On Fri, 13 May 2005 15:44:24 -0500, none wrote:
I'm trying to decide what is the best replacement for the control. I
was originally planning on redoing the GUI with wxpython, but I've seen
people indicate I would have the same problem.
Honestly, if this is important to you, the best thing
On Sun, 08 May 2005 13:46:22 +, John J. Lee wrote:
I don't mean to put words into Franois' mouth, but IIRC he managed,
for example, GNU tar for some time and, while using some kind of
tracking system under the covers, didn't impose it on his users.
IMVHO, that was very nice of him, but
On Sat, 07 May 2005 07:16:58 -0700, lamthierry wrote:
Is there some python method which can do the polling you are talking
about? Or can you send me a link to some existing example?
Take a moment to go back to the basics. C++ is, in general, a simple
system. The *language* is complicated at
On Sun, 08 May 2005 02:42:09 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
I'm thinking what I might need is a function that generates a Borg-like
class. So I would do something like:
Rabbit = MakeBorgClass()
# Rabbit is now a class implementing shared state
# all instances of Rabbit share the same state
On Sat, 07 May 2005 13:24:34 +, jeff elkins wrote:
Howdy,
I've written a program that calls an imported dialog to gather some needed
input. What's the common method for passing that data back to the caller?
I've
tried a 'return data' prior to self.Close() ... all that happens then
On Sat, 07 May 2005 12:10:46 -0400, Franois Pinard wrote:
[Martin von Lwis]
Franois Pinard wrote:
Am I looking in the wrong places, or else, should not the standard
documentation more handily explain such things?
It should, but, alas, it doesn't. Contributions are welcome.
My
On Sat, 07 May 2005 15:43:08 +, jeff elkins wrote:
===
import wx
def create(parent):
return vents(parent)
[wxID_VENTS, wxID_VENTSEXITBUTTON,
wxID_VENTSVENTTYPETEXT,
[snip]
] = [wx.NewId() for _init_ctrls in range(14) ]
class vents(wx.Dialog):
def
On Sat, 07 May 2005 15:05:20 -0700, LDD wrote:
The fact that python doesn't check if the symbol
AFunctionThatIsntDefined is defined, is really bad when you develop big
pieces of code. You will never be sure that your code is free of this
kind of dummy errors and testing every possible
On Fri, 06 May 2005 08:27:03 +0200, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
Jeremy Bowers wrote:
A step which will require him to tell the printing routine how many
digits he wants printed.
Not necessarily; consider the str() of a float in Python, especially
given the significant digits aspect (it may
On Fri, 06 May 2005 19:56:34 -0700, lamthierry wrote:
Let's say I have the following source code in C++:
// The following is in a .cpp file
int val = 0;
for ( int i = 0; i 10; i++ )
val = i;
// Now I'm in a python GUI, glade or GTK
Is it possible from the GUI side to listen to
On Thu, 05 May 2005 18:42:17 +, Charles Krug wrote:
On 5 May 2005 10:37:00 -0700, mrstephengross [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hi all... How can I find out the number of significant digits (to the
right of the decimal place, that is) in a double? At least, I *think*
that's what I'm asking
On Fri, 06 May 2005 02:44:43 +, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2005-05-05, Jeremy Bowers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since I think he mentioned something about predicting how much space it
will take to print out, my suggestion is to run through whatever
printing routines there are and get
On Thu, 05 May 2005 20:08:46 -0700, Erik Max Francis wrote:
Grant's point was that as significance is used in scientific studies,
there's no way to answer the question without having the number in
advance.
My point was that the original poster never defined significance in that
manner, and in
On Wed, 04 May 2005 13:45:00 +, Leif K-Brooks wrote:
Jeremy Bowers wrote:
def __init__(self, generator):
self.generator = generator
You'll want to use iter(generator) there in order to handle reiterables.
Can you expand that explanation a bit? I'm not certain what you mean
On Wed, 04 May 2005 20:24:51 +0800, could ildg wrote:
Thank you.
I just learned how to use re, so I want to find a way to settle it by
using re. I know that split it into pieces will do it quickly.
I'll say this; you have two problems, splitting out the numbers and
verifying their
On Wed, 04 May 2005 20:33:31 +, Leif K-Brooks wrote:
With the EmptyGeneratorDetector class as you defined it, lists will fail:
EmptyGeneratorDetector([])
Traceback (most recent call last):
File stdin, line 1, in ?
