Python Ireland 14th March 2007 Meeting

2007-03-10 Thread Michael Twomey
Hi, The Python Ireland group will be having our next meeting soon: Wednesday, 14th March at 7pm Location: OpenApp 55 Fitzwilliam Square Dublin 2 More Info: http://openapp.biz/sections/contact/ We'll be giving the following talks: * Pycon 2007 roundup followed by a bonus lightning talk - John

ANN: Pytables 2.0 beta1 (hierarchical datasets) released

2007-03-10 Thread Francesc Altet
= Announcing PyTables 2.0b1 = The PyTables development team is very happy to announce the public availability of the first *beta* version of PyTables 2.0. Starting with this release, both the API and the file format have entered in the stage of

ANN: next pyCologne meeting 14.03.2007, 18:30 h

2007-03-10 Thread Christopher Arndt
Hello fellow Pythonistas! the next monthly meeting of pyCologne, the Python User Group Köln (Cologne) is due soon: Date: Wednesday, 14th March 2007 Time: 18:30 h c.t. Venue: Pool 0.14, computing centre (RRZK-B), University Cologne, Berrenrather Str. 136, 50937 Köln, Germany I'm

ANN: AOPython 1.0.3

2007-03-10 Thread Daniel Miller
AOPython 1.0.3 has been released. It's now available in the Cheese Shop! http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/AOPython/1.0.3 This release is a very small update. Here are the details: - Removed re/sre weave test from aopythonexamples (it didn't pass on Python 2.4 and it wasn't a good test). -

Re: number generator

2007-03-10 Thread Raymond Hettinger
On Mar 9, 7:32 am, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], cesco wrote: Given two positive integers, N and M with N M, I have to generate N positive integers such that sum(N)=M. No more constraints. Break it into subproblems. Generate a random number X from

Re: Hamburg Pythoneers Monthly Meeting: Wed, Apr 11

2007-03-10 Thread Daniel Miller
Hello Helge, Which AOPython module will be covered during the meeting? Is it this one: http://www.openpolitics.com/pieces/archives/001710.html If that's not the one then you can stop reading now :)... But if that's the one you'll be highlighting then I'd be interested to hear what people

Re: Need help with a string plz! (newbie)

2007-03-10 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, thanks for the advice then. And as for Grant..look forward to seeing more of your posts. YOW! - some recognition at last! - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: UTF-8 output problems

2007-03-10 Thread Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael B. Trausch wrote: However, when I attempt to redirect the output to a file: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ python test.py f Traceback (most recent call last): File test.py, line 6, in module print uThis is Unicode code point %d (0x%x): %s % (x, x, unichr(x))

Re: number generator

2007-03-10 Thread Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Raymond Hettinger wrote: On Mar 9, 7:32 am, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], cesco wrote: Given two positive integers, N and M with N M, I have to generate N positive integers such that sum(N)=M. No more constraints. Break it

Re: number generator

2007-03-10 Thread greg
Steven D'Aprano wrote: Last but not least, another possible algorithm is to start with a list of N numbers, regardless of whether or not they add to M, and then adjust each one up or down by some amount until they sum to the correct value. Another possibility is to generate a list of N

Re: floating point rounding

2007-03-10 Thread greg
John Henry wrote: Or more precisely: round(0.014999,2) No, that *won't* solve the problem. Using a slightly different example, x = 1.5 * 0.1 x 0.15002 round(x, 2) 0.14999 The problem is that floats are stored internally in binary, not decimal, and

Re: number generator

2007-03-10 Thread Klaus Alexander Seistrup
Raymond Hettinger wrote: To make the solutions equi-probable, a simple approach is to recursively enumerate all possibilities and then choose one of them with random.choice(). Or create a list using the biased method, then use .shuffle() to return another permutation. Cheers, -- Klaus

Re: number generator

2007-03-10 Thread Dick Moores
At 07:17 AM 3/9/2007, cesco wrote: On Mar 9, 3:51 pm, Paul Rubin http://[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cesco [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have to generate a list of N random numbers (integer) whose sum is equal to M. If, for example, I have to generate 5 random numbers whose sum is 50 a

Re: SQLite3 trapping OperationalError

2007-03-10 Thread paul
jim-on-linux schrieb: pyhelp, I set up a table in SQLite3. While running other modules I want to know if a table exists. SQL has a command List Tables but I don't think SQLlite3 has this command. I think list tables is a mysqlism I've tried cursor.execute(select * from

