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Dunno about Fedora, I stopped using Red Hat just because they were
*not* using the standard Python distribution, and the version they
shipped was cripped in various ways.
Eh? I used Red Hat for a long while and don't remember their crippling
the Python distribution.
EP [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Python: it tastes so good it makes you hungrier.
QOTW
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Roman Suzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
As for concepts, they are from Generic Programming (by Musser and
Stepanov) and I feel that Python is in position to implement them to
the fullest extent. And IMHO it will be nicer than just Java-like
interfaces or Eiffel's contract approach.
I keep
Paul Rubin http://[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There is nothing in Wikipedia about [Generic programming].
Oops: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_programming
This helps. But I don't see how it's different from what used to
be called polymorphism.
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Ville Vainio [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Paul I can't parse that. It says two contradictory things.
Paul Sentence 2 says that if something essential is not in the
Paul (Python) distro then the (Python) distro maintainers have
Paul screwed up. Sentence 1 says it's the Fedora
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But Python IS tied for first. This may indicate that the
relatively small number of jobs listing Python as a requirement is due
in part to a relatively small supply of Python programmers, not lack of
demand for such programmers.
I think it mostly means Python
Skip Montanaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Okay, then start doing the work necessary to incorporate that stuff into the
core. Get Fredrik to say okay to including his Tkinter docs, then do what
it takes to incorporate it. The fact that Fredrik can check those docs in
himself but hasn't after
Nick Coghlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Do you consider generator expressions or list comprehensions deficient
because they don't allow several statements in the body of the for
loop?
I don't see what it would mean to do otherwise.
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J Berends [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Suppose I have a list of dictionaries and each dict has a common
keyname with a (sortable) value in it.
How can I shuffle their position in the list in such way that they
become sorted.
Do I understand the question right? Can't you just say
Jp Calderone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A Python sandbox would be useful, but the hosting provider's excuse
for not allowing you to use mod_python is completely bogus. All the
necessary security tools for that situation are provided by the
platform in the form of process and user
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) writes:
Yes, apart from libraries and similar cases (frameworks etc), it's no
doubt rare for closed-source end-user packages to be sold with
licenses that include source and allow you to do anything with it.
However, allowing customization (at least for
Peter Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think PHP has a safe mode which solves the probem of isolating
scripts of different users on application level. This is not optimal
but better than nothing. Best solution would probably be to create
a thread for each request that can operate only with the
Gerhard Haering [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But mod_python is an apache module and runs in the same apache process
with other users' scripts.
Which is why it's a good idea for each customer to have it's own
system user and their virtual hosts running under this uid. Which
was the idea for
Jeff Shannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Note that the so-called 'viral' nature of GPL code only applies to
*modifications you make* to the GPL software.
Well, only under an unusually broad notion of modification. The GPL
applies to any program incorporating GPL'd components, e.g. if I
Bulba! [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Making derived work proprietary in no way implies that the base
work is publicly unavailable anymore.
Since you want to be able to incorporate GPL code in your proprietary
products, and say there's no problem since the base work is still
available from the same
Jeff Shannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It seems to me that in other, less-dynamic languages, lambdas are
significantly different from functions in that lambdas can be created
at runtime.
What languages are those, where you can create anonymous functions
at runtime, but not named functions?!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aahz) writes:
I don't like what I perceive as end effect of what GPL license
writers are attempting to achieve: vendor lock-in.
And my counter-argument is that I believe your perception is wrong. If
I agreed with your focus on lock-in, I'd say that what the GPL is trying
Terry Reedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Would it be possible, at least for Windows, to write a Python script
implementing a 'virtual distribution'? IE, download Python, install it,
download next package, install it, etc. -- prefereably table driven?
I just don't understand why you'd want to
adamc [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've not experienced problems installing wxPython on Debian (unstable).
It just *works* out of the box with apt-get. Perhaps this is more of a
problem with the package maintainers?
I think the problem I encountered was that the version of WxWidgets
currently on
Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_source
any program whose licensing terms do not qualify as open source.
A definition with a nice big This article may need to be reworded to
conform to a neutral point of view warning at the top. ;-)
...
There
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) writes:
Note also from the Heine-Borel theorem that every closed source
program can be covered by some finite collection of open source
programs.
