Re: socket client server... simple example... not working...

2006-10-06 Thread Bryan Olson
SpreadTooThin wrote: Jean-Paul many thanks for this and your effort. but why is it every time I try to do something with 'stock' python I need another package? Twisted has it's fan, but you don't need it. Your code had a few specific problems, and fixing them has little or nothing to do with

Re: help on pickle tool

2006-10-06 Thread hanumizzle
On 5 Oct 2006 22:54:46 -0700, MonkeeSage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hanumizzle wrote: Why a subset? I don't think JSON is a subset of YAML. Apparent slip of the fingers by OP. From JSON website: JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format. It is easy for humans

Re: Pysqlite tables in RAM

2006-10-06 Thread Ranjitha
Fredrik Lundh wrote: Ranjitha wrote: I want to store my data in a database on the disk. I also want to be able to reload the tables into the RAM whenever I have a lot of disk accesses and commit the changes back to the database. using the cache_size and synchronous pragmas sounds like

Re: socket client server... simple example... not working...

2006-10-06 Thread Fredrik Lundh
SpreadTooThin wrote: but why is it every time I try to do something with 'stock' python I need another package? it's well known that all problems known to man can be solved by down- loading Twisted, PyParsing, the Stream Editor, or that other programming language that cannot be named. /F

Re: help on pickle tool

2006-10-06 Thread MonkeeSage
On Oct 6, 1:06 am, hanumizzle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm happy with my Pythonesque YAML syntax, thank you. :) YAML is a little more complex, and a little more mature. But JSON should not be ruled out. I actually like JSON personally. Regards, Jordan --

Re: help on pickle tool

2006-10-06 Thread hanumizzle
On 5 Oct 2006 23:19:18 -0700, MonkeeSage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 6, 1:06 am, hanumizzle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm happy with my Pythonesque YAML syntax, thank you. :) YAML is a little more complex, and a little more mature. But JSON should not be ruled out. I actually like JSON

Re: help on pickle tool

2006-10-06 Thread Fredrik Lundh
MonkeeSage wrote: YAML is a little more complex a little? when did you last look at the spec? and a little more mature. than JavaScript's expression syntax? are you sure you're not confusing libraries with standards here? (has anyone even managed to write a YAML library that's small

Re: profiling memory usage

2006-10-06 Thread hanumizzle
On 5 Oct 2006 16:21:50 -0700, Eddie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am looking for a method to profile memory usage in my python program. The program provides web service and therefore is intended to run for a long time. However, the memory usage tends to increase all the time, until in a day

Re: help on pickle tool

2006-10-06 Thread hanumizzle
On 10/6/06, Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MonkeeSage wrote: YAML is a little more complex a little? when did you last look at the spec? and a little more mature. than JavaScript's expression syntax? are you sure you're not confusing libraries with standards here? (has

Re: help on pickle tool

2006-10-06 Thread Fredrik Lundh
hanumizzle wrote: I guess I'll keep an open mind. But I like editing YAML for the same reason that I like editing Python. JSON is almost identical to Python's expression syntax, of course, while YAML isn't even close. /F -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How can I correct an error in an old post?

2006-10-06 Thread Bryan Olson
Blair P. Houghton wrote: But they do about 10 things totally wrong with Google groups that I'd've fixed in my spare time in my first week if they'd hired me back when I was interviewing with them. So if they want it to work, they know where to find me. Doesn't seem likely, does it? But

Re: help on pickle tool

2006-10-06 Thread hanumizzle
On 10/6/06, Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hanumizzle wrote: I guess I'll keep an open mind. But I like editing YAML for the same reason that I like editing Python. JSON is almost identical to Python's expression syntax, of course, while YAML isn't even close. Getting the source

Re: Pysqlite tables in RAM

2006-10-06 Thread John Machin
Ranjitha wrote: Fredrik Lundh wrote: Ranjitha wrote: I want to store my data in a database on the disk. I also want to be able to reload the tables into the RAM whenever I have a lot of disk accesses and commit the changes back to the database. using the cache_size and

Re: help on pickle tool

2006-10-06 Thread MonkeeSage
On Oct 6, 1:28 am, Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when did you last look at the spec? I'm fairly versed in JS objects, having written 10 or so extensions for firefox; but I've only used YAML for trivial tasks like config files. So I can't really say how they stack up in the big

