[issue25464] Tix HList header_exists should be "exist"

2015-10-22 Thread Rob Williscroft
New submission from Rob Williscroft: The method header_exists of Tix HList raises: File "...\python3\lib\tkinter\tix.py", line 926, in header_exists return self.tk.call(self._w, 'header', 'exists', col) _tkinter.TclError: unknown option "exists". Must be cget, config

Re: Sending a broadcast message using raw sockets

2013-01-22 Thread Rob Williscroft
Peter Steele wrote in news:0c2b3482-df46-4324-8bf9-2c45d3f6b...@googlegroups.com in comp.lang.python: On Monday, January 21, 2013 1:10:06 AM UTC-8, Rob Williscroft wrote: Peter Steele wrote in news:f37ccb35-8439-42cd-a063-962249b44...@googlegroups.com in comp.lang.python: I want

Re: Sending a broadcast message using raw sockets

2013-01-22 Thread Rob Williscroft
Peter Steele wrote in news:96947c45-f16b-4e97-b055-edc1241ee...@googlegroups.com in comp.lang.python: I just tried running you code, and the sendto call fails with Network is unreachable. That's what I expected, based on other tests I've done. That's why I was asking about how to do raw

Re: Sending a broadcast message using raw sockets

2013-01-21 Thread Rob Williscroft
Peter Steele wrote in news:f37ccb35-8439-42cd-a063-962249b44...@googlegroups.com in comp.lang.python: I want to write a program in Python that sends a broadcast message using raw sockets. The system where this program will run has no IP or default route defined, hence the reason I need to use

Re: Conditional decoration

2012-06-18 Thread Rob Williscroft
Roy Smith wrote in news:jro9cj$b44$1...@panix2.panix.com in gmane.comp.python.general: Is there any way to conditionally apply a decorator to a function? For example, in django, I want to be able to control, via a run-time config flag, if a view gets decorated with @login_required().

Re: ordering with duck typing in 3.1

2012-04-07 Thread Rob Williscroft
andrew cooke wrote in news:33019705.1873.1333801405463.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@ynmm9 in gmane.comp.python.general: hi, please, what am i doing wrong here? the docs say http://docs.python.org/release/3.1.3/library/stdtypes.html#comparisons in general, __lt__() and __eq__() are

Re: Cannot connect to IMAP server in Python 3.2

2012-04-04 Thread Rob Williscroft
Steven D'Aprano wrote in news:4f7d2475$0$3$c3e8...@news.astraweb.com in gmane.comp.python.general: I can connect to an IMAP server using Python 2.6: steve@runes:~$ python2.6 Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Dec 27 2010, 00:02:40) server = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('x') But when I try with

Re: Returning a value from exec or a better solution

2011-08-30 Thread Rob Williscroft
Jack Trades wrote in news:CAG5udOh1+oE4g9Frjp3pucbHUtWcN34KK35a-Xs2YqkZH9X5=w...@mail.gmail.com in gmane.comp.python.general: def test(): src = ( def double(x): return x * 2 ) globals = {} exec( src, globals ) return globals[ double ] print( test() ) I looked

Re: Returning a value from exec or a better solution

2011-08-30 Thread Rob Williscroft
Jack Trades wrote in news:CAG5udOiOAge3uHrGSDTZ412GAg+CC- 6u8igoyj0lnf3hnwu...@mail.gmail.com in gmane.comp.python.general: class CapturingDict(dict): ... def __setitem__(self, key, val): ... self.key, self.val = key, val ... dict.__setitem__(self, key, val) ... c =

Re: Returning a value from exec or a better solution

2011-08-30 Thread Rob Williscroft
Ethan Furman wrote in news:4e5d29c8.8010...@stoneleaf.us in gmane.comp.python.general: Jack Trades wrote: On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 2:37 AM, Rob Williscroft wrote: If an impementation (as you say up thread) can populate globals or locals with whatever they want, then how do you know that last

Re: Returning a value from exec or a better solution

2011-08-30 Thread Rob Williscroft
Arnaud Delobelle wrote in news:CAJ6cK1YVi3NQgdZOUdhAESf133pUkdazM1PkSP=p6xfayvo...@mail.gmail.com in gmane.comp.python.general: On 30 August 2011 13:31, Jack Trades jacktradespub...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 2:37 AM, Rob Williscroft r...@rtw.me.uk wrote: That's brilliant

Re: Returning a value from exec or a better solution

2011-08-29 Thread Rob Williscroft
Jack Trades wrote in news:CAG5udOg=GtFGPmTB=1ojnvnrpdyucxdokn1wjqmomv9gx0+...@mail.gmail.com in gmane.comp.python.general: ... I wanted to allow the user to manually return the function from the string, like this: a = exec( def double(x): return x * 2 double ) However it seems that

Re: Button Label change on EVT_BUTTON in wxpython!!!

