converting PDF files is now an easy task

2014-12-24 Thread joshuaemsteves
There is a familiar chance Pdf to Doc wasn't going to take off as long as don't be an idiot and use this pdf to docx converter. I expect this was a bad hypothesis, but you really have to open your mind. While Pdf to Doc is used in those situations, it was shown that Pdf to Doc can provide more reli

Re: learning to use iterators

2014-12-24 Thread Ian Kelly
On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Rustom Mody wrote: > +1 for the slice in succinct form Not only more succinct but also more correct. The purpose of islice is to slice arbitrary iterables as opposed to just sequences. But this function requires a reentrant iterable anyway and returns garbage if y

Re: question on string object handling in Python 2.7.8

2014-12-24 Thread Gregory Ewing
Dave Tian wrote: A: a = ‘h’ > B: b = ‘hh’ According to me understanding, A should be faster as characters would shortcut this 1-byte string ‘h’ without malloc; It sounds like you're expecting characters to be stored "unboxed" like in Java. That's not the way Python works. Objects are used

Re: is pathlib Path.resolve working as intended?

2014-12-24 Thread random832
On Wed, Dec 24, 2014, at 09:09, Chris Cioffi wrote: > PS: For those who are curious, the 2 issues that seemed to hold things > up the most are non-Unix systems (Windows) and how to handle when there > is no home directory. Posix only says that the results are undefined. What did they end up do

Re: missing os.lchmod, os.lchflags

2014-12-24 Thread Tim Chase
On 2014-12-25 08:23, Chris Angelico wrote: >> On 2014-12-24 11:42, Ethan Furman wrote: >>> According to the docs [1] these functions should be available as >>> of 2.6, yet they are missing on a 2.7, 3.2, and 3.4 install >>> (ubuntu 12.10 and 14.04) > > http://bugs.python.org/issue7479 Indeed it d

Re: missing os.lchmod, os.lchflags

2014-12-24 Thread Ethan Furman
On 12/24/2014 01:23 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 7:22 AM, Tim Chase wrote: On 2014-12-24 11:42, Ethan Furman wrote: According to the docs [1] these functions should be available as of 2.6, yet they are missing on a 2.7, 3.2, and 3.4 install (ubuntu 12.10 and 14.04) Confir

Re: missing os.lchmod, os.lchflags

2014-12-24 Thread Ned Batchelder
On 12/24/14 2:42 PM, Ethan Furman wrote: According to the docs [1] these functions should be available as of 2.6, yet they are missing on a 2.7, 3.2, and 3.4 install (ubuntu 12.10 and 14.04) Any ideas why? In the Python source, I see this (https://hg.python.org/cpython/file/c5603b77df68/pycon

Re: missing os.lchmod, os.lchflags

2014-12-24 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 7:22 AM, Tim Chase wrote: > On 2014-12-24 11:42, Ethan Furman wrote: >> According to the docs [1] these functions should be available as of >> 2.6, yet they are missing on a 2.7, 3.2, and 3.4 install (ubuntu >> 12.10 and 14.04) > > Confirming the same absence of os.lchmod a

Re: learning to use iterators

2014-12-24 Thread Rustom Mody
On Wednesday, December 24, 2014 8:42:32 PM UTC+5:30, Vito De Tullio wrote: > Seb wrote: > > def n_grams(a, n): > > ... z = (islice(a, i, None) for i in range(n)) > > ... return zip(*z) > > ... > > > > I'm impressed at how succinctly this islice helps to build a list of > > tuples wit

Re: missing os.lchmod, os.lchflags

2014-12-24 Thread Tim Chase
On 2014-12-24 11:42, Ethan Furman wrote: > According to the docs [1] these functions should be available as of > 2.6, yet they are missing on a 2.7, 3.2, and 3.4 install (ubuntu > 12.10 and 14.04) Confirming the same absence of os.lchmod and os.lchflags in 2.7 and 3.2 on Debian Stable. tim@laptop

Re: learning to use iterators

2014-12-24 Thread Ben Finney
Terry Reedy writes: > On 12/23/2014 4:25 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > > To be clear: there's nothing about parentheses that produce a > > generator expression. > > Incorrect; parentheses *are* as a part of 'generator expression'. > From the doc: > generator_expression ::= "(" expression comp_for ")"

missing os.lchmod, os.lchflags

2014-12-24 Thread Ethan Furman
According to the docs [1] these functions should be available as of 2.6, yet they are missing on a 2.7, 3.2, and 3.4 install (ubuntu 12.10 and 14.04) Any ideas why? -- ~Ethan~ [1] https://docs.python.org/2/library/os.html#os.lchmod -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: question on string object handling in Python 2.7.8

2014-12-24 Thread Ian Kelly
On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 4:22 AM, Steven D'Aprano < steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > What happens here is that you time a piece of code to: > > - Build a large list containing 100 million individual int objects. Each int > object has to be allocated at run time, as does the list. Each

Re: object has no attribute 'ecrire'

2014-12-24 Thread fulgar36
yes very clear. thnk you for your help -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: what is wrong with d.clear()?

2014-12-24 Thread Rustom Mody
On Wednesday, December 24, 2014 8:53:54 PM UTC+5:30, shawool wrote: > I was unable to find an option to disable HTML mode. > Thanks for letting me know how to enable plain text mode. > I just followed the steps and hopefully this message is in plain text format. Your headers show Content-Type: t

Re: what is wrong with d.clear()?

