Re: Happy fun time with SWIG

2008-09-05 Thread Uberman
Nobody has any help for me on this one? Let me see if I can make it clearer by using something simpler: +---+ ---| Peter |--- | +---+ | | | V V

Re: Need formatting suggestion for long strings

2008-09-05 Thread Robert Dailey
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 3:06 PM, aha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you be more specific? What is the formatting criteria? Are you > talking about formatting the string for display or are you talking > about the source? Apologies for the confusion. My concern is both. Allow me to explain: I

mimms problem on Hardy

2008-09-05 Thread kaer
Hello, I installed (manually) the last version of mimms -which is a python program- on an Ubuntu (8.04-server) box. I get that: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/mimms-3.2$ mimms Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/mimms", line 21, in from libmimms.core import run File "/usr/lib/python2.

Re: Case-insensitive string compare?

2008-09-05 Thread Ethan Furman
Maric Michaud wrote: Le Friday 05 September 2008 14:33:22 J. Clifford Dyer, vous avez écrit : On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 18:48 -0500, Robert Dailey wrote: Thanks everyone for your help. I'm not opposed to using [key.lower() for key in stage_map] at all, I was just curious to see if there were any

Re: Case-insensitive string compare?

2008-09-05 Thread Robert Dailey
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Maric Michaud wrote: > > I suspect you are coming to conclusions a bit quickly, without taking the >> pain of understanding the whole discussion. >> > > I'm pretty sure I was the first one to post an answer in this thread,

Re: print doesn't respect file inheritance?

2008-09-05 Thread Ethan Furman
bukzor wrote: I was trying to change the behaviour of print (tee all output to a temp file) by inheriting from file and overwriting sys.stdout, but it looks like print uses C-level stuff to do its writes which bypasses the python object/inhertiance system. It looks like I need to use composition

[ANN] pysqlite 2.5.0 released

2008-09-05 Thread Gerhard Häring
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 pysqlite 2.5.0 released === I'm pleased to announce the availability of pysqlite 2.5.0. This is a release with major new features. Go to http://pysqlite.org/ for downloads, online documentation and reporting bugs. What is pysqlit

Re: mimms problem on Hardy

2008-09-05 Thread kaer
On 5 sep, 22:15, kaer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I installed (manually) the last version of mimms -which is a python > program- on an Ubuntu (8.04-server) box. > I get that: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/mimms-3.2$ mimms > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/mimms", line 21

Re: Need formatting suggestion for long strings

2008-09-05 Thread Eric Wertman
> I'm concerned about the formatting of the string in that I do not want the > way I split the string up in source code to affect the way the string is > displayed to the console. In other words, in source, if I break up a single > string into multiple lines (using carriage returns), I would expect

Re: hashing an array - howto

2008-09-05 Thread John Machin
On Sep 6, 2:45 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Michael Palmer: > > > why can't it be tuple already? > > Because if the input list L has tuples and lists, they end having the > same hash value: Perhaps the OP shouldn't be constructing the hash of a mutable object. Perhaps he would be grateful if his

Re: pdb bug and questions

2008-09-05 Thread R. Bernstein
Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > From: Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: pdb bug and questions > Newsgroups: comp.lang.python > To: "[email protected]" > Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:06:19 +0200 > > R. Bernstein wrote: >> Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>

Re: use str as variable name

2008-09-05 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Marco Bizzarri a écrit : On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (...as Bruno implies, setattr(), len() et al can be and should be viewed as generic functions. Just a question: "generic functions" are not meant in the sense of "generic functions" of CLOS, am

Re: Determining Processor Vender

2008-09-05 Thread John Machin
On Sep 6, 5:07 am, aha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 5, 3:00 pm, aha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dose anyone know of a cross-platform method for determining the vendor > > of a processor?  Under linux I can check /proc/cpuinfo.  What I'd like > > to be able to do is determine if a proces

Re: [PIL] quake like multicoloured text

2008-09-05 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:24:08 -0300, Durand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: I'm wondering how I could render text with PIL in which different parts of the text are different characters. This is for a game stats script where names are written like: ^1Red ^2Green ^3Yellow, etc. The problem is that I

