samurai-x2 0.1 released

2008-12-23 Thread dunkford...@googlemail.com
Hi, We are happy to release version 0.1 of samurai-x2. samurai-x2 is a window manager written in pure python using ctypes, xcb and cairo. samurai-x2 is a rewrite of samurai-x which used xlib, the new version uses xcb instead which makes the code simpler and faster. Using xcb makes samurai-x one

[ANN] Python 2.5.4 (final)

2008-12-23 Thread Martin v. Löwis
On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm happy to announce the release of Python 2.5.4 (final). Python 2.5.3 unfortunately contained an incorrect patch that could cause interpreter crashes; the only change in Python 2.5.4 relative to 2.5.4 is the reversal of this

Re: join a samba domain

2008-12-23 Thread Toff
On 22 déc, 19:37, Toff christophed...@gmail.com wrote: On 22 déc, 18:59, Jens Henrik Leonhard Jensen j...@statsbiblioteket.dk wrote: Toff wrote:    d = c.Win32_ComputerSystem    d.JoinDomainOrWorkGroup(None, 3, mydom, mydompw, radmin\\mydom) Shouldn't radmin\\mydom be admin\\mydom or

Re: no sign() function ?

2008-12-23 Thread Arnaud Delobelle
pdora...@pas-de-pub-merci.mac.com (Pierre-Alain Dorange) writes: def sign_0(x): if x==0.0: return 0.0 elif x0.0: return 1.0 else: return -1.0 This might be slightly faster: def sign(x): return 1 if x 0 else x

Re: Python's popularity

2008-12-23 Thread Arnaud Delobelle
s...@pobox.com writes: If you look back at the Tour de France results from the 80's I believe Greg Lemond won it one year without ever winning a stage. Well I think it was actually in 1990, his last win sadly. -- Arnaud -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Are Django/Turbogears too specific?

2008-12-23 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Daniel Fetchinson a écrit : (snip) The 1.x branch of tg is built on cherrypy, the 2.x branch is built on pylons. Both branches depend on external packages for most of their functionality which makes them very flexible. Django is monolithic Except that 1/ you can use each component (request

Re: Python's popularity

2008-12-23 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Steve Holden a écrit : walterbyrd wrote: [...] Fooled by version numbers ? No, but I am giving django the benefit of the doubt. The django project told people all along that django was not to be considered production ready before 1.0. I will accept that some people decided to wait until 1.0

[no subject]

2008-12-23 Thread sai
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Re: join a samba domain

2008-12-23 Thread Toff
Or maybe could I try with LoadLibrary(netapi32.dll); and the netjoindomain function ? but it doesn't look very easy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: using subprocess module in Python CGI

2008-12-23 Thread ANURAG BAGARIA
Thank you for the prompt response. Yeah, I missed out one line at the end of the error, the whole of which is: Traceback (most recent call last): File process.py, line 18, in module retval = subprocess.call(comd, 0, None, None, outptr, errptr) File /usr/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py, line

Re: join a samba domain

2008-12-23 Thread Tim Golden
Toff wrote: On 22 déc, 19:37, Toff christophed...@gmail.com wrote: On 22 déc, 18:59, Jens Henrik Leonhard Jensen j...@statsbiblioteket.dk wrote: Toff wrote: d = c.Win32_ComputerSystem d.JoinDomainOrWorkGroup(None, 3, mydom, mydompw, radmin\\mydom) Shouldn't radmin\\mydom be

turtle ?

2008-12-23 Thread sai
python newbie here :-) I am trying to get turtle to run but got stuck here: $ python Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Aug 5 2008, 16:17:28) [GCC 4.2.2 20071128 (prerelease) (4.2.2-3.1mdv2008.0)] on linux2 Type help, copyright, credits or license for more information. import turtle Traceback (most

Re: turtle ?

