Re: How to define a db file for sqlite?

2009-03-08 Thread John Machin
On Mar 8, 6:32 pm, Muddy Coder cosmo_gene...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Folks, I just downloaded and installed pysqlite, and I can import sqlite3 smoothly. Then, I need to connect sqlite by syntax: conn = sqlite3.connect('adirectory/db') I wish the data will be stored into directory ---

Re: Ban Xah Lee

2009-03-08 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
Grant Edwards gra...isi.com wrote: There you go: a 30-second psychological diagnosis by an electrical engineer based entirely on Usenet postings. It doesn't get much more worthless than that... Oh it is not entirely worthless - as a working hypothesis, it seems to cover and explain the

Re: Parsing unicode (devanagari) text with xml.dom.minidom

2009-03-08 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Regarding minidom, you might be happier with the xml.etree package that comes with Python2.5 and later (it's also avalable for older versions). It's a lot easier to use, more memory friendly and also much faster. OTOH, choice of XML library is completely irrelevant for the issue at hand. If

Re: wxPython fast and slow

2009-03-08 Thread iu2
On Mar 6, 6:52 pm, Mike Driscoll kyoso...@gmail.com wrote: ... Can you post a sample application so we can try to figure out what's wrong? You might also cross-post this to thewxPythonmailing list. They might know. Mike- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Hi, thanks for your reply

Re: speeding up reading files (possibly with cython)

2009-03-08 Thread Peter Otten
per wrote: i have a program that essentially loops through a textfile file thats about 800 MB in size containing tab separated data... my program parses this file and stores its fields in a dictionary of lists. for line in file: split_values = line.strip().split('\t') # do stuff with

Re: Parsing/Crawler Questions - solution

2009-03-08 Thread lkcl
On Mar 7, 9:56 pm, bruce bedoug...@earthlink.net wrote: and this solution will somehow allow a user to create a web parsing/scraping app for parising links, and javascript from a web page? not just parsing the links and the static javascript, but: * actually executing the javascript,

Re: Parsing unicode (devanagari) text with xml.dom.minidom

2009-03-08 Thread Stefan Behnel
Martin v. Löwis wrote: Regarding minidom, you might be happier with the xml.etree package that comes with Python2.5 and later (it's also avalable for older versions). It's a lot easier to use, more memory friendly and also much faster. OTOH, choice of XML library is completely irrelevant for

Re: Ban Xah Lee

2009-03-08 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG
Xah Lee xah...@gmail.com writes: Of interest: • Why Can't You Be Normal? http://xahlee.org/Netiquette_dir/why_cant_you_be_normal.html • Ban Xah Lee http://xahlee.org/Netiquette_dir/ban_Xah_Lee.html I consider this post relevant because i've been perennially gossiped about in

help with printing to stdout...

2009-03-08 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, I've got a program here that prints out a percentage of it's completion. Currently with my implimentation it prints like this: 0% 1% 2% 3% 4% etc taking up lots and lots of lines of output... So, how can I make it write the percentage on the same line eg. while working: print percent

Re: Parsing unicode (devanagari) text with xml.dom.minidom

2009-03-08 Thread Martin v. Löwis
For the described problem, maybe. But certainly not for the application. The background was parsing the XML dump of an entire web site, which I would expect to be larger than what minidom is designed to handle gracefully. Switching to cElementTree before major code gets written is almost

Re: help with printing to stdout...

2009-03-08 Thread Chris Rebert
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 1:37 AM, Daniel Dalton d.dal...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi, I've got a program here that prints out a percentage of it's completion. Currently with my implimentation it prints like this: 0% 1% 2% 3% 4% etc taking up lots and lots of lines of output... So, how can I

comparing (c)ElementTree and minidom (was: Parsing unicode (devanagari) text with xml.dom.minidom)

2009-03-08 Thread Stefan Behnel
Martin v. Löwis wrote: The background was parsing the XML dump of an entire web site, which I would expect to be larger than what minidom is designed to handle gracefully. Switching to cElementTree before major code gets written is almost certainly a good idea here. I think minidom is

