Re: Shift Confusion

2005-02-24 Thread John Machin
On 23 Feb 2005 22:06:54 -0800, Kamilche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to pack two characters into a single byte, and the shifting in Python has me confused. Essentially, it should be possible to use a 'packed string' format in Python, where as long as the characters you're sending are in

Re: Communication between JAVA and python

2005-02-24 Thread Ulrich Schaefer
Jacques Daussy wrote: Hello How can I transfert information between a JAVA application and a python script application. I can't use jython because, I must use python interpreter.I think to socket or semaphore, but can I use it on Windows plateform ? Try XML-RPC (a simple implementation of

Re: Style guide for subclassing built-in types?

2005-02-24 Thread Just
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you but your advice doesn't fit in my case since I want to keep the memory usage and the initial time minimum. iterable[::-1] would build another list and it would take big memory and time during reversing if iterable were huge.

Re: Style guide for subclassing built-in types?

2005-02-24 Thread Serge Orlov
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you but your advice doesn't fit in my case since I want to keep the memory usage and the initial time minimum. iterable[::-1] would build another list and it would take big memory and time during reversing if iterable were huge. (and the iterable wouldn't be

Re: Selective HTML doc generation

2005-02-24 Thread Graham Ashton
Thanks Brian, much appreciated. Looks quite straightforward. Graham -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Style guide for subclassing built-in types?

2005-02-24 Thread Nick Coghlan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you but your advice doesn't fit in my case since I want to keep the memory usage and the initial time minimum. iterable[::-1] would build another list and it would take big memory and time during reversing if iterable were huge. (and the iterable wouldn't be

email-adress

2005-02-24 Thread Courtis Joannis
Hello Python-team, please could you delete my email-adress from your mailing list. Thanks Joannis -- DSL Komplett von GMX +++ Supergünstig und stressfrei einsteigen! AKTION Kein Einrichtungspreis nutzen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python tutorial/projects

2005-02-24 Thread Fuzzyman
I'm looking for people to work on a couple of projects... online bookmarks manager for example Regards, Fuzzy http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Dynamically pass a function arguments from a dict

2005-02-24 Thread Nick Coghlan
Python 2.4 (#60, Nov 30 2004, 11:49:19) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type help, copyright, credits or license for more information. Running startup script Py import inspect Py help(inspect.getargspec) Help on function getargspec in module inspect: getargspec(func) Get the names and

Re: LC_ALL and os.listdir()

2005-02-24 Thread Duncan Booth
Martin v. Löwis wrote: Serge Orlov wrote: Shouldn't os.path.join do that? If you pass a unicode string and a byte string it currently tries to convert bytes to characters but it makes more sense to convert the unicode string to bytes and return two byte strings concatenated. Sounds

MDaemon Warning - virus found: Returned mail: see transcript for details

2005-02-24 Thread gdbki
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Compile time evaluation (aka eliminating default argument hacks)

2005-02-24 Thread Nick Coghlan
Time for another random syntax idea. . . So, I was tinkering in the interactive interpreter, and came up with the following one-size-fits-most default argument hack: Py x = 1 Py def _build_used(): ... y = x + 1 ... return x, y ... Py def f(_used = _build_used()): ... x, y = _used ...

Re: Problem with minidom and special chars in HTML

2005-02-24 Thread and-google
Horst Gutmann wrote: I currently have quite a big problem with minidom and special chars (for example uuml;) in HTML. Yes. Ignoring the issue of the wrong doctype, minidom is a pure XML parser and knows nothing of XHTML and its doctype's entities 'uuml' and the like. Only the built-in

[perl-python] generic equivalence partition

2005-02-24 Thread Xah Lee
another functional exercise with lists. Here's the perl documentation. I'll post a perl and the translated python version in 48 hours. =pod parti(aList, equalFunc) given a list aList of n elements, we want to return a list that is a range of numbers from 1 to n, partition by the predicate

ANN: SPE 0.7.2.C Python IDE with wxGlade, UML Blender support

2005-02-24 Thread http://www.stani.be
Spe is a python IDE with auto-indentation, auto completion, call tips, syntax coloring, uml viewer, syntax highlighting, class explorer, source index, auto todo list, sticky notes, integrated pycrust shell, python file browser, recent file browser, dragdrop, context help, ... Special is its

Re: LC_ALL and os.listdir()

