Re: vote for Python - PLEASE

2007-10-20 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Bjoern Schliessmann schrieb: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> It's an Internet poll. By definition, the results are meaningless. > > Regrettably, there are many people that don't share your definition. > > Also, why would there be telephone votings in TV if they were > meaningless to the default watch

Re: Failure to connect in SimpleXMLRPCServer/xmlrpclib

2007-10-22 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
iu2 wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've copied the example of RPC usage from the Python's doc. > When the client and server were on the same PC ("localhost") (I use > Windows) > it worked ok. But putting the server on a different PC raised the > error: > > gaierror: (11001, 'getaddrinfo failed') > The

Re: package import question

2007-10-22 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Phoe6 wrote: > Hi all, > I have the following directory structure: > > wallpaper/ > -main.py > -ng/ > -- __init__.py > -- setdesktop.py > -yb/ > -- __init__.py > -- setdesktop.py > >>Fro

Re: Dealing with "funny" characters

2007-10-22 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
>> I doubt that indexing has anything to do with it whatsoever. > > Of course it does. ORDER BY, LIKE, TRIM, and other SQL expressions > that > do more than an equal comparison need to know the actual data > representation. If you were to convert to UTF-8 or UCS-2 in the Python > progra

Re: Failure to connect in SimpleXMLRPCServer/xmlrpclib

2007-10-22 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
>> Maybe using the IP-address helps? >> >> Diez- Hide quoted text - >> >> - Show quoted text - > > No, that doesn't help either. > May be I don't use it right. > I tried "http://1.2.3.4:8000"; > and > r"http://\\1.2.3.4:8000"; > > with no success. The former should work. The latter is Windows-na

Re: Iteration for Factorials

2007-10-22 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Py-Fun wrote: > I'm stuck trying to write a function that generates a factorial of a > number using iteration and not recursion. Any simple ideas would be > appreciated. Show us your attempts, and we might suggest a fix. Because otherwise this sounds suspiciously like homework. Diez -- http://

Re: Building sparc64 32/64-bit Python

2007-10-22 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Stefan Bellon wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to build a Sun Solaris Version of Python from the source so > that both, 32-bit and 64-bit libraries are present. > > I can successfully build a 32-bit version in one directory and a 64-bit > version in another directory. What I'd like to do is to build

Re: Automatic Generation of Python Class Files

2007-10-22 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> You wrote: " can't think of a single reason why you would ever want to > do this, > since your "list of method and property names" would be just as > verbose as just typing the actual python code." > > I don't think I understand how this would be the same amount of > typing. Consider the followi

Re: Life-time of temporary variables in list comprehensions

2007-10-23 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
beginner schrieb: > Hi All, > > If I have a list comprehension: > > ab=["A","B"] > c = "ABC" > [1.0 if c=='A' else c='B' for c in ab] > print c > >>> "B" > > My test shows that if c is not d

Python equivalent to *nix 'banner' problem

2007-10-23 Thread Looney, James B
<> I have written a Python script to duplicate the 'banner' program from IRIX. Attached is the generated data file. This data is generated the first time by using 'banner' on my IRIX machine. Thereafter, the data is simply used (and can be run from anywhere). The data is a marshaled copy of t

Re: trying to remember how to do inline code "testing"

2007-10-24 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Alex Hunsley wrote: > I can remember Python having a feature which allowed you to add some > simple tests to your code, something like adding console output to your > actual python script, like so: > > > >>> 1+1 > 2 > >>> 2*7 > 14 > > > ... then python would actually run these queries and ch

Re: How to find out which functions exist?

2007-10-24 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
mrstephengross wrote: >> import module >> from inspect import getmembers, isclass >> classes = getmembers(module, isclass) > > Ok, this makes sense. How can I do it inside the .py file I'm working > on? That is, consider this: > > class A: > pass &

Re: about functions question

2007-10-24 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
NoName schrieb: > I try it: > > def b(): > ... > a() > ... > > def a(): > ... > b() > ... > > b() > it's not work. It works. def a(): print "a" b() def b(): print "b" print a # not callin

Re: Parallel insert to postgresql with thread

2007-10-25 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
sor = conn.cursor() > class paralel(Thread): > def __init__ (self, veriler, sayii): > Thread.__init__(self) > def run(self): > save(a, b, c) > > def save(a,b,c): > cursor.execute("INSERT INTO keywords (keyword) VALUES > (

Re: about functions question

2007-10-25 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
NoName wrote: > sorry! Yes it's work. > What about 2 question? > Can i put function after main block? > print qq() > > def qq(): > return 'hello' You can't call a thing before it is defined. > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "C:\Python25\projects\indexer\test.py", line 1, in >

Re: threading problem..

