[issue4613] Can't figure out where SyntaxError: can not delete variable 'x' referenced in nested scope us coming from in python shows no traceback

2014-06-26 Thread Albert Hopkins
Albert Hopkins added the comment: You can close this one out. I don't even remember the use case anymore. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue4613

Re: print function and unwanted trailing space

2013-09-12 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013, at 07:36 AM, Wayne Werner wrote: On Sat, 31 Aug 2013, candide wrote: # - for i in range(5): print(i, end=' ') # - The last ' ' is unwanted print() # - Then why not define end='' instead? I think the

Re: Contact information for Jim Hugunin?

2013-07-24 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013, at 05:33 PM, Larry Hastings wrote: Does anybody have an email address (or anything, really) for Jim Hugunin? He left Google in May and appears to have dropped off the face of the internet. Please email me privately. I swear I will use the information only for

Re: Why is Ruby on Rails more popular than Django?

2013-03-06 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013, at 02:16 PM, Tim Johnson wrote: I had problems getting django to work on my hostmonster account which is shared hosting and supports fast_cgi but not wsgi. I put that effort on hold for now, as it was just RD for me, but I would welcome you to take a look at

Re: Python Newbie

2013-02-24 Thread Albert Hopkins
Most of what gets hung in art galleries these days is far less visually pleasing than well-written code. +1 QOTW -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Is Python venerable?

2013-02-20 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013, at 11:10 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: [...] And even us old (78) farts are calling things Kewl now. 78??? Is that the year you were born or the years since you were born? -a -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: AttributeError: 'gr_hier_block2_sptr' object has no attribute 'set_callback'

2013-02-14 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013, at 04:39 PM, Dave Angel wrote: [... snip] For those of us using text-based email, the program in this message is totally unreadable. This is a text mailing-list, so please put your email program in text mode, or you'll lose much of your audience. For those of us not

Re: how to call shell?

2013-02-12 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013, at 12:12 AM, contro opinion wrote: import os os.system(i=3) 0 os.system(echo $i) 0 why i can't get the value of i ? Whenever you call os.system, a new shell is created and the command is run, system() then waits for the command to complete. You don't see i

Re: Is Python programming language?

2013-02-08 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013, at 08:03 AM, gmspro wrote: Hello all, One said, Python is not programming language, rather scripting language, is that true? According to Wikipedia[1] a scripting languages are a subset of programming languages so it goes that any scripting language is, be

Re: Best Practice Question

2013-02-05 Thread Albert Hopkins
[...] By the way, did someone ever notice that r'\' fails ? I'm sure there's a reason for that... (python 2.5) Anyone knows ? r'\' SyntaxError: EOL while scanning single-quoted string Even in a raw string, string quotes can be escaped with a backslash, but the backslash remains in the

Re: error in except

2013-02-04 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013, at 04:49 PM, Rodrick Brown wrote: For the life of me I cant figure out why this exception is being thrown. How could I use pdb to debug this? $ python udp_local2.py server File udp_local2.py, line 36 except: ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Re: sockobj.connect Errno 13 Permission denied

2013-01-26 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013, at 08:52 AM, Joel Goldstick wrote: On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Joel Goldstick joel.goldst...@gmail.comwrote: On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 6:19 AM, nobody jupiter@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a client program Client.py which has a statement of

Re: When is overriding __getattr__ is useful?

2013-01-07 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013, at 10:54 AM, Rodrick Brown wrote: Can someone provide an example why one would want to override __getattr__ and __getattribute__ in a class? They're good for cases when you want to provide an attribute-like quality but you don't know the attribute in advance. For

Re: Tarfile and usernames

2012-12-30 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012, at 01:57 PM, Nicholas Cole wrote: Dear List, I'm hoping to use the tarfile module in the standard library to move some files between computers. I can't see documented anywhere what this library does with userids and groupids. I can't guarantee that the computers

Re: who can give me some practical tutorials on django 1.4 or 1.5?