2005-02-24 Thread Serge Orlov
Duncan Booth wrote: Martin v. Löwis wrote: Serge Orlov wrote: Shouldn't os.path.join do that? If you pass a unicode string and a byte string it currently tries to convert bytes to characters but it makes more sense to convert the unicode string to bytes and return two byte strings

Re: email-adress

2005-02-24 Thread Kartic
Courtis Joannis said the following on 2/24/2005 5:06 AM: Hello Python-team, please could you delete my email-adress from your mailing list. Thanks Joannis Courtis On emails sent to the python mailing list, the signature should contain an unsubscribe email address. Please follow instructions on

Re: Working FTP server based on Twisted framework.

2005-02-24 Thread Kartic
Mateusz Sotysek said the following on 2/23/2005 4:45 AM: Hi call, Does anybody know, if there is any opensource, working FTP server implementation based on Twisted framework? Greetings Mateusz, I don't believe there is a ready-to-go FTP server in Twisted (actually google did not return anything

Re: PyEphem on Win32 -- 2nd try

2005-02-24 Thread drobinow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone run the PyEphem ephemeris application under WinXP? http://rhodesmill.org/brandon/projects/pyephem.html I have compiled it with Visual Studio 6 and it crashes Python with a simple import ephem ephem.date('1994/7/16') Identical code works fine under

wanted: C++ parser written in Python

2005-02-24 Thread Franz Steinhaeusler
Hello NG, has anyone written such a thing in python? Where could I look for? (I need it for an editor written in wxPython to display function names, include, global variables, classes, ... in a sidepanel). kind regards, -- Franz Steinhaeusler --

Re: Attaching to a Python Interpreter a la Tcl

2005-02-24 Thread Jeff Epler
Cameron Laird mentioned Tk's send working with Python; if you are writing your app with Tkinter, here is some code to let you use tcl commands like send appname python expression or statement for remote control. You could build a more sophisticated front-end for this, and you'll probably also

what are PyObject *globals and PyObject *locals ?

2005-02-24 Thread Olivier Sessink
Hi all, I want to make a value available to the global namespace of an embedded python interpreter. Several functions of the Python/C API feature a PyObject *globals and a PyObject *locals, so my guess is that these can be used for this purpose. Unfortunately, the Python/C API does not describe

Re: Shift Confusion

2005-02-24 Thread qwweeeit
At programming level it seems correct (a part a return closure needed for the main function). But the error is IMHO conceptual: for a char you need 7 bits (from 0 to 127 or in hex from x00 to x7F) and you can't accomodate the other char in only one bit! The other 128 symbols (from 128 to 255 or

Re: Compile time evaluation (aka eliminating default argument hacks)

2005-02-24 Thread Steven Bethard
Nick Coghlan wrote: Time for another random syntax idea. . . So, I was tinkering in the interactive interpreter, and came up with the following one-size-fits-most default argument hack: [snip] But consider a syntax like the following: def f(): use x, y from: y = x + 1 #

Re: python tutorial/projects

2005-02-24 Thread Tom Willis
On 24 Feb 2005 02:06:24 -0800, Fuzzyman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for people to work on a couple of projects... online bookmarks manager for example Regards, Fuzzy http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Shift Confusion

2005-02-24 Thread Richard Brodie
John Machin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Essentially, it should be possible to use a 'packed string' format in Python, where as long as the characters you're sending are in the ASCII range 0 to 127, two will fit in a byte. It should be possible, but only in a

Re: Trouble with mysql-python 1.2.0 on Solaris 8 sparc

2005-02-24 Thread Alec Wysoker
Hi Andy, Thanks for your message. It turned out that I had installed 64-bit mySql on a 32-bit machine. I'm amazed it worked at all. Anyway, I finally got mysql-python built, but I'm unable to connect to a machine on a remote host. The problem doesn't seem to be with the python code, because

Re: rounding problem

2005-02-24 Thread Thomas Bartkus
Dan Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] tom wrote: snip That last digit will *always* contain some arithmetic slop. Your statement is misleading, because it suggests that your processor stores digits. It doesn't; it stores *bits*. Your explanation is much

Re: LC_ALL and os.listdir()

2005-02-24 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Duncan Booth wrote: Windows (when using NTFS) stores all the filenames in unicode, and Python uses the unicode api to implement listdir (when given a unicode path). This means that the filename never gets encoded to a byte string either by the OS or Python. If you use a byte string path than

