Re: python and macros (again) [Was: python3: 'where' keyword]

2005-01-14 Thread Tim Jarman
Skip Montanaro wrote: Fredrik no, expressions CAN BE USED as statements. that doesn't mean Fredrik that they ARE statements, unless you're applying belgian logic. Hmmm... I'd never heard the term belgian logic before. Googling provided a few uses, but no formal definition

Re: dynamic func. call

2005-02-04 Thread Tim Jarman
Aljosa Mohorovic wrote: can i do something like this: s = myFunction a = s() # equals to: a = myFunction() Functions are first-class objects in Python, so you can do: def myFunction(): # whatever which creates a function object and binds the name myFunction to it. Then: s =

Re: PyQt documentation

2005-02-11 Thread Tim Jarman
Eric Jardim wrote: Hi, Is there any site that gather all the documentation about PyQt? The docs of the Riverbank site is poor, and I have found separate tutorials on the net. Check out http://www.opendocs.org/pyqt/ I know that the Kompany have made a Qtdoc-like to PyQt. But it is not

Re: Civilization IV uses Python for scripting

2004-12-11 Thread Tim Jarman
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Carl Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Advancement: PYTHON Requires: Computers, Mythology Effect: * Increases revenue generated by capitalization by 300% * Makes two unhappy citizens happy * Renders all Wonders of the World in all other countries completely

Re: BASIC vs Python

2004-12-23 Thread Tim Jarman
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alan Gauld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I dunno. Here in the UK there was a small home computer called (I think) the Oric(*) which had a membrane keyboard, 4K or RAM and ran Forth.It had a small cult following before dying out. It looked a bit like the early

Re: Koolaid (was Re: Optional Static Typing)

2004-12-24 Thread Tim Jarman
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: P.S.: The ironic thing about all this is that it was actually something called Flavor Aid, made by a company called Jel Sert (http://www.jelsert.com), and not Kool-Aid at all. What would be even funnier is if the

Re: How to make executable file ?

2005-01-02 Thread Tim Jarman
Maurice LING wrote: Hi all, This may be OT but is there a way to do the same for *nix type of system? Like cast a python interpreter with scripts together? I'm running Mac OSX here. For OSX, google for py2app - for *nix in general, I believe freeze is your mman, although so many *nixen

Re: Questions on using Qt or wxWindows with Python and OS X

2005-06-09 Thread Tim Jarman
Hi Kenneth! In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kenneth McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If this is not an appropriate newsgroup for this type of posting, please let me know and (if possible) suggest an alternative. I've done a fair bit of research on the net, but information is scattered all

Re: Need help running external program

2005-02-27 Thread Tim Jarman
Rigga wrote: Pink wrote: Rigga wrote: Hi, I am running the line of code below from a shell script and it works fine, however I am at a total loss on how i can run it from within a Python script as every option I have tried fails and it appears to be down to the escaping of certain

Re: Need help running external program

2005-03-02 Thread Tim Jarman
Rigga wrote: Brian van den Broek wrote: Rigga said unto the world upon 2005-02-27 15:04: (snip stuff about raw strings) Thanks for all your help with this it is appreciated, one further question though, how do I pass a variable to the external program while using the r Thanks RiGGa

Re: Distributing applications

2005-03-02 Thread Tim Jarman
Jaime Wyant wrote: Sneaky! I like it. Now if there was only a subversion python module... jw GIYF: http://pysvn.tigris.org/ -- Website: www DOT jarmania FULLSTOP com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Need help running external program

2005-03-02 Thread Tim Jarman
Rigga wrote: (snip) This is the command I am trying to run: feed is a list of web addresses output, input = popen2(wget -q %s -O - | tr '\r' '\n' | tr \' \ | sed -n 's/.*url=\([^]*\).*/\1/p' % feed[counter]) But it does not work, if I escape the string using r and hard code in the

Re: Web framework

2005-03-10 Thread Tim Jarman
Gianluca Sartori wrote: Hi Christian, thanks for your replay. I gave a quick look at cherryPy too, but I had the impression it wasn't enought to be used in a real world contest. What about performances? Can I safely consider it to develop an Intranet/Extranet? My main concern is with

