In message 18988a53-e88f-4abf-
a83a-314b16653...@x12g2000yqx.googlegroups.com, Patrick Maupin wrote:
I want nothing to do with any programmer who would mis-indent their
code.
But what happens when you’re trying to reconcile two different indentation
conventions? In Python, there can be
In message hpokef$gv...@reader1.panix.com, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2010-04-10, Lawrence D'Oliveiro l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand
wrote:
In message hpoh5j$35...@reader1.panix.com, Grant Edwards wrote:
Anybody who invents another brace-delimited language should be beaten.
You always end
In message 4bbf6eb8$0$1670$742ec...@news.sonic.net, John Nagle wrote:
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
In message mailman.1610.1270655932.23598.python-l...@python.org,
Gabriel Genellina wrote:
If you only reindent the code (without adding/removing lines) then you
can compare the compiled .pyc
In message hpoh5j$35...@reader1.panix.com, Grant Edwards wrote:
Anybody who invents another brace-delimited language should be beaten.
You always end up with a big problem trying to make sure the braces
are consistent with the program logic.
Would you prefer “begin” and “end” word symbols,
In message mailman.1599.1270652040.23598.python-l...@python.org, Tom Evans
wrote:
I've written a bunch of internal libraries for my company, and they
all use two space indents, and I'd like to be more consistent and
conform to PEP-8 as much as I can.
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin
In message mailman.1610.1270655932.23598.python-l...@python.org, Gabriel
Genellina wrote:
If you only reindent the code (without adding/removing lines) then you can
compare the compiled .pyc files (excluding the first 8 bytes that contain
a magic number and the source file timestamp).
In message
ec6d247c-a6b0-4f33-a36b-1d33eace6...@k19g2000yqn.googlegroups.com, Booter
wrote:
I am new to python ans was wondering if there was a way to get the mac
address from the local NIC?
What if you have more than one?
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In message mailman.1345.1269992641.23598.python-l...@python.org, Steve
Holden wrote:
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
By the way, you don’t need the parentheses.
But at the same time, if you don't *absolutely know* you don't need the
parentheses ...
But you can “abolutely know”—it’s all
In message 4baf3ac4$0$22903$e4fe5...@news.xs4all.nl, Irmen de Jong wrote:
On 28-3-2010 12:08, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
Don’t use MD5.
Also, md5 is not an encryption algorithm at all, it is a secure hashing
function.
You can use hash functions for encryption.
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In message 7316f3d2-bcc9-4a1a-8598-
cdd5d41fd...@k17g2000yqb.googlegroups.com, Joaquin Abian wrote:
(a==b) and 'YES' or 'NO'
Yes, ugly
Why would you say that’s ugly?
By the way, you don’t need the parentheses.
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In message 20100331003241.47fa9...@vulcan.local, Robert Fendt wrote:
The braces are gone, and with them the holy wars.
Let me start a new one. I would still put in some kind of explicit indicator
of the end of the grouping construct:
count = 99
while count 0:
print u'%d slabs
In message hosnrh$6n...@news.eternal-september.org, Alf P. Steinbach
wrote:
This is just unsubstantiated opinion, but worse, it makes a tacit
assumption that there is best way to do indentation. However, most
programmers fall into that trap, and I've done it myself.
Having used so many
In message 91541c26-6f18-40c7-
a0df-252a52bb7...@l25g2000yqd.googlegroups.com, catalinf...@gmail.com
wrote:
It is possible to encrypt with md5 python source code?
Don’t use MD5.
What option do I have to protect my python source code?
Copyright.
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In message mailman.1215.1269608278.23598.python-l...@python.org, Philip
Semanchuk wrote:
On Mar 26, 2010, at 5:57 AM, Laszlo Nagy wrote:
On my Linux system: Python version: 2.6.2 sqlite3.sqlite_version:
3.6.10
On my Windows system: Python version: 2.6.5 sqlite3.sqlite_version:
3.5.9
Why
In message 2010032618455468300-aptshan...@gmailinvalid, Stephen Hansen
wrote:
Is it possible to get PIL to save GIF's in GIF89A format, instead of
GIF87A?
Why? What does GIF do for you that PNG doesn’t?
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In message mailman.1139.1269442366.23598.python-l...@python.org,
pyt...@bdurham.com wrote:
BOM_UTF8 = '\xef\xbb\xbf'
Since when does UTF-8 need a BOM?
