On 26.04.2010 22:26, * Dodo:
Le 26/04/2010 22:26, Alf P. Steinbach a écrit :
On 26.04.2010 22:12, * Dodo:
Hi all,
Under python 2.6, chr() "Return a string of one character whose ASCII
code is the integer i." (quoted from docs.python.org)
Under python 3.1, chr() "Return th
On 26.04.2010 22:12, * Dodo:
Hi all,
Under python 2.6, chr() "Return a string of one character whose ASCII
code is the integer i." (quoted from docs.python.org)
Under python 3.1, chr() "Return the string of one character whose
Unicode codepoint is the integer i."
I want to convert a ASCII code b
* Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton:
http://pyjs.org/examples/asteroids/public/Space.html
An error has been encountered in accessing this page.
1. Server: pyjs.org
2. URL path: /examples/asteroids/public/examples/asteroids/public/bootstrap.js
3. Error notes: NONE
4. Error type: 404
5. Reques
* Steven D'Aprano:
On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:19:41 +0200, Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
But for a literal context-free interpretation e.g. the 'sys.getrefcount'
function is not documented as CPython only and thus an implementation
that didn't do reference counting would not be
* Adam Tauno Williams:
On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 16:29 +1200, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
In message , Chris
Rebert wrote:
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
In message <4bc9aad...@dnews.tpgi.com.au>, Lie Ryan wrote:
Since in python nothing is guaranteed about implicit fil
On 04/22/10 15:13, Infinity77 wrote:
For me: //SERVER/gavana/Folder/FileName.txt
Colleague: //SERVER/Colleague/Folder/FileName.txt
So, no matter what I do, the file name stored in the database is user-
dependent and not universal and common to all of us.
If that user dependent part happens t
* luca72:
i get a string from a web server and i save it in to a file, that i
open the file and i read the string:
the string looks like :
http://lhti.gs/JKBTYD
after the read i use webbrowser open (sting), but i get the error
because at the end of the string are added '%0D%0A', and if i ask for
* candide:
Suppose a and b are lists.
What is more efficient in order to extend the list a by appending all
the items in the list b ?
I imagine a.extend(b)to be more efficient for only appendinding the
items from b while a+=b creates a copy of a before appending, right ?
No.
But in gener
* Lawrence D'Oliveiro:
In message <4bc9aad...@dnews.tpgi.com.au>, Lie Ryan wrote:
Since in python nothing is guaranteed about implicit file close ...
It is guaranteed that objects with a reference count of zero will be
disposed.
Only in current CPython.
In my experiments, this happens i
* Chris Rebert:
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 2:59 AM, Stef Mientki wrote:
On 21-04-2010 10:56, Chris Rebert wrote:
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 1:51 AM, Stef Mientki wrote:
With the following code, I would expect a result of 5 !!
a= 'word1 word2 word3'
a.rfind(' ',7)
11
Is this a bug ?
No. Don'
On 04/20/10 21:15, Martin P. Hellwig wrote:
On 04/20/10 19:53, Lie Ryan wrote:
Rather than writing a windowing toolkit from the low-level, I would
rather like to see some wrapper for existing windowing toolkit which
uses more pythonic idioms.
Most popular python GUI toolkit currently in use
On 04/20/10 19:53, Lie Ryan wrote:
Rather than writing a windowing toolkit from the low-level, I would
rather like to see some wrapper for existing windowing toolkit which
uses more pythonic idioms.
Most popular python GUI toolkit currently in use are only a simple thin
wrapper over the librar
After at least 3 false starts on my programming introduction's chapter 3, and
some good and bad feedback from this group[1], I finally think the present
chapter 3 approach is Good (enough).
So no, I haven't given up in this book project, even though 4 months to produce
these chapter 3's first
On 04/18/10 12:49, Tim Diels wrote:
Hi
I was thinking of writing a GUI toolkit from scratch using a basic '2D
library'. I have already come across the Widget Construction Kit.
