Re: INCONTROVERTIBLE PROOF of the Incompetence of FBI

2010-06-15 Thread Stephen Hansen
On 6/15/10 9:40 PM, nanothermite911fbibustards wrote: > you wont leave me this little newsgroup space to give No, we won't. Reported as abuse. This forum is for discussion of Python. Python is apolitical, areligious, asociological, and only philosophical when you speak the High Holy Truth of the

Re: Overriding "__setattr__" of a module - possible?

2010-06-15 Thread Michele Simionato
On Jun 16, 7:25 am, John Nagle wrote: >     OK, working on this.  I can make a module make itself into a > fake class, but can't yet do it to other modules from outside. > >                                         John Nagle I think you can with something like import module sys.modules[module.

Re: Need to parse python dictionaries into xml

2010-06-15 Thread Stefan Behnel
abhijeet thatte, 16.06.2010 03:05: I am a novice Python user. I am using Python to parse some hardware specifications and create xml files from them. I generate dict of really huge sizes. (I am parsing some 10,000 register definitions.) Why do you need these intermediate dicts? So, it looks

Re: The Jews were the SPEAR HEAD of SLAVE trade and CRUSADES

2010-06-15 Thread geremy condra
Dude, seriously- get the hell out. You're spewing crap, and I've been polite, and if ever there existed a time or place for this (something I seriously doubt) this isn't it. Geremy Condra -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Overriding "__setattr__" of a module - possible?

2010-06-15 Thread Stephen Hansen
On 6/15/10 10:25 PM, John Nagle wrote: > On 6/15/2010 9:33 PM, Stephen Hansen wrote: >> Replacing the module with a class in sys.modules is really the only way >> to fake the behavior. > >OK, working on this. I can make a module make itself into a > fake class, but can't yet do it to other

Re: The Jews were the SPEAR HEAD of SLAVE trade and CRUSADES

2010-06-15 Thread nanothermite911fbibustards
http://www.blacksandjews.com/MarcLeeRaphael.html Rabbi Marc Lee Raphael on Jews in the Slave Trade Eight years BEFORE the publication of The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, Volume 1, Rabbi Marc Lee Raphael published a stunning statement on Jewish involvement in the slave trade. Ra

Re: Overriding "__setattr__" of a module - possible?

2010-06-15 Thread John Nagle
On 6/15/2010 9:33 PM, Stephen Hansen wrote: On 6/15/10 9:16 PM, John Nagle wrote: Cute, but it doesn't work in general. Faking a module as a class fails when you simply call x() within the module. Huh? Explain how it doesn't work? I've done it at least twice (shamefully do I admit

Re: INCONTROVERTIBLE PROOF of the Incompetence of FBI

2010-06-15 Thread Mark Young
Seriously, this is completely irrelevant for a list about python. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Convert .doc to .pdf

2010-06-15 Thread sharon hill
On Jun 14, 4:19 pm, Thales wrote: > Good morning, > > I need to convert some files from .doc to .pdf. I've googled it a > little bit and all the solutions I've found used the OpenOffice API, > but I can't use it. > > Anybody knows a library that I can use to do it? > > Thanks Converting a word do

Re: Python editing .txt file

2010-06-15 Thread Terry Reedy
On 6/15/2010 9:28 PM, 187braintr...@berkeley.edu wrote: I am trying to write a program in Python that will edit .txt log files that contain regression output from R. Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I once wrote programs (in C, Python should be easier) to process bmdp

The Jews were the SPEAR HEAD of SLAVE trade and CRUSADES

2010-06-15 Thread nanothermite911fbibustards
On Jun 15, 5:20 pm, f...@green.rahul.net (Edward A. Falk) wrote: > In article > <25a8c044-c361-4851-bbb4-58c195733...@g19g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>, > > nanothermite911fbibustards wrote: > >This is all due to DISINFORMATION - FBI bustards are the cause of it. > > Dude, seriously. Get your dosag

Re: INCONTROVERTIBLE PROOF of the Incompetence of FBI

2010-06-15 Thread nanothermite911fbibustards
On Jun 15, 5:20 pm, f...@green.rahul.net (Edward A. Falk) wrote: > In article > <25a8c044-c361-4851-bbb4-58c195733...@g19g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>, > > nanothermite911fbibustards   wrote: > >This is all due to DISINFORMATION - FBI bustards are the cause of it. > > Dude, seriously.  Get your dosag

Re: Overriding "__setattr__" of a module - possible?