2012-11-04 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2012-11-04 at 13:29 +0800, Levi Nie wrote: Who can give me some practical tutorials on django 1.4 or 1.5? Thank you. Is the official[1] tutorial not practical enough? [1] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/intro/tutorial01/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Fastest web framework

2012-09-24 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2012-09-23 at 12:19 +0300, Andriy Kornatskyy wrote: I have run recently a benchmark of a trivial 'hello world' application for various python web frameworks (bottle, django, flask, pyramid, web.py, wheezy.web) hosted in uWSGI/cpython2.7 and gunicorn/pypy1.9... you might find it

Re: 'indent'ing Python in windows bat

2012-09-19 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 22:12 -0600, Jason Friedman wrote: I'm converting windows bat files little by little to Python 3 as I find time and learn Python. The most efficient method for some lines is to call Python like: python -c import sys; sys.exit(3) How do I indent if I have something

Re: subtle error slows code by 10x (builtin sum()) - replace builtin sum without using import?

2011-07-01 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Friday, July 1 at 19:17 (-0700), bdb112 said: Question: Can I replace the builtin sum function globally for test purposes so that my large set of codes uses the replacement? The replacement would simply issue warnings.warn() if it detected an ndarray argument, then call the original

Re: changing current dir and executing a shell script

2011-05-28 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sat, 2011-05-28 at 09:41 +0200, Peter Otten wrote: You don't want to do this because cd is a built-in shell command, and subprocess does not execute within a shell (by default). The problem is not that cd is built-in, but that there is no shell at all. You can change that with

Re: float(nan) in set or as key

2011-05-28 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2011-05-29 at 00:41 +0100, MRAB wrote: Here's a curiosity. float(nan) can occur multiple times in a set or as a key in a dict: {float(nan), float(nan)} {nan, nan} These two nans are not equal (they are two different nans) except that sometimes it can't: nan = float(nan)

Re: changing current dir and executing a shell script

2011-05-27 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 14:25 -0700, suresh wrote: Hi, I want to execute the following command line stuff from inside python. $cd directory $./executable I tried the following but I get errors import subprocess subprocess.check_call('cd dir_name;./executable') Due to filename path

Re: FW: help please

2011-05-18 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 21:46 -0300, Gabriel Genellina wrote: En Tue, 17 May 2011 16:48:29 -0300, Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org escribió: On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 10:18 -0600, Littlefield, Tyler wrote: Not to be pedantic or anything, and I may not be able to help regardless

Re: FW: help please

2011-05-18 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 13:39 +0100, Stuart MacKay wrote: If you were required to answer the question then asking the poster to phrase it better is going to help solve the issue faster but for a mailing list like this simply ignore it. Which is what I've done. --

Re: How To Make Fast Money Legally

2011-05-18 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 15:48 -0400, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: On Wed, 18 May 2011 12:06:07 -0700 (PDT) tmac641...@yahoo.com tmac641...@yahoo.com wrote: HOW TO MAKE EASY MONEY FAST AND LEGALLY Wow! Was this stuck in someone's mail queue since 1992? Me too! --

Re: FW: help please

2011-05-17 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 10:18 -0600, Littlefield, Tyler wrote: Not to be pedantic or anything, and I may not be able to help regardless, but it looks like your space key is fixed, and I don't really care to pick through and try to play hangman with your message. I actually, at first glance,

Re: if statement multiple or

2011-05-06 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 13:47 +0300, Lutfi Oduncuoglu wrote: Hi, I am trying to write a script and I realised that I need to use something like if ('a' or 'b' or 'c') not in line: print line The expression: ('a' or 'b' or 'c') evaluates to True True not in line Is

Re: if statement multiple or

2011-05-06 Thread Albert Hopkins
Correction: ('a' or 'b' or 'c') evaluates to 'a' -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PIL: The _imaging C module is not installed

2011-05-05 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 15:35 +0200, Nico Grubert wrote: Hi there I am having trouble to install PIL 1.1.7 on CentOS. I read and followed the instructions from http://effbot.org/zone/pil-imaging-not-installed.htm However, I still get the The _imaging C module is not installed error if I

Re: PIL: The _imaging C module is not installed

2011-05-05 Thread Albert Hopkins
Oh I forgot to say, after installing these libraries, you will need to re-compile (install) PIL. -a -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PIL: The _imaging C module is not installed

2011-05-05 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 01:45 +0200, Michel Claveau - MVP wrote: Hi! you need to install the appropriate libraries, among which are: libjpeg-devel freetype-devel libpng-devel OK, but where can I find it? I want use PIL with Python under Windows, and I can't compile C's sources.

