What kind of "thread safe" are deque's actually?

A while ago I chose to use a deque that is shared between two threads. I did so because the docs say: "Deques support thread-safe, memory efficient appends and pops from either side of the deque with approximately the same O(1) performance in either direction.”

mapLast, mapFirst, and just general iterator questions

I want to be able to apply different transformations to the first and last elements of an arbitrary sized finite iterator in python3. It's a custom iterator so does not have _reversed_. If the first and last elements are the same (e.g. size 1), it should apply both transforms to the same

Polymorphic imports

I guess this is kind of like mocking for testing. I have a simple module that's imported in a number of other spots in my program. There's a condition in the OS/filesystem where I'd like to import a polymorphically compatible variant of the same module. Can this be accomplished in a sort of

Re: Fun Generators

> On Apr 23, 2021, at 05:55, Frank Millman wrote: > > On 2021-04-23 7:34 AM, Travis Griggs wrote: >> Doing an "industry experience" talk to an incoming class at nearby >> university tomorrow. Have a couple points where I might do some "fun things"

Fun Generators

Doing an "industry experience" talk to an incoming class at nearby university tomorrow. Have a couple points where I might do some "fun things" with python. Said students have been learning some python3. I'm soliciting any *fun* generators people may have seen or written? Not so much the cool

Re: Canonical conversion of dict of dicts to list of dicts

> On Mar 30, 2021, at 12:11, Stestagg wrote: > > For completeness, from 3.5 onwards, you can also do the following: > > [{'name': n, **d} for n, d in dod.items()] > Reading through these, personally I like this one best. I'm curious what about it was enabled in 3.5? Was **kwarg expansion

Code Formatter Questions

I've been looking into using a code formatter as a code base size has grown as well as contributing developers. I've found and played with autopep, black, and yapf. As well as whatever pycharm has (which may just be gui preferences around one of those 3). I have 2 questions: 1) Are there any

How do/can I generate a PKCS#12 file the cryptography module?

I’m using the cryptography module (https://cryptography.io/en/latest/) to try and generate some cert/key/identities. It's pretty easy using said module to generate the contents of .pem file for a private key: keyPEMBytes = privateKey.private_bytes(

More elegant way to avoid this hacky implementation of single line reduce for grouping a collection?

Yesterday, I was pondering how to implement groupby, more in the vein of how Kotlin, Swift, Objc, Smalltalk do it, where order doesn’t matter. For example: def groupby(iterable, groupfunc): result = defaultdict(list) for each in iterable:

Simplest way to clobber/replace one populated directory with another?

I have a directory structure that might look something like: Data Current A B C Previous A X In as simple/quick a step as possible, I want to rename Current as Previous including the contents and wiping out the

Re: Most pythonic way to implement byte stuffing algorithm

> On Apr 17, 2018, at 11:15 AM, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > > On 2018-04-17 17:02, Travis Griggs wrote: >> I posted this on SO, but… yeah… >> I'm doing some serial protocol stuff and want to implement a basic byte >> stuffing algorithm in pytho

Most pythonic way to implement byte stuffing algorithm

I posted this on SO, but… yeah… I'm doing some serial protocol stuff and want to implement a basic byte stuffing algorithm in python. Though really what this really generalizes to is “what is the most pythonic way to transform one sequence of bytes where some bytes are passed through 1:1, but

Re: Why doesn't Python include non-blocking keyboard input function?

> On Oct 25, 2016, at 5:55 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 11:45 PM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >> Chris Angelico : >> >>> On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 11:09 PM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: Blocking calls are

Re: Why don't we call the for loop what it really is, a foreach loop?

