question is: is there any tutorial on Python scoping aimed at
diehard Perlheads?
Thanks!
kj
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Hi. Sorry for this very clueless question, but how does one write
in Python an HTTP client that can send a POST request? The modules
I've found (e.g. urllib, urllib2), as far as I can tell, seem to
be limited to GET requests. (I could be wrong though; please
correct me if this is so.)
TIA!
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Hi. Sorry for this very clueless question, but how does one write
in Python an HTTP client that can send a POST request? The modules
I've found (e.g. urllib, urllib2), as far as I can tell, seem to
be limited to GET requests. (I could be wrong
Hi. I'd like to port a Perl function that does something I don't
know how to do in Python. (In fact, it may even be something that
is distinctly un-Pythonic!)
The original Perl function takes a reference to an array, removes
from this array all the elements that satisfy a particular
Thanks to Jeff and subeen for the helpful comments and suggestions.
Kynn
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This function will take a list of integers and modify it in place such
that it removes even integers. The removed integers are returned as a
new list
snip
Great!
Thanks!
kynn
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In [EMAIL PROTECTED] John Machin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It's nothing to do with list comprehensions, which are syntactical
sugar for traditional loops. You could rewrite your list comprehension
in the traditional manner...
and it would still fail for the same reason: mutating the list over
In [EMAIL PROTECTED] kj [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In [EMAIL PROTECTED] John Machin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It's nothing to do with list comprehensions, which are syntactical
sugar for traditional loops. You could rewrite your list comprehension
in the traditional manner...
and it would still
How can a script know its absolute path? (__file__ only gives the
path it was used to invoke the script.)
Basically, I'm looking for the Python equivalent of Perl's FindBin.
The point of all this is to make the scripts location the reference
point for the location of other files, as part of
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import os
print os.path.abspath(__file__)
Great. Thanks!
Kynn
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I'm a Perlhead trying to learn the Way of Python. I like Python
overall, but every once in a while I find myself trying to figure
out why Python does some things the way it does. At the moment
I'm scratching my head over Python's docstrings. As far as I
understand this is the standard way to
Wow. That was a great bunch of advice.
Thank you all very much!
Kynn
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For my compiled scripts, I usually use this variation:
path = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(sys.argv[0])))
Thanks. But why the os.path.join()? (BTW, I did read the docs
before posting, but they make no sense to me;
I'm running into a strange seg fault with the module cjson. The
strange part is that it does not occur when I run the code under
Emacs' Pydb.
Here's an example:
import sys, cjson
d1 = {'a': 1, 'b': 2, 'c': 3}
print sys.version
j1 = cjson.encode(d1)
print j1 # should print the string
In [EMAIL PROTECTED] Diez B. Roggisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
kj schrieb:
I'm running into a strange seg fault with the module cjson. The
strange part is that it does not occur when I run the code under
Emacs' Pydb.
Here's an example:
import sys, cjson
d1 = {'a': 1, 'b': 2, 'c
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kj wrote:
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I'm running into a strange seg fault with the module cjson. The
strange
I'm sure this is a simple, but recurrent, problem for which I can't
hit on a totally satisfactory solution.
As an example, suppose that I want write a module X that performs
some database access. I expect that 99.999% of the time, during
the foreseeable future, the database connection
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I'm sure this is a simple, but recurrent, problem for which I can't hit
on a totally satisfactory solution.
As an example, suppose that I want write
I'm downloading some very large tables from a remote site. I want
to sort these tables in a particular way before saving them to
disk. In the past I found that the most efficient way to do this
was to piggy-back on Unix's highly optimized sort command. So,
from within a Perl script, I'd
) to the
fact that if the Perl module Foo::Bar::Baz is installed on our
system, all I need to do to read its full-blown documentation in
all its glory is to type perldoc Foo::Bar::Baz at the command
line. Is there anything like this in Python?
