ANN: mpmath 0.11 released

2009-01-26 Thread Fredrik Johansson
Hi all, Mpmath version 0.11 is now available from the website: http://code.google.com/p/mpmath/ It can also be downloaded from the Python Package Index: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mpmath/0.11 Mpmath is a pure-Python library for arbitrary-precision floating-point arithmetic that implements an

Elisa Media Center 0.5.25 Release

2009-01-26 Thread Olivier Tilloy
Dear Python users, The Elisa team is happy to announce the release of Elisa Media Center 0.5.25, code-named The Angry Mob. Elisa is a cross-platform and open-source Media Center written in Python. It uses GStreamer [1] for media playback and pigment [2] to create an appealing and intuitive user

unittest, order of test execution

2009-01-26 Thread mk
Hello everyone, I've got 2 functions to test, extrfromfile which returns a list of dictionaries, and extrvalues that extracts values from that list. Now I can test them both in one test case, like this: def test_extrfromfile(self): valist = ma.extrfromfile('loadavg_unittest.txt')

Re: v = json.loads({'test':'test'})

2009-01-26 Thread Ivan Illarionov
Diez wrote: gert schrieb: Single quotes works in every browser that support json so i recommended python should support it too, besides it looks much cleaner {'test': 'test'} {test: test} It can not be that hard to support both notation can it ? It's not hard, but it's not

Re: USB in python

2009-01-26 Thread Lie Ryan
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:56:38 +1100, Astan Chee wrote: Diez B. Roggisch wrote: If all you need is on-off - why can't you just use a switch? Because I want to control the on-off the device using a computer and write software for it (which I am confident I can do if I had

Re: USB in python

2009-01-26 Thread Banibrata Dutta
high pitch is == high frequency, no higher amplitude... but the difference can be easily made out and the electronics for this is very well understood and used.point is, the gentleman asking the question might already have a USB controller built into his device, and while most modern computers

Function arguments

2009-01-26 Thread brasse
Hello! Is there any way that I can get at all the arguments passed to a function as a map without using keyword arguments? def foo(a, b, c): # Can I access all the arguments in a collection somewhere? I'm mainly curious since I have stumbled on to some cases where it might have been nice to

Re: v = json.loads({'test':'test'})

2009-01-26 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
gert schrieb: On Jan 26, 12:40 am, Diez B. Roggisch de...@nospam.web.de wrote: But all of this is not JSON. Yes it is, you just make it more python dictionary compatible :) No, what you do is to make it more incompatible with other json-implementations. Which defies the meaning of a standard.

Re: Does Python really follow its philosophy of Readability counts?

2009-01-26 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Russ P. a écrit : On Jan 23, 4:57 am, Bruno Desthuilliers bruno. 42.desthuilli...@websiteburo.invalid wrote: Russ P. a écrit : As I said before, if you have the source code you can always change private attributes to public in a pinch if the language enforces encapsulation. And then have to

Re: Function arguments

2009-01-26 Thread Erik Max Francis
brasse wrote: Is there any way that I can get at all the arguments passed to a function as a map without using keyword arguments? def foo(a, b, c): # Can I access all the arguments in a collection somewhere? I'm mainly curious since I have stumbled on to some cases where it might have

Re: Function arguments

2009-01-26 Thread Chris Rebert
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 1:03 AM, brasse thebra...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! Is there any way that I can get at all the arguments passed to a function as a map without using keyword arguments? def foo(a, b, c): # Can I access all the arguments in a collection somewhere? You can use

Re: Function arguments

2009-01-26 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
brasse schrieb: Hello! Is there any way that I can get at all the arguments passed to a function as a map without using keyword arguments? def foo(a, b, c): # Can I access all the arguments in a collection somewhere? I'm mainly curious since I have stumbled on to some cases where it might

Re: Function arguments

2009-01-26 Thread brasse
On Jan 26, 10:11 am, Chris Rebert c...@rebertia.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 1:03 AM, brasse thebra...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! Is there any way that I can get at all the arguments passed to a function as a map without using keyword arguments? def foo(a, b, c):    # Can I access

Re: Function arguments

2009-01-26 Thread Chris Rebert
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 1:34 AM, brasse thebra...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 26, 10:11 am, Chris Rebert c...@rebertia.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 1:03 AM, brasse thebra...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! Is there any way that I can get at all the arguments passed to a function as a map

