Re: Is pythonic version of scanf() or sscanf() planned?
In article b413e049-8f3f-4cdd-b702-341714763...@r36g2000vbn.googlegroups.com, ryniek90 rynie...@gmail.com wrote: But I remember that lambda function also was unwelcome in Python, but finally it is and is doing well. So maybe someone, someday decide to put in Python an alternative, really great implementation of scanf() ? How long have you been using Python? lambda has been there almost from the beginning. -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) * http://www.pythoncraft.com/ To me vi is Zen. To use vi is to practice zen. Every command is a koan. Profound to the user, unintelligible to the uninitiated. You discover truth everytime you use it. --re...@lion.austin.ibm.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Is pythonic version of scanf() or sscanf() planned?
On Oct 9, 5:59 pm, Joshua Kugler jos...@joshuakugler.com wrote: ryniek90 wrote: So maybe someone, someday decide to put in Python an alternative, really great implementation ofscanf() ? My idea of a greatscanf() function would be a clever combination of re.match(), int(), and float(). j Actually, the Python documentation has something interesting: http://docs.python.org/3.1/library/re.html#simulating-scanf -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Is pythonic version of scanf() or sscanf() planned?
On Oct 3, 8:17 pm, Grant Edwards inva...@invalid.invalid wrote: (--snip--) One of the fist things I remember being taught as a C progrmmer was to never use scanf. Programs that use scanf tend to fail in rather spectacular ways when presented with simple typos and other forms of unexpected input. Given the bad behavior and general fragility of scanf(), I doubt there's much demand for something equally broken for Python. I don't think you can blame scanf() for that. More the bad behavior of humans and uncanny ability of human fingers to press the the wrong damn keys. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Is pythonic version of scanf() or sscanf() planned?
ryniek90 wrote: So maybe someone, someday decide to put in Python an alternative, really great implementation of scanf() ? My idea of a great scanf() function would be a clever combination of re.match(), int(), and float(). j -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Is pythonic version of scanf() or sscanf() planned?
On 6 Paź, 06:37, Dennis Lee Bieber wlfr...@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Sun, 4 Oct 2009 15:48:16 -0700 (PDT), TerryP bigboss1...@gmail.com declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: In the last 4 years, I have never missed functions like .*scanf() or atoi(). It's probably a greeaaat thing that Python provides nether as built ins (per se). Uhm... Isn't the second one spelled int() G -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber KD6MOG wlfr...@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/ Ok thanks all for answers. Not counting .split() methods and regexps, there's nothing interesting. But I remember that lambda function also was unwelcome in Python, but finally it is and is doing well. So maybe someone, someday decide to put in Python an alternative, really great implementation of scanf() ? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Is pythonic version of scanf() or sscanf() planned?
On Oct 3, 11:06 pm, ryniek90 rynie...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I know that in python, we can do the same with regexps or *.split()*, but thats longer and less practical method than *scanf()*. I also found that (http://code.activestate.com/recipes/502213/), but the code doesn't looks so simple for beginners. So, whether it is or has been planned the core Python implementation of *scanf()* ? (prefered as a batteries included method) Perhaps struct.unpack is close to what you need? Admittedly that doesn't read from a file, but that might not be a problem in most cases. -- Ben Sizer -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Is pythonic version of scanf() or sscanf() planned?
ryniek90 wrote: On 6 Paź, 06:37, Dennis Lee Bieber wlfr...@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Sun, 4 Oct 2009 15:48:16 -0700 (PDT), TerryP bigboss1...@gmail.com declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: In the last 4 years, I have never missed functions like .*scanf() or atoi(). It's probably a greeaaat thing that Python provides nether as built ins (per se). Uhm... Isn't the second one spelled int() G -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber KD6MOG wlfr...@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/ Ok thanks all for answers. Not counting .split() methods and regexps, there's nothing interesting. But I remember that lambda function also was unwelcome in Python, but finally it is and is doing well. So maybe someone, someday decide to put in Python an alternative, really great implementation of scanf() ? scanf does three things: parses string fields out of text, optionally converts strings to numbers, and puts the results into pointed-to boxes. Since Python does not have pointer types, a python function cannot very well do the last, but has to return the tuple of objects. However, if a format string has named rather than positional fields, a Python function could either return a dict or set sttributes on an object. That could be useful. If I were doing this, I would look into using the new str.format() strings rather than %-formatted strings. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Is pythonic version of scanf() or sscanf() planned?