Re: How to write a ping client

2005-02-24 Thread Nick Vargish
Harlin Seritt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ? #!/bin/sh ping $1 Enjoy, Nick -- # sigmask || 0.2 || 20030107 || public domain || feed this to a python print reduce(lambda x,y:x+chr(ord(y)-1),' Ojdl!Wbshjti!=obwAcboefstobudi/psh?') -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Need some Python help

2005-02-24 Thread Matt Upton
Hello, I am new to Python and am trying to produce script to run batch processes for ArcGIS 9.0 (ArcView). I have upgraded to Phython 2.4 from 2.1 and am using the Pythonwin to try to code but am running into a problem. Whenever I try to debug my program or run any code past the following code

Re: Dynamically pass a function arguments from a dict

2005-02-24 Thread Scott David Daniels
Mark McEahern wrote: Dan Eloff wrote: How can you determine that func2 will only accept bar and zoo, but not foo and call the function with bar as an argument? Let Python answer the question for you: ... good explanation of how to do this for simple functions. Please be aware the normal way to do

Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Feb 24)

2005-02-24 Thread Cameron Laird
QOTW: Who's 'Guido'? -- Ilias Lazaridis I know this document. It has no relevance to me. -- Ilias Lazaridis, on URL: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Nobody asked them to do this (AFAIK), it's more that nobody could _stop_ them from doing it. -- timbot, on the work of Jason

Python Modules for Various Internet Protocols?

2005-02-24 Thread Efrat Regev
Hello, I was wondering whether there are any Python modules for various Internet protocols, e.g., is there something similar to import ftp client = ftpopen(...) and so on. Thanks, Efrat -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Modules for Various Internet Protocols?

2005-02-24 Thread Kartic
Efrat Regev wrote: Hello, I was wondering whether there are any Python modules for various Internet protocols, e.g., is there something similar to Erfat...yes...batteries included! http://docs.python.org/lib/internet.html Thanks, -Kartic --

Re: Python Modules for Various Internet Protocols?

2005-02-24 Thread Christopher De Vries
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 11:11:07AM -0600, Efrat Regev wrote: I was wondering whether there are any Python modules for various Internet protocols, ... Twisted (http://twistedmatrix.com/products/twisted) is an event driven framework for writing network applications. It includes many internet

Re: Python Modules for Various Internet Protocols?

2005-02-24 Thread Efrat Regev
Kartic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Efrat Regev wrote: Hello, I was wondering whether there are any Python Erfat...yes...batteries included! http://docs.python.org/lib/internet.html Thanks, -Kartic Excellent! more like generator included :-) Many

Re: Font size

2005-02-24 Thread Tobiah
from random import randint rand = randint(0,36) print rand Don't forget about the double zero slot. Tobiah -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

what is wrong?

2005-02-24 Thread neutrinman
I cannot find out why the following code generates the error: (BTraceback (most recent call last): (B File "D:/a/Utilities/python/ptyhon22/test.py", line 97, in ? (Bmain() (B File "D:/a/Utilities/python/ptyhon22/test.py", line 60, in main (Bcrit = Critter(crit_name) (B File

Re: duplicate file finder (was: how can I make this script shorter?)

2005-02-24 Thread TZOTZIOY
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 01:56:02 -0800, rumours say that Lowell Kirsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] might have written: Good idea about hashing part of the file before comparing entire files. It will make the script longer but the speed increase will most likely make it worth it. My dupefind module was one of

Re: what is wrong?

2005-02-24 Thread deelan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (B(...) (B self.feed = feed# I wrote this (B AttributeError: can't set attribute (B (B I add some codes to a program on a book. The lines that have "I wrote (B this" comment is the added codes. Could anyone tell me what is worng (B here? (B (Bthe

Re: Canonical way of dealing with null-separated lines?

2005-02-24 Thread Christopher De Vries
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 10:54:50PM -0500, Douglas Alan wrote: Is there a canonical way of iterating over the lines of a file that are null-separated rather than newline-separated? I'm not sure if there is a canonical method, but I would recommending using a generator to get something like this,

Re: what is wrong?

