redirect stdout

I'd like to build a module that would redirect stdout to send it to a logging module. I want to be able to use a python module that expects to print results using "print" or "sys.stdout.write()" and without modifying that module, be able to redirect it's stdout to a logger which will send the

Oh look, another language (ceylon)

http://ceylon-lang.org/documentation/1.0/introduction/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

argparse feature request

I use arparse all the time and find it serves my needs well. One thing I'd like to see. In the help message, I'd like to automatically add the default values. For example, here's one of my programs: python3 test_freq3.py --help usage: test_freq3.py [-h] [--size SIZE] [--esnodB ESNODB] [--tau

Re: argparse feature request

Robert Kern wrote: > On 2013-11-22 14:56, Neal Becker wrote: >> I use arparse all the time and find it serves my needs well. One thing I'd >> like >> to see. In the help message, I'd like to automatically add the default >> values. >> >> For ex

Re: argparse feature request

Robert Kern wrote: > On 2013-11-22 16:52, Neal Becker wrote: >> Robert Kern wrote: >> >>> On 2013-11-22 14:56, Neal Becker wrote: >>>> I use arparse all the time and find it serves my needs well. One thing I'd >>>> like >>>> to see

proposal: bring nonlocal to py2.x

py3 includes a fairly compelling feature: nonlocal keywork But backward compatibility is lost. It would be very helpful if this was available on py2.x. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

object() can't have attributes

I'm a bit surprised that an object() can't have attributes: In [30]: o = object() In [31]: o.x = 2 --- AttributeErrorTraceback (most recent call last) in () > 1 o.x = 2 AttributeError: 'objec

context managers inline?

Is there a way to ensure resource cleanup with a construct such as: x = load (open ('my file', 'rb)) Is there a way to ensure this file gets closed? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: context managers inline?

[email protected] wrote: > On Thursday, March 10, 2016 at 10:33:47 AM UTC-8, Neal Becker wrote: >> Is there a way to ensure resource cleanup with a construct such as: >> >> x = load (open ('my file', 'rb)) >> >> Is there a way to ensure this

Is there a more elegant way to spell this?

Is there a more elegant way to spell this? for x in [_ for _ in seq if some_predicate]: -- -- Those who don't understand recursion are doomed to repeat it -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Is there a more elegant way to spell this?

Jussi Piitulainen wrote: > Neal Becker writes: > >> Is there a more elegant way to spell this? >> >> for x in [_ for _ in seq if some_predicate]: > > If you mean some_predicate(_), then possibly this. > > for x in filter(some_predicate, seq): >

Re: Is there a more elegant way to spell this?

Jussi Piitulainen wrote: > Neal Becker writes: > >> Is there a more elegant way to spell this? >> >> for x in [_ for _ in seq if some_predicate]: > > If you mean some_predicate(_), then possibly this. > > for x in filter(some_predicate, seq): >

basic generator question

I have an object that expects to call a callable to get a value: class obj: def __init__ (self, gen): self.gen = gen def __call__ (self): return self.gen() Now I want gen to be a callable that repeats N times. I'm thinking, this sounds perfect for yield class rpt: def __init__ (se

help with pypeg2?

Trying out pypeg2. The below grammar is recursive. A 'Gen' is an ident followed by parenthesized args. args is a csl of alphanum or Gen. The tests 'p' and 'p2' are fine, but 'p3' fails SyntaxError: expecting u')' from __future__ import unicode_literals, print_function from pypeg2 import * i

Re: help with pypeg2?

Ian Kelly wrote: > On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 7:55 AM, Neal Becker wrote: >> Trying out pypeg2. The below grammar is recursive. A 'Gen' is an ident >> followed by parenthesized args. args is a csl of alphanum or Gen. >> >> The tests 'p' and 'p2

line_profiler: what am I doing wrong?

I inserted @profile def run(...) into a module-level global function called 'run'. Something is very wrong here. 1. profile results were written before anything even ran 2. profile is not defined? kernprof -l ./test_unframed.py --lots --of --args ... Wrote profile results to test_unframed.py.

Re: line_profiler: what am I doing wrong?

Ethan Furman wrote: > On 02/10/2015 04:06 PM, Neal Becker wrote: >> I inserted >> @profile >> def run(...) >> >> into a module-level global function called 'run'. Something is very wrong >> here. 1. profile results were written befo

Re: line_profiler: what am I doing wrong?

Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Neal Becker wrote: > >> I inserted >> @profile >> def run(...) >> >> into a module-level global function called 'run'. Something is very wrong >> here. 1. profile results were written before anything even r

Re: line_profiler: what am I doing wrong?

Robert Kern wrote: > On 2015-02-11 01:17, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> Neal Becker wrote: >> >> >>> To quote from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/line_profiler/ >>> >>> $ kernprof -l script_to_profile.py >>> kernprof will create an in

Re: line_profiler: what am I doing wrong?

Robert Kern wrote: > @profile > def run(): > pass > > run() No, this doesn't work either. Same failure kernprof -l test_prof.py Wrote profile results to test_prof.py.lprof Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/nbecker/.local/bin/kernprof", line 9, in load_entry_point('line-pro

Re: line_profiler: what am I doing wrong?

Robert Kern wrote: > On 2015-02-13 13:35, Neal Becker wrote: >> Robert Kern wrote: >> >>> @profile >>> def run(): >>> pass >>> >>> run() >> >> No, this doesn't work either. Same failure >> >> kernprof -l t

Re:How security holes happen

Charles R Harris Wrote in message: > ___ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > Imo the lesson here is never write in low level c. Use modern languages with well design

Re: gdb unable to read python frame information

dieter wrote: > Wesley writes: > >> I wanna use gdb to attach my running python scripts. >> Successfully import libpython in gdb, but seems all py operations failed to >> read python information. >> >> Here is the snippet: >> (gdb) python >>>import libpython >>>end >> (gdb) py-bt >> #3 (unable t

Re: which async framework?

Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2014-03-11, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >> Sturla Molden gmail.com> writes: >>> >>> Chris Withers simplistix.co.uk> wrote: >>> > Hi All, >>> > >>> > I see python now has a plethora of async frameworks and I need to try >>> > and pick one to use from: >>> > >>> > - asyncio

help with memory leak

I'm trying to track down a memory leak in a fairly large code. It uses a lot of numpy, and a bit of c++-wrapped code. I don't yet know if the leak is purely python or is caused by the c++ modules. At each iteration of the main loop, I call gc.collect() If I then look at gc.garbage, it is empt

c# async, await

So my son is now spending his days on c# and .net. He's enthusiastic about async and await, and said to me last evening, "I don't think python has anything like that". I'm not terribly knowledgeable myself regarding async programming (since I never need to use it). I did look at this: http:

python3 integer division debugging

The change in integer division seems to be the most insidious source of silent errors in porting code from python2 - since it changes the behaviour or valid code silently. I wish the interpreter had an instrumented mode to detect and report such problems. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/lis

Re: python3 integer division debugging

Chris Angelico wrote: > On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 1:21 AM, Oscar Benjamin > wrote: >> On 28 August 2013 16:15, Neal Becker wrote: >>> The change in integer division seems to be the most insidious source of >>> silent errors in porting code from python2 - since i

why syntax change in lambda

In py2.7 this was accepted, but not in py3.3. Is this intentional? It seems to violate the 'principle' that extraneous parentheses are usually allowed/ignored In [1]: p = lambda x: x In [2]: p = lambda (x): x File "", line 1 p = lambda (x): x ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax

pip won't ignore system-installed files

IIUC, it is perfectly legitimate to do install into --user to override system- wide installed modules. Thus, I should be able to do: pip install --user --up blah even though there is already a package blah in /usr/lib/pythonxxx/site_packages/... But even with -I (ignore installed) switch, pip

__iadd__ with 2 args?

I can write a member F.__iadd__ (self, *args) and then call it with 2 args: f = F() f.__iadd__ (a, b) And then args is: (a, b) But it seems impossible to spell this as f += a, b That, instead, results in args = ((a, b),) So should I just abandon the idea that += could be used this way?

Re: PiCxx

π wrote: > Hello Python people, > > I've made a C++ wrapper for Python. > I've called it PiCxx and put it up here: https://github.com/p-i-/PiCxx > > > That project runs out of the box on OS X and should be pretty easy to > adapt for other OS. Any help providing d

heapq - why no key= arg?