Re: speeding up reading files (possibly with cython)

2009-03-08 Thread Carl Banks
On Mar 7, 3:06 pm, per perfr...@gmail.com wrote: hi all, i have a program that essentially loops through a textfile file thats about 800 MB in size containing tab separated data... my program parses this file and stores its fields in a dictionary of lists. When building a very large

Re: wxPython fast and slow

2009-03-08 Thread Carl Banks
On Mar 8, 1:52 am, iu2 isra...@elbit.co.il wrote: On Mar 6, 6:52 pm, Mike Driscoll kyoso...@gmail.com wrote: ... Can you post a sample application so we can try to figure out what's wrong? You might also cross-post this to thewxPythonmailing list. They might know. Mike- Hide quoted

Re: Help cleaning up some code

2009-03-08 Thread andrew cooke
odeits wrote: On Mar 7, 1:07 pm, Scott David Daniels scott.dani...@acm.org wrote: odeits wrote: I am looking to clean up this code... any help is much appreciated. Note: It works just fine, I just think it could be done cleaner. The result is a stack of dictionaries. the query returns up

Re: Help cleaning up some code

2009-03-08 Thread andrew cooke
andrew cooke wrote: odeits wrote: On Mar 7, 1:07 pm, Scott David Daniels scott.dani...@acm.org wrote: odeits wrote: I am looking to clean up this code... any help is much appreciated. Note: It works just fine, I just think it could be done cleaner. The result is a stack of dictionaries.

Re: speeding up reading files (possibly with cython)

2009-03-08 Thread Timothy N. Tsvetkov
If that's the problem, the solution is: get more memory. Or maybe think about algorithm, which needs less memory... My experience tells me, that each time when you want to store a lot of data into dict (or other structure) to analyze it then, you can find a way not to store so much amount of

Re: /a is not /a ?

2009-03-08 Thread Lie Ryan
Mel wrote: wrote: Steven D'Aprano st...@pearwood.info writes: It is never correct to avoid using is when you need to compare for identity. When is it ever necessary to compare for identity? Ho-hum. MUDD game. def broadcast (sender, message): for p in all_players: if p is not

Re: /a is not /a ?

2009-03-08 Thread Lie Ryan
Robert Kern wrote: On 2009-03-07 08:14, Christian Heimes wrote: Steven D'Aprano wrote: Yes. Floating point NANs are required to compare unequal to all floats, including themselves. It's part of the IEEE standard. As far as I remember that's not correct. It's just the way C has interpreted

Re: help with printing to stdout...

2009-03-08 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Sun, 8 Mar 2009 01:59:03 -0800 Chris Rebert c...@rebertia.com wrote: etc taking up lots and lots of lines of output... So, how can I make it write the percentage on the same line eg. Use the carriage return character to overwrite the line (you'll need to forego `print`): Why do you say

Re: help with printing to stdout...

2009-03-08 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
Daniel Dalton d.dal...@iinet.net.au wrote: I've got a program here that prints out a percentage of it's completion. Currently with my implimentation it prints like this: 0% 1% 2% 3% 4% etc taking up lots and lots of lines of output... So, how can I make it write the percentage on the

Re: help with printing to stdout...

2009-03-08 Thread Lie Ryan
Chris Rebert wrote: On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 1:37 AM, Daniel Dalton d.dal...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi, I've got a program here that prints out a percentage of it's completion. Currently with my implimentation it prints like this: 0% 1% 2% 3% 4% etc taking up lots and lots of lines of output...

