Re: who can give me the detailed introduction of re modle?

failed, you will likely get lots of useful answers here. But you have to take the first step. P.S. The re module is really not all *that* difficult. Gary Herron -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Complex evaluation bug

(repr(a)) to reproduce a, and in fact it does so. Gary Herron -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: import woe

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, i have a problem. i would like to import python files above and below my current directory. i'm working on /home/foo/bar/jar.py i would like to import /home/foo/car.py and /home/foo/bar/far.py how can i do this? thank you, bob ps: i

Re: Process forking on Windows

for one process to start another. It provides a number of bells and whistles, and is the latest module on a long history of older modules to provide such functionality. Gary Herron -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Process forking on Windows

in the win32all package. However, I still don't understand *what* the MQSeries trigger monitor is or *how* it would create the need for such a solution. Gary Herron -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

getting the value of an attribute from pdb

Hi how can I using pdb get a value of an attribute?, read the docs and played around with pdb 'p' for no avail. thanks class main: def __init__(self, master): self.master = master self.master.title('parent') self.master.geometry('200x150+300+225') ... root = Tk()

continue out of a loop in pdb

Hi using the debugger, I happen to be on a line inside a loop, after looping few times with n and wanting to get out of the loop to the next line, I set a break point on a line after the loop structure and hit c, that does not continue out of the loop and stop at the break line, how is it down, I

Re: copying files into one

thanks, I was able 'using pdb' to fix the problem as per Edward's suggestion. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: continue out of a loop in pdb

Paul McGuire [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gary Wessle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi using the debugger, I happen to be on a line inside a loop, after looping few times with n and wanting to get out of the loop to the next line, I set a break point on a line

retain values between fun calls

Hi the second argument in the functions below suppose to retain its value between function calls, the first does, the second does not and I would like to know why it doesn't? and how to make it so it does? thanks # it does def f(a, L=[]): L.append(a) return L print f('a') print f('b')

copying files into one

Hi I am looping through a directory and appending all the files in one huge file, the codes below should give the same end results but are not, I don't understand why the first code is not doing it. thanks combined = open(outputFile, 'wb') for name in flist: if os.path.isdir(file):

TkTable for info gathering

Hi I just finished with 1.5 tutorials about Tkinter, my thought is to use a table maybe TkTable to gather info from the user as to what file to chart data from, as well as info provided by the TkTable properties. each cell of the table will be either empty or contains a file path, let x=1 be

Re: Python Translation of C# DES Encryption

://twhiteman.netfirms.com/des.html Regards, Gary. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

2 books for me

Hi I am about to order 2 books, and thought I should talk to you first. I am getting Python Cookbook by Alex Martelli, David Ascher, Anna Martelli Ravenscroft, Anna Martelli Ravenscroft, since Bruce Eckel's Thinking in Python is not finished and didn't have any new revisions since some time in

Re: find all index positions

'1234'. Gary Herron -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: find all index positions

Paul Rubin wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: say i have string like this astring = 'abcd efgd 1234 fsdf gfds abcde 1234' if i want to find which postion is 1234, how can i achieve this...? i want to use index() but it only give me the first occurence. I want to know the positions of both 1234

Re: installing numpy

Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Raymond L. Buvel wrote: Since you are a new Linux user, you should definitely follow Robert's advice about building as an ordinary user separately from the install. I sometimes take a shortcut and just do the install as user root. However, I then

Re: combined files together

Eric Deveaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gary Wessle wrote: I need to traverse those files in the order they were created chronologically. listdir() does not do it, is there a way besides build a list then list.sort(), then for element in list_of_files open element? are the name

Re: installing numpy

thanks I followed your suggestions, it built the package ok, while it was building, I noticed lots of lines going by the screen in groups of different colors, white, yellow, red. the red got my attention: Could not locate executable gfortran Could not locate executable f95

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two of pylab.py

Hi I use debian/testing linux Linux debian/testing 2.6.15-1-686 I found some duplicate files in my system, I don't if the are both needed, should I delete one of the groups below and which one? -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 80375 2006-01-24 00:28 /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/matplotlib/pylab.py

installing numpy

Hi I am trying to install NumPy in my debian/testing linux 2.6.15-1-686. with no numpy for debian/testing, I am left alone, since the experimental version available by debian will result in a dependency nightmares, so after unpacking the downloaded file numpy-0.9.6.tar.gz which crated a

