Re: random number including 1 - i.e. [0,1]

2009-06-10 Thread Virgil Stokes
John Yeung wrote: On Jun 10, 1:52 am, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:21:26 -0700, John Yeung wrote: Therefore, to me the most up-to-date docs (which say that uniform(a, b) returns a float in the closed interval [a, b]) is closer to correct than befor

Re: random number including 1 - i.e. [0,1]

2009-06-10 Thread Jussi Piitulainen
Miles Kaufmann writes: [...] > I'm curious what algorithm calls for random numbers on a closed > interval. The Box-Muller transform, polar form. At least Wikipedia says so. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Using logging module to log into flash drive

2009-06-10 Thread Krzysztof Retel
On Jun 9, 7:57 pm, Carl Banks wrote: > On Jun 9, 8:57 am, kretel wrote: > > > > > Hi All, > > > I am trying to implement the following functionality: > > 1. log messages to the flash drive > > 2. if the flash drive is not available, switch handler to the > > BufferringHandler and log into buffer,

Re: random number including 1 - i.e. [0,1]

2009-06-10 Thread Lorenzo Gatti
On 10 Giu, 06:23, Esmail wrote: > Here is part of the specification of an algorithm I'm implementing that > shows the reason for my original query: > > vid = w * vid + c1 * rand( ) * ( pid – xid ) + c2 * Rand( ) * (pgd –xid ) (1a) > > xid = xid + vid (1b) > > where c1 and c2 are two positive const

Re: random number including 1 - i.e. [0,1]

2009-06-10 Thread alex23
On Jun 10, 3:24 pm, John Yeung wrote: > Alex, did you bother to read what I quoted?  Paul McGuire suggested an > alternative in case the OP was choosing integers in a roundabout way. > I was merely pointing out that Paul's solution can be more simply > achieved using a library function. My apolog

Re: random number including 1 - i.e. [0,1]

2009-06-10 Thread Andre Engels
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 8:25 AM, John Yeung wrote: > That uniform(a, b) will return a random float in the semi-open > interval [a, b) for certain values of a and b; and in the closed > interval [a, b] for other values of a and b.  (Swap a and b if a > b.) > > To me, the fact that you sometimes get

Re: random number including 1 - i.e. [0,1]

2009-06-10 Thread Jussi Piitulainen
Esmail writes: > random.random() will generate a random value in the range [0, 1). > > Is there an easy way to generate random values in the range [0, 1]? > I.e., including 1? > > I am implementing an algorithm and want to stay as true to the > original design specifications as possible though I

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

2009-06-10 Thread Nick Craig-Wood
[email protected] wrote: > I'm sure this is a FAQ, but I certainly haven't been able > to find an answer. > > Is it possible to set the program name as seen by the > operating system or lower-level libraries? > > I'm connecting to a database, and the runtime helpfully > sends some information

Re: random number including 1 - i.e. [0,1]

2009-06-10 Thread Mark Dickinson
On Jun 10, 7:25 am, John Yeung wrote: > On Jun 10, 1:52 am, Steven D'Aprano > > wrote: > > On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:21:26 -0700, John Yeung wrote: > > > Therefore, to me the most up-to-date docs (which say > > > that uniform(a, b) returns a float in the closed > > > interval [a, b]) is closer to co

Re: What is the actual type of "interrupted system call"?

2009-06-10 Thread Jean-Michel Pichavant
mrstevegross wrote: exceptions.EOFError exceptions.ReferenceError exceptions.ZeroDivisionError ... exceptions.NotImplementedError exceptions.UnicodeError exceptions.__str__ Is there a single parent exception to all those? Or should I just write it as: try: ... catch Exception: ... Than

Re: Where should I store docs in my project?

2009-06-10 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Matthew Wilson wrote: > I used paster to create a project named pitz. I'm writing a bunch of > user documentation. Where should I put it? > > The project looks a little like this: > > /home/matt/projects/pitz > setup.py > pitz/ > __init__.py # has my project cod

Compiling Python3.1

2009-06-10 Thread Johannes Bauer
Hello group, I just wanted to switch from Py3.0 to Py3.1. No luck here: [...] ar rc libpython3.1.a Python/_warnings.o Python/Python-ast.o Python/asdl.o Python/ast.o Python/bltinmodule.o Python/ceval.o Python/compile.o Python/codecs.o Python/errors.o Python/frozen.o Python/frozenmain.o Python/futu

Re: How to insert string in each match using RegEx iterator

2009-06-10 Thread Paul McGuire
On Jun 9, 11:13 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > By what method would a string be inserted at each instance of a RegEx > match? > Some might say that using a parsing library for this problem is overkill, but let me just put this out there as another data point for you. Pypar

easiest way to check python version?