File stdin, line 15, in __init__
AttributeError: 'list' object
On Thu, 05 May 2005 09:30:21 +0800, could ildg wrote:
Jeremy Bowers wrote:
Python 2.3.5 (#1, Mar 3 2005, 17:32:12) [GCC 3.4.3 (Gentoo Linux
3.4.3, ssp-3.4.3-0, pie-8.7.6.6)] on linux2 Type help, copyright,
credits or license for more information.
import re
m = re.compile(\d+)
m.findall
On Mon, 02 May 2005 13:58:07 -0500, phil wrote:
You didn't indicate how deep you want to get into the code yourself.
I am gonna step way out of my mathematical depth here
I mean no disrespect, but this is the last accurate statement you made.
I wouldn't say this, except that if the original
On Mon, 02 May 2005 16:37:19 -0500, phil wrote:
I will defend one statement though. I have yet to see anything which
Python would not make a good wrapper for. Some of the OpenGL pygame stuff
is very cool.
Alright, you got me :-) I got excessively broad.
--
On Mon, 02 May 2005 16:14:57 -0700, Brian Roberts wrote:
Q1: Is there a better or alternate way to handle this? Q2: Is there a way
that handles both lists and generators, so I don't have to worry about
which one I've got?
Are you in control of your generators? You could put a method on them
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 20:00:57 -0700, Qiangning Hong wrote:
I want to make an app to help students study foreign language. I want the
following function in it:
The student reads a piece of text to the microphone. The software records
it and compares it to the wave-file pre-recorded by the
On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 10:34:44 -0700, demon_slayer2839 wrote:
Hey yall,
I'm new to Python and I love it. Now I can get most of the topics
covered with the Python tutorials I've read but the one thats just
stumping me is Object Orientation. I can't get the grasp of it. Does
anyone know of a
On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 20:53:14 -0400, Peter Hansen wrote:
The re docs clearly say this is not the case:
'''
[]
Used to indicate a set of characters. Characters can be listed
individually, or a range of characters can be indicated by giving two
characters and separating them by a -.
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 07:56:11 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello all,
I have this line of numbers:
04242005 18:20:42-0.02, 271.1748608, [-4.119873046875,
3.4332275390625, 105.062255859375], [0.093780517578125, 0.041015625,
-0.960662841796875], [0.01556396484375, 0.01220703125,
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 10:52:14 -0700, James Stroud wrote:
This is more or less what I would like, but I would also like to probe the
Text to see how many characters it thinks it can display within the container
window. I am formatting text dynamically and so I rely on the width. I am not
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 12:52:21 -0700, James Stroud wrote:
Thank you to everybody helping me. I think I am almost there...
On Wednesday 27 April 2005 12:10 pm, so sayeth Jeremy Bowers:
2. Use a fixed-width font and manually wrap. (It's pretty easy then, you
can ask the font for how wide any
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 22:17:07 +0200, andrea wrote:
I was thinking to code the huffman algorithm and trying to compress
something with it, but I've got a problem.
How can I represent for example a char with only 3 bits??
I had a look to the compression modules but I can't understand them
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 02:12:07 -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
Right. But that shouldn't be hard to do. Let genexp stand for a a
generator expression/list comprehension without any brackets on it at all.
Then [genexp] is the syntax to expand the list. [(genexp)] is the syntax
to create a list of one
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 03:40:16 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Mike,
I have to know this topic otherwise my program has to check whether the
file / files are already deleted and this is a little bit messy.
I would be fairly confident in asserting that assuming the file is there,
you have
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 19:32:29 +0100, Robin Becker wrote:
Skip Montanaro wrote:
Robin So we avoid dirty page writes etc etc. However, I still think I
Robin could get away with a small window into the file which would be
Robin more efficient.
It's hard to imagine how sliding a
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 21:24:30 +0200, andreas wrote:
On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 03:13:20PM -0400, Jeremy Bowers wrote:
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 03:40:16 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Mike,
I have to know this topic otherwise my program has to check whether the
file / files are already
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 20:54:53 +, Robin Becker wrote:
Skip Montanaro wrote:
...
