RSFile 1.0 Released

2010-05-19 Thread Pascal Chambon
Hello everyone, I'm presently pleased to announce the first stable release of the RSFile package. RSFile aims at providing python with a cross-platform, reliable, and comprehensive file I/O API. It's actually a partial reimplementation of the io module, as compatible as possible (it passes

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Re: Is there conversion method to convert pyunicodeobject to pybyteobject?

2010-05-19 Thread MathanK
Got it worked with the following change. PyUnicodeObject *p = ...whatever...; char* tmp = (char *)p; PyObject* arg = PyBytes_FromString (tmp); function( (PyBytesObject*) arg); From : MathanKlt;switch2mat...@gmail.comgt; To : python-list lt;python-list@python.orggt; Date : Sat, 15 May 2010

Re: Global variables for python applications

2010-05-19 Thread TomF
On 2010-05-16 12:27:21 -0700, christian schulze said: On 16 Mai, 20:20, James Mills prolo...@shortcircuit.net.au wrote: On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 4:00 AM, Krister Svanlund krister.svanl...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 7:50 PM, AON LAZIO aonla...@gmail.com wrote:    How can I set

Re: help need to write a python spell checker

2010-05-19 Thread CM
I love how he just copied and pasted the assignment without any other remarks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Regular expression

2010-05-19 Thread Anthra Norell
Back9 wrote: Hi, I have a string like this: 0x340x5A0x9B0xBA I want to extract 0x from the string but the first one. How I can use re for this case? The string size will vary. TIA Unless the use of a regular expression is a requirement I'd do it like this: '0x%s' % s.split ('x',

Re: Classes and threading

2010-05-19 Thread Adam W.
On May 19, 12:04 am, Erik Max Francis m...@alcyone.com wrote: Adam W. wrote: I thought I knew how classes worked, but this code sample is making my second guess myself: import threading class nThread(threading.Thread):     def __init__(self):         threading.Thread.__init__(self)

Re: another question about classes and subclassing

2010-05-19 Thread Gregory Ewing
Alex Hall wrote: Sorry, top-posting is a habit on some other lists I am on, and sometimes it follows me to lists where in-line posting is the way to do it. Which list you're on shouldn't matter. You should cultivate the habit of always quoting selectively and minimally, on any list. It may

Re: Pointers on packaging python programs for installation on multiple platforms?

2010-05-19 Thread Tim Golden
On 19/05/2010 03:05, gobnat wrote: I am trying to release my first python program. I would like to be able to create a download which will automatically do stuff like add menu items (eg for KDE, GNOME and Windows). Is there anywhere which explains how to do this? Speaking from the Windows

Re: another question about classes and subclassing

2010-05-19 Thread Gregory Ewing
Alex Hall wrote: So by calling submarine(craft) I am bringing in all of craft's attribs (subclassing)? Or does calling craft's __init__ method do that instead? By making Submarine a subclass of Craft, you are inheriting any methods, or other class attributes, defined in the classes themselves.

Re: another question about classes and subclassing

2010-05-19 Thread Gregory Ewing
Dave Angel wrote: Inside the __init__() method of Submarine, simply call the __init__() method of Craft, with appropriate parameters. To elaborate on that a little, it looks like this: class Craft: def __init__(self, position): self.position = position class

Re: Classes and threading

2010-05-19 Thread Duncan Booth
Adam W. awasile...@gmail.com wrote: If you don't intend to override the constructor in the parent class, simply don't define it. Hummm, so lets say I wanted it pass all the variables to the parent constructor, how would I do that? I wouldn't have to list every variable it could possible

Re: Classes and threading

2010-05-19 Thread Gregory Ewing
Erik Max Francis wrote: Adam W. wrote: class nThread(threading.Thread): def __init__(self): threading.Thread.__init__(self) If you don't intend to override the constructor in the parent class, simply don't define it. Or if you do need to override it for some reason, you need

Re: Classes and threading

2010-05-19 Thread Adam W.
On May 19, 4:30 am, Gregory Ewing greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz wrote: Or if you do need to override it for some reason, you need to accept the extra args and pass them on:    class nThread(threading.Thread):        def __init__(self, *args, **kwds):            threading.Thread.__init__(self,

