somewhere, but I think what I need is the locals
() dictionary of the calling function, and I'm not sure how to get
that.
Thanks,
Evan Driscoll
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On Aug 25, 2:33 pm, Evan Driscoll eva...@gmail.com wrote:
I want to make a context manager that will temporarily change the
value of a variable within the scope of a 'with' that uses it. This is
inspired by a C++ RAII object I've used in a few projects. Ideally,
what I want is something like
On Aug 25, 3:07 pm, Evan Driscoll eva...@gmail.com wrote:
Okay, so I think I actually got this with some consultation with a
friend. Critiques?
This is wrong; it's not quite working right. It does with the example
I posted, but not in a more thorough test.
I'm still ignoring the you can't do
On Aug 25, 3:25 pm, Diez B. Roggisch de...@nospam.web.de wrote:
Modifying locals isn't really allowed - it might stop working with
certain implementations of python.
And to be honest - I don't really see a use-case for your whole
approache. Why don't you want to introduce a new name?
Wow,
On Aug 25, 3:47 pm, Evan Driscoll eva...@gmail.com wrote:
So here is my simplified version that only works for globals:
So I think this works if (1) you only use changed_value in the same
module as it's defined in (otherwise it picks up the globals from the
module it's defined in, which
On Aug 26, 10:15 am, Carl Banks pavlovevide...@gmail.com wrote:
Well, it wouldn't be a can I rebind a variable using a with-
statement thread if someone didn't post a solution that they thought
worked, but didn't test it on local variables.
I'm not going to deny it was pretty stupid... though
On 09/21/2012 02:45 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 14:26:04 +0530, Mayuresh Kathe mayur...@kathe.in
declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
Is there a good book on foundational as well as advanced algorithms
using Python?
Depends on what you mean by
On 10/04/2012 04:59 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
why the \s{6}+ is not a regular pattern?
Why are you too lazy to do any research before posting a question?
Errr... what?
I'm only somewhat familiar with the extra stuff that languages provide
in their regexs beyond true regular
On 10/05/2012 04:23 AM, Duncan Booth wrote:
A regular expression element may be followed by a quantifier.
Quantifiers are '*', '+', '?', '{n}', '{n,m}' (and lazy quantifiers
'*?', '+?', '{n,m}?'). There's nothing in the regex language which says
you can follow an element with two quantifiers.
On 10/05/2012 10:27 AM, Evan Driscoll wrote:
On 10/05/2012 04:23 AM, Duncan Booth wrote:
A regular expression element may be followed by a quantifier.
Quantifiers are '*', '+', '?', '{n}', '{n,m}' (and lazy quantifiers
'*?', '+?', '{n,m}?'). There's nothing in the regex language which says
you
[Stefan gave part of an answer here, but I've got an addition too.]
On 10/16/2012 6:46 AM, Marco Nawijn wrote:
I never worked with Cython (but I know it is very powerful and interesting)
but in my mind there are slight differences in usage scenario between e.g.
Boost Python and Cython. For
Ooo, a good religious war. How could I resist? :-) Bear in mind that
what I say is relative to layout issues, which in the grand scheme of
things. So even if I say I really disklike something, it's still not so
bad in practice. Except for backslash continuations. :-)
On 10/18/2012 01:06 AM, Zero
Oh, and a little more information:
The log.txt file I create has the message that it's about to execlp,
and the exec() *does* actually happen -- the IOError is raised after the
child process quits.
Evan
On 10/23/2012 09:59 PM, Evan Driscoll wrote:
I have the following program. Everything
I have the following program. Everything is sunshine and rainbows when I
run in in Python 2, but when I run it under Python 3 I get an IOError.
2to3 only reports one dumb suggestion re. a print call (which I can get
rid of by importing __future__'s print_function, and then it just
suggests
why it worked in 2 though.
Evan
On 10/23/2012 10:03 PM, Evan Driscoll wrote:
Oh, and a little more information:
The log.txt file I create has the message that it's about to execlp,
and the exec() *does* actually happen -- the IOError is raised after
the child process quits.
Evan
On 10/23
On 10/24/2012 05:26 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
But I'm still -0 on it, because it supplants the glaringly obvious:
m = ...
assignment with the far less in your face:
possibly-long-expr as m
and I think it would get quite heavily used, to the detriment of
assignment readability in
On 10/28/2012 7:18 PM, Chris Rebert wrote:
This is fixed in Python 3, where such nonsensical comparisons will
instead raise TypeError.
