Re: Gnu/Linux dialogue boxes in python

> I've now uploaded a new release of the desktop module which is now, in > fact, a package: Thanks Paul, I saw it via the cheese shop rss. I have been too busy to read this list for a week. I will have a look in due course. \d -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: build a syntax tree

On Dec 18, 10:43 pm, Federico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi I've some trivial question: > > for exercise I want to parse a string that like this: > > "x -34 + 65 * 96 = 102" > > now if I had this ("(25+24)/2") is extremely easy to have a result but > I want to resolve the above string (for the 'x

Re: Problem untaring python2.5

Hello, It is not possible to give sharp hints without more relevant information like: - What is your platform? - Which version of python? - What is the version of: $ tar --version (GNU tar, other proprietary tar, according to my personal experience, AIX tar may fail) - Is your disk full or do you

import X between submodules in a package

Hi, I'm sure this is a FAQ, but I have just not found clarity on the web/docs. (using monospaced type to show the tree) trunk:$ tree . fp |-- fontypython | |-- __init__.py | |-- cli.py | |-- config.py (I start it all with ./fp) fp says: import cli cli.py says: import os import config con

Re: More than one interpreter per process?

Roger Binns wrote: > sturlamolden wrote: >> If one can have more than one interpreter in a single process, > > You can. Have a look at mod_python and mod_wsgi which does exactly > this. But extension modules that use the simplified GIL api don't work > with them (well, if at all). No, you can'

Re: New+old-style multiple inheritance

On Dec 18, 9:25 pm, Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A well-considered, timely monkey-patch can sometimes save all kinds of > workarounds and other headaches. > > Carl Banks +1 Michele Simionato -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Strict mode?

On Dec 18, 2007 5:03 PM, Jack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While enjoying the dynamic feature of Python I find it difficult to refactor > code without breaking it. For example, if I modify a function to take more > arguments, or arguments of different types, I'll need to manually find out > all pla

Re: New+old-style multiple inheritance

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Thank Gabriel, | | That sounds exactly right and your work-around provides confirmation. | This code is an expedient solution for us so I expect we'll go with | forcing a slot update. Hopefully the library concerned is going to | fix

Re: .NET and Python Integration Problem and PDF Library (Need Help and Suggestions)

> > If I had to do something like this I would host a Python web > server listening on some port and let .NET application talk to me > using HTTP requests preferably or SOAP if I really had to. > It could be a Paster or Cherrypy or Twisted based server. > Google for instruction on how to package it

Re: .NET and Python Integration Problem and PDF Library (Need Help and Suggestions)

> Joshua: > PDF library: ReportLab. But that is most generation of PDFs. For reading, > splitting, etc, you may have to look at their commercial offering I will have to research on it, i think time to list the best available libs, and finding all's dependency. > On Dec 19, 2007 6:10 AM, Boris Bo

Re: More than one interpreter per process?

On Dec 19, 3:07 pm, Roger Binns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Graham Dumpleton wrote: > > When using mod_wsgi there is no problem with C extension modules which > > use simplified GIL API provided that one configures mod_wsgi to > > delegate that specific application to run in the context of the fir

Re: How to generate pdf file from an html page??

On Dec 17, 8:42 pm, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-12-16, abhishek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi everyone, I am trying to generate a PDF printable format file from > > an html page. Is there a way to do this using python. If yes then > > which library and functions are req

Re: Why custom objects take so much memory?

Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:13:14 +0100, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > >> Each object takes 36 bytes itself: 4 bytes refcount + 4 bytes type ptr + >> 4 bytes dict ptr + 4 bytes weakptr + 12 bytes gc overhead. That's not >> counting malloc overhead, which should be low since objects a

Re: NameError: name 'main' is not defined

thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Problem untaring python2.5

Hi everyone , i am not able to untar python 2.5 source code using " tar -xvzf " . Is it a problem with my system settings or python 2.5 itself. When i tried to do it it resulted in following errors -- tar: Skipping to next header Python-2.5/Mac/Resources/app/Resources/English.lproj/Documentation/

Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Dec 18)

QOTW: "XML. Almost as good as plain text for grepping." - Joe Mason "Where there's IP, there's a way." - Kyler Laird, on network programming Linked lists, deques, and iteration over a mutating container: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/1017de91

Re: Why custom objects take so much memory?

