Re: Ann: New Python curses book

2021-03-30 Thread William Ray Wing via Python-list
I’ve ordered the book (physical volume). It will fulfill a need I’ve had for some time. Unfortunately, it is only available in the UK store, so the shipping cost by far outweighs the book’s cost. Hope for other’s sake, it migrates to the other Amazon stores fairly quickly. Thanks, Bill > On

Re: How do you debug in Python? Coming from a Matlab and R user. I'm already aware of pdb.

2021-01-26 Thread William Ray Wing via Python-list
> On Jan 26, 2021, at 2:00 PM, C W wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I'm a long time Matlab and R user working on data science. How do you > troubleshooting/debugging in Python? > Another approach is to run the code in an IDE. I happen to use Wing, but that is a coincidence. But almost ANY

Re: questions re: calendar module

2020-08-01 Thread William Ray Wing via Python-list
> On Aug 1, 2020, at 10:35 AM, o1bigtenor wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 9:29 AM o1bigtenor wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 6:58 AM Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: >>> >>> o1bigtenor wrote: >>> >>> import calendar >>> print (calendar.calendar(2024,1,1,2,8)) >>>

Re: [Tutor] Questions

2019-04-08 Thread William Ray Wing via Python-list
-Q filings of individual > companies by putting in a ticker (preferably in excel, but an be done > elsewhere). Trying to figure out how to even start setting this up. > > Thank you! > > On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at 8:57 PM William Ray Wing <mailto:w...@mac.com>> wrote: >

Re: Levenberg-Marquardt non-linear least-squares fitting in Python [follow-on]

2019-03-28 Thread William Ray Wing via Python-list
Below I’ve included the code I ran, reasonably (I think) commented. Note the reference to the example. The data actually came from a pandas data frame that was in turn filled from a 100 MB data file that included lots of other data not needed for this, which was a curve fit to a calibration

Re: Levenberg-Marquardt non-linear least-squares fitting in Python

2019-03-28 Thread William Ray Wing via Python-list
> On Mar 28, 2019, at 7:54 AM, Madhavan Bomidi wrote: > > Hi, > > I have x and y variables data arrays. These two variables are assumed to be > related as y = A * exp(x/B). Now, I wanted to use Levenberg-Marquardt > non-linear least-squares fitting to find A and B for the best fit of the >

Re: the python name

2019-01-04 Thread William Ray Wing via Python-list
> On Jan 4, 2019, at 11:34 AM, Avi Gross wrote: > > [BYTE] > As I joked in an earlier message, I remember using a version of FORTRAN > called WATFOR. Yes, there was a WATFIV. > > Yah - WATFOR was Waterloo FORTRAN, an interpreted FORTRAN that was used a lot in intro classes. No matter

Re: the python name

2019-01-04 Thread William Ray Wing via Python-list
On 3/01/19 2:03 PM, Avi Gross wrote: > Challenge: Can we name any computer language whose name really would suggest > it was a computer language? > I think the name is the least important aspect of a computer language. I’d like to propose that classic FORTRAN (FORmulaTRANslator) came/comes

Re: Creating Win .exe file from *.py on Linux

2018-10-02 Thread William Ray Wing via Python-list
> On Oct 2, 2018, at 3:03 PM, John Doe wrote: > > Hello World > > Is it possible to create on Linux win .exe file from *.py file? > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list As was pointed out here a day or so ago, the answer is yes, but it is a two step process. First

Re: How to change '\\' to '\'

2018-10-01 Thread William Ray Wing via Python-list
> On Oct 1, 2018, at 10:17 PM, Jach Fong wrote: > > Thanks for your info about how Windows supports the forward slash. > > I don't quit sure what is the meaning of "top posting" in your mail. > If its meaning (forgive me if I was wrong) is where the reply was put > in mail, I have reason of

Re: Matplotlib 3D limitations, please recommend alternative

2018-07-04 Thread William Ray Wing via Python-list
> On Jul 4, 2018, at 5:53 PM, John Ladasky wrote: > > I'm a regular Matplotlib user. Normally, I graph functions. I just > attempted to graph an icosahedral surface using the plot_trisurf() methods of > Matplotlib's Axes3D. I have discovered that Matplotlib is basically > hard-wired for

Re: Scanner freakishness [was Re: Python list vs google group]