It's worth pointing out that at least one kind of inequality comparison
which some people (e.g. me) would consider nonsensical is still allowed
in Python 3,
On 10/29/2012 12:05 PM, andrea crotti wrote:
I meant how do I create new immutables classes myself, I guess that's
possible writing C extensions but I don't see in pure Python..
The short answer is: you don't, not really, except by using NamedTuple
if that gives you what you want.
The longer
I have perhaps a bit of a silly question, but I'm interested in what
people do for workflow when actively developing multiple Python modules
at once (for a single project).
Suppose I have packages A-C. In addition to being modules in the Python
sense, they are logically distinct, probably sit in
On 11/20/2012 05:46 PM, Alan Meyer wrote:
On 11/20/2012 11:29 AM, mherrmann...@gmail.com wrote:
... generate_keystrokes? ...
Not bad. gen_keystrokes, or even keystrokes might also do.
I would emphatically vote no for keystrokes. That's a noun, not a
verb. What does it do? Tell you if its
On 11/25/2012 07:48 AM, kobayashi wrote:
Encoding is utf-8.
I use screen length means as that; that of ascii character is 1, and that of
character having double width than ascii character is 2.
It's not bytes, but drawing width.
As you say, it depends font. I'll be considering carefully.
On 11/22/2012 06:22 PM, Thomas Bach wrote:
I am using virtual environments and do a
python setup.py develop
on each package. This just creates a symbolic link to the package and
all edits show up immediately.
That's awesome; I didn't know about the 'develop' command. Thanks!
Is that just a
On 11/28/2012 01:57 PM, Ian Kelly wrote:
Yes, it's best to use either tabs-only or spaces-only. Quoting from PEP
8 on the subject:
Never mix tabs and spaces.
The most popular way of indenting Python is with spaces only. The
second-most popular way is with tabs only. Code
On 12/17/2012 09:52 AM, Oscar Benjamin wrote:
In the last couple of months there has been a lot of discussion (on
python-list or python-dev - not sure) about creating a library to more
efficiently iterate over the files in a directory. The result so far
is this library on github:
On 12/17/2012 01:50 PM, Oscar Benjamin wrote:
On 17 December 2012 18:40, Evan Driscoll drisc...@cs.wisc.edu wrote:
On 12/17/2012 09:52 AM, Oscar Benjamin wrote:
https://github.com/benhoyt/betterwalk
This is very useful to know about; thanks.
I actually wrote something very similar on my own
On 12/30/2012 4:19 PM, Hans Mulder wrote:
If it's okay to modify the original list, you can simply do:
l[0] = split(l[0], , )
If modifying the original is not okay, the simple solution would
be to copy it first:
l2 = l
l2[0] = split(l2[0], , )
Um, that doesn't copy the list:
l =
On 01/-10/-28163 01:59 PM, Ross Ridge wrote:
Evan Driscolldrisc...@cs.wisc.edu wrote:
People like you -- who write to assumptions which are not even remotely
guaranteed by the spec -- are part of the reason software sucks.
...
This email is a bit harsher than it deserves -- but I feel not by
On 01/-10/-28163 01:59 PM, Yingjie Lan wrote:
Because of the d... format, it won't
affect old ways of doing things one bit.
Allowing dynamic string wouldn't hurt
a bit to anything that is already there.
Why don't you just write a function that does it? I think someone
already suggested
On 01/-10/-28163 01:59 PM, Tycho Andersen wrote:
Note, though, that this reads the whole file into memory. As many
others have said, shutil is the most idiomatic option.
* most idiomatic
* clearest in terms of showing intent
* potentially fastest
* hardest to screw up (unlike concatenating
On 4/5/2012 13:24, Chris Angelico wrote:
I think this example highlights a major point about gotchas: the
difference between an obvious language feature and a gotcha depends on
where you come from. To a PHP programmer, 1 and 1 are in many ways
indistinguishable. To a C programmer, they're
On 4/5/2012 13:44, Michael Hrivnak wrote:
This is not a gotcha, and it's not surprising. As John described,
you're assigning a new value to an index of a tuple, which tuples
don't support.
Um, at least for me personally, yes, it is surprising, and yes, it is a
gotcha.
This goes back to what
On 4/5/2012 17:11, Evan Driscoll wrote:
In particular, the translation of 'a+=b' to 'temp = a + b; a = temp' is
*not* a very natural one to me.
