cx_Oracle 5.0.2

2009-05-22 Thread Anthony Tuininga
What is cx_Oracle? cx_Oracle is a Python extension module that allows access to Oracle and conforms to the Python database API 2.0 specifications with a few exceptions. Where do I get it? http://cx-oracle.sourceforge.net What's new? 1) Fix creation of temporary NCLOB values and the writing

Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (May 22)

2009-05-22 Thread Gabriel Genellina
QOTW: Floating point is sort of like quantum physics: the closer you look, the messier it gets. - Grant Edwards The circular relationship between object and type explained: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.general/623460 Floating point numbers don't behave

Re: 4 hundred quadrillonth?

2009-05-22 Thread Andre Engels
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:05 PM, seanm...@gmail.com wrote: The explaination in my introductory Python book is not very satisfying, and I am hoping someone can explain the following to me: 4 / 5.0 0.80004 4 / 5.0 is 0.8. No more, no less. So what's up with that 4 at the end.

Re: dbfpy - cannot store new record

2009-05-22 Thread Laszlo Nagy
Here is the next problem. For boolean/logical fields, I can set their value to True/False easily. However, setting NULL seems impossible: rec = tbl.newRecord() rec[SOMEFIELD1] = True # Works fine rec[SOMEFIELD2] = False # Works fine rec[SOMEFIELD3] = None # Will store False rec[SOMEFIELD3] = 0

Re: dbfpy - cannot store new record

2009-05-22 Thread David Lyon
On Fri, 22 May 2009 08:34:17 +0200, Laszlo Nagy gand...@shopzeus.com wrote: Now I also tried to set -1. In any of the above cases, if I open that dbf file with a commercial DBF editor application then I see that the value is not null. - Borland Database Desktop shows False value - CDBF

Re: A question regd configobj

2009-05-22 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Thu, 21 May 2009 08:23:36 -0300, Srijayanth Sridhar srijaya...@gmail.com escribió: I am wondering if it is possible to have hexadecimal strings in a ini file and have configobj parse it correctly. for eg: moonw...@trantor:~/python/config$ cat foo foo=\x96\x97 . . . a=ConfigObj(foo) a

Re: making a python program in windows

2009-05-22 Thread rustom
On May 21, 5:09 pm, Duncan Booth duncan.bo...@invalid.invalid wrote: rustom rustompm...@gmail.com wrote: i suppose the question is entirely about setting properly (and grokking) file associations -- why is a .py file associated with pythonw and not python? And is making this association

Re: 4 hundred quadrillonth?

2009-05-22 Thread rustom
On May 22, 6:56 am, AggieDan04 danb...@yahoo.com wrote: The error in this example is roughly equivalent to the width of a red blood cell compared to the distance between Earth and the sun.  There are very few applications that need more accuracy than that. For a mathematician there are no

Re: Cursor movement question

2009-05-22 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message wxorl.328387$yx2.227...@en-nntp-06.dc1.easynews.com, Jive Dadson wrote: Gosh, you guys are slow. :-) I figured it out. We were just waiting to see how long it would take you. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Error in code send Email

2009-05-22 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Thu, 21 May 2009 02:31:02 -0300, Kalyan Chakravarthy kalyanchakravar...@hyit.com escribió: I am using above code to send an Email, for this i am not installed any SMTP setup my local , I just given import smtplib and I am getting following error **Traceback (most recent call last):

Re: from __future__ import absolute_import issue

2009-05-22 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Wed, 20 May 2009 20:18:02 -0300, LittleGrasshopper seattleha...@yahoo.com escribió: New to the group, this is my first post... It appears that either absolute imports (or my brain) aren't working. Given a module string.py which is in the same directory as a.py: #File a.py from __future__

Re: making a python program in windows

2009-05-22 Thread Tim Golden
rustom wrote: Thanks for this (and all other) tips. Strangely now my m/c shows things exactly like so. A new .py file gets associated with python but two days ago it was with pythonw?! Any recos on where I could read up on this stuff? I by all this stuff you mean: Windows file associations,

Re: Generating zipped or gzipped attachment with email package?

