Re: An assessment of the Unicode standard

On Thursday 17 September 2009 15:29:38 Tim Rowe wrote: > There are good reasons for it falling out of favour, though. At the > time of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, anthropologists were arguing that > members of a certain remote tribe did not experience grief on the > death of a child because their

Re:OT - people eaters - was: An assessment of the Unicode standard

On Friday 18 September 2009 06:39:57 Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > A one-eyed, one-horned, flying purple people eater? > > {Which brings up the confusing question... Is the eater purple, or does > it eat purple people (which is why it is so rare... it only eats people > caught in the last stage

Re: explicit call to __init__(self) in subclass needed?

Ethan Furman a écrit : Andrew MacKeith wrote: I create a class like this in Python-2.6 >>> class Y(str): ... def __init__(self, s): ... pass ... >>> y = Y('giraffe') >>> y 'giraffe' >>> How does the base class (str) get initialized with the value passed to Y.__init__() ? Is this

specify max width to reportlab.canvas.drawString

I am using reportlab to create pdf documents, everything looks fine, how ever, is there a way to specify a max width to drawString function ? I mean cut the sentence and continue a step down... Cheers -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: SQLite or files?

You can also make a SQLite database be in-memory, giving you the performance benefits of skipping the disk. Yes, I love the in-memory database -- especially for my automated testing in Django. However, the OP said that memory footprint was a concern (granted, I don't know how much data they

Re: explicit call to __init__(self) in subclass needed?

Andrew MacKeith a écrit : I create a class like this in Python-2.6 >>> class Y(str): ... def __init__(self, s): ... pass ... >>> y = Y('giraffe') >>> y 'giraffe' >>> How does the base class (str) get initialized with the value passed to Y.__init__() ? It happens in the __new__ met

Re: Looking for a pure Python chart drawing module

John Nagle wrote: That's a wrapper for Antigrain ("http://www.antigrain.com/";), which is a C++ library. I'm trying hard to avoid dependencies on binary libraries with limited support. Builds exist only for Python 2.4 and 2.5. Huh? Matplotlib is a pretty phenomenal charting library, I use

Re: Looking for a pure Python chart drawing module

Grant Edwards wrote: On 2009-09-16, Alan G Isaac wrote: Tkinter is part of the Python standard library: That doesn't mean you can depend on it being available. It doesn't get installed by default on some Linux distros. That's 'cos some linux distros feel the need to destroy python's pack

Re: recommendation for webapp testing?

Simon Brunning wrote: Mechanize is a superb library for its intended purpose - I use it all the time. It's lack of support for pages with JavaScript functionality, though, means it's not very useful at a testing tool for modern web sites. There's also zope.testbrowser, which is a handy wrapper

Cross platform TTF font render from Python [was: Load TTF from pycairo under Windows]

Hi All, I need to render antialiased PNG images using TTF font files and UTF-8 text. It needs to be available at least on Linux and Windows. This is what I have tried: #1. PIL - it has some problems and I cannot use it. Specifically, the ImageFont.getsize() returns bad value for some fonts,

Re: How do I begin debugging a python memory leak?

Matthew Wilson wrote: I have a web app based on TurboGears 1.0. In the last few days, as traffic and usage has picked up, I noticed that the app went from using 4% of my total memory all the way up to 50%. I suspect I'm loading data from the database and somehow preventing garbage collection.

Re: Creating a local variable scope.

On Sep 11, 7:36 pm, Johan Grönqvist wrote: > Hi All, > > I find several places in my code where I would like to have a variable > scope that is smaller than the enclosing function/class/module definition. This is one of the single major frustrations I have with Python and a important source of bu

Place the timer in Python script

How to place the timer in python code. I want calculate the python script execution time. ex : Start Timer : End Timer Execution Time : End Timer - Start Timer. How can we write the python code for this. Help would be appreciable. Thanks in Advance. Vamsi -- http://mail.python.org/mailm

Tkinter - Text - bullets

My intention is to write a small custom widget displaying text where the text can have a simple wiki syntax. The main interest is to support heading, bold, italic, underline, itemization and enumeration. How can I implement itemization using the Tkinter.Text widget? (bullets) -- http://mail.pytho

Re: Cross platform TTF font render from Python [was: Load TTF from pycairo under Windows]

