cx_Oracle 4.3

2007-03-08 Thread Anthony Tuininga
What is cx_Oracle? cx_Oracle is a Python extension module that allows access to Oracle and conforms to the Python database API 2.0 specifications with a few exceptions. Where do I get it? http://starship.python.net/crew/atuining What's new? 1) Added preliminary support for fetching Oracle

Re: persistent fifo queue class

2007-03-08 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
David Bear schrieb: Diez B. Roggisch wrote: David Bear schrieb: I'm looking to see if there are any examples or prewritting fifo queue classes. I know this is a broad topic. I'm looking to implement a simple application where a web server enqueue and pickle using a local socket on to a

Re: catching exceptions from an except: block

2007-03-08 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
MonkeeSage a écrit : On Mar 7, 4:58 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: except_retry: # the missing(???) keyword you're after What is 'except_retry'? A totally imaginary statement that would do what the OP is looking for. To the OP, with the loop and the callables you

Re: Bug in python!? persistent value of an optional parameter in function!

2007-03-08 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
C Barr Leigh a écrit : Help! Have I found a serious bug? No. This is a FAQ. Default arguments of functions are evaled only once - when the def statement is eval'd and the function object constructed. This seems like highly undesired behaviour to me. Possibly, but this is unlikely to change

Re: Bug in python!? persistent value of an optional parameter in function!

2007-03-08 Thread Ayaz Ahmed Khan
Gabriel Genellina typed: See http://effbot.org/pyfaq/why-are-default-values-shared-between-objects.htm Thanks for the link, Gabriel. I didn't know about this. -- Ayaz Ahmed Khan Falling in love makes smoking pot all day look like the ultimate in restraint. -- Dave Sim,

Howto find dict members from a list of keys

2007-03-08 Thread Alexander Eisenhuth
Hello, what algo do you use, when you want to find the dict values from d, with members of l. Following example: d = {1:2,2:3,3:4,4:5,5:6,6:7,7:8,8:9,9:10} l = [7,8] found_dic_members = yourCode print found_dict_members [8,9] Thanks Alexander --

Re: Is numeric keys of Python's dictionary automatically sorted?

2007-03-08 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:34:20 -0800, Nick Vatamaniuc wrote: From the standard library docs: Keys and values are listed in an arbitrary order which is non-random, varies across Python implementations, and depends on the dictionary's history of insertions and deletions. i.e. the

Re: merits of Lisp vs Python

2007-03-08 Thread John Nagle
Brian Adkins wrote: Ken Tilton wrote: John Nagle wrote: Turns out John is having quite a tough time with Python web hosting (the thread has split off to a c.l.p only fork), so I'm going to cut him some slack. Maybe with some lovin' we can woo him over to c.l.l ;) Been there, done

Re: Howto find dict members from a list of keys

2007-03-08 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Thu, 08 Mar 2007 05:20:20 -0300, Alexander Eisenhuth [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: what algo do you use, when you want to find the dict values from d, with members of l. Following example: d = {1:2,2:3,3:4,4:5,5:6,6:7,7:8,8:9,9:10} l = [7,8] found_dic_members = yourCode print

Re: Problem with Packages

2007-03-08 Thread Srikanth
It appears that you forgot the basic rule: a package is a directory with an __init__.py file (even if empty). Exactly right. I didn't know that __init__.py is a mandatory one. Thanks for pointing out. my_apps | |-- mod3.py |-- dir1/dir1_1/mod1.py |-- dir2/dir2_2/mod2.py You need 4

Re: Howto find dict members from a list of keys

2007-03-08 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:20:20 +0100, Alexander Eisenhuth wrote: Hello, what algo do you use, when you want to find the dict values from d, with members of l. Following example: d = {1:2,2:3,3:4,4:5,5:6,6:7,7:8,8:9,9:10} l = [7,8] found_dic_members = yourCode print

Re: Is numeric keys of Python's dictionary automatically sorted?