Re: ob_type in shared memory

2009-01-26 Thread Aaron Brady
Hi Mark, nice to have your comment. On Jan 25, 9:47 pm, Mark Wooding m...@distorted.org.uk wrote: Aaron Brady castiro...@gmail.com writes: snip Object 'A' is of type 'Ta'.  When process 'P' is looking at it, it needs to have an 'ob_type' that is 'Ta' as process 'P' sees it.  When process

Ldap Extended Operation python

2009-01-26 Thread Benny Fallica
Hello there, what would be the python implementation for this line in Java: java.util.Hashtable environment = LdapHelper.getEnvironment(url, true); LdapContext ldapContext = new InitialLdapContext(environment, null); Response resp = (Response) ldapContext.extendedOperation(new Request()) how to

Re: Dynamic methods and lambda functions

2009-01-26 Thread Mark Wooding
Michael Torrie torr...@gmail.com writes: Basically, don't use a lambda. Create a real, local closure with a nested def block. That way the closure is created every time the parent function is called. Nope. I explained the real problem quite clearly, and it's to do with the difference

Re: Counting number of objects

2009-01-26 Thread Andreas Waldenburger
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 02:37:37 + Mark Wooding m...@distorted.org.uk wrote: This looks OK, although I'd suggest using cls.counter += 1 instead of a.counter += 1 in the __new__() method. Just seems clearer to me, esp. when you think about subclassing. I'm not sure about clarity, but

Re: *.python.org broken?

2009-01-26 Thread Carlos Ribeiro
I experienced the same problem here in Brazil. Tweeks ago I could not access any *.python.org site. Today I tried and it worked. The problem seemed to be limited to Python's domain because I could access every other site that I tried the same day. More info: - At least for me I didn't seem to be

Re: Python C API (PyObject_CallMethod clear object)

2009-01-26 Thread googler . 1 . webmaster
On 26 Jan., 03:25, Gabriel Genellina gagsl-...@yahoo.com.ar wrote: En Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:46:01 -0200, googler.1.webmas...@spamgourmet.com   escribió: I have a problm with deallocating stuff. I call a function with this command: PyObject *rvalue = PyObject_CallMethod(obj,

Re: Newby: how to transform text into lines of text

2009-01-26 Thread Tim Rowe
2009/1/25 Tim Chase python.l...@tim.thechases.com: (again, a malformed text-file with no terminal '\n' may cause it to be absent from the last line) Ahem. That may be malformed for some specific file specification, but it is only malformed in general if you are using an operating system that

Re: A java hobbyist programmer learning python

2009-01-26 Thread Tim Rowe
I like the latter two styles, particularly the last one. That way you can see at a glance that those member variables are defined in the super class. I like the second style because it makes it leaves the 2-d implementation hidden, which is the whole point of encapsulation. But then I am a

Re: Python C API (PyObject_CallMethod clear object)

2009-01-26 Thread googler . 1 . webmaster
the hook is, how to delete the locals of this function, maybe thats a workaround? thanks and bye. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Does Python really follow its philosophy of Readability counts?

2009-01-26 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Russ P. a écrit : On Jan 23, 6:36 pm, Luis Zarrabeitia ky...@uh.cu wrote: Makes *no* sense? There's *no* good reason *at all* for the original author to hide or protect internals? My bad, sorry. It makes sense... if the original author is an egotist who believes he must control how I use that

Re: Newby: how to transform text into lines of text

2009-01-26 Thread Sion Arrowsmith
Diez B. Roggisch de...@nospam.web.de wrote: [ ... ] Your approach of reading the full contents can be used like this: content = a.read() for line in content.split(\n): print line Or if you want the full content in memory but only ever access it on a line-by-line basis: content =

Re: strange error whilst porting to 2.6

2009-01-26 Thread Robin Becker
I found that this error Exception RuntimeError: 'maximum recursion depth exceeded in __subclasscheck__' in type 'exceptions.AttributeError' ignored occurs when attempting to copy (copy.copy(inst)) an instance of a class that looks like this class LazyParagraph(_LazyMixin,TTParagraph):