2009-05-22 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Thu, 21 May 2009 10:34:09 -0300, s...@pobox.com escribió: I want to modify my script to automatically zip or gzip files which exceed some size threshold. Doing the zip/gzip dance is no problem. I'm concerned about how to specify that properly with the email package. For example,

Re: Question about locals()

2009-05-22 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Tue, 19 May 2009 14:06:04 -0300, Gökhan SEVER gokhanse...@gmail.com escribió: I will make double sure myself while using locals() to end up with valid identifiers. I would ask myself why I'm using locals() in the first place. -- Gabriel Genellina --

Re: sqlite3, qmarks, and NULL values

2009-05-22 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message mailman.424.1242778866.8015.python-l...@python.org, Mitchell L Model wrote: However, COL2 might be NULL. I can't figure out a value for y that would retrieve rows for which COL2 is NULL. It seems to me that I have to perform an awkward test to determine whether to execute a query

Re: Error in code send Email

2009-05-22 Thread Kalyan Chakravarthy
*Google App Engine doesn't allow to use sockets directly *Then what could be the solution for this ? can any one Reply me Regards Kalyan On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Gabriel Genellina gagsl-...@yahoo.com.arwrote: En Thu, 21 May 2009 02:31:02 -0300, Kalyan Chakravarthy

Re: defaultdict's bug or feature?

2009-05-22 Thread Red Forks
Yes, you maybe right. When use defaultdict, should not rely get() method anymore, d[] is just enough. When a function return a defaultdict, but people don't know it, so: d = load_map() # if she call d['a'], everything is OK but # when call d.get('a'), she is always get None. # Why she call

Re: Error in code send Email

2009-05-22 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Kalyan Chakravarthy kalyanchakravar...@hyit.com wrote: Google App Engine doesn't allow to use sockets directly Then what could be the solution for this ? can any one Reply me Did you try google? Searching for google app engine email immediately gives

While Statement

2009-05-22 Thread Joel Ross
Hi all, I have this piece of code class progess(): def __init__(self, number, char): total = number percentage = number while percentage 0 : percentage = int(number/total*100) number-=1 char+=* print char

Re: Adding a Par construct to Python?

2009-05-22 Thread jeremy
On 22 May, 05:17, Rhodri James rho...@wildebst.demon.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 20 May 2009 09:19:50 +0100, jer...@martinfamily.freeserve.co.uk   wrote: On 20 May, 03:43, Steven D'Aprano ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au wrote: On Tue, 19 May 2009 03:57:43 -0700, jeremy wrote: As I wrote

Re: making a python program in windows

2009-05-22 Thread Dave Angel
Tim Roberts wrote: Dave Angel da...@ieee.org wrote: Anyway, now you can see two batch files you could use to make a particular version of Python active. The first one uses assoc and ftype to fix the asssociations. And the other changes the environment variable PATHEXT to make the

Re: While Statement

2009-05-22 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Joel Ross jo...@cognyx.com wrote: Hi all, I have this piece of code class progess():    def __init__(self, number,  char):        total = number        percentage = number        while percentage 0 :            percentage = int(number/total*100)      

Re: While Statement

2009-05-22 Thread Andre Engels
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Joel Ross jo...@cognyx.com wrote: Hi all, I have this piece of code class progess():    def __init__(self, number,  char):        total = number        percentage = number        while percentage 0 :            percentage = int(number/total*100)      

Ambiguous locale.strxfrm

2009-05-22 Thread Tuomas Vesterinen
This was fixed once in Python 2.5, but in Python 3.0 the bug celebrates its comeback. The tail of the strxfrm result is ambiguous. Python 3.0.1 (r301:69556, Apr 14 2009, 14:30:31) [GCC 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-27)] on linux2 Type help, copyright, credits or license for more information.

