ANN: warehouse Objects in SQLite : y_serial module

2009-09-11 Thread code43
Module download at SourceForge http://yserial.sourceforge.net Serialization + persistance :: in a few lines of code, compress and annotate Python objects into SQLite; then later retrieve them chronologically by keywords without any SQL. Most useful standard module for a database to store

Re: New Tkinter windows don't get focus on OS X

2009-09-11 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
On Thursday 10 September 2009 18:19:09 Joshua Bronson wrote: True, but it'll still be a lot less painful for me to test my app if I can get it to steal focus when launched from the command line. If anyone knows how to do this in Tkinter, help would be much appreciated. look for

Why can't I run this test class?

2009-09-11 Thread Kermit Mei
Dear all, I'm a newbie for python, and I write a program to test how to implement a class: #!/usr/bin/env python class Test: 'My Test class' def __init__(self): self.arg1 = 1 def first(self): return

Re: Why can't I run this test class?

2009-09-11 Thread Chris Rebert
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Kermit Mei kermit@gmail.com wrote: Dear all,    I'm a newbie for python, and I write a program to test how to implement a class: #!/usr/bin/env python class Test:    'My Test class'    def __init__(self):        self.arg1 = 1    def first(self):  

Re: Why can't I run this test class?

2009-09-11 Thread Donn
On Friday 11 September 2009 09:30:42 Kermit Mei wrote: Do this: class Test(object): t1 = Test And this: t1 = Test() That makes an instance and runs the __init__ \d -- home: http://otherwise.relics.co.za/ 2D vector animation : https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/things/ Font manager :

Getting error while importing Sybase Module in Python

2009-09-11 Thread gopalmore007
Hi, I have solaris 10 x86 installed. I have installed Sybase module 0.39 on Python2.5. While importing Sybase module. I m getting bellow error.Please suggest. python Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, May 16 2007, 19:39:00) [GCC 3.4.6] on sunos5 Type help, copyright, credits or license for more

Re: Why can't I run this test class?

2009-09-11 Thread Kermit Mei
On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 00:33 -0700, Chris Rebert wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Kermit Mei kermit@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, I'm a newbie for python, and I write a program to test how to implement a class: #!/usr/bin/env python class Test: 'My Test class'

Re: Why can't I run this test class?

2009-09-11 Thread Chris Rebert
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Kermit Mei kermit@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 00:33 -0700, Chris Rebert wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Kermit Mei kermit@gmail.com wrote: Dear all,    I'm a newbie for python, and I write a program to test how to implement a

Re: New Tkinter windows don't get focus on OS X

2009-09-11 Thread eb303
On Sep 11, 9:14 am, Hendrik van Rooyen hend...@microcorp.co.za wrote: On Thursday 10 September 2009 18:19:09 Joshua Bronson wrote: True, but it'll still be a lot less painful for me to test my app if I can get it to steal focus when launched from the command line. If anyone knows how to do

Re: Why can't I run this test class?

2009-09-11 Thread Kermit Mei
On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 00:43 -0700, Chris Rebert wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Kermit Mei kermit@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 00:33 -0700, Chris Rebert wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Kermit Mei kermit@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, I'm a newbie for

Re: Q on explicitly calling file.close

2009-09-11 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:26:16 -0300, David C. Ullrich dullr...@sprynet.com escribió: On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 15:13:49 -0700 (PDT), r rt8...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 9, 4:19 pm, Charles Yeomans char...@declaresub.com wrote: I removed the except block because I prefer exceptions to error codes.

