Re: Python fails on math

2011-02-22 Thread David C. Ullrich
here. The math module? Python, or the IEEE specifications? -- -- David C. Ullrich -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: a splitting headache

2009-10-22 Thread David C . Ullrich
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:47:24 -0700 (PDT), Carl Banks pavlovevide...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 21, 12:46 pm, David C Ullrich dullr...@sprynet.com wrote: On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:22:55 -0700, Mensanator wrote: On Oct 20, 1:51 pm, David C Ullrich dullr...@sprynet.com wrote: I'm not saying either

Re: a splitting headache

2009-10-22 Thread David C . Ullrich
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:43:48 -0700 (PDT), Mensanator mensana...@aol.com wrote: On Oct 21, 2:46 pm, David C Ullrich dullr...@sprynet.com wrote: On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:22:55 -0700, Mensanator wrote: On Oct 20, 1:51 pm, David C Ullrich dullr...@sprynet.com wrote: On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:18:09

Re: a splitting headache

2009-10-22 Thread David C . Ullrich
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:43:48 -0700 (PDT), Mensanator mensana...@aol.com wrote: On Oct 21, 2:46 pm, David C Ullrich dullr...@sprynet.com wrote: On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:22:55 -0700, Mensanator wrote: On Oct 20, 1:51 pm, David C Ullrich dullr...@sprynet.com wrote: On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:18:09

Re: a splitting headache

2009-10-21 Thread David C Ullrich
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:22:55 -0700, Mensanator wrote: On Oct 20, 1:51 pm, David C Ullrich dullr...@sprynet.com wrote: On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:18:09 -0700, Mensanator wrote: All I wanted to do is split a binary number into two lists, a list of blocks of consecutive ones and another list

Re: list to tuple and vice versa

2009-10-20 Thread David C Ullrich
On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:33:17 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: Jabba Laci jabba.l...@gmail.com writes: Hi, I have some difficulties with list - tuple conversion: t = ('a', 'b') li = list(t) # tuple - list, works print li # ['a', 'b'] tu = tuple(li) # list - tuple, error print tu # what

Re: a splitting headache

2009-10-20 Thread David C Ullrich
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:18:09 -0700, Mensanator wrote: All I wanted to do is split a binary number into two lists, a list of blocks of consecutive ones and another list of blocks of consecutive zeroes. But no, you can't do that. c = '001110' c.split('0') ['', '', '1', '', '', '',

Re: for loop: range() result has too many items

2009-10-15 Thread David C . Ullrich
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:54:44 -0700 (PDT), Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 13, 10:39 pm, Steven D'Aprano ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au wrote: On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:17:58 -0500, Peng Yu wrote: Hi, The following code does not run because range() does not accept a big

Re: easy question, how to double a variable

2009-09-23 Thread David C Ullrich
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 02:34:53 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:50:23 -0500, David C Ullrich wrote: But you actually want to return twice the value. I don't see how to do that. What? Seriously? You're saying it _can_ be done in Python? They must have added something

Re: str.split() with empty separator

2009-09-17 Thread David C Ullrich
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:31:26 +0200, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: Hi! 'abc'.split('') gives me a ValueError: empty separator. However, ''.join(['a', 'b', 'c']) gives me 'abc'. Why this asymmetry? The docs say If sep is given, consecutive delimiters are not grouped together and are deemed to

Re: Q on explicitly calling file.close

2009-09-10 Thread David C . Ullrich
to worry about whether UseResource() failed _except_ in situations where you're certain that that's the right level to catch the error. MRAB wrote: You should've used raw strings. :-) rats!, you got me on that one :-) David C. Ullrich Understanding Godel isn't about following his formal proof

Re: Q on explicitly calling file.close

2009-09-09 Thread David C Ullrich
On Sat, 05 Sep 2009 23:41:08 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:14:02 +, kj wrote: Finally, I was under the impression that Python closed filehandles automatically when they were garbage-collected. [...] (3) For quick and dirty scripts, or programs that only use one

Video?

