Re: A useful, but painful, one-liner to edit money amounts

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:30 PM, Peter Otten <[email protected]> wrote: > John Nagle wrote: > >> There's got to be a better way to do this: >> >> >> def editmoney(n) : >>      return((",".join(reduce(lambda lst, item : (lst + [item]) if >>          item else lst, >>          re.split(r'(\d\d\d)',str

new to python - trouble calling a function from another function

Hello, I'm building an elevator simulator for a class assignment. I recently ran into a roadblock and don't know how to fix it. For some reason, in my checkQueue function below, the call to self.goUp() is never executed. It is on the last line of code I pasted in. I can put print statements b

Re: new to python - trouble calling a function from another function

I was looking at the code, I dont have much time to go through it, but I might have found a typo - yield (p.destination - self.currenteFloor) , I think it should be currentFloor.Maybe thats your problem. Will look into the code more later. Regards, Nav On 05-Aug-2010, at 12:55 PM, Brandon McCo

Re: Python Script Cannot Write to Directory

On 08/04/2010 09:27 AM, Chris Rebert wrote: > On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:21 AM, News123 wrote: > >> 3.) try following python >> >> import os >> print os.getcwd() >> import shutil >> shutil("YOUR_SOURCE_FILE_NAME","DESTINATION_DIRECTORY/DSTNTN_FILE_NAME") > > WTF; modules aren't callable. Typo? >

Re: A useful, but painful, one-liner to edit money amounts

On Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:22:57 -0700, geremy condra wrote: > locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "") >> 'de_DE.UTF-8' > print locale.currency(13535, grouping=True) >> 13.535,00 € > print locale.format("%d", 13535, grouping=True) >> 13.535 >> >> Peter > > I had literally no idea this existed

Re: A new syntax for writing tests

Jonathan Fine wrote: Hi I just discovered today a new syntax for writing tests. The basic idea is to write a function that contains some statements, and run it via a decorator. I wonder if anyone had seen this pattern before, and how you feel about it. For myself, I quite like it. Let's

Re: simple (I hope!) problem

samwyse wrote: On Aug 3, 1:20 am, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:19:46 -0700, samwyse wrote: Fortunately, I don't need the functionality of the object, I just want something that won't generate an error when I use it. So, what is the quickest way to to create such an ob

Re: simple integer subclass

Hi Andreas, On 2010-08-03 12:15, Andreas Pfrengle wrote: > On 3 Aug., 03:22, Carl Banks wrote:> > Thinking about it, it might really be dangerous to coerce always to > int1, since sometimes I might want a normal int as result (I can't > tell yet for sure). Yes, that way your problem may shift fr

Re: new to python - trouble calling a function from another function

On 5 Aug, 08:25, Brandon McCombs wrote: > Hello, > > I'm building an elevator simulator for a class assignment. I recently > ran into a roadblock and don't know how to fix it. For some reason, in > my checkQueue function below, the call to self.goUp() is never executed. > It is on the last line of

Re: Behavior of re.split on empty strings is unexpected

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Re: Nice way to cast a homogeneous tuple

On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:58:29 +0200, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: wheres pythonmonks wrote: > Thanks ... I thought int was a type-cast (like in C++) so I assumed I > couldn't reference it. Firstly, "int" is a class. Python doesn't make a distinction between builtin types and class types like C++,

Re: Why is python not written in C++ ?

In message <[email protected]>, Paul Rubin wrote: > I'd say the Ada standardizers went to a great deal of trouble to specify > and document stuff that other languages simply leave undefined, leaving > developers relying on implementation-specific behavior that's not part > of the

Re: Why is python not written in C++ ?