2007-03-08 Thread Duncan Booth
Carsten Haese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is a simple counterexample that breaks the ordering, at least for the version I'm running: d = {} for i in range(0,6): d[10**i] = [] ... d {10: [], 1: [], 100: [], 1000: [], 10: [], 1: []} Here's another counterexample which shows

Re: Howto find dict members from a list of keys

2007-03-08 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 05:26:22 -0300, Gabriel Genellina wrote: En Thu, 08 Mar 2007 05:20:20 -0300, Alexander Eisenhuth [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: what algo do you use, when you want to find the dict values from d, with members of l. Following example: d =

Re: Descriptor/Decorator challenge

2007-03-08 Thread Michele Simionato
Raymond Hettinger wrote: Any trick in the book (metaclasses, descriptors, etc) is fair game. So you are asking for a serious hack, right? As soon as I saw your challenge I thought That's difficult. Very difficult. No way I can solve that with a simple descriptor/decorator. I need more POWER.

splitting common functions into a sepperate module

2007-03-08 Thread jonkersbart
Dear, I have wrote a script and want to group some functions of the script in a separate modulo so that I can import the module in other scripts and use the same functions there.. The problem is that the common functions need access to some global variables defined in the script. Python uses

Re: Problem with Packages

2007-03-08 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Thu, 08 Mar 2007 05:26:45 -0300, Srikanth [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: It appears that you forgot the basic rule: a package is a directory with an __init__.py file (even if empty). Exactly right. I didn't know that __init__.py is a mandatory one. Thanks for pointing out. You may want to

Re: splitting common functions into a sepperate module

2007-03-08 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Thu, 08 Mar 2007 05:45:24 -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: I have wrote a script and want to group some functions of the script in a separate modulo so that I can import the module in other scripts and use the same functions there.. The problem is that the common functions need access

Re: catching exceptions from an except: block

2007-03-08 Thread Gerard Flanagan
On Mar 7, 7:32 pm, Arnaud Delobelle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Imagine I have three functions a(x), b(x), c(x) that each return something or raise an exception. Imagine I want to define a function that returns a(x) if possible, otherwise b(x), otherwise c(x), otherwise raise CantDoIt.

Re: Descriptor/Decorator challenge

2007-03-08 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Thu, 08 Mar 2007 05:37:39 -0300, Michele Simionato [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: The code to enable recognition of CurrentClass is short enough to be includede here, but I will qualify it as a five star-level hackery: You forgot the standard disclaimer: This is extremely dangerous stuff,

Re: Howto find dict members from a list of keys

2007-03-08 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Thu, 08 Mar 2007 05:37:48 -0300, Steven D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 05:26:22 -0300, Gabriel Genellina wrote: found_dic_members = [d[key] for key in l] *self stares at the line of code* *self thinks about what he just posted* *self realises with acute

Re: catching exceptions from an except: block

2007-03-08 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Thu, 08 Mar 2007 06:17:37 -0300, Gerard Flanagan [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: @onfail(False) def a(x): if x == 1: return 'function a succeeded' else: raise I know it's irrelevant, as you use a bare except, but such raise looks a bit ugly... -- Gabriel

property syntax

2007-03-08 Thread bearophileHUGS
Probably you have already discussed this topic, but maybe you can stand touching it again briefly. Maybe properties aren't used so often to deserve a specific syntax, but I don't like their syntax much. Here I show some alternative solutions that work with the current Python, followed by a syntax

Re: splitting common functions into a sepperate module

2007-03-08 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Dear, I have wrote a script and want to group some functions of the script in a separate modulo so that I can import the module in other scripts and use the same functions there.. The problem is that the common functions need access to some global variables

Re: Jython Data Extraction problem

2007-03-08 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Steve Williams wrote: The data is an 8-byte 2s complement binary integer stored in a MSSQL 2005 CHAR column. (COBOL did that, not me). I'm using zxJDBC to read the data and Jython to process. I could extract the integer if it wasn't returned in the resultset as unicode. Things like

