Watermark on images

2005-02-25 Thread export
Is there a way how to put a watermark on images by using Python? Lad. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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

2005-02-25 Thread Nick Coghlan
Douglas Alan wrote: Okay, here's the definitive version (or so say I). Some good doobie please make sure it makes its way into the standard library: def fileLineIter(inputFile, newline='\n', leaveNewline=False, readSize=8192): """Like the normal file iter but you can set what string indicates n

Re: rounding problem

2005-02-25 Thread Nick Coghlan
Dan Bishop wrote: Your statement is misleading, because it suggests that your processor stores digits. It doesn't; it stores *bits*. And where does the word 'bit' come from, hmm? It couldn't possibly be an abbreviation of Binary digIT, could it? Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Code evaluation at function definition execution time (was Re: Compile time evaluation (aka eliminating default argument hacks))

2005-02-25 Thread Nick Coghlan
Steven Bethard wrote: Worth looking at is the thread: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/58f53fe8bcc49664/ Huh - I thought I put something in the original post saying "without resorting to bytecode hacks", but I must have deleted it before sending the messag

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

2005-02-25 Thread Douglas Alan
Okay, here's the definitive version (or so say I). Some good doobie please make sure it makes its way into the standard library: def fileLineIter(inputFile, newline='\n', leaveNewline=False, readSize=8192): """Like the normal file iter but you can set what string indicates newline. You can

Re: Which module is "set " in?

2005-02-25 Thread Michael Hartl
It's good that you're using Python 2.3, which does have sets available, as a previous poster mentioned. Users of Python 2.2 or earlier can get most of the Set functionality using the following class (from Peter Norvig's utils.py file): # class Set: # """This implements the Set class from PEP

Re: urllib2 meta-refresh

2005-02-25 Thread Dave Brueck
Artificial Life wrote: urllib2 does not seem to be able to handle META-REFRESH in an html document. I just get back the html to the page that is supposed to forward me to the intended page. Right - urllib2 is for working with protocols (like HTTP) to transfer data, whereas META-REFRESH is an appli

Re: Source Encoding GBK/GB2312

2005-02-25 Thread steven
Thank you All ! I am going to update ... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: sockets question

2005-02-25 Thread Artificial Life
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 00:35:57 -0500, Mohammed Smadi wrote: > hi; > > i have the following piece of code: > = > s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_DGRAM) > s.bind(("",port)) > s.sendto(data,(MY_GW,port)) > data = s.recvfrom(1024) > > > data contains some instr

sockets question

2005-02-25 Thread Mohammed Smadi
hi; i have the following piece of code: = s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_DGRAM) s.bind(("",port)) s.sendto(data,(MY_GW,port)) data = s.recvfrom(1024) data contains some instructions which i am sending to MY_GW. If the reply arrives from the MY_GW quickl

urllib2 meta-refresh

2005-02-25 Thread Artificial Life
urllib2 does not seem to be able to handle META-REFRESH in an html document. I just get back the html to the page that is supposed to forward me to the intended page. Any way around this? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: strange SyntaxError

2005-02-25 Thread Attila Szabo
2005, Feb 25 -> Scott David Daniels wrote : > Attila Szabo wrote: > >Hi, > >def main(): > >lambda x: 'ABC%s' % str(x) > >for k in range(2): exec('print %s' % k) > OK, to no real effect, in main you define an unnamed function that > you can never reference. Pretty silly, but I'll bi

Re: Trees

2005-02-25 Thread Nick Coghlan
Diez B. Roggisch wrote: Or writing a Node-class is also so straightforward that few care about them being part of the core: Writing a *simple* node class is easy, but a full-featured one that supports things like comparison and easy iteration is a bit more work. So various people write partial im

Re: Which module is "set " in?

2005-02-25 Thread Anthony Liu
Thanks a lot, mine is Python 2.3, and from sets import Set as set works great! --- Steven Bethard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anthony Liu wrote: > > I want to use the set function like > > > > mylist = ['a', 'b', 'b', 'd', 'e', 'a'] > > myset = set (mylist) > > > > But I don't

Re: Which module is "set " in?