Re: New Tkinter windows don't get focus on OS X

2009-09-11 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
On Friday 11 September 2009 09:53:56 eb303 wrote: On Sep 11, 9:14 am, Hendrik van Rooyen hend...@microcorp.co.za wrote: look for widget.focus_force() and look for widget.grab_set_global() Doesn't work. BTW, forcing the focus or setting the grab globally are usually considered very

Re: Question about unpickling dict subclass with custom __setstate__

2009-09-11 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:09:34 -0300, Matthew Wilson m...@tplus1.com escribió: I subclassed the dict class and added a __setstate__ method because I want to add some extra steps when I unpickle these entities. This is a toy example of what I am doing: class Entity(dict): def

Re: New Tkinter windows don't get focus on OS X

2009-09-11 Thread eb303
On Sep 11, 10:40 am, Hendrik van Rooyen hend...@microcorp.co.za wrote: On Friday 11 September 2009 09:53:56 eb303 wrote: On Sep 11, 9:14 am, Hendrik van Rooyen hend...@microcorp.co.za wrote: look for widget.focus_force() and look for widget.grab_set_global() Doesn't work. BTW,

Re: Python server locks up

2009-09-11 Thread sturlamolden
On 9 Sep, 22:28, Zac Burns zac...@gmail.com wrote: Theories:    Python is resizing the large dictionary    Python is garbage collecting Python uses reference counting, not a generational GC like Java. A Python object is destroyed when the refcount drops to 0. The GC only collects cyclic

How can I use my modules here?

2009-09-11 Thread Kermit Mei
Hello community! I write a modules for testing, and my code is like this(under Linux): $ tree . |-- MyTestModules | |-- Test1.py | |-- Test2.py | `-- __init__.py `-- main.py 1 directory, 4 files $ find . -name '*.py' -print0|xargs -0 cat main.py Begin ##

Re: How can I use my modules here?

2009-09-11 Thread Chris Rebert
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:24 AM, Kermit Mei kermit@gmail.com wrote: Hello community! I write a modules for testing, and my code is like this(under Linux): $ tree . |-- MyTestModules |   |-- Test1.py |   |-- Test2.py |   `-- __init__.py `-- main.py 1 directory, 4 files $ find .

Re: Accessing objects at runtime.

2009-09-11 Thread Gary Duzan
In article 228b-379d-4fe4-956b-cf803541a...@37g2000yqm.googlegroups.com, jacopo jacopo.pe...@gmail.com wrote: I have a system comprising many objects cooperating with each others. (For the time being, everything is running on the same machine, in the same process but things might change in

Re: Why can't I run this test class?

2009-09-11 Thread Ulrich Eckhardt
Kermit Mei wrote: #!/usr/bin/env python class Test: 'My Test class' def __init__(self): self.arg1 = 1 def first(self): return self.arg1 t1 = Test 't1' is now an alternative name for 'Test'. What you wanted instead was to instantiate 'Test', which you do

Re: Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt source code

2009-09-11 Thread Steven Woody
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:18 PM, David Boddie dbod...@trolltech.comwrote: On Thursday 10 September 2009, Steven Woody wrote: On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 9:33 PM, David Boddie dbod...@trolltech.com wrote: See this page for the links: http://www.qtrac.eu/pyqtbook.html but the URL is

Python 3.1 csv with gzip

2009-09-11 Thread dryfish
Python 3.1.1 doesn't seem to be happy with the use of gzip.open with csv.reader. Using this: import gzip, csv, sys data = csv.reader(gzip.open(sys.argv[1])) for row in data: print(row) Will give this: Traceback (most recent call last): File ./a.py, line 6, in module for row in data:

Re: How can I use my modules here?

2009-09-11 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 02:29 -0700, Chris Rebert wrote: For some reason, your Python program is being executed by bash as if it were a shell script, which it's not. No idea what the cause is though. Because the first 2 bytes of the file need to be #!/path/to/interpreter, the OP has:

Re: Why can't I run this test class?

2009-09-11 Thread Benjamin Kaplan
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 4:01 AM, Kermit Mei kermit@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 00:43 -0700, Chris Rebert wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Kermit Mei kermit@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 00:33 -0700, Chris Rebert wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:30

Re: How can I use my modules here?

