Re: How to build Python 2.6.2 on HP-UX Itanium with thread support?

2009-05-13 Thread ajaksu
henning.vonbar wrote: Traceback (most recent call last):   File stdin, line 1, in module   File /usr/local/lib/python2.6/threading.py, line 952, in _test     t.start()   File /usr/local/lib/python2.6/threading.py, line 471, in start     _start_new_thread(self.__bootstrap, ()) thread.error:

Re: best way to compare contents of 2 lists?

2009-04-27 Thread ajaksu
On Apr 24, 4:41 pm, norseman norse...@hughes.net wrote: (How do I) ...explain these? [...] I can get the sashimi and take it home and BBQ it, I can roast it, I can steam it, I can wok it,..., but the other is what it is. (greasy) Besides, who says I like your cooking?  :) Err...

Re: Presentation software for Python code

2009-04-24 Thread ajaksu
alex23 wrote: Michael Hoffman wrote: That looks like it would be perfect. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work on my Windows laptop: I don't understand this. OpenGL Extensions Viewer says I have OpenGL 1.5 and the glGenBuffers function. That's a shame, if you feel like pursuing it you

Re: Cannot register to submit a bug report

2009-03-29 Thread ajaksu
John Posner wrote: I've tried twice to register myself at bugs.python.org. But the confirmation email message never arrives. (Yes, I checked my spam folder.) What do I do now? We can try to debug this :) E-mail message checked by Spyware Doctor (6.0.0.386) Database version:

Re: complaints about no replies last week

2009-03-28 Thread ajaksu
Hi! Aaron Brady wrote: A week ago, I posted a question and an idea about Python's garbage collector.  I got a few replies. Some very nice, too :)  Some days later, I posted a mock-up implementation of it, and got *NO* replies.  Does this mean: It's not particularly clear to me what your

Re: complaints about no replies last week

2009-03-28 Thread ajaksu
Aaron Brady wrote: Hi, c) It's not particularly applicable to Python at that point (particularly) BTW, here's some interesting read: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2006-September/003855.html http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2007-May/007129.html

Re: Does Python have certificate?

2009-03-24 Thread ajaksu
Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: I like the idea, but I would suggest that the award be limited to the first 100 participants and that the title be: Very Important Python Early Responder I'd pay good money for that if the 'I' could be customized to stand for Ignorant :) Daniel --

Re: Byte type?

2009-03-12 Thread ajaksu
On Feb 15, 3:10 am, John Nagle na...@animats.com wrote: With bytearray, the element type is considered to be unsigned byte, or so says PEP 3137: The element data type is always 'B' (i.e. unsigned byte). Let's try: Python 2.6.1 (r261:67517, Dec 4 2008, 16:51:00) [MSC v.1500 32 bit

Re: Byte type?

2009-03-12 Thread ajaksu
On Feb 24, 1:21 am, John Nagle na...@animats.com wrote:      According to PEP 3137, there should be no distinction between the two for read purposes.  In 2.6, there is.  That's a bug. No, it's not. It's well documented: http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/2.6.html#pep-3112-byte-literals If that's

Re: Python AppStore / Marketplace

2009-02-24 Thread ajaksu
Steve Holden wrote: And the multiplatform client that should easily and elegantly allow app browsing, downloading and installing those apps would presumably have to account for the many differences in package formats and install requirements between the different platforms. And then you'd

Re: Where to host a (Python) project?

2009-01-31 Thread ajaksu
On Jan 31, 1:03 pm, andrew cooke and...@acooke.org wrote: On Jan 31, 11:22 am, eliben eli...@gmail.com wrote: code.google.com provides all of these in a free and convenient manner. Recommended. unfortunately google don't seem that reliable ;o)  (have you tried a google search today?) You

Re: nth root

2009-01-31 Thread ajaksu
On Jan 31, 12:03 pm, Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com wrote: [...] t1 = timeit.Timer(x = n**power, n = 4021503534212915433093809093996098953996019232; power = 1./13) t2 = timeit.Timer(x = n**power, n = 4021503534212915433093809093996098953996019232.; power = 1./13) And by using a float

Re: List comprehension - NameError: name '_[1]' is not defined ?