2018-06-16 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Jun 16, 2018, at 9:10 AM, Steven D'Aprano > wrote: > > On Sat, 16 Jun 2018 11:54:15 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 11:00 AM, Jim Lee wrote: > >>> I once had a Mustek color scanner that came with a TWAIN driver. If >>> the room temperature was above 80

Re: please test the new PyPI (now in beta)

2018-03-30 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Mar 28, 2018, at 10:50 AM, sumana.hariharesw...@gmail.com wrote: > > [byte] > : I ask you the usual list of troubleshooting questions. What OS and browser > are you using, what plugins and particularly interesting preferences are you > using, and so on. (When I turn off JavaScript in

Re: please test the new PyPI (now in beta)

2018-03-28 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Mar 28, 2018, at 10:50 AM, sumana.hariharesw...@gmail.com wrote: > > [byte] > > People who literally don't see the list of ways to filter on the left-hand > side of https://pypi.org/search/ I do see the list of filters, but I only get it AFTER I’ve entered my first search term. I

Re: Goto (Posting On Python-List Prohibited)

2017-12-30 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Dec 30, 2017, at 7:46 AM, Peter J. Holzer wrote: > > On 2017-12-29 19:09:35 -0500, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: >> On Fri, 29 Dec 2017 23:12:22 +, bartc declaimed the >> following: >>> Looking at 14 million lines of Linux kernel sources, which are in C,

Re: plot map wit box axes

2017-12-24 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Dec 23, 2017, at 3:27 PM, breamore...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Friday, December 22, 2017 at 3:42:58 PM UTC, jorge@cptec.inpe.br wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I use the PYTHON and IDL. In IDL I can plot a grid map like a this >> figure (mapa.png). Please, I would like know how can I plot my

Re: Python noob having a little trouble with strings

2017-10-28 Thread William Ray Wing
OSX has been shipping with Python 2.7 for several years. I’m not sure why you are seeing 2.6. Bill > On Oct 27, 2017, at 2:48 AM, Lutz Horn wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 07:59:10PM -0700, randyli...@gmail.com wrote: >> Hi Bob, thanks for responding. I'm not sure

Re: Let's talk about debuggers!

2017-10-25 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Oct 25, 2017, at 9:07 AM, Thomas Jollans wrote: > > [byte] > What options are there for Python (that work)? What text editors (and > IDEs) have a decent integrated debugger or debugging plugin? I rather like WingIDE (the name is a coincidence). It allows

Re: How to track usage within a desktop python application

2017-10-08 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Oct 8, 2017, at 8:38 PM, Ryan Holmes wrote: > > I maintain a desktop python application that is used by a decent number of > folks (I would assume 10k+, though it's hard to know since it's based on > number of downloads rather than number of unique users). I

Re: closing image automatically in for loop , python

2017-04-12 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Apr 12, 2017, at 7:18 AM, Masoud Afshari wrote: > > Dear all > > I have several *.sfd files which created by a simulation code. I wrote a > program containing a for Loop which reads each time one .sfd file and plot > the requested Parameters. I have two request:

Re: Python and the need for speed

2017-04-10 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Apr 10, 2017, at 8:25 AM, Mikhail V wrote: > > On 10 April 2017 at 02:21, Gregory Ewing wrote: >> >> >> >> My take on the idea of making Python less dynamic in order >> to improve speed is that you'll end up with a language that,

Re: Who are the "spacists"?

2017-03-17 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Mar 17, 2017, at 8:52 PM, Mikhail V wrote: > > So Python supports both spaces and tabs for indentation. > > I just wonder, why not forbid spaces in the beginning of lines? > How would one come to the idea to use spaces for indentation at all? > That convention

Re: Context

2017-02-03 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Feb 3, 2017, at 8:10 AM, Antonio wrote: > > From: Antonio > Sent: Friday, February 3, 2017 1:02 PM > To: python-list@python.org > Subject: Context > > I have python version 3.6.0 installed into my desktop)windows 7) but the >

Re: Choosing a Python IDE. what is your Pythonish recommendation? I do

2017-01-06 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Jan 4, 2017, at 3:44 PM, Dietmar Schwertberger <maill...@schwertberger.de> wrote: > > On 04.01.2017 15:41, William Ray Wing wrote: >> I use Wing, and I think you will like it. It *is* pythonic, and for what it is worth, offers remote debugging as one of its more re

Re: Choosing a Python IDE. what is your Pythonish recommendation? I do

2017-01-06 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Jan 4, 2017, at 1:54 AM, Antonio Caminero Garcia wrote: > > On Tuesday, January 3, 2017 at 4:12:34 PM UTC-8, Dietmar Schwertberger wrote: >> On 02.01.2017 12:38, Antonio Caminero Garcia wrote: >> You did not try Wing IDE? It looks less like a spacecraft. Maybe you >>

Re: Choosing a Python IDE. what is your Pythonish recommendation? I do not know what to choose.

