Re: Python/Fortran interoperability

2009-08-24 Thread sturlamolden
On 24 Aug, 18:20, n...@cam.ac.uk wrote: This obviosuly proves you wrong: Er, no, it doesn't.  I suggest that you read what I said more carefully - and the Fortran standard.  As I said, you can kludge them up, and that is precisely one such kludge - You said we have to kludge them up as

Python memory management - virtualized server environments

2009-08-24 Thread gravityzoo-dmo
Hello everyone, I was wondering if anyone here has had any experience in running Python in a virtualized server environment? The reason I'm asking is the recent thing I noticed when running my server application (written in Python + Twisted); The memory of the server application seems to only

csv module and None values

2009-08-24 Thread JKPeck
I'm trying to get the csv module (Python 2.6) to write data records like Excel. The excel dialect isn't doing it. The problem is in writing None values. I want them to result in just sequential commas - ,, but csv treats None specially, as the doc says, To make it as easy as possible to

Re: Annoying octal notation

2009-08-24 Thread Derek Martin
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 05:03:28PM +, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:21:46 -0500, Derek Martin wrote: since the old syntax is prevalent both within and without the Python community, making the change is, was, and always will be a bad idea. Octal syntax isn't prevalent

List iterator thread safety

2009-08-24 Thread Emanuele D'Arrigo
Let's say I have a list accessed by two threads, one removing list items via del myList[index] statement the other iterating through the list and printing out the items via for item in myList: statement. Am I right to say this -won't- generate exceptions because the list iterator is not concerned

Re: Python/Fortran interoperability

2009-08-24 Thread Richard Maine
sturlamolden sturlamol...@yahoo.no wrote: You also said we can only interop with length-1 character strings. My kludge was valid Fortran and works with strings of any length up to some sane limit that you can specify. There might be a confusion here (and I'm not even sure on whose part) on a

Re: Bash-like brace expansion

2009-08-24 Thread John Haxby
Peter Waller wrote: Okay, I got fed up with there not being any (obvious) good examples of how to do bash-like brace expansion in Python, so I wrote it myself. Here it is for all to enjoy! If anyone has any better solutions or any other examples of how to do this, I'd be glad to hear from them.

Re: print() and unicode strings (python 3.1)

2009-08-24 Thread Stefan Behnel
7stud wrote: python 3.1 won't let me explicitly encode my unicode string Sure it does. But encoding a non-ASCII string to ASCII will necessarily fail. and python 3.1 implicitly does the encoding with the wrong codec. That's not a Python problem, though. Your terminal is configured for

Re: print() and unicode strings (python 3.1)

2009-08-24 Thread 7stud
On Aug 24, 12:19 pm, Stefan Behnel stefan...@behnel.de wrote: 7stud wrote: python 3.1 won't let me explicitly encode my unicode string Sure it does. But encoding a non-ASCII string to ASCII will necessarily fail. As you should be able to see in the python 3.1 example I posted, I did not

How does the file.seek() work ?

2009-08-24 Thread gert
I want the file pointer set to 100 and overwrite everything from there curl -C 100 -T upload2.wsgi http://192.168.2.17/appwsgi/wsgi/upload2.wsgi -v w+ overwrites my file completely r+ overwrites nothing a+ only makes my file bigger import os def application(environ, response):

Re: Python/Fortran interoperability

2009-08-24 Thread nmm1
In article 1j4y84p.v5docbtueccmn%nos...@see.signature, Richard Maine nos...@see.signature wrote: Only character strings of length 1 are interoperable, as the term interoperable is defined in the Fortran standard. However, that does not mean that only character strings of length 1 will work with

Re: Python memory management - virtualized server environments

2009-08-24 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
gravityzoo-dmo wrote: Hello everyone, I was wondering if anyone here has had any experience in running Python in a virtualized server environment? The reason I'm asking is the recent thing I noticed when running my server application (written in Python + Twisted); The memory of the server

Re: Reading binary files

2009-08-24 Thread Dave Angel
Ronn Ross wrote: On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Ronn Ross ronn.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.orgwrote: On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 10:35 -0400, Ronn Ross wrote: I need to read a binary file. When I open it up in a text

Re: Python/Fortran interoperability

2009-08-24 Thread sturlamolden
On 24 Aug, 20:55, n...@cam.ac.uk wrote: Precisely.  And the kludge does NOT work under all circumstances, which is why I said that it doesn't work very well. Do you have an example? Consider, for example:     SUBROUTINE Fred (X) BIND(C)     CHARACTER*(*) :: X     END SUBROUTINE Fred

Re: your favorite debugging tool?