Looking at heapq, I see only nlargest/nsmallest provide a key= arg. What about other operations, such as heapify? Am I not understanding something? I suppose for other ops, such as heapify, I can only customize comparison by customizing the object comparison operators? -- Those who fail to

why would this print 'True'?

from itertools import ifilter if all (hasattr (b, 'test') for b in ifilter (lambda b: b < 10, [1,2,3,4])): print 'True' same result using filter instead of ifilter. hasattr (b, 'test') where b is 1, 2, 3... should all be False. So why does this print True? -- Those who fail to understand

Re: why would this print 'True'?

Nevermind - I found the answer. I was trying this in ipython with pylab: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7491951/python-builtin-all-with-generators Neal Becker wrote: > from itertools import ifilter > > if all (hasattr (b, 'test') for b in ifilter (lambda b:

enhancement request: make py3 read/write py2 pickle format

One of the most annoying problems with py2/3 interoperability is that the pickle formats are not compatible. There must be many who, like myself, often use pickle format for data storage. It certainly would be a big help if py3 could read/write py2 pickle format. You know, backward compatibil

Re: enhancement request: make py3 read/write py2 pickle format

Chris Warrick wrote: > On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 8:08 PM, Neal Becker wrote: >> One of the most annoying problems with py2/3 interoperability is that the >> pickle formats are not compatible. There must be many who, like myself, >> often use pickle format for data storage. >

thinking with laziness

http://begriffs.com/posts/2015-06-17-thinking-with-laziness.html -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

register cleanup handler

I have code like: if (condition): do_something_needing_cleanup code_executed_unconditionally Now, how can I make sure cleanup happens? Actually, what I really would like, is: if (condition): do_something_needing_cleanup register_scoped_cleanup (cleanup_fnc) code_executed_unconditiona

Re: register cleanup handler

Laura Creighton wrote: > In a message of Fri, 24 Jul 2015 10:57:30 -0400, Neal Becker writes: >>I know we have try/finally, but I don't think that helps here, because >>code_executed_unconditionally couldn't be inside the try. Or am I missing >>something obvious? &

Re: register cleanup handler

Irmen de Jong wrote: > On 24-7-2015 16:57, Neal Becker wrote: >> I have code like: >> >> if (condition): >> do_something_needing_cleanup >> >> code_executed_unconditionally >> >> > continue or exception> >> >> Now, how ca

regex recursive matching (regex 2015.07.19)

Trying regex 2015.07.19 I'd like to match recursive parenthesized expressions, with groups such that '(a(b)c)' would give group(0) -> '(a(b)c)' group(1) -> '(b)' but that's not what I get import regex #r = r'\((?>[^()]|(?R))*\)' r = r'\(([^()]|(?R))*\)' #r = r'\((?:[^()]|(?R))*\)' m = regex.m

pip trouble

I have a custom-compiled numpy 1.10.0. But as you see, pip wants to install a new numpy, even though the requirement (numpy>=1.6) was already satisfied. WTF? All are installed into --user. This is on fedora 22 linux. pip install --up --user matplotlib Collecting matplotlib Using cached ma

Re: pip trouble

Chris Warrick wrote: > On 30 October 2015 at 13:14, Neal Becker wrote: >> I have a custom-compiled numpy 1.10.0. But as you see, pip wants to >> install a new numpy, even though the requirement (numpy>=1.6) was already >> satisfied. WTF? >> >> All are ins

can I get 0./0. to return nan instead of exception?

Can I change behavior of py3 to return nan for 0./0. instead of raising an exception? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Dabo 0.9.4 Released!

Ed Leafe wrote: > Yes, it's been over a year, but today we're finally releasing Dabo 0.9.4! > > What can I say? While we've been actively developing Dabo all along, and > committing improvements and fixes regularly, we don't seem to get around to > doing releases as often as we should. Since Dabo

order independent hash?

I like to hash a list of words (actually, the command line args of my program) in such a way that different words will create different hash, but not sensitive to the order of the words. Any ideas? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: order independent hash?

