How can I do this (from Perl) in Python? (closures)

2008-12-03 Thread excord80
I just came across http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/05/29/closure.html and wanted to try the canonical example of closures in Python. I came up with the following, but it fails: ### #!/usr/bin/env python def make_counter(start_num): start = start_num def counter():

Number of Python 3.x packages at the PyPI

2008-12-06 Thread excord80
Is there an easy way to see the number of PyPI packages which have been ported to Python 3? Are there any special arrangements necessary for PyPI packages which have both a Python 2.x version and a Python 3.x version? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Number of Python 3.x packages at the PyPI

2008-12-07 Thread excord80
On Dec 7, 12:21 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:     Martinhttp://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=browsec=533     Martin It seems that some package authors only classify with     Martin   Programming Language :: Python :: 3 I did a release for lockfile yesterday which supports 3.0.  I added the

Strengths and weaknesses of Pygame vs. pyglet vs. PyOpenGL?

2008-12-07 Thread excord80
Trying to decide which to get started with. Can anyone suggest some pros and cons to each of them? Would PyOpenGL be in the same camp as Pygame and pyglet? Do either of Pygame or pyglet make use of PyOpenGL behind the scenes? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Strengths and weaknesses of Pygame vs. pyglet vs. PyOpenGL?

2008-12-07 Thread excord80
On Dec 7, 8:17 pm, Patrick Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 4:43 PM,  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] PyOpengl - an opengl wrapper.  Version 2 is written in c, version 3 instead uses ctypes Pyglet - an opengl + events/sound/etc wrapper written in ctypes Does pyglet use

How do I manually uninstall setuptools (installed by egg)?

2008-12-09 Thread excord80
On Ubuntu, I accidentally manually installed setuptools http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools/0.6c9 (by running the .egg file as a shell script via sudo), and now realize I should just be using apt to take care of my system Python packages. I also installed one or two packages using its

Re: How do I manually uninstall setuptools (installed by egg)?

2008-12-09 Thread excord80
On Dec 9, 10:04 pm, Chris Rebert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, why do you think apt and not setuptools is The Right Way(tm)? I like to keep 1 Python on my computer. 1. First, there's the system Python, which is installed by my OS and which I try not to mess with too much. I'm guessing Ubuntu

Re: How do I manually uninstall setuptools (installed by egg)?

2008-12-09 Thread excord80
On Dec 9, 10:15 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 at 18:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Ubuntu, I accidentally manually installed setuptools http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools/0.6c9(by running the .egg file as a shell script via sudo), and now realize I should just be using

Re: How do I manually uninstall setuptools (installed by egg)?

2008-12-09 Thread excord80
On Dec 9, 10:29 pm, Chris Rebert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 7:16 PM,  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 9, 10:04 pm, Chris Rebert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, why do you think apt and not setuptools is The Right Way(tm)? I like to keep 1 Python on my computer. Ah, now

Re: How do I manually uninstall setuptools (installed by egg)?

2008-12-11 Thread excord80
On Dec 10, 7:45 am, Diez B. Roggisch de...@nospam.web.de wrote: excor...@gmail.com wrote: As an aside, I'm a bit struck by how long the setuptools/easy_install manuals are, and a bit dismayed at the lack of an easy_install uninstall command. Thinking of trying life for a while without

Re: How do I manually uninstall setuptools (installed by egg)?

2008-12-14 Thread excord80
On Dec 9, 10:48 pm, excor...@gmail.com wrote: Anyway, the direction I'm heading is to try and use setuptools *less*. It seems like it might be too complicated for me. And, I notice that the mailing list for it (distutils-sig, if that's the right one) is loaded with questions on how to use it

Re: New Python 3.0 string formatting - really necessary?

2008-12-19 Thread excord80
On Dec 19, 11:01 am, walterbyrd walterb...@iname.com wrote: To me, it seems that this: print %s=%d % ('this',99) Is much easier, and faster, to type, and is also easier to read and understand. [snip] This (if it's right) is much longer, and requires more special characters. print(

Re: ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3

2008-12-19 Thread excord80
On Dec 4, 2:42 pm, Alan G Isaac ais...@american.edu wrote: Mark Summerfield wrote: Programming in Python 3: A Complete Introduction to the Python Language ISBN 0137129297 http://www.qtrac.eu/py3book.html OMG, you really wrote it in Lout? I wish you would add to

Re: Building a web questionnaire, can it be done in Python ?