Re: Ldap Extended Operation python

2009-01-26 Thread Michael Ströder
Benny Fallica wrote: Hello there, what would be the python implementation for this line in Java: java.util.Hashtable environment = LdapHelper.getEnvironment(url, true); LdapContext ldapContext = new InitialLdapContext(environment, null); Response resp = (Response)

Re: var is None vs. var == None

2009-01-26 Thread Steve Holden
Terry Reedy wrote: Roger wrote: And, just for completeness, the is test is canonical precisely because the interpreter guarantees there is only ever one object of type None, so an identity test is always appropriate. Even the copy module doesn't create copies ... Does the interpreter

Re: Counting number of objects

2009-01-26 Thread Steve Holden
Mark Wooding wrote: Andreas Waldenburger geekm...@usenot.de writes: On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 09:23:35 -0800 (PST) Kottiyath n.kottiy...@gmail.com wrote: class a(object): counter = 0 def __new__(cls, *args, **kwargs): a.counter += 1 return object.__new__(cls, *args,

Re: Does Python really follow its philosophy of Readability counts?

2009-01-26 Thread Steve Holden
Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: Russ P. a écrit : On Jan 23, 6:36 pm, Luis Zarrabeitia ky...@uh.cu wrote: Makes *no* sense? There's *no* good reason *at all* for the original author to hide or protect internals? My bad, sorry. It makes sense... if the original author is an egotist who believes

Re: Dynamic methods and lambda functions

2009-01-26 Thread Steve Holden
Mark Wooding wrote: unine...@gmail.com writes: [...] * Assignment stores a new (reference to a) value in the variable. * Binding modifies the mapping between names and variables. I realise I have omitted what was doubtless intended to be explanatory detail, but I am having trouble

Building matplotlib from source on windows

2009-01-26 Thread mk
Hello everyone, I'm trying to get 0.98.5.2 installed on Windows to use Python 2.6 (dependency packages I need to use on that version, long story, etc). When I was trying to build it (python setup.py build), it was finding the VC 9.0 C++ compiler on my comp. However, after adding necessary

Re: USB in python

2009-01-26 Thread Steve Holden
Lie Ryan wrote: On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:56:38 +1100, Astan Chee wrote: Diez B. Roggisch wrote: If all you need is on-off - why can't you just use a switch? Because I want to control the on-off the device using a computer and write software for it (which I am confident I can do

Re: USB in python

2009-01-26 Thread Steve Holden
Astan Chee wrote: Tim Roberts wrote: Sorry, but you have NOT created a USB device, and I sincerely hope you do not try to plug it in to a real USB port. Sorry, by USB device, I meant a device that is powered/activated by a bunch of wires that I want to control using a computer and since I

Re: I'm a python addict !

2009-01-26 Thread J Kenneth King
Linuxguy123 linuxguy...@gmail.com writes: I just started using python last week and I'm addicted. I hate Perl. I never did learn to use it with any competence. I has to be the most obfuscated, cryptic language I've ever seen. Making it object oriented only makes it worse ! .. snip .. I

Re: I'm a python addict !

2009-01-26 Thread J Kenneth King
J Kenneth King ja...@agentultra.com writes: Linuxguy123 linuxguy...@gmail.com writes: I just started using python last week and I'm addicted. I hate Perl. I never did learn to use it with any competence. I has to be the most obfuscated, cryptic language I've ever seen. Making it object

Re: Function arguments

2009-01-26 Thread brasse
On Jan 26, 10:39 am, Chris Rebert c...@rebertia.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 1:34 AM, brasse thebra...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 26, 10:11 am, Chris Rebert c...@rebertia.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 1:03 AM, brasse thebra...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! Is there any way that I can

Re: Newby: how to transform text into lines of text

2009-01-26 Thread Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:22:18 +, Sion Arrowsmith wrote: content = a.readlines() (Just because we can now write for line in file doesn't mean that readlines() is *totally* redundant.) But ``content = list(a)`` is shorter. :-) Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch --

Re: USB in python

2009-01-26 Thread Brian Allen Vanderburg II
astan.c...@al.com.au wrote: Tim Roberts wrote: Sorry, but you have NOT created a USB device, and I sincerely hope you do not try to plug it in to a real USB port. Sorry, by USB device, I meant a device that is powered/activated by a bunch of wires that I want to control using a computer

Re: Newby: how to transform text into lines of text

2009-01-26 Thread Andreas Waldenburger
On 26 Jan 2009 14:51:33 GMT Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch bj_...@gmx.net wrote: On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:22:18 +, Sion Arrowsmith wrote: content = a.readlines() (Just because we can now write for line in file doesn't mean that readlines() is *totally* redundant.) But ``content =

really slow gzip decompress, why?