2005-02-25 Thread Steven Bethard
Anthony Liu wrote: I want to use the set function like mylist = ['a', 'b', 'b', 'd', 'e', 'a'] myset = set (mylist) But I don't know what to import, I tried sys, sets, they don't work. If you're using Python 2.4, they're builtin. If you're using Python 2.3, you'll probably want to do som

Which module is "set " in?

2005-02-25 Thread Anthony Liu
I want to use the set function like mylist = ['a', 'b', 'b', 'd', 'e', 'a'] myset = set (mylist) But I don't know what to import, I tried sys, sets, they don't work. What's the easy way to find out the module that contains a particular function? __

Mask Array

2005-02-25 Thread oliverm
hi all, i have read a tutorial about "gemath" and it has a dependency called MA (Mask Array), the problem is i cannot find any link where to download this thing, anyone knows where i could get Mask Array? thanks. --

It's worth a Try!

2005-02-25 Thread amonje_avon
Please read and believe: Turn $6 into $60,000 in 90 days, GUARANTEED I found this in a news group and decided to try it. A little while back, I was browsing through news groups, just like you are now and came across a message just like this, that said you could make thousands of dollars within week

Re: Dealing with config files what's the options

2005-02-25 Thread Dave Brueck
Tom Willis wrote: On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 15:02:04 -0700, Dave Brueck How about writing them in Python? Depending on who will be editing the config files, this can be a great approach. [snip] I actually thought of this, and I was kind of on the fence due to the intended audience. I don't think it's too

Re: Yet another logo design...

2005-02-25 Thread Stephen Waterbury
Mark wrote: Long story short here is a contemporary logo design by myself: http://www.imagezilla.com/img.php?im=1182129642_logo.png Any comments welcome... *runs* Heh. As a graphic design, I think it's very nice. Unfortunately, it's probably a bit too "scary" as a logo for Python the language

Re: wxpython tutorials

2005-02-25 Thread Peter Hansen
Harlin Seritt wrote: Tkinter is easier to learn. It is better documented IMO. Tkinter is just as functional as any other GUI toolkit for Python. Creating your own widget sets is usually a breeze. Tkinter is not ugly if done properly. Tkinter apps are ported easily. On and on :-) In this forum, no s

Re: web status display for long running program

2005-02-25 Thread Peter Hansen
Paul Rubin wrote: "Kamilche" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I was inspired to enhance your code, and perform a critical bug-fix. Your code would not have sent large files out to dialup users, because it assumed all data was sent on the 'send' command. I added code to check for the number of bytes sent

Re: Dealing with config files what's the options

2005-02-25 Thread Tom Willis
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 15:02:04 -0700, Dave Brueck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jorgen Grahn wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 20:38:28 -0500, Tom Willis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>How are the expert pythoneers dealing with config files? > > > > ... > > > >>Any ideas? > > > > > > How about writin

Re: Code evaluation at function definition execution time (was Re: Compile time evaluation (aka eliminating default argument hacks))

2005-02-25 Thread Steven Bethard
Nick Coghlan wrote: Anyway, if others agree that the ability to execute a suite at def exeuction time to preinitialise a function's locals without resorting to bytecode hacks is worth having, finding a decent syntax is the next trick :) I'm not certain how many use cases really require a full su

Re: Converting HTML to ASCII

2005-02-25 Thread Kent Johnson
gf gf wrote: Hi. I'm looking for a Python lib to convert HTML to ASCII. You might find these threads on comp.lang.python interesting: http://tinyurl.com/5zmpn http://tinyurl.com/6mxmb Kent -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Code evaluation at function definition execution time (was Re: Compile time evaluation (aka eliminating default argument hacks))

2005-02-25 Thread Nick Coghlan
Nick Coghlan wrote: Basically, yeah. Although I later realised I got the name of the feature I want wrong - default arguments are evaluated when the def statement is executed, not when the code is compiled. So it's a matter of being able to execute some code in the functions local namespace at c

