[issue24049] Remove unused code in symtable.c and fix docs for import * checking

New submission from Nick Craig-Wood: Here is a patch to remove some unused code in `symtable.c` In Python3 `from x import *` was banned from use in functions completely. This is detected by `symtable_visit_alias` if (st-st_cur-ste_type != ModuleBlock) { int lineno = st

[issue5131] pprint doesn't know how to print a defaultdict

Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com added the comment: Terry J. Reedy (terry.reedy) wrote: IMHO pprint should be able to make a decent job of all the built in types Agreed, already true as far as I know, and irrelevant. This issue is not about built-in types in the builtins module

[issue5131] pprint doesn't know how to print a defaultdict

Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com added the comment: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger) wrote: Ben, I don't think there is any value is opening more issues like pprint-doesn't-handle-object-x (named tuples, defautdicts, deques, generators, etc). As it is currently designed, pprint doesn't

[issue9510] sqlite3.Warning isnt a subclass of exceptions.Warning

Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com added the comment: I think the fact that sqlite may not be using the warnings properly is independent of this problem. Warnings should be filterable, but if sqlite isn't notifying them properly - that would be a different bug. BTW I came across

[issue9510] sqlite3.Warning isnt a subclass of exceptions.Warning

Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com added the comment: Reading PEP 0249 I can see Gerhard is correct, this patch would violate the PEP. I think that the PEP is slightly flawed in that users are encouraged to raise exceptions called Warning. IMHO a Warning is never an exceptional condition

[issue9510] sqlite3.Warning isnt a subclass of exceptions.Warning

New submission from Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com: sqlite3.Warning isnt a subclass of exceptions.Warning This causes this problem when trying to filter warnings import sqlite3 as DB from warnings import filterwarnings filterwarnings(always, category=DB.Warning) Traceback (most recent

[issue9510] sqlite3.Warning isnt a subclass of exceptions.Warning

Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com added the comment: I've attached a patch to fix the issue along with a revised test. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9510

[issue9510] sqlite3.Warning isnt a subclass of exceptions.Warning

Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com added the comment: I re-worked the patch for python 3.x (py3k branch) - the other was for 2.x (trunk) Basically the same patch and fixes the issue according to my testing -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file18386/sqlite3-warning-fix-py3k.patch

[issue8264] hasattr doensn't show private (double underscore) attributes exist

New submission from Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com: I just spend a while tracking down a bug in my code which turned out to be an unexpected behaviour of hasattr. Running this class Test(object): def __init__(self): self.__private = Hello def test(self): print

Re: ANN: GMPY 1.11rc1 is available

- it is an excellent bit of software! -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Looking for a pure Python chart drawing module

reportlab... It can plot charts I think, though last time I used it I plotted stuff by hand as I wanted exact control over the layout. I'm not sure of the dependencies though so may not be suitable for your purposes. http://www.reportlab.org/rl_toolkit.html -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com

Re: including constants

of settings with that name. This has the advantage that you can check everything in. -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: VT100 in Python

VT100 emulator, but I couldn't find it in a brief search just now. You'll find various others (like this one) if you search some more http://svn.python.org/projects/python/branches/string_methods/Demo/cwilib/vt100.py -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick

Re: CPU usage while reading a named pipe

%r:%r % (len(line), line) if __name__ == __main__: import sys main(sys.argv[1]) -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Application-global switches?

config import config if config.debug: # blah This has the advantage that you can define some methods on your config object (eg save). I don't know whether this is best practice but it works for me! -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http

Re: How to create ones own lib

/ functions in hotte.py then use them like import hotte hotte.MyClass() hotte.my_function() See here for the relevant bit of the tutorial http://docs.python.org/tutorial/modules.html -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org

Re: Semaphore Techniques

(most recent call last): File stdin, line 20, in module File stdin, line 16, in lock_process Exception: Too many instances of me running You could do the same thing with lock files also very easily... -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http

Re: Does python have the capability for driver development ?

can write FUSE (file systems in userspace) drivers in python I believe. Not the same as running in ring0 but in most senses a kernel driver... -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: bad certificate error

? Invalid how? Self signed certificate? Domain mismatch? Expired certificate? -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: bad certificate error

a correctly set up self-signed certificate is fine for dev stuff. I'm certainly too cheap to by real certificates for dev or internal stuff! -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ANN: Shed Skin 0.2, an experimental (restricted) Python-to-C++ compiler

possible boards using a combination of back tracking and a genetic algorithm. -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: extract c/cpp include file with regular expression

but instead of producing an object file, it produces a machine readable xml file describing the source. It is used by h2xml.py / xml2py.py to make ctypes header file automatically. -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: sqlite3 performance problems only in python