Re: Restarting a daemon

2011-04-26 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 06:13 -0600, Jeffrey Barish wrote: Not exactly a Python question, but I thought I would start here. I have a server that runs as a daemon. I can restart the server manually with the command myserver restart This command starts a new myserver which first looks up

Re: How to concatenate unicode strings ???

2011-04-26 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 17:58 +0200, Ariel wrote: Hi everybody, how could I concatenate unicode strings ??? What I want to do is this: unicode('this an example language ') + unicode('español') but I get an: Traceback (most recent call last): File console, line 1, in module

[issue4608] urllib.request.urlopen does not return an iterable object

2011-04-20 Thread Albert Hopkins
Albert Hopkins mar...@python.net added the comment: This issue appears to persist when the protocol used is FTP: root@tp-db $ cat test.py from urllib.request import urlopen for line in urlopen('ftp://gentoo.osuosl.org/pub/gentoo/releases/'): print(line) break root@tp-db

[issue4608] urllib.request.urlopen does not return an iterable object

2011-04-20 Thread Albert Hopkins
Albert Hopkins mar...@python.net added the comment: Oops, previous example was a directory, but it's the same if the url points to a ftp file. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue4608

Re: Python 3 encoding question: Read a filename from stdin, subsequently open that filename

2010-11-30 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 11:52 +0100, Peter Otten wrote: Dan Stromberg wrote: I've got a couple of programs that read filenames from stdin, and then open those files and do things with them. These programs sort of do the *ix xargs thing, without requiring xargs. In Python 2, these work

Re: Python 3 encoding question: Read a filename from stdin, subsequently open that filename

2010-11-30 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 02:14 +, MRAB wrote: If the filenames are to be shown to a user then there needs to be a mapping between bytes and glyphs. That's an encoding. If different users use different encodings then exchange of textual data becomes difficult. That's presentation, that's

Re: Why flat is better than nested?

2010-10-26 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 09:45 -0700, John Nagle wrote: On 10/25/2010 6:34 AM, Alex Willmer wrote: On Oct 25, 11:07 am, kjno.em...@please.post wrote: In The Zen of Python, one of the maxims is flat is better than nested? Why? Can anyone give me a concrete example that illustrates this

Re: PyCharm

2010-10-19 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 10:05 -0700, CoffeeKid wrote: Your video is childish When you have someone called Kid calling you childish... that's pretty low. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Fastest way to detect a non-ASCII character in a list of strings.

2010-10-17 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 14:59 -0500, Dun Peal wrote: `all_ascii(L)` is a function that accepts a list of strings L, and returns True if all of those strings contain only ASCII chars, False otherwise. What's the fastest way to implement `all_ascii(L)`? My ideas so far are: 1. Match

Re: Boolean value of generators

2010-10-15 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 14:54 +, Grant Edwards wrote: so you could test for emptiness, look ahead at the next item without consuming it, etc. And what happens when the generator is doing things like executing database transactions? You should also add prediction to the caching. This

Re: Boolean value of generators

2010-10-14 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 10:16 +0100, Tony wrote: I have been using generators for the first time and wanted to check for an empty result. Naively I assumed that generators would give appopriate boolean values. For example def xx(): l = [] for x in l: yield x y = xx() bool(y)

Re: How to find free resident memory in Linux using python

2010-10-02 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sat, 2010-10-02 at 07:06 -0700, Sandy wrote: Hi all, I want to find how much free memory (RAM) is available in my system using python. I tried psutil, parsing /proc/meminfo, top output etc but not satisfied. For example my gnome-system-monitor gui shows I am using 1GB (25%) of my RAM while

Re: SendKeys and Python 2.7

2010-09-09 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 07:07 -0300, Jakson A. Aquino wrote: Vim needs python 2.7 From where do you base this assertion? I have been using vim 7.3 (with embedded python) with python 2.6 pretty much since it has been released. :version VIM - Vi IMproved 7.3 (2010 Aug 15, compiled