Laszlo Nagy wrote: Hi All, I need to render antialiased PNG images using TTF font files and UTF-8 text. It needs to be available at least on Linux and Windows. This is what I have tried: #1. PIL - it has some problems and I cannot use it. Specifically, the ImageFont.getsize() returns bad va

Re: Place the timer in Python script

Vamsikrishna wrote: How to place the timer in python code. timeit ... it's in the standard library: http://docs.python.org/library/timeit.html Cheers, Ju -- Whomever controls the press, owns history -- Johann Gutenberg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: specify max width to reportlab.canvas.drawString

juanefren wrote: I am using reportlab to create pdf documents, everything looks fine, how ever, is there a way to specify a max width to drawString function ? I mean cut the sentence and continue a step down... Cheers You'll get better results asking at the reportlab user group reportlab-u

Re: How do I begin debugging a python memory leak?

On 17 Sep., 02:10, Matthew Wilson wrote: > I have a web app based on TurboGears 1.0.  In the last few days, as > traffic and usage has picked up, I noticed that the app went from using > 4% of my total memory all the way up to 50%. > > I suspect I'm loading data from the database and somehow preve

python-win32 : cross database automation

Hello Everybody... I working on a client-server database solution. The system is normalized and is using MySQL. To automate some of processes I using Python. Part of the old database will be still running on Lotus Notes. After working on it, it seems that the best choice to directly manipulate Lo

Re: Creating a local variable scope.

markol...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sep 11, 7:36 pm, Johan Grönqvist wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I find several places in my code where I would like to have a variable >> scope that is smaller than the enclosing function/class/module >> definition. > > This is one of the single major frustrations I have

ANN: Resolver One 1.6.5 released

We are proud to announce the release of Resolver One, version 1.6.5. Resolver One is a Windows-based spreadsheet that integrates Python deeply into its recalculation loop, making the models you build more reliable and more maintainable. For versions 1.6 and 1.6.5, we've made it easier for people t

Re: class initialization problem

rantingrick wrote: On Sep 18, 12:24 am, "OKB (not okblacke)" wrote: Perhaps you want to cut off the recursion at the first step, so that the nested instance itself does not have a nested instance. If so, add another parameter to __init__ that flags whether you are creating a "top-le

Re: Looking for a pure Python chart drawing module

> Chris Withers (CW) wrote: >CW> John Nagle wrote: >>> That's a wrapper for Antigrain ("http://www.antigrain.com/";), which is >>> a C++ library. I'm trying hard to avoid dependencies on binary libraries >>> with limited support. Builds exist only for Python 2.4 and 2.5. >CW> Huh? >CW> Ma

Re: Looking for a pure Python chart drawing module

On Sep 15, 1:25 pm, John Nagle wrote: > I'm looking for something that can draw simple bar and pie charts > in Python.  I'm trying to find a Python package, not a wrapper for > some C library, as this has to run on both Windows and Linux > and version clashes are a problem. http://skimpygimpy.sou

Re: Place the timer in Python script

Vamsikrishna wrote: How to place the timer in python code. I want calculate the python script execution time. ex : Start Timer : End Timer Execution Time : End Timer - Start Timer. How can we write the python code for this. Help would be appreciable. Thanks in Advance. Vamsi impor

Re: Cross platform TTF font render from Python [was: Load TTF from pycairo under Windows]

... the reportlab graphics renderPM(_renderPM) module does most things with T1 and TTF and works linux/win32. We use freetype2 internally to extract the curves from ttf and then draw them with libart_lgpl which does anti-aliasing. I just tried reportlab and RenderPM. I got the same error

Re: Creating a local variable scope.

Neal Becker wrote: markol...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 11, 7:36 pm, Johan Grönqvist wrote: Hi All, I find several places in my code where I would like to have a variable scope that is smaller than the enclosing function/class/module definition. This is one of the single major frustrations

Re: explicit call to __init__(self) in subclass needed?

Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: Ethan Furman a écrit : Andrew MacKeith wrote: I create a class like this in Python-2.6 >>> class Y(str): ... def __init__(self, s): ... pass ... >>> y = Y('giraffe') >>> y 'giraffe' >>> How does the base class (str) get initialized with the value passed

Re: Creating a local variable scope.

