[ANNOUNCE] PyGObject 2.21.3 - unstable

2010-06-21 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi, I am pleased to announce version 2.21.3 of the Python bindings for GObject. The new release is available from ftp.gnome.org as and its mirrors as soon as its synced correctly: http://download.gnome.org/sources/pygobject/2.21/ What's new since PyGObject 2.21.2? - Proper

[RELEASED] Python 2.7 release candidate 2

2010-06-21 Thread Benjamin Peterson
On behalf of the Python development team, I'm tickled pink to announce the second release candidate of Python 2.7. Python 2.7 is scheduled (by Guido and Python-dev) to be the last major version in the 2.x series. However, 2.7 will have an extended period of bugfix maintenance. 2.7 includes many

Updated Cygwin Package : python-2.6.5-2

2010-06-21 Thread Jason Tishler
*** Attention Cygwin Python module package maintainers: *** *** Cygwin has migrated from Python 2.5 to 2.6. *** *** Please build, test, and release your packages ASAP. *** New News: === I have updated the version of Python to 2.6.5-2. The tarballs should be available on a Cygwin

Re: setup server from scratch (with or without apache?)

2010-06-21 Thread Paul Rubin
News123 news1...@free.fr writes: 1.) What alternatives would exist compared to apache / mod_python I think you could use stunnel to listen on port 443 and forward it to a local port, where you'd have a python httpd, perhaps using the SimpleHTTPServer module. Stunnel uses OpenSSL which handles

Re: start and kill process by command promt

2010-06-21 Thread shanti bhushan
On Jun 21, 10:41 am, shanti bhushan ershantibhus...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I want to invoke local wen server named mogoose, and kill it after some time by python script. Then i want to change the argument and invoke it again. I am able to do this with below code. import subprocess import

Re: setup server from scratch (with or without apache?)

2010-06-21 Thread alex23
Paul Rubin no.em...@nospam.invalid wrote: mod_python is pretty dead. It's now totally dead[1]. (Not pining for the fjords, either.) 1: http://blog.dscpl.com.au/2010/06/modpython-project-is-now-officially.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: setup server from scratch (with or without apache?)

2010-06-21 Thread Stefan Behnel
News123, 20.06.2010 13:12: Now I have the opportunity to setup a server from scratch. 90% of the content will be non visual content over https with client AND server certificates. Access privileges will depend on the client certificate. I will only have one IP address and only port 443. 1.)

Re: Is this make sence? Dynamic assembler for python

2010-06-21 Thread Dave Angel
Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 18:21:43 -0400, Dave Angel wrote: Something's intrinsically wrong with the argument made in this thread against generating assembly code. That's exactly what happens every time you write code in C. I don't know whether C compilers generate

Re: Generator (re-)definition within a loop

2010-06-21 Thread Pierre Reinbold
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/18/2010 11:48 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: On 6/18/2010 3:57 PM, Pierre Reinbold wrote: def genexp_product(*args): pools = map(tuple, args) result = [[]] for pool in pools: result = (x+[y] for x in result for y in pool)

Re: plac 0.5 is out!

2010-06-21 Thread Andre Alexander Bell
On 06/21/2010 05:38 AM, Michele Simionato wrote: A few weeks ago I presented on this list my most recent effort, plac. http://micheles.googlecode.com/hg/plac/doc/plac_ext.html But this one is broken. :( Aagh! The good one is http://micheles.googlecode.com/hg/plac/doc/plac_adv.html.

Re: tkInter Listbox question

2010-06-21 Thread eb303
On Jun 21, 7:36 am, Anthony Papillion papill...@gmail.com wrote: So I'm trying to add a Listbox to my window. I want it to be the width of my window and the height of my window.  I'm using the following code ('root' is my toplevel window): gsItems = Listbox(root, width=root.winfo_width(),

process cannot access the file because it is being used by other process

2010-06-21 Thread shanti bhushan
Hi, i am using below code ,it works fine on ordinary python 26 ,but when i use this script in my python testing tool it gives me message process cannot access the file because it is being used by other process for the second time invoking of mongoose server. Please help me in handling this

