QOTW: Paraphrasing Occam, I would say 'don't multiply base classes
without necessity'. ;) - Michele Simionato
The world diversifies, the world congeals. - Raymond Hettinger (commenting
on the fact that py.test happily runs unittest test suites)
I can think of no better reason for a programmer
QOTW: Darn. I finally say something that gets into Quote of the Week,
and it's attributed to someone else! -- Greg Ewing (we think)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/15b836a557afccb2
If there were something wrong with the API, Guido would have long since
fired up the
QOTW: Sure, but what about the case where his program is on paper tape and
all he has for an editor is an ice pick? - Grant Edwards
And in this case, you get improved usability *and* improved speed at the
same time. That's the way it should be. - Fredrik Lundh
The Simplest Possible
QOTW: The security 'droids have decided that since the MS Office Suite is a
'standard' application then software written in MS Office VBA must be 'safe.'
Any other development environments (such as Java, Perl, Cygwin) are 'unsafe'
and can't be installed. - Peter Olsen
There's nothing wrong with
QOTW: It's not perfect, but then nobody in this thread has offered
anything even remotely resembling perfect documentation for regular
expressions yet. wink - Peter Hansen
Python's flavor of OO is perfectly valid and usable, even though it
doesn't follow the Java Holy Bible of Object Orientation
QOTW: As you learn Python, you will find that your PHP code will
improve, possibly becoming more and more concise until it disappears
completely. - Jorey Bump
(Responding to a quotaton of Sturgeon's law: Ninety percent of
everything is crap.) fwiw, this is of course why google displays 10
results
QOTW: That's what I love in that news group. Someone comes with a stupid
and arrogant question, and someone else answers in a calm and reasonable
way. - Gustavo Niemeyer
After 25 years doing this, I've become something of a Luddite as far as
fancy IDEs and non-standard features go... and a huge
QOTW: The posts do share an erroneous, implied assumption that the
investment in learning each language is equal. Python has a strong
competitive advantage over Java and C++ in terms of learnability. A
person can get up to speed in a few days with Python. - Raymond Hettinger
You know, this is
QOTW: Discussing goto statements and Microsoft together is like mixing
dynamite and gasoline. - DH
'Spaghetti doesn't quite describe it. I've settled on Lovecraftian:
reading the code, you can't help but get the impression of writhing
tentacles and impossible angles.' - Robert Kern
QOTW: Guido has marked the trail; don't ignore the signs unless you really
know where you're going. - Raymond Hettinger
'Proverbs 28:14 JPS Happy is the man that feareth alway; but he that
hardeneth his heart shall fall into evil. Obviously an exhortation to not
ignore raised exceptions with
I'm organising another London Python meetup at The Stage Door,
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Wednesday the 4th of October, anytime after work. Hope to see you
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It's doubly good time for a Python meet-up. Firstly, Django's Jacob
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Secondly, what with the release of the Google App Engine, I expect a
big increase in interest in Python in general.
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Sorry - that's *Wednesday* the 8th. I shouldn't be allowed out on my
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On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 21:00:40 +0100, Fredrik Lundh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Steve Holden wrote:
Hmm, effbot.org seems to be down just now. Sure it'll be back soon, though.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4158809.stm
Good to see that it was effbot.org that was down, rather that the
effbot
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:18:09 +0800, sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I m wondering which Excel module is good to be used by Python?
If you are on Windows, and you have Excel, then the Python for Windows
extensions[1] are all you need to drive Excel via COM. O'Reilly's
Python Programming on Win32
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 23:19:44 +0800, sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No, I don't use MS windows. I need to generate Excel file by printing
data to it, just like Perl module Spreadsheet::WriteExcel.
If it's just data that needs to go into your spreadsheet, then I'd
just build a CSV file if I were
On 13 Jan 2005 07:18:26 EST, Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am a bit confused. I was under the impression that:
class foo(object):
x = 0
y = 1
means that x and y are variables shared by all instances of a class.
But when I run this against two instances of foo,
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 04:51:22 -0800 (PST), Sara Fwd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all
Can anybody help me find a module or a function that
looks in a directory and defines whether the objects
in there are files or directories?
