Re: Import Doesn't Import

2014-10-16 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 10/15/2014 5:40 PM, ryguy7272 wrote: ImportError: No module named 'urllib2' I'm telling Python to import because it doesn't exist and it throws an error. I don't get it; I just don't get it. If I'm working with R, I can import thousands of libraries with no errors whatsoever. With

Re: High water Memory fragmentation still a thing?

2014-10-09 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 10/8/2014 10:28 AM, bryanjugglercryptograp...@yahoo.com.dmarc.invalid wrote: That doesn't mean to tell a human administrator to regularly restart the server. It's programmatic and it's a reasonably simple and well-established design pattern. I'd call it more a compensation technique

Re: Syntax error in python unittest script

2014-09-24 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 9/24/2014 12:33 PM, Milson Munakami wrote: def tearDown(self): if self.failed: return duration = time.time() - self.startTime_ self.cleanup(True) if self.reportStatus_:

Re: protocol.py, brine.py, and compat.py causing trouble

2014-09-15 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 9/13/2014 11:44 PM, Josh English wrote: I do not know what these three filesare doing, but suddenly they have caught in a loop every time I try to run some code. snip This is where I managed to send a keybord interrupt. I was working just fine, tweaking a line, running the code,

Re: Problem Installing Python

2014-09-11 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 9/11/2014 12:31 PM, osemen tosin wrote: Hi there, I tried installing Python and I could not continue without getting this error. There is a problem with this installer package. A DLL required for this install to complete could not be run. Contact your support personnel or vendor package.

Re: Why Python 4.0 won't be like Python 3.0

2014-08-18 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 8/18/2014 2:09 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2014-08-18, Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us wrote: On 08/18/2014 07:51 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: To all of us out here in user-land a change in the first value in the version tuple means breakage and incompatibilities. And when the second value is

Re: Dict when defining not returning multi value key error

2014-07-31 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 7/31/2014 2:16 PM, Ian Kelly wrote: On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote: On 7/31/2014 7:24 AM, Dilu Sasidharan wrote: I am wondering why the dictionary in python not returning multi value key error when i define something like p = {'k':value0,'k':value1}

Re: What is best way to learn Python for advanced developer?

2014-07-30 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 7/30/2014 1:47 PM, guirec.cor...@gmail.com wrote: That's cool but not very exhaustive. Do you more sources? I'd normally suggest reviewing the standard library after getting comfortable with the basics -- see https://docs.python.org/2/library/ But, if you've already done that and want to

Re: Python 3 is killing Python

2014-07-17 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 7/17/2014 11:15 AM, Rick Johnson wrote: Sadly, all of my calls to improve IDLE have been meet with rebukes about me whining. The powers that be would wise to *UTILIZE* and *ENCOURAGE* my participation instead of *IGNORING* valuable talent and *IMPEDING* the expansion of this private boys

Re: Entreprise level python tcp server

2014-07-09 Thread Emile van Sebille
EVE online uses stackless python (http://highscalability.com/eve-online-architecture) and has seen a max of some 40k simultaneous users. You might want to look into how they do it. Emile On 7/9/2014 3:36 AM, Arulnambi Nandagoban wrote: Hello all, Can anyone tell me the reliability level

Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces

2014-07-04 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 7/4/2014 7:57 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 04/07/2014 15:28, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2014-07-03, Emile van Sebille em...@fenx.com wrote: snip Just watch out for mixed tabs and spaces in the same file -- a tab counts as eight spaces and can be used interchangeably in python2. Definitely

Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces

2014-07-03 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 7/3/2014 2:23 PM, Tobiah wrote: I think your suggestion of having GIT handle the transformations is the way we'll go. nothing to quibble or worry about. Well put spaces in the repository since it still seems to be the community's preference and I'll convert to tabs with GIT on the fly.