Re: process cannot access the file because it is being used by other process

2010-06-21 Thread Tim Golden
On 21/06/2010 09:23, shanti bhushan wrote: i am using below code ,it works fine on ordinary python 26 ,but when i use this script in my python testing tool it gives me message process cannot access the file because it is being used by other process for the second time invoking of mongoose

Re: constructing an object from another instance of the same class

2010-06-21 Thread Jean-Michel Pichavant
Christoph Groth wrote: Dear all, sometimes it is handy to have a function which can take as argument anything which can be converted into something, e.g. def foo(arg): arg = float(arg) # ... I would like to mimic this behavior of float for a user-defined type, e.g. def bar(arg):

Re: Is this make sence? Dynamic assembler for python

2010-06-21 Thread Carl Banks
On Jun 21, 12:00 am, Dave Angel da...@ieee.org wrote: Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 18:21:43 -0400, Dave Angel wrote: Something's intrinsically wrong with the argument made in this thread against generating assembly code.  That's exactly what happens every time you write

Re: Pick items from list with probability based upon property of list member ?

2010-06-21 Thread southof40
Thanks to everybody ... as usual on c.l.p I'm blown away by the knowledge and skills ! I've added some replies/clarifications to other posts but thanks again to you all. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Pick items from list with probability based upon property of list member ?

2010-06-21 Thread southof40
Oh yes as several have pointed out there was a typo in my original question ... I can only blame 'toolongatscreenitis' ! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Pick items from list with probability based upon property of list member ?

2010-06-21 Thread southof40
On Jun 20, 10:53 pm, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this- cybersource.com.au wrote: On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 03:19:55 -0700, southof40 wrote: I have list of of N Vehicle objects - the only possible vehicles are cars, bikes, trucks. I want to select an object from the list with a probability of :

Re: setup server from scratch (with or without apache?)

2010-06-21 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
News123 a écrit : Hi, So far I never really had to ask this question and this is also, why I am stil a little shaky on this topic: So far the typical LAMP server existed already and contained already a lot of existing PHP web applications, which I couldn't remove. Therefore I just used

Re: Pick items from list with probability based upon property of list member ?

2010-06-21 Thread southof40
On Jun 20, 10:55 pm, Rob Williscroft r...@rtw.me.uk wrote: southof40 wrote in news:da3cc892-b6dd-4b37-a6e6- b606ef967...@t26g2000prt.googlegroups.com in gmane.comp.python.general: I have list of of N Vehicle objects - the only possible vehicles are cars, bikes, trucks. I want to select

Re: Pick items from list with probability based upon property of list member ?

2010-06-21 Thread southof40
On Jun 20, 11:27 pm, Mel mwil...@the-wire.com wrote: southof40 wrote: I have list of of N Vehicle objects - the only possible vehicles are cars, bikes, trucks. I want to select an object from the list with a probability of : cars 0.7, bikes 0.3, trucks 0.1. I've currently implemented

Re: Pick items from list with probability based upon property of list member ?

2010-06-21 Thread southof40
On Jun 20, 10:58 pm, Cameron Simpson c...@zip.com.au wrote: On 20Jun2010 12:44, Stefan Behnel stefan...@behnel.de wrote: | southof40, 20.06.2010 12:19: | I have list of of N Vehicle objects - the only possible vehicles are | cars, bikes, trucks. | | I want to select an object from the list

Re: Is this make sence? Dynamic assembler for python

2010-06-21 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 03:00:12 -0400, Dave Angel wrote: But the OP said of his friend: He dynamically generates mashine code and call that from python. I took that to mean he dynamically generated machine code, not that he hired some human to do it. Well, I suppose if his friend is a

Re: process cannot access the file because it is being used by other process

2010-06-21 Thread shanti bhushan
On Jun 21, 2:15 pm, Tim Golden m...@timgolden.me.uk wrote: On 21/06/2010 09:23, shanti bhushan wrote: i am using below code ,it works fine on ordinary python 26 ,but when i use this script in my python testing tool it gives me message process cannot access the file because it is being used

Re: setup server from scratch (with or without apache?)