In message , Roy Smith wrote: > C++, for all its flaws, had one powerful feature which made it very > popular. It is a superset of C. Actually, it never was. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Nice way to cast a homogeneous tuple

On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:15:24 -0400, wheres pythonmonks wrote: A new python convert is now looking for a replacement for another perl idiom. A functional alternative: l = ... seqint = compose(map, int) print f(seqint(l)) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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Re: new to python - trouble calling a function from another function

Brandon McCombs wrote: > I'm building an elevator simulator for a class assignment. I recently > ran into a roadblock and don't know how to fix it. For some reason, in > my checkQueue function below, the call to self.goUp() is never executed. [...] > sorry about the formatting While I can certainl

Re: A useful, but painful, one-liner to edit money amounts

Peter Otten wrote: locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, ("en_US", "UTF-8")) 'en_US.UTF8' print locale.currency(13535, grouping=True) $13,535.00 Okay, so if I'm writing a wsgi app, and I want to format depending on the choices of the currently logged in users, what would you recommend? I can't

subprocess escaping POpen?!

Hi All, I have a script that does the following: from subprocess import Popen,PIPE,STDOUT def execute(command,cwd): return Popen( command, stderr=STDOUT, stdout=PIPE, universal_newlines=True, cwd=cwd, shell=True, ).communicate()[0] ca

Re: subprocess escaping POpen?!

Wolfgang Rohdewald wrote: On Donnerstag 05 August 2010, Chris Withers wrote: ...then the output is indeed captured. So, what is svn doing differently? How is it escaping its jail? maybe it does not read from stdin but directly from /dev/tty But why only the request for auth credentials? Chr

Re: subprocess escaping POpen?!

On Donnerstag 05 August 2010, Chris Withers wrote: > ...then the output is indeed captured. So, what is svn doing > differently? How is it escaping its jail? maybe it does not read from stdin but directly from /dev/tty -- Wolfgang -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: subprocess escaping POpen?!

Chris Withers wrote: Hi All, I have a script that does the following: from subprocess import Popen,PIPE,STDOUT def execute(command,cwd): return Popen( command, stderr=STDOUT, stdout=PIPE, universal_newlines=True, cwd=cwd, shell=True,

Re: subprocess escaping POpen?!

Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote: You did not redirect stdin, so it is expected you can still read input from the console. Okay, so if I definitely wanted no input, what should I pass as the stdin parameter to the POpen constructor? And it looks like svn is writting the credentials prompt on st

Re: A useful, but painful, one-liner to edit money amounts

On Aug 5, 7:06 pm, Chris Withers wrote: > Peter Otten wrote: > locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, ("en_US", "UTF-8")) > > 'en_US.UTF8' > print locale.currency(13535, grouping=True) > > $13,535.00 > > Okay, so if I'm writing a wsgi app, and I want to format depending on > the choices of the

Re: Why is python not written in C++ ?

C++ is actually not that bad. Can't compare it to C, but nothing compares to C... I think the bad reputation it got (and still has) is from Microsoft's visual studio IDE (that was and still is horrible) A lot of good applications are written in C++, but many bad ones as well. Sorry for swearing in

PyInt_FromLong gives segfault on small numbers (<257)

Hi, I'm trying to call python (python 2.6) functions from C++ using MS VC+ + 6.0 and any calls to PyInt_FromLong with numbers below 257 give me exceptions, no problems with bigger numbers PyObject *pValue; pValue = PyInt_FromLong(1L); (or pValue = PyInt_FromLong(1); Any ideas of what can I be

Re: Why is python not written in C++ ?

Lawrence D'Oliveiro writes: > In message , Roy Smith wrote: > >> C++, for all its flaws, had one powerful feature which made it very >> popular. It is a superset of C. > > Actually, it never was. Wondering off topic a bit - I am reminded of something I once read in some MS blurb... it described

Re: subprocess escaping POpen?!

On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 12:58 +0100, Chris Withers wrote: > Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote: > > You did not redirect stdin, so it is expected you can still read input > > from the console. > > Okay, so if I definitely wanted no input, what should I pass as the > stdin parameter to the POpen construc

Re: subprocess escaping POpen?!

