Re: Modifying the value of a float-like object

2009-04-14 Thread David Robinow
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 9:03 AM, eric.le.bi...@spectro.jussieu.fr wrote: Hello, Is there a way to easily build an object that behaves exactly like a float, but whose value can be changed?  The goal is to maintain a list [x, y,…] of these float-like objects, and to modify their value on the

Re: how to get os.system () call to cooperate on Windows

2009-10-28 Thread David Robinow
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Gabriel Genellina gagsl-...@yahoo.com.ar wrote: How can one copy files on the OS level? The idea was just to show how to call CopyFile using ctypes, not implying that it's the only way to do that. Everyone knows that the One and True Way of copying files is

Re: Bug(s) in Python 3.1.1 Windows installation

2009-10-28 Thread David Robinow
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Alf P. Steinbach al...@start.no wrote: PS: This was not unexpected. It was exactly why I earlier didn't even look at CPython (umpteen bad experiences with *nix ports) but used ActivePython. It's not a *nix port. It's multiplatform and it works fine. As you've

Re: [PYTHON] How to set the range for x-axis

2009-11-09 Thread David Robinow
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Moses jam...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Chris, The code is from scipy import * from pylab import * x = [0.5,0.6,0.7,0.8,0.9,1.0] y = [2,6,8,10,10,10] plot(x,y,linewidth=5.0) show() and not from scipy import * from pylab import * x1 =

Re: How to specify Python version in script?

2009-11-11 Thread David Robinow
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:16 PM, kj no.em...@please.post wrote: I have a script that must be run with Python 2.6.x.  If one tries to run it with, say, 2.5.x, *eventually* it runs into problems and crashes.  (The failure is quicker if one attempts to run it with Python 3.x.) Is there

Re: python simply not scaleable enough for google?

2009-11-13 Thread David Robinow
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Paul Rubin http://phr...@nospam.invalid wrote: ...  This is Usenet so please stick with Usenet practices.  If you want a web forum there are plenty of them out there. Actually this is python-list@python.org I don't use usenet and I have no intention to stick

Re: Feature request: String-inferred names

2009-11-29 Thread David Robinow
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 6:58 AM, inhahe inh...@gmail.com wrote: Did you say you were using gmail to post?  I think mailing lists tend to have issues with gmail because it puts html in the message or something like that.  Btw I recently set up this mailing list to send me a message back when I

Re: Python PIL and Vista/Windows 7 .. show() not working ...

2009-12-01 Thread David Robinow
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Esmail ebo...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello all. I am using the PIL 1.1.6 and Python 2.6.x under XP without any problems. However, I can't display any images under Vista or Windows 7. I could understand Windows 7 as it's relatively new, but Vista has been around

Re: Delaunay triangulation

2009-12-02 Thread David Robinow
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Vincent Davis vinc...@vincentdavis.net wrote: Anyone know of a python implementation of Delaunay triangulation? Matplotlib has one. There's also Delny @pypi It's been several years since I needed this. I can't remember the pros/cons. --

Re: How to tell if you're running on windows?

2009-12-04 Thread David Robinow
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Roy Smith r...@panix.com wrote: I'm using 2.5.1.  How can I tell if I'm running on windows?  The obvious answer, platform.system(), gets complicated.  On the python that comes with cygwin, it returns 'CYGWIN_NT-5.2-WOW64', but I've got a native windows build of

Re: (OT) Where Are Cookies Stored?

2009-12-16 Thread David Robinow
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Dave Angel da...@ieee.org wrote: You can also find the appdata directory by looking at the environment variable USERPROFILE, switching to that directory, and descending directly into application data by using the tab key. ... Lots of good advice. I'd just

Re: [ANN] pylint 0.19 / astng 0.19.2

2009-12-18 Thread David Robinow
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Jean-Michel Pichavant jeanmic...@sequans.com wrote: Jerry Hill wrote: On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Jean-Michel Pichavant  File /opt/tools/python/python2.3/site-packages/logilab_astng-0.19.2-py2.5.egg/logilab/astng/infutils.py, line 28, in module  from

