Re: string splitting

2006-10-16 Thread hiaips
= wisconsin_state.txt pieces = myStr.split(.) substr = pieces[0][pieces[0].rfind(_) + 1:] --hiaips -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: OS X and Python - wxPython has forced a rehash of my approach

2006-09-04 Thread hiaips
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Earlier I asked about how people installed Python on OS X, given that one can choose from Xcode, Fink, Darwin, ActiveState and source builds:

Re: OS X and Python - wxPython has forced a rehash of my approach

2006-09-04 Thread hiaips
Kevin Walzer wrote: hiaips wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Earlier I asked about how people installed Python on OS X, given that one can choose from Xcode, Fink, Darwin, ActiveState and source builds: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/5c4cde4206d1fbb7

Re: Newbie Question. Class definitions on the fly.

2006-08-27 Thread hiaips
ishtar2020 wrote: Hi everyone I'm sure this question is kinda stupid and has been answered a few times before... but I need your help! I'm writing a small application where the user can analyze some text based on a set of changing conditions , and right now I'm stuck on a point where I'd

Re: OS X and Python - what is your install strategy?

2006-08-24 Thread hiaips
metaperl wrote: I'm about to get a new OS X box on which I will rewrite a bunch of data munging scripts from Perl to Python. I know that there are several port services for OS X (fink, darwin ports, opendarwin). So I am not sure whether to use their port of Python or whether to build from

Re: Is this a good idea or a waste of time?

2006-08-24 Thread hiaips
asincero wrote: Would it be considered good form to begin every method or function with a bunch of asserts checking to see if the parameters are of the correct type (in addition to seeing if they meet other kinds of precondition constraints)? Like: def foo(a, b, c, d): assert

Re: Python + Java Integration

2006-08-23 Thread hiaips
Java itself never deserved to be the 'next' anything anyway. It was sold on hype and has never lived up to it. I can see your point from a business perspective but I like to think Python is sold on its merits and not on being the new panacea for middle managers to deploy. Bravo. I could not

Re: key not found in dictionary

2006-08-22 Thread hiaips
KraftDiner wrote: I have a dictionary and sometime the lookup fails... it seems to raise an exception when this happens. What should I do to fix/catch this problem? desc = self.numericDict[k][2] KeyError: 589824 This is the error that is being produced, because there is no key

Re: Permission Denied

2006-08-19 Thread hiaips
Tom Strickland wrote: Hopefully this is a simple question. I've started to program in Python after an absence of about a year, so I'm very rusty. I wrote a short program and tried to run it using Python2.4 in Linux. I keep getting permission denied messages after entering the path to the

Re: MySQLdb installation error

2006-08-17 Thread hiaips
What I'm getting at is that it looks like one of these arch flags needs to be removed, as a previous poster said. I remember having a similar issue with an arch flag when installing some Python module (don't remember whether it was MySQLdb or not), and I fixed it by installing the Universal SDK

Re: How to delete a directory tree in FTP

2006-08-16 Thread hiaips
T wrote: I connect to a FTP server which can be either unix or windows server. Once in the FTP session, I would like to delete a directory tree on the server. Is there a command that will do this? If not, can someone point me to a right direction? Thanks! Try using an FTP object from the

Re: How to delete a directory tree in FTP

2006-08-16 Thread hiaips
T wrote: I connect to a FTP server which can be either unix or windows server. Once in the FTP session, I would like to delete a directory tree on the server. Is there a command that will do this? If not, can someone point me to a right direction? Thanks! Oops...just noticed that you

Re: Beginner Textbook

2006-08-15 Thread hiaips
M_M wrote: Michiel Sikma wrote: Introducing 13 year olds to a programming language? You're gonna have a hard time finding good literature for that. Even if you do, it's going to cost a lot of time to guide them. Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional by Magnus Lee Hetland

Re: MySQLdb installation error

2006-08-15 Thread hiaips
Yi Xing wrote: Hi, I met the following error when I tried to install MySQLdb. I had no problem installing numarray, Numeric, Rpy, etc. Does anyone know what's the problem? Thanks! running install running build running build_py creating build creating

Re: Best IDE for Python

2006-08-14 Thread hiaips
I'm assuming that FOS = free open source... In any case, what operating system do you run? If you're on OS X, I highly recommend TextMate. It's not free, but it has good support (either via built-in or third-party plugins) for Python as well as HTML, SQL, XML, Django templates, and the like. A

Re: newb question: file searching

2006-08-08 Thread hiaips
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm new at Python and I need a little advice. Part of the script I'm trying to write needs to be aware of all the files of a certain extension in the script's path and all sub-directories. Can someone set me on the right path to what modules and calls to use to

Re: newb question: file searching

2006-08-08 Thread hiaips
I'm thinking os.walk() could definitely be a big part of my solution, but I need a little for info. If I'm reading this correctly, os.walk() just goes file by file and serves it up for your script to decide what to do with each one. Is that right? So, for each file it found, I'd have to

Re: newb question: file searching

2006-08-08 Thread hiaips
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Dave. That's exactly what I was looking for, well, except for a few small alterations I'll make to achieve the desired effect. I must ask, in the interest of learning, what is [file for file in files if file.endswith(extension)] actually doing? I know

Re: newb question: file searching

2006-08-08 Thread hiaips
Oops, what I wrote above isn't quite correct. As another poster pointed out, you'd want to do for file in x[2]: ... --dave -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Which Python API for PostgreSQL?

2006-08-04 Thread hiaips
I also recommend psycopg. --Dave -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Running queries on large data structure

2006-08-03 Thread hiaips
don't know whether any of this makes sense for your problem, but in any case, good luck. --hiaips -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Running queries on large data structure

2006-08-03 Thread hiaips
Christoph, Well, if you format the data as a Python dictionary and give the data file a .py extension, it becomes a Python module that you can load and reload dynamically. That's sort of what I was thinking. --Dave -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Are there any AOP project in python community?

2006-08-02 Thread hiaips
steve wrote: I mean Aspect-Oriented Programming. If any please give me some of links. Thanks a lot. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect-oriented_programming. There is a list of AOP implementations for a number of languages (including Python) near the bottom of the page. --hiaips -- http

Re: exception handling; python program that interacts with postgresql db

2006-08-02 Thread hiaips
the return value of the psql process that you're launching? Just a thought... --hiaips -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: exception handling; python program that interacts with postgresql db

2006-08-02 Thread hiaips
Another option would be to use the psycopg module to connect to postgres from within your Python code. See http://www.initd.org/projects/psycopg1 for more information. --hiaips -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list