ot;.
Agreed, test-driven development tends to lend itself
to higher quality code.
cheers
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What causes the exception? Is it necessary to catch this exception
> and manually retry the Queue operation? Thanks.
Are you getting this when your application is shutdown ?
I'm pretty sure you can safely ignore this exception and
continue.
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On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Dmitry Ponyatov wrote:
> Hello
>
> Help please with such problem:
>
> I need to build program object graph (data structure) with additional
> parameters for nodes and edges:
>
> include nxgraph # data structure module allowes any py objects for
> node/edge id
> # (
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Stef Mientki wrote:
>
> With the following code, I would expect a result of 5 !!
>
a= 'word1 word2 word3'
a.rfind(' ',7)
> 11
>
> Is this a bug ?
Python's documentation states:
| rfind(...)
| S.rfind(sub [,start [,end]]) -> int
|
| Return
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 7:36 PM, kaiix wrote:
> before i wrote the email, i've already read the python docs carefully.
> i need the proof from code, i mean python source code. i tried to
> prove some of my assumptions that lead the loop quit, and i traced
> back to Queue.py, threading.py, dummy_th
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Rotwang wrote:
> def draw(self, w, h):
> out = Tkinter.Canvas(width = w, height = h)
> # a load of out.create_line(...)'s go here
> out.pack()
> out.mainloop()
>
> It works, but the problem is that I can't do anything else with IDLE unti
2010/4/22 :
> In production system I'll have 100+ subclasses and you code is not appliable
> ;)
> But -- thanks for __bases__ , it's thing I needed and py helpfile does not
> give me __bases__ easy
Feel free to rewrite my edges(...) function so it does not use tail
recursion and therefore does
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Yingjie Lan wrote:
> I wanted to do something like this:
>
> while True:
> try:
> def fun(a, b=b, c=c): pass
> except NameError as ne:
> name = get_the_var_name(ne)
> locals()[name] = ''
> else: break
>
> What's be best way to implement the function
> g
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 12:09 PM, wrote:
> Is there a OS portable way to have a Python script detect when its operating
> system is shutting down or a user is logging out?
In the Linux world, you would normally create an rc/init style script
that is invoked
at boot and shutdown (usually by calli
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Mark Olbert
wrote:
> I'm getting an error message about make not being able to find the necessary
> bits to build modules related to _dbm. Yet I have
> libgdbm installed installed on my system. Suggestions on how to fix this?
You need the development C headers fo
2010/4/29 sanam singh :
> hi,
> i am am facing problem in installing python 2.6 on ubuntu 9.04. When i sudo
> make i get following error :
You need to install the necessary development
headers/libraries required to build Python from source.
eg:
$ sudo apt-get install gdbm-dev
[ snip ]
cheers
J
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Richard Lamboj
wrote:
> i want to add functions to an instance of a class at runtime. The added
> function should contain a default parameter value. The function name and
> function default paramter values should be set dynamical.
The normal way of doing this by b
2010/4/29 sanam singh :
> hi,
> it is saying
> sa...@ubuntu:~/Desktop/Python-2.6.5$ sudo apt-get install gdbm-dev
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> E: Couldn't find package gdbm-dev
I'm sorry, but I don't actively use Debian/ubuntu bas
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> Hello,
Hi,
> Any examples of how to do this would be great, as I'm blind and it's a
> bit difficult to check the spacing.
You're welcome to adapt some of my old code
written just for this very purpose. I even have a
tool called 'pysqlplus'
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 3:00 AM, Mark Olbert
wrote:
> Okay. But I compiled & installed gdbm from source obtained from the gnu
> archive, so I presume the necessary files would be included
> (this is on a linux system).
Perhaps check where gdbm has installed it's development sources
and whether o
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:53 AM, gert wrote:
> How do you upload a plain text .py file as a source file?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=python+distutils+tutorial
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On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Michele Simionato
wrote:
> Cool, that's good to know. I am still accepting recommendations for
> non-Python projects ;)
bitbucket (1) also provide static file hosting through the wiki. From
what I understand (tested)
you simply clone the wiki repository (which is i
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 9:43 PM, Stefan Behnel wrote:
>> Python 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Feb 17 2009, 20:16:45)
>> [GCC 4.3.3] on linux2
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>> >>> A,B=2,3
>> >>> if A>B:
>> ... print A+B
>> ... else:
>> ... print A**B-B**2
>> ...
