Re: More like a shell command.
[Bill] Is there anyway I can extend python to accept a command which looks more like shell syntax than a function call. I want to be able to do this: if blah : MyCommand Arg1 Arg2 As a general rule, if Python gives you a syntax error then you can't achieve what you want without modifying Python's grammar (and turning it into something that isn't Python any more). -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Search your Visual Studio projects instantly with Entrian Source Search, our powerful Source Code Search add-in: http://entrian.com/source-search -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Bug in re.findall?
Hi Marcin,
subnetlist=192.168.100.0 , 192.168.101.0
ipre=re.compile(([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3})
ipre.findall(subnetlist)
['100.', '101.']
Correct - it returns the most recently captured text for your sole group.
a=ipre.finditer(subnetlist)
a.next().group()
'192.168.100.0'
Also correct, because match.group() returns the whole of the matched text.
If you wanted just your captured piece, you need this:
a.next().group(1)
'100.'
Hope that helps!
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Re: urllib2 disable proxy
Hi Dimitris, I've been looking for a way to explicitly disable the use of proxies with urllib2, no matter what the environment dictates. Unfortunately I can't find a way [...] Would changing the environment work? Like this: del os.environ['http_proxy'] do_stuff_with_urllib2() -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: OPLC purchase period extended
[Aahz] I'm sure that some people would be willing to serve as middleware... I would *love* to have one of these for my kids, if anyone here would be prepared to forward one to the UK for me. I can pay you the postage by PalPal, Amazon voucher, whatever suits. The XO reminds me of the computers I grew up with in the early 80s - the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and the BBC Micro. They're miles apart technically, but similar in the way they're designed for children. The lack of that kind of computer is something that's vaguely worried me for my kids - a Windows PC, or even Linux or Mac, carries so much baggage that trying to learn basic programming on it would have a much steeper learning curve than a more basic, child-targeted machine. Something that's designed for children and has Python as its main programming language is a dream come true! It's also something that can safely be left lying around the house, and become a part of everyday family life, in a way that a desktop machine or a standard laptop can't. When the story I'm reading to my 4-year-old mentions Elvis and she asks who he is, rather than traipsing down two flights of stairs to the study and cranking up the PC, being able to grab the XO - which was partly hers - to answer her question would be just fantastic. And what better way to encourage friends and family to donate to the OLPC cause than to demonstrate the real thing to them? The G1G1 scheme is a great idea, and it's a real shame they've had to limit its availability to North America. -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing
[Paul] tell us how the software compares to stuff like Lucene or Xapian. +1 -- Richie -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: changes on disk not visible to script ?
[Bruce] f.close() cmd = echo %s | %s%(argument_file,the_program) Either: you are a VB programmer and you've actually typed f.close rather than f.close(), Or: you meant type (or cat) rather than echo, Or: I need a new crystal ball. 8-) -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: changes on disk not visible to script ?
[Bruce] VB programmer!? Thats really harsh.. No offence intended! 8-) -- Richie -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Coming from Perl
[Amer] Can you or anyone see anything in the posted code that might be the cause? #!/usr/bin/python import cgitb; cgitb.enable(display=0, logdir=.) import sys sys.stderr = sys.stdout print Content-Type: text/html print My guess would be that you don't have cgitb in your server environment, or that you have a bogus one. Rearrange things like this: #!/usr/bin/python print Content-Type: text/html print import sys sys.stderr = sys.stdout import cgitb; cgitb.enable(display=0, logdir=.) -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Coming from Perl
[Amer] #!/usr/bin/python [...] On my home PC [...] [Thu Sep 13 04:16:03 2007] [error] [client 0.0.0.0] (OS 2)The system cannot find the file specified. That's because on your home PC Python is somewhere like C:\Python25\python.exe, not /usr/bin/python. Are you sure /usr/bin/python is correct for your hosting environment? -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: list index()
[Carsten] .. If we start labeling people, this thread will earn you a label that rhymes with roll. [Hendrik] weird this - maybe a native English speaker can comment - when I pronounce what fishermen do - it rhymes with roll, but when I am talking about the thing that lives under bridges and munches goats, the O sound is shorter, and more towards the back of my mouth. But - the word for someone who posts to the internet with the intention of stirring up trouble derives from the word for what fishermen do, not from the word for something that lives under a bridge. It derives from trolling for suckers or trolling for newbies. -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: strip() 2.4.4
[Nick]
Why is there a apostrophe still at the end?
[Stephen]
Is it possible that you actually have whitespace at the end
of the line?
It's the newline - reading lines from a file doesn't remove the newlines:
from cStringIO import StringIO
DATA = \
'AF':'AFG':'004':'AFGHANISTAN':'Afghanistan'
'AL':'ALB':'008':'ALBANIA':'Albania'
'DZ':'DZA':'012':'ALGERIA':'Algeria'
'AS':'ASM':'016':'AMERICAN SAMOA':'American Samoa'
f1 = StringIO(DATA)
for line in f1:
print repr(line.rsplit(':')[4].strip(')) # repr shows the error
# This prints:
#
# Afghanistan'\n
# Albania'\n
# Algeria'\n
# American Samoa'\n
#
# Do this instead:
f1.seek(0)
for line in f1:
print line.strip().rsplit(':')[4].strip(')
# This prints:
#
# Afghanistan
# Albania
# Algeria
# American Samoa
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Re: PyMeld for html templates?
[Sean] The pymeld docs show examples only for the Python command line interpreter and show using the print statement to output stuff. But using mod_python.apache, I think you need to use req.write(something) format. And of course, this fails when you feed it output from Meld. req.write(str(meld)) ? -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: PyMeld for html templates?
