On my desktop at home which runs CRUX (http://crux.nu) I use
the Terminius (1) fonts which I installed myself.
I find this font especially nice for both Terminals and Editing code.
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is really cool. I haven't looked at the source code yet...
There was another game very similar to this - much more basic though
and when I saw it back then I wanted to do something similar!
Nice job!
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'm missing something here I don't see how you could
achieve communication with another process unless that
process has some kind of communication(s) interface; eg:
* some kind of listening socket
* some kind of I/O (pipe, stdin/stdout)
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. def __init__(self, x, y):
... super().__init__(x)
... print("Hello %s" % y)
...
>>> x = ExtendedBase("foo", "bar")
Hello foo
Hello bar
>>>
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x27;s stdin (file descriptor of 0)
Probably not a portable solution.
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On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> No it doesn't. Try writing something other than "foobar".
You've demonstrated a case where this doesn't work :)
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t process
with the KILL signal then any child procesases that were
created become zombies. You also can't handle the KILL
signal in your application (nor can the multiprocessing library)
and so it therefore cannot cleanup and terminate any child
processes in the normal way.
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ython ideology.
> be expanded to
>
> _temp = expr
> if _temp: return _temp
This could be simplified to just:
return expr or None
And more to the point... If your calee is relying
on the result of this function, just returning the
evaluation of "expr" is enoug
ot;didn't find an answer")
> raise ValueError raise ValueError
>
> Are you saying the two snippets above are equivalent?
def foo(n):
x = n < 5
if x:
return x
is functionally equivalent to:
def foo(n):
return n < 5
--
-
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Jason Swails wrote:
> This is only true if n < 5. Otherwise, the first returns None and the
> second returns False.
Which is why I said:
return expr or None
But hey let's argue the point to death!
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> be expanded to
>
>_temp = expr
>if _temp: return _temp
This could be simplified to just:
return expr or None
"""
Please read carefully before putting words in my mouth.
I stated very clear y that return? expr didn't seem fitting
in the python
making assumptions
about what the OP intended. Perhaps OPs should be more
clear ? :)
kid!
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reply.
Have a nice day,
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the same today!
Regardless of anyone's subjective opinions as to what
was clear - I still stand by what I said.
Nice comments btw Chris :)
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preciate your comments. Thank you!
Yes I do understand there is probably more code that
follows the return? - but I made an assumption and I'm
not going back on it :)
Thanks for making the two sides obviously clear!
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get the latest IDLE
source code, patch it, test it, see how you like it and if you feel
it useful, share the patch and/or file a bug with the patch.
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nt) but
hey it's all in good fun until someone looses an eyeball!
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tter to make use of modules here
as opposed to nesting classes.
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2) Formalize a new design for xyz
3) File a bug report for xyz
Complaining doesn't really get you very far, nor does
berating others (even if indirectly).
Whilst I agree that there are some folk who "might"
be guilty of egotist / arrogant attitudes there isn't
much anyone can do abou that - that's just part of
life and part of social interaction(s). Get over it.
For the most part - the Python Community as a whole
is very helpful, positive and has a lot of nice thinigs about it
(not just the language).
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Does anyone know of a tool that will help with
reformatting badly written code to be pep8 compliant ?
a 2to3 for pep8 ?
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On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 11:47 AM, James Mills
wrote:
> Does anyone know of a tool that will help with
> reformatting badly written code to be pep8 compliant ?
>
> a 2to3 for pep8 ?
In case there is no such tool (And I don't have the time to write one)
I've found this to be
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:
> *Please* don't re-post his crap.
Opps sorry :) I have never really known what to do with big-huge-long posts ? :)
Won't happen again!
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readability more than anything. I often use pyflakes in conjunction with
pep8 to keep my own code clean, readable and consistent.
Thanks for the suggestion!
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ady exists that fits your tastes.
I doubt such a tool could be written either.
The vim plugin I referenced earlier works nicely enough.
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week or month at least.
