On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Edd wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I have a some threadpool code that works like this :
>
> tp = ThreadPool(number_of_threads)
> futures = [tp.future(t) for t in tasks] # each task is callable
> for f in futures:
> print f.value() # <-- may propagate an exc
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:05 AM, koranthala wrote:
> On Jan 28, 8:36 pm, Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:
>> On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 06:30:32 -0800 (PST), koranthala
>> wrote:
>> >On Jan 28, 7:10 pm, Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:
>> >> On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:02:57 -0800 (PST), koranthala
>> >> wrote:
>>
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:38:20 -0600, Chris Mellon wrote:
>
>>> Why Google would deny access to services by unknown User Agents is
>>> beyond me - especially since in most cases User Agents strings are not
>
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Laszlo Nagy wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> To make the long story short, I have a toy version of an ORB being
> developed, and the biggest problem is slow network speed over TCP/IP.
>
> There is an object called 'endpoint' on both sides, with incoming and
> outgoing messa
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 1:32 PM, webcomm wrote:
> On Jan 9, 7:33 pm, John Machin wrote:
>> It is not impossible for a file with dummy data to have been
>> handcrafted or otherwise produced by a process different to that used
>> for a real-data file.
>
> I knew it was produced by the same process,
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 9:05 PM, James Mills
wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Philip Semanchuk
> wrote:
>>
>> On Jan 11, 2009, at 8:59 PM, James Mills wrote:
>>
>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> The following fails for me:
>>>
>> from urllib2 import urlopen
>> f =
>> urlopen("http://gro
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Chris Mellon wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:32 PM, webcomm wrote:
>> On Jan 9, 3:15 pm, Steve Holden wrote:
>>> webcomm wrote:
>>> > Hi,
>>> > In python, is there a distinction between unzipping bytes and
>>>
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:32 PM, webcomm wrote:
> On Jan 9, 3:15 pm, Steve Holden wrote:
>> webcomm wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > In python, is there a distinction between unzipping bytes and
>> > unzipping a binary file to which those bytes have been written?
>>
>> > The following code is, I think, an exa
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 9:05 AM, webcomm wrote:
> On Jan 9, 3:46 am, Carl Banks wrote:
>> The zipfile format is kind of brain dead, you can't tell where the end
>> of the file is supposed to be by looking at the header. If the end of
>> file hasn't yet been reached there could be more data. To m
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:50 AM, J Kenneth King wrote:
> Jonathan Gardner writes:
>
>> On Jan 6, 12:24 pm, J Kenneth King wrote:
>>> Jonathan Gardner writes:
>>> > On Jan 6, 8:18 am, sturlamolden wrote:
>>> >> On Jan 6, 4:32 pm, mark wrote:
>>>
>>> >> > I want to implement a internal DSL in Py
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Joe Strout wrote:
> On Dec 10, 2008, at 10:19 PM, Nok wrote:
>
>> I can't get call-by-reference functions to work in SWIG...
>
> Python doesn't have any call-by-reference support at all [1], so I'm not
> surprised that a straight translation of the call-by-referenc
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:21 PM, walterbyrd wrote:
> On Dec 7, 12:35 pm, Andreas Waldenburger wrote:
>
>> Plze. Python 3 is shipping now, and so is 2.x, where x > 5. Python
>> 2 is going to be around for quite some time. What is everybody's
>> problem?
>
> A possible, potential, problem, cou
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 6:30 AM, ff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, I am writing an app which models growth of a system over time
> visually which is activated by button clicks, and when the loop
> finishes running i dont want any events [mainly clicking on buttons]
> that happened during the loop
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 6:39 AM, Paul Boddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 9 Des, 05:52, alex23 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> From my perspective, it was less the original complaint and more the
>> sudden jump to "CPython is dead! The GIL sucks! Academic eggheads!"