Every _compact_ one, surely? Quoting by heart from old memories, but,
isn't Heine-Borel about (being able
Anna [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Having taken some calculus (derivatives, limits, some integrals) but
never even heard of lambda calculus, to me, lambda means absolutely
NOTHING. Less than nothing.
Lambda calculus is from mathematical logic, but more to the point
lambda has been the term used in
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) writes:
Paul Rubin http://[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Really, I just want to buy a new
computer, turn it on, and have everything there. That's generally
impossible without running satanware from Redmond
The princes of insufficient light from Cupertino
Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Perhaps what we really need is a good Lisp subsystem for Python?
I've thought the other way around, it would be nice to have a Python
subsystem for Lisp.
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Bulba! [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
From the viewpoint of looking at availability of source code A,
it's completely irrelevant if those guys are fishmongers or
make derived work A' and redistribute only binary of A'. Not
a single line of publicly available source code appeared or
disappeared
Nick Coghlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Add in the fact that there are many, many Python programmers with
non-CS backgrounds, and the term 'lambda' sticks out like a sore thumb
from amongst Python's other English-based keywords. 'def' is probably
the second-most cryptic when you first encounter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Hobbs) writes:
The problem when using Python instead of C for OS development is that
C was *specifically designed* to create an OS, while Python was designed
for completely different purposes. If you want to write an OS, it would
be wise to use a language that is
Donn Cave [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I don't by any means agree that this notation is worth adopting, and
in general I think this kind of readability issue is more or less a lost
cause for a language with Python's scoping rules, but the motive makes
sense to me.
But we're talking about the
Gavin Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Thank you, and please make all answers simple enough to be understood
by a highschool student and his father :) .
You might like to try IDLE, which is included with Python.
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aurora [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Just gone though an article via Slashdot titled The Free Lunch Is
Over: A Fundamental Turn Toward Concurrency in Software
[http://www.gotw.ca/publications/concurrency-ddj.htm]. It argues that
the continous CPU performance gain we've seen is finally over. And
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roy Smith) writes:
Something along the lines of:
words = input.split()
print words[4], words[5]
That throws an exception if there are fewer than 6 fields, which might
or might not be what you want.
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Arich Chanachai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But I thought Python was an all-purpose language. After all, OS's
have been written in Lisp before too.
Pure Lisp? Or a Lisp/C/Asm combo? Lisp has a compiled flavor by the way.
Compiled flavor? Lisp has been compiled since the 1950's.
No,
Nick Coghlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Usage could be something like:
res = [ f(i) for i in objects ] where:
def f(x):
#do something
Hmm, this is actually a really interesting idea. Avoiding accidental
namespace conflicts is certainly one of the advantages of using
Roose [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
An OS is NOT an application. It is a completely different kind of program.
Do you guys understand the difference between user and kernel mode? Do you
know what address spaces and hardware interrupts are? Python is not
equipped to handle these things. You
AdSR [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Killer app for this keyword:
class C(object):
x = property(get, set) where:
def get(self):
return Silly property
def set(self, val):
self.x = Told you it was silly
Hey, this is super-elegant!
Heh, even further:
z = C()
worzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What is the best way to web developemnt with Python? Is there
anything close to PHP style in-page script placement that can create
and use other Python objects? I am not really interested in Zope (I
believe that is more a CMS than anything else?) I am also
Dieter Maurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It uses a specialized compiler that prevents dangerous bytecode operations
to be generated and enforces a restricted builtin environment.
Does it stop the user from generating his own bytecode strings and
demarshalling them?
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Roose [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is an OS written in Lisp also ludicrous? Because it's been done.
Can you point me to this? I'd like to see how truly Lisp it is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine
My first guess would be -- not very. And I'd like to install it on my PC.
Although
Stephen Thorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Unresolved Problems:
1) How do you handle duck types, i.e. a method that accepts StringIO,
cStringIO or any other object that has a .readlines(), .seek() and
.read() method?
That should really be done through having those classes inherit a
Carl Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You misunderstand. There where is not part of the expression but the
statement. The above example would be a modified print statement, a
print...where statement, if you will. Under this suggestion, there
would be modified versions of various simple
Carl Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
# compute sqrt(2) + sqrt(3)
x = (sqrt(a) where:
a = 2.) \
+ sqrt (a) where:
a = 3.