2008-12-19 Thread excord80
On Dec 19, 11:58 am, Stef Mientki stef.mien...@gmail.com wrote: hello, I'm considering building a web questionnaire in Python. I've made several desktop applications in Python /  wxPython, but I've no experience in using Python on a webserver, and I don't have much knowledge about web

Re: If your were going to program a game...

2009-01-01 Thread excord80
On Jan 1, 2:37 pm, Kay Schluehr kay.schlu...@gmx.net wrote: There is no solution to this problem from a Python perspective. Do what everyone does right now: [snip] It still surprises me that no one has implemented the solution for this yet. Maybe it's harder than it seems, but it *seeems*

Re: Chart libs for python

2009-01-01 Thread excord80
You might start by having a look at the wiki: http://wiki.python.org/moin/NumericAndScientific/Plotting -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

mod_pylite?

2009-01-01 Thread excord80
Just read this interesting post by chromatic on what features Perl 5 needs right now http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2008/12/five-features-perl-5-needs-now.html and he mentions a neat-looking project called ``mod_perlite``. It sounds like it will be very handy. Anyone working on a ``mod_pylite``?

Re: mod_pylite?

2009-01-01 Thread excord80
On Jan 1, 9:12 pm, s...@pobox.com wrote:     http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2008/12/five-features-perl-5-needs-now.html     and he mentions a neat-looking project called ``mod_perlite``. It     sounds like it will be very handy. Anyone working on a     ``mod_pylite``?  Has it been done

Re: mod_pylite?

2009-01-02 Thread excord80
On Jan 1, 11:40 pm, Graham Dumpleton graham.dumple...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 2, 2:28 pm, excord80 excor...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 1, 9:12 pm, s...@pobox.com wrote:     http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2008/12/five-features-perl-5-needs-now.html     and he mentions a neat-looking

Re: Creating an application for Linux

2009-01-06 Thread excord80
You might find this recent blog post interesting: http://www.mechanicalcat.net/richard/log/Python/Sane_Python_application_packaging__initial_solution -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

State of the art: Tkinter, Tk 8.5, Tix?

2009-01-07 Thread excord80
Does Python work with Tk 8.5? I'm manually installing my own Python 2.6.1 (separate from my system's Python 2.5.2), and am about to install my own Tcl/Tk 8.5 but am unsure how to make them talk to eachother. Should I install Tk first? If I put Tk into my home directory (under ~/opt most likely),

Re: Printed Documentation

2009-01-07 Thread excord80
On Jan 7, 4:00 pm, floob floob.s...@gmail.com wrote: I have been searching for a way to print the official Python documentation into some kind of book (for my own uses).  I don't really care if it's printed on newspaper and bound with elmer's glue ... any way I can get relatively recent

Re: Printed Documentation

2009-01-07 Thread excord80
On Jan 7, 5:14 pm, floob floob.s...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 7, 1:39 pm, excord80 excor...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 7, 4:00 pm, floob floob.s...@gmail.com wrote: I have been searching for a way to print the official Python documentation into some kind of book (for my own uses). http

Re: State of the art: Tkinter, Tk 8.5, Tix?

2009-01-10 Thread excord80
On Jan 10, 11:45 am, r rt8...@gmail.com wrote: We need TK 8.5's themes. This will bring Tkinter out of the dark ages and into the 21st Century! And improve the shine of the Python base distro. Python could use a good boost right now! Could someone please explain what Tix provides compared to

Re: Egg deinstallation

2009-01-12 Thread excord80
On Jan 12, 9:36 am, mk mrk...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, I googled and googled and can't seem to find the definitive answer: how to *properly* deinstall egg? Just delete the folder and/or .py and .pyc files from Lib/site-packages? Would that break anything in Python installation or

Re: LGPL license for Qt 4.5

2009-01-14 Thread excord80
On Jan 14, 9:20 am, sturlamolden sturlamol...@yahoo.no wrote: In either case, Qt will be available under the same licensing terms as wxWidgets. As of today, the main reason to prefer wxPython over PyQt is the license. With an LGPL'd Qt, I'd rather ask what this will mean for wxPython. wx

Re: Need help with os.system in linux

2009-01-16 Thread excord80
On Jan 16, 7:05 pm, akshay bhat akshayub...@gmail.com wrote: Hello i am calling a program using os.system in python on Linux. However in i found that program being executed and soon returned 256. but when i ran it using terminal i got proper results. Now in case of windows, python waits till

Recommendation for a small web framework like Perl's CGI::Application to run as CGI?