>>
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 9:56 PM, superpollo wrote:
> of course! *but* if i must generate on-the-fly python code that defines a
> function i am back again to the problem:
One-liner:
$ python
Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Apr 27 2010, 18:26:49)
[GCC 4.4.1 (CRUX)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "cr
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 9:26 PM, a wrote:
> where's the best online resource for teaching about GUI building?
There are many many resources available on the topic.
If you simply Google (tm) some of the keywords in your post
you'll be presented with a whole smorgasbord of useful resources.
--james
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 12:21 AM, Ed Keith wrote:
> To deal with indentation I had to
>
> 1) keep track of indentation of all chunks of code embedded in the
> document and indent inserted chunks to the sum of all the
> indentation of the enclosing chunks.
In my experience of non-indent
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Michele Simionato
wrote:
> Interesting. I tried to see if the same was true for the Wiki in
> Google code but apparently it does not work. Does anybody here know if
> it is possible to publish raw html in the Google Code wiki and how
> does it work?
I may be wrong,
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Michele Simionato
wrote:
> I am sure it has, but I was talking about just putting in the
> repository an index.html file and have it published, the wayI hear it
> works in BitBucket and GitHub.
I'm pretty sure Google Code Hosting doesn't support
rendering text/htm
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Massi wrote:
> in my script (python 2.5 on windows xp) I need to run a simple
> function in a separate process. In other words I need something
> similar to the fork function under UNIX. I tried with threads:
Use the new multiprocesing package.
> import os, threa
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Vincent Davis wrote:
> Is there a functional assert(x==y, 'error msg') ?
> I can only find the assert that is used like;
> assert x==y, 'error msg'
>
What about:
def assertfunc(expr, msg):
assert expr, msg
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On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 12:08 AM, Alex Hall wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am sorry if this is the second message about this you get; I typed
> this and hit send (on gmail website) but I got a 404 error, so I am
> not sure if the previous message made it out or not.
> Anyway, I have about fifteen vars in a f
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Xavier Ho wrote:
> Have I missed something, or wouldn't this work just as well:
>
list_of_strings = ['2', 'awes', '3465sdg', 'dbsdf', 'asdgas']
[word for word in list_of_strings if word[0] == 'a']
> ['awes', 'asdgas']
I would do this for completeness (ju
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Richard Lamboj
wrote:
> i want to inherit from a data type. How can i do this? Can anyone explain more
> abou this? How knows python that it is a float, or a string?
$ python
Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Apr 27 2010, 18:26:49)
[GCC 4.4.1 (CRUX)] on linux2
Type "help"
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 2:01 AM, wrote:
>> word[len(word)-1:]
This works just as well:
>>> word[-1:]
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On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 6:48 PM, News123 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to perform huge file uploads via https.
> I'd like to make sure,
> - that I can obtain upload progress info (sometimes the nw is very slow)
> - that (if the file exceeds a certain size) I don't have to
> read the entire file into
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 6:12 AM, albert kao wrote:
> My program plan to use only files but ignore directories on Windows.
> I google but do not find some functions like
> bool isFile(string)
> bool isDirectory(string)
> Please help.
Try looking up the os module.
cheers
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On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 3:22 AM, mannu jha wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have two different file
>
> file1:
>
> a1 a2
> a3 a4
> a5 a6
> a7 a8
>
> file2:
>
> b1 b2
> b3 b4
> b5 b6
> b7 b8
>
> and I want to join them so the output should look like this:
>
> a1 a2 b1 b2
> a3 a4 b3 b4
> a5 a6 b5 b6
> a7 a8 b7 b8
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 4:46 AM, Tim Chase
wrote:
> I think you meant izip() instead of chain() ... the OP wanted to be able to
> join the two lines together, so I suspect it would look something like
You're quite right! My mistake :)
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On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Carl Banks wrote:
> Which brings up an interesting question: how do you get a random
> element from a set?
>
> random.choice(list(s))
>
> is the most straightforward way and will work a lot of the time, but
> how would you avoid creating the list? I can't think of
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 6:19 PM, harry k wrote:
> Write a spell checking tool that will identify all misspelled word in a text
> file using a provided dictionary.
Is this an assignment ? Sure looks like it!
I don't see a question anywhere.
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On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Aahz wrote:
> It's also at least partly due to problems with mail<->news gateways and
> the differing fields used to maintain threading.
Some blame goes on MUAs too :)
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On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 5:02 PM, mannu jha wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have few files like this:
> file1:
> 22 110.1
> 33 331.5 22.7
> 5 271.9 17.2 33.4
> 4 55.1
>
> file1 has total 4 column but some of them are missing in few row.