2009-09-03 Thread David C Ullrich
Not at all important, just for fun (at least for me): It seems to me, looking at various docs, that wxWidgets includes a media control that can play video files, but it's not included in wxPython. (There's something in wxPython with a promising name but it seems to be just audio.) Is that

Re: Permanently adding to the Python path in Ubuntu

2009-09-01 Thread David C. Ullrich
-- David C. Ullrich -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python for professsional Windows GUI apps?

2009-08-26 Thread David C Ullrich
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:22:20 -0700, sturlamolden wrote: On 25 Aug, 05:56, Peter Decker pydec...@gmail.com wrote: I use the Dabo Class Designer to visually design my forms. So what's you're point?  :) Nothing, except lobbying for wxFormBuilder for anyone who still doesn't know of it. :)

Re: Silly question

2009-08-21 Thread David C Ullrich
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:45:11 -0700, John Machin wrote: On Aug 21, 5:33 am, David C Ullrich dullr...@sprynet.com wrote: So I'm slow, fine. (There were several times when I was using 1.5.3 and wished they were there - transposing matrices, etc.) 1.5.THREE ?? Not sure. 1.SOMETHING. Sorry

Re: Silly question

2009-08-21 Thread David C Ullrich
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:51:00 -0700, Aahz wrote: In article mailman.143.1250793404.2854.python-l...@python.org, Benjamin Kaplan benjamin.kap...@case.edu wrote: On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 2:13 PM, David C Ullrichdullr...@sprynet.com wrot= e: I just noticed that sequence[i:j:k] Well, I got some

Re: Silly question

2009-08-21 Thread David C Ullrich
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:40:30 -0500, David C Ullrich wrote: On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:51:00 -0700, Aahz wrote: In article mailman.143.1250793404.2854.python-l...@python.org, Benjamin Kaplan benjamin.kap...@case.edu wrote: On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 2:13 PM, David C Ullrichdullr...@sprynet.com wrot

Re: Silly question

2009-08-21 Thread David C . Ullrich
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:45:55 -0500, David C Ullrich dullr...@sprynet.com wrote: [...] Oops. Should have tested that a little more carefully before posting. No time to fix it right now, customer just got here. Let's just say we're looking for the primes between sqrt(n) and n... from math import

Silly question

2009-08-20 Thread David C Ullrich
I just noticed that sequence[i:j:k] syntax in a post here. When did this happen? (I'm just curious whether it existed in 1.5.x or not. If so I'm stupid - otoh if it was introduced in 2.x I'm just slow...) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Silly question

2009-08-20 Thread David C Ullrich
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:41:34 +, Duncan Booth wrote: David C Ullrich dullr...@sprynet.com wrote: I just noticed that sequence[i:j:k] syntax in a post here. When did this happen? (I'm just curious whether it existed in 1.5.x or not. If so I'm stupid - otoh if it was introduced

Re: Silly question

2009-08-20 Thread David C Ullrich
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:36:35 -0400, Benjamin Kaplan wrote: On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 2:13 PM, David C Ullrichdullr...@sprynet.com wrote: I just noticed that  sequence[i:j:k] syntax in a post here. When did this happen? (I'm just curious whether it existed in 1.5.x or not. If so I'm stupid

Komodo(!)

2009-08-14 Thread David C Ullrich
Probably this isn't news to anyone but me, but just in case: Last I heard Komodo was a very highly regarded IDE that unfortunately cost money. Yesterday I discovered that they now have an editor available for free. Doesn't contain all the features of the IDE, but just having glanced at it it

Re: trouble with reload

2009-08-13 Thread David C Ullrich
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:05:26 -0700, Dr. Phillip M. Feldman wrote: According to the Python documentation, 'reload' reloads a previously imported module (so that changes made via an external editor will be effective). But, when I try to use this command, I get the following error message:

Re: Scraping Wikipedia with Python

2009-08-11 Thread David C Ullrich
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:29:40 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:    Wikipedia has an API for computer access.  See        http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API Yes, I am aware of this as well. Does anyone know of a python class for easily interacting with it, or do I need to roll my own. Try reading a

Re: how to use exec stmt to get input from user

2009-08-10 Thread David C Ullrich
What you're trying to do and what's not working isn't entirely clear to me. But if I had a wxPython application and I wanted to execute user input (note the _if_) I'd just pop up a window (I forget how ShowModal is spelled in wx right now) with a text box and an Execute button and a Cancel

Re: Measuring Fractal Dimension ?