If I mmap() a file, it's not slurped into main memory immediately, though as
you pointed out, it's charged to my process's virtual memory. As I access
bits of the file's contents, it will page in only what's
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:15:35 -0700, willitfw wrote:
Greetings,
I am looking for some guidance on a script.
My goals are:
1) have this script run automatically through a time set schedule.
2) verify if a file is updated on an ftp site (usually on the 15th of
the month).
3) If the updated
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 21:24:06 -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
Jeremy Bowers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 03:40:16 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
os.remove, as the module name implies, tells the OS to do something. I
would consider an OS that returned from a remove call, but still
On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 22:59:12 -0700, Robert Kern wrote:
Never. If you really need a list
list(x*x for x in xrange(10))
Sadly, we can't remove list comprehensions until 3.0.
Why remove them? Instead, we have these things called comprehensions
(which, now that I say that, seems a rather odd
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 16:48:46 -0400, Bill Mill wrote:
On 25 Apr 2005 23:33:48 +0300, Ville Vainio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Still, list comprehensions should be implemented in terms of genexps to
get rid of the LC variable that is visible outside the scope of the LC.
+1 . I think that we
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 23:26:56 +, John Bokma wrote:
Mike Meyer wrote:
John Bokma [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Nobody ever changed their mind as a result of a 20-thread endless
reply-fest. As usual, the posters aren't about to admit anything, and none
of the bystanders are reading any more.
--
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 23:00:57 -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
Why do we have to wait for Python 3.0 for this? Couldn't list
comprehensions and generator expression be unified without breaking
existing code that didn't deserve to be broken?
We don't; my mentioning 3.0 was just in reference to a
On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 22:45:14 -0400, Richard Blackwood wrote:
Indeed, this language is math. My friend says that foo is a constant and
necessarily not a variable. If I had written foo = raw_input(), he would
say that foo is a variable. Which is perfectly fine except that he insists
that since
I have an image in the Python Image Library. I'm trying to get it into
PyGTK in color. Is there any way to do this cross-platform, preferably
without writing to anything to the disk?
PIL apparently can't write XPMs. GTK will only take XPMs, that I can see.
Therein lies the rub. I can ship over
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 22:43:13 -0400, Jeremy Bowers wrote:
(Use case, in case it matters: I am trying to embed a graphic into a text
widget. This is going fine. Because I want the text widget to be able use
different size text, and no one image can look right with everything from
8pt to 40pt
On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 10:20:29 +0200, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
which discusses draw_rgb_image and friends, and says that if you can
convert your PIL image to a pixel data string or buffer object, you could
use them to display the image. here's some code that seems to do exactly
that:
On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 20:13:24 +0200, Mage wrote:
Avoid them is easy with set_type($value,integer) for integer values and
correct escaping for strings.
Avoiding buffer overflows in C is easy, as long as you check the buffers
each time.
The *existence* of a technique to avoid problems is not in
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 17:44:56 +0200, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
Will McGugan wrote:
Muchas gracias. Although there may be a bug. I compressed my Evanescence
albumn, but after decompression it became the complete works of Charles
strange. the algorithm should be reversible. sounds like an
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 00:14:03 +0200, Mage wrote:
Hello,
I amafraid of I will stop using semicolons in other languages after one
or two months of python. However I see that python simply ignores the
semicolons atd the end of the lines.
What's your advice? I don't want to write
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 13:57:26 +0200, Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
Domain-specific abstractions do that *faster* than GUI designers, not
slower. And better, too, since every iteration tends to be fully
functional and not just a let's see what this looks like prototype.
Can you show me some
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 13:02:27 -0700, Ken Godee wrote:
The original poster was just asking for an example of
how to sub class his code generated form into his program
for easy future updates, a VERY STANDARD way of doing it.
I recognize your sarcasm, and I recognize the poor attitude it shows,
On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 19:59:18 +0200, Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
why use data files when you have an extremely powerful programming
language in your toolbox? the advantage of building UI's in Python is
that you can quickly create domain specific UI languages, and use them
to generate the
On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 09:32:37 +, Sbastien de Menten wrote:
Hi,
When I need to make sense of a python exception, I often need to parse the
string exception in order to retrieve the data.
What exactly are you doing with this info? (Every time I started to do
this, I found a better way.
