In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
billiejoex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi there.
I'm setting up test suite for a project of mine.
From test suite, acting as a client, I'd like to know, in certain
situations, if the socket is closed on the other end or not.
I noticed that I can detect such state
Jay Loden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The goal of this
portion of the test suite we are writing for the project is to determine if a
remote server is behaving properly by closing a socket from the server side
based on a client-side command.
Really what's needed is a way to make sure the
In article
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So my question is when approaching a project that you want to employ
test driven development on how and where do you start? And also if
anyone uses top-down design with TDD I would be interested in how you
do it (does it involve lots of
In article
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
ajaksu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jan 27, 10:32 pm, Paddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would value the opinion of fellow Pythoneers who have also
contributed to Wikipedia, on the issue of Is Python Standardized.
Specifically in the context of this table:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Terry Reedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Paddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
|I would value the opinion of fellow Pythoneers who have also
| contributed to Wikipedia, on the issue of Is Python Standardized.
Depends entirely on the
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Terry Reedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Roy Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
| But, surely Python has plenty of implementation defined aspects.
| Especially in the libraries.
I personally do not consider the libraries as part
In article
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
[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,
In article
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
Mensanator [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
C isn't a high level language, that's part of its problem.
C is the highest level assembler language I've ever used. And I've used a
few. It really is cool that you can add two 32-bit integers and not have
to worry about
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Francesco Pietra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am posting ex novo as it became confusing to me. I take the
opportunity to ask advice for a second problem.
FIRST PROBLEM
For file xxx.pdb, insert letter A into each line that starts with
ATOM. A should be inserted
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Nikolaus Rath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But at least this variation doesn't work, because unittest apparently
also creates two separate TwoTests instances for the two tests. Isn't
there some way to convince unittest to reuse the same instance instead
of trying to
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Hendrik van Rooyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is reputed to belong to a programmer who was flayed alive
Reminds me of that great old song from Saturday Night Hacker:
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
Flaying alive, flaying alive.
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
Flaying ali-i-i-i-i-ive!
--
Terry Reedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, so you can write something like either your second example or
l = [
kjasldfjs,
kjsalfj,
ksjdflasj,
]
and insert items without worrying about leaving out the comma (less of a
problem with 'horizontal' list), or delete the last line and
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2008-08-29, Roy Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Exactly. This is one of those little pieces of syntactic
sugar which makes python so nice to work with. The
alternative is (in C, for example) abominations like
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Roy Smith wrote:
Yowza, you're right (at least for the one case I tried). This must be a
new development (where new development is defined as, It wasn't legal in
the original KR C I learned when I was a pup
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Peter Otten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Without them it looks better:
import sys
for line in sys.stdin:
try:
a, b = map(int, line.split(None, 2)[:2])
except ValueError:
pass
else:
if a + b == 42:
print b
I'm
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Peter Otten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I might take it one step further, however, and do:
fields = line.split()[:2]
a, b = map(int, fields)
in fact, I might even get rid of the very generic, but conceptually
overkill, use of map() and
In article
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Roy Smith:
No reason to limit how many splits get done if you're
explicitly going to slice the first two.
You are probably right for this problem, because most lines are 2
items long, but in scripts that have to process lines
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Peter Otten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Roy Smith wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Peter Otten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I might take it one step further, however, and do:
fields = line.split()[:2]
a, b = map(int, fields
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I write a lot of CGI scripts, in Python of course. Now I need to
convert some to long-running processes. I'm having trouble finding
resources about the best practices to do that.
I've found a lot of email discussions that say something like, You
need to
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just to clarify what I'm after:
If you plot (-3)^n where n is a set of negative real numbers between 0
and -20 for example, then you get a discontinuos line due to the
problem mentioned above with fractional exponents. However, you can
chewie54 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would prefer to use Python but can't deny how popular Tcl is, as
mentioned above, so my question is why wasn't Python selected by
these companies as the choice of scripting languages for their
product?
Are there any obvious advantages like:
Gilles Ganault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I know about socket.gethostbyname, but this relies on what's in
/etc/hosts, and I'd rather have a more independent solution.