2009-08-24 Thread Paul Rubin
Esmail ebo...@hotmail.com writes: What is your favorite tool to help you debug your code? I've been getting along with 'print' statements but that is getting old and somewhat cumbersome. Beyond print statements, I use pdb a lot. Winpdb (www.winpdb.org) is even better, but is kind of

Re: Python/Fortran interoperability

2009-08-24 Thread glen herrmannsfeldt
In comp.lang.fortran n...@cam.ac.uk wrote: (snip) Precisely. And the kludge does NOT work under all circumstances, which is why I said that it doesn't work very well. Consider, for example: SUBROUTINE Fred (X) BIND(C) CHARACTER*(*) :: X END SUBROUTINE Fred

Re: Python/Fortran interoperability

2009-08-24 Thread nmm1
In article 7abee4bb-b18a-4680-817b-7e76aed40...@c2g2000yqi.googlegroups.com, sturlamolden sturlamol...@yahoo.no wrote: Precisely. =A0And the kludge does NOT work under all circumstances, which is why I said that it doesn't work very well. Do you have an example? I gave you one. Also see

Re: How does the file.seek() work ?

2009-08-24 Thread Tim Chase
I want the file pointer set to 100 and overwrite everything from there [snip] def application(environ, response): query=os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__),'teemp') range=environ.get('HTTP_RANGE','bytes=0-').replace ('bytes=','').split(',') offset=[] for r in range:

Re: Annoying octal notation

2009-08-24 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:40:24 -0300, Derek Martin c...@pizzashack.org escribió: Why is it so hard for you to accept that intelligent people can disagree with you, and that what's right for you might be bad for others? Ask the same question yourself please. -- Gabriel Genellina --

Web Services examples using raw xml?

2009-08-24 Thread John Gordon
I'm developing a program that will use web services, which I have never used before. There are several tutorials out there that advise you to get the WSDL and then call a method (such as wsdl2py) that inspects the wsdl and automagically generates the python classes and methods you need for

Re: How does the file.seek() work ?

2009-08-24 Thread gert
On Aug 24, 9:37 pm, Tim Chase python.l...@tim.thechases.com wrote: I want the file pointer set to 100 and overwrite everything from there [snip] def application(environ, response):     query=os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__),'teemp')    

Re: Web Services examples using raw xml?

2009-08-24 Thread John Nagle
John Gordon wrote: I'm developing a program that will use web services, which I have never used before. Web services in general, or some Microsoft interface? John Nagle -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python/Fortran interoperability

2009-08-24 Thread nmm1
In article h6upc9$4...@naig.caltech.edu, glen herrmannsfeldt g...@ugcs.caltech.edu wrote: Consider, for example: SUBROUTINE Fred (X) BIND(C) CHARACTER*(*) :: X END SUBROUTINE Fred CHARACTER(LEN=100) :: string CALL Fred(string(40:60)) CALL Fred(string(5:50)) This

Re: csv module and None values

2009-08-24 Thread JKPeck
On Aug 24, 11:30 am, JKPeck jkp...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to get the csv module (Python 2.6) to write data records like Excel.  The excel dialect isn't doing it.  The problem is in writing None values.  I want them to result in just sequential commas - ,, but csv treats None specially, as

Re: Python/Fortran interoperability

2009-08-24 Thread sturlamolden
On 24 Aug, 21:24, n...@cam.ac.uk wrote: You might also like to consider the converse problem: how to write a Fortran function that takes a C string of arbitrary length and uses it. That's what the code I showed you does. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Annoying octal notation

2009-08-24 Thread Derek Martin
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 04:40:14PM -0300, Gabriel Genellina wrote: En Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:40:24 -0300, Derek Martin c...@pizzashack.org escribió: Why is it so hard for you to accept that intelligent people can disagree with you, and that what's right for you might be bad for others? Ask