Re: Descriptor/Decorator challenge

2007-03-08 Thread Michele Simionato
On Mar 8, 10:20 am, Gabriel Genellina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You forgot the standard disclaimer: This is extremely dangerous stuff, only highly trained professionals can do that! Kids, never try this at home! ;) Yep, the only good use case for this kind of games is for prototyping in

Re: multithreading concept

2007-03-08 Thread Bryan Olson
sturlamolden wrote: [...] If you want to utilize the computing power of multiple CPUs, you should use multiple processes instead of threads. On Python this is mandatory due to the GIL. In any other language it it highly recommended. The de-factor standard for parallel multiprocessing (MPI)

Re: How to build a Windows service using win32?

2007-03-08 Thread Giles Brown
On 7 Mar, 16:45, Gregor Mosheh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giles Brown wrote: Yeah. You've cleverly decided to simplify the smallest possible python service by removing the if __name__ == '__main__': Ha ha. :) Seriously, though, I removed that long after it was failing to work, and have

Re: VIM: Python type indented-block command equivalent to % for C?

2007-03-08 Thread Roel Schroeven
Paddy3118 schreef: Assuming that only space characters are allowed for indenting, is their a way to yank a Python block like y% works for C , or a way to move to the end of a block defined by indentation? I have tried help indent but could not find anything. I don't know either, but if

Re: is it possible to give an instance a value?

2007-03-08 Thread egbert
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 01:22:25PM +1100, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 16:02:05 +0100, egbert wrote: My impression is that you can do everything you want to by making your instance callable, and not using a but a(). You can't do this: a() = some value I didn't say that

Re: splitting common functions into a sepperate module

2007-03-08 Thread jonkersbart
On 8 mrt, 10:36, Bruno Desthuilliers bruno. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Dear, I have wrote a script and want to group some functions of the script in a separate modulo so that I can import the module in other scripts and use the same functions there.. The

Re: property syntax

2007-03-08 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Thu, 08 Mar 2007 06:34:12 -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Probably you have already discussed this topic, but maybe you can stand touching it again briefly. Maybe properties aren't used so often to deserve a specific syntax, but I don't like their syntax much. Here I show some

Re: Is numeric keys of Python's dictionary automatically sorted?

2007-03-08 Thread Duncan Booth
Steven D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If they are better-than average, they might try this: D = {1: None, 4: None, 3:None} # keys out of order D {1: None, 3: None, 4: None} Still ordered, right? It's actually quite hard to get a dict with purely integer keys out of order. It isn't

Re: Is numeric keys of Python's dictionary automatically sorted?

2007-03-08 Thread Paul Rubin
John [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am coding a radix sort in python and I think that Python's dictionary may be a choice for bucket. Why are you coding a radix sort? The only problem is that dictionary is a mapping without order. But I just found that if the keys are numeric, the keys

Re: splitting common functions into a sepperate module

2007-03-08 Thread Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], jonkersbart wrote: - wrapping the functions as methods of a class, passing the whole state as args to the class initializer. I already considerate this one, but I don't like it because it is not correct in terms of the object-oriented concept. Why? I thought combining

Configuration: Apache + mod_python

2007-03-08 Thread Danilo
Hi there, is it possible to create a rewrite rule to send every server-request to the directory /py? But only if the file does not exists on the server. This is my mod_python section of the apache config-file. Location /py SetHandler python-program PythonHandler

Re: splitting common functions into a sepperate module

2007-03-08 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : On 8 mrt, 10:36, Bruno Desthuilliers bruno. (snip) - wrapping the functions as methods of a class, passing the whole state as args to the class initializer. I already considerate this one, but I don't like it because it is not correct in terms of the

Re: property syntax

2007-03-08 Thread bearophileHUGS
Gabriel Genellina: You miss this common way, that does not depend on metaclasses, nor base classes, nor custom decorators... My purpose was to discuss a new syntax. The other stuff is mostly for reference, to show that lot of (some) people has tried to find alternative solutions to a problem

Re: multithreading concept

2007-03-08 Thread Paul Boddie
On 8 Mar, 10:48, Bryan Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That doesn't really work in Python. There have been projects to allow Pythonic coordination of processes -- POSH had some good ideas -- but none have reached fruition. What makes all of the following not Pythonic...?