My main question is: Could I build a GUI toolkit of reasonable
performance with the Widget Construction Kit, would it s
* Steven D'Aprano:
On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:48:03 -0700, Aahz wrote:
In article <4bb92850$0$8827$c3e8...@news.astraweb.com>, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
Nevertheless, it is a common intuition that the list comp variable
should *not* be exposed outside of the list comp, and that the for-loop
variable
* Alf P. Steinbach:
Found a another bug discussion with
* same exception,
0xc417 STATUS_INVALID_CRUNTIME_PARAMETER
* same address,
0x78588389
* almost same Python version,
namely Py3,
* almost same context,
namely occurring when program terminates,
at
http
* Alf P. Steinbach:
* Alf P. Steinbach:
> [About baffling almost not reproducible interpreter crash on Ctrl C]
The error code 0xc417 is some custom one, not a standard Windows
code.
Sorry, I was wrong about that, just that the MS ErrLook utility didn't
find it
* Alf P. Steinbach:
> [About baffling almost not reproducible interpreter crash on Ctrl C]
The error code 0xc417 is some custom one, not a standard Windows code.
Sorry, I was wrong about that, just that the MS ErrLook utility didn't find it.
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/F
* Alf P. Steinbach:
* MRAB:
Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
Python 3.1.1 in Windows XP Prof:
def number_from_user( prompt ):
while True:
spec = input( prompt )
try:
return float( spec )
except ValueError:
s = "Sorry, '{}' is not
* MRAB:
Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
Python 3.1.1 in Windows XP Prof:
def number_from_user( prompt ):
while True:
spec = input( prompt )
try:
return float( spec )
except ValueError:
s = "Sorry, '{}' is not a valid number spec.
Python 3.1.1 in Windows XP Prof:
def number_from_user( prompt ):
while True:
spec = input( prompt )
try:
return float( spec )
except ValueError:
s = "Sorry, '{}' is not a valid number spec. Try e.g. '3.14'."
print( s.format( spec )
* Alex Hall:
Hi all,
For testing purposes, and because I am not yet distributing my
application (which, thanks to you all, is now running perfectly!), I
am going to just bundle msvcr90.dll. However, I cannot find it! I ran
vcredist_x86.exe (I have a 64-bit version of win7, but all I have is
the x
On 04/13/10 15:01, John Maclean wrote:
I normally use languages unit testing framework to get a better
understanding of how a language works. Right now I want to grok the
platform module;
1 #!/usr/bin/env python
2 '''a pythonic factor'''
3 import unittest
4 import platform
5
6
* Alex Hall:
Hi all,
I am just curious: if Python3.x is already out, why is 2.7 being
released? Are there two main types of Python? Thanks.
Old code and old programming habits may work as-is with 2.7 but not with a 3.x
implementation.
So yes, there are two main extant variants of Python, 2.x
On 04/12/10 06:57, Mensanator wrote:
On Apr 11, 6:08 pm, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 11:54:04 -0700, Mensanator wrote:
On Apr 11, 11:53 am, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 21:08:44 -0700, Mensanator wrote:
Maybe because I'm a user, not a developer.
You write co
* Gabriel Genellina:
En Fri, 09 Apr 2010 01:13:37 -0300, Alf P. Steinbach
escribió:
>
> import urllib.request # urlopen
> import codecs # getreader
> import sys # stderr
>
> def text_stream_from( url, encoding ):
> text_reader = codec
language unrelated to normal maths syntax for doing so:
# Calculate the roots of sin**2(3*x-y):
result = me.compile("{^g.?+*y:h}|\Y^r&(?P:2+)|\w+(x&y)|[?#\s]").solve()
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4
Cheers,
- Alf
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On 04/09/10 05:13, Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
Second, I'm unable to find documentation of when they're called and what
they do. It seems that (A) when the connection object's stream is
exhausted by reading, its close() method is called automatically, and
(B) that when the text_
Consider ...
import urllib.request # urlopen
import codecs # getreader
import sys # stderr
def text_stream_from( url, encoding ):
text_reader = codecs.getreader( encoding )
connection = urllib.request.urlopen( url )
return text_reader( connection )
def lis
* Brendan Miller:
Thanks Steven and Gabriel. Those are very informative responses.