2017-01-04 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Jan 4, 2017, at 3:44 PM, Dietmar Schwertberger <maill...@schwertberger.de> > wrote: > > On 04.01.2017 15:41, William Ray Wing wrote: >> I use Wing, and I think you will like it. It *is* pythonic, and for what it >> is worth, offers remote debugging as

Re: Choosing a Python IDE. what is your Pythonish recommendation? I do not know what to choose.

2017-01-04 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Jan 4, 2017, at 1:54 AM, Antonio Caminero Garcia > wrote: > > On Tuesday, January 3, 2017 at 4:12:34 PM UTC-8, Dietmar Schwertberger wrote: >> On 02.01.2017 12:38, Antonio Caminero Garcia wrote: >> You did not try Wing IDE? It looks less like a spacecraft. Maybe you

Re: What's the best way to minimize the need of run time checks?

2016-08-12 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Aug 12, 2016, at 7:07 AM, Steven D'Aprano > wrote: > > [megabyte] > > > [1] Are there programming language aware spell checkers? If not, there > should be. > > There are programming language-aware editors with built-in spell checkers (and

Re: GoPiGo distence sensor

2016-06-15 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Jun 15, 2016, at 10:59 AM, Joel Goldstick wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 10:15 AM, wrote: >> I have a small robot on wheels named the GoPiGo. >> What I want is if the distence sensor read the same distence for let say 5 >> seconds then

Re: [beginner] What's wrong?

2016-04-01 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Apr 1, 2016, at 6:57 PM, Mark Lawrence via Python-list > wrote: > >> On 01/04/2016 23:44, sohcahto...@gmail.com wrote: >>> On Friday, April 1, 2016 at 3:10:51 PM UTC-7, Michael Okuntsov wrote: >>> Nevermind. for j in range(1,8) should be for j in range(8). >> >> I

Re: [Off-topic] Requests author discusses MentalHealthError exception

2016-03-03 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Mar 3, 2016, at 3:20 PM, alister wrote: > > On Thu, 03 Mar 2016 11:03:55 -0700, Ian Kelly wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 10:21 AM, alister >> wrote: >>> On Thu, 03 Mar 2016 13:35:12 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: 1) No physical

Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications

2016-02-19 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Feb 19, 2016, at 8:13 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > On Sat, 20 Feb 2016 12:27 am, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > > >> Then the best suggestion I have would be to take a weekend and just >> read the language reference manual (it used to be about an 80-page PDF >> file,

Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications

2016-02-18 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Feb 18, 2016, at 10:33 AM, wrong.addres...@gmail.com wrote: > > torstai 18. helmikuuta 2016 17.21.32 UTC+2 Oscar Benjamin kirjoitti: >> On 18 February 2016 at 11:32, Chris Angelico wrote: >> [byte] >> It sounds to me as if all of your needs can be solved in pure Python

Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications

2016-02-18 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Feb 17, 2016, at 2:49 PM, wrong.addres...@gmail.com wrote: > > I am mostly getting positive feedback for Python. > > It seems Python is used more for web based applications. Is it equally fine > for creating stand-alone *.exe's? Can the same code be compiled to run on > Linux or Android

Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications

2016-02-17 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Feb 17, 2016, at 2:49 PM, wrong.addres...@gmail.com wrote: > > I am mostly getting positive feedback for Python. > I would be surprised if you weren’t. > It seems Python is used more for web based applications. Is it equally fine > for creating stand-alone *.exe's? Can the same code be

Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code

2016-01-16 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Jan 16, 2016, at 9:48 AM, Bernardo Sulzbach > wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 12:41 PM, Alister wrote: >> it was exactly the scenario described >> >> A company had developed a means of impo=roving the Fat file system (IIRC by >>

Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code

2016-01-15 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Jan 15, 2016, at 9:52 AM, Emile van Sebille wrote: > > On 1/14/2016 3:55 PM, Rick Johnson wrote: >> But, when you have almost infinitely deep pockets, like >> Google, you don't need to create *everything* yourself, no, >> you simply wait for someone else to build it, then