TIA!
kj
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OK, the following should work but doesn't, and I can't figure out
why:
from xml.marshal.generic import dumps
dumps( ( 1, 2.0, 'foo', [3,4,5] ) )
'?xml
version=1.0?marshaltupleint1/intfloat2.0/floatstringfoo/stringlist
id=i2int3/intint4/intint5/int/list/tuple/marshal'
from xml.dom.ext
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If you are in the interpreter and you type: help(foo.bar.baz) you get
the embeded documentation.
I usually go straight to the `global module index` http://docs.python.org/m=
odindex.html
Thanks!
kynn
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On Jun 20, 7:17 am, kj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK, the following should work but doesn't, and I can't figure out
why:
from xml.marshal.generic import dumps
dumps( ( 1, 2.0, 'foo', [3,4,5] ) )
'?xml
version=1.0?marshaltupleint1
Hi. Does anyone know of a module that will take a suitable Python
dictionary and return the corresponding XML structure?
In Perl I use XML::Simple's handy XMLout function:
use XML::Simple 'XMLout';
my %h = ( 'Foo' = +{
'Bar' = +{
Is it possible to buy the official Python docs in book form? If
so, I'd very much appreciate the name(s) and author(s) of the
book(s).
TIA!
kynnjo
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Howdy kynnjo,
Is it possible to buy the official Python docs in book form? If
so, I'd very much appreciate the name(s) and author(s) of the
book(s).
I haven't seen them in print form, but you can download PDF's from
here:
I'm looking for example implementations of small projects in
Python, similar to the ones given at the end of most chapters of
The Perl Cookbook (2nd edition, isbn: 0596003137). (Unfortunately,
the otherwise excellent Python Cookbook (2nd edition, isbn:
0596007973), by the same publisher
I've only recently started programming in Python, trying to wean
myself from Perl. One of the things I *really* miss from Perl is
a 100% mouse-free data inspector, affectionally known as the Perl
debugger, PerlDB, or just perl -d. With it I can examine the most
elaborate data structures with
In [EMAIL PROTECTED] Paddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
python -h gives me:
...
Other environment variables:
PYTHONSTARTUP: file executed on interactive startup (no default)
...
Sweet. Thanks!
kynn
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In [EMAIL PROTECTED] Terry Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
kj == kj [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You actually liked the perl debugger... gasp!
Still do, in fact!.
OK, I used it too, but it
left a few things to be desired...
I'd love to read your thoughts on the matter. My biggest complain
In [EMAIL PROTECTED] Paddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I tend to do the following at the python prompt:
from pprint import pprint as pp
Thanks, that's a good one to know, but isn't there a way to automate
it???
I looked around, but I couldn't find the name of any *rc-type file
that would hold
For many months now I've been trying to learn Python, but I guess
I'm too old a dog trying to learn new tricks... For better or
worse, I'm so used to Perl when it comes to scripting, that I'm
just having a very hard time getting a hang of The Python Way.
It's not the Python syntax that I'm
In [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reedick, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Be that as it may, the activation barrier to using Python for my
scripting remains too high.
=20
I'd written a Perl module to facilitate the writing of scripts.
It contained all my boilerplate code for parsing and validating
In [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wildemar Wildenburger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
kj wrote:
Is there any good reading (to ease the transition) for Perl
programmers trying to learn Python?
www.diveintopython.org
Thanks. Not for Perl programmers specifically, but it looks useful
all the same.
kynn
I just came across an assignment of the form
x, = y
where y is a string (in case it matters).
1. What's the meaning of the comma in the LHS of the assignment?
2. How could I have found this out on my own?
(Regarding (2) above, I consulted the index of several Python
reference books but I
In [EMAIL PROTECTED] Matthew Woodcraft [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
kj wrote:
I still don't get it. If we write
y = 'Y'
x, = y
what's the difference now between x and y? And if there's no
difference, what's the point of performing such unpacking?
If y really is is a string, I think
If I'm in the python interactive interpreter, I get a beep when I
hit the backspace key.
