[issue36730] Change outdated references to macOS

2019-04-25 Thread Sebastian Bassi
New submission from Sebastian Bassi : There are multiple occurences in the web page of "Mac OS X", like "Download the latest version for Mac OS X". This OS is called macOS since some years. It may be confusing for a new user. -- assignee: docs@python compo

[issue34671] Remove references to Benevolent Dictator

2018-09-13 Thread Sebastian Bassi
New submission from Sebastian Bassi : Following the trend initiated at https://bugs.python.org/issue34605, I want to point out that the term dictator has a negative connotation in Argentina and other countries where we suffered bloody dictatorship (3 dead and missing persons

Python for Bioinformatics: New book announcement

2017-07-30 Thread Sebastian Bassi
I am glad to announce the second edition of Python for Bioinformatics. In today's data driven biology, programming knowledge is essential in turning ideas into testable hypothesis. Based on my extensive experience, Python for Bioinformatics, Second Edition helps biologists get to grips with the

Issue 1 of PET: English Translation a Python magazine is out!

2010-09-12 Thread Sebastian Bassi
-- Forwarded message -- From: Roberto Alsina rals...@netmanagers.com.ar Date: Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:00 AM Subject: [pyar] Issue 1 of PET: English Translation a Python magazine is out! To: python-announce-l...@python.org, Python Argentina p...@python.org.ar This magazine is a

Re: biopython

2010-06-14 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:02 AM, madhuri vio madhuri@gmail.com wrote: TypeError: Need a file handle, not a string (i.e. not a filename) This says that the error is that you are using a filename where you should be using a filehandle. So this line: for seq_record in

Re: Free chapter about Python and databases (MySQL and SQLite)

2010-05-28 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Tino Wildenhain t...@wildenhain.de wrote: Did you consider adding a part dealing with postgresql too? (Especially interesting in the way you can write stored functions in python there) That is a good idea for the next version/edition. But meanwhile I could

Re: ElementTree write creates large one line XML file ....

2010-05-27 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Robert Kern robert.k...@gmail.com wrote: ElementTree writes exactly what you tell it to. In XML, whitespace is significant. If you want newlines and/or indentation to make it pretty-looking, then you need to add those to your elements. This is not always true.

Free chapter about Python and databases (MySQL and SQLite)

2010-05-27 Thread Sebastian Bassi
Hello, I want to announce that the publisher of Python for Bioinformatis (CRC Press) allowed me to publish a chapter from my book. I decided to publish the chapter about Python and databases. I think it may be useful for somebody. The official announcement and download link is here:

Re: Free chapter about Python and databases (MySQL and SQLite)

2010-05-27 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 12:37 AM, John Bokma j...@castleamber.com wrote: I feel more than uncomfortable with example code that uses: user=root What's wrong with this? It is just an example of connection string. The reader will use his/her user/pass/dbname according to their own settings. (e.g.

Re: MySQLdb - weird formatting inconsistency

2010-04-24 Thread Sebastian Bassi
Hi, Could you post a minimal version of the DB (a DB dump) to test it? Just remove most information and leave on the ones needed to reproduce the error. Also remove any personal/confidential information. Then dump the DB so I can test it here. Best, SB. --

Re: Converting Python CGI to WSGI scripts

2010-03-16 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 2:18 PM, pyt...@bdurham.com wrote: I have a few dozen simple Python CGI scripts. Are there any advantages or disadvantages to rewriting these CGI scripts as WSGI scripts? It depends of the script. WSGI should be faster since you don't start a Python instance for each

parametrizing a sqlite query

2010-02-24 Thread Sebastian Bassi
c.execute(SELECT bin FROM bins WHERE qtl LIKE '%:keys%',{'keys':keywords}) This query returns empty. When it is executed, keywords = 'harvest'. To check it, I do it on the command line and it works as expected: sqlite SELECT bin FROM bins WHERE qtl LIKE '%harvest%'; 11C 11D 12F I guess there is

Re: parametrizing a sqlite query

2010-02-24 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wlfr...@ix.netcom.com wrote:        No there isn't... The problem is that you need to put the wildcards into the parameter instead of the placeholder. Thank you, it works now. Best, SB -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Manipulating MySQL Sets