>
> file2:
> 5 H
> 22 0
>
> file3:
> 4 T
> 5 B
> 22 C
> 121 S
>
> in all th
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 3:50 AM, AON LAZIO wrote:
> Hi,
> How can I set up global variables for the entire python applications?
> Like I can call and set this variables in any .py files.
> Think of it as a global variable in a single .py file but this is for the
> entire application.
If you
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 4:00 AM, Krister Svanlund
wrote:
> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 7:50 PM, AON LAZIO wrote:
>> How can I set up global variables for the entire python applications?
>> Like I can call and set this variables in any .py files.
>> Think of it as a global variable in a single .
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 8:26 AM, vsoler wrote:
> However, can I be 100% sure that,no matter how I access variable
> 'x' (with config.x or mod.config.x) it is always the same 'x'. I mean
> that either reference of 'x' points to the same id(memory position)?
Yes it does unless you re-assign it.
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On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 11:57 AM, John Nagle wrote:
> For one thing, it's fine to share constants across threads, while
> sharing globals is generally undesirable. Also, more compile-time
> arithmetic becomes possible.
>
> Python does have a few built-in named unassignable constants:
> "True"
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> In what way are they constant? Can you not modify them and rebind them?
It's just style/convention :)
Much like _ to denote private variables and methods!
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On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 4:06 PM, John Nagle wrote:
> I know that one is supposed to use "make altinstall" to install
> versions of Python that won't be the "primary" version. But what
> directory names does it use for packages and other support files?
> Is this documented somewhere?
>
> I want t
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 9:27 AM, est wrote:
> Except Google/youtube, what's next?
bitbucket (1) is mostly implemented in Python
cheers
James
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On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Victor Subervi wrote:
> Hi;
> I tried this:
>
> cursor.execute('drop table tmp%s', tmpTable)
>
> and got this error:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/var/www/html/angrynates.com/cart/cart.py", line 196, in ?
> cart()
> File "/var/www/html/
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 1:16 AM, rantingrick wrote:
> So can anyone explain this poor excuse for a map function? Maybe GVR
> should have taken it out in 3.0? *scratches head*
Let me get this straight... You're complaining about some trivial
code you've written and a 0.002 or less execution time ?
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 1:40 AM, MRAB wrote:
> As has been explained already, SQL might not (and here it clearly does
> not) let you use placeholders for table or column names, only for
> values.
Yes I should have stated that '?' place-holders are used only for
"values" :) *sigh*
--James
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On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
>> Ruby has a very nice map
>
> I'm thrilled for them. Personally I think the syntax is horrible.
I concur!
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2010/6/9 Victor Subervi :
> Sorry, Dennis:
>
> var = 'colorsShort'
> var[0].upper + var[1:] = 'ColorsShort'
> var.capitalize() = 'Colorsshort'
"""
string.capitalize = capitalize(s)
capitalize(s) -> string
Return a copy of the string s with only its first character
capitalized.
"""
Th
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 6:36 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> Yes alright bloody Aussies ** n * sodit * *wink*. Not sure if this is a
> syntax error, but too lazy too test at an interactive prompt.
I resent that remark :)
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On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 3:00 AM, Nathan Rice
wrote:
> I've tried using args/kwargs, however I found it difficult to avoid
> having arguments in my signature re-ordered, and it is also a source
> of bugs.
>
> Has anyone come up with a good solution for dealing with arguments in
> situations like th
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Jack Diederich wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 11:09 PM, rantingrick wrote:
>>
>> -
>> Where is the community?
>> -
> [snip]
[snip]
> In various threads you haven't met the minimum qualifications to be
> taken se
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:35 PM, madhuri vio wrote:
> i have a doubt about ...this..can u look into this..
>
> a = open("human.odt","r")
> b = a.readlines()
> print b
>
> and i get d output something else...
>
> python monday.py
> ["PK\x03\x04\x14\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\xd6+\xce<^\xc62\x0c'\x00\x00\x
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Robin wrote:
> What are some good python modules that can be downloaded for any
> purpose that is recomended?
That's a rather vauge question Robin.
There are tonnes of packages on PyPi (1).
cheers
James
1. http://pypi.python.org/
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On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Alexzive wrote:
> what to change in order to get "python" calling python 2.4.3 instead
> of 2.6.4 (at least during python setup.py build)?
>
> I suppose I need something like changing the link to /usr/local/bin/
> python..
