On 2013-07-03 13:19:26 +, Steven D'Aprano said:
On Wed, 03 Jul 2013 14:00:49 +0100, Tim Golden wrote:
Goodness, I doubt if you'll find anyone who can seriously make a case
that the Windows command prompt is all it might be. I'm not a Powershell
user myself but people speak highly of it.
What's the best way to generate a sequence of characters in Python? I'm
looking for something like this Perl code: 'a' .. 'z' .
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Jeff Schwab wrote:
>
>>What's the best way to generate a sequence of characters in Python? I'm
>>looking for something like this Perl code: 'a' .. 'z' .
>
>
>>>>import string
>
>
>>>&
Rick Wotnaz wrote:
> Roy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>
>
>>Ron Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>>You can actually call it anything you want but "self" is sort
>>>of a tradition.
>>
>>That's true, but I think needs to be said a bit more
>>emphatically. There'
Pedro Werneck wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:26:58 -0400
> Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>>What's the best way to generate a sequence of characters in Python?
>>I'm looking for something like this Perl code: 'a' .. 'z&
Christoph Haas wrote:
> Dear coders...
>
> I'm working on an application that is supposed to support "plugins".
> The idea is to use the plugins as packages like this:
>
> Plugins/
> __init__.py
> Plugin1.py
> Plugin2.py
> Plugin3.py
>
> When the application starts up I want to have thes
Christoph Haas wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 11:33:03PM -0400, Jeff Schwab wrote:
>
>>I recently came up against this exact problem. My preference is to have
>>the plugin writer call a method to register the plugins, as this allows
>>him the most control. Som
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Damjan> Is there some python module that provides a multi process Queue?
>
> Skip> Not as cleanly encapsulated as Queue, but writing a class that
> Skip> does that shouldn't be all that difficult using a socket and the
> Skip> pickle module.
>
> Jere
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Jeff> How many are more than "a few?"
>
> I don't know. What can you do today in commercial stuff, 16 processors?
> How many cores per die, two? Four? We're still talking < 100 processors
> with access to the same chunk of memory. For the OP's problem that's still
ChiTownBob wrote:
> Perl just sucks, as all good Python hackers know!
I disagree. Perl has saved my butt more times than I care to count.
Python certainly has its advantages, but I won't be giving up Perl any
time soon.
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Peter Corbett wrote:
> One of my friends has recently taken up Python, and was griping a bit
> about the language (it's too "prescriptive" for his tastes). In
> particular, he didn't like the way that Python expressions were a bit
> crippled. So I delved a bit into the language, and found some sour
fraca7 wrote:
> Richie Hindle a écrit :
>
>> [Peter]
>>
>>> http://www.pick.ucam.org/~ptc24/yvfc.html
>>
>>
>>
>> [Jeff]
>>
>>> Yuma Valley Agricultural Center?
>>> Yaak Valley Forest Council?
>>
>>
>>
>> I went through the same process. My guess is "Yes, Very F'ing Clever."
>> Peter?
>>
>
> pri
Aahz wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>Sure, multiple machines are probably the right approach for the OP; I
>>didn't mean to disagree with that. I just don't think they are "the
>>only
Jason wrote:
> A non-python programming friend of mine has said that any programs made
> with Python must be distributed with, or an alternative link, to the
> source of the program.
>
> Is this true?
Sorta, but not really. Typically, you might distribute the source (.py)
files, but if you
FX wrote:
> can anybody write a code for a program that reads from a
> /location/file & according to file contents, it execute script. e.g. if
> file contains "mp" it runs media player.
> I hope the code is small .. plz help me out!
You might be interested in the FileInfo class, defined and thorou
Robert Kern wrote:
> Robert Kern wrote:
>
>> Christopher Subich wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Dear Zeus no. Find can be defined as:
>>> def find(self, test=lambda x:1):
>>>try:
>>> item = (s for s in iter(self) if test(s)).next()
>>>except StopIteration:
>>> raise ValueError('No matching i
Robert Kern wrote:
> (s for s in iter(self) is test(s)) is a generator expression. It is
> roughly equivalent to
>
> def g(self, test=lambda x: True):
> for s in iter(self):
> if test(s):
> yield s
>
> Now, if I were to do
>
> item = g(self, test).next()
>
> the generato
Atila Olah wrote:
> I'm working on a project to implement a simple cross-platform file
> sharing protocol (using Python) that is similar to HTTP, and I have to
> write a GUI for Windows and Linux. But let's start with the harder one:
> Windows.
