Re: A question about Python versions

On 1/13/2010 1:09 AM, Gib Bogle wrote: I am learning Python, and using PyQt to develop a GUI that will be used to run a Fortran program on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X (I think Python is great, btw). Without thinking about it I downloaded and started working with a fairly recent Python version, 2.

Re: Bugs in CPython 3.1.1 [wave.py]

* Stefan Behnel: Alf P. Steinbach, 13.01.2010 06:39: * Steven D'Aprano: On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:42:28 +0100, Alf P. Steinbach wrote: It is hopeless, especially for a newbie, to create correct Python 2.x+3.x compatible code, except totally trivial stuff of course. So you allege, but André poin

Re: Bugs in CPython 3.1.1 [wave.py]

On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:39:53 +0100, Alf P. Steinbach wrote: > Then be a little critical and think about, what problems could it be > that, in spite of that to you apparent simplicity, hinders the > widespread adoption of Python 3.x? (1) Most Linux distributions still come standard with Python 2.

Re: Bugs in CPython 3.1.1 [wave.py]

Alf P. Steinbach, 13.01.2010 06:55: * Steven D'Aprano: I think you need to chill out and stop treating a simple bug report as a personal slight on you. I'm sorry but you're again trying to make people believe something that you know is false, which is commonly called lying: it is not the cas

Re: Bugs in CPython 3.1.1 [wave.py]

Alf P. Steinbach, 13.01.2010 06:39: * Steven D'Aprano: On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:42:28 +0100, Alf P. Steinbach wrote: It is hopeless, especially for a newbie, to create correct Python 2.x+3.x compatible code, except totally trivial stuff of course. So you allege, but André points out that there

Re: A question about Python versions

On 1/12/2010 10:09 PM, Gib Bogle wrote: I am learning Python, and using PyQt to develop a GUI that will be used to run a Fortran program on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X (I think Python is great, btw). Without thinking about it I downloaded and started working with a fairly recent Python version, 2

Re: A question about Python versions

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Gib Bogle wrote: > I am learning Python, and using PyQt to develop a GUI that will be used to > run a Fortran program on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X (I think Python is > great, btw). Without thinking about it I downloaded and started working with > a fairly recent

Re: interactive terminal in Ubuntu Linux : libreadline5-dev works only in Python 2.6 not 3.1

On Jan 12, 9:03 pm, Dave WB3DWE wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:08:20 -0800 (PST), casevh > wrote: > > > > > > >On Jan 10, 8:16 pm, Dave WB3DWE wrote: > >> On Sat, 9 Jan 2010 16:48:52 -0800 (PST), casevh > >> wrote: > > >> >On Jan 9, 3:10 pm, pdlem...@earthlink.net wrote: > >> >> On Sat, 9 Jan 20

A question about Python versions

I am learning Python, and using PyQt to develop a GUI that will be used to run a Fortran program on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X (I think Python is great, btw). Without thinking about it I downloaded and started working with a fairly recent Python version, 2.5.4. I've now become aware of the exi

Re: Bugs in CPython 3.1.1 [wave.py]

* Terry Reedy: On 1/12/2010 6:31 PM, Alf P. Steinbach wrote: Perhaps change to CAPTCHA instead of mail confirmation. I disagree. The point of mail confirmation is not just to assure that a human is registering, but that we have a valid email for responses to be sent to. Many issues are file

Re: Bugs in CPython 3.1.1 [wave.py]

* Steven D'Aprano: On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:47:31 +0100, Alf P. Steinbach wrote: PS: Next time it would have helped to include a URL to the issue. http://bugs.python.org/issue7681 FYI there is already some feedback in the tracker. Yeah, someone who had the bright idea that maybe there

Re: Easy Q

En Sat, 09 Jan 2010 13:11:28 -0300, Victor Subervi escribió: Hi; I have a string.join statement on a variable that comes from a cgi.FieldStorage().getlist. The variable may be a list or a single value. I need to treat it differently depending on which it is. How can I distinguish it? len