Re: Ban Xah Lee

2009-03-08 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 18:38:24 +0900 Byung-Hee HWANG b...@izb.knu.ac.kr wrote: Xah Lee xah...@gmail.com writes: [snip] Don't worry, Xah. At least, my minds is running on your rails. Please do not stop. BTW, what do you think about using Gnus instead of G2/1.0? So you are going to repeat his

Re: speeding up reading files (possibly with cython)

2009-03-08 Thread Tim Chase
Steven D'Aprano wrote: per wrote: currently, this is very slow in python, even if all i do is break up each line using split() ** and store its values in a dictionary, ** indexing by one of the tab separated values in the file. If that's the problem, the

Re: wxPython fast and slow

2009-03-08 Thread John Posner
def move_panel(self, evt): def gen(): for x in range(200): yield x for x in range(200, 0, -1): yield x for x in gen(): self.square.SetPosition((x, 30)) time.sleep(0.005) I can't help

Re: wxPython fast and slow

2009-03-08 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Mar 8, 3:52 am, iu2 isra...@elbit.co.il wrote: On Mar 6, 6:52 pm, Mike Driscoll kyoso...@gmail.com wrote: ... Can you post a sample application so we can try to figure out what's wrong? You might also cross-post this to thewxPythonmailing list. They might know. Mike- Hide quoted

Callback from c thread with ctypes

2009-03-08 Thread Victor Lin
Hi, I am going to develop a c library binding with ctypes. That c library will call callback from worker threads it created. Here comes the problem : Will the GIL be acquired before it goes into Python function? I got a little try.. DSPPROC = WINFUNCTYPE(None, DWORD, DWORD, c_void_p, DWORD,

Re: can't print the exception cause/context in Python3.0?

2009-03-08 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Sat, 07 Mar 2009 21:18:22 -0200, BigHand hewei...@gmail.com escribió: On 3月7日, 下午11时21分, Gabriel Genellina gagsl-...@yahoo.com.ar wrote: En Sat, 07 Mar 2009 11:46:08 -0200, BigHand hewei...@gmail.com escribió: I want the exception printted like this:   File pyshell#14, line 2, in

Re: Callback from c thread with ctypes

2009-03-08 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Victor Lin schrieb: Hi, I am going to develop a c library binding with ctypes. That c library will call callback from worker threads it created. Here comes the problem : Will the GIL be acquired before it goes into Python function? I got a little try.. DSPPROC = WINFUNCTYPE(None, DWORD,

Re: RELEASED Python 3.1 alpha 1

2009-03-08 Thread Colin J. Williams
Benjamin Peterson wrote: On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm happy to announce the first alpha release of Python 3.1. Python 3.1 focuses on the stabilization and optimization of features and changes Python 3.0 introduced. The new I/O system has been rewritten

Re: Callback from c thread with ctypes

2009-03-08 Thread Christian Heimes
Victor Lin wrote: Hi, I am going to develop a c library binding with ctypes. That c library will call callback from worker threads it created. Here comes the problem : Will the GIL be acquired before it goes into Python function? I got a little try.. DSPPROC = WINFUNCTYPE(None, DWORD,

Re: 2.6.1 - simple division

2009-03-08 Thread farsight
On Mar 8, 2:16 pm, farsi...@gmail.com wrote: 4 / 5.0 0.84 0.8 * 5 4.0 python 2.6.1 on mac. What the hell is going on here? Pure curiosity prompted me to try the following: 40 / 5.0 8.0 Strange... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Callback from c thread with ctypes

2009-03-08 Thread Victor Lin
On 3月8日, 下午9時56分, Diez B. Roggisch de...@nospam.web.de wrote: Victor Lin schrieb: Hi, I am going to develop a c library binding with ctypes. That c library will call callback from worker threads it created. Here comes the problem : Will the GIL be acquired before it goes into Python

Re: Callback from c thread with ctypes

2009-03-08 Thread Victor Lin
On 3月8日, 下午10時20分, Christian Heimes li...@cheimes.de wrote: Victor Lin wrote: Hi, I am going to develop a c library binding with ctypes. That c library will call callback from worker threads it created. Here comes the problem : Will the GIL be acquired before it goes into Python

Re: 2.6.1 - simple division

2009-03-08 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Sun, 08 Mar 2009 12:22:50 -0200, farsi...@gmail.com escribió: On Mar 8, 2:16 pm, farsi...@gmail.com wrote: 4 / 5.0 0.84 0.8 * 5 4.0 python 2.6.1 on mac. What the hell is going on here? Pure curiosity prompted me to try the following: 40 / 5.0 8.0 Strange... See