2005-02-24 Thread TZOTZIOY
On 24 Feb 2005 08:34:09 -0800, rumours say that [EMAIL PROTECTED] might have written: I cannot find out why the following code generates the error: Traceback (most recent call last): File D:/a/Utilities/python/ptyhon22/test.py, line 97, in ? main() File

Re: Canonical way of dealing with null-separated lines?

2005-02-24 Thread Scott David Daniels
Douglas Alan wrote: Is there a canonical way of iterating over the lines of a file that are null-separated rather than newline-separated? Sure, I can implement my own iterator using read() and split(), etc., but considering that using find -print0 is so common, it seems like there should be a

Re: Selective HTML doc generation

2005-02-24 Thread Brian van den Broek
Graham Ashton said unto the world upon 2005-02-24 04:54: Thanks Brian, much appreciated. Looks quite straightforward. Graham Hi Graham, glad it helped -- I think this marks the first time I've given a useful answer to a non-trivial question on comp.lang.python. :-) context for future thread

Re: Vectors in Visual Python

2005-02-24 Thread FLChamp
Thanks for all your help everyone, if only it had addressed what I had asked I may have actually learned something about Python!! If anything was addressed to my problem then it has completely passed me by as most points were clearly made by a computer scientist and I am not one of those in the

Re: arrow keys bug

2005-02-24 Thread Daniel Alexandre
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there, On Feb 24, 2005, at 16:25, A.T. Hofkamp wrote: and for home, end, etc. Does anyone here knows how I can strip those keys? Thanks in advance. One solution is to read the input yourself character by character, and delete anything that is not

update images inside a mysql database

2005-02-24 Thread Jonas Meurer
hello, i develop a project with a mysql interface. one mysql table holds all the images for my project. everything works quite well so far, except i'm not able to upload images into the database. the following function does the mysql UPDATE, it requires the image and the image ID as arguments.

Re: what is wrong?

2005-02-24 Thread neutrinman
I appreciate all of your help. I learned a lot form your adovice. Thanks. Mr. Bieber, it worked fine. Thanks again. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Shift Confusion

2005-02-24 Thread James Kew
Dennis Lee Bieber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 23 Feb 2005 22:06:54 -0800, Kamilche [EMAIL PROTECTED] declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: Essentially, it should be possible to use a 'packed string' format in Python, where as long as the characters

Re: Need some Python help

2005-02-24 Thread Roger Upole
There's a bug in python's tokenizer that's triggered when the generated wrapper code for a COM object has lines longer than 512. See below link for a workaround: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=551954aid=1085454group_id=78018 Roger Matt Upton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in

Re: update images inside a mysql database

2005-02-24 Thread Gabriel Cooper
Jonas Meurer wrote: def i_update(image, imgid): image = %s % (image) sql_exec = UPDATE Images SET Image='%s' WHERE ImgID = '%s' % (image, imgid) o = open(/tmp/file.jpg, w) o.write(image) o.close() db_connect.cursor.execute(sql_exec) I've

Re: Trouble with mysql-python 1.2.0 on Solaris 8 sparc

2005-02-24 Thread Steve Holden
Alec Wysoker wrote: Hi Andy, Thanks for your message. It turned out that I had installed 64-bit mySql on a 32-bit machine. I'm amazed it worked at all. Anyway, I finally got mysql-python built, but I'm unable to connect to a machine on a remote host. The problem doesn't seem to be with the

[ANN] dateutil 0.9

2005-02-24 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
https://moin.conectiva.com.br/DateUtil Description --- The dateutil module provides powerful extensions to the standard datetime module, available in Python 2.3+. Features - Computing of relative deltas (next month, next year, next monday, last week of month, etc); -

Mapping operator tokens to special methods

2005-02-24 Thread jamesthiele . usenet
I was starting to write a dictionary to map operator strings to their equivalent special methods such as: { '+' : 'add', '' : 'and_' } The idea is to build a simple interactive calculator. and was wondering if there is already something like this builtin? Or is there a better way to do what

[ANN] TamTam collaboration software

2005-02-24 Thread Aleksandar Erkalovic
Hi, on address (temporary): http://tamtam.mi2.hr:/NoviTam/ you can find TamTam collaborative software. This is new version (rewrite) using Twisted and Nevow. This is not official announcement just a small notice for people who are interested to check it, give me some critics, help in

Interesting decorator use.