2009-01-26 Thread redbaron
I've one big (6.9 Gb) .gz file with text inside it. zcat bigfile.gz /dev/null does the job in 4 minutes 50 seconds python code have been doing the same job for 25 minutes and still doesn't finish =( the code is simpliest I could ever imagine: def main(): fh = gzip.open(sys.argv[1]) all(fh)

Re: Newby: how to transform text into lines of text

2009-01-26 Thread J. Cliff Dyer
On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 18:23 -0800, John Machin wrote: On Jan 26, 1:03 pm, Gabriel Genellina gagsl-...@yahoo.com.ar wrote: En Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:30:33 -0200, Tim Chase python.l...@tim.thechases.com escribió: Unfortunately, a raw rstrip() eats other whitespace that may be

Re: Does Python really follow its philosophy of Readability counts?

2009-01-26 Thread Paul Rubin
Steve Holden st...@holdenweb.com writes: Quite. Python is a language for consenting adults. Shouldn't such a language allow consenting adults to enter a BDSM scene without being moralized at, if that's what they want to do? ;-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: strange error whilst porting to 2.6

2009-01-26 Thread Robin Becker
Robin Becker wrote: I found that this error Exception RuntimeError: 'maximum recursion depth exceeded in __subclasscheck__' in type 'exceptions.AttributeError' ignored occurs when attempting to copy (copy.copy(inst)) an instance of a class that looks like this class

Re: really slow gzip decompress, why?

2009-01-26 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
redbaron wrote: I've one big (6.9 Gb) .gz file with text inside it. zcat bigfile.gz /dev/null does the job in 4 minutes 50 seconds python code have been doing the same job for 25 minutes and still doesn't finish =( the code is simpliest I could ever imagine: def main(): fh =

AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'open_workbook'

2009-01-26 Thread Jay Jesus Amorin
Hi, Kindly help, I've got this error when running my script: AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'open_workbook' Here's my code: #!/usr/bin/python import xlrd import sys mySpreadsheet = xlrd.open_workbook(open(sys.argv[1])) firstSheet = wb.sheet_by_index(0) for myRows in

Re: really slow gzip decompress, why?

2009-01-26 Thread Jeff McNeil
On Jan 26, 10:22 am, redbaron ivanov.ma...@gmail.com wrote: I've one big (6.9 Gb) .gz file with text inside it. zcat bigfile.gz /dev/null does the job in 4 minutes 50 seconds python code have been doing the same job for 25 minutes and still doesn't finish =( the code is simpliest I could

Re: really slow gzip decompress, why?

2009-01-26 Thread Jeff McNeil
On Jan 26, 10:51 am, Jeff McNeil j...@jmcneil.net wrote: On Jan 26, 10:22 am, redbaron ivanov.ma...@gmail.com wrote: I've one big (6.9 Gb) .gz file with text inside it. zcat bigfile.gz /dev/null does the job in 4 minutes 50 seconds python code have been doing the same job for 25 minutes

Re: AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'open_workbook'

2009-01-26 Thread MRAB
Jay Jesus Amorin wrote: Hi, Kindly help, I've got this error when running my script: AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'open_workbook' Here's my code: #!/usr/bin/python import xlrd import sys mySpreadsheet = xlrd.open_workbook(open(sys.argv[1])) firstSheet =

Re: Does Python really follow its philosophy of Readability counts?

2009-01-26 Thread Tim Rowe
2009/1/26 Paul Rubin http://phr.cx@nospam.invalid: Steve Holden st...@holdenweb.com writes: Quite. Python is a language for consenting adults. Shouldn't such a language allow consenting adults to enter a BDSM scene without being moralized at, if that's what they want to do? ;-) The language

Problem with Nose testing until forking process

2009-01-26 Thread Jan Koprowski
Hi ! I write application witch sometimes need fork to shell based process (some kind of shell command). I snatch stdin, stdout, stderr and two additional streams and fork process to run command and get results. # -*- encoding: utf-8 -*- import os import sys import subprocess def

Re: Does Python really follow its philosophy of Readability counts?

