Re: Generic singleton

mk wrote: Or I could make my life simpler and use global variable. :-) Indeed. You actually *have* a global variable already, you've just hidden it inside another object. That doesn't make it any less global, though. If you want to defer creation of the object until the first time it's used,

Re: _winreg and accessing registry settings of another user

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Re: NoSQL Movement?

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Re: NoSQL Movement?

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Re: WANTED: A good name for the pair (args, kwargs)

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Re: Draft PEP on RSON configuration file format

On Mar 4, 9:36 pm, Gregory Ewing wrote: > Paul Rubin wrote: > > ReST was another solution in search of a problem. > > I think the basic idea behind ReST is quite good, i.e. > understanding as markup various typographical conventions > that make sense in plain text, such as underlined > headings, b

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Re: Draft PEP on RSON configuration file format

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Re: Draft PEP on RSON configuration file format

On Mar 4, 12:52 am, Paul Rubin wrote: > mk writes: > > OK, but how? How would you make up e.g. for JSON's lack of comments? > > Modify the JSON standard so that "JSON 2.0" allows comments. If you don't control the JSON standard, providing a compelling alternative to JSON might be the best way to

Re: A "scopeguard" for Python

On Mar 3, 7:10 am, "Alf P. Steinbach" wrote: > For C++ Petru Marginean once invented the "scope guard" technique (elaborated > on > by Andrei Alexandrescu, they published an article about it in DDJ) where all > you > need to do to ensure some desired cleanup at the end of a scope, even when the

Re: Generic singleton

On Mar 4, 7:32 pm, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > Python does have it's own singletons, like None, True and False. For some > reason, they behave quite differently: NoneType fails if you try to > instantiate it again, while bool returns the appropriate existing > singleton: > > >>> NoneType = type(Non

Re: Failure in test_hashlib.py and test_hmac.py

On Mar 3, 8:33 pm, Chris Lieb wrote: > I am building Python 2.6.4 on a shared server and am encountering test > failures in test_hashlib.py and test_hmac.py, specifically concerning > sha512.  I recompiled Python with --with-pydebug and CLFAGS=CPPFLAGS="- > g" and ran the tests in GDB and got the

Re: Problem with modules reloading

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Re: python 2.6: how to modify a PIL image from C without copying forth and back

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Re: Generic singleton

On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:21:26 +, Duncan Booth wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:54:52 +0100, mk wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> So I set out to write generic singleton, i.e. the one that would do a >>> singleton with attributes of specified class. At first: >> >> Gro

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Re: Problem with modules reloading

On Mar 4, 2010, at 18:10 , DSblizzard wrote: > I have had already following question: > "How to use *.py modules instead of *.pyc?" > > Last time I when asked that question I resolved problem by using one > big .py file. And answers doesn't work in my case. Now I ought to use > several files and

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Re: Docstrings considered too complicated

On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:38:31 +1300, Gregory Ewing wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> True, but one can look at "best practice", or even "standard practice". >> For Python coders, using docstrings is standard practice if not best >> practice. Using strings as comments is not. > > In that partic

Re: NoSQL Movement?

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Re: Looking for the mysterious zlib.py* files in Python 2.6.4 (32-bit) for Windows

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Re: Looking for the mysterious zlib.py* files in Python 2.6.4 (32-bit) for Windows

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Re: A "scopeguard" for Python

* Steve Holden: Alf P. Steinbach wrote: * Robert Kern: [...] No, it only argues that "with Cleanup():" is supernumerary. I don't know what "supernumerary" means, but to the degree that the argument says anything about a construct that is not 'finally', it says the same about general "with".

Re: A "scopeguard" for Python

On 2010-03-04 15:19 PM, Mike Kent wrote: On Mar 3, 12:00 pm, Robert Kern wrote: On 2010-03-03 09:39 AM, Mike Kent wrote: What's the compelling use case for this vs. a simple try/finally? original_dir = os.getcwd() try: os.chdir(somewhere) # Do other stuff f

Re: A "scopeguard" for Python

Alf P. Steinbach wrote: > * Robert Kern: [...] >> No, it only argues that "with Cleanup():" is supernumerary. > > I don't know what "supernumerary" means, but to the degree that the > argument says anything about a construct that is not 'finally', it says > the same about general "with". > So rat

Re: pyao makes the right sound but why?

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Re: pyao makes the right sound but why?

