SOAPpy proxy through NTLM

2015-03-28 Thread pfaff . christopherj
Hello, I am trying to build a python script to auto create RFC's (Reason For Change). The web service is using SOAP API 1.1, and requires ntlm authentication. I have tried several methods to start this process without success. I found that I could connect via NTLM and it returned the webpage.

Re: Proposal for new minor syntax

2015-03-28 Thread Rustom Mody
On Sunday, March 29, 2015 at 9:47:00 AM UTC+5:30, Ian wrote: > On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 9:05 AM, Mario Figueiredo wrote: > > Neiter the language. The dot symbol is a delimiter in the python > > grammar. Not an operator. And also defined as a delimiter in the > > official documentation, right after o

Re: Proposal for new minor syntax

2015-03-28 Thread Ian Kelly
On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 9:05 AM, Mario Figueiredo wrote: > Neiter the language. The dot symbol is a delimiter in the python > grammar. Not an operator. And also defined as a delimiter in the > official documentation, right after operators. What does it matter? How '.' is lexed when it appears on

Re: Sudoku solver

2015-03-28 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sun, 29 Mar 2015 10:50 am, BartC wrote: > >> (X is my own interpreted language, which is where my interest in this >> is. This had been generally faster than Python until PyPy came along. It >> does however use a pure byte-code interpret

Proposal for new minor syntax

2015-03-28 Thread Sayth
Sounds like you want to implement nim special dot syntax in python. http://nim-lang.org/manual.html#special-operators -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Sudoku solver

2015-03-28 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 29 Mar 2015 10:50 am, BartC wrote: > (X is my own interpreted language, which is where my interest in this > is. This had been generally faster than Python until PyPy came along. It > does however use a pure byte-code interpreter, so the result is not too > bad. > > But using X *and* my

Re: Python 2/3 versus Perl 5/6

2015-03-28 Thread Sayth
Perl 6 tried to acheive to much, and by delay and confusion lost the enthusiasm of the community behind it Perl 6 and the at that time robust Perl 5 community who saw it as the future, when that future waned so did their's. Perl 6 should have just done what the community wanted at that time, in

Re: Sudoku solver

2015-03-28 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 10:50 AM, BartC wrote: > Using the OP's algorithm, and testing with the 'hard' puzzle posted by Ian > Kelly, I got these approximate results: > > Python 3.1: 1700 seconds (normal Python interpreter) > PyPy: 93 seconds > C unoptimised: 17 seconds (gc

Re: Sudoku solver

2015-03-28 Thread BartC
On 28/03/2015 03:39, Sayth wrote: Good test for pypy to see where it's speed sits between C and Python. I've spent the last hour or so doing such tests. Using the OP's algorithm, and testing with the 'hard' puzzle posted by Ian Kelly, I got these approximate results: Python 3.1: 1700 se

Re: A simple single line, triple-quoted comment is giving syntax error. Why?

2015-03-28 Thread Tim Roberts
Aditya Raj Bhatt wrote: >On Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at 1:04:39 PM UTC-5, Laurent Pointal wrote: >> > Can someone also provide a sort of a 'guide' to triple-quoted >> > comments in general? >> >> A triple ' or " string is a Python string, allowing line-return in >> string. > >What do you mean b

Re: Python 2/3 versus Perl 5/6

2015-03-28 Thread Mario Figueiredo
On Sat, 28 Mar 2015 21:32:31 +1100, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >The famous Perl coder Allison Randal writes about why Perl is not dead (it's >just pining for the fjords *wink* ) and contrasts the Perl 5/6 split to >Python 2/3: A shame Allison doesn't frequent these groups. I would have a few questio

Re: Sudoku solver

2015-03-28 Thread Virgil Stokes
On 27-Mar-2015 15:09, Dave Angel wrote: On 03/27/2015 09:56 AM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: "Frank Millman" : So what I am talking about is called a "satisfactory" puzzle, which is a subset of a "proper" puzzle. That is impossible to define, though, because some people are mental acrobats and can

Re: A simple single line, triple-quoted comment is giving syntax error. Why?