2009-01-26 Thread Steve Holden
Paul Rubin wrote: Steve Holden st...@holdenweb.com writes: Quite. Python is a language for consenting adults. Shouldn't such a language allow consenting adults to enter a BDSM scene without being moralized at, if that's what they want to do? ;-) Yes, but you know what moralizers are like

Re: I'm a python addict !

2009-01-26 Thread J. Cliff Dyer
On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 14:43 -0800, J Kenneth King wrote: Linuxguy123 linuxguy...@gmail.com writes: I just started using python last week and I'm addicted. I hate Perl. I never did learn to use it with any competence. I has to be the most obfuscated, cryptic language I've ever seen.

Web services

2009-01-26 Thread loial
I am trying to learn about web services and how to interface with a 3rd party web service from python. Can anyone point me at an idiots guide/tutorial for someone who is new to web services? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Method returning an Iterable Object

2009-01-26 Thread Anjanesh Lekshminarayanan
Is there a way to return an iterable object ? class twoTimes: def __init__(self, n): self.__n = n def getNext(): self.__n *= 2 return self.__n t = twoTimes(5) while (n in t.getNext()): # while (n in t): print (n) -- Anjanesh Lekshmnarayanan --

Re: Method returning an Iterable Object

2009-01-26 Thread Steve Holden
Anjanesh Lekshminarayanan wrote: Is there a way to return an iterable object ? class twoTimes: def __init__(self, n): self.__n = n def getNext(): self.__n *= 2 return self.__n t = twoTimes(5) while (n in t.getNext()): # while (n in t): print

Re: I'm a python addict !

2009-01-26 Thread J. Cliff Dyer
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 20:25 -0800, Paul McGuire wrote: Want to change the type/behavior of an object from class A to class B? How about this: aobj = A() aobj.__class__ = B Try *that* in as simple-looking C++ or Java! Wow. That looks very powerful and fun. But scary. Any

Re: Method returning an Iterable Object

2009-01-26 Thread Andreas Waldenburger
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:01:21 +0530 Anjanesh Lekshminarayanan m...@anjanesh.net wrote: Is there a way to return an iterable object ? class twoTimes: def __init__(self, n): self.__n = n def getNext(): self.__n *= 2 return self.__n Rename getNext() to

Re: USB in python

2009-01-26 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-01-26, Lie Ryan lie.1...@gmail.com wrote: How about (a crazy idea) using the audio jack out? (DISCLAIMER: Little Hardware Experience). High pitched sound (or anything in sound-ology that means high voltage) means the device is on and low pitched sound off. 1) Pitch has nothing to

Re: Does Python really follow its philosophy of Readability counts?

2009-01-26 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Russ P. a écrit : (snip) You are trying to dictate that the library implementer not be allowed to use enforced access restriction. And, in the larger sense, you are trying to dictate that access restrictions not be enforced in Python. FWIW, it's actually *you* who are trying to dictate that

Re: What is intvar? [Python Docs]

2009-01-26 Thread W. eWatson
r wrote: W. eWatson, I contacted the author of New Mexico Techs Introduction to Tkinter a couple of weeks ago. He is going to update the reference material with a few missing widgets and some info on Photo and Bitmap classes. I really love the NMT layout and use it quite often. Fredricks

Re: Python C API (PyObject_CallMethod clear object)

2009-01-26 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:47:31 -0200, googler.1.webmas...@spamgourmet.com escribió: On 26 Jan., 03:25, Gabriel Genellina gagsl-...@yahoo.com.ar wrote: En Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:46:01 -0200, googler.1.webmas...@spamgourmet.com escribió: I have a problm with deallocating stuff. I call a function

Re: Newby: how to transform text into lines of text

2009-01-26 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:35:39 -0200, J. Cliff Dyer j...@sdf.lonestar.org escribió: On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 18:23 -0800, John Machin wrote: On Jan 26, 1:03 pm, Gabriel Genellina gagsl-...@yahoo.com.ar wrote: En Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:30:33 -0200, Tim Chase python.l...@tim.thechases.com escribió:

Re: Newby: how to transform text into lines of text

2009-01-26 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:35:39 -0200, J. Cliff Dyer j...@sdf.lonestar.org escribió: On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 18:23 -0800, John Machin wrote: On Jan 26, 1:03 pm, Gabriel Genellina gagsl-...@yahoo.com.ar wrote: En Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:30:33 -0200, Tim Chase python.l...@tim.thechases.com escribió:

Re: Web services

2009-01-26 Thread Chris Rebert
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 8:11 AM, loial jldunn2...@googlemail.com wrote: I am trying to learn about web services and how to interface with a 3rd party web service from python. Can anyone point me at an idiots guide/tutorial for someone who is new to web services? The XML-RPC client module in

Re: I'm a python addict !