Re: Printing the name of a variable

2010-09-09 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 12:43 -0700, Stephen Boulet wrote: Does an arbitrary variable carry an attribute describing the text in its name? I'm looking for something along the lines of: x = 10 print x.name 'x' Perhaps the x.__getattribute__ method? Thanks. Variables are not objects and so

Re: The Samurai Principle

2010-09-07 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 20:48 -0700, Phlip wrote: Pythonistas: The Samurai Principle says to return victorious, or not at all. This is why django.db wisely throws an exception, instead of simply returning None, if it encounters a record not found. How does that compare to, say, the Kamikaze

Re: Minimum and Maximum of a list containing floating point numbers

2010-09-06 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 17:37 -0700, ceycey wrote: I have a list like ['1.1881', '1.1881', '1.1881', '1.1881', '1.1881', '1.1881', '1.1881', '1.1881', '1.1881', '1.1881', '1.7689', '1.7689', '3.4225', '7.7284', '10.24', '9.0601', '9.0601', '9.0601', '9.0601', '9.0601']. What I want to do is to

Re: Python [repair_cycorder_mov.py]

2010-09-05 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2010-09-05 at 14:00 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote: By the way, there's no need to send three messages in 10 minutes asking the same question, and adding FORM METHOD links to your post will probably just get it flagged as spam by many people. Apparently it has, as I only got this

Re: Saving (unusual) linux filenames

2010-08-31 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 16:49 +0200, amfr...@web.de wrote: i have a script that reads and writes linux paths in a file. I save the path (as unicode) with 2 other variables. I save them seperated by , and the packets by newlines. So my file looks like this: path1, var1A, var1B path2,

Re: triangle python user's group?

2010-08-30 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 12:38 -0700, Tim Arnold wrote: Hi, Is there a python users group in the Research Triangle Park area (North Carolina, USA)? Google triangle python user's group -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: subprocess.Popen calling httpd reload never finishes

2010-08-18 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 06:58 -0700, Nan wrote: Ah, I'd been told that there would be no conflict, and that this was just reloading the configuration, not restarting Apache. I do need the web app to instruct Apache to reload because just before this it's creating new VirtualHosts that need to

Re: subprocess.Popen calling httpd reload never finishes

2010-08-17 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 12:55 -0700, Nan wrote: Hi folks -- I have a Python script running under Apache/mod_wsgi that needs to reload Apache configs as part of its operation. The script continues to execute after the subprocess.Popen call. The communicate() method returns the correct text

Re: Python Script Cannot Write to Directory

2010-08-03 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 21:01 -0700, Chris Brauchli wrote: Hi, I am writing a script that, at one point, copies a file from directory A to directory B. Directory B can only be written to by root, but the script is always called with sudo, so this shouldn't be an issue, but it is. I have tried

Re: Why is python not written in C++ ?

2010-08-01 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 01:08 +0200, candide wrote: Python is an object oriented langage (OOL). The Python main implementation is written in pure and old C90. Is it for historical reasons? C is not an OOL and C++ strongly is. I wonder if it wouldn't be more suitable to implement an OOL

Re: measuring a function time

2010-07-30 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 14:28 +0200, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au writes: On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:42:58 +0200, Matteo Landi wrote: This should be enough import time tic = time.time() function() toc = time.time() print toc - tic You're

Re: Possible to include \n chars in doctest code samples or output?

2010-07-16 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 01:26 -0400, pyt...@bdurham.com wrote: I understand what you're saying, but I'm struggling with how to represent the following strings in doctest code and doctest results. No matter what combination of backslashes or raw strings I use, I am unable to find a way to code

Re: Python 2.4.2 Installation error

2010-07-01 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 21:51 +0530, Dhilip S wrote: Hello Everyone.. I'm using Ubuntu 10.04, i try to install Python 2.4.2 Python 2.4.3 got error message while doing make command. anybody can tell tell, How to overcome this error this error apparently did not get included in your post.

Re: Scan until random delimiter.