Re: Callback from c thread with ctypes

2009-03-08 Thread Christian Heimes
Victor Lin wrote I know I have to call PyEval_InitThreads if my module create threads that will contact python stuff, for example, call a python callback function from threads. But however, it is ctypes. I have no idea should I do that for the imported dll? If it is, how? You have to

Re: 2.6.1 - simple division

2009-03-08 Thread Lie Ryan
farsi...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 8, 2:16 pm, farsi...@gmail.com wrote: 4 / 5.0 0.84 This one is a common FAQ. Basically floating point is never to be trusted. This issue is quite language agnostic, however some language decided to hide the issue, python does not. For more

Re: Callback from c thread with ctypes

2009-03-08 Thread Lie Ryan
Victor Lin wrote: On 3月8日, 下午9時56分, Diez B. Roggisch de...@nospam.web.de wrote: Victor Lin schrieb: Hi, I am going to develop a c library binding with ctypes. That c library will call callback from worker threads it created. Here comes the problem : Will the GIL be acquired before it goes

Re: 2.6.1 - simple division

2009-03-08 Thread koranthala
On Mar 8, 7:22 pm, farsi...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 8, 2:16 pm, farsi...@gmail.com wrote: 4 / 5.0 0.84 0.8 * 5 4.0 python 2.6.1 on mac. What the hell is going on here? Pure curiosity prompted me to try the following: 40 / 5.0 8.0 Strange... Please see

Re: create boolean

2009-03-08 Thread Lie Ryan
Scott David Daniels wrote: Lie Ryan wrote: Fencer wrote: The literal translation of that would be: if n is not None and n != []: b = True else: b = False it is a bit verbose, so one might want to find something shorter b = True if n is not None and n != [] else False I always feel if

Re: 2.6.1 - simple division

2009-03-08 Thread farsight
Thanks all, that's very helpful, sorry to waste your time with a common question. I have tried the decimal module and will definitely keep using it if I need to do this kind of calculation again. I have 1 more question that the floating point article that was linked didn't really answer: x =

Re: Guidance - Professional Python Development

2009-03-08 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
RT wrote: cut Can you recommend any books or articles that you have found offer useful advice on program structure, design and use of classes or any other features or best practices that you feel are important for professional Python development. cut In my opinion, 'professional development'

Re: 2.6.1 - simple division

2009-03-08 Thread Duncan Booth
farsi...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks all, that's very helpful, sorry to waste your time with a common question. I have tried the decimal module and will definitely keep using it if I need to do this kind of calculation again. Try to remember though that the decimal module simply replaces one

Re: 2.6.1 - simple division

2009-03-08 Thread farsight
Thanks duncan, thats very helpful. I'll be more careful with floating point numbers in future. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Which Lisp to Learn?

2009-03-08 Thread Arne Vajhøj
Xah Lee wrote: For those of you imperative programers who kept on hearing about lisp and is tempted to learn, then, ... You: * consider yourself unfairly treated by various communities * post a long drivel about various Lisp flavors to newsgroups that are not in any way Lisp related ? There

Re: RELEASED Python 3.1 alpha 1

2009-03-08 Thread Benjamin Peterson
Colin J. Williams cjw at ncf.ca writes: Do you have any schedule for a Windows binary release? They should materialize on Monday. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Ban Xah Lee

2009-03-08 Thread r
On Mar 8, 7:50 am, D'Arcy J.M. Cain da...@druid.net wrote: So you are going to repeat his postings in their entirety so that those that block him will see them anyway, right?  Wrong.  We'll just block your posts too. *plonk* This is to all usenet readers who think they own c.l.py!

Re: Ban Xah Lee

2009-03-08 Thread r
On Mar 7, 5:52 pm, Xah Lee xah...@gmail.com wrote: HARASSMENT BY JOHN BOKMA I was harassed by a newsgroup poster John Bokma (a regular of comp.lang.perl.misc) to have my web hosting service provider kick me off. This happened in 2006. I know the feeling. I have this super geek with nothing

Re: /a is not /a ?