2009-01-26 Thread Paul McGuire
On Jan 26, 10:54 am, J. Cliff Dyer j...@sdf.lonestar.org wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 20:25 -0800, Paul McGuire wrote: Want to change the type/behavior of an object from class A to class B?  How about this:     aobj = A()     aobj.__class__ = B Try *that* in as simple-looking C++ or

Process crash with no reason

2009-01-26 Thread gil . shinar
Hi All, I'm running a program that is acting as a nice interface to sybase' replication server. The program is using the cherrypy web service for the GUI. The process is crashing every few days with no reason. In the log I can see INFO and DEBUG (No ERROR) log lines and I do not get any TraceBack

Re: Dynamic methods and lambda functions

2009-01-26 Thread Kay Schluehr
On 26 Jan., 15:13, Steve Holden st...@holdenweb.com wrote: Mark Wooding wrote: unine...@gmail.com writes: [...] * Assignment stores a new (reference to a) value in the variable. * Binding modifies the mapping between names and variables. I realise I have omitted what was doubtless

unable to print Unicode characters in Python 3

2009-01-26 Thread jefm
Hi, while checking out Python 3, I read that all text strings are now natively Unicode. In the Python language reference (http://docs.python.org/3.0/reference/ lexical_analysis.html) I read that I can show Unicode character in several ways. \u supposedly allows me to specify the Unicode

Re: Method returning an Iterable Object

2009-01-26 Thread Anjanesh Lekshminarayanan
You can also replace the whole class with a function thusly: def two_times(n): for k in itertools.count(1): yield n * (2**k) This function is then called a generator (because it generates an iterator). You can now say infinitely_doubling_numbers = two_times(2)

Re: unable to print Unicode characters in Python 3

2009-01-26 Thread Martin
Hmm this works for me, it's a self compiled version: ~ $ python3 Python 3.0 (r30:67503, Dec 29 2008, 21:35:15) [GCC 4.2.4 (Ubuntu 4.2.4-1ubuntu3)] on linux2 Type help, copyright, credits or license for more information. print(\u20ac) € print (\N{EURO SIGN}) € 2009/1/26 jefm

Re: Process crash with no reason

2009-01-26 Thread Philip Semanchuk
On Jan 26, 2009, at 1:13 PM, gil.shi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I'm running a program that is acting as a nice interface to sybase' replication server. The program is using the cherrypy web service for the GUI. The process is crashing every few days with no reason. In the log I can see INFO

Re: unable to print Unicode characters in Python 3

2009-01-26 Thread Benjamin Kaplan
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 1:16 PM, jefm jef.mangelsch...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, while checking out Python 3, I read that all text strings are now natively Unicode. In the Python language reference (http://docs.python.org/3.0/reference/

Python and CUDO

2009-01-26 Thread fredrik kant
Hi! Sorry about the misspelling, it should of course been NIVIDAS CUDA. I also noticed that there wrappers around such as: pycuda which answers my question. -- Fredrik Kant Kant Consulting AB Mobile: +46 70 787 06 01 www.kantconsulting.se -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: v = json.loads({'test':'test'})

2009-01-26 Thread Miles
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 4:06 AM, Diez B. Roggisch wrote: There are people who say something along the lines of be strict when writing, and tolerant when reading (the exact quote is different, but neither google:~site:mybrain nor any other have helped me here) That's Postel's Law:

Re: Plugin system, RuntimeWarning: Parent module 'ext_abc' not found while handling absolute import

2009-01-26 Thread Torsten Mohr
Hello, Basically, this here works but gives a warning: RuntimeWarning: Parent module 'ext_abc' not found while handling absolute import here = os.path.abspath('.') (Unrelated to the main question, but you probably want to use os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)) instead - the