Re: number generator

2007-03-10 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 02:32:21 -0800, Dick Moores wrote: So why not just repeatedly call a function to generate lists of length N of random integers within the appropriate range (the closed interval [1,M-N-1]), and return the first list the sum of which is M? I don't understand what all the

Re: number generator

2007-03-10 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 18:41:39 +, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On 9 Mar 2007 06:44:01 -0800, cesco [EMAIL PROTECTED] declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: I have to generate a list of N random numbers (integer) whose sum is equal to M. If, for example, I have to generate 5 random

UTF-8

2007-03-10 Thread Olivier Verdier
First off: i thoroughly enjoy python. I use it for scientific computing with scipy, numpy and matplotlib and it's an amazingly efficient and elegant language. About this mailing list: it is very hard to search. I can't find any search field on the page:

Re: pylint: don't warn about tabs

2007-03-10 Thread Bjoern Schliessmann
Alan Isaac wrote: What ambiguity? Tabs are *less* ambiguous. One tab character is one level of indentation. I have never seen this violated. Not quite a proof ... Users of spaces cannot even count on shared code being 4 rather than 8 spaces. You also can't count on proper TAB code.

Database module multithreading

2007-03-10 Thread jupiter
Hi guys!!! Just one quick question... Which database module should I use when I want to use multi threading as my application requires lots of data from internet I also want this database module to be fast, simple n efficient, in any case multi threading capabilities are # 1 requirement.

Re: UTF-8

2007-03-10 Thread Laurent Pointal
Olivier Verdier wrote: zip My question is the following: how to set a default encoding in python? I read an old thread about that and it didn't seem possible by then. You *can* put a sys.setdefaultencoding(utf-8) in your sitecustomize.py (see Python libs/site-packages/). Note that this

Re: Database module multithreading

2007-03-10 Thread Laurent Pointal
jupiter wrote: Hi guys!!! Just one quick question... Which database module should I use when I want to use multi threading as my application requires lots of data from internet I also want this database module to be fast, simple n efficient, in any case multi threading capabilities

Re: UTF-8 output problems

2007-03-10 Thread Laurent Pointal
Michael B. Trausch wrote: I am having a slight problem with UTF-8 output with Python. I have the following program: x = 0 while x 0x4000: print uThis is Unicode code point %d (0x%x): %s % (x, x, unichr(x)) x += 1 This program works perfectly when run directly: [EMAIL

Re: UTF-8

2007-03-10 Thread Leif K-Brooks
Laurent Pointal wrote: You should prefer to put # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- at the begining of your sources files. With that you are ok with all Python installations, whatever be the defautl encoding. Hope this will become mandatory in a future Python version. The default encoding

Re: Database module multithreading

2007-03-10 Thread jupiter
On Mar 10, 7:29 pm, Laurent Pointal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jupiter wrote: Hi guys!!! Just one quick question... Which database module should I use when I want to use multi threading as my application requires lots of data from internet I also want this database module to be fast,

Re: Database module multithreading

2007-03-10 Thread Jorge Godoy
jupiter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi guys!!! Just one quick question... Which database module should I use when I want to use multi threading as my application requires lots of data from internet I also want this database module to be fast, simple n efficient, in any case multi

Searching comp.lang.python/python-list@python.org (was: UTF-8)

2007-03-10 Thread skip
Olivier About this mailing list: it is very hard to search. I can't Olivier find any search field on the page: Olivier http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/ python-list. I would Olivier greatly appreciate if you moved that list over to google, for Olivier instance, so that

Re: pylint: don't warn about tabs

2007-03-10 Thread skip
Finally, note this from PEP 666: Alan I really think you should reread the PEP, which is making Alan the opposite of your point. Quite the opposite, in fact. Laura Creighton wrote that PEP precisely with the expectation (and hope) that Guido would reject it, which he did: PEP:

Help controlling CDROM from python

2007-03-10 Thread Ognjen Bezanov
Hello, I am trying to control a CD-ROM drive using python. The code I use is shown below. import CDROM from fcntl import ioctl import os class Device: CDdevice= CDfd = None def __init__(self,name): self.CDdevice = name#we get a device

making an executable for a python code (newbie)