On Donnerstag 05 August 2010, Chris Withers wrote: > But why only the request for auth credentials? for security reasons I suppose - make sure a human enters the password -- Wolfgang -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: A useful, but painful, one-liner to edit money amounts

Chris Withers wrote: > Peter Otten wrote: > locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, ("en_US", "UTF-8")) >> 'en_US.UTF8' > print locale.currency(13535, grouping=True) >> $13,535.00 > > Okay, so if I'm writing a wsgi app, and I want to format depending on > the choices of the currently logged in us

Re: PyInt_FromLong gives segfault on small numbers (<257)

On Thu, 5 Aug 2010 05:04:36 -0700 (PDT) Marcos Prieto wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to call python (python 2.6) functions from C++ using MS VC+ > + 6.0 and any calls to PyInt_FromLong with numbers below 257 give me > exceptions, no problems with bigger numbers > > PyObject *pValue; > > pValue = P

Re: subprocess escaping POpen?!

Wolfgang Rohdewald wrote: On Donnerstag 05 August 2010, Chris Withers wrote: But why only the request for auth credentials? for security reasons I suppose - make sure a human enters the password Well yes, but what if you actually want to script it? Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management,

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Re: A new syntax for writing tests

On 5 Aug, 10:17, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote: > Jonathan Fine wrote: > > Hi > > > I just discovered today anewsyntaxfor writing tests.  The basic > > idea is to write a function that contains some statements, and run it > > via a decorator.  I wonder if anyone had seen this pattern before, and > >

Re: subprocess escaping POpen?!

On 2010-08-05, Chris Withers wrote: > Wolfgang Rohdewald wrote: >> On Donnerstag 05 August 2010, Chris Withers wrote: >>> But why only the request for auth credentials? >> >> for security reasons I suppose - make sure a human enters >> the password > > Well yes, but what if you actually want to s

Re: subprocess escaping POpen?!

Chris Withers wrote: Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote: You did not redirect stdin, so it is expected you can still read input from the console. Okay, so if I definitely wanted no input, what should I pass as the stdin parameter to the POpen constructor? You do want an input don't you ? 'cause th

Re: simple (I hope!) problem

On Aug 5, 4:32 am, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote: > samwyse wrote: > > On Aug 3, 1:20 am, Steven D'Aprano > [email protected]> wrote: > > >> On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:19:46 -0700, samwyse wrote: > > >>> Fortunately, I don't need the functionality of the object, I just want > >>> something that w

Re: Why is python not written in C++ ?

On 08/05/10 05:33, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: OK, I have a copy of K&R 2nd Ed on a shelf within reach here. Can you point out some behaviour that C programmers might need to rely on, that is not specified in that document? "need to" is considerably different from "might". Size of an int, assu

Re: subprocess escaping POpen?!

- Original message - > Wolfgang Rohdewald wrote: > > On Donnerstag 05 August 2010, Chris Withers wrote: > > > But why only the request for auth credentials? > > > > for security reasons I suppose - make sure a human enters > > the password > > Well yes, but what if you actually want to s

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Re: A new syntax for writing tests

jfine wrote: On 5 Aug, 10:17, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote: Jonathan Fine wrote: Hi I just discovered today anewsyntaxfor writing tests. The basic idea is to write a function that contains some statements, and run it via a decorator. I wonder if anyone had seen this pattern be

Re: A useful, but painful, one-liner to edit money amounts

On 8/5/2010 12:33 AM, John Nagle wrote: There's got to be a better way to do this: def editmoney(n) : return((",".join(reduce(lambda lst, item : (lst + [item]) if item else lst, re.split(r'(\d\d\d)',str(n)[::-1]),[])))[::-1]) Here's a more elegant variant, using regexp lookahead: def thous_

Re: A portable LISP interpreter that includes all the major list-processing functions is described. A complete, annotated listing of the program's code, written in PASCAL, is included.

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Re: subprocess escaping POpen?!

Kushal Kumaran wrote: - Original message - > Wolfgang Rohdewald wrote: > > On Donnerstag 05 August 2010, Chris Withers wrote: > > > But why only the request for auth credentials? > > > > for security reasons I suppose - make sure a human enters > > the password > > Well yes, but

Re: subprocess escaping POpen?!