2009-01-16 Thread ajaksu
On Jan 16, 5:09 am, mario ruggier mario.rugg...@gmail.com wrote: Laboriously doing all these checks on each expr eval will be very performance heavy, so I hope to be able to limit access to all these more efficiently. Suggestions? None regarding the general issue, a try:except to handle this

Re: List comprehension - NameError: name '_[1]' is not defined ?

2009-01-16 Thread ajaksu
On Jan 16, 3:45 pm, mario ruggier mario.rugg...@gmail.com wrote: '(x for x in ()).throw(bork)' What is the potential security risk with this one? I don't see a concrete issue, just found it tempting... raising hand- crafted objects :) All the above attempts will be blocked this way. Any

Re: List comprehension - NameError: name '_[1]' is not defined ?

2009-01-15 Thread ajaksu
On Jan 15, 1:56 pm, mario ruggier mario.rugg...@gmail.com wrote: As I mentioned in another thread, the real application behind all this is one of the *few* secure templating systems around. Some info on its security is at:http://evoque.gizmojo.org/usage/restricted/ Tell you what, if you find

Re: List comprehension - NameError: name '_[1]' is not defined ?

2009-01-15 Thread ajaksu
On Jan 15, 8:21 pm, mario ruggier mario.rugg...@gmail.com wrote: OK! Here's a small script to make it easier... Thanks! I think I found a quick way around the restrictions (correct me if I borked it), but I think you can block this example by resetting your globals/builtins: exprs = [ '(x

Re: urllib2 - 403 that _should_ not occur.

2009-01-14 Thread ajaksu
On Jan 14, 5:14 am, Steve Holden st...@holdenweb.com wrote: ajaksu wrote: [snip evangelism stuff] OK, but be aware that the PSF doesn't monitor the bugs looking for actions to take on behalf of the Python user community. In fact we aren't overtly political in this way at all. This doesn't

Re: urllib2 - 403 that _should_ not occur.

2009-01-13 Thread ajaksu
On Jan 13, 1:33 am, Philip Semanchuk phi...@semanchuk.com wrote: I don't think I understand you clearly. Whether or not Google et al   whitelist the Python UA isn't a Python issue, is it? Hi, sorry for taking so long to reply :) I imagine it's something akin to Firefox's 'Report broken

Re: urllib2 - 403 that _should_ not occur.

2009-01-12 Thread ajaksu
On Jan 11, 11:59 pm, James Mills prolo...@shortcircuit.net.au wrote: Hey all, The following fails for me: from urllib2 import urlopen f = urlopen(http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-announce/feed/rss_v2_0_msgs.xml;) Traceback (most recent call last): [...] Any helpful ideas ?

Re: Testing if an index is in a slice

2009-01-03 Thread ajaksu
On Jan 3, 8:53 pm, Bryan Olson fakeaddr...@nowhere.org wrote: If we add a parameter for the length of the list to which the slice is applied, then inslice() is well-defined. Cool! I thought it would easy to write, Heh, I gave up on the example I mentioned above :) but that was hours ago

Re: Testing if an index is in a slice

2009-01-01 Thread ajaksu
On Jan 1, 4:12 pm, mma...@gmx.net wrote: I would like to check if an index is in a slice or not without iterating over the slice. Something like: isinslice(36, slice(None, 34, -1)) True I think it'd be feasible for slices that can be mapped to ranges[1], but slices are more flexible than

Re: New Python 3.0 string formatting - really necessary?

2008-12-29 Thread ajaksu
On Dec 29, 7:37 pm, Luis M. González luis...@gmail.com wrote: I still can't get used to add the parenthesis to print, and this is the only thing I don't like, but I'm sure there's a good reason for this change... I should know better than to post such an awful hack: __past__.py: from sys

Re: python web programming for PHP programmers

2008-12-24 Thread ajaksu
On Dec 24, 12:40 pm, Nikola Skoric nick-n...@net4u.hr wrote: I0m a python newbie with PHP background. I've tried to make a web app from one of my python scripts (which I haven't done before) and I ended up with: ?php echo shell_exec(python foobar.py); ? which works really nice :-D Clever

Re: no sign() function ?