Re: help on pickle tool

2006-10-06 Thread hanumizzle
On 5 Oct 2006 23:43:50 -0700, MonkeeSage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 6, 1:28 am, Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when did you last look at the spec? I'm fairly versed in JS objects, having written 10 or so extensions for firefox; but I've only used YAML for trivial tasks like

Re: Strange sorting error message

2006-10-06 Thread Steve Holden
Dustan wrote: Neil Cerutti wrote: On 2006-10-05, Dustan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Holden wrote: Dustan wrote: I'm hiding some of the details here, because I don't want to say what I'm actually doing. [...] I have the answer to your problem but I don't actually want to tell you what it

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-06 Thread Michael Ströder
Ilias Lazaridis wrote: You need just 2 active contributors - and the python community, not more Hmm, this number does not say much. It really depends on the required service level and how much time these two people can spend for maintaining the tracker service. Ciao, Michael. --

Re: Block Structure Parsing

2006-10-06 Thread hanumizzle
On 10/4/06, Blacktiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm new to this list because I had a question about parsing python block structure. I am taking a programming languages course this semester and for our final project we are writing an interperator in scheme(awful language) for whatever

Re: Strange sorting error message

2006-10-06 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Steve Holden wrote: Even when it smacks you in the face, apparently. Anyway, I'm sorry if you thought I was getting at you in any way. Just trying to amuse the group ... time to reinstate mandatory use of the wink tag ? /F -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Strange sorting error message

2006-10-06 Thread hanumizzle
On 10/5/06, Neil Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It was a joke, based on you hiding what you are doing, he decided to hide the solution to your problem. Get it? What if it was for a proprietary software of some kind? -- Theerasak -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

RE: CGI Tutorial

2006-10-06 Thread Sells, Fred
content is great, my comments are editorial. I prefer PDF with bookmarks rather than HTML. 1. easy to print the whole thing and read offline. 2. easy to find a secion from bookmarks, rather that chasing links 3. easy to save on my local doc folder so I can be sure It will always be there. (i.e.

Re: What value should be passed to make a function use the default argument value?

2006-10-06 Thread Antoon Pardon
On 2006-10-04, Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Georg Brandl wrote: This is an issue in most Python documentation: you're not told if the described function is implemented in C, and if it is keyword arg-enabled. The arguments must be given names though, to be able to document them.

Re: Why do this?

2006-10-06 Thread hanumizzle
On 10/6/06, Dennis Lee Bieber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 11:28:08 +0100, Matthew Warren [EMAIL PROTECTED] declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: Now, I started programming when I was 8 with BBC Basic. Remember what the acronym BASIC stands for?

Re: OT Request

2006-10-06 Thread Steve Holden
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 14:40:23 +0100, Matthew Warren [EMAIL PROTECTED] declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: This email is confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient please notify the sender immediately and delete the email from

Re: CGI Tutorial

2006-10-06 Thread hanumizzle
On 10/5/06, Sells, Fred [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: content is great, my comments are editorial. wrt what document? I prefer PDF with bookmarks rather than HTML. 1. easy to print the whole thing and read offline. 2. easy to find a secion from bookmarks, rather that chasing links 3. easy to

Package to handle table text render (handle space or tab between the columns) ?

2006-10-06 Thread KLEIN Stéphane
Hi, I would like print tabular values on terminal (stdout). Are there package to handle table text render ? Thanks for your help, Stephane -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: HOST - Assembla Inc. Breakout - Copyright Violation by Mr. Andy Singleton

2006-10-06 Thread Steve Holden
Ilias Lazaridis wrote: Ben Finney wrote: Ilias Lazaridis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I admit it is difficult to detect that this post is in-topic. But it is. Really, it's not. If you want a voice, you already have your website. Mailing lists and other discussion forums have conventions about

Re: Package to handle table text render (handle space or tab between the columns) ?

2006-10-06 Thread hanumizzle
On 10/6/06, KLEIN Stéphane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I would like print tabular values on terminal (stdout). Are there package to handle table text render ? Have a look at: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/267662 -- Theerasak --

Re: Access to static members from inside a method decorator?

2006-10-06 Thread Peter Otten
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for all the help guys ... in almost every way using a metaclass seems to be the right solution for what I'm trying to do here. I say almost because there is one thing that is still confusing me: what is the most elegant way to provide base-class

Re: Metaprogramming question

2006-10-06 Thread Georg Brandl
Steve Menard wrote: I have a need to create class instance without invokking the class' __init__ method. Were I using old-style classes, I'd use new.instance() function. However, I am using new-style classes and new.instance() complain TypeError: instance() argument 1 must be classobj,

Re: Package to handle table text render (handle space or tab between the columns) ?