2010-06-27 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 22:41 +0200, Laurent Verweijen wrote: In contrast to java or c python seems not be able to use a random delimiter. In java, you can do: Code: import java.util.Scanner Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in).useSeperator( ) int a = sc.nextInt() But in python

Re: I strongly dislike Python 3

2010-06-26 Thread Albert Hopkins
Python 3 is, by design, not 100% backwards compatible with Python 2. Not that I'm completely happy with everything in Python 3 but, in it's defense, discussion of Python 3 has been ongoing for years, almost as long as the existence of Python 2. So the discussion of what went into Python 3 is so

Re: Import fails (newbie)

2010-06-17 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 12:04 -0700, mhorlick wrote: Hello, I'm a newbie and I have a small problem. After invoking IDLE -- Python 3.1.2 (r312:79149, Mar 21 2010, 00:41:52) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type copyright, credits or license() for more information. import os,glob

Re: Challenging Job Opportunity for a C# Architect/ Developer

2010-06-01 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 19:44 -0700, rzzzwilson wrote: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#forum werd. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: max time wait for a function

2010-05-18 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 02:45 -0700, pacopyc wrote: Hi, I've a question for you. I'd like to call a function and waiting its return value for a time max (30 sec). The function could not respond and then I must avoid to wait for infinite time. OS is Windows XP. Can you help me? Thank This is

Re: Django as exemplary design

2010-05-06 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 16:38 -0700, Patrick Maupin wrote: I don't know how this applies to reading other peoples' code, but recent research shows we learn more from success than failure That's good to learn, because for years I have been intentionally failing in order to learn from it and

Re: pythonrag

2010-04-05 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Mon, 2010-04-05 at 11:38 +, Jason Friedman wrote: I saw this posted in the July issue but did not see any follow-up there: $ python Python 2.6.4 (r264:75706, Dec 7 2009, 18:43:55) [GCC 4.4.1] on linux2 Type help, copyright, credits or license for more information. a = 500 b =

os.fdopen() issue in Python 3.1?

2010-03-02 Thread Albert Hopkins
I have a snippet of code that looks like this: pid, fd = os.forkpty() if pid == 0: subprocess.call(args) else: input = os.fdopen(fd).read() ... This seems to work find for CPython 2.5 and 2.6 on my Linux system. However, with CPython 3.1 I

Re: os.fdopen() issue in Python 3.1?

2010-03-02 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 13:25 -0500, Terry Reedy wrote: To get help, or report a bug, for something like this, be as specific as possible. 'Linux' may be too generic. This is on Python on Gentoo Linux x64 with kernel 2.6.33. However, with CPython 3.1 I get: input =

Re: os.fdopen() issue in Python 3.1?

2010-03-02 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 17:32 +, MRAB wrote: The documentation also mentions the 'pty' module. Have you tried that instead? I haven't but I'll give it a try. Thanks. -a -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: os.fdopen() issue in Python 3.1?

2010-03-02 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 17:32 +, MRAB wrote: The documentation also mentions the 'pty' module. Have you tried that instead? I tried to use pty.fork() but it also produces the same error. I also tried passing 'r', and 'rb' to fdopen() but it didn't make any difference. -a --

Re: os.fdopen() issue in Python 3.1?

2010-03-02 Thread Albert Hopkins
This appears to be Issue 5380[1] which is still open. I've cc'ed myself to that issue. [1] http://bugs.python.org/issue5380 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

[issue5380] pty.read raises IOError when slave pty device is closed

2010-03-02 Thread Albert Hopkins
Changes by Albert Hopkins mar...@python.net: -- nosy: +marduk ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue5380 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing

Re: Detecting new removable drives in Linux

2010-03-01 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 10:48 +0100, Bart Smeets wrote: Hello, I'm trying to write a script which detects when a new removable drive is connected to the computer. On #python I was advised to use the dbus-bindings. However the documentation on this is limited. Does anyone know of an example

Re: pythonpath

2010-03-01 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 02:48 -0800, luca72 wrote: Sorry for my stupid question if i have to load module from a folder i have to append it to the sys path the folder? ex: if my folder module is /home/lucak904/Scrivania/Luca/enigma2 i do this : import sys

Re: Are *.pyd's universal?