Re: Setting Parameters inside of code

2009-12-18 Thread David Robinow
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Jim Valenza jim.vale...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All - I have a very novice question for any of you out there.  I need to assign several parameters to a code in python. I have an example of a code that was in DOS that I would need to set as parameters in my

Re: Sort the values of a dict

2009-12-18 Thread David Robinow
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 5:34 PM, mattia ger...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I have a dictionary that uses dates and a tuples ad key, value pairs. I need to sort the values of the dict and insert everything in a tuple. The additional problem is that I need to sort the values looking at the i-th

Re: Significant whitespace

2010-01-03 Thread David Robinow
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Tim Roberts t...@probo.com wrote: More than not required, it was not relevant.  This led to one of the most infamous programming blunders in the early days of the space program, when one programmer accidentially typed a period instead of a comma resulting in the

Re: Significant whitespace

2010-01-03 Thread David Robinow
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Roy Smith r...@panix.com wrote: In article mailman.386.1262576043.28905.python-l...@python.org,  David Robinow drobi...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Tim Roberts t...@probo.com wrote: More than not required, it was not relevant.  This led

Re: Fractional Hours from datetime?

2010-01-11 Thread David Robinow
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Alf P. Steinbach al...@start.no writes: And considering this, and the fact that Google's archive is now the main Usenet archive, message id's are not that useful, really. You've demonstrated only that Google is an

Re: Is python not good enough?

2010-01-25 Thread David Robinow
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Simon Brunning si...@brunningonline.net wrote: 2010/1/25 Albert van der Horst alb...@spenarnc.xs4all.nl: If Go was to compete with anything, they would have give it a name that was Googleable. ;-) If they want it Googleable, it will be. ;-)

Re: ANN: obfuscate

2010-02-09 Thread David Robinow
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Simon Brunning si...@brunningonline.net wrote: On 9 February 2010 16:29, Robert Kern robert.k...@gmail.com wrote: On 2010-02-09 09:37 AM, Daniel Fetchinson wrote: If the code base stabilizes in a production version after losing the alphas and betas they would be

Re: What's Going on between Python and win7?

2010-02-22 Thread David Robinow
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 8:25 PM, W. eWatson wolftra...@invalid.com wrote: How do I get out of this pickle? I just want to duplicate the  program in another folder, and not link to an ancestor. Ask in an appropriate forum. I'm not sure where that is but you might try http://www.sevenforums.com/

Re: python dowload

2010-02-23 Thread David Robinow
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 2:42 PM, monkeys paw mon...@joemoney.net wrote: I used the following code to download a PDF file, but the file was invalid after running the code, is there problem with the write operation? import urllib2 url =

Re: Docstrings considered too complicated

2010-03-03 Thread David Robinow
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Grant Edwards inva...@invalid.invalid wrote: On 2010-03-03, Grant Edwards inva...@invalid.invalid wrote: I definitely remember that old MS-DOS programs would treat Ctrl-Z as an EOF marker when it was read from a text file and would terminate a text file with a

Re: Docstrings considered too complicated

2010-03-03 Thread David Robinow
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Ed Keith e_...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Wed, 3/3/10, D'Arcy J.M. Cain  wrote: They needed a way to tell where the end of the information was.  Why they used ^Z (SUB - Substitute) instead of ^C (ETX - End of TeXt) or even ^D (EOT - End Of Transmission) is

Re: Docstrings considered too complicated

2010-03-03 Thread David Robinow
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Grant Edwards inva...@invalid.invalid wrote: On 2010-03-03, mk mrk...@gmail.com wrote: That has always puzzled me to. ETX and EOT were well established, why no use one of them? I'd love to know what they were thinking. Probably nothing: what many people do

Re: use of multiple versions of python

2010-03-11 Thread David Robinow
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12:40 AM, Bujji sivait...@gmail.com wrote: hi all, I have installed python 2.6 in addition to python 2.5 in my system Now for some modules(while installing ) it needs to use python 2.6 how can i do that in case of easy_install what should i do to it to use python 2.6

Re: difference between 2 arrays

2009-08-19 Thread David Robinow
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 4:48 AM, Pierrepierre.gaill...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I would like to know how to find the difference (set operation) between 2 arrays : a = array([1,2, 3,2,5,2]) b = array([1,2]) I want a - b = [3,5] Well, the equivalence of setdiff in matlab... I thought

Re: Is Python what I need?