>> that prompted the comparis
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Warren DeLano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I still would have to call your management of the problem considerably
>> into question - your expertise at writing mathematical software may
>> not be in question, but your skills and producing and managing a
>> software p
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Warren DeLano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Yet Another Python Troll (the ivory tower reference, as well as the
>> abrupt shift from complaining about keywords to multiprocessing), I
>> have to point out that Python does add new keywords, it has done so in
>> the pas
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:45 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:53:38 +1000, James Mills wrote:
>
>> Readability of your code becomes very important especially if you're
>> working with many developers over time.
>>
>> 1. Use sensible meaningful names.
>> 2. Don'
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:42 PM, Warren DeLano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > Why was it necessary to make "as" a reserved keyword?
>>
>> I can't answer for the Python developers as to why they *did* make it
>> a reserved word.
>>
>> But I can offer what I believe is a good reason why it *should*
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:35:02 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
>
>> Instead, it looks like you're falling foul of one of the classic
>> mistakes in the "How to ask questions the smart way" document: you've
>> got a goal, but you'
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:22 PM, dpapathanasiou
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have some old Common Lisp functions I'd like to rewrite in Python
> (I'm still new to Python), and one thing I miss is not having to
> declare local variables.
>
> For example, I have this Lisp function:
>
> (defun rando
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Joe Strout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> One thing I miss as I move from REALbasic to Python is the ability to have
> static storage within a method -- i.e. storage that is persistent between
> calls, but not visible outside the method. I frequently use this for su
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 8:09 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just installed wxPython from http://wxpython.org/download.php. When
> I import (import wx), I get this error:
>
> ImportError: DLL load failed: The application has failed to start
> because its side-by-side configuration is in
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> With the open source licenses that allow redistribution of modified
> code, how do you keep someone unaffiliated with the Python community
> from creating his or her own version of python, and declaring it to be
> Python 2.6, or may
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Joe Strout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I used to by a big Python fan, many years ago [1]. I stopped using it after
> discovering REALbasic, because my main developmental need is to write
> desktop applications that are as native as possible on each plat
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 2:11 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> sturlamolden:
>>No, because Python already has list comprehensions and we don't need the XML
>>buzzword.<
>
> LINQ is more than buzzwords. Python misses several of those features.
> So maybe for once the Python crowd may recognize such
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Martin Marcher wrote:
>
>>> Are dictionaries the same as hashtables?
>>
>> Yes, but there is nothing in there that does sane collision handling
>> like making a list instead of simply overwriting.
>
> are you sure you know
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 1:16 PM, RgeeK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Experimenting with graphics in an app: it's AUI based with a few panes, one
> of which has a panel containing a few sizers holding UI elements. One sizer
> contains a panel that needs some basic line-drawing graphics in it.
>
> I u
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 12:19 PM, eliben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Python provides a quite good and feature-complete exception handling
> mechanism for its programmers. This is good. But exceptions, like any
> complex construct, are difficult to use correctly, especially as
> programs get large.
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:12:04 -0700, alex23 wrote:
>
>> On Aug 7, 8:08 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>> Really how silly can it be when you suggest someone is taking a
>>> position and tweaking the benchmarks to prove a poi
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 8:12 AM, alex23 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Aug 7, 8:08 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Really how silly can it be when you suggest someone is taking a
>> position and tweaking the benchmarks to prove a point [...]
>
> I certainly didn't intend to suggest that you had twe
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 12:12 PM, castironpi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Aug 5, 9:21 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>> On Aug 3, 1:26 am, castironpi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> > Which is 12 bytes long and runs in a millisecond. What it does is set
>> > a memory ad
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:27 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jul 31, 10:47 am, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I take the freedom to do so as I see fit - this is usenet...
>
> Fine, then keep beating a dead horse by replying to this thread with
> things that
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jul 28, 8:15 pm, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> cybersource.com.au> wrote:
>> On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:22:37 -0700, Carl Banks wrote:
>> > On Jul 28, 10:00 am, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> > cybersource.com.au>
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 2:55 PM, kj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Erik Max Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>>kj wrote:
>
>>> 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 t
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Dave Parker
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On May 21, 3:17 pm, "Chris Mellon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> If you're going to use every post and question about Python as an
>> opportunity to pimp your own pet language y
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Dave Parker
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On May 21, 2:44 pm, "Jerry Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> My understand is no, not if you're using IEEE floating point.