2010-06-21 Thread Christian Heimes
I will only have one IP address and only port 443. 1.) What alternatives would exist compared to apache / mod_python You can use a combination of mod_proxy and mod_rewrite to set up a forwarding proxy in your Apache server. Let Apache deal with SSL, virtual hosting etc. Then bind your

Re: constructing an object from another instance of the same class

2010-06-21 Thread Carl Banks
On Jun 18, 3:55 pm, Christoph Groth c...@falma.de wrote: Bruno Desthuilliers bruno.42.desthuilli...@websiteburo.invalid writes: Anyway: the simplest solution here is to replace the call to your Base class with a call to a factory function. I'd probably go for something like (QD untested

Re: Is this make sence? Dynamic assembler for python

2010-06-21 Thread DivX
On 20 lip, 12:57, DivX sem.r...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 lip, 12:46, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this- cybersource.com.au wrote: On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 03:19:48 -0700, DivX wrote: On 20 lip, 02:52, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this- cybersource.com.au wrote: [...] I think that

Re: start and kill process by command promt

2010-06-21 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
There's no need to use taskill.exe; keep a reference of the subprocess.Popen() object around and use its kill() method instead. --- Giampaolo http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib http://code.google.com/p/psutil 2010/6/21 shanti bhushan ershantibhus...@gmail.com: On Jun 21, 10:41 am, shanti

deduping

2010-06-21 Thread dirknbr
Hi I have 2 files (done and outf), and I want to chose unique elements from the 2nd column in outf which are not in done. This code works but is not efficient, can you think of a quicker way? The a=1 is just a redundant task obviously, I put it this way around because I think 'in' is quicker than

Re: If Not CGI...

2010-06-21 Thread Victor Subervi
I really can't begin to thank you guys enough. Great information, goes without saying. A lot to consider. I would like to explore rewriting the shopping cart in Django. The reality of the matter may make it difficult. Working literally from the time I awake to when I go to sleep and not having

Decode II (more complex)

2010-06-21 Thread Thomas Lehmann
Hi all, I have written a small python xmlrpc server which checks logfiles of a build sending notifications to the responsible teams. On a machine I'm forced to a problem with one logfile with special characters inside generated by a gnu compiler. Using cheetah for generating the HTML mail I get

Re: deduping

2010-06-21 Thread Thomas Lehmann
universe={} for line in outf:     if line.split(',')[1].strip() in universe.keys():         a=1     else:         if line.split(',')[1].strip() in done_.keys():             a=1         else:             universe[line.split(',')[1].strip()]=0 I can not say too much because I don't see

Re: Is this make sence? Dynamic assembler for python

2010-06-21 Thread Dave Angel
Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 03:00:12 -0400, Dave Angel wrote: But the OP said of his friend: He dynamically generates mashine code and call that from python. I took that to mean he dynamically generated machine code, not that he hired some human to do it. Well, I

Re: deduping

2010-06-21 Thread python
Use a set instead of a dictionary for done keys? Malcolm -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: deduping

2010-06-21 Thread Dave Angel
dirknbr wrote: Hi I have 2 files (done and outf), and I want to chose unique elements from the 2nd column in outf which are not in done. This code works but is not efficient, can you think of a quicker way? The a=1 is just a redundant task obviously, I put it this way around because I think

Re: deduping

2010-06-21 Thread Peter Otten
dirknbr wrote: Hi I have 2 files (done and outf), and I want to chose unique elements from the 2nd column in outf which are not in done. This code works but is not efficient, can you think of a quicker way? The a=1 is just a redundant task obviously, I put it this way around because I

Re: If Not CGI...

2010-06-21 Thread Tim Chase
On 06/21/2010 07:40 AM, Victor Subervi wrote: I would like to explore rewriting the shopping cart in Django. The reality of the matter may make it difficult. Working literally from the time I awake to when I go to sleep and not having enough hours to complete everything I set for myself makes it

Re: process cannot access the file because it is being used by other process

2010-06-21 Thread Felipe Vinturini
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 7:18 AM, shanti bhushan ershantibhus...@gmail.comwrote: On Jun 21, 2:15 pm, Tim Golden m...@timgolden.me.uk wrote: On 21/06/2010 09:23, shanti bhushan wrote: i am using below code ,it works fine on ordinary python 26 ,but when i use this script in my python

Re: OT! Python vs... Objective-C!