[Sean] I wonder if anyone has any thoughts on PyMeld as a template system for churning out general websites? I'm doing that (but then I would be wouldn't I? 8-) http://www.mandant.net is an example - the content of each page comes from a file containing just the content, the layout and sidebar are defined in a template HTML file, and the navigation is built by a Python script. All that is pulled together using PyMeld into a set of HTML files and deployed to the web server (there's no need to it on the fly for that site, but you certainly could). I want for a URI request to mysite.com/info to pull in a layout.html template which will in turn be populated by the info.html template. [...] how about PyMeld, any ideas on how to do it or whether it will even work as I've described? You'd do something like this: from PyMeld import Meld LAYOUT = htmlheadtitle id='title'The Title/title/head bodydiv id='info'The page information goes here./div p id='footerCopyright Me 2007./p/body/html INFO = htmlheadtitle id='title'The real title/title/head body id='info'pHere is the info, which would in the real world be read from a file./p/body/html page = Meld(LAYOUT) info = Meld(INFO) page.title = info.title._content page.info = info.info._content print page Is that the sort of thing you had in mind? -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: why would anyone use python when java is there?
[Adam] For the life of me I can't understand why he would troll comp.lang.python when comp.lang.lisp is there. +1 QOTW! -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: why would anyone use python when java is there?
[Adam] For the life of me I can't understand why he would troll comp.lang.python when comp.lang.lisp is there. [Richie] +1 QOTW! [Paul] Overruled! ;-) Mostly because comp.lang.lisp seems to have become a much better place to get quotes of the week about Python than comp.lang.python itself. Point taken... but had Adam said For the life of me I can't understand why he would troll comp.lang.python when the rest of usenet is there I would have still voted QOTW. It was a pro-comp.lang.python vote, not an anti-comp.lang.lisp vote. 8-) -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: PythonTidy
[Roberto] # vim: set fileencoding=utf-8 : ... # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- ... About changing the encoding declaration from vim-style to emacs-style: I'll take it as an insult :) [Laurent] This is not emacs-style, this is Python normalized source encoding directive for correct interpretation of u... strings by Python interpreter. So is # vim: set fileencoding=utf-8. Anything matching coding[:=]\s*([-\w.]+) on the first or second line counts. See http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/ Yes, you should. 8-) -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: What's going on here?
What is subclassing adding to the class here? A __dict__: o = object() dir(o) ['__class__', '__delattr__', '__doc__', '__getattribute__', '__hash__', '__init__', '__new__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__setattr__', '__str__'] class C(object): pass ... c = C() dir(c) ['__class__', '__delattr__', '__dict__', '__doc__', '__getattribute__', '__hash__', '__init__', '__module__', '__new__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__setattr__', '__str__', '__weakref__'] -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: [OT] Re: can't open word document after string replacements
[Antoine] I have a word document containing pictures and text. This documents holds several 'ABCDEF' strings which serve as a placeholder for names. Now I want to replace these occurences with names in a list (members). [Bruno] I don't know how it's named in english, but in french it's (well - it was last time I used MS Word, which is quite some times ago???) fusion de documents. Mail Merge? -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Django website
[Antal] is there something wrong with django's website (djangoproject.com) or I have problems? It looks ugly, the css files can't be found, I even cannot download the source from there. It's broken for me too, so it's not a problem at your end. -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: List match
[Stephen] [...] compare 2 lists and generate a new list that does not copy similar entries. An example below list= [apple, banana, grape] list2=[orange,banana, pear] now I want to compare these lits and generate a third list after comparison list3 would be [apple, banana,grape,orange, pear] Use sets: from sets import Set as set # For compatibility with Python 2.3 one = [apple, banana, grape] two = [orange,banana, pear] print list(set(one) | set(two)) ['grape', 'apple', 'orange', 'pear', 'banana'] -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: undefined SW_MAXIMIZE for ShowWindow function
[Etayki] How do I get SW_MAXIMIZE to be defined? It's in win32con. Like this: from win32con import * SW_MAXIMIZE 3 -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: undefined SW_MAXIMIZE for ShowWindow function
[Etayki] OK, so it it turns out, the window will maximize when SW_MAXIMIZE =3. But where can I find some documentation for that? ShowWindow is a Win32 API call, so Googling within msdn.microsoft.com will usually get you straight to the relevant documentation: http://www.google.com/search?q=ShowWindow+site%3Amsdn.microsoft.com -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: undefined SW_MAXIMIZE for ShowWindow function
[Fredrik] oops. thought you were using ctypes, not the pythonwin extensions. Even when I'm using ctypes I use win32con for the constants, unless there's some special reason why I need the code to be independent of pywin32. -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: getting current UNIX uid
[Johhny] I am trying to get the user that is running the scripts uid, I have had a look at the pwd module and it does not appear to offer that functionality. Is there any way within python to get that information ? It's in the 'os' module: import os os.getuid() 553 -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Having problems with strings in HTML
[Kiana] a href=http://bbc.botany.utoronto.ca/[...]?input=max=2[...]; [Lawrence] By the way, you _do_ realize that your characters should be escaped as amp;, don't you? [Sion] No they shouldn't. They part of the url, which is (IIRC) a CDATA attribute of the A element, not PCDATA. The W3C validator at http://validator.w3.org/ disagrees with you. It accepts this: !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//ENhttp://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd; htmlheadtitleTest/title/head body pa href=http://somewhere.com?a=1amp;b=2;link/a/p /body/html but rejects this: !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//ENhttp://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd; htmlheadtitleTest/title/head body pa href=http://somewhere.com?a=1b=2;link/a/p /body/html saying cannot generate system identifier for general entity b [...] The most common cause of this error is unencoded ampersands in URLs. -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Exception style (was: calling python functions using variables)
[Cameron] try: getattr(commands, VARIABLE)() except NameError: print sys.stderr, Unknown command, VARIABLE this situation illustrates the discomfort I consistently feel: how do I know that the NameError means VARIABLE didn't resolve, rather than that it did, but that evaluation of commands.VARIABLE() itself didn't throw a NameError? My usual answer: umm, unless I go to efforts to prevent it, I *don't* know that didn't happen. The 'try' block should only include the code that you expect to fail with the given exception. Try this instead: try: command = getattr(commands, VARIABLE) except AttributeError: print sys.stderr, Unknown command, VARIABLE else: command() (Aside: I think AttributeError is correct here, not NameError.) -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Making all string literals Unicode
Hi, Am I imagining it, or is there a switch or an environment variable to make Python treat all string literals as unicode? I seem to recall seeing it mentioned somewhere, but now I can't find it anywhere. Thanks, -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Large Dictionaries
[Chris] Has anyone written a fast hash module which is more optimal for large datasets ? PyJudy might be what you're looking for, though I've never used it: http://www.dalkescientific.com/Python/PyJudy.html Judy's key benefits are scalability, high performance, and memory efficiency. A Judy array is extensible and can scale up to a very large number of elements, bounded only by machine memory. ... PyJudy arrays are similar to Python dictionaries and sets. -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Making all string literals Unicode
[Richie] is there a switch or an environment variable to make Python treat all string literals as unicode? [Thomas] python -U Ah! Thanks. (I see it's deliberately omitted from the documentation because pieces of the standard library don't work with it, which is quite reasonable and explains why I couldn't find it.) -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: ascii to latin1
[Serge]
def search_key(s):
de_str = unicodedata.normalize(NFD, s)
return ''.join(cp for cp in de_str if not
unicodedata.category(cp).startswith('M'))
Lovely bit of code - thanks for posting it!