Re: While Statement

2009-05-22 Thread Joel Ross
Joel Ross wrote: Hi all, I have this piece of code class progess(): def __init__(self, number, char): total = number percentage = number while percentage 0 : percentage = int(number/total*100) number-=1 char+=*

Looking for module for shrinking a list with n-point means

2009-05-22 Thread Yash Ganthe
Hi, I would like to shrink a large list in the following way: If the List has 1000 integers, we need only 100 averages such that the 1000 points are average for every 10 consecutive values. So p0 to p9 will be averaged to obtain t0. p10 to p19 will be averaged to obtain t1 and so on. This is a

Re: While Statement

2009-05-22 Thread Joel Ross
Andre Engels wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Joel Ross jo...@cognyx.com wrote: Hi all, I have this piece of code class progess(): def __init__(self, number, char): total = number percentage = number while percentage 0 : percentage =

RE: While Statement

2009-05-22 Thread Andreas Tawn
Im using 2.6 python and when running this class progess(): def __init__(self, number, total, char): percentage = float(number/total*100) percentage = int(round(percentage)) char = char * percentage print char progess(100, 999,

Re: Looking for module for shrinking a list with n-point means

2009-05-22 Thread John Machin
On May 22, 8:03 pm, Yash Ganthe yas...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I would like to shrink a large list in the following way: If the List has 1000 integers, we need only 100 averages such that the 1000 points are average for every 10 consecutive values. So p0 to p9 will be averaged to obtain t0. p10

How to send a compsite key to window

2009-05-22 Thread zhouhaifeng
just like ctrl + A, I want to select all the text in a window, now , I operate right menu to get it, but it can not work all the time. so I want to send ctrl + a to the window blow is my code thanks hWnd = win32gui.FindWindow(None, “中华会计网校”财税法规库下载版V1.09-法 规阅读器) print hWnd if hWnd 0: print

How to send a compsite key to window

2009-05-22 Thread zhouhaifeng
just like ctrl + A, I want to select all the text in a window, now , I operate right menu to get it, but it can not work all the time. so I want to send ctrl + a to the window blow is my code thanks hWnd = win32gui.FindWindow(None, “中华会计网校”财税法规库下载版V1.09-法 规阅读器) print hWnd if hWnd 0: print

Re: What do you think of ShowMeDo

2009-05-22 Thread Gasto
Smart ass talking. Why don't you do a thing then. Following an analogy of what you write. Put youself in Kyran's and Ian's shoes. * You create a website to help people learn open source software and open source programming. You start off with a few dozen of videos. People start coming to the

Cursor movement question

2009-05-22 Thread Jive Dadson
Howdy, folks. I am using wxPython 2.8 on Windoze XP Pro. I want my application to move the cursor and the mouse-point (the coordinates in the mouse-click events) to the left when the user presses the left-arrow key, up when they press the up-arrow key, etc.. I think I can figure out how to

Re: How to get path.py ? http://www.jorendorff.com/ is down

2009-05-22 Thread Kay Schluehr
On 21 Mai, 21:43, Jorge Vargas jorge.var...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. Anyone knows what is the problem with this package? apparently the author's site is down which prevents pip from installing it. I can download the zip and go from there but It seems most of the docs are gone with the site.

Re: While Statement

2009-05-22 Thread Andre Engels
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Joel Ross jo...@cognyx.com wrote: Im using 2.6 python and when running this class progess():    def __init__(self, number, total,  char):        percentage = float(number/total*100)        percentage = int(round(percentage))        char = char *

Re: Streaming pdf with URLLib

2009-05-22 Thread Joel Goldstick
I think you misspelled 'Content-Disposition' Aahz wrote: In article 04eacd56-5293-4553-bdb3-ad2e8266c...@z7g2000vbh.googlegroups.com, Scooter slbent...@gmail.com wrote: #!/usr/bin/python import urllib u = urllib.urlopen('https://myinternal.server/pdfs/pdfstreamer.aspx') print 'Content-type:

Disabling Logging Handler for a Second

2009-05-22 Thread VenkataRamaKrishna Boddu
Hi All, Is there any way, I can disable one logging Handler, while other Log Handler are still available for servicing. Please see the below code. It explains my Problem better. I actually reduce the size of problem, to make it understandable faster

Re: While Statement

2009-05-22 Thread Joel Ross
Andre Engels wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Joel Ross jo...@cognyx.com wrote: Im using 2.6 python and when running this class progess(): def __init__(self, number, total, char): percentage = float(number/total*100) percentage = int(round(percentage)) char

Re: While Statement

2009-05-22 Thread Tim Wintle
On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 13:19 +0200, Andre Engels wrote: number/total = 998/999 = 0 number/total*100 = 0*100 = 0 float(number/total*100) = float(0) = 0.0 Change float(number/total*100) to float(number)/total*100 and it should work: I'd use: (number * 100.)/total - works because int *