> but I fear to do something bad by myself
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 2:44 PM, alex23 wrote:
> shanti bhushan wrote:
>> Please guide me the design or direct me the best approach to do all
>> this.
>
> The best approach?
>
> 1. Study
> 2. Learn
> 3. Apply
>
> There you go, the advice that keeps on giving.
In addition to my good colleagues so
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> But other than that, I don't
> see the advantage of an IDE. What am I missing?
You're not missing anything my dear watson :)
I myself use vim (as my editor) and 2-3 Terminals on virtual workspaces
(in my DE). I guess the beauty with vim i
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Aahz wrote:
> And I am not particularly fond of map() and cordially loathe reduce().
> Speaking as someone with more than twenty years of programming before
> encountering Python more than a decade ago.
"Loathe" is a particularly STRONG world. Are you sure you me
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Aahz wrote:
>>"Loathe" is a particularly STRONG world. Are you sure you meant that ?
>
> Yes, I did mean to use it -- perhaps it is not entirely an accurate
> description of my emotional state, but I enjoy the shock effect in this
> circumstance.
>
>>What in partic
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Stephen Hansen
wrote:
> It could certainly do with a little less 'taking oneself too seriously' :)
You do realize my question was completely rhetorical :)
--James
/me withdraws from this discussion :)
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On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:43 PM, James Mills
wrote:
> /me withdraws from this discussion :)
Of course - thank you for that enlightening description of "Pythonic" :)
Hopefully it helps others to understand!
:)
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On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Stephen Hansen
wrote:
> My entire response was largely tongue-in-cheek :)
I know :)
Don't you wish there was a "Close Thread" button :)
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On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 8:31 PM, someone wrote:
> I was looking for a "short way" to do it because I have a lot
> "some_object.attr.attr or some_object.other_attr.attr" in code. it
> looks like I cannot replace attr with just other variable and must
> type some_object.other_attr.attr or your solut
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 12:27 AM, Alexander Eisenhuth
wrote:
> Hello out there,
>
> - what is the reason, that __slots__ are introduced in python?
>
> - I want to use slots to define a class where no attributes are added at
> runtime. Is that a good idea to use slots for that?
Here is the relevan
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Anthony Papillion wrote:
> I'm writing an application that uses the Google Storage Python
> library. When an error occurs, the error is printed on the terminal.
> What I need to do is intercept that text into a variable so I can run
> a re.search() against it and
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Josef Tupag wrote:
> Before I really dive in, though, I'm curious to hear what others think about
> the choice between these two languages.
This is a terribly subjective opinion and I apologize to anyone that
actually uses
Ruby and likes it :)
I find Ruby (compar
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Jean-Michel Pichavant
wrote:
> This is a python list, fully dedicated to our dutch semi God. So how can you
> even immagine that someone here will suggest you to go for rub... sorry I
> can't prononce this blasphemous name.
Good call :) (Personally - and again sor
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Jerry Rocteur wrote:
> My input is NOT CSV, I used this format to try and make the question shorter.
> Although I could create a CSV file, I'd
> like to learn how to code a class to work the way I described in the question.
Your input certainly looks CSV-ish to m
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Nathan Rice
wrote:
> As far as community support, Python has 4342 packages listed in sourceforge,
> Ruby has 705. Python is listed in ~0.4% of jobs at indeed.com's trend
You are forgetting the 10278 (last count) or so packages, modules and what not
available on P
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Jerry Rocteur wrote:
> As part of learning Python, I'm also learning OOP! That is why I want to know
> if this is doable using classes.
>
> The input is not important, I end up with the dictionary as described in the
> question and as I asked in the question,
> I
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Jerry Rocteur wrote:
> How do I iterate through and access an individual user record!
A much better question! :)
You are in fact already demonstrating that you know full
well how to access a specific user record - by accessing
a parent dictionary holding a mappi
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Jerry Rocteur wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Jerry Rocteur wrote:
>> If you were able to ask us perhaps a more specific question
>> and describe your problem a little more concisely perhaps
>> I (and we) might have a bit more to offer you.
>
> I have
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 12:14 AM, lallous wrote:
> Well, it seems the printed version of the manual. Can anyone suggest a
> nice book to learn more about the Python C Api?
It's not really a book, but how about the source ?
If you're a competent C programmer you're not really
going to even need a
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Neil Webster wrote:
> I've got a simple problem but it's defeated me and I was wondering if
> somebody could point out where I'm going wrong or offer an alternative
> solution to the problem?