On Friday 18 September 2009, Ethan Furman wrote: > loop != scope true for python but in some languages the loop counter has a scope limited to the loop -- Wolfgang -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Cross platform TTF font render from Python [was: Load TTF from pycairo under Windows]

Laszlo Nagy wrote: ... > looks impossible to use it for creating raster images. Details here: http://osdir.com/ml/python.reportlab.user/2005-06/msg00015.html OK your error occurs because we need to set up the renderPM canvas with an initial font (for compatibility with the PDF canvas

Re: Looking for a pure Python chart drawing module

Piet van Oostrum writes: >> Chris Withers (CW) wrote: > >>CW> John Nagle wrote: That's a wrapper for Antigrain ("http://www.antigrain.com/";), which is a C++ library. I'm trying hard to avoid dependencies on binary libraries with limited support. Builds exist only for P

Re: Creating a local variable scope.

Thanks for all replies. First, two general comments, and then my conclusions: I did not intend to ask for new features, but my interest was in writing readable code that works in python 2.5, although I may upgrade to 2.6 soon. Also, what I gave was intended as a minimal example, and not a com

Re: Looking for a pure Python chart drawing module

On 2009-09-18, Chris Withers wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2009-09-16, Alan G Isaac wrote: >> >>> Tkinter is part of the Python standard library: >> >> That doesn't mean you can depend on it being available. It >> doesn't get installed by default on some Linux distros. > > That's 'cos so

Re: OT - people eaters - was: An assessment of the Unicode standard

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 3:26 AM, Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > Does anybody know where the concept of the purple people eater comes from? > I mean is there a children's book or something? > - Hendrik http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_People_Eater -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-

Re: How do I begin debugging a python memory leak?

Rainer Grimm writes: > have a look at valgrind. Have you actually used that on Python? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Tkinter - Text - bullets

On Sep 18, 11:57 am, Thomas Lehmann wrote: > My intention is to write a small custom widget displaying text where > the text can have a simple wiki syntax. The main interest is to > support heading, bold, italic, underline, itemization and enumeration. > > How can I implement itemization using the

Re: multiprocessing managers and socket connection.

On Aug 31, 10:41 pm, Terry wrote: > On Aug 26, 7:25 pm, Chris wrote: > > > > > On Aug 25, 9:11 pm, Terry wrote: > > > > On Aug 25, 10:14 pm, Chris wrote: > > > > > I've been using multiprocessing managers and I really like the > > > > functionality. > > > > > I have a question about reconnectin

Not this one the other one, from a dictionary

Learning my way around list comprehension a bit. I wonder if someone has a better way to solve this issue. I have a two element dictionary, and I know one of the keys but not the other, and I want to look up the other one. So I have this dictionary: aDict = {'a': 'bob', 'b': 'stu'} I

Re: multiprocessing managers and socket connection.

Is this "server" something you wrote from scratch or something that is just being used. Some details are left out -- --Original Message-- From: Chris To: Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:10:15 AM -0700 Subject: Re: multiprocessing managers and socket connection. On Aug 31, 10:41 pm,

How to print without spaces?

Hi, I don't want to print the space between 'a' and 'b'. Could somebody let me know how to do it? Regards, Peng $ python Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, May 21 2008, 10:08:24) [GCC 4.1.2 20070626 (Red Hat 4.1.2-14)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> p

RE: How to print without spaces?

> Hi, > > I don't want to print the space between 'a' and 'b'. Could somebody > let me know how to do it? > > Regards, > Peng > > $ python > Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, May 21 2008, 10:08:24) > [GCC 4.1.2 20070626 (Red Hat 4.1.2-14)] on linux2 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for

Re: How to print without spaces?

print "a"+"b" \d -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Why use "locals()"

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:12 AM, Sean DiZazzo wrote: > > Thanks for your explanation Steven.  I see how it can be valuable, but > it seems to always break the second rule of Zen.  I don't really want > to get into the code of debuggers, but I guess I can see how they > might have no other way to k

Re: multiprocessing managers and socket connection.