The system I'm currently working on uses exactly this strategy -- we get
the hostname then do a name lookup on it. We've gone
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Bruno Desthuilliers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Steven D'Aprano a écrit :
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:48:36 +0100, Ton van Vliet wrote:
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:14:50 +0100, Bruno Desthuilliers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
However, I was more thinking in terms of
In article
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello hello,
I'm looking for a piece of code, preferably in Python, that will do
the following. It will accept a few data points (x,f(x)) of a function
that converges to some finite value when x converges to
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Daniel Fetchinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone has an idea what the huge peak around the middle of 2004 can be
attributed to?
There's a Q/A section at the bottom of
http://www.tiobe.com/index.htm?tiobe_index which covers this:
Q: What happened to Java in
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Bruno Desthuilliers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
MonkeeSage a écrit :
On Dec 8, 2:51 pm, Glenn Hutchings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Dec 8, 7:44 pm, MonkeeSage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think it muddies the water to say that a.a() and a.a are the same
Ben Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
a = enum ('foo', 'bar', 'baz')
b = enum ('foo', 'bar', 'baz')
Two separate enumerations are created
OK, most of the rest follows from that.
str (a)
Not defined in the current specification. Suggestions?
Well, by analogy with
a = set ((1, 2, 3))
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any comments? Has this been discussed before?
Yes. To death. Executive summary: self is here to stay.
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Terry Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
However, there is a slightly less onerous method which
is perfectly legit in present Python -- just use s
for self:
This is being different for the sake of being different. Everybody *knows*
what self means. If you write your code with s instead of
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
greg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Paul Rubin wrote:
Do you anticipate having parameters like socket.AF_INET that are
currently integers, become enumeration members in future releases?
Since these are derived from values defined
as integers in C, it's probably
Tim Chase [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you anticipate having parameters like socket.AF_INET
that are currently integers, become enumeration members
in future releases?
Since these are derived from values defined as integers
in C, it's probably better to leave them that way. There
may be
John Salerno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I do get it. I think I will just have to get used to seeing the 'self'
argument but understanding that it's not really something that is always
passed in. I'm trying to train myself to see
def doittoit(self) as def doittoit()
That's OK as far as using
Should I amend the PEP to propose either in the builtins
or in the collections module? Or should I propose two
PEPs and let them compete?
I see the issue of whether it's a built-in or part of the standard library
as being a detail. My personal opinion is that they're important enough to
be
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
John Salerno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since Python does so many things different, especially compared to
compiled and statically typed languages, do most of the basic design
patterns still apply when writing Python code? If I were to read a
design pattern
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Paul Rubin http://[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Somewhat less often, something is easy in Java and difficult in
Python.
Example?
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Paul Rubin http://[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Roy Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Somewhat less often, something is easy in Java and difficult in
Python.
Example?
Sandboxed code is a real obvious one.
What is sandboxed code?
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Tom Leggio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do I need this on my computer---Python---can I remove it without hurting
anything?
Thanks Tommy
Tom,
That's a very difficult question to answer without knowing more about your
computer. Some systems depend on Python for
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
msoulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For example, the Factory pattern is mostly to work around the fact that
it's difficult in Java and C++ to dynamically load classes.
You're over-specifying. Most of most design patterns is to work around the
fact that it's
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Ben Caradoc-Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
James Stroud wrote:
except URLError, HTTPException:
Aieee! This catches only URLError and binds the name HTTPException to
the detail of that error. You must write
except (URLError, HTTPException):
to catch
Rene Pijlman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A catchall seems like a bad idea, since it also catches AttributeErrors
and other bugs in the program.
All of the things like AttributeError are subclasses of StandardError. You
can catch those first, and then catch everything else. In theory, all
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Rene Pijlman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Roy Smith:
In theory, all exceptions which represent problems with the external
environment (rather than programming mistakes) should derive from
Exception, but not from StandardError.
Are you sure?
The class
Xavier Morel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Francois wrote:
1) In Ruby there is a risk of Variable/Method Ambiguity when calling
a method with no parameters without using () :
Yes, but that's in my opinion a programmer error, not necessarily a
language error.