See os.path.isfile() and os.path.isdir() -
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 08:56:10 -0500, Peter Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Simon, it's really not about mutability at all. You've changed
the example,
Err, there *wasn't* an example, not really. The OP just mentioned
'setting the values' of instance members. That *can* mean name
binding, but
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 16:50:56 -0500, Leif K-Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tim Roberts wrote:
Stephen Thorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would actually like to see pychecker pick up conceptual errors like this:
import datetime
datetime.datetime(2005, 04,04)
Why is that a conceptual
You might find these at least periperally useful:
http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/archives/001291.html
http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/archives/001292.html
They refer to address formatting rather than de-duping - but
normalising soulds like a useful first step to me.
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On 18 Jan 2005 07:51:00 GMT, Antoon Pardon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
3 mutating an item in a sorted list *does* *always* cause problems
No, it doesn't. It might cause the list no longer to be sorted, but
that might or might no be a problem.
More specific the Decimal class is mutable and usable
On 21 Jan 2005 04:25:27 -0800, Stu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have recently switched over to Python from Perl. I want to do
something like this in Python:
@test = (a1, a2, a3);
map {s/[a-z]//g} @test;
print @test;
However, I take it there is no equivalent to $_ in Python. But in that
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 12:37:46 +, Simon Brunning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This what you want?
import re
test = [a1, a2, a3]
test = [re.sub([a-z], , item) for item in test]
test
['1', '2', '3']
Or, if you *must* use map, you can do:
test = map(lambda item: re.sub([a-z], , item
On 21 Jan 2005 08:31:02 -0800, Flavio codeco coelho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi,
is there a faster way to build a circular iterator in python that by doing
this:
c=['r','g','b','c','m','y','k']
for i in range(30):
print c[i%len(c)]
I don''t know if it's faster, but:
import
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 17:13:44 +0100, BOOGIEMAN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I found some e-book about Python 2.1, I want to print it but just to check
first if sintax of Python 2.1 is same as 2.4 ?
Pretty musch the same, but naturally, some things have changed. See
these documents for the major
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 12:17:13 -0600, Philippe C. Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I use __for private variables because I must have read on net it was
the way to do so - yet this seems to have changed - thanks:
http://www.network-theory.co.uk/docs/pytut/tut_77.html
Nope, that's still the
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 23:19:01 +0200, Pro Grammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello, all,
I am not sure if this is the right place to ask, but could you kindly
tell me how to load a shared object (like libx.so) into python, so
that the methods in the .so can be used? That too, given that the shared
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 06:45:29 -0800 (PST), Klaus Neuner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
what is the fastest way to determine whether list l (with
len(l)3) contains a certain element?
If the list isn't sorted, I doubt you'll do better than
if an_element in my_list:
# do whatever
If the list is
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 15:55:28 -, Judi Keplar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am currently taking a course to learn Python and was looking for
some help. I need to write a Python statement to print a comma-
separated repetition of the word, Spam, written 511 times (Spam,
Spam, Spam).
Can
On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 06:50:31 -0800 (PST), Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Where did this type of structure come from:
mat = ['a' for i in range(3)]?
This will produce a list of three elements but
I don't see reference for it in any of the books.
It's called a List Comprehension. There's
On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 08:35:51 -0800 (PST), Erik Bethke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am getting this strange error log when writing XML files with his XML
writer. It appears to be fouling up on the encoding, ONLY in the exe
version. Runs fine and great as a python script.
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 09:41:07 -0800 (PST), administrata
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi! it's been about a week learning python!
I've read 'python programming for the absolute begginer'
I hope you are enjoying it. ;-_
I don't understand about % like...
107 % 4 = 3
7 % 3 = 1
It;'s modular
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 23:03:43 +, Alan Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In my circles, VSS is most often referred to as Visual Source Unsafe.
I always find it amusing that VSS's icon is a safe - with the door wide open.
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On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:26:04 +0100, BOOGIEMAN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I need something like Press any key to continue code for my program.
Currently I use : raw_input(Press Enter to continue ) but it's lame.
Err, why?
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On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:37:19 +0100, BOOGIEMAN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It looks to ugly this way. I want to press
any key without ENTER to continue
You'll only got your users complaining that they haven't got an 'any' key...
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On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:23:08 +0200, Ilias Lazaridis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(snip)
But if those answers above were of official nature, I must seriously
rethink if I can rely on _any_ system which is based on python, as the
foundation and the community do not care about essential needs and
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:12:57 +0100, bruno modulix [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why do you hate Perl and Ruby community that much ?
Oh, I don't. But fair's fair - we've carried our share of the burden, surely?