Re: Stop writing Python 4 incompatible code

2016-01-15 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Jan 15, 2016, at 1:09 PM, Bernardo Sulzbach <mafagafogiga...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 3:02 PM, William Ray Wing <w...@mac.com> wrote: >> >> What Micro$oft was actually sued for was worse. They would approach a small >> com

Re: imshow keeps crashhing

2016-01-06 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Jan 6, 2016, at 6:10 PM, darren.mcaf...@gmail.com wrote: > > Thanks for the quick reply! > > So scipy is making temporary files in /private/vars/folders/w4/ name>/ Is this a typo or did you really mean /private/vars? That is, did your create a “vars” directory under /private at some

Re: Mac Question

2016-01-01 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Jan 1, 2016, at 5:56 AM, tdspe...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hi All > > I am trying to create a directory on a windows drive from my macbook air with > python but get a permissions error because the windows ntfs drive is read > only - does anyone know away to overcome this issue - I have

Re: Writing a Financial Services App in Python

2015-11-19 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Nov 19, 2015, at 6:59 AM, Cai Gengyang wrote: > > > From YCombinator's new RFS, This is the problem I want to solve as it is a > severe problem I face myself and something I need. I want to write this app > in Python as I heard that Python is a great language that

Re: What does “grep” stand for?

2015-11-06 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Nov 5, 2015, at 10:36 PM, Larry Hudson via Python-list > wrote: > > On 11/05/2015 05:18 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: >> On Thu, 5 Nov 2015 20:19:39 + (UTC), Grant Edwards >> declaimed the following: >> >>> Though I used a line-editor

Re: Detection of a specific sound

2015-11-03 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Oct 25, 2015, at 8:17 PM, Montana Burr wrote: > > I'm looking for a library that will allow Python to listen for the shriek of > a smoke alarm. Once it detects this shriek, it is to notify someone. Ideally, > specificity can be adjusted for the user's environment.

Re: Recover data over the network

2015-10-09 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Oct 9, 2015, at 10:44 PM, Arshpreet Singh wrote: > >> On Saturday, 10 October 2015 04:40:27 UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> >> What do you mean, "recover data from a server"? What has happened to the >> server? Can it boot or is it in an unbootable state? Are the

Re: Python handles globals badly.

2015-09-09 Thread William Ray Wing
> On Sep 9, 2015, at 1:22 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > [byte] > > I think my favourite is the guy who claims that the reason natural languages > all count from 1 is because the Romans failed to invent zero. (What about > languages that didn't derive from Latin, say,

Re: Need assistance

2015-07-18 Thread William Ray Wing
On Jul 18, 2015, at 1:34 PM, Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: [byte] What is an {HP calculator} roll operation? The original Hewlett Packard “Scientific” calculators (HP-35, 45, 65, etc) that used Polish notation (operand, operand, operation; with no “=“ sign) had a

Re: Fixing Python install on the Mac after running 'CleanMyMac'

2015-05-29 Thread William Ray Wing
On May 29, 2015, at 9:12 AM, Cem Karan cfkar...@gmail.com wrote: On May 28, 2015, at 11:47 PM, Laura Creighton l...@openend.se wrote: webmas...@python.org just got some mail from some poor embarrased soul who ran this program and broke their Python install. They are running Mac OSX

Re: Accessing DataSocket Server with Python

2015-05-29 Thread William Ray Wing
On May 28, 2015, at 6:17 PM, Dan Stromberg drsali...@gmail.com wrote: I have no idea about the protocol used by NI DataSockets, but you might be able to reverse engineer the protocol by using the official client with a sniffer. Also, be aware that TCP/IP guarantees that you get the

Re: New to Python - block grouping (spaces)

2015-04-16 Thread William Ray Wing
On Apr 16, 2015, at 2:11 AM, Paul Rubin no.email@nospam.invalid wrote: Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info writes: I'm aware that Coffeescript provides a brace-free wrapper around Javascript; I'm not aware of any wrapper that *adds* braces to a language without them.

