Jython 2.2 RC3 is available

2007-08-02 Thread Charlie Groves
The Jython development team is pleased to announce that Jython 2.2rc3 is available for download: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jython/jython_installer-2.2rc3.jar See http://jython.org/Project/installation.html for installation instructions. A few new pieces of functionality have been added

ANNOUNCE: Gaphor 0.11.1 and Gaphas 0.3.0

2007-08-02 Thread Arjan Molenaar
Hi all, After another few weeks of hard work, Gaphor 0.11.1 and Gaphas 0.3.0 are out. Gaphor is an UML 2.0 modeling environment written in Python. It's quite extensible and uses GTK+ for it's GUI. Gaphas is Gaphor's canvas widget (the thing you draw your (UML) diagrams on). It's also pure

Re: Emacs + python

2007-08-02 Thread Ben Finney
hg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are there any cscope ECB equivalent for Python ? Can you describe these things, for those who don't have any experience of them but may know of an equivalent? -- \With Lisp or Forth, a master programmer has unlimited power | `\ and expressiveness.

Re: Is shelve/dbm supposed to be this inefficient?

2007-08-02 Thread Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:47:21 -0800, Joshua J. Kugler wrote: My original data is 33MB. When each row is converted to python lists, and inserted into a shelve DB, it balloons to 69MB. Now, there is some additional data in there namely a list of all the keys containing data (vs. the keys that

Re: Equivalent to gzinflate() function in PHP.

2007-08-02 Thread Adam Kubica
On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 13:54:21 +, kyosohma wrote: On Aug 1, 8:44 am, Adam Kubica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hellou. Anybody know about code that work equivalent to gzinflate() function used in PHP? I search via google but I don't found anything sensible :-( I'm not sure what gzinflate

Re: Equivalent to gzinflate() function in PHP.

2007-08-02 Thread Adam Kubica
On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 08:17:13 +0200, Adam Kubica wrote: On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 13:54:21 +, kyosohma wrote: On Aug 1, 8:44 am, Adam Kubica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hellou. Anybody know about code that work equivalent to gzinflate() function used in PHP? I search via google but I don't

a dict trick

2007-08-02 Thread james_027
hi for example I have this dictionary dict = {'name':'james', 'language':'english'} value = 'sex' in dict and dict['sex'] or 'unknown' is a right pythonic of doing this one? I am trying to get a value from the dict, but if the key doesn't exist I will provide one. THanks james --

No module named DBUtils.PooledDB

2007-08-02 Thread cpmishra
Hi all I have used DBUtil with python2.4. when we run to program in dos command ,successfully run but when we run in apache server (locally)with modepython then given error.Pls help me error: No module named DBUtils.PooledDB cp mishra --

Re: Awkward format string

2007-08-02 Thread Gerard Flanagan
On Aug 1, 11:52 pm, Ian Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gerard Flanagan wrote: (snip) def tostring(data): return tuple(strftime(x) for x in data[:2]) + data[2:] Hrmm, not sure that having a function named tostring() that returns a tuple is the best idea. ;) oops! SAD (Solipsistic

Re: a dict trick

2007-08-02 Thread Stargaming
On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 06:32:11 +, james_027 wrote: hi for example I have this dictionary dict = {'name':'james', 'language':'english'} First of all, this is a bad name because it shadows (overwrites) the reference to the builtin constructor, `dict`. value = 'sex' in dict and

backup/restore postgresql database

2007-08-02 Thread Acm
I am working with Python 2.5 and Postgresql 8.2.4. I would like to know how to perform the backup and restore operations on postgresql through a python API (e.g. psycopg2). Thank you. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Time object?

2007-08-02 Thread Nikola Stjelja
On 8/1/07, Robert Dailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm well aware of the datetime module, however it is really inconsistent and useless to me. In order to do any arithmetic on time objects, I have to use the 'timedelta' class, which doesn't even allow me to do all the math I want to do.

Re: Equivalent to gzinflate() function in PHP.

2007-08-02 Thread Laurent Pointal
Adam Kubica a écrit : After some king of brain fucked tries, I found: zlib.decompress( data ) #equivalent gzdecompress() zlib.decompress( data, -zlib.MAX_WBITS ) #equivalent gzdeflate() Note: you can also use encode() and decode() methods on the string containing your data, specifying 'zip'

Re: a dict trick

2007-08-02 Thread Gary Herron
james_027 wrote: hi for example I have this dictionary dict = {'name':'james', 'language':'english'} value = 'sex' in dict and dict['sex'] or 'unknown' is a right pythonic of doing this one? I am trying to get a value from the dict, but if the key doesn't exist I will provide one.

