Re: Python IDE.

2014-11-23 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Spyder El 20/11/14 a las 18:47, TP escibió: On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Irmen de Jong irmen.nos...@xs4all.nl mailto:irmen.nos...@xs4all.nl wrote: PyCharm *is* free, if you fall in one of several categories. See http://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/buy/license-matrix.jsp Even

Re: Editor for Python

2014-01-08 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
I use Spyder both in Windows as in Linux. Pretty good programing environment, lots of features, simple enough, works on both platforms and it's free. El 08/01/14 08:27, ayushpokha...@gmail.com escribió: On Friday, 23 November 2001 04:13:40 UTC+5:30, MANUEL FERNANDEZ PEREZ wrote: Hello, I'm

Re: Tree library - multiple children

2013-12-13 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
El 13/12/13 18:05, bucha...@gmail.com escribió: I have this simple/stupid tree module: https://github.com/abuchanan/bolts/blob/master/bolts/tree.py Thanks, I'll check it. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Tree library - multiple children

2013-12-12 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
I need to use a tree structure. Is there a good and known library? Doesn't have to be binary tree, I need to have multiple children per node. Thanks -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Tree library - multiple children

2013-12-12 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
El 12/12/13 16:26, Neil Cerutti escribió: On 2013-12-12, Ricardo Aráoz ricar...@gmail.com wrote: I need to use a tree structure. Is there a good and known library? Doesn't have to be binary tree, I need to have multiple children per node. Have you tried nested lists? [[1, 2], [3, 4] Can

Re: Tree library - multiple children

2013-12-12 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
El 12/12/13 15:56, Terry Reedy escribió: On 12/12/2013 1:14 PM, Ricardo Aráoz wrote: I need to use a tree structure. Is there a good and known library? Search tools, both for the web and on pypi.python.org, are your friend. I thought it was obvious that I've already looked around. I'm

Re: Tree library - multiple children

2013-12-12 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
El 12/12/13 18:01, Mark Lawrence escribió: On 12/12/2013 18:56, Terry Reedy wrote: On 12/12/2013 1:14 PM, Ricardo Aráoz wrote: I need to use a tree structure. Is there a good and known library? Search tools, both for the web and on pypi.python.org, are your friend. stackoverflow

Fwd: Re: Wrapping around a list

2013-11-28 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
El 27/11/13 07:46, amjad...@gmail.com escribió: Hello, I am working on a problem (Bioinformatics domain) where all possible combinations of input string needs to be printed as sublist For example: Input string : LEQN Output= [L,E,Q,N][LE,EQ,QN,NL] [LEQ,EQN,QNE,NLE] [LEQN] The code i have

Re: PyMyth: Global variables are evil... WRONG!

2013-11-12 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
El 12/11/13 01:46, Rick Johnson escribió: No, Python modules can be poked, prodded, and violated by any pervert who can spell the word import. Attribute values can be reassigned and state can be externally manipulated resulting in all types of undefined behaviors -- Nice! My code, my

Re: Multiprocessing: killing children when parent dies

2013-10-18 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
El 18/10/13 13:18, John Ladasky escribió: What a lovely thread title! And just in time for Halloween! :^) LOL Couldn't that be construed as sexism? Next we'll have a new long moronic thread about sexism and discrimination in mail subjects. Which will, as usual, leave a lot of satisfied

Re: Question on for loop

2013-03-04 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
El 04/03/13 09:18, newtopython escribió: Hi all, I'm super new to python, just fyi. In the piece of code below, secretWord is a string and lettersGuessed is a list. I'm trying to find out if ALL the characters of secretWord are included in lettersGuessed, even if there are additional values

Re: Best way to gain root privileges

2011-02-18 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
On 17/02/2011 06:46 p.m., Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 19:44:20 +, Katie T wrote: Running any kind of script sudo'd is a bad idea, it's very very hard (in many cases impossible) to do securely. Root permissions in general should only be used for what they're needed for and

Re: death of newsgroups (Microsoft closing their newsgroups)

2010-07-14 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
On 14/07/2010 12:19 p.m., Kenneth Tilton wrote: Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:24:12 -0400, Kenneth Tilton wrote: The moral? If you look for the spam, you'll find it. And if you *don't* look for spam, you can be sure that some goose will reply to it and get it past your