2010-06-21 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-06-21, Stephen Hansen me+list/pyt...@ixokai.io wrote: [...] I'm just learning Objective-C on my spare time, and am having these entirely disturbing feelings of familiarity, where strange swirling thoughts enter my head that sound oddly like, This feels sorta Pythony, how oddly

Re: OT! Python vs... Objective-C!

2010-06-21 Thread Stephen Hansen
On 6/21/10 6:47 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2010-06-21, Stephen Hansen me+list/pyt...@ixokai.io wrote: [...] I'm just learning Objective-C on my spare time, and am having these entirely disturbing feelings of familiarity, where strange swirling thoughts enter my head that sound oddly

__slot__: what is it good for?

2010-06-21 Thread Alexander Eisenhuth
Hello out there, - what is the reason, that __slots__ are introduced in python? - I want to use slots to define a class where no attributes are added at runtime. Is that a good idea to use slots for that? Regards Alexander -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: __slot__: what is it good for?

2010-06-21 Thread James Mills
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 12:27 AM, Alexander Eisenhuth newsu...@stacom-software.de wrote: Hello out there, - what is the reason, that __slots__ are introduced in python? - I want to use slots to define a class where no attributes are added at runtime. Is that a good idea to use slots for

Re: Decode II (more complex)

2010-06-21 Thread John Bokma
Thomas Lehmann t.lehm...@rtsgroup.net writes: Hi all, I have written a small python xmlrpc server which checks logfiles of a build sending notifications to the responsible teams. On a machine I'm forced to a problem with one logfile with special characters inside generated by a gnu

Re: If Not CGI...

2010-06-21 Thread Victor Subervi
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Tim Chase python.l...@tim.thechases.comwrote: On 06/21/2010 07:40 AM, Victor Subervi wrote: I would like to explore rewriting the shopping cart in Django. The reality of the matter may make it difficult. Working literally from the time I awake to when I go to

Re: __slot__: what is it good for?

2010-06-21 Thread Stephen Hansen
On 6/21/10 7:27 AM, Alexander Eisenhuth wrote: Hello out there, - what is the reason, that __slots__ are introduced in python? - I want to use slots to define a class where no attributes are added at runtime. Is that a good idea to use slots for that? In short, its best to use __slots__

Re: __slot__: what is it good for?

2010-06-21 Thread Peter Otten
Alexander Eisenhuth wrote: - what is the reason, that __slots__ are introduced in python? When you have many instances of a class with a fixed set of attributes __slots__ can save you some memory because it avoids the overhead for the instance __dict__. Note that many means millions rather

Re: __slot__: what is it good for?

2010-06-21 Thread Stephen Hansen
On 6/21/10 8:08 AM, Stephen Hansen wrote: If you don't want a class to have attributes added at runtime, the Pythonic way to achieve that is to... simply add attributes at runtime. Errr. The Pythonic way to achieve that is to... simply NOT add attributes at runtime. I.e., choose to follow the

Re: Decode II (more complex)

2010-06-21 Thread Thomas Lehmann
Your email(s) get send as 7 bit (ASCII). Email them as utf-8 and I guess your problem is solved. How do you email the notifications? I was copying partly the logic from http://code.activestate.com/recipes/473810 Changing to buffer.decode(utf-8, 'replace') where I'm reading the file and

Re: tkInter Listbox question

2010-06-21 Thread rantingrick
On Jun 21, 12:36 am, Anthony Papillion papill...@gmail.com wrote: So I'm trying to add a Listbox to my window. I want it to be the width of my window and the height of my window.  I'm using the following code ('root' is my toplevel window): gsItems = Listbox(root, width=root.winfo_width(),

Re: Is this make sence? Dynamic assembler for python

2010-06-21 Thread David Cournapeau
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Steven D'Aprano steve-remove-t...@cybersource.com.au wrote: On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 22:45:14 +0100, Rhodri James wrote: Mixing Python and assembler is a bizarre thing to want to do in general, but... On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 01:52:15 +0100, Steven D'Aprano

Re: Is this make sence? Dynamic assembler for python

2010-06-21 Thread MRAB
David Cournapeau wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Steven D'Aprano steve-remove-t...@cybersource.com.au wrote: On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 22:45:14 +0100, Rhodri James wrote: Mixing Python and assembler is a bizarre thing to want to do in general, but... On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 01:52:15 +0100,

[RELEASED] Python 2.7 release candidate 2

2010-06-21 Thread Benjamin Peterson
On behalf of the Python development team, I'm tickled pink to announce the second release candidate of Python 2.7. Python 2.7 is scheduled (by Guido and Python-dev) to be the last major version in the 2.x series. However, 2.7 will have an extended period of bugfix maintenance. 2.7 includes many

Where is the help function defined?