On Sep 18, 12:42 pm, "bouncy...@gmail.com" wrote: > Is this "server" something you wrote from scratch or something that is just > being used. Some details are left out > > -- > > --Original Message-- > From: Chris > To: > Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:10:15 AM -0700 > Subject: Re: m

detmining name during an assignment

I have an app that uses Python scripting. When a user creates a new object: objName = newObject() I'd like the newObject be able to use objName as its internal name. So, if a user says: cube1 = Cube() A "cube1" object should apear in the scene list. I believe this means I need to determine tha

Re: detmining name during an assignment

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Jamie Riotto wrote: > I have an app that uses Python scripting. When a user creates a new object: > > objName = newObject() > > I'd like the newObject be able to use objName as its internal name. > Almost this exact same question came up not so long ago, which is

Re: detmining name during an assignment

On Sep 18, 1:00 pm, Jamie Riotto wrote: > I have an app that uses Python scripting. When a user creates a new object: > > objName = newObject() > > I'd like the newObject be able to use objName as its internal name. > So, if a user says: > > cube1 = Cube() > >  A "cube1" object should apear in the

Re: Not this one the other one, from a dictionary

Learning my way around list comprehension a bit. I wonder if someone has a better way to solve this issue. I have a two element dictionary, and I know one of the keys but not the other, and I want to look up the other one. Several ways occur to me. Of the various solutions I played wit

Re: How to improve this code?

On Sep 14, 9:08 pm, Oltmans wrote: > Hello, > > Is there someway I can improve the following code(pythonically)? > (Copying from IDLE) > match=[1,2,3,4,5] > > def elementsPresent(aList): >         result=False >         if not aList: >                 return False >         for e in aList: >      

Re: detmining name during an assignment

Jamie Riotto schrieb: > I have an app that uses Python scripting. When a user creates a new object: > > objName = newObject() > > I'd like the newObject be able to use objName as its internal name. > So, if a user says: > > cube1 = Cube() > > A "cube1" object should apear in the scene list. I

Re: detmining name during an assignment

Jamie, Hi. > I have an app that uses Python scripting. When a user creates a new object: > > objName = newObject() newObject should technically speaking be newClass() but nevermind :-) > I'd like the newObject be able to use objName as its internal name. > So, if a user says: > > cube1 = Cube()

Re: Not this one the other one, from a dictionary

Ross Hi. > So I have this dictionary: > > aDict = {'a': 'bob', 'b': 'stu'} Yes. > I know that the dictionary contains two keys/value pairs,  but I don't know > the values nor that the keys will be 'a' and 'b'.   I finally get one of the > keys passed to me as variable BigOne. e.g.: > > BigOne =

Re: How to improve this code?

elements_present = lambda seq, match: any(((x in match) for x in seq)) On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:08:59 -0600, Oltmans wrote: Hello, Is there someway I can improve the following code(pythonically)? (Copying from IDLE) match=[1,2,3,4,5] def elementsPresent(aList): result=False if

Python based paramiko package acting up on Linux, code works fine on windows

I've tried to post to the mailing list for paramiko and contact the author, but it seems he's having some mailing list problems. Anyways, I have this small example that works just fine on Windows against Python 2.6.2, but fails on Ubuntu against 2.6.2. Here is the code: import subprocess import

Re: Not this one the other one, from a dictionary

Thanks Tim (and Ishwor) for the suggestions, those are structures that somewhat new to me - looks good! I'll play with those.At this rate I may soon almost know what I'm doing. Rgds Ross. On 18-Sep-09, at 1:19 PM, Tim Chase wrote: Learning my way around list comprehension a bit. I w

Granularity of OSError

I've often come across the idea that good Python style deals with potential errors using an EAFP ("easier to ask forgiveness than permission") strategy rather than a LBYL ("look before you leap") strategy. For example, LBYL would look like this: if os.path.isfile(some_file): os.unlink(some

Re: explicit call to __init__(self) in subclass needed?

Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: Andrew MacKeith a écrit : I create a class like this in Python-2.6 >>> class Y(str): ... def __init__(self, s): ... pass ... >>> y = Y('giraffe') >>> y 'giraffe' >>> How does the base class (str) get initialized with the value passed to Y.__init__() ?

Re: Granularity of OSError

On Sep 18, 11:54 am, kj wrote: > I've often come across the idea that good Python style deals with > potential errors using an EAFP ("easier to ask forgiveness than > permission") strategy rather than a LBYL ("look before you leap") > strategy. > > For example, LBYL would look like this: > > if os

Re: How to print without spaces?