I must confess, though, that my terminal is complicated, to put
it mildly: I work on a Mac running Leopard; I open a Terminal
session, and through it I ssh to an Ubuntu server; on this server
I connect to a
In [EMAIL PROTECTED] kj [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
snip
Please ignore my question. I found a general solution that works
not only for the python interactive interpreter but also for all
programs that have a readline-type interaction. This solution has
nothing to do with Python, but if anyone's
Python noob here.
I want to write a script that creates and populates a simple Postgres
database.
The word on the street is to use something like SQLAlchemy for
database access in Python, but my experience in the past with
packages that perform automated SQL generation has been awful, so
I
In [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tim Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I believe there are a couple of options but pyscopg, and PyGreSQL seem
to be popular.
Great. Thanks!
kynn
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Is there a special pythonic idiom for iterating over a list (or
tuple) two elements at a time?
I mean, other than
for i in range(0, len(a), 2):
frobnicate(a[i], a[i+1])
?
I think I once saw something like
for (x, y) in forgotten_expression_using(a):
frobnicate(x, y)
Or maybe I
Hi. I can't find any documentation for psycopg2.
I'm a noob, so I'm sure I'm just not looking in the right place...
Anybody know where it is?
TIA!
kynn
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Thanks for all the replies. I learned a lot!
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Yet another noob question...
Is there a way to mimic C's static variables in Python? Or something
like it? The idea is to equip a given function with a set of
constants that belong only to it, so as not to clutter the global
namespace with variables that are not needed elsewhere.
For
In [EMAIL PROTECTED] Matthew Woodcraft [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
kj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi. I can't find any documentation for psycopg2.
I'm a noob, so I'm sure I'm just not looking in the right place...
Anybody know where it is?
For basic use, psycopg2 follows the dbapi, which
In [EMAIL PROTECTED] Larry Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
kj wrote:
Yet another noob question...
Is there a way to mimic C's static variables in Python? Or something
like it? The idea is to equip a given function with a set of
constants that belong only to it, so as not to clutter
In [EMAIL PROTECTED] Terry Reedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
kj wrote:
Is there a special pythonic idiom for iterating over a list (or
tuple) two elements at a time?
I mean, other than
for i in range(0, len(a), 2):
frobnicate(a[i], a[i+1])
There have been requests to add a grouper
In Perl, one can break a chunk of text into an array of lines while
preserving the trailing line-termination sequence in each line, if
any, by splitting the text on the regular expression /^/:
DB1 x split(/^/, foo\nbar\nbaz)
0 'foo
'
1 'bar
'
2 'baz'
But nothing like this seems to work in
In [EMAIL PROTECTED] kj [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In Perl, one can break a chunk of text into an array of lines while
preserving the trailing line-termination sequence in each line, if
any, by splitting the text on the regular expression /^/:
DB1 x split(/^/, foo\nbar\nbaz)
0 'foo
'
1 'bar
I'm trying to subclass file, overriding the readline method. The
new method definition begins with
def readline(self, size=None):
line = self.file.readline(size)
# etc., etc.
...where the self.file attribute is a regular file object.
This works fine if I invoke the new
Hi! I have a Pythonoob question.
I have a script that hangs indefinitely at random times; the only
thing to do at this point is to kill it.
I'm looking for suggestions on how to troubleshoot and debug the
problem.
I'm not even sure of where exactly the script is hanging, though
I suspect it
of
_auto). What's the right way to do this?
Thanks!
kj
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Nevermind, I found the problem...
Thanks,
kj
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I've tried a bazillion ways to code dynamically generated methods,
to no avail.
The following snippet is a very simplified (and artificial) demo
of the problem I'm running into, featuring my
)
or not terribly useful to the average person (e.g. a function that
efficiently computes the n-th Fibonacci number).
Any pointers would be much appreciated.
kj
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How can one check that a Python script is lexically correct?