In my case my resource isn't bound to a lexical scope, but the:
def __del__(self,
delete_my_resource=delete_my_resource):
pattern works quite well. I've made sure to prevent my class from
being
* jdbosmaus:
Pretty new to Python, but I thought I understood what is meant by "an
assignment is a reference."
Until I tried to understand this.
Here is a (fragment of an) event handler for a group of three wxPython
toggle buttons. The idea is to change the appearance of the label of
the button
On 04/05/10 00:05, r wrote:
However i have also considered that maybe *all* the "well knowns" are
in fact the many colorful personalities of Guido.
De vraag is dan natuurlijk of al zijn persoonlijkheden nog steeds
nederlands machtig zijn.
--
mph
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http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/
* Stephen Hansen:
On 2010-04-04 15:22:48 -0700, Alf P. Steinbach said:
* johngilbrough:
I cannot make sense of what's happening here ... I'm getting the
following error:
(1)
At least in Py3 you can declare the variable as 'global', like this:
global lastModi
* johngilbrough:
I cannot make sense of what's happening here ... I'm getting the
following error:
initializing last modified time
/home/john/Dropbox/Projects/python/scripts/src 29
referencing last modified time
/home/john/Dropbox/Projects/python/scripts/src 29
referencing last modified time
Tr
* Patrick Maupin:
On Apr 4, 11:14 am, "Alf P. Steinbach" wrote:
"He walks among you, and you don't recognize him" - Old jungle proverb
Hm, interesting Google results for that phrase.
Interesting self-promotion :-)
No, I'm not Guido.
Cheers,
- Alf
--
* ratingrick:
A while back i had wondered why Guido never posts to c.l.py anymore.
Was it because he thinks himself better than us, no, it's because of
the "low-brow-infantile-Jerry-Springer-ish-nature" that this list has
imploded into.
Perhaps Guido provides subtle guidance under some unreco
* Ethan Furman:
Steve Howell wrote:
On Apr 3, 9:58 pm, Tim Roberts wrote:
Alain Ketterlin wrote:
I've just spent a few hours debugging code similar to this:
d = dict()
for r in [1,2,3]:
d[r] = [r for r in [4,5,6]]
print d
Yes, this has been fixed in later revisions, but I'm curious
* Steven D'Aprano:
I have a hierarchical structure something like a directory tree or a
nested tree structure:
Mammal
+-- Ape
: +-- Chimpanzee
: +-- Gorilla
: +-- Human
+-- Carnivore
: +-- Cat
: +-- Tiger
Reptile
+-- Lizard
+-- Snake
+-- Cobra
+-- Python
This is a forest
* Steven D'Aprano:
Tests which you know can't fail are called assertions, pre-conditions and
post-conditions. We test them because if we don't, they will fail :)
:-)
It's the umbrella law.
Cheers,
- Alf
--
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
On 04/03/10 16:46, Patrick Maupin wrote:
On Apr 3, 9:43 am, "Martin P. Hellwig"> IMHO, the crackpot in this
regard is actually partially right,
multiplication does mean that the number must get bigger, however for
fractions you multiply four numbers, two numerators and two
deno
On 04/03/10 16:17, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 15:43:41 +0100, Martin P. Hellwig wrote:
I am replying to this post not because I disagree but because it
postalogically fits the best (I am by no means an expert either).
IMHO, the crackpot in this regard is actually part
On 04/03/10 14:38, Steve Holden wrote:
If you think you will persuade a crackpot to drop his lunacy by logical
argument you are clearly an optimist of the first water. But since I
like a challenge (and bearing in mind this is OT so I don't claim to be
an expert) you might try first of all persu
* Steve Holden:
Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
* Jason Friedman:
Hi, what is the difference between:
def MyClass(object):
pass
and
def MyClass():
pass
If you really meant 'def', then the first is a routine taking one
argument, and the second is a routine of no arguments.