You might want to use NFKD to normalize things like LATIN SMALL
LIGATURE FI and subscript/superscript characters as well as diacritics.
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Re: ascii to latin1
[Luis]
When I used the NFD option, I came across many errors on these and
possibly other codes: \xba, \xc9, \xcd.
What errors? This works fine for me, printing Ecoute:
import unicodedata
def search_key(s):
de_str = unicodedata.normalize(NFD, s)
return ''.join([cp for cp in de_str if not
unicodedata.category(cp).startswith('M')])
print search_key(u\xc9coute)
Are you using unicode code point \xc9, or is that a byte in some
encoding? Which encoding?
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Re: ascii to latin1
[Serge] I have to admit that using normalize is a far from perfect way to implement search. The most advanced algorithm is published by Unicode guys: http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr10/ If you read it you'll understand it's not so easy. I only have to look at the length of the document to understand it's not so easy. 8-) I'll take your two-line normalization function any day. IMHO It is perfectly acceptable to declare you don't interpret those symbols. After all they are called *compatibility* code points. I tried a quater symbol: Google and MSN don't interpret it. Yahoo doesn't support it at all. [...] if you have character digit two followed by superscript digit two; they look like 2 power 2, but NFKD will convert them into 22 (twenty two), which is wrong. So if you want to use NFKD for search your will have to preprocess your data, for example inserting space between the twos. I'm not sure it's obvious that it's wrong. How might a user enter 2superscript digit 2 into a search box? They might enter a genuine superscript digit 2 in which case you're fine, or they might enter 2^2 in which case it depends how you deal with punctuation. They probably won't enter 2 2. It's certainly not wrong in the case of ligatures like LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FI - it's quite likely that the user will search for fish rather than finding and (somehow) typing the ligature. Some superscripts are similar - I imagine there's a code point for the superscript st in 1st (though I can't find it offhand) and you'd definitely want to convert that to st. NFKD normalization doesn't convert VULGAR FRACTION ONE QUARTER into 1/4 - I wonder whether there's some way to do that? After all they are called *compatibility* code points. Yes, compatible with what the user types. 8-) -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: wxPython and twisted problem
[Chris] [we] already tried posting our problem on comp.lang.python but we didn't receive a successful reply so I thought I would try the mailing list. [A bit OT but worth pointing out] The mailing list and the newsgroup gateway to each other - everything sent to one also goes to the other (in theory at least 8-) -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: list.clear() missing?!?
[Mystilleef] Lists should have a clear method. But what's shocking is that it doesn't seem obvious to others. list.clear() is a whole lot more readable, intuitive, flowable and desirable than [the alternatives] +1 to all of that. -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: HTMLParser fragility
[Richie] But Tidy fails on huge numbers of real-world HTML pages. [...] Is there a Python HTML tidier which will do as good a job as a browser? [Walter] You can also use the HTML parser from libxml2 [Paul] libxml2 will attempt to parse HTML if asked to [...] See how it fixes up the mismatching tags. Great! Many thanks. -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: HTMLParser fragility
[Daniel] You could try HTMLTidy (http://www.egenix.com/files/python/mxTidy.html) as a first step to get well formed HTML. But Tidy fails on huge numbers of real-world HTML pages. Simple things like misspelled tags make it fail: from mx.Tidy import tidy results = tidy(htmlbodypreeHello world!/pre/body/html) print results[3] line 1 column 7 - Warning: inserting missing 'title' element line 1 column 13 - Error: pree is not recognized! line 1 column 13 - Warning: discarding unexpected pree line 1 column 31 - Warning: discarding unexpected /pre This document has errors that must be fixed before using HTML Tidy to generate a tidied up version. Is there a Python HTML tidier which will do as good a job as a browser? -- Richie -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Find similar images using python
[Thomas] How can I use python to find images that looks quite similar? Have you looked at http://www.imgseek.net/ ? It's an Open Source Python photo collection manager that does exactly what you're asking for. -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Pyserial again
[luca] Here is my code; why after the readline the port close? ser = serial.Serial(0) [...] ser.readline() Why after this the port close. [Grant] Because the ser object is never used after that point, so it get's garbage collected and deleted. [Steve] The ser name is still bound to the serial object, surely? A piece of that code has been chopped off by someone's newsreader - it's the body of a method, and ser.readline() is the last line of that method. -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Python V2.4.2 source code
[John] That particular file doesn't include the implementation files for the core modules. *Which* particular file? Give us a URL. The source tarball at http://www.python.org/2.4.2/ (full URL http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.4.2/Python-2.4.2.tgz) contains the full source. -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: templates
[Christoph] The reason why [PyMeld] is slower than native templates seems clear: You convert the whole page to objects in memory, and then serialize everything back to HTML. [Peter] Unless I'm misremembering, PyMeld is special amongst the total decoupling of code and presentation crowd in that it does *not* convert the whole page to objects in memory, but instead performs its operations using regular-expression substitution, and serializing back to HTML is a trivial operation since it's already serialized. Peter is right for PyMeld, Christoph is right for PyMeldLite (which is a variant of PyMeld used by Spambayes, and only works with valid XHTML). The performance of PyMeld therefore depends on how much work you make it do - if you insert a couple of values into a page, it's very fast. If you do lots and lots of operations on the whole of a large page, it can be very slow because it's doing complex regular expression operations on a large string. (It works this way because two of its design goals were to only touch the parts of the page you ask it to touch, and to work with arbitrary, possibly invalid, HTML.) Incidentally, I'm changing PyMeld's license from Sleepycat to BSD, making it free for use in closed source projects. (I'll get around to updating the website RSN 8-) -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: templates
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Re: file_name_fixer.py
[Fredrik] so re.sub(([_.])\\1+, \\1, newname) replaces runs consisting of either a . or an _ followed by one or more copies of itself, with a single instance of itself. ...and this: def isprime(n): return n 1 and not re.match(r'(xx+)\1+$', 'x'*n) finds prime numbers. I'll get me coat. -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: recursively removing files and directories
[rbt] What is the most efficient way to recursively remove files and directories? shutil.rmtree: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-shutil.html#l2h-2356 -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: URL 'special character' replacements
[Claude]
I have a huge list of URLs. These URLs all have ASCII codes for special
characters, like %20 for a space or %21 for an exclamation mark.