2007-03-10 Thread Pradnyesh Sawant
hello, i have some python scripts (especially, PyQt4 scripts) that i want to deploy on both linux and windows m/c's. different packaging tools that i checked (cx_freeze, distutils, pyinstaller) allow me to create installers. however, i'm interested in creating executables that allow the code to be

Re: Database module multithreading

2007-03-10 Thread Michael Bentley
Thanx for this pointer buddy! I have done my homework. Some Database modules are not actively maintained some modules does not work with Python 2.5. At this moment I am using Sqlite3 which is pretty fast but it dosent allow me to use multi threading so which database module is better in

minimum age to learn python (a.k.a graphical vs text languages)

2007-03-10 Thread Brian Blais
Hello, I was wondering what the approximate minimum age to learn python is. Has anyone had experience teaching middle school students, or elementary school students Python? What brought this up for me is thinking about starting a Lego robots group in a local middle school. I only teach

Re: Database module multithreading

2007-03-10 Thread jupiter
On Mar 10, 8:16 pm, Michael Bentley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanx for this pointer buddy! I have done my homework. Some Database modules are not actively maintained some modules does not work with Python 2.5. At this moment I am using Sqlite3 which is pretty fast but it dosent allow me

Re: Database module multithreading

2007-03-10 Thread jupiter
On Mar 10, 8:16 pm, Michael Bentley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanx for this pointer buddy! I have done my homework. Some Database modules are not actively maintained some modules does not work with Python 2.5. At this moment I am using Sqlite3 which is pretty fast but it dosent allow me

Re: Database module multithreading

2007-03-10 Thread Alex Martelli
jupiter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Python 2.5. At this moment I am using Sqlite3 which is pretty fast but it dosent allow me to use multi threading so which database module is better in terms of multithreading Perhaps psycopg2 (with PostgreSQL as the engine), according to

Re: UTF-8

2007-03-10 Thread John Machin
On Mar 11, 1:00 am, Olivier Verdier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First off: i thoroughly enjoy python. I use it for scientific computing with scipy, numpy and matplotlib and it's an amazingly efficient and elegant language. About this mailing list: it is very hard to search. I can't find any

Re: C++ and Python

2007-03-10 Thread Alex Martelli
hg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... target but rather C: I need to integrate a printer driver and and would like if possible to avoid all of the .h stuff involved with SWIG (I am not being sarcastic): if I can setup my prototypes directly in python, why go through an extra layer ? Aren't

Re: Database module multithreading

2007-03-10 Thread jupiter
On Mar 10, 8:42 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote: jupiter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Python 2.5. At this moment I am using Sqlite3 which is pretty fast but it dosent allow me to use multi threading so which database module is better in terms of multithreading Perhaps

Re: Database module multithreading

2007-03-10 Thread Jean-Paul Calderone
On 10 Mar 2007 07:40:23 -0800, jupiter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 10, 8:16 pm, Michael Bentley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanx for this pointer buddy! I have done my homework. Some Database modules are not actively maintained some modules does not work with Python 2.5. At this moment I

Re: [python-advocacy] A Pythonic Way to Measure and Improve Your Programming Skills?

2007-03-10 Thread Brad Allen
At 6:05 AM -0600 3/9/07, Jeff Rush wrote: Prior to PyCon I'd been thinking about some kind of campaign, service or documents, that I call So you think you know Python My initial idea was for use by Python programmers, who are honest with themselves, to have a way to measure their knowledge.

Re: number generator

2007-03-10 Thread Anton Vredegoor
Raymond Hettinger wrote: To make the solutions equi-probable, a simple approach is to recursively enumerate all possibilities and then choose one of them with random.choice(). Maybe it is possible to generate the possibilities by an indexing function and then use randint to pick one of them.

Announcing BBCode parsing module

2007-03-10 Thread Will McGugan
Hi, I have written a BBCode parsing module that may be of use to some people. It turns BBCode in to XHTML snippets. See the following page if you are interested... http://www.willmcgugan.com/2007/03/10/bbcode-python-module/ Will McGugan -- blog: http://www.willmcgugan.com --

Re: number generator

2007-03-10 Thread Paul Rubin
Steven D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Doesn't mean that it isn't random. After all, the first four numbers are random, therefore their sum is random. 50 - (something random) is also random. What does it mean for the first 4 numbers to be random? For example, is 27 random? By your method,

Re: Database module multithreading

2007-03-10 Thread Jorge Godoy
jupiter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: conn = psycopg2.connect(dbname=test user=test) Traceback (most recent call last): File pyshell#8, line 1, in module conn = psycopg2.connect(dbname=test user=test) OperationalError: could not connect to server: Connection refused (0x274D/10061)

Re: [Edu-sig] minimum age to learn python (a.k.a graphical vs text languages)

2007-03-10 Thread kirby urner
questions about others' experience Is it no big deal either way? thanks, Brian Blais Hi Brian -- Lego Mindstorms is popular in my neck of the woods (Silicon Forest -- Oregon), starting in middle school. I helped coach a team a few years ago.