2009-03-08 Thread Mark Dickinson
On Mar 7, 2:14 pm, Christian Heimes li...@cheimes.de wrote: Steven D'Aprano wrote: Yes. Floating point NANs are required to compare unequal to all floats, including themselves. It's part of the IEEE standard. As far as I remember that's not correct. It's just the way C has interpreted the

Re: Windows install to custom location after building from source

2009-03-08 Thread Tim Golden
Gabriel Genellina wrote: En Fri, 06 Mar 2009 06:52:00 -0200, dan.erik.peter...@gmail.com escribió: I have succeeded in building Python 2.6.1 from source under Windows XP by running Visual C++ 2008 Express on the PCbuild/pcbuild.sln file both from the Visual C++ application as well as from the

Set Frozenset?

2009-03-08 Thread Hans Larsen
Could you help me ? How could I take an elemment from a set or a frozenset .-) ? From a string (unicode? Python3), or from a tuple,or from a list: Element by index or slice. From a dict: by key. But what concerning a set or

Re: RELEASED Python 3.1 alpha 1

2009-03-08 Thread laplacia...@gmail.com
On Mar 7, 6:59 pm, Carl Banks pavlovevide...@gmail.com wrote: I see that Brett Canon's importlib has finally made it into Python standard library.  Congrats there (if you still read this list), I am struggling with Python's arcane import semantics (for something ridiculously silly) now and I

Re: Help cleaning up some code

2009-03-08 Thread odeits
On Mar 8, 4:48 am, andrew cooke and...@acooke.org wrote: odeits wrote: On Mar 7, 1:07 pm, Scott David Daniels scott.dani...@acm.org wrote: odeits wrote: I am looking to clean up this code... any help is much appreciated. Note: It works just fine, I just think it could be done cleaner.

Re: Set Frozenset?

2009-03-08 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Hans Larsen schrieb: Could you help me ? How could I take an elemment from a set or a frozenset .-) ? From a string (unicode? Python3), or from a tuple,or from a list: Element by index or slice. From a dict: by key. But

Re: where is the PyString_AsString in Python 3.0?

2009-03-08 Thread Stefan Behnel
BigHand wrote: I know that there is no PyString_AsString in Python3.0, could you guys give me instruction about how can I do with the following ? PyObject *exc_type = NULL, *exc_value = NULL, *exc_tb = NULL; PyErr_Fetch(exc_type, exc_value, exc_tb); how do I transfer the exc_type in a

Re: where is the PyString_AsString in Python 3.0?

2009-03-08 Thread Stefan Behnel
BigHand wrote: Finally I got the results now. This did take me 10 hours to solve this. the docs of 3.0.. You will have to get used to Unicode. The code you used against the C-API mimics almost exactly the steps you'd use at the Python level. Stefan --

Re: Ban Xah Lee

2009-03-08 Thread Steven D'Aprano
r wrote: This is to all usenet readers who think they own c.l.py! [snip abusive, anti-social rant] Well, after kill-filing this kiddie for a few months, I thought I'd give him a chance. By pure luck I chose this post to read. Good news r, you've earned yourself a permanent kill-filing. I'll be

Re: Set Frozenset?

2009-03-08 Thread Tim Golden
Diez B. Roggisch wrote: Hans Larsen schrieb: Could you help me ? How could I take an elemment from a set or a frozenset .-) ? From a string (unicode? Python3), or from a tuple,or from a list: Element by index or slice. From a dict: by

Re: Set Frozenset?

2009-03-08 Thread Tim Golden
Tim Golden wrote: Diez B. Roggisch wrote: Hans Larsen schrieb: Could you help me ? How could I take an elemment from a set or a frozenset .-) ? From a string (unicode? Python3), or from a tuple,or from a list: Element by index or slice.

