Re: Why Python 3?

2014-04-20 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sat, 19 Apr 2014 20:25:32 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote: Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu writes: LibreOffice bundles 3.3. So anyone who does Python scripting in LibreOffice is using Python 3. Actually, I believe LO uses Python internally for some of its scripting. If so, everyone using LO is

Two Questions about Python on Windows

2014-04-03 Thread Walter Hurry
Normally my Python development is done on FreeBSD and Linux. I know that on *ix I simply have to make foo.py executable (the shebang line is present, of course) to make it runnable. For my son's school assignment, I have to help him with Python for Windows. As I understand it, on Windows a .py

Re: Explanation of this Python language feature? [x for x in x for x in x] (to flatten a nested list)

2014-03-30 Thread Walter Hurry
Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Sun, 30 Mar 2014 00:32:58 -0700, Larry Hudson wrote: Unfortunately, there is no good word for USA-ian. United States Citizen is too long and awkward and United Statesian is ridiculous. The common usage of American for this is at best ambiguous, and definitely

Re:Python programming

2014-02-11 Thread Walter Hurry
Dave Angel wrote: What is the best way i can master thinker? Never heard of it. Is it a computer language? Socrates himself is particularly missed -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What is the recommended python module for SQL database access?

2014-02-10 Thread Walter Hurry
Chris Angelico wrote: Broad recommendation: Single application, tiny workload, concurrency not an issue, simplicity desired? Go SQLite. Big complex job, need performance, lots of things reading and writing at once, want networked access? Go PGSQL. And don't go MySQL if PG is an option. And

Re: What does means in python?

2014-02-08 Thread Walter Hurry
Roy Smith wrote: In article 72a7dd52-7619-4520-991e-20db7ce55...@googlegroups.com, Sam lightai...@gmail.com wrote: For string, one uses to represent string. Below is a code fragment that uses instead. cursor.execute(SELECT name, phone_number FROM coworkers

Re: python finance

2014-01-06 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 06 Jan 2014 13:11:53 -0800, d ss wrote: i wrote just 2 words with a clear indicative title: Python, Finance which summarizes the following if you are good in python and interested in applying your python knowledge to the field of finance then we may have a common interest in talking

Re: Suggest an open-source log analyser?

2014-01-03 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 02 Jan 2014 16:40:19 +1100, Alec Taylor wrote: I use the Python logger class; with the example syntax of: Formatter('%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s') Can of course easily use e.g.: a JSON syntax here instead. Are there any open-source log viewers (e.g.:

Re: Dictionary

2013-12-30 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 30 Dec 2013 18:38:20 +, Bischoop wrote: I have a txt file with some words, and need simply program that will print me words containing provided letters. For example: Type the letters: (I type: g,m,o) open the dictionary.txt check words containing:g,m,o in

Re: Trouble with Multi-threading

2013-12-10 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 11:21:32 -0500, dan.rose wrote: PLEASE NOTE: The preceding information may be confidential or privileged. It only should be used or disseminated for the purpose of conducting business with Parker. If you are not an intended recipient, please notify the sender by replying

Re: Python and PEP8 - Recommendations on breaking up long lines?

2013-11-28 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 28 Nov 2013 10:08:30 -0500, Roy Smith wrote: In article 34479463-b8a8-4417-9989-cd2936946...@googlegroups.com, Victor Hooi victorh...@gmail.com wrote: cur.executemany(INSERT INTO foobar_foobar_files VALUES (?), [[os.path.relpath(filename,

Re: Managing Google Groups headaches

2013-11-28 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 28 Nov 2013 11:00:22 -0800, rusi wrote: On Friday, November 29, 2013 12:07:29 AM UTC+5:30, rusi wrote: On Thursday, November 28, 2013 11:59:13 PM UTC+5:30, Michael Torrie wrote: On 11/28/2013 10:23 AM, Ned Batchelder wrote: Funny, I thought the sentiment of many here was, let's

Re: Managing Google Groups headaches

2013-11-28 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 28 Nov 2013 11:50:47 -0700, Michael Torrie wrote: On 11/28/2013 11:37 AM, rusi wrote: Do you realize that that person was not using GG? I do but he was using usenet. IOW we are unfortunately conflating two completely unrelated things: 1. GG has some technical problems which are

