In article <4d02f46f-8264-41bf-a254-d1c204696...@googlegroups.com>,
RVic wrote:
> Suppose I have a deck of cards, and I shuffle them
>
> import random
> cards = []
> decks = 6
> cards = list(range(13 * 4 * decks))
> random.shuffle(cards)
>
> So now I have an array of cards. I would like to cut
In article ,
Michael Torrie wrote:
> On good thing web development has brought us is the knowledge that
> modularization and layers are a brilliant idea.
Modularization and layers were a brilliant idea long before the web came
around.
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In article ,
Terry Jan Reedy wrote:
> On 5/26/2013 7:11 AM, Ahmed Abdulshafy wrote:
>
> > if not allow_zero and abs(x) < sys.float_info.epsilon:
> > print("zero is not allowed")
>
> The reason for the order is to do the easy calculation first and the
> harder one only i
In article ,
Chris Rebert wrote:
> On May 23, 2013 3:42 AM, "Schneider" wrote:
> >
> > Hi list,
> >
> > how can I serialize a python class to XML? Plus a way to get the class
> back from the XML?
>
> There's pyxser: http://pythonhosted.org/pyxser/
>
> > My aim is to store instances of this cl
In article <51a28f42$0$15870$e4fe5...@news.xs4all.nl>,
Irmen de Jong wrote:
> On 26-5-2013 22:48, Roy Smith wrote:
>
> > The advantage of pickle over json is that pickle can serialize many
> > types of objects that json can't. The other side of the coin is that
In article <10be5c62-4c58-4b4f-b00a-82d85ee4e...@googlegroups.com>,
Bryan Britten wrote:
> If I use the following code:
>
>
> import urllib
>
> urlStr = "https://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/sample.json";
>
> fileHandle = urllib.urlopen(urlStr)
>
> twtrText = fileHandle.readlines()
>
>
>
In article ,
Chris Angelico wrote:
> I'll use XML when I have to, but if I'm inventing my own protocol,
> nope. There are just too many quirks with it. How do you represent an
> empty string named Foo?
>
>
>
> or equivalently
>
>
>
> How do you represent an empty list named Foo? The same w
In article ,
Jabba Laci wrote:
> I have a growing JSON file that I edit manually and it might happen
> that I repeat a key. If this happens, I would like to get notified.
The real answer here is that JSON is probably not the best choice for
large files that get hand-edited. For data that you
hey both have the same GIGO
issue.
> How to process (read) YAML files in Python?
Take a look at http://pyyaml.org/
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In article ,
Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Steven D'Aprano
> wrote:
> > # Wrong, don't do this!
> > x = 0.1
> > while x != 17.3:
> > print(x)
> > x += 0.1
> >
>
> Actually, I wouldn't do that with integers either. There are too many
> ways that a subsequent e
In article ,
Jussi Piitulainen wrote:
> I wonder why floating-point errors are not routinely discussed in
> terms of ulps (units in last position).
Analysis of error is a complicated topic (and is much older than digital
computers). These sorts of things come up in the real world, too. For
In article ,
Nobody wrote:
> On Thu, 30 May 2013 19:38:31 -0400, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>
> > Measuring 1 foot from the 1000 foot stake leaves you with any error
> > from datum to the 1000 foot, plus any error from the 1000 foot, PLUS any
> > azimuth error which would contribute to shorte
In article <51a86319$0$29966$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>,
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> In an early talk Ken was explaining the advantages of tolerant
> comparison. A member of the audience asked incredulously,
> âSurely you donât mean that when A=B and B=C, A may not equal C
In article ,
Erik Max Francis wrote:
> On 05/29/2013 08:05 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > It's not a bad tool. I used it as a sort of PHP preprocessor, because
> > requirements at work had me wanting to have a source file defining a
> > PHP class and having an autogenerated section in the middle
In article ,
Larry Hudson wrote:
> def partdeux():
> print('A man lunges at you with a knife!')