Re: weird strings question

2005-02-25 Thread Robert Kern
Lucas Raab wrote: Is it possible to assign a string a numerical value?? For example, in the string "test" can I assign a number to each letter as in "t" = 45, "e" = 89, "s" = 54, and so on and so forth?? Use a dictionary with the strings as keys. string2num = {} string2num['t'] = 45 string2num['

Re: weird strings question

2005-02-25 Thread John Machin
Lucas Raab wrote: > Is it possible to assign a string a numerical value?? For example, in > the string "test" can I assign a number to each letter as in "t" = 45, > "e" = 89, "s" = 54, and so on and so forth?? > > TIA >>> for c in 'abcd': ...print c, ord(c) ... a 97 b 98 c 99 d 100 If that

weird strings question

2005-02-25 Thread Lucas Raab
Is it possible to assign a string a numerical value?? For example, in the string "test" can I assign a number to each letter as in "t" = 45, "e" = 89, "s" = 54, and so on and so forth?? TIA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Code evaluation at function definition execution time (was Re: Compile time evaluation (aka eliminating default argument hacks))

2005-02-25 Thread Nick Coghlan
Steven Bethard wrote: So just to clarify, the issue you're trying to address is when you want early binding like function default arguments get, but you don't want to declare the names as function arguments? Basically, yeah. Although I later realised I got the name of the feature I want wrong -

netmask arithmetic?

2005-02-25 Thread Dan Stromberg
Before I go and reinvent the wheel, does anyone already have python code that can do netmask arithmetic - for example, determining if a list of hostnames are on subnets described by a list of networks+netmasks like: 128.200.34.0/24 128.195.16.128/25 ...and so on? Thanks! -- http://mail.python

Re: fdups: calling for beta testers

2005-02-25 Thread John Machin
Patrick Useldinger wrote: > > fdups' homepage is at http://www.homepages.lu/pu/fdups.html, where > you'll also find a link to download the tar. > """fdups has no installation program. Just change into a temporary directory, and type "tar xfj fdups.tar.bz". You should also chown the files accordin

possible python/linux/gnome issue!!

2005-02-25 Thread bruce
hi... i'm running rh8.0 with gnome.. i'm not sure of the version (it's whatever rh shipped). i've recently updated (or tried to update) python to the latest version. when i try to run the 'Server Settings/Services' Icon within gnome, nothing happens... i tried to run the 'start services' command

cgi: getting at raw POST data?

2005-02-25 Thread Erik Johnson
I am trying to work with a program that is trying make an HTTP POST of text data without any named form parameter. (I don't know - is that a normal thing to do?) I need to write a CGI program that accepts and processes that data. I'm not seeing how to get at data that's not a named form parameter.

Yet another logo design...

2005-02-25 Thread Mark
Hi, I'm relatively new to python and have been reading some of the topics on the Python logo and marketing issues etc. Long story short here is a contemporary logo design by myself: http://www.imagezilla.com/img.php?im=1182129642_logo.png Any comments welcome... *runs* -- http://mail.python.org

Re: variable declaration

2005-02-25 Thread Serge Orlov
Alexander Zatvornitskiy wrote: > Hello All! > > I'am novice in python, and I find one very bad thing (from my point > of view) in language. There is no keyword or syntax to declare > variable, like 'var' in > Pascal, or special syntax in C. It can > cause very ugly errors,like this: > > epsilon=0 >

Re: Converting HTML to ASCII

2005-02-25 Thread Michael Spencer
Mike Meyer wrote: It also fails on tags with a ">" in a string in the tag. That's well-formed but ill-used HTML. True enough...however, it doesn't fail too horribly: >>> striptags("""the text""") "'>the text" >>> and I think that case could be rectified rather easily, by stripping an

Re: Splitting strings - by iterators?

