Re: Python proficiency test

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Kent Johnson wrote: >> I recently helped create an on-line Python proficiency test. The >> publisher of the test is looking for beta testers to try the test and >> give feedback. If you are interested, here is an announcemen

Re: Type signature

Yacao Wang wrote: > Hi, I'm a newbie to Python. I've recently read some books about this > language and none of them have answered my question. > As a dynamically-typed language Python doesn't need any form of type > signature which makes the syntax very clean and concise. However, type > signature

[Newbie] List from a generator function

Hi all, I'm sure there is a better way to do this: [random.choice(possible_notes) for x in range(length)] Regards, Ernesto -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [Newbie] List from a generator function

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ernesto García García wrote: > I'm sure there is a better way to do this: > > [random.choice(possible_notes) for x in range(length)] There is at least a better way to ask the question. The subject has nothing to do with the body of your post. Or am I missing something?

Re: Type signature

Yacao Wang wrote: > Hi, I'm a newbie to Python. I've recently read some books about this > language and none of them have answered my question. > As a dynamically-typed language Python doesn't need any form of type > signature which makes the syntax very clean and concise. However, type > signature

Re: range() is not the best way to check range?

On 2006-07-21, Paul Boddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Regardless of whether myslice inherits from object or not, there's no > persuading the interpreter that it is a genuine slice, and remember > that we can't subclass slice (for some reason unknown). So, it would > appear that the interpreter re

Re: function v. method

On 2006-07-21, Bruno Desthuilliers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Antoon Pardon wrote: >> On 2006-07-21, fuzzylollipop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>danielx wrote: >>> > (snip) >>> >>> >>>if you prefix with a single underscore, that tells the user, DON'T MESS >>>WITH ME FROM OUTSIDE! I AM AN IMPL

Re: function v. method

On 2006-07-21, fuzzylollipop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Antoon Pardon wrote: > >> Suppose I am writing my own module, I use an underscore, to >> mark variables which are an implementation detail for my >> module. >> >> Now I need to import an other module in my module and need access >> to an i

Re: [Newbie] List from a generator function

>>I'm sure there is a better way to do this: >> >>[random.choice(possible_notes) for x in range(length)] > There is at least a better way to ask the question. The subject has > nothing to do with the body of your post. Or am I missing something? Sorry, I should have explained better. I just wan

Re: Python proficiency test

I managed to take the test,though not it's entirety. I am still far being proficient in Python,but I really liked the thought-provoking questions in there. thanks so much. Kiran Satya On 7/23/06, Ian Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard > Jones <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Coding style

On 2006-07-21, Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 21 Jul 2006 12:00:43 GMT, Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > >> So we have code with certain shudder characteristics. And instead >> of trying to help the OP with his problem, some peopl

Re: [Newbie] List from a generator function

Ernesto García García <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>[random.choice(possible_notes) for x in range(length)] > > > There is at least a better way to ask the question. The subject has > > nothing to do with the body of your post. Or am I missing something? > > Sorry, I should have explained bett

Re: [Newbie] List from a generator function

Ernesto García García wrote: > I'm sure there is a better way to do this: > > [random.choice(possible_notes) for x in range(length)] Note that "generator" has a fixed meaning in Python: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0255/ For generators you can use list(itertools.islice(gen()), length) W

Re: Coding style

On 2006-07-21, Gerhard Fiedler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2006-07-21 09:00:43, Antoon Pardon wrote: > >> So we have code with certain shudder characteristics. And instead >> of trying to help the OP with his problem, some people react >> to the shudder and come with all sort of comments that m

Understanding Unicode & encodings

Hello, For my application, I would like to execute an SQL query like this: self.dbCursor.execute("INSERT INTO track (name, nbr, idartist, idalbum, path) VALUES ('%s', %s, %s, %s, '%s')" % (track, nbr, idartist, idalbum, path)) where the different variables are returned by the libtagedit python bin

Re: httplib, threading, wx app freezing after 4 hours

Mark rainess wrote: [...] > It runs perfectly for about 4 hours, then freezes. > I'm stuck. How do I debug this? [...] > Can anyone suggest techniques to help me learn what is going on. By inspection: "errcode" is undefined; I expect you stripped the example a bit too far. If it is set to somethi