2009-09-11 Thread Kermit Mei
On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 07:48 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 02:29 -0700, Chris Rebert wrote: For some reason, your Python program is being executed by bash as if it were a shell script, which it's not. No idea what the cause is though. Because the first 2 bytes of the

Download and save a picture - urllib

2009-09-11 Thread mattia
Hi all, in order to download an image. In order to correctly retrieve the image I need to set the referer and handle cookies. opener = urllib.request.build_opener(urllib.request.HTTPRedirectHandler (), urllib.request.HTTPCookieProcessor()) urllib.request.install_opener(opener) req =

Re: Help with cumulative sum

2009-09-11 Thread Giacomo Boffi
Maggie la.f...@gmail.com writes: [...] else: print 'The loop is finito' do you know of it.comp.lang.python? -- Sarebbe essere un atto di pieta'. Contro i miei principi.-- whip, in IFMdI -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: IDE for python similar to visual basic

2009-09-11 Thread Nobody
On Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:56:17 +, Albert van der Horst wrote: The main advantage of a GUI builder is that it helps prevent you from hard-coding the GUI into the program. You could get the same effect by coding a UIL/XRC/etc file manually, but a GUI builder tends to force it. A GUI builder

Re: IDE for python similar to visual basic

2009-09-11 Thread Nobody
On Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:04:40 -0700, r wrote: It also allows the GUI to be edited by without requiring any programming knowledge. This eliminates the need for the GUI designer to be familiar with the programming language used (or any programming language), and allows customisation by end

Re: IDE for python similar to visual basic

2009-09-11 Thread r
On Sep 11, 7:08 am, Nobody nob...@nowhere.com wrote: (snip) I'm saying that the user understands their workflow and environment better than the application's programmers. The user should be able to decide which menu items are shown and where, which buttons are shown and where, etc. The code

ANN: warehouse Objects in SQLite : y_serial module

2009-09-11 Thread code43
Module download at SourceForge http://yserial.sourceforge.net Serialization + persistance :: in a few lines of code, compress and annotate Python objects into SQLite; then later retrieve them chronologically by keywords without any SQL. Most useful standard module for a database to store

Re: IDE for python similar to visual basic

2009-09-11 Thread Brendon Wickham
The interface really should be configurable by the user according to their needs. The code doesn't need to *know* the position or dimensions of a widget, or its label or colour or spacing, let alone dictate them. Perhaps...but the user needs a framework in order to understand the functions

Re: An assessment of the Unicode standard

2009-09-11 Thread r
On Sep 10, 8:43 pm, Jan Claeys use...@janc.be wrote: Maybe we should use a language that has a Turing-complete grammar, so that even computers can understand speak it easily? Interesting, i do find some things more easily explainable using code, however, code losses the ability to describe

Re: IDE for python similar to visual basic

2009-09-11 Thread David Smith
r wrote: On Sep 11, 7:08 am, Nobody nob...@nowhere.com wrote: (snip) I'm saying that the user understands their workflow and environment better than the application's programmers. The user should be able to decide which menu items are shown and where, which buttons are shown and where, etc.

Re: Python 3.1 csv with gzip

2009-09-11 Thread Stefan Behnel
dryfish wrote: Python 3.1.1 doesn't seem to be happy with the use of gzip.open with csv.reader. Using this: import gzip, csv, sys data = csv.reader(gzip.open(sys.argv[1])) for row in data: print(row) Will give this: Traceback (most recent call last): File ./a.py, line 6,

Execution order

2009-09-11 Thread DarkBlue
Here is some code from a pyqt4.5.4 application on python 2.6 def findData(self): self.ui.label.setText('Processing... ') # here we do something which takes a few seconds self.refreshGrid() The problem is that the text in the self.ui.label is only changed on screen after

Iterating Through Dictionary of Lists

2009-09-11 Thread JB
I have created a small program that generates a project tree from a dictionary. The dictionary is of key/value pairs where each key is a directory, and each value is a list. The list have unique values corresponding to the key, which is a directory where each value in the list becomes a

Re: IDE for python similar to visual basic

2009-09-11 Thread Kevin Walzer
On 8/30/09 1:48 PM, r wrote: Hello qwenbsp;rty, I remember my first days with GUI programming and thinking to myself; how on earth can i write GUI code without a MS style GUI builder? Not to long after that i was coding up some pretty spectacular GUI's from nothing more than source code and

Re: Execution order

2009-09-11 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
DarkBlue wrote: Here is some code from a pyqt4.5.4 application on python 2.6 def findData(self): self.ui.label.setText('Processing... ') # here we do something which takes a few seconds self.refreshGrid() The problem is that the text in the self.ui.label is