But-don't-get-me-started-on-those-Groovy-bastards-ly Y'rs,
Simon B,
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 04:30:30 -0800 (PST), administrata
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wrote this, It's a bit lame though
I = Allen
me = Allen
my = Allen's
print \
%s woke up early in the morning. But, it was unusal by %s. %s pillow
was with %s. %s didn't want to wake up But, %s tried my
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 07:11:08 -0800 (PST), alex
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
how can I check if a variable is a structure (i.e. a list)? For my
special problem the variable is either a character string OR a list of
character strings line ['word1', 'word2',...]
So how can I test if a variable 'a'
On 21/10/05, Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry, I've no clue about anything VB-related unless it's
Victoria Bitter.
+1 QOTW.
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On 27/10/05, Gregory Piñero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So much for writing my whole program on one line :-(
http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/pyone/
But you didn't hear it from me, OK? ;-)
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On 1 Nov 2005 10:57:29 -0800, warpcat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm a python nubie, so be gental. I've been setting up functionality
by managing my Perforce clientspec with python (since it seems all of
P4's commands are avaliable at the prompt), and I'd love to get access
to DevTrack in the
On 02/11/05, Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
a version of Paint that works on a Mac, an obstreperous mentality,
and a sense of humour. what else do you need?
Biscuits. You need biscuits.
Treating-this-thread-as-seriously-as-it-deserves-ly y'rs,
Simon B.
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On 04/11/05, Gregory Piñero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a different group/mailing list I should try? Does anyone know if
there is a pythonwin group/list for example?
There is: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32.
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On 8 Nov 2005 01:43:43 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But if lst[42][pos] happens to hold an integer value, then
a = lst[42][pos]
will _copy_ that integer value into 'a', right?
Nope. It will bind the name 'a' to the integer object.
Changing 'a' will not
change the
On 07/11/05, john boy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey can somebody tell me what the % function does...I am not math
illiterate...its just a new symbol for meis it a divisor? remainder
something another??
For numeric values, it's the modulo operator - see
http://docs.python.org/ref/binary.html
On 08/11/05, Dmytro Lesnyak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I need to import some big data into Excel from my Python script. I have TXT
file (~7,5 Mb).
Have you considered converting your text data to CSV format? Excel
opens CSV files happily enough, and you could always automate
save-as-workbook and
On 08/11/05, Shi Mu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
any python module to calculate sin, cos, arctan?
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-math.html
I seem to be posting loads of links to the docs today...
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On 8 Nov 2005 02:27:29 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I want to read a little bit about sorting in Python (sorted() and
method sort()). But I can't seem to find anything in the documentation
at the homepage?
Sorted() is documented here -
On 8 Nov 2005 02:32:44 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For example, where can I find the official documentation on the
list.sort() method?
http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq-mutable.html
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On 10/11/05, leewang kim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wrote the following code and got the output:
a 13 0
None
b 81 3
(snip)
where are those 'none' from? and how can I remove them?
class Point:
def __init__(self,x,y,name):
self.x = x
self.y = y
self.name =
On 11 Nov 2005 07:21:46 -0800, Daniel Crespo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a built-in method for transforming (1,None,Hello!) to
1,None,Hello!?
There's no conversion to do:
(1,None,Hello!)
(1, None, 'Hello!')
1,None,Hello!
(1, None, 'Hello!')
They are both tuples contining identicle
On 11/11/05, john boy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am running the following program from the example in how to think like a
computer scientist
def countdown(n):
if n ==0:
print Blastoff!
else:
print n
countdown (n-1)
countdown (1000)
When I set
On 11/11/05, john boy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have adjusted the program to:
import sys.
sys. getrecursionlimit()
sys.setrecursionlimit(2000)
def countdown (n):
if n ==0:
print blastoff
else:
print n
countdown (n-1)
countdown (1200)
this
On 14/11/05, john boy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
using the following program:
prefixes = JKLMNOPQ
suffix = ack
for letter in prefixes:
print letter + suffix
if prefixes == O or Q
Here you need:
if prefixes == O or prefixes == Q
print letter + u + suffix
For this program
On 14/11/05, john boy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have started out trying to learn Python for my first programming language.
I am starting off with the book how to think like a computer scientist.