To expand on this point slightly, because of common C++ idioms guided by
efficiency, I would be much more likely to think of 'a + b' as 'temp =
a, temp
I have a function 'f' and a list 'l'. I want a dictionary where the keys
are evaluations of 'f(thing from l)' and the values are lists of stuff
from 'l' that matches. So for instance, if 'f = lambda x: x%3' and
'l=range(9)', then I want { 0: [0,3,6], 1:[1,4,7], 2:[2,5,8]}.
I can do that with an
On 4/13/2012 22:33, Evan Driscoll wrote:
d = {}
def appender(e):
d.get(f(e), []).append(e)
map(appender, l)
Just in case it isn't clear, the above has at least two problems and
won't even come close to working. :-)
Though I might as well ask another question... if I have
On 4/13/2012 22:42, Evan Driscoll wrote:
Though I might as well ask another question... if I have a dict with
values which are lists, what's a good way to say append x to the list
at key k, creating a list if it's not there? dict.setdefault seems
potentially promising but the docs are crappy
On 4/20/2012 22:01, Roy Smith wrote:
A basket of apples is a basket which contains apples, in the same way a
list contains foos. But an iterator doesn't contain anything. You
wouldn't say, a spigot of water, because the spigot isn't a container
holding the water. It is simply a mechanism
This thread has already beaten a dead horse enough that the horse came
back as a zombie and was re-killed, but I couldn't help but respond to
this part:
On 01/-10/-28163 01:59 PM, Adam Skutt wrote:
Code that relies on the identity of a temporary object is generally
incorrect. This is why
On 01/-10/-28163 01:59 PM, Julio Sergio wrote:
I know that changing the order of the definitions will work, however there are
situations in which referring to an identifier before it is defined is
necessary, e.g., in crossed recursion.
Mutual recursion isn't a problem: the following strange
On 6/20/2012 19:53, Dave Angel wrote:
But since you mention java, I'd like
to point out a few things that are different between the two
environments. He and I are describing CPython; jython and other
implementations don't use .pyc files, and they behave differently.
There's one more
On 6/28/2012 7:28, Alex chen wrote:
I just want to write a python program,it can be called in the linux
terminal like the command cd to change the directory of the shell terminal
You can't do this; a program the shell runs cannot affect the shell's
execution.
What you have to do is have some
On 6/30/2012 19:37, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au
wrote:
I know of no programming language that
would give a newcomer to Python that expectation. So where is the norm
you're referring to?
C, SQL, REXX, and many other
On 6/30/2012 23:45, Evan Driscoll wrote:
You may also
want to put Java in there as well, as is effectively not commutative
in that language. (I didn't try C#.)
I guess you could actually put Lua and Ruby into the roughly same
category as Java too.
But things get a little nastier
On 7/1/2012 4:54, Alister wrote:
On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 23:45:25 -0500, Evan Driscoll wrote:
If I had seen that in a program, I'd have assumed it was a bug.
You would?
I have only been using python for 6 - 12 months but in my past I
programmed microcontrollers in assembly.
as soon as i saw
On 7/4/2012 14:37, Paul Rubin wrote:
I just came across this (https://gist.github.com/1208215):
import sys
import ctypes
pyint_p = ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_byte*sys.getsizeof(5))
five = ctypes.cast(id(5), pyint_p)
print(2 + 2 == 5) # False
On 01/-10/-28163 01:59 PM, Alexander Blinne wrote:
5+0 is actually 4+0, because 5 == 4, so 5+0 gives 4.
5+1 is actually 4+1, which is 5, but 5 is again 4.
5+2 is 4+2 which is 6.
Now all I can think is Hoory for new math, new-hoo-hoo math :-)
Evan
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On 01/-10/-28163 01:59 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
This is a deceptive and time-wasting link
Leaving aside the point that this is not directly related to Python, my
opinion is that if the authors will not make past and future papers
freely available, not even an abstract, they should not ask for
On 08/22/2012 12:46 PM, lipska the kat wrote:
If you can show me a 'type' that cannot be assigned to
a
in the same scope then I would be most interested to know, I haven't
found one yet.
As other people have said, you've just pointed out the difference
between static typing and dynamic
On 08/22/2012 02:45 PM, lipska the kat wrote:
On 22/08/12 20:03, Evan Driscoll wrote:
Second, this concept isn't *so* unfamiliar to you. If I give you the
following Java code:
void foo(Object o) { ... }
looking at this method declaration I can see that the method takes an
argument
On 8/22/2012 18:58, Ben Finney wrote:
You haven't discovered anything about types; what you have discovered is
that Python name bindings are not variables.