2009-06-10 Thread dmitrey
hi all, what is easiest way to check python version (to obtain values like 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 3.0 etc) from Python env? I don't mean "python -V" from command prompt. Thank you in advance, D. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: easiest way to check python version?

2009-06-10 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
dmitrey wrote: hi all, what is easiest way to check python version (to obtain values like 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 3.0 etc) from Python env? I don't mean "python -V" from command prompt. Thank you in advance, D. You don't mean: >>> sys.version either? -- MPH http://blog.dcuktec.com 'If consumed, best

Re: easiest way to check python version?

2009-06-10 Thread John Machin
On Jun 10, 9:01 pm, dmitrey wrote: > hi all, > what is easiest way  to check python version (to obtain values like > 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 3.0 etc) from Python env? > I don't mean "python -V" from command prompt. | >>> import sys | >>> sys.version | '2.6.2 (r262:71605, Apr 14 2009, 22:40:02) [MSC v.1500

Re: easiest way to check python version?

2009-06-10 Thread A. Cavallo
A common way to do it is (it is widely accepted): python -c 'import sys; print sys.version[:3]' Regards, Antonio On Wednesday 10 June 2009 12:25:22 John Machin wrote: > On Jun 10, 9:01 pm, dmitrey wrote: > > hi all, > > what is easiest way to check python version (to obtain values like > > 2.4

xmlrpclib and generators

2009-06-10 Thread Ken Seehart
It would be really cool if an rpc call could return a generator. I know that there are a few reasons why one would not expect it to be part of the library (e.g. the client would need to receive asynchronous messages, and it's not part of the rpc standard), however below I show a possible imple

Re: multi-thread python interpreaters and c++ program

2009-06-10 Thread Floris Bruynooghe
On Jun 9, 6:50 am, "myopc" wrote: >   I am ruuning a c++ program (boost python) , which create many python > interpreaters and each run a python script with use multi-thread > (threading). > when the c++ main program exit, I want to shut down python interpreaters, > but it crashed. Your threads a

Re: Any idea of stopping the execution of PyRun_File()

2009-06-10 Thread BigHand
On Jun 10, 7:41 am, "Gabriel Genellina" wrote: > En Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:15:22 -0300, BigHand escribió: > > >    I have an embedded python application. which is  a MFC app with > > Python interpreter embedded. > > >    In the App, I have a separate thread to execute a Python script > > (using the

getop or optparse with option with spaces?

2009-06-10 Thread David Shapiro
Hello, I have been trying to find an example of how to deal with options that have spaces in them. I am using jython, which is the same I think as python 2.2.3. I feebly tried to use optparse and argparse with no success (got gettext, locale, and optparse). The code is as follows: try

Re: random number including 1 - i.e. [0,1]

2009-06-10 Thread dickinsm
Esmail wrote: > Hi, > > random.random() will generate a random value in the range [0, 1). > > Is there an easy way to generate random values in the range [0, 1]? > I.e., including 1? > > [...] Here are three recipes, each more pedantic than the last. They all assume that Python floats are IEE

Re: getop or optparse with option with spaces?

2009-06-10 Thread Javier Collado
Hello, It's strange behaviour. Have you tried argparse (http://code.google.com/p/argparse/)? I've been using it for long time without any problem like that? Best regards, Javier 2009/6/10 David Shapiro : > Hello, > > I have been trying to find an example of how to deal with options that have

Re: random number including 1 - i.e. [0,1]

2009-06-10 Thread Paul McGuire
On Jun 9, 11:23 pm, Esmail wrote: > Here is part of the specification of an algorithm I'm implementing that > shows the reason for my original query: > > vid = w * vid + c1 * rand( ) * ( pid – xid ) + c2 * Rand( ) * (pgd –xid ) (1a) > > xid = xid + vid (1b) > > where c1 and c2 are two positive con

retrieve bitwise float representation

2009-06-10 Thread Ulrich Eckhardt
Hi! I need to pack a floating point value into a vector of 32-bit unsigned values in IEEE format. Further, I maintain a CRC32 checksum for integrity checking. For the latter, I actually need the float as integral value. What I currently do is this: tmp = struct.pack("=f", f) (i,) = struct.un

RE: getop or optparse with option with spaces?