2008-12-23 Thread Gerhard Häring
sai wrote: python newbie here :-) I am trying to get turtle to run but got stuck here: $ python Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Aug 5 2008, 16:17:28) [GCC 4.2.2 20071128 (prerelease) (4.2.2-3.1mdv2008.0)] on linux2 Type help, copyright, credits or license for more information. import turtle

Re: Beep

2008-12-23 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 10:42 PM, Jeffrey Barish jeff_bar...@earthlink.netwrote: On Ubuntu, it is possible to set visual and audible beeps separately. When I set both, I get the visual beep, but not the audible one. It's not a Python issue -- so I should take this thread to Ubuntu --

Re: Python's popularity

2008-12-23 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
r rt8...@gmail.com wrote: Now thats the kind of friendly banter this group could use. Instead of people acting as if their bowel-movements smell like bakery fresh cinnamon rolls! What an amazing thing to say! Doesn't yours? - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python's popularity

2008-12-23 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
r rt8...@gmail.com wrote:: The writing is on the Wall! Yes it is, and as always, it says : Mene, mene, tekel epharsim. If my protestant upbringing hasn't failed me, it means: Weighed, and found wanting. - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python's popularity

2008-12-23 Thread Aaron Brady
On Dec 23, 2:33 am, Hendrik van Rooyen m...@microcorp.co.za wrote: r rt8...@gmail.com wrote: Now thats the kind of friendly banter this group could use. Instead of people acting as if their bowel-movements smell like bakery fresh cinnamon rolls! What an amazing thing to say! Doesn't yours?

Very basic question

2008-12-23 Thread Sengly
Hello all, I would like to calculate a string expression to a float. For example, I have ('12/5') and I want 2.4 as a result. I tried to use eval but it only gives me 2 instead of 2.5 Help!!! Regards, Sengly -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Very basic question

2008-12-23 Thread Sengly
I can hack it by doing eval('1.0*12/5') but is there any better method? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Very basic question

2008-12-23 Thread Aaron Brady
On Dec 23, 4:46 am, Sengly sengly.h...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I would like to calculate a string expression to a float. For example, I have ('12/5') and I want 2.4 as a result. I tried to use eval but it only gives me 2 instead of 2.5 Help!!! Regards, Sengly

wxPython.button.disabled still catching clicks

2008-12-23 Thread mynthon
Hello! (sorry for my english) I have a problem with buttons in wxPython. When button is disabled (by .Disable() or .Enable(False)) it is grayed out but still receive clicks. Eg. i have button that disable itself, runs long action and enable itself: def onClick(self, evt):

Re: wxPython.button.disabled still catching clicks

2008-12-23 Thread Aaron Brady
On Dec 23, 4:50 am, mynthon mynth...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! (sorry for my english) I have a problem with buttons in wxPython. When button is disabled (by .Disable() or .Enable(False)) it is grayed out but still receive clicks. Eg. i have button that disable itself, runs long action and

print to console without a line break

2008-12-23 Thread Qian Xu
Hello All, Is it possible to print something to console without a line break? I tried: sys.stdout.write(Testing something ...) // nothing will be printed time.sleep(1) sys.stdout.write(done\n) // now, the whole string will be printed What I want, is to see Testing something ... first.

Re: print to console without a line break

2008-12-23 Thread Qian Xu
Qian Xu wrote: Hello All, Is it possible to print something to console without a line break? I tried: sys.stdout.write(Testing something ...) // nothing will be printed time.sleep(1) sys.stdout.write(done\n) // now, the whole string will be printed What I want, is to see

Re: Very basic question

2008-12-23 Thread John Machin
On Dec 23, 9:49 pm, Sengly sengly.h...@gmail.com wrote: I can hack it by doing eval('1.0*12/5') but is there any better method? from __future__ import division -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Very basic question

2008-12-23 Thread Sion Arrowsmith
Sengly sengly.h...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to calculate a string expression to a float. For example, I have ('12/5') and I want 2.4 as a result. I tried to use eval but it only gives me 2 instead of 2.5 py from __future__ import division py print eval('12/5') 2.4 py print eval('12//5') 2

Re: Very basic question

2008-12-23 Thread Bryan Olson
Sengly wrote: I can hack it by doing eval('1.0*12/5') but is there any better method? Where did you get the string? If you generated it, you might as well make one or both the operands float to begin with. If you got it as input, calling eval() on it is a world of security hurt. The right

Re: String Format Error.