On 05/08/2010 15:38, Chris Withers wrote: Kushal Kumaran wrote: - Original message - > Wolfgang Rohdewald wrote: > > On Donnerstag 05 August 2010, Chris Withers wrote: > > > But why only the request for auth credentials? > > > > for security reasons I suppose - make sure a human enters

Re: subprocess escaping POpen?!

Tim Golden wrote: See http://pexpect.sf.net for a python version. ...which doesn't work on Windows. There is a winpexpect: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/winpexpect/1.3 Are the two api-identical? Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Batch Processing & Python Consulting - h

Re: subprocess escaping POpen?!

On 05/08/2010 15:49, Chris Withers wrote: Tim Golden wrote: See http://pexpect.sf.net for a python version. ...which doesn't work on Windows. There is a winpexpect: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/winpexpect/1.3 Are the two api-identical? From the bitbucket page: http://bitbucket.org/geer

Re: assigning variables from list data

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 7:26 AM, Chris Hare wrote: > > I have a database query result (see code below).  In PHP, I would have said > > list(var1,var2,var) = $result > > and each element in the list would be assigned to each of the named > variables.  I have my data coming out of the database, and

Re: subprocess escaping POpen?!

Tim Golden wrote: On 05/08/2010 15:49, Chris Withers wrote: Tim Golden wrote: See http://pexpect.sf.net for a python version. ...which doesn't work on Windows. There is a winpexpect: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/winpexpect/1.3 Are the two api-identical? From the bitbucket page: http:

Re: subprocess escaping POpen?!

On 05/08/2010 15:56, Chris Withers wrote: Tim Golden wrote: On 05/08/2010 15:49, Chris Withers wrote: Tim Golden wrote: See http://pexpect.sf.net for a python version. ...which doesn't work on Windows. There is a winpexpect: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/winpexpect/1.3 Are the two api-ide

Re: assigning variables from list data

On 08/05/10 09:26, Chris Hare wrote: I have a database query result (see code below). In PHP, I would have said list(var1,var2,var) = $result and each element in the list would be assigned to each of the named variables. I have my data coming out of the database, and I can see it is a list. so

Re: A new syntax for writing tests

On 5 Aug, 14:52, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote: > jfine wrote: > > On 5 Aug, 10:17, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote: > > >> Jonathan Fine wrote: > > >>> Hi > > >>> I just discovered today anewsyntaxfor writing tests.  The basic > >>> idea is to write a function that contains some statements, and run it

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Re: new to python - trouble calling a function from another function

Jon Clements wrote: On 5 Aug, 08:25, Brandon McCombs wrote: Hello, I'm building an elevator simulator for a class assignment. I recently ran into a roadblock and don't know how to fix it. For some reason, in my checkQueue function below, the call to self.goUp() is never executed. It is on the

Re: new to python - trouble calling a function from another function

Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: Brandon McCombs wrote: I'm building an elevator simulator for a class assignment. I recently ran into a roadblock and don't know how to fix it. For some reason, in my checkQueue function below, the call to self.goUp() is never executed. [...] sorry about the formatting

Re: Why is python not written in C++ ?

On 8/2/2010 5:42 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 02/08/2010 00:08, candide wrote: Python is an object oriented langage (OOL). The Python main implementation is written in pure and "old" C90. Is it for historical reasons? C is not an OOL and C++ strongly is. I wonder if it wouldn't be more suitable

Re: new to python - trouble calling a function from another function

On Aug 5, 2010, at 11:20 AM, Brandon McCombs wrote: > so I missed a few lines, so sue me. The problem is that when you don't post a self contained example there is no proper way to answer your question, since the problem could be outside the part you posted. > already aware. I reformatted tabs t

easy question on parsing python: "is not None"

How does "x is not None" make any sense? "not x is None" does make sense. I can only surmise that in this context (preceding is) "not" is not a unary right-associative operator, therefore: x is not None === IS_NOTEQ(X, None) Beside "not in" which seems to work similarly, is there other syntacti

