Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I got a bunch of different images of different types ( bmp, gif, png,
tiff etc ) and I want to convert them all to JPEGs using PIL. Is this
possible? When I try I get all sorts of errors, doing something like :
im = Image.open(srcImage) # might be png, gif
I have written a code to figure out the difference in excecution time
of a func before and after using threading...
[CODE]
#!/usr/bin/env python
import threading
import time
loops = [5000,5000]
def loop(self, nsec):
for i in range(1,nsec):
t=i*5000
Gurpreet Sachdeva wrote:
for i in nloops: # wait for all
threads[i].join
threads[i].join()
/F
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Gurpreet Sachdeva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
for i in nloops: # wait for all
threads[i].join
Missing () after 'join'.
Alex
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threads[i].join()
Oh thanks I corrected that but still the time taken after using thread
is more without using them
Please Advice...
Thanks,
Gurpreet Singh
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I'm considering proposing to O'Reilly a 2nd edition of Python in a
Nutshell, that I'd write in 2005, essentially to cover Python 2.3 and
2.4 (the current 1st edition only covers Python up to 2.2).
What I have in mind is not as complete a rewrite as for the 2nd vs 1st
edition of the Cookbook --
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wouldn't it have been better to define tuples with 's or {}'s or
something else to avoid this confusion??
Well, to comment on the part that nobody else did...
and are binary operators, a la 3 1, one two
and {}'s are clearly already used for dictionaries.
--
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Sure wxGlade/Boa/etc can help speed design and layout up, but what
happens when you want to do non standard things or just get stuck
because some thing just isn't working.
Then you add the necesary hand crafted code to the automatic
generated code. At least is what I did when I needed.
--
Gurpreet Sachdeva wrote:
Also the difference of time is not much...
How do we best optimize our task by using threads... please help...
For most tasks splitting the processing into separate threads will result
in an increase in the total time to complete the task. The only times when
it
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 11:35:18 +0100, rumours say that [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Alex Martelli) might have written:
[snip: things to cover in a tentative 2nd edition of the nutshell]
and new capabilities of existing modules, such as thread-local
storage.
...which I most surely missed learning about it.
Martin v. Löwis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Thomas Heller wrote:
How should these patches be approached?
Please have a look as to how posixmodule.c and fileobject.c deal with
this issue.
On windows, it would probably
be easiest to use the MS generic text routines: _tcslen instead of
Sections cut where I don't feel I have anything to add to what Bengt already
said
Bengt Richter wrote:
A second time a key may be hashed is when it is used as a lookup key. This can
be a reference to
the identical key object first used, or it can be a new object. A new object
has to be hashed
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 11:35:18 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli)
wrote:
So, if there's any advice or request about a 2nd edition of the
Nutshell, this is the right time for y'all to let me know. Feedback is
welcome, either privately or right here. Thanks in advance -- _and_
apologies in
I'm suing Google Groups (beta) which has a treeview and my thanks were
a reply to Fredrik Lundh. In fact I simply clicked a reply link below
his post.
Of course you all helped me to better understand the
mutable/immutable concept but Fredrik Lundh deserves more thanks
since he replied to all my
Hi,
I'm wondering (after a bit of googling) whether there exists a Python
binding to any open source Lisp environment (like librep or some
Scheme or Common Lisp implementation) that could be recommended for
non-toy use?
My intention would be to use the Lisp environment to augment and help
my
Thomas Heller wrote:
I wasn't asking about the *W functions, I'm asking about string/unicode
handling in Python source files. Looking into Python/import.c, wouldn't
it be required to change the signature of a lot of functions to receive
PyObject* arguments, instead of char* ?
Yes, that would be
On 29 Dec 2004 14:50:53 +0200, Simo Melenius
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I'm wondering (after a bit of googling) whether there exists a Python
binding to any open source Lisp environment (like librep or some
Scheme or Common Lisp implementation) that could be recommended for
non-toy use?
Not
Hello Maxim,
Are there widely used and recommended Python libraries that will
let me makes a portable text user interface?
If you just need a text-like interface you can use Tkinter.
See (shameless plug) http://developer.berlios.de/projects/bcd/ and
Simo Melenius wrote:
Hi,
I'm wondering (after a bit of googling) whether there exists a Python
binding to any open source Lisp environment (like librep or some
Scheme or Common Lisp implementation) that could be recommended for
non-toy use?
My intention would be to use the Lisp
Sounds interesting.
Do you know if he/she would be willing to share the code?
Anand wrote:
I haven't but one of my friends have used Pyro (Python Remote
Objects)
to do so.