> I don't want to print the space between 'a' and 'b'. Could somebody let me > know how to do it? print "a","b" > a b Since you are new, you should also be aware of: print "%s%s" % (a, b) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Granularity of OSError

On Sep 18, 3:05 pm, Sean DiZazzo wrote: > On Sep 18, 11:54 am, kj wrote: > > > > > > > I've often come across the idea that good Python style deals with > > potential errors using an EAFP ("easier to ask forgiveness than > > permission") strategy rather than a LBYL ("look before you leap") > > st

Re: Granularity of OSError

In <254eac4d-ce19-4af9-8c6a-5be8e7b0f...@u16g2000pru.googlegroups.com> Sean DiZazzo writes: >On Sep 18, 11:54=A0am, kj wrote: >> I've often come across the idea that good Python style deals with >> potential errors using an EAFP ("easier to ask forgiveness than >> permission") strategy rather t

Re: Not this one the other one, from a dictionary

2009/9/18 Ross : > > Learning my way around list comprehension a bit.   I wonder if someone has a > better way to solve this issue.  I have a two element dictionary, and I know > one of the keys but not the other, and I want to look up the other one. > > So I have this dictionary: > > aDict = {'a':

Re: How do I begin debugging a python memory leak?

On Sep 18, 5:42 pm, Paul Rubin wrote: > Rainer Grimm writes: > > have a look at valgrind. > > Have you actually used that on Python? Not with python as far I can remember. But often with C++ executables, as i mentioned it. I you look at http://valgrind.org/info/ ther

Re: detmining name during an assignment

En Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:38:08 -0300, Christian Heimes escribió: Jamie Riotto schrieb: I have an app that uses Python scripting. When a user creates a new object: objName = newObject() I'd like the newObject be able to use objName as its internal name. As the others already explained to

Re: How to print without spaces?

On Sep 18, 9:49 pm, "Andreas Tawn" wrote: > > Hi, > > > I don't want to print the space between 'a' and 'b'. Could somebody > > let me know how to do it? > > > Regards, > > Peng > > > $ python > > Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, May 21 2008, 10:08:24) > > [GCC 4.1.2 20070626 (Red Hat 4.1.2-14)] on linux

Re: How to print without spaces?

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 4:16 PM, koranthala wrote: > What if I want to print 1 to 100 in a loop without spaces in between? > I think that is the OPs question. In that case I would skip using print entirely, and use something like this: import sys for i in xrange(100): sys.stdout.write(str(i)

Re: Creating a local variable scope.

En Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:55:47 -0300, Johan Grönqvist escribió: Summarizing the answers, it seems that I will try to follow three suggestions: 1) In general, try to restructure the code into smaller modules and smaller functions. That's a good thing - "manageable" modules and functions.

Re: How to print without spaces?

On Friday 18 September 2009, koranthala wrote: > What if I want to print 1 to 100 in a loop without spaces in > between? I think that is the OPs question. arr = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'andsoon'] print ''.join(arr) -- Wolfgang -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Application-global "switches"?

In <579a15bf-83c0-4228-9079-bbaac1222...@o13g2000vbl.googlegroups.com> Marius Gedminas writes: >On Sep 4, 9:29=A0pm, kj wrote: >> The only solution I can come up with is to define a "dummy module", >> say _config.py, which contains only upper-case variables representing >> these global switches

Re: Why use "locals()"

On Sep 18, 9:55 am, Simon Forman wrote: > On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:12 AM, Sean DiZazzo wrote: > > > Thanks for your explanation Steven.  I see how it can be valuable, but > > it seems to always break the second rule of Zen.  I don't really want > > to get into the code of debuggers, but I guess

[ANN] pyjamas pyv8run converts python to javascript, executes under command-line

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Re: Python based paramiko package acting up on Linux, code works fine on windows

On Sep 18, 11:22 am, flxkid wrote: > I've tried to post to the mailing list for paramiko and contact the > author, but it seems he's having some mailing list problems.  Anyways, > I have this small example that works just fine on Windows against > Python 2.6.2, but fails on Ubuntu against 2.6.2.  

Re: can python make web applications?

On Sep 16, 7:02 pm, Paul Boddie wrote: > On 16 Sep, 18:31, lkcl wrote: > > > > >http://pyjs.org/examples/timesheet/output/TimeSheet.html > > I get this error dialogue message when visiting the above page: > > "TimeSheet undefined list assignment index out of range" ah well spotted, thanks paul.

Re: can python make web applications?