Because he has better things to do ?
LIke his job at Google ?
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different groups in the first
place (python-dev, python-core-mentoring, python-ideas, etc)
so that there is a clear separation of "what's what".
Can we stop arguing about this now ?
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7;ve been over this! :) And you're a bit late...
You said it yourself "If there is code after that snippet"
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ngs.
Use a a format specifier like this:
> message = "Bah."
>
> if test:
> message = "%s %s" (message, " Humbug!")
>
> print(message)
Python3 (afaik) also introduced the .format(...) method on strings.
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On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 2:05 PM, harrismh777 wrote:
> Are bug reports wanted here, or just in issue tracker?
Pretty sure they're wanted in the Issue Tracker.
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Hi all,
Is there a compatible way to use meteclasses
in both Python 2.x (2.6 to 2.7) and Python 3.x
(3.0 to 3.2).
Python 2.x:
class Foo(object):
__meteclass__ = MyMetaClass
Python 3.x:
class Foo(metaclass=MyMetaClass):
pass
Thanks,
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ttp://code.google.com/p/lepl/source/browse/src/lepl/matchers/matcher.py#40 I
> have
>
> _Matcher = ABCMeta('_Matcher', (object, ), {})
>
> and then
>
> class Matcher(_Matcher):
> ...
Thank Andrew. I like this approach Elegance wins for me :)
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See: http://docs.python.org/library/pickle.html#the-pickle-protocol
Any time you want to unpickle a user class, that class must be available.
I suggest serializing to a more common format (say JSON) and re-create
your class with the data.
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which module is best suited to
> do this? subprocess?
Yes start with the subprocess module:
http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html
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:
a, b, = 1, 1
while n > 1:
a, b = b, a + b
n -= 1
return b
#cloud.start_simulator()
jobs = cloud.map(fib, range(100))
print [cloud.result(job) for job in jobs]
Enjoy! :)
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I find the API provided to be quite simple robust and potentially very
powerful - depending on your application.
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n
Python 2.x and Python 3.x - notably:
except Exception, e: # Python 2.x
except Exception as e: # Python 3.x
I might suggest you take a look at using lxml instead
which ships with the standard library.
[ ... ]
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On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Stefan Behnel wrote:
> No. While this has been suggested, it will not become part of the stdlib in
> the foreseeable future. It's readily available as a separate package on
> PyPI, though.
Opps I meant xml.etree :/
My bad!
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On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Jabba Laci wrote:
> If I want to check if a list is empty, which is the more pythonic way?
[...]
> (2) if not li:
This is fine.
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problem
You will need to (naively) do this:
if "a" not in line or "b" not in line or "c" not in line:
print line
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ot; " for x in range(5)] for y in range(5)]
>>> from pprint import pprint
>>> pprint(grid)
[[' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' '],
[' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' '],
[' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' '],
[&
h the
suggestion (even if it is "right"), perhaps keep that to yourself.
if not my_list:
is a perfectly valid and fine idiom to use in Python.
If you prefer some other way, that's fine. Quite frankly
I'm sick of seeing posts that argue for the sake of arguing.
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is a dynamic programming language) but errors should
be handled and caught by the caller - not the callee.
My 2c, others may have other points of view...
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> or not?
Recently I wrote a simple backup system for a client using
a mixture of Python and Bash using rsync, ssh and pptp.
(Not packaged well enough to show source though)
It works very well and does the job.
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al stack trace
Valid point :) However I was referring to real experience
where I've seen code that "catches all any any exception"
and simply logs it.
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onyms.
> 5. is there a way to find out if the thread is still active or dead?
See: pydoc threading.Thread or help(threading.Thread)
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te all parts you want to hide in C/C++/Cython and
> distribute them as .so/.dll
Or you could do what everyone else is doing
and provide your "application" as a service in some manner.
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his, short of closed-source?
As I mentioned before (which I don't think you quite got)...
Write your "game" for the "web".