Re: Configuration: Apache + mod_python

2007-03-08 Thread Graham . Dumpleton
On Mar 8, 9:50 pm, Danilo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, is it possible to create a rewrite rule to send every server-request to the directory /py? But only if the file does not exists on the server. This is my mod_python section of the apache config-file. Location /py

Re: thread and portability Unix/Linux

2007-03-08 Thread awalter1
On 7 mar, 21:07, Joshua J. Kugler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: awalter1 wrote: Hi, I have a Python application that runs under HPUX 11.11 (then unix). It uses threads : from threading import Thread # Class Main class RunComponent(Thread): My application should run under Linux (red hat

Re: Howto find dict members from a list of keys

2007-03-08 Thread James Stroud
Gabriel Genellina wrote: En Thu, 08 Mar 2007 05:37:48 -0300, Steven D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 05:26:22 -0300, Gabriel Genellina wrote: found_dic_members = [d[key] for key in l] *self stares at the line of code* *self thinks about what he just posted*

Re: Howto find dict members from a list of keys

2007-03-08 Thread Alexander Eisenhuth
Yes it was the silly on-liner ... it was a bit ago I used it last time ... thanks Gabriel Genellina schrieb: En Thu, 08 Mar 2007 05:37:48 -0300, Steven D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 05:26:22 -0300, Gabriel Genellina wrote: found_dic_members = [d[key] for key in

Re: how to convert an integer to a float?

2007-03-08 Thread Antoon Pardon
On 2007-03-05, Andrew Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I have the following functions, but ' dx = abs(i2 - i1)/min(i2, i1)' always return 0, can you please tell me how can i convert it from an integer to float? I don't think

Re: Configuration: Apache + mod_python

2007-03-08 Thread Danilo
On 8 Mrz., 12:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 8, 9:50 pm, Danilo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, is it possible to create a rewrite rule to send every server-request to the directory /py? But only if the file does not exists on the server. This is my mod_python section of the

writing dictionary to file

2007-03-08 Thread kavitha thankaian
Hi, I have 'n' number of dictionaries with the same name but different values ( DorC means debit or credit) some={'DorC':'D', 'amount':200,'name':'xxx'} some={'DorC':'C', 'amount':200,'name':'xxx'} some={'DorC':'D', 'amount':300,'name':'yyy'} some={'DorC':'C',

Re: How to check whether file is open or not

2007-03-08 Thread Ros
Thanks a lot Gabriel. ctypes is working! Regards, Ros -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Generator expression parenthesis mixed with function call ones

2007-03-08 Thread Laurent Pointal
Gabriel Genellina a écrit : If you want to review the original discussion on how to spell a generator expression (called accumulator display by that time) see http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-October/038868.html That's a long discussion... and it seem I'm not alone to dislike

Re: VIM: Python type indented-block command equivalent to % for C?

