python-dev Summary for 2006-05-01 through 2006-05-15

python-dev Summary for 2006-05-01 through 2006-05-15 .. contents:: [The HTML version of this Summary is available at http://www.python.org/dev/summary/2006-05-01_2006-05-15] = Announcements = ---

ANN: webstring 0.3 released

webstring is a template system designed for programmers whose preferred template languages are Python and HTML (and XML for people that swing that way). Highlights of 0.3 include: - an HTMLTemplate class for taking questionable HTML and outputting it as correct XHTML 1.0, XHTML 1.1, or HTML 4.0

[ANN] Soya 3D 0.11.2

WHAT IS SOYA 3D ? Soya 3D is an object oriented high level 3D engine for Python. Somehow, Soya is to 3D what Python is to programming. Soya allows to develop very rapidly games of other 3D apps, entirely in the Python language (contrary to most of the other engine, in which Python is limited

[ANN] Balazar Brothers 0.3.1, a 3D game in Python!

WHAT IS BALAZAR BROTHERS ? Balazar Brothers is a 3D Puzzle game, written entirely in Python using the Soya 3D engine. The game proposes impressive 3D graphics as well as interesting challenge. A 3D platform universe, two characters and two keys, one for each character. Just press a key and the

Re: .py and running in Windows:

On Tuesday 13 June 2006 07:04, Michael Yanowitz wrote: Thanks. XP looks to be the same as 2000. Works as expected now. Thank You. Not sure what this 'thread' issue is. I never specified a thread. I think perhaps though because I did open another message in this mailing list (to get

curses module bug in windows python?

when I type command below in windows python: import curses it gives the error msg! It can't find _curses.pyd Is this a bug? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: groupby is brilliant!

Benji York wrote: Frank Millman wrote: reader = csv.reader(open('trans.csv', 'rb')) rows = [] for row in reader: rows.append(row) Why do you create a list of rows instead of just iterating over the reader directly? -- Benji York A - didn't think of it - good idea B - can't

Re: python-dev Summary for 2006-05-01 through 2006-05-15

This summary is tagged as being in ISO-8859-1 encoding: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed However, it really is in UTF-8, which results in this mojibake: Martin v. Löwis and Marc-Andre Lemburg discussed how to include both --

Looping through a file a block of text at a time not by line

Hello Help is great appreciated in advance. I need to loop through a file 6000 bytes at a time. I was going to use the following but do not know how to advance through the file 6000 bytes at a time. file = open('hotels.xml') block = file.read(6000)

Re: Logging to a file and closing it again properly (logging module)

On 6/13/06, Christoph Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Evening, I have an application that is running in an endless loop processing an incoming queue. Every run is supposed to write a log file about the run and then close it again. While the 'logging' module is generally working well (even

Re: curses module bug in windows python?

kernel1983 wrote: when I type command below in windows python: import curses it gives the error msg! It can't find _curses.pyd Is this a bug? Nope - this module is not supported under Windows ... -- Tim

Re: Decimals

Tgone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sybren Stuvel wrote: Tgone enlightened us with: Sorry, when I print out the variable it displays as '15.0'. The price is '15.00' in the database though. That's the same thing, isn't it? 15.0 == 15.0 Yes, they're both mathematically the same. I never

Re: USB support

rodmc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to write a program which can access the USB ports on Mac and Linux, is there a library available for Python? The stable version of Libusb includes a Python binding. The version in development does not yet. -- - Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza

Re: curses module bug in windows python?

Tim Daneliuk wrote: Nope - this module is not supported under Windows ... There's at least one Python curses module for Windows: http://adamv.com/dev/python/curses/ -- Erik Max Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA 37 20 N 121 53 W AIM

Re: Logging to a file and closing it again properly (logging module)

On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 12:29:22PM +0530, Amit Khemka wrote: On 6/13/06, Christoph Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an application that is running in an endless loop processing an incoming queue. Every run is supposed to write a log file about the run and then close it again. While the

Re: Looping through a file a block of text at a time not by line

Rosario Morgan wrote: Hello Help is great appreciated in advance. I need to loop through a file 6000 bytes at a time. I was going to use the following but do not know how to advance through the file 6000 bytes at a time. file = open('hotels.xml') block = file.read(6000) newblock =

Re: curses module bug in windows python?