Re: Python IMAP web-access

2007-08-02 Thread Laurent Pointal
Damjan a écrit : Is there some project that implements web access to an IMAP store? Maybe something AJAXy like http://roundcube.net/?? I dont know if this fill your need, but in my Python bookmarks, for webmail I have a reference to NiMail (http://www.nimail.org/). A+ Laurent. --

Re: a dict trick

2007-08-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
james_027 wrote: hi for example I have this dictionary dict = {'name':'james', 'language':'english'} value = 'sex' in dict and dict['sex'] or 'unknown' is a right pythonic of doing this one? I am trying to get a value from the dict, but if the key doesn't exist I will provide one.

Re: a dict trick

2007-08-02 Thread Alex Popescu
james_027 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:1186036331.304916.304020 @e9g2000prf.googlegroups.com: hi for example I have this dictionary dict = {'name':'james', 'language':'english'} value = 'sex' in dict and dict['sex'] or 'unknown' is a right pythonic of doing this one? I am trying

Re: Where do they tech Python officialy ?

2007-08-02 Thread Alex Popescu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote in news:1i26u6o.pthuan2j7nufN% [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Alex Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Have you seen/heard of Jim lately? Cause I haven't. By the time he was the lead of the AspectJ team his charismatic presence was everywhere (at least

Re: Emacs + python

2007-08-02 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Edward O'Connor a écrit : Could anyone put me on the right track to developing Python with emacs please : modes to consider, debugging etc hopefully all within emacs. Personally, I prefer the python.el that ships with Emacs 22 to the python-mode.el from python.org. It seems more like other

Re: beginner in python

2007-08-02 Thread km
Hi Welcome to python ! there a a few suggestions in ur code which is a good practice to follow. In the snippet: for x in range(len(x_value)): x_co = float(x_value[x])-float(x_value[x+1]) y_co = float(y_value[x])-float(y_value[x+1]) z_co =

Re: Emacs + python

2007-08-02 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
hg a écrit : (snip) Are there any cscope ECB equivalent for Python ? ECB (assuming we're talking about the same thing, ie Emacs Code Browser) works just fine with Python. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Floats as keys in dict

2007-08-02 Thread Brian Elmegaard
greg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Be careful with this. If you have two values that are very close together, but on different sides of a rounding boundary, they will end up as distinct keys even though they should be regarded as equal. I don't think this is a big problem. It will only give me

Re: a dict trick

2007-08-02 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
james_027 a écrit : hi for example I have this dictionary dict = {'name':'james', 'language':'english'} value = 'sex' in dict and dict['sex'] or 'unknown' is a right pythonic of doing this one? No. The first problem is that using 'dict' as an identifier, you're shadowing the builtin

Re: Pythonic way for missing dict keys

2007-08-02 Thread Alex Popescu
Bruno Desthuilliers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Steven D'Aprano a écrit : (snip) Instead of doing: if callable(function): function() you should do: try: function() except TypeError: pass There are time where you may want to know if you have a

Re: a dict trick

2007-08-02 Thread james_027
Hi, what if we're not dealing with dict? is there a pythonic way of doing ternary? the bool ? x:y Thanks james -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Awkward format string

2007-08-02 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
beginner a écrit : Hi, In order to print out the contents of a list, sometimes I have to use very awkward constructions. For example, I have to convert the datetime.datetime type to string first, construct a new list, s/list/tuple/ and then send it to print. The following is an example.

Re: Error with Tkinter and tkMessageBox

2007-08-02 Thread Fabio Z Tessitore
Il Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:54:46 +1000, John McMonagle ha scritto: What window manager are you using ? Hi John, I'm using gnome, with gdm. Do you think the problem is this? I'm going to try with another one ... bye -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Wing IDE for Python v. 3.0 beta1 released

2007-08-02 Thread John K Masters
On 18:23 Wed 01 Aug , Steve Holden wrote: Joshua J. Kugler wrote: On Wednesday 01 August 2007 13:53, Robert Dailey wrote: He's secretly an employee of Wing IDE in disguise!!! Sorry to destroy your conspiracy theories, but no, I've never been employed by Wing IDE in any fashion, nor