2005-02-24 Thread Scott David Daniels
I have started doing the following to watch for exceptions in wxPython. I'd like any input about (A) the interface, and (B) the frame before I throw it in the recipes book. import wx, os, sys errorframe = None def watcherrors(function): '''function decorator to display

Re: Mapping operator tokens to special methods

2005-02-24 Thread Steven Bethard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was starting to write a dictionary to map operator strings to their equivalent special methods such as: { '+' : 'add', '' : 'and_' } The idea is to build a simple interactive calculator. and was wondering if there is already something like this builtin? Or is there a

Re: Canonical way of dealing with null-separated lines?

2005-02-24 Thread Scott David Daniels
Douglas Alan wrote: ... In any case, as a suggestion to the whomever it is that arranges for stuff to be put into the standard library, there should be something like this there, so everyone doesn't have to reinvent the wheel (even if it's an easy wheel to reinvent) for something that any sysadmin

Re: Canonical way of dealing with null-separated lines?

2005-02-24 Thread Christopher De Vries
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 02:03:52PM -0500, Douglas Alan wrote: Thanks for the generator. It returns an extra blank line at the end when used with find -print0, which is probably not ideal, and is also not how the normal file line iterator behaves. But don't worry -- I can fix it. Sorry... I

Re: Shift Confusion

2005-02-24 Thread Steve Holden
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 14:22:59 -, Richard Brodie [EMAIL PROTECTED] declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: John Machin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Essentially, it should be possible to use a 'packed string' format in Python, where as

Re: Trouble with mysql-python 1.2.0 on Solaris 8 sparc

2005-02-24 Thread Steve Holden
Alec Wysoker wrote: Hi Steve, Thanks for the response. I don't think this is the problem. When I connect to the remote machine, it says this: Your MySQL connection id is 58 to server version: 4.1.0-alpha-standard When I connect to the local server, I get this: Your MySQL connection id is 6 to

Re: Trouble with mysql-python 1.2.0 on Solaris 8 sparc

2005-02-24 Thread Alec Wysoker
Do you mean the python glue code? I am having this problem when python is not in the picture at all, just running mysql command-line client. Presumably my client is 4.1.10, as it came in a built package along with the 4.1.10 server. In fact, the following seems to indicate that it is the

Re: Interesting decorator use.

2005-02-24 Thread Tom Willis
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 11:15:07 -0800, Scott David Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have started doing the following to watch for exceptions in wxPython. I'd like any input about (A) the interface, and (B) the frame before I throw it in the recipes book. import wx, os, sys

Re: Canonical way of dealing with null-separated lines?

2005-02-24 Thread John Machin
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 11:53:32 -0500, Christopher De Vries [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 10:54:50PM -0500, Douglas Alan wrote: Is there a canonical way of iterating over the lines of a file that are null-separated rather than newline-separated? I'm not sure if there is a

Re: Mapping operator tokens to special methods

2005-02-24 Thread John Machin
On 24 Feb 2005 10:57:58 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was starting to write a dictionary to map operator strings to their equivalent special methods such as: { '+' : 'add', '' : 'and_' } The idea is to build a simple interactive calculator. and was wondering if there is already

More newbie macosx user questions

2005-02-24 Thread Timothy Grant
I think I'm mis-understanding something about how PYTHONPATH works (at least on OSX I didn't have this trouble on Linux). I have a directory where I store libraries that I'm playing around with. However, for some reason python can't find the library. Since I'm using PyQt, I use pythonw, but the

Re: Mapping operator tokens to special methods

2005-02-24 Thread jamesthiele . usenet
John Machin wrote: eval('1+2') 3 -- Yeah, that's what I decided to do. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python and Ajax technology collaboration

2005-02-24 Thread Chris
Does anyone else have any Nevow examples? In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] says... aurora [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It was discussed in the last Bay Area Python Interest Group meeting. Thursday, February 10, 2005 Agenda: Developing Responsive GUI Applications Using

Re: [perl-python] exercise: partition a list by equivalence

2005-02-24 Thread Paul McGuire
A slightly better version, only walks the set of cumulative list of sets once per pairing. -- Paul .import sets . .input = [[1, 2], [3, 4], [2, 3], [4, 5]] .input = [[1, 2], [3, 4], [4, 5]] .input = [[1, 2],[2,1], [3, 4], [4, 5],[2,2],[2,3],[6,6]] . .def merge(pairings): .ret

Re: Interesting decorator use.