Re: I strongly dislike Python 3

2010-07-01 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
On 30/06/2010 01:23 p.m., Lie Ryan wrote: On 07/01/10 01:42, Michele Simionato wrote: On Jun 30, 2:52 pm, Lie Ryanlie.1...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/27/10 11:24, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Producing print function takes a little bit more effort than producing a print statement. (1) The main

Re: GUIs - A Modest Proposal

2010-06-14 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
On 14/06/2010 02:57 p.m., rantingrick wrote: On Jun 14, 11:17 am, Stephen Hansenme+list/pyt...@ixokai.io wrote: And the recursive flow of the DOM is powerful This style of speaking reminds me of our former hillbilly president (no not Clinton, he was the eloquent hillbilly!) No i am

Re: Sometimes the python shell cannot recognize the presence of an attribute.

2010-04-12 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Aahz wrote: In article mailman.1341.1269989861.23598.python-l...@python.org, Justin Park h...@rice.edu wrote: The real problem is this. When I started working on the package, somehow all of indentations were made by space-bars instead of using tabs. But when I am implementing my own on

Re: Usability, the Soul of Python

2010-03-31 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: In message 20100331003241.47fa9...@vulcan.local, Robert Fendt wrote: The braces are gone, and with them the holy wars. Let me start a new one. I would still put in some kind of explicit indicator of the end of the grouping construct: count = 99

Re: Classes as namespaces?

2010-03-26 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Luis M. González wrote: On 26 mar, 11:49, kj no.em...@please.post wrote: What's the word on using classes as namespaces? E.g. class _cfg(object): spam = 1 jambon = 3 huevos = 2 breakfast = (_cfg.spam, _cfg.jambon, _cfg.huevos) I see no problem. I wouldn't mix

Exception in pydoc

2010-02-26 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
I'm developing an in house app. Many coders here are not fluent in english, so docstrings must be in Spanish in spite of recommendations that docstrings better be in English. When I use accented characters (in this case an 'ó') in my docstrings I get : help('OpMejoraBizobj') Traceback (most

Re: Your beloved python features

2010-02-10 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Bruce C. Baker wrote: Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote in message news:mailman.1929.1265328905.28905.python-l...@python.org... Iterators, and in particular, generators. A killer feature. Terry Jan Reedy Neither unique to Python. And then're the other killer features

Re: yet another list comprehension question

2009-05-05 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
namekuseijin wrote: On May 4, 9:15 am, David Robinow drobi...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 2:33 AM, namekuseijin namekuseijin.nos...@gmail.com wrote: ls = [(1,2), (3,4), (5, None), (6,7), (8, None)] [(x,y) for (x,y) in ls if y] [(1, 2), (3, 4), (6, 7)]

PDB break

2009-04-24 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Hi, I need to track where a certain condition is met in a program. Checking on pdb docs I find the break statement : b(reak) [[/filename/:]/lineno/ | /function/[, /condition/]] But it requires me to name a line/function where my condition is tested. Now there are far too many places in a project

Re: object knows which object called it?

2009-04-07 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Reckoner wrote: hi, I have the following problem: I have two objects, say, A and B, which are both legitimate stand-alone objects with lives of their own. A contains B as a property, so I often do A.B.foo() the problem is that some functions inside of B actually need A (remember I said

Re: python for loop

2009-04-01 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Lada Kugis wrote: On 01 Apr 2009 01:26:41 GMT, Steven D'Aprano ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au wrote: Why Python (and other languages) count from zero instead of one, and why half-open intervals are better than closed intervals:

Formal specification and proof (was : Does Python really follow its philosophy of Readability counts?)

2009-01-22 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Mark Wooding wrote: Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au writes: No it's not. It's *practical*. There are domains where *by law* code needs to meet all sorts of strict standards to prove safety and security, and Python *simply cannot meet those standards*.

Re: Does Python really follow its philosophy of Readability counts?

2009-01-22 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Paul Rubin wrote: Mark Wooding m...@distorted.org.uk writes: Some people (let's call them `type A programmers') have decided that they want to be assisted with writing correct programs... Other people (`type B programmers') don't like having their (apparently? possibly?) correct programs

Re: drive a desktop app from python?

2009-01-09 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
James Stroud wrote: Tim Arnold wrote: Hi, I don't even know what to google for on this one. I need to drive a commercial desktop app (on windows xp) since the app doesn't have a batch interface. It's intended to analyze one file at a time and display a report. I can get the thing to write

Re: Snippets management

2008-11-07 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Edwin B. wrote: Robert Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't think there is a one-size-fits-all solution. I definetly agree. Setting up a 'snippets' repository sounds good if you just want to be able to look back at what you've done and/or have a place to stash away quick tests.

