Re: PIL + show() + Vista

2007-11-30 Thread M�ta-MCI (MVP)
Re! I have found a (very) poor solution: in Image.py, inside _showxv function, replace command = "start /wait %s && del /f %s" % (file, file) by command = 'start "%s" /wait "%s\\System32\\mshta.exe" "%s" && del /f "%s" ' % (title,os.environ['WINDIR'],file,file) For zoom in preview, use

Announcing Apydia

2007-11-30 Thread Daniel Haus
Today, I am very excited to announce the first release of the Apydia API reference documentation generator for Python. It's designed as an instantly serviceable replacement for Pudge's API documentation generator. It won't generate complete websites from reST etc. like Pudge does, though - Apydia i

Re: Oh no, my code is being published ... help!

2007-11-30 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
"Eduardo O. Padoan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No, writing this way will confound the 2to3 tool. Why? print("foo") is a perfectly valid Python 2 statement. Maybe it's simply a matter of fixing the tool. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Yet another database question, please

2007-11-30 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
nmp a écrit : > Hello to all. I am only just learning both Python and PyGTK (with Glade). > I also need to learn how to use databases in my programs. My preliminary > research leads me in the direction of SQLAlchemy, which seems to be what > everybody else is using. Since it's not quite clear

Re: Oh no, my code is being published ... help!

2007-11-30 Thread Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:36:17 +0100, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > "Eduardo O. Padoan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> No, writing this way will confound the 2to3 tool. > > Why? print("foo") is a perfectly valid Python 2 statement. Maybe > it's simply a matter of fixing the tool. As this would encou

Events - Design Patterns

2007-11-30 Thread Gianmaria Iaculo - NVENTA
Hi there, i found a nice article about a custom implementation of events by Duncan Booth here: http://www.suttoncourtenay.org.uk/duncan/accu/pythonpatterns.html#observer The code is here: STEP 1) Define a Delegate Class class Delegate: '''Handles a list of methods and functions Usage:

Re: Gnu/Linux dialogue boxes in python

2007-11-30 Thread Paul Boddie
On 30 Nov, 14:55, Donn Ingle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > Okay, so I am in the mood to try this: Inform the user about what modules > the app requires in a graphical dialogue that can vary depending on what > the system already has installed. (It will fail-to output on cli) > > I am running

Sorting array

2007-11-30 Thread Tartifola
Hi, I'm working with numerical array and I'm a little lost on a particular sorting of one of them. In particular I have an array like a = array([[8,4,1],[2,0,9]]) and I need to sort it using only the first column as reference but keeping the lines together so to obtain array([[2, 0, 9],

Re: Oh no, my code is being published ... help!

2007-11-30 Thread J. Clifford Dyer
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 12:25:25PM -0200, Eduardo O. Padoan wrote regarding Re: Oh no, my code is being published ... help!: > > On Nov 30, 2007 11:36 AM, Hrvoje Niksic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Eduardo O. Padoan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > No, writing this way will confound the

"Python" is not a good name, should rename to "Athon"

2007-11-30 Thread ureuffyrtu955
Python is a good programming language, but "Python" is not a good name. First, python also means snake, Monty Python. If we search "python" in google, emule, many results are not programming resource. If we search PHP, all results are programming resource. Second, python also means snake, snake

Re: Unicode string formating

2007-11-30 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
nico schrieb: > Hi, > I need to do a lot of string formating, and I have strings and/or > unicode strings and when I do the following: > "%s %s" % (u'Salut', 'H\xe4llo'), I get an exception : > UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe4 in position > 1: ordinal not in range(128) > >

Re: "Python" is not a good name, should rename to "Athon"

2007-11-30 Thread Matt Nordhoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Python is a good programming language, but "Python" is not a good > name. > > First, python also means snake, Monty Python. If we search "python" in > google, emule, many results are not programming resource. If we search > PHP, all results are programming resource. >

pythonw.exe and python.exe

2007-11-30 Thread whatazor
Hi all, I made a little application with multithreading in winxp with python2.5. An event generated from a third part software is the trigger for the creation of progress bar in a wxPython app. This python app is launched via wxExecute. I've noticed a different behaviour if the script is launched w

Re: How to Split a String

2007-11-30 Thread Bjoern Schliessmann
Siah wrote: > The basic split/strip method wouldn't split '(a, b, "c,...", d)', > which is why I chose not to use it. Could you please explain which part of my example doesn't work? split takes arguments which enables it to split your string as desired. > The csv solution seems to work well, th

Re: Oh no, my code is being published ... help!

