Backend Python Developer need in NYC ASAP!

I have an immediate need for a Backend Python Developer in New York City (SoHo) paying from $70-100/hour. This is an onsite position lasting 3-6 months on a W-2 (no sponsorship, C2C or 1099 is available). Remote work is not an option. What you’ll do: • design, develop, and deploy innovative solu

Obtain Ceritificate Information from Invalid or Self-Signed Certificate in Python

I'm working on a Python 2.7.13 (Win x64) script to verify SSL certificates, and alert for problems. Specifically, I'm looking to return the date the cert expires or did expire. However, I'm running into an issue where the script will return information only if the certificate is valid. If the cert

3.5.2

Im running windows 7 pro, 64 bit. I downloaded 3.5.2 64 bit and when I try to run I get the error message  api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll is missing. I loaded that file and still will not run.   suggestions? thanks -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Newbie: Designer Looking to Build Graphics Editor (PS/AI)

No don't tell me what to do. I joined the military 3 years ago. You wouldn't believe the stuff I wasn't able to do before but now I am. You can keep your advice to yourself. I wasn't asking for something simple. I was asking for a starting point. The 3d was to show you I've learned hard stuff an

Re: Newbie: Designer Looking to Build Graphics Editor (PS/AI)

I tried to use gimp but as a photoshop user it was horrible. I was trying to like it. That is a great idea tearing down gimp. that is how I learn html and css. Breakin down websites. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Newbie: Designer Looking to Build Graphics Editor (PS/AI)

Well 15 years ago when I was 15 I wanted to model cars in 3D. It took me 100 hours and 5-10 years but I can modeling a realistic vehicle and other objects in 3d. It was time consuming and challenging but it was worth it. And honestly I've used my 3d modeling skills to build displays and products

Newbie: Designer Looking to Build Graphics Editor (PS/AI)

I'm a graphic designer. I'm new to Python. I know html, css, alittle actioscript and little javascript. I actually build an iOS using Flash. I understand programming concepts I believe. I'd like to build a Illustrator/Photoshop like program. Why, there are some features that I'd like to persona

Re: pyjamas pyjs.org domain has been hijacked

... i'm reeally really sorry about this, but it suddenly dawned on me that, under UK law, a breach of the UK's data protection act has occurred, and that the people responsible for setting up the hijacked services have committed a criminal offense under UK law. ordinarily, a free software mailing

pyjamas pyjs.org domain has been hijacked

i have an apology to make to the python community. about 3 or 4 months ago a number of the pyjamas users became unhappy that i was sticking to software (libre) principles on the pyjamas project. they saw the long-term policy that i had set, of developing python-based pyjamas-based infrastructure

pyjamas 0.8.1 - help requested for testing to reach stable release

hi folks, got a small favour to ask of the python community - or, more specifically, i feel compelled to alert the python community to "a need" with which you may be able to help: we're due for another release, and it's becoming an increasingly-large task. given the number of examples requiring te

[ANN] Pyjamas-Gitweb 0.1 released

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pyjamas-GitWeb/0.1 Pyjamas-Gitweb is a pure python git repository browser, comprising an independent JSONRPC back-end service written in 130 lines that can be used by any JSONRPC client (a python command-line example is included), and a front-end python (pyjamas) writte

Pyjamas 0.8.1~+alpha1 released

This is the 0.8.1~+alpha1 release of Pyjamas. Pyjamas comprises several projects, one of which is a stand-alone python-to-javascript compiler; other projects include a Graphical Widget Toolkit, such that pyjamas applications can run either in web browsers as pure javascript (with no plugins requir

Re: Refactor/Rewrite Perl code in Python

Steven D'Aprano writes: > On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Shashwat Anand > wrote: > >> How do I start ? >> The idea is to rewrite module by module. >> But how to make sure code doesn't break ? > > By testing it. > > Read up on "test driven development". > > At this point, you have this: > > Per

Re: Functional style programming in python: what will you talk about if you have an hour on this topic?