Re: new to python - trouble calling a function from another function

On 2010-08-05, Brandon McCombs wrote: > class Elevator(Process): > def __init__(self,name): > Process.__init__(self,name=name) > self.numPassengers = 0 > self.passengerList = [] > self.passengerWaitQ = [] > self.currentFloor = 1 > self.idle = 1 > self.newP

Re: easy question on parsing python: "is not None"

On Aug 5, 2010, at 5:42 PM, wheres pythonmonks wrote: How does "x is not None" make any sense? "not x is None" does make sense. I can only surmise that in this context (preceding is) "not" is not a unary right-associative operator, therefore: x is not None === IS_NOTEQ(X, None) Beside "not

Re: easy question on parsing python: "is not None"

wheres pythonmonks wrote: How does "x is not None" make any sense? "not x is None" does make sense. I can only surmise that in this context (preceding is) "not" is not a unary right-associative operator, therefore: x is not None === IS_NOTEQ(X, None) Beside "not in" which seems to work simila

Re: easy question on parsing python: "is not None"

wheres pythonmonks writes: > How does "x is not None" make any sense? In two ways: partly from the fact that Python syntax is preferentially designed to be reasonably readable to a native English reader; and partly because it makes for more obvious semantics. ‘is not’ is a single operator which

Re: easy question on parsing python: "is not None"

Well, I am not convinced of the equivalence of not None and true: >>> not None True >>> 3 is True; False >>> 3 is not None True >>> P.S. Sorry for the top-post -- is there a way to not do top posts from gmail? I haven't used usenet since tin. On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Roald de Vries wro

Re: easy question on parsing python: "is not None"

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 8:42 AM, wheres pythonmonks wrote: > How does "x is not None" make any sense?  "not x is None" does make sense. > > I can only surmise that in this context (preceding is) "not" is not a > unary right-associative operator, therefore: > > x is not None === IS_NOTEQ(X, None) >

Re: easy question on parsing python: "is not None"

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Roald de Vries wrote: > On Aug 5, 2010, at 5:42 PM, wheres pythonmonks wrote: >> How does "x is not None" make any sense?  "not x is None" does make sense. >> >> I can only surmise that in this context (preceding is) "not" is not a >> unary right-associative operato

Re: simple integer subclass

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Re: easy question on parsing python: "is not None"

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 8:42 AM, wheres pythonmonks wrote: > How does "x is not None" make any sense?  "not x is None" does make sense. > > I can only surmise that in this context (preceding is) "not" is not a > unary right-associative operator, therefore: > > x is not None === IS_NOTEQ(X, None) >

Re: Struggling to convert a mysql datetime object to a python string of a different format

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Re: A portable LISP interpreter that includes all the major list-processing functions is described. A complete, annotated listing of the program's code, written in PASCAL, is included.

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Re: easy question on parsing python: "is not None"

On Aug 5, 2010, at 6:11 PM, Chris Rebert wrote: On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Roald de Vries wrote: On Aug 5, 2010, at 5:42 PM, wheres pythonmonks wrote: How does "x is not None" make any sense? "not x is None" does make sense. I can only surmise that in this context (preceding is) "not

Re: A useful, but painful, one-liner to edit money amounts

John Posner wrote: On 8/5/2010 12:33 AM, John Nagle wrote: There's got to be a better way to do this: def editmoney(n) : return((",".join(reduce(lambda lst, item : (lst + [item]) if item else lst, re.split(r'(\d\d\d)',str(n)[::-1]),[])))[::-1]) Here's a more elegant variant, using regexp lo

Re: easy question on parsing python: "is not None"

Roald de Vries wrote: On Aug 5, 2010, at 5:42 PM, wheres pythonmonks wrote: How does "x is not None" make any sense? "not x is None" does make sense. I can only surmise that in this context (preceding is) "not" is not a unary right-associative operator, therefore: x is not None === IS_NOTEQ(

Re: easy question on parsing python: "is not None"

Roald de Vries wrote: On Aug 5, 2010, at 5:42 PM, wheres pythonmonks wrote: How does "x is not None" make any sense? "not x is None" does make sense. I can only surmise that in this context (preceding is) "not" is not a unary right-associative operator, therefore: x is not None === IS_NOTEQ(

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Re: new to python - trouble calling a function from another function

> I'm building an elevator simulator for a class assignment. I recently ran > into a roadblock and don't know how to fix it. For some reason, in my > checkQueue function below, the call to self.goUp() is never executed. It is > on the last line of code I pasted in. I can put print statements before

Re: Why is python not written in C++ ?