2008-12-24 Thread ajaksu
On Dec 24, 5:59 am, pdora...@pas-de-pub-merci.mac.com (Pierre-Alain Dorange) wrote: For me sign_0 is the simplest one to understood. So in the domain of my little arcade game, this is what i'll use. I don't need the accuraccy of sign_1, because in the application i just need to know if the

Re: Easy-to-use Python GUI

2008-12-24 Thread ajaksu
On Dec 24, 9:47 pm, Joel Koltner zapwiredashgro...@yahoo.com wrote:  Dim dlg As UserDialog  dlg.genDrill = 1  ReDim DrillStyle(1)  DrillStyle(0) = All Via Layers In One File  DrillStyle(1) = One File Per Via Layer  dlg.drillStyle = 1  func=Dialog(dlg) --- This is pretty darned easy

Re: no sign() function ?

2008-12-23 Thread ajaksu
On Dec 22, 9:18 am, Christian Heimes li...@cheimes.de wrote: Sure? :) Are you aware that the IEEE 754 standard makes a difference between the floats +0.0 and -0.0? from math import atan2 def sign(x):     if x 0 or (x == 0 and atan2(x, -1.) 0.):         return 1     else:         return

Re: python3 urlopen(...).read() returns bytes

2008-12-23 Thread ajaksu
On Dec 23, 12:51 pm, Christian Heimes li...@cheimes.de wrote: If you want to do it right ... It should be a clean patch against the py3k svn branch Done including documentation This thread is a good start :) and a unit test. Doing this now. Daniel --

Re: python3 urlopen(...).read() returns bytes

2008-12-23 Thread ajaksu
On Dec 23, 12:51 pm, Christian Heimes li...@cheimes.de wrote: If you want to do it right ... It should be a clean patch against the py3k svn branch including documentation and a unit test. Got all three at http://bugs.python.org/issue4733 . Probably got all three wrong too, so any feedback is

Re: no sign() function ?

2008-12-23 Thread ajaksu
On Dec 23, 2:45 pm, Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com wrote: On Dec 23, 4:27 pm, ajaksu aja...@gmail.com wrote: Is x ** 0 0. instead of atan2(x, -1.) 0. unreliable across platforms? x**0 doesn't distinguish between x = -0.0 and x = 0.0. I suspect you're confusing -0.0**0.0 with (-0.0

Re: Python's popularity

2008-12-22 Thread ajaksu
On Dec 22, 4:44 pm, r rt8...@gmail.com wrote: Oh Steve... Listen, my words are ment as a wake-up-call to all who r, can you do me a favor? Go read the archives of this newsgroup for a month or two, then come back with some perspective. I hope that will make your posts a little less nonsensical

Re: I always wonder ...

2008-12-22 Thread ajaksu
On Dec 22, 3:53 pm, s...@pobox.com wrote: ... shouldn't people who spend all their time trolling be doing something else: studying, working, writing patches which solve the problems they perceive to exist in the troll subject?   Sure. So should I. Hmm. Shutting-up-and-back-to-work-ly y'rs,

Re: python3 urlopen(...).read() returns bytes

2008-12-22 Thread ajaksu
On Dec 22, 8:25 pm, Christian Heimes li...@cheimes.de wrote: It's not possible unless you know the encoding of the bytes. Network io only returns byte and you must encode it explicitly. [...] There is no generic and simple way to detect the encoding of a remote site. Sometimes the encoding is

Re: I always wonder ...

2008-12-22 Thread ajaksu
On Dec 22, 9:24 pm, r rt8...@gmail.com wrote: You know what i hate more than a troll, a spineless jellyfish who goes around rating peoples post with one star. You are the lowest form of life. You are the same type of person who would key someones car in the parking lot. You do not have the

Re: python3 urlopen(...).read() returns bytes

2008-12-22 Thread ajaksu
On Dec 22, 9:05 pm, Christian Heimes li...@cheimes.de wrote: ajaksu schrieb: That said, a decode to declared HTTP header encoding version of urlopen could be useful to give some users the output they want (text from network io) or to make it clear why bytes is the safe way. Yeah, your

Re: StringIO in 2.6 and beyond

2008-12-09 Thread ajaksu
On Dec 9, 5:24 pm, Bill McClain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-12-09, MRAB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In Python 2.x unmarked string literals are bytestrings. In Python 3.x they're Unicode. The intention is to make the transition from 2.x to 3.x easier by adding some features of 3.x to 2.x,

Re: HELP!...Google SketchUp needs a Python API

2008-12-01 Thread ajaksu
r, you could just calm down, stop your trolling and wait to see if more people like greg are able to see a good idea behind your awful delivery. Seriously, you're talking nonsense to people that have actively promoted, taught, developed with and helped develop Python for years. You're mistaking