Gelonida N wrote: > On 11/30/2011 01:32 PM, Neal Becker wrote: >> I like to hash a list of words (actually, the command line args of my >> program) in such a way that different words will create different hash, but >> not sensitive >> to the order of the words. Any i

Re: Pythonification of the asterisk-based collection packing/unpacking syntax

Clarification: where can packing/unpacking syntax be used? It would be great if it were valid essentially anywhere (not limited to parameter passing). What about constructs like: a, @tuple tail, b = sequence? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Pythonification of the asterisk-based collection packing/unpacking syntax

I agree with the OP that the current syntax is confusing. The issue is, the meaning of * is context-dependent. Why not this: Func (*args) == Func (unpack (args)) def Func (*args) == Func (pack (args)) That seems very clear IMO -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

unzip function?

python has builtin zip, but not unzip A bit of googling found my answer for my decorate/sort/undecorate problem: a, b = zip (*sorted ((c,d) for c,d in zip (x,y))) That zip (*sorted... does the unzipping. But it's less than intuitively obvious. I'm thinking unzip should be a builtin function,

Re: [OT?]gmane not updating

[email protected] wrote: > The gmane site is online but none of the Python lists I subscribe to have been > updated for over 24 hours. I fired off an email yesterday evening to larsi + > gmane at gnus dot org but I've no idea whether there's anybody to read it, or > even if it's actually be

Re: Spiritual Programming (OT, but Python-inspired)

Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 13:38:47 -0800, UrsusMaximus wrote: > >> It seems to me that, if anything of a person survives death in any way, >> it must do so in some way very different from that way in which we >> exist now. > [snip] > > I don't dare ask where your evidence for

Re: Standard Forth versus Python: a case study

"John Doty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] > Here's a K&R C function I wrote almost 20 years ago. [code snipped] John, 'man indent' right away! -- Neal Bridges http://quartus.net Home of Quartus Forth for the Palm OS

Find interface associated with default route?

Any thoughts on howto find the interface associated with the default route (this is on linux)? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Find interface associated with default route?

Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Neal Becker wrote: > >> Any thoughts on howto find the interface associated with the default >> route (this is on linux)? > > are you sure you sent this to the right newsgroup ? > > is this what you want ? > > >>> impor

Re: Find interface associated with default route?

Neal Becker wrote: > Fredrik Lundh wrote: > >> Neal Becker wrote: >> >>> Any thoughts on howto find the interface associated with the default >>> route (this is on linux)? >> >> are you sure you sent this to the right newsgroup ? >> >&g

Re: Boost Python Issue

JDJMSon wrote: > I was wondering if someone here could help me with a problem I'm having > building Python extensions with the Boost.Python library. > Basically, if I have a wrapper class with something like this: > > string TestFunc() > { > return "Hello World"; > } > > BOOST_PYTHON_MODULE(Test

Re: Boost Python Issue

JDJMSon wrote: > > Neal Becker wrote: > >> Shouldn't that be: >> .def("TestFunction",&TestClass::TestFunction) >> > ; > > > Yes, you're right, but I'm still getting the error. I'm using a > prebuilt python library,

Re: [ANN] IronPython 1.0 released today!

Will it run with mono? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Cool! A python course!

http://www.epp.jhu.edu/schedule/courseinfo.php?deptid=525&coursenum=492 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

iterator question

Any suggestions for transforming the sequence: [1, 2, 3, 4...] Where 1,2,3.. are it the ith item in an arbitrary sequence into a succession of tuples: [(1, 2), (3, 4)...] In other words, given a seq and an integer that specifies the size of tuple to return, then for example: seq = [a,b,c,d,e,f

Re: iterator question

George Sakkis wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> def transform(seq, size): >> i = 0 >> while i < len(seq): >> yield tuple(seq[i:i+size]) >> i += size > > Or for arbitrary iterables, not just sequences: > > from itertools import islice > def transform(iterable, size):

python on tivo (series2)?

I'd like to find python for my tivo (series 2). I believe it runs linux on mips. Google found one, but it complained about shared libs when I tried to run python. (Unfortunately, it didn't say which libs, and tools like ldd seem to be missing on the tivo). I'd rather not have to setup a cross-c

Re: MySQLdb, lots of columns and newb-ness

Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > I can successfully connect to mysql and do stuff to my tables my > specific problem is how to efficiently put those 132 fields into the > thing. All I have been able to figure out is really ugly stuff like: > build the mysql statement out of various pieces with appr

Re: list1.append(list2) returns None

Pyenos wrote: > def enlargetable(table,col): > return table.append(col) > > def removecolfromtable(table,col): > return table.remove(col) > > print enlargetable([[1],[2],[3]],[4]) # returns None > > Why does it return None instead of [[1],[2],[3],[4]] which I expected? append modifies the

[ANN] PyChecker 0.8.17 released

. * Support ROT_THREE and ROT_FOUR opcodes PyChecker is available on Source Forge: Web page: http://pychecker.sourceforge.net/ Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pychecker/ Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Enjoy and don't forget to provide feedback!