2009-10-31 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 21:32 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: Modules will sometimes find themselves on the path in Windows, so the fact that Windows performs a library search on the path is quite significant. Why is it only Windows is prone to this problem? I think as someone pointed

Re: datetime question

2009-10-31 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 10:08 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: The ‘datetime’ module focusses on individual date+time values (and the periods between them, with the ‘timedelta’ type). For querying the properties of the calendar, use the ‘calendar’ module. Yes, it would be nice if the ‘time’,

Re: datetime question

2009-10-31 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 20:34 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: Fixing ‘time’, ‘datetime’, and ‘calendar’ was the reason for Python 3? No, it wasn't. Or perhaps you mean that any backward-incompatible change was a reason to have Python 3? Even more firmly no. The extent of changes was severely limited

Re: Python 2.6.4: ./configure does not work

2009-10-31 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 03:07 -0700, knipknap wrote: Hi, Running ./configure in the 2.6.4 sources produces the following error: config.status: error: cannot find input file: Makefile.pre.in Indeed, such a file is not contained anywhere in the Pakage. Which sources are you referring to?

Re: Are *.pyd's universal?

2009-10-31 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 23:58 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: I just checked my Debian installation: l...@theon:~ find /lib /usr/lib -name \*.so -a -not -name lib\* -print | wc -l 2950 l...@theon:~ find /lib /usr/lib -name \*.so -print | wc -l 4708 So 63% of the

Re: import bug

2009-10-31 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 16:27 +, kj wrote: 2) this has been fixed in Py3 In my post I illustrated that the failure occurs both with Python 2.6 *and* Python 3.0. Did you have a particular version of Python 3 in mind? I was not able to reproduce with my python3: $ head ham/*.py

Re: OT: DARPA red balloon challenge

2009-10-30 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 20:27 -0700, Adam N wrote: [...] On December 5, DARPA will raise 10 red weather balloons somewhere in the US. The first person to get the location of all 10 balloons and submit them will be given $40k. Hasn't the U.S. had enough weather balloon-related publicity stunts?

Re: Aaaargh! global name 'eggz' is not defined

2009-10-29 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 17:27 -0500, Robert Kern wrote: I consider import * the first error to be fixed, so it doesn't bother me much. :-) But does pyflakes at least *warn* about the use of import * (I've never used it so just asking)? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Web development with Python 3.1

2009-10-28 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 15:32 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: def index(request): unmaintanable_html = html head titleIndex/title /head body h1Embedded HTML is a PITA/h1 pbut some like pains.../p /body /html return HttpResponse(unmaintanable_html) And if

Re: Web development with Python 3.1

2009-10-28 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 16:38 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: return HttpResponse(unmaintanable_html % data) That's fine for single variables, but if I need to output a table of unknown rows? I assume that return means the end of the script. Therefore I should shove the whole table into a

Re: popen function of os and subprocess modules

2009-10-28 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 07:15 -0700, banu wrote: Thanks for the reply Jon Basically I need to move into a folder and then need to execute some shell commands(make etc.) in that folder. I just gave 'ls' for the sake of an example. The real problem I am facing is, how to stay in the folder

Re: Passing values from html to python

2009-10-22 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 10:44 +0200, Ahmed Barakat wrote: Hi guys, I am new to python and wed-development, I managed to have some nice example running up till now. I am playing with google app engine, I have this situation: I have a text box in an html page, I want to get the value in it

Re: creating class objects inside methods

2009-10-04 Thread Albert Hopkins
Just by a brief look at your code snippet there are a few things that I would point out, stylistically, that you may consider changing in your code as they are generally not considered pythonic: * As already mentioned the state class is best if given a name that is capitalized.