You need urllib.unquote:
import urllib
help(urllib.unquote)
Help on function unquote in module urllib:
unquote(s)
unquote('abc%20def') - 'abc def'.
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Re: Which Python web framework is most like Ruby on Rails?
[Paul] The web app gets run by Karrigell like a CGI script is run by Apache, like a Linux app is run by the Linux kernel. Paul, you keep making comparisons between Python web frameworks and the Linux kernel. Are you aware that there is a special note attached to the Linux GPL[1] explaining that user-space code is not considered a derived work of the Linux kernel? Without that note, user-space code *could* be considered a derived work of the kernel (obviously, or Linus Torvalds would not have included the note). Unless a GPL web framework carries a similar notice, the comparison doesn't hold up. [1] http://www.linux-m32r.org/lxr/http/source/COPYING -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Which Python web framework is most like Ruby on Rails?
[Pierre] I am Karrigell's author. I have chosen the GPL licence almost at random (I saw that the Python licence was GPL-compatible), so I don't mind switching to another Open Source licence if the GPL is liable to cause problems. Which one would you advice : BSD ? Python licence ? another ? Well done on being open-minded! You will hear valid arguments for GPL, LGPL, BSD and other licenses (though the Python license is unsuitable for anything other than Python - see http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonSoftwareFoundationLicenseFaq) A good solution would be multiple-licensing. You state that the code is (for example) triple-licensed under the GPL, LGPL and BSD licenses. The user of your code decides which license to obey. It's no more work for you, and you can please almost everyone (the only people you won't please are those who believe that there is One True License, and frankly you should ignore them - it's your code). The only downside of allowing people to choose the BSD license rather than the GPL is that potentially someone can choose the BSD license, improve Karrigell, ship their product based on the improved code, and not give those improvements back to the community. But the Python license allows for this too, and Python hasn't suffered for it. IMO choosing a BSD license will get you more users than GPL, and the benefits of that will outweigh the potential downside. -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: os.path.splitext() and case sensitivity
[rbt] Is there a way to make os.path.splitext() case agnostic? def remove_file_type(target_dir, file_type): for root, dirs, files in os.walk(target_dir): for f in files: if os.path.splitext(os.path.join(root, f))[1] in file_type: pass remove_file_type(sysroot, ['.tmp', '.TMP']) def remove_file_type(target_dir, file_type): [...] if os.path.splitext(f)[1].lower() == file_type.lower(): pass remove_file_type(sysroot, '.tmp') -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: ANNOUNCE; Try python beta
[Claudio] The page doesn't work for me in MSIE (I am on a Windows system) [Mike] Yeah, I know. I poked at it briefly, but couldn't figure out what was goiing on. MSIE on the Mac doesn't work at all (no AJAT), and I don't have regular access to a Windows box to try it on. I think it's your JavaScript '\r' processing that's broken. Certainly the error (unexpected EOF while parsing) is consistent with having a \r on the end of the expression. Won't this: if (input.length == 1) always fail in the case where the user has typed a newline? I'd ditch that code and do it at the server end: expr = expr[4:].strip() -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: pythonic equivalent of upvar?
[David] I'm trying to write something with the same brevity as perl's one-liner eval \$$1=\$2 while @ARGV $ARGV[0]=~ /^(\w+)=(.*)/ shift; import sys, re for arg in sys.argv[1:]: if re.match(r'\w+=.*', arg): exec arg else: break -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Disable 'windows key'
[Paul] I wonder if there might be a way of disabling [the windows key] within my program. IHateThisKey will do this globally: http://www.bytegems.com/ihatethiskey.shtml The free edition blocks the Windows key, and the paid one ($10) lets you control all kinds of keys in quite flexible ways. You can still use the Windows key as a modifier (as in Windows+E for Explorer). No affiliation other than as a happy customer. -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: ANNOUNCE; Try python beta
[Richie] I think it's your JavaScript '\r' processing that's broken. Certainly the error (unexpected EOF while parsing) is consistent with having a \r on the end of the expression. [Mike] Python doesn't care about the trailing newline. That's a carriage return, not a newline: eval(1+2\r) Traceback (most recent call last): File stdin, line 1, in ? File string, line 1 1+2 ^ SyntaxError: unexpected EOF while parsing My assumption is that if splitting on '\n' leaves us with one thing, we may have gotten a string that used \r for newlines Ah, OK. Your comment talks about DOS - that won't happen on DOS (or Windows) which uses \r\n. I don't know about the Mac. But the \r\n pair isn't handled by your code - strip() on the server side will make it work if that's the problem: eval(1+2\r.strip()) 3 -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Disable 'windows key'
But can it change Fn key mapping? I don't think so, no. There's no obvious user interface for that, anyway. -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Why and how there is only one way to do something?