2007-10-25 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Abandoned schrieb: > Hi.. > I want to threading but i have a interesting error.. > == > class SelectAll(threading.Thread): >def __init__(self, name): > threading.Thread.__init__(self) > self.name = name #kelime > >def run(self): > > > self.result=.

Re: elementtree w/utf8

2007-10-25 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Tim Arnold schrieb: > Hi, I'm getting the by-now-familiar error: > return codecs.charmap_decode(input,errors,decoding_map) > UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa9' in position > 4615: ordinal not in range(128) > > the html file I'm working with is in utf-8, I open it wit

Re: Dual Python Installed Environments..

2007-10-25 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
sam schrieb: > Hi.. > > I'm looking to install dual versions of python 2.3, 2.4 on the same box. I'm > trying to figure out if there's something I'm missing, some kind of gotchas > that I haven't seen. THey shouldn't affect each other. > I'm also trying to figure out how to allow my script to de

Re: "Standard" Full Text Search Engine

2007-10-26 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Martin Marcher wrote: > Hello, > > is there something like a standard full text search engine? > > I'm thinking of the equivalent for python like lucene is for java or > ferret for rails. Preferrably something that isn't exactly a clone of > one of those but more that is python friendly in terms

Re: Interpreter hook during evaluation

2007-10-26 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > Hello, > > I would like access to a hook inside Python that would allow me to > register a C++ function to be called periodically during the > evaluation of a Python script. > > Does any such thing exist today in Python? I poked around but didn't > find anything. > >

Re: Going past the float size limits?

2007-10-26 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > Hello all > It would be great if I could make a number that can go beyond current > size limitations. Is there any sort of external library that can have > infinitely huge numbers? Way way way way beyond say 5x10^350 or > whatever it is? > > I'm hitting that "inf" boun

Re: transmit an array via socket

2007-10-27 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Jeff Pang schrieb: > I want to transmit an array via socket from a host to another. > How to do it? thank you. Using XMLRPC or Pyro or other RPC mechanisms instead of reinventing a wheel that is larger than the socket API suggests in the first place. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listi

Re: sort a list

2007-10-27 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > hello, > > I'm new to python and this list.I hope this question don't repeat an old > story on the list. > > I have a number list,say it's [3,2,1,4,5],I want to sort it as > [1,2,3,4,5],how to do? your_list.sort() Please read the documentation, all of this is prop

Re: how to creating html files with python

2007-10-27 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
krishnakant Mane schrieb: > hello, > I have one strange requirement, > I need to create html files through python and add some data from the > database. > it is a GUI based application developed in WX python. > and the reports need to come out in html for some strange reason which > is off topic t

Re: SQLite3; weird error

2007-10-29 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
TYR wrote: > Has anyone else experienced a weird SQLite3 problem? > > Going by the documentation at docs.python.org, the syntax is as > follows: > foo = sqlite3.connect(dbname) creates a connection object representing > the state of dbname and assigns it to variable foo. If dbname doesn't > exist

Re: python2.5 and mysqldb

2007-10-29 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
writeson wrote: > Hi all, > > At work we're using python2.3 and I'd like to start getting us moved > up to python2.5. We run Centos4 which is the free, open source version > of RedHat Enterprise. I've got python2.5 installed on this machine, > but am stuck trying to get mysqldb installed and runn

Re: Parsing xml file in python

2007-10-30 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > I am a newbie in python > I am trying to parse a xml file and write its content in a txt file. > The txt contains null elements. Any reason what iam doing wrong here > > > Here is the code that i wrote > > import sys,os > import xml.sax > import xml.sax.handler > fr

Re: Python and SQLite release cycles

2007-10-31 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > Official Python distro is very stable, with release cycle of around 1 > year. However, to include the new version of SQLite, which has a much > shorter release cycle, one has to rebuild the main Python distribution > (to compile with the new SQLite headers) - th

Re: Creating a temporary file in Python

2007-10-31 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
looping wrote: > Hi, > > I want to create a temporary file, read it in an external command and > finally delete it (in Windows XP). > > I try to use tempfile module but it doesn't work, the file couldn't be > open by my other process (error like: SP2-0310: unable to open file "c: > \docume~1\loo

Re: Creating a temporary file in Python

2007-10-31 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
looping wrote: > On Oct 31, 2:16 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm not an expert, but I think you need to close the file first - you >> under windows here, which can be picky about such stuff AFAIK. Or maybe >> there is some o

RE: shouldn't 'string'.find('ugh') return 0, not -1 ?