Re: Iterating Through Dictionary of Lists

2009-09-11 Thread Stefan Behnel
JB wrote: I have created a small program that generates a project tree from a dictionary. The dictionary is of key/value pairs where each key is a directory, and each value is a list. The list have unique values corresponding to the key, which is a directory where each value in the list

Re: Some issue with easy_install and PIL/Imaging

2009-09-11 Thread Chris Withers
Klein Stéphane wrote: Resume : 1. first question : why PIL package in pypi don't work ? Because Fred Lundh have his package distributions unfortunate names that setuptools doesn't like... 2. second question : when I add PIL dependence in my setup.py and I do python setup.py develop,

Re: Execution order

2009-09-11 Thread DarkBlue
On Sep 11, 9:34 pm, Diez B. Roggisch de...@nospam.web.de wrote: DarkBlue wrote: Here is some code from a pyqt4.5.4  application on python 2.6 def findData(self):       self.ui.label.setText('Processing... ')       # here we do something which takes a few seconds      

Re: urlopen error (11001, 'getaddrinfo failed')

2009-09-11 Thread Chris Withers
open...@hushmail.com wrote: fs = cgi.FieldStorage() url = fs.getvalue('url', http://www.openlayers.org;) try: insert a print url here... y = urllib2.urlopen(url) print y.read() This script produces the urlopen error (11001, 'getaddrinfo failed'). This is a name lookup failing,

Re: HTTP POST File without cURL

2009-09-11 Thread John Giotta
Is there a verbose feature for urllib2.urlopen? Here is my python snippet for posted the file: req = urllib2.Request(url='https://%s%s' % (host, selector), data=open('test.zip', 'rb').read()) req.add_header('content-type', 'application/zip') req.add_header('Authorization', 'Basic %s' %

Podcast catcher in Python

2009-09-11 Thread Chuck
Hi all, I would like to code a simple podcast catcher in Python merely as an exercise in internet programming. I am a CS student and new to Python, but understand Java fairly well. I understand how to connect to a server with urlopen, but then I don't understand how to download the mp3, or

Re: Podcast catcher in Python

2009-09-11 Thread Chuck
Also, if anyone could recommend some books that cover this type of programming, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Use python to execute a windows program

2009-09-11 Thread Doran, Harold
Dear list: My question is conceptual at the moment. Current problem: I have a windows-based program that reads in a file and from that file generates data that is saved to a file. The way we do this now is a person sits in front of their machine and proceeds as follows: 1) Open windows

Re: Use python to execute a windows program

2009-09-11 Thread Simon Brunning
2009/9/11 Doran, Harold hdo...@air.org: The way we do this now is a person sits in front of their machine and proceeds as follows: 1) Open windows program 2) Click file - open which opens a dialog box 3) Locate the file (which is a text file) click on it and let the program run. It might

how to return value from button clicked by python

2009-09-11 Thread chen tao
Hi, I have several buttons, I want to realize: when I click first button, the button will call a function, and the function should return some parameter value, because I need this value for the other buttons. I tried the button.invoke() function, it almost got it...however, I only want it

Message box always appears on 2nd monitor

2009-09-11 Thread ed
No matter what I do, the MessageBox always appears on the 2nd monitor. I've forced all the other widgets to monitor 1. I thought that creating a class and forcing the position would help, but it hasn't. I'm using Ubuntu Jaunty, python 2.6. Any ideas what I can do to force widgets to a

Re: [Guppy-pe-list] An iteration idiom (Was: Re: loading files containing multiple dumps)

2009-09-11 Thread Chris Withers
Sverker Nilsson wrote: If you just use heap(), and only want total memory not relative to a reference point, you can just use hpy() directly. So rather than: CASE 1: h=hpy() h.heap().dump(...) #other code, the data internal to h is still around h.heap().dump(...) you'd do: CASE 2:

Re: Podcast catcher in Python

2009-09-11 Thread Falcolas
On Sep 11, 8:20 am, Chuck galois...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I would like to code a simple podcast catcher in Python merely as an exercise in internet programming.  I am a CS student and new to Python, but understand Java fairly well.  I understand how to connect to a server with urlopen,

Re: Multiple inheritance - How to call method_x in InheritedBaseB from method_x in InheritedBaseA?

