On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 9:27 AM, dpapathanasiou
denis.papathanas...@gmail.com 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
Speaking of Threading ..
http://codepad.org/dvxwAphE
Just a really interesting way of doing this :)
cheers
James
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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 (ST)
lamber...@corning.com 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
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Russ P. russ.paie...@gmail.com 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
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Michele Simionato
michele.simion...@gmail.com 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
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:01 PM, marco.m.peter...@gmail.com 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.
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:17 PM, marco.m.peter...@gmail.com wrote:
$ 2to3.py testscript.py
File stdin, 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.
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Michele Simionato
michele.simion...@gmail.com 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
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Michele Simionato
michele.simion...@gmail.com 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
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:32 PM, marco.m.peter...@gmail.com 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:
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:34 PM, asit lipu...@gmail.com 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
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:25 AM, Laszlo Nagy gand...@shopzeus.com 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
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:40 AM, Laszlo Nagy gand...@shopzeus.com wrote:
Can anyone tell me if select.select works under OS X?
Yes it does.
cheers
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On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Catherine Moroney
catherine.m.moro...@jpl.nasa.gov 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
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:29 AM, killsto kilian...@gmail.com 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 :)
cheers
James
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On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:35 AM, MRAB goo...@mrabarnett.plus.com 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
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Russ P. russ.paie...@gmail.com 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.
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:28 AM, pieterprovo...@gmail.com 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,
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Paul Rubin
http://phr.cx@nospam.invalid wrote:
James Mills prolo...@shortcircuit.net.au 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't get caught up.
But, if something
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu 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
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Russ P. russ.paie...@gmail.com 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.
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Rhodri James
rho...@wildebst.demon.co.uk 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
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:31 PM, r rt8...@gmail.com 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
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Carl Banks pavlovevide...@gmail.com 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
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Russ P. russ.paie...@gmail.com 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
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Russ P. russ.paie...@gmail.com 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
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Russ P. russ.paie...@gmail.com 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
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Paul Rubin
http://phr.cx@nospam.invalid wrote:
James Mills prolo...@shortcircuit.net.au writes:
Bare in mind also, that enfocing access control / policing as you
called it has a performance hit as the machine (the Python vm)
has to perform checks each time
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Brendan Miller catph...@catphive.net 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
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 9:49 AM, killsto kilian...@gmail.com 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++
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 stdin, line 1, in module
File /usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py, line 124, in urlopen
return
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Philip Semanchuk phi...@semanchuk.com wrote:
On Jan 11, 2009, at 8:59 PM, James Mills wrote:
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
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Philip Semanchuk phi...@semanchuk.com 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
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 2:26 PM, killsto kilian...@gmail.com 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
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 7:15 PM, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch bj_...@gmx.net wrote:
print(Filesize : %d % (filesize)) print(Image size : %dx%d
% (width, height)) print(Bytes per Pixel: %d % (blocksize))
Why parentheses around ``print``\s argument? In Python 3 ``print`` is
a statement
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch bj_...@gmx.net wrote:
Please read again what I wrote.
Lol I thought 3 was a smiley! :)
Sorry!
cheers
James
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On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com wrote:
(...)
How many projects are you processing at once? And how many MB of zip
files is it? As reading zip files does lots of disk IO I would guess
it is disk limited rather than anything else, which explains why doing
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 11:28 AM, webcomm rya...@gmail.com wrote:
Hmm. When I open it in Windows or with 7-Zip, it contains a text file
that has the data I would expect it to have. I guess that alone
doesn't necessarily prove it's a zip file?
datum is something I'm downloading via a web
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Johannes Bauer dfnsonfsdu...@gmx.de wrote:
Hello group,
Hello.
(...)
Which takes about 40 seconds. I want the niceness of Python but a little
more speed than I'm getting (I'd settle for factor 2 or 3 slower, but
factor 30 is just too much).
Can anyone point
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Johannes Bauer dfnsonfsdu...@gmx.de wrote:
Uhh, yes, you're right there... I must admit that I was too lazy to
include all the stat headers and to a proper st_size check in the C
version (just a quick hack), so it's practically hardcoded.
With files of exactly
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Steven Woody narkewo...@gmail.com wrote:
In C++/Java, people usually put one class into one file. What's the
suggestion on this topic in Python? I so much interesting this
especially when exception classes also involved.
Normally i group related functionality
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:29 PM, James Mills
prolo...@shortcircuit.net.au wrote:
I shall attempt to optimize this :)
I have a funny feeling you might be caught up with
some features of Python - one notable one being that
some things in Python are immutable.
psyco might help here though
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Ken D'Ambrosio ken.dambro...@segway.com wrote:
Hi, all. As a recovering Perl guy, I have to admit I don't quite get
the re module. For example, I'd like to do a few things (I'm going to use
phone numbers, 'cause that's what I'm currently dealing with):
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Steve Holden st...@holdenweb.com wrote:
(...)