2011-08-29 Thread Rob Williscroft
Ven wrote in news:aa1212bb-35e5-4bf9-b8ad-7a3c083749c2 @x2g2000yql.googlegroups.com in gmane.comp.python.general: So, here is what I did/want: self.run_button=wx.Button(self.panel,ID_RUN_BUTTON,label='Install') self.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.OnRun,id=ID_RUN_BUTTON) def OnRun(self,evt):

Re: os.path.isdir do not work for Foder named '2011-07-03'

2011-07-18 Thread Rob Williscroft
Nulpum wrote in news:0bf400a3-735c-487a-8d74- feb3b56be...@g5g2000prn.googlegroups.com in gmane.comp.python.general: I want to make sure that folder exists. '2011-07-03' is really exists. but 'os.path.isdir' say false Does anyone know why? os.path.isdir(C:\Users\Á¶Ã¢ÁØ\Desktop\logs) True

Re: None versus MISSING sentinel -- request for design feedback

2011-07-15 Thread Rob Williscroft
Steven D'Aprano wrote in news:4e1fd009$0$29986$c3e8da3 $54964...@news.astraweb.com in gmane.comp.python.general: I'm designing an API for some lightweight calculator-like statistics functions, such as mean, standard deviation, etc., and I want to support missing values. Missing values should

Re: Addition problems

2011-04-01 Thread Rob Williscroft
vm wrote in news:in4m1u$hsc$1...@news2.carnet.hr in gmane.comp.python.general: def fun1(params_used_below_except_lk_and_lk2): lk = 0.0 lk2 = 0.0 for raw_data, hist, freq in raw_data_hist_list: lk2 = lk2 + fun2(some_constants_and_params_from_this_scope) q =

Re: subprocess pipe question

2011-02-23 Thread Rob Williscroft
Rita wrote in news:AANLkTi=88dcpm_kqrs2g620obsnxz0majubfwpeme...@mail.gmail.com in gmane.comp.python.general: [Top post relocated] On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Rob Williscroft r...@rtw.me.uk wrote: Rita wrote in news:AANLkTi=w95gxosc1tkt2bntgjqys1cbmdnojhokq4...@mail.gmail.com

Re: subprocess pipe question

2011-02-22 Thread Rob Williscroft
Rita wrote in news:AANLkTi=w95gxosc1tkt2bntgjqys1cbmdnojhokq4...@mail.gmail.com in gmane.comp.python.general: When using wait() it works a bit better but not consistent def run(cmd): p=subprocess.Popen(cmd,stdout=subprocess.PIPE) rc=p.wait() print rc return p.stdout When the

Re: list 2 dict?

2011-01-02 Thread Rob Williscroft
Octavian Rasnita wrote in news:0db6c288b2274dbba5463e7771349...@teddy in gmane.comp.python.general: Hi, If I want to create a dictionary from a list, is there a better way than the long line below? l = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 'a', 8, 'b'] d = dict(zip([l[x] for x in range(len(l)) if x

Re: How to test if a module exists?

2010-11-06 Thread Rob Williscroft
Jon Dufresne wrote in news:aanlktikr5euhqpupa3yrid98oas92zfhk8u9lha5y...@mail.gmail.com in gmane.comp.python.general: try: import extension_magic_module except ImportError: pass else: handle_extension_magic_module() However, if the the extension module exists but throws

Re: dumping generator

2010-08-09 Thread Rob Williscroft
targetsmart wrote in news:cd83533b-f51e-4955-96c5-f8a10185bef1 @i18g2000pro.googlegroups.com in gmane.comp.python.general: Right now if I want to dump the contents of a generator object I use , a snip from a bigger block of code.. try: while gen: print gen.next() except StopIteration:

Re: Pick items from list with probability based upon property of list member ?

2010-06-20 Thread Rob Williscroft
southof40 wrote in news:da3cc892-b6dd-4b37-a6e6- b606ef967...@t26g2000prt.googlegroups.com in gmane.comp.python.general: I have list of of N Vehicle objects - the only possible vehicles are cars, bikes, trucks. I want to select an object from the list with a probability of : cars 0.7, bikes

Re: UnicodeDecodeError having fetch web page

2010-05-26 Thread Rob Williscroft
Kushal Kumaran wrote in news:1274889564.2339.16.ca...@nitrogen in gmane.comp.python.general: On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 20:12 +, Rob Williscroft wrote: Barry wrote in news:83dc485a-5a20-403b-99ee-c8c627bdbab3 @m21g2000vbr.googlegroups.com in gmane.comp.python.general: Hi, The code

