Re: Best Practice Question

2013-02-06 Thread Jean-Michel Pichavant
- Original Message - > > [...] > > By the way, did someone ever notice that r'\' fails ? I'm sure > > there's a > > reason for that... (python 2.5) Anyone knows ? > > > > r'\' > > SyntaxError: EOL while scanning single-quoted string > > > > > "Even in a raw string, string quotes can be e

Re: Best Practice Question

2013-02-05 Thread Dave Angel
On 02/05/2013 11:53 AM, Joel Goldstick wrote: On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Anthony Correia wrote: On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 10:17:54 AM UTC-5, [email protected]: On Tue, 5 Feb 2013 15:32:32 +0100 (CET), Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote: By the way, did someone ever notice tha

Re: Best Practice Question

2013-02-05 Thread Joel Goldstick
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Anthony Correia wrote: > On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 10:17:54 AM UTC-5, > [email protected]: > > On Tue, 5 Feb 2013 15:32:32 +0100 (CET), Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote: > > > > > By the way, did someone ever notice that r'\' fails ? I'm sure > > > > >

Re: Best Practice Question

2013-02-05 Thread Anthony Correia
On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 10:17:54 AM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote: > On Tue, 5 Feb 2013 15:32:32 +0100 (CET), Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote: > > > By the way, did someone ever notice that r'\' fails ? I'm sure > > > there's a reason for that... (python 2.5) Anyone knows ? > > > >

Re: Best Practice Question

2013-02-05 Thread python . list
On Tue, 5 Feb 2013 15:32:32 +0100 (CET), Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote: > By the way, did someone ever notice that r'\' fails ? I'm sure > there's a reason for that... (python 2.5) Anyone knows ? > > r'\' > SyntaxError: EOL while scanning single-quoted string I hit this all the time with Vim's path

Re: Best Practice Question

2013-02-05 Thread Albert Hopkins
[...] > By the way, did someone ever notice that r'\' fails ? I'm sure there's a > reason for that... (python 2.5) Anyone knows ? > > r'\' > SyntaxError: EOL while scanning single-quoted string > > "Even in a raw string, string quotes can be escaped with a backslash, but the backslash remains in

Re: Best Practice Question

2013-02-05 Thread Jean-Michel Pichavant
- Original Message - > On 02/04/2013 11:23 PM, Anthony Correia wrote: > > Just started learning Python. I just wrote a simple copy files > > script. I use Powershell now as my main scripting language but I > > wanted to extend into the linux platform as well. Is this the > > best way to

Re: Best Practice Question

2013-02-05 Thread Dave Angel
On 02/04/2013 11:23 PM, Anthony Correia wrote: Just started learning Python. I just wrote a simple copy files script. I use Powershell now as my main scripting language but I wanted to extend into the linux platform as well. Is this the best way to do it? import os objdir = ("C:\\temp2

Best Practice Question

2013-02-04 Thread Anthony Correia
Just started learning Python. I just wrote a simple copy files script. I use Powershell now as my main scripting language but I wanted to extend into the linux platform as well. Is this the best way to do it? import os objdir = ("C:\\temp2") colDir = os.listdir(objdir) for f in

Re: XML-schema 'best practice' question

2008-09-20 Thread Lorenzo Gatti
Sorry for pressing the send button too fast. On 20 Set, 07:59, Frank Millman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to introduce an element of workflow management (aka Business > Process Management) into the business/accounting system I am > developing. I used google to try to find out what the curr

Re: XML-schema 'best practice' question

2008-09-20 Thread Lorenzo Gatti
On 20 Set, 07:59, Frank Millman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to introduce an element of workflow management (aka Business > Process Management) into the business/accounting system I am > developing. I used google to try to find out what the current state of > the art is. After several month

Re: XML-schema 'best practice' question

2008-09-19 Thread Frank Millman
On Sep 18, 8:28 am, Frank Millman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > This is not strictly a Python question, but as I am writing in Python, > and as I know there are some XML gurus on this list, I hope it is > appropriate here. > > XML-schemas are used to define the structure of an xml documen

Re: XML-schema 'best practice' question

2008-09-18 Thread skip
Frank> 1. Don't use default values - create the document with all values Frank> filled in. Frank> 2. Use python to check for missing values and fill in the defaults Frank> when processing the document. Frank> Or maybe the best practice is to *always* validate a document Fr

Re: XML-schema 'best practice' question

2008-09-18 Thread Lorenzo Gatti
On 18 Set, 08:28, Frank Millman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am thinking of adding a check to see if a document has changed since > it was last validated, and if not, skip the validation step. However, > I then do not get the default values filled in. > > I can think of two possible solutions. I

XML-schema 'best practice' question

2008-09-17 Thread Frank Millman
Hi all This is not strictly a Python question, but as I am writing in Python, and as I know there are some XML gurus on this list, I hope it is appropriate here. XML-schemas are used to define the structure of an xml document, and to validate that a particular document conforms to the schema. The