Reading data from a Microsoft Access 2003 database

2010-05-19 Thread Jimoid
Hi All, I use Ubuntu 64 bit and need to develop a programme (ideally in Python) to work on data that is contained in a Microsoft Access 2003 database. I do not need to modify the database, simply read a few columns of data from some tables. Google hasn't been able to offer me a suitable solution

Re: Classes and threading

2010-05-19 Thread Christian Heimes
Or if you do need to override it for some reason, you need to accept the extra args and pass them on: class nThread(threading.Thread): def __init__(self, *args, **kwds): threading.Thread.__init__(self, *args, **kwds) # your other stuff here Since Thread is

Re: Reading data from a Microsoft Access 2003 database

2010-05-19 Thread Simon Brunning
On 19 May 2010 10:28:15 UTC+1, Jimoid jimmy.cul...@gmail.com wrote: I use Ubuntu 64 bit and need to develop a programme (ideally in Python) to work on data that is contained in a Microsoft Access 2003 database. I do not need to modify the database, simply read a few columns of data from some

remove elements incrementally from a list

2010-05-19 Thread Javier Montoya
Dear all, I've a list of float numbers and I would like to delete incrementally a set of elements in a given range of indexes, sth. like: for j in range(beginIndex, endIndex+1): print (remove [%d] = val: %g % (j, myList[j])) del myList[j] However, since I'm iterating over the same list,

Re: remove elements incrementally from a list

2010-05-19 Thread superpollo
Javier Montoya ha scritto: Dear all, I've a list of float numbers and I would like to delete incrementally a set of elements in a given range of indexes, sth. like: for j in range(beginIndex, endIndex+1): print (remove [%d] = val: %g % (j, myList[j])) del myList[j] However, since I'm

multiprocessing module - could it use google protocol buffers?

2010-05-19 Thread zLuke
Does it make sense to be able to substitute the pickling action in the multiprocessing module with google protocol buffers instead? If so, has anyone thought how to do it? I wanted some operation more compact/ faster than pickling for ipc of data. Also, has anyone built any wrappers for the

Re: remove elements incrementally from a list

2010-05-19 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 19/05/2010 11:53, Javier Montoya wrote: Dear all, I've a list of float numbers and I would like to delete incrementally a set of elements in a given range of indexes, sth. like: for j in range(beginIndex, endIndex+1): print (remove [%d] = val: %g % (j, myList[j])) del myList[j]

RE: Reading data from a Microsoft Access 2003 database

2010-05-19 Thread Ahmed, Shakir
-Original Message- From: python-list-bounces+shahmed=sfwmd@python.org [mailto:python-list-bounces+shahmed=sfwmd@python.org] On Behalf Of Simon Brunning Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 6:13 AM To: python-list Subject: Re: Reading data from a Microsoft Access 2003 database On 19 May

Re: Reading data from a Microsoft Access 2003 database

2010-05-19 Thread Les Schaffer
Jimoid wrote: I use Ubuntu 64 bit and need to develop a programme (ideally in Python) to work on data that is contained in a Microsoft Access 2003 database. I do not need to modify the database, simply read a few columns of data from some tables. this worked like a charm for me:

Re: Reading data from a Microsoft Access 2003 database

2010-05-19 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 08:05 -0400, Les Schaffer wrote: Jimoid wrote: I use Ubuntu 64 bit and need to develop a programme (ideally in Python) to work on data that is contained in a Microsoft Access 2003 database. I do not need to modify the database, simply read a few columns of data

Re: Reading data from a Microsoft Access 2003 database

2010-05-19 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 02:28 -0700, Jimoid wrote: Hi All, I use Ubuntu 64 bit and need to develop a programme (ideally in Python) to work on data that is contained in a Microsoft Access 2003 database. I do not need to modify the database, simply read a few columns of data from some tables.

