dBase III files and Visual Foxpro 6 files

Greetings All! I nearly have support complete for dBase III dbf/dbt files -- just wrapping up support for dates. The null value has been a hindrance for awhile but I nearly have that solved as well. For any who know of a cool dbf module already in existence for dBase III and Visual Foxpro -

Re: Rich Comparisons Gotcha

Robert Kern wrote: James Stroud wrote: I think it skips straight to __eq__ if the element is not the first in the list. No, it doesn't skip straight to __eq__(). "y is 1" returns False, so (y==1) is checked. When y is a numpy array, this returns an array of bools. list.__contains__() tries t

gzip.GzipFile (was Re: Don't you just love writing this sort of thing :))

On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 10:01:10 +, Arnaud Delobelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Why use (open, gzp.GzipFile)[Entry.endswith(".gz")] when we have had > contitional expressions for a few years now? Instead, you can write > > (gzip.GzipFile if entry.endswidth(".gz") else open). > > I think

Re: EBCDIC <--> ASCII

On Dec 5, 2:13 pm, Michael Ströder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Dec 4, 4:45 pm, Michael Ströder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> I'm having a problem trying to use the codecs package to aid me in > >>> converting some bytes from EBCDIC i

Re: var or inout parm?

Colin J. Williams a écrit : [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I make a "var" parm, where the called function can modify the value of the parameter in the caller? def f(x): x = x + 1 n = 1 f(n) # n should now be 2 Many TIA!! Mark Why not run it and see? Your function returns None. The

Re: Don't you just love writing this sort of thing :)

En Sun, 07 Dec 2008 05:34:39 -0200, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Arnaud Delobelle wrote: * you give the impression of being arrogant; Oddly enough, I wasn't the one who started by criticizing other people's code. I have no ego about my c

Re: Strengths and weaknesses of Pygame vs. pyglet vs. PyOpenGL?

On Dec 8, 2:26 pm, illume <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > pygame is simpler to learn, since it doesn't require you to know how > to create classes or functions. I'm not sure if I'd be quick to tout that as an advantage... :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: how to get a beep, OS independent ?

En Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:34:17 -0200, Joe Strout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: On Dec 7, 2008, at 4:43 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Of course, if you're volunteering to write such a standard system beep for Python, I for one would be grateful. I am. But where should I put it? Assuming we don't

Re: ftp retrlines with re...

En Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:51:58 -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: Ive been working on an application quite some time now and i wanted to include something to let the user load a new version. i therefore tried to include this here: Too much code, unclear question... please pos

Re: mod_python and files directory

En Sat, 06 Dec 2008 09:26:40 -0200, mete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: but i want to take it somewhere else...i want to it work some other path in other system. os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)) returns the directory where the current file resides. Execute it early in your code. --

Re: var or inout parm?

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 12:26 AM, Bruno Desthuilliers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Colin J. Williams a écrit : >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> >>> How can I make a "var" parm, where the called function can modify >>> the value of the parameter in the caller? >>> >>> def f(x): >>>x = x + 1 >>>

Re: Strengths and weaknesses of Pygame vs. pyglet vs. PyOpenGL?

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 6:31 PM, alex23 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 8, 2:26 pm, illume <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> pygame is simpler to learn, since it doesn't require you to know how >> to create classes or functions. > > I'm not sure if I'd be quick to tout that as an advantage... :) Ne

Re: how to get a beep, OS independent ?

Joe Strout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But invoking the standard system beep is such a basic function that it > ought to be easier than this. I'm pretty sure it's a single OS call > on all platforms. On OS X, for example, it's > >void NSBeep(void); > > declared in NSGraphics.h. I'm s

Re: Strengths and weaknesses of Pygame vs. pyglet vs. PyOpenGL?