2009-09-11 Thread Scott David Daniels
The Music Guy wrote: ... def main(): ... class MyMixin(object): This is a mistake. If Mixins inherit from CommonBase as well, no order of class definition can catch you out. If it doesn't, you can get yourself in trouble. def method_x(self, a, b, c): super(MyMixin,

Re: How can I use my modules here?

2009-09-11 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Chris Rebert wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:24 AM, Kermit Mei kermit@gmail.com wrote: Hello community! I write a modules for testing, and my code is like this(under Linux): $ tree . |-- MyTestModules | |-- Test1.py | |-- Test2.py | `-- __init__.py `-- main.py 1 directory, 4

string interpolation mystery in Python 2.6

2009-09-11 Thread Alan G Isaac
MYSTERY: how can %s%error be different from %s%str(error) in Python 2.6? APOLOGY: I tried to strip this down, but could not find a simple way to reproduce the problem. This way works, however. (There is a discussion on the docutils-develop list.) Although there are several steps, we are

Re: Use python to execute a windows program

2009-09-11 Thread Alan G Isaac
Does the Windows application offer a COM interface? http://oreilly.com/catalog/pythonwin32/chapter/ch12.html http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/ Alan Isaac -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Message box always appears on 2nd monitor

2009-09-11 Thread Sean DiZazzo
On Sep 11, 8:27 am, ed e...@nospam.net wrote: No matter what I do, the MessageBox always appears on the 2nd monitor. I've forced all the other widgets to monitor 1. I thought that creating a class and forcing the position would help, but it hasn't. I'm using Ubuntu Jaunty, python 2.6. Any

Problem with the inclusion of new files like lxml, django, numpy, etc.

2009-09-11 Thread joy99
Dear Group, I am trying to download the following files, a) lxml, b) numpy, c) scipy, and d) django. I am trying to include them in C\python26\Lib But they are giving error report, as I am trying to use them by importing. I am using IDLE as GUI, my OS is WinXP SP2, and my Python version 2.6.

RE: Use python to execute a windows program

2009-09-11 Thread Doran, Harold
I am working with this now. I'm toying with the examples to test out a few things and learn how this works. I've made some modifications such that I have the following working (below). This does nothing more than open a program. I have commented out the portion #app.AM.MenuSelect(File-Open

Re: Different results for request() vs putrequest()

2009-09-11 Thread John Gordon
In h7pdan$5i...@reader1.panix.com John Gordon gor...@panix.com writes: According to the documentation, these two sections of code should be equivalent: conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection(host) conn.putrequest(POST, url) conn.putheader(Proxy-Authorization, myProxy)

Re: Unexpected 411 error response using httplib

2009-09-11 Thread John Gordon
In h7h963$4a...@reader1.panix.com John Gordon gor...@panix.com writes: As you can see, I am including the call to putheader() for Content-Length, and the debugging output confirms that the header is present in the outgoing message. So why am I getting a 411 Length Required error? To follow

Re: Problem with the inclusion of new files like lxml, django, numpy, etc.

2009-09-11 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
joy99 schrieb: Dear Group, I am trying to download the following files, a) lxml, b) numpy, c) scipy, and d) django. I am trying to include them in C\python26\Lib But they are giving error report, as I am trying to use them by importing. What is an error report? Unless you get more specific

Re: Problem with the inclusion of new files like lxml, django, numpy, etc.

2009-09-11 Thread Robert Kern
On 2009-09-11 11:39 AM, joy99 wrote: Dear Group, I am trying to download the following files, a) lxml, b) numpy, c) scipy, and d) django. I am trying to include them in C\python26\Lib But they are giving error report, as I am trying to use them by importing. I am using IDLE as GUI, my OS is

Re: urlopen error (11001, 'getaddrinfo failed')

2009-09-11 Thread opengis
Thank you for the response. I have been using urllib2.urlopen(http://www.openlayers.org;), so I can rule out the url being incorrect. Since my original question I can add the following: 1. I am not using a proxy to connect to the internet 2. I added these lines to the script: ...