Pmw optionmenu color

2009-08-24 Thread J Wolfe
Hello, It seems like this should be easy to do... change the background color of the Pmw optionmenu. I have not been able to find this. Anyone have a hint or know how to do this? Thanks, Jonathan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Temat:, Re: IOError: [Errno 22] invalid mode ('wb') or filename: in windows xp while making tarfile

2009-08-24 Thread ryniek
On 24 Sie, 16:56, John Machin sjmac...@lexicon.net wrote: On Aug 25, 12:46 am, Tim Golden m...@timgolden.me.uk wrote: Dave Angel wrote: You still haven't gotten rid of those illegal colons in the filename.   They're not legal in Windows, as has been pointed out a couple of times in

Re: Web Services examples using raw xml?

2009-08-24 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
John Gordon schrieb: I'm developing a program that will use web services, which I have never used before. There are several tutorials out there that advise you to get the WSDL and then call a method (such as wsdl2py) that inspects the wsdl and automagically generates the python classes and

Re: print() and unicode strings (python 3.1)

2009-08-24 Thread Martin v. Löwis
I can't figure out a way to programatically set the encoding for sys.stdout. So where does that leave me? You should be setting the terminal encoding administratively, not programmatically. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python/Fortran interoperability

2009-08-24 Thread James Van Buskirk
Richard Maine nos...@see.signature wrote in message news:1j4y84p.v5docbtueccmn%nos...@see.signature... There might be a confusion here (and I'm not even sure on whose part) on a picky but important detail of wording. I have seen multiple people confused by this one before. In fact, some

Re: csv module and None values

2009-08-24 Thread Peter Otten
JKPeck wrote: I'm trying to get the csv module (Python 2.6) to write data records like Excel. The excel dialect isn't doing it. The problem is in writing None values. I want them to result in just sequential commas - ,, but csv treats None specially, as the doc says, To make it as easy

Re: Temat:, Re: IOError: [Errno 22] invalid mode ('wb') or filename: in windows xp while making tarfile

2009-08-24 Thread ryniek
On 24 Sie, 22:34, ryniek rynie...@gmail.com wrote: On 24 Sie, 16:56, John Machin sjmac...@lexicon.net wrote: On Aug 25, 12:46 am, Tim Golden m...@timgolden.me.uk wrote: Dave Angel wrote: You still haven't gotten rid of those illegal colons in the filename.   They're not legal in

Graph library recommendations for large graphs

2009-08-24 Thread VanL
I am working on a project that will require building and querying large graph objects (initially 8M nodes, 30-40M edges; eventually 40M nodes, 100M edges). NetworkX seems to be the most popular, but I am concerned that a dict representation for nodes would use too much memory -- my initial

Re: Python/Fortran interoperability

2009-08-24 Thread Richard Maine
James Van Buskirk not_va...@comcast.net wrote: Richard Maine nos...@see.signature wrote in message news:1j4y84p.v5docbtueccmn%nos...@see.signature... One might plausibly regard this as a kludge, but it is a kludge that is part of the Fortran standard and is guaranteed to work with all

Re: Reading binary files

2009-08-24 Thread David Robinow
This works for a simple binary file, but the actual file I'm trying to read is give throwing an error that the file cannot be found. Here is the name of the my file: 2009.08.02_06.52.00_WA-1_0001_00_0662_0.jstars Should python have trouble reading this file name or extension? I'm having

Distutils evil voodoo: install into a package

2009-08-24 Thread Pavel Panchekha
Before you flame me, I know that what I'm trying to do is beyond evil. But I nonetheless want to do it. Feel free to rant if you must. :) I have a package that I want to install into another package. For example, I have the packages pya and pyb. pya is guaranteed to be installed before pyb is, so

Re: Graph library recommendations for large graphs

2009-08-24 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
VanL schrieb: I am working on a project that will require building and querying large graph objects (initially 8M nodes, 30-40M edges; eventually 40M nodes, 100M edges). NetworkX seems to be the most popular, but I am concerned that a dict representation for nodes would use too much memory --