Re: How to determine whether client and server are on the same host

2013-11-26 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 27 Nov 2013 09:56:13 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 4:26 AM, Malte Forkel malte.for...@berlin.de wrote: Thanks for the explanation. I guess I was hoping that I could use some property of a connection created with telnetlib or its socket to find out whether it

Re: Automation

2013-11-20 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 03:33:02 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: But the actual fake is Cerinabbin You might have included Woolloomooloo in the list! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Automation

2013-11-19 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 19 Nov 2013 21:48:10 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: I guessed Scots for the second one because it didn't look Welsh and it seemed plausible to get a mostly-English paragraph with one Welsh name and one Scots word. The word is *Scottish*. I think that's what Mark was driving at. --

Re: When I send email as HTML, why do erroneous whitespaces get introduced to the HTML source and a few chars get converted to lt; and gt; ???

2013-11-09 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 08 Nov 2013 14:06:38 -0800, richard.balbat wrote: I have the following script that reads in an HTML file containing a table then sends it out via email with a content type of text/html. For some reason a few erroneous whitespaces get introduced to the HTML source and a few chars

Re: How to add a current string into an already existing list

2013-11-02 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sat, 02 Nov 2013 10:40:58 -0700, rusi wrote: That Codd... Should have studied some computer science [Ive a vague feeling I am repeating myself...] ROFL. Get thee into FNF! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Processing large CSV files - how to maximise throughput?

2013-10-26 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 18:38:21 -0700, Victor Hooi wrote: Hi, We have a directory of large CSV files that we'd like to process in Python. We process each input CSV, then generate a corresponding output CSV file. input CSV - munging text, lookups etc. - output CSV My question is,

Tkinter tutorial?

2013-10-22 Thread Walter Hurry
I have some experience with Python, having used it for a couple of years. Until now, my builder of choice for cross-platform GUI applications has been wxPython (with wxGlade), and I have been well satisfied with these tools. However, for a different project I need to get up to a reasonable

Re: UnicodeEncodeError: SOLVED

2013-10-10 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 01:47:52 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Wed, 09 Oct 2013 14:41:53 +, Walter Hurry wrote: Many thanks to those prepared to forgive my transgression in the 'Goodbye' thread. I mentioned there that I was puzzled by a UnicodeEncodeError, and said I would rise

UnicodeEncodeError: SOLVED

2013-10-09 Thread Walter Hurry
Many thanks to those prepared to forgive my transgression in the 'Goodbye' thread. I mentioned there that I was puzzled by a UnicodeEncodeError, and said I would rise it as a separate thread. However, via this link, I was able to resolve the issue myself:

Re: Goodbye: was JUST GOT HACKED

2013-10-07 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 03 Oct 2013 11:35:00 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Thu, 03 Oct 2013 09:21:08 +0530, Ravi Sahni wrote: On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 2:43 AM, Walter Hurry walterhu...@lavabit.com wrote: Ding ding! Nikos is simply trolling. It's easy enough to killfile him but inconvenient to skip all

Goodbye: was JUST GOT HACKED

2013-10-02 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 09:51:26 +0200, Antoon Pardon wrote: Op 02-10-13 09:02, Ravi Sahni schreef: On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Antoon Pardon antoon.par...@rece.vub.ac.be writes: Op 02-10-13 00:06, Ben Finney schreef: This is an unmoderated

Re: Confessions of a terrible programmer

2013-09-06 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 06 Sep 2013 13:17:20 -0400, Joel Goldstick wrote: On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: Not specifically about Python, but still relevant: http://blog.kickin-the-darkness.com/2007/09/confessions-of-terrible- programmer.html

Re: python adds an extra half space when reading from a string or list

2013-07-02 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 02 Jul 2013 07:14:42 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Mon, 01 Jul 2013 21:34:42 -0700, rusi wrote: 2. I am killfiling you is bullying behavior. It is worse than useless because a. The problem cases couldn't care a hoot b. Those who could contribute usefully are shut up c. The