2010-06-21 Thread Peng Yu
help(help) gives me the following explanation. ## Help on _Helper in module site object: class _Helper(__builtin__.object) | Define the built-in 'help'. | This is a wrapper around pydoc.help (with a twist). | | Methods defined here: | | __call__(self, *args, **kwds) |

Re: Is this make sence? Dynamic assembler for python

2010-06-21 Thread Stephen Hansen
On 6/21/10 10:12 AM, MRAB wrote: A human can write better assembly code than a compiler, but would take a much longer, and usually for not much gain, so it's usually a waste of time (premature optimisation, and all that). When you get to the point where you're considering writing something in

Re: Where is the help function defined?

2010-06-21 Thread Stephen Hansen
On 6/21/10 10:17 AM, Peng Yu wrote: Help on _Helper in module site object: It says so right here. I then looked at pydoc site. But I don't see an entry on help(). How to figure out where help() (or a function in general) is defined? Generally: Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Feb 11 2010,

Re: Where is the help function defined?

2010-06-21 Thread Thomas Jollans
On 06/21/2010 07:17 PM, Peng Yu wrote: help(help) gives me the following explanation. [snip] I then looked at pydoc site. But I don't see an entry on help(). How to figure out where help() (or a function in general) is defined? type(dir) class 'builtin_function_or_method' type(help)

ANNOUNCING Tahoe, the Least-Authority File System, v1.7.0

2010-06-21 Thread Zooko O'Whielacronx
Dear people of python-list: We just released Tahoe-LAFS v1.7, the secure distributed filesystem written entirely [*] in Python. The major new feature is an SFTP server. This means that (with enough installing software and tinkering with your operating system configuration) you can have a

What module to parse/generate ical files?

2010-06-21 Thread Grant Edwards
What module is recommended for parsing/generating ical files? Specifically, I'd like to parse invitations generated by MS Outlook and generate accept/decline responses. I've tinkered with iCalendar 1.2, and have had some success after manualling munging/filtering the data for some fields:

Re: Where is the help function defined?

2010-06-21 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 6/21/2010 10:17 AM Peng Yu said... help(help) gives me the following explanation. snip I then looked at pydoc site. But I don't see an entry on help(). How to figure out where help() (or a function in general) is defined? ActivePython 2.4.1 Build 247 (ActiveState Corp.) based on Python

Re: Where is the help function defined?

2010-06-21 Thread Terry Reedy
On 6/21/2010 1:17 PM, Peng Yu wrote: help(help) gives me the following explanation. ## Help on _Helper in module site object: class _Helper(__builtin__.object) | Define the built-in 'help'. See 'built-in'? | This is a wrapper around pydoc.help (with a twist). | |

Re: Generator (re-)definition within a loop

2010-06-21 Thread Thomas Jollans
On 06/21/2010 09:29 AM, Pierre Reinbold wrote: [snip] Another try to avoid infinite recursion: def badgen_product2(*args, **kwds): pools = map(tuple, args) result = [[]] for pool in pools: def augments(): for x in result: This line is executed when you

Re: deduping

2010-06-21 Thread Paul Rubin
dirknbr dirk...@gmail.com writes: done_={} for line in done: done_[line.strip()]=0 ... Maybe you mean: done_ = set(line.strip() for line in done) outf_ = set(line.split(',')[1] for line in outf) universe = done_ outf # this finds the set intersection --

Re: __slot__: what is it good for?