Re: Error with Tkinter and tkMessageBox

2007-08-02 Thread Fabio Z Tessitore
I've tried to use Twm and SURPRISE! it works!!! Can you say why? How can I fix the prob with Gnome? Thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: a dict trick

2007-08-02 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
james_027 a écrit : Hi, what if we're not dealing with dict? is there a pythonic way of doing ternary? the bool ? x:y Python 2.5 introduced the following syntax: expr1 if condition else expr2 In older Python versions, one has to use and/or (like you wrongly did) or tuple/dict dispatch or

Re: No module named DBUtils.PooledDB

2007-08-02 Thread cpmishra
-- Forwarded message -- From: cpmishra [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Aug 2, 11:37 am Subject: No module named DBUtils.PooledDB To: comp.lang.python Hi all I have used DBUtil with python2.4. when we run to program in dos command ,successfully run but when we run in apache

i am new to python-Please somebody help

2007-08-02 Thread cool . vimalsmail
i dont know how to convert a txt file into a zip file (i.e.,)i have a file named packages and i want the packages file with a .gz extension by implementing a python program -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python end of file marker similar to perl's __END__

2007-08-02 Thread Magnus Lycka
Neil Cerutti wrote: On 2007-08-01, Cameron Laird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . I want to re-emphasize the triple-quote it tip mentioned earlier in this thread. I think the original questioner will find this quite satisfying, if I understand his situ- ation at all. *I* certainly have

Re: Pythonic way for missing dict keys

2007-08-02 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Alex Popescu a écrit : Bruno Desthuilliers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: (snip) if hasattr(obj, '__call__'): # it's a callable but I don't find it so Pythonic to have to check for a __magic__ method. It looks like Python devs have decided it is Pythonic, because

Re: Wing IDE for Python v. 3.0 beta1 released

2007-08-02 Thread Steve Holden
John K Masters wrote: On 18:23 Wed 01 Aug , Steve Holden wrote: Joshua J. Kugler wrote: On Wednesday 01 August 2007 13:53, Robert Dailey wrote: He's secretly an employee of Wing IDE in disguise!!! Sorry to destroy your conspiracy theories, but no, I've never been employed by Wing IDE in

Re: Emacs + python

2007-08-02 Thread Hadron
Edward O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could anyone put me on the right track to developing Python with emacs please : modes to consider, debugging etc hopefully all within emacs. Personally, I prefer the python.el that ships with Emacs 22 to the python-mode.el from python.org. It seems

Use variable in regular expression

2007-08-02 Thread CarpeSkium
I know I can use a variable in regular expressions. I want to use a regex to find something based on the beginning of the string. I am using yesterday's date to find all of my data from yesterday. Yesterday's date is 20070731, and assigned to the variable yesterday_date. I want to loop thru a

Re: DBUtil with modepython

2007-08-02 Thread Steve Holden
cpmishra wrote: Hi all I have used DBUtil in mysql databse. when we run to program in dos command ,successfully run but when we run in apache server (locally)with modepython then given error.Pls give me suggation error: No module named DBUtils.PooledDB It seems likely that the web

Re: Use variable in regular expression

2007-08-02 Thread Antti Rasinen
On 2007-08-02, at 13:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know I can use a variable in regular expressions. I want to use a regex to find something based on the beginning of the string. I am using yesterday's date to find all of my data from yesterday. Yesterday's date is 20070731, and assigned to

beginner in python

2007-08-02 Thread Beema shafreen
Hi everybody , I am a beginner in python, I have to fetch the redundant entries from a file, code: import re L = [] fh = open('ARCHITECTURE_MAIN.txt','r') for line in fh.readlines(): data =line.strip() # splitted = data.split('#') L.append(data) fh.close()

Re: i am new to python-Please somebody help

2007-08-02 Thread BartlebyScrivener
On Aug 2, 4:31 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i want the packages file with a .gz extension by implementing a python program http://docs.python.org/lib/module-gzip.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Use variable in regular expression

2007-08-02 Thread vbr
... Yesterday's date is 20070731, and assigned to the variable yesterday_date. I want to loop thru a directory and find all of the yesterday's data ONLY IF the feature class has the date at the BEGINNING of the filename. ... I can't figure out the syntax of inserting the ^ into the regex.