Re: python adds an extra half space when reading from a string or list

2013-07-01 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 01 Jul 2013 10:56:54 +0200, Antoon Pardon wrote: Op 01-07-13 09:55, Νίκος schreef: Στις 1/7/2013 9:37 πμ, ο/η Antoon Pardon έγραψε: Remember that Nick is as much a human as all of us, he is bound to have his feelings hurt when so many people pick on him -- whether they are justified

Re: A few questiosn about encoding

2013-06-14 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sat, 15 Jun 2013 03:03:02 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: Why do you sell web hosting services when you have no clue how to provide them? And why do you continue responding to this timewaster? Please, please just killfile him and let's all move on. --

Re: Build Python 2.7.5 - Modules missing

2013-06-11 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:18:58 -0500, Tony the Tiger wrote: On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:51:25 +, Walter Hurry wrote: On building Python 2.7.5 I got the following message: Python build finished, but the necessary bits to build these modules were not found: dl imageop

Build Python 2.7.5 - Modules missing

2013-06-10 Thread Walter Hurry
On building Python 2.7.5 I got the following message: Python build finished, but the necessary bits to build these modules were not found: dl imageoplinuxaudiodev spwd sunaudiodev To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in

Re: Trying to work with data from a query using Python.

2013-06-07 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 07 Jun 2013 14:24:30 -0400, Dave Angel wrote: On 06/07/2013 01:44 PM, ethereal_r...@hotmail.com wrote: SNIP rows = cur.fetchall() for row in rows: print row Now assume that fetchall would print the following: I doubt if fetchall() prints anything.

Re: Too many python installations. Should i remove them all and install the latest?

2013-06-03 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sun, 02 Jun 2013 14:41:45 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: Nikos just needs to learn the skill of figuring out where his problems really are. Between the keyboard and the chair, obv. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How clean/elegant is Python's syntax?

2013-05-29 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 30 May 2013 04:54:44 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: snip GUIs and databasing are two of the areas where I think Python's standard library could stand to be improved a bit. There are definitely some rough edges there. Dunno what you mean about standard library, but I'm very happy with

Re: any cherypy powred sites I can check out?

2013-05-19 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 17 May 2013 11:48:19 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: (Caveat: I am not a Catholic, so I haven't much of a clue as to how confession usually goes.) Forgive OP Father, for he has sinned... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: any cherypy powred sites I can check out?

2013-05-17 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 17 May 2013 18:15:38 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 17/05/2013 01:00, visphatesj...@gmail.com wrote: fuck straight off I assume you're the author of How to win friends and influence people? There are very few posters to this NG in the Hurry bozo bin, but OP is now one. --

Re: spilt question

2013-05-16 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 16 May 2013 08:00:25 -0700, loial wrote: I want to split a string so that I always return everything BEFORE the LAST underscore HELLO_.lst # should return HELLO HELLO_GOODBYE_.ls # should return HELLO_GOODBYE I have tried with rsplit but cannot get it to

Re: any cherypy powred sites I can check out?

2013-05-16 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 16 May 2013 11:17:37 -0700, visphatesjava wrote: anyone? Questions asked in that fashion stand little chance of eliciting helpful responses. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

2013-05-07 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 07 May 2013 23:32:55 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 11:22 PM, jmfauth wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: There are plenty of good reasons to use Python. There are also plenty of good reasons to not use (or now to drop) Python and to realize that if you wish to process

Re: ask for note keeper tomboy's style

2013-04-21 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sun, 21 Apr 2013 11:42:06 -0600, Michael Torrie wrote: On 04/21/2013 12:20 AM, LordMax wrote: Hi to all. I am new to python and I was asked to implement a system of notes in tomboy's style for my company. As one of the requirements is the ability to synchronize notes between multiple

Re: How to set my gui?

2013-04-18 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 19 Apr 2013 08:00:11 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: But 1 Corinthians 13:11 You are grown up now, I surmise. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Newbie questions on Python

2013-04-16 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 01:30:03 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: By the way, regarding your email address: there are no cheat codes in Python ROFLMAO. Incidentally, my son used to use IDDQD rather than IDKFA. I of course spurned all such, since I preferred to do it the hard way. Thus I was Doomed.