As my Python apps grow in complexity and execution, I'm finding it
more often the situation in which a program dies after a lengthy
(i.e. expensive) run because the execution reaches, say, a typo.
Of course, this typo needs to be
How can a module determine the path of the file that defines it?
(Note that this is, in the general case, different from sys.argv[0].)
TIA!
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In 7e456639-9dbb-41ba-ae36-042a034fa...@y32g2000prd.googlegroups.com AK Eric
warp...@sbcglobal.net writes:
How can a module determine the path of the file that defines it?
(Note that this is, in the general case, different from sys.argv[0].)
__file__
Also:
import inspect
print
I'm running into an ugly bug, which, IMHO, is really a bug in the
design of Python's module import scheme. Consider the following
directory structure:
ham
|-- __init__.py
|-- re.py
`-- spam.py
...with the following very simple files:
% head ham/*.py
== ham/__init__.py ==
== ham/re.py ==
In 4aec591e$0$7629$9b4e6...@newsspool1.arcor-online.net Stefan Behnel
stefan...@behnel.de writes:
kj, 31.10.2009 16:12:
My sin appears to be having the (empty) file ham/re.py. So Python
is confusing it with the re module of the standard library, and
using it when the inspect module tries
I want to write some tests for code that uses both urllib and
urllib2. I would like to be able to run these tests locally. Are
there modules to facilitate the writing of such tests (e.g. for
setting up a mock web server locally, etc.)?
BTW, in the Perl world, one very easy way to learn how
I have a script that must be run with Python 2.6.x. If one tries
to run it with, say, 2.5.x, *eventually* it runs into problems and
crashes. (The failure is quicker if one attempts to run it with
Python 3.x.)
Is there some way to specify at the very beginning of the script
the acceptable
In mailman.261.1257963528.2873.python-l...@python.org Benjamin Kaplan
benjamin.kap...@case.edu writes:
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:16 PM, kj no.em...@please.post wrote:
I have a script that must be run with Python 2.6.x. =A0If one tries
to run it with, say, 2.5.x, *eventually* it runs
In hdf9bq$59...@panix3.panix.com a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes:
In article hdf63i$cm...@reader1.panix.com, kj no.em...@please.post wrote:
The subject line says it all.
You are probably trying to remove a screw with a hammer
Worse: I'm trying to write Perl using Python!
-- why don't you
I'm just learning about Google's latest: the GO (Go?) language.
(e.g. http://golang.org or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKnDgT73v8s).
There are some distinctly Pythonoid features to the syntax, such
as import this_or_that, the absence of parentheses at the top of
flow control constructs, and
The subject line says it all.
Thanks!
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. When reading such code, to follow any method call one must
check in at least two places: the base class and the subclass.
The deeper the inheritance chain, the more places one must check.
For every method call. Yeecch. Good riddance.
kj
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This is meta-question about comp.lang.python. I apologize in
advance if it has been already discussed. Also, I don't know enough
about the underlying mechanics of comp.lang.python, so this may be
*totally unfeasible*, but how about giving a few bona fide *and
frequent* clp posters the ability
In 7xpr7lixnn@ruckus.brouhaha.com Paul Rubin
http://phr...@nospam.invalid writes:
It seems a little weird to me that they (Google) are concerned with
the speed of the compiler, indicating that they plan to write enormous
programs in the language.
Fast compilation also means that Go can
In 129a67e4-328c-42b9-9bf3-152f1b76f...@k19g2000yqc.googlegroups.com Michele
Simionato michele.simion...@gmail.com writes:
It does not look so primitive to me, compared to commonly used
languages.