In the last 4 years, I have never missed functions like .*scanf() or atoi(). It's probably a greeaaat thing that Python provides nether as built ins (per se). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Is pythonic version of scanf() or sscanf() planned?
On Sun, 4 Oct 2009 01:17:18 + (UTC), Grant Edwards inva...@invalid.invalid wrote: On 2009-10-03, ryniek90 rynie...@gmail.com wrote: So, whether it is or has been planned the core Python implementation of *scanf()* ? One of the fist things I remember being taught as a C progrmmer was to never use scanf. Programs that use scanf tend to fail in rather spectacular ways when presented with simple typos and other forms of unexpected input. That's right. One shouldn't use scanf() if the input is unpredictable osr comes from people, because the pitfalls are many and hard to avoid. However, for input that is formatted, scanf() is perfectly fine, and nice and fast. fgets() with sscanf() is better to control if your input is not as guaranteed. Given the bad behavior and general fragility of scanf(), I doubt there's much demand for something equally broken for Python. scanf() is not broken. It's just hard to use correctly for unpredictable input. Having something equivalent in Python would be nice where most or all of your input is numerical, i.e. floats or integers. Using the re module, or splitting and converting everything with int() or float() slows down your program rather spectacularly. If those conversions could be done internally, and before storing the input as Python strings, the speed improvements could be significant. There is too much storing, splitting, regex matching and converting going on if you need to read numerical data from columns in a file. scanf() and friends make this sort of task rather quick and easy. For example, if your data is the output of a numerical analysis program or data coming from a set of measuring probes, it often takes the form of one or more columns of numbers, and there can be many of them. If you want to take one of these output files, and transform the data, Python can be terribly slow. It doesn't have to be scanf(), but something that would allow the direct reading of text input as numerical data would be nice. On the other hand, if something really needs to be fast, I generally write it in C anyway :) Martien -- | Martien Verbruggen | Unix is user friendly. It's just first.l...@heliotrope.com.au | selective about its friends. | -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Is pythonic version of scanf() or sscanf() planned?
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 5:29 AM, Martien Verbruggen martien.verbrug...@invalid.see.sig wrote: On Sun, 4 Oct 2009 01:17:18 + (UTC), Grant Edwards inva...@invalid.invalid wrote: On 2009-10-03, ryniek90 rynie...@gmail.com wrote: So, whether it is or has been planned the core Python implementation of *scanf()* ? One of the fist things I remember being taught as a C progrmmer was to never use scanf. Programs that use scanf tend to fail in rather spectacular ways when presented with simple typos and other forms of unexpected input. That's right. One shouldn't use scanf() if the input is unpredictable osr comes from people, because the pitfalls are many and hard to avoid. However, for input that is formatted, scanf() is perfectly fine, and nice and fast. fgets() with sscanf() is better to control if your input is not as guaranteed. Given the bad behavior and general fragility of scanf(), I doubt there's much demand for something equally broken for Python. scanf() is not broken. It's just hard to use correctly for unpredictable input. Having something equivalent in Python would be nice where most or all of your input is numerical, i.e. floats or integers. Using the re module, or splitting and converting everything with int() or float() slows down your program rather spectacularly. If those conversions could be done internally, and before storing the input as Python strings, the speed improvements could be significant. There is too much storing, splitting, regex matching and converting going on if you need to read numerical data from columns in a file. scanf() and friends make this sort of task rather quick and easy. For example, if your data is the output of a numerical analysis program or data coming from a set of measuring probes, it often takes the form of one or more columns of numbers, and there can be many of them. If you want to take one of these output files, and transform the data, Python can be terribly slow. It doesn't have to be scanf(), but something that would allow the direct reading of text input as numerical data would be nice. On the other hand, if something really needs to be fast, I generally write it in C anyway :) Martien I haven't tried it but couldn't you use scanf from ctypes? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Is pythonic version of scanf() or sscanf() planned?