2009-06-10 Thread David Shapiro
Unfortunately, I had no luck installing argparse, which is really confusing because I would need to use some old version pre-optik to use I think. The Jython I use is like python 2.2.3. I spent all of yesterday trying to get either getopt, argparse, or optparse to work. Even with optparse I ha

xml application advice

2009-06-10 Thread William Purcell
I am writing a application to calculate pressure drop for a piping network. Namely a building sprinkler system. This will be a command line program at first with the system described in xml (at least that is how I think I want to do it). An important part of this calculation is finding the 'hydr

RE: xml application advice

2009-06-10 Thread David Shapiro
How about using web server (tomcat jsp) and then java for the xml part, which would allow you to build a nice gui for you. You can use python for backend work. If you can combine some of the levels of your xml it will be easier to traverse. I am not sure this will work for you, but I put as a

Re: retrieve bitwise float representation

2009-06-10 Thread Mark Dickinson
Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: > Hi! > > I need to pack a floating point value into a vector of 32-bit unsigned > values in IEEE format. Further, I maintain a CRC32 checksum for integrity > checking. For the latter, I actually need the float as integral value. > > [...] You could try using frexp to ext

Connection tester

2009-06-10 Thread Sparky
Hey! I am developing a small application that tests multiple websites and compares their "response time". Some of these sites do not respond to a ping and, for the measurement to be standardized, all sites must have the same action preformed upon them. Another problem is that not all of the sites h

Re: retrieve bitwise float representation

2009-06-10 Thread Peter Otten
Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: > I need to pack a floating point value into a vector of 32-bit unsigned > values in IEEE format. Further, I maintain a CRC32 checksum for integrity > checking. For the latter, I actually need the float as integral value. > > What I currently do is this: > > tmp = struct

Re: How to insert string in each match using RegEx iterator

2009-06-10 Thread Brian D
On Jun 10, 5:17 am, Paul McGuire wrote: > On Jun 9, 11:13 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > By what method would a string be inserted at each instance of a RegEx > > match? > > Some might say that using a parsing library for this problem is > overkill, but let me just put

Re: multi-core software

2009-06-10 Thread Jon Harrop
Arved Sandstrom wrote: > Jon Harrop wrote: >> Arved Sandstrom wrote: >>> Jon Harrop wrote: No. Concurrent programming is about interleaving computations in order to reduce latency. Nothing to do with parallelism. >>> >>> Jon, I do concurrent programming all the time, as do most of my peer

Re: How to insert string in each match using RegEx iterator

2009-06-10 Thread [email protected]
On Jun 10, 5:17 am, Paul McGuire wrote: > On Jun 9, 11:13 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > By what method would a string be inserted at each instance of a RegEx > > match? > > Some might say that using a parsing library for this problem is > overkill, but let me just put

Can not dump class object created on runtime

2009-06-10 Thread Metal Zong
Hello, Can not dump class object created on runtime. Is there anybody can help me? Thank. Following is testing code: import pickle from new import classobj class A: def __str__(self): return self.__class__.name if __name__ == "__main__": c = classobj('B', (A, ), {}) # crea

Re: Connection tester

2009-06-10 Thread David Shapiro
Not al pages suppost GET. If a page pings and returns does not mean it can be logged into and work (maybe database down). Have you seen soapui? - Original Message - From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Wed Jun 10 10:26:22 2009 S

Re: xmlrpclib and generators

2009-06-10 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
Ken Seehart wrote: 8< implementation -- >The practical constraints of my specific application are: >1. The rpc server is a highly specialized slave system that does heavy duty work. >2. The rpc client is itself a web server that dispatches work requests to the rpc serve

Re: xml application advice

2009-06-10 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
William Purcell wrote: > I am writing a application to calculate pressure drop for a piping > network. Namely a building sprinkler system. This will be a > command line program at first with the system described in xml (at > least that is how I think I want to do it). > > An important part of t