2007-11-30 Thread rm
Thanks for all the comments. I uploaded revised versions of both files. If you see any more problems with them or if you have any suggestions for improving them, I am all ears. @ :D @ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to suggest a new Python list? Was: Science list

2007-11-30 Thread Robert Kern
J. Robertson wrote: > Francesco Pietra wrote: >> I was trying to suggest a more specific mail-list in order not to be >> floaded. I >> am the opinion that python-list@python.org is very informative and useful, >> though it is hard to find the time for so many mails. >> f. > > I agree with France

Re: Sorting array

2007-11-30 Thread Robert Kern
Chris Hulan wrote: > the list.sort method seems to do exactly what you want? > > Unless your array() method is creating a custom array object with > different sort functionality than list? Presumably he is using numpy arrays. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an en

Re: Sorting array

2007-11-30 Thread Robert Kern
Tartifola wrote: > > Hi, > I'm working with numerical array and I'm a little lost on a particular > sorting of one of them. In particular I have an array like > > a = array([[8,4,1],[2,0,9]]) > > and I need to sort it using only the first column as reference but > keeping the lines together so t

Re: "Python" is not a good name, should rename to "Athon"

2007-11-30 Thread Aaron Watters
On Nov 30, 9:58 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Now, python3000 is coming. It's the best time to rename! Yes, but "Thong" would be a better name, due to the minimalist syntax and the attraction/repulsion/catatonic revulsion effect it has with different people from different cultural backgrounds.

Re: Check if a symlink is broken or circular

2007-11-30 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> I would like to know if such function would be correct for verifying > if a link is broken and/or circular. > > def isvalidlink(path): > assert os.path.islink(path) > try: > os.stat(path) > except os.error: > return 1 > return 0 You meant to flip the result value

python not a good name.

2007-11-30 Thread Joseph king
sorry for not responding to the thread the regular way...[cough] just to prove everyone i counted what was found while searching python in google. i only looked at the first 6 pages but out of them only one did not mention the language plus i can't beleive people would be so synical abou

Re: python newbie - question about lexical scoping

2007-11-30 Thread John Machin
On Dec 1, 4:47 pm, Matt Barnicle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi everyone.. i've been chugging along learning python for a few months > now and getting answers to all needed questions on my own, but this one > i can't figure out nor can i find information on the internet about it, > possibly becau

Re: "Python" is not a good name, should rename to "Athon"

2007-11-30 Thread John Machin
On Dec 1, 5:14 pm, "Hendrik van Rooyen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "John Machin" wrote: > > > Pythons are good snakes; they hypnotise the meaninglessly chattering > > bandarlog and eat them. Beware! > > What is a bandarlog - I know the bandersnatch and the boojum, but > bandarlog? http://en.wi

ANN: IPython 0.8.2 released!

2007-11-30 Thread Ville Vainio
Hi all, The IPython team is happy to release version 0.8.2, with lots of new enhancements (especially for system shell use - it has never been a better time for switching to "pysh" or "ipython -p sh" as your system shell of choice), as well as many bug fixes. We hope you all enjoy it, and please

Re: (More) Re: Is __import__ known to be slow in windows?

2007-11-30 Thread John Machin
On Dec 1, 2:12 pm, Joshua Kugler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, so we have this code: > > t = timeit.Timer(stmt='r()', setup='from __main__ import r') > > sys.path.insert(0,'/path/to/code') > > def r(): > for m in ['three','module','names']: > try: > x = __import__(m) Hav

Re: importing a user file in Python

2007-11-30 Thread David Tweet
You have options: 1) Have the file in your current working directory, in which case it's just "import odbchelper". 2) Change your PYTHONPATH in your shell, adding a line like this to your bashrc perhaps: export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/home/jw/diveintopython-5.4/py ... and do the same

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