Sharing objects between processes

2009-03-08 Thread ET
I have been using the 'threading' library and decided to try swapping it out for 'processing'... while it's awesome that processing so closely mirrors the threading interface, I've been having trouble getting my processes to share an object in a similar way. Using the 'with' keyword didn't work,

Re: Sharing objects between processes

2009-03-08 Thread Tim Golden
ET wrote: Using the 'with' keyword didn't work... Just an aside here for any multiprocessing maintainers watching ;) . I expect that the didn't work here refers to this bug: http://bugs.python.org/issue5261 Altho' if the OP cares to clarify, it might be something else. TJG --

Re: Sharing objects between processes

2009-03-08 Thread Aaron Brady
On Mar 8, 1:36 pm, ET p...@2drpg.org wrote: I have been using the 'threading' library and decided to try swapping it out for 'processing'... while it's awesome that processing so closely mirrors the threading interface, I've been having trouble getting my processes to share an object in a

Re: Chandler, Python, speed

2009-03-08 Thread Tim Wintle
On Sat, 2009-03-07 at 22:05 +, Ville M. Vainio wrote: Alan G Isaac wrote: 3. Chandler is not really an email client. So specifically, which of its functionalities is it slow, and what evidence if any is there that Python is causing this? I remember reading somewhere that the cause

Re: wxPython fast and slow

2009-03-08 Thread iu2
On Mar 8, 1:42 pm, Carl Banks pavlovevide...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 8, 1:52 am, iu2 isra...@elbit.co.il wrote: On Mar 6, 6:52 pm, Mike Driscoll kyoso...@gmail.com wrote: ... Can you post a sample application so we can try to figure out what's wrong? You might also cross-post this

Re: Chandler, Python, speed

2009-03-08 Thread Ville M. Vainio
Ville M. Vainio wrote: Alan G Isaac wrote: 3. Chandler is not really an email client. So specifically, which of its functionalities is it slow, and what evidence if any is there that Python is causing this? I remember reading somewhere that the cause of slowness is/was architectural -

Re: Windows install to custom location after building from source

2009-03-08 Thread Scott David Daniels
Tim Golden wrote: ... Anyhow, at the end I have a working Python 2.7a0 running under Windows. Do you mean 3.1a0? As far as I know, 2.7a0 requires the use of the time machine, as it is expected to be 3 months out. If you do get an installer built, even having a semi-official copy around for

Re: Windows install to custom location after building from source

2009-03-08 Thread Martin v. Löwis
In addition, the CVS version of pywin32 which I built in order to run the msi.py script has a small bug in genpy which prevents it from generating COM support in the way in which msi.py does it. I'm using Python 2.4 to run msi.py; that has always worked fine for me. Regards, Martin P.S.

Re: Windows install to custom location after building from source

2009-03-08 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Do you mean 3.1a0? As far as I know, 2.7a0 requires the use of the time machine, as it is expected to be 3 months out. The current trunk calls itself 2.7a0. I think you might be referring to 3.0a1. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Windows install to custom location after building from source

2009-03-08 Thread Tim Golden
Martin v. Löwis wrote: In addition, the CVS version of pywin32 which I built in order to run the msi.py script has a small bug in genpy which prevents it from generating COM support in the way in which msi.py does it. I'm using Python 2.4 to run msi.py; that has always worked fine for me.

Re: Windows install to custom location after building from source

2009-03-08 Thread Tim Golden
Scott David Daniels wrote: Tim Golden wrote: ... Anyhow, at the end I have a working Python 2.7a0 running under Windows. Do you mean 3.1a0? As far as I know, 2.7a0 requires the use of the time machine, as it is expected to be 3 months out. No; 2.7a0 is the version number of the svn HEAD.

Re: Eclipse And PyDev

2009-03-08 Thread Fabio Zadrozny
Thanks. I noticed that when I was on my windows box at work and I would check it and click apply then ok and when I go back to those prefs and it isn't checked. I did that a few times. I will try it on my Linux box tomorrow at home and see if I have the same results. If it doesn't work for

Re: Windows install to custom location after building from source

2009-03-08 Thread Martin v. Löwis
What does the merge do? I can't find mention of it in the docs. It merges the msvcrt merge module into the installer (and then monkey patches it, to revert the msm decision of setting ALLUSERS). I tried to integrate it originally as a step after creating the msi. Unfortunately, the merge object

Re: Ban Xah Lee

2009-03-08 Thread r
On Mar 8, 1:24 pm, Steven D'Aprano st...@pearwood.info wrote: r wrote: This is to all usenet readers who think they own c.l.py! [snip abusive, anti-social rant] Well, after kill-filing this kiddie for a few months, I thought I'd give him a chance. By pure luck I chose this post to read.