, so if that is the problem you could use NAME like '%cis20r%' -- not quite the same, but close! and NAME_ like 'fatigue' instead which might be quicker. Or not ;-) -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Pep 342 (val = yield MyGenerator(foo)), synchronous os.system() that doesn't block gui event loops

, in particular http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/DeferredGenerator -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Looking for os.listdir() generator

-- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ANN: Shed Skin 0.2, an experimental (restricted) Python-to-C++ compiler

if it takes me an hour each cycle ;-) The program is about 700 lines of python (excluding comments). Thanks Nick -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ctype performance benchmark

return p.d_name def close(self): Close the directory if self.handle is not NULL: closedir(self.handle) self.handle = NULL def __dealloc__(self): self.close() -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick

Re: using timers to force an execution time

(): for repeat in range(10): print time.time() time.sleep(0.66) if __name__ == __main__: try: time_out(3, test) except TimeOut: print timed out -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python

Re: This is a mess...

[2] print e.dot(f) Which prints [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10] 2 330.0 -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Catching control-C

cleanup() raise except Exception: continue That is the backwards compatible way -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Code that ought to run fast, but can't due to Python limitations.

is not an acceptable answer.) You could compile it with Cython though. lxml took this route... -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: how to spawn a process under different user

, pass ['su', '-', 'username', '-c', 'mycommand my_arg1 my_arg2'] There is some opportunity for quoting problems there, but it is easy! -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: A superclass using a child classes' methods

error messages when tracking down problems. A lot of people (like me) will enjoy the puzzle of looking through your code and finding out where it went wrong. -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Best way to enumerate classes in a module

to use dir() for that purpose. It's not likely to change. Good advice... And as a double check import sys set(sys.__dict__.keys()) == set(dir(sys)) True import os set(os.__dict__.keys()) == set(dir(os)) True -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http

Re: C-extension 2 times slower than exe

what it means I don't know! 2) time ff time used = 2.19 real0m3.170s user0m2.088s sys 0m0.168s -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ctypes list library

works on Windows too IIRC. -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Convert hash to struct

idea after all. Indeed! -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: UDP queue size

/ routers can bear if you send lots of small messages. Switches / routers will start dumping packets if you do that since. Some switches just crash in my experience too ;-) -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Packing a ctypes struct containing bitfields.

f.bar Which prints sizeof(foo) = 6 0 123456789012345 -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: UDP queue size

whether the above works on windows! -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: waling a directory with very many files

Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com wrote: Jean-Paul Calderone exar...@divmod.com wrote: On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:29:33 -0500, Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com wrote: Hrvoje Niksic hnik...@xemacs.org wrote: Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com writes: Here is a ctypes

Re: waling a directory with very many files

if name not in (., ..): yield name closedir(dir_p) if __name__ == __main__: for name in listdir(.): print name -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: waling a directory with very many files

Hrvoje Niksic hnik...@xemacs.org wrote: Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com writes: Here is a ctypes generator listdir for unix-like OSes. ctypes code scares me with its duplication of the contents of system headers. I understand its use as a proof of concept, or for hacks one needs

Re: waling a directory with very many files

Jean-Paul Calderone exar...@divmod.com wrote: On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:29:33 -0500, Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com wrote: Hrvoje Niksic hnik...@xemacs.org wrote: Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com writes: Here is a ctypes generator listdir for unix-like OSes. ctypes code

Re: Lexical scope: converting Perl to Python

examples. -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Perl's @foo[3,7,1,-1] ?

having individual purposes are usually a sign that you should be using a different data structure. -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: unladen swallow: python and llvm

Stefan Behnel stefan...@behnel.de wrote: Nick Craig-Wood wrote: Luis M González wrote: I am very excited by this project (as well as by pypy) and I read all their plan, which looks quite practical and impressive. But I must confess that I can't understand why LLVM is so great

Re: setting program name, like $0= in perl?

1000 5551 3420 0.1 sausage -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: unladen swallow: python and llvm

to do with the v8 strategy, because unladen swallow will be a virtual machine, while v8 compiles everything to machine code on the first run. But I still wonder what this mean and how this is different. -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http

Re: Error in linalg.inv ??

numpy doesn't notice. Double checking like this a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i=range(1,10) a*e*i - a*f*h - b*d*i + b*f*g + c*d*h - c*e*g 0 So I guess it is a bug that numpy didn't throw numpy.linalg.linalg.LinAlgError(Singular matrix) Like it does normally -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http

Re: openhook

Gaudha sanal.vik...@gmail.com wrote: Can anybody tell me what is meant by 'openhook' ? http://docs.python.org/library/fileinput.html?highlight=openhook Maybe ;-) -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: can it be shorter?