>
> My question is: How do I implement a virtual part
Bryan Olson wrote:
>
> Atila Olah wrote:
> > My question is: How do I implement a virtual partition that acts like a
> > real file-system and is compleatly transparent to other programs?
> > Should I make a virtual file allocation table for a FAT32 partition or
> > simulate an NTFS? Or even fu
Mike Meyer wrote:
> Well, the only thing that subversion does that I'd call bad is leave
> turds in my development directory. I'm tired of having to tell
> commands to ignore .svn files. Of course, Perforce is the only source
> control system I know of that doesn't do this.
ClearCase is really goo
Jerry He wrote:
> Hi,
> suppose I have the following string
>
> cmdstr = "b = lambda s: s*s"
>
> Is there a way to execute this string other than
> copying it onto a file and then importing it?
>>> exec "b = lambda s: s*s"
>>> b
at 0x4d69cc>
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Bryan Olson wrote:
> Jeff Schwab wrote:
> > You don't have to pay Microsoft to develop a Windows-compatible
> > filesystem. See http://ubiqx.org/cifs/.
>
> That's a different usage of "filesystem" than what is at issue
> here.
I agree that you &
Harlin Seritt wrote:
> I am trying to find some matches and have them put into a list when
> processing is done. I'll use a simple example like email addresses.
>
> My input is the following:
> wordList = ['myname1', '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', '[EMAIL PROTECTED]',
> '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', '[EMAIL PROTECT
Calvin Spealman wrote:
> On 7/31/05, James Dennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>Peter Hansen wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>>
>>>Given that ZODB and PySQLite are simply Python extension modules, which
>>>get bundled by your builder tool and are therefore installed
>>>transparently alon
bruno modulix wrote:
> bash is a scripting language,
Bash is a shell. It is frequently used for scripting, but that is only
a secondary purpose.
> javascript is a scripting language,
Yes, but it's a particularly specialized one.
> perl is a scripting language,
Blasphemy! Perl is a dynamic l
John Machin wrote:
> Search for r'^something' can never be better/faster than match for
> r'something', and with a dopey implementation of search [which Python's
> re is NOT] it could be much worse. So please don't tell newbies to
> search for r'^something'.
How else would you match the beginn
Magnus Lie Hetland wrote:
> Just saw this on the BBC World program Click Online:
>
> http://bbcworld.com/content/template_clickonline.asp?pageid=665&co_pageid=6
>
> I must say, I think this is the first time I've heard Python discussed
> on TV at all... Cool :)
>
> (Now maybe I'll have to fini
Ray wrote:
> Devan L wrote:
>
>>Fausto Arinos Barbuto wrote:
>>
>>>Ray wrote:
>>>
>>>
1. Where are the access specifiers? (public, protected, private)
>>>
>>>AFAIK, there is not such a thing in Python.
>>>
>>>---Fausto
>>
>>Well, technically you can use _attribute to mangle it, but technic
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Greetings-
> This is on Linux... I have a daemon running as root and I want to
> execute another Python program as another user (a regular user). I have
> the name of the user and can use the 'pwd' and 'grp' modules to get
> that user's user and group ids. What I don't un
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Thanks, that looks very promising...
> Is there a solution for pre-Python v2.4? I have to have code that works
> on 2.x, 0<=x<=4. Do I just use the os.popen instead?
import os
def run_as(username):
pipe = os.popen("su %s" % username, 'w')
pipe.write("w
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello, I know this topic was discussed a *lot* in the past, sorry if it
> bores you...
>
>>From the Daily Python-URL I've seen this interesting Floating Point
> Benchmark:
> http://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2005-08/000567.html
>
> This is the source pack:
> ht
Christopher Subich wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> Are you kidding? You are going to MANDATE spaces?
