Re: do as a keyword

I also started to ponder about the 'do something' if 'true' else 'do this', and pondered if perhaps this statement could do with the including of the keyword do. Python has support for this in versions = 2.5: a = range(0, 5) b = range(5, 8) min(a) if sum(a) sum(b) else min(b) 0 In prior

Simple eval

Hi, A while ago I asked a question on the list about a simple eval function, capable of eval'ing simple python constructs (tuples, dicts, lists, strings, numbers etc) in a secure manner: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/58a01273441d445f/ From the answers I got

Convert obejct string repr to actual object

Hi, I've tried locating some code that can recreate an object from it's string representation... The object in question is really a dictionary containing other dictionaries, lists, unicode strings, floats, ints, None, and booleans. I don't want to use eval, since I can't trust the source sending

Tapping into the access of an int instance

Hi, Does anyone know how to interrupt the lookup of an integer value? I know I need to subclass int, since builtin types can't be altered directly... Below is how far I've come... What I want is to tap into the access of instance i's value 1... class Int(int): def __init__(self, *a,

Re: Just bought Python in a Nutshell

Python in a nutshell also comes in a second edition: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythonian2/index.html. Here, many of the new features in Python 2.5 are included. I haven't read through the first the edition, but I can honestly say that reading through the second edition has made me a better

The reverse of encode('...', 'backslashreplace')

Hi, How can I transform b so that the assertion holds? I.e., how can I reverse the backslash-replaced encoding, while retaining the str-type? a = u'æ' b = a.encode('ascii', 'backslashreplace') b '\\xe6' assert isinstance(b, str) and b == 'æ' Traceback (most recent call last): File

How can I set the size of a window with tkinter?

Hi I create a canvas that is to big for the default window-size, so it gets cut to fit... How can I increase the window-size to make sure the canvas fits? regards tores -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

using variable-value

Hi In php I can assign a value to a variable and use this varaible to access a property in some object: $var = 'property'; $object-{$var} This will transelate to $object-property... Is this possible in Python? # Prints help on methods in Canvas-instance for method in dir(self.canvas):

Socket options

Hi For an online game I'm developing I need some advice concerning tcp-sockets, and especially which socket options to set and not. What I want is a connection where nothing is buffered (but are sent immediatly), and I also want to keep the connections persistent until explicitly closed. The

logging to two files

Hi Have the following code: import logging logging.basicConfig(level = logging.DEBUG, format = '[%(levelname)-8s %(asctime)s] %(message)s', filename = 'rfs.log', filemode = 'w') When using

EOF-file missing

Hi From a client I read a file into a string using read(). On the server-side (it's a HTTPServer) i access the same string through the input stream rfile. However all useful read-methods (readlines, readline, read) expect an EOF before terminating. And for some reason the stream doesn't have

select random entry from dictionary

Hi How can I select a random entry from a dictionary, regardless of its key-values? regards tores -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Delete first line from file

Hi How can I read the first line of a file and then delete this line, so that line 2 is line 1 on next read? regards -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

kill a process in XP

Hi. From my Python-program I spawn a new process. When using P_NOWAIT spawnl returns the pid but in windows it returns a process handle. Later I want to kill this process. How can I do this when I only have the process handle? -tores- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list