On Sep 16, 7:02 pm, Paul Boddie wrote: > On 16 Sep, 18:31, lkcl wrote: > > > > >http://pyjs.org/examples/timesheet/output/TimeSheet.html > > I get this error dialogue message when visiting the above page: > > "TimeSheet undefined list assignment index out of range" > > Along with the following in

Re: Creating a local variable scope.

On Sep 11, 10:36 am, Johan Grönqvist wrote: > Hi All, > > I find several places in my code where I would like to have a variable > scope that is smaller than the enclosing function/class/module definition. > > One representative example would look like: > > -- > spam = { ... } > eggs = { .

Re: detmining name during an assignment

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Gabriel Genellina wrote: > En Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:38:08 -0300, Christian Heimes > escribió: >> >> Jamie Riotto schrieb: > >>> I have an app that uses Python scripting. When a user creates a new >>> object: >>> >>> objName = newObject() >>> >>> I'd like the newObje

Re: pygame and py2app : big package

On Sep 18, 9:28 pm, pdora...@pas-de-pub-merci.mac.com (Pierre-Alain Dorange) wrote: > I used py2app on Mac to build a package of my game (using pygame). > It works fine (better than py2exe, i can'tmake work at tht time). > > But the package is very big. > The biggest "thing" is numpy lib : 19 MB !

Re: Granularity of OSError

> > You can access the exception object which gives you greater detail. > > > > try: > > os.unlink(some_file) > > except OSError, e: > > print e.errno > > print e.strerror > > > > if e.errno == 2: > > pass > > else: > > raise > > I do this myself in a lot of plac

Re: pyjamas pyv8run converts python to javascript, executes under command-line

On 18 Sep, 23:17, lkcl wrote: > > the pyjamas project is taking a slightly different approach to achieve > this same goal: beat the stuffing out of the pyjamas compiler, rather > than hand-write such large sections of code in pure javascript, and > double-run regression tests (once as python, seco

Re: Granularity of OSError

kj wrote: > For example, LBYL would look like this: > > if os.path.isfile(some_file): > os.unlink(some_file) > > In contrast, EAFP would look like this: > > try: > os.unlink(some_file) > except OSError: > pass The two version aren't equal. The first one suffers from a race conditio

Re: Granularity of OSError

On Sep 18, 5:23 pm, Christian Heimes wrote: > kj wrote: > > For example, LBYL would look like this: > > > if os.path.isfile(some_file): > >     os.unlink(some_file) > > > In contrast, EAFP would look like this: > > > try: > >     os.unlink(some_file) > > except OSError: > >     pass > > The two ve

Re: Substitute for KConfig in Qt4

On Thursday 17 September 2009 13:04, nusch wrote: > I want to remove pyKDE dependencies from my app to make it pure PyQt. > What will be the best substitute for KConfig? What exactly do you use KConfig for in your application? David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: An assessment of the Unicode standard

On Friday 18 September 2009 06:39:57 Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: (snip) Snap (sort of). Does anybody know where the concept of the purple people eater comes from? I mean is there a children's book or something? - Hendrik Where is the one eyed, one horned, lavender (antiquated) language eater i ask!

Re: Granularity of OSError

On 2009-09-19, Christian Heimes wrote: > kj wrote: >> For example, LBYL would look like this: >> >> if os.path.isfile(some_file): >> os.unlink(some_file) >> >> In contrast, EAFP would look like this: >> >> try: >> os.unlink(some_file) >> except OSError: >> pass > > > The two version

Re: Podcast catcher in Python

On Sep 12, 3:37 pm, Chuck wrote: > On Sep 11, 9:54 pm, Chris Rebert wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Chuck wrote: > > > Does anyone know how I should read/download the mp3 file, and how I > > > should write/save it so that I can play it on a media player such as > > > Windoze media

Re: Cross platform TTF font render from Python [was: Load TTF from pycairo under Windows]

On Friday 18 September 2009 08:54, Laszlo Nagy wrote: > I need to render antialiased PNG images using TTF font files and UTF-8 > text. It needs to be available at least on Linux and Windows. This is > what I have tried: [...] > #4. pygame - documentation looks great, it is cross platform. But th

Re: Podcast catcher in Python

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Chuck wrote: > I am using Python 3.1, but I can't figure out why I can't use > xml.dom.minidom.  Here is my code: > > from xml.dom.minidom import parse, parseString > url = 'http://minnesota.publicradio.org/tools/podcasts/ > grammar_grater.xml'  #just for test pur