Re: python question

2009-05-22 Thread Craig
I use python 2.6.2 and i useing ubuntu 9.04 not windows. --- On Thu, 5/21/09, Dave Angel da...@ieee.org wrote: From: Dave Angel da...@ieee.org Subject: Re: python question To: Craig fasteliteprogram...@yahoo.com Cc: python-list@python.org Date: Thursday, May 21, 2009, 2:22 PM Craig wrote:

Re: python question

2009-05-22 Thread Tim Wintle
On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 05:51 -0700, Craig wrote: I use python 2.6.2 and i useing ubuntu 9.04 not windows. What are you trying to install? is it available in Synaptic package manager? If it's a program written in python, then there may be a file called setup.py. If there is then open a

Re: General: tutorial to all new python users

2009-05-22 Thread ashish
On May 22, 5:40 am, bvidinli bvidi...@gmail.com wrote: This is a good starting point i think:http://pleac.sourceforge.net/pleac_python/index.html (Also a non-related subject:   for who want to do hosting freely on linux:www.ehcp.net(hosting control panel), also contains an experimental

Re: How to get path.py ? http://www.jorendorff.com/ is down

2009-05-22 Thread ma
http://web.archive.org/web/20071105095205/www.jorendorff.com/articles/python/path/ On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Kay Schluehr k...@fiber-space.de wrote: On 21 Mai, 21:43, Jorge Vargas jorge.var...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. Anyone knows what is the problem with this package? apparently

Re: Looking for module for shrinking a list with n-point means

2009-05-22 Thread Scott David Daniels
Yash Ganthe wrote: I would like to shrink a large list in the following way: If the List has 1000 integers, we need only 100 averages such that the 1000 points are average for every 10 consecutive values. So p0 to p9 will be averaged to obtain t0. p10 to p19 will be averaged to obtain t1 and so

Re: reseting an iterator

2009-05-22 Thread J. Cliff Dyer
On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 11:35 -0700, Jan wrote: Wouldn't it be easy for Python to implement generating functions so that the iterators they return are equipped with a __reset__() method? Here is the context of this question. Python documentation defines a iterator as an object ITERATOR

Re: While Statement

2009-05-22 Thread Dave Angel
Tim Wintle wrote: On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 13:19 +0200, Andre Engels wrote: number/total = 998/999 = 0 number/total*100 = 0*100 = 0 float(number/total*100) = float(0) = 0.0 Change float(number/total*100) to float(number)/total*100 and it should work: I'd use: (number * 100.)/total

Re: While Statement

2009-05-22 Thread Joel Ross
Dave Angel wrote: Tim Wintle wrote: On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 13:19 +0200, Andre Engels wrote: number/total = 998/999 = 0 number/total*100 = 0*100 = 0 float(number/total*100) = float(0) = 0.0 Change float(number/total*100) to float(number)/total*100 and it should work: I'd use:

Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (May 22)

2009-05-22 Thread Gabriel Genellina
QOTW: Floating point is sort of like quantum physics: the closer you look, the messier it gets. - Grant Edwards The circular relationship between object and type explained: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.general/623460 Floating point numbers don't behave

Re: Question about locals()

2009-05-22 Thread Gökhan SEVER
Hello, I use local() because I read a file which has many consecutive variables in it. Like shown below: (I use numpy's txt reading function) serialc = np.loadtxt(sys.argv[1], skiprows=skiprows).T for i in range(20): locals()['serialc_bin' + str(i+1)] = serialc[i+4] I don't know easier way

Re: While Statement

2009-05-22 Thread Tim Wintle
On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 09:59 -0400, Dave Angel wrote: Tim Wintle wrote: On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 13:19 +0200, Andre Engels wrote: Change float(number/total*100) to float(number)/total*100 and it should work: I'd use: (number * 100.)/total - works because int * float =

Re: 4 hundred quadrillonth?

2009-05-22 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 21 May 2009 18:30:17 -0700, Gary Herron wrote: In py3k Eric Smith and Mark Dickinson have implemented Gay's floating point algorithm for Python so that the shortest repr that will round trip correctly is what is used as the floating point repr --David Which won't change

Re: 4 hundred quadrillonth?