> On Sep 13, 2016, at 13:57, rgrigo...@gmail.com wrote: > > It would help newbies and prevent confusion. for each in ['cake'] + ['eat', 'it'] * 2: print(each) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Learning Python (or Haskell) makes you a worse programmer

> On Mar 30, 2016, at 2:36 PM, Gregory Ewing > wrote: > > Tim Golden wrote: > >> (I don't know how other English-speaking groups say the word, but in >> England the first syllable is stressed and the second is the >> conventional short "uh" sound). > > I can

How to fix my imports/file structure

I wrote a simple set of python3 files for emulating a small set of mongodb features on a 32 bit platform. I fired up PyCharm and put together a directory that looked like: minu/ client.py database.py collection.py test_client.py test_database.py test_client.py My

Confused by python-dbus weird behavior

This may not be a great list for this question (which would be?); it’s a big group, and I’m hoping there’s some people here that cross into these same areas. I’m new to dbus, it seems it’s a sort of CORBA for the Linux world. :) Python seems to be a popular way to interact with it. I’m trying

Re: When I need classes?

> On Jan 10, 2016, at 9:48 AM, Bernardo Sulzbach > wrote: > > Essentially, classes (as modules) are used mainly for organizational purposes. > > Although you can solve any problem you would solve using classes > without classes, solutions to some big problems may be

Re: Simplest/Idiomatic way to count files in a directory (using pathlib)

I should proof my posts before I send them, sorry Subject nearly says it all. If i’m using pathlib, what’s the simplest/idiomatic way to simply count how many files are in a given directory? I was surprised (at first) when len(self.path.iterdir()) didn’t work. I don’t see anything in the

Simplest/Idiomatic way to count files in a directory (using pathlib)

Subject nearly says it all. If i’m using pathlib, what’s the simplest/idiomatic way to simply count how many files are in a given directory? I was surprised (at first) when len(self.path.iterdir()) I don’t say anything on the in the .stat() object that helps me. I could of course do the

Concatenating Strings

I was doing some maintenance now on a script of mine… I noticed that I compose strings in this little 54 line file multipole times using the + operator. I was prototyping at the time I wrote it and it was quick and easy. I don’t really care for the way they read. Here’s 3 examples: if k +

Re: [SerialConnection] Help

On Apr 7, 2015, at 8:42 AM, Hugo Caldas hcalda...@gmail.com wrote: read and write the port values with multi threading Care to elaborate what you mean by this part? In general, serial ports and multi threading don’t mix well. IOW, you’ll need to use multithreading pieces to make sure you

Re: MicroPython 1.4.1 released

On Apr 4, 2015, at 4:43 PM, Damien George damien.p.geo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, We are pleased to announce the release of MicroPython version 1.4.1! MicroPython is an implementation of Python 3.4 which is optimised for systems with minimal resources, including

Re: Newbie looking for elegant solution

On Mar 24, 2015, at 8:28 PM, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 2:13 PM, otaksoftspamt...@gmail.com wrote: I have a list containing 9600 integer elements - each integer is either 0 or 1. Starting at the front of the list, I need to combine 8 list elements

Re: Python Worst Practices

On Mar 1, 2015, at 5:53 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wlfr...@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Sun, 1 Mar 2015 20:16:26 + (UTC), alister alister.nospam.w...@ntlworld.com declaimed the following: The language is called English, the clue is in the name. interestingly most 'Brits' can switch between

Re: Pyston 0.3 self-hosting

On Feb 24, 2015, at 9:47 PM, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: Pyston 0.3, the latest version of a new high-performance Python implementation, has reached self-hosting sufficiency: http://blog.pyston.org/2015/02/24/pyston-0-3-self-hosting-sufficiency/

Re: Python Worst Practices

On Feb 25, 2015, at 12:45 PM, Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: http://www.slideshare.net/pydanny/python-worst-practices Any that should be added to this list? Any that be removed as not that bad? I read ‘em. I thought they were pretty good, some more than others. And I

pymongo and attribute dictionaries

I really like pymongo. And I really like Python. But one thing my fingers really get tired of typing is someDoc[‘_’id’] This just does not roll of the fingers well. Too many “reach for modifier keys” in a row. I would rather use someDoc._id Googling shows that I’m not the first to want to do

Re: pymongo and attribute dictionaries

On Feb 4, 2015, at 9:22 AM, Ian Kelly ian.g.ke...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Travis Griggs travisgri...@gmail.com wrote: I really like pymongo. And I really like Python. But one thing my fingers really get tired of typing is someDoc[‘_’id’] This just does