OK, that's enough non-Python ramblings for this thread.
God I wish we could delete threads :)
cheers
James
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On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:03 AM, James Stroud jstr...@mbi.ucla.edu wrote:
(...)
Indeed it seems you are recovering from an especially bad case. I recommend
two doses of the python cookbook per day for one to two months. Report back
here after your first cycle and we'll tell you how you are
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Arash Arfaee erex...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All ,
HI :)
Does anybody know any tutorial for python 2.6 multiprocessing? Or bunch of
good example for it? I am trying to break a loop to run it over multiple
core in a system. And I need to return an integer value as
Hey all,
Just a quick clarification on multiprocessing'
Process object. If I were to subclass this, say:
class Foo(Process):
def foo(self):
...
def run(self):
...
Would the parent and child objects
be identical ? That is, would the same
methods of Foo exist in the child ?
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Shane gshanemil...@verizon.net wrote:
Consider a network of 3 fully-connected boxes i.e. every box as a TCP-
IP connection to every other box.
Suppose you start a python program P on box A. Is there a Python
mechanism for P to send a copy of itself to box B or
Hi folks,
For those interested, I have just completed implementing
multiprocessing support for circuits (1). It has historically
always had multithreading support. These components
can be found in circuits.workers and are called:
Thread and Process
The reason these exist is to perform work, ie:
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:45 PM, James Mills
prolo...@shortcircuit.net.au wrote:
For those interested, I have just completed implementing
multiprocessing support for circuits (1).
(...)
PS: circuits can be found on PyPi or here:
http://trac.softcircuits.com.au/circuits/
The code/support I
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Ned Deily n...@acm.org wrote:
The multiprocessing module, new in the 2.6 standard library and
available in PyPi as a backport to 2.4 and 2.5, supports managing of
processes on both local and remote machines. The 2.6 module
documentation has an example/demo of
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Steven Woody narkewo...@gmail.com wrote:
I am considering write an application, its core functionalities should
be implemented in a command-line application with which a user can
interact via its command line interface. This kind of command line
interface can
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 4:39 AM, Benjamin Walkenhorst kry...@gmx.net wrote:
James Mills wrote:
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 4:52 AM, Benjamin Walkenhorst kry...@gmx.net wrote:
POE was one of the nicest software frameworks I have ever used, and I've
been continuously frustrated by the lack
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Kangkook Jee aixe...@gmail.com wrote:
I'd like to measure number of bytes sent(or recv'd) from my python
application. Does anyone have any idea how can I achieve this?
I tried to do this by tracing some socket calls (send, sendto, sendAll)
using 'metaclass'
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Bryan Olson fakeaddr...@nowhere.org wrote:
I thought a firewall would block an attempt to bind to any routeable
address, but not to localhost. So using INADDR_ANY would be rejected.
No.
My understanding is that firewalls block network traffic, not system
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 3:59 PM, greyw...@gmail.com greyw...@gmail.com wrote:
(snip)
If I run testserver.py via the cmd prompt in Windows XP and then the
testclient.py program, I get the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File C:\Python30\testclient.py, line 12, in module
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:11 AM, alex goretoy
aleksandr.gore...@gmail.com wrote:
+1 for ubuntu
+1 for Ubuntu also (for the novice and ex-windows user(s))
+2 for CRUX (1)
cheers
James
1. http://crux.nu/
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On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 4:52 AM, Benjamin Walkenhorst kry...@gmx.net wrote:
Back when I was still using Perl, there was - and still is, I guess - a
really nice framework called POE, that allowed you to write event-driven
state machines in a really easy and pleasant way. Under POE, EVERYTHING
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Torsten Mohr tm...@s.netic.de wrote:
It looks natural to me to write in a code that uses the package:
import graphic
import graphic.square
import graphic.circle
That way i'd have to structure the code like this:
graphic/
__init__,py (GraphicObject)
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Hussein B hubaghd...@gmail.com wrote:
What is the best code coverage tool available for Python?