Re: interactive terminal in Ubuntu Linux : libreadline5-dev works only in Python 2.6 not 3.1

On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:29:05 +0430, Lee Harr wrote: >When you first had this problem, was python3 installed from >source, or was it from the Ubuntu repository? > >(ie, did you install using apt-get or synaptic or did you just start >out building from source?) > >I have python 3 on Ubuntu 9.10 ins

Re: Bugs in CPython 3.1.1 [wave.py]

* Steven D'Aprano: On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:42:28 +0100, Alf P. Steinbach wrote: * André: On Jan 12, 9:33 am, "Alf P. Steinbach" wrote: Well, this is for my Python (actually, beginning programmer) writings, at http://tinyurl.com/programmingbookP3 Thanks for writing this book. I just h

Re: creating tar file and streaming it over HTTP?

En Sat, 09 Jan 2010 10:19:00 -0300, pbienst escribió: OK, thanks to the feedback from everyone I got the PUT from a client to the WSGI server working. I'm now trying to go the other way around: use a tar stream in one of the functions in the WSGI server in order to send files to the client.

Re: Bugs in CPython 3.1.1 [wave.py]

On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:42:28 +0100, Alf P. Steinbach wrote: > * André: >> On Jan 12, 9:33 am, "Alf P. Steinbach" wrote: >> >>> Well, this is for my Python (actually, beginning programmer) writings, >>> at >>> >>>http://tinyurl.com/programmingbookP3 >>> >>> >> Thanks for writing this book. I

Re: interactive terminal in Ubuntu Linux : libreadline5-dev works only in Python 2.6 not 3.1

On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:08:20 -0800 (PST), casevh wrote: >On Jan 10, 8:16 pm, Dave WB3DWE wrote: >> On Sat, 9 Jan 2010 16:48:52 -0800 (PST), casevh >> wrote: >> >> >On Jan 9, 3:10 pm, pdlem...@earthlink.net wrote: >> >> On Sat, 9 Jan 2010 13:27:07 -0800 (PST), casevh >> >> wrote: > >Are you sure

Re: Bugs in CPython 3.1.1 [wave.py]

On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:47:31 +0100, Alf P. Steinbach wrote: >> PS: Next time it would have helped to include a URL to the issue. >> >> http://bugs.python.org/issue7681 >> >> FYI there is already some feedback in the tracker. > > Yeah, someone who had the bright idea that maybe there isn

Re: lightweight encryption of text file

Anthra Norell wrote: > I consider the encryption unbreakable [...] (from previous thread) I am not a cryptographer. (from this thread) Then you shouldn't be making claims about your encryption algorithms. ~Ethan~ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Bugs in CPython 3.1.1 [wave.py]

On 1/12/2010 6:31 PM, Alf P. Steinbach wrote: Perhaps change to CAPTCHA instead of mail confirmation. I disagree. The point of mail confirmation is not just to assure that a human is registering, but that we have a valid email for responses to be sent to. Many issues are filed with inadaquat

Re: Different number of matches from re.findall and re.split

Steve Holden wrote: Steve Holden wrote: [...] Can someone explain why these two commands are giving different results? I thought I should have the same number of matches (or maybe different by 1, but not 6000!) re.MULTLINE is apprently 1, and you are providing it as the "maxsplit" argument. C

Re: Problem with Dynamically unloading a module

In article <78388a7a-b148-499a-8894-34e55721e...@k19g2000pro.googlegroups.com>, lordofcode wrote: > >Thanks you all for your replies ,cleared quiet a few doubts about >importing modules and namespace references . >Currently am going with static importing of all modules. But it may >not be efficie

Confusion about scan_code in modulefinder.py (in python 2.6)

I've been working with the modulefinder.py code recently and I've come across a bit of code I'm not grasping. In the scan_code function, there are the following lines: if sys.version_info >= (2, 5): scanner = self.scan_opcodes_25 else:

Re: Bugs in CPython 3.1.1 [wave.py]

2010/1/13 Alf P. Steinbach > > Received: from mr1.start.no (unknown [195.159.73.42]) >by mail6.start.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54EFE1534F8 >for ; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:56:05 +0100 (CET) > Received: from psf.upfronthosting.co.za (bugs.python.org [88.198.142.26]) >by mr1.star

Undo/Redo in PyQt

Hey! I am trying to implement the undo and redo facility in pyqt. I have gone through some sites and was wondering whether iyou always need to create subclasses and their definitions for the undo/redo action. My program currently has a single window in which the user enters information which is us

Python and Tkinter Programming by John Grayson

Greetings! I am hoping to acquire a book on Python and Tkinter, and found this one. However, it was published in 2000 for Python 1.52... Can somebody who has this book comment its continued relevance? Is it still useful for Python 2.5 and Tk 8.4? Is it *very* useful? Comments appreciated

Re: Bugs in CPython 3.1.1 [wave.py]

Alf P. Steinbach wrote: > * Steve Holden: >> Alf P. Steinbach wrote: >> >> If you have any suggestions for improving things (and the same goes for >> any other readers) I will be happy to listen to them. I do agree that >> the bug tracker is a rather high hurdle for people to have to jump over >> j

Re: Is python not good enough?

In article <1b42700d-139a-4653-8669-d4ee2fc48...@r5g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, ikuta liu wrote: > >Is python not good enough? for google, enhance python performance is >the good way better then choose build Go language? It is not at all clear that -- despite some comments to the contrary -- the

Re: Bugs in CPython 3.1.1 [wave.py]

* Steve Holden: Alf P. Steinbach wrote: * Steve Holden: [...] FYI there is already some feedback in the tracker. Yeah, someone who had the bright idea that maybe there isn't a bug, thinking instead that maybe a "wrong" name in *a comment* might be the culprit -- of all things! He was p

Re: more efficient?

In article <4b3091b2$0$22916$e4fe5...@news.xs4all.nl>, Irmen de Jong wrote: > >Personally I'm only using the join-style-concat if I know the number of >strings is rather large, or unknown. Otherwise I stick with just the >regular string concatenation or string formattting (with % or format). >

Re: Bugs in CPython 3.1.1 [wave.py]

Alf P. Steinbach wrote: > * Steve Holden: [...] >> FYI there is already some feedback in the tracker. > > Yeah, someone who had the bright idea that maybe there isn't a bug, > thinking instead that maybe a "wrong" name in *a comment* might be the > culprit -- of all things! > > He was proba

Re: Bugs in CPython 3.1.1 [wave.py]

* Steve Holden: Alf P. Steinbach wrote: If you have any suggestions for improving things (and the same goes for any other readers) I will be happy to listen to them. I do agree that the bug tracker is a rather high hurdle for people to have to jump over just to offer feedback on software faults,

Re: interactive terminal in Ubuntu Linux : libreadline5-dev works only in Python 2.6 not 3.1

> And my original problem still there : fouled up keys in interactive > terminal. When you first had this problem, was python3 installed from source, or was it from the Ubuntu repository? (ie, did you install using apt-get or synaptic or did you just start out building from source?) I have pyt

Re: Bugs in CPython 3.1.1 [wave.py]

* Steve Holden: Alf P. Steinbach wrote: * Stefan Behnel: Alf P. Steinbach, 12.01.2010 12:51: Well how f*g darn patient do they expect me to be? I've decided: I'm not. Oh sh**, just as I typed the period above the mail finally arrived. It's been, let's see, about 20+ minutes! And still

Re: Bugs in CPython 3.1.1 [wave.py]

* André: On Jan 12, 9:33 am, "Alf P. Steinbach" wrote: Well, this is for my Python (actually, beginning programmer) writings, at http://tinyurl.com/programmingbookP3 Thanks for writing this book. I just had a quick look at the beginning of it where you write: === As of this writing two