Re: Cairo module

On Feb 3, 2015, at 1:00 PM, Poul Riis prii...@gmail.com wrote: I just tried the Cairo Python module. I ran the test file below. It works perfectly but instead of saving the resulting image as a file I want to see it displayed directly on the screen. How can I do that? I have quiet a

Re: Is there a cairo like surface for the screen without the window hassle

On Feb 2, 2015, at 5:20 AM, Antoon Pardon antoon.par...@rece.vub.ac.be wrote: I need to have a program construct a number of designs. Of course I can directly use a pfd surface and later use a pdf viewer to check. But that becomes rather cumbersome fast. But if I use a cairo-surface for

Re: FYI: Micro Python running on kickstarter pyBoard project, now shipping

On Oct 23, 2014, at 2:11 PM, sohcahto...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, October 23, 2014 10:07:26 AM UTC-7, jkn wrote: Hi all I haven't heard in mentioned here, but since I saw one of the boards today thought I'd pass on the news: The Kickstarter 'MicroPython' project, which has a

Re: Toggle

): return Red() Blue().toggle().toggle().toggle().toggle().toggle() :) -- Travis Griggs Objologist Some of them wanted to sell me snake oil and I'm not necessarily going to dismiss all of these, as I have never found a rusty snake. --Terry Pratchett -- https://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: How to show a dictionary sorted on a value within its data?

Sent from my iPhone On Oct 1, 2014, at 04:12, Peter Otten __pete...@web.de wrote: `lambda` is just a fancy way to define a function inline Not sure fancy is the correct adjective; more like syntactic tartness (a less sweet version of syntactic sugar). :) --

Python stdout goes where under systemd? (Was: Example of python service running under systemd?)

Thanks all for the help/advice. I’m getting there. To experiment/learn, I made a simple python program (/Foo/cyclic.py): #!/usr/bin/env python3 import time while True: time.sleep(5) with open('sound', 'r') as file: currentValue = file.read()

Re: Python stdout goes where under systemd? (Was: Example of python service running under systemd?)

On Sep 12, 2014, at 12:05 PM, Travis Griggs travisgri...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks all for the help/advice. I’m getting there. To experiment/learn, I made a simple python program (/Foo/cyclic.py): #!/usr/bin/env python3 import time while True: time.sleep(5

Re: Newer Debian versions of python on older Debian distros?

On Sep 8, 2014, at 5:06 PM, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: Alternatively, you could just run Debian Jessie. I have a few Jessie systems on the network, with a Python 3.4 IIRC, and there've been no stability problems lately. Both options are pretty easy. In the end, we were able to get

Example of python service running under systemd?

I’ve been reading lots of systemd docs. And blogs. Etc. At this point, I think I would benefit from learning by example… Does anyone have an example .service file that they use to launch a long running service written as a python program? If there is any example of what you changed to your

Re: Example of python service running under systemd?

On Sep 11, 2014, at 11:18 AM, Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick kwpol...@gmail.com wrote: Depends what you want. Mine is not a web service. My main.py looks like this: #!/usr/bin/env python3 import cycle import pushTelemetry from threading import Thread def main():

Re: Example of python service running under systemd?

On Sep 11, 2014, at 2:29 PM, Ervin Hegedüs airw...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Travis, On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 02:06:48PM -0700, Travis Griggs wrote: On Sep 11, 2014, at 11:18 AM, Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick kwpol...@gmail.com wrote: Depends what you want. Mine is not a web service. My

Newer Debian versions of python on older Debian distros?

(I realize that this may be seen as off topic for as a general python question, but given my historical experience with the Debian community’s predilection to answer all questions with a grumpy “go read the very very very very large and ever shifting fine manual”, I’m hoping for better luck

Halfway point between interactive and daemon?

I have a python3 program that performs a long running service on a semi embedded linux device. I've been in the prototyping stage. I just run it from the command line and use print() statements to let me know the thing is making acceptable process. At some point, I need to properly daemonize

Re: proposed syntax for multiline anony-functions (hopefully?)