Anthony Kong writes: > (My post did not appear in the mailing list, so this is my second try. > Apology if it ends up posted twice) > > Hi, all, > > If you have read my previous posts to the group, you probably have some idea > why I asked this question. > > I am giving a few presentations on p

Re: Question about pyjamas inner workings (pyjd's version of imputil.py)

[i'm bcc'ing this to python-list because it's something that is generic to python, not pyjamas] On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Alexander Tsepkov wrote: > I'm working on a python-based side project where I want to be able to > generate multiple variations of the program and I really like the way

pythonwebkit-gtk, pythonwebkit-dfb

in preparation for a 0.8 release of pyjamas, a bit of work has been done on pythonwebkit (http://www.gnu.org/software/pythonwebkit) that makes it easier to compile and install. pythonwebkit provides full and complete (see caveats below!) bindings to web browser functionality... in python. what yo

Re: [ann] pyjamas 0.8alpha1 release

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > after a long delay the pyjamas project - http://pyjs.org - has begun the > 0.8 series of releases, beginning with alpha1: > > https://sourceforge.net/projects/pyjamas/files/pyjamas/0.8/ > > pyjamas is a

[ann] pyjamas 0.8alpha1 release

after a long delay the pyjamas project - http://pyjs.org - has begun the 0.8 series of releases, beginning with alpha1: https://sourceforge.net/projects/pyjamas/files/pyjamas/0.8/ pyjamas is a suite of projects, including a python-to-javascript compiler with two modes of operation (roughly classi

[ANN] PythonWebkit bindings for WebkitDFB

WebkitDFB is an experimental port to allow the webkit web browser engine to use DirectFB (http://directfb.org). It is lightning-quick to start up (no large widget set to load), yet has the potential to provide full HTML5 functionality. The PythonWebkit project, http://www.gnu.org/software/pythonw

Re: web and standalone access

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 6:15 PM, S.Selvam wrote: > I have a case where my application needs to run as a standalone application > and also allow web based access. > What could the best python framework to implement it. well, the total number of options available is about err... one, possibly two.

[ANN] pywebkit - python bindings for webkit DOM (alpha)

i've been kindly sponsored by http://www.samurai.com.br to create direct python bindings to webkit's DOM: http://www.gnu.org/software/pythonwebkit/ the significance of this project is that it makes python a peer of javascript when it comes to manipulating HTML through DOM functions (including gain

Re: cPickle segfault with nested dicts in threaded env

t; reasons that no exploit is possible.  So the bug should be reported > against 2.5 as well as later versions. Hi Paul, Thanks for the input, it sounds reasonable to me. I reported it & the maintainers can decide what to do with it: http://bugs.python.org/issue9812 Thanks again everyone

cPickle segfault with nested dicts in threaded env

hreading.Thread(target=threadloop) > t.start() > Any thoughts will be appreciated, thanks for looking, Kenneth -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

[ANN] git peer-to-peer bittorrent experiment: first milestone reached

http://gitorious.org/python-libbittorrent/pybtlib this is to let people know that a first milestone has been reached in an experiment to combine git with a file-sharing protocol, thus making it possible to use git for truly distributed software development and other file-revision-management operat

Re: math symbols in unicode (grouped by purpose)

On 8/13/2010 5:18 PM, Xah Lee wrote: some collection of math symbols in unicode. • Math Symbols in Unicode http://xahlee.org/comp/unicode_math_operators.html I am surprised you do not include the numeric character codes. kt • Arrows in Unicode http://xahlee.org/comp/unicode_arrows.ht

Re: python interview quuestions

James Mills writes: > On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 4:32 AM, Tim Chase > wrote: >>> I would like to aquint myself with Python Interview questions >> >> This came up a while ago: >> >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg168961.html >> >> Most of that thread is still relevant (perhaps

HL7 v3 (XML) importer

an HL7 v2 importer was written by john paulett, and it has been enhanced to support some of the HL7 v3 standard, which is XML-based. no dependencies are required: xml.sax is used so as to reduce the dependencies to purely python. additionally, as HL7 has versions/revisions, published data specific

Re: Fascinating interview by Richard Stallman at KTH on emacs history and internals

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: In message , Nick Keighley wrote: On 16 July, 09:24, Mark Tarver wrote: On 15 July, 23:21, bolega wrote: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/stallman-kth.html RMS lecture at KTH (Sweden), 30 October 1986 did you really have to post all of this... read more »...