2015-03-28 Thread Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn
Ian Kelly wrote: > […] Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn […] wrote: >> Ian Kelly wrote: >>> What I mean is that if you construct a parse tree of "foo" "bar" using >>> that grammar, it looks like this: >>> >>> expr >>>| >>> STRING+ >>> / \ >>> STRING STRING >>> […] >>> >>> There is

Re: To Change A Pdf Ebook To Kindle

2015-03-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 28 March 2015 07:27:54 David H. Lipman wrote: > >> "David H. Lipman" wrote in message > >> news:qecdnrkftl6qpy_inz2dnuu7-xmdn...@giganews.com... They must be > >> treated as spam. ab...@sourceforge.net > > No doubts now. They are on a spam campaign and has been found > spamming Web

Re: A simple single line, triple-quoted comment is giving syntax error. Why?

2015-03-28 Thread Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn
Gregory Ewing wrote: > Ian Kelly wrote: >> What I mean is that if you construct a parse tree of "foo" "bar" using >> that grammar, it looks like this: >> >> expr >>| >> STRING+ >> / \ >> STRING STRING > > Not quite -- STRING+ is not a symbol in the grammar, it's > a shor

Re: VB/Pascal with statement [was Re: Proposal for new minor syntax]

2015-03-28 Thread Rustom Mody
On Saturday, March 28, 2015 at 9:51:50 PM UTC+5:30, Rustom Mody wrote: > So if the VB model is followed, it is purely a syntactic (ie not type-related) > question whether an identifier is an adorned variable or an attribute of > something else. The preceding dot is the disambiguator. Uh... UN-ado

Re: VB/Pascal with statement [was Re: Proposal for new minor syntax]

2015-03-28 Thread Rustom Mody
On Saturday, March 28, 2015 at 11:56:39 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sat, 28 Mar 2015 03:18 pm, Rustom Mody wrote: > > > One thing that is a bit laborious in python are object initializers: > > > > self.attr1 = field1 > > self.attr2 = field2 > > > > In VB one can do: > > > > with se

Re: Proposal for new minor syntax

2015-03-28 Thread Mario Figueiredo
On Sat, 28 Mar 2015 13:38:20 +, BartC wrote: > >(I'm not sure how this all applies to the loop_node.next example, but >even here I don't count the "." as an operator, but syntax. Neiter the language. The dot symbol is a delimiter in the python grammar. Not an operator. And also defined as a

Re: VB/Pascal with statement [was Re: Proposal for new minor syntax]

2015-03-28 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 28/03/2015 12:58, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Sat, 28 Mar 2015 11:26 pm, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 28/03/2015 06:26, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Pascal is another language with a construct like that, and there's a FAQ for it: https://docs.python.org/2/faq/design.html#why-doesn-t-python-have-a-w

Re: Proposal for new minor syntax

2015-03-28 Thread BartC
On 28/03/2015 09:53, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Sat, 28 Mar 2015 10:08 am, BartC wrote: An alternate syntax might be: hello = .string() That should have been .strip() loop_node =. next Why propose that? Every other augmented assignment has the operator on the left hand side of the

Re: VB/Pascal with statement [was Re: Proposal for new minor syntax]

2015-03-28 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 28 Mar 2015 11:26 pm, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 28/03/2015 06:26, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >>Pascal is another language with a construct like that, and there's a FAQ >>for it: >> >> https://docs.python.org/2/faq/design.html#why-doesn-t-python-have-a-with-statement-for-attribute-assignments

Re: VB/Pascal with statement [was Re: Proposal for new minor syntax]

2015-03-28 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 28/03/2015 06:26, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Sat, 28 Mar 2015 03:18 pm, Rustom Mody wrote: One thing that is a bit laborious in python are object initializers: self.attr1 = field1 self.attr2 = field2 In VB one can do: with self .attr1 = field1 .attr2 = field2 (or something like that -- do

X-ray vision into Mobestream Media's candidates?