Erik Max Francis wrote: Tim Daneliuk wrote: Nope - this module is not supported under Windows ... There's at least one Python curses module for Windows: http://adamv.com/dev/python/curses/ Sorry, I should have been more specific: AFAIK, curses is not one of the *standard* Python

Re: Decimals

Tim Roberts wrote: DECIMAL is an SQL thing. Unless the language has a native decimal type, it cannot possibly know how to display it in the same format as your SQL. unless your database adapter returns everything as strings... /F -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Looping through a file a block of text at a time not by line

Rune Strand wrote: Probably a more terse way to do this, but this seems to work import os offset = 0 grab_size = 6000 file_size = os.stat('hotels.xml')[6] ouch. why not just loop until f.read returns an empty string ? f = open('hotels.xml', 'r') while offset file_size:

Re: logging magic

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone. I've just been trying to add a bit more granularity to my logging code, as the jump from INFO (level 20) to DEBUG (level 10) is a bit too big. I was thinking of borrowing a few levels from java: fine (18), finer (16) and finest(14). This is what I've

Re: Logging to a file and closing it again properly (logging module)

Christoph Haas wrote: Thanks. That works great. I was looking for a way to close the log file using logging.basicConfig but it appears that it's too much magic. logging.getLogger() isn't really much more work but gives better control. You may also need to close the handler - removeHandler

Re: Test functions and test discovery

Ben Finney wrote: (snip) if __name__ == __main__: test_funcs = [x for name, x in globals() if name.startswith(test) and hasattr(x, __call__) ] Any reason not to use callable(x) here ? (instead of hasattr(x, __call__)) -- bruno desthuilliers python -c print

Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

hi Joe, Joe Marshall wrote: « Expressiveness isn't necessarily a good thing. For instance, in C, you can express the addresses ...» we gotta be careful here, because soon we gonna say binaries are the most expressive. For instance, in assembly, you can express the registers and stuff.

popen and password entry

hello, i want to use rsync for remote file transfer via popen, but couldnt pass the Password yet. here`s what i did cmd = 'rsync -av config [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/.' f = os.popen(cmd,'w') f.write('1234') #not worked f.write('1234\n') #not worked every time i see Password: line, then i tried

Re: Looping through a file a block of text at a time not by line

Rosario Morgan wrote: Hello Help is great appreciated in advance. I need to loop through a file 6000 bytes at a time. I was going to use the following but do not know how to advance through the file 6000 bytes at a time. file = open('hotels.xml') while True: block =

Re: Earthquake and Tornado Forecasting Programs June 13, 2006

CBFalconer wrote: Frank Silvermann wrote: [snip] I look forward to a day when meteorology has more to do with precise models than models, although I'm all for Russian-style delivery of such data. I forecast that a lot of people will be surprised by the weather today, as they are categorical

determining file type

Hi, I have a funtion named unzipper() which does the work of unzipping the files. Is there a way I can identify what is the type of the file which'll be passed to unzipper(). If yes, I'll be able to make out if it's a zip file or a tar or a bz2 file. Thanks, Ritesh --

Re: python-dev Summary for 2006-05-01 through 2006-05-15

Radovan: This summary is tagged as being in ISO-8859-1 encoding: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed However, it really is in UTF-8, which results in this mojibake: Martin v. Löwis and Marc-Andre Lemburg discussed how to include both Its a good thing we have

Re: Tuple Syntax and ()

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I keep accidently trying to declare t-tuples as mytuple = (myitem) I know this doesn't work and that you need the trailing comma, but reading something online, I just came to realize the parenthesises don't have any special meaning in relation to tuples at all,

Re: TONIGHT! Lisp group beerfest in NYC, PyCells to be discussed

[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why are all of the cool Lisp things up north? No Lispers down south? Of course there are. South of Paris, I mean. -- Didier Verna, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier EPITA / LRDE, 14-16 rue Voltaire Tel.+33 (1) 44 08 01

Re: popen and password entry

sinan nalkaya [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i want to use rsync for remote file transfer via popen, but couldnt pass the Password yet. For interactive input try the pexpect module instead of popen (see http://pexpect.sf.net). Ganesan -- Ganesan Rajagopal --