On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:13:14 +0100, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > Each object takes 36 bytes itself: 4 bytes refcount + 4 bytes type ptr + > 4 bytes dict ptr + 4 bytes weakptr + 12 bytes gc overhead. That's not > counting malloc overhead, which should be low since objects aren't > malloced individually.

Re: WikiInclude on 0.11 - Noah Kantrowitz blocks bug-fix

On Dec 18, 9:15 pm, smallpond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 17, 9:23 pm, Ilias Lazaridis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Essence: > > > * Deletion of valid defect reports on trac community resources > > > The "WikiInclude" plugin is not recognised on trac 0.11, thus I took a > > look an

Re: operator module isSequenceType with builtin set produces False

En Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:15:12 -0300, English, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: try: set except NameError: from sets import Set as set class myset_fails(set): pass class myset_works(set): def __getitem__(self): pass s = set() fails = myset_fails() work

Re: NameError: name 'main' is not defined

jolly wrote: > hey guys, > > When i try to run my code I get an error. NameError name 'main is not > defined' > > [code] > if __name__ == "__main__": > main() Put this at the end of the file. Currently, it is getting executed before the code that defines main(). -- Robert Kern "I have com

Re: More than one interpreter per process?

Graham Dumpleton wrote: > When using mod_wsgi there is no problem with C extension modules which > use simplified GIL API provided that one configures mod_wsgi to > delegate that specific application to run in the context of the first > interpreter instance created by Python. Graham, I've asked yo

Re: More than one interpreter per process?

sturlamolden wrote: > On 18 Des, 10:24, Roger Binns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The biggest stumbling block is what to do when the external environment >> makes a new thread and then eventually calls back into Python. It is >> hard to know which interpretter that callback should go to. > > N

Re: Detecting memory leaks on apache, mod_python

On Dec 17, 8:41 am, Ilias Lazaridis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How to detect memory leaks of python programms, which run in an > environment like this: > > * Suse Linux 9.3 > * Apache > * mod_python > > The problem occoured after some updates on the infrastructure. It's > most possibly caused

NameError: name 'main' is not defined

hey guys, When i try to run my code I get an error. NameError name 'main is not defined' [code] if __name__ == "__main__": main() filename = "addbook.dat" def main(): theMenu = ''' 1) Add Entry 2) Remove Entry 3) Find Entry 4) Quit and Save ''' theBook = {} r

Re: askopenfilename() as root window

On Dec 18, 6:06 pm, Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 18 dic, 22:43, Sean DiZazzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is there any way to open a Tkinter.askopenfilename() without opening a > > root window alongside the file chooser? > > > I simply want a script to open a dialog and ret

Re: Allowing Arbitrary Indentation in Python

On 2007-12-19, Jonathan Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 18, 2:16 pm, Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> layouts = ['column', 'form', 'frame'] >> cmds.window(t='gwfUI Builder') >> cmds.paneLayout(configuration='vertical3', ps=((1, 25, 100), (3, 20, >> 100))) >> cmds.paneLayout(configu

Re: More than one interpreter per process?

On Dec 18, 8:24 pm, Roger Binns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sturlamolden wrote: > > If one can have more than one interpreter in a single process, > > You can. Have a look at mod_python andmod_wsgiwhich does exactly > this. But extension modules that use the simplified GIL api don't work > with

Re: Best way to protect my new commercial software.

Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:54:26 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> On 2007-12-18, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:04:29 +, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> On 2007-12-18, Jan Claeys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Op Fri, 14 Dec 2007 1

Re: More than one interpreter per process?