On Aug 21, 2014, at 12:55 AM, icefap...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, just wanting to do a shot in the dark,but maybe this syntax is Pythonic (in a we-are-all-grown-ups fashion, ahem)enough to get its way into the language this is what yours truly thinks: don't we all know that : means the next

Re: TypeError: 'bytes' object is not callable error while trying to converting to bytes.

On Aug 4, 2014, at 22:57, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Satish ML satishmlwiz...@gmail.com wrote: bytes = file.read() You've just shadowed the built-in type 'bytes' with your own 'bytes'. Pick a different name for this, and you'll be fine. 'data'

Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces

font. So the value of the along ed indent is lost anyway. But wasn't that what spaces were supposed to give us over tabs, some separation from the trading betwixt different editors? Chuckle. Travis Griggs -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: OT: This Swift thing

On Jun 5, 2014, at 1:14, Alain Ketterlin al...@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr wrote: Swift's memory management is similar to python's (ref. counting). Which makes me think that a subset of python with the same type safety would be an instant success. Except that while you don't need to regularly

Re: Micro Python -- a lean and efficient implementation of Python 3

On Jun 4, 2014, at 4:01 AM, Tim Chase python.l...@tim.thechases.com wrote: If you use UTF-8 for everything It seems to me, that increasingly other libraries (C, etc), use utf8 as the preferred string interchange format. It’s universal, not prone to endian issues, etc. So one *advantage* you

Re: IDE for python

On May 28, 2014, at 3:43, Sameer Rathoud sameer.rath...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, I am new to python. I am currently using python 3.3 With python I got IDLE, but I am not very comfortable with this. Please suggest, if we have any free ide for python development. --

Re: How keep Python 3 moving forward

Sent from my iPhone On May 24, 2014, at 7:35, blindanagram no...@nowhere.net wrote: On 24/05/2014 08:13, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: Le vendredi 23 mai 2014 22:16:10 UTC+2, Mark Lawrence a écrit : An article by Brett Cannon that I thought might be of interest

Why does isoformat() optionally not print the fractional seconds?

Python(3) let me down today. Better to be explicit, and all that, didn’t pan out for me. I have time series data being recorded in a mongo database (I love pymongo). I have an iOS app that consumes the data. Since JSON doesn’t have a time format, I have to stringify the times when transmitting

Re: test

On Mar 15, 2014, at 14:24, Mark H Harris harrismh...@gmail.com wrote: test Pass -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Functions help

On Feb 23, 2014, at 17:09, Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: For the benefit of newbies, besides the obvious indentation error above, the underscore basically acts as a dummy variable. I'll let the language lawyers give a very detailed, precise description :) You mean a

Re: Remove comma from tuples in python.

On Feb 21, 2014, at 6:32 AM, Roy Smith r...@panix.com wrote: In article mailman.7230.1392992078.18130.python-l...@python.org, Peter Otten __pete...@web.de wrote: [x*x for (x,) in lst] [paraphrasing...] can be better written as: [x*x for [x] in items] I'm torn between, Yes, the

Re: Can global variable be passed into Python function?

On Feb 21, 2014, at 4:13 AM, Ned Batchelder n...@nedbatchelder.com wrote: Man, do I hate this idea that Python has no variables. It has variables (names associated with values, and the values can change over the course of the program), they just don't work the same as C or Fortran

Re: The sum of numbers in a line from a file

) Travis Griggs “Every institution tends to perish by an excess of its own basic principle.” — Lord Acton -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PyWart: More surpises via implict conversion to boolean (and other steaming piles!)

On Feb 10, 2014, at 10:30 PM, Steven D'Aprano st...@pearwood.info wrote: 1. Parenthesis should not be required for parameter- less functions. Of course they should. Firstly, parameter-less functions are a code- smell, and ought to be discouraged. Secondly, even if you have a good

Re: PyWart: More surpises via implict conversion to boolean (and other steaming piles!)