[Steve] Since Python is Turing-complete Is there some equivalent of Godwin's Law that we can invoke at this point? 8-) -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: win32com 'catastrophic failure'
[gerd] com_error: (-2147418113, 'catastrophic failure', None, None) The last time I saw this error it was because I'd created a control instance but hadn't initialised it before trying to use it. I had to do something like this (apologies for the C++): IPersistStreamInit* IPSI = NULL; pUnknown-QueryInterface(IID_IPersistStreamInit, (void**) IPSI); IPSI-InitNew(); IPSI-Release(); (pUnknown is the IUnknown of my newly-created control; error checking omitted). There are probably a million reasons why you might be getting that error, but if this doesn't help then at least you'll have narrowed it down to 999,999. 8-) -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: compare list
[Shi] Yes, i am using python 2.3, I have used from sets import * but still report the same error: Traceback (most recent call last): File interactive input, line 1, in ? NameError: name 'set' is not defined It's 'Set', not 'set'. Try this: import sets dir(sets) -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: compare list
Ben, But the logic output is wrong. from sets import Set as set lisA=[1,2,5,9] lisB=[9,5,0,2] lisC=[9,5,0,1] def two(sequence1, sequence2): set1, set2 = set(sequence1), set(sequence2) return len(set1.intersection(set2)) == 2 print two(lisA,lisB) False(should be true!) Slow down. The intersection of A and B is [2, 5, 9]. -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: generate HTML
[ss2003] I am stuck at above after doing a lot of f.write for every line of HTML . Any betterways to do this in python? See the Templating Engines section of http://wiki.python.org/moin/WebProgramming - I hope you have a few hours to spare! 8-) -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Goto XY
[ale.of.ginger] WConio.gotoxy(10,10) error: GetConOut Failed Are you running at a Windows Command Prompt, or in an IDE? As I understand it, WConio will only work in a Windows Command Prompt. -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Accessing a dll from Python
[Daniel] I tried the ctypes module. ctypes is the right way to do it. You need to post your code and whatever errors you received. Here's an example of using ctypes to call a DLL: from ctypes import * windll.user32.MessageBoxA(None, Hello world, ctypes, 0); You use windll for stdcall functions (eg. the Windows API) and cdll for cdecl functions. I don't know which one VB defaults to. If you get it wrong, ctypes will give you an error talking about using the wrong calling convention. -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: UI toolkits for Python
[Ken] Web interfaces are missing a lot more than this. Here are just a few things that cannot be done with web-based interfaces (correct me where I'm wrong): 1) A real word processor. http://www.writely.com/ http://www.goffice.com/ 2) Keybindings in a web application http://rememberthemilk.com/ Google Keys (but what happened to it? It's disappeared!) 3) Drag and drop http://www.walterzorn.com/dragdrop/dragdrop_e.htm http://qooxdoo.oss.schlund.de/demo/release/public/test/user/Index.html (pick Drag and Drop N from the dropdown on the right hand side of the top bar) 4) Resizable windows (i.e. not the browser window) within the application. http://qooxdoo.oss.schlund.de/demo/release/public/test/user/Index.html (pick Window N from the dropdown on the right hand side of the top bar) http://www.bindows.net/ (click Click for a quick DEMO) 5) Anything other than absolutely trivial graphical programs. Not sure what you mean by this... Google maps? web interfaces are still basically forms that can contain buttons, checkboxes, text fields, and a few other basic controls. I wish it were otherwise. It *is* otherwise. You should follow the Ajaxian weblog here: http://www.ajaxian.com/ -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry
Not so: you disable Java, Javascript and plugins. You leave the ability to format, colour and hint documents. This is not /that/ difficult. Don't forget disabling Unicode. http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/02/15/firefox_to_disable_idn_support_as_phishing_defense.html -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: When someone from Britain speaks, Americans hear a British accent...
[Steve] and yes, I split that infinitive just to annoy any pedants who may be reading [Steven] *Real* pedants will know that English is not Latin, does not follow the grammatical rules of Latin, and that just because split infinitives are impossible -- not forbidden, impossible -- in Latin is no reason to forbid them in English. Your previous post to this thread was chock-full of split nominatives: The Hollywood voice, the specific regional accent, the English-speaking world, the original French. And you call yourself a grammarian. -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: When someone from Britain speaks, Americans hear a British accent...