2010-06-21 Thread Terry Reedy
On 6/21/2010 11:24 AM, Stephen Hansen wrote: On 6/21/10 8:08 AM, Stephen Hansen wrote: If you don't want a class to have attributes added at runtime, the The Pythonic way to achieve that is to... simply NOT add attributes at runtime. I.e., choose to follow the rule you've decided on. Or

Re: Generator (re-)definition within a loop

2010-06-21 Thread Terry Reedy
On 6/21/2010 3:29 AM, Pierre Reinbold wrote: On 06/18/2010 11:48 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: Let's apply Reedy's Rule: when you have trouble understanding a function expression, replace it with the (near) equivalent def statement. (Among other advantages, one can insert print calls!) Genexps,

Re: Decode II (more complex)

2010-06-21 Thread John Bokma
Thomas Lehmann t.lehm...@rtsgroup.net writes: Your email(s) get send as 7 bit (ASCII). Email them as utf-8 and I guess your problem is solved. How do you email the notifications? I was copying partly the logic from http://code.activestate.com/recipes/473810 Changing to

Re: __slot__: what is it good for?

2010-06-21 Thread Stephen Hansen
On 6/21/10 11:06 AM, Terry Reedy wrote: On 6/21/2010 11:24 AM, Stephen Hansen wrote: On 6/21/10 8:08 AM, Stephen Hansen wrote: If you don't want a class to have attributes added at runtime, the The Pythonic way to achieve that is to... simply NOT add attributes at runtime. I.e., choose to

Re: Help with suds: HTTP Error 401

2010-06-21 Thread plainsane
On Jun 19, 12:16 pm, Sean DiZazzo half.ital...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 11, 5:27 am, Eric von Horst z80vsvi...@hotmail.com wrote: I have small program that tries to open a wsdl. When I execute the program I am getting 'suds.transport.TransportError: HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized' Hey Eric,

Re: process cannot access the file because it is being used by other process

2010-06-21 Thread Chris Rebert
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 6:44 AM, Felipe Vinturini felipe.vintur...@gmail.com wrote: snip Your problem seems to be with stdout redirect to the same file: YourOutput1.txt. Windows is not like Unix like systems! You can try, instead of redirecting to the same file, redirect each to a separate

Re: process cannot access the file because it is being used by other process

2010-06-21 Thread Thomas Jollans
On 06/21/2010 12:18 PM, shanti bhushan wrote: [snip] i used below code import subprocess import time def invoke_server1(): proc = subprocess.Popen(r'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /C D: \372\pythonweb\mongoose-2.8.exe -root D:\New1\') invoke_server1() time.sleep(10)

Re: Is this make sence? Dynamic assembler for python

2010-06-21 Thread Rhodri James
On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 04:34:40 +0100, Steven D'Aprano steve-remove-t...@cybersource.com.au wrote: On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 22:45:14 +0100, Rhodri James wrote: No. Modern C compilers often produce very good machine code, but the best hand-written assembly code will be better. I can usually write

Re: What module to parse/generate ical files?

2010-06-21 Thread Michael Crute
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Grant Edwards inva...@invalid.invalid wrote: What module is recommended for parsing/generating ical files? However, I'm not sure it's being maintained.  Despite the claim on the above page that the current version is 2.1, The latest version I can find is v1.2

What is the difference between 'type' and 'class'?

2010-06-21 Thread Peng Yu
pydoc xrange says: Help on class xrange in module __builtin__: class xrange(object) python_2.6.5_library.pdf says: Objects of type xrange are similar to buffers Are type and class synonyms? It seems that they are at least according to some webpages that I read. But I'm not completely sure.

[ANN] python-signalfd 0.1 released

2010-06-21 Thread exarkun
Hello all, I'm happy to announce the initial release of python-signalfd. This simple package wraps the sigprocmask(2) and signalfd(2) calls, useful for interacting with POSIX signals in slightly more advanced ways than can be done with the built-in signal module. You can find the package

Re: What is the difference between 'type' and 'class'?

2010-06-21 Thread Thomas Jollans
On 06/22/2010 12:11 AM, Peng Yu wrote: pydoc xrange says: Help on class xrange in module __builtin__: class xrange(object) python_2.6.5_library.pdf says: Objects of type xrange are similar to buffers Are type and class synonyms? It seems that they are at least according to some

Re: What is the difference between 'type' and 'class'?

