How to inspect a variable (sys.modules) for changes in the execution of a program?

2011-02-15 Thread Jorge Vargas
Hello, I have the following situation. In a big project that involves many dependencies (and sadly some sys.module hacks) we have a bug, and it will really help if i could monitor all changes made to that variable. Is there a way to trace those changes ? --

How to get path.py ? http://www.jorendorff.com/ is down

2009-05-21 Thread Jorge Vargas
Hello. Anyone knows what is the problem with this package? apparently the author's site is down which prevents pip from installing it. I can download the zip and go from there but It seems most of the docs are gone with the site. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to get path.py ? http://www.jorendorff.com/ is down

2009-05-21 Thread Jorge Vargas
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Jorge Vargas jorge.var...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. Anyone knows what is the problem with this package? apparently the author's site is down which prevents pip from installing it. I can download the zip and go from there but It seems most of the docs are gone

Re: config files in python

2008-05-06 Thread Jorge Vargas
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 2:00 AM, sandipm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: here I would like to have python file which read conf from text file and load those params in current process space. so only importing that python file should read up the conf file and load the current process with

Re: config files in python

2008-05-06 Thread Jorge Vargas
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 4:33 AM, M.-A. Lemburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-05-06 01:16, Matimus wrote: On May 4, 11:35 pm, sandipm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, In my application, I have some configurable information which is used by different processes. currently I have stored

is there a python equivalent for this tool?

2008-04-25 Thread Jorge Vargas
Dear python users, do you know of a tool like this that is written in python? http://code.google.com/p/css-redundancy-checker/ in case you where wondering I just don't want to have the ruby dependency on my python proyects. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Why prefer != over for Python 3.0?

2008-04-01 Thread Jorge Vargas
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 6:03 AM, Gabriel Genellina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: En Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:17:39 -0300, Terry Reedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Bjoern Schliessmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | However, I'm quite sure that when Unicode has

Re: Returning values from function to Python shell/IPython

2008-03-09 Thread Jorge Vargas
On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Karlo Lozovina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! I have a runTest() function inside my module, which sets up and initializes lots of objects and performs some basic tests on them. Usually (from IPython) I just write `run my_module.py`, and then `runTest()`.

Re: Returning values from function to Python shell/IPython

2008-03-09 Thread Jorge Vargas
On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Karlo Lozovina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jorge Vargas wrote: well after all it's a function so the only ways you can get things out of it are: - return a dict with all the objects - use global (very messy) - use a decorator to do either of the above

Re: is this data structure build-in or I'll have to write my own class?

2008-02-27 Thread Jorge Vargas
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 12:07 PM, thebjorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 20, 3:32 pm, Jorge Vargas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 20, 2008 8:15 AM, Larry Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jorge Vargas wrote: I need a data structure that will let me do: - attribute access

Re: is this data structure build-in or I'll have to write my own class?

2008-02-27 Thread Jorge Vargas
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Carl Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 20, 8:12 am, Jorge Vargas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need a data structure that will let me do: - attribute access (or index) - maintain the order (for iter and print) - be mutable. in case

Re: is this data structure build-in or I'll have to write my own class?

2008-02-27 Thread Jorge Vargas
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 2:52 AM, Robert Bossy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mkPyVS wrote: This isn't so optimal but I think accomplishes what you desire to some extent... I *think* there is some hidden gem in inheriting from dict or an mapping type that is cleaner than what I've shown below

Re: Logging to HTTP or File

2008-02-27 Thread Jorge Vargas
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 4:16 AM, Robert Rawlins - Think Blue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Chaps, I'm after some advice on the best way to handle a logging job. Essentially I have data which I'm looking to log to a webservice, it would make good sense I think to use something like the

Re: library

2008-02-27 Thread Jorge Vargas
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Raj kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, how to open python api documetation in linux machine? $ python import module help(module|object|whatever) i think there should be a way to open installed library as a HTML pages. pydoc -p some port Thanks in advance.

pprint, __repr__ and inheritance, how does it works?