Re: installing numpy

Christoph Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 09:03:31PM +1000, Gary Wessle wrote: I am trying to install NumPy in my debian/testing linux 2.6.15-1-686. with no numpy for debian/testing, I am left alone, since the experimental version available by debian

Re: multiline strings and proper indentation/alignment

Gary John Salerno wrote: How do you make a single string span multiple lines, but also allow yourself to indent the second (third, etc.) lines so that it lines up where you want it, without causing the newlines and tabs or spaces to be added to the string as well? Example (pretend this is all

Re: installing numpy

Raymond L. Buvel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gary Wessle wrote: Hi I am trying to install NumPy in my debian/testing linux 2.6.15-1-686. snip When installing from source on a Debian system, you want the installed package to wind up in /usr/local/lib/python2.x/site-packages (where

Re: Shadow Detection?

Michael Yanowitz wrote: Hello: Many times, people are warning things like Don't use 'str' as a variable name as it will shadow the built in str function. Is there some way to determine if a string is already defined in some higher scope? Maybe something like code if isdefined ('str'):

Re: python rounding problem.

Erik Max Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: chun ping wang wrote: Hey i have a stupid question. How do i get python to print the result in only three decimal place... Example round (2.9954254, 3) 2.9951 but i want to get rid of all trailing 0's..how would i do

Re: NumTut view of greece

Gary Wessle wrote: Hi not sure if this would be the right place to ask this question! using the shell prompt :~$ python Python 2.3.5 (#2, Mar 6 2006, 10:12:24) [GCC 4.0.3 20060304 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0.2-10)] on linux2 Type help, copyright, credits or license for more information

Re: printing list

[1, 2, 5, 10, 15] which may be good enough. If that's not what you want then you can suppress the automatic RETURN that follows a print's output by adding a trailing comma to the print statement, like this for i in alist: print i, 1 2 5 10 15 Gary Herron -- http://mail.python.org

Numerical Python Tutorial errors

Hi is the Numerical Python tutorial maintained? http://www.pfdubois.com/numpy/html2/numpy.html seams to have some errors and no email to mail them to when found. if interested, read about the errors below (1)

evaluation of

Hi what does the i a in this code mean. because the code below is giving False for all the iteration. isn't suppose to evaluate each value of i to the whole list? thanks a = range(8) i = 0 while i 11: print i a i = i + 1 False False False False False False False False False False

Re: Numerical Python Tutorial errors

Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gary Wessle wrote: Hi is the Numerical Python tutorial maintained? http://www.pfdubois.com/numpy/html2/numpy.html seams to have some errors and no email to mail them to when found. No, it is not since Numeric itself is no longer maintained

reading a column from a file

Hi I have a file with data like location pressure temp str flootfloot I need to read pressure and temp in 2 different variables so that I can plot them as lines. is there a package which reads from file with a given formate and returns desired variables? or I need to open, while not

combined files together

Hi is there a module to do things like concatenate all files in a given directory into a big file, where all the files have the same data formate? name address phone_no. or do I have to open each, read from old/write-or-append to new ... thanks --

Re: combined files together

Gary Wessle wrote: Hi is there a module to do things like concatenate all files in a given directory into a big file, where all the files have the same data formate? name address phone_no. or do I have to open each, read from old/write-or-append to new ... thanks There's hardly enough

sort a list of files

Hi I am trying to print out the contents of a directory, sorted. the code 1 import os, sys 2 3 if len(sys.argv) 2: 4 sys.exit(please enter a suitable directory.) 5 6 print os.listdir(sys.argv[1]).sort()

os.isfile() error

Hi could someone help me to find out whats wrong with this code? code import os, sys if len(sys.argv) 2: sys.exit(please enter a suitable directory.) dpath = sys.argv[1] for name in os.listdir(dpath): if os.isfile(dpath+name): infile =