>
>
> Actually, future whitespace rules will be extensive. See:
> http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:k1w9oZr767QJ:www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp%3Fthread%3D101968
>
>
> (google
could ildg wrote:
> In re, the punctuation "^" can exclude a single character, but I want
> to exclude a whole word now. for example I have a string "hi, how are
> you. hello", I want to extract all the part before the world "hello",
> I can't use ".*[^hello]" because "^" only exclude single char "
mhenry1384 wrote:
> On WinXP, I am doing this
>
> nant.exe | python MyFilter.py
>
> This command always returns 0 (success) because MyFilter.py always
> succeeds.
...
> How do I set the return code from MyFilter.py based on the return of
> nant.exe? Is this possible? I have googled around for
Steve Holden wrote:
> Robert Kern wrote:
>
>> Jon Hewer wrote:
>>
>>> Is there an online database of non standard library modules for Python?
>>
>>
>>
>> http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi
>>
> While cheeseshop might resonate with the Monty Python fans I have to say
> I think the name sucks in ter
max(01)* wrote:
> i was wondering, what's the simplest way to echo the standard input to
> the standard output, with no modification.
...
> ps: in perl you ca do this:
>
> ...
> while ($line = )
> {
> print STDOUT ("$line");
> }
> ...
I guess you could, but there wouldn't be much point.
Christoph Rackwitz wrote:
> i guess, it is pythonchallenge.com level 10?
> if so, i used this thing:
>
> import re
> def enc(s):
> return ''.join('%s%s' % (len(a[0]),a[0][0]) for a in
> re.findall('((.)\\2*)', s))
>
Don't do that!
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Eric Lavigne wrote:
> Here is a shell command (MS-DOS):
> debug\curve-fit output.txt
>
> And here is a Python script that *should* do the same thing (and almost
> does):
Python equivalent is roughly:
import os
import subprocess
subprocess.Popen([os.path.join("debug", "
danilo wrote:
>
> Salve,
>
> qualcuno sa se è ancora in fase di sviluppo e qual'è il sito di
> riferimento?
>
> Grazie
> Danilo
Gesundheit.
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Jorgen Grahn wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 15:19:55 -0400, Roy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> [diegueus9] Diego Andrés Sanabria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hello!!!
>>>
>>>I want know if python have binary trees and more?
>>
>>Python does not come wi
praba kar wrote:
> Dear All,
>I want to know the link between c and python.
>Some people with C background use Python instead
> of programming in C.why?
For me, the choice is typically among C++, Perl, Python, and Java. The
arguments for Python relative to these languages are:
APCass wrote:
> How do you execute a .py in Linux with KDE? If I double click on my
> program it opens Kwrite, for editing.
Try inserting this as the first line of the file:
#!/usr/bin/env python
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Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> As a Linux user, I really am sick of every damn application, script and
> program under the sun filling the top level of my home directory with
> dot-files.
>
> I wish the Linux Standard Base folks would specify that settings files
> should all go into a subdirectory like
sheldon279 wrote:
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Lucas Raab wrote:
Chris Maloof wrote:
Hello,
Does anyone know how I can read the ASCII text from a console window
(from another application) in WinXP? It doesn't sound like a major
operation, but although I can find the window via pywin32, I haven't
been able to do anything with it. I'd really ju
Peter Maas wrote:
Peter Hansen schrieb:
Cameron Laird wrote:
*DevSource* profiles "The State of the Scripting Universe" in
http://www.devsource.com/article2/0,1759,1778141,00.asp >.
Which, sadly, doesn't seem to work with Firefox here,
though IE shows it fine. :-(
Mozilla 1.7.3 shows it fine, too
How [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Ruby has a neat little convenience when writing loops where you don't
> care about the loop index: you just do n.times do { ... some
> code ... } where n is an integer representing how many times you want
> to execute "some code."
>
> In Python, the direct translatio
Steve Holden wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>> Why not a Python COMPILER?