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In message mailman.987.1269033144.23598.python-l...@python.org, Gabriel
Genellina wrote:
I fail to see how is this relevant to Python...
Well, so many of the questions in this noisegroup seem to be about Windows
problems, not Python ones... :)
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In message mailman.963.1268958842.23598.python-l...@python.org, Terry
Reedy wrote:
No one has discovered a setting
of the internal tuning parameters for which there are no bad patterns
and I suspect there are not any such. This does not negate Xavier's
suggestion that a code change might
In message mailman.820.1268725930.23598.python-l...@python.org, Chris
Rebert wrote:
I see that you published my unobfuscated e-mail address on USENET for all to
see. I obfuscated it for a reason, to keep the spammers away. I'm assuming
this was a momentary lapse of judgement, for which I expect
Subtle...
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In message mailman.452.1268043207.23598.python-l...@python.org, Dave Angel
wrote:
However, if there's anything in there about how to derive the polynomial
algorithm from (a few) samples I missed it entirely.
Given that CRC is all just a sequence of xor operations, what happens if you
xor
In message 7vlamef7g...@mid.individual.net, Gregory Ewing wrote:
I'm going by the fact that the application reports a
CRC mismatch when it's wrong. I can't be sure that what
it calls a CRC is really a true CRC, but it's more than
a simple sum, because changing one bit in the file results
in
In message mailman.527.1268199449.23598.python-l...@python.org, Gabriel
Genellina wrote:
Warnsdorff's algorithm is heuristic ...
Then it shouldn’t be called an “algorithm”.
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In message 4b8b5cef$0$1625$742ec...@news.sonic.net, John Nagle wrote:
Patrick Maupin wrote:
Finding .ini configuration files too limiting, JSON and XML to hard to
manually edit, and YAML too complex to parse quickly, I have started
work on a new configuration file parser.
You're not
In message 7vbrvefeg...@mid.individual.net, Gregory Ewing wrote:
If you need the same FILE * that Python is using, you
may need to use ctypes to extract it out of the file
object.
Why would Python be using a FILE *?
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In message a83319d7-c199-4532-9816-
d002f7fd7...@q16g2000yqq.googlegroups.com, Zeeshan Quireshi wrote:
Hello, I'm using ctypes to wrap a library i wrote. I am trying to pass
it a FILE *pointer ...
Another option is to fix your library not to use stdio directly.
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In message hm4o2o$9i...@speranza.aioe.org, Gib Bogle wrote:
The only clue is that the machines that her program runs on have
Python installed, while the one that fails doesn't.
Wouldn’t it be a whole lot simpler to install Python on the bloody machine?
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In message
bda4748c-49ec-4383-81c1-7baaae567...@l19g2000yqb.googlegroups.com, William
Lohrmann wrote:
The best thing would be to backslash the single quote: print 'The play
All\'s Well That Ends Well'
Backslash-type escapes are the most general solution to this type of
problem. They’re also
In message op.u8nfpex8y5e...@laptopwanja, Wanja Gayk wrote:
Reference counting is about the worst technique for garbage collection.
It avoids the need for garbage collection. It means I can write things like
contents = open(filename, r).read()
and know the file object will be immediately
In message da970fce-bd6b-4eb3-bb66-3ca52cc0f...@k5g2000pra.googlegroups.com,
Anh Hai Trinh wrote:
On Feb 23, 10:08 am, Lawrence D'Oliveiro l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand
wrote:
Let me suggest an alternative approach: use Python itself as the
assembler. Call routines in your library
In message mailman.110.1266935711.4577.python-l...@python.org, mk wrote:
I need to generate passwords and I think that pseudo-random generator is
not good enough, frankly. So I wrote this function:
Much simpler:
import subprocess
data, _ = subprocess.Popen \
(
args = (pwgen, -nc),
In message hm0r5n$1a...@news.eternal-september.org, Martin P. Hellwig
wrote:
Actually I am still waiting for Java to be mainstream :-)
Too late, I think. Sun dilly-dallied over making it open source for too
long, until it practically didn’t matter any more.
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In message mailman.99.1266915651.4577.python-l...@python.org, Ishwor
Gurung wrote:
Java - The JVM code been hacked to death by Sun engineers (optimised)
Python - The PVM code has seen speed-ups in Unladen or via Pyrex..
ad-infinitum but nowhere as near to JVM
Python is still faster, though.
In message 711cb713-4b4a-47f6-8922-ce1ada7d6...@e1g2000yqh.googlegroups.com,
lkcl wrote:
we couldn't get control of that site for quite some time so
started using sourceforget for svn, but the issue tracker on
sourceforget is truly dreadful.