Re: Newbie coding question

2014-06-26 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 6/26/2014 11:53 AM, Martin S wrote: Hi, I've been following the tutorial here http://anh.cs.luc.edu/python/hands-on/3.1/handsonHtml/ But when I get to section 1.10 there is person = input('Enter your name:') However this generates an error person = input('Enter your name: ') Enter

Re: Introdution

2014-06-02 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 6/2/2014 3:56 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 02/06/2014 23:01, Hisham Mughal wrote: HI! plz tell me about books for python i am beginner of this lang.. Regards, Hisham Either http://www.diveintopython.net/ or http://www.diveintopython3.net/ depending on whether you're using Python 2 or 3.

Re: Basic help

2014-05-20 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 5/20/2014 7:25 AM, Pat Fourie wrote: Good Day all. I am new to Python. Welcome -- I need to maintain software written on Python 1.5.2. I'd point you to the tutorial for a start. See the docs at https://docs.python.org/release/1.5.2/ I will upgrade after learning more. My question

Re: which book to read next??

2014-04-21 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 4/21/2014 7:13 AM, lee wrote: 4, the python standard library by examples I'd take this on -- it provides a comprehensive overview of what's where in the standard library which you'll likely use a lot. which one is suitable for me?? That we can't answer. :) Emile --

Re: Save to a file, but avoid overwriting an existing file

2014-03-12 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 3/12/2014 5:29 AM, zoom wrote: 2. Alternatively, a unique string could be generated to assure that no same file exists. I can see one approach to this is to include date and time in the file name. But this seems to me a bit clumsy, and is not unique, i.e. it could happen (at least in theory)

Re: find and replace string in binary file

2014-03-05 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 3/5/2014 1:59 AM, loial wrote: Unfortunately I have to use python 2.6 for this Did you try it? Emile -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python

2014-02-24 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 2/24/2014 12:31 AM, Karthik Reddy wrote: I worked as a weblogic administrator and now i am changing to development and i am very much interested in python . please suggest me what are the things i need to learn more rather than python to get an I.T job. I came to know about

Re: Python 2.7 importing pyc files without py files

2014-02-19 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 2/19/2014 2:03 PM, Mircescu Andrei wrote: If there are only pyc files, the loading time of the application is much more than if I have pyc and py files. It is behind with 2 minutes more than if it had py files You may get some clues by starting python as /path/to/python/python2.7 -vv

Re: Puzzling PDF

2014-02-16 Thread Emile van Sebille
You On 2/16/2014 6:00 AM, F.R. wrote: Hi all, Struggling to parse bank statements unavailable in sensible data-transfer formats, I use pdftotext, which solves part of the problem. The other day I encountered a strange thing, when one single figure out of many erroneously converted into letters.

Re: A curious bit of code...

2014-02-13 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 2/13/2014 11:59 AM, Zachary Ware wrote: In a fit of curiosity, I did some timings: Snip of lots of TMTOWTDT/TIMTOWTDI/whatever... timed examples :) But I didn't see this one: s[::len(s)-1] Emile -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: A curious bit of code...

2014-02-13 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 2/13/2014 1:10 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 8:06 AM, Peter Otten __pete...@web.de wrote: For the record: s = x s[::len(s)-1] Traceback (most recent call last): File stdin, line 1, in module ValueError: slice step cannot be zero And that, my friends, is a classic

Re: Can post a code but afraid of plagiarism

2014-01-23 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 1/23/2014 1:15 PM, indar kumar wrote: On Saturday, January 18, 2014 3:21:42 PM UTC-7, indar kumar wrote: Hi, I want to show a code for review but afraid of plagiarism issues. Kindly, suggest how can I post it for review here without masking it visible for public

Re: Can post a code but afraid of plagiarism

2014-01-23 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 1/23/2014 1:34 PM, indar kumar wrote: On Saturday, January 18, 2014 3:21:42 PM UTC-7, indar kumar wrote: Hi, I want to show a code for review but afraid of plagiarism issues. Kindly, suggest how can I post it for review here without masking it visible for public Just the value

Re: Diving in to Python - Best resources?