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Re: Fast GUI pipemeter: gprog

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Re: using subprocess.Popen env parameter

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Re: Challenge: escape from the pysandbox

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Re: Evaluate my first python script, please

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Re: A "scopeguard" for Python

* Robert Kern: On 2010-03-04 12:37 PM, Alf P. Steinbach wrote: * Robert Kern: On 2010-03-04 10:56 AM, Alf P. Steinbach wrote: * Robert Kern: On 2010-03-03 18:49 PM, Alf P. Steinbach wrote: [snippety] If you call the possibly failing operation "A", then that systematic approach goes like t

Re: A "scopeguard" for Python

On 2010-03-04 12:37 PM, Alf P. Steinbach wrote: * Robert Kern: On 2010-03-04 10:56 AM, Alf P. Steinbach wrote: * Robert Kern: On 2010-03-03 18:49 PM, Alf P. Steinbach wrote: [snippety] If you call the possibly failing operation "A", then that systematic approach goes like this: if A fails,

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Re: Evaluate my first python script, please

On Mar 4, 1:39 pm, Pete Emerson wrote: > I've written my first python program, and would love suggestions for > improvement. > > I'm a perl programmer and used a perl version of this program to guide > me. So in that sense, the python is "perlesque" > > This script parses /etc/hosts for hostnames,

Re: A "scopeguard" for Python

* Mike Kent: On Mar 4, 12:30 pm, Robert Kern wrote: He's ignorant of the use cases of the with: statement, true. Ouch! Ignorant of the use cases of the with statement, am I? Odd, I use it all the time. Given only your example of the with: statement, it is hard to fault him for thinking

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Re: _winreg and access registry settings of another user

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Re: Evaluate my first python script, please

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Pete Emerson wrote: > > #!/usr/bin/python > More common: #!/usr/bin/env python > import sys, fileinput, re, os > > filename = '/etc/hosts' > > hosts = [] > > for line in open(filename, 'r'): >        match = re.search('\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+\s+(\S+)', line) >      

Re: Partly erratic wrong behaviour, Python 3, lxml

This is the full data file on which my regress/Tribug exhibits the behaviour that I find incomprehensible, described in the first post in this thread. The comment in the beginning of the file below was written before I commented out some records in the data, so the actual numbers now are not ten ex

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Re: Partly erratic wrong behaviour, Python 3, lxml

Stefan Behnel writes: > Jussi Piitulainen, 04.03.2010 11:46: > > I am observing weird semi-erratic behaviour that involves Python 3 > > and lxml, is extremely sensitive to changes in the input data, and > > only occurs when I name a partial result. I would like some help > > with this, please. (Pyt

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Re: A "scopeguard" for Python

On Mar 3, 12:00 pm, Robert Kern wrote: > On 2010-03-03 09:39 AM, Mike Kent wrote: > > > What's the compelling use case for this vs. a simple try/finally? > > >     original_dir = os.getcwd() > >     try: > >         os.chdir(somewhere) > >         # Do other stuff > >     finally: > >         os.c

Re: Method / Functions - What are the differences?

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Re: A "scopeguard" for Python

On Mar 4, 12:30 pm, Robert Kern wrote: > He's ignorant of the use cases of the with: statement, true. Ouch! Ignorant of the use cases of the with statement, am I? Odd, I use it all the time. > Given only your > example of the with: statement, it is hard to fault him for thinking that try: >

Re: loop over list and process into groups

Man, deja-vu, I could have sworn I read this thread months ago... On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:18 PM, nn wrote: > > > lbolla wrote: > > On Mar 4, 3:57 pm, Sneaky Wombat wrote: > > > [ {'vlan_or_intf': 'VLAN2021'}, > > > {'vlan_or_intf': 'Interface'}, > > > {'vlan_or_intf': 'Po1'}, > > > {'vlan_o

Re: Pylint Argument number differs from overridden method

On Mar 4, 5:45 am, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote: > Wanderer wrote: > > On Mar 3, 2:33 pm, Robert Kern wrote: > > >> On 2010-03-03 11:39 AM, Wanderer wrote: > > >>> Pylint W0221 gives the warning > >>> Argument number differs from overridden method. > > >>> Why is this a problem? I'm overriding the

Re: A "scopeguard" for Python

On Mar 3, 10:56 am, "Alf P. Steinbach" wrote: > * Mike Kent: > > > What's the compelling use case for this vs. a simple try/finally? > > if you thought about it you would mean a simple "try/else". "finally" is > always > executed. which is incorrect for cleanup > > by the way, that's one advantag

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Re: Evaluate my first python script, please

On Mar 4, 2:30 pm, MRAB wrote: > Pete Emerson wrote: > > I've written my first python program, and would love suggestions for > > improvement. > > > I'm a perl programmer and used a perl version of this program to guide > > me. So in that sense, the python is "perlesque" > > > This script parses /

