Re: Compare source code

in 645437 20101031 230912 Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >In message <[email protected]>, jf wrote: > >> I edit each file to remove tabs ... > >expand -i newfile > >> Do you know a tools to compare the initial file with the cleaned one to >> know if the algorithms are the same ?

Re: Allow multiline conditions and the like

Yingjie Lan writes: > Allow the conditions in the if-, elif-, while-, for-, and with-clauses > to span multiple lines without using a backlalsh at the end of a line, You can already do this with any expression: use parentheses. Yingjie Lan writes: > I would like to have comments after the li

Re: Allow multiline conditions and the like

In message <[email protected]>, Ben Finney wrote: > Yingjie Lan writes: > >> Allow the conditions in the if-, elif-, while-, for-, and with-clauses >> to span multiple lines without using a backlalsh at the end of a line, > > You can already do this with any expression: use parenth

Re: Allowing comments after the line continuation backslash

In message , Yingjie Lan wrote: > I would like to have comments after the line continuation backslash. What language allows that? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How on Factorial

In message , Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: > Geobird wrote: > >> def fact(x): >> return x > 1 and x * fact(x - 1) or 1 > > I'd say this is about as small as it gets. fact = lambda x : x > 1 and x * fact(x - 1) or 1 -- Lawrence “Functionalism Strikes Again” D’Oliveiro -- http://mail.python.or

Re: How on Factorial

In message , Jussi Piitulainen wrote: > (I agree that no one should write factorial like that, except as > a joke. I have nothing against (x if (a > b) else y). The trick > with and and or was used before Python had an actual conditional > expression.) You know what, I think I actually prefer the

Re: Why "flat is better than nested"?

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Re: Allowing comments after the line continuation backslash

> Sorry if I am baking too many ideas today. > I am just having trouble with the backslashes > > I would like to have comments after the line continuation backslash. > if a > 0 \ #comments for this condition > and b > 0: > #do something here > > This is currently not OK, but t

Re: python script to read google spreadsheet

In message <0b6f704c-e108-4fb9-afc2-3616d92d6...@t13g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>, charu gangal wrote: > This is the python code I was trying to access the cell information > from a google spreadsheet but the issue is that i am able to make it > work on Eclipse but when i deploy it, it is not showin

Re: Allow multiline conditions and the like

On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 23:02:21 -0700, Yingjie Lan wrote: > Hi, > > This is a mini-proposal I piggy-tailed in the other topic: > > Allow the conditions in the if-, elif-, while-, for-, and with-clauses > to span multiple lines [...] >also, if we don't allow it, people just have to use > parent

Re: Allowing comments after the line continuation backslash

Yingjie Lan wrote: > I would like to have comments after the line continuation backslash. > if a > 0 \ #comments for this condition > and b > 0: > #do something here Historically, and also in Python, the backslash escapes the immediately following character. That means that _nothin

Re: text file reformatting

On Oct 31, 11:46 pm, iwawi wrote: > On 31 loka, 21:48, Tim Chase wrote: > > > > > > PRJ01001 4 00100END > > > PRJ01002 3 00110END > > > > I would like to pick only some columns to a new file and put them to a > > > certain places (to match previous data) - definition file (def.csv) > > > could be

Re: Allowing comments after the line continuation backslash

On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 23:13:19 -0700, Yingjie Lan wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry if I am baking too many ideas today. I am just having trouble with > the backslashes Then don't use them. If you are having so much trouble keeping your lines short, then I suggest you're trying to do too much in one li

Re: python script to read google spreadsheet

This is the page i am getting on localhost 8080. The code is showing me thr result only in Eclipse but not through google app engine launcher. Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\google_appengine\google\appengine \tools\dev_appserver.py", line 3211, in _HandleR

Re: factorial of negative one (-1)

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 1:02 AM, Chris Rebert wrote: > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Bj Raz wrote: > > I am working with differential equations of the higher roots of negative > > one. (dividing enormous numbers into other enormous numbers to come out > with > > very reasonable numbers). > >