2014-01-20 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 1/20/2014 11:34 AM, Matt Watson wrote: My question to you guys is... for someone like me, what route would you take to learning Python? I'd work my way through the tutorial [1] then pick a work based project and start right in. Ask questions along the way. Emile [1]

Re: question about input() and/or raw_input()

2014-01-18 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 01/18/2014 10:30 AM, Roy Smith wrote: Pardon me for being cynical, but in the entire history of the universe, has anybody ever used input()/raw_input() for anything other than a homework problem? Yes - routinely. Emile -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python first project

2014-01-12 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 01/11/2014 09:14 PM, ngangsia akumbo wrote: From all indication it is a very huge project. Yep -- I built such a system in the late 70's with a team of seven over two-three years. Then modifications and improvements continued over the next 20 years keeping about 2-4 programmers busy

Re: Python example source code

2014-01-12 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 01/12/2014 06:37 AM, ngangsia akumbo wrote: where can i find example source code by topic? I'd recommend http://effbot.org/librarybook/ even though it's v2 specific and somewhat dated. Emile -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Problem writing some strings (UnicodeEncodeError)

2014-01-12 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 01/12/2014 07:36 AM, Paulo da Silva wrote: Hi! I am using a python3 script to produce a bash script from lots of filenames got using os.walk. I have a template string for each bash command in which I replace a special string with the filename and then write the command to the bash script

Re: Editor for Python

2014-01-08 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 1/8/2014 12:47 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: For a Python editor, as opposed to a general code editor, the Idle editor works pretty well and has some advantages with respect to integration with the interpreter. While true, ISTM in the past there have been 'leakage' related issues with idle --

Re: Editor for Python

2014-01-08 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 1/8/2014 3:46 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: On 1/8/2014 3:56 PM, Emile van Sebille wrote: On 1/8/2014 12:47 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: For a Python editor, as opposed to a general code editor, the Idle editor works pretty well and has some advantages with respect to integration with the interpreter

Re: informal #python2.8 channel on freenode

2014-01-06 Thread Emile van Sebille
Why not contribute to the planned Stackless 2.8? As I understand their direction, they'll be backporting certain v3.x features and will be prepping both SLP and nonSLP versions. Emile On 01/06/2014 04:45 AM, Martijn Faassen wrote: Fellow Pythoneers, I've started an informal channel

Re: More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3

2014-01-05 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 01/05/2014 02:32 PM, Serhiy Storchaka wrote: I wonder why nobody complains about the absent of implicit conversion between int and str. In PHP you can write 2 + 3 and got 5, but in Python this is an error. So sad! I'd want my implicit conversion of 2 + '3' to get '23' That's why it's not

Re: Compare list entry from csv files

2012-11-26 Thread Emile van Sebille
Anatoli Hristov wrote: I understand, but in my case I have for sure the field Name in the second file that contains at least the first or the last name on it... So probably it should be possible:) The Name Billgatesmicrosoft contains the word Gates so logically I might find a solution for it.

Re: Is there a simpler way to modify all arguments in a function before using the arguments?

2012-11-15 Thread Emile van Sebille
brucegoodst...@gmail.com wrote: Using a decorator works when named arguments are not used. When named arguments are used, unexpected keyword error is reported. Is there a simple fix? Extend def wrapper(*args) to handle *kwargs as well Emile Code: - from functools import wraps def

Re: Fast forward-backward (write-read)

2012-10-24 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 10/23/2012 4:35 PM, emile wrote: So, let's see, at that point in time (building backward) you've got probably somewhere close to 400-500Gb in memory. My guess -- probably not so fast. Thrashing is sure to be a factor on all but machines I'll never have a chance to work on. I went

Re: get each pair from a string.

2012-10-22 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 10/21/2012 9:19 PM, Ian Foote wrote: On 22/10/12 09:03, Emile van Sebille wrote: So, as OP's a self confessed newbie asking about slicing, why provide an example requiring knowledge of tee, enumerate, next and izip? Because not only the newbie will read the thread? I for one

Re: get each pair from a string.