2008-02-25 Thread Jorge Vargas
Hello list, I'm having a little bit of trouble making this all work together. I have a base class in which I want to define the __repr__ for all subclasses which in this case will be to output all the __dict__ atributes. Using [1] as reference I have come up with the following but it has 2

is this data structure build-in or I'll have to write my own class?

2008-02-20 Thread Jorge Vargas
I need a data structure that will let me do: - attribute access (or index) - maintain the order (for iter and print) - be mutable. in case there isn't one. I was thinking having a base class like Bunch http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/52308 and on top of that keeping a

Re: is this data structure build-in or I'll have to write my own class?

2008-02-20 Thread Jorge Vargas
2008/2/20 Jarek Zgoda [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jorge Vargas napisał(a): - attribute access (or index) - maintain the order (for iter and print) - be mutable. These are all attributes of standard Python lists. probably I confused you with the or index part. I want to be able to do item.value1

Re: is this data structure build-in or I'll have to write my own class?

2008-02-20 Thread Jorge Vargas
] wrote: I think you should go for 'dictionary' that is a built-in data structure of Python. regards, Subeen http://love-python.blogspot.com/ On Feb 20, 7:32 pm, Jorge Vargas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/2/20 Jarek Zgoda [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jorge Vargas napisa³(a): - attribute access

Re: is this data structure build-in or I'll have to write my own class?

2008-02-20 Thread Jorge Vargas
On Feb 20, 2008 8:15 AM, Larry Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jorge Vargas wrote: I need a data structure that will let me do: - attribute access (or index) - maintain the order (for iter and print) - be mutable. in case there isn't one. I was thinking having a base class like Bunch

Re: How to uninstall packages

2007-07-01 Thread Jorge Vargas
On 7/1/07, Rustom Mody [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah sure thats what is (finally) working but its never clear upfront for a package what its dependency needs are -- linux version of DLL hell. And it gets worse for systems that are little worlds in themselves like python, ruby, eclipse, webmin

ctypes failing when a library needs another library

2007-04-09 Thread Jorge Vargas
Hi I'm having an issue with ctypes loading libraries. I got the following setup. I have a library (coded by me) that calls a external library (installed with the package manager), and my ctypes program calls my lib. at first python couldn't find my lib but setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. fix that,

BDFL in wikipedia

2007-02-21 Thread Jorge Vargas
Hi I just hit this page in wikipedia BDFL[1] and it redirected me to Guido's wikipedia[2] entry now without causing any troubles (read flamewar) shouldn't a) that page have an explanation of what BDFL is b) shouldn't it mention Linus, Larry Wall, others?[3] c) for the ones that have been around

Re: BDFL in wikipedia

2007-02-21 Thread Jorge Vargas
On 2/21/07, Andrew McNamara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I just hit this page in wikipedia BDFL[1] and it redirected me to Guido's wikipedia[2] entry now without causing any troubles (read flamewar) shouldn't a) that page have an explanation of what BDFL is b) shouldn't it mention Linus,

Re: BDFL in wikipedia

2007-02-21 Thread Jorge Vargas
On 2/21/07, Toby A Inkster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jorge Vargas wrote: shouldn't it mention Linus, Larry Wall, others?[3] Despite the link you posted, I don't think Linus, Larry Wall, Rasmus Lerdorf, etc describe themselves as BDFLs, even if they fulfil similar roles within

Re: BDFL in wikipedia

2007-02-21 Thread Jorge Vargas
On 2/21/07, Gabriel Genellina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: En Wed, 21 Feb 2007 05:28:30 -0300, Andrew McNamara [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Hi I just hit this page in wikipedia BDFL[1] and it redirected me to Guido's wikipedia[2] entry [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BDFL I suspect, in

Re: CherryPy/Turbogears on server not controlled by me

2007-02-21 Thread Jorge Vargas
On 2/20/07, Brian Blais [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I was wondering if there is a way to run CherryPy/Turbogears on a server that I don't have root access to. I have never run ANY webapp as root. you should follow that advice. in fact don't run any server as root. If I just choose a

Re: PDF rendering toolkit?