2007-10-31 Thread Looney, James B
I believe most programming languages evaluate 0 to mean False, and anything else to be True (for the purposes of boolean evaluation). Python is no exception. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jelle feringa Sent: Wednes

Re: setting variables in outer functions

2007-10-31 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Hrvoje Niksic schrieb: > "Chris Mellon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I have no idea why someone who already has a working, object system >> would want to implement their own on top of closures. > > This subthread is getting ridiculous -- closures are *not* useful only > for implementing objec

Re: What is Jython?

2007-11-01 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > Hello .. > > I would like to know more about Python and Jython? > What is the difference between both of them? > What is the future for Jython and which are the areas where it is > used? Bad google day? http://www.jython.org/ """ What is Jython? Jython, lest y

Re: PyQt with embedded python in Qt App

2007-11-01 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Bart. schrieb: > Thursday 01 of November 2007 23:32:02 Phil Thompson napisał(a): >> On Thursday 01 November 2007, Bart. wrote: >>> Thursday 01 of November 2007 15:13:55 Phil Thompson napisał(a): On Thursday 01 November 2007, cgrebeld wrote: > Is it possible for a Qt C++ application, which

Re: Copy database with python..

2007-11-02 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Abandoned wrote: > On Nov 2, 4:19 pm, Paul McNett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Abandoned wrote: >> > Hi. >> > I want to copy my database but python give me error when i use this >> > command. >> > cursor.execute("pg_dump mydata > old.dump") >> > What is the problem ? And how can i copy the databa

Re: Is there a way to protect a piece of critical code?

2007-01-10 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to do the following as one atomic operation: > > 1) Append an item to a list > 2) Set a Boolean indicator > > It would be almost like getting and holding the GIL, > to prevent a thread swap out between the two operations. > - sort of the inverted

Re: COM compatibility

2007-01-11 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Tmack wrote: > I'm not a programmer! > > I work for a software company. We have a SDK that customers can use to > customize the app. The requirement to use the SDK is: > > XYZ App has been designed in such a way that all the business objects > used > in the application are automatically exposed

Re: Python nuube needs Unicode help

2007-01-11 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > HELP! > Guy who was here before me wrote a script to parse files in Python. > > Includes line: > print u > where u is a line from a file we are parsing. > However, we have started recieving data from Brazil. If I open file to > parse in VI, looks like: > > audio="313

Re: What about this?

2007-01-12 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Dr. Who wrote: > What's more amazing is that anyone would click on the link at all given > the increasing number of website that provide hidden content that tries > to deliver spyware or viruses just by getting visitors. Me LinuxBoy, me not in danger... SCNR :) Diez -- http://mail.python.org/ma

Re: Python nuube needs Unicode help

2007-01-12 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can you attach files in this forum? Couldn't find the option. Oh well, > here's the file. > > #!/usr/bin/python > # Version: 1.1 > # Author: Steve Losh > > from sets import Set > from optparse import OptionParser > from xml.dom.minidom import parse > > AudioPath

Weekly Python Patch/Bug Summary

2007-01-12 Thread Kurt B. Kaiser
Patch / Bug Summary ___ Patches : 421 open ( +3) / 3530 closed ( +8) / 3951 total (+11) Bugs: 963 open ( +4) / 6426 closed (+21) / 7389 total (+25) RFE : 255 open ( +5) / 246 closed ( +1) / 501 total ( +6) New / Reopened Patches __ The Unico

Re: sqlobject 0.8.0b1 and python 2.5

2007-01-13 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Daniel Nogradi schrieb: > Hi list, > > I get loads of DeprecationWarnings while using sqlobject 0.8.0b1 with > python 2.5. Does this mean that the sqlobject project is not very up > to date? Or should I just ignore them and happily use it? In general, > what's the status of sqlobject, will it be d

Re: python and MOV or MPEG

2007-01-15 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
siggi wrote: > Hi all, > > does Python support MPEG or MOV videoclips? I couldn't find anything about > it online. Weak in googling today? Must have been a rough weekend. There are several options, including pymedia and pygame. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

The curious behavior of integer objects

2007-01-15 Thread Jim B. Wilson
Am I nuts? Or only profoundly confused? I expected the this little script to print "0": class foo(int): def __init__(self, value): self = value & 0xF print foo(0x10) Instead, it prints "16" (at least on python 2.4.4 (Linux) and 2.5 (Wine). Jim Wilson GNV, FL -- http://mail.python.org/ma

Re: html + javascript automations = [mechanize + ?? ] or something else?