Re: lightweight encryption of text file

Robert Kern wrote: On 2010-01-12 05:59 AM, Anthra Norell wrote: Robert Kern wrote: On 2010-01-11 14:09 PM, Anthra Norell wrote: Robert Kern wrote: On 2010-01-09 03:52 AM, Anthra Norell wrote: Upon which another critic conjured up the horror vision of gigahertzes hacking my pathetic little

install exe in virtualenv --no-site-packages

How do I install an exe in a sandboxed virtualenv that's been setup with no site packages? The package I'm trying to install is pywin32. TIA, - Jim -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Is python not good enough?

On 1/12/2010 10:17 AM, Krister Svanlund wrote: Every language has it uses and Google obviously thought that it would take more resources to get Python to the level they need it than to start using Go. 'Google' does not think. Go builds on previous works by the main developers. I doubt that the

remove v1 tag using SOAPPy

I just wonder if there is anyway to remove v1 tag by using SOAPPy. ticketInfo = SOAPpy.structType() ticketInfo._addItem("ns1:mytag", stringType("test")) test How can I get rid of ? Many Thanks. - Jennifer -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: force URLencoding script

João wrote: > On Jan 12, 8:05 pm, r0g wrote: >> João wrote: >>> Someone please? >> Haven't seen your original post yet mate, usenet can be flaky like that, >> might have been a good idea to quote your original post! >> >> Roger. > > Thanks Roger. > >> João wrote: >>> Someone please? >>> Hi. >>>

Re: Dynamic HTML controls

Hi! I had write PLUIE, for use DHTML as GUI: http://www.ponx.org/ponx/guie.htm But it is not a good answer to your problem. Sorry. Nevertheless, there are several functions & methods for generate DHTML objects (and Python keep the control on each object. @+ -- Michel Claveau *** sorry fo

Re: Python 2.6.4 - Urllib2 - Windows XP - Reading streaming HTTP source kills network card ... (believe it or not)

Sandy Walsh wrote: This is very odd. Hopefully someone can shed some insight. I've tried this with Python 2.5.2 and recently upgraded to 2.6.4 and see the same problem. I'm running on Windows XP sp3. I'm interfacing with an IP camera that streamed jpeg frames at 10fps over HTTP. The format

Re: Python 2.6.4 - Urllib2 - Windows XP - Reading streaming HTTP source kills network card ... (believe it or not)

I've also run this under IronPython 2.6 and, while it takes longer (about 5 minutes), I get the same results. And this too takes down the NIC on the PC. It's gotta be something with my PC, so don't sweat it ... time for an upgrade I think. -S <>-- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/py

Re: force URLencoding script

On Jan 12, 8:05 pm, r0g wrote: > João wrote: > > Someone please? > > Haven't seen your original post yet mate, usenet can be flaky like that, > might have been a good idea to quote your original post! > > Roger. Thanks Roger. > João wrote: > > Someone please? > > Hi. > > I'm trying to figure out

Re: force URLencoding script

João wrote: > Someone please? Haven't seen your original post yet mate, usenet can be flaky like that, might have been a good idea to quote your original post! Roger. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Bugs in CPython 3.1.1 [wave.py]

I totally second Alf in this regard. There were times you could report a bug by mail (to Debian e.g.) and it worked perfectly (for me, the reporter). Once I went into the maze of bug reporting software and I almost didn't find back to the problem I tried to fix while stumbling upon the to-be-re

Python 2.6.4 - Urllib2 - Windows XP - Reading streaming HTTP source kills network card ... (believe it or not)

This is very odd. Hopefully someone can shed some insight. I've tried this with Python 2.5.2 and recently upgraded to 2.6.4 and see the same problem. I'm running on Windows XP sp3. I'm interfacing with an IP camera that streamed jpeg frames at 10fps over HTTP. The format of the stream is: 4

Re: Fractional Hours from datetime?