Re: Understanding Boolean Expressions

2013-04-16 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:19:25 -0700, Bruce McGoveran wrote: Hello. I am new to this group. I've done a search for the topic about which I'm posting, and while I have found some threads that are relevant, I haven't found anything exactly on point that I can understand. So, I'm taking the

Re: howto remove the thousand separator

2013-04-14 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:29:17 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: There are actually a lot of optimizations done, so it might turn out to be O(n) in practice. But strictly in the Python code, yes, this is definitely O(n*n). In any event, Janssen should cease and desist offering advice here if he

Re: python-noob - which container is appropriate for later exporting into mySql + matplotlib ?

2013-04-13 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 16:39:12 +0200, someone wrote: I'm not so rich, so I prefer to go for a free database solution rather than an expensive license (paraphrasing but I do care about ACID compliance) Sounds to me that PostgreSQL is your man, then. --

Re: python-noob - which container is appropriate for later exporting into mySql + matplotlib ?

2013-04-13 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 21:34:38 +0200, someone wrote: On 04/13/2013 04:56 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 16:39:12 +0200, someone wrote: I'm not so rich, so I prefer to go for a free database solution rather than an expensive license (paraphrasing but I do care about ACID

Re: While loop help

2013-04-09 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 02:10:29 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 1:47 AM, thomasancill...@gmail.com wrote: ... I'm not sure what version I'm using ... Try putting these lines into a Python script: import sys print(sys.version) That works (of course), but in every

Re: While loop help

2013-04-09 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:12:34 -0400, Dave Angel wrote: On 04/09/2013 03:35 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 02:10:29 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 1:47 AM, thomasancill...@gmail.com wrote: ... I'm not sure what version I'm using ... Try putting these lines

Re: I hate you all

2013-04-09 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:51:26 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 09/04/2013 14:39, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2013-04-09, Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: But wouldn't it have been easier simply to do do a quick sed or whatever rather than to spend hours here arguing? Where's the fun

Re: I hate you all

2013-04-09 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 09:28:26 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: Walter is pointing out that as a Windows user... Walter is also assuming that Mark is a Windows user, which was never actually stated :)

Re: I hate you all

2013-04-08 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 08 Apr 2013 19:48:58 +, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2013-04-08, Nobody nob...@nowhere.com wrote: On Sun, 07 Apr 2013 01:30:45 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Am I the only one here who has used a typewriter? Tab stops were set manually, to a physical distance into the page, using a

Re: I hate you all

2013-04-08 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 09 Apr 2013 08:00:06 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Grant Edwards invalid@invalid.invalid wrote: On 2013-04-08, Walter Hurry walterhu...@lavabit.com wrote: The fact of Python enforcing it (or all tabs; a poor second choice) is *a good thing*, easy

Re: Help

2013-04-02 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 02 Apr 2013 02:02:58 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 02/04/2013 00:56, Walter Hurry wrote: On Mon, 01 Apr 2013 15:12:20 -0700, khaosyt wrote: snip triple spaced homework rubbish double posted Sigh. Another one for the bozo bin. I say old chap you're setting yourself up for attacks

Re: Help

2013-04-01 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 01 Apr 2013 15:12:20 -0700, khaosyt wrote: snip triple spaced homework rubbish double posted Sigh. Another one for the bozo bin. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Creating a dictionary from a .txt file

2013-04-01 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 01 Apr 2013 23:53:40 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote: As far as I'm concerned, anyone in the 21st century who names themselves or their work (a movie, book, programming language, etc.) something which breaks search tools is just *begging* for obscurity, and we ought to respect their

Re: No errors displayed but i blank scren nstead.

2013-03-29 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 20:14:16 +, Neil Cerutti wrote: On 2013-03-29, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 6:27 AM, nagia.rets...@gmail.com wrote: But now iam also receivein this error message as shown here when i switches to 'pymysql' Why the change of email

Re: No errors displayed but i blank scren nstead.