[Richie] Your previous post to this thread was chock-full of split nominatives: The Hollywood voice, the specific regional accent, the English-speaking world, the original French. And you call yourself a grammarian. [Steve] I am presuming this post was meant to be a joke? It was. No smileys, though, so you force us to make up our own minds. Yes. 8-) Or is the green tomato also unacceptable? It ought to be considered unacceptable by people who think that to correctly apply is unacceptable, which is the point that Stephen was making: *Real* pedants will know that English is not Latin, does not follow the grammatical rules of Latin, and that just because split infinitives are impossible -- not forbidden, impossible -- in Latin is no reason to forbid them in English. Split nominatives like the green tomato are also impossible in Latin, but no-one seems to object to their use in English. -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Excel library with unicode support
[Mike] Is there a python library, that is able to create Excel files with unicode characters. pyExcelerator claims to do this, but I've never used it. http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyexcelerator/ -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Not defined
[Rob] from cgkit import * Sphere() Traceback (most recent call last): File interactive input, line 1, in ? NameError: name 'Sphere' is not defined Do you have a file of your own called cgkit.py? You're probably importing that rather than the real thing. Try this: import cgkit print cgkit.__file__ dir(cgkit) -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Reply-To header
[Andrew] Is it just me, or does python-list@python.org not send with a Reply- To header? It's not just you. I don't get one either. -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: [Info] PEP 308 accepted - new conditional expressions
[Fredrik] X if C else Y hopefully, only one of Y or X is actually evaluated ? Yes. From Guido's announcement at http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-September/056846.html: The syntax will be A if C else B This first evaluates C; if it is true, A is evaluated to give the result, otherwise, B is evaluated to give the result. -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: A rather unpythonic way of doing things
[Peter] http://www.pick.ucam.org/~ptc24/yvfc.html Beautiful! Greenspun's Tenth Rule[1] performed before your very eyes! (Not quite, because you started with Python so you were already half way there. And yours probably isn't buggy. 8-) [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun's_Tenth_Rule -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: A quick c.l.p netiquette question
[Peter] Does it really have to be 158 lines to demonstrate these few issues? I think you missed the other Peter's second post, where he points to his program: http://www.pick.ucam.org/~ptc24/yvfc.html I didn't read every one of his 158 lines, but his code is pure poetry, or possibly triple-distilled evil, depending on your point of view. 158 lines very well spent either way! -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: A rather unpythonic way of doing things
[Peter] http://www.pick.ucam.org/~ptc24/yvfc.html [Jeff] Yuma Valley Agricultural Center? Yaak Valley Forest Council? I went through the same process. My guess is Yes, Very F'ing Clever. Peter? -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: C#3.0 and lambdas
[amk] Similar things happen on the catalog SIG: people suggest, or even implement, an automatic package management system, But bring up the question of whether it should be called PyPI or Cheeseshop or the Catalog, and *everyone* can make a suggestion. This is known as the bike shed effect: http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/lexicon.html#bikeshed -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: The ring of the friendly serpent in business suite: Python, Zope, Plone
[Miklos] The ring of the friendly serpent in business suite: Python, Zope, Plone http://www.jegenye.com/ Did you mean business suit? -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Code run from IDLE but not via double-clicking on its *.py
[Richie] Now what does the python Command Prompt say? [n00m] It says... NOTHING! It just DISAPPEARS! That's the strangest thing I've heard all week. 8-) OK, one more thing to try - redirect the output of Python to some files and see whether anything useful appears in the files: C:\ d: D:\ cd \python23 D:\ python d:\python23\socket6.py out.txt 2 err.txt Does anything appear in d:\python23\out.txt or d:\python23\err.txt? [Dennis] I'd be tempted to blame the VBS script then... n00m, can you post the vbs? -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Code run from IDLE but not via double-clicking on its *.py
[n00m] D:\python23\python d:\python23\socket6.py [Enter] It's OK so far. Python code is launched and starts listening to port 1434 (see the code below; it's the same code as in my neibouring topic). Now I launch a vbs script (which will connect to port 1434). I.e. I just double-click my.vbs file. And... voila! In a moment silently console window closes without any error messages (or I just don't see them). But VBS reports a network error. Tested on win2k and win98. That sounds impossible, so I must be misunderstanding something. What happens when you do this (forgive me if this seems patronising, but I'm missing something about the way you're working) 1. Start a new Command Prompt via Start / Programs / Accessories / Command Prompt (or the equivalent on your machine) 2. Type the following: d:\python23\python d:\python23\socket6.py [Enter] 3. Double-click your .vbs file in Windows Explorer. Now what does the python Command Prompt say? By your description above, it sounds like it disappears, but that ought to be impossible. -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: SpamBayes wins PCW Editors Choice Award for anti-spam software.
[Alan] SpamBayes has won the Personal Computer World (pcw.co.uk) Editors Choice award for anti-spam software Yay! Do we get one of those cheesy medals to put on our website? 8-) -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Code run from IDLE but not via double-clicking on its *.py
[n00m] WHY ON THE EARTH 'module' object has no attribute 'AF_INET' ??? Because you have a socket.py in d:\python23\00 which is being picked up instead of Python's own socket module. You shouldn't give your modules the same name as Python's own modules. -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Code run from IDLE but not via double-clicking on its *.py
[n00m] Funnily but I still can't get the code working... WITHOUT IDLE. I think it's because of import thread line. Seems something wrong with opening this module. In IDLE it works OK. It's difficult to diagnose your problem with so little information. Please post: o The command you're typing into the command prompt o The error message you're getting o The full traceback o The code you're trying to run, or if it's too big then the piece that the last line of the traceback refers to Thanks, -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Does any1 use pcapy module on win32 platforms?
[billiejoex]
Hi. I'm trying to use pcapy module on Windows XP prof sp2 [...]
On Windows machines the findalldevs() function (an output on the bottom)
gives an unicode object that can't be processed by open_live function
that tipically accept strings.
pcapy.findalldevs()
[u'\u445c\u7665\u6369\u5c65\u504e\u5f46\u6547\u656e\u6972\u4e63\u6964\u5773\u6e6
[...]
For what it's worth, I can run that on my XP Professional SP2 machine and
it works perfectly:
pcapy.findalldevs()
[u'\\Device\\NPF_{15310604-FCFC-4016-9D36-14DAA948A600}',
u'\\Device\\NPF_{62280C1D-DC5C-42AF-BA0F-6BDB48418CA5}']
I'm using WinPcap 3.0. My packet.dll is stamped as version 3.0.0.18.
Maybe you're running a different version?
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Re: Network performance
[Roland]
The client sends a number of lines (each ending with \n) and ends one
set of lines with a empty line.
[...]
I was surprised to find that the performance was [poor].
Are you sending all the lines in a single packet:
sock.send('\n'.join(lines))
or sending them one at a time:
for line in lines:
sock.send(line + '\n')
? If the latter, you are probably experiencing Nagle delays. Google
will furnish you with any number of explanations of what that means, but
in summary, one end of a TCP/IP connection should never send two
consecutive small packets without receiving a packet from the other end.
('Small' typically means less than about 1400 bytes.) Each time you do
that, you'll suffer an artificial delay introduced by TCP/IP itself.