Re: UnicodeDecodeError having fetch web page

2010-05-25 Thread Rob Williscroft
Barry wrote in news:83dc485a-5a20-403b-99ee-c8c627bdbab3 @m21g2000vbr.googlegroups.com in gmane.comp.python.general: Hi, The code below is giving me the error: Traceback (most recent call last): File C:\Users\Administratör\Desktop\test.py, line 4, in module UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8'

Re: py2exe help

2010-05-11 Thread Rob Williscroft
jim-on-linux wrote in news:mailman.74.1273614703.32709.python-l...@python.org in comp.lang.python: python help, I'm open for suggestions. I'm using py2exe to compile a working program. The program runs and prints fine until I compile it with py2exe. After compiling the program, it

Re: Sublassing tuple works, subclassing list does not

2010-03-31 Thread Rob Williscroft
Frank Millman wrote in news:mailman.1360.1270018159.23598.python- l...@python.org in comp.lang.python: I came up with a simple solution that seems to work - class MyTuple(tuple): ... def __new__(cls, names, values): ... for name, value in zip(names, values): ... setattr(cls,

Re: affectation in if statement

2010-03-16 Thread Rob Williscroft
samb wrote in news:5c361012-1f7b-487f-915b-0f564b238be3 @e1g2000yqh.googlegroups.com in comp.lang.python: Thanks for all those suggestions. They are good! 1) Let's suppose now that instead of just affecting thing = m.group(1), I need to do a piece of logic depending on which match I

Re: Method / Functions - What are the differences?

2010-02-28 Thread Rob Williscroft
Michael Rudolf wrote in news:hmdo3m$28...@news.urz.uni-heidelberg.de in comp.lang.python: Note that all I did was moving the list and foo into the instance. Still no self and no cls, but also no static behaviour any more. Yes in the first case foo was an attribute of the class, and in the

Re: python crash on windows but not on linux

2010-02-12 Thread Rob Williscroft
hjebbers wrote in news:2864756a-292b-4138-abfd- 3348b72b7...@u9g2000yqb.googlegroups.com in comp.lang.python: the information about the error is a windows dump. This may help: # http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms680621(VS.85).aspx SEM_FAILCRITICALERRORS = 1 SEM_NOALIGNMENTFAULTEXCEPT

Re: Problem Regarding Queue

2010-02-09 Thread Rob Williscroft
mukesh tiwari wrote in news:80fed7d5-76eb-40c8-ace1-0c35736de399 @t17g2000prg.googlegroups.com in comp.lang.python: Could some one please tell what is wrong with this code. I am trying to use Queue in this program but i am getting error The type you appear to be trying to use is Queue.Queue

Re: pointless musings on performance

2009-11-24 Thread Rob Williscroft
mk wrote in news:mailman.915.1259064240.2873.python-l...@python.org in comp.lang.python: def pythonic(): def unpythonic(): Decidedly counterintuitive: are there special optimizations for if nonevar: type of statements in cpython implementation? from dis import dis dis(

Re: pointless musings on performance

2009-11-24 Thread Rob Williscroft
mk wrote in news:mailman.923.1259070092.2873.python-l...@python.org in comp.lang.python: MRAB wrote: In what way is it counterintuitive? In 'pythonic' the conditions are simpler, less work is being done, therefore it's faster. But the pythonic condition is more general: nonevar or zerovar

Re: Help with database planning

2009-11-14 Thread Rob Williscroft
Juliano wrote in news:0e64893a-af82-4004-bf3c-f397f2022...@g22g2000prf.googlegroups.com in comp.lang.python: [snip] So, for ONE *concept*, we have, usually, MANY *slots*, each *slot* has ONE *facet*, and each *facet* can have MORE THAN ONE *filler*. Besides, some *slots* and *fillers* are

Re: creating class objects inside methods

2009-10-04 Thread Rob Williscroft
Benjamin Kaplan wrote in news:mailman.838.1254682604.2807.python- l...@python.org in comp.lang.python: And how do you just check a script's syntax without running it anyways? ) Because these aren't compile-time errors. Python has no compilation phase- Sure it does, compilation happens

Re: socket send O(N**2) complexity

2009-09-21 Thread Rob Williscroft
Zac Burns wrote in news:mailman.211.1253559803.2807.python-l...@python.org in comp.lang.python: The mysocket.mysend method given at http://docs.python.org/howto/sockets.html has an (unwitting?) O(N**2) complexity for long msg due to the string slicing. I've been looking for a way to

Re: socket send O(N**2) complexity

2009-09-21 Thread Rob Williscroft
wrote in news:mailman.216.1253565002.2807.python-l...@python.org in comp.lang.python: Niether of the CPython versions (2.5 and 3.0 (with modified code)) exibited any memory increase between allocated 1 meg + and end You bumped into a special case that CPython optimizes. s[:] is s. If