How to escape # hash character in regex match strings

2009-06-10 Thread [email protected]
I've encountered a problem with my RegEx learning curve -- how to escape hash characters # in strings being matched, e.g.: >>> string = re.escape('123#abc456') >>> match = re.match('\d+', string) >>> print match <_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x00A6A800> >>> print match.group() 123 The correct resul

Printing dictionary values rather than references

2009-06-10 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
Hi all. I'd like to print-out a dictionary of objects. The printed values are references. How Do I print the actual objects. class MyClass: def __str__(self): return str(self.__dict__) if __name__ == '__main__': dict = dict() classA = MyClass() setattr(classA, "attr-1", "

Re: multi-core software

2009-06-10 Thread Jeff M.
On Jun 9, 9:08 pm, Arved Sandstrom wrote: > Jon Harrop wrote: > > > > Arved Sandstrom wrote: > >> > >> Jon, I do concurrent programming all the time, as do most of my peers. > >> Way down on the list of why we do it is the reduction of latency. > > > What is higher on the list? > > Correctness. >

Re: easiest way to check python version?

2009-06-10 Thread Scott David Daniels
John Machin wrote: On Jun 10, 9:01 pm, dmitrey wrote: hi all, what is easiest way to check python version (to obtain values like 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 3.0 etc) from Python env? ... "easiest" depends on purpose; e.g. version for display or for logging exactly what the customer is running. version_in

Re: multi-core software

2009-06-10 Thread Matthias Blume
"Jeff M." writes: > On Jun 9, 9:08 pm, Arved Sandstrom wrote: >> Jon Harrop wrote: >> > >> > Arved Sandstrom wrote: >> >> >> >> Jon, I do concurrent programming all the time, as do most of my peers. >> >> Way down on the list of why we do it is the reduction of latency. >> >> > What is higher on

Re: Printing dictionary values rather than references

2009-06-10 Thread Ben Charrow
Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: > Hi all. > > I'd like to print-out a dictionary of objects. The printed values are > references. How Do I print the actual objects. > > Thanks, > Amit How about this: class MyClass: def __str__(self): return str(self.__dict__) def __repr__(self):

Re: Printing dictionary values rather than references

2009-06-10 Thread Jeff McNeil
On Jun 10, 10:19 am, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: > Hi all. > > I'd like to print-out a dictionary of objects. The printed values are > references. How Do I print the actual objects. > > class MyClass: >     def __str__(self): >         return str(self.__dict__) > > if __name__ == '__main__': >     dict

Re: How to insert string in each match using RegEx iterator

2009-06-10 Thread Peter Otten
[email protected] wrote: > I wonder if you (or anyone else) might attempt a different explanation > for the use of the special sequence '\1' in the RegEx syntax. > > The Python documentation explains: > > \number > Matches the contents of the group of the same number. Groups are > numbered

Re: retrieve bitwise float representation

2009-06-10 Thread Scott David Daniels
Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: I need to pack a floating point value into a vector of 32-bit unsigned values in IEEE format. Further, I maintain a CRC32 checksum for integrity checking. For the latter, I actually need the float as integral value. What I currently do is ... pack and unpack the float usin

Re: multi-core software

2009-06-10 Thread Paul Rubin
Jon Harrop writes: > > I'm not being facetious. I write applications that run on application > > servers, and from time to time I have had to write various special > > purpose servers. This kind of programming is all about managing > > concurrent execution of computations. The overarching concern

Re: Connection tester

2009-06-10 Thread Nigel Rantor
Sparky wrote: > Hey! I am developing a small application that tests multiple websites > and compares their "response time". Some of these sites do not respond > to a ping and, for the measurement to be standardized, all sites must > have the same action preformed upon them. Another problem is that

Re: How to escape # hash character in regex match strings

2009-06-10 Thread Peter Otten
[email protected] wrote: > I've encountered a problem with my RegEx learning curve -- how to > escape hash characters # in strings being matched, e.g.: > string = re.escape('123#abc456') match = re.match('\d+', string) print match > > <_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x00A6A800> pr