Re: abc don't play well with private method

2010-05-19 Thread mouadino
Hello, and thank you for ALL the informations. i think i was reading the wrong documents :) For my use of ABC, i wanted to implement a plugin interface with the ABC, in first i define a Base class (ABC) that other class inherit(implement) so that they can be interfaced as plugins. but i did

Re: remove elements incrementally from a list

2010-05-19 Thread Steven W. Orr
On 5/19/2010 6:53 AM, Javier Montoya wrote: I've a list of float numbers and I would like to delete incrementally a set of elements in a given range of indexes, sth. like: for j in range(beginIndex, endIndex+1): print (remove [%d] = val: %g % (j, myList[j])) del myList[j] However,

Re: Reading data from a Microsoft Access 2003 database

2010-05-19 Thread Les Schaffer
Adam Tauno Williams wrote: The OP: I use Ubuntu 64 bit woops, my bad ... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: remove elements incrementally from a list

2010-05-19 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 19 May 2010 03:53:44 -0700, Javier Montoya wrote: Dear all, I've a list of float numbers and I would like to delete incrementally a set of elements in a given range of indexes, sth. like: for j in range(beginIndex, endIndex+1): print (remove [%d] = val: %g % (j, myList[j]))

View Html/ py code in a zip as HTML/text ? ( for phone )

2010-05-19 Thread Jake b
I'm trying to figure out the best way to view python snippets / smaller files on the itouch/iPhone. I'm reading a new projects docs, but it's not easy to view the zip. It can't view zip files. Say I want to read pyglet examples, I need unzip at least one file and serve that. If it is text/HTML/py

Python Script for Website Mirroring

2010-05-19 Thread Kevin Rea
Hello Folks: Can you please point me to a decent Python script(s) that I could customize to do automatic Website mirroring? Thanks Much! Kevin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Global variables for python applications

2010-05-19 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 19 May 2010 00:16:56 -0700, TomF wrote: Let's say you have a bunch of globals, one of which is a verbose flag. If I understand the difference, using a module gbls.py: # in gbls.py verbose = False # elsewhere: import gbls gbls.verbose = True Using a class: # In the main

Delete files from FTP Server older then 7 days. Using ftputil and ftplib.

2010-05-19 Thread pilgrim773
Hello I am new to Python programming. I need a write a script which will delete files from a FTP server after they have reached a certain age, like 7 days for example. I have prepared this code below, but I get an error message: The system cannot find the path specified: '/test123/*.*' Probably

Re: __str__ for each function in a class

2010-05-19 Thread Terry Reedy
On 5/19/2010 1:14 AM, Vincent Davis wrote: I am sure this is easy but I am not sure how to do it and google was failing me. Lets say I have a class() with an def x() and def y() and I want print(class.x) and (class.y) to have custom prints (__str__) how do I do this For example class C(object):

Re: __str__ for each function in a class

2010-05-19 Thread Xavier Ho
On 5/19/2010 1:14 AM, Vincent Davis wrote: class C(object): def __init__(self, new): self.letter = dict(a=1,b=2,c=3, amin=np.amin) self.new = new self._x = None self._Y = None @property def x(self): I'm the 'x' property. self._x =

Re: help need to write a python spell checker

2010-05-19 Thread Terry Reedy
On 5/19/2010 3:17 AM, CM wrote: I love how he just copied and pasted the assignment without any other remarks. Yeah, that way he did not mess it up ;-). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: remove elements incrementally from a list

2010-05-19 Thread Javier Montoya
On May 19, 4:06 pm, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this- cybersource.com.au wrote: On Wed, 19 May 2010 03:53:44 -0700, Javier Montoya wrote: Dear all, I've a list of float numbers and I would like to delete incrementally a set of elements in a given range of indexes, sth. like: for j in

Re: Delete files from FTP Server older then 7 days. Using ftputil and ftplib.

2010-05-19 Thread MRAB
pilgrim773 wrote: Hello I am new to Python programming. I need a write a script which will delete files from a FTP server after they have reached a certain age, like 7 days for example. I have prepared this code below, but I get an error message: The system cannot find the path specified:

abc for generators?