2006-10-06 Thread KLEIN Stéphane
hanumizzle a écrit : On 10/6/06, KLEIN Stéphane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I would like print tabular values on terminal (stdout). Are there package to handle table text render ? Have a look at: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/267662 Thanks, this package is

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-06 Thread Giovanni Bajo
Martin v. Löwis wrote: That, in principle, could happen to any other free software as well. What is critical here is that SF *hosted* the installation. If we would use a tracker that is free software, yet hosted it elsewhere, the same thing could happen: the hoster could make modifications to

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-06 Thread Giovanni Bajo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin The regular admin tasks likely include stuff like this: Martin - the system is unavailable, bring it back to work Martin This is really the worst case, and a short response time Martin is the major factor in how users perceive the service

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-06 Thread Paul Rubin
Giovanni Bajo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are bug-tracker configuration issues so critical that having to wait 48-72hrs to have them fixed is absolutely unacceptable for Python development? It looks like an overexaggeration. People easily cope with 2-3 days of SVN freezing, when they are

Re: help on pickle tool

2006-10-06 Thread virg
Hi, The data is simple dictionary with one or more keys. If i use YAML at the client (webui) do i have to change serialisation method to YAML at server also. Without changing serialisation method at server, can i use any of the deserialisation methods at the client. We cannot change the

Re: Package to handle table text render (handle space or tab between the columns) ?

2006-10-06 Thread hanumizzle
On 10/6/06, KLEIN Stéphane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hanumizzle a écrit : On 10/6/06, KLEIN Stéphane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I would like print tabular values on terminal (stdout). Are there package to handle table text render ? Have a look at:

Re: help on pickle tool

2006-10-06 Thread hanumizzle
On 6 Oct 2006 01:41:48 -0700, virg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, The data is simple dictionary with one or more keys. If i use YAML at the client (webui) do i have to change serialisation method to YAML at server also. Without changing serialisation method at server, can i use any of the

Re: tkinter newsgroup or mailing list

2006-10-06 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
Franz Steinhaeusler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello NG, I'm asking this, (although I know a mailing list on gmane gmane.comp.python.tkinter and there is so little traffic compared to the mailing list of wxPython also mirrored on gmane gmane.comp.python.wxpython. I cannot imagine, that

Re: Python/Tkinter crash.

2006-10-06 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Brunel wrote: AFAIK, Tkinter is not thread safe. Using some kind of lock to serialize the calls from different threads may seem to work (I never tested it actually), but the

Re: What value should be passed to make a function use the default argument value?

2006-10-06 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Antoon Pardon wrote: Is this general rules documeted somewhere? My impression is that readers of the documentation will treat arguments as keyword arguments unless this is explicitly contradicted. Sorry, I missed that this was comp.lang.python.alternate.reality. My mistake. /F --

Re: help on pickle tool

2006-10-06 Thread Steve Holden
Fredrik Lundh wrote: MonkeeSage wrote: YAML is a little more complex a little? when did you last look at the spec? and a little more mature. than JavaScript's expression syntax? are you sure you're not confusing libraries with standards here? (has anyone even managed to

Re: help on pickle tool

2006-10-06 Thread virg
At the server, based on client request it does some computations , it sends the result as dictionary (serialized) to the client. hanumizzle wrote: On 6 Oct 2006 01:41:48 -0700, virg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, The data is simple dictionary with one or more keys. If i use YAML at the

Re: help on pickle tool

2006-10-06 Thread hanumizzle
On 10/6/06, Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to agree that YAML, having started out with simplicity in mind, has become a monster that threatens to collapse under its own weight. The very existence of JSON is a good indicator that YAML has failed to meet its design goals for a

Re: help on pickle tool

2006-10-06 Thread hanumizzle
On 6 Oct 2006 02:03:07 -0700, virg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At the server, based on client request it does some computations , it sends the result as dictionary (serialized) to the client. If I interpret your message correctly, you are receiving a Python dictionary object from the server. Yes?

groupby and itemgetter

2006-10-06 Thread Roman Bertle
Hello, there is an example how to use groupby in the itertools documentation (http://docs.python.org/lib/itertools-example.html): # Show a dictionary sorted and grouped by value from operator import itemgetter d = dict(a=1, b=2, c=1, d=2, e=1, f=2, g=3) di = sorted(d.iteritems(),

Re: Why do this?