2007-01-16 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> Up to my knowledge, there no way to test javascript but to fire up a > browser. > > So, you might check Selenium (http://www.openqa.org/selenium/) and its > python module. No use in that, as to be remote-controlled by python, selenium must be run on the server-site itself, due to JS security mo

Re: Python Web Frameworks

2007-01-17 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Shortash wrote: > Python Web Frameworks weak google skills you have, young friend. http://wiki.python.org/moin/WebFrameworks Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: predefined empty base class ??

2007-01-17 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> is there an predefined empty base class > which I can instanziate to have an > container i can copy attributes in? No, but you can always do class Foo(object): pass foo = Foo() foo.attribute = value Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Why this script can work?

2007-01-19 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Jm lists wrote: > Please help with this script: > > class ShortInputException(Exception): > '''A user-defined exception class.''' > def __init__(self,length,atleast): > Exception.__init__(self) > self.length=length > self.atleast=atl

Re: How to find out if another process is using a file

2007-01-19 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Tom Wright wrote: > js wrote: >> How about using lock? >> Let writing process locks the files before writing, and unlock after >> the job's done. > > Is locking mandatory or co-operative? I don't have any control over the > process which is doing the writing, so if it's co-operative it's no good

Re: Why this script can work?

2007-01-19 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Jm lists wrote: > Thanks for all the helps. > I'm not habitual for this usage of 'else',other languages seem don't > support this syntax. > i.g,writting the codes below by Perl would get an error: I personally consider this part of python also somewhat obscure. But I just don't use it and don't b

Re: confused on python rpc with apache, is it possible?

2007-01-19 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
krishnakant Mane wrote: > hello all. > I will like to know if the following combination is possible. > I have looked around on google and did not find any thing productive > so bothering the list: sorry. > I am developing a distributed application which will have 3 layers > namely the thin client

Weekly Python Patch/Bug Summary

2007-01-19 Thread Kurt B. Kaiser
Mark Roberts Interpreter seems to leak references after finalization (2007-01-15) http://python.org/sf/1635741 opened by B Sizer description of the beta distribution is incorrect (2007-01-15) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1635892 opened by elgordo Newline skipped in "for line in

Re: confused on python rpc with apache, is it possible?

2007-01-20 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
krishnakant Mane schrieb: >> Use mod_python with some xmlrpc handler. There is more than one around. >> Google for them. That way you can keep Apache for both Python and PHP. >> > I am confused. > I have some documents on xml-rpc but none of them mentioned apache. There is nothing an apache will d

Re: confused on python rpc with apache, is it possible?

2007-01-20 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> > well in that case I don't need apache. > can I do xml-rpc using the default libraries that come with every > python installer? Yes, and a simple look in the API docs would have convinced you of that. I suggest you start googling and reading. > is there some added advantage of using twisted?

Re: Getting to an SSH account over a HTTP proxy

2007-01-22 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
BJörn Lindqvist wrote: > I want to use Python to connect to a SSH account over a HTTP proxy to > automate some operations. I thought paramiko would be able to do that, > but it can not (it seems). > > Is there some other Python module that can do what I want? Is there anything that can do what y

Program eating memory, but only on one machine?

2007-01-22 Thread Per B. Sederberg
Hi Everybody: I'm having a difficult time figuring out a a memory use problem. I have a python program that makes use of numpy and also calls a small C module I wrote because part of the simulation needed to loop and I got a massive speedup by putting that loop in C. I'm basically manipulating a

Re: How to instantiate a different class in a constructor?

2007-01-23 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> I have a class URI and a bunch of derived sub-classes for example > HttpURI, FtpURI, HttpsURI, etc. (this is an example, I know there is > module urllib & friends, however my actual problem however maps very > well to this example). > > Now I want to pass a string to constructor of URI() and get

Re: Thoughts on using isinstance

2007-01-24 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
abcd wrote: > good point. is there place that documents what methods/attrs I should > check for on an object? for example, if its a list that I expect I > should verify the object that is passed in has a ??? function? etc. Don't check, try. Catch a possible exception, and continue with another

Re: Prefered install method?