2015-03-28 Thread Mike Zaslavsky
Hi Ross, Hiring is easy. Hiring well is hard.  Job boards produce lots of applicants, especially for sales, marketing, customer service, and admin roles. But then what? Hundreds of resumes isn't the solution. It's part of the problem.  Recruiters are great at surfacing solid candidates, but

Re: To Change A Pdf Ebook To Kindle

2015-03-28 Thread David H. Lipman
"David H. Lipman" wrote in message news:qecdnrkftl6qpy_inz2dnuu7-xmdn...@giganews.com... They must be treated as spam. ab...@sourceforge.net No doubts now. They are on a spam campaign and has been found spamming Web Forums such as Malwarebytes. All Usenet users and Listserver recipien

Re: Proposal for new minor syntax

2015-03-28 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 28 Mar 2015 08:53 pm, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > It saves typing. It might even allow a micro-optimization in the generated > bytecode (see below). Oops, I forgot to include the "see below" bit. Comparing a = a.spam() a .= spam() the Python compiler could perhaps optimize the second

Python 2/3 versus Perl 5/6

2015-03-28 Thread Steven D'Aprano
The famous Perl coder Allison Randal writes about why Perl is not dead (it's just pining for the fjords *wink* ) and contrasts the Perl 5/6 split to Python 2/3: [quote] The single biggest thing we didn’t anticipate is that the “community rewrite of Perl” has, in fact, turned out to be a community

Re: Proposal for new minor syntax

2015-03-28 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 28 Mar 2015 07:48 am, Ian Kelly wrote: > On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 2:24 PM, Jamie Willis > wrote: >> I would like to propose a new piece of syntax for the python language; .= >> >> In short, the operator is form of syntactic sugar, for instance consider >> the following code: >> >> hello =

Re: Supply condition in function call

2015-03-28 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 28 Mar 2015 08:19 pm, Ian Kelly wrote: > I've never been a fan of the primary selection style anyway. Copying > text is conceptually an action. Selecting text is how one indicates > the target of an action; conceptually it is not an action itself and > shouldn't cause an action to be perfo

Re: Proposal for new minor syntax

2015-03-28 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 28 Mar 2015 10:08 am, BartC wrote: > An alternate syntax might be: > > hello = .string() > loop_node =. next Why propose that? Every other augmented assignment has the operator on the left hand side of the equals. Greater-than, less-than, and not-equal all have the symbol on the lef

Re: Supply condition in function call

2015-03-28 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 28 Mar 2015 06:50 pm, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Larry Hudson : > >> Highlight the selection you want copied, move the mouse cursor to the >> location you want it copied to and middle-click with the mouse. Works >> between programs as well as within a single program. And it copies >> directl

Re: Supply condition in function call

2015-03-28 Thread Ian Kelly
On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 1:50 AM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Larry Hudson : > >> Highlight the selection you want copied, move the mouse cursor to the >> location you want it copied to and middle-click with the mouse. Works >> between programs as well as within a single program. And it copies >> direc

Re: Sudoku solver

2015-03-28 Thread Ian Kelly
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 7:40 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Excluding that, the consensus seems to be that Perl's regexes are stronger > than Chomsky regular expressions, but nobody quite knows how much stronger. > It's likely that they are at least as powerful as context-free grammars, > but not as

Re: Supply condition in function call

2015-03-28 Thread Marko Rauhamaa
Larry Hudson : > Highlight the selection you want copied, move the mouse cursor to the > location you want it copied to and middle-click with the mouse. Works > between programs as well as within a single program. And it copies > directly without going through the clipboard. Unfortunately, Linux

Re: Supply condition in function call

2015-03-28 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 6:32 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> | Methods defined here: > > This is the usual guff that help() prints when you pass it a class or type. > Occasionally it is useful. Often it is not, especially the dunder methods. > > Unfortunately help's UI is rather primitive. It woul

Re: Supply condition in function call

2015-03-28 Thread Steven D'Aprano
By the way, you're not alone in recognising that Python 3 may be a little harder to teach to beginners than Python 2. Raymond Hettinger, one of the most respected Pythonistas around, has pointed out the same thing. More below. On Sat, 28 Mar 2015 12:48 am, Rustom Mody wrote: > On Friday, March

Re: Save session Selenium PhantomJS

2015-03-28 Thread Juan C.
Issue resolved. My code was working, the problem was PhantomJS 2.0, used 1.9.8 and now I have the 'cookies.txt' file as expected! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list