I am pretty sure that they are missing a lot of the latest ideas on
purpose. If they want to
In 77b812a9-d82c-4aaa-8037-ec30366fc...@h34g2000yqm.googlegroups.com Yinon
Ehrlich yinon...@gmail.com writes:
Is there some way to specify at the very beginning of the script
the acceptable range of Python versions?
sys.hexversion,
see
...just bit me in the fuzzy posterior. The best I can come up with
is the hideous
lol = [[] for _ in xrange(500)]
Is there something better? What did one do before comprehensions
were available? I suppose in that case one would have to go all
the way with
lol = [None] * 500
for i in
In 6e20a31b-2218-49c5-a32c-5f0147db3...@k19g2000yqc.googlegroups.com Jon
Clements jon...@googlemail.com writes:
lol =3D map(lambda L: [], xrange(5))
[id(i) for i in lol]
[167614956, 167605004, 167738060, 167737996, 167613036]
Oh yeah, map! I'd forgotten all about it. Thanks!
kynn
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http://phr...@nospam.invalid writes:
kj no.em...@please.post writes:
frequent* clp posters the ability to *easily* delete spam from the
comp.lang.python server?
Um, this is usenet; there is no comp.lang.python server. Are you
saying you want
I'm looking for a good way to get a listing of all the undocumented
(i.e. docstring-less) functions, classes, and methods as defined
in a (largish) library of files.
What's a good way to get this information?
TIA!
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Before I go off to re-invent a thoroughly invented wheel, I thought
I'd ask around for some existing module for computing binomial
coefficient, hypergeometric coefficients, and other factorial-based
combinatorial indices. I'm looking for something that can handle
fairly large factorials (on the
It gets tedious to have to append .encode('utf-8') to all my unicode
strings when I print them, as in:
print foobar.encode('utf-8')
I want to tell python to apply this encoding automatically to
anything argument passed to print.
How can I do this?
TIA!
K
PS: BTW, sys.setdefaultencoding
I want to pass Chinese characters as command-line arguments to a
Python script. My terminal has no problem displaying these
characters, and passing them to the script, but I can't get Python
to understand them properly.
E.g. if I pass one such character to the simple script
import sys
print
In 7slndhfno...@mid.uni-berlin.de Diez B. Roggisch de...@nospam.web.de
writes:
Am 31.01.10 16:38, schrieb kj:
It gets tedious to have to append .encode('utf-8') to all my unicode
strings when I print them, as in:
print foobar.encode('utf-8')
I want to tell python to apply
In 7slr5ife6...@mid.uni-berlin.de Diez B. Roggisch de...@nospam.web.de
writes:
Am 31.01.10 16:52, schrieb kj:
I want to pass Chinese characters as command-line arguments to a
Python script. My terminal has no problem displaying these
characters, and passing them to the script, but I can't
I just spent about 1-1/2 hours tracking down a bug.
An innocuous little script, let's call it buggy.py, only 10 lines
long, and whose output should have been, at most two lines, was
quickly dumping tens of megabytes of non-printable characters to
my screen (aka gobbledygook), and in the process
Let me preface everything by thanking you and all those who
replied for their comments.
I have only one follow-up question (or rather, set of related
questions) that I'm very keen about, plus a bit of a vent at the
end.
In pan.2010.02.02.03.28...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au Steven D'Aprano
In mailman.1795.1265135424.28905.python-l...@python.org Terry Reedy
tjre...@udel.edu writes:
On 2/2/2010 9:13 AM, kj wrote:
As for fixing it, unfortunately it's not quite so simple to fix without
breaking backwards-compatibility. The opportunity to do so for Python 3.0
was missed
(For reasons I don't understand Stephen Hansen's posts don't show
in my news server. I became aware of his reply from a passing
reference in one of Terry Reedy's post. Then I found Hansen's post
online, and then an earlier one, and pasted the relevant portion
below.)
First, I don't shadow
In mailman.1804.1265150872.28905.python-l...@python.org Terry Reedy
tjre...@udel.edu writes:
On 2/2/2010 2:43 PM, kj wrote:
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Reedytjre...@udel.edu writes:
On 2/2/2010 9:13 AM, kj wrote:
As for fixing it, unfortunately it's
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carried away by my annoyance with the Python
import scheme. I'm sorry about it. Even though I don't think I
can put to practice all of your advice, I can still learn a good
deal from it.