Re: what is the biggest number that i can send to Wave_write.writeframes(data)

2009-06-02 Thread Rob Williscroft
'2+ wrote in news:mailman.1017.1243932401.8015.python-l...@python.org in comp.lang.python: would like to take advantage of the wave module found a good example here: http://www.python-forum.org/pythonforum/viewtopic.php?f=2t=10644 hmm .. i don't get how to write a stereo .. i mean i can

Re: Questions about regex

2009-05-30 Thread Rob Williscroft
wrote in news:fe9f707f-aaf3-4ca6-859a-5b0c63904fc0 @s28g2000vbp.googlegroups.com in comp.lang.python: text = re.sub('(\(/?[^\]+)\)', , text)#remove the HTML Python has a /r/ (raw) string literal type for regex's: text = re.sub( r'(\(/?[^\]+)\)', , text ) In raw strings python

Re: sqlite single transaction without foreign key or triggers

2009-05-13 Thread Rob Williscroft
John Machin wrote in news:b722bd36-c8f1-4cdf-8625-2550cee21511 @i28g2000prd.googlegroups.com in comp.lang.python: On May 13, 11:46 am, a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote: In article xns9c09513903e8frtwfreenetremovec...@216.196.109.145, Rob Williscroft  r...@freenet.co.uk wrote: Aahz wrote

Re: sqlite single transaction without foreign key or triggers

2009-05-12 Thread Rob Williscroft
Aahz wrote in news:guao50$1j...@panix3.panix.com in comp.lang.python: In article xns9c08e179b66d8rtwfreenetremovec...@216.196.109.145, Rob Williscroft r...@freenet.co.uk wrote: db.execute( ''' update sessions set uid = ? where uid = ? and exists

Re: sqlite single transaction without foreign key or triggers

2009-05-11 Thread Rob Williscroft
gert wrote in news:d7591495-4661-4243-ad7e-f142d8244e88 @e24g2000vbe.googlegroups.com in comp.lang.python: I am trying to do this in a single transaction, the 3 separate statements work fine, but i am screwed if they are not executed together. Well you're in luck, Python DBAPI 2 connections

Re: pyAA for Python2.5

2009-01-29 Thread Rob Williscroft
Kottiyath wrote in news:d86a0c1d-e158-4aa1-a47f-e2149948bdc3 @p2g2000prf.googlegroups.com in comp.lang.python: On Jan 29, 1:51 am, Rob Williscroft r...@freenet.co.uk wrote: Kottiyath wrote in news:6a594643-f6a2-4d8d-aab3-27eb16cb2fb8 @b38g2000prf.googlegroups.com in comp.lang.python: I

Re: pyAA for Python2.5

2009-01-28 Thread Rob Williscroft
Kottiyath wrote in news:6a594643-f6a2-4d8d-aab3-27eb16cb2fb8 @b38g2000prf.googlegroups.com in comp.lang.python: I have mingw32-gcc in my path. If I try that too -it fails. C:\Documents and Settings\Guest\pyAApython setup.py install -c mingw32-gcc invalid command name 'mingw32-gcc' All

Re: Start Python at client side from web app

2009-01-22 Thread Rob Williscroft
Thomas Guettler wrote in news:6tr453fca5h...@mid.individual.net in comp.lang.python: Diez B. Roggisch schrieb: 2) create a localhost web server, for the client side manipulation. Then have your remote webserver render a form that posts via javavscript to the localhost webserver. The

Re: Start Python at client side from web app

2009-01-22 Thread Rob Williscroft
Diez B. Roggisch wrote in news:6ts0dnfc9s0...@mid.uni-berlin.de in comp.lang.python: Rob Williscroft schrieb: Diez B. Roggisch wrote in news:6tpo16fbacf...@mid.uni-berlin.de in comp.lang.python: 2) create a localhost web server, for the client side manipulation. Then have your remote

Re: list subsetting

2009-01-21 Thread Rob Williscroft
culpritNr1 wrote in news:mailman.7713.1232574803.3487.python-l...@python.org in comp.lang.python: Hello All, Say I have a list like this: a = [0 , 1, 3.14, 20, 8, 8, 3.14] Is there a simple python way to count the number of 3.14's in the list in one statement? In R I do like this

Re: Start Python at client side from web app

2009-01-21 Thread Rob Williscroft
Thomas Guettler wrote in news:6toehtfbrb8...@mid.individual.net in comp.lang.python: Sorry, I described my problem not well. Here is more information: The main application is the intranet web application used with IE (ms windows client). But some action needs to be done on the client since

Re: Start Python at client side from web app

2009-01-21 Thread Rob Williscroft
Diez B. Roggisch wrote in news:6tpo16fbacf...@mid.uni-berlin.de in comp.lang.python: 2) create a localhost web server, for the client side manipulation. Then have your remote webserver render a form that posts via javavscript to the localhost webserver. The localhost server would post

Re: Python 3: exec arg 1

2009-01-20 Thread Rob Williscroft
Alan G Isaac wrote in news:myhdl.805$aw2@nwrddc02.gnilink.net in comp.lang.python: On 1/18/2009 9:36 AM Alan G Isaac apparently wrote: I do not much care about the disappearance of ``execfile``. I was asking, why is it a **good thing** that ``exec`` does not accept a TextIOWrapper? Or

Re: function argument dependent on another function argument?