If
* Jason Friedman:
Hi, what is the difference between:
def MyClass(object):
pass
and
def MyClass():
pass
If you really meant 'def', then the first is a routine taking one argument, and
the second is a routine of no arguments.
If you meant 'class' instead of 'def', then it depends o
Hi,
I'm working with Python 2.6.4 on Ubuntu 9.10 and noticed a difference
between IDLE and command line python. If I enter an é (accented e,
LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE) as a unicode string in command line
python I get this:
>>> u'é'
u'\xe9'
In IDLE 2.6.4 I get this:
>>> u'é'
u'\xc3\xa9'
* kj:
When coding C I have often found static local variables useful for
doing once-only run-time initializations. For example:
int foo(int x, int y, int z) {
static int first_time = TRUE;
static Mongo *mongo;
if (first_time) {
mongo = heavy_lifting_at_runtime();
first_time = FAL
On 03/31/10 22:37, J wrote:
Is there any way to tell PyDev in Eclipse to run a script that doesn't
end in .py? Even if I have to go and manually set something for each
file...
I've inherited (in a manner of speaking) a dev project that is done in
python2.6... I pulled the latest dev branch and
* Abethebabe:
I wanted to know if there was a way I could get a Python program to
run off of my flash drive as soon as the computer (Windows) detected
the device?
For example I could have a a simple program that would create a text
document on the computers desktop when my flash drive is detecte
On Mar 30, 10:08 am, John Nagle wrote:
> Chris Rebert wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:40 AM, gentlestone wrote:
> >> Hi, how can I write the popular C/JAVA syntax in Python?
>
> >> Java example:
> >> return (a==b) ? 'Yes' : 'No'
>
> >> My first idea is:
> >> return ('No','Yes')[bool(a=
* Victor Eijkhout:
I have two arrays, made with numpy. The first one has values that I want
to use as sorting keys; the second one needs to be sorted by those keys.
Obviously I could turn them into a dictionary of pairs and sort by the
first member, but I think that's not very efficient, at leas
;
printf("Send one to abuse and Just Hit Delete,\n");
printf("%d slabs of spam in my mail!\n\n", i + 1);
}
On Mar 30, 4:40 am, "Alf P. Steinbach" wrote:
> * Jean-Michel Pichavant:
>
> > John Nagle wrote:
> >> Jonathan Hayward wrot
* Jean-Michel Pichavant:
John Nagle wrote:
Jonathan Hayward wrote:
I've posted "Usability, the Soul of Python: An Introduction to the
Python Programming Language Through the Eyes of Usability", at:
http://JonathansCorner.com/python/
No, it's just a rather verbose introduction to Python
* Steven D'Aprano:
On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:56:26 +0200, Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
From a more practical point of view, the sum efficiency could be
improved by doing the first addition using '+' and the rest using '+=',
without changing the behavior.
But that would
* Steve Howell:
On Mar 28, 8:17 am, Duncan Booth wrote:
Steve Howell wrote:
The mildly surprising part of sum() is that is does add vs. add-in-
place, which leads to O(N) vs. O(1) for the inner loop calls, for
certain data structures, notably lists, even though none of the
intermediate result
* Andrej Mitrovic:
I would like to traverse through the entire structure of dir(), and
write it to a file.
Now, if I try to write the contents of dir() to a file (via pickle), I
only get the top layer. So even if there are lists within the returned
list from dir(), they get written as a list of
On 03/26/10 01:10, Rhodri James wrote:
Pretty much. In the sense that you're thinking of, every assignment
works that way, even the initial "TEST1 = One()". Assignment binds names
to objects, though you have to be aware that names can be such exotic
things as "t", "a[15]" or "TEST2.__instance_o
On 03/25/10 23:41, Christian Heimes wrote:
Martin P. Hellwig schrieb:
What I don't understand why in the second test, the last boolean is True
instead of (what I expect) False.