understand what it does, unlike the regexp solution which requires a little bit of thought. -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What text editor is everyone using for Python

Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Emile van Sebille em...@fenx.com writes: On 6/4/2009 3:19 PM Lawrence D'Oliveiro said... In message slrnh2g9ei.2ea.n...@irishsea.home.craig-wood.com, Nick Craig- Wood wrote: You quit emacs with Ctrl-X Ctrl-C. That's save-buffers

Re: unladen swallow: python and llvm

concerned is that it is more of a port of CPython to a new architecture than a complete re-invention of python (like PyPy / IronPython / jython) so stands a chance of being merged back into CPython. -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: easiest way to plot x,y graphically during run-time?

: pygame.draw.circle(screen, foreground_colour, dot, radius, 1) dots = [ (dot[0]+randrange(-1,2), dot[1]+randrange(-1,2)) for dot in dots ] pygame.display.flip() if __name__ == __main__: main() -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http

Re: Get the hard disk hardware serial number

According to the man page smartctl also runs under windows/mac/solaris etc -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What text editor is everyone using for Python

messed up, clicking on the error will put the cursor in the right place in the code). -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Using C++ and ctypes together: a vast conspiracy? ;)

into the territory you describe. That said I've used C++ with ctypes loads of times, but I always wrap the exported stuff in extern C { } blocks. -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Ah, ctypes

that function types don't have enough references to them when passed in as arguments to C functions? It might slow it down microscopically but it would fix this problem. -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Ah, ctypes

David Bolen db3l@gmail.com wrote: Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com writes: ctypes could potentially note that function types don't have enough references to them when passed in as arguments to C functions? It might slow it down microscopically but it would fix this problem

Re: Adding a Par construct to Python?

! $ jython2.5rc2/jython pmap.py map 6.242000103 pmap 5.8881144 -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to Spawn a process with P_NOWAIT and pass it some data ?

assume = is the process handle integer ?) Errr, not as far as I know. -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Need advice on distributing small module

Is more pythonic... You aren't relying on what came with particular python versions which may not be true in jython/ironpython/etc. -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Options for creating a statistics screen on a Mac with Python?

work, but you'll get something really cool at the end of it! here is how to use matplotlib on a pygame surface http://www.pygame.org/wiki/MatplotlibPygame -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: itertools question

yield out g = Grouper(5, xrange(20)) print list(g) g = Grouper(4, xrange(19)) print list(g) Which produces [(0, 1, 2, 3, 4), (5, 6, 7, 8, 9), (10, 11, 12, 13, 14), (15, 16, 17, 18, 19)] [(0, 1, 2, 3), (4, 5, 6, 7), (8, 9, 10, 11), (12, 13, 14, 15), (16, 17, 18)] -- Nick Craig-Wood n

Re: issue with twisted and reactor. Can't stop reactor

something immediately after it is started, use reactor.callLater() before calling reactor.run(). You can't mix and match programming styles with twisted - it is all asynchronous callbacks or nothing in my experience! That takes a bit of getting your head round at first. -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig

Re: Learning C++ for Python Development

++ implements the shims for the callbacks from python - C++ (which are exported by ctypes). P.S. I want to develop on Linux not Windows. Should be just the same on both. Once you've made your setup.py (for extending python) the build process will work on all supported architectures. -- Nick Craig-Wood n

Re: Q's on my first python script

sys.exit(1) sys.stdout.write(%s%s % (args[0], weekday)) if not options.nonl: print if __name__ == __main__: Main() -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: how GNU stow is complementary rather than alternative to distutils

got that well formed directory structure it is very easy to make it into a package (eg deb or rpm) so that idea is useful in general for package managers, not just stow. -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Wrapping comments

of the RETURN key. Emacs is my editor of choice, and I've never once come across anything like this. You probably haven't used MAC OS X then! I vnc to a mac and use emacs and I just can't type a #. Ctrl-Q 43 Return is my best effort! -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig

Re: OOP Abstract Classes

= RealDevice(/dev/ttyS1) real RealDevice('/dev/ttyS1') real.getMeasurement() 0 real.setPressure(14) real.getMeasurement() 14 -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Problems with datetime.datetime.strptime

. If I couldn't fix it then I'd report it as a bug. -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: unicode bit me

no attribute '__unicode__' unicode(str(L),utf-8) u'[\xa9au]' -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ANN: Python process utility (psutil) 0.1.2 released

useful also! You could do this by replacing your current __init__.py (which just contains from _psutil import *) with _psutil.py -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How should I use grep from python?