2009-05-22 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 21 May 2009 18:56:08 -0700, AggieDan04 wrote: The error in this example is roughly equivalent to the width of a red blood cell compared to the distance between Earth and the sun. There are very few applications that need more accuracy than that. Which is fine if the error *remains*

Re: dbfpy - cannot store new record

2009-05-22 Thread Laszlo Nagy
dbfpy is very old code. Try setting up a CHAR(1) field and filling it with Y or N or T or F.. indicating yes,no,true or false... Unfortunately, my task is to import records into a database that is used by an old foxpro program. I'm not allowed to change the database structure in any

Re: Question about locals()

2009-05-22 Thread David Robinow
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Gökhan SEVER gokhanse...@gmail.com wrote: ... serialc = np.loadtxt(sys.argv[1], skiprows=skiprows).T for i in range(20):     locals()['serialc_bin' + str(i+1)] = serialc[i+4] I don't know easier way than using locals() to construct variable-like identities

Re: When does the escape character work within raw strings?

2009-05-22 Thread walterbyrd
On May 21, 9:44 pm, Rhodri James rho...@wildebst.demon.co.uk wrote: Escaping the delimiting quote is the *one* time backslashes have a special meaning in raw string literals. If that were true, then wouldn't r'\b' be treated as two characters? This calls re.sub with a pattern string object

Re: Question about locals()

2009-05-22 Thread Gökhan SEVER
Because in this case serialc is an numpy array. Since loadtxt returns a numpy-array. Furthermore locals()['serialc_bin' + str(i+1)] creates a dictionary key (that's what I use the term variable-like) serialc_bin1, serialc_bin2, ... not serialc_bin[0] with indexes. Gökhan On Fri, May 22, 2009

Python Socket Issues with VirtualBox

2009-05-22 Thread TechieInsights
I have created a server and client that communicate via a TCP socket connection. Everything runs great on 6 of the 6 boxes. However, when I installed Sun's VirtualBox on one of the PC's I started getting: error: (10061, 'Connection refused') I tried restarting, stopping services, checking out a

Re: Python Socket Issues with VirtualBox

2009-05-22 Thread Alan Franzoni
TechieInsights was kind enough to say: [cut] You're giving very few details on your issue, which is most probably not related to python itself. Which operating system? Which virtualbox version? Which kind of connection? Is the port open for listen? Does the code fail at listening or at

Re: python3 module for dbus ?

2009-05-22 Thread Aahz
In article 4a15b88c$0$90265$14726...@news.sunsite.dk, Timothy Madden terminato...@gmail.com wrote: Aahz wrote: In article 4a1281ef$0$90271$14726...@news.sunsite.dk, Timothy Madden terminato...@gmail.com wrote: [...] Do you know if I can get dbus bindings for python3 and glib bindings for

Re: While Statement

2009-05-22 Thread J. Cliff Dyer
On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 09:59 -0400, Dave Angel wrote: Tim Wintle wrote: On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 13:19 +0200, Andre Engels wrote: number/total = 998/999 = 0 number/total*100 = 0*100 = 0 float(number/total*100) = float(0) = 0.0 Change float(number/total*100) to

Re: When does the escape character work within raw strings?

2009-05-22 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 22 May 2009 07:47:49 -0700, walterbyrd wrote: On May 21, 9:44 pm, Rhodri James rho...@wildebst.demon.co.uk wrote: Escaping the delimiting quote is the *one* time backslashes have a special meaning in raw string literals. If that were true, then wouldn't r'\b' be treated as two

Re: When does the escape character work within raw strings?

2009-05-22 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 22 May 2009 15:29:16 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote: But if you forget that Python uses backslash escapes in strings, and just write \b, then the compiler creates the string chr(8) (BEL), which has no special meaning to the RE engine. Correction: \b is BACKSPACE, not BELL. \a is BELL.

Re: When does the escape character work within raw strings?