Re: Py3: Import relative path module

On Mon, 01 Nov 2010 01:08:52 -0700, Gnarlodious wrote: > On Oct 31, 11:09 am, Дамјан Георгиевски wrote: >> from .. import Data.DumpHT as DumpHT > > That doesn't work. Any more ideas? Define "doesn't work". Does it? Print a warning message but continue execution? Import the wrong module? Abort

Re: factorial of negative one (-1)

Simply out of curiosity is there a way to force python to print more then 16 places from the decimal? For better accuracy. On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 4:19 AM, Bj Raz wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 1:02 AM, Chris Rebert wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Bj Raz wrote: >> > I am work

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Re: Allow multiline conditions and the like

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 12:51 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 23:02:21 -0700, Yingjie Lan wrote: >> Hi, >> >> This is a mini-proposal I piggy-tailed in the other topic: >> >> Allow the conditions in the if-, elif-, while-, for-, and with-clauses >> to span multiple lines > [...] >>

Re: factorial of negative one (-1)

> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 4:19 AM, Bj Raz wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 1:02 AM, Chris Rebert wrote: >>> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Bj Raz wrote: >>> > I am working with differential equations of the higher roots of >>> > negative >>> > one. (dividing enormous numbers into other enormou

Re: How on Factorial

On Mon, 01 Nov 2010 20:23:42 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message , Jussi Piitulainen > wrote: > >> (I agree that no one should write factorial like that, except as a >> joke. I have nothing against (x if (a > b) else y). The trick with and >> and or was used before Python had an actual

Re: text file reformatting

On 1 marras, 09:59, "[email protected]" wrote: > On Oct 31, 11:46 pm, iwawi wrote: > > > > > > > On 31 loka, 21:48, Tim Chase wrote: > > > > > PRJ01001 4 00100END > > > > PRJ01002 3 00110END > > > > > I would like to pick only some columns to a new file and put them to a > > > > certain p

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Re: factorial of negative one (-1)

Chris Rebert writes: > (2) The underlying double-precision floating-point number only has ~16 > decimal digits of precision, so it's pointless to print out "further" > digits. A digression which has nothing to do with Raj's desire for "better accuracy"... Printing out further digits (without qu

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Re: Py3: Import relative path module

On Nov 1, 2:16 am, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Mon, 01 Nov 2010 01:08:52 -0700, Gnarlodious wrote: > > On Oct 31, 11:09 am, Дамјан Георгиевски wrote: > >> from .. import Data.DumpHT as DumpHT > > > That doesn't work. Any more ideas? > > Define "doesn't work". LOL. I get error: from .. import

Re: Would you recommend python as a first programming language?

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Re: factorial of negative one (-1)

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 5:42 AM, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > > Printing out further digits (without quotes) is not pointless if you > want to find out the exact representation of your number in python's > floating point, for educational purposes or otherwise.  Python has a > little-known but very instru

Re: Allowing comments after the line continuation backslash

On 2010-11-01, Martin v. Loewis wrote: > i.e. avoid the backslash for multi-line conditions altogether > (in fact, I can't think any situation where I would use the > backslash). The horrible-to-nest with statement. -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Py3: Import relative path module

Gnarlodious wrote: > On Nov 1, 2:16 am, Steven D'Aprano [email protected]> wrote: >> On Mon, 01 Nov 2010 01:08:52 -0700, Gnarlodious wrote: >> > On Oct 31, 11:09 am, Дамјан Георгиевски wrote: >> >> from .. import Data.DumpHT as DumpHT >> >> > That doesn't work. Any more ideas? >> >> Define

Re: [Beginer Question] I heard about python needing some sort of_VariableName_ boiler plate?

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Re: factorial of negative one (-1)

On Nov 1, 2010, at 5:42 AM, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > Chris Rebert writes: > >> (2) The underlying double-precision floating-point number only has ~16 >> decimal digits of precision, so it's pointless to print out "further" >> digits. > > A digression which has nothing to do with Raj's desire for

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Re: Would you recommend python as a first programming language?

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Re: Would you recommend python as a first programming language?

