
use
Numarray.. It's not that easy, dangit. The
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
John Machin wrote:
Of course, in this simple case, I wouldn't be likely to write the
clear
function since the inline code is simpler and has less overhead:
def main()
var1 = []
var1.append('a')
var1[:] = []
Even less overhead: del var1
Jean-Baptiste PERIN wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to make a windows dll reachable from a python script ..
and
I'm encountering troubles during link step ..
I use lcc to compile and link
I use python 2.3 under win XP
[snip]
Here are the errors :
-
Error c:\...\plugins\hello.c
Thomas Heller wrote:
Bulba! [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'll soon start development of a specialized small app and need
to choose GUI for it.
Quoting a somewhat popular german blogger, on the state of cross
platform Python GUI toolkits
(http://blog.schockwellenreiter.de/7282):
[snip]
Nick Coghlan wrote:
[snip]
delimeter.
Hey, Terry, another varmint over here!
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Steven Bethard wrote:
John Machin wrote:
Nick Coghlan wrote:
[snip]
delimeter.
Hey, Terry, another varmint over here!
No, no. He's talking about a deli-meter. It's the metric standard
for
measuring subs and sandwiches. ;)
Nobody mention the wurst! I did once, but I think I got
Stephen Thorne wrote:
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 10:27:16 +0530, Gurpreet Sachdeva
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there any module available that converts word like 'one', 'two',
'three' to corresponding digits 1, 2, 3??
This seemed like an interesting problem! So I decided to solve it.
I started
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
JZ wrote:
import re
line = The food is under the bar in the barn.
if re.search(r'foo(.*)bar',line):
print 'got %s\n' % _.group(1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File jz.py, line 4, in ?
print 'got %s\n' % _.group(1)
NameError: name '_'
Paul McGuire wrote:
Here's
a simple loan amortization schedule generator:
def amortizationSchedule( principal, term, rate ):
pmt = ( principal * rate * ( 1 + rate)**term ) / (( 1 +
rate)**term - 1)
Simpliciter:
pmt = principal * rate / (1 - (1 + rate)**(-term))
pmt = round(pmt,2)
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
John Machin wrote:
I forgot to add: I am using Python 2.3.4/Win32 (from
ActiveState.com). The
code works in my interpreter.
only if you type it into the interactive prompt. see:
No, it doesn't work at all, anywhere. Did you actually try this?
the OP
Stephen Thorne wrote:
Thankyou for you feedback, both of you.
No wuckas.
http://thorne.id.au/users/stephen/scripts/eng2num.py contains your
suggestions.
This points to some javascript which prints No.
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Ishwor wrote:
Having coded 1.72kb python test file, i decided to convert it to .exe
file using py2exe.
Having succeded doing it, i found the need to distribute the whole
directory including these files ?!!!???
26/12/2004 09:16 AM 203,096 library.zip
26/11/2004 09:16 AM
Ishwor wrote:
i was just tinkering with it actually. ;-)
In your command prompt just do
Pythonwin.exe /run C:\Python24\file\PyFiles\clear.py
It's not a very good idea to store your own scripts in the PythonXY
directory -- other than tested working modules which you install in
Mike Meyer wrote:
I've discovered a truly elegant trick with python programs that
interpret other data.
Q0. Other than what?
You make them ignore lines that start with # at
the beginning of the line,
Q1. After the first user accidentally gets a # at the start of a real
data line, a few
Alex Meier wrote:
hi, all!
this is my first contact with python, I installed python 2.4 (on
Win2k)
and unzipped the MySQLdb package MySQL-Python 1.0.0 for win32 into
Lib/site-packages.
However, when I try to import the MySQLdb package, I am faced with
the
error message DLL load failed, in
Andrew Dalke wrote:
It's me wrote:
Here's a NDFA for your text:
b 0 1-9 a-Z , . + - '\n
S0: S0 E E S1 E E E S3 E S2 E
S1: T1 E E S1 E E E E E E T1
S2: S2 E E S2 E E E E E T2 E
S3: T3 E E S3 E E E E E E T3
Now if I only had an NDFA for
Kamilche wrote:
What a debug nightmare! I just spent HOURS running my script through
the debugger, sprinkling in log statements, and the like, tracking
down
my problem.
I called a function without the ending parentheses. I sure do WISH
Python would trap it when I try to do the following:
Dan Bishop wrote:
Kamilche wrote:
What a debug nightmare! I just spent HOURS running my script
through
the debugger, sprinkling in log statements, and the like, tracking
down
my problem.
I called a function without the ending parentheses. I sure do WISH
Python would trap it when I
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is anyone aware of issues with Py2exe and extensions compiled with
cygwin/mingw for Python 2.3? I have an extension that wraps access
to
some C DLLs. The generated executable always segfaults at startup,
although things work fine when running through the normal
Anders J. Munch wrote:
Another way is the strategy of it's easier to ask forgiveness than
to
ask permission.
