Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Aug 20)

2007-08-20 Thread Gabriel Genellina
QOTW: So I never let the age of the universe intimidate me. - mensanator, on (roughly) the occurrence of large integral exponents in combinatorics and more You're coming from a Perl background, right? No one else would think of using a regexp for such a simple thing. - Sion Arrowsmith

Regular Toronto Area Python User's Group (PyGTA) meeting this Tuesday

2007-08-20 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
This month the topic of discussion will be the ctypes Foreign Function Interface redux. Peter Hansen, one of the original founders of the PyGTA group will be in to discuss Engenuity Corp.'s use of the library. As usual, plenty of time for discussion and questions after the formal presentation

Shed Skin Python-to-C++ compiler 0.0.23

2007-08-20 Thread Mark Dufour
Hi all, I have just released Shed Skin 0.0.23. It doesn't contain the type inference scalability improvements I was working on, but it does have quite a few bug fixes and minor feature additions. Here's a list of changes: -support for __iadd__, __imul__ and such (except __ipow__ and __imod__)

Re: yet another indentation proposal

2007-08-20 Thread Michael Tobis
On Aug 19, 11:51 pm, James Stroud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's wrong with just saying the current indent level? I'd much rather hear indent 4 than tab tab tab tab. Alternatively, you might also consider writing a simple pre and postprocessor so that you could read and write python the way

Call for advice on how to start PyOpenGL!

2007-08-20 Thread math2life
I work with python for two years, are familiar with image processing, but beginner on PyOpenGL and OpenGL. Any advice appreciated! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python question (PyNoob)

2007-08-20 Thread Carl Banks
On Aug 19, 8:33 pm, Anonymous [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have exp with C/C++ (and a few other langs). I want to use Python to start doing the ff: 1). Data Munging (text processing) - instead of Perl 2). Automating my build process 3). (Possibly) some web data retrieval jobs Can anyone

Re: Python question (PyNoob)

2007-08-20 Thread Carl Banks
On Aug 19, 10:18 pm, Benjamin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 19, 7:33 pm, Anonymous [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have exp with C/C++ (and a few other langs). I want to use Python to start doing the ff: 1). Data Munging (text processing) - instead of Perl 2). Automating my build process

Re: yet another indentation proposal

2007-08-20 Thread Jakub Stolarski
Why not just use comments and some filter. Just write # _{ at the beginning and # _} at the end. Then filter just before runing indenting with those control sequences? Then there's no need to change interpreter. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: best GUI library for vector drawing program

2007-08-20 Thread vijay . kumar . 75in
Hi All, Today I have downloaded a SWT Software which is great to its features. You can learn many GUI details out of it. The basic functionality is it lists IP Addresses of the remote PC's your system is accessing. You may find the project under sourceforge.net

Re: best GUI library for vector drawing program

2007-08-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi All, Today I have downloaded a SWT Software which is great to its features. You can learn many GUI details out of it. The basic functionality is it lists IP Addresses of the remote PC's your system is accessing. You may find the project under sourceforge.net

Newbie question about a web server

2007-08-20 Thread Frank Millman
Hi all I have just started to dabble in writing my own web server. I googled for 'python web server', and this is the first hit - http://fragments.turtlemeat.com/pythonwebserver.php It has the source code for a simple web server, based on HTTPServer and BaseHTTPRequestHandler. It

Re: best GUI library for vector drawing program

2007-08-20 Thread Mats
If you want to stay within Tcl/Tk you could take a look at my tkpath package: http://tclbitprint.sf.net/ and shots: http://tclbitprint.sourceforge.net/tkpath/quartz/index.html http://tclbitprint.sourceforge.net/tkpath/gdiplus/index.html http://tclbitprint.sourceforge.net/tkpath/cairo/index.html

Re: Python question (PyNoob)

2007-08-20 Thread Ant
On Aug 20, 1:33 am, Anonymous [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... 1). Data Munging (text processing) - instead of Perl Check out the re module (regexes) in the standard library, and the pyparsing third party library: http://pyparsing.wikispaces.com/ for more complex stuff. 2). Automating my build

Re: Python and Tkinter Programming--Expensive!

2007-08-20 Thread peter
On 17 Aug, 18:59, W. Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is the book in Subject (author is Grayson) so expensive? $100 on Amazon and $195 on ABE. Aren't there alternatives? -- Wayne Watson (Nevada City, CA) Web Page: speckledwithStars.net I

Where we need to use Python ?