>
> Yes, that would explain it. I assumed that Python automatically
> switched from hardware floa
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Roger Heathcote
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> On May 16, 11:40 am, Roger Heathcote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Despite many peoples insistence that allowing for the arbitrary killing
>>> of threads is a cardinal sin and altho
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Aaron Watters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Apr 16, 12:27 pm, Rhamphoryncus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Apr 16, 6:56 am, Aaron Watters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > I don't get it. It ain't broke. Don't fix it.
> >
> > So how would you have do
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 2:33 PM, João Neves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Apr 2, 5:41 pm, "Dan Upton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > The thing I've been wondering is why _is_ it read-only? In what
> > > circumstances having write access to co_code would break the language
> > > or do some
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Mar 20, 2:38 pm, Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Mar 20, 2:29 pm, sturlamolden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > On 20 Mar, 19:09, Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > The culprit i here:
> >
> > > > Be
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 12:30 PM, sturlamolden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 18 Mar, 17:48, Miki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Apart from PIL, some other options are:
> > 1. Most GUI frameworks (wxPython, PyQT, ...) give you a canvas object
> > you can draw on
>
> Yes, but at least on Wind
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 7:03 AM, Thomas G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am exploring wxPython and would be grateful for some help.
>
> It is important to me to be able to slide words and shapes around by
> dragging them from place to place. I don't mean dragging them into a
> different window,
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Robert Rawlins
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>
>
>
>
> Hello Guys,
>
>
>
> I've got an awfully aggravating problem which is causing some substantial
> hair loss this afternoon J I want to get your ideas on this. I am trying to
> invoke a particular method in one of my
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> "Cooper, Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> | Are there any Python C API experts/SWIG experts out there that can help
> | me with this issue please.
>
> | I',m currently using SWIG
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Stefan Behnel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sion Arrowsmith wrote:
> > And before you blame wx* for crashes: what platform was this on?
> > Because my experience was that wx on GTK was significantly more prone
> > to glitches than on Windows (through to wxglade b
On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 3:00 PM, DBak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I want - but cannot get - a nested class to inherit from an outer
> class. (I searched the newsgroup and the web for this, couldn't find
> anything - if I missed an answer to this please let me know!)
>
> I would like to build a
On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 2:38 PM, waltbrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The script comes from Mark Lutz's Programming Python. It is the
> second line of a script that will launch a python program on any
> platform.
>
> import os, sys
> pyfile = (sys.platform[:3] == 'win' and 'python.exe') or 'py
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:04 PM, John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> See
> "http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Lib/urlparse.py?rev=60163&view=markup";
>
> Look at "urljoin".
>
> What does the code marked "# XXX The stuff below is bogus in various
> ways..." do?
>
> I think it's an at
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:32 PM, hyperboreean
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, I will be writing the application server of a three-tier
> architecture system. I will be using Twisted for the communication with
> the client but from there I have to make several calls to a database and
> this a
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 4:56 AM, Nicola Musatti
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Feb 22, 12:24 am, Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Feb 21, 1:22 pm, Nicola Musatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > There are other downsides to garbage collection, as the fact that it
> > > makes it
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Diez B. Roggisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > May I insist? By the criteria you've mentioned so far, nothing rules
> > out 'ext'. If it's still a bad idea, there's a reason. What is it?
>
> You imply that just because something is somehow working and eve
On Feb 11, 2008 12:30 PM, Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> En Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:21:16 -0200, Praveena Boppudi (c)
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi�:
>
> > Can anyone tell me how to find current working user in windows?
>
> If it is just informational, use os.environ['USERNAME']
> Using
On Feb 4, 2008 10:46 AM, Kevin Walzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Chris Mellon wrote:
>
> >
> > I didn't say inherently unable, I said the toolkit doesn't provide it.