Re: [Guppy-pe-list] An iteration idiom (Was: Re: loading files containing multiple dumps)

2009-09-11 Thread Ethan Furman
Chris Withers wrote: Sverker Nilsson wrote: The __repr__ I use don't have the enclosing , granted, maybe I missed this or it wasn't in the docs in 2005 or I didn't think it was important (still don't) but was that really what the complain was about? No, it was about the fact that when I do

Re: Turn-based game - experimental economics

2009-09-11 Thread Paolo Crosetto
In data sabato 05 settembre 2009 21:47:41, Dennis Lee Bieber ha scritto: Much better to just send the token TO the active client (which is responsible for returning it at the end of its turn processing) Dennis, I am finally getting my head round this problem. I do have a further question,

Re: Python server locks up

2009-09-11 Thread Paul Rubin
sturlamolden sturlamol...@yahoo.no writes: Python uses reference counting, not a generational GC like Java. A Python object is destroyed when the refcount drops to 0. The GC only collects cyclic references. If you create none, there are no GC delays (you can in fact safely turn the GC off).

Re: Podcast catcher in Python

2009-09-11 Thread Chuck
On Sep 11, 10:30 am, Falcolas garri...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 11, 8:20 am, Chuck galois...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I would like to code a simple podcast catcher in Python merely as an exercise in internet programming.  I am a CS student and new to Python, but understand Java fairly

Re: Python server locks up

2009-09-11 Thread Terry Reedy
sturlamolden wrote: On 9 Sep, 22:28, Zac Burns zac...@gmail.com wrote: Theories: Python is resizing the large dictionary Python is garbage collecting Python uses reference counting, not a generational GC like Java. The CPython implementation, that is. Jython, built on top of Java,

Creating a local variable scope.

2009-09-11 Thread Johan Grönqvist
Hi All, I find several places in my code where I would like to have a variable scope that is smaller than the enclosing function/class/module definition. One representative example would look like: -- spam = { ... } eggs = { ... } ham = (a[eggs], b[spam]) -- The essence is

Re: Creating a local variable scope.

2009-09-11 Thread Neal Becker
Johan Grönqvist wrote: Hi All, I find several places in my code where I would like to have a variable scope that is smaller than the enclosing function/class/module definition. One representative example would look like: -- spam = { ... } eggs = { ... } ham = (a[eggs],

Re: how to return value from button clicked by python

2009-09-11 Thread r
On Sep 11, 10:19 am, chen tao ct19850...@gmail.com wrote: (snip)     I tried the button.invoke() function, it almost got it...however, I only want it returns value when the button clicked, but because the program is in the class _ini_ function, so it always runs once before I click the

Re: Podcast catcher in Python

2009-09-11 Thread Chuck
On Sep 11, 12:56 pm, Chuck galois...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 11, 10:30 am, Falcolas garri...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 11, 8:20 am, Chuck galois...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I would like to code a simple podcast catcher in Python merely as an exercise in internet programming.  I am

Python C/API Problem

2009-09-11 Thread Gianfranco Murador
Hi to all python fans, i'm trying to run this C source file: [code] #include Python.h #include structmember.h #include compile.h #include dirent.h #include node.h int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { Py_Initialize(); struct _node *node = PyParser_SimpleParseString(from time

Where find regexs needed to build lexical analyzer for Python source code?

2009-09-11 Thread Chris Seberino
I'd like to build a lexer aka lexical analyzer aka tokenizer for Python source code as a learning exercise. Where can I find the regexs that define the tokens of Python source? (I am aware of tokenizer.py but I was hoping there was a web page w/ a list somewhere.) cs --

Re: Podcast catcher in Python

2009-09-11 Thread Chuck
On Sep 11, 1:09 pm, Chuck galois...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 11, 12:56 pm, Chuck galois...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 11, 10:30 am, Falcolas garri...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 11, 8:20 am, Chuck galois...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I would like to code a simple podcast catcher in

Mapping in python? Transforming shapefile so that basemap can read them?