2010-05-19 Thread Alan Franzoni
Hello, I was looking for an ABC for generators in python. While there's a types.GeneratorType type object - which can't be used directly and it's not an abc - and many collections-related ABCs in the collections module, there's no way to say a user-defined class as a generator, even though it

Re: Discover PyH

2010-05-19 Thread Michel Claveau - MVP
Bonsoir ! La démarche me semble intéressante. Je testerai le module quand j'aurai un peu de temps. @-salutations -- Michel Claveau -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What's the matter with docs.python.org?

2010-05-19 Thread Christian Mertes
by kjon 2010-03-24T16:40:21+00:00. In Philip Semanchuk writes: On Mar 24, 2010, at 12:05 PM, kj wrote: In the last couple of weeks, docs.python.org has been down repeatedly (like right now). Has anyone else noticed this? http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/docs.python.org Very handy.

Re: What's the matter with docs.python.org?

2010-05-19 Thread member thudfoo
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Christian Mertes cmer...@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de wrote: by kjon 2010-03-24T16:40:21+00:00. In Philip Semanchuk writes: On Mar 24, 2010, at 12:05 PM, kj wrote: In the last couple of weeks, docs.python.org has been down repeatedly (like right now). Has anyone

Re: How to determine subprocess.Popen() failed when shell=True

2010-05-19 Thread python
For the archives - solution posted at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2861548/how-to-determine-subprocess-popen-failed-when-shelltrue Malcolm -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: how to cause a request for a missing class attribute cause its calculation

2010-05-19 Thread John Posner
On 5/18/2010 4:54 PM, Chris Rebert wrote: snip Suggested reading: http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#property I've placed a revision to this official *property* documentation at: http://wiki.python.org/moin/AlternativeDescriptionOfProperty There's also a gentle (I hope) intro

ipython question

2010-05-19 Thread superpollo
In [39]: def f(): : return 42 : In [40]: %psource f No source found for f In [41]: i expected to see the source... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Access to comp.lang.python

2010-05-19 Thread cjw
On 18-May-10 19:27 PM, Tim Chase wrote: On 05/15/2010 05:34 PM, cjw wrote: It seems that messages are coming from a number of sources, such as gmane and google groups. The problem is that many messages seem to get unlinked from their threads. I use Thunderbird 3.0.5 and wonder whether the

Re: another question about classes and subclassing

2010-05-19 Thread cjw
On 18-May-10 17:51 PM, Alex Hall wrote: Hi again all, More about classes. I am still looking into my battleship game, and I will have several different craft. All craft have common attribs (position, alive, and so on) but each craft may be a surface ship, submarine, or airplane. All three are

Re: abc for generators?

2010-05-19 Thread Carl Banks
On May 19, 8:42 am, Alan Franzoni doesnotex...@franzoni.invalid wrote: Hello, I was looking for an ABC for generators in python. While there's a types.GeneratorType type object - which can't be used directly  and it's not an abc - and many collections-related ABCs in the collections module,

Best XML python package to learn for Ubuntu Linux ?

2010-05-19 Thread Robert Somerville
Hi; I am about to get my feet wet with Python XML, there appears to be many libraries ... can someone recommend a good package to use on Ubuntu ??? regards; Robert Somerville -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Best XML python package to learn for Ubuntu Linux ?

2010-05-19 Thread Philip Semanchuk
On May 19, 2010, at 1:54 PM, Robert Somerville wrote: Hi; I am about to get my feet wet with Python XML, there appears to be many libraries ... can someone recommend a good package to use on Ubuntu ??? Hi Robert, xml.etree.ElementTree is in the Python standard library as of version

Re: What's the matter with docs.python.org?

2010-05-19 Thread Christian Mertes
On Mi, 2010-05-19 at 09:54 -0700, member thudfoo wrote: Worked for me: ~/isos2burn telnet docs.python.org 80 Trying 82.94.164.162... Connected to docs.python.org. Escape character is '^]'. GET/HTTP/1.0 !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN htmlhead title302 Found/title

how to preserve hex value

2010-05-19 Thread Back9
Hi, When converting a hex value, I'd like to preserve the decimal position. For example, 0x0A is converted to 0A not just A in string. How do I do this? TIA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Delete files from FTP Server older then 7 days. Using ftputil and ftplib.