2009-05-22 Thread MRAB
Steven D'Aprano wrote: [snip] But if you forget that Python uses backslash escapes in strings, and just write \b, then the compiler creates the string chr(8) (BEL), which has no special meaning to the RE engine. \b or chr(8) is BS (backspace); \a or chr(7) is BEL (bell). --

Re: Question about locals()

2009-05-22 Thread J. Cliff Dyer
Top-posting corrected. On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 10:00 -0500, Gökhan SEVER wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 9:43 AM, David Robinow drobi...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Gökhan SEVER gokhanse...@gmail.com wrote: ... serialc =

Re: Question about locals()

2009-05-22 Thread David Robinow
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Gökhan SEVER gokhanse...@gmail.com wrote: Because in this case serialc is an numpy array. Since loadtxt returns a numpy-array. Furthermore locals()['serialc_bin' + str(i+1)]  creates a dictionary key (that's what I use the term variable-like) serialc_bin1,

Re: Python Socket Issues with VirtualBox

2009-05-22 Thread Paul Boddie
On 22 Mai, 17:05, Alan Franzoni alan.franzoni.x...@gmail.com wrote: My first guess would be that you didn't specify the interface to bind to, and the interface order changes once you install virtualbox since it possibly adds a virtual interface of its own, but I can't tell unless you tell

package questions

2009-05-22 Thread Daniel
Hello, I've posted about this before, but after reading the docs, I have a few more questions here are the docs: http://docs.python.org/tutorial/modules.html#packages here is my previous post: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/3a352159f6828eb9/cda8395d36827d20

define generator (glossary bug?)

2009-05-22 Thread Alan G Isaac
I believe the glossary http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonGlossary is missing the definition for 'generator' and has used instead the definition for 'generator function', which term is missing from the glossary. Standard usage as I understand it is found here:

Re: define generator (glossary bug?)

2009-05-22 Thread Jean-Paul Calderone
On Fri, 22 May 2009 16:38:40 GMT, Alan G Isaac alan.is...@gmail.com wrote: I believe the glossary http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonGlossary is missing the definition for 'generator' and has used instead the definition for 'generator function', which term is missing from the glossary. Standard

Re: package questions

2009-05-22 Thread Scott David Daniels
Daniel wrote: Hello, I've posted about this before, but after reading the docs, I have a few more questions here are the docs: http://docs.python.org/tutorial/modules.html#packages here is my previous post:

Re: Cursor movement question

2009-05-22 Thread Aahz
In article wxorl.328387$yx2.227...@en-nntp-06.dc1.easynews.com, Jive Dadson notonthe...@noisp.com wrote: Gosh, you guys are slow. :-) I figured it out. Perhaps you could post the solution for posterity's sake? -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) * http://www.pythoncraft.com/ A

Re: define generator (glossary bug?)

2009-05-22 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Fri, 22 May 2009 16:38:40 GMT, Alan G Isaac alan.is...@gmail.com wrote: I believe the glossary http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonGlossary is missing the definition for 'generator' and has used instead the definition for 'generator function', which term is missing from the glossary. Standard

Re: Adding a Par construct to Python?

2009-05-22 Thread Rhodri James
On Fri, 22 May 2009 10:27:21 +0100, jer...@martinfamily.freeserve.co.uk wrote: I think this depends on whether we think that Python is a language for people who we trust to know what they are doing (like Perl) or whether it is a language for people we don't trust to get things right(like

Re: reseting an iterator

2009-05-22 Thread Jan
On May 22, 9:46 am, J. Cliff Dyer j...@sdf.lonestar.org wrote: You don't need a reset method.  There is no hard and fast rule that __iter__ must return the object itself.  It just needs to return an iterator.   I disagree. If ITRATOR is a true iterator, ITRATOR.__iter__() must return

Re: defaultdict's bug or feature?

2009-05-22 Thread Rhodri James
I asked you not to top-post. Please put your replies *below* the messages you're quoting, not above. It's much easier to understand the conversation that we're having if you do that, and much more aggravating if you don't. On Fri, 22 May 2009 09:53:04 +0100, Red Forks redfo...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: When does the escape character work within raw strings?