2010-06-15 Thread Stephen Hansen
On 6/15/10 9:16 PM, John Nagle wrote: >Cute, but it doesn't work in general. Faking a module as a > class fails when you simply call > > x() > > within the module. Huh? Explain how it doesn't work? I've done it at least twice (shamefully do I admit this) and it works fine. Real life cod

Re: Overriding "__setattr__" of a module - possible?

2010-06-15 Thread John Nagle
On 6/15/2010 8:34 PM, Michele Simionato wrote: On Jun 16, 4:43 am, John Nagle wrote: Is it possible to override "__setattr__" of a module? I want to capture changes to global variables for debug purposes. None of the following seem to have any effect. modu.__setattr__ = myfn

Re: Overriding "__setattr__" of a module - possible?

2010-06-15 Thread Michele Simionato
On Jun 16, 4:43 am, John Nagle wrote: >    Is it possible to override "__setattr__" of a module?  I > want to capture changes to global variables for debug purposes. > >    None of the following seem to have any effect. > >         modu.__setattr__ = myfn > >         setattr(modu, "__setattr__", m

Re: Python OpenSSL library

2010-06-15 Thread John Nagle
On 6/15/2010 1:27 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:47:49 +0100 Nobody wrote: On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:43:02 -0700, John Nagle wrote: The new SSL module in Python 2.6 There isn't an SSL module in Python 2.6. There is a module named "ssl" which pretends to implement SSL, bu

Overriding "__setattr__" of a module - possible?

2010-06-15 Thread John Nagle
Is it possible to override "__setattr__" of a module? I want to capture changes to global variables for debug purposes. None of the following seem to have any effect. modu.__setattr__ = myfn setattr(modu, "__setattr__", myfn) delattr(modu, "__setattr__")

Re: Fwd: INCONTROVERTIBLE PROOF of the Incompetence of FBI

2010-06-15 Thread geremy condra
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Mark Young wrote: > HAHA. I apologize for my apparently incorrect criticism nanothermite. I made the mistake of asking him not to put all of this in his .sig, which has apparently been taken to mean that he should just post it instead. Apologies. Geremy Condra --

Re: Fwd: INCONTROVERTIBLE PROOF of the Incompetence of FBI

2010-06-15 Thread Mark Young
HAHA. I apologize for my apparently incorrect criticism nanothermite. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Fwd: INCONTROVERTIBLE PROOF of the Incompetence of FBI

2010-06-15 Thread MRAB
Mark Young wrote: Agreed. PS: If yo're going to cuss, please at least spell your expletives correctly. It's not "bustard". If you're going to criticise, remember to check your own spelling! BTW, a "bustard" is a kind of bird: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bustard I think he's anti-avi

Re: Python editing .txt file

2010-06-15 Thread MRAB
187braintr...@berkeley.edu wrote: I am trying to write a program in Python that will edit .txt log files that contain regression output from R. Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. To get an idea of what I am trying to do, note that I include fixed effects in the R regr

Fwd: INCONTROVERTIBLE PROOF of the Incompetence of FBI

2010-06-15 Thread Mark Young
Agreed. PS: If yo're going to cuss, please at least spell your expletives correctly. It's not "bustard". Oops, forgot to send to list. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: pythonize this!

2010-06-15 Thread Dan Stromberg
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Ian Kelly wrote: > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 6:21 AM, Alain Ketterlin > wrote: > > You compute i**2 too many times (7/5 times more than necessary) and > > twice too many modulos. I suggest: > > > > c = { 0:1, 1:1, 2:1, 3:-1, 4:-1 } > > #or, why not: c = lambda i :

Re: Updating a module level shared dictionary

2010-06-15 Thread Ian Kelly
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 7:04 PM, Vishal Rana wrote: > Hi, > A module level dictionary 'd' and is accessed by different threads/requests > in a django web application. I need to update 'd' every minute with a new > data and the process takes about 5 seconds. > What could be best solution where I wa

Re: Updating a module level shared dictionary

2010-06-15 Thread MRAB
Vishal Rana wrote: Hi, A module level dictionary 'd' and is accessed by different threads/requests in a django web application. I need to update 'd' every minute with a new data and the process takes about 5 seconds. What could be best solution where I want the users to get either the old v

Python editing .txt file

2010-06-15 Thread 187braintrust
I am trying to write a program in Python that will edit .txt log files that contain regression output from R. Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. To get an idea of what I am trying to do, note that I include fixed effects in the R regressions, resulting in hundreds of extra