On Dec 8, 7:31 pm, alex23 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 8, 2:26 pm, illume <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > pygame is simpler to learn, since it doesn't require you to know how > > to create classes or functions. > > I'm not sure if I'd be quick to tout that as an advantage... :) Hi, It's e

Re: gzip.GzipFile (was Re: Don't you just love writing this sort of thing :))

Jorgen Grahn a écrit : (snip) Also, making a decision based on the .gz part of the name isn't always correct -- you miss files named foo.Z and similar. .tgz anyone ? /Jorgen -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Strengths and weaknesses of Pygame vs. pyglet vs. PyOpenGL?

On Dec 8, 7:18 pm, illume <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's easier to teach only requiring *using* classes, and functions > than *creating* them.  This is important if it's being used to teach > programming - as you don't need to teach people two fairly large > concepts before you can do anything.

Re: Learning Python now coming from Perl

Bertilo Wennergren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm planning to start learning Python now, using Python 3000. > I have no previous Python skills, but I now Perl pretty well. > I'm also well experienced with JavaScript. > > Any pointers and tips how I should go about getting into > Python? Re

Re: infering the number of args a function takes at runtime

On Dec 8, 9:39 am, sniffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi all, > i am a python newbie, in a project currently doing i need to find out > the number of arguments that a function takes at runtime.? Is this > possible ,if so how do i do this,i ve looked through the python > documentation but couldnt

Re: ftp retrlines with re...

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > filelist=server.retrlines('LIST') This does not do what you think it does. >>> help("ftplib.FTP.retrlines") gives """ Help on method retrlines in module ftplib: retrlines(self, cmd, callback=None) unbound ftplib.FTP method Retrieve data in line mode. The arg

Determining whether a variable is less/greater than a range.

Hi. I'm having another go at learning Python so I'll probably be asking a few basic questions. Here is the first one. a = list(range(10, 21) b = 9 c = 21 How can I find out if b and c have values less or more than the values in list a? Thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pytho

built-in functions as class attributes

Here's a curiosity: after def my_hex(x): return hex(x) one might expect hex and my_hex to be interchangeable in most situations. But (with both Python 2.x and 3.x) I get: >>> def my_hex(x): return hex(x) ... >>> class T(object): f = hex ... >>> class T2(object): f = my_hex ... >>> T().f(12

Re: Guido's new method definition idea

On Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:27:21 +0100, Andreas Waldenburger wrote: > On Sat, 6 Dec 2008 23:21:04 -0800 (PST) Lie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I think we have to test this on newbies. [snip] >> > Now that's talking like a programmer! > > Ideas on how such a survey could be conducted? Anyone? >

Re: Determining whether a variable is less/greater than a range.

On Dec 8, 11:12 am, Tim Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > a = list(range(10, 21)) > > > b = 9 > > > c = 21 > > > How can I find out if b and c have values less or more than the values > > in list a? > > Sounds like a good use for 2.5's addition of the any() and all() > functions -- you don't men

Re: Mathematica 7 compares to other languages

Xah Lee wrote: > The result and speed up of my code can be verified by anyone who has > Mathematica. You changed the scene that is being rendered => your speedup is bogus! Trace the scene I originally gave and you will see that your program is no faster than mine was. -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying

Re: how to get a beep, OS independent ?

On 6 Dec, 23:40, Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello, > > I want to give a small beep, Just to add to the options here. Where ncurses work you can use: python -c 'from curses import *;wrapper(lambda s:beep())' To try it just enter the whole line above in the command line.. Regards,

Re: Mathematica 7 compares to other languages

Xah Lee wrote: > For those interested in this Mathematica problem, i've now cleaned up > the essay with additional comments here: > > • A Mathematica Optimization Problem > http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/Mathematica_optimization.html In that article you say: > Further, if Intersect is

Re: A question about reference in Python.