Re: Parsing email attachments: get_payload() produces unsaveable data

2009-10-04 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2009-10-04 at 07:27 -0700, dpapathanasiou wrote: When I try to write the filedata to a file system folder, though, I get an AttributeError in the stack trace. And where might we be able to see that stack trace? -a -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Parsing email attachments: get_payload() produces unsaveable data

2009-10-04 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2009-10-04 at 08:16 -0700, dpapathanasiou wrote: And where might we be able to see that stack trace? This is it: Exception: ('AttributeError', 'no args', [' File /opt/server/smtp/ smtps.py, line 213, in handle\ne mail_replier.post_reply(recipient_mbox, \'\'.join(data))\n', '

Re: Parsing email attachments: get_payload() produces unsaveable data

2009-10-04 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2009-10-04 at 09:17 -0700, dpapathanasiou wrote: Which is *really* difficult (for me) to read. Any chance of providing a normal traceback? File /opt/server/smtp/smtps.py, line 213, in handle email_replier.post_reply(recipient_mbox, ''.join(data)) File

Re: Opinions, please, on PEP 8 and local, 3rd party imports

2009-10-03 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 20:22 -0400, Simon Forman wrote: 2.5 +1 I'd like to suggest 2.46 instead. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: UnboundLocalError with extra code after return

2009-09-29 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 21:15 -0700, Rich Healey wrote: However: def callonce(func): def nullmethod(): pass def __(): return func() func = nullmethod return ret return __ @callonce def t2(): print T2 called t2() Gives me:

Re: How to define a function with an empty body?

2009-09-13 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sat, 2009-09-12 at 22:37 -0500, Peng Yu wrote: Hi, I want to define a function without anything in it body. In C++, I can do something like the following because I can use {} to denote an empty function body. Since python use indentation, I am not sure how to do it. Can somebody let me

Re: Is there a similar mailing list about django?

2009-09-13 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 21:27 +0200, Andreas Waldenburger wrote: Didn't like http://groups-beta.google.com/group/django-users ? (Second hit for django mailing list, but I know Google results vary from country to country, so you might not have seen it.) Or, better yet, go to Django's web site

Re: Is there a similar mailing list about django?

2009-09-13 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 18:46 -0400, Joel Goldstick wrote: Thanks.. I saw the google group, but I was hoping for a list that I can read in my thunderbird client. Thanks all for the good pointers And if you simply go to the Django web site and click on Community there is a form where you can

Re: How can I use my modules here?

2009-09-11 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 02:29 -0700, Chris Rebert wrote: For some reason, your Python program is being executed by bash as if it were a shell script, which it's not. No idea what the cause is though. Because the first 2 bytes of the file need to be #!/path/to/interpreter, the OP has:

Re: AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'pack'

2009-09-10 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 21:07 +0300, Sampsa Riikonen wrote: Dear List, I have a freshly installed opensuse 11.2 and I am experiencing the following problem with the module subprocess: sam...@linux-912g:~ python Python 2.6 (r26:66714, Feb 3 2009, 20:52:03) [GCC 4.3.2 [gcc-4_3-branch

Re: wxGlade question - How to add new event to a button in events tab?

2009-09-08 Thread Albert Hopkins
Could you not post the exact same message 3 times within an hour? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: start default application for read a pdf from python

2009-09-08 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 22:22 +0200, Angelo Ballabio wrote: My problem is a way to run a default application to read and show a pdf file from unix or windows, i have a mixed ambient in the office, so I am try to find a way to start a application to show this pdf file I generate whith

Re: Python for 64bit Linux version

2009-09-03 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 13:30 -0500, Bhanu Srinivas Mangipudi wrote: I just want to that s there a 64 bit Linux version for python ? if yes can you provide me any links for it.I could find a 64bit windows version but could not find Linuux version If you are using a 64bit Linux distribution

Re: issue with grep command

2009-09-03 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 11:51 -0700, Jul wrote: [Stuff about tcsh and grep deleted] What on earth does this have to do with Python? -a -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Try Except Problem

2009-09-03 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 13:45 -0500, Victor Subervi wrote: Hi: I have this code: [blah] It's hard to tell because: 1. You posted code in HTML format, which is really hard to read 2. Even when viewed as plain text, you use non-standard indentation which is really hard to read

Re: Is behavior of += intentional for int?

2009-08-30 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2009-08-30 at 10:44 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote: It also follows from the idea that there is one abstract entity which English speakers call three and write as 3. There's not two identical entities with value 3, or four, or a million of them, only one. That's not true. There are

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