2007-03-08 Thread Antony Scriven
[F-ups set to comp.editors] Paddy3118 wrote: Not python: but python type indented text Notice the blank line above. It could have several spaces or tabs, and still be a part of the block beginning 'Not python:': The block ends at the

heapq.heappush and pop to use key

2007-03-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I wanted to have a heap of custom objects, and in different heaps I wanted to have the weights for my elements differently. So, I modified the heapq module to accept key arguments also. The untested code is here. Please let me know if you find any bug or if there is an easy way to do this. -

Writing xml file from MS SQL

2007-03-08 Thread Ros
I am using pymssql for storing data into MS SQL. (I am using pymssql first time so dont know much about it) I wish to write/create XML file from database. There are few examples available for mysql but not much information about pymssql and MS SQL. I have worked with cElementTree with SAX and I

Re: clientcookie/clientform and checking to see if a website accepted my login details

2007-03-08 Thread John J. Lee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: alright, i'm coding a program that will log me into yahoo.com (so far), now, the problem i have is that once i've submitted by login password, the program doesn't know whether yahoo.com accepted it. response = ClientCookie.urlopen(form.click()) now, when i

Re: Writing xml file from MS SQL

2007-03-08 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Ros wrote: I am using pymssql for storing data into MS SQL. (I am using pymssql first time so dont know much about it) I wish to write/create XML file from database. There are few examples available for mysql but not much information about pymssql and MS SQL. I have worked with

Re: heapq.heappush and pop to use key

2007-03-08 Thread Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wanted to have a heap of custom objects, and in different heaps I wanted to have the weights for my elements differently. So, I modified the heapq module to accept key arguments also. I would have just used tuples of the form (weight, obj) with

Tell me the truth

2007-03-08 Thread francois . petitjean
In the python-ideas mailing list http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2007-March/thread.html there was a discussion about the fact that python has opeartors 'and', 'or' and 'not' (keywords of the language) but 'bool' is a type. Naturally we have (not not x) == bool(x) # always True

Copy geodatabase(mdb) if it is locked

2007-03-08 Thread Ahmed, Shakir
I am trying to copy a geodatabase (.mdb) file from source to destination using shutil.copyfile(src, dest) It is working fine but the main problem when the destination (.mdb) file is locked by other users then it's bumped out and not copied over. Is there any way to copy the locked .mdb

Re: merits of Lisp vs Python

2007-03-08 Thread Stephen Eilert
On Mar 8, 5:23 am, John Nagle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian Adkins wrote: Ken Tilton wrote: John Nagle wrote: Turns out John is having quite a tough time with Python web hosting (the thread has split off to a c.l.p only fork), so I'm going to cut him some slack. Maybe with some lovin'

Reading a portion of a file

2007-03-08 Thread cmfvulcanius
I am using a script with a single file containing all data in multiple sections. Each section begins with #VS:CMD:command:START and ends with #VS:CMD:command:STOP. There is a blank line in between each section. I'm looking for the best way to grab one section at a time. Will I have to read the

Re: Python Source Code Beautifier

2007-03-08 Thread Alan Franzoni
Il Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:13:28 -0300, Gabriel Genellina ha scritto: __iadd__, in general, is not *required* to modify the instance in place (but should try to do that, if possible). After this code: b = a a += c you can't assert than a and b both refer to the *same* object, as

Re: Tell me the truth

2007-03-08 Thread Mikael Olofsson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I take into account the fact that 'True' and 'False' are singletons (guaranteed ?) : (not not x) is bool(x) # should be always True. [snip code and results of code] Consider the following: def ok1(x): return (not not x) is bool(x) def ok2(x):

Re: Tell me the truth

2007-03-08 Thread Duncan Booth
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After much head scrating and experimenting with dis.dis() I have found that chaining comparisons (with is or ==) a == b == c in Python is never a good idea. It is interpreted as ( a == b ) and ( b == c) Such a magic is fine when we write: if 0.0 = x 1.0: but

Re: thread safe SMTP module

2007-03-08 Thread Aahz
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gordon Messmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aahz wrote: Assuming you have correctly tracked down the problem area, I would call that a thread bug in Python. But my experience is that you simply have run into a problem with the socket. I would suggest that using

Re: worker thread catching exceptions and putting them in queue

2007-03-08 Thread Aahz
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul Sijben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in a worker thread setup that communicates via queues is it possible to catch exceptions raised by the worker executed, put them in an object and send them over the queue to another thread where the exception is raised in that