> option = input('Do you DUCK or PARRY? ').lower()
> success = random.randint(0, 1)
> if success:
> if option == 'duck':
> print('He tumbles over you')
>
In article ,
Ralf Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have uploaded greenlet 0.4.1 to PyPI:
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/greenlet
>
> What is it?
> ---
> The greenlet module provides coroutines for python. coroutines allow
> suspending and resuming execution at certain locations.
>
> concurr
On Sunday, June 9, 2013 8:22:17 PM UTC+3, Fábio Santos wrote:
>> This does not seem like a python question, instead a HTML/JavaScript
one.
In article <0021fabe-78ed-4e79-8cdf-468b4ccc7...@googlegroups.com>,
guytam...@gmail.com wrote:
> its a python question since the request is received on a py
In article
,
Jean Dubois wrote:
> I'm writing some code to check whether an url is available or not,
> therefore I make use of a wget-command in Linux and then check whether
> this is successful
In general, "shelling out" to run a command-line utility should be the
last resort. It's slower,
In article
<20165c85-4cc3-4b79-943b-82443e4a9...@w7g2000vbw.googlegroups.com>,
Jean Dubois wrote:
> But, really,
> > once you've done all that (and it's worth doing as an exercise), rewrite
> > your code to use urllib2 or requests. It'll be a lot easier.
>
> Could you show me how to code the
In article ,
Rui Maciel wrote:
> Essentially, a Model object stores lists of Point objects and Line objects,
> and Line objects include references to Point objects which represent the
> starting and ending point of a line.
>
> class Point:
> position = []
>
> def __init__(sel
I have a list, songs, which I want to divide into two groups.
Essentially, I want:
new_songs = [s for s in songs if s.is_new()]
old_songs = [s for s in songs if not s.is_new()]
but I don't want to make two passes over the list. I could do:
new_songs = []
old_songs = []
for s in songs:
if s.
In article ,
Roel Schroeven wrote:
> new_songs, old_songs = [], []
> [(new_songs if s.is_new() else old_songs).append(s) for s in songs]
Thanks kind of neat, thanks.
I'm trying to figure out what list gets created and discarded. I think
it's [None] * len(songs).
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In article ,
Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 1:28 AM, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
> > 11.06.13 01:50, Chris Angelico напиÑав(ла):
> >
> >> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 6:34 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
> >>>
> >>> new_songs = [s for s in
In article ,
Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
> 11.06.13 07:11, Roy Smith напиÑав(ла):
> > In article ,
> > Roel Schroeven wrote:
> >
> >> new_songs, old_songs = [], []
> >> [(new_songs if s.is_new() else old_songs).append(s) for s in songs]
> >
I'm attempting to write a nose plugin. Nosetests (version 1.3.0) is not
seeing it. I'm running python 2.7.3. The plugin itself is:
mongo_reporter.py:
import nose.plugins
import logging
log = logging.getLogger('nose.plugins.mongoreporter')
clas
In article
<69d4486b-d2ff-4830-b16e-f3f6ea73d...@kt20g2000pbb.googlegroups.com>,
alex23 wrote:
> On Jun 12, 10:54 am, Roy Smith wrote:
> > I'm attempting to write a nose plugin. Nosetests (version 1.3.0) is not
> > seeing it.