2007-01-08 Thread Jorge Vargas
On 1/6/07, Diez B. Roggisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for a tool to take an actual .pdf file and display it in a window (I'm using wxwidgets at the moment) No idea if there is a one-shot-kills-them-all solution out there - but if you have a way to go for windows, you might

Re: PDF rendering toolkit?

2007-01-08 Thread Jorge Vargas
On 1/8/07, Chris Mellon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/5/07, Jorge Vargas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm looking for a tool to take an actual .pdf file and display it in a window (I'm using wxwidgets at the moment) I have found several project but none seem to do what I need. http

PDF rendering toolkit?

2007-01-05 Thread Jorge Vargas
Hi I'm looking for a tool to take an actual .pdf file and display it in a window (I'm using wxwidgets at the moment) I have found several project but none seem to do what I need. http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfplayground seems like a nice toolkit to edit pdf files with python code, but

Re: MySQLdb windows binaries for Python 2.5?? Yes, but from a World of Warcraft guild.

2007-01-05 Thread Jorge Vargas
On 14 Dec 2006 16:59:15 -0800, Fuzzyman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: johnf wrote: If you search the Help Forum of the MySQLdb project on SourceForge, you will find a couple of people who have successfully built MySQLdb on Windows for 2.5, and are willing to share their installers.

Re: MySQLdb windows binaries for Python 2.5?? Yes, but from a World of Warcraft guild.

2007-01-05 Thread Jorge Vargas
On 1/5/07, Chris Mellon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess this is your opportunity, as someone who thinks that MySQL support for Python is important, to assist in maintaining and updating those wrappers, right? believe me I have tried and in this particular case it's very complicated the main

Re: (newbie) Is there a way to prevent name redundancy in OOP ?

2007-01-05 Thread Jorge Vargas
On 1/5/07, Stef Mientki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if I undestand correctly this is what you want class pin3: ... def __init__(self,name): ... self.Name = name ... def __str__(self): ... return self.Name ... pin3() Traceback (most recent call last): File stdin,

Re: logging

2006-11-13 Thread Jorge Vargas
On 12 Nov 2006 23:50:40 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all ! How to remove a logger ? There si no logging.removeLogger(name) method. I've a lot of objects that create loging. why you need a logger per object? IMO 1 per package is more then enough. When objects are

Re: how is python not the same as java?

2006-11-13 Thread Jorge Vargas
ok then they are the same lets all go back to write java -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: how is python not the same as java?

2006-11-10 Thread Jorge Vargas
On 9 Nov 2006 18:09:37 -0800, John Machin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jorge Vargas wrote: On 9 Nov 2006 16:44:40 -0800, gavino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: both are interpreted oo langauges.. that is not correct java is compiled and the VM interprets the code ... and what do you think

Re: how is python not the same as java?

2006-11-09 Thread Jorge Vargas
On 9 Nov 2006 16:44:40 -0800, gavino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: both are interpreted oo langauges.. that is not correct java is compiled and the VM interprets the code from the programmers point of view java is a compiled languaje. python is dynamic typed java is static python allows

Re: Python memory usage

2006-11-07 Thread Jorge Vargas
On 7 Nov 2006 21:42:31 -0800, placid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Just wondering when i run the following code; for i in range(100): print i the problem of that is that all the memory is used by the list returned by range which wont be freed until the for loop exits try this

Re: Learning Python

2006-11-06 Thread Jorge Vargas
On 6 Nov 2006 01:33:36 -0800, ArdPy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: kaushal wrote: Hi How do i start Learning Python,is there any reference material which I can refer since I dont have any programming experience Thanks and Regards Kaushal Hi kaushal, Look into

Re: how to write code into a blog post?

2006-11-05 Thread Jorge Vargas
On 4 Nov 2006 14:40:19 -0800, thebjorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jorge Vargas wrote: Hi I know many people here blog so sorry for the OT. Currently I have a wordpress install and went I wanted to post some code I notice how painfull it is. Indeed :-) I'm using the iG:Syntax Hiliter over

Re: WSDL?