You basically need to write a custom Pyro server and run it on a
central machine. Your pyro clients can be installed
Nice one Freddie. You beat me to it - I had adding a 'header_file' type
thingy to gallerpy on my list of things to do. gallerpy will be
replacing my static galleries on voidspace 'soon'.
Regards,
Fuzzy
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml
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Alex Meier wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
http://pydish.holdenweb.com/pwp/MySQL-python.exe-1.0.0.win32-py2.4.exe
That's a ready-to-go no-compilation-required installer for Windows
Python 2.4, and will get you going straight away.
Thanx a lot, Steve! This worked
Marius Bernklev wrote:
* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Perhaps ()'s are a good idea for some other reason I don't know?
One-element tuples are written as (4,).
And, even there, the parenthesis is only required when it would
otherwise be embiguous:
x = 4,
x
(4,)
print 4,
4
regards
Steve
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Dear all,
I want to propose a small "poll" about frameworks tools that you
use to develop web applicationsin Python. I think it would be
interesting if you could list your favourite tools as well as explain the
reasons for your choice.
Thanks in advance,
Antonio--My programming blog:
Alejandro Weinstein wrote:
Sure wxGlade/Boa/etc can help speed design and layout up, but what
happens when you want to do non standard things or just get stuck
because some thing just isn't working.
Then you add the necesary hand crafted code to the automatic
generated code. At least is what I
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tuples are defined with regards to parentheses ()'s as everyone knows.
To expand on what Alex Martelli said:
Tuples don't use parentheses except for the special case of the
empty tuple. Those are expression parentheses. The two most
Miki Tebeka wrote:
Hello Maxim,
Are there widely used and recommended Python libraries that will
let me makes a portable text user interface?
If you just need a text-like interface you can use Tkinter.
See (shameless plug) http://developer.berlios.de/projects/bcd/ and
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:05:18 +0200, rumours say that Christos TZOTZIOY
Georgiou [EMAIL PROTECTED] might have written:
[snip: things to cover in a tentative 2nd edition of the nutshell]
[Alex]
and new capabilities of existing modules, such as thread-local
storage.
[I]
...which I most surely
On 2004-12-29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tuples are defined with regards to parentheses ()'s as everyone knows.
Except they're not.
x = 1,2,3,4
type(x)
type 'tuple'
Tuples are defined by the infix comma operator.
--
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) writes:
I'm considering proposing to O'Reilly a 2nd edition of Python in a
Nutshell, that I'd write in 2005, essentially to cover Python 2.3 and
2.4 (the current 1st edition only covers Python up to 2.2).
What I have in mind is not as complete a rewrite as
I found the discussion of unicode, in any python book I have, insufficient.
Thomas
+1
Don
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2004-12-29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tuples are defined with regards to parentheses ()'s as everyone knows.
Except they're not.
x = 1,2,3,4
type(x)
type 'tuple'
Tuples are defined by
As an already-experienced programmer, I came to Python via this book
and still use it as my primary reference.
As a Python beginner, I had a difficult time with the section on
Slicing a sequence (p. 47). In particular, a better explanation and
examples of negative indicies would be helpful.
On 22 Dec 2004 09:22:15 -0800, Zhang Le [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I'm writing a little Tkinter application to retrieve news from
various news websites such as http://news.bbc.co.uk/, and display them
in a TK listbox. All I want are news title and url information.
Well, the BBC
Alex Martelli wrote:
I'm considering proposing to O'Reilly a 2nd edition of Python in a
Nutshell, that I'd write in 2005, essentially to cover Python 2.3 and
2.4 (the current 1st edition only covers Python up to 2.2).
So, if there's any advice or request about a 2nd edition of the
Nutshell, this
I second that
Regards,
Fuzzy
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml
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I like the current edition. Since it is a reference work, I would like
to see it in a CD-ROM as well as in print, either packaged with a book
or as part of a Python CD Bookshelf, analogous to the other CD
bookshelves O'Reilly offers.
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Antoon Pardon wrote:
Op 2004-12-23, Scott David Daniels schreef [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
This is half the problem. In the period where an element is in the
wrong hash bucket, a new entry for the same value can be created in
the proper hash bucket. Then the code will have to determine how to
merge two
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Alex Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hmmm - have you looked at Deitel, Deitel, Liperi, Wiedermann, Python
how to program, chapters 18 (Process Management) and 19
(Multithreading), pages 613-687? They seem to do a rather workmanlike
job -- of course, they can't do
On 2004-12-29 14:04:19, Nick Coghlan wrote:
This *is* a bug (since Guido called it such), but one not yet fixed as the
obvious solution (removing object.__hash__) causes problems for Jython, and
a non-obvious solution has not been identified.
class object:
def __hash__(self):
#
Roy Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2004-12-29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tuples are defined with regards to parentheses ()'s as everyone knows.