In Python, you can make exactly
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Bil Kleb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The parensless calls also allow one to write beautiful
DSLs with Ruby.
What's a DSL?
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
nuttydevil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have many notepad documents that all contain long chunks of genetic
code. They look something like this:
atggctaaactgaccaagcgcatgcgtgttatccgcgagaaagttgatgcaaccaaacag
tacgacatcaacgaagctatcgcactgctgaaagagctggcgactgctaaattcgtagaa
Fredrik Tolf python-list@python.org wrote:
If I have a variable which points to a function, can I check if certain
argument list matches what the function wants before or when calling it?
Currently, I'm trying to catch a TypeError when calling the function
(since that is what is raised when
Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyway, my question is: what experience you people have with working
with different languages at the same time?
At one point, I was working with Perl, Python, Tcl, and C++ all more or
less at the same time. I just kept crib sheets handy, so I could look up
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Tom Bradford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here is what I mean. The following function, though conventionally
indicating that it will perform a multiplication, will yield standard
Python behaviors if a string value is passed to it:
def multiplyByTwo(value):
The first two links on the News and Announcements are dead -- they get
you a 404 File Not Found. I've opened a critical ticket on this in the
bug tracker. I see there's another ticket open already on a similar issue.
My recommendation would be that if these can't be resolved in very short
Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
you can quickly comment out regions by putting them
inside a triple-quoted string.)
Except that triple-quotes don't nest.
I do agree, however, with the idea that any decent editor should be
able to comment out a block of code faster than I can type this
Warby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Eliminating block comments eliminates uncertainty. :)
An even better way to eliminate uncertainty is to eliminate the code.
Commenting out is fine for a quick test during development. Once the
code is committed, the dead code should be eliminated completely.
--
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
John Salerno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One of the things I learned with C# is that it's always better to handle
any errors that might occur within the codes itself (i.e. using if
statements, etc. to catch potential out of range indexing) rather than
use too
msoulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(and if you don't, you can quickly comment out regions by putting them
inside a triple-quoted string.)
Although that will use up memory, as opposed to a comment.
I can't imagine a realistic scenario where the amount of memory wasted
by triple-quoting out code
msoulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't mind the logo or the colour scheme, but I do mind the first
paragraph in bolded text. What, you figure the readers can't figure out
how to find What is Python? by themselves?
Bold should be used sparingly. This is serious overuse.
I'm OK with bold for
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I write a lot of code that looks like this:
for myElement, elementIndex in zip( elementList,
range(len(elementList))):
print myElement , myElement, at index: ,elementIndex
My question is, is there a better, cleaner, or easier
Dmitry Anikin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are often situations when a function has independent
parameters, all having reasonable defaults, and I want to
provide just several of them. In fact, I can do it using
keyword parameters, but it's rather long and you have to
remember/lookup names
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Antoon Pardon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Op 2006-03-10, Roy Smith schreef [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Dmitry Anikin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are often situations when a function has independent
parameters, all having reasonable defaults, and I want to
provide
Antoon Pardon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you have trouble remembering that range(n) is actually providing the
second parameter to the function and what it does?
Yes. I don't use range() everyday, and it's very rare that I use more
than one argument. I do remember that there are additional
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Jonathan Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Warby wrote:
...and I forgot to mention that the output of grep and diff is far more
understandable in the absence of block comments!
Which is why people do this /anyway/. (Kind of makes block comments
pointless,
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Using global variables in Python often raises chaos. Other languages use
a clear prefix for globals.
Unsing globals raises chaos in any language. They should be shunned and
avoided.
--
WangQiang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm also a programmer, as working in front of computer day and day, my
right hand is so tired and ached. So I tried to mouse in both hands. I
find that it is really an efficient way to release pains. At first I
switched the mouse buttons in windows control
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
is there any common function for validation if string contains valid ip
address(both ipv4 and ipv6)? Or does sb wrote some regular expression
for this?
thanks
J
Look at socket.inet_pton(). First check to make sure ipv6 is
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Scott David Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Roy Smith wrote:
I never understood why people switch mouse buttons. I'm left handed, so I
put the mouse on the left side of my keyboard. It never occurred to me to
flip the buttons around.