> >
&g
In article
<0d704515-46c9-486a-993c-ff5add3c9...@rh15g2000pbb.googlegroups.com>,
alex23 wrote:
> On Jun 12, 11:43 am, Roy Smith wrote:
> > Just to see what would happen, I tried changing it to:
> >
> > entry_points = {
> >
In article ,
Phil Connell wrote:
> > Well, continuing down this somewhat bizarre path:
> >
> > new_songs, old_songs = [], []
> > itertools.takewhile(
> > lambda x: True,
> > (new_songs if s.is_new() else old_songs).append(s) for s in songs)
> > )
> >
> > I'm not sure I got the syntax
In article ,
Roy Smith wrote:
>setup(
>name = "Mongo Reporter",
>version = "0.0",
>entry_points = {
>'nose.plugins.1.10': ['mongoreporter = mongo_reporter.MongoReporter'],
>},
>)
The problem turned ou
In article <98c13a55-dbf2-46a7-a2aa-8c5f052ff...@googlegroups.com>,
cutems93 wrote:
> I am looking for an appropriate version control software for python
> development, and need professionals' help to make a good decision. Currently
> I am considering four software: git, SVN, CVS, and Mercuria
In article <2644d0de-9a81-41aa-b27a-cb4535964...@googlegroups.com>,
cutems93 wrote:
> Thank you everyone for such helpful responses! Actually, I have one more
> question. Does anybody have experience with closed source version control
> software? If so, why did you buy it instead of downloadin
In article ,
Tim Chase wrote:
> On 2013-06-13 10:20, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
> > 13.06.13 05:41, Tim Chase напиÑав(ла):
> > > -hg: last I checked, can't do octopus merges (merges with more
> > > than two parents)
> > >
> > > +git: can do octopus merges
> >
> > Actually it is possible i
In article
<8a75b1e4-41e8-45b5-ac9e-6611a4698...@g9g2000pbd.googlegroups.com>,
rusi wrote:
> On Jun 12, 8:20 pm, Zero Piraeus wrote:
> > :
> >
> > On 12 June 2013 10:55, Neil Cerutti wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > He's definitely trolling. I can't think of any other reason to
> > > make it so hard
In article
<545a441b-0c2d-4b1e-82ae-024b011a4...@e1g2000pbo.googlegroups.com>,
rusi wrote:
> Python is at least two things, a language and a culture.
This is true of all languages. Hang out on the PHP, Ruby, Python, etc,
forums and you quickly learn that the cultures are as different (or mor
In article
<8a333cd0-c1cf-4f41-ac49-65f0b23ed...@ow4g2000pbc.googlegroups.com>,
alex23 wrote:
> On Jun 14, 2:24 am, Íéêüëáïò Êïýñáò wrote:
> > iam researchign a solution to this as we speak.
>
> Spamming endless "ZOMG HELP ME I'M INCOMPETENT" posts isn't "research".
But it could be an argume
In article , Anssi Saari
wrote:
> I have some experience with ClearCase. I don't know why anyone would buy
> it since it's bloated and slow and hard to use and likes to take over
> your computer.
ClearCase was the right solution to certain specific problems which
existed 20 years ago. It does
In article ,
Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Tim Delaney
> wrote:
> > I can absolutely confirm how much ClearCase slows things down. I completely
> > refused to use dynamic views for several reasons - #1 being that if you lost
> > your network connection you couldn't wo
In article ,
Grant Edwards wrote:
> There is some ambiguity in the term "byte". It used to mean the
> smallest addressable unit of memory (which varied in the past -- at
> one point, both 20 and 60 bit "bytes" were common).
I would have defined it more like, "some arbitrary collection of
adja
In article ,
Chris ï¾Kwpolskaï¾ Warrick wrote:
> (Iâm using wc -c to count the bytes in all files there are. du is
> unaccurate with files smaller than 4096 bytes.)
It's not that du is not accurate, it's that it's measuring something
different. It's measuring how much disk space the file
I've got a 170 MB file I want to search for lines that look like:
[2010-10-20 16:47:50.339229 -04:00] INFO (6): songza.amie.history - ENQUEUEING:
/listen/the-station-one
This code runs in 1.3 seconds:
--
import re
pattern = re.compile(r'ENQUEUEING: /listen/(.*)')
co
t; pattern, you could just as easily split the line yourself instead of
> creating a group.