2013-03-28 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 02:25:26 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 2:20 AM, Νίκος Γκρ33κ nikos.gr...@gmail.com wrote: PLEASE GIVE ME A CLUE ABOUT THIS SITUATION. EVEN JAILED SHELL ACCESS SAYS ITS OKEY BUT I CNA ONLY SEE A BLANK PAGE NOT EVEN AN INTERNAL SERVER ERROR. Quit

Re: What's the easiest Python datagrid GUI (preferably with easy database hooks as well)?

2013-03-13 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 18:40:07 +, tinnews wrote: I want to write a fairly trivial database driven application, it will basically present a few columns from a database, allow the user to add and/or edit rows, recalculate the values in one column and write the data back to the database. I

Shebang line on Windows?

2013-02-22 Thread Walter Hurry
I use FreeBSD or Linux, but my son is learning Python and is using Windows. My question is this: Would it be good practice for him to put #!/usr/bin/ env python at the top of his scripts, so that if made executable on *nix they will be OK? As I understand it this will have no effect on Windows

Re: string.replace doesn't removes :

2013-02-13 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 16:55:36 +, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 13/02/2013 16:34, Rick Johnson wrote: On Wednesday, February 13, 2013 1:10:14 AM UTC-6, jmfauth wrote: d = {ord('a'): 'A', ord('b'): '2', ord('c'): 'C'} 'abcdefgabc'.translate(d) 'A2CdefgA2C' def jmTranslate(s, table): ...

Re: Thoughts on SQL vs ORM

2013-02-06 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 06 Feb 2013 10:03:08 -0800, rusi wrote: On Feb 6, 5:58 pm, Andriy Kornatskyy andriy.kornats...@live.com wrote: The question of persistence implementation arise often. I found repository pattern very valuable due to separation of concerns, mediate between domain model and data source

Re: Opinion on best practice...

2013-02-05 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 05 Feb 2013 13:22:02 +, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2013-02-05, Anthony Correia akcorr...@gmail.com wrote: I need to pick up a language that would cover the Linux platform. Well, you haven't really described what it is you're trying to do, but it looks to me like bash and the

Re: The best, friendly and easy use Python Editor.

2013-01-24 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 22:10:21 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Hazard Seventyfour hseventyf...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I new in this python and decided to learn more about it, so i can make an own script :), for all senior can you suggest me the best, friendly

Re: MySQL - create table creates malfunctioning tables

2013-01-24 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 07:55:06 +0100, F.R. wrote: The other day, for unfathomable reasons, I lost control over tables which I create. There was no concurrent change of anything on the machine, such as an update. So I have no suspect. Does the following action log suggest any recommendation to

Re: Vote tallying...

2013-01-19 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:12:25 -0500, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On Sat, 19 Jan 2013 07:24:40 +1100, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: * MySQL's development has suffered under Sun, and become virtually moribund under Oracle. They

Re: please i need explanation

2013-01-13 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 15:04:34 -0600, Tony the Tiger wrote: On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 09:35:10 -0600, kwakukwatiah wrote: HTMLHEAD/HEAD BODY dir=ltr DIV dir=ltr DIV style=FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #00; FONT-SIZE: 12pt DIVdef factorial(n):/DIV Right, another html junkie, on windoze, no

Re: RIse and fall of languages in 2012

2013-01-10 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 07:23:51 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote: In general-purpose scripting languages, Python continues to grow slowly, JavaScript and Ruby are treading water, and Perl continues its long decline. According to Google trends, the number of searches for Perl is 19% of what it was in

Re: psycopg2 cursor.execute CREATE TABLE issue

2013-01-06 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sun, 06 Jan 2013 16:44:47 -0500, Mitya Sirenef wrote: On Sun 06 Jan 2013 04:38:29 PM EST, andydtay...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to create a process which will create a new table and populate it. But something is preventing this from working, and I don't know enough to figure

Re: PyGreSQL 4.1 released

2013-01-03 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 03 Jan 2013 09:04:16 -0500, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: --- Release of PyGreSQL version 4.1 --- It has been a long time coming but PyGreSQL v4.1 has been released. It is available at: http://pygresql.org/files/PyGreSQL-4.1.tgz.