Could somebody enlighten me please as this has bitten me before and I am
confused by this behavior.
Hint: TEST
Hi all,
When I run the following snippet (drastically simplified, to just show
what I mean):
>>
import platform, sys
class One(object):
def __init__(self):
self.one = True
def change(self):
self.one = False
class Two(object):
def __init__(self):
self._inst
* Neil Cerutti:
On 2010-03-25, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
You might not want to be so glib. The sum doc sure doesn't
sound like it should work on lists.
Returns the sum of a sequence of numbers (NOT strings) plus the
value of parameter 'start' (which defaults to 0).
What part of that sugg
* Alex Hall:
Hi all,
I have a program with a timer in it, therefore I have multiple
threads.
Is the "therefore..." an inference or independendent information?
If it is an inference then it may not be correct.
For example, timers in a GUI program need not involve additional threads.
My meth
On 03/23/10 23:38, Tim Chase wrote:
Just in case you're okay with a regexp solution, you can use
>>> s = "\t\tabc def "
>>> import re
>>> r = re.compile(r'^(\s*)(.*?)(\s*)$')
>>> m = re.match(s)
>>> m.groups()
('\t\t', 'abc def', ' ')
>>> leading, text, trailing = m.groups()
Ahhh regex,
of like an Easter
holiday mystery.
# Py3
# Copyright 2010 Alf P. Steinbach
import tkinter as tk
from collections import namedtuple
import random
Point = namedtuple( "Point", "x, y" )
Size= namedtuple( "Size", "x, y" )
RGB
* kj:
In Dennis Lee Bieber
writes:
On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:57:40 + (UTC), kj
declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
Regarding properties, is there a built-in way to memoize them? For
example, suppose that the value of a property is obtained by parsing
the contents of a
* newton10471:
Hi,
I'm trying to use subprocess.Popen() to do a Linux chroot to a mount
point passed in as a parameter to the following function:
def getInstalledKernelVersion(mountPoint):
linuxFsRoot = mountPoint + "/root"
print "type of linuxFsRoot is %s" % type(linuxFsRoot)
insta
* Alf P. Steinbach:
* Jah_Alarm:
I've got a vector length n of integers (some of them are repeating),
and I got a selection probability vector of the same length. How will
I sample with replacement k (<=n) values with the probabilty vector.
In Matlab this function is randsample. I could
probabilities ):
assert len( values ) == len( probabilities )
get2nd = operator.itemgetter( 1 )
v_p = sorted( zip( values, probabilities ), key = get2nd, reverse =
True )
v_ap = []; sum = 0;
for (v, p) in v_p:
v_ap.append( (v, p + sum) );
sum += p
* News123:
I wondered about the best way, that a module's function could determine
the existance and value of variables in the __main__ module.
What I came up with is:
### main.py ##
import mod
A = 4
if __name__ == "__main__": mod.f()
### mod.py ##
def f():
* MRAB:
Gabriel Genellina wrote:
En Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:31:23 -0300, MRAB
escribió:
moerchendiser2k3 wrote:
class SetPointer
{
private:
void *ptr;
MY_LOCK lock;
public:
void SetPointer(void *p)
{
Lock(this->lock);
this->ptr = p;
}
3.
* Tim Roberts:
Dave Angel wrote:
There's no real reason parts of an exe cannot be exported, same as a
dll. They are in fact the same structure. And in fact many other files
in the Windows environment are also the same structure, from fonts to ocx's
This is a bit off-topic, but your explan
* Dave Angel:
Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
* Dave Angel:
Stefan Behnel wrote:
mikelisa...@gmail.com, 17.03.2010 10:08:
Its interesting you've mentioned the hard work involved in this
interface (binding to an EXE instead of a DLL). A year or more ago I
was looking at interfacing IPMITOOL to p
On 03/18/10 16:17, drstoka wrote:
Hello,
I have to run a program as a child process inside my python program and
redirect it's output through a pipe to a parent program process.