Re: unable to print Unicode characters in Python 3

2009-01-26 Thread jefm
Hmm this works for me, it's a self compiled version: ~ $ python3 Python 3.0 (r30:67503, Dec 29 2008, 21:35:15) [GCC 4.2.4 (Ubuntu 4.2.4-1ubuntu3)] on linux2 You are running on Linux. Mine is on Windows. Anyone else have this issue on Windows ? --

Re: A java hobbyist programmer learning python

2009-01-26 Thread Scott David Daniels
Tim Rowe wrote: ... I like the second style because it makes it leaves the 2-d implementation hidden, which is the whole point of encapsulation. I like the second as well, in that it it allows the parent to update any related data structures (for example, updating a display). However, I am a

Re: Method returning an Iterable Object

2009-01-26 Thread Andreas Waldenburger
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:05:53 +0530 Anjanesh Lekshminarayanan m...@anjanesh.net wrote: You can also replace the whole class with a function thusly: def two_times(n): for k in itertools.count(1): yield n * (2**k) This function is then called a generator (because

Re: I'm a python addict !

2009-01-26 Thread Scott David Daniels
J. Cliff Dyer wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 20:25 -0800, Paul McGuire wrote: ... How about this: aobj = A() aobj.__class__ = B ... Wow. That looks very powerful and fun. But scary. Any thoughts on how you would use that in a way that wouldn't unleash sulphurous code smells? Seems

Re: I'm a python addict !

2009-01-26 Thread J. Cliff Dyer
On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 09:52 -0800, Paul McGuire wrote: On Jan 26, 10:54 am, J. Cliff Dyer j...@sdf.lonestar.org wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 20:25 -0800, Paul McGuire wrote: Want to change the type/behavior of an object from class A to class B? How about this: aobj = A()

Anoying unicode / str conversion problem

2009-01-26 Thread Hans Müller
Hi python experts, in the moment I'm struggling with an annoying problem in conjunction with mysql. I'm fetching rows from a database, which the mysql drive returns as a list of tuples. The default coding of the database is utf-8. Unfortunately in the database there are rows with different

Re: Does Python really follow its philosophy of Readability counts?

2009-01-26 Thread Russ P.
On Jan 26, 1:07 am, Bruno Desthuilliers bruno. 42.desthuilli...@websiteburo.invalid wrote: No. I can change the *team's* code. Please *read*. team's ownership, ok ? Or do I have to spell it out loud ? TEAM'S OWNERSHIP. Uh. You get the message, now ? Team ownership doesn't necessarily mean

Re: var is None vs. var == None

2009-01-26 Thread Terry Reedy
Steve Holden wrote: Terry Reedy wrote: In 2.x, the *names* 'True' and 'False' can be rebound because bool is new and people write try: False,True except NameError: False,True = 0,1 to make code back compatible. I would claim that the ability to rebind True and False is a simple bug,

Re: I'm a python addict !

2009-01-26 Thread Paul McGuire
On Jan 26, 2:06 pm, J. Cliff Dyer j...@sdf.lonestar.org wrote: Thanks.  That makes sense.  But your example creates a new instance of the new class each time, rather than changing the class of a persistent instance, as the original example, to which I was responding, did. Look closer. The

Re: Anoying unicode / str conversion problem

2009-01-26 Thread Benjamin Kaplan
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Hans Müller heint...@web.de wrote: Hi python experts, in the moment I'm struggling with an annoying problem in conjunction with mysql. I'm fetching rows from a database, which the mysql drive returns as a list of tuples. The default coding of the database

Re: unable to print Unicode characters in Python 3

2009-01-26 Thread Michael Torrie
jefm wrote: Hmm this works for me, it's a self compiled version: ~ $ python3 Python 3.0 (r30:67503, Dec 29 2008, 21:35:15) [GCC 4.2.4 (Ubuntu 4.2.4-1ubuntu3)] on linux2 You are running on Linux. Mine is on Windows. Anyone else have this issue on Windows ? As Benjamin Kaplin said,