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Re: python script to read google spreadsheet

On Mon, 01 Nov 2010 01:14:09 -0700, charu gangal wrote: > This is the page i am getting on localhost 8080. The code is showing me > thr result only in Eclipse but not through google app engine launcher. > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\google_appengin

Re: Py3: Import relative path module

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Re: Py3: Import relative path module

Gnarlodious wrote: > On Nov 1, 5:36 am, Peter Otten wrote: > >> Remove the directory containing the importing file from your sys.path. > I removed all sys.path customizations and rebooted. > > In the following scenario, I am programming in one.py attempting to > import Data.py which is in the al

Re: Would you recommend python as a first programming language?

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Re: How on Factorial

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Re: text file reformatting

On Nov 1, 1:58 am, iwawi wrote: > On 1 marras, 09:59, "[email protected]" > > > > wrote: > > On Oct 31, 11:46 pm, iwawi wrote: > > > > On 31 loka, 21:48, Tim Chase wrote: > > > > > > PRJ01001 4 00100END > > > > > PRJ01002 3 00110END > > > > > > I would like to pick only some columns to a

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Re: Compare source code

On Mon, 01 Nov 2010 12:09:12 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message <[email protected]>, jf wrote: > >> I edit each file to remove tabs ... > > expand -i newfile > >> Do you know a tools to compare the initial file with the cleaned one to >> know if the algorithms a

Re: [Beginer Question] I heard about python needing some sort of_VariableName_ boiler plate?

On 01/11/2010 04:51, Ben Finney wrote: [email protected] writes: Sorry, to clarify I heard that when you declare a variable in python you have to use some sort of standard boiler plate _variable_ however this has not been my experience using IDLE so is this even true? I don't know what “som

Re: Exception Handling in Python 3

On 10/24/2010 5:36 AM, Steve Holden wrote: On 10/24/2010 2:22 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: In message, Steve Holden wrote: Yes, *if the exception is caught* then it doesn't make any difference. If the exception creates a traceback, however, I maintain that the additional information is conf

Re: [Beginer Question] I heard about python needing somesort of_VariableName_ boiler plate?

Sorry that is what I mean. What is it for? Sent wirelessly from my BlackBerry. -Original Message- From: MRAB Sender: [email protected] Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 17:33:22 To: Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Beginer Question] I heard about pyth

Re: [Beginer Question] I heard about python needing somesort of_VariableName_ boiler plate?

On 01/11/2010 18:18, [email protected] wrote: Sorry that is what I mean. What is it for? Sent wirelessly from my BlackBerry. -Original Message- From: MRAB Sender: [email protected] Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 17:33:22 To: Reply-To: [email protected] Sub

Re: [Beginer Question] I heard about python needing somesort of_VariableName_ boiler plate?

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 2:18 PM, wrote: > Sorry that is what I mean. What is it for? > Sent wirelessly from my BlackBerry. > What is what for? There is no boiler plate on variable names. *BY CONVENTION*, variables and methods with a special meaning will start and end with two underscores. *BY CON

Re: [Beginer Question] I heard about python needing somesort of_VariableName_ boiler plate?

On Mon, 1 Nov 2010 18:18:45 + [email protected] wrote: > Sorry that is what I mean. What is it for? > Sent wirelessly from my BlackBerry. > >>> andreas.quick_hot_anger = True Braden! Stop Top-Posting already! Please. If your BlackBerry makes this hard, then get another mail client. It get

Re: [Beginer Question] I heard about python needing somesort of_VariableName_ boiler plate?

On 11/1/2010 2:18 PM, [email protected] wrote: Sorry that is what I mean. What is it for? Sent wirelessly from my BlackBerry. Does it require you to toppost? Understanding the above requires one to guess what 'that' forward references. Perhaps the OP means: if __name__ == "__main__

Re: factorial of negative one (-1)

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Bj Raz wrote: > On Nov 1, 2010, at 5:42 AM, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > > > Chris Rebert writes: > > > >> (2) The underlying double-precision floating-point number only has ~16 > >> decimal digits of precision, so it's pointless to print out "further" > >> digits. > >

Re: Py3: Import relative path module

On 11/1/2010 6:54 AM, Gnarlodious wrote: On Nov 1, 2:16 am, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Mon, 01 Nov 2010 01:08:52 -0700, Gnarlodious wrote: On Oct 31, 11:09 am, Дамјан Георгиевски wrote: from .. import Data.DumpHT as DumpHT That doesn't work. Any more ideas? Define "doesn't work". LOL. I

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Re: [Beginer Question] I heard about python needing somesort of_VariableName_ boiler plate?