2009-12-13 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Victor Subervi victorsube...@gmail.com wrote: Who said I was expecting a string? I don't know what I'm expecting! I need to be able to parse this thing, whatever it is. You say it's a Python Set object. How do I parse it? Googling has been disappointing. You

Re: Manipulating MySQL Sets

2009-12-13 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Carsten Haese carsten.ha...@gmail.com wrote: from sets import Set aSet = Set(['Small', 'Extra-small', 'Medium']) You don't need to import Set since it is built in now: a=set([1,2,2,3,4,5]) a set([1, 2, 3, 4, 5]) (I have Python 2.6.2 but I think that this is

Re: Python for Bioinformatics available and in stock

2009-10-20 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 5:43 AM, Bearophile bearophileh...@lycos.com wrote: A more pythonic code is: ... Note the use of xrange and names_with_underscores. In Python names are usually lower case and their parts are separated by underscores. Regarding underscore (and code notation in general) I

Re: [ANN] Python for Bioinformatics available and in stock

2009-10-20 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 5:53 AM, Piter_ x.pi...@gmail.com wrote: Great. I've been waiting it. Any place in Europe to get it? Go here: http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781584889298 And then look at the bottom of the page and choose your country, I know they have offices in London. P.S.

[ANN] Python for Bioinformatics available and in stock

2009-10-18 Thread Sebastian Bassi
I announced that Python for Bioinformatics was ready, now I want to announce that is available and in stock in most book sellers. Worldwide, use Amazon. In Argentina, it is more convenient buying it from me at MercadoLibre:

Re: Python or ActionScript 3.0

2009-08-15 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Douglas Alandarkwate...@gmail.com wrote: Python doesn't run in your typical web browser, but it is common to use Python for doing the server-side programming, along with a Python- based web development framework, such as Django. You could use Jython to make a

ANN: Python for Bioinformatics book

2009-08-06 Thread Sebastian Bassi
Python for Bioinformatics ISBN 1584889292 Amazon: http://www.tinyurl.com/biopython Publisher: http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781584889298 This book introduces programming concepts to life science researchers, bioinformaticians, support staff, students, and everyone who is interested in

Re: ANN: Python for Bioinformatics book

2009-08-06 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Bearophilebearophileh...@lycos.com wrote: The book looks interesting, but that doesn't look like a good way to show/offer the code. I suggest to also put it into a zip that can be downloaded. Code is also in a directory in the DVD and also inside the virtual

Re: Does Python have certificate?

2009-03-23 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Muddy Coder cosmo_gene...@yahoo.com wrote: I wonder that does Python have certificate? You see, java, .NET, PHP, and so on, they have certificates for developers to get. Python is quite popular nowadays, I wonder is there such a thing? If so, I certainly want

Re: Problem trying to install ReportLab with easy_install

2009-02-22 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Garrett Cooper yaneg...@gmail.com wrote: It's not building lib_renderPM_libart properly, or it's a typo that supposed to be librenderPM_libart, or bad LDFLAGS... More details need to be provided like an ls of your site-packages directory and a partial

Problem trying to install ReportLab with easy_install

2009-02-21 Thread Sebastian Bassi
I don't understand what is wrong when I try to install ReportLab. This is under Ubuntu and all build packages are installed. Here is what I get when trying to install it: (I could install it with apt-get, but I am testing virtualenv and easy_install).

Re: How to store passwords?

2009-01-07 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Oltmans rolf.oltm...@gmail.com wrote: I'm writing a program in which I will ask users to enter user name and password once only. It's a console based program that will run on In general you don't store the password, but a hash of it. Then when the user logs-in,

Re: How to find the beginning of last line of a big text file ?

2009-01-01 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Barak, Ron ron.ba...@lsi.com wrote: I have a very big text file: I need to find the place where the last line begins (namely, the offset of the one-before-the-last '\n' + 1). Could you suggest a way to do that without getting all the file into memory (as I said,

Re: IDLE home page?

2008-10-22 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 3:49 AM, Terry Reedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Depending on the answer you get here, you might send the same observation and question to [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK, I've just sent it. Thank you. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Commercial Products in Python

2008-10-21 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Paulo J. Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just wondering, if you wish to commercialize an application developed in Python, what's the way to go? You choose the conditions. Nothing in Python license prevents you of selling your work. I guess the only way is

IDLE home page?