Damn. I’ve been working on my own fork
In message 6819f2f8-7a9e-4ea4-a936-c4e00394b...@g28g2000yqh.googlegroups.com,
vsoler wrote:
I'm trying to print .7 as 70%
Just to be perverse:
(lambda x : (lambda s : s[:s.index(.)] + s[s.index(.) + 1:] +
%)(%.2f % x).lstrip(0))(.7)
:)
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In message 7xwry39tpi@ruckus.brouhaha.com, Paul Rubin wrote:
More generally still, passwords regardless of their entropy content are
a sucky way to encapsulate cryptographic secrets.
They’re a shared secret. How else would you represent a shared secret, if
not with a shared secret?
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In message 1ecc71bf-54ab-45e6-a38a-d1861f092...@v25g2000yqk.googlegroups.com,
sjdevn...@yahoo.com wrote:
On Feb 20, 1:30 am, Lawrence D'Oliveiro l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand
wrote:
In message op.u8at0suda8n...@gnudebst, Rhodri James wrote:
In classic Pascal, a procedure was distinct
In message mailman.60.1266854492.4577.python-l...@python.org, MRAB wrote:
Not Python-related.
Seems to be pretty common with Windows-related complaints in this group.
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In message 873a0tszco@castleamber.com, John Bokma wrote:
According to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365006(VS.85).aspx
There are three types of file links supported in the NTFS file
system: hard links, junctions, and symbolic links. This topic is an
overview of
In message xns9d28186af890cfdnbgui7uhu5h8hrn...@127.0.0.1, Giorgos
Tzampanakis wrote:
I'm implementing a CPU that will run on an FPGA. I want to have a
(dead) simple assembler that will generate the machine code for
me.
Let me suggest an alternative approach: use Python itself as the
In message
3aa0205f-1e98-4376-92e4-607f96f13...@k19g2000yqc.googlegroups.com, Michael
Sparks wrote:
[1] This is perhaps more appropriate because '(a b c) is equivalent
to (quote a b c), and quote a b c can be viewed as close to
python's expression lambda: a b c
You got to be
In message 87eikjcuzk@benfinney.id.au, Ben Finney wrote:
Lawrence D'Oliveiro l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand writes:
In message hlhdsi$2p...@theodyn.ncf.ca, cjw wrote:
Aren't lambda forms better described as function?
Is this a function?
lambda : None
What about
In message 84166541-c10a-47b5-ae5b-
b23202624...@q2g2000pre.googlegroups.com, Steve Howell wrote:
Some people make the definition of function more restrictive--if it
has side effects, it is not a function.
Does changing the contents of CPU cache count as a side-effect?
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In message op.u8at0suda8n...@gnudebst, Rhodri James wrote:
In classic Pascal, a procedure was distinct from a function in that it had
no return value. The concept doesn't really apply in Python; there are no
procedures in that sense, since if a function terminates without supplying
an
In message 60b1abce-4381-46ab-91ed-
f2ab2154c...@g19g2000yqe.googlegroups.com, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
Also, lambda's are expressions, not statements ...
Is such a distinction Pythonic, or not? For example, does Python distinguish
between functions and procedures?
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In message
8ca440b2-6094-4b35-80c5-81d000517...@v20g2000prb.googlegroups.com,
Jonathan Gardner wrote:
I used to think anonymous functions (AKA blocks, etc...) would be a
nice feature for Python.
Then I looked at a stack trace from a different programming language
with lots of anonymous
In message hlhdsi$2p...@theodyn.ncf.ca, cjw wrote:
Aren't lambda forms better described as function?
Is this a function?
lambda : None
What about this?
lambda : sys.stdout.write(hi there!\n)
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In message 631b0785-38db-4c12-
a82a-7b11e2235...@o16g2000prh.googlegroups.com, joy99 wrote:
Is there any other material or URL for step by step learning of CGI.
There’s the official spec here
http://hoohoo.ncsa.illinois.edu/cgi/interface.html.
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In message 4b712919$0$6584$9b4e6...@newsspool3.arcor-online.net, Stefan
Behnel wrote:
Usually PyPI.
Where do you think these tools come from? They don’t write themselves, you
know.