2014-12-24 Thread shawool
I was unable to find an option to disable HTML mode. Thanks for letting me know how to enable plain text mode. I just followed the steps and hopefully this message is in plain text format. Regards, Shawool On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Rustom Mody wrote: > On Tuesday, December 23, 2014 6:30:

Re: learning to use iterators

2014-12-24 Thread Vito De Tullio
Seb wrote: def n_grams(a, n): > ... z = (islice(a, i, None) for i in range(n)) > ... return zip(*z) > ... > > I'm impressed at how succinctly this islice helps to build a list of > tuples with indices for all the required windows. If you want it succinctly, there is this variation o

Re: is pathlib Path.resolve working as intended?

2014-12-24 Thread Chris Cioffi
That's what I thought as well. Then I found https://bugs.python.org/issue19776 and it looks like this is a well known issue. Hopefully the patches are working and will be accepted in the next release or so. Given how often os.path.expanduser() is needed, I'm a little surprised that the path

Re: is pathlib Path.resolve working as intended?

2014-12-24 Thread Skip Montanaro
>>> p.resolve() ... FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/Users/chris/~' I've not used the pathlib module yet, but poked through the documentation. Oddly enough, I saw no mention of "~". The doc for the resolve method only mentions resolving symlinks. In addition, the pathlib d

Re: question on string object handling in Python 2.7.8

2014-12-24 Thread Ned Batchelder
On 12/23/14 8:28 PM, Dave Tian wrote: Hi, There are 2 statements: A: a = ‘h’ B: b = ‘hh’ According to me understanding, A should be faster as characters would shortcut this 1-byte string ‘h’ without malloc; B should be slower than A as characters does not work for 2-byte string ‘hh’, which tr

Re: question on string object handling in Python 2.7.8

2014-12-24 Thread Dave Angel
On 12/23/2014 08:28 PM, Dave Tian wrote: Hi, Hi, please do some things when you post new questions: 1) identify your Python version. In this case it makes a big difference, as in Python 2.x, the range function is the only thing that takes any noticeable time in this code. 2) when posting

Re: what is wrong with d.clear()?

2014-12-24 Thread Rustom Mody
On Tuesday, December 23, 2014 6:30:30 PM UTC+5:30, shawool wrote: > Thank you for answering my query. > > Fonts and colors are reset to defaults now. Sorry for the inconvenience > caused. > > Regards, > Shawool Sorry for the peevishness Are you using gmail? If so when you compose a message The

Re: OFF TOPIC Snow Crash [was Re: Hello World]

2014-12-24 Thread alister
On Tue, 23 Dec 2014 16:20:10 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2014-12-23, Steven D'Aprano > wrote: >> Chris Angelico wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 12:15 AM, Roy Smith wrote: If I really didn't trust something, I'd go to AWS and spin up one of their free-tier micro instances and

EuroPython 2015 will be in Bilbao, Spain !

2014-12-24 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
The EuroPython Society (EPS) is happy to announce that we have decided to accept the proposal from the on-site team ACPySS (http://www.pyss.org/) in Spain to hold EuroPython 2015 in Bilbao, Spain. The decision was made in Monday’s EPS board meeting. We are extremely happy to have received the prop

Re: Sending plain text messages (was: what is wrong with d.clear()?)

2014-12-24 Thread alister
On Wed, 24 Dec 2014 13:23:34 +1100, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > alister wrote: > >> for the same reason a pet hate of mine is a memo sent as an attached >> document when it could simply have been the body of the text. > > And then the attached document (a Word doc, naturally) simply says > "Please

Re: question on string object handling in Python 2.7.8

2014-12-24 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Dave Tian wrote: > Hi, > > There are 2 statements: > A: a = ‘h’ > B: b = ‘hh’ > > According to me understanding, A should be faster as characters would > shortcut this 1-byte string ‘h’ without malloc; B should be slower than A > as characters does not work for 2-byte string ‘hh’, which triggers

Re: object has no attribute 'ecrire'

2014-12-24 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 7:49 PM, wrote: > Thank for your answer Chris. > I'm a newbie and I just start to learn what is a class and attributes. But > when I read your tex I restart the shell and I create a new object and it > works. > Your message helps me and I think I create the object tab w

Re: how to generate a wsdl file for a web service in python

2014-12-24 Thread brice DORA
Le dimanche 21 décembre 2014 12:31:50 UTC, Burak Arslan a écrit : > On 12/19/14 12:45, brice DORA wrote: > > i have already my python file which contains all methods of my web service. > > so do you give a example or tell me how i can do it... > > No, all you need is there in that example. > > Y

Deploying a webservice in python

2014-12-24 Thread brice DORA
I created a web service with python tornado framework. I can test it via SoapUI and everything works now my challenge is to be able to deploy in itself and I do not know the procedures or at least the lib that can make this task much aisée..je works with python 2.7 thank you in advance for your

Re: object has no attribute 'ecrire'

2014-12-24 Thread fulgar36
Thank for your answer Chris. I'm a newbie and I just start to learn what is a class and attributes. But when I read your tex I restart the shell and I create a new object and it works. Your message helps me and I think I create the object tab with self surface and then I modified my TableauNoir

Re: Program calling unwanted functions

2014-12-24 Thread Dave Angel
On 12/22/2014 07:04 PM, sohcahto...@gmail.com wrote: def test(t): ... print(t) ... test(t+1) ... test(1) 1 2 3 4 998 999 Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "", line 3, in test File "", line 3, in test File "", line 3, in test File "", line 3,

question on string object handling in Python 2.7.8

2014-12-24 Thread Dave Tian
Hi, There are 2 statements: A: a = ‘h’ B: b = ‘hh’ According to me understanding, A should be faster as characters would shortcut this 1-byte string ‘h’ without malloc; B should be slower than A as characters does not work for 2-byte string ‘hh’, which triggers the malloc. However, when I put