In fact, Python doesn't have variables – not as C or Java programmers
would understand the term. What it has instead are references to
On 08/23/2012 04:19 AM, lipska the kat wrote:
Well we don't want to turn this into a language comparison thread do we,
that might upset too many people but I can't remember ever writing a
method that took an Object as argument, you just can't do that much with
an Object.
In the pre-Java-1.5
[I have some things to say to a few people so I'm just putting it all in
one rather than clutter up your email box even more.]
On 08/23/2012 12:33 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
[Snip discussion on names vs variables]
Does that sort things out, or just make things more confusing?
ChrisA
I... am
On 08/23/2012 12:56 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:17:03 -0500, Evan Driscoll wrote:
I definitely *wouldn't* say Python
classes aren't really classes -- even though (I assert) Python classes
are *far* further from Simula-style (/Java/C++) classes than Python
variables
On 8/23/2012 22:17, alex23 wrote:
But Roy's point was that referring to 'a' as a 'variable' makes no
sense, as it's not an allocated piece of memory.
Does the computer just remember what 'a' refers to by keeping notes
about it in Narnia?
Put it this way. If C removed the operator -- and thus
On 08/24/2012 10:04 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
The fact that the end result is the same is hardly surprising -- Python's
VM is built on top of C pointer indirection, so of course you can start
with pointers and end up with Python semantics. But the practice of
coding are very different:
* in C,
On 08/24/2012 05:00 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
No. The compiler remembers the address of 'a' by keeping notes about it
somewhere in memory during the compilation process. When you run the
compiled program, there is no longer any reference to the name 'a'.
...
The mapping of name:address is
I'm interested in writing two programs, A and B, which communicate using
JSON. At a high level, A wants to transfer an array to B.
However, I would very much like to make it possible for A and B to run
in parallel, so my current plan is to have A output and B read a
*sequence* of JSON objects. In
On 12/17/2011 20:45, Chris Angelico wrote:
I'd go stronger than usually there. If 1+1 results in 11, then
that's not weak typing but rather a convenient syntax for
stringification - if every object can (or must) provide a to-string
method, and concatenating anything to a string causes it to be
On 12/17/2011 21:03, Evan Driscoll wrote:
Personally I'd put Python even weaker on account of things such as
'[1,2]*2' and '1 True' being allowed, but on the other hand it
doesn't allow 1+1.
Not to mention duck typing, which under my definition I'd argue is
pretty much the weakest of typing
On 12/17/2011 21:42, Chris Angelico wrote:
Welcome to the list! If you're curious as to what's happened, check
the archives:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/
Thanks! Incidentally, is there a good way to respond to the original
post in this thread, considering it wasn't delivered to
On 12/17/2011 22:52, buck wrote:
Try these on for size.
head, @tuple tail = sequence
def foo(@list args, @dict kwargs): pass
foo(@args, @kwargs)
For backward compatibility, we could say that the unary * is identical to
@list and unary ** is identical to @dict.
I like
On 12/17/2011 23:33, Evan Driscoll wrote:
I do have one more thing to point out, which is that currently the
Python vararg syntax is very difficult to Google for. In the first pages
of the four searches matching python (function)? (star | asterisk),
there was just one relevant hit
On 12/18/2011 2:36, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
The barrier to new keywords in Python is very high. Not going to
happen for something that already has perfectly good syntax already
familiar to Python and Ruby programmers. Might else well try to get C
and Java to stop using ... (ellipses).
I agree
On 12/18/2011 1:31, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
And rebutted. Modesty[1] prevents me from quoting myself, but here are
some links to searches:
http://duckduckgo.com/?q=python+asterisk
http://duckduckgo.com/?q=python+*
OK, so if you search using the right search engine, you *might* get a
link to
On 12/18/2011 8:35, Eelco wrote:
No, its not type *checking*, its type *declaration*. I tried to go to
great lengths to point that out, but it appears I did not do a very
good job :). Type declaration is exactly what I want, and insofar this
syntax has already found adoptation elsewhere, ill
How 'bout just:
s = {0} {1} {2} {3}
s.format(1, 2, 3, 4)
'1 2 3 4'
Evan
On 12/31/2011 13:44, davidfx wrote:
Thanks for your response. I know the following code is not going to be
correct but I want to show you what I was thinking.
formatter = %r %r %r %r
print formatter % (1, 2, 3,
On 1/3/2012 0:27, Rick Johnson wrote:
Yes, i used the word work improperly here. Just another example of
the corrupting influence of garage verbiage. Thanks for bring this to
my attention!