On Sun, 4 Oct 2009 13:18:22 -0400,
Simon Forman sajmik...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 5:29 AM, Martien Verbruggen
martien.verbrug...@invalid.see.sig wrote:
On Sun, 4 Oct 2009 01:17:18 + (UTC),
Grant Edwards inva...@invalid.invalid wrote:
On 2009-10-03, ryniek90 rynie...@gmail.com wrote:
So, whether it is or has been planned the core Python
implementation of *scanf()* ?
Given the bad behavior and general fragility of scanf(), I
doubt there's much demand for something equally broken for
Python.
scanf() is not broken. It's just hard to use correctly for unpredictable
input.
Having something equivalent in Python would be nice where most or all of
your input is numerical, i.e. floats or integers. Using the re module,
or splitting and converting everything with int() or float() slows down
your program rather spectacularly. If those conversions could be done
internally, and before storing the input as Python strings, the speed
improvements could be significant.
I haven't tried it but couldn't you use scanf from ctypes?
I have just tried it. I wasn't aware of ctypes, being relatively new to
Python. :)
However, using ctypes makes the simple test program I wrote
actually slower, rather than faster. Probably the extra conversions
needed between ctypes internal types and Python's eat op more time.
Built in scanf()-like functionality would not need to convert the same
information two or three times. it would parse the bytes coming in from
the input stream directly, and set the values of the appropriate Python
variable directly.
Contrive an example:
Assume an input file with two integers, and three floats per line,
separated by a space. output should be the same two integers, followed
by the average of the three floats.
In pure python, now, there is string manipulation (file.readline(), and
split()) and conversion of floats going on:
from sys import *
for line in stdin:
a, b, u, v, w = line.split()
print a, , b, , (float(u) + float(v) + float(w))/3.0
(17.57s user 0.07s system 99% cpu 17.728 total)
With ctypes, it becomes something like:
from sys import *
from ctypes import *
from ctypes.util import find_library
libc = cdll.LoadLibrary(find_library('c'))
a = c_int()
b = c_int()
u = c_float()
v = c_float()
w = c_float()
for line in stdin:
libc.sscanf(line, %d%d%f%f%f,
byref(a), byref(b), byref(u), byref(v), byref(w))
print {0} {1} {2}.format(a.value, b.value,
(u.value + v.value + w.value)/3.0)
(22.21s user 0.10s system 98% cpu 22.628)
We no longer need split(), and the three conversions from string to
float(), but now we have the 5 c_types(), and the .value dereferences at
the end. And that makes it slower, unfortunately. (Maybe I'm still doing
things a bit clumsily and it could be faster)
It's not really a big deal: As I said before, if I really need the
speed, I'll write C:
#include stdio.h
int main(void)
{
int a, b;
float u, v, w;
while (scanf(%d%d%f%f%f, a, b, u, v, w) == 5)
printf(%d %d %f\n, a, b, (u + v + w)/3.0);
return 0;
}
(5.96s user 0.06s system 99% cpu 6.042 total)
Martien
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Re: Is pythonic version of scanf() or sscanf() planned?
ryniek90 wrote:
Hi
I know that in python, we can do the same with regexps or *.split()*,
but thats longer and less practical method than *scanf()*. I also found
that ( http://code.activestate.com/recipes/502213/ ), but the code
doesn't looks so simple for beginners. So, whether it is or has been
planned the core Python implementation of *scanf()* ? (prefered as a
batteries included method)
scanf() uses '%' format like that used for printing, but '%' format is
being replaced in Python by '{}' format, so shouldn't any possible
future scanf() use that instead? :-)
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Re: Is pythonic version of scanf() or sscanf() planned?
On 2009-10-03, ryniek90 rynie...@gmail.com wrote: So, whether it is or has been planned the core Python implementation of *scanf()* ? One of the fist things I remember being taught as a C progrmmer was to never use scanf. Programs that use scanf tend to fail in rather spectacular ways when presented with simple typos and other forms of unexpected input. Given the bad behavior and general fragility of scanf(), I doubt there's much demand for something equally broken for Python. Thanks for any helpful answers. Not sure if mine was helpful... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