On Feb 11, 2014, at 7:52 AM, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 2:36 AM, Travis Griggs travisgri...@gmail.com wrote: OTOH, I’m not sure I’ve heard the parameters-less functions are a code one? Is it just loose functions that you’re referring to? As opposed

Metaprogramming question

The discussion about niladic functions, made me want to follow a segue and do some reflection/introspective programming in Python. I’ve not done a lot of that yet, and it seemed like an educational (well, at least entertaining) goose chase. If I run the following code: import datetime

Fun with function argument counts

After the recent discussion about the classic error: if self.isFooBar: return 42 Among many thing, the OPs contention was that the ability to have this kind of error was a Bad Thing (tm). Which led to me asking about code smells and parameterless functions/methods. So I got curious.

Re: Python 3.x adoption

Looks like the 2/3 topic has lain fallow for a couple of days, gotta keep it burning… I’m a relatively recent python convert, but been coding and talking to others about coding for many moons on this big blue orb. I think the industrial side of this debate has been talked up quite a bit. We

Re: 'Straße' ('Strasse') and Python 2

On Jan 16, 2014, at 2:51 AM, Robin Becker ro...@reportlab.com wrote: I assure you that I fully understand my ignorance of ... Robin, don’t take this personally, I totally got what you meant. At the same time, I got a real chuckle out of this line. That beats “army intelligence” any day. --

Re: Python 3.x adoption

Here we go again… On Jan 14, 2014, at 11:33 AM, Staszek nore...@eisenbits.com wrote: Hi What's the problem with Python 3.x? It was first released in 2008, but web hosting companies still seem to offer Python 2.x rather. For example, Google App Engine only offers Python 2.7. What's

Re: 'Straße' ('Strasse') and Python 2

On Jan 15, 2014, at 4:50 AM, Robin Becker ro...@reportlab.com wrote: On 15/01/2014 12:13, Ned Batchelder wrote: On my utf8 based system robin@everest ~: $ cat ooo.py if __name__=='__main__': import sys s='A̅B' print('version_info=%s\nlen(%s)=%d' %

Re: cascading python executions only if return code is 0

”, then… this approach might be appealing. Travis Griggs -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Newbie question. Are those different objects ?

On Dec 20, 2013, at 8:00 AM, Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: A good point. Shall I write a PEP asking for a language change which requires that that stupid = sign is replaced by a keyword reading something like thenameonthelefthandsideisassignedtheobjectontherighthandside ? Or

Re: grab dict keys/values without iterating ?!

On Dec 11, 2013, at 5:31 AM, rusi rustompm...@gmail.com wrote: The classic data structure for this is the trie: General idea: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trie In python: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11015320/how-to-create-a-trie-in-python/ My thoughts exactly! If you wade through

Meta Fight About Posting (was: python programming help)

On Dec 9, 2013, at 1:34 AM, Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: On 09/12/2013 05:07, ru...@yahoo.com wrote: On 12/08/2013 05:27 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 09/12/2013 00:08, ru...@yahoo.com wrote: On 12/08/2013 12:17 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 6:06 AM,

Re: Packaging a proprietary Python library for multiple OSs

On Dec 5, 2013, at 2:56 AM, rusi rustompm...@gmail.com wrote: 3. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/python-virtualenv may be a better place to ask Am I the only one that sees the irony in this suggestion? Given the long running tirades^H^H^H^H^H^H thread about “Managing Google Groups

Re: Managing Google Groups headaches

On Dec 4, 2013, at 6:52 AM, Rich Kulawiec r...@gsp.org wrote: Yes, I'm aware of web forums: I've used hundreds of them. They suck. They ALL suck, they just all suck differently. I could spend the next several thousand lines explaining why, but instead I'll just abbreviate: they don't

Re: Python for microcontrollers

On Dec 3, 2013, at 6:18 AM, Colin J. Williams c...@ncf.ca wrote: On 03/12/2013 7:58 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote: I thought this might be of interest Http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/214379695/micro-python-python-for-microcontrollers Is this intended to be better than the Raspberry PI?

Re: Managing Google Groups headaches

Sent from my iPhone On Nov 28, 2013, at 7:40, Michael Torrie torr...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/28/2013 08:08 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: Which is easier, fiddling around with your setup so you can post reasonably on Google Groups, or just getting a better client? With your setup, you have to

Re: tkinter bug on mac maverick python 3.3.3

On Nov 27, 2013, at 3:32 AM, Dan Wissme wis...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi ! Am I the only one to get a bug in GUIs using tkinter on my Mac under maverick and Python 3.3.3 ? When will they get rid of Tcl/Tk which causes recurrent problems at almost each new Python version ! Please, for the

Re: How to install pip for python3 on OS X?