Re: [ANN] functional 0.5 released

I just installed from .tar.gz on fedora FC5 x86_64. I ran into 1 small problem: sudo python setup.py install --verbose running install running bdist_egg running egg_info writing functional.egg-info/PKG-INFO writing top-level names to functional.egg-info/top_level.txt reading manifest file 'functi

Re: porting help

You may need to write your own dynload_vxworks.c. Notice there are various OS specific dynload_*.c files. You can try to use dynload_stub.c to see if you can get it to compile. You may also need to muck with Include/pyport.h and configure to get things going. Good Luck! n -- http://mail.pytho

Re: Binding the names in a module in a class instance

Jacob H wrote: > Hello all, > > I would like to be able to take a module full of class instances, > functions, etc and bind all its names to a separate container class in > a different module. I have come up with the following way to do it.. [snip] > I feel uneasy about this method. I foresee bad

Re: any macro-like construct/technique/trick?

Andrew's approach is good, but you could so something a little simpler/more flexible. Untested of course. :-) Every callable object is followed by the args to pass it. So this: debug_emit(DbgObjFoo(a, b, costly_function(c))) becomes: debug_emit(DbgObjFoo, (a, b, costly_function, (c,)))

global destructor not called?

To implement logging, I'm using a class: class logger (object): def __init__ (self, name): self.name = name self.f = open (self.name, 'w') def write (self, stuff): self.f.write (stuff) def close (self): self.f.close() def flush (self): self.f.

Re: global destructor not called?

Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > Neal Becker a écrit : >> To implement logging, I'm using a class: > > If I may ask : any reason not to use the logging module in the stdlib ? Don't exactly recall, but needed some specific behavior and it was just easier this way. &

Is there a way to hook into module destruction?

Code at global scope in a module is run at module construction (init). Is it possible to hook into module destruction (unloading)? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

python extra

Just a little python humor: http://www.amazon.com/Vitamin-Shoppe-Python-Extra-tablets/dp/B00012NJAK/ref=sr_1_14/103-7715091-4822251?ie=UTF8&s=hpc&qid=1183917462&sr=1-14 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python extra

Danyelle Gragsone wrote: > Nope.. not a one.. > > > On 7/8/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Jul 8, 12:59?pm, Neal Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Just a little python humor: >> > >> > http://www.a

problem with change to exceptions

import exceptions class nothing (exceptions.Exception): def __init__ (self, args=None): self.args = args if __name__ == "__main__": raise nothing Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "/usr/tmp/python-3143hDH", line 5, in __init__ self.args = args T

Re: problem with change to exceptions

Alex Popescu wrote: > Neal Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >> import exceptions >> >> class nothing (exceptions.Exception): >> def __init__ (self, args=None): >> self.args = args >> >> if __na

interaction of 'with' and 'yield'

I'm wondering if a generator that is within a 'with' scope exits the 'with' when it encounters 'yield'. I would like to use a generator to implement RAII without having to syntactically enclose the code in the 'with' scope, and I am hoping that the the yield does not exit the 'with' scope and rele

re: mmm-mode, python-mode and doctest-mode?

Anyone testing on xemacs? I tried it, and C-c C-c sent xemacs into an infinite loop (apparantly). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: mmm-mode, python-mode and doctest-mode?

Edward Loper wrote: >> Anyone testing on xemacs? I tried it, and C-c C-c sent xemacs into an >> infinite loop (apparantly). > > It works fine for me in XEmacs 21.4 (patch 17) (i386-debian-linux, > Mule). If you could answer a few questions, it might help me track down > the problem: > > - What

code check for modifying sequence while iterating over it?

After just getting bitten by this error, I wonder if any pylint, pychecker variant can detect this error? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

block scope?

One thing I sometimes miss, which is common in some other languages (c++), is idea of block scope. It would be useful to have variables that did not outlive their block, primarily to avoid name clashes. This also leads to more readable code. I wonder if this has been discussed? -- http://mail.

Re: block scope?