Re: a short-cut command for globals().clear() ??

2008-09-23 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Terry Reedy wrote: MRAB wrote: How about something like this: def clear_workspace(): keep_set = set(['__builtins__', '__doc__', '__name__', 'clear_workspace']) For 2.6/3.0, add __package__ to the list to be kept. for x in globals().keys(): if x not in keep_set:

Re: Not fully OO ?

2008-09-22 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Kay Schluehr wrote: On 20 Sep., 23:07, Aaron \Castironpi\ Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 20, 3:22 pm, Kay Schluehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20 Sep., 18:33, Bruno Desthuilliers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following definitions are AFAIK the only commonly accepted definitions

Re: Can anyone suggest a good crypto package?

2008-09-10 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Fett wrote: On Sep 4, 2:23 pm, Mike Driscoll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 4, 1:39 pm, Fett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need a crypto package that works on windows with python 2.5. Can anyone suggest one for me? I have been searching for a couple days for a good cryptography package to

Re: Read dbf file as read only

2008-08-26 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
ajak_yahoo wrote: Hi, How can I access a foxpro dbf file from my python program. I just want to read it as a read only file. Regards, Check Paul McNett's article in FoxTalk Exploring Python from a Visual Foxpro Perspective and check the code in :

Re: who to call a list of method inside the class itself

2008-08-20 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Terry Reedy wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the following code is ok. who to call all method. It is working but the call to m() without a reference to self seems strange The reference to self is bound to the methods by the way you look them up. class CustomMethod: def

Re: Do this as a list comprehension?

2008-06-09 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Mensanator wrote: On Jun 6, 1:40 pm, The Pythonista [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:42:07 -0400, John Salerno wrote: Is it possible to write a list comprehension for this so as to produce a list of two-item tuples? base_scores = range(8, 19) score_costs = [0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1,

Re: python vs. grep

2008-05-13 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Ville M. Vainio wrote: Ricardo Aráoz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The easy/simple (too easy/simple?) way I see out of it is to read THE WHOLE file into memory and don't worry. But what if the file is too The easiest and simplest approach is often the best with Python. Keep forgetting

Re: python vs. grep

2008-05-12 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Ville Vainio wrote: On May 8, 8:11 pm, Ricardo Aráoz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All these examples assume your regular expression will not span multiple lines, but this can easily be the case. How would you process the file with regular expressions that span multiple lines? re.findall

Re: python vs. grep

2008-05-08 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Anton Slesarev wrote: I try to save my time not cpu cycles) I've got file which I really need to parse: -rw-rw-r-- 1 xxx xxx 3381564736 May 7 09:29 bigfile That's my results: $ time grep python bigfile | wc -l 2470 real0m4.744s user0m2.441s sys 0m2.307s And python

Re: Pb with 2.5.2 PyScripter

2008-03-01 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Méta-MCI (MVP) wrote: Re! An exemple. With this script: a=123 b=456 d=a+b+c (note than 'c' is not defined). When I run, inside Pyscripter, the error-dialog is showed, and, one second after, PyScripter is closed. This problem is present since Python 2.5.2. I search, for

Re: SV: Where's GUI for Python?

2008-03-01 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
K Viltersten wrote: import tkininter When that fails, try without the stutter G import tkinter I must be doing something wrong because neither tkinter nor tkininter works. I tried both with and without stuttering. I even asked my wife to stutter some but, sadly, to no avail.

Re: Is there a open souce IDE writen by C( C++) or partly writen by C( C++)?

2008-02-24 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
zaley wrote: On Feb 24, 6:48 am, Ricardo Aráoz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lie wrote: On Feb 23, 4:02 pm, zaley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 22, 11:06 pm, Jesper polluks(#at#)post.tele.dk wrote: Give PyScripter fromhttp://www.mmm-experts.com/atry It is for Windows, though it is written

Re: Is there a open souce IDE writen by C( C++) or partly writen by C( C++)?

2008-02-24 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
zaley wrote: So I hope I can find something helpful in open source IDE for python. Exactly so. PyScripter does it easy, besides you can have in different tabs all the modules of your application. You just hit the run button and your program runs, you hit the debug button and you start going

Re: Is there a open souce IDE writen by C( C++) or partly writen by C( C++)?