Ben Finney wrote: "Alf P. Steinbach" writes: And considering this, and the fact that Google's archive is now the main Usenet archive, message id's are not that useful, really. You've demonstrated only that Google is an unreliable Usenet archive. One doesn't even need to use Usenet, in this

Re: Is python not good enough?

[please don't top-post] Krister Svanlund wrote: On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 4:09 PM, ikuta liu wrote: I'm a little confused. Is python not good enough? for google, enhance python performance is the good way better then choose build Go language? Go language try to merge low level, hight level and

Re: force URLencoding script

Someone please? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Bugs in CPython 3.1.1 [wave.py]

Alf P. Steinbach wrote: > * Stefan Behnel: >> Alf P. Steinbach, 12.01.2010 12:51: >>> Well how f*g darn patient do they expect me to be? >>> >>> I've decided: I'm not. >>> >>> Oh sh**, just as I typed the period above the mail finally arrived. >>> It's been, let's see, about 20+ minutes! >>> >

Re: Bugs in CPython 3.1.1 [wave.py]

Alf P. Steinbach wrote: > * Alf P. Steinbach: >> * Steve Holden: >>> Alf P. Steinbach wrote: >>> [...] PS: It would be nice if someone(TM) could describe here in detail how to properly report errors like this. Of course I'm not going to do it if it involves establishing Yet

Re: os.system function

Zabin wrote: > Hey everyone! > > I am a new python programmer. I am trying to get the general file > functionality with options of save and save as working. These save > functions save a folder with multiple files. Upon using the os.system > copy function- if my destination directory has files wit

Re: lightweight encryption of text file

Robert Kern wrote: > On 2010-01-12 05:59 AM, Anthra Norell wrote: [ping, pong, ping, pong] > If the OP uses a real encryption algorithm, he can rely on the fact that > he can use the algorithm for large files or for plaintexts that a > malicious agent might choose even if he did not communicate (or

BaseHTTPServer get_request not called till first request

Looking at and as examples I've attempted to create a BaseHTTPServer class that times-out accept() ever X seconds to check some other work. This seems to work well, but only once the HTTPServer object has r

Re: lightweight encryption of text file

On 2010-01-12 05:59 AM, Anthra Norell wrote: Robert Kern wrote: On 2010-01-11 14:09 PM, Anthra Norell wrote: Robert Kern wrote: On 2010-01-09 03:52 AM, Anthra Norell wrote: Upon which another critic conjured up the horror vision of gigahertzes hacking my pathetic little effort to pieces as

Re: decode(..., errors='ignore') has no effect

Lie Ryan wrote: > On 01/12/10 23:50, Jens Müller wrote: >>> To convert unicode into str you have to *encode()* it. >>> >>> u"...".decode(...) will implicitly convert to ASCII first, i. e. is >>> equivalent to >>> >>> u"...".encode("ascii").decode(...) >>> >>> Hence the error message >> >> Ah - ye

Re: Bugs in CPython 3.1.1 [wave.py]

On Jan 12, 9:33 am, "Alf P. Steinbach" wrote: > > Well, this is for my Python (actually, beginning programmer) writings, at > >    http://tinyurl.com/programmingbookP3 > Thanks for writing this book. I just had a quick look at the beginning of it where you write: === As of this writing two main

Re: Is python not good enough?

Every language has it uses and Google obviously thought that it would take more resources to get Python to the level they need it than to start using Go. Python is great for alot of things but it's not perfect for anything. On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 4:09 PM, ikuta liu wrote: > I'm a little confuse

Re: Is python not good enough?

ikuta liu, 12.01.2010 16:09: I'm a little confused. Is python not good enough? for google, enhance python performance is the good way better then choose build Go language? Go language try to merge low level, hight level and browser language. Those I'd like to see it on python.. I think everyo

Is python not good enough?

I'm a little confused. Is python not good enough? for google, enhance python performance is the good way better then choose build Go language? Go language try to merge low level, hight level and browser language. Those I'd like to see it on python.. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyt

Re: Fractional Hours from datetime?