Re: ANN: Wing IDE 5.1.2 released

2015-02-26 Thread William Ray Wing
On Feb 26, 2015, at 2:04 PM, Jim Mooney cybervigila...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, can I run Py 2.7 and 3.4 side by side without a lot of hassle, using Wing? I run both since I'm migranting and so far the free IDEs just seem to choke on that. --

Re: python 2 to python 3

2015-02-25 Thread William Ray Wing
On Feb 24, 2015, at 9:55 PM, Audrey McFarlane bryceod...@icloud.com wrote: I am using Wing101 v.5 and it is using Python2, but I want to make it use Python3 instead because need Python3 for a uni lab. How do I change it? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list Assuming

Re: python traceroute

2015-01-21 Thread William Ray Wing
On Jan 21, 2015, at 12:06 AM, Denis McMahon denismfmcma...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 19:37:26 -0800, Chandrakant Tiwari wrote: in the program below i want it to make it work the same way as TRACERT command. As an observation, you're re-inventing a wheel that already works

Re: Run Programming ?????

2014-12-12 Thread William Ray Wing
On Dec 12, 2014, at 8:03 AM, Chris Warrick kwpol...@gmail.com wrote: On Dec 12, 2014 1:40 PM, Delgado Motto riskyay...@gmail.com mailto:riskyay...@gmail.com wrote: I travel alot, if not just interested in things of pocketable portability, and was curious if you can tell me if

Re: Do you like the current design of python.org?

2014-12-05 Thread William Ray Wing
On Dec 5, 2014, at 5:43 AM, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: Peter Otten wrote: Did you ever hit the Socialize button? Are you eager to see the latest tweets when you are reading a PEP? Do you run away screaming from a page where nothing moves without you

Re: Python handles globals badly.

2014-12-04 Thread William Ray Wing
On Dec 4, 2014, at 8:56 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wlfr...@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 14:51:14 +0200, Marko Rauhamaa ma...@pacujo.net declaimed the following: Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com: A lot of programs don't use threads, and therefore cannot have thread safety

Re: Understanding help command description syntax - explanation needed

2014-11-07 Thread William Ray Wing
On Nov 7, 2014, at 7:42 AM, Dave Angel da...@davea.name wrote: Bob Martin bob.mar...@excite.com Wrote in message: in 730867 20141107 093651 c...@isbd.net wrote: Darren Chen ccylily1...@gmail.com wrote: 在 2014年11月5日星期三UTC+8下午8时17分11秒,larry@gmail.com写道:

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] It is true that is impossible write in binary code, the lowest level of programming that you can write is in hex code?

2014-11-06 Thread William Ray Wing
On Nov 5, 2014, at 6:14 PM, Clayton Kirkwood c...@godblessthe.us wrote: Yeah, the 11 was mesmerizing. You didn't need no stinkin' program to see how busy the system was, you just checked the lights. You could really tell when somebody was compiling or link/loading. As I've done many times

Re: [OT] spelling colour / color was Re: Toggle

2014-10-11 Thread William Ray Wing
On Oct 11, 2014, at 3:20 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wlfr...@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Sat, 11 Oct 2014 16:26:43 +0100, duncan smith buzzard@invalid.invalid declaimed the following: The media have their own quirks when it comes to English. The BBC regularly use top of / bottom of in the sense of

Re: python script monitor

2014-09-15 Thread William Ray Wing
On Sep 15, 2014, at 8:07 PM, Nicholas Cannon nicholascann...@gmail.com wrote: I have made an app that is not fully stable and I would like to monitor the performance of the app and try and improve the speed of it. I tried to use the activity monitor on the mac but what I want I'm to see how

Re: running a python program

2014-08-27 Thread William Ray Wing
On Aug 27, 2014, at 9:42 AM, ngangsia akumbo ngang...@gmail.com wrote: i have written a small scripts in python that inputs two values and prints out the sum. Ok i want to be able to install this program on a windows 8 machine and run it as a normal program. i want to be able to run it

Re: Small World Network model random data generation

2014-08-26 Thread William Ray Wing
On Aug 26, 2014, at 9:23 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber wlfr...@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Tue, 26 Aug 2014 12:16:33 +0200, lavanya addepalli phani@gmail.com declaimed the following: How can i generate a random data that is identical to my realworld data By definition, random data will be

Re: Python makes Dilbert's list

2014-08-24 Thread William Ray Wing
On Aug 24, 2014, at 7:18 PM, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote: For Sunday, Aug 24, 2014. http://www.dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/0//000/20/2/5000/500/225504/225504.strip.sunday.gif — And at the risk of straying a bit OT, here is what Dilbert should have pointed his

Re: newbee

2014-08-13 Thread William Ray Wing
On Aug 13, 2014, at 9:57 AM, alister alister.nospam.w...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 15:13:34 +0200, Mok-Kong Shen wrote: Am 13.08.2014 13:55, schrieb alister: [snip] A related question: How could one write a Python program and have it run on a mobile phone in general

Re: Does python support ATL Modelling Language?