2008-02-24 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
zaley wrote: On 2月25日, 上午10时35分, Ricardo Aráoz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: zaley wrote: So I hope I can find something helpful in open source IDE for python. Exactly so. PyScripter does it easy, besides you can have in different ... .. From then on you are on your own. HTH Hehe. You

Re: The big shots

2008-02-23 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Dotan Cohen wrote: On 20/02/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's a bad sign. If you aren't keeping your thoughts to yourself, and thrashing about the world for a peer, a social network, a support group, or a community, then you missed the day in grammar school when they

Re: ILeo (IPython-Leo bridge); a marriage made in heaven?

2008-02-23 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Edward K Ream wrote: Here is something cool that will rock your world (ok, excuse the slight hyperbole): Many thanks for this posting, Ville. It is indeed very cool: - It shows how Leo can be used *now* as an IPython notebook. - It expands the notion of what is possible with

Re: Is there a open souce IDE writen by C( C++) or partly writen by C( C++)?

2008-02-23 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Lie wrote: On Feb 23, 4:02 pm, zaley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 22, 11:06 pm, Jesper polluks(#at#)post.tele.dk wrote: Give PyScripter fromhttp://www.mmm-experts.com/atry It is for Windows, though it is written in Delphi and not in C/C++ /Jesper zaley [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev i en

Re: Coverage.py reporting and UML tools - what exists already?

2008-02-13 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
J Peyret wrote: I got coverage.py to work after somewhat of a difficult start... Hint: if moving your code from Windows to Linux and if running 'coverage.py -r mymodule.py' causes SyntaxError/SyntaxException, the 'flip' utility is your friend to deal with removing those nasty \r\n newlines

Re: REALLY simple xml reader

2008-01-31 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Ivan Illarionov wrote: from xml.etree import ElementTree as et from decimal import Decimal root = et.parse('file/with/your.xml') debits = dict((debit.attrib['category'], Decimal(debit.find('amount').text)) for debit in root.findall('debit')) for cat, amount in debits.items(): ... print

Re: REALLY simple xml reader

2008-01-31 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Diez B. Roggisch wrote: Ricardo Aráoz schrieb: Thanks Ivan, it seems a elegant API, and easy to use. I tried to play a little with it but unfortunately could not get it off the ground. I kept getting root = et.fromstring(doc) Traceback (most recent call last): File input, line 1

Re: REALLY simple xml reader

2008-01-31 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Diez B. Roggisch wrote: Ricardo Aráoz schrieb: Diez B. Roggisch wrote: Ricardo Aráoz schrieb: Thanks Ivan, it seems a elegant API, and easy to use. I tried to play a little with it but unfortunately could not get it off the ground. I kept getting root = et.fromstring(doc) Traceback (most

Re: REALLY simple xml reader

2008-01-29 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Diez B. Roggisch wrote: Simon Pickles schrieb: Hi Can anyone suggest a really simple XML reader for python? I just want to be able to do something like this: xmlDoc = xml.open(file.xml) element = xmlDoc.GetElement(foo/bar) ... to read the value of: foo bar42/bar /foo Since

Re: REALLY simple xml reader

2008-01-29 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
What about : doc = moo bar99/bar /moo foo bar42/bar /foo That's not an XML document, so what about it? Stefan -- Ok Stefan, I will pretend it was meant in good will. I don't know zit about xml, but I might need to, and I am saving

Re: split parameter line with quotes

2008-01-14 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
teddyber wrote: here's the solution i have for the moment : t = shlex.shlex(data) t.wordchars = t.wordchars + /+.- r='' while 1: token = t.get_token() if not token: break if not token==',': r = r+token else:

Re: how to generate html table from table data?

2007-12-27 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Vasudev Ram wrote: Why not try writing your own code for this first? If nothing else, it'll help you learn more, and may also help you understand better, the other options. Thanks for your reply even it was not really helpful. The

Re: very newbie question about exception handling

2007-12-24 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: code sample: -- i=input() try: x=int(i) print you input an integer except ValueError: print you must input an integer when I input a value like, b I got the

Re: Yet Another Tabular Data Question

2007-11-30 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 29, 5:46 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Fairly new Python guy here. I am having a lot of trouble trying to figure this out. I have some data on some regulations in Excel and I need to basically add up the total regulations for each country--a

Re: better way to write this function

2007-11-26 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Peter Otten wrote: Kelie wrote: Hello, This function does I what I want. But I'm wondering if there is an easier/better way. To be honest, I don't have a good understanding of what pythonic means yet. def divide_list(lst, n): Divide a list into a number of lists, each with n items.