2009-05-22 Thread Rhodri James
On Fri, 22 May 2009 15:47:49 +0100, walterbyrd walterb...@iname.com wrote: On May 21, 9:44 pm, Rhodri James rho...@wildebst.demon.co.uk wrote: Escaping the delimiting quote is the *one* time backslashes have a special meaning in raw string literals. If that were true, then wouldn't r'\b'

Re: package questions

2009-05-22 Thread Daniel
On May 22, 11:29 am, Scott David Daniels scott.dani...@acm.org wrote: Daniel wrote: Hello, I've posted about this before, but after reading the docs, I have a few more questions here are the docs:http://docs.python.org/tutorial/modules.html#packages here is my previous post:

Re: ffmpeg and python big problem

2009-05-22 Thread Rhodri James
On Fri, 22 May 2009 13:54:26 +0100, TerabyteST gabry...@gmail.com wrote: Could you give me a link to a version that works? Not with any confidence. The ffmpeg website (http://www.ffmpeg.org) has a link to this page (http://ffmpeg.arrozcru.org/) which seems to have binaries on it, but I don't

Curses Subwin Resizing

2009-05-22 Thread Damian Johnson
Hi, I've been trying to make a curses application that's resilient to having the terminal resized (like 'top'). I've managed to make it capable of adjusting when the screen's width is changed (using getmaxyx) but changing the height is proving a little trickier. I'm using subwindows so I can

Re: Looking for module for shrinking a list with n-point means

2009-05-22 Thread Robert Kern
On 2009-05-22 08:50, Scott David Daniels wrote: Yash Ganthe wrote: I would like to shrink a large list in the following way: If the List has 1000 integers, we need only 100 averages such that the 1000 points are average for every 10 consecutive values. So p0 to p9 will be averaged to obtain t0.

Re: 4 hundred quadrillonth?

2009-05-22 Thread Mark Dickinson
On May 22, 3:28 pm, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this- cybersource.com.au wrote: On Thu, 21 May 2009 18:30:17 -0700, Gary Herron wrote: In py3k Eric Smith and Mark Dickinson have implemented Gay's floating point algorithm for Python so that the shortest repr that will round trip correctly

Re: ffmpeg and python big problem

2009-05-22 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 5/22/2009 11:38 AM Rhodri James said... On Fri, 22 May 2009 13:54:26 +0100, TerabyteST gabry...@gmail.com wrote: snip @Emile: if I can access MEncoder from python and give it the images one by one, using a stream like i'm doing in ffmpeg, or telling it a sequence to make a video from, I

Re: reseting an iterator

2009-05-22 Thread J. Cliff Dyer
On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 10:54 -0700, Jan wrote: On May 22, 9:46 am, J. Cliff Dyer j...@sdf.lonestar.org wrote: You don't need a reset method. There is no hard and fast rule that __iter__ must return the object itself. It just needs to return an iterator. I disagree. If ITRATOR is a

Re: define generator (glossary bug?)

2009-05-22 Thread Alan G Isaac
On 5/22/2009 1:44 PM s...@pobox.com apparently wrote: Note that the glossary page is on the wiki. Feel free to make corrections. Well, ok, I've done so: http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonGlossary But I'm just a user. Someone should check it. Thanks, Alan Isaac --

Re: package questions

2009-05-22 Thread Scott David Daniels
Daniel wrote: I'm on WinXP using Python 2.5 Sorry I didn't mention that at first. Generally, you want the full version number (my 2.5 is 2.5.4). However, I set up your demo setup, and found that 2.6.2 worked, and 2.5.4 failed in the same way you see. I also see that even inside the effects

Re: Your Favorite Python Book

2009-05-22 Thread News123
Evan Kroske wrote: Sam Tregar wrote: Greetings. I'm working on learning Python and I'm looking for good books to read. I'm almost done with Dive into Python and I liked it a lot. I found Programming Python a little dry the last time I looked at it, but I'm more motivated now so I might return

Re: package questions

2009-05-22 Thread Daniel
On May 22, 3:37 pm, Scott David Daniels scott.dani...@acm.org wrote: Daniel wrote: I'm on WinXP using Python 2.5  Sorry I didn't mention that at first. Generally, you want the full version number (my 2.5 is 2.5.4). However, I set up your demo setup, and found that 2.6.2 worked, and 2.5.4