2008-10-21 Thread Sebastian Bassi
If I put IDLE in the search box at python.org, the first hit is: http://www.python.org/idle/ But this page is a directory without any index file: Index of /idle Icon NameLast modified Size Description[DIR] Parent Directory - [ ] Makefile

Re: python for *nix system admins

2008-09-27 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Eric Wertman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been growing a library of my own functions, that use the names of unix commands. They are just conveniences, of course, but I'd suggest the same for sysadmins, it's handy. Can you share it? Best, SB. --

Re: Making small executive file for distribution

2008-09-24 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Marin Brkic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I know py2exe is the only option which can do such a thing (make exe files from scripts). Is there a way to make those exe files a little smaller (for a small script they easily go up to 5-10 mb). An alternative

biopython

2008-09-09 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On 9/9/08, Beema Shafreen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using Biopython to fetch pumed Id's ,The module i use is (from Bio import Entrez) But i am getting this error from Bio import Entrez Traceback (most recent call last): File stdin, line 1, in ? ImportError: cannot import name Entrez

Re: Web site for comparing languages syntax

2008-02-26 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On 2/26/08, Andreas Tawn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe http://www.rosettacode.org ? That's a wiki. YES!!!. Thank you!! -- Sebastián Bassi (セバスティアン). Diplomado en Ciencia y Tecnología. Curso Biologia molecular para programadores: http://tinyurl.com/2vv8w6 GPG Fingerprint: 9470 0980 620D ABFC

Web site for comparing languages syntax

2008-02-25 Thread Sebastian Bassi
Hello, I know there is one site with wikimedia software installed, that is made for comparing the syntax of several computer languages (Python included). But don't remember the URL. Anyone knows this site? -- Sebastián Bassi (セバスティアン). Diplomado en Ciencia y Tecnología. Curso Biologia molecular

ANN: A Primer on Python for Life Science Researchers

2007-11-30 Thread Sebastian Bassi
I'm happy to report the release of a PLOS paper: A Primer on Python for Life Science Researchers. It is a six page education paper introducing Python. If you have a friend that is a researchers in a biological area and you think that he may need to know Python, please send him this e-mail: URL:

Re: Convert string to command..

2007-10-18 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On 10/18/07, Adam Atlas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use the builtin function eval. What is the difference with os.system()? -- Sebastián Bassi (セバスティアン). Diplomado en Ciencia y Tecnología. Curso Biologia molecular para programadores: http://tinyurl.com/2vv8w6 GPG Fingerprint: 9470 0980 620D ABFC

Re: Saving parameters between Python applications?

2007-09-17 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On 9/17/07, Stodge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good idea, but I can't guarantee that the two scripts will be run from the same directory - so where to store the pickle? It doesn't matter if is the same directory or not, as long as both programs has access to the pickle file (one program should

Re: Saving parameters between Python applications?

2007-09-16 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On 9/16/07, Stodge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: python app1.py --location=c:\test1 What I want to do is save the location parameter, so I can then do (in the same window): python app2.py And have app2.py automatically have access to the value of location. Do app1.py to save a pickle of the value

Generating HTML

2007-09-11 Thread Sebastian Bassi
Hello, What are people using these days to generate HTML? I still use HTMLgen, but I want to know if there are new options. I don't want/need a web-framework a la Zope, just want to produce valid HTML from Python. Best, SB. -- Sebastián Bassi (セバスティアン). Diplomado en Ciencia y Tecnología. Curso

Re: Biased random?

2007-08-27 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On 8/27/07, J. Cliff Dyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Play with your log to get the range you want Here you can get true random numbers (not pseudorandom, they claim to use a quatum generaton (?)) by fetching them from: http://random.irb.hr/ They give you a python class t insert into your code,

Re: Python on Computation, Math and Statistics

2007-08-19 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On 8/19/07, W. Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Google? What's that? Thanks. I like to get a insider's view when I know experts are out there. So now I ask a deeper question. Are there matrix computation libraries or even statistical (regression, factor analysis) libraries? If you are so

Combinatorial of elements in Python?