Re: Problems with if/elif statement syntax

2007-11-23 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 22, 12:33 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 22 Nov, 12:09, Neil Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm sure I'm doing something wrong but after lots of searching and reading I can't work it out and was wondering if anybody can help?

Re: Populating a dictionary, fast

2007-11-11 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Michael Bacarella wrote: This would seem to implicate the line id2name[id] = name as being excruciatingly slow. As others have pointed out there is no way that this takes 45 minutes.Must be something with your system or setup. A functionally equivalent code for me runs in about 49 seconds!

Re: Need some help...

2007-11-02 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Gabriel Genellina wrote: En Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:12:52 -0300, Ricardo Aráoz [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: def sumToOneDigit(num) : if num 10 : return num else : return sumToOneDigit(sum(int(i) for i in str(num))) def sumToOneDigit(num): return num % 9

Re: Need some help...

2007-11-01 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Boris Borcic wrote: Ricardo Aráoz wrote: Boris Borcic wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to create a program that I type in a word. for example... chaos each letter equals a number A=1 B=20 and so on. So Chaos would be C=13 H=4 A=1 O=7 S=5 I want to then have those

Re: two files into an alternate list

2007-10-31 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Tim Chase wrote: i have a file : file 1: 1 2 3 4 5 6 file2: a b c d e f how do i make the two files into list like this = [1,a,2,b,3,c,4,d,5,e,6,f] from itertools import cycle def serialize(*sources): while True: for source in sources:

Re: dictionary and list

2007-10-31 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Beema shafreen wrote: hi everbody, I have a file, a b c d e 2722316 2722360A_16_P03641972150-44 2722510 2722554A_16_P2136023916-44 2722570 2722614

Re: Need some help...

2007-10-31 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Boris Borcic wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to create a program that I type in a word. for example... chaos each letter equals a number A=1 B=20 and so on. So Chaos would be C=13 H=4 A=1 O=7 S=5 I want to then have those numbers 13+4+1+7+5 added together to be 30.

Re: appending into a list

2007-10-31 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Beema shafreen wrote: hi everybody, I have a file : A B C D E 2717353 2717412A_16_P03641964214-59 2717626 2717685A_16_P4156365525-59 2717710 2717754

Re: sorting data

2007-10-29 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Beema shafreen wrote: hi all, I have problem to sort the data.. the file includes data as follow. file: chrX:123343123123343182A_16_P41787782 chrX:123343417123343476A_16_P03762840 chrX:123343460123343519A_16_P41787783 chrX:12334336

Re: Using msvcrt (in Windows), how to catch Enter key?

2007-10-29 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Dick Moores wrote: Windows XP Pro, Python 2.5.1 import msvcrt while True: if msvcrt.kbhit(): key = msvcrt.getch() if key == 'Enter' do something Is there a way to catch the pressing of the 'Enter' key? Thanks, Dick Moores You have examples for

Re: Really basic problem

2007-10-10 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
tomamil wrote: i know this example is stupid and useless, but that's not the answer to my question. here it goes: status = 0.0 for i in range(10): status = status + 0.1 if status == 0.1: print status elif status == 0.2: print status elif status == 0.3:

Re: [Tutor] Top Programming Languages of 2013

2007-10-07 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Alan Gauld wrote: Dick Moores [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote http://www.redcanary.ca/view/top-programming Interesting, but I'm not sure what the criteria for top is. Is it a measure of power, popularity, usage? Scary that HTML/CSS should be so high though given its not a programming

Re: How to create a file on users XP desktop

2007-10-07 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Matimus wrote: On Oct 6, 8:31 pm, goldtech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone link me or explain the following: I open a file in a python script. I want the new file's location to be on the user's desktop in a Windows XP environment. fileHandle = open (., 'w' ) what I guess I'm

Re: Convert on uppercase unaccentent unicode character

2007-10-05 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Wildemar Wildenburger wrote: Steve Holden wrote: Malheureusement, I see that absence of accented capitals is a modern phenomenon that is regarded as an impediment to the language mostly stemming from laziness of individual authors and inadequacy of low-end typesetting software. I hadn't

Re: readline() - problem

2007-10-02 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Paul Hankin wrote: On Oct 2, 12:25 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I'm a new user of python, and have problem. I have a plain ascii file: 11..1 12..1 11..1 I want to create a new file which contains only lines with '1' on 15th position.