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Re: using google app through python

Why don't you start here http://code.google.com/apis/spreadsheets/data/1.0/developers_guide_python.html On 1 Nov, 09:05, charu gangal wrote: > Hey! Can anyone help me with python script for reading google > spreadsheets? what all packages do i need to import to make the code > run successfully a

Re: playful coding problems for 10 year olds

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Re: playful coding problems for 10 year olds

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Re: Allowing comments after the line continuation backslash

In message <[email protected]>, Martin v. Loewis wrote: > (in fact, I can't think any situation where I would use the backslash). for \ Description, Attr, ColorList \ in \ ( ("normal", "image", MainWindow.ColorsNormalList), ("highlighted"

Re: Compare source code

In message <[email protected]>, Peter Pearson wrote: > On Mon, 01 Nov 2010 12:09:12 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > >> In message <[email protected]>, jf wrote: >> >>> I edit each file to remove tabs ... >> >> expand -i newfile >> >>> Do you know a tools

Re: Compare source code

On 2010-11-01, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message <[email protected]>, Peter Pearson wrote: >> >>> diff -b oldfile newfile >> >> Warning: "diff -b" won't detect changes in indentation. Changes in >> indentation can change a Python program. > > I'm getting less and less kee

Re: playful coding problems for 10 year olds

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Re: serial I/O install fail -- DLL not found

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Fossil wrote: > Just starting with Python. > Installed: >  Python 2.7 >  pywin32-214.win32-py2.7.exe >  pyserial-2.5.win32.exe > on a Home WinXP SP3 Toshiba laptop with 2GB memory.  Open Python and > try to do simple I/O test and can't even get past first line. > Tr

Re: playful coding problems for 10 year olds

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Re: [Beginer Question] I heard about python needing somesort of_VariableName_ boiler plate?

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Re: Compare source code

On Mon, 1 Nov 2010 22:24:03 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2010-11-01, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> In message <[email protected]>, Peter Pearson wrote: >>> diff -b oldfile newfile >>> >>> Warning: "diff -b" won't detect changes in indentation. Changes in >>> inde

Re: Compare source code

On 11/1/2010 3:18 PM Lawrence D'Oliveiro said... In message<[email protected]>, Peter Pearson wrote: Warning: "diff -b" won't detect changes in indentation. Changes in indentation can change a Python program. I’m getting less and less keen on that particular feature of Python.

Re: extracting variables accessed and written from function / rule-based function calls

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Re: Compare source code

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Re: extracting variables accessed and written from function / rule-based function calls

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Re: serial I/O install fail -- DLL not found

On Nov 1, 3:55 pm, Fossil wrote: > Just starting with Python. > Installed: >   Python 2.7 >   pywin32-214.win32-py2.7.exe >   pyserial-2.5.win32.exe > on a Home WinXP SP3 Toshiba laptop with 2GB memory.  Open Python and > try to do simple I/O test and can't even get past first line. > Transcript b

Re: Allowing comments after the line continuation backslash

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message <[email protected]>, Martin v. Loewis wrote: > >> (in fact, I can't think any situation where I would use the backslash). > >    for \ >        Description, Attr, ColorList \ >    in \ >        ( >            ("norm

Re: Compare source code

On Nov 1, 4:48 pm, Peter Pearson wrote: > True, but diff doesn't come with an "ignore curly braces" option. > I'm not personally repelled by Python's use of significant indentation, > but I must concede that some awkwardness results from assigning > significance to something (whitespace) that many

Re: extracting variables accessed and written from function / rule-based function calls

On 01/11/2010 23:38, James Mills wrote: On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 9:23 AM, MRAB wrote: You might be interested by the story of how AstraZeneca tackled that kind of problem in PyDrone: http://www.python.org/about/success/astra/ This might be a good use-case (if I'm reading the post correctly) for