2012-10-21 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 10/21/2012 11:33 AM, Vincent Davis wrote: I am looking for a good way to get every pair from a string. For example, input: x = 'apple' output 'ap' 'pp' 'pl' 'le' I am not seeing a obvious way to do this without multiple for loops, but maybe there is not :-) In the end I am going to what to

Re: get each pair from a string.

2012-10-21 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 10/21/2012 11:51 AM, Ian Kelly wrote: On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Vincent Davis vinc...@vincentdavis.net wrote: I am looking for a good way to get every pair from a string. For example, input: x = 'apple' output 'ap' 'pp' 'pl' 'le' I am not seeing a obvious way to do this without

Re: get each pair from a string.

2012-10-21 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 10/21/2012 12:06 PM, Ian Kelly wrote: On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Vincent Davis vinc...@vincentdavis.net wrote: x = 'apple' for f in range(len(x)-1): print(x[f:f+2]) @Ian, Thanks for that I was just looking in to that. I wonder which is faster I have a large set of strings to

Re: Python does not take up available physical memory

2012-10-19 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 10/19/2012 10:08 AM, Pradipto Banerjee wrote: Hi, I am trying to read a file into memory. The size of the file is around 1 GB. I have a 3GB memory PC and the Windows Task Manager shows 2.3 GB available physical memory when I was trying to read the file. I tried to read the file as follows:

Re: how to insert random error in a programming

2012-10-15 Thread Emile van Sebille
Debashish Saha wrote: how to insert random error in a programming? Make the changes late in the day then leave for the weekend? Emile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: numpy - 2D matrix/array - initialization like in Matlab...

2012-10-15 Thread Emile van Sebille
someone wrote: How to initialize my array directly using variables ? It could also be that I wanted: test11 = 1 test12 = 1.5 test13 = 2 test21 = 0 test22 = 5 Dx = numpy.matrix('test11 test12 test13; test21 test22 -0.5; 0 -0.5 1.5') Etc... for many variables... Appreciate ANY help, thank you

Re: test

2012-09-27 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 9/27/2012 2:58 PM Rikishi42 said... Inboxes? What is this, usenet or email ? Yes. Both. Emile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: One of my joomla webpages has been hacked. Please help.

2012-09-26 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 9/26/2012 6:06 PM Wayne Werner said... On Sun, 23 Sep 2012, Dwight Hutto wrote: snip We're the borg. Oh, so you *are* a robot. That does explain your posts ;) Damn. Now I'll forever more hear Stephen Hawkin's voice as I read the repeated contexts. Maybe that'll help. EMile --

Re: technologies synergistic with Python

2012-09-22 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 9/21/2012 2:59 PM Ethan Furman said... ...if my dream job is one that consists mostly of Python, and might allow telecommuting? Hi Ethan, I have an open position in my two man office I've tried to fill a couple times without success that is predominately python and would allow for

Re: Passing arguments to executing, a python script on a remote machine from a python script on local machine (using ssh ?)

2012-09-20 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 9/19/2012 12:50 PM ashish said... Hi c.l.p folks Here is my situation 1. I have two machines. Lets call them 'local' 'remote'. Both run ubuntu both have python installed 2. I have a python script, local.py, running on 'local' which needs to pass arguments ( 3/4 string arguments,

Re: Guides for communicating with business accounting systems

2012-09-13 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 9/13/2012 8:02 AM Ben Finney said... Howdy all, What material should a team of programmers read before designing a database model and export format for sending commerce transactions to a business accounting system? The only standard I'm aware of is the EDI specification which I first

Re: SAP MM Cupertino, CA

2012-09-10 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 9/10/2012 7:58 AM Ramchandra Apte said... On Monday, 10 September 2012 18:51:10 UTC+5:30, Suresh Kumar wrote: SNIP delete the original message. Marking this as abusive in Google Groups - this seems like spam. Please explain what does this have to do with Python. Please learn to trim --

Re: How to print something only if it exists?

2012-09-06 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 9/6/2012 10:59 AM tinn...@isbd.co.uk said... I want to print a series of list elements some of which may not exist, e.g. I have a line:- print day, fld[1], balance, fld[2] fld[2] doesn't always exist (fld is the result of a split) so the print fails when it isn't set. I know I could

Re: Error 32 - Broken Pipe . Please Help!!