2009-09-11 Thread C Barr Leigh
I'm trying to get started with plotting maps in python. I need to read shape files (.shp) and make maps. There seem to be many efforts but none is complete? I'm looking for suggestions and troubleshooting. The basemap package is obviously at an impressive stage and comes with some data:

Re: Creating a local variable scope.

2009-09-11 Thread Patrick Sabin
Johan Grönqvist schrieb: Hi All, I find several places in my code where I would like to have a variable scope that is smaller than the enclosing function/class/module definition. One representative example would look like: -- spam = { ... } eggs = { ... } ham = (a[eggs], b[spam])

Re: Creating a local variable scope.

2009-09-11 Thread Daniel Stutzbach
2009/9/11 Johan Grönqvist johan.gronqv...@gmail.com I find several places in my code where I would like to have a variable scope that is smaller than the enclosing function/class/module definition. For what it's worth, there was a relevant proposal on the python-ideas list a few months back:

Dataflow programming in Python

2009-09-11 Thread Anh Hai Trinh
Hello all, I just want to share with you something that I've worked on recently. It is a library which implements streams -- generalized iterators with a pipelining mechanism and lazy-evaluation to enable data-flow programming in Python. The idea is to be able to take the output of a function

Re: Use python to execute a windows program

2009-09-11 Thread Jerry Hill
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Doran, Harold hdo...@air.org wrote: I am working with this now. I'm toying with the examples to test out a few things and learn how this works. I've made some modifications such that I have the following working (below). This does nothing more than open a

Problem with queues and gobject event loop

2009-09-11 Thread Roman Kapl
Why does not this snipplet work? - from job import JobQueue import Queue import threading import gobject q=JobQueue() def worker(): print Worker waiting q.get() print Got job! if __name__ == __main__: t =

RE: Use python to execute a windows program

2009-09-11 Thread Doran, Harold
Thanks, Jerry. Tried that, as well as various other possible names to no avail. -Original Message- From: python-list-bounces+hdoran=air@python.org [mailto:python-list-bounces+hdoran=air@python.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Hill Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 3:09 PM To:

Re: Creating a local variable scope.

2009-09-11 Thread Ethan Furman
Patrick Sabin wrote: Johan Grönqvist schrieb: Hi All, I find several places in my code where I would like to have a variable scope that is smaller than the enclosing function/class/module definition. One representative example would look like: -- spam = { ... } eggs = { ... } ham

Re: Extracting patterns after matching a regex

2009-09-11 Thread Mart.
On Sep 9, 4:58 pm, Al Fansome al_fans...@hotmail.com wrote: Mart. wrote: On Sep 8, 4:33 pm, MRAB pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com wrote: Mart. wrote: On Sep 8, 3:53 pm, MRAB pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com wrote: Mart. wrote: On Sep 8, 3:14 pm, Andreas Tawn andreas.t...@ubisoft.com wrote: Hi, I

Re: Use python to execute a windows program

2009-09-11 Thread Jerry Hill
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Doran, Harold hdo...@air.org wrote: Thanks, Jerry. Tried that, as well as various other possible names to no avail. You'll need to dig into the documentation then, probably starting in one of these two places: http://pywinauto.openqa.org/howto.html

Re: Python C/API Problem

2009-09-11 Thread Philip Semanchuk
On Sep 11, 2009, at 2:10 PM, Gianfranco Murador wrote: Hi to all python fans, i'm trying to run this C source file: [code] #include Python.h #include structmember.h #include compile.h #include dirent.h #include node.h int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { Py_Initialize();

Re: Creating a local variable scope.

2009-09-11 Thread Terry Reedy
Johan Grönqvist wrote: Hi All, I find several places in my code where I would like to have a variable scope that is smaller than the enclosing function/class/module definition. One representative example would look like: -- spam = { ... } eggs = { ... } ham = (a[eggs], b[spam])

Writing a thread-safe class

2009-09-11 Thread Timothy Madden
Hello I would like to write a class with methods that can be accessed by many threads at the same time. For this I have a lock attribute in my class obtained with threading.Lock(), in the constructor, and every method begins by acquiring the lock and ends by releasing it My problem is

Re: Unicode - and MIMEType - Good friday fun.