2010-06-21 Thread Stephen Hansen
On 6/21/10 3:11 PM, Peng Yu wrote: Are type and class synonyms? It seems that they are at least according to some webpages that I read. But I'm not completely sure. Could you let me know in case my impress is wrong? Once upon a time, a type was something that was only built-in, provided by

float from numbers in text file

2010-06-21 Thread davidgp
hello, i have a text file that contains gps coordinates that i want to load into my mysql database the file is basically in this format: 52.2375412 5.1802704 i basically tried this: lat =0.0 for line in f: lat = float(line) but this gives an error.. does anyone know what i should to do?

Re: float from numbers in text file

2010-06-21 Thread Stephen Hansen
On 6/21/10 3:54 PM, davidgp wrote: i basically tried this: lat =0.0 for line in f: lat = float(line) but this gives an error.. does anyone know what i should to do? thanks, An error? Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Feb 11 2010, 00:51:29) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)] on darwin Type

Re: float from numbers in text file

2010-06-21 Thread davidgp
On Jun 21, 4:00 pm, Stephen Hansen me+list/pyt...@ixokai.io wrote: On 6/21/10 3:54 PM, davidgp wrote: i basically tried this: lat =0.0 for line in f:   lat = float(line) but this gives an error.. does anyone know what i should to do? thanks, An error? Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515,

Re: float from numbers in text file

2010-06-21 Thread Stephen Hansen
On 6/21/10 4:03 PM, davidgp wrote: sorry :) Okay, I should be more specific: include full tracebacks and some real copied and pasted code :) Don't throw away nice debugging information Python gave you, feed it to us. invalid literal for long() with base 10: '51.9449702' this is the error

Re: float from numbers in text file

2010-06-21 Thread davidgp
On Jun 21, 4:18 pm, Stephen Hansen me+list/pyt...@ixokai.io wrote: On 6/21/10 4:03 PM, davidgp wrote: sorry :) Okay, I should be more specific: include full tracebacks and some real copied and pasted code :) Don't throw away nice debugging information Python gave you, feed it to us.

Re: tkInter Listbox question

2010-06-21 Thread Anthony Papillion
Thank you, RantingRick and EB303. Much appreciated and it looks like it works fine now. Still learning but I am amazed every single day how simple Python is! Thanks Again, Anthony Papillion -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: float from numbers in text file

2010-06-21 Thread GMail Felipe
On 21/06/2010, at 20:26, davidgp davidvanijzendo...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 21, 4:18 pm, Stephen Hansen me+list/pyt...@ixokai.io wrote: On 6/21/10 4:03 PM, davidgp wrote: sorry :) Okay, I should be more specific: include full tracebacks and some real copied and pasted code :) Don't

Re: float from numbers in text file

2010-06-21 Thread Stephen Hansen
On 6/21/10 4:26 PM, davidgp wrote: ah, i see :P float(45.34) or whatever does work fine, but the problem is that i'm reading it from a text file. so somehow it is not a real string or whatever.. here's a part of the code: f = open ('/home/david/out.txt', 'r') for line in f: if tel ==6:

Re: setup server from scratch (with or without apache?)

2010-06-21 Thread News123
News123 wrote: Hi, So far I never really had to ask this question and this is also, why I am stil a little shaky on this topic: So far the typical LAMP server existed already and contained already a lot of existing PHP web applications, which I couldn't remove. Therefore I just used

Problem using pbzip2 with bz2.BZ2File().read()

2010-06-21 Thread Ameet Nanda
When I compress a file with bzip2 from command line and read it with *uncomp_data = bz2.BZ2File(fname).read()* , it reads the whole file into uncomp_data. However when I compress the file with pbzip2 from command line and read it in a similar way* it just reads the block size of data* used for

Re: float from numbers in text file

2010-06-21 Thread davidgp
On Jun 21, 5:13 pm, Stephen Hansen me+list/pyt...@ixokai.io wrote: On 6/21/10 4:26 PM, davidgp wrote: ah, i see :P float(45.34) or whatever does work fine, but the problem is that i'm reading it from a text file. so somehow it is not a real string or whatever.. here's a part of the

Re: setup server from scratch (with or without apache?)