Re: combined files together

Gary Herron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gary Wessle wrote: Hi is there a module to do things like concatenate all files in a given directory into a big file, where all the files have the same data formate? name address phone_no. or do I have to open each, read from old/write-or-append

print formate

Hi import string import re accumulator = [] pattern = '(\S*)\s*(\S*)\s*(\S*)' for each text file in dir openfile and read into text data = re.compile(pattern, re.IGNORECASE).findall(text) accumulator = accumulator + data gives a list of tuples which when printed looks like ('jack',

Re: scope of variables

Ryan Forsythe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gary Wessle wrote: the example was an in-accuretlly representation of a the problem I am having. my apologies. a = [] def prnt(): print len(a) prnt function prnt at 0xb7dc21b4 I expect to get 0 the length of list a You want

Re: scope of variables

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scope of variables

Hi is the code below correct? b = 3 def adding(a) print a + b it seams not to see the up-level scope where b is defined. thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: scope of variables

Steve R. Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 04 May 2006 07:02:43 +1000, Gary Wessle wrote: b = 3 def adding(a) print a + b it seams not to see the up-level scope where b is defined. Assuming you put a ':' after the def adding(a), this should work in recent versions

string.find first before location

Hi I have a string like this text = abc abc and Here and there I want to grab the first abc before Here import string string.find(text, Here) # type int I am having a problem with the next step. thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

redemo.py with Tkinter

Hi I was reading the Regular Expression HowTo, it refers to redemo.py if you have Tkinter installed. a quick #locate redemo.py returned none on my debian/testing, however #locate Tkinter returned many. any body out there is using it, is it a separate download? thanks --

Re: simultaneous assignment

. :-) Gary Duzan Motorola CHS -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

data regex match

Hi I am having an issue with this match tx = now 04/30/2006 then data = re.compile('(\d{2})/\1/\1\1', re.IGNORECASE) d = data.search(tx) print d Nono I was expecting 04/30/2006, what went wrong? thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: string.find first before location

Serge Orlov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter Otten wrote: Gary Wessle wrote: These days str methods are preferred over the string module's functions. text = abc abc and Here and there here_pos = text.find(Here) text.rfind(abc, 0, here_pos) 4 Peter and what

assignment in if

Hi is there a way to make an assignment in the condition of if and use it later, e.g. nx = re.compile('regex') if nx.search(text): funCall(text, nx.search(text)) nx.search(text) is evaluated twice, I was hoping for something like nx = re.compile('regex') if x = nx.search(text):

file open no such file

I am getting this error when I try to run the code below f = open(~/m, r) print f.read() :~$ python python/my.py Traceback (most recent call last): File python/my.py, line 1, in ? f = open(~/m, r) IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or

TypeError: 'module' object is not callable

dear python users I am not sure why I am getting Traceback (most recent call last): File my.py, line 3, in ? urlparse('http://www.cwi.nl:80/%7Eguido/Python.html') TypeError: 'module' object is not callable

convert a int to a list

Hi can type conversion work to convert an int to a list? I am trying to solve an problem in one tutorial. a = ['spam!', 1, ['Brie', 'Roquefort', 'Pol le Veq'], [1, 2, 3]] As an exercise, write a loop that traverses the

raw_input passing to fun

the output of this code below is not what one would expect, it outputs all kind of numbers and it never stops, I want to ask the user for a number and then print out the multiplication table up to that number. thanks import math

Re: raw_input passing to fun

John Machin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 28/04/2006 2:04 PM, Gary Wessle wrote: the output of this code below is not what one would expect, it outputs all kind of numbers and it never stops, I want to ask the user for a number and then print out the multiplication table up to that number

print out each letter of a word

I am going through this tut from http://ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCS/python/english/chap07.htm I am getting errors running those 2 groups as below as is from the tut thanks index = 0 while index len(fruit): letter = fruit[index] print letter index = index + 1 or for char in fruit:

Re: Nested Lists Assignment Problem

) or a = [ [0]*3 for i in range(3)] Clear? Gary Herron -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

help finding

Hi I am going through some tutorials, how do I find out about running a script from the python prompt? is there a online ref and how to access it? thank you -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What am I doing wrong here