2008-12-23 Thread Steve Holden
Chris Rebert wrote: On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 10:19 PM, Paulo Repreza pxrepr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm a newbie with python and I recently bought Beginning with Python (Which is a book I recommend) but the problem that I'm facing it's the following: This is the code: #!/usr/bin/python2.5

Why MyHDL?

2008-12-23 Thread Jan Decaluwe
Hello: MyHDL is a Python package for using Python as a Hardware Description Language. A new release is upcoming, and on this occasion we have prepared a page about why MyHDL may be useful to you: http://www.myhdl.org/doku.php/why Regards, Jan -- Jan Decaluwe - Resources bvba -

Re: Very basic question

2008-12-23 Thread Sengly
Thank you very much everyone. Regards, -- Sengly -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

On Whose Desktop

2008-12-23 Thread Steve Holden
Thanks to Barry Warsaw the On Your Desktop blog now has a new entry: http://onyourdesktop.blogspot.com/ Who would you like to see profiled next? regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ --

Re: On Whose Desktop

2008-12-23 Thread Fuzzyman
On Dec 23, 12:06 pm, Steve Holden st...@holdenweb.com wrote: Thanks to Barry Warsaw the On Your Desktop blog now has a new entry:  http://onyourdesktop.blogspot.com/ Who would you like to see profiled next? regards  Steve -- Steve Holden        +1 571 484 6266   +1 800 494 3119 Holden

Re: On Whose Desktop

2008-12-23 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Steve Holden a écrit : Thanks to Barry Warsaw the On Your Desktop blog now has a new entry: http://onyourdesktop.blogspot.com/ Who would you like to see profiled next? The effbot ? regards Steve -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Why MyHDL?

2008-12-23 Thread Stef Mientki
hello Jan, Jan Decaluwe wrote: Hello: MyHDL is a Python package for using Python as a Hardware Description Language. A new release is upcoming, and on this occasion we have prepared a page about why MyHDL may be useful to you: http://www.myhdl.org/doku.php/why Very Interesting, I'm no

SuSE11.1 eclipse 64 pydev can't add python path

2008-12-23 Thread Reimar Bauer
Hi I can install pydev using the update manager in eclipse for 64 bit from the SuSE 11.1 repo. But I can't configure pydev without crashing it. I can select the interpreter /usr/bin/python and I do see the System PYTHONPATH Forced builtin libs also looks good. But Apply gives me # # An

Re: print to console without a line break

2008-12-23 Thread Lie Ryan
On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:50:59 +0100, Qian Xu wrote: Hello All, Is it possible to print something to console without a line break? I tried: sys.stdout.write(Testing something ...) // nothing will be printed time.sleep(1) sys.stdout.write(done\n) // now, the whole string will be

Re: wxPython.button.disabled still catching clicks

2008-12-23 Thread mynthon
On Dec 23, 11:58 am, Aaron Brady castiro...@gmail.com wrote: On Dec 23, 4:50 am, mynthon mynth...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! (sorry for my english) I have a problem with buttons in wxPython. When button is disabled (by .Disable() or .Enable(False)) it is grayed out but still receive

Re: Are python objects thread-safe?

2008-12-23 Thread Duncan Booth
Aaron Brady castiro...@gmail.com wrote: Th.1 Th.2 a=X a=Y a=Z You are saying that if 'a=Z' interrupts 'a=Y' at the wrong time, the destructor for 'X' or 'Y' might not get called. Correct? In serial flow, the destructor for X is called, then Y. No, the destructors will be

Re: no sign() function ?

2008-12-23 Thread Pierre-Alain Dorange
Steven D'Aprano ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au wrote: But this is just duplicating what timeit already does. Trust me, learn to use it, you won't be sorry. Here's a trick that took me a long time to learn: instead of copying your functions into the setup code of timeit, you can just

pseudo terminal usage from Python?