Re: pdb bug and questions

2008-09-05 Thread Stef Mientki
R. Bernstein wrote: Finally, I think rpdb2 is part of the winpdb project on Sourceforge and again has a bug tracker. My sense is that Nir Aides is very good about handling bugs reported in winpdb/rpdb. Yes I started with rpdb2, and indeed Nir Aides is very helpfull, but I think interfa

Re: Need formatting suggestion for long strings

2008-09-05 Thread Robert Dailey
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Eric Wertman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm concerned about the formatting of the string in that I do not want > the > > way I split the string up in source code to affect the way the string is > > displayed to the console. In other words, in source, if I break

Re: Regarding subprocess module

2008-09-05 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:56:02 -0300, tarun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: import subprocess,time cmdExe = "C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\cmd.exe" myProcess = subprocess.Popen(cmdExe,stdin=subprocess.PIPE) time.sleep(2) myProcess.stdin.write('cd Desktop\r\n') I copied the above lines of code to a file

Re: hashing an array - howto

2008-09-05 Thread bearophileHUGS
John Machin: > Consider this:>>> hash(123) == hash(123.0) == hash(123L) > True Right... Can you explain me why Python designers have chosen to build a hash() like that? > Try "uses all the information that is relevant to the task". My knowledge of hash data structures seems not enough to unders

running python as a dameon

2008-09-05 Thread peyman
Hi I have a Natural Language Processing (NLP) code written in python that reads into memory a large training file and then given a sentence tags it, using the training data. I want to put this NLP code on a server which handles all incoming client http requests via PHP. What I want to do is to pro

Re: Files application architecture

2008-09-05 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:53:12 -0300, Benjamin Watine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: I'm about to develop a small python application and I wonder how to organize files in this application. I'm familar to java, so I'm tempted to use the same convention : 1 file per class and 1 folders per packa

Re: Make Games

2008-09-05 Thread Chris Babcock
> I want to learn Python so I can make simple games. What are some good > books that'll help me do this? I promise that I'm not posting this to be a 81+<#: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=python+game Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyt

Re: sqlite3 import performance

2008-09-05 Thread Gerhard Häring
Ben Lee wrote: > hi folks -- > > a quick python and sqlite3 performance question. i find that > inserting a million rows of in-memory data into an in-memory database > via a single executemany() is about 30% slower than using the sqlite3 > CLI and the .import command (reading the same data from a

Re: hashing an array - howto

2008-09-05 Thread John Machin
On Sep 6, 7:49 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > John Machin: > > > Consider this:>>> hash(123) == hash(123.0) == hash(123L) > > True > > Right... Can you explain me why Python designers have chosen to build > a hash() like that? I can't channel them; my rationalisation is this: Following the Law of

indices question

2008-09-05 Thread Lanny
pretty self-explanatory, here's what I put in: while stat == 0 : pgrid#ignore, A pre-defined function print "what cell do you want?" varcc = raw_input grid[varc] = 'O' And here's what I get back: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\py_prog\Ti

Re: indices question

2008-09-05 Thread Christian Heimes
Lanny wrote: Please don't tell me that "list indices must be integers" because I know that, Why can't I put a varible thats an integer instead? raw_input() always returns a string. You have to convert the string into an integer using int(). Christian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/list

Re: hashing an array - howto

2008-09-05 Thread John Machin
On Sep 6, 9:30 am, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 6, 7:49 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > John Machin: > > > > Consider this:>>> hash(123) == hash(123.0) == hash(123L) > > > True > > > Right... Can you explain me why Python designers have chosen to build > > a hash() like that?

Re: indices question

2008-09-05 Thread bearophileHUGS
Lanny: > ... > varcc = raw_input > grid[varc] = 'O' > ... > Why can't I put a varible thats an integer instead? 'varcc' and 'varc' are different names. 'raw_input' isn't a function call, you may want to turn that into a function call. varc isn't an integer, you may have to conver

Re: Understanding the pythonic way: why a.x = 1 is better than a.setX(1) ?

2008-09-05 Thread Ivan Illarionov
On 5 сент, 19:23, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ivan Illarionov schrieb: > > > > > On 4 сент, 21:49, Bruno Desthuilliers > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Ivan Illarionov a écrit : > > >>> On 4 сент, 22:59, Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can write code to guard

Re: Can anyone suggest a good crypto package?