Lawrence D'Oliveiro writes: > OK, I have a copy of K&R 2nd Ed on a shelf within reach here. Can you point > out some behaviour that C programmers might need to rely on, that is not > specified in that document? C has all kinds of undefined behavior. "Might need to rely on" is not relevant for

pre-uninstall script in bdist_wininst

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Re: A useful, but painful, one-liner to edit money amounts

On 8/5/2010 12:36 PM, MRAB wrote: You don't need to reverse the string: def thous_format(integer_string): """ add comma thousands separator(s) to an integer-valued string """ return re.sub(r"(?<=\d)(?=(?:\d\d\d)+$)", ",", integer_string) Nice! My first encounter with a look-behind

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Re: Struggling to convert a mysql datetime object to a python string of a different format

Hey i made it! :-) dataset = cursor.fetchall() for row in dataset: print ( ''' ''' ) date = row[2].strftime( '%d %b, %H:%M' ) print ( ''' %s %s %s ''' % ( row[0], row[1], date ) ) Unfortunately had to ditch the 'for entry in row' line because couldn't iterate over the it

Re: Struggling to convert a mysql datetime object to a python string of a different format

On 08/05/10 13:52, Νίκος wrote: dataset = cursor.fetchall() for row in dataset: print ( ''' ''' ) date = row[2].strftime( '%d %b, %H:%M' ) print ( ''' %s %s %s ''' % ( row[0], row[1], date ) ) Unfortunately had to ditch the 'for entry in row' line because cou

Re: subprocess escaping POpen?!

On Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:23:35 +0100, Chris Withers wrote: >>> ...then the output is indeed captured. So, what is svn doing >>> differently? How is it escaping its jail? >> >> maybe it does not read from stdin but directly from /dev/tty > > But why only the request for auth credentials? So that

Re: ctypes: pointer to method

On Thu, 05 Aug 2010 10:50:21 -0700, Martin Landa wrote: > is it possible to pass pointer to a method using ctypes. I don't know about methods, but it works for functions. > Sample code: > > ... > G_set_error_routine(byref(self._print_error)) This won't work; you have to be more explici

Re: Why is python not written in C++ ?

On Aug 1, 9:34 pm, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 01:08 +0200, candide wrote: > > I would propose that in fact most programming languages are implemented > in C.  Sun's (Oracle's) Java compiler and runtime are written in ANSI C. > The core of the Gnu Compiler Collection (which inclu

Re: Struggling to convert a mysql datetime object to a python string of a different format

>On 5 Αύγ, 22:09, Tim Chase wrote: > On 08/05/10 13:52, Νίκος wrote: > > > dataset = cursor.fetchall() > > > for row in dataset: > >      print ( '''  ''' ) As i have it the returned 'dataset' is stored line per line to 'row'. So, 'dataset' in here is a 'list of tuples' right? and 'row' in here

Re: A useful, but painful, one-liner to edit money amounts

Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:22:57 -0700, geremy condra wrote: > >> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "") >>> 'de_DE.UTF-8' >> print locale.currency(13535, grouping=True) >>> 13.535,00 € >> print locale.format("%d", 13535, grouping=True) >>> 13.535 >>> >>> Peter >> >

defining, raising and catching exceptions

I have a block of test code, where I am trying to raise and catch my own user defined exception class NetActiveError(RuntimeError): def __init__(self,error): self.args = error def a(): try: fh = open("me.txt", "r") except Exception as (errno, errText): print