2005-02-25 Thread John Machin
Jeremy Sanders wrote: > On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 17:14:24 +0100, Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > > > Maybe [c]StringIO can be of help. I don't know if it's iterator is lazy. But > > at least it has one, so you can try and see if it improves performance :) > > Excellent! I somehow missed that module. StringIO

Re: Splitting strings - by iterators?

2005-02-25 Thread Larry Bates
By putting them into another file you can just use .readline iterator on file object to solve your problem. I would personally find it hard to work on a program that had 400,000 lines of data hard coded into a structure like this, but that's me. -Larry Jeremy Sanders wrote: > On Fri, 25 Feb 200

Re: Dealing with config files what's the options

2005-02-25 Thread Dave Brueck
Jorgen Grahn wrote: On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 20:38:28 -0500, Tom Willis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How are the expert pythoneers dealing with config files? ... Any ideas? How about writing them in Python? Depending on who will be editing the config files, this can be a great approach. At the simplest

Re: Dealing with config files what's the options

2005-02-25 Thread Jorgen Grahn
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 20:38:28 -0500, Tom Willis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How are the expert pythoneers dealing with config files? ... > Any ideas? How about writing them in Python? I have no URL handy, but it would surprise me if there wasn't a lot written about different techniques for doing

Re: unicode encoding usablilty problem

2005-02-25 Thread Vinay Sajip
> This will help in your code, but there is big pile of modules in stdlib > that are not unicode-friendly. From my daily practice come shlex > (tokenizer works only with encoded strings) and logging (you cann't > specify encoding for FileHandler). You can, of course, pass in a stream opened usi

Re: Converting HTML to ASCII

2005-02-25 Thread Jorgen Grahn
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 10:51:47 -0800 (PST), gf gf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hans, > > Thanks for the tip. I took a look at Beatiful Soup, > and it looked like it was a framework to parse HTML. This is my understanding, too. > I'm not really interetsed in going through it tag by > tag - just t

fdups: calling for beta testers

2005-02-25 Thread Patrick Useldinger
Hi all, I am looking for beta-testers for fdups. fdups is a program to detect duplicate files on locally mounted filesystems. Files are considered equal if their content is identical, regardless of their filename. Also, fdups ignores symbolic links and is able to detect and ignore hardlinks, whe

Re: Converting HTML to ASCII

2005-02-25 Thread Mike Meyer
Michael Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > gf gf wrote: >> [wants to extract ASCII from badly-formed HTML and thinks BeautifulSoup is >> too complex] > > You haven't specified what you mean by "extracting" ASCII, but I'll > assume that you want to start by eliminating html tags and comments, >

Re: exclude binary files from os.walk

2005-02-25 Thread Bengt Richter
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 18:25:09 -0500, "Dan Perl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >"rbt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Is there an easy way to exclude binary files (I'm working on Windows XP) >> from the file list returned by os.walk()? >> >> Also, when reading files

Re: Best IDe

2005-02-25 Thread Jarek Zgoda
Jubri Siji napisał(a): Please i am new to python , whats the best IDE to start with Vim, Emacs or jEdit. -- Jarek Zgoda http://jpa.berlios.de/ | http://www.zgodowie.org/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

File descriptor open in one thread, closed in another?!

2005-02-25 Thread Marco Nicosia
Hello gang, My coworker and I are writing a Python class for the other developers within our team. This class is supposed to encapsulate several things, including daemonizing, setting up logging, and spawning a thread to host an XML-RPC server. I'm having a real problem with logging.Logger and th

Re: [perl-python] generic equivalence partition

2005-02-25 Thread Paul Moore
David Eppstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > "Xah Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 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 function of >> e

Re: Splitting strings - by iterators?

2005-02-25 Thread Francis Girard
Hi, Using finditer in re module might help. I'm not sure it is lazy nor performant. Here's an example : === BEGIN SNAP import re reLn = re.compile(r"""[^\n]*(\n|$)""") sStr = \ """ This is a test string. It is supposed to be big. Oh well. """ for oMatch in reLn.finditer(sStr): print oMatch.

