Hi there !
I'm pleased to announce the 0.16.1 release of Logilab astng package.
This release include some major bug fixes (pylint crashs, 2.5 compatibility)
and have tests passing from python 2.3 to python 2.5 :). You're higly encouraged
to upgrade if you're currently using the 0.16.0 release.
Hi there !
I'm pleased to announce the 0.19.2 release of Logilab common package.
This release include some bug fixes and have tests passing from python 2.3
to python 2.5 :). You may be surprised by the version number since we have
been missing public annoucements recently. To quote Alexandre,
IMDbPY 2.7 is available (tgz, deb, rpm, exe) from:
http://imdbpy.sourceforge.net/
IMDbPY is a Python package useful to retrieve and manage the data of
the IMDb movie database about both movies and people.
With this release some major bugs were fixed, especially in the http
and mobile data
QOTW: It's not out of the kindness of our hearts that we help. Heck, I
don't know what it is. Probably I just like reading my own drivel on the
internet and occasionally helping others is a good excuse. - Neil Cerutti
Well, if you're only watching mtv, it's easy to think that there's
I'm organising another London Python meetup at The Stage Door,
Waterloo, London SE1 8QA (see http://tinyurl.com/ko27s) for
Wednesday the 4th of October, anytime after work. Hope to see you
there!
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cx_Oracle is a Python extension module that allows access to Oracle and
conforms to the Python database API 2.0 specifications with a few
exceptions.
Where do I get it?
http://starship.python.net/crew/atuining
What's new?
1) Added additional type (NCLOB) to handle CLOBs
Pydev and Pydev Extensions 1.2.4 have been released
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Details on its development: http://pydev.blogspot.com
Release Highlights in Pydev Extensions:
At Sunday 24/9/2006 15:49, Lawrence Oluyede wrote:
Is it at all possbile to use a struct without defining it with ctypes?
If you want to use it you have to define it somewhere...
If it's an opaque thing, totally managed by the external code, yes
- treat it as a pointer.
That is, if you
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
yield dict(zip(Fields, NextRow))
the OP didn't ask for a field name = value mapping, though.
/F
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At Monday 25/9/2006 21:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Q: The C idea of (pv != NULL) is said most directly in Python ctypes
how?
Perhaps reading the ctypes tutorial? (both in the 2.5 docs and in
http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes/tutorial.html)
Gabriel Genellina
Softlab SRL
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
the OP didn't ask for a field name = value mapping, though.
footnote: but for those who want that, I strongly recommend using
something like Greg Stein's dtuple module:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/81252
Hi,
I saw in PEP4 of python 2.5 that grep module has gone
obsolete in perl 2.5. But I am not able to find an
alternative for that.My doubt is are the other forms
of grep like egrep and ggrep be used instead?
cheers,
Spurthi
At Monday 25/9/2006 11:08, Jon Ribbens wrote:
What precisely do you think it would break?
existing code, and existing tests.
I'm sorry, that's not good enough. How, precisely, would it break
existing code? Can you come up with an example, or even an
explanation of how it *could* break
bhavya sg wrote:
I saw in PEP4 of python 2.5 that grep module has gone
obsolete in perl 2.5. But I am not able to find an
alternative for that.
the grep module has been deprecated for ages (it's been in the lib-old
non-standard library since at least Python 2.1). The old grep module
From: Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, Sep 23 2006 12:03 pm
i cover through 2.5, but also include stuff that have
already been slated for 2.6 and 2.7.
and what would that be? target versions in the PEP:s are usually just
wild guesses...
true, and it's obviously a *bad* idea to
Jon Ribbens wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian Quinlan wrote:
Now you're just being ridiculous. In this thread you have been rude,
evasive, insulting, vague, hypocritical, and have failed to answer
substantive points in favour of sarcastic and erroneous sniping - I'd
suggest it's you
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steve
Holden wrote:
When you use the DB API correctly and paramterise your queries you still
need to quote wildcards in search arguments, but you absolutely
shouldn't quote the other SQL specials.