2009-06-22 Thread David C . Ullrich
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 05:46:55 -0700 (PDT), pdpi pdpinhe...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 19, 8:13 pm, Charles Yeomans char...@declaresub.com wrote: On Jun 19, 2009, at 2:43 PM, David C. Ullrich wrote: Evidently my posts are appearing, since I see replies. I guess the question of why I don't

Re: Measuring Fractal Dimension ?

2009-06-22 Thread David C . Ullrich
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:31:26 -0400, Charles Yeomans char...@declaresub.com wrote: On Jun 22, 2009, at 8:46 AM, pdpi wrote: On Jun 19, 8:13 pm, Charles Yeomans char...@declaresub.com wrote: On Jun 19, 2009, at 2:43 PM, David C. Ullrich wrote: snick Hmm. You left out a bit in the first

Re: Measuring Fractal Dimension ?

2009-06-22 Thread David C . Ullrich
On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:40:36 -0700 (PDT), Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 19, 7:43 pm, David C. Ullrich ullr...@math.okstate.edu wrote: Evidently my posts are appearing, since I see replies. I guess the question of why I don't see the posts themselves \is ot here... Judging

Re: Measuring Fractal Dimension ?

2009-06-19 Thread David C . Ullrich
Evidently my posts are appearing, since I see replies. I guess the question of why I don't see the posts themselves \is ot here... On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:01:12 -0700 (PDT), Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 18, 7:26 pm, David C. Ullrich ullr...@math.okstate.edu wrote: On Wed, 17

Re: Measuring Fractal Dimension ?

2009-06-19 Thread David C . Ullrich
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:46:22 -0700 (PDT), Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 17, 1:26 pm, Jaime Fernandez del Rio jaime.f...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Mark Dickinsondicki...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe James is thinking of the standard theorem that says that

Re: Measuring Fractal Dimension ?

2009-06-18 Thread David C . Ullrich
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:50:28 +1200, Lawrence D'Oliveiro l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand wrote: In message 7x63ew3uo9@ruckus.brouhaha.com, wrote: Lawrence D'Oliveiro l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand writes: I don't think any countable set, even a countably-infinite set, can have a

Re: Measuring Fractal Dimension ?

2009-06-18 Thread David C . Ullrich
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:50:28 +1200, Lawrence D'Oliveiro l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand wrote: In message 7x63ew3uo9@ruckus.brouhaha.com, wrote: Lawrence D'Oliveiro l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand writes: I don't think any countable set, even a countably-infinite set, can have a

Re: Measuring Fractal Dimension ?

2009-06-18 Thread David C . Ullrich
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:50:28 +1200, Lawrence D'Oliveiro l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand wrote: In message 7x63ew3uo9@ruckus.brouhaha.com, wrote: Lawrence D'Oliveiro l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand writes: I don't think any countable set, even a countably-infinite set, can have a

Re: Measuring Fractal Dimension ?

2009-06-18 Thread David C . Ullrich
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:35:35 +0200, Jaime Fernandez del Rio jaime.f...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 4:50 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveirol...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand wrote: In message 7x63ew3uo9@ruckus.brouhaha.com,  wrote: Lawrence D'Oliveiro l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand

Re: Measuring Fractal Dimension ?

2009-06-18 Thread David C . Ullrich
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:37:32 -0400, Charles Yeomans char...@declaresub.com wrote: On Jun 17, 2009, at 2:04 AM, Paul Rubin wrote: Jaime Fernandez del Rio jaime.f...@gmail.com writes: I am pretty sure that a continuous sequence of curves that converges to a continuous curve, will do so

Re: Measuring Fractal Dimension ?