W. eWatson wrote: >>> now = datetime.datetime.now() >>> fractional_hour = now.hour + now.minute / 60.0 See my post about the datetime controversy about 3-4 posts up from yours. If timezones might be a problem area, than it might be worth while to see it in the context of the actual applic

Re: decode(..., errors='ignore') has no effect

On 01/12/10 23:50, Jens Müller wrote: >> To convert unicode into str you have to *encode()* it. >> >> u"...".decode(...) will implicitly convert to ASCII first, i. e. is >> equivalent to >> >> u"...".encode("ascii").decode(...) >> >> Hence the error message > > Ah - yes of course. > > And how can

Re: Bugs in CPython 3.1.1 [wave.py]

PS: It would be nice if someone(TM) could describe here in detail how to properly report errors like this. Of course I'm not going to do it if it involves establishing Yet Another Account somewhere. But hopefully it doesn't? >>> That's not very public-spirited, is it? Pytho

Re: Dynamic HTML controls

alex23 wrote: On Jan 12, 1:26 pm, Alan Harris-Reid wrote: Does anyone know where I can find any decent dynamically-constructed HTML control classes (dropdown list, table, input field, checkbox, etc.) written in Python. There's pyWeb[1], which seems pretty close to what you're asking f

Re: Bugs in CPython 3.1.1 [wave.py]

* Stefan Behnel: Alf P. Steinbach, 12.01.2010 13:10: * Stefan Behnel: Maybe you should just stop using the module. Writing the code yourself is certainly going to be faster than reporting that bug, don't you think? It's part of the standard Python distribution. Don't you think bugs in the s

Re: Bugs in CPython 3.1.1 [wave.py]

On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:51:06 +0100, Alf P. Steinbach wrote: > Oh sh**, just as I typed the period above the mail finally arrived. It's > been, let's see, about 20+ minutes! Aren't you a little old to be suffering from the every decreasing attention spans of the MTV generation? Email is not guar

Re: parsing an Excel formula with the re module

On 12/01/2010 6:26 PM, Chris Withers wrote: John Machin wrote: The xlwt package (of which I am the maintainer) has a lexer and parser for a largish subset of the syntax ... see http://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlwt xlrd, no? A facility in xlrd to decompile Excel formula bytecode into a text fo

Re: decode(..., errors='ignore') has no effect

To convert unicode into str you have to *encode()* it. u"...".decode(...) will implicitly convert to ASCII first, i. e. is equivalent to u"...".encode("ascii").decode(...) Hence the error message Ah - yes of course. And how can you use the system's default encoding with errors=ignore? The de

Re: Bugs in CPython 3.1.1 [wave.py]

Alf P. Steinbach, 12.01.2010 13:10: * Stefan Behnel: Maybe you should just stop using the module. Writing the code yourself is certainly going to be faster than reporting that bug, don't you think? It's part of the standard Python distribution. Don't you think bugs in the standard library sho

Re: problem with multiprocessing and defaultdict

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:48 +0100, wiso wrote: > They sent back the object filled with data. The problem is very simple: I > have a container, the container has a method read(file_name) that read a > huge file and fill the container with datas. I have more then 1 file to read > so I want to pa

Re: decode(..., errors='ignore') has no effect

Jens Müller wrote: > I try to decode a string,e.g. > u'M\xfcnchen, pronounced [\u02c8m\u028fn\xe7\u0259n]'.decode('cp1252', > 'ignore') > but even thoug I use errors='ignore' > I get UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character u'\u02c8' > in position 21: character maps to > > How c

Re: Bugs in CPython 3.1.1 [wave.py]

* Stefan Behnel: Alf P. Steinbach, 12.01.2010 12:51: Well how f*g darn patient do they expect me to be? I've decided: I'm not. Oh sh**, just as I typed the period above the mail finally arrived. It's been, let's see, about 20+ minutes! And still some miles to go. Somebody should say T