Re: Windows install to custom location after building from source

2009-03-08 Thread Tim Golden
Martin v. Löwis wrote: What does the merge do? I can't find mention of it in the docs. It merges the msvcrt merge module into the installer (and then monkey patches it, to revert the msm decision of setting ALLUSERS). I tried to integrate it originally as a step after creating the msi.

Re: Windows install to custom location after building from source

2009-03-08 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Sun, 08 Mar 2009 18:08:50 -0200, Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de escribió: What does the merge do? I can't find mention of it in the docs. It merges the msvcrt merge module into the installer (and then monkey patches it, to revert the msm decision of setting ALLUSERS). I tried to

Re: Themed TK (tk Tile) at last?!

2009-03-08 Thread Boris Borcic
Python Nutter wrote: Looks like we finally get tkinter GUI based programs according to Issue# 2983 in Python 3.1a so our programs don't look like something out of early 1980's Please don't confuse History gratuitously. Make that mid 90's. Cheers, BB --

last and final attempt to search for python ods library.

2009-03-08 Thread Krishnakant
hello all, Sorry for the frustrated mail. This is my last attempt to search for a nice python library for creating open document spreadsheet. I tryed python-ooolib but did not find a few features like merging cells (may be I am missing out some thing stupid ). I have asked for some help before

Re: Ban Xah Lee

2009-03-08 Thread Boris Borcic
seconded. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Windows install to custom location after building from source

2009-03-08 Thread Martin v. Löwis
merge.py attempts to import config.py but I can't find it... Just create an empty one. Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Windows install to custom location after building from source

2009-03-08 Thread Martin v. Löwis
First, it relies on config.py whose existence msi.py optionally ignores. Feel free to create a patch for that. File COMObject Msm.Merge2.1, line 2, in OpenDatabase pywintypes.com_error: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (0, None, None, None, 0, -2147024786), None) This is 0x8007006e;

Re: Parsing unicode (devanagari) text with xml.dom.minidom

2009-03-08 Thread rparimi
On Mar 8, 12:42 am, Stefan Behnel stefan...@behnel.de wrote: rpar...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to process an xml file that contains unicode characters (seehttp://vyakarnam.wordpress.com/). Wordpress allows exporting the entire content of the website into an xml file. Using

Re: last and final attempt to search for python ods library.

2009-03-08 Thread JanC
Krishnakant wrote: This is my last attempt to search for a nice python library for creating open document spreadsheet. I tryed python-ooolib but did not find a few features like merging cells (may be I am missing out some thing stupid ). You could add that feature to python-ooolib. I have

factory functions methods

2009-03-08 Thread Aaron Brady
Hello, I am creating a container. I have some types which are built to be members of the container. The members need to know which container they are in, as they call methods on it, such as finding other members. I want help with the syntax to create the members. Currently, the container has

Re: Windows install to custom location after building from source

2009-03-08 Thread Tim Golden
Martin v. Löwis wrote: merge.py attempts to import config.py but I can't find it... Just create an empty one. Won't quite work: merge tries to find full_current_version which is determined (if None) in msi.py from the rather involved current version stuff. I'm going to give up on this for

How to extract some text?

2009-03-08 Thread Oltmans
I'm at a loss to figure out how to extract some text from a string. Here is a string: setTimeout(location.href='http://youtube.example.com/login.aspx', 5000); and I want to only retrieve the URL from above i.e I only want this http://youtube.example.com/login.aspx from the above string. Any

Re: How to extract some text?

2009-03-08 Thread Chris Rebert
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Oltmans rolf.oltm...@gmail.com wrote: I'm at a loss to figure out how to extract some text from a string. Here is a string: setTimeout(location.href='http://youtube.example.com/login.aspx', 5000); and I want to only retrieve the URL from above i.e I only want

Re: Windows install to custom location after building from source

2009-03-08 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Just create an empty one. Won't quite work: merge tries to find full_current_version which is determined (if None) in msi.py from the rather involved current version stuff. Only if you don't pass an msi file on the command line. So I recommend that you do that. I'm going to give up on

Re: How to extract some text?