Re: Distutils evil voodoo: install into a package

2009-08-24 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Pavel Panchekha schrieb: Before you flame me, I know that what I'm trying to do is beyond evil. But I nonetheless want to do it. Feel free to rant if you must. :) I have a package that I want to install into another package. For example, I have the packages pya and pyb. pya is guaranteed to be

Re: Graph library recommendations for large graphs

2009-08-24 Thread Bearophile
You may try the Python bindings for the Boost Graph Library, the graph you talk about may fit in 2GB of a 32 bit OS too (this is the first link I have found, it's a lot of time I don't use those graph bindings): http://banyan.usc.edu/log/c_cpp/boost-graph-library-python-bindings Bye, bearophile

Re: Numeric literals in other than base 10 - was Annoying octal notation

2009-08-24 Thread James Harris
On 24 Aug, 14:05, Mel mwil...@the-wire.com wrote: James Harris wrote: On 24 Aug, 02:19, Max Erickson maxerick...@gmail.com wrote: [ ... ] int('100', 3) 9 int('100', 36) 1296 This is fine typed into the language directly but couldn't be entered by the user or read-in from or

Re: basic thread question

2009-08-24 Thread Piet van Oostrum
sturlamolden sturlamol...@yahoo.no (s) wrote: s On 24 Aug, 13:21, Piet van Oostrum p...@cs.uu.nl wrote: But os.fork() is not available on Windows. And I guess refcounts et al. will soon destroy the sharing. s Well, there is os.fork in Cygwin and SUA (SUA is the Unix subsytem in s Windows

Re: Graph library recommendations for large graphs

2009-08-24 Thread Istvan Albert
On Aug 24, 5:37 pm, VanL van.lindb...@gmail.com wrote: Can anybody who has worked with large graphs before give a recommendation? when using large graphs another limitation may come from the various graph algorithm run times. Most likely you will need to squeeze out as much as possible and a

Re: Temat:, Re: IOError: [Errno 22] invalid mode ('wb') or filename: in windows xp while making tarfile

2009-08-24 Thread Dave Angel
You shouldn't want either a colon or a pipe symbol in the filename string (not counting the drive letter prefix). A single colon gives you surprising behavior, and two will give you Invalid Argument. See inline responses. ryniek wrote: On 24 Sie, 22:34, ryniek rynie...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: basic thread question

2009-08-24 Thread sturlamolden
On 25 Aug, 01:26, Piet van Oostrum p...@cs.uu.nl wrote: That's because it doesn't use copy-on-write. Thereby losing most of its advantages. I don't know SUA, but I have vaguely heard about it. SUA is a version of UNIX hidden inside Windows Vista and Windows 7 (except in Home and Home Premium),

Re: Numeric literals in other than base 10 - was Annoying octal notation

2009-08-24 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:23:06 -0700, James Harris wrote: Sure but while I wouldn't normally want to type something as obscure as 32rst into a file of data I might want to type 0xff00 or similar. That is far clearer than 65280 in some cases. My point was that int('ff00', 16) is OK for the

Re: Annoying octal notation

2009-08-24 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:40:24 -0500, Derek Martin wrote: On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 05:03:28PM +, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:21:46 -0500, Derek Martin wrote: since the old syntax is prevalent both within and without the Python community, making the change is, was, and

Re: Literal concatenation, strings vs. numbers

2009-08-24 Thread greg
Ben Finney wrote: So, different representations of literals are parsed as separate literals, then concatenated. To have the behaviour you describe, the case needs to be made separately that digit concatenation should not be consistent with the established string literal parsing behaviour. I

Re: Numeric literals in other than base 10 - was Annoying octal notation

2009-08-24 Thread Mensanator
On Aug 24, 7:25 pm, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this- cybersource.com.au wrote: On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:23:06 -0700, James Harris wrote: Sure but while I wouldn't normally want to type something as obscure as 32rst into a file of data I might want to type 0xff00 or similar. That is far

best way to display photos

2009-08-24 Thread samwyse
I have several thousand photographs that I need to quickly classify, all by myself. After extensive searches, I have been unable to find anything to my liking, so desire to write something myself. I'm thinking about displaying a photo and waiting for keystrokes to tag it; 'i' for interior, 'e'

Re: Python for professsional Windows GUI apps?