Re: decode(..., errors='ignore') has no effect

Jens Müller wrote: > I try to decode a string,e.g. > u'M\xfcnchen, pronounced [\u02c8m\u028fn\xe7\u0259n]'.decode('cp1252', > 'ignore') > but even thoug I use errors='ignore' > I get UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character u'\u02c8' > in position 21: character maps to > > How

Re: Bugs in CPython 3.1.1 [wave.py]

Alf P. Steinbach, 12.01.2010 12:51: Well how f*g darn patient do they expect me to be? I've decided: I'm not. Oh sh**, just as I typed the period above the mail finally arrived. It's been, let's see, about 20+ minutes! And still some miles to go. Somebody should say THANK YOU for all t

Re: lightweight encryption of text file

Robert Kern wrote: On 2010-01-11 14:09 PM, Anthra Norell wrote: Robert Kern wrote: On 2010-01-09 03:52 AM, Anthra Norell wrote: "Don't use a random generator for encryption purposes!" warns the manual, of which fact I was reminded in no uncertain terms on this forum a few years ago when I p

Re: Bugs in CPython 3.1.1 [wave.py]

* Alf P. Steinbach: * Steve Holden: Alf P. Steinbach wrote: [...] PS: It would be nice if someone(TM) could describe here in detail how to properly report errors like this. Of course I'm not going to do it if it involves establishing Yet Another Account somewhere. But hopefully it doesn't? Th

decode(..., errors='ignore') has no effect

Hi, I try to decode a string,e.g. u'M\xfcnchen, pronounced [\u02c8m\u028fn\xe7\u0259n]'.decode('cp1252', 'ignore') but even thoug I use errors='ignore' I get UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character u'\u02c8' in position 21: character maps to How come? Thanks, Jens --

Re: Bugs in CPython 3.1.1 [wave.py]

* Steve Holden: Alf P. Steinbach wrote: [...] PS: It would be nice if someone(TM) could describe here in detail how to properly report errors like this. Of course I'm not going to do it if it involves establishing Yet Another Account somewhere. But hopefully it doesn't? That's not very public-

Re: Web Site Inquiry: Session variable passed in other script

webmas...@holdenweb.com wrote: > The following message was received via the web site. > > From: rahul sharma > Email: [see headers] > Subject:Session variable passed in other script > Telephone: > - > hello sir > > i

Re: Different number of matches from re.findall and re.split

Steve Holden wrote: [...] >> Can someone explain why these two commands are giving different >> results? I thought I should have the same number of matches (or maybe >> different by 1, but not 6000!) >> > re.MULTLINE is apprently 1, and you are providing it as the "maxsplit" > argument. Check the

Re: problem with multiprocessing and defaultdict

Robert Kern wrote: > On 2010-01-11 17:50 PM, wiso wrote: > >> The problem now is this: >> start reading file r1_200909.log >> start reading file r1_200910.log >> readen 488832 lines from file r1_200910.log >> readen 517247 lines from file r1_200909.log >> >> with huge file (the real case) the pro

Re: Different number of matches from re.findall and re.split

Jeremy wrote: > Hello all, > > I am using re.split to separate some text into logical structures. > The trouble is that re.split doesn't find everything while re.findall > does; i.e.: > >> found = re.findall('^ 1', line, re.MULTILINE) >> len(found) >6439 >> tables = re.split('^ 1', line, re.M

Re: Bugs in CPython 3.1.1 [wave.py]

Alf P. Steinbach wrote: [...] > PS: It would be nice if someone(TM) could describe here in detail how to > properly report errors like this. Of course I'm not going to do it if it > involves establishing Yet Another Account somewhere. But hopefully it > doesn't? > That's not very public-spirited,

Re: Fractional Hours from datetime?