Re: Can you please give me some advice?

2007-09-30 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello World in Ruby (and a few other languages):http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2005/12/hello_world.html Hello World in Python:http://python.about.com/od/gettingstarted/ss/helloworld.htm I know nothing of Ruby, but just the fact that in Ruby the Hello World

Re: Delete values from a string using the index

2007-09-26 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I delete or remove values from a list or string using the index. If a = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8] and I want to get rid of 1 -5, how would I do that? Thanks. del a[1] del a[-5] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Delete values from a string using the index

2007-09-26 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I delete or remove values from a list or string using the index. If a = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8] and I want to get rid of 1 -5, how would I do that? Thanks. If you want to do it all at once : del a[1:4:2] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: scope, modyfing outside object from inside the method

2007-09-24 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Marcin Stępnicki wrote: Hello. I thought I understand this, but apparently I don't :(. I'm missing something very basic and fundamental here, so redirecting me to the related documentation is welcomed as well as providing working code :). Trivial example which works as expected: x =

Counting method calls

2007-09-21 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Hi, I know I'm being dumb but, why does it not work? class MyList(list): ... def __init__(self): ... self.calls = 0 ... def __getattr__(self, name): ... self.calls += 1 ... return list.__getattribute__(self, name) a = MyList() a [] a.append(1) a [1] a.calls

Re: re question

2007-09-20 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Dan Bar Dov wrote: I'm trying to construct a regular expression to match valid IP address, without leading zeroes (i.e 1.2.3.4 http://1.2.3.4, 254.10.0.0 http://254.10.0.0, but not 324.1.1.1, nor 010.10.10.1 http://010.10.10.1) This is what I come up with, and it does not work.

Pseudo-Private Class Attributes

2007-09-18 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
That is self.__attributes Been reading about the reasons to introduce them and am a little concerned. As far as I understand it if you have a class that inherits from two other classes which have both the same name for an attribute then you will have a name clash because all instance attributes

Re: Python 3K or Python 2.9?

2007-09-14 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: TheFlyingDutchman a écrit : Well I'm with Bruce Eckel - there shouldn't be any argument for the object in the class method parameter list. def fun(obj, *args, **kw): # generic code here that do something with obj import some_module some_module.SomeClass.fun

Re: Modul (%) in python not like in C?

2007-09-09 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
John Machin wrote: On Sep 10, 8:05 am, Lee Harr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Python will always yield a number x = m%n such that 0 = x n, but Turbo C will always yield a number such that if x = m%n -x = -m%n. That is, since 111 % 10 = 1, -111 % 10 = -1. The two values will always differ by n

Re: How to determine the bool between the strings and ints?

2007-09-08 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Zentrader wrote: On Sep 7, 11:30 am, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 07 Sep 2007 18:49:12 +0200, Jorgen Bodde wrote: As for why caring if they are bools or not, I write True and False to the properties, the internal mechanism works like this so I need to make that

Re: creating really big lists

2007-09-08 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Dr Mephesto wrote: On Sep 8, 3:33 am, Gabriel Genellina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: En Fri, 07 Sep 2007 16:16:46 -0300, Dr Mephesto [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribi?: hey, that defaultdict thing looks pretty cool... whats the overhead like for using a dictionary in python? Dictionaries are heavily

Re: How to determine the bool between the strings and ints?

2007-09-08 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Steven D'Aprano wrote: ... .. . You know, one or two examples was probably plenty. The other six or seven didn't add anything to your post except length. Also, type testing by equality is generally not a good idea. For example: class HexInt(int): Like built-in ints, but print in hex

Re: Spell-checking Python source code

2007-09-08 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
John Zenger wrote: To my horror, someone pointed out to me yesterday that a web app I wrote has been prominently displaying a misspelled word. The word was buried in my code. Is there a utility out there that will help spell-check literal strings entered into Python source code? I don't

Re: Spell-checking Python source code

2007-09-08 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
David wrote: (I know that the better practice is to isolate user-displayed strings from the code, but in this case that just didn't happen.) Use the re module, identify the strings and write them to another file, then open the file with your spell checker. Program shouldn't be more than 10

include myVar

2007-09-08 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Is there a way to import a module whose name is in a variable (read from a configuration file for example)? TIA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Finding specific date ranges