2009-08-24 Thread David Robinow
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Peter Otten__pete...@web.de wrote: If you are trying to teach children that are unwilling to use pen and paper putting them in front of a computer doesn't help you and them one bit. As a starting programmer you'll have to spend a lot of time in front of your

Re: Reading binary files

2009-08-24 Thread David Robinow
This works for a simple binary file, but the actual file I'm trying to read is give throwing an error that the file cannot be found. Here is the name of the my file: 2009.08.02_06.52.00_WA-1_0001_00_0662_0.jstars Should python have trouble reading this file name or extension? I'm having

Re: OT - people eaters - was: An assessment of the Unicode standard

2009-09-18 Thread David Robinow
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 3:26 AM, Hendrik van Rooyen hend...@microcorp.co.za wrote: Does anybody know where the concept of the purple people eater comes from? I mean is there a children's book or something? - Hendrik http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_People_Eater --

Re: Compile kinterbasdb with mingw32 and python 2.6 - DLL load failed

2009-09-20 Thread David Robinow
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Laszlo Nagy gand...@shopzeus.com wrote: This is what I did so far: #1. Install Python 2.6, Firebird 1.5 server (with libs and headers), egenix mx base and mingw C compiler #2. put c:\MinGW\bin  on the PATH (or wherever it is) #3. extract kinterbasdb source

Re: pygui - showing an image

2009-09-22 Thread David Robinow
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 9:26 PM, kyle schalm kyle.sch...@gmail.com wrote: hello, i wonder what the chances are that anyone here uses pygui? it looks pretty good, but i just started using it (version 2.05) and can't figure out how to just display a window with an image in it. i tried: image =

Re: easy install

2009-10-09 Thread David Robinow
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us wrote: A puzzlement: I used easy_install the other day to get xlutils on my system.  It automatically installed xlrd and xlwt as well.  This is cool.  What's not so cool are my tracebacks.  E.g. Python 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Dec 23

Re: Is code duplication allowed in this instance?

2009-07-05 Thread David Robinow
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 5:54 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveirol...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand wrote: In message ddb65af7-8820-4a83-bc92- c1d1c62d6...@y17g2000yqn.googlegroups.com, Klone wrote: So in this scenario is it OK to duplicate the algorithm to be tested within the test codes or refactor the

Re: Query regarding set([])?

2009-07-10 Thread David Robinow
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 8:52 AM, voxvox2...@gmail.com wrote: I am looking for a script that compares file1 and file2, for each line in file1, check if line is present in file2. If the line from file1 is not present in file2, print that line/write it to file3, because I have to know what lines

Re: Question about generators

2009-07-12 Thread David Robinow
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Cameron Pulsfordcameron.pulsf...@gmail.com wrote: As far as the primes generator, it does not generate any non-primes. All primes (except 2, 3 and 5) are in the form (6*x + 1, 6*x + 5) where is x is [1, 2, ..., n]. The only time it doesn't generate a prime is

Re: PDF version of Python Tutorial?

2009-07-17 Thread David Robinow
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Dr. Phillip M. Feldmanpfeld...@verizon.net wrote: Does anyone know if there is a PDF version of the Python Tutorial (URL= http://www.python.org/doc/current/tutorial/)? http://docs.python.org/download.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: turtle dump

2009-07-17 Thread David Robinow
If you want to generate high-quality graphics easily you need different primitives. http://cairographics.org has Python bindings, but I don't know if it's available on Windows. Effectively not, as far as I can tell. PyCairo appears to be *nix and require later binaries than those

Re: On out-of-date Python Applications

2009-07-20 Thread David Robinow
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 7:24 AM, John Machinsjmac...@lexicon.net wrote: ... The next step would be to try to compile ODE 0.7 or 0.8 with VS9 -- however this would require project files for ODE for VS9, and there aren't any on the ODE website; it has only those for VS3 and VS5. The ODE site is

Re: On out-of-date Python Applications

2009-07-20 Thread David Robinow
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Virgil Stokesv...@it.uu.se wrote: David Robinow wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 7:24 AM, John Machinsjmac...@lexicon.net wrote: ... The next step would be to try to compile ODE 0.7 or 0.8 with VS9 -- however this would require project files for ODE for VS9

Re: If Scheme is so good why MIT drops it?