>>
>> What about a Python JIT hardware chip, so the CPU doesn't have to
>> translate. Although it seems to me that with today's dual and quad
>> core processors that this might be a mute point because you could just
>> u
Tim Chase wrote:
>> Are there any Python libraries implementing measurement of similarity
>> of two strings of Latin characters?
>
> It sounds like you're interested in calculating the Levenshtein distance:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance
>
> which gives you a measure of ho
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:32:53 -0600, Robert Kern wrote:
>
>> Jeff Schwab wrote:
> ...
>>> If the strings happen to be the same length, the Levenshtein distance
>>> is equivalent to the Hamming distance.
> ...
>> I
Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2008-02-08, Arnaud Delobelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>> the compiler could do little else except translate it to something
>>> like:
>>>
>>> (python:add a b)
>> [snip more interesting considerations about compiling python]
>>
>> Please get back on topic. This discu
Luis M. González wrote:
> On 8 feb, 22:15, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:45:36 +, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>> On 2008-02-08, Arnaud Delobelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Please get back on topic. This discussion is about parsecs and
wookies
t3chn0n3rd wrote:
> Do you think it is relatively easy to write sort algorithms such as
> the common Bubble sort in Python as compared to other high level
> programming langauges
http://www.codecodex.com/wiki/index.php?title=Bubble_sort
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Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:00:27 -0800, t3chn0n3rd wrote:
>
>> Do you think it is relatively easy to write sort algorithms such as the
>> common Bubble sort in Python as compared to other high level programming
>> langauges
>
>
> You realise that bubble sort is one of the wo
Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2008-02-09, Thomas Dybdahl Ahle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 14:56 +0100, Martin P. Hellwig wrote:
Propagate, travel, what's the difference?
>>> Unfortunately, I didn't study any of this but I sure do remember the
>>> answer one drunk phys
Carl Banks wrote:
> On Feb 8, 10:09 pm, Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> If you expect your data to be pretty nearly sorted
>> already, but you just want to make sure (e.g. because a small number of
>> elements may have been inserted or removed since the last
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:09:06 -0800, Jeff Schwab wrote:
>
>> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>> On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:00:27 -0800, t3chn0n3rd wrote:
>>>
>>>> Do you think it is relatively easy to write sort algorithms such as
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 13:37:23 -0800, Jeff Schwab wrote:
>
>> Carl Banks wrote:
>>> On Feb 8, 10:09 pm, Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>> If you expect your data to be pretty nearly sorted already, but you
>>>
neocortex wrote:
> Hello!
> I am a newbie in Python. Recently, I get stuck with the problem of
> sorting by two criteria. In brief, I have a two-dimensional list (for
> a table or a matrix). Now, I need to sort by two columns, but I cannot
> figure out how to do that. I read somewhere that it is po
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 14:28:15 -0800, Jeff Schwab wrote:
>
>> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>> On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 13:37:23 -0800, Jeff Schwab wrote:
>>>
>>>> Carl Banks wrote:
>>>>> On Feb 8, 10:09 pm, Jeff Sch
Neal Becker wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> Would a wrapper function be out of the question here?
>>
>> def MyDivision(num, denom):
>> if denom==0:
>> return "NaN"
>> else
>> return num / denom
>
> I bought a processor that has hardware to implement this. Why do I
Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2008-02-10, Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Neal Becker wrote:
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>>
>>>> Would a wrapper function be out of the question here?
>>>>
>>>> def MyDivision(num,
Erik Max Francis wrote:
> Robert Bossy wrote:
>> Grant Edwards wrote:
>>> After repeated attempts at the tasks set for them in the
>>> experiments, the subjects would learn strategies that would
>>> work in a Newtonian world, but the initial intuitive reactions
>>> were very non-Newtonian (regardle
Erik Max Francis wrote:
> Jeff Schwab wrote:
>
>> Erik Max Francis wrote:
>>> Robert Bossy wrote:
>>>> I'm pretty sure we can still hear educated people say that free fall
>>>> speed depends on the weight of the object without realizing it&#
Erik Max Francis wrote:
> Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> On 2008-02-12, Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Fair enough!
>>
>> Dear me, what's Usenet coming to these days...
>
> I know, really. Sheesh! Jeff, I won't stand for that!
Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2008-02-10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> ? ? ? A Parsec is a fixed value (which, admittedly, presumes
> the culture developed a 360degree circle broken into degrees
> => minutes => seconds... or, at least, some units compatible
> with t
Erik Max Francis wrote:
> Jeff Schwab wrote:
>
>> So what's the "double mistake?" My understanding was (1) the misuse
>> (ok, vernacular use) of the term "free fall," and (2) the association
>> of weight with free-fall velocity ("If I tie a
Erik Max Francis wrote:
> Jeff Schwab wrote:
>
>> Erik Max Francis wrote:
>>> Grant Edwards wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2008-02-12, Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>> Fair enough!
>>>>
>>>> Dear me, what
Gabriel Genellina wrote:
> En Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:41:20 -0200, Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> escribi�:
>
>> def line():
>> try:
>> raise Exception
>> except:
>> retu
greg wrote:
> Carl Banks wrote:
>> In C you can use the mmap call to request a specific physical location
>> in memory (whence I presume two different processes can mmap anonymous
>> memory block in the same location)
>
> Um, no, it lets you specify the *virtual* address in the process's
> address
Gabriel Genellina wrote:
> En Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:20:12 -0200, Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> escribió:
>
>> What about the following? Should the underscores be omitted from the
>> method names, for consistency with inspect?
>
> I prefer the names_wit
> On Feb 12, 2008 1:05 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> What is dream hardware for the Python interpreter?
Warren Myers wrote:
> A Cray?
>
> What are you trying to do? "dream" hardware is a very wide question.
The only "dream hardware" I know of is the human brain. I have a
slightly used
alain wrote:
> On Feb 11, 10:58 am, "Bill Davy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Writing a quick and dirty assembler and want to give the user the location
>> of an error. The "assembly language" is Python. If the user wants to
>> generat some object code they write something like:
>>
>> Label(Loop
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:05:59 -0800, castironpi wrote:
>
>> What is dream hardware for the Python interpreter?
>
> I'm not sure that the Python interpreter actually does dream, but if it's
> anything like me, it's probably a giant computer the size of a bus, made
> out o
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote:
> -On [20080212 22:15], Dotan Cohen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>> Note that Google will give a calculator result for "1 kilogram in
>> pounds", but not for "1 kilogram in inches". I wonder why not? After
>> all, both are conversions of incompatible measurements,
alain wrote:
> On Feb 12, 7:44 pm, Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> It still would be nice to have syntax as clean as __FILE__ and __LINE__.
>
> There exists an undocumented builtin called __file__, but
> unfortunately no corresponding __line__
Drat! So
Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
> Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote:
>>> -On [20080212 22:15], Dotan Cohen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>>>> Note that Google will give a calculator result for "1 kilogram in
>>
Steve Holden wrote:
> James Stroud wrote:
>> [...] I then append the growing list of series generator
>> into the "serieses" list ("serieses" is plural for series if your
>> vocablulary isn't that big).
>>
> Not as big as your ego, apparently ;-) And don't be coming back with any
> argumentses.
Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2008-02-13, Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>> Eh? Last I checked both pound and kilogram are units of mass, so where is
>>> the incompatibility?
>> I've never heard of "pound" as a unit of mass. At least wher
David H Wild wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> We (Americans) all measure our weight in pounds. People talk about how
>> much less they would weigh on the moon, in pounds, or even near the
>> equator (
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've never had any call to use floating point numbers and now that I
> want to, I can't!
>
> *** Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, May 1 2007, 17:47:05) [MSC v.1310 32
> bit (Intel)] on win32. ***
float (.3)
> 0.2
foo = 0.3
foo
> 0.299
Nikita the Spider wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> greg wrote:
>>> Carl Banks wrote:
>>>> In C you can use the mmap call to request a specific physical location
>>>> in memory
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:49:08 -0800, Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
>
>> If you need a pretty string for use in code:
>>
>> >>> def pretty_fp(fpnum, prec=8):
>>
Christian Heimes wrote:
> Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>> What's wrong with just
>>
>> str(0.3)
>>
>> that's what "print" invokes, whereas the interpreter prompt is using
>>
>> repr(0.3)
>>
>
> No, print invokes the tp_print slot of the float type. Some core types
> have a special hand
Carl Banks wrote:
> On Feb 14, 6:16 pm, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm
happy to announce the release of Python 2.5.2 (release candidate 1).