2010-05-19 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
2010/5/19 pilgrim773 thomas.fisc...@gmail.com: Hello I am new to Python programming. I need a write a script which will delete files from a FTP server after they have reached a certain age, like 7 days for example. I have prepared this code below, but I get an error message: The system cannot

Re: how to preserve hex value

2010-05-19 Thread member thudfoo
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Back9 backgoo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, When converting a hex value, I'd like to preserve the decimal position. For example, 0x0A is converted to 0A not just A in string. How do I do this? TIA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list |109

Re: how to preserve hex value

2010-05-19 Thread J. Cliff Dyer
On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 11:38 -0700, Back9 wrote: Hi, When converting a hex value, I'd like to preserve the decimal position. For example, 0x0A is converted to 0A not just A in string. How do I do this? TIA I'm not sure I understand what your use case is, but generally speaking, it is

function that counts...

2010-05-19 Thread superpollo
... how many positive integers less than n have digits that sum up to m: In [197]: def prttn(m, n): tot = 0 for i in range(n): s = str(i) sum = 0 for j in range(len(s)): sum += int(s[j]) if sum == m: tot += 1 return tot

Re: ipython question

2010-05-19 Thread Robert Kern
On 5/19/10 12:11 PM, superpollo wrote: In [39]: def f(): : return 42 : In [40]: %psource f No source found for f In [41]: i expected to see the source... You will want to ask IPython questions on the IPython mailing list: http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/ipython-user The

Re: function that counts...

2010-05-19 Thread Jerry Hill
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 3:58 PM, superpollo ute...@esempio.net wrote: ... how many positive integers less than n have digits that sum up to m: ... any suggestion for pythonizin' it? This is how I would do it: def prttn(m, n): How many positive integers less than n have digits that sum up

Re: ipython question

2010-05-19 Thread superpollo
Robert Kern ha scritto: On 5/19/10 12:11 PM, superpollo wrote: In [39]: def f(): : return 42 : In [40]: %psource f No source found for f In [41]: i expected to see the source... You will want to ask IPython questions on the IPython mailing list:

Re: ipython question

2010-05-19 Thread superpollo
superpollo ha scritto: Robert Kern ha scritto: On 5/19/10 12:11 PM, superpollo wrote: In [39]: def f(): : return 42 : In [40]: %psource f No source found for f In [41]: i expected to see the source... You will want to ask IPython questions on the IPython mailing list:

Re: ipython question

2010-05-19 Thread Robert Kern
On 5/19/10 3:10 PM, superpollo wrote: Robert Kern ha scritto: On 5/19/10 12:11 PM, superpollo wrote: In [39]: def f(): : return 42 : In [40]: %psource f No source found for f In [41]: i expected to see the source... You will want to ask IPython questions on the IPython mailing

Re: function that counts...

2010-05-19 Thread René 'Necoro' Neumann
Am 19.05.2010 21:58, schrieb superpollo: ... how many positive integers less than n have digits that sum up to m: In [197]: def prttn(m, n): tot = 0 for i in range(n): s = str(i) sum = 0 for j in range(len(s)): sum += int(s[j]) if sum

Re: function that counts...

2010-05-19 Thread superpollo
Jerry Hill ha scritto: On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 3:58 PM, superpollo ute...@esempio.net wrote: ... how many positive integers less than n have digits that sum up to m: ... any suggestion for pythonizin' it? This is how I would do it: def prttn(m, n): How many positive integers less than

Re: function that counts...

2010-05-19 Thread superpollo
René 'Necoro' Neumann ha scritto: Am 19.05.2010 21:58, schrieb superpollo: ... how many positive integers less than n have digits that sum up to m: In [197]: def prttn(m, n): tot = 0 for i in range(n): s = str(i) sum = 0 for j in range(len(s)): sum

Re: Installing Lightweight Python

2010-05-19 Thread News123
Nima Mohammadi wrote: Well, I tried to run Python with -v option. It seems that python26.zip is partially loaded but can't be used, because zlib is unavailable. This is normal. the zip library itself cannot be zipped, as it is needed to unzip and extract th other libs.