2009-01-27 Thread excord80
I need to make a small, relatively low-traffic site that users can create accounts on and log into. Scripts must run as cgi (no mod_python or FastCGI is available). Can anyone recommend a small and simple web framework for Python, maybe similar to Perl's CGI::Application? Or would it just be

Re: Recommendation for a small web framework like Perl's CGI::Application to run as CGI?

2009-01-27 Thread excord80
On Jan 27, 4:52 pm, Tim Chase python.l...@tim.thechases.com wrote: I need to make a small, relatively low-traffic site that users can create accounts on and log into. Scripts must run as cgi (no mod_python or FastCGI is available). Can anyone recommend a small and simple web framework for

Re: Recommendation for a small web framework like Perl's CGI::Application to run as CGI?

2009-01-27 Thread excord80
On Jan 27, 4:52 pm, Tim Chase python.l...@tim.thechases.com wrote: I need to make a small, relatively low-traffic site that users can create accounts on and log into. Scripts must run as cgi (no mod_python or FastCGI is available). Can anyone recommend a small and simple web framework for

Re: Recommendation for a small web framework like Perl's CGI::Application to run as CGI?

2009-01-27 Thread excord80
On Jan 27, 7:28 pm, James Mills prolo...@shortcircuit.net.au wrote: One option is to configure Apache with mod_wsgi and just use WSGI. Fairly simple really and much like CGI. This is a shared hosting arrangement, so I don't have the option of adding an apache module. Also, if it's much like

Re: Recommendation for a small web framework like Perl's CGI::Application to run as CGI?

2009-01-28 Thread excord80
On Jan 28, 4:57 am, Bruno Desthuilliers bruno. 42.desthuilli...@websiteburo.invalid wrote: What about:http://thraxil.org/code/cgi_app/ (yes, it is a port of CGI::Application, and FWIW it's mentionned on the CGI::Application's wiki). Nice find. Thank you. Interesting project. It seems to be

Re: Recommendation for a small web framework like Perl's CGI::Application to run as CGI?

2009-01-28 Thread excord80
On Jan 28, 5:05 am, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven asmo...@in- nomine.org wrote: Werkzeug[1] should be in your line, I think. [1]http://werkzeug.pocoo.org/ Again, the solution must work for plain vanilla CGI. I don't have WSGI available. But thank you. --

Re: small python-cgi wiki?

2009-01-28 Thread excord80
On Jan 28, 12:02 pm, Bernard Rankin beranki...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm looking to set up a small private wiki, and am looking for recommendations. Some sort of CGI based package that I could just untar somewhere web accessable via Apache would be great. There are a number of them listed at

Re: Recommendation for a small web framework like Perl's CGI::Application to run as CGI?

2009-01-28 Thread excord80
On Jan 28, 1:33 pm, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven asmo...@in- nomine.org wrote: -On [20090128 19:01], excord80 (excor...@gmail.com) wrote: Again, the solution must work for plain vanilla CGI. I don't have WSGI available. But thank you. It works for plain CGI. I myself use it for FCGI

Re: Recommendation for a small web framework like Perl's CGI::Application to run as CGI?

2009-01-28 Thread excord80
On Jan 28, 3:10 pm, Fred Pacquier xne...@fredp.lautre.net wrote: That would be something close to Karrigell... You know, I stumbled across Karrigell while looking around but was initially uninterested because of what initially seems like a lack of direction. That is, they tell you that you can

importlib: what is it, and why is it important?

2009-01-31 Thread excord80
Regarding this blog post: http://sayspy.blogspot.com/2009/01/importlib-is-now-in-python-31.html When I use the ``import foo`` statement at the top of my program, I get a module imported. python has a search path it follows, finds the module, and makes it available to my program. Works nice. :)