In case the OP is interested here is a more complete implementation (others are welcome to comment): http://codepad.org/drIhqb7Z Enjoy :) cheers James -- -- -- "Problems are solved by method" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: pytz and timezone specialists

On 5 déc, 20:46, Ned Deily <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > > >  manatlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here is a really simple code : > > --- > > from datetime import datetime > > frompytzimport timezone > > > t

Re: Public imports

Márcio Faustino a écrit : Hi, Does Python support public imports instead of the default private? Python has no notion of "public" or "private" !-) Something like D's "public import" (see ) Python imports don't work as D imports (as far as I ca

Re: Guido's new method definition idea

Philip Slate a écrit : On Dec 7, 1:13 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: and friendlier to newbies. I'd rather say "more acceptable to java-brainwashed developpers". And I'd rather say you're trolling, Almost, indeed. But not as much as you !-) -- http://mail.python.org/ma

Re: newbie - merging xls files using xldt and xlwt

Hi, I have been provided with the program below. Which sets out to merge singlesheet excel files into one multisheet excel workbook. Though it manages to merge multiple files into one workbook many of the formats are not preserved. For example, what was originally 22.92% is converted to 0.2292...

Re: Determining whether a variable is less/greater than a range.

Wow. Thanks Eric and Peter. Very helpful indeed. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Python and audio frequency analysis

I'd like to make a kind of "spectrum analyzer" ... Which should display "bars" according bands of frequencies ... in real time... Is anybody know an audio processing lib in python for that ? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Determining whether a variable is less/greater than a range.

a = list(range(10, 21)) b = 9 c = 21 How can I find out if b and c have values less or more than the values in list a? Sounds like a good use for 2.5's addition of the any() and all() functions -- you don't mention whether you want your variable compared against *any* of the list items or *

Re: Shutdown Mac OSX computer using python

Håkan Hagenrud wrote: > Hello, i'm a python noob! > > But I would like to shutdown a 10.5.x mac computer using python > (2.5.1) > > this is my code: > #!/usr/bin/python > import SystemEvents > down = SystemEvents.Power_Suite.Power_Suite_Events() > down.shut_down() > > the last call needs an add

Beginner trying to understand functions.

In my attempt to learn Python I'm writing a small (useless) program to help me understand the various concepts. I'm going to add to this as I learn to serve as a single place to see how something works, hopefully. Here is the first approach: name = input('Please enter your name: ') print('Hello'

Re: Strengths and weaknesses of Pygame vs. pyglet vs. PyOpenGL?

illume <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > pygame is also much more portable, has more people using it, has more > developers, and a stable API. Code you wrote 5 years ago will most > likely still work. Code you wrote for older versions of pyglet will > not work without changes. I'm a new python and p

Re: getting error...... Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\xlrd\__init__.py", line 370, in open_workbook biff_version = bk.getb

On Dec 8, 6:48 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > En Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:31:01 -0200, pk sahoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>   > escribió: > > > > > hallo everybody, > > when i am running the following command > > import xlrd > book=xlrd.open_workbook("C:\\a.xls") > > > i am getti

Re: Mathematica 7 compares to other languages

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well, its past 'tonight' and 6 hours to go till past 'tomorrow'. > Where the hell is it Zah Zah? Note that this program takes several days to compute in Mathematica (even though it takes under four seconds in other languages) so don't expect to see a genuinely optimized

Re: built-in functions as class attributes

Mark Dickinson wrote: > Here's a curiosity: after > > def my_hex(x): > return hex(x) > > one might expect hex and my_hex to be interchangeable > in most situations. But (with both Python 2.x and 3.x) > I get: > def my_hex(x): return hex(x) > ... class T(object): f = hex > ... >>

Shutdown Mac OSX computer using python

Hello, i'm a python noob! But I would like to shutdown a 10.5.x mac computer using python (2.5.1) this is my code: #!/usr/bin/python import SystemEvents down = SystemEvents.Power_Suite.Power_Suite_Events() down.shut_down() the last call needs an additional argument, I cant find any documentat

Re: Strengths and weaknesses of Pygame vs. pyglet vs. PyOpenGL?

On Dec 8, 8:59 pm, alex23 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 8, 7:18 pm, illume <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It's easier to teach only requiring *using* classes, and functions > > than *creating* them.  This is important if it's being used to teach > > programming - as you don't need to teach

Public imports

Hi, Does Python support public imports instead of the default private? Something like D's "public import" (see ) or even Perl's "export_to_level". Thanks, -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Determining whether a variable is less/greater than a range.