Re: IronPython with Apache

2007-03-08 Thread Josh Bloom
Hi Ed, Some more info about your environment will be helpful here. What OS version, apache version, etc. -Josh On 7 Mar 2007 15:05:54 -0800, edfialk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm completely new to Python, but fairly experienced in PHP and few other languages. Long story short: The

pylint: don't warn about tabs

2007-03-08 Thread Alan Isaac
I am brand new to pylint. As a tab user, I want the tabs warning turned off. How? Larger question: where is the config file format documented? Thanks, Alan Isaac PS This is a wonderful tool. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Reading a portion of a file

2007-03-08 Thread Rune Strand
On Mar 8, 5:12 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using a script with a single file containing all data in multiple sections. Each section begins with #VS:CMD:command:START and ends with #VS:CMD:command:STOP. There is a blank line in between each section. I'm looking for the best way to grab

Re: pylint: don't warn about tabs

2007-03-08 Thread Bjoern Schliessmann
Alan Isaac wrote: I am brand new to pylint. As a tab user, I want the tabs warning turned off. How? Advice: Don't. IIRC it's planned in future Python versions that TABs aren't supported for indentation. Regards, Björn -- BOFH excuse #401: Sales staff sold a product we don't offer. --

Re: tkinter text editor

2007-03-08 Thread Gigs_
Gigs_ wrote: I'm writing text editor. How to enable/disable (cut, copy etc.) when text is selected/not selected Btw it is cut copy ... in edit menu -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

tkinter text editor

2007-03-08 Thread Gigs_
I'm writing text editor. How to enable/disable (cut, copy etc.) when text is selected/not selected -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Tell me the truth

2007-03-08 Thread Erik Johnson
Duncan Booth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After much head scrating and experimenting with dis.dis() I have found that chaining comparisons (with is or ==) a == b == c in Python is never a good idea. It is interpreted as ( a == b )

Re: Reading a portion of a file

2007-03-08 Thread Jordan
On Mar 8, 11:52 am, Rune Strand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 8, 5:12 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using a script with a single file containing all data in multiple sections. Each section begins with #VS:CMD:command:START and ends with #VS:CMD:command:STOP. There is a blank line in

Re: Copy geodatabase(mdb) if it is locked

2007-03-08 Thread Tim Golden
Ahmed, Shakir wrote: I am trying to copy a geodatabase (.mdb) file from source to destination using shutil.copyfile(src, dest) It is working fine but the main problem when the destination (.mdb) file is locked by other users then it's bumped out and not copied over. Is there any way to

Python threading

2007-03-08 Thread test . 07
I am wondering what happens to a thread in python in relation to win32com extensions. If I create a new thread, that uses the Dispatch method from win32com, what happens to the memory allocated in that thread when the thread is done. Will the Dispatch release the memory it created, or will the

Re: Reading a portion of a file

2007-03-08 Thread Jordan
On Mar 8, 12:46 pm, Jordan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 8, 11:52 am, Rune Strand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 8, 5:12 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using a script with a single file containing all data in multiple sections. Each section begins with #VS:CMD:command:START and

Re: tkinter text editor

2007-03-08 Thread jim-on-linux
On Friday 09 March 2007 12:04, Gigs_ wrote: Gigs_ wrote: I'm writing text editor. How to enable/disable (cut, copy etc.) when text is selected/not selected Btw it is cut copy ... in edit menu state = 'diabled' ## no change allowed ## to Text Wiget state

Re: Is numeric keys of Python's dictionary automatically sorted?