On Dec 19, 2:37 am, sturlamolden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 18 Des, 10:24, Roger Binns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You can. Have a look at mod_python andmod_wsgiwhich does exactly > > this. But extension modules that use the simplified GIL api don't work > > with them (well, if at all).

Re: Best way to protect my new commercial software.

On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:54:26 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2007-12-18, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:04:29 +, Grant Edwards wrote: >> >>> On 2007-12-18, Jan Claeys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Op Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:54:35 +, schreef Grant Edwa

Re: askopenfilename() as root window

On 18 dic, 22:43, Sean DiZazzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any way to open a Tkinter.askopenfilename() without opening a > root window alongside the file chooser? > > I simply want a script to open a dialog and return the chosen file's > path to stdout. Yes, create the root yourself so

askopenfilename() as root window

Is there any way to open a Tkinter.askopenfilename() without opening a root window alongside the file chooser? I simply want a script to open a dialog and return the chosen file's path to stdout. """ from tkFileDialog import askopenfilename print askopenfilename() """ ...does the job, but it op

Re: .NET and Python Integration Problem and PDF Library (Need Help and Suggestions)

On Dec 18, 6:42 am, "Ravi Kumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In continuation of last mail [since pressing tab+space sent the mail :( ] > Things on high priorities right now are: > - How to integrate Python calling from .NET If I had to do something like this I would host a Python web server liste

Re: pySerial

Tnx for help. Done it. The problem was that returning bytes were on few lines and I didn't look after first \n :( tnx. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Allowing Arbitrary Indentation in Python

On Dec 18, 5:18 pm, Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 18, 7:09 pm, Jonathan Gardner > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 18, 2:16 pm, Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > layouts = ['column', 'form', 'frame'] > > > cmds.window(t='gwfUI Builder') > > > cmds.paneLayout(configuration=

Re: .NET and Python Integration Problem and PDF Library (Need Help and Suggestions)

Ravi Kumar wrote: > - your opinion with available PDF Libraries, that are best among. Also > which library to use for Windows server platform (there is limitation > on installing long chain libraries that include other deep > dependencies too). A pure python PDF library would be good, but which > o

Re: pySerial

On Dec 19, 10:49 am, __zip__ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am using pySerial for communication with modem. > > Does anyone knows which values are for what in these variables? > > xonxoff=0 > rtscts=0 > dsrdtr=0 > > if xonxoff=0 is it hardware control on or of (logic says it would be off >

Re: Allowing Arbitrary Indentation in Python

On Dec 18, 7:09 pm, Jonathan Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 18, 2:16 pm, Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > layouts = ['column', 'form', 'frame'] > > cmds.window(t='gwfUI Builder') > > cmds.paneLayout(configuration='vertical3', ps=((1, 25, 100), (3, 20, > > 100))) > > cmds.pa

Re: Allowing Arbitrary Indentation in Python

On Dec 18, 5:28 pm, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-12-18, Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > A friend of mine is picking up some Python and is frustrated by > > Python's indentation rules (http://greatbiggary.livejournal.com/ > > 260460.html?thread=1835884#t1835884). Pers

Re: Allowing Arbitrary Indentation in Python

On Dec 18, 2:16 pm, Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > layouts = ['column', 'form', 'frame'] > cmds.window(t='gwfUI Builder') > cmds.paneLayout(configuration='vertical3', ps=((1, 25, 100), (3, 20, > 100))) > cmds.paneLayout(configuration='horizontal2') > cmds.frameLayout(l='Layouts') >

Crunchy release 0.9.8.6

Crunchy is an application that transforms static (text based) Python tutorials into interactive Python sessions within your browser. Since the last announcement on this list, there has been 6 new releases. The latest release can always be found at http://code.google.com/p/crunchy/ New in 0.9.8.6:

pySerial

Hi, I am using pySerial for communication with modem. Does anyone knows which values are for what in these variables? xonxoff=0 rtscts=0 dsrdtr=0 if xonxoff=0 is it hardware control on or of (logic says it would be off , but who knows). Second question is: do I need to send \n or soemthing w

Re: Best way to protect my new commercial software.