> > Note that you said that you did a lot of work to follow OS X
> > conventions an
On Feb 4, 2008 9:57 AM, Kevin Walzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Chris Mellon wrote:
>
> > Nitpick, but an important one. It emulates *look*. Not feel. Native
> > look is easy and totally insufficient for a "native" app - it's the
> > feel that's
On Feb 4, 2008 9:19 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> > Another toolkit you might look into is Tkinter. I think it is something
> > like the "official" toolkit for python. I also think it is an adapter
> > for other toolkits, so it will use gtk widgets on gnome, qt widgets on
> > kde and some
On Jan 31, 2008 1:16 PM, Shawn Milochik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> A better solution would surely be to get a Nokia S60 'phone, for which
> there is a native Python implementation.
>
> regards
> Steve
> --
> Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119
> Holden Web LLC h
On Jan 28, 2008 10:31 AM, John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Arnaud Delobelle wrote:
> > On Jan 27, 11:00 pm, "Russ P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> On Jan 27, 2:49 pm, "André" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>> Perhaps this:http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3107/mightbe
> >>> relevant?
> >>
On Jan 25, 2008 9:09 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:49:20 +0100, Christian Heimes wrote:
>
> > It's even
> > possible to write code with Python assembly and compile the Python
> > assembly into byte code.
>
> Really? How do you do that?
>
> I thought it migh
On Jan 25, 2008 5:17 PM, Paul Boddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 25 Jan, 22:06, "Lorenzo E. Danielsson"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > What you need then is something like SVGAlib (http;//svgalib.org). Only
> > really old people like myself know that it exists. I've never heard of
> > any
On Jan 24, 2008 9:14 AM, Bjoern Schliessmann
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tim Roberts wrote:
> > Bjoern Schliessmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> >> So, how do processors execute Python scripts? :)
> >
> > Is that a rhetorical question?
>
> A little bit.
>
> > Grant is quite correct; Python scripts (in
On Jan 18, 2008 12:53 PM, Nicholas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was quite delighted today, after extensive searches yielded nothing, to
> discover how to place an else condition in a list comprehension.
> Trivial mask example:
> >>> [True if i <5 else False for i in range(10)] # A
> [True,
On Jan 14, 2008 12:39 PM, aspineux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> This append in both case
>
> dict(a=1).get('a', f())
> dict(a=1).setdefault('a', f())
>
> This should be nice if f() was called only if required.
>
Think about the change to Python semantics that would be required for
this to be tru
On Jan 9, 2008 11:52 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:11:09 +0100, Frank Aune <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
>
> > The only clue I have so far, is that the cursor in task 1 seems to be unable
> > to "register" any new entri
On Jan 11, 2008 9:10 AM, George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jan 11, 8:59 am, Bruno Desthuilliers
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > George Sakkis a écrit :
> >
> >
> >
> > > On Jan 11, 4:12 am, Bruno Desthuilliers > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > >> George Sakkis a écrit :
> >
> > >>
On Jan 3, 2008 8:05 AM, Tim Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> But you can't alter the values for True/False globally with this.
> >
> > Are you sure ? what about the following example ?
> > Is this also shadowing ?
> >
> import __builtin__
> __builtin__.True = False
> __builtin__
On 03 Jan 2008 16:09:53 GMT, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > hi, i have some code where i set a bool type variable and if the value
> > is false i would like to return from the method with an error msg..
> > being a beginner I wd like some help here
> >
> > class myclas
On Jan 2, 2008 8:56 AM, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
> > Fredrik, if you're reading this, I'm curious what your reason is. I don't
> > have an opinion on whether you should or shouldn't treat files and
> > strings the same way. Over to you...