2009-01-18 Thread Rob Williscroft
Aaron Brady wrote in news:6a10378f-addb-4d56-bc1b-0c382b3cb...@t26g2000prh.googlegroups.com in comp.lang.python: On Jan 18, 9:36 am, Paul Rubin http://phr...@nospam.invalid wrote: Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au writes: def foo(self, x, y=None):     if y is None:    

Re: Python 3: exec arg 1

2009-01-18 Thread Rob Williscroft
Steven D'Aprano wrote in news:018342f9$0$8693$c3e8...@news.astraweb.com in comp.lang.python: I'm not sure if this is a stupid question or not, but what's a TextIOWrapper? In the example you give: exec(open(fname)) the argument to exec -- open(fname) -- is a file object:

Re: function argument dependent on another function argument?

2009-01-18 Thread Rob Williscroft
Aaron Brady wrote in news:582ef883-0176-4984-9521-6c1894636...@a26g2000prf.googlegroups.com in comp.lang.python: On Jan 18, 10:44 am, Rob Williscroft r...@freenet.co.uk wrote: Aaron Brady wrote innews:6a10378f-addb-4d56-bc1b-0c382b3cb...@t26g2000prh .googlegroups.com in comp.lang.python

Re: Mocking `from foo import *` functions

2009-01-10 Thread Rob Williscroft
wrote in news:a9ed10ff-d907-46f0-8c6a- c3d95579a...@k1g2000prb.googlegroups.com in comp.lang.python: To answer to Rob: yeah, sure that would work, but I always thought Just to note: you're answering a question about testing, but I answered how to alter the alerter module *for* testing. given

Re: Mocking `from foo import *` functions

2009-01-09 Thread Rob Williscroft
Silfheed wrote in news:c73b304b-f601-4bb5-89c1-3ee667eeb7d9 @l37g2000vba.googlegroups.com in comp.lang.python: So I'm in the current testing situation: sender.py: - def sendEmails(): return I send emails alerter.py: - from sender import * def

Re: Generator metadata/attributes

2009-01-08 Thread Rob Williscroft
wrote in news:053df793-9e8e-4855-aba1-f92482cd8922 @v31g2000vbb.googlegroups.com in comp.lang.python: class TaggedWrapper(): def __init__(self, generator, logMixin, stream): self.__generator = generator self.__tag = '%...@%s' % (logMixin.describe(), stream)

Re: Generator metadata/attributes

2009-01-07 Thread Rob Williscroft
wrote in news:d301c93a-8a73-4cbb-9601-fe0c18a94f97 @v5g2000prm.googlegroups.com in comp.lang.python: I realise I could create my own wrapper that implements __next__ (I am using Python 3 and haven't checked the exact interface required, but I guess it's something like that), and add the

Re: Python 3.0 nonlocal statement

2009-01-06 Thread Rob Williscroft
Matimus wrote in news:2a3d6700-85f0-4861-84c9-9f269791f044 @f40g2000pri.googlegroups.com in comp.lang.python: On Jan 6, 5:31 am, Casey casey...@gmail.com wrote: In PEP 3104 the nonlocal statement was proposed and accepted for implementation in Python 3.0 for access to names in outer scopes.  

Re: About PyOpenGL

2009-01-05 Thread Rob Williscroft
trueli...@gmail.com wrote in news:f8099226-a953-4598-bfe2-61ee5772ce26 @l33g2000pri.googlegroups.com in comp.lang.python: Traceback (most recent call last): File test.py, line 36, in module main() File test.py, line 26, in main glutInit(sys.argv) File

Re: Triple quoted string in exec function ?

2008-12-30 Thread Rob Williscroft
Stef Mientki wrote in news:mailman.6399.1230668197.3487.python- l...@python.org in comp.lang.python: And, by the way, exec is a *statement*, not a function! exec ( Init_Code, PG.P_Globals ) I've really doubt that this is a statement, unless I don't understand what a statement

Re: Triple quoted string in exec function ?