2007-09-07 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Tim Golden wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am working on a timesheet application in which I need to to find the first pay period in a month that is entirely contained in that month to calculate vacation time. Below are some example date ranges: December 31, 2006January 13, 2007

Re: why should I learn python

2007-09-07 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Tom Brown wrote: On Thursday 06 September 2007 15:44, Torsten Bronger wrote: Hallöchen! Tom Brown writes: [...] Python has been by far the easiest to develop in. Some people might say it is not real programming because it is so easy. I can't believe this. Have you really heard such a

Re: Looping through File Question

2007-09-06 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
John Machin wrote: On Sep 5, 10:26 pm, planetmatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5 Sep, 12:34, John Machin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 5, 8:58 pm, planetmatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a Python beginner. I am trying to loop through a CSV file which I can do. What I want to change

Re: Text processing and file creation

2007-09-06 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Shawn Milochik wrote: On 9/5/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a text source file of about 20.000 lines. From this file, I like to write the first 5 lines to a new file. Close that file, grab the next 5 lines write these to a new file... grabbing 5 lines and creating new

Re: REGULAR EXPRESSION

2007-09-05 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
AniNair wrote: On Sep 5, 4:35 am, Ricardo Aráoz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Holden wrote: AniNair wrote: hi.. I am trying to match '+ %/-' etc using regular expression in expressions like 879+34343. I tried \W+ but it matches only in the beginning of the string Plz help Thanking you

Re: REGULAR EXPRESSION

2007-09-04 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Steve Holden wrote: AniNair wrote: hi.. I am trying to match '+ %/-' etc using regular expression in expressions like 879+34343. I tried \W+ but it matches only in the beginning of the string Plz help Thanking you in advance... Perhaps you could give a few example of strings that should

Re: advice about `correct' use of decorator

2007-09-03 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Gabriel Genellina wrote: En Wed, 29 Aug 2007 07:32:21 -0300, BJörn Lindqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribi�: On 8/24/07, Gabriel Genellina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: En Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:20:21 -0300, BJörn Lindqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribi�: def check_user_logged_in(func): def

Re: status of Programming by Contract (PEP 316)?

2007-09-02 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Alex Martelli wrote: Ricardo Aráoz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... We should remember that the level of security of a 'System' is the same as the level of security of it's weakest component, ... You win the argument, and thanks you prove my point. You typically concerned yourself

Re: localizing a sort

2007-09-02 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Peter Otten wrote: Am Sat, 01 Sep 2007 18:56:38 -0300 schrieb Ricardo Aráoz: Hi, I've been working on sorting out some words. My locale is : import locale locale.getdefaultlocale() ('es_AR', 'cp1252') I do : a = 'áéíóúäëïöüàèìòù' print ''.join(sorted(a, cmp=lambda x,y: locale.strcoll

Re: localizing a sort

2007-09-02 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Alex Martelli wrote: Ricardo Aráoz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Otten wrote: ... print ''.join(sorted(a, cmp=lambda x,y: locale.strcoll(x,y))) aeiouàáäèéëìíïòóöùúü The lambda is superfluous. Just write cmp=locale.strcoll instead. No it is not : print ''.join(sorted(a, cmp

Re: list index() (OT)

2007-09-01 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Paddy wrote: On Sep 1, 7:57 am, Hendrik van Rooyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richie Hindle richi...ian.com wrote: But - the word for someone who posts to the internet with the intention of stirring up trouble derives from the word for what fishermen do, not from the word for something that

Re: status of Programming by Contract (PEP 316)?

2007-09-01 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: Carl Banks pavlmail.com wrote: This is starting to sound silly, people. Critical is a relative term, and one project's critical may be anothers mundane. Sure a flaw in your flagship product is a critical problem *for your company*, but are you really

Re: list index() (OT)

2007-09-01 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Steve Holden wrote: Ricardo Aráoz wrote: Paddy wrote: On Sep 1, 7:57 am, Hendrik van Rooyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richie Hindle richi...ian.com wrote: But - the word for someone who posts to the internet with the intention of stirring up trouble derives from the word for what fishermen do

localizing a sort

2007-09-01 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Hi, I've been working on sorting out some words. My locale is : import locale locale.getdefaultlocale() ('es_AR', 'cp1252') I do : a = 'áéíóúäëïöüàèìòù' print ''.join(sorted(a, cmp=lambda x,y: locale.strcoll(x,y))) aeiouàáäèéëìíïòóöùúü This is not what I am expecting. I was expecting :

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