Re: Iterate using tuple as index

2005-03-10 Thread Tim Jarman
James Stroud wrote: Hello, Its not obvious to me how to do this. I would like to iterate using a tuple as an index. Say I have two equivalently sized arrays, what I do now seems inelegant: for index, list1_item in enumerate(firstlist): do_something(list1_item, secondlist[index]) I

Re: Simple XML-to-Python conversion

2005-03-17 Thread Tim Jarman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Amara does indeed make it effortless to transform an XML document into a Python structure. Unfortunately this suggestion requires the 3rd party software, Amara, _and_ a 4Suite installation according to the website. The reason I can't expect users to have 3rd party

Re: importing two modules with the same name

2005-03-19 Thread Tim Jarman
Francisco Borges wrote: Hello, This is not stricly necessary but it would be nice if I could get it done. Here is what I want to do: There are 2 foo named modules, 'std foo' and 'my foo'. I want to be able to import 'my foo' and then from within my foo, import 'std foo'. Anyone can

Re: Submission for Python Limmerick Contest

2005-03-23 Thread Tim Jarman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My submission for P.L.C. A mathematican named van Rossum went hunting for opossum he could not find one all eaten by Python to her his language he named as a blossum wish me luck Harald At the prompt, when I type import this, it Invites me to be more

Re: Data types

2005-03-24 Thread Tim Jarman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to python and learning it. Can you please give me a simple example of user defined type through class mechanism. Python 2.4 (#1, Dec 31 2004, 17:21:43) [GCC 3.3.2 (Mandrake Linux 10.0 3.3.2-6mdk)] on linux2 Type help, copyright, credits or license for more

Re: Cpickle module... not in Lib installs

2005-03-25 Thread Tim Jarman
Marcus Lowland wrote: Thanks Marc, but... I've searched the file directories for cpickle (not specifying file type) and only came up with test_cpickle.py. Also, if cPickle.so were the correct file and existed in my lib then the following would not happen. import cpickle Traceback (most

[Tkinter] LONG POST ALERT: Setting application icon on Linux

2005-03-27 Thread Tim Jarman
Apologies in advance for the long post - I wanted to be sure I included all the relevant details. The answer is probably very, very simple. I am doing something stupid here, but I don't know what it is. I'm writing an application with a Tkinter GUI (Python 2.4, Tcl/Tk 8.4.) and I want to put a

Re: [Tkinter] LONG POST ALERT: Setting application icon on Linux

2005-03-27 Thread Tim Jarman
Jeff Epler wrote: Here is a short program that sets Tk's window icon on Linux. My window manager is icewm, and it uses a scaled version of the flagup image both at the upper-left corner of the window and on the task bar entry for the window. import Tkinter app = Tkinter.Tk()

Re: [Newbie] How do I get better at Python programming?

2005-03-29 Thread Tim Jarman
Roy Smith wrote: keep in mind, however, that not all problems in life can be solved with software. +1 QOTW -- Website: www DOT jarmania FULLSTOP com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: redundant imports

2005-03-30 Thread Tim Jarman
max(01)* wrote: hi everybody. suppose that code-1.py imports code-2.py and code-3.py (because it uses names from both), and that code-2.py imports code-3.py. if python were c, code-1.c should only *include* code-2.c, because the latter in turns includes code-3.c. inclusion of modules

Re: [Tkinter] LONG POST ALERT: Setting application icon on Linux

2005-03-31 Thread Tim Jarman
Jeff Epler wrote: I have written a rather hackish extension to use NET_WM_ICON to set full-color icons in Tkinter apps. You can read about it here: http://craie.unpy.net/aether/index.cgi/software/01112237744 you'll probably need to take a look at the EWMH spec, too. If KDE supports

Re: How to reload local namespace definitions in the python interpreter?

2005-04-02 Thread Tim Jarman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am a beginner using the python interpreter. To reduce typing effort, I created a module called aliases.py containing some aliases for objects I commonly use like - aliases.py : import filecmp, os, commands op = os.path go = commands.getoutput dc =

Re: How to detect if file is a directory

2005-04-09 Thread Tim Jarman
César Leonardo Blum Silveira wrote: Hello all, I'm new to this list. How can I detect if a file is a directory or not? Thanks César The os module contains many helpful tools for working with files, directories, links and so forth. Check out the docs and marvel. The following snippet