for this example to work.
Many thanks, very useful.
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Thanks,
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includes?
Many thanks for any help.
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prints that to insert it into the html output.
And I thought it would be hard; I should have known better.
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, sed'ing 's:2\.5:2\.6:g' doesn't work. It does change some strings,
but not (apparently) the numbers that matter.
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, or are the library locations used by the loader coded in binary
rather than ascii (and so, harder to find)?
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me in the right direction here?
(The library is PyEphem, an extraordinarily useful library for anyone
interested in astronomy.)
Many thanks,
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Many thanks for the replies. getattr() works great:
name='Moon'
m2 = getattr(ephem,name)()
m2.compute(home)
print ephem.localtime(m2.rise_time)
2009-11-11 01:30:36.02
shows the moon will rise at 1:30am localtime tonight at my home location.
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On May 26, 7:32 am, Joe P. Cool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I saw this don't need it pattern in discussions about the ternary
if..else expression and about except/finally on the same block
level.
Now Python has both.
if/else was added solely because people kept coming up with ways of
embedding a
On May 26, 2:49 pm, Russ P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am also bothered a bit by the seeming inconsistency of the rules for
the single underscore. When used at file scope, they make the variable
or function invisible outside the module, but when used at class
scope, the underscored variables
On Jun 4, 4:09 am, Russ P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is it about leading underscores that bothers me? To me, they are
like a small pebble in your shoe while you are on a hike. Yes, you can
live with it, and it does no harm, but you still want to get rid of it.
With leading underscores, you
On May 25, 8:01 pm, Fuzzyman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Python was not really written with 'difficult' customers in mind ;-)
True. It's extremely suited to what we do though.Minor difficulties
like this are vastly outweighed by advantages. The difficulties are
real though.
It's interesting to
On Jun 4, 4:41 pm, Antoon Pardon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Guido has been known to change his mind, which is an admirabele quality,
but it does show that at some point he rejected a good idea or accepted
a bad idea.
And sometimes the person that talked him into accepting the bad idea
in the
On Jun 4, 9:24 pm, Paul Rubin http://[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
NickC [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
if/else was added solely because people kept coming up with ways of
embedding a pseudo conditional inside expressions and writing buggy
code in the process. All it really saves you in practice
On Jun 4, 9:56 pm, Ben Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Those unit tests should *not*, though, exercise anything but the
public API, otherwise they're breaking encapsulation. Their assertion
should continue to be just as true after a refactoring of the internal
components as before.
Python
Hmm, according to this thread I probably shouldn't bother even trying
to contribute to c.l.p discussions that are highlighted in the Python-
URL announcements, even in cases where I think a core developer's
perspective may be of interest. As someone that only posts here
rarely, and uses Google
On Apr 15, 1:46 pm, Brian Vanderburg II [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
This will automatically call the constructors of any contained objects
to initialize the string. The implicit assignment operator
automatically performs the assignment of any contained objects.
Destruction is also automatic.
On Mar 19, 6:07 am, Jeff Schwab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As I have never attended PyCon, the amount of entertainment already
gleaned from this thread has wildly exceeded my expectations. :) Are
slides or notes from any of the presentations available online? What
was the topic of the
On Mar 4, 11:27 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The meaning is explicit. While else seems to mean little there.
So I may like something similar for Python 3.x (or the removal of the
else).
Consider a loop with the following form:
while 1:
if while-cond:
0-to-many times code block
else:
On Feb 26, 8:45 am, rmano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BTW, 2to3.py should warn when a raw string (not unicode) with \u in
it, I think.
I tried it and it seems to ignore the problem...
Python 3.0a3+ (py3k:61229, Mar 4 2008, 21:38:15)
[GCC 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)] on
On Mar 4, 7:11 am, Lie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mar 2, 11:36 pm, Paul Rubin http://[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Try with a=7, b=25
They should still compare true, but they don't. The reason why they
don't is because of float's finite precision, which is not exactly
what we're talking
On Jan 31, 12:27 am, Gabriel Genellina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Python stores filename and line number information in code objects
(only). If you have a reference to any code object (a method, a
function, a traceback...) inspect can use it to retrieve that
information.
Aside from general
On Dec 27 2007, 11:31 pm, Kugutsumen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Dec 27, 7:24 pm, Terry Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kugutsumen == Kugutsumen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Kugutsumen On Dec 27, 7:07 pm, Paul Hankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Dec 27, 11:34 am, Kugutsumen [EMAIL
On Jan 1, 3:22 am, Arnaud Delobelle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Dec 31, 10:58 am, Odalrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm surprised noone has said anything about the why of default
mutables. I think it is becasue it isn't easy to do it an other way.
[...]
There is an easy enough way:
On Sep 30, 2:29 am, John Roth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was thinking of starting work on converting Python FIT to 3.0, and
then they posted PEP 3137. I think it's a real good idea, but it shows
that 3.0a1 isn't ready for a conversion effort.
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3137/
I'll
On Sep 24, 9:16 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers bruno.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Matthew Woodcraft a écrit :
One reason for the different syntax is that functions, unlike most
other objects, know their own names (which can be shown in tracebacks
and the like).
Nope. They know *one* of their names
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Randy There is a free Beta test of a Python 2.4 Certification test
Randy available at Brainbench.com. They are a provider of skills-based
Randy certification exams. Go to the link below to find the test. It
Randy is free to take the test.
Randy
If you're on Python 2.4, then consider whether or not you can use a
TimedRotatingLogFileHandler from the logging module to handle this for
you:
http://www.python.org/doc/2.4.1/lib/node344.html
Of course, that only works if defining a month as 30 days is
acceptable. If you genuinely need calendar
[Re: alternatives to overloading '/']
Is there a reason the Path constructor is limited to a single argument?
If it allowed multiple arguments, the following would seem very
straightforward:
p = Path(somePath, user.getFolder(), 'archive', oldPath + .bak)
I'm usually not much of a purist, but
[Re: how to get at the base class]
Do you really want to have a only works for Path way to get at the
base class, rather than using the canonical Path.__bases__[0]?
How about a new property in the os.path module instead? Something like
os.path.path_type.
Then os.path.path_type is unicode if and
Ralf,
I'd be very interested to hear your opinion on the 'namespace' module,
which looks at addressing some of these issues (the Record object, in
particular). The URL is http://namespace.python-hosting.com, and any
comments should be directed to the [EMAIL PROTECTED]
discussion list.
Regards,
Gentle folk of comp.lang.python, I heartily thank you all for your
input. I think I'm taking the boys through the door marked Logo. We
may be back this way, though. We will likely need MORE in the nebulous
future. I am impressed with the outpouring of support here!
Before you commit
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
with colour do begin
red := 0; blue := 255; green := 0;
end;
instead of:
colour.red := 0; colour.blue := 255; colour.green := 0;
c = colour
c.red = 0; c.blue = 255; c.green = 0
del c # Not strictly needed, but limits the scope of c
When everything's a reference, the
Andrew Durdin wrote:
In this case the dictionary is obviously a better and clearer choice.
I've generally found for other circumstances where I've used switch
statements that the code ends up more readable if it's reorganised so
that the switch statements are all of the form above, or are
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