Except they're not.
x =
I'm playing around with some threading stuff right now, and I'm having a
little trouble calling a function from one thread that affects another.
Here's my setup:
py import os, threading, time
py def write(file_in, input_lines):
... for line in input_lines:
... time.sleep(0.5)
...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
@infix
def interval(x, y): return range(x, y+1) # 2 parameters needed
This may allow:
assert 5 interval 9 == interval(5,9)
I don't like the idea of turning words into operators. I'd much rather
see something like:
@infix('..')
def interval(x, y):
return
Title: RE: Best GUI for small-scale accounting app?
From: Paul Rubin [mailto:http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid]
This still seems way too complicated. Why execute a bunch of separate
statements when what you're trying to set up is a single structure?
IMHO, i think that the code to create
Title: RE: Best GUI for small-scale accounting app?
But even then, if DaBo ever becomes as easy to use as Delphi/VB for this
type of applications, while remaining cross-platform, that might easily
double the number of Python developers. ;-)
VB/delphi are ridiculous. dont' aim to that
Title: RE: Best GUI for small-scale accounting app?
- speed where it matters (ie. no 20s load time)
Load what? The app, or the data? Users don't care how long the app
takes to start up, since they usually run it all day long. Data
response is a whole 'nother matter, and Dabo is
Mike Meyer wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
@infix
def interval(x, y): return range(x, y+1) # 2 parameters needed
This may allow:
assert 5 interval 9 == interval(5,9)
I don't like the idea of turning words into operators. I'd much rather
see something like:
@infix('..')
def interval(x, y):
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 11:42:00 -0600, Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
@infix
def interval(x, y): return range(x, y+1) # 2 parameters needed
This may allow:
assert 5 interval 9 == interval(5,9)
I don't like the idea of turning words into operators. I'd
Hi all,
In the documentation of module 'copy' it is said that This version
does not copy types like module, class, function, method, stack trace,
stack frame, file, socket, window, array, or any similar types.
Does anyone know another way to (deep)copy objects of type class? What
is special
Title: RE: A scoping question
myBaseClass.AddChild(file2.NextClass())
[snip]
class NextClass:
def __init__(self):
for eachChild in myBaseClass.MyChilds: # - ERROR
...
I never assumes globals in my classes. always pass them as parameters. it's safer and better to understand later.
Would the pyro client need to be installed as a service on the machine
so it could run the installer as the system acct? Otherwise, it would
run with the current user's credentials.
Anand wrote:
I haven't but one of my friends have used Pyro (Python Remote
Objects)
to do so.
You basically
Jp Calderone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 11:42:00 -0600, Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
@infix
def interval(x, y): return range(x, y+1) # 2 parameters needed
This may allow:
assert 5 interval 9 == interval(5,9)
I don't like the idea
Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mike Meyer wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
@infix
def interval(x, y): return range(x, y+1) # 2 parameters needed
This may allow:
assert 5 interval 9 == interval(5,9)
I don't like the idea of turning words into operators. I'd much
rather
see
copy.deepcopy() should do the trick. This URL answers a little bit of
your question about the difficulties in copying complex data
structures.
http://pydoc.org/2.3/copy.html
-Bob
On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 19:29 +0100, harold fellermann wrote:
Hi all,
In the documentation of module 'copy' it is
Duncan Booth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That leaves the former case: if your task has to stop and wait for
something else to happen (e.g. data to be read from a network, or to
be read from a disc file), then splitting it into multiple threads
may allow the waits to be overlapped with useful
On Dec 29, 2004, at 1:06 PM, Gabriel Cosentino de Barros wrote:
So, to be more direct: If you create one app that opens one window
with one button in wxWindow and exit (exit, so that 'time' can
canculate it for you), and then the same thing in Dabo, what's the
time diference?
I used the timeit
Steven Bethard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I get the correct output, but if you run this yourself, you'll see
that the numbers 1 through 10 aren't printed in sync with the writes
(i.e. every half second); they're all printed at the end. Could
someone explain to me why this happens, and how (if
Ha. I just read down to the bottom of pyDoc page.
This version does not copy types like module, class, function, method,
nor stack trace, stack frame, nor file, socket, window, nor array, nor
any similar types.
However, I actually tried it and it worked at least in the simple case:
class x:
...