Re: xml application advice

2009-06-10 Thread Peter Otten
William Purcell wrote: > I am writing a application to calculate pressure drop for a piping > network. Namely a building sprinkler system. This will be a > command line program at first with the system described in xml (at > least that is how I think I want to do it). > > An important part of t

Re: Connection tester

2009-06-10 Thread Jeff McNeil
On Jun 10, 10:26 am, Sparky wrote: > Hey! I am developing a small application that tests multiple websites > and compares their "response time". Some of these sites do not respond > to a ping and, for the measurement to be standardized, all sites must > have the same action preformed upon them. An

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2009-06-10 Thread Gabriel Genellina
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Re: xml application advice

2009-06-10 Thread William Purcell
Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > William Purcell wrote: > >> I am writing a application to calculate pressure drop for a piping >> network. Namely a building sprinkler system. This will be a >> command line program at first with the system described in xml (at >> least that is how I think I want to do

Re: Career Track: Computer Programmer

2009-06-10 Thread Jorgen Grahn
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 07:49:42 -0700 (PDT), [email protected] wrote: > Roles and Responsibilities : > > The primary role of a Computer Programmer is to write programs > according to the instructions determined primarily by computer > software engineers and systems analysts. I hope this i

Re: xml application advice

2009-06-10 Thread Scott David Daniels
William Purcell wrote: I am writing a application to calculate pressure drop for a piping network. Namely a building sprinkler system. This will be a command line program at first with the system described in xml If you are going to be doing a lot of tree walking, try etree. Simple exampl

Re: xml application advice

2009-06-10 Thread Jorgen Grahn
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:57:42 -0500, William Purcell wrote: ... > I am writing a application to calculate pressure drop for a piping > network. Namely a building sprinkler system. This will be a > command line program at first with the system described in xml (at > least that is how I think I wan

Re: xml application advice

2009-06-10 Thread William Purcell
Scott David Daniels wrote: > William Purcell wrote: >> I am writing a application to calculate pressure drop for a piping >> network. Namely a building sprinkler system. This will be a >> command line program at first with the system described in xml > > If you are going to be doing a lot of

RE: How to escape # hash character in regex match strings

2009-06-10 Thread David Shapiro
Maybe a using a Unicode equiv of # would do the trick. -Original Message- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter Otten Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 11:32 AM To: [email protected] S

Re: xml application advice

2009-06-10 Thread Scott David Daniels
William Purcell wrote: Scott David Daniels wrote: William Purcell wrote: I am writing a application to calculate pressure drop for a piping network. Namely a building sprinkler system. This will be a command line program at first with the system described in xml If you are going to be do

Re: random number including 1 - i.e. [0,1]

2009-06-10 Thread Mensanator
On Jun 10, 4:01 am, Mark Dickinson wrote: > On Jun 10, 7:25 am, John Yeung wrote: > > > > > > > On Jun 10, 1:52 am, Steven D'Aprano > > > wrote: > > > On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:21:26 -0700, John Yeung wrote: > > > > Therefore, to me the most up-to-date docs (which say > > > > that uniform(a, b) ret

Re: xml application advice

2009-06-10 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> > If what you're interested in is to get real work done, why decide to > make XML a showstopper? > > I see two tasks: (a) transforming a text file description of a sprinkler > system into a Python data structure, and (b) implementing algorithms > to find out important stuff about such a data st

Re: random number including 1 - i.e. [0,1]

2009-06-10 Thread Mark Dickinson
On Jun 10, 6:21 pm, Mensanator wrote: > So, the 2.6.2 documentation is STILL wrong. Before it implied > it was ALWAYS a semi-open interval, and now it says it's ALWAYS > a closed interval. But neither is correct. Exactly which bit of the 2.6.2 documentation do you think is incorrect? The documen

Re: Connection tester

2009-06-10 Thread Sparky
On Jun 10, 10:01 am, Jeff McNeil wrote: > On Jun 10, 10:26 am, Sparky wrote: > > > > > Hey! I am developing a small application that tests multiple websites > > and compares their "response time". Some of these sites do not respond > > to a ping and, for the measurement to be standardized, all si

Re: random number including 1 - i.e. [0,1]

2009-06-10 Thread Mensanator
On Jun 10, 12:37 pm, Mark Dickinson wrote: > On Jun 10, 6:21 pm, Mensanator wrote: > > > So, the 2.6.2 documentation is STILL wrong. Before it implied > > it was ALWAYS a semi-open interval, and now it says it's ALWAYS > > a closed interval. But neither is correct. > > Exactly which bit of the 2.