Re: C++ and Python

2007-03-10 Thread Thomas Heller
Alex Martelli schrieb: hg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... target but rather C: I need to integrate a printer driver and and would like if possible to avoid all of the .h stuff involved with SWIG (I am not being sarcastic): if I can setup my prototypes directly in python, why go through an

Re: number generator

2007-03-10 Thread Mel Wilson
Gerard Flanagan wrote: On Mar 9, 4:17 pm, cesco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 9, 3:51 pm, Paul Rubin http://[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cesco [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have to generate a list of N random numbers (integer) whose sum is equal to M. If, for example, I have to generate 5 random

Re: [python-advocacy] A Pythonic Way to Measure and Improve Your Programming Skills?

2007-03-10 Thread Michael Bernstein
On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 10:01 -0600, Brad Allen wrote: When I discussed this problem with Michael Bernstein at PyCon he suggested the idea of creating a chroot jail for each web session which could run the Python interpreter in a secure sandbox. That might be easier than giving each session a

Re: making an executable for a python code (newbie)

2007-03-10 Thread John Machin
On Mar 11, 1:54 am, Pradnyesh Sawant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, i have some python scripts (especially, PyQt4 scripts) that i want to deploy on both linux and windows m/c's. different packaging tools that i checked (cx_freeze, distutils, pyinstaller) allow me to create installers.

Logfile for my App not rewriting

2007-03-10 Thread Adam
Hello, I have a small app I am creating to crawl a directory and check that if it is moved to another a location it's path will not break a character limit. Usually the Windows path limit. Now the script is working but every time I want to scan again I have to restart for the log files to be

Re: Is this right? Multiple imports of same module.

2007-03-10 Thread Lou Pecora
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dennis Lee Bieber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Expected behavior if you 1) understand how Python variable binding works, and 2) that from import * is equivalent to import name1 = .name1 name2 = .name2 IOWs, one is creating local names that are

Re: Is this right? Multiple imports of same module.

2007-03-10 Thread Lou Pecora
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Simon Brunning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/9/07, Lou Pecora [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have noticed that using from xxx import * can lead to problems when trying to access variables in the xxx module. Don't do it, then. ;-) I don't anymore. But I find

Re: Is this right? Multiple imports of same module.

2007-03-10 Thread Lou Pecora
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ben Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lou Pecora [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ['import mymodule' in three separate modules] Then mymodule is imported only once, but each module has access to it through the module name (mod1 and mod2) and the alias MM (mod3).

Re: [python-advocacy] A Pythonic Way to Measure and Improve Your Programming Skills?

2007-03-10 Thread John Nagle
Michael Bernstein wrote: On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 10:01 -0600, Brad Allen wrote: When I discussed this problem with Michael Bernstein at PyCon he suggested the idea of creating a chroot jail for each web session which could run the Python interpreter in a secure sandbox. That might be easier

unsigned integer?

2007-03-10 Thread Jack
This is a naive question: %u % -3 I expect it to print 3. But it still print -3. Also, if I have an int, I can convert it to unsigned int in C: int i = -3; int ui = (unsigned int)i; Is there a way to do this in Python? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: number generator

2007-03-10 Thread Paulo da Silva
cesco escreveu: I have to generate a list of N random numbers (integer) whose sum is equal to M. If, for example, I have to generate 5 random numbers whose sum is 50 a possible solution could be [3, 11, 7, 22, 7]. Is there a simple pattern or function in Python to accomplish that? Thanks

Re: Database module multithreading

2007-03-10 Thread John Nagle
Michael Bentley wrote: Thanx for this pointer buddy! I have done my homework. Some Database modules are not actively maintained some modules does not work with Python 2.5. At this moment I am using Sqlite3 which is pretty fast but it dosent allow me to use multi threading so which database

Re: unsigned integer?