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Re: The ONLY thing that prevents me from using Python
[Chris] Not to be a shill, but I'd be interested in testimonials on http://linode.org/ I wonder if virtualization is the next killer app. Certainly blows the WTF my ISP? question away... I can't speak for linode.org, but I have a Xen VPS from rimuhosting.com and it's early days but so far I've been very impressed. It's $19/mo (normally $20 but they kindly gave me a 5% Open Source Developer discount) which is not that much more than a decent shared hosting account. You need to be comfortable with administering your own Linux box, but these days that's not difficult. (NB. entrian.com is not running on it yet.) -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Database of non standard library modules...
[Steve] While cheeseshop might resonate with the Monty Python fans I have to say I think the name sucks in terms of explaining what to expect. If I ask someone where I can find a piece of code and the direct me to the cheese shop, I might look for another language. +1 -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: .pth files
[Sylvain] I've some questions regarding pth files (which btw are undocumented in the python reference, is this intentional ?) http://google.com/search?q=site:docs.python.org%20pth The first hit explains how .pth files work (although it's the sort of documentation that makes Xah Lee explode with fury). -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Py: a very dangerous language
[Harald] Always go to bed exactly when you want to write the first lambda. [Peter] Eureka. The Twentieth Pythonic Thesis has finally surfaced. +1 QOTW. -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Lots of pdf files
[Duncan] a mere $29.90, except it is GPL'd so I'm not sure what the money is for Tech support [...] free forever for registered users. But I've often wondered whether you could charge for mass-market GPL software simply because your ordinary punter doesn't know what the GPL is, and doesn't mind paying a small amount of money for decent software. Whether it's ethical, given that presumably the thing is GPL because it inherits GPL code from other developers, I don't know. Certainly the GPL itself has no objection to charging for binaries provided you ship the source as well. -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Better console for Windows?
[Richie] does anyone know of a way to scroll a Command Prompt window using the keyboard? [Bengt] Alt-spacebar, e, l, (uparrow/downarrow)*, Esc (lower case L)--^ ^--does the scrolling. Esc ends the scrolling mode. [Christos] Damn! it says Scroll in there in the system menu, doesn't it? Talk about blindness... aolMe too!/aol Many thanks, Bengt. -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: When someone from Britain speaks, Americans hear a British accent...
[Chan] T can be silent in England too .. frui' cricke' [Stephen] Both of those words (fruit and cricket) have the letter T sounded. Stephen (Nationality: English). Not necessarily - in my native accent they'd be replaced with glottal stops. Richie (Nationality: West Yorkshire 8-) (Having a daughter has improved my speech - I'm much more careful about enunciating my words properly so that she doesn't pick up my bad habits.) -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: MS Compiler to build Python 2.3 extension
[woodsplitter] MS Visual C++ 6 is indeed the compiler that the python.org distributions are built with Just to add back some context for people not following the thread: this is Python 2.3 we're talking about. 2.4 is built with Visual Studio.NET. but MinGW works fine too. In fact, the code generated by MinGW-GCC 3.4.4 outpaces that generated by MSVC++ 6.0 by a considerable margin in some of my performance-critical extensions, and the size of the binaries is often smaller. Interesting! -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Better console for Windows?
[Christos, on widening the Windows Command Prompt] Hm... right-click the cmd.exe window's title bar (or click on the top-left icon, or press Alt-Space), go to Properties, Layout tab, Window Size, Width. Just to take this thread *completely* off-topic: does anyone know of a way to scroll a Command Prompt window using the keyboard? -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: MS Compiler to build Python 2.3 extension
[Gary] I recenly built a C API Python extension for Python 2.3 on OS X, and now I need to build it for Windows. Will [MS Visual Studio Pro 6.0] do the trick? Yes. That's exactly the compiler that Python 2.3 itself, and most 2.3 extensions, were built with. -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: FlashMX and Py2exe doesn't fly...
[Jim] They did it with Gush: (I think) http://2entwine.com/ It's a py program that embeds Flash very nice. Very nice indeed! Does anyone know any details about the technology they used for this? It appears to be closed source, and I couldn't see anything on their site about the architecture (other than a list of credits that includes ctypes, win32all, Macromedia and SciTE|Flash). -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Is there something similar to ?: operator (C/C++) in Python?
[Dave Brueck] Please keep the discussion civil; please help keep c.l.py a nice place to visit. +1 -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Posting a reply to a post in an existing thread
[Chad] What I need to know is, what do I put in either the TO field, the CC field, or the SUBJECT field for the list to see my message as a reply to an existing post in a thread and not a new thread. You should use your email client's Reply feature to reply to one of the existing messages in the thread. This will put the right things in the Subject:, To: etc. fields, and also include a hidden header field called References: which refers to the post you're replying to. Then when someone receives your message, their email client will see the References: header and know that your reply was part of the same thread as the message to which you replied. -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Launch file in Notepad
[George]
b1=c:\test.txt
With this code, your problem is the embedded tab as you say. Use either
rc:\test.txt or c:\\test.txt. However, if this is true:
By the way, b1 comes from a command line parameter, so the user enters
c:\test.txt as command line parameter.
then there will be no embedded tab. How are you prompting the user? When
I run this:
import os
b1=raw_input(Enter a filename: )
os.system('notepad.exe ' + b1)
and enter c:\test.txt, it works as expected.
[Brian]
There are several ways, but the preferred solution is to switch the
slash direction: c:/test.txt. Python's smart enough to notice its
running on Windows and do the right thing with the slash.
In fairness to Windows, I don't believe Python does anything special here.
Windows itself happily accepts either forward slash or backslash at the OS
level - it's only the shells (explorer.exe or to a lesser extent cmd.exe)
that don't accept forward slashes.