Re: function that counts...

2010-05-19 Thread Jerry Hill
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 4:25 PM, superpollo ute...@esempio.net wrote: Jerry Hill ha scritto:        sumofdigits = sum(int(char) for char in str(testval)) this line gives me this: TypeError: 'int' object is not callable is it some new feature in 2.5 ? No, sum() has been a builtin since

Re: function that counts...

2010-05-19 Thread Mark Dickinson
On May 19, 9:30 pm, superpollo ute...@esempio.net wrote: René 'Necoro' Neumann ha scritto: An idea would be: def prttn(m, n): ...        return sum(1 for x in range(n) if sum(map(int, str(x))) == m) TypeError: 'int' object is not callable on 2.5.4 The TypeError is almost certainly

Re: function that counts...

2010-05-19 Thread superpollo
Jerry Hill ha scritto: On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 4:25 PM, superpollo ute...@esempio.net wrote: Jerry Hill ha scritto: sumofdigits = sum(int(char) for char in str(testval)) this line gives me this: TypeError: 'int' object is not callable is it some new feature in 2.5 ? No, sum() has

Re: function that counts...

2010-05-19 Thread superpollo
Mark Dickinson ha scritto: On May 19, 9:30 pm, superpollo ute...@esempio.net wrote: René 'Necoro' Neumann ha scritto: An idea would be: def prttn(m, n): ...return sum(1 for x in range(n) if sum(map(int, str(x))) == m) TypeError: 'int' object is not callable on 2.5.4 The TypeError

Re: function that counts...

2010-05-19 Thread René 'Necoro' Neumann
Am 19.05.2010 22:58, schrieb superpollo: In [277]: prttn(25, 1) Out[277]: 348 In [278]: prttn2(25, 1) Out[278]: 348 In [279]: prttn3(25, 1) Out[279]: 348 ok, bye! Just because I was curios: nec...@zakarumiy ~ % python -m timeit import test; test.prttn(25,1) 10

Re: abc for generators?

2010-05-19 Thread Alan Franzoni
On 5/19/10 7:24 PM, Carl Banks wrote: collections.Iterator That would just support the next() method. But enhanced generators interface - supporting coroutines as well - include send(), throw() and close(). -- Alan Franzoni contact me at pub...@[mysurname].eu --

Re: function that counts...

2010-05-19 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 19 May 2010 22:58:22 +0200, superpollo wrote: In [266]: del(sum) del is a statement, not a function, so the brackets are pointless. This is like writing: x = (1) instead of x = 1 `del sum` is all you need. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: function that counts...

2010-05-19 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 19 May 2010 21:58:04 +0200, superpollo wrote: ... how many positive integers less than n have digits that sum up to m: In [197]: def prttn(m, n): Does the name prttn mean anything? I'm afraid I keep reading it as a mispelling of print n. [...] s = str(i) sum =

struct

2010-05-19 Thread Back9
Can anyone explain the difference between f and d in struct unpack? When using them, some data work in either one not both. To me it seems to be same, TIA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: struct

2010-05-19 Thread Gary Herron
On 05/19/2010 02:53 PM, Back9 wrote: Can anyone explain the difference between f and d in struct unpack? When using them, some data work in either one not both. To me it seems to be same, TIA 'f' is single precision float (32 bits), and 'd' is a double precision float (64 bits) Gary

compile() error

2010-05-19 Thread Iuri
compile(for i in [1,2,3]:\n pass\n#end\n, test_file.py, exec) code object module at 0x266a378, file test_file.py, line 1 compile(for i in [1,2,3]:\n pass\n#end, test_file.py, exec) Traceback (most recent call last): File input, line 1, in module File input, line 2, in cptest File test_file.py,

Re: compile() error

2010-05-19 Thread Benjamin Peterson
Iuri iurisilvio at gmail.com writes: Any ideas about what is happening? Until Python 2.7/3.2, compile() does't like sources which don't end in a newline. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Script for Website Mirroring