2007-03-08 Thread Matthias Julius
John [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am coding a radix sort in python and I think that Python's dictionary may be a choice for bucket. The only problem is that dictionary is a mapping without order. But I just found that if the keys are numeric, the keys themselves are ordered in the

Re: merits of Lisp vs Python

2007-03-08 Thread Chris Mellon
On 3/8/07, Dennis Lee Bieber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 06:13:15 GMT, John Nagle [EMAIL PROTECTED] declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: When starting out with this project, I'd made the assumption that Python was a stable, working, well-supported technology,

Re: Reading a portion of a file

2007-03-08 Thread cmfvulcanius
On Mar 8, 12:50 pm, Jordan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 8, 12:46 pm, Jordan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 8, 11:52 am, Rune Strand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 8, 5:12 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using a script with a single file containing all data in multiple

Re: merits of Lisp vs Python

2007-03-08 Thread Paul Rubin
Chris Mellon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any *real* hosting provider is going to support whatever language and environment I tell them to, because I'm going to pay them a lot of money for excellent support and if they give me any trouble I will go with someone who provides what I want. Hosting

Where to import?

2007-03-08 Thread Paulo da Silva
Hi! If I have two files .py such as m.py from c import * ... x=c() ... os.any_method ... ... c.py class c: def __init__(self, ...): ... os.any_method ...

Re: Where to import?

2007-03-08 Thread Terry Reedy
Paulo da Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Hi! | | If I have two files .py such as | | m.py | from c import * | ... | x=c() | ... | os.any_method ... | ... | | c.py | class c: | def __init__(self, ...): | ... | os.any_method ... | ... | ... | | both using os

Re: tkinter text editor

2007-03-08 Thread Gigs_
jim-on-linux wrote: On Friday 09 March 2007 12:04, Gigs_ wrote: Gigs_ wrote: I'm writing text editor. How to enable/disable (cut, copy etc.) when text is selected/not selected Btw it is cut copy ... in edit menu state = 'diabled' ## no change allowed ## to

Re: writing dictionary to file

2007-03-08 Thread kavitha thankaian
Hi Simon, iam till here: dorc=some['DorC'] amount=some['amount'] f=open(logfile.txt, w) if dorc =='C': a = -(amount) if dorc == 'D': b = amount sum=a + b if sum == 0: f.writelines(name:) f.writelines(%s %some['name']) f.writelines(credit:)

Re: Tell me the truth

2007-03-08 Thread francois . petitjean
Duncan Booth wrote : francois.petitjean at bureauveritas.com wrote: After much head scrating and experimenting with dis.dis() I have found that chaining comparisons (with is or ==) a == b == c in Python is never a good idea. It is interpreted as ( a == b ) and ( b == c) Such a magic is

Re: Where to import?

2007-03-08 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Paulo da Silva a écrit : Hi! If I have two files .py such as m.py from c import * avoid this kind of import except in an interactive interpreter and eventually in a package __init__.py. Better to use either: from c import c or import c ... x = c.c() ...

Re: Squisher -- a lightweight, self-contained alternative to eggs?

2007-03-08 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Adam Atlas a écrit : Doesn't seem to work. I guess zipimport doesn't support that by default... but if I remember correctly, Setuptools adds that. Maybe I'll take a look at how it does it (I think by extracting the .so to / tmp?) or to another known location, IIRC. and see how easy it

Re: Where to import?

2007-03-08 Thread Matimus
both using os module where should I put the import os? In both files? You don't really have a choice, you have to import os in both files. Python will only load the os module into memory once, but the import statements are needed to add the os module to the c and m module namespaces. The code in

Re: tkinter text editor

2007-03-08 Thread James Stroud
Gigs_ wrote: jim-on-linux wrote: On Friday 09 March 2007 12:04, Gigs_ wrote: Gigs_ wrote: I'm writing text editor. How to enable/disable (cut, copy etc.) when text is selected/not selected Btw it is cut copy ... in edit menu state = 'diabled' ## no change allowed

Re: tkinter how to write

2007-03-08 Thread James Stroud
Gigs_ wrote: as I write my first gui program (text editor) I wanna ask you guys how to separate code in classes.? Should I put in one class my menu and in another class text and scorllbars etc? or something else? thanks Check out Grayson: http://www.manning.com/grayson/ Its $25 for

Dyanmic import of a class

2007-03-08 Thread rh0dium
Hi all, I have a directory with a bunch of python classes each uniquely named such that the file name (dropping .py) is also the class name of the file in question. So for example foo.py class foo: def __init__(self): print Hi I am %s % self.__class__.__name__ Now I have a bunch of

SQLAlchemy and Oracle Functions?