2012-09-04 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 9/4/2012 10:08 AM Sreenath k said... Error: Exception in thread Thread-1: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py, line 551, in __bootstrap_inner self.run() File /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/spyderlib/widgets/externalshell/monitor.py, line

Re: Time Bound Input in python

2012-09-03 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 9/3/2012 3:01 AM Vikas Kumar Choudhary said... Hi I though of taking time bound input from user in python using input command. it waits fro infinite time , but I want to limit the time after that user input should expire with none. Please help. Googling yields

Re: Filter versus comprehension (was Re: something about split()???)

2012-08-24 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 8/24/2012 3:03 PM Terry Reedy said... On 8/24/2012 5:56 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 19:03:51 + (UTC), Walter Hurry walterhu...@lavabit.com declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: Google Groups sucks. These are computer literate people here. Why don't

Re: python 6 compilation failure on RHEL

2012-08-21 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 8/20/2012 9:34 PM John Nagle said... After a thread of clueless replies, s/clueless/unread Emile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python 6 compilation failure on RHEL

2012-08-20 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 8/20/2012 6:31 AM Ganesh Reddy K said... But, python compilation is not successfully done and showing a failure log. Below is the capture of the same. Please see failure log shown in the bottom of this mail. How to solve the failure modules mentioned in the log ( bsddb185, dl , imageop,

Re: python 6 compilation failure on RHEL

2012-08-20 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 8/20/2012 10:20 AM Walter Hurry said... On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 19:12:05 +0200, Kwpolska wrote: snip 300+ lines of non-referred to content replicated by you both Do you really need to compile python2.6? RHEL has packages for python, and it's better s/better/sometimes easier to use

Re: python 6 compilation failure on RHEL

2012-08-20 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 8/20/2012 11:37 AM Walter Hurry said... On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 11:02:25 -0700, Emile van Sebille wrote: On 8/20/2012 10:20 AM Walter Hurry said... I concur, but FYI the version of Python with RHEL5 is 2.4. Still, OP should stick with that unless there is a pressing reason. Hence, the 2.6

Re: python 6 compilation failure on RHEL

2012-08-20 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 8/20/2012 1:55 PM Walter Hurry said... On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:19:23 -0700, Emile van Sebille wrote: Package dependencies. If the OP intends to install a package that doesn't support other than 2.6, you install 2.6. It would be a pretty poor third party package which specified Python 2.6

Re: Python 2.7 import socket urllib fails to load, module not found

2012-08-17 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 8/17/2012 12:20 PM wdt...@comcast.net said... Just installed python 2.7 and using with web2py. When running python from command line to bring up web2py server, get errors that python socket and urllib modules cannot be found, can't be loaded. This is not a web2py issue. So, on my system

Re: Python 2.7 import socket urllib fails to load, module not found

2012-08-17 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 8/17/2012 1:41 PM wdt...@comcast.net said... From cmd prompt - I get this: Python 2.7.3 (default, Apr 10 2012, 23:31:26) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type help, copyright, credits or license for more information. import urllib Traceback (most recent call last): File stdin, line

Re: Python 2.7 import socket urllib fails to load, module not found

2012-08-17 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 8/17/2012 2:22 PM wdt...@comcast.net said... Done - tail end of the python path had a missing bit...gr... thanks so much Well it's bizarre - now it doesn't. did an import sys from within interpreter, then did import socket. Worked the first time. Restarted and it happened again.

Re: Running Python web apps on shared ASO servers?