2009-06-18 Thread David C . Ullrich
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:18:52 -0700 (PDT), Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 17, 3:46 pm, Paul Rubin http://phr...@nospam.invalid wrote: Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com writes: It looks as though you're treating (a portion of?) the Koch curve as the graph of a function f from

Re: Measuring Fractal Dimension ?

2009-06-16 Thread David C . Ullrich
On 15 Jun 2009 04:55:03 GMT, Steven D'Aprano ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au wrote: On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:29:04 -0700, Kay Schluehr wrote: On 14 Jun., 16:00, Steven D'Aprano st...@removethis.cybersource.com.au wrote: Incorrect. Koch's snowflake, for example, has a fractal dimension

Re: SoHo Book Problem

2009-04-08 Thread David C. Ullrich
see it... DU. In article dullrich-5ea218.10405607042...@text.giganews.com, David C. Ullrich dullr...@sprynet.com wrote: Just curious - has anyone else bought the printed Python 3 Reference Manual published by SoHo Books? Talking about what they call Part 2 of their Python Documentation. I

SoHo Book Problem

2009-04-07 Thread David C. Ullrich
even _glanced_ at what was coming out of the press. So I'm curious whether anyone else has a copy. (I know it's all online. Some people like _books_...) DU. -- David C. Ullrich -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Introducing Python to others

2009-04-02 Thread David C. Ullrich
In article mailman.3007.1238515574.11746.python-l...@python.org, andrew cooke and...@acooke.org wrote: David C. Ullrich wrote: In article tm6dnzxrviq0qfbunz2dnuvz_rmdn...@pdx.net, Scott David Daniels scott.dani...@acm.org wrote: [...] class Vector(list): def __add__

Re: Introducing Python to others

2009-03-31 Thread David C. Ullrich
In article 039360fb-a29c-4f43-b6e0-ba97fb598...@z23g2000prd.googlegroups.com, Mensanator mensana...@aol.com wrote: On Mar 26, 11:42 am, andrew cooke and...@acooke.org wrote: David C. Ullrich wrote: In article mailman.2701.1238060157.11746.python-l...@python.org,  Paddy O'Loughlin

Re: Introducing Python to others

2009-03-31 Thread David C. Ullrich
Daniels scott.dani...@acm.org -- David C. Ullrich -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Introducing Python to others

2009-03-26 Thread David C. Ullrich
used), or something else? Any other suggestions for a possible wow reaction from an audience like that? Thanks, Paddy -- David C. Ullrich -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: newbie question

2008-12-02 Thread David C. Ullrich
to the right thing. Thanks ! -- David C. Ullrich -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: etymology of list comprehension?

2008-11-11 Thread David C. Ullrich
the in N is implicit in prime. Anyway, list comprehensions in programming languages got their name because of their resemblance to set-builder notation that invoked the axiom of comprehension. -- David C. Ullrich -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: default value in __init__

2008-10-21 Thread David C. Ullrich
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul McGuire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 14, 1:36 pm, David C. Ullrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] In particular default parameters should work the way the user expects! The fact that different users will expect different things here is no excuse

Re: default value in __init__

2008-10-16 Thread David C. Ullrich
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bruno Desthuilliers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David C. Ullrich a écrit : In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bruno Desthuilliers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David C. Ullrich a écrit : (snip) Seems to me that people often site the important warning

Re: default value in __init__

2008-10-14 Thread David C. Ullrich
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bruno Desthuilliers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David C. Ullrich a écrit : In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], kenneth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 9, 10:14 am, Christian Heimes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: kenneth wrote: the 'd' variable already contains

Re: Question

2008-10-14 Thread David C. Ullrich
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Aditi Meher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello How to write code to store data into buffer using python? buffer = data Please reply. -- David C. Ullrich -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: default value in __init__

2008-10-09 Thread David C. Ullrich
really explain this aspect of the language's behavior to people who don't read the formal definition and also don't work through the tutorial. Paolo -- David C. Ullrich -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: max(), sum(), next()