Re: how to build with 2.4 having 2.6 as main python

2010-06-15 Thread Dan Stromberg
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Benjamin Kaplan wrote: > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Dan Stromberg > wrote: > > > > I don't think #!/usr/bin/env python is the right thing - unless a script > > really doesn't care much what version of python it gets. > > > > I used to #!/usr/bin/env everythi

Re: Python OpenSSL library

2010-06-15 Thread geremy condra
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Paul Rubin wrote: > Terry Reedy writes: >>> Could similar notifications be added to urllib, etc? That's where >>> people really get bitten badly by this. >> >> If you have specific ideas, propose them on the tracker. > > urllib is basically a web client and as suc

Need to parse python dictionaries into xml

2010-06-15 Thread abhijeet thatte
Hello, I am a novice Python user. I am using Python to parse some hardware specifications and create xml files from them. I generate dict of really huge sizes. (I am parsing some 10,000 register definitions.) So, it looks like : {elem1,elem2, elem3,dict1,{elem4,elem5, dict2 {elem6, elem7, dict3{..

Updating a module level shared dictionary

2010-06-15 Thread Vishal Rana
Hi, A module level dictionary 'd' and is accessed by different threads/requests in a django web application. I need to update 'd' every minute with a new data and the process takes about 5 seconds. What could be best solution where I want the users to get either the old value or the new and nothi

Re: Scope (?) question

2010-06-15 Thread Peter
This one seems to do the trick - thanks! :-) On Jun 16, 10:12 am, Inyeol Lee wrote: > On Jun 15, 3:22 pm, Peter wrote: > > > > > > > I am puzzled by what appears to be a scope issue - obviously I have > > something wrong :-) > > > Why does this work: > > > if __name__ == 'main': > >   execfile('

Re: Python OpenSSL library

2010-06-15 Thread Paul Rubin
Terry Reedy writes: >> Could similar notifications be added to urllib, etc? That's where >> people really get bitten badly by this. > > If you have specific ideas, propose them on the tracker. urllib is basically a web client and as such it should act like a browser, with a default certificate st

Re: INCONTROVERTIBLE PROOF of the Incompetence of FBI

2010-06-15 Thread Edward A. Falk
In article <25a8c044-c361-4851-bbb4-58c195733...@g19g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>, nanothermite911fbibustards wrote: >This is all due to DISINFORMATION - FBI bustards are the cause of it. Dude, seriously. Get your dosage adjusted. And find a different newsgroup. -- -Ed Falk, f...@despams

Re: Scope (?) question

2010-06-15 Thread Inyeol Lee
On Jun 15, 3:22 pm, Peter wrote: > I am puzzled by what appears to be a scope issue - obviously I have > something wrong :-) > > Why does this work: > > if __name__ == 'main': >   execfile('test-data.py') >   print data > > and yet this doesn't (I get "NameError: global name 'data' not > defined")

Re: pythonize this!

2010-06-15 Thread Ignacio Mondino
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 8:49 AM, superpollo wrote: > goal (from e.c.m.): evaluate > 1^2+2^2+3^2-4^2-5^2+6^2+7^2+8^2-9^2-10^2+...-2010^2, where each three > consecutive + must be followed by two - (^ meaning ** in this context) > > my solution: > s = 0 for i in range(1, 2011): > ...     s

Why I have to do a deepcopy to the argument?

2010-06-15 Thread Dimitris Leventeas
Hi! I am trying to understand Python's method of passing arguments, the references to objects etc. I fail to grasp why in populate_trie I have to make a deepcopy of trie locally instead of just referencing to it. If it makes any difference, I use Python 3. from copy import deepcopy def acce

Re: how to build with 2.4 having 2.6 as main python

2010-06-15 Thread Benjamin Kaplan
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Dan Stromberg wrote: > > I don't think #!/usr/bin/env python is the right thing - unless a script > really doesn't care much what version of python it gets. > > I used to #!/usr/bin/env everything, but I've been updating my old scripts > not to.  It's just too much

Re: Is there any module/utility like 'rsync' in python

2010-06-15 Thread Ben Finney
hiral writes: > Is there any module/utility like 'rsync' in python. Your first port of call for such queries should be PyPI http://pypi.python.org/>, using its search feature. In this case, the first several hits address your question. -- \ “I lost a button-hole.