2014-07-09 Thread William Ray Wing
On Jul 9, 2014, at 4:38 AM, varun bhatnagar varun292...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am trying to shift my application from JAVA to Python and in JAVA I am using ATL Transformations (modelling techniques). Is it possible to do that with Python, does python support ATL Transformations. If not is

Re: cx_freeze and temporary files - security related question

2014-07-06 Thread William Ray Wing
On Jul 6, 2014, at 9:21 AM, Richard Damon rich...@damon-family.org wrote: On 5/21/14, 12:42 PM, Nagy László Zsolt wrote: I need to create an application for Windows 7 that runs from a flash drive. This program would be used to create remote backups of the pendrive. The pendrive contains

Re: What use with Python

2014-07-01 Thread William Ray Wing
On Jul 1, 2014, at 6:56 PM, rxjw...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am new to Python. Weeks ago, I was asked about Python questions on an interview. Now I want to learn Python, but I do not know what I can do with it on a PC. Especially I would like to do something interesting instead of some

Re: Python ORM library for distributed mostly-read-only objects?

2014-06-23 Thread William Ray Wing
On Jun 23, 2014, at 12:26 AM, smur...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, June 22, 2014 3:49:53 PM UTC+2, Roy Smith wrote: Can you give us some more quantitative idea of your requirements? How many objects? How much total data is being stored? How many queries per second, and what is the

Re: IDE for python

2014-05-28 Thread William Ray Wing
On May 28, 2014, at 6:43 AM, 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: Can Python do this? First steps, links to resources or complete software referals appreciated.

2014-05-22 Thread William Ray Wing
On May 22, 2014, at 6:03 AM, ed.cot...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm an academic and I want to find/adapt/create a script that will grab abstracts (150-250 words of text) from Google Scholar search results and sort them by relevance (e.g. keywords, keyword combinations, anything other way you

Re: Significant digits in a float?

2014-05-01 Thread William Ray Wing
On May 1, 2014, at 12:16 AM, Mark H Harris harrismh...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/30/14 10:56 PM, Paul Rubin wrote: There is a nice Javascript simulation of the N4-ES here: http://www.antiquark.com/sliderule/sim/n4es/virtual-n4es.html Thank you! The N4-ES and the N4-T (mine) are

Re: Latching variables in function

2014-04-09 Thread William Ray Wing
On Apr 9, 2014, at 12:35 AM, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote: On 4/8/2014 4:09 PM, Grawburg wrote: I've probably used the wrong term - I'm thinking of what I do when writing PLC code - so I can't find how to do this in my reference books. This is part of a project I'm working on with a

Re: Switching between cmd.CMD instances

2014-04-02 Thread William Ray Wing
On Apr 2, 2014, at 1:03 AM, Josh English joshua.r.engl...@gmail.com wrote: I have a program with several cmd.Cmd instances. I am trying to figure out what the best way to organize them should be. I've got my BossCmd, SubmissionCmd, and StoryCmd objects. The BossCmd object can start

Re: Python programming

2014-03-07 Thread William Ray Wing
On Mar 7, 2014, at 1:03 PM, John Ladasky john_lada...@sbcglobal.net wrote: As for FORTRAN? This week, I actually downloaded an application which required a FORTRAN compiler. This is the only FORTRAN application I've ever needed. It's not old code, the first revision came out about 10

Re: Python programming

2014-03-06 Thread William Ray Wing
On Mar 6, 2014, at 8:24 PM, Roy Smith r...@panix.com wrote: In article mailman.7884.1394151937.18130.python-l...@python.org, Dennis Lee Bieber wlfr...@ix.netcom.com wrote: On 06 Mar 2014 02:51:54 GMT, alb...@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) declaimed the following: In article

Re: Mac vs. Linux for Python Development

2014-02-24 Thread William Ray Wing
On Feb 23, 2014, at 3:43 AM, twiz twiza...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'm sure this is a common question but I can't seem to find a previous thread that addresses it. If one one exists, please point me to it. I've been developing with python recreationally for a while on Ubuntu but will

Re: Coding a simple state machine in python

2014-02-24 Thread William Ray Wing
On Feb 24, 2014, at 8:30 PM, Ronaldo abhishek1...@gmail.com wrote: How do I write a state machine in python? I have identified the states and the conditions. Is it possible to do simple a if-then-else sort of an algorithm? Below is some pseudo code: if state == ABC: do_something()