2009-07-26 Thread David Robinow
This doesn't mean they're on the same level - in fact, if you read carefully you'll see my original post said as much: python attracted average programmers; php attracted mediocre programmers and even some non-programmers, which means that php is clearly a lesser language than python. I'm a

Re: If Scheme is so good why MIT drops it?

2009-07-27 Thread David Robinow
On 7/26/09, MRAB pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com wrote: David Robinow wrote: This doesn't mean they're on the same level - in fact, if you read carefully you'll see my original post said as much: python attracted average programmers; php attracted mediocre programmers and even some non

Re: If Scheme is so good why MIT drops it?

2009-07-27 Thread David Robinow
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Aahza...@pythoncraft.com wrote: In article mailman.3765.1248685391.8015.python-l...@python.org, Hendrik van Rooyen  hend...@microcorp.co.za wrote: On Sunday 26 July 2009 21:26:46 David Robinow wrote:  I'm a mediocre programmer. Does this mean I should switch

Re: Python docs disappointing - group effort to hire writers?

2009-08-07 Thread David Robinow
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 1:48 PM, alex23wuwe...@gmail.com wrote: Why exactly is posting an open comment on a bug tracker somehow inferior to posting an open comment on a wiki? When one believes that development is controlled by a cabal which is jealous of outsiders and actively prevents

Re: httplib incredibly slow :-(

2009-08-12 Thread David Robinow
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Chris Withersch...@simplistix.co.uk wrote: David Stanek wrote: Also on the same box where you run this script can you test with curl or wget? It's a Windows box, so no :-( Why not? http://users.ugent.be/~bpuype/wget/ http://curl.haxx.se/download.html --

Re: httplib incredibly slow :-(

2009-08-13 Thread David Robinow
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:20 AM, Chris Withersch...@simplistix.co.uk wrote: David Robinow wrote: On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Chris Withersch...@simplistix.co.uk wrote: David Stanek wrote: Also on the same box where you run this script can you test with curl or wget? It's a Windows

Re: Python 'for' loop is memory inefficient

2009-08-17 Thread David Robinow
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Nobodynob...@nowhere.com wrote: Java also has iterators; it's more a case of people coming from C and BASIC. Although, some of those may have come *through* Java without abandoning old habits. You see the same thing with people coming from BASIC to C and

Re: Community (A Modest Proposal)

2010-06-13 Thread David Robinow
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au wrote: On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 08:42:57 -0700, rantingrick wrote: i will start a fork. That is the most sensible thing you have said yet. Please do so, it will be a great thing for the Python community.

Re: a +b ?

2010-06-17 Thread David Robinow
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Aahz a...@pythoncraft.com wrote: In article mailman.1662.1276743037.32709.python-l...@python.org, James Mills  prolo...@shortcircuit.net.au wrote: ... What in particular do you _not_ enjoy about using map/reduce (and possibly other functional features of the

Re: python source code - win/dos executable (on linux)

2010-06-27 Thread David Robinow
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand wrote: In message 4c24c152$0$31381$4fafb...@reader1.news.tin.it, superpollo wrote: suppose i work in a linux environment, but i would like to ship a win/dos executable file from time to time, just for test

Re: Python 2.7 released

2010-07-05 Thread David Robinow
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au wrote: On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:59:00 -0700, Martineau wrote: I'd like to view the contents of the help file without actually installing the release which would wipe out any currently installed version (I'm one

Re: Download Microsoft C/C++ compiler for use with Python 2.6/2.7 ASAP

2010-07-06 Thread David Robinow
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Martin P. Hellwig martin.hell...@dcuktec.org wrote: Public download that is, people like me who have a MSDN subscription can still download old versions like Visual Studio 2005. So I would say that there is no particular hurry. I would think that everyone

Re: Q for Emacs users: code-folding (hideshow)

2010-07-16 Thread David Robinow
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 9:29 AM, ernest nfdi...@gmail.com wrote: On 15 Jul, 18:45, kj no.em...@please.post wrote: This is a question _for Emacs users_ (the rest of you, go away :)  ). How do you do Python code-folding in Emacs? Thanks! ~K I tried the outline-mode and it seemed to work.