Re: Monitor a FTP site for arrival of new/updated files

2009-01-26 Thread Giampaolo Rodola'
On 25 Gen, 21:11, Steve Holden st...@holdenweb.com wrote: pyt...@bdurham.com wrote:  Any suggestions on a best practice way to monitor a remote FTP site for the arrival of new/updated files? I don't need specific code, just some coaching on technique based on your real-world experience

Re: unable to print Unicode characters in Python 3

2009-01-26 Thread Terry Reedy
jefm wrote: Hi, while checking out Python 3, I read that all text strings are now natively Unicode. True In the Python language reference (http://docs.python.org/3.0/reference/ lexical_analysis.html) I read that I can show Unicode character in several ways. \u supposedly allows me to

Re: Pipe stdout stderr to a TkLabel widget

2009-01-26 Thread rantingrick
OK, here is a simple example that will show you what i want to do. Right now if you type print 'hello' in the entry and press enter you will see braces in the label {}. But if you type sys.stdou.write (hello) you will see {hello} in the label. So i got the stdout piping to the widget now, but it

Re: var is None vs. var == None

2009-01-26 Thread Steve Holden
Terry Reedy wrote: Steve Holden wrote: Terry Reedy wrote: In 2.x, the *names* 'True' and 'False' can be rebound because bool is new and people write try: False,True except NameError: False,True = 0,1 to make code back compatible. I would claim that the ability to rebind True and

Re: Anoying unicode / str conversion problem

2009-01-26 Thread Peter Otten
Hans Müller wrote: Hi python experts, in the moment I'm struggling with an annoying problem in conjunction with mysql. I'm fetching rows from a database, which the mysql drive returns as a list of tuples. The default coding of the database is utf-8. Unfortunately in the database

Re: unable to print Unicode characters in Python 3

2009-01-26 Thread jefm
As Benjamin Kaplin said, Windows terminals use the old cp1252 character set, which cannot display the euro sign. You'll either have to run it in something more modern like the cygwin rxvt terminal, or output some other way, such as through a GUI. With the standard console, I get the same. But

Re: unable to print Unicode characters in Python 3

2009-01-26 Thread Jean-Paul Calderone
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:26:56 -0800 (PST), jefm jef.mangelsch...@gmail.com wrote: As Benjamin Kaplin said, Windows terminals use the old cp1252 character set, which cannot display the euro sign. You'll either have to run it in something more modern like the cygwin rxvt terminal, or output some

Re: I'm a python addict !

2009-01-26 Thread J. Cliff Dyer
On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 12:37 -0800, Paul McGuire wrote: On Jan 26, 2:06 pm, J. Cliff Dyer j...@sdf.lonestar.org wrote: Thanks. That makes sense. But your example creates a new instance of the new class each time, rather than changing the class of a persistent instance, as the original

Re: AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'open_workbook'

2009-01-26 Thread John Machin
On Jan 27, 3:07 am, MRAB goo...@mrabarnett.plus.com wrote: Jay Jesus Amorin wrote: [snip]   Here's the error message:     r...@nebuchadnezzar:/home/test/project# ./xlrd.py test.xls   Traceback (most recent call last):     File ./xlrd.py, line 3, in module       import xlrd     File

Re: unable to print Unicode characters in Python 3

2009-01-26 Thread jefm
Now that I know the problem, I found the following on Google. Windows uses codepages to display different character sets. (http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page) The Windows chcp command allows you to change the character set from the original 437 set. When you type on the command line: chcp

Re: Anoying unicode / str conversion problem

2009-01-26 Thread Hans Müller
Thanks Peter, your answer did the trick. I programed a lot with awk (also a very cool scripting language). So I was focused on the concept a dictionary key has to be string (as in awk). Since it's impossible to use a list as a dictionary key I thought it's also impossible to use a tuple as a key.

Re: unable to print Unicode characters in Python 3

2009-01-26 Thread jefm
chcp 1252 does allow me to print the EURO sign. Thanks for pointing that out. However, it does not show me some ALL Unicode characters. Very frustrating. I was hoping to find something that allows me to print any Unicode character on the console. --

Re: Newby: how to transform text into lines of text

2009-01-26 Thread Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:10:11 +0100, Andreas Waldenburger wrote: On 26 Jan 2009 14:51:33 GMT Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch bj_...@gmx.net wrote: On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:22:18 +, Sion Arrowsmith wrote: content = a.readlines() (Just because we can now write for line in file doesn't mean

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