On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 10:33:53 -0600, Matthew Thorley wrote:
I must say I am *very* suprised that python does not have a way to look
up what key is pointing to a given object--without scanning the whole
list that is.
Assuming fairly optimal data structures, nothing is free.
Python chooses not
On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 12:49:51 -0700, ritterhaus wrote:
Nope. Does't work. Running Python 2.3.4 on Debian, Linux kernel 2.6. This
is actually test code for a larger project...
# flash the selected wx.TextControl
for flasher in range(4):
self.textField.SetBackgroundColour(255, 0, 0)
On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 17:02:20 -0400, Brian van den Broek wrote:
Jeremy suggested using a directory name akin to
C:\onlyanidiotwouldhavethisdirecotrynameonadrive. That is what I had
settled on before I posted. Somehow it feels unhappy and inelegant.
But, I'm a bit less uncomfortable with it
On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 22:50:35 +, John J. Lee wrote:
What I don't understand about py.test (and trying it out seems
unlikely to answer this) is why it uses the assert statement.
unittest used to do that, too, but then it was pointed out that that
breaks when python -O is used, so unittest
On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 15:30:13 -0500, Brian van den Broek wrote:
So, how does one handle such cases with tests?
When I had a similar situation, I created a directory for testing that was
in a known state, and tested on that. If you can test based on a relative
directory, that should work OK.
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 23:30:42 -0800, Erik Max Francis wrote:
Daniel Silva wrote:
Shriram Krishnamurthi has just announced the following elsewhere; it might
be of interest to c.l.s, c.l.f, and c.l.p:
http://list.cs.brown.edu/pipermail/plt-scheme/2005-April/008382.html
April Fool's Day
On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 16:42:30 +, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
FWIW, the evolution of py.test is to also work seemlessly with existing tests
from the unittest module.
Is this true now, or is this planned?
I read(/skimmed) the docs for py.test when you linked to the project, but
I don't recall
On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 18:30:56 +, Ron_Adam wrote:
I'm trying to figure out how to test function arguments by adding a
decorator.
The rest of your message then goes on to vividly demonstrate why
decorators make for a poor test technique.
Is this an April Fools gag? If so, it's not a very good
On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 19:56:55 +, Ron_Adam wrote:
On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 13:47:06 -0500, Jeremy Bowers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Is this an April Fools gag? If so, it's not a very good one as it's quite
in line with the sort of question I've seen many times before. I have
a hammer, how do I use
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 17:06:17 -0800,
'@'.join([..join(['fred','dixon']),..join(['gmail','com'])]) wrote:
I'd also suggest
validInput = ABCDEFGHIJKL # and there are more clever ways to do this,
# but this will do
myInput = raw_input( .join(validInput) + ?)
if
On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 16:02:53 -0500, Gabriel Cooper wrote:
Ron_Adam wrote:
To me := could mean to create a copy of an object... or should it
be =: ?
Or how about :=) to mean is equal and :=( to mean it's not.
Then there is ;=), to indicate 'True', and ':=O' to indicate 'False'
Not to
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 13:38:34 +0200, andrea.gavana wrote:
Hello NG,
in my application, I use os.walk() to walk on a BIG directory. I
need
to retrieve the files, in each sub-directory, that are owned by a
particular user. Noting that I am on Windows (2000 or XP), this is what I
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 16:49:53 +1000, Anthony Baxter wrote:
The
people who hate pie-decorators post a _lot_ - most people seem to either
not care, or else post once or twice and then disappear.
I just posted on another mailing list about how posting the same message,
over and over, is
On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 16:52:52 -0500, Jeremy Bowers wrote:
Oops, sorry, some send later messages I thought were gone got sent.
Sorry. Didn't mean to revive dead threads.
--
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On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 14:20:51 -0800, RickMuller wrote:
I'm trying to split a string into pieces on whitespace, but I want to
save the whitespace characters rather than discarding them.
For example, I want to split the string '12' into ['1','','2'].
I was certain that there was a way
On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 22:01:25 +, F. Petitjean wrote:
Le Fri, 1 Apr 2005 13:39:47 -0500, Terry Reedy a crit :
This is equivalent to '(that is it) and (it is not it)' which is clearly
false.
False # What ?
Reread the ref manual on chained comparison operators.