Re: Scope (?) question

2010-06-15 Thread MRAB
Peter wrote: I am puzzled by what appears to be a scope issue - obviously I have something wrong :-) Why does this work: if __name__ == 'main': execfile('test-data.py') print data and yet this doesn't (I get "NameError: global name 'data' not defined"): def X(): execfile('test-data.py')

Re: how to build with 2.4 having 2.6 as main python

2010-06-15 Thread Dan Stromberg
I don't think #!/usr/bin/env python is the right thing - unless a script really doesn't care much what version of python it gets. I used to #!/usr/bin/env everything, but I've been updating my old scripts not to. It's just too much trouble, despite the one minor simplification it provides. My Ub

Re: Community (A Modest Proposal)

2010-06-15 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 15Jun2010 07:25, Michael Torrie wrote: | In some languages, due to the size and complexity of the libraries, an | IDE is essential. Java is one of those languages. Hmm. I'm in the "terminals are my IDE" camp. I never felt any need to use an IDE when I was using Java. Indeed, the highly linked

Re: Python OpenSSL library

2010-06-15 Thread Terry Reedy
On 6/15/2010 5:14 PM, geremy condra wrote: I have tried to put some effort into the py3k ssl docs, so that security issues get mentioned: http://docs.python.org/dev/py3k/library/ssl.html#security-considerations Any improvement or correction is welcome. Could similar notifications be added to u

Re: INCONTROVERTIBLE PROOF of the Incompetence of FBI

2010-06-15 Thread nanothermite911fbibustards
On Jun 15, 3:17 pm, nanothermite911fbibustards wrote: > This is all due to DISINFORMATION - FBI bustards are the cause of it. > The prime suspect of ANTHRAX is beyond doubt a white or jew (american > or israeli) and one name is Zack who worked at AIMES Iowa. The 911 is > also a jew job or white jo

Re: Python Tkinter Linux Repair Question/ Python TCP Socket Example

2010-06-15 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-06-15, My Python wrote: > Question 2 > > Can some one post a URL (or a sample module itself) that shows how to > write basic TCP socket application? http://docs.python.org/library/socket.html#example http://docs.python.org/library/asyncore.html http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ >

Scope (?) question

2010-06-15 Thread Peter
I am puzzled by what appears to be a scope issue - obviously I have something wrong :-) Why does this work: if __name__ == 'main': execfile('test-data.py') print data and yet this doesn't (I get "NameError: global name 'data' not defined"): def X(): execfile('test-data.py') print data

INCONTROVERTIBLE PROOF of the Incompetence of FBI

2010-06-15 Thread nanothermite911fbibustards
This is all due to DISINFORMATION - FBI bustards are the cause of it. The prime suspect of ANTHRAX is beyond doubt a white or jew (american or israeli) and one name is Zack who worked at AIMES Iowa. The 911 is also a jew job or white job. If this bustard were knowledgeable, he would be hunting for

Re: Python Tkinter Linux Repair Question/ Python TCP Socket Example

2010-06-15 Thread Thomas Jollans
On 06/15/2010 11:35 PM, My Python wrote: > I got to target my little GUI app that uses TCP sockets in Python > 2.4.4 for Windows and Linux. > > > Question 1 > = > Given the above, I installed 2.4.4 on Windows 7 and Tkinter import > works like a charm. (the install is good) > > The Linux

Re: setprocname

2010-06-15 Thread John Nagle
On 6/15/2010 9:27 AM, Roel Schroeven wrote: Op 2010-06-14 22:00, John Nagle schreef: There's a way to do this in Windows. Look in Task Manager, with a browser running, and the description for each Firefox instance will show the page being displayed. Are you sure? I only see that on the A

Python Tkinter Linux Repair Question/ Python TCP Socket Example

2010-06-15 Thread My Python
I got to target my little GUI app that uses TCP sockets in Python 2.4.4 for Windows and Linux. Question 1 = Given the above, I installed 2.4.4 on Windows 7 and Tkinter import works like a charm. (the install is good) The Linux (Red Hat 4.1.2-46) though has python preinstalled with ver 2.

Re: Python OpenSSL library

2010-06-15 Thread Nobody
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:57:24 +0200, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Also, following issue1589 (certificate hostname checking), I think it > would be useful at least to provide the necessary helper functions in > order to check certificate conformity, even if they aren't called > implicitly. I would encour

Re: configuration setting for python server

2010-06-15 Thread David Zaslavsky
On Monday 14 June 2010 11:29:35 pm shanti bhushan wrote: > do we have some configuration file for python server?? No. As people have explained in reply to your other messages, Python's BaseHTTPServer does not use any configuration files. If you want a web server which uses a configuration file,

Re: Python OpenSSL library

2010-06-15 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:14:08 -0700 geremy condra wrote: > > > > Ok, thank you. > > I have tried to put some effort into the py3k ssl docs, so that security > > issues get mentioned: > > http://docs.python.org/dev/py3k/library/ssl.html#security-considerations > > Any improvement or correction is we

Re: Can code objects outlive the interpreter that created them?