Re: Multiple versions of Python coexisting in the same OS

2010-07-25 Thread David Robinow
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Edward Diener eldie...@tropicsoft.invalid wrote: On 7/25/2010 5:57 PM, Thomas Jollans wrote: So if a standard library module ( or distributed library ) executes a call internally to 'python xxx yyy' or executes a call internally to 'someScript.py yyy', you're

Re: Newbie question regarding SSL and certificate verification

2010-07-29 Thread David Robinow
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Jeffrey Gaynor jgay...@ncsa.uiuc.edu wrote: ... A final question -- how widely is M2Crypto used? Since I will have to now pitch to our group that this is preferable the first questions they will ask are about stability, who is using it and how secure is it

Re: Why is there no platform independent way of clearing a terminal?

2010-08-02 Thread David Robinow
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Benjamin Kaplan benjamin.kap...@case.edu wrote: ... So these are the packages needed just to run Python in Ubuntu. It doesn't include the packages required for the kernel, the desktop environment, the window manager, the terminal, and whatever else you want

Re: Why is there no platform independent way of clearing a terminal?

2010-08-04 Thread David Robinow
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand wrote: In message mailman.1445.1280767895.1673.python-l...@python.org, David Robinow wrote:  As an admittedly stupid comparison, I have 1579 DLLs in my \windows\system32 directory. Some number of these have

Re: Win7. Why Don't Matplotlib, ... Show up in Control Panel Add-Remove?

2010-08-08 Thread David Robinow
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: On 08/08/2010 17:16, W. eWatson wrote: See Subject. I use matplotlib, scipy, numpy and possibly one other module. If I go to the control panel, I only see numpy listed. Why? I use a search and find only numpy and

Re: off topic but please forgive me me and answer

2010-04-01 Thread David Robinow
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Patrick Maupin pmau...@gmail.com wrote: On Apr 1, 4:42 pm, Tim Chase python.l...@tim.thechases.com wrote: superpollo wrote: how much is one half times one half? Uh, did you try it at the python prompt?  If not, here's the answer:   0.1b * 0.1b = 0.01b Now

Re: off topic but please forgive me me and answer

2010-04-01 Thread David Robinow
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au wrote: On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:49:43 -0500, Tim Chase wrote: David Robinow wrote: $ python -c print 1/2 * 1/2 0  But that's not what I learned in grade school. (Maybe I should upgrade to 3.1?) That's

Re: condition and True or False

2010-05-02 Thread David Robinow
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Paul McGuire pt...@austin.rr.com wrote: While sifting through some code looking for old x and y or z code that might better be coded using y if x else z, I came across this puzzler:    x = boolean expression and True or False What is and True or False adding

Re: virtualenvwrapper for Windows (Powershell)

2010-05-11 Thread David Robinow
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 1:43 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand wrote: In message 22cf35af-44d1-43fe-8b90-07f2c6545...@i10g2000yqh.googlegroups.com, Guillermo wrote: If you've ever missed it on Windows and you can use Powershell ... I thought the whole point of Windows

Re: If/then style question

2010-12-17 Thread David Robinow
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: ... Functions always have one entry. The only way to have multiple entry points is if the language allows you to GOTO into the middle of a function, and Python sensibly does not allow this. The one

Re: type(d) != type(d.copy()) when type(d).issubclass(dict)

2010-12-24 Thread David Robinow
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 1:52 PM, kj no.em...@please.post wrote: Watch this: class neodict(dict): pass ... d = neodict() type(d) class '__main__.neodict' type(d.copy()) type 'dict' Bug?  Feature?  Genius beyond the grasp of schlubs like me? copy, here, is a dict method. It will create

Re: trouble installing MySQLdb (cygwin) + Bonus question

2011-01-25 Thread David Robinow
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Matthew Roth mgrot...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 25, 9:34 pm, John Nagle na...@animats.com wrote: ...     You can install a MySQL server under Windows, and talk to the server from the Cygwin environment.  That's a useful way to test.                              