Re: death of newsgroups (Microsoft closing their newsgroups)

Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:24:12 -0400, Kenneth Tilton wrote: The moral? If you look for the spam, you'll find it. And if you *don't* look for spam, you can be sure that some goose will reply to it and get it past your filters. Thanks for that Kenneth, i

Re: death of newsgroups (Microsoft closing their newsgroups)

Xah Lee wrote: • Death of Newsgroups http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ2/death_of_newsgroups.html plain text version follows. -- Death of Newsgroups Xah Lee, 2010-07-13 Microsoft is closing down their newsgroups. See: microsoft.public.win

Re: multitask http server (single-process multi-connection HTTP server)

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 1:30 AM, Tim Wintle wrote: > On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 23:28 +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 10:13 PM, geremy condra wrote: >> > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 4:59 PM, lkcl wrote: >> >> there probably exist perf

Re: multitask http server (single-process multi-connection HTTP server)

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 10:13 PM, geremy condra wrote: > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 4:59 PM, lkcl wrote: >> for several reasons, i'm doing a cooperative multi-tasking HTTP >> server: >>  git clone git://pyjs.org/git/multitaskhttpd.git >> >> there probably exist perfectly good web frameworks that are

grailbrowser now running under python 2.5 (probably above too)

source at: http://github.com/lkcl/grailbrowser $ python grail.py (note the lack of "python1.5" or "python2.4") conversion of the 80 or so regex's to re has been carried out. entirely successfully or not is a matter yet to be determined. always a hoot to try browsing http://www.bbc.co.uk or http:

[ANN] git JSONRPC web service and matching pyjamas front-end

as more than just a proof-of-concept but to get pyjamas out of looking like "a nice toy, doesn't do much, great demos, shame about real life", i've created yet another git repository browser. this one, thanks to pyjamas, obviously runs as both a desktop application and also as a web application -

Re: List of lists surprising behaviour

candide writes: > Let's the following code : > t=[[0]*2]*3 t > [[0, 0], [0, 0], [0, 0]] t[0][0]=1 t > [[1, 0], [1, 0], [1, 0]] > > Rather surprising, isn't it ? Not at all, actually. I'd be surprised if the multiplication operator was aware of object constructors. Even arr

Re: Which is the best implementation of LISP family of languages for real world programming ?

bolega wrote: Which is the best implementation of LISP family of languages for real world programming ? http://wiki.alu.org/Implementation Kindly pick one from commercial and one from open-source . ACL and SBCL The criteria is : libraries, gui interface and builder, libraries for TCP, and

[ANN] pyjamas 0.7 released

pyjamas - the stand-alone python-to-javascript compiler, and separate GUI Widget Toolkit, has its 0.7 release, today. this has been much delayed, in order to allow the community plenty of time between the 0.7pre2 release and the final release, to review and test all the examples. pyjamas allows d

Re: Can someone please make it more pythonic or better?

Oltmans writes: > Greetings Python superstars, > > I've a directory structure like following > > tests / > __init__.py > testfile.py > > testfile.py contains following code > > import unittest > > class Calculator(unittest.TestCase): > def test_add(self): > print 'just add

Re: Overcoming python performance penalty for multicore CPU

Paul Rubin writes: > Stefan Behnel writes: >> Well, if multi-core performance is so important here, then there's a pretty >> simple thing the OP can do: switch to lxml. >> >> http://blog.ianbicking.org/2008/03/30/python-html-parser-performance/ > > Well, lxml is uses libxml2, a fast XML parser w

Re: Object Relational Mappers are evil (a meditation)

Steven D'Aprano writes: > On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:55:19 -0500, J Kenneth King wrote: > >> Steven D'Aprano writes: >> >>> On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:44:29 -0500, J Kenneth King wrote: >>> >>>> A programmer that >>>> lacks cri

Re: Object Relational Mappers are evil (a meditation)

Steven D'Aprano writes: > On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:44:29 -0500, J Kenneth King wrote: > >> A programmer that >> lacks critical thinking is a bad programmer. The language they use has >> no bearing on such human facilities. > > That's nonsense, and I can

Re: Object Relational Mappers are evil (a meditation)

Lie Ryan writes: > On 12/17/2009 3:17 PM, J Kenneth King wrote: >> A language is a thing. It may have syntax and semantics that bias it >> towards the conventions and philosophies of its designers. But in the >> end, a language by itself would have a hard time convincin

Re: Object Relational Mappers are evil (a meditation)

Neil Cerutti writes: > On 2009-12-16, J Kenneth King wrote: >> The language doesn't encourage anything. It's just a medium >> like oil paints and canvas. A painting can be good or bad >> despite the medium it is constructed on. The skill of the >> pai