Well, I switch 'em
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Nicholas Reville [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, I hope this is an OK spot for this question:
An even better place would be to post your position on the Python Jobs
Board, http://www.python.org/community/jobs/
--
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote:
Unfortunately, I entirely understand _why_ most software development
firms prefer face-to-face employees: when I found myself, back when I
was a freelance consultant, alternatively working remotely for some
time, and at
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
John Salerno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Roy Smith wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Scott David Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Roy Smith wrote:
I never understood why people switch mouse buttons. I'm left handed, so
I
put the mouse on the left
John Salerno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From my brief experience with C#, I learned that it was pretty standard
practice to put each class in a separate file. I assume this is a
benefit of a compiled language that the files can then be grouped together.
What I'm wondering is how is this
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote:
And even if I'm wrong, and a Joe Supercoder I've never met
works best with 3 days a week of solo effort, 3 days of solo coding plus
2 of strong in-person interaction is NOT the same thing as, say, 3
_weeks_ of solo coding
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Joel Hedlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Which means that is comparisons in general will be faster than ==
comparisons.
I thought that == automatically compared identify before trying to compare
the values. Or am I thinking of some special case, like strings?
--
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Paul Rubin http://[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have noticed some distinctly funny and confused feelings I get when
using the unittest module, stuff that feels clunky and odd about how it
is set-up, however I thought
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As the only director of the Python Software Foundation to vote against a
recent Board motion to implement the change in licensing terms described in
http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2006/04/python-25-licensing-change.html
I've got a bunch of strings in a list:
vector = []
vector.append (foo)
vector.append (bar)
vector.append (baz)
I want to send all of them out a socket in a single send() call, so
they end up in a single packet (assuming the MTU is large enough). I
can do:
mySocket.send (.join (vector))
but
Peter Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
B. Don't bother trying, because even if the MTU is large enough there is
absolutely no guarantee that the packet will stay intact all the way
through the network anyway (even if you use sendall() instead of send()).
This is true, but I'm generating the
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Anthony Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 01 Apr 2006 14:56:02 -0500, Roy Smith wrote:
I've got a bunch of strings in a list:
vector = []
vector.append (foo)
vector.append (bar)
vector.append (baz)
I want to send all of them out a socket
Adam DePrince [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It just happens that the
logical operation
(a is b ) - (a == b )
is always True.
Only for small values of always. You can always do pathological
things with operators:
class Foo:
def __eq__ (self, other):
return False
f = Foo()
print f
ishtar2020 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been writing my very first application in Python and everything is
running smoothly, except for a strange problem that pops up every once
in a while. I'm sure is the kind
of newbie thing every seasoned programmer knows.
Nobody here has a crystal ball.
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Lonnie Princehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pickling is the Python term for serialization. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serialization
Suppose you want to save a Python object x to a file...
output_file = open('my_pickle', 'wb') # open a file
import
Steven D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 09 Apr 2006 08:52:18 -0700, Carl Banks wrote:
it's more important
to respect community standards than to stick to some silly preference
you have.
What happens when the community standard is a silly preference? I object
to the
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
gregarican [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here are a few languages I recommend most programmers should at least
have a peek at:
1) Smalltalk - The original object oriented programming language.
Influenced anything from Mac/Windows GUI to Java language. Terse, clean
fyhuang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been wondering a lot about why Python handles classes and OOP the
way it does. From what I understand, there is no concept of class
encapsulation in Python, i.e. no such thing as a private variable. Any
part of the code is allowed access to any variable in
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Pierre Quentel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I added an entry in Wikipedia for information, just like other Python
web frameworks have already done. If the style doesn't fit Wikipedia's
I'm sorry and willing to learn how to improve it ; the reason I read
was Obvious,
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron Laird)
wrote:
Hmmm; now you've got me curious. What *were* the first
composite projectiles?
Fetchez la Vache!