2007-08-20 Thread gperumal
Hi Iam new to Python I know Perl, JScript,C,C++,Java But i want to know where excatly this python come in to picture And Is it a interpreted language or a programming language It comes in which category I very keen to know this please tell Regards Ganesh P --

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: Under the spell of Leibniz's dream

2007-08-20 Thread Ingo Menger
On 20 Aug., 01:56, Xah Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (for you math illiterates out there: ... (for you mathematicians out there: ... Please, Xah Lee, could you possibly stop to explain things that are absolutely trivial? If somebody has doubts about the etymology of a word, he may use the

Re: Retry: Question about FutureWarning

2007-08-20 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Tue, 14 Aug 2007 22:44:17 -0300, Steven W. Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribi�: The shell compile command I use to generate both the .pyc and the .pyo files is: python=/usr/bin/python2.3 i_python () { $python -c import $1 $python -O -c import $1 } This is irrelevant to your

Re: Problem with Thread.join()

2007-08-20 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:10:53 -0300, Robert Dailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribi�: I have a class that derives from threading.Thread. To signal the thread to exit its infinite loop, I set an Event. Once the thread checks Event.isSet() and it is true, it proceeds to break out of the loop and

Re: passing arguments with ampersands

2007-08-20 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Sat, 18 Aug 2007 09:24:35 -0300, SHY [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribi�: theres no special portion of code, just the one that handles filenames with spaces. the problem is that when i associate a file extension to my application and i open it, the filename is not quoted before passed as an

Re: Importing DLLs

2007-08-20 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:20:26 -0300, Corbitt, Kyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribi�: I'm running Linux with Python 2.3. I have a C shared object file (*.so) and I need to be able to call its functions from within Python. I have found a couple of Python modules that allow me to do this (dl,

Re: swapping

2007-08-20 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Sat, 18 Aug 2007 02:58:23 -0300, Beema shafreen [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribi�: result: klp5bub1 apn1apn2 but i have do the same for the revere ,to check the result like this for eg: apn2apn1 what is the concept to do this I don't understand exactly what you want to do. If

Re: imaplib Received: header(s)???

2007-08-20 Thread Petri Savolainen
Donn Cave wrote: | I need to get at the Received-for header to figure out at which address | we received an email. We subscribe to a number of mailing lists using | per-mailing-list addresses, and often, To: field contains something else | than our address, thus the need for Received-for.

Re: popen4 not returning output

2007-08-20 Thread Michael Bentley
On Aug 19, 2007, at 8:58 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to run the following script: #!/usr/bin/python import popen2 commandToRun = scp scp_trial.py [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/targetDirectory #commandToRun = ls print commandToRun p_out, p_in = popen2.popen4 (commandToRun) theOut =

How to decompress .Z file?

2007-08-20 Thread Hyunchul Kim
Hi, all How can .Z file be decompressed? According to python library reference, .Z file might not be supported by python, yet. Best, Hyunchul Kim -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Call for advice on how to start PyOpenGL!

2007-08-20 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
math2life wrote: I work with python for two years, are familiar with image processing, but beginner on PyOpenGL and OpenGL. Any advice appreciated! You should check out the pyweek (http://www.pyweek.org/). There you find pygame OpenGL-based games, of a comprehensible size. Diez --

building exe from script

2007-08-20 Thread vedrandekovic
Hello, Is there any solution for building exe file from python script something like bbfreeze.When user write some script in my program, it must compile script into exe without opening console ( cmd ).I'am working on Windows XP SP2 and Python 2.5. Regards, Vedran --

Re: Where we need to use Python ?

2007-08-20 Thread Olexandr Melnyk
2007/8/20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Iam new to Python I know Perl, JScript,C,C++,Java But i want to know where excatly this python come in to picture And Is it a interpreted language or a programming language It comes in which category I very keen to know this please tell

Re: How to decompress .Z file?

2007-08-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Aug 20, 9:02 am, Hyunchul Kim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can .Z file be decompressed? According to python library reference, .Z file might not be supported by python, yet. Guess you can *outsource* the process to 7zip: http://7-zip.org/download.html It supports .z archives. Lorenzo

Re: Call for advice on how to start PyOpenGL!