And see the date of
On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 18:01:49 -0500, Brian Beck wrote:
py from itertools import groupby
py [''.join(g) for k, g in groupby(' test ing ', lambda x: x.isspace())]
[' ', 'test', ' ', 'ing', ' ']
I tried replacing the lambda thing with an attrgetter, but apparently my
understanding of that
On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 01:00:34 +0200, andrea_gavana wrote:
Hello Jeremy NG,
...
I hope to have been clearer this time...
I really welcome all your suggestions.
Yes, clearer, though I still don't know what you're *doing* with that data :-)
Here's an idea to sort of come at the problem from
On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 02:02:31 +0200, andrea_gavana wrote:
Hello Jeremy NG,
Every user of thsi big directory works on big studies regarding oil fields.
Knowing the amount of data (and number of files) we have to deal with
(produced
by simulators, visualization tools, and so on) and knowing
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 15:42:03 +, Tim Tyler wrote:
I very much favour the smalltalk-inspired idea of keeping the actual
language as small as is reasonably possible.
I wonder if there are any promising new kids on the dynamic
scripting-language block that I haven't heard about yet - i.e.
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 18:07:01 -0800, EP wrote:
Then... about the time you start to try to build a real application with
JavaScript, it will start to drive you mad... and you will have a new,
greater affection for Python.
Actually, if you dig into it really hard, it's not bad. In fact of all the
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 11:31:33 -0800, James Stroud wrote:
Now, what happened to the whitespace idea here? This code seems very
unpythonic. I think : is great for slices and lamda where things go on one
line, but to require it to specify the start of a block of code seems a
little perlish.
It
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 00:22:09 -0800, Ray wrote:
Can you point me to Python for Java Programmers resources? I found one
blog, but that only touched the tip of the iceberg, I feel. I know that as
I use Python more and read more books and read how experienced Python
programmers code, eventually
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:35:34 +0100, kramb64 wrote:
I'm trying to use setattr inside a module.
From outside a module it's easy:
import spam
name=hello
value=1
setattr(spam, name, value)
But if I want to do this inside the module spam itself, what I've to
pass to setattr as first
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 20:07:40 -0800, Kay Schluehr wrote:
It is bad OO design, George. I want to be a bit more become more
specific on this and provide an example:
Having thought about this for a bit, I agree it is a powerful
counter-argument and in many other languages I'd consider this a total
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 19:30:05 +, Abdul Hafiz al-Muslim wrote:
Hi,
I am new to Python and still learning.
I am looking for a way to change the keyboard output within Tkinter - for
example, say I press p and I want to come out as t.
Could anyone point me in the right direction?
I'm
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 16:18:14 -0500, Steve Holden wrote:
Since it's PyCon week, I will offer a prize of $100 to the best (in my
opinion) limerick about Python posted to this list (with a Cc: to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]) before midday on Friday. The prize money will be my
own, so there are no other
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 16:35:57 -0600, Mike Meyer wrote:
The real problem is that newbies won't know which features are meta
features best left to experts, and which features are ok for everyday
programmers to use.
We recently saw a thread (couldn't find it in google groups) where
some was
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:28:51 -0800, James Stroud wrote:
On Wednesday 16 March 2005 04:45 pm, Robert Kern wrote:
This would be very unambiguous.
Not entirely.
Then, the purity would manifest itself the naked comma being an empty
tuple. Think about the zen of:
,
Is that a tuple or
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 03:21:19 -0800, George Jempty wrote:
I'm noticing that Javascript's array/hash literal syntax is EXACTLY the
same as that for Python lists/dictionaries.
No it isn't, quite.
Two differences of note, one literally syntax and one technically not but
you probably still want to
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 03:21:48 -0800, Paul Boddie wrote:
Well, I've been using Python for almost ten years, and I've managed to
deliberately ignore descriptors and metaclasses quite successfully. I get
the impression that descriptors in particular are a detail of the
low-level implementation
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 09:25:43 -0800, jrlen balane wrote:
i am working on an MDIParentFrame and MDIChildFrame. Now, what i want
to do is make the ChildFrame not that easy to close by removing the
close button (the X on the right most corner of the window) if this is
possible...
how am i
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 09:48:42 -0800, Martin Miller wrote:
I'm trying to create some read-only instance specific properties, but the
following attempt didn't work:
I'm going to echo Steven's comment: What's the situation in which you
think you want different properties for different instances of
What i want is to declare in the decorator some code that is common to all
these functions, so the functions assume that the decorator will be there
and wont need to duplicate the code provided by it, and the functions are
not known ahead of time, it has to be dynamic.