2007-03-08 Thread Greg Copeland
I have a need to call an Oracle function, which is not the same thing as a stored procedure. Can SQLAlchemy do this directly? Indirectly? If so, an example would be appreciated. If not, how do I obtain the raw cx_Oracle cursor so I can use that directly? Thanks, Greg --

What is the best way to upgrade python?

2007-03-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, i am using red hat enterprise 4. It has python 2.3 installed. What is the best way to upgrade to python 2.4? I think one way is to compile python 2.4 from the source, but I can't remove the old one since when i do 'rpm -e python', i get error like 'failed dependencies'. Thank you for any

Re: pylint: don't warn about tabs

2007-03-08 Thread Ben Finney
Bjoern Schliessmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alan Isaac wrote: As a tab user, I want the tabs warning turned off. Advice: Don't. Agreed. Sticking to spaces for indentation avoids the ambiguity of interpretation that ASCII TAB characters are subject to. In addition, PEP 8 (which many people

Re: worker thread catching exceptions and putting them in queue

2007-03-08 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Thu, 08 Mar 2007 13:31:14 -0300, Aahz [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul Sijben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in a worker thread setup that communicates via queues is it possible to catch exceptions raised by the worker executed, put them in an object and send

Re: Where to import?

2007-03-08 Thread Ben Finney
Paulo da Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi! If I have two files .py such as m.py from c import * Best done as either import c# then use 'x = c.c()' or from c import c Using 'from foo import *' leads to names appearing in your current namespace that are difficult to

SQLAlchemy and Oracle Functions?

2007-03-08 Thread Greg Copeland
I'm using SQLAlchemy and have a need to call an Oracle function; which is not the same as a stored procedure. Can this be done directory or indirectly with SQLAlchemy? If so, can someone please provide an example? If not, how do I obtain the raw cx_Oracle cursor so I can use callfunc directly

Re: SQLAlchemy and Oracle Functions?

2007-03-08 Thread Sick Monkey
Helpful Links http://sourceforge.net/projects/cx-oracle http://www.python.net/crew/atuining/cx_Oracle/html/cursorobj.html == Example: Replace the data types as appropriate. v_Vars = v_Cursor.setinputsizes(p_Result = cx_Oracle.NUMBER) v_Cursor.execute( begin

Re: pylint: don't warn about tabs

2007-03-08 Thread Robert Kern
Alan Isaac wrote: I am brand new to pylint. As a tab user, I want the tabs warning turned off. How? Larger question: where is the config file format documented? doc/features.txt examples/pylintrc -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma

Re: multithreading concept

2007-03-08 Thread Paul Rubin
Paul Boddie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What makes all of the following not Pythonic...? http://wiki.python.org/moin/ParallelProcessing I'd say mainly that they don't allow sharing data between processes except through expensive IPC mechanisms involving system calls. I'm sure one could define

Re: Is numeric keys of Python's dictionary automatically sorted?

2007-03-08 Thread Ant
On Mar 8, 8:20 am, Steven D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... And the problem with a dictionary is that some people want to make sense of its order, just like in this case, and the fifty thousand previous times people have asked this newsgroup how they can sort a dictionary. ... What makes

Re: implementing SFTP using Python

2007-03-08 Thread Ravi Terala
Kiran, You should look into Twisted Python and their Twisted Python Conch package. You might not need to reinvent the wheel. http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/TwistedConch Ravi kadarla kiran kumar wrote: Hi Everybody, I have to implement SFTP conection from client to the server using

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