At this point, I'm not so much interested in making this faster as
understanding why it's so slow. I'm tempted to open this up as a performance
bug against the regex module (which I assume
In article ,
Mark Lawrence wrote:
> Out of curiousity have the tried the new regex module from pypi rather
> than the stdlib version? A heck of a lot of work has gone into it see
> http://bugs.python.org/issue2636
I just installed that and gave it a shot. It's *slower* (and, much
higher var
On Tuesday, June 18, 2013 2:10:16 PM UTC-4, Johannes Bauer wrote:
> Resulting file has a size of 91530018 and md5 of
> > 2d20c3447a0b51a37d28126b8348f6c5 (just to make sure we're on the same
> > page because I'm not sure the PRNG is stable across Python versions).
If people want to test against m
On Tuesday, June 18, 2013 4:05:25 PM UTC-4, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> One invokes a fast special-purpose substring searching routine (the
> str.__contains__ operator), the other a generic matching engine able to
> process complex patterns. It's hardly a surprise for the specialized routine
> to be f
On Wednesday, June 19, 2013 9:21:43 AM UTC-4, Duncan Booth wrote:
> I'd just like to point out that your simple loop is looking at every
> character of the input string. The simple "'ENQ' not in line" test can look
> at the third character of the string and if it's none of 'E', 'N' or 'Q'
> ski
In article
<447dd1c6-1bb2-4276-a109-78d7a067b...@d8g2000pbe.googlegroups.com>,
rusi wrote:
> > > def f(a, L=[]):
> > > L.append(a)
> > > return L
> Every language has gotchas. This is one of python's.
One of our pre-interview screening questions for Python programmers at
Songza is ab
In article <51c39b88$0$2$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>,
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:19:48 -0400, Roy Smith wrote:
>
> > In article
> > <447dd1c6-1bb2-4276-a109-78d7a067b...@d8g2000pbe.googlegroups.com>,
> > rusi wrote:
&g
In article ,
Tim Chase wrote:
> On 2013-06-21 01:08, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > Here's my syntax plucked out of thin air:
> >
> > def func(arg, x=expression, !y=expression):
> > ...
> >
> > where y=expression is late-bound, and the above is compiled to:
> >
> > def func(arg, x=expression,
In article <51c66455$0$2$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>,
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> http://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-
> time
Number 2 on the list is "Months have either 30 or 31 days", which was
obviously believed by whoever made this sign: h
In article <51c66a03$0$2$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>,
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Jun 2013 23:12:49 -0400, Roy Smith wrote:
> > Number 2 on the list is "Months have either 30 or 31 days", which was
> > obviously believed by whoever made t
In article <51c723b4$0$2$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>,
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 10:15:38 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote:
>
> > If you're worried about efficiency, you can also explicitly name the
> > superclass in order to call the method directly, like:
> >
> >
In article ,
Ian Kelly wrote:
> Yes, you're missing that super() does not simply call the base class,
> but rather the next class in the MRO for whatever the type of the
> "self" argument is. If you write the above as:
>
> class Base1(object):
>def __init__(self, foo, **kwargs):
> su
In article <51c74373$0$2$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>,
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 12:04:35 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Steven D'Aprano
> > wrote:
> >> On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 11:18:41 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote:
> >>
> >>> Incidentally,
In article <263da442-0c87-41df-9118-6003c6168...@googlegroups.com>,
ru...@yahoo.com wrote:
> > 1. Automated Refactoring Tools
> I wish.
Why? I've never seen the appeal of these. I do plenty of refactoring.
It's unclear to me what assistance an automated tool would provide.
> > 2. Bug Track
In article ,
ru...@yahoo.com wrote:
>
> Other things like finding all uses of various objects/functions
> etc would also be useful now and then but I suppose that is a
> common IDE capability?