Re: Object Relational Mappers are evil (a meditation)

r0g writes: > J Kenneth King wrote: >> Steven D'Aprano writes: >> >>> On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:20:21 -0500, Steve Holden wrote: >>> > > >>>> Hear, hear! >>> That's all very well, but some languages and techniques encourage th

Re: Object Relational Mappers are evil (a meditation)

Steven D'Aprano writes: > On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:20:21 -0500, Steve Holden wrote: > >> Simon Forman wrote: >> [...] >>> As far as the OP rant goes, my $0.02: bad programmers will write bad >>> code in any language, with any tool or system or environment they're >>> given. If you want to avoid b

Re: Perl to Python conversion

[email protected] (Martin Schöön) writes: > First off: I am new here and this is my first post after > lurking for quite some time. Hi. > Second off: I don't know much Python---yet. It's not a very big language. If you have experience programming in other languages, you can probably pick

Re: Question about 'remote objects'

"Frank Millman" writes: > Hi all > > I am writing a multi-user business/accounting application. It is getting > rather complex and I am looking at how to, not exactly simplify it, but find > a way to manage the complexity. > > I have realised that it is logically made up of a number of services

Re: How decoupled are the Python frameworks?

shocks writes: > Hi > > I'm getting back into Python after a long break. I've been developing > large enterprise apps solely with Adobe Flex (ActionScript) for the > past couple years. During that time I've used a number of 'MVC' > frameworks to glue the bits together - among them Cairngorm, a

Re: Go versus Brand X

[email protected] (Aahz) writes: > Comparing Go to another computer language -- do you recognize it? > > http://www.cowlark.com/2009-11-15-go/ If you skip to the conclusion, you'll be better off. The author has an interesting point. Go (the language) is not really ground-breaking. I don't u

Re: Python Programming Challenges for beginners?

astral orange <[email protected]> writes: > Hi- > > I am reading the online tutorial along with a book I bought on Python. > I would like to test out what I know so far by solving programming > challenges. Similar to what O'Reilly Learning Perl has. I really > enjoyed the challenges at the end of

Re: Perl conversion to python...

Benjamin Schollnick writes: > Folks, > > I'm having some issues here with pyserial & trying to translate a perl > script to python... It's probably my inexperience with PySerial & > perl that is troubling me... > > Can anyone assist? > > I'm concerned, since I can't seem to receive the data in a

Re: Python/HTML integration: phileas v0.3 released

papa hippo writes: > On 20 nov, 09:02, Stefan Behnel wrote: >> papa hippo, 19.11.2009 19:53: >> >> > The prime goal of 'phileas' is to enable html code to be seamlessly >> > included in python code in a natural looking syntax, without resorting >> > to templatng language. >> >> I assume you know

Re: python simply not scaleable enough for google?

David Cournapeau writes: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Aaron Watters > wrote: >> >>> I don't think Python and Go address the same set of programmer >>> desires.  For example, Go has a static type system.  Some programmers >>> find static type systems to be useless or undesirable.  Others

Re: object serialization as python scripts

King writes: >> Why is it easier than the above mentioned - they are *there* (except the >> custom xml), and just can be used. What don't they do you want to do? >> >> Other than that, and even security issues put aside, I don't see much >> difference between pickle and python code, except the la

Re: python simply not scaleable enough for google?

mcherm writes: > On Nov 11, 7:38 pm, Vincent Manis wrote: >> 1. The statement `Python is slow' doesn't make any sense to me. >> Python is a programming language; it is implementations that have >> speed or lack thereof. >[...] >> 2. A skilled programmer could build an implementation that com

[ANN] Pyjamas 0.7pre1 Web Widget Set and python-to-javascript Compiler released

Current Release: 0.7~pre1 --- This is a 0.7 prerelease of Pyjamas, to invite users to help test the latest version. The latest svn is regularly but informally tested against the regression tests and the examples, and used in production, but not extensively tested against all known bro

Re: substituting list comprehensions for map()

Steven D'Aprano writes: > On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:22:28 -0500, J Kenneth King wrote: > >> However in this case the procedure by which we derive the value is not >> important or even interesting. It is much more succinct to think of the >> operation as a value and exp

Re: substituting list comprehensions for map()