I like ot use nose with it's coverage plugin.
easy_install nose
easy_install co
And I use the following in my top-level Makefile
tests:
@nosetests \
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 1:47 PM, sprad jsp...@gmail.com wrote:
On Jan 3, 6:41 pm, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this-
cybersource.com.au wrote:
The OP comes from a Perl background, which AFAIK allows you to concat
numbers to strings and add strings to numbers. That's probably the (mis)
feature
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Aaron Brady castiro...@gmail.com wrote:
(snip)
I had a dream for a while that in a GUI framework, every event would
spawn a unique thread. The GUI would remain responsive even while
executing minor tasks. Of course, shaving a second off running time
isn't
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Roel Schroeven
rschroev_nospam...@fastmail.fm wrote:
Hm, you just changed an O(n) algorithm to an O(n**2) algorithm. No big
deal for short strings, but try your solution on a string with length
1 and see the difference. On my computer the O(n) version takes
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 12:29 AM, Aaron Brady castiro...@gmail.com wrote:
James, Hi. I'm glad you asked; I never know how out there my
comments are (but surmise that feedback is always a good thing). What
I was thinking was, I didn't know Virtual Synchrony, and I've never
used Erlang, but
Hi all,
I'm pleased to announce the release of circuits-1.0b1
Overview
==
circuits is an event-driven framework with a focus on Component
Software Architectures where System Functionality is defined in
Components. Components communicate with one another by propagating
events throughout the
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 9:15 AM, MRAB goo...@mrabarnett.plus.com wrote:
(snip)
A while back I posted a Python implementation of 'bag' (also called a
multiset). The code would then become something like:
What complexity is this ?
cheers
James
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On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 10:00 AM, John Krukoff jkruk...@ltgc.com wrote:
I'm curious, you've a number of comparisons to Twisted on your site FAQ
section, but this sounds like a much closer project to Kamaelia
(http://www.kamaelia.org/Home). Are these actually similar or am I
missing something
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 10:22 AM, John Machin sjmac...@lexicon.net wrote:
(snip)
The crawl through the shrubbery looking for evidence approach
stumbles on the actual code:
Yes I found his implementation soon after :)
Not bad actually... I wonder why bag() isn't
shipped with the std lib -
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 8:42 AM, James Mills
prolo...@shortcircuit.net.au wrote:
(snip)
As I continue to develop circuits and improve it's
core design as well as building it's ever growing set
of Components, I try to keep it as general as
possible - my main aim though is distributed
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Steven D'Aprano
st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au wrote:
What set module?
Sorry I must have meant the collections module :)
Adding a multi-set or bag class to the collections module would be a good
idea though. Perhaps you should put in a feature request?
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 10:54 AM, MRAB goo...@mrabarnett.plus.com wrote:
Occasionally someone posts here wanting to count items and solutions
involving dict or defaultdict are suggested, and I think that a 'bag' class
would be useful. The 'set' class was introduced first in a module, but it
Hey all,
The greenlet from http://codespeak.net/py/dist/greenlet.html
is a rather interesting way of handling flow of control.
I can't seem to find anything else on the subject
except for the above link and the most recent version
0.2 and it's tests.
What can greenlet's be used for ? What
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Harish Vishwanath
harish.shas...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
Consider :
li = [1,2,3]
repr(li)
'[1, 2, 3]'
Is there a standard way to get back li, from repr(li) ?
Normally you would use eval(..) however this is
considered by many to be evil and bad practise
(Sorry for top posting):
You are mad! Why on God's earth would you want
to create a list containing 60 MILLION elements ?
What is the use case ? What are you solving ?
You may have 4G of ram, but I very seriously
doubt you have 4G of ram available to Python.
I have no idea how many bytes of
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 4:17 PM, James Mills
prolo...@shortcircuit.net.au wrote:
I have no idea how many bytes of memory
storing each element of a list consumes
let alone each float object, but I assure you
it's not going to be anywhere near that of
60494500 4-bytes spaces (do floats in C
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 12:52 AM, mk mrk...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello everyone,
After reading http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0371/ I was under
impression that performance of multiprocessing package is similar to that of
thread / threading. However, to familiarize myself with both packages I
your function now :) ... I want to show you a far
simpler way to do this which takes advantage of
Python's list comprehensions and mappings (which are
really what dictionaries are):
s = James Mills and Danielle Van Sprang
dict([(k, len([x for x in s if x == k])) for k in s])
{'a': 5, ' ': 5, 'e
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:32 AM, James Mills
prolo...@shortcircuit.net.au wrote:
Ross, the others have informed you that you are not
actually incrementing the count. I'll assume you've
fixed your function now :) ... I want to show you a far
simpler way to do this which takes advantage
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Aaron Brady castiro...@gmail.com wrote:
The OP may be interested in Erlang, which Wikipedia (end-all, be-all)
claims is a 'distribution oriented language'.
I would suggest to the OP that he take a look
at circuits (1) an event framework with a focus
on
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Ross ross.j...@gmail.com wrote:
I realize the code isn't counting, but how am I to do this without
using an if statement as the problem instructs?
I just gave you a hint :)
cheers
James
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On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Chris Rebert c...@rebertia.com wrote:
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 5:22 PM, thmpsn@gmail.com wrote:
snip
2. Have there been any suggestions in the past to rewrite Python's
mainstream implementation in C++ (or why wasn't it done this way from
the beginning)?