2007-01-26 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Tina I schrieb: > Another noob question: > I have written my first linux application that might actually be of > interest to others. Just for fun I also wrote an install script that put > the files in the common directories for my distro (Debian). That is in > /usr/local/. (This particular progr

Re: Mounting shares with python

2007-01-26 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Marcpp wrote: > Hi, when i mount a share with python... > > os.system ("mount -t smbfs -o username=nobody ...") > > the problem is that I'll to be root. > Have a comand to send a root password...? > I've tried > > os.system ("su") > os.system ("the password") > > but it doesn't works. You can

Re: time series data and NumPy

2007-01-26 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
BBands wrote: > Good morning, > > I store time series data in a SQL database. The results of a typical > query using pyodbc look like this. > > DateClose > "2007-01-17" 22.57 > > Where Date is a datetime.date object and Close is a float. > > I'd like to put this data in a NumPy arr

Weekly Python Patch/Bug Summary

2007-01-26 Thread Kurt B. Kaiser
Patch / Bug Summary ___ Patches : 421 open ( -2) / 3549 closed (+10) / 3970 total ( +8) Bugs: 943 open (-17) / 6471 closed (+25) / 7414 total ( +8) RFE : 260 open ( +2) / 250 closed ( +1) / 510 total ( +3) New / Reopened Patches __ rlcomplet

Re: Locking access to all data members

2007-01-28 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
gooli schrieb: > I have a class with a lot of attributes whose objects are accessed > from multiple threads. I would like to synchronize the access to all > the attributes, i.e. acquire a lock, return the value, release the > lock (in a finally clause). > > Is there a way to do that without tur

Re: Data structure and algorithms

2007-01-28 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
azrael schrieb: > i'd like to get more control like in c with pointers. I want to loose > the data after disabling: > list=[] list.append(Node(1)) list.append(Node(2)) list[0].next=list[1] > > > 1, 2 > > list.append(Node(3)) list[1].next=list[2] > > > 1,2

Re: HTMLParser's start_tag method never called ?

2007-01-29 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
ychaouche wrote: > Hi, python experts. > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/TEST$ python nettoyageHTML.py > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/TEST$ > > > This is the nettoyageHTML.py python script > > > from HTMLParser import HTMLParser > > class ParseurHTML(HTMLParser): > def __init__(self): > HTMLPars

Re: Can I undecorate a function?

2007-01-29 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Matthew Wilson wrote: > The decorator as_string returns the decorated function's value as > string. In some instances I want to access just the function f, > though, and catch the values before they've been decorated. > > Is this possible? > > def as_string(f): > def anon(*args, **kwargs):

Re: List Behavior when inserting new items

2007-01-29 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Drew schrieb: > I'm looking to add an element to list of items, however I'd like to > add it at a specific index greater than the current size: > > list = [1,2,3] > list.insert(10,4) > > What I'd like to see is something like: > > [1,2,3,,4] > > However I see: > > [1,2,3,4] > > Is there

Re: Executing Javascript, then reading value

2007-01-30 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Melih Onvural schrieb: > I need to execute some javascript and then read the value as part of a > program that I am writing. I am currently doing something like this: > > import htmllib, urllib, formatter > > class myparser(htmllib.HTMLParser): > insave = 0 > def start_div(self, attr

Re: Python 2.5 Tkinter not configured

2007-01-30 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Jim schrieb: > I compiled Python 2.5 from python.org and I get an error message when I try > to import the Tkinter module. Python reports that there is no such module. > It says my Python isn't configured for Tkinter. How do I configure it? I'm > using GCC 4.1.1 to compile the tarball. Thanks for a

Re: Help me understand this

2007-01-30 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Beej wrote: > On Jan 29, 11:47 pm, Steven D'Aprano > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Outside of a print statement (and also an "except" statement), commas >> create tuples. > > And function calls: > 3, > (3,) type(3,) > type((3,)) > > > But here's one I still don't get: > t

Re: Explanation about pickle module

2007-01-30 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
raghu wrote: > can any one explain about pickle i read in the book but they have not > provided any example for that so please explain with a simple example Bad google day? Or just to lazy to do it? And what is "the book"? There are quite a few out there, some about python the language, others ab

Re: error messages containing unicode

2007-01-30 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
>> (2) convert the file name to ASCII before you store it; or > I need the non-ascii information, though, which is why I included it > in the error message. Then convert it to utf-8, or some encoding you know it will be used by your terminal. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyt

Re: another newbie question: why should you use "*args" ?