Re: Just For Inquiry

2014-02-20 Thread William Ray Wing
On Feb 20, 2014, at 5:48 PM, John Gordon gor...@panix.com wrote: In mailman.7196.1392914525.18130.python-l...@python.org shivang patel patelshivan...@gmail.com writes: So, I kindly request to you please, give me a very brief info regarding *Role of Project Manager*. In my organization,

Re: SSH/Telnet program to Router/switch

2014-02-19 Thread William Ray Wing
On Feb 19, 2014, at 3:14 AM, Sujith S sujith...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am new to programming and python. I am looking for a python script to do ssh/telnet to a network equipment ? I know tcl/perl does this using expect/send. Do we have expect available in python as well or need to use

Re: Python programming

2014-02-12 Thread William Ray Wing
On Feb 12, 2014, at 10:04 PM, Roy Smith r...@panix.com wrote: In article ldhcau$d9v$1...@reader1.panix.com, Grant Edwards invalid@invalid.invalid wrote: On 2014-02-13, Dennis Lee Bieber wlfr...@ix.netcom.com wrote: An S-100 wire-wrap board. Yup, been there done that! Never did

Re: Newcomer Help

2014-02-10 Thread William Ray Wing
On Feb 10, 2014, at 11:10 AM, Walter Hughey wkhug...@gmail.com wrote: I am new to Python programming, actually new to any programming language. I sent the email below to the pythonmac-...@python.org a few days ago. So far I have not seen a reply, actually, I have not seen anything from

Re: [RELEASED] Python 3.3.4 release candidate 1

2014-01-27 Thread William Ray Wing
On Jan 27, 2014, at 8:55 AM, Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: On 27/01/2014 07:36, Georg Brandl wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On behalf of the Python development team, I'm reasonably happy to announce the Python 3.3.4 release candidate 1.

Re: Learning python networking

2014-01-15 Thread William Ray Wing
On Jan 15, 2014, at 11:31 AM, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 3:25 AM, William Ray Wing w...@mac.com wrote: On Jan 15, 2014, at 7:52 AM, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: One of the fundamentals of the internet is that connections *will* break. A friend

Re: Learning python networking

2014-01-15 Thread William Ray Wing
On Jan 15, 2014, at 7:52 AM, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: [megabyte] One of the fundamentals of the internet is that connections *will* break. A friend of mine introduced me to Magic: The Gathering via a program that couldn't handle drop-outs, and it got extremely frustrating - we

Re: How to get Mac address of ethernet port?

2014-01-13 Thread William Ray Wing
On Jan 11, 2014, at 11:34 AM, Michael Torrie torr...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/11/2014 07:35 AM, Andriy Kornatskyy wrote: Sam, How about this? from uuid import getnode as get_mac '%012x' % get_mac() This seems to work if you have only one ethernet adapter. Most computers have two

Re: Looking for tips for moving dev environment from Windows to Mac

2014-01-08 Thread William Ray Wing
On Jan 8, 2014, at 9:11 AM, pyt...@bdurham.com wrote: Long time Windows developer making the move to Apple platform. My new development environment is a 15 MacBook Pro with 16 Gb RAM and a 512 Gb SSD. I'm totally new to the world of Apple hardware and software and am looking for advice on

Re: Looking for tips for moving dev environment from Windows to Mac

2014-01-08 Thread William Ray Wing
On Jan 8, 2014, at 12:26 PM, Bob Hartwig bobje...@gmail.com wrote: 4. Best visual diff utility for Mac? opendiff. I think it's part of xcode. Regarding Python IDEs, I really like PyCharm. It's written in Java, and sometimes you can tell that by its performance, but it's very featureful

Re: Question RE urllib

2013-12-16 Thread William Ray Wing
On Dec 16, 2013, at 6:40 AM, Jeff James j...@jeffljames.com wrote: So I'm using the following script to check our sites to make sure they are all up and some of them are reporting they are down when, in fact, they are actually up. These sites do not require a logon in order for the home

Re: Experiences/guidance on teaching Python as a first programming language

2013-12-09 Thread William Ray Wing
On Dec 9, 2013, at 11:57 AM, rusi rustompm...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, December 9, 2013 5:53:41 PM UTC+5:30, Oscar Benjamin wrote: 5) Learning to program should be painful and we should expect the students to complain about it (someone actually said that!) but the pain makes them better

Re: Got a Doubt ! Wanting for your Help ! Plz make it ASAP !