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In message hkoje5$4n...@lust.ihug.co.nz, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
The basic control flow is this:
* Unconditionally initialize all dynamic storage to nil
* Do the main body of the code, aborting in any error
* Regardless of success or failure of the above, dispose of all
I wrote my first Python extension library over the last couple of weeks. I
took note of all the recommendations to keep track of reference counts, to
ensure that objects were not disposed when they shouldn’t be, and were when
they should. However, the example code seems to use gotos. And the
In message 4b6fd672$0$6734$9b4e6...@newsspool2.arcor-online.net, Stefan
Behnel wrote:
Jim, 06.02.2010 20:09:
I generate some HTML and I want to include in my unit tests a check
for syntax. So I am looking for a program that will complain at any
syntax irregularities.
First thing to note
In message 615b1271-a9b0-4558-8e45-
e4370698d...@a16g2000pre.googlegroups.com, rych wrote:
I'm not quite familiar with python serialization but the picle module,
at least, doesn't seem to be able to serialize a ctypes Structure with
array-fields.
Remember that a ctypes structure is supposed
In message 874on82oan@benfinney.id.au, Ben Finney wrote:
Or you could use the ready-made wheel maintained by others:
tzinfo Objects
URL:http://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html#tzinfo-objects
But that’s only an abstract base class, which means it doesn’t actually
implement
In message mailman.367.1262529266.28905.python-l...@python.org, Steve
Holden wrote:
Yes, but not to MySQL, please. Particularly since there is a sword of
Damocles hanging over its head while the Oracle takeover of Sun is
pending.
Ah, I see the FUDsters are crawling out of the woodwork here,
The XDG Base Directory Specification
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/ seems like the best
idea anyone’s come up with so far to end the dotfile clutter in everyone’s
home directories.
But it needs application software to support it.
I’ve put together a very simple library
Done by Northland Polytechnic, available for download under CC-BY-NC-ND here
http://www.archive.org/details/IntroductionToPythonUsingTurtleGraphics.
Thanks to Colin Jackson for the link.
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When doing recursive directory traversal, sometimes you want to follow
symlinks that point at other directories, and sometimes you don’t. Here’s a
routine that you can use to check whether a path specifies a directory, with
the option to treat a symlink to a directory as a directory, or not:
In message 486869af-d89f-4261-b4c2-
f45af5d3b...@e7g2000vbi.googlegroups.com, r wrote:
I find the syntax far to[o] complicated than it should be.
That’s because it was originally written for Java programmers.
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In message mailman.2504.1257216390.2807.python-l...@python.org, Carsten
Haese wrote:
With all due respect, but if your experience is exclusive to
MySQL/MySQLdb, your experience means very little for database
programming practices in general.
I wonder about the veracity of your claims,
In message mailman.2442.1257115236.2807.python-l...@python.org, Carsten
Haese wrote:
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
Says someone who hasn't realized where the real inefficiencies are.
Remember what Tony Hoare told us: premature optimization is the root of
all evil. These are databases we're
In message mailman.2416.1257062070.2807.python-l...@python.org, Dennis Lee
Bieber wrote:
On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:08 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro
l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand declaimed the following in
gmane.comp.python.general:
On the grounds that Python has more general and powerful
In message mailman.2489.1257197791.2807.python-l...@python.org, Robert
Kern wrote:
On 2009-11-02 14:47 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
For instance, I'm not aware of any database API that lets me do this:
sql.cursor.execute \
(
update numbers set flags = flags
In message mailman.2509.1257229930.2807.python-l...@python.org, Dennis Lee
Bieber wrote:
On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:41:10 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro
l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand declaimed the following in
gmane.comp.python.general:
There is no such parsing overhead. I speak from
In message mailman.2397.1257034364.2807.python-l...@python.org, Carsten
Haese wrote:
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
In message mailman.2376.1257005738.2807.python-l...@python.org, Carsten
Haese wrote:
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
In message mailman.2357.1256964121.2807.python-l...@python.org
In message mailman.2418.1257062992.2807.python-l...@python.org, Carsten
Haese wrote:
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
In message mailman.2397.1257034364.2807.python-l...@python.org,
Carsten Haese wrote:
On what grounds are you asserting that it's not necessary to mix the
two? Please elaborate
In message mailman.2357.1256964121.2807.python-l...@python.org, Dennis Lee
Bieber wrote:
This way regular string interpolation operations (or whatever Python
3.x has replaced it with) are safe to construct the SQL, leaving only
user supplied (or program generated) data values to be passed via
In message 6e603d9c-2be0-449c-9c3c-
bab49e09e...@13g2000prl.googlegroups.com, Carl Banks wrote:
It's not Python that's the issue. The issue is that if you have a
module with a .dll extension, other programs could accidentally try to
load that module instead of the intended dll, if the module
In message mailman.2365.1256979069.2807.python-l...@python.org, Albert
Hopkins wrote:
On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 21:32 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
In message 6e603d9c-2be0-449c-9c3c-bab49e09e...@13g2000prl.googlegroups.com,
Carl Banks wrote:
Modules will sometimes find themselves
In message mailman.2376.1257005738.2807.python-l...@python.org, Carsten
Haese wrote:
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
In message mailman.2357.1256964121.2807.python-l...@python.org, Dennis
Lee Bieber wrote:
This way regular string interpolation operations (or whatever Python
3.x has replaced
In message mailman.2268.1256841007.2807.python-l...@python.org, Christian
Heimes wrote:
On Linux and several other Unices the suffix is .so and not .pyd.