2007-03-10 Thread Dan Bishop
On Mar 10, 11:32 am, Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a naive question: %u % -3 I expect it to print 3. But it still print -3. Also, if I have an int, I can convert it to unsigned int in C: int i = -3; int ui = (unsigned int)i; Is there a way to do this in Python? def

Re: pylint: don't warn about tabs

2007-03-10 Thread John Nagle
Gabriel Genellina wrote: En Thu, 08 Mar 2007 14:33:38 -0300, Bjoern Schliessmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Alan Isaac wrote: As a tab user, I want the tabs warning turned off. Advice: Don't. IIRC it's planned in future Python versions that TABs aren't supported for indentation.

Re: [python-advocacy] A Pythonic Way to Measure and Improve Your Programming Skills?

2007-03-10 Thread Brad Allen
At 9:10 AM -0800 3/10/07, Michael Bernstein wrote: On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 10:01 -0600, Brad Allen wrote: When I discussed this problem with Michael Bernstein at PyCon he suggested the idea of creating a chroot jail for each web session which could run the Python interpreter in a secure

Re: unsigned integer?

2007-03-10 Thread Duncan Booth
Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a naive question: %u % -3 I expect it to print 3. But it still print -3. Internally it uses the C runtime to format the number, but if the number you ask it to print unsigned is negative it uses %d instead of %u. I have no idea if it is actually

Re: Database module multithreading

2007-03-10 Thread Jon Ribbens
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Nagle wrote: As for some modules not being maintained, it really is sad that MySQLdb is kind of behind. If you're running Windows and need MySQL, you're either stuck with Python 2.4 Looks like that's changed:

Re: unsigned integer?

2007-03-10 Thread hg
Dan Bishop wrote: On Mar 10, 11:32 am, Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a naive question: %u % -3 I expect it to print 3. But it still print -3. Also, if I have an int, I can convert it to unsigned int in C: int i = -3; int ui = (unsigned int)i; Is there a way to do this in

Re: pylint: don't warn about tabs

2007-03-10 Thread Duncan Booth
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0666/ In pep-0666, Laura Creighton wrote: People who mix tabs and spaces, naturally, will find that their programs do not run. Alas, we haven't found a way to give them an electric shock as from a cattle prod remotely.

OLPC vs. mobile phones (was Re: merits of Lisp vs Python)

2007-03-10 Thread Paul Boddie
Gabriel Genellina wrote: En Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:10:51 -0300, Tim Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: The electronic gadget people need in the developing world is a mobile phone not a computer. What for? That requires a phone company, installed antennas everywhere, and available power

Re: unsigned integer?

2007-03-10 Thread Dan Bishop
On Mar 10, 11:50 am, Duncan Booth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a naive question: %u % -3 I expect it to print 3. But it still print -3. Internally it uses the C runtime to format the number, but if the number you ask it to print unsigned is negative it

Re: A Pythonic Way to Measure and Improve Your Programming Skills?

2007-03-10 Thread André
On Mar 10, 1:54 pm, Brad Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 9:10 AM -0800 3/10/07, Michael Bernstein wrote: On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 10:01 -0600, Brad Allen wrote: When I discussed this problem with Michael Bernstein at PyCon he suggested the idea of creating a chroot jail for each web

Re: unsigned integer?

2007-03-10 Thread Duncan Booth
Dan Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 10, 11:50 am, Duncan Booth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a naive question: %u % -3 I expect it to print 3. But it still print -3. Internally it uses the C runtime to format the number, but if the number you

CGI handler: Retrieving POST and GET at the same time

2007-03-10 Thread Samuel
Hi, I have the following form: form action=?one=1 method=post input type=hidden name=two value=2 / /form and would like to retrieve both fields, one and two. However, the following does not work: form_data = cgi.FieldStorage() for key in form_data: print key + :, form_data[key].value It

Re: minimum age to learn python (a.k.a graphical vs text languages)

2007-03-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Brian Blais wrote: Hello, I was wondering what the approximate minimum age to learn python is. Has anyone had experience teaching middle school students, or elementary school students Python? What brought this up for me is thinking about starting a Lego robots group in a local middle

Re: unsigned integer?

2007-03-10 Thread Jack
Thanks for all the replies. Because I want to convert an int, Dan's function actually does it well. Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] This is a naive question: %u % -3 I expect it to print 3. But it still print -3. Also, if I have an int, I can convert it to

Re: Phase change material ...