2008-09-05 Thread Paul Rubin
Fett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am having trouble seeing how I would post the encrypted data to a > website and get it back without it changing some. I don't understand why it would change. I'm a little confused though, I didn't realize you wanted to post the data to a web site. What exact

Re: Files application architecture

2008-09-05 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Benjamin Watine a écrit : Hi, I'm about to develop a small python application and I wonder how to organize files in this application. I'm familar to java, so I'm tempted to use the same convention http://dirtsimple.org/2004/12/python-is-not-java.html : 1 file per class and 1 folders per pa

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

2008-09-05 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:22:22 -0500, David C. Ullrich wrote about why max and min shouldn't accept a default argument: > Think about all the previously elected female or black presidents of the > US. Which one was the tallest? I know the answer to that one: All of them! -- Steven -- http://

Re: running python as a dameon

2008-09-05 Thread Sean Davis
On Sep 5, 5:55 pm, peyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I have a Natural Language Processing (NLP) code written in python that > reads into memory a large training file and then given a sentence tags > it, using the training data. I want to put this NLP code on a server > which handles all in

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

2008-09-05 Thread Manu Hack
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 1:04 PM, castironpi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 5, 3:28 am, "Manu Hack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 4:25 PM, castironpi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Sep 4, 2:42 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> David C. Ullrich: >> >> >> > At least in

Re: indices question

2008-09-05 Thread Lanny
> Lanny: >> ... >> varcc = raw_input >> grid[varc] = 'O' >> ... >> Why can't I put a varible thats an integer instead? > > 'varcc' and 'varc' are different names. > > 'raw_input' isn't a function call, you may want to turn that into a > function call. > > varc isn't an integer, you

embed python in ms-word?

2008-09-05 Thread oyster
In my ms-word documnet, there are some calculation whihc I have to change due to different argumnet. is there any way to embed python code in word, so that I can write the following as a macro or something else, then the result (i.e. 2) is shown in the word documnet? def f(n): if n<2: return

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

2008-09-05 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:20:06 -0400, Manu Hack wrote: > On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 1:04 PM, castironpi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... >>> >The reason sum([]) is 0 is that sum( [ x ] ) - x = 0. >>> >>> It doesn't make sense to me. What do you set x to? >> >> For all x. > > But then how can you conclud

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

2008-09-05 Thread Manu Hack
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 11:45 PM, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:20:06 -0400, Manu Hack wrote: > >> On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 1:04 PM, castironpi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... >The reason sum([]) is 0 is that sum( [ x ] ) - x = 0. It doesn't make s

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

2008-09-05 Thread castironpi
On Sep 5, 9:20 pm, "Manu Hack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 1:04 PM, castironpi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sep 5, 3:28 am, "Manu Hack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 4:25 PM, castironpi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > On Sep 4, 2:42 pm, [EMAIL

Re: use str as variable name

2008-09-05 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Marco Bizzarri wrote: (...as Bruno implies, setattr(), len() et al can be and should be viewed as generic functions. Just a question: "generic functions" are not meant in the sense of "generic functions" of CLOS, am I right? it's meant in exactly that sense: len(L) means "of all len() imple

Re: use str as variable name

2008-09-05 Thread Marco Bizzarri
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Bruno Desthuilliers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marco Bizzarri a écrit : >> >> Just a question: "generic functions" are not meant in the sense of >> "generic functions" of CLOS, am I right? > > Nope. Just "generic" in the sense that they accept any object implementi

Re: use str as variable name

2008-09-05 Thread Marco Bizzarri
On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 7:52 AM, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marco Bizzarri wrote: > >>> (...as Bruno implies, setattr(), len() et al can be and should be viewed >>> as >>> generic functions. >> >> Just a question: "generic functions" are not meant in the sense of >> "generic function

Re: use str as variable name

2008-09-05 Thread Michele Simionato
On Sep 6, 8:02 am, "Marco Bizzarri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Bruno Desthuilliers > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Marco Bizzarri a écrit : > > >> Just a question: "generic functions" are not meant in the sense of > >> "generic functions" of CLOS, am I right? >

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