2013-11-23 Thread William Ray Wing
On Nov 23, 2013, at 1:42 AM, Ian Kelly ian.g.ke...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 7:18 PM, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: I'm not an expert on Indian English, but I understand that in that dialect it is grammatically correct to say the codes, just as in

Re: Program Translation - Nov. 14, 2013

2013-11-16 Thread William Ray Wing
On Nov 16, 2013, at 4:31 AM, Terence tbwri...@bigpond.net.au wrote: I downloaded the packed file mentioned, extracted the files and had a look at the Fortran sources given: ETGTAB.FOR and ETGTAB.F The ETGTAB.FOR file had double spacing, which Iremoved automatically, then compared the two

Re: Automation

2013-11-16 Thread William Ray Wing
On Nov 16, 2013, at 1:17 AM, Larry Hudson org...@yahoo.com wrote: [byte] However, that's just a side comment. I wanted to mention my personal peeve... I notice it's surprisingly common for people who are native English-speakers to use 'to' in place of 'too' (to little, to late.), your

Re: Python Beginner

2013-11-16 Thread William Ray Wing
On Nov 16, 2013, at 5:25 PM, ngangsia akumbo ngang...@gmail.com wrote: I am called Richard m from western Africa, Cameroon. It was a pleasure for me to join this group. I have been learning python for about 4 months now and i have already mastered alot as far as the language is concern.

Re: understanding someone else's program

2013-11-15 Thread William Ray Wing
On Nov 15, 2013, at 6:05 AM, C. Ng ngc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Please suggest how I can understand someone else's program where - documentation is sparse - in function A, there will be calls to function B, C, D and in those functions will be calls to functions R,S,T and so on

Re: python 3.3 repr

2013-11-15 Thread William Ray Wing
On Nov 15, 2013, at 10:18 AM, Robin Becker ro...@reportlab.com wrote: On 15/11/2013 15:07, Joel Goldstick wrote: Cool, someone here is older than me! I came in with the 8080, and I remember split octal, but sixes are something I missed out on. The pdp 10/15 had 18 bit

Re: To whoever hacked into my Database

2013-11-13 Thread William Ray Wing
On Nov 13, 2013, at 1:27 PM, superchromix mark...@gmail.com wrote: hi all, I've been thinking about learning Python for scientific programming.. but all of these flame war type posts make the user community look pretty lame. How did all of these nice packages get written when most of

Re: datetime question

2013-11-12 Thread William Ray Wing
On Nov 12, 2013, at 10:57 AM, Ferrous Cranus nikos.gr...@gmail.com wrote: Στις 12/11/2013 5:54 μμ, ο/η Tim Chase έγραψε: On 2013-11-12 17:24, Ferrous Cranus wrote: But what of the server was in California and i live in Greece? How would datetime.now() work then? Best practices say to

Re: using print() with multiprocessing and pythonw

2013-11-12 Thread William Ray Wing
On Nov 12, 2013, at 2:12 PM, Isaac Gerg isaac.g...@gergltd.com wrote: I launch my program with pythonw and begin it with the code below so that all my print()'s go to the log file specified. if sys.executable.find('pythonw') =0: # Redirect all console output to file.

Re: i want to know about python language

2013-11-07 Thread William Ray Wing
On Nov 7, 2013, at 1:51 AM, Kewl p kewlp...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, November 7, 2013 8:48:26 AM UTC+5:30, Kewl p wrote: h can i get link of a ide in which python can run,,...?? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list There are actually almost too many. Googling

Re: how to load test a web app?

2013-11-06 Thread William Ray Wing
On Nov 6, 2013, at 1:25 PM, Skip Montanaro s...@pobox.com wrote: Have a look at selenium and sauce labs: http://www.seleniumhq.org/ https://saucelabs.com/ Maybe we should pass that information along to Kathleen Sebelius. :-) Skip Definitely! Anyone seen the cover of this week's issue

Re: multiprocessing: child process race to answer

2013-11-02 Thread William Ray Wing
On Nov 2, 2013, at 1:03 AM, smhall05 smhal...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, November 1, 2013 10:52:40 PM UTC-4, MRAB wrote: On 02/11/2013 02:35, smhall05 wrote: I am using a basic multiprocessing snippet I found: #- from multiprocessing

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