Re: Flushing print()

2005-02-25 Thread Cameron Laird
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Yoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >gf gf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . . . >: If not, how can I flush it manually? sys.stdout.flush() didn't >: seem to work. > >H, that's odd. sys.stdou

Re: Converting HTML to ASCII

2005-02-25 Thread Michael Spencer
gf gf wrote: [wants to extract ASCII from badly-formed HTML and thinks BeautifulSoup is too complex] You haven't specified what you mean by "extracting" ASCII, but I'll assume that you want to start by eliminating html tags and comments, which is easy enough with a couple of regular expressions:

Handle user abort inside of a CGI-script

2005-02-25 Thread Markus Franz
Hallo! I use Python mostly for CGI (Apache). And now I habe a problem: How can I handle the situation if a user clicks on "abort" in the browser? It seems that a CGI-script is NOT stopped at this point. Is there any signal send to the CGI-process if the user clicks on "abort"? Thank you. Best r

Handle user abort

2005-02-25 Thread Markus Franz
Hallo! I use Python mostly for CGI (using Apache). And now I habe a problem: How can I handle the situation if a user clicks on ?abort? in the browser? It seems that a CGI-script is NOT stopped at this point. Is there any signal send to the CGI-process if the user clicks on ?abort?? Thank you. Be

Re: wxpython tutorials

2005-02-25 Thread Bill
Raghul wrote: > hi, > > I want to learn Wxpython to work in windows.Is there any tutorials > available?Pls specify the link that will be easy to learn for beginers > like me An approach that I find useful is to use an IDE to build the base application structure, then examine the generated cod

Re: Unit testing - one test class/method, or test class/class

2005-02-25 Thread Edvard Majakari
"John Roth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tend to write one test class per class, but that's > just the way I got started. My feeling is that the > methods in a test class should tell a story if you > read the names in the order they were written, > so I'd split the tests for a class into severa

Re: Unit testing - one test class/method, or test class/class

2005-02-25 Thread Edvard Majakari
aurora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What I really want to bring up is your might want to look at refactoring > your module in the first place. 348 test cases for one module sounds like a > large number. That reflects you have a fairly complex module to be tested > to start with. Often the bigges

Converting HTML to ASCII

2005-02-25 Thread gf gf
Hans, Thanks for the tip. I took a look at Beatiful Soup, and it looked like it was a framework to parse HTML. I'm not really interetsed in going through it tag by tag - just to get it converted to ASCII. How can I do this with B. Soup? --Thanks PS William - thanks for the reference to lynx,

Re: wanted: C++ parser written in Python

2005-02-25 Thread dan . gass
You can look at the techniques and regular expressions in the testgen.c.unit test module that is part of a generic test framework called TestGen. TestGen uses a parser to automatically stub / copy functions for testing purposes. The parser is capable of identifying the function/method name as wel

Re: Is there way to determine which class a method is bound to?

2005-02-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Another way is to make a simple metaclass, setting an attribute (like defining_class, or something) on each function object in the class dictionary. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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

2005-02-25 Thread Andy Dustman
What happens when you try to connect? Be sure to check /etc/hosts.allow and .deny on the server, if your server is compiled with TCP wrapper support. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Minor, but annoying legend problem in matplotlib

2005-02-25 Thread Jorl Shefner
I have a problem that I run into a lot with the 'legend' command's default behavior. I've found a work-around but I wonder if there's a better way. For a simple example, take the following: x= [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8] a= [5,3,2,4,6,5,8,7] b= [4,1,3,

Re: [Tutor] threads

2005-02-25 Thread Shitiz Bansal
> >Can anyone guide me on how to spawn > >simultaneously( or > > pseudo simultaneously) running microthreads using > > stackless. > > > > Here is what i tried.. > > > > def gencars(num,origin,dest,speed): > > global adjls > > global cars > > global juncls > > for i in range(num):

