Re: Better dict of dicts

Adam Atlas wrote: On Apr 19, 5:24 pm, Bill Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a dictionary of dictionaries where the keys are typically very long tuples and repeated in each inner dictionary. The dictionary representation is nice because it handles sparseness well...and it is nice to be

Re: How naive is Python?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, it isn't until I work my way back to 2.3 that I start to see quadratic behavior: Yes, that's because the behavior was changed for 2.4, so it wouldn't be quadratic in this case. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: running commands with sudo python

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I must execute a command with os.command(), but with root permissions. Is there anyway to do that with python? Thanks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setuid Of course, it's not generally a good idea to have your program keep root permissions after it does whatever

Re: Cellular automata and image manipulation

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello. I have recently been experimenting with cellular automata and I would like to know how I could convert a 2d list of 0's and 1's into white and black squares on an image. I have tried to install matplotlib and also NumTut but

Re: win32com, BSTR, and null terminated strings

Matt Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] However, what is the proper way to recover the actual string? I have been using: r.split(\0, 1)[0] I'd prefer to use r[:-1] to strip off the last character of the string. --

Re: newbie: working iwth list of tuples

Paul Rubin http://[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] falcon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I forgot to add that I passing a tuple of functions to the reduce function but apparently that is not allowed. My guess was that a tuple made up of individual (simple) functions

Re: Python String Substitution

Murali [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] In Python, dictionaries can have any hashable value as a string. In particular I can say d = {} d[(1,2)] = Right d[(1,2)] = Wrong d[key] = test In order to print test using % substitution I can say print %(key)s % d Is

Re: 2D canvas for GTK

Sandro Dentella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I need a (decent) canvas for PyGTK. I used tkinter.canvas with real pleasure in the past but now I need to use the canvas in a Gtk application. Does anybody know of one with similar capabilities? It must work on Windows

Re: print UTF-8 file with BOM

UTF-8 shouldn't need a BOM, as it is designed for character streams, and there is only one logical ordering of the bytes. Only UTF-16 and greater should output a BOM, AFAIK. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Unicode-aware file shortcuts in Windows

Stanislaw Findeisen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Does anyone know how to create file shortcuts in Windows? The only way I know is like: --- import win32com.client wScriptShellObject =