2010-05-19 Thread Vincent Davis
Probably need a little more info to help. Are you running both sites, are there database involved? If it is a simple site you could just transfer with ftp and have the script updated any urls. Vincent On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Kevin Rea kcronl...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Folks: Can

Re: compile() error

2010-05-19 Thread Iuri
Thanks, Benjamin. I used Python 2.6 to these tests. []s iuri On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Benjamin Peterson benja...@python.orgwrote: Iuri iurisilvio at gmail.com writes: Any ideas about what is happening? Until Python 2.7/3.2, compile() does't like sources which don't end in a

Re: Python Script for Website Mirroring

2010-05-19 Thread Christian Mertes
On Mi, 2010-05-19 at 16:35 -0600, Vincent Davis wrote: If it is a simple site you could just transfer with ftp Or rsync -a or wget -m ... like tools that were specifically made for this task. Therefore something like subprocess.call([rsync, -az, -e, ssh, --delete, source, target]) should be

client server console app with cmd library

2010-05-19 Thread kak...@gmail.com
Hi to all, i need some hints about a console application i' m trying. I want to make it act as a client and as a server at a same time. And since it is a console application i' m using cmd library. I want something that works like asterisk. while working with my app i want to listen for incoming

Re: What's the matter with docs.python.org?

2010-05-19 Thread Rhodri James
On Wed, 19 May 2010 17:23:18 +0100, Christian Mertes cmer...@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de wrote: I reported docs.python.org as a broken page to the Opera devs but I'm also Ccing this mail to the server admin because this seems to be a more complex problem than just a broken (if at all) web

Re: Classes and threading

2010-05-19 Thread Aahz
In article mailman.399.1274262243.32709.python-l...@python.org, Christian Heimes li...@cheimes.de wrote: class nThread(threading.Thread): def __init__(self, *args, **kwds): threading.Thread.__init__(self, *args, **kwds) # your other stuff here Since

Re: What's the matter with docs.python.org?

2010-05-19 Thread Aahz
In article mailman.413.1274286791.32709.python-l...@python.org, Christian Mertes cmer...@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de wrote: $ telnet docs.python.org 80 Trying 2001:888:2000:d::a2... Trying 82.94.164.162... Connected to docs.python.org. Escape character is '^]'. IPv6 has sometimes been

KaPy -- Karlsruhe Python User Group meeting, 2010-05-21, 19:00

2010-05-19 Thread Jürgen Erhard
The Karlsruhe Python User Group (KaPy) meets again. Friday, 2010-04-16 (May 21st) at 19:00 (7pm) in the rooms of Entropia eV (the local affiliate of the CCC). See http://entropia.de/wiki/Anfahrt on how to get there. For your calendars: meetings are held monthly, on the 3rd Friday. Bye, J PS:

Re: abc for generators?

2010-05-19 Thread Carl Banks
On May 19, 2:27 pm, Alan Franzoni doesnotex...@franzoni.invalid wrote: On 5/19/10 7:24 PM, Carl Banks wrote: collections.Iterator That would just support the next() method. But enhanced generators interface - supporting coroutines as well - include send(), throw() and close(). Hmm, don't

Re: ipython question

2010-05-19 Thread Terry Reedy
On 5/19/2010 4:14 PM, superpollo wrote: In [219]: %save tmp.py 218 File `tmp.py` exists. Overwrite (y/[N])? y The following commands were written to file `tmp.py`: def f(): return 42 In [220]: !cat tmp.py def f(): return 42 In [221]: %psource f No source found for f maybe i got it: In

Re: compile() error

2010-05-19 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 19 May 2010 22:31:31 +, Benjamin Peterson wrote: Iuri iurisilvio at gmail.com writes: Any ideas about what is happening? Until Python 2.7/3.2, compile() does't like sources which don't end in a newline. Are you sure about that? x = compile(print __import__('sys').version,

links button gone from python.org

2010-05-19 Thread eric_dex...@msn.com
I noticed that that the link to that section is gone. The page seems to be there when I use the url that is stored on my computer. Unrelated but I will mention that It is sad to see that dr dobs python newsletter has vanished, I enjoyed reading that from time to time. --