Re: strange SyntaxError

2005-02-25 Thread Terry Reedy
"Attila Szabo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi, > > I wrote this sample piece of code: > > def main(): >lambda x: 'ABC%s' % str(x) >for k in range(2): exec('print %s' % k) > > main() > > With the lambda line, I get this: > SyntaxError: unqualified

Re: Threading and consuming output from processes

2005-02-25 Thread Donn Cave
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jack Orenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am developing a Python program that submits a command to each node > of a cluster and consumes the stdout and stderr from each. I want all > the processes to run in parallel, so I start a thread for each > node. There co

Re: Tuple index

2005-02-25 Thread Scott Robinson
On 21 Feb 2005 15:01:05 -0800, "John Machin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Steve M wrote: >> John Machin wrote: >> >> > >> > Steve M wrote: >> >> I'm actually doing this as part of an exercise from a book. What >the >> > program >> >> is supposed to do is be a word guessing game. The program >auto

Re: split a directory string into a list

2005-02-25 Thread Josef Meile
Hi Duncan, This should work reasonably reliably on Windows and Unix: somestring = '/foo/bar/beer/sex/cigarettes/drugs/alcohol/' os.path.normpath(somestring).split(os.path.sep) ['', 'foo', 'bar', 'beer', 'sex', 'cigarettes', 'drugs', 'alcohol'] However a better solution is probably to call os.path.

Re: Unit testing - one test class/method, or test class/class

2005-02-25 Thread John Roth
I tend to write one test class per class, but that's just the way I got started. My feeling is that the methods in a test class should tell a story if you read the names in the order they were written, so I'd split the tests for a class into several classes if they had different stories to tell. Jo

Re: accessor/mutator functions

2005-02-25 Thread Michael Spencer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the class had two attributes--x and y--would the code look like something lik this: class C(object): def __init__(self): self.__x = 0 self.__y = 0 def getx(self): return self.__x def setx(self, x):

Re: Unit testing - one test class/method, or test class/class

2005-02-25 Thread aurora
I do something more or less like your option b. I don't think there is any orthodox structure to follow. You should use a style that fit your taste. What I really want to bring up is your might want to look at refactoring your module in the first place. 348 test cases for one module sounds lik

Re: accessor/mutator functions

2005-02-25 Thread Terry Reedy
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > When I look at how classes are set up in other languages (e.g. C++), I > often observe the following patterns: > 1) for each data member, the class will have an accessor member > function (a Get function) > 2) for each data member, the

Re: Splitting strings - by iterators?

2005-02-25 Thread Jeremy Sanders
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 10:57:59 -0600, Larry Bates wrote: > How did you get the string in memory in the first place? They're actually from a generated python script, acting as a saved file format, something like: interpret(""" lots of lines """) another_command() Obviously this isn't the most effi

Re: xhtml-print parser

2005-02-25 Thread Steve Holden
Michael Hoffman wrote: Steve Holden wrote: Consider that the OP might want to pass the C parser output to a Python web-content generator, which would make a deal of sense. You're welcome to guess what the OP wants to do, but I'm not going to. If he or she asks a coherent question it will probably

Fonts

2005-02-25 Thread phil
I'm cpmpletely lost on fonts. I'm using Tkinter I do medarial = '-*-Arial-Bold-*-*--24-*-*-*-ISO8859-1" or Courier or Fixed in various sizes. Works great on my RH 7.2 But a small embedded system Im working on, nothing seems to work, almost everything falls back to a fixed 12 The X*4 fontpaths are t

Re: Splitting strings - by iterators?

2005-02-25 Thread Larry Bates
Jeremy, How did you get the string in memory in the first place? If you read it from a file, perhaps you should change to reading it from the file a line at the time and use file.readline as your iterator. fp=file(inputfile, 'r') for line in fp: ...do your processing... fp.close() I don't t

Re: Splitting strings - by iterators?