2007-08-20 Thread Richard Jones
Diez B. Roggisch wrote: math2life wrote: I work with python for two years, are familiar with image processing, but beginner on PyOpenGL and OpenGL. Any advice appreciated! You should check out the pyweek (http://www.pyweek.org/). There you find pygame OpenGL-based games, of a

Re: building exe from script

2007-08-20 Thread Furkan KURU
you can embed py2exe in your program. On 8/20/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Is there any solution for building exe file from python script something like bbfreeze.When user write some script in my program, it must compile script into exe without opening console (

Re: best GUI library for vector drawing program

2007-08-20 Thread pachiburke
On Aug 17, 3:27 pm, chewie54 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What would be the best cross-platform GUI library to use for a vector based CAD program ( something like Visio on Windows ) WxWidgets, Tk, PyQt, Java Swing, Java SWT, I need the capibility to draw and edit in a window that

Re: Sorting a list of Unicode strings?

2007-08-20 Thread Tommy Nordgren
On 19 aug 2007, at 18.50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Guys, Maybe I'm missing something fundamental here, but if I have a list of Unicode strings, and I want to sort these alphabetically, then it places those that begin with unicode characters at the bottom. Is there a way to avoid this,

Re: Sorting a list of Unicode strings?

2007-08-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank you all for your very quick and informative replies. I was basing this assumption that Å was classed as a standard 'A' from a list of countries I was looking at (Wikipedia sorts it like this, too - though this isn't what I was using http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries#A) I will

Re: best GUI library for vector drawing program

2007-08-20 Thread Roedy Green
What would be the best cross-platform GUI library to use for a vector based CAD program ( something like Visio on Windows ) I don't know about he best, but I have collected a list of them at http://mindprod.com/jgloss/graph.html -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products The Java Glossary

Re: building exe from script

2007-08-20 Thread nih
A bit more information is clearly needed... 1. Create a file called py2exeSetup.py with the following contents: from distutils.core import setup import py2exe def compile(appName, console=False): OPTIONS = {py2exe: {compressed: 1, optimize: 0, bundle_files: 1, } } ZIPFILE = None

Re: ctypes and unsigned char*

2007-08-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 19 Aug., 20:40, Gabriel Genellina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the first case, use a plain c_char_p - the individual chars are already unsigned in Python (that is, ord(xxx[i]) is always positive) In the second case, first define the pointer type: c_ubyte_p = POINTER(c_ubyte)

Re: Where we need to use Python ?

2007-08-20 Thread Dustan
On Aug 20, 3:02 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Iam new to Python I know Perl, JScript,C,C++,Java But i want to know where excatly this python come in to picture And Is it a interpreted language or a programming language It comes in which category I very keen to know this please tell

Re: best GUI library for vector drawing program

2007-08-20 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Roedy Green wrote: What would be the best cross-platform GUI library to use for a vector based CAD program ( something like Visio on Windows ) I don't know about he best, but I have collected a list of them at http://mindprod.com/jgloss/graph.html Roedy, you might want to add NetBeans'

datetime in microseconds

2007-08-20 Thread mroeloffs
Hi I have a time in microseconds, for example 0x8C905CBA7F84AF4. I want this to a normal view in hh:mm:ss DD:MM:. I tried with datetime, but it only takes a max of 100 microseconds is there another solution? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Latest models of Gibson guitars

2007-08-20 Thread Lew
Twisted wrote: On Aug 19, 2:41 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a newsgroup of programming language Python, stop with this! Python?! Python is as off-topic here as guitars, unlike, say, Java... When referring to this newsgroup or here, one must remember that this is a cross-posted

Re: LRU cache?

2007-08-20 Thread qyloxe
#simple, but effective (sometimes) class ICORCache: def __init__(self,agetfunc,amaxlen=100): self.GetValue=agetfunc self.MaxLen=amaxlen self.VDict={} self.KDict={} self.VPos=1 self.AccessRatio=0 self.HitRatio=0 def __getitem__(self,key):

Shed Skin Python-to-C++ compiler 0.0.23

2007-08-20 Thread Mark Dufour
Hi all, I have just released Shed Skin 0.0.23. It doesn't contain the type inference scalability improvements I was working on, but it does have quite a few bug fixes and minor feature additions. Here's a list of changes: -support for __iadd__, __imul__ and such (except __ipow__ and __imod__)