2005-02-24 Thread Steven Bethard
Tom Willis wrote: Question on decorators in general. Can you parameterize those? If I wanted to something and after the function call for example, I would expect something like this would work. def prepostdecorator(function,pre,post): def wrapper(*args,**kwargs): pre() result =

Re: Interesting decorator use.

2005-02-24 Thread Steven Bethard
I wrote: Tom Willis wrote: Question on decorators in general. Can you parameterize those? [snip] If you want to call prepostdecorator with 2 arguments, you need to write it this way. A few options: Sorry, I forgot my favorite one: (4) Use a class and functional.partial: py class

Re: update images inside a mysql database

2005-02-24 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 24/02/2005 Gabriel Cooper wrote: I've never tried extensively to use images inside a database (too slow for most of my uses), but I thought I'd drop in to point out that you should, for security reasons, be using place holders on your sql. It might just fix your image problem as well,

Re: Interesting decorator use.

2005-02-24 Thread Tom Willis
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 15:00:46 -0700, Steven Bethard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom Willis wrote: Question on decorators in general. Can you parameterize those? If I wanted to something and after the function call for example, I would expect something like this would work. def

Re: Python Online Programming Contest

2005-02-24 Thread Will Stuyvesant
[Varun] For details about samhita http://www.samhita.info/ The Madras Institute of Technology (MIT) it says there. The MIT acronym is taken already guys.. -- no scheme no glory -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Online Programming Contest

2005-02-24 Thread Terry Reedy
Varun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Friends, Department of Information Technology, Madras Institute of Technology, Anna University, India is conducting a technical symposium, Samhita. As a part of samhita, an Online Programming Contest is scheduled on Sunday,

Re: Interesting decorator use.

2005-02-24 Thread Steven Bethard
Tom Willis wrote: Question on decorators in general. Can you parameterize those? Wow thanks for the explanation!! Some of it is a bit mind bending to me at the moment , but I'm going to mess with it a bit. Oh, I also should have mentioned that there's some explanation at:

Re: pyGoogle is fun and easy to use, and thinks Python is the best programming language

2005-02-24 Thread Andy Robinson
Regrettably, inserting Visual Basic into the list produces a different winner. I think you want some very subtle hard coding which limits it to on-space-delimited languages :-( - Andy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python and Ajax technology collaboration

2005-02-24 Thread Valentino Volonghi aka Dialtone
Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone else have any Nevow examples? Nevow SVN is full of examples ranging from a simple hello world to a complete blog engine with xml-rpc, smtp and web interfaces for adding new posts and an atom feed, or even a live chat or a pastebin or an image uploader

Re: Python and Ajax technology collaboration

2005-02-24 Thread Evan Simpson
John Willems wrote: Interesting GUI developments, it seems. Anyone developed a Ajax application using Python? Very curious Not what you meant, perhaps, but http://weboggle.shackworks.com has a Javascript/HTML/CSS one-page client that uses XMLHttpRequest to talk to a Python back-end. The

Re: Python Online Programming Contest

2005-02-24 Thread Kartic
Will Stuyvesant said the following on 2/24/2005 5:10 PM: [Varun] For details about samhita http://www.samhita.info/ The Madras Institute of Technology (MIT) it says there. The MIT acronym is taken already guys.. Will - It is a local acronym! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Canonical way of dealing with null-separated lines?

2005-02-24 Thread John Machin
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 16:51:22 -0500, Christopher De Vries [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] I think this is a definite improvement... especially putting the buffer size and line terminators as optional arguments, and handling empty files. I think, however that the if splitstr[-1]: ... else: ...

Re: Interesting decorator use.