Found it. min and max functions. I thought that this would be implemented as a list method: a.min a.max I can see that the built in functions make sense. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: built-in functions as class attributes

On Dec 8, 11:23 am, Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know if there is something official, I google for > > http://users.rcn.com/python/download/Descriptor.htm > > or "descrintro" every time I need a refresher. Thank you! I'd read this before, but apparently I'd either not taken it

Re: Determining whether a variable is less/greater than a range.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi. I'm having another go at learning Python so I'll probably be > asking a few basic questions. Here is the first one. > > a = list(range(10, 21) > > b = 9 > > c = 21 > > How can I find out if b and c have values less or more than the values > in list a? >>> a = ra

Re: Beginner trying to understand functions.

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 11:32 PM, simonh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That works fine. Then I've tried to use functions instead. The first > two work fine, the third fails: [ ... snip ... ] Try this: def getName(): name = input('Please enter your name: ') print('Hello', name) return name

Re: infering the number of args a function takes at runtime

On Mon, 08 Dec 2008 02:40:03 -0800, sniffer wrote: > On Dec 8, 9:39 am, sniffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> hi all, >> i am a python newbie, in a project currently doing i need to find out >> the number of arguments that a function takes at runtime.? Is this >> possible ,if so how do i do this,i

Re: Beginner trying to understand functions.

simonh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > def getName(): > name = input('Please enter your name: ') > print('Hello', name) > > def getAge(): > while True: > try: > age = int(input('Please enter your age: ')) > break > except ValueError: >

Re: Determining whether a variable is less/greater than a range.

On Dec 8, 11:44 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. I'm having another go at learning Python so I'll probably be > asking a few basic questions. Here is the first one. > > a = list(range(10, 21) > > b = 9 > > c = 21 > > How can I find out if b and c have values less or more tha

Re: Python and audio frequency analysis

manatlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to make a kind of "spectrum analyzer" ... > Which should display "bars" according bands of frequencies ... in real > time... > > Is anybody know an audio processing lib in python for that ? For the display module you can use pygame, pyglet or pyOpen

Re: Beginner trying to understand functions.

simonh wrote: > In my attempt to learn Python I'm writing a small (useless) program to > help me understand the various concepts. I'm going to add to this as I > learn to serve as a single place to see how something works, > hopefully. Here is the first approach: > That works fine. Then I've trie

Beginner trying to understand functions.

simonh write: In my attempt to learn Python I'm writing a small (useless) program to help me understand the various concepts. I'm going to add to this as I learn to serve as a single place to see how something works, hopefully. Here is the first approach: name = input('Please enter your name:

Re: Guido's new method definition idea

I like the transparancy and clearity of python, and the explicit self fits beautifully. Allowing a second way of defining your methods would only confuse newbies more I would think. I was a newby only half a year ago (or maybe I still am). The explicit self seems weird the very first time you see

Re: gzip.GzipFile (was Re: Don't you just love writing this sort of thing :))

Jorgen Grahn wrote: On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 10:01:10 +, Arnaud Delobelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... Why use (open, gzp.GzipFile)[Entry.endswith(".gz")] when we have had contitional expressions for a few years now? Instead, you can write (gzip.GzipFile if entry.endswidth(".gz") else op

Re: Rich Comparisons Gotcha

Rober Kern wrote: >James Stroud wrote: >> Steven D'Aprano wrote: >>> On Sun, 07 Dec 2008 13:57:54 -0800, James Stroud wrote: Rasmus Fogh wrote: ll1 = [y,1] y in ll1 > True ll2 = [1,y] y in ll2 > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "", l

Re: dBase III files and Visual Foxpro 6 files

On Dec 8, 12:53 pm, Ethan Furman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings All! > > I nearly have support complete for dBase III dbf/dbt files -- just > wrapping up support for dates.  The null value has been a hindrance for > awhile but I nearly have that solved as well. > > For any who know of a coo