Re: compile() error

2010-05-19 Thread Iuri
Steven, it works fine to some cases. I have problem only when last line is a comment and before it I have an indentation. It is a specific case, and it is not a common case. compile(for i in [1,2,3]:\n pass\n#end, test_file.py, exec) What I understanded about Benjamin's answer is compile()

Re: compile() error

2010-05-19 Thread Jerry Hill
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Steven D'Aprano steve-remove-t...@cybersource.com.au wrote: On Wed, 19 May 2010 22:31:31 +, Benjamin Peterson wrote: Iuri iurisilvio at gmail.com writes: Any ideas about what is happening? Until Python 2.7/3.2, compile() does't like sources which don't end

Fwd: question on logging module - solved

2010-05-19 Thread frank zhu
FYI. -- Forwarded message -- From: Cameron Simpson c...@zip.com.au Date: Wed, May 19, 2010 at 6:18 PM Subject: Re: question on logging module To: frank zhu frank.zhu.min...@gmail.com On 19May2010 11:55, frank zhu frank.zhu.min...@gmail.com wrote: | Thanks Cameron. That was the

Display file names in Tkinter Listbox

2010-05-19 Thread Rick
Hello, My first attenpt at a simple python Tkinter application. I wanted to see how to load file names into a listbox from a menu. This is what I got until the part of displaying the file names in a listbox, which I could not figfure out how to do? Any help would be appreciated. Trying to do

Re: function that counts...

2010-05-19 Thread Richard Thomas
For this kind of problem you should avoid all that stringification. I find it best to deal with sequences of digits of a fixed length and go from there. For example: def count1(m, n, cache={}): Number of digit sequences of length `n` summing to `m`. if n 0 or m 0: return 0

Newbie Alert: subprocess.call

2010-05-19 Thread Carbon
I am new to Python and am trying to write a GUI wrapper script in python 2.5 to get username and passwords from Linux users to send as options to run an app on a 2X terminal server. I came across the easygui module and its multpasswordbox function, which made popping a dialog box and storing

Re: Newbie Alert: subprocess.call

2010-05-19 Thread Patrick Maupin
On May 19, 9:27 pm, Carbon nob...@nospam.tampabay.rr.com wrote: I am new to Python and am trying to write a GUI wrapper script in python 2.5 to get username and passwords from Linux users to send as options to run an app on a 2X terminal server. I came across the easygui module and its

Re: Newbie Alert: subprocess.call

2010-05-19 Thread Ben Finney
Patrick Maupin pmau...@gmail.com writes: On May 19, 9:27 pm, Carbon nob...@nospam.tampabay.rr.com wrote: subprocess.call([/opt/2X/Client/bin/appserverclient, -u fieldValues [0], -p fieldValues[1], -s ts.mycompany.org:80, -d corp, -S local, -c 16, -e 0xF, -l 0x0409, -a #1]) As Patrick

How to unescape a raw string?

2010-05-19 Thread python
How can I unescape a raw string so that it behaves as a non-raw string? For example, if I read the string \n\t A B C\ D E F \xa0 \u1234 from a text file, how can I convert (unescape?) this string so that \n, \t, \, \x, and \u get converted to a newline, tab, double quote, hex encoded and unicode

Re: Newbie Alert: subprocess.call

2010-05-19 Thread Chris Rebert
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Carbon nob...@nospam.tampabay.rr.com wrote: I am new to Python and am trying to write a GUI wrapper script in python 2.5 to get username and passwords from Linux users to send as options to run an app on a 2X terminal server. I came across the easygui module and

Re: How to unescape a raw string?

2010-05-19 Thread Chris Rebert
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 8:34 PM, pyt...@bdurham.com wrote: How can I unescape a raw string so that it behaves as a non-raw string? That's not what the notion of raw strings in Python technically means, but anyway... For example, if I read the string \n\t A B C\ D E F \xa0 \u1234 I'll assume

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