Re: Evaluate my first python script, please

Pete Emerson wrote: I've written my first python program, and would love suggestions for improvement. I'm a perl programmer and used a perl version of this program to guide me. So in that sense, the python is "perlesque" This script parses /etc/hosts for hostnames, and based on terms given on t

Re: Generic singleton

Duncan Booth writes: > It is also *everywhere* in the Python world. Unlike Java and C++, Python > even has its own built-in type for singletons. > > If you want a singleton in Python use a module. > > So the OP's original examples become: > > --- file singleton.py --- > foo = {} > bar = [] > > -

Re: loop over list and process into groups

lbolla wrote: > On Mar 4, 3:57 pm, Sneaky Wombat wrote: > > [ {'vlan_or_intf': 'VLAN2021'}, > >  {'vlan_or_intf': 'Interface'}, > >  {'vlan_or_intf': 'Po1'}, > >  {'vlan_or_intf': 'Po306'}, > >  {'vlan_or_intf': 'VLAN2022'}, > >  {'vlan_or_intf': 'Interface'}, > >  {'vlan_or_intf': 'Gi7/33'}, >

Re: NoSQL Movement?

mk wrote: > Duncan Booth wrote: > >> If you look at some of the uses of bigtable you may begin to >> understand the tradeoffs that are made with sql. When you use >> bigtable you have records with fields, and you have indices, but >> there are limitations on the kinds of queries you can perform:

Re: Partly erratic wrong behaviour, Python 3, lxml

Jussi Piitulainen, 04.03.2010 11:46: I am observing weird semi-erratic behaviour that involves Python 3 and lxml, is extremely sensitive to changes in the input data, and only occurs when I name a partial result. I would like some help with this, please. (Python 3.1.1; GNU/Linux; how do I find lx

Re: pyao makes the right sound but why?

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Evaluate my first python script, please

I've written my first python program, and would love suggestions for improvement. I'm a perl programmer and used a perl version of this program to guide me. So in that sense, the python is "perlesque" This script parses /etc/hosts for hostnames, and based on terms given on the command line (argv)

Re: A "scopeguard" for Python

* Robert Kern: On 2010-03-04 10:56 AM, Alf P. Steinbach wrote: * Robert Kern: On 2010-03-03 18:49 PM, Alf P. Steinbach wrote: [snippety] If you call the possibly failing operation "A", then that systematic approach goes like this: if A fails, then it has cleaned up its own mess, but if A su

Re: A "scopeguard" for Python

Michael Rudolf wrote: Am 04.03.2010 17:32, schrieb Jean-Michel Pichavant: It looks like to me that 'with' statements are like decorators: overrated. Oh no, you just insulted my favourite two python features, followed immediately by generators, iterators and list comprehensions / generator ex

Re: WANTED: A good name for the pair (args, kwargs)

Jonathan Fine wrote: > Hi > > We can call a function fn using > val = fn(*args, **kwargs) > > I'm looking for a good name for the pair (args, kwargs). Any suggestions? > > Here's my use case: > def doit(fn , wibble, expect): > args, kwargs = wibble > actual = fn(*args, *

Re: Working group for Python CPAN-equivalence?

Ben Finney writes: > Terry Reedy writes: > >> On 3/3/2010 12:05 PM, John Nagle wrote: >> > CPAN is a repository. PyPi is an collection of links. >> >> As Ben said, PyPI currently is also a respository and not just links >> to other repositories. [..] >> > CPAN enforces standard organization on

Re: memory usage, temporary and otherwise

Duncan Booth wrote: > mk wrote: > >> Hm, apparently Python didn't spot that 'spam'*10 in a's values is really >> the same string, right? > > If you want it to spot that then give it a hint that it should be looking > for identical strings: > > >>> a={} > >>> for i in range(1000): > ...

Re: A "scopeguard" for Python

Am 04.03.2010 18:20, schrieb Robert Kern: What I'm trying to explain is that the with: statement has a use even if Cleanup doesn't. Arguing that Cleanup doesn't improve on try: finally: does not mean that the with: statement doesn't improve on try: finally:. Yes, the with-statement rocks :) I

Re: A "scopeguard" for Python

Am 04.03.2010 17:32, schrieb Jean-Michel Pichavant: It looks like to me that 'with' statements are like decorators: overrated. Oh no, you just insulted my favourite two python features, followed immediately by generators, iterators and list comprehensions / generator expressions :p No, real

Re: memory usage, temporary and otherwise

On 3/4/2010 6:56 AM, mk wrote: Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: Huh? I was under impression that some time after 2.0 range was made to work "under the covers" like xrange when used in a loop? Or is it 3.0 that does that? 3.0. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: loop over list and process into groups

On Mar 4, 3:57 pm, Sneaky Wombat wrote: > [ {'vlan_or_intf': 'VLAN2021'}, >  {'vlan_or_intf': 'Interface'}, >  {'vlan_or_intf': 'Po1'}, >  {'vlan_or_intf': 'Po306'}, >  {'vlan_or_intf': 'VLAN2022'}, >  {'vlan_or_intf': 'Interface'}, >  {'vlan_or_intf': 'Gi7/33'}, >  {'vlan_or_intf': 'Po1'}, >  {'v

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Re: NoSQL Movement?