2005-02-25 Thread Jeremy Sanders
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 17:14:24 +0100, Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > Maybe [c]StringIO can be of help. I don't know if it's iterator is lazy. But > at least it has one, so you can try and see if it improves performance :) Excellent! I somehow missed that module. StringIO speeds up the iteration by a fac

Re: update images inside a mysql database

2005-02-25 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 25/02/2005 Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 23:10:48 +0100, Jonas Meurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > > > > version used placeholders as well. anyway, i changed my code to resemble > > "resemble" is the key... It is NOT the correct s

Re: Splitting strings - by iterators?

2005-02-25 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Jeremy Sanders wrote: > I have a large string containing lines of text separated by '\n'. I'm > currently using text.splitlines(True) to break the text into lines, and > I'm iterating over the resulting list. > > This is very slow (when using 40 lines!). Other than dumping the > string to a f

Re: accessor/mutator functions

2005-02-25 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> Because if so, does the term 'lazy evaluation' refer to the fact that > instead of: No, it is a common technical term. It means that a value is computed the time it is requested for the first time. Like this: class Foo(object): def __init__(self): self.__bar = None def getBar(se

Re: Is there way to determine which class a method is bound to?

2005-02-25 Thread Roy Smith
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Victor Ng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >No - that doesn't work, im_class gives me the current class - in the >case of inheritance, I'd like to get the super class which provides >'bar'. Oh my. You said you were doing something evil, but didn't say *how* evil. What

Re: Is there way to determine which class a method is bound to?

2005-02-25 Thread Roy Smith
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Victor Ng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm doing some evil things in Python and I would find it useful to >determine which class a method is bound to when I'm given a method >pointer. I don't know where (or if) it's documented, but im_class seems to give you what yo

Re: Is there way to determine which class a method is bound to?

2005-02-25 Thread Robin Becker
Victor Ng wrote: I'm doing some evil things in Python and I would find it useful to determine which class a method is bound to when I'm given a method pointer. For example: class Foo(object): def somemeth(self): return 42 class Bar(Foo): def othermethod(self): return 42 Is t

Splitting strings - by iterators?

2005-02-25 Thread Jeremy Sanders
I have a large string containing lines of text separated by '\n'. I'm currently using text.splitlines(True) to break the text into lines, and I'm iterating over the resulting list. This is very slow (when using 40 lines!). Other than dumping the string to a file, and reading it back using the

Re: accessor/mutator functions

2005-02-25 Thread mirandacascade
If the class had two attributes--x and y--would the code look like something lik this: class C(object): def __init__(self): self.__x = 0 self.__y = 0 def getx(self): return self.__x def setx(self, x): if x < 0: x = 0

Re: Is there way to determine which class a method is bound to?

2005-02-25 Thread Peter Otten
Peter Otten wrote: import inspect class Foo(object): > ... def foo(self): pass > ... class Bar(Foo): > ... def bar(self): pass > ... def get_imp_class(method): > ... return [t for t in inspect.classify_class_attrs(method.im_class) > if t[-1] is method.im_func][0][2]

Re: Is there way to determine which class a method is bound to?

2005-02-25 Thread Victor Ng
Awesome! I didn't see the getmro function in inspect - that'll do the trick for me. I should be able to just look up the methodname in each of the class's __dict__ attributes. vic On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 16:29:25 +0100, Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Victor Ng wrote: > > > I'm doing som

Re: Is there way to determine which class a method is bound to?

2005-02-25 Thread Peter Otten
Victor Ng wrote: > I'm doing some evil things in Python and I would find it useful to > determine which class a method is bound to when I'm given a method > pointer. > > For example: > > class Foo(object): > def somemeth(self): > return 42 > > class Bar(Foo): > def othermethod(s

Re: split a directory string into a list

2005-02-25 Thread Duncan Booth
Michael Maibaum wrote: > On 25 Feb 2005, at 14:09, Harper, Gina wrote: > >> I would start with something like this: >> somestring = '/foo/bar/beer/sex/cigarettes/drugs/alcohol/' >> somelist = somestring.split('/') >> print somelist > > However - this will not work on Windows. It'd work on all th

problem installing wxPython 2.5.3, wxWidgets installed ok

2005-02-25 Thread timothy . williams
I'm trying to install wxPython 2.5.3.1 using Python 2.3.2 on a Fedora 2 machine. I have python in a non-standard place, but I'm using --prefix with the configure script to point to where I have everything. The make install in $WXDIR seemed to go fine. I have the libxw* libraries in my lib/ directo