Test tool - Design advise needed

Hello I am new at this list, looking forward to be a part of it. I am trying to write a application with the functionality to record mouse and key events, and then another functionality to replay earlier recorded events. It is meant to be used for testing of other applications/WebPages. I

Using external vars on module load time

Hi I have a script that looks for modules and tries to load them. After loading I attach the server-API function to it. module = __import__(module_name, globals(), locals(), []) module.server = server.server_api Now, some modules need the server functionality on load/init. I tried to

About Threading - implementation

Hi ! I don't understand something. Under Python the threads are simulated by Python Interpreter as when prev. setted pieces (interval) of the interpreted tokens are executed, it is change to another virtual thread ? Or it was really create real threads, and they are figth for the priority, and

Re: determining file type

Le Mercredi 14 Juin 2006 11:22, Ritesh Raj Sarraf a écrit : Hi, I have a funtion named unzipper() which does the work of unzipping the files. Is there a way I can identify what is the type of the file which'll be passed to unzipper(). If yes, I'll be able to make out if it's a zip file or

IPC with mmap - freezed in Windows XP terminal ?

Hi ! I want to comm. between 2 procs with mmap - in Windows XP. Interesting thing I saw yesterday. When I start my mtest.py without redirection stdout, the program freezed. When I pushed Enter, is was released. (Just like when I use raw_input in the end of the code... :-)) For this effect I

Re: determining file type

But isn't there any library function ? Something like XX.filetype(name) Directory File-Tar File-Zip File-MPEG Ritesh Maric Michaud wrote: Le Mercredi 14 Juin 2006 11:22, Ritesh Raj Sarraf a écrit : Hi, I have a funtion named unzipper() which does the work of unzipping the files. Is

Quacker

Very interesting! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Greetings

Nice and interesting matter! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: About Threading - implementation

In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dara Durum wrote: Under Python the threads are simulated by Python Interpreter as when prev. setted pieces (interval) of the interpreted tokens are executed, it is change to another virtual thread ? Or it was really create real threads, and they are figth for the

Re: determining file type

Also, f = file ('some_file.jpg') throws an error. str object is not callable Ritesh Maric Michaud wrote: Le Mercredi 14 Juin 2006 11:22, Ritesh Raj Sarraf a écrit : Hi, I have a funtion named unzipper() which does the work of unzipping the files. Is there a way I can identify what

joining NoneType and DateTimeType

hi i have some databse results that are NoneType and DateTimeType. now i have trouble joining these row results together like |.join(result) as it says cannot join NoneType , DateTimeType . How can i change these types so i can join the columns together as string? thanks --

Re: Test functions and test discovery

bruno at modulix [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ben Finney wrote: (snip) if __name__ == __main__: test_funcs = [x for name, x in globals() if name.startswith(test) and hasattr(x, __call__) ] Any reason not to use callable(x) here ? (instead of hasattr(x,

Re: joining NoneType and DateTimeType

On 14 Jun 2006 03:43:39 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have some databse results that are NoneType and DateTimeType. now i have trouble joining these row results together like |.join(result) as it says cannot join NoneType , DateTimeType . How can i change these types so i

Re: Correctly reading stdout/stderr from subprocess

Le Mercredi 14 Juin 2006 00:20, Christoph Haas a écrit : Evening, I'm having trouble with running a process through Python 2.4's subprocess module. Example code: def run(command): run = subprocess.Popen(command, shell=True,

Re: determining file type

Le Mercredi 14 Juin 2006 12:41, Ritesh Raj Sarraf a écrit : Also, f = file ('some_file.jpg') throws an error. str object is not callable stange, did you define a function named file ? You can use open instead. -- _ Maric Michaud _ Aristote - www.aristote.info 3

Re: determining file type

Ritesh Raj Sarraf schrieb: Also, f = file ('some_file.jpg') throws an error. str object is not callable I bet you have rebound file to a string, like this: file = some name And PLEASE don't top-quote: http://www.redballoon.net/~snorwood/quote-rant.shtml Diez --

Re: determining file type

In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: Also, f = file ('some_file.jpg') throws an error. str object is not callable This happens if you rebind names of builtins. In this case to a string. Don't do that! In [5]:file Out[5]:type 'file' In [6]:file = 'foo.txt' In [7]:file