Re: desperately in need of a tool

2007-08-20 Thread A.T.Hofkamp
On 2007-08-19, yagyala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. one of those standards is that the comments for each routine must indicate every other routine that it calls. As I try to keep my to do this by hand. Does anyone know of a tool that could do this for me, or at least a tool that can tell

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: Under the spell of Leibniz's dream

2007-08-20 Thread Carsten Haese
On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 01:23 -0700, Ingo Menger wrote: On 20 Aug., 01:56, Xah Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (for you math illiterates out there: ... (for you mathematicians out there: ... Please, Xah Lee, could you possibly stop to explain things that are absolutely trivial? If somebody

Re: datetime in microseconds

2007-08-20 Thread kyosohma
On Aug 20, 6:52 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have a time in microseconds, for example 0x8C905CBA7F84AF4. I want this to a normal view in hh:mm:ss DD:MM:. I tried with datetime, but it only takes a max of 100 microseconds is there another solution? Just truncate the value so that

Server-side scripting in python

2007-08-20 Thread Nagarajan
Hi group, I need to develop a web application. I am in a fix as to choose among the various server-side scripting options. I want to explore python (am a newbie) to gain expertise and upon search, I learnt about PSP(Python Server Pages) that uses Jython as its scripting language. Is it a better

Re: Public Telnet Server?

2007-08-20 Thread Dave
On Aug 12, 2:03 pm, Jorgen Grahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 15:07:25 -, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there. I'm a beginner at Python and I'm writing my first Python script. It's a text adventure about coffee and mixing drinks and being crazy and such. I keep

Re: datetime in microseconds

2007-08-20 Thread John Machin
On Aug 20, 9:52 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have a time in microseconds, for example 0x8C905CBA7F84AF4. I want this to a normal view in hh:mm:ss DD:MM:. I tried with datetime, but it only takes a max of 100 microseconds is there another solution? Your question can be interpreted

Re: Where we need to use Python ?

2007-08-20 Thread Terry Reedy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | And Is it a interpreted language or a programming language | It comes in which category Python is an algorithm programming language. The CPython implementation of the langauge compiles Python to proprietary byte code and then

Handwriting Recognition

2007-08-20 Thread Ian Dickinson
Hi My name is Ian Dickinson and I am a professional software developer working in the UK and reasonably familiar with Python. However a friend of mine who is a special educational needs teacher was asking me if I could write some handwriting recognition software for her, which would allow

Re: How do I call anonymous classes from imported modules?

2007-08-20 Thread JoeSox
On 8/19/07, James Stroud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This was the poor design I was hinting to. do_foobar is type-checking for ticker. Casting as you might think of it does not exist in python. Creating new objects based on the values of existing objects (lets call it conversion for lack of a

Re: yet another indentation proposal

2007-08-20 Thread Aaron
Michael Tobis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Alternatively, you might also consider writing a simple pre and postprocessor so that you could read and write python the way you would prefer In that you could cope with the existing code base and the existing

Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Aug 20)

2007-08-20 Thread Gabriel Genellina
QOTW: So I never let the age of the universe intimidate me. - mensanator, on (roughly) the occurrence of large integral exponents in combinatorics and more You're coming from a Perl background, right? No one else would think of using a regexp for such a simple thing. - Sion Arrowsmith

regular expression dictionary search

2007-08-20 Thread dorje tarap
Hi I have a dictionary with a list of patterns: Code: ( text ) 1. words = {'sho.':6, '.ilk':8,'.an.':78 } Where the . character means any pattern - this can easily be changed to the * symbol if need be. When the user submits a word, I want to be able to look for a corresponding pattern

Python equivalent of Perl's $/

2007-08-20 Thread John K Masters
I am currently working my way through Jeffrey Friedl's book Mastering Regular Expressions. Great book apart from the fact it uses Perl for the examples. One particular expression that interests me is '$/ = .\n' which, rather than splitting a file into lines, splits on a period-newline boundary.

Re: Where we need to use Python ?