181 2007-10-18 14:01 - drwxr-xr-x 2 ncw ncw 4096 2007-08-29 22:56 10_files -rw-r--r-- 1 ncw ncw 124713 2007-08-29 22:56 10.html [snip] p.wait() # returns the error code 0 There was talk of removing the other methods from public use for 3.x. Not sure of the conclusion. -- Nick Craig

Re: object query assigned variable name?

the locals in those stack frames. That will give some kind of answer. I have no idea whether this will work - the keyboard of my phone is too small to produce a proof ;-) -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: bug with os.rename in 2.4.1?

Steven D'Aprano ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au wrote: On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:30:02 -0500, Nick Craig-Wood wrote: t123 tom.lu...@gmail.com wrote: It's running on solaris 9. Here is some of the code. It's actually at the beginning of the job. The files are ftp'd over

Re: wxPython menu creation refactoring

it anyway! You create the submenu as a seperate menu then attach it to the menuBar with the label. Note there is a wxpython list also which you may get more help in! -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: bug with os.rename in 2.4.1?

thorough import errno try: os.rename(paths.xferin_dir+'/COMM.DAT',paths.xferin_dir+'/COMM.DAT'+'.0') except OSError, e: if e.errno != errno.ENOENT: raise The traceback should show the exact problem though. -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http

Re: pyflakes, pylint, pychecker - and other tools

to the correct line of code. -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Large data arrays?

time either. -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Memory footpring of python objects

(several hundred thousand instances!). When doing these optimisations I ran a repeatable script and measured the total memory usage using the OS tools (top in my case). -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Large data arrays?

Ole Streicher ole-usenet-s...@gmx.net wrote: Hi Nick, Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com writes: mmaps come out of your applications memory space, so out of that 3 GB limit. You don't need that much RAM of course but it does use up address space. Hmm. So I have no chance to use

Re: A Special Thanks

) the code you can be 100% sure that you didn't break anything which is a wonderful feeling. -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to create a virtual serial port?

Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: HTML Generation

://packages.debian.org/sid/python-htmlgen But I think its original website is gone. -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Best way to extract from regex in if statement

): Return all the matched () items. return self.value.groups() -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: interacting with an updatedb generated data file within python

seconds on my laptop, using about 19 MB total memory You could easily enough put that into an sqlite table instead of a set(). -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: A design problem I met again and again.

of abstraction in your program will rise. I've noticed some programmers think in big classes and some think in small classes. Train yourself to do the other thing and your programming will improve greatly! -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http

Re: double/float precision question

/#why-are-floating-point-calculations-so-inaccurate If you want more precision use the built in decimal module or the third party gmpy module. -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

[issue5131] pprint doesn't know how to print a set or a defaultdict

Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com added the comment: Oops, my bad, I assumed the patch would by for py3k! I applied it to trunk and tested it. It works very well - thank you for fixing that :-) -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http

Re: Ordered Sets

class actually takes less memory 38 Mbytes vs 53 Mbytes for the list. -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

[issue5131] pprint doesn't know how to print a set or a defaultdict

Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com added the comment: I couldn't actually get this patch to apply to the py3k branch :-( $ patch -p0 --dry-run issue_5131.patch patching file Misc/NEWS Hunk #1 FAILED at 2598. 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file Misc/NEWS.rej patching file Misc

Re: Programming Python 4th Edition?

doesn't change very quickly and emphasises backwards compatibility, even for the jump to 3.x. -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Code anntotations (copyright, autor, etc) in your code

by anything, but I'd be interested to be proved wrong! I tend to use __author__ = Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com __version__ = $Revision: 5034 $ __date__ = $Date: 2009-02-03 16:50:01 + (Tue, 03 Feb 2009) $ __copyright__ = Copyright (c) 2008 Nick Craig-Wood With __version__ and __date__ being

Re: C extension using GSL

rc(x) 3 py x = () py rc(x) 954 # the empty tuple is shared That reminds me, you can use the gc module to show all your objects that are in use, which can help with memory leaks. eg something like http://code.activestate.com/recipes/457665/ -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com

Re: How to port Python to an ARM running NucleusPlus OS

in the cross compiling environment and see what happens! However if you are running Nucleus with Linux and want to run python in the Linux bit of it then I'd suggest to use the packages available for the Linux side of it. (Eg if it is running debian then apt-get install python). -- Nick Craig

Re: Interfacing python and C

, then write it in cython instead! Should you be putting a function body in a header file? No -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: New Python Runtime / Unladen Swallow

. They plan to fold their work back into CPython when done too. Sounds like a project to keep an eye on! Now the question is will this make Vista run faster? Nothing could do that ;-) -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: C extension using GSL

works suprisingly often. -- Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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