2012-08-16 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 8/16/2012 7:01 AM Gilles said... On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 02:03:33 +0200, Gilles nos...@nospam.com wrote: Does it mean that ASO only supports writing Python web apps as long-running processes (CGI, FCGI, WSGI, SCGI) instead of embedded Python à la PHP? I need to get the big picture about the

Re: looking for a neat solution to a nested loop problem

2012-08-06 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 8/6/2012 10:14 AM Tom P said... On 08/06/2012 06:18 PM, Nobody wrote: On Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:52:31 +0200, Tom P wrote: consider a nested loop algorithm - for i in range(100): for j in range(100): do_something(i,j) Now, suppose I don't want to use i = 0 and j = 0 as

Re: looking for a neat solution to a nested loop problem

2012-08-06 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 8/6/2012 12:22 PM Grant Edwards said... On 2012-08-06, Tom P werot...@freent.dd wrote: snip ah, that looks good - I guess it works in 2.x as well? I don't know. Let me test that for you... snip Yes, it works in 2.x as well. :) And from the docs, all the way back to 2.3! 9.7.

Re: [newbie] String to binary conversion

2012-08-06 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 8/6/2012 1:46 PM Mok-Kong Shen said... If I have a string abcd then, with 8-bit encoding of each character, there is a corresponding 32-bit binary integer. How could I best obtain that integer and from that integer backwards again obtain the original string? Thanks in advance. It's easy to

Re: Is Python a commercial proposition ?

2012-07-30 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 7/29/2012 5:12 PM Rodrick Brown said... Until the GIL is fixed I doubt anyone will seriously look at Python as an option for large enterprise standalone application development. See openERP -- http://www.openerp.com/ -- they've been actively converting SAP accounts and have recently

Re: Linux shell to python

2012-07-30 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 7/30/2012 3:56 PM Dan Stromberg said... On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Barry Scott ba...@barrys-emacs.org And of course you can write list comprehensions on as many lines as it take to make the code maintainable. Sigh, and I'm also not keen on multi-line list comprehensions,

Re: Python Error

2012-07-29 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 7/29/2012 5:30 AM subhabangal...@gmail.com said... On Sunday, July 29, 2012 2:57:18 PM UTC+5:30, (unknown) wrote: Dear Group, I was trying to convert the list to a set, with the following code: set1=set(list1) Thanks for the answer. But my list does not contain another list that is the

Re: Generating valid identifiers

2012-07-26 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 7/26/2012 5:26 AM Laszlo Nagy said... I have a program that creates various database objects in PostgreSQL. There is a DOM, and for each element in the DOM, a database object is created (schema, table, field, index and tablespace). I do not want this program to generate very long

Re: What's wrong with this code?

2012-07-23 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 7/23/2012 7:50 AM Stone Li said... I'm totally confused by this code: Code: a = None b = None c = None d = None x = [[a,b], [c,d]] e,f = x[1] print e,f This prints the first None,None c = 1 d = 2 print e,f And nothing has happened to e

Re: Python and Outlook, sendinf an image in the body of email

2012-07-23 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 7/23/2012 11:33 AM bruceg113...@gmail.com said... I tried something similar to the example at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4312687/how-to-embed-images-in-email . Problem is, this line is not understood: mail.BodyFormat = OlBodyFormat.olFormatHTML If I read the example

Re: Python Interview Questions

2012-07-09 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 7/9/2012 2:22 PM Peter said... One of my favourite questions when interviewing - and it was 100% reliable :-) - what are your hobbies? If the answer included programming then they were hired, if not, then they went to the B list. In my experience, anybody who is really interested in

Re: Which way is best to execute a Python script in Excel?

2012-07-07 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 7/7/2012 2:05 AM Maurizio Spadaccino said... Thanks again Emile, I'll try out some examples. I found this one: http://showmedo.com/videotutorials/video?name=2190050fromSeriesID=219 quite enlightning. One last doubt is: say the python code gets used by more Excel Users (different pc), can I

Re: select module missing/corrupt

2012-07-07 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 7/7/2012 5:03 AM John Pote said... We are using a virtual web server running some version of Unix. It has Python versions 2.4,2.6 and 3.1 pre-installed. (BTW the intention is to use Python for a CGI script.) When my script imports subprocess I get the traceback File

Re: Which way is best to execute a Python script in Excel?