2008-12-30 Thread Rob Williscroft
Steven D'Aprano wrote in news:016abfa1$0$6988$c3e8...@news.astraweb.com in comp.lang.python: On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:35:28 -0600, Rob Williscroft wrote: Stef Mientki wrote in news:mailman.6399.1230668197.3487.python- l...@python.org in comp.lang.python: And, by the way, exec

Re: How can I return a non-zero status result from a python script?

2008-12-15 Thread Rob Williscroft
silverburgh.me...@gmail.com wrote in news:74b53da4-bf07-431b-898b- 49977f7a6...@r36g2000prf.googlegroups.com in comp.lang.python: Hi How can I return a non-zero status result from the script? Just do a return 1? at the end? import sys help( sys.exit ) Help on built-in function exit in

Re: 'new' module deprecation in python2.6

2008-11-29 Thread Rob Williscroft
David Pratt wrote in news:mailman.4664.1227980181.3487.python- [EMAIL PROTECTED] in comp.lang.python: import new class FirstBase(object): foo = 'bar' biz = 'baz' class SecondBase(object): bla = 'blu' buz = 'brr' attr = { 'fiz': 'An attribute', 'fuz':

Re: asp oddness , why specify ASP twice

2008-11-26 Thread Rob Williscroft
davidj411 wrote in news:a08906ab-ba98-4ce0-a5f9-330f4b287423 @z27g2000prd.googlegroups.com in comp.lang.python: for some reason this code works: * %@ LANGUAGE = Python% The above is a Directive, in this case it tells ASP what language to use, but

Re: Strange output from list

2008-11-11 Thread Rob Williscroft
Steve Holden wrote in news:mailman.3804.1226412496.3487.python- [EMAIL PROTECTED] in comp.lang.python: Shouldn't it be GROUP BY master.id? I would have thought that SQL would be sad about a non-aggregate (master.id) that's in the SELECT list but not also in the GROUP BY list. Well, I did

Re: Exact match with regular expression

2008-11-01 Thread Rob Williscroft
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] in comp.lang.python: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rob Williscroft wrote: Read (and bookmark) this: http://www.python.org/doc/2.5.2/lib/re-syntax.html Funny how you never get a thank-you when you tell people to RTFM. Saying Thank

Re: Exact match with regular expression

2008-10-26 Thread Rob Williscroft
Mr.SpOOn wrote in news:mailman.3069.1225039892.3487.python- [EMAIL PROTECTED] in comp.lang.python: Hi, I'd like to use regular expressions to parse a string and accept only valid strings. What I mean is the possibility to check if the whole string matches the regex. So if I have: p =

Re: Perl/Python regular expressions vs. Boost.regex?

2008-10-23 Thread Rob Williscroft
wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] in comp.lang.python: A colleague wrote a C++ library here at work which uses the Boost.regex library. I quickly discovered an apparent problem with how it searches. Unlike re.match the regex_match function in that library effectively anchors the match at

Re: ANN: pyparsing 1.5.1 released

2008-10-19 Thread Rob Williscroft
Paul McGuire wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] in comp.lang.python: On Oct 18, 1:05 pm, Terry Reedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul McGuire wrote: I've just uploaded to SourceForge and PyPI the latest update to (Python 3.0 uses syntax for catching exceptions that is incompatible with Python

Re: properties access by name

2008-10-17 Thread Rob Williscroft
=?KOI8-R?B?7cnU0Q==?= wrote in news:f1a77a69-2997-4f53-9a46- [EMAIL PROTECTED] in comp.lang.python: class Film(object): def __init__(self, title): self.__title = title @getproperty def title(self): return self.__title @setproperty def title(self,

Re: Reading from stdin (in windows)

2008-10-14 Thread Rob Williscroft
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:mailman.2448.1223974725.3487.python- [EMAIL PROTECTED] in comp.lang.python: Hi! I wanna write a file processor in python (Windows XP). I wanna use pipe, and not parameters. When I write this: ... l = [] while 1: t = sys.stdin.read(1) if t

Re: csv files for download

2008-10-04 Thread Rob Williscroft
Bobby Roberts wrote in news:cdc29298-d005-4804-b407-81ecaf6bb1b4@ 2g2000hsn.googlegroups.com in comp.lang.python: I need to be able to offer a client click to download functionality on their website. Generating the data to provide to them is not an issue but I want them to be able to click a

Re: processing email with Python on Windows?

2008-10-03 Thread Rob Williscroft
Beliavsky wrote in news:d579f554-be4b-4066-acec-49a7bafb1046 @t41g2000hsc.googlegroups.com in comp.lang.python: I work for a financial company where we run Windows XP and read email using Microsoft Outlook 2003. I get daily files that come as email attachments from various counterparties. I

Re: How do I set a callback in Python?