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 12:38:02 -0600, Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jp Calderone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 11:42:00 -0600, Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
@infix
def interval(x, y): return range(x, y+1) # 2 parameters needed
Alex Martelli wrote:
the coverage of Twisted and adding just a few things (numarray --
perhaps premature to have it _instead_ of Numeric, though; dateutils,
You might want to keep in touch with the scipy/numarray gang on this particular
topic. An effort is currently under way to make scipy
On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 23:54, Thomas Heller wrote:
I found the discussion of unicode, in any python book I have, insufficient.
I couldn't agree more. I think explicit treatment of implicit
conversion, the role of sysdefaultencoding, the u'' constructor and
unicode() built in, etc would be
Steven Bethard wrote:
I get the correct output, but if you run this yourself, you'll see that
the numbers 1 through 10 aren't printed in sync with the writes (i.e.
every half second); they're all printed at the end. Could someone
explain to me why this happens, and how (if possible) I can
You copied an instance, not a class.
Here's an example of attempting to deepcopy a class:
class X: pass
...
import copy
X is copy.deepcopy(X)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File stdin, line 1, in ?
File /usr/lib/python2.2/copy.py, line 179, in deepcopy
raise error, \
copy.Error:
Nick Coghlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
This *is* a bug (since Guido called it such), but one not yet fixed as
the obvious solution (removing object.__hash__) causes problems for
Jython,
and a non-obvious solution has not been identified.
Since object was
Fernando Perez wrote:
Steven Bethard wrote:
I get the correct output, but if you run this yourself, you'll see that
the numbers 1 through 10 aren't printed in sync with the writes (i.e.
every half second); they're all printed at the end. Could someone
explain to me why this happens, and how (if
John Roth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If Python had originally been invented in a unicode world, I suppose we
wouldn't have this problem. We'd just be using guillemots for tuples
(and have keyboards which made it easy to type them).
I suppose the forces of darkness will forever keep Python
Jarek Zgoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cameron Laird wrote:
Well, while on Windows native look exists, on X11 native has other
meaning. On my wife's desktop it's KDE that is native, GNUStep is native
on mine and I strongly object calling GTK native, as one can
Mike Meyer wrote:
Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
Well, perhaps you can explain how a change that's made at run time
(calling the decorator) can affect the parser's compile time behavior,
then. At the moment, IIRC, the only way Python code can affect the
parser's behavior is in the
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 13:37:22 -0600, Thomas Bartkus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jarek Zgoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cameron Laird wrote:
Well, while on Windows native look exists, on X11 native has other
meaning. On my wife's desktop it's KDE that is native,
Roy Smith wrote:
John Roth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If Python had originally been invented in a unicode world, I suppose we
wouldn't have this problem. We'd just be using guillemots for tuples
(and have keyboards which made it easy to type them).
I suppose the forces of darkness will
Steven Bethard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'll second that. Please, Bearophile, do us the courtesy of checking
(1) Google groups archive of the mailing list:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python
and
(2) The Python Enhancement Proposals:
[Steven Bethard] I'm just suggesting that in a function with a
*args in the def, the args variable be an iterator instead of
a tuple.
So people would lose the useful abilities to check len(args) or extract
an argument with args[1]?
Besides, if a function really wants an iterator, then its
Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well, perhaps you can explain how a change that's made at run time
(calling the decorator) can affect the parser's compile time behavior,
then. At the moment, IIRC, the only way Python
On 2004-12-29, Reinhold Birkenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Perl6 experiments with the use of guillemots as part of the syntax.
As if Perl didn't look like bird-tracks already...
http://www.seabird.org/education/animals/guillemot.html
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why tuples use parentheses ()'s instead of something else like 's?
Please enlighten me as I really want to know.
So to summarize:
Commas define tuples, except when they don't, and parentheses are only
required when they are necessary.
I hope that clears up any
Raymond Hettinger wrote:
[Steven Bethard] I'm just suggesting that in a function with a
*args in the def, the args variable be an iterator instead of
a tuple.
So people would lose the useful abilities to check len(args) or extract
an argument with args[1]?
No more than you lose these abilities
Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2004-12-29, Reinhold Birkenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Perl6 experiments with the use of guillemots as part of the syntax.
As if Perl didn't look like bird-tracks already...
http://www.seabird.org/education/animals/guillemot.html
Fernando Perez wrote:
Steven Bethard wrote:
Fernando Perez wrote:
Steven Bethard wrote:
I get the correct output, but if you run this yourself, you'll see that
the numbers 1 through 10 aren't printed in sync with the writes (i.e.
every half second); they're all printed at the end. Could someone
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 16:41:23 +0100, Alex Martelli wrote:
Hmmm, well, the concepts are reasonably independent of the programming
language involved. If anything, threads and processes may be more tied
to whatever _operating system_ you're using. A very fundamental but
good introduction to
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote:
I'm considering proposing to O'Reilly a 2nd edition of Python in a
Nutshell, that I'd write in 2005, essentially to cover Python 2.3 and
2.4 (the current 1st edition only covers Python up to 2.2).