That's what parameterised queries are
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Fredrik
Lundh wrote:
Max M wrote:
It also makes the escaped html harder to read for standard cases.
and slows things down a bit.
(cgi.escape(s, True) is slower than cgi.escape(s), for reasons that are
obvious for anyone
At Monday 25/9/2006 21:58, urielka wrote:
i think i got what the * and ** mean.
*args mean arguments that are assigned by position(that is why *arg is
a tuple)
**kwds mean arguments that are assigned using equals a=2,b=3 (that is
why **kwds i a dict)
but why self is in *args and other thing
Lawrence D'Oliveiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(cgi.escape(s, True) is slower than cgi.escape(s), for reasons that
are obvious for anyone who's looked at the code).
What you're doing is adding to the reasons why the existing cgi.escape
function is stupidly designed and implemented. The True
Lawrence D'Oliveiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Duncan Booth
wrote:
If I have a unicode string such as: u'\u201d' (right double quote),
then I want that encoded in my html as '#8221;' (or rdquo; but the
numeric form is better).
Right-double-quote is not an
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Fredrik
Lundh wrote:
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
yield dict(zip(Fields, NextRow))
the OP didn't ask for a field name = value mapping, though.
What other kind of mapping could you produce?
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abcd wrote:
Any ideas what methods the stdout (and I guess stderr) of Popen objects
from subprocess call?
the external process only sees OS-level file handles (the number you get
from the fileno() method on your file objects), not Python objects. no
matter how you override things in your
Paul Rubin wrote:
Brian Quinlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
o cgi.escape is not meant for serious web application development,
What is it meant for then? Why should the library ever implement
anything in a half-assed way unsuitable for serious application
development, if it can supply a
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
you're not the designer...
I don't have to be. Whoever the designer was, they had not properly thought
through the uses of this function. That's quite obvious already, to anybody
who works with HTML a lot. So the function is broken and needs
Frank Millman wrote:
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
Frank Millman wrote:
I am reminded of a spoof Latin motto from the days of my youth -
NIL ILLEGITIMO CARBORUNDUM
isn't that usually written
Illegitimi non carborundum
?
or is that just due to differences between british latin and american
Jon Ribbens wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian Quinlan wrote:
A summary of this pointless argument:
Your summary seems pretty reasonable, but please note that later on,
the thread was not about cgi.escape escaping (or not) quote
characters (as described in your summary), but about
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Google don't define automated queryit, and I don't think they can.
the phrases they use are well understood in the SE business. that's
good enough for everyone involved (including courts; see below).
(What on earth is meta-searching? If you're going to use terms which
well, if you're only watching mtv, it's easy to think that there's
obviously not much demand for country singers, blues musicians, British
hard rock bands, or melodic death metal acts.
These days its even hard to get the idea that there is a demand of boy
bands, rnb, euro trash or any other
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], I wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Fredrik
Lundh wrote:
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
yield dict(zip(Fields, NextRow))
the OP didn't ask for a field name = value mapping, though.
What other kind of mapping could you produce?
All right, sorry,
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Max M wrote:
Lawrence is right that the escape method doesn't work the way he expects
it to.
Rewriting a library module simply because a developer is surprised is a
*very* bad idea.
I'm not surprised. Disappointed, yes. Verging
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:51:55 +0200, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
http://www.google.com/terms_of_service.html
You may not send automated queries of any sort to Google's system
without express
permission in advance from Google.