Re: [python-list] - what do you think ?

2011-02-08 Thread David Robinow
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Rhodri James rho...@wildebst.demon.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 12:18:50 -, przemol...@poczta.fm wrote: On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 10:16:42PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: Either your mail client already knows how to filter messages appropriately depending on

Re: wxPython 2.8 for Python 2.6 on Linux

2009-04-19 Thread David Robinow
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 1:58 AM, Kenny x xarv...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I use Ubuntu 8.10 and the latest version of Python. I started programming wxPython on my Windows computer, but now I have access to my ubuntu box, and want wxPython for 2.6 All the debs in the package manager are for

Re: python in Emacs (windows)

2009-04-22 Thread David Robinow
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:52 AM, Mark Zweers zweers.m...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I'm trying to run python from within Emacs. This is in my .emacs file : (setq auto-mode-alist ; trigger python mode automatically    (cons '(\\.py$ . python-mode) auto-mode-alist)) (setq interpreter-mode-alist

Re: ANN: PyGUI 2.0.4

2009-04-22 Thread David Robinow
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 8:50 PM, rzed rzan...@gmail.com wrote: Greg Ewing greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz wrote in news:49edb69f.7070...@canterbury.ac.nz: PyGUI 2.0.4 is available:    http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python_gui/ Fixes a few more bugs and hopefully improves things

Re: PyModerator, serverFiles.py:13: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead import sha

2009-04-22 Thread David Robinow
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Jim Carlock jcarl...@nospam.microcosmotalk.com wrote: I downloaded Python 2.6.2 today. Anyone here know what that error in the subject really means and possibly what I should look at? I took a look at line 13 in the specified file and it states the line that it

Re: best way to compare contents of 2 lists?

2009-04-23 Thread David Robinow
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:31 PM, Esmail ebo...@hotmail.com wrote: What is the best way to compare the *contents* of two different lists regardless of their respective order? The lists will have the same number of items, and be of the same type. E.g. a trivial example (my lists will be

Re: ANN: PyGUI 2.0.5

2009-04-26 Thread David Robinow
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 5:21 AM, Greg Ewing greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz wrote: PyGUI 2.0.5 is available: Still no idea what's causing the object has been destroyed error on Windows XP, though. Does this happen for everyone? Is there anyone who *has* got 12-scroll.py working for them on XP?

Re: stuck with PyOBEX

2009-04-28 Thread David Robinow
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:36 PM, alejandro aleksanda...@brisiovonet.hr wrote: Can you tell me what is it? Maybe I can search it and pass it in another way... if it is an address or protocol name AF_BLUETOOTH seems to be specific to *nix-systems. At least under debian and ubuntu, I've

Re: Third Party Modules

2009-04-28 Thread David Robinow
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:15 PM, John Nagle na...@animats.com wrote: Brock wrote: Hi Everyone, I know this is most likely a basic question and you will roll your eyes, but I am just starting out with Python (hobbyist) and I see many tutorials on the web referring to the use of external

Re: What do you think of ShowMeDo

2009-04-29 Thread David Robinow
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 9:29 AM, ky...@showmedo.com wrote: ... To reiterate, I responded to this thread because I think Ben's posting gave an unfair impression of the site and i felt the need to address some misconceptions. I am sorry you failed to find the videos, but many tens of thousands

Re: object query assigned variable name?