Re: httplib, threading, wx app freezing after 4 hours

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Mark rainess wrote: > [...] >> It runs perfectly for about 4 hours, then freezes. >> I'm stuck. How do I debug this? > [...] >> Can anyone suggest techniques to help me learn what is going on. > > By inspection: "errcode" is undefined; I expect you stripped the > example

Re: Understanding Unicode & encodings

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > For my application, I would like to execute an SQL query like this: > self.dbCursor.execute("INSERT INTO track (name, nbr, idartist, idalbum, > path) VALUES ('%s', %s, %s, %s, '%s')" % (track, nbr, idartist, > idalbum, path)) No, I'll bet that you'd like to ru

Python for Lazarus (not Delphi)

Does anyone know if something similar to Python for Delphi does exist for lazarus? Thanks for any pointers, Uwe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: range() is not the best way to check range?

Antoon Pardon wrote: > > Except that if you write your own class from scratch, you can't use > it as a slice. Correct, but we were actually discussing subclassing built-in classes for use as a replacement for range/xrange. :-) It may be "hard work" writing all those methods in a totally new range

Re: function v. method

On 2006-07-22 16:32:38, danielx wrote: ...and source code... >>> >>> *shudders* What happened to all the goodness of abstraction? >> >> Abstraction as you seem to use it requires complete docs of the interface. >> Which is what you said you don't have... So the original abstractor broke >> th

building lists of dictionaries

Hi all, I tried this piece of code (FWIW, it was taken as is from a help section of mpfit, a mathematical routine for least square fitting): parinfo = [{'value':0., 'fixed':0, 'limited':[0,0], 'limits':[0.,0.]}]*6 parinfo[0]['fixed'] = 1 parinfo[4]['limited'][0] = 1 parinfo[4]['limits'][0] = 50

Re: Coding style

On 2006-07-23 06:24:09, Antoon Pardon wrote: >> In general, I'd say that in this case the example was not well-chosen. >> After such a "shudder removal", a poster should IMO review what caused >> the shudder, and rephrase the original problem without the shudder. > > The shudder is not with the p

Re: building lists of dictionaries

> parinfo = [{'value':0., 'fixed':0, 'limited':[0,0], 'limits':[0.,0.]}]*6 With this, you are creating a list with 6 references to the same list. Note that the left operand of '*' is evaluated only once before "multiplying" it six times. Regards, Tito -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: building lists of dictionaries

Jean_Francois Moulin wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] in comp.lang.python: > Hi all, > > I tried this piece of code (FWIW, it was taken as is from a help > section of mpfit, a mathematical routine for least square fitting): > > parinfo = [{'value':0., 'fixed':0, 'limited':[0,0], > 'limits':[0.,

Re: building lists of dictionaries

> parinfo = [{'value':0., 'fixed':0, 'limited':[0,0], 'limits':[0.,0.]}]*6 > parinfo[0]['fixed'] = 1 > parinfo[4]['limited'][0] = 1 > parinfo[4]['limits'][0] = 50. > > The first line builds a list of six dictionaries with > initialised keys. I expected that the last three lines > would o

Re: building lists of dictionaries

Jean_Francois Moulin wrote: > Hi all, > > I tried this piece of code (FWIW, it was taken as is from a help section of > mpfit, a mathematical routine for least square fitting): > > parinfo = [{'value':0., 'fixed':0, 'limited':[0,0], 'limits':[0.,0.]}]*6 > The first line builds a list of six dicti

Re: Which Pyton Book For Newbies?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >W. D. Allen wrote: >> I want to write a retirement financial estimating program. Python was >> suggested as the easiest language to use on Linux. I have some experience >> programming in Basic but not in Python. >> >> I have two questio

Re: building lists of dictionaries

Tim Chase wrote: > parinfo = [{'value':0., 'fixed':0, 'limited':[0,0], > 'limits':[0.,0.]}.copy() for i in xrange(0,6)] > > However, this will still reference internal lists that have > been referenced multiple times, such that > > >>> parinfo[5]['limited'] > [0, 0] > >>> parinfo[4]['limited'][

Don't you hate it when your bed squeaks?

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I've got a very simple script with cherrypy but for some reason the cherrypy server is constantly tracing back but it stays up, kind of, the performance etc though shows that something is wrong.import cherrypyimport threading def someFunc():    while 1:    print "working"threading._start_new_th

Re: Which Pyton Book For Newbies?