Hmmm.
What would be the advantage of that over this?
. x = sqrt(a) + sqrt(b) where:
. a = 2.0
. b = 3.0
The idea
Nick Coghlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think having to keep the names unique within the statement you are
currently writing is a reasonable request :)
Um, you could say the same thing about the function, the module, etc. ;)
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Nick Coghlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
x = (sqrt(a) where (a=2.0)) + (sqrt(b) where (a=3.0))
Hmm, I like that too.
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Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You can read about it in Philip Eby's excellent PEP at
http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0333.html
I looked at this and I have the impression that it tries to do
something worthwhile, but I can't tell precisely what. The rationale
and goals section
Stephen Thorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It should be left on. Leaving it in for development and turning it
off for production is like wearing a parachute during ground training
and taking it off once you're in the air.
So we can't use this for a case where we have an extremely large list
Nick Coghlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Trying to push it a level further (down to expressions) would, IMO, be
a lot of effort for something which would hurt readability a lot.
I think we should just try to do things in a simple and general way
and not try to enforce readability. For example,
Oh cool, I sort of remember that game from back in the day. I didn't
play it very much so never got very far in it. I'll have to try your
version.
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Andrey Tatarinov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How does GvR suggestions on removing map(), reduce(), filter()
correlate with the following that he wrote himself (afaik):
http://www.python.org/doc/essays/list2str.html
I think that article was written before list comprehensions were added
to
Andrey Tatarinov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
anyway list comprehensions are just syntaxic sugar for
for var in list:
smth = ...
res.append(smth)
(is that correct?)
I would expect lc's to work more like map does.
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Roose [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've written file systems in Python, and task schedulers in
Javascript, and they were fine for their purposes
Uh, not to be rude, but what are you talking about? If I'm not mistaken
Javascript is that scripting language that runs inside a browser,
Arich Chanachai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Yes, compiled Lisp. There are Python compilers too.\
??? You mean like Pyrex or some such? I wouldn't exactly call these
Python compilers, as that kind of obscures some underlying
(critical) facts.
Also psyco. And I think Pypy is currently set
Roose [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Are you actually going to answer any of my questions? Let's see
this JavaScript task scheduler you have written!
I wrote it at a company and can't release it. It ran inside a
browser. There was nothing terribly amazing about it. Obviously the
tasks it
Arich Chanachai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
And I think Pypy is currently set up to compile Python
into Pyrex and then run the Pyrex results through GCC.
But of course, who's going to argue that Pyrex produces compiled
Python?
Pyrex produces compiled Python in the same sense that asm
Carl Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So do you approve of the movement to get rid of the print statement?
Any little incremental change in Python you could make by having or not
having a print statement would be minor compared to the H-Bomb of
ugliness we'd get if suites of statements were
Mark Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Supposing I decide to write a server-side application using something
like corba or pyro.
What's the chance that in big corporations, the client's ports (in
both senses of the word: fee-paying, and application) will be blocked,
thereby immediately
Carl Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Paul Rubin wrote:
Carl Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So do you approve of the movement to get rid of the print
statement?
Any little incremental change in Python you could make by having or
not
having a print statement would be minor
Carl Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
When I asked you to do this, it was just a rhetorical way to tell you
that I didn't intend to play this game. It's plain as day you're
trying to get me to admit something. I'm not falling for it.
If you have a point to make, why don't you just make it?
Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Lots of people seem to want immutable instances. Nobody seems to have
a use case for them.
What is the use case for immutable strings? Why shouldn't strings be
mutable like they are in Scheme?
Generally if I know I don't plan to mutate something, I'd want
Donn Cave [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Right. After devoting a lengthy post to the defense of
tuples as a structured type, I have to admit that they're
not a very good one ...
Another theme that occasionally comes up in advice from the
learned has been use a class.
There's a historical issue
Donn Cave [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There's a historical issue too: when tuples started first being
used this way in Python, classes had not yet been introduced.
When was that, old-timer?
It was before my time, but I have the impression that classes arrived
with 1.3 or somewhere around
Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
fwiw, the tuple and class implementation were both checked into
CVS in october 1990.
maybe he's talking about ABC?