2008-12-23 Thread skip
I ran into an interesting problem yesterday. The mpstat(1) command on Solaris formats its output like so: CPU minf mjf xcal intr ithr csw icsw migr smtx srw syscl usr sys wt idl 0 42 1 1184 812 265 227 12 44 370 11316 2 0 93 1 25 1 933 4472

Re: SuSE11.1 eclipse 64 pydev can't add python path

2008-12-23 Thread Benjamin Kaplan
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 7:49 AM, Reimar Bauer r.ba...@fz-juelich.de wrote: Hi I can install pydev using the update manager in eclipse for 64 bit from the SuSE 11.1 repo. But I can't configure pydev without crashing it. I can select the interpreter /usr/bin/python and I do see the System

PIL - font kerning

2008-12-23 Thread carsn
Hey all, anybody know, if there´s a way to specify the kerning of a font, when you draw text with PIL? I´d like to achieve the same effect that you get, when you set a negative kerning in Gimp/Photshop - ie. reduce the spacing between glyphs. Can PIL do that or do I use another lib for that?

Re: Python's popularity

2008-12-23 Thread Lie Ryan
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:05:22 -0800, r wrote: On Dec 22, 10:09 pm, Ben Kaplan bs...@case.edu wrote: That's just because most of us don't say anything unless we have something useful to say. We prefer to let the experts answer the questions, but we read the threads so we can benefit from them.

Re: On Whose Desktop

2008-12-23 Thread Steve Holden
Fuzzyman wrote: On Dec 23, 12:06 pm, Steve Holden st...@holdenweb.com wrote: Thanks to Barry Warsaw the On Your Desktop blog now has a new entry: http://onyourdesktop.blogspot.com/ Who would you like to see profiled next? Guido (of course), Brett Cannon, Martin v Loewis, Jim Hugunin, Ted

Re: Python's popularity

2008-12-23 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* r (Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:44:32 -0800 (PST)) Steve Holden What makes you assume this is a zero-sum game, and that Python won't survive if any other language becomes popular. Every language borrows from those that came before it. Terms like outright plagiarism don't encourage rational

Re: iterating initalizations

2008-12-23 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:32:17 -0500 Aaron Stepp stepp.aa...@gmail.com wrote: Instead of writing a long list of initializations like so: A = [ ] B = [ ] ... Y = [ ] Z = [ ] I'd like to save space by more elegantly turning this into a loop. If Well, if all you want is a loop: for

Re: Python's popularity

2008-12-23 Thread Benjamin Kaplan
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 12:05 AM, r rt8...@gmail.com wrote: On Dec 22, 10:09 pm, Ben Kaplan bs...@case.edu wrote: That's just because most of us don't say anything unless we have something useful to say. We prefer to let the experts answer the questions, but we read the threads so we can

Re: pseudo terminal usage from Python?

2008-12-23 Thread Steve Holden
s...@pobox.com wrote: I ran into an interesting problem yesterday. The mpstat(1) command on Solaris formats its output like so: CPU minf mjf xcal intr ithr csw icsw migr smtx srw syscl usr sys wt idl 0 42 1 1184 812 265 227 12 44 370 11316 2 0 93

Re: print to console without a line break

2008-12-23 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 13:18 +, Lie Ryan wrote: On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:50:59 +0100, Qian Xu wrote: Hello All, Is it possible to print something to console without a line break? I tried: sys.stdout.write(Testing something ...) // nothing will be printed time.sleep(1)

Re: python3 urlopen(...).read() returns bytes

2008-12-23 Thread Christian Heimes
ajaksu wrote: On Dec 22, 9:05 pm, Christian Heimes li...@cheimes.de wrote: ajaksu schrieb: That said, a decode to declared HTTP header encoding version of urlopen could be useful to give some users the output they want (text from network io) or to make it clear why bytes is the safe way.

Re: no sign() function ?