Re: PyGreSQL 4.1 released

2013-01-03 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:07:40 -0500, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: On Thu, 3 Jan 2013 15:06:29 + (UTC) Walter Hurry walterhu...@lavabit.com wrote: Sounds good. Thanks for your efforts. I wasn't alone but I accept your thanks on behalf of the team. Does it offer advantages oiver Psycopg2? 0

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-27 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 12:01:16 -0800, mogul wrote: 'Aloha! I'm new to python, got 10-20 years perl and C experience, all gained on unix alike machines hacking happily in vi, and later on in vim. Now it's python, and currently mainly on my kubuntu desktop. Do I really need a real IDE, as

Re: Conversion of List of Tuples

2012-12-03 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 03 Dec 2012 22:11:40 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Mon, 03 Dec 2012 13:14:19 -0800, subhabangalore wrote: Thanks. But I am not getting the counter 5posts 0 views...if moderator can please check the issue. What counter are you talking about? This is an email mailing list,

Re: Where are documentation for Gnome

2012-10-28 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sun, 28 Oct 2012 16:29:07 +, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 13/10/2012 18:49, Santosh Kumar wrote: Try your local garden centre. Or: The Burrow, Ottery St. Catchpole, Devon, England -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Preventing crap email from google?

2012-10-22 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 13:51:35 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: Walter Hurry walterhu...@lavabit.com writes: It is Google bloody Groups which is the problem. I should have plonked posts from there ages ago, and am about to remedy that omission. What narrowly-defined, precise filter rule should

Re: Preventing crap email from google?

2012-10-22 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 14:35:58 +, HoneyMonster wrote: snip Sorry about the moniker on the above. I used it by accident - it's one I reserve for junk trapping. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: A desperate lunge for on-topic-ness

2012-10-21 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sat, 20 Oct 2012 16:37:23 -0400, Roy Smith wrote: sys.stderr.write(Error: Can't find the file 'settings.py' in the directory containing %r.\nYou'll have to run django-profile.py, passing it your settings module.\n(If the file settings.py does indeed exist, it's causing an

Re: A desperate lunge for on-topic-ness

2012-10-20 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sat, 20 Oct 2012 14:18:47 +, Grant Edwards wrote: True, but nobody prints source code out on paper do they? Seriously -- I can't remember the last time I printed souce code... I remember my first IT job - COBOL programming in the early 80's. The rule was that every time we delivered

Re: Preventing crap email from google?

2012-10-20 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sat, 20 Oct 2012 01:43:03 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote: Good morning/afternoon/evening all, Is there any possibility that we could find a way to prevent the double spaced rubbish that comes from G$ infiltrating this ng/ml? For example, does Python have anybody who works for G$ who could

Re: OT Questions

2012-10-16 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 11:23:09 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote: My theory for a while now has been that Mr. Hutto is probably an enterprising teenager My theory for a while now has been that Mr. Hutto belongs in the bozo bin. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-27 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:32:58 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Grant Edwards invalid@invalid.invalid wrote: On 2012-09-27, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: Given

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 26 Sep 2012 17:14:44 -0700, alex23 wrote: On Sep 26, 10:17 pm, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: Notice, I'm not a Unicode illiterate Any chance you could work on your usenet literacy and fix your double posts? I have a better idea: Consign him to the same bin as Dwight Hutto and

Re: Print Function

2012-09-22 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 01:26:43 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 13:20:09 -0700, gengyangcai wrote: I am currently using Python 3.2.3 . WHen I use the print function by typing print Game Over , it mentions SyntaxError : invalid syntax . Any ideas on what the problem is and

Re: technologies synergistic with Python

2012-09-22 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 10:58:38 -0700, Emile van Sebille wrote: On 9/21/2012 2:59 PM Ethan Furman said... ...if my dream job is one that consists mostly of Python, and might allow telecommuting? Hi Ethan, I have an open position in my two man office I've tried to fill a couple times

Re: Obnoxious postings from Google Groups (was: datetime issue)

2012-09-21 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:07:09 +, Grant Edwards wrote: I told my news client years ago to filter out anything posted from Google Groups -- and I know I'm not alone. If one wants the best chance of getting a question answered, using something other than Google Groups is indeed a good idea.