Re: Bundling an application with third-party modules

A couple of alternatives: 1. py2exe/csFreeze-type thing. This would even relieve the customer of installing python 2. An Installshield-type installer can place files (essentially) wherever you want them HTH -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: determining file type

Ritesh Raj Sarraf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, f =3D file ('some_file.jpg') throws an error. str object is not callable You know all the times people say in this group Don't use list or str or file[HINT] or anything else that shadows a built in as a variable name? Now you know why. -- \S --

Numerics, NaNs, IEEE 754 and C99

The numerical robustness of Python is very poor - this is not its fault, but that of IEEE 754 and (even more) C99. In particular, erroneous numerical operations often create apparently valid numbers, and the NaN state can be lost without an exception being raised. For example, try

File read and writing in binary mode...

Hi, I'm trying to open a file (any file) in binary mode and save it inside a new text file. After that I want to read the source from the text file and save it back to the disk with its original form. The problem is tha the binary source that I extract from the text file seems to be diferent from

Re: File read and writing in binary mode...

[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Hi, I'm trying to open a file (any file) in binary mode and save it inside a new text file. After that I want to read the source from the text file and save it back to the disk with its original form. The problem is tha the binary source that I extract from the

Re: convert .pdf files to .txt files

Thanks for all you wrote, It will be very usefull to me, at the end I use that code and the file I introduce is converted to .txt on the directory where the file is placed, and in documents written in spanish this do not gives problems on acentos in words like camión or introducción that was very

Re: Using external vars on module load time

Marco Aschwanden wrote: Load a module and hand in already the server_api. How can I achieve this? Using execfile() is the simplest approach: import imp import sys def import_preloaded(name, path=None, variables={}): if path is None: file, path, description = imp.find_module(name)

Tiddlywiki type project in Python?

Hi all I'm trying out, and in general finding really useful, the various TiddlyWiki variants that I guess many people here know about, for organising my activities in a GTD way. One mild annoyance is in the speed of the Javascript applications. I fancy having a go at writing something like

Re: Tiddlywiki type project in Python?

jkn wrote: Hi all I'm trying out, and in general finding really useful, the various TiddlyWiki variants that I guess many people here know about, for organising my activities in a GTD way. One mild annoyance is in the speed of the Javascript applications. I fancy having a go at writing

Re: Using external vars on module load time

Marvelous that was the solution I was looking for. I think you should consider a class instead of a module, though. What I don't get: Why should I consider using a class? Greetings from sunny Switzerland, Marco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Using external vars on module load time

Marco Aschwanden wrote: Load a module and hand in already the server_api. How can I achieve this? use execfile (or compile/exec) instead of import. /F -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Tiddlywiki type project in Python?

Hi Bruno [...] I don't know Javascript (although it looks moderately simple from a brief peruse, It's not as simple as it may seem at first look. There are some real gotchas. But if you want a more pythonic javascript, you should have a look at mochikit. OK, thanks for the pointer

Where is documentation for +=

Hello, by accident I found that += exists in python. E.g. a = 0 a += 42 a 42 a += 0.42 a 42.422 But I can't find any documentation for +=. Any hints? Best wishes -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Where is documentation for +=

http://docs.python.org/ref/augassign.html On Wednesday 14 June 2006 15:39, Marco Wahl wrote: Hello, by accident I found that += exists in python. E.g. a = 0 a += 42 a 42 a += 0.42 a 42.422 But I can't find any documentation for +=. Any hints? Best wishes --

Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

Joe Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On the Expressive Power of Programming Languages, by Matthias Felleisen, 1990. http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/cobbe/pl-seminar-jr/notes/2003-sep-26/expressive-slides.pdf The gist of the paper is this: Some computer languages seem to be `more

Re: Numerics, NaNs, IEEE 754 and C99

On 2006-06-14, Nick Maclaren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The numerical robustness of Python is very poor - this is not its fault, but that of IEEE 754 and (even more) C99. In particular, erroneous numerical operations often create apparently valid numbers, and the NaN state can be lost without