W. D. Allen wrote: > I want to write a retirement financial estimating program. Python was > suggested as the easiest language to use on Linux. I have some experience > programming in Basic but not in Python. > > I have two questions: > 1. What do I need to be able to make user GUIs for the progra

Re: cherrypy tracing back all the time

On 23/07/06, Hari Sekhon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've got a very simple script with cherrypy but for some reason the cherrypy server is constantly tracing back but it stays up, kind of, the performance etc though shows that something is wrong.import cherrypy import threading def someFunc():    w

Re: Nested function scope problem

Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > Josiah Manson a écrit : > > I found that I was repeating the same couple of lines over and over in > > a function and decided to split those lines into a nested function > > after copying one too many minor changes all over. The only problem is > > that my little helper

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Martin v. Löwis wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 1) I've seen mention of native vs. Python getaddrinfo implementations. > > If that's true, how can I force the program to use the Python one? > > > > 2) Is there an option to not use the BSD Library function? > > > > 3) Finally, is there a tric

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Hi everyone, I apologize if this is a bit off-topic. I am currently working on a Java-based application that is used Jython as a scripting language within the actual program. However, for one of my GUI elements, I need to pass the actual PythonInterpeter to the constructor. I know that in Java th

Re: Understanding Unicode & encodings

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I tried to encode the different variables in many different encodings > (latin1), but I always get an exception. Where does this ascii codec > error comes from? How can I simply build this query string? Raphael, The 'ascii' encoding is set in the python library file sit

Re: Referring to Interpreter (Jython)

Hi everyone, Ah, after some more searching and programming, I got it: PythonInterpreter py = new PythonInterpreter(); py.set("interpreter", py); Thanks, Wojciech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I apologize if this is a bit off-topic. I am currently working on a > Java-based applicat

Re: Nested function scope problem

On 2006-07-23 14:53:33, danielx wrote: > I can't figure out why Josiah's breakLine function won't work either. I > know Josiah has had his problem resolved, but I'd still like to know > why his func won't work. I'd like to redirect this discussion in that > direction, if I may. I think what happe

Re: Python for Lazarus (not Delphi)

Uwe Grauer wrote: > Does anyone know if something similar to Python for Delphi > does exist for lazarus? > > Thanks for any pointers, > Uwe Python for Delphi does support Lazarus since Version 3.29 http://mmm-experts.com/VersionHistory.aspx?ProductId=3 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/li

Generating all possible combination of elements in a list

Hello, I need to write scripts in which I need to generate all posible unique combinations of an integer list. Lists are a minimum 12 elements in size with very large number of possible combination(12!) I hacked a few lines of code and tried a few things from Python CookBook (http://aspn.activest

How to generate geometric random numbers?

Hi all, I am a newbie to Python and would like to genereate some numbers according to geometric distribution. However, the Python Random package seems do not have implemented functionality. I am wondering is there exist any other libraries that can do this job? Thanks a lot, Da -- http://mail

Re: [Newbie] List from a generator function

Thank you guys. So the answer is to keep with the original form, perhaps with xrange. Ernesto -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to generate geometric random numbers?

On 2006-07-23 17:12:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am a newbie to Python and would like to genereate some numbers > according to geometric distribution. However, the Python Random package > seems do not have implemented functionality. I am wondering is there > exist any other libraries that can

Re: How to generate geometric random numbers?

Gerhard Fiedler wrote: > On 2006-07-23 17:12:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I am a newbie to Python and would like to genereate some numbers >> according to geometric distribution. However, the Python Random package >> seems do not have implemented functionality. I am wondering is there >> exis

Re: building lists of dictionaries

>>parinfo = [{'value':0., 'fixed':0, 'limited':[0,0], >>'limits':[0.,0.]}.copy() for i in xrange(0,6)] >> >>However, this will still reference internal lists that have >>been referenced multiple times, such that >> >> >>> parinfo[5]['limited'] >>[0, 0] >> >>> parinfo[4]['limited'][0] = 2 >> >>> par

Re: How to force a thread to stop

Hi! >>> "threadicide" method I like this word... Michel Claveau -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: building lists of dictionaries