Cheers,
~kj
Steve Holden st...@holdenweb.com writes:
kj wrote:
First, I don't shadow built in modules. Its
In hkbv23$c0...@reader2.panix.com kj no.em...@please.post writes:
Steve, I apologize for the snarkiness of my previous reply to you.
After all, I started the thread by asking the forum for advice on
how to avoid a certain kind of bugs, you were among those who gave
me advice. So nothing other
In 87wryumvff@benfinney.id.au Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au
writes:
kj no.em...@please.post writes:
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i'm trying to toubleshoot the problem further
Some people have mathphobia. I'm developing a wicked case of
Unicodephobia.
I have read a *ton* of stuff on Unicode. It doesn't even seem all
that hard. Or so I think. Then I start writing code, and WHAM:
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 0: ordinal
not
In 402ac982-0750-4977-adb2-602b19149...@m24g2000prn.googlegroups.com Jonathan
Gardner jgard...@jonathangardner.net writes:
On Feb 10, 11:09=A0am, kj no.em...@please.post wrote:
FWIW, I'm using Python 2.6. =A0The example above happens to come from
a script that extracts data from HTML files
In xns9d1bcad3b50e1duncanbo...@127.0.0.1 Duncan Booth
duncan.bo...@invalid.invalid writes:
kj no.em...@please.post wrote:
But to ground
the problem a bit I'll say that the exception above happens during
the execution of a statement of the form:
x = '%s %s' % (y, z)
Also, I found
In mailman.2379.1265906673.28905.python-l...@python.org mk mrk...@gmail.com
writes:
To make matters more complicated, str.encode() internally DECODES from
string into unicode:
nu
'\xc4\x84'
type(nu)
type 'str'
nu.encode()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File stdin, line 1, in
I think I remember, early in my learning of Python, coming across
the commandment THOU SHALT NOT USE TRIPLE-QUOTES TO COMMENT-OUT
LINES OF CODE, or something to that effect. But now I can't find
it!
Is my memory playing me a trick?
After all, from what I've seen since then, the practice of
Is there some standard module for getting info about the process's
memory usage, in a Linux/Unix system?
(I want to avoid hacks that involve, e.g., scraping ps's output.)
Thanks!
~K
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Subject line pretty much says it all: is there a book like Effective
Java for Python. I.e. a book that assumes that readers are
experienced programmers that already know the basics of the language,
and want to focus on more advanced programming issues?
~K
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I have many years of programming experience, and a few languages,
under my belt, but still Python scoping rules remain mysterious to
me. (In fact, Python's scoping behavior is the main reason I gave
up several earlier attempts to learn Python.)
Here's a toy example illustrating what I mean.
In mailman.407.1251237485.2854.python-l...@python.org John Posner
jjpos...@optimum.net writes:
Stephen Hansen said:
This sounds like a fundamental confusion -- a namespace is not
equivalent to a scope, really, I think.
...
snip
Hmm. I can't find Stephen Hansen's original post anywhere.
In 7figv3f2m3p0...@mid.uni-berlin.de Diez B. Roggisch de...@nospam.web.de
writes:
Classes are not scopes.
This looks to me like a major wart, on two counts.
First, one of the goals of OO is encapsulation, not only at the
level of instances, but also at the level of classes. Your comment
In jeqdncamuyvtrwjxnz2dnuvz8ludn...@bt.com Martin P. Hellwig
martin.hell...@dcuktec.org writes:
kj wrote:
cut
First, one of the goals of OO is encapsulation, not only at the
level of instances, but also at the level of classes.
Who says?
Python itself: it already offers a limited form
In 16b72319-8023-471c-ba40-8025aa6d4...@a26g2000yqn.googlegroups.com Carl
Banks pavlovevide...@gmail.com writes:
First, one of the goals of OO is encapsulation, not only at the
level of instances, but also at the level of classes. =A0Your comment
suggests that Python does not fully support
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