2007-01-31 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
stef wrote: > > why should I use *args, > as in my ignorance, > making use of a list (or tupple) works just as well, > and is more flexible in it's calling. > So the simple conclusion might be: never use "*args", > or am I overlooking something ? Yup. For example decorators, that wrap functions.

Re: "Correct" db adapter

2007-01-31 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
king kikapu wrote: > Thanks for the replies. > > I think i do not need something like ORM, but just a db-module that i > can "work" the database with it. > I just want to know if pyodbc is the "correct" solution to do so or if > it is another db-module that is more > usefull for this job. I thin

Re: retrbinary ! how does it work ?

2007-02-01 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello dear community ! > > I'm a bit ashamed to ask such an easy question, but I didn't find my > answer on previous posts. > I'd like to copy files with FTP protocol in a subdirectory. > So far, my code look like that : > > import ftplib > session = ftplib.FTP('22

Re: SWIG overhead

2007-02-01 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> Yeah, found that one googling around. But I haven´t fund anything more > up to date. I imagine, that the performance of all of these wrappers > has been improved since then. But the performance of Python/C API > would too? > Anyways, it´s not about exact number, it´s more about taking decision >

Re: newbie question: nested archives and zipfile

2007-02-01 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I sorry, but I'm not very familiar with Python. > Please, help to solve my problem with reading file from "nested" zip > archive. > There is an ear_file.ear and inside this file there is a war_file.war > and inside this file there is a jar_file.jar. > I have to read cont

Re: SWIG overhead

2007-02-01 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Bart Ogryczak wrote: > On Feb 1, 12:48 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Yeah, found that one googling around. But I haven´t fund anything more >> > up to date. I imagine, that the performance of all of these wrappers >> > has be

Re: LDAP/LDIF Parsing

2007-02-01 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> > I was wondering the best way to do this? I have installed and used the > python-ldap libraries and these allow me to access and search the > server, but the searches always return a horrible nesting of lists, > tuples and dictionaries, below is an example of returning just one > record - > >

Re: LDAP/LDIF Parsing

2007-02-02 Thread Hallvard B Furuseth
Bruno Desthuilliers writes: > class LdapObject(object): >(...) >def __getattr__(self, name): > try: >data = self._record[name] > except KeyError: >raise AttributeError( > "object %s has no attribute %s" % (self, name) > ) Note that LDAP attribute

Re: LDAP/LDIF Parsing

2007-02-02 Thread Hallvard B Furuseth
Bruno Desthuilliers writes: >Hallvard B Furuseth a écrit : >>> else: >>># all LDAP attribs are multivalued by default, >>># even when the schema says they are monovalued >>>if len(data) == 1: >>> return da

Re: Python does not play well with others

2007-02-02 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> I do think the core should have more stuff than it does, so that its > functionality can be on a par with competing language distros like > J2SE and PHP. Both of those distros include database connectvity > modules and web frameworks. This is simply not true. J2SE doesn't include a web-framewo

Re: HELP NEEDED ... Regd. Regular expressions PyQt

2007-02-03 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > Hello All: > I am trying to work out a regular expression in a PyQt environment for > time in hh:mm:ss format. Any suggestions? Yes. Read the manual to the re-module. There is _nothing_ special about PyQt and regexes. And provide code. But the most important thing - r

Re: Python does not play well with others

2007-02-03 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Paul Rubin schrieb: > "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> This is simply not true. J2SE doesn't include a web-framework. J2EE >> does, but it's a separate multi-megabyte-download. > > I thought J2SE comes with JSP. Maybe that's no

Re: Python does not play well with others

2007-02-03 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Paul Rubin schrieb: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> I can't speak authoritatively for either PHP or J2SE, but I suspect the >> latter at least has some signifiant monetary support (if not outright gobs >> of human resources) from Sun. PHP seems to have a more limited application >> domain (web apps

Re: Python does not play well with others

2007-02-03 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Paul Rubin schrieb: > "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> And they certainly require special treatment like putting them in the >> classpath, setting up the project directory and the like - no simple >> import will work out of the box, as it would