Re: Nevow examples

2005-02-25 Thread Chris
Does anyone know of a site(s) that shows examples of what you can do with Nevow? I'm not necessarily referring to code, but what it can do over the web. (Something I can show my boss if needed.) In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says... > > There was a request for nevow exam

Re: Is there way to determine which class a method is bound to?

2005-02-25 Thread Victor Ng
No - that doesn't work, im_class gives me the current class - in the case of inheritance, I'd like to get the super class which provides 'bar'. I suppose I could walk the __bases__ to find the method using the search routine outlined in: http://www.python.org/2.2/descrintro.html but I was hoping

Re: strange SyntaxError

2005-02-25 Thread Scott David Daniels
Attila Szabo wrote: Hi, def main(): lambda x: 'ABC%s' % str(x) for k in range(2): exec('print %s' % k) OK, to no real effect, in main you define an unnamed function that you can never reference. Pretty silly, but I'll bite. Next you run run a loop with exec looking like you think i

Re: Is there way to determine which class a method is bound to?

2005-02-25 Thread Richie Hindle
[vic] > I'm doing some evil things in Python and I would find it useful to > determine which class a method is bound to when I'm given a method > pointer. Here you go: >>> class Foo: ... def bar(self): ... pass ... >>> Foo.bar.im_class >>> Foo().bar.im_class >>> -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL

Is there way to determine which class a method is bound to?

2005-02-25 Thread Victor Ng
I'm doing some evil things in Python and I would find it useful to determine which class a method is bound to when I'm given a method pointer. For example: class Foo(object): def somemeth(self): return 42 class Bar(Foo): def othermethod(self): return 42 Is there some wa

ANN: T602Parser 0.1

2005-02-25 Thread Radovan Garabik
Text602 was a very popular word processor for IBM PC MS DOS compatibles, used in Czechoslovakia. T602Parser provides a simple class modelled after HTMLParser that can be used to parse Text602 documents (MS DOS version, not Win602) and to extract/convert data contained in them. Version: 0.1 (in

Re: web status display for long running program

2005-02-25 Thread Larry Bates
Not exactly on point, but this is what I use in many of my programs to show progress on long running console apps. Larry Bates class progressbarClass: def __init__(self, finalcount, progresschar=None): import sys self.finalcount=finalcount self.blockcount=0 #

Re: split a directory string into a list

2005-02-25 Thread Michael Maibaum
On 25 Feb 2005, at 14:09, Harper, Gina wrote: I would start with something like this: somestring = '/foo/bar/beer/sex/cigarettes/drugs/alcohol/' somelist = somestring.split('/') print somelist However - this will not work on Windows. It'd work on all the OS I usually use though ;) Michael -- htt

Re: xhtml-print parser

2005-02-25 Thread Michael Hoffman
Steve Holden wrote: Consider that the OP might want to pass the C parser output to a Python web-content generator, which would make a deal of sense. You're welcome to guess what the OP wants to do, but I'm not going to. If he or she asks a coherent question it will probably be answered. -- Michael

RE: split a directory string into a list

2005-02-25 Thread Harper, Gina
I would start with something like this: somestring = '/foo/bar/beer/sex/cigarettes/drugs/alcohol/' somelist = somestring.split('/') print somelist This is close to what you seem to want. Good luck. *gina* -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday,

Re: automatic nesting and indentation in emacs

2005-02-25 Thread Ben Barrowes
In emacs matlab-mode, highlight a region then use indent-region: C-M-\ runs the command indent-region which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `indent'. (indent-region START END COLUMN) Indent each nonblank line in the region. With prefix no argument, indent each line using `indent-acco

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