2009-05-01 Thread David Robinow
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 12:24 PM, warpcat warp...@sbcglobal.net wrote: I've passed this around some other groups, and I'm being told probably not possible.  But I thought I'd try here as well :)   I *did* search first, and found several similar threads, but they quickly tangented into other

Re: yet another list comprehension question

2009-05-04 Thread David Robinow
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 2:33 AM, namekuseijin namekuseijin.nos...@gmail.com wrote: ls = [(1,2), (3,4), (5, None), (6,7), (8, None)] [(x,y) for (x,y) in ls if y] [(1, 2), (3, 4), (6, 7)] Nope. That filters out 0 as well as None. Not what the OP asked for. --

Re: Wrapping comments

2009-05-10 Thread David Robinow
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 3:32 AM, Tobias Weber t...@gmx.net wrote: In article m2bpq2ngup@googlemail.com,  Arnaud Delobelle arno...@googlemail.com wrote: A simple Alt-Q will reformat everything nicely. Now that's something. Thanks! (still not gonna use software that doesn't let me type #

Re: Fwd: Re: Unable to install Pywin32 for Python 2.6.2

2009-05-12 Thread David Robinow
Thanks for the help.  I just got it to install for Python 2.6.  All I did was change PYTHONPATH (as suggested by Mark) from C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages to C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages Why do you have PYTHONPATH set at all? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Convert UNIX formated text files to DOS formated?

2009-05-13 Thread David Robinow
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:47 PM, walterbyrd walterb...@iname.com wrote: On May 12, 6:15 pm, norseman norse...@hughes.net wrote: Subject line says UNIX to DOS I hope that means you are using a UNIX machine. I should have mentioned, I am working in an environment that is very restrictive

Re: Question about locals()

2009-05-22 Thread David Robinow
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Gökhan SEVER gokhanse...@gmail.com wrote: ... serialc = np.loadtxt(sys.argv[1], skiprows=skiprows).T for i in range(20):     locals()['serialc_bin' + str(i+1)] = serialc[i+4] I don't know easier way than using locals() to construct variable-like identities

Re: Question about locals()

2009-05-22 Thread David Robinow
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Gökhan SEVER gokhanse...@gmail.com wrote: Because in this case serialc is an numpy array. Since loadtxt returns a numpy-array. Furthermore locals()['serialc_bin' + str(i+1)]  creates a dictionary key (that's what I use the term variable-like) serialc_bin1,

Re: 4 hundred quadrillonth?

2009-05-24 Thread David Robinow
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Dave Angel da...@ieee.org wrote:        By decreeing that the value of PI is 3? Only in Ohio. Please, we're smarter than that in Ohio. In fact, while the Indiana legislature was learning about PI, we had guys inventing the airplane.

Re: What text editor is everyone using for Python

2009-05-28 Thread David Robinow
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 7:09 AM, Andreas Roehler andreas.roeh...@online.de wrote: Rhodri James wrote:  and I'll get over that.  The feature that caused me to uninstall python-mode.el was its bloody-minded determination to regard '_' as a word character, something which caused me more typing

Re: xml.dom.minidom losing the XML document type attribute

2009-06-11 Thread David Robinow
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Johannes Bauerdfnsonfsdu...@gmx.de wrote: Well, I'm not speaking about my software :-) Actually it's Gnucash which complains if the tag is not explicitly set. This is because they appearently had a ancient version which did not specify the charset, but used a

Re: embedded python and threading

2013-07-26 Thread David Robinow
Works for me. Except that if I then do: touch time.py I get the same error as you do. Can you figure out the problem now? On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 11:57 AM, David M. Cotter m...@davecotter.com wrote: okay, i have simplified it: here is the code ==

Re: LibreOffice

2013-08-03 Thread David Robinow
On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 9:26 PM, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote: ... Of relevance to this list, Libre Office upgraded the included Python interpreter to 3.3. I have no idea whether OO is still using 2.3 or also updated. They're up to 2.7 now. --

Re: Error Testing

2013-10-19 Thread David Robinow
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: You can try all these out in the interactive interpreter (you probably have IDLE installed, which on Windows is rather nicer to work with than the default interactive mode). IDLE is cross-platform. Could you explain why

Re: What's wrong with Windows Command Prompt (was Re: Error Testing)

2013-10-21 Thread David Robinow
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote: On 10/19/2013 2:31 PM, Tim Chase wrote: On 2013-10-19 14:08, David Robinow wrote: On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: You can try all these out in the interactive interpreter (you probably have IDLE

Re: Stop feeding the trolls (Was: which a is used?)