I'm not just being a pedantic
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steve
Holden wrote:
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steve
Holden wrote:
When you use the DB API correctly and paramterise your queries you still
need to quote wildcards in search arguments, but you absolutely
shouldn't quote the other
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Georg Brandl wrote:
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Fredrik
Lundh wrote:
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
Georg Brandl wrote:
A function is broken if its implementation doesn't match the
documentation.
or if it doesn't match the
Steve Holden wrote:
Ah, so your quoting function will deduce the context in which arguments
intended for parameter substitution in the query will be used? Or are
you suggesting that it's unwise to rely on autoquoted parameters? That
could have a serious impact on the efficiency of some
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gabriel G
wrote:
At Monday 25/9/2006 11:08, Jon Ribbens wrote:
What precisely do you think it would break?
existing code, and existing tests.
I'm sorry, that's not good enough. How, precisely, would it break
existing code? Can you come up with an example,
hehe i saw that,that is what made my understand it.
the decorator now works.
let say i have a function decorated with two decorators:
@Accept(int,int)
@OtherDecorator
def myfunc(a,b):
pass
how can i make the two decorators into one(note:one get parameters and
the other doesn`t)
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In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Georg Brandl wrote:
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Max M wrote:
Lawrence is right that the escape method doesn't work the way he expects
it to.
Rewriting a library module simply because a developer is surprised is a
*very* bad
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Fredrik
Lundh wrote:
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
Georg Brandl wrote:
A function is broken if its implementation doesn't match the
documentation.
or if it doesn't match the designer's intent. cgi.escape is old enough
that we
At Monday 25/9/2006 09:02, billie wrote:
Hi all. I know that it's possible to automatically run a Python program
in background by giving it the pyw extension.
This is useful when I release a source ditribution of my program.
How could it be possible to do the same thing with an .exe file
Aahz enlightened us with:
Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
well, if you're only watching mtv, it's easy to think that there's
obviously not much demand for country singers, blues musicians,
British hard rock bands, or melodic death metal acts.
Any other votes for this being QOTW?
+1
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
Kind of defeats the point of having SQL, but there you go...
there are plenty of reasons to use Python data structures instead of the
SQL engine for data crunching. especially if you care about efficiency.
/F
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Juju wrote:
But I still have a little question :
How can I do to know which method I should override to make the things work ?
Usually, I look at python.org but in this case, I couldn't find what
I was looking for. Finally, I had to look at the source files to under-
stand what I
Ilias Lazaridis wrote:
Ilias Lazaridis wrote:
IDLE has an output format like this:
object
type 'object'
type
type 'type'
object.__class__
type 'type'
object.__bases__
How can I customize it to become like that:
object
type 'object'
type
type 'type'
Hi,
2006/9/25, Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I don't have time to dig deeper into this right now, but this post might
be helpful:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.general/471411
I tried to override the verify_request method, it managed to get the
ClientAddress, but in this
At Monday 25/9/2006 20:09, walterbyrd wrote:
I do.
If so, I doubt there are many.
That's why they get well paid :)
(uhm, not really... :( )
Gabriel Genellina
Softlab SRL
__
Preguntá. Respondé. Descubrí.
Of course you can always use grep as an external process (if the OS has
it). For example:
---
In [1]: import subprocess
In [2]: out=subprocess.Popen( 'grep -i blah ./tmp/*',
stdout=subprocess.PIPE, shell=True ).communicate()[0]
In
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Duncan Booth wrote:
The spurious escaping of the apostrophe does no harm, but spuriously
escaping a newline makes the select match the letter 'n' insteal of
matching a newline.
And how would you get my QuoteSQL routine, as written, to make the same
mistake you
abcd enlightened us with:
Any suggestions on how to find out? I did try adding to MyFile
def __call__(self, *args):
print calling:, args
return file.__call__(self, *args)
but I never see that either.
I don't know the answer to your problem, but I can explain why this
doesn't
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
What other kind of mapping could you produce?
and here we go again. how about reading the code the OP posted, or the
first few followups?
/F
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I thought the 'is' operator was used to identify identical objects,
whereas the '==' operator checked equality. Well, I got a surprise
here:
IDLE 1.1.3
a = 10
b = a
a is b
True
a == b
True
c = 10
a == c
True
a is c
True
I was NOT expecting the last statement to return True!