2010-06-21 Thread News123
Hi Kruptein, Kruptein wrote: I think that apache and mod_python are good enough, but I'm not an expert. but I think that the security aspect for a large part depends on how secure your code is. You can have a very secure server setting, but somewhere a bug in your code that makes it

[ANN] AutoRecalcDict 0.1.1 released

2010-06-21 Thread Steven W. Orr
AutoRecalcDict is a subclass of dict that allows programmers to create user defined dependencies and functions on target keys. You can find it at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/AutoRecalcDict/0.1.1 I recently was designing tests for radio frequency analysis (about which, I know nothing). All of

Re: What is the difference between 'type' and 'class'?

2010-06-21 Thread Terry Reedy
On 6/21/2010 6:11 PM, Peng Yu wrote: pydoc xrange says: Help on class xrange in module __builtin__: class xrange(object) python_2.6.5_library.pdf says: Objects of type xrange are similar to buffers Are type and class synonyms? It seems that they are at least according to some webpages that

Re: Is this make sence? Dynamic assembler for python

2010-06-21 Thread alex23
DivX sem.r...@gmail.com wrote: Another thing is that when you have assembler now you can write some small C compiler so that you don’t have to write assembly language. That has to be the most paradoxical argument I've ever heard: when you use assembler you have the ability to not use assembler

Re: What is the difference between 'type' and 'class'?

2010-06-21 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:43:01 -0700, Stephen Hansen wrote: many types are fundamentally immutable(i.e., ints, strings), and its awful hard to make an immutable class. It's really simple if you can inherit from an existing immutable class. class K(tuple): pass Of course, that lets you add

Re: Problem using pbzip2 with bz2.BZ2File().read()

2010-06-21 Thread Chris Rebert
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Ameet Nanda ameet.na...@gmail.com wrote: When I compress a file with bzip2 from command line and read it with uncomp_data = bz2.BZ2File(fname).read() , it reads the whole file into uncomp_data. However when I compress the file with pbzip2 from command line and

[issue9026] [argparse] Subcommands not printed in the same order they were added

2010-06-21 Thread Javier Collado
Javier Collado javier.coll...@gmail.com added the comment: Working on it. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9026 ___ ___

[issue9039] IDLE and module Doc

2010-06-21 Thread Martin v . Löwis
Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de added the comment: You will need to delete TCL_LIBRARY and TK_LIBRARY in your environment settings. -- nosy: +loewis ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9039

[issue9040] using MIMEApplication to attach a PDF raises a TypeError exception

2010-06-21 Thread Enrico Sartori
New submission from Enrico Sartori enry...@gmail.com: To send an email with a PDF attachment the following code should work: msg = MIMEMultipart() msg['From'] = from msg['To'] = to msg['Subject'] = 'test' fp = open('/path/to/file.pdf', 'rb') attach = MIMEApplication(fp.read(), 'pdf') fp.close()

[issue8854] msvc9compiler.py: find_vcvarsall() doesn't work with VS2008 on Windows x64

2010-06-21 Thread Marc-Andre Lemburg
Marc-Andre Lemburg m...@egenix.com added the comment: Tarek Ziadé wrote: Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com added the comment: The patch looks good but I am not comfortable with this change until it's tested under other windows/VC flavors. The patch is really trivial, but I'll test it on

[issue8854] msvc9compiler.py: find_vcvarsall() doesn't work with VS2008 on Windows x64

2010-06-21 Thread Tarek Ziadé
Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com added the comment: I am adding srid in the nosy list. I believe he can test those platforms as well if he's around -- nosy: +srid ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue8854

[issue8340] bytearray undocumented on trunk

2010-06-21 Thread Mark Dickinson
Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com added the comment: This affects 2.6 as well, doesn't it? -- nosy: +mark.dickinson versions: +Python 2.6 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue8340

[issue8340] bytearray undocumented on trunk

2010-06-21 Thread Éric Araujo
Changes by Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org: -- assignee: georg.brandl - d...@python nosy: +d...@python ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue8340 ___

[issue8854] msvc9compiler.py: find_vcvarsall() doesn't work with VS2008 on Windows x64

2010-06-21 Thread Konstantin Zemlyak
Konstantin Zemlyak z...@zartsoft.ru added the comment: Win2003 x64, VS2008, vanilla python 2.7rc1 amd64 from python.org. Building python packages with C extensions works fine. Tested on simplejson, jinja2 (with enabled speedups) and PIL. -- nosy: +zart

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