2007-08-20 Thread Michael Bentley
On Aug 20, 2007, at 1:02 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And Is it a interpreted language or a programming language It comes in which category I very keen to know this please tell [ open on suburban kitchen, Wife and Husband arguing ] Wife: New Shimmer is a floor wax! Husband: No, new

Mouse control with ctypes in OS X

2007-08-20 Thread Niklas Ottosson
Hi all I need to get hold of the mouse position and also need to be able to change it. In windows I have used ctypes.windll.user32.getCursorPos() and ctypes.windll.user32.setCursorPos() with great success in my program but now I also need to make a Mac OS X version of the program. Does anyone

I Need help from all the group participants

2007-08-20 Thread Boris Ozegovic
Hi, I am working on some system, and the communication will take place through the chatterbot which will be written in AIML (interpreter is written in Python). English is not my mother tongue, so I need huge favor: if all of you can write two sentences, so that I could have greater pattern

Re: Python equivalent of Perl's $/

2007-08-20 Thread kyosohma
On Aug 19, 1:13 pm, John K Masters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am currently working my way through Jeffrey Friedl's book Mastering Regular Expressions. Great book apart from the fact it uses Perl for the examples. One particular expression that interests me is '$/ = .\n' which, rather than

Re: datetime in microseconds

2007-08-20 Thread mroeloffs
On Aug 20, 3:15 pm, John Machin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 20, 9:52 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have a time in microseconds, for example 0x8C905CBA7F84AF4. I want this to a normal view in hh:mm:ss DD:MM:. I tried with datetime, but it only takes a max of 100 microseconds

Newbee Question

2007-08-20 Thread HD1956
This is probably a simple code. I am a truck driver who gets paid by stops and cases. I am trying to figure out how to code my stop pay. I get 40 cents per stop up to 22 stops, and $1.40 per stops after that. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Newbee Question

2007-08-20 Thread kyosohma
On Aug 20, 9:23 am, HD1956 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is probably a simple code. I am a truck driver who gets paid by stops and cases. I am trying to figure out how to code my stop pay. I get 40 cents per stop up to 22 stops, and $1.40 per stops after that. def calc(num): if num

Re: Newbee Question

2007-08-20 Thread Shawn Milochik
#!/usr/bin/env python normalPay = 0.4 overPay = 1.4 normalLimit = 22 def calcPay(numStops): pay = 0 if numStops normalLimit: pay = overPay * (numStops - normalLimit) numStops = normalLimit return pay + (numStops * normalPay) if __name__ == __main__: print

Re: How to decompress .Z file?

2007-08-20 Thread Thomas Jollans
On Monday 20 August 2007, Hyunchul Kim wrote: Hi, all How can .Z file be decompressed? According to python library reference, .Z file might not be supported by python, yet. The GNU zip program (gzip) supports .Z and .z archives, so if you only want to support UNIX-like systems you could

Re: Problem with Thread.join()

2007-08-20 Thread James Matthews
Post some code so we can see the issue! I would say that the issue is where your function that you are calling isn't exiting! On 8/20/07, Gabriel Genellina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: En Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:10:53 -0300, Robert Dailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribi�: I have a class that derives from

Re: Newbee Question

2007-08-20 Thread Shawn Milochik
On 8/20/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 20, 9:23 am, HD1956 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is probably a simple code. I am a truck driver who gets paid by stops and cases. I am trying to figure out how to code my stop pay. I get 40 cents per stop up to 22 stops, and

Re: datetime in microseconds

2007-08-20 Thread mroeloffs
On Aug 20, 4:17 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 20, 3:15 pm, John Machin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 20, 9:52 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have a time in microseconds, for example 0x8C905CBA7F84AF4. I want this to a normal view in hh:mm:ss DD:MM:. I tried with

Re: Newbee Question

2007-08-20 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
HD1956 schrieb: This is probably a simple code. I am a truck driver who gets paid by stops and cases. I am trying to figure out how to code my stop pay. I get 40 cents per stop up to 22 stops, and $1.40 per stops after that. Sounds a bit like homework. Which usually isn't simply delivered

Re: Newbee Question

2007-08-20 Thread kyosohma
On Aug 20, 9:58 am, Shawn Milochik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/20/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 20, 9:23 am, HD1956 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is probably a simple code. I am a truck driver who gets paid by stops and cases. I am trying to figure out how to

Re: Where we need to use Python ?

2007-08-20 Thread Wildemar Wildenburger
Michael Bentley wrote: On Aug 20, 2007, at 1:02 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And Is it a interpreted language or a programming language It comes in which category I very keen to know this please tell [ open on suburban kitchen, Wife and Husband arguing ] Wife: New Shimmer is a

Re: Call for advice on how to start PyOpenGL!