Re: Public imports

Márcio Faustino: > Does Python support public imports instead of the default private? > Something like D's "public import" (see 2.0/module.html>) or even Perl's "export_to_level". D type system has several big holes, and I am trying to push Walter to fix some of th

Re: Python and audio frequency analysis

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:20 PM, manatlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to make a kind of "spectrum analyzer" ... > Which should display "bars" according bands of frequencies ... in real > time... > > Is anybody know an audio processing lib in python for that ? Hi, It is possible to use p

Re: Beginner trying to understand functions.

i think we should use raw_input('Please enter your name: ') instead of input('Please enter your name: ') 2008/12/8 Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > simonh wrote: > > > In my attempt to learn Python I'm writing a small (useless) program to > > help me understand the various concepts. I'm going to

[Python 2.x] Pickling a datetime.tzinfo subclass instance?

Hello, I'm writing a program that pickles an instance of a custom subclass of datetime.tzinfo. I followed the guides given in the Library Reference (version 2.5.2, chapter 5.1.6), which contain the note: "Special requirement for pickling: A tzinfo subclass must have an __init__ method that can be

Re: Beginner trying to understand functions.

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:24 AM, cadmuxe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i think we should use raw_input('Please enter your name: ') instead of > input('Please enter your name: ') Good point :) OP: Please take notes :) cheers James -- -- -- "Problems are solved by method" -- http://mail.python.org

Re: Public imports

> D type system has several big holes, I meant "D module system", of course. Sorry. Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Beginner trying to understand functions.

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 9:24 AM, cadmuxe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i think we should use raw_input('Please enter your name: ') instead of > input('Please enter your name: ') > Print is a function in this code and range returns an iterator (or else list(range(18,31)) is redundant). I think the O

datetime and the rich-companison operators

Greetings All! I am implementing a NullDate class in order to mirror dates and datetimes that have no value (yes, this is for my dbf module :) I'm still a bit fuzzy about class methods, hashing, and __new__, but my question of the moment is this: it seems to me that with two dates or date

Re: Beginner trying to understand functions.

James Mills wrote: > On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:24 AM, cadmuxe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> i think we should use raw_input('Please enter your name: ') instead of >> input('Please enter your name: ') > > Good point :) OP: Please take notes :) I think the OP is using Python 3.0. What used to caus

Re: [Py2exe-users] py2exe 0.6.9 released

On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:39:36 +, Pascal wrote: > On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:23:59 -0500, Chris Spencer wrote: > >> After I "compile" my program with py2exe 0.6.9 with Python 2.6, I'm >> still getting the "Application Did Not Initialize Properly" error >> dialog whenever I run my code. What am I d

Re: dBase III files and Visual Foxpro 6 files

sniffer wrote: On Dec 8, 12:53 pm, Ethan Furman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Greetings All! I nearly have support complete for dBase III dbf/dbt files -- just wrapping up support for dates. The null value has been a hindrance for awhile but I nearly have that solved as well. For any who know of

Re: Beginner trying to understand functions.

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:46 AM, Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think the OP is using Python 3.0. What used to cause trouble Well of course he/she/it is! I'm too blind to have noticed that! :) --JamesMills -- -- -- "Problems are solved by method" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/l

Re: Beginner trying to understand functions.

On 12月8日, 下午10时53分, "James Mills" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:46 AM, Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think the OP is using Python 3.0. What used to cause trouble > > Well of course he/she/it is! > I'm too blind to have noticed that! :) > > --JamesMills > > --

appending values into array instead of a list

Hi, I have this little script: import csv import numpy signal=[] ref=[] for x in csv.reader(open('reffile.csv').readlines()): ref.append(x) for x in csv.reader(open('signalfile.csv').readlines()): signal.append(x) signalarray=numpy.array(signal, dtype=float) signaldict={} signaldic

Re: Best way to run multiple Python processes without overloading CPU or disk i/o

On Dec 8, 2008, at 2:48 AM, Gabriel Genellina wrote: En Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:29:32 -0200, Philip Semanchuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: On Dec 2, 2008, at 11:21 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a cross-platform way to launch multiple Python processes and monitor CPU usage os.getload

Re: A question about reference in Python.