>>parinfo = [{'value':0., 'fixed':0, 'limited':[0,0], >>'limits':[0.,0.]}.copy() for i in xrange(0,6)] >> >>However, this will still reference internal lists that have >>been referenced multiple times, such that >> >> >>> parinfo[5]['limited'] >>[0, 0] >> >>> parinfo[4]['limited'][0] = 2 >> >>> par

find_longest_match in SequenceMatcher

Hello, it might be too late or too hot, but i cannot work out this behaviour of find_longest_match() in difflib.SequenceMatcher: string1: releasenotesforwildmagicversion01thiscdromcontainstheinitialreleaseofthesourcecodethataccompaniesthebook"3dgameenginedesign:apracticalapproachtorealtimecomputer

Re: Understanding Unicode & encodings

Jim wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, > > > > For my application, I would like to execute an SQL query like this: > > self.dbCursor.execute("INSERT INTO track (name, nbr, idartist, idalbum, > > path) VALUES ('%s', %s, %s, %s, '%s')" % (track, nbr, idartist, > > idalbum, path)) > No, I'll

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Does anybody know anything about Grail? I've been unable to get at it, and I've tried on both Windows and Macintosh machines. http://grail.sourceforge.net/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Generating all possible combination of elements in a list

Mir Nazim wrote: > Example Problem: > > Generate all possible permutations for > [1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2] > > [1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2] (notice an extra 2 ) > > eliminate some combinations based on some conditions and combine the > rest of combinations. And now generate al

Re: Grail not downloading

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Re: Track keyboard and mouse usage

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Re: Understanding Unicode & encodings

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I tried to encode the different variables in many different encodings > > (latin1), but I always get an exception. Where does this ascii codec > > error comes from? How can I simply build this query string? > > Raphael, > > The 'ascii' encodin

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url encode latin-1 characters

I want send latin-1 string to web server by url parameter urllib.quote return just symbol code with preceeding percent for every non-ascii character: #>ustr = 'Ü' #>urllib.quote(ustr) '%9A' but this seems to be wrong because server response contains my parameter and it differ from original (for e

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Re: Re-evaluating a string?

> serialport.write('!SC'+'\x01'+'\x05'+'\xFA'+'\x00'+'\r') [cut] > My problem is that the "write()" function only takes a string, and I > want to substitute variables for the hex literals. Well, you can try something like >>> import types >>> def makeString(a): ... return ''.join([type(x) !

Re: Re-evaluating a string?

bugnthecode wrote: > I'm writing a program to send data over the serial port. I'm using > pyserial, and I'm on WindowsXP. When I use literals I can get the data > accross how I want it for example: > >1 2 3 4 5 6 > serialport.write('!SC'+'\x01'+'\x05'+'\xF

easy questions from python newbie

This is the first real python program I have ever worked on. What I want to do is: 1) count identical records in a cvs file 2) create a new file with quantities instead duplicate records 3) open the new file in ms-excel For example, I will start with a file like: 1001 1012 1008 1012 1001 1001 an

Re: Which Pyton Book For Newbies?

W. D. Allen wrote: > I want to write a retirement financial estimating program. Python was > suggested as the easiest language to use on Linux. I have some experience > programming in Basic but not in Python. > > I have two questions: > 1. What do I need to be able to make user GUIs for the progra

Re: Track keyboard and mouse usage

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On 17 Jul 2006 21:00:09 -0700, "dfaber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed > the following in comp.lang.python: > > > Is there no clean method of accessing the keyboard device or the mouse > > on linux? > > It seems that looking at /proc/interrupts might prove to be useful for

Re: Re-evaluating a string?

Thanks Tim, and John for your quick responses! Tim, I tested your function and it works! Though I don't completely understand how. Could you possibly explain this? John, I test your "MEDUIM_WAY"and it works as well. How is it that putting the string together this way translates into a hex value t

Re: url encode latin-1 characters

Lurker wrote: > I want send latin-1 string to web server by url parameter > > urllib.quote return just symbol code with preceeding percent for every > non-ascii character: > #>ustr = 'Ü' > #>urllib.quote(ustr) > '%9A' > The latin1 encoding for U-with-umlaut is 0xDC. The cp850 encoding for the sam

Re: Isn't there a better way?