2008-09-08 Thread Rob Williscroft
catsclaw wrote in news:d797403a-e492-403f-933a-bd18ef53d5c0 @k13g2000hse.googlegroups.com in comp.lang.python: I can't for the life of me figure out how to set a callback in Python. I have a class, which wraps another class. The second class needs a callback assigned. I don't want to use

Re: Profiling weirdness: Timer.timeit(), fibonacci and memoization

2008-08-03 Thread Rob Williscroft
Steven D'Aprano wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] in comp.lang.python: So the question is: whats going on with timeit.Timer ? As far as I can see, nothing. I think you have misunderstood the results you got. No, the answer is that is it repeats a million times. It might better be called

Re: Profiling weirdness: Timer.timeit(), fibonacci and memoization

2008-08-02 Thread Rob Williscroft
Stefaan Himpe wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] in comp.lang.python: Nothing weird about this ... The difference will become larger as your input value becomes larger. You can easily understand why if you try to calculate fib(10) by hand, i.e. work through the algorithm with pencil and

Re: Iterating through 2 files simultaneously

2008-07-27 Thread Rob Williscroft
wrote in news:7ae96aff-c1a7-4763-8db7- [EMAIL PROTECTED] in comp.lang.python: Hi folks, I am trying to tee off both stdout and stderr from a process run through Popen. As a test, I am first trying to print the output below: from subprocess import Popen,PIPE ... p1 = Popen(['cvs',

Re: Questions on 64 bit versions of Python

2008-07-26 Thread Rob Williscroft
Martin v. Löwis wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] in comp.lang.python: The end result of that is on a 32-bit machine IronPython runs in a 32-bit process and on a 64-bit machine it runs in a 64-bit process. That's probably not exactly true (although I haven't checked). When you start a

Re: Questions on 64 bit versions of Python

2008-07-26 Thread Rob Williscroft
Martin v. Löwis wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] in comp.lang.python: I just tested, I built a default C# forms app using the AnyCPU option and it ran as a 64 bit app (no *32 in Task Manager), this is on XP64. I have though installed the AMD64 version of the 2.0 framework and AFAICT

Re: urllib and login with passwords

2008-07-26 Thread Rob Williscroft
Jive Dadson wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] in comp.lang.python: Hey folks! There are various web pages that I would like to read using urllib, but they require login with passwords. Can anyone tell me how to find out how to do that, both in general and specifically for YouTube.com. A

Re: is there a bug in urlunparse/urlunsplit

2008-05-18 Thread Rob Williscroft
Alex wrote in news:09764c57-03ce-4ccb-a26d- [EMAIL PROTECTED] in comp.lang.python: Hi all. Is there a bug in the urlunparse/urlunsplit functions? Look at this fragment (I know is quite silly): urlunparse(urlparse('www.example.org','http')) --- 'http:///www.example.org' ^

Re: https and POST method

2008-04-11 Thread Rob Williscroft
Lorenzo Stella wrote in news:7956f925-1037-49ea-a360-b58d627ffb20 @z24g2000prf.googlegroups.com in comp.lang.python: Hi all, I'm trying to write a simple script for sending sms via vyke... I have to make a https connection and pass some data with the POST method, like this perl script does:

Re: encoding/decoding issue with python2.5 and pymssql

2008-03-24 Thread Rob Williscroft
Tzury Bar Yochay wrote in news:3a6c32fe-e7c1-4230-882d-efb3415196c1 @b1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com in comp.lang.python: for example: the value 'EE604EE3-4AB0-4EE7-AF4D-018124393CD7' is represent as '\xe3N`\xee\xb0J\xe7N\xafM\x01\x81$9\xd7' from uuid import * u = UUID( bytes =

Re: Cost of unicode(s) where s is Unicode

2008-01-06 Thread Rob Williscroft
John Nagle wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] in comp.lang.python: Does text = unicode(text) make a copy of a Unicode string, or is that essentially a free operation if the input is already Unicode? John Nagle

Re: Who's to blame?

2008-01-03 Thread Rob Williscroft
Nicola Musatti wrote in news:92dfc2fc-0677-43c0-b34f-4f240fa40205 @e4g2000hsg.googlegroups.com in comp.lang.python: Note there is a wxpython mailinglist/newsgroup: news:gmane.comp.python.wxpython [snip] problem lies in the fact that apparently ShowModal() does not return when either

Re: Extracting files from an ISO image?