This sounds like a call
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 08:38:36 -0500, Charles Hartman wrote:
I'm still shaky on some of sre's syntax. Here's the task: I've got
strings (never longer than about a dozen characters) that are
guaranteed to be made only of characters 'x' and '/'. In each string I
want to find the longest
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:27:06 -0700, Jeffrey Barish wrote:
Most of my program lives in a class. My plan is to have a superclass
that performs the generic functions and subclasses to define methods
specific to each platform
I'm just getting up to speed on Python and OOP, so I'm wondering
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 20:47:42 +, Paul Moore wrote:
This can probably be tidied up and improved, but it may be a
reasonable workaround for something like the original example.
This is why even though in some sense I'd love to see yield *expr, I can't
imagine it's going to get into the
On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 22:54:14 +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:
Douglas Alan wrote:
Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Guido has generally observed a parsimony about the introduction of
features such as the one you suggest into Python, and in particular
he is reluctant to add new keywords - even in
On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 12:42:51 -0600, Skip Montanaro wrote:
yield expr
yield *expr
(Mu-hu-ha-ha-ha!)
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On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:31:12 +1300, Blair Hall wrote:
I have a requirement to prevent 'accidental' tampering
with some software written in Python. If I ensure that all
of the modules concerned are compiled into .pyc's, and remove
the .py's to another location, then I should be safe until
the
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 15:51:47 -0800, elena wrote:
I can go to my friends, however it occurred to me that it might be
better to post in a newsgroup and get a larger, more diverse, and
random sample.
Larger, yes, more diverse, yes, more random, probably not in the
statistical/scientific sense.
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 14:14:55 +1100, news.sydney.pipenetworks.com wrote:
I always wished computer science was more engineering then philosophy.
That way there'd always be an obvious answer.
I hear that!
To be fair, computer *science* is more like mathematics than philosophy;
once a
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 15:18:57 +0900, Wonjae Lee wrote:
I read the comment of
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/277753.
(Title : Find and replace string in all files in a directory)
perl -p -i -e 's/change this/..to this/g' trick looks handy.
Does Python have a similar
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 14:45:09 -0800, Robert Kern wrote:
Until such matters are unequivocally determined in a court that has
jurisdiction over you, do you really want to open yourself to legal risk
and certain ill-will from the community?
Huh? What are you talking about?
I'm just pointing out
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 13:57:47 +0100, Josef Dalcolmo wrote:
You can distribute GPL'ed code in binary form, you just have to make the
sources available as well. And, yes I would use this as a test: if your
program needs gpl-ed code for some of it's functionality, you have to
licence your program
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 22:23:58 +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:
This is one of the reasons why Steven's idea of switching to proposing a
new module is a good one. It then provides a natural location for any
future extensions of the idea such as Records (i.e. namespaces with a
defined set of legal
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 18:24:22 +0100, Damjan wrote:
What you described is not ok according to the GPL - since you distributed
a binary thats derived from GPL software (and you didn't publish it source
code under the GPL too).
No you didn't. You distributed a binary completely free of any GPL
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 11:56:45 -0700, Steven Bethard wrote:
In the empty classes as c structs? thread, we've been talking in some
detail about my proposed generic objects PEP. Based on a number of
suggestions, I'm thinking more and more that instead of a single
collections type, I should be
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 13:39:29 -0700, Steven Bethard wrote:
Yeah, I guess that was really the motivation of this module. I
personally wouldn't use it all that often -- certainly not with the
frequency that I use, say, Python 2.4's set type -- but I think there
are enough of us out here who
On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 21:57:15 +, Jive Dadson wrote:
But that works only if the exception happens to be derived from Exception.
How do I handle the
general case?
I believe the answer is that Exceptions not derived from Exception
shouldn't be thrown; it's basically a deprecated feature and
On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 15:57:10 -0800, has wrote:
I'd say Python is somewhere in the middle, though moving slowly towards
'agglutination' in the last couple years.
But it feels really badly about that and promises to kick the habit
somewhere around the year 3000.
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