$ find . -name '*.py' | xargs grep my_function_name
seems to work for me. I suppose a language-awar
In article ,
Tim Chase wrote:
> I'd wager money that Emacs allows you to do something similar,
I'm sure it can. But, the next step in the evolution is:
$ emacs `find . -name '*.py' | xargs grep -l my_function_name`
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In article <51c7a087$0$2$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>,
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 15:24:14 -0400, Roy Smith wrote:
>
> > In article <51c74373$0$2$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>,
> > Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
&g
In article <51c7fe14$0$29973$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>,
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Mixins are such a limited version of MI that it's often not even counted
> as MI, and even when it is, being familiar with mixins is hardly
> sufficient to count yourself as familiar with MI.
OK, fair e
In article <8b0d8931-cf02-4df4-8f17-a47ddd279...@googlegroups.com>,
jonathan.slend...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Any suggestions for a good name, for a framework that does automatic server
> deployments?
>
> It's like Fabric, but more powerful.
> It has some similarities with Puppet, Chef
In article ,
Cousin Stanley wrote:
> jonathan.slend...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > Any suggestions for a good name,
> > for a framework that does
> > automatic server deployments ?
>
> asdf : automatic server deployment framework
I prefer:
Quite Wonderful Electronic Rollout Tool
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In article ,
xDog Walker wrote:
> On Tuesday 2013 June 25 19:16, Dave Angel wrote:
> > On 06/25/2013 03:38 PM, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote:
> > > jonathan.slend...@gmail.com writes:
> > >> Any suggestions for a good name, for a framework that does automatic
> > >> server deployments?
>
> Yet A
In article ,
Andrew Berg wrote:
> I've begun writing a program with an interactive prompt, and it needs to
> parse input from the user. I thought the argparse module would be
> great for this, but unfortunately it insists on calling sys.exit() at any
> sign of trouble instead of letting its Ar
In article ,
Terry Reedy wrote:
> > So a library that behaves like an app is OK?
>
> No, Steven is right as a general rule (do not raise SystemExit), but
> argparse was considered an exception because its purpose is to turn a
> module into an app. With the responses I have seen here, I agree
In article ,
Martin Schöön wrote:
> I know the answer to this must be trivial but I am stuck...
>
> I am starting on a not too complex Python project. Right now the
> project file structure contains three subdirectories and two
> files with Python code:
>
> code
>blablabla.py
> test
>b
In article <51d06cb6$0$2$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>,
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Jun 2013 16:06:35 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
> > So, here's a challenge: Come up with something really simple, and write
> > an insanely complicated - yet perfectly valid - way to achieve t
In article ,
Ned Deily wrote:
> If you find a bug in Python, don't send it to comp.lang.python; file
> a bug report in the issue tracker.
I'm not sure I agree with that one, at least not fully. It's certainly
true that you shouldn't expect anybody to do anything about a bug unless
you open
In article <14be21de-2ceb-464a-a638-dce0368ab...@googlegroups.com>,
Victor Hooi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a Python script where I want to run fork and run an external command
> (or set of commands).
>
> For example, after doing , I then want to run ssh to a host, handover
> control back to the
In article ,
Chris Angelico wrote:
> Of course, it's possible for there to be dark corners. But if you're
> working with those, you know it full well. The dark corners of Python
> might be in some of its more obscure modules, or maybe in IPv6
> handling,
The sad thing about this statement is th
In article ,
Terry Reedy wrote:
> 6. If you make an informed post to the tracker backed up by at least
> opinion, at least one tracker responder be in a better mode when responding.
What I generally do is summarize the problem in the tracker, but also
include a link to the google groups archi
In article ,
Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 12:03 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
> > In article ,
> > Chris Angelico wrote:
> >
> >> Of course, it's possible for there to be dark corners. But if you're
> >> working with those,
In article ,
Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2013-07-03, Roy Smith wrote:
> > In article ,
> > Chris Angelico wrote:
> >
> >> Of course, it's possible for there to be dark corners. But if you're
> >> working with those, you know it full well. The da
In article ,
Joshua Landau wrote:
[talking about Sublime Text]
> There's, instead of a scrollbar, a little "bird's-eye-view" of the
> whole code on the RHS.