2006-11-04 Thread Jorge Vargas
On 11/3/06, tobiah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is WSDL the right answer for in house communication between programs written in different languages, or is it more for publishing interfaces for use by parties outside your own company? at work we use webservices (which is a better name) a lot for

[OT] how to write code into a blog post?

2006-11-04 Thread Jorge Vargas
Hi I know many people here blog so sorry for the OT. Currently I have a wordpress install and went I wanted to post some code I notice how painfull it is. I'm still in shock that programmers forgot about posting code on their own engine, but oohh well they are php :D anyway I'll like to know

Re: Forum written in Python?

2006-11-04 Thread Jorge Vargas
On 11/2/06, Karlo Lozovina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any forum or bulletin board systems written entirely in Python? I got sick of PhpBB, mostly because I can't tweak and fiddle with the code, since I really don't like PHP and don't know it that well. I thought of writting my own

Re: WSDL?

2006-11-04 Thread Jorge Vargas
On 11/4/06, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jorge Vargas wrote: and please please don't go to corba we need to kill that. Have you real reasons or is this a religious thing? As I see it Corba is much better supported by Python libs than SOAP is. I

Re: WSDL?

2006-11-04 Thread Jorge Vargas
On 11/4/06, Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jorge Vargas wrote: On 11/4/06, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jorge Vargas wrote: and please please don't go to corba we need to kill that. Have you real reasons or is this a religious thing

implementation of in that returns the object.

2006-10-22 Thread Jorge Vargas
Hi I need to check if an object is in a list AND keep a reference to the object I have done it this way but is there a better one? def inplusplus(value,listObj): ... for i in listObj: ... if i is value: ... return value ... return False ... l = [1,2,3,4]

Re: Dive Into Java?

2006-10-08 Thread Jorge Vargas
Sun's Java tutorial, and went your confortable with it. Thinking in Java Bruce Eckel On 8 Oct 2006 15:30:15 -0700, erikcw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DiveIntoPython.org was the first book I read on python, and I really got a lot out of it. I need to start learning Java (to maintain a project

Re: Pros/Cons of Turbogears/Rails?

2006-08-31 Thread Jorge Vargas
On 31 Aug 2006 08:24:29 -0700, Adam Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jaroslaw Zabiello wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: + SqlObject allows working with the DB tables without using SQL itself. Rails has ActiveRecord ORM, which IMO has nicer and simpler syntax than SQLObject. Rails

Re: SQLObject or SQLAlchemy?

2006-08-31 Thread Jorge Vargas
On 8/31/06, John Salerno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any major differences between these two? It seems they can both be used with TurboGears, and SQLAlchemy with Django. I'm just wondering what everyone's preference is, and why, and if there are even more choices for ORM. they use two

Re: Pros/Cons of Turbogears/Rails?

2006-08-31 Thread Jorge Vargas
On 8/31/06, BJörn Lindqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/31/06, Jorge Vargas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 31 Aug 2006 08:24:29 -0700, Adam Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe that is the most important part of TG, taking the best of the best, and letting the framework adapt

Re: Truly platform-independent DB access in Python?

2006-08-30 Thread Jorge Vargas
On 28 Aug 2006 00:01:06 -0700, bobrik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am using the Python DB API for access to MySQL. But it is not platform-independent - I need a module not included in Python by default - python-mysql, and it uses a compiled binary _mysql.so. So it is not

Re: Max OSX and Excel

2006-08-29 Thread Jorge Vargas
On 28 Aug 2006 15:50:57 -0700, John Machin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jorge Vargas wrote: On 8/28/06, Johanna Pfalz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To be more specific, I'm interested in reading in certain rows and columns from an excel spreadsheet directly without converting the information

Re: how to varify if a URL is valid in python?

2006-08-28 Thread Jorge Vargas
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-urllib.html On 28 Aug 2006 14:38:13 -0700, fegge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what module should i import? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Coding style and else statements

2006-08-28 Thread Jorge Vargas
On 8/28/06, tobiah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: def foo(thing): if thing: return thing + 1 else: return -1 def foo(thing): if thing: return thing + 1 return -1 Obviously both do the same thing. The first is

Re: Python web service ...