...
Since you were kind
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Reinhold Birkenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
+ being an operator
Looks more like a smiley for guy wearing a bowtie
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On 2004-12-29, Reinhold Birkenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Perl6 experiments with the use of guillemots as part of the syntax.
As if Perl didn't look like bird-tracks already...
http://www.seabird.org/education/animals/guillemot.html
Alex Martelli ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I'm considering proposing to O'Reilly a 2nd edition of Python in a
: Nutshell, that I'd write in 2005, essentially to cover Python 2.3 and
: 2.4 (the current 1st edition only covers Python up to 2.2).
: So, if there's any advice or request about a 2nd
Steven Bethard wrote:
Fernando Perez wrote:
Steven Bethard wrote:
Fernando Perez wrote:
Steven Bethard wrote:
I get the correct output, but if you run this yourself, you'll see
that
the numbers 1 through 10 aren't printed in sync with the writes (i.e.
every half second); they're all printed at
On 29 Dec 2004 21:03:59 GMT,
Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2004-12-29, Reinhold Birkenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Perl6 experiments with the use of guillemots as part of the syntax.
As if Perl didn't look like bird-tracks already...
There just isn't enough
neat-looking punctuation in the ASCII character set.
Alex
I can't thank you enough for your reply and for everyones' great info
on this thread. The end of your email gave a rock solid reason why it
is impossible to improve upon ()'s for tuples
*There simply isn't
Title: vga output
i'm writting an app to display images without X... i'm scared just to think about writting it in C... The hardware won't run X. and the CPU is very humble, around 20Mhz (and it must have fade outs). it run a minimalisc OpenBSD kernel.
Anyone already did something similar
Brian
I am so thankful for your reply and for Alex's and everyone else's on
this thread. (See my reply to Alex.) This email may seem minor but it
was bugging me for months. You just
pointed out what I should have remembered on my own...
*'s wouldn't have been a perfect choice because they
Alex Martelli wrote:
I still
believe Tkinter coverage is going to help more readers.
Alex,
I know this can be a can of worms. But honestly, I wonder what do you
base that idea on.
-Ruben
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I got an evaluation version of Qt for Windows and installed PyQt.
However, it gives me this error message:
ImportError: DLL load failed:
It doesn't seem to see the qt-mteval DLL, even though I made
sure that the paths to lib and bin subfolders of Qt are there in
the PATH.
I installed Qt built
Dan Sommers wrote:
On 29 Dec 2004 21:03:59 GMT,
Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2004-12-29, Reinhold Birkenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Perl6 experiments with the use of guillemots as part of the syntax.
As if Perl didn't look like bird-tracks already...
As a tester, my vote goes to extending the Testing subsection of the
Testing, debugging and optimizing. I'd like to see more testing tools
discussed there. Maybe py.test, PyFIT, and possibly others.
Grig
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Aahz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Alex Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hmmm - have you looked at Deitel, Deitel, Liperi, Wiedermann, Python
how to program, chapters 18 (Process Management) and 19
(Multithreading), pages 613-687? They seem to do a rather
RM wrote:
Alex Martelli wrote:
I still
believe Tkinter coverage is going to help more readers.
Alex,
I know this can be a can of worms. But honestly, I wonder what do you
base that idea on.
-Ruben
Tkinter is a part of the Python core, and so will be available to the
majority of beginners.
Craig Ringer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 23:54, Thomas Heller wrote:
I found the discussion of unicode, in any python book I have, insufficient.
I couldn't agree more. I think explicit treatment of implicit
conversion, the role of sysdefaultencoding, the u''
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As a Python beginner, I had a difficult time with the section on
Slicing a sequence (p. 47). In particular, a better explanation and
examples of negative indicies would be helpful.
Good point, thanks.
This is nitpicking in what I consider to be a very good book.
Fernando Perez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alex Martelli wrote:
the coverage of Twisted and adding just a few things (numarray --
perhaps premature to have it _instead_ of Numeric, though; dateutils,
You might want to keep in touch with the scipy/numarray gang on this
particular topic.
What you say is true. However, I didn't think the target audience of
this book was newbies. Python newbies yes, but not programming
newbies. For programming newbies I would recommend the Learning
Python book instead.
The availability argument, however, is a good point.
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Russell E. Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote:
I'm considering proposing to O'Reilly a 2nd edition of Python in a
Nutshell, that I'd write in 2005, essentially to cover Python 2.3 and
2.4 (the current 1st edition only covers
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