2009-08-24 Thread Peter Decker
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Stephen Hansenapt.shan...@gmail.com wrote: P.S. I have no idea why I'm pumping Dabo so much in this though I've never used it! I've used in fairly regularly for about 2 years now. I haven't had to write that ugly wxPython code for so long that every time I see

Re: best way to display photos

2009-08-24 Thread Paul Rubin
samwyse samw...@gmail.com writes: My big question is, what's the best way to display the photos. I've used PIL in the past, but IIRC it uses an external program. Pygame is the next obvious choice, but like PIL it requires an add-in. That leaves Tkinter. Has anyone used it to display .JPG

Re: Python for professsional Windows GUI apps?

2009-08-24 Thread sturlamolden
On 25 Aug, 03:51, Peter Decker pydec...@gmail.com wrote: I've used in fairly regularly for about 2 years now. I haven't had to write that ugly wxPython code for so long that every time I see examples on their mail list I wanna barf. I prefer wxFormBuilder. GUIs should be designed visually

Re: Web Services examples using raw xml?

2009-08-24 Thread Asun Friere
On Aug 25, 5:41 am, John Gordon gor...@panix.com wrote:   File /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/suds/client.py, line 59     @classmethod     ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax If memory serves me correctly, decorators were introduced in python2.4. That would account for your SyntaxError. --

Any Softphone wrote in Python?

2009-08-24 Thread Rodrigo do Carmo
Hi python-community, I would like to ask you if someone know any open source softphone wrote entirely in Python. The thing is that I want to write a honeyphone but starting from a softphone. Sorry if you think that I haven't googled enough. Regards, Rodrigo. --

Putting together a larger matrix from smaller matrices

2009-08-24 Thread Matjaz Bezovnik
Dear all, I'm but a layman so do not take offence at this maybe over simple question. This is something which is done often in FEM methods, and the alike. I have matrix A of 3x3 elements, and B, of the same number of elements, 3x3. What would be the most obvious way to assemble a matrix

Re: print() and unicode strings (python 3.1)

2009-08-24 Thread 7stud
On Aug 24, 2:41 pm, Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de wrote: I can't figure out a way to programatically set the encoding for sys.stdout.  So where does that leave me? You should be setting the terminal encoding administratively, not programmatically. The terminal encoding has always

Re: Protecting against callbacks queuing up?

2009-08-24 Thread ryles
On Aug 23, 8:14 pm, Esben von Buchwald find@paa.google wrote: I thought that this code would do the trick, but it obviously doesn't help at all, and i can't understand why...      def doCallback(self):          if self.process_busy==False:              self.process_busy=True            

Next week: the 9th PyWeek game programming challenge!

2009-08-24 Thread Richard Jones
The ninth PyWeek challenge starts this weekend, running between Sunday 30th August to Sunday 6th September (00:00UTC to 00:00UTC) The PyWeek challenge invites entrants to write a game in one week from scratch either as an individual or in a team. Entries must be developed in Python, during the

Re: Annoying octal notation

2009-08-24 Thread Erik Max Francis
Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:14:25 -0500, Derek Martin wrote: Assuming I'm right about that, then the use of a leading 0 to represent octal actually predates the prevalence of using 0 in dates by almost two decades. And while using leading zeros in other contexts is familiar

Re: Temat:,Re: IOError: [Errno 22] invalid mode ('wb') or filename: in windows xp while making tarfile

2009-08-24 Thread Erik Max Francis
ryniek wrote: On 24 Sie, 22:34, ryniek rynie...@gmail.com wrote: On 24 Sie, 16:56, John Machin sjmac...@lexicon.net wrote: On Aug 25, 12:46 am, Tim Golden m...@timgolden.me.uk wrote: Dave Angel wrote: You still haven't gotten rid of those illegal colons in the filename. They're not legal

Re: print() and unicode strings (python 3.1)

2009-08-24 Thread Stephen Hansen
You should be setting the terminal encoding administratively, not programmatically. The terminal encoding has always been utf-8. It was not set programmatically. It seems to me that python 3.1's string handling is broken. Apparently, in python 3.1 I am unable to explicitly set the

Re: Python for professsional Windows GUI apps?