Re: MESSAGE RESPONSE

2008-04-25 Thread ajaksu
On Apr 23, 1:27 pm, Dan Upton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Diez B. Roggisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Blubaugh, David A. schrieb: Is there a way to block these messages.   I do not want to be caught with filth such as this material.  I could lose my job with

Re: Any reliable obfurscator for Python 2.5

2008-04-20 Thread ajaksu
On Apr 20, 3:31 pm, Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JB My first post on c.l.py Stern wrote: Curious Steve, how do you pay the rent and by what authority do you speak for The Python world? [snip] I don't claim to speak *for* the whole Python world, but as chairman of the Python

Re: What can we do about all the spam that the list is getting?

2008-04-18 Thread ajaksu
On 16 abr, 14:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What can we do about all the spam that comp.lang.python is getting? Things are getting pretty bad. I'm reporting most spam, but I don't have high hopes Google cares. We could start a new group (non-usenet Google Groups allow message removal), but I

Re: py3k s***s

2008-04-15 Thread ajaksu
On Apr 14, 11:07 pm, Sverker Nilsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What serious reports? You almost had me collecting a list of reports/references. Almost :) Google and you'll find them. Regards, Daniel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: py3k s***s

2008-04-14 Thread ajaksu
On Apr 14, 8:10 pm, Sverker Nilsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: do i dare to open  a thread about this? Yeah, you sure do! come on you braver men Yeah! we are at least not bought by g***le Hell no! but why? others have said it so many times i think Huh?! :- ?! Whatever! but why? a few

Re: Python in High School

2008-04-03 Thread ajaksu
On Apr 2, 5:01 pm, John Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, once I start teaching him variables, expressions, loops, and what not, I found that (by surprise) he had great difficulties catching on.  Not soon after that, we had to quit. This makes me curious: how much of videogamer are you?

Re: displaying execution of Python code

2008-04-03 Thread ajaksu
On Apr 3, 6:13 pm, noahwatkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll start my question by describing my desired result. I will construct a GUI which will be used to open a Python script. I would then like to be able to display the Python script, execute it, and highlight the lines of the Python as

Re: Python-by-example - new online guide to Python Standard Library

2008-04-02 Thread ajaksu
On Apr 1, 10:15 pm, AK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Hiya I find that I learn easier when I go from specific examples to a more general explanation of function's utility and I made a reference guide that will eventually document all functions, classes and methods in Python's Standard

Re: Recursive function won't compile

2008-04-02 Thread ajaksu
On Apr 2, 5:23 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #include stdio.h #include stdlib.h def RecursiveFact(n):     if(n1):         return n*RecursiveFact(n-1)     else:         return 1 fact = RecursiveFact(31) print fact The output is 822283865417792281772556288000 and is correct. But the

[issue2506] Line tracing of continue after always-taken if is incorrect

2008-03-29 Thread ajaksu
Changes by ajaksu [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -- nosy: +ajaksu2 __ Tracker [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bugs.python.org/issue2506 __ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http

Re: A question about a metacharacter

2008-03-20 Thread ajaksu
On Mar 20, 8:19 am, igbt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, if you don't enter anything the script works but if you enter a dot (.) the script does not work. Have you tried it with other non-metacharacter values? sss = entryName.get_text()      # The script gets the text         if sss == or

[issue1492] BaseHTTPServer hard-codes Content-Type for error messages

2008-02-23 Thread ajaksu
ajaksu added the comment: Here's my attempted patch against trunk. The doc is poor (but what else should it contain?) and the attribute name could be better. I'm worried about lack of testing for this change as the module has virtually no tests. Should we start adding naive (regarding

[issue1597000] Use \r\n, not \n for HTTP headers

2008-02-23 Thread ajaksu
ajaksu added the comment: he specific issue mentioned might arise from UAs interpreting the snippet as a header, but the whole thing is so oblivious to standards that it doesn't matter: def reset(): Return a string that resets the CGI and browser to a known state. return '''!--: spam

[issue2169] Adding DOCTYPE and html, body tags to SimpleHTTPServer

2008-02-23 Thread ajaksu
New submission from ajaksu: This small patch adds a HTML 3.2 doctype, a html and a body tags. Should work on py3k. This patch only accomplishes a Tentatively Valid HTML 3.2 result. Adding information on encoding would make that more conclusive, but IMHO wrong too. -- components