Re: Representation of new-style instance

2007-08-02 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Wed, 01 Aug 2007 20:14:06 -0300, Raj B [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Consider a new-style class class rabbit(object): def __init__(self,c): self.color = c r1=rabbit(blue) r2=rabbit(purple) Which C struct in the Python implementation is used to represent the

Re: beginner in python

2007-08-02 Thread km
Hi pls redefine ur problem. I donot understand what u wanted to accomplish . is it that u wanted to check and represent the redundant entry numbers as one entry or is it with the isoform id as a single entry and without considering other data like start and stop ? also observe that when u

Catching SystemExit in C API code when embedding Python?

2007-08-02 Thread Stefan Bellon
Hi all! I am embedding Python into a GUI application in a way that the GUI is scriptable using Python. Now I have come to a problem that when the user puts a sys.exit(0) into his script to end the script, not only the script is terminated, but also the GUI application itself. This is not the

Re: Use variable in regular expression

2007-08-02 Thread Sion Arrowsmith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know I can use a variable in regular expressions. I want to use a regex to find something based on the beginning of the string. You're coming from a Perl background, right? No-one else would think of using a regexp for such a simple thing. There are two things you need

Re: Python end of file marker similar to perl's __END__

2007-08-02 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 10:00:04 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: beginner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks everyone for responding. It doesn't look like python has it. I would definitely miss it. As Steve said, the nice thing about __END__ is that things below __END__ do not have to have legit

Re: standalone process to interact with the web

2007-08-02 Thread beginner
On Aug 1, 3:50 am, Diez B. Roggisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: beginner wrote: Hi Everyone, I am looking for a way to allow a standalone python process to easily interactive with a few web pages. It has to be able to easily receive requests from the web and post data to the web. I am

Re: Use variable in regular expression

2007-08-02 Thread Steve Holden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know I can use a variable in regular expressions. I want to use a regex to find something based on the beginning of the string. I am using yesterday's date to find all of my data from yesterday. Yesterday's date is 20070731, and assigned to the variable

Re: frequency analysis of a DB column

2007-08-02 Thread Carsten Haese
On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 00:38 -0300, Gabriel Genellina wrote: I'd start with: select column, count(column), min(column), max(column) from table group by column order by count(column) desc What's the point of including min(column) and max(column)? They're always going to be equal to column.

Re: I am giving up perl because of assholes on clpm -- switching to Python

2007-08-02 Thread Jamie
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentions: Python is a better language, with php support, anyway, but I am fed up with attitudes of comp.lang.perl.misc. Assholes in this newsgroup ruin Perl experience for everyone. Instead of being helpful, snide remarks, back-biting, scare tactings, and so

Re: Use variable in regular expression

2007-08-02 Thread Steve Holden
[when replying to a mailing list or newsgroup response please make sure you include the list as a recipient, so the whole conversation is available] André Martins wrote: I know I can use a variable in regular expressions. I want to use a regex to find something based on the beginning of

IWCIA 08 - USA, 7-9 April 2008: Invitation

2007-08-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear Colleague, I would like to bring to your attention information about a forthcoming conference and to strongly encourage you to submit a paper or papers to it. This is the 12th International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis (IWCIA 08) which will take place in Buffalo, USA, 7-9 April

Re: standalone process to interact with the web

2007-08-02 Thread beginner
On Aug 1, 5:04 am, Bruno Desthuilliers bruno. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: beginner a écrit : (snip) Yes exactly. I just don't want to reinvent the wheel as I imagine there are already tons of libraries and frameworks that support RPC or the like functions. Why go thru the pain of RPC, SOAP

Re: Python end of file marker similar to perl's __END__

2007-08-02 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2007-08-02, Magnus Lycka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neil Cerutti wrote: On 2007-08-01, Cameron Laird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . I want to re-emphasize the triple-quote it tip mentioned earlier in this thread. I think the original questioner will find this quite satisfying, if I

Re: Use variable in regular expression

2007-08-02 Thread André Martins
I know I can use a variable in regular expressions. I want to use a regex to find something based on the beginning of the string. I am using yesterday's date to find all of my data from yesterday. Yesterday's date is 20070731, and assigned to the variable yesterday_date. I want to loop thru a

Re: Python end of file marker similar to perl's __END__

2007-08-02 Thread kyosohma
On Aug 2, 8:08 am, Neil Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-08-02, Magnus Lycka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neil Cerutti wrote: On 2007-08-01, Cameron Laird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . I want to re-emphasize the triple-quote it tip mentioned earlier in this thread. I think the