Re: multi-core software

2009-06-10 Thread Jeff M.
On Jun 10, 12:49 pm, Seamus MacRae wrote: > Jeff M. wrote: > > On Jun 9, 9:08 pm, Arved Sandstrom wrote: > >> Jon Harrop wrote: > >>> Arved Sandstrom wrote: > Jon, I do concurrent programming all the time, as do most of my peers. > Way down on the list of why we do it is the reduction o

Re: multi-core software

2009-06-10 Thread Seamus MacRae
Jeff M. wrote: On Jun 9, 9:08 pm, Arved Sandstrom wrote: Jon Harrop wrote: Arved Sandstrom wrote: Jon, I do concurrent programming all the time, as do most of my peers. Way down on the list of why we do it is the reduction of latency. What is higher on the list? Correctness. IMO, that res

Re: multi-core software

2009-06-10 Thread Dimiter "malkia" Stanev
Jeff M. wrote: On Jun 9, 9:08 pm, Arved Sandstrom wrote: Jon Harrop wrote: Arved Sandstrom wrote: Jon, I do concurrent programming all the time, as do most of my peers. Way down on the list of why we do it is the reduction of latency. What is higher on the list? Correctness. IMO, that re

Re: random number including 1 - i.e. [0,1]

2009-06-10 Thread Robert Kern
On 2009-06-09 19:27, Mensanator wrote: On Jun 9, 6:12 pm, Robert Kern wrote: On 2009-06-09 18:05, Mensanator wrote: On Jun 9, 4:33 pm, Esmailwrote: Hi, random.random() will generate a random value in the range [0, 1). Is there an easy way to generate random values in the range [0, 1]

Re: random number including 1 - i.e. [0,1]

2009-06-10 Thread Terry Reedy
Mensanator wrote: So, the 2.6.2 documentation is STILL wrong. Before it implied it was ALWAYS a semi-open interval, and now it says it's ALWAYS a closed interval. But neither is correct. If a < x < b is true, then a <= x <= b is true. But docs say that in general end point values might happen.

How do you insert an image into Powerpoint using python/win32?

2009-06-10 Thread jcherry7
I have python 3.0.1, and have downloaded pywin32 for python 3.x, aka build #213. I ran win32com.client.makepy.py on Microsoft Office 12.0 Object Library and Microsoft PowerPoint 12.0 Object Library. The output files were placed in win32com.gen_py. I renamed them as MSO.py and MSPPT.py, respecti

Restart the interactive python shell like in IDLE

2009-06-10 Thread Matt Burson
Is there a way to reproduce the behavior of IDLE's restart shell ability by using a function? I thought there would be since you can exit python by executing the simple quit() function I thought there would be an equally simple function name something like restart(). I'd prefer something like this

Re: random number including 1 - i.e. [0,1]

2009-06-10 Thread Mark Dickinson
On Jun 10, 6:57 pm, Mensanator wrote: > On Jun 10, 12:37 pm, Mark Dickinson wrote: > > > On Jun 10, 6:21 pm, Mensanator wrote: > > > > So, the 2.6.2 documentation is STILL wrong. Before it implied > > > it was ALWAYS a semi-open interval, and now it says it's ALWAYS > > > a closed interval. But

Re: random number including 1 - i.e. [0,1]

2009-06-10 Thread Robert Kern
On 2009-06-10 13:53, Terry Reedy wrote: Mensanator wrote: So, the 2.6.2 documentation is STILL wrong. Before it implied it was ALWAYS a semi-open interval, and now it says it's ALWAYS a closed interval. But neither is correct. If a < x < b is true, then a <= x <= b is true. But docs say that

Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: Function/method returning list of chars in string?

2009-06-10 Thread Terry Reedy
Carl Banks wrote: Sometimes alternate constructors are needed when there is more than one possible way to create an instance from a given input. In the case of str(iterable), one could want either a string representing the iterable itself, just as with non-iterables, or a string representing th

object reincarnation

2009-06-10 Thread Manavan
Hello everyone, Since the real world objects often needs to be deleted even if they have some reference from some other object, I am going to use this approach to better model this situation, by cleaning up the attributes and assigning self.__class__ to a different class. Any comment on this ap

Re: How do you insert an image into Powerpoint using python/win32?