2010-06-15 Thread Thomas Jollans
On 06/15/2010 10:51 PM, Andy Jost wrote: > Hi, > > > > I’m working on an application program that embeds Python using the > C-API. Sometimes, I need to call functions written in pure Python from > the C code, so I use Py_CompileString and PyEval_EvalCode. I'd recommend putting your Python code

Re: Python OpenSSL library

2010-06-15 Thread geremy condra
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > Hello, > >> He's describing the lack of hostname checking, discussed here[0], >> here[1], and in my pycon lightning talk last year, wherever those >> are kept. > > Ok, thank you. > I have tried to put some effort into the py3k ssl docs, so

Can code objects outlive the interpreter that created them?

2010-06-15 Thread Andy Jost
Hi, I'm working on an application program that embeds Python using the C-API. Sometimes, I need to call functions written in pure Python from the C code, so I use Py_CompileString and PyEval_EvalCode. I would like to avoid compiling the same code over and over by storing the result of Py_Compi

Re: Python OpenSSL library

2010-06-15 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Hello, > He's describing the lack of hostname checking, discussed here[0], > here[1], and in my pycon lightning talk last year, wherever those > are kept. Ok, thank you. I have tried to put some effort into the py3k ssl docs, so that security issues get mentioned: http://docs.python.org/dev/py3k

Re: Python OpenSSL library

2010-06-15 Thread geremy condra
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:47:49 +0100 > Nobody wrote: >> On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:43:02 -0700, John Nagle wrote: >> >> >     The new SSL module in Python 2.6 >> >> There isn't an SSL module in Python 2.6. There is a module named "ssl" >> which p

Introducing - Pyaudiogen

2010-06-15 Thread Thomas Jollans
Hello list, Here's a little Python toy I've been hacking on, as I thought it might amuse some of you. [1] Python 3.1+ (not sure about 3.0) It's a package called 'audiogen' which includes bindings to libao for portable audio output and some functions/classes/... for generating audio. It grew from

Re: Python OpenSSL library

2010-06-15 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:47:49 +0100 Nobody wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:43:02 -0700, John Nagle wrote: > > > The new SSL module in Python 2.6 > > There isn't an SSL module in Python 2.6. There is a module named "ssl" > which pretends to implement SSL, but in fact doesn't. What do you mean

Re: Readability (html purifier) in Python

2010-06-15 Thread Stefan Behnel
Дамјан Георгиевски, 15.06.2010 17:44: http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ Readability is a javascript bookmarklet that "makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you're reading." Does anyone know of something similar in Python? Well, that sounds lik

Readability (html purifier) in Python

2010-06-15 Thread Дамјан Георгиевски
http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ Readability is a javascript bookmarklet that "makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you're reading." Does anyone know of something similar in Python? -- дамјан ((( http://damjan.softver.org.mk/ ))) "Debug

Re: Python OpenSSL library

2010-06-15 Thread John Nagle
On 6/14/2010 11:58 AM, geremy condra wrote: On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Nobody wrote: On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:43:02 -0700, John Nagle wrote: The new SSL module in Python 2.6 There isn't an SSL module in Python 2.6. There is a module named "ssl" which pretends to implement SSL, but

Re: Possible to make subprocess.Popen jobs run serially rather than in parallel?

2010-06-15 Thread Stephen Hansen
On 6/15/10 11:52 AM, Chris Seberino wrote: > Possible to make subprocess.Popen jobs run serially rather than in > parallel? > > In other words, if a computer is low on memory and doesn't mind > waiting.can Popen be configured to submit to a queue and run jobs > *ONE AT TIME*?? > > That might

Re: Python Library Win7 -64 Bit

2010-06-15 Thread Martin v. Loewis
Has anyone had any prior experience with this sort of problem or can anyone point me in the right direction? My recommendation is to install the 32-bit version of Python, and use precompiled binaries of libxml. Failing that, install Visual Studio Express (or Visual Studio proper), and compile l

Possible to make subprocess.Popen jobs run serially rather than in parallel?