Write is as a SaaS (Software as a Service) - even if it's free and open source.
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are not very accessible.
Funny you should mention this "now" :)
I happen to be blind myself.
Yes I agree Flash is not very accessible (never has been).
Web Standards web apps and such however are quite
accessible!
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r calling it a LateFunction seems more "fitting" :)
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I'd like to volunteer!
On Mar 5, 2014 7:13 PM, "M.-A. Lemburg" wrote:
> [Please help spread the word by forwarding to other relevant mailing lists,
> user groups, etc. world-wide; thanks :-)]
>
> Dear Python Community,
>
> for many years, the Python Job board (
> http://legacy.python.org/communi
On Dec 14, 3:30 am, Pedro Henrique Guedes Souto
wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 3:22 PM, prakash jp wrote:
> > Want to publish a log file as a web page, is there a parser to retain the
> > format of the text as is and then convert to html. Please provide the
> > relevant pointers
Hey Pedro,
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 9:49 AM, killsto wrote:
> Thanks. That makes sense. It helps a lot. Although, you spelled color
> wrong :P.
color
colour
They are both correct depending on what
country you come from :)
> Just curious, is there another way? How would I do this in c++ which
> is listless
Hey all,
The following fails for me:
>>> from urllib2 import urlopen
>>> f =
>>> urlopen("http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-announce/feed/rss_v2_0_msgs.xml";)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 124, in urlopen
return _
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Philip Semanchuk wrote:
>
> On Jan 11, 2009, at 8:59 PM, James Mills wrote:
>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> The following fails for me:
>>
>>>>> from urllib2 import urlopen
>>>>> f =
>>>>> ur
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Philip Semanchuk wrote:
> Oooops, I guess it is my brain that's not working, then! Sorry about that.
Nps.
> I tried your sample and got the 403. This works for me:
(...)
> Some sites ban UAs that look like bots. I know there's a Java-based bot with
> a distinct
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 2:26 PM, killsto wrote:
> I was kidding. IMO, we Americans should spell color like everyone
> else. Heck, use the metric system too while we are at it.
Yes well why don't you start up a rally and convince
your brand new shiny government to catch up with
the rest of the wor
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:25 AM, Laszlo Nagy wrote:
> The question is: what is the standard way to implement fast and portable IPC
> with Python? Are there tools in the standard lib that can do this?
Certainly not standard by any means, but I use
circuits (1). Two or more processes can communicat
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:40 AM, Laszlo Nagy wrote:
> Can anyone tell me if select.select works under OS X?
Yes it does.
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On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Catherine Moroney
wrote:
> I would like to spawn off multiple instances of a function
> and run them simultaneously and then wait until they all complete.
> Currently I'm doing this by calling them as sub-processes
> executable from the command-line. Is there a w
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:29 AM, killsto wrote:
> I'm trying to implement a basic user controlled sliding box with
> pygame. I have everything worked out, except for two things.
Try the pygame mailing list :)
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On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:35 AM, MRAB wrote:
> The disadvantage of threads in Python (CPython, actually) is that
> there's the GIL (Global Interpreter Lock), so you won't get any speed
> advantage if the threads are mostly processor-bound.
The OP didn't really say what this function
does :) *sig
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Russ P. wrote:
> Here's the definition on the Wikipedia page for object oriented
> programming (and it does *not* sound like Python classes):
>
> Encapsulation conceals the functional details of a class from objects
> that send messages to it. ... Encapsulation is
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:28 AM, wrote:
> class MyFrame(wx.Frame):
>def __init__(self, *args, **kwds):
It might be helpful here if you called
the parent __init__. Like so:
class MyFrame(wx.Frame):
def __init__(self, *args, **kwds):
super(MyFrame, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
.
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Paul Rubin
<"http://phr.cx"@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> "James Mills" writes:
>> You do realize this is a model and not strictly a requirement. Quite
>> a few things in Python are done merely by convention.