2012-07-06 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 7/6/2012 1:31 AM Maurizio Spadaccino said... Could you provide me a more detailed 'how-to' tutorial on implementing a VBA macro that calls a script or a function from python, or tell me where on the web I can find it? The OReilly chapter seems a bit hard for me at this stage? I'm not

Re: Which way is best to execute a Python script in Excel?

2012-07-05 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 7/5/2012 12:22 AM Maurizio Spadaccino said... Hi all I'm new to Python but soon after a few days of studying its features I find it my favourite mean of programming scripts to allow for data storing and mining. My idea would be to inplement python scripts from inside an excel sheet that

Re: emded revision control in Python application?

2012-06-22 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 6/22/2012 8:58 AM duncan smith said... Hello, I have an application that would benefit from collaborative working. Over time users construct a data environment which is a number of files in JSON format contained in a few directories You don't say what your target platform is, but on linux

Re: emded revision control in Python application?

2012-06-22 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 6/22/2012 11:19 AM duncan smith said... On 22/06/12 17:42, Emile van Sebille wrote: On 6/22/2012 8:58 AM duncan smith said... Hello, I have an application that would benefit from collaborative working. Over time users construct a data environment which is a number of files in JSON format

Re: Conditional decoration

2012-06-18 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 6/18/2012 3:16 PM Roy Smith said... Is there any way to conditionally apply a decorator to a function? For example, in django, I want to be able to control, via a run-time config flag, if a view gets decorated with @login_required(). @login_required() def my_view(request): pass class

Re: Academic citation of Python

2012-06-16 Thread Emile van Sebille
Or copy a citation from Guido: http://www.python.org/~guido/Publications.html Emile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PIL for the Python 3.2.3

2012-06-15 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 6/15/2012 5:18 AM Gonzalo de Soto said... Dear Python Org, It wanted to know if already PIL's version is available for Python 3.2.3. Not yet. See http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/ Emile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: finding the byte offset of an element in an XML file (tell() and seek()?)

2012-06-14 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 6/14/2012 12:27 PM Ben Temperton said... Hi there, I am working with mass spectroscopy data in the mzXML format that looks like this: mzXML msRun scan num=1.../scan scan num=2.../scan scan num=3.../scan scan num=4.../scan . /msRun index

Re: mbox parsing, specifically message body

2012-06-14 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 6/14/2012 12:57 PM Ryan Clough said... Hello everyone, Is anyone familiar with a simple way to parse mbox emails in Python? import mailbox help(mailbox) Help on module mailbox: NAME mailbox - Read/write support for Maildir, mbox, MH, Babyl, and MMDF mailboxes. Emile I use

Re: using identifiers before they are defined

2012-06-12 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 6/12/2012 10:53 AM Julio Sergio said... snip So I modified my module: global something a = something(5) def something(i): return i And this was the answer I got from the interpreter: - import tst Traceback (most recent call last): File stdin, line 1, inmodule

Re: About a list comprehension to transform an input list

2012-06-08 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 6/8/2012 9:17 AM Daniel Urban said... On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Julio Sergiojulioser...@gmail.com wrote: From a sequence of numbers, I'm trying to get a list that does something to even numbers but leaves untouched the odd ones, say: [0,1,2,3,4,...] == [100,1,102,3,104,...] I

Re: Help doing it the python way

2012-05-24 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 5/24/2012 2:30 PM Paul Rubin said... Paul Rubinno.email@nospam.invalid writes: new_list = chain( ((x,y-1), (x,y+1)) for x,y in coord_list ) Sorry: new_list = list(chain( ((x,y-1), (x,y+1)) for x,y in coord_list)) from itertools import chain coord_list =

Re: append method

2012-05-23 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 5/23/2012 5:23 AM 水静流深 said... s=[1,2,3] s.append(5) s [1, 2, 3, 5] s=s.append(5) s print s None why can't s=s.append(5) It could, but it doesn't. ,what is the reason? A design decision -- there's currently a mix of methods that return themselves and not. Mostly is

Re: DIR reports file timestamp and size, but os.path.getctime(), os.path.getsize() raise WindowsError [Error 5] Access is denied