2009-08-24 Thread Steve
You can also use Windows Forms with IronPython http://www.ironpython.info/index.php/Contents#Windows_Forms -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python for professsional Windows GUI apps?

2009-08-24 Thread Che M
I'm especially concerned about the lack of controls, the lack of updates (lots of controls in wxWidgets are 1.0 deadware), I use wxPython. No lack of controls there, and most are up to date. Which lots in wxWidgets are you thinking of? I need controls for business apps like access to

Re: Python for professsional Windows GUI apps?

2009-08-24 Thread Peter Decker
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 10:26 PM, sturlamoldensturlamol...@yahoo.no wrote: On 25 Aug, 03:51, Peter Decker pydec...@gmail.com wrote: I've used in fairly regularly for about 2 years now. I haven't had to write that ugly wxPython code for so long that every time I see examples on their mail list

Re: IOError: [Errno 22] invalid mode ('wb') or filename: in windows xp while making tarfile

2009-08-24 Thread Tim Roberts
Ryniek90 rynie...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, but i don't know where those pipes came from : P The proper path is C:\\Users\\Ryniek's WinSe7en\\MyNewGGBackup(2009-08-23 14:59:02).tar.bz2 and that string literal is \U, without any pipes :) The truth is that script works on linux (ubuntu) but not

Re: [ANN] pyxser-1.2r --- Python-Object to XML serialization module

2009-08-24 Thread Daniel Molina Wegener
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Stefan Behnel stefan...@behnel.de on Monday 24 August 2009 09:00 wrote in comp.lang.python: Daniel Molina Wegener wrote: unicode objects are encoded into the encoding that the XML document encoding has, and as you say, the whole XML document

Re: print() and unicode strings (python 3.1)

2009-08-24 Thread Ned Deily
In article e5e2ec2e-2b4a-4ca8-8c0f-109e5f4eb...@v23g2000pro.googlegroups.com, 7stud bbxx789_0...@yahoo.com wrote: On Aug 24, 2:41 pm, Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de wrote: I can't figure out a way to programatically set the encoding for sys.stdout.  So where does that leave me?

Re: best way to display photos

2009-08-24 Thread 7stud
On Aug 24, 8:01 pm, Paul Rubin http://phr...@nospam.invalid wrote: samwyse samw...@gmail.com writes: My big question is, what's the best way to display the photos.  I've used PIL in the past, but IIRC it uses an external program.  Pygame is the next obvious choice, but like PIL it

Re: csv module and None values

2009-08-24 Thread John Yeung
On Aug 24, 1:30 pm, JKPeck jkp...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to get the csv module (Python 2.6) to write data records like Excel.  The excel dialect isn't doing it.  The problem is in writing None values.  I want them to result in just sequential commas - ,, but csv treats None specially, as

Re: Simple IRC library

2009-08-24 Thread alex23
devaru ajoys...@gmail.com wrote: I am new to Python language. I want to capture(either in database or a file) the conversation in IRC. Please suggest me some simple IRC library or code snippet for this. I recommend the circuits[1] library, which contains a sample irc bot [2]. You'll want to

Re: csv module and None values

2009-08-24 Thread John Yeung
On Aug 24, 5:00 pm, Peter Otten __pete...@web.de wrote: If I understand you correctly the csv.writer already does what you want: w.writerow([1,None,2]) 1,,2 just sequential commas, but that is the special treatment. Without it the None value would be converted to a string and the line

Re: Most active coroutine library project?

2009-08-24 Thread Denis
You can also at gevent http://pypi.python.org/pypi/gevent On Aug 23, 10:02 pm, Phillip B Oldham phillip.old...@gmail.com wrote: I've been taking a look at the multitude of coroutine libraries available for Python, but from the looks of the projects they all seem to be rather quiet. I'd like

Re: Web Services examples using raw xml?

2009-08-24 Thread Stefan Behnel
John Gordon wrote: I'm developing a program that will use web services, which I have never used before. There are several tutorials out there that advise you to get the WSDL and then call a method (such as wsdl2py) that inspects the wsdl and automagically generates the python classes and

Re: Python for professsional Windows GUI apps?