Re: Guides for communicating with business accounting systems

2012-09-14 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 16:36:58 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: Actually I haven't used Postgres with Python yet. Should probably do that at some point. But the MySQL bindings for Python aren't so awesome they can't be matched by any other. I have found psycopg2 excellent in every respect. --

Re: simple client data base

2012-09-08 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sat, 08 Sep 2012 13:11:27 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote: Mark R Rivet markrri...@aol.com writes: ones for a few dollars. You're reading about lists, tuples, and dictionary data? Great, but other home accounting businesses have their client databases automatically synced with their smart-phones and

Re: python docs search for 'print'

2012-09-05 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:03:16 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote: On 9/5/2012 8:45 AM, Ramchandra Apte wrote: snip These ever increasing extra blank lines with each quote are obnoxious. Consider using a news reader with news.gmane.org instead of google crap. Or snip heavily. +1. And the duplicated

Re: simple client data base

2012-09-03 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 03 Sep 2012 18:03:27 +0200, Wolfgang Keller wrote: Hello all, I am learning to program in python. I have a need to make a program that can store, retrieve, add, and delete client data such as name, address, social, telephone number and similar information. This would be a small client

Re: Filter versus comprehension (was Re: something about split()???)

2012-08-24 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 14:29:00 -0400, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: It appears to be a change Google made in the last month or two... My hypothesis is that they are replacing hard EOL found in inbound NNTP with an HTML p, and then on outgoing replacing the p with a pair of NNTP line endings. In

Re: Filter versus comprehension (was Re: something about split()???)

2012-08-24 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 17:56:47 -0400, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 19:03:51 + (UTC), Walter Hurry walterhu...@lavabit.com declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: Google Groups sucks. These are computer literate people here. Why don't they just use a proper

Re: Objects in Python

2012-08-22 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:46:43 +0100, lipska the kat wrote: Well I'm a beginner Then maybe you should read more and write less. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Why doesn't Python remember the initial directory?

2012-08-20 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:14:02 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:56:42 +0100, andrea crotti wrote: In the specific case there is absolutely no use of os.chdir, since you can: - use absolute paths - things like subprocess.Popen accept a cwd argument - at worst you can chdir

Re: python 6 compilation failure on RHEL

2012-08-20 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 19:12:05 +0200, Kwpolska wrote: On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Ganesh Reddy K ganeshred...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, We are trying python 2.6 installation on an RHEL PC , whose 'uname -a' is (Linux 2.6.18-128.el5 #1 SMP Wed Dec 17 11:41:38 EST 2008 x86_64 x86_64

Re: python 6 compilation failure on RHEL

2012-08-20 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 11:02:25 -0700, Emile van Sebille wrote: On 8/20/2012 10:20 AM Walter Hurry said... On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 19:12:05 +0200, Kwpolska wrote: snip 300+ lines of non-referred to content replicated by you both Do you really need to compile python2.6? RHEL has packages

Re: python 6 compilation failure on RHEL

2012-08-20 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:19:23 -0700, Emile van Sebille wrote: Package dependencies. If the OP intends to install a package that doesn't support other than 2.6, you install 2.6. It would be a pretty poor third party package which specified Python 2.6 exactly, rather than (say) Python 2.6 or

Re: [ANNC] pybotwar-0.8

2012-08-16 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:20:29 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote: On 8/16/2012 11:40 AM, Ramchandra Apte wrote: Look you are the only person complaining about top-posting. No he is not. Recheck all the the responses. GMail uses top-posting by default. It only works if everyone does it. I

Re: The way to develope a graphical application to manage a Postgres database

2012-08-05 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 02 Aug 2012 20:24:36 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: I'm searching for a way to develope a Python graphical application for a Postgresql database. I use wxGlade/wxPython to build the GUI, and then hand code the database access using psycopg2 into the generated application. Works very well

Re: The way to develope a graphical application to manage a Postgres database

2012-08-05 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 17:58:46 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: Well, I tried out many adviced ways but none of them works on my Debian GNU/Linux testing/sid system. Always get some error in one of the part of the software. Can you give a short tutorial for newbies how to start to develope with