2008-01-02 Thread Rob Williscroft
Ant wrote in news:34a84caa-5387-40a2-a808- [EMAIL PROTECTED] in comp.lang.python: [snip] So I have two questions really: 1) Is there a module out there for extracting files from an ISO? There are command line programs that can do this:

Re: mysqldb SELECT COUNT reurns 1

2007-12-27 Thread Rob Williscroft
SMALLp wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] in comp.lang.python: Hy! I nave another problem I can't solve! code import MySQLdb as mysql cursor = conn.cursor() sql = SELECT COUNT(*) FROM + dataTable res = cursor.execute(sql) I think you need to do: res = cursor.fetchone()[0] print

Re: Connecting to SQL database

2007-12-20 Thread Rob Williscroft
bill ramsay wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] in comp.lang.python: Hi I have successfully connected to SQL2000 and MSDEE databases in the Conn = Dispatch('ADODB.Connection') Conn.ConnectionString = Provider=SQLNCLI;Server=10.1.1.2; Database=csrctest;Uid=bill;Pwd=bill By default

Re: I want py2exe not to create library.zip

2007-09-12 Thread Rob Williscroft
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:09:30 +0200, Laszlo Nagy wrote: Hi, I want py2exe not to create library.zip. My reason is that the installed program will be a self updating program, and it must be able to download changes (newer python source files) from the server. So the files should not be in

Re: Get the current date, python 2.2

2007-06-15 Thread Rob Williscroft
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:30:36 -0700, nano wrote: Using python 2.2 what is the simplest way to get the current date value? I have looked in so many places. The question is often asked and the usual response indicates how to get the current date and time like now = time.localtime() I want

Re: Get the current date, python 2.2

2007-06-15 Thread Rob Williscroft
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:46:20 -0700, nano wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] says... On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:30:36 -0700, nano wrote: Using python 2.2 what is the simplest way to get the current date value? I have looked in so many places. The question is often asked

Re: Connection acception with confirmation

2007-05-29 Thread Rob Williscroft
no`name` wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] in comp.lang.python: maybe someone have some ideas how to block first stdin in main function and get stdin from the thread when here is a new connection? No, but you could instead use a Queue: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-Queue.html so

Re: Is wsgi ready for prime time?

2007-05-17 Thread Rob Williscroft
Ron Garret wrote in news:rNOSPAMon-B77D6B.12263417052007 @news.gha.chartermi.net in comp.lang.python: PACKAGE CONTENTS handlers headers simple_server util validate Reading the documentation can be useful sometimes. Recommending

Re: Interesting list Validity (True/False)

2007-05-11 Thread Rob Williscroft
wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] in comp.lang.python: [] == [] True ['-o'] == [] False ['-o'] == False False To test wether something is true use if. To test wether something is false use if not. The python values True and False are for when you need to

Re: tkinter get widget option value

2007-05-08 Thread Rob Williscroft
wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] in comp.lang.python: If I have a button widget w = Button(root, text = Button, state = 'disabled') How can I get the value of option 'state' from the widget 'w'. I want something like -- print w.state to print out 'disabled' print w.cget( state )

Re: Error when using Custom Exception defined in a different python module.

2007-05-06 Thread Rob Williscroft
wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] in comp.lang.python: Hi, I am hitting this error consistently and don't know why it's happening. I would like to define all exceptions for my project in one file and use them across the project. Here's a sample - exceptions.py - from exceptions

Re: How do I use the config parser?

2007-05-05 Thread Rob Williscroft
wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] in comp.lang.python: Hi, I need a specific example. I have seen the docs, but I don't all the stuffs there. from ConfigParser import ConfigParser Now I want to know how to read a section, a section attribute's value, and to write thoses back after

Re: Why does not my wx.html.HtmlWindow work?

2007-04-08 Thread Rob Williscroft
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] in comp.lang.python: Below are my source code: import wx import wx.html class MyHtmlFrame(wx.Frame): def __init__(self, parent, title): wx.Frame.__init__(self, parent, -1, title, size=(600,400)) html =

Re: where to find wx package

2007-01-05 Thread Rob Williscroft
siggi wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] in comp.lang.python: Hi all, a newbie question: I have a program gui03A.py using wxPython, importing it such: from wxPython.wx import * The program works, but I get the warning message: gui03A.py:4: DeprecationWarning: The wxPython

Re: method names in __slots__ ??

2006-12-25 Thread Rob Williscroft
John Machin wrote in news:1167008799.074885.250770@ 73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com in comp.lang.python: Given a = Adder(), a.tally = 0 gets AttributeError: 'Adder' object attribute 'tally' is read-only a.notinslots = 1 gets AttributeError: 'Adder' object attribute 'notinslots' is

Re: method names in __slots__ ??

2006-12-25 Thread Rob Williscroft
John Machin wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] in comp.lang.python: Rob Williscroft wrote: John Machin wrote in news:1167008799.074885.250770@ 73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com in comp.lang.python: Given a = Adder(), a.tally = 0 gets AttributeError: 'Adder' object attribute 'tally' is read

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