2006-10-06 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
Dennis Lee Bieber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 11:28:08 +0100, Matthew Warren [EMAIL PROTECTED] declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: Now, I started programming when I was 8 with BBC Basic. Remember what the acronym BASIC stands for?

Re: How do I read Excel file in Python?

2006-10-06 Thread Simon Brunning
On 5 Oct 2006 12:49:53 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually was about to post same solution and got same results. (BTW Simon, the OP date is Aug 9th, 2006). Scratched head and googled for excel date calculations... found this bug where it treats 1900 as leap year

Re: printing variables

2006-10-06 Thread Gerrit Holl
On 2006-10-06 04:50:33 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: say i have variables like these var1 = blah var2 = blahblah var3 = blahblahblah var4 = var5 = . bcos all the variable names start with var, is there a way to conveniently print those variables out... eg print var* ?? i

Re: What value should be passed to make a function use the default argument value?

2006-10-06 Thread Antoon Pardon
On 2006-10-06, Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Antoon Pardon wrote: Is this general rules documeted somewhere? My impression is that readers of the documentation will treat arguments as keyword arguments unless this is explicitly contradicted. Sorry, I missed that this was

Re: help on pickle tool

2006-10-06 Thread virg
Yes your are right. I will send a dictionary object from the server to the client. I already have client which is written in python. But we are migrating the python client which is a command line tool to Web UI client (java). If it is possible to call python function from java, i need to read

Re: Why do this?

2006-10-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nobody's mentioned the ability to save a formatted string and then substitute the variables later... string = There are %s ways to skin a %s print string % (3, furry animal) print string % (166, beast) ~half.italian Matthew Warren wrote: Ok, not really python focused, but it feels like the

Re: Request for recommendations: shared database without a server

2006-10-06 Thread Paul Boddie
EP wrote: [Client-only application with shared storage and concurrent access] Can I get there with MySQL? Or do I need to pair a pure python approach (including the database) with py2exe? Has anyone achieved this with a db framework like Dabo? Or is there another, entirely different and

extract certain values from file with re

2006-10-06 Thread Fabian Braennstroem
Hi, I would like to remove certain lines from a log files. I had some sed/awk scripts for this, but now, I want to use python with its re module for this task. Actually, I have two different log files. The first file looks like: ... 'some text' ... ITER I-

Re: HOST - Assembla Inc. Breakout - Copyright Violation by Mr. Andy Singleton

2006-10-06 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
No, you should have found a forum where you know that the topic is appropriate -- even if that restricts it to your own website. ??? my website is not a forum (and I'm currently reducing it to the minimum necessary information.) You obviously lack the skill to comprehend that a forum isn't

Re: What value should be passed to make a function use the default argument value?

2006-10-06 Thread hanumizzle
On 6 Oct 2006 09:21:11 GMT, Antoon Pardon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006-10-06, Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Antoon Pardon wrote: Is this general rules documeted somewhere? My impression is that readers of the documentation will treat arguments as keyword arguments unless

Re: printing variables

2006-10-06 Thread hanumizzle
On 10/6/06, Gerrit Holl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: import fnmatch var1, var2, var3 = foo, bar, baz for k in fnmatch.filter(locals(), var*): ... print locals()[k] ... foo baz bar This is evil. It's unpythonic. It's so evil, Perl 4 would look upon it in scorn. -- Theerasak --

Re: Subclassing built-in classes

2006-10-06 Thread Maric Michaud
Le jeudi 05 octobre 2006 20:24, Steve Holden a écrit :   class mystr(oldstr):   ...   def __new__(*a, **kw):   ...     print called:, a, kw   ... you don't return the string here...   import __builtin__   __builtin__.str = mystr   Readline internal error Traceback (most recent call

Re: Why do this?

2006-10-06 Thread Corrado Gioannini
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 10:48:36AM +, Duncan Booth wrote: The other main reason for preferring format strings is that they make it easier to refactor the code. If you ever want to move the message away from where the formatting is done then it's a lot easier to extract a single string

Re: help on pickle tool

2006-10-06 Thread hanumizzle
On 6 Oct 2006 02:29:59 -0700, virg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes your are right. I will send a dictionary object from the server to the client. I already have client which is written in python. But we are migrating the python client which is a command line tool to Web UI client (java).