On Mar 4, 11:51 am, Juan Pedro Bolivar Puente wrote: > No, relations are data. This depends on your definition of 'data.' I would say that relationships is information gleaned from the data. > "Data is data" says nothing. Data is > information. To me, data and information are not the same thing

Re: NoSQL Movement?

On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:51:21 +0200, Juan Pedro Bolivar Puente wrote: >On 04/03/10 16:21, ccc31807 wrote: >> On Mar 3, 4:55 pm, toby wrote: where you have to store data and >>> >>> "relational data" >> >> Data is neither relational nor unrelational. Data is data. >> Relationships are an ar

Re: loop over list and process into groups

On Mar 4, 10:55 am, mk wrote: > Sneaky Wombat wrote: > > I was going to write a def to loop through and look for certain pre- > > compiled regexs, and then put them in a new dictionary and append to a > > list, > > regexes are overkill in this case I think. > > > [ 'VLAN4065', > >  'Interface', >

Re: A "scopeguard" for Python

On 2010-03-04 11:02 AM, Alf P. Steinbach wrote: * Robert Kern: On 2010-03-04 09:48 AM, Alf P. Steinbach wrote: * Jean-Michel Pichavant: Alf P. Steinbach wrote: From your post, the scope guard technique is used "to ensure some desired cleanup at the end of a scope, even when the scope is exite

Re: memory usage, temporary and otherwise

On Mar 4, 12:24 pm, Duncan Booth wrote: > >  >>> a={} >  >>> for i in range(1000): > ...     a[i]=intern('spam'*10) > "intern": another name borrowed from Lisp? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: A "scopeguard" for Python

On 2010-03-04 10:56 AM, Alf P. Steinbach wrote: * Robert Kern: On 2010-03-03 18:49 PM, Alf P. Steinbach wrote: * Robert Kern: [snip] can you understand why we might think that you were saying that try: finally: was wrong and that you were proposing that your code was equivalent to some try: e

Re: A "scopeguard" for Python

* Robert Kern: On 2010-03-04 09:48 AM, Alf P. Steinbach wrote: * Jean-Michel Pichavant: Alf P. Steinbach wrote: From your post, the scope guard technique is used "to ensure some desired cleanup at the end of a scope, even when the scope is exited via an exception." This is precisely what the t

Re: A "scopeguard" for Python

On 2010-03-04 10:32 AM, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote: Alf P. Steinbach wrote: * Jean-Michel Pichavant: Alf P. Steinbach wrote: From your post, the scope guard technique is used "to ensure some desired cleanup at the end of a scope, even when the scope is exited via an exception." This is precis

Re: A "scopeguard" for Python

* Robert Kern: On 2010-03-03 18:49 PM, Alf P. Steinbach wrote: * Robert Kern: [snip] can you understand why we might think that you were saying that try: finally: was wrong and that you were proposing that your code was equivalent to some try: except: else: suite? No, not really. His code d

Re: loop over list and process into groups

Sneaky Wombat wrote: I was going to write a def to loop through and look for certain pre- compiled regexs, and then put them in a new dictionary and append to a list, regexes are overkill in this case I think. [ 'VLAN4065', 'Interface', 'Gi9/6', 'Po2', 'Po3', 'Po306', 'VLAN4068', 'Int

Re: NoSQL Movement?

On 04/03/10 16:21, ccc31807 wrote: > On Mar 3, 4:55 pm, toby wrote: >>> where you have to store data and >> >> "relational data" > > Data is neither relational nor unrelational. Data is data. > Relationships are an artifact, something we impose on the data. > Relations are for human convenience,

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Karen Wang wrote: > Hi all, > > I want to use python to access to https server, like > “https://212.218.229.10/chinatest/” > > If open it from IE, will see the pop-up login windows like this > > I tried several ways but always only get page for” HTTP Error 401.2 – > Unauthorized” error. ( myuser

Re: A "scopeguard" for Python

Alf P. Steinbach wrote: * Jean-Michel Pichavant: Alf P. Steinbach wrote: From your post, the scope guard technique is used "to ensure some desired cleanup at the end of a scope, even when the scope is exited via an exception." This is precisely what the try: finally: syntax is for. You'd