Case study: library class inheritance with property declarations

2007-08-02 Thread cdleary
Hi all, It's possible that I'm missing the obvious -- I've been up for over 24 hours and I'm most likely dehydrated from mass coffee intake, but I figure many people in similar circumstances will be searching comp.lang.python one day, so here goes! class LibraryClass(object): A class

Re: Determining if file is valid image file

2007-08-02 Thread André
On Aug 2, 11:14 am, André [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Other than installing PIL, is there a simple way using Python only to determine if a file is a valid image file? I'd be happy if I could at least identify valid images files for gif, jpeg and png. Pointers to existing modules or examples

Re: i am new to python-Please somebody help

2007-08-02 Thread gregarican
On Aug 2, 8:51 am, Steven D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 09:31:43 +, cool.vimalsmail wrote: [snip] You would be better off actually writing a sensible subject line instead of grovelling. Subject: How to use gzip in Python? [beginner] Then, having written a good

Re: Case study: library class inheritance with property declarations

2007-08-02 Thread cdleary
On Aug 2, 6:49 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, It's possible that I'm missing the obvious -- I've been up for over 24 hours and I'm most likely dehydrated from mass coffee intake, but I figure many people in similar circumstances will be searching comp.lang.python one day, so here goes!

Re: Directory

2007-08-02 Thread Larry Bates
Rohan wrote: I would like to get a list of sub directories in a directory. If I use os.listdir i get a list of directories and files in that . i only want the list of directories in a directory and not the files in it. anyone has an idea regarding this. import os listofdirs=[d for d in

Re: Determining if file is valid image file

2007-08-02 Thread Thomas Jollans
On Thursday 02 August 2007, André wrote: On Aug 2, 11:14 am, André [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Other than installing PIL, is there a simple way using Python only to determine if a file is a valid image file? I'd be happy if I could at least identify valid images files for gif, jpeg and

Re: Determining if file is valid image file

2007-08-02 Thread Larry Bates
André wrote: On Aug 2, 11:14 am, André [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Other than installing PIL, is there a simple way using Python only to determine if a file is a valid image file? I'd be happy if I could at least identify valid images files for gif, jpeg and png. Pointers to existing modules

Re: Case study: library class inheritance with property declarations

2007-08-02 Thread cdleary
On Aug 2, 7:08 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 2, 6:49 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, It's possible that I'm missing the obvious -- I've been up for over 24 hours and I'm most likely dehydrated from mass coffee intake, but I figure many people in similar circumstances will

Re: Determining if file is valid image file

2007-08-02 Thread kyosohma
On Aug 2, 9:35 am, Thomas Jollans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 02 August 2007, André wrote: On Aug 2, 11:14 am, André [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Other than installing PIL, is there a simple way using Python only to determine if a file is a valid image file? I'd be happy if I

Re: Determining if file is valid image file

2007-08-02 Thread Jarek Zgoda
André napisał(a): Other than installing PIL, is there a simple way using Python only to determine if a file is a valid image file? I'd be happy if I could at least identify valid images files for gif, jpeg and png. Pointers to existing modules or examples would be appreciated. The

Re: Determining if file is valid image file

2007-08-02 Thread André
On Aug 2, 11:34 am, Jarek Zgoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: André napisa³(a): Other than installing PIL, is there a simple way using Python only to determine if a file is a valid image file? I'd be happy if I could at least identify valid images files for gif, jpeg and png. Pointers to

Determining if file is valid image file

2007-08-02 Thread André
Other than installing PIL, is there a simple way using Python only to determine if a file is a valid image file? I'd be happy if I could at least identify valid images files for gif, jpeg and png. Pointers to existing modules or examples would be appreciated. The reason why I'd prefer not

Re: backup/restore postgresql database

2007-08-02 Thread kyosohma
On Aug 2, 1:55 am, Acm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am working with Python 2.5 and Postgresql 8.2.4. I would like to know how to perform the backup and restore operations on postgresql through a python API (e.g. psycopg2). Thank you. I don't know much about postgres, but here's what my

Re: Determining if file is valid image file

2007-08-02 Thread André
On Aug 2, 11:38 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 2, 9:35 am, Thomas Jollans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 02 August 2007, André wrote: On Aug 2, 11:14 am, André [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Other than installing PIL, is there a simple way using Python only to determine if a