No I think I'm just plain mistaken. For some reason I thought classes
came much later. It was way before my time so I defer to your
Beau Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JOB: Telecommute Python Programmer - IMMEDIATE NEED
Please see www.superiorss.com/jobs.htm
I hope this person is not trying to spam web BBS's, wikis, etc.
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Sybren Stuvel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
No, it is not merely a shortcut. It often allows one to avoid
polluting the namespace with a completely superfluous function name,
thus reducing code smell.
Which can also be done by using inner functions.
Inner functions with no names?
It can
François Pinard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Let me repeat this for the umpteenth time: You do not have to learn
LaTeX to contribute to docs. Submit plain text. One of us with
some LaTeX knowledge will do the markup. Content is the hard part.
Markup is nothing, so don't let it be a barrier
Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Defining a function, and giving it a name,
isn't polluting the namespace, any more than assigning
sub-expressions to temporary variables is polluting the namespace.
Nor any less.
Why use temporary variables when all you have to do is make your
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sounds like a subject matter expert is needed here, not a garden variety
tech writer or Python programmer. Documentation of esoteric stuff requires,
well, esoteric knowledge.
Yes, that's what I mean; coding a library module for an esoteric
function requires that same
Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Or, better still, by an accomplished writer who has access to the
code's author. This was indeed my experience in writing the docs for
previously undocumented modules. The author was happy to help me by
answering questions, and this did make the docs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Redhat's Fedora project seems to have a fairly well developed
program for recruiting and encouraging writers.
Frankly I haven't been that impressed with the Fedora docs I've seen.
The LDP docs have generally been better. Maybe I'm looking at the
wrong Fedora docs.
BartlebyScrivener [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The solution is clear: the distro maintainers should require that all
code contributions must come with good docs.
Well, that might be asking a bit too much of the programmers, who
perhaps don't exactly enjoy mucking about in the lowlands of English
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Björn Lindström) writes:
Actually using tabs for eight spaces and then filling out with spaces to
the correct indentation is the convention for Emacs Lisp. Of course,
since everyone coding Emacs Lisp does it with the same editor, it's no
problem.
The variable
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think there is, for python. Not that I agree with it. The language
doesn't prevent you from using the short one-liner style but the idioms
prefer the line by line(and one single op/action per line) style.
Are you serious?!! You're saying idiomatic Python prefers
François Pinard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You may suggest that I should process my e-mail more promptly.
No, I'm not suggesting you how to work, no more that I would accept
that you force me into working your way. If any of us wants to force
the other to speak through robots, that one is
Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I proposed a documentation sprint for PyCon a couple of years ago, but
nobody thought it was important enough to work on. It would be a good
idea next year, too.
IMO this should definitely be done. That nobody thought docs were
important enough to work
Jens Bloch Helmers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How can I control the number of digits in the exponent when writing
floats to a file? It seems that Python2.4.2(winXP) prints three
digits anyway.
print 1.0e50
1e+050
That's weird; must be version and/or OS dependent. On Fedora Core 4:
Antoon Pardon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But lately I have been wondering about doing the following:
end = None
...
if ...:
...
end
IMO it looks better, but I'm reluctant because it suggest
some checking by the compilor, which just doesn't happen.
I don't think you can always do
Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
All joking aside, when I have names (temporary variables or scaffolding
functions) that I need to initialise a module or data structure, but then
outlive their usefulness, I del the name afterwards. Am I the only one? I
can't say I've seen anyone else
Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
if cond:
my x = 7# make a new scope for x, goes out of scope at end of if
If this genuinely troubles you then you can always isolate the scope
with a function, though of course you also no longer have the code
inline then.
I don't
Steven D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Yes. Reaching through objects to do things is usually a bad idea.
I don't necessarily disagree, but I don't understand why you say this. Why
it is bad?
The traditional OOP spirit is to encapsulate the object's entire
behavior in the class definition.
Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm working on puttingn this up for Python. I'm planning on using AJAX
to pass the input string to eval on the server. I.e. - you'll be
limited to expressions, which is what it seems like the Ruby thing is
limited to.
On the other hand, with iterators,
py [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well the other thing is that I am allowed to store strings in this
dictionary...so I can't just store the Engine and Body object and later
use them. this is just a requirement (which i dont understand
either)...but its what I have to do.