Ben Finney writes: > J Kenneth King writes: > >> Steven D'Aprano writes: >> >> > from operator import add >> > map(add, operandlist1, operandlist2) >> >> This is the best solution so far. > > Strange to say it's a solution, wh

Re: substituting list comprehensions for map()

Steven D'Aprano writes: > On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:54:16 -0800, Jon P. wrote: > >> I'd like to do: >> >> resultlist = operandlist1 + operandlist2 >> >> where for example >> >> operandlist1=[1,2,3,4,5] >> operandlist2=[5,4,3,2,1] >> >> and resultlist will become [6,6,6,6,6]. Using map(), I can

Re: Python + twisted = Raindrop (in part)

Terry Reedy writes: > Rrom: > First look: inside Mozilla's Raindrop messaging platform > > http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/10/first-look-inside-mozillas-raindrop-messaging-platform.ars > > "The backend components that are responsible for retrieving and > processing messages are coded

Re: What IDE has good git and python support?

Aweks writes: > what do you use? emacs. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Object Relational Mappers are evil (a meditation)

Aaron Watters writes: > On Oct 16, 10:35 am, mario ruggier wrote: >> On Oct 5, 4:25 pm, Aaron Watters wrote: >> >> > Occasionally I fantasize about making a non-trivial change >> > to one of these programs, but I strongly resist going further >> > than that because the ORM meatgrinder makes it

Re: Haskell's new logo, and the idiocy of tech geekers

Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: Kenneth Tilton writes: Xah Lee wrote: Haskell has a new logo. A fantastic one. Beautiful. For creator, context, detail, see bottom of: • A Lambda Logo Tour http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/lambda_logo.html Don't do that! If you want to watch the

Re: Haskell's new logo, and the idiocy of tech geekers

Xah Lee wrote: Haskell has a new logo. A fantastic one. Beautiful. For creator, context, detail, see bottom of: • A Lambda Logo Tour http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/lambda_logo.html Cool survey, and yes, that is a nice new one for Haskell. I saw beauty the other day changing an applicati

Re: nested structure with "internal references"

Hendrik van Rooyen writes: > On Friday, 25 September 2009 19:11:06 Torsten Mohr wrote: > >> I'd like to use a nested structure in memory that consists >> of dict()s and list()s, list entries can be dict()s, other list()s, >> dict entries can be list()s or other dict()s. >> >> The lists and dicts

Re: SQLite or files?

ici writes: > I like shelve for saving small amounts of data, user preferences, > recent files etc. > http://docs.python.org/library/shelve.html I like it too, but I hear the great powers that be are going to deprecate it. > > For Qt use QtCore.QCoreApplication.setOrganizationName, > QtCore.QCo

[ANN] Pyjamas 0.6 Web Widget Set and python-to-javascript Compiler released

Pyjamas 0.6 is finally out: many thanks to everyone who has contributed. Special thanks to Kees Bos; Bernd, Bernd and Jurgen from LovelySystems.com; the people who showed an interest in Pyjamas at EuroPython 2009; and especially to everyone who has helped during the pre-releases, with testing and

[ANN] pyjamas 0.6pre3 released

much as we'd very much like to declare a 0.6 stable release, really really soon and move forward, the ChangeLog just keeps growing (133 and counting) with the bugfixes, testing and contributions since 0.5p1. pyjamas is a port of GWT to python, and includes a python-to-javascript compiler and a wid

Re: escaping characters in filenames

Nobody writes: > On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:29:55 -0400, J Kenneth King wrote: > >> I wrote a script to process some files using another program. One thing >> I noticed was that both os.listdir() and os.path.walk() will return >> unescaped file names (ie: "My File Wi

escaping characters in filenames

I wrote a script to process some files using another program. One thing I noticed was that both os.listdir() and os.path.walk() will return unescaped file names (ie: "My File With Spaces & Stuff" instead of "My\ File\ With\ Spaces\ \&\ Stuff"). I haven't had much success finding a module or reci

[ANN] Pyjamas 0.6pre2 Python Web Widget Set and Javascript Compiler

http://pyjs.org this is a pre-release announcement, 0.6pre2, of the pyjamas widget set and python-to-javascript compiler. there are over 110 entries in the CHANGELOG since the last stable release, 0.5p1, and so it was deemed sensible to invite people to test this version before its next stable re