On Dec 7, 2008, at 10:26 PM, Group wrote: Now, I want to write a Red-Black Tree, and a List structure. In C/C+ +, I can use pointers to refer to children notes (or next notes). But, in Python, how can I do it? Except the sequence, I know not any way. Any variable in Python is a reference,

Re: Learning Python now coming from Perl

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My favourite mistake when I made the transition was calling methods > without parentheses. In perl it is common to call methods without > parentheses - in python this does absolutely nothing! pychecker does > warn abo

Equivalent of 'wget' for python?

Hi, I'm looking for a portable way to download ZIP files on the internet through Python. I don't want to do os.system() to invoke 'wget', since this isn't portable on Windows. I'm hoping the core python library has a library for this. Note that I'll be using Python 3.0. Thanks. -- http://mail.pyt

Re: Guido's new method definition idea

> > I'd like this new way of defining methods, what do you guys think? > Anyone ready for writing a PEP? I don't really see any advantage. IMHO, it is not clearer, it is not more concise, it makes the definition of class shared variables look really out of place. It also makes the new programmer

Re: Equivalent of 'wget' for python?

Robert Dailey wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a portable way to download ZIP files on the internet > through Python. I don't want to do os.system() to invoke 'wget', since > this isn't portable on Windows. I'm hoping the core python library has > a library for this. Note that I'll be using Pytho

Re: Equivalent of 'wget' for python?

On Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:29:35 +0100, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Robert Dailey wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a portable way to download ZIP files on the internet through Python. I don't want to do os.system() to invoke 'wget', since this isn't portable on Windows. I'm hoping the

Re: Equivalent of 'wget' for python?

Robert Dailey wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a portable way to download ZIP files on the internet > through Python. I don't want to do os.system() to invoke 'wget', since > this isn't portable on Windows. I'm hoping the core python library has > a library for this. Note that I'll be using Python

Calling C# COM (.NET) from python

Hi, I've never programmed in python and only have a small understanding of what is wrapped up in the terms COM and .NET. Is there a way of using python to get a hold of objects written in C# as COM objects using python? I'm looking for ways to avoid VBScript (which, after a couple of weeks, I've

Re: Guido's new method definition idea

On Dec 6, 4:15 pm, Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 6, 12:47 am, "Patrick Mullen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Could I do something like this: > > > def a.add(b): return a+b > > > Outside of a class?  Of course then that makes you think you could do > > 5.add(6) or something craaa

Re: Guido's new method definition idea

On Dec 6, 4:15 pm, Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 6, 12:47 am, "Patrick Mullen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Could I do something like this: > > > def a.add(b): return a+b > > > Outside of a class?  Of course then that makes you think you could do > > 5.add(6) or something craaa

SQLObject 0.9.9

Hello! I'm pleased to announce version 0.9.10, a minor bugfix release of 0.9 branch of SQLObject. What is SQLObject = SQLObject is an object-relational mapper. Your database tables are described as classes, and rows are instances of those classes. SQLObject is meant to be easy

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Hello! I'm pleased to announce version 0.10.4, a minor bugfix release of 0.10 branch of SQLObject. What is SQLObject = SQLObject is an object-relational mapper. Your database tables are described as classes, and rows are instances of those classes. SQLObject is meant to be eas

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QOTW: "To the pure, everything, properly described, is pure ;-)" - Bengt Richter The final version of Python 3.0 was released last Wednesday, jointly with 2.6.1 - congratulations! http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/f92e7e2db667d903/ Implementing "lazy"

Re: Guido's new method definition idea

On Dec 8, 12:01 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > It would be nice to be able to do the following instead: > > class C: >     def createfunc(self): >         def self.func(arg): >             return arg + 1 > The above example should have read as follows: class C: def createfunc(self, arg):

Re: Calling C# COM (.NET) from python

On Dec 8, 2008, at 11:53 AM, Andrew Falanga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I've never programmed in python and only have a small understanding of what is wrapped up in the terms COM and .NET. Is there a way of using python to get a hold of objects written in C# as COM objects using python?