I've never used it myself, but there's a couple of guys in the office
who do. I have to admit, this feature looks pretty neat.
Does Sub
In article ,
Rustom Mody wrote:
> > I'm a vi user. Once I mastered "hit ESC by reflex when you pause
> > typing an insert" I was never confused above which mode I was in.
> >
> > And now my fingers know vi.
All the vi you need to know:
: q !
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In article <2fdf282e-fd28-4ba3-8c83-ce120...@googlegroups.com>,
jus...@zeusedit.com wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 10, 2013 2:17:12 PM UTC+10, Xue Fuqiao wrote:
>
> > * It is especially handy for selecting and deleting text.
>
> When coding I never use a mouse to select text regions or to dele
In article ,
Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Devyn Collier Johnson
> wrote:
> > Am I allowed to ask questions like "Here is my code. How can I optimize it?"
> > on this mailing list?
>
> Sure you can! And you'll get a large number of responses, not all of
> which are d
In article ,
pe...@ifoley.id.au wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> I am new to Python and wondering if there is a better python way to do
> something. As a learning exercise I decided to create a python bash script
> to wrap around the Python Crypt library (Version 2.7).
>
> My attempt is located here -
In article <892e3baa-b214-4c57-a828-a51db0ff7...@googlegroups.com>,
pe...@ifoley.id.au wrote:
> In my defence I was trying to give some context for my problem domain.
I think posting a link to the github page was perfectly fine. It wasn't
a huge amount of code to look at, and the way github pr
In article ,
ÃΪëûÏÎ»Î±Ï wrote:
> But it works for me, How can it be impossible and worked for me at the
> same time?
>
> Also i tried some other website that asked me to allow it to run a
> javascript on my browser and it pinpointed even my street!
>
> If it wasnt possbile then Max
In article ,
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> Obviously a fixed IP will be tied to a fixed connection and thereby to
> a fixed location which can be provided to a location database.
And even then, it can be wrong. When I worked for EMC, they
(apparently, from what I could see) back-hauled internet
In article ,
ÃΪëûÏÎ»Î±Ï wrote:
> But then how do you explain the fact that
> http://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip_demo pinpointed Thessalon£ki and not
> Athens and for 2 friends of mine that use the same ISP as me but live
> in different cities also accurately identified their locations
In article ,
ÃΪëûÏÎ»Î±Ï wrote:
> > There are lots of interesting (and superior) ways to do geolocation
> > other than looking up IP addresses. Here's a few:
> . [...]
> > In general, mobile operating systems control direct access to all of
> > these signals and only allow applications
In article ,
Joel Goldstick wrote:
> Writing code isn't all theory. It takes practice, and since the days
> of The Mythical Man-Month, it has been well understood that you
> always end up throwing away the first system anyway.
If I may paraphrase Brooks, "Plan to throw the first one away, be
In article ,
Owen Marshall wrote:
> On 2013-07-12, Joel Goldstick wrote:
> > --047d7bdc8be492d67804e154c580 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Wayne Werner
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Is anyone aware of a UTF-EBCDIC[1] decoder?
> >>
> >> While Python does
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"Anders J. Munch" <2...@jmunch.dk> wrote:
> The problem with Perl-style regexp notation isn't so much that it's terse -
> it's
> that the syntax is irregular (sic) and doesn't follow modern principles for
> lexical structure in computer languages.
There seem to be three basic way
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Alec Taylor wrote:
> Dear Python community,
>
> I am analysing designing an abstraction layer over a select few NoSQL
> and SQL databases.
>
> Specifically:
>
> - Redis, Neo4j, MongoDB, CouchDB
> - PostgreSQL
This isn't really a Python question.