Re: Script runs manually, but cron fails

Bryan writes: > I have a backup script that runs fine when I run it manually from the > command line. When I run it with cron, the script stops running at > random points in the source code. > > The script calls rsync with the subprocess module, which in turn uses > ssh to backup files from a bo

Re: Ann: Google releases Python-based open-source NX server

Robert Kern writes: > On 2009-07-16 09:51, J Kenneth King wrote: >> jkn writes: >> >>> Google quietly releases open-source NX server ...written in Python, >>> apparently >>> >>> <http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9135504/ >>&

Re: Ann: Google releases Python-based open-source NX server

jkn writes: > Google quietly releases open-source NX server ...written in Python, > apparently > > Google_quietly_releases_open_source_NX_server?taxonomyId=88> > > Neatx can be downloaded from Google's code repository: > >

Re: interactive fiction in Python?

George Oliver writes: > hi, I'm just curious who might be working on interactive fiction > modules in the style of Inform or TADS for Python. I've seen a few > threads on this list [1] (among many that mention IF tangentially), > and there are old projects like PUB and PAWS. There are some newer

[ANN] Pyjamas 0.6pre1 ALPHA release of Pyjamas Widget Set

http://pyjs.org - Pyjamas is a port of GWT to Python that can run applications both on the Desktop (like python-gtk2) and in all major Web Browsers (as javascript). This is an alpha release - 0.6pre1 - of the Pyjamas Web Widget Set. It is a significant upgrade, incorporating Pyjamas Desktop which

Re: OT: unix to Windows technology

Xah Lee wrote: Dear unixers & lispers, i've been using Mac for the past 19 years, and been a professional sys admin or web app developers on the unix platform, since 1998 (maily Solaris, Apache, Perl, Java, SQL, PHP). In june, i bought a PC (not for the first time though), and made a switch to W

Re: [0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0] ... remove all 0 values

Friðrik Már Jónsson writes: > ma wrote: >> filter(lambda x: x, your_list) > > Good call! Equivalent but more efficient: > > filter(None, your_list) > > Regards, > Friðrik Már I was wondering when someone would mention filter() -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python/pyobjC Apps on iPhone now a possibility?

Stef Mientki writes: >>> So, the question is, can the same thing be done for Python apps? >>> >> >> I love Python and all, but it'd be apt to ask, what's the point? >> >> The iPhone is running on what? A 400Mhz ARM processor? Resources on the >> device are already limited; running your progr

Re: Python/pyobjC Apps on iPhone now a possibility?

Dr Mephesto writes: > Sure, I am learning Objective C already, but the syntax is really > unfriendly after python. > > I think it really depends on the type of app you want to write. > Anything held back by network delays or that sits around waiting for > user input are perfectly acceptable targe

Re: Python/pyobjC Apps on iPhone now a possibility?

Dr Mephesto writes: > I have been following the discussion about python and pyobjc on the > iphone, and it seemed to me that the app-store rules prohibited > embedded interpreters; so, python apps are a no-no. > > But now it seems that the Rubyists have the option that we don't. It > seems there

Re: Code that ought to run fast, but can't due to Python limitations.

[email protected] (Aahz) writes: > In article , > Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: >> >>But wait - maybe if he passes an iterator around - the equivalent of >>for char in input_stream... Still no good though, unless the next call >>to the iterator is faster than an ordinary python call. > > Calls to

Re: multiprocessing: pool with blocking queue

masher writes: > On Jul 2, 12:06 pm, J Kenneth King wrote: >> masher writes: >> > My questions, then, is: Is there a more elegant/pythonic way of doing >> > what I am trying to do with the current Pool class? >> >> Forgive me, I may not fully understand

Re: multiprocessing: pool with blocking queue

masher writes: > My questions, then, is: Is there a more elegant/pythonic way of doing > what I am trying to do with the current Pool class? Forgive me, I may not fully understand what you are trying to do here (I've never really used multiprocessing all that much)... But couldn't you just assi

Re: fastest native python database?

per writes: > hi all, > > i'm looking for a native python package to run a very simple data > base. i was originally using cpickle with dictionaries for my problem, > but i was making dictionaries out of very large text files (around > 1000MB in size) and pickling was simply too slow. > > i am no