On 18 Des, 22:38, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED] cybersource.com.au> wrote: > > I dare say that European countries which have had automatic copyright > longer than the US have seen far more of their national heritage (early > film, photographs and the like) rot away. Indeed. One of the most fa

[search for reviewers] asyncore delayed calls feature

Hi, I post this message here in the hope someone using asyncore could review this. Since the thing I miss mostly in asyncore is a system for calling a function after a certain amount of time, I spent the last 3 days trying to implement this with the hopes that this could be included in asyncore in

Re: Strict mode?

Jack wrote: > While enjoying the dynamic feature of Python I find it difficult to refactor > code without breaking it. For example, if I modify a function to take more > arguments, or arguments of different types, I'll need to manually find out > all places where the function is called and make

Re: Changing intobject to use int rather than long

>> On a 64-bit machine, that's 16 bytes for PyObject_HEAD and 8 more >> bytes for the value, 24 bytes total. Changing long to int won't >> decrease the struct size to 20 because the compiler will pad it to >> 24, the nearest multiple of 8. (Forcing the compiler to pack the >> struct won't help

Re: It's ok to __slots__ for what they were intended (was: Don't use __slots__ (was Re: Why custom objects take so much memory?))

On Dec 18, 4:49 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aahz) wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > Chris Mellon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >You can reduce the size of new-style classes (inherit from object) by > >quite a bit if you use __slots__ to eliminate the class dictionary. > > You can also reduce

Re: IronPython faster than CPython?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I learned a lot from the other thread 'Is a "real" C-Python possible?' about > Python performance and optimization. I'm almost convinced that Python's > performance is pretty good for this dynamic language although there are >

Re: Newbie observations

On Dec 18, 2:14 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > But where? Look it up in the function reference. OK, > where's the function reference? A line of code that you'd type in a > second is a ten-minute search. Thank God for google. Maybe this will help: http://rgruet.free.fr/PQR25/PQR2.5.html But sinc

build a syntax tree

Hi I've some trivial question: for exercise I want to parse a string that like this: "x -34 + 65 * 96 = 102" now if I had this ("(25+24)/2") is extremely easy to have a result but I want to resolve the above string (for the 'x' variable) what can I do? Especially for symbolic function I think

Re: IronPython faster than CPython?

On Dec 19, 9:18 am, "Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I learned a lot from the other thread 'Is a "real" C-Python possible?' about > Python performance and optimization. I'm almost convinced that Python's > performance is pretty good for this dynamic language although there are > areas to improve

RE: Don't use __slots__ (was Re: Why custom objects take so much memory?)

Aahz wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Chris Mellon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> You can reduce the size of new-style classes (inherit from object) by >> quite a bit if you use __slots__ to eliminate the class dictionary. > > You can also reduce your functionality quite a bit by usi

Re: Allowing Arbitrary Indentation in Python

On 2007-12-18, Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A friend of mine is picking up some Python and is frustrated by > Python's indentation rules (http://greatbiggary.livejournal.com/ > 260460.html?thread=1835884#t1835884). Personally, I've never had any > issues with Python's ways of indentation, but

Re: Strict mode?

On Dec 19, 9:03 am, "Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While enjoying the dynamic feature of Python I find it difficult to refactor > code without breaking it. For example, if I modify a function to take more > arguments, or arguments of different types, I'll need to manually find out > all places

IronPython faster than CPython?

I learned a lot from the other thread 'Is a "real" C-Python possible?' about Python performance and optimization. I'm almost convinced that Python's performance is pretty good for this dynamic language although there are areas to improve, until I read some articles that say IronPython is a few

Allowing Arbitrary Indentation in Python

A friend of mine is picking up some Python and is frustrated by Python's indentation rules (http://greatbiggary.livejournal.com/ 260460.html?thread=1835884#t1835884). Personally, I've never had any issues with Python's ways of indentation, but that conversation got me thinking about the issue. Co

Strict mode?