Re: [*SPAM*] Python open proxy honeypot

Alex Reinhart wrote: Eric S. Johansson wrote: Alex Reinhart wrote: Yeah, I just realized that. What would I do to act as an open proxy as well? emulate the Apache proxy capability, especially the reverse proxy. more seriously, what you need to do is from common proxy and web server ports,

Re: Correctly reading stdout/stderr from subprocess

Le Mercredi 14 Juin 2006 13:14, Maric Michaud a écrit : or use a threaded version here it is. I did it just to validate my point and because i don't use threads very often in python, some exercises can't hurt :) def run(command): import subprocess run = subprocess.Popen(command,

Re: Where is documentation for +=

[...] I can't find any documentation for +=. Any hints? http://docs.python.org/ref/augassign.html That's it. Thank you very much. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Trace KeyboardInterrupt exception?

Tony Nelson wrote: I'm trying to find out what is eating some KeyboardInterrupt exceptions in a fairly large program (yum). My KeyboardInterrupt handler is called for some Ctl-C presses, but for others nothing seems to happen. ... I'd like to use a debugger to trace KeyboardInterrupt

Re: Tiddlywiki type project in Python?

jkn wrote: (snip) Does the idea of embedding python in a browser instead of Javascript make any sense at all? From a purely theoretical POV, yes, this idea makes sens - Python could be an interesting alternative to javascript for client-side scripting (and I'd really prefer using Python for

Re: Quacker

Quacker wrote: Very interesting! indeed. -- bruno desthuilliers python -c print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for p in '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.split('@')]) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: wxpython: bringing up a dialog box with a button

jean-michel bain-cornu wrote: When your button gives an event, wx send two arguments : the object itself and an event object. So you can't bind directly. Ah, that explains it! Thank you! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jun 12)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Salerno wrote: I love the new 'folder' icon, but how can I access it as an icon? I've just given these are proper home, so here: http://doxdesk.com/software/py/pyicons.html cheers! Thanks! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

newbe: tuple

I am trying to get my ip address through a script and I am using the following code: import socket ip = socket.gethostbyaddr(socket.gethostname()) ip then becomes a tuple and takes on three values. I am trying to pull the value of ip[2] which when printed displays: ['10.5.100.17']. I want

Re: Numerics, NaNs, IEEE 754 and C99

In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | Now, I should like to improve this, but there are two problems. The | first is political, and is whether it would be acceptable in Python to | restore the semantics that were standard up until about 1980 in the |

Re: Using external vars on module load time

Marco Aschwanden schrieb: Marvelous that was the solution I was looking for. I think you should consider a class instead of a module, though. What I don't get: Why should I consider using a class? Because sharing state in such a way that several functions need to access some later bound

Re: newbe: tuple

ip = socket.gethostbyaddr(socket.gethostname()) ip then becomes a tuple and takes on three values. I am trying to pull the value of ip[2] which when printed displays: ['10.5.100.17']. I want this ip that is being returned, but I would like it as a string, without the [' and ']. Any idea

Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

On 2006-06-14 09:42:25 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Torben Ægidius Mogensen) said: It takes longer for the average programmer to get the program working in the dynamically typed language. Though I agree with much of your post I would say that many here find the opposite to be true - it takes

Unimporting modules, memory leak?

Hello everybody, Probably, this is being too demanding for Python, but it may be useful to unimport modules to work with dynamic code (though not the best, one example is [2]). In fact, it is supposed to be possible[1], but I have detected it usually leaks memory. When unimported in Linux, the

Re: python-dev Summary for 2006-05-01 through 2006-05-15

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This summary is tagged as being in ISO-8859-1 encoding: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed However, it really is in UTF-8 Hmm... I guess Gmail's automatic encoding selection isn't working for the summaries. I've changed my Gmail settings

convert floats to their 4 byte representation

I need to take floats and dump out their 4 byte hex representation. This is easy with ints with the built in hex function or even better for my purpose def hex( number, size ): s = %+str(size) + X return (s % number).replace(' ', '0') but I haven't been able to find anything for

Re: groupby is brilliant!

Frank Millman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Benji York wrote: Frank Millman wrote: reader = csv.reader(open('trans.csv', 'rb')) rows = [] for row in reader: rows.append(row) Why do you create a list of rows instead of just iterating over the reader directly? -- Benji York

Re: groupby is brilliant!