Re: Wing IDE for Python v. 3.0 beta1 released

2007-08-02 Thread sdeibel
On Aug 1, 5:45 pm, Joshua J. Kugler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tend to let questions slide when they are answered in the documentation or on the web site. Maybe theWingdevelopers/support personnel are the same way. Just to clarify: We never do that. If you don't hear from us in response to

Re: Determining if file is valid image file

2007-08-02 Thread Dave Hughes
André wrote: Other than installing PIL, is there a simple way using Python only to determine if a file is a valid image file? I'd be happy if I could at least identify valid images files for gif, jpeg and png. Pointers to existing modules or examples would be appreciated. The reason

Re: Awkward format string

2007-08-02 Thread beginner
On Aug 2, 3:32 am, Bruno Desthuilliers bruno. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: beginner a écrit : Hi, In order to print out the contents of a list, sometimes I have to use very awkward constructions. For example, I have to convert the datetime.datetime type to string first, construct a new

Re: Wing IDE for Python v. 3.0 beta1 released

2007-08-02 Thread sdeibel
On Aug 1, 6:42 pm, John K Masters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To suggest that, because the autocompletion worked on one method of a module and not on another was because I had not configured the PYTHONPATH properly is at least insulting. We certainly didn't intend to be insulting. This it the

RE: Bug in Time module, or in my understanding?

2007-08-02 Thread Hamilton, William
From: Joshua J. Kugler I am getting results like these with the time module: import time int(time.mktime(time.strptime('2007-03-11 02:00:00', '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M %S'))) 1173610800 int(time.mktime(time.strptime('2007-03-11 03:00:00', '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M %S'))) 1173610800

Re: sending very large packets over the network

2007-08-02 Thread Azazello
On Aug 1, 8:50 pm, Gary Herron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Walker Lindley wrote: OK, I'm back with another networking question. I'm trying to seend large amounts of information over TCP (the length of data being given to send() is on the order of 16000 characters in length). Unfortunately on

Memory Leak with Tkinter Canvas (Python 2.5 Win32)

2007-08-02 Thread frikk
Hey everyone. I have been working with python for a couple years now, but just recently built my first program with a GUI. I decided to start with Tkinter since it is included with the base package, although wxWindows will likely be my next choice. Tkinter seems to be pretty slow for my needs.

Re: beginner in python

2007-08-02 Thread Tim Williams
On 02/08/07, Beema shafreen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody , I am a beginner in python, I have to fetch the redundant entries from a file, code: import re L = [] fh = open('ARCHITECTURE_MAIN.txt', 'r') for line in fh.readlines(): data =line.strip() #

Re: Pythonic way for missing dict keys

2007-08-02 Thread Alex Martelli
Bruno Desthuilliers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex Popescu a écrit : Bruno Desthuilliers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: (snip) if hasattr(obj, '__call__'): # it's a callable but I don't find it so Pythonic to have to check for a __magic__ method. It

Re: Case study: library class inheritance with property declarations

2007-08-02 Thread Steve Holden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 2, 7:08 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 2, 6:49 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, It's possible that I'm missing the obvious -- I've been up for over 24 hours and I'm most likely dehydrated from mass coffee intake, but I figure many people in similar

python 3.0, pywin32 and scipy

2007-08-02 Thread vml
Hello, I am trying to promote python in my job, my collegue only see matlab and microsoft scripting language. I understood that there willl be no backward compatibility between python 2.x and 3.0, does it means that: - my script using pywin32 for the COM layer and scipy for the maths won't work

Re: standalone process to interact with the web

2007-08-02 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
beginner a écrit : On Aug 1, 5:04 am, Bruno Desthuilliers bruno. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: beginner a écrit : (snip) Yes exactly. I just don't want to reinvent the wheel as I imagine there are already tons of libraries and frameworks that support RPC or the like functions. Why go thru the

Error subclassing datetime.date and pickling

2007-08-02 Thread Mike Rooney
Hi everyone, this is my first post to this list. I am trying to create a subclass of datetime.date and pickle it, but I get errors on loading it back. I have created a VERY simple demo of this: import datetime class MyDate(datetime.date): This should be pickleable. md =

Re: Pythonic way for missing dict keys

2007-08-02 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Alex Martelli a écrit : Bruno Desthuilliers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex Popescu a écrit : Bruno Desthuilliers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: (snip) if hasattr(obj, '__call__'): # it's a callable but I don't find it so Pythonic to have to check for a __magic__