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Ben Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is C no longer a major language? The long-standing convention there
is for lower_case_with_underscores.
Which dates back to the days of ASR-33's which only had one case (upper
case, as a matter of fact). Does nobody else remember C compilers which
accepted
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Steven Bethard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Stefan Sonnenberg-Carstens wrote:
Paul McGuire schrieb:
I'm starting a new thread for this topic, so as not to hijack the one
started by Steve Howell's excellent post titled ten small Python
programs.
In that
Dave Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On May 27, 3:25 pm, Roy Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ben Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is C no longer a major language? The long-standing convention there
is for lower_case_with_underscores.
Which dates back to the days of ASR-33's which only
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1. Do you like Python?
Yes
2. Do you think Python is good?
Yes
3. Do you think Python is real good?
Yes
4. What is your favorite version of Python?
Whichever version it was that added string methods.
5. Because of Python, do you
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Roy Smith
wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
7. How many Z80 assembly language programmers does it take to equal
one Python guru?
Trick question
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
erikcw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I need to match 3 small strings in a small text file (about 200 words
of text).
Would it be faster to write 1 compiled regex that matches all 3
substrings in one go, or to use 3 separate regular expressions to do
the
I'm starting a new project and am thinking of embedding my unit tests
right in the source files. I've used unittest before, and I'm happy
with it, but I've always used it with the source code in one file and
the unit tests in another. I figure if I just put a
if __name__ == '__main__:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
strip() isn't working as i expect, am i doing something wrong -
Sample data in file in.txt:
'AF':'AFG':'004':'AFGHANISTAN':'Afghanistan'
'AL':'ALB':'008':'ALBANIA':'Albania'
'DZ':'DZA':'012':'ALGERIA':'Algeria'
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Kastrup [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Kaldrenon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm very, very new to emacs. I used it a little this past year in
college, but I didn't try at all to delve into its features. I'm
starting that process now, and frankly, the thought
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
James J. Besemer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I propose that we extend the semantics of print such that if the object to
be printed is a generator then print would iterate over the resulting
sequence of sub-objects and recursively print each of the items in order.
Nick Vatamaniuc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But there is a side note: old code that assumed a particular ordering
of the keys or values is broken anyway.
From a testing point of view, it would be interesting if there was a flag
which said, Deliberately change everything which isn't guaranteed
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
jb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all:
I was just wondering if there is a way to check (using python
scripting) whether the computer's connectivity is via Dial-up or
LAN/Ethernet adaptor? Is there a way in python to check the status of
all available Ethernet
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Donald Duck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm a little bit confused about what is the best way to run a shell command,
if I want to run a command like
xx -a -b yy
where I'm not interested in the output, I only want to make sure
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron Laird) wrote:
I understand the sentiment; in principle, it shouldn't be hard
to write a library which supports construction of SNMP agents
in Python. I'm aware of no one who has done so publicly, though.
I've used pysnmp (http://pysnmp.sourceforge.net/) in a test
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Dustan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On May 2, 5:50 pm, Steven D'Aprano
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On Wed, 02 May 2007 13:35:47 -0700, noagbodjivictor wrote:
How to check if a string is empty in python?
if(s == ) ??
In no particular order, all of these
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Ant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On May 3, 5:59 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote:
Steven D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 02 May 2007 21:19:54 -0400, Roy Smith wrote:
for c in s:
raise it's not empty
String exceptions
Guido sez:
__slots__ is a terrible hack with nasty, hard-to-fathom side
effects that should only be used by programmers at grandmaster and
wizard levels. Unfortunately it has gained an enormous undeserved
popularity amongst the novices and apprentices, who should know
thebjorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
def age(born):
now = date.today()
birthday = date(now.year, born.month, born.day)
return now.year - born.year - (birthday now and 1 or 0)
I don't get that last line. There's two things in particular that are
puzzling me.
1) What does
Paul McGuire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For those who are not familiar with railroad syntax diagrams, they
show a grammar's syntax using arrows and blocks, instead of BNF
I've always liked railroad diagrams. Oracle used to use them (maybe
they still do?) in their SQL reference manuals. I find
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