Re: The Complexity And Tedium of Software Engineering

verec wrote: On 2009-06-05 21:03:33 +0100, Kenneth Tilton said: When progress stops we will have time to polish our systems, not before. Is that an endorsement of mediocrity? No, of General Patton. hth, kt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: The Complexity And Tedium of Software Engineering

Xah Lee wrote: On Jun 3, 11:50 pm, Xah Lee wrote: Of interest: • The Complexity And Tedium of Software Engineering http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/programer_frustration.html Addendum: The point in these short examples is not about software bugs or problems. It illustrates, how seemi

Re: what I would like python.el to do (and maybe it does)

Piet van Oostrum writes: >>>>>> J Kenneth King (JKK) wrote: > >>JKK> Well, that's the thing -- type a statement into a python interpreter and >>JKK> you just get a new prompt. > >>JKK> LISP has a REPL, so you get some sort of feedback

Re: what I would like python.el to do (and maybe it does)

Piet van Oostrum writes: >>>>>> J Kenneth King (JKK) wrote: > >>JKK> I find that it does work, but unlike SLIME for lisp, it just imports the >>statement. > >>JKK> It confused me at first, but basically the interpreter doesn't provide >&g

Re: which database is suitable for small applications

Jean-Michel Pichavant writes: > Kalyan Chakravarthy wrote: >> Hi All, >> can any one suggest me which database I can use for my >> small application(to store user names ,passwords, very few other >> data.. ) >> I am using Python, Google Apps and guide me how to connect to >> database, I

Re: What text editor is everyone using for Python

Lacrima writes: > I am new to python. > And now I am using trial version of Wing IDE. > But nobody mentioned it as a favourite editor. > So should I buy it when trial is expired or there are better choices? That is a slightly better question. Try some of the free alternatives. I do happen to u

Re: What text editor is everyone using for Python

LittleGrasshopper writes: > With so many choices, I was wondering what editor is the one you > prefer when coding Python, and why. I normally use vi, and just got > into Python, so I am looking for suitable syntax files for it, and > extra utilities. I dabbled with emacs at some point, but couldn

Re: what I would like python.el to do (and maybe it does)

Giovanni Gherdovich writes: > Hello everybody, > > basically I'm writing here since I cannot > make my python.el work (a major mode for writing > python with emacs), but I would also like to share > my user experience and tell you what I think > an emacs mode should do, why do I like them > and h

Re: Annoying feedparser issues

John Nagle writes: > This really isn't the fault of the "feedparser" module, but it's > worth mentioning. > > I have an application which needs to read each new item from a feed > as it shows up, as efficiently as possible, because it's monitoring multiple > feeds. I want exactly one cop

Re: list comprehension question

Steven D'Aprano writes: > On Thu, 07 May 2009 13:28:10 -0400, J Kenneth King wrote: > >> Steven D'Aprano writes: >> >>> On Wed, 06 May 2009 09:48:51 -0400, J Kenneth King wrote: >>> >>>> Emile van Sebille writes: >>>&g

Re: list comprehension question

Terry Reedy writes: > J Kenneth King wrote: >> >> Keep in mind that nested comprehensions are still available because >> they do have a use case that justifies their existence. > > Nested comprehensions are available because because the syntax makes > them ava

Re: Best practice for operations on streams of text

James writes: > Hello all, > I'm working on some NLP code - what I'm doing is passing a large > number of tokens through a number of filtering / processing steps. > > The filters take a token as input, and may or may not yield a token as > a result. For example, I might have filters which lowerca

Re: list comprehension question

Steven D'Aprano writes: > On Wed, 06 May 2009 09:48:51 -0400, J Kenneth King wrote: > >> Emile van Sebille writes: >> >>> On 5/5/2009 9:15 AM J Kenneth King said... >>> >>>> List comprehensions can make a reader of your code apprehensive >

Re: list comprehension question

Emile van Sebille writes: > On 5/5/2009 9:15 AM J Kenneth King said... > >> List comprehensions can make a reader of your code apprehensive >> because it can read like a run-on sentence and thus be difficult to >> parse. The Python documentation discourages their use a

Re: Any idea to emulate tail -f

Iain King writes: > On May 5, 7:00 am, Joel Juvenal Rivera Rivera > wrote: >> I want to make something very similar to  the command tail -f (follow a >> file), i have been trying  with some while True and some microsleeps >> (about .1 s); did someone has already done something like this? >> >> A

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