So, I wrote this:
pipe = Popen('example_program', shell=True, bufsize=0, stdout=PIPE).stdout
and it works great.
No
* Jussi Piitulainen:
Alf P. Steinbach writes:
The point is, if he's upset about Chris quoting that, then he's
probably unaware that he's posting it in plaintext himself.
The complaint was not about quoting but about using in public. Chris
sent his piece to three addresses. F
* Stefan Behnel:
Alf P. Steinbach, 18.03.2010 09:53:
Path:
feeder.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!newsfeeds.ihug.co.nz!lust.ihug.co.nz!ihug.co.nz!not-for-mail
From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro
Newsg
On 03/18/2010 10:20 AM, News123 wrote:
> I'm looking for examples:
> - how to connect/disconnect a mobile broadband device (currently I use
> rasdial. not sure it's the best solution)
> - to obtain the device's current mode (GPRS / EDGE / . . . )
> - to obtain the current signal level
>
> Thanks
* Lawrence D'Oliveiro:
In message , Chris
Rebert wrote:
I see that you published my unobfuscated e-mail address on USENET for all to
see. I obfuscated it for a reason, to keep the spammers away. I'm assuming
this was a momentary lapse of judgement, for which I expect an apology.
Otherwise, it b
On 03/17/10 13:30, Tim Arnold wrote:
Hi,
I'm checking to see if multiprocessing works on freebsd for any
version of python. My server is about to get upgraded from 6.3 to 8.0
and I'd sure like to be able to use multiprocessing.
I think the minimal test would be:
-
import mult
* Dave Angel:
Stefan Behnel wrote:
mikelisa...@gmail.com, 17.03.2010 10:08:
Its interesting you've mentioned the hard work involved in this
interface (binding to an EXE instead of a DLL). A year or more ago I
was looking at interfacing IPMITOOL to python. Do to the problems
incurred with swig/py
On 03/16/10 19:30, Hans Mulder wrote:
Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:
Chris Rebert wrote:
You're a bit behind the times.
If my calculations are right, that comic is over 2 years old.
import timetravel
I think you mean:
from __future__ import timetravel
-- HansM
Well according to Marty it is:
fr
* Ulrich Eckhardt:
Chris Rebert wrote:
You're a bit behind the times.
If my calculations are right, that comic is over 2 years old.
import timetravel
C:\test> python
Python 3.1.1 (r311:74483, Aug 17 2009, 17:02:12) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)]
on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credi
* Alex Hall:
On 3/15/10, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:
Alex Hall wrote:
I have a dll I am trying to use, but I get a Windows error 126, "the
specified module could not be found". Here is the code segment:
nvdaController=ctypes.windll.LoadLibrary("nvdaControllerClient32.dll")
In addition to Alf's ans
* Sang-Ho Yun:
I learned that I can check the existence of a file using
os.path.isfile("filename").
What if I need to check if there is a file that contains "HV" in the
filename? What should I do?
from __future__ import print_function
import os
for filename in os.listdir( "." ):
* Alex Hall:
Hi all,
I have a dll I am trying to use, but I get a Windows error 126, "the
specified module could not be found". Here is the code segment:
nvdaController=ctypes.windll.LoadLibrary("nvdaControllerClient32.dll")
I have the specified dll file in the same directory as the file
* Mark Tolonen:
"Terry Reedy" wrote in message
news:hnjkuo$n1...@dough.gmane.org...
On 3/14/2010 4:40 PM, Guillermo wrote:
Adding the byte that some call a 'utf-8 bom' makes the file an invalid
utf-8 file.
Not true. From http://unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html:
Q: When a BOM is used, is it o
On 03/14/10 10:32, hackingKK wrote:
Instead of using the library directly,
isn't python-twisted a better choice?