What am I
GOOGLE IS NOT OUR SUBJECT ANY MORE.
MY GOAL IS NOT MAKING SEARCH ON GOOGLE:
MY GOAL IS MAKING A SEARCH ON
www.onelook.com, for example
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Hi there !
I'm pleased to announce the 0.16.1 release of Logilab astng package.
This release include some major bug fixes (pylint crashs, 2.5 compatibility)
and have tests passing from python 2.3 to python 2.5 :). You're higly encouraged
to upgrade if you're currently using the 0.16.0 release.
Sybren Stuvel wrote:
I'm suggesting functions based on the role of the string they need to
escape, not the characters in that string.
1) Quoting of wildcard strings for a query using LIKE etc.
2) Quoting of values for putting into queries.
it's actually quite amusing that some
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
On 25 Sep 2006 10:25:01 -0700, codefire [EMAIL PROTECTED]
declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
Yes, I didn't make it clear in my original post - the purpose of the
code was to learn something about regexps (I only started coding Python
last week). In
walterbyrd wrote:
If so, I doubt there are many.
My share of the waterfall :o)
I do earn my (preposterously nice *wink*) salary from doing *all* major
efforts, at the company I work for, in Python.
Not only that, since I started out here some 5 years ago, nearly all
software development of
Lawrence D'Oliveiro enlightened us with:
The trouble with this is that, instead of offering extra functionality, it
leaves the door open to making two stupid mistakes:
2) quoting of wildcards BEFORE quoting of non-wildcards
Why is this a stupid mistake in your view? Please explain this in
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John
Machin wrote:
1. Reasoning: How do you get a literal ' into an SQL string constant?
How do you get a literal \ into a Python string constant? How do you
get a literal $ into some *x shell command lines? Do you detect a
pattern?
None of which applies to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] enlightened us with:
hi
what is the python way to concat 2 lines eg
concated = line1 + line2
Sybren
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Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
Unfortunately, if management goes further down the page, they find
Ruby and D (when did that get out) both rated so many up arrows they
had to use shorthand notation to represent 14 arrows...
Yes, there is no doubt Ruby is gaining traction - mostly due to the
codefire wrote:
Hi,
I'm using the isinstance built-in function. I've found the docs for it,
but there are no docs on the supported types.
It supports *all* types.
For example isinstance(a, int) works fine but isinstance(s, string)
doesn't - because 'string is not known'.
That's because
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Fredrik
Lundh wrote:
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
SQL databases like MySQL are _designed_ for efficiency.
unlike the Python data types, you mean ?
Did I say it was unlike anything?
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Steven D'Aprano a écrit :
On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:11:38 +0200, Christophe wrote:
This is useless AND annoying at the same time.
But people like us don't screw up our email address in the first place,
and if we do, we know how to fix it. Not everybody is like us.
So you say that the better
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
SQL databases like MySQL are _designed_ for efficiency.
unlike the Python data types, you mean ?
/F
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John
Machin wrote:
1. Reasoning: How do you get a literal ' into an SQL string constant?
How do you get a literal \ into a Python string constant? How do you
get a literal $ into some *x shell command lines? Do you detect a
codefire a écrit :
I thought the 'is' operator was used to identify identical objects,
whereas the '==' operator checked equality. Well, I got a surprise
here:
IDLE 1.1.3
a = 10
b = a
a is b
True
a == b
True
c = 10
a == c
True
a is c
True
I was NOT expecting the last statement
codefire wrote:
I thought the 'is' operator was used to identify identical objects,
whereas the '==' operator checked equality. Well, I got a surprise
here:
IDLE 1.1.3
a = 10
b = a
a is b
True
a == b
True
c = 10
a == c
True
a is c
True
I was NOT expecting the last statement
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sybren Stuvel
wrote:
Lawrence D'Oliveiro enlightened us with:
The trouble with this is that, instead of offering extra functionality,
it leaves the door open to making two stupid mistakes:
2) quoting of wildcards BEFORE quoting of non-wildcards
Why is
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steve Holden wrote:
I would have hoped that people don't treat that as a licence to be
obnoxious, though. I am aware of Fredrik's history, which is why I
was somewhat surprised and disappointed that he was being so rude
and unpleasant in this thread. He is not
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Frederic Rentsch wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
These are csound files. Csound recently added python as a scripting
language and is allowing also allowing csound calls from outside of
csound. The nice thing about csound is that instead of worrying about
On 9/26/06, Lawrence D'Oliveiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All right, sorry, looks like they want to load the entire table into RAM and
key it off the first field. Kind of defeats the point of having SQL, but
there you go...
Keeping an in-memory cache of small, unchanging, frequently-read
tables
George Sakkis wrote:
[Oslo, Norway short of 300-500 Java developers]
Um, how many of these lots of Java developers looking for work live
in, or are willing to relocate to, Oslo?
Well, I really meant to say that the lots of Java developers I've
seen actually are in Oslo. Certainly, every time
codefire wrote:
I was just trying to check if objects were the same (object), didn't
know Integers were a special case.
they're not, really; is works the same way for all objects.
when you ask for a new immutable object, a Python implementation may
always reuse an existing object, if it
Jon Ribbens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Duncan Booth wrote:
I guess you've never seen anyone write tests which retrieve some generated
html and compare it against the expected value. If the page contains any
unescaped quotes then this change would break it.
You're
AOL^H^H^H, me too.
And it's paid better than C++ programming.
HTH,
Gerald
Gabriel Genellina schrieb:
At Monday 25/9/2006 20:09, walterbyrd wrote:
I do.
If so, I doubt there are many.
That's why they get well paid :)
(uhm, not really... :( )
Gabriel Genellina
Softlab SRL
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
GOOGLE IS NOT OUR SUBJECT ANY MORE.
MY GOAL IS NOT MAKING SEARCH ON GOOGLE:
MY GOAL IS MAKING A SEARCH ON
www.onelook.com, for example
Can you send me the list of words in the index? May I extract it from your
site?
No, sorry. If you're thinking about writing a
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Georg Brandl wrote:
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Max M wrote:
Lawrence is right that the escape method doesn't work the way he expects
it to.
Rewriting a library module simply because a developer is
Antoine De Groote wrote:
Thorsten Kampe wrote:
* John Machin (24 Sep 2006 15:32:20 -0700)
Antoine De Groote wrote:
is there a python equivalent for the ruby %w operator?
%w{a b c} creates an array with strings a, b, and c in ruby...
| a b c.split()
| ['a', 'b', 'c']
... appears to match
codefire enlightened us with:
I'm using the isinstance built-in function. I've found the docs for
it, but there are no docs on the supported types.
All types/classes are supported.
For example isinstance(a, int) works fine but isinstance(s, string)
doesn't - because 'string is not known'.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
GOOGLE IS NOT OUR SUBJECT ANY MORE.
MY GOAL IS NOT MAKING SEARCH ON GOOGLE:
MY GOAL IS MAKING A SEARCH ON
www.onelook.com, for example
this is usenet; you don't own the threads you start. if there's a
subthread that you don't find relevant to your original
Frederic Rentsch wrote:
If I may add another thought along the same line: regular expressions
seem to tend towards an art form, or an intellectual game. Many
discussions revolving around regular expressions convey the impression
that the challenge being pursued is finding a magic formula
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], BerndWill wrote:
The only solution from me and my colleagues view (as poor at it sounds)
is to setup a little python script pinging an amount of about 2.000
servers in daily intervals checking for the validity of those SSL
certificates.