ComputerName Message' net send ComputerName Message print 'net send %s %s' % (ComputerName, Message) net send Fred HI Gary Herron -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

debugging in emacs

Hi python users I am using emacs and python-mode.el under dabian testing. is there a way to debug python code where I can step over each line and watch the value of all the variables and be able to change any during debugging. say you have a loop structure and want to see what the values of your

Re: debugging in emacs

Gary Wessle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi python users I am using emacs and python-mode.el under dabian testing. is there a way to debug python code where I can step over each line and watch the value of all the variables and be able to change any during debugging. say you have a loop

charting

Dear python users I am just wondering if python is the language to use to build a custom charting package which is live updated from live data stream coming through a socket. as well as dynamically execute data analysis code on the data being fed. I have been looking at SpecTix. thank you --

Re: search files in a directory

be used to open a file The open file has several methods to read bytes from the file: read() gets the whole file at once readline() return a line at a time other possibilities exist You can test to see if a string s is in another string t with if s in t: ... Hope that helps, Gary Herron

Re: Plug-Ins In A Python Application

its module's name. For a plugin system, you'll probably want to import a module given a string containing its name. The imp module provides this as well as access to many of the features of the import mechanism. Gary Herron -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: extracting a substring

(match.group(1)) ... else: ... print No match ... 531 Hope that helps, Gary Herron -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python-list Digest, Vol 31, Issue 94

is a case where there is no fast enough. The more speed, the better, within financial constraints. Gary -- Gary Robinson VP/Innovation Emergent Music, LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] 207-942-3463 Company: http://www.goombah.com Blog:http://www.garyrobinson.net O Message: 2 Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 02:34

Re: how to convert string

-- that would be shorter, but probably not clearer. Cheers, Gary Herron Every help is appreciate. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PIL question about crop method

in a tuple in the specified order: box=(100,300,200,400) Gary Herron -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PIL question about crop method

) - | | | | - (a,d) (c,d) So the tuple would be (a, b, c, d)? That look right. But why be so cautious? Try it and see if it works. (I believe it will -- but if not -- try again.) Gary Herron -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: print() in Python 3000 return value?

function (named format --yuck-- or some such) that returns the same text as a string. Gary Herron -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: problems with looping, i suppose

a WinXP box and that's where it is here. My poor old mind can't dredge up whether it's in the same relative place in say, a Linux installation.) IDLE isn't perfect but it'll get you started. (Also, FWIW, if you run this under IDLE, you can omit the trailing raw_input()) hope this helps. gary

Re: Problems writing to file

). If the output is voluminous, then it's probably something else ... but I don't know what. Perhpas you could post your code. Gary Herron -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Executing a DOS program from within Python

sufficient for your need. However, if you are running Python 2.4, the I'd suggest the subprocess module, and in particular its convenience function call. Gary Herron -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Fredericksburg VA ZPUG, tomorrow 7:30-9 PM: Jim Fulton's State of Zope

Corporation parking lot; entrance on Prince Edward Street. Topics: As desired (and offered) by participants, within the constraints of having to do with Python or Zope. Contact: Gary Poster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python

Re: forcing exceptions

: traceback.print_exc() and you'll get a traceback (a very short one in this case): Traceback (most recent call last): File stdin, line 2, in ? AssertionError Gary Herron -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: forcing exceptions

that's what was asked for. That will reraise the exception, but there is no guarantee that it will be displayed -- there may be further excepts up stream to catch it.A traceback.print_exc() within the except clause will print it at that point, then execution can continue normally. Gary Herron

Re: Module question

to be performed. Gary Herron -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Newbie

LittlePython wrote: Is this a good place to post python questions from newbie's, or would you suggest another board? Thx This is the correct place. This group has the reputation of being newbie-friendly. Gary Herron -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python printout format

string.ljust(PortlinkbeatInv[row[j][0]],14), ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax The problem here is that the previous line has unbalanced parentheses. Fix that, and there should be no problem with this line. Gary Herron How should I change to printout row data [1,2,3,4,5] in one row in assigned

Re: Module imports

and standard operation procedure.The functions from myFunctions execute in the environment of the module they were define in, no matter how you import/reference them from another procedure. Just try it and you'll be please with the results. Gary Herron Is there a way to make python

Re: How do I dynamically create functions without lambda?