James Stroud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... def doit(rows, doers, i=0): for r, alist in groupby(rows, itemgetter(i)): if len(doers) 1: doit(alist, doers[1:], i+1) doers[0](r) Isn't this making N useless slices (thus copies, for most kinds of sequences) for a doers of

Re: numeric/numpy/numarray

Bryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... so, was Numarray written *before* NumPY, or was it a reimplementation of NumPy which implies it came *after* NumPy? it seems clear that Numeric is the old one and i read is not being worked on anymore. so that leaves Numarray and numpy. which of these

Re: Tiddlywiki type project in Python?

Well, that may be an/the answer, since another form of my question would be 'how can I write a TiddlyWikiLike using Python instead of JS' ;-). I appreciate that it might involve, for instance, a local server. Does the idea of embedding python in a browser instead of Javascript make any sense

Re: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

Torben Ægidius Mogensen wrote: On a similar note, is a statically typed langauge more or less expressive than a dynamically typed language? Some would say less, as you can write programs in a dynamically typed language that you can't compile in a statically typed language (without a lot of

prog1 | prog2 . How not to make prog2 block if not piped?

I googled around, but couldn't understand how to solve this problem. I have 2 scripts # script1.py # print 'something' #script2.py x=sys.stdin.read() print 'passed' if I run script1.py | script2.py all goes well. But if I run just script2.py the program blocks waiting forever for input. On

Re: convert floats to their 4 byte representation

godavemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to take floats and dump out their 4 byte hex representation. This is easy with ints with the built in hex function or even better for my purpose def hex( number, size ): s = %+str(size) + X return (s % number).replace(' ', '0') but

Re: convert floats to their 4 byte representation

s = %+str(size) + X return (s % number).replace(' ', '0') While I don't have a fast and easy way to represent floats, you may want to tweak this to be return (%0*X % (size,number)) which will zero-pad the number in hex to size number of places in a single step. It also

Re: cos: Integer Required?!?!?!?

It appears that the cause of this problem was indirect. I input something incorrect as an argument to an xplane sdk function and the cos/integer type error followed. Thanks for the help. The diagnostic functions I learned in this thread will be very helpful in the future. moonman wrote: I'm

Re: Numerics, NaNs, IEEE 754 and C99

On 2006-06-14, Nick Maclaren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Now, I should like to improve this, but there are two problems. The | first is political, and is whether it would be acceptable in Python to | restore the semantics that were standard up until about 1980 in the | numerical programming area.

Re: convert floats to their 4 byte representation

On 2006-06-14, godavemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to take floats and dump out their 4 byte hex representation. struct -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Darling, my ELBOW at is FLYING over FRANKFURT,

Re: Extending Python - Understanding Flags...

John Machin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... If it is any consolation I hope to take what I learn and put together a tutorial on expanding Python for those that only have a little experience with C programming, like myself. I plan to explain everything like I was teaching a 6-year old. :]

Re: [OT] Re: Python open proxy honeypot

On 13 Jun 2006 15:09:57 -0700, Serge Orlov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex Reinhart wrote: My spam folder at gmail is not growing anymore for many months (it is about 600-700 spams a month). Have spammers given up spamming gmail.com only or is it global trend? Gmail said messages that have been

Re: prog1 | prog2 . How not to make prog2 block if not piped?

Le Mercredi 14 Juin 2006 17:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : # script1.py # print 'something' #script2.py x=sys.stdin.read() read() will read a file object to the end, i guess you want to use readline() instead or the builtin raw_input. print 'passed' if I run script1.py | script2.py

Re: convert floats to their 4 byte representation

godavemon wrote: I need to take floats and dump out their 4 byte hex representation. This is easy with ints with the built in hex function or even better for my purpose def hex( number, size ): s = %+str(size) + X return (s % number).replace(' ', '0') This should be a trifle

popen and password entry

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Re: convert floats to their 4 byte representation

I've been a member for a while but I had no idea how helpful this form is. I had a one hour meeting and when I came back there were 4 replies. Thanks for your help! Scott David Daniels wrote: godavemon wrote: I need to take floats and dump out their 4 byte hex representation. This is easy

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