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:43 AM, James Mills
prolo...@shortcircuit.net.au wrote:
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Ross ross.j...@gmail.com wrote:
I realize the code isn't counting, but how am I to do this without
using an if statement as the problem instructs?
I just gave you a hint
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Aaron Brady castiro...@gmail.com wrote:
On Dec 29, 7:40 pm, James Mills prolo...@shortcircuit.net.au
wrote:
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Aaron Brady castiro...@gmail.com wrote:
The OP may be interested in Erlang, which Wikipedia (end-all, be-all
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 1:19 PM, David Cournapeau courn...@gmail.com wrote:
(... snip ...)
print '%f' % a # - print '1.#INF'
Would this not be controlled by:
1. float(a) or a.__float__()
2. tp_print
cheers
James
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On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 4:01 PM, scsoce scs...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a function return a reference, and want to assign to the reference,
simply like this:
def f(a)
return a
b = 0
* f( b ) = 1*
but the last line will be refused as can't assign to function call.
In my thought ,
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Steven Woody narkewo...@gmail.com wrote:
I thing \x11\x22\x33 in python is not the {0x11, 0x22, 0x33} in C.
Since, a string in python is immutable, I can _not_ do something like:
b[1] = \x55.
And, how about char buf[200] in my original question? The
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 12:35 AM, Philip Semanchuk phi...@semanchuk.com wrote:
On Dec 22, 2008, at 1:52 AM, Tino Wildenhain wrote:
Philip Semanchuk wrote:
...
I prefer Mako over the other template languages I've seen.
From what I can tell Mako is nearly identical to all other
template
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 12:57 AM, Kottiyath n.kottiy...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I have been looking at Twisted and lately Circuits as examples for
event driven programming in Python.
Wonderful! :) circuits that is :)
Even though I understood how to implement the code in these and
what is
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 4:42 AM, cm_gui cmg...@gmail.com wrote:
i am referring mainly to Python for web applications.
Python is slow.
Please just go away. You are making
an embarrassment of yourself.
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On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:47 AM, r rt8...@gmail.com wrote:
Could not have said it better myself Luis, i stay as far away from C
as i can. But there are usage cases for it.
If you can think of 1 typical common case
I'll reward you with praise! :)
By the way, by common and typical I mean
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:27 AM, Kottiyath n.kottiy...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
Is it a good idea to use Twisted inside my application, even though
it has no networking part in it?
Basically, my application needs lots of parallel processing - but I
am rather averse to using threads - due
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:51 AM, RajNewbie raj.indian...@gmail.com wrote:
Say, I have two threads, updating the same dictionary object - but for
different parameters:
Please find an example below:
a = {file1Data : '',
file2Data : ''}
Now, I send it to two different threads, both of
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Thomas Raef tr...@ebasedsecurity.com wrote:
I now want to run multiple instances of this program on a client, after
receiving the command line and args from a broker, dispatcher, whatever you
want to call it.
You can use the subprocess module.
I've read
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:37 AM, alex23 wuwe...@gmail.com wrote:
On Dec 21, 10:11 am, r rt8...@gmail.com wrote:
Most of the complaints i hear are the redundant use of self.
Which I lamented about but have become accustom(brainwashed) to it. I
would remove this if it where up to me.
It's a
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 3:25 PM, RajNewbie raj.indian...@gmail.com wrote:
I was unable to see documentation explaining this - so asking again.
Documentation is available here:
http://trac.softcircuit.com.au/circuits/wiki/docs
And here: pydoc circuits
The code itself is heavily documented. I'm
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 8:32 PM, Peter Otten __pete...@web.de wrote:
James Mills wrote:
values = ,.join([\%s\ % x for x in line])
print INSERT INTO %s %s VALUES (%s); % (table, fields, values)
http://xkcd.com/327/
It's a tool! Not one meant to be used
publicly from untrusted users.
Free
@klia: You could have had this done hours ago had you taken my
suggestion, used my tool and just piped it into sqlite3 on the command
line.
--JamesMills
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On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 8:00 PM, Bryan Olson fakeaddr...@nowhere.org wrote:
I'd swear James copied my response, except his came first. Even the
formatting came out similar. I hadn't seen his response when I wrote mine,
and wouldn't have bothered posing the same thing again.
Great minds think
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 8:18 AM, Martin Manns mma...@gmx.net wrote:
Hi:
Hi,
I am writing a spreadsheet application in Python
What's wrong with pyspread ?
[ ... snip ... ]
The dict that I tried out is of the type:
{(1,2,3): 2323, (1,2,545): 2324234, ... }
It is too slow for my
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