Diction would be a far better word than verbiage there.
Evan
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On 1/3/2012 13:13, Sean Wolfe wrote:
What I am driving at is, if we are coding in python but looking for
more performance, what if we had an option to 1) restrict ourselves
somewhat by using strong typing to 2) make it easy to compile or
convert down to C++ and thereby gain more performance.
On 1/4/2012 12:37 AM, Terry Reedy wrote:
Using induction, I can prove, for instance, that these two functions
[snip]
are equivalent, assuming enough stack and normal procedural Python
semantics. (And assuming no typos ;-).
YOU proved that; your type system didn't. With a powerful enough type
On 1/4/2012 9:56 AM, Sean Wolfe wrote:
I am still living in the 2.x world because all the things I want to do
right now in python are in 2 (django, pygame). But I want to be
excited about the future of the language. I understand the concept of
needing to break backwards compatibility. But it's
I'd like to be able to be able to define options and then look at the
lists. (For a concrete idea of a use case, suppose that it did not
directly support the --help option and I wanted to write code that took
its place.) Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any public API for
doing this.
Even
Might as well ask another question of the list.
I've written a ctypes-based Python wrapper around the 'readdir'
function. (I want access to the dt_type field of the result, without
calling stat().)
However, it feels very... fragile. What happens on a different *nix
which uses a different size of
On 1/11/2012 19:37, alex23 wrote:
On Jan 11, 11:26 am, Evan Driscoll edrisc...@wisc.edu wrote:
(For a concrete idea of a use case, suppose that it did not
directly support the --help option and I wanted to write code that took
its place.)
That's a pretty weird definition of 'concrete use case
On 1/10/2012 22:42, Alec Taylor wrote:
Use size_t
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_data_types#Size_and_pointer_difference_types
Um, perhaps you misunderstand. I don't control the C API, I'm calling a
function that just exists in libc (unless I do what I said and write a
wrapper). If you're saying
On 01/13/2012 10:54 AM, Neil Cerutti wrote:
If you've ever implemented operator=, operator+, and operator+=
in C++ you'll know how and why they are different.
At the same time, you'd also know that that implementing them in such a
way that 'a += b' does *not* perform the same action as 'a = a
On 01/13/2012 03:20 PM, Neil Cerutti wrote:
They perform the same action, but their semantics are different.
operator+ will always return a new object, thanks to its
signature, and operator+= shall never do so. That's the main
difference I was getting at.
I was talking about the combination of
On 01/14/2012 02:11 PM, Devin Jeanpierre wrote:
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Rick Johnson
rantingrickjohn...@gmail.com wrote:
THAT PISSES ME OFF!!!:( We should never be forced to guess if a name
is a callable or a variable!
So how do we solve this dilemma you ask??? Well, we need to mark
As I hinted at in an earlier email, I'm working on a module which will
allow calling readdir() (and FindFirstFile on Windows, hopefully pretty
uniformly) from Python. The responses I got convinced me that it was a
good idea to write a C-to-Python bridge as an extension module.
What I'm not sure
On 01/23/2012 11:39 AM, Ian Kelly wrote:
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time:
premature optimization is the root of all evil
-- Donald Knuth
To play devil's advocate for a moment, if you have the choice between
two ways of writing something, A and B, where
On 1/23/2012 23:57, Rick Johnson wrote:
Of
course, used to and supposed to will require people to rethink
there lazy and slothful ways.
I'll go repent in the corner, over their.
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I would just like to make a strong plea that you make it possible to
install in places other than /usr. Bascially, 'python setup.py install
--prefix /some/alternative/place' should work.
Evan
On 01/25/2012 11:26 AM, bvdp wrote:
I'm having a disagreement with a buddy on the packaging of a
On 1/25/2012 20:24, Devin Jeanpierre wrote:
If all you're going to change is the parser, maybe it'd be easier to
get things to coexist if parsers were pluggable in the re module.
It's more generally useful, too. Would let re gain a PyParsing/SNOBOL
like expression syntax, for example. Or a
On 01/-10/-28163 01:59 PM, 8 Dihedral wrote:
If you're working in C++ and overload your operators so that 'a +='
and 'a = + b' have different observable behaviors (besides perhaps
time), then either your implementation is buggy or your design is very
bad-mannered.