2009-09-11 Thread MRAB
rh0dium wrote: Hi Geniuses, Can anyone please show me the way.. I don't understand why this doesn't work... # encoding: utf-8 from email.MIMEText import MIMEText msg = MIMEText(hi) msg.set_charset('utf-8') print msg.as_string() a = 'Ho\xcc\x82tel Ste\xcc\x81phane ' b = unicode(a, utf-8)

Re: [Distutils] uses for setup.cfg and extracting data from it

2009-09-11 Thread P.J. Eby
At 08:14 AM 9/12/2009 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: Specifically, I want to programmatically access the metadata that is held in the arguments to the ‘distutils.setup()’ call. Without, as you say, executing any Distutils command. I am not aware of any ‘distutils’ public functions that can

Re: Creating a local variable scope.

2009-09-11 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:36:14 +0200, Johan Grönqvist wrote: Hi All, I find several places in my code where I would like to have a variable scope that is smaller than the enclosing function/class/module definition. ... The essence is that for readability, I want spam and eggs in separate

Re: Podcast catcher in Python

2009-09-11 Thread Chris Rebert
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Chuck galois...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 11, 12:56 pm, Chuck galois...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 11, 10:30 am, Falcolas garri...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 11, 8:20 am, Chuck galois...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I would like to code a simple podcast catcher in

Re: Writing a thread-safe class

2009-09-11 Thread Carl Banks
On Sep 11, 4:26 pm, Timothy Madden terminato...@gmail.com wrote: Hello I would like to write a class with methods that can be accessed by many threads at the same time. For this I have a lock attribute in my class obtained with threading.Lock(), in the constructor, and every method begins

Re: string interpolation mystery in Python 2.6

2009-09-11 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:19:05 -0700, Chris Rebert wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Alan G Isaac alan.is...@gmail.com wrote: Michael Foord came up with a much simpler illustration.  With Python 2.6:: [snip] Sounds like IOError or one of its ancestors defines both __str__() and

Re: Unicode - and MIMEType - Good friday fun.

2009-09-11 Thread Rami Chowdhury
b = unicode(a, utf-8) [snip] msg = MIMEText(b) I believe this is the problem line -- the MIMEText constructor takes encoded strings rather than unicode objects. Try: msg = MIMEText(a) Or, alternatively msg = MIMEText(b.encode('utf-8')) On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:33:42 -0700, rh0dium

Re: Unicode - and MIMEType - Good friday fun.

2009-09-11 Thread bouncy...@gmail.com
How do you suppose it should workand how is it working? what about the outpout difference? -- Sent via Cricket Mobile Email --Original Message-- From: rh0dium steven.kl...@gmail.com To: python-list@python.org Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:33:42 PM -0700 Subject: Unicode - and

Re: Podcast catcher in Python

2009-09-11 Thread Chuck
On Sep 11, 8:32 pm, Chris Rebert c...@rebertia.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Chuck galois...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 11, 12:56 pm, Chuck galois...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 11, 10:30 am, Falcolas garri...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 11, 8:20 am, Chuck galois...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Creating a local variable scope.

2009-09-11 Thread Bearophile
Steven D'Aprano: (3) Create an inner function, then call that. Several people after someone gives this anwer. My personal opinion is that if you really need a local scope inside a function, the function is doing too much and should be split up. I agree. And a way to split a function is to

Re: Podcast catcher in Python

2009-09-11 Thread Chuck
On Sep 11, 9:07 pm, Chuck galois...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 11, 8:32 pm, Chris Rebert c...@rebertia.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Chuck galois...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 11, 12:56 pm, Chuck galois...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 11, 10:30 am, Falcolas garri...@gmail.com

[issue6873] posix_lchown: possible overflow of uid, gid

2009-09-11 Thread Martin v . Löwis
Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de added the comment: I think the new patch is still incorrect. You now pass long variables into the i argument parser. Also, I would expect that compilers prefer to see an explicit cast from long to uid_t, in case it's a truncating cast. Can you try your patch

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