2009-08-24 Thread sturlamolden
On 25 Aug, 05:56, Peter Decker pydec...@gmail.com wrote: I use the Dabo Class Designer to visually design my forms. So what's you're point?  :) Nothing, except lobbying for wxFormBuilder for anyone who still doesn't know of it. :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Numeric literals in other than base 10 - was Annoying octal notation

2009-08-24 Thread Mensanator
On Aug 24, 8:21�pm, Mel mwil...@the-wire.com wrote: Mensanator wrote: [ ... ] If you want your data file to have values entered in hex, or oct, or even unary (1=one, 11=two, 111=three, =four...) you can. Unary? I think you'll find that Standard Positional Number Systems are not

Re: [ANN] pyxser-1.2r --- Python-Object to XML serialization module

2009-08-24 Thread Stefan Behnel
Daniel Molina Wegener wrote: Stefan Behnel stefan...@behnel.de wrote: Daniel Molina Wegener wrote: When the object is restored, by using pyxser.unserialize: pyobj = pyxser.unserialize(obj = xmldocstr, enc = utf-8) But this is XML, right? What do you need to pass the encoding for at this

Re: [ANN] pyxser-1.2r --- Python-Object to XML serialization module

2009-08-24 Thread Stefan Behnel
Stefan Behnel wrote: for all byte strings, regardless of their encoding (since you can't even know if they represent encoded text at all). Hmm, having written that, I guess it's actually best to encode byte strings as base64 instead. Otherwise, null bytes and other special byte values won't

[issue6767] Python as zip package

2009-08-24 Thread Joe
Joe us3...@web.de added the comment: Because, I don't need/want an installation. I only need the files whith its directory structure. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue6767

[issue6771] documentation/implementation error

2009-08-24 Thread steve21
New submission from steve21 steve872929...@yahoo.com.au: The documentation and implementation disagree. Documentation: Module curses.wrapper Convenience function to ensure proper terminal setup and resetting on application entry and exit. ... 15.10. curses.wrapper — Terminal handler for

[issue6772] Missing alias utf-8 in Standard Encodings list.

2009-08-24 Thread Mintaka
New submission from Mintaka mint...@post.cz: On page http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/library/codecs.html#standard-encodings (and on the pages for older versions too) in the table with review, is missing higly used alias utf-8 On that row is only: Codec Aliases Languages utf_8 U8,

[issue6772] Missing alias utf-8 in Standard Encodings list.

2009-08-24 Thread Marc-Andre Lemburg
Marc-Andre Lemburg m...@egenix.com added the comment: From the quoted page: Notice that spelling alternatives that only differ in case or use a hyphen instead of an underscore are also valid aliases. -- nosy: +lemburg resolution: - invalid status: open - closed

[issue6772] Missing alias utf-8 in Standard Encodings list.

2009-08-24 Thread Mintaka
Mintaka mint...@post.cz added the comment: True, but this one is much more used then others. So frequently, that look like other names are aliases. Maybe it is good reason to mention it explicitly. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue6005] Bug in socket example

2009-08-24 Thread Nicolas Dumazet
Nicolas Dumazet nicd...@gmail.com added the comment: I'm including a patch which replaces send by sendall in the examples in both socket and socketserver. -- keywords: +patch nosy: +nicdumz Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file14776/socket.patch

[issue6767] Python as zip package

2009-08-24 Thread Martin v . Löwis
Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de added the comment: Ah, for that, run msiexec /a pythonXY.msi TARGETDIR=K:\. This just unpacks the MSI file, without installing anything. See http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.4/msi/ -- ___ Python tracker

[issue1117601] os.path.exists returns false negatives in MAC environments.

2009-08-24 Thread Colin Alston
Colin Alston colin.als...@gmail.com added the comment: I also hit upon this issue and IMHO returning False in a permission denied scenario is less than obvious behaviour. It also means I have no way to catch this edge case in my own code immediately, I have to implement far larger logic to

[issue6773] subprocess issue on Win 7 x64

2009-08-24 Thread Piotr Foltyn
New submission from Piotr Foltyn piotr.fol...@displaylink.com: The sample code presented below produces error (screenshot available in attachment) on Windows 7 RC x64 with latest version of Python 2.6 installed. Both 32bit and 64bit versions of Python 2.6 are affected by this issue. Python 3