2008-12-23 Thread Christian Heimes
All algorithm including my own suffer from one mistake. Nobody accounts for NaN (not a number). You have to check for NaNs, too. NaNs have no sign at all. You could also try to do some fancy bit mask operation like ord(struct.pack(d, 0.)[7]) 0x80 0 ord(struct.pack(d, -0.)[7]) 0x80 128 But

Re: print to console without a line break

2008-12-23 Thread Qian Xu
Albert Hopkins wrote: On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 13:18 +, Lie Ryan wrote: Probably because your stdout is line-buffered. Try: sys.stdout.write(Testing something...) sys.stout.flush() # flush the stdout buffer Thanks. This works for me ^^) --

Re: print to console without a line break

2008-12-23 Thread Qian Xu
Lie Ryan wrote: If you don't mind an extra space, you can use this: print 'Testing something ...', # note the trailing comma Thanks. However, the contents will be saved in buffer and will not be shown until print (last piece) sys.stdout.flush() can solve this problem :-) --

Re: iterating initalizations

2008-12-23 Thread Steve Holden
D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:32:17 -0500 Aaron Stepp stepp.aa...@gmail.com wrote: Instead of writing a long list of initializations like so: A = [ ] B = [ ] ... Y = [ ] Z = [ ] I'd like to save space by more elegantly turning this into a loop. If Well, if all you

Re: pseudo terminal usage from Python?

2008-12-23 Thread skip
Steve Look at the pexpect module - you can run interactive tasks Steve through that. Thanks. Worked like a charm. -- Skip Montanaro - s...@pobox.com - http://smontanaro.dyndns.org/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: iterating initalizations

2008-12-23 Thread Aaron Stepp
import random from rtcmix import * from chimes_source import * # Chime.play() from rhythmblock import * # rhythmBlock.rhythmTwist() and rhythmBlock.printStuff() from pitchblock import * # pitchBlock.pitchTwist() and pitchBlock.printStuff() from lenEval import * #greaterThan.sovler()

Re: Python's popularity

2008-12-23 Thread Adrian Cherry
r rt8...@gmail.com wrote in news:ae1bb365-7755-4c5f-8166-e704c51a7...@i20g2000prf.googlegro ups.com: Oh Steve... Listen, my words are ment as a wake-up-call to all who still love Python, and i believe you are one of them. Maybe old age has slowed your hand, that's OK, Us youngsters will

Re: iterating initalizations

2008-12-23 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:20:59 -0500 Steve Holden st...@holdenweb.com wrote: D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: Well, if all you want is a loop: for v in vars: locals()[v] = [] Note that this isn't guaranteed to work. While locals() will return a dict containing the names and values

Re: I always wonder ...

2008-12-23 Thread r
On Dec 22, 11:12 pm, ajaksu aja...@gmail.com wrote: On Dec 22, 9:24 pm, r rt8...@gmail.com wrote: You know what i hate more than a troll, a spineless jellyfish who goes around rating peoples post with one star. You are the lowest form of life. You are the same type of person who would key

Re: pseudo terminal usage from Python?

2008-12-23 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-12-23, s...@pobox.com s...@pobox.com wrote: I ran into an interesting problem yesterday. The mpstat(1) command on Solaris formats its output like so: CPU minf mjf xcal intr ithr csw icsw migr smtx srw syscl usr sys wt idl 0 42 1 1184 812 265 227 12 44 37

Re: Python's popularity

2008-12-23 Thread r
On Dec 23, 8:21 am, Thorsten Kampe thors...@thorstenkampe.de wrote: * r (Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:44:32 -0800 (PST)) Steve Holden What makes you assume this is a zero-sum game, and that Python won't survive if any other language becomes popular. Every language borrows from those that came

Re: iterating initalizations

2008-12-23 Thread Steve Holden
D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:20:59 -0500 Steve Holden st...@holdenweb.com wrote: D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: Well, if all you want is a loop: for v in vars: locals()[v] = [] Note that this isn't guaranteed to work. While locals() will return a dict containing

Re: pseudo terminal usage from Python?

2008-12-23 Thread skip
Grant Are you sure it's not Python buffering its input? Have you tried Grant python -u mympstat.py? Hmmm... No, I hadn't considered that. I'll check it out. Thanks... Grant I had a Linux pty example running once upon a time. If python Grant -u doesn't work post again, and

Re: Python's popularity

2008-12-23 Thread r
On Dec 23, 10:12 am, je.s.t...@hehxduhmp.org wrote: r rt8...@gmail.com wrote: You are the epitimy of an internet troll. A troll tries to hide his identity. Why are you so concerned about your TRUE identity. Are the I've already stated, and you've already proven, that it's pretty trivial to

Re: Python's popularity

2008-12-23 Thread r
On Dec 23, 8:21 am, Thorsten Kampe thors...@thorstenkampe.de wrote: You don't have a single clue about neither Python nor Ruby: 'According to the Ruby FAQ, If you like Perl, you will like Ruby and be right at home with its syntax. [...] If you like Python, you may or may not be put off by the

Re: no sign() function ?