>> Don&#x
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
> public = no leading underscore
> private = one leading underscore
> protected = two leading underscores
>
> Python uses encapsulation by convention rather than by enforcement.
As mentioned previously this is not encapsulation, but
access cont
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Russ P. wrote:
> Yes, but the fact that you can approximate OO programming in a
> particular language does not make that language object oriented. You
> can approximate OO programming in C, but that does not mean that C is
> an OO language.
Wrong. Not having stric
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Rhodri James
wrote:
> I wouldn't violently object to having some means of policing class
> or module privacy, but it does have consequences. When it's a
> convention, you can break it; when it isn't, you can't, even if
> you do have good reason. Add that to the o
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:31 PM, r wrote:
>> public = no leading underscore
>> private = one leading underscore
>> protected = two leading underscores
>>
>> Python uses encapsulation by convention rather than by enforcement.
>
> Very well said Terry!
>
> I like that python does not force me to do
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Carl Banks wrote:
> 1. Wise people don't believe everything that is written on Wikipedia.
> 2. The person who wrote that line in Python.org is a wise person.
Agreed.
> You know what? Computer science buzzwords mean jack squat to me. I
> don't give a horse's tai
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Russ P. wrote:
(...)
>> Give me one use-case where you strictly require
>> that members of an object be private and their
>> access enforced as such ?
>
> You're kidding, right? Think about a ten-million line program being
> developed by 100 developers.
No I"m so
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Russ P. wrote:
> I think you are the one who is confused. Part of the problem here is
> that the term "encapsulation" has at least two widely used meanings
> (in the context of programming). In one sense, it just means grouping
> data and methods together. In anoth
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Russ P. wrote:
> You know what? The more I think about the kind of nonsense you and
> others are spouting here, the more annoyed I get. I will gladly agree
> that encapsulation may be more trouble than it's worth for small
> applications, maybe even some medium siz
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Paul Rubin
<"http://phr.cx"@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> "James Mills" writes:
>> Bare in mind also, that enfocing access control / policing as you
>> called it has a performance hit as the machine (the Python vm)
>>
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Brendan Miller wrote:
> PEP 8 doesn't mention anything about using all caps to indicate a constant.
>
> Is all caps meaning "don't reassign this var" a strong enough
> convention to not be considered violating good python style? I see a
> lot of people using it, bu
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 6:57 AM, koranthala wrote:
> Hi,
>I have a twisted based application based on Python 2.4.3. I also
> have one thread in this application.
>
>I found that my program crashes repeatedly after a random interval
> (ranging from 10 min to 3 hr). When I say crash, it is n
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Lambert, David W (S&T)
wrote:
> Please, why isn't a set permitted as the second argument to isinstance?
Care to show us a code sample ?
We're not psychic you know...
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On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:11 AM, dpapathanasiou
wrote:
> I wrote this function to retrieve a list of items from a dictionary.
>
> The first time it was called, it worked properly.
>
> But every subsequent call returned the results of the prior call, plus
> the results of the current call.
>
> I wa
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:32 AM, dpapathanasiou
wrote:
(...)
> It's not exactly right for what I'm doing, b/c the caller always
> expects a list in return.
How about this then:
def get_prior_versions (item_id, priors=None):
"""Return a list of all prior item ids starting with this one"""
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 9:27 AM, dpapathanasiou
wrote:
> Without the "if priors:" line just above the first return statement (a
> typo perhaps?), then yes, it would do what I want.
Yes sorry it was :)
>> a) a global should and need not be used.
>
> Passing the entire dictionary to every function
Speaking of Threading ..
http://codepad.org/dvxwAphE
Just a really interesting way of doing this :)
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Hey all,
I have this concept I'm working on and here is
the code... Problem is if you run this it doesn't
terminate. I believe you can terminate it in the
main process by calling a.stop() But I can't find a
way for it to self terminate, ie: self.stop() As indicated
by the code...