[issue6769] in xmlrpclib.py: NameError: global name 'HTTPSConnection' is not defined

2009-08-24 Thread Martin v . Löwis
Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de added the comment: Kristjan, can you take a look? -- assignee: - krisvale nosy: +loewis ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue6769 ___

[issue6774] socket.shudown documentation: on some platforms, closing one half closes the other half

2009-08-24 Thread Nicolas Dumazet
New submission from Nicolas Dumazet nicd...@gmail.com: I had a bad time understanding what happens in Mac OS X after a shutdown call: after calling shutdown(SH_WR) on side A, a corresponding shutdown(SH_RD) on side B would raise a socket.error: socket is not connected. It is quite surprising

[issue6775] readme: correct python.org/community/lists url

2009-08-24 Thread Nicolas Dumazet
New submission from Nicolas Dumazet nicd...@gmail.com: README shows http://www.python.org/community/lists.html as an URL for mailing list details, but it should be http://www.python.org/community/lists/ Attaching a patch. -- assignee: georg.brandl components: Documentation files:

[issue4879] Allow buffering for HTTPResponse

2009-08-24 Thread Kristján Valur Jónsson
Kristján Valur Jónsson krist...@ccpgames.com added the comment: Gregory, please revert your change (74463). There is no extra data after the response, since such data can only be generated as a result of a new request. Your change has disabled the HTTP/1.1 keepalive capability, causing test

[issue6769] in xmlrpclib.py: NameError: global name 'HTTPSConnection' is not defined

2009-08-24 Thread Kristján Valur Jónsson
Kristján Valur Jónsson krist...@ccpgames.com added the comment: Thanks, that's a silly bug. fixed in revision 74543. Perhaps we need a https regression test in the test suite. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue6499] Can't import xmlrpclib, DocXMLRPCServer and SimpleXMLRPCServer when zlib is not available

2009-08-24 Thread Kristján Valur Jónsson
Kristján Valur Jónsson krist...@ccpgames.com added the comment: Any news on this? -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue6499 ___ ___

[issue2636] Regexp 2.7 (modifications to current re 2.2.2)

2009-08-24 Thread Vlastimil Brom
Vlastimil Brom vlastimil.b...@gmail.com added the comment: I'd like to add some detail to the previous msg91473 The current behaviour of the character properties looks a bit surprising sometimes: regex.findall(ur\p{UppercaseLetter}, uQW\p{UppercaseLetter}as) [u'Q', u'W', u'U', u'L']

[issue6765] math.log, log10 inconsistency

2009-08-24 Thread Mark Dickinson
Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com added the comment: If Python functions are inconsistent then I think they should either be made consistent, or if that's not possible they should be clearly documented as being inconsistent. I think 'inconsistent' is a bit strong for what happens here. In

[issue6765] math.log, log10 inconsistency

2009-08-24 Thread Tim Peters
Tim Peters tim.pet...@gmail.com added the comment: I wasn't keen to add the 2-argument log() extension either. However, I bet it would help if the docs for that were changed to explain that log(x, base) is just a convenient shorthand for computing log(x)/log(base), and therefore may be a little

[issue6761] Class calling

2009-08-24 Thread Stephen Fairchild
Stephen Fairchild signupaddr...@bethere.co.uk added the comment: On further reading it seems my objections only apply to new style classes. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue6761

[issue6761] Class calling

2009-08-24 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com added the comment: FYI, all special methods are (now) looked up on the type for new style classes. Your suggested rewrite makes things more confusing, IMO (partly because to make it accurate it would need to be something like type(x).__call__(x, *args,

[issue6761] Class calling

2009-08-24 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com added the comment: For some reason the 3.2 docs don't contain the sentence you reference, but they do have the same mistake in section 3.4.4. Which is even more of a mistake in 3.x, since there are only new style classes there. -- versions: +Python

[issue6776] A few tests are failing when zlib is not supported

2009-08-24 Thread Nicolas Dumazet
New submission from Nicolas Dumazet nicd...@gmail.com: test_distutils, test_zipfile, test_gzip and test_zimport are not completely safe when zlib module is not available. I've uploaded a patch on Rietveld which solves the issue here: http://codereview.appspot.com/111041 Those are my first steps

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