While enjoying the dynamic feature of Python I find it difficult to refactor code without breaking it. For example, if I modify a function to take more arguments, or arguments of different types, I'll need to manually find out all places where the function is called and make sure I modify them a

Re: Funny python cartoon... hope it's not a repost

Breal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > http://xkcd.com/353/ Instead of *hoping* it's not a repost, please search the group archives *before* posting. -- \ "I'm beginning to think that life is just one long Yoko Ono | `\ album; no rhyme or reason, just a lot of incoherent shrieks and |

Re: Best way to protect my new commercial software.

On 2007-12-18, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:04:29 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> On 2007-12-18, Jan Claeys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Op Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:54:35 +, schreef Grant Edwards: >>> Uh what? I don't know what country you're in, but i

Don't use __slots__ (was Re: Why custom objects take so much memory?)

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chris Mellon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >You can reduce the size of new-style classes (inherit from object) by >quite a bit if you use __slots__ to eliminate the class dictionary. You can also reduce your functionality quite a bit by using __slots__. Someday I'll

Re: Best way to protect my new commercial software.

On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:04:29 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2007-12-18, Jan Claeys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Op Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:54:35 +, schreef Grant Edwards: >> >>> Uh what? I don't know what country you're in, but in the US, it >>> doesn't take any time at all to copyright someth

Re: why only an msi-installer for windows ?

On 18 dic, 15:54, Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > having a lot of trouble installing 2.5 (without affecting my stable 2.4), > I wonder why there's only a msi installer for windows users ? What's your problem? I have five versions installed (2.1, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5 and svn) and they coexist p

Re: Funny python cartoon... hope it's not a repost

On Dec 18, 11:56 am, Bruno Desthuilliers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Breal a écrit : > > >http://xkcd.com/353/ > > Bad luck: it *is* a repost. > > While we're at it, did you notice the alternate text for the image ?-) Did not notice the alt text... friggin hilarious!!! -- http://mail.python.org/

Re: New+old-style multiple inheritance

Thank Gabriel, That sounds exactly right and your work-around provides confirmation. This code is an expedient solution for us so I expect we'll go with forcing a slot update. Hopefully the library concerned is going to fix the problem in a future release. Cheers, Stephen. On Dec 18, 7:40 pm,

Re: New+old-style multiple inheritance

On Dec 18, 8:25 pm, Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 18, 2:09 pm, Jonathan Gardner > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 18, 7:08 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > We are trying to monkey-patch a third-party library that mixes new and > > > old-sty

Re: why only an msi-installer for windows ?

On Dec 19, 7:11 am, Tim Couper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think as msi is "The *Windows Installer* .. is an engine for the > installation, maintenance, and removal of software on modern Microsoft > Windows systems" (from > Wikipaedia)", it's clea

Re: Rounding

On Dec 19, 7:21 am, "Ron Provost" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adding 0.5, then converting to an int always works for me. > > >>> x = 6.345 > >>> int( x + 0.5 ) > >>> 6 Always? >>> x = -6.345 >>> int(x + 0.5) -5 >>> I therefore deduce that you have never crossed the equator :-) Be careful, doin

Re: Another newbie design question

> My 2 cents... Thanks for the feedback, Bruno. Seriously thinking about ditching the block comments and adding multi-line strings. (Block comments are the last item on my tokenizer's "todo" list. Multi-line strings would be easier.) Beginners will be programming fun things in a GUI environment.