Using twisted, not telnetlib for interactive telnet (WAS: RE: Improving telnetlib)

2006-10-06 Thread Matthew Warren
The trouble is, I havent got a clue where to start and would appreciate a couple of pointers to get me going... I'd suggest taking a look at Twisted, which contains a more complete telnet implementation (not as important for being able to launch vi), an ssh implementation (which you

Re: HOST - Assembla Inc. Breakout - Copyright Violation by Mr. Andy Singleton

2006-10-06 Thread Steve Holden
Diez B. Roggisch wrote: [...] really very important (if you don't look to much at the subject but the message contents). All that I have seen were some accusations + a few ridiculously small subversion entries that showed default parameters changed and the like. This is on the same

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-06 Thread Paul Boddie
Ian Bicking wrote: It handles some other kinds of repositories now (bzr, I think?). From what I understand fully abstracting out the repository format seems to still be a work in progress, but it is in progress and you can write repository plugins right now. That covers Trac, but other

Re: HOST - Assembla Inc. Breakout - Copyright Violation by Mr. Andy Singleton

2006-10-06 Thread Richard Brodie
Diez B. Roggisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] This is on the same level of interest to the communities of python, ruby java as the color of my socks this morning - a deep black with cute little skulls imprinted. I did find Andy's claim that he expected

Re: Why do this?

2006-10-06 Thread Duncan Booth
Corrado Gioannini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I often do things like this: sql = a_complex_select_sql % (id_foo, value_bar, ...) cursor.execute(sql) inside the body of a function (or a class method), where a_complex_select_sql is a string, containing several %s, %d ecc., that is

Re: HOST - Assembla Inc. Breakout - Copyright Violation by Mr. Andy Singleton

2006-10-06 Thread hanumizzle
On 10/6/06, Diez B. Roggisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is on the same level of interest to the communities of python, ruby java as the color of my socks this morning - a deep black with cute little skulls imprinted. Where did you get these? -- Theerasak --

Re: What value should be passed to make a function use the default argument value?

2006-10-06 Thread Fredrik Lundh
hanumizzle wrote: Not sure exactly what is going on / being argued about in this thread I'm describing best practices based on long experience of using and developing and teaching and writing about Python stuff. Others have other priorities, it seems. This doesn't say anything positive

Re: HOST - Assembla Inc. Breakout - Copyright Violation by Mr. Andy Singleton

2006-10-06 Thread Erik Max Francis
Steve Holden wrote: I have to say I find the colour of your socks *much* more interesting. Especially what with the skulls and all. -- Erik Max Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA 37 20 N 121 53 W AIM, Y!M erikmaxfrancis Can I lay with you / As

Re: HOST - Assembla Inc. Breakout - Copyright Violation by Mr. Andy Singleton

2006-10-06 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Diez B. Roggisch wrote: This is on the same level of interest to the communities of python, ruby java as the color of my socks this morning - a deep black with cute little skulls imprinted. are they perhaps red or green? and look something like the skulls on this:

Re: What value should be passed to make a function use the default argument value?

2006-10-06 Thread Antoon Pardon
On 2006-10-06, hanumizzle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6 Oct 2006 09:21:11 GMT, Antoon Pardon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006-10-06, Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Antoon Pardon wrote: Is this general rules documeted somewhere? My impression is that readers of the documentation

Re: How do I read Excel file in Python?

2006-10-06 Thread Giles Brown
John Machin wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: excel_date = 38938.0 python_date = datetime.date(1900, 1, 1) + datetime.timedelta(days=excel_date) python_date datetime.date(2006, 8, 11) Err, that's the wrong answer, isn't it? Perhaps it shoud be datetime.date(1900,

Re: Automatic import PEP

2006-10-06 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Robert Kern wrote: Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Connelly Barnes wrote: The main point of autoimp is to make usage of the interactive Python prompt more productive by including from autoimp import * in the PYTHONSTARTUP file. The

Re: What value should be passed to make a function use the default argument value?