Re: dbfpy - cannot store new record

2009-05-22 Thread John Machin
On 23/05/2009 12:32 AM, Laszlo Nagy wrote: dbfpy is very old code. Try setting up a CHAR(1) field and filling it with Y or N or T or F.. indicating yes,no,true or false... Unfortunately, my task is to import records into a database that is used by an old foxpro program. I'm not

Re: pushback iterator

2009-05-22 Thread Simon Forman
On May 17, 10:39 am, Matus mat...@gmail.com wrote: Hallo pylist, I searches web and python documentation for implementation of pushback iterator but found none in stdlib. problem: when you parse a file, often you have to read a line from parsed file before you can decide if you

Re: package questions

2009-05-22 Thread Scott David Daniels
Daniel wrote: Thanks for doing the experiment. I'll begin to consider testing with python 2.6 for a possible upgrade. I hope you know you can have different minor versions installed simultaneously. --Scott David Daniels scott.dani...@acm.org --

Re: defaultdict's bug or feature?

2009-05-22 Thread Red Forks
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 2:03 AM, Rhodri James rho...@wildebst.demon.co.ukwrote: I asked you not to top-post. Please put your replies *below* the messages you're quoting, not above. It's much easier to understand the conversation that we're having if you do that, and much more aggravating if

Re: reseting an iterator

2009-05-22 Thread J. Clifford Dyer
On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 10:54 -0700, Jan wrote: This produces an error because by definition of for-loops it is executed the same way as: temp_iterator = iter(y) # temp_iterator is y while True: try: print(next(temp_iterator)) # temp_iterator does not support __next__()

Background subprocess help?

2009-05-22 Thread danshumaker
Hi, I'm trying to do something as simple as this: sleep 10; mail -s test dans communicate_with_process which executes immediately because it is backgrounded with . or more generically in english: do some long process in the background; send me mail when it's done; allow me to quit the tool

Re: What's the use of the else in try/except/else?

2009-05-22 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message 8dc983db-b8c4-4897- a58b-969ca5f8e...@g20g2000vba.googlegroups.com, Beni Cherniavsky wrote: And yes, it's icky - not because of the ``else`` but because aquisition-release done correctly is always an icky pattern. Only in the presence of exceptions. --

Re: UDP reading on multiple sockets

2009-05-22 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message 27bd949f-80b5-44c9-8e3b- c12b49c7e...@r34g2000vbi.googlegroups.com, thomas.vo...@likeabird.de wrote: The only honest answer would be that I'm totaly unfamiliar with select and also the documentation I found wasn't able to clear the picture. So are there examples of using select

Re: 4 hundred quadrillonth?

2009-05-22 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 22 May 2009 13:05:59 -0700, Mark Dickinson wrote: With a sigh of relief, Yay! We now will have lots of subtle floating point bugs that people can't see! Ignorance is bliss and what you don't know about floating point can't hurt you! Why do you think this change will give rise to

Re: Looking for module for shrinking a list with n-point means

2009-05-22 Thread Yash Ganthe
Thanks John, The code u provided works for me. Indeed it is a simple requirement and I am a complete novice to Python. -Yash -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Ambiguous locale.strxfrm

2009-05-22 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Fri, 22 May 2009 06:32:40 -0300, Tuomas Vesterinen tuomas.vesteri...@iki.fi escribió: This was fixed once in Python 2.5, but in Python 3.0 the bug celebrates its comeback. The tail of the strxfrm result is ambiguous. Python 3.0.1 (r301:69556, Apr 14 2009, 14:30:31) [GCC 4.1.2 20070925

Re: Disabling Logging Handler for a Second

2009-05-22 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Fri, 22 May 2009 08:26:49 -0300, VenkataRamaKrishna Boddu bvrkchowd...@yahoo.co.in escribió: Is there any way, I can disable one logging Handler, while other Log Handler are still available for servicing. import logging; import sys; thelog = logging.getLogger('app.scsi.cdb');

Re: While Statement

2009-05-22 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Fri, 22 May 2009 21:33:05 +1000 Joel Ross jo...@cognyx.com wrote: changed it to float(number)/total*100 and it worked thanks for all your help appreciated I believe operator.truediv function also deserves a mention here, since line op.truediv(number, total) * 100 somehow seem to make more

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