2012-05-22 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 5/21/2012 5:01 PM pyt...@bdurham.com said... Wondering if any of you have stumbled across the following behavior: snip Any ideas on how I can retrieve timestamps and file sizes like DIR without raising exceptions? Beyond the obvious trap the error and use the commands module to run DIR

Re: Good data structure for finding date intervals including a given date

2012-05-13 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 5/12/2012 5:17 AM Jean-Daniel said... Hello, I have a long list of n date intervals that gets added or suppressed intervals regularly. I am looking for a fast way to find the intervals containing a given date, without having to check all intervals (less than O(n)). ISTM the fastest way is

Re: write a bot

2012-05-13 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 5/13/2012 2:25 PM admin lewis said... Hi, I want write a bot in python, it should explore a site, click links and extract some info. I know mechanize but I would like to know if there is something better for performance. Have you looked into Scrapy? http://scrapy.org Emile --

Re: __all__, public API, private stuff, and leading _

2012-05-11 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 5/11/2012 9:41 AM Ethan Furman said... Style question: Since __all__ (if defined) is the public API, if I am using that should I also still use a leading underscore on my private data/functions/etc? I would, even if only to alert any future maintainer of the internal vs exposed nature of

Re: How to compute a delta: the difference between lists of strings

2012-05-05 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 5/5/2012 5:12 AM J. Mwebaze said... This is out of curiosity, i know this can be done with python diffllib module, but been figuring out how to compute the delta, Consider two lists below. s1 = ['e', 'f', 'g', 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'C'] s2 =['e', 'A', 'B', 'f', 'g', 'C', 'D', 'z'] This is the

Re: When convert two sets with the same elements to lists, are the lists always going to be the same?

2012-05-05 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 5/5/2012 4:04 AM Peng Yu said... I agree that people have different opinions on issues like this. But I think that The Customer Is God. Readers of the doc is the customers, the writers of the doc is the producers. The opinion of customers should carry more weight than producers. Only to a

Re: key/value store optimized for disk storage

2012-05-04 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 5/4/2012 10:46 AM Tim Chase said... I hit a few snags testing this on my winxp w/python2.6.1 in that getsize wasn't finding the file as it was created in two parts with .dat and .dir extension. Also, setting key failed as update returns None. The changes I needed to make are marked

Re: key/value store optimized for disk storage

2012-05-04 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 5/4/2012 12:49 PM Tim Chase said... On 05/04/12 14:14, Emile van Sebille wrote: On 5/4/2012 10:46 AM Tim Chase said... I hit a few snags testing this on my winxp w/python2.6.1 in that getsize wasn't finding the file as it was created in two parts with .dat and .dir extension. Hrm...must

Re: Trouble splitting strings with consecutive delimiters

2012-05-01 Thread Emile van Sebille
re.split(':|;|px', width:150px;height:50px;float:right) You could recognize that the delimiter you want to strip is in fact px; and not px in and of itself. So, try: re.split(':|px;', width:150px;height:50px;float:right) Emile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Trouble splitting strings with consecutive delimiters

2012-05-01 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 5/1/2012 10:13 AM Temia Eszteri said... re.split(':|px;', width:150px;height:50px;float:right) Emile That won't work at all outside of the example case. It'd choke on any attribute seperator that didn't end in px. It would certainly choke on all delimeters that are not presented in the

Re: int object

2012-04-28 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 4/27/2012 11:42 PM Debashish Saha said... 44 sph_yn_P=(l*sph_yn(l,K*R)/(K*R))-sph_yn(l,K*R) Here you're clearly multiplying by R... --- 45 Beta_l=l-(K_P*R(sph_jv(l+1,K_P*R))/(sph_jv(l,K_P*R))) ... and here you've got R(...) which is attempting to call R() which isn't

Re: I couldn't use the sign funcion inside of another function

2012-04-23 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 4/23/2012 11:39 AM Chris Rebert said... On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Julio Sergiojulioser...@gmail.com wrote: I want to use the sign function. When I use it in in-line mode works pretty well: : sign(-20) : -1 However, I wrote the following code in a file, say, pp.py def

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