Re: Newbie observations

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > First, it is absolutely horrible being a newbie. I'd forgot how bad it > was. In addition to making a fool of yourself in public, you have to > look up everything. I wanted to find a substring in a string. OK, > Python's a serious computer language, so you know it's got a

Re: New+old-style multiple inheritance

On Dec 18, 2:09 pm, Jonathan Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 18, 7:08 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We are trying to monkey-patch a third-party library that mixes new and > > old-style classes with multiple inheritance. In so doing we have > > uncovered som

Re: lotus nsf to mbox

On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 19:25 +, Fabian Braennstroem wrote: > Hi to all, > > thanks, I'll try your suggestions... > > Regards! > Fabian > > Brian Munroe schrieb am 12/15/2007 07:10 PM: > > Well, If you wish to go that route, I believe you will have to reverse > > engineer the Notes Database bi

Re: Newbie observations

On Dec 19, 7:14 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Warning! Complaints coming. > > The good news is that 10-days of part-time Python coding has convinced > me that I picked the right language. Now, observations. > > First, it is absolutely horrible being a newbie. I'd forgot how bad it > was. In additi

Re: Why custom objects take so much memory?

jsanshef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That means every object is around 223 bytes in size That's too > much considering it only contains a string with a maximum size of 7 > chars. The list itself consumes 4 MB because it stores 1 million PyObject pointers. It possibly consumes more due to o

Re: New+old-style multiple inheritance

On Dec 18, 10:08 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We are trying to monkey-patch a third-party library that mixes new and > old-style classes with multiple inheritance. New library? Geez, if people are dumb enough to do this, are you sure you want your application to depend on

Re: Rounding

Adding 0.5, then converting to an int always works for me. >>> x = 6.345 >>> int( x + 0.5 ) >>> 6 Ron - Original Message - From: "katie smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2007 9:09 AM Subject: Rounding > if i have a number 6.345 and i wanted it to be 6 witho

Newbie observations

Warning! Complaints coming. The good news is that 10-days of part-time Python coding has convinced me that I picked the right language. Now, observations. First, it is absolutely horrible being a newbie. I'd forgot how bad it was. In addition to making a fool of yourself in public, you have to lo

Re: Passing arguments to exe

On Dec 15, 6:46 pm, Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:38:28 -0800 (PST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] declaimed > the following in comp.lang.python: > > > The executable runs, but no argument appears to get passed into it. Of > > course, I don't really know that for sure as

Re: Why custom objects take so much memory?

On Dec 18, 2007 1:26 PM, jsanshef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > after a couple of days of script debugging, I kind of found that some > assumptions I was doing about the memory complexity of my classes are > not true. I decided to do a simple script to isolate the problem: > > class MyClass:

Re: why only an msi-installer for windows ?

I think as msi is "The *Windows Installer* .. is an engine for the installation, maintenance, and removal of software on modern Microsoft Windows systems" (from Wikipaedia)", it's clear it's a Windows product ... not sure that they're up for putt

Re: Funny python cartoon... hope it's not a repost

Breal a écrit : > http://xkcd.com/353/ Bad luck: it *is* a repost. While we're at it, did you notice the alternate text for the image ?-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Another newbie design question

[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : (snip) > I'd like to hear from people who use Python's multi-line strings other > than in doc comments. Then: do you hear me ?-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Another newbie design question

[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > Fortran (1957) had line comments. C (1972) replaced these with non- > nested block comments. C++ (1983) added here-to-EOL comments. Python > (1991) keeps here-to-EOL comments but replaces block comments with > multi-line quotes. Block comments and multi-line quotes bot

Funny python cartoon... hope it's not a repost

http://xkcd.com/353/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: New+old-style multiple inheritance

On 18 dic, 12:08, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We are trying to monkey-patch a third-party library that mixes new and > old-style classes with multiple inheritance. In so doing we have > uncovered some unexpected behaviour: > > > class Foo: > pass > > class Bar(object): >

Re: is it possible to install 2 Python versions on windows XP ?

I finally found a way to let everything work: My base system is a stable Scipy installation, based on Python 2.4, with a few extra or updated libraries. This Python installation is completed with RPYC and PyScripter, to form a good workplace to develop GUI through wxPython. Installing of a worki

Re: Changing intobject to use int rather than long

"Clarence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | That's an excellent point. And true, too. Thanks, that will lay the | issue to rest. Good idea. I think people who moved to 64 bits to get 64 bits would be upset if they did not ;-). -- http://mail.python.org/mailma

Re: checking a string against multiple patterns

On Dec 18, 4:41 am, tomasz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there an alternative to it? Am I missing something? Python doesn't > have special variables $1, $2 (right?) so you must assign the result > of a match to a variable, to be able to access the groups. > > I'd appreciate any hints. > Don't us

Why custom objects take so much memory?