2009-06-10 Thread Cherry, Jonathan M
Never mind, its just that the "choose file" option produces a file path with '/" rather than '\', and python cannot use the former. Thanks anyway - Original Message - From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 2:22:22 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern

Re: Function/method returning list of chars in string?

2009-06-10 Thread Terry Reedy
Robert Kern wrote: Important correction noted. But how did you find those? When I search for 'Shaw' with the search box (I tried it again), I only get a couple of other, irrelevant hits. Is the search box buggy? I suspect so. I knew of most of them already, and Googling site:pypi.python.org p

Re: Compiling Python3.1

2009-06-10 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> What can I do about that? Remove the non-ASCII characters from db.h. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

cleaning up an ASCII file?

2009-06-10 Thread Nick Matzke
Hi all, So I'm parsing an XML file returned from a database. However, the database entries have occasional non-ASCII characters, and this is crashing my parsers. Is there some handy function out there that will schlep through a file like this, and do something like fix the characters that i

Re: random number including 1 - i.e. [0,1]

2009-06-10 Thread Mark Dickinson
On Jun 10, 8:15 pm, Robert Kern wrote: > On 2009-06-10 13:53, Terry Reedy wrote: > > A full technical discussion does not below in the docs, in my opinion. A > > wike article would be fine. > > True. However, a brief note that "Due to floating point arithmetic, for some > values of a and b, b may

Re: Printing dictionary values rather than references

2009-06-10 Thread Terry Reedy
Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: Hi all. I'd like to print-out a dictionary of objects. The printed values are references. How Do I print the actual objects. You can only print string representations, as defined by type(ob).__str__ and type(ob).__repr__. class MyClass: def __str__(self):

Re: random number including 1 - i.e. [0,1]

2009-06-10 Thread Robert Kern
On 2009-06-10 14:46, Mark Dickinson wrote: On Jun 10, 8:15 pm, Robert Kern wrote: On 2009-06-10 13:53, Terry Reedy wrote: A full technical discussion does not below in the docs, in my opinion. A wike article would be fine. True. However, a brief note that "Due to floating point arithmetic, fo

Re: object reincarnation

2009-06-10 Thread Terry Reedy
Manavan wrote: Hello everyone, Since the real world objects often needs to be deleted even if they have some reference from some other object, I am going to use this approach to better model this situation, by cleaning up the attributes and assigning self.__class__ to a different class. Any c

Re: cleaning up an ASCII file?

2009-06-10 Thread Vlastimil Brom
2009/6/10 Nick Matzke : > Hi all, > > So I'm parsing an XML file returned from a database.  However, the database > entries have occasional non-ASCII characters, and this is crashing my > parsers. > > Is there some handy function out there that will schlep through a file like > this, and do somethi

Re: random number including 1 - i.e. [0,1]

2009-06-10 Thread Robert Kern
On 2009-06-10 15:32, Robert Kern wrote: On 2009-06-10 14:46, Mark Dickinson wrote: But I don't know why it would be useful to know that endpoints *are* sometimes included, without knowing exactly when. That's a fair point. However, one issue that hasn't been brought up is that it might be co

Re: cleaning up an ASCII file?

2009-06-10 Thread Terry Reedy
Nick Matzke wrote: Hi all, So I'm parsing an XML file returned from a database. However, the database entries have occasional non-ASCII characters, and this is crashing my parsers. Is there some handy function out there that will schlep through a file like this, and do something like fix t

Re: random number including 1 - i.e. [0,1]

2009-06-10 Thread Mark Dickinson
Robert Kern wrote: > On 2009-06-10 14:46, Mark Dickinson wrote: >> On Jun 10, 8:15 pm, Robert Kern wrote: >>> On 2009-06-10 13:53, Terry Reedy wrote: A full technical discussion does not below in the docs, in my opinion. A wike article would be fine. >>> True. However, a brief note that

Re: random number including 1 - i.e. [0,1]

2009-06-10 Thread Robert Kern
On 2009-06-10 15:54, Mark Dickinson wrote: Robert Kern wrote: On 2009-06-10 14:46, Mark Dickinson wrote: On Jun 10, 8:15 pm, Robert Kern wrote: On 2009-06-10 13:53, Terry Reedy wrote: A full technical discussion does not below in the docs, in my opinion. A wike article would be fine. True

Re: free chart lib for Python?