Re: [Py2exe-users] py2exe 0.6.9 released

On Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:47:13 +, Pascal wrote: > On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:39:36 +, Pascal wrote: > >> On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:23:59 -0500, Chris Spencer wrote: >> >>> After I "compile" my program with py2exe 0.6.9 with Python 2.6, I'm >>> still getting the "Application Did Not Initialize Pro

Re: Calling C# COM (.NET) from python

On Dec 8, 10:53 am, Andrew Falanga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've never programmed in python and only have a small understanding of > what is wrapped up in the terms COM and .NET.  Is there a way of using > python to get a hold of objects written in C# as COM objects using > python?  I'm

Re: Guido's new method definition idea

On Dec 8, 2008, at 11:59 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 6, 4:15 pm, Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Dec 6, 12:47 am, "Patrick Mullen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Could I do something like this: def a.add(b): return a+b Outside of a class? Of course then that makes you thi

Re: Mathematica 7 compares to other languages

On Dec 8, 5:10 am, Jon Harrop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Xah Lee wrote: > > For those interested in this Mathematica problem, i've now cleaned up > > the essay with additional comments here: > > > • A Mathematica Optimization Problem > > http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/Mathematica_optimi

Re: How to Write to csv file to create bulk address book

k.i.n.g. wrote: > Hi , > > I am new to scripting, I am working on script which would create 'n' > number address book entries into a csv file which would be used to > import into a address book. I need suggestions for the same > > The fileds for csv file are as follows > > ""Title","First Name"

Re: datetime and the rich-companison operators

On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 11:41 PM, Ethan Furman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings All! > > I am implementing a NullDate class in order to mirror dates and datetimes > that have no value (yes, this is for my dbf module :) > > I'm still a bit fuzzy about class methods, hashing, and __new__, but

Re: Equivalent of 'wget' for python?

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 11:53 AM, r0g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > urllib.urlretrieve(url_of_zip_file, destination_on_local_filesystem). In python 3.0, that appears to be: import urllib.request urllib.request.urlretrieve(url, local_file_name) -- Jerry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/p

Re: Equivalent of 'wget' for python?

Jean-Paul Calderone wrote: > On Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:29:35 +0100, "Diez B. Roggisch" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Robert Dailey wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm looking for a portable way to download ZIP files on the internet >>> through Python. I don't want to do os.system() to invoke 'wget', since

Symposium “Computational Methods in Image Analysis ” within the USNCCM X Congress – Announce & Call for Pap ers

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Re: Beginner trying to understand functions.

Thanks for the many replies. Thanks especially to Pierre. This works perfectly: def getName(): name = input('Please enter your name: ') print('Hello', name) def getAge(): while True: try: age = int(input('Please enter your age: ')) return age e

Re: dBase III files and Visual Foxpro 6 files

On Dec 8, 7:44 pm, Ethan Furman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sniffer wrote: > > On Dec 8, 12:53 pm, Ethan Furman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Greetings All! > > >> I nearly have support complete for dBase III dbf/dbt files -- just > >> wrapping up support for dates.  The null value has been a hi

Re: Equivalent of 'wget' for python?

Am Mon, 08 Dec 2008 08:22:55 -0800 schrieb Robert Dailey: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a portable way to download ZIP files on the internet > through Python. I don't want to do os.system() to invoke 'wget', since > this isn't portable on Windows. I'm hoping the core python library has a > library for

Text parsing via regex

I'm having a little text parsing problem that i think would be really quick to troubleshoot for someone more versed in python and Regexes. I need to write a simple script that parses some arbitrarily long string every 50 characters, and does not parse text in the middle of words (but ultimately eve

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