James Stroud wrote: > Paul Rubin wrote: >> John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> In a language with few declarations, it's probably best not to >>> have too many different nested scopes. Python has a reasonable >>> compromise in this area. Functions and classes have a scope, but >>> "if

puzzled about floats

from math import modf class nco (object): def __init__ (self, delta): self.delta = delta self.phase = 0.0 def __call__ (self): self.phase += self.delta f,i = modf (self.phase) print modf (self.phase) if (self.phase > 1.0): self.p

Re: getopt with negative numbers?

Casey wrote: > On Sep 27, 2:21 pm, "J. Clifford Dyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If you can access the argument list manually, you could scan it for a >> negative integer, and then insert a '--' argument before that, >> if needed, before passing it to getopt/optparse. Then you wouldn't have >>

Re: getopt with negative numbers?

Ben Finney wrote: > Casey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Well, it is a hack and certainly not as clean as having getopt or >> optparse handle this natively (which I believe they should). > > I believe they shouldn't because the established interface is that a > hyphen always introduced an opti

Re: [Tutor] data from excel spreadsheet to csv and manipulate

look at xlrd module and also csv module. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

help with pyparsing

I'm just trying out pyparsing. I get stack overflow on my first try. Any help? #/usr/bin/python from pyparsing import Word, alphas, QuotedString, OneOrMore, delimitedList first_line = '[' + delimitedList (QuotedString) + ']' def main(): string = '''[ 'a', 'b', 'cdef']''' greeting = fi

Which persistence is for me?

I need to organize the results of some experiments. Seems some sort of database is in order. I just took a look at DBAPI and the new sqlite interface in python2.5. I have no experience with sql. I am repulsed by e.g.: c.execute("""insert into stocks values ('2006-01-05','BUY','RHAT',1

Re: Which persistence is for me?

Neal Becker wrote: > I need to organize the results of some experiments. Seems some sort of > database is in order. > > I just took a look at DBAPI and the new sqlite interface in python2.5. I > have no experience with sql. I am repulsed by e.g.: > c.execute(&qu

Re: Parallel Python

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Has anybody tried to run parallel python applications? > It appears that if your application is computation-bound using 'thread' > or 'threading' modules will not get you any speedup. That is because > python interpreter uses GIL(Global Interpreter Lock) for internal > b

MIME text attachment question

I want to send a file (plain text) as an attachment. I'm using MIMEText. This attaches text OK, but I would like to have a filename attached to it, so that the recipient could save it without having to specify a filename. Any suggestions? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Auto locate Python's .so on Linux (for cx_Freeze's --shared-lib-name)

robert wrote: > In a makefile I want to locate the .so for a dynamically linked > Python on Linux. (for cx_Freeze's --shared-lib-name) > e.g. by running a small script with that Python. How to? > > Robert How about run python -v yourscript and filter the output? -- http://mail.python.org/mailm

struct,long on 64-bit machine

What's wrong with this? type(struct.unpack('l','\00'*8)[0]) Why I am getting 'int' when I asked for 'long'? This is on python-2.5.1-15.fc8.x86_64 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

which configparse?

I have all my options setup with optparse. Now, I'd like to be able to parse an ini file to set defaults (that could be overridden by command line switches). I'd like to make minimal change to my working optparse setup (there are lots of options - I don't want to duplicate all the cmdline parsing

Re: which configparse?

Martin Marcher wrote: > Hi, > > On 12/6/07, Neal Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> configparse looks like what I want, but it seems last commit was >2years >> ago. >> >> What is the best choice? > > that seems like configparse is the best c

Recommendations for writing a user guide with examples?

I'm looking for recommendations for writing a user manual. It will need lots of examples of command line inputs and terminal outputs. I'd like to minimize the effort to integrate the terminal input/output into my document. I have lots of experience with latex, but I wonder if there may be some o

simple string formatting question

I have a list of strings (sys.argv actually). I want to print them as a space-delimited string (actually, the same way they went into the command line, so I can cut and paste) So if I run my program like: ./my_prog a b c d I want it to print: './my_prog' 'a' 'b' 'c' 'd' Just print sys.argv wil

OpenOpt install

What do I need to do? I have numpy, scipy (Fedora F8) cd openopt/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] openopt]$ python setup.py build running build running config_cc unifing config_cc, config, build_clib, build_ext, build commands --compiler options running config_fc unifing config_fc, config, build_clib, build_

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