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Re: Problems with csv module
[Florian] I've one problem using the csv module. The code: self.reader = csv.reader(f, delimiter = ,) works perfectly. But when I use a variable for delimiter: self.reader = csv.reader(f, delimiter = Adelimiter) I get the traceback: File /home/florian/visualizer/ConfigReader.py, line 13, in __init__ self.reader = csv.reader(f, delimiter = Adelimiter) TypeError: bad argument type for built-in operation Is this your problem?: Adelimiter = u',' reader = csv.reader(f, delimiter=Adelimiter) Traceback (most recent call last): File stdin, line 1, in ? TypeError: bad argument type for built-in operation print type(Adelimiter) type 'unicode' -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Problems with csv module
[Florian] You mean that csv.reader can't work with unicode as the delimiter parameter? Exactly. http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.5/lib/module-csv.html says: Note: This version of the csv module doesn't support Unicode input. Also, there are currently some issues regarding ASCII NUL characters. Accordingly, all input should generally be printable ASCII to be safe. These restrictions will be removed in the future. That note is still there in the current development docs, so it looks like it hasn't yet been fixed. -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Problems with csv module
[Florian]
How can I convert Unicode to ASCII?
You're writing code using Unicode and you don't know how to convert it
ASCII? You need to do some reading. Here are a few links - Google can
provide many more:
http://docs.python.org/tut/node5.html#SECTION00513
http://diveintopython.org/xml_processing/unicode.html
http://www.jorendorff.com/articles/unicode/python.html
The short answer to your question is this:
U = u'My string'
A = U.encode('ascii')
print U, type(U), A, type(A)
My string type 'unicode' My string type 'str'
but you should really do some reading.
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Re: Strip white spaces from source
[qwweeeit] If someone is interested (I think nobody...) I can give my solution. I'd be interested to see it, certainly. It's always a good idea to post your solution, if only for future reference. It's frustrating to do a Google Groups search for a problem and find that someone else has solved it but without saying *how*. -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Strip white spaces from source
[qwweeeit]
I need to limit as much as possible the lenght of a source line,
stripping white spaces (except indentation).
For example:
. . max_move and AC_RowStack.acceptsCards ( self, from_stack, cards
)
must be reduced to:
. . max_move and AC_RowStack.acceptsCards(self,from_stack,cards)
Here's a script that does some of what you want (stripping whitespace within
the three types of brackets). It was written to make code more compliant with
the Python style guide.
--- unspace.py ---
Strips spaces from inside brackets in Python source code, turning
( this ) into (this) and [ 1, ( 2, 3 ) ] into [1, (2, 3)]. This makes
the code more compliant with the Python style guide. Usage:
unspace.py filename
Output goes to stdout.
This file is deliberately written with lots of spaces within brackets,
so you can use it as test input.
import sys, re, token, tokenize
OPEN = [ '(', '[', '{' ]
CLOSE = [ ')', ']', '}' ]
class UnSpace:
Holds the state of the process; onToken is a tokenize.tokenize
callback.
def __init__( self ):
self.line = None # The text of the current line.
self.number = -1 # The line number of the current line.
self.deleted = 0 # How many spaces have been deleted from 'line'.
self.last_srow = 0
self.last_scol = 0
self.last_erow = 0
self.last_ecol = 0
self.last_line = ''
def onToken( self, type, tok, ( srow, scol ), ( erow, ecol ), line ):
tokenize.tokenize callback.
# Print trailing backslashes plus the indent for new lines.
if self.last_erow != srow:
match = re.search( r'(\s+\\\n)$', self.last_line )
if match:
sys.stdout.write( match.group( 1 ) )
sys.stdout.write( line[ :scol ] )
# Print intertoken whitespace except the stuff to strip.
if self.last_srow == srow and \
not ( self.last_type == token.OP and self.last_tok in OPEN ) and \
not ( type == token.OP and tok in CLOSE ):
sys.stdout.write( line[ self.last_ecol:scol ] )
# Print the token itself.
sys.stdout.write( tok )
# Remember the properties of this token.
self.last_srow, self.last_scol = ( srow, scol )
self.last_erow, self.last_ecol = ( erow, ecol )
self.last_type, self.last_tok = type, tok
self.last_line = line
def flush( self ):
if self.line is not None:
sys.stdout.write( self.line )
if __name__ == '__main__':
if len( sys.argv ) != 2:
print __doc__
else:
file = open( sys.argv[ 1 ], 'rt' )
unSpace = UnSpace()
tokenize.tokenize( file.readline, unSpace.onToken )
unSpace.flush()
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Re: Python documentation moronicities (continued)
[Xah] I have produced my doc. ( http://xahlee.org/perl-python/python_re-write/lib/module-re.html ) isn't there a hundred dollars due to me? I don't have the time to write a full review of your version, but for the record I've compared it with the original and I don't think it's a significant improvement (apart from the title - String Pattern Matching is a better title than Regular expression operations). (And no, I'm not sure I could do any better, but that's not the question.) [Xah] it is published and announced here on April 18th. [Steve] I'll have to take your word for that. Xah is right - I have a copy here of his message of 18th April, saying i have rewrote the Python's re module documentation.. -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Compute pi to base 12 using Python?
[Dan] Now you've got me curious. Why would an artist want the first 3003 digits of pi to the base 12? [Dick] He says, Do you know how I can get base12 pi? Because the chromatic scale is base12. c c# d d# e f f# g g# a a# b He should read Douglas Adams' fictional essay Music and Fractal Landscapes, from Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency: I believe that there must be a form of music inherent in nature, in natural objects, in the patterns of natural processes. A music that would be as deeply satisfying as any naturally occurring beauty [...] You can see the text here: http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:3Ni6gRXCcJgJ:tash.dns2go.com/FTP/P800/Books%2520txt/Douglas%2520Adams%2520-%2520Dirk%2520Gently%27s%2520Holistic%2520Detective%2520Agency.txt+%22douglas+adams%22+%22Music+and+Fractal+Landscapes%22hl=en or via this tinyurl: http://tinyurl.com/6ugnk (Search within that page for the phrase Music and Fractal Landscapes. Or Google for it, which is how I found the link.) -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