Evan
Do you mean the
Hi all,
I've been trying for a few days (only a little bit at a time) to come up
with a way of implementing a frozendict that doesn't suck. I'm gradually
converging to a solution, but I can't help but think that there's some
subtlety that I'm probably missing which is why it's not already
On 13:59, Nathan Rice wrote:
Turn the question around: why should there be?
Python is intentionally parsimonious in adding builtins.
For the same reason there are frozensets?
I put dicts in sets all the time. I just tuple the items, but that
means you have to re-dict it on the way out to
On 13:59, Ian Kelly wrote:
Define doesn't suck. If I were to hack one up, it would look
something like this:
from collections import Mapping, Hashable
So part of my objection was that I wanted to make sure I got all of the
expected functionality, and that takes a bunch of functions. I
On 2/29/2012 23:05, Dan Stromberg wrote:
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Xah Lee xah...@gmail.com
mailto:xah...@gmail.com wrote:
This page tells you what's “In-place algorithm”, using {python, perl,
emacs lisp} code to illustrate.
Aren't in-place reversals rather
On 01/-10/-28163 01:59 PM, Prasad, Ramit wrote:
gz stands for gzip and is a form of compression (like rar/zip ).
tar stands for a tape archive. It is basically a box that holds the
files. So you need to unzip and then open the box.
Normally programs like WinZip / WinRar / 7-zip will do both in
On 3/17/2012 9:03, Antti J Ylikoski wrote:
In his legendary book series The Art of Computer Programming,
Professor Donald E. Knuth presents many of his algorithms in the form
that they have been divided in several individual phases, with
instructions to GOTO to another phase interspersed in
On 01/-10/-28163 01:59 PM, Steve Howell wrote:
Code shouldn't necessarily follow the example of English prose, but it
seems that English has had some influence:
1 push(stack, item) # Push on the stack the item
2 push(item, stack) # Push the item on the stack
3 stack.push(item) # On
On 01/-10/-28163 01:59 PM, Prasad, Ramit wrote:
### CODE #
fileread = open('myfile.txt','r')
tbook = eval(fileread.read())
fileread.close()
The use of eval is dangerous if you are not *completely* sure what is
being passed in. Try using pickle instead:
On 01/-10/-28163 01:59 PM, Ross Ridge wrote:
Steven D'Apranosteve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote:
The right way to convert bytes to strings, and vice versa, is via
encoding and decoding operations.
If you want to dictate to the original poster the correct way to do
things then you
On 3/28/2012 14:43, Ross Ridge wrote:
Evan Driscoll drisc...@cs.wisc.edu wrote:
So yes, you can say that pretending there's not a mapping of strings to
internal representation is silly, because there is. However, there's
nothing you can say about that mapping.
I'm not the one labeling
On 01/09/2013 10:05 AM, Reed, Kevin wrote:
I have been unable to access wiki.python.org for two days. Is there a
problem with the server, or is it me?
I can't speak to why, but it appears down for me as well. I also checked
http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ (which is just about the best
On 1/18/2013 7:25 PM, Rick Johnson wrote:
Well anyone who is just blindly copying code to get through a CS
course is obviously not a natural problem solver ,and thus,
/incapable/ of becoming a proficient programmer anyhow. Programming
*IS* problem solving. If you don't get any thrill from the
On 01/23/2013 03:56 PM, Coolgg wrote:
Is this:
while True:
data = fp.read(4096)
if not data:
break
...
not equivalent to this:
data = fp.read (4096)
while data:
...{handle the chunk here}
data = fp.read (4096)
Heres the article that sparked this
Evan Driscoll eva...@gmail.com added the comment:
Hah, I totally forgot about this thing.
I'd suggest a change to the proposed patch. The patched version says:
In nearly all cases, ``join(head, tail)`` returns a location
equivalent to *path* (the only exception being when there were
New submission from Evan Driscoll eva...@gmail.com:
The documentation for os.path.split says, in part:
In nearly all cases, join(head, tail) equals path (the only
exception being when there were multiple slashes separating head
from tail).
But this is not quite true: that's
Change by Evan Driscoll <eva...@gmail.com>:
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nosy: +evaned
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Evan Driscoll <eva...@gmail.com> added the comment:
> I also think that nargs=## could maybe be special-cased to just ignore
> the A/O designation completely and only check there are enough, but I
> haven't tried this out. Does this seem like a viable approach? Would a
&g
Evan Driscoll <eva...@gmail.com> added the comment:
One last comment for the time being.
I actually think *both* changes are valuable. Fixing the bug, well, fixes the
bug if you can set the appropriate flag. The improved error message still helps
for existing code and new code that *d
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