2008-12-23 Thread Mark Dickinson
On Dec 23, 2:59 pm, Christian Heimes li...@cheimes.de wrote: All algorithm including my own suffer from one mistake. Nobody accounts for NaN (not a number). You have to check for NaNs, too. NaNs have no sign at all. I think that's not quite true: NaNs have a sign; it's just not accorded any

Re: no sign() function ?

2008-12-23 Thread ajaksu
On Dec 22, 9:18 am, Christian Heimes li...@cheimes.de wrote: Sure? :) Are you aware that the IEEE 754 standard makes a difference between the floats +0.0 and -0.0? from math import atan2 def sign(x):     if x 0 or (x == 0 and atan2(x, -1.) 0.):         return 1     else:         return

Get applications to open a given file (Mac and, or Windows)

2008-12-23 Thread riklau...@gmail.com
Under Linux/Unix I use GIO (pygobject) or gnome-vfs-python to get a list of installed applications that can open given file (for example image in graphics software). Is there something that can be used for MS Windows or Mac OS X? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python's popularity

2008-12-23 Thread r
Benjamin Kaplin wrote: You're the one who keeps bringing up the need to spread python. For most people, this is a forum to ask questions and have experts respond to them. Most people who post here aren't looking for your opinion, they want answers. If you know the answer to a question, answer it.

Re: no sign() function ?

2008-12-23 Thread Mark Dickinson
On Dec 23, 4:27 pm, ajaksu aja...@gmail.com wrote: Is x ** 0 0. instead of atan2(x, -1.) 0. unreliable across platforms? x**0 doesn't distinguish between x = -0.0 and x = 0.0. I suspect you're confusing -0.0**0.0 with (-0.0)**0.0. Mark -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: On Whose Desktop

2008-12-23 Thread Aaron Brady
On Dec 23, 8:19 am, Steve Holden st...@holdenweb.com wrote: Fuzzyman wrote: On Dec 23, 12:06 pm, Steve Holden st...@holdenweb.com wrote: Thanks to Barry Warsaw the On Your Desktop blog now has a new entry:  http://onyourdesktop.blogspot.com/ Who would you like to see profiled next?

Re: On Whose Desktop

2008-12-23 Thread Arnaud Delobelle
Aaron Brady castiro...@gmail.com writes: +1 whose (posessive) -1 posessive :) -- Arnaud -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: String Format Error.

2008-12-23 Thread Paulo Repreza
Thank You! On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 3:49 AM, Steve Holden st...@holdenweb.com wrote: Chris Rebert wrote: On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 10:19 PM, Paulo Repreza pxrepr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm a newbie with python and I recently bought Beginning with Python (Which is a book I recommend)

Re: wxPython.button.disabled still catching clicks

2008-12-23 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Dec 23, 7:27 am, mynthon mynth...@gmail.com wrote: On Dec 23, 11:58 am, Aaron Brady castiro...@gmail.com wrote: On Dec 23, 4:50 am, mynthon mynth...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! (sorry for my english) I have a problem with buttons in wxPython. When button is disabled (by .Disable()

Re: Python's popularity

2008-12-23 Thread Pierre-Alain Dorange
r rt8...@gmail.com wrote: I've already stated, and you've already proven, that it's pretty trivial to ascertain my true identity, if one actually cares. OTOH, that's *not* the case with you. Who is hiding now? I told you, my name is Thurstan Howell III. Do you want to know my favorite

[Offtopic] Re: I always wonder ...

2008-12-23 Thread Pierre-Alain Dorange
r rt8...@gmail.com wrote: [...] Well that shows that even lads with tiny nads can be brave, any of the other trolls want to expose them selfs? This thread is offtopic, please just keep silent and let it be closed... -- Pierre-Alain Dorangehttp://microwar.sourceforge.net/ Ce message

Re: pseudo terminal usage from Python?