2006-08-28 Thread Jorge Vargas
On 26 Aug 2006 04:07:35 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I have accomplished to make a python program that make some image manipulation to bmp files. I now want to provide this program as a web service. A user can visit a site and through a web interface he should

Re: Max OSX and Excel

2006-08-28 Thread Jorge Vargas
On 8/28/06, Johanna Pfalz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, Does anyone have details on how to drive excel using python 2.4 on OSX? I've searched the web and have not found anything specific to excel. drive? Thanks in advance, Johanna Pfalz Smithers, BC --

Re: class problem

2006-08-28 Thread Jorge Vargas
On 8/28/06, Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Duncan Booth wrote: Yes, the first one is a syntax error because you aren't allowed empty parentheses in a class statement however, $ python Python 2.5c1 /.../ class foo(): ... pass ... foo class __main__.foo at 0x00A3D840

Re: class problem

2006-08-28 Thread Jorge Vargas
On 8/28/06, Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jorge Vargas wrote: seems like a feature/bug of 2.5, why your learning a language with a beta version? learning? I'm sorry I though you where the original poster. (btw, the c in 2.5c1 means *release candidate*, not beta). I

Re: Max OSX and Excel

2006-08-28 Thread Jorge Vargas
on it :) On 8/28/06 3:00 PM, Jorge Vargas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/28/06, Johanna Pfalz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, Does anyone have details on how to drive excel using python 2.4 on OSX? I've searched the web and have not found anything specific to excel. drive

Re: How ahead are you guys in the (Python) real world?

2006-08-28 Thread Jorge Vargas
On 28 Aug 2006 20:13:54 -0700, Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since I haven't used Python at work, I am using Python 2.5 right now. However I wonder, how fast are you guys moving from version to version at work? As an illustration my ex-company just moved to Java 5, which was released around...

Re: Pros/Cons of Turbogears/Rails?

2006-08-28 Thread Jorge Vargas
On 8/27/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First, I don't intend this to be a flame war, please. Python and Ruby are the only two languages I'd willingly work in (at least amongst common languages), and TurboGears and Rails seem roughly equivalent. I'm much more knowledgable

how to solve TypeError: list objects are unhashable?

2006-07-28 Thread Jorge Vargas
Hello listI'm not a newbie on python but I'm not an expert either and just found out that code like this gives the above exception. self.db={} self.db[foo]=[1,2] self.db [bar]=[2,3]I now undestand why this is giving me a problem and I think i'm using the wrong approachfirst of all I'm trying to

module docstring, documentation, anything? please note is the module type/object NOT some module

2006-06-23 Thread Jorge Vargas
Hi everyone I have wasted 2 hours trying to figure out how to get a reference to the module object. that is the one returned by __import__ or when you call a module for name like import sys sys module 'sys' (built-in)the reason I want this is that I want to introspec my module so I need some way

Re: module docstring, documentation, anything? please note is the module type/object NOT some module

2006-06-23 Thread Jorge Vargas
On 6/23/06, Jorge Vargas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone I have wasted 2 hours trying to figure out how to get a reference to the module object. that is the one returned by __import__ or when you call a module for name like import sys sys module 'sys' (built-in)the reason I want

Re: help with Linker dependencies missing went compiling mysql-python on Windows without VisualStudio

2006-05-10 Thread Jorge Vargas
noone here has try this??On 5/8/06, Jorge Vargas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone I'm stuck at doing this and can't find the problem, maybe someone with more experience then I compiling python can help me out. I google around and found some old articles, from them the one that seems more

help with Linker dependencies missing went compiling mysql-python on Windows without VisualStudio

2006-05-08 Thread Jorge Vargas
Hi everyone I'm stuck at doing this and can't find the problem, maybe someone with more experience then I compiling python can help me out. I google around and found some old articles, from them the one that seems more accurate is http://www.vrplumber.com/programming/mstoolkit/of couse I had to