2007-08-15 Thread Sebastian Bassi
I have 2 (or more) groups of elements, and I want to get all possible unique combinations from all of them. Is there a build-in method to do it? ADictionary={one:[A,B,C,D],two:[H,I]} I want to have all possible combinations from one and two, that is: AH BI CH DI AI BH CI DH Sounds easy, but is

Re: Combinatorial of elements in Python?

2007-08-15 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On 8/15/07, Wildemar Wildenburger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh but it is: ADictionary={one:[A,B,C,D],two:[H,I]} result = set() for one in ADictionary[one]: ... for two in ADictionary[two]: ... result.add(one + two) That was easy :) What about extending it for N elements inside

Re: Combinatorial of elements in Python?

2007-08-15 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On 8/15/07, Mikael Olofsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is unclear here is in what order the keys should be visited. The following assumes that the keys should be considered in alphanumeric order. Yes, my fault. The orden should be given by a string, like: DCDBA Using this dictionay.

Re: CSV without first line?

2007-07-15 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On 7/15/07, John Machin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So you imagine that there is an undocumented feature? No, I just think that is documented but I am not able to understand it. Reading the list I've learned several things that are not directly inferred from documentation (that is not the same as

CSV without first line?

2007-07-14 Thread Sebastian Bassi
Hi, In my CSV file, the first line has the name of the variables. So the data I want to parse resides from line 2 up to the end. Here is what I do: import csv lines=csv.reader(open(MYFILE)) lines.next() #this is just to avoid the first line for line in lines: DATA PARSING This works fine.

Re: Can a low-level programmer learn OOP?

2007-07-14 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On 7/13/07, Simon Hibbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: place. At the end of it you'll have a good idea how OOP works, and how Python works. Learning OOp this way is easy and painless, and what you ... But this tutorial states I assume you know how object-oriented programming works -- Sebastián

expat parser

2007-05-27 Thread Sebastian Bassi
I have this code: import xml.parsers.expat def start_element(name, attrs): print 'Start element:', name, attrs def end_element(name): print 'End element:', name def char_data(data): print 'Character data:', repr(data) p = xml.parsers.expat.ParserCreate() p.StartElementHandler =

Removing NS in ElementTree

2007-05-25 Thread Sebastian Bassi
I would like to remove the namespace information from my elements and have just the tag without this information. This {http://uniprot.org/uniprot}; is preapended into all my output. I understand that the solution is related with _namespace_map but I don't know much more. for x in eleroot[0]:

Re: default config has no md5 module?

2007-05-04 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On 5/4/07, Leo Jay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i want to compile a python by myself, but after configure and make, it seems that md5 is not built by default. what should i do to compile md5 as an module? md5 module was deprecated, now it functions are in hashlib. (see

Re: Writing a nice formatted csv file

2007-05-02 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On 2 May 2007 07:14:04 -0700, redcic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And i get an out.txt file looking like: 1,2,3 10,20,30 Whereas what I'd like to get is: 1,2,3, 10, 20, 30 which is more readable. The idea behind csv module is to produce and read csv files that are machine readable

Re: Python CGI and Browser timeout

2007-04-26 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On 26 Apr 2007 14:48:29 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In order to work around this problem, I started printing empty strings (i.e. print ) so that the browser does not timeout. How do you print something while doing the query and waiting for the results? I saw some pages

Re: Python CGI and Browser timeout

2007-04-26 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On 26 Apr 2007 14:48:29 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a better solution to avoid browser timeouts? Raising timeout in Apache, by default is 300 seconds. Limiting jobs size (both in the html form and from script size since you should not trust on client validations).

Re: File DB instead of real database?

2007-04-16 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On 13 Apr 2007 21:14:36 -0700, Jia Lu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I donot want to use a real DB like MySQL ... But I need something to save about more than 1000 articles. Is there any good ways? SQLite is a good option, as you were told. But what about put them in a dictionary and then cPickle

Re: Making a tree out of a 2 column list

2007-04-15 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On 4/15/07, Peter Otten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Depending on your input data you may need to add some cycle detection. For example, try it with tree_path(1, {1:[2], 2:[1]}, []) I guess this should make the program enter into a endless loop. But the data won't have such a redundancy, because

Re: Making a tree out of a 2 column list

2007-04-15 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On 15 Apr 2007 15:44:47 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But errors and bugs do happen, inside data too; so often it's better to be on safe side if the safe code is fast enough. Yes, I agree since I've seen lot of errors in data. But this data comes from a taxonomy tree made by