2008-09-09 Thread David C. Ullrich
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David C. Ullrich: I didn't mention what's below because it doesn't seem likely that saying max([]) = -infinity and min([]) = +infinity is going to make the OP happy... Well, it sounds cute having Neginfinite and Infinite as built

Re: max(), sum(), next()

2008-09-09 Thread David C. Ullrich
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steven D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:22:22 -0500, David C. Ullrich wrote about why max and min shouldn't accept a default argument: Think about all the previously elected female or black presidents of the US. Which one

Re: max(), sum(), next()

2008-09-05 Thread David C. Ullrich
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ken Starks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David C. Ullrich wrote: I don't see why you feel the two should act the same. At least in mathematics, the sum of the elements of the empty set _is_ 0, while the maximum element of the empty set is undefined

Re: max(), sum(), next()

2008-09-05 Thread David C. Ullrich
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David C. Ullrich: At least in mathematics, the sum of the elements of the empty set _is_ 0, while the maximum element of the empty set is undefined. What do you think about my idea of adding that 'default' argument to the max

Re: Function decorators

2008-09-04 Thread David C. Ullrich
, Aigars- [Image] -- David C. Ullrich -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: max(), sum(), next()

2008-09-04 Thread David C. Ullrich
, and the current implementation is very good, if not the best. Best, Laszlo -- David C. Ullrich -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: max(), sum(), next()

2008-09-04 Thread David C. Ullrich
. A possible alternative is to add a default to max(), like the next() built-in of Python 2.6: max((fun(x) for x in iterable if predicate(x)), default=smallvalue) This returns smallvalue if there are no items to compute the max of. Bye, bearophile -- David C. Ullrich -- http

Re: wxPython beginners problem

2008-08-16 Thread David C. Ullrich
python 2.5.2. if that matters. Please, any help, constructive advice and ideas are very much appreciated. Best regards Ivan Reborin -- David C. Ullrich -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Inquisitive computing

2008-08-13 Thread David C. Ullrich
follow his complaint about not feeling at home with the interactive mode, but it's funny to read about how he uses Lisp but realizes he's not going to talk people into that...) Bye, bearophile -- David C. Ullrich -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: You advice please

2008-08-13 Thread David C. Ullrich
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/User:Luigi.scarso#Luatex_examples -- David C. Ullrich -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to best explain a subtle difference between Python and Perl ?

2008-08-12 Thread David C. Ullrich
and Perl ? Thanks in advance, P4|1ndr0m -- David C. Ullrich -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Psycho question

2008-08-11 Thread David C. Ullrich
it... (I wonder how much work it would be to make something like Psyco that only accepts a small subset of the language.) Bye, bearophile -- David C. Ullrich -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Psycho question

2008-08-08 Thread David C. Ullrich
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Delaney, Timothy (Tim) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David C. Ullrich wrote: f: 0.0158488750458 g: 0.000610113143921 h: 0.00200295448303 f: 0.0184948444366 g: 0.000257015228271 h: 0.00116610527039 I suspect you're hitting the point of diminishing

Re: Psycho question

2008-08-07 Thread David C. Ullrich
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Erik Max Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David C. Ullrich wrote: Thanks. I would have guessed that I'd want low-level style code; that's the sort of thing I have in mind. In fact the only thing that seems likely to come up right now is looping through

Re: Psycho question

2008-08-07 Thread David C. Ullrich
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], MRAB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 6, 8:52 pm, David C. Ullrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David C. Ullrich: Thanks. If I can get it installed and it works as advertised this means I can

Re: Psycho question

2008-08-06 Thread David C. Ullrich
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Erik Max Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David C. Ullrich wrote: Just heard about Psycho. I've often wondered why someone doesn't make something that does exactly what Psycho does - keen. Silly question: It's correct, is it not, that Psycho doesn't

Re: Psycho question

2008-08-06 Thread David C. Ullrich
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David C. Ullrich: Thanks. If I can get it installed and it works as advertised this means I can finally (eventually) finish the process of dumping MS Windows: the only reason I need it right now is for the small number of Delphi

Re: Psycho question

2008-08-06 Thread David C. Ullrich
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], David C. Ullrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David C. Ullrich: Thanks. If I can get it installed and it works as advertised this means I can finally (eventually) finish the process of dumping MS