2007-03-10 Thread thermate
On Mar 8, 5:57 pm, martinl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I'm looking for a substance that does a phase change at between 60 and 100 C. I need something with a high heat capacity so that when it cools through the phase change, it stays at the freezing temperature for as long as possible.

Re: unsigned integer?

2007-03-10 Thread Paul Rubin
Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also, if I have an int, I can convert it to unsigned int in C: int i = -3; int ui = (unsigned int)i; I just tried it: main() { int i = -3; unsigned int ui = i; printf(%d\n, ui); } prints -3. What do you want the conversion to

Re: minimum age to learn python (a.k.a graphical vs text languages)

2007-03-10 Thread Michel Claveau
Hi! Personally, I was yet in the belly of my mom, whom I already thought in Python… -- @-salutations Michel Claveau -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Formatted Input

2007-03-10 Thread Deep
Hi all, I am a newbie to python I have an input of form one number space another number ie. 4 3 how can i assign this to my variables?? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Formatted Input

2007-03-10 Thread Deep
Hi all, I am a newbie to python I have an input of form one number space another number ie. 4 3 how can i assign these numbers to my variables?? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Formatted Input

2007-03-10 Thread Dan Bishop
On Mar 10, 1:29 pm, Deep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am a newbie to python I have an input of form one number space another number ie. 4 3 how can i assign these numbers to my variables?? n1, n2 = map(int, raw_input().split()) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: number generator

2007-03-10 Thread Paul Rubin
Paulo da Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: May be this is what you want ... I didn't test it enough ... but seems fine. That's way too complicated. Think about Gerald Flanagan's description of the telegraph poles, and how to implement simply. It is a two liner. --

Re: CGI handler: Retrieving POST and GET at the same time

2007-03-10 Thread Pierre Quentel
On 10 mar, 19:52, Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have the following form: form action=?one=1 method=post input type=hidden name=two value=2 / /form and would like to retrieve both fields, one and two. However, the following does not work: form_data = cgi.FieldStorage() for key

Re: Help on Dict

2007-03-10 Thread Clement
On Feb 26, 11:58 am, Steven D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 07:15:43 +0200, Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: James Stroud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Clement wrote: Can any body tell how Dict is implemented in python... plz tell what datastructure that uses

Re: Phase change material ...

2007-03-10 Thread Dan Bloomquist
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 8, 5:57 pm, martinl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I'm looking for a substance that does a phase change at between 60 and 100 C. I need something with a high heat capacity so that when it cools through the phase change, it stays at the freezing temperature

Re: Database module multithreading

2007-03-10 Thread John Nagle
Jon Ribbens wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Nagle wrote: As for some modules not being maintained, it really is sad that MySQLdb is kind of behind. If you're running Windows and need MySQL, you're either stuck with Python 2.4 Looks like that's changed:

Re: CGI handler: Retrieving POST and GET at the same time

2007-03-10 Thread Samuel
On Mar 10, 8:45 pm, Pierre Quentel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To get the key-value dictionary : cgi.parse_qs(os.environ[QUERY_STRING]) Thanks a lot, it works! -Samuel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: making an executable for a python code (newbie)

2007-03-10 Thread Sick Monkey
You will probably want to read this documentation: http://pyinstaller.hpcf.upr.edu/docs/Manual_v1.1.html Look carefully at the following sections on the documentation: Building the runtime environment and Spec File and Spec File - EXE

Re: Database module multithreading

2007-03-10 Thread fumanchu
On Mar 10, 6:14 am, jupiter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just one quick question... Which database module should I use when I want to use multi threading as my application requires lots of data from internet I also want this database module to be fast, simple n efficient, in any case multi

Re: number generator

2007-03-10 Thread Terry Reedy
Anton Vredegoor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Raymond Hettinger wrote: | | To make the solutions equi-probable, a simple approach is to | recursively enumerate all possibilities and then choose one of them | with random.choice(). | | Maybe it is possible to

Re: pylint: don't warn about tabs

2007-03-10 Thread Alan Isaac
Alan: I really think you should reread the PEP, which is making the opposite of your point. Skip: Quite the opposite, in fact. Laura Creighton wrote that PEP precisely with the expectation (and hope) that Guido would reject it, which he did: Note the title and status. Sorry Skip, but

Need help in using mod_python

2007-03-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I am trying to setup Apache with Trac which uses mod_python. I get the following error: assert have_pysqlite 0 And I have verify this via command line as well, that seem no problem. # python Python 2.3.4 (#1, Feb 2 2005, 11:44:49) [GCC 3.4.3 20041212 (Red Hat 3.4.3-9.EL4)] on linux2

How to test if a key in a dictionary exists?