>>> Um. If it's only a release *candidate* of 2.5.2, and not yet
Paul Rubin wrote:
> I join everyone else in thanking Martin for his work on this whole
> effort. This wording and naming thing is a trivial subtopic.
Ditto! The list of fixes is impressive. Kudos to everyone who everyone
responsible for the changes, and for keeping them organized and document
Zentrader wrote:
>> That's a misconception. The decimal-module has a different base (10
>> instead of 2), and higher precision. But that doesn't change the fact
>> that it will expose the same rounding-errors as floats do - just for
>> different numbers.
>>
>> >>> import decimal as d
>> >>> d = d
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Feb 13, 10:50 pm, Lalit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I need to write a program which would transfer files under one folder
>> structure (there are sub folders) to single folder.
>
>
>
> find /fromdir -exec mv {} /todir \; -print
>
>
-type f
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Feb 14, 10:50 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aahz) wrote:
>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:05:59 -0800, castironpi wrote:
What is dream hardware for the Python interpreter?
>>> I'm not sure tha
Preston Landers wrote:
> Hey guys and gals. What are all the cool kids using these days to
> document their code? My goal is to create in-line documentation of
> each package/module/class/method and create some semi-nice looking (or
> at least usable) packaged documentation from it, in HTML and/o
Steve Holden wrote:
> Mark Dickinson wrote:
>> On Feb 14, 11:09 pm, John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> You also need to think about how conditionals interact with
>>> quiet NANs. Properly, comparisons like ">" have three possibilities:
>>
>> True. There was a recent change to Decimal
Chris wrote:
> On Feb 15, 7:10 pm, DataSmash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I simply want to capture the free disc space in a variable so that I
>> can compare changes. I'm aware of a few commands like "df -h" or "du -
>> k", but I can't figure out how to capture those values as a variable.
>> I al
Zentrader wrote:
> I disagree with this statement
> But that doesn't change the fact that it will expose the same
> rounding-errors as floats do - just for different numbers.
> The example used has no rounding errors.
I think we're using the term "rounding error" to mean different things.
If t
Christian Heimes wrote:
> Jeff Schwab wrote:
>> I'm not sure how superuser-only space would be reserved in the first
>> place. I don't see anything relevant in the fdisk man page.
>
> man mkfs
>
> :)
Thank you.
Looks like the feature is only supported
W. Watson wrote:
> See Subject. It's a simple txt file, each line is a Python stmt, but I
> need up to four digits added to each line with a space between the
> number field and the text. Perhaps someone has already done this or
> there's a source on the web for it. I'm not yet into files with P
DataSmash wrote:
> On Feb 15, 1:32 pm, Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Chris wrote:
>>> On Feb 15, 7:10 pm, DataSmash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>> I simply want to capture the free disc space in a variable so that I
>>>> can com
Steve Holden wrote:
> Jeff Schwab wrote:
>> I'm not sure how superuser-only space would be reserved in the first
>> place. I don't see anything relevant in the fdisk man page.
>
> The UFS and ext2 filesystem space allocation routines become very
> inefficien
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:55:47 -0800, Zentrader wrote:
>
>> I disagree with this statement
>> But that doesn't change the fact that it will expose the same
>> rounding-errors as floats do - just for different numbers. The
>> example used has no rounding errors.
>
> Of cour
Amit Gupta wrote:
> Python'ites
>
> Is there an environment variable or some settings, that python can use
> to know the directory name for dumping .pyc files.
>
> Not a hard-requirement, I just don't like pyc files alongwith py files
> in my work area.
Does this help?
# ls.py
import subprocess
Paul Rubin wrote:
> Mark Dickinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> But the IEEE standard only supports one of them, aleph(0).
>>> Technically two: plus and minus aleph(0).
>> Not sure that alephs have anything to do with it.
>
> They really do not. The extended real line can be modelled in set
>
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