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How exactly does this relate to python? Sent wirelessly from my BlackBerry device on the Bell network. Envoyé sans fil par mon terminal mobile BlackBerry sur le réseau de Bell. -Original Message- From: silver light Sender: [email protected] Date: Mon, 1 Nov

Re: *** FBI gets a warm welcome in Chicago for their EXCELLENTperformance - cheers to NEW CONS ***

> -Original Message- > From: silver light > Sender: [email protected] > Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 18:10:36 > To: > Cc: > Subject: *** FBI gets a warm welcome in Chicago for their EXCELLENT >        performance - cheers to NEW CONS *** > > *** FBI gets a warm wel

Re: Allow multiline conditions and the like

Chris Rebert wrote: > Or, if possible, refactor the conditional into a function (call) so > it's no longer multiline in the first place. Or even simpler, assign the condition result to a variable: a_b_positive = a > 0 and b > 0 if a_b_positive: ... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: Allowing comments after the line continuation backslash

In message , Chris Rebert wrote: > desc_attr_colors_triples = (("normal", "image", > MainWindow.ColorsNormalList), > ("highlighted", "highlight", MainWindow.ColorsHighlightedList), > ("selected", "select", MainWindow.ColorsSelectedList)) > for in description, attr, color_list in desc_attr

Re: serial I/O install fail -- DLL not found

In message , Fossil wrote: > I did a complete de-install and re-install. Standard solution to Dimdows problems, really... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: *** FBI gets a warm welcome in Chicago for their EXCELLENTperformance - cheers to NEW CONS ***

On Nov 1, 6:35 pm, Chris Rebert wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: silver light > > Sender: [email protected] > > Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 18:10:36 > > To: > > Cc: > > Subject: *** FBI gets a warm welcome in Chicago for their EXCELLENT > >        performa

Re: factorial of negative one (-1)

In message <[email protected]>, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > Python has a little-known but very instructive method for determining the > makeup of a float: > 1.1 .as_integer_ratio() > (2476979795053773, 2251799813685248) Only available in 2.6 or later. Are we already talking as though 2.5

Re: ANN: PyQt v4.8.1 Released

In message , Phil Thompson wrote: > PyQt is available under the GPL and a commercial license. Surely you mean “proprietary” rather than “commercial”. There is nothing about the GPL that prevents “commercial” use. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: functions, list, default parameters

In message <[email protected]>, Andreas Waldenburger wrote: > While not very commonly needed, why should a shared default argument be > forbidden? Because it’s safer to disallow it than to allow it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: functions, list, default parameters

In message <[email protected]>, Gregory Ewing wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> And how does Python know whether some arbitrary default object is mutable >> or not? > > It doesn't, that's the whole point. Of course it knows. It is the one defining the concept in the first place

Re: str(int_var) formatted

In message , John Yeung wrote: > I will give zfill a little exposure, as it seems unloved/underused: > > str(x).zfill(2) The inside of my brain is a finite place. Each thing I put in there leaves less room for something else. So I have to think very carefully before deciding what to keep in

Re: *** FBI gets a warm welcome in Chicago for their EXCELLENTperformance - cheers to NEW CONS ***

On 02/11/2010 03:18, small Pox wrote: On Nov 1, 6:35 pm, Chris Rebert wrote: -Original Message- From: silver light Sender: [email protected] Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 18:10:36 To: Cc: Subject: *** FBI gets a warm welcome in Chicago for their EXCELLENT p

Re: Would you recommend python as a first programming language?

Post this question on the C/C++ group... and do post those replie here :P -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: functions, list, default parameters

On 2010-11-01 22:31 , Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: In message<[email protected]>, Gregory Ewing wrote: Steven D'Aprano wrote: And how does Python know whether some arbitrary default object is mutable or not? It doesn't, that's the whole point. Of course it knows. It is the one

Re: Compare source code

On 2010-11-01, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2010-11-01, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> In message <[email protected]>, Peter Pearson wrote: >>> Warning: "diff -b" won't detect changes in indentation. Changes in >>> indentation can change a Python program. >> I'm getting less and less

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