2006-10-06 Thread Antoon Pardon
On 2006-10-06, Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hanumizzle wrote: Not sure exactly what is going on / being argued about in this thread I'm describing best practices based on long experience of using and developing and teaching and writing about Python stuff. Others have other

Re: Makin search on the other site and getting data and writing in xml

2006-10-06 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul Boddie wrote: Various sites forbid wget and friends as a rule, understandably ... No, that is not understandable. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Recursive descent algorithm able to parse Python?

2006-10-06 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Diez B. Roggisch wrote: I have to admit that I have difficulties to compare LR(k) to recursive descent, but the fact that the latter contains backtracking makes it at least more powerful than LL(k) LR(k) is more powerful than LL(k). --

Re: How do I read Excel file in Python?

2006-10-06 Thread kath
John Machin wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: excel_date = 38938.0 python_date = datetime.date(1900, 1, 1) + datetime.timedelta(days=excel_date) python_date datetime.date(2006, 8, 11) Err, that's the wrong answer, isn't it? Perhaps it shoud be datetime.date(1900,

Re: What value should be passed to make a function use the default argument value?

2006-10-06 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Antoon Pardon wrote: IMO this is a very natural thought process for a python programmer. So a python programmer seeing the first will tend to expect that last call to work. on the other hand, if a Python programmer *writes* some code instead; say, a trivial function like: def

RE: OT Request

2006-10-06 Thread MatthewWarren
This email is confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient please notify the sender immediately and delete the email from your computer. You should not copy the email, use it for any purpose or disclose its contents to any other person. Please note that any

Re: OT Request

2006-10-06 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Matthew Warren wrote: No problem, and thanks for pointing it out. It gets silently added on its way through, and i just hadnt noticed it in my posts. oh, no need to apologize. and it did make a certain sense in some of your posts: Okok, I'm silly. This email is confidential and may be

how to convert UNICODE to integer in Python?

2006-10-06 Thread kath
Hi, import xlrd book = xlrd.open_workbook(testbook1.xls) sh = book.sheet_by_index(0) sh.cell_value(rowx=1,colx=0) 38938.0 type(sh.cell_value(rowx=1,colx=0)) type 'unicode' xlrd.xldate_as_tuple( sh.cell_value( rowx = 1,colx= 0 ), 0 ) Traceback (most recent call last): File

Re: OT Request

2006-10-06 Thread MatthewWarren
Funniest bit of my day so far :) Fredrik Lundh wrote: Matthew Warren wrote: No problem, and thanks for pointing it out. It gets silently added on its way through, and i just hadnt noticed it in my posts. oh, no need to apologize. and it did make a certain sense in some of your posts:

Re: HOST - Assembla Inc. Breakout - Copyright Violation by Mr. Andy Singleton

2006-10-06 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
hanumizzle schrieb: On 10/6/06, Diez B. Roggisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is on the same level of interest to the communities of python, ruby java as the color of my socks this morning - a deep black with cute little skulls imprinted. Where did you get these? You can buy them at

Re: how to convert UNICODE to integer in Python?

2006-10-06 Thread Fredrik Lundh
kath wrote: xldays = int(xldate) ValueError: invalid literal for int(): Date because xlrd.xldate_as_tuple() function expects first argument to be an integer. How do I convert an unicode character to integer, so that I could get the date using xlrd.xldate_as_tuple() function. the error

Re: What value should be passed to make a function use the default argument value?

2006-10-06 Thread Antoon Pardon
On 2006-10-06, Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Antoon Pardon wrote: IMO this is a very natural thought process for a python programmer. So a python programmer seeing the first will tend to expect that last call to work. on the other hand, if a Python programmer *writes* some code

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-06 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Paul Rubin schrieb: How often should a tracker freeze anyway? People with no technical knowledge at all run BBS systems that almost never freeze. Is a tracker somehow more failure-prone? It's just a special purpose BBS, I'd have thought. For whatever reason, the SF bug tracker is often

Re: Why do this?