[issue1207466] installer ignores changed installation directory

2008-02-23 Thread ajaksu
ajaksu added the comment: If the fix was applied, this should be closed. If not, seems pretty easy to do (worst case: add as Known Issue, Won't Fix). -- nosy: +ajaksu2 _ Tracker [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bugs.python.org/issue1207466

[issue2138] Factorial

2008-02-22 Thread ajaksu
ajaksu added the comment: Would it be implemented in C? How about using Luschny's Prime Swing (http://www.luschny.de/math/factorial/FastFactorialFunctions.htm and http://www.luschny.de/math/factorial/Benchmark.html )? -- nosy: +ajaksu2 __ Tracker [EMAIL

[issue2124] xml.sax and xml.dom fetch DTDs by default

2008-02-17 Thread ajaksu
ajaksu added the comment: Martin, I agree that simply not resolving DTDs is an unreasonable request (and said so in the blog post). But IMHO there are lots of possible optimizations, and the most valuable would be those darn easy for newcomers to understand and use. In Python, a winning combo

Re: Dear David (was: MyHDL project)

2008-02-07 Thread ajaksu
On Feb 7, 4:48 pm, Blubaugh, David A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sir, Is there still a possibility to collaborate??? David Blubaugh Dear David A. Blubaugh, Could you please make it a little less painful to read your messages? You're giving a bad name to Belcan, too. Daniel --

Re: print 'hello' - SyntaxError: invalid syntax

2008-02-07 Thread ajaksu
On Feb 7, 12:52 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I try to install Python in a Dell D620 with XP PRO version 5.1.2600 and I am getting this error. I assume that some dlls are missing but I installed form a fresh python-2.5.1.msi without errors msg. Thanks Roberto What is the install path? And

Re: Dear David (was: MyHDL project)

2008-02-07 Thread ajaksu
On Feb 7, 10:05 pm, Blubaugh, David A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not understand why people such as yourself cannot construct anything but insults and complaints. I can help with that. People asked politely a few days ago. Didn't you see it? It happens because you're not following basic

Re: Why the HELL has nobody answered my question !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2008-01-30 Thread ajaksu
On Jan 30, 10:40 pm, Blubaugh, David A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not understand why no one has answered the following question: Has anybody worked with Gene Expression Programming David Blubaugh I see. You don't understand. That's a fact. I'm sure there are free online resources

Re: translating Python to Assembler

2008-01-27 Thread ajaksu
This message got huge :/ Sorry for being so cryptic and unhelpful. I now believe that you're incurring in a (quite deep) misunderstanding and wish to make things clear for both of us :) On Jan 27, 6:58 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:44:07 -0800 (PST), ajaksu [EMAIL

Re: optional static typing for Python

2008-01-27 Thread ajaksu
On Jan 27, 9:13 pm, Russ P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 27, 3:08 pm, Jarek Zgoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Russ P. pisze: I noticed that Guido has expressed further interest in static typing three or four years ago on his blog. Does anyone know the current status of this project?

Re: Python Standardization: Wikipedia entry

2008-01-27 Thread ajaksu
On Jan 27, 10:32 pm, Paddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would value the opinion of fellow Pythoneers who have also contributed to Wikipedia, on the issue of Is Python Standardized. Specifically in the context of this table:

Re: translating Python to Assembler

2008-01-25 Thread ajaksu
On Jan 25, 11:10 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once a python py file is compiled into a pyc file, I can disassemble it into assembler. Assembler is nothing but codes, which are combinations of 1's and 0's. You can't read a pyc file in a hex editor, but you can read it in a disassembler. It

Re: translating Python to Assembler

2008-01-25 Thread ajaksu
On Jan 25, 11:36 pm, ajaksu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 25, 11:10 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Gaah, is this what's going on? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat error.txt This is not assembler... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ndisasm error.txt 54push sp 0001 686973

Re: Python 3000 and import __hello__

2008-01-19 Thread ajaksu
On Jan 19, 7:54 pm, Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just playing around with Python3000 a2 release on Windows XP 32-bit x86. import __hello__ doesn't print 'hello world...' as it does on 2.5 Thanks for spoiling this easter egg for me! ;) --

Re: TIOBE declares Python as programming language of 2007!