2009-03-08 Thread Tim Pinkawa
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Oltmans rolf.oltm...@gmail.com wrote: I'm at a loss to figure out how to extract some text from a string. Here is a string: setTimeout(location.href='http://youtube.example.com/login.aspx', 5000); and I want to only retrieve the URL from above i.e I only want

Re: wxPython fast and slow

2009-03-08 Thread Scott David Daniels
iu2 wrote: Here is the timer version. It works even more slowly, even with PyScripter active: ... I actually tried this one first. Due to the slow speed I changed to looping inside the event. I don't understand why it takes so long to move that square with wx.Timer set to 1 ms interval. Perhaps

Re: factory functions methods

2009-03-08 Thread andrew cooke
Aaron Brady wrote: Hello, I am creating a container. I have some types which are built to be members of the container. The members need to know which container they are in, as they call methods on it, such as finding other members. I want help with the syntax to create the members.

Re: factory functions methods

2009-03-08 Thread andrew cooke
andrew cooke wrote: above is with 3.0. for some odd reason i thing the order of teh args to MethodType may have changed recently, so be careful. sorry, no, had 2.6 running there... andrew -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to extract some text?

2009-03-08 Thread Oltmans
On Mar 9, 3:37 am, Chris Rebert c...@rebertia.com wrote: Learn about the methods of the string class (str):http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#id4 You'll probably be most interested in .split() OK, thanks I got it. I was trying to use Regex but .split() just worked like a charm.

NEWB: dividing numbers

2009-03-08 Thread Lo
I just tried python first time. 2/3 the result is zero I want the result to be .333... How do I get this? Thanks a lot L -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: NEWB: dividing numbers

2009-03-08 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Lo schrieb: I just tried python first time. 2/3 the result is zero I want the result to be .333... Well, that's not going to happen - 2/3 is .666 if not done with integers... How do I get this? Use floating points. 2.0 / 3.0 0.3 Diez --

Re: NEWB: dividing numbers

2009-03-08 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-03-08, Lo gr...@congstar.de wrote: I just tried python first time. 2/3 the result is zero I want the result to be .333... How odd. How do I get this? 1./3 -- Grant -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: NEWB: dividing numbers

2009-03-08 Thread Chris Rebert
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Lo gr...@congstar.de wrote: I just tried python first time. 2/3 the result is zero I want the result to be .333... How do I get this? Add the following to the top of your program: from __future__ import division That tells Python to use the proper kind

Re: NEWB: dividing numbers

2009-03-08 Thread Michal Wyrebski
Lo pisze: I just tried python first time. 2/3 the result is zero Float type must be specified explicitly: 2/3.0 or 2.0/3 In Python 3.x operators behave differently and '2/3' would give float number as a result. I want the result to be .333... Than try: 1/3.0 because 2/3.0 will never

Re: NEWB: dividing numbers

2009-03-08 Thread MRAB
Lo wrote: I just tried python first time. 2/3 the result is zero I want the result to be .333... How do I get this? That's integer division (integer divided by integer is integer). If you want the result to be floating point then make one of them floating point: 2.0 / 3 or do this

Re: Guidance - Professional Python Development

2009-03-08 Thread Scott David Daniels
RT wrote: I have been doing Python development at work for several years. I started with the official documentation and tutorial, by necessity, the examples tend to be rather simple and none of them really explain the process of developing complete, industrial strength Python applications.

Re: create boolean

2009-03-08 Thread Rhodri James
On Sat, 07 Mar 2009 05:03:08 -, Grant Edwards gra...@visi.com wrote: On 2009-03-07, Rhodri James rho...@wildebst.demon.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:34:08 -, Grant Edwards inva...@invalid wrote: On 2009-03-06, Fencer no.s...@plz.ok wrote: Hi, I need a boolean b to be true

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