2009-06-10 Thread Aaron Watters
On May 7, 10:27 pm, oyster wrote: > I mean chart, not plot. If you don't know the difference, you can > checkwww.advsofteng.com, which is a commercial program > > is there such a thing with many kinds ofchart, i.e. pie-chart, > line-chart, ..? > > A long time ago, I programmed a rmchart interf

Re: Compiling Python3.1

2009-06-10 Thread Johannes Bauer
Martin v. Löwis schrieb: >> What can I do about that? > > Remove the non-ASCII characters from db.h. Ehh... $ find -type f | grep -i db.h ./Modules/unicodename_db.h ./Modules/unicodedata_db.h ./Objects/unicodetype_db.h There's no db.h file in the Python-3.1rc1 distribution. The ones above conta

Re: random number including 1 - i.e. [0,1]

2009-06-10 Thread Carl Banks
On Jun 9, 2:33 pm, Esmail wrote: > Hi, > > random.random() will generate a random value in the range [0, 1). > > Is there an easy way to generate random values in the range [0, 1]? > I.e., including 1? > > I am implementing an algorithm and want to stay as true to the > original design specificati

Re: random number including 1 - i.e. [0,1]

2009-06-10 Thread Mark Dickinson
Robert Kern wrote: > On 2009-06-10 15:54, Mark Dickinson wrote: >> [...] I'm not sure I'm capable of coming up with extra wording >> for the docs that won't just cause more confusion, so I'll leave that >> to someone else. > > I did make a concrete suggestion. Yes, you did. Thank you. Submitte

Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: Function/method returning list of chars in string?

2009-06-10 Thread Mel
Terry Reedy wrote: > Str.join takes any iterable of strings and constructs a string. Only > str knows how to do that, though it could have a built-in that called a > hypothetical .__join__ method. However, Python started with just one > string type and there does not seem much use for joining an

Re: Compiling Python3.1

2009-06-10 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Johannes Bauer wrote: > Martin v. Löwis schrieb: >>> What can I do about that? >> Remove the non-ASCII characters from db.h. > > Ehh... > > $ find -type f | grep -i db.h > ./Modules/unicodename_db.h > ./Modules/unicodedata_db.h > ./Objects/unicodetype_db.h > > There's no db.h file in the Python-

Re: cleaning up an ASCII file?

2009-06-10 Thread John Machin
On Jun 11, 6:09 am, Nick Matzke wrote: > Hi all, > > So I'm parsing an XML file returned from a database.  However, the > database entries have occasional non-ASCII characters, and this is > crashing my parsers. So fix your parsers. google("unicode"). Deleting stuff that you don't understand is a

Re: Using logging module to log into flash drive

2009-06-10 Thread Jorgen Grahn
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 18:10:18 +0100, A. Cavallo wrote: [top-posting fixed] > On Tuesday 09 June 2009 16:57:00 kretel wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I am trying to implement the following functionality: >> 1. log messages to the flash drive >> 2. if the flash drive is not available, switch handler to the

itertools.intersect?

2009-06-10 Thread David Wilson
Hi, During a fun coding session yesterday, I came across a problem that I thought was already solved by itertools, but on investigation it seems it isn't. The problem is simple: given one or more ordered sequences, return only the objects that appear in each sequence, without reading the whole se

Re: python and getopt and spaces in option

2009-06-10 Thread Jorgen Grahn
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 12:22:20 -0400, David Shapiro wrote: > I have been trying to find an example of how to deal with options > that have spaces in them. I am using jython, which is the same I > think as python 2.2.3. I feebly tried to use optparse and argparse > with no success (got gettext, loca

How *build* new elements and *replace* elements with xml.dom.minidom ?

2009-06-10 Thread Chris Seberino
How build new elements to replace existing ones using xml.dom.minidom? Specifically, I have an HTML table of numbers. I want to replace those numbers with hyperlinks to create a table of hyperlinks. So I need to build hyperlinks (a elements) with href attribute and replace the text elements (num

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