Why is that? Or conversely, why isn't it .dll under Windows?
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In message mailman.2297.1256863331.2807.python-l...@python.org, Christian
Heimes wrote:
Lawrence D'Oliveiro schrieb:
In message mailman.2268.1256841007.2807.python-l...@python.org,
Christian Heimes wrote:
On Linux and several other Unices the suffix is .so and not .pyd.
Why
In message b0ec6512-ac80-4372-
bdb8-1a8a4e030...@r5g2000yqb.googlegroups.com, Lacrima wrote:
I don't understand how I can make a table in DBM database, or a row in
a table. Or all data must be stored just as key-value pairs?
Maybe you should look at sqlite instead.
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In message mailman.2101.1256636602.2807.python-l...@python.org, Alfons
Nonell-Canals wrote:
I developed a script which generates some images (is a work about
Chemistry) and returns a page with some results and these images. When I
run the script from the web browser, all works fine: the
In message mailman.985.1254933855.2807.python-l...@python.org, Jean-Michel
Pichavant wrote:
Being a vi fan, I can just tell you that emacs is for loosers, and no
one will dare to challenge this.
Is it better to be loose or tight?
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In message c601fad6-8126-4f43-
b768-62ad6e7ec...@r5g2000yqb.googlegroups.com, Felix wrote:
I want to run a query like
select * from table a, table b where a.foo IN foobar(b.bar)
where foobar is a user function (registered by create_function in
pysqlite3) returning a list of integers.
In message mailman.1990.1256441598.2807.python-l...@python.org, Michal
Ostrowski wrote:
def MakeLambdaBad():
a = []
for x in [1,2]:
a.append(lambda q: x + q)
return a
Here's another form that should work:
def MakeLambdaGood2() :
a = []
for x in [1, 2] :
In message mailman.1942.1256325954.2807.python-l...@python.org, Peng Yu
wrote:
As far as I know, linux doesn't support a system level way to figure
out all the symbolic links point to a give file.
Do you know of a system that does?
I'm thinking of writing a daemon program which will build a
This routine is so useful, I wonder there's nothing like it in module
struct, or anywhere else I'm aware of:
def structread(fromfile, decode_struct) :
reads sufficient bytes from fromfile to be unpacked according to
decode_struct, and returns the unpacked results.
In message haqq0p$7f...@reader1.panix.com, kj wrote:
I use while True-loops often, and intend to continue doing this
while True ...
My practice with regard to loops is to use constructs such as while
(condition) { ... } and do ... while (condition) where condition is the
ONLY terminating
In message 93f6a517-63d8-4c80-
bf19-4614b7099...@m7g2000prd.googlegroups.com, Carl Banks wrote:
Or would you rather let all unexpected exceptions print to standard
error, which is often a black hole in non-interactive sitations?
Since when?
Cron, for example, collects standard error and mails
In message d82cea0b-3327-4a27-
b300-08975f7c0...@p28g2000vbn.googlegroups.com, seldan24 wrote:
For this particular script, all exceptions are fatal
and I would want them to be. I just wanted a way to catch them and
log them prior to program termination.
You don't need to. They will be
In message pan.2009.07.14.03.45...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au, Steven
D'Aprano wrote:
Are we supposed to interpret that post as Dumb Insolence or just Dumb?
Insolence indeed ... another wanker to plonk, I think.