2008-01-07 Thread ajaksu
On Jan 7, 9:53 am, Berco Beute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cool! We knew it would happen one day :) What could be the reason? Python 3? Jython 2.2? Java's loss of sexiness? What I would like to know is what it was that boosted Python's popularity in 2004

Re: I'm searching for Python style guidelines

2008-01-07 Thread ajaksu
On Jan 7, 11:25 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's a lot of dumb stuff out there. Algorithms should be coded efficiently ... Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. van Rossum's guidelines tend toward pick something and stick to it which is OK if you have enough experience to pick something

Re: fastest method to choose a random element

2008-01-06 Thread ajaksu
On Jan 5, 11:36 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This one is good. Someone commented that you destroy the list, but that can be fixed: def pick_random(seq, prop): L = len(seq) for i in xrange(L): r = random.randrange(L - i) if prop(seq[r]): return

Re: fastest method to choose a random element

2008-01-05 Thread ajaksu
Hi there :) On Jan 5, 2:14 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 5, 5:07 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Paul and Arnaud. While I think about your answers: do you think there is any way to avoid shuffle? It may take unnecessary long on a long list most of whose elements have the

Re: fastest method to choose a random element

2008-01-05 Thread ajaksu
OTOH, if you do know that the chances are high enough, you can try choosing items randomly without substitution (adapted from random.py's sample): Sorry, this works: def randpickuntil(lst, prop=bool): selected = set() n = len(lst) for i in xrange(n): j = int(random() * n)

Re: interactive mode in python with ctypes???

2007-12-27 Thread ajaksu
You should get it to work with this loop (from run()): while libbuf != quit: lib.libCallCommand(libinf,libbuf,0,pointer(result)) print result: ,result.value if libbuf == Exit: break libbuf = raw_input(lib) --

[issue1772851] Decimal and long hash, compatibly and efficiently

2007-09-12 Thread ajaksu
ajaksu added the comment: IMHO this patch should be considered for (at least) py3k, in which long becomes the new int. As there is current interest in long/int performance[1] this seems like a good time to raise this kind of issue. Mark, could you please outline the semantic changes

[issue1772851] Decimal and long hash, compatibly and efficiently

2007-09-12 Thread ajaksu
ajaksu added the comment: Thanks a lot for the explanation. I still think it could be valuable (C?)py3k change (but now for the predictability, as you say :) Regarding the performance of Decimal.__hash__: I believe (int) hash performance would be a moot issue if Decimal.__int__ was (much

Re: Speed of Python

2007-09-07 Thread ajaksu
[generating c++ code..] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/sandbox$ make bench.so g++ -O3 -s -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -I/home/ajaksu/shedskin-0.0.22/ lib -g -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.5 -D__SS_BIND /home/ajaksu/ shedskin-0.0.22/lib/builtin.cpp /home/ajaksu/shedskin-0.0.22/lib/ math.cpp bench.cpp -lgc -shared

Re: pyodbc on linux

2007-07-21 Thread ajaksu
On Jul 21, 5:54 pm, Sean Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have read a couple of blogs suggesting that pyodbc is buildable under linux. It is, following these wise words: Aargghh! I see that possibly there was a typo in cursor.cpp at line 1385: Py_UNICODE* pNull = (Py_UNICODE*)wmemchr(pT, 0,

Re: How to override PyGridTableBase.SetColLabelValue()?

2007-07-08 Thread ajaksu
On Jul 9, 12:27 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, the doc is missing, and i failed to find the solution on google search. anyone know how to override the function SetColLabel() inside the class PyGridTableBase or the class GridTableBase? Some docs to back up the old code that follows :)

Re: Job Jar

2006-08-22 Thread ajaksu
Hi there Steve D wrote: (...) Basically, I'd like to create a web-based job jar, that users in my office can access in order to view, and take ownership of, misc. office tasks. I've seen this kind of feature working in Trac [1], but what you really want is task management software. Of the

Re: Compiling wxPython app for Windows; Single EXE

2006-08-17 Thread ajaksu
GHUM wrote: and with py2exe: Changes in 0.6.1: * py2exe can now bundle binary extensions and dlls into the library-archive or the executable itself. This allows to finally build real single-file executables. The bundled dlls and pyds are loaded at runtime by some