2007-08-20 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
math2life wrote: I work with python for two years, are familiar with image processing, but beginner on PyOpenGL and OpenGL. Any advice appreciated! As has been mentioned, the NeHe tutorials[1] are a good starting point. There are (multiple) translations of the first 8 or so and then some

Re: yet another indentation proposal

2007-08-20 Thread Terry Reedy
If there is not one already, a page for blind and visually impaired programmers on the Python site would be a good addition. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Latest models of Gibson guitars

2007-08-20 Thread RickH
On Aug 19, 9:24 pm, Randall Ainsworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hermit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How does the image quality compare with a DSLR? Depends on whether it's a Paul or a Strat. A Strat is a Fender, but I'd rather win a Gibson es175. --

Re: clarification

2007-08-20 Thread Paul Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) writes: turn indicates that both implementations actually work about same and your O(n squared) argument is irrelevant. It's indeed irrelevant when the behavior _isn't_ quadratic (as in the case of intersections) -- but unfortunately it _is_ needlessly

Re: Newbee Question

2007-08-20 Thread Shawn Milochik
I like to write code, so it's not a big deal when it's something so simple. Still, that is beyond dumb! Nice code, by the way. Mike Yeah, it was fun to write anyway. Thanks for the compliment on the code. I still consider myself a Python newbie, so it's good to know I'm not trying to write it

Re: Newbee Question

2007-08-20 Thread Wildemar Wildenburger
Diez B. Roggisch wrote: Sounds a bit like homework. Which usually isn't simply delivered here. Wrong! Usually that happens pretty quickly here (as proven again in this case). Not that it should, but only the seniors seem to detect lazy learners. /W --

Re: Python equivalent of Perl's $/

2007-08-20 Thread Mark T
John K Masters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I am currently working my way through Jeffrey Friedl's book Mastering Regular Expressions. Great book apart from the fact it uses Perl for the examples. One particular expression that interests me is '$/ = .\n' which,

Re: Newbee Question

2007-08-20 Thread Paul McGuire
On Aug 20, 9:23 am, HD1956 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is probably a simple code. I am a truck driver who gets paid by stops and cases. I am trying to figure out how to code my stop pay. I get 40 cents per stop up to 22 stops, and $1.40 per stops after that. You'll get top marks for turning

Re: Python equivalent of Perl's $/

2007-08-20 Thread Nick Craig-Wood
John K Masters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am currently working my way through Jeffrey Friedl's book Mastering Regular Expressions. Great book apart from the fact it uses Perl for the examples. One particular expression that interests me is '$/ = .\n' which, rather than splitting a file

Re: How to decompress .Z file?

2007-08-20 Thread Nick Craig-Wood
Hyunchul Kim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can .Z file be decompressed? The old unix program compress used to generate these files. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/ncompress You'll find the command line programs gzip/gunzip/zcat can decompress them too. According to python

Re: regular expression dictionary search

2007-08-20 Thread Shawn Milochik
#!/usr/bin/env python import re patterns = { 'sho.' : 6, '.ilk' : 8, '.an.' : 78 } def returnCode(aWord): for k in patterns: p = ^%s$ % k regex = re.compile(p) if re.match(regex, aWord): return patterns[k] if __name__ == __main__: print The return

Re: yet another indentation proposal

2007-08-20 Thread Alex Martelli
Jakub Stolarski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not just use comments and some filter. Just write # _{ at the beginning and # _} at the end. Then filter just before runing indenting with those control sequences? Then there's no need to change interpreter. As I pointed out in another post to

Re: yet another indentation proposal

2007-08-20 Thread Alex Martelli
Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... That's probably what I'll end up doing. The only drawback to that is that it solves the problem for me only. Perhaps I will open source the scripts and write up some documentation so that other folks in a similar situation don't have to reinvent the

Re: yet another indentation proposal

2007-08-20 Thread Alex Martelli
Michael Tobis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 19, 11:51 pm, James Stroud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's wrong with just saying the current indent level? I'd much rather hear indent 4 than tab tab tab tab. Alternatively, you might also consider writing a simple pre and postprocessor so

Re: question

2007-08-20 Thread Shawn Milochik
snip And Shawn, I didn't post any of my work because the network I work on isn't connected to the internet. So it didn't seem constructive to re-type all of my failed code just to satisfy your standards of proving that I've been trying to hack this myself for the past few days. All in all,