2007-03-10 Thread Frank
Hi, does anyone know how one can test if, e.g., a dictionary 'name' has a key called 'name_key'? This would be possible: keys_of_names = names.keys() L = len(keys_of_names) for i in range(L): if keys_of_names[i] == name_key: print 'found' But certainly not efficient. I would expect there is

Re: IronPython with Apache

2007-03-10 Thread John J. Lee
edfialk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] So, I'm told I need IronPython, which I get, and I replace the #!c: \Python25\python.exe with the IronPython executable (#!c: \IronPython-1.0.1\ipy.exe), but I get a 500 Internal Server error and: [Wed Mar 07 17:02:21 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]

Re: Formatted Input

2007-03-10 Thread Frank
On Mar 10, 11:28 am, Deep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am a newbie to python I have an input of form one number space another number ie. 4 3 how can i assign this to my variables?? Hi, you could use: aux = f.readline() # read a line from your input file new_aux = string.split(aux,

Re: How to test if a key in a dictionary exists?

2007-03-10 Thread Irmen de Jong
Frank wrote: Hi, does anyone know how one can test if, e.g., a dictionary 'name' has a key called 'name_key'? name_key in name e.g. name={john: 42} john in name True julie in name False --Irmen -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to test if a key in a dictionary exists?

2007-03-10 Thread Rune Strand
Yes, you have name.has_key(name_key) and perhaps better, the in operator: if name_key in name: do something -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to test if a key in a dictionary exists?

2007-03-10 Thread Jeff McNeil
Sure, you can use if key in dict to test for membership: Python 2.3.5 (#1, Jan 13 2006, 20:13:11) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5250)] on darwin Type help, copyright, credits or license for more information. exampledict = {a : 1, b : 2} a in exampledict True q in exampledict False

Curious behaviour of Tkinter object

2007-03-10 Thread zefciu
I am writing a program with python and Tkinter. I have encountered a mysterious problem with the whole application hanging itself (cannot be stopped with ctrl-c, must be killed from another console). I have done several tests with interactive mode, and here what I noticed: - the problem is with

Re: pylint: don't warn about tabs

2007-03-10 Thread Alan Isaac
Alan: my actual question remains unanswered... Bjoern: --indent-string or changing a config file doesn't work for you? Works great. (I read Robert's message subsequent to that complaint.) And pylint is wonderful. Alan Isaac -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: __init__ in subclass of tuple

2007-03-10 Thread Alan Isaac
Gabriel Genellina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The signature is like you said, but it's not a tuple method, it's an object method instead: py tuple.__init__ slot wrapper '__init__' of 'object' objects The only important thing is that it says: of 'object' objects, not: of 'tuple' objects.

Re: Help controlling CDROM from python

2007-03-10 Thread MonkeeSage
On Mar 10, 8:27 am, Ognjen Bezanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My issue is that I need to be able to eject the CDROM tray even if there is no disk inside. Here's a QD version (haven't tested the windows part, it's from an old mailing list post, but it looks correct): import os, sys if 'win' in

Re: [Edu-sig] minimum age to learn python (a.k.a graphical vs text languages)

2007-03-10 Thread Andreas Raab
kirby urner wrote: I just talked to the computer teacher yesterday and he was reporting some rumor that future versions of Alice will center around the same Sims as in Sims, which my daughter plays with *a lot* (we also bought Civ City Rome yesterday, coincidentally, and she built Rome in a

Re: [Edu-sig] minimum age to learn python (a.k.a graphical vs text languages)

2007-03-10 Thread kirby urner
On 3/10/07, Andreas Raab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: kirby urner wrote: I just talked to the computer teacher yesterday and he was reporting some rumor that future versions of Alice will center around the same Sims as in Sims, which my daughter plays with *a lot* (we also bought Civ City

distributed queue?

2007-03-10 Thread Paul Rubin
Does anyone have an implementation of a distributed queue? I.e. I have a long running computation f(x) and I'd like to be able to evaluate it (for different values of x) on a bunch of different computers simultaneously, the usual worker thread pattern except distributed across a network. I guess

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