I spend about 4-5 hrs a day trying to learn this stuff. It is certainly no
easy task. I've been
On 14/11/05, john boy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone know if there is an answer key to all of the exercises in how
to think like a computer scientistsure would be a lot easier to refer
to that instead of tying up this forum with questions about exercises I'm
sure that have been asked
On 15/11/05, Shi Mu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
it does not work.
len(set(lisA).intersection(set(lisB))) == 2
Traceback (most recent call last):
File interactive input, line 1, in ?
NameError: name 'set' is not defined
'set' is introduced as a built-in at Python 2.4. If you have 2.3,
there's
On 15/11/05, Shi Mu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, i am using python 2.3,
I have used from sets import *
but still report the same error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File interactive input, line 1, in ?
NameError: name 'set' is not defined
I said analogous, not identical. try
On 15/11/05, Ben Bush [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
an error reported:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File
C:\Python23\lib\site-packages\Pythonwin\pywin\framework\scriptutils.py,
line 310, in RunScript
exec codeObject in __main__.__dict__
File C:\temp\try.py, line 8, in ?
from
On 15/11/05, Ben Bush [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I found I named the following python file as sets.py, which brought the
problem (is that right?). i changed it to other name and it works.
But the logic output is wrong.
from sets import Set as set
lisA=[1,2,5,9]
lisB=[9,5,0,2]
lisC=[9,5,0,1]
On 16/11/05, Nathan Pinno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It worked, but unfornately I can't use this line as it brings up errors:
from Tkinter (or pygame) import *
Anyway around this little bug?
What's the error?
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On 18 Nov 2005 10:53:04 -0800, Daniel Crespo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like to know how can I do the PHP ternary operator/statement
(... ? ... : ...) in Python...
Wait for Python 2.5 - http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0308.html.
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On 18/11/05, tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all, I'm almost as new to this list as to python so I hope I don't
get a this has been answered a 100 times before or anything...
Currently I am using a program named 'Macro Scheduler' for automating
programs that don't have a command line version.
On 19/11/05, Michael Goettsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 20 November 2005 00:24, Tony wrote:
If I'd like to learn Python for web-development, what are the options
available?
A nice framework is CherryPy: http://www.cherrypy.org
or Turbogears, which is based on CherryPy:
On 21/11/05, tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for this tip, this looks like exactly what I need.
Is there a more extended documentation for watsup somewhere ?
Err, not a lot, no.
I didn't find info on:
how to send keystrokes to a program.
You don't do that. WATSUP uses WinGuiAuto, which
On 23/11/05, Joseph Garvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What do you mean by unicode operators? Link?
http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2003/03/19/jsr666_extended_operator_set
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On 22/11/05, Bengt Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That would be a counter-intuitive thing to do. Most things go left-right
in order as the default assumption.
+1
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On 23/11/05, Catalin Lungu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I need to compress files in self-extract archive. I use the zipfile module.
Is there an option or parameter to do that?
No, AFAIK. If you have a command line tool, perhaps you could try driving that.
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On 23/11/05, Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
see also:
http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/archives/000666.html
http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0666.html
PEP 666 should have been left open. There are a number of ideas that
come up here that should be added to it - and i'm
On 24 Nov 2005 10:21:51 GMT, Antoon Pardon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But only Guido, thinks like Guido and then even Guido may now think
differently than he thought before. And what if Guido had a bad day
when he came up with something, should we just adopt to what he
had in mind without
On 24 Nov 2005 11:30:04 GMT, Antoon Pardon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But he's consistently a
better judge of language design than I am, and in all likelihood
better than you, too. If you like Python, it's 'cos you like the
decisions he's made over many years.
So, that makes that about a
On 24/11/05, Josh Cronemeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have very little experience programming in python but considerable
experience with java. One thing that is frustrating me is the differences in
the documentation style. Javadocs, at the top level are just a list of
packages. Drilling
On 24/11/05, Bengt Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Where my first impulse is to think that one of decisions is wrong,
nine times out of ten in time I'll come to find that I was wrong and
he was right.
You have a reservation about that other 10% ? ;-)
The other 10%, I've just not worked it
I have a non-programming friend who wants to learn Python. It's been
so long since I've been in her shoes that I don't feel qualified to
judge the books aimed at people in her situation. I know of two such
books:
http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld/
http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCSpy/
On 25 Nov 2005 03:23:33 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.python.org/doc/Intros.html
and two great texts when she has covered the basics are:
http://diveintopython.org/
http://www.mindview.net/Books/TIPython
I wouldn't have thought either of those was suitable
On 11/28/05, Glen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I used the following line to play a midi file in linux,
return_value = os.system('timidity test.mid')
I have encountered two problems.