Re: PIL (etc etc etc) on OS X

2008-08-05 Thread David C. Ullrich
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kevin Walzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David C. Ullrich wrote: Just as well that the message sent earlier today seems to have been lost... Ok. Read your instructions on libjpeg. Read some of the install.doc. ./configure, fine. make, fine. make test

Re: PIL (etc etc etc) on OS X

2008-08-05 Thread David C. Ullrich
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Irmen de Jong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David C. Ullrich wrote: Just as well that the message sent earlier today seems to have been lost... Ok. Read your instructions on libjpeg. Read some of the install.doc. ./configure, fine. make, fine. make test

Re: PIL (etc etc etc) on OS X

2008-08-05 Thread David C. Ullrich
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], David C. Ullrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Irmen de Jong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David C. Ullrich wrote: Decided to try to install PIL on my Mac (OS X.5). I know nothing about installing programs on Linux, nothing

Re: proposal, change self. to .

2008-08-05 Thread David C. Ullrich
- -- David C. Ullrich -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Psycho question

2008-08-05 Thread David C. Ullrich
is absolutely unaffected)? Thanks, -- David C. Ullrich -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PIL (etc etc etc) on OS X

2008-08-04 Thread David C. Ullrich
Thanks for the hand-holding. DU. In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kevin Walzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [more about installing libjpeg...] -- David C. Ullrich -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PIL (etc etc etc) on OS X

2008-08-04 Thread David C. Ullrich
like it didn't install any such file. Maybe jpeg should be the name of one of those files that did get installed? This _is_ fun. Eech. DU. -- David C. Ullrich -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PIL (etc etc etc) on OS X

2008-08-02 Thread David C. Ullrich
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Irmen de Jong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David C. Ullrich wrote: Decided to try to install PIL on my Mac (OS X.5). I know nothing about installing programs on Linux, nothing about building C programs, nothing about installing libraries, nothing about fink

Re: PIL (etc etc etc) on OS X

2008-08-02 Thread David C. Ullrich
to a hard drive... that wasn't the only thing I learned that day. (Probably won't get back to this til Monday, btw, in case you say something and I don't seem interested.) DU. In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kevin Walzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David C. Ullrich wrote: Decided to try

PIL (etc etc etc) on OS X

2008-08-01 Thread David C. Ullrich
(self.mode, d, a, self.decoderconfig) File PIL/Image.py, line 375, in _getdecoder raise IOError(decoder %s not available % decoder_name) IOError: decoder jpeg not available 1 items had failures: 1 of 57 in selftest.testimage ***Test Failed*** 1 failures. *** 1 tests of 57 failed. -- David C

Re: mapping a string to an instancemethod

2008-08-01 Thread David C. Ullrich
() f.dispatch_as_string('hello1', 'world') Many TIA and apologies if this is a FAQ, I googled and couldn't find the answer. -- David C. Ullrich -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: multiple inheritance and __getattr__

2008-07-29 Thread David C. Ullrich
': return 2 return super(B, self).__getattr__(name) class C(A, B): pass -- David C. Ullrich -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: multiple inheritance and __getattr__

2008-07-28 Thread David C. Ullrich
(self, name) except AttributeError: return B.__getattr__(self, name) c=C() c.a A.__getattr__ 1 c.b A.__getattr__ B.__getattr__ 1 A better solution is welcome. Many thanks, Enrico -- David C. Ullrich -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: repr(string)

2008-07-25 Thread David C. Ullrich
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], MRAB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 23, 4:04 pm, David C. Ullrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been saving data in a file with one line per field. Now some of the fields may become multi-line strings... I was about to start escaping and unescaping

Re: repr(string)

2008-07-24 Thread David C. Ullrich
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David C. Ullrich wrote: I've been saving data in a file with one line per field. Now some of the fields may become multi-line strings... I was about to start escaping and unescaping linefeeds by hand, when I

Re: repr(string)

2008-07-24 Thread David C. Ullrich
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David C. Ullrich skrev: just keep in mind that using eval() on untrusted data isn't a very good idea. Right. This data comes from me, gets put into a file and then read by me. Someone _could_ corrupt that file

Re: repr(string)

2008-07-24 Thread David C. Ullrich
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Otten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David C. Ullrich wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David C. Ullrich wrote: I've been saving data in a file with one line per field. Now some of the fields may become

repr(string)

2008-07-23 Thread David C. Ullrich
not to contain line breaks? -- David C. Ullrich -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: wxPython code giving strange errors.