Making a tree out of a 2 column list

2007-04-14 Thread Sebastian Bassi
I have a two column list like: 2,131 6,335 7,6 8,9 10,131 131,99 5,10 And I want to store it in a tree-like structure. So if I request 131, it should return all the child of 131, like 2, 10 and 5 (since 5 is child of 10). If I request 335, it should return: 6 and 7. If I request 9, it should

Re: Making a tree out of a 2 column list

2007-04-14 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On 14 Apr 2007 09:32:07 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: def tree_path(key,tree,indent): print '\t'*indent,key if tree.has_key(key): for m in tree[key]: tree_path(m,tree,indent+1) return Thank you. It worked!. I changed it a bit to return a

Re: Python editor/IDE on Linux?

2007-04-13 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On 4/13/07, Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder what everybody uses for Python editor/IDE on Linux? I use PyScripter on Windows, which is very good. Not sure if there's something handy like that on Linux. I need to do some development work on Linux and the distro I am using is Xubuntu.

Problem installing Python 2.5

2007-04-03 Thread Sebastian Bassi
I was trying to install Python 2.5 compiling from sources. I used: ./compile It run OK. Then: make altintall After a lot of output, got this: Listing /usr/local/lib/python2.5/xml/sax ... Compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.5/xml/sax/__init__.py ... Compiling

Re: Problem installing Python 2.5

2007-04-03 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On 4/3/07, Jaroslaw Zabiello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After executing ./configure you have to edito Modules/Setup file and uncomment the following line: #zlib zlibmodule.c -I$(prefix)/include -L$(exec_prefix)/lib -lz Then continue with normal make; make install. Thank you. I already

Re: Wikipedia and a little piece of Python History

2007-03-21 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On 21 Mar 2007 12:18:50 -0700, Paddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just had a link to Tim peters first post on doctest: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/1c57cfb7b3772763 AFAIK, Google doesn't offer a permalink to usenet/group post (since a mayor upgrade they made some time

Re: How to parse the os.system() output in python

2007-03-17 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On 17 Mar 2007 17:28:56 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use os.system() to execute a system command in python. Can you please tell me how can I parse (in python) the output of the os.system() ? Maybe you mean to parse the output of the program you run using os.system. If

Re: How to parse the os.system() output in python

2007-03-17 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On 3/18/07, bruce peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how to redirect the putput of the program to a file? like this: program_name -parameters outfile.txt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Box plot in Python

2007-03-15 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On 3/15/07, Rob Clewley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matplotlib supports boxplots in a very straightforward fashion and is reasonably documented (just google it!) I actually just submitted a patch for extra boxplot features in matplotlib, which you can find on the sourceforge patch tracker. OK, I

Box plot in Python

2007-03-14 Thread Sebastian Bassi
Hello, Is there a graphic package for Python that provides support for box plots? (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_plot and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:R-speed_of_light_boxplot.png for information on box plots). I have N sets of data, each with X points. Example: Set 1: Point 1:

Module for SVG?

2007-01-25 Thread Sebastian Bassi
Hello, I found http://www2.sfk.nl/svg as a Python module for writing SVG. Last update was in 2004 and I am not sure if there is something better. Any recommendation for generating SVG graphics? Best, SB. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

How to refer to Python?

2006-11-28 Thread Sebastian Bassi
I am writing a paper where I refer to Python. Is there a paper that I can refer the reader to? Or just use the Python web page as a reference? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Timeline for Python?

2006-09-01 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On 1 Sep 2006 00:57:04 -0700, crystalattice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd write for 2.4, even though 2.5 should be coming out shortly. There aren't many significant changes to the whole language between 2.4 and 2.5. Probably the best thing is write for 2.4 and have a sidenote stating where 2.5

Timeline for Python?