Russell wrote: I want my code to be Python 3000 compliant, and hear that lambda is being eliminated. The problem is that I want to partially bind an existing function with a value foo that isn't known until run-time: someobject.newfunc = lambda x: f(foo, x) The reason a nested function

trying to use swig for the first time

...I have some C code (foo.c and foo.h) that I would like to be able to access using python. I've written my interface file (foo.i) like so: %module foo %{ #include foo.h %} %include foo.h I then do the following on the command line: $ swig -python foo.i $ gcc -c foo.c foo_wrap.c -I

Re: Uncompressing TIFF files directly in Python

, including Windows. http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/ Gary Duzan Motorola CHS -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Newcomer question wrt variable scope/namespaces

Florian Daniel Otel wrote: Gary, First of all, many thanks for the reply. Do I understand it correctly that actually the rule has to be refined as pertaining to the (so called) immutable types (like e.g. integers, tuples/strings) whereas lists and dictionaries are mutable types

Re: Newcomer question wrt variable scope/namespaces

, not the modification of the objects to which they refer. Gary Duzan Motorola CHS -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: how to improve this simple block of code

') Gary Duzan Motorola CHS -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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Re: important for me!!

this process until the file runs out of words. (Hint:you can use ramdom.shufflefunction to scramble the letters) Please can you answer this problem? This sounds like a school assignment. We make it a habit here to *not* answer such questions. Sorry, and good luck with your studies. Gary Herron

Re: Global Variables in OOP and Python

= os.getcwd() # Get working directory at startup (Even if the import of Parameters in some file occurs before the initialization code has a chance to run.) Gary Herron in all of the files (namespaces) where it is needed. Is there a better way? Are the two ideas presented above acceptable? If so

Re: reading files into dicts

, to take over complete control of your program. So be carefully. Gary Herron -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Indentation/whitespace

it to the wall, and start walking backwards. You will still be able to discern the structure of the code *long* after you can no longer identify the curly-braces. (Provided you properly indented you C++ code -- you *do* indent you C++ code don't you?) Gary Herron Note: No need to follow up with long

Re: Indentation/whitespace

. That was an April Fools joke. Gary Herron -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Guido at Google

it... What's your complaint, what's your solution, and why should we listen? Gary Herron -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: IsString

... Several types would qualify as numbers: IntType, FloatType, LongType, and ComplexType, and several as strings: StringType and UnicodeType Gary Herron -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to Refresh the Desktop window with python script

name, mac address, ip address and OS on that system. The platform module can give lots of such info: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-platform.html Good Luck, Gary Herron Thanks in advance for having given a thought on my questions. Regards Yogi -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: what's wrong with lambda x : print x/60,x%60

explicit about the returned tuple would produce what you want. lambda x : (x/60,x%60) Gary Herron [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ python Python 2.4.2 (#1, Nov 18 2005, 19:32:15) [GCC 3.3.6 (Gentoo 3.3.6, ssp-3.3.6-1.0, pie-8.7.8)] on linux2 Type help, copyright, credits or license for more

Fredericksburg VA ZPUG: No December meeting; details on Jan and Feb meetings

As discussed at the November Fredericksburg, VA ZPUG meeting, we are not going to have a December 14 ZPUG because of holiday goings-on. Andrew Sawyers will present on Squid and Zope in our January 11 meeting (other topics TBD). Zac Bir, Benji York, and Gary Poster will present in our

Re: Sending an event from a python COM server to a VB COM client

really looking for an example that will spell things out for me. There's a lot of 'wrapping' happening under the hood in this technology and I am kind of lost between what is done for me on each side and what I should explicitly do my self. Thanks again for taking the time to answer. Gary

How to write an API for a Python application?

of doing it as a python COM server but I am not familiar with COM and I saw that implementing a COM server with events in python is not trivial for me. Is there a better (or simpler) solution? What are the common ways for doing that? Any answer would be highly appreciated. Regards Gary -- http

Re: How to write an API for a Python application?

Thanks Its an interesting solution but I need a more closely coupled solution, with real time events, so the communication really has to be 2 ways, and not by polling. Thanks for putting the time and though. Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] While not sure

Sending an event from a python COM server to a VB COM client

be highly appreciated. Regards Gary -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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