Weekly Python Patch/Bug Summary

2007-02-04 Thread Kurt B. Kaiser
.org/sf/1648268 opened by ked-tao HP-UX: ld -Wl,+b... (2007-01-31) http://python.org/sf/1648890 opened by Johannes Abt HP-UX: -lcurses missing for readline.so (2007-01-31) http://python.org/sf/1648923 opened by Johannes Abt HP-UX: _ctypes/libffi/src/ia64/ffi/__attribut

Re: python references

2007-02-05 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: from Numeric import zeros p=zeros(3) p > array([0,0,0]) p[0] > 0 x=p[0] x=10 p > array([0,0,0]) #actual behavior > #array([10,0,0]) #desired behavior > > I want x to be a C++-esque reference to p[0] for convenience in a > vector3 class.

Re: Watch folder for new file and execute extern program

2007-02-05 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Michael Bo wrote: > Hi. > Can anyone guide me on how to minitor a folder for new files? And when > they appear I need to run and externe program with the file just > created (buy a 3rd program). This is OS-dependend. On Linux, FAM/GAM-server come to mind. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/

Re: Calling J from Python

2007-02-05 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Gosi wrote: > It is quite easy to call J from Python > > http://groups.google.com/group/J-Programming/browse_thread/thread/5e84b75667f5f64e What is J, and why should we care? Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Calling J from Python

2007-02-05 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Gosi wrote: > On Feb 5, 2:59 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Gosi wrote: >> > It is quite easy to call J from Python >> >> http://groups.google.com/group/J-Programming/browse_thread/thread/5e8... >> >> What is J,

Re: get objects referencing another one

2007-02-05 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Olivier Feys wrote: > I'm working on a tree and I have refcounting problems. > Is it possible from an object, to get the list of objects referencing it ? The gc-module might help, but it is somewhat overwhelming. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to prevent from race conditions to share data between many process and thread in python

2007-02-06 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
mars wrote: > I use TurboGears to do some web service. TurboGears use cherrypy. When > web browser access this site, the cherrypy will call my python > program. So my program looks like a lib. When web browser access the > site, the http server will fock a process or gerenate a thread. I need > sh

Re: XMLRPC Server

2007-02-06 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, I'm trying to create an XMLRPC server using apache + python (cgi). > It's not too difficult to configure everything, but I would like to > tune it in order to receive up to 2000 calls per minute without any > problems. Do Pthon CGIs use threading? > I need to make it

Re: How to prevent from race conditions to share data between many process and thread in python

2007-02-06 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
mars wrote: > On 2月6日, 下午6时14分, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> mars wrote: >> > I use TurboGears to do some web service. TurboGears use cherrypy. When >> > web browser access this site, the cherrypy will call my python >> &g

Re: outlook bar

2007-02-07 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
yvesd wrote: > Hello, > I'm trying to make an outlook bar like in python but i'm not at all > familiar with ms-outlook and i'm > a bit too weak and in early stage of python learning. > Has somebody already made or seen the code IN TKINTER(/)PMW for a bar > like that ? I've not done such a thing,

Re: Why doesn't my heapify work?

2007-02-07 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Dongsheng Ruan wrote: > I want to turn an Array into a heap, but my code just doesn't work: no > change after execution. > > A=[3,5,4,9,6,7] > m=len(A)-1 > > > > for i in range(m,1): > t=(i-1)/2 > if A[i]>A[t]: > A[i],A[t]=A[t],A[i] First of all, there is the module heapq that

Re: help on packet format for tcp/ip programming

2007-02-08 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Feb 8, 3:40 am, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 2007-02-08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > struct module pack and unpack will only work for fixed size buffer : >> > pack('>1024sIL', buffer, count. offset) but the buffer size can va

Re: help on packet format for tcp/ip programming

2007-02-08 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> Grant had the right idea, I think, but he failed to actually include a > byte length in his format. :) So there's nothing to peek at. If the > packing is done like this, instead.. > > > struct.pack('!IIL', len(buffer), count, offset) + buffer > > Then it is a simple matter to unpack it o

Re: A little more advanced for loop

2007-02-09 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Horta wrote: > Hi folks, > > Suppose I have to loop over 3 lists being the same size at the same > time and order. How can I do that without using the range() function > or whatever indexing? > > Example using range: > > a = ['aaa', 'aaa

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