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In message h3bogf$oo...@panix3.panix.com, Aahz wrote:
In article h3bagu$52...@lust.ihug.co.nz,
Lawrence D'Oliveiro l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand wrote:
In message h37gv5$r8...@panix3.panix.com, Aahz wrote:
It helps to remember that names and namespaces are in many
ways syntactic sugar
In message mailman.3048.1247462046.8015.python-l...@python.org, Vincent
Gulinao wrote:
Q1: is this a common OK practice? I'm worried infinite loops hogs memory.
The problem is not that the loop is infinite, but that it busy-waits,
hogging CPU.
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In message mailman.3035.1247427709.8015.python-l...@python.org, Emile van
Sebille wrote:
ssh with something like...
ssh -lroot -L3306:C:3306 B
Watch out for other instances of mysql on A or B...
You can use a non-default local port and specify that in your local
connection parameters.
In message 4a59951a$0$10853$426a7...@news.free.fr, Baptiste Lepilleur
wrote:
I'm looking for a tool that could be used in a pre-commit step to check
that only features available in a old python version are used, say
python 2.3 for example.
The only sure way would be to run the script under
In message mpg.24c0392b71e8a0eb989...@news.bintube.com, Broken wrote:
I am new to Python, and I'm miserably failing to send specific keys to
(say) notepad.
I don't understand why you need to automate a GUI front-end, meant for human
use, to a function that can be directly performed without
In message 652cca82-44a3-473f-b640-
c2336a9cf...@v15g2000prn.googlegroups.com, Rajat wrote:
... my whole idea is to close the wordpad / notepad application so that I
can delete the file and the directory where this file resides.
Don't you think the user might have that application open for a
In message 4a538a71$0$30236$9b4e6...@newsspool1.arcor-online.net, Stefan
Behnel wrote:
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
I wonder how many people have been tripped up by the fact that
++n
and
--n
fail silently for numeric-valued n.
I doubt that there are many. Plus, you
In message mailman.2787.1246986627.8015.python-l...@python.org, MRAB
wrote:
I wonder whether the problem with assignment in conditionals in C is due
to the assignment operator being =. If it was :=, would the error
still occur?
One of the original C designers, Kernighan or Ritchie, admitted
In message 87hbxkm7n2@benfinney.id.au, Ben Finney wrote:
For this and other differences introduced in the Python 3.x series, see
URL:http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3100/.
People never thank you for an RTFM response.
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http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
In message h37gv5$r8...@panix3.panix.com, Aahz wrote:
It helps to remember that names and namespaces are in many
ways syntactic sugar for dicts or lists.
Interesting, though, that Python insists on maintaining a distinction
between c[x] and c.x, whereas JavaScript doesn't bother.
--
In message h3291j$mf...@reader1.panix.com, kj wrote:
.., Lundh writes:
Assignment statements modify namespaces, not objects.
counterexample
a = [3]
b = a
These may indeed modify a namespace, not any object. However:
a[:] = [4]
a
[4]
b
[4]
What change
In message kck0m.406$ze1@news-server.bigpond.net.au, Lie Ryan wrote:
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
... certainly it is characteristic of GUIs to show you all 400,000 files
in a directory, or at least try to do so, and either hang for half an
hour or run out of memory and crash, rather than
In message mailman.2795.1246997268.8015.python-l...@python.org, Christian
Heimes wrote:
By the way most operating systems don't lock a file when it's opened for
reading or writing or even executed.
The general conclusion seems to be that mandatory locking is more trouble
than it's worth.
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In message mailman.2674.1246866966.8015.python-l...@python.org, Tim Golden
wrote:
The difficulty here is knowing where to put such a warning.
You obviously can't put it against the ++ operator as such
because... there isn't one.
This bug is an epiphenomenon. :)
--
In message 4a4f91f9$0$1587$742ec...@news.sonic.net, John Nagle wrote:
(It should be written in C is not an acceptable answer.)
I don't see why not. State machines that have to process input byte by byte
are well known to be impossible to implement efficiently in high-level
languages. That's
In message mailman.2714.1246910113.8015.python-l...@python.org, Terry
Reedy wrote:
... it is C, not Python, that is out of step with standard usage in math
and most languages ...
And it is C that introduced == for equality, versus = for assignment,
which Python slavishly followed instead of
In message 025ff4f1$0$20657$c3e8...@news.astraweb.com, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Sun, 05 Jul 2009 12:12:22 +1200, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
In message
1beffd94-cfe6-4cf6-bd48-2ccac8637...@j32g2000yqh.googlegroups.com, ryles
wrote:
# Oh... yeah. I really *did* want 'is None
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