Re: regular expression dictionary search

2007-08-20 Thread mkPyVS
On Aug 20, 9:35 am, Shawn Milochik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #!/usr/bin/env python import re patterns = { 'sho.' : 6, '.ilk' : 8, '.an.' : 78 } def returnCode(aWord): for k in patterns: p = ^%s$ % k regex = re.compile(p) if re.match(regex, aWord):

Re: regular expression dictionary search

2007-08-20 Thread Paul McGuire
On Aug 20, 10:35 am, Shawn Milochik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #!/usr/bin/env python snip if __name__ == __main__: print The return for 'fred' : %s % returnCode('fred') print The return for 'silk' : %s % returnCode('silk') print The return for 'silky' : %s % returnCode('silky')

Re: regular expression dictionary search

2007-08-20 Thread Shawn Milochik
On 8/20/07, Paul McGuire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 20, 10:35 am, Shawn Milochik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #!/usr/bin/env python snip if __name__ == __main__: print The return for 'fred' : %s % returnCode('fred') print The return for 'silk' : %s % returnCode('silk')

str().join() isn't working

2007-08-20 Thread Robert Dailey
Hi, First have a look at the following code: In main.py: --- space = includes = space.join( system._user_includes ) + + space.join( system._system_includes ) In system.py:

Re: Problem with Thread.join()

2007-08-20 Thread Robert Dailey
Hey guys, Sorry for taking so long to respond. I had actually figured out what this issue is over on the wxPython mailing list. The issue was that I was attempting to configure wxPython controls from a remote thread, which is apparently illegal due to some state persistance issues. Thanks all

Re: yet another indentation proposal

2007-08-20 Thread Paddy
On Aug 19, 5:22 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote: Paddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Can screen reaaderss be customized? Open-source ones surely can (e.g., NVDA is an open-source reader for Windows written in Python, http://www.nvda-project.org/ -- alas, if you search for

Re: Newbee Question

2007-08-20 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2007-08-20, HD1956 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is probably a simple code. I am a truck driver who gets paid by stops and cases. I am trying to figure out how to code my stop pay. I get 40 cents per stop up to 22 stops, and $1.40 per stops after that. I wish *I* could make a deal like

Re: I Need help from all the group participants

2007-08-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Aug 20, 9:16 am, Boris Ozegovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am working on some system, and the communication will take place through the chatterbot which will be written in AIML (interpreter is written in Python). English is not my mother tongue, so I need huge favor: if all of you

Re: I Need help from all the group participants

2007-08-20 Thread Boris Ozegovic
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only sentence that comes to mind is: I hope I never find myself in a hospital that uses your system. You are not funny. The system isn't for hospitals, it is for university purposes. -- Ne dajte da nas lažljivac Bandić truje:

Re: I Need help from all the group participants

2007-08-20 Thread Shawn Milochik
On 8/20/07, Boris Ozegovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only sentence that comes to mind is: I hope I never find myself in a hospital that uses your system. You are not funny. The system isn't for hospitals, it is for university purposes. -- Ne dajte da nas

Re: Hot subject: a good python editor and/or IDE?

2007-08-20 Thread Dave Cook
On 2007-08-19, Sébastien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am currently using Eclipse+PyDev when developping Python projects but I lack a fast, simple editor for tiny bit of scripts. So here is my question: what is, for you, the current best ( but still kind of light! ) Python editor/IDE ? A tiny

Re: Mouse control with ctypes in OS X

2007-08-20 Thread Paul McNett
Niklas Ottosson wrote: I need to get hold of the mouse position and also need to be able to change it. In windows I have used ctypes.windll.user32.getCursorPos() and ctypes.windll.user32.setCursorPos() with great success in my program but now I also need to make a Mac OS X version of the

Re: reading a line in file

2007-08-20 Thread Shawn Milochik
Write some code, even if it doesn't quite work, and post it. We'll help you fix it. You can open a file with: input = open(file.txt, r) You can read a line with: someText = input.readline() You can loop through an open file like this: for line in input: #do something with line That

reading a line in file

2007-08-20 Thread Brian McCann
Hi, does anyone have a good example of how to read a line in a file? say you have a file build.log and in the file are values like buildnum = 1 date = 20070820 I know how to read the contents and write them to a file, but how would one grab just the date or build number in order to create

Re: I Need help from all the group participants

2007-08-20 Thread ŠućMućPaProlij
Shawn Milochik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 8/20/07, Boris Ozegovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only sentence that comes to mind is: I hope I never find myself in a hospital that uses your system. You are not funny. The system

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