2008-07-18 Thread David C. Ullrich
it in a wxPython-based shell - it worked fine. Try running it from the command line and I'll bet you won't get that error. Also, there's a great wxPython user's group you can join from the official website: www.wxpython.org Mike -- David C. Ullrich -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Weird lambda rebinding/reassignment without me doing it

2008-07-11 Thread David C. Ullrich
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Terry Reedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David C. Ullrich wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], ssecorp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am never redefining the or reassigning the list when using validate but since it spits the modified list back out

Re: Weird lambda rebinding/reassignment without me doing it

2008-07-11 Thread David C. Ullrich
(a) you're saying return None, which explains the rest of it. You noticed that the second line of l = mod(k,4) l didn't print anything? That's because the first line set l to None. If you'd typed print l instead of just l you would have seen l = mod(k,4) l None -- David C. Ullrich -- http

Re: Weird lambda rebinding/reassignment without me doing it

2008-07-10 Thread David C. Ullrich
, 262.0, 234.0, 74.0, 325.0]) g = lambda x:val(x) l=[] for x in range(1,10): g(l) 183.0 33.0 315.0 244.0 308.0 168.0 146.0 378.0 297.0 -- David C. Ullrich -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: inconsistency?

2008-07-09 Thread David C. Ullrich
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Terry Reedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David C. Ullrich wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Terry Reedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a reason for the inconsistency? I would have thought in would check for elements of a sequence, regardless of what

Re: inconsistency?

2008-07-08 Thread David C. Ullrich
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben Finney wrote: David C. Ullrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 'ab' in 'abc' True [1,2] in [1,2,3] False URL:http://www.python.org/doc/ref/comparisons.html Is there a reason for the inconsistency? Probably

Re: inconsistency?

2008-07-08 Thread David C. Ullrich
],[2,3]] Thanks. I understand how it works for lists and why - I was wondering why it's not the same for strings. David C. Ullrich wrote: Luckily I tried it before saying no, that's not how in works: 'ab' in 'abc' True [1,2] in [1,2,3] False Is there a reason

Re: inconsistency?

2008-07-08 Thread David C. Ullrich
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Terry Reedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David C. Ullrich wrote: 'ab' in 'abc' True 'a' in 'abc' works according to the standard meaning of o in collection. 'ab' in 'abc' could not work by that standard meaning because strings, as virtual sequences, only

Re: caseless dict - questions

2008-07-07 Thread David C. Ullrich
? Do you want to see {'name':'new value'} or {'name':'new value', 'Name': 'newvalue'}? TIA, Senthil -- David C. Ullrich -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to make a function associated with a class?

2008-07-07 Thread David C. Ullrich
argument? -- David C. Ullrich -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

inconsistency?

2008-07-07 Thread David C. Ullrich
Luckily I tried it before saying no, that's not how in works: 'ab' in 'abc' True [1,2] in [1,2,3] False Is there a reason for the inconsistency? I would have thought in would check for elements of a sequence, regardless of what sort of sequence it was... -- David C. Ullrich -- http

Re: ask for a RE pattern to match TABLE in html

2008-07-01 Thread David C. Ullrich
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jonathan Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 27, 10:32 am, David C. Ullrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (ii) The regexes in languages like Python and Perl include features that are not part of the formal CS notion of regular expression. Do they include

Re: ask for a RE pattern to match TABLE in html

2008-06-30 Thread David C. Ullrich
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 27, 1:32 pm, David C. Ullrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jonathan Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 26, 3:22 pm, MRAB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try something like

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