2008-12-23 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-12-23, s...@pobox.com s...@pobox.com wrote: Grant Are you sure it's not Python buffering its input? Have you tried Grant python -u mympstat.py? Hmmm... No, I hadn't considered that. I'll check it out. Thanks... Grant I had a Linux pty example running once upon a time.

Re: pseudo terminal usage from Python?

2008-12-23 Thread skip
Grant Are you sure it's not Python buffering its input? Have you tried Grant python -u mympstat.py? Nope. -u unbuffers stdout and stderr, not stdin. It really must be mpstat being uncooperative. Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Are python objects thread-safe?

2008-12-23 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:30:25 -0200, Duncan Booth duncan.bo...@invalid.invalid escribió: Aaron Brady castiro...@gmail.com wrote: Th.1 Th.2 a=X a=Y a=Z You are saying that if 'a=Z' interrupts 'a=Y' at the wrong time, the destructor for 'X' or 'Y' might not get called. Correct? In

Re: python3 urlopen(...).read() returns bytes

2008-12-23 Thread ajaksu
On Dec 23, 12:51 pm, Christian Heimes li...@cheimes.de wrote: If you want to do it right ... It should be a clean patch against the py3k svn branch Done including documentation This thread is a good start :) and a unit test. Doing this now. Daniel --

Symposium “Visualization and Human-Computer” wit hin the IRF’2009 Conference – Announce Call for Papers

2008-12-23 Thread tava...@fe.up.pt
(Apologies for cross-posting) Symposium on “Visualization and Human-Computer” 3rd International Conference on Integrity, Reliability Failure (IRF’2009)

Re: pseudo terminal usage from Python?

2008-12-23 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-12-23, s...@pobox.com s...@pobox.com wrote: Grant Are you sure it's not Python buffering its input? Have you tried Grant python -u mympstat.py? Nope. -u unbuffers stdout and stderr, not stdin. It really must be mpstat being uncooperative. That's not what my python man

2to3 used in the Shootout

2008-12-23 Thread bearophileHUGS
They have translated the Python benchmarks of the Shootout site from Py2 to Py3 using 2to3: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=alllang=python3 It shows some performance bugs of Python3 itself (especially regarding the binary-trees benchmark, that was unexpected by me), and

Re: pseudo terminal usage from Python?

2008-12-23 Thread skip
Grant Are you sure it's not Python buffering its input? Have you tried Grant python -u mympstat.py? Nope. -u unbuffers stdout and stderr, not stdin. It really must be mpstat being uncooperative. Grant That's not what my python man page says: Grant-u

[ANN] Python 2.5.4 (final)

2008-12-23 Thread Martin v. Löwis
On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm happy to announce the release of Python 2.5.4 (final). Python 2.5.3 unfortunately contained an incorrect patch that could cause interpreter crashes; the only change in Python 2.5.4 relative to 2.5.4 is the reversal of this

Re: PIL - font kerning

2008-12-23 Thread Ivan Illarionov
On 23 дек, 16:44, carsn carsten.kr...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, anybody know, if there´s a way to specify the kerning of a font, when you draw text with PIL? I´d like to achieve the same effect that you get, when you set a negative kerning in Gimp/Photshop - ie. reduce the spacing between

Re: Are python objects thread-safe?

2008-12-23 Thread Aaron Brady
On Dec 23, 7:30 am, Duncan Booth duncan.bo...@invalid.invalid wrote: Aaron Brady castiro...@gmail.com wrote: Th.1   Th.2 a=X        a=Y a=Z You are saying that if 'a=Z' interrupts 'a=Y' at the wrong time, the destructor for 'X' or 'Y' might not get called.  Correct?  In serial

Re: PIL - font kerning

2008-12-23 Thread Ivan Illarionov
On Dec 23, 11:22 pm, Ivan Illarionov ivan.illario...@gmail.com wrote: On 23 дек, 16:44, carsn carsten.kr...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, anybody know, if there´s a way to specify the kerning of a font, when you draw text with PIL? I´d like to achieve the same effect that you get, when you

Re: pseudo terminal usage from Python?