2006-08-31 Thread Sebastian Bassi
Hello all, I am working on a Python book, since it could be completed in about a year (writing time + edition + publishing) or more, I would like to know what version to target since I don't want to release a book that will be outdated just after is printed. I use 2.4 for everyday work but most

Detec nonascii in a string

2006-02-23 Thread Sebastian Bassi
Hello, How do I detect non-ascii letters in a string? I want to detect the condition that a string have a letter that is not here: string.ascii_letters Best regards, SB. -- Bioinformatics news: http://www.bioinformatica.info Lriser: http://www.linspire.com/lraiser_success.php?serial=318 --

Re: Detec nonascii in a string

2006-02-23 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On 2/23/06, Diez B. Roggisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: äöü.decode(ascii) should do the trick -- you get an UnicodeError when there is anything ascii can't encode. Thank you. This is good enought for me. Best regards, SB. -- Bioinformatics news: http://www.bioinformatica.info Lriser:

en la misma linea

2006-01-26 Thread Sebastian Bassi
Hola, Aca con una pregunta basica: A veces veo que hay programas que tienen varias instrucciones en la misma linea, cuando lo que aprendi de Python era que se usaba el espaciado para mantener la estructura (indent). Por ejemplo: if name != 'comic': return Hay un return despues de los dos puntos,

Re: [Info] PEP 308 accepted - new conditional expressions

2005-10-10 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On 9/30/05, Reinhold Birkenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: after Guido's pronouncement yesterday, in one of the next versions of Python there will be a conditional expression with the following syntax: X if C else Y I don't understand why there is a new expression, if this could be accomplished

Re: slicing functionality for strings / Python suitability for bioinformatics

2005-09-19 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On 19 Sep 2005 12:25:16 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rs='AUGCUAGACGUGGAGUAG' rs[12:15]='GAG' Traceback (most recent call last): File pyshell#119, line 1, in ? rs[12:15]='GAG' TypeError: object doesn't support slice assignment You should try Biopython

Re: python certification

2005-07-20 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On 16 Jul 2005 09:51:55 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i want to get a small certificate or diploma in python. it should be online cuz i live in pakistan and wont have teast centers near me. it should be low cost as i am not rich. and hopefully it would be something like a

How to store 3D data? (data structure question)

2005-07-20 Thread Sebastian Bassi
Hello, I have to parse a text file (was excel, but I translated to CSV) like the one below, and I am not sure how to store it (to manipulate it later). Here is an extract of the data: Name,Allele,RHA280,RHA801,RHA373,RHA377,HA383 TDF1,181, ,188, ,190, ,193,*,*,,, ,None,,,*,*,*

Re: How to store 3D data? (data structure question)

2005-07-20 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On 20 Jul 2005 10:47:50 -0700, Graham Fawcett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This looks a lot like 2D data (row/column), not 3D. What's the third axis? It looks, too, that you're not really interested in storage, but in analysis... I think it as 3D like this: 1st axis: [MARKER]Name, like TDF1,

Re: How to store 3D data? (data structure question)

2005-07-20 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On 20 Jul 2005 10:47:50 -0700, Graham Fawcett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # zip is your friend here. It lets you iterate # across your line names and corresponding values # in parallel. This zip function is new to me, the only zip I knew was pkzip :). So will read about it. -- a

Re: How to store 3D data? (data structure question)

2005-07-20 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On 20 Jul 2005 11:51:56 -0700, Graham Fawcett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You get the idea: model the data in the way that makes it most useable to you, and/or most efficient (if this is a large data set). I don't think this could be called a large dataset (about 40Kb all the file). It would be

Re: How to store 3D data? (data structure question)

2005-07-20 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On 7/20/05, Cyril Bazin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The question of the type of the data sutructure depends of your use of the data. You could avoid some confusion without naming your columns lines... Yes, that is because they are plant lines, that is why is called lines :) Anyway, here is a

Re: Question about HTMLgen

2005-06-21 Thread Sebastian Bassi
Thanks, you are right! On 6/20/05, Konstantin Veretennicov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: embed src=canvas_norelief.svg width=140 height=68 type=image/svg+xml name=wmap wmode=transparent Works for me... -- a href=http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliatesid=24672t=1;La web sin popups ni

Question about HTMLgen

2005-06-20 Thread Sebastian Bassi
Hello, I am using HTMLgen. It is very nice. But I can't make it to generate an arbitrary command. For example I want to output this: embed src=canvas_norelief.svg width=140 height=68 type=image/svg+xml name=wmap wmode=transparent Each time I put it gets escaped from HTML, instead of being