Cross compiling 2.5.1

2007-08-02 Thread winkatl1213
I was wondering if anyone could help me with cross-compiling Python 2.5.1 to a MIPS target. The approach I'm using is based off the suggestion in the README file that comes with the python source distribution. I managed to get the configure script to run using the following command line: $

wxpython with python 2.5

2007-08-02 Thread G
Hello, I am trying to get wxpython to run with python 2.5 without any success. wx works prefectly in python 2.4. below is the error code i get when i try to run the code. File demo.py, line 3, in module import Main File /tmp/wxPython/Main.py, line 32, in module import wx

Re: python 3.0, pywin32 and scipy

2007-08-02 Thread Steve Holden
vml wrote: Hello, I am trying to promote python in my job, my collegue only see matlab and microsoft scripting language. I understood that there willl be no backward compatibility between python 2.x and 3.0, does it means that: - my script using pywin32 for the COM layer and scipy for

Re: i am new to python-Please somebody help

2007-08-02 Thread Hyuga
On Aug 2, 8:51 am, Steven D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 09:31:43 +, cool.vimalsmail wrote: [snip] You would be better off actually writing a sensible subject line instead of grovelling. Subject: How to use gzip in Python? [beginner] Then, having written a good

Re: wxpython with python 2.5

2007-08-02 Thread Chris Mellon
On 8/2/07, G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am trying to get wxpython to run with python 2.5 without any success. wx works prefectly in python 2.4. below is the error code i get when i try to run the code. File demo.py, line 3, in module import Main File

Re: wxpython with python 2.5

2007-08-02 Thread Steve Holden
G wrote: Hello, I am trying to get wxpython to run with python 2.5 without any success. wx works prefectly in python 2.4. below is the error code i get when i try to run the code. File demo.py, line 3, in module import Main File /tmp/wxPython/Main.py, line 32, in module

Re: beginner in python

2007-08-02 Thread Andy Cheesman
It looks like you are doing some sort of molecular science thing. Have you come across openbabel and the python bindings pybel (http://openbabel.sourceforge.net/wiki/Python#Pybel). I don't know how well they work but they might save you some effort. Also, check out

File access

2007-08-02 Thread JD
Hi, What I am trying to do is to run a subprocess on another machine using subprocess.Popen, this subprocess contuinue writing something into a file when it is runing. After submit this subprocess, I tried to open the file and readlines() in the loop (with a delay) in the loop) when the

Re: a dict trick

2007-08-02 Thread Michael J. Fromberger
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], james_027 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi for example I have this dictionary dict = {'name':'james', 'language':'english'} value = 'sex' in dict and dict['sex'] or 'unknown' is a right pythonic of doing this one? I am trying to get a value from the dict,

Re: standalone process to interact with the web

2007-08-02 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Bruno Desthuilliers schrieb: beginner a écrit : On Aug 1, 5:04 am, Bruno Desthuilliers bruno. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: beginner a écrit : (snip) Yes exactly. I just don't want to reinvent the wheel as I imagine there are already tons of libraries and frameworks that support RPC or the

Re: Wing IDE for Python v. 3.0 beta1 released

2007-08-02 Thread John K Masters
On 08:00 Thu 02 Aug , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 1, 6:42 pm, John K Masters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To suggest that, because the autocompletion worked on one method of a module and not on another was because I had not configured the PYTHONPATH properly is at least insulting. We

Re: i am new to python-Please somebody help

2007-08-02 Thread Terry Reedy
gregarican [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | friendly than Python's. Your points are well-taken in how to properly | post and how to do your own homework. Message correct. Delivery | lacking... Sorry, I saw nothing rude in Steven's straightforward and indeed polite

Re: File access

2007-08-02 Thread Adrian Petrescu
On Aug 2, 12:41 pm, JD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, What I am trying to do is to run a subprocess on another machine using subprocess.Popen, this subprocess contuinue writing something into a file when it is runing. After submit this subprocess, I tried to open the file and readlines() in

Re: File access

2007-08-02 Thread JD
Thanks for answering, No, the data was writing into the file when the subprocess was runing. For example, every second it will write something into the file. I tried to run another python program aside and it sucessfully read the file when the subprocess was runing. JD On Aug 2, 11:00 am,

problems playing with dates from any month.

2007-08-02 Thread krishnakant Mane
hello, I have a very strange problem and I can't find any solution for that. I am working on an accounting package which I wish to develop in python. the simple problem is that I want to knoe how I can know if the given date is the nth day of a month. for example if a customer is supposed to pay

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