There's no need to check
On 26 Sep 2006 03:16:25 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
what is the python way to concat 2 lines eg
line 1 with some text
line 2 with some text
i want to bring line 2 up , such that i get one whole string.
line 1 with some text line 2 with some text
line1 = line 1
Lawrence D'Oliveiro enlightened us with:
You're proposing two separate functions:
1) quoting of non-wildcard specials
2) quoting of wildcard specials
I'm suggesting functions based on the role of the string they need to
escape, not the characters in that string.
1) Quoting of
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrew McLean wrote:
I have the ability to query a database in a legacy system and extract
records which match a particular pattern. Specifically, I can perform
queries for records that contain a given search term as a sub-string of
a particular column.
What are
You can parse it just once, you just have to setup your data structure
(the structure of your XML schema) and fill it up as you parse.
For example, you can represent you data structure as a dictionaries in
Python:
message={
MID : {
' timestamp' : TIMESTAMP,
hi
what is the python way to concat 2 lines eg
line 1 with some text
line 2 with some text
i want to bring line 2 up , such that i get one whole string.
line 1 with some text line 2 with some text
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Fredrik Lundh wrote:
Sequences:
str
unicode
footnote: to simplify, there's also a basestring base class that can
be used to check for either str or unicode:
isinstance(obj, basestring)
is equivalent to
isinstance(obj, (str, unicode))
/F
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On 9/26/06, Simon Brunning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 26 Sep 2006 02:59:07 -0700, codefire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For example isinstance(a, int) works fine but isinstance(s, string)
doesn't - because 'string is not known'.
In this case, you want str rather than string.
A couple of
Hi there !
I'm very pleased to announce the 0.12.1 release of PyLint.
This release includes some bug fixes and have tests passing from python 2.3
to python 2.5 :). You may be surprised by the version number since we have
been missing public annoucements recently, and the 0.12.0 version has not
Hi,
I am writing a library in which I need to find the names of methods
which are implemented in a class, rather than inherited from another
class. To explain more, and to find if there is another way of doing
it, here is what I want to do: I am defining two classes, say A and B,
as:
class
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John
Machin wrote:
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John
Machin wrote:
1. Reasoning: How do you get a literal ' into an SQL string constant?
How do you get a literal \ into a Python string constant?
Jon Ribbens wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steve Holden wrote:
I would have hoped that people don't treat that as a licence to be
obnoxious, though. I am aware of Fredrik's history, which is why I
was somewhat surprised and disappointed that he was being so rude
and unpleasant in this
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
John Machin wrote:
I'll take your word for it; it's been quite a while :-) *Something* in
the dim dark past worked like that
makefiles?
Bingo! Actually, double bingo!!
From the docs for GNU Make:
Because dollar signs are used to start make variable references, if
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
someone just posted this
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From what I have seen, most of listings are not for python developers.
Rather they list python as a nice to have as an
Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sequences:
str
unicode
tuple
list
It is also worth mentioning that you can use isinstance(a, basestring) as
a way to check for either string type although, of course, isinstance(a,
(str, unicode)) also works.
So far as I know
Haha!
OK thanks guys.
I was just trying to check if objects were the same (object), didn't
know Integers were a special case.
Thanks,
Tony
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On 2006-09-26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have found that in certain situations ordered dicts are
useful. I use an Odict class written in Python by ROwen that I
have improved and updated some for personal use.
So I'm thinking about a possible C version of Odict (maybe fit
SQL databases like MySQL are _designed_ for efficiency.
Efficiency with respect to what? That statement is plain wrong. They are
designed for a pretty general case of data storage efficiency, in the
domain of relational algebra. And for a lot of use-cases, they offer a good
ratio of
Lawrence D'Oliveiro enlightened us with:
Because quoting the wildcards introduces backslash specials before
each wildcard. Quoting non-wildcards then causes those backslashes
to be doubled, which means they escape themselves instead of the
wildcards.
I don't know about other DBMSes, but in
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