Re: OT: p-gal website

2006-08-17 Thread ajaksu
John Bokma wrote: ajaksu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't :) Even Firefox developers will tell you to avoid this. Develop for standards compliant browsers (including Firefox) by testing against the standards. Neither your HTML or CSS pass validation, both due to minor, easy-to-fix issues

Re: wxPython Grid Question

2006-08-17 Thread ajaksu
Jordan wrote: Hey Peoples, I'm wonderg if there is a way to make a subclass of wx.grid.Grid in which the coloumn labels for the grid appear on the bottom of the grid instead of the top. Hi Jordan :) Not quite what you want, but I'm about to try faking labels in a grid. The reason is that I

Re: wxmsw26uh_vc.dll not found when using wxAgg backend

2006-08-17 Thread ajaksu
Hi Sam, Sam wrote: I've installed matplotlib recently because I want to add graphing functionality to a GUI that i'm making. Have you considered wxmpl? I'm leaning towards using it, Painless matplotlib embedding in wxPython sounds good (and it even works). More information and downloads at

Re: Compiling wxPython app for Windows; Single EXE

2006-08-14 Thread ajaksu
Vincent Delporte wrote: - py2exe is still the best tool in town to compile Python scripts to run on a Windows host that doesn't have Python installed, including wxWidgets/wxPython Hi Vincent and c.l.p-ers I'm using PyInstaller (http://pyinstaller.hpcf.upr.edu/) precisely to compile a

Re: p-gal: photo gallery generator with templating support

2006-08-14 Thread ajaksu
Paolo Pantaleo wrote: www.sf.net/projects/ppgal Ciao Paolo! The homepage (http://paolopan.freehostia.com/p-gal/ ) looks weird in my SeaMonkey 1.0.4, contents appear below GoogleAds instead of at the right. Some feedback and a couple of questions at http://tinyurl.com/qgbth (points to

OT: p-gal website

2006-08-14 Thread ajaksu
Sorry for the OT post... Paolo Pantaleo wrote: 14 Aug 2006 10:16:37 -0700, ajaksu [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The homepage (http://paolopan.freehostia.com/p-gal/ ) looks weird in my SeaMonkey 1.0.4, contents appear below GoogleAds instead of at the right. Well... I designed the site for Firefox

Re: Mega Newbie Questions: Probably FAQs

2006-08-14 Thread ajaksu
Zeph wrote: 1) I want to write high-level apps that are db connected, networkable and cross-platform: Linux, Mac OSX, Windows. I know there are apps that can convert to Linux or Windows as stand-alone executables, is there also one that will permit me to convert to MacOSX? Yes, py2app

Re: long(Decimal) performance

2006-08-12 Thread ajaksu
Hi Aahz, thanks for the feedback! Aahz wrote: I'm not sure why it's coded that, but it's somewhat irrelevant: right now, work is being done to convert decimal.py to C code, which will almost certainly be much faster than your code. Generally speaking, you should not be using Decimal now with

Re: matplotlib, wxPanel inside a wxPanel

2006-08-12 Thread ajaksu
Sam wrote: Hello, Hi there Sam :) I'm beginning to think that what i'm trying to do isn't actually possible, and that i'll need to put it in a frame instead, which is a pity. Indeed, if that is the case... as I'll need to do exactly that! But see below ;) On the other hand, when i create

Re: matplotlib, wxPanel inside a wxPanel

2006-08-12 Thread ajaksu
It seems to work (only tested with embedding_in_wx4.py). I guess it's something related to things nesting in a slightly wrong way, right enough to show up but wrong enough to only show up :) I hope this helps. Daniel Substitute embedding_in_wx4.py's CanvasFrame with: class CanvasFrame(wxFrame):

long(Decimal) performance

2006-08-11 Thread ajaksu
... or that my function is silly but could be corrected. Thanks in advance and best regards, Daniel 'ajaksu' Diniz PS: my use case is Stirling's approximation of the factorial for large numbers, feel free to criticize that, too ;) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: long(Decimal) performance

2006-08-11 Thread ajaksu
Sorry... I'm ashamed to submit such awful code in my first post. Let me try again... from decimal import Decimal def dec2long(number): Convert decimal.Decimal to long longstring = str(number) if e in longstring: radix, exponent = longstring.split(e) elif E in