Is this a hypothetical/mathematical problem of sorts ?
If so, do you ha
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 12:27 AM, lallous wrote:
> For me it is not a matter of competency to seek a book: organized,
> structured and uniform way of presenting information.
>
> Nonetheless, I always refer to the sources to get my questions
> answered...but a book (with the qualities I mentioned a
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 1:42 AM, Peng Yu wrote:
> 'open' is not a function according to inspect module. But according to
> help(open), it is a function. Is there something wrong with inspect
> module?
$ python
Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Jun 13 2010, 14:03:16)
[GCC 4.4.4 (CRUX)] on linux2
Type "hel
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 1:53 AM, Peng Yu wrote:
> It seems I don't completely understand how getsource works, as I
> expect that I should get the source code of class A. But I don't.
> Would you please let me know what I am wrong?
If you "read" the documentation carefully:
"""
getsource(objec
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 2:15 AM, J3p wrote:
> Hi, I need some Information from you. Someone told me to buy E-book
> about PHP + MySQL in
> http://php-mysql-ebook.blogspot.com
> Does anyone have experience about this?
This has nothing whatsoever to do with Python
except that Python has MySQL drive
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 6:10 AM, John Bokma wrote:
> My guess is that this is just spam for a blog. Please don't copy
> spamvertized URLs.
My bad :/
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On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 7:11 AM, Steven Howe wrote:
> Hi, I'm trying to import 'letters' from the string module.
> I get the following message:
>
> Uses of a deprecated module 'string'
>
> I realize the functionality of 'string' is now in the _builtin_. But are the
> constants. If so, what are
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Gilles Ganault wrote:
> Is Pocoo really the only solution available out there?
Did you bother to check pypi ?
cheers
James
1. http://pypi.python.org/
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not a forum, but it's goals are to have a best-of-mix of
features from blogging, wiki and cms engines.
cheers
James
1. http://sahriswiki.org/
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On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Radomir Dopieralski wrote:
> I'm proud to announce release 1.4.0 of Hatta wiki engine.
Congrats.
cheers
James
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On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 4:26 PM, fulv wrote:
> args = (connection_string)
Replace this with:
args = (connection_string,)
NOTE: The trailing , (comma) indicating that this _is_ a tuple.
cheers
James
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On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 1:42 AM, rantingrick wrote:
> In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king! ;-)
RIck, your comments don't really help the situation. Really.
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here i can find/get
> something similar to the book for my own?
Start with the mighty fine Python tutorial on the
Python Documentation website (1)
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1. http://docs.python.org/
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imenting myself
with embedded circuits.web with pygtk and webkit with
some success (similar to Adobe Air).
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ot;automated clean-up side of the RAIL idiom" ?
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p me and let me know that how can I convert/save .xpm
> files in PIL.
>
Reading PIL's documentation might help.
Try:
$ pydoc Image
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On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:04 PM, Steven D'Aprano
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> True, but Nobody said it can't *readily* be implemented, not that it
> can't be.
So he did too :) I read that as "really" :/
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On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:14 PM, elsa wrote:
> I have a large file of text I need to parse. Individual 'entries' are
> separated by newline characters, while fields within each entry are
> separated by tab characters.
Sounds to me like a job of the csv module.
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James
ons.
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On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 9:38 PM, loial wrote:
> I have also been trying to get the return code and standard error.
p = Popen("..., stderr=PIPE)
Look up the docs for subprocess.Popen
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Hey all,
Quick question for you Python enthusiasts that also
happen to know Perl quite well...
What does a* or A* translate to in Python when unpacking
binary data with struct.unpack(...) ?
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w in some py3l questions
> too)
A common thing you can do in interviews is ask
your interviewee to write (in Python) a solution
to the "FizzBuzz" problem. Any good competent
Python programmer should be able to do this
in 5-10mins (5 if you're good).
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tually a very good point! Someone should post this very problem to
this newsgroups/list and see how many active python programmers here
actually "get it right" :) *evil grin*
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e done in just a single line of Python.
7 if you're not very familiar with Python.
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On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 4:30 AM, James Mills
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> What does a* or A* translate to in Python when unpacking
> binary data with struct.unpack(...) ?
Fine I"ll answer my own question.
Python _does not_ support implicit size
in struct formatting rules. sizes are explicit
meaning th
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to do? -andrei
My personal opinion (despite monitors being wider) is
the horizontal scrolling isn't worth it. Stick to a 80-char width.
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