If you replace:
if(not os.path.isdir(zfdir)):
os.makedirs(zfdir)
with:
try:
os.makedirs(zfdir)
except EnvironmentError:
pass
then not only
Terry Reedy wrote:
Craig Ringer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 08:52, Ross La Haye wrote:
How can an and operator be emulated in regular expressions in
Python?
Regular expressions are designed to define and detect repetition and
Steven Bethard wrote:
Sorry if this is a repost -- it didn't appear for me the first time.
So I was looking at the Language Reference's discussion about
emulating
container types[1], and nowhere in it does it mention that .keys() is
part of the container protocol.
I don't see any reference
Fuzzyman wrote:
I have a friend who would like to move and program lights and other
electric/electro-mechanical devices by computer. I would like to help
-
and needless to say Python would be an ideal language for the
'programmers interface'.
Try Googling for Python X10
--
Steven Bethard wrote:
John Machin wrote:
Steven Bethard wrote:
So I was looking at the Language Reference's discussion about
emulating container types[1], and nowhere in it does it mention
that
.keys() is part of the container protocol.
I don't see any reference to a container
Bulba! wrote:
[big snip]
Forget the csv-induced dicts for the moment, they're just an artifact
of your first solution attempt. Whether english = csv_row[1], or
english = csv_row_dict[english], doesn't matter yet. Let's take a few
steps back, and look at what you are trying to do through a
Bulba! wrote:
On 4 Jan 2005 14:33:34 -0800, John Machin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
(b) Fast forwarding 30+ years, let's look at the dictionary method,
assuming you have enough memory to hold all your data at once:
Step 1: read the left table; for each row, if english not in
mydict,
then do
Bulba! wrote:
On 8 Jan 2005 18:25:56 -0800, John Machin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Secondly, you are calling cmp() up to THREE times when once is
enough.
Didn't it occur to you that your last elif needed an else to finish
it
off, and the only possible action for the else suite was assert
Steven Bethard wrote:
Note that list comprehensions are also C-implemented, AFAIK.
Rather strange meaning attached to C-implemented. The implementation
generates the code that would have been generated had you written out
the loop yourself, with a speed boost (compared with the fastest DIY
Andrea Griffini wrote:
On 9 Jan 2005 12:39:32 -0800, John Machin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Tip 1: Once you have data in memory, don't move it, move a pointer
or
index over the parts you are inspecting.
Tip 2: Develop an abhorrence of deleting data.
I've to admit that I also found strange
An alternative: the xlrd module. Don't need Excel on your machine,
don't even need Windows. Pure Python. Happily handles large files
(e.g. 120 Mb). Good date support.
See http://www.lexicon.net/sjmachin/xlrd.htm or look for xlrd in the
Cheese Shop.
--
Terry Reedy wrote:
Laguna wrote:
I want to find the expiration date of stock options (3rd Friday of the
month) for an any give month and year.
From year and month (and day=1) get the day of the week (n in [0,6]) of the
first of the month using some version of the the standard formula (see
David Isaac wrote:
Default parameter values are evaluated once when the function definition is
executed.
Where are they stored?
A good bet for where to start looking for the storage would be as an
attribute of the function object. From this point, there are two paths:
(a) Make a function and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am running two functions in a row that do the same thing.
1. I see no functions here.
You should set out a script like this:
def main():
your_code_goes_here()
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
for two reasons (a) your code will be referring to locals
Elliot Temple wrote:
[copying Elliot's e-mail reply back to the list because it's educational
and scarcely private]
On 5/26/05, John Machin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am running two functions in a row that do the same thing.
1. I see no functions
Mike Meyer wrote:
Personally, I think anyone who has two variables whose names differ
only in case should be shot. No, let me extend that - anyone who has
two variables whose names would be pronounced the same should be
shot. I've had to debug such code, and it ain't fun.
Here's a pair of
Will McGugan wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I tried that. Still get an Overflowerror: unsigned long is less than
minimum.
You'll also need to reserve enough space for the 256 ints. Try this..
data = array('L', '\0' * 256*4)
I don't understand. Why not just do the whole thing
Elliot Temple wrote:
On May 26, 2005, at 3:22 PM, John Machin wrote:
Then post your summarised results back to the newsgroup for the
benefit of all -- there's this vague hope that folk actually read
other peoples' posts before firing off questions :-)
Here is my new version
Malcolm Wooden wrote:
I'm trying to get my head around Python but seem to be failing miserably. I
use RealBasic on a Mac and find it an absolute dream! But PythonUGH!
I want to put a sentence of words into an array, eg This is a sentence of
words
In RB it would be simple:
Dim s
Malcolm Wooden wrote:
Sorry John but that don't do it for me. Just get errors comming back
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s = This is a sentence of words
a = s.split()
a
['This', 'is', 'a', 'sentence', 'of', 'words']
Malcolm,
What errors did
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