Re: My four-yorkshireprogrammers contribution

Gregory Ewing wrote: MRAB wrote: Mk14 from Science of Cambridge, a kit with hex keypad and 7-segment display, which I had to solder together, and also make my own power supply. I had the extra RAM and the I/O chip, so that's 256B (including the memory used by the monitor) + 256B additional RAM

Re: A "scopeguard" for Python

On 2010-03-04 09:48 AM, Alf P. Steinbach wrote: * Jean-Michel Pichavant: Alf P. Steinbach wrote: From your post, the scope guard technique is used "to ensure some desired cleanup at the end of a scope, even when the scope is exited via an exception." This is precisely what the try: finally: syn

loop over list and process into groups

[ {'vlan_or_intf': 'VLAN2021'}, {'vlan_or_intf': 'Interface'}, {'vlan_or_intf': 'Po1'}, {'vlan_or_intf': 'Po306'}, {'vlan_or_intf': 'VLAN2022'}, {'vlan_or_intf': 'Interface'}, {'vlan_or_intf': 'Gi7/33'}, {'vlan_or_intf': 'Po1'}, {'vlan_or_intf': 'Po306'}, {'vlan_or_intf': 'VLAN2051'}, {'v

Re: A "scopeguard" for Python

* Jean-Michel Pichavant: Alf P. Steinbach wrote: From your post, the scope guard technique is used "to ensure some desired cleanup at the end of a scope, even when the scope is exited via an exception." This is precisely what the try: finally: syntax is for. You'd have to nest it. That's u

Re: Working group for Python CPAN-equivalence?

On Mar 3, 5:30 pm, Ben Finney wrote: > > Terry Reedy writes: > > > On 3/3/2010 12:05 PM, John Nagle wrote: > > > > CPAN enforces standard organization on packages. PyPi does not. > > This is, I think, something we don't need as much in Python; there is a > fundamental difference between Perl's de

Re: A "scopeguard" for Python

On 2010-03-03 18:49 PM, Alf P. Steinbach wrote: * Robert Kern: On 2010-03-03 15:35 PM, Alf P. Steinbach wrote: * Robert Kern: On 2010-03-03 13:32 PM, Alf P. Steinbach wrote: * Robert Kern: On 2010-03-03 11:18 AM, Alf P. Steinbach wrote: * Robert Kern: On 2010-03-03 09:56 AM, Alf P. Steinba

Re: taking python enterprise level?...

On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 16:23 -0500, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: > On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:39:35 +0100 > mk wrote: > > > If you denormalise the table, and update the first index to be on > > > (client_id, project_id, date) it can end up running far more quickly - > > Maybe. Don't start with denormaliza

Re: taking python enterprise level?...

On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 20:39 +0100, mk wrote: > Hello Tim, > > Pardon the questions but I haven't had the need to use denormalization > yet, so: > IOW you basically merged the tables like follows? > > CREATE TABLE projects ( > client_id BIGINT NOT NULL, > project_id BIGINT NOT NULL, >

Re: NoSQL Movement?

Duncan Booth wrote: If you look at some of the uses of bigtable you may begin to understand the tradeoffs that are made with sql. When you use bigtable you have records with fields, and you have indices, but there are limitations on the kinds of queries you can perform: in particular you canno

Re: Working group for Python CPAN-equivalence?

On Mar 3, 9:11 pm, John Bokma wrote: > Philip Semanchuk writes: > > > In other words, if I was a Perl user under Ubuntu would I use > > the pkg manager to add a Perl module, or CPAN, or would both work? > > Both would work, but I would make very sure to use a separate > installation directory for

Re: NoSQL Movement?

On Mar 3, 4:55 pm, toby wrote: > >  where you have to store data and > > "relational data" Data is neither relational nor unrelational. Data is data. Relationships are an artifact, something we impose on the data. Relations are for human convenience, not something inherent in the data itself. >

Re: WANTED: A good name for the pair (args, kwargs)

Jonathan Fine writes: > I'm looking for a good name for the pair (args, kwargs). Any suggestions? > > Here's my use case: > def doit(fn , wibble, expect): > args, kwargs = wibble > actual = fn(*args, **kwargs) I think this may have been broken in 3.x, but in 2.6 the compiler

SQLObject 0.11.4

Hello! I'm pleased to announce version 0.11.4, a minor bugfix release of 0.11 branch of SQLObject. What is SQLObject = SQLObject is an object-relational mapper. Your database tables are described as classes, and rows are instances of those classes. SQLObject is meant to be eas

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