Why?
--
mph
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On 03/14/10 08:14, ahmet erdinc yilmaz wrote:
Hello,
Recenetly we are developing a senior project and decide to use xmlrpclib.
However I have some questions. In the documentation I could not find any
clue about
handling requests? Does the server handles each request in a separate
thread? Or is
t
On 03/13/10 19:23, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:52:39 -0600, John Bokma wrote:
For quite some time I thought that comp.lang.perl.misc was quite
unfriendly because of a certain attitude. comp.lang.python was quite a
refreshment for a while: very newbie friendly, less pissing con
* Gib Bogle:
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
As the old proverb goes: give a man a fish, and you feed him for a
day. Teach him how to fish, and he has food forever.
I like this version:
Light a man a fire, and you keep him warm for hours. Set a man on fire,
and you keep him warm for the rest of his
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:49:04 +, "John P."
wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:22:04 -0500, "D'Arcy J.M. Cain"
> wrote:
>> On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:56:12 +
>> "John P." wrote:
>>> Sorry but its not really an option for me with P
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:22:04 -0500, "D'Arcy J.M. Cain"
wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:56:12 +
> "John P." wrote:
>> Sorry but its not really an option for me with PostgreSQL. Thanks
anyway.
>
> Why? It's your best option. Any other solut
ons running at once, MySQL is a terrible choice.
> Give PostgreSQL a try. It does a much better job with that kind of
> load.
>
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:11 PM, John P.
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Im programming a simple webcrawler with threading for the fun of it,
>
here?
Thanks.
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* Félix-Antoine Fortin:
Given this code :
# Experience with frame
import sys
import inspect
def foo():
stack = inspect.stack()
print "foo frame : " + str(hex(id(sys._getframe(
hex returns a string. applying str is therefore redundant.
def foo2():
inspect.stack()
print "f
On 03/11/10 01:37, Gabriel Genellina wrote:
En Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:54:27 -0300, Martin P. Hellwig
escribió:
Before I start reinventing a squared wheel, I have the following
question:
Is there already a (standard) module that wraps around the various
os/sys information which checks if the
On 03/11/10 22:08, Cal Who wrote:
Thanks, that helped a lot.
I'm having trouble knowing what to search for to find documenatation. For
example, is print a Python command, a numpy command or a java command?
I like to read the documentation even if the command is working for me.
Thanks again
On 03/10/10 21:52, J wrote:
I'm working on a project and thought I'd ask for a suggestion on how
to proceed (I've got my own ideas, but I wanted to see if I was on the
right track)
Well I can't speak with authority but I would go into similar lines,
especially since you want to call an externa
* James Harris:
On 10 Mar, 06:29, "Gabriel Genellina" wrote:
En Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:41:10 -0300, Daniel Klein
escribi :
Basically I'm wondering if there are any plans to implemented named
loops in Python, so I can tell a break command to break out of a
specific loop in the case of nested l
Hi all,
Before I start reinventing a squared wheel, I have the following question:
Is there already a (standard) module that wraps around the various
os/sys information which checks if the platform + version is supported
for what I want to do with it.
For example I am currently looking at mak
On 02/09/10 14:00, Phlip wrote:
Ah, now we get down to the root of the problem. Because Python is so
stuck on the "one best way to do it" mentality, language bigotry
prevented the Committee from picking from among several equally valid
but non-best options. And after 20 years of growth, Python s
* C. Benson Manica:
Hours of Googling has not helped me resolve a seemingly simple
question - Given a string s, how can I tell whether it's ascii (and
thus 1 byte per character) or UTF-8 (and two bytes per character)?
This is python 2.4.3, so I don't have getsizeof available to me.
Generally, i
On 03/08/10 17:06, Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote:
Hi,
I've written some (primitive) code to parse some apache logfies and
establish if apache has appended a session cookie to the end. We're
finding that some browsers don't and apache doesn't just append a "-"
- it just omits it.
It's working fine
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