2010-06-15 Thread Chris Seberino
Possible to make subprocess.Popen jobs run serially rather than in parallel? In other words, if a computer is low on memory and doesn't mind waiting.can Popen be configured to submit to a queue and run jobs *ONE AT TIME*?? That might be useful and avoid crashes and disk swapping. cs -- http

Re: pythonize this!

2010-06-15 Thread superpollo
Paul Rubin ha scritto: superpollo writes: goal (from e.c.m.): evaluate 1^2+2^2+3^2-4^2-5^2+6^2+7^2+8^2-9^2-10^2+...-2010^2, where each three consecutive + must be followed by two - (^ meaning ** in this context) print sum([-1,1,1,1,-1][i%5]*i**2 for i in xrange(1,2011)) beautiful. thx -- h

Re: Different byte-code in same major version (2.6.x)?

2010-06-15 Thread Paul Rubin
Hartmut Goebel writes: > I'm facing a curious problem: 2.6, 2.6.1 and 2.6.4 are generating > different byte-code for the same source. I can not find the reason for. Why should they generate the same bytecode? All that you should expect is that the same bytecode should be runnable on all three in

Re: pythonize this!

2010-06-15 Thread Paul Rubin
superpollo writes: > goal (from e.c.m.): evaluate > 1^2+2^2+3^2-4^2-5^2+6^2+7^2+8^2-9^2-10^2+...-2010^2, where each three > consecutive + must be followed by two - (^ meaning ** in this context) print sum([-1,1,1,1,-1][i%5]*i**2 for i in xrange(1,2011)) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Will and Abe's "Guide to Pyjamas"

2010-06-15 Thread Stef Mientki
On 14-06-2010 17:53, lkcl wrote: >> oh look - there's a common theme, there: "web technology equals >> useless" :) >> > this is getting sufficiently ridiculous, i thought it best to > summarise the discussions of the past few days, from the perspective > of four-year-olds: > > http://pyjs.org

Re: setprocname

2010-06-15 Thread Roel Schroeven
Op 2010-06-14 22:00, John Nagle schreef: > There's a way to do this in Windows. Look in Task Manager, > with a browser running, and the description for each Firefox > instance will show the page being displayed. Are you sure? I only see that on the Applications tab, which shows window titles;

Re: pythonize this!

2010-06-15 Thread Ian Kelly
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 6:21 AM, Alain Ketterlin wrote: > You compute i**2 too many times (7/5 times more than necessary) and > twice too many modulos. I suggest: > > c = { 0:1, 1:1, 2:1, 3:-1, 4:-1 } > #or, why not: c = lambda i : +1 if (i%5) < 3 else -1 > > s = 0 > for i in range(1,2011): >    s

Re: logging = logging.getLogger(__name__)

2010-06-15 Thread Stephen Hansen
On 6/15/10 9:03 AM, genkuro wrote: > I'm coming to Python from Java. I'm still getting a feel for scoping > limits. For the sake of curiosity, is there another way to refer to a > package besides name? The only way to refer to anything is by its name -- or, from a name and through subscript/dot

Re: logging = logging.getLogger(__name__)

2010-06-15 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 15/06/2010 17:03, genkuro wrote: On Jun 15, 8:49 am, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 15/06/2010 16:35, genkuro wrote: Newbie here. I may be missing something obvious, in which case, please feel free to berate and laugh at me. Here's a dubious line of code: logging = logging.getLogger(__name__)

Re: logging = logging.getLogger(__name__)

2010-06-15 Thread Jean-Michel Pichavant
genkuro wrote: On Jun 15, 8:49 am, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 15/06/2010 16:35, genkuro wrote: Newbie here. I may be missing something obvious, in which case, please feel free to berate and laugh at me. Here's a dubious line of code: logging = logging.getLogger(__name__)

Re: Community (A Modest Proposal)

2010-06-15 Thread geremy condra
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 7:08 AM, Shashwat Anand wrote: > IDEs are seriously over-rated. > Vim FTW. > The only issue for beginners is they should know touch typing to fully > utilize Vim and the initial curve is a bit high as compared to normal > editors/IDEs. Used to be vim-only. Then I got to kn

Re: logging = logging.getLogger(__name__)

2010-06-15 Thread Dave Angel
genkuro wrote: Newbie here. I may be missing something obvious, in which case, please feel free to berate and laugh at me. Here's a dubious line of code: logging = logging.getLogger(__name__) How can I refer to the original logging package "logging" after this statement is run? Specifically,

Re: logging = logging.getLogger(__name__)