2005-02-24 Thread Tom Willis
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 15:20:30 -0700, Steven Bethard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom Willis wrote: Question on decorators in general. Can you parameterize those? Wow thanks for the explanation!! Some of it is a bit mind bending to me at the moment , but I'm going to mess with it a bit. Oh,

Re: duplicate file finder

2005-02-24 Thread Lowell Kirsh
It looks pretty good, but I'll have to take a better look later. Out of curiosity, why did you convert the first spaces to pipes rather than add the code as an attachment? Lowell Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou wrote: On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 01:56:02 -0800, rumours say that Lowell Kirsh [EMAIL

Nevow examples

2005-02-24 Thread Travis Oliphant
There was a request for nevow examples. Nevow is a fantastic web-development framework for Python. I used nevow to create http://www.scipy.org/livedocs/ This site uses nevow and self introspection to produce (live) documentation for scipy based on the internal docstrings. It would be nice

Re: searching pdf files for certain info

2005-02-24 Thread Follower
rbt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Not really a Python question... but here goes: Is there a way to read the content of a PDF file and decode it with Python? I'd like to read PDF's, decode them, and then search the data for certain strings. I've had success with

Converting HTML to ASCII

2005-02-24 Thread gf gf
Hi. I'm looking for a Python lib to convert HTML to ASCII. Of course, a quick Google search showed several options (although, I must say, less than I would expect, considering how easy this is to do in *other* languages... :| ), but, I have 2 requirements, which none of them seem to meet: 1) Be

Best IDe

2005-02-24 Thread Jubri Siji
Please i am new to python , whats the best IDE to start with -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Online Programming Contest

2005-02-24 Thread Harlin Seritt
Actually MIT is an abbreviation and not an acronym in the true sense of the word :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Best IDe

2005-02-24 Thread Harlin Seritt
IDLE, PytonWin and SPE are all free and offer all of the important features you'll see even in commercial IDE's. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

web status display for long running program

2005-02-24 Thread Brian Roberts
I have a command line Python program that sometimes takes a bit (several minutes) to run. I want to provide an optional method for an impatient user (me!) to check the status of the program. The type and amount of status information doesn't fit nicely into a --verbose or logger -- either too

Re: user interface for python

2005-02-24 Thread Peter Hansen
Mike Meyer wrote: There are no portable programs, only ported programs. -- John Gilmore (?) This doesn't really ring true, unless one insists on defining portable to include the idea of universally. I've got dozens of Python utilities that run equally well on my Linux machines and my

Re: [perl-python] generic equivalence partition

2005-02-24 Thread Bryan
Xah Lee wrote: another functional exercise with lists. Here's the perl documentation. I'll post a perl and the translated python version in 48 hours. =pod parti(aList, equalFunc) given a list aList of n elements, we want to return a list that is a range of numbers from 1 to n, partition by the

Re: A few q's on python files.

2005-02-24 Thread Peter Hansen
Tim Roberts wrote: There are packages (like py2exe) that can convert your script into an executable, but they are essentially installers. They package your script, and all the scripts and libraries it needs, into a single file along with the interpreter. When the .exe is executed, it extracts

Re: Python Online Programming Contest

2005-02-24 Thread Varun
Hi, It is open for anyone across the world. All times are local ( GMT +5:30). The contest will be on Feb 27 (this sunday) and i will ensure that the times are clearly specified. -Varun -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Shift Confusion

2005-02-24 Thread Kamilche
Quite. Although you can sort of see how one might naively arrive at this conclusion: one 7-bit char takes 0...127, which when you put it into an 8-bit byte leaves 128...255 unused for a second char James Yep, that's what I was doing. Guess I was too tired to program usefully last night.

Re: Best IDe

2005-02-24 Thread Jaime Wyant
I demo'd wing ide and have to say it's the best commercial offering. The only other one I'm aware of is Komodo and it really can't touch Wing. But for me, wingide was slugish. I have a 1/2 gig of memory and a pretty hefty CPU - i think its a 1.6 Pentium M [it's a company issued laptop -- so im

Re: Flushing print()

2005-02-24 Thread Daniel Yoo
gf gf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Is there any way to make Python's print() flush : automatically, similar to...mmm...that other : language's $|=1 ? Hello gf gf, Yes; you can use the '-u' command line option to Python, which will turn off stdout/stderr buffering. : If not, how can I flush it

Default value for Listbox (Tkinter)

2005-02-24 Thread Harlin Seritt
Whenever I set up something similar: vals = ['1', '2','3'] for v in vals: listbox.inset(END, v) I notice that when this listbox is displayed, there is never a default value. How can I make sure that one of the indices is selected by default? Thanks, Harlin --

Re: web status display for long running program

2005-02-24 Thread John Lenton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian Roberts wrote: | I have a command line Python program that sometimes takes a bit | (several minutes) to run. I want to provide an optional method for an | impatient user (me!) to check the status of the program. The type and | amount of status

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