Before you even begin to think a
In article <6bf4d298-b425-4357-9c1a-192e6e6cd...@googlegroups.com>,
pablobarhamal...@gmail.com wrote:
> Ok, I'm working on a predator/prey simulation, which evolve using genetic
> algorithms. At the moment, they use a quite simple feed-forward neural
> network, which can change size over time.
In article ,
Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:49 AM, John Ladasky
> wrote:
> > Another project I thought of was a Pig Latin translator. (But do kids
> > today even know what Pig Latin is? Am I showing my age?)
>
>
> Even if they don't, they'll grok it no problem. It's simp
I've been doing an informal "intro to Python" lunchtime series for some
co-workers (who are all experienced programmers, in other languages).
This week I was going to cover list comprehensions, exceptions, and
profiling. So, I did a little demo showing different ways to build a
dictionary coun
In article <51f5843f$0$29971$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>,
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > Why is count() [i.e. collections.Counter] so slow?
>
> It's within a factor of 2 of test, and 3 of exception or default (give or
> take). I don't think that's surprisingly slow.
It is for a module whi
We're trying to debug a weird (and, of course, intermittent) problem a
gunicorn-based web application. Our production directory structure
looks like:
deploy/
rel-2012-06-14/
rel-2012-06-12/
rel-2012-06-11/
current -> rel-2012006-14
Each time we deploy a new version, we create a new relea
In article ,
Chris Angelico wrote:
> Well, for communication it's even easier. Pick up an SSL or SSH
> library and channel everything through that!
+1 on this. Actually, plus a whole bunch more than 1. I worked on a
project which had rolled their own communication layer (including
encryption).
Hello,
I have an application that would benefit from collaborative
working. Over time users construct a "data environment" which is a
number of files in JSON format contained in a few directories (in the
future I'll probably place these in a zip so the environment is
contained within a s
On 22/06/12 17:42, Emile van Sebille wrote:
On 6/22/2012 8:58 AM duncan smith said...
Hello,
I have an application that would benefit from collaborative working.
Over time users construct a "data environment" which is a number of
files in JSON format contained in a few directories
On 22/06/12 21:34, Emile van Sebille wrote:
On 6/22/2012 11:19 AM duncan smith said...
On 22/06/12 17:42, Emile van Sebille wrote:
On 6/22/2012 8:58 AM duncan smith said...
Hello,
I have an application that would benefit from collaborative working.
Over time users construct a "
On 23/06/12 06:45, rusi wrote:
On Jun 22, 8:58 pm, duncan smith
wrote:
Hello,
I have an application that would benefit from collaborative
working. Over time users construct a "data environment" which is a
number of files in JSON format contained in a few directories (in the
f
In article ,
rantingrickjohn...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Monday, June 25, 2012 5:10:47 AM UTC-5, Michiel Overtoom wrote:
> > It has not. Python2 and Python3 are very similar. It's not like if
> > you learn Python using version 2, you have to relearn the language
> > when you want to switch Python3.
Before I go open an enhancement request, what do people think of the
idea that json.load() should return something more specific than
ValueError?
I've got some code that looks like
try:
response = requests.get(url)
except RequestException as ex:
logger.exception(ex)
In article ,
Duncan Booth wrote:
> Also you cannot create a subclass of 'type' with non-empty slots (it throws
> a type error "nonempty __slots__ not supported for subtype of 'type'").
> However I don't think that's really relevant as even if they did allow you
> to use __slots__ it wouldn't
In article ,
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On 03 Jul 2012 04:11:22 GMT, Steven D'Aprano
> declaimed the following in
> gmane.comp.python.general:
>
>
> > One of my favourites is the league, which in the Middle Ages was actually
> > defined as the distance that a man, or a horse, could walk in a
In article ,
Gilles wrote:
> Hello
>
> Someone I know with no computer knowledge has a studio appartment to
> rent in Paris and spent four months building a small site in Joomla to
> find short-time renters.
>
> The site is just...
> - a few web pages that include text (in four languages) and
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