Hi, after a couple of days of script debugging, I kind of found that some assumptions I was doing about the memory complexity of my classes are not true. I decided to do a simple script to isolate the problem: class MyClass: def __init__(self,s): self.mystring = s mylist

Re: Does fileinput.input() read STDIN all at once?

On Dec 18, 5:55 am, Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using this sort of standard thing: > >for line in fileinput.input(): > do_stuff(line) > > and wondering whether it reads until it hits an EOF and then passes > lines (one at a time) into the variable line. This appears to be

Re: Changing intobject to use int rather than long

On Dec 18, 6:58 pm, Hrvoje Niksic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think changing the underlying type will help at all. The > > On a 64-bit machine, that's 16 bytes for PyObject_HEAD and 8 more > bytes for the value, 24 bytes total. Changing long to int won't > decrease the struct size to 2

Re: WikiInclude on 0.11 - Noah Kantrowitz blocks bug-fix

On Dec 17, 9:23 pm, Ilias Lazaridis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Essence: > > * Deletion of valid defect reports on trac community resources > > The "WikiInclude" plugin is not recognised on trac 0.11, thus I took a > look an made a small addition to the setup.py (the entry_point). > > Other users

Re: Debugging pipe IPC

Jim B. Wilson wrote: > ... My fondest wish is to play the role of the child at the > good old ">>>" prompt. ... > > Jim Okay, I misunderstood the direction you wanted to go. I thought that you wanted to play the part of the mother, giving commands to the child and not the other way around. As

Re: New+old-style multiple inheritance

On Dec 18, 7:08 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We are trying to monkey-patch a third-party library that mixes new and > old-style classes with multiple inheritance. In so doing we have > uncovered some unexpected behaviour: > > > I know this level of messing with python inte

Re: Changing intobject to use int rather than long

Clarence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When you move your application to a 64-bit system in order to get a > bigger address space to store your millions/billions of integers in > RAM, but they get twice as big, you don't gain very much. I don't think changing the underlying type will help at all.

Re: .NET and Python Integration Problem and PDF Library (Need Help and Suggestions)

Ravi Kumar wrote: > - your opinion with available PDF Libraries, that are best among. Also > which library to use for Windows server platform (there is limitation > on installing long chain libraries that include other deep > dependencies too). A pure python PDF library would be good, but which > o

why only an msi-installer for windows ?

hello, having a lot of trouble installing 2.5 (without affecting my stable 2.4), I wonder why there's only a msi installer for windows users ? thanks, Stef -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Best way to protect my new commercial software.

Jan Claeys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Op Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:54:35 +, schreef Grant Edwards: > > > Uh what? I don't know what country you're in, but in the US, it doesn't > > take any time at all to copyright something. The mere act of writing > > something copyrights it. I thought it was

Re: Changing intobject to use int rather than long

On Dec 18, 6:24 pm, "Chris Mellon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Your int objects get twice as large, but you get 4294967296 times more > address space. > > (They don't always get twice as large, and you don't actually get that > much address space, and there's lots of other things wrong with this

Re: Changing intobject to use int rather than long

On Dec 18, 2007 11:59 AM, Clarence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone think (or know) that it might cause any internal problems > if the ival member of the struct defining an intobject were to be > changed from its current "long int" to just "int"? > > When you move your application to a 64-b

Re: lotus nsf to mbox

Hi to all, thanks, I'll try your suggestions... Regards! Fabian Brian Munroe schrieb am 12/15/2007 07:10 PM: > On Dec 15, 11:04 am, Fabian Braennstroem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> thanks for your ideas! I actually thought of something like >> a python parser, which just converts the nsf s

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