Alf P. Steinbach wrote: > * Steve Holden: >> Alf P. Steinbach wrote: >>> * W. eWatson: Ben Finney wrote: > "W. eWatson" writes: > >> See my post about the datetime controversy about 3-4 posts up from >> yours. > This forum is distributed, and there's no “up” or “3-4 messag

Re: os.system function

Zabin wrote: > Thanks for the pointersi had a look around and found the site: > http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en- us/xcopy.mspx?mfr=true > > to disable the prompt- i needed to include /y as below: > os.system ('xcopy /s %s %s /y ' % (dirExe, dirnam

Re: lightweight encryption of text file

Anthra Norell writes: > Why EVER make anything yourself when you can buy it? Do you make your own processors? Your own hard disk drives? Why not? -- John Bokma Read my blog: http://johnbokma.com/ Hire me (Perl/Python): http://castleamber.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python

Re: Fractional Hours from datetime?

"W. eWatson" writes: > See my post about the datetime controversy about 3-4 posts up from > yours. This forum is distributed, and there's no “up” or “3-4 messages” that is common for all readers. Could you give the Message-ID for that message? -- \ “As we enjoy great advantages from the

Re: lightweight encryption of text file

John Bokma writes: >> Why EVER make anything yourself when you can buy it? > > Do you make your own processors? Your own hard disk drives? > Why not? Well, if you try to make your own processors or hard drives, worst normal outcome is they don't work and you try something else instead. This is mo

Re: Dynamic HTML controls

Alan Harris-Reid schrieb: Hi, Does anyone know where I can find any decent dynamically-constructed HTML control classes (dropdown list, table, input field, checkbox, etc.) written in Python. For example, for a HTML table I would like something like... MyTable = html_table() # instan

Re: Dynamic HTML controls

On 12 jan, 04:26, Alan Harris-Reid wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone know where I can find any decent dynamically-constructed > HTML control classes (dropdown list, table, input field, checkbox, etc.) > written in Python.  For example, for a HTML table I would like something > like... > > MyTable = htm

Re: Bugs in CPython 3.1.1 [wave.py]

Alf P. Steinbach wrote: PS: It would be nice if someone(TM) could describe here in detail how to properly report errors like this. http://tinyurl.com/yemcdy7 Of course I'm not going to do it if it involves establishing Yet Another Account somewhere. Of course that means no-one else will

Re: Bugs in CPython 3.1.1 [wave.py]

On 1/12/2010 3:25 AM, Alf P. Steinbach wrote: Argh! This was really annoying! Much time wasted (one naturally thinks that silly error must be one's own). But, anyway: Lines: 244 nitems = (chunk.chunksize - chunk.size_read) / self._sampwidth 464 self._nframes = initlength / (self._nchannels * s

Bugs in CPython 3.1.1 [wave.py]

Argh! This was really annoying! Much time wasted (one naturally thinks that silly error must be one's own). But, anyway: Lines: 244 nitems = (chunk.chunksize - chunk.size_read) / self._sampwidth 464 self._nframes = initlength / (self._nchannels * self._sampwidth) Need to use Python 3.x

Re: unittest inconsistent

Phlip wrote: The reason the 'Tester' object has no attribute 'arg1' is because "self" still refers to the object made for testA. I hope someone else can spot the low-level reason... ...but why aren't you using http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mock/ ? Look up its patch_object facility... Indeed, I

Re: Append to an Excel file

Niels L. Ellegaard wrote: pp writes: On Jan 9, 1:47 am, Jason Scheirer wrote: On Jan 9, 12:30 am, pp wrote: Hi All, How do I add a line to an existing file. This should append to the existing data in the excel file, which was saved previously. Thanks, PP http://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlwt

Re: parsing an Excel formula with the re module

John Machin wrote: The xlwt package (of which I am the maintainer) has a lexer and parser for a largish subset of the syntax ... see http://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlwt xlrd, no? Also worth pointing out that the topic of Python and Excel has its own web site: http://www.python-excel.org ...w

Re: xml.sax parsing elements with the same name

amadain, 11.01.2010 20:13: I have an event log with 100s of thousands of entries with logs of the form: I am using xml.sax to parse