2010-06-15 Thread genkuro
On Jun 15, 8:49 am, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 15/06/2010 16:35, genkuro wrote: > > > Newbie here.  I may be missing something obvious, in which case, > > please feel free to berate and laugh at me. > > > Here's a dubious line of code: > > logging = logging.getLogger(__name__) > > > How can I refer

Re: logging = logging.getLogger(__name__)

2010-06-15 Thread Paul Rudin
Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> writes: > genkuro wrote: > >> Newbie here. I may be missing something obvious, in which case, >> please feel free to berate and laugh at me. >> >> Here's a dubious line of code: >> logging = logging.getLogger(__name__) > > Dubious indeed. As a workaround you can im

Re: Is there any module/utility like 'rsync' in python

2010-06-15 Thread Paul Rudin
Jonathan Fine writes: > hiral wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Is there any module/utility like 'rsync' in python. >> >> Thank you in advance. > > Not exactly what you asked for, but Mercurial provides a Python > interface. You might find this URL a good starting point: >http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki

Re: logging = logging.getLogger(__name__)

2010-06-15 Thread Peter Otten
genkuro wrote: > Newbie here. I may be missing something obvious, in which case, > please feel free to berate and laugh at me. > > Here's a dubious line of code: > logging = logging.getLogger(__name__) Dubious indeed. As a workaround you can import the module again, preferably under another na

Re: logging = logging.getLogger(__name__)

2010-06-15 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 15/06/2010 16:35, genkuro wrote: Newbie here. I may be missing something obvious, in which case, please feel free to berate and laugh at me. Here's a dubious line of code: logging = logging.getLogger(__name__) How can I refer to the original logging package "logging" after this statement is

Re: Is there any module/utility like 'rsync' in python

2010-06-15 Thread Jonathan Fine
hiral wrote: Hi, Is there any module/utility like 'rsync' in python. Thank you in advance. Not exactly what you asked for, but Mercurial provides a Python interface. You might find this URL a good starting point: http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/MercurialApi -- Jonathan -- http://mail

logging = logging.getLogger(__name__)

2010-06-15 Thread genkuro
Newbie here. I may be missing something obvious, in which case, please feel free to berate and laugh at me. Here's a dubious line of code: logging = logging.getLogger(__name__) How can I refer to the original logging package "logging" after this statement is run? Specifically, I'm trying to add

Re: Archiving emails in Gmail

2010-06-15 Thread Tim Golden
On 15/06/2010 16:15, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2010-06-15, Tim Golden wrote: On 15/06/2010 15:10, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2010-06-15, teja wrote: I have a requirement that I want to log-in into a gmail account read all unread mails, mark them as read and then archive them. I am using libgmai

Re: Archiving emails in Gmail

2010-06-15 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-06-15, Tim Golden wrote: > On 15/06/2010 15:10, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2010-06-15, teja wrote: >> >>> I have a requirement that I want to log-in into a gmail account read >>> all unread mails, mark them as read and then archive them. >>> I am using libgmail (version 0.1.11) library to

Re: GUIs - A Modest Proposal

2010-06-15 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 05:57:13 -0700, lkcl wrote: > to be honest, if you don't put any effort in to use the appropriate > "lovely-prettiness" panels you can end up with something truly "90s- > esque". but with a little effort you can do round-edged lovely colour > tabs: >http://pyjs.org/exampl

Re: newbie subprocess.Popen performance issues/questions

2010-06-15 Thread Chris Seberino
On Jun 15, 2:44 am, News123 wrote: > ChrisSeberinowrote: > > I tried to use subprocess.Popen to make my web app do a bunch of stuff > > in separate processes today.  It appeared like only the first one > > finished and/or the rest of the forked processes crashed. > First thing to do would be to s

Re: Archiving emails in Gmail

2010-06-15 Thread Tim Golden
On 15/06/2010 15:10, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2010-06-15, teja wrote: I have a requirement that I want to log-in into a gmail account read all unread mails, mark them as read and then archive them. I am using libgmail (version 0.1.11) library to do so, using which I am able to log-in into a gma

Re: Different byte-code in same major version (2.6.x)?