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > Lawrence D'Oliveiro a écrit : > >> If you're calling a number of different routines in >> the Processor class, all accessing the same data, then it makes perfect >> sense to only pass it once. > > Actually they are not "passed". I thin

Re: Understanding Unicode & encodings

John Machin wrote: > Jim wrote: > > No, I'll bet that you'd like to run something like > > self.dcCursor.execute("INSERT INTO track (name, nbr, idartist, > > idalbum,path) VALUES (%(track)s, %(nbr)s, > > %(idartist)s,%(idalbum)s,'%(path)s')", > > {'track':track,'nbr':nbr,'idartist':idartist,'idal

Re: easy questions from python newbie

walterbyrd wrote: > This is the first real python program I have ever worked on. What I > want to do is: > 1) count identical records in a cvs file > 2) create a new file with quantities instead duplicate records > 3) open the new file in ms-excel > > For example, I will start with a file like: >

Re: Re-evaluating a string?

bugnthecode wrote: > Thanks Tim, and John for your quick responses! > > Tim, I tested your function and it works! > Though I don't completely > understand how. Could you possibly explain this? > > John, I test your "MEDUIM_WAY"and it works as well. Now try the struct module approach. Are you 100%

Re: Re-evaluating a string?

> Thanks Tim, and John for your quick responses! This is one of the better lists for getting quick (and usually helpful) responses. > Tim, I tested your function and it works! Though I don't completely > understand how. Could you possibly explain this? >>> def makeString(a): ... return ''.

Re: Understanding Unicode & encodings

Jim wrote: > John Machin wrote: > > Jim wrote: > > > No, I'll bet that you'd like to run something like > > > self.dcCursor.execute("INSERT INTO track (name, nbr, idartist, > > > idalbum,path) VALUES (%(track)s, %(nbr)s, > > > %(idartist)s,%(idalbum)s,'%(path)s')", > > > {'track':track,'nbr':nbr

Re: How to generate geometric random numbers?

Robert Kern wrote: > Gerhard Fiedler wrote: > > On 2006-07-23 17:12:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> I am a newbie to Python and would like to genereate some numbers > >> according to geometric distribution. However, the Python Random package > >> seems do not have implemented functionality. I

Re: easy questions from python newbie

James Stroud wrote: > walterbyrd wrote: > > This is the first real python program I have ever worked on. What I > > want to do is: > > 1) count identical records in a cvs file > > 2) create a new file with quantities instead duplicate records > > 3) open the new file in ms-excel > > > > For exampl

Re: easy questions from python newbie

John Machin wrote: > James Stroud wrote: > >>walterbyrd wrote: >> >>>This is the first real python program I have ever worked on. What I >>>want to do is: >>>1) count identical records in a cvs file >>>2) create a new file with quantities instead duplicate records >>>3) open the new file in ms-exc

Re: How to generate geometric random numbers?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > But I am still surprised because the default Random package in Python > can generate so few discrete random distritbuions, while it can > generate quite a few continuous distribution, including some not very > common one. It looks pretty simple to transform the uniform

Re: How to generate geometric random numbers?

Paul Rubin writes: >n = log(c, 1-p) - 1 I meantn = log(c/p, 1-p) - 1 sorry. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to generate geometric random numbers?

Paul Rubin wrote: > Paul Rubin writes: >>n = log(c, 1-p) - 1 > > I meantn = log(c/p, 1-p) - 1 > sorry. import random from math import ceil, log def geometric(p): """ Geometric distribution per Devroye, Luc. _Non-Uniform Random Variate Generation_, 1986, p

Re: How to generate geometric random numbers?

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Re: find_longest_match in SequenceMatcher

koara wrote: > Hello, it might be too late or too hot, but i cannot work out this > behaviour of find_longest_match() in difflib.SequenceMatcher: > > string1: [snipped 500-byte string] > > string2: > [snipped 500-byte string] > > find_longest_match(0,500,0,500)=(24,43,10)="version01t" > > What? O_

Re: easy questions from python newbie

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, walterbyrd wrote: > This is the first real python program I have ever worked on. What I > want to do is: > 1) count identical records in a cvs file > 2) create a new file with quantities instead duplicate records > 3) open the new file in ms-excel > > For example, I will s

Re: How to generate geometric random numbers?

Paul Rubin wrote: > Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>G = int(ceil(log(U) / log(1.0 - p))) > > I usually owuld write that as int(ceil(log(U, 1.0 - p))). Knock yourself out. I was cribbing from my C implementation in numpy. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world

Re: Isn't there a better way?

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bruno Desthuilliers > wrote: > > >>Lawrence D'Oliveiro a écrit : >> >> >>>If you're calling a number of different routines in >>>the Processor class, all accessing the same data, then it makes perfect >>>sense to only pass it once. >> >