Probably so that the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) writes:
You could make a case for a 2D coordinate class being sufficiently
primitive to have immutable instances, of course (by analogy with
numbers and strings) -- in that design, you would provide no mutators,
and therefore neither would you provide setters
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) writes:
I could imagine using Python's built-in complex numbers to represent
2D points. They're immutable, last I checked. I don't see a big
conflict.
No big conflict at all -- as I recall, last I checked, computation on
complex numbers was optimized
Steven D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The fact that sys is a module and not a class is a red herring. If the
Law of Demeter makes sense for classes, it makes just as much sense for
modules as well -- it is about reducing coupling between pieces of code,
not something specific to classes.
Chris Mellon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
As someone who does a tremendous amount of event-driven GUI
programming, I'd like to take a moment to speak out against people
using us as a testament to the virtues of lamda. Event handlers are
the most important part of event-driven code, and making
Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
a temporary factory function should be sufficient:
def digit(label, x, y):
def callback():
# print BUTTON PRESS, label # debug!
user_pressed(int(label))
Button(label=label, command=callback).grid(column=x,
Paul Rubin http://[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
binops = {'+': (lambda x,y: x+y),
'-': (lambda x,y: x-y),
'*': (lambda x,y: x*y),
'/': (lambda x,y: x/y),
'**': (lambda x,y: x**y)
}
How would you refactor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How would you refactor that, with no lambda?
Or, why would you want to refactor that ?
I like it the way it was written. I'm not the one saying lambda is bogus.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is this model correct or wrong? Where can I read about the mechanism
behind exceptions?
Usually you push exception handlers and finally clauses onto the
activation stack like you push return addresses for function calls.
When something raises an exception, you scan the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bengt Richter) writes:
for tup in ((str(d+1), d%3+1,3-d//3) for d in xrange(9)): digit(*tup)
tweak 'til correct ;-)
GMTA. See:
http://www.nightsong.com/phr/python/calc.py
written a couple years ago. It uses:
for i in xrange(1,10):
Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The really interesting question your post raises, though, is Why do
you feel it's necessary to test to see whether a variable is a
Boolean?.
What's the point of having Booleans, if you can't tell them from integers?
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Jacob Rael [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I read about the security concerns involved in using eval(). I don't
expect this project to grow to the point where I require a web
interface. However, since I am learning, I might as well learn the
right way.
I think you're going to have to write an
Claudio Grondi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Currently Ubuntu is my favorite, because it seems to be at the moment
the only Linux distribution supporting already Python 2.4.2 out of the
box,
Are you seriously saying that whatever distro came out most recently
(and therefore have the latest Python
Michael McGarry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Marshal should save the data in a readable text format, but I guess it
does not.
Any help would be appreciated,
RTFM. Marshal is not intended for what you're doing. Use Pickle,
which is.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) writes:
Try Interface Builder on a Mac: it builds interfaces as _data_ files,
not generated code. You can then use the same UI from Objective C,
Java, Python (w/PyObjC), AppleScript... interface-painters which
generate code are a really bad idea.
Glade also
Tolga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Let's suppose that I have written a Python program and, of course, want
to show it to the world ;-)
So, do I have to distrubute my source code? Or is there a way to hide
my code?
You're not really showing it to the world, if you hide the source.
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Laszlo Zsolt Nagy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I already have my own classes. My objects are in object ownership
trees, and they are referencing to each other (weakly and
strongly). These classes have their own streaming methods, and they
can be pickled safely.
Standard warning: if you're
Laszlo Zsolt Nagy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But how can I transfer pure python objects otherwise? Pyro also uses
Pickle and it also transfers bytecode.
Pyro in the past used pickle in an insecure way. I'd heard it had
been fixed and I didn't realize it still uses pickle.
I read somewhere
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) writes:
To put it another way: one reason I love Python is that I strongly
subscribe to the idea that there should preferably be only one obvious
way to do something. Unfortunately, this principle is very badly broken
by the multiplicity of Python web
Ben Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This gives meaning to the equal value comparisons, but ensures that
other comparisons are errors.
Comments so far?
What does copy.copy of an enumeration value do? What happens if you
have a list with some enumeration values inside, and you make a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am building a simple MySQL news database, which would contain, a
headline, a date, main story(body) and a graphic associated with each
story. I would like to generate an index of the pages in this database
( ie a news index with links to the articles) an to have a
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