>
> as Diez shows
On Dec 31, 2007 2:08 PM, Odalrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 31 Dec, 18:22, Arnaud Delobelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Dec 31, 10:58 am, Odalrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > On 30 Dec, 17:26, George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > > On Dec 29, 9:14 pm, bukzor <[EMA
On Dec 28, 2007 6:41 AM, Ross Ridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ross Ridge writes:
> > As I said before, I know how futile it is to argue that Python should
> > change it's behaviour. I'm not going to waste my time telling you what
> > to do. If you really want to know how side-by-side installat
On Dec 24, 2007 5:23 PM, Ross Ridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Chris Mellon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >What the python installer is doing is the Right Thing for making the
> >standard python dll available to third party applications.
> >Applications that want
On Dec 23, 2007 12:27 PM, Markus Gritsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 23/12/2007, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Markus Gritsch wrote:
> > > why does the Python installer on Windows put the Python DLL into the
> > > Windows system32 folder? Wouldn't it be more clean to place it
On Dec 23, 2007 12:36 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am starting to experiment with ctypes. I have a function which returns a
> pointer to a struct allocated in heap memory. There is a corresponding free
> function for that sort of struct, e.g.:
>
> from ctypes import *
>
> cdll.Load
On Dec 21, 2007 3:25 PM, Carl K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ianaré wrote:
> > On Dec 21, 12:37 pm, Carl K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> How do I hang an app off the mac dashboard?
> >>
> >> The goal is a python version of Weatherbug.
> >>
> >> something like:
> >> read xml data from a URL,
> >>
On Dec 21, 2007 2:07 PM, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> John Nagle wrote:
>
> > I'd like to hear more about what kind of performance gain can be
> > obtained from "__slots__". I'm looking into ways of speeding up
> > HTML parsing via BeautifulSoup. If a significant speedup can be
On Dec 21, 2007 1:02 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Chris Mellon wrote:
> > Is there some reason that you think Python is incapable of
> > implementing lexers that do this, just because Python lexer accepts
> > it?
>
> Absolutely not. My opinion is
On Dec 21, 2007 9:11 AM, SMALLp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hy! I have error something like this
>
> TypeError: unbound method insert() must be called with insertData
> instance as first argument (got str instance instead)
>
> CODE:
>
> File1.py
> sql.insertData.insert("files", data)
>
> sql.py
>
On 20 Dec 2007 19:50:31 -0800, Aahz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On Dec 18, 4:49 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aahz) wrote:
> >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> >> Chri
On Dec 21, 2007 7:25 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> John Machin wrote:
> > Use a proper lexer written by somebody who knows what they are doing,
> > as has already been recommended to you.
>
> My lexer returns a MALFORMED_NUMBER token on '0x' or '0x '. Try that
> in Python.
>
Is there some
On Dec 20, 2007 3:19 PM, SMALLp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How can i select folder either with wx.FileDialog or with any other. I
> managed to fine only how to open files but I need to select folder to
> get files from all sub folders.
>
There's a separate dialog, wx.DirDialog.
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On Dec 20, 2007 9:41 AM, Mrown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I was wondering if there was a ping implementation written in
> Python. I'd rather using a Python module that implements ping in a
> platform/OS-independent way than rely on the underlying OS, especially
> as every OS has a differ
On Dec 19, 2007 4:05 PM, Gary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Chris Mellon writes:
> """It's interesting that the solutions "move away from the terrible
> abomination of a GUI toolkit" and "write Python wrappers that don't
> cau
On Dec 19, 2007 10:46 AM, Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Dec 19, 11:09 am, gDog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi, Sam-
> >
> > I'm not wanting to start a flame war, either, but may I ask why does
> > your friend want to do that? I'm always intrigued by the folks who
> > object to the indenta
On Dec 18, 2007 1:26 PM, jsanshef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> after a couple of days of script debugging, I kind of found that some
> assumptions I was doing about the memory complexity of my classes are
> not true. I decided to do a simple script to isolate the problem:
>
> class MyClass:
On Dec 18, 2007 11:59 AM, Clarence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anyone think (or know) that it might cause any internal problems
> if the ival member of the struct defining an intobject were to be
> changed from its current "long int" to just "int"?