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Lambert, David W (S&T)
wrote:
> Overly terse. I do mean that this is illegal:
>
> isinstance(s, {str, bytes})
>
> tuples have order, immutability, and the possibility of repeat items.
>
> A set is most reasonable in a mathematical sense.
What's wrong with:
>>> a
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Russ P. wrote:
(..)
> One feature of Ada that I always thought was a good idea is the
> distinction between functions and procedures, where functions are
> guaranteed to not have side effects. But I don't think Ada allows
> advanced functional programming such as
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Michele Simionato
wrote:
(...)
> It could just be an issue of practicality. Python is an industrial
> strength language with libraries for everything and you can use it for
> your daily work. There are nice little languages out there that are
> however not usable
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:01 PM, wrote:
> I have Python 3.0. I tried to use the 2to3 program included with the
> interpreter to convert some scripts for Python 2.5 to Python 3.0 ones.
> When I try to start it form the Python command line, it says it is a
> syntax error.
>
> This was the line of c
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:17 PM, wrote:
$ 2to3.py testscript.py
> File "", line 1
>$ 2to3.py testscript.py
>^
> Syntax Error: Invalid Syntax
Oh i see...
You need to do 2 things:
1) Run 2to3 on the shell not the python interpreter.
2) Learn some basic UNIX.
cheers
James
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On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Michele Simionato
wrote:
(...)
> I would be fine having something like pylint built-in in the language
> and running at every change of the source code (unless disabled with a
> command line switch). I think this is the only reasonable solution to
> get some addit
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Michele Simionato
wrote:
(...)
> There are lots of Python developers (and most of the core developers)
> that think the OO community is wrong about enforced encapsulation.
> Personally, I think in a few years everybody will realize the mistake
> of enforced encaps
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:32 PM, wrote:
> I tried to run it on the command prompt (I use Windows XP) but it
> doesn't work either.
I did not realize you were using WIndows :)
Normally most shells in the UNIX/Linux world
start with a '$'.
> I opened the command prompt:
>
> C:\Documents and Setti
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:34 PM, asit wrote:
> I recently faced a peculiar o/p.
>
> My objective is to remove the command name(my script name) from
> sys.argv[0].
> I coded like this
If you _really_ want to remove your script_name from
sys.argv, then do this:
del sys.argv[0]
If you're just afte
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Russ P. wrote:
(...)
> Wait a minute. Aren't the guy who just took me to task about the
> definition of functional programming? So the definition of functional
> programming is written in stone, but the definition of OO programming
> is written in smoke?
Did anyo
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Laszlo Nagy wrote:
(...)
Value won't do obviously :) As there could be
an arbitary no. of processes.
> What do you want to try with this example?
I guess I just am confused as to what
belongs to which process (the main or the child) ...
I need a clear cut examp
After some work ... I've taken Laszlo's suggestion of using Value
(shared memory) objects
to share state between the -pseudo- Process (manager) object and it's
underlying multiprocessing.Process
instance (and subsequent process):
Here is the code:
#!/usr/b
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:30 PM, wrote:
> We've been running SpamBayes on the news-to-mail gateway on mail.python.org
> for a couple weeks now. To me it seems like the level of spam leaking onto
> the list has dropped way down but I'd like some feedback from people who
> read the python-list@pyt
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 4:28 AM, Cong Ma wrote:
> I'd appreciate your hints on this problem. I'm writing a module in which
> several
> functions can alter the value of a global variable (I know this sounds evil,
> please forgive me...). What I'm trying to do is to eliminate the "global foo"
> lin
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Cong Ma wrote:
> I've thought of this too, but it turns out those functions are related to each
> other very loosely. They do a lot of completely different things independently
> and have just one common global variable to share. IMHO it would reduce the
> readabil
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Paul Rubin
<"http://phr.cx"@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> gert writes:
>> s = urandom(10).encode('hex')
>> AttributeError: 'bytes' object has no attribute 'encode'
>
> Oh, Python 3. It's done some different way, someone else will have to
> specify. I'm still using 2
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