2012-09-25 Thread David Robinow
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 9:53 AM, D'Arcy Cain da...@druid.net wrote: ... Now if only people would stop feeding the troll, those of us who have already *plonked* him can stop seeing his ramblings in the responses. I'm hating myself for jumping in to this nonsense, but ... +1 --

Re: Coexistence of Python 2.x and 3.x on same OS

2012-10-01 Thread David Robinow
On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Dave Angel d...@davea.name wrote: The problem with that is that one has to already being using 3.3 to use this facility. I was hoping for a solution which was backwards compatible with Python 2.x. ... That does not solve the problem for Python 2.x

Re: Script for finding words of any size that do NOT contain vowels with acute diacritic marks?

2012-10-17 Thread David Robinow
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Ian Kelly ian.g.ke...@gmail.com wrote: return len(w) != len(w_decomposed) is all you need. Thanks for helping, but I already knew that. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: A desperate lunge for on-topic-ness

2012-10-20 Thread David Robinow
On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wlfr...@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Sat, 20 Oct 2012 14:18:47 + (UTC), Grant Edwards invalid@invalid.invalid declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: True, but nobody prints source code out on paper do they? Seriously -- I

Re: I need help installing pypng in Python 3.3

2012-10-29 Thread David Robinow
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 8:23 AM, ic...@tagyourself.com wrote: Hello all, I am very new to python. I am currently porting a little project of mine from java to python and I need to be able to construct and write png images. I naturally turned myself toward pypng to accomplish this. I

Re: SSH Connection with Python

2012-10-29 Thread David Robinow
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Gelonida N gelon...@gmail.com wrote: The only thing I'm concerned about paramiko is, that I don't see any activity on the paramiko site and that one library it depends on is not available is windows binary package for newer versions of python. I don't

Re: Plz Suggest... How can i install the pure python package py-bidi in WIndows.

2012-12-22 Thread David Robinow
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Arsalan Khan m.arsi.k...@gmail.com wrote: I tried installing but it gives error.. Can anyone guide the procedure of configuring/Installing a python package in windows ??? What did you do to try to install? What error(s) did you get? Where can I find this

Re: Automation

2013-11-18 Thread David Robinow
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Grant Edwards invalid@invalid.invalid wrote: ... I don't make those mistakes typing on a phone (where I have to actually think about the act of typing), but I do make them with a regular keyboard, where I don't have to think about mechanics of typing the

Re: Problem when applying Patch from issue1424152 to get https over authenticating proxies working with urllib2 in Python 2.5

2013-12-10 Thread David Robinow
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 11:59 AM, ru...@yahoo.com wrote: On 12/10/2013 09:22 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote: ... Mark is one of the resident trolls here. Among his other traits is his delusion that he is Lord High Commander of this list. Like with other trolls, the best advice is to ignore him

Re: Wrapping around a list in Python.

2013-12-16 Thread David Robinow
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 12:26 AM, shengjie.sheng...@live.com wrote: The idea is to grab the last 4 elements of the array. However i have an array that contains a few hundred elements in it. And the values continues to .append over time. How would i be able to display the last 4 elements of

Re: Installing Python from sources with all the modules

2013-12-16 Thread David Robinow
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 8:55 PM, shankha shankhabaner...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am trying to install Python 3.3 from the latest sources on linux. After the installation when I try to run the following I get a error: ./python Python 3.3.3 (default, Dec 16 2013, 18:28:25) [GCC 4.8.2 20131017

Re: Bytes indexing returns an int

2014-01-07 Thread David Robinow
treating bytes as chars considered harmful? I don't know the answer to your question but the behavior seems right to me. Python 3 grudgingly allows the abomination of byte strings (is that what they're called? I haven't fully embraced Python3 yet). If you want a substring you use a slice. b =

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