1. The python script halts until timidity has finished.
2. If I had control of the script, I can't think how
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 10:23:28 -0500, Dave Merrill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
anton muhin wrote:
Or dict((key, row[key]) for key in cols).
I'm on Py 2.3.3, and neither of these appear to work. Can someone confirm? I
can't see anything in the 2.4 release notes that point to where this would
have
On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 02:43:22 GMT, Jp Calderone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bob Ippolito, you mean. And, no offense to Bob, but woopidy freaking doo.
Now the vast hordes of PyObjC developers get to use their editor's name
completion feature a little bit less. What an awesome justification
On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 06:38:54 -0500, Jean Montambeault
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am not only learning Python but programming itself ; reading your
posts makes me believe that nobody is that much of a beginner here. Is
there a newgroup or list for my type somewhere I can't find it ?
The tutor
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 21:25:03 +1030, Ishwor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello all,
I was looking through Mark Hammond's website for win32 extensions
for Python 2.4 but couldn't find it. If i am not wrong has anyone any
idea when it will be available or is it being worked on? The
activestate's
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 10:40:56 -0500, Peter Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Keith Dart wrote:
Sigh, this reminds me of a discussion I had at my work once... It seems
to write optimal Python code one must understand various probabilites of
your data, and code according to the likely scenario.
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 18:10:40 -0800, Jeff Shannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The difference being that when Excel opens up a *.CSV, it goes through
the import wizard.
Are you sure that's true? When I open a *.csv file, Excel *appears* to
open it without running any kind of wizard. Certainly I
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 15:07:26 GMT, sf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Would someome like to post their email filters code. Its so common that
probably some standard library
supports it or many would have written it already. If I have basic
structure, I can take from there.
On 22 Dec 2004 09:22:15 -0800, Zhang Le [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I'm writing a little Tkinter application to retrieve news from
various news websites such as http://news.bbc.co.uk/, and display them
in a TK listbox. All I want are news title and url information.
Well, the BBC
On 27 Dec 2004 10:18:18 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I was trying to install pywin32 on one computer which has Python 2.4
installed and it failed.
The error message I got was
Can't load Python for pre-install script.
I'm not sure what the problem actually is,
On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 22:57:33 GMT, JanC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rectangular selection only works with the mouse in SciTE/Scintilla:
alt-click-drag.
Nope - hold down alt-shift, and select with the cursor keys.
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On 6 Jan 2005 16:05:07 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
any existing or pointers on how to do this?
If you are running on Windows and have a copy of Project, then COM
automation is probably your best bet. See
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/279003 for a
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 15:58:06 +0100, Øystein Western [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Try to write som code that will get an input string from the user. Futher
more, I'd like to have the program to count all the word the user has
written.
Startet out like this:
/-
s = raw_input(Write a
On 7 Jan 2005 08:10:14 -0800, Luis M. Gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The word self is not mandatory. You can type anything you want
instead of self, as long as you supply a keyword in its place (it can
be self, s or whatever you want).
You *can*, yes, but please don't, not if there's any
On 12/2/05, Dave Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
FWIW, indentation scoping one one of the features that _attracted_ me
to Python.
+1 QOTW
OK, it's a bit of a cliche. But it's a cliche because it's *true*.
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On 12/7/05, Steven D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But none of them are the cost of Python, which is free. It really isn't a
scam, nobody is going to come knocking at your door with a surprise bill
for using Python.
Well, there is the PSU's Spanish Inquisition division. Last week
they barged
On 12/8/05, shawn a [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello. Im brand new to this list and to python. Ive recently started
reading about it
and am now in the tinkering stage.
Welcome to Python!
I have a script im working on that i
need some
asistance debugging. Its super small and should be a
The only self aware Python scripts that I'm aware are the timbot and
the effbot. Their sources are available from the PSU website at
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On 12/15/05, Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Aahz wrote:
python -c 'import this'
Faster:
python -m this
So, there's two ways to do it. ;-)
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On 15 Dec 2005 12:26:07 -0800, Mystilleef [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I want a pattern that scans the entire string but avoids
returning duplicate matches. For example cat, cate,
cater may all well be valid matches, but I don't want
duplicate matches of any of them. I know I can filter the
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