2008-12-23 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-12-23, s...@pobox.com s...@pobox.com wrote: Grant Are you sure it's not Python buffering its input? Have you tried Grant python -u mympstat.py? Nope. -u unbuffers stdout and stderr, not stdin. It really must be mpstat being uncooperative. Grant That's not

Re: Get applications to open a given file (Mac and, or Windows)

2008-12-23 Thread Tommy Nordgren
On Dec 23, 2008, at 5:29 PM, riklau...@gmail.com wrote: Under Linux/Unix I use GIO (pygobject) or gnome-vfs-python to get a list of installed applications that can open given file (for example image in graphics software). Is there something that can be used for MS Windows or Mac OS X? --

Re: Beep

2008-12-23 Thread Ivan Illarionov
On Dec 22, 3:16 am, Jeffrey Barish jeff_bar...@earthlink.net wrote: I use sys.stdout.write('\a') to beep.  It works fine on Kubuntu, but not on two other platforms (one of which is Ubuntu).  I presume that the problem is due to a system configuration issue.  Can someone point me in the right

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Initializing GHC from Python

2008-12-23 Thread Jason Dusek
I upmodded this on Reddit. Thank you for your work. -- Jason Dusek -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: iterating initalizations

2008-12-23 Thread Rhodri James
On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:39:52 -, Aaron Stepp stepp.aa...@gmail.com wrote: import random from rtcmix import * from chimes_source import * # Chime.play() from rhythmblock import * # rhythmBlock.rhythmTwist() and rhythmBlock.printStuff() from pitchblock import * # pitchBlock.pitchTwist()

Re: python3 urlopen(...).read() returns bytes

2008-12-23 Thread ajaksu
On Dec 23, 12:51 pm, Christian Heimes li...@cheimes.de wrote: If you want to do it right ... It should be a clean patch against the py3k svn branch including documentation and a unit test. Got all three at http://bugs.python.org/issue4733 . Probably got all three wrong too, so any feedback is

Re: [ANN] Python 2.5.4 (final)

2008-12-23 Thread Terry Reedy
Martin v. Löwis wrote: For more information on Python 2.5.4, including download links for various platforms, release notes, and known issues, please see: http://www.python.org/2.5.4 http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5.4/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: 2to3 used in the Shootout

2008-12-23 Thread Terry Reedy
bearophileh...@lycos.com wrote: They have translated the Python benchmarks of the Shootout site from Py2 to Py3 using 2to3: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=alllang=python3 It shows some performance bugs of Python3 itself (especially regarding the binary-trees

Re: SuSE11.1 eclipse 64 pydev can't add python path

2008-12-23 Thread Nikolas Tautenhahn
Hi, Reimar Bauer wrote: I can install pydev using the update manager in eclipse for 64 bit from the SuSE 11.1 repo. But I can't configure pydev without crashing it. I can select the interpreter /usr/bin/python and I do see the System PYTHONPATH Forced builtin libs also looks good. But

Re: 2to3 used in the Shootout

2008-12-23 Thread Isaac Gouy
On Dec 23, 11:51 am, bearophileh...@lycos.com wrote: They have translated the Python benchmarks of the Shootout site from Py2 to Py3 using 2to3: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all〈=pyt... So please re-write those programs to remove problems created by automatic

Re: no sign() function ?

2008-12-23 Thread ajaksu
On Dec 23, 2:45 pm, Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com wrote: On Dec 23, 4:27 pm, ajaksu aja...@gmail.com wrote: Is x ** 0 0. instead of atan2(x, -1.) 0. unreliable across platforms? x**0 doesn't distinguish between x = -0.0 and x = 0.0. I suspect you're confusing -0.0**0.0 with

Re: SuSE11.1 eclipse 64 pydev can't add python path

2008-12-23 Thread Benjamin Kaplan
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Nikolas Tautenhahn virt...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, Reimar Bauer wrote: I can install pydev using the update manager in eclipse for 64 bit from the SuSE 11.1 repo. But I can't configure pydev without crashing it. I can select the interpreter /usr/bin/python

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