Re: easy question on parsing python: "is not None"

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:07 AM, wheres pythonmonks wrote: > Well, I am not convinced of the equivalence of not None and true: > not None > True 3 is True; > False 3 is not None > True > > P.S. Sorry for the top-post -- is there a way to not do top posts from > gmail?  I haven't

Re: defining, raising and catching exceptions

What makes you think it has to do with user-defined exceptions? >>> try : ...raise Exception("hello") ... except Exception as (errno, errText) : ... print "whatever" ... Traceback (most recent call last): ValueError: need more than 1 values to unpack An Exception is an object, not a tuple o

Re: Why is python not written in C++ ?

Paul Rubin: > C has all kinds of undefined behavior. "Might need to rely on" is not > relevant for this kind of issue. Ada's designers had the goal that that > Ada programs should have NO undefined behavior. Ada achieves this by describing a long list of implementation defined behaviour (Ann

Re: easy question on parsing python: "is not None"

On Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:07:53 +0100, wheres pythonmonks wrote: Well, I am not convinced of the equivalence of not None and true: not None True 3 is True; False 3 is not None True You're not testing for equivalence there, you're testing for identity. "is" and "is not" test whether

Re: defining, raising and catching exceptions

okay - but why does the response come back like No such file or directory def b ('n', 'e', 't', ' ', 'a', 'l', 'r', 'e', 'a', 'd', 'y', ' ', 'r', 'u', 'n', 'n', 'i', 'n', 'g') On Aug 5, 2010, at 5:49 PM, Benjamin Kaplan wrote: > What makes you think it has to do with user-defined exceptions? >

Re: Struggling to convert a mysql datetime object to a python string of a different format

On 08/05/10 16:01, Νίκος wrote: On 5 Αύγ, 22:09, Tim Chase wrote: dataset = cursor.fetchall() for row in dataset: print ( '''''' ) So, 'dataset' in here is a 'list of tuples' right? and 'row' in here is a tuple form the above list of tuples right? Am i understanding this correct

Re: Why is python not written in C++ ?

In article , Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message , Roy Smith wrote: > > > C++, for all its flaws, had one powerful feature which made it very > > popular. It is a superset of C. > > Actually, it never was. Yes, there are a few corner cases where valid C syntax has different semantics in

Re: defining, raising and catching exceptions

Chris Hare wrote: okay - but why does the response come back like No such file or directory def b ('n', 'e', 't', ' ', 'a', 'l', 'r', 'e', 'a', 'd', 'y', ' ', 'r', 'u', 'n', 'n', 'i', 'n', 'g') The class Exception saves its arguments in the 'args' instance attribute, and when it prints the ex

Re: [Tutor] Finding the version # of a module, and py module problem

It's been awhile since I've used python, and I recall there is a way to find the version number from the IDLE command line prompt. dir, help, __version.__? I made the most minimal change to a program, and it works for me, but not my partner. He gets Traceback (most recent call last): File

Re: [Tutor] Finding the version # of a module, and py module problem

On Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:55:30 -0700, W. eWatson wrote: > I'm pretty sure he has the same version of Python, 2.5, but perhaps not > the numpy or scipy modules. I need to find out his version numbers. It's only a convention, but the usual way is to check the __version__ attribute. It works for Nump

Re: [Tutor] Finding the version # of a module, and py module problem

W. eWatson wrote: It's been awhile since I've used python, and I recall there is a way to find the version number from the IDLE command line prompt. dir, help, __version.__? I made the most minimal change to a program, and it works for me, but not my partner. He gets Traceback (most recent

Re: defining, raising and catching exceptions

On Aug 5, 2010, at 7:37 PM, MRAB wrote: > Chris Hare wrote: >> okay - but why does the response come back like >> No such file or directory >> def b >> ('n', 'e', 't', ' ', 'a', 'l', 'r', 'e', 'a', 'd', 'y', ' ', 'r', 'u', 'n', >> 'n', 'i', 'n', 'g') > The class Exception saves its arguments in

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