2010-06-15 Thread Thomas Jollans
On 06/15/2010 02:54 PM, Hartmut Goebel wrote: > Hi, > > I'm facing a curious problem: 2.6, 2.6.1 and 2.6.4 are generating > different byte-code for the same source. I can not find the reason for. > > As you may know, I'm providing the 'decompyle' service as > www.crazy-comnpilers.com. This servic

Re: Archiving emails in Gmail

2010-06-15 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-06-15, teja wrote: > I have a requirement that I want to log-in into a gmail account read > all unread mails, mark them as read and then archive them. > I am using libgmail (version 0.1.11) library to do so, using which I > am able to log-in into a gmail account fetch all unread message a

Re: Python Library Win7 -64 Bit

2010-06-15 Thread Thomas Jollans
On 06/15/2010 02:03 PM, James Ravenscroft wrote: > Dear All, > > Before I start, I'm aware of how much of a nightmare MSys and MINGW are > in comparison to UNIX/Linux environments, I'm a casual Ubuntu user > myself and I wouldn't go near Windows if I didn't have to. > > I'm trying to install the

Re: Community (A Modest Proposal)

2010-06-15 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-06-15, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:20:29 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote about IDLE: > >>> We are at once lucky to have a built in editor >> >> It is certainly a boon to someone like me who now only programs in >> Python and had no experience, let alone commitment to any of

Re: pythonize this!

2010-06-15 Thread Peter Otten
Stefan Behnel wrote: > superpollo, 15.06.2010 14:55: >> Peter Otten ha scritto: >>> superpollo wrote: >>> goal (from e.c.m.): evaluate 1^2+2^2+3^2-4^2-5^2+6^2+7^2+8^2-9^2-10^2+...-2010^2, where each three consecutive + must be followed by two - (^ meaning ** in this context) >>> >>>

Re: pythonize this!

2010-06-15 Thread superpollo
Stefan Behnel ha scritto: superpollo, 15.06.2010 14:55: Peter Otten ha scritto: superpollo wrote: goal (from e.c.m.): evaluate 1^2+2^2+3^2-4^2-5^2+6^2+7^2+8^2-9^2-10^2+...-2010^2, where each three consecutive + must be followed by two - (^ meaning ** in this context) from itertools import

Re: Community (A Modest Proposal)

2010-06-15 Thread Michael Torrie
On 06/15/2010 01:30 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > I know that lots of people swear by IDEs, and back in Ancient Days I used > to use the THINK Pascal IDE on a Macintosh so I'm not hostile to the > idea. But in those days you could only run one app at a time, so you > needed an IDE or you'd go ins

Re: pythonize this!

2010-06-15 Thread Stefan Behnel
superpollo, 15.06.2010 14:55: Peter Otten ha scritto: superpollo wrote: goal (from e.c.m.): evaluate 1^2+2^2+3^2-4^2-5^2+6^2+7^2+8^2-9^2-10^2+...-2010^2, where each three consecutive + must be followed by two - (^ meaning ** in this context) from itertools import cycle, izip sum(sign*i*i fo

Re: pythonize this!

2010-06-15 Thread Shashwat Anand
>>> sum(i*i*(-1)**((i % 5) / 4 + (i + 4) % 5 / 4) for i in range(1,2011)) 536926141 On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 6:25 PM, superpollo wrote: > superpollo ha scritto: > > Peter Otten ha scritto: >> >>> superpollo wrote: >>> >>> goal (from e.c.m.): evaluate 1^2+2^2+3^2-4^2-5^2+6^2+7^2+8^2-9^2-1

Re: pythonize this!

2010-06-15 Thread Jean-Michel Pichavant
superpollo wrote: superpollo ha scritto: Peter Otten ha scritto: superpollo wrote: goal (from e.c.m.): evaluate 1^2+2^2+3^2-4^2-5^2+6^2+7^2+8^2-9^2-10^2+...-2010^2, where each three consecutive + must be followed by two - (^ meaning ** in this context) from itertools import cycle, izip sum

Re: pythonize this!

2010-06-15 Thread Andre Alexander Bell
On 06/15/2010 01:49 PM, superpollo wrote: > my solution: > > [...] > >>> print s > 536926141 Or, if you would like to use numpy: >>> import numpy >>> squares = numpy.arange(1, 2011, dtype=numpy.int)**2 >>> signs = numpy.ones(len(squares), dtype=numpy.int) >>> signs[3::5] = -1 >>> signs[4::5] = -1

Re: pythonize this!

2010-06-15 Thread Xavier Ho
On 15 June 2010 22:55, superpollo wrote: > Peter Otten ha scritto: > > superpollo wrote: >> >> goal (from e.c.m.): evaluate >>> 1^2+2^2+3^2-4^2-5^2+6^2+7^2+8^2-9^2-10^2+...-2010^2, where each three >>> consecutive + must be followed by two - (^ meaning ** in this context) >>> >> >> from iterto

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