2006-10-06 Thread Corrado Gioannini
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 10:09:14AM +, Duncan Booth wrote: I hope you have a good reason why you don't do: cursor.execute(a_complex_select_sql, (id_foo, value_bar, ...)) instead. hehe. i was just trying to be didactic, simplifying the actual situation. (anyway, sometimes i had to

Skullsocks to the rescue - was [irrelevant squabble of IL]

2006-10-06 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Fredrik Lundh schrieb: Diez B. Roggisch wrote: This is on the same level of interest to the communities of python, ruby java as the color of my socks this morning - a deep black with cute little skulls imprinted. are they perhaps red or green? and look something like the skulls on

Re: help on pickle tool

2006-10-06 Thread virg
Hi, Yes, using python client we are able deserialize data using r = pickle.loads(result). where result is a response from the server and r is a dictionary after deserialization. For serialisation at the server written in python using pickle.dumps(result, 2) Now we are developing web based

Copying file descriptors

2006-10-06 Thread Didier Trosset
I am using the following code. It is used to spawn a new process (using popen) and to change the file handles so that subsequent writes to standard output with printf goes into this child process standard input. import os child_stdin = os.popen(cat -, w) old_stdout = os.dup(1)

Re: how to convert UNICODE to integer in Python?

2006-10-06 Thread kath
Fredrik Lundh wrote: kath wrote: xldays = int(xldate) ValueError: invalid literal for int(): Date because xlrd.xldate_as_tuple() function expects first argument to be an integer. How do I convert an unicode character to integer, so that I could get the date using

Re: HOST - Assembla Inc. Breakout - Copyright Violation by Mr. Andy Singleton

2006-10-06 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Richard Brodie schrieb: Diez B. Roggisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] This is on the same level of interest to the communities of python, ruby java as the color of my socks this morning - a deep black with cute little skulls imprinted. I did find Andy's

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-06 Thread Paul Boddie
Martin v. Löwis wrote: For whatever reason, the SF bug tracker is often down, or not responding. I'm uncertain why that is, but it's a matter of fact that this was one of the driving forces in moving away from SF (so it is a real problem). As I asked before, did anyone look into asking

Re: Skullsocks to the rescue - was [irrelevant squabble of IL]

2006-10-06 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Diez B. Roggisch wrote: Due to the unexpected interest in my foot-garments, I here present an image of my current collection of skullsocks(tm) http://www.roggisch.de/img/skullsocks.jpg ah, pretty close, and the green color is absolutely the right one, but my socks has the skulls drawn on

Re: [Linux] Detect a key press

2006-10-06 Thread Sergei Organov
Jia,Lu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all I write a program to detect key press,but , why there is a *space* before the character I typed.?? There is none. The output I see when I type 1 2 q is: -1 -2 -q If that is what you see, the problem is in your print -%s%ch statement.

Re: CGI Tutorial

2006-10-06 Thread Jim
Sells, Fred wrote: content is great, my comments are editorial. I prefer PDF with bookmarks rather than HTML. clip If you choose to go the PDF route, I've found OpenOffice 2.0 pretty good at generating PDF with bookmarks. Just don't get too complex or OO may hose you. Since you replied

TypeError: unsupported type for timedelta days component: unicode

2006-10-06 Thread kath
Hi, the following shows the contents of datebook.xls Date 8/9/2006 8/9/2006 8/9/2006 8/9/2006 8/9/2006 # read_date.py import xlrd book = xlrd.open_workbook(datebook.xls) sh = book.sheet_by_index(0) ex_qdate=sh.cell_value(rowx=1,colx=0)

Re: Access to static members from inside a method decorator?

2006-10-06 Thread urielka
no need for all that,i wrote a basic Ajax framework for cherrypy that features a Ajax.Net feature,exposing functions to JavaScript via attributes(or in python via decorators),here is a decorator that run one time(i.e. before running the actual code) and get the name of the class [code] def

Re: How to run in background?

2006-10-06 Thread billie
I'm sorry. I tried with windows=myscript.py but it doesn't seem to work. I really don't know where find this information that's extremely important for me. I googled a lot but I didn't found a solution for my problem. :-\ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-06 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Paul Boddie schrieb: As I asked before, did anyone look into asking large-scale users of the various considered products about their experiences with regard to reliability, scalability, and so on? I didn't ask anyone, primarily because of lack of time. Regards, Martin --

Re: How to run in background?

2006-10-06 Thread Fredrik Lundh
billie wrote: I'm sorry. I tried with windows=myscript.py but it doesn't seem to work. it does work, so you've probably made some simple mistake. figuring out what that is is a bit hard if you don't provide more information, though. can you perhaps post (the relevant portions of) your

Re: extract certain values from file with re

2006-10-06 Thread Bernard
Hi Fabian, I'm still a youngster in Python but I think I can help with the extracting data from the log file part. As I'm seeing it right now, the only character separating the numbers below is the space character. You could try splitting all the lines by that character starting from the NO

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