>
> When you move your application to a 64-b
On Dec 17, 2007 11:48 AM, Steven Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all-
> I was reading http://dirtsimple.org/2004/12/python-is-not-java.html, in
> particular the part about "getters and setters are evil":
> "In Java, you have to use getters and setters because using public fields
> gives you
On Dec 14, 2007 4:43 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Dec 14, 11:06 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit :
>
> >
> > > Dear list,
> > > I'm writing very simple state machine library, like this:
> >
> > > _state = None
> >
> > > def set_state(state):
On Dec 14, 2007 2:09 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Dec 11, 10:34 pm, "Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > "Ron Provost" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> >
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > But here's my problem, most of my coworkers, when they see my apps and
> >
On Dec 14, 2007 10:52 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear list,
> I'm writing very simple state machine library, like this:
>
>
>
> _state = None
>
> def set_state(state):
> global _state
> _state = state
>
> def get_state():
> print _surface
>
>
>
> but I hate to use global variable
On Dec 14, 2007 10:54 AM, nirvana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I need to count the number of continous character occurances(more than
> 1) in a file, and replace it with a compressed version, like below
> XYZDEFAAcdAA --> XYZ8ADEF2Acd2A
>
This sounds like homework. Google for run length e
On Dec 14, 2007 2:07 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:43:18 +0100, Bruno Desthuilliers
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed the
> following in comp.lang.python:
>
> >
> > I still wait to see any clear, unambiguous definition of "scripting
> > language". Which one
On Dec 13, 2007 12:11 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> First, let me admit that the test is pretty dumb (someone else
> suggested it :) but since I am new to Python, I am using it to learn
> how to write efficient code.
>
> my $sum = 0;
> foreach (1..10) {
> my $str = chr(rand(128)) x 1024
On Dec 13, 2007 12:04 PM, Patrick Mullen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > > Kay Schluehr wrote:
> > > > > Python 2.6 and 3.0 have a more Pythonic way for the problem:
> > > > > class A(object):
> > > > > @property
> > > > > def foo(self):
> > > > > return self._foo
> > > > > @
On Dec 13, 2007 10:48 AM, Stephen_B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This doesn't seem to work in a dos terminal at the start of a script:
>
> from os import popen
> print popen('clear').read()
>
> Any idea why not? Thanks.
It opens "clear" with it's own virtual terminal and clears that
instead. Ther
On Dec 12, 2007 1:34 PM, John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Had a Python program stall, using no time, after running OK for four days.
> Python 2.4, Windows. Here's the location in Python where it's stalled.
> Any idea what it's waiting for?
>
> John Nagle
>
>
On Dec 12, 2007 12:53 PM, George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Dec 12, 1:12 pm, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Kay Schluehr wrote:
> > > class A(object):
> > > foo = property:
> > > def fget(self):
> > > return self._foo
> > > def fset(sel
On Dec 12, 2007 8:36 AM, sturlamolden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 12 Des, 12:56, George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Ah, the 'make' statement.. I liked (and still do) that PEP, I think it
> > would have an impact comparable to the decorator syntax sugar, if not
> > more.
>
> I think
On Dec 11, 2007 2:19 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:06:31 +, Neil Cerutti wrote:
>
> > When I use languages that supply do-while or do-until looping constructs
> > I rarely need them.
> ...
> > However, did you have an specific need for a do-while constr
On Dec 11, 2007 1:25 PM, John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> sturlamolden wrote:
> > On 10 Des, 23:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aahz) wrote:
> >
> >> "Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming."
> >> --C.A.R. Hoare (often misattributed to Knuth, who was himself quoting
> >> Hoare)
On Dec 11, 2007 8:51 AM, Bruno Desthuilliers
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Chris Mellon a écrit :
> (snip)
> > What's probably happening is that line_ptr < last_line is not true
>
> Indeed.
>
> > and the body of the function isn't executed at all. The u
On Dec 11, 2007 8:23 AM, J. Clifford Dyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The code you just posted doesn't compile successfully.
>
It *compiles* fine, but it'll raise an error when run.
> However, in your code, you probably have char_ptr defined at the module
> level, and you're confused because yo
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