On Nov 20, 2013, at 6:01 AM, Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: On 20/11/2013 06:55, Travis Griggs wrote: OSX (Mavericks) has python2.7 stock installed. But I do all my own personal python stuff with 3.3. I just flushed my 3.3.2 install and installed the new 3.3.3. So I need

Re: How to install pip for python3 on OS X?

On Nov 19, 2013, at 11:27 PM, Ned Deily n...@acm.org wrote: In article 6856a21c-57e8-4cdd-a9e8-5dd738c36...@gmail.com, Travis Griggs travisgri...@gmail.com wrote: OSX (Mavericks) has python2.7 stock installed. But I do all my own personal python stuff with 3.3. I just flushed my 3.3.2

How to install pip for python3 on OS X?

OSX (Mavericks) has python2.7 stock installed. But I do all my own personal python stuff with 3.3. I just flushed my 3.3.2 install and installed the new 3.3.3. So I need to install pyserial again. I can do it the way I've done it before, which is: Download pyserial from pypi untar pyserial.tgz

What to make of 'make test' for python3 install from source (beaglebone angstrom install).

to share/ask for help with these kinds of things./aside --Travis Griggs I multiply all estimates by pi to account for running around in circles -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Compiling Python3 for BeagleBone Black (Angstrom distro)

of what FEATURES/PACKAGES I could put there for consideration of omission. Is there some magic juju that generates that? Travis Griggs --I multiply all estimates by tau to account for running around in circles -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Compiling Python3 for BeagleBone Black (Angstrom distro)

On Nov 4, 2013, at 9:22 AM, Travis Griggs travisgri...@gmail.com wrote: I'm playing with a BeagleBone Black running the angstrom distro. Of course, stock python is 2.7, I'd rather use python3. There isn't a python3 package available for angstrom. So I downloaded the source and compiled

Re: python IDE and function definition

On Sep 23, 2013, at 8:06 AM, Chris Friesen cbf...@mail.usask.ca wrote: Hi all, I'm looking for a python IDE (for Linux) that can look at code like this: class ConductorManager(manager.Manager): def compute_recover(self, context, instance): self.compute_api.stop(context,

Re: iterating over a file with two pointers

('', line[::-1], '') reversing = not line.endswith('+') else: print(line) reversing = line.startswith('*') Which begins reversing lines as its working through them, until a different condition is met. Travis Griggs -- https

Re: How do I calculate a mean with python?

On Sep 16, 2013, at 4:33 PM, William Bryant gogobe...@gmail.com wrote: Hey I am new to python so go easy, but I wanted to know how to make a program that calculates the maen. List = [15, 6, 6, 7, 8, 9, 40] def mean(): global themean, thesum for i in List: thecount =

Simple security between prototype iPhone app and SimpleHTTPServer REST service?

. Travis Griggs -- I multiple all estimates by pi to account from running around in circles. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Style help for a Smalltalk-hack

(valveCount), byteStream.read(4 * valueCount))) Thanks, both great ideas. Still does the read/decode slightly different between the different sites, but at least it's localized better. Much appreciated. -- Travis Griggs History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing

Re: Style help for a Smalltalk-hack

is preferred, we felt justified in marching on. -- Travis Griggs A vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done. -Terry Pratchett -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Style help for a Smalltalk-hack

is the idea of an atEnd message for streams, it's inferred as a byproduct of a read(). Please be gentle/kind. I'm still learning. :) TIA -- Travis Griggs A vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done. -Terry Pratchett -- http://mail.python.org/mailman

Reusable (local) Modules

that could possibly work, but I'm assuming there's a more pythonic way to approach this general problem. TIA! Travis Griggs Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. -- Leonardo Da Vinci -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Looking for some PyPI query help

or data you can give me. (I apologize if this is overtly naive). -- Travis Griggs Objologist I did not have time to write you a short program, so I wrote you a long one instead. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list